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2 From David Skorton Leadership qualities 4 The Big Picture Heavy metal 6 Correspondence Lesson plans 10 From the Hill 40 View from the bridges 14 Sports That championship season 34 It’s a Wonderful Life 16 Authors Tiger tale BETH SAULNIER 29 Finger Lakes Listing For two decades, Frank Robinson has been director of the Johnson Museum, a post that marries his many talents—from management to fundraising to cheerleading to 52 Classifieds & looking good in a Santa suit. He’ll step down at the end of June, segueing to a part- Cornellians in Business time position in development. To mark his , CAM asked Robinson to take 53 Alma Matters readers on a mini-tour of his favorite works of art at the museum—including a certain sculpture that the University refused to part with, even for a cool $104 million. 56 Class Notes 40 The Big Grapple 94 Alumni Deaths 96 BRAD HERZOG ’90 RIP, Boiler Eight To the roster of top-flight Cornell sports like hockey and , add one more: wrestling. With its own facility and a singularly dedicated coach, the program has been on the rise over the past decade. In March, the Big Red sent nine wrestlers to Special Section Philadelphia for the NCAA Championships, where the grapplers faced traditional Mid- THE WINES OF west powerhouses as well as rivals closer to home. Could they top last year’s second- STATE place finish? 46 Generation Tech ADRIENNE ZABLE ’11 Currents As technology alters countless aspects of society, it is inevitably transforming the stu- dent experience. These days, few undergrads have known a world without the Internet—and some aspects of college, both social and academic, hardly resemble uni- 18 Case Closed versity life of years past. (Remember pay phones? Letters home? Waiting in line for Justice for Patricia Scoville ’86 course enrollment?) A student journalist explores Cornell in the age of the Internet, Bedtime Stories mobile computing, and social networking. Altschuler on Vonnegut Hooray for Howlywood Doctors to the stars Visit CAM Online Cover photograph: Lindsay France, Weed Wacky cornellalumnimagazine.com University Photography In defense of unwanted plants

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From David Skorton

University Governance: An Alumni Tradition

n January 1, 2012, Peter Meinig ’61 will complete twenty years as a Cornell trustee, including his extraor- Odinary leadership and service as the Board’s chair since July 2002. We will then welcome a distin- guished new leader, Robert Harrison ’76, as chair. I’ll have more on that transition—and on Pete Meinig’s remarkable legacy—in a future issue. The transition to new Board leadership and the recently completed election for alumni-elected trustees provide an occasion to reflect more broadly on the role that Cornell alumni have played in governing our university. Time and again, over a span of 137 years, they have stepped up to the challenge—not for financial gain or per- sonal glory, but out of deep love for the institution and the desire to guide it to an even better future. A year after the University's founding, Presi- dent noted in his “Plan of Organization” that when the alumni body reached a sufficient number it should annually choose a representative to serve on the Board of Trustees. That “sufficient number” became available six

years later, in 1872, and provision was made for ROBERT BARKER / UP the “Associate Alumni” to elect a trustee—mak- ing Cornell one of the very first American universities to have Trustees have fiduciary responsibility in overseeing the alumni representation on its governing board. University’s programs and assets, are charged with selecting its The first alumni-elected trustee was Samuel Halliday of the president, and give the final approval of tenure decisions and of Class of 1870, elected in 1874, and Cornell alumni have had sub- faculty elected to named chairs, among other responsibilities. Our stantial responsibility for the governance of the University ever since. trustees also represent a wealth of talent and expertise that has This year’s alumni trustee election gave us the youngest and been especially important in these difficult economic times. In most geographically diverse candidates for alumni-elected trustees general, the old maxim of “Noses in, fingers out” aptly describes in Cornell’s history. Mitchell Lee ’90, JD ’96, Rana Glasgal ’87, the Board’s responsibility to provide high-level oversight rather ME ’92, Gregory Galvin, PhD ’84, and Eva Sage-Gavin ’80 than day-to-day decision making. However, in the face of the exemplify the range of backgrounds and diversity of leadership unprecedented financial challenges that Cornell faced during the roles that our alumni are willing to assume in their regions, for Great , I greatly appreciated the experience and expert- their classes, for their colleges, and for the University as a whole. ise in fiscal management that many of our trustees possess. At The election stimulated the highest voter turnout ever, and I have the administration’s request, the Board formed task forces to par- no doubt that the newly elected trustees, Glasgal and Galvin, will ticipate as teams with senior administrators to formulate carry forward the tradition of exemplary alumni leadership in responses to the challenges of the recession, and I believe that the governance of the University throughout their terms. our current position of relative financial strength is due, to a sub- The current Board of Trustees comprises sixty-four voting stantial degree, to the teamwork between the administration and members: some are appointed by the governor with confirma- the trustees. tion by the State Senate; some, including the governor and state All of us on Cornell’s campuses—faculty, staff, and stu- legislative leaders, are ex-officio; one is the eldest lineal descen- dents—should be grateful for the devotion, expertise, and deep dant of ; but the vast majority—fifty-six trustees— commitment of our Board of Trustees, and for the alumni lead- may be “selected in such manner and for such terms as the Board ership it represents. As we welcome new alumni-elected trustees of Trustees may determine” as long as those selected include at to the Board for terms that begin on July 1 and prepare for the least two members each from the fields of agriculture, business, transition in leadership next January, I invite all alumni to share and labor in New York State; two faculty-elected trustees; two in Cornell’s governance by continuing to vote for alumni-elected student-elected trustees; one employee-elected (i.e., non-faculty trustees and by participating in activities that provide pathways staff) trustee; and eight trustees elected by the alumni body as a to alumni leadership posts. whole. In practice, most of the other board-elected trustees are — President David Skorton also alumni. [email protected] 2 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 02-03CAMmj11skorton 4/13/11 11:03 AM Page 3 04-05CAMmj11bigpic 4/13/11 11:05 AM Page 4

The Big Picture

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Steel Yourselves At the 110th in March, the eponymous beast was an aesthetic departure from years past. Made of cool gray steel, the minimalist dragon was suspended from four towers connected to a frame mounted to the chassis of a Volks- wagen Microbus. Accompanied by first- year architecture students, it swayed its way across campus to face the engineers’ traditional phoenix. UPHOTO

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Correspondence

School Daze

The debate continues

The interviews with Michelle Rhee ’92 past fall I gave an exam and the and Randi Weingarten ’80 were interest- average grade was 75; I gave virtu- ing, enlightening, and disturbing (“Pop ally the same exam two weeks ago Quiz,” March/April 2011). I have worked and even made it a little easier (or in union and non-union manufacturing so I thought)—and the average was facilities, and have seen an evolution in 64. Who was responsible? Me? The the attitude between labor and manage- students? When either Rhee or ment over the past fifty years. In those Weingarten has an answer for that, environments—industrial, academic, and please let me know. Until I have an governmental—in which a collaborative answer, my frustrations will con- attitude is fostered, the organization pros- tinue, and I will still look for ways pers. And it does not matter what services to convince students that chemistry or products are produced. Everyone from is important. the CEO to the janitor has a stake in the William Eisen ’56 health of every organization. Many of us Philadelphia, Pennsylvania have learned that the poor working con- ditions in the early twentieth century that I have tried and failed to find an led to the powerful labor union move- idea in your interview with Michelle ment and continual confrontation Rhee. I do, however, find a dubious between labor and management is ancient assertion that a great can as history. Cooperation is now the name of a general rule overcome the dread- the game. Everyone wins when everyone ful effects on children of extreme works toward a common goal. If Rhee urban poverty. No evidence is cited believes that the union workers in the and rural poverty is ignored, but these notion that someone deemed competent to automobile industry do not have the “great ,” however defined, are teach chemistry to high school seniors responsibility to help produce a cheaper presented almost as saviors of society. should at the same time be licensed to and better car, she does not belong in any This kind of thing diverts attention from introduce elementary school pupils to the position in which it is essential to work our country’s serious ills by positing cheap rudiments of science. Treat teachers like jointly with everyone to produce a better and easy cures. I find, too, a repeated the professionals they are, professionals product (improved reading, mathematical, assertion that children come first, but I involved in a curious activity that creates and thinking skills). cannot find what this is supposed to no product but is itself a process. That I have a second , teaching chem- mean. I note, however, that most of what process must indeed have results, some istry in a community college. I see every Ms. Rhee has actually done as a school immediately tangible and hence subject to day the results of our failing school sys- system official is to indulge in corporate- testing, but others, often more important, tem. Students cannot read and cannot style top-down governance at its worst. that are lodged deep within students’ think, and too many of them have no As one who spent thirty years at a minds and are thus impossible to identify, understanding that learning anything state college known for its teacher-ed pro- much less quantify, on the spot. requires time and effort. Many of us agree grams, let me make a few positive sugges- Teachers’ pay must, of course, be on a on the definition of the problem. What tions: Revise certification requirements so par with that of similarly qualified people none of us can agree upon are the root that undergraduates preparing to be pub- in roughly analogous . It is dis- causes. I do not really know if I am a lic school teachers spend far less time in graceful that this should still need to be good teacher, because I do not know how education courses than they do now; many said. And the right to unionize is funda- to evaluate my performance. I learn a lit- of these courses are of doubtful practical mental. As unionized faculties in public tle more each time I stand in front of a or intellectual value. Along the way, abol- universities have long demonstrated, class, but how do you measure that? This ish P-12 certification and with it the idiotic unions and the most rigorous -

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8 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Correspondence June 2011 9 | May Jim Hanchett ’53 Gerald Schneider ’61 Kensington, New York, New York New York, Trumansburg, New York Trumansburg, Donald Mintz ’49, PhD ’60 No one, not even Michelle Rhee, even Michelle not No one, a positive point Finally—and this is Not Coming 50th the to going about thought I Reunion of my class in June, but decided not to after receiving the program. It was mostly hoopla of a kind that I—and, I suspect, many other graduates—would My idea of a reunion would not care for. be to make it primarily a learning experi- ence. I would welcome getting together with other majors in my department from years past, along with any available pro- fessors and instructors from that time, to informally discuss and evaluate our learn- we have learned since ing then and what The that could make future courses better. rest of the time would be unscheduled leisure to tour in and around campus, and join with other graduates as we pleased to further converse and socialize. I am sorry that is not the case. Partial Eclipse One of my fondest memories of the good old days on the Hill was the sight of the distinguished English professors Arthur Mizener and M. H. “Mike” Abrams various to together campus across heading Cornell games, notably football, in the early Fifties. So it was neat to see former of fine photo President Dale Corson’s Mike along with the report that Athletic Director Andy Noel and his staff had hon- Hall Bartels in plaque a with Mike ored on the occasion of his ninety-eighth birth- day (Currents, March/April 2011). Alas, the of portion the eclipsed photo the fan. #1 plaque that named Mike Cornell’s alism can easily coexist. can easily alism a “great what makes really knows truly poor one is (Identifying a teacher.” is so difficult to Because it much easier.) super- beyond the most evaluate teachers evaluations, serious characteristics, ficial consid- they may be however desirable dangerous; it is ered, are exceptionally that peer review largely for this reason governance is as within a system of shared it is to universities. essential to schools as expressing it nega- though I begin by as if we con- tively—let us stop behaving the sole agency sidered the public schools that they bring us of society and demand New Jerusalem. We to a sort of secular motivated to get to might then be more ails us. work on what really 06-09CAMmj11corresp 4/13/11 11:07 AM Page 9 Page AM 11:07 4/13/11 06-09CAMmj11corresp 10-13CAMmj11fth 4/13/11 11:08 AM Page 10

Campus News From theHill

NADAAA Means restriction: Potential methods for preventing suicides on the Bridge include fine wire mesh fencing (above) and vertical barriers (right).

Bridge Barrier Designs Unveiled In a series of public presentations on campus in early March, the ing suicide—and the difficulty of balancing public safety with nat- architects hired to design suicide-prevention barriers on seven ural beauty. After a panel of experts tapped by Cornell issued a bridges on and near campus unveiled their concepts. The archi- report endorsing so-called means restriction as a way to save lives, tects, Nader Tehrani and Dan Gallagher of the Boston-based firm the University pledged to make the barriers permanent, and hired NADAAA, offered several designs for each bridge; they include such Tehrani’s firm to design aesthetically pleasing solutions. elements as tempered glass walls, fine steel mesh fencing, curved Since the concepts were made public, the University has been vertical barriers, and under-bridge netting. collecting feedback from the community; once the final designs Bridge fences were first erected in spring 2010 after a trio of are chosen, Cornell will file for site plan review with the city plan- gorge suicides in the span of a few weeks, including two on con- ning board. The deadline is May 31, the date by which—according secutive days. Originally made of chain link (eventually replaced to a unanimous vote last summer by Ithaca’s Common Council— with less obtrusive black wire mesh), they sparked a debate on Cornell must either submit permanent designs or remove the cur- campus and in town about the efficacy of such barriers in prevent- rent fencing. 10 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 10-13CAMmj11fth 4/13/11 11:08 AM Page 11

Another Way to Read CAM With this issue, we are launching a new electronic edi- tion of Cornell Alumni Magazine—one that looks and feels like a magazine, with pages you can flip and all of the content of the print edition (including ads). There will also be special versions optimized for the iPad and other mobile devices. This will not replace the print magazine or the current website. It’s just an alter- native, one that we believe will be more appealing to some readers and will allow CAM to reach more alumni. It offers many great features, including type that can be enlarged and hot links to websites. This project was made possible thanks to the efforts of an alumni task force led by Bill Howard ’74 and financial support from Alumni Affairs and Development and University Com- munications. To learn more about how to access the electronic edition, watch for an announcement in your e-mail and at cornellalumnimagazine.com.

Harrison Named Board Chair

ROBERT BARKER / UP Robert Harrison ’76, CEO of the Clinton Sigma Alpha Epsilon Global Initiative, has been unani- mously elected chair of Cornell’s Board of Trustees. His two-and-a-half-year term begins January 1, when he suc- ceeds Peter Meinig ’61, who has served as chair since 2002. A college scholar at Cornell, Harrison studied politics, philosophy, and economics at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and earned a JD from Yale. He practiced corporate law with the firm Davis Polk & Wardwell Robert Harrison ’76 and is a retired partner and managing director at Goldman Sachs. President David Skorton called Harrison “an enormously capable leader whose expertise and have been invaluable to me personally and to Cornell.” Africana Center Budget to Rise In the wake of controversy over administrative shifts at the Africana Studies and Research Center that sparked campus protests, LISA BANLAKI FRANK the University has announced that the center’s annual budget will increase more than 50 percent over the next five years, from $2.3 Fraternity Banned Following million to $3.5 million. The center will also receive a one-time infusion of $2 million to recruit faculty, support research, and Sophomore’s Death develop a PhD program. Since its founding in 1969, the center has The University has withdrawn recognition of Sigma Alpha Epsilon been an independent unit reporting to the provost’s office. But in fraternity following the alcohol-related death of a sophomore. In December, Provost Kent Fuchs announced that it would merge with February, nineteen-year-old human ecology student and Brooklyn the College of Arts and Sciences effective July 1. Protests immedi- resident George Desdunes died after being found unresponsive at ately erupted—with many objecting not only to the move but to the fraternity house, located on McGraw Place. “Even though the the way it was done, saying that the provost had failed to consult members and associate members recognized the condition Des- with faculty and students before announcing his decision. Professor dunes was in, they failed to call for medical care,” vice president Robert Harris resigned as the center’s director, though he rescinded for student and academic services Susan Murphy ’73, PhD ’94, said his two days later at the urging of the Africana faculty. in a statement. Sigma Alpha Epsilon will be banned from campus Fuchs has said that the move will help ensure the future success for at least five years; if and when it is reinstated, it would be on of the Africana program, which will be classified as both a center for an additional three years. Desdune’s death came on and an academic department. In announcing the funding increase in the same weekend as another alcohol-related student fatality in late March, he stated that he had reviewed the budget with Harris town: freshman Victoria Cheng was found dead in a and Arts and Sciences dean Peter Lepage. “We are committed to Cor- snow bank near the IC campus, having apparently passed out and nell’s Africana Center becoming a top-five program in the nation,” died of exposure. he said, “and this support will help make that possible.” May | June 2011 11 10-13CAMmj11fth 4/13/11 11:08 AM Page 12

Vet College Is Tops in the Nation (Again) For the fourth time in a row, the Vet college has been ranked number one by U.S. News and World Report. The college has held the top spot since 2000; the rankings come out every four years. U.S. News also rated health care management pro- grams, placing Cornell’s Sloan Program in Health Administra- tion at number fourteen, up from twenty-fifth place four years ago. In other U.S. News ratings, the Engineering col- lege had seven graduate programs in the top ten, and the college itself was ranked tenth in the nation. The Law School was ranked thirteenth, the Johnson School sixteenth, and the Medical college seventeenth. In a new ranking based on the opinions of decision-makers on hiring at law firms, the Law School ranked eighth. Provost Emeritus Keith Kennedy Dies W. Keith Kennedy, PhD ’47, provost emeritus and former CALS dean, died February 18. He was ninety-two. A professor of agronomy on the Hill CARL A. KROCH LIBRARY / CORNELL UNIVERSITY since the late Forties, Kennedy—who grew up on a plum farm in Washing- Canine cosmonauts: This 1961 Christmas can- ton State—held various administra- dy box from the Soviet Union, depicting two tive posts at Cornell, including direc- mixed-breed dogs who were the first living tor of the Geneva Ag station. He creatures to spend a full day in space (aboard served as provost from 1978 until Sputnik 5), is among the items on display in Keith Kennedy his retirement in 1984; at that time, Kroch Library’s exhibit “Animal Legends: From then-President Frank Rhodes called the Trojan Horse to Godzilla.” The show, which him “as generous and sensitive an individual as he is forth- explores why and how humans elevate certain right, perceptive, and capable as an administrator.” In 1990, animals or species to exalted status, runs the new CALS administrative building was named in his through the end of September. honor. Kennedy is survived by two sons and their families. His wife, Barbara Barber Kennedy, MS ’40, predeceased him.

Give My Regards To... affairs, winners of Luce Scholarships for one year of study in Asia.

These Cornellians in the News President David Skorton, named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences.

President Emeritus Hunter Rawlings III, named president of the Professors Johannes Gehrke (computer science) and David Association of American Universities. Williamson (operations research and information engineering), winners of Humboldt Research Awards, which support up to a Cornell’s student-led Committee for the Advancement of Muslim year of collaborative research with colleagues in Germany. Culture, winner of the University’s annual Perkins Prize for Inter- racial Harmony and Understanding. Professors Serena DeBeer (chemistry and chemical biology), Alon Keinan (biological statistics and computational biology), Labor history professor Jefferson Cowie, whose book Stayin’ Rafael Pass (computer science), Ashutosh Saxena (computer sci- Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class won the ence), Mukund Vengalattore (physics), and Hakim Weatherspoon Merle Curti Award, given annually by the Organization of Ameri- (computer science), named Sloan Research Fellows. can Historians for the best book published in American social or intellectual history. Linda Gadsby ’88, vice president and deputy general counsel of Scholastic, Inc., named one of the twenty-five most influential Computer science professor Fred Schneider ’75, elected to the black women in business by the Network Journal. National Academy of Engineering. English professor Alice Fulton, MFA ’82, winner of an Arts and Michael Gründler ’10, a herpetologist at Archbold Biological Sta- Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts tion in Florida, and Perla Parra, a master’s candidate in public and Letters.

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UP F rom the Hill R&D More information on campus research is available at www.news.cornell.edu

Watching local TV news can make people feel powerless against cancer because the programs tend to cover causes of the dis- Prof. ease as opposed to treatment or prevention, finds communica- Tom Eisner tion professor Jeff Niederdeppe.

Cornell potato breeders have released two new varieties. Called Waneta and Lamoka (after twin lakes in the Finger Lakes region), the spuds have undergone thirteen years of testing and are ideal for potato chips.

Immunologists in the Vet college are gaining understanding of ‘Father of Chemical Ecology’ Crohn’s disease by studying how the immune system responds Tom Eisner, 81 to a common parasite, Toxoplasma gondii.

Thomas Eisner, a distinguished biologist considered the father of The U.K.’s Department for International Development and the chemical ecology, died in Ithaca on March 25. He was eighty-one Gates Foundation have pledged $40 million over five years to and suffered from Parkinson’s disease. Eisner was born in Berlin; an effort, led by Cornell, to combat a wheat pathogen that his family settled in the United States in the Forties after stints in threatens global food security. Spain and Uruguay. He earned bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard—Cornell rejected his undergraduate application, and Facebook “walls” have a positive effect on college students’ for decades Eisner proudly displayed the “ding letter” on his office self-image, finds communication professor Jeff Hancock and wall—and joined the Cornell entomology faculty in 1957. With his former grad student Amy Gonzales, PhD ’10. The pages, longtime collaborator and Cornell colleague Jerrold Meinwald, GR Hancock says, allow users to put their best face forward. ’52, he explored how insects use chemicals to defend themselves and facilitate reproduction. His wide-ranging interests included Researchers in the Engineering college are working to develop a nature photography, and he published several books on the sub- more compact source of tetrahertz radiation. The technology, ject, including Chromatic Fantasy: Leaves in the Midst of Change now used in airport body scanners, could have applications in and Eisner’s World: Life Through Many Lenses. At the time of his portable medical diagnostic equipment; currently the radiation death, he was the professor emeritus of is generated by bulky lasers and vacuum tubes. chemical ecology. Eisner is survived by his wife of fifty-eight years, Maria Eisner, an expert in electron microscopy who worked In a first-ever study published in the American Journal of Politi- on his research team, and three daughters and their families. cal Science, government professor Thomas Pepinsky and col- leagues have shown that aerial bombing of Vietnamese civilians Reading Project Taps by U.S. and allied forces during the Vietnam War was ineffective Doctorow Book and ill-conceived, driving previously neutral citizens to support the Viet Cong. The E. L. Doctorow novel Homer & Langley has been chosen for this In what government professor Suzanne Mettler, PhD ’94, calls year’s New Student Reading Project. “a striking disconnect,” many Americans decry federal programs Published in 2009 and loosely based without realizing how much they benefit from them. In a on a true story, the book follows two nationwide survey of 1,400 people, she found that almost half New York City brothers whose parents of those who’d reaped benefits such as student loans reported die in the 1918 flu pandemic. They they had never used a government social program. create their own world in the family mansion on Fifth Avenue, their per- Nutritional sciences professor Patrick Stover and colleagues sonal stories echoing the develop- have identified a gene in mice that causes neural tube defects ments of twentieth-century America. such as spina bifida and anencephaly. “Homer & Langley is an interesting choice, first because it is based on a Newly discovered proteins that are transferred during mating in real New York story and thus raises mosquitoes could offer targets for combating diseases that the issues about fictionalizing the news,” says Charlotte Rosen, PhD insects spread. The findings could help control dengue fever, ’79, a senior lecturer in management and a member of the selec- yellow fever, West Nile virus, and more. tion committee. “I believe that a community read should reflect something about belonging to (or rejecting) a community, and The lab of biological and environmental engineering professor this thread runs throughout the brothers’ tale.” To participate in John March has devised an artificial intestine to aid investiga- the project, which includes discussions and events open to the tions of gut bacteria related to the treatment of diabetes. community, go to reading.cornell.edu.

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s NCAA Tournament brackets were being ana- lyzed in March, Jon A Jaques ’10 would smile as he kept hearing the same question: who will be this year’s Cornell? “Teams were aspiring to do what we had accom- plished,” Jaques, who is playing profes- sionally in Israel, wrote in an e-mail. “That’s a great feeling.” More than a year has passed since the end of the Big Red’s run to the Sweet Six- teen. Four players—Jaques, ’10, Louis Dale ’10, and Jeff Foote ’10—have continued their basket- ball professionally, while former head coach Steve Donahue was hired to be the head coach at Boston College. We caught up with them to talk about their lives post-Sweet Sixteen. PATRICK SHANAHAN

Ryan Wittman, Cornell’s all-time leading scorer, joined the Fort Wayne Mad Ants Still Sweet of the NBA Development League in Feb- ruary after several months playing for the Italian professional team in Forli, about Players and coach recall Cornell’s an hour south of Bologna. Joining the Fort Wayne team late in the season, he remarkable 2009-10 season says, was not easy. “Being at Cornell and playing with those guys—we had such familiarity on the Lately, Dale has caught himself reflect- when the NCAA Tournament brackets court, such great chemistry,” says Wittman, ing more and more on what he achieved were being announced. “Not a day passes who’s averaging 5.6 points per game. He in his four-year Cornell career. “Coach where I don’t think of the Kentucky game, followed Cornell’s progress this year, stay- Donahue would often tell us that the and how I know we were capable of ing up late in Italy to watch their games. experience we were having playing more,” Foote wrote. “The memory of And when March came around, Wittman together would be some of the best that game will always drive me.” says, he began feeling nostalgic. “For all of moments of our lives. Not being able to us who have graduated and moved on, we play in the tournament this year has really Jon Jaques has been playing for the Ironi kind of realize how special a team we had. made me appreciate the time I had playing Ashkelon basketball team in the Israeli The friendships we made, the experiences Cornell basketball.” Super League, the top division of Israeli we went through together—you don’t get basketball since August. Getting playing that with every team.” Jeff Foote has been playing for the Span- time has been a struggle, but Jaques views ish club Melilla Baloncesto since mid- this opportunity to continue his career as Louis Dale signed with BG Goettingen, a November, on what he calls a “loan” a blessing. He wasn’t expecting to get a first-division German club. He said via from the Israeli pro team Maccabi Tel- call from a club overseas. “I figured I e-mail that he chose Goettingen over Aviv. “I feel like a freshman in college couldn’t pass it up,” he says. “Playing teams in Belgium and Australia, though again,” Foote wrote in an e-mail. “Every basketball for a year abroad is a once-in- he admitted the adjustment has been day is a new adventure.” a-lifetime kind of thing.” tough. “There is greater pressure to win Foote signed a two-year deal with Jaques has contributed articles to the games and perform well,” Dale wrote. Maccabi. Because he was not expected to “Quad” blog of the New York Times and “The wear and tear on your body is play much in Israel, Maccabi lent him to to SportsIllustrated.com, and he currently another thing I’ve had to adjust to.” Baloncesto for the season. Foote says he writes for the online edition of Slam mag- Dale is averaging 18.1 minutes and had not felt homesick until early March, azine. Watching from afar has not always 8.1 points per game as a starting guard. He says that he chats with his three for- mer teammates regularly via Skype. “In One year ago: Head coach Steve Donahue and Ryan Wittman ’10 many cases, if one guy was dealing with a (hand on Donahue's shoulder) watch the clock run out at the end of certain situation, it was great to know Cornell’s defeat of Wisconsin in the NCAA Basketball Tournament. that three of your best friends are going The victory advanced the Big Red to the Sweet Sixteen for the through it, too,” he reports. first time in school history.

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been easy, though. “I wish I was still playing college basketball,” Jaques wrote. “Watching Champions! these games just reminds me of how I felt CORNELL ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS during our run last year and how unreal Congratulations to the gym- those few weeks were.” nastics and women’s hockey teams, winners of ECAC Steve Donahue says he has no regrets about championships. For the leaving Cornell after a 21-13 first season at gymnasts, it was their first Boston College. But reflecting on that deci- league title ever. In the sion still stirs up emotion. championship meet, Cornell “My wife and I talked about that last finished with a score of week—we sat back and thought about how 191.675 to edge Penn fortunate we were to go through that,” Don- (191.175) for the title. The ahue says of his ten-year stay in Ithaca. Big Red had five individual “There’s a little sadness because it was such champions: McKenna a special time. It was special for a lot of rea- Archer ’13 and San- sons, but the main reason was the great peo- toro ’11 tied for first in ple around the program, in the program, in vault, Alexis Schupp ’14 the Cornell community.” and Maddie Pearsall ’11 Donahue’s BC team finished in a tie for shared the title on bars, fourth place in the ACC and was not invited and Melanie Standridge to this year’s NCAA tournament. They lost ’12 was tops on the beam. to Northwestern in the second round of the The women’s hockey team NIT. Donahue says that he and his family repeated as ECAC champions have enjoyed living in Boston, and they might after losing only one league soon expect a few summer visitors—four of game all year and then DARL ZEHR them, at least. For Wittman, Dale, Jaques, cruising past Dartmouth 3-0 Foote, and Coach Donahue, it’s never too to win the title. They advanced to the NCAA tournament, where they again soon for a reunion. “I follow their careers defeated Dartmouth—this time by a 7-1 score—before losing to Boston Univer- daily, and they follow mine,” Donahue says. sity 4-1 in the national semifinal. The Big Red women finished the year with a “And we all follow Cornell.” record of 31-3-1, joining the 2002–03 men’s team as the only Cornell hockey — Zach Schonbrun squads to post 30-win seasons.

League, a top amateur league. He also first Cornell player to earn All-Ivy honors Sports Shorts spent time training with the New York Red since 2002 and was also named second- Bulls MLS squad and professional teams in team All-American. KICK START Some friends of Cornell rugby Austria and the United Arab Emirates. are looking for help. Faded Red, the alumni rugby association, is asking former players TIE- TITLE Cornell was the top seed and fans to join the group. According to for the ECAC Men’s Tennis Indoor Champi- Winter Teams President Avi Giladi ’04, the association onships, but the competition went down to Final Records currently has about 40 active members and the wire. With the title match against Bing- had about 20 people on hand for the hamton University tied at 3-3, the Big Red Men’s Basketball 10-18; 6-8 Ivy Alumni Weekend last fall. Because of a needed a victory at No. 4 singles. Evan (T-5th) recent reorganization of college rugby that Bernstein ’11, who had lost the first set, Women’s Basketball 6-22; 3-11 Ivy (8th) has Cornell competing against rallied to take the second set 6-1 and then Fencing 9-8; 2-4 Ivy (5th) teams instead of the New York teams they delivered the winning margin with a 7-3 tie had been playing in recent years, the pro- break victory after the third set finished 6-6. Gymnastics 4-2 gram needs financial support. For more Men’s Hockey 16-15-3; 11-9-2 information, contact Giladi at avalope@ SQUASH STARS Men’s squash player Nick ECAC (T-4th) yahoo.com or go to the group’s website at Sachvie ’13 was named the Ivy League Women’s Hockey 31-3-1; 20-1-1 www.FadedRedRugby.com. Rookie of the Year after posting a 12-3 ECAC (1st) record at number one and taking second in ISLAND TIME Forward Matthew Bouraee the College Squash Association’s individual Men’s 14-4 ’10 has signed a contract with the Puerto championships. Two of Sachvie’s three Women’s Polo 19-0 Rico Islanders in the North American Soc- losses came to Princeton’s Todd Harrity, the cer League, which begins play this spring Ivy Player of the Year. Sachvie was joined Men’s Squash 10-6; 4-2 Ivy (3rd) (and is not related to an older league of on the All-Ivy squad by teammates Alex Women’s Squash 6-7; 2-4 Ivy (5th) the same name). An All-Ivy first-team pick Domenick ’12 and Thomas Spettigue Men’s Swimming 6-3; 4-3 Ivy (T-3rd) at Cornell, Bouraee spent last season with ’13—the first time Cornell has had three the New York Red Bulls developmental players earn All-Ivy honors. On the Women’s Swimming 1-8; 0-7 Ivy (8th) team in the National Premier Soccer women’s team, Jaime Laird ’13 was the Wrestling 13-1; 5-0 Ivy (1st) May | June 2011 15 16-17CAMmj11authors 4/13/11 11:11 AM Page 16

Authors

Burning Bright

The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht, MFA ’08 (Random House)

atalia, a young doctor in an unnamed Balkan country, seeks answers about Nher grandfather’s death while she delivers medicine to an orphanage on the other side of the border. She experiences the volatile atmosphere of a city during civil war, and recalls her grandfather’s eerie stories of a tiger that wan- dered from a bombed-out zoo into his childhood village during World War II and his encounters with “the deathless man.” Obreht, the youngest writer selected for the New Yorker’s “Best 20 Under 40,” interweaves myth and memory in this debut novel.

Kabuki Democracy by Eric Alterman ’82 Touch by Alexi Zentner, MFA ’08 (Norton). (Nation Books). Despite the passage of As his mother lies dying, an Anglican priest health reform, financial reform, equal pay recounts his family’s history in Sawgamet, legislation, and the economic stimulus, the a lumber town founded by his near- Obama presidency has been a disappointment legendary grandfather deep in Canada’s to many progressives, argues Alterman, a western woods. Magic and mortality are columnist for the Nation and professor of intertwined in this place where the narra- English and journalism at Brooklyn College tor’s father and sister disappear under the and CUNY. While he regrets Obama’s decision ice, evil spirits lurk, men die in logjams, to become a dealmaker, he places greater snow buries the town until summer, and blame on our dysfunctional political system gold-dusted caribou appear. In his first for blocking progressive change. What presidents cannot do, he novel, Zentner evokes the danger and beauty of the wilderness, writes, “even with supermajorities in both houses of Congress and the way he delves into his characters’ memories recalls behind them, is pass the kind of transformative legislation that Faulkner’s adage: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Barack Obama promised in his 2008 presidential campaign.” Sacred Landscapes by A. T. Mann ’65, Out of Practice by Frederick M. Barken ’77, BArch ’66, photographs by Lynn BA ’76, MS ’77 (Cornell). In 2007, after prac- Davis (Sterling). Certain places ticing medicine for almost twenty-five years, evoke the sacred in us, argues Mann, Dr. Barken, who now lectures on health-care and act as a threshold between the issues at Ithaca College, made the decision human and the divine. “They differ to leave his profession. He had become disil- from our usual world in magical and lusioned with the bureaucracy of the health powerful ways,” he writes, “resonat- insurance industry, price controls, and restric- ing with our deeper self, challenging tive regulations. “I was recast as a gate- us by their mere presence, and creat- keeper,” he writes, “the fellow at the turn- ing such awe in us that we come away feeling ourselves part of stile of a veritable health-care amusement a wondrous natural world.” The architect and author of Sacred park where those with a ticket (a valid card) Sexuality juxtaposes photographs of natural formations such as could spend an afternoon with a specialist, take a ride in the MRI Ayers Rock and Luray Caverns against such man-made structures scanner, or visit the X-ray funhouse.” as the Pyramids, Teotihuacán, and the temple of Angkor Wat. 16 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 16-17CAMmj11authors 4/13/11 11:11 AM Page 17

Fiction Beyond the Islands by Alicia Yánez Cossío, translated by Amalia Gladhart, PhD ’95 You are cordially (Uno). An associate professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon translates invited to our Ecuadorian novelist Yanez Cossío’s fictional meditation on the history and people of 17th Annual the Galápagos Islands. Reunion Children’s Book Signing at Argus by Michelle Knudsen ’95, illustrated The Cornell Store by Andréa Wesson (Candlewick). Sally and her classmates are given eggs to hatch for a science project, but when hers opens it’s Saturday, June 11 not a yellow chick but a scaly green dragon 11 am –1 pm that would rather eat the other chicks. In the course of raising the dragon, Sally learns to love what is different. These professors and others will be our guests: Non-Fiction

The End of Fundraising by Jason Saul ’91 Jon Parmenter (Jossey-Bass). The CEO of Mission Measure- Associate Professor of History ment calls for a change in the way non- The Edge of the Woods: profits raise money. “We continue to Iroquioa, 1534-1701 market to donors who ‘feel good’ about Thomas Seeley our work, rather than mainstream economic Professor of Neurobiology & Behavior actors who ‘value’ our work,” he writes. Honeybee Democracy “We continue to fundraise outside the walls of the economy, when we could be selling Jefferson Cowie Associate Professor of Industrial & our impact within.” Labor Relations Counter Realignment by Howard Reiter ’67 Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last and Jeffrey M. Stonecash (Cambridge). The Days of the Working Class Northeast was once a bastion of the Aziz Rana Republican Party. An emeritus professor of Assistant Professor of Law political science at the University of Con- Two Faces of American Freedom necticut focuses on how the party, at the Paul McEuen same time it gained ground in the South, Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics lost its former stronghold. Spiral Becoming a Mensch by Ronald Pies ’74 Sarah Kreps (Hamilton). Weaving together examples Assistant Professor of Government from the Talmud, literature, and philoso- Coalitions of Convenience phy, Pies, a clinical professor of psychiatry Ronald Mize at Tufts University School of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Development editor-in-chief emeritus of Psychiatric Sociology; and Times, shows how to live ethically in the Alicia Swords, Assistant Professor of modern world. Sociology, Ithaca College Mexican Labor for North American Building Blocks by Gretchen Horlacher ’84 Consumption (Oxford). An associate professor of music at Indiana University argues against the assessment that Stravinsky’s work is static and discontinuous. She demonstrates that while the composer used repetitive textures and dissonance, he grounded his work in traditional ideas of melody and harmony. Excellence with an Edge by Michael T. Har- ris ’84 (Fire Starter). “Practicing good business lets you in turn practice good medicine,” writes Harris, the vice chair of 135 Ho Plaza | 800-624-4080 surgery at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. store.cornell.edu He provides tips on avoiding pitfalls and mastering the business side of health care. May | June 2011 17 18-28CAMmj11currents 4/13/11 11:12 AM Page 18

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After two decades, David and Ann Scoville finally bring their daughter’s killer to justice

hen David Scoville ’61 and Ann controversial, with civil libertarians expressing concerns about Vanorder Scoville ’61 watched their privacy, misuse of genetic information, and the possible deepen- daughter, Patricia, graduate from ing of racial disparities in criminal justice. But the Scovilles— Cornell in 1986, they were thrilled. soft-spoken but tenacious—were instrumental in the 1998 pas- WTheir class years were exactly twenty-five years apart, so no mat- sage of a bill that gave Vermont access to CODIS. The bill also ter where they were in life, they could all count on getting established the state’s own DNA database for violent offenders— together in Ithaca every five years. a library of genetic profiles that, in March 2005, finally yielded This June marks David and Ann’s 50th Reunion. Patty— a match for the sample found on Patty. who, like her mother, majored in human development and fam- The arrest of that suspect, a fifty-eight-year-old contractor ily studies in the College of Human Ecology—would have cele- named Howard Godfrey, finally brought the Scovilles a measure brated her twenty-fifth. But this spring the Scovilles will again of justice. It would take another three years for Godfrey’s trial, go to Ithaca without their daughter: she was raped and murdered which David and Ann attended. “It was difficult to hear the in the woods outside Stowe, Vermont, in October 1991, at age details,” Ann recalls. “But I pulled up my strength and said, ‘I’m twenty-eight. Patty’s death changed her parents’ lives forever, going to be there, because I want you to see me.’” It took a jury launching the couple on a thirteen-year search for her murderer less than two hours to convict Godfrey, who was sentenced to and transforming them into dogged advocates for the reform of life without parole in 2008. “That was what we were after,” DNA profiling legislation. Now that their daughter’s killer has David Scoville says. “We felt comfortable knowing he was going been sentenced, that journey has finally ended; this June, David to be put away, and he’s never going to get out.” says, “we want people to know it’s over.” The trial and sentencing brought the Scovilles a fresh round As recounted in a CAM feature in July/August 2006, the of publicity, including stories in the New York Times and a seg- killing of Patty Scoville became a case study in the power and ment on CBS’s “48 Hours.” It also brought another milestone limitations of forensic DNA evidence. Eight days after her mur- in their daughter’s case: the day before Godfrey’s sentencing, Ver- der, searchers discovered Patty’s body, which had been buried in mont dedicated its forensic DNA lab in Patty’s name. Last Octo- a shallow grave. Investigators collected a semen sample from her ber, the Patricia Scoville Memorial CODIS Laboratory moved to clothing and isolated a distinctive DNA “fingerprint” that its new home in a state-of-the-art forensic facility in Waterbury. pointed to the unknown assailant. But at that time, Vermont was “That was a really positive note to finish on,” Ann says. “To say, one of two states that lacked a forensic database of DNA drawn ‘There—there’s a tribute to Patty.’ It helped us withdraw a little, from crime scenes and convicted offenders, and police were bit by little bit. You hear people talk about ‘closure.’ I wouldn’t unable find a match among the more than a hundred suspects call it closure. But it does bring it to a kind of end.” who, through both consent and court order, donated samples to Now the couple are unofficially winding up their advocacy investigators. efforts, though they still make occasional appearances in sup- For years, the case languished. But Ann, a retired Girl Scout port of expanding DNA legislation in other states. “We’ve gone Council field team manager, and David, a retired language arts back to being retired people,” David says with a chuckle. It’s a teacher, traveled to Vermont from their home in Canandaigua, welcome transition, but a slow one. “All that time we waited New York, every October—an annual pilgrimage to keep Patty’s and waited tempered us a little bit,” David adds. “You see peo- story in the public eye and remind investigators that they weren’t ple whose kids get murdered, they get so angry at the whole giving up. After five years of frustration, they turned their ener- world. Somehow, we were able to get over that.” Says Ann: gies to advocacy, writing letters and testifying in support of “Time is a gift.” expanding the use of DNA evidence. The goal: urge Vermont David describes sitting in the Vermont statehouse on the day lawmakers to establish a DNA databank for convicted offend- of the lab dedication, knowing that his daughter’s killer was in ers and join the national Combined DNA Index System a cell not far away, and that he would never again be a free man. (CODIS), a network of DNA databases that allows investigators The feeling, he says, was simple: relief. “We set out to do some- to share genetic evidence among jurisdictions. thing,” he says. “And we got it done.” The use of these forensic DNA libraries was—and remains— — David Dudley 18 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 18-28CAMmj11currents 4/13/11 11:12 AM Page 19

At long last: Seventeen years after their daughter’s death, David Scoville ’61 and Ann Scoville ’61 were in court to see her killer convicted thanks to a DNA match.

