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N X 850 JAN/FEB 9* Cornell University Library Serial Dept Ithaca NY 14853 -GO- CO I GREAT TIMES WITH OLD FRIENDS SUMMER SES- SION CLASSES OPEN TO ALUMNI STIMULATING LEC- TURES IN THE COLLEGES PROGRAMS FOR YOUR CHILDREN REUNION RUNS OF 2 AND 5 MILES <• REUNION CREWS BIKE TOURS TENNIS AND GOLF TOURNAMENTS LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY BIRDWALK r THE ANNUAL OLIN LECTURE BY AN INTERNATIONAL FIGURE PRESIDENT RHODES' STATE OFTHE UNIVER- SITY ADDRESS CORNELLIANA NIGHT WITH THEGLEE CLUB AND CHORUS ALL-ALUMNI LACROSSE GAME TENTS AND MUSIC ON THE ARTS QUAD LUNCHEONS, RECEPTIONS, DINNERS WITH CLASSMATES-REUNION FACULTY FORUM SINGLES' RECEPTION PLANTA- TION TOURS GREATTIMES WITH OLD FRIENDS SUM- MER SESSION CLASSES OPEN TO ALUMNI STIMULAT- ING LECTURES IN THE COLLEGES PROGRAMS FOR YOUR CHILDREN REUNION RUNS OF 2 AND 5 MILES Cornell Reunion keeps getting bigger and better. June 1994 will be the best of all. Don't miss it! For more information, write to: Cornell Class Programs, Alumni House, 626 Thurston Avenue, Ithaca, NY 14850-2490. Or call the Office of Alumni Affairs at (607) 255-7085 or (607) 255-4850. JANUARY / FEBRUARY 1994 CORNELL VOLUME 96 NUMBER 6 22 The Key to G. Sharp BY ROBERT SULLIVAN The next time you hear a whiny professional athlete complain about his sneaker endorse- ment deal, tell him about biathlon cham- pion and Ithaca firefighter Gillian Sharp, the epitome of the Olympic ideal. so Farmer 3δ What is Worth a Million? BY PAUL CODY BY STEPHEN MADDEN Russ Beck farms Joseph and Carol Reich helped give New York the same land his City a new school. And they thought that grandfather and was hard. father farmed before him. But not the same way they did. 30 Departments 18 Sports All the fall sports results, from A to Z. 2 News 21 Give My Regards To ... The particle accelerator gets money from the National Cornellians in the News Science Board; Professor Ammons wins a second National Book Award; CU endowment tops $1.6 43 News of Alumni billion. 82 Alumni Deaths 5 Letters 84 Alumni Activities Some not-so-fond recollections of the Swim Test; com- Both faculty speakers and volunteer training work- ment on Engineering teaching. shops are coming soon to a club near you. 3 Letter from Ithaca 87 Alumni Calendar Hillary Rodham Clinton takes Cornell by storm. Events for Cornellians around the country. 11 Students 88 Cornelliana Latino student protesters occupy Day Hall for three When FDR spoke from the Hill. days to press their demands for better representation. 13 Faculty 64 Cornell Hosts Warren Allmon would like to see Cornell and Ithaca's Paleontological Research Institute come together. 74 Professional Directory 16 Research 86 Cornell Classifieds Why fewer Americans are hunting; how to make Cover diamonds. Photo by Chris Hildreth / Cornell. Cornell Magazine (ISSN 1070-2733) is published monthly except for combined issues in January/February and July/August by the Cornell Alumni Federation, 55 Brown Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850-1266. Subscriptions cost $29 a year. Second-class postage paid at Ithaca, NY and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Cornell Magazine, c/o Public Affairs Records, 55 Brown Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850-1266. CORNELL MAGAZINE NEWS Funds Particle Collider he National Science Board, the other particles of matter. Scientists motion sickness. He will relate his governing board of the Na- track the decays to get valuable in- experiences in a centennial luncheon tional Science Foundation, ap- formation about matter and how the address at Cornell in March. proved a five-year program for universe was born. Fettman carried memorabilia continued operations of Cor- from his alma mater into space, in- Tnell University's particle collider, in- cluding two gold Cornell University cluding $29 million to upgrade the SPACE VET medallions and a bumper sticker. physics facility. The College of Veterinary Medicine, The 36-year-old, Brooklyn-born When completed in 1997, the which observes its centennial in veterinarian attended Cornell from upgrade will mean that Cornell could 1993-94, has another reason to cel- 1973 to 1980, earning a B.S. in ani- produce as many or more B-mesons, ebrate. The college's alumnus and mal nutrition, an M.S. and a D.V.M. or B particle decays as the so-called first veterinarian in space, Dr. Mar- He holds a PhD from Colorado State B factory, a $237 million facility that tin J. Fettman '76, MS '80, DVM '80 and board certification in veterinary the Department of Energy is build- took off October 18 on the space clinical pathology. ing at the Stanford Linear Accelera- shuttle Columbia. tor Center. Cornell lost its bid last Fettman was the prime payload year to build a B factory for at least specialist in charge of Spacelab Life CRIME RISING ON CAMPUS $100 million