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March / April 2012 Volume 114 Number 5 In This Issue Corne Magazine Alumni 40 2 From David Skorton Tech touchdown 4 The Big Picture CALCulations 6 Correspondence Watering holes, redux 8 From the Hill Fracking fracas continues 12 Sports Soccer’s great match 14 Authors Liberal evolution 24 Summer Programs and Sports Camps 32 Wines of the Finger Lakes Heart & Hands 2009 Pinot Noir 34 Unsinkable 50 Classifieds & BRAD HERZOG ’90 Cornellians in Business Almost exactly a century ago, four Cornellians boarded the Royal Mail Steamship 51 Alma Titanic on its maiden voyage; they included a railroad designer, two engineers, and a young man trailing a girl he fancied. As the world marks the centennial of the tragedy Matters that struck that “unsinkable” ship—and took more than 1,500 lives—CAM looks back 54 Class at the experiences of that fateful quartet of Cornellians. Two of them perished—while Notes two lived to tell the tale. 93 Alumni 40 Home Front Deaths BETH SAULNIER 96 Cornelliana Psyched out 18 War photographer Danfung Dennis ’04, BS Ag ’05, has captured images from conflicts around the world. In the summer of 2009, he shifted his focus to film: embedded with Marines during the Afghan troop surge, he shot footage that would become the docu- mentary Hell and Back Again. His freshman effort—in which Dennis not only chron- Currents icles the war, but follows one Marine’s struggle to assimilate back into civilian life— has garnered major honors, including an Oscar nod and the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. “I wanted to weave those two worlds together to show that they’re just one 16 All-Age Home experience,” he says, “that the fighting doesn’t stop when these men return home.” Designs for life 44 Writing Dangerously All Abuzz Bee bio EDWARD HOWER ’63 Against the Grain Novelist Edward Hower ’63 teaches writing in the Cornell Prison Education Program, Gluten-free marketing whose students have perpetrated serious crimes—but whose educational achievements and behavioral records make them the “best of the best.” In an essay, he reflects on his Call the Cops “Blue Bloods” scribe experiences teaching at Auburn Correctional Facility, where artistic expression can Ed Zuckerman ’70 become both a lifeline and a way to a better future. “Auburn, a maximum security insti- tution, has broken my heart repeatedly,” he writes, “but it’s also given me the most The ’H’ in HIV exhilarating teaching experiences I’ve had anywhere.” AIDS expert and activist Plus | Questions & Answers Website Songstress Jenn Grauer ’04 cornellalumnimagazine.com Cover: images.google.com

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From David Skorton

Cornell’s Tech Campus: A Great Opportunity

fter an intense, year-long competition, the City of New York has chosen Cornell, in Apartnership with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, to create a new campus—in fact, a new kind of campus—dedicated to technology and enterprise on Roosevelt Island. We are honored to have this opportunity and are on a fast track for the project, with the first students to begin working with faculty in leased, offsite space in the city by next fall. A critical factor in Cornell’s success was the very vocal (and visible) enthusiasm of alumni and students. Nearly 50,000 alumni live in the New York metropolitan area and, as Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert Steele quipped, it seemed that all of them called his office to express their support for Cornell’s proposal. President Skorton Many of our trustees, overseers, and other with Technion alumni used their considerable networking skills President to make the city aware of alumni support for Peretz Lavie Cornell’s proposal, signing up for all sorts of city-sponsored events just so they could talk JASON KOSKI / UP about Cornell. Other distinguished alumni with expertise in technology and enterprise provided strategic guid- less exposure and demand for more of what Cornell has to offer ance to Provost Kent Fuchs, deans Dan Huttenlocher of Com- in Ithaca. puting and Information Science and Lance Collins of Engineer- There will also be more opportunities for Cornell’s entrepre- ing, and associate engineering dean Cathy Dove, MBA ’84, who neurial alumni in and beyond. Over the years led the Cornell effort. our university has nurtured many individuals who have turned One of the most remarkable aspects of alumni involvement ideas and inventions into thriving businesses. In the past five was the leadership of younger alumni in exploiting the power of years alone, Cornell alumni have created more than 2,600 com- social media to spread the word about our bid. Danny Stein ’92, panies—employing over 34,000 people and raising over $10.6 Gus Warren ’94, Keith Grossman ’02, and Jeremy Snepar ’01 billion in new capital—and we expect an even higher rate of mobilized more than 20,000 alumni, parents, and friends to sign company creation, thanks to the new campus’s focus on tech- an online petition in support of our proposal through Twitter, nology innovation and entrepreneurship. Some 2,500 alumni Facebook, and e-mail. The group also collaborated with a current have already expressed an interest in mentoring student projects undergraduate, Jesse McElwain ’13, to garner support in Ithaca. connected to the new campus and in making investments in com- Cornell students passed resolutions in support of the New panies started by students and faculty there. And once the new York City campus, and the Student Assembly, under the able campus is up and running, there will be space available for leadership of Natalie Raps ’12, made a video endorsing the pro- alumni events and activities. posal that was shown in Schoellkopf Stadium during the Home- More than a year before an applied science and technology coming football game. And, with perfect timing, students in Cor- campus in New York City was on anyone’s radar, the Univer- nell University Sustainable Design organized a conference in New sity had endorsed an expanded commitment to public engage- York City for the day after our proposal was submitted. Then, ment in its strategic plan: “Cornell has a unique capacity to on December 16—at a crucial moment in the review process— interweave public engagement with its educational and research the Atlantic Philanthropies and its founding chair, Chuck Feeney programs for students, given its status and history as a private ’56, made an extraordinary $350 million gift to support Cor- university with a land-grant mission. An integration of funda- nell’s development of the tech campus, calling it “a once-in-a- mental science with application of that knowledge and its use generation opportunity . . . to create economic and educational for the public good should be a distinguishing feature of Cor- opportunity on a transformational scale.” nell programs.” Today, as Cornell expands its public engage- In creating the tech campus, there will be no diversion of ment with this new land grant on Roosevelt Island, those exhor- resources from Ithaca. Instead, there will be many more oppor- tations seem prophetic. tunities for faculty and students in Ithaca-based programs and I thank you for your part in this game-changing venture for faculty and students in New York City to participate in mutu- New York City and Cornell and invite your continued involvement. ally beneficial collaborations as called for in our strategic plan. — President David Skorton In fact, I believe that, in time, the tech campus will generate price- [email protected] 2 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 02-03CAMma12skorton_000-000CAMJF07currents 2/8/12 2:34 PM Page 3 04-05CAMma12bigpic_000-000CAMJF07currents 2/8/12 2:35 PM Page 4

The Big Picture

The Big Event: Nearly 1,000 alumni attended the Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference, January 27–29, in Washington, D.C. On Saturday after- noon, they all gathered for a lunch meeting (top) that featured an inspiring address by President David Skorton. Another headline event PHOTOS BY JASON KOSKI / UP was a panel co-hosted by PCCW and Cornell Mosaic (left), which featured top women jour- nalists (L to R) S. E. Cupp ’00, Sheryl WuDunn ’81, Kate Snow ’91, Sheryl Hilliard Tucker ’78, and Cathy Merrill Williams ’91. Other notable attendees included Touchdown the Bear (bottom left) and Charles Wu ’91 (above), seen here explaining how social media works. 04-05CAMma12bigpic_000-000CAMJF07currents 2/8/12 2:35 PM Page 5 06-07CAMma12corresp_000-000CAMJF07currents 2/8/12 2:36 PM Page 6

Correspondence

Bo Burgers and Beer, Part 2 The wave of nostalgia continues

Ed. Note: In our last issue, we published where I would go for milk and molasses two letters inspired by “Last Call” (Cor- cookies at 11:00 at night. Anyone remem- nelliana, November/December 2011) and ber the name? noted that many readers had posted com- — Mary Steinmetz LeDonne Cassidy ’67 ments to the online version of the article at the CAM website. They’ve continued to Best memory of Johnny’s was the night pour in, and there are now more than one of the townies asked the barkeep, fifty. Herewith a sample: young Johnny, for the phone (cell phones hadn’t been invented) to call a cab. We all The Haunt, the Royal Palm, but especially watched when he instructed the cabbie to the Rongovian Embassy [in Trumans- take him to the Palms: a cab ride consist- burg]. I had one nice night at the Chanti- ing entirely of a U-turn! cleer when I lived above Moosewood at — John Sawicki, PhD ’77 the former high school. Anyone remem- ber Tweetman’s Halfway House? Not a March/April 2012 college bar, but seriously fun and fairly Correction— dangerous. Cheers! R&D, page 12: We stated: “An antimi- — Frank McElroy ’76 crobial compound in honey could offer a natural preservative, finds microbi- Great memories! Freshman year the ologist Randy Worobo. In sunflower Chapter House. Met all the hipsters at the Loved Noyes Lodge, where I ate my first honey from South Dakota, he discovered Salty Dog. Blew my mind watching Cap- bagel and would go for Dusty Miller sun- a strain of Bacillus thuringiensis, which is tain Beefheart and his Magic Band at the daes, ice cream with chocolate sauce and effective against food-borne pathogens Warehouse. Got rock-and-roll religion see- powdered malt on top. I also remember such as Listeria.” We should have made it ing Chuck Berry at the North Forty. that when I lived on the fifth floor in Ris- clear that the compound in question is Grooved with the Paul Butterfield Blues ley (many, many steps to climb, but how produced by the bacterium. Thanks to Band and the Ithaca College coeds at their cool to be up in the tower) there was a Jonathan Turetsky ’77 for pointing out student union! mobile unit that parked across the street the error. — Chip Poll ’72

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Campus News From theHill

GOOGLE MAPS

View from the trike: As of late January, Cornell’s campus is visible on Google Maps’ Street View, allowing Web surfers to tour the Hill from the comfort of their laptops. The images were captured via cameras mounted on a tricycle-like vehicle; viewers can move down streets or view the campus in 360-degree panoramas. Other U.S. campuses on Street View include Boston University and Stanford.

Profs Clash Over Effects of Shale Gas Drilling

In the article “Hot Topic” (Currents, September/October 2011), and contended that “shale gas has a greenhouse gas footprint that CAM summarized the conclusions of a paper on the impact of shale is half and perhaps a third that of coal.” Howarth responded, gas extraction written by Robert Howarth, the Atkinson Professor telling the New York Times that he had submitted a follow-up paper of Ecology and Environmental Biology, and two Cornell colleagues: to Climatic Change Letters and stating: “We stand by our approach Anthony Ingraffea, the Baum Professor of Engineering, and Renee and findings published last April, and find little of merit in the crit- Santoro ’06, a research technician. Their paper, published in Cli- icisms by Cathles and colleagues.” Howarth added that “using all matic Change Letters in April 2011, stated that natural gas released available information and the latest climate science, we conclude through hydraulic fracturing causes more global warming than coal. that for most uses, the greenhouse gas footprint of shale gas is Over a twenty-year period, the researchers concluded, the green- greater than that of other fossil fuels on time scales of up to 100 house gas footprint of shale gas is at least 20 percent greater and years.” Cathles fired back, asserting that “the argument that substi- possibly more than twice as great as that of coal. tuting natural gas for other fossil fuels will increase warming is In another paper published in the same journal in January false.” The ongoing dispute hinges on conflicting data about the 2012, Cornell earth and atmospheric sciences professor Lawrence release of gas during the extraction process and the time period Cathles and colleagues called the Howarth paper “seriously flawed” used to measure the atmospheric impact. 8 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 08-11CAMma12fth_000-000CAMJF07currents 2/8/12 2:37 PM Page 9

Johnson School Names Dean Gabby Giffords Resigns; A professor of business and technology Senator Kirk Suffers Stroke at a graduate business school in France In January, Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, MRP ’97, has been named the eleventh dean of the announced that she would step down to focus on her ongoing Johnson Graduate School of Management. recovery from a brain injury. A year earlier, Giffords was gravely Soumitra Dutta comes to Cornell from wounded in a mass shooting at a meet-and-greet event in Tucson INSEAD, which has campuses in that left six dead and nineteen injured. Another lawmaker facing a Fontainebleau, Singapore, and Abu long recovery from a brain injury is Senator Mark Kirk ’81, who suf- Dhabi. “Professor Dutta’s appointment is fered a major stroke at the end of January. Kirk, who holds the Illi- a natural fit with Johnson’s increasingly nois seat vacated by President Barack Obama, suffered swelling in global outlook,” says President David the right side of his brain; it did not affect his speech or mental Skorton. “He has expertise in new and PROVIDED capacity, but caused paralysis on the left side of his body. emerging media, he has studied the con- Soumitra Dutta ditions that promote innovation, and he has extensive experience on the international stage.” Dutta suc- ceeds current dean Joseph Thomas, who will return to teaching and research after his five-year term ends on June 30.

Endowed Tuition Rises 4.5 Percent; 7.4 for Statutory R&D The Board of Trustees has approved a tuition rate of $43,185 for More information on campus research is available at undergrads in the endowed colleges in 2012–13. The figure repre- www.news.cornell.edu sents a 4.5 percent hike over the current academic year. With room, board, and fees, a year at Cornell will cost $57,041. In the The “Great Recession” of 2007–09 cost millions of Americans statutory colleges, in-state students will see a 7.4 percent rise to their health insurance, reports economist John Cawley. Of the $27,045; out-of-state tuition will go up 4.5 percent and equal that 9.3 million adults estimated to have lost coverage, he says, 7.1 in the endowed colleges. According to Elmira Magnum, vice presi- million were men. dent for planning and budget, the increase “reflects the Univer- sity’s need to provide resources for the rising operations budget— A 3-D collagen “scaffold” developed by Cornell bioengineers 26.3 percent of which comes from undergraduate tuition.” Trustees could save the lives of children with short bowel syndrome. also approved tuition rates for the graduate and professional The device could act as an artificial intestine, allowing schools, including a 3.9 percent hike (to $55,220) at the Law patients to absorb food properly. School and 4.5 percent (to $53,796) at the Johnson School. Entomologists have found Gonatocerus ovicenatus—a wasp not spotted in North America in a century—at the Geneva Ag Sta- Cornell’s First Police Dog Dies tion. They also discovered another wasp, Gonatocerus ater, never before recorded in the Western Hemisphere. Cornell’s first explosive-sniffing dog, a twelve-year-old black Lab named Sabre, Daily online deals, or “social coupons,” benefit restaurants as died in early January following a long well as consumers, says hotel professor Sheryl Kimes. She battle with a chronic infection. After notes the coupons often bring back infrequent customers and being adopted from the Tompkins County attract new ones. SPCA, Sabre graduated from the Southern Sensors attached to feeders are making it easier for scientists Tier Police Canine Association and was to follow birds. The system, developed by researchers at the certified by New York State and the East- Lab of Ornithology, automates data collection on feeding and ern Police K-9 Association. He retired in breeding behaviors. 2008 after an eight-year career keeping

venues safe for such dignitaries as Presi- PROVIDED Colorful and varied food arrangements tempt children to eat dent Bill Clinton, Senator Hillary Rodham Sabre nutritionally diverse diets, says marketing professor Brian Clinton, the Dalai Lama, and former Wansink. He recommends that parents fill plates with seven Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres—not to mention celebrities items and six colors. like Gwen Stefani and Snoop Dogg. In a New York orchard, plant pathologists have found a bacte- rial disease resistant to traditional antibiotics. They’ve warned Royal Palm Serves Final Pint apple and pear growers about the strain, known as fire blight. Citing changes in student drinking habits, the owner of College- Researchers may have a way to make cigarettes less toxic. The town’s venerable Royal Palm Tavern closed the bar in late February lab of chemist Jack Freed found that adding grape and tomato after seventy-one years in business. Joe Leonardo told the Daily seed extract drastically reduces the hazardous effects of Sun that students are no longer spending as much time in bars as tobacco smoke. they did a decade ago. He noted that the widespread habit of coming to the tavern just half an hour before closing—nicknamed Thanks to a digitization project, Cornell’s 1,500-piece rare “Palms o’clock”—has been “a business killer.” The Palms is the coin collection will soon be available for viewing by anyone third Collegetown bar to close in less than a year, following Dino’s with a computer. The coins will be accessible through an and Johnny O’s. online catalog.

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romtheHill Outgoing Board Chair Honored In January, outgoing Board of Trustees chairman Peter Meinig ’61, BME ’62, was honored for his decade of service with a gala dinner at the New York Public Library. Trustees, deans, vice presidents, provosts, and members of Meinig’s family gathered to mark his accomplishments as chair, which included the hiring of President Skorton and supporting the winning bid for the technology campus on Roosevelt Island. “The words to describe Pete Meinig are many,” Skorton said. “Some that come to mind are a calm spirit, absolute integrity, a clear-eyed view of the best way forward, and the courage to follow that way.” The event included the unveiling of Meinig’s official portrait, which will hang in Uris Hall.

Barlow Ware ’47 Dies W. Barlow Ware ’47, former voice of the Big Red and longtime Alumni Affairs staffer, died of cancer on December 19. He was eighty-six. Ware joined the Alumni Affairs staff in the Fifties; from 1957 to 1986, he was the voice of Cornell hockey and football, known for his play-by-play coverage. “He didn’t try to become the show,” says athletics director Andy Noel, “but he was always an interesting part of the event.” Ware was inducted into the Cornell Athletic Hall of Fame in 2003. As the Cornell Chronicle noted in a 2004 profile: “In the fall of 1943, a dapper Manhattanite in Brooks RARE AND MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS / CARL A. KROCH LIBRARY / CORNELL LIBRARY Brothers sport coat, gray flannel pants, and bucks, a young man September ’71: A photo of the Attica whose name appeared (as it does today) in the Social Register, prison uprising is among the nearly 2,000 stepped from the train in Ithaca to begin his study of farming.... images of African American life recently Thus began an adventure that grew into a lifelong love affair with donated to the University Library by Beth Cornell, its students and alumni, its staff and faculty, its coaches and Stephan Loewentheil, JD ’75. and players.”

Give My Regards To...

These Cornellians in the News Computer science major Justin Cheng ’12, winner of a $1,000 outstanding undergraduate researcher award from the Comput- Harvey Stenger ’79, named president of Binghamton University. ing Research Association for his work on the social behavior of humans interacting with computers. Alec Story ’12 and Eunsol C. Thomas Parsons ’82, appointed chief of the City of Ithaca Choi ’12 earned honorable mention. Fire Department. Nutritional science professor Rebecca Stoltzfus, PhD ’92, President Emeritus Frank H. T. Rhodes, named the inaugural named to a three-year term as Cornell’s first Provost’s Fellow trustee emeritus of King Abdullah University of Science and for Public Engagement. Technology in Saudi Arabia. Haut Chocolat (cocoa ice cream with cayenne pepper and cin- Math professor William Thurston, winner of the American Math- namon), which beat out such flavors as Cinnamon Chai Latte ematical Society’s Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to and Bearry Cheesecake to win the annual campus ice cream Research for his work on low dimensional topology. design competition.

PhD candidate Jillian Standish Cohen, MS ’09, who will spend a Former CALS dean Susan Henry, recipient of the Distinguished year working for the U.S. House Committee on Natural Service Citation, the New York State Agricultural Society’s Resources as a Knauss Marine Policy Fellow. highest honor.

Cornell’s undergraduate program, ranked number ILR professors Rose Batt ’73 and Harry Katz, named scholar one in the “America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools” fellows by the Labor and Employment Relations Association, survey for the fourth consecutive year. and Rebecca Kolins Givan, winner of the organization’s out- standing scholar award. Professors Brian Crane (chemistry and chemical biology), Bar- bara Crawford (science education), Rui Hai Liu, PhD ’93 (food Benedict Anderson, PhD ’67, professor emeritus of interna- science), and Rosemary Stevens (social medicine and public tional studies, government, and Asian studies, winner of policy), elected fellows of the American Association for the the $10,000 Hirschman Prize from the Social Science Advancement of Science. Research Council.

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Sports

Dynamic Duo

Bruce Arena ’73 and Dave Sarachan ’76 team up to win another soccer title

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Sideline stars: L.A. Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena ’73 (left) and associate head coach Dave Sarachan ’76 (center) directed their team to the Major League Soccer championship in November, the latest in a series of titles won by the coaching tandem.

hat wasn’t snow falling in Los team hadn’t lost all season. Arena smiled Donovan, the MLS Cup MVP, put the ball Angeles last November. It was broadly. Mission accomplished—again. into the back of the net, Arena raised his confetti. As a sellout crowd of As if it had been scripted, the game- fists in celebration. “They are good play- Tnearly 31,000 fans cheered wildly, Bruce winning goal was scored in the 72nd ers,” he told the assembled press after the Arena ’73, head coach of Major League minute as a joint effort by a trio of super- game, stating the obvious, “and they play Soccer’s Galaxy, lifted a stars who had made the Galaxy the face of together as a team.” shiny, silver trophy over his head. His the league, a big-market team with lofty That team was only a twinkle in team had just beaten the Houston expectations—sort of the Miami Heat of Arena’s eye in 2008, when he took over as Dynamos 1-0 in a riveting MLS Cup professional soccer. David Beckham (the general manager and head coach of a fran- championship game, leading some to iconic English midfielder who led the team chise in disarray. He changed the culture by wonder if L.A. might boast the best col- in assists and paparazzi) flicked a header first opting for the familiar—hiring trusted lection of talent in league history. “We Are to Robbie Keane (Ireland’s all-time leading lieutenant Dave Sarachan ’76 as associate the Champions” blared throughout the goal-scorer), who fed Landon Donovan head coach, extending a partnership that Home Depot Center, the Galaxy’s home (L.A.’s leading scorer and the most accom- has achieved success over nearly three arena in Carson, California, where the plished American in soccer history). As decades. Together, they overhauled the 12 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 12-13CAMma12sports _000-000CAMJF07currents 2/8/12 2:39 PM Page 13

team, compiling an eye-catching—and expensive—roster. “Pound for pound,” Sports Shorts says Sarachan, a 2009 Cornell Athletic Hall of Fame inductee who coached the Big Red for a decade beginning in 1989, HOOPS & HOPE The end of 2011 also marked the “this is the most talented and deepest team end of a unique international experience for for- that Bruce and I have ever had.” mer women’s basketball player Claire Perry ’07. That’s saying something. The Galaxy A captain on the 2006–07 Big Red squad, Perry is the fourth incarnation of the Arena-and- spent the past two years in Durban, South Africa, Sarachan traveling show, each effort offer- as a PeacePlayers International fellow. During her ing a jolt to American soccer on a differ- time with the global nonprofit organization, ent stage. First, Sarachan served as Arena’s which has been described as kind of a Peace assistant at the University of Virginia, Corps for basketball, Perry worked closely with where they won five national champi- the girls’ basketball program and helped grow the onships in 18 seasons, turning a program group’s leadership development program. Upon with no tradition and one scholarship into leaving in December, she recounted her experi- one of the most successful in college ence in a blog: blog. peaceplayersintl.org/ sports. A few years later, Sarachan joined 2011/12/30/goodbye-peaceplayers-international- the staff of Arena’s D.C. United team, south-africa/. which had won the first two MLS titles in 1996 and 1997. With Sarachan on board MILESTONE In a January 3 game against the Uni- in 1998, D.C. became the first U.S. team versity of Maryland, guard Chris Wroblewski ’12 to win the CONCACAF Champions Cup, became the 24th player in Cornell men’s basket- featuring the best teams from the top ball history to surpass 1,000 points. An Ivy leagues in North and Central America. League award winner in each of his first three That win announced American pro soccer seasons, Wroblewski was the 2009 as a force in this hemisphere, but the third Rookie of the year after playing a key role on the stop on the coaching tandem’s tour outstanding Big Red team that reached the NCAA showed that Americans could compete Sweet 16. He led the league in three-point shoot- ing as a sophomore and has ranked among the globally, as the U.S. national team made a CORNELL ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS top five throughout his career. run to the 2002 World Cup quarterfinals Claire Perry ’07 with Arena steering the ship and Sarachan as his first mate. HONOR ROLL A pair of Big Red football play- Their success may be a product of ers received national recognition for their efforts during the 2011 season. Defensive contrasting styles, with the amiable back Nick Booker-Tandy ’12 was named second-team Academic All-American by the Sarachan serving as a player-friendly pres- College Sports Information Directors of America. Booker-Tandy had three interceptions ence alongside the all-business Arena. But and 27 tackles while earning a 4.0 GPA in applied economics and management. Wide it works, and the two men have devel- receiver Shane Savage ’12 was named to several postseason All-American squads after oped a coaching shorthand over the years. leading the league with 65 receptions for 1,080 yards and 12 touchdowns. He was a “We complement one another. I know his third-team pick on the Associated Press team and joined Jeff Mathews strengths and weaknesses, and he knows ’14 as a second-team selection on the Beyond Sports Network squad. mine,” says Sarachan, who previously served as head coach of the Chicago Fire. BIG RED REUNION Three-time All-American Rob “It’s almost like Radar in ‘M*A*S*H.’ I Pannell ’12 was the first pick of the 2012 Major tend to know what he’s going to say League Lacrosse draft on January 13—but he was before he says it.” not the only Cornell player making news that day. Following the championship, the Minutes before selecting Pannell, the Galaxy of stars enjoyed a few more weeks Lizards pulled off a trade, getting former All- as a unit, undertaking a friendly tour of American midfielder Max Seibald ’09 from the Indonesia, Australia, and the Philippines Denver Outlaws. This will likely allow the pair to before Beckham’s five-year contract with reunite after Pannell’s collegiate season ends. L.A. ran out in December. The future was Three other Big Red players also heard their in doubt. Would Beckham return? (In Jan- names called during the MLL draft: Roy Lang ’12 uary, he announced that he would.) Will was chosen by the Rochester Rattlers, Chris the sixty-year-old Arena, the MLS coach Langton ’12 was picked by the Ohio Machine, and CORNELL ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS of the year twice in the past three years, J. J. Gilbane ’12 went to the Boston Cannons. Rob Pannell ’12 keep coaching in L.A.? (So far, it appears that he will.) Will Sarachan get another SPEED SKATER Cornell was represented at the chance to be an MLS head coach? (No 2012 NHL All-Star Weekend in Ottawa, but if you blinked you may have missed it. news on that.) Whatever happens, U.S. Colin Greening ’10, who plays for the Ottawa Senators, posted the best time in the soccer’s dynamic duo has proved once Fastest Skater event, getting around the ice in 12.963 seconds during his heat. He again that they can lead a team to the top edged Carl Hagelin of the New York Rangers by three one-hundredths of a second in and boost the global credibility of Ameri- that heat, but Hagelin got revenge in the final, beating Greening by almost a tenth of can soccer. All the world’s a stage. . . . a second. Going into the All-Star break, Greening had 11 goals and 15 assists in 52 — Brad Herzog ’90 games with the Senators. March | April 2012 13 14-15CAMma12authors_020-021CAMso08authors 2/8/12 2:40 PM Page 14

Authors

Restoring Vision

The Cause by Eric Alterman ’82 and Kevin Mattson (Viking)

lterman, a columnist for the Nation and professor of English and journal- ism at Brooklyn College and CUNY, Atraces the development of modern American liberal- ism from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama. “America has undoubtedly become a fairer, more open, and less oppressive society thanks largely to the political and cultural struggles waged by liberals,” he argues. But lately liberalism is embattled and needs to regain its sense of vision. “If liberal fortunes are ever to revive,” Alterman writes, “liberals must find a way to recapture a simultaneously militant and optimistic spirit.”

Suburgatory by Linda Erin Keenan ’91 The Expats by Chris Pavone ’89 (Crown). (Globe Pequot). Keenan’s satirical look at Long-buried secrets undermine the char- suburbia is the basis for the ABC show of acters’ lives in Pavone’s debut novel. the same name. “While the TV series When Kate’s husband, Dexter, announces focuses on a transplanted teen from New that they’re moving from D.C. to Luxem- York City,” explains the former CNN writer bourg—immediately—for a well-paying for anchors Anderson Cooper and Lou job, the lies and deceptions in their mar- Dobbs, “my book offers a vision of subur- riage come to light. But soon she finds bia and contemporary American life that even more problems under the surface of I witnessed when I myself was trans- her idle expatriate life. The more her planted from the city after having my husband keeps closemouthed about the son.” She skewers upper-middle-class nature of his work, the more her suspicions grow. A new Ameri- pieties and the “all-around bad behavior that I have seen raging can couple seems eager to befriend them—but also vaguely underneath the surface of those obsessively tended suburban lawns menacing. As she uncovers the intrigue, Kate reveals her own and bikini lines.” guilty past.

Life Sentences by William H. Gass, PhD Green Washed by Kendra Pierre-Louis ’02 ’54 (Knopf). In his latest collection of (Ig). We may use a canvas shopping bag essays, the former professor of philosophy at the supermarket, buy organic food, and at Washington University and author of switch to an electric car, but we still need the novels The Tunnel and Omensetter’s to consume less if we want to halt envi- Luck explores the themes of his long writ- ronmental destruction. “The problem is ing life and looks at the work of some of that ‘green’ is not an industry-defined his favorite writers—Gertrude Stein, term,” writes Pierre-Louis, the sustainable Proust, Nietzsche, Henry James, and development editor for the website Just Kafka—as well as the unsympathetic Nazi means.com. “There is no standard to collaborator Knut Hamsun. One of the which a company must aspire to achieve finest essays is “The Aesthetic Structure of the Sentence,” which sustainability.” Her investigation of sustainable fashion, green builds from Gass’s youthful relish for diagramming to his observa- building, and green energy shows that while such alternatives tion that sentences are “containers of consciousness.” are important, we can’t buy our way to a green planet. 14 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 14-15CAMma12authors_020-021CAMso08authors 2/8/12 2:40 PM Page 15

Fiction construction system. Later architects, including Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neu- Forgotten Country by Catherine Chung, MFA tra, and Eric , modified the ’05 (Riverhead). Janie’s grandmother says house to correct its design flaws. Chusid, she must watch over her younger sister, former director of the Freeman House and Hannah—the family has lost a girl in every an associate professor in Cornell’s historic generation in Korea. Years later, after the preservation planning program, tells about family has moved to America, Hannah dis- the efforts to preserve the meaning and appears. In her debut novel, Chung, named materials of the house. one of Granta’s New Voices, tells the story of Janie’s search to find her sister and Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant, PhD ’85 uncover family secrets. (Duke). Berlant, a professor of English at the University of Chicago, examines how Wide Open by Deborah Coates ’77 (Tor). In the social democratic promise of the post- short story writer Coates’s first novel, Ser- war period has retracted in the U.S. and geant Hallie Michaels comes home on ten Europe. She asks, “Why do people stay days’ leave from Afghanistan to bury her attached to conventional good-life sister, Dell, whose death has been ruled a fantasies—say, of enduring reciprocity in suicide. Hallie refuses to believe Dell killed couples, families, political systems, institu- Conversations with Wall Street by Peter herself, especially when she encounters her tions, markets, and at work—when the Ressler ’78 and Monica Mitchell (FastPencil ghost—and the ghosts of several missing evidence of their instability, fragility, and Premiere). The CEO of RMG Search and . Now she must unlock the mystery dear cost abounds?” CEO of Good Business International provide before her leave is up. the insider story of the financial crisis of Unspeakable Violence by Nicole M. 2008 and offer advice on how to prevent Guidotti-Hernandez, PhD ’04 (Duke). Inves- the next one. Non-Fiction tigating four historic flashpoints along the Saving Wright by Jeffrey M. Chusid (Nor- U.S.-Mexico borderlands in the nineteenth Take a Deep Breath by Nina Shapiro ’87 ton). When Sam and Harriet Freeman com- and early twentieth centuries, an associate (World Scientific). The director of pediatric missioned to design a professor of gender and women’s studies at otolaryngology at the Mattel Children’s house for them in Los Angeles, Wright built the University of Arizona shows how in Hospital at UCLA provides a comprehensive the Freeman House using his textile-block each case violence was racially motivated. guide to children’s breathing problems.

The Epidemic tells how a vain and reckless businessman became responsible for a typhoid epidemic in 1903 that devastated Cornell University and the surrounding town of Ithaca, NY. Eighty-two people died, including 29 Cornell students. Protected by in uential friends, William T. Morris faced no retribution for this outrage.

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All-Age Home

Esther Semsei Greenhouse ’93, MS ’03, promotes environments that can last a lifetime

alk through Esther Semsei Green - tial price premium—but in addition to accruing lower lifetime house’s garage door, through the electricity costs, they last for decades, reducing the risk that some- laundry room, and into the kitchen, one will stumble about in the dark when one fails or fall from a and nothing about the two-story, ladder while replacing it. The brushed-nickel cabinet pulls work W2,300-square-foot Ithaca home seems particularly unusual. equally well with a closed fist or a firm grip; arthritis won’t But sit in a wheelchair and roll through the front door, into necessitate new hardware. The benefits of universal design are the capacious foyer and adjoining living room, and the differences even clearer when it comes to the first-floor doorways—while from most residential construction are happily apparent. The pas- the wide doors for the bathroom and den cost the Greenhouses sageways between rooms accommodate the chair’s girth and turn- an extra $20 each, the average cost nationwide to retrofit a sin- ing radius. The floors are free of area rugs and other surfaces that gle doorway to accommodate a wheelchair is $700. “Why isn’t could impede wheels or increase the risk of a fall. The lightweight every new house built with wider doorways?” she asks. “It’s not double doors separating the multi-purpose den and guest room just about accommodating someone in a wheelchair, it’s carry- from the entryway have levered handles; they’re easy to open and ing a laundry basket or a baby.” close, from a chair, with limited hand strength. Even the full bath Greenhouse credits application materials from the College of and kitchen boast fea- Human Ecology’s Department of Design and Environmental tures welcoming to some- Analysis with introducing her to the ways in which design pro- one in a wheelchair. motes or impedes function. “It was like the heavens parted,” she “This is a home for a life- says. “I got goose bumps.” Reading about blighted urban neigh- time,” says Greenhouse borhoods where crumbling sidewalks stranded aging residents in ’93, MS ’03, “for every- their homes cemented her path. “It really resonated. I decided I one.” wanted to enable people through the environment, take those The petite brunette, obstacles out of the way.” She earned a certificate in gerontol- an independent consult- ogy and, at twenty-one, resolved to promote “enabling design,” ant on elder- and disabil- which allows independent living for people with a wide range of ity-friendly design and physical abilities. policy, is just forty-one It’s a concept whose time has come. Last year, America’s 78 years old. She gets million Baby Boomers started turning sixty-five. Over the next around fine sans assistive quarter century, nearly 75 million people will become Medicare devices, as do her hus- eligible. “The median annual cost for nursing home care is band, custom builder $73,000,”says Greenhouse. “I’m trying to get people to see this as Brooke Greenhouse ’91, a policy issue: if fewer people go into nursing care, society saves.” and their twelve-year-old Yet getting young, fit consumers to consider accessibility can son. Yet when the Green- be a hard sell. Greenhouse often begins her classes for builders by houses started planning their home (and one next door for her asking how many consider themselves “disabled.” Few raise a mother), they zeroed in on three guiding principles—durability, hand. Then she reveals her own physical limits—her short stature energy efficiency, and accessibility—to insure that each family and a collarbone broken at birth that limits her shoulder strength. could enjoy the results over the long haul. “A typical house Lastly, she asks her students how many wear eyeglasses or contact requires changes because the family situation changes or new lenses. Invariably more than half raise their hands. “They’re visu- owners move in,” she says. “Why throw away perfectly good ally disabled and use an assistive device every single day,” she says. building materials, all because you didn’t plan?” To drive her point home, Greenhouse introduces the concept Beyond its ecological merits, thinking ahead contains costs of “environmental press”—the notion that a gap between what and makes life easier for all concerned, says Greenhouse, who the environment demands and a person’s body can achieve cre- teaches courses on “aging in place” for the National Association ates physical stress that exacerbates the situation. Think of a of Home Builders and serves on AARP’s Boomer Project Uni- child clambering onto a countertop to reach a cupboard, a per- versal Design Consumer Task Force. Long-lasting, high-efficiency son with poor balance climbing into a tub, or an arthritis suf- LED bulbs in the living room ceiling fixtures come with an ini- ferer whose nutrition declines because the kitchen is too difficult 16 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 16-31CAMma12currents_000-000CAMJF07currents 2/8/12 2:41 PM Page 17

Inner space: Esther Greenhouse's home features (clockwise) floors without rugs to prevent a tripping hazard, door handles that could be easily turned by arthritic hands, and cabinets whose contents are readily accessible. Opposite: Greenhouse in her kitchen.

after moving into their new home, they hosted three guests unable to mount the stairs: the first-floor room and accessible bath preserved complete independence for each. It turns out the luxe design has made Green- PHOTOS BY LINDSAY MADSEN FRANCE / UP house’s daily life easier, too. She’s used the tiled Roman shower to scrub patio furniture, water plants, to navigate. Helping consumers consider such matters ahead of and rinse window screens without getting drenched. If Harry, the time boils down to marketing, she notes. “What you call some- family’s shelter pup, weren’t terrified of water, Greenhouse says thing means the difference between what’s acceptable or not,” she’d probably use it to bathe him, too. “Having an aesthetically she says. “Call it a Roman shower and it’s very popular; call it pleasing house and an enabling design are not mutually exclu- a roll-in bath and people have no interest.” sive,” she says. “There’s that old adage, ‘Form follows function.’ The Greenhouses use their combination den and guest room You can have both.” every day for TV viewing and lounging. And in the six months — Sharon Tregaskis ’95

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All Abuzz Cornell entomologists ponder the pollinators

NIKO VEREECKEN

Bee prepared: Bryan Danforth (left) collecting in western Aus- tralia. Above: Anthophora retusa, a species native to Eurasia.

EDUARDO ALMEIDA

ate last April, as buds seventy-five trees pollinated by whichever study is to understand the relative contri- swelled in the Cornell insects happened to alight on their blooms, butions of native bees and honeybees in Orchards, E. J. Blitzer tied was part of an ongoing analysis of the agri- apple pollination,” says Danforth, who gauzy fabric bags—intend- cultural contributions of an array of indige- notes that the cost to rent honeybees dur- Led by their manufacturer to wrap wed- nous species in New York State orchards, ing peak blossom has spiked in recent ding favors—over select apple branches headed by entomology professor Bryan years. “If the contribution of native bees to insure that insects wouldn’t have Danforth, Blitzer’s adviser. is very high, why bring in honeybees? It’s access to the blooms. The twenty-nine- One in every three bites we raise to an extra cost that probably isn’t adding a year-old postdoc intended to strictly our mouths—everything from apples to lot of value to your crop.” manage pollination; as each blossom zucchini, with stops along the way for For the last three years, the professor unfurled over the subsequent two weeks, blueberries, melons, pumpkins, and and his team of ten postdocs, grad stu- she opened its bag and generously dusted more—can be credited to the pollinating dents, and undergrads have collected bees the anthers inside. “In real life, you don’t prowess of myriad insects. Apis melifera, in apple orchards throughout the Finger have a person with a paintbrush,” Blitzer the fuzzy, black-and-yellow honeybee Lakes and along Lake Ontario during the muses. “You have a bee moving the beloved for its gentle disposition and the two-week span when the trees are in pollen from blossom to blossom.” sweet golden syrup it produces, has long bloom. They’ve also been developing new This fall, as Empire State growers been lauded as the workhorse of the insect studies like Blitzer’s to compare the qual- picked more than 25 million bushels of pollination circuit. And while that species ity of the fruit produced by native polli- apples—a harvest second only to that of has taken the limelight since colony col- nators to that of honeybees. “I have this Washington State and a contribution of lapse disorder hit in 2007, Danforth sus- dream,” jokes Danforth, “that I’ll go on some $261 million annually to New York’s pects that in the U.S., the sociable Euro- Rush Limbaugh to promote the native, economy—Blitzer returned to the seventy- pean native—prized for its resilience in hard-working American bees over the five trees she’d pollinated to collect the fruit vast monocultures like the miles-wide imported Europeans.” of her labors and assess its quality and almond orchards of California’s Central Danforth may be kidding, but the data quantity. The experiment, which also Valley—might not deserve all the adula- behind the quip is no joke. Beset by colony included an assessment of the fruit from tion it’s received. “One of the goals of our collapse disorder, parasitic mites, and cheap

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imported honey that has halved the num- urrentsurrents ber of American beekeepers, the population of Apis melifera in the U.S. has plummeted. As bees become increasingly expensive to rent, farmers need science-based advice on the most economical tactics to insure the pollination of their crops. “If the native bees are contributing significantly to apple pollination—and they absolutely are—it means biodiversity has economic value, and we should consider that when we make decisions about land use,” says the professor, who received a $450,000 grant from the USDA for the project. Already, the team has found that the smaller farms of the Finger Lakes, sur- rounded by forests and fields that provide alternative forage and habitat for insect populations, have far higher numbers of bee species active in their orchards than do the much larger farms on the south shore of Lake Ontario, the state’s primary apple- growing region. “When we sample up near Lake Ontario, the orchard might be 500 acres and we have ten species,” says Danforth, associate curator of Cornell’s insect collection and an expert in the tax- onomy and evolutionary biology of bees. “Down here in the Finger Lakes, we might have thirty or forty species. Our whole project is to predict what factors determine the richness of native bee fauna.” Much of the apple project hinges on Danforth’s taxonomic expertise. Unlike earlier pollination studies that simply des- ignated samples among such categories as “big green bees” and “little green bees,” the professor and his team identify by species each of the 4,000 bees they collect annually. The initiative complements Dan- forth’s long-standing investigation of bee phylogeny—what he calls “the tree of life.” Using DNA analyses and intricate computer models, Danforth and his col- laborators map the evolutionary relation- ships among species going back millions of years to investigate the social structure of colony-dwelling honeybees compared with the solitary approach taken by some of their American cousins. By under- standing those connections, scientists can better predict, for example, a given species’ preferences for certain host plants, its strategies for storing food to feed its young, or the influence of climate and geography on its social organization. “I’m fascinated by the evolution of bees,” Dan- forth says. “It gives us a deeper under- standing of life on earth.” Even more important for New York’s orchardists, such insights might reveal tactics to insure that for years to come, spring blossoms portend a rich fall harvest. — Sharon Tregaskis ’95

March | April 2012 19 . . Souzan — Jim Roberts ’71 Roberts — Jim Taking Chance Taking Questions & Answers & Questions while temping at HBO. Before long, she was hired to hired was she long, Before HBO. at temping while A Million Fires A Million was released last year. It’s brief—seven songs—and features sparse features songs—and brief—seven It’s year. last released was Jenn A A Million . “Can you hear me hear you . “Can Grauer is also thinking about social media and the opportunities it offers for pro- for offers it opportunities the and media social about thinking also is Grauer Grauer is now a writer/producer in HBO’s creative services group, where she makes she where group, services creative HBO’s in a writer/producer now is Grauer A Million Fires A Million Why so many ques- many so Why she which studies, visual pursued also and French in majored Grauer Cornell, At After streets. the on played and Europe to traveled Crooners the breaks, During instrumentation: just Grauer’s piano accompanied by cellist Rubin Kodheli (who co- (who Kodheli Rubin cellist by accompanied piano Grauer’s just instrumentation: reflect which songs, the on is focus The Borger. Andrew drummer and produced) such as well as Simone Nina and Smith Bessie like masters blues for affection Grauer’s show a release held Grauer Mann. Amy and Apple Fiona as songwriters contemporary whenever live perform to continued has and fall last Village East the in Pub Joe’s at her though even that saying material, new on working also She’s chance. the gets she the “until writing and practicing for evening the in time leaves it demanding, is job door.” my on knock neighbors accessible that’s a in way songs these of story the tell you do “How music. her moting a for question more asks—one she platforms?” media social different on posting to way. the along answers some finding be to seems that career work full-time in the branding and marketing group, where she got on-the-job training on-the-job got she where group, marketing and branding the in full-time work production. video in “Real for campaigns included has work Her films. and shows network’s the for promos compo- her and Tour,” Ball Monster the Presents Gaga “Lady and Maher” Bill with Time film the for a in promo featured was Song” “Soldier sition Alavi, Grauer’s frequent creative partner at HBO, helped her to produce a music video a music produce to her helped HBO, at partner creative frequent Grauer’s Alavi, (www.jenn website Grauer’s at featured is which album, her of song title the for explore and in work to environment dynamic and amazing an been “It’s grauer.com). Grauer. says ,” visual the in interest my As a songwriter, a songwriter, As ask to likes ’04 Grauer you “Won’t questions. she honey?” back, come lover a departed implores song first the “Stay,” in self-produced her on album, debut Fires melody, my singing in queries she anyone?” Gathering.” “The I time the “At tions? says songs,” those wrote transition- was “I Grauer, transi- college, of out ing comfort the from tioning a having of safety and five for with been I’d that a band from transitioning plan, a four-year and major going.” I was where sure I wasn’t forward, Looking years. drawn really I was something but time, the at concentration small wee “a as describes become had she piano, the on trained Classically music. making also was She to.” Nyles and ’04, MRP ’01, Denton Kevin ’01, Merkley musicians—Chris three with friends in fell “I Crooners. the called a in group bandmates her became ’02—who Fitzgerald says Minnie,” Memphis and Smith Bessie and Johnson blues—Robert the with love I also music. that to listening library, Hall Lincoln the in time of a lot spent “I Grauer. J. A. Cornell, to went who musician great this from lessons piano blues taking started musically.” me for point a turning was That ’97. Strauss then busking—and more did and band the with to returned Grauer graduation, the writing began and City York New in settled She a change. for time was it decided became that songs Jenn Grauer ’04 makes her mark in sound and images and sound in mark her makes ’04 Grauer Jenn cornellalumnimagazine.com |

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Against the Grain

Dominic Alcocer ’00 heads up gluten-free marketing for General Mills, from Bisquick to Betty Crocker

ANDY FRIEDMAN

When he was in the Air Force, Dominic Alcocer ’00 helped design ple about the level of rigor with which I did it, their eyes widen. countermeasures to foil attacking missiles; now, he’s working to protect consumers from the perils of wheat gluten. The former CAM: How so? electrical engineering major is the marketing manager for Gen- DA: I called my toothpaste company and lip balm company. I eral Mills’ gluten-free initiative, which includes a cadre of new had to switch to a new brand of lip balm because the one I was products and the development of the website glutenfreely.com. using was not gluten free. Medicines, cosmetics—it’s everywhere. With more Americans being diagnosed with celiac disease and other gluten sensitivities, or simply avoiding the protein with an CAM: Did the diet make you feel different? eye to potential health benefits, gluten-free has become the latest DA: We both felt great. I actually lost a little weight. My wife is dietary watchword—and a burgeoning market sector. still on what she calls the “gluten-free-light” diet. Even now, just for fun, when I go out to restaurants I ask servers, chefs, and bar- Cornell Alumni Magazine: Why is it so hard to make gluten-free keeps if they have gluten-free options or a gluten-free menu, to products that taste like their conventional counterparts? help educate the food industry, one employee at a time. Dom Alcocer: Gluten has a number of properties that give food its stickiness—like in cookie dough, or to help bread rise, or to CAM: One common complaint is that gluten-free products are have a moist texture. Not having that component in recipes and too expensive. Why is that? formulae makes it difficult to make food, period, let alone make DA: Trials go into the cost of developing a product. The ingre- it taste great. When we were making gluten-free Bisquick and dients that we use to get the texture and flavor of, say, gluten- Betty Crocker dessert mixes, we had more than 1,000 trials in free Betty Crocker brownies are not as readily available, or we our R&D facilities. We tried seventy-five formulae before we don’t use them enough to get economies of scale. Also, we have finally got something we could put our brands on and be proud a robust testing mechanism at General Mills to make sure that of. One of the experts at glutenfreely.com likes to say that twenty all of our products are really gluten free. years ago it was all cardboard. CAM: Some might say that gluten free is just the latest dietary CAM: To prepare for your job, you and your wife went gluten fad, akin to low fat and low carb. How do you respond to that? free for forty days. What was that like? DA: That’s a question I love to answer. For a certain portion of DA: It was very difficult. It immediately strikes you how many Americans, gluten free will come and go. But there is a portion things in our dietary lives involve gluten; for example, you use who must remain gluten free for the remainder of their lives. wheat flour as a base for most gravies. But I had a deep passion Those people are going to need what we do forever. to understand what these consumers go through. When I tell peo- —Beth Saulnier 22 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 16-31CAMma12currents_000-000CAMJF07currents 2/8/12 2:41 PM Page 23 C urrents

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Call the Cops

“Blue Bloods” is the latest crime show for TV veteran Ed Zuckerman ’70

“Blue Bloods,” a drama that has bucked the dreaded “Friday night death slot” to become a hit for CBS, pulling in some 12 million viewers a week. The show stars Tom Selleck as Frank Reagan, police com- missioner of New York City and pater - familias of a tight-knit clan of Irish Catholic cops. His grandfather was a patrolman; his father was commissioner before him; all three of his sons joined the family business, one dying in the line of duty. (His daughter handles the “order” side of the ampersand as an assistant dis- trict attorney.) “People love this family,” says Zuckerman, who joined the show last summer, after the network ousted its creators between the first and second sea- sons. “They love the idea of it. In troubled times, people like to see something solid, safe, and wholesome.” “Blue Bloods” distinguishes itself from the pack of TV crime dramas by putting character ahead of cases; the crime-of-the- week is secondary to the relationships. Each episode includes Sunday dinner around the family table, with Selleck dis- pensing wisdom; it’s “NYPD Blue” meets “Little House on the Prairie.” “This is a conservative show, a traditional show,” says Zuckerman. “The cinematography, the editing, and the music are old fash- ioned.” In an episode that aired in mid- PROVIDED January, Commissioner Reagan struggled True blue: Ed Zuckerman ’70 has a hit in “Blue with an upcoming PR campaign, balking Bloods,” a cop show with an old-fashioned soul. at using the 9/11 attacks to attract recruits. A conversation with his youngest son—a Harvard-educated lawyer who joined the force after his brother’s mur- t all started with bull semen. “It was heavily rewritten,” Zuckerman der—led to an epiphany about a more In the late Eighties, Ed Zuckerman recalls, “to the point where, watching it palatable sales pitch. “The adventures, the ’70 was a freelance journalist for mag- with friends at home, I couldn’t explain comedies, the tragedies—going to work Iazines like Rolling Stone when a friend what was happening.” every day with the feeling anything could working in TV made him an offer: Want That’s showbiz—which has been happen and you’d be in the middle of it, to write for “Miami Vice”? The show— Zuckerman’s profession ever since. Over making a difference,” Reagan tells his still on the air, though past its height of the past two decades, the former Daily staff. “And being part of a brotherhood cool—was looking to shake things up by Sun editor-in-chief has served as a writer that spans almost 300 years.” tapping non-TV writers to pen some or producer on some two dozen crime The show may not be destination tel- episodes. Armed with facts gleaned from and legal dramas, from big hits (“Law & evision for the much-desired youth demo- reporting on the international cattle trade, Order,” “JAG”) to programs you’ve prob- graphic, but it’s a palpable hit with their Zuckerman pitched “The Cows of Octo- ably never heard of (“Century City,” parents and grandparents. Its average ber,” in which Crockett and Tubbs track “Killer Instinct,” “The Whole Truth”). viewer age hovers just above sixty; when the theft of hundreds of thousands of dol- These days, Zuckerman is back atop it premiered it fall 2010, Forbes declared lars of . . . bovine reproductive material. the ratings as an executive producer on it number one on its list of the “oldest

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Man in uniform: Tom Selleck (right) stars as NYPD commissioner Frank Reagan, whose sons are also police officers.

CALL FOR OUR LATEST INVENTORY! shows on TV.” “Friday night viewing was Mel Russo, York penal code—or, as he puts it, “the Lic. Real Estate Broker/Owner way down, but there was nothing on,” law books I stole from ‘Law & Order.’ ” Zuckerman says. “People are rising out of 315-246-3997 or 315-568-9404 Of that now-iconic show’s twenty-year their graves or their deathbeds to watch run, Zuckerman worked on it for eight— [email protected] www.senecayuga.com this show, because it appeals to a tradi- in four separate stints—and contributed tional crowd. But people who are rela- to more than 100 episodes, including the tively young and liberal tell me they like first one ever broadcast. But as Zucker- the show. It’s not sticking its conservative man notes in another lesson on the vicis- values in your face.” The reviews have situdes of the screen trade: “Between the been pretty good, too; the New York time I wrote it and when it aired, [creator] Times said it has “an old-fashioned appeal Dick Wolf fired me.” both as drama in the vein of a working- The set of a TV show sounds glam- man’s ‘Dynasty’ and as splashy proce- orous—until you actually visit one. After dural,” and that Selleck plays the lead two decades, Zuckerman compares the “with such an easy authority that we’re filming process to watching paint dry. reminded how much we’ve missed him.” “We shoot eight twelve-hour days for a The show’s production offices are forty-three-minute episode,” he says, located in a converted apartment building “which means for every hour you shoot, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn; neighbors you get twenty-five seconds of airtime.” include “” and “Royal And then there are the joys of dealing Pains.” Just down the block are sound- with networks and studios, which the for- stages with the show’s three permanent mer journalist says is “like having six edi- sets: the commissioner’s office, the Rea- tors, and two of them are idiots.” But he gan family home, and a detectives’ squad enjoys the daily collaboration and the room. “This is a little studio,” Zucker- writing itself—crafting a clever mystery, man says, as the show’s executive pro- telling a good joke, creating compelling ducer, septuagenarian TV legend Leonard characters. With a retired NYPD detective Goldberg, views the dailies in the office serving as technical adviser, “Blue Bloods” next door. “It’s like being on the lot at aims for verisimilitude—and it seems pop- Warner Brothers—it’s all done here.” ular with real-life cops. “They do make Zuckerman dislikes the catchall term fun of the fact that Frank Reagan wears “showrunner,” which implies that one his uniform a lot,” Zuckerman says, person oversees an entire production—all “which is analogous to President Obama but impossible—and says that his job wearing a general’s uniform because he’s essentially consists of being the head commander in chief.” writer, akin to a newspaper’s managing So why does the character don those editor. In his office, near the customary dress blues so often? “Because,” Zucker- display of cast head shots, sits a multi- man says wearily, “Tom Selleck wants to.” volume collection of the annotated New — Beth Saulnier

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The ‘H’ in HIV Dr. Mark Katz ’71 is a veteran of the AIDS epidemic

r. Mark Katz ’71 well immunodeficiency virus,” as he has remembers the first inter- endeavored to put a face on the AIDS cri- national AIDS confer- sis and lend a sympathetic ear. Among Dence he attended—in Washington, D.C., the photos lining his desk at home— in 1987. A huge map of the U.S. on dis- alongside those of his husband, Bob play in the exhibit area was accompanied (they were married in California in by a headline: The Problem: AIDS. The 2008), and his son, Marcus (adopted Solution: Banish All Homosexuals. “The in 2003)—is one of a man named map actually had circles on each of the Brian, whom Katz met only once, big cities depicting the estimated number after a lecture. Brian called him from of homosexuals,” says Katz. “It just time to time, asking questions about shows how primitive we were—and how AIDS has evolved.” Thirty years ago—on June 5, 1981—a Dr. Mark Katz ’71 study published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report focused on what would be later recognized as the first docu- mented cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, among five previously healthy young men in Los Angeles. AIDS has since taken the lives of 30 million people, includ- ing more than half a million Americans. But the battle against the epidemic has changed dramatically over the years—along with society’s attitudes toward it. Katz has been on the front lines almost from the beginning—as a physi- cian, medical adviser, board member, edu- cator, and volunteer. He started Kaiser Permanente’s first HIV-dedicated clinic at West Los Angeles Medical Center in 1988 and served as the Southern California regional HIV physician coordinator from 1992 to 2006. He estimates that he has delivered more than 1,000 lectures and medical presentations to patients, health- care workers, students, activists—anyone who will listen. A four-year scribe for the Daily Sun during his days on the Hill, he wrote more than a hundred installments of “Being Alive,” a monthly medical update for the HIV/AIDS Coalition newsletter, until the Internet changed how

medical information is disseminated. He RIVERA MATTHEW now moderates the online Q&A forum “Ask the Doc,” sponsored by the AIDS Education Global Information System. Katz’s medical career has always been most about the first word in “human

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California, preaching concern for a two-thirds of his time as an in-patient hos- C

the disease, but Katz learned of his death urrents from his obituary in the L.A. Times. He patient’s emotional well-being as much as pitalist and the remainder on clinical and called the funeral coordinator and asked his or her physical condition. That has administrative HIV/AIDS work. “Now, the for a photo. “I look at it every day,” he been a particular challenge when treating people I take care of, I’m not just their HIV says. “It’s a symbol of all the people who, HIV patients, who often battle hostility doc, I’m their primary care doc as well. although I didn’t know them, just didn’t and blame along with a deadly disease. “I They’re developing the normal maladies of get the right treatment soon enough.” never ask them in the first interview, ‘Do middle and older age.” Katz has been honored frequently for you know how and when you got it?’ ” Katz still loses one or two patients to his work, most recently with the 2010 he explains. “Because I feel that anyone AIDS each year, but what was once at College of Medicine Humanitarian Award who is diagnosed today is dealing with least a weekly occurrence has become the from his medical alma mater, SUNY those issues of shame.” exception. Recently he has begun to cast Upstate in Syracuse; it lauded him for Katz keeps a list of names in his desk an eye toward the past, in the hope that “integrating humanism and medicine drawer—his patients diagnosed with HIV one day the AIDS epidemic will be stud- seamlessly together.” Indeed, he likes to in the early days of the crisis. All but two ied as history. For World AIDS Day last say that he practices the art of medicine, are long dead. But the paradigm changed December 1, he organized a thirtieth- as opposed to the science. “It goes back in 1997, as combination drug therapy led anniversary community remembrance in to Cornell, where I got an A in French lit- to the first annual decline in AIDS deaths. Los Angeles, a program that included a erature and a B-minus in organic chem- Currently, the world epidemic has hit a handful of patients and physicians from istry, which made me question if I should plateau, with 2.7 million people newly the early days of the epidemic. Working become a doctor,” he says. “I’ve always infected in each of the past five years. with the ONE National Gay & Lesbian felt there are enough people who have According to the CDC, there are 1.2 mil- Archives, Katz asked participants to done amazing research and discovered lion Americans living with HIV, and donate memorabilia—letters, photos, drugs that have turned this epidemic 50,000 new infections each year. Almost clothing—belonging to someone with around. Maybe the quasi-contribution 20 percent of those infected are unaware AIDS, which will be preserved and (a that I’ve made is being a voice of com- of their status. dream of Katz’s) perhaps displayed in an passion. I think the medical profession Today, potent, durable, and well-toler- AIDS . “This can be one of the doesn’t do a very good job of selecting or ated medications prolong the lives of HIV most meaningful contributions,” he says, training people for that.” patients considerably; most people are now “because it’s giving people, including To that end, he co-teaches a class living with AIDS rather than dying from it. myself, an opportunity to know that the called Professionalism and the Practice of “It has turned into a chronic, manageable names—and these lives—will live on.” Medicine at the University of Southern illness,” says Katz, who spends roughly — Brad Herzog ’90

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By Brad Herzog

t was the biggest piece of news she would ever report. In 1985, Anne Rabushka Smrcina ’74 was working as a public information officer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod. Typically, her job involved crafting press releases about scientists exploring global current patterns Ior deep ocean vents. But on the first day of September, it was her duty to tell the world about a discovery that would be headline news around the globe.

