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Well-Spoken

Screenwriter (and former stutterer) David Seidler ’59 wins an Oscar for The King’s Speech

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34 Corne 2 From David Skorton Farewell, Mr. Vanneman 4 The Big Picture Card sharp 6 Correspondence DVM debate 8 Letter from Ithaca Justice league 10 From the Hill Capped and gowned 14 Sports Top teams, too 16 Authors Eyewitness 32 Wines of the Finger Lakes Ports of New York “Meleau” White 18 10 52 Classifieds & 34 Urban Cowboys Cornellians in Business 53 Alma Matters BRAD HERZOG ’90 56 Class Notes Last October, the Texas Rangers won baseball’s American League pennant—and played in their first-ever World Series. Two of the primary architects of that long-sought vic- 91 Alumni Deaths tory were Big Red alums from (of all places) the Big Apple. General manager Jon 96 Cornelliana Daniels ’99 and senior director of player personnel A. J. Preller ’99 are old friends and Little house in the big woods lifelong baseball nuts who brought fresh energy to an underperforming franchise. And while they didn’t take home the championship trophy . . . there’s always next season. Legacies To see the Legacies listing for undergraduates who entered the University in fall 40 Training Day 2010, go to cornellalumnimagazine.com. JIM AXELROD ’85 Currents CBS News reporter Jim Axelrod has covered everything from wars to presidential campaigns to White House politics. In an excerpt from his new book, In the Long Run, he recalls a particularly memorable day on the job: in the midst of covering an Obama rally, he got an e-mail that changed his life. In his mid-forties and out of shape, he was 18 Wind Swept inspired to begin training for a marathon, rethink his professional priorities, and exam- Surviving the Tuscaloosa tornado ine his relationship with his late father. Remembering Arthur Laurents ’37 46 Parts of Speech Playwright and director BETH SAULNIER A Good Read Books for Sri Lankan kids When screenwriter David Seidler ’59 won the Oscar for The King’s Speech, he brought Paw & Order down the house with his wry observation that his father always told him he’d be a “late Will work for tennis balls bloomer”; at seventy-three, Seidler was the oldest person ever to win the award. In April, when he came to campus to introduce a showing of the film at Cornell Cinema, Long-Distance Call he sat down with CAM to discuss curing his own stutter, the power of the f-word, and Med profs teach Ithaca docs why he’s glad he didn’t win an Oscar earlier in his career. “I can see how it can mess Family Affair up your head,” Seidler says. “It’s so divorced from reality.” Deluxe genealogies Plus | Website Burn Notice cornellalumnimagazine.com Cover photograph: Corbis Student’s sunscreen machine

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From David Skorton

A Tribute to Bill Vanneman ’31

Far above: Robin Davisson, Bill Vanneman, and David Skorton lift their voices in song after the Sy Katz ’31 Parade in New York City, 2006.

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s I write, the Cornell campus is about to turn Bob and the Big Red Band to play a medley of Cornell songs on red and white with thousands of returning matching kazoos. alumni whose class years end in “1” or “6.” Among the many things I learned from Bill, three in partic- During Reunion Weekend, they will renew ular stand out. First, optimism: that every challenge has its solu- Afriendships, catch up on news about their alma mater, and share tion. Second: that Cornell is ever new and ever the same. And memories of their time on the Hill. Some of them will bring along third: that the future is in our younger alumni. their children in the hope that they, too, will one day join the Cor- A few years ago, when the Class of 2000 ran short on funds nell family. They will marvel at how much the campus has for their first reunion, Bill jumped in on behalf of the Class of changed since they graduated—whether five or fifty or more years 1931—for which he served as class correspondent as well as class ago. They will also celebrate the enduring essence of our Univer- president—to help with a contribution. And I know it was a sity—the personal commitment of our faculty to teaching students source of great pride that just as he had followed his father, C. at all levels; the breadth and depth of the inquiry carried out by Reeve Vanneman, Class of 1903, to Cornell, his own sons, Bill our faculty and students; the creative spark and penchant for Jr. ’65 and Reeve “Ting” ’67, as well as a daughter-in-law, two “thinking otherwise” that drives discovery; the diversity of our granddaughters, and a grandson-in-law have continued the fam- campus community, which remains open to people of talent from ily legacy at Cornell. all backgrounds; and our embrace of public engagement, as we Bill was the namesake and first recipient of the Bill Vanne- create and deploy knowledge to help lift the world’s burdens. man ’31 Outstanding Class Leader Award, created by the Cor- This year, however, one of our most treasured alumni leaders nell Association of Class Officers in 2005—and he embodied so will miss the festivities. Bill Vanneman, longtime president of the much of what is admirable in class leaders and other alumni vol- Class of 1931, passed away at age 102 a few weeks before what unteers: a deep love of Cornell, along with the knowledge that would have been his 80th Reunion—and the first 80th class reunion we can always do better; an enduring connection to those who ever held at Cornell—which he was helping to plan. Bill had served had shared the journey as members of his Cornell class; and a as president of his class since he graduated, and he rarely missed a strong affinity for younger alumni classes. There will never be reunion. In fact, for the past two decades, he was a member of the another Bill Vanneman. And yet, there are hundreds—no, tens Continuous Reunion Club—returning annually for Reunion Week- of thousands—of alumni who, like Bill, love the Big Red and are end in his Cornell blazer and red-and-white socks. willing to devote a big chunk of their lives to make it even more Robin and I first met Bill in November 2006 at the Sy Katz glorious to view. ’31 Parade after the Cornell-Columbia football game. Bill had Bill, your spirit will live on in our Reunion 2011 festivities, come to town to honor his late classmate and good friend, and and you will continue to inspire us with your friendship, your to celebrate the Big Red with 500 or so other Cornellians. He enthusiasm, and your commitment to learning, to discovery, to embodied the pride and joy so many of us feel toward the alma service—in short, to Cornell. mater, as he marched down Fifth Avenue with Sy Katz’s children, — President David Skorton Alice Katz Berglas ’66 and Bob Katz ’69, and teamed up with [email protected] 2 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 02-03CAMja11skorton 6/16/11 12:59 PM Page 3 04-05CAMja11bigpic 6/16/11 1:00 PM Page 4

The Big Picture

What’s in the Cards? Newly minted Hotel school grad Barton Golub ’11 sports a festive ensemble at Commence- ment 2011, where he and 6,000 others received their degrees. For more on Commence- ment, see page 10. JASON KOSKI / UPHOTO

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Correspondence

with members of the museum, is addi- Animal Wrongs? tional evidence of his talents. Thanks for this coverage. Haiku verse by Frank Readers express concerns for elephants; Is fun in not demanding vets respond Very high I.Q. Jim Hazzard ’50 Ithaca, New York The article “Hooray for Howlywood” in the May/June 2011 issue about Jim Ped- I can understand the aesthetic appeal of die, DVM ’65, and Linda Reeve Peddie, Alberto Giacometti’s Walking Man II, but DVM ’65, and their work for Have similar works are found in major muse- Trunk Will Travel brings unfortunate ums around the world. Frank Robinson notoriety to Cornell Alumni Magazine would have been wiser to accept the $104 now that HTWT has been exposed in the million offered for it. That money would media abusing elephants with savage go a long way to meet the unique needs of beatings and electrocution. I sincerely the museum while Giacometti’s art could hope that the Peddies and this magazine easily be viewed elsewhere. will apologize to the elephants and to Gerald Schneider ’61 animal lovers for this intolerable abuse. I Kensington, Maryland would also hope that the Peddies donate their earnings from HTWT to elephant Ed. Note: Well, we respectfully disagree. sanctuaries where elephants can live free We think Frank Robinson has done a from abuse. superb job of meeting “the unique needs Robert J. Goldman ’86, DVM of the museum” without selling off its Santa Monica, California treasures.

Ed. Note: In addition to Dr. Goldman’s In the article about Frank Robinson, the letter, we received several messages from social networking. Meanwhile, the staff at sentence that reads, “The building’s orig- non-Cornellians that contained links to HTWT are working long, hard hours to inal plans—by the firm of Pei Cobb Freed videos showing alleged abuse of elephants provide for the majestic animals they love & Partners, with John Sullivan ’62, BArch by Have Trunk Will Travel. Jim and and respect. In addition, they are raising ’63, as architect in charge . . .” would be Linda Peddie respond: “We truly appre- funds for research to eliminate elephant more accurate if it referred to I. M. Pei & ciate concern expressed for the welfare of endotheliotropic herpes virus, a very real Partners. That was the name of the archi- elephants. Because we share that concern, threat to an already endangered species.” tecture firm in the early Seventies, when we have committed our professional For more information, see this blog Pei designed the Johnson Museum. Pei efforts toward improving the lives of ele- entry by Donald Smith, DVM, professor Cobb Freed & Partners is the name of the phants, as have the staff at Have Trunk of surgery and dean emeritus of the firm today; that firm designed the new Will Travel. During the years we have College of Veterinary Medicine: http:// addition to the museum, with John Sulli- provided veterinary care for the elephants veterinarylegacy.blogspot.com/2011/04/ van still the architect in charge. I. M. Pei, at HTWT, we have never witnessed mis- water-for-elephants-is-not-enough.html. though still living, has not been an active treatment by any elephant handler. What member of the firm since 1990. we have seen is elephants working with Frank Talk Maddy Gell Handler ’65 New Haven, Connecticut handlers developing behaviors critical to Your feature article on Frank Robinson improving the care provided to them, and and what he means to Cornell (“It’s a Correction—May/June 2011 to generating the income necessary to sus- Wonderful Life,” May/June 2011) couldn’t tain them. It is reprehensible that a guest be more deserved and timely. He is one of “It’s a Wonderful Life” (page 34): Due to at HTWT would use video clips generated the University’s stars in what he has an editing error, our article about Frank years earlier to vilify his hosts—to what accomplished at the Johnson and is as Robinson failed to mention his full title. end? Someone could just as easily fabri- bright, wonderfully articulate, focused He is the Richard J. Schwartz Director of cate an equally damning piece using clips and—perhaps most important—kind as the Johnson Museum. Our apologies to from interaction with household pets or any person I’ve known. His prolific out- Frank Robinson and Richard Schwartz children. This is surely the cruelest use of put of Haiku, which he shares annually for this unfortunate oversight.

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Letter from Ithaca

‘Passion for Justice’

A Sixties activist praises the efforts of today’s students

few days before my nineteenth birthday, on a health care. COLA and CSAS also sent delegations to the huge mild night more than forty years ago, I guarded and historic labor demonstrations in Wisconsin and Ohio that a window outside Willard Straight Hall as part protested challenges to public employee bargaining rights, and A of a “protective ring” organized by Students for here in Ithaca they urged the city council to adopt a living wage a Democratic Society during the famous Straight takeover. I con- ordinance. sidered myself an activist for social justice—and still do. I’m fortunate because my job at the ILR school’s Division of Not long after my sixtieth birthday, I took another action for Extension and Outreach and my position on the ILR Alumni social justice just a short distance from that window when I Association’s board of directors put me in contact with the inspir- bought a Cornell T-shirt at the campus store. A colorful tag ing and impressive students in COLA and CSAS. I returned to attached to the shirt had a photo of one of the workers who had Cornell in 1986 after working as an organizer, representative, made it. On the tag, she explained that the Alta Gracia brand negotiator, and educator for several labor unions. Drawing on was unique because its workers in the Dominican Republic are my experience and contacts, I advise and assist ILR students who unionized, well-treated, and paid much better than similar work- are interested in working in the labor movement or other social ers in other countries. The worker’s statement explained that by justice organizations. Today’s students seem more focused and working for Alta Gracia she was able to support her children practical than those from my undergraduate years, but—most and send them to school. important—they have the same passion for justice. I was able to put my money where my principles are, thanks At a time when college students are often characterized as to the current generation of student activists in the Cornell Orga- mainly concerned with careers and money, I’m proud of the nization for Labor Action (COLA) and Cornell Students Against activist Cornell students I have met. I encourage you to visit the Sweatshops (CSAS), who had persuaded the store to sell Alta Cornell Store or to go online and buy Alta Gracia logo clothing. Gracia clothing. This was just one of many successful campaigns Every time you wear it, you can feel a connection to the students that have been waged by COLA and CSAS. To cite another, in who are dedicated to working for fairness and justice in the 2010 their lobbying resulted in the University administration world. There have always been some students willing to take threatening to drop its athletic-wear licensing contract with Nike. risks to work for justice, and in the past few years the number This action by Cornell and other universities helped convince doing so seems to have increased. I find that gratifying, and I feel Nike to take responsibility for providing laid-off Honduran a strong connection with them. They give me hope. workers with a $1.5 million relief fund, vocational support, and — Ken Margolies ’71, MPS ’11

Student support: CSAS members (left to right) Susanne Donovan ’13, Gleb Drobkov ’12, Mario Cespedes ’13, Melissa Lukasiewicz ’14, Debby Cho ’12, Rachael Blumenthal ’14 and Molly Beckhardt ’14.

ALEX BORES

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Campus News From theHill

Bright future: Sunny skies greeted graduates and their families, as caps and gowns dotted the Hill.

Cornell Celebrates 143rd Commencement

Despite a severe thunderstorm the previous night that had campus have jobs or grad school plans, up from last year’s 75 percent. officials—not to mention grads and their families—concerned Acknowledging the solemn fact that a number of students have about the weather, Schoellkopf was bright and sunny for Com- lost their lives in recent years, Skorton indicated an empty chair in mencement. Addressing the 6,000 graduates on Memorial Day the front row of the seated graduates and noted the attendees weekend, President David Skorton emphasized the values that wearing pins in memory of a senior who died in a fire in early May. define Cornellians. “These values include, among others, respect In Schoellkopf the previous day, former New York City mayor and affection for each other, embracing and celebrating differ- Rudolph Giuliani spoke at Senior Convocation. Giuliani stressed the ences, openness to new ideas, willingness to reach out to others need for young people to develop their leadership skills by holding in friendship, and, in widely and wildly varying ways, to lift the strong beliefs, developing the ability to solve problems, and world’s burdens by what we do every day, in ways large and small.” preparing relentlessly for the future. “Happiness in life is not just He also praised the Class of 2011’s accomplishments, from about your being what you want to be,” Giuliani said. “Happiness working with Mayan children in Belize to researching economic in life is figuring out how you fit into this vast society, how you challenges facing Mongolian farmers. He noted that 80 percent make your contribution.” 10Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 10-13CAMja11fth 6/16/11 4:07 PM Page 11

Four Charged in Frat Death Four people have been charged with misdemeanors in the alcohol- related death of nineteen-year-old human ecology student George Desdunes ’13. Former Sigma Alpha Epsilon pledges Max Haskin ’14, Ben Mann ’13, and Edward Williams ’14, and a fourth defendant whose name was not released due to his age, were charged with first-degree hazing and first-degree unlawfully dealing with a child. (The latter charge refers to providing alcohol to someone Net result: Fine wire under twenty-one.) Additionally, Williams faces a charge of second- mesh fencing is degree criminal nuisance. None of the defendants is currently planned for the enrolled at Cornell; they have pleaded not guilty and were released Suspension Bridge, without bail. with nets installed Court documents released in the case offer a more detailed below other spans. look at the circumstances surrounding Desdunes’s death in Febru- NADAAA ary. According to the papers, he died following a mock kidnapping ritual “where the pledges can quiz an older fraternity brother on Nets Chosen as Bridge Barriers the fraternity lore that is expected to be learned by the pledges.” On May 31—the last day before the City of Ithaca would have The documents report that Desdunes and another brother, Gregory required removal of the temporary fences on seven gorge bridges Wyler ’12, consented to being restrained and quizzed about SAE. on campus and its environs—the University submitted its site plan “When Mr. Desdunes or Mr. Wyler answered a question incorrectly application for permanent suicide prevention methods. After con- they were given a substance to consume or told to do exercises templating a variety of barriers, Cornell opted to install netting, such as situps or crunches,” the papers say. “The substances that made of low-visibility tensile steel mesh, underneath six of the Mr. Desdunes and Mr. Wyler were given included water, flavored spans; on the seventh, the Suspension Bridge, the University aims syrups, sugar, and vodka.” The following morning, the fraternity to replace the current metal bars with vertical netting. “We’ve custodian found Desdunes unresponsive on a couch in the library; taken care to submit designs that will preserve the aesthetic value he was pronounced dead at Cayuga Medical Center and found to of the bridges and vistas,” says vice president for student and aca- have a blood alcohol content of .35. demic services Susan Murphy ’73, PhD ’94. “We believe the designs In March, the University withdrew recognition of SAE and also will make vulnerable members of our community feel safer and required its members to vacate the house, located on McGraw reduce the incidence of a highly lethal and potentially contagious Place. The fraternity has been banned from campus for at least form of suicide.” Approval of the barriers on University-owned five years; if and when it is reinstated, it would be on probation bridges rests with the city’s Planning and Development Board; for an additional three years. Ithaca’s Common Council will decide whether to install them on city-owned spans. Wheels Up for New Campus Bike-Sharing Program Senior Dies in C-town Blaze The University launched its new bike-sharing program in early May, A senior died in a Collegetown house fire in May, just weeks before giving students, faculty, and staff the chance to “check out” bicy- he was set to graduate from the Hotel school. Twenty-one-year-old cles like library books. The program began with twenty bikes avail- Brian Lo was killed in a midnight blaze that officials believe was able for day-long borrowing at Uris Library; after registering caused by an unattended stove. A member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, online, users show their Cornell ID at the circulation desk and Lo was from East Rockaway, New York. In the Daily Sun, DKE presi- receive a helmet and key to unlock a bike parked outside. Members dent Chazman Childers ’12 described him as “the guy who was get twenty-five free hours of bike use per week and can pay for always happy, and his happiness was infectious.” The building, on additional time. The program is planned to run from March to Cook Street, housed thirteen students in eight apartments. November, weather permitting. For more information, go to bigredbikes.cornell.edu. Endowment Up; CIO Out LINDSAY FRANCE / UP On May 4, the Office of University Investments announced a “pre- liminary investment return” of 19.3 percent, as of April 30, for Cornell’s long-term investments (LTI), a pool of funds that includes the endowment and two smaller funds. With this gain, the LTI’s value increased to $5.28 billion, up from $4.43 billion as of June 30, 2010. Its value had been $6.14 billion on June 30, 2008, prior to the financial crash later that year. The news came on the heels of a surprising announcement that the University’s chief investment officer, Michael Abbott, had stepped down on May 1 after holding the job for only six months. In a press release, Tommy Bruce, vice president for university communications, stated that “it had become apparent that [Abbott’s] style of conducting business is inconsistent with Cornell’s policies and expectations. Accordingly, he and the University have agreed that it is in their mutual interests to end the relationship.” Senior investment officer A. J. Edwards is heading the office on an interim basis. Balancing act: Have Cornell ID, will travel July | August 2011 11 10-13CAMja11fth 6/16/11 1:07 PM Page 12

Willard Straight Board Theatre Director Retires Closes Ceramics Studio After nearly three decades as UP The Willard Straight Student Union Board has voted to close the founding artistic director of building’s ceramics studio, a Straight fixture for more than half a the Schwartz Center for the century. The move prompted supporters to present the board with Performing Arts, David Feld- a petition, signed by more than 700 people, opposing the deci- shuh has retired. “When I sion. But as executive director Michael Motley ’12 told the Daily arrived at Cornell, the Sun, with hundreds of student groups clamoring for event venues, Schwartz Center was a hope,” the board couldn’t justify devoting the space—large enough for he recalls. “My first job was to dance classes or coffeehouses—to the studio, which has limited represent the idea that Cornell appeal among undergrads. could and should offer excellence and give students the opportunity to participate and The Internet, Explained learn the crafts of theater, Al Gore didn’t invent the Internet by himself. He had help—lots film, and dance in a state-of- of it—from Ken King and his colleagues in higher education, the-art facility.” Opened in 1988, the center draws many of them at Cornell. That’s the key point made in “The Origin David Feldshuh and History of the Internet: A Lecture by Kenneth M. King,” which 13,000–15,000 audience was recently released by the Internet-First University Press. The members each year, about half of them students. Feldshuh, a video is an enhanced version of a talk given by King, who was Pulitzer-nominated playwright for Miss Evers’ Boys, is also a physi- Cornell’s vice provost for computer services from 1980 to 1987, to cian; he practices emergency medicine at Cayuga Medical Center the Cornell Association of Professors Emeriti. In it, he traces the and is a clinical instructor at the Medical college. “political history” of the Internet, from its origins in Arpanet in the Sixties to Gore’s push for a National Information Superhigh- Sentencing in Heroin Case way in the Eighties and up to the present. Throughout, he emphasizes the key role played by universities in creating and A former English major and Daily Sun editor has been sentenced developing the Internet, which was originally conceived as a to two and a half years in prison and two years of post-release network of scholars. supervision after pleading guilty to third-degree criminal posses- Another recent Internet-First release is a lecture by Gerry sion of a controlled substance. In December, Ithaca police appre- Rehkugler ’57, MS ’58, on the 5,000-year history of the plow, hended Keri Blakinger ’11 near the Hillside Inn on Stewart Avenue including the one developed by Ezra Cornell for laying telegraph and charged her with possessing more than five ounces of heroin wire. For online access to these and other releases, go to Cornell- with a street value estimated at more than $50,000. (At the time Cast (http://www.cornell.edu/video/) or the University Library’s of her arrest, initial reports put the drugs’ value as high as eCommons site (http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/ $150,000, prompting national media coverage.) A plea deal 1813/62). reduced the charges from second-degree possession.

Give My Regards To... Randall Meyer ’12 and Rachel Perlman ’12, named Goldwater These Cornellians in the News scholars.

Clyde Barker ’54, MD ’58, professor of surgery at Penn, elected President David Skorton, named to a four-year, non-renewable president of the American Philosophical Society. term on the NCAA Division I board of directors. Art professor Michael Ashkin, awarded a fellowship to the Mac- Google employee Ben Cole ’10, East Asian studies major Max Liu Dowell Colony. ’11, and biological and environmental engineering major Allison Truhlar ’11, winners of Gates Cambridge scholarships. Astronomy professor Martha Haynes, honored in May with a symposium to celebrate her sixtieth birthday. ILR professor Ron Ehrenberg, winner of the Jacob Mincer Career Achievement Award from the Society of Labor Economists for President David Skorton and professors Geoffrey Coates (chem- lifetime contributions to economics. istry and chemical biology), Sol Gruner (physics), and Laurent Saloff-Coste (mathematics), elected to the American Academy of Professors Jon Kleinberg ’93 (computer science), Paul McEuen Arts and Sciences. (physics), and Carl Nathan (microbiology and immunology), elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Karen Chi Lin ’13 and Andrew Schoen ’12, winners of Udall scholarships. Project Blue Horizon, a team of Cornell systems engineering graduate students, which set world records for altitude and size Computer science professor Doug James, awarded a Guggenheim with its high-tech, high-altitude balloon in March. fellowship for his work on sound synthesis.

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This spring, odors. and gases noxious that can selectively trap ’11 Keane Jennifer major design apparel and fiber science fabric. the using hoodies and masks designed million annual enterprise, says the head of Cornell’s Adirondack Cornell’s of head says the enterprise, annual million tap currently that producers notes Farrell Mike forest. maple $12 generating statewide, available trees of less than 1 percent a year. million student doctoral development by human a study to According between criminals ’05, MA ’08, we can distinguish Valla Jeffrey separat- time but have a harder photos from noncriminals and ones. nonviolent from offenders violent ing professors Charles Brainerd and Valerie Reyna have found ways have found Reyna Valerie and Charles Brainerd professors Real memories, ones. real from memories false to distinguish with greater and vividly, more easily, more recalled are say, they confidence. ness, more mental health issues, and earlier death than non- death earlier and issues, health mental more ness, has found Ong Anthony professor development Human widows. by a engendered in positive emotions that a steep drop decline. health per se—causes the bereavement spouse—not In work that could aid the legal system, the In work that could aid A study by grad student Jenny Wan-Chen Lee Wan-Chen Jenny student by grad A study researchers engineering environmental and Biological fish plays a vital role gamitana The a spouse dies, When Fiber science professor Juan Hinestroza Juan professor Fiber science movement, open access the claim of a key Refuting corn. organic of variety a new has released University The Northeast. to thrive in the as D2901, it was bred Known industry maple York’s New is a criminal who determine can often People “organic” label persuades consumers that foods are superior. are that foods consumers label persuades “organic” yogurt, cookies, colleagues gave subjects sets of her and She to taste deemed were “organic” marked potato chips; those and actu- were they calories—though and have less fat better and ones. “regular” to the ally identical developed a portable, rapid, inexpensive test to detect inexpensive rapid, a portable, developed than that kills more diarrhea cause of common rotavirus—a in the children them of most people a year, half a million world. developing Amazon River, ecologists report. But due to overfishing, popu- to overfishing, But due report. ecologists River, Amazon past few over the as 90 percent as much dropped have lations decades. R&D CORNELL CHRONICLE ’s tiny’s payload Endeavor Endeavor took off on its final voyage in mid-May, voyage on its final took off commander Mark Kelly. Giffords contin- Giffords Kelly. Mark commander Endeavor Endeavor On hand for the shuttle launch was Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was Rep. Gabrielle launch shuttle the for On hand SnackA sample of sized: its payload included prototypes of tiny microchip satellites microchip tiny of prototypes its payload included pro- engineering aerospace and mechanical lab of in the designed postage-stamp-sized the “Sprite,” Named Peck. fessor Mason to test Space Station International on the will be mounted devices Eventually, space. of environment harsh in the performance their its atmos- enter as they to Saturn to collect data could travel they says space dust,” like travel to size allows them small “Their phere. locations can ‘sail’ to distant they “Blown by solar winds, Peck. fuel.” without MRP ’97, wife of mass the during suffered she wound head the from ues to recover in January. in Tucson event at a constituent shooting Chip Satellites Launched on Chip Satellites Space Shuttle shuttle the When Seven New Trustees Elected Trustees New Seven to the elected were undergrad one six alumni and This spring, ’13, an ILR major; Bores Alexander are: They Trustees. of Board a Kionix, CEO of and president ’93, Galvin, PhD ’84, MBA Gregory Rana company; commercialization technology micromechanical Doug- at Stanford; provost vice ’92, an associate Glasgal ’87, MEng Chase & Co.; Ruben King- JP Morgan ’83, CFO of las Braunstein advi- and investment health the CEO of and ’83, chairman Shaw Jr. MPS ’80, president Tanuma, Chiaki Equity Partners; sory firm Mansa House Green company holding hospitality Asian the of CEO and ECRI for director ’91, MD ’98, clinical Zimmer Karen and Group; services health a nonprofit Organization, Safety Patient Institute trustee seat, Galvin and student fills the Bores agency. research trustees-at-large. are rest the and alumni trustees, Glasgal are New Grad Drowns in Gorge Gorge in Drowns Grad New Commence- at degree bachelor’s his had received who An alumnus in late May. Gorge Fall Creek in drowned day previous the ment water the in was wading Reston, Virginia, ’11 of Castro Kendrick swept was slipped and he when bridge Stewart Avenue the near who by passersby, creek the out of was pulled He downstream. graduated him. Castro to revive unable were CPR but administered in information with a degree Sciences Arts and of College the from Cor- to the Skorton President to a letter from according sciences; electronic composing to continue planned Castro community, nell after graduation. music 10-13CAMja11fth 6/16/11 1:07 PM Page 13 Page PM 1:07 6/16/11 10-13CAMja11fth 14-15CAMja11sports 6/16/11 1:10 PM Page 14

Sports Sports Shorts ALL-AMERICANS The men’s lacrosse team featured four all-Americans this season, led by the USILA Division I Player and Attack- More Champions! man of the Year, Rob Pannell ’12. A finalist for the Tewaaraton Trophy, Pannell was LINDSEY MECHALIK the nation’s leading scorer with 42 goals and 47 assists in 17 games. He was also named Ivy League Player of the Year for the second straight season. Joining him as a first-team All-American were Max Feely ’11 and Roy Lang ’12. Feely anchored a Big Red defense that held opponents to 8.2 goals per game, while Lang scored 27 goals, including a team-high four game- winners. Jason Noble ’13 received All- American honorable mention on defense.

STOCKTON PHOTO NEW OWNER In May, David Einhorn ’91 agreed to buy a share of the New York Mets for $200 million. A fan of the team while growing up, Einhorn is president of Green- light Capital, a hedge fund he started in 1996. This is not his first foray into the JULIE GRECO sports world: in 2006, Einhorn finished Congratulations to three more Big Red 18th in the main event of the World Series championship teams: men’s lacrosse, of Poker and gave his entire prize of nearly men’s tennis, and women’s polo. The $660,000 to the Michael J. Fox Foundation. men’s lacrosse team was unbeaten in Ivy League play, posting a 6-0 regular- NEW COACH Hockey games with Clarkson season mark and winning the first- will become a little more interesting next ever Ivy tournament with convincing season, as the Golden Knights have hired victories over Yale (11-7) and Harvard Casey Jones ’90 as their new head coach. (15-6). It was the team’s ninth straight regular-season Ivy title. They advanced to the Jones had spent the previous three seasons NCAA tournament, where they defeated Hartford before losing to eventual national cham- as the Big Red’s associate head coach pion Virginia. The men’s tennis team won its first-ever outright Ivy title with a perfect 7-0 under Mike Schafer ’86. league mark. They lost to Louisville in the first round of the NCAA tournament, but ended the year with an outstanding 26-5 record. The women’s polo team was literally unbeat- able, winning all 21 of its matches and earning its 13th national championship with an 18-10 victory over Virginia at Oxley Equestrian Center. Spring Teams Final Records

CORNELL ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Baseball 10-30; 7-13 Ivy R.I.P., COACH THOREN Longtime base- (4th, Gehrig Div.) ball coach Ted Thoren passed away on Men’s Lacrosse 14-3; 6-0 Ivy (1st) May 10 in Ithaca after a long illness. He was 89. A 1949 graduate of Ithaca Col- Women’s Lacrosse 6-8, 3-4 Ivy (5th) lege, Thoren began his Cornell career as Varsity Hvywt. Rowing 7-3 a graduate assistant football coach in J.V. Hvywt. Rowing 5-4 1952. He became an assistant baseball coach in 1955 before being named Cor- Fr. Hvywt. Rowing 5-4 nell’s 13th head baseball coach in 1962. Varsity Ltwt. Rowing 4-3 Over the next 29 seasons, he won 541 games and was enshrined in seven dif- J.V. Ltwt. Rowing 5-1 ferent halls of fame, including the Amer- Fr. Ltwt. Rowing 5-2 ican Baseball Coaches Association Hall Women’s Varsity Rowing 6-3 of Fame, the Ithaca College Hall of Fame, and the Cornell Athletics Hall of Women’s J.V. Rowing 5-4 Fame. He also received the Cornell Softball 27-22-1; 12-7 Ivy Legend Award in 2008 and the Cornell (1st, South Div.) Football Association’s Lifetime Achieve- Men’s Tennis 26-5; 7-0 Ivy (1st) ment Award in 2009. Ted Thoren Women’s Tennis 9-11; 1-6 Ivy (7th)

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Authors

The Stories We Inherit

The Shape of the Eye by George Estreich, MFA ’89 (Southern Methodist)

streich’s memoir tells the story of his younger daughter, Laura, born with EDown syndrome, and delves into the science of genetics, family history, and the career of John Langdon Down, the nineteenth-century physician who described the patients who would later bear his name. As Estreich writes, “Laura’s chromosome count taught me that every child is a genetic risk; years later, remembering an infant I did not know, I learn—again—that it is not only the chromosome, but our response to it, that shapes the contour of a life.”

Kosher Chinese by Michael Levy ’98 (Holt). Spiral by Paul McEuen (Dial). Heeding the During Levy’s Peace Corps tour as an English advice to write what you know, McEuen— teacher in the city of Guiyang in central professor of physics and director of the China, far from the economic powerhouses Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale of the country’s coastal cities, he became Science—makes his hero, Jake Sterling, a the reluctant host of the Guizhou University Cornell nanoscientist, and employs the Jewish Friday Night English and Cooking University and Ithaca as the setting of his Corner Club, was drafted onto the local bas- debut thriller. When the apparent suicide ketball team, befriended members of the of an emeritus professor of biology in Fall Bouyei minority, witnessed his students’ Creek gorge turns out to be murder, Ster- struggles with the ins and outs of Chinese-style capitalism, and ling must draw upon his knowledge of nanotechnology to saw how the “other billion” lives. While trying to avoid cultural uncover the killer and stop a plot to release a World War II-era faux pas, he also learned to eat “anything with four legs but bioweapon. the table.” Shrink Rap by Dinah Miller, MD ’88, One Hundred Names for Love by Diane Acker- Annette Hanson, and Steven Roy Daviss man, PhD ’79 (Norton). When Ackerman’s (Johns Hopkins). While the psychoana- husband, the novelist Paul West, suffered a lyst’s couch may be the general public’s stroke in 2005, it was tailor-made to be a image of psychiatry, psychoanalysis is a writer’s private hell: he was diagnosed with small subspecialty of the discipline. “Psy- global aphasia, and the monosyllable “mem” chiatry can be seen as a mysterious and was the only thing he could say. Ackerman covert medical specialty,” write the psy- swamped her husband with language and chiatrists who run the podcast series “My insisted that he talk. Against the odds, West Three Shrinks” and the “Shrink Rap” blog. recovered his ability to speak and write. Even “Many would replace the image of the couch with an image of a though his writing has changed, the flavor of brain, though neither fully captures what our field is all about.” his imagining remains the same. “A bell with a crack in it may not The writers aim to demystify psychiatry and describe their field ring as clearly,” she writes, “but it can ring as sweetly.” in plain English. 16 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 16-17CAMja11authors 6/16/11 1:11 PM Page 17

Fiction The Metropolis Case by Matthew Gallaway ’90 (Crown). Using his characters’ obsession with Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde as his focus, Gallaway weaves together the stories of three opera singers and a music-loving lawyer in a debut novel that moves from the opera capitals of Europe to New York City, and from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.

This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman ’83 (HarperCollins). After the Bergamot family moves from Ithaca to New York City’s Upper West Side, their comfortable new life is turned upside down when their teenage son forwards a sexually explicit video that goes viral on the Internet. Non-Fiction An Englishwoman in California edited by Zoë Klippert ’64 (Bodleian Library). Cather- ine Hubback, Jane Austen’s niece and a novelist in her own right, emigrated from England to Oakland, California, in 1871. Her letters home give a portrait of a turbulent time in U.S. history. Klippert edits the letters and provides an informative background to Hubback’s life.

A Physician Under the Nazis edited by David Glenwick ’71 (Hamilton). A professor of psychology at Fordham University edits his father’s memoirs, written when he was a Jewish physician during World War II in the Ukraine, the Warsaw ghetto, and concentration camps, and chronicling the start of his new life in America.

Rising Force by James D. Livingston ’51 (Harvard). A former GE physicist and lecturer at MIT explores the concept of magnetic levitation—“maglev”—and describes the science behind electromagnetic forces, superconductors, force fields, and the development of maglev trains that can travel as fast as 270 miles per hour.

Prison Blossoms edited by Miriam Brody, PhD ’88, and Bonnie Buettner, PhD ’84 (Har- vard). A professor of German studies and her colleague edit the 1890s-era prison writings of the anarchists and labor organizers Alexander Berkman, Henry Bauer, and Carl Nord, which were smuggled out to Emma Goldman and others in the movement.

The Quest for the Cure by Brent R. Stock- well ’94 (Columbia). Exploring the history of drug research to combat Alzheimer’s, cancer, and other diseases, an associate professor of biology and chemistry at Columbia describes the complex path to medical breakthroughs. July | August 2011 17 18-31CAMja11currents 6/16/11 1:12 PM Page 18

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With his roommate and a dog named Ted, Brett Hamock ’07 narrowly survived the tornado that devastated Alabama

wenty-six-year-old ILR grad Brett Hamock ever. I had my iPhone, and got on Facebook and posted my sta- ’07 was at home in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, tus: “Hey, I just got hit by a tornado. Somebody tell me when on the afternoon of April 27 when the col- it’s OK to come out.” lege town was struck by a massive tornado. Then it was dead silent outside. It smelled like Pine-Sol, and HeT shared a second-floor apartment on the south side—an I was like, “Oh God, I bet there are pine trees in our house.” area popular with grad students and lower-income families— And we opened the bathroom door and it was like being out- with Cooper Ellenberg, a classmate from the University of side. The whole apartment was exposed. The living room was Alabama law school, and a Wheaten terrier named Ted. Part- gone, the kitchen was gone, my bedroom was gone. The rubble ners in a small law practice focused on indigent criminal and debris were everywhere. defense, Hamock and Ellenberg had spent the day in court; As soon as we crawled out, we were told we had thirty min- they were working in their home office when the tornado hit. utes to evacuate because another tornado was coming. We A week later, with the storm’s aftermath displaced from the grabbed what few things we could but I couldn’t find my car news by the killing of Osama bin Laden, Hamock called the keys. We got out to the parking lot and there was debris every- CAM offices seeking to raise awareness about the disaster and where. I had just filled up my car with gas and his was on empty, the devastated communities it left behind. Temporarily living so we were running a cost-benefit analysis. Is it better for me to with friends in Birmingham and commuting to Tuscaloosa in a try to find my keys, or do we take his car and pray we don’t run borrowed 1990 Plymouth Voyager—his BMW was totaled in out of gas before we get hit by another tornado? We decided he the storm—Hamock recalled the tornado. would run upstairs and try to grab a few things, and I started moving the debris from around his car—pieces of the roof, a I was sitting at my computer and we were watching the news fence, a light pole—so we could drive out. All the car windows on television. There was a tower cam on a building in were destroyed from the air pressure; there was six inches of Tuscaloosa; you could see the tornado barreling toward the city. debris and dirt inside and safety glass everywhere. When it dropped, the storm tracker said, “If you live between Driving around, it was crazy. The south side of Tuscaloosa 15th and 39th streets, you have five minutes to evacuate because was like a Third World country. The traffic was chaos. People had this thing is coming right toward you.” We lived on 27th Street, grabbed their guns to fend off looters. There was a guy walking right in the middle of the storm path; we didn’t have time to go down the road with an assault rifle in one hand and a baby in the anywhere. Then the power went out. We heard people outside other. None of these people knew there was another storm com- screaming. At this point the tornado was a mile wide. ing; they were just happy they had survived the first one. But the I knew it was a horrible idea to go out there because of the second storm actually changed track and hit another town. debris that would be flying around. Cooper and Ted and I took We’d been mostly working from home, and our home office refuge in a bathroom that had no windows. I knew I was going had all our files in it. They got blown away and there’s no telling to die. I thought, I can’t believe I went to school for seven years where they are; a sign from a Tuscaloosa restaurant was found and worked so hard, and I’m dying right now. There are so 120 miles away. We can’t find some of our clients, and we’re many things I want to do, things I would have handled differ- worried because a lot of them live in the hard-hit areas. There ently that now I won’t get a chance to fix. are hundreds of people dead from an event that lasted a few min- They say it sounds like a freight train, and maybe it was the utes. I’m fine, but there are so many people living like refugees adrenaline, but we didn’t hear anything. All we heard was the who have nowhere to go. wind pick up and debris hitting the building. But we could feel When we went back to the apartment to see what we could it pick the apartment complex up off the foundation and set it salvage, I found my Cornell diploma, intact in the frame, with a back down. I heard a snap and that’s when the roof came off. It picture of McGraw Tower overlooking Cayuga Lake. I’m going was probably only twenty or thirty seconds but it felt like for- to hang it in my next office, the sole survivor. 18 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 18-31CAMja11currents 6/16/11 1:12 PM Page 19 BRETT HAMOCK

Totaled: After the storm, Hamock used his iPhone to snap photos of the devastation, including (top) the remains of his apartment complex, home office (bottom left), and car.

July | August 2011 19 West Side Story West , two outstanding Broad- Gypsy HTTP://WWWIRAJOELCINEMAGEBOOKS.BLOGSPOT.COM and by Glenn Altschuler, PhD ’76, Isaac by Glenn Altschuler, Remembering Remembering West Side Story West Arthur Laurents ’37 Laurents Arthur Showman: Arthur Showman: in the Fifties ’37 Laurents violated the “sacred code of show business: musicals are for nonthinking joy.” Author of the books for way musicals, Arthur Laurents ’37 won acclaim as a leading dramatist, libret- n giving serious attention to street gangs and racial prejudice, Arthur Laurents was born in Brooklyn, New York, on July 14, 1918, the son of on July 14, 1918, the son Arthur Laurents was born in Brooklyn, New York, The 100 Most Notable Cornellians tist, and screenwriter in the second half of the twentieth century. As a teenager at sum- and Ada Robbins Laurents, a teacher. Irving Laurents, a lawyer, I Arthur Laurents ’37 died in New York City on May 5. This profile of him appeared Arthur Laurents ’37 died in New York in Kramnick, and R. Laurence Moore, published in 2003 by Cornell University Press. Famed playwright and director playwright Famed ninety-three dies at cornellalumnimagazine.com |

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mer camp, Arthur became “wildly pitals, Laurents wrote his first Broadway stagestruck” after he was picked for a play, Home of the Brave, in 1945; it’s the part in The Crow’s Nest because he was story of an Army psychiatrist and a Jew- “agile enough to climb up the mast of a ish soldier whose amnesia is the result of ship and bright enough to remember guilt over the death of his possibly anti- some lines.” While a student at Erasmus Semitic buddy. Praised by some as bold Hall High School in Brooklyn, he regu- and important, the play closed after sixty- larly attended the theater in his neighbor- nine performances. In 1949 United Artists hood as well as in Manhattan. released a film version of Home of the In 1933, Laurents entered Cornell. Brave, rewritten as an exploration of prej- With encouragement from Raymond udice against blacks rather than Jews. Short, his freshman English teacher, he After his next play, Heartsong, decided to become a writer rather than to flopped during pre-Broadway trials in follow his father into the legal profession. 1947, Laurents moved to Hollywood. He A theater major, Laurents (who would be produced the screenplay for Alfred Hitch- dubbed “the meanest mouth in show cock’s Rope (1948), wrote a script for business”) was not impressed by the fac- Anatole Litvak’s The Snake Pit (1948), ulty or the curriculum in the department. and worked on Caught (1949) and Anna The reading course he designed for him- Lucasta (1949). Laurents returned to self, The Socially Conscious Drama since Broadway in 1950 with another flop, The 1848, was, he thought, “one of the Bird Cage, but scored an impressive hit pathetically few [classes] I took at Cornell two years later with The Time of the that I enjoyed or from which I learned Cuckoo, a comedy-romance set in Venice anything.” When Professor Alexander that is about the relationship between an Drummond advised students never to American spinster—brilliantly played by begin a play with a telephone ringing, Shirley Booth—and a married Italian Laurents defied him by writing a first act shopkeeper. The play was subsequently that did just that. He knew he was declar- turned into a film, Summertime, with ing war, but dismissed Drummond as a Katharine Hepburn, and a musical com- “casually overt anti-Semite.” Not surpris- edy, Do I Hear a Waltz?, with music by ingly, Drummond suggested that Laurents Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Stephen give up playwriting. Sondheim. Blacklisted in Hollywood as a “fellow Cornell Sheep Program traveler” for much of the Fifties, Laurents BLANKETS lthough Laurents re- fled to Paris. In mid-decade, he returned members his under- to the Broadway theater. Despite a fine Created from the wool of graduate years with performance by Kim Stanley, A Clearing Cornell Dorset and Finnsheep breeds and their crosses, these little affection, they in the Wood closed after less than a blankets are ideal for football Awere formative. As assistant editor and month in early 1957. In the fall, however, games and cold nights, and as gifts drama critic of the Daily Sun, he wrote he was part of a great Broadway triumph. for graduation, weddings, birthdays, regularly about topics that interested him. West Side Story—with music by Leonard Christmas, and other occasions. Red stripes near each end and red binding As a member of the liberal-socialist Amer- Bernstein, the book by Laurents, lyrics by accent the 100% virgin wool. Your purchase ican Student Union, he gained firsthand Sondheim, and conception, choreography, of blankets helps to support the Cornell experience with progressive politics and and staging by Jerome Robbins—electri- Sheep Program, and $10 from each sale goes red-baiting. He also met Fannie Price ’37, fied audiences. Laurents won praise for to an undergraduate scholarship fund. Each the frizzy-haired Young Communist Lea- updating the story of the star-crossed blanket is individually serial-numbered on the Cornell Sheep Program logo label and guer, whom he would later make the lovers Romeo and Juliet, seamlessly inte- comes with a certificate of authenticity. model for Katie Morosky, the heroine of grating the dialogue and plot with the Lap robe (60 x 48 inches, 3 stripes) $85 his film The Way We Were. In 1937 Lau- music, creating for the Anglo Jets and Single (60 x 90 inches, 3 stripes) $119 rents attended the peace strike organized Puerto Rican Sharks the “talk of the juve- Double (72 x 90 inches, 3 stripes) $129 by the Young Communist League, which niles, or a reasonable facsimile,” and Queen (76 x 104 inches, 3 stripes) $155 featured placards calling for “Peace at weaving it into “a magic fabric.” King (120 x 90 inches, 3 stripes) $250 Any Price, Except Fannie Price.” Following the success of West Side Add 8% New York State sales tax and shipping Following graduation, Laurents per- Story, Gypsy, with lyrics by Sondheim and ($10 for lap robes, $15 for Single, Double & Queen, and $20 for King) formed in a nightclub revue and wrote a score by Jule Styne, enjoyed a two-year few radio scripts. When the United States Broadway run, spawned a film that was a Additional information about the blankets is available at www.sheep.cornell.edu entered World War II, he enlisted in the smash hit, and became one of the most (click on “Blankets”) Army. Assigned at first to a paratroop frequently staged musicals in the United Purchase at our website www.sheep.cornell.edu unit at Fort Benning, Georgia, he spent States. Based on the memoirs of stripper (secure credit card), the Cornell Orchards, the most of the war writing scripts for mili- Gypsy Rose Lee, Laurents’s libretto con- Cornell Plantations, or from the Department of tary training films and radio scenarios centrated on Gypsy’s ambitious, overbear- Animal Science in 114 Morrison Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4801, or by about the rehabilitation of veterans and ing stage mother, played by Ethel Mer- phone (607-255-7712), fax (607-255-9829), the problems of returning servicemen. man. In 1973 Laurents directed a revival or email ([email protected]). Drawing on his research in veterans’ hos- of Gypsy, this time starring Angela Lans-

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bury, for which he earned a Tony nomination and a Drama Desk Award. The Sixties were somewhat less kind to Laurents. He directed a musical comedy version of Jerome Weidman’s play I Can Get It for You Wholesale in 1962, a musical remembered only because it marked the Broadway debut of Barbra Streisand. Two years later he was librettist and director for Anyone Can Whistle, a show with music and lyrics by Sondheim that lasted for only nine performances. In 1967, Laurents wrote the musical libretto for Hallelujah, Baby!, which examined race relations through the lives of a young black couple played by Leslie Uggams and Robert Hooks. Despite lackluster reviews, the show ran for nine months, and Lau- rents picked up another Tony. In the Seventies Laurents scored his biggest commercial successes with screen- plays for The Way We Were (1973) and The Turning Point (1977). The Way We Were allowed Laurents to explore the anticommunist witch hunt in Hollywood during the Fifties, through a romance between Streisand, playing a left-wing intellectual, and Robert Redford, playing a WASP novelist. Columbia Pictures considered, then rejected, Cornell as the setting for Katie Morosky’s college days. Acclaimed as “literate, mature, and compelling,” The Turning Point featured stellar performances by Anne Bancroft, as a prima ballerina on the verge of retirement, and Shirley MacLaine, as a talented dancer who gave up her career to raise a family. The film earned Laurents an Oscar nomination for best screenplay. Cornell A gay man, Laurents took special pleasure in directing La Cage aux Folles Alumni (1983), the musical about the homosexual owners and transvestite stars of a night Magazine club in Saint-Tropez. He worked hard to insure that “people and emotions” remained at the heart of this often bawdy Now on play. A box-office smash, La Cage aux Folles won six Tony Awards, including your iPad— best musical.

• Alex Evening • Ursula • Brighton • • 600 West Planet Elliott Lauren Cartise Laurents remained active in the Nineties, writing several plays: Nick and iPhone and Android Nora (1991), a musical; Jolson Sings too. Again (1995), a treatment of the Holly- wood blacklist; The Radical Mystique To learn more, go to (1995); and My Good Name (1997). Although none of them found an audi- cornell ence, Laurents became the center of attention again, in 2000, with the publication alumni of Original Story By, a candid, acerbic, Fine Women’s Clothing... magazine.com where your favorite outfit is waiting even fierce memoir of his life in the Preview our Fall ’11 Collection worlds of art, love, and politics, that con- janemorganslittlehouse.com cludes, “I’m still sexual, still skiing, still Mon–Sat 10 am–6 pm, Thurs ‘til 8 pm, Sunday 12–4 pm crusading . . . [and] I have begun a new 378 Main St., Aurora, NY 13026 •(315) 364-7715

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PROVIDED A Good Read

Sarasi Jayaratne ’12 works to bring books to the children of Sri Lanka, a nation ravaged by natural disaster and civil war

n the dark hours of a jungle night in her passport under her pillow. tidal wave that overwhelmed the coast of 2007, Sarasi Jayaratne ’12 lay in bed Jayaratne, daughter of Sri Lankan- Sri Lanka and also ravaged parts of Indone- listening to the sound of Sri Lankan born parents, was on the teardrop-shaped sia, Thailand, and southern India. In Sri Isecurity forces cleaning their weapons island in the Indian Ocean pursuing a mis- Lanka, more than 160,000 people died outside the windows of her guest house. sion she’d launched as a high school fresh- and thousands of others were left homeless. She also heard them speaking in hushed man. That project has grown into the In the wake of the devastation, 168 tones about the likelihood of an attack Keep Reading Foundation, which has so schools lay in ruins or had vanished com- from the Tamil Tiger rebel troops posi- far shipped close to 20,000 English- pletely. “I remember watching CNN all tioned within shooting range of the village. language books to more than fifty schools that day thinking, ‘I would not know what Such nights were the norm for these in rural Sri Lanka. to do if I didn’t have a school,’ ” she says. “I villagers, but it was fraught for a teenage Her odyssey began on Christmas Eve decided to do whatever I could to help those Girl Scout and high school sophomore 2004, when a magnitude-9.1 earthquake children get their education back on track.” from suburban Virginia. She slept with on the ocean floor near Sumatra caused a Aiming to replenish the libraries of

Page turner: Sarasi Jayaratne ’12 presents donated books to Sri Lankan schoolchildren.

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schools under reconstruction or conven- tribute books written for children roughly many rural areas. C urrents ing under tents, Jayaratne reached out to aged five to twelve. The donations include In photos of her trips, the school- her Girl Scout troop and began a fund- English language primers and textbooks children appear in traditional uniforms— raising drive that garnered $150 the first as well as books from Mother Goose to the girls in white shirts, ties, and skirts; day. She wrote and collected letters to Harry Potter; shipping costs average $400 the boys in white shirts, ties, and dark members of Congress and visited the Sri to $500 per batch of about twenty boxes. pants—giving the collective impression of Lankan embassy in Washington, D.C. During her 2007 trip, Jayaratne met a orderliness and even economic stability. (twice, because of an ambassador change). retired English teacher who now heads the Jayaratne was surprised by their neat Doors opened. Her simple, articulate Keep Reading Foundation’s Sri Lankan appearance—until she was advised to appeal won over scores of policymakers, branch, a connection that has helped the judge the children’s relative well-being by neighbors, friends, and ultimately the chil- group reach into more remote parts of the looking at their feet. “Some of them had dren and teachers she would meet on her country. Jayaratne’s group has also worn-out shoes or no shoes at all,” she trips to Sri Lanka. “The children treated worked closely with the Janavijaya says. “I learned that many of them are me like a superstar,” Jayaratne says. Foundation, a nonprofit, faith-based very poor and must walk long distances “They were so happily surprised that a organization that provided disaster relief just to get to school.” teenage girl—someone almost their age— for victims of the 2004 tsunami. For her efforts as a Girl Scout, could do something like this for them.” Her most recent trip, in January, had Jayaratne received a Gold Award, the English is a secondary language in Sri its harrowing moments, as the countryside organization’s highest honor. At Cornell, Lanka, whose people mainly speak Sin- was flooded by relentless monsoon rains. where she is majoring in biology with an halese or Tamil dialects. However, most of Accompanied by her parents, she traveled eye toward become a doctor, she serves as the country’s universities are modeled on across a sodden landscape marked by a co-leader of the Sri Lanka Association the British educational system, where Eng- mudslides and flooded roads. Their efforts and is studying Sinhalese, so she can com- lish is the lingua franca—and Jayaratne were met by enthusiastic students from municate better during her trips abroad. says it has an important role as a bridge ten schools who came despite the deluge. “When I visit those children, all of the language. The civil war between Sinhala In a relatively dry spot, they listened to troubles I face in trying to help them dis- and Tamil ethnic groups may have ended, the tall young woman from America talk appear,” she says. “When I see that it but tensions remain high; Jayaratne about the importance of education, and makes them truly happy that someone believes that increasing English literacy for her gift of books earned ceremonial hon- from far away cares about their future, it both groups could serve as a uniting force. ors. Included in the donations were hun- gives me hope that we really can do some- Jayaratne has traveled to Sri Lanka dreds of pairs of reading glasses, since cor- thing to change the world.” four times as part of her efforts to dis- rective lenses are almost nonexistent in — Franklin Crawford

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Paw & Order Meet Reggie, Cornell’s canine cop

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ne of the University’s most highly specialized employees works for peanuts—or, rather, tennis balls. Named Reggie, he’s a five-year-old Oblack Lab serving as a K-9 officer with the University Police (and moonlighting as chief recycler of used athletic equipment, which the Reis Tennis Cen- ter donates by the bagful). The second dog on the CUPD force—his predecessor, Sabre, retired in 2008—Reg- gie is the four-legged half of the University’s explosives detection team. He and his handler, patrol officer Kevin Noterfonzo, check University venues for bombs before major events like Commencement and appearances by high-profile visitors such as Convoca- tion speaker Rudy Giuliani. They also investigate suspicious packages, both on campus or (at the request of other law enforcement agencies) elsewhere in the community. “Reggie is a great resource,” says CUPD Deputy Chief David Honan. “If we have a suspected device, we can have Kevin and Reggie come out and render it safe and reopen a building. If we didn’t have that skill set, we’d have to shut down the building for hours and wait for a bomb squad or another dog from out of town—and that’s a lot of money and disruption of University operations.” Trained as a successor to Sabre, Reggie was adopted at thirteen months through Rudy’s Rescue, an Upstate New York animal welfare group that specializes in Labs. Good collar: Officers Kevin Transferred from a high-kill shelter in Kentucky—where his original owners surren- Noterfonzo and Reggie during dered him for being too big a handful—Reggie had gone through two failed placements Commencement weekend (top). with Rudy’s Rescue when Noterfonzo got a call asking if he was still looking for a Above: Reggie in his custom car. K-9 partner. “More or less, the dogs that people don’t want, we want,” Noterfonzo

26 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 18-31CAMja11currents 6/16/11 1:13 PM Page 27 C says. “You want to make sure they’re urrents hyper and crazy over a certain toy. Reg- gie loves his ball, and that’s what he looks for as his reward.” The pair underwent 180 hours of training through the Southern Tier Police Canine Association in Binghamton, leading to federal and state certification as an explosives detection team; they still do eight-hour refresher courses every other week. “The canine nose is 800 times more powerful than a human’s,” Noter- fonzo notes. “There is no technological tool as advanced.” As his uniform, Reg- gie wears a fluorescent green collar bearing his own tiny badge and emblazoned with the word POLICE; the team’s spe- cially equipped squad car includes a heat- detection system that, in case of an air conditioning failure on a hot day, lowers the windows, turns on the fans, flashes the car-top lights, and pages Noterfonzo. When the team inspects a large building like Bailey Hall—a process that can take several hours—Reggie requires breaks for rest and water every twenty to thirty minutes. “When he’s searching, he’s breath- ing through his snout and his mouth is closed, so it’s almost like he’s hyperventi- lating,” says Noterfonzo, noting that CUPD may train a second K-9 officer to share the workload, if funding becomes available. “That really wears him down.” No longer a rookie, Reggie has his share of war stories. Although most suspicious packages or devices prove to be benign, he did detect explosive residue in the bedroom of a young man whose father had called Ithaca police concerned he might have bomb-making materials. Since Reggie is also trained in search and rescue, he has been called upon to find lost people; in August 2010 he helped locate the body of an undergraduate who had died in an accidental gorge fall. “Reg- gie found the track of where he had gone,” says Noterfonzo. “He indicated the direction of where we could start looking, and sure enough that’s where we found him.” The relationship between the partners doesn’t end when they clock out; Reggie lives with Noterfonzo and his family. At home, Reggie has another job: best buddy to the Noterfonzo children, aged nine, four, and one. “He acts more like a kid than a pet,” the officer says. “He has a dog bed, but he sleeps with the kids.” To stay sharp for work, Reggie isn’t allowed to play with tennis balls while off-duty— but there are ample bones, pig ears, and tug toys for his enjoyment. “At home he’s pretty much a pet,” Noterfonzo says, “but he lives like a king.” — Beth Saulnier

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Long-Distance Call

Weill Cornell faculty give MDs at Ithaca’s Cayuga Medical Center a primer on navigating research resources

time these three campuses were integrated in this way, where you had physicians affiliated with Cayuga Medical Center participating in a course taught by Weill Cornell faculty and housed in facilities at Cornell University,” Law says. “I think it’s a fantastic precedent.” STEFANIE GREEN The course is just one way that physi- Hospital corners: More physicians from Cayuga Medical Center, cians at CMC and Weill Cornell have been located on Ithaca’s West Hill, are getting faculty appointments at working together, as leaders of the two Cornell. Inset: A page from the research website PubMed. institutions promote collaborative efforts to enrich both. For example, Weill Cornell grand rounds have been simulcast in Ithaca; Medical college faculty are giving individual continuing education lectures, he half-life of medical miles away in Manhattan. Last fall, public both in person and remotely; and CMC knowledge is finite,” says health professor Madelon Finkel and physicians have received faculty appoint- ‘TAdam Law, an endocri- Helen-Ann Brown Epstein, head of educa- ments at Weill Cornell and are helping to nologist at Ithaca’s Cayuga Medical Cen- tion and outreach at the Weill Cornell train students and residents. “The physician ter (CMC) and a clinical assistant profes- Medical Library, taught a ten-week course groups in New York City and Ithaca are sor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical in evidence-based medicine—a burgeoning getting to know each other better,” says College. “I was told it was seven years field in which knowledge gleaned through President David Skorton. “It’s a very posi- when I started medical school. Now it’s the scientific method is brought to bear on tive relationship in both directions.” probably three or four.” Doctors don’t clinical practice. “We wanted to do some- On a Thursday night last December, a stop studying when they graduate from thing that affects the practice of all doc- dozen CMC physicians gathered in a Cor- med school; the ever-evolving nature of tors,” says Law, who helped launch the nell classroom, wired for distance learn- medical science makes continuing educa- course during his term as CMC staff pres- ing, for a meeting of the evidence-based tion an inherent—and required—part of ident, “not a specific content area like medicine course. From the Manhattan a physician’s career. heart failure or varicose veins, but some- campus, Finkel and Epstein led a discus- Through a growing partnership thing that every doctor has to know sion on molluscum contagiosum, a viral between Cornell and CMC, Medical col- about.” A case-based primer in navigating skin infection that one of the participants, lege faculty are offering continuing educa- online research resources seemed an ideal a pediatrician, had just seen in a two-a- tion to Ithaca-based MDs—despite the first topic for what is hoped to be an half-year-old girl. The question at hand: is fact that the med school is located 200 annual offering, Law says. “This is the first a severe outbreak of the disease associated 28 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 18-31CAMja11currents 6/16/11 1:13 PM Page 29 C

with immunosuppression? urrents “It’s spread by direct skin-to-skin contact,” Finkel noted. “So do you think she gave it to her brothers? Or they had it first?” “She’s the youngest, so the brothers had it first,” the pediatrician offered. “It’s a very common skin condition. What’s unusual is that she had such a large flare.” “She’s not HIV positive?” Finkel asked. “Or any of the boys?” “She tested negative at birth, and we have only that test to go on,” said the pedi- Visit atrician. “I don’t know how long she’s had CAM Online for more it, but at least several months, and it has just recently flared. When she came in cornellalumni today, her diaper area was covered with it.” magazine. For the next hour, Finkel and Epstein com guided the physicians through online searches of the medical literature using resources like the research aggregation site PHOTOS PROVIDED BY KRISTEN MCCLELLAN PubMed, aiming to see if the toddler’s Hot commodity: Kristen McClellan ’12 skin infection could herald immune (inset) invented SnappyScreen, a issues—and how she might best be sunscreen applicator (demonstrated treated. (Throughout the discussion, the by a model in a promotional photo). participants viewed the teachers on one screen while a second showed the desktop of Epstein’s computer.) They found intriguing, potentially relevant studies in Burn Notice sources like the International Journal of Dermatology, but no definitive answer. Student entrepreneur hopes her “These are real-world issues,” Finkel said. sunscreen machine is a hot seller “These are patients coming into your office every day. Sometimes a perfect arti- Clouds, as the saying goes, come to die in Ithaca—that bastion of gray skies where sun- cle will appear and tell you exactly what bathing is largely an indoor sport. The city is an unlikely birthplace for SnappyScreen, a you need to do and everything is mar- sunblock application system that’s having a trial run at an Aruban resort this summer. velous and wonderful—and in other cases SnappyScreen doesn’t come in a tube or bottle. It’s a device, invented and patented it takes more searching. But I think we by ILR student Kristen McClellan ’12, that airbrushes an even coat of lotion onto the arrived at a couple of suggestions to fur- body. Think of it as a sunscreen shower. Users step inside a seven-foot-high semi- ther test the young girl as well as her circular booth and select the grade of UV protection. Eyes closed, they rotate as verti- brothers to rule in or rule out possibili- cal rows of nozzles mist them evenly; no slathering on of creams, no end-of-the-day ties.” Epstein suggested consulting a blotches. One application would cost about $2, says McClellan, who plans to donate a textbook, possibly in dermatology, im- percentage of her profits to the Melanoma Research Foundation. munology, or pediatrics. “See if you can A native of Locust Valley, New York, McClellan got her business start as a youngster get a bit more background before you selling lemonade, handicrafts, and snails harvested from Long Island Sound. At twelve, jump to the journal literature,” she said. she co-founded a neighborhood “day camp” babysitting service that netted as much as Added Finkel: “Sometimes PubMed is just $1,000 a week. The idea for SnappyScreen came to the fair-skinned entrepreneur as a sen- not going to do it for you.” ior in high school, after she and her sister lamented how long it took to slather on sun- CMC emergency physician David block for a trip to the beach. “On a vacation, time is really important,” says McClellan. Feldshuh took the course with the aim of “People can spend up to an hour applying sunscreen to themselves and their kids.” She expanding his knowledge as evidence- got help building the initial SnappyScreen prototype from a neighbor, a retired engineer; based approaches become increasingly they constructed it from scratch in her family’s driveway. “I wanted something resembling important; he also craved some practical an outdoor beach shower,” she says, “the kind you use to wash sand off your feet.” advice on researching a medical condition Last fall, SnappyScreen earned McClellan a spot as a finalist in a national young affecting his 100-year-old mother. “The entrepreneurs’ competition sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange and mtvU, a chan- teachers were very gracious, open to ques- nel available on some 800 campuses. She appeared on its “Movers & Changers” show in tions, and flexible,” says Feldshuh, a clin- December, missing out on the $25,000 grand prize but garnering $5,000 toward mar- ical instructor of emergency medicine at keting and producing her latest prototype. She got some help in developing the business the Medical college who is also a profes- from eLab, a Collegetown startup incubator run by Student Agencies; open to all Cornell sor of theatre at Cornell. “The course students, it has a dozen projects in various stages of progress at any given time. So far, introduced me to a new vocabulary, and says eLab adviser Daniel Cohen, the three-year-old facility has nurtured seven revenue- the distance learning part—if not com- generating companies, including a file-hosting service and a penny auction site. “Kris- pletely natural—is a great way to make ten’s concept has a good chance of making it,” says Cohen, a human resources lecturer things possible that might otherwise not in the ILR school. “She’s at the stage where she’s ready to launch her prototype. That’s happen.” when you find out if the market is there.” — Beth Saulnier — Franklin Crawford July | August 2011 29 18-31CAMja11currents 6/16/11 1:13 PM Page 30

Family Affair

With Bespoke History, a Cornellian couple creates elaborate and pricey genealogical volumes

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n 2004, Tom Hostage ’89, BS ’90, spurred him to thoroughly research his wanted to create something special ancestry, interview dozens of family mem- Ito mark the fiftieth wedding anni- bers and friends, and collect hundreds of versary of his parents, Mike Hostage ’54, photographs and documents. The end MBA ’55, and Dorothy Noll Hostage ’54. result was not only a professionally He decided on a coffee-table book, a col- bound family history, but a business ven- orful and comprehensive account of the ture as well. “I saw how people reacted to family tree, as well as the lives of Mike the book,” Hostage says, “and realized and Dot and the ten kids they raised. that I had found something I love to do Hostage had the means: he’s co-owner and that other people might enjoy.” (with his brother, Tim Hostage ’91, BS Hostage founded Bespoke History, a ’93) of a commercial printing company in publishing company that he runs out of Framingham, Massachusetts, which of- his home in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. (It fered access to a fully equipped produc- takes its name from a British term mean- tion facility. The golden anniversary ing an item custom-made to a buyer’s

Roots: Tom Hostage ’89, BS ’90, and Sherri Bredenberg-Hostage ’89, BS ’91 (opposite), run Bespoke History. Above: A sample page from one of the company’s volumes.