less than the Stanford Sciences-2 on a 14-day medical re- According to the university's Judicial facility will cost. search flight, the lengthiest ever in a Administrator, Marjorie Hodges, JD Cornell President Frank H.T. NASA shuttle. '91, crime on campus rose by almost Rhodes said, "Cornell's collider al- "Marty Fettman's flight creates 100 percent in the past three years. ready is the world leader in studying a vivid impression of how far the During the 1992-93 academic year, B particle decay. The NSF grant profession has come since the col- Hodges's office investigated 416 helps insure our leadership in this lege was chartered 100 years ago," cases, though some of the increase area of high-energy physics research says Dr. Robert D. Phemister, the was due to the reclassification of and in the training of the nation's Vet college's dean. certain offenses, such as fraud. future physicists for the rest of the Fettman, a professor of pathol- The Judicial Administrator's of- century." ogy who is on leave from Colorado fice functions as the university's B-mesons are subatomic par- State College of Veterinary Medicine criminal justice system. ticles that decay very quickly into and Clinical Sciences, conducted Hodges's figures included 97 tests to study body changes during cases of fraud, which is largely made periods of microgravity and space up of students who manufacture or possess false identification cards, now a felony under the criminal code passed last year by the University Assembly. There were 91 cases of theft Actor Christopher handled by the Judicial Admin- Reeve '74 returned istrator's office, 42 cases of damage, to campus in 10 sexual assaults and 3 rapes. November for a benefit screening of his latest work, NOT ONLY THE LONELY "The Remains of the Social isolation of the elderly is linked Day." Reeve spent to higher rates of depression and the day in Ithaca, other health hazards such as illness meeting with and even earlier death, studies have students and local shown, yet most attempts to help arts groups. older persons become more socially integrated have been unscientific, based on clinical impressions or so- PETER f*ίORE?f!.fS/COR?ia,L cial work practice. To translate research findings CORNELL MAGAZINE 2 about the effects of social isolation lina, Ammons started writing poetry is used presently as a dining and into practical programs, the univer- on board a United States destroyer residence hall, and houses various sity has established the Cornell Cen- in the South Pacific during World offices, including those of the Gradu- ter for Research on Applied Geron- War II. He later worked as an el- ate School. tology (CCRAG), which will be part ementary school principal and as a of the Life Course Institute in the sales executive in his father-in-law's WHO PAYS? College of Human Ecology. CCRAG New Jersey glass company. Ammons is supported by a $2 million, five-year has taught at Cornell since 1964. The Provost's Committee on Acces- grant from the National Institute on sory Instruction, which was ap- Aging. JGSM ON THE MOVE pointed in February 1991 to study the CCRAG is believed to be the first problems surrounding the teaching program in the nation to focus ex- The University has given prelimi- provided to the students of one col- clusively on social integration of the nary approval to plans for the lege by the faculty of another, has elderly and ways to promote it. The Johnson Graduate School of Manage- issued its final report, and recom- center will coordinate a range of re- ment (JGSM) to renovate and move mended changing the way accessory search studies oriented toward de- into Sage Hall. Sage would be gut- instruction is paid for. Beginning in veloping practical and scientifically ted, leaving little more than the fall 1995, the report states, Cornell based methods of improving the so- building's shell as a starting point in will no longer make up shortfalls in cial support that elderly receive and the renovation. state funding for accessory instruc- to increase the number of meaning- The Johnson School is currently tion, as it did last year when New ful roles that older persons play in housed in Malott Hall, which is too York State came up with only $11.8 society. small to house JGSM, according to million to pay the university for $13 "We will address practical prob- Harold D. Craft, vice president for million in accessory instruction. Ei- lems that affect middle-aged and facilities and campus services. Sage ther the state will have to pay more older adults due to retirement, role loss, dwindling social networks and supports, and their effects on a num- ber of outcomes in later life," says SMOKE STOCK SLASHED sociologist and gerontologist Karl Pillemer, co-director of CCRAG and Cornell associate professor of human Wall Street's invisible hand has achieved, part-way at least, what development and family studies.