For decades, historians and treasure hunters had those who were tasked with announcing it. “None been searching for a supposedly unsinkable ship, an of us realized the extent of the global interest in the 882-foot luxury ocean liner with a double-bottomed story,” says Smrcina, now education and outreach hull and sixteen watertight compartments—the coordinator for the Stellwagen Bank National largest vessel afloat in its day. But a century ago, on Marine Sanctuary in Scituate, Massachusetts. “We April 15, 1912, the Royal Mail Steamship Titanic were getting requests from Japan, the Soviet Union, sank to the bottom of the ocean on its maiden voy- and countries all over Europe. That was a surprise— age, taking more than two-thirds of its passengers that there was that level of curiosity.” Smrcina and with it. For more than seven decades, no one knew the rest of the Woods Hole staff became quick-study exactly where to look for the wreckage—or whether experts on the history of the ship and its passengers, it could be found at all. Then, on that summer day and she came to agree with Ballard’s perspective that twenty-seven years ago, a joint American-French the ship was more than just a sunken vessel—a phi- expedition, led by marine geologist , losophy not necessarily shared by the French, who found it. Three hundred fifty miles southeast of recovered a number of artifacts. “Ballard wanted to Newfoundland, the unsinkable Titanic was under explore the ship to understand why it sank,” she 13,000 feet of water. says, “but he also wanted to leave it as a resting The reverberations of the discovery shocked even place for those 1,500 souls.”

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The last Titanic survivor, a woman named Mil - Cabin E-8 on the starboard side. vina Dean, who was two months old when the ship Ninety minutes after Titanic departed from went down, died in 2009 at the age of ninety-seven. Southampton on April 10, the ship arrived in Cher- But the survivors’ stories remain, as do the victims’ bourg, France, where two more Cornellians boarded. tales. And there were two of each among the four Thirty-one-year-old Gilbert Tucker Jr. held ticket Cornell alumni who made the ill-fated voyage. number 2543, purchased primarily because of an infatuation. A 1901 graduate whose father was edi- tor of the Country Gentleman, the bachelor from Albany had been traveling through Europe with his itanic was so new when the passengers parents and sister. But when he met twenty-four-year- boarded on April 10, 1912, that its old Margaret Hays, a high school teacher from New paint was still wet in some spots. Con- York City who was touring with a girlfriend and the structed at a cost of $7.5 million, the friend’s mother, he fell for her immediately. He opted pride of the White Star Line was the to join her on the journey home to America, appoint- first ship to have electric lighting in every stateroom. ing himself as the ladies’ official escort. Hays and her TThere were seven grand staircases, a heated swimming friend occupied Cabin C-54. Tucker took C-53. pool, a squash court, and parlor suites with private Leila Meyer and her husband, Edgar Meyer promenades that cost more than 1905, boarded at Cherbourg, too. The spring of WWW.FLICKRIVER.COM/PHOTOS/PUZZLEMASTER $4,300 apiece (some $50,000 1912 was supposed to be a joyous time for them. today). Its first transatlantic voyage Leila’s brother had scheduled a wedding for the end was to be a trip to New York from of April, and the couple had embarked on a Euro- Southamp ton, on the south coast of pean vacation, leaving their infant daughter to be , where two Cornellians cared for at home in New York. But at the beginning boarded. of the month, Leila’s father died suddenly. Desper- William Hull Botsford, SpArch ate to return stateside, they booked a last-minute 1909 (known as “Hull” back ticket aboard Titanic as first-class passengers. home in Elmira, New York), was One of eight children in a family transplanted descended from a passenger on from San Francisco to New York, Edgar Meyer had another famous vessel—John two sisters who married Sigmund and Abraham Alden, said to be the first person Stern, the president and CEO of Levi, Strauss & Co. from the Mayflower to set foot on (One of his nieces, Katherine Graham, would Plymouth Rock. Botsford excelled become famous as the publisher of the Washington at drawing (one of his works Post during the Watergate era; a grandnephew graced the cover of the 1910 Cor- would go on to own the Oakland Athletics.) Meyer Gilbert Tucker Jr. 1901 nellian), but he was also a talented had graduated from the Sibley College of Mechani- singer and champion wrestler. cal Engineering, where he discovered a method to After graduation, he became chief measure the velocity of flame propagation in gaso- designer for the Delaware, Lack- line engines. By 1912, the twenty-eight-year-old was awanna, and Western Railroad, crafting the blue- vice president of the Braden Copper Company in prints for at least a dozen railroad stations in New New York City. He was described by the New York York and New Jersey. In 1912, he embarked on a Times as “having a gentle and pleasing personality, grand excursion to Egypt, Turkey, and Europe to as well as a manly, straightforward manner.” He study architectural technique. During the trip, his held ticket number 17604. design for the Nicholson Bridge—the world’s longest On the final evening of Titanic’s brief voyage, the concrete span, located north of Scranton, Pennsyl- Meyers met a famous English dress designer named vania—was accepted. But the letter didn’t reach Lon- Lucy Duff-Gordon in a shipboard lounge. She had don until after Botsford set off to travel home to brought a then-popular “confessions book” with her Orange, New Jersey. He paid thirteen pounds for the and convinced Edgar to fill in his “likes” and privilege of boarding Titanic as a second-class pas- “abominations.” When it came time to fill in his senger, ticket number 237670. “madnesses,” he laughed and wrote simply, “I have Norman Chambers 1905, holding ticket number only one—to live.” A couple of hours later, having 113806, was seventeen days short of his twenty- failed to heed ice warnings from other ships, Titanic eighth birthday when he boarded Titanic at sailed at top speed into an ice field. At 11:40 p.m., Southampton. Bespectacled, he looked older than his it struck an iceberg, which made a 300-foot-long years. Although he was a mechanical engineer, one gash in the hull. might have guessed he was a schoolmaster. Indeed, Chambers was known for his studiousness; at his New Jersey prep school, he once wrote a letter to the orman Chambers had been headmaster complaining about a teacher who’d in bed at the time of the col- failed to provide satisfactory instruction on the lision, noticing no great works of Cicero. But he liked a good smoke, and shock. The loudest noise, spent a good deal of time in the smoking room he later testified in front of aboard Titanic. He may have even slept there at least a U.S. Senate subcommit- once, although he and his Ithaca-born wife, Bertha, tee, came from “jangling chains whipping along were comfortably settled as first-class passengers in Nthe side of the ship.” It passed quickly, and he 36 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 34-39CAMma12titanic_CAMma08 2/8/12 2:49 PM Page 37

assumed something had gone wrong with the Captain Edward Smith ordering officers to prepare engines on the starboard side. But Bertha insisted to lower the lifeboats. The ship was equipped with that he investigate, so he put on an overcoat and only enough lifeboats—twenty in all—to hold half strolled up to the A deck. He noticed an unusual of the passengers. coldness in the air, but he was unable to see any- When Tucker and his companions arrived at the thing as he looked over the side. He returned to boat deck, they were told only that “the Captain their stateroom. wants to lighten the boat while repairs are being Minutes later, he and Bertha noticed that the made.” Margaret Hays (carrying her tiny Pomeran- ship was significantly listing to starboard. Chambers ian, one of only three dogs saved) stepped into the made his way to the mail-sorting room, where he boat along with her two trav- 1905 SENIOR CLASS BOOK found a couple of clerks wet to their knees. They eling companions. Tucker later had just come up from below, bringing their regis- claimed that he hesitated, tered mail bags. The door in the bulkhead on the explaining, “When the boat next deck down was open, and Chambers could see was about fifteen feet below directly into the trunk room. It was filled with water the rail, my friends called to to within a couple of feet of the deck above. me to come along, and with Still, there was no sense of urgency. Chambers one or two other men I slid and his wife joked about their baggage being soaked. down the ropes.” We’ll be As they headed down an alleyway toward their back on board for breakfast, stateroom, a steward came by and told them they he thought. could go back to bed. “In this I agreed with him, Meanwhile, lifeboat num- personally,” Chambers later admitted. But Bertha ber five, the second starboard lingered in the passageway and soon came rushing boat launched, was already back, telling her husband that another passenger had swung out level with the deck informed her that the call had been given out for when Bertha Chambers an - lifebelts. Chambers verified this with a room stew- nounced she was getting on. ard and packed the pockets of his overcoat with She climbed in, calling her hus- some necessities. band to join her. “As I knew What possessions does one choose in such a sit- she would get out again had I not come, I finally Norman uation? Titanic historians love such minutiae, believ- jumped into the boat,” he later testified, “although Chambers ing it reveals much about the people involved. Adolf I did not consider it, from the looks of things, sage 1905 Dyker handed his wife a satchel containing two dia- to put very many more people in that boat.” Alas, mond rings, two gold watches, a sapphire necklace, the lifeboat was filled only to two-thirds capacity, its and 200 Swedish crowns. stuffed passengers reflecting the diversity of the ship’s cargo. his jacket pockets with books. Stewart Collett car- There was a couple from England, another from ried his Bible. grabbed her musi- Switzerland, two East Asian stowaways, and the cal toy pig. And Norman Chambers? A pocket com- French maitre d’ of Titanic’s à la carte restaurant. pass and an automatic pistol, along with his flask Chambers was sitting next to a Davis Cup tennis and pipe. player named ; months later, the two men As the couple moved upward through the ship, they passed people who, recalled Chambers, “did not appear to be particularly frightened.” They made Norman Chambers had their way to the boat deck, arriving on the port side but then crossing over to starboard. “Owing to the been in bed at the time of list being to the starboard,” Chambers explained, “I assumed that the boats which were lowered on the the collision. The loudest starboard side would be sure to clear the ship, while those on the port side might have some difficulty.” noise, he later testified, While this was not the case, the notion likely saved his life. The crew loading lifeboats on the port side came from ‘jangling chains refused to allow men on board. Steam was pouring from a single pipe on the whipping along the side of starboard side of the forward funnel, creating such a noise that it was possible to communicate on the the ship.’ boat deck only by shouting. Chambers gave his wife a drink from his flask, and they walked as far for- ward as possible until they reached the last forward realized they’d attended prep school together. Their starboard group of lifeboats. lifeboat launched at 12:55 a.m., some seventy-five By then, Gilbert Tucker was already sitting in minutes after Titanic struck the iceberg. lifeboat number seven, the first boat launched from At almost the exact same time, the first lifeboat the starboard side—less than half-filled to capacity. was being launched from the port side—where no Tucker and the three women he was escorting had men were being allowed to board unless they were been told by a steward that, yes, they had hit an ice- assigned crewmen. Edgar and Leila Meyer stood berg. 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The ship’s stern rose high in the air. The boilers exploded. The boat begin to splinter into two halves. And then the survivors in the lifeboats heard the anguished cries of hundreds.

WWW.TITANICUNIVERSE.COM/TITANIC-NEWSPAPER-ARTICLES get Edgar to come into the lifeboat with me and pleaded to be allowed to stay behind and wait until he could leave,” she later explained. But after Edgar reminded her of their one-year-old daughter back home, Leila climbed into lifeboat number six—the boat featured in ’s 1997 film, the one that the heroine was supposed to board before she ran back to find her beloved. The boat launched with only twenty-three peo- ple on board, despite a capacity of sixty-five. Among the passengers were the lookout who had first spot- ted the fateful iceberg and quartermaster , who had been manning the wheel at the moment of impact. As the lifeboat floated among cakes of ice, Hichens clashed repeatedly with another passenger, the “unsinkable” Molly Brown, about moving toward the ship to pick up survivors. Brown eventually prevailed, but too late. “Only a short time did I see my husband standing beside the rail and assisting other women into boats in which he might have been saved,” Leila Meyer recalled. Then she just sat there and “watched as the Titanic sank.” For a time, the ship looked almost serene in the night, illuminated from stem to stern. But then the lights began to flicker and disappear. “I kept my eyes on the liner and could see six rows of portholes,” recalled Lily Potter, one of three women escorted by Gilbert Tucker in lifeboat number seven. “I looked again and there were five rows, then only four, and then I knew she was going down.” The ship’s stern rose high in the air. The boilers exploded. The boat began to splinter into two halves. And then the sur- vivors in the lifeboats, barely a half-mile away, heard the anguished cries of hundreds—clinging to the ship and then, when it disappeared, flailing in the frigid Atlantic. “The horror of those sights, those sounds,” Gilbert Tucker reflected, “is something never to be forgotten.” And then slowly, terrifyingly, the cries ceased. Only the sound of the sea remained.

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Edgar Meyer 1905 ack in Elmira, Hull Botsford’s parents hadn’t expected him to return so early from Europe. Although he was listed among the missing, a headline in the April 23 edition of the Newark Evening News Bread “CLINGING TO HOPE SON DIDN’T SAIL ON TITANIC.” There is no record of Botsford’s last 38 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 34-39CAMma12titanic_CAMma08 2/8/12 2:49 PM Page 39

hours, but he was among the more than 1,500 who perished, and the more than 1,200 whose bodies were never recovered. Botsford’s younger sister, Talitha, only eleven at the time of his death, became an artist, poet, and musician (studying violin at Ithaca Conservatory of Music) who would live to 100. She is buried beneath a double mon- ument—for herself and her brother. In her last days, she would come to know a man named John Pulos, an ama- teur Titanic historian who has planned a two-day cen- tennial Titanic festival for April in Watkins Glen. Talitha gave Pulos the last of her brother’s things that she’d kept—some postcards he had sent from Europe, archi- tectural drawings, a photo Botsford had taken of his fam- ily in front of Goldwin Smith Hall. Tabitha told Pulos that her father was so devastated by the loss of his son that the family was never allowed to talk about it. She was certain, though, that her brother would never have taken a seat in a lifeboat when others could have been saved—a belief that was echoed in a eulogy given by his friend A. G. Hallock, BArch 1911. “He left a record of modesty and unselfishness which led his friends at the very first to give up hope that he might have been res- cued,” said Hallock. “He would have thought of first the women and children and then of those having greater responsibilities than he.” Aboard the RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the survivors on Titanic’s lifeboats, a woman approached Leila Meyer and told her that her husband had done just that. The woman, a passenger on the last lifeboat launched, said that Edgar Meyer behaved “like a gallant gentleman and a hero.” Meyer, two other pas- sengers, and some crewmen had helped the last evacuees into the boat and lowered it over the side, the ship already low in the water. As the lifeboat drew away, they began making their way toward the stern with their lifebelts on. It was the last anyone saw of Edgar Meyer. Two weeks later, Leila’s brother was married in a small, quiet ceremony. By 1915, when her first husband’s estate was settled (she inherited more than $500,000), Leila was remarried and living on Park Avenue. Meyer’s parents, meanwhile, donated $10,000 to Cornell for endowment of the Edgar J. Meyer Fellowship in Engi- neering Research, which acting Cornell president T. F. PROVIDED Crane described as an appropriate way of preserving “the memory of such a fine life and noble death.” The two Cornellian survivors went on to long lives. Gilbert Tucker moved to a forty-acre estate outside Albany a year after the disaster—the same year that the woman who drew him to Titanic, Margaret Hays, mar- ried a physician. Tucker was married in 1922 and went on to publish several books touting Georgist philoso- phy, emerging as a vehement anti-socialist. He died at eighty-seven, living out his last days on California’s Monterey Peninsula, along the Pacific Ocean. Life lost: An obituary for William Hull Norman Chambers lived to eighty-one. He and Botsford, SpArch 1909, and a letter Bertha had no children, nieces, or nephews. But later in he wrote about his trip life, after Bertha passed away and Norman was remar- ried to a divorcée, he became a stepfather and step- grandfather. Known for appreciating life’s simple pleas- ures, he died of a stroke while vacationing in Portugal with his second wife. Later, his stepdaughter would tell a Titanic historian about his generosity and kindness. Many of the CAM stories written by contributing “Like the ripples from a stone thrown in the water,” editor Brad Herzog ’90 through the years can be she said, “so his goodness continues to spread.” c found at www.bradherzog.com. March | April 2012 39 40-43CAMma12danfung_CAMma08 2/8/12 2:53 PM Page 40

Documentarian Danfung Dennis ’04, BS Ag ’05, explores the toll of war, on and off the battlefield Home Front By Beth Saulnier Photographs by Danfung Dennis

hotojournalist Danfung Dennis ’04, BS Ag ’05, was 7,000 miles from his native Ithaca—caught in a downpour while walking Pthe streets of Beijing—when he realized that his destiny lay somewhere just as far from home, but infinitely more dangerous. “I had been mulling it over for a long time—those esoteric questions of, ‘What is my purpose? Can I con- tribute? Is it worth the risk?’” he recalls. “I took shelter underneath this little market stall, man ran at Dennis with a broken shovel while another pinned his arms behind his back. He managed to break free—and ran and decided that I was going to go to Afghani - for his life. “Mobs are unpredictable and irrational, and their stan to cover the war.” anger is contagious,” Dennis observes. “I heard this roar and trembling of people behind me. I raced through the streets of With no contacts beyond the e-mail addresses of a few photo Kabul without knowing where I was going.” Suddenly, a car editors, Dennis booked a one-way ticket to Kabul in May 2006. pulled out of an alleyway; the driver opened the door, Dennis “I brought my cameras and my backpack,” he says. “I had the jumped in, and his impromptu rescuer spirited him to a radio name of a hotel where I was going to stay, but that was about station, where he hid in a back room. “At the end of the day I it.” Dennis had scarcely landed in Kabul when he saw a BBC went back to my hotel,” he says. “There were cars burning in report of violent rioting over the deaths of five Afghanis killed the streets and people had been killed, a hundred injured. I sent in the crash of an American military truck. He hired a taxi to my pictures to New York and they were published in the Times. take him to the site of the riots, where he joined a band of angry So that was my big break.” youths. “If I’d been more experienced, I would have left at that Thus began Dennis’s career as a war photographer—a call- point,” he notes, “but I didn’t know any better.” ing that would take him not only to the battlefields of The crowd gathered around a mural of President Hamid Afghanistan and Iraq, but to the rural American South and to Karzai, chanting “Death to America!” and “Death to Karzai!” the rarefied heights of Park City, Utah. In addition to capturing Then their anger turned on the only foreigner in their midst; a images that have appeared in such publications as the Times, 40 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 40-43CAMma12danfung_CAMma08 2/8/12 2:53 PM Page 41

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Newsweek, USA Today, the International Herald Tribune, and Rolling Stone, Dennis has made a documentary, Hell and Back Again, that won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Fes- tival and was nominated for an Academy Award. The film—which had theatrical releases in about twenty cities—is available on DVD and iTunes, among other media, and will be broadcast by PBS on Memorial Day. It opens with the troop surge that was aimed to turn the tide of the Afghan war in the summer of 2009: 4,000 Marines were dropped into an

Fog of war: U.S. Army soldiers (above) from Fort Hood, Texas, rest during an operation in Baqubah, Iraq, in July 2007. Right: Danfung Dennis shoots Hell and Back Againwhile embedded with American troops in Afghanistan in summer 2009.

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Under fire: Dennis explored violence against migrant workers in South Africa, such as this attack near Johannesburg in 2008. Below: Wounded Sergeant Nathan Harris and his wife in Hell and Back Again.

insurgent stronghold in the largest helicopter-borne assault since tional leader,” Dennis says. “I followed him as he pushed further Vietnam. Toting a compact, custom-built recording system, Den- into this stronghold, and got to know him quite well. We slept nis was embedded with Echo Company of the U.S. Marine in the same dust and went out on the same combat missions.” Corps’s second battalion. “I remember getting a cryptic e-mail: Harris would go on to become the focus of Dennis’s film—not ‘You need to be in Kandahar by midnight on this day,’ ” Dennis just for his battlefield courage, but for what he faced when he says. “Echo Company was going the furthest south of the entire got home. Days before his third tour was to end, the twenty-five- battalion; they were going to seize a key objective. Shortly after year-old Marine had been severely injured. He’d nearly bled to landing we moved into a village, the Marines were surrounded death after a bullet shattered his hip and thigh, undergoing mul- by insurgents, and a heavy fight ensued. After that first day, one tiple surgeries before being sent home to recuperate. “He was in Marine was dead and a dozen had collapsed from exhaustion. extreme pain and distress, and was feeling very guilty for having Nearly all of us had run out of water. In all my years of work- left his men behind, yet he invited me to his hometown—Yad- ing there, it was one of the most dire situations I’d been in.” kinville, North Carolina,” Dennis recalls. “He introduced me to That’s when Dennis met Sergeant Nathan Harris—a stranger his wife, Ashley, and his friends and family, as ‘this guy who was who offered to share his water. “I could tell he was an excep- over there with me.’ I was accepted into this rural Baptist com- munity, and I essentially lived with Nathan and Ashley during his recovery—and more importantly, his psychological transition back into a community that had very little understanding of what he had been through. It became a psychological portrait of what it means to come home.” In battle, Harris had been a leader of men; now he was dis- abled, dependent on pain medication, forced to rely on his high school sweetheart for basics like driving and dressing, and pro- foundly disoriented by an America that seemed obsessed with shopping but utterly unaware of what its troops were enduring abroad. “When you’re over there, you just want to go home; then when you go home, you just want to go back,” Dennis says. “I realized that the experience of war isn’t simply what happens in battle. It’s as much about reintegration into society. After you’ve been exposed to that type of trauma and been a warrior, you’re a different breed.” In the film, Dennis cuts back and forth between Nathan’s expe- 42 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 40-43CAMma12danfung_CAMma08 2/8/12 2:53 PM Page 43

riences in Afghanistan and in North Car- olina—sometimes blurring the boundary between the two, as when the soundtrack of war obliterates the chatter of a fast- food drive-thru that has Harris doubled over with barely controlled fury. “Over there, what they were doing had purpose, had meaning,” Dennis observes. “But when they get back, everything seems almost mundane, trivial, and it’s hard to reconcile the two. For that reason, many do go back; it’s a simpler life over there. The world of mortgages and relationships can be overwhelming. I wanted to weave those two worlds together to show that they’re just one experience—that the fighting doesn’t stop when these men return home.” And though Dennis carried a camera instead of a rifle, he admits that he’s struggled with some of the same adjust- ment issues. “When I’m working there, everything seems critically important because people’s lives are Past and present: In China, Dennis chronicled the on the line,” he says. “It was almost more disturbing when I got nation’s rapid urbanization, including this image of home and saw the complete indifference to the war. It was easy Beijing workers waiting for a bus in 2006. for people to think of it as a faraway abstraction that didn’t affect their daily lives.” The film has garnered accolades from critics and audiences alike. As of January, it had a rare “100 percent fresh” rating on Dennis has chronicled famine in Ethiopia, post-election unrest in the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes; the Los Ange- Kenya, xenophobic violence in South Africa, and the treatment les Times called it “a hauntingly bifurcated work” and “a full- of detainees in Iraq. He has also shot more quotidian images of circle portrait of rare psychological immediacy and even rarer life in Afghanistan and landscapes from around the world. But aesthetic command.” In October, Dennis returned to campus for his war photography has gained the most notice—inspiring him a packed screening at Cornell Cinema. “Danfung was a partic- to ponder the nature of such imagery and how viewers respond ularly inspiring guest, given all that he’s accomplished in such a to it. “There’s this representation of war that is romantic, glori- short time,” says cinema director Mary Fessenden. “He’s clearly fied, and deeply ingrained in our society,” says Dennis. “When I very disciplined and dedicated to the idea of making a difference went to war for the first time as a young man, I was making with the work he does. You can see this in Hell and Back Again, images to match that version. I soon realized what I had was much which sets itself apart from other war-related documentaries with more brutal, much darker—and yet photo editors wouldn’t its amazing cinematography and for not being overtly political.” publish them. That representation of war was inappropriate for consumption.” Acceptable images, he says, include “a silhouette of a soldier ennis was born in Ithaca, the child of walking with the sun behind him, or a round being dropped into Cornellians who’d stayed on the Hill for a mortar tube in a cloud of dust.” And an example of something graduate studies. (His mother, Minfong Ho deemed unpalatable? “In Baqubah, Iraq, an American patrol ’73, MFA ’82, is a writer who was born in walked into a village and there was a decapitated head sitting on Singapore; his father, John Dennis ’72, PhD a market table with a note saying, ‘This is what happens if you ’87, is a consultant in international development.) His father’s work with the Americans,’ ” Dennis says. “The American sol- D diers took the head and posed with it; these were young kids, career took the family abroad—two years in Laos, another two in Switzerland—and there were extended visits to his mother’s and they didn’t know how to respond to it except in a coy, play- home country. The family settled in Ithaca for good when ful way. So I had these images of Americans playing with a Dennis was thirteen—the same year his father bought him his decapitated head. Newsweek had the opportunity to publish first camera—and he graduated from Ithaca High School before them, and they passed; they said it was too incendiary. But these matriculating in CALS, where he majored in applied economics are the types of images that represent the absurdity, the brutal- and management. “I was always interested in photography, but ity of war. It’s real; it happens. But we don’t see them.” it was more of a hobby,” says Dennis. “Then I got involved in It was frustration with such constraints, Dennis says, that some political activist groups on campus, and my images start- inspired him to make the leap into filmmaking. Now, he’s ed reflecting my interests. I took a class in documentary pho- focusing on a start-up he founded to market the technology he tography, and I vividly remember the first time I opened a book developed for Hell and Back Again and has no set plans to called Inferno by [eminent war photographer] James return to war. As for the images from Baqubah—they can be Nachtwey. The images just seared into my mind.” viewed on his website, danfungdennis.com. And ultimately, he In addition to his post-graduation work in Beijing—where, notes, they did get published: Rolling Stone ran them in a among other things, he explored China’s rapid urbanization— double-page spread. c March | April 2012 43 44-49CAMma12prison_CAMma08 2/8/12 2:54 PM Page 44

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Writing Dangerously By Edward Hower

The Cornell Prison Education Program provides sanctuary behind bars

icture a box of dark, stag- When at last you reach the classroom area indoors, the nant air five stories high empty prison yard’s chill fades from your bones. The radiators hiss softly, and these fogged windows hide all views of walls and with walls of stone and bars; you could be in a school in a poor neighborhood in the windows glowing dimly like pillars of ice. The Fifties, with its exhausted blackboards and porcelain water foun- tains in the corridors. Warmth radiates from the students. They Pfloor is puddled pavement; the lid is the frozen file in with grins on their faces, shaking your hand and joking— night sky that presses down overhead, making but politely, politely—with your beautiful nineteen-year-old you feel very small as you walk the hundred or teaching assistant, for whom they’ve spent the week rehearsing their greetings. She’s the only civilian woman some of the men so yards from one end to the other. Behind the have spoken to in years, and you’re the first teacher many have heavy glass you glimpse the guts of the place: known whom they didn’t hate for making them feel stupid and ashamed. the cellblocks with their rows of barred cages that seem to stretch into infinity. Muffled Welcome to Auburn Correctional Facility, the nation’s oldest shouts from behind the windows seem aimed operating prison, built in 1816, and now visited on weekdays by at you—in jagged tones of longing, hilarity, volunteer teachers from Cornell. I’ve been giving fiction- and per- and who-knows-what anguish. Hundreds of sonal essay-writing classes here for three years. Auburn, a max- imum security institution, has broken my heart repeatedly, but men you can’t see are in there, watching your it’s also given me the most exhilarating teaching experiences I’ve every step. had anywhere.

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The students are the brightest of the prison’s 1,700 inmates; all of them have high-school diplo- mas or GEDs and have spent a great many hours with books as their favorite companions. Some have read more Russian classics than I have; they’ve inhaled Shakespeare, Plato, Charlotte Brontë, as well as tons of paperback Westerns, crime thrillers, and plenty of porn. Latino, Indian, black, white, young and old, they’re wildly eclectic in their interests and constantly hungry for activities that challenge their minds. No wonder I like them. Aside from the chaotic lives they’ve led and the brutal crimes most of them have committed, they’re a lot like me and my writer friends. I’ve learned what their offenses were by going to the Department of Correction’s website and Google News, but soon I’m so busy I nearly forget their backgrounds. Occasionally, I’ll find myself marveling at a student’s deep sensitivity and suddenly remember that he’ll be making license plates in here forever because he emptied his pistol into a 7-Eleven clerk during a robbery. That’s when I feel awful—what a horrific waste of lives, both my student’s and the clerk’s! And for what? Why? It drives me crazy. Then I get back to work on the man’s writing project. These questions are much more burning for my students than for me. Some grapple with them in their essays and stories, but indirectly and cautiously. I usually don’t encourage them to write about their criminal activities, which are depressing for them to dwell on. I give them class exer- cises that challenge them to examine the parts of their lives that have given them some insights, some pride, maybe even some laughs. Like getting a crush on a neighborhood girl, dealing with bul- lies, handling a family member’s problems. The stories I get at the prison aren’t much like the ones I see in other classes. One student’s first love became a teenage prostitute, a bully was a rival gang member who left him for dead with stab wounds, and one family problem resulted in a mother’s death from a heroin overdose. The students know, though, that spilling their pain onto paper isn’t enough. They want to use their new writing skills to transform their material—to create essays and stories that allow them to find some mean- ing and dignity in their lives.

After reading James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues,” a story about a man leaving his parents’ fam- ily to get off drugs and become a musician, I asked my students to write a letter that a troubled younger brother might mail to an older one about his struggles. A few students wrote angry, defi- ant letters justifying their reckless adventures. Most wrote more introspective ones, explaining how bad breaks and worse judgment had led them astray; they hoped that they could still be valued as human beings. When the men read aloud, I heard some voices crack—in a place where, normally, showing emo- tion can brand you as a pussy and put you in grave danger for your life. But my classroom wasn’t Edward Hower ’63 a normal place in the prison, as my students often told me. Here they could show feelings without being scared or ashamed; they trusted me and their fellow students to keep it a safe place for them. Though most of them are black or Latino—as are about 90 percent of Auburn’s inmates—members of different groups were unusu- ally supportive of each other, too. The students wanted to dig into the meanings of their letter-writing exercise. After reading his paper full of bad-ass bravado, a man called Harry listened to the critical discussion he’d inspired and suddenly asked, “Hey, do you think the crim- inal lifestyle—all the danger and excitement—is as addicting as the heroin the brother uses in Baldwin’s story?” Many of the students nodded gravely at him. Now he understood “Sonny’s Blues” in new ways, and so did I. It wasn’t a grim realization; the jolt we all got from having that insight was powerful, and empow- ering. Sonny could keep working at playing the piano, despite carrying the burden of his past troubles, and we could find the courage to keep writing stories ourselves. I gave the men an exercise in which they were to describe a toy they’d treas- ured as a child and then to use it as the object of a conflict in a made-up story. Sev- eral wrote about superhero action figures who, in their daydreams, had helped them vanquish childhood enemies and rescue girlfriends in distress. “Does writing give you super powers?” I asked. “Hell, yes—that’s why I’m taking this class!” one stu- dent answered. And so it does, I’m convinced; the most powerless people in the world get to fly through space (and through prison gates), right the wrongs done to them (or atone for the ones they’ve done), and experience the elation that comes from successfully imagining a character into life on the page. Inevitably, one guy wrote about a teddy bear. I told the class that I’d assigned PHYLLIS ROSE this exercise in workshops in several states and overseas, and in every single one somebody had written about a stuffed bear. I was just marveling out loud, but one student asked me if I was trying to show them that they were part of an international community of writers. I hadn’t thought of this, but of course it was true—they had joined this community, and I could tell that the stone walls that surrounded them had just gotten a little bit more porous. I invited guest writers to come to the class and talk about their work. Jeanne Mackin read the 46 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 44-49CAMma12prison_CAMma08 2/8/12 2:54 PM Page 47

Books Behind Bars Cornell program educates inmates— and guards

Edward Hower is one of more than forty Cornell professors, grad students, and undergrads who teach inmates through the Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP), an initiative of the Office of Land Grant Affairs. This year, eighty-five Auburn inmates—sixty of whom are full-time students working toward an associate’s degree at Cayuga Community College—are enrolled in Cornell-run classes. Courses are also offered to forty students at Cayuga Correctional Facil- ity, a medium-security facility with about 1,100 inmates ISTOCK.COM in Moravia, New York. Since the program began in 1995 with four courses, CPEP has expanded to offer thirteen classes each year in such subjects as biology, political science, and the- ater; the most popular include genetics, physics, and a class on the politics of hip-hop music. A literary journal called Writer’s Block allows Auburn inmates to publish the poetry, stories, and creative nonfiction they create in class. Additionally, CPEP is one of just two programs in the U.S. to offer classes to corrections staff; each semes- ter, about ten Auburn officers enroll in a Cornell course held offsite at Cayuga Community College. “These classes came about as an answer to criticism within the security ranks,” says CPEP executive director Jim Schechter. “The corrections staff don’t see higher education institutions providing them or their children with economic or educational opportunities—so they couldn’t understand why convicted felons would be accorded that right.” A number of prominent professors and administrators, including President David Skorton, have spoken at CPEP’s monthly lecture series. Some Cornell faculty, staff, and students have led extracurricular activities at the prison, including a theater workshop run by emeritus pro- fessors and a crocheting group led by molecular biology professor Robin Davisson. Because most prisoners remain in the program for at least several years, only ten to twenty new inmates are allowed to enroll each fall. CPEP screens participants, all of whom have a high school diploma or a GED, with an entrance exam each spring. Participation is a privilege; bad behavior can mean suspension or expulsion from the program. “Every spring 100 to 125 men sign up for the exam,” Schechter says. “Some actually transfer from other facilities around the state to sit for the test in the hope that they can get into the program.” — Amanda First ’12 44-49CAMma12prison_CAMma08 2/8/12 2:54 PM Page 48

students a ghost story, then asked them to write about strange happenings that they’d heard about. Some reported on spirits that had been spotted in cells near the storage room where “Old Sparky”— the first electric chair used in the U.S., in 1890—was reputed to be kept. One student named Jack wrote about visiting a conjure woman in the backwoods of Georgia where he’d grown up. This led to a discussion of how folklore can inspire new stories; the wonder old tales evoke is similar to the way people still feel when reading good fiction. Novelist and English professor Helena Viramontes discussed her first-person story about a mother’s anguish at holding her dying baby. A somber subject, and several students offered her com- miseration. “No, no,” she said, “this didn’t happen to me! I just got the idea from a photo I saw in a magazine.” The students were amazed and asked if all writers could put themselves in the place of anyone they saw. “Pretty much,” she said. “But I couldn’t have written about that character if something in the woman’s picture hadn’t woken up my compassion—the way it did you guys when you read it.” The men liked the idea of becoming another person for a while—something every writer enjoys doing. The following week, I brought in copies of photos from Robert Frank’s book The Americans. Each student picked one that interested him to write about. A picture of a man staring out at the Mississippi River captivated Benny, a lifer who’d spent time in the South as a boy. He read aloud from his narrative about an old man who believes his life is ruined when his home is destroyed in a flood until he comes upon a woman and her child, whom he’s able to pull to higher ground. This was one of many redemption-themed essays the assignment inspired. “Great photo,” the author said. Poet, essayist, and professor Kenneth McClane ’73, MFA ’76, dis- cussed his article about Martin Luther King Jr., whom he’d met as a child The men liked with his father, a prominent Harlem doctor. The students, who’d been reading Barack Obama’s memoir, were enthralled by the idea of meeting the idea of such an important historical figure. “You guys have known people who were important to you, too—in your families, your neighborhoods,” Ken becoming said. “Think about it.” They did, and came up with essays about adults who’d had powerful influences on them as kids. Some of these people another person had been positive role models, but others had been drug dealers and for a while— gangsters, whom a few of them still looked up to. Some said that these people had betrayed them, and now they hoped they’d do better for their something every own kids. I hoped so, too, but at the same time I realized that many would never get a chance to influence their children at all; their families writer enjoys had stopped visiting them years ago. Still, I could see that all the men were beginning to view themselves as role models for other prisoners. doing. Several reported that, as students, they were getting more respect from their block-mates.

I assigned the class a chapter from The Language of Clothes, a book written by another visiting author—my wife, Alison Lurie, an emerita English professor. In it, she explored messages about inner qualities that people communicate, con- sciously or unconsciously, by the outfits they wear. She brought in pictures for the students to write about. Later, she said she’d heard that even people who have to wear uniforms, like nurses or sol- diers or prisoners, find ways to make themselves look distinctive by creating subtle alterations in their clothing. “Is that true here?” she asked. I’d hardly noticed the students’ baggy “forest green” uniforms—drawstring pants, work shirts, hooded sweatshirts—since the first class. But now I did, as they wrote about the ways some men tried to look laid-back by leaving their sleeves loose, while prisoner leaders rolled up their sleeves to show they were ready to defend turf. Gay prisoners wore their pants higher than gang members, who wore them far down on the hips, despite a poster on the corridor walls outlawing this fashion. Physical descriptions of characters in the students’ stories improved dramatically after Alison’s visit. I gave the men a chapter from one of my novels to read; in it, an old man in a mental hospital did such credible impressions of a preacher that the other patients, and even the staff, came to lis- ten to his sermons. “Was he just crazy, or was he on to something?” I asked. As they debated this, I heard rhythmic drumming from a room up the hall where Native American prisoners were hav- ing a service with their visiting chaplain. In a moment of synchronicity, a student recalled a character in a Sherman Alexie story I’d assigned—a misfit whom other members of his Indian tribe considered both a madman and a wise prophet. Many students had known neighborhood eccentrics, whose behavior they wrote about with fresh insights. “Hey, look—she’s at it again!” a student named Jackson said, pointing through the window to a room across the hall where Clarice, the official Pagan chaplain of the Auburn Correctional Facil- ity, was sweeping the air with her broom and wafting the scent of burning sage toward our class- room. The men liked her, a woman with waist-length gray hair who wore “witch shoes” and dresses 48 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 44-49CAMma12prison_CAMma08 2/8/12 2:54 PM Page 49

decorated with arcane symbols. They decided that she resembled the Holy Fool in Native Ameri- can and European traditions, and also the conjure women and Santeria priestesses in African-based lore. The students, who often preferred to stick with realistic fiction, let their imaginations roam further into fantasy in their next assignment. James McConkey, another visiting writer and retired English professor, discussed one of his autobiographical stories about spending parts of his youth in Arkansas and rural Ohio. His shame at being poor and homeless, he said, had felt like a “psy- chological prison” to him. One student said that learning to deal ‘The more of your with this kind of mental prison was the only way to survive inside a physical one; creative writing was the best way he’d found of programs we have,’ doing it. Friends have asked me what I think the point of teaching the superintendent prisoners is; that man’s insight is part of my answer. Another part comes from John Crutchfield, my only student so far to told me, ‘the less publish his work; a chapter of his memoir-in-progress recently these guys are appeared in Epoch, a literary journal published at Cornell. “The training and criticism I got in class shaped a genuine confidence going to be using I’d never had before,” he wrote. “Writing helped me build a new identity.” their minds to get in trouble on the Auburn’s superintendent, Harold Graham, one of his field’s blocks.’ more enlightened administrators, welcomes educational projects like Cornell’s, which is funded by a grant the from Sunshine Lady Foundation, a project of Doris Buffett, the sister of War- ren Buffett. “The more of your programs we have,” the super- intendent told me, “the less these guys are going to be using their minds to get in trouble on the blocks. The place will be a lot safer for everybody.” I see his point and agree with it—but I hope we can do more than tranquilize our students. Helena Viramontes, who has also taught prison courses, has told me she hopes to “give a voice to the silenced people” in her class. Having written about Mexican Americans in the barrios of East Los Angeles, she feels as if she’s going home, in a sense, to help bring out messages that not only need to be spoken but to be heard. Jim Schechter, the Cornell Prison Education Program’s director, believes that prison classes help just-released prisoners to navigate their difficult re-entries into society. Professor Pete Wetherbee, who founded the program in the early Nineties along with Paul Cody, MFA ’87 (a former CAM associate editor), and Professor Paul Sawyer, told me that inmates who won’t be released soon find in the courses sanctuaries where they can keep their sanity. One of my students said simply, “Now I know what it means to think outside the box.”

A few men still give me gangbanger melodramas, full of casual shootings and rough sexual con- quests. I have to tell them that, frankly, I don’t much like these stories. Action-adventure and porn are very limited genres; what interests me—and most of the students, too, once they catch on—is exploring the emotions surrounding conflicts and sexuality, feelings everyone faces. Most prisoners have hardened themselves against troubling emotions, and still need to be hard outside the class- room to survive. But my students are as sick of living in a vicious, unfeeling culture as I am of read- ing about it. And most of them gradually become eager to explore, in their writing, the inner lives of lawbreakers and their victims. John Crutchfield’s essay wasn’t engaging because of the details about drug addiction and burglaries that appeared in its early drafts, but because of the ways he learned, in later drafts, to understand the effects his illegal activities had on the relationship he was trying to sustain with his girlfriend, and the pain he felt when it ended in a prison visiting room. His story was hell to write, he told me, but he’d seldom accomplished anything that made him feel so good in the end. When I watch my normally shut-down students enjoy becoming writers ...well, I have to admit that it’s a terrific high for me. Sharing the trials of creating stories with men who are discovering what a liberating process it can be encourages me to keep at my own writing, too. When I first started coming to the prison, a student who’d been working on his autobiography for years told me that the reason he was serving a life sentence was that he’d killed another pris- oner who’d tried to steal his typewriter. A true story? Doesn’t matter—it illustrates a commitment to writing I’ve never found anywhere else. c

Edward Hower ’63 has published seven novels and two books of stories. His work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, Smithsonian, American Scholar, and elsewhere. March | April 2012 49 50-50CAMma12cibclass_050CAMma12CIBclass 2/8/12 2:56 PM Page 50

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50 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 51-53CAMma12alma_Alma ND2011 2/8/12 2:57 PM Page 51 almaNEWSLETTER OF THE CORNELL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION matters www.alumni.cornell.edu Flying High at the Air Force Marathon

ornell’s regional clubs have a long history of running com- C munity events—but when it comes to the Cornell Club of Southwest Ohio, the emphasis is on the word “run- ning.” For the past several years, the club has been supporting the Air Force Marathon through a unique partnership with Cornell ROTC. Each year, members of the Cornell ROTC program drive from Ithaca to Dayton, Ohio, to participate. The stu- dents run in support of the Fisher House Foundation, which raises mon- ey for military families to live in spe- cial housing near Wright-Patterson Medical Center while soldiers go through rehabilitation. “The visibility of our participation is inspirational to the Cornell community of alums, the ROTC runners, and the community at Born to run: Members of Cornell ROTC run in the Air Force Marathon each year (pictured are participants after the large,” says club board member Lou 2008 race) with the support of the Cornell Club of Southwest Ohio. Ferraro ’65, a military veteran and or- ganizer of the event. Recently, Cornell The club helps students find places from Cincinnati, which has the area’s has competed with ROTC students at to stay and feeds them a pasta dinner larger concentration of alumni,” says the University of Dayton to see which prior to the race; the day of the event, club co-president Becky Baskett ’65. “It’s group could raise more money for alumni from all over southwest Ohio a great way to bring alumni together and Fisher House. come to cheer them on. “Many drive also show support for our students.”

Grads Earn Alumni Honors

ver the past few months, Cor- Award. Inger has served as the Class of Alumni Leadership Conference will ap- nell has honored a number of 1949 vice president since 1999 and pear in Alma Matters in May/June.) O alumni, both for their support was co-chair with Jack for their 50th Also in January, Irene H. S. So ’61 of the University and for their career and 55th Reunions. (In fact, Inger was honored by the Cornell Asian achievements. chaired her class’s first Reunion back Alumni Association during its annual At the annual Cornell Alumni in 1954.) As for Jack, he has been pres- Pan-Asian Banquet. So served as pres- Leadership Conference in Washington, ident of the Class of 1949 since 2004, ident of CAAA from 1995 to 1997 and D.C., in January, Inger Molmen Gilbert having previously served as its treasur- helped steer the organization during its ’49 and Jack Gilbert ’49 were honored er. Both Inger and Jack are members of formative years. A member of the Cor- for their commitment to class pro- the Continuous Reunion Club. (A de- nell University Council, she received a grams with the Bill Vanneman ’31 tailed summary of this year’s Cornell (continued on page 52) March / April 2012 51 51-53CAMma12alma_Alma ND2011 2/8/12 2:57 PM Page 52

Meet the Cornell Alumni Association Board

Judy Prutzman Osgood ’89 Shane Dunn ’07 Position: Director from the Region, Position: Director from the Region, Southwest/Mountain Northeast Location: Reno, Nevada Location: Boston, Massachusetts Profession: Policy analyst for Gov- Profession: Assistant director of ernor Brian Sandoval student engagement, alumni rela- Major: Industrial and Labor tions, and annual giving, MIT Relations Sloan School of Management Major: Communication First Cornell volunteer experi- ence: In the beginning, I was all First Cornell volunteer experi- about the alumni parties. I at- ence: Planning young alumni hap- tended my first immediately fol- py hours in Boston lowing graduation; a group of us drove to New York City for a Tower Club gala at the Waldorf. A year later, I attend- Current alumni activities: Programming chair, Cornell ed a gala in San Francisco to celebrate Cornell’s 125th an- Club of Boston; CAAAN volunteer; Cornell Annual Fund niversary. (I was conflicted about eating the chocolate clock national campaign committee; Reunion co-chair; 2007 tower served for dessert!) My first volunteer activity as an class council alumna was working with CAAAN, which I started three Favorite place on campus: The Cornell Public Service Cen- years after graduation while living in Syracuse. I’ve been do- ter in Barnes Hall. It’s where I spent more time than any- ing it ever since—more than fifteen years. where else, besides the classroom. It was my home away from home and it’s where I was empowered to make a dif- Current alumni activities: CAAAN chair, northern Nevada; ference in the Cornell and local communities. I grew up at 1989 class council the PSC, and it was the focus of my personal development Favorite place on campus: The A. D. White Library in in college. Uris, because it’s so beautiful and peaceful. I haven’t come Favorite professor: Jeff Hancock. He was my adviser and a across any place quite like it. phenomenal teacher (brilliant, funny, engaging, challeng- Favorite professor: James Maas, PhD ’66. His Psych 101 ing). When I decided to transfer to Cornell, he sent me a course was like a show; his ability to teach such a large class letter welcoming me as his advisee. I will never forget that, was impressive. and it shows how teachers can have a lasting impact. More profiles of CAA board members will appear in future issues.

(continued from page 51) Frank H. T. Rhodes Exemplary Alum- Wherever you go, ni Service Award in 2003. In November, several CALS alum- Cornell Alumni Magazine ni were recognized for their achieve- ments, both professionally and for their is there with you. support of the college and of Cornell. Recipients of 2011 CALS Outstanding Alumni Awards were: David Atkinson ’60; Kenneth Pollard ’58; Yongkeun Joh, Website: cornellalumnimagazine.com MS ’78, and Sunny Joh, MS ’77; Thomas Marino ’78; and Laurey Mogil ’76. Andrew Ross Sorkin ’99 received Digital Edition: the Young Alumni Achievement Award. cornellalumnimagazine-digital.com iPad, iPhone, and Android: free apps; links at cornellalumnimagazine.com Digital Archive: ecommons.library.cornell.edu/ handle/1813/3157 And coming soon: a version for the Kindle Fire! Jack Gilbert ’49 and Inger Molmen Gilbert ’49 Alma Matters 52 51-53CAMma12alma_Alma ND2011 2/8/12 2:57 PM Page 53

REPORTS OF OUTGOING ALUMNI-ELECTED TRUSTEES Volunteer Capstone By Ronni Chernoff ’67 have been greatly honored, and a difficult the issues, the Board of to future gen- bit awestruck, to be an alumni- Trustees, led by Peter Meinig ’61, BME erations. The I elected trustee from the College of ’62—and the administration and facul- opportunity Human Ecology. When I was elected ty, led by David Skorton—have met the to contribute to the University Council in 1996, I challenge, overcome the difficulties, and to the evo- had been on campus only a few times kept our amazing alma mater stable lution of my since graduation. Having moved to and steady in its forward movement. college, to Arkansas for my first postdoctoral job, It delights me to meet fellow participate travel to Ithaca was challenging; how- alumni, undergraduate and graduate in the Presi- ever, my first Council meeting was ex- students, young instructors, estab- dent’s Coun- traordinary and had me hooked the lished faculty, and talented adminis- cil of Cornell same way my first visit to campus had trators who strive continuously to Women, to decades earlier. contribute to the present and future lead the Cor- I began my term on the Board of greatness of Cornell as a world-class nell University Council, and to be an Trustees at the same time the stock institution. One of the joys of being alumni-elected trustee is the capstone market crashed in 2008, and my first involved is observing the progression of my volunteer career. I am so grate- meeting was like shock therapy! But of this great university as it continues ful to have had the chance to partici- no matter how rocky the ride or how to grow, reinvent itself, and contribute pate. I thank you for the privilege. An Honor and a Privilege By Elizabeth Altman ’88 hen I started serving as a fabulous people. It is a multinational or- tives, I have trustee, people asked what it ganization, encompassing research and developed an W was like, and I answered that teaching that touch all the great chal- appreciation it was an honor and a privilege. Nearly lenges of our day. for the com- four years later, I feel exactly the same As co-chair of the Alumni Affairs plex gover- way. At every event I learn something Committee for two years, I have nance of the new and meet interesting, engaged peo- gained a deeper understanding of the University ple. Before I joined the board, I thought spirit of our alumni and the range of and the tal- I had a sense of the University—yet at our activities. By participating on the ented staff my first meeting I realized how much I Audit, Academic Affairs, and Student that runs it. had to learn about the breadth and Affairs committees and the task forces Probably not scope of our great institution and its for accreditation and diversity initia- surprisingly, many of the best presen- 2012 Alumni Trustee Elections tations have been by Cornell students, who never cease to amaze me with their talent and insights. ach year, the Committee on Alumni Trustee Nominations, a group My sincere thanks to Karen Rupert of twenty-three alumni leaders who serve four-year terms and rep- Keating ’76 and Martin Tang ’70, my E resent a cross-section of the alumni body, meet throughout the fall trustee mentors, and to all the mem- to determine the candidates whom they feel will best represent alumni bers of the board for being brilliant col- on the Board of Trustees and help the University achieve its goals. This leagues. Cornell is extremely fortunate year, the committee, chaired by Katrina James ’96, has nominated the to have such a dedicated, smart, and following four alumni: collegial group of people serving. I have William McAleer ’73, MBA ’75 seen many leaders in industry and ac- ademia and Chairman Peter Meinig, Robert Ramin ’82, MBA ’85 President David Skorton, and Provost Meredith Rosenberg ’92 Kent Fuchs are absolutely three of the Simon Turner ’83 best. Finally, Vice President Susan Murphy ’73, PhD ’94, deserves special Alumni can vote for their two choices one of two ways: with a mailed thanks for being a great friend and a paper ballot or online. They received an e-mail in December asking which gift to the University. Thank you to method they preferred. Those who chose to vote online were sent an the alumni for electing me to serve in e-mail with a Web link. Voting concludes April 1. this role; I will be forever grateful for the opportunity.