May | June 2011 19 by While Mortals Sleep, from Delacorte achieve messages these best, their At in a surprise ending. Press, is the second collection of previ- Von- by stories short unpublished ously they are early in his career, negut. Written concerned less with war and corporate malfeasance than with the pursuit of suc- Von- cess, happiness, and love. Vintage negut, for better and worse, they put characters, settings, and stories in the service of moral messages. In powerful—eloquence. simple—and a No Kiddlies,” an eld- “The Man Without erly gentleman, newly arrived in Florida, grows angry when his uneducated ninety- bench-mate interrupts his four-year-old sonnets, prattling perusal of Shakespeare’s on about spleens, sphincters, gallstones, human that Reminders kidneys. and guts,” of buckets but “nothing are beings That mortal coil: Kurt Vonnegut in 1970 Vonnegut mortal coil: Kurt That Bedtime Stories Bedtime

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he exclaims, “make life of the spirit impossible.” He learns he’s wrong, losing a bet and winning a friend by admitting that he’s a “two-kiddley man.” Vonnegut can be very funny—espe- cially when he’s skewering the super-rich. In “Tango,” he writes that the Latin music that wandered through the ears of young Robert Brewer “found nobody at home under his crew cut, and took com- mand of his long, thin body.” His partner, “a plain, wholesome girl with three mil- lion dollars and a low center of gravity, struggled in embarrassment, and then, seeing the fierce look in Robert’s eyes, succumbed.” It “simply wasn’t done” in posh Pisquontuit. Even when they are funny, however, some of these stories seem dated—and not only because they are set in manufactur- ing plants like the Montezuma Forge and Foundry Company and the General Household Appliance Company. An awful lot of women in While Mortals Sleep are spinsters or widows, searching, with vary- ing degrees of desperation, for a nice man. And unhappy until they find one. To be sure, Vonnegut gives the back of his hand to Earl Harrison (in “With His Hand on the Throttle”), a thirty-something road-builder, who plays with model trains instead of spending time with his wife. Women “have got the vote and free access to saloons,” Earl exclaims. “What do they want now—to enter the men’s shot put?” He gets his come-uppance, but the oh-so- Fifties moral of the story seems to be that wives should be more than content if they get common courtesy and a bit more attention from their hubbies. Dave Eggers, the editor of this collec- tion, writes that the literature of moral instruction—at one time “popular, if not dominant”—has become unfashionable. It’s easy to see why. Some of Vonnegut’s lessons—that wealthy people were hap- pier when they had nothing; that we often ignore the real meaning of Christmas— seem trite or untrue.

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Trunk line: Linda and Jim Peddie with (from left) Rosie, Tucker, and JP. Left: Actor Robert Pattin- son with co-star Tai in Water for Elephants.

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when you see a wolf running with a big plumy tail, that’s Buck,” Peddie says. Hooray for Howlywood “And when you see one with both ears upright, that’s Teddy.” And when you see one with both ears and tail intact, it’s The lead pachyderm in Water for Elephants movie magic. “They did some green- screening where they pieced the images is the latest star patient for movie vets Jim together,” he says, “but the back end doesn’t quite follow the front.” Peddie, DVM ’65, and Linda Peddie, DVM ’65 For more than two decades, Peddie and his wife, Linda Reeve Peddie, DVM ’65, have been veterinarians to the stars— the four-legged (or, in the case of the title few days before the two the rest was a bony sprig,” Peddie recalls. character in the B-grade horror flick Ana- animal actors sharing the “And Teddy got ahold of Buck’s right ear conda, no-legged) variety. They’ve treated role of Two Socks, Kevin and took two-thirds of it off.” such patients as the komodo dragon ACostner’s lupine compan- When Peddie arrived to examine his scheduled to become a banquet meal in ion in the 1990 Best Picture winner patients, he was greeted with plastic bags The Freshman, Shirley MacLaine’s St. Dances with Wolves, were scheduled to containing the tail and ear fragments, with Bernard in Steel Magnolias, the mice in travel to the set, they got into what their a request that he sew them back on. Mouse Hunt, the big cats in Out of veterinarian calls “one hell of a fight.” “Well,” he recalls with an amused sigh, Africa, the wily Jack Russell terrier on Their keepers called Jim Peddie, DVM “there was no way in the world.” All he “Frasier,” and a whole menagerie for the ’65, in a panic. “Buck had gotten ahold of could do was amputate the remains of the sequel to Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Teddy’s tail and stripped the plume right tail, treat the damaged ear, and send the After preview audiences complained that off—there were four inches of fur left and wolves off to movie stardom. “In the film, Disney’s live-action version of 101 Dal-

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matians didn’t have enough puppy shots, ing to being dead in the afternoon,” says after graduation, serving as post veteri- C urrents Linda did physicals on the 120 or so Jim, who was so heartbroken at the loss narian at a base in Virginia. They eventu- pooches brought in for additional pho- of JP that he asked his wife to remove the ally settled in Southern California and tography. When the elephant starring in animal’s image from their screen-saver. were in private practice for two decades Operation Dumbo Drop developed stom- “We have little opportunity to do any- before segueing to film work, starting as ach problems and stopped eating, the Ped- thing but stand back and watch it in-house vets for Universal Studios. In all, dies arranged to have the animal’s pre- progress so terribly fast.” they’ve worked on some seventy movies ferred nosh—California-grown oat hay The Peddies both entered Cornell’s Ag and two dozen TV shows, plus assorted —air freighted to the set in Thailand via school as undergrads, in an era when stu- commercial shoots—including one where, 747. As Jim puts it: “We did the most dents could apply to transfer to the Vet most memorably, they were called in to expensive hayride in the world.” college after two years. When they met, treat an elephant with a whopping case of These days the Peddies are mostly the odds of wooing his future wife were diarrhea. “We had it under control in retired, but they’ve retained one client—a not in Jim’s favor: she was the only twelve hours,” Jim recalls. “We bought California organization, Have Trunk Will woman in their Vet class of sixty. They about four gallons of Pepto Bismol, which Travel, that raises and trains elephants for married over spring break of their fourth the elephant loved.” Hollywood productions and other events year, and Jim was drafted into the Army — Beth Saulnier like fairs and traditional Indian weddings. “The work that Linda and Jim have done with animals in the movie business in gen- eral, and this cluster of elephants in par- ticular, is quite extraordinary,” says Don Smith, former dean of the Vet college and a longtime friend. “It’s not just that they look after the elephants’ medical needs well, but they do it in a creative manner. They work with researchers across the country and try to understand the best way to manage elephant problems.” Last year, the Peddies’ work with Have Trunk Will Travel brought them to the set of one of this spring’s most antici- pated films: Water for Elephants, the movie version of Sara Gruen’s best-selling novel. Released April 22, the film stars Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattinson as a Cornell vet student who’s about to sit for his final exams when his parents are killed in a car accident, prompting him to drop out and join a Depression-era traveling circus. Although the Peddies had been to dozens of film and TV shoots over the years, Linda says, they’d never seen any- thing quite like the media frenzy attend- ing Pattinson’s every move. “You would not believe the number of paparazzi,” recalls Linda. “The set was in a field, and the surrounding hills were alive with cam- eras with the longest lenses I’ve ever seen. You feel sorry for him. He can’t move without somebody following him.” In addition to treating Have Trunk Will Travel’s six elephants, the Peddies are working to raise awareness of a disease that is devastating the species: elephant endotheliotropic herpes virus (EEHV), which has killed some 25 percent of the Asian elephants born in America since 1978. The disease, which has a mortality rate of 80 to 90 percent, took the life of JP, a three-year-old elephant born at Have Trunk Will Travel—and named after Jim Peddie—who passed away in the summer of 2010. “This is a disease that goes from the patient looking normal in the morn-

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Weed Wacky

Nancy Gift, PhD ’02, pleads the case for ‘plants out of place’ SHEILA RODGERS

Green revolution: Nancy Gift advocates for the benefits of weeds such as heal-all flower, a medicinal .

ome spring, Nancy Gift, PhD ’02, liberates the manual push mower from her garage and sets to work tending her half-acre in the Pitts- Cburgh suburbs. Despite her enthusiasm for the chore that doubles as a summertime exercise regimen, Gift rarely plots a straight course across the yard. A love of weeds—from creeping violet to goldenrod—guides her path. This time of year, she steers clear of the mountain bluets, a clumping relative of the gardenia bearing pale blue blossoms on eight-inch stems. Later in the summer, hawkweed—a perennial rela- tive of the sunflower—gets a pass. “I get excited about leaving something audacious in the front lawn,” she says, noting that every so often, her husband uses the family’s gas- powered mower to tame the effect. “The nature of weeds is totally individual.” As a graduate student in crop and sciences on the Hill, Gift memorized the com- mon and Latin names of hundreds of weed species, learning to identify them in their earliest stages of growth, all the better to eradicate them with uniquely tailored herbi- cidal cocktails. Today she campaigns for the preservation of what she calls “plants out of place,” the mosses, wildflowers, and dandelions that suburbanites battle with an arsenal of carcinogenic chemicals. “I end up advocating organic lawn management because people are not willing to read the small print on herbicide labels or learn how they differ from one another,” she says, recalling an Ithaca neighbor who wore only shorts and tennis shoes when treating his lawn. “A farmer has to have a license and learn something [to legally apply herbicides], but homeowners don’t.” This winter, St. Lynn’s Press released Good Weed, Bad Weed, a wire-bound, laminated guide, complete with full-color photos of forty-three species common throughout the Northeast, Pacific Northwest, and Canada. It’s Gift’s latest salvo in her campaign for a gentler approach to lawn care. Her first book, A Weed by Any Other Name, was published in 2009. Subtitled The Virtues of a Messy Lawn, or Learning to Love the Plants We Don’t Plant, the light-hearted collection of essays is a paean to the weeds of Gift’s youth in the hills of Kentucky, a meditation on the hazards of indis- criminate chemical use, and a chronicle of her efforts to make peace with both the weeds of Pittsburgh and neighbors who don’t necessarily share her aesthetics. Gift may have subtitled her latest book Who’s Who, What to Do, and Why Some

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May | June 2011 27 A Weed — Sharon Tregaskis ’95 — Sharon Tregaskis details the joy of home- of joy the details For her dissertation, Gift investigated For her dissertation, Soon after the publication of By Any Other Name, the author received the latest notice from her daughters’ school about upcoming herbicide and like applications. She didn’t what she read: plans to spray the with a chemical implicated in both child- Her hood leukemia and breast cancer. protesting e-mails went viral, and the school adopted a one-year pilot plan to par- the of couple “A free. herbicide go ents who got involved ended up making me sound reasonable,” recalls Gift. “They It want anything sprayed, ever. didn’t look made my approach of saying, ‘Let’s sane.” seem toxicity,’ the and label the at brewed dandelion wine shared with fel- shared with brewed dandelion wine another recounts low graduate students, acts as a new in one of her first how, of a bottle wielded she homeowner, the poison ivy vin- Roundup to eradicate where her two ing its way up a hedgerow Bad In Good Weed, daughters play. for the , which also offers recipes Weed lawns, Japanese edibles common to rhubarb for stand-in a as serves knotweed and garlic mustard in a strawberry pie culinary redemp- features in pesto—but enough to bump the two tion wasn’t invasives from the category of the con- demned. “My publisher was surprised because I included recipes for them, but neither deserve a second chance,” she a says. “When I take them to eat, there’s sense of .” whether quackgrass, a perennial weed ubiquitous in agriculture throughout the maintained as a Northeast, could be cover crop in corn fields, reducing herbi- cide use and coaxing value from the plant. “The idea behind her research was, all bad,” says her former this weed isn’t professor sciences soil and crop adviser, Russell Hahn. “If we could learn to man- age it, we could prevent erosion, reduce might runoff, and suck up nitrogen that be left over from the growing season.” assessing the nuanced approach to Gift’s thresholds at which individual weed species cause harm or create value makes does it as homeowners for sense much as for farmers, says Hahn. “I get upset when people say they’re going to eradicate a almost impossible weed,” he says. “It’s and probably unnecessary.” , but the but , Chance Second a Deserve of professor assistant University Chatham crab- her limits. She despises ecology has grudg- little more than grass and musters the for multiflora rose, despite ing respect in tea. C-rich hips she savors Vitamin by Any chapter of A Weed While one Name Other cornellalumnimagazine.com |

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After two decades at the helm of the Johnson Museum, Frank Robinson— It’s a director, cheerleader, and occasional Easter Bunny—retires. The good news is, he’s not going far.

By Beth Saulnier

rank Robinson’s father was an eminent classics scholar, a pro- fessor of ancient Greek and Roman history at Brown who Fpublished some two dozen books in his field— works so authoritative, his son notes, the family is still receiving royalties more than forty- five years after his death. But the senior Robin- son never craved the role of administrator; although he was offered high-level leadership positions over the years, including a college presidency, he always turned them down. “He died without really knowing the guts of an insti- tution—the weeds,” Robinson says. His son, on the other hand, revels in the details of running the Johnson Museum of Art, a position he has held for two decades. “I love dusting the cases, clearing the sidewalks,” he says, “getting to know electricians and plumbers and custodians, how good they are, how important. You can’t run a museum with- out guards in the galleries—who may hate the art they’re guarding but feel a responsibility to protect it.” By embracing the quotidian minu- tiae as well as the big picture, he says, “you really understand how an institution works, maybe how a society works.” LINDSAY FRANCE / UP

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‘This is not an image on a screen or a picture in a book.This is what Rembrandt himself touched—the piece of paper that he pulled off the copper plate. It shows this guy who is from what we would call today the lower middle class; his father ran a mill that ground up maize. In the early 1630s he comes to Amsterdam and he’s tremendously successful, and he begins to compare himself to the great masters of the Renaissance a century earlier. Here he’s dressed up in clothing that is absolutely unusual for the seventeenth century but usual for the sixteenth. But there’s a reality to the man, the frizzy hair. In the midst of all that pretension, there is the reality of him as a human being.’

Rembrandt Leaning on a Stone Sill, Rembrandt van Rijn, etching, 1639

One minute, Robinson can expound on the first piece he ever Frank Robinson. But at the end of June, after three and a half bought on behalf of the University (Houses, Roofs, Towers, a decades in museum administration, Robinson is retiring from his 1920 oil painting by Squire Vickers); the next, he’s quoting the position as the Richard J. Schwartz Director. He says he’s content weekly rental cost ($10,000) for the giant crane hefting portions with the state in which he’s leaving the institution—on firm foot- of the museum’s new wing. As he walks through the building he ing and with the expansion slated for completion in October. “It’s greets every employee by name, from the woman pushing the good to leave at your peak,” he says. “The place is stabilized cleaning cart to the receptionist in the lobby. When that fact is financially. It has a new wing, wonderful staff, wonderful support pointed out to him, he seems genuinely unimpressed with him- from our Museum Advisory Council.” (There’s that word again.) self; of course he knows everyone who works for him. How Why is Robinson leaving just a few months shy of its long- could he not? “Nobody is unimportant,” Robinson says, then awaited expansion? Well, that wasn’t his original plan; construc- adds with his signature deadpan wit: “Show me somebody tion was initially supposed to be finished before the end of this whose is unimportant and I’ll get rid of that job, because we academic year, but the completion date was postponed and need the money.” Robinson opted not to push back his retirement. And in fact, Since Robinson took the helm of the museum in 1992, he has Robinson will remain on campus: in September he’s starting a been its public face and most ardent advocate—a tireless fundraiser part-time job as a fundraiser in the development office. He’ll also and unabashed cheerleader whose favorite word seems to be continue his regional museum tours and Cornell’s Adult Univer- “wonderful.” (That might come across as cloying—except that sity trips, including a May 2012 excursion to London. He says every time he says it, you get the feeling that he means it.) He is that he and his wife, Margaret—they’ve been married “forty-two that rarest of creatures, a maven of high culture with precious few years, poor woman,” and have one son, a former rock musician pretensions; the man who did his Harvard PhD thesis on seventeenth- who’s now a Web designer—have no desire to decamp from century Dutch painter Gabriel Metsu has been known, on more Ithaca to warmer climes. “I really love the snow,” says Robinson, than one occasion, to dress up in a bunny suit for Easter. who previously taught art history at Dartmouth and Williams, In short, it’s hard to imagine the Johnson Museum without which have plenty of it. “It’s strange, I know.” 36 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 34-39CAMmj11robinson 4/13/11 11:15 AM Page 37

‘Giacometti was a Swiss who lived in Paris in the Thirties, Forties, and Fifties, so during and after the Second World War. He says it’s Walking Man, not that it’s a Holocaust figure; he doesn’t need to. It’s somebody devastated, withered away.The surface is so frightening, and those staring eyes, that small head, the very thick feet going into the base so he can barely walk. It’s a great image of the devastation, of terrible things that happened, then and now. Even a great work of art that’s against life can enhance life, and this is an example.’

Piece of the Pei: The famed architect’s firm returned to design the new wing.

Walking Man II, Alberto Giacometti, bronze, 1959–60

PEI COBB FREED & PARTNERS ARCHITECTS LLP / GILBERT GORSKI ARCHITECTURAL ILLUSTRATION

One of five museum directors in his family—including Mar- patients and their caregivers, then in comes an engineering stu- garet, former head of the Wellesley College museum—Robinson dent who wants to know about contemporary art. Then you’re fell hard for the art world at thirteen, when his father took the talking with a major donor with hair as white as mine, and she family to Rome on a one-year teaching assignment. “It was a vul- wants to help you buy a work or endow a position. You have nerable age,” he says. “It was overwhelming to walk down one this whole range of things.” block and have three great churches. Rome is overflowing with In addition to the art itself, Robinson revels in how a art, with architecture, with the world of the imagination. I just museum can act as a great equalizer. “Our society has exploded,” fell in love with it. By the end of that year I knew I had to spend he says. “There’s so little common ground, so little glue, so few the rest of my life in art.” places where we all come together. Well, a museum is one of those places. In our case, close to 100,000 visitors a year come in and they’re rubbing shoulders independent of level of educa- is first museum directorship came in tion, income, age, even independent of interests; some people 1976, at Williams; from there he went come in just for the view.” And as a university museum, he says, to the Rhode Island School of Design, the Johnson can help instill a love of art in the next generation. then to Cornell. “I love the variety,” he “Half of our visitors are Cornell students,” Robinson says. says of his job. “You’re there for every- “They’re coming to look at the views, or on a date, or to show body. One minute you’re talking to their parents around—but also they’re coming to look at the art. somebody about the leak in the roof, Somewhere inside them they know this is their museum. They Hthe next you’re talking to an architect about the new wing, the can come on impulse, an extra hour at lunch time. It’s something next you’re talking to a reporter, the next you’re talking to a for the rest of their lives, and that’s what we’re here for—to curator about acquiring a Tang Dynasty bowl. In comes a enhance people’s lives.” kindergarten kid who’s learning about shapes and colors, and it’s When the Johnson opened in 1973, its I. M. Pei-designed wonderful. In the next gallery there’s a group of Alzheimer’s glass-and-concrete structure housed 9,000 objects; that number May | June 2011 37 34-39CAMmj11robinson 4/13/11 11:15 AM Page 38

‘It’s a lovely work, imperial—from Rome itself, not just from the Roman Empire. It’s a child, and you can see the baby fat. Wonderful hair. The whole thing is a beautiful conception, a vision of youth. It’s in great condition, except for the nose. It has lost its nose, as they always do; it was almost certainly buried at some point. It’s a portrait, probably part of a series on an affluent family at the time of the Emperor Antoninus Pius.’

Bust of a Boy, unknown Roman, marble, 140–145 AD

has since grown to 32,000. Current gallery space allows for the time, it was eliminated for financial reasons; today, environmen- display of about 765 pieces, or 2.5 percent of the collection. tal regulations would prohibit it. But the expansion now under “That’s another reason why we had to grow,” says Robinson, way echoes that design, with a three-floor, above- and below- noting that the museum first started contemplating an expansion ground addition that will add some 16,000 square feet to the in the Nineties. “We were bursting at the seams.” Once con- existing 61,000. “We want to keep the integrity and artistic unity struction is completed, the number will increase to 2,000. (About of the old building intact,” Robinson says. “We’re trying to move 20,000 items in the collection are works on paper that, for forward but respect the past.” He notes that, fortuitously, all the preservation reasons, can’t be displayed regularly.) “The great- principals behind the design four decades ago remain at the est work of art we have is our building,” Robinson says. “It’s firm—including Pei himself, now ninety-four. “If we had waited beautiful, and it embodies the two ideals of a museum. On the five years,” he notes, “it couldn’t have been done.” one hand, preservation and protection. There are these massive The additional space has allowed the museum to reconfigure concrete walls; what could be more powerful? At the same time its fifth floor—popular not only for its much-admired Asian col- it’s public, and the whole point is to be open—and we have all lection, but its sweeping views. (During , the trustee that glass, the sculpture court, the skylights, wonderful views out meeting room on the sixth floor—which boasts some more-than- long windows on all four sides. So the balance of openness and respectable views of its own—has been open to visitors; the fifth protection is wonderful.” floor will reopen in time for Commencement and Reunion.) By relocating curatorial and storage areas, the amount of gallery space will increase by half—allowing, for example, Japanese screens to be displayed in pairs rather than singly. In a renovated room in the original building, an “open storage” area will put he building’s original plans—by the firm of hundreds more objects on public view. (“Open storage is a big Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, with John Sul- thing now,” Robinson says, noting that the Metropolitan livan ’62, BArch ’63, as architect-in- Museum’s American Wing now has such a facility.) Other fea- charge—included an underground portion tures of the expanded museum will include an outdoor Japanese Tthat would have stretched north into the adjacent gorge. At the , a photography center, designated space for contempo- 38 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 34-39CAMmj11robinson 4/13/11 11:15 AM Page 39

‘It was shown at a big exhibition in Paris, which A. D.White attended; in his diary he said the best work of art was The Communion by Gari Melchers, an American expatriate. Twenty-two years later the work was given to Cornell, and the artist was persuaded to come place it on campus. He put it in Goldwin Smith, and it was there until around twenty years ago. It’s a beautiful example of the cult of the peasant in nineteenth-century art. It’s a Dutch scene; Melchers The Communion, had a summer home in the Gari Melchers, oil on board, 1888 Netherlands. It’s a very simple church, unlike what you might expect of a Roman Catholic church—a chair, a bench, real people.’

rary art, two viewing rooms for video installations, and a 150- seat lecture hall. “We’ve been talking about a new wing,” he says, “but really it’s a new museum.” Ask Robinson to identify his favorite works in the Johnson collection, and he’ll start off by saying that there are so many wonderful things—but ultimately admit that some are particu- larly dear to him. Even after a lifetime in the art world, he mar- vels at the fact that a few steps from his office are more than thirty etchings pulled from their copper plates by Rembrandt him- self nearly half a millennium ago. “From the plate he would take Another of the director’s most beloved pieces: Alberto Gia- fifty or sixty impressions,” Robinson says, admiring a self-por- cometti’s Walking Man II. Given to the museum by the Uris fam- trait from 1639. “Many of them disappeared, decayed, or were ily in 1976, the bronze encapsulates the horrors of World War II in destroyed, but here we have one of them in Ithaca, New York. a single tortured figure. For Robinson, the sculpture is not just a It’s unbelievable. It’s staggering.” remarkable work of art; it’s evidence of the University’s commit- ment to the museum. In February 2010, he explains, another cast UP of Walking Man sold at auction in London for $104 million. A reputable dealer called Robinson and offered to pay the same whopping sum for the Johnson’s piece. “I said, after talking with people here, ‘If we had $104 million, we’d go out and buy some- thing really great—like Walking Man,’ ” he recalls with a smile. “So the answer was no.” A week or so later, the dealer repeated his offer in writing—directly to President Skorton. “Skorton, to his eternal blessed credit, consulted me,” Robinson says, smile broadening as he gazes at the Giacometti masterwork. “He had the senior vice provost [John Siliciano ’75] write back; he didn’t write back himself, because that would dignify the offer. And he said, ‘We really believe in art and we’re not going to sell. No matter what it’s worth, we’re going to keep this.’ ” Yes, Robinson admits, an infu- sion of $104 million “could have solved a lot of problems”—but selling an artistic treasure is no way for a museum to pay the bills. It’s a striking anecdote—particularly in an era where some institutions (most infamously, Brandeis), have sought to balance the budget by putting their art collections on the auction block. Depending on your point of view, turning down a quick $104 million is either an act of artistic valor or the most quixotic fiscal foolishness. So all things considered, is Robinson comfortable sharing the tale with the public? Does he wish he’d stipulated it was off the record? “Go ahead and tell it,” he says. “Everybody in this building knows that story. It’s a wonderful story.” c May | June 2011 39 40-45CAMmj11wrestling 4/13/11 11:16 AM Page 40 The Big Grapple By Brad Herzog

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In March, Cornell wrestlers went to Philadelphia aiming to cap their squad’s decade-long renaissance with an NCAA championship. With thousands in attendance, the Big Red faced off against Midwest titans as well as East Coast rival Penn State. Could Cornell score the ultimate

takedown? Visit CAM Online for more cornellalumni magazine. com For decades, hockey and lacrosse THURSDAY, MARCH 17 11 a.m. have been the University’s iconic It’s St. Patrick’s Day, but there’s a dearth of green. Instead, Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center is a rainbow of allegiances. More than 17,000 fans, largely dis- sports, its teams going toe-to-toe tinguished by school color (nearly 1,000 of them in carnelian and white), are with the nation’s finest programs. riveted to simultaneous action on eight mats. In all, over the three days of com- But in the past ten years, a third petition, they will view 640 matches featuring 330 wrestlers (thirty-three in each of ten weight classes) from eighty-six schools. Cornell has qualified nine grap- powerhouse has emerged: plers for the double-elimination tournament, in every class but heavyweight. wrestling. Last year, at the With big crowds in attendance and the national championship on the line, it’s an intimidating environment. So yesterday, while the arena was compara- NCAA Championships, the Big tively empty, Big Red coach Rob Koll offered a lesson straight out of Hoosiers. Red finished second—behind In the movie, Gene Hackman, playing a role based on the real-life basketball only the University of Iowa, a coach of tiny Milan High, leads his team into the cavernous arena on the day before the state championship game and points out that the distance from the perennial Goliath. This year, Cor- floor to the rim is still ten feet, just like in their tiny home gym. Koll didn’t nell was ranked number one for bother measuring the mat, but he wanted the team to have a feel for the place. most of the season. Heading into After winning the prestigious National Duals in January and earning its fifth straight Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association championship in early the national tournament in March, Cornell is one of the teams to beat. That’s a different kind of pressure, March, many experts thought and the competition is fierce. Oklahoma State (winner of thirty-four team titles) maybe, for the first time in fifty- and Iowa (three-time defending national champion) are coming on strong. Penn State—the last Eastern team to win a title, more than a half-century ago—is eight years, a team from outside very, very good. the Heartland had a chance to 11:29 a.m. win it all. Here’s how the three- As Koll and his assistant coaches move from mat to mat over the course of nine day event unfolded—and how first-round matches, Frank Perrelli ’11, a 125-pounder, nabs Cornell’s first win the Cornell program rose to over a wrestler from North Dakota State. “After a day of competition, I’m so emotionally spent that I’m exhausted,” says Koll, a former NCAA champion at become a national contender. the University of North Carolina. “And I haven’t even wrestled.” Koll had planned on a nomadic career, expecting Cornell to be a stepping- stone. He was out of town teaching a clinic when Big Red head coach Jack Spates called his North Carolina home in 1989 to offer him an assistant’s job. “Jack is a smart salesman. He talked to the wife,” says Rachel Koll, who essen- tially accepted on her husband’s behalf. Just a week earlier, they’d been rooting around the floor of their Ford Escort, looking for loose change so they could buy lunch. It was an easy decision. “Are we any good?” Koll asked Spates. All-Americans: The top eight “No,” Spates replied, “but we will be.” wrestlers in each weight class Cornell has a fine wrestling tradition; it won Ivy League titles under previ- were honored on the last day of ous head coach (and current athletic director) Andy Noel, but it hadn’t won an the competition. Eastern championship in more than four decades. By 1993, the year Spates left May | June 2011 41 40-45CAMmj11wrestling 4/13/11 11:16 AM Page 42

for the University of Oklahoma, the Big Red six mid-day and evening sessions, Cornell is in was first in the East and tenth in the nation. third place, behind Iowa and Penn State. When Koll took over the reins, he admits, he made “an amazing number of mistakes.” He 6:24 p.m. tried to attract wrestlers who had little chance After a University of Buffalo wrestler sings a stir- of earning acceptance to the University instead ring rendition of the national anthem, a Red of focusing on battles that could be won. He grappler out-points a white-and-blue-adorned didn’t yet understand how to turn Cornell’s aca- opponent from Millersville University. For Corey demic diversity into a recruiting advantage. “I Manson ’10, a fifth-year senior from Lookout was stubborn and proud,” he recalls. He also Mountain, Tennessee, the consolation-bracket tri- needed to stop thinking of Ithaca as a stop on umph is his first national-level win in his final the way to somewhere else. “I became a much tournament. In the race for the team title, every more effective coach,” he says, “when I stopped point counts. trying to look for a great job and started trying to make Cornell a great job.” 8:30 p.m. In the process, he has turned the program It has been a very good half-hour for Cornell into a national model. Imagine if the men’s bas- fans watching the action on mat number five. ketball team, as good as it was in recent years, First, 174-pounder Mack Lewnes ’11, last year’s could consistently outplay Duke and Kansas; NCAA runner-up, pins his opponent from Ohio that’s what Koll has achieved. Heading into University. Then 184-pounder Steve Bosak ’12 March, Cornell had produced twenty-four All- repeats the feat against an State wrestler Americans in the previous six years (compared and waves his arms to turn up the crowd’s vol- with just eleven in the four decades before Koll ume. Minutes later, Cam Simaz ’12, the top- arrived). The team has finished among the seeded 197-pounder and the unanimous Ivy nation’s top dozen teams every year since 2003, League Wrestler of the Year, wins a decision and Koll is now Cornell’s all-time winningest against a Nebraska opponent. At the end of the wrestling coach, with more than 200 dual-meet day, Penn State leads the team standings with victories. Two decades later, how does he feel 30.5 points. Cornell is second, 1.5 points behind. about his record? “Old,” he says. FRIDAY, MARCH 18 10:58 a.m. The second day is under way, and as a couple of 2:56 p.m. Cornell wrestlers lose their matches, a huge roar Championships often start out with some major erupts from the Philadelphia crowd. On another upsets. Not so today; seven of nine Big Red mat, a Penn Stater has pinned his opponent to wrestlers have won their first-round matches. In reach the semifinals. Uh-oh. the standings following the first of what will be But then Kyle Dake ’13, the defending 42 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 40-45CAMmj11wrestling 4/13/11 11:16 AM Page 43

national champion at 141 pounds now wrestling at 149, earns a 3-0 decision over an Oklahoma ‘AFTER A DAY OF COMPETITION, I’M SO State opponent to reach the semifinals and nail down an All-America berth (given to the top EMOTIONALLY SPENT THAT I’M eight wrestlers in each weight class). Dake, who grew up five miles from East Hill, always wanted EXHAUSTED,’ SAYS HEAD COACH ROB to go to Cornell. But Lewnes, whose match begins about a half-hour later, was a more chal- KOLL. ‘AND I HAVEN’T EVEN WRESTLED.’ lenging recruit. His older brother wrestled for Oklahoma State and he was set on following him there—until he got a look at the Friedman mouth, and Syracuse), Koll calls it “probably our Wrestling Center. greatest contribution to — When the $4.5 million center opened in showing that it’s OK to spend money on the 2002, it was the nation’s first standalone facility sport.” Ironically, one of the programs that ben- devoted to collegiate wrestling, offering 15,000 efited most is Penn State, which modeled its new feet of training and office space. A team that not wrestling complex on Cornell’s; Koll, who gave a long ago shared a mat with the gymnastics squad tour to Penn State’s coach, now jokes that he and a weight room with the rest of the Univer- “should have showed them our old facility.” sity now had the luxury of 6,300 feet of mat space and its own strength and conditioning cen- 11:45 a.m. ter. The facility was made possible by donations Lewnes holds a school-record 148 career victo- from a number of Big Red alumni, including a ries for Cornell heading into this quarterfinals lead gift from Stephen Friedman ’59, former match. Make that 149, as he outpoints his Cen- chairman of Goldman Sachs and once a Big Red tral Michigan foe. Then Bosak wins 16-0, fol- grappler, and his wife, trustee emeritus Barbara lowed by Simaz, who records a first-period pin. Best in class: Kyle Benioff Friedman ’59. In less than ninety minutes, Cornell has racked Dake ’13 (above left) It was not a slam dunk, this notion of a build- up four All-Americans and semifinalists. But so was last year’s ing devoted to a single nonrevenue sport. But has Penn State. national champion Amateur Wrestling News has credited the Fried- at 141 pounds and man Center with starting what it described as the 2:20 p.m. competed at 149 sport’s “current facility boom” at schools from Fifth-year senior Justin Kerber ’10 is about to this year. Mack Missouri to Maryland. In an era when Title IX start his consolation-round match. Just before the Lewnes ’11 (below) concerns and budget cuts have led to the demise bout begins, former Cornell president (and cur- holds the Cornell of some 40 percent of Division I wrestling pro- rent professor of classics and history) Hunter record for career grams in recent decades (including at Yale, Dart- Rawlings III takes a seat in the Cornell box on victories.

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the stadium’s club level. Appropriately, Kerber’s nontraditional, at least compared to the sport’s opponent is a student at Iowa, where as president drill sergeant norms. At first, Koll played the from 1988 to 1995 Rawlings fed a wrestling bug part, driving away wrestlers who couldn’t keep that he’d caught as a high school student in Nor- up. But then he realized that the angst didn’t jibe folk, Virginia. “It’s a religion in Iowa,” he says. with his instincts and that misery doesn’t neces- “It’s one of the few times when, as president of a sarily translate into mastery on the mat. Says university, you can go to an athletic event and Koll, whose father was a longtime coach (at, yes, know you’re going to win.” Indeed, Iowa has Penn State): “We’re working as hard as anyone come to be regarded as something of wrestling’s else. But I think we have a good perspective on Evil Empire, winning twenty-three national titles what’s important in life.” since 1975. But Rawlings, who arrived on the After talking with psychology professor and Hill hoping Cornell had a good wrestling team sleep expert James Maas, PhD ’66, Koll decided and oversaw development of the Friedman Cen- to do away with a wrestling staple: crack-of- ter during his tenure, isn’t coy about his alle- dawn practices. “Why do I have to make guys giances. “Get up! Get up!” he mutters, as Kerber get up at five and six in the morning when finds himself face down on the mat. they’re in pre-med or engineering and they’re up Kerber ultimately loses to his opponent— until three a.m. studying?” he says. That doesn’t Aaron Janssen, his close friend and high school mean they practice less, just more practically. teammate from Emmetsburg, Iowa. Janssen Most practices begin with a joke of the day, a bit stayed in-state to wrestle and Kerber was of fun before the serious grappling. expected to do the same. After all, his father, Jeff, was a four-time Iowa state champion, and his 7:29 p.m. uncle, Randy Lewis, won two NCAA titles there. Mike Grey ’11 is fighting back, which is some- But then Kerber visited Ithaca in the summer of thing of a theme for his career. “I don’t think 2006. He chatted with Koll, who pointed out (as there’s a person on the team I’d be happier to see he often does) that an Ivy League degree and a succeed,” says Koll. After placing sixth nation- ally as a freshman, Grey has twice fallen short of regaining his All-American status. Then he missed the first semester of competition this sea- son after tearing his ACL. But he came back, went undefeated in eleven matches, and won the Eastern championships at 133 pounds, qualify- ing for his fourth straight NCAA tournament. “Hopefully, this time,” he says, “I’ll reach my ultimate goal.” It didn’t look that way on Day One, when Grey lost a quarterfinal bout against the eventual national champion from Oklahoma State. But in the consolation round, Grey won his first match, and now the senior with the torn ACL ekes out a 5-4 win, his fourth of the tournament—mean- ing he is once again an All-American. In a cou- ple of days, he’ll have surgery on his knee. 7:56 p.m. Immediately after Grey’s bout, a Penn State wrestler loses a match; then so does an Iowa wrestler, then two more Penn Staters. The fans in Let’s go Red: Redman solid postgraduate job can ultimately prove more the Cornell box can’t help themselves. They’re (above) exhorts lucrative than a four-year scholarship. As Kerber cheering wildly for the opponents of Cornell’s Cornell fans during the told WIN magazine: “It was a place where I didn’t top rivals. competition. Mike Grey think I would have to prioritize between my pas- Then “Redman” makes an appearance. Koll ’11 (below) battled sions: wrestling and finance. I could have the calls him “the spawn of Harvard and Penn grads adversity all year. best of both worlds.” He now has a job lined up who cast him out in a wicker basket on the shores Above right: Head with Goldman Sachs. of Cayuga Lake.” In reality, he is a former Cor- coach Rob Koll con- nell wrestler (his identity kept somewhat secret) gratulates Steve 3:20 p.m. dressed in a red bodysuit, a white singlet, and avi- Bosak ’12 as assistant The Cornell wrestling Facebook page (8,883 ator sunglasses—an effort, Koll says, to bring coach Damion Hahn friends and counting) posts an update: “At the energy and a bit of levity to the matches. In a few looks on. end of Session III, Cornell sits in the lead with short years, Redman has become a viral star, 61 points, Penn State is in second with 60.5 thanks to a series of YouTube videos filmed by points, and Iowa is in third with 52.0 points.” assistant coach Jeremy Spates (Jack’s son)—which The Facebook strategy is just one of the ways show, for instance, Redman playing Cyrano to in which Koll might be considered the modern assist a wrestler on a first date. “Every recruit I’ve face of wrestling. His style is decidedly spoken to this year knows who Redman is,” says 44 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 40-45CAMmj11wrestling 4/13/11 11:16 AM Page 45

Koll. “For us, that’s huge branding.” The mascot is just one way in which the team has worked to draw fans to its matches; there have also been halftime dancers, pee- wee wrestling tournaments, and raffles for plasma TVs. “This is wrestling,” he explains. “We have to work twice as hard to get half the people.” Redman has the crowd cheering, “Let’s go Red! Let’s go Red!” And it appears to work, as Dake shuts out his opponent to earn a trip to the finals for the second year in a row. But then Cor- nell’s big three of Lewnes, Bosak, and Simaz—each with national title aspira- tions—lose three achingly close matches consecutively. Lots of red-clad fans are hanging their heads. Penn State now has a significant lead over second-place Cor- nell. Even Redman can’t help. SATURDAY, MARCH 19 11:38 a.m. The eight mats on the arena floor are now down to four, and at the moment three of them feature Cornell wrestlers—Lewnes, Bosak, and Simaz—in simultaneous con- solation-round matches. Simaz pins his Stanford opponent, Lewnes earns a 12-5 win, and Bosak dominates in a 12-0 deci- managed to win an NCAA wrestling Cornell. Second period: Dake comes close sion. That means each will be competing championship. That school was Cornell to pinning his foe (a “near fall”), earning for third place in afternoon matches. But College. A decade ago, Niemand’s hopes three more points. The crowd is chanting, only Simaz will go on to win his; Lewnes for Cornell University seemed nearly as “Big Red! Big Red!” Third period: Dake loses to Penn State and Bosak to Iowa, nei- absurd. “I figured if we could finish in the starts in the bottom position, but with a ther of which helps the team point race. top three in the country,” he recalls, “that quick move he gains control—a reversal would be incredible.” garnering two more points. 7:00 p.m. Cornell has once again done that. But Hunter Rawlings stands to his full six- Rob Koll has a little black book filled with Penn State has placed three wrestlers in foot-seven height, arms raised in triumph. the names of alumni and friends of Cor- the finals, Cornell only one. An Eastern At the end, Dake receives an additional nell wrestling. His greatest strength may lie team has finally won a national wrestling point for riding time—the time each in cultivating those relationships, which team championship, but it’s the school in wrestler controls his opponent on the mat, translate not only to hundreds of thou- State College. Still, there is a chance for earning a point for anything over fifty-nine sands of dollars raised annually for the redemption. Cornell can clinch another seconds. In this seven-minute match, Dake program, but also to what he believes is an second-place finish if Dake wins a second tallies 6:17 of riding time—all but forty- exponential spread of Big Red fandom. At straight NCAA title as a sophomore. His three seconds of the entire bout. “I’ve never the moment, the black book contains 887 opponent is from Penn State. seen anything like that,” says Koll, “cer- names. Many of those fans are in the tainly not in a national championship.” stands tonight, watching the five Big Red 8:25 p.m. So while it is a sign of just how far the wrestlers participate in the traditional With nearly 18,000 sets of eyes on him Cornell program has come that second Parade of All-Americans atop what is now (including Cornell’s only other two-time place carries the whiff of disappointment, a single mat set up for the final matches on national champs, Travis Lee ’05 and the event ends on a high note. “We had a a platform above the arena floor. Stephen recent National Wrestling Hall of Fame record five All-Americans. We had Friedman nods toward the scene and inductee Dave Auble ’60), as well as a live another national champion. We scored admits that, while he hoped his epony- ESPN audience, Dake slaps his coaches’ more points [93.5, fourteen behind Penn mous wrestling center would help the team hands and walks to the center of the mat. State] in an NCAA tournament than Cor- improve, “this is at the upper end of my He is the only wrestler in the tournament nell has ever scored. We beat Iowa for the expectation range, maybe even higher.” who has not yet allowed a single point. In first time ever,” says Koll. “But probably At the Friedman Center, dual meets this match, Koll marvels, “he’s the best the most important thing that happened are held in Niemand Arena—named for I’ve seen him all year.” Although his was we had about 1,500 people here to Arno Niemand ’56, the retired founder of opponent is credited with one point after watch Cornell wrestlers.” c Body Bar Systems and a varsity starter a referee’s call of an illegal move, Dake back in the day. Last year he wrote a utterly dominates. CAM contributing editor Brad Herzog book, The Dream Team of 1947, about a First period: Dake forces his opponent ’90 likes to wrestle, but only with his own tiny liberal arts institution in Iowa that to the mat for a takedown; two points for demons. May | June 2011 45 46-51CAMmj11studenttech 4/13/11 11:17 AM Page 46

hen Bailey Hall was renovated in 2004, the architects asked Wpsychology professor James Maas, PhD ’66— whose popular Psych 101 course brings 1,300 students to the concert hall for thrice-weekly lectures—what kinds of technology he would like to see incorporated into the design. He suggested $75,000 worth of equipment, a pro- posal that he was certain would never make it through the budget process. The response was not what he expected. “They looked at me and laughed,” Maas remembers with a grin. “They said, ‘We’re not talking about this year or next year, we’re talking about the next quarter cen- tury.’ And they came back with a list of equip- ment that was well in excess of a half million dollars.”