30 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 18-31CAMja11currents 6/16/11 1:13 PM Page 31 C urrents filled with cabinets containing forty-five years of albums comprising more than 20,000 photos. After months of work, they condensed the collection into a seventeen-volume series —high-quality hardcovers with dust jackets bearing foil- stamped titles on the face and spine and eighty-pound coated- stock paper inside, averaging about 250 pages per book. Bespoke’s other products have included a memorial booklet honoring the life of Tom Gillespie’s brother, the late Bob Gillespie ’60, BA ’61, and a 140-page history of the PROVIDED Steppingstone Foundation, a nonprofit that develops edu- specifications, as in a “bespoke suit.”) The cational opportunities for inner-city company aims to preserve memories in the schoolchildren. Although telling family form of finely crafted books—profession- tales remains Hostage’s passion, he notes ally designed tomes that require, on aver- that with a handful of large companies age, about eighteen months to complete. inquiring recently, “I think corporate his- As such, Hostage’s clientele is decidedly tory is going to be a big part of our upper income, folks who can shrug off the growth.” sluggish economy and pay anywhere from Of the ten kids in his family, says the $30,000 to $100,000 to commission a former CALS communication major, “I’m family heirloom. Although Hostage can’t the one who often sat around listening to name names, he says he’s currently com- the adults talk. I asked questions, and pleting projects for the descendants of a over time, I became a collector of the fam- legendary National Football League team ily’s oral history.” Essentially, that’s what owner, as well as for the former CEO of a he does now, conducting dozens of per- major international firm. sonal interviews to complement the facts One of Bespoke’s first productions with colorful anecdotes and reminis- was A Place on the Hill, a 165-page, four- cences. A member of the Association of color book celebrating seventy-five years Personal Historians, Hostage delves zeal- of the West Campus chapter of Sigma Phi ously into genealogy. In the process of Working Retail Winery for which Hostage interviewed more than reviewing historical records, he often and Production on seventy alumni, reaching back to Ralph uncovers ancestral gems and paints a fam- Carpenter ’31. The company’s first multi- ily portrait against the backdrop of his- Seneca Wine Trail generational history commission came tory. For instance, while researching the Great spanning views of Seneca Lake from from Tom Gillespie ’55, BA ’56, a princi- family of Peter Plamondon ’54, an owner two banquet-sized tasting rooms and deck area. State-of-the-art wine cellar (tempera- pal in a Connecticut-based investment of the Roy Rogers restaurant chain, ture controlled) and 20x60 lab. Excellent management firm. “It’s something that Hostage connected Plamondon’s great- wine-making operation. Wine types will be in my family for generations—and great-great-great-great-grandfather to a include: Pinot, Rieslings, Chardonnay, it’s also digital, so he can update it any French army regiment that had been sent Muscato, ports, and others. Many award- winning varieties. Grapes crushed and time we want,” says Gillespie. “It’s mean- to Quebec. He also explored the story of juice fermented onsite. Also: olive oil ingful beyond my family, too. The book Plamondon’s great-uncle and great-aunt, importing/bottling with Bellangelo name. has been passed around in my church, my who perished during the sinking of the $499,000 community, even my grandchild’s school. Lusitania in 1915. Call for our latest inventory! It’s an American story.” Another family from Pennsylvania For years, Hostage did nearly all of asked Hostage to find a missing link in its the research and writing, though he ancestral history. Through grassroots recently recruited some Boston University genealogical research, he located a bap- grad students to assist him. His wife, tism registry; it eventually allowed him to Sherri Bredenberg-Hostage ’89, BS ’91, identify the child’s grandparents, who had Mel Russo, serves as Bespoke’s photo editor, a job emigrated from Ireland in 1731. “They’d Lic. Real Estate Broker/Owner that can involve scanning hundreds or been looking for that answer for 200 even thousands of images for each proj- years,” says Hostage, “and we found it in 315-246-3997 or 315-568-9404 ect. In one family’s gothic mansion in the about three months.” [email protected] www.senecayuga.com Boston area, the Hostages found a den — Brad Herzog ’90

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Featured Selection

PORTS OF NEW YORK “MELEAU” WHITE

new and quirky provide more sugar for conver- addition to the Fin- sion to alcohol. The fermentation A ger Lakes wine was stopped with the addition of scene is Ithaca’s very own Ports of brandy, leaving unfermented New York. Singlehandedly built grape sugar in the finished wines. and operated by Frédéric Bouché, Due to a trade agreement this micro-winery is located in with the European Union, these downtown Ithaca’s industrial wines cannot be called “port.” zone. Bouché, a native of France, Bouché calls them “Meleau,” built the winery from the ground from the Latin mel (honey) and up, using salvaged materials for the French eau (water). The much of the building’s façade. He white is especially lovely; made has received the City of Ithaca/ from Muscat grapes, it is invit- Rotary Club Pride of Ownership ingly aromatic, with an apple-y Wines Award and Historic Ithaca’s Preser- flavor made more complex by vation Award. hints of pepper, vanilla, and Bouché had long dreamed of honey. The wine’s sweetness is of the making fortified wines, having beautifully balanced by its acid- grown up in a family business ity and alcohol. specializing in their production. Many think of sweet wines Finger Using money saved from years only as dessert wines, but Bouché working as an electrician, he recommends Meleau as an aperi- began to build the winery in 2005 tif as well as an accompaniment and construction was completed five years to richly flavored first courses, braised Lakes later. The first wines went on sale in spring meats, and cheeses as well as dessert. Both 2011: 500 bottles each of Bouché’s red and wines may be ordered from www.ports white fortified wine, made from grapes ofnewyork.com. grown and crushed at Seneca Lake’s Lam- — Dave Pohl oreaux Landing Wine Cellars. The juice was transported to the Ithaca winery, where Dave Pohl, MA ’79, is a wine buyer at honey was added to it as it fermented to Northside Wine & Spirits in Ithaca. 32-33CAMja11wines 6/16/11 1:15 PM Page 33

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Urban Cowboys

How college pals (and By Brad Herzog native New Yorkers) ast October, as smoke from cel- Jon Daniels ’99 and ebratory fireworks drifted into A. J. Preller ’99 led the sky and confetti danced in the breeze, some 54,000 win- baseball’s Texas Lstarved fans cheered themselves hoarse in the Ballpark at Arlington, home of the Texas Rangers to an American Rangers. Three neon words shouted from the scoreboard: HELLO WORLD SERIES. League pennant—and For the first time in the fifty-year history of the franchise, the Rangers had won the American League pennant, having just the team’s first-ever defeated the twenty-seven-time-champion New York Yankees. The Rangers mascot, a Stetson-wearing Palomino, waved the World Series Lone Star flag as team president (and retired Hall of Fame pitcher) Nolan Ryan held up the championship trophy. “Our fans have waited a long time,” Ryan told the assembled masses. Then he tipped his cap to the team’s general manager, a thirty- three-year-old Cornell graduate whom a sportswriter once described as “five-foot-eleven and built like a ballpoint pen.” Said 34 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 34-39CAMja11rangers 6/16/11 1:16 PM Page 35

BRAD NEWTON / TEXAS RANGERS BASEBALL CLUB

The old ball game: A. J. Preller ’99 (left) and Jon Daniels ’99 (right) with Rangers outfielder Mitch More- land during the American League Division Series in St. Petersburg, Florida, in October 2010

Ryan: “It’s a credit to our organization—to Jon Daniels and the Actually, it was part of a baseball trend. Back in the day, the staff he put together.” GM position was usually reserved for lifers, former players who From his perch in a suite above the field, Rangers senior operated on instinct. But in recent years the game has embraced director of player personnel A. J. Preller ’99, a classmate and fra- a cadre of well-educated, under-forty number crunchers com- ternity brother of Daniels who oversees the team’s scouting oper- fortable with the comprehensive quantitative assessments that ations around the world, could only marvel at the merriment. have worked their way into the baseball lexicon—statistics They say everything’s big in the Lone Star State—but who would like WHIP (walks plus hits per innings pitched) and defense- have guessed that two of the primary architects of the biggest independent earned run average. Yale’s Theo Epstein is GM of moment in Texas baseball history would be a couple of Big Red the Boston Red Sox; Princeton’s Mark Shapiro is president of the pals from the Big Apple? Cleveland Indians; Harvard’s Paul DePodesta is vice president of A championship celebration had seemed a long way off when player development for the New York Mets. the two men took charge of the team five years earlier. Daniels’s But when Ryan took over as Rangers president in 2007, promotion in 2005, just forty-one days past his twenty-eighth more than a few observers wondered if a strikeout king who’s as birthday, made him the youngest GM in major league history; it Texan as the two-step could find common ground with a twenty- was the hook for so many media stories that he felt as if he had something from Queens who had never played organized base- changed his first name to “twenty-eight-year-old.” There was a ball beyond Little League. By all accounts, however, the good deal of skepticism; the Dallas Morning News reported that relationship is strong, based on mutual respect. “We have a lot some people were calling him “Doogie Howser, GM.” Indeed, of shared values and a lot of similar beliefs about how to build the press conference announcing his hiring sounded almost a team and how to treat people in an organization,” says apologetic. “He came from a different gene pool,” said Tom Daniels, who lives with his wife, Robyn, and two children in the Hicks, then the team’s owner, “and that’s OK.” Dallas suburb of Southlake. July | August 2011 35 34-39CAMja11rangers 6/16/11 1:16 PM Page 36

Although an “I ♥ NY” coffee mug still sits on his desk, mistic. The night after Daniels was announced as GM, he called Daniels admits, “I do own a pair of boots.” And while his par- Preller, who had joined the Rangers a year earlier and was scout- ents still call him Jonathan, he is known throughout the Rangers ing prospects in the Dominican Republic. They talked for organization by the more cowboy-like “J. D.” But being com- hours—making grand plans, envisioning possibilities. Says fortable in your own shoes is one thing; being embraced by the Preller: “We basically said that we were going to get this thing boot-wearing masses is quite another. In sports, such acceptance done—together.” tends to come with success—and Daniels had high hopes from the beginning. At his first organization-wide meeting after his inaugural year as GM, a dinner-and-bowling affair, there were speeches and laughs; then Daniels had everyone’s ring finger measured. “My mission is the same as that of the twenty-nine other general managers,” Daniels said at the time. “It’s first and foremost to win.” hey met as freshmen on the Hill—a couple of In Texas, that was a tall order. Daniels had inherited a weak baseball nuts on opposite sides of New York minor league system, an overpriced major league roster, and a fandom. Daniels collected baseball cards, franchise that had won a single playoff game in half a century, Tplayed stickball at Cunningham Park in Queens, and occasion- dating back to its origins as the lowly Washington Senators. A ally snuck into Shea Stadium to watch his beloved Mets. A cou- couple of months into the 2010 season, the team’s ownership sit- ple dozen miles east in Long Island’s Huntington Station, Preller uation was in limbo, as the Rangers filed for Chapter 11 bank- lived and died with the Yankees. “At that time,” he says, “it was ruptcy protection. A group led by Ryan and Pittsburgh sports mostly dying.” Whether playing with a Wiffle ball or in a Babe attorney Chuck Greenberg (who is no longer with the team) Ruth League or on a summer traveling team, it was, he says, “all would eventually win a contentious auction for the franchise in baseball all the time.” mid-summer. The two met through mutual friends and pledged Delta Chi Despite this gloomy record, Daniels and Preller were opti- together. They lived in the fraternity house for two years and

Thrill of victory: The Rangers celebrate their 5-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 5 of the 2010 A.L. Division Series, advancing to the league championship series against the Yankees.

AP PHOTO / STEVE NESIUS

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‘My mission is the same as that of the twenty-nine other general managers. It’s first and foremost to win.’

then shared a Collegetown residence that is now condemned. me. And I could never say enough about that support.” (“Should have been when we lived there,” Daniels says.) When The Washington decision was one of several high-profile calls Preller attended lectures for an ILR course called Arbitration in the team executives made over the next few years. They included Sports, Daniels occasionally tagged along. Even when reading some daring moves—like trading their best pitching prospect for the sports pages as a kid, he was interested in the action behind a twenty-six-year-old recovering addict. Once highly touted, cen- the scenes, often turning to the transactions section first; he was ter fielder Josh Hamilton saw his career derailed by drugs. But fascinated by the roster-building side of the game. But Daniels by 2007, he was clean, sober, and still supremely talented. After didn’t sense a future for himself in sports, so he took his degree consulting nearly a dozen staffers, some of whom balked at the in applied economics and management to Boston, working for idea, Daniels pulled the trigger on the deal with the Cincinnati wine-and-foods conglomerate Allied Domecq. Reds. Last year, Hamilton led the majors with a .359 batting Preller, on the other hand, was making inroads into baseball. average and was named MVP of both the American League and He earned twelve credits by landing a semester-long internship its championship series. In celebration, his teammates eschewed with the Philadelphia Phillies, even winning the organization’s fan- the usual champagne, dousing him with ginger ale. tasy league (yes, there is fantasy baseball amid reality baseball). Earlier in 2007, Daniels made another trade that fit into his After graduation, he took an unpaid position with the Arizona grand plan, which revolved around a cost-efficient commitment Fall League, where he worked under legendary slugger-turned- to developing young players—a significant change of direction executive Frank Robinson, who was later hired as vice president for a team that once signed free agent Alex Rodriguez for of on-field operations for Major League Baseball. The MLB $252 million. Daniels began laying the foundation for the Texas offices are in New York City, and Robinson brought his protégé turnaround in July 2007, when he traded All-Star first baseman with him. For three years Preller soaked up an education—in Mark Teixeira to the Atlanta Braves for five prospects under age Robinson’s office, over dinner, at games—from an all-time-great twenty-four. Two of them were shortstop Elvis Andrus and relief who became a mentor and friend. At the same time, he was tap- pitcher Neftali Feliz. Andrus was an All-Star on last year’s ping his ILR training to moonlight in the labor relations depart- pennant-winning team; Feliz saved forty games, struck out ment of the MLB commissioner’s office. “You couldn’t ask for a Rodriguez to end the pennant-clinching game, and was named better background, a better foundation to get started,” he says. A.L. Rookie of the Year. Daniels, who was spending his days overseeing Dunkin’ Daniels also built his World Series team through free agency. Donuts franchises, found himself living vicariously through his Eight-time All-Star Vladimir Guerrero was once among the top college pal. “I was more focused on his job than I was on my hitters in baseball, but by age thirty-five he was on the downside own,” he says. He began accompanying Preller to baseball’s win- of his career. In 2009, with the L. A. Angels, he played in only ter meetings; there, he met the assistant general manager of the 100 games, recording 15 home runs and 50 RBIs, less than half Colorado Rockies, who offered him an internship paying $275 his career average. Still, Daniels felt he was a risk worth taking. a week. “I felt it was a once-in-a-lifetime chance,” he says. The “He was in good shape, and I think he knew that people maybe following year, in 2002, he joined the Rangers as an operations doubted him a little bit,” he says. “That’s a pretty powerful moti- assistant. Owner Tom Hicks noted his “brilliant baseball mind,” vator.” Daniels bet on Guerrero’s comeback with a one-year, and he rose through the ranks with unprecedented speed—direc- $6.5 million offer—barely a third of the slugger’s previous salary. tor of operations in 2003 and assistant general manager in 2004, Guerrero (who’s now with the Baltimore Orioles) responded by when Preller arrived in Texas after three years with the L. A. batting .300 with 29 homers and 115 RBIs, earning the Silver Dodgers. When longtime GM John Hart resigned following the Slugger Award as the league’s top designated hitter. In the Amer- 2005 season, Hicks tapped Daniels to replace him. ican League championship series against the Yankees, he clinched The guy who came late to the game was now in charge; his the pennant with the hit that won Game 6. office was right next to Preller’s. The two executives were younger than about half of the Texas players, and some stum- bles during their first years on the job did little to inspire confidence. After a few questionable trades and ill-fated free agent signings, the weekly Dallas Observer labeled Daniels “BOY hile Daniels represents the new BLUNDER.” breed of stat-savvy GMs, he When the 2010 season began, the team’s prospects seemed insists that numbers are “second especially dim. Just before Opening Day, a media report revealed to the human element,” and that that Rangers manager Ron Washington had tested positive for old-school baseball acumen is cocaine the previous July. Washington had appealed to his bosses Wstill vital. “All information is good information,” he says, “but for leniency even before the test results came in, arguing that he’d when it comes down to it, if I had to pick one or the other, I’d made a single bad decision. “Ultimately, we believed in Ron as defer to our scouts.” Every roster decision is the product of a manager and as a man,” says Daniels. “We believed in giving player evaluation, and as the man essentially in charge of player second chances, and we still felt he was the right guy to manage acquisition for the Rangers, Preller oversees roughly forty-five our club.” Washington expressed his gratitude to an ESPN amateur, professional, and international scouts. “You can’t be reporter, saying of Daniels, “He didn’t judge me. 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Preller describes scouting as ‘looking at a fifteen-year-old kid who has never played organized baseball and trying to determine if he has a chance to play in the big leagues someday.’

constantly—from Sarasota to Santo Domingo to Seoul. He has Daniels relies heavily on scouts, his philosophy being that he amassed nearly two million frequent flyer miles, often averaging knows his own limitations—and his employees’ strengths. Last several flights per day. Although he has an apartment in Dallas, October he invited about a hundred people on his acquisition and during the first four months of 2011 Preller (who is single) spent player development staff to Arlington to be honored on the field a total of four nights there. before the first home playoff game. “You have to hire good peo- Under his guidance, the Rangers have quadrupled their inter- ple and let them do their jobs,” he says. “A. J. is a perfect exam- national scouting budget, even opening a baseball academy in ple of that. I think he’s the best in the business at what he does.” the Dominican Republic. “My whole life, I’ve loved the interna- One of Preller’s top finds came from overseas. Pitcher Colby tional aspect of the game,” says Preller, who wrote an under- Lewis was selected by the Rangers in the first round of the 1999 graduate term paper about baseball in Latin America. He amateur draft, but he struggled early in his career. By 2009, he describes the scouting experience as “standing on a field in was pitching in Japan. Having beefed up the team’s Pacific Rim Venezuela, looking at a fifteen-year-old kid who has never played scouting operation, Preller heard that Lewis had vastly improved, organized baseball, and trying to determine if he has a chance to so he and two colleagues went to Hiroshima to judge for them- play in the big leagues someday.” selves. “We’ve found players a lot of different ways, trying to think outside the box,” says Preller. “But to go Sportsmen: Daniels with Rangers manager Ron Washington to Japan and bring back an American guy who

BRAD NEWTON / TEXAS RANGERS BASEBALL CLUB hadn’t had much success over here really wasn’t what teams were doing.” But Preller had faith in his scouts, and Daniels trusted Preller’s judgment. Lewis played his way into the Texas starting rotation last year; in the playoffs he went 3-0, including a masterful performance during the final game against the Yankees, a team whose payroll cost nearly four times as much as the Rangers’. The team’s international expansion has been part of a general improvement in its player development program. In 2010, Base- ball America ranked the Rangers’ minor league system fourth overall; 20 percent of the big league team’s playoff roster consisted of players drafted and developed within the previous five years. As a result, Preller has drawn attention as a GM prospect himself. “If there’s a Jon Daniels, Part II, this is it,” Baseball Prospectus declared midway through last season. “The Rangers’ success has been fueled in large part by players that Preller has his fingerprints on.”

ast year, the pieces of the puzzle were coming together by midsummer, and the Rangers were in first place. But when the mid-season trade deadline ar- Lrived in July, Texas had a choice: try to coast to the postseason, or refuel. Daniels chose the latter in a big way, acquiring clutch pitcher Cliff Lee from the Seattle Mariners in a six-player trade. The move established Lee as the ace on a pitching staff that had changed so much over the summer that the season’s first three starters 38 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 34-39CAMja11rangers 6/16/11 1:16 PM Page 39

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You’re out: The Giants’ Cody Ross is forced out at second as the Rangers’ Elvis Andrus turns a double play in the second inning of Game 4 of the 2010 World Series.

didn’t even make the playoff roster. In 2005, when Daniels took over, contract extension in March. “The team is somewhat of a pub- Texas pitchers had allowed nearly five runs per game; in 2010, they lic trust, and we’re stewards of it.” allowed fewer than four. Texas won ninety games and the A. L. West As it turned out, a near-perfect script unfolded during the rest division title. And during the playoffs, Lee emerged as one of the of the American League playoffs. The Rangers beat the Rays, then best postseason pitchers of all time. (In the off-season, Lee rejoined knocked off the Yankees. When the last out was called, and the the Philadelphia Phillies in a much-ballyhooed free-agent deal.) team was World Series-bound, Daniels and Preller joined in a heart- Game 5 of the first round of the playoffs against the Tampa felt group hug in an executive suite. “We had some struggles early,” Bay Rays was, at the time, the most significant game in Rangers Preller says. “But in that moment, just seeing the joy of everyone history. Several hours before the first pitch, Daniels called his in the State of Texas, and being able to do it with a guy I grew up assistants to a meeting at their St. Petersburg hotel. They arrived with and had a lot of good times with, that made it all the better.” to find him wearing a fake mustache and sitting in a rocking Of course, they would have preferred an even happier end- chair; he announced that he was treating them to a couple of ing—one in which the Rangers, rather than the San Francisco rounds of miniature golf. “At that point, we’d done everything Giants, won the world championship four games to one. “Hope- we could,” Daniels explains. “We were just spectators.” fully this is just the beginning,” Daniels said upon accepting A sense of humor is a must in a job where turnover is so high Baseball America’s Executive of the Year award a few weeks that the thirty-three-year-old Daniels is now the eighth-longest- later. “Now we’ve got to find a way to get a little better, to get tenured GM in the major leagues. He has learned to ignore the back there next year and win those last three games.” c ever-opinionated media and blogosphere, which may be the most difficult part of a public role in the sports industry. “It’s hard to Brad Herzog ’90 is a CAM contributing editor. His first be fully prepared for it, but it’s very much part of the game, the published story (in 1984) was about his one-game stint as business, and the position,” says Daniels, who signed a four-year a batboy for the Chicago White Sox. July | August 2011 39 40-45CAMja11axelrod 6/16/11 1:17 PM Page 40 Training

In an excerpt from Day his new memoir, CBS News reporter Jim Axelrod ’85 recalls the moment when— in the midst of covering an Obama y BlackBerry started campaign rally—he buzzing on my right hip just as the crowd vowed to follow in his got its first glimpse of father’s footsteps by MBarack Obama. I’d put it on vibrate, since I knew I’d never hear the ringtone once Obama running a marathon appeared on the floor of the Toyota Center in Houston. The roar was immediate as he glided into the arena from a corner tunnel, and grew louder still as each of his loping strides carried him into fuller view of the crowd. By the time he jogged gracefully up the stairs to take the stage, I couldn’t hear a word of the instructions my cameraman was yelling at me from four feet away.

EXCERPTED FROM IN THE LONG RUN: A FATHER, A SON, AND UNINTENTIONAL LESSONS IN HAPPINESS BY JIM AXELROD, PUBLISHED IN MAY BY FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX LLC. COPYRIGHT © 2011 BY JIM AXELROD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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was standing on the media riser—a plywood platform set six feet off the arena’s concrete floor, atop rickety scaf- folding concealed by rectangles of rough royal-blue fabric. A dozen TV reporters were crammed together, each provided with a four-foot-wide broadcasting space marked off by electrical tape. IAs chief White House correspondent for CBS News, I’d been assigned to cover Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primary campaign. I’d loved getting the assignment, seeing it at the out- set as just the kind of validation I’d been looking for from a new set of bosses. In the last year of his increasingly unpopular presidency, George W. Bush wasn’t going to generate enough interest to get me on the evening news regularly. Lame ducks never did. So the White House was not the place to be. When the assignments for the campaign had been doled out three months earlier, Obama was intriguing but still a long shot. Clinton was clearly the plum. Covering her positioned me not just for a short-term supply of lead stories but also for another few years on the biggest beat in TV news if she went all the way. But since then, Obama’s strong performance had raised the possibility that I hadn’t landed the plum after all. I’d grown eager to see him live on the campaign trail. The breathless descriptions I’d been reading of the raw emotion Obama generated in the CBS NEWS crowds hadn’t set any standards for journalistic objectivity, but Going live: Axelrod at an Obama campaign event the reporters who wrote them hadn’t oversold. in Houston, where he got a life-changing e-mail Standing in front of the camera making my last-minute preparations before I went on, I looked to my left and saw an African American man in his mid-thirties hoist a boy onto his shoulders so the kid could get a better look. The man’s face was pulled tight in a severe smile, astonished to be sure but cautious as well, as if he wasn’t quite sure he could trust what he was seeing. The expression on the face of the five-year-old was simpler: innocent, undiluted joy. Even if the boy didn’t fully understand the meaning of the moment, he was on his daddy’s shoulders. That alone was apparently reason enough for his ear-to-ear grin. Houston might have seemed like an odd place for Obama to be on February 19, 2008, given that it was primary day in Wis- consin, but he was already looking ahead to the Texas primary in two weeks. I checked my watch, which I kept on New York time no matter where I was to stay synchronized with CBS headquarters in Manhattan. It was 9:15. At the bottom of the hour, I would update my report with a live shot for the West Coast feed of the CBS Evening News. If, as some grizzled cameraman once told me, TV news is “hours of boredom, moments of terror,” the live shot is the moment of terror. Not only can your whole day go to hell in an instant, your whole career can. There’s a gazillion ways to screw up the shot—technical screwups, editorial screwups, going blank July | August 2011 41 40-45CAMja11axelrod 6/16/11 1:17 PM Page 42

Network news reporters are judged first and foremost by their ability to flawlessly deliver a four-sentence live introduction to a pretaped story with an insouciant air of command to millions of viewers.

just when you’re supposed to speak to seven million people— and every member of the live-shot team spends the last fifteen minutes checking and rechecking potential trouble spots to prevent TV tragedy. On the media riser in Houston, Rob the cameraman and Giovanni the sound tech checked cables and lights while Chloe the producer linked up with the control room in New York. Inside the TV truck parked just outside the Toyota Center, the satellite operator made sure we had a steady broadcasting signal. As the correspondent, my obsession, naturally, was with myself. In my fifteen-minute run-up to the live shot, I flitted from applying a new layer of powder on my forehead to checking my tie knot, from smoothing the wrinkles in my suit jacket to making sure my earpiece fit snugly. Then I took a moment out of tending to the cosmetic touches and barked at the ever-calm CBS NEWS Chloe to double-check the facts of what I was about to report. Most of my two-minute story was a preproduced video spot On the air: During his career at CBS, Axelrod has running roughly a minute and a half and providing an overview of reported from the White House as well as from what was at stake in the Wisconsin race. That gave me fifteen sec- hotspots around the globe. onds to introduce the spot live and fifteen seconds on the back end to add a final thought. The whole idea was to provide a way for me to update my story if anything had changed from the 6:30 East Coast broadcast. Good thing, because a few minutes after 9:00, we received word that Obama had been declared the winner in Wis- consin. Harry Smith, substituting for Katie Couric in New York, would handle that headline in his toss to me. My job was to seamlessly weave a reaction to Obama’s win into my live intro. Blowing the live shot would ruin the rest of the night and most of the next day, until I had another chance at one. Forget a thick Rolodex of sources or a finely honed ability to bang out sharp, urgent copy under deadline pressure; network news reporters are judged first and foremost by their ability to flawlessly deliver a four-sentence live introduction to a pretaped story with an insouciant air of command to millions of viewers. In the minds of the executives who run the network news operations, a single “um” or “uh” can undermine a reporter’s credibility. And God save the correspondent who actually breaks eye contact with the camera to look down at his notes. Over the years, I’d wrestled the live-shot demons to the ground. Somewhere between a live bungee jump on the local news in Syracuse and a live battlefield report under missile fire the night the war in Iraq started, I’d reached an accommodation with the pressure. Like learning to play the piano, speak French, or hit a nine iron, it was all a matter of repetition. In Syracuse, Raleigh, Miami, Dallas, Skopje, Brussels, Riga, and Amman, I’d figured out how to cleanly negotiate all the dangers and threats a live shot could present. I wasn’t Edward R. Murrow, but I rarely flubbed. I still got butterflies when a director’s gruff voice would urgently cue me, but hundreds of successfully negotiated live shots over the years had liberated me from the thought of a spectacular flameout recirculated in perpetuity on YouTube. Or at least I thought it had. In the last few weeks, I’d grown less able to ignore the thoughts of failure. CBS News, my professional home for the past dozen years, had been through a violent shake-up. My new bosses were unfamiliar with my rock- 42 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 40-45CAMja11axelrod 6/16/11 1:17 PM Page 43

solid live reports from the Iraqi battlefields. Not only were all The buzz I felt on my hip as Obama took the stage snapped the executives long gone who’d watched me go live flawlessly for me out of the inane debate I was conducting with myself. I pulled ten minutes at a time, under fire, in the triple-digit heat of the my BlackBerry from its holster. I had no time to check the e-mail Iraqi desert without a single “um,” but so was Dan Rather, beyond the basics—sender, subject heading—just to make sure whose favor I’d earned and protection I’d enjoyed. Lately there’d no one was forwarding any last-second development that would been hints that my Clinton coverage had caused my stock to fall change my story. A quick look told me it could wait: with the new executive team, but I wasn’t sure. It could’ve eas- From: Moughalian, Dave ily been my paranoia, honed, like every TV reporter’s, to Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 9:48 PM museum-grade quality. Then came a meeting with my boss, CBS To: Axelrod, Jim News president Sean McManus, which confirmed my suspicions Subject: pretty cool with brutal clarity. It was from my buddy Dave, who had a habit of sending me Most network news correspondents worked on three- or e-mails just before broadcast time, usually to vent some impas- four-year contracts. The executives negotiated your next deal sioned hatred of George W. Bush. I loved Dave, an in-it-for-life based on how often you’d been on the air during the last one. friend since we’d been ten years old, but his timing often sucked. The system had been good to me over the years. I’d pushed for We’d grown up three blocks apart, ran track together, dated and received high-profile assignments—Afghanistan, Iraq, the Kerry campaign—to guarantee me an ever-increasing supply of exposure and airtime that I was able to redeem for big raises at the end of each of my three-year deals. But less than two weeks earlier, for the first time in my career at CBS, I’d pushed for a shot at a big job coming open and had the door resolutely slammed shut. Waiting on that riser, I felt some extra pressure. I needed to nail the live shot to see if I could wedge that closed door back open just enough to let a sliver of light through. I could feel a film of sweat on my palms. Since that meeting with Sean, I’d been shaky going live, like a professional golfer CBS NEWS suddenly unable to make a three-foot putt after twenty years of sinking them without a second thought. In golf it’s called “the the beautiful Parisi sisters in high school, and were roommates yips,” a dreaded condition indicating that after years of battling for a year after college. His mother was my high school English the pressure, your nerves are shot. I was fighting a sinking sus- teacher, a wise and enchanting Armenian who immigrated to picion that I’d contracted the broadcasting yips. America when she was thirty-two and proceeded to teach a gen- Which explains why at 9:28 New York time, I was standing eration of kids in our small New Jersey town how to write. In a on that platform in Houston, attempting to shut out 18,000 soft voice dipped in honey and rose water, Mrs. Moughalian had delirious voices chanting “Yes we can” by reciting the new copy drilled into us a three-word guiding principle: Show, don’t tell. I’d just dashed off about Obama’s win. I needed to set it in my Ever since I’d met him on the first day of fifth grade, Dave frontal lobe. I’d have one chance, and the slightest sense of panic had been a calming presence in my life. He took in the chaos of could throw me off and cause me to go blank. Like a supplicant my parents’ home—four kids; a demented Hungarian sheepdog quietly chanting a prayer to ward off evil, I rehearsed my first with a thick, matted white coat and ceaseless, paint-peeling bark; line over and over, hoping to ensure a smooth start to my live and my force-of-nature father—like a kid watching a pack of shot when it was for real. agitated chimps at the zoo. He was curious and intrigued, drawn “Right now Barack Obama is riding a surge of momentum to something in the overflowing passion of the Axelrod family. that the Clinton campaign would do anything to stop.” I paused Perhaps it made him feel better about the stark stillness in his and took a deep breath, like I was between sets of bench presses. own home. My father spun through our house like an F-5 tor- “Right now Barack Obama is riding a surge of momentum that nado. Dave’s father, an engineer who was often gone for months the Clinton campaign would do anything to stop.” I stopped and at a time on business, would return to brood deeply about his collected myself again. “Right now Barack Obama is riding a lost old-country life amid stacks of metallurgy journals. I’d surge of momentum that the Clinton campaign would do any- always thought Dave needed the roar of the circus to balance the thing to stop.” soft voices of the library. I couldn’t decide where to put the emphasis: “a surge of Once I saw Dave’s name on my BlackBerry screen, I knew I momentum” or “a surge of momentum.” I kept repeating it both could wait until after the live shot to open the e-mail, and I ways, hoping one would sound better than the other to my ear. returned to preparing for my imminent moment of terror. In my What was wrong with me? Forty-five years old, two Ivy League earpiece I heard the music that signaled the start of the broad- degrees, the chief White House correspondent for CBS News, cast. I reviewed my newly tweaked live top one more time, took and I was paralyzed with indecision about which of two words a deep breath, and waited for the toss from Harry Smith. my bosses would want me to hit hardest. “Jim Axelrod joins us now from Houston. Jim, a big night July | August 2011 43 40-45CAMja11axelrod 6/16/11 1:17 PM Page 44

for Barack Obama . . .” I took it from there. All the prep work breaking a sweat. I needed my new bosses to see what the old paid off. I nailed the shot, integrating the new information with- ones always had and begin to thicken the ice that had started to out a single “um” and emphasizing “surge.” The control room feel remarkably thin beneath me. cleared me, and I was done for the day. I unhooked my earpiece and microphone, careful to keep an impassive expression fixed on my face. I wanted to project a business-as-usual demeanor to mask the elation produced by my clean kill. Relief oozed warmly through my system. There was no better salve for the welts raised during that meeting with Sean twelve days earlier than the might’ve been done for the day, but Obama wasn’t. While hope that I could still turn it all around. he raised the roof delivering his stump speech, I walked I looked down at my BlackBerry again. There was nothing off the arena floor and into an outer lobby, looking for a from New York. On the one hand, that was good news; no corner that might shield enough of the noise so I could rockets launched about some screwup. On the other hand, while call my wife. I checked in with Stina twice a day, bare I didn’t expect any “attaboys” for a job well done—a mistake- minimum, once when she woke up and again just before she free live shot was what they were paying me to deliver, after all— Iwent to bed, and tried to catch her several other times so I could I worried that the bosses had all gone home after the East Coast talk to our three kids as well. I could tell from the four rings feed and missed my folding in the new information without before she picked up, and her sleepy voice once she did, that

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she’d fallen asleep reading to Bobby, our four-year-old. onstage. The houselights went up, and the arena began to clear. “Hi, honey,” she said, her voice trailing off. She sounded so Wanting to look at my dad’s race times again, I climbed worn-out. Sure she was tired of raising three kids alone, with me down off the riser and found a dull-brown metal folding chair, gone for months at a time, but this was more than fatigue. She collapsed and leaning against a wall. I grabbed it, unfolded it, was worried. This had nothing to do with her husband’s new and sat down, rocking slightly back and forth with my Black- bosses and a change in his professional standing. In the eight years Berry extended at arm’s length to accommodate my rapidly dete- since my father died, she’d watched me head off to cover two riorating vision, which I’d been refusing to acknowledge. wars, suffer enough post-traumatic stress to require several “Okay, let’s see here, he ran 3:39:53 when he was forty-five.” months of therapy, then allow my unrestrained ambition to lead I was whispering to myself, lips barely moving, as I went me to an intensely demanding job at the White House. Until his from column to column, performing calculations. death we’d been walking a path together, holding hands. Then “He ran 3:39:53 when he was forty-five,” I repeated, digest- suddenly I’d dropped hers and veered off into some thick woods, ing what I was seeing. My mind raced to the next set of num- chasing something I couldn’t catch. The easy joy Stina had always bers. “Then 3:29:58, when he was forty-six.” That stopped me found as a wife and mother had started to leach from her home. for half a second. I remembered my dad telling me, when I was “That’s okay, Stina,” I told her. “Back to sleep. I’ll talk to a kid and he was in the middle of his marathon years, that break- you in the morning. Love you.” I hung up feeling hollow and ing 3:30 was a big deal. Going sub-3:30 meant running a little detached. The balancing act I’d worked out long ago between more than twenty-six miles at eight minutes per mile, an impres- my scampering up the career ladder and remaining connected to sive pace. my wife and kids had started to feel badly outdated. “He broke 3:30 when he was forty-six,” I continued to Wandering back into the arena, I climbed the stairs up to the myself. media riser, pulled out my BlackBerry, and scrolled down to I sat and rocked for half a minute more, thinking of the Dave’s e-mail. I hit Open and saw a chart: framed photograph hanging in the front hallway of our home in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Chevy Chase, Maryland. There YEAR FIRST NAME LAST NAME AGE TIME was my father, enraptured, crossing the finish line of one of those 1980 ROB AXE 44 3:42:43 marathons, his arms thrusting straight up in triumph. I could use ERT LRO some of that. His body may have been exhausted, but his eyes D were dancing. A running magazine had published it, clearly look- 1981 ROB AXE 45 3:39:53 ing to inspire. ERT LRO “I’d need at least a year.” D I’d never run a marathon, but I’d watched my dad as he 1982 ROB AXE 46 3:29:58 planned his training, beginning a year before the race. I knew the ERT LRO kind of dedication required just to finish a marathon, never mind D to run one in eight-minute miles. The old man was already in top shape when he did it, having run steadily for four years before It took a moment for me to realize what I was looking at, he took on the challenge. I didn’t even pause— and just a split second more for my nose to wrinkle and my eyes “I could do this.” to fill. Dave, who loved to tool around on the Web, panning for —which was slightly delusional, given that I was in the worst whatever nuggets he could find from our pasts, had found my shape of my life, flabby in every imaginable way. Without much father’s race times for the three New York City Marathons he’d of a fight, I’d surrendered to the grind of the campaign trail, dis- run in the early 1980s. missing the thought of exercise as an indulgence the long hours The tears were no surprise. I’m a world-class weeper. Since didn’t permit. At that moment, leaning forward in that brown she was five, my daughter, Emma, has proudly declared, “My metal chair, elbows on my knees, BlackBerry in my hands, belly dad cries more than most men.” Funerals and weddings are for drooping over my belt and sagging toward the floor, I couldn’t amateurs. I’ve lost it at the end of Charlotte’s Web. But nothing run around the block. brings the tears more reliably than thinking about my dad. “It might be just what I need.” His was one of those deaths that left everyone shaking their I knew the New York City Marathon was always run in late heads and scared the hell out of the men in the neighborhood. October or early November. In other words, right around Elec- Never mind the three marathons he’d run in his forties. He’d tion Day. No way, especially if Hillary won the nomination. But eaten right and hadn’t been much of a drinker. His parents had 2009 was a definite possibility. I’d be forty-six years old. My been ninety-one and eighty-nine at his funeral. And my mom was dad’s age when he ran his last New York City Marathon would a health-food nut who’d made my dad the first guy on the block be my age running my first. to mix wheat germ into his yogurt. He bubbled over with vigor. “Twenty-one months. I could do that.” If they could’ve figured out a way to harness his energy, he I tried to slow myself down to take full measure of what I could’ve lit Cleveland for a decade. All that, and he’d died at the was contemplating. But I couldn’t. My very next thought was on age of sixty-three in January 2000, following a nine-year battle me in a heartbeat. It wasn’t a choice. It was instinct. There was with prostate cancer. nothing conscious about it. I put the BlackBerry back in its holster and watched Obama “I bet I can run it faster than he did.” c finish his stump speech. “Yes we can. Yes we can. Yes we can, Houston.” The electrified crowd didn’t want to go anywhere, Jim Axelrod ’85, a national correspondent for CBS News, but after ten minutes, they realized he wasn’t coming back previously served as chief White House correspondent. July | August 2011 45 46-51CAMja11seidler 6/16/11 1:19 PM Page 46

Parts of Speech

By Beth Saulnier

t the Eighty-Third Academy Awards in Feb- ruary, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin—a dashing pair of chisel-jawed, dark-haired actors clad in matching white dinner jack- Aets—presented the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. In his suave Spanish accent, Bardem listed the nominees: Another Year, The Fighter, Inception, The Kids Are All Right, The King’s Speech. Brolin then opened the golden envelope and announced the winner: David Seidler ’59 for The King’s Speech, a historical drama about George VI’s struggles to overcome his stutter with the help of an unconventional speech therapist.

Seidler took the stage, looking a bit lost; he needed help finding the microphone, which was so slender as to be almost invisible. But once he located it, he brought the house down. “My father always said to me,” the courtly, white-haired Seidler told the elegantly clad audience, “I would be a late bloomer.” At seventy-three, Seidler became the oldest person to win an original screenplay Oscar—the pinnacle of a career that began in the mid-Sixties with six episodes of the long-forgotten TV series “Adventures of the Seaspray.” Until The King’s Speech,

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Seidler’s best-known film was the 1988 Francis Ford Coppola his mind to the idea of writing about George VI. “That organ, picture Tucker: The Man and His Dream, starring Jeff Bridges however, was easily distracted by girls,” Seidler recalled in an as an ill-fated automotive entrepreneur. Much of his work had essay published in the Daily Mail last December, “so nothing been in television biopics, including Malice in Wonderland much came of the effort.” (about gossip mavens Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons), When he finally tackled the subject in late 2005, he wrote Onassis: The Richest Man in the World, and Come On, Get it as a stage play; once the movie rights were optioned he Happy: The Partridge Family Story. swiftly adapted it to the screen. Directed by Tom Hooper (who For Seidler, The King’s Speech was a labor of love. Not helmed the TV miniseries John Adams), The King’s Speech only did it resonate personally—a childhood stutterer himself, stars Colin Firth as Bertie, the future King George VI; Helena he’d been inspired by the king’s strides in overcoming his Bonham Carter as his wife; and Geoffrey Rush as speech ther- speech impediment—but the film was decades in the making. apist Lionel Logue. It was nominated for twelve Oscars and In the early Eighties, he’d asked the king’s elderly widow (Eliz- won four, including Best Picture; in addition to his Academy abeth, the Queen Mother) for permission to write about her Award, the film earned Seidler a BAFTA (the British Oscar), husband’s speech problems, but she’d told him the subject was a Critics Choice Award, and a Golden Globe nomination, still too painful and requested that he wait until her death. He among other honors. agreed—never imagining that she’d live another two decades, In mid-April, Seidler returned to Ithaca to introduce the passing away in 2002 at the age of 101. film at Cornell Cinema and answer questions from the audi- Born in London, Seidler came to the U.S. with his parents ence. It was just the second time he’d been back to campus as a toddler to escape World War II; he claims that his stam- since his graduation; his previous visit was in 1979. Before mer began on the transatlantic crossing. He grew up on Long the screening, Seidler spoke with CAM over drinks at the Island and majored in English on the Hill—where he first put Statler Hotel.

Cornell Alumni Magazine: What’s it like to win an Oscar?

David Seidler: It’s most peculiar. It’s really very strange. No pre-imagining quite prepares one. One does fantasize. What if I win? How will I feel? And then it happens and it’s somewhat otherworldly, like being abducted by aliens.

CAM: Do you remember walking from your seat to the stage? DS: I was very conscious of “Don’t trip, don’t fall on your face, it’s going to look bad.” When I got up there Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin turned it over to me—but nobody had warned me that the microphone is very thin and black, and of course everyone is wearing tuxedos. I had trouble finding the mike, which was a little embarrassing.

CAM: Had you prepared a speech—and if so did you stick to it? Royal couple: Queen DS: I had loosely prepared some remarks. I couldn’t stick to them very well because my first Elizabeth and King line got too long a laugh, and they count that in your forty-five seconds. I had only given my George VI, parents of first sentence when this damn prompter was saying, “Wind it up, wind it up.” I had to leave Queen Elizabeth II out all my thank yous.

WWW.NZETC.ORG CAM: Was there actually someone giving you the wind-up sign? DS: It’s a digital prompter that says WIND IT UP in big red letters.

CAM: At one of the most important moments of your life? That had to be distracting. DS: Yeah, a little bit. But nobody wants to listen to the writer.

CAM: As you noted in your speech, you’re the oldest person ever to win for Best Original Screenplay. In our youth-obsessed culture, was that particularly sweet? DS: It’s a nice victory lap. It has added a zero to my price, which is really good. I’ve got a lot of work. Everybody takes me terribly seriously. It’s a wonderful thing. But I’m glad it has happened to me now, and not when I was younger.

CAM: Why? DS: I can see how it can mess up your head. It’s so divorced from reality. It’s so bizarre that I think a younger person could get really off track, because you can start taking yourself too seriously.

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DS: I was a profound stutterer, and a childhood of stuttering is no fun. But during the war my parents encouraged me to listen to the king’s speeches and they would say things like, “David, he was a far worse stutterer than you, but listen to him now.” He was never perfect, but he was able to give stirring wartime speeches that rallied the troops, the commonwealth, the free world.

CAM: So at the time, the average Brit knew he had a stutter? It wasn’t concealed, like FDR’s paralysis from polio? DS: It was hard to hide. FDR’s legs you could put a blanket over; you could avoid showing him standing up. But if the king has to speak and he can’t, you can’t hide that. So everybody knew it but nobody said anything. It was swept under the carpet. That’s why very little was written about it, or about Lionel Logue, because the royal stut-

ter was a source of embarrassment. In those days, HULTON-DEUTSCH COLLECTION/CORBIS it was called a speech defect—and if you had one you were a defective person. You couldn’t have the King of England called a defective person. So it was known throughout England but never talked about. Talking points: Colin Firth CAM: How did you feel about the film getting an R rating, solely for the scene and Geoffrey Rush in in which the “f-word” is used as a means of speech therapy? The King’s Speech (top). DS: To rate The King’s Speech the same as, say, Saw 3-D makes you wonder, what are they Above: King George VI smoking and where can I get some? On television and radio, you can advertise a film called addresses his people on Little Fockers. Who are we kidding? There’s a great deal of hypocrisy. Those words are in September 4, 1939, the that scene for a specific purpose. It is not puerile, there’s no sexual innuendo, no insult, no day after Britain declared threat. It’s purely for therapeutic reasons. war on Nazi Germany.

CAM: Why was that scene so important to include? DS: It’s one of the very few scenes that I could not prove actually happened—but I know it must have, or something very similar to it, because it’s a cathartic moment that every stutterer goes through. In my case I was sixteen. I knew that if I didn’t get a good handle on my stutter by late adolescence, my chances went down precipitously, because the older you get, the July | August 2011 49 46-51CAMja11seidler 6/16/11 1:19 PM Page 50

harder it is to deal with. I was sixteen, hormones were raging, I couldn’t ask girls out on a date—and even if I could and they said yes, what was the point? I couldn’t talk to them.

CAM: So how did you cope with it? DS: I got very discouraged and depressed at first, but I’m not a depressive personality. I don’t stay down long. I get angry. I get defiant. So I started verbalizing in my bedroom, jumping up and down on my bed, basically the f-word. And my thoughts went something like this: “This is f-wording unfair. Why have the gods visited this affliction upon me? I haven’t done anything terribly wrong; I didn’t sleep with my mother or kill my father. And if I’m stuck with I am still a Brit, this affliction the rest of my life, f-word you all. You’re stuck with listening to me, because I even though I am not going to remain silent. I have a right to be heard.” And that psychological turn was ‘ the beginning. Within two weeks my stutter had, to a large extent, melted away. am also an CAM: Why did you agree to the Queen Mother’s request that you wait until American after her death to write about her late husband’s speech problems? citizen. And DS: That’s when my American friends realized I really am still a Brit, because Americans don’t understand it. I am still a Brit, even though I am also an American citizen; I carry both pass- when the Queen ports. And when the Queen Mother says to an Englishman, “Please wait,” you wait. Mother says to CAM: Did you understand why she wanted you to hold off? an Englishman, DS: I did. It had been such a profoundly painful experience for her, and she was still so embit- tered that David [King Edward VIII] had abdicated, had not done his job, had forced her hus- “Please wait,” band to become king when he didn’t expect to be king, hadn’t been trained to be king. He you wait. wasn’t even qualified to be king with his speech impediment and his fragile health. And she felt, with a fair degree of justification, that this had killed him, that he had died prematurely. She didn’t want to be reminded of it, and I could get that. And I didn’t think I was going to ’ have to wait that long.

CAM: What was it like to see it finally brought to the screen? DS: It was a huge relief. This movie almost didn’t get made so many times. The financing was so tricky. After a few days of rehearsal and seeing Colin nail it, I thought, My goodness, it’s not only getting made, it’s getting made well.

CAM: Can you describe a scene that you find particularly affecting? DS: There’s a scene after Bertie has had a very bad time with his father, who has bullied him about giving a speech on the radio—“Spit it out, boy!” He’s lying in his study with a wet towel over his eyes, and he gets up angrily to put on the phonograph record that Logue has given him, expecting to hear himself stutter. And of course we hear him speaking Hamlet’s soliloquy brilliantly, and Tom [Hooper] did something really wonderful. You see something come into lower frame; it’s Elizabeth in her dressing gown. And you pan up and see her face, and for the first time she’s hearing her husband speak beautifully. I was terribly moved by that scene.

CAM: What’s next for you? DS: I have three movies signed up. I’m doing a script called The Lady Who Went Too Far, about Lady Hester Stanhope, who went to the Middle East during the Napoleonic Wars and became a female Lawrence of Arabia. I’m doing a rewrite of a script called Judge for Robert Downey Jr. And I sold to the producing team of the Bourne and Indiana Jones movies a script called The Games of 1940, based on a true story about the Olympic games, which officially never took place. They were scheduled to be in Tokyo, but they didn’t happen. In Stalag 13A near Longwasser, Nuremberg, 150,000 Allied prisoners of war were being kept in appalling circumstances to crush their spirit. They decided that, to retain their humanity, they would hold an international prisoner of war Olympic games in 1940, and they did it without the Germans knowing.

CAM: Does having won an Oscar affect your creative process? When—like every writer—you sit down alone to work, does something feel different? DS: I don’t know. I haven’t worked for seven months. It’s very disconcerting. It began with the Telluride Film Festival and it’s been nonstop. After the Oscars I went to New Zealand for a month to chill out. Now I’m back and I’ve got to get to work.

CAM: Last question: Where do you keep your Oscar? DS: I was going to use it as a doorstop. But currently it’s on a cabinet shelf in my dining room, flanked by my two BAFTAs. c

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By Scott Pesner ’87 n May 29, Cornell’s alumni skills she gained while ranks grew as more than 3,500 working on the Senior O undergraduates and 2,500 grad Class Campaign into students became alumni. While this glo- a career in fundraising, rious transition has happened annually while Jones is study- for nearly 150 years, the benefits and oping at the Union The- portunities available to Cornell alumni ological Seminary. “I in the “real world” aren’t always appar- thought I would need to work really hard to ent to new graduates. “During my time keep my Cornell con- as a student, Cornell seemed like a mas- nections, but just the sive and overwhelming community that opposite has hap- engages the majority of your time, pas- pened,” said Rigione, sion, and interests,” says Mike McDer- who attends young mott ’09, co-president of his class and a alumni events, partic- law student at Boston College. “Becom- ipates in the Cornell ing a member of the alumni communi- Alumni Admissions ty is seen more as an unwanted finish Ambassadors Network line—who wants to leave Cornell?” (CAAAN), and hangs McDermott’s attitude about alum- out at the Cornell Big Red spirit: Rebecca Robbins ’09 (left), Stephanie Rigione ’10, ni involvement changed his final year Club-New York. “The and Alina Zolotareva ’11 at the young alumni reception at the of undergrad, when he volunteered for network was here—it Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference in January the Senior Class Campaign. “Through fell into my lap.” the campaign and my work with the Cornell’s role in alumni community,” he says, “I learned life after graduation has been on the staff of four includes three young alum- that graduation is not the end of life mind of Alina Zolotareva ’11, who ni: Pat Burns ’09, Corey Earle ’07, and with Cornell.” Like many Cornellians, serves as co-president of her class. “We Svante Myrick ’09. Their mission is to McDermott has kept in touch with his love Cornell, but we don’t all under- engage Cornellians from orientation to fraternity brothers and teammates. But stand what lies ahead for us,” she says. graduation and beyond, with the goal he has also developed amazing friend- “Some of my classmates think, I’ll nev- of establishing lifelong relationships. ships with members of the Class of er see some of these people again. But Neiderbach and her team travel across 2009 he barely knew—or never even I now know they’re wrong. You will see the country producing young alumni met—when he was on campus. these people again because there will be events and meeting with graduates. Class co-presidents Stephanie Ri- plenty of opportunities to do so.” They create opportunities for students gione ’10 and Darin Lamar Jones ’10 Indeed, helping Cornell’s newest to become involved in the alumni have had similar experiences. Both Ri- alumni stay connected is the task fac- world, increase student and alumni in- gione (a Boston native) and Jones (who ing Margaux Neiderbach ’99, who teraction, and support young alumni grew up in Florida) are now in New joined Alumni Affairs and Develop- volunteers and leaders in their roles on York City, home to 18,000 other Cor- ment as its first director of student and behalf of the University. In addition, nell alumni. Rigione has parlayed the young alumni programs in 2009. Her (continued on page 54) July / August 2011 53 053-055CAMja11alma 6/16/11 1:22 PM Page 54

(continued from page 53) into other events to bring her her group oversees the Se- classmates together with oth- nior Class Campaign, class er alumni. programs for alumni up to The biggest challenge for twenty years out, and re- Student and Young Alumni unions for the youngest Programs is getting young classes. “I truly enjoy con- graduates to keep their connecting with young alumni, tact information up to date. finding out what excites As they move and change them about the University, jobs frequently, it can be hard and creating opportunities to keep track. “We hear from for Cornell to benefit them young alumni all the time personally and professional- who think there aren’t activ- ly,” Neiderbach says. ities in their area,” Neider- To support student and bach says. “Once they update young alumni initiatives, their information, they start Neiderbach’s team depends to receive event invitations on the talents of many of its and volunteer opportunities young alumni stars, such as and realize that Cornellians Rebecca Robbins ’09, co- are everywhere and they are president of her class. “It’s quite active.” imperative that we stay con- As Student and Young nected and that we give New grads: Margaux Neiderbach ’99 (center), director of student and Alumni Programs develops, it back,” Robbins says. “But young alumni programs, celebrates Commencement 2010 with class will offer more ways to bring ‘I’m giving back’ doesn’t just presidents Stephanie Rigione ’10 and Darin Jones ’10. alumni and students togeth- mean financially; some er. This summer, for example, classmates are not able to. networking events will be So we’re also thinking of creative ways student. Panelists—who represented a held for undergrads working as interns to engage people to give back in the variety of post-Cornell career paths in- in New York City, Boston, and San form of time and talent.” cluding finance, medical school, law Francisco. In May, a “Life After Cor- One unique event that Robbins school, accounting, consulting, non- nell” presentation by alumni leaders of- helped manage, with the support of Stu- profits, and marketing—discussed alum- fered information on CAAAN, regional dent and Young Alumni Programs, took ni opportunities and life outside of work. club programs, diversity alumni asso- place last summer in New York City. After the event, members of the two ciations, career services, and network- Members of the Class of ’09 welcomed classes went to a nearby bar to contin- ing opportunities. The Class of 2011 the Class of ’10 to New York with a ue networking. “I think it was really suc- was also invited to participate in the panel that focused on the transition cessful for both the panelists and the first-ever “Reunion Zero” on campus from student to professional or graduate attendees,” says Robbins, who is looking two weeks after graduation, featuring a barbecue and opportunities to mingle with the other 6,000 alumni celebrating their reunions. Senior Class Campaign Gets Creative For the past two years, student leaders have traveled to Washington, D.C., to participate in the Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference. “It was impres- t’s a Cornell tradition to ask the senior class to fundraise for the next sive to see 700-plus alumni from so generation, usually through a scholarship or gift to the Annual Fund. many generations coming together be- This year, Senior Class Campaign co-presidents (and now class presi- cause they enjoy giving back, and know- I ing that I’ll be doing the same,” said Jeff dents) Alina Zolotareva ’11 and Jeff Stulmaker ’11 added a new dimen- Stulmaker ’11, co-president of his class. Neiderbach’s team is also working sion. In addition to financial gifts, with colleagues across the University donations of time and talent were to invigorate Homecoming Weekend encouraged. “Our theme was ‘Time, (September 16–18) by adding events Talent, and Treasure,’ to focus on specifically for students and young ways to give back to Cornell through alumni. In addition to producing volunteering to benefit the Univer- events, her office partners with region- sity,” says Zolotareva. Students par- al clubs to develop young alumni groups ticipated in phonathons through the and has offered the most recent gradu- campaign, planted a campus garden, ating classes a free one-year subscrip- volunteered with mental health and tion to Cornell Alumni Magazine. sustainability initiatives, and pro- With engaged young alumni and a duced videos (search on YouTube for talented staff in Ithaca, Cornell can “161 Things To Do Before Graduat- count on the newest generations to ing Cornell”) that not only prompt- step up. “You realize after you graduate ed giving to the class campaign, but that Cornell is more than just a four- also encouraged students to “Leave year experience,” said Rigione. “The Alina Zolotareva ’11 and Jeff Stulmaker ’11 Your Mark.” alumni experience has so far exceeded my expectations. I’ve been displaced from Ithaca, but I haven’t left Cornell.”