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Class Notes

Retired and checking in with our teams do win during the seasons. The most from Anne Boerke Green and would love to hear class news are George White, recent win, as I was writing this column, was in from all other friends. Marjory Schminck Dalenius 40 BCE ’40, who lives in Wilbraham, basketball over Boston U. Pres. Liz Schlamm Eddy (Providence, RI) plans to stay where she is and MA, with wife Maida Linn; Joan Bardach (New - (NYC) reminds us of the 70th Reunion in June and has kept up her interest in sculpting. town, PA), aretired psychoanalyst; and Moe Kopp, to pay class dues and continue to receive the Bill Webster (Cammack Village, AR) still en- DVM ’40 (Silver Spring, MD), a retired veterinarian alumni magazine. joys traveling and spent Christmas in New who is aiming to reach the age of 100. Barbara Crohurst Howell (Glenview, IL) has Zealand. He’s doing research on his grandfather’s Betty Bishop Williams, who lives in Indi- been getting along without George by keeping up brother, Henry Warren, as he wants to write a anapolis, IN, with husband Roberton, writes, “Life with old and new friends. Golf, tennis, and school military biography based on his three years with at our retirement community is very busy. We have and church activities still interest her, and her re- the 8th Indiana Light Artillery in the Civil War. a group of Cornellians who meet on a regular ba- tirement home is near her family. She visits the Bill has 100 books on the Civil War to assist him. sis. Our new swimming pool and gym keep us mov- Wellness Center and keeps up with her kids. Bar- Best of luck, and I hope your masterpiece wins ing, and a regular program of lectures and music bara hears regularly from Cornell friends they trav- the Pulitzer Prize. (He doesn’t aim low!) A De- keeps our minds active.” Betty Huber Knudson eled with, including Frank and Rosa Rhodes. cember 6 phone call from secretary/treasurer Jim sent news from Elk Grove, CA: “I made an auto- Annette Fox Levitt (NYC) exults over the lack of Kraker, wintering in Florida, was such fun to re- mobile trip from the Baltimore-Washington area to responsibility she has in old age. She enjoys good ceive. We talked about the attack on Pearl Harbor California—great to see the country in early Oc- health, wonderful children, and grands and great- and what we were doing that day. I enjoy hear- tober!” She continues with golf and bowling when grands. Traveling extensively, she has great friends ing from all of you and hope you’ll keep in touch not on the road. Betty Williams and Betty Knud- and a wonderful companion and would love to regularly by sending in your dues and filling out son were classmates at Manhasset High School, as hear from Ruth Naitove Sherman. She lovingly re- the News Form—and calling me. c Carolyn well as at Cornell, and each named the other as calls Prof. Cooper, who was “an inspiration. I have Evans Finneran, 8815 46th St. NW, Gig Harbor, someone they’d like to hear from. If either of you enjoyed a life filled with wonderful literature be- WA 98335; e-mail, Carolynfinn@comcast. net; tel., needs an address for the other, don’t hesitate to cause of him.” Annette has no plans to move. (253) 326-4806. contact the class notes editor at this magazine Ruth Baker Bellows (Walnut Creek, CA) is still (address below) and we will provide it. enamored of her advisor, Prof. John C. Adams. Henry Rose II (Bay Head, NJ; emprosania@ “I’ve been a Shakespeare and Chaucer fan ever This fearless correspondent has gmail.com) is also “totally retired.” He writes, since. If his son now teaches at Cornell, please departed the Viyella shirt game “Still building radio-controlled model steel war- tell him what a fantastic friend his father was to 43 to launch an upmarket collec - ships and aircraft. Never been busier. When I get me . . . and after my husband, John ’41, the most tion under the Jacob Miller label in honor of his several built, I get a museum to take them. I have influential person in my life.” Ruth worked for the great-grandfather, who founded Eagle Shirt - several at the Intrepid Museum, at the US Naval League of Women Voters after being influenced by makers in 1867. You realize that Ezra didn’t do Academy, and also at the Sea System Command.” Eleanor Roosevelt’s Cornell visit. Bertram and Beat- his thing till the following year. Here’s an ex - Estelle Wells Evans (Georgetown, NY) is busy rice King (Franklin, TN) moved into a retirement ample of the problems of de-accession by a keeping a family home in the middle of New York home just outside Nashville to be near his son, a nonagenarian rushing to be coffin-ready in the State. She remembers a program she did on WHCU professor at Vanderbilt U., and his grandchildren. digital age: the fast-shrinking list of items we in 1939, called “Eating Better ,” and “My plan for the future is, at 91, just to stay alive.” (Imperial “we”) can handle with grace no longer says, “Miss Flora Rose entertained us girls for tea James Whitaker, MS ’47 (Bowie, MD) has lived in includes our now unmanageable 16-volume Ox - at her cottage on the knoll west of HumEc.” his retirement community for six years and works ford English Dictionary. Big books! Afraid we’ll Jim Flint, son of our late classmate Gilbert in the woodshop. He even does work for other res- drop one. Ten grandchildren, all literate, all in Hall Flint, has recently been in touch with Alum- idents, so meets lots of people and keeps busy. possession of lively intellectual curiosities, turned ni Affairs. “Hall” passed away in December 2009, As an addendum to a previous column, I down our offer one after the other: “I have a tiny and Jim has been transcribing the letters that wanted everyone to know how interesting it was flat, Poppop.” “Who needs hard copies? I can find his father wrote home to his family when he was to be at Cornell during WWII. Luckily, I followed it on the Web.” Meanwhile our wealthy, nimble a student at Cornell from 1936-40—a total of 50 my professor’s advice (that someday I might have orthopod asked to buy them, and so he shall, so letters. Jim writes,“The letters are postedona blog to work) and returned to the campus in spring he shall. Alas. Alack. And welladay. at: http://ghflintletters.blogspot.com. The early let- 1944 to earn my master’s degree. At that time it Turn down an empty glass for Charles Wal- ters are especially interesting, as he shares about took only two quarters. My 2-year-old son, Frank ton, who died in November after a rich career as working for his meals and trying to balance social Jr., and I lived with Connie Caffrey McMurray in an electronics engineer and philanthropist. He is activities with the rigors of his academic courses. a nice apartment. Besides all the troops there, they best known for his pioneering patents on radio The letters reveal a distinct social order at Cornell also had a huge computer. I stayed on after get- frequency identification, or RFID, the keyless sys- during the 1930s; the Ag college leveled the play- ting my degree and worked in the History depart- tem used universally today on doors and for in- ing field and provided students from modest back- ment correcting Navy tests and being a secretary ternational tracking. Years ago he told us the idea grounds the opportunity to work their way through to the profs, one of whom was Mario Einaudi, who came to him as a result of his work in electrical school. There are some lessons in the letters for after the war became president of Italy. (They engineering at Cornell, and that the first compa- today’s generation of Cornell students.” Please celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Einaudi ny he approached with his patent was General Mo- feel free to share the above blog link with any Center for Int’l Studies on campus this past No- tors. They turned him down. We’ll wait a minute friends or family you think might be interested. vember.) Later I worked in the Ag school and while you try to operate your new Cadillac with- Send news any time of year to: c Class of Frankie went to the Home Economics Nursery out Charlie’s electronic key. He prepared at George 1940, c/o Cornell Alumni Magazine, 401 East School. Sad to say, Connie passed away a few School, a Quaker school in Newtown, PA, which he State St., Suite 301, Ithaca, NY 14850. Class years ago. She was indeed a wonderful friend. credited with his lifelong devotion to peace, and Notes Editor e-mail, [email protected]. Shirley Clark Shumate (Ulster Park, NY) where in 2007 we heard him speak as an honored moved to a senior residence after a stroke in 2006, alumnus. A consummate sailor, he was the largest and no longer drives. She also sings in a senior single donor to the construction of the lighthouse How wonderful so many are community chorus (“I think I’m older!”) and en- at the mouth of Santa Cruz Harbor. The Walton send ing in their dues renewals joys writing limericks for greeting cards—both are Lighthouse, completed in 2001, is painted car- 42 to keep receiving the Alumni fun activities. At Cornell she especially enjoyed nelian and white in honor of Alma Mater. News. Ilook for results from Cornell athletic events the Glee Club and special choruses. Shirley also It’s back to school for the intrepid Robert in the paper daily and have enjoyed finding out works at her church’s thrift shop. She hears often Gordon, who writes: “I returned to postgraduate 54 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 54-96CAMma12notes_000-000CAMMA12Notes 2/8/12 3:05 PM Page 55

life and earned a Master of Public Health to add Bill Elkins, BA ’47, LLB ’49 (Burdett, NY) are a carbon copy for so many of you: a widow, re- to my DVM. I continue to practice companion an- writes, “Our Lord has blessed us both with won- tired, community of friends and activities, and lov- imal medicine and to integrate human and vet- derful health for our age. We’ve both slowed down ing, thoughtful children. However, I find that time erinary health issues.” In December, Richard a lot—everything takes longer. I had to give up has become a conundrum: future—interminable; Polenberg, the Marie Underhill Noll Professor of cutting and splitting our winter firewood. I love tomorrow—vague, unseeable; today—racing by; History, delivered his “last lecture” in which he my work as a court attorney, but plan to retire in yesterday—already forgotten; young adulthood— said: “The person who had the greatest impact on December. Irene does most of our driving and vivid memories; childhood—fragmentary.” Ruth re- me was my doctoral advisor, William Leuchten - she’s still a great cook.” From Florida, Barbara ports that Amy Macdonald Frick ’45 has moved to burg, a man whose commitment to teaching and Cross Naylor writes, “My husband, Jim, died last her community and is already a dear, new friend. scholarship I found exemplary—and still do: just year, but I haven’t cried, as I know where he is. Thanks for all your news. More to come. Send yours two years ago, in 2009, at the age of 87, Bill Our home is at Shell Point Retirement Communi- to: Class of 1944, c/o Cornell Alumni Magazine, published a new book on Herbert Hoover. And ty in Fort Meyers. It’s a great place for a takeoff. 401 East State St., Suite 301, Ithaca, NY 14850. you may have seen him as a talking head on Ken Happy landings to all you Cornellians.” c Dorothy Kay Kesten, 1 Crestwood Rd., Westport, Burns’s PBS series on Prohibition.” Milton Stolaroff writes, “Life on the ‘Big Is- CT 06880; e-mail, [email protected]. The news form returns started to arrive at the land’ of Hawaii is filled with activities and friend- end of last year. Marjorie Reed Sheffer (Schenec- ships. We join a bridge club every Tuesday and tady, NY) had a scare. “In August, granddaughter usually get together with friends two or three Madge Spurny Cole (Greens boro, Pam, age 28, was lost in Oregon’s Mt. Hood Na- other times a week. Unfortunately, no other Cor- NC) is retired but pursuing a tional Forest with a broken leg. Three nights and nellians. Many thanks, Dotty, for your continuing 45 career as an author. She most four days later she was rescued by helicopter, and interest in our classmates’ activities. You and Art recently self-published the novel Southern Con flict, is now back at work.” Lynn Boudreau writes for have done a wonderful job of keeping us all in a historical recollection of the lives of a family of her father, Solon Kemon (Simsbury, CT), who touch for so many years. I, for one, feel I have cotton textile workers in North Carolina who finally says, “I now reside in a wonderful facility in a been delinquent in not expressing sufficient grat- rebel—with surprising consequences. She also has game refuge here in Connecticut.” Steve Hawley itude for your activities. My best wishes to you another novel for sale. Madge fondly remembers (Batavia, NY) pays his class dues, sends praise for continuing good health and enjoyment of meeting people at Cornell from other areas and is of winters in Arizona, and chooses for his 2013 life.” Nancy Claney Hoffman joins the chorus of grateful for the knowledge she received about the reunion banquet: steak medium—puréed—and Kesten accolades, writing, “Thank you, Dottie world that broadened her outlook. Fred Williams applesauce. “Thelma and I are settled in com- and Art, for being the glue that has kept the (Frederick, MD) is a retired builder/developer. He fortably at ‘The Plains’ retirement community,” Class of ’44 together.” keeps busy with e-mail, reading, and relaxing. His reports Gordon Jones (Oneonta, NY). In mid-June, Inez Johnston Murdoch planned memories of Cornell include diving off the upper Mary Close Bean (Catonsville, MD) plays to motor from Palm Desert, CA, to White Plains, bridge into Beebe Lake and playing for the Cornell bridge—preferably duplicate—and drives her NY, with her husband and daughter Cynthia. They hockey team with no rink, no helmets, and no scooter all over the lovely campus at the had lived there from 1962 to 1983. Along the way, padding. He’d like to hear from Marjorie Helgans Charlestown retirement residence. She most en- they planned to see A. Louise Eadie Williams in Hughes ’47, BA ’46, MD ’50. joyed reading Homer & Langley. “I remember the Troy PA, and Charlotte Licht Cook in Castile, NY. Walter MacFarland III, BCE ’48 (Media, PA) Collyer brothers—they seemed so weird at the “Louise was a friend all through our four years at is retired and enjoys gardening and walks. Meet- time.” Larry Lowenstein’s answer to best fresh- Cornell,” writes Inez. “Charlotte was a friend in ing his future wife, Jean (Gehring) ’49, is his man reading: The Autobiography of Andrew Dixon grammar school through Trumansburg High, where fondest memory of Cornell days. Marguerite Haven White. Who read it to you? “My grandmother.” we graduated and then went immediately to Cor- Hartl (Mt. Prospect, IL) is retired and engaged in Betty Keller Cullen (East Orleans, MA) says that nell. We have always kept in touch, all these church work. She is recovering from a broken foot these days she enjoys reading, visiting with years. It truly has been a pleasure for us to have and tells us she prefers to be walking around. friends, her dog, and “doing as little as possible.” Cornell as our college experience and keep up Here’s to a speedy recovery! She remembers work- John Alden (Delmar, NY) is still at work re- with our class. Hurrah!” Jan Taylor Scott (Highland ing as managing editor of the Cornell Engineer- searching WWII submarine operations and writ- Beach, FL) had returned to Pittsburgh for her sum- ing magazine during her Cornell days. Alice Ross ing articles. He and Ann (Buchholz) ’45 traveled mer vacation when she wrote. “Susan, our daugh- McCarthy, BS HE ’44, MS ’47 (, MI; to southern Italy in September with Elderhostel. ter who lives in California, flew in and drove north bridge [email protected]) is still running Bridge Com- “Probably our last trip overseas (Europe or Asia). with me. We stopped in Washington, DC, for a look munications. In addition to her Cornell degrees, Air travel is too demanding. On the Mayflower they at the town on the way. Do want to add my she has a PhD in education from Wayne State U. let us keep our shoes on.” In answer to “Which thanks to Dotty and Art for all the work and ef- She has published Healthy Preschoolers and Healthy of the required freshman readings did you enjoy fort toward keeping our class together.” Teens, in addition to approximately a million health most?” Dave Mertz writes, “I’m not a freshman.” Bob Miller, BS ’48, PhD ’51 (Orange City, FL) newsletters. She answered parent questions in the His meal order: puréed steak, medium; puréed wrote last year, shortly after reunion, and we apol- local press for years and says it’s too bad that the spinach; puréed baked Alaska. “Don’t bother to ogize for the delay in getting it into the column. column was discontinued—parents now have more purée my martini.” c S. Miller Harris, P.O. Box “I am fine,” says Bob. “I walk two to three miles questions than ever. She likes to garden on a half- 164, Spinnerstown, PA 19868; e-mail, olchap@ a day, read the Wall Street Journal, and play golf acre lot and is looking forward to spring—it is comcast.net. three times a week. My dining companion and I are too early there for much except hellebore. During planning a birthday celebration—my 90th and her Cornell days she loved living in Balch, where she 80th—on July 30.” We hope it was a great day! was “night girl” for six terms. Her father said her “Had a very nice dinner with And speaking of birthdays, Art Kesten had his education (four years) cost him $100! Paul Bailey, BS ’47, and his 90th on December 5. “We had a wonderful cele- Gloria Urban (New York, NY) is recuperating 44 lovely wifeinNaples, FL,” writes bration with our family,” writes Dotty, “including from hip surgery and would love to be visiting Bill Falkenstein, BS ’47 (Norwalk, CT). He also Cornellians Lynn Kesten Coakley ’74, Dale Kesten friends. She remembers fondly the fun she had at attended a polo game in Greenwich, CT, with Bob ’72,BA’75, Lauren Coakley Vincent ’04, Shannon Cornell with the nice people she met there. She’d Dillon and Art and Dotty Kay Kesten. “My legs Coakley ’07, their spouses, and several friends.” like to hear from Stan Johnson, BS ’48, and his don’t work as well as they did, but my general Joe Flynn, BS ’47, writes, “2011 contained wife, Jean. Dorothy Scott Boyle (Eastport, ME; health is good,” writes Gretchen Eichorn Facq. “I both the good and the bad. The ‘good’ has come scottie [email protected]) is a volunteer at can still enjoy playing my cello in an orchestra, from many directions. I enjoyed a wonderful week- Quoddy Crafts and Marine Museum, where she sells bridge, various clubs, canoeing, and painting. No long vacation in Gloucester, MA, last July, and have her art. She is active in the St. Croix Int’l Garden more trips to France. Jean-Marie has Alzheimer’s, also enjoyed frequent visits from my sons. I now Club and the Border Historical Society, as well as so travel is not an option. Lunch on the Delaware have four grandchildren in college, two happily in her church. She enjoys painting—watercolor, on a fine day is, however. I try to do Curves three married, one engaged in a musical career, and two acrylics, and folk art. She attended her grand- times a week so I won’t turn to stone. Both kids in elementary school. In addition, there is my daughter’s wedding. She remembers her Kappa (in their 50s) work at the Federal Reserve Bank of great-granddaughter, the first in her generation.” Delta sisters and Prof. Nancy Roman at Cornell. New York and live nearby, so we see them often. Ruth Leonard Claassen reports a sense of solidar- William Packard (Boca Raton, FL; bipackn@ gmail. 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tennis and bridge. He looks forward to playing Tramp and Trail Club of Utica, NY. They joined club (Binghamton, NY) is “trying to maintain a healthy with his great-grandson Miles Benjamin, 18 members on a trek to Ocean City, MD. lifestyle and keeping the medical professionals months. The crew team figures prominently in his Donald Ironside, BEE ’45 (Haverford, PA) re- busy.” Janet Elwin Starr (Hanover, PA) is the wid- fond Cornell memories. sponded to the university archivist’s appeal for ow of James ’44, MS ’48. She has been undergo- Albert Brown, PhD ’51 (Lincoln, NE; abrown Cornell material posted annually in my column ing acupuncture for her arthritic knees and is 18@ neb.rr.com) retired from GlaxoSmithKline af- (see below). He had saved drawers full of snap- traveling again with her sisters Muriel Elwin Zepp ter 22 years, having worked previously for Norden shots from three years on campus. Archivist ’47 and Nancy Elwin Pegues ’52. Laboratories, which was purchased by SmithKline; Elaine Engst, MA ’72’s call motivated him to cre- Elizabeth Stuart Wells (Cleveland Heights, at the time he retired, they merged with Glaxo. ate a fully annotated, 21-page album, a photo- OH) and husband Howard (Princeton ’45) are both He gardens, trying for flowers for all 12 months. copy of which he sent her, with an offer to lend 88 and still at home. Writes Elizabeth, “We know He enjoys traveling, wildlife photography, and the album or look for the negatives. A sample we should move to something smaller, but the big-game hunting. He enclosed a sample of his page included photos of Herb Hawley, Herb Toan kids won’t take the candlesticks.” (What a great work: a photo of a charging white rhino. His ’47, Mac MacIntyre, one-man team Joe Sheppe, sense of humor.) She’d like to hear from Kay three years in graduate school while earning a and crapshooter Phil Isaacs. All the above and Foote Shaw, BS HE ’45. Kay Smith Mancini (Palm PhD in microbiology and virology top his fond Don were freshman roommates at or denizens of Coast, FL) is a member of the Daytona Beach memories of Cornell. Peter Lantos, PhD ’50 (Ore- Collegetown’s 126 Catherine St. rooming house. chapter of NYS Teachers Retired in Florida and the land, PA; [email protected]) is retired and (Don wants to know who else responded to the Flagler County Library. “I’m still reminiscing about enjoys reading, writing, and painting. archivist’s plea and so would I. The info could our June reunion and am looking forward to our From the Philadelphia Inquirer, we learned of make for some interesting columns. -Ed.) Don pur- 70th.” Charlotte Fry Poor (Peoria, IL) wrote that the death of Robert Harwick, MD ’47, on Octo- chased a two-volume set of Andrew White’s auto- her husband died in 2008. She writes, “I’m liv- ber 14 at his home in Wyncote, PA. He studied biography, including “a marvelous section on the ing! Also playing bridge, gardening, and keeping from 1941-43 in an accelerated WWII program for life of Ezra Cornell and how our alma mater be- in touch with children and grandchildren.” Bar- premedical students before entering Cornell’s med- came the unique place we knew.” He’s prepaying bara Spencer Ihrig (Madison, TN) took a disabil- ical school, and served as a Navy officer in a the work to me with my promise that after view- ity retirement in 1980. “Harold and I took a trip MASH unit in Korea from 1950-52. He knew ing it, I’ll forward it on the same terms to my first to Memphis and plan on going to the Smoky Richard Hornberger, MD ’47, who wrote the book reader who requests it. Mountains.” Keep the news coming to: c Elinor under the pseudonym of Hooker that became the Our annual reminder: If you have scrapbooks, Baier Kennedy, 9 Reading Dr., Apt. 302, Werners- basis of the “M*A*S*H” TV series. About the diaries, letters, photographs, or mementos from ville, PA 19565; tel., (610) 927-8777; e-mail, shenanigans in that program, he told his friends, the 1940s at Cornell, send them to Elaine Engst, [email protected]. “It was all true!” From 1974-76, Robert was pres- director and university archivist, Carl A. Kroch Li- ident of the Philadelphia division of the Ameri- brary, Ithaca, NY 14853-5302; tel., (607) 255- can Cancer Society, which gave him its bronze 3530; fax, (607) 255-9524; e-mail, EE11@cornell. “Hear ye, Hear ye,” says the medal in 1976. He became chief of surgical on- edu. Your survivors will probably toss out such town crier, heralding the news cology at Temple U. School of Medicine in 1978. materials, but the university might very well dis- 47 of our upcoming 65th Reunion. He attended our class reunion in 2010 in a wheel- play them. It’s better and more ecological to di- It is right around the corner on June 7-10, and chair, assisted by his son Robert Jr. ’75. Ernie rect them to the university now. Elaine advises we will be staying on campus at the very con - Gosline, MD ’47, was one of the eulogists at the they have lots of material from the really early venient Statler Hotel.It’s never too late to decide memorial service in the Philadelphia Academy of days, but very little from the 1940s. to come, and we hope to see all of you—the more Medicine. Our thanks to Marion Steinmann ’50, To list your e-mail address in your submis- the merrier! Election of class officers will also co-correspondent for her class and a friend of Dr. sions, e-mail me at the address below. Include take place at reunion. Please send your sugges - Harwick’s, for forwarding the information. your name, city, and state. Send news to: c Paul tions for nominees to: Nominating Committee Class president Maxine Katz Morse informs Levine, 31 Chicory Lane, San Carlos, CA 94070; chairman Margaret Newell Mitchell (MNM1947@ me that she and the other class officers plan a tel., (650) 592-5273; e-mail, pblevine@juno. com. aol. com). Don’t forget to visit the new class mini-reunion in 2012 on either September 12 or Class website, http://classof46.alumni.cornell.edu. website: www.cornellclass 47.org. October 10. Details will follow. In the meantime, As this is being written, my New Jersey area direct questions and comments to her at (603) I love this time of year because I hear from is still recovering from one of the worst storms in 436-7578 or [email protected]. Your so many of you via our News and Dues notices. history. A freak, early snowstorm, when all the co-correspondents enjoy hearing from classmates, I’m writing this just before Christmas, so I am re- leaves were still on the trees, caused massive tree so do send news to: c Julie Kamerer Snell, 3154 ceiving your beautiful cards, too. You won’t be damage, downed power lines, and unprecedented Gracefield Rd., #111, Silver Spring, MD 20904; e- reading this until March, but I hope you had a won- power outages. We were without electricity for mail [email protected]; or Bob Frankenfeld, derful holiday season and that the first two months almost five days and it was really horrible, espe- 6291 E. Bixby Hill Rd., Long Beach, CA 90815; of the new year were healthy and prosperous. cially when the temperature in our home was in e-mail [email protected]. Marianne Michaelis Goldsmith, BS HE ’45 the low 50s. Our streets are still littered with the (Bedminister, NJ) wrote and called. She is busy limbs and debris from the storm. Oh, well, it is swimming, attending concerts and lectures, and all over now and time to tell you about the do- Retirement gave Scott Nevin, playing bridge. Her son Jonathan ’77 and his ings of our classmates. BME ’45 (Albion, IN) the free wife, Amira Elkodsi ’76, endowed an Architec- Esther Neustatter Bates lives in Getzville, NY, 46 time to become a one-man ture lecture series in memory of his brother and spent a week on the road touring Yellowstone Unit ed Way. He specializes in fixing things and Michael ’73, BArch ’73. Two lectures have already National Park with her daughter. Madeline Rosen- running errands for people who need help. Scott taken place at the NYC campus. She promised me thal Goodwin (Los Angeles, CA) is very proud of was a “Cornell brat” whose professor father a long letter concerning the bench at the Plan- her family, which includes twin boys Theo and headed the Geology department. He credits his tations in memory of her husband, Karl ’47. Joan George, plus daughter Betty. She also has five father with rebuilding the class structure and Waite Martens, widow of the late Frederick, MD grandchildren. Allen Earnest (Yonkers, NY) recently making Geology the popular course it became. ’57, lives in New York City. She’d like to hear from became a great-grandfather and tells us that he Scott, even while studying Mechanical Engineer - Jan Bassette Summerville and Dottie Taylor Prey. has four children who were born on three conti- ing at Cornell, found time to delve into astronomy Ruth Rothschild Mayleas, BA ’45, lives on the nents in all four hemispheres of the earth. He is journals, a passion he enjoys to this day. David Upper West Side. She is on the Board of the still undecided about what to do when he grows Gale, BS ’49 (Rutland, VT) still works, even after a League of Professional Theatre Women and is the up. Barbara Dwyer O’Connell lives in Rye, NY, and recent pacemaker implant. At his apple orchard editor of their magazine. writes that her lasting contribution is an article he mainly produces Macintosh and some early Sylvia Mayer Paul (Williamsville, NY) wrote entitled, “The Security Circuit,” which can be read varietals. When we talked, David was excited that she regretted not being able to compete in online. It describes the function of the brain for about starting up a new cider machine. Another the over-80, two-mile Reunion Run, but is look- the maintenance of survival and security. longtime retiree is Theodore Thomas, MD ’48 ing forward to our 70th. “The best part is I have Malcolm Steinberg, BCE ’46, writes from San (Sauquoit, NY). He and wife Barbara participate no competition—I just have to finish and I win Antonio, TX. He has written a book and needs a weekly in hiking, canoeing, and skiing at the a gold medal.” Faithful Rayma Carter Wilson publisher, plus he is hardatwork writing another 56 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes William April 2012April 57 Inger Mol men Inger Mol | and and March March Jack (Ithaca, NY; ingerjack@ NY; (Ithaca, , Westfield, NJ: “US should “US NJ: Westfield, , , MNS ’49, Memphis, TN: “I am “I TN: Memphis, ’49, , MNS Three cheers and congrat ula - Three ula cheers and congrat tions to Gilbert , 102 Reid Ave., Port Washington, Port Ave., Reid 102 , 9 June Jacobs Gillin , PhD ’51 (deceased), a ChemE, in June 1949.” June in ChemE, a (deceased), ’51 PhD , Bob Persons c 4 twcny.rr.com), who were awarded the 2012 who were awarded twcny.rr.com), months there staging for the invasion of Japan in car next year. WishJapan of I was in Hawaii.invasion Spent the six for staging there months ashore.” walked we bomb,’ ‘the to Thanks 1945. stop spending. I like It New has Jersey. every- of most weather great NYC, near seashore, thing: governor, promising and suburbs, terrific year, the Chris not Christie, to to proximity marrying mention air- was event lifetime important Most ports. Jim Murray Heimberg at U. of Pharmacology and Medicine Emer., Prof. I but continue Center, Science Health Tennessee with up keep and (endocrinology) and patients see to antagonistic The metabolism. lipid in research the world in our political attitudes solve uncompromising and together come to impossible it make ba- the is Compromise it! Cool problems. nation’s US The is country a beautiful sis of civilization. na- the for true what’s and climate, a great with - I Ava my as love well. Tennessee for holds tion happy I’m lasts. it as long as it keep will and lon younger. were I if help would it but Memphis, in ener- my exceed far (metabolic) needs energy My followed event, big THE was Marriage gy supply. Trying offspring. of generations three to visits by research and medicine of field my with up keep to meaning.” life’s for searching Still is impossible! e-mail, 767-1776; (516) fax, and phone 11050; NY [email protected] , is class is , St. Pete Lila Smith , , Westport, Repaske, Star Repaske, Walter Baurle , Kennebunk, ME: Bob McKinless Chuck Leslie Louis Strick Longstreet, Jupiter, FL: Anne Colm , Silver Spring, MD: , “Sorting Spring, Silver , MFS ’49, Tarrytown, NY: “Grand- NY: Tarrytown, ’49, MFS , , Alamosa, CO: “Hunting, fishing, “Hunting, CO: Alamosa, , Robert Welsh Abe Relyea Shirley Ringholm I. Roy Cohen Roy I. John Davidson CT: “Reading, making out, visiting children and children out, visiting making “Reading, CT: com- It’s attractive I like Connecticut. Prius; grandchildren. Toyota a Bought located. centrally and Have operate. to economical and quiet, fortable, Youngest problems. health controllable numerous, boys.” twin to birth gave daughter “Purchased a Jaguar XK convertible. Why? It’s fun! It’s Why? convertible. XK Jaguar a “Purchased York New On Christmas Air, Day 2010 Egypt my nine grandchildren boarded I and 30) to 24 (aged pyramids, touring days wonderful ten for Cairo, to while in and riding sphinxes, our pri- We Egyptologist. own our by Cairo to guided and car Aswan vate from days three for and Nile way the the cruised along met we Egyptians the loved and enjoyed their beautiful hotels.” thing. Not worried about salvation. Have most re- most Have salvation. about worried Not thing. music.” of importance the discovered cently junk mail, writing checks, swinging golf clubs (not clubs golf swinging checks, writing mail, junk or earth- hurricanes get don’t We golf?). exactly the from way a long it’s but Maryland, in quakes just I better. be might Colorado think Rockies—I pal old my that discovered Lightfoot, Madison, WI: “Plan to keep my Audi an- Audi my keep to “Plan WI: Madison, Lightfoot, Zealand.” New in I was I wish years. five other on the I’m goats. Cashmere “I raise VA: Tannery, and Assn., Cashmere Eastern the of VP and board Ear- the in play I newsletter/magazine. their edit pres- am and U. Shenandoah at Ensemble Music ly ident of the Star Tannery Volunteer Fire Dept. din- Dept. Fire the for money raise We Auxiliary. carnivals.” and auctions, bazaars, ners, important Most Bob! Congratulations, president. Cornell-Penn in the playing was life in my event game in I Field. Franklin don’t worry about the Redskins not winning.” golf. golf. I like rural Colorado, but elevation is too down were I Wish better. be might Arizona high. problem. a big are crime and Drugs level. to sea life- my in one number ranks born was I day The is worry Least I think what people events. time in- to how discovered recently I say. or do should vest money.” from withdraw should We improving. are “Things and is Maine a wars. vacationland great foreign location bad a it’s but polite, generally are people transportation).” of (cost business for Dryden, NY: “Reading, playing violin every evening, every violin has NY:NYS Dryden, playing “Reading, far. so years 64 for company wife keeping estate real but high disasters, natural no severe daughters visit low,’ ‘lie I time the of Most taxes. Most pressing and Connecticut. in Pennsylvania is weak heart.” problem Board member and secretary, Hebrew Home for the and synagogue. for friends, family, travel, Home children, Hebrew secretary, and member Board Service Executive National plus Riverdale, in Aged Corps. I parties Political follow politics closely. have yet to learn how to workeach in to citizen participate encourage should together. We the political process more actively. I lease my cars—Nissan Maxima and Keep Mercedes-Benz. them threemean- The years. Getting older is grandchildren. a six problem.our are events Great contribute to enough creative be to is life of ing and body a healthy maintaining while society to outlook.” optimistic an Beach, FL: “Had open heart surgery in August ’08. August in surgery heart open “Had FL: Beach, to myself limit a ‘snowbird’—must longer no Am watching and reading, shuffleboard, travel, local Flori- Stay the course. slowly improving. Economy make TV. tax income state no and weather Warm new a buy probably Will live. to place best the da , , BS Howell , , MD ’49, who on December 19, December on Shain, 653 Primrose 653 Shain, lives in a retirement “Hoople” “Hoople” Jim , Wilmington, , DE: Wilmington, “Church Robert Herm ’50, ’50, Post Falls, ID: - “Do acres), (two work yard dening, gar Rev. Rev. , , Southborough, MA: “Retired. W. Barlow Ware Barlow W. Sylvia Kianoff c Ursula Holahan Tom Stevens Ramon Alan Sadly, we must share the news of the death the of news the share we must Sadly, Whether Whether you are reunion or attending not, ful. Finding Marjorie is perhaps the most impor- most the is perhaps Marjorie Finding ful. children are near, as are are and near, attractive cultural children so I’m places, are con- many There I like Delaware. improve. to us challenge that here siderations med- of systems greatest the have we convinced problem big Our event- known. ever been has world has the icine life whole My time.’ enough ‘not is my elevated has that journey whole the but tant, needs to grow in faith to God. Children and grand- and Children God. to faith in grow to needs same the of part is perhaps Christ in Jesus faith Mayflower Society, taking care of our beach house, beach our of care taking Society, Mayflower Country busy. to keep things other plus reading, principles, founding preserve to needs jobs, needs selves and it’s not explainable in less than 1,000 than less in explainable not it’s and selves projects, newsletter editor and deputy governor of governor deputy and editor newsletter projects, greater than $3,000 a year. We create life for our- for life create We year. a $3,000 than greater words.” committees, and boating. Congress is or unable Congress and boating. committees, - coun the of good the for cooperate to unwilling Idaho Northern limits. term have should They try. found have people many too but keep beautiful, they very and is California, from mostly it, about out miles. 98,000 has Seville Caddie 2001 My coming. the on cars other most as same the look not Does all which I’ll road, look keep it like each other. I now I in wish were Right of us one dies. until the through cruise lovely a Had place. warm some in to spring and ago Alaska years Canal Panama a have visit is 2010. Next to a Got Costa Rica. to married Wonderful 2011. summer in time second Holmes.” companion—Kiyoke 48 Things are deteriorating: integral of expectations of integral deteriorating: are Things is less than the Massachusetts integral of GDP. can’t we but programs, social compassionate has afford them. Will keep my car until repairs are Juilliard doctorate, a photographer son, and a son a and one. Hisson, family consists of photographer aa daughter with a doctorate, Juilliard who is an attorney. medical from retired humor, of sense a great has used a opened later He ago. years many practice it named have “Should years. four for bookstore in live Betsey wife and He writes. he Titanic,” the grand- four and sons two have and SC, Bluffton, children. community in Charleston, SC, and recently at- grandnieces. her of weddings two tended classmate our of 2011. Barlow, who resided at Bridges of Cornell at Bridges who resided 2011. Barlow, to life his devoted years, four last the for Heights in- loved, he people and institutions the helping Int’l, than Rotary of Boy America, the Scouts more cluding spent he University—where Cornell as and 11 last the office, he Development the in years 50 recognitions and awards of list The are they volunteer. a and one, long a is years the over received to dedication and service read lifelong his can to You tribute a community. the to and university the Hill” the “From issue’s this in Barlow about more missed. be will He columns. future in and section, please bring us up to date on your doings by writing, calling, or whatever you can. We love par- your but need news, the everyone bringing ticipation. 391-1263; (201) tel., 07675; NJ Vale, River Lane, Arlie Williamson [email protected]; e-mail, 288-3752. 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“Bill” Vanneman ’31 Outstanding Class Leader Rochester, NY) wrote that his wife, Martha, is de- Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, PhD ’62, a bio - Award at the Cornell Alumni Leadership Confer - ceased and that he is retired. His after-hours in- weapons expert, was mentioned recently in a ence (CALC) in late January in Washington, DC. terests are gardening, senior citizens, and front-page article in the New York Times. Barbara Jack writes that he and Inger have moved within attending festivals with his daughter. Last year, is one of three authors of a paper in the Journal Cayuga Heights to a very nice four-bedroom ranch. he told us, he was attending the V.A. clinic for of Bioterrorism and Biodefense that argues that “We are right above the famous Sunset Park, which health reasons, but would rather be relaxing. He the case of the 2001 anthrax attacks should be those of you with a car at school found enjoyable remembers most fondly attending Cornell as a reopened, that the FBI may have fingered the for sunsets and whatever might happen after WWII vet, “having grown up in Ithaca.” C.J. would wrong person. Barbara was a professor at Sloan- sunset.” Jack adds, “Cornell asks its classes to like to hear from Will Fronmuller ’51, MS ’52. Kettering Inst. in New York and at Weill Cornell decide at their 65th Reunion what to do with the Bernice Gray Whitney (Pocatello, ID; yukon Medical College. She then became a research class funds when there are no more ’49ers.” Jack [email protected]) is retired and spends her after- professor in environmental science at SUNY Pur- and Inger welcome your thoughts; they favor our hours gardening and quilting. Last year she was chase. Bill vanden Heuvel, JD ’52 (New York, scholarship fund. Our 65th Reunion chairman, Carl traveling to visit her children in California, Nevada, NY) figured prominently in a Talk of the Town Schwarzer (Manlius, NY; cschwarz22@ verizon. and Texas. She wrote, “Scott and his wife, in Texas, piece in the New Yorker. As founder of the net), alerts us to the fast-approaching date when have adopted three boys from Russia. Very inter- Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Inst., Bill has we shall gather (and we’re hoping every one of esting! Since their arrival in June their English is raised money and spearheaded the campaign to you will be there!) for this grand reunion. approaching perfect. They are twins, 5, and a 3- build a memorial to FDR on Roosevelt Island in Stephen Profilet (Winona, MN; sprofilet year-old.” Bernice would like to hear from Susan New York City’s East River. The New Yorker article [email protected]) tells us that he had been “loaf- Potter Hall. Coincidentally, Susan wrote from West- recounts a visit that Bill and the writer made to ing” and “shoveling snow”; however, his after- field, PA, that her husband, George, passed away the site of the memorial, at the island’s south- hours activities are singing in choirs and oratorio. in 2004. A retired teacher of 35 years, she is the ern tip, which has breathtaking views of the riv- Last year he did a performance of opera choruses Baptist church choir director and auditor. She also er. Due to be finished this fall, the memorial will with the Winona Oratorio Choir at Winona State does water aerobics. Last year she told us that she be known as the FDR Four Freedoms Park. Bill is U. He tells us that he’d rather be playing tennis. had become engaged to an “old beau.” “We met also one of two former ambassadors in our class. His fondest memory of his Cornell days is gradu- in the summer of ’49, the year I graduated from The late Glenn Ferguson, MBA ’51, you may re- ating on Feb. 2, 1949. Steve would enjoy hear- Cornell.” What I’d rather be doing now? “Zip!” The call, was ambassador to Kenya during the John- ing from Roger Barnard. modern dance class and tennis are her fondest son Administration. Bill was ambassador to the W. Jordan Severinghaus ’40 (Shreveport, LA) memories of Cornell: “I am a polio survivor and European Office of the UN in Geneva during the writes that reading the delightful recollections of love thinking of those activities.” Carter Administration. Jean Schultheis Brechter (Shelter Island Heights, Kenneth Gellhaus ([email protected]), Dick Pogue (Cleveland, OH) is one of the NY) in this magazine’s May/June 2011 issue trig- married to Mary, says, ”Still instructing/coaching first three recipients of the U. of Michigan’s new gered some great memories of his own. She wrote Microsoft Office classes for seniors at the Ulster Distinguished Alumni Award. Dick was not only of swimming in the pool of the gorge just off the County Community College Business Resource Cen- president of our Class of 1950, he was also man- back of the old Tri Delt house. “It is a long stretch ter in Kingston, NY. After 38 years in the Kingston aging partner of Jones Day, the international law from my Class of 1940 to your Class of 1949, but area, Mary and I moved to a continuing care com- firm. Dick is currently a senior advisor to Jones worth trying that stretch to write you of my use munity 15 miles south in New Paltz, NY. We are Day. Engineer Charles “Deak” Deakyne (Severna of that pool. Howard ‘Wreck’ Welch ’38, MS ’47, still ‘independent.’ Two Cornell classmates are also Park, MD; [email protected]) is the ini- and I gained access to the pool from the other side here.” Kenneth would rather be playing tennis, tial recipient of the new Corinthian Spirit Award of the ‘river’ (that is, from the side where the old something he remembers most fondly from his established by the Chesapeake Bay Yacht Racing toboggan slide stood). We could climb down—past days at school. He adds, “Kids put on a wonderful Association. Deak sails a 37-foot Alberg sloop, the upper part of the power plant—to the pool. 50th anniversary party for Mary and me.” Norman which he races with two of his sons. “I advise We felt totally unobserved there and never en- Merz (Manasquan, NJ; talktomerz@ yahoo. com) on tactics and sail trim and occasionally take the countered anyone else. It never entered our heads and his wife, Patricia, moved in April 2010 to their helm,” he writes. “Out of nine races last summer, that Tri-Delta girls (Girls!) would use the pool! As vacation home in Manasquan at the Jersey Shore we came in third or better in seven.” Deak was, I write this at age 92, I am chuckling over the and wrote that they were still unpacking and get- naturally, in the Navy in WWII. charming recollection.” Jordan closes with best ting organized in June. Norman tells us that from Norm Potter married Adele (Hoffstein), regards to “Jean (and the adventurist TriDelts).” February 1 to April 15 he volunteers to prepare in- earned his PhD from Iowa State, and then re- Alvin Silvey (Fort Lauderdale, FL; as202@ come taxes with the IRS/AARP program. He walks turned to Cornell as a professor of Food Science. cornell.edu), married to Estelle, is retired. His ex- and rides a bike and downhill skis at Park City, After Norm retired, the Potters moved to Lexing- tracurricular activities include roadway shows, UT. Rather than moving house, he says that he’d ton, KY, where their sons Daniel ’74 and Michael working out in the gym, reading, using the com- prefer to be watching the breakers in the ocean. ’77 are professors of entomology at the U. of puter, and developing international trade. Alvin Alfredo Larin is married to Maria and retired in Kentucky. Norm also served in the Navy during told us that he would rather be “involved with the San Diego, CA. Dancing, exercise, and diet com- WWII. Arthur and Barbara Kunz Buchholz ’51 export and import to the US of chemicals, steel, prise his recent activities. He would like to visit have moved back north—to Willow Street, PA— aluminum, etc.” His fondest memory of his days Cornell again, as the campus is his fondest mem- after 18 years in Florida. Art worked for the NYS on the Hill occurred in 1943 at “the football game ory of his days on the Hill. Alfredo would most Office of General Services in Albany, as director we played against West Point—I had my right foot like to hear from Wally Rutes. of purchasing. During WWII, he was in the Army broken!” He’d enjoy hearing from Vincent Rogers, It is always great to hear that classmates get Corps of Engineers. Betty Hollenbeck Davidson “a very old friend.” Bill Kamsler (Littleton, CO) in touch with one another through this column, so taught home economics for nearly 40 years, at writes that he is retired from Technology Devel- do send us your news and let’s all meet at reunion the LaFargeville, NY, Spencer, NY, and Waverly, opment Inc., repairing instrumentation systems. in June 2014! c Dorothy Mulhoffer Solow, 3608 NY, schools. Betty also raised four daughters. Lately he has been working with the Greatest N. Sunset Ave., Farmington, NM 87401; cell phone, Several classmates remain regulars at Cornell Generation Foundation. Bill says that he’d rather (315) 717-6003; e-mail, winspeck@ yahoo.com. Alumni University’s summer sessions in Ithaca. Last be traveling. His fondest memories of school are summer, Jane Wigsten McGonigal, PhD ’84 (Itha- working with his fraternity, TKE, and he’d really ca, NY; [email protected]) attended a class on enjoy hearing from Fred Mitchell ’48. Our annual spring dinner and Zionism. Lawrence Lodico (Ithaca, NY; lrlodico@ Harold Ward (Bremerton, WA; haroldward1@ class meeting in New York City earthlink.net) went to a writing workshop and gmail.com) is retired and doing volunteer repair 50 will take place on Friday, May one on music of the Tudor Era. John and Carol work. His fondest memories are of being a Big Red 11, at 7 pm, at the Cornell Club–New York, 6 East McMillan Lawes (West Grove, PA) studied the Band member at football and basketball games. 44th Street. Last year’s May dinner drew 37 class - State of the World’s Oceans. Dick Hudes (Flush- Stephen Plotkin (Bethel, WA; splotk1@ aol. com) mates, spouses, and guests who traveled into ing, NY; [email protected]) and wife Sunny, at- volunteers at Evergreen Hospital Medical Center. Manhattan from as far away as Maine, Chicago, tending CAU for the tenth year, went to the His extracurricular activities are walking and play- Rochester, and Florida. So do come! To make a Psychology of Emotion. Revisiting the campus, ing pinochle and poker. Stephen would enjoy reservation, send $75 per person to Stan Rodwin, Dick writes, “always revives good memories. We hearing from Arno Nash. C.J. Terwillegar (E. Box 904, Scottsville, NY 14546. also audit courses at Queens College. We enjoy 58 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes , (riv Phil Joan Anne Wood Brad Bond (Mystic, CT) (Mystic, April 2012April 59 c Lemke. Lemke. “Three | his bar mitzvah bar his ’ Ayers spent a week spent Ayers Carol Harris March March mentioned a mentioned bus. Yes, , JD ’58 (Reston, VA), who VA), (Reston, ’58 JD , Ann Stichley ([email protected]) is clos- ([email protected]) Dorothea Crozier Warren December’s December’s mail brought a big batch of new News Forms. It’s 78 all through read to fun been Ann Corbett Forman, there was a sleeper from sleeper a was there Forman, Ronald Millstein Al Kayloe Joan Boffa Gaul ’52 Gaul Boffa Joan , , a Mills General from retiree Cincin- Tonachel Tonachel brought her father’s grand Tillotson, Tillotson, MD ’56’s mother sent espe- Walter Meyer and and To the News Forms. The first in was from Ter- from was in first The Forms. News the To There is room for more reminiscence as our is reminiscence for There room more Pierre Thouin Pierre , JD ’56, and 101 Hillside Way, Marietta, OH 45750; tel., (740) tel., 45750; OH Marietta, Way, Hillside 101 [email protected]. e-mail, 374-6715; Dan Beam nati, OH, checks to: in news withyour one send comment: Please “Still kickin’.” 52 ry 60th If Reunion will havenecessary. is a speed train exhibit However, at the Museum. Johnson lim- not travel, train your on thoughts have you 15 by April them send Valley, Lehigh to the ited at Green neg4@cornell. Nancy to the museum’s John- 14853. F. NY at Herbert the or to edu by Nancy mail Ithaca, University, Cornell Museum, son came from Texas. Many came by car, most often most by came car, Many Texas. from came with their One parents. or two flew. Only Fleming some us; Alicewith Warshaw little very brought We Station. Penn clothes. brought we Mostly trunks. shipped Codding and typewriter Forms News These notes.” take “to pen, play. fountain full have could they wish I treat. a are of them. In 1948, many of you arrived on campus on arrived you of many 1948, In them. of some though Valley, Lehigh the Mostly by train. came through Buffalo, and birch@ windstream.net), our 60th Reunion chairs. Reunion 60th our windstream.net), birch@ They winter in Tucson, summer in Austinberg, both though reunion, on full-time work and OH, wa- on concentrates Dori and travel, for time find York New to Am Pan flew Dori 1948, In tercolors. and took the train up. Terry brought, and re- minded me of, a laundry box. We did mail our dirty clothes home. The box came back withclean clothes, cookies, and other treats. Nesmith Franklin Murdock boxes. good cially walked to Cornell on his first trip and brought “a brought and trip first his on Cornell to walked ambitions.” and interests differing of heap large sings and class discussion a teaches currently He try- to addition In choir. church the in regularly ed- being is still he up, up or catch to keep ing ucated by his amusement. great grandchildren,children’s often to his in San Diego with ing up the animal veterinary hospital that he has he that hospital veterinary animal the up ing England, France, to traveled has He trav- Also running. been Italy. and Sardinia, Corsica, Switzerland, was eling Switzerland, in his spent 80th Ascona, birthday where he had last mu- stayed classical to with listens his reads, he parents home, in At 1936. Tonachel Codding Anne Internet. the uses and sic, tutors. and walks, reads, ([email protected]) is New York a good place for all that. In March and Anne 2010 left for Heine and Heine Helene Cohn had him beat, him had O’Hara Roderick Iron- Pepper Dutcher Pepper Oliver sold their , PhD ’26’s French lit French ’26’s , PhD called from Los Angeles, Los from called and and Doris wrote of retiring after 15 Bill Helen Malti Roger Abell ’30 Elizabeth Macaraeg Merker Woodhead.” Her fondest Cornell fondest Her Woodhead.” finished another year at Cornell. year another finished and and Freed, at Reunion. Her fond memory fond Her Reunion. at Freed, “Red” “Red” Morris Bishop ’13 Bishop Morris Franklin Murdock is still being being still is Murdock Franklin educated by his grandchildren. his by educated of multiple myeloma in November. After his After November. in myeloma multiple of Lee ’50 Harry Sometimes the Sometimes time lapse between getting April 1949, in a game against Ithaca College on College Ithaca against Aprilgame a 1949, in ‘ Helene shared a room with her former roommate, former her with room a shared Helene Bobbievital- the Hai excitement, the energy, “The Too Cornell: of Cornell? by affected be not you could How ity! bad I don’t have those leg muscles any more.” “easy living” in a villa on a lake in Webster. “It is “It Webster. in lake a on villa a in living” “easy Never living! easy is really it but pond, a actually we are here but elect- Pittsford, leave I would thought recently was Bill Webster.” in north Fame—only of miles 15 Hall (Sailing) Class Ensign the to ed the second from New York State. NY) that grandson reports (Rochester, Friedman Josh Sacks ’13 house on Martha’s Vineyard and moved to Lyme, moved and Vineyard on Martha’s house and gardening organic enjoying is met Lee they where NH, ministers, Methodist Both taxes. reduced Pittsford, in living After seminary. in married and for NY, 45 years, CA, to pass on a memory stirred by the announce- the by May. astirred CA,on last memory pass to death coach Ted Thoren’s baseball of ment In and for IC, mound was the on TedField, Thoren Hoy deep to shot tremendous a hit He bat. at was Red when base second to halfway was and center left the centerfielder made aa sensational over-the- triple and of least Red at played Harry catch—robbing run! shoulder home inside-the-park an possibly (2005) Reunion at 54th our game alumni in the player, baseball former oldest the was he thinking that learned but On 97. of age the at Reunion 75th his at playing Reunion 65th the for return to list”: “bucket Red’s oldest second of title the Game. claim and 2016 Baseball June in Alumni the in playing player former side Fluke sent news of the death of of news the death sent Fluke in testing educational in career a from retirement NC, Durham, the with sing to continued he 1991, Savoyards and the choral society while coping disease. dementia wife’s his with years as treasurer of the Cornell Hotel Society. His Society. Hotel Cornell the of treasurer as years Hospi- Packer Robert in patient a was Ann, wife, but March, in early leukemia with diagnosed tal, mar- bone the as soon, home be to expected was church in involved still was George clean. was row hockey and Cornell concerts enjoying activities, but 2011, April in received was news The games. 31. on March died George sadly George Bantuvanis news and its appearance in print hits home. course and Sage Chapel singing. Chapel Sage and course (Morrisonville, NY) writes, “My family all came here came all family “My writes, NY) daugh- (Morrisonville, my Even birthday. 80th my for Lia, 12 July brought last she and came, Hawaii in lives who ter I So far have great-grandchild. only and one my in pool a at local day every I swim health. good and winter my I own pool also in gar- summer. I get still all over. a den flowers lot lovely with from news good Marian Roberts memory: memory: Guy Sta- Mibs Shene Baker Phyllis Har- Myles Akabas Stork (Penn Yan, Stork (Penn , 237 West High- West 237 , “Piper” “Piper” Marcham Marcham tells me Nancy Carver Hanpeter, and Hanpeter, Haberman (Bethel, ME; Sabra Akabas (NYC) writes, “Yet an- writes, “Yet (NYC) Akabas , who died late last wasyear, Joan Ruby Corinne Watkins , , 6080 Johnston, IA Dr., Terrace that that the Class of ’51 two received awards at the October Trustee- Jane Haskins Marion Steinmann , daughter , of my son daughter c (and (and all the rest of you). We beat our Follett, Follett, Mary Holcomb Larrabee (Piedmont, VA) spent a VA) af- recent (Piedmont, Larrabee Donald and Donald Shelley Epstein Jim Hazzard . She is the fourth of our grandchildren to at- to grandchildren our of fourth the is She . 51 grandmother—a baby boy, in Texas. She says it’s says She Texas. in boy, baby have grandmother—a don’t still us of some but feat, difficult a not been has logbook pilot’s “My great-grandchildren. Council Award Council Society Cayuga 1947 of Meeting’s Class the tober: Annual Fund Oc breakfast in - mem Society Cayuga of number highest the for for Cup Loyalty 1979 of Class the and (58); bers of or their 55 300 donors percent either having a reunion one year from gift every make donors (other class second the only are We next. the to than ’79) that has done that. Way to go, Martin for.” are chairs rocking what That’s Com- of Chamber County Yates 2010 the won NY) ley (Arlington, justVA) became a great-great- College the of archives) the in is (and display on direc- museum The Museum. (MD) Aviation Park or tor says she enthusiasm has seen such never I was 18. Hey, in a detail logbook. vey my of porch front the on me with sitting ternoon Mountains. Ridge Blue the in cabin log one-room their celebrated and year last Award Spirit merce 29, November born Ryder, great-grandchild, first wed- 60th their Don celebrated and Corry 2010. 30. June last anniversary ding Warfield 381 reached $1,944,782, with goal million $1.5 of (highest participation percent 45 had donors, any 2011 returning class), and have, to date, million. $63.5 raised ’77 Moses Mark the received just have I Cornell. tend Nation- the from Award Fellowship Distinguished al The Network of award Social Work Managers. recognizes outstanding academics and practi- management.” work social of field the in tioners Shelley’s fondest memory the of Cornell as is meeting campus visited she when Roosevelt Eleanor of guest Watermargin. other Akabas has been admitted to Cornell: Leor Cornell: to admitted been has Akabas other Akabas ’14 the camaraderie of other senior auditors and the and auditors senior other of camaraderie the undergraduates.” 20-year-old of energy 50131-1560; tel., (515) 278-0960; e-mail, phj4@ e-mail, 278-0960; (515) tel., 50131-1560; cornell.edu. land Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19118-3819; [email protected]; e-mail, tel. 242-8443; (215) Paul H. Joslin one of our class’s major pranksters. Jim once told once Jim pranksters. major class’s our of one Phi bud- Dog Alpha Great the call I’ll what me about some and Jim year, sophomore During Caper. up dogs a dies rounded of bunch neighborhood the in house Phi Alpha the into them poured and middle of an elegant late-afternoon gathering. and doors had unlocked perpetrators of the One electrical the main threw and another windows, the into total house darkness. plunging switch, shrieking,” much and chaos absolute was “There recalls [email protected]). “I distinctly re- against rubbing furry something feeling member dogs— the about worried always (I’ve legs.” my whether they did indeed get returned to their rightful homes.) 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Anns from the Class of ’52 hanging out!” Alice Suzanne Joyce Seeley (Pittsford, NY) paints now. They’d welcome volunteer helpers. Dick and Warshaw Forman (aliceforman@ nyc.rr.com) is also in oils, gardens, plays bridge, reads, exercises, and Peg also made it to a pre-reunion Cornell Adult enjoying “the excitement of NYC.” She does mu- travels. John Nickles (mjnickles@verizon. net) University (CAU) astronomy session as reunion seums, attends the Metropolitan Opera and pro- goes to the gym three times a week and walks and ’56 people approached. grams at the National Arts Club, and visits her the other four days. He volunteers for the Ameri- Dick takes a light-hearted approach to many family in Cobble Hill. She still paints, but mostly can Medical Resource Foundation and sings with things, including the Internet, which, in his hands, on Long Island. Along with clothes and makeup, the Masterworks Chorale of Greater Boston and the conveys much that is worth sharing, such as the in 1948 Alice brought “a sense of adventure and Harvard UCC choir in Lexington. Thomas Arnold cartoon which, if memory serves, was entitled appreciation for the beauty of Ithaca and the vary- ([email protected]) does yard work, reads, com- “The First Senior Moment on Record.” It shows a ing backgrounds of the student body.” putes, and works with local government. When he pair of creatures perched atop what appears to be Dean, MBA ’56, and Barbara Green Bock ’53 wrote, he had been “ducking the rain.” It was a the tip of a mountain peak as rising waters reach ([email protected]) divide time between their re- wet fall in the East. Al Kayloe (Pepper Pike, OH) the tips of their tails. They’re viewing a crammed tirement home and a summer home. They keep up is retired. He travels and loves to be with his ark bound for the horizon. (“Oh dear,” says one, with old friends, children, and grandchildren. Dean grandchildren. Al does some volunteer work in the roughly, “was that today?”) Speaking of viewing is past president of the Cornell Club of Sarasota community and is “trying to get a handle on tech- wildlife, Bill Gratz and Jay Bruno attended the and the Ivy League Club. In 1948, Dean drove from nology to stay up with children, grandchildren, seasonal migration of birds at Cape May, NJ, with Watertown and brought clothes and a chair. Eben and friends.” When he got on that bus from the CAU, not to mention the pre-reunion. Lang ([email protected]) and wife Mimi enjoy farm he had “a valise! And a small one at that.” Bill noticed, and kindly directed attention life in a retirement community in Valley Forge, PA. Walter Elmore, MAT ’67 (High Falls, NY) is his to, a photo of Polly Hospital Flansburgh ’54 in They had just returned from three months at their church treasurer. He does a lot of maintenance at the Sunday, December 4 New York Times. She was summer place in Maine. “It is a lot of hard work his church, in his large yard and garden, and by pictured in the modern-style home her noted ar- continually fixing up our 120-year-old house, but helping with house maintenance for five adult off- chitect husband, the late Earl ’53, BArch ’54, de- I do enjoy it.” When he came to Cornell, Eben spring. He traveled to Cornell in 1948 in a 1933 signed in 1963. The Times reported that the brought clothes and a small radio. Now, he is Ford Coupe. John Werner (Rancho Santa Fe, CA) Historic New England group had helped Polly ob- “looking forward to seeing everyone at the 60th spends his time “enjoying retirement in sunny Cal- tain an easement—a legal agreement ensuring Reunion.” Eleanor Ullman Light, whose husband, ifornia with my beautiful wife, Evon: reading, din- that her house “cannot be torn down or signifi- Irwin, died in May, is in Scottsdale, AZ. In 2010, ing out, entertaining friends and family.” He will cantly altered, even if it gets new owners . . . they had moved to a newly built independent liv- take Evon to Paris this coming year. not far from where Henry David Thoreau (inspired ing senior residence. Eleanor is active with exer- Have you received the new class directory? We by Ralph Waldo Emerson) built his cabin in the cise and golf and is still professionally engaged hope it’s correct in every respect. If not, know we woods.” Center-chimney colonials, saltboxes, and in luxury international travel. She plans to remain tried and went with what we had as of the fall. Get such grow there now. Polly has even been able busy with travel and business. She is pleased that corrections to me. By now, you should know a lot to see that the landscaping would survive since the Cornell scholarship she and Irwin endowed about reunion from your mailbox or your comput- it is part of Earl’s home design. has been awarded each year to a graduate of her er, phone calls, and friends. Our 60th should add You may remember Earl’s 27 years as chair- school, Hunter College High School. up to fun, food, more friends, lectures, bus rides man of the Cornell Board of Trustees’ Building Susan Ekstrand Baglow, whose husband, to and fro, and all-Cornell events and those spe- and Properties Committee and as architect of Charles, died in 2010, is in Webster, NY. Clifford, cific to our class. So do your best to come to Itha- Cornell’s acclaimed underground Campus Store, MD ’53, and Patricia Devine Urban, BS Nurs ’52, ca June 7-10. We’ll miss you if you aren’t there. the US Consulate in Turkey, and more than 200 are in Wayne, PA. Bill Scazzero (Elmsford, NY) Any questions? Check the website or contact our educational facilities. You may also recall his out- manages a vegetable garden at Westchester Coun- reunion chairs at [email protected]. c duelling Navy’s national champion super saber ty Prison in Valhalla. He works with inmates who Joan Boffa Gaul, joangaul@ mac.com. Class web- swinger Frank Zimolzak for Georges Cointe’s Big help feed the hungry through the Westchester site, http://www.cornellclassof52.org. Red fencing team. Food Bank. He started this program years ago, and Your correspondent was wondering a while is “happy with this volunteering work. Inmates back how Jean Van Kleek Pettigrew (Tryon, NC) enjoy working with ‘this ole man.’ ” In 1948, Bill Besides those several ’53 class - was doing. After all, we haven’t seen or heard took the train to Ithaca and arrived with no place mates who attend every reunion much of her in all these years. So we put in a to stay and no money. Someone took him to the 53 (or almost every) with CRC (aka call. We assured her it was not a call for cash— Newman Oratory on Stewart Avenue, where Father Continuous Reunion Club), quite a few of us work just a reminder that our 60th isn’t so far off. She Cleary “took me in for years.” James Greenwald in extra reunions by attending beyond the stand - said life in the foothills of the Great Smokies suits (cantlongreenwald@ tds. net) plays tennis, visits ard every-five-year plan with the class ofaspouse. her fine. She has three adult and well-distributed with family in Madison, and keeps up with in-laws Dick Halbertstadt had an extra reason to join his kids and eight grandlings likewise. Jean’s active in Wisconsin and Minnesota. He dabbles in neigh- fair lady, Peg (Jones) ’56, and her contem po - in local art circles. Doesn’t hear much from class- borhood architectural history. He is “organizing a raries for the revels of June 2011. He and his mates except her Kappa Alpha Theta sister and cocktail party for Compassion and Choices of Wis- reunion co-chair Caroline Mulford Owens are well Van Kleek sister-in-law Barbara King Van Kleek. consin, which supports the option of physician under way to building a better 60th Reunion (it’s She’s doing fine, too, we’re told. aid in dying for the terminally ill.” June 6-9, 2013). That’s just over a year from A football season that began with a win ran into bumps. Inch-by-inch it improved and finished with victories that made history. Soph quarterback Jeff Mathews ’14, unanimously chosen 2010 Ivy League rookie of the year, earned the Asa S. Bush- nell Cup as Ivy League offensive player of the year 2011. The defensive player of the year was a Har- vardian. After eight games, the Big Red had won three. Columbia came to apple country from the Big Apple and went home whupped, 62-41, most points in one game for Cornell since 1936 (Coach Carl Snavely’s first game, a 74-0 bashing of Alfred. His 1939 team was ranked tops in the nation by many. In ’40, it voted to quit claim to a win won on an extra—fifth—down.) The ’11 season ended at Franklin Field, when Cornell quashed the Quakers of Penn, 48-38. That made 110 points in two weeks. Mathews set a Cornell season record that day with 548 yards passing. That smashed the existing record of 521 60 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes ; Don , re- , Safford , , whose April 2012April 61 , JD ’58, last ’58, JD , Fred McFarlin Hartz was also was Hartz , , who was be- | Wurmfeld about Wurmfeld Abrash, PhD ’66, PhD Abrash, Winifred (Shaw) Winifred Connie (Salm) and her husband, reports he’s keeping he’s reports Martha Bliss Red Devon oxen for Devon oxen Red rof March March continues to enjoy work- enjoy to continues s Night with a large group large a with Night s k’ Harold Cool Conlon , died in April 2010 and was and 2010 April in , died Hope Herman has a has pai Joan Fellerman John Buchanan ’54 , MD ’59, died last February. Our February. last died ’59, MD , Githler retired from work from in the retired Githler Rosemary Manno Bortko “Pat” “Pat” , missed our 55th Reunion but, like but, Reunion 55th our missed , Lorraine Silverman Arthur Yelon Walter ’52 , BA ’58, keeps up with friends at their , up friends with BA keeps ’58, PhD ’57 PhD , , Hal Fountain Ann Busch The death of of death The Martha Gorman King Lawrence health field (physician assistant at the V.A. hospi- the at assistant (physician field health that). before Rochester in EMT and Albany in tal traveling of experience” the “awesome reports She solar total a see to 2010 books July in the Island Easter to reading loves she that adds Ann eclipse. to forward looking She’s out. sends class the that ing treated for non-Hodgkins lymphoma: he’s en- he’s lymphoma: non-Hodgkins for treated ing post-chemo. year seventh his tering says “things are looking up” for her after a rough a after her for up” looking are “things says and hip). (knee issues years with three medical from And news good has been writing poetry and was planning to self- to planning was and poetry writing been has publish a Her of volume first poems. poem was from long ride about—the during—and written for priority big a is Skiing Boston. to back Cornell and spouses, children their her husband, Marty, won- had “We’ve grandchildren. couple’s near the and VT, Richmond, at reunions family huge derful Burlington.” and Deirdre Winters told us that her husband, Winters William condolences go out to you. you. to out go condolences being alone after 56 years of marriage, a difficult a marriage, of years 56 after alone being days. these classmates many for transition May was reported by his wife, wife, his by reported was May Gordie, hope to make the 60th. The Kings are hap- are Kings The 60th. the make to hope Gordie, Gulf the on do, we as Paradise in “living be to py Florida.” of Coast sorry to have missed our “but last I’m reunion, herself counts Joan 60th!” our to forward looking the out ride to able been have to fortunate “very to continue far—I thus encountered I’ve bumps dear.” are all who cherish and work, travel, Marshall says also Pat dark! before home be to him quires that heard, we last The takers? sale. Any was updating his passport in anticipation of a and April, last to Spain visit re- hip one-month a planned had He lacrosse. youth in involved still is says week, a and twice gym the to send We goes placement, more! for ask Can’t A+. remains health his to condolences Mex- of Gulf the overlooking venue a at alumni of with talked ico. She Bruce White, White, a 20-year Navy veteran, knows her way and Gordon a accompanies and tool box around his hauser 1948 racing car Kurtis Offen to the vintage races. Having written seven books on on is a working now Gordie history, auto racing of history the list,” bucket my “tops that project the of leader the includes which family, own his of king Kentucky whiskey the bourbon Pilgrims, clergyman Episcopal an and century, 19th the in the of who Bishop lost his for picketing church New York in 1930. “No horse thieves, but one selling for shillings 30 silver was fined ancestor see “I’ll concludes, Gordie Indians.” the to liquor ‘the cox again to hope I when 2015 in everyone Row.” Alumni the for eight guys’ old local ROMEO Club luncheons (Retired Old Men Eat- Men Old (Retired luncheons Club ROMEO local Out); ing in research doing and students graduate with ing I con- least, at moment, the for Montreal—”and adds. he this,” for funding have to tinue wife, his since trouble of out Rose- husband, cemetery. national FL, Sarasota, the in buried Associa- Alumni Cornell the of a is member mary Zinc attended and tion c Lete- Stephen , MD ’58, MD , , who has been is one busy guy! busy is one has not retired from retired not has , MD ’58, has moved to Boston to moved has ’58, MD , operates a operates manufac- four-man did not mention any hurricanes any mention not did Gordon White time fifth the for married was He off ran wife “One November. last , JD ’56’s latest travel adventure travel latest , ’56’s JD divides his time between Guilford, between time his divides Reed, lesliejreed@me. com. com. Class Reed, lesliejreed@me. Brown retired to of city the Balti- retired Brown Kenneth Sheldon Richard Gross has retired from golf - course super Jim Ritchey Bill Embury Jason Pearl Robert Levine 55 with another man and three others succumbed to succumbed others three and man another with newest The a stroke. and cancer, attack, a heart perhaps so 56, only is Moore, Patricia White, Mrs. had VIII as six as live will I long she Henry do. wives and I hope not to match his record. At (Nor of have mine heads!” lost least none their Mrs. new The humor.) of sense his lost Gordie has with his church and fire department for 53 years. 53 for department fire and church his with Bill Pinchbeck CT, and Montpelier, VT, and attends Rotary in each in Rotary attends and VT, Montpelier, and CT, Peru to trips of couple a to led has That location. in Rotary Vieja La Molina with effort a joint and fil- biosand installed have they where Peru, Lima, trip a worth is It homes. 5,000 than more to ters and filter biosand the of more read to Google to grands his to reads Bill world. the around use its intergenerational on them takes and week a twice programs. Elderhostel Missouri, in group covering nine mid- turer’s representative chilly too gets it When states. western Bill with Alaska the Emburys to cruise in warmer tip On latitudes. his fishing two-week a list: wish a where reunion, for campus to returning and Jr. thirty- After be waiting. will Statler at the room Medical Upstate at SUNY in Syracuse years eight U., Cincinnati. I have loved Barb’s Christmas cards for cards Christmas Barb’s loved have I Cincinnati. years, as I have her watched very off- talented let- The accompanying grow. and spring grands One accomplishments. and lives in fill ters their appointment. this of perks true the of is to downsize desire their so I assume fall, this not due to the weather doing it for them. Jim Ag the through way his working that mentioned equal education, was a at second Cornell school think I activities. campus and work course his to job volunteer His that. second would us of many phased been has library all-volunteer local the at and Ervin over. taken has county the as out was by train,Moscow— to not plane. Beijing This from trip was Railroad via the Trans-Siberian and find- I it thought only ran west to east. Having continents, seven all on extensively traveled tutoring, At- difficult. Jason’s more is ing places unique growing from benefit still graders first risk senior, school a high grandson, his sure I’m I’ll and applications. college on advice his request can bet every would organization love to have vol- unteers like U. School of Medicine, where he works vaca- short at list: the Wish Clinic. Liver Center Medical Larry Grolnick climates. warmer in tions Plains. White in psychiatry practices still Williams choose-and- his overseeing from not but vision, years. 50 for has he as farm tree Christmas cut Les Papenfus http://classof54.alumni.cornell.edu. website, tia Holloway more from a smaller town and are enjoying its enjoys her involve- Letetia opportunities. many ment with CAU and the local alumni activities, both of which have united her with old friends as works still She ones. new to doors opened and a hospital chaplain and volunteers at the local schools. city Liberty. in resides still and practice law his , Bob Gott - Gott , , Frank , , Wendy continues and and of the 1948-52 the of Robert Vince Giarrusso Dick Loynd ’50 , , Barbara Johnson Jeff Fleischmann ’51 , , Ritchie Farnsworth’s life’s Farnsworth’s Ritchie , MD ’60’s notes are always are notes ’60’s MD , Kozinn’s Kozinn’s Israel family keeps have yet to retire to the south- the to retire to yet have Jack Rogers ’49 Warren Heilbronner working with a Rochester law firm that is active in various Todd Kolb Jim Hanchett, 300 1st Ave., #8B, , and and , (Phoenix, AZ) who have sought to live to sought have who AZ) (Phoenix, Walt Lewis c , , and guys like Walt Bruska ’50 Old Redders Redders Old Sondra Dreier MEd ’55, ’55, MEd Bradley ’50 teams coach teams were in Ithaca to over the relish 31-7 Cornell all walked had which Wagner, over win ’s guys, 41-7, in his debut the year others’ each of pleasure the savor to before—and last year’s Playing event. in an company annual time- our out wiped night at game Homecoming As of this writ- dinner. Saturday Fifties honored hoped be to devoutly was it December) (last ing even may We restored. be would dinner the that Any- hope. us Let this. see you time the by know first the among be will space this of readers way, to know. [email protected]. e-mail, 10009; NYC yards passing, yards which passing, he had at established the of expense the of pride the the Lions Columbia in- it kept company and Mathews week. previous the up far from frequently scored They teresting. field. He set a Big Red season passing may record Many touchdowns. 25 and yards 3,412 with whether that when deciding to choose consider Math- since year, this Homecoming at us join to sure-handed— ews a and dodgy, of flock quick, two for return receivers brilliant—young short, in in are more the pipeline. And there years. more is promising. future the say could You Dilatush 54 non profit organizations. Being of gives counsel organizations. profit non younger the with mingle to opportunity the him Although not generation. his retired, activities with the Big Red Band and the Dramatic Club suggest if options he ever does. Ten years ago upsized so the Heilbronners they would have a visiting all most accommodate His could that home calling. larger come they should children, grand the of chairman as is work volunteer consuming in trust nonprofit largest the NYSARC, of trustees His disabilities. with people serving country the and in (tennis active sports staying list: bucket more for out time carving and nonprofits, golf), vacations. patients cancer with work His holistic uplifting. He positive. very and to be gratifying continues and Patty lead their balanced - homes lives in Hawaii and Santa their Barbara, Cali between an as says, organic Walt being, residence fornia mini-farm. expanding and her trips keep multiplying. She travels long distances to see her great-grands. Elisavietta Artamonoff Virginia, Virginia, western powder is softer than the ice England. New of rocks and ling, of the Cornell Chimes doorbell (we do wish do (we doorbell Chimes Cornell the of ling, continues share), us let and it patent would she of city the in music of cornerstone very the be to work/passion can be summed up in a few words: few a in up summed be can be work/passion may work Her editor. and mentor, poet, writer, viewed via her website: www.elisavietta.com. of reach to and in the countryside in Washington Homes opportunities her offer Maryland southern different groups of writers. HillWitherell ’55 lands. Bob prefers to manage his tree farm in Ver- in farm tree his manage to and prefers Bob Betty as lands. such folk Cornell visit to fly and mont Herb Bool in milder climes. 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reading Homer and Langley—and hopes that her with Warren Real Estate and is a Cornell wrestling also recently cruised the Sea of Cortez and along house will never look like theirs! After being wid- booster. He has six children and five grandchildren. the Mexican Pacific Coast. She was looking forward owed for 17 years, Carol Edlund Pierce married; she Nancy Sonn Cooper, BS ’80, writes, “Just got back to an upcoming cruise with New Jersey relatives lives in Bloomington, IN, volunteers with hospice, from a beautiful trip in the Dordogne. It was a on the Queen Mary II to Quebec and back. and serves as co-chair of the gourmet group of home exchange with my home in Santa Fe. Have Woody Bliss (formerly Powell Woodward) re- the University Club. Judith Silverman Duke is still done several: NYC, Boston, Key West, . Any- minded me of all the craziness that went on in editor/publisher of Advanced Technology Libraries, one out there interested?” Boldt Tower when we were freshmen. He told the a monthly newsletter on information technology Good for Francesca de Gogorza Moravcsik story of a dorm neighbor who squirted lighter relevant to libraries. She looks forward to the an- (South Burlington, VT)! She won first place (in the fluid on the hall floor and under our doors—and nual family vacation, this year in Myrtle Beach. women’s 75-79 age group) at the 2011 National lit it. Now I must admit that, with my still good Jim Petzing writes that he keeps in touch Track and Field Championships in Berea, OH: “Dis- memory, that incident has skipped my mind, but via e-mail with fraternity brothers Carl Young, cus: 61' 3". Bronze in shot and hammer. Also first I guess I lived to write this column! Woody is George Shear, BArch ’56, Frank Dill, MD ’63, Ned place in the Massachusetts State Senior Games in surely a happy man. He writes from his home in Arps, MBA ’57, Bill Boyle, MBA ’56, and Burt discus and shot. It makes keeping fit seem pur- Montague, MA, that his wife, Sarah, is the joy of Smart (a great Phi Kap group!). When he wrote, poseful, besides staying alive.” This is one of the his life. “Much sweet, good fortune has landed Jim and Cheryl were recently returned from a sev- most amazing items I’ve ever had in this column. me here in beautiful Western Massachusetts.” en-day cruise on the Celebrity Solstice and already I’m thinking of getting back into shape! Leo Con- Lewis Klotz (Teaneck, NJ) writes that his grand- planning their next trip, to sail from Venice to very (Edgartown, MA) still works in real estate on son, David Grossman ’15, is in the Engineering Monte Carlo on the Regent Voyager in September. Martha’s Vineyard. He winters in Ft. Lauderdale and college. His mother, Paige Klotz Grossman ’82, “We have an extra bedroom for ’55 visitors,” Jim was on his way to Iceland as I wrote this column. completes the three generations. He loved Re- concludes. Thanks for keeping us up-to-date on We enjoyed a lunch on Martha’s Vineyard last sum- union and hopes to be back in 2016! Phyllis joins your news. I’ll have more next time! c Nancy mer, and he had just returned from taking his ex- me in sending our best to you all. c Stephen Savage Petrie, [email protected]. Class tended family to England, where he rented a large Kittenplan, [email protected]. website, http://classof55.alumni.cornell.edu. house near Falmouth. “Had a great time, with in- teractions of all ages—10 to 78.” Good for him. Joan Hillsley MacKenzie (Redondo Beach, CA) Congratulations to Phil Gravink, After writing this column for is an outpatient psychiatrist, working with chil- who has been elected to the almost 50 years, I now have an dren and adults, and is past president of the lo- 57 National Ski Hall of Fame. For 14 56 opportunity to write about a cal South Bay Psychiatric Society. She also spends years, Phil was president of the Loon Mountain per son whom we all admire, Charles Feeney. Out nearly 21 weeks in timeshares in Las Vegas and Corp. in Lincoln, NH, working closely with its of respect for Chuck and his desire for anonymity, Palm Springs (where she is treasurer of a resort) found er, Sherman Adams, former governor of New he never appeared in my columns despite all he and visits her brother in a wilderness area near Hampshire and chief of staff to President Dwight has done for Cornell. We are all aware of the amaz - Seneca Lake in New York. Joan and her husband D. Eisenhower. Phil and Shirley will attend the ing gift he gave to help finance Cornell’s new Tech have been married for 27 years. Peg Jones Hal- induction banquet in April in Seattle. Center in New York City. This is on top of every - berstadt writes that she and husband Dick ’53 are On the day after Thanksgiving last year, Dori thing else he has done for Cornell, most of which living in a retirement community in Cincinnati: Goudsmit Albert, Phil McIndoo, Gil Schlerf ’55, is little known. This writing, however, has little to “Wonderful people and much to do.” She contin- Ed and Adelaide Russell Vant, Bernie and Chris do with money. It has to do with a won der ful ues as a docent in the Cincinnati Art Museum, Zeller Lippman, and Marty and Sue Breslow Dil- person who has touched many in his lifetime. which she had done for 20 years. ”In October lon gathered at a restaurant near Madison Square Although I, and others, see him rarely due to 2010, I went to Russia with a docent group, and Garden for dinner before the Big Red hockey team his busy schedule, he is a person of tremendous in 2011 the docents went to China. Museums a- played Boston U. at a packed MSG. Cornell played loyalty to those he has known over the years. His plenty!” Peg and Dick have nine grandchildren, well, but came up short in overtime, 2-1. Speak- wry sense of humor and modesty makes for a per- five of them in five different colleges. ing of sports, my lacrosse teammate, “tough” son who is a joy to be with. He has been a won- Martha Bentel Lovell is finishing her 11th Tony Tewes, played golf in northern Michigan last derful father to his children, imbuing them with year as a Kaiser Hospital volunteer and writes that summer with Al Suter, MBA ’59. Tony spends the the traits of charity and kindliness that is his hall- she ison a “permanent vacation in Sun City—Rose - winters in Stuart, FL, playing more golf and some mark. My daughter Susan Kittenplan ’85 and his ville, CA.” Martha and her husband take mostly racquetball. He also took his son fly-fishing in daughter Juliette Feeney Timsit ’84 were room- short trips with their travel club and are planning Siberia last summer. mates at Cornell and remain friends today. Susan to see Alaska in 2012. Their four children and sev- Myron Green and Chuck LaForge both list has always looked forward to Juliette coming to en grandchildren live close by. A long note from Florida golfing as current recreations. Chuck read New York. When it was officially known that Chuck Patricia Hamm Finstad (Sarasota, FL) tells of her well over 50 books on his Kindle last year, and had given so generously to our university, it gave interesting careers. She owned two retail busi- reports that the reunion of mid-1950s Hotel me a chance to say what we all wanted to say: nesses, worked for P & G, as well as Dow Chemi- school grads continues annually, usually in Flori- Thank you, Chuck—for being our classmate, for cal, and held several civil service functions in the da. I’ve always thought Paul Noble was the most everything you have done for Cornell on our be- Dept. of Social Services. In retirement, Patricia be- imaginative member of our class and that seems half, and most of all, for being you. came a Tai Chi instructor and teaches up to seven to be confirmed by Paul and Paulette’s having When Curt Reis brought to my attention that classes a week—for hospice staff, in adult educa- written most of the songs for the “Palm Beach Barlow Ware ’47 had passed away, it brought to tion, in retirement communities, and privately. She Centennial Follies,” in which Paul performed, too. mind some wonderful memories that I know were publishes a weekly newsletter with items of inter- He is still active in the Palm Beach County Film shared by many in our class. Barlow was almost the est to the spiritual, holistic, and arts segments of and TV Commission, and it would be easier to list first person you saw upon arriving on campus in the community. Recent travel: “In the past decade the continents that he and Paulette have NOT September. His amazing smile and personal recog- I’ve traveled to India, Turkey, Israel, Bali, and Lon- visited in the last year. nition told you that you were at home at your col- don. Planning another India trip next year.” Dwight Emanuelson has done something I’ll lege once again. Barlow was the voice of the Big James Yates is still doing plastic cosmetic bet no other classmate has done: scuba dive 228 Red at many sporting events, but he was much surgery after 45 years. “Have also received Harris- feet deep in the Florida Straits off Cuba. He has more than that. He was Mr. Cornell Ambassador. He burg (PA) Magazine’s ‘Simply the Best’ plastic sur- also scuba dived off as many continents as Paul was at almost all of our major class events, and we geon honor for the past five years.” James is chief Noble has visited on land. If you are touring the will never forget that. May he rest in peace. I was of plastic surgery at Holy Spirit Hospital and med- Smithsonian Museum, look for Jeff Gorman, who also moved by the recent passing of Daniel Co- ical director at Grandview Surgery Center, both in volunteers in the American history section on a hen, JD ’58. Dan was at Reunion and was as hap- Camp Hill. He loved Reunion and recently took a weekly basis. He also is involved in practicing py being on the campus as anyone. Those of us trip to Rome. Bonnie Smith Whyte is retired in “geriatric medicine” on aging nuclear power who knew him send our sympathy to his family. Reston, VA. “I am promoting a new organization, plants, specifically in the areas of corrosion and Orlando Turco, the great Cornell wrestler, still ‘Reston for a Lifetime,’ establishing services that chemistry issues. Jim and Sharie Broadhead spend lives in Ithaca and is retired after 35 years as a enable residents to remain in their homes long the winter in Florida, and last summer Jim taught science teacher and wrestling coach. He is now into retirement years.” Bonnie was at Reunion and an adult education course at Colby-Sawyer College 62 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes Bob Carolyn Dorothy and other and , died last , died April 2012April 63 | Don ’57 and wife Suzy have Suzy wife and , husband of March March Walter Wills John Seiler ’57 Seiler John naturally has decided to go. to decided has naturally ([email protected]) reports that his challenges in- challenges his that reports DVM DVM ’58 , , PhD ’66 (Freeport, ME; wingke@ ME; (Freeport, ’66 PhD , and and his wife, Elaine. Ken reports Al Podell , sent in a fine update on his and Carolyn’s and his on update fine a in sent , Ken Wing After citing 39 very good reasons against vis- against reasons good very 39 citing After Tom Nytch ’ (King) excerpts a few Via years. several last the of lives job great a from fully “retired Tom that report we looking College, Vet to as Cornell’s state liaison through run are that programs state various after with meeting and lecturing, the facilities, university Unfortunately, regularly.” faculty and students not-completely-hap- a granting job, that cut state the on serving jobs, fix-up for time more Tom py veterinary for board department’s NYS education than more now singing, continued and medicine, Binghamton.” of Choir Madrigal the with years, 30 disabled mentally to services with busy is Carolyn chap- local the of board the on active and people in a ter of close-knit ARC. She also participates behind-the-scene doing ladies” “senior of group has gotten recently and works, charitable good, effectively, quite websites using genealogy, into says. Tom bono as a judicial hearing officer in Upstate New Upstate in officer hearing judicial a as bono world- traveling not when Falls), (Honeoye York photograph- fall, last and, trips fishing for wide ing wildlife on safari in East Africa. Mitchell Ackerman husband, her that word sends Caldwell ’59 play to continues Zeta, Alpha fraternity, his that from retirement “total his Upon life. his in part a teaching of post-career his (after workforce” the hospitality management at Monroe College for Chuck Hunt semesters), nine he Nine Nasty countries—the nine his last iting some them— having calls admits he which (about survives he If this read you before back be should Al concern), writing, at we say this all can Al, 2012. in early to close keep to is lay November, late in leave you as bodyguards, and sharpshooter armed hired your comcast. net) and his wife, comcast.Sharon, celebrated their 40th anniversary with a week-long cruise a had they that says Ken Alaska. to Seattle from wonderful trip and enjoyed traveling with FL. Beach, Chuck to Vero permanently relocated can be contacted at [email protected], as he’s hoping to connect with classmates and other area. in the Cornellians ‘mates at [email protected]. at ‘mates April. We’re sorry to learn that, Dorothy. Furniture Dorothy. that, learn to sorry We’re teach- April. with along busy, her keep helps refinishing of Women ing and with activity the Democratic as is about Clifton Dorothy (VA), thinking relo- lives. sons her of one where Charleston, to cating Robert Hannaand Jr. everything do to time enough “finding clude re- He do.” to wanted I was it what remembering years ago with several to tired his Eileen, wife, FL, Vedra, Ponte where he enjoys “no state in- come tax or snow He shoveling.” would like to E Chem fellow from hear Judy Gerald : “I : still “I are more are Leslie Tay- Carberry, and Carberry, Philip Jr. Dattilo Fillo (lizfillo@yahoo. com) (lizfillo@yahoo. Fillo Martin Steinberg Judith Bower , , Gray Gray ([email protected]) emeritus med school professor school med emeritus Sandy Thomas Meyer , , MD ’62, and his wife, san and and Liz Fuchs , live far out in the Virginia country - country Virginia the in out far live , , who was off to Paris and a Rhone Riv- Rhone a and Paris to off was who , Len Harlan Bill . . off as many continents as Paul Noble Paul as continents many as off land. on visited has Dwight Emanuelson has scuba dived scuba has Emanuelson Dwight Another Gerald and physician is Another retired activist is activist retired Another Barbara Wood works as a family research assistant, having assistant, works as a research family ‘ (Rensin) ’61 (Rensin) with up keep to trying and exercising, swimming, three all that reports He grandchildren.” nine our of their grandkids.” children the are on Cornellians and “working that are the grandparents side, but Gerald i Gerald - but side, up busy too “Still writes, He ([email protected]). to going textbook, diseases infectious our dating med meetings, working in the woods, rowing, ([email protected]), performing trials pro trials performing ([email protected]), Freedman cele- to Florida to then September, last cruise er studies, medical of completion daughter’s a brate then to visit Cuba. art Gerry’s gets him activity in place he won third and sculpting bronze into a recent art Gerry Connecticut also show. finds en- the and sailing about kids city teach to time vironment by helping more to sail a tall “working ship out of physicians, our of One Haven. New is says, he ever,” than Insti- the woes it enjoy of the National despite funding.” and grant of tutes Health big and welcome Bob are “making and husband in home beautiful our from changes—downsizing rural Arizona to resort in a Tucson.” retirement set- to market estate real the for waiting recalls They’re Barbara it. with on getting before down tle how much her comparative study religions and in continues she as life her to meant have CURW center- a facilitating direction, spiritual coaching a chari- with roughly volunteering and group, prayer ing “treating (standrewsclinic.org) group table volunteer with all month, a children Mexican 200 medical providers and all in a church.” On the front, singing birth- 75th her for cabaret one-woman a planned day and still sings with contin- Cayuga’s Waiters She every ’13. in her see we’ll reunions; at June ues to be active in Planned in Parenthood the area. NJ, Princeton, lor good examples, having traveled a good part of the of part good a traveled having examples, good - paint still major art an as Sandy together, globe doing also Florida, south in studios two with ing, - boat enjoy Meyers The when year commissions. and every murals Bahamas the to get to try and ing or nis, ten refereeing and enjoying painting, not children. grand and daughters nearby two visiting Gerald Mandell vis- Leslie servant. civil a as years 45 after retired last CAU from group a with China western far ited Air National the at docent a been has and spring years. 15 past the for Museum Space and Esperanza College of Eastern U., a docent at the a U., docent Eastern of College Esperanza at zoo, presenter and a oldest science country’s sing to time finding also while Inst., Franklin the in Jack would like two choruses. to community from hear Bill Rau Bob Rita Mar- Nan- Celia Judith and and and and c Laurie Bloch is also active in active also is (Holland Patent, (Holland and Carol (Elis) is doing what a lot of lot a what doing is Donald ’56 Shively. Barbara took a took Barbara Shively. (weaverjack@ comcast. (weaverjack@ Joanne Field Bleakley the Berkshires in Massa - Massa in the Berkshires dto Martin Duane Dann , , [email protected]. have also done some traveling— some done also have It’s It’s good to year’s end. have Every at some hand in News notes - work either is wrote who ‘mate , divide their time between Scars- between time their divide , Gillet has been busy writing a chil- a writing busy been has Gillet retired ten years ago, and they have they and ago, years ten retired , and their youngest grandchild. An grandchild. , youngest and their Lawley isn’t selling real estate, she’s estate, real selling isn’t Lawley Jack Weaver Barbara Flynn JD ’57 JD , , [email protected]. Cohen is planning on attending. Rita still Rita attending. on planning is Cohen , MD ’59, and , , John Seiler MA MA ’55 c Gabrielle Kirsch McGhee Elaine Meisnere Bass Jane Taber Are you getting things in Are things you gear for getting It June? , , ing, ing, semi-working and volunteering, traveling, - fam growing enjoying sailing, writing, painting, A good thereof. or ilies, in active combinations is example 58 net), net), busy as a board member for a specialty a plastics manufacturer, business instructor at to Hawaii and Europe. Celia has been enjoying her Kandel Goldman enjoying been has Celia Europe. and As- Hawaii to Curriculum of directors of board the on service years. 35 for worked she where sociates, river cruise from Paris to Provence last July with July last Provence to Paris from cruise river inter- an developed She Society. Choral Morris the Her est in while geology at and Cornell is Jersey. currently New of geology the on course a taking Or- Musical Morristown the with is work volunteer Club. the for Women’s project a and service chestra will be here before you know it. If you’re one who one you’re If it. know you before here be will know to happy be you’ll dining, early-bird enjoys there’s early-bird registration for reunion. Feldman and exams ACT and SAT for tutoring private does Club, Cornell Jersey New northern the in active is with along us may be doing these days—going to doctors— to days—going these doing be may us but still found the energy to take a cruise last year from Stockholm to Copenhagen with vin dale and Florida, where Carol still works on her golf her on works Kurzman still Carol where Florida, and dale Kurz- the coming soon retirement Bob’s game. With 40 after Connecticut to move to looking be are can mans they so home York New their in years some When grandchildren. and children to closer cy Kressler up with keeping game, on golf her working also their From traveling. and grandchildren, nine her CA, home Rey, del Marina dren’s book on growing up in a veterinarian’s fam- veterinarian’s a in up growing on book dren’s for albums each photo ily together and putting grandchildren. seven her of activity from Cornell days that Donald has become an bridge. retirement”: my of part “essential and NY) both volunteer at Hope House, a local soup a local House, at Hope volunteer both NY) the at out help to Arkansas to travel and kitchen, If Int’l Ranch. Heifer ever you’re in East Aurora Sue see may you evening Shindler summer a on village the down driving husband her and Hillier Main Street in their 1931 Ford with Coupe, the seat. rumble the in ride a enjoying grandchildren Paul ’55 (Geneva, NY) have set a new record for them- in run Having department. running the in selves One of 5,000 miles. Jo’s this past covering fall, jail in parents with work to is activities volunteer and book The tape. on children their to read who tape are then delivered to the kids. Reusswig all 50 states, they tackled the Canadian provinces Canadian the tackled they states, 50 all in New Hampshire. Hampshire. New in the senior world, working with two groups in the in groups two with working world, senior the Skaneateles area. moved from Long Islan Mirage, in Rancho summers spend they chusetts; CA. 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low, blend in, avoid kidnappers, and by all means, it’s less than three hours by car from our home state’s economy and“our Legislature’s 47 percent enjoy the trip. We’ll be watching for your updates in Indiana—which, by the way, is grape country approval rating is the highest in the nation—very along the way and your safe return. Meanwhile, now, with lots of wineries.” different from the US Congress.” Bill took time off some of the ‘mates of ’58 will have gathered in Since Bill and Sue Phelps Day ’60, MEd ’62, from his job in October to spend 12 days in Italy Washington, DC, in late January at the annual CALC moved to the San Francisco Bay Area two years with his wife, Diane, on what he describes as “a meeting to continue ideas and plans for reunion ago to be near their daughter and her family, they pilgrimage—very meaningful.” After their return, in 2013. We trust you all have reunion on your cal- have gotten together with several ’59ers in the they “hosted breakfast for Jan Van Heiningen endars, or at least firmly in mind. Reports will soon area. “We have had dinner visits with Don ’58 and and Jack Keefe and family. It was nice to catch be heard from president Bill Standen and our co- Dale Rogers Marshall and with Sharon and Bill up. And our two Hotelie friends agreed to be part chairs Meyer Gross ([email protected]) and Bynum ’58. Sue organized a luncheon to which we of our food and beverage effort for the 55th Renni Bertenthal Shuter ([email protected]) and invited Cornell alums from the classes of 1955–65. Reunion, so plan to attend—it will be a good in this column in the near future. Cheers to all. We had a good turnout, including Phyl Corwin event.” Bill’s four children live in Florida, North c Dick Haggard, [email protected]; and Rogers. Sue hopes to organize additional Cornell Carolina, Oklahoma, and California, and three Jan Arps Jarvie, [email protected]. events in the Bay Area for our decade. If you’d like family members are currently in the military, in - to be invited, please contact me at bill day3@com cluding a son who is an Army colonel and travels cast.net.” Bill, through his consulting company constantly to visit units around the world, and a Last June, Paddy Hurley was Longview Energy Associates, still works in the field son-in-law who is a battalion commander now invited to go to Deschapelles, of gas turbines for electric power generation, as deployed in Afghanistan. 59 Haiti, with a group of Essex, CT, he did during his corporate career. He also is man- Another hard-working classmate is Raoul Su- neighbors to coach the Fanfare Band, a group of aging director of the Gas Turbine Association, the dre, who asserts, “I am not retired at all. I am musicians in the town. “We knew little about them trade association he founded in 1995, and works probably busier now than ever!” On behalf of his as far as their ability to read music, only that they part-time for the US Dept. of Energy. On a pro company, Aspen Resorts Int’l, he travels widely— play together for funerals and celebratory events, bono basis he helps run the annual gas turbine close to 200,000 miles last year, he says—lectur- and were in need of new instruments and equip - conferences (part of the American Society of Me- ing at spa trade shows, designing spas in hotels ment. We were offered funding by Sigma Alpha chanical Engineers). In connection with these and medical venues, and working with developers Iota, an international music fraternity for women, conferences he and Sue take some side trips: last creating resorts. “I spend at least three-quarters of my time traveling,” says Raoul, “and the rest of the time I live in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. I try to spend as much time as possible with my daughter in Al Bruce and wife Noreen are Paris.” In 2010, he was in Ithaca to open the spa at the Greek Peak Hope Lake Lodge, and says, “It ‘ was nice being back there in spite of the fact that “renovating an 1860 five-bedroom most of my friends had moved on.” Arnold Henderson’s new book, Nudes, Meta - Victorian monster.” nudes, and Real People: A Book of Photographs and Words, can be found and “paged through” for Susan’ Williams Stevens ’61 free on the website www.blurb.com by clicking on “bookstore” and then searching for his name or the title. Returning to his “sidelines” of photog- which enabled us to purchase music instruction yeartoAlaska following the conferenceinVancou- raphy and poetry in retirement from his career as books, instruments, and equipment. I worked with ver and this year on a riverboat cruise on the Elbe a college teacher and then editor for environ- the musicians twice each day, aided by several River following the conference in Copenhagen. mental and engineering texts, Arnold said that he musicians from Essex, who were invaluable during Jeffrey Frey lives in Chevy Chase, MD, with plans subsequent books that will focus on his the rehearsal process. I tried to teach in French, his son, 15, and is scouting for houses in Califor- “photographic observations of the Oakland, CA, and when I failed my good friend Jenifer Grant nia, where he might live if he ever decides to re- inner city in the 1960s (where I set up a photog- translated into Creole. The men were inquisitive, tire. After teaching Electrical Engineering at Cornell raphy program for minority youth) and my serio - hardworking, and extremely grateful for our help. until 1984, Jeffrey spent a year at the U. of Tokyo, comic poem series ‘The Monkey and the Moon.’ ” At the end of the week we put on a concert for worked at the National Science Foundation for a Other classmates reporting on successful creative the community that included arrangements of while, and became a professor of electrical engi- projects include: Edythe Haendel Schwartz, whose ‘Amaz ing Grace’ and ‘Home on the Range’ made neering at the U. of Maryland. In the late 1990s poem “Resist” was a winner in the Fall 2011 po- especially for them.” Paddy also reports that her he went to Georgetown U. Law Center, receiving etry contest run by Persimmon Tree, an online daughter and family moved to Deep River, CT, in a JD in 1999. Subsequently, he clerked for Judge magazine of the arts for women over 60; Jill Web - August, so she has four of her five grandkids Randall Rader of the Court of Appeals for the Fed- er, who had her second exhibition of paintings nearby; the fifth is a pre-med freshman at the U. eral Circuit, was a partner at Howrey LLP, and is in late fall 2011 at the Stephan Stoyanov Gallery of Florida in Gainesville. now a principal at the Washington, DC, office of in New York City; and Nancy Clearwater Herman, Sam and Celinda Cass Scott (Indiana, PA) McKool Smith, where he does patent litigation, a painter whose work was included in a summer celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last mostly at the Int’l Trade Commission. Richard and show at the Wayne, PA, Art Center. June 17. “Our parents and grandparents were not Cécile Briand McBride are now winter residents Barbara Baillet Moran is pleased to say that that fortunate. I wonder if this is true of others,” of Indian Wells, CA. Before retiring, Cécile was a she has now completed a major undertaking men- writes Celinda. “Friends say that in their teens, real estate broker in the Washington, DC, area for tioned in a previous column, helping one of “the the rare couples they knew of who celebrated 30 years. She and Dick volunteer at the Living ‘lost boys of Sudan’ shape and edit his memories golden wedding anniversaries seemed ‘old.’ But Desert, the zoo and botanical garden in Palm of the terrifying experience of long years spent our friends don’t feel ‘old’ at all! Nor do we!” An- Desert, CA. Cécile also paints and writes children’s fleeing Northern Sudanese bombs, lions, and hye- other milestone celebrated by the Scotts was the books. “We’d love to hear from any ’59ers in the nas in the jungles of Africa before arriving in the 100th anniversary of the purchase of their fami- area (cecilemcb@aol. com).” c Jenny Tesar, 97A US in 2004.” The book, entitled Journey of Faith, ly vacation house in North East, PA. “My cousins Chestnut Hill Village, Bethel, CT 06801; tel., (203) was issued by Trafford Publishers in 2011; its au- and their children and grandchildren, and our 792-8237; e-mail, [email protected]. thor, Anthony Majok, is now a US citizen, husband, children and grandchildren, were almost all able and father. Barbara’s other recent projects include to attend the celebration, which was the July 4 working with her New York City son to design and weekend. My maternal grandparents bought the Bill Flanagan (Colonial Heights, create “a rooftop garden complete with fruit trees, two acres plus house (built in 1832) in 1911 as a VA) writes, “Things are always vegetable and flower gardens, and arbors,” which get-away from smoky Pittsburgh. It was only a few 60 fast-paced here,” largely be - is often used for fundraising events. Her eldest son hours by train from the city, and many other fam- cause he occupies a demanding position as chief lives near Barbara in Greensboro, NC, her daughter ilies from Pittsburgh had similar summer refuges. of staff to the Virginia House Majority Leader. He and her family are in the Baltimore area, and an- Passenger trains don’t stop there anymore, but is proud to note that things are going well in the other son is in Washington, DC. “We are happy to 64 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes , and , Maddy Robert Patricia April 2012April 65 Montgomery | Darren ’97 Julia Williams , , You CAN Go Home Go CAN You Bryant to the ros- the to Bryant and Christine (Duke Christine and at Hospice House, Hospice at r21 and . Sadly, his wife Dede wife his Sadly, . March March . “Wash” retired in 2009 in retired . “Wash” ([email protected]) is , , MArch ’65, and ’89 i aiyicue wife His includes family r8. Derek ’90 , , MacDougall, PhD (bgm1@ ’73 MacDougall, Stevens, sastevens61@gmail. Stevens, Phil ([email protected]) re- ([email protected]) Amy Smith Joe ’74 Our 50th Reunion is now a little a now is Reunion 50th Our over three away months (June 7-10). Please watch for the have done several Cornell videos Cornell several done have died Octobe , , [email protected]. Michael ’99 Thomas Novembe Dave ’87 on . Dave is enjoying golf and visiting his visiting and golf enjoying is Dave . Stephan Minikes , three sons, , and grandchildren. three sons, three , BA ’63, and would like to reconnect. In reconnect. to like would and ’63, BA , ’97 Doug Fuss , details her quest for her forebears around forebears her for quest her , details Sad news has come of the passing of of passing the of come has news Sad Bonnie Graham Jeff Blumenthal Dave Thomas Susan Williams c daughter Deborah, plus two daughters-in-law, Alex Murray Thomas Thomas Add grandkids. ten ter of ’62 authors. Amy’s book, book, Amy’s authors. ’62 of ter Again now. Amy for home is Florida world. the Wasilewski in be she’ll because reunion miss “Scot- may ’60s, the cornell.edu) In Fulbright. third her on Lanka Sri followed we and there study village a did I and ty Gayle, children children Gayle, created items of exhibit an showcase to working in- could This reunion. June our for classmates by Please etc. photographs, art, written, books clude if you have a directly contribution. Jeff Chica- contact in unsettled so was weather “Our adds, Jeff Jew- my with trips any do to got never I that go Usually Riders. Chaiway the gang, motorcycle ish but weekenders, City some and the trip at weeklong a do we mathematics teaching I’m year. this not Colleges of Chicago, which keeps me very busy volunteer previous my of lot a with line in is and Schools.” Public Chicago with activities from Trane Co. as a sales engineer designing shop- designing engineer sales a as Co. Trane from man- project was He systems. cooling center ping ager for the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning standards. industry writing Association, National Duke Wellington degenerative fighting been had He FL. Bradenton, “intent months, 18 for diseases spinal and brain on kayaking and playing online bridge again!” He is by survived his wife of 51 years, we (Padgitt) where lodge “The adds, Irene ([email protected]) Pat Hurricane during flooded was summer in stay The out in his wheelchair. was carried Duke and rainbow trout he was raising went downstream years and 17 were found took floppinghe around work in neighbors’rock the of lot A but all, at driveways. year good a Not destroyed. was build to our attend life, with on get to planning am I now friendships!” old renew and Reunion, 50th 62 registration mailing, which should arrive in late arrive should which mailing, registration March or - early infor April. reunion Also updated for check (cornellclassof62.org) the website Fly on the Do for in to plan time arrive mation. at memories classmates’ of documentary Wall the 4:30 on Thursday. ’65 Handler Gell see to sure Be CornellCast. on out checking worth the AAP ’62 video on under YouTube “Reunion Profiles.” ’62 AAP Cornell | 2002 of Sun He has Oil. a Cor- president as vice tired family: nell ’02), and brother brother and ’02), you may and imagine, on the last trip, he and a spent week Leslie in the of Gobi Desert Outer Mongolia. He’s lost contact with Kingsley our column we about Nov/Dec the ac- reported of tivities 24, Sept. on cancer of away passed he that you. writes from hear to need we remember Please 2011. com; com; . Mary studied Burke writes that writes Burke Innovation and Public Poli- Public and Innovation finds himself back at Cornell at back himself finds , LLB ’63, is a partner in Wolf in a partner is ’63, , LLB Narins (East Aurora, NY) lives in lives NY) Aurora, (East Narins “Catie” Graeffe “Catie” with co-authors Ian Macdonald and Ian with Macdonald co-authors Rolland. She is retired, but keeps busy keeps but retired, is She Rolland. Catherine Charles Hecht Jonathan Black Ellen Brock Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz in NYC, “spe- in NYC, & Herz Freeman Adler lit- Haldenstein commercial and securities complex in an cializing also is He work.” transactional SEC and igation active artist in with and studios Beijing Brook- in 2011 Exposition Art in showing is art His lyn. div- scuba enjoy Leslie wife and Charles Beijing. ing, playing golf, and visiting with to He travels as and from China, theirgrandchildren. six the Buffalo area and is a trustee of East Aurora’s East of a trustee is and area Buffalo the cel- that museums operate “We society. historical El- and Fillmore heroes—Millard local our husband’s ebrate her managing still is She is Falls Hubbard.” bert Niagara from far Not practice. medical that say to proceeds then life, a quiet leads she she USC, at teaching from retired has she though disser- their through students doctoral sees still writ- stop never old professors “I guess tations. last My continues. that so research, doing or ing Or- Positive Creative Leadership: Systems was book ganizations per- work on continues work Current Stewart. Karl structures organizational management, formance ad- public for textbook a as well as systems, and is working activity major My other ministrators. re- funded a federally Corp., Aerospace the with search and development center where they are of development the in governments local helping work early My (ATN). networks transit automated book the in reported cy: The Case of Personal Rapid Transit some of the early and the ATNs issues political that For effectively blocked their development. anyone living in West Virginia, you can see an Morgantown, in built was that system automated It is WV. still called though in PRT, fact it is a is retirement seems It system. automated group job.” on I the still was as as when busy system that serves Cornell and the entire county, entire the and Cornell serves that system ex- our of negotiation the in involved deeply I’m Work- Auto (United UAW the with mechanics. contract and piring operators bus our representing ers) Independent county’s the of chair as serve also I with drawing charged Commission, Redistricting based legislature county the for boundaries new perform- and numbers, census 2010 on changed as a Ithaca of City the within task same the ing Committee.” Redistricting City the of member pro- adjunct a part-time as a post up “taking by a Long dream Engineering. of fessor Biomedical older The boy.’ a ‘new myself find I now mine, of but are so there look the same, much buildings new And many ones. so new many small places Hall, Weill in work I days. old the like not eat, to old. years few a only edifice white magnificent a where fields playing be to used there remember I and I teach (mostly students The stands. it now in projects the of Master Biomed- design direct of full and superb are program) Engineering ical energy and come from a remarkable variety of So stuff to much learn and places backgrounds. try- from hurts head my day, each of end the by to ing fit is it amaz- the all still in. But Cornell been!” always has it place ing Ann Tower Railroad. in New western preservation historic promoting Underground local the exploring and York visiting activities, church Presbyterian enjoys She “Thinking friends. see to the trips in and buildings grandchildren, historic researching move, a NY.” about Chautauqua, at program Scholar Rhodes area, Sandywith Perrot touch in be to like would She , PhD Dul- Mar- Awer - Awer , Peggy Evening Democrat Eric Wittenberg, “Hank” “Hank” Jon Emerson “Bobbie” “Bobbie” , , writes that she and she that writes Henrik Jackie Siegel Barbara Judy Bryant Frank Earl reports reports that, on the last c , and Patty and I and attended , Patty and , who lived in Somerton Park, Aus- Park, Somerton in lived who , Thanks, Thanks, classmates, for sending We now have a your news. supply To columns. future for stuff good of , BCE ’62, MCE ’64. MCE ’62, BCE , , PhD ’61, had what can only be de- be only can what had ’61, PhD , Ron Roach . Another “local” is is “local” Another . Bramble was responsible for negotiating for responsible was Bramble , BS Ag ’65, and wife Noreen are “reno- are Noreen wife and ’65, , Ag BS , covering four area school districts.” He districts.” school area four , covering Our classmates love the Finger Lakes region. Lakes Finger the love classmates Our Caryl Koerper McAllister Leonard Johnson I’m sad to report that that report to sad I’m , who sent word of her death to the universi- the to death her of word sent who , , who writes, “As , chair who of writes, “As the board of TCAT 61 (Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit Inc.), the bus the Inc.), lea Transit Area Consolidated (Tompkins man, whose business card says she’s a she’s says “knitting card business whose man, 2 “Knit a created has She dancer.” yarn therapist Quit” and smoking cessation program, adds, “I Jackie Ec.” Home in stayed have should probably lived in the Southwest from 1977 to 2005 founded and she there While heat. dry the misses she start off, we’ve heard from start off, we’ve heard Tribune august the for column humor weekly a writes also as was graduation after job first Al’s publication. NY, Rochester, the for reporter police a Chronicle & addition she started a group called Blanket Revo - Cactus Needles Knitting Guild, Phoenix, AZ. Revo In Blanket called group a started she addition lutionaries that makes blankets for from to hear like would Jackie pets. and adults, children, David Marks Al Bruce monster an Victorian vating 1860 five-bedroom He “moon- mater.” alma from 90 about minutes NY, Hornell, the for retirement from lights visit often,” she says. “They all live in such inter- such in live all “They says. she often,” visit cities.” esting Stratton ’55 De- in beginning year” interesting “an as scribed “saw They cember 2010, when they Jordan. started and a three-week Egypt in antiquities of tour to south Alexandria from seeing worth Aswan everything the above Nubia ancient in monuments the vis- they where Jordan, to on going before Dam,” an- the as well as Petra of city famous “the ited their after long Not Jarash.” at site Roman cient some on slipped “Stratton WI, Delafield, to return ice, had a serious concussion, and underwent was February filled up surgery. brain emergency in-pa- by followed hospital, the and ICU the with was out-patient May the through March and rehab; tient normal to back now is he Happily, rehab.” couple remains busy with their large garden, which a includes stream, waterfall, and a good of chamber and hosting their deal of sculpture, music concerts and informal the musical sessions.hoping “Here’s 2011, of end the at Caryl Said next year will involve fewer doctors and much travel.” and music more Betty and and Betty ’60 to: news your Send ty. [email protected]. shall Matthews cancer. esophageal from 2011 early in died tralia, Among her survivors is her husband, weekend in September, “ September, in weekend the celebration of 100 years of Delta Phi at Llen- at Phi Delta of years 100 of celebration the himself.” for built Cornell Ezra that roc,house the Leonard learned that the of grandfather Cornell’s from Hospital house the of purchase fraternity’s the celebra- the that says He 2011. in granddaughter highlight The tion was a huge success, brothers. “with 350200 people on almost including hand, for me was standing on the Not lawn Hill. singing West over set sun the the as Song’ ‘Evening place.” in a eye the dry 54-96CAMma12notes_000-000CAMMA12Notes 2/8/12 3:05 PM Page 65 Page PM 3:05 2/8/12 54-96CAMma12notes_000-000CAMMA12Notes 54-96CAMma12notes_000-000CAMMA12Notes 2/8/12 3:05 PM Page 66