Maas, who has taught on the Hill since 1964, remembers a time when staying ahead of the technology curve meant juggling slide carousels and canisters of 16mm film. For many of his cur- rent students, however, “slide” refers only to the individual units of a PowerPoint presentation. “Now,” he says, “I can take a jump drive with all the slides, films, music, everything, in the palm of my hand.” These days, thanks to technological innova- tions, Maas can teach students on the Qatar campus via distance learning, take attendance using wireless remote controls, and tap a dizzying variety of online resources to enrich his lectures in real

LISA BANLAKI FRANK time. Such innovations are emblematic of how academia is evolv- 46 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 46-51CAMmj11studenttech 4/13/11 11:17 AM Page 47

Generation How is the student Tech experience By Adrienne Zable changing in the digital age?

ing as it tries to keep up with the fast-paced digital world. These Most students rely heavily on technology in their academic days, few students have known life without the Internet—and lives, but there is no universal rule when it comes to how they use some aspects of the college experience, both social and academic, it. Lopez may prefer toting her laptop around campus, but Arts hardly resemble university life of a few decades ago. and Sciences senior Tony Manfred isn’t ready to give up his note- Semi-retired professor Brian Earle ’67, MPS ’71, who arrived books just yet. “Usually I take notes by hand,” he says, “because on the Hill as a student in 1963, has seen the evolution from ana- it’s easier for me to organize my ideas and get everything down.” log to digital firsthand. “When I started teaching, you read your But Manfred is no Luddite—the self-confessed BlackBerry addict notes and used the blackboard; occasionally you had an over- checks his smartphone constantly, using it to text with friends head projector with acetates that you could write on, or you about social plans as well as to correspond with professors and could write on the glass and erase it,” Earle recalls. “If you were classmates about coursework. “At this point it’s almost impul- really high-tech, you could have overheads made by media serv- sive,” says the English and American studies double major. ices on campus. That meant that a lot of faculty would have “Sometimes I get backlogged and have to go on e-mail binges.” graphs or charts put together, and you would see the same over- Professors, too, are putting in plenty of screen time. Many heads two or three years after the end of the graph line because classrooms are outfitted with advanced audiovisual equipment, professors didn’t want to throw away those valuable overheads.” allowing faculty to plug in laptops and project lecture materials; In the communication classes Earle teaches now, he uses Power- daily classroom preparation can include assembling a PowerPoint Point slides to convey lecture notes so he can easily make last- slideshow or updating the course website to reflect syllabus minute changes to reflect the most up-to-date information. And changes. These tools allow faculty to include clips from YouTube thanks to the course management website Blackboard.com, he in their lectures to illustrate a point, or to immediately evaluate can disseminate class materials without killing trees. whether or not the class has understood a concept through a New technology has not just changed the way lectures are quick survey via hand-held remotes called iClickers. presented, but also the way they are digested. Gone are the days The increasing dependence on technology has its downsides. of spiral notebooks, often made illegible by the haste with which notes were taken in lectures. In fact, students today can complete an entire semester while hardly ever putting pen to paper. Some, FRANK like Jessica Lopez ’12, have essentially abandoned paper alto- gether. “I take my laptop to class and take notes on my com- puter,” she says. “It’s more organized than when I take notes by hand, and it also helps me keep up with the professor in lecture.” Much of Lopez’s academic work can be done digitally as well. If she misses a class, she can download lecture slides or daily read- ings from Blackboard.com. Nearly all of the communication major’s assignments are typed in Microsoft Word and submitted via e-mail or Blackboard.com’s digital dropbox, and she is more likely to ask a question in an e-mail to a professor than drop by during office hours. And while blue books are still used in some exams, many professors now prefer take-home tests, final papers, or projects that are completed digitally. 46-51CAMmj11studenttech 4/13/11 11:17 AM Page 48

As academia goes digital, more and more material is created and slowing things down is often better in terms of learning to man- stored online—and technical snafus can mean big problems. A age your internal landscape.” Because students are so used to Blackboard.com server crash during study week last fall caused constantly doing something, be it listening to music or texting a a panic among students who feared that they would not be able friend, they report feeling uncomfortable concentrating on just to access important material in time for finals, and a three-day one experience at a time, says Eells. “For people who have never e-mail outage in 2008 derailed communications for many stu- known the world without cell phones or text messages, to whom dents, faculty, and staff. The University has several fail-safes to e-mail seems like ancient technology, slowing things down and guard against such crashes, but that doesn’t mean that the cam- sitting with their internal experiences is fairly new—and it’s a pus Internet works 100 percent of the time. “There are a lot of hard thing to do.” backups,” says CIT senior technical consultant Mark Anbinder Many students reserve phone calls for family, preferring ’89. “There are connections from campus to Syracuse, to e-mail, instant messaging, texting, or Facebook as their primary Geneva, to Rochester, to New York City. So if our main con- means of maintaining most other relationships. That can mean nection goes down there will still be some flow of traffic.” Cam- that although they’re able to have many more friendships than pus e-mail is backed up on two servers, one in Rhodes Hall and in the past, those relationships are less substantive. Earle notes one in the computing center, so if one dies or a connection fails that today, many student experiences that were once necessarily the other will take over. “The odds are overwhelmingly against shared can be had individually. He remembers, for example, that everything failing at once,” says Anbinder. “But every once in a

while that’s going to happen.” FRANK Another challenge that CIT must address is the cost of upkeep. New technology is constantly emerging, rendering old systems obsolete (remember floppy disks?). But software and hardware upgrades are frequent and expensive, and many departments lack the funds to keep up with the fast rate of change. “At CIT, we have to keep replacing our own equipment and upgrading our own software, but we also have to push other departments to do so,” says Anbinder. “If we’re supporting old technologies, it gets more expensive for us to have three differ- ent versions of operating systems that we have to everything with and train our staff to handle.”

s higher education increasingly relies on the Internet, members of the Cor- nell community want to be plugged in to their academic lives wherever they are. Many departments are developingA their own smartphone and iPad apps; there is already one for the University Library that allows users to reserve books, check account information, and renew books from their phones. An upgrade to Blackboard.com scheduled for later this year will include mobile options that allow students to view course materials on the go, says CIT assistant director of academic technologies Clare Van Den Blink. “Mobile technology and smartphones are definitely the next wave,” she says. “As content gets portable for students, we are taking things beyond podcasts. Now you can even use smartphones instead of iClickers.” To those who graduated from college long before the Inter- net, envisioning an undergrad experience where so much can be accomplished online and on-the-go may seem ideal—but in real- ity, there is a tradeoff. Students are spending so much time online that it’s interfering with important aspects of their daily routine, like sleeping and studying, says sleep expert Maas. “Technology allows us to do a lot more in a shorter period of time, but I do think that it has put more distance between people,” he says. “I when he started teaching in the Seventies, students would gather don’t think students are used to carrying on long in-person con- in Willard Straight to watch afternoon soap operas. “The main versations. I look out the window, and two, maybe three out of floor, where the television was, would be jammed because you four students are on their cell phones. Often they’re walking with didn’t have media in your dorm room,” Earle recalls. people, but they’re not talking to them.” Technology has also replaced some of the face-to-face inter- Greg Eells, too, worries about the prevalence of the Internet action between students and faculty; when students can ask ques- in students’ social and academic lives. The director of counsel- tions via e-mail, they may not bother trekking to campus for ing and psychological services at Gannett Health Services, Eells office hours. Many faculty members report seeing fewer students wonders how always being plugged in impacts mental health, in their offices and spending more time answering questions via both short- and long-term. “There are assumptions inherent in e-mail—Maas receives more than 100 per night. Jokes genetics most technologies—often, that faster is better,” Eells says. “But professor Tom Fox ’71: “Sometimes I feel like professors now we’ve got thousands of years of spiritual tradition that says that get paid, to a large extent, to answer e-mails.” 48 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 46-51CAMmj11studenttech 4/13/11 11:17 AM Page 49

From ‘Shh...’ to [Click] In the digital age, libraries face big changes— and tough decisions

ince the earliest days of higher education, the library has functioned as a campus’s central information and study hub. But with advances in technology, the role of the Uni- versity Library is changing fast. With 24/7 Internet access through smartphones, laptops, and computer labs throughoutS campus, college students have an immense wealth of information at their fingertips—meaning that much of the information once housed solely in the physical space of the libraries is now available in cyberspace. “Rather than having to come here and use a physical card catalog, students can access our catalog remotely, or they can find the materials through a Google search or other mechanisms,” says Dean Krafft, PhD ’81, the libraries’ chief technology specialist. “We also license a huge number of scholarly articles and resources that students can access directly from their computers.” If students are stuck, they can text or instant message a librarian for help, while services like BorrowDirect link Cornell’s physical collection with those of other uni- versities around the country, so that nearly any book is available on campus in less than five days. And there are multiple projects currently under way to digitize the University archives and periodicals, as well as many of the libraries’ special collec- tions. Combined with the fact that wireless Internet access and computer labs are available throughout campus, fewer and fewer students feel the need to set foot in the library. Take Dave Rodriguez, a sophomore in the College of Engineering. The applied and engineering physics major from Long Island can hardly recall the last time he went to the library. “Pure silence kind of creeps me out,” he explains, “so I feel more comfortable working at home.” While in the past students might have had to leave the comfort of their apartments to conduct research or check out books, Rodriguez can easily do all of his work remotely. His Collegetown apartment’s wire- less connection allows him to access all the information he needs on his MacBook Pro, making trips to campus largely unnecessary. As student needs have evolved, the library has changed as well. Computers now take up a large portion of the physical space, and cubicles and desks come equipped with outlets for laptops. Students can check the availability of books online without venturing into the stacks—and with the electronic budget accounting for 30 to 40 percent of the library’s overall expenditures, tough decisions are being made about the future of the physical collections. Last year head librarian Anne Kenney made Out of the stacks: Wired the controversial decision to sell the duplicate undergraduate collection to free up students pack the Olin funds for new titles, and the physical collections of the Johnson School, Hotel Library cafe. school, and ILR libraries are in the process of being consolidated. Kenney stresses that although the library now sees more online traffic than physical, students still need a quiet space to work. “I’ve asked students why they come to the library when they can study anywhere,” says Kenney. “They say that it focuses the mind—when you come in, you are here to do serious work.” So while the definition of what a library is may be changing, the demand for such a space will likely always exist. “It’s no longer the little old lady with glasses saying ‘shh’ behind the desk,” says Krafft, who notes that the very fact that the library employs a chief technology specialist is evidence of how it has changed. “But it’s still about preserving knowledge and making it accessible to the community.” May | June 2011 49 46-51CAMmj11studenttech 4/13/11 11:17 AM Page 50

Ratemyprofessor.com This site allows students from more than 6,000 schools to post reviews of their professors and Tech Speak courses, so peers can check them out before they enroll. Students can rate professors in categories such as clarity, helpfulness, and A glossary of new easiness—even physical appearance—on a scale of 1 to 5. Cornell E-recruiting Today’s seniors need not spend hours looking through job and binders in ; pedagogical tools instead, they can log on to this online database. Students can access job listings, upload resumes and cover letters, sign up for interviews, apply for positions, and receive e-mail bulletins about The introduction of information technology to academia has brought job and internship opportunities. with it a new vocabulary, with students and faculty using a variety of media in their academic lives. Here are some of the most common: Virtual Student Center Enrolling for classes used to be a tortuous process, requiring that students run around campus for faculty and administrative approvals and signatures to change Blackboard.com This course-management website pro- their schedules. Now they can easily set and change schedules vides a central platform for course communication and materials. online through Cornell’s virtual Student Center. The site lets stu- Professors can upload syllabi and readings, accessible to anyone dents add and drop classes, view transcripts, and access tuition registered for the class. Other features include an interactive dis- information. cussion board, a messaging system, a “digital dropbox” where stu- dents can submit assignments, and a page where grades can be Facebook The social networking site is one of the primary recorded and viewed. ways that students socialize, and some professors are experiment- ing with it as a classroom tool. Students can get course updates, iClicker This wireless response system allows professors to get discuss assignments, and help each other with sample exam immediate feedback from 750 students per second. The professor questions. can use the small white remotes ($40 at the Cornell Store) to track attendance or gauge understanding through in-class quizzes. Blogs Like Facebook pages, blogs are sometimes used to share iClickers are especially prevalent in large lecture courses, where ideas and promote discussion in a less formal setting. They are taking attendance or monitoring individual students’ understanding especially common in language classes, where some professors is impractical. have students show their command of the language by maintaining a blog that classmates can read and comment on. Turnitin.com With the ubiquity of websites offering essay- writing services, more and more students are submitting research Podcasts It’s hard to go a whole semester without missing papers they didn’t write, at least in part. To counter this, websites a single class, and now some students have an easy way to catch such as Turnitin.com allow professors to check a student’s work up on missed material. With audio and video podcasts, professors against material on the Web, helping them catch plagiarism. can record lectures and upload them to Blackboard.com.

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Some, like Earle, see the proliferation of e-mail as a boon to a picture or something. And as soon as I get a notification, I have the student-professor relationship. “When I started teaching, the to check it out, and then I end up wasting hours on Facebook.” only times that students really communicated with you was Perosio notes that many of her students seem to be connected before and after class, through an appointment, or during office constantly—even, she laments, during class. “It’s hard for stu- hours,” he recalls. “That generally meant that you got to know dents to go fifty minutes without checking their phones,” she a small group of students pretty well, and the rest were more says. Some professors have banned laptops to guard against the anonymous. With e-mail, I’ve gotten to know more students.” likelihood that students are checking Facebook instead of taking But others worry that it makes students less vigilant about the notes. But since most students have an easily concealed phone, tone they take with professors. “It’s easier now, through e-mail, it’s an uphill battle. Then there’s the fact that students assume for a student to voice an opinion—good, bad, or indifferent— that everyone else is as connected as they are. “Students expect because it’s impersonal,” says marketing professor Debra Pero- 24/7 availability,” says Kate McCullough, a professor of femi- sio ’79, PhD ’95. “While an e-mail is quick and efficient, it also nist, gender, and sexuality studies. “I have to make a big deal provides an easy out. Students say things online that they would about announcing in class that I only get on e-mail once a day, never say in person.” and sometimes on the weekends I don’t get on at all, because I have three small kids." The bottom line, says Eells, is that too much connectivity can ne of the most problematic effects of hinder personal development at a time when students are segue- students’ constant connection is dis- ing from adolescence to adulthood. “In psychology,” he notes, traction. When they spend all day “a hallmark of maturity is the ability to delay gratification.” hopping from one website to the While technology is a wonderful tool, he says, it will never next, from smartphone to laptop, replace the life experience that comes with the college years. from FacebookO to , their ability to stay focused decreases “One of the great things about going to office hours is the con- dramatically. “The more you play the piano, the better you’ll get versation you have with professors, and not necessarily about at playing the piano,” Eells notes. “The more you practice divert- academics,” he says. “Technology robs us of opportunities for ing your attention, the less focused you’re going to be.” Indeed, serendipity, for all kinds of things that are unplanned. If you’re between computers and smartphones, some students are plugged on your cell phone or texting when you’re walking across the in nearly all their waking hours. “I feel like I’m a little too con- quad, you don’t know what you’re missing.” c nected,” admits Lopez. “Sometimes I’d like to be disconnected. I want to disable Facebook on my BlackBerry, because notifica- Former CAM intern Adrienne Zable ’11 is an American tions come right to my phone as soon as someone comments on studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences. May | June 2011 51 52-52CAMMJ11CIBclass 4/13/11 11:31 AM Page 52

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By Scott Pesner ’87

JASON KOSKI / UP fter attending the Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference A (CALC) both this year and last, Enrique Vila-Biaggi ’94, MEng ’95, knows one thing for sure: he’ll be back in 2012. “You get more than 800 en- gaged alumni and staff together, provide them with incredible, entertaining, and informative speakers, and add wonder- ful educational tracks,” says Vila-Biaggi, who traveled from his home in warm Puerto Rico to a snowy Washington, D.C. “What more can you ask for?” CALC was launched in 2010 to ex- pand the popular Mid-Winter Meeting of the Cornell Association of Class Of- ficers, which had been held annually for more than a century. Last year, attendees included local club officers and CAAAN leaders and volunteers. This year, the in- vitation list was expanded to include volunteers can lead effectively without Keynote speaker: Alumni and guests filled alumni leaders from the Greek system “formal power.” “We know that no vol- the Marriott’s ballroom for President and several college alumni associations, unteer can compel another volunteer to Skorton’s talk at Saturday’s lunch. as well as any alumni volunteer leaders perform,” said Mish, “but that doesn’t

who wanted to attend. In addition, more mean that effective volunteer leadership KOSKI than fifty current students participated, is a question of whim and luck.” She including members of the 2011 Senior said a good must be able to Class Campaign. On top of attending answer four questions: Why are we here? board meetings, attendees took part in Where are we going? How will we get sessions on personal improvement, such there? and What’s in it for me? Mish as “Balancing Act: Home, Career, and said that leaders who can answer effec- Volunteerism” and “Career Advice: tively will earn their teams’ commitment Turning Avocation into a ,” as because members will know their time well as those that helped them become and talent are being well used. more effective alumni leaders. Another popular session, “What’s In “Volunteers Leading Volunteers,” Next with Social Media?,” featured three Risa Mish ’85, JD ’88, director of the alumni with expertise in that area: CALS leadership skills program in the John- assistant professor of communication Roaring good time: The Big Red Bear gets in son School, spoke about how alumni (continued on page 54) on the fun. May / June 2011 53 53-55CAMMJ11alma 4/13/11 11:22 AM Page 54

Class and Human Ecology KOSKI Leaders Honored

t this year’s Cornell Alumni At the Friday luncheon, the Human Leadership Conference (CALC), Ecology Alumni Association (HEAA) A several alumni were recognized presented its annual achievement for their outstanding service to the awards. Rebecca Morgan ’60 received University. the Helen Bull Vandervort Achievement Jane Little Hardy ’53 was the re- Award, given annually to a graduate cipient of this year’s Bill Vanneman ’31 who upholds the mission and values of Award, given to an alumnus who grad- the college in his or her life, career, and uated at least thirty-five years ago in volunteer activities. Morgan is a former recognition of volunteer work as a class Cornell trustee, California state sena- Top volunteer: Jane Hardy ’53 accepts the officer. A former class vice president, tor, and a co-founder of Teen Success, a 2011 Bill Vanneman ’31 Award from CACO Hardy co-chaired her 50th Reunion national program helping teenage moth- President Rob Rosenberg ’88. and served for ten years on the board ers complete their education. of the Cornell Association of Class HEAA’s Recent Alumni Achieve- KOSKI Officers (CACO). She is also a former ment Award went to Silvestre Arcos ’00. lecturer in the Department of Com- Arcos teaches math and Spanish at the munication in the College of Agricul- Laboratory School for Finance and Tech- ture and Life Sciences. nology, a middle school in the South In an acceptance speech that Bronx. In 2010, 97 percent of his sixth- touched on her reasons for leaving her and seventh-grade students demonstrat- home in Canada to study at Cornell as ed proficiency on the New York State well as her experiences advising stu- Math Test, prompting a 2010 School of dents, Hardy called upon those in at- Distinction in Mathematics honor from tendance to continue their volunteer Intel. Arcos also founded the school’s efforts on behalf of the university. unique dual-language program, which “When someone asks you to do some- has become a model for its promotion of thing for Cornell, say yes,” she said. cross-cultural learning and Spanish lan- The winners: Human Ecology Dean Alan “Find a way to do it and do your best. guage development. Rounding out the Mathios (second from left) with award The results will be substantial in terms honors, HEAA presented Ashley Jeanlus recipients Ashley Jeanlus ’11, Rebecca of friendship, in terms of satisfaction.” ’11 with its Outstanding Senior Award. Morgan ’60, and Silvestre Arcos ’00.

KOSKI (continued from page 53) students and faculty. In “You Changed Lee Humphreys ’99; Adam Hirsch ’04, My Life,” moderated by Engineering COO of Mashable.com; and Laura Fit- college dean Lance Collins, two alum- ton ’94, author of Twitter for Dummies. ni discussed the mentorship of their The three discussed the impact and fu- former professors. David Goldston ’78, ture of social media, with Fitton en- director of government affairs for the couraging employers to allow the use of National Resources Defense Council, social media in the workplace, as it’s spoke about Richard Polenberg, the beneficial for the company. Marie Underhill Noll Professor of His- In addition to these sessions, dis- tory; Jocelyn Beach ’04, a fourth-year cussions focused on such topics as cur- medical student, praised Marjolein van rent events on campus, what Cornell der Meulen, professor of mechanical needs from its volunteers, and the fac- and aerospace engineering. Detail work: Members of the Class of 2006 ulty/student experience. Sessions in- While many sessions were geared meet to the plan their 5th Reunion. cluded “What Every Volunteer Leader to a broad audience, breakout groups fo- Should Know About Giving to Cornell,” cused on particular interests of alumni KOSKI “Diversity at Cornell,” and “A Conver- leaders. CAAAN chairs and volunteers sation with Cornell’s Alumni-Elected participated in a simulated admissions Trustees.” At the Saturday breakfast, panel; fraternity and sorority leaders got vice president of student and academic an update on the Greek system; Re- services Susan Murphy ’73, PhD ’94, union planners discussed plans for talked about the state of student men- June; and club leaders learned about the tal health and University initiatives in current discussion on eliminating that area; President David Skorton gave membership dues. “I had an amazing a speech at the Saturday lunch, fol- time,” said Lauren Beller ’86, a club of- lowed by a Q&A. ficer and CAAAN chair who was at- Beyond hearing from Cornell and tending for the first time. “The best its leadership, attendees were remind- part was meeting all these alumni lead- ed of what makes the Cornell experi- ers who share your enthusiasm. I’m Night Life: Hip-hopper Jeremy Dussolliet ’10, ence unique: the relationship between looking forward to next year.” BS ’08, entertains at the young alumni party.

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CAA and CACO Elect New Board Members

he Cornell Alumni Association (CAA) and the Cornell Associa- T tion of Class Officers (CACO) elected new officers during their meetings at the Cornell Alumni Leadership Con- ference in January. CAA elected a new executive committee, with incoming pres- ident Stephanie Keene Fox ’89 succeeding Nancy Abrams Dreier ’86. The rest of the executive committee will consist of five vice presidents: Tom Cummings ’75, Stephanie Keene Fox ’89 Tom Cummings ’75 Laura Fratt ’81 Laura Fratt ’81, Shana Chacko Mueller ’95, Scott Pesner ’87, and Steve Siegel ’68. Several new directors from the re- gions were elected to first-year terms. They were: Kim Jones ’98, MBA ’02 (Mid-Atlantic); Shane Dunn ’07 (North- east); Marie-Jouvelle Aubourg ’06 (Metro NY); Theresa Flores ’93 (Southwest/ Mountain); and Stephanie Grise ’98 (Midwest). In addition, Janet Fallon ’76 (New York/Ontario) and Charles Wu ’91 Shana Chacko Mueller ’95 Scott Pesner ’87 Steve Siegel ’68 (Western) were elected to second two- year terms. Five new directors-at-large president, while Jay Waks ’68, JD ’71, were appointed, and two additional di- and Charles Stuppard ’82 were elected rectors were given second terms. Kather- to the executive committee as vice pres- ine Ward Feld, MBA ’82, JD ’83, Sam ident, diversity and inclusion, and vice Pollack ’99, Jon Simon ’92, Andrea president, students and young alumni, Wasserman ’00, and Heather Wells ’02 respectively. In addition, six alumni— were appointed to their first terms, while Mike Avery ’55, Paul Cashman ’73, Krishna Collie ’96 and Mollie Pulver ’80 Stan Rodwin ’50, Debra Schaffel ’89, were approved for second terms. Nancy Sverdlik ’79, and Andrea Vidler On the CACO side, Rob Rosenberg ’07, MPA ’08—joined the CACO Board ’88 was elected to a second term as as directors-at-large. Rob Rosenberg ’88

We’ll All Have Drinks . . . on the Danube

ach fall, on the third Thursday in October, thousands of Cornellians gather in cities E around the world as part of International Spirit of Zinck’s Night, remembering the downtown Ithaca bar and the weekly revelries long celebrated by Cornell seniors. But what if you’re traveling with a group of Big Red alumni? Well, you hold an impromptu Zinck’s Night right where you are. That’s what participants in the Cornell Alum- ni Travel Program did as they were enjoying a cruise along the Danube on the MS Amadeus Diamond between Austria and Germany, en route to Prague. Some twenty alumni added a truly international flare to Zinck’s Night by celebrating on board with the help of Julie Featherstone of Alumni Affairs and Development, who traveled with the group. Not only did everyone have a great time, but many of the more senior alumni were able to share stories Sea rations: Alumni celebrate Spirit of Zinck’s Night on the MS Amadeus. of the actual Zinck’s.

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Class Notes

Milton Esman details his early Beach, FL). They have given her eight grand- three Agriculture on the official list. Let’s even career, including a PhD from children—and one great-grandchild. the score. 39 Princeton and four years as a GI We have bittersweet news from Margaret I hope to see some of those whose personal during WWII. In the final year, he served in Haswell of New Bedford, MA. Peggy writes, “I news notes have kept me going over the last five MacArthur’s headquarters in Japan, where he par- lead a quiet life in my hometown. All of my fam- years. Marjorie Lee Treadwell, Gretchen Fonda ticipated in the drafting of that country’s current ily, my local friends, and my Cornell friends (Mary Gagnon, Gloria Brown Mithers, Edith Lewis Per- constitution. Not surprisingly, he went on to work Kate Gilliams Fitzpatrick, Jane Frost, and Dal- man-Allen, Ruth Marshall Kibbey, Elaine Yaxis in the State Dept., as a professor of public and phine MacMillan) have gone—I miss them, Reinke, Jane Frier Bertrand, Dorothy Newman international affairs at the U. of Pittsburgh, and every one. But the Red Sox and the Patriots are Seligman, Dolores Dirlam Daudt, Isabelle with the Ford Foundation in Malaysia. From 1969 all great. Fond memories of Cornell days and Richards McDermid, Audrey Bernichon Glacken, until his retirement in 1989, Milton served as a years in Ithaca are never forgotten and always Carol Ogle Woods, Sylvia Jaffe Abrams, and Al- Government professor and John S. Knight Profes- held dear.” Sylvia Small Wheeler (La Mesa, CA) lene Cushing Knibloe. Thanks to all, including our sor of Int’l Studies on the Hill. He concludes: sent news, along with a photo from the San late, great president, Jean Way Schoonover, for “During retirement, I have been fully occupied Diego Zoo! Sylvia has downsized to a smaller as- sharing lifestyle changes, decluttering, delimiting, with research and writing, having published indi- sisted-living apartment in her retirement com- closing and selling family homes, and some of the vidually and jointly with colleagues eight books plex—with wheelchair, etc., available for joys that we still have with family and friends. on international development and on ethnic pol- arthritis. She is glad to be near her daughter I was delighted to have a letter and phone call itics, as well as several articles in refereed jour- Gail, who lives in San Diego, and stays in close from class VP Eleanor Slack Randles, MS ’78, re- nals and chapters in edited books. I am currently touch with daughter Lynn of Westport, CT. Her assuring all of us that she is gradually returning completing a manuscript on the emergence of the first great-grandchildren—twins Sebastian and to her busy and productive life after a bad hip/leg American garrison state.” Miles—were born on her birthday in 2009. She break in 2007. Her husband, Joe ’43, is recuper- Sadly, we have two deaths to report. Helga closes with this: “To Sally, Ruth, and Betty: ating from surgery, but Eleanor does plan to attend Einset Skodvin, MS ’49’s daughter Astrid wrote Thank you! I remember.” Send news anytime to: our 70th. With six Cornell grads in the Foster clan from Norway to inform us that her mother died c Class of 1939, c/o Cornell Alumni Magazine, and two in the Randles, I’m sure she will make it. in July 2008. And Fred Wright notified us that his 401 East State St., Suite 301, Ithaca, NY 14850. Twelve of our class have died since our last mother, Ella Thompson Wright, MA ’41, passed Class Notes Editor e-mail, [email protected]. reunion and I greatly appreciate the thoughtful- away on February 13, 2011. Fred shares the fol- ness of family members who have shared special lowing: “At Cornell, Ella was the women’s editor of ways of celebrating their lives. There will be a and a member of Kappa Kap- Thanks to Anne Strahan Kuch- memorial service at during reunion, pa Gamma. During WWII she served in the Red ler, John Weiner, and Mary which will give us a chance to remember these Cross Hospital Service in France, and immediately 40 Durfey Hewitt for sending classmates. See you in June! c Shirley Richards after the war she worked for the UN Relief and Re- your latest news. Anne Kuchler’s three children Sargent Darmer, 20 Haddington Lane, Delmar, NY, habilitation Administration in Germany. Later she are in Arizona, Florida, and California, but she 12054; e-mail, [email protected]. relocated to Washington, DC, where she married has no plans to relocate from LaGrangeville, NY. and worked as an editor for various organizations, “I’m 95—plan to stay here.” She’s part of a sen- The last several months have not yielded any including the Int’l Monetary Fund, from which she ior citizens group, where she enjoys playing News Forms from you men, so this time around, I retired in 1983.” Our condolences to both families. bridge, and has volunteered at the local library don’t have much to talk about. However, I can at In the no-news-must-be-good-news category, for more than 25 years! least follow Shirley’s lead to the extent of recalling Morris Erdheim, DVM ’39, resides with wife Jean John Weiner continues to help his wife, the guys who attended our 65th Reunion. There in Boca Raton, FL, but didn’t provide any addi- Lynne, promote her book, Sigmund Freud Through were 12 Engineering types, nine from Arts and tional details on the news form. Otto Poirier (Wal- Lehrman’s Lens, about her father’s studies with Sciences, two from the Ag school, two Hotelies, nut Creek, CA) writes that he had the pleasure of and analysis by Freud, 1928-29. The photos in the and one from Architecture—26 in all. Four of our lunch with Austin Kiplinger on July 31. “Kip was book, from movies taken by Dr. Lehrman, include classmates have died in the interim, but we can his usual, outgoing self with stories and conver- rare shots of Freud and his colleagues in Vienna. hope that all the rest of the 22 will be at reunion sation.” Sally Steinman Harms is still alive and John, too, is staying put in White Plains, NY: “Too in June, plus a number of others as well. well. She exchanges telephone calls with Bill ’42 much to move and books to be read.” He also con- Those of you that were here in 2006 know and Betty Luxford Webster often. She now lives tinues to write letters to the editor—using what how well we were taken care of—great accommo- in a retirement community in Amherst, MA, near he learned in History class with Carl Becker. John dations and great food in Statler Hall and buses her daughter Tekla and not far from her daughter has worked with Grace Church Community Center or limos to take us door-to-door, wherever on the Christy. Sally writes that she still enjoys a good homeless programs, and created a bookstore that campus we wanted to go. There’s even a commer- recorded mystery story and a martini at night. gave away books for free. “Made $170,000 for cial bus service running between Manhattan and Mona Brierly Carvajal sent news of several homeless programs from donations.” the Ithaca campus now, which takes around four trips in 2010—summer in Vermont; golf with her We caught Mary Hewitt right in the middle hours! If you can make it to the Statler somehow, daughter Nancy Carvajal Lang ’64 in Stony Brook of moving—”from an outside cottage to an in- I think you’re really going to enjoy yourselves. See (“I was really amazed to see a turtle and an alli- side apartment—all in a muddle!” Send news! We you there! c Warner Lansing, 6065 Verde Trl. S., gator on the edge of a pond facing each other as want to hear from you. c Class of 1940, c/o Apt. G310, Boca Raton, FL 33433; tel., (561) if having afternoon tea”); a visit to son Fred and Cornell Alumni Magazine, 401 East State St., Suite 487-2008; e-mail, [email protected]. family in Texas; and back to Boca Raton, FL, in 301, Ithaca, NY 14850. Class Notes Editor e-mail, November for holiday visits from daughter Juliet, [email protected]. as well as Fred and Nancy, who is a grandmother Ed Markham (Bainbridge Island, to two lovely baby girls, born in 2010. Mona now WA; [email protected]) and has 13 great-grandchildren. Elizabeth Dunn, To prepare to write this message 42 wife Yoshiko continue attending daughter of classmate Evelyn “Teddy” Wilson to all of you I decided to re-read the Pacific Northwest Ballet and Seattle Symphony Monroe, sent news on her mother’s behalf from 41 my reports beginning with our performances and still enjoy leading local garden Cokesbury Village in Hockessin, DE. Teddy’s four 65th Reunion. We had 15 attendees at the 2006 tours at the senior center. Their products range children live around the country: Elizabeth reunion and I feel we should aim to beat that from cabbage to cut flowers. They look forward to (Lutherville, MD), twins Melody (Louisville, KY) and number at our 70th in June. There were eight the 70th Reunion and thank class president Liz Cynthia (Zanesville, OH); and son Tom (Ormond Arts and Sciences grads, four from Home Ec, and Schlam Eddy (NYC) for all her dedication. Bertram 56 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:26 AM Page 57