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Outgoing CAA President: ‘We’ve Made Great Progress’

By Nancy Abrams Dreier ’86 y predecessor, Rolf Frantz ’66, touches to the governing documents ME ’67, noted in his final of the organization will be made over M column that during his time the summer. in office he’d seen dramatic changes at Led by association vice president Cornell. President David Skorton and Stephanie Keene Fox ’89, Shana Mueller his wife, Professor Robin Davisson, ’95, and Meg Tallman ’92, the Direc- came to Cornell, and there was a sig- tors from the Regions and members of nificant reorganization of Alumni Af- our training and development commit- fairs and Development with the arrival tee completed an online toolbox of of Vice President Charlie Phlegar and training materials for board members Associate Vice President for Alumni Af- and regional club leaders. The addition fairs Chris Marshall. Rolf hoped that of webinars for training has facilitated my tenure would be a bit calmer. communication and allowed volunteers The last two years have been any- to collaborate in real time. thing but calm as we have navigated an As the owner of Cornell Alumni environment of change and growth. As Magazine, CAA has worked to publish an the new Alumni Affairs Strategic Plan award-winning publication that delivers emerged and the organizational chart a balanced presentation of Cornell and evolved, the role of what was then called its alumni. A priority over the last sever- the Cornell Alumni Federation became al years has been to seek University sup- volunteers and constituent organizations, clear. It was our charge to align with the port for distribution to all alumni. At the we’ll collaborate with Beth Hamilton. Office of Alumni Affairs to support its Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference The list of opportunities and activ- mission of engaging alumni. in January, Charlie Phlegar pledged Uni- ities is long, and the 2011–12 board will In the first one hundred days, the versity resources to enable a new digital have plenty of chances to make its board overwhelmingly approved a mo- era for the magazine. My thanks go out mark. I’m thrilled to pass the CAA tiara tion to return to the organization’s to Charlie, Vice President of University and baton to the incoming president, original name, Cornell Alumni Asso- Communications Tommy Bruce, CAM my dear friend Stephanie Fox. Stephanie ciation, to increase its recognition editor and publisher Jim Roberts ’71, has distinguished herself as a team among all alumni. Our next order of Dick Levine ’62, Bill Howard ’74, Rolf builder and an admired leader. business was to collaborate with Alum- Frantz, and many other committee It has been an honor to serve on ni Affairs staff, members of the Board members for their tireless efforts. the CAA board for the past thirteen of Trustees, and other advisers to Additional board priorities include years, and I am looking forward to join- reimagine our purpose. We spent time training and development and rewards ing my predecessors (and friends) as a determining the proper structure of the and recognition. We look forward to work- president emerita. In closing, I’d like to association’s board to best represent ing with Laura Denbow and Tina Gour- thank David Skorton, Charlie Phlegar, and serve our member organizations ley in identifying volunteer leadership Tommy Bruce, Chris Marshall, and Jen- and all alumni. We’ve made great and training opportunities for all alum- nifer Lynham Cunningham ’92 for their progress, and I expect that the finishing ni. As we seek to recognize our valued incredible support.

Rhodes Awards ILR Honors Winners Announced The Cornell Alumni Associa- The School of Industrial and La- tion has announced the recipients bor Relations honored two of its alum- of the 2011 Frank H. T. Rhodes ni at a formal awards dinner in March Award for Exemplary Alumni Ser- at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan. vice. This highest alumni honor, Barry Hartstein ’73 received the named for Cornell’s ninth presi- Judge William B. Groat Alumni dent, recognizes graduates who Award, given for achievement in the have given long-term volunteer field of industrial relations and sup- service to Cornell throughout their port of the school. A partner at Lit- Joseph Scelfo ’79 (left) and Barry lifetimes to a wide variety of alum- tler Mendelson, PC, Hartstein is a Hartstein ’73 ni organizations. This year’s remember of the University Council, cipients are Robert Abrams ’53, the ILR Advisory Council, the Com- and chief financial officer at Hess Walter Bruska ’50, Anne Estabrook mittee on Alumni Trustee Nomina- Corporation. The award honors an ’65, MBA ’66, Muriel “Micki” tions, and the executive committee of alumnus who has demonstrated out- Bertenthal Kuhs ’61, Ginny Wal- the ILR Alumni Association. standing service and support to the lace Panzer ’55, and Steven Siegel Also that evening, the Jerome school, and recognizes those whose ’68. The awards will be presented Alpern Distinguished Service Award career accomplishments have been at a dinner on Friday night of was presented to Joseph Scelfo ’79, primarily outside the field of indus- Homecoming weekend. MBA ’80, executive vice president trial and labor relations.

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Class Notes

This is my official resignation as it to reunion and that you will have done so too. eleventh grandchildren. Margaret belongs to the your reporter, but I plan to write c Warner Lansing, 6065 Verde Trail S., Apt. prayer shawl ministry at her church. Since 2005 41 a Reunion Report for the Sept/Oct G310, Boca Raton, FL 33433; tel., (561) 487- she says she has “made 334 shawls that have issue to end my Tour of Enjoyable Duty. I hope to 2008; e-mail, [email protected]. been distributed around the world. One went to get personal reports from those of you who looked a tribal chief in Mali, West Africa. The group has forward to the 65th and attended along with me. made 904 to date.” Quite an accomplishment. Why am I retiring? We are finding increasing “Join us at the Blarney Stone Isabelle Ward Esposito moved to a Benning- stress in our downsizing/decluttering, although Irish Pub in Seattle to watch ton, VT, apartment in a senior residence to be near we still hope to stay here and handle the com- 42 the Cornell men’s hockey cham- her daughter. She is having difficulties adjusting plexities of medical problems and schedules. All of pionship game!” Imagine getting such an invi- from a home to apartment living. She gardens dur- you share these, so I don’t need to elaborate. tation! Takes me back to our years in Ithaca and ing the summer and enjoys crossword, jigsaw, and When I heard that Jean Way Schoonover our championship teams. Cornell also boasts the Sudoku puzzles. (Ed. note: Me, too!) Isabelle stays had died in early April, I had the same sinking NCAA 149-pound wrestling champion; the team fit doing a little gardening, but hasn’t as yet got- feeling that I had five years ago when we all ar- placed second in the Division I championships. ten involved with any organizations. She also en- rived for our 65th Reunion and my dear friend How great that we can compete with collegiate joys just walking, year round. She’d love to hear Dorothy Talbert Wiggans had died suddenly on powerhouses when we have no athletic scholar- from Muffy “Ruth” Wiggins Kreidler. the Tuesday before. Jean became a good friend ships! Makes us very proud. I have discovered a book that was to me as I became your reporter, with lots of news Always nice thoughts from Ed Markham amazing, and I’m sure all would be as shocked as about meetings she attended. She was a model (Bainbridge, WA), who heard from Gus Vollmer I was to find out about Russia during WWII. Hid- class president—charming, but modest about her (Butler, NJ). Ed and Yoshiko plan to meet Gus at ing in the Spotlight by Greg Dawson tells the true high intelligence and business acumen. We have the Montana Ranch and Crow Indian Pow-wow story of his mother during the conflict. Very in- all lost a very dear friend. Fair in August. It’s time for a famous “rum in a teresting. Do e-mail those above or contact me Three of you sent news forms this year that milk can party.” Ed looks forward to the 70th. The to get phone numbers. Thanks to all who contin- I have not yet noted: Martha Perkins Melfi Markhams also enjoy their family get-togethers and ue to support our class and for sending in infor- (Syracuse, NY), Jean Palmer Gerlach and hus- their three great-grands, who all live in the Puget mation about your lives. This column only exists band Theodore ’38 (Lebanon, NH), and Marjorie Sound area. Kathryn Fiske Weikel (Pottstown, PA) because we want to hear about our “old” friends. Lee Treadwell (Naples, FL, and Grosse Ile, MI) so enjoyed watching her grandson Geof in the So do keep in touch with me throughout the year. with a report that life in both areas has many “Ace of Cakes” show on the Food Network for four Address, e-mail, and phone number are below. I’m enjoyable features, not the least of which is years. But now, sadly, it has ended. “My daughter usually home and love to hear from you. Hope leading her singing group, the Warblers, playing Jane Weikel Manthorne ’66 and husband Bryce you are all doing well. c Carolyn Finneran, golf, attending marriages of grandchildren, and had a reunion to celebrate my 90th birthday. Geof 8815 46th St. NW, Gig Harbor, WA 98335; e-mail, enjoying a 5-year-old great-grand. Ken now has made a cake that was a replica of the English Tu- [email protected]; tel., (253) 326-4806. 14 greats, but none are nearby—our great regret, dor House that was my home from birth until I though it may be one of the reasons we hang on came to Pottstown in June 1942. A great time was to our home for visits that we enjoy. had by all.” Kathryn continues her 20 years of Sadly we turn down an empty Cornell Alumni Magazine continues to amaze volunteering at the local hospital and so “enjoys glass for longtime friend Bill me with its extraordinary content and beautiful seeing young mothers and their newborns and pa- 43 Vanneman ’31, who made it to photography. It is a privilege to have been a tients being discharged as life goes on.” 102 in fine fettle, but not to 103. I had recently member of the Class Notes team, but even with- Esther and Tom Flanagan (Norwich, NY) are read that nobody looks back on old age, but, alas, out that feature there is much to enjoy in each enrolled for 2011, but sent no news. William and I never got to ask Bill if he ever thought about issue. My congratulations to my colleague Warn- Betty Luxford Webster ’39 (Hamburg, NY) thought what it was like to be 100. Thanks to his exem- er Lansing, PhD ’49, who has done a superb job of moving to Wyoming, where two of their chil- plary legacy I was invited to make what turned reporting on ’41 Men. As I write this column in dren reside, but are happy where they are. Bill’s out to be the most fun speech of my life. early April, I will hope to see you and Willie Ann hobby is playing the piano for senior sing-alongs. One of the rules imposed on us class corre- at reunion. c Shirley Richards Sargent Darmer, He has 150 gigs planned at six different facili- spondents is that we follow the name of anyone 20 Haddington Lane, Delmar, NY 12054; e-mail, ties. His songbook was inspired by Babe and Bill who did not attend the Big Red Schoolhouse on [email protected]. Lynch ’39. He’d like to hear from Bill Temple- the Hill with (NC)—not Cornell—so that the ton (Oceanside, CA) and Ruth Harder Dugan ’35. People in Fact-Checking don’t waste time chasing Like Shirley, I am resigning as your men’s re- Virginia Stockamore Henry (Albany, NY) still vol- the Wild Goose (NC). Like the time I neglected to porter, but also like her, I shall try to write a unteers with the Red Cross at the Albany Med- indicate (NC) after Tooth Fairy (NC). For the cur- post-Reunion Report before I “clear out my desk.” ical Center Hospital, where she meets interesting rent issue I have asked that the aforementioned I must say that I have thoroughly enjoyed my people; she gets satisfaction out of helping. She PIFC do not delete (NC) prior to sending to the relationship with Shirley over these past five years. also enjoys Vanguard and the Albany Symphony. People in Type-Setting. To an engineer like me, she is awesome at ex- She says that all the courses, activities, etc., at In a recent request for news and dues, we pressing herself. The members of the staff at Cor- Cornell “have contributed to a richer, more mean- asked for opinions of where Barack Obama (NC) nell Alumni Magazine that I worked with have also ingful life.” Helen Sleeper Ryan (Hightstown, has succeeded and where failed. [In error, we been a real class act. Adele Robinette, who is the NJ) sent a phone number but no news. sent the same form twice. Please hold the dupli- Class Notes editor and associate publisher, has Henry and Gladys McKeever Seebald cate till midway through his second term. There’s been especially helpful and understanding. (Judg- (Wyomissing, PA) are celebrating their first great- a dear.] The majority of you voted with Dick ing from my performance, the class notes part of granddaughter. Richard Shotwell, MS ’54 (Glen Bonser for John McCain (NC), but found Sarah her job must be a little like “herding cats!”) Cove, NY; [email protected]) traveled from Palin (NC) a poor choice for VP. As for why I’m joining Shirley in retiring from Auburn to Long Island visiting family and friends “Despairing over politics,” bemoans Al Gould my class duties, in my case, it’s that I’ve retro- and attending reunions of three classes he ad- (Jekyll Island, GA), “the most recent 40 years, gressed so much in the last year! I suppose we’re vised at Springs Central School. They also enjoyed but really the last 211. Bring back G. Washing- all going through similar experiences. The thing a cruise to the Bahamas with a Florida Masonic ton and the United States. I fear that our Great that annoys me most is that I can’t remember group. Margaret Belknap Smith (Laurel, MD; Generation let too much slip away.” Al also wist- anything! Literally! However, God willing, I hope [email protected]) cruised the Baltic coun- fully recalls a crush he had on “great gal” Ruth that by the time you read this, I will have made tries and welcomed the birth of her tenth and Cosline Rhynedance ’44. 56 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 57

Many think the Bush residue and the Repub- Parkinson’s support group with about 15 PKs who of over 800 Cornellians and learning a lot, too. lican bloc make the job impossible. Others agree support and learn together. Days are never long One of the highlights was seeing President Sko- with Bill Leuchtenburg that Obama has succeed- enough. We keep busy.” Chuck DeBare, JD ’49, rton and hearing him speak. When he took ed in health care and foreign relations, and failed spends summers at the Jersey Shore. He and wife office, I somehow missed the fact that he plays in job creation. Not at all incidentally, Bill has Mary, both previously widowed, were looking for- the jazz flute and saxophone and has a New- just marked his 30th year of collaboration with ward to their 23rd wedding anniversary. “With ten foundland dog, interests that I can’t resist pass- Ken Burns (NC), which began with “Huey Long” grandchildren and six children with families, who ing along. He spoke of how well Cornell is doing and has included such epics as “The Civil War,” all visit us at the shore, Mary and I need a vaca- in hockey and wrestling and said Cornell is “Baseball,” and “The National Parks.” He will be tion come August,” he writes. “But lucky us, we’re among the top ten employers in New York State. seen on camera in “Prohibition” and “The Roose- both in good health and enjoy a full and busy life.” In spite of the economic downturn, the alumni velts” and is now working with Burns on “The Dwight Scholl ’86 writes on behalf of his fund is up and there is a 71 percent increase in Dust Bowl.” mother, Eleanor Bloomfield Scholl, that although new donors. A survey shows that Cornell is the Jarman Kennard (Fairview Park, OH) engages she has had several health setbacks, she is doing seventh most diversified collegiate institution. in the Huff & Puff exercise program and sings bar- much better. When he wrote, Eleanor was on her He described a strategic plan to maintain faculty bershop, while Tom Baskous (Schenectady, NY) way to Bermuda with her daughter, Debbie. “It excellence, as almost half of the faculty are more plays fiddle with the Adirondack Fiddlers and vi- seems that being retired in Hawaii, we are busier than 55 years old; the university will need to ola with the local senior concert orchestra. Mary than when I was working,” writes Milton Sto- hire as many as 1,000 new faculty members in Honor Crowley Rivin (Santa Fe, NM) writes: “Doc laroff from Kailua Kona. “We play bridge once or the next decade. The university has established prescribed 60 pills twice daily at $605, of which twice (or thrice) a week, have a lot of friends and a $100 million Cornell Faculty Renewal Fund to insurance would pay $141. I argued for and was social activities (Monday night poker with ‘the begin hiring immediately. granted absolution without sacrament.” Jane guys’), and have many great restaurants for deli- Your co-correspondent (Julie Kamerer Snell) Strahan Davis (Danville, AR) still paints and cious dinners out. If any of our classmates are welcomed son Mark ’76, PhD ’80, when he came would like to hear from “anyone in Ornithology looking for a place to retire, I can very strongly from his Albuquerque home to Washington on back in the day.” recommend Hawaii!” Milton sends thanks to Dot- business at an interesting time. His visit coincid- John Vanderslice (Valencia, PA; pop. 384) ty Kay Kesten for keeping everyone up to date on ed with the government “shutdown,” and a quick reports that he enjoys hearing from Bill Grimes class activities. “You are doing a great job!” return trip was narrowly averted when Congress (Tucson, AZ). So do we: “Sorry about the Gretchen Eichorn Facq (Bound Brook, NJ) took temporary action on the budget. He was able scrunched-up writing, Miller, but like everything writes, “I’m well and still active in an orchestra to keep his appointments before returning home. else in my life, it’s diminishing. I live in a pre- (cello), painting, garden club, French club, bridge I was also delighted to see Margaret Hulsair Hart mier retirement community—full care until no club, etc. Alas, husband John has Alzheimer’s, as ’82 in the executive office of Riderwood, a re- care is needed, and then the rush to re-rent your did his sister and mother, and is much weakened, tirement community where I live. digs. Between now and that day we have endless but he’s still sweet and good-natured and helps We have eight Cornellians in Congress. They games to play, endless meals to eat, endless doc- as much and wherever he can. He’s not up to are Mark Kirk ’81 (R-IL), Bob Andrews, JD ’82 tors to see. Still driving, helping great-grandkids traveling, so we’re homebodies, except for day (D-NJ), Chris Gibson, PhD ’98 (R-NY), Hansen with 529 funding, awaken happy every day.” Up- trips.” Gretchen sent her compliments to the Clarke ’84 (D-MI), Bob Filner ’63, PhD ’73 (D- beat news also from Lillian Fuller Jones (Las Ve- alumni magazine: “It’s terrific—I really enjoy it.” CA), Kurt Schrader ’73 (D-OR), Nan Sutter Hay- gas, NM): “Volunteering at the local museum, Wayne Faulkner (Stone Mountain, GA) writes worth, MD ’85 (R-NY), and Gabrielle Giffords, practicing sign language, clay sculpture, walking that his health remains good and he’s still “hang- MRP ’97 (D-AZ). (At latest report, the latter is re- our dogs along the river bank.” ing in there.” Alice Gallup Stout has been in a covering well from the shooting, which was good “Joseph ’45 and I live quietly and comfort- nursing home since early 2009; her husband, to hear.) Classmates living in the states mentioned ably in the Health Center in Denville, NJ,” writes Neil, visits her often. In season, he brings fresh will be interested, particularly if you approve of Doris Fenton Klockner, who would like to hear vegetables to the facility from the home garden their political views. Our thanks to Chris Marshall, from one-time roommate June Gilbert Klitgord. and keeps her up to date on news from friends associate VP for Alumni Affairs, and Kelly Speis- Susannah Krehbiel Horger, MD ’47, reports: “A and family members. “We are both proud of the er, GR, in the same office, who kindly gave us the great occasion was a family reunion. Husband achievements of our two grandchildren,” Neil list after the announcement was made at CALC. Joseph, all six children, and eight grandchildren writes. “Jeffrey was a Rhodes scholar and spent We are sad to report that Carolyn Worcester with significant others added to the glory of the three years at Oxford U. Abby opened a B&B re- Vandecar passed away on March 1, 2011. Her day.” This from Pat Rider Huber (Cromwell, CT): sort in Costa Rica in June 2010. Both are doing daughter tells us that she was extremely proud of “Cruised the Cape Cod Canal and attended the very well.” Joe Flynn (San Diego, CA) reports the her Cornell roots. Her husband, Philip, prede- Annual Scallop Fest in Bourne. Wonderful food happy news that on April 7, 2010 he became a ceased her in 2008. We extend our sincere sym- on a gorgeous day!” Asked how the recent re- great-grandfather for the first time. pathy to a son and daughter and their families, cession has affected her, Barbara Styles Hagan Here’s one more item from Betty Scheidel- who survive her. (Hendersonville, NC), who misses Jane Adams man Droz, who appeared in the last issue. She was Co-correspondent Bob Frankenfeld, BA ’44, Wait, responds: “All of our children, grandchil- recently asked to speak at her Kappa Alpha Theta MD ’47, attended the American College of Physi- dren, and in-law children are employed or in sorority in Ithaca on the occasion of the 130th cians meeting in San Diego in early April as a school. Who needs more?” anniversary of the sorority. She was asked to give roommate to his son, the first time they’d been James Joyce (NC) writes: “And thanks be to a presentation on how different sorority life was alone together since Boy Scout camping. He tells God, Johnny, said Mr. Dedalus (NC), that we 70 years ago. “I think the biggest change,” she us, “I had been to such meetings in the past 56 lived so long and did so little harm.” c S. Miller said, “is the distribution of men and women. years, but what struck me about this one was the Harris, P.O. Box 164, Spinnerstown, PA 18968; When we were at Cornell, the men outnumbered diversity of those attending: America is truly the e-mail, [email protected]. the women seven times. Now it is about equal— melting pot of nationalities, and 45 percent were a huge difference in the dating potential.” female. At my first meeting, in 1954, when the We’ve gotten through a lot of news these Navy flew several hundred of us from Washington, Helen Wright Murphy (Wap- past several issues, and look forward to the next DC, to Chicago, less then 1 percent of attendees pingers Falls, NY) retired in round of updates from the annual class mailing. were female; they were called ‘hen medics.’ The 44 March 2010. How is that going Happy summer! c Class of 1944, c/o Cornell plenary sessions at that time took place in a huge for you, Helen? Pearne Billings (Syracuse, NY) Alumni Magazine, 401 East State St., Suite 301, ballroom that seated 2,500. There was an ashtray writes that he is the most decorated WWII veteran Ithaca, NY 14850. Dorothy Kay Kesten, 1 Crest- at every seat, so when the room was darkened to in New York State, with 15 medals. Bobbie Hall wood Rd., Westport, CT 06880; e-mail, dotkes show slides, I had the eerie sensation of watch- Bowne (Sidney, NY) shared these thoughts: “News [email protected]. ing a film set in the moors of Scotland because seems hard to come by, but perhaps that’s because the smoke was so thick. It’s much different now. the ‘good news’ is not the new news, but being The content of the meeting is still great, but able to say ‘Well done!’ occasionally. Cornell ’44 I attended the mid-winter Cornell some of the speakers seemed to be polishing up can surely say, ‘Well done!’ We are well and so Alumni Leadership Conference their act as stand-up comics.” Bob had a short, thankful to have family nearby. 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was attending a baseball game that was delayed chair of the Political Science department. “Dr. to Rotary District Governor-Elect Pervez Ahsan by rain on and off for five hours. His party left Cushman strongly recommended me to Yale Law Khan and wife Maimoona, who were visiting from after 11 p.m. in the fourth inning and walked School, where I graduated in 1947. Since my last Islamabad. Pervez’s Rotary classification is “agri- more than a mile to their hotel in torrential rain, mention in your column, I’ve seen Jack Levene cultural consultant,” so Pete arranged an interest- the only protection a flimsy towel given to them ’47, BA ’46, a fellow Beta Sigma Rho and South ing tour of Cornell’s Agricultural Station in Geneva, to distract opposing pitchers. He considers this Floridian.” Owen and Claire play social bridge with where they met the “broccoli professor.” In March, just another proof of his definition of a vacation: Burt ’45, BA ’47, and Jacqueline Leavenworth. Pete and Elaine attended Cornell’s symposium “Un- TROUBLE. We hope you’ll find a dry spot for your In summer 2009, they drove up to D.C.; in 2010, packing the Nano: The Price of the World’s Most next one, Bob. they flew to the West Coast—all to visit family. Affordable Car” about the low-priced car (about Bob and I would love to hear from you by Gabriel Pesce, BCE ’49, MS ’51 (Port Hueneme, $2,200) produced by Tata Motors in India. They post or e-mail. c Julie Kamerer Snell, 3154 CA; [email protected]) served on CAAAN (Cornell heard Ratan Tata ’59, BArch ’62, chairman of Tata Gracefield Rd., #111, Silver Spring, MD 20904- Alumni Admissions Ambassadors Network) in Sons Ltd., explain that the car was designed to 0806; e-mail, [email protected]; Robert 2009. Back surgery recovery in 2010 cost him a provide an affordable and safer alternative to the Frankenfeld, 6291 E. Bixby Hill Rd., Long Beach, year of service. He is eager to again interview po- scooters used in India. Pete adds, “A trip to Itha- CA 90815; e-mail, [email protected]. tential Cornellians. Gabe usually participates in ca would not be complete without visiting Bar- the L.A. Cornell Club’s “Day at the Races” at San- low Ware. We had a delightful visit with him and ta Anita. He and Lois sold their Santa Barbara his friends living at the Bridges in Cornell Heights. This is a continuation from the ranch four years ago and moved to Port Hueneme. He’s happy, he’s active, and he loves living there.” many news forms you sent in Gabe is commodore of the US Navy Yacht Club- Pete also announced that his youngest 46 early January 2011. Margaret Channel Islands, is a homeowner board member, grandson, Joey Vinegrad, will enter the Class of Chauvin Rinehart (Costa Mesa, CA) worked at the and volunteers with the US Coast Guard Auxiliary. 2015 in Electrical Engineering. He will be a fourth- Orange County Fair last year and helped with the He would like to hear from Bob Cologgi ’43 and generation Cornellian following a long line of Youth Expo. She is a volunteer receptionist at the Betty Bilger Coale ’49. Cornell Engineers: his great-grandfather Ralph C. local senior center and at church. Ruth Magid After a year with Esso and two years earning Schwarz, 1908 (BME); great-granduncle J. Wal- Woolfe, BA ’45 (Boca Raton, FL) is a docent work- an MBA at Harvard, Raymond Hunicke (Roxbury, ter Schwarz, 1907 (BME); Pete; his great-uncle ing with the local wildlife and wetlands, which CT; [email protected]) landed in the Ralph ’42, BME ’43; his aunt Suzy Schwarz includes the Green Cay Wetlands, Loxahatchee fledgling semiconductor industry. For 15 years, he Quiles ’76 (Human Ecology); and aunt Mary Wildlife Refuge, and Wakodahatchee Wetlands. worked at development with industry pioneers. Schwarz ’81, MAT ’95. Phyllis Stapley Tuddenham (Naples, FL) volunteers Then he founded Lewis Corp., which manufactured You’ll be reading this around the time the at her retirement village library. She and Bill took ultrasonic cleaning systems, using advanced semi- Class of 1946 is in Ithaca celebrating their 65th a CAU trip to the Netherlands last May and spent conductor technology. His cleaning systems soon Reunion. Margaret Newell Mitchell, our reunion three weeks at their time-share in England in July. found their way into the clean rooms of all the chair, and other class officers will be working on Their daughter-in-law works as a consultant in important chip manufacturers. In retirement, Ray our 65th. Keep us posted on your thoughts for international law for the State Dept. in D.C. enjoys maintaining his large, old (1790) house next year’s reunion. Send them to Margaret at mnm Dorothy Hotchkiss Haberl (Golden, CO), wid- and barn. His sole, inauthentic addition is a four- [email protected]. Jay Milner (imilner@comcast. ow of Frank ’47, keeps in touch with most of her car garage. Ray also builds cherry furniture for his com) reports that not only is he still solvent in college friends. She still enjoys sports—tennis, “kids and g-kids.” His fondest Cornell memories these troubling times, but so is our class treasury. skiing, and golf. “Graduating in Home Ec helped include learning-to-fly weekends and finding qui- In addition to being active with CAAAN’s program me in the household and family business.” Zoe et, scenic spots for study. He’d most like to hear of meeting with student candidates for Cornell, Crichton (Denver, CO) is still active in Pi Beta from former roommate Hank Harper, who was Jay keeps busy with his community’s interfaith dia- Phi. She said, “I enjoy reading and playing bridge, best man at his wedding. Send news to: c Paul logue group, which now is entering its “teen” but old age is a challenge.” Irene Ketcham Blum Levine, 31 Chicory Lane, San Carlos, CA 94070; years. He and wife Edith are also active with the sent a new address in Cambridge, MA. I’m sure tel., (650) 592-5273; e-mail, [email protected]. 55-plus seniors of their congregation. Trips in the she’d like to hear from her college friends. Pearl Class website, http://classof46.alumni.cornell.edu. offing are “a long-promised and oft-postponed vis- Woodruff Brown (Marblehead, MA) wrote, “I still it to Bermuda, a visit to son Joe ’89, a professor like to travel.” We also received dues but no news at the U. of Toronto, and then a visit to parts of from Gloria Clyne (Syracuse, NY) and Mary You’ll be reading this in the heat Alaska we missed the first time around.” Jay Charles Jamison, BA ’45, MA ’46 (Newton Square, of the summer, but I am writing writes that he looks forward to the noble 65th PA), widow of Charles, BME ’45. 47 it as the snow is finally leaving Reunion next year and welcomes ideas about Thanks again for your newsy notes. Just a and the daffodils are making a brave appearance what the class giveaway might be. reminder, reunion news will appear in the next in Rochester. Given that winter is just behind me, I look forward to reading your news forms issue, so look for news of the classmates who at- let me offer a recap on another successful athlet- and sharing the latest with the class. If you tended. c Elinor Baier Kennedy, 9 Reading Dr., ic season in Ithaca. We all remember how excit- haven’t filled one out yet, please feel free to drop Apt. 302, Wernersville, PA 19565; tel., (610) ing Big Red sports were in 2010. Well, men’s me a note or give me a call instead. c Arlie 927-8777; e-mail, [email protected]. basketball wasn’t as successful this year, but there Williamson Anderson, [email protected]; tel., is still plenty about which we can brag. The (585) 288-3752. This column was written before reunion. News women’s ice hockey team won the ECAC champion- of our 65th will appear in the Sept/Oct issue. ship for the second year in a row, before losing in Jules Gagnon Jr. (West Babylon, NY; joa the semifinals of the NCAA championships. The Jim Chadwick, San Jose, CA: “I [email protected]) continues his “all hours” wrestling team was the runner-up in the NCAA lacquer the patio, put out trash, volunteer work as a church deacon. He assists at championships for the second consecutive season. 48 hike, give out advice, read the Eucharist services, performs baptisms, volunteers Sophomore Kyle Dake ’13 won his second straight Times, go to our cabin in Carmel Valley, assume at parish outreach, and works at RCIA (Roman NCAA individual championship at 149 pounds, without proof, and complete my poetry. Things Catholic Instruction for Adults). Yet he claims to marking the fourth year in a row that a Cornellian are static. Wait two more years, then vote! Cali- be retired. Jules has written homilies and eulo- has won an individual championship. For the first fornia—I love it! We need more Californias, but gies, but never fulfilled his goal of writing Amer- time ever, five Cornell wrestlers won All-American I love all states. No complaints here, but Aroos- ica’s great mystery novel. Family commitments honors. Finally, two members of the women’s fenc- took, ME, would be better. I’m retired. I volun- kept him from our 65th. He sends best wishes, ing team qualified for the NCAA championships, teer for anything! Writing, playing flute, walking, especially to fellow TKEs. both in foil. They both finished in the top 20, listening, and contemplating 1925 through 1948. Owen Birnbaum, BA ’45 (Boca Raton, FL; earning Cornell a 17th place finish. My last car, a 1991 Trofeo, went 310,000 miles in [email protected]) plays competitive table ten- As I write, the news forms haven’t arrived yet, ten years. Now I drive a 2005 Lexus 8, which has nis and does very well against 40–50-year-olds. so I am grateful to my friend and our class pres- only 100,000 miles on it. I’ll keep it till the end He’ll test his successful knee implant in the 80- ident Pete Schwarz, BEE ’46 (peter-d@rochester. of self. It would be fun to tap my maple trees for plus division, All-Florida tournament. Owen fond- rr.com) for news about himself and family. Start- syrup once again, boil it, and make fudge. [Jim’s ly remembers studies with Prof. Robert Cushman, ing in January, Pete and Elaine opened their home originally from Houlton, ME.—Ed.] Most pressing 58 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes ,JD ’s great Macken- (Walling- Mack Farrell (Maumee, OH) (Maumee, August 2011 59 , is retired. She , is retired. Jack Rupert | Norris Smith (Livingston Manor, NY; Manor, (Livingston July David Keating ’10 James ’50 Stephen ’76 Malia, MA ’51 (Fairport, NY), MA ’51 (Fairport, Malia, Benedict (Chincoteague, VA; (Chincoteague, Benedict Audubon Ohio life member and life member Ohio Audubon (Naples, FL; lizandpj@earthlink. (Naples, is a sophomore in Arts and Sciences. in Arts and is a sophomore Bette McGrew Rosemary Sheil We extendWe to our condolences Vera Johnston Farrell Kiely Paul is graduating this June, and grandson Jay Lotz Jay grandson and this June, is graduating She is the third generation of Malias to attend Malias of generation third is the She son Rosemary’s Cornell. zie Malia ’14 who is retired, is reading, knitting, singing in the in singing knitting, reading, is is retired, who She traveling. and dog, the walking choir, church is that granddaughter proud” and “excited is “embarking [email protected]) CT; ford, was in ILR. Her first great-grandchild, Benjamin first great-grandchild, Her was in ILR. born last August. Robert, was [email protected]) is retired and living at living and is retired [email protected]) DE. Island, at Fenwick Living Assisted Brandywine activities is busy with the writes that she She tells us that she’d and facility at the provided cat.” Bette’s with my playing “be at home rather “wonderful the are Cornell of memories fondest enjoy would very much she friendships!”—and can be reached She old friends. her from hearing easily at her e-mail address. ’51 (Lakewood, OH; our class [email protected]), who Jinny, his wife, of loss on the president, writes 2009. Jack of summer passed away in the the of member board and is past president that he life trustee of and chairman past Zoo; Cleveland Cor- the of life member and WVIZ-PBS; chairman Coun- University Cornell Council; Arts College nell cil life member; Ohio of treasurer former and chairman; vice former down- into trail canal the bringing Corridor, Canal with genealogy is continuing He town Cleveland. times plays tennis three and gardening work and “two to a house moved he a week. Last August, 45 into moved they one the from down” doors Jack be doing, rather what he’d Asked years ago. plus in- above, the with all of “Continuing says, CAAAN. I like for applicants Cornell terviewing the well into to continue hope and what I’m doing so long for has continued life at Cornell My future. our including memories, fond that I have many activ- alumni their and lives at Cornell children’s our grandson and ities, at Re- old friends of I saw a number experience. them.” from still hear and union our of one of widow the [email protected]), greats, class’s athletic a trustees and of board library the of is president musical various Club and Garden the booster of gave a recently She organizations. performance Club; Garden at the Perennials” talk on “Dividing tells us, years and gives a talk every couple of she Vera’s charge!” because I don’t me like really “They finally is that after 65 years she news exciting plays “any she golfer, An avid a hole-in-one! made that notes Vera above 50 degrees.” day sunny out is “staying recently has been doing what she to be “I’m lucky adds, and offices,” doctors’ of mem- fondest Her whatever I feel like!” able to do of vibrancy “beauty and the are Cornell of ories a small-town from post-war campus viewed the her with all of in touch keeps She perspective.” grandson Vera’s friends. old Cornell ’11 Jim Farrell, fall. this coming school Ag the enters Big passed away in 2005, played tackle for who varsity baseball was on the and Red football first base. covering usually squad, He sports. after-hours enjoying and is retired net) of most been traveling—”seeing tells us that he’s be rather he’d that now adds world”—and the DKE “Fun at the world.” the of rest the “seeing on the his years of memory is his fondest house” Hill. Roy Treth- Eleanor “Ned” “Ned” , writes that she is , writes that she Edward (Burlington, NC) has been (Burlington, . His horses have recently . His horses (Atherton, CO; rmhalperin@ (Atherton, Neil ’48 , Brunswick, ME: “Digging out “Digging ME: , Brunswick, Our class is proud and happy to and Our class is proud learn that away (Gaithersburg, MD; nemunch@ (Gaithersburg, , 102 Reid Ave., Port Washing- Port Ave., , 102 Reid (Storrs Mansfield, CT; vinrogers@ CT; (Storrs Mansfield, (Oakland, CA; [email protected]), a CA; [email protected]), (Oakland, Robert Halperin Gerry Haviland Bob Persons Vin Rogers c 49 retired and enjoying her life in a retirement com- a retirement life in her enjoying and retired choirs has been active with handbell She munity. re- Hill, she years on the her From years. 31 for fondly. most friends Kappa Sigma members Kahn He to Arlene. married and is retired psychologist, Deadlift 2009 World WABDL’s became recently 80-84. group age in the Champion named a Foremost Benefactor of the university, the of Benefactor a Foremost named as “an a trust that will be used established having re- visual an expanded to dedicated endowment Rare of Division Library’s in the program sources real- not do “People Collections.” Manuscript and money it is to give away difficult ize how has He observes. Ned creatively,” and thoughtfully relationship 70 years of his almost documented autobiography, in a three-volume with Cornell hon- a brochure in summarized Library the which the of as a member Cornell entered him. He oring re- in ’45, and Navy ’48, left to join the Class of to Engineering, in Mechanical majoring turned, manag- was student He with our class. graduate was selected team and lacrosse Cornell the er of so- honor Sigma Pi Tau of to be a charter member engineer- different at three After working ciety. Delta Tau for began fundraising he companies, ing university’s Centen- the joined Delta in 1960 and as- a lifelong in 1963, beginning Campaign nial serving that has included with Cornell sociation a being 1963 to 1982 and as an employee from 1992 to 2001. from donor major the of is president writes that he sbcglobal.net) His “after- Foundation. Ruth Halperin Robert and Fa- “Betting travel. include activities hours” races horse on handicapping an article vorites,” by the issue of Jan/Feb in the appeared charter.net), Horseplayer Magazine Racetrack. at Aqueduct been running Flemings Munch to married cs.com), corruption. Alaska might be better. Playing ten- Playing be better. might Alaska corruption. Asia. to Southeast Will cruise nis tomorrow. car was up. on 2008 460; lease a Lexus Bought Howev- great. was It weeks in Turkey. two Spent other the all among flag see a US not I did er, restaurants and hotels the of in front flags flying fu- my Meeting me. Back pain bothers ships. and Life life. in my event greatest was the wife ture your and family to be joyful. Enjoy your is meant joy as you spread joyful work, and find friends, dust.” become to doomed are while I was in the accumulated bills piles of from I improving. are Things two months. for hospital up with voters coming the in have infinite faith and government has good Maine vote. a decent to complain about. Pur- nothing beautiful vistas, I wife. my for downsizing Prius, chased a Toyota wears size 7. I weigh she and wear size 16 shoes Wish all.’ car ‘fits No 98 lbs. weighs she 185 lbs.; prob- pressing Most ’48ers now. with some I were license driver’s my and strength my lem is getting too taking loss from life back. I survived a near brought daughters three wife and My pills. many alternative.” it. Life is better than the through me ton, (516) 767-1776; fax, and phone NY 11050; [email protected]. e-mail, is Lo- Bar- (Ag), the birth of birth the Marisa ’01 eading, cross- eading, Charlotte Smith Tolita Irwin (three kids; two kids; (three idge, r idge, , White Plains, NY: , White Plains, Sam Mitchell ’53 , Greenlawn, NY: “Re- NY: , Greenlawn, my wife and wife and my nddaughter nddaughter : ‘Life is to give.’ Daughter : ‘Life is to give.’ , MD ’52, Tenafly, NJ: “Busier Tenafly, , MD ’52, all businesses and manufac- and all businesses Dodge , Pelham Manor, NY: “Tennis, NY: Manor, , Pelham , is an oncologist at U. of Michi- at U. of , is an oncologist MD ’95 idge. Smidge. “Dutch” , Norm Christensen ’42 Les Misérables , 61 years ago, April 1949.” , 61 years ago, Barbara Cole Feiden Alan Van Poznak John Peter Lovisa gan, Stuart, FL: “Busy knitting.gan, Stuart, is government The on unreasonable our money of too much spending Elect clear-thinking, leanings. socialist programs, party-bound. not are people who unaffiliated pick- a doctor, up on paperwork, seeing Catching Try- cat demolished. that my up two screens ing three my welcoming and to stay healthy ing a well and real Car runs visit often. who children, it. Keep- to equal would be hard-pressed one new on a 32-year-old repairs up with all the ing it. My parts of have been remodeling and house life is blessed, to two been married having wonderful men, Logan (both deceased). Harold and Cornellians), sun shall shine the about whether worried Not living, is beautiful. Keep Life really tomorrow. to God.” praying and loving, a great-grandson, making four living male gener- male living four making a great-grandson, friend, Lost a good ations. problem today is tomorrow. Just keep hugging my hugging Just keep is tomorrow. today problem Heidi.” wife, darling lived in East Williston, NY.” who “Reading, writing (freelance), and reminiscing. and (freelance), writing “Reading, that Republicans Convince Outlook improving. is York first. New come business, not people, ex- the backgrounds, with varied great—people Westchester of beauty the NYC, and of citement to life was marriage my of light The County. ry ’49 tired—in garden. US situation? Deteriorating! Fix Deteriorating! situation? US garden. tired—in bet- Where’s State is too expensive. York it! New a 14- replacing last year, a pick-up ter? Bought Biggest last vehicle. be my This will year-old one. events Biggest war. and mail is too much problem meeting life were in my in retirement than at work. Much musical activity, musical work. Much than at in retirement recording churches, and in schools CDs from making dur- I made tape recordings than 2,000 more the on Church St. Thomas years at 20 wonderful ing is deteriorating: in NYC. Situation Fifth Avenue 21 civilizations, of in his analysis Toynbee, Arnold force spiritual was an essential that there showed When civilizations. those each of that undergirded was on its way to its it was lost, that civilization end, by either within or conquest from from change spiri- that have lost (or abandoned) We without. our reward and force, tual as it will be) is on (such our to trust more ever learn and Will we its way. muscle? wit and than to our own rather creator it very put Hugo Victor spells our destiny. Response well in metastasis in bone specializing gan, Ann Arbor, Gra cancer. breast from RI.” in Providence, medicine internal of in practice “Br NY: Binghamton, Moore, wintering children, visiting volunteering, words, na- downhill going Things with sisters. in Arizona has af- Binghamton unknown. Solution: tionally. it’s and foliage, beautiful fall and housing fordable lousy legislators and taxes But! High Cornell. near to a Going job. a poor to do paid highly are who the cellist of chief by the performed cello concert for to Massachusetts Went Symphony. Montreal Valley, to Green then Christmas, and Thanksgiving March.” through January AZ, from br sailing, and uncertainty Remove very slow to hire. turing Re- healthcare. Repeal Obama regulation. reduce NYC has teachers. the Fire costs. pension duce and plus taxes museums, and Broadway great Catherine 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 59 Page PM 1:24 6/16/11 056-095CAMja11notes 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 60

on a wild effort to write a semi-fictional book, Psychological Association, the Special Needs Sup- Cornell memories include her first loop in a Stear- with five major characters based about half on my port Center, and Health Care for All. Chemical en- man [a training biplane during WWII], flying with own experience in the US and Asia.” He adds, “If gineer Norton Babson (West Caldwell, NJ) was the skis instead of wheels with the Cornell Pilot’s Club, anyone is trying a similar folly, please share your director of the startup department in the engi- and putting a goldfish in the dorm housemother’s pleasure (and struggle) with me!” Norris’s fondest neering and construction division of American finger bowl. Mary Perrine Johnson (Salt Lake City, memories of his days on the Hill are “the Cornell Cyanamid Co. He sponsors an annual lecture at the UT) and husband Bob “had the fun of attending Daily Sun and my Telluride friends.” Asked whom Montclair Art Museum and is a master gardener of reunion with the Class of 1950, which we did pri- he would most like to hear from, he laughs and Essex County. During WWII, Nort served on the de- marily to observe the first (annual?) Caper Con- says, “With my worn-out head, difficult to select!” stroyer Henry W. Tucker. Engineer Bernie Herman vocation, an ad hoc event created by classmates Thanks everybody for all your great news. Please (Cherry Hill, NJ; [email protected]), for- to commemorate the Cornell life and times of my keep it coming! c Dorothy “Dee” Mulhoffer mer CEO of Okidata Corp., is a commercial arbi- cousin Willy Joy ’50. Not only did we have a Solow, 1625 Lilac Lane, Crescent, PA; tel. (724) trator for the American Arbitration Association and dandy time, but we also got a refresher course in 784-0371 or (315) 717-6003; e-mail, winspeck@ the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. He is campus changes, where to park, and so on.” yahoo.com. also on the boards of the local Jewish Commu- Bill Field, MBA ’53, was amazed to see news nity Center and Goodwill Industries. My husband he sent to the Alumni Office almost two years ago and I occasionally see Bernie at Cornell events published in the Nov/Dec issue of this magazine. At a luncheon in Florida, Sonia here in Philadelphia. In North Dartmouth, MA, an- Here is a current update: “Marilyn and I took our Pressman Fuentes (Sarasota; other Bernie—Bernie Roth (ebroth@hotmail. second trip to China with Stanford Travel/Study in 50 [email protected]) was com)—does pro bono consulting to charities on October 2009, traveling from Beijing and Shang- chatting with the woman who happened to sit Cape Cod, the south shore of Massachusetts, and hai down the eastern coast to Hangzhou, Ningbo, next to her. They exchanged names, cards, and Rhode Island. He is also on the investment com- Xiamen, Hong Kong, and across the strait to Tai- finally maiden names—and then realized that mittee of the New Bedford Foundation. wan. While in Beijing we had dinner with two very they were classmates. The woman was Jo-An Hotelman Dave Brooke practiced “hamburg- impressive students from Cornell’s Asia Pacific Pro- Miner Webb. “We had been casual friends at Cor- eology,” as he puts it, for 21 years, from 1955 gram, a joint venture between Cornell and Peking nell,” Sonia writes, “but I didn’t know her well. to 1976, as a franchiser of Burger King. Dave U. The program is under the able direction of Prof. We hadn’t seen each other in 60 years!” Jo-An spends summers in Rochester, NY, and winters in Xu Xin, PhD ’03. After the holidays, we were off ([email protected]) lives in Holmes Beach, Naples, FL. Electrical engineer Milt Lopatin (Falls to Egypt with Stanford in January last year. We FL. Sonia’s career was as a lawyer, you may recall, Church, VA) was head of the test and evaluation did all the tourist things—pyramids, pictures on with a number of federal agencies, notably the group for the Naval Electronic Systems Command. camels, Nile River trip with galabeya party (dur- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Ben Ellison (Sugar Land, TX) was president of El- ing which I had the pleasure of jitterbugging with where she was the first woman attorney. For lison Engineering and Research Co. in Framing- an Egyptian belly dancer, and also won first prize more about Sonia’s life and career, see her web- ham, MA. During WWII, he was a firefighter with for the best costume with my interpretation of site, www.erraticimpact.com/fuentes. the Navy in the Philippines. Barbara Voorhees Ramses II using a laundry bag from the ship and Bruce Ames (Berkeley, CA; bnames@berkeley. Taylor (Rye, NY) taught for years in the Milton a brass headpiece obtained from a street hawker), edu), who earned his PhD from CalTech in 1953, is Elementary School in Rye. Her late husband was visits to Luxor, Abu Simbel, etc. After a few a senior scientist at Children’s Hospital Oakland Re- George ’43, BS ORIE ’50. months off, we traveled to New York for our an- search Inst. and a professor emeritus of biochem- A sad note. Economist Pat Fritz Bowers, one nual ballet fix, and then on to Barcelona for sight- istry and molecular biology at UC Berkeley. In the of our Annual Fund representatives, died unex- seeing before boarding Corinthian II for a 1970s, Bruce devised the widely used Ames test, pectedly in December. In 1950, right after grad- Stanford/Yale trip to the French and Italian Riv- which employs Salmonella bacteria to screen chem- uation, Pat and I roomed together in Manhattan. ieras (with side trips to Aix-en-Provence, St. Paul ical substances for their ability to cause genetic She was then working as a statistician in the re- de Vence, Nice, and Palermo) and on to Athens. mutations and cancer. His current research involves search department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Finally, it was off to Somerset County, England, for the relationship between micronutrients in the diet New York. Subsequently, in 1965, she earned a PhD a week-long course on and tour of stately homes.” and those all-too-familiar degenerative diseases from New York U. and was a professor of econom- Bill O’Hara (Webster, NY) writes, “I have been of aging. Bruce is a member of the National Acad- ics at Brooklyn College of the City University of ‘downsized!’ While in the Caribbean last fall, my emy of Sciences, has won more than a dozen prizes, New York for 36 years. From 1996 to 1999, she was son and daughter bought a ‘villa’ for us and moved medals, and awards, and has published more than chair of the economics department. My husband us! We had been planning on doing this in about 500 scientific papers. For more about Bruce’s re- and I had dinner with Pat regularly when we were three years. The problem: our villa holds about 10 search, see his website, www.bruceames.org. in New York, often discussing art and the theater, percent of what was in our home. We have spent Former class president and former Cornell VP both passions of hers. We are among the many who five months just getting rid of ‘stuff!’ ” After 15 Walt Bruska (Shelburne, VT; wbruska@myfairpoint. miss her. c Marion Steinmann, 237 West High- years of retirement, Jack Howell has gone back to net) has been president of Prevent Child Abuse land Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19118-3819; tel. (215) work two or three days a week at Praxair, his for- Vermont for the past six years and a board mem- 242-8443; e-mail, [email protected]; Paul H. mer employer in Tonawanda, NY, to assist with a ber for the past 12 years. Last fall Walt attended Joslin, 6080 Terrace Dr., Johnston, IA 50151-1560; development effort and to consult on some tech- the annual 1948-52 football team reunion in tel., (515) 278-0960; e-mail, [email protected]. nical issues. He is enjoying it. Wife Betty (Meng) Ithaca at the time of the Homecoming game doesn’t say how she feels about it. Chuck Ahrend against Yale. Other football players present were (Harrisonburg, VA) became a great-grandpa re- Robert “Bucky” Ellis (Barrington, IL); Joe Dwyer, Sue Pardee Baker and husband Tim cently. He plays golf as often as possible and JD ’52 (Olean, NY); Frank Bradley (Cape Cod); are being honored for a combined committee work allows. He hopes to have seen and Dick Loynd (Short Hills, NJ). Among the non- 51 century’s worth of work at Johns us all in 2011. Ernest and Mary Sofis (Hingham, football-player guests were Jim Hazzard, class Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health—Tim MA) report two daughters, one son-in-law, two treasurer Ben Williams, and Libby Severinghaus in international health and Sue in injury preven- grandkids, and one spouse going on 52 years of Warner. Retired Navy captain Jim “Trig” Tregurtha tion. “Our dean commissioned a portrait of Tim marriage. Ernest has been elected curator for the (San Diego, CA; [email protected]) continues to and me to be unveiled on April 12. There will be Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall in pursue his interest in the sea. He is a volunteer a big celebration honoring us. Who’d have thunk town. “Will be a huge challenge.” docent for the San Diego Maritime Museum and it, 60 years ago! Wish I could join you all in June.” Walter Dean (Marietta, GA) writes; “I had the San Diego Historic Ship Tours and sails on the Sabra “Piper” Baker Staley (Arlington, VA) is “be- required cardiac arrest in December ’09. The doc- California state flagship. After 30 years as a Navy coming addicted” to cross-country trips on Am- tors say I’m a lucky guy. Thanks to the EMT. Back officer, Jim spent 15 years doing engineering trak to visit grandchildren. She attended (her third to work April 2010.” Walter is an adjunct profes- maintenance of large buildings. “Life is good!” trip in four years) a grandchild’s wedding in a sor of mathematics at Chattahoochee Technical Jim writes, “Always has been.” Portland, OR, doughnut shop and, later, 2,000 feet College. “Just a typical job for an Ag school grad.” Ann Ellis Raynolds, MEd ’53 (Quechee, VT; up, a wedding aboard a WWII B-17 bomber. She His fond memory of Cornell is the view of the lake [email protected]) still has a private prac- is no longer employed with Close Up Foundation— and campus “as we crested the hill coming in tice as a psychologist in Quechee and in Claremont, funding ran out—but remains bookkeeper/gopher/ from Owego.” In July ’09, Jim and Pat Gunder- NH. She is also on the boards of the Vermont chauffeur for a condominium community. Fond son Stocker ’53 moved from their 24-year home 60 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes Bill Jean (Great (Cohasset, Joan Boffa (arosesr@att. c August 2011 61 | ’ Daniel Divack July Bill Field ’51 Alan Rose (Prescott, AZ) has kindly (Prescott, (Webster, NY; ceddy001@ NY; (Webster, (Rochester, MI) is reading, (Rochester, Eli Manchester Jr. (Hudson Falls, NY) volunteers as NY) volunteers Falls, (Hudson By midsummer ’11, most of us of ’11, most By midsummer 80- have attained will probably bright a pretty We’re hood. : a brand-new grad. : a brand-new had the greatest impact on him at Cor- greatest had the Chuck Juran Matthew Zak Clifford Eddy group—got into Cornell notwithstanding compe- notwithstanding Cornell into group—got summer But in the right? etc., vets, from tition to to learn how struggling mostly ’31 we were of ever-useful the and “more” and “mama” gurgle up on current 100 percent so we weren’t “no,” events. realized: entirely not probably factoids provided aver- Yearly unemployed. nation the of 16 percent employed: $1,856. Average the for income age car: $640. Gal- new $6,790. Average house: new 8 cents. bread: Loaf of gas: 10 cents. lon of Vanneman ’31 53 Gaul, [email protected]. Class website, http:// Class website, Gaul, [email protected]. classof52.alumni.cornell.edu/. MA) retired as chairman and director of Kewaunee of director and as chairman MA) retired a Cornell one Corp. “Both daughters, Scientific live only 20 five grandchildren and Law graduate, var- the enjoy watching greatly We away. minutes to forward Looking activities. grandchildren’s ious SC, our 60th.” In Cayce, estate appraisal real residential has enjoyed net) He business. hotel the from retiring work since cites Prof. He grands. with the also enjoys visiting as having dean, school Hotel the Meek, Howard for- too, is “looking impact. He, greatest had the you all in 2012.” Hope to our 60th Reunion ward 7–10, 2012. is June too. It are, (Sprott) In August, nell. rochester.rr.com) writes, “After retirement I found I retirement “After writes, rochester.rr.com) I am an better. family my in knowing satisfaction her of drafts various me wife reads as my audience in talk weekly with our two daughters We poems. two my of adventures learn the and California “had been more he Cliff wishes grandchildren.” impact: Greatest years.” Cornell in my outgoing de- Chemistry in the teachers “That would be the a chemist.” on to be I went since partment, Thomas Newton in Wilton and Cottage at Grant a site interpreter Ameri- German the for treasurer longtime is the Adirondacks. the of can Society Tiger watching and piano, the playing walking, says his late wife He Baseball on TV. collections and contributed to many publications. to many contributed and collections and history more taken would have she Cornell At Stern, and Nettels, Professors course. anthropology Buckmin- and influence, greatest Gates had the event. a special ster Fuller at af- retired who [email protected]), NY; Neck, a as ter 40 years ob/gyn, practicing paint- is now Company Teaching the likes He reading. and ing and ballet subscriptions and has opera He Series. was “too young feels he He traveling. some does at his time during was out there” what to realize first person to comment the is not He Cornell. system” was inadequate. “advisor that the and (Brack- Donald Irwin Phyllis Perl , V. Nabokov, , V. Robert Stahr PhD 1914 , , JD ’58, and , JD ’58, and , MS ’56, MS (Ithaca,gjc4@ NY; (Warren, VT; messner@wcvt. VT; (Warren, Dave about their 40 years overseas. about their Andrews-Hail, MA (Warren, ’53 RI; Rhodes Sally Hotchkiss Rockwell (Chatham, MA; isitkin0402@gmail. and and ([email protected]) are in Sara- are ([email protected]) ‘Dusty’ (Ft. Lauderdale, FL; [email protected]) main- Sitken I had the pleasure of jitterbugging I had the with an Egyptian belly dancer. with an Egyptian Robert Messner Kirk Barbara George Conneman Warren ‘ Fred H. Fred com) follow the sun. He plays golf two or three golf plays sun. He the com) follow old woodworking hunts he week. In summer times as volunteers and tape measures, especially tools, Mu- Tool Ranlett Chester at the curator assistant class- both attend they seum in Eastham. Winters Road have enjoyed many State U. and es at Florida programs. Scholar Stearns ’54 veritable in 2010, Dave had “a sota, FL, where, for threw party Phyllis 80th birthday ball” at the retired Long came. grandkids and kids him. All the tax and corporate, business, of practice the from Shan- William and Stearns cites Marshall he law, impact at Cornell. greatest had the as having non cooks, skis, sailplanes, flies hikes, com) bicycles, Cornell At it. enjoys all of He travels. and reads, but club, or sailing crew for have gone might he Impact? differently. much wouldn’t have done “ Cur- and Banking Money taught who profs the and Law.” Constitutional undergrad and rency Collins each to Europe travels M/Y, his 65-ft. Viking tains and club activities stays busy with yacht and year, investing. Mayo visited the also recently He Clinic to his neuropathy. an answer for looking At Cornell but was have played more, to would have liked he Strong, impacts: “Prof. Greatest too busy working. COOP plan, Engineering to the director advisor and to Corps—both contributed Signal Army ROTC and in TV broadcasting.” career my starting ney, PA; [email protected]) retired from retired [email protected]) PA; ney, have written and civil engineering and teaching Moments Foreign at Cor- differently nothing would have done They Sally lists games. football up for still drive and nell Dr. Smart impact: “I had greatest had the as having his class.” first son while attending my the from retired now [email protected]), U., is an inde- at Brown museum anthropology pendent on consultant Native American art. American has on Native She museums with various worked cornell.edu) spends time with the Town of Ithaca of Town the with time spends cornell.edu) both Eastwood of president as and Board Planning Itha- of Friends and Association Condo Commons with FarmLink, which is active He ca College. the to business transfer generation older the helps “My at Cornell? Impact travels. he and younger, but particular- to name, too numerous professors Stan Warren.” and Freeman ly Chet is a docent [email protected]) WA; (Redmond, at a chil- a volunteer and Flight of Museum at the writers groups, Tennis, Child Life. hospital, dren’s started a has He time. take visits with family and “a and man family a good book about his father, He officiating.” tennis world of in the leader great a despite at Cornell nothing would have changed life les- a big me “that taught term on probation Engineering. Heat/Power Katz, son.” Impact? Prof. Helen , , Eu- when , MBA .” Wes Wes- Brad Bond Mike Scott Marlin Cline c Jane (McKim) Reg Rice Trudy Kreuger uddenlink.net. Robert ’57 The Prophet , MBA ’55, gave us a ’55, , MBA Michelle Striker Boffa Richard MorrowRichard Ross ently at Cornell and cites and at Cornell ently , MS ’53, and ’53, and , MS It’s spring in Pittsburgh: 80 yes- in Pittsburgh: spring It’s after and 50 tomorrow, terday, was a hard It that, questionable. Ted has moved from Long Island to Life Island Long from has moved Don Ogren ’52 (Seattle, [email protected]. WA; (Boynton Beach, FL; tandtwin@bell (Boynton and and , in the Agronomy department. Agronomy , in the We are grateful, and we do plug along. plug along. we do and grateful, are We In 2000, Our reunion report will appear in the Sept/Oct will appear in the report Our reunion was a gift from my brother brother my was a gift from he married her in 1958. Michelle died on her 75th on her died in 1958. Michelle her married he be grateful we should 15. I know March birthday, what we have had. for winter that I suspect brought some losses. Mine losses. some that I suspect brought winter people. two special were married 17. Rick on February died Winsberg Beach to Palm farm their of sold most south.net) in 2005. opened park, which a wetland for County on house their around 50 acres retained They and nursery tree has a native daughter their which busy with Although a 400-subscriber CSA. a friend Women League of active in the remains that, Trudy election, November on the hard worked Voters, task water resources county’s serves on the and any- wouldn’t have changed they Cornell At force. long-lasting made and there met “We thing. has been Cornell that we enjoy today. friendships Great- our lives.” part of important a preeminently Prof. and Nyle Brady est impact? Dr. PhD ’42 in 1952—both of them my good friends for a for friends good my them in 1952—both of sister-in-law My time. long ’57 has spent [email protected]) VA; (McLean, involved in a local retirement five years since directing, producing, company, theatre community shows. promoting and sets, painting and building Ma- courses at George theatre been taking has He first play per- the researched recently son U. and apart anyone, Is colonies. American in the formed is it? If so, his e-address able to name Mike, from “Tak- would have . . . ? Guess. he Cornell At above. en impact: “My courses!” Greatest theatre some of end at the who, professor religion comparative to us from read our last class, gene Nester in June Washington U. of the from retired edu) microbiology, in a textbook is revising 2010. He “finish- and papers, research several completing “I will contin- writes, He ends.” and up odds ing often How university. at the ue to have an office would be seen.” He to used remains it will get differ nothing have done as Bacteriology, of chairman Sherman, James Dr. impact. greatest had the having 52 101 Hillside Way, Marietta, OH 45750; tel., (740) Marietta, Way, 101 Hillside bbond101@s 374-6715; e-mail, ’52, one of those Menlo Park friends left behind, friends Park Menlo those of ’52, one as his fa- in football Michigan beating remembers we go- are “When asks, and memory vorite Cornell gridiron?” on the to be at least respectable ing Dwinell Ken MA Wilbraham, 2399 Boston Rd., Center, Care hospice is under who wife, his 01095, to be near would enjoy hearing stepson. He his and care, address. new at the classmates from to: your news Please send issue. warm early welcome. Meeting Pat—who became Pat—who Meeting warm early welcome. ’50” is of fall later—in the wife two years my Cornell. of memory Jim’s fondest in Menlo Park, CA, to a retirement community in community CA, to a retirement Park, in Menlo farewell touching was a “very There OR. Medford, had worked we Cornellians Bay Area from party ’51 class- “No with,” Jim writes. celebrated and but Manor, Valley at Rogue here mates ton ’50 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 61 Page PM 1:24 6/16/11 056-095CAMja11notes 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 62