it up with more work on subsequent short-term eight months of the year, Big Sky, MT, three I received an e-mail from Joe Brennan visits. Then I lectured for a term at Peradeniya un- months a year, and London one month each year. (joseph. [email protected]). The Phi Gam- der a Fulbright about ten years later. I felt that the We see Neil occasionally. He is quite busy with ma Delta alums have formed a Yahoo group called original research was not fully published, so I am his activities in Academy Village in Tucson. An- “FijinetCornell, which has 128 e-mail addresses. going to be thinking on this trip about reframing other Tucson resident is Jennifer Patai Schneider A mini-Fiji reunion was held in early November at it. We got busy doing other things: Scotty became (jen nifer@ jenniferschneider.com). Until two years John “Whip” and Karen Gunn’s home in Chappell a Cornell dean and an India specialist—he went ago she was a specialist in chronic pain medicine, Hill, TX. Attending along with Joe were Charlie and there 19 times. Then in 1987 Scotty died of can- but has retired from direct patient care. She is Kelly DeRose, Blair and Pat Crum, Norman “Punch” cer; my youngest was 12, so I stuck closer to home busier than ever. Jennifer is traveling more and and Nancy Smith, and Dave Costine. That’s all for and actually developed a European/Italian handle having fun, but is spending a lot of time re- now. Please e-mail me directly with news anytime! as our Rome Program in the College of Architec- searching various medical areas that are of per- c Nancy Bierds Icke, 12350 E. Roger Rd., Tucson, ture, Art, and Planning took off. There was also sonal interest to her. One is an increasingly AZ 85749; e-mail, [email protected]. the matter of the protracted civil war in Sri Lan- common side effect of anti-osteoporosis drugs. ka. Last year, I thought it would be nice to go She has created an online support group for peo- back to Sri Lanka and have another look at the ple who have had fractures of the femur (thigh I contend that climate change original area in which we worked, particularly since bone.) She had it happen to her several years ago, has made seasons topsy-turvy. there is so much interest in forest conservation but is doing fine now. Jennifer is also interested 64 As I write this within a week of there. The Knuckles is a UNESCO heritage site now. in the possible adverse health consequences of Christmas, it’s sunny and relatively mild, not at all So here I am, rather senior, I would say, and with- egg donation. Her daughter Jessica died of colon typical of Chicago at this time of year. Yet I dare out my research companion. I wrote the US Dept. cancer at age 31 after undergoing several cycles say that as you read this in mid- to late March, of State introduction to Sinhala 30 years ago. It of ovarian hyper-stimulation, which precedes egg the weather might be cold and snowy or at least was a big commitment and interest to let drop donation. Twice, Jennifer has done a Congressional atypical wherever you are. Whichever, snuggle up for so long, but as we have all found out in one briefing on the need for a national egg donor reg- or strip down, as the case may be, and enjoy news way or another, life intervenes and sometimes, as istry, the only way that egg donors can have long- of your classmates. now, has some pleasant surprises.” term follow up. She also teaches a course several Sylvia “Juni” Bowes, MS ’79 (Metairie, LA) Ruth Zimmerman Bleyler met with Bonnie times a year to other physicians on the appropri- writes that she retired in late 2010 after a 48-year in October in Ithaca. “I had found some old let- ate prescribing of narcotics for chronic pain. Her career of public school teaching and counseling— ters filled with stories during my time at Cornell son has just completed his master’s degree in lin- then right away stepped into a position with the and was anxious to have her concur on the real- guistics and computer science. U. of New Orleans, counseling and otherwise work- ity! Bonnie, Pete (Dartmouth ’61), and I spent George Padar ([email protected]) has ing with local poverty-level high school students most of Saturday afternoon and dinner together been married to a German girl, Ingeborg Jorgas, who are the first of their respective generations to remembering and sharing wonderful stories of our since 1966 and has lived in Bowie, MD, since be on their way to college. Among other activities, time at Cornell. This is one of the greatest rea- then. George was a high school science teacher Juni visited Houston with 15 of her students. She sons to come back to Cornell, to meet up with all for 34 years while Ingeborg worked in office man- otherwise has two dogs and cares for her moth- of those lost friends! Getting in touch with class- agement. He was also in the US Army Reserve for er, 93. Juni adds: “As I approach our 50th Re- mates before reunion is the best way to ensure 31 years, deployed in “Exercise Reforger” (from union, I more and more enjoy reading about all they will be there.” Narby Krimsnatch has been REturn of FORces to , an annual exercise the activities of our classmates.” She notes she sailing the world on his yawl, Idyllawhile, and conducted during the Cold War by NATO). He served still keeps in touch with Susan Mair Holden and plans to return to Ithaca in June. One of the three in Germany, Bright Star-Egypt, and Desert Storm. Jinny Van Wynen Baeckler, MA ’67, who were on Krimsnatch brothers pictured in our Freshman Reg- He retired as a colonel. George and Ingeborg have her freshman corridor in Dickson V. ister, Narby wrote, “I’ll be there for the kick-off at two children. Daughter Nicole received her under- And speaking of Clara Dickson Hall: Ellen 4:30 on Thursday and look forward to seeing the graduate degree in criminal justice from the U. of Weiss Feingold, a homeopathic physician, recalls rest of the class at the discussion and dinner.” Maryland and her master’s in international eco- that after dinner there during freshman year, “the Narby has remained connected to Cornell over the nomics from American U. in Washington, DC. She women would stand up at their seats, replace years and did not mention his brothers. is married with two children. Son Mike is married their chairs properly, fold their napkins, and ask Bill Brozowski ([email protected]) to Jennifer and has one son; he was in the Army to be excused. Quite amazing when you think of writes, “We enjoyed travel abroad, but terrorism, for ten years and entered law enforcement after it. Why they did those things to us and why we riots, and plane safety have slowed us down to that. The Padars have traveled extensively in Eu- allowed it is a study of mind control.” Ellen and Hawaii, Yukon, central Alaska, and the US. Even rope and Hawaii. husband Michael live in Wilmington, DE, and Texas has many wonders and is gigantic. I garden, Paul and Jean Queneau live in Golden, CO. have four children and 11 grandchildren scattered bird, hunt, volunteer at church; grow flowers, trees Paul is president of PB Queneau & Associates Inc. among homes in Boston, NYC, suburban New Jer- and shrubs; ride my ’65 RED Mustang; attend the (The Bear Group). He likes to bike, play Texas sey, and Israel, where they lived until 14 years local 1885 Opera House monthly; keep a small hold ’em, and visit his cabin in the mountains. ago and return regularly to visit grandchildren. wildlife sanctuary in South Texas; and constantly Bruce Craig, MEd ’65 (BMCCRAIG@aol. com) and his Ellen is also still active in Hadassah. work on our 80-year-old wood home. We live in wife, Theresa Lambert, live in Heathsville, VA. Bruce Martin Seldman, president of his own exec- a small Czech community west of Houston called is retired from federal service (Administration on utive coaching and training company, reports that Columbus. The sad part is that I never drilled or Aging for the US Dept. of Health and Human Serv- Survival of the Savvy, the book he co-authored owned an oil well. The big boys up North bought ices) after 46-1/2 years. He and Theresa moved to about navigating corporate politics, is a Wall Street all the mineral rights and we only get the dry soil their weekend house at the mouth of the Potomac Journal bestseller. “Buddha” and wife Kelly live and cactus. Being from the Ag school, we drilled River, facing the Chesapeake Bay. Bill and Frances in Berkeley, CA, and have two grown children and for water and didn’t worry about the oil.” See you “Frankie” Campbell Tutt (ftutt@ comcast. net) two grandchildren, plus a teenage son still at in Ithaca in June to renew, rejuvenate, and remi- spend their time traveling, skiing, and visiting home. David Evans is CEO and president of Direct nisce! c Jan McClayton Crites, [email protected]. their son and family in Santa Fe, NM. Frankie runs Proposal Resources LLC, which provides resources the successful Tutt Travel, which means she travels to companies bidding for federal contracts. Dave a lot, but also has time for tennis and skiing. Bill and his wife live in Reston, VA; they have eight As I write this column, I am is retired, but serving as special advisor to the chief children and seven grandchildren. In 2010, Dave thinking of an idea for news that of staff of the Air Force in the volunteer sector. attended his 50th high school reunion in Albany 63 will have to wait until next De - The Tutts ski out of their home in Vail, CO. Bill likes and annually travels with daughter Jennifer cember. If you send a newsy holiday letter, please to fly-fish and golf and is about to publish a book. Evans Allard ’93 to the NCAA tourney dubbed the put my e-mail or home address on your list and Frankie and Bill’s son, Ben, MMH ’97, manages La “Frozen Four,” held in Minneapolis last April. send me one, too. It is just this time of year that I Posada in Santa Fe, NM. Ben and his wife, Ady, are Sandy Vogelgesang is still writing about a start needing news. Also, don’t forget to put June teaching their two children to ski. Bill and Frankie variety of international issues, from the role of 6-9, 2013 on your calendar for our 50th Reunion. were guests of Lord Waterford on a trip to Ireland women in development to public diplomacy. Sandy A Tucson friend, Neil Kochenour, MD ’69, is in 2010. Bill went on a pheasant and snipe shoot and husband Geoffrey Wolfe still live in Bethesda, enjoying retirement very much. He lives in Tucson and actually has a photo of the snipe that he shot. MD, and have two children in college. Sandy enjoys 66 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes . Due (rpf25@ and and Helga (douglas@ Cooper April 2012April 67 | Su Brian . Doug, a retired Dorothy Hoffman Priscilla Box Smith Tina (Emily_Hewitt@ ao. (Emily_Hewitt@ ’ . When home in Santa home . When Douglas ’64 March March and Deeks. Deeks. (San Jose, CA; dstvns@ Robert Fairchild Fein (Judith@GlobalAd ven (Judith@GlobalAd Fein “Skip” and and “Skip” Many of us are retired; many of many retired; are us of Many ance us are working. bal Regardless of keep to try all we status, LIFE IS A TRIP: A TheIS LIFE Transformative Bill ’65 . She also blogs for the Huf fing ton fing Huf the for blogs also She . Emily Hewitt Karin Teksal had a great time at Reunion, meeting had at a time Reunion, great Psychology Today Psychology William Richard Stevens Life has been difficult for for difficult been has Life Judith Burstein , BS Nurs ’69 ([email protected]) con- ([email protected]) ’69 Nurs BS , Susan Rockford Bittker ’66 Bittker Rockford Susan uscourts. gov) is chief judge, US Court of Federal of Court US judge, chief is gov) uscourts. - The DC. she received Last year, Chicago Washington, Claims, from Ministry of Doctor as degree her Eleanor spouse, her and Emily Seminary. logical o D.C. in live Acheson, earthlink.net)U. and retired U. from HewlettState Packard in Jose San at taught then He 2000. ac- kept has He 2006. in retiring fully Phoenix, of with Heart Community Sacred tive volunteering Services and Parks Association, Martin-Fontana of directors. board he is of the a where member He with her busi- also small his helps daughter ness.or one taking travel, Joy wife and In Richard year. a trips minor three or two and major two Salt York, New Upstate Hawaii, to went they 2011 and Diego, San Utah, of parts other and City Lake Phoenix. ([email protected]) are FL. retired and divide ([email protected]) Venice, NY, and Horseheads, between time their 66 to multiple sclerosis, she has been bedridden since bedridden been has she sclerosis, multiple to depend- and ventilator 1994 and a quadriplegic at for home. cared is She being 2004. since ent husband, her to According news, television enjoy does Tina com), tingandi. col- her With films. and garden, and home music, Memoir A I: and Ting published Doug laboration, mem- The care. of Love, Courage and Tina’s Devotion managing in helps physicist, perspective family-oriented and a patient offers oir situation. difficult a in one loved a for caring on and passion her make to way a found has us) ture. “loves who journalist travel a is She coincide. job husband photojournalist with Together leave.” to writes, then places, exotic to goes she Ross, Paul Ju- travels. their about films makes and lectures, written has dith Travel of Magic and Post cornell.edu) was appointed to the Joint Leader ship Leader Joint the to appointed was cornell.edu) the for zations Organi Service Veterans of Council ship of Commonwealth Virginia. of He does Order leader Military the in veterans for advocacy and of Foreign and in Heart the the Purple Veterans Wars. Judge in in our In lives. 2009 Cranston They acquaintances. old renewing and friends old Fine They Ireland. life in Dublin, to experience tinue has she says Dottie Reunion. the for to US traveled hill again, started after a almost walking year’s hiatus due to a knee She injury. would love to hear from Fe, NM, she walks with a different person each day each person different a with walks she NM, Fe, Judith arroyos. and hills was surrounding the she through friends Cornell old from hear to like would ex- and cried, laughed, she whom with to, close perienced life. Ron Phil Smith c and his and . Johnson, Carol Sacks Sekura , MS ’65. , MS , split the year between year the split , sent news from Califor- from news sent ’64 Daryl Goldgraben reports that he is enjoying is he that reports Maddy Gell Handler and his wife, Marcia. They sold They Marcia. wife, his and PhD ’77 PhD Intraub had lots of news to re- to news of lots had Intraub Wexler Wexler , , Ron , [email protected]; Joan Hens [email protected]; , David Bridgeman Judy Alpern Suellen Safir Rubin It has been another busy year for your re- When home, Judith Burstein Fein walks Fein Burstein Judith home, When with a different person each day. each person different a with , MArch ’65, and and ’65, , MArch She adds that She adds she saw at her 50th high school reunion. Sadly, Neena lost Neena Sadly, reunion. school high 50th her at 2010. in years 34 of husband her She VT. Killington, in home summer her from port Killing- Saul and and “experiencing are husband retired between time sharing summer’ ‘eternal our out- be to them allows This Beach.” Palm and swimming, ton include Activities time. the of all doors time spare their In kayaking. and tennis, walking, they work on nonprofit boards. Family-related take to news their son included Daniel moving to Cali- reason a Saul and Judy gives which fornia, busy, quite been has Sandi Daughter west. trip a her planning and rabbi a as ordained been having One wedding. of outdoor Judy’s (bird activities watching) provided the venue for her meeting Judy Bluestone playing golf and retirement with wife Hazel. Dave Hazel. wife with retirement and golf playing spend- after FL, Meyers, Fort to them moved Hazel and brought move This California. in years 14 in- ing travels 2010 Their friends. and family to closer Alpha an attending and cruise Caribbean a cluded in Ithaca. reunion Delta Phi con- husband still is and Carol FL. Largo, Key and MD, Rockville, sulting with on industry the biopharmaceutical issues FDA-related for their Daughter products. in living Denver is a Larabee Robin pediatrician medicine an emergency Todd, husband, her with Nicco. and Sophia are grandchildren Their doctor. 2010: in trips wonderful two took Ron and Carol island the around driving to Sicily, spring in the on their own; and in the fall, a safari in South included Largo Key in visitors Recent Africa. for lived had they where Michigan, in home their their at year-round live now and years, 39 almost Worth, Lake in years six last the of home winter FL. In 2008 they became grandparents for the to Elana and first their time—triplets daughter Andrew Son ’98 Jonathan. husband, her a born too: son, children have now Tracie, wife, and Joan 2011. in born daughter, a and 2009, in You going. columns the keep to news your need I class annual the from Form News the in send can mailing, or e-mail us any time of year. Harris [email protected]. ’62 nia. Although Suellen is retired, her husband, Jerry ’64, is still working, practicing hematol- ogy/oncology with their daughter Nancy. To- oncologists with other have they joined gether, at Monterey Bay Oncology. Nancy has children has also Emily daughter and Sienna, and Zachary two children, on Maya went and Bethany. Jerry To celebrate and Suellen anniversary, 45th their Oth- it. loved Alaska—and cruise—to first their their 50th Erasmus attending er included travel September. last reunion School High Ronporter Harris ‘ Nancy Martin Robert ; ; Alaska and wife and and wife and Matthew , MEE ’66. MEE , , chair man chair , and and Richard Hecht ; and Italy (Rome Italy and ; Paul Kruger Stephen Ron Madaras Bruce Wagner . Motet, Mass, and Madri- and Mass, Motet, . Myron Jacobson Grant is COO/president of is Grant a COO/president Judith (Jayson) ’66 Judith (Jayson) Before we get to classmate news, classmate to get we Before quest re a on pass to like would I from John Ohlweiler . And Evolution, Creationism, and Creationism, Evolution, And . Lurvey lives in Estero, FL, the site the FL, Estero, in lives Lurvey Lamont, 720 Chestnut St., Deerfield, St., Chestnut 720 Lamont, . That’s all for now. Please take a few a take Please now. for all That’s . and wife Francine; China (Tracing the and wife China (Tracing Francine; and and wife and wife Jocelyn; Taking Flight: An Intro - Intro An Flight: Taking Jocelyn; wife and Ada Dot Ada Hayes Jean Minskoff And now for our annual (as And now for our it annual has become) And And the off-campus CAU Study Tours: New Bev Johns c Neena Martin tour- holiday annual team’s hockey Cornell the of ac- is and shopping mystery does Neena nament. for our 50th Reunion. Although our 50th is more is 50th our Although Reunion. 50th our for is planning now, from years half a and three than 50th special really a ensure To way. under already ing follow the on we is for work Myron looking will your need support. to like would mates - who dec class ers, registration, and speak Friday, and day, publicity activities: Thurs ner: (din meals and orations, fast: break and Saturday; Friday lunch: Saturday; Myron to back Get Sunday). and Saturday, Friday, in interested are you if aol.com mgjacobson@ at working in one or more of these areas so that great the include Hill the on years her of brances all-girl the of community the and staff teaching Moving to dorms. news from a warmer climate, Florida. Southwestern of Club Cornell in the tive 65 committees can be formed. be can committees area. York New the in business estate real family have two grand- Grant Francis husband and She Turkey, France, include travels Recent daughters. and Argentina. Among Jean’s fondest remem- IL 60015; e-mail, [email protected]. e-mail, 60015; IL Lore Einhorn Also column. this via news your share to minutes at: be sure to visit online our or class website (www.cornell home at me to news Send 1964.org). Karen; Cape May, NJ (The Fall Migration: Birds and Birds Migration: Fall (The NJ May, Cape Karen; Habitats), their in the Round: The Spaces of Art, Religion, and Battle in Imperial Rome), Sonfield Frontier), Last (America’s Great Civilizations of the Silk Road), travel (she and Geoffrey were both in the Foreign the in both were Geoffrey and (she travel Their re- and genealogy. photography, Service), the cent travels a include Smithsonian Institution- through cruise a and Turkey of tour sponsored in Presi- is the also active Sandy Canal. Panama Women. of Cornell Council dent’s strategies tax and business on consultant a still is for closely held businesses and an investment advisor to and banker the budget City of White is to wife which and also Dick home NY, Plains, Susan. Dick is also a retired board member of Story Corp. The Hechts enjoy NYC arts, biking, Sicily, as locales diverse such to travel and golf, River. Danube the and Alaska, CAU, year’s last attended who classmates of listing begin- enjoyed, they programs the with together sum- last held courses on-campus the with ning Studio, A Sculpture Casting: Bronze mer. Garfield the Birds, to World of duction to up out have get and birders The (Note: Mary. at- verycan early, so Jim, they always miss the sumptuous husband, my which breakfasts, buffet that Clinic Golf the he attended to test because same week.) 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also had a wonderful trip to Greece and Turkey in Mike and Betsy Singer are pleased to an- Remember: Our 45th Reunion the fall. Brian says that standing near the spot nounce the birth of their first grandchild, Noah, is June 7-12, 2012! Contact where St. Paul delivered his speech to the to their daughter Sara and her husband, Matt. 67 re union chair Dave Darwin, MS Corinthians was quite an experience. Noah was born on Nov.8,2011 in Los Gatos, CA. ’68, at [email protected] to get in on the plan - Laura Bowman Gray, MAT ’67 (laurabgray@ “Mother, father, son, and grandparents are doing ning and to help out in general. aol.com) is a faculty memberindevelopmental psy- well.” Cesar Carrero, ME ’67, lives in San Juan, Dan Hopson (Douglas, AK; dhopson@gci. chology at Harbor College in Los Angeles, CA. Be- PR, where he is a real estate manager and in- net) is a classical guitarist. He writes: “I retired tween semesters, Laura and husband Phil Lempert vestor. Cesar and wife Mayra enjoy traveling and in 2005 from my job as a habitat biologist with spend time in New York City, as well as visiting went this past year to Europe. Marilynne Kimball the State of Alaska, after stints with other feder- the desert and the beach. Laura serves on the ex- Northrop (mnorthrop@ fair point.net) is retired and al and state natural resource agencies. Since then ecutive committee of the Cornell HEAA Board of spends time remodeling her 178-year-old home, I’ve followed one of my other passions: classical Directors. She is also an active member of profes- gardening, and landscaping. She also enjoys trav- guitar teaching and performing in Juneau. In No- sional organizations focused on developmental psy- eling and being with her ten grandchildren. She vember 2011, I released my first CD recording: chology. Find heronFacebook under Laura Bowman was married to the late David Northrop ’67. Mar- ‘Dan Hopson: Solo Classical Guitar,’ available from Gray. Nicholas Mallios (Nmallios@comcast. net) is ilynne had extensive spinal surgery in September my website, dan hopson. com. I enjoy the compa- retired and “living life.” He enjoys fishing, hunt- and, after two weeks, was at home recovering. ny of my daughters Morgan, 26, and Lauren, 21. ing, travel, and golf. He would love to hear from From your correspondent: Things I never imag- I spent six years on the Juneau Arts and Human- Bill Wilson. Nick and wife Linda live in Newville, ined in 1966 that I would be doing now: discussing ities Council and still contribute time and re- PA. Norman Stern (nstern1@gmail. com) and wife treadmill routines with my son and daughter-in- sources to their cause.” In recalling one thing Jo have moved to Boca Raton, FL. They are retired law. Yes, I did discover the joys of the gym after remembered most from his time at Cornell, Dan and enjoy golf, reading, and spending time with our 40th Reunion. c Susan Rockford Bitt ker, lady adds: “An organic chemistry lab assistant named their grandchildren. In the summer they will be scienc@ aol.com; Pete Salinger, pete. sal@ verizon. Steve Gould, PhD ’69, a red-haired guy, who took living in Columbus, OH, and will also travel. net; Deanne Gebell Gitner, dgg26@ cornell.edu. a personal interest in me and helped me pull my failing mid-term grade up to an eventually respectable B. Undoubt- edly, he saved my Cornell education at that critical point. I never thanked him adequately.” Dan would like to Horse Power hear from Don Pulver, one of his freshman roommates, and Ed Ritters - Jim Shulman ’66 hausen ’65, with whom he worked two summers in the Adirondacks. Richard Holstein (Princeton, NJ; hen Jim Shulman was growing up, the only carousel in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, babydoc 11@ verizon.net) writes, “I’ve been practicing (you’d think was the miniature pedaled merry-go-round toy in his family’s shoe store. Decades I’d get it right by now) pediatric W later, that symbol of his dentistry in Princeton for almost 40 childhood sparked a $1 million commu- years and still love helping kids. I’m nity art project. In 2007, Shulman on the senior staff at both the Uni- launched a grassroots effort to build a versity Medical Center at Princeton Victorian-style carousel in downtown and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and assistant clinical Pittsfield, a fading industrial city in the professor of Pediatric Dentistry at state’s westernmost county. Upon its the U. of Pennsylvania. Last summer planned completion in spring 2013, the I got together with my former U-Hall Berkshire Carousel will be the first hand- roommate Jim Brodsky and his carved wooden merry-go-round to be wonderful wife, Marian (Flinker). constructed in New England in more than Marian was Jim’s first dateatCornell, and they’ve been an item ever since a century and one of only a few ever to (and haven’t aged a bit). Of course be built solely by volunteers. the U-Halls are now gone, but Louie’s A retired psychologist and hospital is still there, and Noyes Lodge. Some administrator, Shulman conceived the things never change. The ‘renovated’ idea of the Berkshire Carousel as a way of campus is wonderful; almost as nice giving back to his hometown. “Pittsfield as Princeton’s (sic). How nice it is was a flourishing area during my child- to not have to walk half a light year to the women’s dorms!” hood, but over the last twenty-five to Martin Gold (New York, NY; fifty years the town has experienced con- megold@sidley. com) is a partner in siderable hardship,” Shulman says. But he Sidley Austin LLP, where he “led a wasn’t sure if the project was even feasible until he carved his first horse. “It took me five group of 23 lawyers in the financ- months,” recalls Shulman, who coordinates the project from his home in Ohio. “It was a lot ing, reconstruction, and expansion of trial and error, but I was able to do it. When I realized that I could finish the work, I fig- of Terminal 4 at JFK Airport. This is ultimately a three-terminal project.” ured anybody could.” A man who loves to travel, he en- Local residents quickly rallied behind Shulman’s idea. Working in teams, volunteers spend joyed two trips this year: one to 500 to 1,000 hours carving and sanding each horse by hand; then local artists paint it in Vic- Brazil (Bahia and Recife) and one to torian style. Much of the artwork depicts Pittsfield’s colorful history and culture, as the home Scotland. “Last spring,” Marty adds, of one of the first General Electric facilities and the birthplace of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. “I taught a new course as an adjunct The effort is primarily financed by individual sponsorship of the horses, but funds have also professor at Columbia called Com- mercial Leasing. It’s taught as a di- been raised through corporate donations and state grants. “The project empowers people to alectic between a landlord’s lawyer create,” Shulman says. “It gives members of the community an opportunity to come together and a tenant’s lawyer debating the and do something artistic. It’s a project of the people, by the people, and for the people.” key issues. I co-authored a Law Re- — Heather McAdams ’14 view article this year entitled ‘The 68 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes and Ingrid April 2012April 69 is still a judge a still is | , , ME is ’70, en- Norman Coe , BFA ’69, is chair of chair is ’69, BFA , March March Benson enjoys the enjoys Benson is director of the Real Es- Real the of director is is a director at Ocean Spray Ocean at director a is Dan Taubman Barry Weeks David Stone , PhD ’79, is a professor , of hospi- PhD is ’79, a professor Roy Black ! ! Wachtler, ME ’70, and husband Bill have Bill husband and ’70, ME Wachtler, Andra Weidenhamer If you need a realtor in Ogdensburg, NY, call NY, Ogdensburg, in realtor a need you If Richard Poznysz on the Colorado Court of Appeals, where he has where of Appeals, Court on Colorado the served since 1993. He just completed his sixth time finds and half-marathon Denver consecutive the sound design department at Savannah College Savannah at department design sound the films in the sound studying and & Art of Design Polanski. of Roman MA. Groton, in life joying in home Lans- of her from “green” Lake Cayuga visit.” to “come classmates and invites NY, ing, For the past nine years she has led a group of Cornell students on a spring trip to Guatemala Community. Catholic the Cornell through Vatsvog a building and designing are and home their sold her with up Keep WA. Harbor, Gig in place smaller harbornet.com. at woodbrk@ Dale Coats at School Business Goizueta the at Program tate in professor a as well as GA, have Atlanta, in U. Adrienne Emory wife and He finance. of practice the vacations summer spend and states 50 all to been illus- He’s and currently in Oregon. Washington friend. a by written book reading child’s a trating Ray Goodman at the U. tality of management New Hampshire and CEO/chairman of the board corpora- of directors at nonprofit a Inc., Communities com- Mayflower retirement care continuing a developing tion IN. Carmel, in munity wife Barbara visited Tennessee and liked it so there. moved they’ve much Cranberries and plans to “drop offin home purchased soon at screen” his therecently radar VT. Woodstock, . David and and his Howard Ellen Schaum Kenneth Rubin Gabriel Rothberg and and , a dermatologist in Alan Kneitel , , ME ’71, took time out Schmidt, mary. schmidt@ mary. Schmidt, Mitchell Mitchell has been busy Henry Thurlow (jthurlow@ gci. net) gci. (jthurlow@ Thurlow finished a one-year term as term one-year a finished ,manager Kreamer at general was awarded an endowed chair endowed an awarded was I I hope you for plans all great have and survived winter the and summer! the spring , JD ’71 ([email protected]) ’71 JD , Wexler and husband Len. Joan is Jay Goldstein Don Verdiani writes from Rotorua, New Zealand. He is He Zealand. New Rotorua, from writes Mary Hartman Ildiko Czmor Janice Rankin Janice . . c . Jay and Henry frequently commute to- Jay Waks Victoria Nelson Victoria Robert Buehler (where (where he earned his as doctorate), well as on of Symphony the Boston of overseers the board Coun- the of member a is Paul Further, Orchestra. cil on Foreign Relations and enjoys attending many Cornell eventslive who infriends NYC.Cornell with time He more has spending enjoyed in and from Manhattan would hearing welcome NYC. in living Cornellians other writes that he and wife Harriet regularly see Joan see regularly Harriet wife and he that writes Gottesman president of Brooklyn Law of School, professor a as and where years 17 she for dean as served Joan, Harriet, wife Jay, that. before years for law and Len have plans twice or Once 2012. to in Italy and vacation France, Hawaii, together in business, on Francisco San to travels Jay a year, he has where with dinner MA, Natick, and his from his Laura. Aside with wife, drummer a is Goldstein Jay practice, medical band Boston-based four-piece, popular a Brogue, Irish, folk, blues, reggae, Top-40, rock, plays that and country, Motown. The two Jays have in been kindergarten in met they since friends lifelong Harriet and Waks Jay of Neighbors NJ. Paterson, are NY, in Larchmont, Korn to gether they where Manhattan, both practice re- for calendars our mark to us reminds Jay law. union on June 6-9, 2013 and that we are Cor- nell’s 100th Commencement Class, Jay! news, your all for Thanks adistinction. unique wife, Diane. Alan continues to internal Alan practice continues Diane. wife, close in stays also Jay Area. Bay the in medicine touch with schmidt-federico.com. the first disabled senior female to female serve as senior the first disabled ser- Newark on 400-tenant her nearly geant-at-arms Previ- Board. Executive Tenant Authority Housing also Victoria board. this of VP as served she ously she 2010, In May kitchens. soup at three serves in apartment one-bedroom wonderful a to moved volunteer of years 11 her of recognition in Newark of partner Her city. that of tenants the to service your me send Please Jones. is Bruce years eight news! at Temple Law, where he has taught for 28 years 28 for taught has he where Law, Temple at Lit- of Professor Feinberg E. Jack the now is and David. Congratulations, igation. California. in grandchildren nine his enjoying is 69 hiking the Appalachian Trail, backpacking, rock backpacking, hiking Trail, the Appalachian to She wants hear roots. and dodging climbing, from Kappa Delta at classmates imconfused1@ juno.com. on from racing motorcycles the Salt Bonneville Flats to help the Red American Cross and local with gency management disaster relief for emer victims. Lee Storm Tropical and Irene Hurricane in live- quality to improve is working Inc., Feed and golf to play time finds still but feeds, stock old garden. the of One teaching. ed special from retired is is from hear to like she’d friends David Sonenshein Cooper Silver man Silver would and Hospital Public Rotorua at physician a old from to friend hearing look forward (and (and Jane Charles Richard c Pete - Wood (and wife wife (and . . Their daughter Al Fidellow , ME ’68 (and wife (and ’68 ME , Robert Inslerman , DVM ’71 (eds330@ ’71 DVM , John Seligman , MBA ’69 (and wife Joyce), , wife MBA ’69 (and ) ) with , our esteemed reunion cam- reunion esteemed , our writes that he joined ZM Com- ZM joined he that writes became president of the Alfred the of president became Two weddings this past summer past this weddings Two once again united worth John John St. ’70 John Wallace ’67 (and (and wife Sally), C. Edward Kemp Edward C. , 2925 28th St. NW, Washington, DC Washington, , St. 28th NW, 2925 Lucy (Schmidt) ’67 Lucy (Schmidt) , “the $350 million man.” million $350 “the , Ralph Wilhelm It was great to see a major Cornell victory— Cornell major a see to great was It Paul Joskow Adam Drobot . Ed also remains active in his AA group. AA his in active remains . also Ed Use and Abuse of BlightResearch in Science EminentSocial the Domain,’ on posted was which articles) 300,000-plus down- contains (which Network top-ten the of one became surprisingly and loaded articles in three categories: Urban Eco- and Making; Policy Studies; Regional and nomics Law.” Estate Real and Use, Land Property, paign chair, reports that the 45th Reunion Cam- Reunion 45th the that reports chair, paign paign is up and running: “I hope that you will oc- the celebrate to 7-10 June campus to return classmates many as have to aiming are We casion. as possible give gifts level Club to Tower the at Cornell gifts 51 by June2012—including 30, mil- $8.8 least at totaling more—all or $5,000 of our in count university the to gifts all While lion! desig- consider will you I hope totals, campaign of one to giving your of portion a least at nating funds.” annual the Red the won the fields: on not and athletic the cam- technical City York New a create to contest pus. Kudos to philanthropist Cornell scientists and engineers, and Technion-Israel, partner Feeney ’56 Hoffman B. [email protected]. e-mail, 20008; technology, and economic performance. Paul and Paul performance. economic and technology, re- they in live now although NYC, Barbara wife MA, tained their in and home return Brookline, Ex- of boards on the is also He frequently. there a as serves and Corp. TransCanada and Corp. elon U. Yale and Funds Mutual Putnam the of trustee Laurene), and and Laurene), Bill Austin Marge), wife 68 (Gegenheimer) ’70 (Gegenheimer) wedding the attending including Pi, Sigma ternity, retired officially and 2008 in Foundation Sloan P. Killian James and as Elizabeth his position from at of MIT Economics in Professor 2010 after 38 years The on Sloan Foundation the MIT faculty. has a $1.7 and supports billion endowment re- search and education in the areas of science, panies in Dallas, TX. As Adam resides in Bernards - Bernards in resides Adam As TX. Dallas, in panies ville, NJ, he has been traipsing back and forth a on sits also He Dallas. and Jersey New between advisory federal and boards start- corporate of number been has challenge biggest The committees. is Adam economy. in a down companies new ing to married wife Susan). wife The Susan). first was in the June wedding worth, Sedona, AZ, picturesque of Nathan Wood Wallace Marissa of wedding July by the followed in Ft. in Park historic Tryon NYC. The last John bonds and friendships enduring “These observed, at John Reach ” ‘mature.’ we as stronger get only [email protected]. Clare is in NYC, in theatre, so they go into the City the into go they so theatre, in NYC, in is con- the Clare enjoys still Adam plays. see to frequently of a member and treasurer as makes he tribution Therapy Occupational American the of board the cou- a working him, Foundation. suits retirement says com) aol. in firm estate real wife’s his a for days week of ple fra- his of members fellow sees He MA. 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to belong to a gourmet club. Please keep your stability. Ed Zuckerman, who was editor-in-chief ING Financial Partners. Richard Leland, a partner news and notes coming to: c Tina Economaki of the Sun at the time of the Straight takeover, at the Fried Frank law firm in NYC, also lists eques - Riedl, [email protected]. Thanks! said, “Bart wanted the Sun to be accurate and trian activities (as well as photography) as his fa- unbiased and he made it so. When many on cam- vorite outside pursuits. Finally, your correspondent pus swooned in sympathy with the black students Gayle Yeomans has been spending a lot of qual- Time marches on—perhaps who seized the Straight and others were outraged, ity time (riding and training) with her Quarter spring has come to Ithaca! I Bart kept his own feelings out of the Sun’s cov- Horse gelding Sage since retiring in July 2011. 70 hope your winter season has erage, which stands up well to this day.” Gary Ru- (Gayle led the state government affairs office for been a good one and that the new season will bin ’72 calls Bart “one of the most polished New York Life Insurance Co.) While she still has bloom beautifully for all of you. writers I ever met.” Bart served as our class cor- her apartment in NYC, she spends most of her Phil Schwartz ([email protected]) respondent for several years in the ’70s, and in time at her place in Big Indian, NY, in the Catskill has a website that you can check out: www. watch 1977 was awarded the post he had coveted: cor- Mountains. She is in her fifth year of trying to reels. com/PhilipSchwartz. He and his wife, Andrea, respondent in Moscow for the Associated Press. master the fiddle (old-time and bluegrass)! live in Santa Monica, CA. Although Phil still shoots He had joined AP right out of Cornell and start- Retiree John Baylis (JBaylis40@earthlink. net) an occasional project as a freelance cinematogra- ed in the New York office, but soon transferred to has continued his practice of impersonating for- pher, he is now mostly teaching cinematography the prestigious Washington Bureau. mer President Abraham Lincoln nearly every week and lighting at USC and the New York Film Acad- Bart was the wire service’s lead reporter on across the North American continent from Ottawa emy (at Universal Studios). Andrea became a full- the “Moscow microwave” story, a major Cold War to Key West, FL. In addition to his Civil War activ- time yoga instructor a few years ago, after retiring controversy. The Soviets were thought to have ities, he also enjoys “driving and repairing ‘big boy’ from a 20-year stint in the nonprofit sector. In been bombarding the US embassy building with toys on my farm” in Upstate New York. John and June and July 2011, they had an incredible ad- microwaves in an apparent attempt to jam spy wife Judy reside in Florida(Leesburg) from Novem- venture visiting nine national parks in the West, equipment. There was a concern about health ef- ber to Easter each year. Gay Helen Perkins reports putting almost 3,000 miles on their Prius! Phil fects on the embassy staff and there was perhaps that she retired from her position as an academic keeps in touch with Doug Wyler, Mark Tabakman a cover-up by US government officials. As Bart librarian at Western Kentucky U. She lives in Louis - ’71, and Lynn Axel Butterly ’71. He also sees fel- doggedly pursued this story, his interest in sci- ville. Gay would love to hear from Jean Jur zenia low cinematographer and neighbor Jack Ander- ence, health, and national security was sparked. Keefe and Elizabeth Tallon Healey. We also heard son ’67, MFA ’73. Jack is now a tenured professor He returned to these issues often throughout his from Katya Fairbanks (katya.fairbanks@ cgu. edu), in cinematography at Cal State U., Long Beach. career. He returned to Washington after three who is the director of the Writing Center at the He was Phil’s TA in his first film production course years in Moscow and finally left the AP in 1990 Claremont Graduate U. in California. She enjoys in 1968 and ran Cornell Cinema. Phil adds that he to work as a freelance writer. Bart was a native of hiking, traveling (including visiting her son in cen- is thoroughly enjoying his role as a grandparent! Port Washington, NY, and resided in Takoma Park, tral Mexico), and folk dancing. She would like to Ligia Corredor ([email protected]) re- MD, at the time of his death. He is survived by a be in touch with Aiwah Kathy Ng ’72, BA ’71. ports that life treated her well this past year. On sister and a brother. He will be missed. My thanks Rob Ambrogi ([email protected]) writes May 20, 2011 her son, Eric, and his wife, Jill, who to Jay Branegan ’72 for his extensive obituary on that he is vice president of schools management live in Sudbury, MA, welcomed their third child, Bart. c Connie Ferris Meyer, [email protected]; for Int’l Schools Services (www.iss.edu), which son Connor, who joined big sisters Lily, 6, and tel., (610) 256-3088. provides a variety of services for English-language Alexandra, 5. Ligia’s daughter, Suzanne, and her based schools around the globe. After 30 years husband, Jeff, live in East Rochester, NY, with working overseas in such diverse locations as their daughter, Bilene, 2. Ligia gathered with her Howard Rodman, a professor at Cameroon, Liberia, Portugal, Pakistan, and South children and grandchildren in Boston last year to USC’s SchoolofCinematic Arts, writes Africa, he and his family are enjoying being back celebrate the fact that she had reached the “mag- 71 that he was elected vice president of in the US. Rob is now based in Princeton, NJ, ic date” of Medicare eligibility, as well as ten the Writers Guild of America West last fall. He was where he is working to grow the ISS business in years since she stopped working at the Southern also appointed to the executive committee of the China, India, and the UAE; he and wife Kathleen Poverty Law Center. She traveled extensively in writers’ branch of the Academy of Motion Picture live in Newtown, PA. Rob notes that he is en- 2011 and hopes to do much the same in 2012. Her Arts and Sciences, as a fellow of the Los Angeles joying “cheering on my two oldest sons as they first journey last year took her to the Uniendo Inst. for the Humanities, and as co-chair of the launch their first video game, ‘Jamestown’ (www. Rotary Project Fair in David, Panama, where she annual Scripter Awards, which honor the adap - finalformgames.com).” Pennsylvanian Stephanie was a volunteer translator for many Canadian Ro- tation of books to film. On a “lighter” note, he had Bell Hill ([email protected]) writes that she tary members. She was also on a team that a busy spring (2011) celebrating the centennial of enjoys her job as a business consultant for helped establish projects in remote areas in need Fantômas (the legendary French fictional arch- Hewlett-Packard (lots of travel!). of humanitarian support. In January this year, she villain), including delivering a paper at Yale, Clinical neurologist Ira Casson (iradocdad@ returned to Panama to follow up on those proj- appearing on panels in New York and Philadelphia, aol.com) is a solo practitioner in Forest Hills, NY; ects and then headed for San Salvador to check and performing at a celebration at City Lights he and wife Susan live in Rockville Centre. Ira is up on similar projects established in 2009. Next Books in San Francisco. Howard’s son Tristan just still publishing medical articles on sports con- she attended the 2012 Rotary Project Fair in Cos- started college (Brown ’15). Marsha Ackerman cussions and he notes that he is an avid New York ta Rica. Ligia is also very involved in the Rotary sent us an announcement that David Miller Par - Giants fan. In his quieter moments, he enjoys Youth Exchange. In October 2011 she traveled to ker will be presenting his paper “Gay Liberation reading history and looks back fondly on Prof. Will the Far East, starting with five days in Beijing, and Identity Politics” at an international con - Provine’s classes on the history of evolution and followed by a 16-day cruise touring Shanghai, ference, After Homosexual: The Legacy of Gay genetics, which have had a lifelong influence on Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and Liberation, being held in Melbourne, Australia, in him. The Accreditation Association for Ambula- Singapore. She concluded the month with a visit February 2012. The conference was organized in tory Health Care announced that Margaret Spear to Malaysia to spend time with her ’95 Rotary Ex- recognition of the 40th anniversary of the pub - was elected treasurer of the AAAHC for 2011-12. change daughter and her family. The year also in- lication of Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation She is a graduate of Mount Sinai Medical School cluded reconnecting with old friends, including by Dennis Altman, MA ’66, and to mark Dennis’s and has worked in a college health setting for Gloria Tobon Garza-Gutierrez, MS ’71, a Cornell retirement from La Trobe U. nearly three decades. She is the director of Uni- apartment-mate whom she had not seen since the Horses! Adrienne Altman (laconda@sbc versity Health Services at Penn State. early ’70s. When she is not traveling or with fam- global. net), a pediatrician in Sherman Oaks, CA, It is with great sadness that we announce the ily, she enjoys reading, gardening, and checking continues to pursue her passion for horseback rid- death of Boyd Stofer on Nov. 29, 2011. At the in with folks through e-mail and Skype. ing (dressage) and breeding. Adrienne notes, “I am time of his death, he lived in Edina, MN, and was Sadly, C. Barton Reppert died on Jan. 16, 2011 working harder than ever to support my darling the chairman and CEO of the Marquette Real Es- of an apparent heart attack after several years of horses and the newest young one.” In mid-2011, tate Group in Minneapolis. Boyd was a great friend poor health. Bart was the managing editor of the Kenneth Kuscher (kenneykuscher@ com cast.net) to Cornell and was an active member of the Pro- Sun during the Straight takeover in April 1969 wrote from Boynton Beach, FL, that his after- gram in Real Estate Advisory Board. He is survived and will be remembered by his colleagues for his hours activities include playing polo with the Gulf by his wife, Cherie, and children Robby, Katharine, drive, intensity, professionalism, courtesy, and Stream Polo Club. Ken is a financial advisor with and David. Please continue to share your news 70 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes pro- Greg . is now is reports Joshua . 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I’m what on 73 should Alumni , , PhD ’81 Alexander Dann ’72 Dann Alexander The The take a bow. take News , ME ’73, had ’73, ME , ‘ often as possible, often as sas Kevin Neels (jim@ Bruce McGeoch writes from where he Maine, Cairns (Dover, DE; vcairns50@ DE; (Dover, Cairns , BS ’72, in ’72, BS , and and -Miller, [email protected]. -Miller, On On behalf of our hard-working union committee, I re want to mind to everyone make plans re Gaylegmail.com; , Yeomans gyeomans@ James Vaughn Larry Baum Bill Trommer Vicky Dominy c North and South Dakota and Montana) with visit- with Montana) and Dakota South and North bucket list of visiting all 50 states (by traveling to traveling (by states 50 all visiting of list bucket re- family brought summer The friends. Cornell ing in and DE, Island, Fenwick in house our at unions NOW NOW to attend our 40th REUNION, June 7-10. Don’t miss this opportunity to - reconnect with ri your old meet and new again. friends, expe friends, once campus Cornell beautiful the ence business (officiating at co-founder— is the husband Nationalmy which Science Olympiad—of in Madison, WI) with completing my husband’s 72 the adventure of a lifetime in June/July 2011. Lar- 2011. June/July in lifetime a of adventure to the Ithaca from Aerostar twin-engine his piloted ry picked Trudy spouse and he where VT, Burlington, travel- intrepid The Cyndy. wife, his and Bruce up guides with they where way ers their WA, to made Olympia, planes, private eight of group a joined state. 49th the to trip a for Alaska, Fly Let’s from In- the over glaciers, spectacular down flew They McKinley. 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He says he is “concerned future.” and finances try’s lives in Alexandria, mail.com) hot (kevin-neels@ Gretchen.with his wife, VA, at He is a principal the Brattle and Group, cooking, firm. consulting an photography, economic bicycling, enjoys Kevin says, good.” is and “Life teaches sixth grade math, ski grade teaches sixth trav- Bill and runs marathons. eledwith ski to Colorado to Gerry Roehm ’69 Heather daughter Bill’s 2011. live 4, Sammy, grandson and in Michigan. Bill is excited reunion in attending about June. retirement been enjoying “We’ve writes: gmail.com) went We time. family and traveling a of lot with on a cruise to the Canal Panama in March—an trip to amazing visit of an piece engi- amazing far as trip a road completed we May, In neering. as Little Big and Horn, back. MT, We combined with your classmates. 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Colleen Colbert is expanding her psychology honored during the Entrepreneurship at Cornell hear from Joseph Taylor. Richard is an emeritus practice from her home in Rockland County, NY, celebration on April 19, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. in the professor at Ohio State and a researcher on se- to her part-time home in Newport, RI, where her Statler Auditorium. This award is given annually to lecting horses for speed; he is a genetics associ- daughter is now attending high school. She’s also Cornellians who best exemplify entrepreneurial ate for Foye Genetics in Lawrenceburg, KY. In his been visiting son Lucas Colbert-Carreiro ’15, achievement, community service, and high ethical spare time, he enjoys golf, billiards, and water - who’s now at Cornell ILR. She’d love to hear from standards. John derived his inspiration for his color painting. Mark Schwartz writes from Berke- Danielle Lombardo Trostorff. David Mulligan and first business venture from his experience working ley, CA: “I’ve been a member of Occupy SF since wife Michele live in Branford, CT, where David is at Cornell Dining and founded CBORD in 1975 with Sept. 17, the same day that Occupy Wall Street director of child support enforcement for the state two other Cornellians. CBORD initially focused on began. I’m a member of the finance committee. Dept. of Social Services. He’s also organist and computer software systems for food and nutri - Am also a member of the Harvey Milk LGBT Dem- choir director for the Marlborough Congregational tional services, making its first sale to Syracuse U. ocratic Club. I’m a poet, too, on the 15th edition Church and has been busy re-roofing and painting It has grown to 240 employees, serving 4,000 of On Third Street: Kerouac Revisited (Lawrence the house, replacing windows, playing bluegrass clients worldwide, and has expanded its services to Ferlinghetti says it’s my best title), and am in a banjo, and learning mandolin. Shouldn’t you save cashless campus card systems, housing and ju di - memoirs class at El Cerrito Senior Center with at least some activities for retirement? cial process management, and integrated security Elizabeth Irvin as facilitator.” Karen Craft Denning informs us that her mid- dle daughter is a Hotelie, Class of ’13. She also has a daughter in high school and a daughter in Christina Holness Waddler spends medical school in Wisconsin. Karen’s day job is be- ing a professor of finance, and her extracurricular ‘ activities include the New Jersey Foundation for most of her free time participating in Dance and Theatre Art and the Borzoi Club of America. Also enjoying the Hotel school is Moira all things art. Hearne Hintsa’s son Michael ’15. Moira keeps busy gardening and working on the board of ’ Karen Krinsky Sussman ’76 Greens Farm Academy, where her son Matt ’10 works in alumni relations. Moira reports that she enjoyed visiting with her Pi Phi sisters Wendy Ava Shaffer Burke, BS Nurs ’75 (Olney, MD) stations, among other services. In 2008, CBORD McKee Wuest, Mary Antenen McIlroy ’72, and has a new e-mail: [email protected]. Peter was sold to a public company. Kathy Coleman Weinberg, JD ’77, at a surprise Starbuck runs the Starbuck Inn in Kent, CT, which, John is also a limited partner in Cayuga Ven- party for Susan Murphy ’73, PhD ’94. Until next according to the website, specializes in the “lost ture Fund and continues to mentor entrepreneurs time: c Helen Bendix, [email protected]; art of lounging around.” Food is from the Inn’s and invest in Cornell startups. He is a member of Betsy Moore, [email protected]; Jack Jay own gardens and breakfast is with a capital “B” Tompkins Financial Corp.’s board of directors. Along Wind, [email protected]. (as in Big). Jeff Schwartz (Katonah, NY) is a part- with two other Ithaca partners, John operated the ner with Hann & Hessen LLP, where he has prac- Coyote Loco Cafe in Ithaca from 1991 to 2003. ticed law for 35 years. In his free time he enjoys John’s philanthropic endeavors in Ithaca mirror his In October I experienced another the opera, sunny afternoons coaxing that dimpled business achievements. He works with the United fabulous weekend in Ithaca cele - ball toward the pin, and relaxing with a good Way of Tompkins County and the Food Bank of the 75 bratingseveral events with friends book and a glass of wine. Mark Patterson, a law Southern Tier; John and wife Elaine (Mead) ’77 and colleagues. Council Weekend brought hun dreds partner at Waddey and Patterson, was recognized were the 2009-10 co-chairs of the Hangar Theatre’s of alums back to the Hill for meetings, tours of new in Best Lawyers (a peer-review publication) as In- capital campaign. John has also been an active buildings (the additions to AAP and to Baker Hall tellectual Property Lawyer of the Year. He still Cornellian. He was an alumni-elected trustee from are quite impressive!), reminiscing, and sharing teaches at Vanderbilt U. School of Law, where he’s 2000 to 2004 and a trustee-at-large from 2004 to news. The College of Human Ecology celebrated been an adjunct professor since 1986. Redge 2008, having served on numerous committees, in- the addition of a new west wing to Martha Van Martin ([email protected]) runs the Clars cluding the audit committee. Currently, he serves Rensselaer Hall, housing state-of-the art fiber sci - Auction Gallery, where recession notwithstanding on the Cornell Research Foundation and the En- ence and apparel design labs, wood and metal he’s sold some exquisite pieces of fine jewelry, as trepreneurship at Cornell Advisory Council; he is shops, design studios, CAD drawing stations, ex - well as oil paintings and fine antiques. Check it also an emeritus member of the Johnson Gradu- hi bition and gallery space, and an expansive out at www.clars.com. He and wife Carole toured ate School of Management’s Advisory Council. Con- Commons featuring a collaborative sustainable the Croatian Islands on two wheels, and hiked the gratulations to John, who truly exemplifies the design by DEA students. Dedicated at the eve - Incan trail to Machu Picchu. Notable Class of ’74. We look forward to hearing ning’s event was the artist’s gift of “Epilogue 1,” Your correspondent hobnobbed with the his speech on April 19. All are invited. an inspiring sculpture created by Patricia Tapscott broadcast elite last October in New York and re- Bill Van Sweringen, MME ’75, visited Jeff Musick Carr, PhD ’74, mother of Laura Musick ceived two Edward R. Murrow awards for com- Ellis in Washington, DC, where Bill also saw his Wright. Diane Kopelman VerSchure ’74 and I were mentary—which I hope reassures a couple of brother, Ray Van Sweringen ’73. Bill bemoans two guests of Pat and husband Jerry and Laurie and doubting English professors, who thought I should signs of aging: Cokes instead of beer, and being an her family at both the dedication and the 40th have remained a Physics major. Last summer I ter- empty-nester. He also bemoans that his daughter Reunion of the 1971 Ivy League Football Cham- rified the chorus as Sir Despard Murgatroyd in the chose an unnamed Ivy rival over Cornell for col- pionship Team. These weekend festivities honored Seattle G&S Society production of Ruddigore (video lege. Gary Dufel, ME ’75 (gdufsr@ gmail. com) re- this feat that we all shared as freshmen arriving clips at www.pattersong.org). Daughter Caitlin ports an address change to Queensland, Australia, on campus, as well as Pat’s late husband Jack has made a wonderful young man my son-in-law where he has expanded his interests to diving and Musick, who coached the team to their victorious and works in a medical lab a half-hour from her fishing in the Great Barrier Reef. He is sure that season. Great memories and great friends! childhood home. Daughter Emilie is off to Africa there must be Cornellians around Queensland, but After living in Birmingham, MI, for 30 years, (Burkina-Faso) for “only a few months, Dad” with claims not to be expecting to run into too many fellow DG Mary Alice Curry Bankert and husband Peace Corps Response. Thus the nest is once again in remote Mackay. He reports no regrets leaving Peter ’72, ME ’73, moved to Ann Arbor, MI, for empty, and Patti (Miller) ’72 and I once again presidential primaries and political squabbles, but her job as associate director of development and can party non-stop, Risley-style. c Dave Ross, does regret still having to pay US taxes. alumni relations for the U. of Michigan School of dave@ daveross.com; Phyllis Haight Grummon, Ronald Pies authored Ziprin’s Ghost, a short Art and Design. Their oldest daughter, Elizabeth phg3@ cornell.edu. story collection for the Harvard Book Store, and ’03, married Stephen Gonzalez ’96 at Sage Judaic Foundation of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Chapel on August 1, 2009. The event included a for iUniverse. My classmate from Hunter College wonderful rehearsal dinner at Sigma Chi Frater- John Alexander, MBA ’76, was High, Janet Beizer ([email protected]. edu), is nity. Middle daughter Kathryn ’05 attends Stan- named the 2012 Cornell Entre - a professor of Romance languages and literature ford Business School. Their youngest, Ellen, an 74 preneur of the Year. He will be at Harvard. Richard Dobec, MPS ’75, would like to ’07 graduate of the U. of Michigan, works for 72 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes . The Beth Common -Harrison, April 2012April 73 | Jennifer Howell ’77 , JD ’79, has played in played has ’79, JD , ). She loves where they where loves She ). March March Adrienne Weiss reports from the Chicago area Chicago the from reports is retired and doing financial doing and retired is has released a new book, book, new a released has , aimed at the 99 percent of work- of percent 99 the at aimed , Breit is a consultant working with working is a consultant Breit , a young adult historical novel set novel historical adult young a , Don Sussman Jim Seeley Jim ’75 Seeley Seeley has after retired 31 years of ob- Donna Tesiero Steven Gillman Rick Van Ness Lisa Wax Sense Investing about Sense basics the learned never who Americans ing it on Amazon find can You wisely. to invest how or watch it at www.FinancingLife.org.Wright- stetric nursing in Syracuse. her She for spends lots of prepping 18, high Faith, in children her student) with time good lacrosse, (soccer, year senior football, soccer, (lacrosse, 10 Robbie, and school, Beth wrestling). writes that she stays in touch and sisters sorority Gamma Kappa Kappa her with weekend, Alumni Football Sprint the misses never husband as alongside (sometimes years 30-plus for game the husband, my al- there be to plans and Lakes Finger the in live Girl bookstore, PTA at the wife), volunteers Beth ways. coach’s and (parent lacrosse church, Scouts, Mom). captain (team soccer and employ- and labor to practice continues he that lives Steve law on ment of behalf management. Hemingway Ernest of IL (birthplace in Park, Oak Lloyd Frank by designed homes of showcase a and along Wright!)13, withAlexa, and his Ethan wife,twins and Gillian,17, andMikaela, trav- childrenavid are kids The Truro. dog, family the with that for writes the Steve past el players. soccer dif- in going been have Gillian and he years, ten on to directions ferent weekends and transport literacy projects as a public service. He writes that writes He service. public a as projects literacy to married happily still is he videos educational online free provides also Rick targeted at ordinary investors or can offer the content in a short, inexpensive book, MD ’79, notes that it was a spring of great ups and ups great of spring a was it that notes master’s ’79, MD awarded were children her of Both downs. Adri- benefits.” with job a has “real each and May. degrees of end the at mother her Dis- lost she School City Sadly, the of director medical year, the every is that enne says She NY. 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(djglass 99@ (djglass Joan Pease , dsgell man@ , dsgell , , ME ’10, and MS MS ’77 writes that he that writes The The New and (Tokyo, Japan) (Tokyo, Lisa Yang c , , Peter Porpiglia Barbara Norton Boroff, boroffka@ Boroff, Paul Dionisio Chick Perry David Glass David Elizabeth Norment Deb Gellman campus; we’ll share the we’llcampus; share son , mjfgator@ gmail.com. , mjfgator@ Zarowitz. march in the band. in the march Scott Keenum Allen Hertzke Yuri Kageyama Greetings, Greetings, classmates. I bones The well. hope all you finds this are a but the bit bright achier, Zachary Glass ’09 Karen DeMarco Mitch Frank Janet Rosen Also reporting news are Inspiring news comes from Please take a few minutes to send us insights us send to minutes few a take Please the National Labor Relations Board in Washing- in Board Relations Labor National the (Barbara. L.Norton@ gmail. com) lives in Norman, in lives com) gmail. L.Norton@ (Barbara. husband with OK, Schleppi ([email protected]), a pediatric a ([email protected]), Schleppi Hospice, Adelson Nathan for worker social hospice pediatric dedicated a with hospice only state’s the pro- hospice a perinatal developed She program. for group support bereavement a as well as gram, who ac- have lost a Ann’s leisure parents child. a.m. 4 at treadmill the on running include tivities research to RV an in state the about traveling and hear to love would Ann choices. living retirement from Cameron Glass ’13 (PJP218@ gmail.com), gmail.com), (PJP218@ and earthlink.net), ex- an norment@ has Elizabeth ([email protected]). ’76 television. off- and as in as Broadway an actress career well citing as productions theatre Broadway She would love to from hear [email protected]; hotmail.com; ILR ’74. She made a major gift to the ILR school’s ILR the to gift major a made She ’74. ILR Employment and Disability Inst. Lisa, who was the Lead- Cheryl and awarded Hassman Howard Penn- Devereux Annual 11th the at Award ership sylvania Gala in 2009, has world much to the corporate make commitment a passionhavin that and believes a She more disability-friendly. and making policy in involved is he ton, DC.day draw, By paint, oil to time finds but speaking, public and the explore D.C. art his scene during spare 2011, May In moments. affairs regulatory of director became yahoo.com) com- MA-based Cambridge, a Unlimited, Joule for genome-engineered proprietary developing pany convert and sunlight to capture microorganisms transporta- renewable into dioxide carbon waste the of fan a remains He chemicals. and fuels tion foot- Cornell to traveling Band, Marching Red Big England New throughout games hockey and ball to see nephews disability institute at ILR “speaks well for Cornell’s for well “speaks ILR at institute disability Mark2010 Pearce August In diversity.” of culture chairman appointed was ([email protected]) of with California to NY, Valley, Putnam from moved Corp. wife Trudy and began a Vanguard new job as director American of for development product NJ, and is plan- in Ridge, Basking remains Paul to Italy. trip and honeymoon, wedding, his ning help- for brothers Kappa Sigma Phi his credits He as as path well in in him to his career ing grow life his them when- and enjoys seeing personal arises. opportunity the ever seen, have you friends Cornell, after life your into moment and memorable columns. in our news upcoming shu.edu; shu.edu; 76 side is that I am still playing—just a tad slower. tad a playing—just still am I that is side essayist and Poet thought his youngest son, Christian, would join would Christian, son, his youngest thought at enroll to opted he but legacies, DU Cornell the His Business. of School McDonough Georgetown’s e-mailed e-mailed about her new book, Select ed Yuri: Writing From Peeling Till ed Now From Peeling Yuri: Writing Select can get more information at her website, http:// website, her at information more get can com. yurikageyama. Scott , , ME ’76 Ann Welge Amy Cohen , who is now is who , . -Klass (klass.suzy@ -Klass and Claudiaand Hebel Mal- Scott Sutcliffe Michael Rosepiler Michael and Sarahand Henderson McClure Suzy Nagin (Pleasantville, NY; eliotms@aol. NY; (Pleasantville, -Wyche ([email protected]) and -Kroo ([email protected]) -Kroo ([email protected]) balance busy balance ([email protected]) Laurie Rothe Peace and Chip and ([email protected]) jogs, gardens, jogs, ([email protected]) available at LAArt.com. Her work has been has work Her LAArt.com. at available and and A first-time-grandma report comes from Speaking of Dan Malone, he has returned to returned has he Malone, Dan of Speaking Sandra Sills The great outdoors has been an important In Reno, NV, NV, Reno, In , and they look forward to living closer to Eliot Schuman one ’74 ’77 Epic, a healthcare software company in Madison, in company software healthcare a Epic, WI. with friends De- The are Bankerts longtime Dan residents area troit com). Eliot is a trial attorney specializing in med- in specializing attorney trial a is Eliot com). rais- in involved become has He malpractice. ical well. as elections judicial for funds ing Kathryn Gabinet Dave suburb Detroit the in Long Butzel of firm law the Korean of director as serving Hills, Bloomfield of client relations and ex- vice chair his of Asia practice. with coupled career, legal exemplary Dan’s in travel and experience business foreign tensive in key his ap- new no doubt, Far the were, East Since pointment. leaving Cornell, Dan has also Col- Detroit the at professor adjunct an as served lege of Law State and U. Wayne School of Law, product and automotive extensive developed and law Also practicing experience. safety litigation is 2011. his wife, 23, and son Josh Her Quebec. April in Montreal, on Ezra Samson welcomed Danielle, choke even doesn’t and thrilled absolutely is She on the word anymore! Katie “Grandma” spends Pilates. doing and translating, painting, days her of passion the also are arts Creative a com), ames361@gmail. NY; York, (New Banker installa- multimedia of designer painter, art fine and gemstone appraiser, furniture muralist, tions, book of the online and author designer, jewelry Flowers Greacian Goeke featured at the Miami Basel Art Fair, Ezair ex- Bego Ezair Art To Fair, Basel at Miami the featured venues. other and Museum, Chelsea Gallery, tak- been also has Amy talents, artistic her pand Juilliard. at composition music in courses ing their in fitness personal with education in careers live in Cornelius and husband Sandra off-hours. Youth exceptional an State is Springs, she the VA, of where Highland president vice teacher, education the worker at school a nursery and Council, Advisors belt black a the- in She third-degree also church. is is Baptist niche Greacian’s Karate. Shotokan-style in is CA. She director in arts Oakland, the and atre eld- employing programs arts-in-education two of elementary at-risk serving and designs artists and teaching er teaches also Greacian students. school Performing Stagebridge for curriculum com- movement theatre senior oldest the Inst., is Training and Arts seniors, and adults to Chi Tai teaches pany, company. dance elder an developing ou o ayo u red.I uuh GA, Duluth, In friends. our of many for focus u udo ciiiso unn,ccig mountain cycling, running, of ous activities outdoor traveling. and hiking, Wanzor care properties, and enjoys traveling throughout traveling enjoys and properties, care is Nevada in Also RV. her in state the ([email protected]) divides his spare time be- time spare his divides ([email protected]) vigor- more the and a home new decorating tween Woods. Ornitholo- of Lab Cornell at the year in 27th his Sapsucker at him visit to us of all urges gy, photographs, enjoys woodworking, and collects enjoys woodworking, photographs, as an agricultural working he isn’t when insects present his Listing representative. sales chemical day job as “retired,” agent with NAI Alliance, specializing in health- specializing with NAI agent Alliance, “I’m as hale and hardy as ever,” he writes. he ever,” as hardy and hale as “I’m gmail.com) works as a commercial real estate 54-96CAMma12notes_000-000CAMMA12Notes 2/8/12 3:05 PM Page 73 Page PM 3:05 2/8/12 54-96CAMma12notes_000-000CAMMA12Notes 54-96CAMma12notes_000-000CAMMA12Notes 2/8/12 3:05 PM Page 74