and Beatrice King (Aventura, FL; BertKing1930@ church and thinks fondly of Cornellians who have Avon has a loyal employee in Constance webtv.net) may move to Nashville, TN, to be near passed on. Harriet Toan (Perry, NY) doesn’t do as Austin Misener (Niagara Falls, NY), who’s been their son and grandchildren. Bert is taking courses much volunteer work as she used to, but is glad flogging the Product for 60-plus years now. She’s at Florida Int’l U. and is proud of his son, an to be well and happy. Nathalie Schulze Shapiro justly proud of artist grandson Jeremy Mora, whose associate professor of gastroenterology at Vander- (Ellicott City, MD) enjoys the independent living miniature sculptures I enjoyed viewing on the In- bilt U. A retired optometrist, Bert was volunteer- facility where she has lived for five years to be ternet. From Marblehead, MA, Gladys Haslett Poor ing at a subnormal vision clinic, but has now near one of her five daughters. She is active and reports that granddaughter Liza Dingle ’14 is now given that up. “Now 90, I’m hibernating and has chaired many committees. on the Hill as a freshman. Mary Alice Dietrich becoming an armchair traveler.” Thanks to all of you who continue to support Evans, PhD ’53 (Crawford, CO) visited her Laramie, Evelyn Kassman Greenspan (Ft. Myers, FL) our class and for sending in information about WY, daughter and family. Sounds close, right? Ac- belies her 90 years by taking two trips to San your lives. This column exists because we want tually, it’s a week of ten-hour days ambling atop Francisco and one to Chicago, plus traveling often to hear about our “old” friends. So do keep in Old Paint at four miles an hour. Plus stops for to Columbus, OH. She works out twice a week with touch with me throughout the year. Notice my ad- water and glutamine-free oats. a personal trainer in her son’s fitness studio, but dress and e-mail and also my phone. I’d love to “Doing as little as I can,” writes Charles what she enjoys most is singing with the Seven hear from you. Hope you are all doing well. c Swezey (Palo Alto, CA), “but haven’t been able Lakes Chorus—especially when they go to nursing Carolyn Evans Finneran, 8815 46th St. NW, Gig to give up my legal writing.” [Ed. note: Or wife homes. She is an inspiration to all of us. Robert, Harbor, WA 98335; e-mail, Carolynfinn@comcast. Betty Ann (Bischoff).] Their 21 grandchildren MS ’49, and Nancy Jessup Underwood ’43, MEd net; tel., (253) 326-4608. help keep them young, off the streets, out of ’43, moved to Lenoir City, TX, three years ago. Bob trouble. From Venice, FL, Dave Mertz reminds us: fell and broke his left leg, putting him in the hos- “I flew a small observation plane in the ETO. Got pital and necessitating two months of therapy— Chantal Champagne, Cornell’s into this line of work because Uncle paid an ex- as he says, “complicating life.” Flora Mullin Briggs director of donor relations, tells tra $75/month. Advancement was rapid. I made (Liverpool, NY) has enjoyed the past two years at 43 me that Phil Gibson has estab- captain in 90 days and ended up at war’s end her small retirement community. She visits her two lished the Anson W. and Dorothy Gibson Memor- with the great 82nd Airborne in Berlin.” Dave kids in Boston often and has plans to go to South ial Scholarship. It provides scholarship support fails to mention the several Piper Cubs he Africa to visit her grandson and great-grandson— for students enrolled in the College of Agriculture crashed, or that his CO told him: “You’re wreck- arthritis permitting. It’s her greatest challenge. and Life Sciences, with preference given to stu- ing ’em faster than we can build ’em!” Innate As she states, “Being one of the youngest in our dents who are members of the Alpha Gamma Rho modesty, prolly. class doesn’t make much difference now.” Berle fraternity. Makes sense to me. Here’s what I This from class VP Caroline Norfleet Church Neuwirth Geronemus (Hollywood, FL) still likes learned from the good folk on the Hill: Anson (Lenox, MA): “When you get older, Miller, you’ll to travel. She flew to South Africa to see Victo- Wright Gibson graduated from Cornell in 1917. know that older equals slower. Here I am writing ria Falls and to Argentina, where she visited His wife, Dorothy, did not. He was raised on a in the last week of 2010. Worse yet, I needed a Iguazu Falls. Both were great trips. small farm in Greenville, NY, a short distance reminder to pay class dues. I was a bit more Jean Pardee Cole (Chesterfield, MO) is re- from Albany (his father was engaged in small- prompt replying to Cornell’s letter inviting me to covering from a cracked pelvis and is back in her scale farming and a wholesale egg business). He the class officers meeting at the Wardman Park villa after weeks in assisted living. Falling down received both BS and MS degrees from Cornell. Hotel in D.C., which, when I was a toddler liv- is a bummer. I’m so sorry to hear that Dick For almost half a century, prior to and subse- ing six blocks up Connecticut Avenue, housed a Thomas (Meadville, PA) is in a nursing home. quent to his retirement, he served Cornell and branch post office. My mom used to take me Need more info on him. Also sadly, Lynn Timmer- particularly the College of Agriculture and Life there in a stroller. I didn’t buy any stamps, but man (Brighton Beach, FL) tried to phone frater- Sciences, with devotion and distinction. He was I think they cost less in those days. How I wish nity brother Bill Bright (Vero Beach, FL), only to director of the Office of Instruction, 1940-60, I could go! But I’m not all that eager to juggle learn from his wife that he had passed away. Af- national president of Alpha Gamma Rho for two carry-on or take my shoes off while trying to ter celebrating her 90th birthday, Barbara Gerlach years, and secretary-treasurer of the local chap- keep my balance with my cane lest I fall in a Frey (Sonoma, CA) passed away with 22 family ter of the Corporation Board. Even this English heap. Shoeless. I feel like a useless non-partici- members at her bedside. major could figure out that AGR might rush a few pant. It’s a wonder you don’t kick me off the of- An interesting article in the New Yorker about future farmers of America and now and then a ficers’ list on the ’43 letterhead.” Wot, gal! Spend Eleanor Roosevelt revealed this bit of info: She Big Red ski captain. all them rupees on new stationery! c S. Miller visited Cornell’s Home Economics department in Here’s Bud Bradt (Vero Beach, FL): “Two rea- Harris, P.O. Box 164, Spinnerstown, PA 18968; the 1920s and discovered a radical movement— sons for this e-mail. First: We checked into the e-mail, [email protected]. to create scientific homemakers. The key to Amer- Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica, CA, and found in ican progress would be intelligent housekeeping. the bathroom several amenities, i.e., shampoo, In her first book, Family Health, she says, “Don’t body lotion, etc., all with the Miller Harris label. Betty Scheidelman Droz (Old eat too much,” and goes on to present Cornell All from England. Is that your family? [I wish! It’s Forge, NY) wrote last June that luncheon recipes she served at the White House a Brit fragrance genius named Lyn Harris who, by 44 she had a trip to New York City costing 7.5 cents per serving. She wanted to pro- using my name, has googled me off the bloody with her son Martin. They attended Mass at St. vide “good and well-cooked food.” Ernest Hem- planet.] Second: When we got home and read the Patrick’s Cathedral, ice skated (briefly) at Rock- ingway, after dinner in 1937, said the food was latest Cornell Alumni Magazine, you noted that efeller Center, saw The Miracle Worker (about He- the worst he’d ever eaten. His wife had three Gene Saks called you from the Hamptons asking len Keller) on Broadway, and ate at L’Ecole, the sandwiches before their flight and told him the who of our classmates were still kicking. We, Peg- restaurant of the French Culinary Inst. Later they rule was, “When invited to the White House, eat gy (my better half) and I—still kicking—spend flew to Las Vegas, rented a motor home, and vis- before you go.” How things have changed. the summer in the East Hampton area. Is Gene ited another son, Philippe. Betty still spends long Annette Fox Levitt (New York City) also loves nearby? If so I’ll try to contact him next summer. summers in the Adirondacks, where she is active to travel and took the Trans-Siberian Railway from Hope all’s well with you. We have two sons, both lecturing at her church, staying involved in local Moscow to Vladivostok. Now that’s a trip! Amaz- married, and each has three children. One family activities, and swimming five days a week. Betty ingly, all her children and grands are doctors, al- in Stamford, CT, and one in Rye, NY.” also sent a news clipping with a photo of herself though her great-granddaughter, 2, is not yet From now-notorious Tucson, AZ, Katherine beside a six-foot white pine statue of St. Damien registered for medical school. Annette sure is Petzold Victor sends a 1993 photo of poor qual- of Molokai (1840-89), which stands on the Droz proud of them. She still enjoys her literature ity but rich memory—a smiling couple: Clarence family property on First Lake. Father Damien, a courses and the many fine teachers who contin- ’48 and his aforementioned ’43 wife, who treas- Belgian priest, ministered to lepers on Molokai; ue to enrich her life. Paula Collins Preller (Van- ures the pic because five months later, alas, Vic Betty attributes the recovery of another of her couver, WA) lost her husband, Arno, after 32 died. And Susan Dale writes: “Sadly I inform you sons—from two decades of hospitalization—to years, so she has been busy adjusting to living of the death of my father, Scott Brown. At the vigilant prayers to the saint. alone. They had moved back to Vancouver in 2007 memorial we shared many of his college pictures Otis Purdie, B Chem E ’47 (Fayetteville, NC) from Denver (where they met in 1956) and have and played the Cornell . It was a won- sends appreciation to Art and Dotty Kay Kesten many family and friends. Paula helps out in her derful celebration.” for their years of service to the class. “Don’t get May | June 2011 57 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:26 AM Page 58

around much anymore,” he declares, quoting the and a family reunion. “We have 15 grandchildren Nelle Judson Seefeldt, BS ’44 (Glens Falls, old song lyrics. “I entertain on the piano for a lo- and are expecting another great-grandchild soon. NY) has moved to the Pines Health Center with cal rest home and play at my church. We go as far Trust that we can make one more class reunion.” husband Ralph ’44. She is writing her memoirs as Raleigh to hear the North Carolina Symphony. Mary Helen Joint, MEd ’49, also had a TIA in ear- of 39 years working in the Himalayas in India. Just got back from a reunion in Wellesley for Mary ly 2010, and reports additional health news: “My Her fondest memories of Cornell are friendships. Lou’s 65th.” Ginny MacArthur Clagett (Atlantic yellow lab and I collided in August 2009; I fell Roger Norton, MS ’48 (Houston, TX) admits to a Highlands, NJ) reports that our last reunion intro- and broke my hip. Sandy was not hurt. I have ful- derogatory position as gardener’s assistant to wife duced her to “so many classmates I wish I’d known ly recovered from both incidents!” Good news, Virginia (Best) ’46, but then regains ascenden- at school.” While her oldest grand was unable to Mary! Nancy Torlinkski Rundell, our esteemed cy on the golf course. At High Island, TX, he goes attend, her middle grandson accompanied her and former class columnist, reports that she has aban- birdwatching. He remembers enjoyable social ac- enjoyed rock climbing. “He thought we ate all doned golf. “Just water aerobics and in-house in- tivities at Algonquin Lodge (Roger, I was at those good meals as students!” When she wrote, terviews.” Nancy also sends kudos to Dotty and Cayuga Lodge—Ezra’s stables—which was four Ginny’s family was at Nantucket for the summer. Art. “You two are great! I hope your mailbox fills doors up the street). He would like to hear from Ithaca residents Howard Evans, PhD ’50, and up with responses!” c Class of 1944, c/o Cor- General John George Albert. wife Erica were honored at the 2010 CRVIS Recog- nell Alumni Magazine, 401 East State St., Suite I am leading a senior group discussing Great nition Reception last June. The Evanses were 301, Ithaca, NY 14850. Dorothy Kay Kesten, 1 Books illustrating the seven deadly sins at our among 37 volunteers with Cornell Retirees Volun- Crestwood Rd., Westport, CT 06880; e-mail, local university. This week we had greed, with a teering in Schools who logged nearly 1,500 hours [email protected]. lively division of views. Most of the women said in the 2009-10 school year as teacher aides and it was the worst sin of all, being the basis of our classroom mentors at eight elementary schools in materialistic hedonistic society, while the men ar- the Ithaca area. A member of the CRVIS steering This is your co-correspondent gued, “Greed is good” because it encourages free board, Erica spends two mornings each week at the Bob writing four days after the enterprise capitalism—”The only successful eco- Freeville Elementary School. Howard, a professor 45 Super Bowl. Out West we had a nomic system in the history of the world!” Pride, emeritus in the Vet college, carries a basket of an- 20-day period of intermittent but reservoir-filling envy, gluttony, and lust are waiting in the wings. imal parts and pieces to classrooms throughout the rain before Christmas and now have great sunny Please send news (and pride) on the annual news area. Together, the couple serves as chaperones for days with gorgeous daffodils, camellias, and roses, form, or write to us directly. c Bob Frankenfeld, field trips to places like the . with no cancelled tennis or golf. As one who was 6291 E. Bixby Hill Rd., Long Beach, CA 90815; e- Ted Smith ([email protected]) writes, born and raised in Buffalo, I do yearn to be back mail, [email protected]; or Julie Kamerer Snell, “Alas, after living in the East for 86 years (New East to experience the great snowstorms and 3154 Gracefield Rd., Apt. 111, Silver Spring, MD Jersey, New York, Connecticut, , and Vir- below-freezing temperatures that you had last 20904; e-mail, [email protected]. ginia, with a long stop in Missouri), we have winter—NOT! Julie and I appreciate the news in made our final move to Menlo Park, CA. Family our mailbox, which was kept full especially by our and health reasons have mandated that Betty reunion memories of last June. Two months ago, we listed 15 Bob and I move to be close to one of our chil- John “Jack” Casazza (Springfield, VA) informs classmates and 14 guests who dren. Our new home is right next door to one of that he is an author and educator, but must also 46 will attend reunion, then men- our sons, Bradley ’80. We get to see our grand- devote attention to his body by having physical tioned that there were seven “maybes” and 14 children often, as in Little League , therapy for arthritis (bad enough to stop playing probable “nos.” Since then, as of February 15, school dramatics, etc., and Brad’s staff helps take golf). Much time is also spent caring for his ill we’ve heard positively from David Day, Pat Kinne care of us as needed. The medical clinic is only wife, Madeline. He has written an autobiography, Paolella, Melvin Popper, Louise Greene Richards, six blocks away. It’s a wonderful arrangement. We as well as books entitled Forgotten Roots: Electric PhD ’65, and William Sklarz, who will collectively enjoyed watching the Cornell Sweet 16 basket- Power, Profits, Democracy and a Profession and Un- bring seven guests to the fete. To date, then, we ball games in Brad’s media room, along with lo- derstanding Electrical Power Systems: An Overview have 20 positives and 21 guests, which is very cal Cornellians. We were asked to bring Cornell of the Technology and the Marketplace. He would good for this early (per Lauren Coffey, our Alumni artifacts. I arrived with two 50th Reunion jack- like to hear from Calvin Carver. Burt Nichols Affairs contact). If anyone wants to help encour- ets: mine and my father’s, representing the Class (Spanish Fort, AL) has retired and enjoys residing age classmates to come or to help out at reunion, of ’16. We are hanging in there and now our and boating on Mobile Bay with wife Beverly. On contact Lloyd Slaughter (LSlaughter594@aol. grandchildren are looking at colleges. Maybe the Hill he was active with the Cornell Radio Guild. com; (340) 599-4431). there will even be more Smith Cornellians.” He would like to hear from Dan Hartmann. David Day (Highlands Ranch, CO; davidday Dotty Kesten is sorry to report that our long- James Rodgers Jr. (Hingham, MA) retired [email protected]) plans on attending reunion. time class secretary, Margaret Pearce Addicks, from American Water Works in 1983 after serving He had been busy preparing the manuscript for died on December 13, 2010. “Peg served our class as president of system the sixth edition of his well, participating in many of the CACO meetings, companies for the New book, Moving the Earth. and to the best of my knowledge, she never England region. He is cel- McGraw-Hill published missed a single one of our reunions. As well as I ebrating his nuclear fam- He thought we it in April 2010. He en- knew Peg, until Art and I went to her memorial ily of 12 grandchildren joys watching football, service I wasn’t aware of her many accomplish- (only one engineer) and ‘ which he played at Cor- ments outside of our class. She received the Ma- one great-grandchild. He ate all those nell, on TV. Unfortu- jor Stephen Reich Award for Exceptional Service fondly remembers the nately, they don’t often for the Town of Washington, CT, and the Noto two years he spent in good meals as show Cornell games in Chair for Distinguished Service at the Gunnery the V12 program in “the the Rockies, so he set- (also in Washington, CT), a private high school most beautiful part of students! tles for what cable of- where Peg worked for many years. Cornell was the USA.” He has re- fers. Dave chairs the also represented at the service by Ed Fitchett, sumed contact with the Osher Lifelong Learning who went to high school with Peg.” roommate who intro- Ginny MacArthur’ Clagett Inst. at his residence of Lew, BS Ag ’46, and Connie Avery Mix ’48 duced him to his future ’44 600. The revolving pro- have relocated to Atlantic Shores, a 500-person mate, Phyllis, at a dance gram contains four retirement community in Virginia Beach. “Connie at Cornell. They both classes, each four to had a mild stroke (TIA) in April 2010, 12 days af- were surprised they were natives of Brooklyn, to eight weeks long. The old Cornell friends David ter we arrived here,” Lew reports. “It affects her which James says, “Praise the Lord!” Jeanne Tre- would most like to hear from are Park Metzger, short-term memory, but she’s gaining slowly. We man Shempp (Buffalo, NY), a docent at the Al- Fitz Randolph, Pete Verna, MS ’48, and Ed both enjoy our two-bedroom apartment and the bright Knox Art Gallery, also tutors English as a Cranch ’45, PhD ’51. Now he says he’s going to many activities here: indoor pool, movies, con- Second Language literature. She still attends take the initiative with the first three and offer certs, cards, shuffleboard . . . you name it. Food meetings of the Twentieth Century Club, which to meet them at our 65th. is excellent.” In July, Lew and Connie traveled to she calls the “oldest.” She would like to hear from Bart Snow (Cincinnati, OH; bsnow123@aol. Grand Rapids, MI, for a granddaughter’s wedding Mary Louise Milliman, BA ’44. com) still works for GE after 64 years. He had a 58 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes .” “Scotty” June 2011 59 Frank, Collyer | May Peggy (Martin) ’51 Hall, Winnetka, IL: “Situation Winnetka, Hall, Weiss, Rochester, NY: “Doing NY: Rochester, Weiss, , Wolfeboro, alive! NH: “Staying Bliss, Concord, NH: “We’re suf- NH: “We’re Concord, Bliss, Bob (our VA Alexandria, McKinless, Gasworth, Palm Beach, FL: “Retired judge, Beach, FL: “Retired Gasworth, Palm Jane Bowers Ruth Werman Prentice Troup Clarine Capuzzi medical social work, dialysis unit.” work, dialysis social medical Obama and the liberals are killing the country. Vote country. the killing are liberals the and Obama in weather great has Hampshire New out! ’em it also BLAH! And Winter: fall. and summer, spring, better no there’s but recently, Democratic turned Will Tribeca. Subaru new a drive I in. live to state soloed I day out. The lease runs the it until keep of least The life. my of highlight the was 1943 in Army called up by the is getting now worries my fun.” Dianne old ain’t much Getting Air Force. Shapiro and children Three grow. family legal my watching Sunshine active lawyers. are two granddaughters bad state and financial but the in Florida, is great re- not Wish I had glow away. the takes politics age retirement was no There bench. the from tired South Africa. and to see India court. I want in my world the of most saw and traveling a lot of I did is such old Jaguar An etc.). with bicycles, (China I plan to keep car, attractive and an interesting happi- life is health, of meaning The it forever. needy!” the for generosity and ness, eat- morality, , deteriorating from fering a tube). Join the down (all going etc. habits, ing you care areas the of on one that is working group complain- back and just sitting of about instead ar- beautiful scenic has many Hampshire New ing! writers, people, talented many wildlife, of lots eas, hiking, great and actors, and musicians, poets, the Sometimes swimming. and boating, skiing, weather?!” Men’s in Washington “Singing fearless leader): with 30 tomorrow Singing biking. and Camerata Went member. a Camerata of at a wedding others Coun- in Chautauqua biked and to Homecoming York in New 62 counties completes the which ty, down kids four the Took biked. have I where State last space shuttle to see the to Cape Canaveral post- stayed while they We in November. launch gave up, in a row, days three launch the poned five or car for my I’m keeping home. came and and mileage, good gets works and It years. more the off taking without it in bike my put can I 2,200 drove 100 miles and biked I recently wheels. Texas.” trip to ten-day a during miles become fascinated by the study of marine geol- marine of study the by fascinated become enjoy others can help life so you Enjoy Wow! ogy. of areas in many smarter feel I’m getting I theirs. every things Learn new age. life in spite of my emotionally.” and both intellectually day, , Fredonia, NY: “Sailing, skiing, church, skiing, “Sailing, NY: , Fredonia, McPherson Econ- yard. and house maintaining course, of and, business-ori- more Elect ‘static.’ essentially is omy no has State York New lawyers. not people, ented and is always nice weather disasters; the climatic too but there’s inspiring, changes seasonal the needs the understand that don’t politicians many state better than no Still, there’s businesses. of because winters York western New I like York. New If not a winter. ski about 50 times I cross-country event Greatest fall. Cape Cod in the I like home, essentially, Life means, a father. was becoming Cornell are kids our four of Two a family. raising wife, so is my and alums, Ithaca, NY (president emeritus, Class of ’48): “Vol- Class of emeritus, NY (president Ithaca, Administra- Current at local hospital. unteering being but nothing game, a good talking tion an on Went legislators. state some Change done. ME.” Warren trip to Camden, Elderhostel is static. Illinois is great—it has everything, but has everything, is great—it Illinois is static. Car OK— state better. bankrupt. Still, no it’s going Ar- Bernard, and his wife and lives in Char- tells us that his Arlie Williamson Shain, 653 Primrose “Lee” Harvey and his wife have been and was married to John, PhD to was married Jack Levene , MS ’48, resides at Chau- ’48, resides , MS Leonore watercol- “Painting FL: Miami, (wood) at Miami ors on boards lives in Canandaigua, NY, in the NY, lives in Canandaigua, lives in Derby Line, VT. Janet VT. lives in Derby Line, Hello, all you loyal Cornellians— all you Hello, who you of those thanks to and us know to let time took the Morey were married on graduation day in day on graduation married were James Del Signore Sylvia Kianoff c Claar has been married 63 years and has 63 years and Claar has been married Andy Anderson Jack White Marian Shetzley writes that she and husband and that she writes Shetzley Marian Richard Greenfield Watercolor Society. Also in SOS investment club investment SOS in Also Society. Watercolor Congress in partnership The Stocks’). of (‘Study beaches Florida’s can we help? How has frozen. incredibly population Miami’s and wonderful, are but restaurants, ethnic with interesting diverse, is humidity and heat July-August-September the drier are California and Arizona else. something eat and way people the different, interestingly and for eye exam the about passing I’m worried live. paintings some finishing I’m license. driver’s my Orleans New to Seattle and Going show. a big for car is The back to China. to go like soon. Would of one won first prize for I recently fine. working life was the my of highlight The paintings! my I’ve life. live a happier me helped He I had. father 48 , prior to his passing in 2002. She has seven has She 2002. in passing his to prior , ’60 the on GA, in , lives and grandchildren at had been a professor John U. campus. Emory was also presi- and arts colleges, liberal several Frostburg and College Muhlenberg both of dent Maryland. in U. State 47 live in Lake Worth, FL, “still retired but tired.” He but tired.” FL, “still retired Worth, live in Lake son Stu- Their at a hospice. is still is chief while son Richard art lives in Puerto Rico, Palm of Hospice at the VP and affairs medical of VA. lives in Richmond, daughter Beach. Their Carl Shetzley practice to have a family on went he 1947, and away in July passed he Unfortunately, 38 years. for Don- illness. 91, after a long of age 2010, at the ald Buschman Grafton a and great-grandsons, four 13 grandchildren, great-granddaughter. lene Thompson in AZ, Sun City, and summer in the NY, tauqua, after 2010 in died Peggy, wife, His winter. the in retired Andy marriage. of years wonderful 60 ad- travel many had has then since and 1986 are classmates that many seems It ventures. “snowbirds.” in Liverpool, to October May FL, but spends lotte, NY. enjoy 1993. They since CO, in Lafayette, living is on house their and climate, and mountains the strength and aerobics, Golf, regular course. a golf for with friends—make meeting exercises—plus . rewarding and busy a is across He Cornell. close to area, Lakes Finger in also is and family, and his son from lake the six grand- children, with his other close touch writes that He a great-grandson. and children, about his classmates. more to hear would like he William Salem, NY, From Eberle it was and arrived recently first great-grandchild as a volleyball already her envisions a girl. He prospect. what is up with you and yours. By the time you time By the yours. you and what is up with your discontent of winter column, the this read will have sprung. spring and will have passed Lane, River Vale, NJ 07675; tel., (201) 391-1263; NJ 07675; tel., (201) River Vale, Lane, [email protected]; e-mail NY Rochester, Rd., 238 Dorchester Anderson, [email protected]. 14610; e-mail, and Nan- Robert Greene Franklin. I Franklin. , 31 Chicory (Fort Wayne, Kennedy, 9 Read- Kennedy, “Weezie” “Weezie” (Wynnewood, PA; (Wynnewood, Moseley Placid, (Lake Lloyd Slaughter Paul Levine Carolyn Usher c Elinor Baier Prey (San Mateo, CA) will be (San Mateo, Prey Wilson (Binghamton, NY) called Wilson (Binghamton, c (Elmira, NY; [email protected]) NY; (Elmira, , so I’m assuming she’ll be there to be there she’ll , so I’m assuming Davis (Avon, CT) is still writing for the for is still writing CT) Davis (Avon, Gertrude Botsford James Johnstone James Clement Rice (South Hadley, MA) will be MA) will (South Hadley, Rice Clement This will be the last issue you’ll receive be- last issue you’ll receive This will be the Dottie Taylor Sadly, To list your e-mail address, e-mail me at the me e-mail address, list your e-mail To Rayma Carter fore our 65th Reunion. I hope you will be joining I hope our 65th Reunion. fore 13 of but some was empty, mailbox My us then. this column possi- to make Forms News you sent ble. would she that say to vacation Florida her from with her in touch keeps She in June. be there sisters Louise sorority Ithaca also learned that Weezie’s recent back surgery was back surgery recent that Weezie’s also learned had been at that she wrote Weezie successful. with meetings reunion some Richards, PhD ’65, and PhD ’65, and Richards, Dick Turner loves living that she reports She us in June. greet even the and culture, the people, in Ithaca—“the of directors of board serves on the She weather.” Lakes. Finger the of Directors Funeral the there too. She moved five years ago to a retire- ago five years moved too. She there di- she where family, her nearer community ment landscape works on the glee club, the rects opera San Francisco the attends and committee, lot this year be back East a She’ll symphony. and Duke from graduating has a granddaughter as she and by a week at Hilton Head followed in May, that Priscilla I’m hoping on to our reunion. then Alden two years now) Bill (married and with us too. She vis- they where a riverboat cruise in France, took a 300-year-old fix- owns “who daughter ited her a getting recommends strongly She er-upper.” after Bill had a bout on vacation. shot shingles operating. still is letter round-robin frosh Her FL) died in December 2010. She was a faithful in December 2010. She FL) died diagnosed being writer despite in with Parkinson’s had been very ac- husband her and late 1980. She Int’l. Heifer and Humanity for tive in Habitat cy Mynott CAU have attended Dick and She local newspaper. the of rest the include I’ll years. four for programs time. next news 19565; tel., PA Apt. 302, Wernersville, Dr., ing [email protected]. e-mail, 927-8777; (610) recent trip to Nova Scotia. Later, he and wife Vir- wife and he Later, Scotia. to Nova trip recent 90th her to celebrate Bermuda to off were ginia birthday. Kaemmerer decided finally “We his residence. has downsized But I miss the us now. for much was too a house hob- wood carving my and workshop, my house, arm of SCORE, a volunteer for Bob volunteers by.” those and businesses small counsels He SBA. the Bob is considering business. into to go wanting Beard Richard reunion. attending his vol- continues loss, hearing some IN), despite He Blind. the Books for work at Talking unteer repaired and testing control quality has done since cassette machines their of than 1,000 more remembers Dick 1997. in began operation the activ- Fellowship Baptist in participating fondly since his bride Janice, and He at Cornell. ities visit. reunion a weighing are 2005, and city, your name, Include below e-address. to: news Send state. [email protected]) enjoyed a trip with family in a trip with family enjoyed [email protected]) they Last July, Turkey. and Rome July 2009 to In early to Alaska. waterway inland cruised the to five had plans of party 2011, their spring Caribbean. the of climes warmer cruise the CA 94070; tel., (650) 592-5273; San Carlos, Lane, http:// Class website, [email protected]. e-mail, classof46.alumni.cornell.edu. 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:26 AM Page 59 Page AM 11:26 4/13/11 56-95CAMMJ11notes 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:26 AM Page 60

keeps running and gets me where I want to go. (Meyer) ’51, is retired, spends time on his com- Crescent, PA 15046; tel., (724) 784-0371 or (315) We’re very happy that our granddaughter Nomoya puter, and is active with the Ramapo Mountain 717-6003; e-mail, [email protected]. Hall ’13 is currently a sophomore in Arts and Sci- Ski Club. Asked what he would rather be doing ences.” John Van Zandt, Winston-Salem, NC: now, he says that he would rather be skiing. Erik “Things are improving. Politicians getting ham- and Phyllis tell us of their granddaughter Leah On Friday night, January 28, mered; stock market inching upwards. Need to get Simons ’14 (Pound Ridge, NY), a freshman in the nine classmates and four guests more new blood in Washington. North Carolina is Vet college. “We are SO proud!” Erik adds that he 50 gathered at the elegant Metro- much warmer in winter than Ithaca, but we have is in touch with classmates. politan Club in Washington, DC, for our annual the same political foolishness. I walk at the ‘Y’. Vincent Rogers (Storrs, CT; vinrogers@charter. midwinter class dinner in conjunction with the Have a low mileage 2008 car; plan to keep it to net), a member of , writes that annual midwinter Cornell Alumni Leadership Con- the end (mine or its). I wish I was at age 45 (a his wife, Chris (Jennings) ’48, died in 1999. He ference (CALC). Classmates came from all over: good year!). There’s nothing better than to still adds, “I am still playing my horn and listening to Class President Pat Carry Stewart (Gulf Stream FL; be able to enjoy 25 grandkids and their spouses Diz and Miles. Upon retirement from the School [email protected]); from Rochester, NY, VP and and six great-grands (so far). We celebrated our of Education at U. of Connecticut, I did some- reunion co-chair Stan Rodwin (rodpkg@frontier 65th anniversary with all of them at the beach in thing I’d always wanted to do—learn to ride and net.net) and Joyce Wisbaum Underberg ’53; sec- July 2010.” c Bob Persons, 102 Reid Ave., Port compete at local horse shows, own and race Thor- retary Ruth “Midge” Downey Crone (Longmont, Washington, NY 11050; phone and fax, (516) 767- oughbreds, and write pieces for Horseplayer mag- CO; [email protected]) and husband Walt; 1776; e-mail, [email protected]. azine.” Vin is “active in the local music scene,” and VP John Marcham and wife Jane (Haskins) and also reads, works on his model railroad, and ’51 (Ithaca, NY). Also from Ithaca, reunion co- glories “in the success of our UConn women’s chair Jane Wigsten McGonigal, PhD ’84 (jwm7@ “The best years of my life!” basketball team.” Class president John Rupert, JD cornell.edu) and husband Carl Crispell ’60, MA ’66, Edgar Rosenberg, MA ’50 (Ith- ’51 (Lakewood, OH; [email protected]) writes, who were on their way to Florida; Dave Dingle 49 aca, NY; [email protected]) “I’m still involved with our zoo (past chair), (New Suffolk, NY; [email protected]); Marion echoes the thoughts of many of us describing his WVIZ-PBS (life trustee), Cornell Arts College Coun- Steinmann and husband Charles Joiner, down from time as a student on the Hill. Now emeritus pro- cil (life member), Cornell Council (life member), Philadelphia; and Bill Brownlee (Chevy Chase, MD; fessor of English and Comparative Literature at Audubon Ohio (vice chair), and the Ohio Canal [email protected]). A winter blizzard prevented Cornell, Edgar’s extracurricular activities include Corridor (treasurer—bringing the canal trail into Lori Heyman Gordon (Weston, FL), past president preparing a second Dickens edition for W.W. Nor- downtown Cleveland), and continue to do ge- Dick Pogue (Cleveland, OH), and Alex Richardson ton. He and his wife, Barbara, have been spend- nealogy work and gardening.” Jack plays tennis (Lancaster, PA) from attending as planned. ing six months in their other home in southern three times a week, as well as interviewing Cor- HELP! At our class meeting the next morn- France. Edgar would most like to hear from nell applicants for CAAAN. “I like what I’m doing ing, the group enthusiastically launched a proj- Richard Stone ’47. Jean Schultheis Brechter and hope to continue well into the future,” he ect to collect, compile, and publish our Class of (Shelter Island Heights, NY) writes that she is says. “My life at Cornell has continued for so long 1950 archives—and for this we earnestly solicit “still involved” in real estate on Shelter Island that I have many fond memories, including our your input! Search through the detritus of your and still on the board of East End Hospice, but is three children’s lives at Cornell and their alumni long life for such possible archival material. Then “tapering off” on both. Invited to be president of activities, as well as our grandson David Keating e-mail or snail mail a list of what you have to the Garden Club of Shelter Island, she says that ’10’s great experience.” John Marcham (414 East Buffalo St., Ithaca NY, she can’t think of a better way to spend the next Cynthia Foster Clements (Gainesville, FL; cj 14850), or Marion Steinmann (addresses below). two years than helping to beautify Shelter Island. [email protected]) writes that she and husband We need photographs, clippings, stories, events Jean tells us, “Like so many of us, I spend a lot Jack are living in Oak Hammock at the U. of Flori- programs, and other documents about class and of time going to a slew of doctors.” She tries to da in Gainesville. “So,” she tells us, “we are offi- group activities both before and since gradua- travel once or twice a year, and a year ago Feb- cial ‘Gators,’ but, should UF ever play Cornell, we’ll tion. John or Marion will let you know which ruary she visited Costa Rica with Doris Wolfe root for Cornell! We enjoy the university atmos- items they are able to include. Schultz ’48, “another Cornell widow.” phere and have many faculty privileges. Although HELP #2: President Pat is attempting to tidy Jean tells us of three very fond recollections Oak Hammock is a retirement facility, there are up class finances. In addition to 30 endowed of her time at Cornell. “The warmth and cama- numerous cultural, intellectual, and social activ- scholarship funds and the regular class operating raderie of my sorority, Tri-Delta. We rented the ities so we are busy and active. Hopefully, that fund, we have two other funds about which nei- house at 626 Thurston Avenue, which is now will help us stay young!” Max Kraus (Middlebury, ther our records nor those of the university are Alumni House. We swam in the pool in the gorge VT; [email protected]), married to Lois, is re- helpful. 1) The Willard Straight Fund has three and we listened to the sound of the falls when tired and is the photographer for Middlebury Town parts totaling $470,000. It seems as if some we slept at night. We did a lot of singing and we Hall Theater. He’s also active in Rotary and Meals $95,000 of this may be available for Straight proj- all slept in one big dorm. In the summer of 1998 on Wheels. Recently he enjoyed hiking in Japan ects designated by the class. It also looks as if, I attended Cornell’s Adult University for Lolita and with a grandson and a bike/barge trip in the early on, we designated $81,000 for minor reno- Beyond: The Life and Work of Vladimir Nabokov. Netherlands with Lois—”200 miles a week.” vations, some of which were not undertaken. In As an undergraduate I was lucky enough to sign William Keaton, DVM ’49, is a very busy veteri- any event, income from this fund over the years up for a course in Russian literature, which was narian in Barre, VT, where he lives with wife has been used to assist with maintenance and ren- Mr. Nabokov’s first course at Cornell. It turned out Marie. One thing he remembers most fondly from ovations projects at the Straight. 2) The Class of to be my very favorite course. He was so very dra- his days at Cornell is the bar on Cayuga Lake the Century Fund. Except for the fact that the class matic, demonstrative, and dynamic! He and his owned by Ken Smith and his wife. president and treasurer can apparently approve lovely wife also invited the class to his house for We learn, sadly, of the death of Stephen payouts, the origins and main purpose of this fund tea. A lovely memory! And finally, Joan Dickey Collins of Bethany, CT, emeritus professor of bi- are unknown. Current balance is $140,000. Pat has Hardie introduced me to my future husband, Bob, ological sciences (retired) at Southern Connecti- asked Nels Schaenen, MBA ’51, to head a small who was at Cornell in the V-5 program.” Jean cut State U., on October 10, 2010. His obituary committee to look into the purpose of these two adds that she occasionally hears from Joanne in the New Haven Register, sent to us by his wid- funds and to recommend suggestions for their use. Wells Nixon, “but I would love to visit her in per- ow, Barrie, describes his career as teacher, author, Everyone, please search your now-fading memories son. I wonder if this will ever happen!” popular public speaker, and field trip leader. He for any bits of information you may have on the The Rev. Will Porter Jr. (Mahopac, NY), pas- was the first chairman of Bethany’s Conservation origins and goals of these two funds. It is crucial tor of the Mount Hope United Methodist Church, Commission and founder of the Bethany Land that we have well-understood protocols for these! is completing 60 years in the ministry of the New Trust. A leader in creating West Rock Ridge State We also need to know who was men’s class pres- York Conference of the United Methodist Church. Park, he served as vice chair of the park’s advi- ident from 1952 to 1955! Send whatever you can He is also pastor emeritus of the Mount Kisco, NY, sory council to the Connecticut Dept. of Environ- recall to Pat Carry Stewart ([email protected]), UMC. Will and his wife, Shirley, live on Lake Bald- mental Protection for 25 years. He is survived by 2613 North Ocean Boulevard, Gulf Stream, FL win. They have four sons, six grandchildren, and his wife, their three children, and three grand- 33483. Or give her a call: (561) 278-5387. one great-grandson. Erik Simons (Spring Valley, sons. Thank you, classmates, for all your news. c At the CACO meeting on Sunday morning dur- NY; [email protected]), married to Phyllis Dorothy “Dee” Mulhoffer Solow, 1625 Lilac Lane, ing the Leadership Conference, Stan Rodwin was 60 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes Nor- Milton Morris Schoelkopf Brad Bond, June 2011 61 Sablow and . Two of six of . Two c | May Woodhead. Singing in Singing Woodhead. can’t believe it’s been can’t believe (Raleigh, NC; Mollalice@ Kelley (Irvington, VA; (Irvington, Kelley , PhD 1911, as having had , PhD 1911, as having Percelay. Shene (Morrisonville, NY) went (Morrisonville, Shene Another package from Ithaca from package Another is What follows news. with more haven’t who classmates from ’ (Syracuse, NY; glornormkeim@verizon. NY; (Syracuse, over coffee in Willard Straight.” Florence Straight.” in Willard over coffee Mickey Caughlan Phyllis Fein Bobrow Alice MacMillan Moll Nancy Carver 52 been heard from in the seven years I’ve written I’ve years seven in the from heard been they what are and they are this column. Where Read on. doing? for lifelong learning—Burtt, Szeftel, Biggerstaff, learning—Burtt, lifelong for Engineer- Ag forget could Who Rossiter. Konvitz, to how we learned where HE students, for ing the in energy nuclear about and tire a change met I where is Cornell me, For semester? same Nat ’49 with Margecorresponds Tucker Sheela Mittelman ; Spanish and Sociology teach- Sociology PhD ’33; Spanish and Konvitz, now.” I can’t pull up right names ers whose gmail.com) Episcopal is active at St. Christopher’s [email protected]) is active. She is a hos- She is active. [email protected]) trainer, obedience assists a dog pital volunteer, therapy, for shepherd year-old German her trains T’ai Chi, plays and in water aerobics leads groups “very interest- and to her new (a game mah-jong visited She Y. local the at out works and ing”), the for in Richmond families their boys and her Agard “Prof. impact at Cornell: Greatest holidays. in Pi Beta Phi; Prof. friends (Linguistics); man Keim vol- lectures, giving books, has been writing net) He books. restoring and library, at the unteering Our Movie Houses: A History of of news included Film and Cinematic Innovation in Central New York His- Theatre won the which U. Press), (Syracuse Book of Outstanding America’s of Society torical he wishes he back at Cornell Way Award. Year the cites Prof. He a class with Nabokov. had taken Arthur A. Allen 1908 impact. greatest the Henry, JD ’52, moved Henry, and she year since a whole loves be- FL. She to Orlando, CT, Stamford, from Joanne daughter near ing Bobrow ’76, but misses son Richard ’79 Lehigh. and Rice at college, are grandchildren will ap- someone to go—maybe “Still have four if anyone to know wants Phyllis ply to Cornell.” area. Orlando the in lives ’51 from Sage Chapel Choir and French Lit with French and Chapel Choir Sage to Hilo, HI, to visit her first great-grandchild, to Hilo, HI, to visit her daughter oldest “My born over a year ago. Lia, iddos.” grandk plus three Nancy loves lives there, She summer.” swim: “Can’t wait for and to garden a and club, a local seniors to Red Hats, belongs married.” are grandkids all my “Now club. drama with Elizabeth stays in touch She Macaraeg Marian and Heine Roberts , PhD ’26, are her fondest memories of memories fondest her Bishop ’14, PhD ’26, are to: your news Please send Cornell. OH 45750; tel., (740) Marietta Way, 101 Hillside uddenlink.net. bbond101@s e-mail, 374-6715; Jean Schultheis Brechter ’49 Jean Schultheis (Asheville, NC) (Asheville, in Opunohu Bay, in Opunohu married Pat early last Pat married fun.” Seipos (Sanibel, FL) sum- Myers ’82, DVM ‘87. You Star Flyer (Timonium, MD) writes about (Timonium, and niece of Pamela of niece and Myers ’78 “Chip” We listened to the sound of the falls listened to the We when we slept at night. when we slept Nathaniel Mary Ann Doutrich William Kilian Frances Goldberg Myers ‘ mers in Harrisburg, PA, where she hopes to move hopes she where PA, in Harrisburg, mers February “Spent sells. house near-beach her when Cyclone Tropical out Severe riding 4 (2010) 3 and clipper ship Oli aboard of ‘Allure on the Bora Missed Bora Island. Moorea She to Tahiti.” get trip, but did South Pacific’ the that Rollinreports Teare FL. live in Naples, They year. can imagine how pleased we are that she want- that she pleased we are how can imagine her boring been I’ve think I Cornell. attend to ed and life in Dickson of memories fond with my football parties, Van, up to Martha Balch, hikes a desire instilled who teachers great and games, sent me to night school for a computing science a computing for school to night me sent in vacationing 1973 we were In degree. master’s moped a had I when islands the of one on Greece in was 30 mph, and going head hit my accident, They ten to 12 days. about for afterwards a coma days, few a for hospital Athens an at me treated where Jersey, to New here back us flew then and ‘Your in Athens, told Eion up. They woke I finally be all right!’ will man—she is a strong wife she live We uneventful. has been fairly life then Since west miles 30 about countryside Jersey New in the it taking and now retired are Hill. We Murray of enjoy and garden have a big We easy. a vegan diet—like (we have adopted its produce than about health we think more our age, many I plays tennis a lot; Eion younger). when we did bridge for duplicate play was a in 1950. “There a missed trip to England Oxford- and between Cornell-Princeton meet track was the forte but my mile, the I ran Cambridge. Each team submit- races. five-mile cross-country in with eight each event for ted two participants to Eng- would go first two to finish The mile. the of winner The in third. I came a rematch. for land eventually He Bannister. was Roger mile race the four-minute the broke and race Olympic an won his time at Princeton race mile in 1954. In the to enough but good minutes, was well over four In seconds. twenty minutes, was four win. Mine Ban- that Roger have estimated 1950 I would not I in 1954. By that date nister would be famous a of father be to soon was and married had of as a member continued running My daughter. inter- I enjoy watching Harriers. House Hash the camera the Wimbledon, At tennis games. national three-piece in a custom-tailored, Roger caught shirts polo him wearing people around with suit to Buck- going were as if he looked He shorts. and look not does but he age, is my He Palace. ingham past 60 in the knocks hard had any he as though celebrity. him his life of begrudge not I do years. race third-place my it. I have overcome earned He I have had an in- considered, in 1950. All things life.” and career teresting family to Cornell addition “Our newest writes, is Sarahtradition Ken- of ’13, daughter Myers neth Myers ’77 and ’90 Rosen- , 237 W. 237 , Edwards. Lambert Cornell Daily Saunders has Saunders Lydia Schurman Gross (Asheville, NC). (Asheville, Gross Smith (Houston, TX) Smith (Houston, McRae married in 1954, married McRae Marion Steinmann , JD ’53 (Palm Desert, CA) is a re- , JD ’53 (Palm There’s still time to fit reunion into to fit reunion still time There’s to see you Hope your schedule. with Connect and reconnect there. Paul Johnston, Dr. Joslin, 6080 Terrace c Alex Richardson ([email protected]) has ([email protected]) Richardson Alex Jacqueline Fulton Eion and Jean and Eion Eagle Highland Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19118-3819; tel., PA Philadelphia, Ave., Highland [email protected]. (215) 242-8443; e-mail, elected a CACO director-at-large. Afterward, John Afterward, director-at-large. a CACO elected and Steinmann Marion and Marcham Jane and with lunch enjoyed Joiner Charles VA;(Arlington, whom [email protected]), and Lydia, John, years. seen in many not had they on the together had worked Marion Lydia editor. women’s was the Lydia Sun, where of U. the from PhD a earned sons, three raised at North- English of professor was and Maryland, Ly- 23 years. for College Community ern Virginia dime on 19th-century expert is a recognized dia Schur- Gould Jacob grandfather, Lydia’s novels. 1892–1920. from Cornell of president was man, in Lan- community care to a continuing moved 80 years “After seniors, for His advice PA. caster, making of wisdom the learned I have camping of daugh- Wasson, Susanne sundown.” camp before Charlieter of 22, on Dec. his death Wille, reports farmer, dairy County a Montgomery 2010. Charlie, State Farm York New the of served as president Award Rhodes the of a recipient was and Bureau Distinguished as well as the Alumni Service for He Society. NYS Agricultural the of Award Service Cor- and Council CALS Advisory also served on the to joke liked He board. Extension nell to milk cows only Cornellian be the might that he af- staff in the with Cornell meet morning, in the with the meeting a dinner attend and ternoon, evening. in the governor at the program students’ exchange the for worked vol- is an election she State Dept. In retirement, is Kelly daughter Her unteer. Smith was happy to she our 60th Reunion, At (Eng). Jean campus roommate meet Seguin Thomas Bryant church, Rotary, stays busy with and attorney tired Louise activities. theatre and Passerman op- [email protected]) NY; feld (Chappaqua, and design an interior Inc., Arrangements erates also She to seniors. catering service remodeling the of Legacy Fund Education the for volunteers In- of Society American the Chapter of York New restoring Park Hyde at also and Designers terior Faith Cottage. FDR’s Top Fudell Children’s the of 20 years as president served for dis- for grants and funds League obtaining Service with in contact stays She children. advantaged Ninacampus roommate Ash William NY) has at- Gage, PhD ’58 (Rochester, reunions scheduled our regularly all 13 of tended like- done have others many how wonders and wise. IA 50131-1560; tel., (515) 278-0960; e-mail, [email protected]; 51 just short of finishing at Florida school graduate finishing of just short country, to his home moved then State U., and 50, both 48 and have two boys, They Australia. just younger the kids, has three older The married. after we got in Australia had been living “We cats. scientifically things of felt out but Eion married, by Bell Labs so happily accepted an offer there, re- in physics Hill, NJ, to work there at Murray they too, and to work at Bell Labs, I went search. Cornell faces and Ithaca places, June 9-12, at and Ithaca places, Cornell faces our 60th Reunion. 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:26 AM Page 61 Page AM 11:26 4/13/11 56-95CAMMJ11notes 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:26 AM Page 62