Alan Perlmutter’s Big Sur (CA) River Inn be- the 1983 Nobel Laureate, for her genetic studies and have six children and 14 grands, most of came Cornell West for a musical interlude in early of maize. He offered to “get rid of the weeds in whom live in the Seattle area. January when Alan and wife Nancy welcomed the her planting. ‘If anyone is to cut or injure one of In answer to the question: “What in your Cornell Glee Club on its winter western swing. The my plants, it better be me,’ was the reason she past 55 years has been valuable in preparing you club performed for school kids and other locals at refused me,” says Wolf. for our Fourth Quarter?” Rhoda Brenner Marks the inn’s Redwood Log Restaurant. The Perlmut- Our Russian-born, Kentucky-raised Class of answered, “Acquiring an inquisitive mind has al- ters’ son Ben ’12, in his third Glee Club year, sang 1953 Cornell Tradition Fellow, Nickyta Fishman lowed me to be involved in many different activ- solos for the neighbors. Later in the day, the club ’12, who’s majoring in computer science and minor- ities.” Rhoda travels, runs a home business, serves provided glee at Carmel High School and still lating in Spanish, wrote the class with thanks for our on many committees at her temple, and enjoys er at Stevenson School in Pebble Beach. Todd continuing financial support. He’s chief technolo- the company of her four grandsons, all of whom Kolb (Ridgefield, CT) notes that wife Nancy gy officer of AccuScholar, a startup software com- live nearby. They should keep an inquisitive mind Sokolowski Kolb’s The Breast Cancer Companion: A pany he and high school classmates founded. It’s working overtime. For the past 52 years Kenneth Guide for the Newly Diagnosed was chosen by the a student’s aid and selling well. Nick’s taking class- Sheldon has been volunteering with the fire de- American Journal of Nursing as one of the year’s es at the master’s level and is a teacher’s assis- partment in McDonough, NY, and is still active. three best consumer health books. Checking in tant, a summer engineering intern at Google, and Church work and sharing sports with his grands near the end of football 2010, he added: “I watch an accomplished pianist. Kinda like Jan Button- fill out his calendar. Leonard Zucker has cut back the pros play football on Sundays, and while there Shafer. “I’m extremely grateful to the Class of to working part-time as a real estate attorney, are skills to marvel at, I much prefer the games 1953 for helping to make it possible to take ad- which has allowed him to travel with his three we played.” Such as Cornell 20, Michigan 7. Sixty vantage of countless opportunities” at Cornell, she Cornell graduate offspring and their offspring. In- years ago this fall. wrote. c Jim Hanchett, 300 First Ave., #8B, New cluded in their family adventures have been Nan- Nan Reed Ruiz (Fort Collins, CO) writes: “Al- York, NY 10009; e-mail, [email protected]. tucket, Israel, London, and points in between. pha Phi sister Marian ‘Penny’ Van Valkenburgh When at home in Springfield, NJ, he is a member Goodrich and I get together pretty regularly, es- of a public affairs lecture series committee for pecially as she and I take the same yoga class. Spring is here—that marvelous Fairleigh Dickinson U. Otherwise she’s pretty busy with her therapy dogs. season before the heat of Wash- Patricia Jerome Colby and husband Mason, I keep in shape walking the track at the senior 54 ington slows all to a pace even BME ’55, are pleased to have found a way to stay center. Colorado State U. has lots of wonderful mu- a snail would think leisurely. These columns, I cozy all year round—buy two condos, one in Ohio sic programs and I go to the Denver Symphony have found, flow with the seasons and my enjoy- and the other in Naples, FL. Mason is still singing with the senior center once a month in the win- ment of each. However, though I might enjoy “Good Night Little Girl” with the Waiters and has ter season.” Retired Parade by-liner Lynn Rosen- each in its turn, nothing can top the campus in returned to campus for the past six reunions. thal Minton (NYC) reports that Rachel Minton, October, wearing its autumn mantle. Putting singing aside, Mason works for Habitat daughter of her TV newscasting son Tim Minton As Sinatra sang so poignantly, we are in the for Humanity and Pat continues her work with the ’79, will enter Cornell with the Class of ’15. autumn of our years, but we, like the campus, re- Stephen Ministry. Ruth Behrens White’s study of Dick Hayes (São Paulo, Brazil) and wife Jane main colorful, engaged, and ever-changing as we French and German enabled her to substitute as drew the whole family to their country home to adjust to life’s ever-present alterations. One class- a foreign language teacher at Natick High School, celebrate their golden wedding anniversary last mate who keeps giving with seemingly never flag- which led to an active social life with retired summer. Dick says he spends quite a bit of time ging energy is Barbara Johnson Gottling, who teachers. Her community work involves serving setting things up to trot about South America— has been entertaining and housing talented mu- as a precinct warden for the town. Ruth enjoys Argentina, La Paz, Cochabamba and Lake Titicaca sicians from around the world in her Cincinnati sharing her own love of music with her young (Bolivia), and Bogota and Cartagena (Colombia)— home for years. She took a nasty fall last August, grandson by teaching him basic music apprecia- plus the Balkans and the Baltic in recent years. but was up for her role of musical hotelier by Oc- tion and sight-reading. “And we get to the US an average of at least once tober when the Harlem Quartet, the Escher String Mary Lou Treharne Warren retired in 1985 af- a year.” They don’t see many Cornellians “aside Quartet, members of the Emerson Quarter, and ter 30 years teaching Home Ec and went on to from Carson ’50 and Ellen Bromfield Geld.” They many others came to call. Barb is indeed a gra- work as a realtor for another 23. She is presently hope to compensate somewhat by making our cious hostess of note. When her visitors arrive, co-director/treasurer of Shenendehowa Helping 60th (June 6–9, 2013). they are announced by a doorbell that sounds the Hands Food Pantry in Clifton Park, NY. She and Dave Rossin (University Park, FL) and Al Har- hour-strike of the Cornell chimes—created by her Dan will celebrate their 55th this year with all ris (Naples) coordinated a bus excursion to con- late husband, chimesmaster Phil. kids and grands aboard. Mickey Siegel Wagner’s vey 23 people to the Royal Poinciana Country Club A note from Ethel Rabb “Wallie” Kass says, very full life consists, in part, of continuing ed to hear President David Skorton’s State of the Uni- “Life is still joyful and interesting” along the banks courses, bridge, opera, and theatre in NYC, fami- versity report at the annual winter dinner event of the Russian River. Wallie sings with the River ly and friends, tutoring foreign immigrants for Lit- of the Cornell clubs of Naples and Sarasota-Man- Choir and leads docent tours for school children erary Volunteers of America, and most importantly, atee. Lil Affinito, Bill, MBA ’58, JD ’59, and Nan through the Armstrong Woods State Park. Eileen staying close to her three granddaughters, who Bellamy, Dean ’52, MBA ’56, and Barbara Green Wehrmeyer Whitfield has moved a couple times provide an important glimpse of their generation. Bock, Dick and Peg Jones Halberstadt ’56, Al recently in order to accommodate restricted mo- c Les Papenfus Reed, [email protected]. Class and Betsey Harris, Don and Eloise Mix Unbekant bility, but that has not stopped her volunteer website, http://classof54.alumni.cornell.edu. ’54, and Dave and Sandy Rossin enjoyed it warm- work—teaching cooking classes to low-income ly. Much fellowship and good conversation, we’re mothers. Barbara Schickler Hankins has loved and told. Dave has been taking and giving courses at been involved with the world of politics since her Besides her work with Flora Paci- the nearby Lifelong Learning Academy, studying days at Cornell, i.e., before she could even vote. fica, Cherie Woodcock Mitchell the Middle East, governmental budgeting and ap- She is presently living in Bethesda, having moved 55 is busy with volunteer work, propriations, and “what is going on right now” from Texas five years ago, and remains a very ac- helping to raise funds for Southwestern Commu- from other pros. “In every course I took or taught, tive volunteer lobbyist for the League of Women nity College’s new satellite campus in her home- there were seniors in the classes who brought Voters. She has worked at many levels in the leg- town of Brookings, OR. She also serves on the their own experience into the discussions.” Dave islative field, both elected and appointed, over the Chamber of Commerce and is treasurer for the AFS, teaches energy politics. That should get folks’ at- past 50-plus years. Even though she has traveled which hosts girls from Malaysia and Australia. Her tention. And no prelims. extensively, Barbara has yet to explore Egypt and husband, Don, just celebrated the 50th Reunion Wolf Prensky (Germantown, MD) feels “for- Eastern Europe and has thus placed them on her of the 4-H Fellowship, “a wonderful educational tunate not to be alone” after being widowed five “bucket list.” Jeannette Picciano Wood has also program that led him to an exciting career in sev- years. He’s joined companion Sharanjit in the D.C. been dedicated to community service. She was eral countries.” Last spring Cherie and Don were area. His four grandchildren, “still young enough elected Washington State senator for four years planning a trip to Maui “for two weeks of sunshine to enjoy spending time with Grandpa,” love to and a representative for six. She has now been ap- and Kindles.” Also actively volunteering is Hans visit the capital environs, and he loves visiting pointed by the governor to serve as a trustee for “Wolfi” Duerr, who devotes time to the local them in Manhattan. He recalls sharing a cornfield Edmonds Community College. Jeanette and Russ food bank and serves on its advisory board, as in 1962 with Barbara McClintock ’23, PhD ’27, ’53, B Chem E ’58, have been married 55 years well as two others. We’re happy to hear that Wolfi 62 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes , , 1165 (White Audrey Country Timberg- John An- (Quechee, Bill Angell Sarah Boll Sarah and and John Fisher represents a represents idge August 2011 63 Veron , MD ’61, is on Boll (Rowayton, . (Clifton Park, NY) (Clifton Park, , retired as assis- , retired | , JD ’59, and Bar- , JD ’59, and Morty Cidney Brandon Spill- and their wives winters their and July , BArch ’54 (Bethlehem, , BArch Marty Jack Shirman , Chernaik is an avid bicycle rider, log- rider, bicycle is an avid Stephen Kittenplan and Sheila Sheila and c Bill Hoblock Roger Soloway (Big Bear Lake, CA) harvested Bear Lake, (Big Chris Schmid Bob ’53 (NYC) is still in private practice , MD ’60, and Marilyn Marilyn , MD ’60, and Michael DeNicola A number of classmates claim to classmates of A number that they but it seems be retired, active. extremely are stays active cutting wood and prun- wood and stays active cutting and Judy Judy and Bob Richard John Talierco Constance Clibbon , Fred Abeles Bob , and , and Semel and husband husband and “Still working full-time” is included in the re- in the is included full-time” “Still working Again, Phyllis and I send our best wishes to our best wishes I send and Phyllis Again, Leland Mote Allen Unger , who graduated from the Hotel school, works school, Hotel the from graduated , who , and , and 57 up on has been boning retirement, years into four time considerable spending cultures, non-Western language the Besides Cambodia. and in Vietnam as a there street the cites crossing he differences, unique experience. State Bill Drafting York New to the counsel tant he is still active in private practice; Commission, also lawyers. are who a daughter has a son and Jay Eisenhart School as a Sunday to serving in addition trees ing superintendent. standards software on several company Japanese organizations’ is also heav- He directors. of boards Optimists of Calgary branch ily involved with the golf and curling junior in their specifically Int’l, programs. is His daughter 6,000 miles per year. around ging also a sports enthusiast, scuba at Cornell. teaching classmates. distinguished four ports of also en- He a bicycler. and surgeon is a practicing is and backpacking and sculling, joys kayaking, golf. into getting Galves- School, Medical Texas at U. of faculty the ton, medicine, internal of is a professor he where titles. other of a number to holding in addition in Philadelphia children visits his frequently He ’61’s Class of Med Cornell to the looks forward and Park Ave., New York, NY 10128; e-mail, catplan@ e-mail, NY 10128; York, New Ave., Park aol.com. you all, and I hope to run into many of you in of many to run into I hope you all, and years to come. the and attended 22 matches including the finals. He finals. the including 22 matches attended and country. the km to see 15,000 drove then in vineyard his for grapes Noir Pinot of five tons Cambria, NY, Niagara 11 miles from is about which mem- other if any to know would like He Falls. in New grapes wine raising class are our bers of State. York CT) is retiring from the charitable foundation she foundation charitable the from CT) is retiring in Vero to winter plans started in 1970 and granddaughter, youngest Beach. Her ’10 in NYC. Restaurant at Daniel man then and reunion will be at that they wrote PA) Congrat- 55th anniversary in July. their celebrate to ulations in Boynton Beach, FL, at the Quail R Quail Beach, FL, at the in Boynton talk about old too much, eat “play golf, They Club. all They company.” enjoy each other’s and times, to be at reunion. planned Plains, NY) on their 50th wedding anniversary. 50th wedding NY) on their Plains, by party was joined family The Greenberg Landau ’58 in to reunion. forward looked and cardiology was It from hear to also nice and Vietnam weeks touring two spent VT), who love Ameri- that people there says He Cambodia. his cruise to celebrate Year’s a New plans He cans. 50th. The his daughter’s and wife’s 75th birthday and spouses, their children, three trip will include ten grandchildren. him, includes that that a group reports derluh bara bara er , live will Shirley Nancy Savage Artist Guidebook Grace Goldsmith Susie (Howe) c Renouard (Paradise Renouard Phyllis Bosworth Harrison (Morristown, NJ) (Morristown, Harrison still resides in Paradise Val- in Paradise still resides and wife and Rudin (Manhasset, NY) always (Manhasset, Rudin . We miss you too, Bob. . We Hello, classmates. This article is article This classmates. Hello, you gath- written before being I and June, in at Cornell ered Ginny Tyler (Pebble Beach, CA) continues to Beach, CA) continues (Pebble Leahy (Fort Lee, NJ) has taken two NJ) has taken (Fort Lee, Leahy has been awarded the title of Dis- title of the has been awarded Alice Blum Roy Curtiss III Hersch Robert Hutchins Artist Gail Gifford do a great job telling me what I missed and what what I missed and me job telling a great do will be published report reunion The you enjoyed. Sept/Oct issue. in the his from MA. Bob is semi-retired in Longmeadow, precision machine shop his but still keeps business, local sen- at the volunteers pot. He in the fingers a with sings and center ior homes. at nursing group Island, on Marco in a condo his winters spends He return Krimsnatch was happy to see Narby FL. He misses his old roommate campus and to the Robert Browning hope you had a fine reunion! Gail and I were sorry I were and Gail reunion! you had a fine hope able to join you, but we were not we were that anniver- our 50th wedding overseas celebrating our plans we made truth is that when The sary. reunion the of last year I completely lost sight you. I missed all of dates. says she will never retire. She has been busy cre- She retire. will never says she co-authored exhibitions, ating 40 internation- of as one has been included and Collage.” al artists in “Masters doing and WI) is still teaching (Madison, Wahba is She Madison. Wisconsin, U. of at the research tango! Argentine on her hard also working Dean Loomis her of show had a large and enjoy calligraphy Hus- this past summer. work at a local art center band Postgraduate Naval at the Professor tinguished to teach will continue CA. He in Monterey, School with the involved are They years. more several for area. arts in their performing Club in Cornell at the AEPhi luncheon enjoys the to Lon- grandchildren her took two of She fall. the a week. for don She travel. exciting AZ) has had a lot of Valley, on a cruise in 2008, pirates was chased by Somali Sco- in Nova fall Earl this by Hurricane then and in January. Antarctic to the go will next She tia. Syrell Rogovi was last year to Greece One trips. Cornell terrific to traveled this column, she as I was writing and, Sicily. year and tells us that 2010 was a great AZ. He ley, and manuscripts research more published that he than ever before. applications patent filed more and India, last year in Israel, lectures gave He to at- Italy and trips to Ireland with other China, also took his younger He meetings. scientific tend Cup World the for five to South Africa of family 56 achievement. She loves her new apartment with apartment new her loves She achievement. 50th birth- her just celebrated and group, her well, too. doing are two sons Jacobses’ The day.” Investments Patna from retired ’79) (Penn Jerry (Purdue Richard a wealth manager. is now and U. Grand- Dame ’89) his work at Notre loves daughter Villa- from with honors graduated Andrea a our travel I have slowed down and “Fran nova. a few list of a bucket we still have bit, though Don we settle down,” places that we’ll visit once your thanks again from In closing, concludes. e-mail your fabulous for correspondent grateful lots There’s ’55 news. for request to the response this time—so room more but no to report more issue! our next watch for Class website, [email protected]. Petrie, http://classof55.alumni.cornell.edu. was Don ,” Wolfi after al- and and Bill Webber Fran (Walden) Fran Tad Slocum : “ Tad Cameron thanks to Cornell!” Hau Wong Ho , LLB ’57, is a winter vis- , LLB ’57, is a winter , PhD ’67: “I finally was , PhD ’67: “I finally Dick Mathewson Don Jacobs , was called “the best book on , was called “the , BS Ag ’58, also praised the Glee the ’58, also praised , BS Ag , MBA ’58, and and ’58, , MBA and I talked on the phone once or once phone on the I talked and Bill Haponski Jim Fanning ’54 and their wives got together for dinner for together got wives their and Dick Kurtz Cornell roommates roommates Cornell from news Great From From and I are heading for a new venture. Both of venture. a new for heading I are and , MD ’60, one of these days, Wolfi. Bill bikes Wolfi. days, these of , MD ’60, one most 60 years. Ho is still in Hong Kong and trav- and Kong is still in Hong Ho 60 years. most Bill’s book, on business.” in China els extensively a Ride One Hell of Armor of Chief former by the combat in Vietnam” a reunion planning were Ho Bill and Cavalry. and I was working When in Florida. late last winter for late ’80s, in the at Cornell E school Chem at the Phil Grosso twice. “I’m still very active in chemical engineer- “I’m still very active in chemical twice. ‘When people ask me, when “and Phil says, ing,” are to you going retire?’ I answer, ‘I never.’ hope ” ba- required him the with giving Cornell credits He workaholism. case of plus a major knowledge, sic people young I work with a lot of “Fortunately, most up with them able to keep I’m actually and a lot so they use GoToMeeting We time. the of hairs—no gray few remaining to see my get don’t to remain I feel very lucky allowed here. webcams it isn’t work, it’s an me enjoy it. To and viable over the opportunity to apply what I’ve learned Many last half-century-plus. three times a week around the Tucson hills. hills. Tucson the a week around times three ’54 ’56 and Pennsylvania in homes our now-too-large when market—and on the are South Carolina PA, Forge, out to Valley that’s settled we will move life with enthusi- phase of to that next head and 55th wedding their celebrated Jacobses asm.” The ready they’re 2011 and start of anniversary at the Debby, know our friends of “Some more. 20 for enjoyed a landmark who daughter, our special by our county 2010. Debby was given an award 25 years without working employer for her and hav- despite 7:03 train, or the a day ever missing was recog- That award time. telling difficulty ing by NPR about her was interviewed she nized and writes. “ writes. in OLLI a participant and Valley Green itor to the activity is hik- physical basic My as well. activities Tuc- surrounding mountains beautiful in the ing weekly.” times to four three swimming son and brother-in-law, my run into may You is recovered from his 2009 open-heart surgery and surgery open-heart his 2009 is from recovered Vir- weeks in the two away for to get was able I’ve “Otherwise September. last area ginia/D.C. classes per week seven OLLI been busy attending Valley, in Green council OLLI on the serving and Learning Lifelong OLLI is Osher reports. AZ,” he 55- for program educational non-credit a Inst., with contact continuous “I’m in plus learners. Dick Schrader able to contact my friend friend my able to contact Maclay at UC Los held Glee Club concert Cornell the and all was full and venue “The last January. Angeles giant the for words the assembled knew those Dick evening,” a great of end at the sing-along university many has been attending He reports. Or- Club of Cornell as well as the presentations, presenta- “All luncheons. business County ange he by Cornellians,” made and interesting are tions re- cancer from ranging with subject matter says, and issues, out, financial dining to diet, search more. “I even in San Diego. had performed which Club, with a songs Cornell the to sing chance had the which Club members, fellow ex-Glee of group “Of course I practiced writes. week,” he my made I knew sure to make concert the all week before that reports Dick lyrics!” all the concert. with the also delighted 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 63 Page PM 1:24 6/16/11 056-095CAMja11notes 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 64

50th Reunion. Justin Martin, who started at Cor- It’s less than a year before it will be time to Last December, he launched a quarterly electronic nell but graduated from St. Bonaventure in 1957, head to Ithaca for our 55th Reunion. Be on the journal on economic damages, entitled “Dunn on continues to practice orthodontics in Penfield and lookout for more information coming this fall. Damages,” hoping to fill a niche bringing current Ovid, NY, and for some time was president of the Class officers will be attending the annual meet- developments and analysis to attorneys and ex- Northeastern Society of Orthodontists. He owns ing in January to finalize preparations with the re- pert witnesses. He reports never getting a day off an extensive beef farm in Canandaigua, and for union committee. Volunteers are always welcome. as he works at home in Corte Madera, CA. Linda eight years was a delegate, representing New c Judith Reusswig, 19 Seburn Dr., Bluffton, SC Richards Warren ([email protected]) York, to the National Cattlemen’s Beef Associa- 29909; e-mail, [email protected]. will relocate again, this time from Gulf Breeze, FL, tion; he has worked closely with the Cornell Vet to the San Francisco Bay Area next year. Philip college. Lee Phillips, an attorney in Los Ange- Coombe Jr. still farms 1,200 acres and 150 head les, is vice president of the Santa Barbara Film Ken Meyers (ken.meyers@ of cattle in Grahamsville, NY, where he lives with Festival and remembers being a member of the dynastyresources.net) has es- Carolyn (Russell) ’59. Phil is proud of their com- Big Red Marching Band and paying rapt attention 58 tablished a US-China advisory munity’s new library and museum, reported here in Vladimir Nabokov’s classes. c John Seiler, and consulting service leading his company in previously, for which he was so active in raising [email protected]. helping US companies develop their China strate- funds and helping to build, having given “thou- gies and assisting in local business culture; he sands of hours to that effort.” Frances Browne Karen Anderson Mahshi, a longtime Califor- works in NYC. Beverly Amerman Lewin and her Caspar ([email protected]) has been a hospice nia resident, was involved with Cornell Plantations husband, Lawrence, PhD ’59, live in Israel (Ramat volunteer for 20 years in her community of Avon, as a student employee and a volunteer and that Hasharon; [email protected]). Bev has just CT. She says she is totally committed to the hos- experience has had a lasting influence on her life. published a textbook, Writing Readable Research pice concept, particularly if it can be in the home. She is a delegate of the Herb Society of America, (Equinoxpub.com), based on her 30 years of Don Reid ([email protected]), an aero- herb chair on the State Board of California Garden teaching scientific writing to PhD students. Mar- space physiologist, and his wife, Mary Alice, en- Clubs, and a consulting rosarian for the American ilyn Drury-Katillo reports that she travels as a joy travel and also especially enjoy several months Rose Society. She also volunteers with nonprofit Road Scholar on a Dickens Fellowship, but this every year in their cabin near Leavenworth, WA. horticultural organizations through Rotary, mak- is ending, she says, since her property taxes Don believes he has beat chronic lymphocytic ing and collecting quilts for Rotaplast Int’l. jumped 66 percent last year. She will still garden leukemia, “since all is well in that department.” The Reids live in Tucson, AZ. Joyce Halsey Lind- ley ([email protected]) is back to normal activities after a total knee replacement last In business with my daughter; December. She is active in support of her local library and “does a lot of political action stuff— ‘ progressive Democratic, of course.” Joyce would a great setup. like to hear from Dottie Gibson Brennan. Richard Wimmer ([email protected]), still out in ’ Louesa Merrill Gillespie ’58 Agoura, CA, reports that his latest book, The Wild- ly Irish Sextet, was published by Counterpoint a year or so ago. Sharon Flynn is another active volunteer and continue with her history, linguistics, and And last, in his continuing quest to visit with Rotary, an organization with which she has English literature interests in Park Ridge, IL. Nach every country in the world, Al Podell tells us: “In had a long relationship. This past March, she re- Waxman ([email protected]) says he con- February I finally finished all of Asia and Oceania, ceived the Rotarian of the Year award from the tinues to be active in Kitchen Arts & Letters, his with depressing trips to East Timor and Nauru, two All-Hudson County Rotary Assembly. In 1957 The NYC bookstore specializing in the literature of of the poorest places on the planet, then spent Rotary Club of White Plains supported Sharon as food and wine. He and wife Maron, travel wide- April in Kosovo and May in Portugal, to finish off she was working toward her master’s degree at ly in the US, from Iowa, where they do food Europe. That leaves me with the Nasty Nine— the U. of the Philippines. Another Rotary club judging at the State Fair, to Louisiana, Minneso- Chad, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, Yemen, chose her to lead a team in a group study ex- ta, New Mexico, and West Virginia. This year they Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Angola—which I change to Bavaria in 2007 and Sharon was the are also traveling to Israel where their son, a rab- hope to knock off in a 70-day, do-or-die journey club’s group study chairperson from 2008 through bi, is enjoying a sabbatical year, and will travel this coming winter.” So again we send Al off with 2010. These days, she enjoys her membership in with him and family to Egypt. Nach continues to best wishes for surviving yet another round and, the Jersey City Rotary Club, where she has been sing with a Manhattan community chorus doing we hope, in successfully completing his decades- in charge of the luncheon programs and using new and traditional Jewish music. long quest. With that, I send cheers to the Class the ethnically diverse makeup of Jersey City to The Johnsons, Dale (Reis) (dalejohnson@ of ’58 for a great summer, while watching for feature programs covering Indian, Chinese, Irish, cox.net) and husband Dick ’57, traveled from their news. c Dick Haggard, [email protected]; Italian, Polish, and Filipino holiday celebrations. home in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, to Cornell last Jan Arps Jarvie, [email protected]. Along with Rotary activities, Sharon found time fall for a weekend celebrating the accomplishments to work on last year’s census and edits a month- and generosity of Dale’s parents, Sanford ’29 and ly newspaper, Easy English News, geared toward Jo Mills Reis ’29. Dale reports that the family had Under the pen name of Lawrence those for whom English is a second language. a great get-together. Sandra Mosher Dwork (dwork Grey, Grey Perry has written a Dividing her time between Boynton Beach, [email protected]) has overcome many ailments 59 book titled Letters from Grampy: FL, and New York is Florence Bloch Farkas. In during the past year, from heart attack through Advice to Make the Most of Your Teen Years. The addition to being a classroom volunteer, Flo also shingles and more, but she reports that she’s bet- book, published by CreateSpace, is a series of es- uses her professional experience as a nutrition- ter now, able to drive and resume her activities in says on subjects that will give a heads-up to any ist by serving as a member of the board at her Shelby, NC. Roberta Arvine Fishman (robbiefish teen: sex, dating, study habits, specializing, smok- country club. [email protected]) has also recuperated from ma- ing, drugs, responsibility, privacy and reputation, I’m sorry to report that Eileen Hoffman King jor heart surgery, following a hip replacement, and dancing, dads and moms, religion, cars, homework, died in January after a brave battle with cancer. considers driving a car “a gift and a true mental sports, and many other pertinent subjects. For She was one who put her Home Ec school nutri- lift.” She hopes to begin traveling again this fall. more information, check out www.lettersfrom tion education to good use as a hospital’s staff di- Louesa Merrill Gillespie continues running the grampy.com. Grey originally wrote the book for his etitian at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester. She and Beachmere Inn in Ogunquit, ME—”In business with own six grandchildren, and discovered other teens her husband of 51 years, Earl, raised a son and my daughter; a great setup,” she reports—where she liked it, as did their parents and grandparents, so daughter and were grandparents of six. They had can participate from the sidelines, care for her hus- he expanded the original scope of the book. “It’s been living in Rochester since 1980; one of Eileen’s band, and still be active in events like judging a na- a book for teens,” he says, “not for their parents volunteer activities was as a docent with the Su- tional flower show in Lima and seeing Machu Picchu. or grandparents, although the latter will be the san B. Anthony house. She also was active in her Robert Dunn ([email protected]) has ones who most likely will buy the book for their church and in local arts and drama performances. retired twice and neither time has stuck, he says. teen as a birthday gift or stocking stuffer.” 64 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes Hai was a Hai . I eagerly Wittenberg, August 2011 65 , MD ’62, and nddaughters in nddaughters , Frank revealed , Frank Connie (Purick) 1903 | and her family.” her and , but then developed , but then July Jerry ’58 , author of five previous of , author . hosted event, the During . “We celebrated our 50th celebrated . “We Judy Bryant sent a brief update: “I re- update: a brief sent , Class of , Class of Sarah ’98 Widow Carol Sue Epstein edition of the ’61 class column, c David Croll ’70 Morgan received a major univer- a major received Morgan says he and wife wife and says he this writes from his new place in Glen place in his new writes from All of us are now comfortable and comfortable now us are All of our ter- of afterglow in the basking activi- great the 50th Reunion, rific . “Yes, it’s all about those little letters all about those it’s . “Yes, Arthur Dove Allan Metcalf OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Great- America’s OK: The Improbable Story of Our first contributor to this pre-reunion col- to this pre-reunion Our first contributor Now, a note from from a note Now, During the conference of Cornell class officers Cornell of conference the During Barry Weintrob Two classmates report family-related moves. family-related report classmates Two In April, several fortunate and extremely ap- extremely and fortunate In April, several moved to Raleigh, NC, in December 2010 “to NC, in to Raleigh, moved Richard J.Richard Schwartz umn is 61 books on language. He has now come out with a come has now He books on language. sixth: est Word for (abbreviation OK that in 1839 began as a joke as what we as lame it?). Almost ‘all correct’—get in the used to read ex- a quintessential and success a worldwide into that? How’s life. of view American the of pression book, the just have to read What’s that? You’ll Press.” University Oxford available from Judy Rensin Mandell I (Judy) anniversary last December. wedding ties, and the renewal of long-ago friendships. How- friendships. long-ago of renewal the and ties, ever, as you read that theremember contenta was submitted full two months event. actual the before A complete reunion CAM. will be in your Sept/Oct issue of report that took place in Washington, DC, in January, that took place in Washington, Rebecca Quinn Bull Helen was given the she when sity honor to alumni annually presented Award, Vandervort exemplify Ecology “who Human of College the of following the in each of performance outstanding pro- university, and college the to service areas: contributions and roles, volunteer and/or fessional presen- the During peers.” by one’s as recognized the from congratulations official to Becky, tation classmates several and extended ’60 were Class of in attendance. were Award. Vandervort the of recipient previous senior tax partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham and Wickersham at Cadwalader, tax partner senior 49th year in his now firm, Street Wall the Taft, reports. Nick to retire,” ready not and there Bob Lockard Vir- back to moved I have “Ellen and Allen, VA: be closer to our two gra to ginia and in Florida,” golf I miss the though Maryland, Thomas Hunter tired in August 2010 as chief financial officer of officer financial 2010 as chief in August tired Sheila Association]. Centers Trade [World WTCA Elana Sophia grandchild, a fourth I welcomed and in Brooklyn, still live 2011. We in January Papas, in West in our apartment time more but spend Beach, FL.” Palm your including Cornellians, Boston-area preciative Amer- new the around shown were correspondent, Arts by Frank Fine of Museum the of wing ican John- the of as director position whose Robinson, campus was endowed Cornell on the son Museum by ’63 be close to daughter by Cornell trustee by Cornell the energy, enthusiasm, and extensive knowledge extensive and enthusiasm, energy, the a success- him such art history that has made of two decades. almost for museum the of ful leader of overview a stimulating with providing Along out that pointed he wing, MFA in the artifacts the artists had a Cornell American noted of a number abstract pioneering the including background, painter await your news! [email protected]. Mark and Betsy and , a retired radi- , a retired Dave , LLB ’63, and wife , LLB ’63, and role in the Romp-n- the in role Nicoletti Michael Glueck in nu- ologist board-certified lives in who clear medicine , 97A Chestnut Hill Village, Bethel, Village, Hill , 97A Chestnut lives in Southboro, MA, with his lives in Southboro, “Nick” “Nick” had asked Miller to attend our reunion to attend Miller had asked around the Christmas holidays. “Dave is a holidays. Christmas the around Rick ’85 Our class news form (you have renewed your renewed (you have form Our class news Richard and his wife are both emergency room doctors room both emergency his wife are and Jenny Tesar c Stomp revival, but Miller declined. Afterwards, declined. but Miller revival, Stomp come.” didn’t he was sorry “he says Harry, about Cornell asked right?) class membership, a sug- Here’s from. to hear you would like friends alumni Cornell the on your info update gestion: website (http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/services) there. old acquaintances and friends look for and jet24@ e-mail, CT 06801; tel., (203) 792-8237; cornell.edu. Petchesky Thompson’s play Prof. and 60 Newport Beach, CA, has put his professional back- put his professional Beach, CA, has Newport as- writing in his recent use to excellent ground an article published Mike In December, signments. top- controversial on the local newspaper in the out that an air- pointing airport radiation, of ic thus a miniscule and delivers scanner port body His millirads. just .01 of harmless dose essentially responds “Don’t Panic,” column, entitled March par- articles, scare radiation of thousands to the ca- the that followed Coast, West on the ticularly included outcomes whose in Japan tastrophe that potas- notes Mike reactors. nuclear damaged activists and out selling tablets are sium iodine power nuclear of shutdown the for calling are to reacting against but cautions US, in the plants that low doses fact the stresses He fear-mongers. notes and cause illness to unlikely are radiation of to it with small our exposure that we can measure in- from easily constructed monitors radiation Undoubtedly, Internet. on the found structions informative and sensible Mike’s find his readers On a times. trying in these welcome comments welcomed his wife and Mike front, personal more a boy born this past fall, grandchildren new three City, York in New husband her and to his daughter his son and born to their girl twins boy and and CA. wife in Los Altos Hills, Angela built a new house on the site of their long- their site of on the house built a new Angela Granite of shores on the property vacation time many after full-time there moved NH, and Lake, did They Waban. Boston suburb of in the decades from Nick’s retirements, respective this after their career her from his wife’s law and of practice the Women’s and at Brigham practitioner as a nurse coun- teen clinic, the directed she where Hospital, for Luckily teenagers. pregnant treating and seling trips regular make they friends, Boston-area their psy- continued case for in Nick’s city, back to the Inst.- C.G. Jung at the training choanalytical the of pleasures the Hampshire, Boston. In New enjoyed by greatly are location lakeside Nicolettis’ vis- “We love the says, Nick and members, family families, their and sons our three from its to and grandchildren.” our eight wives and their including Son for working computer engineers wife; both are an for she and a pharmaceutical for he startups, MA, in Williamsburg, firm. Living e-storage ’87 trau- that serves as the hospital the for working Son Russell region. Berkshire the for center ma he CA, where in Sunnyvale, now are his family and who his wife is a linguist and Yahoo! works for Ger- into and from documents scientific translates to spoke Nick English. and man Feeney ; , JD Gins- , and Harry Geoff 1871 , MBA ’65, of , MBA , was a dean in a dean , was , Grey’s son son , Grey’s Ruth Bader graduated in graduated Phil McCarthy MEd ’47 , a chemistry major. Grey’s major. , a chemistry Bruce Pfann , Owen ’55 Christine (Stefanou) ’85 Christine (Stefanou) , took the course and was very course and , took the James Owen James continues to practice psychiatry to practice continues Demi ’13 Rollin Perry , an avid opera fan. “I was rewarded with “I was rewarded fan. opera , an avid ’54 Grey is a third-generation Cornellian; his Cornellian; is a third-generation Grey Len Rubin Appreciation of the Romp-n-Stomp video pro- Romp-n-Stomp video the of Appreciation Even though it was doing extremely well, the extremely it was doing Even though , Geoff’s wife his father, his father, great-grandfather the Arts college. Other Cornellians in the family in the Cornellians Other Arts college. the brother Grey’s include ’85 granddaughter granddaughter with a an officer being included career business Sekisui Chemical company, venture joint Japanese in Massachusetts, Engineering, Voltage High and He in Connecticut. company plastics a small and va- in golf specializing agency a travel also owned in After retiring Ireland. and to Scotland cations 1997, to eastern Tennes- moved wife Nancy and he been active in his fraternity, has long Grey see. 2000–03, chairman, was national Phi; he Sigma is an Son Geoff emeritus. chairman is now and chapter. Cornell the of alumni director burg burg down abruptly shut for NH, worked London, New local health- small a joined then Bruce last year. to next “I knew company. software/hardware care health- the of side operational about the nothing was CEO and the but I charmed business, care marketing the I have become then Since hired. am beginning and by title) not (although manager office medical the outs of and ins learn the to is time) all the (okay, at times which business, ‘pain’ that the I’m discovering overwhelming. day-by- experience managers office and physicians in are who those for empathy feel real and day, it’s regulations, new With all the private practice. challenges— the But I’m enjoying a brutal world. electronic With all the to day. day change which com- of hundreds and changes, software gadgets, Bruce interested.” alert and me it keeps petitors, out-of-the- to some try to travel wife Kathy and are England and place each year (Italy country of a reunion there’s Every September, favorites). by sponsored Chi Psi ’59ers, in NYC and “still lives downtown in a rapidly downtown “still lives in NYC and “I really writes, He Village.” Greenwich changing independent life, working my enjoy this phase of structure. or academic corporate external any of 40s and 30s, 20s, in their are patients my of Most references). on cultural up to date me keep (they longer I no this way until to continue I hope 10 to 15 another I’ve easily got can—I figure year— early in the years!” Len visited Barcelona and food with great city, beautiful, interesting “a a lunch attended he Last October, architecture.” NEA of recipients recognizing DC, in Washington, Supreme at the held lunch, The Honors. Opera by Justice Court, was hosted al- host, ME. “Phil is a fabulous ’65, in Sedgwick, was in the skills (he his boat navigational though question into that) come if I can believe Navy, the up for Fifteen to 20 guys show occasionally. each jerking eating, sailing, of event three-day we were what exactly etc.—almost chains, other’s in local celebri- Phil also brings at Cornell. doing experi- talks about their give terrific who ties, every year.” interesting really It’s ences. to continues our 50th Reunion during duced to all video the ’43 is sending Class of The spread. class president, The classmates. its 416 living of Miller Harris ’43 close to its creator, Prof. Thompson. Harold a delighted grin when I identified myself to Jus- myself I identified grin when a delighted Cornell only of as a fellow alum not Ginsburg tice School.” High Madison James but also of that millwork company 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 65 Page PM 1:24 6/16/11 056-095CAMja11notes 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 66

continue to write (freelance)—regularly for the the festivities. It is also a premier opportunity Jordan, London, and Banff last year, in addition Los Angeles Times travel section (despite the fact to get your news and information for future to numerous domestic trips with family. Myra re- that I live in Virginia—yay, computers!) and for columns. So send along any and all news you mains involved with Harvard Business School and other mostly mainstream print publications.” Gary have to share with your classmates. c Doug serves on several corporate, nonprofit, and uni- Busch sends along the following. “I have been Fuss, [email protected]. versity boards. They, too, have downsized, and busy with the election in Guinea, which is prov- live in Belmont, MA. ing to be a bit dramatic, as are the elections in Ski patrolling and sailboat racing keep Dale the Congo-Kinshasa. My new book is out. Free for A while ago John Neuman Benedict busy when he’s not working at Ameri- All: The Post-Soviet Transition in Russia reports on shared a thought with John can Axle & Manufacturing. He planned to retire my work in Siberia and the Russian Far East from 62 Lowrie about reunions: “With this year. Wife Marion (Krause) ’66 volunteers 1992–96 setting up the logistics system for the each successive reunion, we get better at what with Meals on Wheels. The scattered Benedict fam- Russian aluminum industry and the politics of the we can give to each other as no one else in our ily, all ten, enjoyed a spring reunion at the Von KGB, the GRU, and the oligarchs. It’s on Amazon lives could do, based on the experiences of our Trapp Lodge in Stowe, VT. Sailing is also a favorite and the others and as an e-book. Now I’m off to earlier years revisited in the context of more than activity for Joy Harwood Rogers and Bob Parker Switzerland to see my new granddaughter; gen- 50 years later.” Sounds like another good reason ([email protected]). Joy sings (beauti- erally keeping busy and productive.” to plan on joining us June 7–10, 2012. fully) with Seattle Choral Company; Bob hikes and Bill Onorato continues his world journeys Rick ’60 and Lori Krieger Yellen are pleased skis. When Joy’s daughter visited from Dubai last and writes, “I have been involved as an expert to let us know, “Our oldest granddaughter (the summer, the group spent a week at Whistler, BC, witness in a major international energy-related first of five), Samantha Yellen, has been accepted where they went on the zip line (“sheer terror”), arbitration. The oral hearings will be in Paris this early decision into the Class of 2015. She will study canoed, and enjoyed family times together. year. I was selected as consulting upstream pe- Environmental Biology in the Arts college. Sam will It’s becoming more difficult to tell the chil- troleum legal advisor by the World Bank’s Central be a fourth-generation Cornell legacy.” Her great- dren from the grandchildren in the handsome por- Oil, Gas, and Mining Group. This consultancy aims grandfather was Maurice Yellen ’22. Samantha’s trait of John ’60 and Helen Zesch Ward’s family to put together small, ad hoc teams of experts to father is Robert Yellen ’86, and her great-uncles ([email protected]). How is it that we all can spend a week or so ‘in country’ to rectify dis- are Irving Yellen ’22 and Max Yellen, LLB ’18. have so many grownups at family gatherings when tressed World Bank energy projects. I continue to A wonderful conversation with Gail Strand they were so young just a few years ago? In Greens- teach my upstream petroleum legal training Wiley ([email protected]) brought the news boro, NC, Fred ’59 and Carol Shaw Andresen course, World Legal Systems and Contracts for Oil that she and Bud share our enthusiasm for New ([email protected]) hosted Friendship Force & Gas, twice yearly in London for the CWC Group. Zealand. The Wileys visited son Jim and his wife guests from Australia and Azerbaijan, as well as a We had a family skiing get-together in Durango, in pre-earthquake Christchurch and plan to return regional conference. They have eight grandchil- CO, at year’s end, after which I left for a ten-day despite the fact that that family has returned dren, ranging in age from 13 to 6. Robbinsville, hiking/trekking trip in Chilean Patagonia in stateside and presented them with their sixth NC, was the meeting spot for Bob and Betty Kreps March.” After seeing this itinerary, I don’t think grandchild. A master gardener, Gail is still potting, Zielinski ([email protected]) and Joe and we need to inquire about Bill’s health! volunteering, and exercising. They enjoy spending Marilynn Schade Stewart (marilynns@optonline. Carol Bonosaro, writing from Hawaii, says, summer time at their “shack” in Wisconsin. At net), who enjoyed a reunion at the Stewarts’ son’s “I’m still happily engaged in my full-time job as home in Lisle, IL, Bud is working on a nature B&B there. Marilynn and Betty were Cornell room- president of the Senior Executives Association, a photography certificate at Morton Arboretum. mates and Joe and Bob were company mates at professional association of the top career execu- Nancy Terrell Weight ([email protected]) West Point. The Zielinskis continue their theatri- tives in the federal government. I was named to planned a June trip from her Denver home to Cal- cal performances, despite a grandson’s query about the National Council on Federal Labor Manage- ifornia to visit her sister and thence to Texas. “My why they had to do the same play over and over. ment Relations early this year, which has taken mother died just a year ago at age 99—a very “Does anyone have a good fundraising sug- a fair amount of my time. I manage to get away sorrowful occasion that brought her children, all gestion?” asks Karin Nielsen McNamara (kmcna each year to travel, however, usually to Europe, her grandchildren, and some great-grandchildren [email protected]). She volunteers with the but finally saw a bit of the US last fall on a de- to Kerrville for memorial services. She was one of Rochester Science Museum and they are wishing lightful New England cruise.” Marvin Amstey those grandmothers who was very influential in to add another. Karin and Bob enjoy the antics wrote from his home in Rochester, NY. “I’ve re- the lives of those she loved. I miss my trips to of a granddaughter, 2, and her twin cousins, 1. tired as professor emeritus of ob/gyn from the Texas, and so, even though she’s gone, I’ll go to Jack and DeeDee McCoy Stovel (ddstovel@sbc U. of Rochester Medical Center. As a collector of visit my brother and family. I am a great arm- globl.net) enjoy being close to their grandchil- oriental rugs for nearly 40 years, I am now serv- chair traveler—I’m the perfect person to invite dren in San Carlos, CA. DeeDee has written sev- ing as a consultant to the Oriental Rug Mart in to one’s slide show of your family’s latest vaca- eral cookbooks and volunteers in Redwood City; Victor, NY. It’s the largest and most diversified tion.” She was looking forward to photos from Jack teaches at Castilleja. Oriental rug dealer in central New York. I also am Larrie Dockerill Rockwell’s heli-skiing adventures Have you put a note on your calendar yet for engaged in Oriental rug studies and music theo- in British Columbia ([email protected]). June 7–10, 2012? Do it now! c Jan McClayton ry classes at the Eastman Community School.” Bowie, MD, is home to Nam and Wendell Crites, 9420 NE 17th St., Clyde Hill, WA 98004; Digging through the e-mails, I found this Glasier ([email protected]). Wendell retired from e-mail, [email protected]. note dated last fall from Thos Rohr. “Just last the US Dept. of Labor and plays racquetball and night I returned from a wonderful golfing trip to softball. Fishing, casinos, and horse racing keep Latrobe, Dublin, London, St. Andrews, and Coun- Edward Newell (Derby, NY; edzzzhorse@yahoo. It is two years and counting until ty Down. The highlight of the trip was spending com) happy in retirement. “I love being retired,” our big 50th Reunion! Put June Saturday afternoon at Arnie’s house in Latrobe notes Evelyn Eskin ([email protected]), “and 63 6–9, 2013 on your calendars reminiscing about the many years we have played husband Dave Major ’61 still loves working. Our now! Meanwhile, I really need news from all of together all over. National golf links on Long Is- children and grandchildren (all girls!) are busy you! Since many of you pay your class dues auto- land, Augusta National, Bay Hill, The Tradition in with the challenges of raising a family in this matically through the university, you might over- Palm Springs, and Waialae and Kapalua in Hawaii.” crazy world—not easy!” Evelyn and Dave down- look the fact that any kind of news—written or e- And lastly, from Pittsburgh, I received this note sized into downtown Philadelphia several years mail—would still be most welcome. My address is from Preston Shimer: “Currently I am the foun- ago. Also retired, but no less active, Larry ’60 at the bottom of the column and I welcome yours! dation administrator, ARMA Int’l Educational Foun- and Nancy Lawrence Fuller (nlfuller@prodigy. News from classmates. We had dinner last dation. I am also enjoying the success of a pet net) spend summers in North Carolina and win- month with David ’62 and Ginny Hoffman Morth- project: the Upper St. Clair Community and Recre- ters in South Carolina, when not traveling to be land. The Morthlands spent a week skiing in Tel- ation Center. As I ponder the future, the task I am with their extended family. Nolly and Judy Leach luride using our condo. They keep busy with golf avoiding most is cleaning out years of accumu- Evans ([email protected]) of Baltimore and sharing time with one of their sons, who lives lated stuff from the garage and basement, a prob- also have a part-time home in South Carolina. in Tucson with his two children. Steve and Mar- lem shared with many classmates, I’m sure.” Judy retired from Johns Hopkins. jorie Walker Sayer (Guilford, VT) traveled south Reunion is coming just in time for this cor- J. Kent Hewitt ’59 and Myra Maloney Hart to get out of the Vermont weather for the month respondent. Yes, I am eager to attend and enjoy ([email protected]) enjoyed trips to Egypt, of March. They saw Civil War battlefields from 66 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes , Joan Dave Neena (cbettle@ , who grew , who Lamont, 720 Lamont, Dow and hus- Dow and Judy Kellner has retired af- has retired August 2011 67 Joanne Herron | Warren Emblidge Stephen ’96 July Bev Johns ([email protected]), [email protected]), [email protected]), Lois Weyman c Patty Gros Bettle Gros Patty A group of us enjoyed a fun of A group restaurant in a waterside lunch FL, in March. Gorda, in Punta Kathleen Peterson , who retired long ago as an executive ago long retired , who Bridgeman ([email protected]), Lurvey ([email protected]). , ME ’66, and , ME ’66, and Patty and Chip commented that they refuse that they Chip commented and Patty the Ryan organized Joe and Rushmore Judy Retired physician physician Retired I’m sad to report that a valuable member of member a valuable that I’m sad to report re- Thanks to all who now. That’s all for comcast.net, [email protected]), and [email protected]), and comcast.net, Martin fun much too having are because they to retire the of as president has re-upped Patty working. Chip is consulting Club. Cornell Sarasota-Manatee has just re- and industries of variety in a wide of one for patent ceived a composition-of-matter sad news the shared Neena inventions. his many is She last October. died Bob, husband, that her and Joe life anew. facing FL, and in Estero, staying in April following to Buffalo wife Eileen return and year in Buffalo half the living pattern of their been particularly FL. It’s year in Venice, half the Eileen and with Joe time to spend me fun for and February of months the for while I’m in Venice our class com- handle Joe only does Not March. up their Eileen also head and but he munications, is president Warren in Venice. association condo working company a coffee Inc., S. J. McCullagh of beans. coffee of with global growers “I wrote, Judy Afterwards, Gorda. in Punta lunch friends, with family, enjoy connecting love life and in homes I am at my when alums Cornell and last FL. The Naples, MA, and Belmont, Nantucket, where Orleans, I’ll fly to New March of weekend to attend expected than 50,000 people are more Festival, an Roadfood Louisiana annual third the son by my organized event up in a foodie family.up in a foodie kitchen in my I am not When Rushmore ([email protected]), ([email protected]), Rushmore (wembl wife Carol and and Hazel Hazel and Chip Joining me and happily exchanging news were news happily exchanging and me Joining Joe Ryan 65 Abramsons enjoy tennis and travel, recently to recently travel, and enjoy tennis Abramsons a fami- for to San Diego last March and Thailand Service is a Family Steve home, At ly reunion. and Associate, a Hadassah member, League board Forum participant. Leadership a National band Bill Rowe (Greenville, DE) make “lots of trips” “lots of DE) make Rowe (Greenville, Bill band live, daughter son and her both where to Virginia, grandchildren. three with her to enjoy time Greenspan enjoys travel- now Guild, Actor’s Screen with the a niece to visit to Jerusalem including widely, ing to to Barcelona there, student is a cantorial who and anniversary, wedding a sister’s 40th celebrate July this Fourth of for all places, of to Iceland, could provide local volcanoes the Well, holiday. fireworks. some United the as a pastor for ter a 44-year career still David husband and She Church. Methodist enjoys gardening. she IL, where live in Lemont, committee, our 45th Reunion passed away in February. and class dues to our appeal for quickly sponded re- to fill this column. I’ve now I need news the but more columns, a couple of for ceived enough cycle. 2012 news/dues us to the to get is needed to visit our class website (http://classof Be sure at news me to send and 64.alumni.cornell.edu) at: or online home St.,Chestnut Deerfield, IL 60015; blamont e-mail, [email protected]. . ’91 Rubin Stephen magazine Icke, 12350 Icke, Gonzalez Gonzalez Forbes in Nicole Embrou’s in Nicole . Now that he’s re- that he’s . Now Nina Tolkoff Nancy Hockensmith Nancy Bierds c Sue Bennett , whose news is appearing news , whose , last here in ’93. He is still in ’93. He , last here Time for our annual mid-sum- our annual for Time has just be- missive! CAU mer you’ve hoping gun, so here’s Warren Jones writes that he also still works as writes that he Miami Sun Sentinel Miami , who still works as president of his own of still works as president , who Nelson Keshen Fred Winch III Yet another still-working classmate is attor- classmate still-working another Yet in Aspen were We world department: Small run across some classmates, wherever you are and you are wherever classmates, some run across are here off, start things up to. To whatever you’re time. about in some have heard not you may folks Pisgah For- to has retired first time, the for here Service as a Foreign career est, NC, after a long Development. Int’l for Agency US the with officer have enjoyed all the must wife Renata and Fred still at it, they’re for includes, a field such travel Myanmar, South Africa, visited Zimbabwe, having they reason Another Vietnam. and Cambodia, two their is visiting road on the have to keep Last live in England. whom both of daughters, reunion family a Winch attended they summer, conserva- are interests other Fred’s Ithaca. near Physician wildlife. and tion 64 (Brookline, MA), last in this column a quarter- (Brookline, posi- both her from is yet to retire ago, century renal and dialysis of director medical tions: Hospital, General at Massachusetts transplants Medical at Harvard medicine of professor and grown Robert have one husband and She School. sports England a New is definitely Nina daughter. simply as interests lists her she as enthusiast, Red Sox. and Celtics, Patriots, the ney pro- planning, in estate primarily law, practicing on His opinions trust administration. and bate, in quoted were estate planning wife and Nelson working, not When last February. to fly to Santa FL, like live in Miami, who Talma, two grandchildren. CA, to be with their Barbara, Dick D’Amato but is Dee, that his wife’s name and an attorney news. other no provides but in ’96, has retired, from Beach, last heard hus- and Nancy say. doesn’t she what career from MN. live in Minneapolis, Richard band dur- and with friends, dinner having last February, in some to mention, I happened evening the ing When grad. that I was a Cornell or other, context one to leave, table rose party at an adjoining the too, was a Cornell- paused to say he, gentleman replied. he Sixty-four, class. which I asked ian. out it was Turns be- time their divide wife Kathy and Warren tired, winter and summer spending tween two homes, NC. autumn in Wilmington, and spring in Aspen, visit they whom have two children, Joneses The foreign a couple of also make They frequently. is double-homer Another trips annually. Abramson specializing Svcs., & Financial firm, APS Pension in estate planning, and insurance, in pension, live in near- wife Phyllis Steve and NY. Woodbury, in New home have a country and by Hauppauge chil- have two grown Abramsons The NY. Lebanon, dren Alexan- whom, of one five grandchildren, and this autumn. The in Engineering will enroll der, article “Cancer Warrior.” Mackenzie’s mother—and Mackenzie’s Warrior.” “Cancer article daughter—is Judy’s Beach, FL, and Palm in West enjoys living Judy for That’s all Bingo. and mah-jongg to play tries you via of many from to hear I hope this month! so easy! e-mail—it’s icke63@ AZ 85749; e-mail, Tucson, Rd., E. Roger gmail.com. told by the the told by , , Life idge. Nan- Donna Charles . Free now Free Vicki Field- William Kidd . They saw sev- . They Elenita Eckberg Richard Bradley Neil Ann Stuckey Carol Bagdasarian deSanto lead busy deSanto , MBA ’66, and ’66, and , MBA and wife Candace. In wife Candace. and Dick Lynham Marge Nelsen Joe , MBA ’64, , MBA nddaughters Alyssa, Katie, nddaughters , , MBA ’64, , MBA , MS ’65, , MS , and , and Block and husband Keith live in Keith husband Block and nddaughter, Mackenzie, 6, died Mackenzie, nddaughter, Bennett, volunteer registrar for registrar volunteer Bennett, Vivian Grilli Cathy Dedek Steffen Jim King ’87 nddaughter Bella’s first birthday with Bella’s first birthday nddaughter Ed Butler , a map to integrative cancer treatment cancer to integrative , a map Marty Lustig Jim Billings James Byrnes and and , BFA ’64’s term ends this year; ’64’s term ends , BFA , MCE ’65’s in 2012, and , MCE ’65’s in 2012, and Many of our classmates are members of the of members are our classmates of Many Penny Harris Marty and and Marty Judy Clarke Maxant and her husband, Stan Murphy. From Stan Murphy. husband, her and Maxant Evanston, IL. Penny is executive director of the of director is executive IL. Penny Evanston, She Treatment. Cancer Integrative for Block Center survival cancer breast excellent the of is proud published Bantam program. with their data Over Cancer in 2009. Penny Block Center, at the as practiced U. at the PhD in psycho-oncology completed her have four Penny and in 2008. Keith Chicago of graduated whom of youngest the children, grown have in 2010. They cum laude summa Cornell from Chi, skiing, enjoys Tai Penny five grandchildren. Penny and Keith skydiving. and hiking, trekking, a spent “su- the through last year trekking vacation Bhutan. of perb” country She Panhandle. Florida FL, on the lives in Niceville, She area. MS, Jackson, the in 2009 from retired the describes and in paradise, is living feels she and community, great as “beautiful beaches, area She opportunities.” service and educational lots of rang- five grandchildren and daughters has three to 16 years. months eight from in age ing Council on the Those Council. University Cornell are life for August, the Kings visited the house on the beach on the house the visited Kings the August, new brought and had rented deSantos that the visit in the Also included Rhyan. baby Brooke family, her and Jennifer, daughter, Vivian’s were Viv- NC. in Wilmington, deSantos the live near who friend with a good two weeks in Italy spent ian Sea. Adriatic on the Le Marche, at a villa in Treia, home, returned she when turnaround After a quick up with to meet flew to Las Vegas deSantos the Bing ’62 and Vivian it or not, Believe Maddie. and Jena, to hoped and Christmas for stayed home Marty and Tony to see son winter in the to Florida get family. her and Jo daughter and family Aslanian, eral shows, drank margaritas, and dined “sumptu- dined and margaritas, drank shows, eral stopped in Kansas they way home, On the ously.” Thanksgiving grandchildren. three City to see the daugh- with son David, in Pinehurst them found gra ter-in-law Lori, and MEd ’65, Gettsyburg to the Mosby Rangers trails, including trails, Rangers Mosby to the Gettsyburg 72 times hands changed which VA, Winchester, as far Sayers went The war. the course of over the had an- Marjorie GA. Mountain, south as Stone Jaf- at the last April paintings her of exhibit other NH. in Jaffrey, Center Civic frey to Tan- went she that in November wrote Brodie with safari a photographic for zania ing hotel in the to elephants tent the outside zebras experience. unforgettable it was an garden, City to visited Kansas they In early June lives. gra celebrate cy Cooke McAfee her parents, parents, her MBA ’64, MBA Forsman Abbe Levine’s in 2013. Levine’s a diffi- has been through reunions, our of many gra Her cult time. can- a horrible from after suffering in early March years. two-and-a-half for rhabdomyosarcoma, cer, a bal- and with a service life was celebrated Her about the more can read in April. You loon launch life at www.Caringbr her positive aspects of org/visit/MackenzieGonzalez. Her story was also Her org/visit/MackenzieGonzalez. 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 67 Page PM 1:24 6/16/11 056-095CAMja11notes 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 68