cheer on the kids at their games. Steve is presi- moved to Wyoming 15 years ago and made it their food. “The second best part was practicing my dent of the community soccer club, the Oak Park permanent residence, though they still come back college German,” he writes. If Michael Cooper- River Forest Strikers, comprising 31 teams and 460 to NYC during spring and fall. Susan Seiller man ’76 is reading this, please give William a players ages 7 to 18. Lauren Rosenberg Moffit is (Louisville, KY) is learning to play the Djembe with call; he’d like to hear from you. an independent financial planner with Ameriprise a Malian master in Louisville. She continues to In my neck of the woods (Lake Oswego, OR), Financial. She has built a successful national prac- practice her black and white photography and dark- Jone Sampson ([email protected]) is an asso- tice based on client referrals over 14 years. She room skills. Susan returned from a workshop in ciate professor in molecular and medical genetics enjoys leading clients to understand investments, Mexico (Oaxaca). She is currently assisting a local and a director of clinical cancer genetics at the creating proactive investment strategies, and arboretum with their café operation and expan- Knight Cancer Center at the Oregon Health and Sci- finding opportunities in volatility. sion. Thaddeus Rutkowski, BFA ’76, has written ence U. Besides working and taking care of her Bill Silberg writes that he has his own com- his third novel, Haywire, which was published by children (Lizzie at Colorado College, Maggie, a jun- munications and publishing consulting business. Starcherone Books. It reached number one on ior at Catlin Gabel High School, and Emma in He also serves as editor at large for the American Small Press Distribution’s fiction bestseller list. eighth grade), Jone enjoys riding her horse. On the Journal of Preventive Medicine. He and wife Char In January 2010, Richard Neff left Greenberg opposite coast, Kathleen Murphy (Westfield, NJ; sent their son, Jake, off to college at Harvard and Glusker to re-establish Neff Law Firm, an intellec- [email protected]) is a urologic surgeon. are now officially empty-nesters. Christina Hol- tual property and technology law firm strong in in- Kathleen has children JB (Tufts ’08), Sean Bruno ness Waddler tells us that she has been an art ternational transactions. He has also been a Dept. ’11 (working on his master’s in Mechanical Engi- enthusiast for 20 years now and spends most of of State distinguished speaker in Latin America neering), Brendan Bruno ’13 (Hotel), and Brigid her free time participating in all things art, both twice, speaking to university, business, and gov- (a junior in high school). Kathleen is one busy visual and performing. Her challenge is that she ernment audiences in Spanish on “Intellectual woman—in addition to her work and her children, still has to work for a living. She volunteers as a Property Protection and National Development.” she finds time to run six miles daily, cook “for fun docent at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Amy Trueman has been given the honor of be- and nourishment,” take French lessons, and read. African Art, having a love for African art and en- coming the dean of student life at Tompkins Cort- In Stone Harbor, NJ, this summer, Kathleen saw joying her interaction with the diversity of peo- land Community College. She is also involved in Jody Katz and Anne Pinou. Kathleen would like ple who come to the museum. the Tompkins County Quilters Guild and was the to hear from Howie Eisen and Karin Suskin. Virgil DeArmond is a retired US Air Force lieu- show chair for the 2011 Traditions & Beyond Quilt Brenda Peterman Kline (Fairfax, VA; brenda tenant colonel. He was a director of procurement Show. Greg Meyers is a pastor in Johnstown, NY. [email protected]) is a clinical dietitian at Ino- support and policy. Virgil says that he has been va- He has been married to wife Lori for 31 years. To- va Fair Oaks Hospital and is studying for the cer- cationing in Thailand every other year since the gether they enjoy gardening and serving God. tified diabetic education exam. In addition, first Desert War in 1990 and says he knows his way Greg says that pastoring a growing church is al- Brenda is “trying to improve” her golf game, play- around Bangkok better than he knows Dallas. He ways a challenge in terms of preaching, teaching ing with her three grandsons and two grand- has been living in Dallas for 11 years now, the God’s word, shepherding people, growing faithful daughters, and never passes up an opportunity longest time ever in one place, as he was a mili- followers of Christ, and establishing groups. That’s to do something with friends, children, or grand- tary brat and career officer in the Air Force. Carol all the news for now. Please be well and stay in children. All of that keeps Brenda so busy that, Farkas (Jackson, WY) volunteers at the library, en- touch! c Karen Krinsky Sussman, Krinsk54@ in her words, “my home/ yard never quite looks joys the extraordinary concerts in Jackson, and gmail.com; Pat Relf Hanavan, [email protected]; Lisa all picked up.” (We hear ya, Brenda.) And close- travels a lot with spouse Robin. Carol says she Diamant, [email protected]. ly related to health and medicine, Bill Piombino (Wells, ME; wpiombino@ aol.com) is director of operations for Lonza Biologics, a contract manu- The holidays are fast approach ing facturer of biopharmaceuticals. Bill’s extracurric- as I write this column, but I hope ular activities include serving as chairman of the 77 spring is near as you read it. The United Way of the Greater Seacoast and vice news I’ve received once again demon strates the chairman of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay interesting careers our classmates have pursued. and Merrimack Valley. Medicine was the common thread for a num- Mike Weber (Penfield, NY; mweber6@ ber of classmates who wrote with news. Keith rochester. rr.com) is still waiting for some grand- Norris, a professor of medicine and executive VP children to spoil. Mike is an engineering manager for research and health affairs at Charles Drew U. with Xerox Corp. in Webster, NY. He writes that of Medicine and Science, received a Meritorious he has been employed by Xerox for all 34-plus Achievement Award from the National Medical As- years since graduating from Cornell. While await- sociation at its 2011 convention. Keith’s great- ing grandchildren, Mike plays organized pick-up grandfather, who was chairofsurgeryatHoward U., ice hockey with “fellow old/slow/fat guys” around was president of the NMA 100 years ago. Keith his own age and attends concerts and sporting served as chairman of its nephrology section from events all over the East Coast. If Bob Crabb sees 1992 to 1996 and for the past ten years has been this, Mike would like to hear from you. Michael a member of the NMA Journal editorial board. Samuels (North Potomac, MD; [email protected]) From 2009 to 2011, Keith was ranked among the is a systems engineer at Mitre Corp. Echoing a re- top 25 most highly funded NIH investigators in frain I hear from many parents, Michael reports the world. His work on chronic kidney disease that he spends his free time driving teenagers to and health disparities includes more than 225 various activities. peer-reviewed articles and textbook chapters; he Benjamin Miller (Redwood City, CA; bmiller@ also serves as editor of the international journal articulatedata.com) reports that his youngest Ethnicity and Disease. daughter was married in September. (Congratula- Audrey Krall Pauly (Swall Meadows, CA; tions!) Benjamin is a busy guy, with a part-time [email protected]) is a gynecologist at the job as a database developer for Sony Computer Sierra Park Women’s Health Center at the Mam- Entertainment and another as a database devel- moth Hospital in Mammoth Lakes, CA. Also in oper for clients in architecture, construction, and ob/gyn is William Schweizer (New York, NY; dr. nonprofit child advocacy. Music is Benjamin’s pri- [email protected]), as obstetrics serv- mary extracurricular activity. He is the bass section ice chief at NYU-Langone Medical Center. William leader for Voices in Harmony, one of the top ten writes that he is also busy with his private prac- choruses internationally in the Barbershop Harmo- tice—but not so busy that he can’t also “coordi- ny Society, and plays the piano. Not sure how this nate” sports and academic endeavors for his twins, relates to music, but Benjamin also is a regular 14. With his wife, Alison, William took a “roman- poker player and “getting serious” about collecting tic” trip to Berlin and enjoyed the art, music, and Scotch. Currently he has about 40 Scotches and 74 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes . Trans- David , grad- , and Diane Stone April 2012April 75 James Rautio | Amyas Naegele Justin ’11 “Sunshine” Lorenz “Sunshine” Myrella Triana ’76 Myrella Triana Roger Martin Davis A) is a senior invest- senior a is A) ,C March March (www.akupress interna- (www.akupress , a senior analyst for the for analyst senior a , O’Brien is also the director the also is O’Brien and Diana and , managing owner of a owner Chica- , managing Victoria Hartman ’s younger son, son, younger ’s (Sausalito remains a dedicated Cornell boost- Cornell dedicated a remains since reconnecting with him at our at him with reconnecting since is also attending seminary school for school seminary attending also is have a “new addition” to their family: a family: their to addition” “new a have took part in the Harried Gourmet, Lenard Gourmet, Harried the in part took tried the Wine Course, and and Course, Wine the tried Langdon Neal Steven Potter Vivian Wohl A self-employed psychotherapist specializing psychotherapist self-employed A formation Technology: The Artistry & Science of Human Transformation tional.com). When not writing, Roger is busy His Cornell causes. nonprofit various supporting protests. campus the include memories grad- daughter’s his attended firm, law go-based mem- it He was the recalls a very last special May. uation all and stadium the in sat he as moment were earlier place years 33 life his in day that of special ories a what reinforced day “That notes. renewed. Langdon all,” us for be to continues Cornell Randall Nixon Admis- Alumni as 25 a years Cornell marking er, chairman as the six years and Ambassador sions of CAAAN in Howard County, MD. His son will just this spring, school Hotel the from graduate They sophomore. a as in transfers daughter his as for Rink Lynah at rendezvous family a Ran- enjoyed all winter. this game hockey Cornell-Harvard the buddy team track his with touch in been has dall Osie Osborne he out finding and ago, years four reunion class reasons BEST the of (One away! miles 15 just lives up in June coming our Reunion, 35th to attend members other from hear to love would He 2013!) era. our from team track the of released a nine-volume book set entitled a released nine-volume inaugurated antique a of variety new wide a exhibitiondonated has He and gallery. spaceMuseum forJohnson hisHerbert the to objects tribal the in contacts from donations arranged also has expands. museum the as field While working as a civil engineer in Davis, CA, Bryan Plude a graduate degree at Starr King School for the Ministry. After 22 years in a business as as and a base- collectors and dealers, artists, for maker art, African traditional of dealer in trauma and treating tweens, teens, and adults, and teens, tweens, treating and trauma in Catherine Putkowski Breast Island Staten the for education of health Stat- of College the at Initiative Research Cancer group Meet-Up a runs she addition, In Island. en retreat an annual and survivors would cancer breast for Catherine members. family and classmates survivors for Ecology Human fellow from hear to love at [email protected]. friends and re- teacher, and is substitute a manager kennel biolo- a as retiring after classroom the to turning creating business home a has also She gardening, teacher. gy traveling, enjoys Diane bouquets. floral jazzercise. and sewing, jewelry, making Co., Services Advisory Federated for analyst ment post-divorce her enjoys She healthcare. covering photography. and biking, running, tennis, of life from hear to like would Vivian uated last May with a degree from the Dyson School the a Dyson from degree with May last uated in Consulting & Young Ernst for works and (AEM) from blocks few a Manhattan, in lives Justin NYC. Brandon ’09 brother, his Robert Co. Nielsen Levine Adler Weggler bear Karelian dog. They say it’s like being new all parents over again! A few of our classmates other joining summer last Hill on the back were alumni at CAU for a variety of mind-stretching summer classes. learned about Cape May birds. Check the alumni the Check birds. May Cape about learned section of the website for more great offerings , is Se- was John , , and Mark Levine John McDonald John , BArch , ’78, BArch get , had its US , pre- US its had , , a junior major- Debi (Lacy) ’79 Joan Dineen Clifford Pearson , , , , , JD ’80, lives in Brussels in lives ’80, JD , earned an MBA in market- in MBA an earned . When not working as an ed- an as working not When . Michael Michael ’13 ’s new feature-length film, film, feature-length new ’s is a professor of environmental of professor a is Dan Kershaw during during regular visits to New York. Susanweiler ’78 Esch Architectural Record Architectural has been working with the Google Editions Google the with working been has Holly Rosenthal Since Since selling the electronic book company Stephanie Mitchell Brian Adams Stephen Pope Dave McDowell , BArch ’82, is the associate principal and di- and principal is ’82, , associate the BArch together with together Cella Irvine They also keep up with goings-on at through Cornelltheir son he he founded in 2004 to Google last year, Rivlin team on its electronic book offering. Although quite a change from his 12-person company, John reports that the Google experience has been exciting, rewarding, and educational. He and wife ing in Mechanical Engineering. Gail Rosselot Engineering. Mechanical in ing Mas- in College Community Greenfield at science activism environmental and Canoeing sachusetts. off son his getting with along time, spare his fill off and to school his to daughter col- graduate from hear to like would Brian lege. and honored with induction as a Fellow of the Royal the of as a Fellow induction with honored Academy of Physicians and Surgeons (Glas) in Scotland, after more than 30 years of work in practice a private has She nursing. health travel in travel courses US only the of one directs and inter- for allowed has that career healthcare—a travel national and with friendships colleagues world. the around itor of BArch BArch ’80, MArch ’93, enjoy their weekends in in the skiing and hiking, camping, England New Hampshire. New of Mountains White miere at the Louisville Int’l Film Festival and its and Festival Film Int’l Louisville at the miere Fes- Film Int’l Lucerne at the premiere European of “mass this movements five The fall. last tival for the new millennium” map loosely onto the the though ritual, mass of Catholic the sections is There different. quite are creed the and lesson http:// at online film the for trailer four-minute a com/Secrets. HeavenEverywhere. Asia called tank think nonprofit a run to helping Design Forum. The put organization a together 2011 September in Shanghai in Roulette” “Design and is planning another in Hong Kong in the spring of 2012. On a recent trip to Guangdong delicacy: a local inspected he in China, Province marinated, air-cured field mice. Serve it over steamed rice, he was told by the proud farmer meat. the preparing was who and and works as the deputy head of the entrepre- She unit Commission. of neurship the European helps organize networks of mentors to support entrepreneurs. and other people, young women, has Stephanie European been helping Recently, prob- rights property intellectual with businesses lems in or to relating She China. her attributes language Chinese her to project that with success and history training at Cornell and extends a Cor- After you” to “thank her professors. hearty nell, ing from Wharton devel- she A ago, few years and marketing. which products worked Remedy, inSleep MidNite consumer product, new a oped US the in aid sleep natural #1 the now over- is aid says she sleep non-prescription selling #2 the and NY, County, Rockland in works and lives the at Holly all. physician a Bernstein, Howard to married is Mount Sinai Medical Center, and has a son at U. Boston at a daughter and Brown Wonder and Faith Dreams, crets, Jr. architectural an Will, & Perkins at design of rector firm in Boston. He and wife , . . Dave Mag- John Peter (Man- , , Con ver - ver Con Poetzsch and hus- and Annette c Lori Ranft Mark Halper Howie Eisen Stu Soffer Elizabeth Reeves . Cynthia Leder Barbara Weed Elaine Mead Alexander (Potomac, MD, ddemske@ MD, (Potomac, introductions needed. needed. introductions The Street. com,http:// www. com,http:// Street. The , , ME and ’78, don Lots Lots of tidbits from interesting around, time this classmates our sono traveled with CAU on a study tour a study on CAU with traveled Atkins (Canandaigua, NY) participated NY) (Canandaigua, Atkins (Pittsburgh, PA; [email protected]) is [email protected]) PA; (Pittsburgh, , MBA ’76, and and ’76, , MBA Ken Koenig Hayward Zwerling has written a has written book the about mortgage Debra Demske , , , [email protected]; and , [email protected]; Stewart We had a number of classmates continue their continue classmates of number a had We We also have some classmates involved with involved classmates some have also We and and ,was excerpte (Ravena, NY) took the Wine Course. Manhattan- Course. Wine the NY) took (Ravena, Lisa Babitz physicians based Greisman band to Belize. For those of you correspondents who haven’t shared class your lately, us with news any news send can You you. from hear to love would of Class 1977mail, the or website e-mail, snail via (http://www.cornellclassof77.org). Mulee hattan) studied Film, and and Film, studied hattan) [email protected]. reports that those from the Isle of Islay are his fa- his are Islay of Isle the from those that reports vorites. manage- 26 in after various years comcast.net), to returned has Hewlett-Packard, at “mem- positions and ment screenplay a on working is She volunteers writing. Debra addition, In stories. short oirish” rep- CAAAN a as serves and bank food local the at is She prospects. school high local for resentative another parent who spends considerable time chauffeuring a “very active 15-year-old around and travel of lots include activities Other town.” De- summer. this garden vegetable big a tending a is it (and Kline Peterman this Brenda for with visits news bra with wrote both that coincidence nice from hear to like would and column) ’79 Cornell educations with CAU. Ithaca residents Johnin ’74 participate to summer this town across trekked Photography on courses University Adult Cornell’s denizen Lakes Finger Fellow Art. Modern and John would John to like from hear gie Freese in of History CAU’s Earth. sustainable/renewable sustainable/renewable energy endeavors. 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this summer. And send your updates for future In addition to her teaching position, Carolyn en- ’79 LinkedIn group. As always, you can submit columns to: c Ilene Shub Lefland, ilefland@ joys working as a part-time personal trainer and as news to us throughout the year at classof79@ snet. net; or Cindy Fuller, [email protected]. a workshop instructor at the Bethesda Writers Cen- cornell.edu or directly at: c Kathy Zappia Gould, ter. In her spare time she enjoys horseback riding, [email protected]; Cynthia Ahlgren Shea, skiing, tennis, jogging, and dancing. She stays in [email protected]; and Linda Moses, I sincerely hope that you have touch with Barney Balch, but would love to hear [email protected]. had a reasonably enjoyable win - from Thereza Lanitis Spanos, BFA ’79, and 79 ter and are seeing the first signs Christophe Quinn O’Mahoney, her freshman year of spring wherever you live as you read this roommates in Baker Dorms. As I write this column during column. Time seems to go so quickly and before Jeff Hirsch ([email protected]) and the holiday and election season, you know it 2014 will be here and we will be wife Deborah are adjusting to the empty nest in 80 I remember four years ago when returning to Ithaca for our 35th Reunion. Co- Newton, MA, since son Jake, 22, graduated from I was writing this column during the recession of reunion chairs Brad and Mary Maxon Grainger, the U. of Rochester in May and now works for 2008, the historical election of Barack Obama, and MPS ’87, and the rest of our class officers are Dick’s Sporting Goods in Pittsburgh, PA. Their oth- the nostalgia craze for the 1960s and ’70s. We are always working behind the scenes to continue the er son, Nate, 19, is away most of the year study- again facing tumultuous economic times and a class record of achievements in reunion attend - ing computer game design at RIT, where he is a riveting presidential election as President Obama ance and class giving. Please put June 5-8, 2014 sophomore. At work, Jeff was occupied with a commences his reelection campaign and Repub - on your long-range calendar and plan to join move to new offices this past November. His law lican hopefuls battle for the Republican presidential everyone in Ithaca to renew friendships and make firm, Boston-based Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP, nomination. Nostalgia for our childhood era is go - new, unforgettable memories. has 16 lawyers who focus on management, labor, ing strong, as TV shows like “Mad Men” and “Pan Rhonda Carniol writes that she enjoys fre- and employment law. Jeff continues in his fourth Am” attract viewers. The vibrancy of the Internet quent visits to Ithaca since her daughter is cur- year as the co-chair of the firm. Elina Yi-Lin Hum has been reaffirmed as that medium has become a rently a senior on the Hill; she looks forward to ([email protected]) practices law in the democratizing force helping jumpstart both the attending graduation this May. Mark Wilson, MBA Washington, DC, Metro area. She has her own firm, Arab Spring and the Occupy Wall Street move - ’80, and wife Denise Rempe ’80 will also visit Hum Law Firm PLLC, a boutique tax law concern ment. This is a unique time in Cornell’s history as Ithaca on a regular basis since their daughter located in the District of Columbia. She contin- Cornell forges ahead with its preparations for the Brooke was accepted early decision to Cornell’s ues to advise individual, business, and nonprofit sesquicentennial celebration of Cornell’s founding Arts college for fall 2012 enrollment. Son Ryan, clients from D.C., Virginia, and Maryland. Elina and and the development of the New York Tech Campus a junior at the Whitman School of Management her former husband, Ted Pratt, divorced in 2009 in partnership with the Technion-Israel Inst. of at Syracuse U., is completing a semester in Hong and she now lives in Arlington, VA. Technology. This is also an exciting and busy time Kong, where the family joined him for Thanks- In other D.C. news, the US Senate confirmed for the Class of 1980. giving. Thomas Hicks (thicks42@yahoo. com) the nomination by President Obama of Ron McCray Our class celebrated with the classes of 1978, writes that he is publishing a new book on trop- to serve on the Federal Retirement Thrift Invest- 1979, and 1981 at the Heartland Brewery before ical plant material. He has traveled to China and ment Board. His confirmation in November en- Big Red ice hockey fans packed Madison Square continues to enjoy his career in landscape archi- ables Ron to participate in the oversight of a Garden to cheer on the Cornell team against tecture. Thomas serves as vice president for EDSA $280 billion pension plan for four million feder- Boston U. on November 26, the biannual Thanks- (www.edsaplan. com), a landscape architecture, al employees. In addition to his responsibilities giving weekend game. Although Cornell tied the urban planning, and graphic design firm head- on the board, Ron works as a private investor and game, 1-1, during the third period, the next Cor- quartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL. The five-decades- corporate director and is a minority owner of the nell goal was contested and then rejected, and BU old firm has completed a vast array of design Boston Celtics. Another prestigious appointment won the game in overtime, 2-1. The Class of 1980 project around the world. Thomas and wife Isabel has been given to Harvey Stenger as he assumes was well represented at the game, including the reside on Hilton Head Island, SC, and would love the role of president at the U. of Binghamton on following classmates and their family and friends: to hear from Steve Ho ’77. January 1. Prior to accepting this post, Harvey was Cynthia Addonizio-Bianco, Leona Barsky, MS ’81, South Carolina is also home to Elizabeth the dean of the Engineering School and interim Renay Becker, Lily Chu, MBA ’82, JD ’09, Sheri Rakov Igleheart ([email protected]) and hus- provost at the U. of Buffalo. Since completing his Casper, Mary Farrell, Gary Gertzog, Jeff Klein, band Bill. Elizabeth is a development officer in the doctoral degree at MIT, he has had an extensive MBA ’82, Nadia Laniado, Robert Messner, Esther Arnold School of Public Health at the U. of South career in academia, serving as a faculty member Elkin Mildner, Tom and Sharon Hulkower Murphy, Carolina in Columbia. This position keeps her busy and dean at Lehigh U. from 1984 to 2006. Jodi Diehl Nestle, Tim O’Connor, Stephen Radin, with extensive business travel and grant writing. On the class social scene, Margie Wang and Beth Santa, Scott Thompson, Michael Ullman, She is also a board member for EdVenture Children’s Nancy Sverdlik coordinated a pre-game dinner at Candy Crocker Warren, and Lisa Privett-Wood. Museum, the largest children’s museum in the Heartland Brewery before the Big Red Hockey Thank you to Esther Elkin Mildner for coordinat- South, located on the same campus as the South match last Nov. 26 at Madison Square Garden. This ing the ticket sales for our class. Carolina State Museum in Columbia. Elizabeth is combined event with the classes of ’78, ’80, and Our classmates are very accomplished and con- also active as the social events co-chair for the ’81 had more than 100 in attendance including 30- tinue to be in the news. Eva Sage-Gavin will be the Woodcreek Women’s Club’s board of directors. In plus ’79ers. Steve Fontana writes that he enjoyed 2012 recipient of the ILR school’s Judge William addition to these activities, she is busy trying to attending the Cornell/BU hockey game and seeing B. Groat Alumni Award for her contributions to Cor- keep up with her daughter, Alex, the legislative fellow Phi Sig fraternity brothers Jeff Margolis, nell and her community and her professional ac- correspondent and staff assistant for Texas con- MBA ’80, Rob Sanders, Rick Fried ’80, Mark complishments. Eva serves as executive VP, global gressman Mac Thornberry, and son Austin, a soph- Rouleau ’78, Dave Chabon ’83, Walt Milani ’78, human resources and corporate affairs for Gap Inc. omore at the U. of Denver. She caught up with and Walter Peek ’80. In other social news, Jeff and has served as a member of the Cornell Univer- Myra Chow over drinks in San Francisco while vis- Berg, ME ’80, MBA ’81, caught up with Dean Bur- sity Council, President’s Council of Cornell Women, iting for a niece’s wedding in July. Despite her rell and Jeff Goldberg, ME ’80, on the golf course and Cornell Center for Advanced Human Resources busy schedule, Elizabeth still finds time to play golf in Scottsdale, AZ. Burrell is the former VP for labor Studies Board. Please join ILR alumni and friends and enjoys sewing and needlepoint. She would relations at Republic Services in Phoenix and Gold- when Eva receives her award at the Pierre Hotel in love to hear from Roland Foulkes ’78 and any oth- berg is the dean of the College of Engineering at Manhattan on March 29. Randi Weingarten, pres- er Cornellians that call South Carolina home. the U. of Arizona in Tucson. Berg continues to ident of the American Federation of Teachers, spoke Carolyn Clark ([email protected]) remar- volunteer for Cornell, the Boy Scouts, and his syn- on “Unions and the Future of Our Schools” on De- ried in 2008; she and husband Geoff Cullen are agogue, while splitting time between Scottsdale cember 14, 2011 at the Jewish Community Center now a family of seven, consisting of four boys and and Goldens Bridge, NY. of Manhattan on the Upper West Side. Stephen one girl ranging in age from 17 to 23. Three of the Please continue to keep in touch sowecan in- Radin received a Burton Award for Legal Achieve- children are Carolyn’s from her marriage to John form classmates about your news. You can also keep ment, awarded to attorneys who exhibit excellence Breen ’81, and the other two are from Geoff’s first up with class events by joining CornellConnect in legal writing, for the category “Best Authorita- marriage. The blended family lives in Rockville, MD, (http:// www.alumniconnections.com/ olc/ pub/ CEL/ tive Book by a Partner in a Law Firm,” in a June where Carolyn is a high school Latin and French homepage.cgi), our Facebook page (“Cornell Uni- 2011 ceremony at the Library of Congress. Steve’s teacher in the Montgomery County Public Schools. versity Class of 1979”), and the Cornell Class of book, The Business Judgment Rule: Fiduciary Duties 76 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes , Mer- . . We Paul Barb Betsy Steve JoAnn , room- , c Russ Ur- Ed Baum Murray, who Murray, April 2012April 77 , and beagle and , | Mark Elsaesser Chase ’15, is a Susan Scarf , always dreamed of dreamed always , Evan Evan Hurd ’03 is delighted to share to delighted is is also in the Arts col- Arts the in also is Adam ’13 March March for four years while at Cor- at while years four for DVM ’82 DVM is director of communications of director is , attended the 34th Annual Ful- Annual 34th the attended attended his first reunion after reunion first his attended Reunion (number 30!?), June 7- June 30!?), (number ward Reunion for Ilook and near draws 10, - fas many my with interacting to Ted Maggie ’14 Sabaitis, beachba@ hotmail.com; Sabaitis, beachba@ , , [email protected]. Adams, joann@ budadams.net;Adams, joann@ Andrea Glick accepted a position as VP of marketing so- marketing of VP as position a accepted , and children Emily, Ben, and Michelle. and Ben, Emily, children , and Robin Geller Diamond writes, writes, “My youngest son, Susan Peterson Susan On a sad note, Linda note, sad a SchecterOn Giove Daniel Weisz After 12 years with the Nielsen Co., , MPS ’80, is busy taking care of everyone and everyone of care taking busy is ’80, MPS , reports, “My daughter Catherine, 17, seems to have to seems 17, Catherine, daughter “My her in reports, school one number the as Cornell identified interested seems she point this At do I search. college concern: My program. would We school/CIA Hotel the hockey.” in understands Catherine think not write! please so you, from hear to love Minsker Amoscato for State Senator Owen H. Johnson in Albany, NY. Albany, in Johnson H. Owen Senator State for Clayton, Oliver 15, and Wesley, has children She NY. Park, in Averill live They 12. JD ’85 JD cinating classmates. Return to good classmates. ol’ cinating Cornell, one and all! This many column of includes the various phases of life after retirement). Cornell (kids, jobs, yes, and, service, public Silverfine have a son Tyler who works for Universal Music in Music Universal for works who Tyler son a have CA; Burbank, (and only our daughter) youngest is a junior in high school bound for Catherinea wife, theatre (Evans) My somewhere. program ’78 running our Martha’s Vineyard rental business, acquisitions hotel for quest my I continue while Resorts.” and at Hotels HEI of mate away passed thereafter, time some for nellattended and then friends Cornell her of Many November. in husband, her by survived is She funeral. the freshman at the Hotel school, so that makes two makes that so school, Hotel the at freshman with Cornellians my oldest, 82 resides in Clinton, NY, with her family. family. her with NY, in Clinton, resides ban 30 30 years and was happy to see so people many Avenue. Thurston 140 at dorm freshman his from Christina Turczyn DC, Washington, in Conference Association bright visit- and Force Task Arts the with met she where of Inst. US the and Singapore taught of Embassy the ed recently most she writer, a Primarily Peace. NY, Rhinebeck, in living While Paltz. SUNY-New at Christine Teisl with reconnected she Mrs. Dinkins. Claire Baum, daughter of of daughter Baum, Claire Dinkins. Mrs. of Class CALS the join will Wallace, Holly wife and received Claire major. ’16 as Sciences an Animal wan- physiology in animal “lessons” dio- earliest her animal and fossils dinosaur the across among just dering History, Natural of Museum the ramas in the street from the family’s on apartment West Itha- to moves leav- Claire be before will Shortly Street. 77th family Baum/Wallace the however, ca, a move years—to 20 than more of home that ing renovated fully) almost (now the to east feet few building. same the in door next apartment someone in the family following the Big Red path. Red Big the following family the in someone the news that her youngest son, Jordan, will head will Jordan, son, youngest her that news the to Cornell next fall as a Hotelie in the Class of and Robin 2016. needn oslat hi agtrMloywas Mallory daughter Their consultant. independent Sciences. and Arts into accepted rell’s daughter daughter rell’s lege. IL, Flugel Schaumburg, in Marketing Catalina with lutions his with IL, Ellyn, Glen in lives Paul October. last and Alex sons Sherry, wife an Tom s de- s Sally , , who r’ sas Wendie and and were sor- were , a writer a , will will receive Lionel Wol- , MBA ’87, and ’87, MBA , Pearson, who is who Pearson, Tim aiona teaching California, Rob Fried , , MBA ’87, returned Dave Pauker Melissa Chefec earned her maste earned her ein , MD ’85, has opened , a MD has ’85, opened Tracy Dolgin Johnston lives and works in works and lives Johnston ’s son Scott was accepted into accepted was Scott son ’s out her Wendy Kibrick Frank LaShoto is in her fifth yearher with in is LaShoto Leslie Watson , an attorney for Thompson & Ed Dean ,is -Fischmann at Kodak in Rochester, in Kodak at -Fischmann and and Chris Ritenis our classmates have children entering have children classmates our Tom Dawson yof Cohick, PhD ’89, Cohick, is of a animal professor work in NYC, helping companies restructure companies helping NYC, in work , one of the founding members of , Better members one of the founding Larry Goldberg Cindy High Also Also at were a reunion of bunch the Kappa Kathy Philbin Lois Lupica Man Carol Wolverton Sigma brothers. brothers. Sigma NY, as a human resources director. resources a as human NY, FL. Naples, in center wellness working as an assistant principal in Wilton, CT, and Wilton, CT, in principal assistant an as working Andrew, husband, teacher music her of proud very 13. son Jeffrey, playing hockey) (and violin and CT, also sees our Leslie friend Stamford, in firm relations public own two her and runs Berman Rich husband with busy stays and Chefec-Berman the October, past This on daughters. fell tree snow-covered a when scare a had clan Luckily, snowstorm. surprise the during car their injured! seriously was one no Boston. downtown in manager regional a as CBRE at as a sophomore football plays son James Her graduat- is MaryAnn daughter and Bentley College KD, Another school. high from year this ing Furness keeping track of our kids Tyler, 15, and Caroline, and 15, Tyler, kids of our track keeping choir show and sports with with busy sing both are also I who 12, “Glee”! like just is It competitions. my during did I as chorus, women’s cappella a an of I think when smiling last still I’m Cornell! at Reunion years 30th our at saw I people driving great fun the all had I friends! longtime many June—so with Ithaca to up the ILR school for fall 2012. 2012. fall for school ILR the and film producer in the Los Angeles area, reports area, Angeles Los the in producer film and that Jacksonville, NC, as an ophthalmologist. You will You ophthalmologist. an as NC, Jacksonville, find fourth grade and living with her son Nahoa, a high a Nahoa, son her with living and grade fourth writer school junior. freelance a is and June last arts fine in gree publication. for magazines to work her submitting short a taken has but marathons, in runs also She surgery. foot from recovers she as respite Smith of use the studying is She U. Rutgers at sciences can- breast on effect their and hormones growth cer. Foster their finances. I am sure they are busy in this economy! ry they had to miss Reunion this past year, but ry had they this to past year, miss Reunion to Cornell Cleveland from the drive made they’d Alpha daughter’s their for spring: last times three fresh- her after home her drive to fundraiser, Phi son’s graduation their Ec,for Hum and in year man professor associate is Tom Sciences. and Arts from Re- Western Case at gynecology and that obstetrics of estimates he Ohio; in School Medical U. serve babies! 6,000 than more delivered he’s ILR’s Alpern Award based on his contributions to contributions his on based Award Alpern was ILR’s Tracy success. professional his and school the He Network. YES the of CEO and president named the for operations of aspects all for responsible is entertainment and sports regional most-watched television network in the country. Knight, was selected as a fellow of the American the of fellow a as selected was Knight, the at held was Induction Bankruptcy. of College US Court. Supreme She is a at professor the U. of Maine Law School. berger Music Thru Science, announces that the band has band the that announces Science, Thru Music name. same the of a website or currently enrolled at Cornell. Cornell. at enrolled currently or Debbie Sopher Matson ’82 to West Hartford, CT, after ten years living in with years many After Kong. Hong and Malaysia now Tim work Management, ING Investment , and PhD , , Peggy B.J. ’12 B.J. Lizzie ’14 , , rfs25 @ have have sons build an ato Joseph Baum- Steven Potol- Leona Barsky Jim Maas , , . c is interim director interim is Mark ’78 , at Cornell. Brad and Brad Cornell. at , MS ’85 MS , dej24 @ cornell.edu; , dej24 Dik Saalfeld , , have daughter daughter have Nicaragu sto : Our apologies to , is a corporate governance , is a corporate (ellen.wulfhorst @ thomson @ (ellen.wulfhorst Metzger. Steven Potolsky and Potolsky Steven Metzger. (Davidmichaels5 @ aol.com) @ (Davidmichaels5 -Bianco, caa28 @ cornell.edu. @ caa28 -Bianco, Maggie Blinder , Jor- and Tolkin —and their oldest, Debra, gradu- Debra, oldest, their —and Greetings Greetings from enjoying sunny are you hope I California! Southern the start of spring! My husband, Heidi Horowitz ’79 student d12 Dana Jerrard Connolly, whose name was spelled in- spelled was name whose Connolly, and and Ronni Pine , Esther Elkin Mildner, and Stephen Radin. Stephen and Mildner, Elkin Esther , Brad Lori Bookstein ’83 Bookstein Lori Emily Emily ’14 Correction Dept. Ellen Wulfhorst David Michaels we that Hillel the from different very is Hillel sitting of memories fond with us of those For , , , and Richard Polenberg, retired in 2011. Prof. 2011. in retired Polenberg, Richard and , Bud, and I are busy here with our own business, own our with and here busy I are and Bud, Pacific, the overlooking House, Coffee Bogart’s 81 Hoffmann cornell.edu; cornell.edu; to hear from from hear to @ aol.com; Leonabarsky Cynthia Addonizio correctly in our Jan/Feb class column. Please to in keep as touch our continue prepares class 2015! in Reunion 35th our for Maas Maas taught at Cornell for 48 years and taught Prof. Cornellians. 65,000 than more to 101 Psych fo- and 45 years for at Cornell taught in- Polenberg justice, of issues broad how teaching on cused . people . “real equality,. affected freedom and . . . history of stuff the were that beings human in- an gave Polenberg Prof. victims.” or outsiders re- Hillel Cornell a at Dylan Bob on lecture in formal were classmates several and spring last ception Barsky, Leona including attendance, ’66 Elliot, 13, and Ethan, 10. She can be reached at be reached can She 10. Ethan, and 13, Elliot, love would and uhhospitals.org @ Brenda.Cooper reuters.com) writes that she is working as a na- is working she that writes reuters.com) City York New in Reuters for correspondent tional in Northeast. the news domestic overseeing and Brenda Wimpfheimer Cooper at Program of the Blood Transplant and Marrow of University Hospitals of Case Cleveland, Medical Professor to promoted recently was and Center, in She research is clinical performing Medicine. husband and She leukemia. garten of Corporate Directors of Corporate pages. 6,000 and volumes four of treatise dan and attending Cornell, and Ronni and Jordan also Rachel ’15 daughter, a have son Maggie’s Sean will be starting the master’s fall. in the school Hotel at the program 30 It includes our at years Cornell. during knew 400 over run that groups student Jewish different and annually reach programs of thousands stu- sent Hillel break, winter During campus. on dents Taglit- on Israel to staff, Hillel with students, 50 an a Birthright, welcomed Hillel center. community literacy adult @cornell. (hjo9 Hal Ossman director, executive new meet to eager is he and 2011, September in edu), experiences. their about hear and alumni with during of students in Bailey Hall with hundreds and inequality, Psych 101 justice, or discussing His- American Recent during America in freedom professors, preeminent two tory, wife wife Penny Friedman Parkes serves with me on the board of trustees for Cor- for trustees of board the on me with serves nell Hillel and shared news of Fargo his Wells for VP family senior as works David and friends. have Nancy, wife, his and He Manhattan. in Bank Cornell— attending are who children two U. in 2009. David June ated Northwestern from David for fall last dinner a hosted Nancy and and and sky 54-96CAMma12notes_000-000CAMMA12Notes 2/8/12 3:05 PM Page 77 Page PM 3:05 2/8/12 54-96CAMma12notes_000-000CAMMA12Notes 54-96CAMma12notes_000-000CAMMA12Notes 2/8/12 3:05 PM Page 78