Church. She teaches Sunday school and is on We read a lot. Walter Meyer (Reston, VA; “It’s amazing what can be ac- vestry. She repairs and repaints her house, visits [email protected]) reads, listens to classical complished if you don’t care children, grandchildren, and one great-grand- music, ”plays” on the Internet, travels, and visits 53 who gets the credit,” Jane Little daughter, keeps doctors’ appointments, and is friends out of town. At Cornell, he would have Hardy told a lunch bunch of 800 strong at the Cor- working on the family history on Ancestry.com. “paid more attention to classes instead of ‘just nell Alumni Leadership Conference (CALC) at the Alice would like to travel, but feels she can’t getting by’ and still be in the top quarter of the Wardman Park Marriott, Washington, DC, on the alone. She wishes she had finished her Cornell de- class.” Miron Mihuka (New Paltz, NY) reads, writes weekend before Groundhog Day. She was the sev- gree. Her husband Robert ’51, now deceased, and poems, sees friends, and watches TV. He’s relax- enth Cornellian to receive the Cornell Association professors William Wimsatt ’39, PhD ’43, and By- ing, but he’d rather be playing golf. At Cornell, he of Class Officers’ William “Bill” Vanneman ’31 ron Robb had the greatest impact. John Geurtze would have preferred to join more activities and Outstanding Class Leader Award (and the second (Selkirk, NY) is “still farming, producing hay and not have worked too much. The university itself ’53 member). Jane, a senior communications lec- straw for the horse people.” He has been a mem- and its professors had the greatest impact. Mar- turer for 31 years in the College of Agriculture and ber of Delmar Kiwanis Club for 55 years. At Cor- ian Maag (Pinehurst, NC; [email protected]) gar- Life Sciences, accepted the award from one of her nell, Stan Warren ’27, PhD ’31, Ag Management dens, reads, and volunteers at the food pantry and former students, CACO president Rob Rosenberg professor in Warren Hall, had the greatest impact. Reading Recovery. She is treasurer of the HOA. ’88 (but not before she corrected a bit of his com- Albert Fried Jr., MBA ’53 (Rhinebeck, NY; albert Joanne Myers Shaller (Dover, DE) also vol- position one more time—the one with which he [email protected]) has been “trying to out- unteers. Robert Eberhart (Port Matilda, PA; presented her the award). Jane, a faithful friend guess the stock market, sitting at my desk at Al- [email protected]) is reading and “trying to protect of Cornell Plantations and Big Red hockey, foot- bert Fried Co.” Recently he has been working with and restore our local watershed and the streams ball, and other athletic endeavors, and a ’53 co- reunion chair, was a multi-term leader of CACO’s Mid-Winter Meeting and a longtime member of its board. She’s a veteran Cornell Adult University Charles Soumas is developing an (CAU) scholar-traveler. Plus much. The next speaker, President David Skorton, ‘ escorted her back to her table before taking on olive oil business in southern Greece. the challenge of following the warm and wise words with which she accepted the honors. His Joan Boffa Gaul ’52’ subject: the state of the university. A dozen ’53 classmates dashed through the snows of D.C. to CALC. The festivities included a nonprofit law enforcement organizations: the Cen- themselves.” Perry Gilbert, PhD ’40, in Biology ’53 dinner at the Marriott. Caroline Mulford Owens turion Foundation and New York State Troopers had the greatest impact. Charles Soumas (Cotuit, and Dick Halberstadt accepted co-chairfolkship Foundation and Funds. He would have done noth- MA; [email protected]) is fishing, boating, of our 60th Reunion—June 6-9, 2013. Earlier that ing differently at Cornell. Greatest impact? “My and traveling. He is also developing condos and an day, they demonstrated their teamsmanship with Finance professor at the Johnson School.” olive oil business in southern Greece. At Cornell each other. The lunchers competed to see if they Ellen Butterfield Simenstad (Madison, WI) he would have double registered for a business de- could build models of a pumpkin stuck on the Libe enjoys cooking, singing in her church choir, wa- gree. Coaches Bob Cullen and Terry Cullen, MBA Tower spire. They were given tools—a handful of tercolor painting, and taking lessons from an art ’66, had the greatest impact. Terrill Duke Walters uncooked spaghetti, an orange marshmallow, some teacher. She helps serve a monthly meal for home- (Greenville, SC; [email protected]) would string and tape, and 15 minutes to build one that less people. She would have changed nothing at have “studied more!” Prof. Sale and Mickey Caugh- remained standing. Dick and Caroline did it in ap- Cornell. “I enjoyed my junior and senior years at lan Kelley, her roommate, had the greatest impact. proximately five minutes. Cornell after transferring from Carleton College in Thurl Merritt is in a nursing home in New- Not so long after a 2009 voyage through the Northfield, MN.” The greatest impact was from pro- burgh, NY. His wife, Barbara (Clarke) ’51 (merritt. Panama Canal, with stops along the way, John and fessors in the College of Home Economics. After [email protected]), lives nearby. Robert Weinman Lea Paxton Nixon (Atlanta, GA) opened their home, graduation, Ellen worked for four years as a home (Palm Springs, CA; [email protected]) works as in February and March 2010, to a family they met economist in Rochester, NY. Louise Ceritelli Oric- an expert witness, reading, testifying, and trav- in the Republic of Georgia. Their guests’ son, Tedi, chio (Ft. Myers Beach, FL) spends her time read- eling. Gerald Thorington, DVM ’52 (Rushford, NY) was born with a hole in his heart. Two operations ing, swimming, walking on the beach, traveling, celebrated his 90th birthday on October 11. He’s in his native Georgia didn’t fix it. Lea was able and visiting friends and family in New York and running his farm. He would have done nothing dif- to connect the family with a world-class pediatric Connecticut. Because she broke her left hip a year ferently at Cornell. All of his professors in both the heart facility—in Atlanta. The needed surgery was ago, she also spends time in rehab. At Cornell, Ag and Vet colleges had a great impact on him. done at no cost in Georgia, USA. Little Tedi re- she’d like to have attended more sports events. Edwin Biederman Jr. (State College, PA) spends turned home “with a super heart and future.” He’ll The greatest impact was from Rosalind MacLean most of his time taking care of his wife. However, be back for yearly checkups. Later on, the Nixons and Hendrika Rhineburger. “They both had our he finished a novel, Polar 44, Ring 5, which has visited ‘Stans of Central Asia—Kazakhstan, Kyr- Nursing class of 70 students terrorized early on, been published and received a favorable review. Ora gyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan— but by graduation they were endeared to all!” Rothfuss Jr. lives in Macedon, NY. Edward Green- an area larger than Europe, but not even as well Clifford “Red” and Betty Wade (wadebetty@ stein, DVM ’52 ([email protected]) lives in Alexan- known to westerners as, say, Afghanistan. In an- yahoo.com) summer in Bainbridge, NY, where they dria, VA. Ruth Marsey Blum (Durham, NC) reads tiquity, it was frequented by those who traveled operate their hay and tree farm and enjoy time and rests. Retiree Rudolph Fritz lives in Newark, the old Silk Road and waves of the uninvited, like with their five kids and 18 grandchildren at the NY. Lincoln Peirce (Barrington, NH; lpeirce@ Genghis Khan, Tamburlaine, Ottoman Turks, and farm and Seneca Lake camp. Winters are spent in metrocast.net) says Prof. Henry Munger ’36, PhD finally, the Russians. “A fascinating place,” the DeLeon Springs, FL, working in their small citrus ’41, had the greatest impact on him at Cornell. Nixons say, and “recommend it to all.” grove and fishing and shrimping in the Indian Riv- I’ve now heard from more than 150 of you. Dick and Peg Jones Halberstadt ’56 and er. He writes, “The great way my life has turned I’m not complaining. Rather, we hope that such Harvey and Margy Horsfall Schadler, in South out, there are very few things I would have enthusiasm will bring you to Ithaca for our 60th America to see, photograph, and appreciate birds changed.” The greatest impact on him was “the Reunion. Here is the latest from reunion co-chairs and pre-Inca culture, overflew the mysterious, dean who kicked me out after the first semester Terry and Dori Crozier Warren: “Look forward to many hundred years B.C. pictograph Lines of Naz- instead of putting me on probation.” James meeting our new ‘Lehigh Valley Bear’ reunion ca in the Peruvian desert. One of the gigantic MacKellar (Newport Center, VT) reports, “Grand- class logo and its theme of ‘All Aboard for 2012.’ drawings of creatures cut into the arid desert son Gavin MacKellar ’11 is scheduled to graduate The railroading idea came about when we realized floor is of a hummingbird, about the length of a in May. He is the fourth generation of our family none of us had cars on campus and most traveled football field. There are those, you may have not- to do so. My father was Gordon MacKellar ’20, on trains. Again, we hope you will reserve 2012 ed on the late, late, late telly, who suggest that and my son is Ian MacKellar ’78, DVM ’81.” John Reunion Weekend dates, June 7-10.” c Joan the lines may have been drawn as celestial guid- Noonan (Kansas City, MO) does pro bono work, Boffa Gaul, [email protected]. Class website, ance systems for ancient astronauts from worlds reads, and plays tennis and golf. http://classof52.alumni.cornell.edu/. more advanced than ours. The Halberstadts also 62 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes Liz Sut- end- Staneslow June 2011 63 Joel Mallin Schmidt Whitman: “It Whitman: Downing, plus Downing, | , BArch ’56, are , BArch May and Joann Joann and Dave Greenberg-Mallin took a fami- Greenberg-Mallin Dearden wrote that she has still that she wrote Dearden wrote with good news: “After the “After news: with good wrote Neilson. Later in the year the Sut- the year the in Later Neilson. Miley and EllieMiley and Greig Jack Frey Sherry Vogel Hilly McCann Speaking of Reunion, Marcia Reunion, of Speaking Willemen This just in, from NancyThis just in, from Taft Peggy and Andy and Peggy Kaufmann in the class with active e-mail addresses. What a What addresses. e-mail active with class the in my has been wonderful, response The idea! great to thank I want and now), is full (for mailbox news. to the you all. So on not Reunion, from fully recovered but she’s hoping everyone sure “Make one. it to our next to make look and them seeing I enjoyed much how knows visit.” Olga to another forward Bruun has been traveling quite a bit these past years— quite a bit these has been traveling on a boat last summer, and two years ago to India From up in Nice. River ending Rhone the trip down vis- a car and rented partner her Olly and there, be they’ll spring By Germany. and ited Provence closer will be staying she summer, This in Israel. love is great her where Paul, in St. to home to Olly belongs Waters. Boundary in the camping month, a once that meets group reading a Cornell from but not with Cornellians, “so I’m in touch in this group!” oldie I’m the our class. ed last year on a high note, with a two-week river- two-week a with note, high a on year last ed alumni and with Cornell Danube boat tour on the ser- (Dave Featherstone Julie coordinator alumni Little Girl”—she with “Good Night Julie enaded tour started in The it before!). heard had never In Prague. in ended and Vienna, visited Budapest, visited by two friends were Schmidts the November Camilla. The Swedish daughter-in-law, their of dinner. been to a Thanksgiving had never friends stops” for his wife “pulled out all the Dave said it was “just thought women young the and them, had seen something course, of They, a movie!” like I have been then, it in an old film. “Since like up signed Cayuga’s Waiters the on getting working looks It reunion. June the during our six gigs for back head Joann Dave and turnout!” a great like to be home in mid-April sometime York to New Derby party. Kentucky annual their before in I were and a friend that just so happened ter wrote that she enjoyed hanging out at Re- enjoyed hanging that she ter wrote Risleyites corridor with freshman union Burroughs Doris Wunsch took a cruise to Ireland, and ters flew to London the Here’s Newfoundland. and Greenland, Iceland, Georgelatest from re- ’56: “Having Shear, BArch for- with my consulting after a few years of tired firm in NYC, I’ve become architectural mer past. After the of architecture in the interested es- historic the of prints of a series publishing on to oth- I’ve moved Valley, Hudson tates in the at my these View confections. er architectural website www.ARCHistration.com.” and moving, but not too far. “After 22 years in Co- 22 years in “After too far. but not moving, to a smaller country, going SC, we are lumbia, Can’t see the woods. in the on 20 acres house visits by but will have frequent neighbors, nearest coy- an occasional perhaps and wild turkey, deer, ote.” lady, a wonderful wife I met second my of death on Sept. 5. She’s married we were and Rahill, Maia the from retired I’m psychotherapist. practicing a as a mar- part-time Co., but still working DuPont Maia and Jack consultant.” financial and keting NJ. live in Mahwah, ly group of 16, children and grandchildren, on grandchildren, and children 16, of group ly of ten days for to Tanzania over Christmas safari trip that great “A wildlife. viewing and traveling is too late,” it before to do everyone I encourage becom- open spaces are wide “The advises. Joel narrower.” and narrower ing Les Gins- Ellen Wiet- c Clinton PhD ’33, PhD Joanne Wilson is medical director of the of director is medical is still active as chairman of is still active as chairman When my news supply for this supply for news my When dangerously column was running rescue to the came Cornell low, , Milton Konvitz Reed, [email protected]. Class web- [email protected]. Reed, (Odgen, UT) has been retired from the from retired has been UT) (Odgen, Fonda followed up her Cornell degree with degree Cornell up her followed Fonda William Kimber Great, upbeat note from from upbeat note Great, Bob Friedman 55 and sent a news” for “request message to everyone and is presently working toward upgrading their upgrading toward working is presently and obtain to inmates the to better enable offerings released. are they when employment gainful Barber consumer taught then and Drexel from a master’s 23 level for school high courses at the family and 47 years area Philadelphia to the moved She years. the of out moving of intention has no and ago 11 grand- and five children her of most as area, George distant. hours three to one live children Gibson with active keeps and years 25 than more for USAF Sal- the services, maintenance and repair his home his local church. and advisory board, Army vation and Joanne over. and over that I have read grefe been have cappella and a while singing met Walt to Ithaca retired They ever since. singing literally best it the but consider daughter, their to be near in Ari- readers note, (take made ever they move Cor- the of is a member Joanne Florida). and zona their that takes an organization Companions, nell reformato- to schools, dogs therapy well-trained First Con- The etc. hospitals, homes, nursing ries, attention her from also benefits Church gregational a in a ride list includes: bucket Joanne’s to detail. in St. art museum air balloon, a visit to the hot men’s Cornell the seeing and Russia, Petersburg, still For those Four. Frozen the among team hockey list— is a bucket as to what exactly dark in the it is a fun list to remember, Google and check make. Geisinger Medical Center’s School of Cardiovascu- of School Center’s Medical Geisinger a As 1991. in founded he which Technology, lar for need saw the past, he in the cath lab director cath labs to work in cardiac technologists training 43 for PA, lived in Danville, filled it. Having and is unlikely still unretired—it William years—and time East Coast any the down will slide Ann and he with volunteers he that interesting it found I soon. course to high a required teaching Red Cross the AEDs to re- and CPR use of in the juniors school and Still unretired attack victims. suscitate heart Ruth is capital nation’s the in working Bader welcomes duties, court with her along who, burg Court every Supreme to the Cornell-in-Washington this done Ruth has graciously fall. and spring last- her guessed, have you might 1993. As since Robert professors were Cornell from influences ing Cushman, E. , and Vladimir Nabokov. Rossiter ’39, and U. Services Uniformed Pathology, Dept. of the re- cancer doing and in Bethesda School Medical Bob says his ma- influences, to Cornell As search. has been very useful surprisingly jor in Economics in aided has Watermargin in membership his and issues current the of many of his understanding and has listed trips to China He at play today. all his despite list which, on his bucket Australia to have appear not years, over the trips to India Jill schedule. travel tight been on his Niederman at SUNY Old as an adjunct continues Edelson School the in course one teaches and Westbury Jill hopes schedule, With a reduced Education. of lovely if her work. Wonder volunteer more to do NSO. with the still plays viola daughter Papenfus http://classof54.alumni.cornell.edu. site, have C.K. Poe Fratt ’14, Baron’s rustic Baron’s Jim Hanchett, “Izzy” c has up and moved has up and and Ruth Sigel and (Scarsdale, NY) reports (Scarsdale, Joan Hoffman Schoof at sea. Later in the year Later in the at sea. Stan Hughhas , who Schwartz Isabelle (Fresno, CA), infrequently CA), (Fresno, Allan Griff Hmmm . . . The weather in Old weather Hmmm . . . The is column write this I as Town fourth the for 20 degrees Clelia II made news when an engine quit again quit an engine when news made ’s daughter Laura’s daughter ’81 Former ’53 prez and Cornell trustee Cornell and ’53 prez Former George Robson Fifty-three goes back to Tanglewood July 24 back to Tanglewood goes Fifty-three Your fall notes have come flooding in, caus- flooding have come notes fall Your , DVM ’53, profes- that late spouse Paul notes that her son, Alex Usby, is heading for Cornell, for is heading Usby, son, Alex that her with his cousin along as the ship made its way through a stormy Drake a stormy through its way made ship as the December. in Antarctica to Passage Fratt the Clelia the daughter of Poe Jr. So now there will be two of will be there So now Jr. Poe of daughter how can imagine “You Hill. on the grandkids Poe’s Dad is smiling.” “I know Laura. I am,” says proud jch46@ #8B, NYC 10009; e-mail, 300 First Ave., cornell.edu. heard from these several decades, has completed decades, several these from heard Deficit/ Attention ADHD, aka of a ten-year study has a pretty he Disorder—showing Hyperactivity a for was a pilot It heed. paying span of good wonders He study. controlled extensive more work, similar research pursuing are others whether or theoretically. clinically ’52 U. at the medicine animal large of sor emeritus posthu- honored has been vet school, Georgia of K. Britt, with Olive his students, of by one mously E. Hoffman Olive K. Britt-Paul the of funding the in women for Britt was a pioneer Professorship. in intern first woman the and medicine equine Pennsylvania. U. of at the clinic animal large the im- racing of foaling in the mare assisted the She was a Red). Hoffman Big (aka Secretariat mortal disease teacher locomotory equine distinguished 42 years. for Georgia U. of at the and afternoon in the an all-Ravel program for Rozsupper at Phil and Zalutsky Stay tuned. MA, digs. Lenox, got to go through the Canal, but their adventure but their Canal, the through to go got aboard engine an of failure the by marred was cruise ship the 54 straight day, with chilling winds and the constant the and winds with chilling day, straight participants brave mix. The a wintry of threat Parade— Day Washington George the in marching as was his home—looked after all, Alexandria with the winter long the had spent they though com- to beginning am I Forge. Valley at general in you overwinter of so many why prehend under- you just don’t a Californian, As Florida. now. I do stand. part after reading on my complete exhaustion ing about all you do. Bay Area San Francisco to the D.C. area the from have Allan, we must agreeable. it most finds and your over talk to Greens or place at Alice’s lunch milder west involved to move His decisions move. from removal and gardening, year-round climate, has been capital. He our nation’s of mayhem the and 1961, so is yet unretired his own boss since things other of number any or poetry write to free dictate. muses the when established a community emergency response team response emergency a community established Truro, 300-year old town of in the (CERT) program in all to help prepared are MA. CERT volunteers by first re- requested when emergencies of manner training, with the familiar not If you’re sponders. it out on Google. check econom- of field on the lectured written and long Eco- “Improving a book entitled is preparing ics, Hugh Economists.” Without or Policy—With nomic jails County Fairfax in the years worked has for 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:26 AM Page 63 Page AM 11:26 4/13/11 56-95CAMMJ11notes 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:26 AM Page 64

Alexandria, Egypt, when all the demonstrations and living in Poughkeepsie. Stanley, the Berkowitz’s options (living, activities/health issues, etc). began. We were supposed to be on a Red Sea cat, skulked around. I was there, and in case you’ve Might be something we can organize informally cruise that went to the Sinai, Jordan, and Syria. forgotten, I am selling shopping centers around judging by what everyone is doing as reported in I was really looking forward to climbing Mt. Sinai! the US. Just one addition: Ed, our host, volunteers this column. Lew Klotz (Teaneck, NJ) has been But we ended up being confined to the hotel for every Wednesday at Smithsonian’s American His- traveling in Europe and looks forward to seeing six nights before the tour company could get us tory Museum and is ready to meet and greet you. everyone at reunion. Janet Booth Anderson (Fair- out of there. They finally sent a charter for us, Which leads me to another reunion—our port, NY) reports about a Cornell luncheon group but the government couldn’t guarantee our safe- 55th this June. You should have received regis- in her area that has been in existence for some ty for the 20 minutes it took to get to the air- tration materials by now with information about 40 years. There are Cornellians of all classes, in- port! Finally, we were able to get to the airport all the wonderful events planned for us by our re- cluding Jean Grant Whitney of Rochester. Diane and get another chartered flight to Rome, and union chairs Jim Quest and Percy. We are stay- Newman Fried, MEd ’58 (Stratford, CT) is the were flown home on various airlines. It was in- ing at Alice Cook House, a wonderful new dorm. treasurer of her local League of Women Voters. She teresting to be in the middle of history, and, luck- Our classmate Marilyn Berger Hewitt will be also volunteers as a reader in the local schools and ily, we were never in any danger.” speaking to us about her fabulous book, This is a teaches in lifelong-learning/learning-in-retirement Bill Doerler writes, “I enjoyed my annual Soul, a book literally about miracles that happen programs. Judy Morse Jones (West Dover, VT) vol- luncheon with Lee ’54 and Barbara Loreto Peltz, to all of us. The book will be available at the Cor- unteers at her grandson’s school in the areas of who swung by after their cruise in January.” From nell bookstore, or you can bring one with you. I American history (her avocation) and science (her there, the Peltzes went on to visit Anne Morrissy am sure you will want Marilyn to sign your copy. former vocation). Patricia Smith Guggenheim Merick on Florida’s west coast. Bill also had lunch In addition, check our class website (http://class Born was married on August 22 to Robert Born with his old friend Tom Fricke, who lives in North of56.alumni.cornell.edu) to see who is signed up and will be living in Jupiter, FL, half the year. Palm Beach. “Good fun talking about the good old already. It is constantly being updated. Stephen and Gail Gifford Rudin will join days at Cornell!” When he’s not lunching, Bill is Classmates heard from: Bob Seraphin (Annan- Glenn Altschuler, PhD ’76, for his theatre week- working with a startup company in in dale, VA) retired long ago from working for the end in New York City. Karl Fischer (Chatham, MA) the field of money transmittal, starting with Mex- US House of Representatives, but is still consult- says retirement is good and bad. Karl is devoting ico. “A very interesting venture for this old Aggie ing part-time on issues related to Congressional af- full-time and assistance to his “cancer-battling to get involved in!” And a couple of comments fairs. He and wife Barbara (Franco) ’59 celebrated wife,” Nancy. We wish them both success in this from Ann Overbeck: “I am sad about the death their 50th anniversary on a cruise to Alaska with endeavor. Phyllis Mable (Washington, DC) serves of my roommate Ann Blodgett Brown on July 14, daughters, spouses, and grandchildren. Gideon as executive director for the Council for the Ad- 2010. She had just gotten home from a wonderful Panter, MD ’60, is a practicing gynecologist in vancement of Standards in Higher Education. Roy round-the-world cruise. I am happy about the mar- NYC. He was on the 50th Reunion committee at Mitchell (Great Falls, VA) is a mediator and arbi- riage of my roommate Jan Lepard McPhail. I am Weill Cornell Medical College as part of his job as trator at JAMS, the dispute resolution experts looking forward to the end of this winter and the a director of the Medical college’s Alumni Associ- (jamsadr.com). Mike Fellner (New York City) came ‘Romance on the Rhine and Mosel’ river cruise in ation. “The reunion was wonderful,” he said, “and out of retirement to run a few dermatology clin- April. And I really enjoy visiting with my Cornell I realized that I shall never miss another.” Gideon ics and teach one day a week at Metropolitan friends on Facebook.” Check it out! c Nancy is looking forward to our 55th in 2011. Hospital. Bonnie Smith Whyte (Reston, VA) works Savage Petrie, [email protected]. Class Henry Lavarnway, MBA ’57 (San Antonio, TX) with Aging in Place, a services system to allow website, http://classof55.alumni.cornell.edu. continues to spend 3-1/2 months a year on the older people to continue to live at home rather St. Lawrence River in Clayton, NY—bass fishing than have to move into a retirement communi- (“Catch enough for a big chowder, but no tro- ty—if that is their choice. Howard Schneider, JD Mini-reunions. My co-class corre- phies”). Orlando Turco (Ithaca, NY) is a realtor ’59 (NYC) started yet another career as a con- spondent Stephen Kittenplan with Warren Real Estate in Ithaca and still involved sultant. He joined Navigant Economics and acts 56 and his wife, Gail, spent five with the Cornell wrestling team. Bill Purdy (Sco- as a business consultant and testifies in the fu- days in California with Curtis and Pamela Reis. The tia, NY) remains a director of the Trustco Bank, a tures and derivatives business. foursome had a wonderful time together. Please $4 billion bank headquartered in Schenectady, NY. We are saddened to receive the news of the note there was a new arrival to the group: Curt and John Long, MS ’57 (Albion, NY) enjoys retirement passing on October 14, 2010 of our classmate Pam have adopted a poodle named Teddy, who is on his farm with wife Loretta. Chris ’55 and Car- Leonard LoBello (Philippi, WV). Leonard retired keeping them very busy now that Curt has retired ol Skidmore Cuddeback (Front Royal, VA) have from his position as CFO and VP of Alderson Broad- after 53 years in the banking industry. Curt is lived at their current address in the Shenandoah dus College in Philippi, after 36 years of service. director of the California Council for Economic Valley longer than they have lived anywhere in His civic contributions were renowned, including Education, among his many Cornell activities. their 53 years of marriage. They are very happy such areas at hospice, education, the Chamber of In Washington, DC, Ed and Lois Ullman to stay put on their 350 acres with their family. Commerce, and the Philippi Baptist Church, and Berkowitz ’59 entertained some of us who at- Fred Stafford (Chicago, IL) fell off his bike, he was named corporate citizen of the year many tended the annual Cornell Alumni Leadership Con- fractured a hip, and had hip replacement surgery times. “He was a man of integrity,” writes his ference in January. Those attending and having a in August 2009. Not to let that get him down, wife, Sue, “and a very private person who could warm and delicious evening were: Ed Cogen, JD Fred has taken up Scandinavian turning dances be counted on to help those who needed help. ’60, retired from the legal profession; Joe Manel- and went to Sweden for a dance cap in July The loss is huge for me and our family. He was a ski, who has been hosting quarterly Cornell lunch- 2010. Baxter Webb (Palm Beach, FL) is active in prize.” c Phyllis Bosworth, [email protected]. es at his wonderful home in McLean, VA; and the United Way and Palm Beach Chamber of Com- Barbara Travis Osgood, PhD ’80, who has been merce, and on the board of the Cornell Club of helping Joe. The lunches have featured great Eastern Florida. He is looking forward to reunion After Sari Feldman Zukerman was speakers on such topics as theatre arts in the D.C. in June. Peg Jones Halberstadt (Cincinnati, OH) elected president of the Gutten- area and world financial matters. Joe has also moved to a retirement home about ten miles 57 berg, NJ, board of education, an made his house available as unofficial headquar- from where they had lived, and continues to be article appeared in the Hudson Reporter listing ters and dormitory for the Cornell Solar Decathlon a docent at the Cincinnati Art Museum. She mini- many of Sari’s accomplishments. A lovely photo teams. He was recently honored by the Ag college. reuned with sister DGs in D.C. last winter and saw accompanies the article and you can read it online Others in attendance were Bob and Diana Mo- Les Papenfus Reed ’54, Sue Sylvester Teunis, Di- by googling Sari’s name. Budget cuts and person- tycka Day, who have been heavily engaged in ana Motycka Day, Jan Nelson Cole ’57, Nancy nel layoffs have provided a challenge for her in her community activities over the last few years, such Galusha Thomas, and Theta Bette Wendt Jore. new job. In another role, Sari volunteers at Engle- as campaigns to clean up the Anacostia River and Tom Kerr (Westerville, OH) was named president wood Hospital and Medical Center. Last November, Rock Creek Park as well as supporting the D.C. emeritus of Otterbein U. in recognition of his 13 Phyllis Lorberblatt Kahn was re-elected to the establishment. Others there were our co- years as president and service to the university. Minnesota House of Representatives and was also reunion chair Percy Edwards Browning; Carole Our congratulations to you, Tom. honored by Governing Magazine as a Person of the Rapp Thompson, retired from the United Nations Barbara Barron Starr, my Cornell roommate Year. You can read more at governing.com/poy/ and very engaged in making our reunion housing and longtime good friend, had suggested that we Kahn. Myrna Britz Danzig splits her time between a success; and Bob Morrisson, retired from IBM have a panel discussion at reunion on retirement Miami Beach and New York City. She enjoys 64 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes June 2011 65 A.C. Church Sonja Kisch- | Buckley gives us Buckley May ndrom says she es! She Ron Demer ’59, who and his wife ride bicycles ride his wife and writes from Rome, Italy. She Italy. Rome, from writes played varsity baseball for played varsity , MA ’59, retired as director of as director , MA ’59, retired , DVM ’67, and his wife went on his wife went , DVM ’67, and Jan Arps Jarvie ’58 Jan Cynthia Ide . She says she is also try- says she in Rome. She Wanted Barbara Avery Gary Davidson I had an e-mail from from I had an e-mail John Buchleitner Wilkin has an ongoing membership in a com- membership Wilkin has an ongoing has one withhas one sense. it makes 36 letters and is- She up with can come who to anyone sues a challenge 37 letters (or more). featuring one three years as an undergrad, so now he gets to gets he now so years as an undergrad, three each reunion alumni baseball game play in the so is perma- at Ithaca, lives at Kendal He year. Bonnie area. in the nently Casey pali is into She a challenge! ner in Walnut Chorale, Women’s chorus—Diablo munity a year in concerts give two main CA. They Creek, in the have a few singouts December and and May skiing, also enjoys gym activities, She county. family. and friends with socializing and reading, (Ponte Vedra Beach) for several reasons: moder- reasons: several for Beach) Vedra (Ponte un- golf, outstanding low taxes, ate weather, Clinic! Mayo the . . . and beaches crowded Cornellians, many not are says there he However, to volunteers lack of for local club died so the activities. lead the sent some info on Richard info some sent an Melton. Richard, Mary- U. of the from to Cornell transferred SAE, His officer. Service Foreign was a career and land Ambassador US was as the abroad last assignment Riley (Saratoga Springs, NY). Gene has been a NY). Gene Springs, Riley (Saratoga lo- in the 25 years and for member board school A.C. of Speaking 41. for club motorcycle cal the of has been a life member she Riley, Church the of member an emeritus and Council Cornell reads, She Council. Advisory Sciences Arts and and mah-jongg, and plays golf needlework, does and at every level. She to politics pays attention on Cape weeks two delightful spent husband her also She cottage! world’s smallest Cod in the com- giving planned Hospital Saratoga the chaired mittee commit- development served on the and Hudson. Mohawk Parenthood Planned for tee extensively. They completed a ride on the Mary- on the completed a ride They extensively. char- juvenile diabetes the for Eastern Shore land “I fish out hockey. ice still plays senior He ity. also We our condo. MD, from Ocean City, of with our grandchildren.” time a lot of spend Gene Ceglowski Peninsula, Olympic the trip to CAU weeklong the On St. Helens. Mount and River Gorge, Columbia first time, the for met, trip he the the Ohio Religious Coalition for Reproductive for Coalition Religious Ohio the on her is working she 2010. Now in March Choice canvassed for she list. Last fall “to do” retirement of House Ohio the for candidate Democratic the as major Government was a She Representatives. and is still involved in elections and an undergrad politics. restorer an Italian a website for is translating a local magazine for articles writing and friend called clutter at home—”The books are to downsize ing ho!” Shui, Feng stairs. the climbing ’ c Robert Herbert and Shari and Steve’s Weiss Jim Heinbach became Heinbach have moved to Vermont to have moved is the chairman of the of chairman is the overnmental organizations. Cindy Rogers is still working on a book that is still working I have a few news forms left forms I have a few news that 2010, so will get over from first. Eleanorout news DeMov reside in North Palm Beach, where Jim where Beach, Palm North in reside also had a wonderful, three-month driv- three-month also had a wonderful, and hisand Florida to northeast wife relocated a book that will answer all the will answer all the a book that great questions. Peter Klem is still working on is still working on Peter Klem Peter Klem Jim his own consulting from , retired Brown ‘ Schaffer has been traveling a bit—Panama Canal, a bit—Panama Schaffer has been traveling beach at the time spending Hawaii—and Alaska, cancer. breast while battling with grandchildren and still works at his law practice husband Her Nassau at the service 50 years of for was honored is still on the Eleanor Bar Association. County 24 serving after Library, Freeport the of board years as president. 58 will answer all the great questions. “I just fin- questions. great all the will answer We (answer: Planets’ Life on Other There ‘Is ished have started ‘What yet) and know don’t is Truth?’” about asked When 2012. in publish to expects He to play a part in his courses that continue Cornell ques- the “I still obsess about responded, he life, exam!” final I missed on Nabokov’s tion a great-grandmother in December 2009. She still in December 2009. She a great-grandmother community the and choir with the enjoys singing A family. her visit to traveling and “Troubadors” Grand the seeing West, trip was to the favorite others. several and Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Whittall visited He western states. the trip around ing He 12,000 miles. drove parks and seven national and Beach very committed to Vero his wife are and g and involved in civic Hanna firm in the plastics industry, breeds black and yel- black and breeds industry, plastics firm in the a and is a selectman He retrievers. low Labrador He board. planning NH, Stratford, the of member he a talent fishing, time considerable spends Sam in Ithaca. to have learned claims , Leadley in primarily raisers, calf with consults ’67, PhD but also extensively Midwest, and Northeast the of pastime is a favorite Hunting internationally. Andy Philadelphia follows , LLB ’62, who Schroder and in Sanibel, FL. He while living sports teams en- work and volunteer quite a bit of Charlotte do their around plantings various the joy tending East Coast, on the Over house. travel, having visited 48 states and 37 countries. 37 and 48 states visited having travel, ’54 (Glade) Ginny and He a small upgrading by trend the against gone and mu- on the Continuing quarters. larger into house Bob front, sical Hurlbut also serves He Orchestra. Philharmonic Rochester is a and hospital a 700-bed of board on the chairman the and Rochester U. of the trustee of Fund. State Insurance York New the of Broadhead the of remnants with any then and now sings meet- annual the attended He Cayuga’s Waiters. last in Ithaca Councilors Presidential the of ing of unveiling was at the and fall Uris Library. of Room Kinkeldey in the portrait [email protected]. Seiler, c Ann Bar- Baym. has fa- dabbles wrestled dur- wrestled Tuesday science Tuesday Allan Dunn, who Nina Zippin David Bulman Zimmerman is co-founder is Zimmerman , distinguished professor at professor , distinguished Weidenthal, BFA ’57, was an BFA Weidenthal, Foltz, and Held serves on the women’s serves on the Held Downs is in the process of de- of process is in the Downs New York Times New York Smith had a laminectomy in Oc- Smith had a laminectomy films, and restaurants. Some Cornell Some restaurants. and films, Sam Waxman Judy Weinberg Jerry Neuman For the last 14 years, last 14 years, For the is Lee choir in his church Also singing , Poole and other family members—“fun had by all.” members—“fun family other and Elizabeth Hollister museums, museums, friends she’d like to hear from: Billfrom: hear to like she’d friends Huffer , Marie Abrahmansen of Wisconsin Wetlands Association and has been and Association Wetlands Wisconsin of work of the finishing text, on a botany working to Libby belonged Cornell, At late husband. her and hiking still enjoys Club and Outing Cornell the Ornithology Lab of the of a member As kayaking. surveys. frog and bird does occasionally she accomplished photographer and well known in the known well and photographer accomplished it disease made Parkinson’s before area Cleveland of has been an officer Judy to continue. difficult a neu- and support group, a local Parkinson’s PEP, beneficial been has year last procedure rosurgical her spent Judy Cornell, While attending to her. was was well, she she when year in France; junior regular- that met group a French-speaking part of ly. bara Kaufman to normal back to get is “still trying tober and very well.” cooperating hip not walking—replaced to continues she life is that her of upside The senior Kentucky U. of with the enjoy performing volun- year of 32nd is in her and chorus citizens are people who for books of as a narrator teering start in her got Barbara handicapped. and blind a to a textbook by reading at Cornell this field lacrosse. playing eye one in blinded classmate VA, in Waynesboro, to downsize whether ciding of active member is an She to Florida. or move which Art Association, Valley Shenandoah the like art. And of weekend a Fall Foliage sponsors chal- ongoing “an golf finds us she of many lenge.” Joyce the for secretary is Edgar Schickler com- welcomes class and Nursing of 1957 School gradu- school fellow Nursing from munications at [email protected]. her can find You ates. Judith Bluffton, SC Reusswig, 19 Seburn Dr., [email protected]. e-mail, 29909; committee for the National Symphony Orchestra Symphony National the committee for ten- back to playing is now after eye surgery and was at Jerry in Colorado. skiing and golf nis and Andy son with 2010 in program summer CAU the ’84 Marylou Watkins cilitated a class called “Science Times” at SUNYIT Times” cilitated a class called “Science Al- from commuting at Utica, Technology) of (Inst. uses the He bany. profes- retired of group the for as his text section sionals. di- scientific is the School, Medical Sinai Mount bearing Foundation Research Cancer the of rector research. cancer breast in active is which name, his think tank. Also is also involved with an Israeli He activity is involved in scientific discov- have to claims he science a on lectured at cartilage, of healing development prenatal ered, Harvey in Brussels. a meeting Lyndaker in enjoys skiing and estate in retirement in real school high is active in the He months. winter the having NY, in Middleport, association wrestling his own high sport since been involved in the Ernest days. wrestling school Boda na- the still follows Hill and his years on the ing holder. Red as a season ticket Big ranked tionally soloist. and as a deacon is active in his church He is retired He Glee Club. the in tenor was high who in ac- aiding currently minister, as a Presbyterian a nonprofit people through for housing quiring for class record the holds probably He agency. 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 65 Page AM 11:27 4/13/11 56-95CAMMJ11notes 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 66