cooking or entertaining, I am in my garden or would do us good,” they write. “So far we’ve year’s reunion in the next issue of this magazine. pedaling around the countryside on my bike. I been very happy with our decision.” Peggy Haine But now, the news: have signed up for my 16th bike tour with B & R ([email protected]) celebrates her best Dot Hoffman Fine, BS Nurs ’69, and husband for September, a trip from Berlin to Dresden.” year ever working as an associate broker helping Bill ’65 (Dublin, Ireland; [email protected]) George Arangio, MD ’69 (casarangio@aol. people buy and sell property in the Ithaca area. had a Cornell Thanksgiving with the Dublin Cornell com) received a letter from our scholarship recip- She writes, “Stepdaughter Rebecca Hoover ’94 Club. They also attended a party celebrating the ient, Stephanie Rigione ’10 ([email protected]), is practicing family medicine in Missoula and has Spirit of Zinck’s Night. “We will hook up with Pe- thanking our class for our sponsorship. She is co- an adorable 1-1/2-year-old; her husband, Dustin ter, PhD ’72, and Anne Ryder Hobbs, MA ’69, in president of the Class of 2010 and writes, “I live Walters, is a hydrologist. My husband, Peter, re- London before Christmas on our way to Paris.” in New York City and work in fundraising for Memo- tired as an editor at Cornell last year and is pur- Dot and Bill will be in Ireland for five years. Pam rial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. I was a Com- suing his many agricultural interests.” Peggy also Troutman Kessler (Zurich, Switzerland; JPKessler@ munication major at Cornell, co-president of the reports that John Diebold died in July 2010 ggaweb.ch) wrote that she is active as a deacon in 2010 Senior Class Campaign, and a manager at the from a heart attack and will be remembered as a church, plays volleyball, has a “veggie patch,” and Cornell Annual Fund’s student phoning program. shining light to so many of us. takes long dog walks with a view of the Alps and My major and extracurricular activities prepared me I was on campus in April to attend the nearby lakes. She and husband Jürg have toured for my current position, which I absolutely love.” Emerging Artist Series, an annual event in mem- in Jerusalem, Moldova, Hungary, and southern Torrey Harder has been featured in the Cor- ory of my daughter, Lauren Pickard ’90. This year France. Pam added that they visited with Susan nell publication Vested Interest (vol. 23, fall 2010), the group was Fallen Riviera, an indie rock group, Blair Jenny ’65 when Susan was in Switzerland. which highlights Torrey’s philanthropic planning who were terrific. It was also a treat to have lunch Daniel McGowan ([email protected]) writes to benefit Cornell. In the past he created an an- with my scholarship student, Margaret Chou ’11, from Geneva (New York, not Switzerland!) that he nual lecture series that is now in its fourteenth who will graduate this year and plans on going to is now professor emeritus at Hobart and William year and brings to the public some of Cornell’s law school. Spring flowers and trees were bloom- Smith Colleges. Talking about higher education pro- best-loved writers and poets speaking on aspects ing, and walking through the Arts Quad were fessionals, Ron Berenbeim (Ronald.berenbeim@ of the history, philosophy, and human experience groups of potential students and their parents with conference-board.org) is semi-retired, but still of nature. The William H. and Jane Torrence Hard- tour guides extolling the joys of Cornell. Keep the teaches at NYU, a curriculum entitled Profession- er lecture and garden party honors Torrey’s par- news coming. c Joan Hens Johnson, joanhpj@ al Responsibility: Markets, Ethics and Law. Last ents. Recently, he established the Lauren E. Harder comcast.net; Ron Harris, [email protected]. year, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to teach Scholarship Fund to provide financial aid to un- the course in Paris. He and his wife have two dergraduate students in the Dept. of English. The daughters. Patrick Gross has a new e-mail ad- fund honors his daughter Lauren ’99. Torrey has Do you remember the unusual dress ([email protected]) and lives been dedicated to entrepreneurial investing for weather we had last winter? in Bethesda, MD. over 30 years and has been generous with his 66 Now, in the heat of summer, Rick Chandler ([email protected]) time and gifts to Cornell. most of us are sweltering. Go figure. Hope that became the full-time curator at the Bainbridge Is- Dave and Hazel Bridgeman (dazel43bman@ you were part of our 45th Reunion. We had many land Historical Museum this past summer. “My trav- aol.com) moved from San Jacinto, CA, to Ft. My- people registered, and we look forward to seeing eling exhibit, Whales in our Midst: Killer Whales in ers, FL, in April 2010. “We thought a change of many more of you when we celebrate our 50th in the Salish Sea, won the State Exhibit Award from scenery and being closer to family and friends 2016. We will have a complete report from this the Washington Museum Association,” he reports. Rick and wife Timmie live on Bainbridge Island, WA. From John Cobey (Cincinnati, OH; jcobey@ctks. com): “I’m still practicing law—the same place for 42 years.” He added that he and wife Jan Frankel are active with the Cornell Club of Southern Ohio. Farther west, Arthur Purcell ([email protected]) writes that he’s joined the 21st century and is teaching online for the U. of Denver in energy and the environment. He has students from four countries and says, “It’s a new world out there.” Jim Shulman ([email protected]) “continues on a five-year project of organizing volunteers in the Berkshires to build a hand-carved wooden carousel, as the community’s largest permanent art project and the first wooden carousel built in New England in 100 years.” See the site at www. berkshirecarousel.com. Jim is president of the carousel group, and is a retired psychologist and hospital vice president who lives in Galena, OH. Barbara Allen Ariano writes, “Anthony and I are entering a new phase of life—retirement! Looking forward to attacking the ‘to do’ list! We have moved from the NYC area to the Raleigh, NC, area. Dennis Lutz, ME ’67 ([email protected]) writes from South Burlington, VT: “As most people of our age, we have been dealing with an elderly parent and the selling of her house in this market. Still doing volunteer work at the local theatre and trying to stay in shape by skiing, snowshoeing, and using the treadmill. The only part that really sucks is the 5:15 a.m. walk with the dog in -5 to -15 temperatures. I continue to work as the public works director/town engineer for Essex, VT. The public’s response seems to have mellowed now that they are dealing with a ‘gray-haired’ old guy.” Mary Wellington Daly ([email protected]) and husband Rich have been retired and living in Tuc- son, AZ, since the fall of 2003. They enjoy the 68 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes . He Joel real- Sara Don Ver- Ferguson (El Ferguson Mike Hogan Stuart Lourie August 2011 69 John Mitas II | Steve Kussin , did a presentation , did —a “poet, novelist, Clinical Mastery in the July Chiaki Homma ’70 Lucy Whyte Green is busy with three Green retired in 2009 from Green- in 2009 from retired (Washington, DC) is an active DC) is (Washington, (Centreville, VA) retired from the from retired VA) (Centreville, and enjoy visiting Jacquelyn wife David Cone (Statesville, NC) is a busy retiree, NC) is a busy (Statesville, is part of the admissions commit- admissions the is part of , a supervisor for student teaching at teaching student for , a supervisor Schastok has volunteered for ten years for Schastok has volunteered retired from Cornell Cooperative Extension Cooperative Cornell from retired , ME ’71, works as a local and national Red national as a local and , ME ’71, works Marsha Gold Lawrence Dean Peter Flynn Ted Hudson naturalist, and environmentalist.” environmentalist.” and naturalist, hav- ahead, at tough times NY) is looking (Delmar, mental of as commissioner been reappointed ing State by York New for health Cuo- Andrew Governor best, Mike. wish you the We mo. Physicians of College American was elected to the field (MA) Community College and does volun- does and College (MA) Community field spends He foundation. college teer work with the NY, in Lansing, his parents for caring time lots of finds still NH, and in Derry, grandchildren and crew. lightweight Cornell the to follow time Allen busy I‘ve how believe “can’t in July 2007 and Ro- Hudson active in the been since”—traveling, with and at his church volunteering tary Club, also He Association. Cemetery Mt. Pleasant the with the volunteer and member serves as a board our of home at Lindenwald, Service Park National Buren. Van Martin president, eighth country’s George Frank and WA, in Seattle, school medical tee at the to be involved selecting that “it’s exciting finds physicians.” of generation next the a Alliance, Renwick James the of member board Gallery. Craft Smithsonian the for support group Martha Germanow Valley, close by in Paradise living grandchildren to be active with Scotts- time AZ, but still finds Assn. Sister Cities dale continues to serve as scholarship chair and board chair and as scholarship to serve continues San Club of Cornell the (15 years) with member Califor- serves as a trustee at the also He Diego. San Diego. U., Business Int’l nia NM) co-published Prado, Weisblat en- and Foundation Community Evanston with the en- a permanent building of challenges joys the Evanston. for dowment children,their Cornellians, are whom two of NYC, in the- and preservation heritage work with many and area. Buffalo in the organizations nonprofit atre Marshall Cary contin- and relatives and members family helping was which politics, in history and his interest uing at Cornell.” stimulated “further In- the Dept. of US Management, Land of Bureau of news by the was saddened in 2009. He terior, of passing the journeyed to Japan in June 2010 and visited 2010 and in June to Japan journeyed with Phi Epsilon brother Pain Myofascial of Treatment her volunteers Spain, in late 2010, and in Toledo, Pueblo, to “give to Taos services chiropractic American Native with the connect back to and community.” larger within my community 21 years in education. after dream ized a lifelong York; in New on WCBS Radio reporting is now He a week, airs five days his “Eye on Education” from hearing appreciates He a day. times three up on his broadcasts have picked who classmates wife Sharyn, married and ([email protected]). He graduates. all Cornell sons, have three 40 years, Chi mini-reunion at the Cornell-Colgate game, Cornell-Colgate at the Chi mini-reunion his In between year. it next to make but hopes activities, racing motorcycle speed land diani manager. emergency local and volunteer Cross Jim Miller Coun- Cornell the of is a member SUNY Cortland, the for chair wine-tasting and chair, cil, a CAAAN you!). (lucky York New CAA/Central Tom Richard Schmidt, (caustin@ Rick Beck c , married to , married Saving the St. Linda Rappoli Austin , a volunteer with the , a volunteer “Cle” (country@mindspring. Mary Hartman , DVM ’71 (eds330@aol. c Clemont to run eeaustin.com) continues his 104-year-old construction Hope you’re all enjoying the all enjoying you’re Hope our classof So many summer. wonderful such doing are mates Dale Coats Gregory , 2925 28th St. NW, Washington DC Washington , 2925 28th St. NW, , BS Ag ’70, continues in her career in her ’70, continues , BS Ag Laura Sevush Langworthy , ME ’70 ([email protected]) is president is , ME ’70 ([email protected]) , was published by AH&LA Educational Inst. by AH&LA Educational , was published , wife of , wife of I am sorry to report that I am sorry to report C. Edward Kemp C. Edward 68 company and is the fourth generation in his fam- in his generation fourth is the and company it has been challenging, admits so. He ily to do Cle re- in revenue. decrease 30 percent given the brothers fraternity with his SAE in touch mains trustees of of board to the has been elected and Foundation. Community (PA) Erie the to times a couple of has traveled writes that he also at- and WY, in Baggs, his home from Florida thetended 2010 in Oma- finals NCAA wrestling main well. Rick’s really did Cornell ha, NE, where doesn’t he canal; an irrigation is running focus is 85. he until plan to retire Plank mar- had been in December 2009. They com), died four and daughters had three 42 years and ried first book, Gregory’s grandchildren. George back, Looking book is with a publisher. His second Hotel in the observes that his education Gregory to enjoy work- background gave him the school than 45 years. more for business hotel in the ing is very close he Atlanta, of 45 miles north Living Gregory time, In his free his children. to two of speak- some does and at church lessons the reads classes. college and companies for ing Richard ’66 In Boston area. in the designer as an interior son’s youngest with her was occupied 2009 she Nantucket. of Island in July on the wedding Silliman IN. in Chandler, Research Electronics CEO of and include his hobbies full-time, working not When in Lynnville, cattle on a ranch working and roping award engineering won the IN. In April 2008 he Broadcasters. of Association National the from to: your news Send [email protected]. com) writes that he retired from a 25-year career a from retired com) writes that he has been a and medicine veterinary practicing 15 years in his for estate broker real residential in Fal- O’Loughlin Real Estate, wife’s firm, Carol in enjoys his participation MA. Edward mouth, together getting and events automobile classic as pos- as frequently Pi brothers with his Sigma to foreign travels to more forward looks He sible. with Al- his involvement continuing and countries than 15 years of after more Anonymous coholics sobriety! films and gave up a hitherto undefeated season, undefeated hitherto gave up a and films Cornell the Al that from to learn heartened I was at then- especially was outraged, body student you think he Day (didn’t Ezra Edmund President in mak- perfidy of was accused who was a Hall?) all of from, had graduated concession—he the ing situation same Faced with the Dartmouth. places, Col- later, than a half-century more gridiron on the in pummeled was rightfully Bill McCartney orado’s Red. the emulating not for media the Hoffman B. [email protected]. 20008; e-mail, local library and arts center, writes from Ogdens- writes from arts center, and local library Theta is sorry to have missed the He NY. burg, 69 volunteer work. volunteer c Sun Koch Susan ’s corre- Deanne Robert L. (Las Vegas, Sun , MD ’70, wrote, (Eliot, ME; joan (Eliot, (New Haven, CT; Haven, (New Senetta Hill , JD ’72, I caught up , JD ’72, I caught (hopgray@roadrunner. Jeffrey Rose Jeffrey Bergman (New York, NY; York, (New Bergman Gray Katrina Clark , LLB ’44, likely one of the few the of one , LLB ’44, likely Peter Haughton (Ada, OH; [email protected]) (Ada, Ted Feldmeier writes [email protected]) His activities has retired. that he , [email protected]; , [email protected]; “Hap” “Hap” (Washington, DC; Dr.Robert.L.Thomp- (Washington, Stan Chess ’69 Bittker, [email protected]. Bittker, Gitner,[email protected]; and and Gitner,[email protected]; Al Lurie ’43 At a gathering in New York, aside from the from aside York, in New a gathering At Helene Dansker Harold 67 [email protected]) is executive director of Fair of director is executive [email protected]) Center. Health Community Haven elected newly with the dining of pleasure indomitable the 2011–12, courtesy of for board impresario with as the witnessed, who now around is associate vice president for academic affairs at affairs academic for president vice is associate U. Northern Ohio feature “(mainly) physical fitness—everyday physical “(mainly) feature run every up), four-mile (after warming stretching exer- weekly strength two times and day, other nor- slow the is to this routine Purpose of cises. is I believe, aging, of (some process aging mal type of wrong or the inactivity to physical due end).” years on activity for physical Thompson Illi- U. of the from retired who [email protected]), emeritus), professor now (he’s last May nois Federation’s Farm Bureau American the received for Award to Agriculture Service Distinguished at http://www.youtube.com/ 2011 (can be viewed watch?v=jXrnGTjylnI). is an interpreter/transla- [email protected]) has been doing Spanish and and English tor for pleasure. for travel international of deal a great issue 1993, we passed a bond since trying “After reports library,” a new for who [email protected]), NY; (Manhasset, the trustees of of board the of serves as president techni- manages she By day, there. library public Builders. Information for training cal classroom Italy! visiting be doing: rather what she’d for As Roger Goldberg at Dart- “Fifth Down” game fabled the spondent, as it’s still recalled in ’41. Although mouth when sportsmanship of moment finest perhaps the after on Monday Green to the Red conceded the quite primitive game were what Al said reviewing NV; [email protected]) in due is engaged Normandy and Securities CapWest for diligence Capital Group, Pacco through in securities dealing CO. Greeley, Capital Solutions, climate, bicycling, hiking, swimming, and golfing. and swimming, hiking, bicycling, climate, Tucson to the season memberships also have They company. a local theatre and Orchestra Symphony to serve as me a joy for has been “It writes, Mary Southern Club of Cornell the chair for program the have an active We past two years. the for Arizona activities for a month about once meet and group visits to par- museum and lectures from ranging picnics.” and ties Gebell Rockford “Retired December 27, 2010, after 34 years as December 27, “Retired Health University director, and physician-in-charge to live Continuing NY. Paltz, at SUNY New Service York.” New of Valley mid-Hudson the in Kingston, OH: “I try to Avon, from news this com) sent ‘perfect’ grand- my with time as much spend my I continue 2, as possible. Reagan, daughter a Merry of owner/manager job as retirement and streets the off me keeps (It franchise. 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in October 2009; it’s their highest honor, awarded moved from Ithaca to Pecan Plantation, a won- This month, your correspondents received a to only 50 fellows from among 130,000 members. derful community southwest of Ft. Worth, TX (near nice newsy note from Nancy Miller (nancy@ Since retiring, he also serves as special advisor to Granbury). His extracurricular activities are golf, milleracupuncture.com). “After finishing an MBA the CEO of ACP for disaster medicine, public health, tennis, and, above all, aviation. He got into flying at the U. of Rochester, I had a career in the cor- and vaccine-related matters. He is on the execu- in the last few years and has his pilot’s license and porate and nonprofit worlds. In early 2001, I was tive committee of the National Disaster Life Sup- his own small plane. Pecan is an aviation commu- able to switch gears and start a master’s program port Education Consortium to improve healthcare nity with two airstrips. Mark doesn’t think he will in acupuncture at the Tai Sophia Inst. in Laurel, providers’ education, preparation, and response to make it to our 45th Reunion, but hopes to join us MD. For the past seven years, I have been prac- disasters and public health emergencies of all for our 50th (I like that advance thinking!). ticing acupuncture in Arlington, VA. Richard types. He represents ACP to the Critical Infra- Bruce Panas ([email protected]) and Bishop, a marine engineer, and I have been mar- structure Protection Advisory Council of the Depts. wife Bonnie really enjoy life in The Villages, FL. ried for nine years. We enjoy hiking in the British of Health and Human Services and of Homeland Bruce claims that he is the oldest (or nearly so) Isles. I’ve kept in touch with Carol Maus Green- Security. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Core Dis- member of the class and so is seriously happy to berg ’69, Susan Primmer and her husband, vet- aster Life Support manual published by AMA Press see the sun rise each day! He has been retired for erinarian Robert Harris, DVM ’74, and Charles in spring 2010. Thanks and well done, Dr. John. 13 years and enjoys golf, bowling, and traveling. Reisen, who is my second cousin.” Marguerite Waller has a new book coming There is nothing he would rather be doing. He Rob ’70, MBA ’72, and Marlynn Lampert Lit- out this fall: Postcolonial Cinema Studies will be plays three or four rounds of golf each week and tauer ([email protected]) have lived in Seat- published by Routledge in September. She says her spends a lot of time with their two Shih Tzus. tle for 22 years. Marlynn writes, “Rob and I are Cornell courses in literature still play a huge part Bruce has been in touch with Tom Chegash ’71 expecting two new grandchildren, which will bring in her life as graduate advisor in the comparative and Frank Masterson ’71. Neil Murray and wife the grand total to four. Amanda Littauer ’98 is literature department at UC Riverside. Michael Janet live in Schenectady, NY, while he is at SUNY an assistant professor at Northern Illinois State Masnik is “still working for the US Nuclear Regu- Albany working on embedded systems at the Air in Dekalb. Her partner, Laura Steele ’97, is also latory Commission as a senior biologist performing Force Research Lab in Rome, NY, with Prof. at NIU. Their daughter Zoe, 9, looks forward to NEPA review for the licensing of new nuclear pow- Sandeep Shukla of Virginia Tech. He was sched- being a big sister. Our son Doug and his wife er plants.” Given developments in Japan, Mike, you uled to attend ISMIS in Warsaw in late June, fol- both work for the Washington State Dept. of must be very busy. Mike and wife Annette spend lowed by TABLEAUX in Bern in early July, and Transportation.” Marlynn and Rob celebrated their their time between their home in Vienna, VA, and Janet was planning to accompany him. Neil writes 40th wedding anniversary in Maui with their chil- their cabin in the Virginia mountains. Susan that current budget deficits in New York make it dren and grandchildren. They keep in touch with Larkin (Brooktondale, NY) had a photography show a difficult time to be in the SUNY system. Caryn Furst, Paul Rothchild, and Rob Marangell at the Mann Library gallery, a result of her studies Suzanne Grisez Martin (suzannegmartin@ ’70, MBA ’71. Marlynn has been retired from the of photography at Tompkins Cortland Community gmail.com) announces that she has finally become field of nonprofit fundraising for eight years. She College. She volunteers at the Caroline Food Pantry a grandmother! Madeleine Kelly Martin was born and Rob spend a lot of time at their beach house and co-facilitates a support group for the Finger Aug. 25, 2010 in Sydney, Australia, to Suzanne’s on San Juan Island (off the Washington coast just Lakes chapter of the National Alliance on Mental daughter, Stephanie (Williams College), and her fi- south of British Columbia), where they do lots of Illness. Please keep the news coming to: c Tina ancé, Richard Kelly (Oxford). The new parents met fishing and enjoy the glorious scenery. Marlynn re- Economaki Riedl, [email protected]. in Sydney and moved to NYC this past April. quests that if anyone is passing through the beau- Suzanne’s son, Douglas, is a graduate of Brown U. tiful Pacific Northwest, please give her a call. Suzanne and husband David (Cranbury, NJ) are William Wellnitz, PhD ’78 (wwellnit@aug. Summer is in full swing and I both still working, with no short-term plans to edu) writes from Augusta State U. in Georgia, have “fresh” news from our class- retire. She still has her own management con- where he is a professor of biology. “Since 2005 I 70 mates for you. Hope you all en- sulting business and most of her work is with the have been director of the State of Georgia compo- joy a safe, healthy, and fun (!) warm-weather Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. Edgar nent of the national Science Olympiad, a K-12 com- season this year! “E.J.” Stevenson (Titusville, PA; ejs47@verizon. petitive science activity. In 2009, I was executive Patrick Kelly ([email protected]) and net) traveled to the UK last fall to attend the Ry- director for the national Science Olympiad tourna- wife Angela continue to live in Ottawa, Ontario, der Cup in Wales and visit relatives in Ireland. ment that was held in Augusta for three days in Canada, where they are both in choirs as part of “Recuperating from various ailments,” he writes. May. I have been on the biology faculty since their extracurricular activities. Patrick is a retired “Hope to return to the golf course this year.” 1980. In June I will retire from academia and move high school teacher and is now doing pro bono David Hurwitz ([email protected]) to Rochester, MN (spent 31 years in the South and work as a mental health counselor for the Ottawa and wife Penny live in Framingham, MA. In 1989, need to move north and find cold weather again). Fire Service. In July 2010 he sailed the coast of David joined the chemical industry practice at I will become very involved as both a medical and Croatia from Split to Dubrovnik—and he’d rather Arthur D. Little, Inc. in Cambridge, MA, then educational volunteer.” William’s children are all be sailing right now. He has two grown daughters: joined some colleagues at a strategy boutique in actively involved in the arts. His older son is do- Siobhan is studying in Buffalo, NY, at Medaille Col- 1999. “Twelve years later I am the managing di- ing independent film work in Asheville, NC, and lege to be a vet tech, and Stephanie lives in Toron- rector of the latest incarnation, Edica-Garnett Part- his younger son is part of the technical theatre to and works as a restaurant manager. Patrick’s ners LLC. We provide business and technology crew at the Shakespeare Company in Washington, fondest memories of Cornell are walking uphill from strategy, global business development, M&D, and DC. His daughter is director of the Dance Exchange Collegetown to campus and Larry Dega’s Elba Pizze- R&D/Innovation support to operating companies in Takoma Park, MD. Her original piece “Drift” was ria in Collegetown. He would like to be in contact and private equity firms.” David says that con- voted as best of the year at the Millennium Stage with Udo Schlentrich (Hotel). Harry Brull (Salida, sulting is an extremely “lumpy” business. He has at the Kennedy Center in D.C. CO; [email protected]) has a new ca- been thinking about trying to align with green Michael Kubin ([email protected]) reer as a disc jockey on his local community radio technology/clean tech companies. “Not thinking writes, “On January 25, my sons Zach, Daniel ’08, station (Monday nights from 9–11 p.m. Eastern about retirement! The rest of my time is devoted and Gregory ’09 threw a 60th birthday party for time at www.khen.org). He also spends a good bit to guiding my boys: Mike is in management with me. It took place at a really fun Manhattan wine of time on his bicycle, including a ten-day tour of Staples in marketing and merchandizing, and Ross bar (New York Vintners) and the turnout was ter- Croatia, as well as the usual Ride the Rockies. Har- is trying to make it as an actor on Broadway! We rific—especially the Cornell contingent. Attending ry and wife Myra (Barrett), PhD ’71, took a Fall spend summers in Hull, MA, recharging batteries were Dan Bernstein ’70 and these members of our 2010 trip to New England and New York (including at the beach just south of Boston.” c Connie own class: Ted Grossman, JD ’74, Martin Michael, Ithaca), and saw several Cornellians in the process. Ferris Meyer, [email protected]. Jerry and Aimee Goldstein Ostrov ’72, Bert Bruce Baird ([email protected]) writes to us, Distelburger, Rick Leland,and Stu Oran. Bob Bel- in order of importance: “I am a retired Little eson was the MC for the evening and did a bang- League Baseball coach and camping chair of a Boy As you read this column, your class- up job destroying any shred of self-respect I had Scout troop.” He is also co-chair of the White Col- mates (and you, too, we hope!) will left.” Mike is CEO/managing director of Ionic lar Practice Group at the Covington and Burling LLP 71 have already attended our 40th Re- Media Group, a media planning and buying com- law firm. Bruce lives in the Washington, DC, area. union in Ithaca. Be sure to look for a full reunion pany based in Encino, CA. He is also EVP of In- Mark Finkelstein ([email protected]) report in the September/October issue. vidi Technologies, a company that has developed 70 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes , Mar- Steph- Leah Bis- . Gloria’s Sun Gloria’s August 2011 71 | (douglisaj@yahoo. ’ July Bill VerPlanck and and ([email protected]) and ([email protected]) , MS ’77 (nozzolio@nysenate. , MS Doug Currey Laurel Brandt ’72 Laurel Brandt ([email protected]) remains a remains ([email protected]) graduated in May and his son Noah be- Noah his son and in May graduated Sherman, MPS ’75 ([email protected]) MPS Sherman, , MS ’76 (Encinitas, CA; lebissonette@cox. ’76 (Encinitas, , MS I will have celebrated my 60th birthday, the birthday, 60th my I will have celebrated completed a you who of Thanks to those Mark Liff Michael Peter wife Wilnive definitely are globetrotters, having globetrotters, are wife Wilnive definitely in Au- home summer at their last summer spent pri- Ft. Lauderdale in their winter and NY, rora, Bahamas, Keys, the cruising and residence mary yacht, motor Caribbean on their and a block of seats for the game; simply contact simply contact game; the for seats of a block ty Slye be a will there game, to the Prior availability. for Details will ’70s. the Classes of the of gathering www.cornell our class website at be posted on available. become 73.com as they me sends Aging Dept. of Ohio the at which age time by the card, discount Buckeye Golden my anticipate I eagerly printed. this column gets still opti- I town and around this card flashing my of improvement continued for hope mistically 50s! Our up in my a sport I first took tennis, have our 60th birthdays of class’s celebrations Those country. the across held being are been and times good have had such have participated who another planning are already locations that most addi- to celebrate, we continue As get-together. will be details celebratory and locations tional class website. available on the shout- this column, with a special for form news any omitted writing who classmate out to the has that he but reported information, identifying with regularly together gets 8, and a son Lucas, Carlos Hurtado ’72 after 34 years with retired that he com) reports After 30 years Transportation. NYS Dept. of the to wife Lisa have moved and he Apple, Big in the in a small kids school high their to get CO, Avon, mountains. enjoy the and school high Christian up with keeping and skiing a lot of is doing He Doug volunteers lives. social sports and kids’ the is committee and School High Christian at Vail Life. Young Valley Vail of chairman His daughter visitor to campus. frequent anie ’11 Smart fall. in the adventure his Cornell gins is com- Lauren, child, His oldest Mark! timing, home in their studies science plant her pleting lots more anticipates Mark Jersey. New state of to his fre- on campus in addition time family good bankers. investment Cornell’s of visits as one quent Michael Nozzolio to a tenth Falls has been re-elected Seneca of gov) selected as secretary and NYS Senate term in the chairman Conference; Majority NYS Senate the of Com- Corrections and Crime, Victims, Crime the of NYS Senate-As- the of co-chairman mittee; and also serves as He Force. Task sembly Redistricting Beach. Harris law firm of to the of-counsel sonette pow- for partner managing the has become net) con- environmental the for America North er for has been involved with firm ERM. She sulting is hav- world and the all around projects fabulous time. a great ing , , cre- Julie Elson Sherriff, and Sherriff, has been ap- Judith Harrod Gary L. Rubin Elias Savada Bourne is a psy- Bourne c , ab478@cornell. Rona Levine Louise Shelley Alex Barna Libby, MBA ’77, started her sec- ’77, started her MBA Libby, Ross, [email protected]. Ross, Save the date! Cornell Red Hot Cornell date! Save the against off will square Hockey November Boston U. on Saturday, Leslie Smullin Bondy, Bondy, , ME ’77, changed jobs and is now jobs and , ME ’77, changed , MAT ’75, traveled up and down the down up and ’75, traveled , MAT Gunderson ([email protected]) Gunderson After nearly two decades as a two decades as a After nearly prosecutor, I am now a nanny. I am now prosecutor, Carol Fein Wendy Trozzi Any classmates who use Facebook can visit who classmates Any ‘ a maternity leave) coincided with Lauren’s retire- with Lauren’s coincided leave) a maternity two after nearly “So, service. public from ment Lau- a nanny,” I am now a prosecutor, as decades is more Babysitting I am exhausted! “And says. ren “may case!” Lauren murder a than trying arduous I have also been knit- law again—or not. practice a ‘fiber artist.’” about being fantasizing and ting Thomas Ames Redevelop- Lands Horsham the of director deputy a redevel- with creating charged Authority, ment in Air Station Naval former the plan for opment the and closing base is Navy The PA. Willow Grove, parcel, 892-acre the of reuse for HLRA is planning town’s the of 8 percent almost constitutes which PA, County, still in Bucks are family and Tom land. 1980. have lived since they where State. Dept. of US to work at the continues Strotz on East has focused she career her of For most Asia—China and Southeast Asia—but lately Judith’s she on cyber security policy. been working has U., major- Madison at James is a junior daughter in history. ing has two sons. and in Massachusetts living chologist Grebe Kay classmates. from news love to hear says she’d to Stetson U. with a move presidency college ond in 2009. “I of summer with in the FL, joke DeLand, eventually Yorkers New that all good everyone perfect this makes so to live in Florida, choose place “Stetson is a wonderful says. she sense,” programs, academic challenging and with rigorous emphasis on community high I athletics, Division campus only 25 miles a historic and engagement, Law is in St. Pete. of Our College Atlantic. the from president), college (a retired Richard husband, My at Stetson. and Florida in central I love being and will have some- you and your grandchildren Send place warm to visit!” pointed university professor at George Mason U. Mason at George university professor pointed on council global agenda the is co-chair of and Forum. She Economic World the of crime organized Hes- daughter her of wedding to the looks forward this summer. a mathematician, ter, Diane Kravitz Marli Stahler Six- BIG the to “celebrate coast together California four the of picture a gorgeous sent OH.” Diane we couldn’t include unfortunately which women, to space constraints. due Class Notes in the (http://tinyurl.com/4nfppee) there page our new photos. and post comments and ated the Facebook page following a January 2011 a January following Facebook page ated the Alumni Leadership Cornell at the class meeting DC. in Washington, Conference [email protected]; [email protected]; edu; 26, at Madison Square Garden, NYC. Our class has Garden, Square 26, at Madison 73 - c Spoont, Zen Golf: Stephanie , MA ’74, and , and , and Deirdre Courtney , BArch ’73, MPS ’01, , BArch , ddressable advertising ddressable , remain a best seller for , remain Annie Freedman , married Alaiyo Bradshaw on Alaiyo Bradshaw married Laurel Brandt ([email protected]), , BA ’71, writes: “As my soph- my ’71, writes: “As , BA -Miller, [email protected]; and [email protected]; -Miller, Bonnie Brier Mark your calendars! Planning your calendars! Mark Reunion, our 40th has started for 7–10, 2012. The June to be held John Nicolls , [email protected]. , Bill Toffey , Nancy Roistacher . Bonnie Brier has also agreed to serve as has also agreed Brier . Bonnie Joseph Parent James Johnson John Henrehan 72 Batson, MA ’75, following classmates are taking the lead in the the taking are classmates following planning: Rick Banks Bob Maroney Stern to in an effort our class, chair for membership to be Our 40th promises participation. maximize friends special filled with event, a magnificent miss it. Don’t memories. great and was one daughter his teenage July 12, 2010 and bridesmaids. the of omore year started, I realized that I needed to that I needed I realized year started, omore even college— and major, a shift in focus, make of College to the Engineering of College the from in- My in Psychology. majoring Sciences, Arts and a evolved into mind the of workings in the terest just after and with Buddhism, connection deep Trungpa Chogyam mentor, my I met graduation in- Chinese the from had escaped who Rinpoche, in teaching was at that time Tibet and of vasion hap- coincidence An incredible America. North way to live at his Boulder, as I was on my pened: Colorado—in U. of the center, meditation CO, I’d been accepted to told me and Boulder—called years many for After training PhD program. their (social) Western and in both Eastern (Buddhist) path eventu- my a PhD, earning and psychology practice mindfulness Buddhist ally led to applying particular- to sports performance, psychology and Los in Ojai, CA, and I live mainly Currently, ly golf. Inn Resort Ojai Valley teach at the and Angeles, I’ve had the Club. Country Los Angeles at the and first book, to have my fortune good great Mastering the Mental Game years,nine a with in in print copies quarter-million to work I’ve also been fortunate seven languages. both helping elite players in golf, the of with some on the Kerr Cristie and Tour PGA on the Vijay Singh world rank- in the one number to reach Tour LPGA opportunity to ap- has also been the There ings. That endeavor. of ply what I teach to every field speaker, a keynote career—as other led to my in Game’ or Your Top the to be ‘At how teaching cars a way for I haven’t found life. and business a found but I’ve engines, running to have cleaner minds.” running people have cleaner way to help husband Art Leavens became grandparents for the for grandparents became Art Leavens husband gave Sydney daughter when in November first time work (following to return birth to a girl. Sydney’s proprietary technology in a technology proprietary Matt Silverman on television. His partners are Google, NBC, Mo- NBC, Google, are His partners on television. others. among WPP, and torola, school has a son in high later in life, married who is elated to He college. away at a daughter and afford- the made Sally, that his daughter, report Common- Virginia attend to choice able in-state quite happy with and is a freshman wealth U. She volleyball recreational plays John choice. her about dancing ballroom goes and a week twice that he reported he note, In his a month. twice in June. reunion to attending forward was looking re- who classmates thanks to our many Many Please look for news. for to our request sponded magazine. the issues of in future your news Linda Germaine 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 71 Page PM 1:24 6/16/11 056-095CAMja11notes 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 72

on which they spent two recent summers tour- diabetes at New Jersey Medical School/UMDNJ, Williams, Maria Mickewicz Lewis, Elizabeth Lev- ing Spain, France, Italy, the Greek isles, Sardinia, where her husband, Mark Granick ’73, is also on enback Shamir, Karen Broten Sieburgh ’73, and and Corsica. They have become acquainted with the faculty. Alice Johnson Fornari informs us that Jill Abrams Klein ’80 to a sunny spring retreat their new neighbor, Leland Pillsbury ’69, also she is assistant dean for medical education, Hof- from reality as we toured museums and federal an Ithaca-area “townie” and Hotel school grad. stra North Shore/LIJ School of Medicine, which is buildings, shopped at Eastern Market, walked Presently they are working on a major project to opening in August 2011. Embassy Row, and sampled a wide range of eth- help bring resources to Haitian earthquake vic- Congratulations to Harry Baumes on his nic cuisines at local restaurants. tims with the production of a “We Are the promotion within the US Dept. of Agriculture as Our DG-in-DC weekend brought two of my World”-type of song and music video called “Haiti the director of the office of energy policy and Cornell roommates to town. Sophomore roommate Thanks You” sung by all-Haitian kids through the new uses (OEPNU), which provides policy advice Maria Mickewicz Lewis flew across one continent United Nations. for the office of the secretary and other officials and two countries from Calgary, AB, where she, Dan Smith ([email protected]) has com- on energy and bioproduct issues. Barbara Gales husband Dave, and their three children reside. pleted 30 years of emergency medicine practice (Lebanon, NH) works at the Veteran’s Adminis- Maria ([email protected]) serves as a con- serving the underserved, sick, and indigent in the tration Hospital in White River Junction, VT, as tract land man, overseeing leases and contracts ER and currently is the department’s chief. He has the director for the Polytrauma Clinic evaluating for government drilling for Taqa, Abu Dhabi Na- spent 11 years in Hawaii and finds it wonderful veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan tional Energy Company. Life after work includes living at his vacation home. Wife Jan now is the with traumatic brain injuries. She also performs two distinctly different challenges: the creative ef- author of three successful chemistry texts. Bill Tot- disability evaluations for veterans. She keeps in fort of building a new house designed by her son’s ten ([email protected]) served as president touch with Renee Alexander in Ithaca and Phyl- girlfriend, and the mental vs. physical game of of the Cornell Club of Greater Philadelphia from lis Turner-Williams in Saudi Arabia. learning to play golf. Senior-year roommate Chris- 2008–10. After 15 years, he left A.G. Edwards/ Benny Lorenzo acquired a majority/control- tine Curran Williams (christine.c.williams@gmail. Wachovia Securities/Wells Fargo Advisors to join ling interest in Kaufman Bros. LP, making it one com) lives in Potomac, MD. At the same time hus- Edward Jones Investments. Bill participates in the of the largest Latino-owned banker/brokers in the band Keith retired as an actuary in Washington, alumni baseball game most reunion weekends and country. The firm focuses on the technology, me- DC, Chris began her own consulting practice as continues to enjoy Big Red football involvement dia, green technology, and healthcare services a registered dietician specializing in diabetes nu- and his fraternity relationships. He has enjoyed sectors. Benny says that the trition and education and reconnecting with Nancy Miller Clifford, MA ’76, new undertaking has been medical nutrition. Daugh- and her husband, Richard ’74, MBA ’76. one of his most challenging ter Kelly graduated from By the time you read this column, I will have but also one of the most re- Public serv- Ithaca College and works returned from our June Baltic cruise and enjoyed warding. He is sure to em- as a physical therapist, the White Nights in St. Petersburg, a great way to phasize that he could not ‘ Elizabeth is a Barnard Col- celebrate my 60th. I travel again in October with have accomplished the chal- ice is not lege grad working in the fellow Cincinnati Art Museum docents to China lenge without the support D.C. area, and Matt ’12 is with our curator of Asian art, so my Delta Skymiles of his wife, Wanda, and chil- for the weak in Engineering. account will enjoy a substantial increase in 2011! dren Manuel and Xiomara. Liz Levenback Shamir c Pamela S. Meyers, [email protected]; Phyllis Gary Dufel, ME ’75, still in (Ft. Washington, PA) has Haight Grummon, [email protected]. Danbury, CT, spent ten days of heart. her own financial planning in the Andes of Ecuador as practice affiliated with part of an Engineers With- Rick Weiss’ ’75 First Financial Group in As I review the many responses to out Borders (EWB) group as- Bala Cynwyd. She and her our request for news, I continue sisting in bringing potable husband have a son begin- 74 to marvel at the diversity of our water to a number of villages. Gary serves as the ning studies at Yale and two daughters, one of classmates and the interesting and important professional mentor to the U. of New Haven’s whom is married and living in Switzerland; the things that we are involved in throughout the student chapter of EWB. other is a student at Hofstra U. Laurie Musick country and around the world. Nancy Porter retired in 2009 and comments Wright and husband Greg are in Rutland, VT, Randee Mia Berman has invited us to listen that she doesn’t know how she had time for a where I’m happy to say the snow has finally melt- in to her Internet radio show at www.centanni full-time job. She keeps busy volunteering, trav- ed. She balances her graphic design practice at broadcasting.com. The show, which she co-hosts, eling, and working on projects around her house. LMW Design Inc. with enjoyment of the great out- is called “The Johnny Mandolin Show” and is David Eng (Larchmont, NY) got together with doors. Laurie is also pursuing a more recently dis- broadcast live from Giovanna’s Restaurant in New classmate Gary Ng, BArch ’76, and they shared lots covered interest in bioenergetic massage and shen York City, Tuesdays from 7:00-8:00 p.m. She most- of stories. He adds, “We also discussed second/ touch, receiving and studying this hands-on heal- ly does humorous social commentaries, limericks, next homes—please send ideas to me at: david ing modality from Italy. There’s a special gleam in and interviews with musicians, artists, and writ- [email protected].” Lucinda Gibbs Robinson Laurie’s eye when she talks about the fun of be- ers. Randee is also working on a couple of books, sends word that her first book, Natural Herbal ing a grandmother to two energetic boys, Cole, 4, fiction and non-fiction. Meredith Lloyd sings with Therapy: How to Cure Yourself of AIDS, HIV, Can- and Case, 1, who are sons of daughter Jamie Chic- the North American Welsh Choir and is excited cer, and Many Other Ailments With Herbs, is now chetti ’99 and her husband, Eric Ziehm ’99. Jamie about their anticipated tour of New Zealand in the available on Amazon. Lucinda, an herbalist since and Eric were both Animal Husbandry majors at fall. When not singing, Meredith keeps active in 1973, says she has developed regimens using Cornell and now operate their own horse ranch, the Coast Guard Auxiliary and helping injured an- only all-natural substances to overcome many Higher Ground Farm, in Eagle Bridge, NY. Laurie’s imals find new homes. Speaking of being overseas, conditions, “with very specific herbal combina- mother, Patricia Tapscott Musick Carr, PhD ’74, Douglas Foy reports he has been living in Singa- tions proven effective over many years of use.” lives near her in Vermont and is still very active pore for more than 20 years. He loves the people Thanks for all your news. Keep it coming! c in the creative arts. Pat’s sculpture will be in- and culture, as well as the weather so he can en- Jack Jay Wind, [email protected]; Helen stalled at the new Human Ecology building during joy tennis and scuba all year round. He is start- Bendix, [email protected]; Betsy Moore, Council Weekend, Oct. 20–22, when she will also ing to think about college for his daughter Lauren, [email protected]. celebrate the 40th Reunion of the 1971 Ivy League who is starting high school, and also for son Alex, Championship football team, coached by her late 13. Douglas travels back to the States once a year. husband Jack Musick. Go Big Red! Nora Bredes directs the Susan B. Anthony It has been a fabulous Cornell Across the river in nearby New Jersey, Eric Center for Women’s Leadership at the U. of weekend! No, it wasn’t our offi- Rosenblum is managing director for EPR Resources, Rochester. She is active in state and local poli- 75 cial reunion (but that is just four located in Princeton. He is involved in manage- tics as the president of the Eleanor Roosevelt short years away, so mark your calendar for June ment and consulting with banking institutions and Legacy Committee, working to train, support, and 2015), but the gathering of nine Delta Gamma real estate groups in the tri-state region. Eric re- elect pro-choice Democratic women. Carol Singer- sisters in Washington, DC. I welcomed trip plan- cently directed the move of Princeton’s American Granick continues as an associate professor of pe- ner Diane “Kope” Kopelman VerSchure ’74, Laura Boychoir School, a formidable challenge. He and diatrics and director of pediatric endocrinology and Musick Wright ’74, Elyse Byron, Christine Curran wife Barbara enjoyed visiting their youngest son, 72 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes , Eric pub- , Holly Amy Birn- Bradley Pi- Cheryl Spiel- August 2011 73 Holly English and is working and New Jersey Law | Jonathan Honig , [email protected]; July (Seoul, Korea; bob.edw (Seoul, Korea; rexelmed.edu. iduals. I am also on the advi- the I am also on iduals. In response to my regular plea regular to my In response this column came for news for missive from following the , heisen@d , Annette Mulee New York Law Journal New York Bob Edwards c Gender on Trial: Sexual Stereotypes and Sexual Gender on Trial: and other publications. She is a past pres- She publications. other and ([email protected]) wrote in February, wrote ([email protected]) : “I am middle-aged! My kids are freaks and freaks are kids My : “I am middle-aged! ([email protected]) also sent her busi- her sent also ([email protected]) On to the more serious stuff. serious more On to the Also on the legal beat, Also on the From From ([email protected]) is senior director of gen- of director is senior ([email protected]) Cotts I am a physics household. my dominates dog my at Binghamtonprofessor U., soon and years) (three no department the of won’t have to be chairman arts col- liberal to small our kids sent We more. (our) money’s their would get they where leges gradu- poetry in is studying one now worth, and way to study- is on his other the and ate school every dog the I walk school. in grad chemistry ing buddies my and woods me the into far morning, me.” wife likes thank God my own, and formerly of counsel with Post, Polak, Goodsell, Polak, with Post, counsel of formerly Free- Nuck, has joined PA, & Strauchler MacNeill to will continue and as a partner & Cerra man au- The law. employment of in all areas practice of thor Balance in the Legal Workplace Work/Life has written numerous articles for for articles has written numerous Journal of Association National the of board the of ident board a current remains Lawyers (NAWL), Women Foun- NAWL the of board is on the and member, di- of board the of is also a member She dation. Lawyers’ Women Jersey New the of rectors Jersey New the of board the and Association event, a NAWL moderated Forum. Holly Women’s Supreme Jersey New in the Advocacy “Appellate jus- female retired and all sitting Court,” featuring Court. Supreme Jersey New the of tices 78 lished several pieces on mediation and securities and on mediation pieces several lished law in the NYS Bar As- issues with the legislation on federal estate prac- real law and Employment sociation. market have also been very active because of tices in son is working Jonathan’s Since conditions. [email protected]): “I am managing a joint venture a joint managing “I am [email protected]): in Ko- travel enjoying with GS Caltex, partnership (e.g., Pacific the of on this side elsewhere and rea raising and Saipan, Australia), Cambodia, China, in an exciting, Melissa) our two boys (with wife competitive, and environment.” diverse att LLC, at PPL Generation services technical eration natural and electricity of provider an international PA. in Allentown, gas headquartered Health Services in their New York office. She also She office. 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Jeffrey married son is in younger my U., and Mellon at Carnegie clas- studies He School. at Roslyn High 11th grade pre-college School’s Juilliard guitar at the sical of board is on the that she adds Dana program.” organiza- not-for-profit “a Homeless, the for Care services social and medical providing in NYC tion indiv to homeless at the Center Griffith Leadership the of sory board I where Health, Public of School Michigan’s U. of school.” to graduate went man & Young at Ernst is a tax partner Cheryl card. ness When capital practice. human in their baum a sen- two kids—one work and was juggling she and Amy to colleges. applying school in high ior to come More NY. live in Bronx, Bernard husband to your correspon- news Send issue. next in the at: dents Howie Eisen Zevi , ME ’77, , BFA ’76, , BFA , Ljdiamant@ Dana Eisenman Joe Meo , BS Nurs ’77 (Bel- , BS Nurs Sussman, Krinsk54@ Sussman, and his wife, Giusep- his wife, and Beitch kindly sent some sent Beitch kindly Anne Garden , BS Nurs ’77. , BS Nurs Lisa Diamant Hanavan, [email protected]. Hanavan, c says that work and family are family says that work and and his wife, Judy, who live in who Judy, his wife, and Jean O’Farrell MA; [email protected]) mont, as “I have been working writes, Karen Krinsky Chip Johnson Pat Relf Kathy Wheat , BArch ’57, passed away on February ’57, passed , BArch Laurie Greenbaum 2010 was a good year for year for 2010 was a good Nancy Arnosti Although she has not written anything in written anything not has she Although 77 a nurse practitioner at Tewksbury Hospital since Hospital at Tewksbury practitioner a nurse in New Shoals of Isles to the 1989. I enjoy going and Star Island particularly Maine, and Hampshire the of location latter is the The Island. Appledore Hamp- New U. of by the owned Lab, Marine Shoals art from son just graduated My Cornell. and shire is active 2010.” Jean Class of at MICA, school and UUA, Boston, the Club of Cornell with the Corps Peace Returned (Boston Area BARPCV the gar- and also enjoys walking She Volunteers). Nursing her from would love to hear She dening. classmate Sherwin ([email protected]). She joined She ([email protected]). Sherwin as Director, Inc. firm RSM McGladrey national the news after receiving my e-mail. She is a landscape She e-mail. my after receiving news in upstate in pastels, working primarily painter, in the has two pieces she Currently York. New Arts Cen- Exhibit at the Pastel National Northeast to have a is also going She NY. in Old Forge, ter, in Canajoharie, Museum Arkell at the solo show at Franchesca in a show included will be and NY, MA, in 2012. Art in Lexington, Fine Anderson with day the spent she Christmas before Right Steve Graebert and Maine, had a great MA. They live in Medfield, pa, who she fall, In the up. catching and laughing time Doug met husband and live in Greenbrae, who Leonard, husband, her and Cooperstown. in Fame of Baseball Hall CA, at the to have retained is very lucky says that she Laurie On years. all these friendships wonderful these process is in the Mollie daughter front, home the Sarah Daughter school. to nursing transferring of On a sad School. High at Niskayuna is a freshman friend and mentor, professor, Laurie’s note, Blum ’55 and wisdom, years his humor, 25, 2011. Over the feels She to persevere. her helped encouragement him. to have known was very lucky she enjoys con- She balance. in reasonable and good, life sciences European and US with her sulting that ap- is a word that retirement so much clients Ju- daughter, sees her Nancy only to others. plies liana ’12), (Vanderbilt as often as possible, she son, and her with Along to love Nashville. has learned as part of Orleans visited New recently she Derek, activist, political an engaged As search. his college every two “sabbatical” a month-long takes she years to cause. the for work full-time was look- She with time spending to our 35th and forward ing new. old and friends gmail.com; verizon.net; verizon.net; the other will be starting college in the fall. She fall. in the college be starting will other the en- and a few classmates with in touch has kept of field the leaving Since them. from joys hearing to pursue music, engineering all the played parts and horn the has arranged Winter’s Johnny great Blues parts for saxophone when details release have the didn’t CD. He next out in it will come that believes but he wrote, he in- activities musical Other months. few next the Linda Republican at Connecticut playing clude failed she gala. Though election-night McMahon’s party. a great threw she votes, to win the years, , . , and feels Gary Amy Lubow Joan Pease Tony Zieno David Freed , dsgellman@ is in the Arts is in the c Rick Weiss and and Boroff, boroffka@ Boroff, , PhD ’80, and wife , PhD ’80, and works in geriatric primary works in geriatric celebrated their 34th an- their celebrated and the team repeated as team repeated the and Deb Gellman , [email protected]. Jennifer ’13 , ME ’79, reside in Fair Haven, , ME ’79, reside , who graduated with a degree with graduated , who The news for this column is for news The as we haven’t yet received light, forms news latest supply of the g in Italy on a semester abroad. semester on a g in Italy David Fischell Karen DeMarco Monty Templeman Erin ’10 Mitch Frank In response to a plea for news news to a plea for In response Also in the healthcare field is field healthcare Also in the Please help us help you read more about your more you read us help Please help Daphne Schneider Daphne from the annual class dues mailing. Look for a full Look for mailing. class dues annual the from issue. next in the on our 35th Reunion report 22 for has been married that she wrote Downs has and now works in retail She years to Daniel. and year at Cornell, is in his junior One two sons. 76 shu.edu; shu.edu; who was studyin who the of as chair volunteers he time, spare In Eric’s trustees at of board the of committee facilities School. Hun the with marched trustee and is a Cornell NJ. David daughter Sarah’78 (Thole) in Mechanical Engineering. Erin led Cornell’s team Erin led Cornell’s Engineering. in Mechanical team com- vehicle underwater autonomous at the in San Diego, petition world champs! Sister hotmail.com; hotmail.com; [email protected]; college and plays in the Big Red Band. David is David Red Band. Big in the plays and college and in Shrewsbury Systems Medical Angel CEO of at Cornell. to teach a semester day one hopes Sherry and Gary can’t wait for their upcoming trip upcoming their Gary can’t wait for and Sherry and Falls, to Victoria a safari this year, to Africa Bon voyage! son in Switzerland. a visit with their out of a few minutes Take classmates. Cornell your into us a few insights to send your busy day you have seen, and friends life after Cornell, the share We’ll on campus. moments memorable columns. in our upcoming news president and CEO of Nyack Hospital, in Nyack, Nyack Hospital, CEO of and president NJ. He Upper Montclair, from commutes David NY. alumni avoided has “successfully writes that he Thank last 34 years!” the for requests information Over basics. to give us some is ready he goodness New from MS and his MBA earned David years, the administration in health a doctorate U. and York expert- His South Carolina. U. of Medical the from ise is turnarounds, hospital in difficult takes he and na- earning footing, Nyack on solid in putting pride turn- department in emergency distinction tional recovery,” “house include His hobbies time. around that I house “I live in a once-condemned noting, bicycling also enjoys long-distance He renovated.” communications of director As motorcycling. and Of- White House the for analyst policy senior and Technology, and Science of fice that he has survived two years in the most de- most has survived two years in the that he the for Working has ever held. job he manding that concluded he’s adviser, science President’s but heart, weak of the for is not service “public to shoulder my to add time the like this seemed classes with professors credits He cause.” the a signif- having for Morse Eikwort, and Kingsbury, with spent as well as time impact on his life, icant and Rick graduation. years since in the Eisner Prof. MD. Park, in Takoma reside Angier wife Natalie a Harvard Alliance, Health Cambridge at the care in Somerville, affiliate teaching School Medical Hampshire, New MA. In neighboring Sherry Burnett Young niversary; they met at Cornell in 1972 “and nev- in 1972 “and at Cornell met niversary; they back.” Gary is still very involved in er looked still see They referee. as a college now hockey, buddies, Cornell their of up with many keep and including 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 73 Page PM 1:24 6/16/11 056-095CAMja11notes 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 74

Africa, he traveled to Morocco for a visit and en- field and far infrared devices, which are increas- Medford ’80 and wife Nancy (Dobkins) ’80, and joyed an adventure riding camels through the Sa- ingly being incorporated into mainstream health Marjorie Werner Stein and husband Mark got to- hara dunes. Wayne White resigned his position organizations. All this in a facility that includes gether on Oct. 16, 2010 for fun and memories at as general counsel of Sindicatum Carbon Capital cardio and fitness equipment, mineral baths, mas- Haru restaurant in Times Square. They were friends Americas to become US legal director for Brook- sage, an upscale cafe, a wine bar, cooking class- from Donlon Hall and High Rise 1 and had not all field Renewable Energy, based in Marlborough, es, and even a “smart living” science center been together in more than 30 years. Yet they all MA. It’s hard leaving Houston, he says, but great exhibiting the latest in home technologies. Jim is felt and looked exactly the same! Some of the to embark on a new adventure. looking for a few more partners to move the ven- group saw Memphis that evening and had dim sum After serving as interim chair for two years, ture forward and turn it into a national brand. in Chinatown the next day before having a great Michael Coburn was named chair of the Scott Melinda Dower was planning to join a group laugh at The Divine Sister at the Soho Playhouse. Dept. of Urology at Baylor College of Medicine, of fellow alums, informally called the Continuous They left the weekend thinking they can’t wait where he has been a member of the faculty since Reunion Club (CRC), which meets at Cornell re- another 30 years before getting together again! 1990. He is also the vice-chair for academic affairs unions every year. Pat Reilly, Athena Jamesson, Vanessa Sampson-Stroman and husband Ron vis- at Baylor. Michael specializes in urologic trauma, JD ’88, and Linda Bruckner were also expected ited Ruth Trezevant Cyrus and husband Eric in reconstructive surgery, and male reproductive med- to attend this year. Melinda is in her last year of Florida in October 2010. They had great times on icine and surgery. The current Carlton-Smith Chair work as an environmental scientist in New Jersey, the beach and even better food. Vanessa works in Urologic Education, Michael chairs the gradu- after which she plans to reinvent herself at least as a radiologist in Washington, DC, and Ruth is a ate medical education committee at Baylor and is once or twice—now that her two children have VP with a medical benefits firm. immediate past-chair of the Academy of Distin- graduated from Carnegie Mellon and are gainful- Mark Hansen ([email protected]) is com- guished Educators. ly employed. That’s it for this installment of the ing close to a quarter-century of living in Asia. He Peter Chatel has taken on a new role at the Class of ’78 news. I’ve got the honors again for is head of Asia governance and strategic initia- Coca-Cola Co. as director of product and package the next issue (Sept/Oct), as Cindy and I tives at Standard Chartered Bank. He and wife Di- quality. After spending 32 years in the corporate switched rotation. Send your updates to: c Ilene anne live in Singapore and celebrated their 15th world, Minda Cutcher started her own business Shub Lefland, [email protected]; Cindy Fuller, wedding anniversary with a romantic weekend vis- three years ago as a financial advocate for sen- [email protected]. iting the Taj Mahal. When former president Hunter iors. Her website is http://mindacutcher.com/. Rawlings and Economics professor Kaushik Basu Stephen Cushman has published Riffraff, a new hosted an alumni event in Delhi, Mark and Dianne volume of poems, with Louisiana State U. Press. We heard from James Rooney attended. Mark is active in Cornell alumni activi- He is Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at the and Ellen Gorowitz. Ellen has ties both in Singapore and in the Asian region. If U. of Virginia. 79 published a science fiction book any classmates live in the region or plan on trav- Steven Carter continues his publishing ad- called Mindgames that is available on Amazon. eling to Asia, please drop Mark a note. Tiernan ventures in Brazil, where he has benefitted from According to James, in addition to the usual aliens Shea and her family returned to Houston in the that country’s economic transformation. After his and interstellar warfare you would expect in a summer of 2010 after four years in London. It first two books (What Smart Women Know and its work of science fiction, “Mindgames explores what was their sixth move as a family and they are all sequel, Men Like Women Who Like Themselves), would happen to society if some people had tele- happy to leave the damp climate behind and em- written several years ago for the US market, be- kinetic powers and others did not. It has what brace the Texas sunshine. Tiernan is at home with came bestsellers in Brazil, he recently added Men every worthwhile novel must have: a really great her youngest child, Kiera, 11, while her middle Who Can’t Love and Secrets of Self-Esteem to the villain.” James has also been writing. He has com- child, Brooke, 16, finishes high school in London. list. All four of these titles were purchased by pleted a paper he began to research while taking Her oldest, Travis, 19, is a sophomore at Bates Avon Brazil for distribution through their repre- an archaeology course at Cornell. The paper, which College in Maine. Husband Doug Boyle is in glob- sentatives and the “Bing, Bong, Avon Calling” addresses whether the Bronze Age Minoan civi- al marketing with Shell Oil. campaigns. The initial order from Avon Brazil was lization on Crete was destroyed by a tsunami, was For the past ten years, Philip Raymond, MS for more than 500,000 copies, bringing his sales published in two parts in the Spring and Fall 2007 ’80 (Marlborough, MA) has been the CEO of Van- in Brazil to nearly 2 million copies. Steven at- editions of Amphora, a magazine put out by the quish Labs, a venture of Cornell alumni that has tended the Bienal do Livro (their national book American Philological Association. The article, been featured in Forbes,theWall Street Journal,and fair) in August and expects to be there again this titled “The Minoan Tsunami,” can be found at the on NPR and has received numerous awards. Van- summer. He wonders if it’s time to move to Brazil. Association’s website by clicking on the Amphora quish has now been sold and Philip has started a Walter Milani returned to New York after 18 link and looking for editions 6.1 and 6.2. new company, Fungible.net, a disaster recovery lab months in Macau, where he was production com- Betty Gnau Robinson, MEd ’86, and husband that salvages data from damaged or corrupted disk pany manager on a $250 million Franco Dragone Oscar (South Otselic, NY) run a successful dairy drives and other storage devices. He writes, “We production at the City of Dreams Casino (www. farm. Betty teaches agriculture and received the have a few Cornellian tricks up our sleeve that will thehouseofdancingwater.com). While in Macau he Outstanding Eastern Region Senior Ag Teacher in distinguish the Fungible venture from a crowded met a charming British couple who ran the wine NYS award in June 2010. In 2009, she received market for drive recovery tools and services.” Karen bar Macau Soul (www.macausoul.com). It turned the 4-H Lifetime Achievement award; Betty has Rose Tank graduated from the Inst. for Integra- out to be David, PhD ’74, and Jacky Higgins, been a 4-H club leader for 23 years. She attend- tive Nutrition in NYC and has embarked on a new who spent 1971–74 in Ithaca while David earned ed the Cornell University Dairy Science Club Re- career as a certified health and nutrition coach his PhD in veterinary medicine, before moving to union and had a great time. (www.RoseHealthCoaching.com). She writes, “Hav- Hong Kong. They shared some nice memories of Karen Sing has been living in Southern Cal- ing lived with Type 1/insulin-dependent diabetes their days on the Hill, especially of the bands ifornia for 29 years and really enjoys the perfect for the past 14 years, I have turned my ‘disease that were around at the time. Cornellians will al- weather in San Diego. When not working, Karen burden’ into a ‘passionate gift’ to share with oth- ways get an extra warm reception at Macau Soul. and her husband enjoy cycling, deep sea fishing ers in their struggles with diabetes and weight.” Before heading home, Walter also rewarded him- trips, and travel. Karen has kept in touch with her Karen counsels people on healthy diet and lifestyle self with a fascinating vacation in Australia, Chi- friends from the swimming team, rugby, and ice changes and also runs hands-on food preparation/ na, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Cambodia, hockey. A year ago she was on campus and had cooking support groups through www.TheSuppers Laos, and Vietnam. fun watching the women’s ice hockey team and Programs.org. Karen has sons Alexander, 22, and Joining forces with Peter Anderson, MPS ’92, admiring their new locker rooms and training fa- Spencer, 18, who are both at Princeton U. Her Jim Grapek ([email protected]) is developing cilities. George Rogers is an attorney in Wash- husband, David, PhD ’83 (Applied Physics), is co- a new concept in member-based clubs, intended ington, DC. In his free time, he enjoys singing in director of the Princeton Neuroscience Inst. to redefine the club experience and reshape the the choir at his temple, hiking, and cross-country Rich Bobrow and family still live in Westport, face of health, fitness, and well-being. It’s called skiing on the wooden skis he bought while at CT. Son Dylan is heading into his senior year at The Pavilion and it’s based on the premise that ex- Cornell. George would like to hear from Don Lehigh, daughter Rebecca is graduating high school ercise and fitness alone are not enough for good Semler ’80, BArch ’80, and Bob Bradshaw. in 2011, and twins Tucker and Kelsey will enter health. The Pavilion couples traditional wellness so- David Scheer, Sherrie Zweig, Sandy Rock- high school this fall. Rich and wife Holly operate lutions with an array of complementary modalities efellar Fey, Ellen Altsman Spektor, Judah a real estate development business and Holly is and technologies such as pulsed electro-magnetic Kraushaar, MBA ’80, and wife Michelle, David celebrating being admitted to the Connecticut Bar. 74 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes , Lee and his and , rfs25 @ Eric Rogers Alan Kanuk August 2011 75 Leona Barsky Chapel works as | c assumed a new role a new assumed wife, Athina, are en- are Athina, wife, writes that she logged writes that she Niel Golightly July , dej24 @ cornell.edu; , dej24 Dik Saalfeld ce for Bank UniCredit in like to hear from his Cor- from to hear like at alankanuk friends nell @ gmail.com. family are in their fifth in their are family year based in London with Royal Dutch Shell after 13 years in the spending 13 years with and Navy leads Co. Niel Motor Ford global communications the Royal Dutch for function busi- downstream Shell’s is also involved and ness Kelleigh practices estate practices Kelleigh Goodman still enjoys life in still Goodman -Bianco, caa28 @ cornell.edu. -Bianco, , MBA ’82, says hello from Hong from ’82, says hello , MBA Melanie Kroboth Cheryl Rose Dana Jerrard , since 1992. Jay writes, “Life is dy- writes, 1992. Jay , since Robert Entenman Jay Chen Roberta Walter Kennelly Nancy Please stay connected through our class and through Please stay connected It’s terrific to hear from our classmates living our classmates from to hear terrific It’s ’ clinical psychologist. She loves her job and has job and her loves She psychologist. clinical 20 years almost for hospital same at the worked neuro- and psychological inpatient performing age from patients for assessment psychological also has a private practice Kimberly 6 to seniors. in assessment specializing clinic in a neurology therapy. short-term does and with to be involved continues TN, and Nashville, of member as an active board affairs community She school. day Jewish local and synagogue her second Lenn, on their husband, her with traveled it was even better summer; last cruise to Alaska firstthan their years ago—“spectacular cruise ten perfect weath- and wildlife, awe-inspiring scenery, Ted- horse, her to ride Roberta has continued er.” on progress make a week and days four dy, seven grandchildren work. Roberta has dressage to a fresh- grandson a new from in age ranging mine not they’re “No, Chicago. U. of at the man delight fun and the but I have all of biologically, grandchildren.” seven wonderful of planning in Hopkinton, MA, and can be found at can be found MA, and in Hopkinton, planning writes about her Nancy www.kelleighlaw.com. 6, on Feb. “Five years ago Catherine: daughter, Cather- daughter my 2006—‘Gotcha Day’—I ‘got’ it’s been! I’m road What a wonderful in China. ine but enjoying motherhood, tooth for in the long every minute.” joying belated parenthood with their children with their belated parenthood joying 3. Cloe, 5, and Alex, join our Facebook and events many Cornell’s 1980. Class of Cornell group, a divorce mediator in Binghamton, NY. NY. in Binghamton, mediator a divorce City, with his wife to Park moved UT, a job with for TD Williamson. e-commer of as director his Greek Robert and London. Leonabarsky @ aol.com; Leonabarsky cornell.edu; nearly 1,000 miles in one week snowmobiling in week snowmobiling miles in one 1,000 nearly have snow “It’s to finally great Adirondacks. the invites Cor- She years ago.” we used to get like visit Old Forge. up if they to look her nellians abroad. with his wife, has been living he where Kong, Tsui Inn ’91 Erita, is 6 and Our daughter, pace is fast. namic, 5 just turned Jack, brother, younger much her our blessings.” count We months. in Australia, TX, to Sydney, Dallas, from moved their wife and September 2010 with his Australian live near 9. They Sarah, 10, and Max, children Alan would life. new enjoy their Beach and Bondi in some sustainable development projects. He projects. development sustainable in some to his first to return time has found writes that he flying. love, Cynthia Addonizio Alex grad- Emily Joelle Kimberly Walsh ’80 Kimberly Walsh I tend a small army of cats. ‘ , ME ’81. Tal Akabas ’11 idoff has been practicing has been idoff has been working as a sen- has been working writes that daughter that daughter writes sends her regards from Utah, from regards her sends -Dav Lebowitz practices dermatol- Lebowitz practices Jeff Maynard and and Bruce Reding works with a startup group, Avenues: , is majoring in Art History and spent History and in Art , is majoring graduated in May with a major in Amer- in a major with in May graduated Diane Berson Jonathan Freidin Annette Kriegel Kimberly Walsh 20th wedding anniversary and live on Long Island. on Long live and anniversary 20th wedding Terri Ann Lowenthal Milton ’11 nephew her and Studies, ican uated from Engineering. Joelle will work at Teach will work Joelle Engineering. from uated to Stam- returned Terri GA. in Atlanta, For America 26 years in Wash- after spending in 2007 CT, ford, to nonprofit works as a consultant She DC. ington, de- and on census foundations and organizations and director as a skating and issues mographic She Rinks. Twin coach at Stamford skating figure Council. University Cornell serves on the in the faculty serves on the and ogy in Manhattan Col- Medical Cornell at Weill Dermatology Dept. of Women’s the of was elected president She lege. with the an organization Society, Dermatologic vol- leadership, mentoring, promoting of mission daughter, Her networking. and unteerism, Lebowitz ’12 Son in London. studying semester spring the Lebowitz ’09 with a private schools building School, World The through nursery for on education global focus Mark Husband world. the around 12 in cities grade Manhattan. in surgeon works as an ophthalmic four-and-a- at Carbonite for engineer software ior on his years working half years after a couple of to check invites his classmates He own business. http://dge.stand co-authored: out a paper that he ford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/Caldeira_research/pdf/ Roberts_etal_IEEE_Trans_on_Energy_Conv_2007. Rensse- from pdf. His son, Benjamin, graduated in 2010 with a BS in bio- Inst. Polytechnic laer his daughter, biology; and chemistry/biophysics School. High at Marblehead is a junior Natalie, at Poore designer is an architectural Wife Lynette the of a graduate MA, and & Co. in Gloucester, “I adds, Jonathan College. Boston Architectural have been last year and CAAAN into was recruited about candi- writing with and meeting enjoying Shore.” all over Boston’s North from dates a husband, her and She 27 years. for dentistry finally are Center, at Boston Medical cardiologist has MA. She in Sharon, living and empty-nesters a son U. and Boston attending two daughters his fresh- just finished who Annette year at Cornell. man out this invitation: sends Founderites “For all those will be quad the out there, first time the for reuniting banana a reunion ever for have will party in D.C. You to lower chance yet another your score.” an engi- has been named In- fellow at Corning neering his has found he dustries; degree physics engineering his 30 years with Corn- to be very useful during in now are that both children notes Bruce ing. joy (emp- pride, of “this is a source and college surprise at how and sadness, some ty nest—yes!), would enjoy He by.” years have gone the quickly with his “old EP buddies” back in touch getting Bruce Leclair where she has lived for 20 years. “I tend a small “I tend 20 years. has lived for she where baking, and enjoy cooking cats . . . and of army Kimberly ob- reading.” and gardening, organic in clinical degree master’s a postdoctoral tained works as a licensed and psychopharmacology , , Ed Re- and and . John Alana ’10 The Employ- William Linda Moses Kathy Zappia Marty Dymek Cindy Ahlgren , was published , , MD ’80, are very , MD ’80, are c returned to Cornell returned Larry Neuringer (grg27 @ cornell.edu) (grg27 Howard Goldman of Needham, MA, have a Needham, of Gene Leone Our classmates have experienced Our classmates personal,momentous family, and and accomplishments career Mildner youngest, that her reports celebrated the fifth anniversary of fifth the celebrated , and is the proud mother of two of mother proud is the , and Mazin’s second book, second Mazin’s , MPS ’84, and ’84, and , MPS will resume medical school at Thomas at school medical will resume Kathryn Gleason Gregory Gordon of Sunnyvale, CA, passed away on Janu- Sunnyvale, of JD ’81 , Amy (Tayer) ’83 (Tayer) Amy Lastly, we received the sad news that sad news the we received Lastly, Pat Braus Many of our classmates have shared news of news have shared our classmates of Many Esther Elkin ee Benefits Answer Book: An Indispensable Guide Book: An Indispensable ee Benefits Answer Business Owners Managers and for ar- and architecture landscape in 1996 to teach the of gardens ancient research chaeology and from on digs her work takes Her Mediterranean. to India. even and Jordan and to Israel Italy in Re- Award Honor a National received Kathryn Landscape of Society American the from search Jeff with husband lives in Ithaca She Architects. son, Noah. their and Zorn wife by Pfeiffer in December 2010. She lives in Larch- December 2010. She by Pfeiffer in NY. mont, Rich is in touch with with is in touch Rich Maron becca Rollie Bates a nonprofit she leads and helped start, Rochester helped leads and she a nonprofit re- raises organization The Foundation. Education NY, in Rochester, city students to help sources lit- book clubs and support student They succeed. new of thousands give students activities, eracy support and instruments, used musical books and is a big city youth. It jobs for summer paid science teaching job previous Pat’s from change to married She’s at a local college. writing Lopez as part biology teaching is an MIT grad one sons: oth- the and in Philadelphia, For America Teach of With Pat’s Pennsylvania. U. of at the er is a junior ILR at the Rochester from Ed teaching husband is Pat Disability Inst., and Employment school’s visits to Ithaca. frequent more enjoying son attending Cornell in the Arts college and Arts college in the Cornell son attending that wrote team. Howard rugby on the playing great. campus is looking the Kearney in a motor- sustained injuries ary 25, 2011 from out go prayers and Our thoughts cycle accident. friends. and family to John’s [email protected]; Shea, and [email protected]; Gould, [email protected]. 80 have so much news to share. We received a terrific received We to share. news have so much would love and news for to our request response to stay you. Let’s continue from hearing to keep events. at Cornell see each other and in touch Congratulations accomplishments. children’s their Cornell attending will have children who to those fall. in the writes that his youngest, Jonathan, will start on will Jonathan, writes that his youngest, son Older is very excited. and fall Hill in the the Steven ’08 Israel. from returns after he fall U. in the Jefferson Maryland U. of the from graduated daughter Greg’s ex- college enjoyed her thoroughly 2010 and in classmates. from would love to hear He perience. Carrie daughter fall; will start in ILR in the Erica, in majoring Maryland, U. of at the is a sophomore Daughter speech sciences. and hearing For Teach the through math school high teaches FL. in Jacksonville, program America proud of their son, Harrison, who will attend Cor- will attend who son, Harrison, their of proud look 2015. They Class of the of as a member nell over the trips” to Cornell “road to many forward their celebrated Arlene and William years. four next Arlene Orenstein Sussman ’84 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 75 Page PM 1:24 6/16/11 056-095CAMja11notes 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 76