Rebecca Hamilton (Dallas, TX) retired in company that facilitates local and international 2011. “We have enjoyed all of our homes and 2005. She now manages a travel blog (somenotes shipping for residents of Bermuda. Steve has lived learned much about other cultures and how we as fromabroad.blogspot.com) and is working on a in Bermuda since 1987 and has two sons, one who Americans are perceived by others as the global book. She is married to Allan King, PhD ’72. swims for Division 1 Florida State U. and one(Ken- and political climates shift. Son David is gradu - Those of us still working include Kevin O’Dea, who neth ’15) who is in the Hotel school. Steve says, ating from Dickinson College, where he runs and is director of mechanical engineering for document “How the world swings in circles.” He adds, “If has made nationals two years in a row. He will go messaging technologies for Pitney Bowes. He and anyone visits Bermuda, please look me up (steve@ to graduate school next year to continue his wife Corina live in Southbury, CT. He has been hik- mailboxesunlimited.com).” studies in psychology. Michael has entered the U. ing on the Appalachian Trail in New England. He Christopher Hanson is living in southern Italy of Rochester, where he is studying biology, and keeps in touch with his Phi Sigma Kappa frater- for a second assignment, working for Boeing in will go off to medical school for further studies in nity and helps to coordinate community volunteer collaboration with an Italian company that is mak- medical research.” Kathy will not be able to make efforts for Pitney Bowes and the local United Way. ing part of the new 787. He reports lots of inter- reunion, but encourages anyone to contact her, “I enjoy it because I get to work with a variety esting days dealing with cultural differences. Chris stop by, and enjoy a yoga class! of nonprofits and schools locally,” he says. Sophia says that his Italian is slowly improving, but that David Rochon (Waltham, MA; drochon@ saving Logozzo Amaro (New York City) is director of de- his family members are all fluent, with his sons star.com) started a new business in 2010; he is velopment for two NYC museums: the Cooper He- even speaking the local dialect. His wife, Kather- founder and CEO of SavingStar Inc. David is lead- witt National Design Museum and the Museum of ine Wright, has numerous art shows there in the ing the digital grocery coupon revolution by mod- Arts and Design. She loves art and the study of area, and his son Andy now attends Northeastern, ernizing the way marketers deliver, consumers Jewish mysticism and says that a Japanese reli- back in Boston. Younger son Spencer is “making receive, and retailers handle grocery savings by of- gious studies course that she took at Cornell con- his way through the local high school.” Chris does fering paperless eCoupons on the Web and via tinues to play a part in her life. some cycling with the local bike team, and on the smartphones to a national audience. Before that, Many of us still have kids in their teen years school breaks in the last year the Hansons have David was an early employee and later became or younger. David Weed, ME ’84, and spouse Kel- traveled to Berlin, Paris, and Barcelona. Chris president of Upromise Inc., a college savings serv- ley live in Victor, NY. David is director of plant hopes to make it to reunion. ice that allows members to direct their spending engineering services at Rochester General Hospi- Several classmates enjoyed CAU programs last to Upromise partners and save money for college. tal. He played soccer at Cornell and still enjoys summer. James ’80 and Carol Huntress Gilmour Launched in 2000 and acquired in 2006 by Sallie the competition of playing soccer year-round. He participated in Rome in the Round: The Spaces of Mae Inc., Upromise is the largest private source says, “Lately I’ve been taking the kids (14 and 11) Art, Religion, and Battle in Imperial Rome. Karen of college funding in the US today. Cynthia Har- to all sorts of activities. I also coach my daugh- and Edward Cohen took Seasick: The State of the ris Gray writes from Cape Elizabeth, ME, where she ter’s soccer team.” Michael Marks and wife Leslie World’s Oceans. Attending Motet, Mass and Madri- has lived since 2005 with Steve, her husband of King live in Ardmore, PA. Michael is professor of gal: A Choral Workshop on Music of the Tudor Era 22 years. “We have retired from running our own pathology and laboratory medicine and physiol- were Alfred Cowger with Anthony Wesley and business, the Gray Co., where we sold advertising ogy for Penn Medicine U. of Pennsylvania Health Catherine Cowger-Wesley. Flexing her muscles at the space in medical journals and ran medical trade System in Philadelphia. As unofficial spokes man for Rowing Clinic was Sharon Lieberman. Lois Scott, shows for 18 years. I now work part-time as a dads of adolescent girls everywhere, he says, “En- MBA ’83, and Audrey May participated in Midlife: tour guide and have the honor of showing cruise joying our daughter Jennifer, 12, as well as all A Passage in Film. And David and Marjorie Metz - ship passengers around the Portland area, with the challenges she poses.” ger Stell attended Heavenly Matches and Earthly our many lighthouses. I love to share my joy and Two of our classmates submitted news with Delights: Wine and Food Preparation and Pairing. knowledge of the area. I am also focusing on my business cards attached that sported the shiny I don’t know if he wanted to be a fireman art (cynthiagrayart.com) and am currently paint- gold Great Seal of the United States. Patricia H.M. when he grew up, but C. Thomas Parsons has been ing chairs. My inspiration comes from meditating Morrissey lives with husband Daniel Lloyd in Ster- appointed as the fire chief of Ithaca! Tom started on the night sky. Each chair I create expresses ling, VA. Patti works for the US Dept. of State as out as an undergraduate “bunker” with the Ithaca how I see the universe continuing to unfold, a representative to the Global Futures Forum, a Fire Department, served as a firefighter and para- through the use of deeply saturated, brilliant col- network of countries working together on global medic, and then did stints as assistant fire chief ors.” Cynthia adds that travel has been one of security issues. She loves interacting with her and deputy fire chief, before coming out on top their passions. During the winter of 2010, she and “smart, creative, and passionate-for-peace national in the testing and interview process for the head Steve spent four months sailing around the world and international colleagues, who are all deeply position. He faces the immediate task of running on the Queen Mary II. They have also been to experienced in national and international security the department in the face of a 6 percent budget Antarctica, the high Arctic, and the Galápagos Is- policymaking and intelligence.” At Cornell, Patti cut, but looks forward to the challenge and says, lands. Cynthia would love to hear from classmates spent three-plus years on the gymnastics team and “It’s an honor to be fire chief in Ithaca.” Speak- at [email protected]. was a member of Delta Gamma sorority. She is still ing of Ithaca, correspondent Mark Fernau went Siff, ME ’84, MBA ’85 (Norwalk, CT; active in both areas, coaching gymnastics at her back to campus for Homecoming 2011 with wife [email protected]) reports that his company, daughter’s high school. She is very involved in Melissa (Duncan) ’83 and saw, for the first time Biowave, is doing well. They make advanced pro- politics in Virginia and is a member of her coun- in many years, Lambda Chi Alpha brother and fel- fessional and consumer neuromodulation pain ther- ty Democratic committee. She writes, “My fun low U-Hall 5’er Lawrence Carrozzella, as well as apy systems. A comfortable, 30-minute treatment hobby is moderating/hosting a local public access brothers John Tansey ’84, James Farrell ’84, provides up to 24 hours of continued pain relief. program on local, state, and national politics.” She Jim Morrill ’84, William Noon ’84, and Fred In the three years since their market launch, they contributes to Women for Women Int’l and spon- Dinger ’83. Thanks again for all the news, and have worked with 24 NFL teams, 53 major college sors a woman in the Democratic Republic of the see you in Ithaca for our 30th Reunion! c Mark sports programs, and many NBA, MLB, and NHL Congo to receive education and training toward Fernau, mef29@ cornell.edu; Douglas Skalka, teams. “I’m proud that Cornell Athletics is a cus- economic independence. dskalka@ npmlaw.com; and Steven Crump, tomer as well. We now have our systems in use in Paul W. Jones is in his first year serving as [email protected]. the White House, the Pentagon, and with the Navy US Ambassador to Malaysia, the duties of which Seals. We are also growing our business in the pain have him living in Kuala Lumpur. He reports that clinic, physical therapy, and chiropractic markets relations between the US and Malaysia are going Kathy Haley Breen (breen as well. The biggest growth for us, though, is in well and that it is a “fascinating time in a fasci- [email protected]) sends the home market, which is supported by aging nating region.” Ambassador Jones says that Prof. 83 greet ings from Old Town Alexan - Baby Boomers. Check us out at www. biowave. com.” LaFeber’s history of US foreign policy courses con- dria, VA! She retired after teaching for 27 years and Robert Rountree (rrountre@ rochester. rr. com) went tinue to play a part in his life. He plans to invite has followed her dream of becoming a Kripalu yoga to Trinidad this past summer with wife Judy and to his home Cornellians of Malaysia, of which he instructor (http://kathybreenyoga. com). Work has daughter Breana to visit family. He writes, “While says there are many. Ambassador Jones is not the taken husband David ’84 up and down the East we were there we were able to spend an afternoon only classmate reporting from abroad. Hotelie Coast (and to Britain for a year), but they returned saving baby leatherback turtles from being eaten Stephen Thomson lives in Hamilton, Bermuda, to Massachusetts in 2004 so their two sons could by Frigate birds.” For pictures, check out the Flickr and is the president of Mailboxes Unlimited, a full- finish middle and high school before relocating for link: http://www.flickr. com/ photos/ 44403905@ service mailing, packaging, and office services a second time to Washington, DC, in November N03/sets/72157627782924558/. 78 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes , , and Mau- Keith Eileen , , Bob ’87 , drank a lot a drank , April 2012April 79 . Jim met up met . Jim Mark ’85 | at at Tara White ’93 Joan Guilfoyle , , , MS ’89 MS Gutwillig. They had They Gutwillig. , , ’85 March March Doug McGregor , , Whaley, MBA ’89, ’89, MBA Whaley, , his wife, Jodi, and their ’s Boston wedding. Boston ’s Pam Rubin became COO became Steak of Quaker , , MBA ’89, ME ’93, and some Silverman Silverman Rozzi has been a research and de- and research a been has Rozzi John Longstreet ’77 has had a big She year. changed Mark Wysocki Mark , received , a to received grant major design Lisa Blumstein and his family recently. About a year a About recently. family his and Joyce, and and Joyce, saw a boatload of friends at the Cornell/ the at friends of boatload a saw Christine Miller Jim McGrath Scott McGregor ’85 Lindsay Liotta Forness Teri Port Gary Allhusen The Creative Lives Initiative, founded by by founded Initiative, Lives Creative The Stephen Lerner Maroney Jill Fahey Palmerino jobs in March and now works as a senior partner a senior as works now and March in jobs at a VCE. called They manager company startup In solutions. infrastructure cloud On sell converged Port. Teri to back name her changed she June, August 21, she Steve married Lihansky at their Their new four were home. children part of the and family with ceremony a during party or- wedding apple and Valley Hollis the overlooking friends ritual, was a bit There of little Christian chards. and a Irish, little a Hindu, little a Jewish, little something like sounds It American. Native little a there for everyone. Guests at the wedding in- cluded and and deliver new programmingprogram pilot The for elementarychildren. and educators school be a feature- will there and in January launched length film toward as they prepare leading to make this program, a re- national then and gional The institute. of a training teacher the creation as a Serendipity accepted been has project cre- pilot fosters work their Inst.; Marion the of Project ativity, resilience, inner well-being, and inter- world. natural and community the to connection Sharon Nutter industry device in medical the leader velopment de- it as space this enjoy “I years. 16 past the for rigor—innovation, development mands product reliability—while quality, helping patients live relocat- William husband and Sharon lives. better year. this Tennessee to ed Debbi Neyman Kefgen offices opening is Keith NYC. in game hockey BU CEO the is He year. this China and Africa South in of HVS Executive Search. He continues to play golf and tournament poker and is saw planning on Keith year. this HEC to go to group a getting Mike Cahill ago, is and properties 45 of consists which Lube, and expanding from a regional-based casual dining chain to a He one. national works closely with CEO/president of local wine, and met many other Cornell alumni. Cornell other many oth- met wine, and local some of get to great be would sure “It writes, He out CAU!” to er of ’84 check alumni Class with reen Burford have a time friends launched new business platform long mobile a out building on focused venture and local merchants, consumers, together tying PhD ’98, and and ’98, lots PhD included which event, the for weather perfect gluten- a vegetarian, tent, the under dancing of bar sundae cream ice biggest the and buffet, free red wore surprise—I “Big writes, Teri imaginable. ceremony.” the for shoes kids Sam, Mira, and Nathan spent a week at Cor- at week a spent Nathan and Mira, Sam, kids and Stephen summer. this University Adult nell’s the with forecasting weather in class a took Jodi Prof. excellent Dougher’s son Mitchell loved the six weeks he taking summer, last campus Cornell the on spent his between college at courses the Architecture junior and seniorex- was I and yearlife his of in time highthe had school.“He writes, Karen him from hear I would whenever jealous tremely Ithaca!” in doing was he things the about Judy Jane was re- is the art the is . In Los An- Los In . ’82 Karen Murphy Mark Schwartz , , Rowe Rowe Randall reports the Randall has returned has from a returned ern New England Ear, Group, Throat and Nose, clin- assistant an as and of surgery professor ical Med- of School U. Yale at pres- as serves He icine. Connecticut the of ident Ear, Nose, and Throat Society, as well as vice webmaster and president Oto- England New the of laryngological Society. Mindy Alpert elected to the National the for Directors of Board Sclero- Multiple National , and Jennifer and Maisel, ’87 ’s young adult novel, Don’t novel, adult young ’s Heebner has been appointed presi- has been appointed , his wife, and two sons were sons two and wife, his , and Leslieand Gilbert , , [email protected]. Jim Seay diplomatic trade mission to India with Maryland Governor Linda Zell Forness; and in New York City, she City, York New in and Forness; Mary Parkman Stevens- — , about a teen fairy godmother, was godmother, fairy teen a about , ’ Zanchi is moving to São Paulo, Brazil, with Brazil, Paulo, São to moving is Zanchi Marty Brown; in New Jersey, she met up with Kathy McCullough Ken Yanagisawa Eric Schultheis , Lee, Rosenthal ’87 Alyssa Bickler c Mar tin tin O’Malley. Jim Mar was there he and to Bollywood from meet executives with to entertainment Mumbai in project ride thrill large a announced Rides. Premier company, his by developed be past the for Orleans New in living after family, her Gil, is Her the five husband, new years. general in for Brazil. Marriott manager manager/country Soccer Cup World with times “Exciting writes, She in 2014 and the Olympics in some find and 2016. Portuguese learn to hard I working will be exciting part-time work. E-mail me Paulo! at São in gzanc@ person a need you if bellsouth.net Gergel ’85 all came to her book signing! book to her came all 84 Expect Magic Expect var- At November. in House Random by published Cor- many with up met Kathy signings, book ious nell alumni who bought the book, sometimes she saw In copies! Pennsylvania, multiple Dove Janetsaw Insardi geles, Lindsay Liotta As- Alumni Medical Connecticut of U. the of dent otolaryngology practice to continues He sociation. South- with practice private in CT, Haven, New in Madi- at game hockey U. Boston vs. Cornell the at son on Garden Square 26. November He writes, we loved score, final the of exception the “With Ly- with filled was arena The it. about everything Cup tied the in score and nah when Cornell Faithful Stanley the as loud as was it period, third the in playoffs ’94!” that news fun school. Glenn’s son her at teacher sis Society and elected chairman of the investment the of chairman was elected “I and siswrites, She Society organization. the for committee to able be to thankful am and MS with diagnosed organization.” a terrific such for volunteer Austin, and other friends and the joined family and Austin, other friends by themed affectionately were which mu- festivities, the to Dancing Love.” the “Celebrating Steve, that proved they the group Love, sic of Tainted In dance! to how know still and old that not are by accepted were donations gifts, birthday of lieu a (www.milofoundation.org), Foundation Milo the all That’s organization. adoption and pet rescue start and coming news the keep Please now. for for planning a 30th Reunion in fantastic 2013! Teri Port ’84 Port Teri Bob Jody . . She , , MBA Smyth (CALS). Debbie (econti@ in (econti@ Peggy Pierce Big surprise I wore red I wore the for shoes ceremony! Jamie Musik- . She has been has She . , , Gilles and Marks Marks from New . ‘ Kevin ’15 John Geresi Davis Davis (karen.davis@ Chasanoff from Con- Bangs, MBA ’89, ’89, MBA Bangs, Ed Conti Kathy Herring flew in from West Palm Charbonneau (drcharb@ Charbonneau Jim Salvie Jim Colleen Wainwright Rivera (Hotel) and and (Hotel) ([email protected]) lives ([email protected]) in Benji Goldman Deb Gruenfeld ([email protected]) lives in lives ([email protected]) Michele Canny came down from San Francisco and Francisco San from down came Lisa Sandelman Kristy Catlin Karen Heaphy Lisa Frenkel from California. Deb’s sons Alex, Cal, and Cal, Alex, sons Deb’s California. from Shawn ’13 Sussman, Sussman, Ann Mejias -Baloff, thrown by her husband, Steve. In Steve. by thrown her husband, -Baloff, Andrea Rosenblum Finally, Finally, Also in California is Bobby Tsai Kathy Sferra Nemirov, and and Nemirov, York, York, from Virginia, from Virginia, Glazier addition to Karen, who traveled from Pennsylva- from traveled who to Karen, addition nia, partygoers included necticut, and Jones to attend the surprise birthday party of party birthday to the surprise attend total. com) reports that many ’83 alumni gathered alumni ’83 many that reports com) total. 2011 15, October of weekend the CA, Atherton, in ’85, in Manhattan Beach. The most incredible cel- incredible most The Beach. Manhattan in ’85, to belonged ebration fundraising campaign for Write Girl, a charity. She used her birthday charity. to a launch a Girl, 50-day Internet Write for campaign fundraising exceed- far but days, 50 in $50K raise to wanted the through $100K than more raising goal, the ed En- to west moved Peggy media! social of power former her miss she’ll says She November. in cino to old neighborhood to the goes but still home, a week. days a few ones wee to music teach gmail.com. Good Luck, Ann. Luck, Good gmail.com. ([email protected]) celebrated the half- the celebrated friends. ([email protected]) longtime with Angeles Los in mark century Dan Slaughter Classmates are encouraged to let Bobby know if to know let Bobby encouraged are Classmates Kong. Hong through passing are they Margaret Van Buskirk with to visit got They Beach. tegral-corp. com), who changed companies in 2011, in companies changed who com), tegral-corp. com- public large a leaving back to and going pany a small, private firm. He is now principal geologist and regional director for in Inc. Consulting Integral He San contin- Francisco. ues to do the same envi- ronmental work—waterstudies, related and quality primarily for private in- dustry. re- hotmail.com) (owlluvr@ of years that 25 after ports in admis- working college sions, including Cornell, College IvyNet business, own her started has she to ivynetcc@ e-mails business Send Consulting. garment manufacturing. He has three children, in- in business the family and manages Kong Hong children, three has He manufacturing. garment cluding Stow, MA, with husband husband with MA, Stow, Kasten certified as a running coach by the Road Runners Road the by coach running a as certified half- a run to goal a set has and America of Club in each marathon of the 50 She states. was on in (Nevada) state eighth her to complete target December. am ME, and is the “I in lives Yarmouth, maine.rr.com) hospital. rehabilitation a of director medical in physi- (specialist physiatrist a board-certified cal and medicine rehabilitation) and I love my job.” Her husband, Ed, is incredible antwo attorneyhave They for the legislature. state Maine a Abby, children: at freshman Syracuse U., and Washington, in U. 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nonprofits. He writes, “The gist of it is that mer- with her family. She lives in Madison, CT, with hus- word is that many of the freshmen wish to stay in chants offer a donation to a consumer’s preferred band John and her children and has her own le- the old Mary Donlon Hall, which has the reputa - nonprofit for every purchase the consumer makes, gal consulting practice specializing in workplace tion as the fun dorm for social kids. which is all enabled on your smart phone.” The law. Jennifer’s extracurricular activities include Sydney Solomon Neuhaus writes that her business is getting a lot of traction in Orange golf, tennis, skiing, and volunteering at her kids’ daughter’s bat mitzvah was the occasion for Syd- ney to see Susan Howell, Carol Getz Abolafia, Lau- ra Hine, and Susan Kittenplan ’85. Also having a mitzvah was Dan Cantor’s son. Family members in Frank Pietrucha’s job is essentially attendance were Dan’s parents Michael and Ros- alie Schwartz Cantor ’60, Alan Cantor ’57, Dan’s ‘ sister Jane Cantor Tucker ’89, and Randy Wolpert “de-geeking technical jargon for and Rich Isaacson. Paul Nahra’s wedding (yes, a first for both the bride and groom) in Cleveland non-technical people.” served as the rendezvous for Chris Di Napoli, Steve Block ’83, Michael and Lori Spydell Wag- Roberta’ Zwiebel Farhi ’85 ner, and Jon Grunzweig ’85. Claire Leaman is enjoying studying art at Columbia College in Chicago after many years in County, CA, and rolling out to the rest of Southern school and for CAAAN. She would love to hear London. Mike Malaga reports that Mike Lally California and beyondin2012. c Karla Sievers from Virginia Blake. Kathleen Dillon Carroll, MBA got engaged in Venice, Italy. Mike M. says plans McManus, [email protected]; Janet Insardi, ’86 (Ridgewood, NJ) traveled to Oslo, Norway. are for a bachelor party back in Ithaca this sum- insardij@ hotmail.com. Class website, http://class From Long Island, Beth Lenarsky Shmariahu mer, with lodging at the Chi Psi house. of84.alumni.cornell.edu. writes that she is a gemologist, grant writer, and Jeff Lowe informed us that in September business owner. She enjoys teaching teens CPR, nearly 50 Cornell alumni and brothers from Pi Kap- reading, and hanging out with her husband. She pa Alpha fraternity gathered at Citi Field in New Judy Marlinski Doyno writes in sent her first-born to Colgate; the second is in York to watch the Mets beat the Phillies and cel- from Osaka, Japan! Judy is the high school. Speaking of Long Islanders, we had ebrate the memory of Jeff “Zulu” Rosenberg. Zulu 85 president of Fidelity Invest ments a strong representation at the recent Cornell/BU passed away in 2010 after battling cancer. He Japan; her husband, David, is president of Miyako hockey game at Madison Square Garden this past graduated from the ILR school and earned his law Jisho Real Estate Co. The Doynos visited the US to Thanksgiving. Many ’85ers (and ’84ers) came to degree from the Albany Law School, where he tour prospective colleges for their daughter,who is give Cornell their Red Hot salute! Leora Halpern served as executive editor of the Albany Law Re- a senior at the American School in Japan. They had Lanz, Stacey Walsh Barone ’84, and Abbey Huret view. Too many Cornellians were in attendance to a wonderful time and saw Betsy Daniels Grasech, sat together for a little SDT bonding. Bobbie and list, but they include Jeff Lowe, Dave Zodikoff, Mindy Meisel Peterson, and Beth Benjamin, all Phyllis Simon Gusick and Ronee Trosterman Jon Flaks, and Jeff Horowitz. On a happier note, of whom live in California. Cowen were also in attendance. Bobbie and Phyl- Hilory Federgreen Wagner (dear friend, no rela- Roger Riccardi (Healdsburg, CA) is vice pres- lis’s daughter is also a new addition to the Cornell tion) was engaged on the stage at an Elvis Costel- ident of experience marketing for E & J Gallo Win- family—she is in the Class of 2014. Laura Wein- lo concert to Harvard grad Mike Youmans, with ery. Roger, we would love to hear more about your er Siegal was there with husband Matt ’84 and Elvis himself orchestrating the surprise event. job description. Brett Wood, who studied Me- daughter Chelsea, as well as others from Phi Sig Margot Tohn attended the Trustee Council chanical Engineering at Cornell, has sent word of Ep: Darren Miller ’84, with wife Nancy and their Annual Meeting at Cornell in late October, along a promotion. He has been named the executive daughter, a Cornell freshman; Charles Oppenheim with 15 of our classmates. Alumni are nominat- vice president of Toyota Material Handling North ’84 with family in tow; and Ed Rekosh ’84 and ed to join Cornell Council in recognition of their America (TMHNA). In his new role, Brett will lead his two young sons. A fun time for all, even contributions and commitment to Cornell, as well several strategic teams in sales, marketing, and though Cornell lost. as what they have done for their community and operations for the Toyota and Raymond brands. Congratulations to Leslie Nydick, who com- industry. The ’86 Council members are Chris Raymond Corp. is a leading provider of electric lift pleted the New York City Marathon this past No- Bergman, Mark Brandt, Najib Canaan, ME ’87, trucks and solutions used in warehouse and dis- vember! I also ran the Marathon—in 1997, the Anand Chandrasekher, ME ’87, MBA ’88, Jeff tribution environments. I think we all know what year after my daughter was born. It was probably Cowan, Anne Cowie, Eric Elmore, JD ’89, Felix Toyota does. Brett has been working with Toyota the hardest thing I ever set my mind and body to Laboy, Lisa Hellinger Manaster, Mike McGowan, Material since 1989. He is also on the advisory do physically (other than giving birth!). If anyone Steve Paletta, Ken Roldan, Ron Schiller, and board for SafetyBeltSafe USA, the national non- is up for NYC Marathon 2013, let me know! I will Jeff Weaver, MBA ’90. profit solely dedicated to child passenger safety. set the gavel down and be willing to give it a try For me, the end of summer was highlighted From this nation’s capital, Frank Pietrucha when many of us will turn a certain nameless age. by a visit to Jimmy and Maggie Holcomb Schu - writes that he and his spouse, John McGaw (a Party at my house Saturday, October 26, 2013 bauer on Martha’s Vineyard. Love of my life Lori Penn graduate), love life in Washington, DC. Frank when I turn the big . . . My travels this year in- Spydell Wagner did not join us because she was in is a communications consultant for his company, cluded various trips to Lake Placid for more figure Buffalo that weekend for Beth Bruno’s wedding. Definitive Communications. He explains that his skating and hiking, London, Stratford-on-Avon, and With Cornellians spread all over, sometimes we are job is essentially “de-geeking technical jargon for Alaska. Alaska is stunning to view—Colorado on forced to make hard choices. Cornell recently made non-technical people.” Definitive Communications steroids! Continue to follow your dreams and send its first round of choices with early decision an- works on cloud computing and IT security proj- in your stories. I love the read; I hope you enjoy nouncements. Lisa and Mike Manaster will have ects for NASA. Frank affirms that he has fully jus- the write! c Roberta Zwiebel Farhi, rfarhiesq@ another on the Hill with daughter Rachel. Also re- tified his rationale for taking Astro 101 and 102. aol.com; Joyce Zelkowitz Cornett, cornett0667@ ceiving admission to the Class of ’16 is Sophie He looks forward to skiing with Cornell friends this comcast.net; Risa Mish, [email protected]. Allen, daughter of Keith and Gail Schlussel Allen, winter and taking a trip to Italy. and my daughter Alexandra Wagner. Alexandra and Curt Hampstead (South River, NJ) works for Sophie met five years ago at summer camp in New the United Nations as a team leader in the pub- Although our 25th Reunion has Hampshire and have remained very close friends. lishing section for the Dept. of General Assembly come and gone, ’86ers still find These two kids actually brought me closer to my and Conference Management. In his free time, Curt 86 many reasons to get together. former ILR classmates Keith and Gail. pursues the following extracurriculars: Latin, tan- While moving members of Cornell’s Class of 2015 Lastly, Martin Schulz is happy to report that go, and ballroom dancing, learning Chinese, prac- into North Campus dorms, Susan Seligsohn Howell Yuengling beer is now being distributed in Cleve- ticing yoga, running track, acting, and watching and husband Steve ’84 ran into Cahssey Groos land. Back in the ’80s, he looked forward to stop- films. Recently (if I am reading Curt’s news cor- Augenstein and husband Don ’84, ME ’85, Laura ping in Erie, PA, to purchase Yuengling en route rectly) he cruised to the Bahamas, where he fast- Nieboer Hine with husband Clarkson ’85, and from Cleveland to Ithaca. Martin says he has gained ed and prayed. Jennifer Landsman Chobor Didi Barcomb Frechette. While the North Campus five pounds since the beer hit the shelves this fall. confesses that she would like to travel the world dorms constructed in the late ’90s are gorgeous, He keeps busy with his job as an international 80 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes ’s and was , and , Mam- Peter .” Science , , Stone Pamela Science April 2012April 81 and and Discover was given an given was , , Science | Jonathan Hyde , who also saw saw also , who Patricia Cook Rosen - Patricia Cook Rosen Howard March March Robin Rosenbaum and and and their children Brooke and their children Jon Piasecki Robert National Geographic National had an article published in in published article an had magazines and is the author of of author the is and magazines Brian Hyde ’91 and their kids Reed and Grayson. Also Reed kids and and their Grayson. in the arena. Although BU won in overtime in won BU Although arena. the in There are some significant accomplishments significant some are There 2011, October In Another significant piece of career news came news career of piece significant Another magazine, “Vigil at North Korea’s Mount Doom,” Mount Korea’s at North “Vigil magazine, of expedition” a “volcanological that chronicles Ko- in North Paektu to Mount scientists western explodes that the volcano indicate Records rea. being time last the years, 100 every once about in 1903. Two-thirds of the mountain in China with is covered as Changbai) it is known (where but part of the instruments, monitoring modern equip- in the mountain North had Korea been “mostly modern and foreigners of reach the beyond details. article Richard’s that trip the until ment” It that piece I is rec- truly a highly fascinating is and Beijing in lives Richard ommend. of our fellow Cornellians to report. In November, In report. to Cornellians fellow our of Richard Stone Smithsonian Moss 2-1, there was plenty of red in the Garden to team. the support Giant Age Ice an of Resurrection The moth: when in December early District US the to Obama President by nominated a as served has Robin Florida. Southern for Court of District Southern the for judge US magistrate appoint- her until 1998 From 2007. since Florida US at- was she an to assistant bench, the ment of chief as served she district; same the in torney - in Lauder Fort the section crimes economic the announce- the In dale 2002. in beginning office said Obama records President of appointment, the “Their ment nominees, another two and Robin of profession legal the and to public the service of confi- am I and impressive and distinguished are dent that they will serve the American people hon- am I bench. Court District US the from well Red Big A hearty today.” them nominate to ored Robin! to congratulations his brother brother his “Stone bio: professional his From editor. news Asia has reported and on environ- non-proliferation forbidding of most the some from issues mental and Korea North including of the world, corners to In Iran. his addition work for has written for for written has honor Architects of Landscape Society American piece a as built and designed project a for award 800- an of construction the For art. landscape of himself—“trans- by Jon—laboring path, foot-long setting a as sand and gravel of tons of tens ferred 400 nearly “moved and ASLA The wheelbarrow” a with bed paving.” as and wall the in stone of tons and poetry for vote a is “This stated, jury awards give could You endure. will This craft. and beauty still they’ll and years 100 in jury a to project this uncompromis- are materials The award. an it give uncompro- with out carried idea beautiful A ing. Jon’s on information More craftsmanship.” mising at www.asla. can be found effort Gold- is award-winning company Jon’s org/2011awards/022.html. Housatonic, in Architecture Landscape Bough en berg ’89 were attendance in reported there is a healthy contingent of Cornell alumni in alumni Cornell of contingent healthy a is there I a is Big there then and and now every East Area, Bay the back place take only can that happened event Red event an Such it. for around were I wish late last when November played Cornell hockey A Boston U. Garden. against at Square Madison the on cheer to there were classmates of ber num Big Red Team including Goldberg Greenstein plus Harris, and . McGowan, Ford, hhf6@ DiTonto. sent sent an update and husband Mike husband and Stephen Lapointe Rich Meyer Liz Rosen Brenna Frazer Berg sends in sends from Berg news is the director of religious of director is the Eric Braun c sent an update on pro- her an update sent Heidi Heasley ;or Katz is consumer counsel for the for is counsel Katz consumer 2012 2012 marks 20 years since I moved away from New York— first to Chicago, then to San Karin Ann Lewis . She lives in L.A. with her husband her with L.A. in lives She . Claudia Jimenez Christine Nielsen Elin Swanson you see to hope We now. for news the That’s Shannon Carney Fran cisco. Where has all that time gone? Although gone? time that all has Where cisco. Fran 88 Angeles Times Angeles husband with resides she where DC, Washington, Richard and children Peter, 15, Katy, 14, and teenagers three 12. She “Having says, Stephen, At us keeps least one of very them hopes busy. to go to Cornell for Her college.” stepdaughter a welcomed and 2010 September in married was son in May 2011. She that added now that her is stepdaughter back going to work, “‘Grandma to Hard day. every him of charge in be will Chris’ be to sure is It 47. at grandmother a I’m believe Also in of the vicinity experience!” a delightful capital, our nation’s and two children. two and manag- a is He VA. Alexandria, in home his from ing director at Corporate Executive Board and was at in Cornell the fall for of 2011 recruiting activ- extracurricular his of part As company! his ities, Eric has been to learning play the drums. He has great of memories the in gorges Ithaca from hear to love would and education and a member of the board for the school district of Indian River County in Vero Beach, FL. She and husband on ’75, PhD serves ’86, have also two daughters at Cornell, a Claudia sophomore. a and Healthy freshman Connected4Kids, boards: volunteer various She also and HIV Network. Aids Start Coalition, organized a education sexuality comprehensive memories best her of One teens. local for program Li- Mann at friends with “meeting is Cornell That’s from breaks.” of lot a took We . . . study to brary fond- so times those remembers she why probably ly! grams at the Wind River Cancer Wellness Retreat in Retreat Wellness River the Cancer at Wind grams up finishing is she where Carolina, North western work- not When CD. meditation healing a guided back- cycling, enjoys local Shannon her at Retreat, the at ing volunteering and landscaping, packing, and Time” “Slope remembers fondly She hospice. from hear to love would [email protected] State of Connecticut’s Office of Consumer Counsel. 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What she re- Cornell: about fondly most members Ellen. and Suz from hear to love would cornell.edu. Los Take Rogan, sent a short a sent Fits, Starts, and Starts, Fits, Valerie Tanney Emily Shaffer . Emily says there . are Emily says there is an adjunct professor adjunct an is magazine and magazine the . Mark Weber , michaelwagner@ wowway. , michaelwagner@ , , [email protected]. Parents , director of pediatric otolaryn- pediatric of director , Now is the time to be be finalizing to time the is Now your plans to attend the 25th Reunion of the Class of 1987, Revenson “Rev” “Rev” Holly Isdale , an in-depth review of breathing issues. Nina issues. breathing of review in-depth an , Lynne Schweinfurth Mike Nina Shapiro Michael Wagner c equity manager and still equity serves manager as an in officer as honored been has he where Reserve, Army the Leadership MacArthur a as and Year the of Officer and Haiti in duty of tours After recipient. 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MA. Another alumnus engaged in artistic endeav- ultimate host. In January he did a book signing in Japan, a Honolulu charity concert with Michael ors is photographer Stephen , BFA ’89. Napa, CA, at Rancho Gordo New World Specialty McDonald, Mick Fleetwood, Willie Nelson, and Jack Also in October, Stephen sent word that he had Food. David Scher penned Being Free: A Practical Johnson. The event raised more than $1.6 million been commissioned by the Island Creek Oyster Bar Guide To Freedom, Happiness, and Peace. The book for the American Red Cross, indeed providing a lot to produce a 15-ft. x 37-ft. permanent photograph provides powerful insights, messages, and real-life of much needed “kokua” (“help” in Hawaiian). for the wall of their new restaurant in Boston. The practices to experience freedom, happiness, and Kevin Kozak is another classmate withacause, final product is a series of panels depicting the peace anytime, anywhere, and especially right now. running San Diego’s annual Silver Strand 5K in a company’s oyster traps on their farm at Duxbury It also brings new wisdom and practical guidance Cornell T-shirt. The race benefits the Challenged Bay. A description of the project is online at to resolve past suffering, live in the present, and Athletes Foundation. He enjoyed a Thanksgiving http://ow.ly/7byI4. feel the true bliss of being free and truly alive now. Navy ROTC reunion with fellow San Diegan Bryan Further south, Chara Haeussler Bohan, an as- Both books are available through Amazon. Kimura and Dave and Jeanne Moulton Turner, sociate professor of social studies education at In November, Rick Lipsey and Mark Podgainy who were visiting from San Francisco. Steve Georgia State U., edited a new book released last ’88 served as a volunteer running guide team for a Rueter joined Kevin and Bryan at Zinck’s Night, year, Clinical Teacher Education: Reflections from disabled runner from Achilles Int’l, a disabled run- where Kevin learned that his daughter and Steve’s an Urban Professional Development School Net- ning club, for the 17th time in the New York City son are members of the same middle school cross- work. The book “focuses on how to build a school- Marathon. They guided Klara Hellesoy,ablind moth- country team—future Big Red runners, perhaps? university partnership network for clinical teacher er of four from Norway, in 4 hours and 41 minutes. It took me 6.5 hours to finish the inaugural education in urban school systems serving cultur- Rick and Mark both live in NYC and have four and Kobe Marathon and after that, about a week to ally and linguistically diverse populations.” You three children, respectively.Other e-mail news came walk normally, so I am in complete awe of at- can learn more about the book on Amazon. Last from Izzy Rudzki Povich, who lives in Montclair, torney Pete “Beau” Durham’s accomplishment of but certainly not least, I am happy to pass along NJ, with husband Andrew. She wrote,“Iamnow the 100 miles in 30 hours! His daughter seems to news from Deborah Brown, who became a friend senior executive producer of ‘The Last Word with have inherited his athletic genes, winning two while she was living in Northern California, though Lawrence O’Donnell’ on MSNBC and am looking for- events in the Atlanta state gymnastics competi- we didn’t know each other on the Hill. On Octo- ward to covering another exciting election cycle!” tion. Hope she brings her talents to Cornell when ber 1, 2011 Debbie married beau Mark Stewart in Jeff Simmons, president of Elanco Animal she is old enough! Santa Fe, NM. Debbie said, “Small ceremony, big Health, a division of Eli Lilly & Co., visited Cornell Caroline Misciagna Sussman is also serious fun, and a wonderful week off afterwards in and in November as the CALS alumni speaker. He spoke about fitness. She is a nutrition and exercise coach around Taos.” Debbie and Mark make their home about “Making Safe, Affordable, Abundant Food a who specializes in helping women train for their in St. Paul, MN. Congratulations to you both and Global Reality.” Jeff believes highly efficient food first (and subsequent) triathlons. Last year, she warmest wishes for a wonderful life together! production can help end world hunger, lower food completed a triathlon in Bermuda. During a visit That’s all for this column. To see more names costs, protect consumer rights, and safeguard our to New York, Caroline caught up with fellow Chi in future issues, sit down at your computer and natural resources. Achieving this requires protect- Omega Tracy Stemple ’91, MS ’93, whom she e-mail an update on your life events as soon as ing rights of the entire food chain to use new and hadn’t seen since leaving the Hill. John Gauch is possible to your loyal correspondents. I should existing technologies while sustaining consum er longing to make a trip to Cornell with his family, also mention that in only a couple of months, choice. To read his “whitepaper,” log on to www. admitting, “It would be their first time; it’s shame- we will begin the one-year countdown to our elanco.com/images/Three-Rights_White-Paper. ful, I know. Fortunately, our Boston home affords 25th Reunion. Keep a look out for more infor- pdf?path=index. In a small world story, I ran into us many opportunities to see the Big Red tangle mation on that event in these pages in the com- Rob Chodock walking his dog in the City. He and on the playing field or ice with local universities. ing year. Until next time, I wish you peace. c wife Karen Mitchell ’90 had a son, Hudson, on It’s always great to catch up with fellow Cornell - Steven Tomaselli, [email protected]; Brad Mehl, Feb. 6, 2011. Kim Levine Graham, who, with hus- ians.” Having left a business role at IBM, John is [email protected]; and Sharon Nunan Stemme, band Barry, welcomed her fifth child in October now in a management role at the law firm Axiom. [email protected]. 2010, is contemplating when to return to the As a stressed out freshman pre-med, I secret- practice of law, “given the current and rising ly envied my Hotelie friends in U-Hall 4 and won- costs of tuition!” dered if I should transfer out of Arts & Sciences. Finally, spring is here and it’s Can you believe that our 25th Reunion is just Never could I have imagined that years later I time for you to let us know over two years away? We will be communicating would actually be working in human resources for 89 what you’ve been doing lately. about reunion and other class events through a hotel! My International Relations concentration Our column is only as good (and long) as you, our multiple sources, including our Facebook page came in handy when hosting the governor of classmates, make it, so please send us something (“Cornell University Class of 1989”) and LinkedIn Bangkok at a World Health Organization confer- about you and others you keep in touch with! Our group (www.LinkedIn.com/groups). We hope you ence. Other perks of being an accidental Hotelie annual class News and Dues mailing should be will “like” us on Facebook and join our LinkedIn include meeting Tiger Woods and Mark Steinberg showing up in your mailbox anytime now. OK, group. Any questions, contact our class presidents, during their Kobe beef dinner and spotting Ichiro enough begging . . . On to the good news we Debbie Schaffel (cornellian89@yahoo. com) or striding through the lobby with his sponsors. Too have for this issue. Rob Chodock ([email protected]). Please bad I wasn’t on staff when Tom Cruise stayed for Seth Gold reports that he made a lateral keep sending us your news! c Stephanie Bloom a month during Last Samurai filming or when Jack- move to the law firm of K&L/Gates, where he is Avidon, [email protected]; Anne Czaplinski ie Chan filmed Shinjuku Incident at the hotel.Afu- the partner in charge of growing the intellectual Treadwell Bliss, [email protected]; Lauren Flato ture Hotelie, Jena Bloomer is following in the steps property and online advertising litigation practice Labovitz, [email protected]; and Kim of her dad, Kavin Bloomer, MPS ’90, as a member in the Los Angeles office. An e-mail came from Levine Graham, [email protected]. of the Class of 2016. Congratulations, Cornell dad! Jean-Marc Sonolet, who wrote, “I am still the Not everyone got weeded out by Chem 207. president of the Class’croute chain of restaurants Dr. Pete Christakos has been a pathologist for 11 (137 units in France and Luxembourg).” He also A year ago, northeastern Japan years and lives in Northampton, MA, with wife Deb acquired a chain of juice bars that should expand was devastated by natural and and future Cornellians Nico, 9, and Alessandra, 5. across Europe within the next few years. He is 90 man-made catastrophes. Heart - “We visited Cornell last summer; the kids loved married to Stephanie (Ruiz de Angulo), MBA felt thanks go to classmates all over the world it—they imagined it was Hogwarts!” Andrew Al- ’90, and has lovely daughters Estelle, 14, and who have helped out in their own ways, including part, Pete’s roommate for four years, added that Lauren, 11. Jean-Marc keeps in touch with Neel Mark Tanouye, who participated in Project Aloha, former housemates Matt Richardson and dentist Inamdar ’90 and James Doyle. a goodwill tour led by Olympic skating champion John Lucia brought their families and joined them Two of our classmates have been published. Kristi Yamaguchi and Japan’s first foreign sumo for a 528 Stewart reunion in the Finger Lakes. Not David Harap authored his first cookbook, Entertain wrestling champion, Jesse Kahaulua. Lifting spir - able to join them was Mark Eskenazi, a spinal Like a Gentleman. This book helps men create un- its with their performances, the Project Aloha surgeon at the Spine Inst. of South Florida. forgettable meals for their guests (whether a date musicians, hula dancers, and volunteers visited Since December 2010, Lisa Lilenfeld of Vir- or a larger group) without stress or needing years several affected communities and donated sup plies ginia has been president of the Eating Disorders of cooking school. There are recipes for every oc- for art therapy to children’s centers. As bassist Coalition for Research, Policy, and Action. The casion, plus tips and secrets on how to become the for Manoa DNA, Mark also took part in Kokua for coalition worked with Patrick Kennedy and other 82 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes , my , (woohoo!) April 2012April 83 sU. | Kerry Duffy ’95 Dominique Lazanski March March Greetings, Greetings, classmates! I hope opportunities unveiled has 2012 potential—or hidden to unlock Mayer writes that she and husband and she that writes Mayer Julie Brof , who was visiting from London. Little did she did Little London. from visiting was who , while adjusting to my new position as an engineer an as position new my to adjusting while we Since too. in well, Merck’s West Point, adjusting PA, pilot been plant has facility. Chris Hubby the has he work, to together commute longer no out Ryan and Sean of getting responsibility sole and the on to door . time school . - . and enter taining both of them while I am in class—no online classes this time We around. ended the Ryan’s, (Chris’s, birthdays three year celebrating Spectacular Christmas the seeing and mine) and and myself there been never I had City. Radio at was totally with impressed the performance—I highly recommend going. We were also lucky enough to catch up with ’96 be Central of a part would she that Dance know sister my tween be challenge lost—but I sure pretty am I me. and Chris, boys, time! next always is there Michael live in Julie WA. works Seattle, for the a been has she where Commission, Trade Federal consumerbusi- in protectionare attorneyscammers as for thelong past 11“As says, She years. ness, I’ll havethe on plentytaking not to When keep Julie! me busy.” side, Gladour on you’re scammers, non- Julie volunteersfavorite her for as at well heras firstschool, grade daughter’s advances and protects which Voice, Legal profit, She also legal women’s rights. writes that on a to able was she DC, Washington, to trip business at at least - a se two few completing been have far shining thus moments. moments My shining Rutger school at graduate of mesters 92 , Tom Joel (wife c Andrew Melanie , ccwu@ , traveled ex- traveled Los Angeles “the MechE” “the writes that he that writes and Becky as assistant professor assistant as has transitioned from transitioned has is an associate professor of professor associate an is , who is married with four Scott LaGreca New York Times M. tuberculosis M. , and their children Jessica, Reid, and Reid, Jessica, children their and , , ME ’92, is happily focused on the life the on focused happily is ’92, ME , , [email protected]; Wendy Coburn [email protected]; , Leibowitz has been working for 13 for years working has been Leibowitz Ken-Ryu Ken-Ryu Han , MD ’95, our ’91 reunion chair) has been has chair) reunion ’91 our , ’95, MD (with more to come). She also makes per- makes also She come). to more (with Stephen Schwartz Many thanks to those of you who responded who you of those to thanks Many Closer to home, home, to Closer A number of our classmates have been busy been have classmates our of A number , MD ’93, and their daughter Annika. daughter their and , ’93, MD Jeff Katrina Schreiber Firlik to our e-mail solicitation for news. If we missed we If news. for solicitation e-mail our to future a in you get to sure be we’ll time, this you coming! updates the keep Please edition. Greenberg of of pub- puzzles had She’s puzzles! crossword making lished in the board the on serves Melanie FL. Naples, in Oliver, of Association Alumni Cornell the of directors of and has as served the Zinck’s Florida Southwest Night chairperson for the past five years. of times and of in When departments the School at Medical UMDNJ medicine. and physiology and pharmacology marathon, another for training or work at not he’s children. three his after chasing happily is he the local delicacy—sea cucumber! She is She study- cucumber! delicacy—sea local the 7, son with Tom, ing husband Robby, Mandarin Joseph 5. Suh Ashley, daughter and Cornell’s of curator as job new great a landed has world-renowned a with Herbarium, Pathology Plant collection of 400,000 dried fungus specimens, of in middle the He’s reprints. and photographs, and digitize to project database a grant-funded us tells Scott that holdings. of their 25 percent on Hill, back a the it’s being bit a warp of time the around places other many in living after but He again. home is finally he like feels he world, Mas- in ago years two Babuszczak Keith married first their adopted recently and they sachusetts Robyn cat. Lipsky the Tina Weintraub pet, School Miami of U. the at Palmer ophthalmology Bascom clinical at director medical and wife, Medicine his of with lives He Naples. at Inst. Eye ’90 (Rebak) lich Freund tensively in 2011 to meet with Brazilian invest- Brazilian with to meet in 2011 tensively He is a at managers. ment partner the law firm Schulte Roth & Zabel Given LLP. the enormous that of investments amount attention Brazilian investment an build to trying is he attracting, are that managers Brazilian to catering practice fund US and investors US to funds their offer to want invest- a Brazilian up set to want who managers business. management ment Times Levine (a Ethicon at engineer development product a as & Johnson new designing Johnson subsidiary), NJ, Plains, in lives Scotch She surgery. for tools Sam, and 8, Jonah, sons and Marc husband with 6. neurosurgeon to startup She entrepreneur. co- an founded is HealthPrize Technologies in 2009 and HealthPrize officer. medical chief its serves as that company software mobile-based and online people encourages that platform a developed has and medications to prescription with their stick dy- gaming leveraging so, doing for them rewards economics. behavioral from and insights namics husband with CT, Darien, in lives Katrina ’90 sonalized puzzles, including a Cornell-themed one Cornell-themed a including puzzles, sonalized that the Class of ’71 out handed to their class- June. last Reunion 40th at their mates with occupations in medical or health-related AZ fields. Glendale, in urologist a as worked has children, 2004. since Phoenix), (near wmilks [email protected]; and Charlesand Wu [email protected]; wmilks mac. com. mac. Kelly Daphne Liu Kate Pierson Joyce Higgins here, here, writing my writes that after three after that writes [email protected]; Pippitt Pippitt also traveled in China Greetings, Greetings, fellow Class of ’91ers! Tom Greenberg New from column Notes Class first Thatcher Brown [email protected]; Amy Wang [email protected]; Laura North Many of our classmates have written us about us written have classmates our of Many Speaking of technology, in December Cornell December in technology, of Speaking Rose Tanasugarn , and our son and potential future Cornellian, future potential and son our and , c darin and having a great time exploring the city the exploring time a great having and darin friends. new making and East of Society Cultural the started She recently. cultural and language Chinese offers (which Bay by invited was She RI. in Barrington, programs) Foreign of U. Dalian to go to Inst. Confucius the Lundin, who moved to Beijing, China, this who to China, past moved Lundin, Beijing, 5, Gunnar, sons and Steve husband with summer Consulting Boston with job her 3, left Axel, and Group in and New so York far is really enjoying the opportunity to be a stay-at-home mom for are They all to the first time! trying learn Man- cul- language, Chinese to experience Languages was dish favorite Her hand. first cuisine and ture, peaceful times. Once settled in Genoa, he hopes he in Genoa, settled Once times. peaceful to start studies. language Italian well as the surrounding Gulf countries during 91 York City, where I live with my wife, wife, my with live I where City, York - part ’93 a as work I note, professional a On & 5. Dylan, Meagher Arps,tions. Slate, Skadden, firm si law the at acqui ner and mergers in specializing LLP, Flom at director medical assistant an as Reunion works at Daphne you of many so seeing great was It GE. 20 in Hall Donlon Mary years Staying last June. experience! an quite was graduation after around locations in exciting or work travel their world. the Group, Jumeirah with years six and Dubai in years Car- of division a with position a accepted has he Genoa, in based Crociere, Costa called Corp. nival oppor- him great with has provided Dubai Italy. tunities to travel to Africa, India, and Asia, as Roberson [email protected]. Manning tablet PCs equipped with collaborative software to Easter won software a $40,000 grant from HP for using collaborative with equipped PCs Wes- tablet Virginia at curriculum chemistry the enhance interactive that idea the on Based College. leyan acquisi- knowledge use increase will experiences learning project Joyce’s development, skill and tion the technology for better and more instructors, immediate and students between communication presenta- classroom integrate seamlessly will and student other and experiments, laboratory tions, feedback. instructor with activities received a $350 million donation, helping the part- with bid its for million $100 win university ner Technion-Israel Inst. of Technology to run on- 21,000 than More project. campus tech NYC’s the bid were collect- supporting line signatures to submitted and community Cornell the from ed Red Big much how just proving Bloomberg, Mayor and Cornell, Congratulations, Apple. 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catch up with Jenny Yang and Robin Rudowitz, eye. An unexpected programming glitch proves (shout out to Atul Aggarwal, who took a bronze MPA ’93, and their families. fatal, though, spelling disaster for the nation and casting class!) or perhaps embark on a study tour Kyra Chomak Lawton and husband Mark, crippling the world. 7G is currently available on to places ranging from Cape May, NJ, to Belize to BArch ’93, have their own architecture and design Amazon and BarnesandNoble.com, or direct from Iceland. Bon voyage! Take care and please share. firm in Massachusetts, www.LawtonDesignStudio. World Castle Publishing. With literary agents cur- c Melissa Hart Moss, melimoss@ yahoo.com; Yael com. Kyra reports that she has started a new rently reviewing my latest young adult supernat- Berkowitz Rosenberg, ygb1@ cornell. edu; and company, www.women-run.com, a product-based, ural thriller and two more novels scheduled for Melissa Carver Sottile, [email protected]. mission-driven e-commerce business targeting busy release this year, this dream has quickly changed women. The company’s goal is to celebrate all that into an unexpected career path. For more infor- women do, while helping others. Kyra’s company mation, please visit: http://sites.google.com/site/ According to the Cornell Daily donates 5 percent of its profits to charities that debbiekumpbooks/.” Sun, applicantstoCornell’s Class 94 of 2015 faced the most com - petitive season ever: 36,392 applicants vied for 6,534 fat envelopes, for an acceptance rate of As long as scammers are in business, close to 18 percent. Now that I have a future Cornellian (er, son) in my house, I am grateful to ‘ have a statistic to obsess about for the next 13 I’ll have plenty to keep me busy. years. As my husband has been promoting his own alma mater by making our progeny watch Michigan Julie Brof Mayer’ ’92 football games, I have vowed to drag my little Odysseus to Ithaca one of these summers for Cornell’s Adult University (despite the name, support women and girls. In her free time, Kyra Nora Bensahel has also embarked on a new they do have youth programs)! In 2011, three of enjoys spending time with her three children, endeavor. After 11 years at RAND Corp., she has our classmates participated in CAU. On campus, running and biking in the summer, and skiing on joined the Center for a New American Security. As Michael Kruger took the Harried Gourmet: Tasty the weekends in Vermont during the winter. Best deputy director of studies and a senior fellow, Nora Meals in an Hour or Less, and Carlin MacDougall, of luck with your firm and new business! manages the Center’s research agenda. She appre- BArch ’99, MArch ’00, honed her skills in Focus on Alan Gura has been recognized by the Xem- ciates that this new position allows her to publish Aesthetics: A Photography Workshop. If you can’t plar, an online publication that highlights an at- her own work more frequently and comment to the make it to Ithaca in the summer, study tours can torney every month based on contributions to the media on national security issues. In October 2011, whisk you everywhere from Costa Rica to Israel community. Alan, who earned his JD from George- Nora returned to campus to give a talk to the Rep- throughout the year. Karim Nice opted for April town U. Law Center, was honored by Xemplar for py Inst. for Peace and Conflict Studies. She wrote in Paris: A Cook’s Tour for Wine Lovers. Check it his groundbreaking work on two benchmark Sec- that her talk went well and she enjoyed seeing out at http://www.sce.cornell.edu/cau. ond Amendment gun law cases, as well as for his how the campus has changed. But here’s the most Now for the news from New England. Brian dedication to ensuring that Americans benefit from exciting part: “They paid for me to stay at the Penney and wife Suzy Iverson ’95 are pleased to the freedoms under the Constitution. Alan’s most Statler!” Prabhash Subasinghe also returned to announce the birth of Erika Roisin (Irish for “lit- recent work involves handling a case for a Michi- campus. “I absolutely loved showing my kids and tle rose”) Iverson Penney on September 7. The gan brewery in which he argued to preserve First my wife Cornell; walking down the Quad in front family lives in New Hampshire, where Suzy prac- Amendment rights for one of the company’s labels. of Warren Hall made for nostalgic memories of tices internal medicine, and Brian is an associate He says that the ability to handle cases that in- school almost 17 years ago. The kids loved cam- professor of biology at St. Anselm College. Julian spire him makes every day worthwhile. “I try to pus and went crazy at the Cornell Store.” Cesar Tel- Pelenur, ME ’95, of Concord, MA, wrote about his find intellectually engaging work that will make lo, DVM ’97, was on the Hill last fall to participate family (two children, ages 6 and 11) and his work America a better place.” Alan started his own firm, in the Vet college’s Southside Vaccine & Wellness as co-founder and CTO at FirstBest Systems. He Gura and Possessky PLLC, in 2001. Thanks to Clinic with second- and third-year Vet students. started the company “five years ago with two everyone for your news! Keep it coming for 2012! Some of our classmates have returned from other partners, one being John Belizaire, ME ’95 c Lois Duffy Castellano, LKD2@ cornell.edu; abroad. Charles Hatcher, PhD ’97, spent the 2010- (and it’s our third venture as a team).” Jean Kintisch, [email protected]; Megan Fee 11 academic year as a visiting professor of eco- Perhaps it was something in the brunch 18 Torrance, [email protected]. nomics at the Konkuk U. in Seoul, Korea. Now, years ago at Okenshields, but I’m seeing a after 12 years of being a professor, Charles is con- partner ship theme in this class column: Theta Chi sulting for foundations interested in the econom- fraternity brothers Ben Goodman and Ken Green - Happy spring, my fellow spring ics of higher education. Aaron and Holly Creech span teamed up with their families to launch The chickens! Hope you were not Hicks ’94 and their four children have completed Dinner Party Diary, “an entertaining and party- 93 too cooped up this winter and five years living in Granada, Spain, where Aaron planning journal for today’s foodie generation.” are looking forward to everything the new season worked as a pastor and humanitarian social work- To learn more, go to www.thedinner party diary. brings. Thanks to those of you who sent us news er with Reconciliación. Bennett Lee, BS Ag ’92, com. When I asked about the genesis of the proj- and please, classmates, toss us a kernel to share is now oversees, delivering medical humanitarian ect, Ben elaborated: “The initial concept was with the flock! Now for the latest. aid in North Africa and the Middle East. Several Deborah’s (Ken’s wife’s). This past summer, Ken Congratulations to Debbie Kump, who is now classmates have relocated within the 50 states. and I were making our yearly drive up to Ithaca a published author with an inspiring backstory: Zeno Gill and his family moved from Durham, NC, for a weekend of Cornell memories and wineries, “After getting my master’s at Cornell in 1994, I to Brooklyn, NY. Eduardo Rabel, BFA ’93, a visu- and he mentioned the idea. We’d been making taught middle and high school science in Maui, al artist, moved to Miami, FL, where he has start- that drive almost every year since we graduated, Seattle, and the Twin Cities, plus worked as a ma- ed writing for ArtSlant.com. Scott Fink moved and each time, Ken would pitch some new con- rine naturalist aboard a whale watch and snorkel to Merion Station, PA, to join Main Line Gas- cept to me. And every year, I would turn him cruise. My husband and I eventually settled down troenterology Associates and Lankenau Medical down. But this time, the idea stuck.” Ben, who in Minnesota to start a family. Yet following the Center, where he has been appointed chief of he- lives in Merion, PA, with wife Ashlee and daugh- birth of our first son, a genetic autoimmune dis- patology and director of the gastroenterology fel- ter Elena, is founder and president of Ben Good- ease flared in my eyes, making my return to full- lowship program. Scott and his wife, Amy, have man Creative, a branding and creative advertising time teaching impossible. Rather than dwelling on children Illana, 3, and Ryan, 2. Stacie Heck Fitz - agency. After Cornell, Ken earned a law degree my limitations, I viewed this as an opportunity to gerald has relocated to Marietta, GA. from William and Mary and is now assistant vice pursue my childhood dream of publishing a nov- Before flying off, I have a few Big Red extras: president and counsel for Toll Brothers. He lives el. This summer, I realized that dream with the re- Please flock to campus June 6-9, 2013 to celebrate in Chalfont, PA, with Deborah and their boys lease of my first apocalyptic thriller, 7G. Based off our 20th Reunion. And in the meantime, or in be- Luke, Aidan, and Griffin. I have to say I was a lit- our current 3G and 4G technology, 7G describes a tween visits to gorgeous Ithaca, consider enrolling tle jealous of their annual pilgrimage to Ithaca. futuristic world where innovations provide virtual in Cornell’s Adult University. There are offerings And they even spend holidays together! Added computer screens on lenses worn directly over the ranging from cooking to parenting to sculpture Ben, “Today Deborah is roasting a brisket and I’m 84 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes Ali Davis LaDieu also LaDieu Janet Chen April 2012April 85 Washington- , who in July in who , one one of 2010’s Nadine Weiss Sailor and hus- and Sailor | 2005, 2007-08). t( Veronica Vazquez and wife Gillian (Meg - (Meg Gillian wife and , whose son Corbin was Corbin son whose , March March Seth Kibel Juliet Bishop Martinez, MHA ’99, Martinez, took a Brian Finch cracked cracked the code: check out I can’t tell you how many times many how you tell can’t I I’ve sat around looking at my a of think to trying degree, law Ben Geiger , president and CEO of Medicomp , president named named Tiffany Herrick Masri might lose a saxophone contest a saxophone lose might Masri Dan Chen Heather Nydam Dan Balda Baby bulletins start NOW! In October 2011, In NOW! October start bulletins Baby Hankering for some straight-ahead jazz mu- jazz straight-ahead some for Hankering 96 way to parlay it into a starring role in aMoby music aMoby in role starring a into it parlay to way video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zIOhXK7E-Y. When not acting in short feature films, videos, films, or episodes of the “The Dan Sopranos,” company, the the manages New for York City of office dGenerate matters distribution all - and Films Pre films. independent Chinese distributes which York New the for Dan as served counsel viously, - inde and several WRNN-TV, Association, Racing Intrigued? productions. theatre and film ent pend www.dramalaw.com. out Check info? more Need char- the Int’l, Heifer with to Uganda trip study fam- struggling to gifts animal provides that ity self-reliance. increasing toward eye an with ilies and Heather her run husband Prima Car a Care, busy keep and products, care car high-end of line chasing Paia. after their daughter, ian Magazine 40 Under 40 in their list of distinguished lobby- distinguished of list their in 40 Under 40 behalf on work his for nod the earned Brian ists. seek- companies technology counterterrorism of that law the Act, SAFETY the under coverage ing Dept. the from protections legal-liability provides Gary with husband Along Security. of Homeland Larissa and and Langston, children Mi has called Shanghai home for that the since last and five2010 in Apple joined Janet years. new of opening the on tirelessly worked has time China. throughout stores retail gave birth at home to daughter Beatrice in 2011. in Beatrice daughter to home at birth gave Formerly a full-time high school math teacher, Atlanta-based Stephanie Schwarz Atlanta-based grow- their to Aaron Jacob welcomed Scott band three ing brood, juggling which also includes adoring/helpful Also Rachel. and Jenna sisters older is and Emma) Zoe, (Daphne, kids is Juliet 2011. May in born was Dylan son: a had new to the stay-at-home mom business and is finding the life change challenging, but she is resident Delaware happy. very 2011 released “Phonin’ It In with Seth Kibel and Kibel Seth with In It “Phonin’ released 2011 music fine wherever available has Project,” Bay Jazz Seth www.sethkibel.com. at as well as sold, is (Wammies), Music Awards Area Washington 20 (2003- won Instrumentalist Music World Best including Instrumentalis Jazz Best and 10) Sara Ende assis- appointed newly the is she but Seth, with Street, Meeting for development of director tant special with working RI, nonprofit a Providence, needs and at-risk children. Sara is married and Noah. and Julia to mom as well as least Flam, (at two at Stopping Melissa). and James, an, is now) for 2011. in August born Inc., oversees a Florida-based company that de- that company a Florida-based oversees Inc., with service and provides manufactures, velops, systems. heart-monitoring ambulatory than further no Look sic? relocated relocated in 2011 from New City York to Wash- group. public the a planning Metro, DC, to with job take ington, long-range their in agency, transit 11 after in Washington to be back is thrilled Ali years away, which includedin-unit An a location? new stinther of inperks the Tokyo. Among folks. things, little the It’s washer/dryer. , , her , , MBA Perrie, MBA Perrie, Crista Shopis Matthew , BArch ’95, started moved her private prac- private her moved Charles Hamilton Perrie, amb8@ cornell. edu; cornell. amb8@ Perrie, Abra Benson Wells and husband Chad had Chad husband and Wells practices internal medicine at medicine internal practices -Sigler, vkbrooksigler@ gmail.com. vkbrooksigler@ -Sigler, sent word that and their daughters, Kayla, 8, and 8, Kayla, daughters, their and became became the proud father of Seth James writes, “My veterinary prac- veterinary “My writes, James William Smith Abra Benson c Agnes Varga Agnes On a solemn note, the time has come to bid to come has time the note, solemn a On Melissa Biren Singer Rick Camacho beloved husband and best friend, passed away on away passed friend, best and husband beloved August 18, 2011, after a battle 16-month with trans- marrow bone failed two “Despite leukemia. to how all us taught and hard fought Matt plants, wife, his to addition In fullest.” the to life enjoy his children Matt left lights, four behind bright memory In 4. Elie, and 6, Ari, 8, Yonah, 10, and Leah, years the over lost we’ve classmates the all of I’d bond we of the special share, in celebration wel- and like to night close this column with the last verse of “Welcome Song.” “Evening Cornell’s to / Joy well thee fare music / Fading rest come Cor- fair our thee, to / Love best the love we all nell.” Jennifer Wit - Jennifer classmates. our Wit of one to farewell rock Fenster Brooks Veronica Lawrence, born on Nov. 4, 2011. Steve adds, “We adds, Steve 2011. 4, Nov. on born Lawrence, but I very was happy, exhausted. are extremely ifrarely, ever, able to successfully pull an all- nighter at school. Seth is reminding me every lat- days Four is.” that why morning) (and night oner, 8, Nov. 2011, Flynn Alexan- Chris welcomed ’04, and husband 2. Leah, sister big joins Flynn der. http://classof95.alumni.cornell.edu. website, Class Jordana, Jordana, 5. a baby girl, Katherine Elizabeth, entered has 6, Alex, and son, “Our call says, her Agnes Katie. I am ever. the best He’s big brother first grade. Labor, of Dept. the at work to back transitioning news, baby more In 2008.” since been I’ve where Steven Strell tice specializing in comprehensive psychological in comprehensive specializing tice out can check You to NY. Mt. Kisco, assessment at website www.melissabsingerphd. her practice com. Melissa lives with in NY, hus- Chappaqua, Scottband ’94 TX. Antonio, San in practice architectural own his His website is www.bluestemarchitects.com. Brooke Yules Summit NJ. Group in Medical Heights, Berkeley On Oct. 9, 2010, he and wife Kristin welcomed into the Camacho In world. Chloe Marietta May 2011, tice is expanding this year. tice We this is begin construc- year. expanding tion in October to build out a physical/water therapy area and we are adding grooming and day boarding to our list of services. We have been voted Best of the Best for five years run- ning!” Brooke and her husband have two very busy soccer-playing children: horseback-riding, 5. Stephen, 8, and Rebecca, who is president of Synairco, an Ithaca-based startup, cleantech and won “We notes, Crista team. her of member a ’04, plan com- business Big Red the Venture Cornell Green Emerging Best the and ($10,000) petition busi- Core Creative York’s New at award Business hire can I Until ($15,000). competition plan ness of manager the I am also on at Synairco, myself at Taitem department Services Audit the Energy is Crista careers, two to addition In Engineering.” busy! about pre-teens—talk two of a mother be recruiting students from New York State and from New York students be recruiting I to look crossing forward New Jersey. northern Itha- through passing (and classmates with paths Kim can at not work, When on ca!) my travels.” in slopes ski and beaches the enjoying found be Aidan, sons and husband her with Hampshire New Itha- through trips her of one On 3. Owen, and 6, to hello say to want may Kim ca, , c also moved also , who relocat- , who , MBA ’06, pur- ’06, MBA , Andy Horvath Jennifer Rabin , , , MD ’02, he is publishing Wasylik, [email protected]. Wasylik, chimed in with a great update great a with in chimed Todd Chalfin checked in checked from Washington, Dana Hagendorf How can it be the spring of 2012 of spring the be it can How that possible it is How already? most of us will be turning 40 Major made a career change, leav- change, career a made Major , dikaweb@yahoo. com; com; dikaweb@yahoo. , Eric Gordon ’93 Suzanne Perry One alum who will not be suffering any freez- any suffering be not will who alum One Kim Smith Deciding to make Seattle home for the fore- the for home Seattle make to Deciding Mark Mark Bullard eeo hi aet n raieoutlets). developcreative their talent, and sto chapters of his novel-in-progress, “Pillows for Your Prison Cell,” on the Web in serial form at www.pfypc.com. where he is the director of sales for Anaqua. When Anaqua. for sales of director the is he where he’s not for traveling work or catching up with like friends Cornell and and of everything she’s been doing since Cornell. Af- Cornell. since doing been she’s everything of ter graduating from Yale Law School, Suzanne for and practiced counsel international comparative law in chief now is and Italy and Luxembourg in Investments at Overseas Darby America Latin and, 2009 in Stein Dan married “I wrote, She D.C. (but fan Longhorns a Texas became the by marriage, of support his continue to agreed husband my Cor- support he’ll that promised and Bills Buffalo - Hobby nell except if they We play live Texas). in Falls Franklin.” dog, fun a have and VA, Church, and sometimes is a dancer Suzanne tango wise, fos- on sits also that She events. tango for a DJ as serves nonprofit “a Mercurio, Tango of board the as tango an of community agent ters Argentine to classes provide to outreach (e.g., development a and confidence, their kids to seniors increase musi- for non-professional orchestra community cian not but ’94ers, of Class some with touch in keep I quickly!” too by goes Time like. I’d as much as Dika Lam Marchant,postfoods.com; jennifer.marchant@ Dineen Pashoukos baking baking a rustic apple tart; tonight our families will celebrate Chanukah together.” (Yes, I did December.) in column this write is Decembers ing chief the now is she where Miami, to NYC from ed Beach. Miami Fontainebleau at officer marketing love to with other “Would Dana, connect Wrote coun- the of side other the On here!” Cornellians try, Kim writes, “As part of my responsibilities, I will responsibilities, my of part “As writes, Kim Concord, NH, to take a job as assistant director of director assistant as job a take to NH, Concord, at admission St. Anselm College in . glass, inlaid floors, knob and tube wiring, and a and wiring, tube and knob floors, inlaid glass, having is She basement. unfinished the in toilet fun into settling her and home classic fixing it of part as Nepal to traveled Jennifer May, In up. the annual leadership challenge trek the for Johnson School scenery, the enjoyed she graduates; natu- a beautiful and food, great weather, Great as a backdrop.” landscape ral in School Paul’s St. at office development the ing chased a 1911 four-square house with windows with including features, original wavy many with reconnect to opportunity the and hiking, of Erik community. Berkule Cornell the be- Atlanta from family his relocating Seattle, to Amazon. by recruited were wife his and he cause com. Of his move, Erik says, “So far so good. this year and next? I find that the passage of time of passage the that find I next? and year this - my reconciling up up I me and trouble sneaks have Ifeel old (younger!).Your how with age current together,sharing us tie to dates ways are wonderful ences of change. the of passing and time the through experi adventure, career, births, marriage, Jennifer Anderson future, seeable 95 54-96CAMma12notes_000-000CAMMA12Notes 2/8/12 3:06 PM Page 85 Page PM 3:06 2/8/12 54-96CAMma12notes_000-000CAMMA12Notes 54-96CAMma12notes_000-000CAMMA12Notes 2/8/12 3:06 PM Page 86