to Brazil. He is now retired and lives in Alexan- Daniel ’56 and Patricia Lasky Rathmann re- is director and head curator at the Art Museum at dria, VA. c Jan Arps Jarvie, 6524 Valleybrook Dr., tired to Moscow, ID, about a year ago to be clos- the U. of Colorado; son Kevin ’89 is director of Dallas, TX 75254; e-mail, [email protected]. er to family. “Son Kurt did his graduate work in research at Henkel; Randy, a former actor, is a architecture at the U. of Idaho here,” says Pat, producer and also represents screenwriters; and “and we found the idea of a small collegetown nes- daughter Tineka, a theatre major, is now a cast- How thrilling! David Seidler won tled in the foothills of the Clearwater National For- ing agent in Los Angeles who has worked on such the Oscar for best original screen- est very appealing after 25-plus years in Cincinnati, movies as Fair Game and The Lovely Bones. 59 play for his compelling, impec- OH. Opportunities for hiking and fishing are ex- Saying he was sorry they were unable to at- cably crafted The King’s Speech. Inspired by King cellent: we’ve traipsed both the Lewis & Clark and tend reunion in June, Ray Skaddan (Dresher, PA) George VI to overcome his own stutter, David Nez Perce trails. We also own a small farm 20 miles adds, “Lynda and I continue to enjoy traveling to began researching the project in the 1970s, though outside of town, so we’re enjoying the best of both visit our daughter and son and their families in San it wasn't until 2002 that he got access to the worlds. Boise, Seattle, Missoula, and Portland—as Diego and Virginia, respectively, and our annual notebooks of King George’s speech therapist. He's well as Yosemite, Glacier, Craters of the Moon, and two weeks in Cape Cod in September.” Ray still now planning to move the story to the , with Yellowstone—are only a short day’s ride. This gave works as a principal with LarsonAllen, “but with a a scheduled London opening this fall. The oldest us the opportunity to join Jackie Sundermeyer relaxed schedule,” and says he is “in regular con- person to win this particular Academy Award, Hill and her husband Emile for a wonderful eight tact with several Cornell Hotelies,” including Paul David told the awards audience, “My father always days at Old Faithful Inn over Labor Day. The gey- Auchter, JD ’64, who lives in Key Biscayne, FL. Pe- said to me I would be a late bloomer.” sers, of course, are spectacular, but it was also ex- ter Vail, formerly president of Carolina Eastern, an Our congratulations and best wishes to all periencing the wildness of both the scenery and agricultural product company, now lives in Engle- who graduate from Cornell this month, but espe- the animals that was breathtaking. To see wolves wood, FL. He reports, “My hobby (avocation) is cially to Evan Antoine ’11, the most recent recip- and to share that with a group of fellow travel- raising pedigreed dairy cattle. We had a great fall, ient of the Class of ’59 scholarship. Evan, from ers was truly bonding. To quote Ken Burns, our showing our cows at the World Dairy Exposition in Orlando, FL, is an independent major in CALS, national parks are ‘America’s best idea.’ ” Madison, WI.” Two of his cows won prizes there; concentrating in marketing and sociology; he will Sue Bates Cottrell continues to work as the at the All-American Jersey Show in Louisville, KY, graduate with a BS in Interdisciplinary Studies. hospitality director at Freemark Abbey Winery in they won the Jersey Futurity prize. Evan has been publicity chair for the Men of Color St. Helena, CA. Lots of extracurricular activities on Peter Linzer ([email protected] or plinzer@ Council (M.O.C.C.) at Cornell; the organization her agenda, too, including season tickets to San gmail.com) is professor of law at the U. of Hous- sponsors networking opportunities and leadership Francisco Giants games and to the Mountain View ton Law Center, teaching contracts and constitu- conferences for underrepresented Cornellians and Center for Performing Arts. Sue is a member of the tional law. He says, “I just published my revision Ithaca High School students. “At a conference we St. Helena Chamber Choir and enjoys watching her of a volume of Corbin on Contracts, a well-known held in January,” he writes, “I learned about the grandchildren, three of whom live close to her. legal treatise. I’m also active in the American Law concept of servant leadership, which is leadership Also living near children and grandchildren, Inst.” Peter has a son, Grayson, 15, whom he grounded in service to others. This concept has Jacqueline Grant Lewis resides in Harleysville, plans to take to Japan this summer. He says: “I’d made a significant impact on how I view myself PA. Kim Mitchell has been helping his son on the love to get advice and suggestions from folks as a member of our society, and I plan to practice family farm and is restoring an International Har- who’ve been to or lived in Japan.” From Parkdale, these principles when I graduate.” vester 544 tractor, a four-cylinder agricultural trac- OR, Paula Friedman reports, “My new novel, The Evan also has served as liaison VP of com- tor produced in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Kim Rescuer’s Path, will be published in late spring/ munications for Cornell’s delegation of the Ivy also has been enjoying some great trips, includ- early summer 2011 by PV Press.” The plot revolves Council. This is a student-run consortium that ing travels to Greece and Alaska. c Jenny Tesar, around the daughter of a Holocaust survivor who helps connect students from all eight Ivy League 97A Chestnut Hill Village, Bethel, CT 06801; tel., saves an antiwar activist framed for a fatal bomb- schools. He has held at RPCC Dining and the (203) 792-8237; e-mail, [email protected]. ing of an army truck. She subsequently has a child Appel Student Center. In February he began work- with him whom she gives up for adoption—but ing for the Cornell Annual Fund as a university who reappears in her life 30 years later. Paula says representative. After graduation, Evan hopes to Reflections on last June’s gath- that novelist Ursula LeGuin calls The Rescuer’s Path work in marketing or public relations and is con- ering are still coming in. George “exciting, physically vivid, and romantic.“ When not sidering attending graduate school in the next two 60 Nukk, BME ’62, writes from working on her own writing, she says, “I’m edit- years. In a thank-you letter to our class, he says: Franklin Lakes, NJ, “It was great getting back for ing books for university presses and private clients, “I am both excited and prepared for the world our 50th Reunion and being with my fraternity teaching writing, and practicing cross-country ski- that awaits me after graduation. I know that I brothers, Mechanical Engineering schoolmates, and ing in my yard here in the Oregon countryside.” would not have reached this great moment in my football team members. I hope to see everyone in Intrigued by the e-mail address of Susan life without the generosity of the Class of 1959. I five years at our next reunion!” Ruth Berberian Glowacki Luccini—[email protected]— hope to one day sponsor a scholarship for de- Hanessian made the early I discovered that, after serving students to help them achieve their full June drive to Ithaca from a career as an English potentials. By doing this, I will fully understand the Washington area with teacher in the US, Ghana, the satisfaction that comes from helping someone Tish Heller Davidson and I wound up Borneo, and Italy and as actualize his or her dreams and aspirations.” Susan Cowan Jakubiak. a writer and editor for Kudos, too, to our physical therapy poster She says that the trip ‘ educational publishers, child: Jane Taubert Wiegand (Attleboro, MA). Last “really took us all back 50 being a Susan now offers an ar- August, Jane had hip replacement surgery after years, and a stop at the ray of memoir-writing telling the orthopedic surgeon that she needed to Ithaca Farmers Market by “collector” services, helping people be able to ski afterwards. “Note that he is one of the lake on the way home record and preserve their the leading doctors at New England Baptist and put the final touch on a of things. life stories. Her firm, has pioneered in minimally invasive procedures,” wonderful visit.” A Reunion whose website is www. says Jane. “His approach minimizes the impact on highlight for Ruth was “sit- smlpublishing.com, pro- ting in front of the Lab of Ellie Browner Greco’ ’61 the muscles that keep the joint in place. He said vides assistance with he would have me on skis when the snow flew if Ornithology Friday morning manuscript preparation, I did my rehab.” And do it she did—exercising at 6:30 and watching the as well as printing and with a physical therapist, walking in sand, riding soon-to-fledge clutch of great blue herons stand binding. She and husband Ezio live in Oregon her road bike, using an exercise bike and her Ski- up to be fed by parents.” House, CA, where she also does volunteer work er’s Edge. She was back on the slopes in Vermont Paul Becker came from Bloomington, IN, to in literacy and equal-opportunity programs. after Thanksgiving, returned after New Year’s, then attend reunion with wife Gail (Hirschmann) ’62 David Chittenden, who has spent four went to Colorado at the end of January for two and says they “had a great time. We had fun with decades in the Bay Area as an orthopedic sur- weeks, skiing hard for at least a half day every day. [former] roommates David Covitz, DVM ’63, and geon, reports that he is now “mostly retired,” In mid-February she told me, “I’m going back for Arnie Henry, whom we don’t see very often since volunteering, traveling, and doing photography. two weeks and expect to do at least as well.” we live in the Midwest.” The Beckers’ daughter Lisa Sandra Nasar Gross writes from East Lansing, MI, 66 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes and Larrie Don Jennings June 2011 67 | (dhh11@cornell. May Evans (jevans1000@ Evans ([email protected]) is ([email protected]) Neville are retired in Millbrook, retired are Neville ([email protected]) remains ([email protected]) Jay Keller ([email protected]) Alaska enjoyed an Rockwell’s planned bike tour reported bike Rockwell’s planned Dave are people who ’64, , MBA Duffield Mount, who is tennis enjoying volunteer and Jim skiing ’65, teaches , MBA Lansdowne Juran I recently had a very nice chat with Marty chat with a very nice had I recently In retirement, DavidIn retirement, Hill Community activist Gerry activist Community Miller Retiree Gregg and CPA a retired is Marty work in Doylestown, PA. with SCORE,works regularly mentor- volunteer the businesses. advises small that group ing Carol idge, tridge, br and avel, golf, skiing, fishing, hunting, with grandson.time help the With of Fund Maddie’s founder will soon gain faster arrest cardiac experiencing that Dave application iPhone A new treatment. people sends developed team at Workday his and pin- and victims attack heart to training CPR with defibril- electronic automated nearest the points people phone, cell a in tracking GPS Using lator. to the sent then be alerted and on can sign who survival rate victim’s the increasing scene—thus tech- will provide Workday by up to 80 percent. appli- the move can developers so support nical as Blackberry and such platforms, to other cation for homes have found Cheryl Dave and Android. foundation, their pets through than 600,000 more Schnauzer. pet beloved their after named cruise last year: “A great way to see a state that way great cruise last year: “A is beautiful, fascinating, easily accessible.” not and has devoted job at OPM and Don left his software new “My then. since to sports mornings weekday out legged mobility—I greater much hip gives me was able to and 2006 run since first home my volleyball in and table tennis, compete in softball, singing I continue Olympics. Senior Maryland the is Adam sons their of One groups.” with four . ’94 Dockerill sports art collec- his father’s busily cataloguing Rotary, with FL, DeLand, in active also is Jay tion. and group, a local theatre for set construction edu) has joined the Schwäbischer Sängerbund, a Sängerbund, Schwäbischer the has joined edu) NJ. Ridge, in Basking choir mixed German 90-voice a year. give two concerts weekly and practice They Also re- West. in the to ski like Judith and David tired, and Maurice CO. Evergreen, Basin near at Loveland Virginia Swanson as a pre- and busy as a volunteer she’s where Judy “sub.” school Leach en- and Hopkins Johns from retired comcast.net) read, to play with grandchildren, leisure joys the home. South Carolina at their time spend and Rudy Muenster con- a hotel Consult, with RWM partner managing located on Berlin’s Kurfursten- company sulting biking, life hiking, active an leads Rudy damm. him find You’ll socializing. and eating, swimming, in Germany. events Cornell organizing Coalition works with the ([email protected]) (seeking Front Rocky Mountain the to Protect Montana the and legislation) Congressional Advo- coordinates and Council, Assn. Wilderness work- Board (College Awareness College cates for also active with skiing, She’s newsletters). shops, travel. and tennis, biking, long-distance hiking, chil- MT) have four Falls, (Great Chuck Gerry and to A follow-up 14 grandchildren. and dren sup- which tour, bike “The to you last November: to Hole Jackson from me son and ported my weather, Great success. was a great MT, Kalispell, A good mishaps. major was beautiful, no Montana ‘self- another was had by all! I’d love to do time don’t and where know tour—don’t bike designed’ have who classmates some Perhaps when. know for suggestions at this will have some experience [email protected].” at me pro- Doug Ruth c (jkasin@ Jay Kasin Jean Travis Boccuti and and One year from now we’ll be in now year from One our for plans of stages final the 50th Re- once-in-a-lifetime Bleyler ([email protected]) wel- Bleyler ([email protected]) ([email protected]) passed along ([email protected]) Sorry our space constraints won’t permit Sorry our space constraints “Some may recall the Canton Central master Central Canton the recall may “Some Stuart further relates, “I retired from active from “I retired relates, further Stuart In anticipation of where you’ll be next June, you’ll be next where of In anticipation more entries. However, keep the news flowing to flowing news the keep However, entries. more See you in June! columns. future for me [email protected]. Fuss, plan that our firm created in the mid ’90s and mid in the plan that our firm created the as part of video in a brief that was presented The Hall. Symposium in Rockefeller 35th Reunion plan in its en- the accepted government Chinese Riv- Pearl site on the two-square-mile The tirety. (formerly City Guangzhou of center the at er completely con- almost is now as Canton) known on Google—with can be viewed structed—and residen- institutional, commercial, governmental, in both designed buildings recreational and tial, world.” the around from by firms and China the ravages of time and the ravages of later Cor- later of ravages the and time of ravages the set- the found understand, we who, revelers nell Arboretum the before parties wild perfect for ting Scon was created. am now in December and practice architectural again. archaeology in art and interests pursuing their celebrated Harvard and Cornell Last year, capital Turkey, Sardis, at excavations of year 50th in the Croesus King under Empire Lydian the of contin- will probably Excavations B.C. 6th century ancient the as years 50 next the least at for ue both reconstructed and uncovered city is gradually Many mortar. and brick, in marble, on paper and Detweiler, Henry Prof. will remember classmates of College history in the architectural of professor in establish- was instrumental who Architecture, Har- and between Cornell collaboration the ing we arrived on just as 1950s, late in the vard un- to have participated I was fortunate campus. later in the and ’62 in ’61 and his guidance der and enduring most the among is now It 1970s. in the programs research archaeological successful Hel- Greek, in archaic was important Sardis world. Metro- The times. Byzantine and Roman, lenistic, to its entry remodeled recently politan Museum’s a of portions features galleries Roman and Greek base from capital, column and perfect Ionic near largest the of one Artemis at Sardis, of Temple the that columns Ionic temples with original Greek feet high. 50 than more stood vided great encouragement—and transportation encouragement—and great vided con- VW) during red (in their Thurston 312 from them.” it without Couldn’t have done struction. 62 comcast.net). He and Cindy live in Bellevue, WA, live in Bellevue, Cindy and He comcast.net). as gunsmithing, lists his activities he where union. It’s not too early to contact those friends those to contact too early not It’s union. 7-10, 2012 and June to see in Ithaca, you’d like Chairwoman arrangements! those make Dick Monroe Ithaca, Greek on the link to a video following the enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/ you may which busy keep Toni and watch?v=1n3n2Ox4Yfk. Dick “Custom gunmaker” WA. in beautiful Woodinville, of card business the reads Zimmerman least at that hope We help. volunteer your comes (plus spouses and 350 alumni will attend on your dates these so please highlight friends), informa- additional Lots of calendars. electronic ten next your way over the will be coming tion you can also visit our class website, and months, http://classof62.alumni.cornell.edu/. Stuart Judy Bryant c MFA ’52, sculpture MFA Greco (Forked River, NJ) re- NJ) River, (Forked Greco , “visited Cornell again Cornell “visited , MA ’62 Yes, we’re committed to Reunion committed we’re Yes, an planning are I and Susan 2011! with trip, along driving extended , BArch ’62, Fred, BArch Biebesheimer, BArch Bob ’61, Michael Einaudi ’60, BArch New- My close friend and fraternity brother brother fraternity and close friend My Ellie Browner Ellie , Barry, and she that Uni- Adult at Cornell’s class a literature for in July in London took a flat we In September versity. No- spend We weeks to see theatre. three for Beach, FL, where in Delray May vember through group discussion books a great Barry facilitates to: news Send library.” at the [email protected]. Wittenberg, 61 ’62, and I created the first five sculptures, that first five sculptures, the I created ’62, and A ten others. by approximately later joined were with disappeared and have fallen them of number professor in the College of Fine Arts, that the con- the that Arts, Fine of College in the professor Sculp- Arboretum the (now project sculpture crete architecture us of several that Garden) ture a barn back of in 1961 in the constructed students per- and labeling, repair, cleaning, a received has its 50th for display in time information manent this is a metaphor anniversary in 2011. Perhaps world the into cast freshly was that class a for to return will and year, that same Cornell from Tedcampus in June. ’60, MArch ’58, BArch Graves ’61, man ’58 ports: “I wound up being a ‘collector’ of things. a ‘collector’ of up being ports: “I wound I quilts. is antique collection rewarding most My American the of an active member have become part is fascinat- ‘study’ the and Group Quilt Study (I to me exciting have always been Textiles ing. in and after graduation) in textiles was working to a presenter I have become last few years, the about quilts—espe- speaking local organizations knowledge my sharing quilts—and antique cially was in education career My quilts with others. and interests main my this activity has combined and an activity that I enjoy thor- years into over the activity is in this particular challenge My oughly. quilts to my move to physically energy the having it out ways to make but I’m figuring places, other soon. time to stop any intend I don’t and easier our family as part of traveling more doing are We son-in- and Laurie daughter that include activities wonderful some that has produced law Hunter; fun. I also am been great and moments shared Quilt Study American with Questers and traveling conventions. national states for to various Group to to travel opportunities to find I will continue I been or to which I have never places to which I don’t a re-visit. I want ago have been so long but an do’ a ‘rather opportunities these consider communi- shore a in live We activity. additional our choose; we activities shore the all do and ty Colorado of mountains lives in the family young as well. Between our fami- there we explore and work, we part-time and volunteer and ly activities we choose.” things very busy doing are a par- along sent ’62, an architect, Carter, BArch imminent. is as our reunion note, timely ticularly Sculpture Arboretum the of know us may of Some a “I received full story. the relates Stuart Garden. Jack Squier, Prof. from note the festivities in Ithaca, to visit friends and rela- and to visit friends in Ithaca, festivities the few past the of pay back obligations tives and Pauline co-chair reunion with spoke I years. Sutta up attendance called drumming who Degenfelder, and well together coming are Things event. our for attendance. a record-breaking for we have hopes in updates, have sent classmates many Meanwhile, length. significant of some 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 67 Page AM 11:27 4/13/11 56-95CAMMJ11notes 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 68

maintaining family websites. Retirees Robert and where he worked in the law department doing The Cornell NetID matter came up at our Lee Ann Gillen ([email protected]) are in forensics. He and Marilyn have five grandchildren. class meeting last January, so webmaster Bruce Raleigh NC, where he delivers Meals on Wheels Gene has finished writing a novel of 500 pages Wagner, ME ’66, took it upon himself to en- with his daughter and volunteers at the North Car- called “The Jackie Tone Chronicles: The Dark Wars.” courage us to sign up. Linda Cohen Meltzer also olina Museum of Natural Sciences. John and Joan He also does freelance photography. An article ap- encourages our participation, noting such is nec- Ryan Ruh ([email protected]) live in East peared in the Spring 2010 Human Ecology mag- essary “to help us communicate for reunion and Aurora, NY. In addition to spending time with six azine, Link, about Mary Margaret Thompson to easily keep our collective demographics up- grandchildren, Joan does tap dancing, takes fit- Hansen. Mary Margaret went from Cornell to to-date.” There is, or will be soon, a link to sign ness walks, swims laps, leads a discussion group, Bloomingdale’s executive training program. She up at the class website. You will need your Cor- travels, and is active in her parish and with Red then moved to Houston to raise a family. After a nell ID number, located on your dues cards and Hat. Similar activities occupy the retired life of divorce, she started her own public relations firm also on this magazine’s mailing label. Beth and Rick Kelly ([email protected]) and eventually became a community activist and Plans for our 50th Reunion were discussed at in Hopkinton, MA: grandkids, gym workouts, ski- an artist. To help her Houston neighborhood she the meeting. Save the dates! Reunion will be held ing, spectator sports, and traveling. created Second Seating, an art installation in a June 5-8, 2014, and we will be housed in the Auditing courses at Rutgers in New Brunswick warehouse space where downtown Houston meets North Campus dorms. Suggestions for our reunion is enjoyable for Wendell Wallis (grayelf59@aol. the East End. She raised $40,000 from arts or- activities and programs are being sought by our com) of Scotch Plains, NJ. He travels to Boston, ganizations and local businesses and with eight reunion co-chairs Linda Cohen Meltzer, Bruce Washington, DC, and Aruba, and frequently to NYC. other artists built a space full of recycled tables Wagner, and Joan Melville. Also at the meeting, Wendell is a library volunteer and works on his fit- and chandeliers to describe life in the East End. Cindy Wolloch gave an update on our current JFK ness program. John and Maryjean Hertel Yengo, More than 2,000 people visited the space through Scholarship recipient, Harin Song ’10. Ms. Song MEd ’63, are in Webster, NY, where Maryjean does evening gatherings, field trips, and other events. is at Oxford as I write and will enter Harvard Law some substitute teaching of English as a Second Besides looking for another space to create an School this autumn. Congrats are due for two Language. She’s on the Webster Village Historic art installation, she creates collages with photo- classmates: Pete Gogolak has been inducted into Preservation Commission and enjoys garden and graphs and the written word, maintains two the Ivy League Football Hall of Fame, and Lenore book clubs. They travel to Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, blogs, and crochets one-of-a-kind neckwear. ”Lenni” Weitzman, who has long been active in and North Carolina to visit their children and grand- Renda Lindley McCaughan, MS ’66, and hus- Jewish activities and causes, was the Holocaust children. c Jan McClayton Crites, 9420 NE 17th band Peter live in New Milford, CT. Since Pete re- keynote speaker at the United Nations last Feb- St., Clyde Hill, WA 98004; [email protected]. tired they have moved to be closer to family, ruary. Thanks are due to Fred Young, MBA ’66, which includes granddaughter Samantha. After six who has given a large donation to Cornell for a months of looking, they finally found the right new telescope project (a magnification magna- As I write this column, the com- house for them—a ranch perched on a hill with nimity, you might call it). munity of Tucson in which War- a lovely view. In a press release, we received an On to other news, beginning with a run- 63 ren Icke ’62 and I live is recov- announcement that Thomas Beeby, BArch ’64, down on who attended last summer’s CAU, ering from a great tragedy. We grieve for those became chairman emeritus of HBRA Architects chronologically beginning with week one: Sculp- who died, but feel comforted by the healing that (formerly Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge Archi- ture (Nancy Greyson Beckerman and Martin has taken place in those who survived. Gabrielle tects) in Chicago. Although Tom’s “design respon- Garfield); Golf Clinic (my husband, Jim). Week Giffords, MRP ’97, is in Houston going through sibility will diminish, he will be freer to pursue two: the Wines Course (Dale and Linda Sartwell rehabilitation, and Suzi Annis Hileman ’73 is the personal artistic and intellectual inquiry that DeBrine ’66, John Looney and wife Susan, and recuperating at home. Suzi is CAAAN chair for the have always interested him.” Other Cornellians in Bruce Wagner with son William ’85); the Eco- Cornell Club of Southern Arizona. As president of the firm include Aric Lasher ’83, BArch ’84, and nomics of War (Helen Schwartz). Week three: CCSA, Warren and one of his vice-presidents, Mary Michele Silvetti-Schmitt ’92, BArch ’92. Obama’s First Half-Term: The Good, the Bad, and Wellington Daly ’66, paid Suzi and Bill ’72 a visit. Susan Silverstein Sandler took a working va- the Too-Soon-to-Tell (Bruce Wagner again, this Suzi is upbeat about the Tucson community and cation in Edinburgh at the European Huntington time sans William, and Susan Bass Noel); Fos- all that is being done to preserve the memory of Disease Network. Her work with Huntington’s dis- sils: The History of Life (on the shores of Cayuga those who died. She is especially interested in the ease nutrition is based in New York City. She likes Lake and surrounding gorges) (John ”Lee” Fer- Christina Taylor Foundation since she was the to attend Tanglewood. Her son Ted received his guson and wife Cynthia). Week four: Creative woman who brought Christina to the event where doctorate in computer science from the U. of Nonfiction (Susan Atlas); When Moses Met Pla- she ultimately lost her life. Tucson is resilient and Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering in 2010. to: Reading in Late Antiquity (Paul diverse and will get through this terrible time. Warren Walker, PhD ’68, retired from RAND in Kruger with wife Mary). On to the news of the class. Class of 1963 2008. He lives in The Hague, the Netherlands, Retiree Barbara Rainard (Glenshaw, PA) class officers and class council members attended works in Delft, and travels to the French Ardennes keeps active as part of a group that works with the Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference in Wash- and Provence regularly. Warren is now a professor disadvantaged youth in Pittsburgh, and also is ington, DC, in January. Class president Carol Bag- of policy analysis at the Delft U. of Technology. involved in a community garden that raises food dasarian Aslanian was joined by Joe Stregack, He was also a visiting professor at the Harbin for a local food bank. Her husband is Sarosh PhD ’70, Paula Trested Laholt-Oeste, Donna Fors- Inst. of Technology in Harbin, China, in the fall Talukdar. At the other end of the state, P. Alan man, BFA ’64, Vivian Grilli de Santo, Pat Kelly of 2010. Warren has three young grandchildren. Loss, who lives in Lancaster with wife Linda, still Poggi, Dick and Betty Card Lynham, and Dick That’s all for now. Keep the news coming. c works at his firm, Personal Wealth Advisory LLC, Clark. Carol wrote: “The class meeting focused on Nancy Bierds Icke, 12350 E. Roger Rd., Tucson, as a financial planner specializing in exit plan- class events to be scheduled in the next year AZ 85749; e-mail, [email protected]. ning for business owners. The Losses have seven across the country, the development of affinity children and five grandchildren. They traveled groups and use of social media to bring classmates last year to Costa Rica to visit his brother-in-law together, and planning for our 50th Reunion in Improbable as it may seem for and his wife. Alan writes that his mother lived 2013! Key events to note: a new and enhanced university alumni—and grads of to age 98-1/2. “That means I have to take good Homecoming Weekend is planned for Sept. 16-18, 64 a premier school at that—only care of myself.” Michael ”Tim” Graves is a re- 2011 during which a Class of ’63 event and meet- some five percent of Cornell alums have signed up tired teacher who had been a department head. ing of class officers and council members is also for a Cornell NetID, the university’s new Web- Tim and wife Suzanne live in Fairport, NY; they planned. On Nov. 26 in New York City, the Big Red based way of helping our class and the university have a grown son and two granddaughters. He matches up with Boston U. for a major hockey communicate with and keep track of us. Of course, enjoys photography and genealogy. event, and a class gathering is being planned for one reason more have not enrolled in the program That’s all for now. Please respond to our that day. Other plans are being discussed for get- is that applying for a Cornell NetID is not yet on class dues and news appeal included with our an- ting Class of ’63 members together over the next the Internet—but will be soon. More info is in the nual newsletter. And be sure to visit our class year in San Francisco, Washington, and elsewhere. class newsletter you received recently. That said, website (http://classof64.alumni.cornell.edu) and Stay tuned and plan to participate.” while enrollment in the program isn’t required in to send me news at home or online at: c Bev Gene and Marilyn Beckwith live in Clinton, order to vote for alumni trustees, it is necessary Johns Lamont, 720 Chestnut St., Deerfield, IL OH. Gene is retired from Bridgestone/Firestone, in order to be listed in the alumni directory. 60015; e-mail, [email protected]. 68 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes Eugene June 2011 69 (EMKNYC@aol. | and wife Susanne and Johnson, joanhpj@ Johnson, May d Eileen Ryan. Joe en- d Eileen Ryan. Joe Ed Kelman (Washington, DC) spent three DC) spent (Washington, Bryan Walley by tak- retirement enjoying are with playing vacations, long ing Joan Hens c [email protected]. Harris, Len Coburn I’m in Venice, FL, for February and March, es- March, and February FL, for I’m in Venice, How wonderful it was to attend the February the to attend it was wonderful How 66 their grandchild, and volunteering in the Califor- in the volunteering and grandchild, their jobs His volunteer live. they town where nia team, rescue and on a search membership include member- and sheriff, deputy a reserve as acting support team. squad riot ship on his county’s from “different jobs are Bryan says his volunteer Wal- The company.’’ an oil guy for a finance being old friends, to seeing to reunion, leys look forward Evie classmates. and friends new to meeting and and sights historic enjoyed the They weeks in China. trip. plan a return beauty and scenic and comcast.net; comcast.net; caping the cold and snow of Andover, MA. My Andover, of snow cold and the caping children, Spence Pickard, Eliza and grand- three and for me joined Ken, friend with my along children, a Our fun! sun and Lots of vacation. week’s winter website. list is posted on the classmates missing any where know me letting in help your for Thanks are. them of pathologist. Eileen and and Eileen pathologist. speaker and luncheon Sarasota Club of Cornell an with Joe presentation his com- and Cornell for volunteer joys life as a between time their Eileen split and He munity. Buffalo, NY, Venice, and FL. son Sean is about Their NFLan as retire to have wife his and he and player Sienna. and Emmie two daughters, com) are in the NYC area where Ed is an enter- Ed is an where area NYC in the com) are lawyer. media and tainment Pinel (Den- Pinel earned a de- a earned Lewis, MAT ’67, MAT Lewis, Jaffe, MD ’69, is Jaffe, Briskin (henpen . Post Washington with David Cloud with David (james.venetos@jpmorgan. (Daphne, AL; ErnestBerger@bell (Daphne, Jim Venetos Robert lives with wife Shirley . He Becker Janis and Barbara and Janis Selzer Florida was the location for a mini-reunion for location was the Florida with their spouses. Henra is now retired and lives and retired is now Henra spouses. with their Patricia Retiree NY. in Pittsford, Norris ver, works part-time CO; [email protected]) work in ob/gyn a private law firm. Part-time for occupies have two grandchildren. they MO; in St. Louis, Ernie Berger Santa- of expansion the is “leading south.net) the with autism and children to include America than 20 per- More warriors. wounded of families serve fami- We women! are our wounded of cent post from suffering are children the where lies www.San references He disorder.” stress traumatic his of company the enjoys Ernie ta-America.org. pediatric a is who Manci, Elizabeth friend, best [email protected]) and her Cornell roommates Dorothy roommates Cornell her [email protected]) and Brown last year with Henra Solomon and covers the Pentagon for the the for Pentagon covers the and live in Arlington, two children and his wife, Greg, En- Southern the for Son Cale is an attorney VA. an in- his wife, and He Law Center. vironmental children. three of a busy family ternist, manage com) and wife Natalie enjoy their home in Darien, home enjoy their wife Natalie com) and RI. in Newport, weekends summer spend and CT, Wealth Morgan JP for director managing is Jim PeterSon NYC. in Management ’10 Elaine Economics. in gree Sarkin Cancer National the at hematopathology of chief in pathol- practice has a medical she where Inst., husband and Elaine lymphomas. studies ogy and Son Greg MD, area. Bethesda, live in the Michael The Fourth Star has co-authored Last year was his 29th as a professor of English at English of as a professor was his 29th Last year four for in teaching has been he College; Ohlone decades. (Flem- Liz Gor- live in Deer- Steve, Appell Joe, and Ryan Bruce Bennett (dblack@mesirowfinan- ([email protected]) is now Joan Elstein Rogow Jeff, Parker ME ’66, MBA ’70. After 40-plus years in private , ME ’66 (trichards@orchardhills and and Our class meeting, held during held meeting, class Our Confer- Leadership Cornell the covered in D.C., in January ence has three boyshas three a is and bankruptcy ’s class events report. We’re on the way on the We’re report. ’s class events ’91 Dennis Black , live in Rockville, MD. Their daugh- Their MD. Rockville, in live PhD ’77, Joel ’65 (JPerlman43@gmail. , BFA Perlman Carol Sacks Sekura Another fit classmate is fit classmate Another Marco Di Capua,Marco ME ’65 ([email protected]) Stephen ’63 , , , the class history project from from history project class , the 65 classmate communications from from communications classmate Lou Ferraro Lou is heading and our 50th Reunion for planning involved in regional classmates up a team to get perhaps pig- etc., outings, dinners, fun lunches, get- simply or events alumni local on gybacking as connecting . . . together ’65ers of group a ting a few 50th. Do take the for we build momentum the read and website class our to go to minutes reports. attached and class meeting the of minutes to hard working are council and officers class Your with communicate and Get on board YOU! engage ideas! and Lou with your suggestions a variety of topics. The headline subjects were: the subjects were: headline The topics. of a variety Barry from website update up “catch , the Cutler site from the of section with classmates” don consulting on FDA-related issues for biotechnol- issues for FDA-related on consulting the in Morocco, has traveled She ogy companies. husband and Carol Picchu. Machu and Galápagos, Ron ter and son-in-law, Robin and Todd Larabee, are Larabee, Todd Robin and son-in-law, ter and two live in Denver with their and both doctors children. attorney; son Eric is married and works for Merck. works for and is married son Eric attorney; Timothy Richards ten-speed my rode “I ([email protected]). in two days, Park East Bay to Yosemite the from gain.” elevation 13,000 feet of over 200 miles and CA. spouse Ellen Case live in Oakland, and Bruce athleticclub.com) and wife Sheila, Lancaster MA, Lancaster wife Sheila, and athleticclub.com) com- Timothy fun to retire.” too much having “are ments, is thriving— business “I’m blessed that my multi- indoor/outdoor to a large grown it’s now loca- in a great club on 18 acres purpose athletic again. I have also is about to expand and tion having service, involved in community become I and Sheila our local Boys & Girls Club. created times five to four trainers personal with out work each year with a few times a week.” Tim has lunch roommate his college corporate law, I went in-house as general coun- as general in-house I went law, corporate change.” the love and client largest my of sel (Ostroff) wife Joyce Dennis and ’66 cial.com) writes, “ writes, cial.com) and wives and family—sons entire Their IL. field, a week. in Los Cabos for grandsons—vacationed where D.C. area, live in the Healey wife Anne and Non- of Office in the scientist chief is the Marco National the R&D of Verification and proliferation on has worked He Security Administration. Nuclear comprehensive and summit security nuclear the Kathleen Daughter verification. test ban treaty in Steen & Hamilton works at Cleary Gottlieb last Emily graduated daughter and Washington, last Wharton. Within the from year with an MBA year, his sculp- and Prague and com) has been in Paris at Kouros show in a one-man was featured ture com- also completed a large Gallery in NYC. He comments He Clark College. and Lewis for mission Fieldston. Sam both attend and Jack that sons ington, NJ) have traveled to the Amazon and Amazon to the NJ) have traveled ington, years have visited all 50 over the Caribbean and as a college “I’m still working writes, Joan states. teachers student for field enjoy trav- and family.” visiting and eling Rogow Debbie Daughter Silverstein 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 69 Page AM 11:27 4/13/11 56-95CAMMJ11notes 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 70