Happy summer! Did you attend tasted and purchased wines for her cellar. In San engineer, she lectures at MIT while managing reunion in June? Due to family com- Jose, Daniel Fenton is a partner with Strategic parts of the Spectacle Island project in Boston 81 mitments, I couldn’t make it back Advisory Group. Harbor. She’s invented a washer chemical for met- to Ithaca this time. Jennifer will have a special This is my final sign-off as class correspondent al drink containers and has been involved in the report with all the details in the Sept/Oct column. for the Class of 1981. I have thoroughly enjoyed development of the nation’s first resource recov- It is still hard to fathom that we are all in our 50s sharing your news for the past 20 years. Please ery facility. Exercising her artistic side, she’s per- and 1981 was 30 years ago. Cornell was a magical stay in touch and enjoy these lovely summer days! formed in the American premiere of Death and the place to attend college. Did we know back then Take care. c Kathy Philbin LaShoto, lashoto@rcn. Powers as well as Best of Both Worlds, both pro- how fortunate we all were? Oh, to do it all again! com; Jennifer Read Campbell, ronjencam@aol. ductions of Harvard’s American Repertory Theater Doug Calby has a dream job at Cornell. com; Betsy Silverfine, [email protected]. group. As balance to these technical and artistic Recently retired from Accenture, he is an execu- activities, she works off whatever excess energy tive-in-residence with Cornell Career Services. He she has left by running regularly, including two coaches students through their career direction Michael Greenberg, MBA ’83, marathons this past year. Joan Chow is execu- decisions and their job search processes. He writes from Colorado that he’s tive VP and chief marketing officer at ConAgra writes, “Good thing we didn’t have to compete 82 joined the Bye Energy Strategic Foods. She lives in Palatine, IL, although her against these students for jobs back in the day!” Advisory Council. They’re developing an electric time is split between their headquarters in Om- Doug recently took a skiing trip in Alta, UT, with hybrid propulsion system for light general avia- aha, NE, and her office in Naperville, IL. ConA- Fiji brothers David Ayers ’80, Tom Croskey ’80, tion aircraft, like the Cessna 172 he used to fly at gra is the maker of such national brands as Bill Dunbar, Jim Kirchgessner, MS ’85, and Bill the East Hill Flying Club. He also serves as co- Healthy Choice, Hebrew National, Egg Beaters, Wiberg. He also sees Mike Troy regularly. Mike chair of the Lone Tree Cultural Arts Foundation and Orville Redenbacher’s Popcorn. will begin teaching a one-credit course in AEM and has worked on the effort to fund, design, and Sarina Monast Bronfin (Ridgewood, NJ) re- this spring on the Ithaca campus. build a 500-seat cultural arts center set to open ports how much she’s enjoyed seeing Cornell dur- In NYC, Edgard Nau is a podiatrist, a com- in South Denver in August 2011. Maintaining his ing trips to visit her daughter Talia ’14 in Arts mercial actor, and a karate instructor. He also be- ties to Cornell, Michael continues to serve on the and Sciences. Sarina is having a great time work- came a dad to Raphael Eduardo Safran Nau on Dec. board of directors of WVBR-FM in order to ensure ing as an adjunct professor of business at Passaic 29, 2010. Also in NYC, Tom Silver is an SVP at Dice that his children Alexandra and Madeline, 4 and County Community College. Suzanne Hancock Holdings, an online recruiting firm. Ilona Pollack 7, will have quality programming to listen to once Culver, another Tri-Delta with my wife, e-mailed Levine is a clinical social worker at Yale Psychi- they begin arriving there in 2022. to say how excited she is to be heading to Cor- atric Hospital. She is busy serving as an officer in One of the benefits of this class correspon- nell in May for the graduation of their oldest son, the Pollack Family Art Foundation and consulting dent gig is that from time to time my pleas for Jonathan ’11, who will emerge from CALS with a on a documentary about mid-life and aging issues. news lead to a reconnection with someone I knew dual degree in Communications and Information Her husband, Aaron, is the CIO of Carnegie Hall, personally while on the Hill. Such was the case Sciences. She will get another chance to visit so she gets to attend some great shows as well. when my e-mail blast yielded a response from Val- when son Nathaniel ’14 makes the big walk into She recently visited her dear friend Kimsa Hague erie Baum Lingeman, who was a sorority sister of Schoellkopf wearing the orange tassel of Engi- ’82 in Portland, OR. Susan Peterson is director of my wife, Lisa Mummery Crump, and now lives in neering. Son number three, Nicholas, is just now communications for NYS Senator Owen Johnson in McLean, VA, with husband Chris and sons Anton beginning his college search and is certainly feel- Albany. Susan is also raising sons ages 11 and 15. and Adam, ages 8 and 6. Valerie told me that she ing the family pressure. Attorney/developer Barbara Amoscato retired in December from a career with the fed- Will and Julie DeSimone Conner still live in Sabaitis is enjoying life in Spring Lake, NJ. She eral government, working in intelligence. Of Brookfield, CT. Julie is busy managing her nutri- keeps busy doing hot yoga, running the board- course Valerie didn’t mean that she’s completely tion counseling center while Will works as a fi- walk, hanging at the beach, and driving her chil- retired (we’re still too young for that, right?), as nancial advisor for Ameriprise. They’ve completely dren around to swim competitions and tennis she’s started her own consulting practice focus- emptied the nest in the last few years. Daughter tournaments. We were very sorry to learn that ing on leadership coaching and organizational de- Kristi is a junior at UConn, and second son Brian Chaz Calitri lost his wife of 20 years, Lorraine, in velopment. Their mission is to help diverse is in his sixth trimester at New York Chiropractic March 2010. A VP with Pfizer Global Engineering stakeholder groups effectively work together to College in Seneca Falls, NY. Their oldest son, Bil- in New Jersey, Chaz is rebuilding his life with solve tough problems; she’s got her sights set on ly ’09, has completed an MEd in elementary ed- daughters Lydia, 12, and Isabelle, 10. Also in New challenges such as creating a more sustainable ucation and is looking to relocate to the Ithaca/ Jersey, Joyce Lipinski Cascella is sales director world and reforming public education and health- Seneca Falls area (If any classmates know of any for DSM Nutritional Products. She loves traveling care. Maybe that’s how we can tell that we’ve fi- elementary school openings, please keep him in the world for business, meeting new colleagues nally grown up. We focus on making the world a mind!). Julie and Will celebrated their 29th wed- and clients, and embracing diversity. better place for the next generation. Valerie notes ding anniversary in June and look forward to see- Sari Feldman Piltch is a managing consultant that in November she was able to enjoy a won- ing all of their friends next year at reunion. Julie at Cambridge Advisory Group, a small actuarial firm derful, if brief, reunion with Mary Jo Santelli- wants everyone to mark their calendars now, in New Hope, PA, working to improve the health Moyer and Marge Metzger Stell in celebration of specifically mentioning Bish, Muha, and Gorman of its client populations. In her spare time, Sari en- their 50th birthdays. on Thorndal Circle, as well as Linda, Eddie, Jea- joys hiking, gardening, and attending art classes. Neil Fidelman Best writes that he’s beaten nine, and all former Pancake House staff. Julie Darryl Glover works for the Virginia Dept. of Envi- the odds, having recently celebrated his 25th an- and Will would like to hear from you via e-mail ronmental Quality as the director of the office of niversary as a sports writer at Newsday. Using a to get the party started: julie@healthyweighs. water monitoring and assessment. His new hobby variety of technologies, Neil has managed to com or [email protected]. is rehabbing a property for re-sale. Jorge Loynaz maintain a vibrant and active Cornell connection. Van, MS ’84, and Gayle Moncrief Bicknell Garcia, MArch ’82, is an architect, interior design- He plays tennis weekly with Mike McCoy ’84 and ’83, MBA ’84, were kind enough to send on their er, and urban designer in Miami. Also in Florida is attended the Cornell-Colgate hockey game with news. Home for them is still Painted Post, NY, and Gabe Diaz-Saavedra, who is a regional manager Paul Wessel ’83 and daughter Abby ’13. He kib- they’re preparing to send their first child, Keliegh, at Koppert Biological Systems selling bumblebees itzes on Twitter with Aditi Kinkhabwala ’00 and off to college at RIT. Keliegh and her sisters, Lo- for pollination. This year, he attended Mardi Gras Keith Olbermann ’79. A few months ago he gan and Hailey, 15 and 13, enjoy Irish dancing in New Orleans and had a great time with friends. joined a dozen or so mid-1980s Cornellians at a and activities at their local church while also pur- Richard Hayes writes that he is perfectly restaurant somewhere in Jersey for an evening to suing a number of individual interests. Van notes content working and lecturing as a physician in celebrate the memory of their friend Jeff “Zulu” that he and Gayle have been able to maintain the Chicago area. Susan Stiles, MBA ’91, is the Rosenberg ’86. Neil wants to pass on a simple contact with Koji Morihiro, ME ’83, Hector Ech- founder and president of her own financial serv- note. “Zulu, we know you were there. It was too aniz, MS ’84, Bob and Helen Zamorski Hollands, ices company in Edina, MN. Her passion is finan- much fun to have been something you’d miss.” and Mark Wolcott ’83. To all of our classmates cial literacy and she is working in the Minneapolis Maru Colbert (Jamaica Plain, MA) writes to out there, please keep the news coming. c public schools to establish a learning center for update us regarding what she’s been doing to Steven Crump, [email protected]; Mark Fer- math. She is also very involved in the Rotary stay busy. Believe me, it’s been plenty. In her pro- nau, [email protected]; and Douglas Skalka, Club. For fun, she visited Napa Valley, where she fessional capacity as a chemical/environmental [email protected]. 76 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes c Sam Karla , Cedric Jeaniene , MBA ’86. , MBA August 2011 77 Cornett had the Cornett | Tom Codella July ([email protected]) is ([email protected]) Glenn George ’85 Gilbert (Ithaca, NY) writes, “I’m NY) writes, Gilbert (Ithaca, , [email protected]; , [email protected]; Earlier this year, my colleague my this year, Earlier Zelkowitz Joyce virtual to cast a wide idea good reports, “I retired as a colonel from the from as a colonel “I retired reports, , and I have lived in Maplewood, NJ. We Maplewood, I have lived in , and , JD ’88, and , JD ’88, and McManus, [email protected]). Class web- [email protected]). McManus, We actually have a few lucky classmates who classmates have a few lucky actually We Marlon Brownlee net out into cyberspace, calling upon classmates calling cyberspace, out into net Even the doings. recent their of us word to e-mail not might class correspondents of optimistic most 85 (Mosley) have both and Simone, and Marques have children and leading community, been very active in our and groups school-related at numerous working arena political the I entered organizations. other (NJ) Maplewood have been elected to the and office was sworn into Committee and Township I term and is a three-year 1, 2011. It on January mu- of challenges the to tackling look forward his own runs Marlon By day, government.” nicipal (since practice consulting systems information im- select, and evaluate, clients 1996), helping to achieve systems management business plement va- has had a wide He objectives. strategic their as the such country the around clients of riety Dun & Homedics, Liz Claiborne, York, New City of Hilfiger Tommy Group, Apparel Jones Bradstreet, and Target, Stores, Department Federated USA, last year was also appointed Marlon J.C. Penney. love to recon- would and Council Cornell to the Cornellians. with other nect act! next their starting and retiring are Nam ’85 founded the ILRAA’s Alumni-to-Alumni Network Alumni-to-Alumni ILRAA’s the founded with alumni unemployed to help (A2A Network) a mentor- through experience work of five years ILRAA is open to Network A2A The program. ing in employment seeking are who only, members Con- and Jersey, New York, New Massachusetts, wel- “We pilot program. initial the for necticut up.” You to sign mentees and both mentors come ILR web- on the complete information can find www.ilr.cornell.edu/alumni/alumniassocia- site, founder is also the Maria tion/A2Anetwork.html. Island Long ILRAA’s the of co-president and Ascent the work for volunteer does Chapter and her earned with autism. She children for School and Business, of Stern School NYU’s from MBA Praxair. and GE, AT&T, Citigroup, for worked He to his community. service his continuing wife, my 19 years, last writes: “For the Leighton of process in the I’m now after 26 years. Air Force consult- risk/leadership own strategic my starting with reconnecting and D.C. area firm in the ing like friends, Cornell my of some Sievers http://classof84.alumni.cornell.edu. site, So far, I’m enjoying the change of pace and the pace and of change the I’m enjoying So far, son, 6.” wife and with my it gives me time extra Laurene Mongelli in the service after 22 years of Cornell from retired I’m Construction. and Design, Planning, Dept. of was invited to be a mem- and retirement enjoying This Commission. Parks Ithaca City of the ber of I’m Italy. in Venice, last year I was traveling time soon. Last trip abroad to another forward looking to moved and country in the home year I sold my con- and freedom the I am enjoying town, where this two months I spent city living. of venience sampled and Lake in a cabin on Seneca summer I still in that area. wines wonderful the of many as it pres- consulting and design landscape practice thanks. many news, sent all who itself.” To ents Janet M. Insardi , , spent Chris , whose (A&S). She Elliott ’14 , who earned an earned , who Ted ’82 Cathy Hibbard Guy Donatiello Arlene Orenstein Sussman Mortinger continues to work continues Mortinger -Krum ([email protected]), , reports that their son Harrison will son Harrison that their , reports is enjoying life in Raleigh, NC, and re- NC, and life in Raleigh, is enjoying newspaper, which called her “one of the of “one called her which newspaper, Alison Douty and good” “doing are classmates So many Maria Sekas A new generation of Cornell hockey fans is in fans hockey Cornell of generation A new Elizabeth Muller Casparian is the executive director of a nonprofit, HiTOPS a nonprofit, of director executive is the found- Center, Education and Health Adolescent NJ, HiTOPS County, ed in 1987. Located in Mercer and health adolescent to promote has a mission their clarify adolescents helps “HiTOPS well-being. regarding decisions responsible make values and teach- gives parents, and actions and health their tools they the adolescents of caregivers and ers, peo- young the guide support and to best need Elizabeth’s work with HiTOPS nurture.” ple they in Princeton’s article in a lengthy was featured U.S.1 ad- country,” in the educators sex pre-eminent wellness, and health adolescent issues of dressing Ted, self-esteem. Elizabeth and and bullying, year in a Human sophomore her met she whom have chil- class, Family Studies and Development Vermont; U. of Will, 21, at the dren school. 14, in high Sara, 19; and with attorney property as an intellectual part-time work, family, of demands the balances IBM; she hus- her for last August to Shanghai a move and IBM’s supporting two-plus-year assignment band’s ages sons, that their reports She markets. growth at- of challenges to the rising 12, are 14 and learning and abroad school an American tending Viet- to Japan, have traveled they far So Chinese. look forward and Australia, and Cambodia, nam, as possible be- region the of as much to seeing of end at the to Connecticut home returning fore assignment. the communities. their serving six weeks last summer working three jobs during three working six weeks last summer liaison media Mexico: Gulf of oil spill in the the wildlife re- center; AL, command Mobile, at the Bay; and on a boat in Mobile covery team leader Although LA. in Hammond, wildlife morgue in the it at all glamorous, was not last assignment the Fish US the helped Cathy important. most was the about preserve and process Wildlife Service and wildlife of to be used as evidence 600 carcasses spill. If you have the caused by the damages spill by at the photos out Cathy’s check chance, on Flickr.com. J. Hibbard Catherine for searching NY, City, in Garden Krum Consultants of principal servic- consulting and search executive provides term on a three-year serving is currently es and She directors. of board ILR Alumni Association the Terrace, Chatham, NJ 07928. Family and friends Family and NJ 07928. Chatham, Terrace, also having ’80s are the classes of The welcome! NY. St., NY, 33rd Stout, 133 West at a pre-party e-mail! via sent will be this event Details of that report classmates of A number making. the as part this fall to campus head will children their 2015. Class of the of a na- for imaging women’s of MD ’90, director Radiologic called Virtual practice radiologic tional a 20th anniversary with husband celebrating and William ’80 not “could that they and this fall Cornell attend sen- Her his accomplishment.” of proud be more by echoed are timents and school, Hotel to the was admitted daughter will be in Keri daughter whose Forness, Lindsay spectrum, the of end other the At Arts. Wilsey (2009) and Tyler sons birth of ports with joy the (2010). Broden in lives that she reports a PhD at Penn, and MS NJ, with husband Princeton, Alan , BArch Joe Graf (jennifer , ME ’83, are . , JD ’86, a part- idual attorneys idual , who has com- , who Forness, 43 Rose Forness, , BArch ’83 (Dallas, , BArch , BArch ’83. , BArch Brad ’81 and supplies. “Know a “Know supplies. and , cousinalyssa@yahoo. Dan ’81 Heyden ndrew’s practice focuses practice ndrew’s , [email protected]. (Northport, NY; JARoss@ NY; (Northport, Michael ’13 Andrew Hahn Richard Berkley Attention, Class of 1984 hockey Class of Attention, have two blocks of We fans! Garden Square at Madison tickets Lindsay Liotta Your latest round of news forms news of latest round Your the from in to come has started Dues mail- and class News recent Jennifer Hughes Kern Andrew Bucki [email protected]) started in a started [email protected]) , BArch ’83, , BArch and and Alyssa Bickler launched Alena Wealth in 2008. “We at- in 2008. “We Wealth Alena launched c Angelo Alberto ’82 Lynn Buffamante ndrew.bu More to come in the next issue. Mail in your Mail issue. next in the to come More Several classmates are starting new profes- new starting are classmates Several Steven Judy Fabuss Ross pleted his sophomore year in the Engineering col- Engineering year in the pleted his sophomore by his younger will be joined he This fall lege. Hotel at the will be starting who Kevin, brother, 2015! Con- Class of the of as a member school also to gratulations change sustaining and have played in initiating New overall the and organizations within their A legal community.” York has he and litigation, complex and on commercial intellectual contracts, in government experience involv- matters and litigation, banking property, elected his other Among technology. complex ing as a “neu- is certified he awards, and positions Association. Arbitration American the for tral” time any or write your correspondents form news year. of com; ner at the Duane Morris law firm in New York, who York, law firm in New Morris Duane at the ner to re- NYC Bar Association was selected by the Champion Diversity its Sixth Annual of ceive one hon- “The release, news to the According Awards. indiv role key the or recognizes 83 ing, and we look forward to receiving more of your of more to receiving we look forward and ing, in touch! keeping Thanks for updates. ventures. sional TX; a new position at Rent-A-Center, establishing a con- establishing at Rent-A-Center, position new at work, he not he’s When department. struction of is scoutmaster and camping and enjoys hiking both of that includes a troop Dallas, 890 in Troop games hockey remembers He his Eagle Scout sons. De- Hall Rand in the all-nighters and at Lynah include from to hear like he’d Friends Studio. sign Vince Babak ’84, and (St. Louis, MO; [email protected]) recently [email protected]) MO; (St. Louis, in- mostly offering business small started a new dustrial parts mechanical out: stores.ebay.com/ check them Have mechinist? would or Google it!” Joe missouri-mechanic-shop, from to hear like Switzer- Reinach, from wrote [email protected]) U. after 14 years at the Steve left academia land! Novartis at development to work in drug Utah of in the volunteers Jennifer in Basel, Switzerland. in Basel and School International at the library British and to American applying students helps process. application with the universities Ioffredo wealth goals values and families’ tempt to match his Alan also devotes time.” of periods over long commu- to his faith treasure” and talents, “time, young for groups exploration “I lead spiritual nity. Bible to children.” the explain and adults husband and optonline.net) son their of proud 84 for the Men’s Hockey Exhibition Game vs. Boston vs. Game Exhibition Hockey Men’s the for Sat- 26, 2011 (the Nov. U. at 8 p.m. on Saturday 100 tickets set of One after Thanksgiving). urday 20 set of other the is available at $45 each and to go, is available at $72 each. If you want tickets Cornell out to the made your check, please send 1984, to Class of 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 77 Page PM 1:24 6/16/11 056-095CAMja11notes 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 78

have predicted the result: loads of responses from the job both academic training and practical ex- on “Cougar Town.” Like working with Courteney ’85ers, including some who had not, in the quar- perience borne of parenting daughters Lindsay, Cox isn’t cool enough, Bob got to go to Hawaii ter-century since we graduated, previously shared Haley, Kelsey, and Macey, all of whom are schol- to film the season finale. It airs in early June, but news for this column. To celebrate this triumph, arship athletes in lacrosse. Regular column con- you can catch it online if you missed it. I’m going to dispense (mostly) with my usual at- tributor Ron Handelman (thanks, Ron!) is also a As amazing as Hawaii is, can it beat Green- tempt at snappy patter and get right to shining school psychologist, working with high school land? Paul Scott ([email protected]) the spotlight on the Heretofore Reticent. students in North Rockland, NY. Ron has a private and Anoush Koroghlian-Scott wrote to say that Leslie Greenberg Josel correctly predicted therapy practice in Montclair, NJ, where he spe- Paul is a high school environmental science teacher that I’d be enticed by her contribution to the col- cializes in child and adolescent mood disorders, and flew on an Air National Guard C-130 with two umn. She owns Order Out of Chaos, an organizing social skills development, and crisis counseling. of his students to spend a week working with NSF consulting firm that specializes in working with Ron still talks to Pat Plummer, who lived with climatologists on the Greenland ice sheet. Anoush the chronically disorganized. Leslie was featured him and Mark Richmond in Phillips House Coop- recently became VP for legal affairs and general on TLC’s “Hoarding: Buried Alive” and also works erative, and sends a nod to the many others who counsel for Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, NY. Hap as an after-care consultant for “Hoarders” on A&E, lived there at the time too. “P-House was awe- Hewes ([email protected]) and wife Susan providing follow-up care to the families featured some. We should try for a reunion.” have been doing traveling of a different kind— on the program. Greig Schneider confessed that Among our news contributors making a return college visits with their son and daughter. Any he was moved to respond to our entreaty for news appearance in this column, several induced pro- trips to the Hill? They also traveled to Asia. Hap is because he’s the correspondent for his business found envy by sharing tales of world travels. Amy the VP of business development at ARC Energy, school class and “knows what a challenge it is.” Smith Linton took a vacation to Rome and Flo- where he works to reduce LED costs in order to (We love empathy!) For the past ten years, Greig rence with her artist sister. “I learned slightly more provide lighting for areas of the world that don’t has been at Egon Zehnder Int’l, a global executive about early Renaissance art than I have hard- have consistent, safe lighting. Spare time finds him search firm. He has served as the head of the firm’s drive space for.” Deborah Brozina took the “trip playing basketball and golf, hiking, and kayaking. global leadership services practices, and, since De- of a lifetime over the Christmas/New Year’s Terry Kent ([email protected]) is in Cor- cember, as co-leader of the US practice. Greig wise- break,” spending five days on safari in Kenya, nell’s development office. When not working for the ly credits his spouse, Kristen (Daly), MBA ’94, where she “saw some of the most amazing sights Big Red, Terry teaches kayaking, runs a race on with “keeping everything under control while kids a person can see: snow on Kilimanjaro, a pride of Lake Placid, and develops kayak videos. He didn’t Garrett, 12, Katarina, 7, and Brent, 2, work dili- nine lions feasting on a wildebeest, about 1,000 mention this in his update, but Terry is a three- gently to make any semblance of ‘control’ fleeting.” elephants on the move. It was breathtaking and time Olympian, so if you’re going to learn to Brian Gurbaxani worked for 11 years as a I came home with 125 GB of photos and video, kayak, he’s the best. Check it out at gottakayak. systems engineer for Hughes Space and Communi- thanks to an outstanding professional package com. Jeffrey Cowan was named a Southern Cal- cations (now Boeing Space Systems) in Los Ange- lent to me by Canon. There are some perks to ifornia Super Lawyer for the fifth consecutive les after graduation, and had a lot of avocations working in the film business beyond hanging out year. When he’s not practicing employment and in his free time. On a camping trip to Yosemite, with Oscar winners!” (Do tell!) Karen Cronacher business litigation, Jeffrey is busy teaching his he had a “revelation” that he should be doing Thurman and her husband of 21 years “traveled all 6-year-old identical twin sons Jason and Matthew something else, so he earned a PhD in molecular around Israel; took a cruise to Alaska; stayed in the finer points of T-ball, basketball, and cookie biology from UCLA and works as a computation- Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; went on a tour of Vienna, baking. You can catch up on Jeffrey’s doings at al biologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Salzburg, and Prague; spent a week in the Costa www.cowan-law.com. Prevention in Atlanta, GA. He has “few avocations del Sol, Spain; went on a cruise to Barcelona, Michael Brairton ([email protected]) is in now that don’t center around [his] perfect young Rome, Athens, Izmir, Turkey, Cairo, Alexandria, and dealer network development for Audi of America. children Kayla, 5, and Caleb, 3, and wife Jin.” Malta; and last September cruised for three weeks “I rehabilitate underperforming/distressed dealer- He’d like to hear from any Applied and Engineer- all around Australia and to Bali and New Zealand.” ships on a turnaround basis. No shortage of work ing Physics classmates. Physicians John Blair and Gregory Rubino over the past several years!” Michael’s daughter is Karen Bjelke Liljebjelke wrote with excitement found adventure right here at home. John is an in her first year rowing crew—he’s already gotten about her appointment as an assistant professor orthopedic spine surgeon in Tacoma, WA, where, to watch her compete in the Manny Flick regattas of bacteriology on the faculty of veterinary med- in addition to fixing backs, he is dad to six chil- on the Schuylkill River! John Poli and wife Chris- icine at the U. of Calgary. Congratulations, Karen. dren, including “three toddlers and one infant.” tine live in Mercer Island, WA. John is chief in- From north of the border to south of the border: Perhaps unnecessarily, he adds, “Very busy.” Greg- formation officer and VP information technology Pedro Torre Lopez switched careers from “design- ory, formerly a “tried and true New Yorker,” writes at Washington Dental Service in Seattle. ing, building, and operating nightclubs in several that he has had to get used to “living in a We had lots of proud sports papas write in Mexican cities” to working as a landscape design- swamp” as a neurosurgeon in Lake Charles, LA. this month (we highly encourage this trend) in- er, which he labels “the best job ever.” He asked Gregory asked me to let classmates know that he cluding Jeff Dunlap ([email protected]), that we send regards to “the Cornell Karate Club “offers medical internships at Christmas break.” who with wife Amy enjoys watching daughters Erin members with whom I trained for many years.” So, for those of you who have ever yearned either and Casey play club volleyball. The family lives in Happy to be back in the US on a one-year to be a brain surgeon or to work in a swamp (or Cleveland, OH, where Jeff is a partner in the law furlough after working ten years for an educa- to be a brain surgeon while working in a swamp), firm of Ulmer & Berne LLP and serves as a mem- tional NGO in Central Asia, is James Cha, ME ’86. please consider reaching out to Dr. Rubino. ber of the management committee. Jeff would love James taught computer classes at Samarkand Whether you are a world traveler or a home- to hear from John Smales. Joseph Odin (Joseph. State U., Jalalabad State U., and Kyrgystan Poly- body, a city dweller or a swamp denizen, in the [email protected]), an associate professor of med- technic U., a job that gave him and his family a same field since graduation or in an occupation icine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, has been front row seat on history. “During our last year in you never could have imagined would be yours, coaching Little League in his spare time. Kyrgyzstan, we witnessed the violent revolution please send us your news. We love to know how Bruce Jones ([email protected]) lives by the people, overthrowing the corrupt Bakiev and what you are doing, to wish you “bon voyage” in Janesville, WI, where he is the pastor of the regime. A few months after the revolution, there or “welcome home!” and to have the privilege of First Presbyterian Church. He’s also chaplain for were violent ethnic clashes between the Kyrgyz sharing your good tidings with the class. c Risa the Janesville Police Dept. and a YMCA soccer and the Uzbeks. We were able to help several M. Mish, [email protected]; Roberta Farhi, coach. Bruce was working on his doctorate when Uzbek families with their recovery and healing.” [email protected]; Joyce Zelkowitz Cornett, he wrote, and was scheduled to graduate in mid- Perhaps on account of this experience, James [email protected]. May from the U. of Dubuque Theological Seminary notes that his youngest daughter, Karis, “wants with a DMin. Congrats! Also involved in youth to be the next Condoleeza Rice.” sports is Tom Barreca ([email protected]), Promoting healing and understanding of a dif- Our Cornell classmates continue who refs football in his spare time—”from youth ferent kind, Jennifer Baker Marafioti wrote that to be a diverse group. Look what to prep school.” Tom, who lives in Westport, CT, she’s been a school psychologist for 14 years, and 86 everyone is up to this month. with wife Eileen, is managing director for busi- is now pursuing an advanced degree in educational Bob Clendenin, who was last heard from in Race ness development at NASCAR Media Group. He administration. When Jennifer counsels school to Witch Mountain, is now on the smaller screen writes, “I sell TV programming to TV networks and kids, she knows of what she speaks, bringing to and guest-starring as the “creepy neighbor Tom” strategic content/video for the Web, apps, and 78 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes Coyle Lyons Kirsten Bor- . Several years . Several August 2011 79 | ’89 Susan Wenz Jamie Platt ’ July eese purchases to class- eese purchases Hiller is a New York City York Hiller is a New ! Lori keeps in touch with in touch ! Lori keeps Risa Mish ’85 Stillman Stillman ’86 e would be happy to offer a e would be happy to offer Margolis, Richards runs an artisan cheese- runs Richards . She is the president and founder and president is the . She Berner Berner Lori Schain Amy Susman Alena Tepper Meea Kang We heard from several classmates along the along classmates several from heard We Nancy Taber we heard country, the of side other the From is in Massachusetts, with one son left at son left with one is in Massachusetts, , and , and school social worker who works in two Brooklyn who worker social school She does! loves what she and schools elementary just so hap- a son, 12. It 15, and has a daughter, is principal school middle son’s that her pens Lenore DiLeo many friends from Cornell on Facebook and once on Facebook and Cornell from friends many as couples vacation husband her and a year she with where it was 60 degrees and sunny. We couldn’t We sunny. and 60 degrees it was where in sweat- campus around walked that we believe fear, no Have in February. coats no and shirts only and it was snowing day next up the we woke when to Always nice weekend. entire stop the not did On to news change. never things some that know you for of to so many Thanks our classmates. of it! appreciate updates—we sending East Coast. ago they all went to Costa Rica together, but this together, to Costa Rica all went they ago be Hilton Head. year it might some- York—not still in New are Tom husband and hope they thrilled about. However, are they thing is re- as Tom future, near that in the to change anywhere plan to move they this year and tiring and thriving are who sons have four warm. They high graduated oldest Their proud. them making Fort at training completed basic last June, school at John- ROTC will do and summer, over the Knox will pursue he where U. in Florida, Wales son and management. arts in culinary degree a bachelor’s plans and footsteps in his mom’s is following He someday. business his own catering to operate in Meck- Ithaca just west of business making she snags, huge pretty After some lenburg. in January business sixth year of her inaugurated with a Dutch cheese- business 2011. “I started the but sad- experience, a lot of brought who maker, and work here visa to a reliable couldn’t get he ly, into months just eight country had to leave the has now Nancy writes. our startup in 2006,” she as with her working Vermont from man a young future about the is enthusiastic and cheesemaker gen- about the and in particular, business her of in production local food artisan and of future eral Sh Lakes. Finger the on ch discount 10 percent so feel free magazine, the of readers and mates area. in the up if you are to look her ror oldest Her school. in high is a senior he home; process, business has a job in IT, has graduated, lives on his own. Kirsten works in a public and dis- have learning who with children school high out her art. Check her as well as pursuing abilities, blog at http://kirstenborror.blogspot.com/. from ’89 of Dormus Development in San Francisco, CA. Her in San Francisco, Development Dormus of environmentally and socially produces company underutilized by revitalizing ventures conscious planning in the communities involving properties, and partnerships, public-private creating process, Ford, McGowan, took time out from took time Heidi Heasley Brenna Frazer c sent an update from Hawaii. from an update sent Jevens wrote that the veteri- that the wrote Jevens The weather in Ithaca always in Ithaca weather The and to be a challenge, seems a for I went and family my when Michael Pol has joined the digital design com- design digital the has joined Rob Goldberg Leslie Greenberg Josel works with Josel works Leslie Greenberg the chronically disorganized. the chronically Philip Lam Jennifer Levin If you haven’t joined our Facebook page, If you haven’t joined ‘ 88 hockey weekend in February it was classic. We left We it was classic. in February weekend hockey first (the day on a beautiful, sunny Connecticut to Ithaca, got and winter) a very long during one Slope, so they moved SpringFest to North Campus to North SpringFest moved so they Slope, We years). four visited in my never I had (where bands, without a SpringFest by having responded important was more gathering that the found and a beach party, felt like It guest artists. than the the along on blankets scattered with boom boxes we had to tides incoming of instead Slope—but for- their practicing friends floods of random avoid university acknowl- The hill. the down rolls ward concert the by bringing victory student the edged ’87: Robert Cray.” Slope in back to the is prin- He (www.hotstudio.com). Studio Hot pany York New their of manager general cipal and econ- big-picture the says that “despite He office. world feel very digital in the things troubles, omy ac- opportunity and business of in terms robust two wife and life with his Phil is enjoying tivity.” adds, He Jersey. New in northern daughters Facebook, I’ve reconnect- of magic the “Through I whom classmates Cornell ed with numerous in over two decades.” some hadn’t seen in years, nary hospital she and her husband founded, Up- founded, husband her and she hospital nary SC, was in Greenville, Specialists, state Veterinary Specialty Hospital’s Animal American the named Con- Canada. and US the for Year the of Practice Jennifer! grats, with biologist fisheries marine his job as a senior to Fisheries Marine of Division Massachusetts the live Laura, his lovely wife, and that he let us know MA, “with two terrific ocean in Onset, the near on refining is focused research Michael’s kids.” sustain- to improve methods fishing commercial ability. our and Candle, wife, “I live with my writes, He 3, on Karlie, 8, Lili, 6, and 10, Mollie, girls Julie, to traveled We’ve Kaua’i. of beautiful island the than ten years, in more only once mainland the next for to Ithaca trek the plan to make but we do lawyer in paradise,’ I’m a ‘country year’s reunion. man- (guava, fruit trees to grow trying we’re and raise and jackfruit, etc.) tangerine, avocado, go, aloha to all.” Warmest eggs. for a few chickens it out 1987,” check Class of University “Cornell can also find You activities. and alumni news for in our 25th Reunion for plans on the updates to in an e-mail us your news 2012! Send June link at our Class the through below, addresses the by an ’87 website at www.alumni.cornell.edu, of 1987 Class of University Cornell at the update Form 1987 News a Class of or via Facebook page, class mailing. the from or [email protected]; [email protected]. , , has Ora Lau- , Stern, c Melissa Karen Laufer Rana Glasgal Laura Nieboer shared some news some shared Amit Batabyal Debra Howard hosted their youngest their hosted ([email protected]) Bonnie Rattner Klugman ). Joy is a trusts and es- a trusts and is ). Joy Howell, susancornell86@ Howell, Howell and and Howell , and , and Ginsberg ). is unfortunately, partner, My , was published by World Scien- by World , was published One year from now, you will now, year from One at time have had a great already 1987’s 25th Reunion. Class of the Rob ’85 Larry ’87 JD ’98 “Sonny” “Sonny” Hine, [email protected]; Hine, , Elisabeth Van den Brink De’ath -Kirsch, and -Kirsch, and Scott Pesner , and and Susan Seligsohn Joy Auerbach Katz This is the next-to-last column for the duo the column for next-to-last This is the Congratulations are in order to in order are Congratulations Steven Now here is some news. news. is some here Now Susan Seligsohn Ana Acena and husband husband and digital devices centered on racing and other and on racing centered devices digital football.” to Ping-Pong sports—from (and husband husband (and Nigel Schiffman daughter Hannah’s bat mitzvah this past March. bat mitzvah Hannah’s daughter classmates tov were mazel Shouting tates attorney. of Hine. Our last column will be a wrap-up of Re- of Our last column will be a wrap-up Hine. off, we sign Before issue. Sept/Oct in the union in the news our personal last of I’ll finish with the Susan’s searches. college of topic all-consuming ex- between three had to decide Olivia daughter visit to Cornell, but after a great schools, cellent son Sam my be joining Red! She’ll Big going she’s Nick, Sam’s twin brother, 2015. And Class of in the Scholar. as an Echols to UVA to go has decided that ecstatic and decisions, happy with their We’re Keep is done! choices college of first round the to for- we promise and to us, your news sending class correspondents! new it to the ward ra Nieboer and comcast.net. from Hahvad (law school), which is why we don’t is why which (law school), Hahvad from let him speak to clients.” also shared Sonny a great re- Slope 1986. He Back the Take from memory to 21 was raised age drinking the “When counts, could not they that university worried in 1985, the pursuits) on Libe less other (much alcohol control Hodes Start making plans now for your trip to Ithaca on your trip to Ithaca for now plans Start making chairs, reunion 7–10, 2012. Your June have been working hard to make this another to make hard have been working on or come your family Bring event. memorable reunion it back to your own! If you haven’t made to miss! not one this is the before, 87 and some memories. On the news front, he reports, he front, news On the memories. some and firm transactions “I started a boutique commercial 2009 (in ‘Garp’ terms, Loop in June Chicago in the the into crashed had already plane after the loan workouts, in hospitality, specializing house), LLC is now Jacobs Ginsberg litigation. related and 15 lawyers strong, other one including alum Cornell ( been the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Econom- of Professor J. Gosnell Arthur been the since Technology of Inst. Rochester the at ics his sixth book, is an active researcher; 2000. He Resource and Environ- in Natural Research Tools mental Economics 2011. Amit is a frequent in May Publishing tific over- and US all over the at conferences attendee he Recently, findings. his research seas to present involved in CAAAN (Cornell to get time has made in the Network) Ambassadors Alumni Admissions area. Rochester ME ’92, who was elected to Cornell’s Board of Board was elected to Cornell’s ME ’92, who are We alumni trustee elections. in the Trustees on ’87 is represented Class of that the so proud will be a wonderful Rana sure are and board the of interests the and Cornell for representative took a few who alumni. Thank you to everyone elections. to vote in the minutes 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 79 Page PM 1:24 6/16/11 056-095CAMja11notes 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 80

assembling complex layered financing. She is a as we discovered, also of very loud fireworks long Summer is finally here. Or at founding board member and president of the Cal- into the night”) and spent a weekend in a cen- least by the time you’re reading ifornia Infill Builders Association, a nonprofit pro- turies-old fort that had been converted into a Her- 89 this it will be. What a winter it moting focused development inside cities and itage Hotel. “When the mileage from that trip was was—so much snow and cold, which at times actu- towns and advocating sprawl controls. combined with the miles we earned on a trip to ally brought back all the memories of Ithaca in the Since 2007, Renee Phelps Valach has worked the U.K. this summer, even Tara, 7, achieved Sil- middle of winter! We had a lot of news thanks to as a physician at Bongolo Hospital in rural, south- ver Medallion frequent-flyer status on Delta. When my fellow correspondent Kim, who did an e-mail ern Gabon in central Africa. She does both inter- we told her, she got very excited, then fell into dis- solicitation. Let’s get right to the news . . . nal medicine and pediatrics, and is also the appointment when she found out that she would After 27 years in the restaurant business, just assistant medical director, administrative director not actually be getting any kind of silver medal.” shy of three years ago, Jim Karas accepted a poof the HIV/AIDS clinic, and lab director. One of her They are now back in Bloomington, IN, where sition in the banking industry as vice president of non-hospital activities is Sunday school teacher Traci is pursuing a doctorate at Indiana U. executive consulting and conversions with Fifth for the local church, which has 150 children. Traci Also in the Midwest is Ed Drimak. He spent Third Bank in their commercial division. He writes, Nagle wrote that she and her family were packing a very nice weekend with Chris Kauffman and his “Our Remote Currency Manager solution electroni- up their New Delhi apartment to move back to In- family in Nashville: “We managed to catch some fies cash transactions and has been widely accept- diana. Traci, husband Sumit, and daughter Tara head-bangin’ hard rock the night before the Ti- ed among clients in all segments of the restaurant were living in New Delhi, India, from August to De- tans vs. Texans at LP Field. I then returned home industry and retail environments.” Jim is now back cember 2010. While Sumit enjoyed his sabbatical, to the St. Louis area to join my wife, Lynn, and in Florida, close to the beach in Lauderdale. He Traci spent about a quarter of her time in Kolkata youngest, Mara, to welcome home our oldest, Sier- spent some time with Steve Theodoropoulos when (Calcutta), recording Bengali-speaking children as ra, from UMKC for the holidays.” Ed hopes to run Steve and his wife, Lindy, were in NYC from the part of her research for an impending linguistics into Chi Phi brother Jay Rietz, ME ’89, on his trip Philippines. John Randall moved to Laramie, WY, dissertation. She found that, indeed, kids say and to Japan next spring. Thanks for all the news. Feel to work for a company that puts up meteorologi- do the darndest things! During their stay in India, free to contact any of your correspondents if you cal towers for wind energy research. John writes, they also spent a week sightseeing in Kerala, in- have anything you want to share with your fellow “It’s a lot different from running my own fence cluding exploring that state’s renowned backwaters classmates! c Sharon Nunan Stemme, sen28@ company, but then business is business, and run- by canoe. They also visited Jaipur, Rajasthan, to cornell.edu; Steven Tomaselli, [email protected]; ning a construction crew building fence or putting celebrate Diwali (“the Hindu festival of lights and, and Brad Mehl, [email protected]. up 200-foot-tall towers is actually pretty similar.” Marne Platt is living in Switzer- land—or, more accurately: “These days I live on British Airways and do laundry in Switzerland.” Since August 2010 she has been global On the Recorder head of regulatory affairs for Novar- tis Consumer Health. She says, “I’m still single and racking up a string of Glen Shannon ’88 international bad date stories!” Marne keeps in touch with Amy Rossabi (her freshman-year roommate in U- or Glen Shannon, the phrase “recorder music” does not conjure images of third graders Hall 3). Amy is an attorney with clumsily tooting “Hot Cross Buns”; instead he thinks of Baroque fugues played by Davis, Polk, and Wardwell in NYC, co- F forty-piece orchestras. And he doesn’t just ordinating their pro bono work. Lau- ra Seaver sent an e-mail while on a think about such arrangements—he creates them. ferry crossing the Strait of Magellan. By day, Shannon works full-time at San Francisco She and her husband, Tom Grenon, graphic design firm TransPacific Digital. But by rode their motorcycles through South night, he composes multi-part preludes and fugues America in mid-October. As of the e- that are played by recorder ensembles and orches- mail, they had explored Chile, south- tras all over the world. west Bolivia, and Argentina. “It’s been a great trip so far! When we Shannon first encountered the recorder in third reached the end of the road in Ushua- grade. “In school, the recorder was a musical apti- ia, Argentina, we parked the motor- tude test,” Shannon recalls. “If you could do that cycles for 11 days and hopped on a then you’d graduate to a ‘real’ instrument.” He was ship to Antarctica. That was spec- promoted to clarinet, and in eighth grade began tacular! Other highlights included composing for clarinet ensembles. But even after Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia (the world’s playing a “real” instrument, including three years largest salt flats, where camping was magical), sharing a lamb asado with in the Big Red Band, he preferred the recorder. a rural family on New Year’s Day, and And when he won a recorder composition compe- enjoying some sunny days on the tition in 1995 he felt he had enough street cred Carretera Austral in Southern Chile (a in the recorder world to start his own brand, Glen beautiful stretch of road, lush from Shannon Music. the frequent rains).” You can see more While the recorder was extremely popular dur- stories and lots of photos on her blog, ridingaround.wordpress.com. ing the Renaissance, it is underappreciated today, Andrea Avruskin has been the says Shannon. “The recorder is an easy instrument to learn—that’s why they introduce it backstage physical therapist at Dis- to children early on,” he says. “People think of it as a toy, because hearing it played well ney’s The Lion King production in Las isn’t common.” There are about a dozen sizes of recorder, and Shannon writes music for all Vegas since January 2010. She treats of them. His contrapuntal, bass-heavy style is influenced by Baroque composers like Bach the dancers, singers, actors, and and Vivaldi. But the most important aspect of his music, Shannon says, is that those play- stage crew for any injuries incurred during the show. She was named an ing it have a good time. “When I was playing the bass clarinet in band I was always play- “Emerging Leader 2010” by the Amer- ing those long tones, and I didn’t have a very interesting part,” he remembers. “So I ican Physical Therapy Association. decided that the music I write is going to be fun for everybody.” She also earned a certificate in pub- — Adrienne Zable ’11 lic relations from the U. of Nevada. 80 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes , c and Rose Ronni Hilary -Garcia Robert August 2011 81 , winner of the of , winner Kelly Roberson Elaine Chiu | Jill Cohen July is an ophthalmologist in a is an ophthalmologist has stepped down as CEO of has stepped down and wife Tanya (Ann Arbor, MI) (Ann Arbor, wife Tanya and Steve Reich ’57 added a third son to their family. son to their a third added It’s that time of year again: the year of that time It’s are kids the is here, warm weather all busy we’re and school, out of . And the evening’s auction includ- auction evening’s the . And Manning, [email protected]; [email protected]; Manning, , [email protected]; , [email protected]; and wife Heather have a daughter, 2, and have a daughter, wife Heather and is a new mother—to triplets! She is an triplets! She mother—to is a new Patrick Phair Elizabeth Henry John Raguin Speaking of warm weather, warm weather, of Speaking and husband Rick (Fort Lauderdale, FL) just love (Fort Lauderdale, Rick husband and their of most spend They weather. Florida hot the Club with Boca Raton Resort and at the time as role Jill enjoys her Although family. and friends assurance and quality of president vice senior the is pastime favorite her Inc., Wireless TracFone for with her cheerleading and tackle football playing are Garcias 7. The Samantha, Ryan, 9, and children a busy bunch: with Kid in concert Jill saw Bon Jovi also family IL. The in Chicago, Rock on vacation Charleston, region, mountains Georgia to the went in July 2010. vacation for GA, Savannah, SC, and When ones. little around also busy chasing are in with his investments occupied is not Patrick he projects, and startup companies energy-related in vari- his children coaching field is out on the Cornell about his fondest asked When ous sports. tells he story same gave us the Patrick memories, not does ahem, he, at bedtime—that kiddos the as beer with friends; and wings having remember years his college spent he tells his children, he future. the for planning and dreaming Dunlap 2011. in March family the joined baby who a new in Texas U. of the from his MBA Robert earned with Honey- engineer a project is now 2004 and his fam- Robert and Materials/UOP. well Specialty Denver. just outside ily live in Colorado, Nagler part- the and entrepreneur and designer interior blissfully in living store, in a hip antiques ner CA. Classmates Barbara, Santa Robert Leung join- last year, of was born in June Benjamin Jack 4. Billy, Ryan, 10, and brothers big ing in Lowell, MI. Elizabeth enjoys solo practice breaking, and jumpers, showing riding, horseback Dino “Dino.” named a foal raising and training, hus- colt. Elizabeth and Oldenburg is a registered daugh- their also raising are Unzens Bruno band was Patrick, 2. Elizabeth, unlike Alexandra, ter, college with us about her honest more slightly play- in Ithaca times great remembers years; she beer. of guys over a pitcher with the darts ing co-founded he a company Software, Guidewire 91 time I had a great vacations. with barbeques and last month— all at reunion up with you catching please look in the full report the for Sept/Oct issue. busy with a vari- to keep continue Our classmates ety activ- and careers impressive and exciting of cross-country of number a surprising ities—and latest! the here’s ado, Without moves. Tanasugarn [email protected]. 2009 Pulitzer Prize for music. The musical pro- musical The music. Prize for 2009 Pulitzer Alas, works. to his entirely was dedicated gram “Far Above of a rendition include not did they Pulitzer? his next for Maybe Cayuga’s Waters.” Amy Wang gala celebrating the 25th anniversary of Third of 25th anniversary the gala celebrating ensemble music chamber a contemporary Angle, we to dinner, we sat down OR. As in Portland, was wine evening’s to see that the pleased were by owned Estate Winery, WillaKenzie from Lacroute ’66 of ed a portrait , are Eve . Matt , DVM Matt Lau- . Kent ’88 Wheel Time of Rob Klinedinst , and I attended a I attended , and Mark Focacci —and the people at people the —and , BArch ’90, and wife ’90, and , BArch Tom Montagnino Eric Simon and and and and and husband husband and is in Wyoming, where he’s where is in Wyoming, PhD ’59 visiting the Alamo. Alamo. the visiting , . It was the third year she re- year she third was the . It Reilly is the business office man- Paul Kapp didn’t give his geographic location, give his geographic didn’t reports that on June 1, 2011, his that on June reports Greg Manning Greg Dale Printy Henson, who was named one of the top the of one was named who Henson, , who helped organize our 20th Reunion organize helped , who is an investment consultant in Harrison, consultant is an investment SynergiCity: Re-Inventing the Post-Industri- , is being published this fall by the U. of by the this fall published , is being Richard Aplin Richard Barry Leibowitz Now, some class News with a capital N: class News some Now, that shows column on a note this end We In central Connecticut, Connecticut, In central Bevan Das George Renkert Liz Russo Gilges Wendy reside in Illinois, where Paul is an asso- Paul where in Illinois, reside Wendy at Architecture of School in the professor ciate His new Urbana-Champaign. Illinois, U. of the book, al City and Lakes Finger the remembers Paul Press. Illinois to like he’d and lakes, the around old towns the fellow from hear grad Architecture ’90. BArch Rubins suc- a fantastically had “We reports, last year, ’90 Class of campaign”—the cessful reunion An- Cornell the for than $2.1 million more raised un- you can make is where fund The Fund! nual need the wherever that go donations restricted to go dollars fund many at Cornell; is greatest out check learn more, To aid. financial student http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/fund/. In March Red universe is. Big the small just how husband, my and Jonah continues as human resources manag- resources as human continues Jonah and 7, Sebastian, son and They Klein. er at Calvin horses riding in Texas, last year a few days spent at a dude ranch and rence Cornell coach. His list of sports a kids’ and NY, beautiful cam- “People, thusly: reads memories think we can work.” I much Too Collegetown! pus, hear to like would Matt to that last one. all relate from a ranch manager and raising a family with wife a family raising and manager a ranch CA, attorney Cucamonga, Rancho Rebecca. From Robert Little sixth children— fifth and wife gave birth to their and Joseph twins!—son set of second and Austen. daughter in Canandaigua, NY, where Liz says she is “living Liz says she where NY, in Canandaigua, time her spending life full speed ahead,” family and games their attending children, “chauffeuring to like She’d volunteering.” and performances, from hear who someone for but perhaps that’s appropriate 4G sure tester—making listed his job as “software Bevan works right.” telecom equipment wireless his first for ready was busy last year getting Robert Jordan’s reading and triathlon adopt- “We also reported, He series. novel fantasy after ten years as guardians/ daughter ed our older foster parents.” Belated but sincere congratulations, as well to Bevan! Belated congratulations Pouliot of publishers last year by the in Texas attorneys Super Lawyers Texas Dallas firm the is with She recognition. ceived the in intellec- specializes she where Sayles Werbner, prod- litigation, business litigation, property tual death. injury/wrongful personal and liability, ucts ’94, is a veterinarian who enjoys working out and enjoys working who ’94, is a veterinarian He Britain Rock Cats baseball games. to New going house at their time also spend wife Katherine and “That memory? Cornell His favorite on Cape Cod. year.” senior my was born during son, James, my Bernadette Rogan Vermont, in community an assisted living for ager out with hanging time free her spends she where eco- business her remembers fondly She horses. professor,nomics would be Prof. “Doc Aplin”—that Emer. part-time. worked she where clinic animal large the , Lar- at the Lauren and and PhD ’93 Jim Dun- , reports that reports Debra Helfand Anne Czaplin- Naomi English Stephanie Bloom wrote, “I am a car- wrote, c Chris Langone , PhD ’98. Pamela Stepp Dave Abramowitz , BA ’95, works as the train- ’95, works as the , BA moved from a faculty position a faculty from moved Brendan Kinney Bywater lives in Yardley, PA, Bywater lives in Yardley, has had many encounters with encounters has had many It is April as I write this column It contin- I am riveted by the and news earthquake/tsunami uing still live in Brooklyn. Debra re- Debra still live in Brooklyn. Sushil Singh at the retirement party for long- for party retirement at the Graham, [email protected]. Graham, Lee Kraus Megan Shull ’91 Labovitz, [email protected]; and Labovitz, [email protected]; Rose Tanasugarn Jonah Klein Len Feldman Liz Feldman e- via us your news sending Please keep Back stateside, Back stateside, Treadwell Bliss, [email protected]; [email protected]; Bliss, Treadwell and and e-mailed to tell us that last summer she was in- she to tell us that last summer e-mailed nurse registered multi-hospital in the strumental Cities. Twin in Minnesota’s collective bargaining in 14 hos- 12,000 nurses covered negotiations The plan. pension nurses’ as well as the pitals, at Cornell, where he had been since 1999, to a 1999, to had been since he where at Cornell, Repro- for Center the of as director position new South- Texas U. of at the Sciences Biology ductive Dallas. in Center western Medical into ran He classmates. [email protected]; Avidon, ski Andrea spends her free time volunteering as a volunteering time free her spends Andrea dedi- Service, Reading Radio the for reader news Pub- Nevada at listeners, to sight-impaired cated Radio. lic ry Rosenberg saw he And last fall. NJ. Len in Newark, game hockey Cornell-Colgate law prac- the supervising job has a new he said and Jersey asbestos cases in New plaintiff of tice He & Luxenberg. firm Weitz the for Pennsylvania with his wife and Philadelphia of lives outside children. three in a practice in pacemakers, specializing diologist time as much I spend Cape Cod. beautiful near in fish- dabbling Vineyard as I can on Martha’s I am wildlife. photographing and sailing, ing, here family extended my of to have most lucky a CAAAN I enjoy being and Boston area in the Cornellians I would love to see some volunteer. game!” hockey Harvard the visit for son 11, and Anna, daughter David, with husband organi- her busy running keeps 7. Liz Jonathan, private psychother- firm and consulting zational her of tabs on some keeps She apy practice. Delta sisters on Face- Kappa and friends Cornell on campus (after all book, but misses being offered at programs is looking years!) and these University. Adult Cornell’s through Form or jot us a note News fill out the mail—or it in! Thank you! mail and Flato Kim Levine time forensics coach forensics time out of Japan, where fellow Class Notes correspon- fellow Class Notes where Japan, out of dent ing manager for Kobe Portopia Hotel. Rose posted Hotel. Portopia Kobe for manager ing point, at one Facebook page on her to the referring foreigners, for word opposed Japanese “gaijin”: “As decision the made have who to ‘flyjin’ (foreigners post 3/11),to leave Japan I ration- My am ‘stayjin.’ the by fear of to be paralyzed ale: life is too short bet- it is 1,000 percent when especially unknown, need people who for DO things and ter to be here is training Rose ([email protected]) our ACTION!” for the Marathon Kobe in November relief. earthquake/tsunami and for funds to raise ning will be run- last spring. since pledges has been collecting She 90 lap he is doing real property finance consulting, but consulting, finance property real is doing he one The kids. with the be playing would rather au- “The Cornell? from most remembers he thing from hear to like He’d tumn fragrance.” and mains managing editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Straus editor at Farrar, managing mains 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 81 Page PM 1:24 6/16/11 056-095CAMja11notes 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 82