Veronica is now a part-time high school Spanish Club in Diamond Point, NY. In attendance were classmates, Dave wrote, “My building was in the teacher; a educator of sorts, Veronica Mitch’s father, Gordon Kent ’69, ME ’70, and news a few days ago when a mechanic drove a salt also writes the science portion of Barron’s flash friends Allan Shafter ’60, Charles Feng, Erik spreader right through the fifth floor wall. Lots of cards used by people studying for the GED. Yazdani-Biyuki, Michele Diener, Kyung Moon, excitement and property damage, but no serious Lastly, Daniel Charous married Shari Weiss- and Zach Righellis, MBA ’05. Mitch and his wife injuries, for which I was very thankful. When not man in March 2010, and Catherine Dillon became are both lawyers (NYU ’05). They met at the law working at a building with a truck-sized hole in Catherine Dillon Frank in June 2011. Congrats to firm where they worked after law school. it, I live a quiet but busy life on Long Island with Cate and Dan on their weddings. Please share tales Julia Wells married Jeff Massey on May 7, my wife, Dawn, our big girl Emma,3,and our twins of your adventures, accomplishments, celebra- 2011 in Merchantville, NJ. Guests included Court- Erin and Patrick,17months.” Keep writing! We love tions, and transformations—operators are stand- ney Stacks, Jennifer Rosen, Janice Obuchowski, sharing your news! c Molly Darnieder Bracken, ing by! c Ron Johnstone, raj6@cornell. edu; Miriam Post ’99, and Brian Drumm ’96. Julia re- [email protected]; Uthica Jinvit Utano, Liam O’Mahony, [email protected]; Carin ports that a fabulous time was had by all! Julia [email protected]; Karen Dorman Kipnes, kld8@ Lustig-Silverman, [email protected]. Class web- has moved back to New Jersey for a new job as a cornell.edu. site, http:// classof96.alumni.cornell.edu. brand manager at GlaxoSmithKline. Susanna Clark married Bryce Johnson ’99 on July 19, 2009. They had their first child, daughter Sienna, in April We may have graduated 13 years Hopefully, you’ve already started 2010. Chris Potenza wrote that his wife, Katie, ago, but one thing sure hasn’t to reach out to friends, former gave birth to daughter Mary Cate on August 15, 99 changed: Cornellians like to work 97 hallmates, team members, and 2011. The Potenzas live in Buffalo, where Chris is hard and play hard . . . although these days, classmates to encourage one another to return to a member of the law firm Hurwitz & Fine PC. playing hard might mean playing with your kids. Ithaca, June 7-10, for our 15th Reunion. I think As usual, our classmates are globetrotting. But no matter, that can-do Cornell spirit is still most of us would agree that it doesn’t feel like it’s Thomas and Emily Silver Turner ’95, ME ’96, there, all over the globe. Mark Proctor lives in been 15 years since we graduated, even though moved to London this fall with their twins Lind- Westport, CT, with his wife and their kids Carolina, our lives have changed tremendously. Cornell’s sey and Tommy, 5. Thomas works for Goldman 4, and Alex, 2. Mark works at Goldman Sachs Asset campus has changed significantly, too. Come back Sachs, Emily works for American Express, and Management as a lawyer,primarily covering private and show your family your old dorm . . . if it’s still their children will attend the American School in equity and real estate. He writes, “I live down the there! Admire new construction, including the London. They were sad to leave New York City af- street from Scott Hershkowitz. We occasionally Physical Sciences and Architecture buildings and ter 13 great years, but look forward to having lots play poker together. Overall, life is really good.” renovated Bailey Hall. Restock the kids’ closets of visitors and cheering on Boston sports teams at Stephen Bocskay, MA ’06 (stephen_bocskay@ with Big Red gear from the Campus Store! This late-night at the local pub! Leah Hershberger is brown. edu) writes,“Iam finishing my PhD in Luso- column is one of the last ones you’ll see in print also in London and writes that it’s been just over Brazilian studies at Brown U. and am becoming a before we gather together to make the reunion five years since she moved. She got permanent celebrity in Brazil for my writings on Brazilian cul - memories that your correspondents will dutifully residency in May and will go for dual ture. Would like to hear from Cornellians who are recap for the Sept/Oct 2012 issue of Cornell next year. Leah volunteers at a fringe/off-West involved with Brazil.” Alumni Magazine. Don’t wait until the fall to read End theater for the Southbank Centre’s Festival of Melanie Arzt married Jeremy Raelin in Sand- about all the fun the Class of ’97 had: be a part of Britain and may volunteer for the London 2012 wich, MA, on Cape Cod on Sept. 25, 2011. Her that Arts Quad party! The best way to catch up on Olympics. She writes that Cornell and NYC friend bridal party included several best bud Cornellians “news” is to do it in person in Ithaca! Lori Kessler visits the most, and Wesley Boas including maid of honor Yuree Whang, Dahlia This spring, look for correspondence from has also been to London on holiday. Schoenberg Lam (with husband Jonathan and alumni class leaders, including registration infor- Megan Winchell Fox and her family moved daughter Olivia), Wenbi Lai Hirakawa, ME ’00 mation and a detailed schedule of Reunion Week- from California to Abu Dhabi for her new position (with husband Keigo, PhD ’05, and son Stephen, end events. Reunion chairs Joshua Steiner, MS with Schlumberger as training manager for the Mid- 2), and Joye Thaller ’98, ME ’99. Other Cornellians ’98, and Eva Chiamulera, MA ’00, are working hard dle East and Asia Learning Center. Her husband, in attendance included Carolyn Stechel Glassberg to ensure our reunion is a huge success. You can Jason, will work in Oman while the rest of the fam- ’00 with husband Steve and son Jacob (whose sec- also check out our newly updated class website, ily (she and sons Jackson, 10, Ethan, 8, and Ryan, ond birthday was the day of the wedding), Aman- www. cornell97.com, for reunion details. It’s a great 5) will be in the UAE. They are very excited about da Geller, ME ’00, Ali Moskowitz O’Donnell with way to pay your class dues, submit any news you the opportunity to discover another part of the husband Chris ’98, daughter Emma, and son Tyler; might want to share via this column, or support world. John Pette writes that he has been a for- Mike Babish, ME ’01, with wife Kerri and daugh- your alma mater with a charitable donation. eign service officer with the US Dept. of State since ter Gloria, Brett and Jodi Pike Rosenau ’00 and Help make our future class columns interest- 2005. He has been posted in Geneva, Switzerland, baby Bailey, Matt Shuman ’98, ME ’99, and Matt ing—send in some news. Classmates want to know and San Salvador, El Salvador, and is now in D.C. Litman ’97, ME ’99, with wife Susannah (they were what you’ve been up to since 1997! Send photos for the foreseeable future. John adds that he has married last Memorial Day Weekend up in Maine). you would like to share on our class website to visited more than 30 countries through his job, Melanie’s International Living Center “suiteys” also [email protected] with “website pictures” in but is glad to be settled back in the States for a showed up in full force, including Asya Khonina the header (.jpg files). Interested in serving as while. He is happily married and living in Maryland. ’00, who now has a daughter Leah and son Luke class correspondent? Step up and become an in- Albert Yu started a China International MBA pro- with husband James Buckley ’01, ME ’02, Bijou tegral part of your alumni class leadership by help- gram at the U. of Hawaii. He will spend one year Bose ’00, Justyna Zapolska ’00, and her longtime ing us stay connected! And don’t forget you can in Honolulu and one year in Guangzhou, China. Boston roommate Meaghan Donovan ’00. Restu also reconnect via Facebook—join the Cornell Mike Gober finished his dermatology resi- Ismail ’98, ME ’99, another suitemate, was not Class of 1997 group! See you in Ithaca in June! dency at the U. of Pennsylvania and stayed on able to attend as she and her husband welcomed c Erica Broennle Nelson, [email protected]; as faculty, which was a relief to his wife, Laura Arya Risha Namperumal, born on September 23 in Sarah Deardorff Carter, [email protected]. Duran-Gober, a pediatric allergist/immunologist the wee hours of the morning. Melanie and Jere- at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The Gob- my honeymooned in Maui and Kauai, and now that ers have had their hands full with Abby, 3, and they’re back, they kind of wish they could live per- As the holidays approached last Sam, 1, and remember fondly the days of movies manently on the Hawaiian Islands instead of on year, many of our classmates at the Straight and late nights at Collegetown Davis Square in Somerville, MA. Melanie adds that 98 took time to reminisce about Bagels. Dave Gallagher wrote that he’s working in 2011 she celebrated her fifth anniversary as an time on the Hill. It was a pleasure to have so on some fun things in his job with the NYC sani- independent business owner and entrepreneur with much news to print. Enjoy! tation department. Since becoming a senior man- her company, Wits End Organizing, operating out Sheetal Sharma married Molly Sachdev in ager at DSNY, he has worked on anti-graffiti, of Somerville and Cambridge, MA! April 2011 in Knoxville, TN. They have moved to vacant lot cleaning, and snow route mapping soft- Also in the Boston area are Michael, BArch Columbus, OH, to start new jobs at Ohio State U. ware. He is currently working at the enormous ’00, and Carol Wilhelm Knauff, BFA ’99. Their Medical Center. Congratulations! Wedding bells central repair shop, where his assignment is eval- daughter, Meredith, is in kindergarten. Michael were also ringing for Mitch Kent, who married uation of all of the department’s fleet management is an architect for Dyer Brown and Associates in Tanya Evelyn on June 4, 2011 at the Lake George software. At the time of our request for news from Boston. Carol changed careers last year and is 86 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 54-96CAMma12notes_000-000CAMMA12Notes 2/8/12 3:06 PM Page 87 C enjoying her job in the development department Melanie Grayce West, [email protected]; Beth Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn LLP, and Evandro is lassNotes at the Massachusetts Historical Society. They keep Heslowitz, [email protected]; or Taber an associate with Proskauer Rose LLP. Julie in touch with many Cornell friends and enjoy Sweet, [email protected]. Todisco Mitchell is a proud mom to William Con- spending time with Carol’s parents, Alexander ’69 nor, born May 24, and Sarah, 2-1/2, who loves and Phyllis Wilson Wilhelm ’69, and grandfather being a big sister. Julie is enjoying a new role at Philip Wilson ’42, MS ’53. Jenna Ferrarese is a Lots to share this month, so Oracle as an engineering manager for operations, master’s student at the U. of Montana, Missoula, let’s jump right into it! Mat - responsible for hardware manufacturing process- studying at the National Center for Landscape Fire 00 thew ’98 and Anna Gravino es for Oracle’s servers. Julie writes, “I work with Analysis at the College of Forestry and Conserva- Salerno added to their family with the birth of several other Cornellians and we love to talk tion. Also in science is Liz Hays, an astrophysicist Amelia Caroline in January 2011. Big brother about the good old days we spent in Ithaca.” at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. She and hus- Matthew and big sister Isabella are delighted to At a Long Island vineyard in October, Elena band Eric Melin have a daughter, Tabitha. have a new sibling and enjoy watching her grow. Nardolillo married Saverio Parlatore ’98. Many Down in Richmond, VA, you’ll find Unicia Barbara DeMonarco-Snell continues to work as a Cornellians were in attendance, including Tarra Buster, BFA ’99, and her son, Adrian, 5. Unicia is small animal veterinarian in Ft. Myers, FL. She and Helfgott, Emily Barocas, Robin Mendelsohn, pursuing a pre-health sciences certificate from her husband welcomed twins Katherine Elizabeth Nicole Cain, and Sebastian Guerra, as well as Virginia Commonwealth U. while she works at Vir- and Samuel George on May 12, 2011. Barbara the groom’s father (and former Cornell grad stu- ginia Commonwealth U. Health Systems as an art says, “They are just the love of our lives!” Also a dent) Anselm Parlatore, GR ’70-72, and brother specialist. At work, she directs art activities with parent to two, Howard Katzenberg keeps busy and sister-in-law Sal ’96 and Jen Smith Parla- patients as a divergent activity during their raising his twin boys, born in June, and serving as tore ’97, and at least a dozen others. There was, healthcare at the hospital. She also installs art finance chief for On Deck Capital. of course, a Cornell photo! Mike Valdepenas is and art shows featuring area artists; assists the Evandro Gigante, Rita Antonacci, and big business director at Capital One. In his off hours, director with musical performances, employee art, brother Nicholas welcomed Lucia Maria into the he sings, does martial arts, and teaches Sunday and poetry competitions; and implements other world on Sept. 22, 2011. Both Rita and Evandro school at his church. Mike also married recent- programs and activities for the Dept. of Cultural practice law in NYC. Rita is an associate with ly—congrats to Mike and Lori! Programs. Unicia is just as busy when she’s not working. She is a member of the praise dance team and PR committee at her church, the Black American Artists’ Alliance of Richmond (BAAAR), and the New Corps Values Visions Civic Association. In Octo- ber 2010, she won Best of Show in Mike Buckler ’96 the National Arts Program in Rich- mond and was featured in an article in the Richmond Free Press because of it. She keeps in touch with s a patent litigator whose firm served as outside counsel for Microsoft, Mike Buck- Dionne Benjamin ’01. ler had a successful career, but he felt something was missing. “I was spending a Kubs Lalchandani,JD’04, joined A lot of time working on cases that basically involved companies fighting over mon- forces with former colleague Danny ey,” Buckler recalls. “I had always envisioned myself trying to make a positive difference in Simon to establish Lal chandani Si- the world, and I just didn’t see myself doing that there.” In 2006, Buckler made a radical mon, a Miami law firm that focus- change: he joined the Peace Corps and moved es on social media law, healthcare compliance, intellectual property, from Portland, Oregon, to rural Malawi. “I had electronic information, business a good job and a lucrative salary,” Buckler planning, and litigation and ap- says. “I was on the fast track, and that was peals. Richard Sleboda (rsleboda@ a scary thing to give up. But I realized that hotmail.com) writes, “After a few I wasn’t actually giving up all that much. The short years in bio labs in Taiwan and most important things in life are cheap.” Maryland, I have been working for a For two years, Buckler worked as a high Big Four accounting firm in Japan (six years) and Slovakia (three years). school teacher in the village of Khwalala, Languages and travel are my pas- sharing a house with three Malawian students. sion, something that I really only In addition to teaching, he started a student woke up to after Cornell. I would environmental club whose members planted love to hear from any long-lost trees, learning and educating others about the classmates. Anyone in Tokyo, please dangers of deforestation. He also helped plan feel free to get in touch.” Jill Alexander Van Slyke is the director a girls’ boarding school in the village and or- of residential services at the Westin ganized a two-week summer camp offering in- Riverfront and Resort and Spa at tensive instruction to promising students. Beaver Creek Mountain in Colorado. “Everything is difficult in Malawi in terms of Her extracurricular activities include daily living, finding food and water, moving mountain biking, running, and, of from one place to the other,” says the former course, skiing. What has she been doing recently? “Cleaning up after electrical engineering major. “When you live and giving constant attention to my there, you realize that you take a lot for granted in the United States.” daughter, 2! And wishing I had The experience inspired Buckler to write From Microsoft to Malawi: Learning on the Front more free time.” Lines as a Peace Corps Volunteer, published in November 2010 by Hamilton Books. Proceeds I think the whole Class of 1999 from sales of the memoir, as well as donations collected through his website (www.From wishes they had more free time! If MicrosoftToMalawi.com), go toward college tuition for the three students with whom he lived. you get even a little bit of free time, “I’m trying to promote a re-conception of the Peace Corps,” says Buckler, who now works for please let your class correspondents know what has been keeping you the National Parks Service in Washington, D.C. “Thanks to technology, you can stay in touch busy. Send your news to: c Liz with your village after you come home.” Borod Wright, lizborod@ gmail. com; — Maya Rajamani ’12