Bellin sent along his address in New York. Bonnie neighbor is a colleague of mine and she called to In this pre-reunion year, your class officers Lazarus Wallace and husband Stephen are enjoy- tell us, as she knew about my Cornell connection. gathered at the now-annual Cornell Alumni Lead- ing their grandchildren. Bonnie, who is retired, I did see other classmates there—Bill had many ership Conference, conveniently located at the substitutes at her “old school” and travels with friends. Alice Katz Berglas will be sending out a Marriott Wardman here in D.C., two blocks from her husband on his business trips, which have note to the class officers and class council.” c my house. Attendees included class president taken them to Italy, Germany, Scotland, Tokyo, Deanne Gebell Gitner, [email protected]; Marjorie Greenberg Smith, VP Judy Silverman and Hawaii. Hilda Levine Lichtenstein is enjoying Pete Salinger, [email protected]; Susan Kaufman, council members Sherry Carr, MILR ’70, life in the Berkshires and spends three months in Rockford Bittker, [email protected]. Penny Bamberger Fishman, Don Rosenbaum and Naples, FL. Being grandparent to Adam, 9, and wife Lee (Flasterstein) ’70, Les Glick, JD ’70, Jessica, 7, is “the best,” Hilda says. Julie Cohn Lippmann, Ralph Wilhelm, and your Susan Maldon Stregack and husband Rollin First of all, an apology to reporter. This shindig, which has absorbed the old Fraser celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary Jane Capellupo (W. Henrietta, Cornell Association of Class Officers Mid-Winter in Sept. 2010 and, says Susan, “still feel like new- 67 NY), whose e-mail address is Meetings, sent out invites to all Cornellians in the lyweds.” They love to spend time with grandson [email protected], instead of what area to participate and will be held in Washing- Ethan, 4. Rollin and Susan work together doing so- appeared in the column. Harriet Hecht Gould ton again next year. c Richard B. Hoffman, cial and event photography. They had an exhibit (Newton, MA; [email protected]) “continues to 2925 28th St. NW, Washington DC 20008; tel., of their Coney Island documentary photographs. work full-time” as vice president of labor rela- (202) 667-6481; e-mail, [email protected]. Susan is looking forward to Reunion 2011. William tions for the Boston Globe. She adds that she May, ME ’67, continues to enjoy his grandkids, 10 spends a lot of time with grandchildren.“Two are and 13. He and wife Carol spend lots of time with local in the Boston area and one in Colorado. Peter Susser (peterdrs@yahoo. them in spite of the Vermont abode of the chil- Looking forward to retirement within the next com) has sold the jewelry busi- dren. They live on Hutchinson Island, FL. This was year or two. Last April, traveled to Greece through 68 ness he owned for more than 30 their 25th year of making the Florida-Lake Ontario Cornell’s Adult University. Great trip, great peo- years. He plans to transition with the new own- round trip on the boat. They are “not yet bored.” ple, all with a Cornell connection; would highly ers until the end of this year and then abandon “Twenty-five more years would be great,” William recommend.” CAU reports that several classmates himself to watching the azaleas grow. Peter also writes. They are also looking forward to the 45th. attended programs in the past year: Douglas and enjoys golf, tennis, biking, hiking, reading, and his grandchildren. Recently he became a FINRA arbitrator. Jeff Donahue (jeffrey.h.donahue@ gmail.com) retired in 2009 from his “second” Last year we dressed 3,000 children. career as a CEO of a private investment company that built low-income housing in all 50 states. ‘ Carol Lee Polakoff Hall ’67’ He serves on four corporate boards, but still has discretionary time (a new experience!). Jeff and wife Anne have residences in Baltimore, MD, and in Santa Barbara, CA. Jeff remains friends with John Deasy, MPS ’72, and wife Konstance are Nancy Burrill were at the Eclectic Ethnic culinary Jim Foster ’67, Jim Hanna, MBA ’69, Tom Horn, enjoying retirement also. They summer at their workshop; Jay Freer was at Fossils: The History Dick Marchase ’70, and Knight Kiplinger ’69. camp in the Adirondacks. John is restoring a clas- of Life on Cayuga’s Shores and the Gorges; and Jeff’s primary volunteer focus is on the board of sic 1951 Beechcraft Bonanza airplane and Konnie Stuart and Beth Kay went to Ancient Wisdom and the Adirondack Council, a nonprofit dedicated to has two German shepherds ranked in the top 20 Modern Technology: Creating Our Well-being. improving the Adirondack Park. in US trial points earned in the German Dog Clubs James Scullen (Silver Spring, MD) moved Miles ’67 and Jeani Walton Haven (Potomac, National Event. They still enjoy Big Red hockey from Greenbelt to Leisure World Retirement Com- MD, [email protected]) are retired and enjoying and lacrosse games. Howard Sobel (Oceanside, munity. He writes, “I have been visiting home- the opportunity to spend months in their Naples, NY) has three granddaughters and is expecting a bound members of Our Lady of Grace Church as FL, home and to travel. Recent trips include Mo- first grandson soon. He says he thoroughly enjoys a Eucharistic minister, participating in centering rocco, Spain, and Turkey and trips to see children working. He is an arbitrator for AAA on complex prayer groups, and attending sessions of Summer and grandchildren in Florida and California. The construction cases and works with attorneys as an Special Olympics at Towson U.” He also attend- couple has seen: Jill Werdann Bauer and her hus- expert witness in significant construction litiga- ed a CAU musicology seminar in Nashville and band, Victor, and Janice Milkman Berlin, Susan tion. He also provides courses on nuclear power Memphis. Adam Romeiser Jr. (Lake Forest, IL; Rosenfeld Ledley and husband Jim, and Joy Kauf- for continuing education credits. They planned to [email protected]) writes, “I retired from the man Karol. Jeani volunteers for the Potomac Com- take the entire family on a cruise in January 2011, practice of general surgery and teach a Bible study munity Center and the Naples Free Family Clinic. including their sons, daughters-in-law, and four for nine months a year. I’m busy up at our sec- Pete Woodworth, MBA ’69 ([email protected]) grandchildren. They also spend long summer week- ond home in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.” writes that a personal highlight of 2010 was at- ends at their farm in Callicoon, NY. He adds that his son graduated from Cornell in tending the NCAA National Wrestling Tournament Thomas Graboys is in the throes of a battle ’03 and is a practicing internist in the inner city in Omaha, NE, and watching the with Parkinson’s disease. He has sold approximately of Chicago. Adam went on two medical-surgical place second in the nation. Fellow spectators were 40,000 copies of his book, Life in the Balance: A missions to Nicaragua and the Philippines. Buzz Bishop ’70, MBA ’72, Art Walsh ’70, John Physician’s Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss with Nancy Payne Kronenberg (Carlisle, MA; nancy@ St. John ’70, Dan Kathan ’70, MBA ’73, Don New Parkinson’s Disease and Dementia. Jeffrey Collins rosepath.com) was extremely busy weaving for a ’67, Dick Minekime ’67, Rick Beck ’69, and is transitioning toward retirement. He writes that local library show and the Weavers’ Guild of Frank Bettucci ’53, MBA ’58. Pete continues to he is slowing down his weekly consulting with Boston annual sale. She’s also designed and main- enjoy the friends he made through Cornell (in- Pappas Ventures, a life sciences–focused venture tained several websites. Carol Lee Polakoff Hall cluding Phi Gamma Delta fraternity brothers), as capital firm. He has, however, joined the adviso- (San Antonio, TX; [email protected]) well as the great education he received there. Pete ry board of Asiatic Clinical Research in Bangalore. runs and works in a thrift shop for the Assistance lives in Winona, MN, but winters in Sedona, AZ. He and spouse Rose visited Wales and England League of San Antonio, with proceeds going to Cornell guests who have visited him include: Al last year on an extended trip and had a great clothe underprivileged children. She also helps to Fidellow and wife Marge, John Wallace ’67, MEE time. Their trip included a visit to the Int’l Food choose new clothing for students when they come ’68, and wife Laurene, John and Jane Gegen- Festival in Ludlow, England, which they heartily to the store. She reports: “Last year we dressed heimer St. John ’70, and Bill Austin and wife recommend. They are looking forward to reunion. 3,000 children.” She also finds time to travel Sally. Missing from their group was John Selig- Jeffrey stays in touch with numerous classmates (France, Russia, China, and South America), swim, man, but they called him from Seligman, AZ, just including Ron Goldstock, Dick Fogel, Rich and play golf and bridge. Harvey Bernstein (Sara- to make him and wife Susan feel missed. Turbin, Rick Mezan, and Steve Moldof. sota, FL; [email protected]) advises Deborah Rebhuhn (Highland Park, NJ) is a Susan Rockford Bittker writes that she and that he’s “recovering from a hip replacement, special education high school teacher in mathe- husband Don attended the funeral of Bill Block- swimming, and walking, but no longer playing matics. She enjoys teaching folk dancing. Debo- ton, who died suddenly in early January. “Bill’s tennis or running.” rah was a Sunnie at Cornell, working as a reporter. 70 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes s ’71 and Hunter, June 2011 71 Andolina Andolina is a partner in is a partner | are in Patchogue, NY in Patchogue, are May (jwinchester@avionic Harris (bbasch@frontier Harris ([email protected]) is the is ([email protected]) Summer is almost here and it is it and here is almost Summer Re- our 40th since a year already look- are we means That union! Walker and Evie and Walker Griffin Chris Reyelt James Winchester Paula and Craig and Paula Balaban Barbara Baschnagel ([email protected]). Craig’s day job is man- day Craig’s ([email protected]). at BestSeatsFast. brokerage ticket online aging by fantasy his automotive is also living com. He Motorcars Berlinetta for Ferraris vintage brokering his four is also enjoying Craig NY. in Huntington, John grandsons! wonderful Heintz DC, office. LLP’s Washington, Drye & Warren Kelley Wash- and recovery insurance the is chair of He was John groups. practice DC, litigation ington, Legal for Award Burton 2010 a as selected honor Burton Awards The recipient. Achievement Entries writing. and in legal scholarship excellence country’s by the submitted are awards the for from and law firms, prominent most and largest to be recognized. chosen are only 30 articles these for with two co-authors was selected along John Climate for Coverage “Insurance article, their Begun,” that was Battle Has Suits: The Change Environmental Claims in the published Journal’ Congrats! issue. 2009 March Beach Associ- Hideaway the of manager general on the are They Beach Club. Hideaway and ation with a spec- Island, Marco part of western-most Mexico. Gulf of the and sunsets of tacular view says He FL. Naples, in wife Nancy with lives Chris give him a call Island, Marco include if your travels at (239) 572-1850. Chris tells us that his employ- to man- with his return a full circle has done ment tennis beach and a beach club similar to the aging Nancy ago! years 42 NY, Rochelle, New in club Gold Star Luxu- and Travel Town Get Out of owns Club (www.goldstarluxurytravelclub.com). ry Travel present- and Weimaraners rescue Nancy Chris and 7. Grappa, and Cortina 11, and ly have Como, Products Avionic of owner is the products.com) divi- with multiple company a $20 million Inc., emphasis is on airborne, company’s The sions. al- is James systems. electronic ship and ground, making especially ways busy with his business, to is married He Avionic. to expand acquisitions area. Los Angeles live in the they and Ford Diana involved in uni- as well as being enjoys golf, He would like He activities. community versity and has two James service. government to be doing wife Mary live in Ashburn, VA. in Ashburn, live Mary wife ing forward to our 45th in just four short years in short in just four to our 45th forward ing to rush things, meaning exactly 2015. Not June up with sug- too early to come but it is never better even reunion our next to make gestions out in some help to or to volunteer than our last comes an idea whenever know Just let me way. something! up to do to sign over you or you want you about joining friends contact to be sure And and warm weather in 2015. Enjoy the in . fun family teaching from retired Karen lunch. for regularly in 2009 retired Evie in 2008 after 30-plus years. technology, medical of field in the after working to- Barb also gets than 30 years. more also for a year with Carol twice gether DeLuca IN. in Richmond, at Earlham College teaches who in with specialties PhD is in history, Carol’s Philip religion. and studies women’s McNutt 70 net.net) lives in Penfield, NY, with her husband, with her NY, in Penfield, lives net.net) Barb has been in a private psychotherapy Norm. her received She years. than 20 more for practice sees Reserve in 1975. She Western Case from MSW Karen Barr Ted Real and and Styles sec- Edward Wil- , as well as the founder , as well as the is still working as profes- is still working New York Times New York Riedl, [email protected]. Mitchell is a busy lady. Last is a busy lady. Mitchell and his bride, Nina Planck, had Planck, Nina his bride, and has spent the last 13 years over- last 13 the has spent Tina Economaki Jeff Olesen is living in northern Italy, working for the for working Italy, northern in living is Rob Kaufelt Richard Greenberg Ildiko Czmor . c June, she enjoyed helping her KA sisters enjoy her enjoyed helping she June, back to her went then and reunion their in Vermont—but Trail “beloved” Appalachian Oc- toe.” to “hiker due time only lasted a short arrival with the her for tober was a busy month daugh- another of wedding the and a grandson of ter. front on the herself found she In November having newspapers, Binghamton the of pages save to trying hugger” “tree of name the earned the saws of the from blue spruce 36-inch her Coun- Broome the is part of She utility company. busy writes: “Pretty she As Force. Task ty Landfill agree. We a 60-plus Cornellian.” for son quite a bit, having to travel gets He Army. US in cities and Munich, Croatia, visited Greece, in the to snowboarding forward looked He Italy. league, is still involved in a bowling Dolomites, every Sunday to walk ten kilometers tries and has passed Society—he Walking Italian with the the missing regrets He mark. 750-kilometer the last October. reunion Rho Beta Sigma Row Al- in Budapest, serving State Dept., the seas with back in Miami, now He’s Vienna. and Athens, maty, diplomat- department’s as the serving is he where by hosted He’s Florida. southern for in-residence other visits he which from U., Int’l Florida the to seeking region in the universities and colleges in For- professionals young and students interest years he’s last three the For careers. Service eign Alumni Admissions Cornell the with volunteered to help plans (CAAAN), and Network Ambassador Club’er, Glee former A Miami. in group local the Miamians, Singing with the weekly still sings he chorus. harmony a local barbershop Disease Division Infectious in the medicine sor of vaca- enjoyed a family He Kentucky. U. of at the the recommends highly and in Maui recently tion writes He Haleakala. down ride tour and bicycle Breed- the make stable didn’t that his horseracing with 2011, in results better for hopes but Cup, er’s beautiful fillies. new three of purchase the in Cen- Gill, ME ’70, has a busy semi-retirement six commercial actively manages He CO. tennial, Denver (as of art district major in the buildings of in 100 rounds to get tries well as six houses), with citizen boards sits on a couple of a year, golf a mainte- manages Dept., and Denver Police the What Denver. City of the for board district nance Ted? you retire, when to do you going are their courtship and nuptials featured in the “Vows” in the featured nuptials courtship and their Sunday the of section not- and 20, 2010—an interesting on August tion is the Nina girl” story. “boy meets so-traditional to Eat and Why Real Food: What of author Food for Mothers and Babies Food for the and Markets Farmer’s London the of owner and NYC Greenmarkets. the of director executive former in Shop Cheese Murray’s of proprietor Rob is the in a cover story in this mag- was featured NYC and as a wedding the in 2005. Rob described azine grass- that included menu with a event,” “foodie American cave-aged special fed beef tenderloin, cheeses, European and fresh and vegeta- and bride’s by the owned farm Virginia the bles from Soho York’s New in resides couple The parents. 3, and Julian, children with their neighborhood served as both 1. Julian Rose, and Jacob twins best man! and bearer ring best and Congratulations etc., notes, news, to send Please continue wishes! to: Jerrian Barbara and and . They were . They , MS ’72, look , MS Linda Kalayd- writes from Port- from writes Van Wie lives in lives Wie Van Schmidt, mary.schmidt@ Schmidt, is taking retirement seriously, retirement is taking Whew—what a brutal winter Whew—what I’m I write this, we had! As snow- some to forward looking ([email protected]) is an ([email protected]) Tom McLeod ’70, MEE ’71, Ron magazine, is finally winding down winding is finally magazine, Mike ’70 Mike husband and moved from Pakistan to Florida in March to Florida Pakistan from moved Mary Hartman has been in a dozen community theatre pro- theatre community has been in a dozen After taking one acting class, class, acting one After taking Carl Patrick Ray, Goodman MPS ’75, PhD ’79, counter- my In between travels around the world, world, the around In between travels At a reception preceding a recent Cornell/ a recent preceding a reception At c Bruce Eissner to was also planning ’65. He 69 forward to leisure time at their lake house on house lake at their time to leisure forward They VA. Roanoke, near Lake Smith Mountain 4-H work for volunteer to enjoy their continue Andrewin Maryland. Goldstein Lehman Richard ’70, and Heck brothers ’68 turnout—interested a larger for hoping next for Carl at [email protected] can contact with working is currently He season’s game. to pro- is trying which White Deer Inc., Seneca former the on white deer of herd largest tect the Ithaca. of north just Depot, Army Seneca Fuchs Turell startup com- a new has joined OR, that he land, product as VP of Pasadena, out of HydraDx, pany, point- is developing company “The development. In dehydration.” saliva-based tests for of-care RichardDecember, to Germany Burt, Ambassador New talk, “The 1985 to 1989, gave a public from Longer No Weapons Nuclear Why and Geopolitics From Smith Hall. at Goldwin Interests,” Serve US & Co., with McKinsey was a partner 1992-95, he firm, after suc- consulting a global management as the treaty arms a nuclear cessfully concluding Reduc- Arms Strategic in the negotiator chief US cur- He Union. Soviet former talks with the tion an Global Zero, chair for serves at US rently elim- long-term seeking campaign international weapons. nuclear of ination to a York New downstate from moved having up met He Oswego. near Ontario on Lake house Cornell- at the Chi brothers Theta with three Colgate game: less weather soon. less weather part at Hotelie after 28 years as chair of the hospitality manage- hospitality the after 28 years as chair of He Hampshire. New U. of at the department ment in retire and year more to teach just one plans for active as a rules official still keeps 2012. He Enjoy your Association. Golf Hampshire New the Moin your retirement. and Ray, last few semesters, Haroon consulting hotel doing busy keeping is and 2009 in Florida. estate consulting real and in Pakistan jian time finds also She last ten years. in the ductions local the for volunteer tennis and to play doubles well, as boards” of “lots on is She Society. Humane would She meditation. transformative does and Ronnie from love to hear Levine ’71 Houston, TX, and is a retired Spanish teacher. She Spanish teacher. is a retired TX, and Houston, traveling, grandsons, two young her is enjoying medical the with in Guatemala volunteering and board a also is She Practice. in Faith mission Bolivia. of Mission Amistad of member I saw in Cambridge, game hockey men’s Harvard Dr. basketball men’s Cornell/Harvard the attend your news Please send evening. same the game to: schmidt-federico.com. Anthony Morris in Uki- live Jean wife Mary and He acupuncturist. grandchild, their raising are they Together CA. ah, skiing, enjoys his family, he time 17. In his free Katherine flying. and Riggs 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 71 Page AM 11:27 4/13/11 56-95CAMMJ11notes 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 72

grandchildren. His fondest memory of our time at photographer in Northampton, MA. Peter keeps Will Fudeman (Ithaca, NY; www.willfudeman. Cornell is breakfast at the Straight, and he would in touch with Allan Koenig in Golden, CO, and com) published “Emotional Healing with Chinese like to hear from classmate George Lutz. Donn Milton in Vienna, VA. Medicine,” in Acupuncture Today and looks forward Eileen and Toby Marion (tmarion@gmail. We received a nice e-mail from John Wyns, to publishing a book on the same topic. Raisa com) were 40th Reunion attendees all the way ME ’72, MBA ’77 (Boca Raton, FL; [email protected]. Scriabine, MA ’74 ([email protected]) produces from Hong Kong (as were classmate Martin Tang com). He has worked for IBM for more than 30 Earth Focus, an environmental news magazine, for and wife Anne)! Their company, Golden Gate Wine years and has had a varied career with work in LinkTV. Her son Alexander K. Smith received a Co. Ltd., is doing quite well and now has the sales operations, development planning, pricing, master’s in Tibetan studies at Oxford U. and is now largest portfolio of American wines in the region. and finance. Many years ago his wife passed away studying in Paris. Bruce Hazen (brucehazen@cs. The Marions did have another event to attend in from cancer and he recently married Christine. com) lives in Oregon and is a career coach. He the US besides Reunion. On June 5, 2010, their John enjoys his involvement with the Cornell Club coauthored a chapter for The Complete Handbook son Guy married Fiona Lawlor, a pediatrician from of South Florida; he also works as a community of Coaching and is now working on a book about Dublin, whom he met in Brisbane while working volunteer and teaches at his local church. the methodology for managing a career through- on his PhD in marine science. Guy is now a part- Susan Devins ([email protected]) teach- out a lifetime and not just one’s next job search. ner in Codesion, a cloud computing “Software as es a course on cultural literacy to Chinese stu- David Harding, PhD ’83 (dharding101@comcast. a Service” (SaaS) firm in Silicon Valley. Eileen and dents at the U. of Toronto’s Rotman School of net ) lives in Warrenville, IL. Dave’s daughter Bet- Toby’s daughter Louisa graduated from Michigan Business. Her son, Jonathan, will graduate from sy ’06 (Hotel) is a medical student and daughter Law School in May and started at Crowell, Moring McGill in June. Susan and her husband, Warren Maggie studies teacher education. Dave is deputy in Washington, DC, in October. c Connie Ferris Rubenstein, spent four months this past year on head of the technical division of Fermilab, a speak- Meyer, [email protected]; tel., (610) 256-3088. in the Netherlands, where Warren was er on “The Physics of Sports,” and a devoted con- a visiting professor in medicine at the U. of tra dancer with wife Pauline, a physician. Utrecht Medical School. Each week they took the Rick Norman ([email protected]) We hope that all of our classmates fast train to visit a different European city and and wife Angela celebrated their 60th birthdays reading this column plan to come found it quicker to get from Utrecht to Paris than with a spectacular trip to four national parks in 71 back to Ithaca for our big 40th from Toronto to Buffalo(!). Tanzania (Lake Manyara, the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Reunion from June 9-12. Events will include a wine Jude Ferber Lubrano (www.lubranomusic. Crater, and Tarangire), where they saw the “big tasting, a gallery reception, a jazz combo during com) contacted us from Lloyd Harbor, NY, where five” and much other wildlife. After their safari, dinner on Friday night, a pianist in class head- she and husband John are in their 34th year as Rick fulfilled a lifelong dream by climbing to the quarters on Friday and Saturday nights, and a gala “music antiquarians,” dealing with original auto- top of Mr. Kilimanjaro. Classmates living abroad dinner at the Statler Ballroom on Saturday night graph musical manuscripts, autograph letters of include T.W. Hughes ([email protected]), featuring our guest speaker, Prof. Isaac Kramnick. composers, rare printed music, and rare books who is general manager of the Thai Country Club, On Saturday morning, President Skorton will give about music and dance dating from the 15th a Peninsula Hotel outside Bangkok, after spending the State of the University address. If you have not through the 21st centuries. They exhibited at the 25 years in Vietnam. Susan Rautenberg (susan signed up yet, you may still do so by contacting New York Antiquarian Book Fair in Manhattan in [email protected]) has lived in the UK Jan Rothman ([email protected]) or your class April. Jude lives just 10 minutes away from her since 1989 and is currently in a “” from correspondents (Matt Silverman or me—e-mails dad, Robert Ferber, DVM ’39; she has two daugh- working for the National Health Service. Before at the close of this column). In addition to our ters and a wonderful granddaughter, 11. She re- moving to northern England, Susan spent 16 reunion, there will be a pre-reunion seminar, ports, “John is an avid sailor and I’m a gardener years in NYC, working in the union movement for “Meeting the Neighbors: Fifty Years of Planetary who also enjoys tickling the ivories of my antique medical interns and residents and dedicated to Exploration,” for which you may register at the Steinway grand when I get the time. I am in radical politics; she remains in touch with friends reunion website. This seminar was created in touch with a number of old friends including Nancy, Mike and Dennis, and fondly recalls times response to reunion-goers who expressed the desire Joanna Seaton Shrager, Chris Yackel, Sandie with Peter Weisberg ’71, Steve Safyer ’71, Marc for more academics during Reunion Weekend. Feinman Antar, Carol Siegel Mamber, Ronnie Levitt ’71, Alan Sikora, and Dick Steeper. We start this column with some happy news. Levine, and Catherine Kvaraceus Hunter.” Mark Gold ([email protected]) retired from Gilda Klein Linden ([email protected]), co-chair Matt and I thank all of our classmates who Solutia Chemical (formerly Monsanto) after 34 of our upcoming reunion, was married last summer keep in touch with us and we invite everyone to years. Mark was elected to the select board in to Jeff Krawitz. Gilda and Jeff’s grandchildren and send us news. We will be happy to write about you. Longmeadow, MA, serves as director of the Grin- children were among the many who helped them Looking forward to seeing you all in Ithaca, June spoon Inst. for Jewish Philanthropy, and looks for- celebrate their marriage. They traveled in Israel 9-12. c Linda Germaine-Miller, LG95@cornell. ward to his fraternity’s 100th anniversary in Ithaca and Jordan for two weeks last year with Gilda’s edu; and Matt Silverman, [email protected]. this June. Dianne Berger ([email protected]) three sons (including Eric ’02). Last fall, they took retired from teaching the 3F’s (Food, Fashion, and a two-week cruise down the west coast of Mexico Family) in Wallingford-Swarthmore, but continues and Central America, through the Panama Canal to I am happy to report lots of up- consulting work with male-to-female transsexuals. Colombia. Of course, Gilda will travel again in June dates from classmates all over Dianne lives in Swarthmore and Red Bank, NJ, to reunion. She retired after 25 years in public ed- 72 the US and the world. Ruth Stark near her two sons in NYC, who work on Wall St. ucation two years ago and has been working as ([email protected]) is a professor of chem- Patrice Kasten Schwartz ([email protected]), an RN at a private school for the past two years. istry at City College of New York. She was elected is retiring from the Mamaroneck, NY, school dis- After reunion, she plans to “retire again” and start to the American Association for the Advancement trict, where she has been teaching since she re- doing volunteer work. More good news: Jeffrey of Science and recognized for distinguished con- ceived her master’s in 1973. Diane Spanier Linker ’69 and Sandi Taylor Eisenstein (McLean, VA; tributions to the field of molecular biophysics. Ruth ([email protected]) retired from a long [email protected]) became grandparents this and husband Abe Malz are happy Manhattanites; career as a corporate lawyer. Her son and one of year. Brick Leo Eisenstein, was born on February their daughter Aliza Malz is at Caltech, studying her three daughters are lawyers, one daughter is 15 in Seattle. Congratulations, Sandi and Jeff! astrophysics. Peter Katona ([email protected]) in software design, and one is at Cornell medical Susan Phipps-Yonas works as a forensic psy- is a professor of clinical medicine (infectious dis- school. Two of Diane’s daughters graduated from chologist in Minnesota. She enjoys travel, the- eases) at UCLA, with a focus on counterterrorism Cornell; now that she has a grandson and grand- atre, and gardening. Peter Benjamin (peter@ben and our healthcare system’s vulnerability to disas- daughter, she looks forward to third-generation jaminbers.com) is a partner in the law firm of ter. He also teaches an undergraduate honors class Cornellians in the future. Benjamin and Bers in East Longmeadow, MA. Pe- on terrorism and lectures widely (including at Cor- Some of our classmates may be winding ter writes that after 30 years, he left Western nell) on the topic of bioterrorism. Tom Johnson down, but Joel Friedman ([email protected]) Massachusetts Legal Services to enter private ([email protected]) lives in the Atlanta area most definitely is not. He is a professor at Tulane practice. He focuses on elder law and estate with his wife and daughter. He is director of pro- Law School in New Orleans and in between planning with some work in employment and fessional services for Hitachi Data Systems and is teaching and driving his three children (aged 14 landlord-tenant issues. Peter’s daughter Natalie active with the Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambas- and twins, 12) to soccer practice, he wrote three ’02 is a social worker in a community health cen- sadors Network (CAAAN). Sadly, his father, William books in the past few years: Champion of Civil ter in California, and his son, Max, is a freelance Johnson ’49 (Arts), passed away in January. Rights: The Story of Judge John Minor Wisdom (a 72 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes in (Madison, June 2011 73 | Mark Granick ’73 Mark Granick Stephen Hatch. He Renee Alexander May noted that he finally retired finally that he noted (Lebanon, NH) is director for NH) is director (Lebanon, Jane Anne Morris ’ Carol Fein Ross ’72 Carol Fein Ross , MPS ’75—married 32 years ago in Sage 32 years ago , MPS ’75—married Barbara Gales (March 2010), (March Carol at New to work continues Singer-Granick Raymond Jr. Kase Lisa Barnes husband ’76, and MacBain, MBA have presented them with good reasons to celebrate reasons good with them have presented and first anniversary, a wedding, including recently, per child). event major (one first grandchild of professor an associate as School Medical Jersey Daughter endocrinology. of chief and pediatrics Michelle ’04, works in Boston. Daugh- ’04, BArch This as a student. lives in Switzerland ter Jaclyn husband and Carol has provided visits to Eu- several with an opportunity to make rope. in Center Medical V.A. the at Clinic Polytrauma the vet- evaluates mostly She VT. White River Junction, with Afghanistan and Iraq from returning erans a generate often which injuries, brain traumatic disabilities. and symptoms challenging list of long with stays in touch Barbara lives with his wife in Centreville, VA, and reports and VA, in Centreville, lives with his wife U. after 23 years Defense National left the that he Futures Commodity the with position new a take to so ago. or year a Commission Trading his son rugby to follow playing after 32 years of A run- Hopkins. at Johns career football Andrew’s was a two-year captain and back, Andrew ning rush- all-time including 18 records, of a total holds JHU. With history of in the leader scoring and ing his son’s for enthusiasm his understandable his own mention not did Raymond achievements, re- which him on LinkedIn, work. I found of line In- Penn is a VP at National veals that Raymond a as Described PA. Reading, near Co. Trust vestors Progressive Pop- in the anthropologist” “corporate ulist Ithaca and Phyllis and Ithaca Ara- in Saudi -Williams Turner community, medical the of with news Staying bia. Jeffrey VP executive provost, , MD ’78, is now Gold Med- of College the of dean and affairs, medical for for, is responsible He Toledo. U. of at the icine affairs, faculty curriculum, the things, other among fac- and life, student programs, training residency Science Health the for student ulty and administrators senior works with other He Campus. hospital and Medicine of that College to ensure role has a growing he and aligned, are initiatives initiatives. healthcare in regional/national Bill ’69 since— cities US eight in lived having and Chapel DC, Washington, work in the enjoy life and now has a works in IT locally and Son Richard area. Lisa has devel- past few years, baby son. In the con- healthcare provides and LLC own her oped Bill works Since firms. to several services sulting table talk about busi- is no there a competitor, for em- is and Miami in lives daughter Their ness. and as education Consulate Japanese ployed by the jobs those of one like (sounds coordinator culture of freshman as a college to imagine that is hard is D.C. area the 18). Also from WI) notes the publication of her most recent book, recent most her of publication the WI) notes is Steal- Gaveling Down the Rabble: How “Free Trade” on a book is also working ing Our Democracy. She accordion enjoys the Court and Supreme about the reside Denise . has lived in lived has let us know that let us know last November in last November , JD ’76, took a cruise and husband Thomas husband and (Lexington, MA) has au- (Lexington, Automotive News Automotive Hope Comisky ’74 Becoming A Mensch: A Guide A Mensch: A Becoming has been coaching his son’s his coaching been has and and Grummon, [email protected]. Grummon, , a remarkable teacher from Fair- from teacher , a remarkable James Hilderbrant Ron Pies thored to Ethical Development. Reviewer has no plans to move from Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix, from to move plans has no Ileana Acero Shook ’76 Jim Nowak Peter Katona lectures widely on lectures widely Peter Katona the topic of bioterrorism. the topic of Jeffrey Braff We end these notes with the news of two of news with the notes these end We Gail Fiteni Giordano Phyllis Haight ‘ c Dan Brosgol of JewishBoston.com wrote, “Pies is “Pies wrote, JewishBoston.com of Brosgol Dan into thought Jewish of archive able to distill the always rele- that are effective citations and timely Ron is helpful.” to mention not insightful, and vant U. School at Tufts psychiatry of professor a clinical at on psychiatry a lecturer formerly and Medicine of text- of as well as an author School, Medical Harvard in Also reporting stories. short and poems, books, Larry Commonwealth, the from ’75 (Ster- , MBA Pape retired. still enjoys being MA) writes that he ling, who children adult wife Elizabeth have three and He 74 , died unexpectedly on July unexpectedly Thomas, died husband, her and Inc. with XTec was an executive 5, 2010. He to our thoughts send We in Miami. semi-retired Ileana. where Kenya, in in a car crash was killed port, NY, and schools to building his retirement devoted he made who Jim was someone Truly, clinic. a health it to: Send Got News? world. in the a difference deaths. deaths. in Philadelphia, where he has taken up recreational has taken he where in Philadelphia, pangs the felt he age, we as many Like bicycling. so shoulder, and tennis in his wrist, elbow, of also involved in ad- he’s where to bicycling, turned Robertvocacy efforts. Platt had the If you’ve never Bay in Alaska. to Glacier I recommend Passage, Inside to cruise the chance Neil highly. it Roland Micah past seven years. the team for basketball cov- Neil tov! mitzvahed—mazel bar recently was the D.C. beat for ers the Meridith on 75 degrees and with sunshine not especially an independ- become Denise has Day. Christmas two non- with her continues She agent. travel ent 12- helps Communities and Sports Linking profits: to while Start stay in school, 18-year-old students assists people in bankruptcy get Homes Up Now services. other and cars, access to housing, , ME ’73, were in Helsinki, Finland, in August Finland, in Helsinki, ’72, ME ’73, were Haa- Alli to Christian son their of marriage the for by was followed in Finland gala event pasalo. The couple will the MI, where in Novi, celebration a US live. Norman also visited Jay also Norman Stauffer PA. College, State years 26 for with wife Anne-Marie house same the any- go plan to doesn’t and NY, Point, in Whitney employ- his switched however, has, He place else. as a on people we rely the of one now He’s ment. in plants in several safety inspector food consumer the Northeast. a As inspector, relief he enjoys all that says and people new meeting and with ing work- microbiology, in meat, courses at Cornell those well. to serve him continue genetics livestock, and Suzi David Hedin, (a text- (a , ME ’75, Alexander Carol Fein and husband and c ’02 Keith Kennedy ’74 Rapoport had a new Alex Barna, ab478@ Hileman was injured in the was injured Hileman Posternak Posternak Marcklinger (mmarcklinger@ Marcklinger (a study guide), and is work- is and guide), (a study highly recommends catching recommends highly Steven Tundermann ’74 was honored by Cornell with the with by Cornell was honored As all of you probably know, know, you probably all of As Annis AZ. in Tucson, shooting tragic . It’s a retelling Biblical Seductions. It’s [email protected]. Rubin, Diffley, BS Nurs ’73, Kristina ’73, Nurs BS Diffley, Employment Discrimination Employment and and Hillary Ross Civil Procedure). Civil Bartell, BS Nurs ’73, has made the move the ’73, has made Bartell, BS Nurs and and Maureen Brosnan to the responded who Thank you to everyone Delightfully, our mailbox is full of your news. your of full is mailbox our Delightfully, Norman Lange yahoo.com) teaches nursing at Roxbury Commu- at Roxbury nursing teaches yahoo.com) had a grandchild, Boston, recently in nity College Joan “life is good.” reports and Brooks son Spencer their birth of the Dan celebrated suc- I am not ’32). When Cornell for hoping (here’s gen- charm, I am EVP and to Spencer’s cumbing along and, Book Group at Hachette counsel eral Hillary our daughters. enjoying husband, with my in student is a medical Lindsey works at Unilever, Penn. at junior a is Melissa and Miami, that we was so great result blast. The e-mail news your see don’t you if so in, all it fit couldn’t issue! next to the tuned stay below, ing on new editions of two other casebooks for casebooks two other of editions on new ing Employment Discrimina- (Friedman’s law students tion became David husband and ([email protected]) son boy born to their a baby of grandparents daughter-in-law and designer) (a software Michael Their PA. artist) in Narberth, (a graphic Melissa con- compliance is a risk and Deborah daughter at PWC in Boston, MA. I also experienced sultant my this past year when grannyhood joy of the daughter [email protected]; Ross, or cornell.edu; book), and Evidence and book), biography), biography), 73 She is recovering from her physical wounds, but wounds, physical her from recovering is She longer much take will ones psychic the I’m sure that she Suzi let us know bearable. to the to fade mentoring. on intergenerational on focusing plans how remember we as best, our all Suzi send We out- events by changed be can lives our quickly on our good reflect We understanding. our of side with us as an active and to have her fortune you each of I hope our class. of member engaged so we can be to our 40th Reunion, will come life. you in our Cornell each of thankful for Barry Hartstein from students nursing other any ’73, and BS Nurs Sandra class. the Sharon book published, became who women about Biblical six stories of acts.” “audacious their through heroines His classmates. former and up with old friends to visit him led Sigma Kappa at friendships Berwald ’74 last August. Island on Long reunion. school stopped on his way to his high Groat Award for his work in employment and labor and his work in employment for Award Groat PC, in Littler Mendelson is a shareholder Barry law. on serves Barry currently office. Chicago in their also on the and Council Advisory ILR school’s the Inst. Scheinman school’s the for director of board of is a past president He Resolution. on Conflict Our congratulations ILR Alumni Association. the his significant out to Barry for thanks go and labor and industrial of field in the achievements Martha Cornell. support for his strong and relations Dualsky re- she where Florida, in sunny to semi-retirement more some then and enjoys golf ports that she a week as a nurse. still works two days She golf. Jane from to hear like She’d ’73, , BS Nurs Durak Pam Lawrence 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 73 Page AM 11:27 4/13/11 56-95CAMMJ11notes 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 74