nine years ago. John says his time at Guidewire http://classof91.alumni.cornell.edu, or on the bring neighbors together and build trusted was a great experience, leading a company of al- news form in our most recent class mailing. We neighbor networks. Ironically, she lives in NYC, most 600 employees that generated well north of love to hear from you! c Sharlyn Carter Heslam, where few people know their neighbors, but she triple-digit revenues. However, the headquarters [email protected]; Ariane Schreiber aims to change that! One of her investors is was in the San Francisco Bay Area, and John’s Horn, [email protected]; Kathryn Kraus Bolks, Steve Dexter, and she keeps in touch with oth- family was in the Boston, MA, area, which trans- [email protected]. ers including Maureen Donnelly ’91, Mike Man- lated into a very long commute and too much ka, Michelle Freed Squires, and several others time away from family. John is now looking for through that other social networking platform. opportunities in New England after winding down Summer’s in full swing! My From the “It’s a Small World After All” de- his time with Guidewire. Last summer, John par- favorite way to spend summer partment, and with apologies to Walt Disney Co., ticipated in a triathlon in Gloucester, MA, with a 92 in Ithaca is at Cornell’s Adult I’ve been running into Cornellians in random bunch of friends from the Class of ’92: Darius University—like being back on campus, but with places. Last year, technology consultant and au- Deak, Keith Strudler, Carl Kadlic, and Jim Cot- no prelims. CAU runs the entire month of July, thor Phil Simon, MILR ’97, put out a request via ter, ME ’93. The group was celebrating Darius’s and there may still be time to sign up. social media to interview companies for his third 40th birthday, and everyone had a great time— In other summer plans, after living in Sofia, book, The New Small. Only after an hour-long in- that is, until the soreness set in! Bulgaria, for the past five years, Dana Leff terview did I realize that he had also spent time John is not the only classmate making a big Niedzielska is packing up the family and moving on the Hill. Phil’s book is a behind-the-scenes move. Kathryn Pierson Lundin (katelundin@yahoo. to Barcelona. Her daughter will start second peek at “how a new breed of small businesses is com) moved to Beijing with husband Steve and grade there and her son will be in kindergarten. using emerging technologies to do things simply their two little boys. Steve will be the general The whole family is really excited about it and not possible even five years ago.” manager in China for Marsh & McLennan, the would love to hear from any Cornellians living in Bob and Carol Heppes German have lovely global commercial insurance brokerage. In prepa- the Barcelona area. Susan Sperry has relocated twin daughters Izzie and Katie, both of whom ration for the move, Kate left her job in New York, to Washington, DC, from Chicago, with global de- play some ice hockey. Bob helps out on the ice NY, at the Boston Consulting Group. Kate looks sign firm RTKL, where she does direct marketing with the Mite hockey program for kids age 8 and forward to connecting with any of our classmates and communications for the commercial practice under. Kate Hallada Pinhey ’83 also has a hock- who are in Beijing! Jenny Gottleib Shevick is also group. Susan’s getting connected with other Cor- ey-playing daughter, Shay, 13. That means that leaving NYC, bound for the suburbs—Bedford, NY. nellians through the Cornell Club of Washington. John Torrance ’90 and I see them all with some Jenny is making the move with her husband and Sam Levis, who works at the National Cen- regularity at the rink in Ann Arbor where our their sons, ages 11, 9, 6, and 3. ter for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, an- daughter Emily, 9, also plays. Also in my travels, Jennifer Leeds ([email protected]) nounces that he’s once again single and back in I run into John Shuck ’87 once in a while. John and Robert Hess have been living in the Boston the dating world. Renee Hunter Toth and hus- and his brother, Greg Shuck ’91, along with a area for about 15 years, raising sons Tjaden, 12, band David are finding it hard to believe that it’s third partner, have been “Brewers of Tasty Liquids” and Max, 9. Jenn and Rob enjoy time with friends been almost two years since they relocated from at Carolina Brewing Co. in Holly Springs, NC, since Karl Yoder ’87 and wife Marina Memmo ’89 and Wisconsin to Newbury, MA (about 35 miles north 1995. I’m headed down that way to visit family Steve Hodin ’89 and his wife, Renee. Their friends of Boston). David is an endocrinologist with Pen- in July, and I’m really hoping there’ll still be some Mark Blucher ’90, wife Jodi, and their four kids tucket Medical Associates in Newburyport, and Re- of their Spring Bock left. have moved to St. Louis, but the families still get nee is at “home” with kids Brayden, 9, and Nadia, It’s always good to hear from you—and it to see each other when they vacation together in 4 . . . although she admits that she’s rarely ever makes writing the columns easier. Drop us a line or Florida. Jenn and Rob saw Scott Whitney ’90 at actually home! The Toths love being back in the fill out the old-school card in your dues mailing. c the Head of the Charles Regatta and regularly run East, where they get to see many of their Cornell Megan Fee Torrance, mtorrance@torrancelearning. into George O’Toole ’88 at various scientific meet- friends much more easily. Todd and Ruth Herzog com; Lois Duffy Castellano, [email protected]; ings. Alex Flueck, PhD ’96, stayed with them when Pack live an hour away in Nashua, NH, with their and Jean Kintisch, [email protected]. he ran the Boston Marathon in April. The big news girls Claudia and Caroline. Renee and David for the family is that after reunion this year, they brought their kids on a pilgrimage back to Cor- packed up and moved to the San Francisco Bay nell and they thought it was so cool to see Happy summer! I hope you are Area (East Bay)! After being at the Novartis Insti- David’s old dorm room in Dickson (how did they all enjoying beautiful weather. tutes for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, MA, put three guys in that one room?!) and eat in the 93 As I write this column in April in for eight years, Jenn was promoted to executive dining halls (unlimited desserts?!). New York, we just had a hint of nice weather and director and head of antibacterial discovery at No- Laura Strothmann Williams and husband now I’m thinking ahead to summer days! Much of vartis. She is transferring from Cambridge, MA, to James had a baby boy, Jackson. She also has a the news this month came from News and Dues grow the group at their site in Emeryville, CA. Jenn daughter, Emily, 3, who likes to be a “little mom- forms. Joel Roach works as a design engineering works with Rich Colvin ’88 in their pursuit to dis- my” to Jack. Laura works at Ernst & Young in manager. “I have been hiring engineers,” he wrote. cover and develop new anti-infective drugs. Rob, Times Square, NYC, and lives in Westchester. She “Our business has picked up considerably over the who was a patent agent with Sunstein, Kahn, Mur- recently saw Dr. Susie Lee Saunders and Dr. Maki past six months. Come to Michigan—we are on the phy, and Timbers LLP in Boston, received his JD Kano Leukerath, who also live in Westchester. “It rebound! Affordable living and great seasons!” In from Suffolk U. in May 2010 and was sworn into was great to see old friends!” Eileen Rappaport his spare time, Joel keeps busy (very busy, by the the Massachusetts Bar in November 2010. He will welcomed daughter Lily Kate last summer. Eileen sound of it!) by working as a coach for two youth continue to practice patent law in the Bay Area. has also changed jobs after eight years: she’s hockey teams, a youth football team, and a youth If there are any fellow Cornell alums on the “left joined timepiece manufacturer M.Z. Berger & Co. baseball team. I guess that is not surprising, coast,” they’d be happy to hear from you! as a vice president, key accounts. Eileen looks for- given that he is the father of two boys and two Debra Squires-Lee is also enjoying profes- ward to lots of fun trips and outdoor time with girls. “My Squirt A hockey team won their division sional success. She was elected partner in the lit- her sweet daughter this summer! Nicole Harris in league this year,” he reports. “Confirmed for igation department of Sherin and Lodgen LLP in Hollingsworth and husband Rey are proud to an- me that my true love (and skill) is coaching and Boston, MA. Kevin Lemanowicz has signed on for nounce that son Aaron was accepted into Fordham teaching kids. It is the most gratifying feeling to his 15th year as chief meteorologist at Fox 25 in Preparatory School’s Class of 2015 in the Bronx, NY. mold a group of kids into a team and to watch Boston (located in Dedham, MA). Kevin suggests Adam Kleinberg’s San Francisco digital ad them develop.” In response to what old friends that classmates should tune in when in the New agency, Traction, celebrates its tenth anniversary he would like to hear from, Joel writes, “I’d like England area, or “check out my receding hairline this month. Traction was a runner-up in BtoB to know how my roommates from junior and sen- on myfoxboston.com.” Aside from work, Kevin tries Magazine’s list of the top agencies in the coun- ior year are doing (Bob and Brett).” So Bob and to keep up with his two sons, including the older try for Interactive Agency of the Year. Way to go, Brett—if you are out there—drop Joel a line! one, who officially became a teenager in August. Adam! Barbara Pantuso left her job at Frog De- Justin Sacks also sent news. “I left the His family lives in Franklin, MA, and enjoys spend- sign to start a neighbor networking platform Dept. of Plastic Surgery at the MD Anderson Can- ing time together at their home in Destin, FL. called Hey, Neighbor! (heyneighbor.com). She’s cer Center in Houston, TX, to join the Dept. of Please continue to share news with us via e- combining her early career in the hospitality in- Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Johns mail, through the link on our class website, dustry with her career in digital media to help Hopkins School of Medicine. My primary focus is 82 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes In Abra c and wife and iduals in has been (jeg32@ Veronica ’ August 2011 83 | Bernard Yu : “And like that, poof, like : “And July (mike_buckler@yahoo. Esteban Viteri was promoted to counsel was promoted Jennifer Graham Greetings ’96ers. We hope you hope We ’96ers. Greetings at re- time had a wonderful it’s I still can’t believe union. ([email protected]) writes ([email protected]) Ben Weinstein ’93 Ben Weinstein Mike Buckler Perrie, [email protected]; [email protected]; Perrie, was promoted to assistant general coun- general to assistant was promoted The Usual Suspects -Sigler, [email protected]. -Sigler, Hillary Frommer Sean Scott In late 2006, after working litiga- as a patent In a bit of baby news, baby news, In a bit of To slightly alter a line by Kevin Spacey’s char- by Kevin alter a line slightly To 96 been 15 years—and that I have a 7-year-old been 15 years—and on in a recital class ended dance yearlong whose column next The weekend! reunion of Saturday the and update reunion (Sept/Oct issue) will have the we’ve got meantime, In the so stay tuned. review classmates. from news work-related great some that his new company, development game MindTrip Blade, Ring game, its first has launched Studios, Touch. iPod and iPhone the for is an ar- Blade Ring fast-paced frenetic, with “30 levels of shooter cade $0.99. Check for iPhone to the coming action” at: http://www.gamezebo.com/ out a preview iphone-games/ring-blade/preview. for counsel as outside OR (mostly tor in Portland, Microsoft), com) left his law firm to become a Peace Corps a Peace com) left his law firm to become 2006 to 2008, I “From Malawi. in rural volunteer chil- their taught Malawians, ordinary lived among male with three house a village shared and dren, in the commercial litigation department at Farrell department litigation commercial in the busi- represents Hillary City. York in New Fritz PC indiv and institutions, financial nesses, son birth of the thrilled to announce are Wendy 28, 2010. Bernard on Nov. Leland, Andersen but it’s been amaz- “Sleep has been scarce, writes, ensconced Happily him grow.” just watching ing Valley, in Happy biobehav- of professor is an assistant psu.edu) PA. State U. in State College, at Penn health ioral in Ecuador, afield Farther year, year, as in arbi- courts as well state trial and federal busi- complex involving litigations and trations partnership and shareholder disputes, ness mat- commercial other and employment, disputes, Chica- from JD with honors her earned She ters. legal news, In more Law. of College go-Kent Suk Koo a global leader Companies, North sel at Delaware in Buffa- located service food and in hospitality for legal counsel will serve as primary She lo, NY. at the operation resorts parks and company’s the In Suk Visitor Complex. Space Center Kennedy U. Rutgers from law degree her earned Brooks working hard, expanding the Goddard Catering Goddard the expanding hard, working as well as catering, events and to industrial Group Outside Islands. Galápagos ships in the catering 3, and work, Estaban has a lovely daughter, of in Ecuador. with Kapawi volunteers acter in Please complete. are Our class notes it’s gone.” al- We me. and to Veronica in news sending keep you. from to hearing ways look forward Benson c Mark (Lady Lake, (Lady is on the move is on the Jennifer Rabin Tim Simpson Daffner ([email protected]) Daffner Amy Chiang Wasylik, [email protected]; Wasylik, Recently I received in the mail in the I received Recently 20th high my for information is this pos- How reunion. school , [email protected]; , [email protected]; (Henderson, NV; [email protected]) is NV; [email protected]) (Henderson, I’ve been living in hotel rooms and living in hotel rooms I’ve been airports for eight weeks straight. airports for Victoria Baeger next in the to come More now. That’s all for It’s amazing to think of the changes that have changes the to think of amazing It’s news and present to the we return now And ‘ Marchant, [email protected]. Marchant, Inc.) in Jonestown, PA, a company that provides a company PA, in Jonestown, Inc.) commercial, to the solutions energy alternative specialty Their sectors. residential and agricultural, they and arrays, solar photovoltaic is large-scale is Corey Northeast. the throughout have clients Pennsylvania Central the Rotary and also active in time Brynn enjoy spending and He Food Bank. Ciera. 5-year-old daughter, with their She RI. Robert live in Rumford, husband and V.A. work is split between the writes that her for director residency is the Service—she Dental Dentistry in General Education Advanced the “I am be- private practice. (AEGD) program—and in town—am in the practice a dental ginning phase!” construction HI. in Haleiwa, address new her sent and any to your correspondents your news Send issue. in touch. staying thanks for and year, of time Dineen Pashoukos Dika Lam FL; [email protected]) is a real es- is a real FL; [email protected]) & Wakefield. with Cushman tate appraiser Birtha Arizona, in Southern Sol Casinos of president is He expansion. resort a $130 million overseeing So- Hotel Cornell the of 2011 president also the alumni group. ciety 95 sible? 20 years?! That got me thinking about what thinking me sible? 20 years?! That got Remember in August. 20 years ago I was doing tak- were You Cornell? to leave for ready getting for comforter a new buying tasks like of care ing trying and caddy, a shower getting your twin bed, a computer you needed or not whether to decide processor?! Word would do. processor or if a word and school high from we graduated since occurred to- are students college of needs the different how last classes to the of one probably were We day. In- the using really without undergrad through go but until we had e-mail, Sure, or e-mail. ternet had cell one used it? No really who year, senior your had to meet so you actually in college phones be on to and agreed at a place previously friends would phone room the dorms, In freshman time. it as close as hall to get the out into be dragged of chance to lessen the lounge possible to the two rings on-campus, for ring a call. One missing Collegetown tapes from rented We off-campus. for the usually and LCs, papers on Mac wrote Video, had in item someone electronic advanced most While I calculator. backpack was a graphing their I am glad that we have now, everything appreciate . . . although in simpler times to college we went would have been nice! cell phones this start of the At in by our classmates. sent , , ’96 ’95 Alison Cindy Mor- Trogolo Trogolo Hasegawa Hasegawa Kate Benjamin Greenhouse, ME Greenhouse, Woo wrote from wrote Woo , and , and Michelle Feldman Susan Washburn , Brynn Sigal Wolff ’96 ’96 and and Rosenberg, ygb1@cornell. Rosenberg, James James Sarah Davies Kathy Heppner sent an e-mail from an airport from an e-mail sent Moss, [email protected]; Moss, , , Esther Semsei wrote from Hershey, from wrote PA. Brynn is fellowship at a surgery finishing Corey Jessica Graus Rodvien Rodvien Weislogel,” she wrote, as well as wrote, she Weislogel,” sent an email from Boulder, CO, Boulder, from an email sent Sottile, [email protected]. Sottile, cological reconstruction. We are We reconstruction. cological . We’ve been having a great time a great been having . We’ve ’95 ’94 Nancy Jang , French French Yael Berkowitz ’94 Phoel Phoel c Melissa Hart A few e-mails came my way (in response to a way (in response my came A few e-mails Ben Weinstein Josh Zapin Nancy Snell U. of Penn, and Corey (corey.wolff@esipowercorp. Corey and Penn, U. of (ESI & Installation Systems Energy com) is CEO of 94 head-to-toe on head-to-toe program transplant face and hand a also starting children have wife Bethany and He in Baltimore.” Emma. and Jacob Torrillo Ithaca, where she was celebrating After Eight’s was celebrating she where Ithaca, with 20th anniversary! “I’m here and including years, other from alums several ’03, wrote that she was the first doctoral student first doctoral was the that she ’03, wrote Analy- Environmental and Design of Dept. in the year. second in her is now and program sis’s new in obstacles to aging on the is focusing She is mov- She it very challenging. finding place and built by her and designed house to a new ing to a is built to be enabling It husband. her and doc- to her In addition needs. and ages of range many for has been a volunteer work, she toral Dis- Allied and Tay-Sachs National the years for a coordinated recently and eases Association them. for fundraiser from some and close by from some news), plea for places. far-flung Jones Jones Tara Parmiter ’94 Lisa Brannigan Melissa Carver where he lives with his wife and two sons Avery two sons lives with his wife and he where just started work- He Elijah Hudson. and Brooklyn of director as the Crocs company shoe at the ing management. project interactive e-mailed, She job. has also started a new Weinberg my by starting workforce to the “I just returned ed- highly the are We with a friend. own business I am a li- area. in the mediators divorce ucated worked and therapist family and marriage censed but career, my throughout nonprofits various for kids into #3 turned kid when #3(surprise— #4 and twin girls) I took a few years off. identical are they I now and training mediation I took some am ready LLC Mediation is Westfield to work. Our business amica- a more provides Mediation Jersey. in New litigation.” to divorce cost-effective alternative ble, sum- a great Have all your news. Thanks again for mer! edu; rison and current the meeting and up, singing, catching After Eight!” of members graduated recently am and director a commercial “I am in Paris: now work. I sit right for extensively to travel lucky an amazing tail of on the in an airport in Paris took back to back; each shoots trip. I had three First Sebastopol, a place. amazing to a more me south of Black Sea in the coastal town on the history; then turbulent and with a rich Ukraine, job was been to. Next I had never which Moscow, (It’s East.’ Middle the of ‘Paris the Beirut, Lebanon, shoot- prepping, days ten I spent Finally, true.) Thai- in Bangkok, a commercial editing and ing, some Beirut for layover in had a three-day land, meetings, now and to Los way I’m on the Angeles. 14, I will be back in NYC. 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students, who became dear friends, supporters, and Ron Johnstone, [email protected]; Courtney Ru- Waldo wrote that they are enjoying their daugh- confidants. A voracious reader, I realized that most bin, [email protected]. Class website, http://class ter, Sydney Claire, who was born on Feb. 19, (if not all) of the development literature was writ- of96.alumni.cornell.edu. 2010! Kristen McKeown Armstrong and husband ten from above, by donors, politicians, and econ- Kyle welcomed their Sydney Claire to the world omists, and that bothered me. So, after returning on Oct. 22, 2010—a month early! Kristen writes to the States, I wrote a book about the putative With our 15th Reunion now less that big sister Hayley, 7, is very helpful with the recipients of aid—the 90 percent of Malawians than a year away, this is the time baby. Kristen works part-time as the head librar- who practice sustenance farming, don’t receive a 97 to start thinking about reaching ian at the Swain School and their family is head- decent education, and live on a dollar a day or out to friends and planning on some time in ing back to Switzerland for their third summer of less. From Microsoft to Malawi: Learning on the Ithaca next June. As we can all attest, it hardly working at the TASIS summer camp for middle Front Lines as a Peace Corps Volunteer (Hamilton seems like 14 years have gone by since we took schoolers in the Alps. Books 2011) is a fundraiser for the three stu- our final prelims, enjoyed the last wine tours, and In other baby news, Kenneth Dai, ME ’99, dents I lived with. Each has passed the college donned caps and gowns. No doubt this next year writes that wife Audrey Chan ’97 gave birth to entrance examination and is ready to continue will fly by as well! a healthy baby boy named Alexander and that his education in Malawi, but none has the re- Another great way to get in gear for reunion Jim Maas, PhD ’66’s lectures on sleep still play sources to do so. I hope that book proceeds, and is to connect with classmates via the class col- a part in his life today. Now that he and his wife donations from readers, will change that. To read umn. We have lots of room, but not much news aren’t getting any sleep, I bet they do! Suzie more about the book and its mission, visit www. to share, so send in some details on where you’ve Ariyaratana Noronha and husband Gary ’95 wel- FromMicrosoftToMalawi.com. You will find, among been, what you’ve been doing, and who you’ve comed their second child, David Edwin, on Nov. other things, a nice review from Ralph Nader and seen in the last few years. Shoot us a quick up- 27, 2010. Big sister Eleanor is enjoying her baby pictures of people and places in the book.” date while it’s on your mind, and we’ll include it brother. Their family lives in Baltimore, MD. Son- Eve Varon Ryan ([email protected]), DVM in a future class column. ja Knezevic-Kong, ME ’00, and husband Hoon ’01, notes that she is about to celebrate her 20th Cathy Heinzelman Hill checked in with an Kong welcomed Yura Isabelle, born March 23, high school reunion, 15th reunion from college, update on an entrepreneurial venture she launched 2010 in Seattle, WA. After 101 days in the NICU, and tenth reunion from veterinary school. Hard in August 2010. Cathy started making jewelry sev- Yura came home right on her (original) schedule. to believe how the time flies! She practices and eral years ago as a hobby and eventually decided Congratulations! Jim, ME ’99, and Kathy Scully resides in Baldwinsville, NY (outside Syracuse) to launch a website, www.hillsofclay.com, to sell Leiz celebrated the birth of another daughter, with her husband, son, 4, a cat, and a rabbit. her creations. Cathy has a full-time job, so jewelry- Sienna Grace, in February 2010. She joins big sis- Ailie Silbert ([email protected]) has been making and website maintenance are a labor of ter Juliette, 2-1/2. David Haro and wife Patty practicing matrimonial and family law in New York love and happen after her son goes to bed and on welcomed Liam Zachary on Dec. 4, 2010, in City, Westchester, and the surrounding counties the weekends. Ying Ma sent word of her recently Hackensack, NJ. Older son Jonas is absolutely en- for many years and is thrilled to announce that published book, a “politically incorrect memoir” amored with his new baby brother. she has joined the newly formed firm Hennessey entitled Chinese Girl in the Ghetto. Expecting her Melissa Pucciarelli writes that she has been & Bienstock LLP. When she wrote, she was look- life in America to be better in all ways than life keeping busy with work and chasing after her ing forward to reunion and to seeing classmates in China, a girl happily immigrates to Oakland, daughter, Evangeline Hope, 1. Sounds like fun! at Cornell events in the NYC Metro area. CA, only to discover “crumbling schools, unsafe Rosanna Batista has been working as a manager Marc Tilton (Winter Garden, FL; marctilton streets, and racist people.” Check it out on Ama- of maternal and child health at MGH, which she [email protected]) is the president of Cortes Hospital- zon or at http://yingma.org. Ying is a visiting fel- says is a wonderful opportunity to help vulnera- ity. He is busy opening new restaurant concepts low at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. ble immigrant and refugee populations. Her staff and trying to grow the brands rapidly. He’d love In anticipation of reunion next year, our class helps patients with their medical and social needs, to hear from his old friend Maggie MacDougall. president, Lauren Myers-Merion, has been mobi- and she manages the resources to facilitate the Mia Pearlman ([email protected]) lives in lizing alumni officers. Check back for a future col- staff’s work. Rosanna and her husband Douglas Brooklyn and works as an artist. In her spare time umn containing an update from Lauren. Some of Selinger have two children, ages 2 and 4. she enjoys cooking, traveling, and rooting for the the priorities we are working on include an im- Wedding bells were ringing for Tim Blanchard, New York Mets (that must be heart-wrenching these proved website, tracking down “lost” classmates, BArch ’98, who was married to Aine Flanagan in days!). She just finished two new site-specific cut- and planning local pre-reunion events to bring the Bahamas on Oct. 30, 2010. Congratulations, paper installations in the Netherlands and North classmates together. One more thing we could use Tim! Elizabeth Morgenstein married James Au- Carolina, and is working on upcoming shows at help with: finding a new class correspondent. I diffred on March 27, 2011 on the beach in Encini- the Smithsonian and Indianapolis Museum of Art have enjoyed the class correspondent position tas, CA. Attending from our class were Karen in 2012. Mia often thinks fondly of Dr. Food from since graduation, but it is time for me to step Dorman Kipnes, Betsy Patterson, Ayesha Haider Risley Dining. “He taught me knife skills!” aside in 2012 and share the privilege. If you’re Marra, Natasha Myers Pereira, and Natalie Jennifer and Eric Sinoway and older son interested in the challenge or think of a classmate Posteau. The couple had amazingly perfect weath- Daniel welcomed the adorable Michael Bradley (I who might want to try their hand at compiling er for their big day. saw the pictures!) to the world on April 7, 2011. news and helping keep Cornellians connected, L. Ryan Smart writes that he moved to Syra- The Sinoways live in Summit, NJ; Eric works in please let us know! It’s a great way to stay in- cuse after finishing his orthopedic sports fellow- Manhattan as president of Axcess Luxury & volved and meet people. Send your news to: c ship and joined Syracuse Orthopedic Specialists, Lifestyle. Bill and Gina De Martini Hander (Boul- Erica Broennle Nelson, [email protected]; Sarah a large private group. Agnes Galvez writes that der, CO; [email protected]) celebrated the Deardorff Carter, [email protected]. Class web- she has a new job as the nutrition program man- birth of a beautiful baby girl, Carmen Amelia (I site, http://classof97.alumni.cornell.edu/. On ager for Nellis Air Force Base’s Health and Well- saw these pictures too!), on March 8. On a per- Facebook: Cornell Class of 1997! ness Center. “I can’t believe that I get paid to sonal note, my husband, Josh Silverman, has post on Facebook, cook in a gourmet kitchen, lead started working as an assistant professor in the a weight-loss support group, and shop at the com- otolaryngology department at SUNY Downstate in These days when you run into a missary!” she says. Agnes also says that she feels Brooklyn, specializing in laryngology and voice fellow Cornellian somewhere, very blessed to be a military dietician, as it is one and pediatrics. We look forward to returning to the 98 you inevitably try to figure out of the best jobs she has ever had. Amy Green- New York area, as we give Boston a fond farewell. how you might be connected. You talk about your stein Cuker has launched a new business, called A quick reminder for those of you in the New college, major, and extracurricular activities. If Down2Earth Interior Design. It’s a Philadelphia- York area over Thanksgiving weekend: please join that runs dry, you ask about campus jobs and area design practice that focuses on creating sus- your classmates for the return of the rivalry be- social life. If all else fails you bring up your fresh- tainable, low-maintenance, and family-friendly tween Cornell and Boston U. men’s hockey on man dorm, trying to make a connection while interior environments. She created the business Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011 at Madison Square Gar- getting nostalgic and excited whenever you find plan while she was getting her MBA at LaSalle den. Check the class website, Facebook, and/or points of similarity or common acquaintances. For and now runs the business out of the attic in her LinkedIn for information about block seating and this column, our classmates have taken their sim- new house (in Elkins Park, PA). Amy’s husband, a class pre-game event. Thanks for your updates! ilarities beyond the normal: we have two baby Adam, is a hematologist at Penn, and they have c Carin Lustig-Silverman, [email protected]; Sydney Claires this year! Richard and Alicia Beck sons Shalom, 4, and Lev, 1. 84 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 85 C When I’m not writing your news I’m busy with (JDC) study trip to Morocco. Sam Pollack, Cora

Marin Elizabeth Brown, born Nov. 20, 2010 in lass Notes my family (chasing Lukas, 18 months, takes up Boston. Jesse, Chrissy, and big sister Hadley Iberkleid, and Nathaniel Berman ’02, MPA ’03, most of my days), my church, my personal train- have thoroughly enjoyed the first six months as well as eight other young professionals from ing clients, and training for marathon number with her. Paulette Rudolph Gibbons, ME ’00, and New York, Boston, and Houston traveled to Moroc- five, which will be in the books before this news husband Douglas welcomed the birth of their son co this past March to learn more about the JDC’s prints. The steady stream of information from our Douglas Jr. on February 20. “We look forward to work there. The group visited Casablanca and Mar- classmates has been so refreshing—please keep introducing him to Cornell at the 15th Reunion rakech and enjoyed interacting with the small yet it coming! c Molly Darnieder Bracken, molly in 2014 (gotta start him early).” vibrant Moroccan Jewish community. Send your [email protected]; Uthica Jinvit Utano, Rachel White (San Francisco, CA) has been news to: c Liz Borod Wright, lizborod@gmail. [email protected]; and Karen Dorman Kipnes, dealing with plenty of babies—of the canine va- com; Beth Heslowitz, [email protected]; [email protected]. riety. She writes: “After a few years in technolo- Taber Sweet, [email protected]; Melanie gy, I am returning to my roots in hospitality—if Grayce West, [email protected]. that can be broadly defined as ‘making people As I write this column, many in happy.’ I’m working to expand the family business the Class of ’99 are getting of breeding the most beautiful English and French We’re having a Class of 2000 99 ready to celebrate Mother’s Day. bulldog puppies in the world. Anyone—through- baby boom! Emily Barocas and I, your class correspondent Liz Borod Wright, gave out the country and around the world—looking 00 husband Neal Carruth wel- birth to Joshua Luke on Nov. 23, 2010. These past to complete their family with a beautiful bully comed Max Edwin, their first child, on April 14. few months have been a blur—a combination of should contact me at [email protected] The couple lives in Washington, DC, where Emily excitement and exhaustion. Parenthood is a whole or through www.fogcitybulldogs.com. Make sure is the associate administrator for communications new world, not unlike entering Cornell as a fresh- to mention you’re a Cornellian! On Feb. 12, 2011, and marketing at the General Services Adminis- man. And, yes, Josh does have a Cornell onesie Carolina Maharbiz married Mahesh Netravali ’98 tration and Neil is the supervising senior producer thanks to Salil ’01 and Nicole Neroulias Gupte in Miami. Heather Hollidge Madland and Amy of “All Things Considered” on NPR. Also first-time ’01. Although the majority of my attention has Van Blarcom-Lackey were two of her bridesmaids. parents, Sarah Fogelman and husband Dave Sachs been focused on Josh, I have still managed to Although it was not a Cornell-exclusive trip brought home Charlotte Esther in January. keep up with my travel website, Travelogged.com, like last summer’s young alumni service trip to Ar- Wendy Stevens Larson and husband Ryan and work part-time as an adjunct faculty member gentina, Cornellians were well represented on the had a daughter, Simone, in April. They live in for a social media course at Columbia U. Graduate American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s Austin, TX, where Wendy is a trademark attorney School of Journalism. On Nov. 27, 2010, Rachel Ster- ling and husband Jeremy Sharff welcomed Lucas Aaron. Rachel enjoyed a four-month maternity leave during one of Boston’s worst winters. Luckily, the whole family was Kitchen Confidential able to escape to Puerto Rico for a few days and Lucas loved the pool. Divya Gugnani ’98 Rachel has returned to work at Google, where she was promoted to team lead of the East Coast YouTube ivya Gugnani has three passions in life—food, media, and business—and with the online media sales team. Michelle help of a few cooking classes and an MBA from Harvard, she has made a career com- Brandon Tabnick and husband D bining all three. In 2008 she started her own culinary media brand, Behind the Burn- Richard became first-time parents when Benjamin Richard was born er, and two years later launched Send the Trend, an online store for trendy and inexpensive on March 13, 2011. David Sandoval fashion accessories. She has also written a book, Sexy Women Eat: Secrets to Eating What You and his wife have a baby girl, Want and Still Looking Fabulous, and has been Catalina. They relocated to Wash- featured on numerous TV programs, as well as ington, DC, where Dave is the head an American Express commercial. of legal affairs for a pharmaceutical The idea for Behind the Burner came after company. However, he is still keeping his NYC-based band, Delexilio, several years of working in investment banking going; they play “Rock and Roll and venture capital. The Human Ecology grad with a Cuban Soul.” began appearing as a guest on MSNBC’s “Your Victoria Stein gave birth to Business,” and the media exposure opened her George Samuel Feltman on May 10, eyes to the possibility of combining her inter- 2011. She is a nutritionist at New ests in the form of a website, behindtheburner. York Children’s Health Project in the South Bronx, where she works with com, where visitors could share restaurant-grade homeless children and their families. tips from professional chefs. She also launched a private prac- In addition to the site, Gugnani hosts a tice, Back to Basics Nutrition (www. short-form TV cooking show, also called “Behind backtobasicsnutrition.com), which the Burner,” where she shares tips, tricks, and provides family-oriented nutrition- techniques for food, wine, mixology, and nutri- al counseling. Victoria and her husband live on NYC’s Upper West Side. tion on location at bars and restaurants. The Meagan Ballard Hall has two rea- show is syndicated to more than 20 million sons to celebrate Mother’s Day this households on such channels as NBC New York year. She, husband Doug Hall, and Nonstop. “People are not dining out as much,” son Griffin proudly announce the says Gugnani. “Instead they want to bring that arrival of their newest family mem- restaurant-quality meal and experience home, ber, Max. He joined the happy fam- and are dabbling more in cooking. With cooking ily on March 19, 2011. Jesse Brown and wife Chrissy shows, magazines, blogs, websites, and cook- Shea ’00 are thrilled to announce books, people are starting to take control of their culinary experience.” the arrival of their second daughter, — Adrienne Zable ’11 July | August 2011 85 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 86

with Pirkey Barber LLP and Ryan is an assistant For the past year, Philip Ballard has been into their family on March 31, 2011. The family attorney general with the State of Texas. Julie the speechwriter for the surgeon general of the resides in Rochester, NY. Dittmer Armstrong is pleased to announce the Navy. “I finally understand why Cornell made us Earlier than expected, Matt Jones and his birth of son Joshua Richard on May 31, 2010. take freshman writing seminars,” Philip writes. wife, Kristin Mihalko (Portland, OR), met their Julie says, “I was so excited to see he has red “I hadn’t written a speech since high school and fraternal twin sons, Brendan Garrett and Na- hair like his daddy! Sean and I are having a blast have no medical background, so the learning thaniel Quinn, on March 29, 2011. Kimberly and being parents and look forward to fellow Cornell- curve has been steep. I’m also halfway through Lawrance Kimmel also had twins—Daniel Jared ians meeting him.” Julie resides in Canton, MA, an executive MBA program at Virginia Tech. That and Juliette Morgan—on April 21, 2011 and live just outside of Boston, and is taking some time doesn’t leave me much free time, but I’m training outside of Philadelphia, PA. Lawrance is a part- off to be with Josh. A double congratulations to for two triathlons this summer and am an active ner at Kimmel Carter Roman & Peltz PA, a per- Debbie Matz Prosser, who had twins in February. member of the City Tavern Club in Georgetown. I sonal injury and worker’s compensation firm in Daniel and Madelyn join siblings Ashley, 5, and also enjoy hosting dinner parties in my new con- Wilmington, DE. Dylan, 2. Proud parents Julie Miller and Rick do in Arlington, VA.” Nathan Connell just finished his year as chief resident in the Dept. of Medicine at Brown U. and will be continuing there as a fellow in hematology/oncology. He regularly sees Garreth My memories of Cornell consist of Biegun, who just became a father to Holtyn. Garreth is chief resident in Brown’s Dept. of Emer- ‘ gency Medicine. Nathan also works with class- frozen, bitter, chilling, freezing winters. mates Chia-Ching “Jackie” Wang (an internal medicine resident) and Arnoldas Giedrimas (a Carlos Hill ’05’ cardiology fellow), all at Brown. On the opposite coast, Angela Hunter Sparks is a family physician for GroupHealth in Olympia, WA. On December 27, Wilson shared news of the arrival of daughter After ten years in the corporate world suc- 2010, she and husband Brandon welcomed a sec- Abigail Rose on Nov. 29, 2010. The family lives cessfully managing a team of engineers at ond daughter, Aurora Grace, to their family, and in San Mateo, CA. Sarah Gish Powenski and hus- Hewlett-Packard, Jenny Williams Shih stepped older sister Adelaide was thrilled. band Ted ’99 proudly announced the birth of out on her own to pursue a career as an online Sharon Poczter’s education career is coming Brynn Abigail, who joins big sister Eliana Lorraine. business coach and consultant (www.jennyshih. full circle. In August she begins a position as as- Congratulations to all the new parents! com). She focuses on helping right-brained, cre- sistant professor of managerial economics in the David and Josee Pearce have relocated from ative entrepreneurs create a sustainable business Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics Washington to the northern Adirondacks. The doing something they love. Sarah Sardinsky is a and Management at Cornell, which is the same family is getting back to basics and spending senior event manager at the Washington Marriott major as her undergraduate degree. Sharon also time with son Charles. Snowmobiling, ice fishing, Wardman Park in Washington, DC, and was in- recently completed her doctorate in business and and cross-country skiing keep David busy. Connie strumental in helping to plan and execute the public policy from UC Berkeley. Mike Barish is a Chen is a fifth-year associate at Kegel, Tobin, and Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference (CALC) at freelance travel writer and host of a travel-themed Truce in Long Beach, CA. Jason Quinn is the the hotel in January. The conference is Cornell’s Web series sponsored by Chevy that people can managing director at Barclays Capital in NYC. flagship annual volunteer event, with more than watch at his site, www.mikebarish.com. His work Matthew Zales is vice president at Pine Brook 800 volunteer leaders, students, faculty, and staff has also been published in the San Francisco Road Partners, also in NYC. in attendance, including President Skorton. Many Chronicle, BudgetTravel.com, Gadling, and World Over in Taiwan, Jenny Chen has parlayed her thanks, Sarah, for your hard work and assistance Hum, and he’s appeared on CBS News and NBC Cornell experience into a book called From the to Cornell putting on this major event! New York discussing his specific area of travel ex- Bottom of the Class to Cornell. Jenny says, “As you Send any news, big or small, our way. We pertise, SkyMall. Living in London, Laura Ruben can imagine, it’s a book about my education ex- love hearing from you! c Christine Jensen Weld, Goodall is working as the reinsurance buyer for perience and about my new company. The book [email protected]; and Andrea Chan, amc32@ Arch Insurance Europe and last summer married started selling in April; I am very excited! I hope cornell.edu. her longtime boyfriend, Michael. one day to have it published in English, too!” In between columns, we have a new way to Chase Twomey was named marketing director for stay connected—through our class Twitter account: Chicago-based Zoro Tools, a startup distributor Although our 10th Reunion was @Cornell2001 or www.twitter.com/Cornell2001. If of more than 250,000 products. The website just last month, our official Re- you start following the feed, let us know, since we launched in May and will support small and medi- 01 union Report will appear in the would like to follow classmates back. We are also um businesses. Check out www.zorotools.com. Sept/Oct issue, since this column went to print migrating our Facebook activity from a group to Elisabeth Frankel Reed contributes to Born and beforehand. We would like to thank all classmates a page, so we would love for you to “Like” this Bred, a new blog affiliated with New York Fami- that played key roles in planning our reunion. as well: http://www.facebook.com/Cornell2001. ly magazine. The blog is geared toward expectant If you are a parent or an educator of ele- Send news to: c Trina Lee, [email protected]; parents and families with babies and/or toddlers mentary students, you should definitely check or Lauren Wallach Hammer, [email protected]. and can be found at http://www.newyorkfamily. out Super Sprowtz, founded by classmate Radha com/newyork/blogs-1-1-1-63.html. Agrawal. Super Sprowtz’s mission is to entertain In June, Chad Nadler finished up general and educate children about healthy eating habits I asked for class notes and you surgery residency at West Virginia U. and start- using fun “super-powered” vegetable superheroes really came through. In the ed a hand surgery fellowship at the U. of Mis- (www.supersprowtz.com). Radha’s sister and fel- 02 four years I’ve been doing this, sissippi in July. Beth Taylor Parker accepted a low classmate Miki Agrawal serves as the mar- I’ve never had half this much to include, so thank position at the U. of Hartford as an assistant pro- keting director. They just secured 13 shows at you and keep it up! fessor in the College of Education, Nursing and Lincoln Center and 25 episodes on NYCTV. Miki Sadia Afzal Jania writes from San Francisco Health Professions. She will continue to be in- and Radha are also both behind Slice, The Perfect that she was married in not one, but two volved with the Hartford Hospital Dept. of Car- Food (www.sliceperfect.com) and are working to places—Ithaca and South Lake Tahoe—which is diology’s research program, where she is currently develop more locations in NYC. very considerate, since destination weddings, the director of exercise research. Her husband, Congratulations to classmates Steve, ME ’02, while fun, are difficult to coordinate. She works Brooks, continues to work full-time for the town and Heather Bernstein Kopleff on the birth of for Charles Schwab/Cypress Semiconductor, of Manchester, CT, as their environmental servic- their daughter Jennifer Sophie on January 12, bought her first house in Cow Hollow, and gets es manager, and is finishing up the first year of 2011. She was born at Weill Cornell Hospital in to spend her winters snowboarding in Tahoe. a master’s in public administration at the U. of NYC and is already looking forward to matricu- Storm Nolan writes, “On the personal side, the Connecticut. They purchased a home in Hartford’s lating to the Class of 2033! Jennifer Radi Green- stork brought my partner and me a beautiful West End neighborhood, where they live with berg and husband Brian, along with big sister Great Dane puppy—her parents both weighed 170 daughter Tess, 5, and son Reid, 3. Meredith, joyfully welcomed Sydney Elizabeth pounds! We bought a fixer-upper house in Seattle 86 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes Cate , MCE Anne C. respond- c married in May married August 2011 87 , both an AAP | finished medical finished Jeffrey Chan Jeffrey Carlos Hill returned to school to to school returned July , MCE ’05. LERA provides Laura Diaz Kim Le writes, “I recently joined the joined “I recently writes, Orlando Soria and and For these first months of months first For these successes quite a few 2011, this time In have flourished! Happy summer to everyone! summer Happy con- Class Notes of This edition news. exciting a lot of tains founded the nonprofit iMADdu nonprofit the founded will attend Harvard Business School Business Harvard will attend Kate Kastenbaum Hiroshi Shirako writes, “I graduated from the U. of Wis- U. of the from “I graduated writes, Chris Mullen , [email protected]. Classmates have also shared great family great have also shared Classmates Congratulations to classmates who have com- have who to classmates Congratulations Mona Olsen James LaRocca ed, “Unfortunately, my memories of Cornell con- Cornell of memories my “Unfortunately, ed, winters. freezing chilling, bitter, frozen, sist of sunny some were there I’m sure Nevertheless, with connected Staying tenure. my during days memory! will certainly jolt my fellow classmates I but now Brothers, Toll for I was a civil designer (not an MBA for school graduate am attending nice somewhere going School—I’m Johnson the TX).” Carlos volunteers Austin, warm instead: and Up- in the Green coach at Asphalt as a football his team was where Manhattan, of per East Side last season. undefeated news. Many of us are heading back to graduate school. back to graduate heading us are of Many Grace Choi this fall. of Tipper School Mellon’s at Carnegie MBA her get the CAAAN and for volunteers now She Business. “It Says Kate, in Pittsburgh. Federation Jewish but I’m looking first semester, was a challenging an exciting year and the of rest to the forward to support Hotel I continue internship. summer day to the look forward each year and Cornell Ezra again.” event the I can attend when studies. pleted their a res- is starting and Toronto U. of at the school her U. E-mail at McGill in ophthalmology idency ([email protected])! if you visit Montreal Kellett MA in li- in December 2010 with a JD and consin a catalog I am now science. information and brary back love being and Law School at Yale librarian this for updates inspire East Coast!” To on the to remember classmates I asked issue, summer Ithaca. of days warmer the 05 of transition and rebirth, let’s celebrate the fol- the let’s celebrate rebirth, and transition of news. good lowing 04 and A&S graduate, is on a new HGTV show “Se- show HGTV is on a new A&S graduate, and in late Feb- that premiered a Stylist” From crets the he’s and p.m. on Saturdays, on at 9 It’s ruary. out the Check host. to the assistant on-camera website at: www.hgtv.com/secrets-from-a-stylist/ show/index.html. in Rose LLP as an attorney Proskauer law firm of E. Leslie group.” employment labor and the (LERA), a 75-person struc- Robertson Associates an- City, York firm in New engineering tural of promotions the nounced (I make a difference, do you?) last June. iMADdu last June. you?) do a difference, (I make empower the to to students experiences provides ap- through entrepreneurs of generation next based in Currently mentorship. and prenticeship Program Apprenticeship Student the VA, Fairfax, to local community university students is linking visit www.imakeadifferencedoyou. Please entities. to learn more. org ’05, and ’05, and structural engineering design services for archi- for services design engineering structural with owners, and contractors, developers, tects, to the renovations small from that range projects Con- urban developments. multi-block of design to: news to all! Send gratulations Jones , Thad Sasha wrote, Sudha and in- and Allison c . Brett and . Brett and and Priscilla Paiva , MBA ’09, was , MBA Corrine Cohen , jrb41@cornell. Samantha Buck- Ron Peck the help of other of help the JP Ren ’07 celebrated the birth the celebrated and husband Marc Wiz- Marc husband and Brian Tan ’11 , [email protected]. married in 2010 as well. married Brett Owens Keh Chris Atwell Jeff Barker and and c Cooper lives in the UK, where Cooper lives in the Hello, classmates! Well, here we here Well, classmates! Hello, has rolled summer are—another has class another and around , who writes, “My husband, husband, “My writes, , who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, lives in Vancouver, and Angie Angie and , [email protected]; , [email protected]; wrote to share that Brett is busy launch- that Brett to share wrote Rivka Shoulson Rivka Noonan, [email protected]. Noonan, has moved—on the work front. She writes She work front. the has moved—on David Bollinger Andy Zhou ’12 Carolyn Deckinger I’m pleased to sneak in a quick note from note in a quick to sneak I’m pleased If you submitted news and it’s not in these it’s not and If you submitted news Married classmates classmates Married Megan Davis news, In wedding Daniel (Hotel), and I had our first child, Henry Gor- Henry I had our first child, and (Hotel), graduating (on time!) as a fourth-generation Cor- a fourth-generation as time!) (on graduating in 2032. nellian Jane Terrell Paul ’98 don, 7, on July 2010. in clothed well is already He by his grandparents.” Red Cornell edu; Masque reports, “I will start my neurology resi- neurology “I will start my reports, Masque in the Center Medical at Montefiore in July dency career!” start my to finally I am excited NY. Bronx, Erica Olson graduate is in She life. outdoor loves the and log- of movements long-term the studying school an environ- works for and sea turtles gerhead she time spare In her company. consulting mental as pos- as much to travel tries and plays hockey Yukon! in the trip will be canoeing next Her sible. CAM. issue of next it in the please look for notes, news, more for always looking We’re so please write or Carolyn. to me married back in October 2010. He has finished back in October 2010. He married his after getting work at Amgen his first year of School. Johnson the from MBA to gen- in September 2010.” Ron was promoted at his com- president vice senior and counsel eral pany. graduated and joined the ranks of alumni. How are alumni. How of ranks the joined and graduated all of being into you settling “established” alumni? Goodman Chrometa software, capture time his automated ing had He’s (www.chrometa.com). manager Cornellians—product terns they where to enjoy Sacramento, Allison continue area. the for alumni group Cornell run the to biology teaches she 11- to 18-year-olds at a pri- a bit of and England is exploring She vate school. to catch got she I hope time. spare in her Europe fanfare! wedding royal the a glimpse of Saliego for a representative become has “recently that she Native tribes and Utah and Nevada, all Arizona, is- policy on transportation communities American Committee.” Roads Reservation Indian sues on the person busy, one to keep enough if that wasn’t As first marathon! also completed her she sweetheart, Cornell my “I married 03 The wedding was attended by many of David’s of by many was attended wedding The Epsilon. Congrats Kappa Tau from friends Cornell you. to all of of their son Jabez Daniel “JB” Younghum in ear- “JB” Younghum Daniel son Jabez their of ly 2011. Penina a baby girl, Neta ’04) welcomed (Yale nia graduating 6, 2010. Since on August Wiznia, has completed a in 2007, Rivka vet school from a mas- and residency medicine animal laboratory 2010). U. (May at Columbia health ter’s in public medi- animal laboratory a clinical is now Rivka Compar- of Inst. at Columbia’s veterinarian cine As now. for news That’s the ative Medicine. to or Sam by e-mail me you can reach always, a lovely summer! Have your news. share Nandagopal ingham and and wife An- and Tricia Furnari has been taking Heather Knauss Shane Downey Paul Bednarczyk ’01 leveraged finance group. finance leveraged has been keeping busy. He busy. has been keeping Luke Wright reports, “I relocated back to “I relocated reports, takes lifelong learning very se- learning lifelong takes Celeste Richie writes, “I’ve just started a factory writes, and husband husband and ndraising efforts. HWI is an interna- HWI is efforts. ndraising Matthew Holleran Helen Perakis Hunter Oliver These next two pieces of news came to me came news of two pieces next These and absolutely love the Pacific Northwest. On the Northwest. Pacific love the absolutely and get- is (CSK Hotels) company my side, business is which management, hotel third-party into ting com- our custom canvas artwork Sales at exciting. up. to ramp continue (www.CanvasHQ.com) pany Laura Torres their of anniversary one-year the celebrating are owns which Inc., Group Business B&T business, boutiques and two upscale pet LuLu & Luigi, can visit You in Minnesota. facilities grooming website at www.luluandluigi.com. their is now the managing director of Northwestern of director managing the is now plat- gold, silver, bronze, received has and Mutual char- as well as the awards, life impact and inum, financial chartered and life underwriter tered in is also certified He designations. consultant of is an active member Matthew care. long-term way of By NY. in Williamsville, resides and NAIFA that I have news release, a press Haupt- the for director development new is the (HWI) in Inst. Research Medical man-Woodward HWI’s for will be responsible Tricia NY. Buffalo, fu primary to im- committed nonprofit renowned tionally the of study the through health human proving therapies, as well as potential diseases, causes of level. molecular fundamental at their a I bought CA, when La Jolla, of hometown my in December 2010. I have been there house new de- estate real hospitality self-employed in the past the for business consulting and velopment ground to be breaking I’m excited years. several second in the hotel construction first new on my 2011.” of quarter part- with her ukulele playing and lessons trapeze a circus. of a member is not she but Jason, ner, man- year as a presidential second is in her She government, federal fellow with the agement Hu- and Health Dept. of the in D.C. for working issues. policy family on child and Services man Labor in of Dept. to the on detail is currently She office. evaluation chief the wife Lynne welcomed son Colin in January 2010 son Colin in January welcomed wife Lynne Toronto in 2028). Back in him at Lynah (look for joined Shane years in London, after a couple of in the Montreal Bank of in Boston, school medical attended She riously. GA, in Augusta, position took a residency then Now surgery. neck and in head trained she where and graduation at yet another herself finds she so she’s world, real to join the wanting still not up has taken and training to pursue more decided in Minnesota U. of at the a fellowship position If you’re surgery. in plastic to train Minneapolis up. to look Helen be sure area, Minneapolis in the Shen Husain in Dubai, UAE, to manufacture aluminum com- aluminum to manufacture in Dubai, UAE, fa- used in architectural are which posite panels, blood, two years of of culmination the It’s cades. excited.” so I’m pretty tears, sweat, and I’m definite- since is great which very succinctly, limit. word over my ly going on July 4, 2010 in Elizabeth- Wells Mark married live in Los Angeles, Mark and Heather town, PA. a through years ago eight met they CA, where friend. Cornell mutual drea moved from Princeton, NJ, to Rochester, NY, to Rochester, NJ, Princeton, from moved drea attorney employment is a labor and Luke where pleased are They LLP. & Emery Secrest with Harter born Peter, son William birth of the announce to to forward looking 8, 2010. Will is already June 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 87 Page PM 1:24 6/16/11 056-095CAMja11notes 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 88