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In North Carolina, Corinne Keane Kadlec re- ran a local 10K road race in the jungle, which was Frisbee, road biking, hiking, paddling, gardening, connected with Mariah Michalovic Tarry ’98, MILR celebrated afterwards with some beach time and cross-country skiing, ice skating, and pond hock- ’00. Both have moved to the Raleigh-Durham area drinks. Meredith lives in Stowe, VT, where she ey. John Lundholm, a mortgage banker in New and enjoy exploring their new home town. Corinne continues to work in marketing at Concept2, the York, and Carolyn (Marin) ’08 were married in and husband Benjamin are parents to Maggie, 2- rowing company that makes the indoor rower and Sage Chapel in October. The wedding party fea- 1/2, and Corinne works from home in marketing competitive racing oars. tured Amit Bhatia, Michael Zito, Elie Gamburg, BArch ’02, Lizzie Bryant ’08, Lori Maida ’08, and Brenda Cannizzaro ’08, plus more than 30 oth- er Cornellians in attendance. John, is the process I saved a cardboard scale from each of booking Sage Chapel for a wedding still like trying to win a radio contest? ‘ Big Red congratulations to mighty Joe Splen- of the four dragons sent up in flames dorio, inducted into the Cornell U. Athletic Hall of Fame in November! (I certainly remember his during our time on the Hill. name thrown around fondly by the Daily Sun sports reporters, if not from my deafening years Nicole Niroulias’ Gupte ’01 in the marching band!) Joe holds Cornell foot- ball’s record for most receiving yards in a game and for most career touchdown passes caught. He and business development for Zurich. Tom ’99 and Jennifer Chu founded Chu Shu, which was and wife Lindsey (Cross) moved from Boston to Shanna Hillback Deng keep busy with their young selectedtoparticipate in the global accelerator pro- Michigan last year to help run Cross, Wietfeldt, children, 3-1/2 and 2. Shanna is now a marketing gram Start-Up Chile and receive $40K of equity-free Brockway & Splendorio, a wealth management strategy consultant. She enjoys running and seed capital. Chu Shu launched Silver Linings— practice. They have two young dividends: Gabby, Boston theatre, and is planning some fun family ultra-thin shoe liners that use a silver-based tech - 3, and Dominic, 1. Speaking of progeny, kudos to trips near their New England home. nology to inhibit growth of bacterial odor—in Michael Morse for keeping us posted while jug- After ten years in NYC, Ryan and Amy Donn 2010. Thanks for sharing your news. We love hear- gling four kids under the age of 5: James, Julia, relocated to Honolulu in early 2010. Ryan contin- ing from you! c Christine Jensen Weld, ckj1@ Charles, and William. He and wife Bethany live in ues to work with Trinity Investments and reports cornell.edu; and Andrea Chan, [email protected]. Elk Grove Village, IL. Other new-ish fathers in our that the Cornell community in Hawaii has shared class include Eli Rodriguez and T.J. Carrizales, much welcome aloha already. Makiko Ban-Hoefen MPA ’03. Eli, a retail sales director for Sotheby’s is raising three children while training as a hema- It’s that Dragon Day time of year— Wine, and wife Jessamyn welcomed Dahlia last tology and oncology fellow. Eli Reich started definitely one of the best times to year; T.J. and Michelle Silverio ’03 welcomed Alchemy Goods (www.alchemygoods. com) seven 01 be a Cornellian! I was neither Ar - Oliver Sebastian. Congrats, dads! years ago and it’s going strong. They make mes- chi tect nor Engineer, but I saved a cardboard As a journalist, I’ve learned some helpful in- senger bags, wallets, and belts from reclaimed ma- scale from each of the four dragons sent up in vestigative/webstalking techniques, but it took terials like bicycle inner tubes. Cliff Lerner is the flames during our time on the Hill. Do you think our 10th Reunion to finally track down Amanda founder and CEO of a publicly traded tech/dating they’ll be worth something someday, at least to Ramos Halene! After spending several years in company based out of NYC. They have one of the Kroch Library? Italy and Germany, picking up a master’s degree largest dating apps on Facebook and the iPhone So, having established that I, Nicole Nerou- in international relations and a husband along the and launched a calendar of 12 companies to watch lias Gupte, am a proud Cornell nerd, I’m thrilled way, Amanda’s back in New York. Over the holi- in Silicon Alley. Tsedey Betru accepted the posi- to be the newest Class of ’01 correspondent (my days, we arranged a Prospect Park playdate for R.J. tion of program officer at Public Interest Projects, ghost of summer internships past, fact-checking and Lukas—Class of 2031 and 2033, respectively? a philanthropic organization. She helps manage all those bold-faced names using Cornell Alumni (Then again, knowing their moms, they may want Communities for Public Education Reform, a $30 Magazine’s 1990s Telnet system, nods approving- to take a gap year and see the world.) Amanda has million fund that supports community engagement ly). I live in Seattle with my husband, Salil, a deferred law school while her husband, Tobias, in education reform efforts across the country. strategy executive at Boeing, and our son, R.J.,2. starts his psychiatry residency at Mt. Sinai Med- Tsedey is also completing a fellowship program at Freelance reporting and a nonprofit management ical Center, so look her up if you’re a Brooklyn the Council of Urban Professionals in NYC. program at the U. of Washington keep me busy; I mom interested in long walks in the park. In Croton-on-Hudson, NY, Jana Wilson works also play oboe and glockenspiel—thanks, Big Red Since I’ve successfully encouraged Amanda to as assistant house manager at the Danish Home, Marching Band training!—with the Seattle Sym- get back on the grid, here’s my pitch to the rest a nonprofit adult care facility. Jana said, “I love phonic Band. of the class: We get more column space as more my work at the Danish Home. It is a unique and Anyone else calling the Emerald City home classmates pay dues and get the magazine. If wonderful institution where we really do help these days? We know of three classmates, coinci- you’re reading this, you’re probably up to speed, people every day. I visit Ithaca almost every sum- dentally all newlyweds: Erin Colling Cleofe, a but please encourage our other classmates to join mer and have a blast swimming at Six Mile kindergarten teacher married to Floyd; Michael the party! Class dues can be paid online at https:// Creek.” She is also pursuing a second bachelor’s Fairchild, a Microsoft finance manager who has www.giving.cornell.edu/dues. Check out of the degree in nursing. Adam Bult made shareholder moved to Bellevue with wife Megan; and Kristi- Class of 2001 Facebook page and e-mail your news at his firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP. na Wallender, an Amazon marketing manager. to me or Lauren at: c Nicole Niroulias Gupte, He sees Felix Danciu often and works with Jen- Kristina, who also attended Stanford’s business [email protected] (tweet me @BeliefBeat); nifer Plut Coyer. Matt and Adrienne Faso live in school with Salil, married Joanna Gentili last year Lauren Wallach Hammer, LEW15@ cornell.edu. Buffalo, NY, with son Eli, 2. Matt’s work at the on the top of Crystal Mountain in Washington. Haley Marketing Group is going well and he is an Nageeb and Fatema Gunja Sumar led the wed- ambassador for Dining Out for Life, a charity ding ceremony, which was also attended by Shal- It’s quite clear from your event that raises money for AIDS Community ly Madan, Sidd Sinha, Ronnie Chatterji ’00, and handwriting that the art of Services in Buffalo, NY. Katherine Shepherd Ting Phonsanam ’95. Kristina says she knew 02 pen manship is dying. Seriously, started a new position as a staff attorney in the Joanna was “the one” after a trip to Ithaca of all the handwritten submissions I received this domestic violence unit at Southeast Louisiana Le- where Joanna said, “Now I can see why you love time around, a doctor’s was the most legible and gal Services in New Orleans, LA. this place so much. I could definitely live here.” aesthetically pleasing. I can’t claim to be any After competing with the BMA Boat Club, a Jeannette LeBoyer LeZaks tied the knot last better myself, but back when I was teaching Cornell alumni group, in the masters race at the summer, too, and now lives with husband David kindergarten and I wrote every day on paper the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston, MA, in Madison, WI. She works as a project manager size of a small manatee with helpful dotted blue Meredith Haff vacationed in Costa Rica, where at Energy Center of Wisconsin, studying how peo- lines between every two solid blue ones, other she reunited with fellow oarswoman Annette ple use energy and ways to reduce our energy teachers would sometimes say, “You have really Grew Compte ’02, who resides there with her hus- consumption—great use of that Natural Resources nice handwriting for a man.” In a similar spirit, I’d band and young daughter. Meredith and Annette degree! She also writes that she enjoys Ultimate like to pass the compliment along to Emily Apsell 88 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes in Josh Tessa Ronya Richard Matthew April 2012April 89 Lansey, hus- Lansey, | Adam Hirsch this year: “A liv - liv “A year: this Mitchell Shuster , who moved onto moved , who March March , where a gang of eight , , [email protected]; and CALS News CALS Shrestha writes, “I am a third a am “I writes, Shrestha AEM grad, lives in Guangzhou, in grad, lives AEM , , [email protected]. Stacy Heidecker writes, “I obtained my MBA in MBA my obtained “I writes, ing testament to the power of power to the testament ing We read about about read We the the ,an writes, “I’ve finished my second Nicholas Torsiello , ME ’05 (Winston-Salem, NC) is a re - NC) , is ME a ’05 re (Winston-Salem, Elaine Poon in Rochester, MN, complete with cowboy with complete MN, Rochester, in was accepted into an internal medicine res- medicine internal an into accepted was Quin Garcia Jeremy Riley Crystal Dickson , MPA ’05, plans to defend her dissertation pro- dissertation her defend to plans ’05, MPA , Samantha Noonan c persistence, Adam Hirsch worked his way a into worked Hirsch Adam persistence, with Mashable company media digital the at job an and media social about ideas innovative some to unwillingness take ‘no’ for an Adam answer. - and oversees Mashable’s business advertising, in development, partnerships, marketing, ing clud together bringing about ideas initial His events. media social in interested people of communities Adam! 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(Montijo), and I celebrated the birth of our sec- York City. Jacqueline Conti Rimshnick, who lives working on a Pittsburgh-based project. In addition ond son, Gavin Xavier, earlier this year. His older in Ithaca with husband David, ME ’06, now serves to serving healthcare clients around the world, he brother Ayden is thrilled that he is becoming mo- as assistant to Prof. Scott Tucker, director of the is also part of the Cornell undergrad/ MBA recruit- bile.” Jessica Lachs launched a new business called Cornell University Chorus. Thomas Scalone moved ing team at McKinsey. “I visited Ithaca for the first GiftSimple (www.GiftSimple.com), a social gifting to New Hope, PA, and serves as a senior project time in years this October,” he writes. “I look for- website where users can register for the gifts they manager for Merck & Co. He joined the Cornell Re- ward to future recruiting trips to Ithaca!” want, tap into their social network to pool con- cruiting Committee with Merck and looks forward Our most recent project at Pinky Up Produc- tributions from friends and family, and contribute to his next trip to campus. We hope you find some tions is a music video for the frozen yogurt fran- to friends’ gifts—as much and as frequently as you great candidates, Thomas! chise 16 Handles, shot at their flagship location like. Jessica graduated this past May from the Everett Hullverson is a senior product spe- on 10th Street and 2nd Avenue in NYC. The prem- Wharton School with an MBA in entrepreneurial cialist, methionine optimization at Novus Int’l. He ise is a yogurt store turned nightclub, capturing management and strategic management. While in has been planning his New Year’s Eve wedding. the energy and diversity of NYC. Check out the business school, she started developing GiftSimple Everett keeps in touch with Josh Kudisch, Doug video on YouTube! In addition to working on to address inefficiencies in the gifting space. Feel Ernst, Matt Hatson, Doug Sokolik, Allan Gantes other projects on the West Coast, I also recorded free to contact Jessica at [email protected]. ’06, and Shep Cynamon ’04. Many of them caught some new tracks in L.A. and Las Vegas. Between Jennifer Grauer writes, “After living in Paris up at Allen’s wedding in Connecticut, where they recording, writing, and producing on both coasts, with the Cornell-based band the Crooners, I moved were able to connect with other Psi U brothers. I’ve been very busy and definitely loving the bi- back to New York and started working at HBO, Carissa Perez Olsen is a Weintraub Scholar in coastal lifestyle! where I’m a writer/producer. Recently, I set up Free the basic sciences division at Fred Hutchinson Please keep sending your news—we can’t get Man Music, a boutique music production house cre- Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA. She was enough of it! Look for the annual class mailing ating original music for TV/film and released my the recipient of the National Institutes of Health next month and send in your News Form in the en- debut album, ‘A Million Fires,’ which is now avail- Director’s Early Independence Award, which was velope provided. c Katie DiCicco, kad46@ cornell. able at www.JENNGRAUER.com. Join the mailing given to only ten young researchers in the nation. edu; Nicole DeGrace, nd4@cornell. edu; Tory list for news and show updates and connect with The award provides her with funding that will en- Lauterbach, [email protected]. me on Twitter @jenngrauer.” Kimberly Notheis able her to run an independent research lab and Parsons and husband Mike ’03 welcomed son Ash- bypass the usual period of postdoctoral training. ton Robert into the world on December 6, 2011; Carissa completed her PhD at the U.ofWashington It’s hard to believe, but in just he’s a potential member of the Class of 2033! Gar- in June 2011. Her research focuses on membranes a few short months we will rett Meigs writes, “I married a beautiful woman essential to cellular life. Congratulations, Carissa! 07 have reached our fifth year out named Cassie Hebel on July 16 at the Rogue Hop We love hearing what everyone has been up from Cornell! Could you have imagined, in 2007, Farm in Independence, OR. It was a gorgeous, to. Keep the updates coming. c Hilary John- what has transpired these past five years? Let’s green, Oregon day with a bonfire campout on the son, haj4@ cornell.edu; Michelle Wong, mrw29@ ease into it with some updates from a handful of banks of the Willamette River!” c Anne Jones- cornell. edu; Johnny Chen, [email protected]. your class officers, who have volunteered their Leeson, [email protected]. time since senior year, working tirelessly to provide you with Cornell news, coordinate alumni I hope everyone is transi - events, raise funds, and keep us better Happy spring, Class of 2005! I tioning well into 2012! Other connected to our noble alma mater. hope for everyone the snow 06 than experiencing abnormally This fall your class treasurer, Ethan Green- 05 has fully melted and the tem - high temperatures this winter, the world hasn’t berg, began his first year of medical school at peratures have risen. It has been a busy winter ended and we’re all still here! Jessica Elias lives in Temple U. School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA. for all of us. Here is what some of your class - NYC and in February will graduate from Teachers Jason Barell, MHA ’08, has been working at mates have been up to. College, Columbia U., with an MA in general and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital since he graduat- Jade Bailey-Assam moved back to New York special elementary education. In March 2011, ed and is now a manager of special projects in City after living in Las Vegas for the last four years Rachelle Butt came back from a six-month stay the office of the CEO and president. For the past working for Wynn/Encore. She is so happy to be in Israel, where she worked with at-risk youth in four years Ethan and Jason have spent July 4 back home near her closest friends and family. She Jerusalem. She writes that she “had a blast at weekends in Ithaca, with lots of fellow members is also tackling a new position with hospitality reunion in June.” In September, she began a new of the Class of ’07. company Strategic Group as their director of so- job providing therapy to children and adolescents Class council member Elizabeth “Scottie” cial media and marketing. She oversees the digi- in the Intensive Crisis Stabilization and Treatment McQuilkin was married to Cooper Wardell on tal marketing of several nightclubs and restaurants Program at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, April 30, 2011 in Philadelphia, PA. Katie , in New York City. Lisa Krieger Hamlisch also lives and moved back to NYC in November. MHA ’08, served as maid of honor for the wedding in NYC and has graduated from Columbia U.’s ex- Ian Chiang graduated from Harvard Business and the couple honeymooned in Bora Bora. In ecutive MBA program. She is the director of busi- School this past May, as did David Luo, and de- New York City, Scottie is an associate investing for ness planning at American Express. cided to stay in the Greater Boston area for at least Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors’ mezzanine debt David van der Keyl is an equity research as- another year. Ian rejoined McKinsey at their Boston fund, and Cooper is an investment banking asso- sociate at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New office in July and spent the next four months ciate in leveraged finance at the Royal Bank of Canada. After graduation, class secretary Keith Greenberg moved to Ann Arbor, MI, to attend the U. of Michigan Law School. In 2010 Keith earned his JD, passed the New York and New Jersey Bar exams, and two weeks later married Amy Jaffe. A few dozen Cornell friends and family attended the wedding. Amy is a social worker in the Bronx, and Keith is an attorney specializing in labor and employment law in midtown Manhattan. Although the couple currently lives in Hoboken, NJ, Keith says, “We’re both excited to see lots of familiar Big Red faces at reunion in June and every day around New York City!” Reunion co-chair Alvin Liu took a year off after his third year of medical school to conduct research. He has now resumed his studies as a fourth year at Columbia U. College of Physicians and Surgeons, and will soon begin his residency in ophthalmology. Previously a digital reporter at 90 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes , Caroline has helped has , the Huff - , the Huff c April 2012April 91 Julie Cantor | is is a word from is is an associate and the Daily Beast Daily the and has been living and March March dispute. Fortunately, as Fortunately, dispute. Matt Ackerson Alex Berg Washington Post Washington Newsweek lives lives in NYC and works at a Hey, Class of 2009! 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Big Go always, as And start is and grow a Web design product and development core The PetoVera.com. called business and design painful) least (and fastest world’s the on Long lives currently He process. development Island. c Elana Nancy Richard is a full- a is , ME ’10, ME , ’ were married were , BS ’07, and live in Cambridge in live Mina Kay Tyler Coatney ’09 Tyler Coatney Gregory Stein Elizabeth Eichling Hayden Bui and and and and has been promoted to consultant to promoted been has , [email protected]; and , catching up and reminiscing about reminiscing and up , catching , , [email protected]. is an expert in inventory management, plan- management, inventory in expert an is significantly superior food offerings offerings food superior significantly York.” New in Justin Henck is “thankful for the the for “thankful is Henck Justin Vikas Patel Rena Gower , BS ’07, has been spending his 18 months in months 18 his spending been has ’07, BS , ‘ Lou Jadey Chow the ‘good old NYC days’to inback the Statler.”heading and Richard 2012 is May in graduating to work as a management consultant. Inand he the meantime, photos—and horseback riding. She’d most like to like most She’d riding. horseback photos—and Col- the at professor a Hascup, George from hear Planning. and Art, of Architecture, lege he an In time, MBA. his spare pursuing Boston, out on West to able the hang been “I’ve writes, Coast in the sun with and “welcome any Cornellians to visit us and couch!” our on crash of- CT) (Greenwich, City-area York New firm’s grad- the his following consultant associate an as fice two BA degrees holds Vikas Cornell. from uation Arts Cornell’s from Mathematics) and (Economics He has on worked college. a of variety engage- on 100 for Fortune clients various Mars’s ments the in active also is He topics. strategy business firm’s efforts and college recruiting has been a team. softball keycompany’s playerthe on summer in campus on Sage at married Chapel were daughter welcomed they 29, November On 2011. Charlotte Elizabeth, who came into the world re- couple The hair. a of dark head full sporting a (understandably) but excited very being 2008 ported of Class entire the from Congrats tired. little up- the all That’s joy! of bundle beautiful your on dates we have for As now. usual, we’d love to news! your in sending keep so you, from hear Libby Boymel time graduate student at time student graduate Duke Divinity School. Pres- Memorial at Blacknall the also interns She byterian Church. In her spare time, she enjoys violin. the playing and road-biking at consulting Mars & Co., a management global He joined strategy. in business specializing firm Chen is She analysis. trend and forecasting, sales ning, an online to at work Quirky, skills those putting net- social uses that company products consumer inven- their bring to people empower to working is The concept to to tions ideas market. collect with them refine public, general the by submitted bring eventually and network, social a from input managed Nancy to Quirky, Prior to market. them - for the planning Ferra US of division Salvatore & Taylor. Lord for a as buyer worked and gamo, Oct. 22, at Gar- Botanic the Brooklyn Saturday, den. The couple met as at In freshmen Cornell. from work in social a master’s earned Rena May, as works Greg in an Manhattan associ- Yeshiva. Access at industry media the covering analyst ate a that told I’m firm. research investment an 342, lot of Cornellians were present on their happy to day—congrats the couple on their nuptials! Rebecca Sopchak Beale , , , Nina , had , , and , Jimmy Zhou Sara Tam Marianna Gomez will be sending out sending be will c is enjoying his new posi- new his enjoying is .” Sara looks forward to Shannon Edwards ’10 Shannon Edwards , , , BArch ’08, who has been Wow! Wow! I can’t believe been out of - school for practi we’ve cally four years. I don’t know Justin Henck Groth is now a Web producer on a small is a now producer Groth Web Mina Hasman A little more A than to a more little year after returning Please don’t forget to mark your calendars about you, but for me, it feels like just yesterday just like feels it me, for but you, about 08 student of environmental engineeringAsso- Architectural atthe at the Architecture of School of ciation In London. her free she’s time, been her exhibiting photography—including enjoying when I was on the Hill . . . and now we have just have we now and . . . Hill the on was I when over a year until our 5th Reunion in 2013! As gets it just column, last in the mentioned Elana spending spending some time in Istanbul, is a graduate closer closer and on closer! Mark your planning now calendars is for everyone hope We 2013. 6-9, June of lot a meantime, the In Ithaca! to back coming adventures new exciting to on are classmates our new toward working be it whether lives, their in degrees, getting getting promoted, married, or children! having even ABC News in New York City, council member member council City, York New in News ABC Terrero de- site Latino-centric new a for responsible team produces and by veloped NBC slated to in News, launch early reports she producer, Web a As 2012. family, on stories topical culture, health, news, nation. the across audiences Latino for food and Co- ’97, Hopkins (Johns Groth Jason married Nina at attorney a ’08), corporate Law School lumbia Sep- in City, York New in LLP Burling (she & Chapel Covington Paul’s St. U’s Columbia from at 2010 science tember political in MA an with graduated had ac- an remained has Nina 2010). May in and Columbia council class the through alumnus Cornell tive Net- Ambassador Admissions Alumni the Cornell Class the believe can’t “I says, She (CAAAN). work its of in 2007 5th will Reunion just celebrate a few I short months. look to forward seeing old Slope!” the on classmates and friends a Manhattan following stint in Annual London, rep Fund [email protected]. tion tion in the practice consulting at Rosetta Mar- from Even so returning after long Group. keting thankful be but help “cannot he says he London, for the significantly superior food chair, offerings in nominations Your York.” New event updates and details via e-mail, Twitter Class of (Cornell and Facebook (@Cornell2007), 2007 Alumni), so keep a look out for more in- As always, thank formation. you for in sending your updates for our class column and please keep ’em We would coming! love to hear about upcoming the for memories Cornell favorite your Just issue. reunion shoot an e-mail to anytime your class correspondent: Tom Bellifemine ’09 Rob and Liu, Alvin Pavlenco catching up with more of her old Cornell friends Cornell old her of more up with catching reunion. year’s this at for the Class of 2007 5th Reunion set for June Shane co-chairs Dunn reunion Your 2012. 7-10, a great experience working in art galleries in New in galleries art in working experience great a York after graduation. In 2011 she enrolled at “Five Law Sara says, years has Fordham School. go- adjustment a big was It quickly. so by flown law of hang the getting and to school, back ing wonderful some met I’ve but particular, in school a few Cornellians fellow including people there, section: first-year my in were who Scott Silverberg ’10 Scott Silverberg 54-96CAMma12notes_000-000CAMMA12Notes 2/8/12 3:06 PM Page 91 Page PM 3:06 2/8/12 54-96CAMma12notes_000-000CAMMA12Notes 54-96CAMma12notes_000-000CAMMA12Notes 2/8/12 3:06 PM Page 92

comes as no surprise when you realize that you Senior Residence, between classes at the Com- Around this time of the year, you are are usually the first to act in such situations. monwealth Medical College. Nicholas would like to probably wishing you were still at Here are a few examples of our classmates who get back in touch with yet another one of our 11 Cornell so you could take advantage have taken bold steps to push the boundaries of classmates pursuing his M.D., this time at Wayne of Spring Break—that awesome week where the world around them. State Medical College: Danny Lee, BS Eng ’09. every one goes off on adventures. Well, fortu nate - Naushad Kabir is serving our country as a Surely, they are all too familiar with the rig- ly, for the last ten months or so, many of us have surface warfare officer in the US Navy. He spent orous application process to medical school, which been exploring different parts of the world and the last year doing inspections, certifications, and Elizabeth Pines is currently pursuing. In the mean- having a variety of new experiences. Some of our amphibious/counterpiracy training operations off time, Elizabeth works at the Blue Cross Blue Shield classmates are lucky enough to be literally living the Virginia/North Carolina coast as a division of- Association doing comparative effectiveness re- at the beach. ficer onboard the USS Oak Hill (LSD 51) and is searchonhealthcare-associated topics. She enjoys Alixandria “Alix” Morris, for instance, is work- now deployed on Southern Partnership Station exploring Chicago with her roommate during their ing as the guest relations manager at the Westin 2012. Natalie Weng is a fiscal sponsorship pro- free time, and admits to the difficulty, due to the Maui Resort & Spa. She played a significant role in gram assistant at Public Interest Projects in NYC. time zone difference, of talking to Vanessa Leon- the creation of a management team video that was In addition, Natalie mentors for the Starting Line hard, who is currently in Qatar “being awesome.” presented to key stakeholders and leaders, includ- mentor program at the Chinese Progressive Asso- As an associate at HVS, Preston Puleo trav- ing John Peyton, Starwood Hawaii general man- ciation and volunteers with New York Cares do- els extensively throughout the country while on agers, and the company’s regional leadership team. ing various activities such as dog walking and assignment. He is charged with overseeing and Over the past months, she has immersed herself in revitalizing parks and libraries. Natalie is also executing hotel consulting and appraisal assign- front office operations and provided support and studying for the GREs and we wish her much suc- ments in hospitality markets throughout New assistance to both internal and external customers. cess. In the midst of this hectic schedule, she re- England. Preston enjoys rowing on the Charles Alix has been exploring the island, while also find- laxes by doing yoga and attributes her healthier River with members of the Riverside Boat Club, ing time to travel and catch up on books and lifestyle to her time spent at Cornell. hiking throughout New England, and working out movies. Choumika Simonis is also enjoying time Another confrere who likes to stay fit, med- at a local Boston Sports Club when weather is on a tropical island: “I am working as an intern ical student Kojo Wallace often plays soccer and less than ideal. Brian Peterson is a graduate stu- for the Children’s Nutrition Program of Haiti (CNP) goes to the gym while studying at the Mount Sinai dent at the U. of Texas School of Law; he expects in Léogâne (a sleepy town west of the capital, School of Medicine, where he has also taken up a to graduate in the spring of 2013, after which he Port-au-Prince). One of my main responsibilities is student leadership position. He hopes to hear from plans on pursuing a career in labor and employ- to supervise CNP’s outpatient therapeutic program Alexandra Swidergal—Alexandra, if you’re read- ment law. Brian looks forward to catching up with (OTP). At the OTP, I help monitor and treat mal- ing this, drop Kojo a line. Before joining Kojo fellow ILRie Steven Church. nourished children. If I am not there, then I am among the ranks of our aspiring alumni physicians, The only thing we, your class correspondents, in the rural communities of the mountains super- Nicholas Calder worked as an EMT with the emer- enjoy more than talking about ourselves is talk- vising the work of the health monitors who carry gency department at Harlem Hospital and as an ing about you, so please keep on impressing us out nutrition education programs.” Choumika says assistant coordinator for the Gateway Inst. for Pre- with your updates by sending them to either me the experience has been invaluable thus far. College Education. A perennial do-gooder, Nicholas or Mike. We promise not to get too jealous. c Another classmate enjoying a warmer climate volunteers at a soup kitchen every Sunday and Rammy Salem, [email protected]; Michael than Ithaca is Hilary Kates. She has relocated also volunteers at the Northeast Pennsylvania Beyman, [email protected]. to Fort Myers, FL, and is working as a lab tech- nician at Algenol Biofuels. She writes that she has been enjoying her off-time biking and hit- ting the beach. Jennifer Keane is excited to an- nounce that she has designed a new fabric that can selectively trap noxious gases and odors. As Wherever you go, an FSAD major, she worked with Prof. Juan Hine- stroza and FSAD postdoctoral associate Marcia Da Cornell Alumni Magazine Silva Pinto on the initiative. Muhammed Sameed’s major has contributed is there with you. significantly to his post-Cornell pursuits as well. After studying Physics and Mathematics on the Hill, he spent the summer working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. He writes, ”I ran computer simulations for proton injections from the Linac Website: cornellalumnimagazine.com into the Proton Synchrotron Booster. The work was, well, a lot of work—and consequently a lot of fun! The overall summer, however, was nothing less Digital Edition: than phenomenal! From scaling my first peak at cornellalumnimagazine-digital.com the Jura Mountains to canyoning up a gushing stream with the expertise of the advanced begin- ning swim class I had taken at Cornell, the entire iPad, iPhone, and Android: experience was simply breathtaking. I met more interesting people here at CERN than I had met free apps; links at during the previous 20 years of my humble exis- cornellalumnimagazine.com tence. By conservative estimates, there were more than 400 summer students from more than 60 countries. Add things up and this easily equates Digital Archive: to the best summer of my life!” As you can see, our classmates are having ecommons.library.cornell.edu/ amazing experiences both in the US and around handle/1813/3157 the world. No matter where your post-Cornell ad- ventures take you, we would love to hear about what you’re up to. 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1920s ’42—George F. Steinert, McComb, MS, September 17, 2011 ’25 BA—Helen “Happy” Keane Reichert, New York City, Sept. 25, 2011 ’42—Charles W. Stitzer, Southampton, NY, May 21, 2011 ’42 BA—P. Richard Thomas, Meadville, PA, August 31, 2011 1930s ’42 BS HE—Harriet A. Toan, Perry, NY, September 3, 2011 ’32 Constance Page Daniel, Charlottesville, VA, October 3, 2011 ’42 BA, BME ’43, MME ’49—Robert H. Underwood, Lenoir City, TN, August 15, 2011 ’34 BS Ag—Max Dercum, Dillon, CO, September 30, 2011 ’34-36 SP Ag—Harold McEachron, Salem, NY, September 18, 2011 ’43 B Chem E—Austen W. Boyd, Morristown, NJ, September 19, 2011 ’34—Elizabeth Hershey Royer, Advance, NC, August 12, 2011 ’43, BS Ag ’46—Donald C. Carpentier, East Nassau, NY, August 15, 2011 ’34 BS HE—Gertrude Murray Squier, Rochester, NY, August 21, 2011 ’43 BME—William E. McLaughlin, Philadelphia, PA, September 4, 2011 ’43, B Chem E ’44—Robert A. Moore, West Deptford, NJ, Nov. 4, 2010 ’35 BA, JD ’37—Myron D. Cantor, Scarsdale, NY, September 26, 2011 ’43 BEE—Charles G. Morrison, Holmdel, NJ, October 20, 2011 ’43 BA—Margaret Kirkwood Philipsborn, London, England, Aug. 9, 2011 ’36-37 SP Ag—Donald G. Dean, Fairfield, CT, August 16, 2011 ’43 BS Ag—Robert K. Reeve, Cooperstown, WI, October 9, 2011 ’36—Ethelwynne North Gibson, East Lansing, MI, September 13, 2011 ’43 DVM—Colin M. Robertson, Madison, WI, September 13, 2011 ’36—Benjamin B. Rouff, Binghamton, NY, September 25, 2011 ’43 BME—John E. Slater, Fayetteville, NC, September 4, 2011

’37 BA—David D. Dugan, Boulder, CO, August 10, 2011 ’44, BS ORIE ’47—H. Sherman Burling Jr., Savannah, GA, Sept. 22, 2011 ’37 BA—Leah Sahm Katz, Moorestown, NJ, August 24, 2011 ’44 BA, MD ’50—Robert H. Dickson, La Crescenta, CA, Sept. 10, 2011 ’44, BCE ’46—George L. Fuller, Boiling Springs, SC, August 15, 2011 ’38, BArch ’41—George F. Dalton III, Willoughby, OH, Sept. 10, 2011 ’44 BCE—Martin L. Gleich, San Diego, CA, September 25, 2011 ’38 BCE—Richard S. Goodwin, Silver Spring, MD, May 9, 2011 ’44 MS HE—Ruth L. Highberger, Gainesville, FL, September 24, 2011 ’38—George C. Schempp, Lantana, FL, September 25, 2011 ’44, BS Ag ’55—Thomas E. Mahnken Jr., Del Mar, CA, August 31, 2011 ’44, BS Ag ’47—John Nash II, Tryon, NC, October 15, 2011 ’39 BA, JD ’41—Robert Boochever, Pasadena, CA, October 9, 2011 ’44—Raymond J. Strahan Jr., Friendship, NY, August 12, 2011 ’39 BA—Elfred Plaisted Lilly, Lansdale, PA, October 13, 2011 ’44, BA ’46—Betty Timmerman Thompson, Sun City, AZ, Aug. 14, 2011 ’39 BS Ag—James C. Plunket, Kingston, NY, August 22, 2011 ’44, BCE ’47—Robert J. Van Epps, Blythewood, SC, October 18, 2011 ’39, BS Ag ’47—Howard E. Ross, Charlottesville, VA, August 27, 2011 ’44, BCE ’47—Frederick H. Watkins Jr., West Caldwell, NJ, Oct. 24, 2011 ’39 BA, B Chem E ’40—John C. Tallman, Wilmington, DE, Aug. 25, 2011 ’39 BS Ag—Robert W. Wilson, Latham, NY, October 16, 2011 ’45—Howard C. Clark, Wyoming, NY, September 6, 2011 ’45—Clinton D. Combes Jr., Delray Beach, FL, October 8, 2011 1940s ’45 BS HE—Betty Leventhal Cramer, Gulf Breeze, FL, October 22, 2011 ’40 BS Ag—Gordon E. Butterfield, Goshen, NY, September 23, 2011 ’45, BA ’49—Charles R. Gredler, Culpepper, VA, October 11, 2011 ’40 BS Ag, MEd ’51—Lawrence N. Cook, Binghamton, NY, Sept.19, 2011 ’45, BS ORIE ’47—Wilbur O. Gundlach, Concord, NH, October 8, 2011 ’40 BEE—Albert F. Lotz Jr., Buffalo, NY, May 31, 2011 ’45, MD ’47—Robert D. Harwick, Wyncote, PA, October 14, 2011 ’40—Glenway W. Maxon Jr., Traverse City, MI, June 3, 2011 ’45, B Chem E ’44, BCH ’47—Frank K. Hoover, Evanston, IL, ’40 BS Ag—Paul C. Merz, Lowville, NY, August 14, 2011 September 22, 2011 ’40 BS Ag—Morris E. Scharf, Rivervale, NJ, August 21, 2011 ’45, BFA ’47—Marion Hosie Mosser, East Aurora, NY, July 19, 2011 ’40 BA—Henry S. Thomassen, Springfield, VA, September 24, 2011 ’45, BEE ’48—James A. Paddock, Cocoa Beach, FL, September 27, 2011 ’45, BA ’44—Ann Mitchell Rogers, Ithaca, NY, October 21, 2011 ’41 BA, MD ’44—Morton A. Beer, Morristown, NJ, August 12, 2011 ’45 BA—Leanora Alt Sandmeyer, Jamestown, NY, August 12, 2011 ’41 BA—Stanley M. Berman, New York City, February 27, 2011 ’41 BA—John R. Dowswell, Colorado Springs, CO, September 29, 2011 ’46—Frank A. Bartlett Jr., Johnstown, PA, August 29, 2008 ’41 MA, PhD ’49—Ernest P. Edwards, Lynchburg, VA, Sept. 27, 2011 ’46, BS Ag ’48—Herman L. Cocchetto, Olean, NY, September 4, 2011 ’41—Laurence B. Leigh, Colorado Springs, CO, July 3, 2011 ’46—Donald Diamond, Springfield, NJ, July 24, 2011 ’41—Nell Stiles Mayberry, Christiansburg, VA, May 24, 2007 ’46-47 SP Ag—James W. Elliott, New Kingston, NY, August 20, 2011 ’41 BS HE—Eloise Crosby Nelson, Southfield, MI, June 18, 2010 ’46, BME ’45—Charles H. Fletcher Jr., Sewickley, PA, Sept. 30, 2011 ’41 BS Ag—Ralph C. Schutt Jr., Fern Park, FL, October 3, 2011 ’46—Nancy Crandall Johnson, Claremont, CA, January 7, 2010 ’41 BME—William W. Sorn, Dewitt, NY, October 5, 2011 ’46, BA ’44—Rhoda Nayor Krawitz, New York City, August 17, 2011 ’41 BA—Roy J. Ward, Henrico, VA, October 7, 2011 ’46-48 SP Ag—Wayne L. Luce, Plant City, FL, August 27, 2011 ’46—Retha Goddard Wilcox, San Antonio, TX, August 18, 2011 ’42 BA—Jerome M. Asher, Boca Raton, FL, May 7, 2011 ’42 BS Ag—Roy D. Bannister, Kent, NY, August 31, 2011 ’47 BCE—Lynn B. Curry Jr., Snellville, GA, January 19, 2009 ’42 BS HE—Jean Pardee Cole, Chesterfield, MO, August 29, 2011 ’47-49 GR—John L. Gammel Jr., Los Alamos, NM, October 15, 2011 ’42 BS Ag—Raymond E. Dague, Muskego, WI, October 6, 2011 ’47, BA ’48—Jay Graber, Rockville, MD, August 29, 2011 ’42—Richard D. Dunning, Springfield, VT, October 22, 2011 ’47 BEE—Earle B. Hamilton, Buckingham, PA, July 8, 2011 ’42 BA—Ormond M. Hessler, Charlotte, NC, August 31, 2011 ’47 BME—Carl A. Johnson, Myrtle Beach, SC, August 12, 2011 ’42 BA—Ruth Nakamoto Hiraoka, Honolulu, HI, February 15, 2009 ’47 BA—Mary Lou Barger Landon, Cape May, NJ, October 7, 2011 ’42, BME ’50—James R. Robinson Jr., Boulder, CO, September 22, 2011 ’47 BA—Hugh O. Nash, Weed, CA, September 15, 2011 ’42 BChemE—Frederick G. Schumacher, Glen Mills, PA, Aug. 29, 2011 ’47, BChemE ’50—George A. P. Wallace, Salisbury, CT, Sept. 25, 2011

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’47 BA, MD ’51—James O. Wynn Jr., Carrboro, NC, February 10, 2011 ’52 BA, LLB ’57—Rudolph G. Kraft Jr., Walnut Creek, CA, Aug. 10, 2011 ’52—Nancy Ladd Leet, Lawrence, KS, October 13, 2011 ’48 BEE—Miles H. Bicklehaupt Jr., Little Falls, NY, October 3, 2011 ’52-53 GR—Virginia Winger McAllester, Lookout Mountain, TN, ’48 BS ILR—Eugene T. Brousseau, Clifton Park, NY, August 10, 2011 August 22, 2011 ’48 BS Ag—James L. Chamberlain, Clinton, NY, May 21, 2010 ’52 BA, LLB ’55—John H. McDonald, Montvale, NJ, October 10, 2011 ’48, BA ’47, MD ’50—Leon I. Charash, Plainview, NY, Sept. 14, 2011 ’52—Dean K. Minick, Camp Hill, PA, October 10, 2011 ’48 BS HE—Doris Corbett Dillon, Naples, FL, October 12, 2011 ’52, BS Hotel ’53—Alan P. Rose Sr., Cayce, SC, August 23, 2011 ’48 BS ILR—George H. Fowler, New York City, September 8, 2011 ’52 MD—Herbert S. Sacks, New Haven, CT, August 30, 2011 ’48 BS HE—Patricia Finley Guinivan, Benson, VT, June 30, 2009 ’52, BEE ’53—Matthew J. Zak, Rochester, NY, September 12, 2011 ’48 BA, MBA ’49—Richard S. Hornung, Swampscott, MA, April 28, 2011 ’48 BA—Robert W. Hunt, Winter Haven, FL. April 25, 2011 ’53 MD—Kenneth C. Archibald, San Francisco, CA, August 24, 2011 ’48 BA—Katharine Weidman McLean, Phoenix, AZ, August 2, 2011 ’53 JD—Paul W. Beltz, North Palm Beach, FL, September 20, 2011 ’48 BA—Theodoor S. M. Ranneft, Houston, TX, September 27, 2011 ’53—John Bodner Jr., Washington, DC, September 2, 2011 ’48 BS HE, MS HE ’50—Helen Baker Stevens, S. Glastonbury, CT, ’53 BS Ag—Foster B. Cady, Nevada, IA, July 13, 2011 September 23, 2011 ’53 MS Chem E—William J. King, Nashville, TN, October 21, 2011 ’48 BA—Mary Keesecker Sullivan, Portland, ME, August 10, 2011 ’53 BA—Peter B. McDonough, Simsbury, CT, September 10, 2011 ’48 BA—Stanley Wallach, St. Petersburg, FL, July 24, 2011 ’53—John A. Mills, Mount Hood, OR, September 12, 2011 ’48 MS Ag—Merrill H. Werts, Junction City, KS, September 29, 2011 ’53 BEE—David W. Nast, Morristown, NJ, September 9, 2011 ’53—Doris Rubin Roland, Teaneck, NJ, September 8, 2011 ’49—John Brady, Getzville, NY, September 24, 2011 ’53-54 LAW—David Sime Jr., Hilltown, PA, August 10, 2011 ’49 BS ILR—Max Finestone, Accord, NY, August 15, 2011 ’53 BS HE—Nancy Clark Thorkildsen, Scotia, NY, September 18, 2011 ’49 BEE—George B. Fryer, Wellsburg, WV, December 16, 2006 ’53 BS Ag—James E. Van Derwerken, Esperance, NY, September 9, 2011 ’49 BArch—Murray O. Gibson, New Hartford, CT, August 23, 2011 ’49 BS ILR—Ruth Samuels Hanft, Charlottesville, VA, August 28, 2011 ’54, BCE ’55, MCE ’56—Richard B. Bell, Sun City West, AZ, July 9, 2011 ’49 JD—Capt. Frederick C. Heiken, West Chester, PA, August 12, 2011 ’54, BArch ’59—Bruce G. Blackman Jr., Maitland, FL, October 15, 2011 ’49, BS ORIE ’50—Robert H. Heller, Penn Yan, NY, October 20, 2011 ’54 BS Ag—Rose Hammer Boicourt, Los Alamos, NM, Sept. 29, 2011 ’49 MS HE—Elizabeth M. Kaiser, Pullman, WA, December 10, 2010 ’54 BA—Emily Bates Douglas, Sanibel, FL, August 27, 2011 ’49 BS Ag—Merwin A. Leet, Oconomowoc, WI, July 30, 2011 ’54 BA—Mary Gibian Haggerty, Santa Barbara, CA, October 3, 2011 ’49 MEE—Henry S. McGaughan, Ithaca, NY, September 3, 2011 ’54 BCE, MRP ’56—Frederick W. Howell Jr., Albany, NY, Oct. 29, 2011 ’49—Robert C. Phillips Jr., Sunset Beach, NC, March 23, 2011 ’54 BS Ag, MBA ’55—Charles H. Huber, Nassau, Bahamas, Oct. 7, 2011 ’49 BA—Ralph D. Small, Marcy, NY, August 29, 2011 ’54 BA—Ralph W. Jennings, Venice, FL, March 12, 2011 ’49 BS ILR—Franklyn L. Snyder, Albany, NY, July 3, 2011 ’54—Andrew E. Keller, East Aurora, NY, February 12, 2011 ’49—Louise Murray Strander, Tukwila, WA, October 21, 2011 ’54 BS Nurs—Lydia Schleicher Larson, Rochester, NY, August 19, 2011 ’49 MSE—William Tardy, Burnt Hills, NY, August 23, 2011 ’54 BS ILR—Ronald G. Snyder, St. Augustine, FL, August 15, 2011 ’49, ’50 BA—Howard Weinstein, Edmonds, WA, September 10, 2011 ’49 MEE—Francis A. Wilcox, Utica, NY, August 10, 2011 ’55—Richard E. Alper, Anoka, MN, August 4, 2011 ’55 BS Ag—Charles D. Goldstein, Port St. Lucie, FL, June 8, 2011 1950s ’55 BS Ag—Clare I. Harris, Silver Spring, MD, September 6, 2011 ’50 BS HE—Rosalyn Shapero Alpert, N. Fort Myers, FL, Oct. 27, 2011 ’55-56 GR—Robert A. Kelley, Pinehurst, NC, October 21, 2011 ’50 BCE—Charles R. Bauerlein, Philadelphia, PA, September 12, 2011 ’55—Kenneth D. Levin, Hudson Falls, NY, October 10, 2011 ’50 MS HE—Ezell Johnson Birchette, Johnson City, TN, August 15, 2011 ’55 MS Ag, PhD ’56—Albert M. Smith, Fort Myers, FL, June 15, 2011 ’50 BME—Richard P. Conniff, Vero Beach, FL, August 25, 2011 ’50 MD—Heinz F. Eichenwald, Dallas, TX, September 8, 2011 ’56-57 SP Ag—James R. Bryant Jr., Charlotte, NC, October 20, 2011 ’50 BA—John R. Friedman, Naples, FL, September 4, 2010 ’56 BS Ag—Milton A. Lendl, Galway, NY, September 1, 2011 ’50 BEE—Wilson Greatbatch, Akron, NY, September 27, 2011 ’56, BS Hotel—Lane P. Montesano, Snyder, NY, August 22, 2011 ’50 BA—James D. Hazzard, Ithaca, NY, August 11, 2011 ’56 BA—Sari Arum Rosenbaum, Portland, CT, September 9, 2011 ’50 BS Ag—Audrey Leifer Kramer, Columbus, OH, September 22, 2011 ’56 BS ILR—Robert O. Safford, Phoenixville, PA, September 4, 2011 ’50 MS—Donald H. Lamore, Nevada, MO, October 23, 2011 ’56 BA—Jerome I. Sherman, Dayton, OH, September 12, 2011 ’50 BS ORIE—Joseph L. McKinney, Ambler, PA, October 9, 2011 ’56-57 GR—Lyndon O. Sikes, Anchorage, AK, September 6, 2011 ’50, BS ILR ’51—Rebecca B. Moore, Escondido, CA, December 15, 2009 ’56 BCE—Louis D. Williams, Briarcliff Manor, NY, May 13, 2009 ’50—Conrad A. Rock, Melbourne, FL, September 14, 2011 ’56 BA—Lorna Trencher Zimmerman-Dane, Washington, DC, ’50, BEE ’51—William J. H. Thoele, Irvine, CA, September 12, 2011 August 26, 2011 ’50 MS AEP—Elmer P. Yates, Ogdensburg, NY, August 14, 2011 ’50, BS Nurs ’51—Claire Sweeney Ziobro, Chestnut Hill, MA, ’57 BA—Richard A. Gross, West Chester, PA, September 17, 2011 September 15, 2011 ’57 BA—Ritalou Rogow Harris, Chevy Chase, MD, October 17, 2011 ’57 DVM—John B. Jeffers, Mount Laurel, NJ, October 11, 2011 ’51 DVM—John S. Baker, West Lafayette, IN, August 20, 2011 ’57 BS Hotel—William C. Speidel, Macon, GA, September 18, 2011 ’51 BChemE—Joseph W. Calby, Yarmouth, ME, September 5, 2011 ’57 BA—Margaret Sutherland, Bridgewater, NJ, September 5, 2011 ’51 BS Ag, MS Ag ’60—Armin Furrer Jr., Sun City Center, FL, August 10, 2011 ’58 BS Ag—Richard E. Capra, Greene, NY, September 4, 2011 ’51 PhD—William Grierson, Winter Haven, FL, August 26, 2011 ’58—Luis Cartagena Jr., Caguas, PR, November 11, 2006 ’51-53 GR—Marian Orton Hackett, Salem, OR, September 20, 2011 ’58 BA—Alfred H. Knight III, Nashville, TN, October 10, 2011 ’51 MD—Lyle R. Smith, Kingsport, TN, September 3, 2011 ’58 BS Ag—Robert H. Kuhlmann, Ellenville, NY, October 20, 2011 ’58 JD—John D. Raiford, Pacific Palisades, CA, September 9, 2011 ’52 BA—C. Murray Adams, Brooklyn, NY, March 29, 2011 ’58 PhD—D. Richard Sears, Sierra Vista, AZ, September 15, 2011 ’52-55 LAW—Milford M. Desenberg, Sarasota, FL, September 12, 2011 ’58—Sosuke Takagi, Tokyo, Japan, November 21, 2010 ’52 BA—Mary Rowley Forthoffer, Middletown, NY, June 25, 2011 ’52 BS ILR—Mary Higgins Gibbons, Charlotte, NC, October 3, 2011 ’59—Kenneth W. Reynolds Jr., Huntsville, AL, September 30, 2011 ’52 BS HE—Bonita Benson Hager, Pittsford, NY, December 12, 2010 ’52 MS Ag—James S. Holderness, Boise, ID, September 6, 2011 1960s ’52 BS Nurs—Patricia Savage Howe, Safety Harbor, FL, October 15, 2011 ’60 MD—James W. Innes, Stamford, CT, August 29, 2011

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Cornelliana Class Dismissed

After nearly a half-century teaching Psych 101, sleep expert James Maas retires

Show and tell: Maas’s many memories include the time his students ordered pizza for all of Bailey Hall.

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few years ago, Marc Weissman ’88 toured on his dissertation, the professor teaching the course left for Penn. campus with his faithful bichon, Ezra. But “The department chair said, ‘We don’t have time to hire a real pro- when he went down the metal stairs to the fessor,’” Maas recalls with a laugh. “‘Would you consider teach- Suspension Bridge, Ezra wouldn’t follow. He ing the course for a year?’” Maas sweated all summer. “I thought, couldn’tA imagine why. “Then it came back to me—this is the How am I going to talk about psychology for forty-five hours? If ‘visual cliff’ effect,” Weissman recalls. “He could see through I said everything I know, maybe it was three hours’ worth.” The the steps, and he thought he was going to fall.” answer lay in multimedia: Maas employed slides, photos, and Weissman, like some 65,000 other Cornellians, had learned film—even episodes of “Candid Camera”—when other faculty about the phenomenon in Psych 101. In late December, after were using a few overheads or just the blackboard. “The word got hearing that Professor James Maas, PhD ’66, had retired after around,” he says, “and very quickly my class began to grow.” forty-eight years, Weissman wrote him to share the anecdote— While students on other campuses were learning about oper- one of hundreds of e-mails Maas has received since his depar- ant conditioning from textbooks, Maas’s students were watch- ture was announced. “I took courses that were much smaller but ing volunteers suck lemons on the Bailey stage. Discussing the not as engaging,” Weissman notes. “He was like a performer, but mental illness that may have plagued , he’d he was teaching you higher-order concepts.” not only show his paintings but play Don McLean’s folk song For nearly half a century, Maas’s Psych 101 course filled Bai- “Starry, Starry Night.” “Jim’s passion for teaching is unparal- ley Hall on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings during leled,” says PhD candidate Rebecca Robbins ’09, a former head fall semester. (In all that time he canceled exactly one class, cit- TA who spent a postgrad year leading the section at Weill Cor- ing laryngitis.) At its height in the Eighties and Nineties—before nell Medical College in Qatar, whose premed students take the a renovation removed 700 seats—Maas filled the concert hall to course via distance learning. “When he gets up in front of the its capacity of 1,948 and still turned people away. It was believed class, he comes alive.” to be the largest live lecture course in the world; running it was At seventy-three, Maas isn’t just retiring—he’s moving on. a major undertaking, from having prelims copied at the print He and his artist wife, Nancy, are decamping to Florida or Ari- shop to overseeing forty TAs to fielding some 100 student e-mails zona in search of warmer climates and easier airport access for per night. “It was a Cornell institution,” says Megan Wherry his frequent travels as a sleep consultant. Who will take over Menner ’96, MILR ’03, who took the course as a freshman and Psych 101? On a January day just hours before heading south, later served as head TA. “You think you’re just one of 2,000, but Maas sits in his emptying office and smiles a not-my-problem he took a keen personal interest in his students.” smile. “There are a number of people in the department who’d Maas arrived on the Hill as a grad student in 1960; four years love to get their hands on the course,” he says with a widening later, when he was serving as head TA of Psych 101 and working grin, “maybe not fully knowing what it entails.”

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