2010—they met at Cornell during our sophomore Five years out, ’06ers—con- places such as Dubai, Kuwait, and Oman. She re- year. Loren ’04 and Elissa Badean Felsman were grats! Our 5th Reunion was ports, “I often see my Cornell classmates in New married last September. Andrew Rosenberg ’05, 06 amazing and it wouldn’t have York and the surrounding areas and enjoy serving DVM ’09, married Jessica Kaplan ’07, DVM ’11, in been the same without you! For those who missed as a Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassador.” June. Lauren Jacobs married Josh Benjamin ’99 out, make sure to keep sending in your updates. Marielys Garcia works as the Spanish depart- in September. Both parents on the bride and We want to hear from you! Nicole will have a comment chair and a teacher at Thurgood Marshall groom’s side are Cornellians, so it was truly an plete reunion report in the Sept/Oct column. Academy in Washington, DC. Melanie Castro con- alumni affair! It was a fabulous wedding in Steam- Jessica Rostoker is in her first year at Har- ducts market research in Ft. Lee, NJ, for top com- boat Springs, CO, with many Cornell friends in at- vard Law School, where she is the line editor and panies across the country and is doing an online tendance. Congratulations to Joseph Lemberg subciter for the Harvard Environmental Law Re- certificate in market research and sensory sci- and Mary Turnipseed, who welcomed a beautiful view. This semester, Jessica will join the Harvard ence. She is VP of the Cornell Latino/a Alumni baby daughter in February. Annabelle, welcome Mediation Program to become a licensed media- Association, active in her sorority (Lambda Pi to the Cornell family! tor in the State of Massachusetts and perform Chi), a high school senior mentor, and an active I always enjoy reading about everyone’s ca- court-ordered mediations in small-claims courts. member of CAAAN. reer endeavors. I received a great update from Ari Adinna Augur Smith will start as an attorney at Lauren Young and Mark Keremedjiev were Cantor (Hotel): “Life has been very busy. I joined the law firm Ropes & Gray in Boston, MA, this engaged on July 1, 2008 in St. Tropez, France, my father, Robert Cantor ’68 (Hotel), in the fam- fall. Eugene Ngai is in the final stretch of law and were married at the home of Lauren’s parents, ily manufacturing business a little over two years school at the U. of Southern California. After Philip ’62 and Nancy Halsey Young ’62, in Por- ago. Scary to think that I am now the fifth gen- graduation, he will work in Los Angeles at a tola Valley, CA. Mark earned his MS at the U. of eration; we’ve been producing commercial kitchen healthcare law firm. Florida in May 2008 in astrophysics and is cur- equipment since 1893. Since we do an extensive Keelah Rose Calloway has earned a full rently pursuing his PhD. Lauren has taken a po- amount of military contract work, I spent last Au- scholarship to Roger Williams U. School of Law in sition with the Paradigm Property management gust at USNB Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where I Rhode Island. She is a first-year student with team in Gainesville, FL. Julia Schlenker Boven- worked in Camp America, the large facility that plans to study maritime and international law. zi moved to Hawaii in July to work on staff as a houses the 172 detainees who await formal tri- Also pursuing higher education and in his third program director for Teach For America. Her hus- als. I’ve spent a lot of time on the road for work. year at Brown Med School, Josh Keegan plans to band, Matthew, is a navigator on a Naval de- Had a chance to see Kim Glassman (Hotel), Jeff go into emergency medicine somewhere in the stroyer after participating in ROTC at Cornell. “We Lacouture (Eng), and Alex Waldman (Hotel) back Northeast upon graduating. Susanne Wakerly got married in Sage Chapel,” she reports. Andre in February. Also hope to visit my friend (and cus- completed a year of service with Americorps, Jacobovitz married Shalhevet Roth on August 31, tomer) Noah Ellis ’04 (Hotel), to see his latest working at the Share Our Strength organization 2008. Congratulations to all! restaurant in Los Angeles, Red Medicine. It’s a su- in Boston. “I helped organize and lead their After leaving Leeb Capital, where I started the per-popular Vietnamese restaurant in Beverly cooking and nutrition classes for low-income pop- in-house PR department—in addition to being a Hills. Noah found himself the focus of a media ulations,” she writes. “I’ll graduate with a mas- contributing editor and contributor for their fi- blitz after posting a picture of a famous L.A. food ter’s in nutrition communication from Tufts U.’s nancial newsletters—in July 2010, I started work- critic on Twitter.” Dominic Frongillo works at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.” ing for Ark Restaurants (www.arkrestaurants.com) Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins Coun- Jamie Chung is a first-year student at UC San in the special events and catering department. It’s ty in Ithaca. His current projects include a coun- Francisco in the School of Dentistry. been amazing—such a fantastic company! Stop by ty-wide energy conservation and sustainability Having had enough of the hotel and meeting our restaurants (Bryant Park Grill in NYC or Sequoia campaign. He continues to serve on the Caroline planning industries for a while, Liza Steinfeld in D.C.)! I’m also still growing my multi-media Town Council. moved to Ecuador, where she will remain for the and events company, Pinky Up Productions, and Rhesa Wilson has changed her career focus next year. “I am participating in LanguageCorps keeping super busy in the recording studio work- from food and beverage operations to human re- and will teach English in the capital city of Quito. ing on new songs to follow up my number one sources management. She is an HR coordinator When I return to the States, I hope to have a hits in Europe with Dan Balan (www.katiedicicco. for the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers and better idea of what I would like to do with my com). Keep an ear out for my upcoming tracks! Manhattan at Times Square Hotel while she con- life. I’ve never been to Latin America, so if any- Thanks again for your updates and keep us post- tinues her education as an MPS candidate in ILR. one has any ties in that part of the world (or ed! c Katie DiCicco, [email protected]; Nicole Rhesa still finds time to volunteer with New York words of wisdom), I would love to hear from DeGrace, [email protected]. Cares and Part of the Solution (POTS), a commu- you!” Like Liza, Amit Caspi has decided to take nity center in the Bronx that acts as a soup a break from the hospitality industry. Amit spent kitchen and food pantry and also offers legal and two years working abroad for hotel development The news keeps coming! Vivian case management services. Theodora Kouris re- companies in Dubai and Thailand. Immediately Stone (vivian_stone@hotmail. ports, “I am an immigration attorney in NYC. My after graduating, he joined a luxury resort com- 07 com) writes, “After three years life is spent running back and forth to immigra- pany, Six Senses Resorts & Spas in Bangkok, Thai- of working for the Four Seasons Hotels in the US, tion court all day long. It’s exciting, but com- land, as a manager responsible for overseeing I decided that I missed my family and friends and pletely hectic. At Cornell, I took a lot of courses their development pipeline. “I then joined the wanted to move back to Lima, Peru. This last year in foreign relations/politics. Since I spend all day pre-opening team of a massive hotel project has been an amazing year, not only because of arguing why we should allow illegal immigrants called Atlantis the Palm (1,539 rooms) on the tip regaining contact with my friends and family, but to stay in the country, it comes in handy to know of the Palm Jumeirah island in Dubai (artificial also because of the amazing trips and adventures about foreign cultures. French helps, too.” island in the shape of a palm tree).” Amit is now that I have been able to engage in. Recently, I Elliott Klass has moved from Chicago back back in California with his family, trying to figure decided to go back to school to pursue an MBA to NYC for a new job with Lathan & Watkins LLP. out the next stage in his life. “Perhaps more in- here in Lima, which I will be finishing this com- Sarah Perkins moved to the Big Apple to work for ternational adventures?” ing July. Looking forward to our 5th Reunion in Columbia Business School’s development office. Currently in Dubai, Irfaan Lalani was pro- 2012, and hope to see anyone who’s planning a She also adopted a 7-month-old puppy, which moted to senior development analyst at Jones visit to Peru!” During the last year, Yang Lu keeps her very busy! It was wonderful to hear from Lang LaSalle Hotels and is trying to stay afloat ([email protected]) moved from San Francisco, Shada El-Sharif, who writes, “I’m in Amman, Jor- in the midst of the current real estate slump. Ir- CA, to Princeton, NJ, via an internal job transfer dan, enjoying the different hats I wear as a mom faan went to Sri Lanka for the first time several with Planisware, a small project portfolio man- and an engineer in water/sustainability projects. months ago and went skiing in Beirut. Danny agement software vendor. Last October, he moved Looking forward to visiting Ithaca again: straw- Ruiz moved to Punta del Este, Uruguay, to work into Park Slope, Brooklyn, when he joined CA berry cream cheese bagels from the Dairy Bar and at the Conrad Resort & Casino. “Living on the Technologies as a principal consultant of techni- banana nut muffins from Olin. Bliss.” Thanks for beach beats hiking in the snow,” he declares. cal sales within its Clarity business unit. Yang writing! Send updates to your class correspon- Based in NYC, Liz Aslanian works in the market- says he misses the West Coast, but is excited to dents: c Michelle R. Wong, [email protected]; ing department at Travel + Leisure Magazine. Over be back in the Northeast. Hilary Johnson, [email protected]; Johnny Chen, the past year, Liz spent a great deal of time trav- Jennifer Valdes ([email protected]) shared [email protected]. eling both for work and for pleasure, visiting the good news that she was recently promoted to 88 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes An- won a na- , ME ’09 (Co- August 2011 89 | July , [email protected]; and , [email protected]; Alex Kresovich and his wife, Julia, live in Julia, his wife, and Alexander Roth OH; adr33@cornell. lumbus, in student is a graduate edu) Libby Boymel ’08 Libby Boymel , our Class of 2008 alumni council , our Class of ’ , [email protected]. Libby Boymel c Music producer producer Music Mark Coombs on it’s going “still can’t believe Mark us, Like chemical engineering at Ohio State U., where he State U., where at Ohio engineering chemical “I in blood substitutes. research is performing for “so this is ideal writes, he love research,” 09 tionwide contest to have his music featured on featured to have his music contest tionwide of series latest in the the 2K12 game, NBA the 2K11) (NBA Last year’s edition 2K games. NBA Alex’s worldwide. copies than 3 million sold more competition 10 voting a Top beat was selected for 2K Sports) out and Records Down by Duck (hosted winner the was voted and 11,000-plus entries of will be flown to New on April 13. In October he this accomplishment. for recognized City and York Georgia. U. of at the student is a graduate He with a JD and a certificate in environmental law, in environmental a certificate JD and with a begin work- will she This fall policy. and science, Babst, firm of Pittsburgh-based at the ing will she PC, where Zomnir & Clements Calland, law. environmental practice drew McIntyre job with has started a new chair, membership a private equity firm. Apollo Global Management, cover- group accounting/finance works in the He He investing. PE debt and loans leveraged ing people.” firm with great a great “It’s tells us, they where VA, Alexandria, historic beautiful and he and to Maryland to work—she both commute the for statistician is a mathematical to D.C. Julia the for associate is a policy Mark Bureau; Census is “to mission a 501(c)(3) whose Trust, Civil War battle- Civil War endangered our nation’s preserve hal- these of appreciation to promote and fields boy a Southern for a bad gig Not lowed grounds. started he eh?” When history geek, fide bona and served as Mark last summer, Trust at the working so- in the efforts a grassroots person for point the to prevent fight Walmart” called “Wilderness of atop some a superstore putting from retailer at Virginia’s hallowed ground most America’s . . . We story short “Long Battlefield. Wilderness an- Walmart when in January, fight won the the to preserve’ that it had ‘decided nounced build elsewhere. would instead site and Wilderness re- More news!” national [even] made victory The that sure has been involved in making Mark cently, federal of source key allow the doesn’t Congress up. “We to dry preservation battlefield for funding same at the heritage natural America’s saving are heritage. cultural her preserving that we are time he- American the honoring we are important, Most to our past, as well as demonstrating the of roes for- that we will not now women and men fighting us today.” for doing are all that they tomorrow get send- Keep we graduated.” years (!) since three what you’re we’d love to hear us your news; ing up to! Elana Beale , BArch Marianna Amir Heyat Paul Chadik c joined the mil- the joined works in patient Meredith Odato moved to Wichi- moved Katie Richardson Phil Caruso (Providence, RI) has spent (Providence, Evan Orem Chadik ([email protected]) We have a lot of exciting news exciting have a lot of We to the right so we’ll cut to share, chase! Nate Delaney in D.C.!” In May, in D.C.!” In May, , [email protected]. Mark Coombs is a policy associate Mark Coombs for the Civil War Trust. War for the Civil After graduation, After graduation, Renée Grinnell Colette Bond . We came all the way back from California to California way back from all the came . We ‘ 08 ’08, is graduating from Yale with her master’s in master’s with her Yale from is graduating ’08, in May. health public for Inst. at the manager operations safety as the at Rochester Excellence Clinical Safety and Patient Hos- General System (at Rochester Health General his for part-time to school is also going pital). He Busi- of School Simon Rochester U. of at the MBA in 2012. to graduate expects he ness; at the school law year of second the is finishing will he This summer Law. of School Maryland U. of Sul- firm of law at the associate work as a summer DC. LLP in Washington, livan & Worcester Vegas. in Las years living several spent itary and Ameri- the living “currently that he’s writes He Au- until to Afghanistan can dream—deployed his time a lot of spends tells us that he gust.” He in his geographic villages the visiting off-base as- humanitarian including responsibility, of area counterinsur- the fighting and missions sistance in US back to the gets he When campaign. gency DC, to to Washington, will be moving he August, job. start a new ta, KS, where he flies KC-135 tanker aircrafts for aircrafts tanker KC-135 flies he where ta, KS, been actively involved as a He’s Air Force. the has started his Society, Humane the for volunteer first to see my “I’m waiting writes, and master’s, deploy probably tells us that he’ll He tornado!” this summer. overseas sometime research in psychology past two years working the However, Medicine. of Alpert School at Brown’s this summer—she’s her for ahead lie changes big pro- to begin a doctoral VA, to Richmond, moving at Virginia psychology health in clinical gram up with U. “I can’t wait to meet Commonwealth Meg Corbett Law of School Pittsburgh U. of the from graduated has had an interesting year: “I’ve been finishing year: has had an interesting Sciences, Health U. of year at Western final up my CA. I’ve in Pomona, Medicine Veterinary of College to be- am ready and exams board passed all my I also got note, a DVM. On an even happier come sweetheart, college to my married ’06 at the married to get grounds our old stomping day, was a wonderful Chapel. It beautiful Sage happily back in Southern now We’re truly special. com- and vet school while I finish up California I’m ex- year. next internship veterinary plete my to come More will bring!” future what the cited for to: news Send issue. next in the Gomez goes to a featured charity of the buyer’s choice. buyer’s the of charity to a featured goes an ad- donate also may Matter on Form & Sellers every trans- for earnings their of portion ditional it out at Check goods.” their involving action http://formandmatter.com. Ted Evan (kmb (CG52), a Katie Burns Metzger (annie.a. Metzger ([email protected]) Bunker Hill Bunker , USN (jfm424@gmail. , USN (christianewton@gmail. Annie Kelly Seth Spiel ([email protected]) left his position ([email protected]) Jordan Murray ([email protected]) gradu- ([email protected]) Christian Ewton Three classmates have already changed course changed have already classmates Three LTJG LTJG [email protected]) spent two years working as two years working spent [email protected]) NH, and in Dover, teacher chemistry school a high certifica- a teacher’s on completing also worked to be a bit overwhelm- both proved “Doing tion. various working I am now so I left teaching. ing, at school graduate exploring jobs and part-time work. I live in or social education UNH in either to Boston often, NH, but travel Somersworth, as I years work- After several there.” friends have many in operations/ supply company an industrial for ing chain, in- the “climbing management, general all that,” and responsibilities, my creasing Delahanty Supply Co. at McMaster-Carr head as a department in Suriname “I leave for Corps. Peace to join the back— I come when MBA my plan to get and May world out- base in the with a stronger hopefully work!” Evan was development and US the side to forward looked and transition the for excited use. his skills to good putting startup called Form a Web launched com) recently Christo- partner, his business and He & Matter. on full-time U.), worked (Columbia Spezzano pher a half. Says than a year and more for this project world’s to be the aims “Form & Matter Christian, vin- offering marketplace, sustainable best online for products art, and fine goods, antique and tage prices. affordable lifestyle at and home a healthy each sale from revenue the of Fifteen percent guided missile cruiser out of San Diego, CA, where San Diego, missile cruiser out of guided “I served in officer. operations assistant is the he and tuition my for paid which at school, NROTC upon Officer Naval a US to become allowed me served on two ships I have then Since graduation. deploy- on four gone destroyer), one cruiser, (one than 22 countries to more traveled and ments, on deployment, I’m currently over five continents. fellow Phi and friends but I certainly miss the all my Hope Cornell. from brothers Kappa Sigma there!” well out doing are old classmates careers. in their and graduating “Since writes, [email protected]) Gar- Botanic the to work for to Chicago moving my changed and married I’ve gotten there, den I and husband My farming. organic career—to a starting and Illinois in central living now are to on which land renting are We this year. CSA vegetables of a variety as wide and chickens raise with a our community to provide as possible, diet.” locally produced healthy, account executive at rbb Public Relations. She was She Relations. Public at rbb executive account Relations Public the for treasurer also appointed chapter. Miami (PRSA) America’s of Society Hawkins began work as a litiga- and law school ated from & Strawn Winston of law firm at the associate tion York. LLP in New for Bay Area San Francisco Cisco in the at worked to work to Los Angeles moving a few years before space of future the enable SpaceX—to help for a critical working we are “Currently, exploration! to capability to demonstrate with NASA contract Space Station International the resupply/reman only vi- SpaceX will be the Within a year (ISS). the supporting capable of provider able launch high I interview time, spare my In US. the for ISS and L.A. area in the to Cornell applicants school to I have traveled years, three last In the travel. 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me.” He plans on returning to academia some- Class of 2009, share your story by sending a short Pennsylvania. Joining Eric in the pursuit of a law time, and remembers the Risley Residential Col- summary to one of your class correspondents: c degree is Ashley Binetti, who works for the Hu- lege and BEE department that gave him friends Caroline Newton, [email protected]; Julie man Rights Foundation/Oslo Freedom Forum in for life. Michael Bufano ([email protected]) Cantor, [email protected]. New York City. She is also an academic advisor was working in Chicago until he needed ACL sur- and yoga instructor at Central High School in gery last Thanksgiving. “After moving back home Bridgeport, CT, through the Yale-Bridgeport to Syracuse for a bit, I have been volunteering May marked a full year since many GearUp Partnership. as much as possible before grad school and mak- of us have set foot on Cornell’s The ever-so-modest Asad Qadir is “just” in ing frequent trips back to Ithaca. I stay active 10 campus, with its stately buildings his first year at U. of Chicago Pritzker School of with campus organizations as the alumni devel- and endless streams of brilliant students. Most of Medicine. Jasmin Sahbaz decided to take a year opment chair on the Board of Governors of Phi us remember Cornell in May for two things: grad- off before pursuing any career plans. In the past Kappa Tau and alumni advisor of the Alternative uation and Slope Day. If you have ever attempted year he has been studying coronary artery devel- Breaks program through the Public Service Cen- to explain Slope Day to anyone unfamiliar with opment in embryonic quail hearts at SUNY Upstate ter. I will be attending the Ohio State U. in Au- this vaunted tradition, you may have also found Medical U. in Syracuse, NY. This past winter, he gust for a master’s in higher education and it difficult to relate the feeling of elation and was a ski instructor at Greek Peak Ski Resort. Af- student affairs. Outside of Cornell, I am also the relaxation it imbues. Slope Day, like other rare ter finishing up his lab work, he will be start med- chairman of the advisory board for the Teen In- occasions in life, is something you need to expe- ical school at SUNY Upstate. Rosa Von Gleichen stitute program, a peer leadership program I rience to truly understand. has moved back to her home in Germany to com- have been involved with for ten years.” A number of our classmates took the oppor- plete a joint master’s of law and business offered Victoria Bredt (New York, NY; victoria.bredt@ tunity of Slope Day to rekindle their relationship in Hamburg by the Bucerius Law School and WHU gmail.com) teaches second grade at Leadership with Cornell. Ben Eisen made the trek from Wash- Business School. Keeping the Cornell bond strong, Prep Brownsville in Brooklyn. “I laugh and smile ington, DC, where he works among many Cornell- Rosa’s former housemates Olga Desyatnik and Ju- a ton each day but teaching is a very challenging ians at the Corporate Executive Board, an advisory lia Adolphe visited her last winter for a traditional job—harder than I ever imagined. I’m finishing services company. In his spare time, Ben is mak- German family Christmas and sightseeing. up my two-year commitment with Teach For Amer- ing a valiant effort to train for a triathlon. Octavio Kristen Kennedy has taken her experiences ica (helping new corps members with interviews, Sandoval, who works at JP Morgan Chase as a with Cornell’s Public Service Center to work for lesson plans, etc.) and will teach again next year, capital markets analyst, joined Ben in watching the Bridges to Health program, a statewide pro- too—third grade, same school.” Mitsuhiko Nishi Nelly perform. In addition to facilitating the sale gram for foster children, within Little Flower Chil- (Tokyo, Japan; [email protected]) of mortgage-backed securities of clients such as dren and Family Services. Kristen works for this works for Goldman Sachs Japan and enjoys living Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Octavio has been program, the first of its type in the nation, to and working in Japan for the first time in his life, part of a few networking organizations such as maintain children in their foster placements by “despite being Japanese.” “My biggest challenge Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) be- providing support for the foster kids and their fam- thus far has been adapting to a routine schedule cause, as he puts it, “Networking is the key to ilies. One innovation you should be on the look- without as much flexibility and ownership as be- success in the financial services industry.” He has out for is Star Li’s iPhone and Android app. Star fore. Worklife has been tough but rewarding.” also traveled to Guatemala, Honduras, and Barba- built upon ideas cultivated at Cornell by devel- Mitsuhiko has great memories of Yamatai, the dos since graduation. Lastly, Octavio has been vol- oping her project from the Big Idea Competition Japanese traditional drumming group he was part unteering his services and donating to nonprofit last spring. She will be launching this location- of at Cornell—and continues to be part of. He organizations such as the Knowledge is Power Pro- based services app this summer that will alert you was actually on campus when he sent his news— gram (KIPP). when you get physically close to a location. With writing in Mann Library—because he and other Pooja Khanna, who credits her interest in re- this app, Star plans to assist people by giving alums would be performing with Yamatai in their search to her time spent in Cornell’s labs, took a them real-time alerts to inform them when they annual showcase. Mitsuhiko recently helped out break from researching the assembly of potassium are near companies/organizations that give their in sending food and supplies for tsunami-strick- channels at the U. of Pennsylvania to see the gor- customers/members discounts. en towns in northern Japan at his local church in geous views in Ithaca and look out at the coun- As you can see, much has happened in our Tokyo. He hopes to explore opportunities across tryside from the top of the Slope. Tony Craddock first year out. No matter where you are in the Asia in the near future. Jr. would do the same: one thing in particular he world, make sure you stay true to your roots and Emi Sakaki Jantzen (Mountain View, CA; misses about Cornell is looking at the entire City pay Uncle Ezra a visit. In the meantime, send [email protected]) has been house-hunting of Ithaca from the 11th floor of Bradfield Hall. your updates and plans of world domination to with husband Carl. They moved to the Bay Area Tony is also in graduate school pursuing a mas- your class correspondents: c Rammy Salem, after graduating when Carl got a job offer from ter’s in public health, with a concentration in epi- [email protected]; and Mike Beyman, mjb Microsoft in Silicon Valley. Emi adds, “My study demiology, from George Mason U. He has taken [email protected]. abroad experience in Tokyo and subsequent his experiences performing the saxophone at Japanese language classes are continuing to play events around campus to give saxophone lessons a part in my life. I still take language classes, to students of all ages and now produces, writes, Hey, Class of 2011, welcome to life as and we hope to move and raise our children and records music in the studio on the saxophone Cornell alumni! It’s crazy to think that there someday. I also volunteer at the Suicide for upcoming projects. 11 our four years on the Hill have come to and Crisis Hotline of Santa Clara County, initial- Mohammad Osman, who has not had a an end. However, we’ll all be reunited soon enough ly to get clinical experience for grad school, but chance to visit Cornell yet, but wishes to do so, at Homecoming (Sept. 17!) and other future re- even after getting accepted, I still enjoy talking has managed to get through his first year as a unions. Now that we’ve graduated, the officers of with the callers.” graduate student at UMDNJ as he works toward a the Senior Class Campaign have transitioned into After graduating, Jason Georges (jasona master’s in biomedical sciences. Mohammad is renew roles as alumni officers of our class. Thank [email protected]) completed a master’s degree lieved to see that “all those late nights editing you to all who generously gave back to Cornell by in human rights studies at Columbia, where his and rewriting papers at Cornell” have paid off. In participating in the Campaign! As your class pres- final thesis focused on corporate social responsi- Mohammad’s words, “It’s quite refreshing to be idents, we’ll continue the efforts to keep our class bility in Latin America. Last fall he started law able to do something, and do it well, knowing connected to each other and back to our alma school at Columbia Law. This summer he’s work- that it is the product of intense labor and years mater. In the next issue of Cornell Alumni Maga- ing in NYC for the Dept. of Justice in the Criminal of fine-tuning. As I continue my graduate stud- zine, the rest of our amazing team will be intro- Division of the US Attorney’s Office, which han- ies, I look forward to visiting campus once again duced, including your class correspondents. dles terrorism and white collar crime cases. He has and seeing that place just over the hill.” Still ex- The class correspondents are in charge of also been interviewing and introducing prospec- periencing those late nights, Eric Zember is now keeping us all up to date on events and changes tive students to Cornell through the CAAAN pro- finishing his master’s in psychology while con- in your lives. For now, feel free to share any ex- gram. Kathleen Noble ([email protected]) ducting research in Cornell’s Neuroscience Memo- citing news with us, and we’ll share it with the is a dairy analyst for Leprino Foods in Denver, CO. ry Laboratory. One of his research articles was rest of our class in the next column right here! c Peter Grom ([email protected]) has been published in the Journal of Memory and Cognition. Jeff Stulmaker, [email protected]); and Alina working and traveling and still enjoys lacrosse. Next year he will attend law school at the U. of Zolotareva, [email protected]. 90 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 91

Alumni Deaths ’40 BA—Shirley Seidman Coplon of Airmont, NY, April 16, 2009; worked for the NYS Supreme Court. Alpha Epsilon Phi.

’40 BA—Bernard C. Fisher of New York City, March 10, 2010.

’32-33 Law—Anthony L. Pusateri of Lockport, ’36 BCE—Robert Soman of St. Paul, MN, Octo- ’40—Duncan Kreamer of Phoenix, MD, formerly NY, formerly of Palm Beach, FL, November 7, ber 1, 2010; civil engineer. Sigma Alpha Mu. of Martha’s Vineyard, MA, October 8, 2010; attor- 2010; attorney; specialist in criminal and munic- ney; active in community and religious affairs. ipal law; active in community, professional, and ’36 LLB—William A. Welsh of Lima, PA, March religious affairs. 8, 2006; attorney; asst. city solicitor, Philadel- ’40—Robert E. Muggleton of Skaneateles, NY, phia; owner, Beacon Hill Orchards; Delaware March 18, 2009; art gallery owner; art collector; ’33-35 GR—Margaret Lockwood Hartman (Mrs. County commissioner; active in civic and reli- photographer. Sigma Nu. Paul L., PhD ’38) of Ithaca, NY, September 24, gious affairs. 2009; tax counselor; active in civic, community, ’40 PhD—Walter Reuther of Poway, CA, Novem- and alumni affairs. ’37 BME—Robert H. Menges of Verona, PA, No- ber 2, 2010; professor emeritus of horticulture, vember 15, 2010; engineer; active in religious UC Riverside; expert on citrus; chairman, Citrus ’34 BME—William F. Booker Jr. of Louisville, KY, affairs. Phi Sigma Kappa. Experiment Station; senior editor, The Citrus In- November 9, 2010; retired insurance executive, dustry; active in professional affairs. NTVL; former co-owner, Booker & Kinnaird Insur- ’37 BME—Paul R. Scofield of Clinton, TN, for- ance Agency; veteran; active in civic, communi- merly of Newark, NY, November 19, 2010; ’41 BA—Thomas J. André of Palm City, FL, No- ty, and religious affairs. Phi Delta Theta. worked in the family automobile business; also vember 4, 2010; int’l rose grower; president, worked in production planning, Eastman Kodak; André Greenhouses; president, Roses Inc.; vet- ’34-37 SP Ag—Floyd D. Harwood of Granville, active in civic, community, and religious affairs. eran; active in community and professional af- NY, April 20, 2008. Kappa Sigma. fairs. Psi Upsilon.

’35—Elza Heilbrun Corlett of East Greenbush, NY, ’37 BA—Robert V. Tishman of New York City, ’41 MSE—George H. Baker of Chatham, NJ, Oc- November 2, 2010; retired legal secretary; dairy October 11, 2010; chairman, Tishman Speyer tober 8, 2010; systems engineer, Bell Laborato- farmer; active in community affairs. Properties, builder of the World Trade Center, ries; director of military program planning and Chicago’s John Hancock Tower, L.A.’s Century City, asst. to the VP, Bell Systems programs; active in ’35 BCE, MCE ’38—John F. Harvey of Akron, OH, Detroit’s Renaissance Center, Berlin’s Sony Center, community affairs. November 14, 2010; civil engineer; head of ma- and Frankfurt’s MesseTurm; active in professional rine and special products, Babcock and Wilcox Co.; and alumni affairs. Zeta Beta Tau. ’41 BME—John C. Bellows of Walnut Creek, CA, adjunct professor of mechanical engineering, U. February 27, 2010; mechanical engineer. Phi of Akron; author; active in professional affairs. ’38 BA, MA ’41—Jane Stoutenburg Jordan of Delta Theta. Wife, Ruth (Baker) ’42. Tequesta, FL, November 4, 2010; retired assistant ’35 MD—Charles E. Jacobson Jr. of Manchester, superintendent, Ithaca School District; principal, ’41 MA—Philip Heiberger of Philadelphia, PA, CT, May 25, 2010; urologist; urologist in chief, Boynton Junior High School; active in commu- December 2, 2009; retired chemist. Wife, Betty Manchester Memorial Hospital, Veterans Hospital, nity, professional, and alumni affairs. Kappa Kap- (Donner) ’43. and Newington Children’s Hospital; active in civic, pa Gamma. community, and professional affairs. ’41—Olive Matteson Mack of Camillus, NY, ’38 PhD—Arthur M. Saum of Winston Salem, NC, March 16, 2009; registered nurse; operating su- ’35 BME—Richard K. Keiser of Reading, PA, Oc- April 16, 2008. pervisor, Manchester Hospital; active in profes- tober 31, 2010; operated Wyomissing Hills Inc. sional and religious affairs. and Sinking Spring Water Co.; founder, R.K. Keis- ’39 LLB—Lester H. Chase of Albany, NY, Octo- er Air Compressors; active in civic, community, ber 28, 2010; attorney; retired, Chase Rothkopf ’42 LLB—Raymond A. Argyros of Dunedin, FL, professional, and alumni affairs. Chase LLP; English teacher; veteran; active in May 27, 2007; attorney. civic, community, and professional affairs. ’35 BA, LLB ’37—Theodore W. Kheel of New ’43 MD—S. Gilbert Blount Jr. of Aurora, CO, Oc- York City, November 12, 2010; labor mediator; ’39 BA—Peter J. Chomyn of Mechanicsburg, PA, tober 11, 2010; cardiologist; emeritus professor “master locksmith of deadlock bargaining”; former November 18, 2010; retired from Lockheed Mar- of cardiology, U. of Colorado School of Medicine; executive director, Nat’l Labor Relations Board; tin; active in community and religious affairs. founder, Division of Cardiology, developer of the environmentalist; advocate of mass transit; called Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, and founder for congestion pricing on motor vehicles; co- ’39 BA—Geraldine Mason Clayton (Mrs. Edward of the Cardiovascular Pulmonary Laboratory, U. developer, Punta Cana Resort; established Punta L. ’40) of Belleair Shores, FL, March 24, 2010. of Colorado Health Sciences Center; former chief, Cana Center of Sustainability and Biodiversity; Chi Omega. Cardiovascular Section at Oliver General Hospital author; active in civic, community, professional, in Augusta, GA; veteran; author; editor; active in and alumni affairs. ’39 BA—Nicholas Gatto of Lafayette, CA, April professional affairs. 15, 2008; retired from the Dept. of Social Secu- ’36 MS HE—Vera A. Caulum of Virginia Beach, rity; veteran. ’43 BME—Scott L. Brown Jr. of Morris, IL, Oc- VA, formerly of Sioux City, IA, October 28, 2010; tober 26, 2010; worked for Stephens-Adamson; professor emerita of home economics, Cornell U.; ’39 BA—Virginia Hoyt Hammond of Brunswick, veteran; musician; photographer. Tau Beta Pi. associate director, Cornell Cooperative Extension; ME, November 3, 2010; gardener; equestrian; ac- also taught in public schools; active in civic, tive in civic and community affairs. ’43 BME—Arthur J. Clark Jr. of Albuquerque, community, professional, and alumni affairs. NM, March 19, 2010; engineer. Theta Xi. ’39—Elizabeth Thompson Stevens of Orlando, ’36 BS Ag—Ralph M. Heinicke of Louisville, KY, FL, September 20, 2010. ’43 BS Nurs—Della Femina Gioia of Grand Is- November 26, 2009; retired research director. land, NY, May 7, 2010; registered nurse. ’40 BME—Baird T. Bauder of Irvine, CA, Novem- ’36 BA—Samuel Kahn of Nashua, NH, formerly ber 6, 2007; engineer, Rockwell Corp.; veteran; ’43—Jacqueline Mayer Lane of Long Island City, of Amherst, NH, and Rutherford, NJ, November active in community affairs. NY, August 26, 2010. Sigma Delta Tau. 10, 2010; organic research chemist, Honeywell; scuba instructor; underwater photographer; ac- ’40 BS Ag—Robert N. Blazey of St. Petersburg, ’43 MD—Earl J. Netzow of Thiensville, WI, Oc- tive in civic and community affairs. FL, April 21, 2010. Acacia. tober 24, 2010; family physician; veteran.

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’43—Robert S. Rich Jr. of Delhi, NY, December October 10, 2010; chemical industry executive; ’48—Eunice Murray Dittmar of Lakeville, CT, July 17, 2009; dairy farmer; musician; active in com- former president, the Jewish Center; author, In 10, 2009. munity and religious affairs. Full View; active in community, religious, and alumni affairs. ’48 MS—Col. James H. Hayes of Westlake Vil- ’44 BME—Kenneth L. Campbell Jr. of Hudson, lage, CA, March 6, 2008; retired US Army officer; OH, November 8, 2010; retired administrative en- ’46 BS HE—Joyce Reed Folsom of Ticonderoga, also worked for the Rand Corp.; commandant, gineer, Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.; veteran; NY, November 14, 2010; homemaker; artist; li- Citadel Military Academy; his Army unit helped musician; active in civic, community, and pro- brarian; also worked for Lord & Taylor; active in liberate Buchenwald concentration camp. fessional affairs. community and religious affairs. Delta Gamma. ’48 BS Ag—Kermit Kruse of Silver Springs, ’44, BA ’46, LLB ’48—Robert D. Greenburg of ’46, BS HE ’45—Dorothy C. O’Donnell of Fair- NY, March 30, 2010; retired government worker; Bethesda, MD, November 10, 2010; attorney; ac- fax, VA, May 25, 2009; active in alumni affairs. veteran. tive in alumni affairs. ’46 BS HE—Elizabeth J. Pearson of Hibbing, ’48 BA—Sally Palmer Kurtz of Jacksonville, FL, ’44 BME—Richard Guy of Williamsburg, VA, No- MN, formerly of Albany, NY, September 39, 2010; November 1, 2010; homemaker; active in com- vember 2, 2010; retired senior engineering; peace activist; facilitator, Restorative Justice Pro- munity affairs. Kappa Kappa Gamma. worked for Argo Pneumatic Co. and Ingersoll- gram; active in civic, community, religious, and Rand; veteran; active in community and religious alumni affairs. Delta Gamma. ’48 BME—James S. McChesney of Ridgefield, CT, affairs. Delta Tau Delta. November 5, 2010; manager of engineering serv- ’47 BA—Thomas A. Dooner of New York City, ices, Bristol Babcock Co.; engineering supervisor, ’44 MD—Robert E. Healy of Amesbury, MA, and October 23, 2010; worked for Prudential Insur- Burndy Corp.; design engineer, Honeywell; active Beaufort, SC, October 16, 2010; internist; senior ance Co. of America; veteran. in civic and community affairs. Alpha Chi Rho. VP, Northern Westchester Hospital Center; also worked for General Foods; veteran; active in com- ’47 MA—Charles J. Farrell of Phoenix, AZ, No- ’48—Rose Akullian Monforte of La Quinta, CA, munity, professional, and religious affairs. vember 15, 2010; teacher and coach, Phoenix November 2, 2010; homemaker; worked in the Union High School; also taught history at Phoenix restaurant business. ’44—Howard W. Hulford of Antigua, West Indies, Evening College; director, City of Phoenix youth March 9, 2009; owner and founder, Curtain Bluff baseball program; owner, Arizona’s first batting ’48 MS HE—Gladys Hagan Murphy of Worcester, Resort; former executive pilot, Texaco; veteran; range; active in civic, community, professional, MA, November 13, 2010; dietician, Rutland active in civic and community affairs. Sigma Pi. and religious affairs. Heights Hospital and Worcester State Hospital; instructor, UMass Amherst; veteran; ’44 MD—Harold J. Leider of Las Vegas, NV, No- ’47, BME ’48—Capt. Edward J. Gouvier of Toledo, vember 3, 2009; cardio-thoracic surgeon at UCLA OH, October 31, 2010; retired, SOHIO Toledo Re- ’48—Suzanne Skylstead Nosworthy of White and L.A. County USC Hospital; chief of surgery, finery; also worked for British Petroleum, Atlantic- Stone, VA, October 11, 2008. Kappa Alpha Theta. Centinela and Daniel Freeman hospitals; veteran; Richfield Corp., and Atlantic Refining Co.; veteran; active in community affairs. active in community and alumni affairs. ’48, BA ’46, MD ’50—Alan S. Robinson of Coral Gables, FL, May 3, 2010; gastroenterologist; chief ’44 BS HE—Marguerite E. Ruckle of Dover, DE, ’47 BS Nurs—Katharine Connors Pettit of of medicine, Baptist Hospital; veteran; active in formerly of Boca Raton, FL, February 1, 2010; Seattle, WA, formerly of Anchorage, AK, October community and professional affairs. homemaker; active in community affairs. Kappa 9, 2010; registered nurse; active in community Alpha Theta. affairs. ’48 BS HE—Grace Partrick Roop of West Monroe, NY, March 18, 2010; substitute teacher; founder, ’44 BA—Robert A. Simon of Concord, NC, Oc- ’47 BS Hotel—Richard L. Raymond of Orion Mexico Point State Park; active in community af- tober 11, 2010; lead researcher and chemist, Township, MI, formerly of Petoskey, MI, October fairs. Chi Omega. Wyeth; manager, Simons Department Store; ac- 9, 2010; worked for ARA Services; veteran; active tive in religious affairs. in community and religious affairs. Wife, Kathryn ’48 JD—Arthur I. Seld of Seneca Falls, NY, July (Johnson), MS ’48. 15, 2010; attorney. ’44 BS Ag—Gerald E. Tohn of Palm Beach Gar- dens, FL, formerly of Larchmont, NY, November ’47 BA, MD ’51—Sanford M. Reiss of Westfield, ’48, BArch ’49—Olaf W. Shelgren Jr. of Wheat- 6, 2010; active in alumni affairs. Tau Delta Phi. NJ, November 13, 2010; internist and gastro- field, NY, October 19, 2010; architect and preser- enterologist; former president of medical staff, vationist; helped form the Landmark Society of ’44 BS HE—Marie Reese Warnock of Pough- Overlook Hospital; veteran; active in religious the Niagara Frontier; author; active in civic, com- keepsie, NY, October 30, 2010; associate real es- and alumni affairs. Sigma Alpha Mu. Wife, Bea- munity, and professional affairs. tate broker; worked for Central Hudson Gas & trice (Strauss) ’47. Electric; active in religious affairs. ’48—Keith S. Snyder of Lincoln, NE, October 27, ’47 BME—Maurice T. Rose Jr. of St. Petersburg, 2010; int’l marketing director, Cliff’s Notes; vice ’45 PhD—Louise A. Raynor of Shelburne, VT, FL, formerly of Louisville, KY, January 27, 2006; chancellor of administration, U. of Hawaii; di- formerly of South Burlington, VT, November 12, retired mechanical and aeronautical engineer; in- rector of auxiliary services, U. of Pittsburgh; also 2010; associate professor emeritus of botany, U. ventor of the oven light; veteran; active in com- worked in hotel management; veteran; musician; of Vermont; author; active in religious affairs. munity affairs. active in civic and community affairs.

’45-46 SP Ag—Verla Elliott Sutton of Indianap- ’47 BA—Burton A. Sachs of Scarsdale, NY, No- ’48 BS HE—Carolyn Warner Wilson of Boothbay olis, IN, November 1, 2010; minister; missionary; vember 7, 2010; VP, Bloomingdale’s; veteran; ac- Harbor, ME, November 18, 2010; director of El- English teacher; also worked in the Indianapolis tive in community affairs. Tau Delta Phi. derlife Ministry and supervisor or religious educa- Welfare Dept.; master gardener; active in reli- tion, Federated Church; dietician, Case Western gious affairs. ’47 MD—James M. Toolan of Old Bennington, Reserve U. and General Electric Co.; active in civic, VT, November 18, 2010; psychiatrist; medical di- community, and religious affairs. Delta Gamma. ’45, BA ’44—Caryl Spoor Willhite-Ritz of Clear- rector, United Counseling Service; director, fe- water, FL, December 18, 2009; homemaker; so- male adolescent ward, Bellevue Hospital; veteran; ’49, BA ’51—Jay H. Blum of New Haven, CT, cial worker; volunteer. active in community affairs. October 19, 2010; owner, office supply business; veteran. ’46-47 SP Ag—Lewis Eberspacher of Richard- ’48 BEE—Alfred Abrams of Poughkeepsie, NY, son, TX, February 12, 2008; veteran. October 7, 2010; retired electrical engineer, ’49—Paul S. Burdett of Nunda, NY, October 20, IBM; veteran; active in community and religious 2010; customer service manager, NYSEG; active in ’46, BA ’44—Joseph Fath of Princeton, NJ, affairs. civic, community, and religious affairs. 92 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Alumni Deaths of Har- of Bedmin- of of Winchester, of August 2011 93 | of Oxford, Au- PA, Bechle of Braden- Bechle of Abizaid of Boulder, of Abizaid of Chicago, IL, July Chicago, of of Silver Spring, MD, Silver Spring, of of Kalamazoo, MI, No- Kalamazoo, of of West Brattleboro, VT, Brattleboro, West of July Deasy of Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee, Deasy of of Anderson, SC, formerly Anderson, of Coyne (Mrs. Daniel M. ’50) Daniel (Mrs. Coyne ’53 BA—Barbara Brothers ’53 BA—Barbara ’53, B Chem E ’54—John H. Beardsley NH, February London, New UK, and ringworth, active in alumni af- engineer; 22, 2010; retired Delta Upsilon. fairs. Buck ’53 BA—Anne Mc- 4, 2010; treasurer, November NY, Fairport, of East- for worked also School; High Jesuit Quaid alumni and active in community Kodak; man Alpha Phi. affairs. ’53 PhD—Leila Calhoun Florida professor, 11, 2010; retired November U. Catholic research, social of State U.; professor Rela- Inter-Group Cornell researcher, America; of Institutes Nat’l sociologist, research Project; tions ac- studies; Socio-Environmental Lab of Health, of affairs. professional and tive in community CO, November 5, 2010; active in community af- 5, 2010; active in community November CO, Miguel Husband, Alpha Theta. Kappa fairs. ’52. Abizaid November 13, 2010; veterinarian; horse trainer; horse 13, 2010; veterinarian; November Alpha Psi. affairs. active in professional veteran; L. Holmes ’52 BS Ag—Robert vember 19, 2010; attorney; general counsel, Up- counsel, general attorney; vember 19, 2010; public Kalamazoo desegregate john Co.; helped ac- Corp.; veteran; Stryker rebuild helped schools; alum- and professional, community, tive in civic, Chi Rho. Alpha ni affairs. A. Tower ’51—George volunteer October 18, 2010; NY, Ransomville, of and community, active in civic, veteran; fireman; Alpha Epsilon. Sigma affairs. religious Storch von ’51 B Chem E—S. Kilmer von Storch 10, 2010; operated NJ, October ster, chemical Engineers; and Architects & Burkavage in community active veteran; DuPont; engineer, Delta. Delta Tau affairs. professional and DuFlocq ’52 BS ILR—Phyllis 10, 2010; artist; active in re- ton, FL, November Delta Gamma. affairs. ligious E. Grass ’52 DVM—Albert ac- veteran; farmer; gust 2, 2010; schoolteacher; affairs. religious and community, tive in civic, ’52 MRP—Joseph L. Intermaggio worked 11, 2010; urban planner; November VA, Cen- Washington (VA), Arlington City of the for Plan- United the and Studies, Metropolitan ter for U.; Washington at George taught Org.; ning profes- and community, active in civic, veteran; affairs. sional C. Koch ’52 BA—Richard active researcher; drug October 14, 2010; retired Omega. Alpha Tau in alumni affairs. ’52 BME—John M. Patton Alpha. 21, 2009. Pi Kappa quilter; started the Play-Watch-Talk Toddler pro- Toddler Play-Watch-Talk started the quilter; Greater of Family Services for worked gram; Yale development, childhood in researcher Boston; Ser- Social Dept. of Maryland for U.; also worked pro- community, in civic, active musician; vices; affairs. religious and fessional, Thomas ’51 LLB—Gerard of Hamden, Zimmerman of Ten Mile, Ten of of Shelburne of of Boston, MA, of of Armonk, NY, No- NY, Armonk, of of Tubac, AZ, April Tubac, of of Oxford, NY, No- NY, Oxford, of of Pittsford, NY, Oc- NY, Pittsford, of of Roseland, NJ, No- Roseland, of Stockton of Auburn- Stockton of of Charlotte, NC, No- Charlotte, of Lamb of Linden, MI, for- Linden, Lamb of of Tucson, AZ, October 18, AZ, October Tucson, of ’50—Herbert C. Phillips Jr. C. Phillips ’50—Herbert of VP store; gift Nest Crowe’s owner, 15, 2008; in civic, Co.; active Curlee Clothing marketing, affairs. professional and community, Beta Theta Pi. J. Rich ’50—Michael Advertising Leo Burnett VP, 2007; executive reli- and active in community veteran; Agency; affairs. gious ’50 BME—Robert E. Schmidt also Services; Nestlé VP, vember 21, 2010; retired Westinghouse; Cash Register and Nat’l for worked af- religious and active in community veteran; Beta Pi. Tau fairs. M. Smith ’51—Henry ’50, BS Ag operator, and 30, 2010; owner MA, March Falls, ’49. MS (Peck), Dorothy Wife, Orchards. Apex Sonnabend ’50 BS Hotel—Paul Hotels Int’l Sonesta October 29, 2010; president, Patriots; England New partner, Corp.; founding vet- council; NFL management director, executive professional, community, active in civic, eran; Beta Tau. Zeta alumni affairs. and Wicks W. ’50 DVM—George active in communi- tober 4, 2010; veterinarian; Alpha Psi. ty affairs. Thompson ’50 BS HE—Margaret November NY, Canandaigua, ’50) of F. Paul (Mrs. coop- teacher; economics home 9, 2010; retired re- in community, active agent; extension erative Delta Gamma. alumni affairs. and ligious, Ives P. ’51 BS Ag—Arthur taught Hauling; Ives vember 7, 2010; president, BOCES; NY, at Chenango, mechanics agricultural Co.; op- Farm Family Insurance manager, agency ac- business; equipment an Allis Chalmers erated alumni and professional, community, tive in civic, Rho. Alpha Gamma affairs. S. Jaffe ’51 BA—Kenneth vember 23, 2010; executive; advertising president, profes- active in community, Inc.; Jaffe Kenneth Phi. Pi Lambda alumni affairs. and sional, Beach ’51 BA—Lisbeth 24, 2010; teacher, MI, November Fenton, of merly Hus- affairs. active in religious School; Johnson ’50. Lamb Jr. F. John band, A. Lentz ’51 BA—Bruce and transportation of vember 9, 2010; secretary Holshouser Gov. under administration of secretary Centu- engineer, head Carolina); North (State of Steve Moore sales consultant, ry Furniture; Kappa. Phi Sigma veteran. Chevrolet; C. Migdalski ’51-52 SP Ag—Edward Ed- Outdoor Yale December 4, 2009; founder, CT, Yale club sports program, founder, Center; ucation display and research Dept.; collector of Athletic active in author; Museum; Peabody specimens, affairs. professional and community ’51 MCE—Robert R. Sonnenburg veteran. TN, October 16, 2010; civil engineer; ’51 BS HE—Jane Overley su- and 16, 2010; caseworker MA, November dale, Services; Social Dept. of Massachusetts pervisor, ; co-in- Rusty and olfe’s nov- of Indian- of of Washing- of of Ventura, CA, Ventura, of of Charlottesville, of of Fort Wayne, IN, Fort Wayne, of of Coatesville, PA, Coatesville, of of Bethany, CT, Oc- CT, Bethany, of ; cinematographer, ; veteran; active in ; veteran; of New Albany, OH, Albany, New of of New York City, Oc- City, York New of of Westfield, NY, Feb- NY, Westfield, of Casey of Old Saybrook, of Casey Perri udge in W Tom Vanishing Prairie Vanishing Donnelly of San Francis- of Donnelly and and NYS Supreme Court; district NYS Supreme E. William Seaman Charles A. Perry udge, udge, ; co-director, ; co-director, Rabbi Rev. Rev. The Bonfire of the Vanities The Bonfire of 50 BA—Idell Carey co, CA, October 28, 2010; worked in Paris and Paris in co, CA, October 28, 2010; worked ’50; active in Class of correspondent, Detroit; Al- Kappa alumni affairs. and community, civic, pha Theta. ’50 MBA—William B. Haack B. ’50 MBA—William March 31, 2010. March Jr. Kenworthy Paul ’50 BA—N. director, October 15, 2010; filmmaker; the Falcon The Living Desert ventor, Snorkel Camera System; recipient, “Dis- System; recipient, Camera Snorkel ventor, Pictures Motion of Academy award; Legend” ney and active in community winner; Award Technical affairs. professional ’50 BA— chief and provost October 24, 2010; former VA, of- executive Cathedral; Nat’l Washington pastor, dean, Washington; of Episcopal Diocese ficer, Episcopal Pacific; the of Divinity School Church pub- liaison; U.; Congressional chaplain, Indiana Commission; Energy Atomic officer, information lic active in civic, women; for ordination advocate of affairs. professional and community, ’49 BA—Helen Hoffman ’49 BA—Helen In- Central the for worked 28, 2010; October CT, ac- York; New State of the and Agency telligence alumni and religious, community, tive in civic, Delta Gamma. affairs. Collins ’49 BS Ag—Stephen biological of professor emeritus tober 7, 2010; U.; ecolo- State Connecticut Southern sciences, scientist; research forest gist; conservationist; active in civic, wildlife photographer; author; affairs. professional and community, Doermer T. ’49 LLB—Richard alumni affairs. and professional, civic, ’49 BA— rabbi, associate 25, 2010; former ton, DC, May Cor- partner, Congregation; Hebrew Washington active in author; veteran; musician; sair Travel; Delta. Phi Sigma affairs. religious and community A. Strouss ’49 BA—Albert polo veteran; October 23, 2010; veterinarian; Beta Tau. Zeta player; active in alumni affairs. Throop B. MD ’52—Frank ’49 BA, October 11, 2010; chairman and CEO, Summit CEO, and October 11, 2010; chairman CEO, and president former Summcorp; Bank and active in attorney; Bank; Savings and Trust Dime and religious, professional, community, civic, alumni affairs. ’49—Arthur J. Macer Jr. sur- IN, October 18, 2010; orthopaedic apolis, surgery, orthopaedic of professor associate geon; active in com- veteran; School; U. Medical Indian Pi. Beta Theta affairs. professional and munity ’ ruary 29, 2008; president of North American Op- American North of 29, 2008; president ruary active in civic, veteran; Inc.; Renold erations, affairs. religious and community, Roberts ’49 JD—Burton B. tober 24, 2010; former justice and chief admin- chief and justice tober 24, 2010; former j istrative el attorney; model for the j the for model attorney; 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 93 Page PM 1:24 6/16/11 056-095CAMja11notes 056-095CAMja11notes 6/16/11 1:24 PM Page 94

’53—Cmdr. Michael Durant of Port Angeles, WA, principal, First Columbus Corp. Psi Upsilon. Carbide; author; co-founder, Cornell Savoyards; November 10, 2006; retired US Navy officer; vet- musician; active in community, professional, and eran; active in civic, community, and professional ’54, BCE ’55—Jack E. Felt of Richmond, UK, religious affairs. affairs. Chi Phi. August 27, 2010; active in alumni affairs. Pi Kappa Alpha. ’57 MA—William C. Aden Jr. of Chapel Hill, NC, ’53—Kenneth E. Eiker of Monroe, NJ, November formerly of Manhasset, NY, December 30, 2009; 5, 2010; teacher, director of athletics, house- ’54—Richard F. Hollenbeck of Elizabethtown, director of creative services, CBS and Viacom; master, and guidance director, East Windsor Re- PA, April 23, 2010; VP for domestic franchise op- copywriter, CBS Radio Network; freelance writer; gional School District; veteran; active in civic, erations, Hertz Corp.; active in community and Scoutmaster; active in civic, community, and community, professional, and religious affairs. religious affairs. Wife, Wanda (Corwin) ’54. alumni affairs.

’53 MD—Charles L. Heiskell Jr. of Santa Ana, ’54—Willard G. Lynk of Sharon Springs, NY, July ’57 BA—George L. Levinson of Larchmont, NY, CA, January 7, 2006; physician. 12, 2010; Holstein cattle breeder, Lynkholm June 30, 2010; worked for Burnham Asset Mgmt.; Farm; active in civic, community, and profes- active in alumni affairs. Phi Sigma Delta. ’53—Robert A. Hesse of Akron, OH, October 27, sional affairs. 2010; chemical engineer; retired from Delco ’58 BS Ag—Albert R. Gullow of West Delhi, NY, Moraine division of General Motors; active in com- ’54, BS ILR ’55—Raymond P. Rivoli of Silverton, October 20, 2010; retired dairy farmer. munity affairs. Alpha Chi Sigma. OR, March 2, 2008; management consultant, Riv- oli & Associates; newspaper columnist; tree ’58, BEP ’59—Peter H. Mengert of Cambridge, ’53 JD—Arthur S. Kamell of Dutchess Junction, farmer; also worked for Sylvania; veteran; active MA, September 13, 2010; mathematician, US NY, November 4, 2010; retired labor attorney; so- in community affairs. Pi Kappa Alpha. Dept. of Transportation. Tau Beta Pi. cial activist; active in civic, community, and professional affairs. ’55 BS Ag—Beverly Pabst Bolton of Madras, OR, ’58 BS Ag—Robert B. Snook II of Bayville, NY, October 12, 2010; extension agent; active in re- November 20, 2010; president, RBS Delivery Ser- ’53 MRP—Robert J. Piper of Evanston, IL, No- ligious affairs. Alpha Xi Delta. vice; taught at Cornell U. and Iowa State U.; dairy vember 11, 2010; city planner; architect; VP/ farmer; active in alumni affairs. partner, Perkins and Will; director of community ’55, BArch ’57—Douglas B. Cornell Jr. of Ever- development, Highland Park; veteran; active in green, CO, October 11, 2010; park planner and ’58 MILR—Robert V. Sweetall of Blue Hill, ME, civic, community, and professional affairs. architect, Nat’l Park Service; veteran; active in formerly of Ithaca, NY, October 8, 2010; assistant civic and community relations. VP for labor relations and assoc. director of per- ’53, BEP ’54—Gilbert A. Stengle of Princeton, sonnel, Cornell U.; consultant; also worked for Bab- NJ, November 8, 2010; professor emeritus of ’55 BEE—Edward V. Howell of Delmar, NY, Octo- cock and Wilcox Co. and Kennecott Copper Corp.; mathematics, Lehigh U.; expert in real algebraic ber 14, 2010; engineer, New York Telephone; vet- veteran; active in civic and community affairs; geometry; senior projects engineer, General Mo- eran; active in community, religious, and alumni tors Corp.; author; musician; active in profes- affairs. Pi Kappa Alpha. ’58, BCE ’59—Ronald V. Wiedenhoeft of Little- sional affairs. ton, CO, August 14, 2010; retired professor of lib- ’55—John P. LeBlanc of Acton, ME, October 17, eral arts and int’l studies, Colorado School of ’53 PhD—Norman L. Taylor of Lexington, KY, 2010; retired civil engineer and land surveyor; Mines; co-founder and photographer, Saskia Ltd. October 25, 2010; professor and curator of the veteran; senior VP, Universal Engineering Corp.; Cultural Documentation. Tau Kappa Epsilon. Clover Germoplasm Center, Dept. of Agronomy, U. also worked for Tutela Engineering and Ram Con- of Kentucky; veteran; author; active in commu- sulting; veteran; active in community and pro- ’59 BA—Valerie Johnson Conner of Black Moun- nity, professional, and religious affairs. fessional affairs. tain, NC, June 22, 2009.

’53 PhD—Bishop James S. Thomas of Atlanta, ’55 JD—Laxmi M. Singhvi of New Delhi, India, ’59 BS Hotel—Anton W. Gotsche of Toronto, GA, October 10, 2010; bishop, United Methodist October 13, 2007; India’s longest-serving High ON, Canada, October 15, 2010; hotelier. Church; instrumental in unifying black and white Commissioner to London; constitutional expert; conferences of the Methodist Church; assoc. gen- author; historian; philosopher; member of Indi- ’61 JD—Salah E. Abdel-Wahab of Cairo, Egypt, eral secretary, United Methodist Board of Edu- an parliament; editor, Jain Declaration on Nature; April 16, 2009; senior partner, Wahab & Nassar cation; president, board of trustees, Claflin U.; ran the Indian Law Inst.; active in civic, com- law office; judge; chair, Tourismplan; under- professor and acting president, Gammon Theo- munity, and professional affairs. secretary of state for tourism and vice minister logical Seminary; chaplain, South Carolina State for tourism development, Egyptian Ministry of College; bishop in residence, Candler School of ’56 PhD—Chester T. Chmiel of Niles, MI, April Housing and Development; professor of tourism Theology at Emory U. and Clark Atlanta U.; ac- 6, 2009. Wife, Margaret (Fox) ’55. management, U. of Alexandria; author; active in tive in civic, community, and professional affairs. professional affairs. ’56—Frederick R. Hyland of Rutland, VT, Octo- ’53, BArch ’57, MRP ’61—George W. Tucker of ber 26, 2010; physician; veteran; active in com- ’61—Edward C. Beutner of Ashland, OR, De- New Holland, PA, formerly of Abington, PA, No- munity affairs. cember 23, 2008; retired professor, Franklin and vember 6, 2010; urban planner; technical direc- Marshall College. tor and director, Philadelphia Community ’56 BS Hotel—Leonard V. LoBello of Philippi, Renewal Program; substitute math and physics WV, October 14, 2010; retired CFO and VP of ’61—Bruce E. Lander of Long Beach, CA, April teacher; veteran; active in civic, community, and Business and Finance, Alderson-Broaddus College; 10, 2010. professional affairs. Sigma Pi. active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs. ’61 BS HE—Sabina Klein Millens of Henderson, ’54 PhD—Frank J. Carlisle Jr. of Green Valley, NV, October 31, 2010; co-president, Catering by AZ, formerly of Mandan, ND, October 20, 2010; ’56, BArch ’57—Geoffrey A. Paine of New York Maxine; VP, Millens Steel & Fabricating Service; retired from the Soil Conservation Service; helped City, November 3, 2010; architect. Pi Kappa Alpha. active in religious affairs. develop the national soil survey; veteran. ’56 PhD—Wendell S. Williams of Urbana, IL, No- ’61—Richard D. Moore of Mahwah, NJ, October ’54—James I. Decker of East Greenbush, NY, vember 20, 2010; emeritus professor of physics, 13, 2009. Phi Kappa Tau. April 27, 2010; manager, naval ordnance dept., materials science, and bioengineering and direc- General Electric; active in civic and community tor emeritus, Program of Ancient Technologies ’61 BA—Phyllis Hamburger Rovine of New York affairs. Phi Gamma Delta. and Archaeological Materials, U. of Illinois; chair- City, November 5, 2010. man of materials science and engineering, Case ’54 BA—William E. Deegan of Naples, FL, formerly Western Reserve U.; also taught at MIT, New Col- ’61 BS HE—Margaret Stack Turner of Orchard of Columbus, OH, November 4, 2010; founding lege, and SUNY Albany; research physicist, Union Park, NY, October 16, 2010; principal, Margaret 94 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Alumni Deaths of Rolles- of Chicago, of August 2011 95 of Glen Ridge, of of Mission, SD, Mission, of | of Snyder, NY, Oc- NY, Snyder, of of Ithaca, NY, No- NY, Ithaca, of of Elmhurst, NY, De- NY, Elmhurst, of of Alhambra, CA, Jan- Alhambra, of July of Hackensack, NJ, for- Hackensack, of of Olympia, WA, August WA, Olympia, of of Rosharon, TX, October Rosharon, of Reimanis of Corning, NY, Corning, of Reimanis of Cary, NC, formerly of En- of NC, formerly Cary, of NJ, November 23, 2010; senior VP, general coun- general VP, 23, 2010; senior NJ, November Pharmaceuticals; Regeneron for secretary sel, and affairs. active in professional ’87 BS HE—Charlene M. Williams Crowder P. ’04 MPS—Ryan graduate Resources vember 13, 2010; Natural sus- on developing U.; worked Cornell student, col- marketing lobster harvests and tainable coast; Atlantic Nicaraguan lectives on the Con- Alachua in ecosystem restoration, helped Trust. servation 27, 2010; staff attorney, State of Washington State of 27, 2010; staff attorney, Com- Assurance Quality Medical Health, Dept. of affairs. active in community mission; ’87 BS ILR—Stuart A. Kolinski direc- resources 12, 2010; human IL, November resources, human of asst. director WMS; tor, IBM. HR manager, Healthcare; CIGNA PhD ’09—John M. O’Brien III ’89 MArch, art 13, 2010; taught TN, November Knoxville, active in professional Tennessee; U. of history, affairs. religious and Sun W. ’96 BA—Charlene part- filmmaker; 27, 2009; cinematographer; uary artist; scriptwriter. SunRain Productions; ner, ’79 MPS—Rita Melkis ’79 MPS—Rita English, and German 3, 2010; taught November ele- also taught College; Community Corning community and active in civic school; mentary affairs. Sherman ’79 MS HE, PhD ’83—Barbara and July 21, 2010; professor OH, Berea, ton of curricu- core of director and economics chair of George Husband, College. lum, Baldwin-Wallace L. Rolleston, PhD ’83. ’80 PhD—David L. Weisser earth sci- and biology October 19, 2010; taught horti- of professor U.; asst. Gleska Sinte ence, State U.; Arizona and SUNY Alfred culture, active in pro- business; a greenhouse operated affairs. fessional L. Allan ’81 BA—James NJ, October 14, 2010; paralegal. Teaneck, of merly Mussenden ’83 JD—Maureen cember 8, 2009. J. Harris ’86 JD—Peter tober 28, 2010; attorney; associate counsel, U. counsel, associate tober 28, 2010; attorney; ac- Council; University of SUNY Office Buffalo of reli- and professional, community, tive in civic, affairs. gious ’84—Kim M. Haley October 9, 2010. NY, dicott, Yochum ’84—Philip T. Police Houston investigator, 17, 2010; homicide vet- Dept.; Fire Pearland chief, fire Dept.; district Chi Phi. eran. C. 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Cornelliana Pleasant Thoughts Recalling a bygone wilderness retreat

Cabin fever: Mount Pleasant Lodge in 1947. Below: Miwa Oseki Robbins ’12 (left) and Casey Hagg ’12 in front of the remains of the stone fireplace.

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rive away from campus on Route 366 toward They made multiple trips to the site—adjacent to Cornell’s Varna, take a right on Mount Pleasant Road, ropes challenge course and an ROTC training ground—and and keep going (and going) uphill. Once it flat- found artifacts from the lodge’s heyday as well as its decline: a tens out, you’ll find a dirt road on your left stone chimney, remnants of the foundation, the ballfield back- Dthat soon degenerates into impassable ruts. Walk into the woods stop, a pair of moss-covered shoes, outhouse pits, the mangled and there it is: the corpse of a rustic lodge, a long-forgotten gem remains of metal bunk beds, dozens of bottles and beer cans. that once housed throngs of nature-loving Cornellians. “When you look at this place, it’s completely abandoned, but It was called Mount Pleasant Lodge, a year-round retreat that imagine all the people who made amazing memories here,” says drew students and faculty for weekend getaways, orientations, Hagg, her sandals sinking into the muddy grass at the exact spot receptions, and all manner of outdoor fun. Located on a 196- where, according to a vintage photo, students played games in acre parcel bought by New York State under the Works Progress front of the fireplace. “Why did that ever stop?” Administration, the lodge was built by the Farm Security Admin- She and Robbins never did figure out why the lodge went out istration and given to Cornell in 1939. “Besides the main lodge of use—but they managed to track down someone who’d been building, with accommodations for 28 persons, there are two ‘ski there. Ransom Blakeley ’55 spent a weekend on Mount Pleasant shelters,’ fashioned of logs,” the Daily Sun reported that Sep- in August 1951 as part of a freshman orientation for some two

tember. “There will be a softball diamond, ski trails, stone fire- dozen CALS scholarship LISA BANLAKI FRANK places, running spring water, and electrical facilities.” students. “It was very It was a popular spot for the next two decades. A sample rustic,” Blakeley says. notice from the Sun in September 1941: “After supper at Mount “As I recall, it was the Pleasant Lodge, [the hikers] will sing by firelight. Arrangements same inside as outside— will be made for freshman women to arrive home by 9:30 p.m.” bare logs—and it smelled But by the Sixties, the lodge had fallen into disuse; it burned down of woodsmoke.” Blakely in a spectacular blaze in April 1968. “Use of the building had not remembers sitting in front been sanctioned by Cornell for some time,” the Ithaca Journal of a “cozy little fire” after noted, “although police have had many complaints about its dinner (hamburgers, the being used for beer parties and other unauthorized gatherings.” meat stretched with corn- Flash forward to spring 2011. Casey Hagg ’12 and Miwa flakes) for a meet-and- Oseki Robbins ’12 chose the lodge as their research topic for greet, then bedding down ALS 4770: Environmental Stewardship in the Cornell Commu- in a loft. “It was a very nity. Instructors for Cornell Outdoor Education, the two became nice place to go,” says captivated by the concept of a lost wilderness retreat. “It used to Blakeley. “You don’t be a special place for outdoor recreation, and that’s what we think of such a place in work for in COE,” says Hagg. “I felt like a historian uncover- conjunction with an aca- ing some magical mystery.” Adds Robbins: “I love the outdoors, demic institution like and the idea of some secret treasure hidden in the woods was Cornell. But it was just really appealing.” right for us.” 96 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com c1-c4CAMja11 6/16/11 1:25 PM Page c3 c1-c4CAMja11 6/16/11 1:26 PM Page c4