and charango (a small, South American stringed At the time of this writing, we in writes that she is newly single and feeling good. instrument of the lute family) in her spare time. the Northeast are about two Her son Adam is Cornell ’05. (OK, no more research for this issue, I’m just go- 75 inches away from the all-time Robin Pearl-Kargman (Woodbury, NY) thanks ing to dutifully report the news as sent.) record in annual snowfall. So, I say, “Bring on Dr. Federer from the Statistics and Biometry de- Luckily, Harris Tulchin (Santa Monica, CA; those last two inches!” No sense enduring so partment for the impact he had on her. Under his [email protected]) supplied a lengthy missive much to end up only in second place! tutelage, she wrote a thesis, which was present- bursting with news of his travels, adventures, and Our classmates with international assignments ed at a national scholarly meeting, and served as the publication of the third edition of his book, include Ruta Noreika, a senior relationship man- his teaching assistant. They still share Christmas The Independent Film Producer’s Survival Guide. His ager with First State Investments. Graeme Coop- greetings! Eliot Schuman continues his active latest movie, The Devil’s Double, was produced and er writes from Australia ([email protected]). In law practice (Schuman Sall and Geist) in White shot in Malta. Harris describes it as “an action- 2009, he and Jan enjoyed “one of the greatest Plains, NY. He specializes in medical malpractice. packed political thriller, essentially ‘Scarface in trips of our lives.” They caught up with Robert His daughter Rachael ’13 is a sophomore in the Baghdad,’ about the true story of Uday Hussein’s and Rose Cardenuto Allender and then traveled ILR school, so he has developed a new-found ap- body double.” Harris spoke at the Moscow Film Fes- to southern France for their son’s wedding. preciation for Alma Mater. Steve Sauter takes tival, visited the Ukraine town of Tulchin, where Graeme looks forward to hearing from classmates. much joy in the closer relationship he has devel- he was treated like royalty, and then got stranded From the West Coast comes news from Karen oped with God, Jesus Christ, and his wonderful in Europe under the Icelandic volcano cloud on the Lafky Stoufer, DVM ’78, who is director of train- wife Leah. He fondly recalls History professor way home. He has purchased a second baseball ing for the Christian Veterinary Mission in Seat- Richard Polenberg; it was his course in American team in Maui and plans to buy even more teams. tle, WA. She takes great pride in her work, which 20th-century history that inspired Steve’s inter- Maybe he should get in touch with Eric Darm- has given her a chance to pursue meaningful em- est in national and international history. He hopes staedter, who’s been living in Hawaii for the past ployment doing poverty alleviation and transfor- to travel to various countries to experience cul- 20 years, “with no plans to move.” Eric is CEO of mation. She credits her roommates, classmates, tures, landscapes, and people. In and around the Beltway, we hear from Paul Braunstein (Laurel, MD; [email protected]). Wendy Sneff is now back in Washington, DC, We are taking up ballroom dancing, working for the State Dept. She had spent four years in Korea. Her daughter attends George Ma- ‘ son U. Reinhard Werthner now lives in Bethes- with the intent to pick up our social da, MD, with wife Marie, after completing a two-year assignment as COO with the Sandia Na- life where we left it 26 years ago! tive American Tribe at the Sandia Resort and Casino in Albuquerque, NM. He commends former Alicia Kavka’ ’75 professor Vance Christian ’61, MS ’65, for men- toring him throughout his years at Cornell. He is still striving to start his own company. ClearFuels Technology Inc., a leading advanced bio- and professors who encouraged her idealism, and Our son is completing his final year at West fuels company. He travels to Denver and California especially chaplain David Durham, who was a Point, branching armor, and scheduled to be sta- a lot and runs into Craig Champion, Chip Conra- great model of including his family in his work. tioned in Fort Stewart, GA. Our daughter is in her di, and Jeff Hayes. Once a year he gets together Alicia Kavka writes from Lake Oswego, OR. She first year at West Point and I am on sabbatical in New Hampshire with a big bunch of fraternity will experience her first empty nest next year, from Seton Hall U., returning to the faculty af- brothers, friends, and relatives including: Walter with mixed feelings. Her oldest son has illustrat- ter ten years as dean of its business school. So, Howard, MCE ’76, Rob Swanson, Vern Grabel, Ben ed a book, son number two is in his senior year I, too, am at West Point, teaching a course in Brungraber, Corky Willse, BS Ag ’76, Dan O’Con- at the U. of Puget Sound, and the youngest is human resource management. It has been a ter- nell, Bob Cheney, Dana Williams, Joe Kowalik, now enrolled at the U. of Hawaii, Manoa. Alicia rific and rejuvenating appointment as husband and Al Van Ranst, MBA ’76. (This must be almost and husband Dale have traveled to Spain and Por- Joel and I transition to empty-nesting as well. the complete roster of Phi Gams seen in our 2009 tugal. She comments, “We are taking up ballroom c Karen DeMarco Boroff, [email protected]; Reunion group photo.) Eric offers his e-mail ad- dancing, with the intent to pick up our social life Joan Pease, [email protected]; Deb Gell- dress, [email protected], to friends or where we left it 26 years ago!” man, [email protected]; Mitch Frank, “anyone in the renewable energy business that Only one piece of news from the middle of [email protected]. wants to become involved in Hawaii.” the country. Mike Rosepiler, ME ’76 (todrpimj@ Continuing westward to the Far East, this col- bp.com) writes from Houston, TX. His career with umn concludes with news of Douglas Foy, a resi- British Petroleum has now been more than 32 Hope you all plan to join us at dent of Singapore for the past 20 years. He loves years. His travels took him back home to Pitts- our 35th Reunion, June 9-12! It the people, the culture, and the food. His family, burgh during the G-20 Summit and he continues 76 won’t be half as fun for us—and Alex, 13, and Lauren, 14-1/2, enjoy the weather to enjoy hiking and horseback riding in Santa Fe. no fun at all for you—if you’re not there. We really year-round for tennis and scuba. They get back to His “bucket list” includes running a marathon rate this year: we’ll be housed in the Townhouse the States once a year in summer. So, I guess and make par on 18 holes of golf! Community on North Campus; we’ll enjoy Finger they’ll miss out on natural events like our 18 inch- Don Sherman, MPS ’81 (Lexington, MA) Lakes beer, wine, and food pairings at a Friday es of snow in the Syracuse area in early March. We works as a program director at ERG, developing reception; we’ll eat Saturday dinner at Duffield Central New York residents had a lot of opportuni- alternative energy opportunities by the recovery Hall; the Hot Truck will be at your late-night serv- ty to enjoy the sparkling white stuff around here of methane. Prior to this, he worked for 23 years ice on the Arts Quad; and we’ll have lots of time this past winter. I like everything about it except at several other energy firms. He and wife Chris to enjoy the campus and catch up with each when it results in yet another snow day for my son, Cosentini ’76 are now empty-nesters; their twins other. Thanks to our dauntless reunion committee 14. Luckily I work down the block from our house, headed off to college. “We went from a house Martha Plass Sheehe, Mary Pykosz Creekmore, so I can sort of monitor his activities while teach- running at Mach 5 to empty-nesters and we are Ellen Gobel Walsh, and Terry Wolff Heinichen, ing my courses and directing the interior design enjoying the quiet.” Barbara Foote Shingleton MBA ’83, for all the work they’re doing right now. program at Cazenovia College. writes from Boston. Her daughter Elizabeth ’00 Be sure to go online now (alumni.cornell. For this column, I googled at times to find was married and now works at Boston Trinity edu/reunion) and register! more info about classmates whose business card Academy. Clifford Davis lives in Woodstock, CT. Class news is at a premium this time of year, had fallen off or whose handwriting was a challenge They are extraordinarily proud of their three self- so we were especially glad to hear from Suzy to decipher. Please send news via e-mail or class sufficient and kind-hearted children. Clifford Schwarz Quiles, who lives in Cranbury, NJ, with news forms. We will “work with you!” c Betsy writes that many of the people with whom he at- husband José. She is language arts curriculum su- Moore, [email protected]; Helen Bendix, tended Cornell had a big impact on him. Susan pervisor for Manalapan-Englishtown Regional [email protected]; and Jack Wind, jjw@mhw Siegelaub Katz ([email protected]) is a re- Schools. In Denver, Patricia Calhoun continues lawfirm.com. altor with Coldwell Banker in Westport, CT. She to run the great weekly paper Westword, which 74 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes Paul is a deputy June 2011 75 | , and I) have MA ’79, and May , Hemmings retired to retired Hemmings Roxanne Nersesian wrote, “Living in the Boston in the “Living wrote, started a career as an abstract started a career , is an ILR graduate who graduate ILR an is ’98, launched a green commercial a green launched is chief engineer at GSF Engi- engineer is chief I was concerned that this month’s I was concerned column would be very short too you were of because so many , MS ’76, lost his ’69, MS Tufts Craig Wilson Wilson Ben Littauer The icebreaker question I asked, appropri- I asked, question icebreaker The Madeleine Blanchet Paul Whittaker that Co. in Seattle reports Coffee Starbucks Mitch Genser That’s the news for spring 2011. One can’t 2011. One spring for news That’s the Steve Kranish HowieAnnette Eisen, [email protected]; c 78 certainly felt the winter, much more than our more much winter, certainly felt the ately, was how classmates managed to survive the managed classmates was how ately, winter. we (wife Kathyarea, Kerby tired from shoveling snow to send news. Fortu- news. to send snow shoveling from tired LinkedIn class the to post desperate a nately, to all Thanks updates. of plenty yielded group news. submitted call and the answered who artist and photographer after moving to Evanston, moving after photographer artist and Peace for is active with Neighbors IL, in 1992. He out what “to try to find was back in Ithaca and Craig to his children.” happened Gold Matthew as- and president vice , a veteran Swaya chief named been has counsel, general sistant current- Matthew officer. compliance and ethics Starbucks for lawyer principal ly serves as the is pri- and matters employment global labor and business US the of member lawyer to and mary Matthew. Congratulations, team. leadership (Vienna, VA) celebrated her 10th anniversary with her celebrated VA) (Vienna, reports but sadly Federation, Wildlife National the colleague that was ded- pond wildlife A cancer. battle with brain for still volunteers Roxanne in his honor. icated as a unit commission- America of Boy Scouts the counselor. badge merit and er Ange- Los Recovery in Asset for attorney district CA, in Brentwood, a fundraiser co-hosted les and gover- for campaign successful Brown’s Jerry for Lu- and Jared that his twin sons reports He nor. well. doing are and 3-1/2, started pre-school cas, Publishers LLC. Allison credits her color theory her Allison credits LLC. Publishers still as at Cornell studios design basic class and lives She work. daily her in role major a playing the of board on the serves and WA, in Washougal, would She Quilts. American for Alliance nonprofit Jodyfrom hear to like Miller-Olcott. to bi- time still finds He MA. in Beverly, neering to build 3,000 miles per year and than cycle more rockets. fly model and help but be impressed with the wide range of ac- of range wide with the but be impressed help involved and are our classmates in which tivities encour- We have on others. impact that they the and news to forward our classmates all of age also). to contribute friends encourage (and views [email protected]. Mulee, Ithaca to enjoy the town and be near her chil- her near be and town the enjoy to Ithaca Laurie daughter, Her granddaughter. and dren Hemmings works for Sylvania. Madeleine went a on 40th an- her East Coast celebrating the seven-day cruise of peo- for group a support founded niversary and is taking She injuries. brain ple with and tendon Achilles had an who husband, her of care with the plays bridge up golf, taken has injury, lectures, Cornell attends group, women’s Cornell team (present- hockey women’s supports the and nation). two in the number ly ranked real estate investment company focusing on mul- focusing company investment estate real moderate-income and low- for properties ti-family needs, people with special with children, families Rosa, people in Santa disenfranchised other and CA. Elyse Wendy Barbara Eric Orn- Trager, and Trager, (Douglaston, is in the process is in the in Syracuse, covering in Syracuse, Aller has written her , will be published in , will be published , MBA ’81 (New Rochelle, ’81 (New , MBA Ruth Bogitsh , BA ’76, MS ’77, announces ’77, ’76, MS , BA , visited the Cornell campus in Cornell visited the (Skaneateles, NY) is outdoor (Skaneateles, Bri- Philadelphia. from Greetings an Dunn re- which Aon, for works NY) Catherine Lomuscio Sachs. Allison Bryant Allison (Denver, CO) works as a hospital con- CO) works as a hospital (Denver, Allie Aller’s Crazy Quilting: Modern Piec- Allie Aller’s Denise Orzel Newman (North Caldwell, NJ) went back to went NJ) Caldwell, (North Newman (New York City) has retired, but worked for but worked City) has retired, York (New Patricia O’Brien David Figura Frederick Barken February 2010 to attend a reunion of Cornell Con- Cornell of a reunion 2010 to attend February involved been had alumni who cert Commission current The Dead concert. 1977 Grateful in the a to attend invited them Commission Concert members surviving comprising by Furthur, concert Sheryl Dead. the of Checkman called Life T-shirts branded of a line launching of trademarked and designed she which is Balance, lunch serves also Sheryl (www.lifeisbalance.com). syn- her by run kitchen soup a at Thursday every finds She York. in New Jeshurun, B’nai agogue, rewarding. work to be particularly this volunteer Quiltmaker 77 editor for the Post-Standard the editor for hunting. to bear birding from everything Gavin and nutrition practicing after 25 years of school is She 2008. in work social in master’s a received loves the and psychotherapist a practicing now on the Congratulations career. a new of challenge Dixon direction. career new the and degree new Kim court system. He State York New 30 years in the in- and student Chi Ch’uan Tai is a practicing with his two daughters. enjoys being and structor the work with either volunteer to do plans He to com- Project Innocence or the Society Fortune during witnessed that he injustices for pensate State York New the from Also retiring his career. court system is from to hear would like NY). Catherine stein, Janet Sandell cently merged with Hewitt to form the largest HR largest the to form Hewitt with merged cently com- the runs He world. the in firm consulting which business, consulting compensation bined is also on He in global revenue. has $250 million he which Girls Club, Boys and the of board the have wife Kathy and Brian rewarding. very finds beach in Long on the house a weekend bought retire. ultimately will they where Island, Prima- Fighting for Practice: that his book, Out of ry Care Medicine in America pri- left the He U. Press. Cornell 2011 by March in Itha- medicine internal general of vate practice challenges write on the and ca in 2007 to research of era an in physicians care primary adult facing primary of numbers declining resources, declining of population burgeoning the and doctors, care book is says that the Fred boomers. baby geriatric offers he and however, doom, all gloom and not patients of needs the satisfying for proposals some out check information, For more doctors. their and Fred’s website: http://www.frederickbarkenmd.com. to reading forward look We Fred. Congratulations, industry, healthcare your book. Also in the Gellerman changes the for prepare hospitals helping sultant, a as served She reform. healthcare from resulting in Cure the Race for first Komen the for delegate past and Elyse has been a volunteer Jerusalem. affiliate. Denver the for president board first book, Stitch- Joyful for Techniques Embellishment and ing C&T by published and 2011 March in out due , ing , is serving as mayor of Banning, of as mayor ’77, is serving MPA Hanna, city I finish this term on the “When CA, this year. 14 in 2012, I will have served a total of council council.” the on years San- and and Sharon Loeb Karen, Polivy and I,and prob- and Hanavan, Relf@ Hanavan, Rob Simon at dinner one night. Eliz- night. one at dinner , [email protected]; Pat Relf alumni alumni c and Denise Holmes; and Antho- and Denise Holmes; and Sussman, [email protected]. Sussman, ’s MasterMind program has award- program MasterMind ’s founded in 1977. Its political and political Its in 1977. founded Lisa Diamant Westword Several parents from our class have summer from parents Several come just I’ve press, to goes column this As neighbor, Dickson Another Bill Karen, Barbara, Hanavan Elizabeth Barker ’08 she and fellow Sun and she cultural coverage now has a big online presence, online has a big now coverage cultural past seven For the westword.com). too. (Start at years, dra Widener or arts insti- artists to innovative ed cash prizes developments new encouraging in Denver, tutions landscape. cultural in Colorado’s kids high-school-age I mean which legacies—by to College Summer Cornell have attended who legacies summer’s Last courses. college-level take of daughter Emily Cooper, included son of William, Andrew; husband Cooper and Michael Moore Frank and Mary son of ny, a great . It’s Tataseo on way to sell your progeny a nice program—and on details website for Cornell the Check Cornell. courses. year’s this Kennel Westminster the and City York New from show The as a spectator. Club Dog Show—strictly fun but this year it was especially is always great, Grindrod Barbara neighbor Hall Dickson to see my NC. Apex, Milo, up from husband, her and Warner Greater gorgeous her to show was there Barbara op- won best of who Dog, Maggie, Swiss Mountain top the That’s probably breed! in her posite sex since for, hope can Swissy female a that honor size the in advantage have the males physical and in this draft look for usually judges power that the many to top her won this honor Having breed. con- from retire will Maggie championships, other stellar par- her but will continue shows, formation travels Maggie in agility competition. allel career who, dog crested a Chinese Dusty, “baby,” with her agili- in competitor mighty a also is small, though Milo also have a and Barbara Back home, ty trials. what- probably and goats, some horse, Clydesdale itself. This weakness presents animal ever other be I think it can now new: is nothing animals for (Lenny rabbits used to keep that Barbara revealed in smuggled and room, dorm in her George) and too. On this trip to time, time from Prince dog her daugh- to see Barbara’s enough I was also lucky ter Brooklyn. in lives and Coach for works abeth but I have been in the to believe, “Hard writes, my than half of more 30 years, for now Bay Area I lived out here, time my of For most Yikes! life. I A year ago, Larkspur. cute little town of in the south in Mill Valley exit one house a new bought the across San Francisco of view with a fabulous that everyone guest room have a real I now Bay. bit my enjoy! I did to use and has been coming last year between fix- over the economy the for old my renovating and house new up my ing estate asset real my it out. Luckily to rent house has allowed me business consulting management been spending all that. Have to do flexibility the ski- not last two years, the in Tahoe time a lot of at Greek experience wonderful to my due ing grandniece. adorable with my but playing Peak, at up with everyone to catching forward Looking know all who remind (I should in June.” reunion a semes- for wore full-leg cast she the of Karen adventure.) Peak Greek one after ter ably all of your freshman year pals plan to be at your freshman ably all of to see you there. because we hope reunion—all you at we’ll meet and now right Run to register beer tents! the tds.net; tds.net; Karen Krinsky 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 75 Page AM 11:27 4/13/11 56-95CAMMJ11notes 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 76

alma mater, in fact. We did escape one snowstorm the Hotel school in May, so we will be in Ithaca A goal was set at the weekend meeting to by taking a week in the Galápagos in early Jan- for the ceremony and celebration. My father-in- achieve 1,000 donors to the Cornell Annual Fund uary.” Ben is an angel investor and stays tied in law, Cornell ’54, will be there as well, so it will and 500 attendees at reunion in 2014. Plans are with Cornell through the CAAAN program. He also be exciting to have three generations of Cornell- being made for regional events leading up to re- hopes to work with the Computer Science (CS) de- ians present! I also am involved with CAAAN and union including a Class of ’79 event associated partment “to help highlight entrepreneurial op- met with my fourth applicant yesterday. Such a with the Cornell vs. Boston U. hockey game in NYC portunities to the (largely theoretically minded) great experience! So many wonderful kids—wish on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. The event will take CS student body.” Randall Nixon got though the they could all be accepted!” Bob, ME ’79, and place at 5:00 p.m. at Heartland Brewery, followed winter by acting as CAAAN chairman for Howard Sarah Beran Steinberg, ME ’79, welcomed their by the game at . To keep County, MD, and interviewing prospective Cornell- first grandchild and our potentially youngest lega- abreast of these upcoming events please consid- ians. “Applications are up yet again, while the size cy, Dahlia Ruth, in January. er joining Facebook and becoming a member of of my committee remains the same. This makes for If I missed including your news, not to wor- the Class of ’79 page at http://www.facebook. a lot of dedication from my fellow Cornellians!” ry. Look for it in the next column, courtesy of com/group.php?gid=40107798568&ref=ts. Lynne Kolton Schneider had a whole other way Ilene. See you next time! c Cindy Fuller, cindy@ Other ways to reconnect with Cornell class- to deal with the winter: she moved permanently cindyjfuller.com; Ilene Shub Lefland, ilefland@ mates in the digital age include the Cornell Class to Boca Raton, FL, from New Jersey. She works as snet.net. of 1979 group on LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin. a sex therapist and freelance medical writer— com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=1799738) and ”just in a warmer climate.” CornellConnect at http://www.alumniconnections. Mark Pinnie got together with fellow Chi Psi The days are getting longer, the com/olc/pub/CEL/homepage.cgi. friends Steve Follett and Tom Groos and their snow is melting; writing this col- In other news, Diane Zahler reports that af- wives this fall for a bicycle ride around Manhattan 79 umn reminds me that spring is ter working for years in children’s book publish- Island. They then repaired to Tom’s lovely scaled- just around the corner and there is still winter ing in NYC, she published her first children’s down home in Greenwich for a sumptuous repast. news to report. The Johnson School named former novel, The Thirteenth Princess, with Harper Collins “Many stories of the technologically limited ’70s class president Jeff Berg, MBA ’81, their Samuel C. in 2010. This book was followed by A True were shared.” While we’re talking technology, Johnson Distinguished Service 2010 Award Recip- Princess in February 2011. Both books are James Euchner left Pitney Bowes and started an ient on Jan. 20, 2011 in New York City. The dis- retellings of classic fairy tales which grew out of innovation consulting firm with a friend from grad- tinguished service award honors alumni who have Diane’s love for the genre. Diane lives with hus- uate school. James is a visiting scientist at MIT, demonstrated continued engagement with the band Philip Sicker in Wassaic, NY. Susan Schapiro “where I am doing a little research on open and Johnson School through long-term volunteer activ- Caplan ([email protected]) is doing a dif- user innovation, and I am editing Research-Tech- ities. Jeff’s wife, Debra Paget, and children Lowell, ferent kind of publishing in Yarmouth, ME. She is nology Management, a journal for executives lead- Blake, and Samantha ’09 joined in the celebration. an assistant professor at the U. of Southern Maine ing innovation and technology organizations.” Jeff Weiss, Brian Miller, , MBA ’80, and has published her research on Latino immi- John DePolo (Chapel Hill, NC; john.depolo@gmail. Karen Mineo, Cindy Green, Steve Magacs, Mark grants and their beliefs about depression. She and com) helps Honda Aircraft hire engineers and oth- Wilson, MBA ’80, Jeff Margolis, and Zena Saun- husband Gary ’62 moved to Maine in January er senior people in Greensboro, NC. He also as- ders, MBA ’81, were also present to honor Jeff. 2010 for the job at USM because they love living sists venture capitalists nationally in staffing their John Scelfo, MBA ’80, has been named the in New England. Her position also allows her to portfolio companies and, on occasion, helps out recipient of the 2011 Jerome Alpern Award, the volunteer each year for a medical service/student with career counseling and networking. “I’m also highest award given by the ILR school. The award service learning trip as part of Partners for Rural in the beginning stages of establishing an ILR was established to honor a distinguished alumnus Health in the Dominican Republic. Susan would Alumni Association presence in the Carolinas. On who has demonstrated outstanding service and love to hear from James Seltzer, MBA ’83, Eliz- the home front, I keep busy chasing my two ac- support to the school, and it recognizes individ- abeth Hyde, and Jody Shevins. tive sons, 11 and 8, in their many activities.” uals whose career accomplishments have been A victorious Richard Friedman (rfriedman@ J.C. Henry and his family moved to Santa primarily outside the field of industrial and labor mlalaw.com) writes that ten months after the nine Barbara from Haddonfield, NJ, three years ago. relations. John is the senior vice president of fi- surgeries needed to recover from a catastrophic J.C. writes, “I recently launched, along with Dr. nance and corporate development for Hess Corp. skiing accident, he successfully completed the NYC Tim Brown, a performance apparel and lifestyle at the global headquarters in New York, NY. Marathon. His efforts raised $7,000 for the Leuke- company called IntelliSkin (Intelliskinusa.com). These award recipients highlight the out- mia and Lymphoma Society. Richard works in NYC Our products and technology are endorsed and standing contributions that many alumni make to as a partner in the law firm McKenna, Long and recommended by those that treat and train many the university through their volunteer activities. Aldridge LLP and lives with wife Sandra in Westport, of the top elite professional athletes. Our Intel- The Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference (CALC) CT. From Newton, MA, Jeffrey Hirsch (jhirsch@ liSkin shirt is the only product proven to improve held January 28-30 in Washington, DC, demon- hrwlawyers.com) reports that he left a large re- one’s posture.” Mike Gallup works in private eq- strated the vital role that alumni play in support- gional law firm in October 2008 to be a founding uity, where he serves as president and CEO of a ing the work of the university. I was pleased to partner and co-chair of Hirsch, Roberts, Weinstein Houston-based energy company, while also help- be able to attend and join with approximately 800 LLP (http://www.hrwlawyers.com/). Establishing ing acquire a Charlotte-based telecommunications alumni from all over the country who volunteer this boutique labor, employment, and litigation firm company. “I see Paul Johnson regularly; he’s our for Cornell. It was inspiring and motivational to that represents employers throughout New England son’s godfather.” see individuals from every generation engaged in has been exciting and fulfilling for Jeffrey. On the Class officers attending the annual Cornell service to the university. The Class of ’79 officers home front, he and wife Deborah have lived in the Alumni Leadership Conference in Washington, DC, in attendance at the class meeting included Jeff same Newton location for 20 years with sons Jake, had dinner at Marie Hagen, JD ’81’s house. Paul Weiss (class president), Mary Wilensky Kahn (VP 21, and Nate, 18. The house is not as full these Bonner, our webmaster, is excited about his new affinity), Deb Waterman Johns, and Janet Goldin days since Jake attends the U. of Rochester and job at Roundarch, a cutting-edge software and Rubin (VPs for regional events), Margie Wang Nate is at RIT. In their spare time, the Hirsches vol- Web development company. “It’s fun to work on (treasurer), Brad and Mary Maxon Grainger, MPS unteer at numerous nonprofits in the Boston area. projects for clients like Bloomberg News and Time ’97 (reunion chairs), Rhonda Carniol (recording During the summer, Jeffrey and Deborah get away Warner Cable. And there are so many smart peo- secretary), Nancy Sverdlik (Cornell Annual Fund), to New Hampshire for kayaking and bass fishing. ple, it’s almost like being back at Cornell.” Cindy Green (major gifts), and Steve Magacs, Kevin At the other end of the state, Fern Chin Bruce Clements writes that son Tim was ad- Bruns, and Jeff Berg (nominating committee). Murtagh ([email protected]) writes from mitted early decision to study Physics in the Class Several of these class officers joined with their Williamstown that she and husband Tom, PhD ’83, of 2015. He’ll join sister Katie ’12, who is study- spouses and several other Cornellians (including have successfully raised three daughters who are ing Biology. Two fourth-generation siblings at Dan ’78 and Sunita Gupta Leeds) at a dinner totally independent. Now that the children are Cornell! Bruce and his parents, Tom ’49 and Jean graciously hosted by Jeff and Christie Weiss at grown, Tom and Fern volunteer to coordinate a Pirnie Clements ’50, celebrate 60 years of out- their home in Northwest D.C. It was a great op- meals ministry program at their church. As part of standing insurance service in Saratoga Springs, portunity to share fond memories with those who this ministry they cook 70 meals once a month for NY, this year. Laura Day Ayers, MBA ’86, reports, have had similar Cornell experiences and a good senior citizens in Williamstown. The rest of their “Our daughter Kathleen ’11 will graduate from reminder that reunion is just around the corner. time is filled with work, travel, and visiting family 76 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes -Bianco, Harmeyer is Harmeyer June 2011 77 have a great | writes: “Life in Den- writes: May : “Prime season for season : “Prime Heidi Fleischman, BS HE Cynthia Addonizio checked in—it has been a checked c ’ Andre van Hall Hope you all survived the Arctic you all survived the Hope this country blasts that swept the cer- students Cornell past winter. Chuck D’Angelo From From Andy Kessler 1) go to the Class of ’81 Facebook event Class of to the 1) go By now you should have received several e- several have received you should By now from 2008-09. from has a new him. He from we heard while since and Other Unapologetic book out called Eat People fun Game-Changing Entrepreneurs. Besides Rules for to rules or criteria book is a set of the stories, (or investors or job seekers) entrepreneurs help book comes the of Most thing. big next the find in- and working (and breathing and living from Vivian Valley. in Silicon vesting) Cok Leonacaa28 @ cornell.edu; , leonabarsky Barsky @ aol.com; Dik Saalfeld, rfs25 @ cornell.edu; Danacornell.edu. @ dej24 , Jerrard ver continues to be an adventure. This year I have year This adventure. to be an ver continues CAAAN, with been involved ‘interview’ helping stu- it, recommend I highly in Cornell. interested dents Club Denver Athletic task. The as it is an inspiring albeit very slowly, prosper, and to grow continues was fun to re- work. It hard very with a lot of and a through friends Cornell with a lot of connect Center.” Living Int’l the for opened Facebook page I’m This year, me. for cycling has begun again Houston-to- the charity events: in two big riding National the 150 (175 miles) for BP MS Austin San Francisco the and Society Sclerosis Multiple San Fran- the to LA AIDS Lifecycle (545 miles) for the for Marshal I’ll be Ride cisco AIDS Foundation. league cy- my also have earned 150 and BP MS League of the from certification instructor cling safety classes. to teach bike Bicyclists American cycling Shell’s for marshal lead ride I’m also the these on info more For 150. MS BP the for team and out http://www.ms150.org check events, http://www.aidslifecycle.org.” ex- at SmartStorming, operations of director the on lead- focusing consultants ecutive management and ideation, facilitation, innovation, ership and on her information More training. communications Your at smartstorming.com. be found firm may correspondents: page (search for “Reunion 2011: June 9-12 Cor- 9-12 June 2011: “Reunion for (search page your mark and group, ’81”), join the Class of nell to if you still need or “maybe” “yes” attending past reunions of plan. Also, if you have pictures weekend planned. Many classmates have already have classmates Many planned. weekend Cornell Survey on the Reunion completed the . . there be they’ll indicated and website Alumni . and: now right minutes three or two take please so mail blasts about reunion.mail excited to get time It’s plans to coordinate out to your friends reach and Celiato attend. Rodee, Monique’84, and Van Perlstein tainly took advantage of the snowfalls to stage the stage to snowfalls the of advantage took tainly second annual fight snowball epic on the Arts Quad. campus the lovely about how daydream me Makes our 30th Reunion! for this June will be in Ithaca 81 , Sandra Peterson-Buengeler ’80 Sandra Peterson-Buengeler is a fresh- a is Zen Yui ’14 ([email protected]): “I ([email protected]): is owner of George Rios PA, a PA, Rios George of owner is : son “My Tom Lamb Jimi Yui We are a model global family that are a model We lives on three continents. lives on three George Rios From From From Will greetings , PhD ’92, sends Dickerson ‘ man in the Hotel school and loving it. We visited it. We loving and school Hotel in the man Col- around walked and Family Weekend during out to my Drove Ithaca. downtown and legetown in Tru- Embassy Rongovian the hangout, favorite YuiDesign company, design Our kitchen mansburg. new is very busy with many (www.yuidesign.com), restau- including this year, openings restaurant Mex- and in Beijing Morimoto Chef Iron for rants York.” New in Batali Mario and City, ico from Budapest and notes, “We have been living “We notes, and Budapest from László at Szent English 1993. I teach since here in school secondary is a public which Gimnázium, Our toes. on my me keep teenagers The Budapest. US. to the returned up and grown have children son-in-law made and our daughter Last summer, enjoy- very much are we So far, us grandparents. overseas, Also grandparenthood.” of state the ing Sandra in live “I now writes, -Buengeler Peterson Bayer CEO of and chairman am the and Germany business. a $10B global agricultural Science, Crop in busi- woman senior most I am the In Germany, I at thesis Ironically, honor’s senior ness. my wrote Messenger- the I was awarded which for Cornell, industry chemical German on the prize, Chalmers from industrialized country the how for as a model compa- key the of 1880 to 1950. Bayer was one full cir- I have come in that industrialization. nies I also have two than 30 years. cle after more and in South Africa living and working sons—one U. Unfortunate- at Wesleyan a freshman other the go to them of either convince to unable was I ly, it is a great them telling my despite to Cornell, a are We there! time I loved my university and that lives global family model continents.” on three re- family’s my of director managing am still the in Southampton, Bermudasort hotel Pompano (the all the of tired and is sick Beach Club). If anyone to escape to would like and this winter snow to would love resort Our know. let me Bermuda, if you are by e-mail you. I can be reached host a daugh- I’ve got a few days! away for to get ready (she U. State Florida at year sophomore her in ter and experience) college a warm-weather opted for year of sophomore is in her who daughter another re- Tom Boston area.” in the here school high Paulmembers brother DeJesus, a Psi U fraternity that an e-mail received We teammate. football and sincere we send 27 and passed away on Jan. Paul friends. and to his family condolences and plays club volleyball. Daughter Cassidy, 19, Cassidy, Daughter volleyball. plays club and a mem- and Diego San U. of at the is a freshman re- are husband her and Phi. Sally Gamma ber of term for 30.” (That’s her “being ally enjoying “empty-nesters”.) full-service law practice, and married to Arleen. married and law practice, full-service Jacqueline have daughters They Elizabeth ’11 to pursue a plans and this May is graduating who in a sophomore Ashley, Rebecka and in law, career served as pres- that he adds George school. high Bar Association Hispanic Jersey New the of ident Sys- Rich Linda Judy Krell Pee Wee Her- Wee Pee Kathy Zappia Marcia Wagner ([email protected]) c Cynthia Ahlgren holds a new position a new holds year as a Churchill Scholar. year as a Churchill thinks that his book, that thinks Raina Perlmutter all ’81, who Classmates, thanks for the in- the thanks for Classmates, to our call for response credible ava- an received We news. Henry Goitz Corcoran says hi from snowy Vail, snowy says hi from Corcoran and and on Broadway with his wife, Laura, and Laura, with his wife, on Broadway Susan Zellner Dunietz ’78 Chris Spear Careerwise, Careerwise, Ivan Duff & the ’82, has joined Lustig, MBA It is great to be able to report on all of our all of on able to report to be is great It are busy this year investigating appropriate this year investigating busy are 80 lanche of updates and will dive right in. If you will dive right and updates of lanche it in this column, look for see your news don’t issue! next in the man Show , was just translated Verification for temVerilog can’t he but, since by his publisher, Chinese into phone Beijing be the it could just Mandarin, read his wife and find did He cover. book with a new along page, dedication on the names children’s High- Lo Mein. for a recipe like with what looked the seeing include 2010 of lights Province- to the student exchange his new taking af- two days Parade Gay Pride town Carnival and Low point Azerbaijan. arrived from ter Andrew while visiting in Budapest thermometer was the au pairs. his kayaking this year. He was recruited by the Detroit Medical Detroit the by recruited was He year. this to join the surgeon as a sports orthopedic Center Pistons, Tigers, Detroit the for team that cares as- and chair academic also is He Wings. Red and di- Inst., Sports Medicine the of director sociate Injury Education, Sports Research, the of rector sports or- the of co-director Center, Prevention vice- and fellowship program, surgery thopaedic Hospital. Surgery Detroit the of chief the of scientist chief Linderman, ME ’81, became Research Air Force the of directorate information wife Linnea (Peterson) and He Lab in February. son Stephen to visiting look forward is ’10, who at Cambridgefor a Phelps mergers and acquisitions practice as sen- practice acquisitions and mergers Phelps 28 years’ expe- brings He director. managing ior truth!). that is the (yes, to this position rience Sally Doolittle CO! She still works in sales at the Vail Cascade Vail still works in sales at the CO! She Resort. Sonnenalp is at the John Resort; husband from (21—yay!) has returned daughter older Their at a junior is now and program a semester-at-sea Theta of is a member She Boulder. Colorado, U. of writes from Highland Park, NJ, that she is still a she NJ, that Park, Highland writes from the meeting occupied keeps who mom full-time Down’s has who Ruthie, youngest, her of needs Irwin husband and autism. Susan and syndrome ’78 They needs. Ruthie’s to meet programs school high is in his last that son Jesse pleased to report are Susan volun- time spare In her at MIT. semester She enjoys scrapbooking. and PTO teers with the with in touch Irwin still keep and Levinson Friedman. Friedman. at Cornell. Israel at Young met Please small. and great victories, and challenges with us so that we can in touch to keep continue Remember about your news. classmates inform as group Linkedin and to join our Facebook page alum- out other to check want you may well, and you can always, As at CornellConnect. ni news year at classof the to us throughout submit news at: or directly [email protected], Gould, [email protected]; and [email protected]; Shea, and friends. This summer they were able to spend able to were they This summer friends. and Doug with time ’85, at Tanglewood. , DVM Cohn from also hear love to Fern would [email protected]. Moses, 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 77 Page AM 11:27 4/13/11 56-95CAMMJ11notes 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 78

please post them on this Facebook page; and 2) Payne Fessler, DVM ’84, tells us that daughter Jes- and Cornell relationships. Teresa Dick Tsui Wong go to the Cornell Alumni website for Reunion— sica is in her freshman year at MIT, where she passed away peacefully on Jan. 4, 2011 in New http://tiny.ly/fGKi or http://bit.ly/fESKSf—to played on the volleyball team this fall, “follow- York City. Shortly after graduation, Teresa was in- complete the Reunion Survey and see who else ing in her mother’s footsteps (me!), who played volved in an accident on her way to her first job has said they are coming! volleyball for the Big Red for four years.” Son An- at IBM in Poughkeepsie, NY. After spending four Want to help out by calling some friends from drew continues at Stevens Inst. of Technology in years in a coma, she lived with her mother in Bay- your dorm, sport, fraternity/sorority, or other Cor- Hoboken, NJ, following up his bachelor’s degree side, NY. Although she had limited short-term nell activities? If Cornell kept track of it, we may in chemical engineering with a systems engineer- memory, Teresa always remembered her time and be able to get you a contact list. Let Lisa Kremer ing master’s program. He also works at the EPA in friends at Cornell, including Diana Ng Ling ’81, Ullmann know at [email protected]. Lisa Manhattan. Anne says there are still two potential John Ng, ME ’83, and Joshua Hsu and was an in- also reports that a small group of ’81ers gathered Cornellians at home in high school! spiration to her friends and family. Teresa is sur- to cheer Cornell basketball against Ivy leader David Eldredge’s life has been consistent but vived by her mother, Lai Ling, and sisters Anna Princeton in February. While Cornell lost, they still never boring. After graduation he ended up work- and Veronica. Those wishing to share their mem- had fun. 1981 attendees included: Phil Fine and ing locally in Ithaca and became an assistant ories of Teresa are welcome to contact her fam- wife Julia Yushkevich, Monique Van Perlstein, Paula coach for four years of the Cornell polo teams, for ily at [email protected] or anna.d. Kaplan Reiss and husband Rick, Lisa and Michael which he captained three of the four years he [email protected]. Ullmann ’80, and Mike Troy. Cornell had a strong played during college. In 1985 he took over the We have several prolific writers in our class. cheering section of more than 200. Afterwards the head coach position of the men’s and women’s Eric Alterman published his eighth book, Kabuki ’81 partying continued at the Princeton Sports Bar. polo teams and has been head coach for 26 years. Democracy: The System vs. Barack Obama (Na- Scott Craver recently saw Chris Hunsberger and He has coached the women’s team to nine USPA tion/Perseus, 2011). He continues his teaching John Hearns, and they have all committed to at- (United States Polo Assoc.) national titles. Dave at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate School tend our 30th Reunion! He also had the pleasure Stevens retired from being a Navy fighter and of Journalism, as well as his regular columns in of seeing Tim Cole ’83, MBA ’84, when he was in test pilot. His new novel, “Resurrect,” is going The Nation, The Daily Beast, and Moment. Adam Lehigh Valley en route to the Hotel Show. through editing before being published. Potkay’s most recent book, The Story of Joy from I attended the Cornell Alumni Leadership Marilyn Trautfield Sugarman celebrated the the Bible to Late Romanticism, has been translat- Conference (CALC) in Washington, DC, in January. bat mitzvah of her younger daughter, Bari Nicole. ed into Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, and Pol- It was an exciting and stimulating weekend: more Cornellians in attendance included classmates Ely ish; Adam has been invited to give a faculty than 700 volunteer leaders covering classes, Bar-Ness and wife Solange Cohen and Debbie lecture at the Catholic U. of Lublin, Poland. He has clubs, associations, and geographies coming to- Hirsch Ewing. Bari is a budding baker, and they had been lecturing in recent years throughout the US, gether to communicate, collaborate, brainstorm, a baking theme. They donated centerpieces to City UK, and continental Europe and is in his 21st year and share—all in the name of connecting Cor- Harvest, and there was even an article about Bari of teaching at the College of William and Mary in nellians. Of course, we had a lot of snow again in the New York Daily News. Unfortunately, David Virginia. Nancy Ranno Carlston has started to write this year (we’re getting used to it). In attendance ’79 and Jody Weiner Kauffman could not attend a novel this year. With four children and a busy were Celia Rodee, Tanis McKay-Bell, Lisa Kremer because their youngest daughter, Jennifer, was wine business (Tarras Vineyards and Scene 17 from Ullmann, John Boochever, Laura Fratt, Margaret celebrating her bat mitzvah the same day. Debbie New Zealand) she estimates that it will take about Gallo, and Monique Van Perlstein. and husband Mark and kids Kristen, 16, and Sean, five years to complete. She and her family are It was great to network with old and new 14, who live in California, stayed on to celebrate glad to be back in the States (Mill Valley, CA), friends, and I even went to dinner at the home Thanksgiving in NYC. Marilyn is now a special ref- near family, and closer to traffic jams. of Jeff Weiss ’79 on Saturday with several of his eree in the State Supreme Court in Manhattan. We have a new lawyer in our class. William classmates. We did take time out to offer support She says this is a little like being a judge, but Wolff, MPS ’03, reports that after working as a for our fellow Cornellians Gabrielle Giffords, MRP without the staff and all the power. She can only software engineer he returned to Cornell and com- ’97, and Susan Annis Hileman ’73, who were re- decide cases if the parties consent; otherwise, she pleted his MPS from the ILR school in 2007 and covering in Tucson at that time. I took a tour of writes a report and recommendation to the judge then attended Case Western Reserve U. for his law the Conservatory as well as the National Gallery who has the case. Marilyn presides primarily over degree. He passed the July 2010 New York Bar (with our very own docent, Frank Robinson, direc- matrimonial cases, and loves it. exam, and is now starting an intellectual proper- tor of the Johnson Museum). The Johnson School Eric Alderman tells us he was back in Itha- ty law practice in NYC. After attending Harvard featured Naomi Kelman, MBA ’83, president of ca in early November to celebrate with Ely Bar- Medical School, Scott Phillips reports that he com- LifeScan (a Johnson & Johnson company) as a Park Ness (he was Ely Burns back when we were at pleted a dermatology residency and has been in- Leadership Speaker. She spoke on “Changing the Cornell), who is probably among the last of our volved in drug development. Scott has run about Game: Turning Possibilities into Realities.” Wendy class to finally turn 50. Joining them were Jon 50 marathons, including 23 Boston Marathons. He Rosenthal Gellman was recently appointed to the Wexler ’80 and Ricky Rosenberg ’79. Although has also completed eight Ironman triathlons in the President’s Council of Cornell Women (PCCW). It is it was “Ithacating” that day, they visited their US, Brazil, and Canada and has competed in the a four-year term that begins this July. Kudos! old stomping grounds at TEP and climbed the World Championship Ironman in Hawaii. His daugh- Robert Mandelbaum sent the news that on Clock Tower to hear the evening concert, where ter Hailey will be a freshman at Cornell this fall. February 2, the Cornell Atlanta Alumni Association they played “Happy Birthday” to Ely. The next Several of our classmates are busy raising attended the Atlanta Thrashers hockey game to day they visited wineries on Keuka Lake and tast- young families. Michael Greenberg, MBA ’83, re- watch Matt Moulson ’06 and the Islanders. Before ed many of the wines we learned about in the ports that he has been teaching daughters Made- the game, Robert, Steven Kirson ’86, and others Wines class. Who could forget Dr. Konstantin line, 7, and Alexandra, 3, to ski and to ride bikes. from the club were joined by Darren Eliot ’83 (all- Frank’s Johannesberg Riesling? Michael continues to serve on the board of direc- American goalie and current TV an- We know we will see you soon at reunion! tors of the Cornell Radio Guild (WVBR-FM). Over nouncer), who gave a shout-out to the “33 Cornell Please make sure to keep in touch with us. c the past three years, he has been working to as- alumni in Section 301” during the TV broadcast. Betsy Silverfine, [email protected]; Kathy sure that Broomfield Academy, an elementary and Moulson did not score, but the Islanders won 4-1. Philbin LaShoto, [email protected]; Jennifer middle school in Colorado, grows and prospers. He Lorraine Brennan, an alternative dispute res- Read Campbell, [email protected]. and wife Beth, a professional violinist, have been olution (ADR) industry veteran, has been hired by working on a project to design and build a 500- JAMS Int’l to lead its operations in the EU. She seat performing arts center in their town of Lone has spent her career working in ADR, previously When asked, our class truly re- Tree, CO. Roland Pinkney Sr. is happily practicing serving in leadership positions with the Int’l Court sponds. In our last column, anesthesiology in Atlanta and ecstatically married of Arbitration and, most recently, the CPR Inst. 82 Mark Fernau noted a low level to Lisa. After having their son Roland Jr. ’07 grad- for Dispute Resolution. Renee Miller-Mizia tells of class news. After a blast e-mail to class mem- uate from Arts, they are proud of daughter Ashley us that while recently working in D.C., she had bers, we now have an extraordinary amount of ’14, who is prelaw and studying Communications the pleasure of catching up with her roommate news to report. Thank you for the tremendous re- in CALS. Roland keeps in touch with Terry Jordan, Sandy Mitchell Kelly. “It was fun to recap the ad- sponse, and please keep the news coming. who practices psychiatry in Mississippi. ventures of all our Cornellian kids: Alyse Mizia Let me start with a sad but touching report Eric Aronson’s niece, Marlena Fontes ’10, ’09, Brett Kelly ’10, and J. Colin Mizia ’12. Anne that reminds us of the importance of our family graduated from ILR last spring. Eric continues to 78 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes Isakson June 2011 79 | — Laura Gallup Laura — May and her husband, Dan, husband, her and Corrine Kostrub John Zayac ’82 Thanks to all who kindly re- kindly Thanks to all who for to our request sponded quite Our supply is now news. Liz Cogan Lorinda, [email protected]; Buffamante Nancy Gilroy extended her trip an extra day trip an extra her extended Gilroy Nancy Mark Rhodes, our class treasurer, just re- our class treasurer, Rhodes, Mark c abundant, so look for your news in the next issue next in the your news so look for abundant, it here. see you don’t if 84 and stayed with stayed and Saturday evening, Cornell hosted a tailgate party a hosted Cornell evening, Saturday and hockey men’s Cornell the live-streamed and out Check games. basketball women’s and men’s http://www. information: more website for the alumni.cornell.edu/calc/index.cfm. Hill area. Capitol the in home beautiful at their also met Nancy Liz and turned from Tanzania, where he led his 15-person his led he where Tanzania, from turned up students) school high (co-ed Crew Venturing moun- tallest free-standing the Mt. Kilimanjaro, trek six-day world at 19,334 feet. The tain in the to due challenging mentally and was physically it 15 made but 13 of altitude, high extreme the in rainforests, hiked top. They way to the all the and scree, mountain desert, alpine moorlands, sum- final started the They ice. and snow glacial and in moonlight, hiking mit climb at 11:00 p.m., 20 of peak at sunrise with temperatures the made also Crew the While in Africa, below zero! degrees and shelter, a women’s in support of trees planted local a to supplies and funds in $8,000 donated news Send Home. Children’s Amani the orphanage, to: [email protected]. Bickler, for lunch and had a great time reminiscing and reminiscing time had a great and lunch for life! on up catching When Zayac is not competing at the races (held races at the competing is not Zayac When a scratch. away without walked Zayac Both times, all event. “Everybody is headed to the same point, but point, same to the headed is “Everybody event. in NASCAR,” Zayac like you can’t bump in airplanes forgiving.” not “It’s says. Denver-based IBG CEO of is the he Nevada), in Reno, advi- acquisitions and a mergers Services, Business business, travel, leisure, for also flies sory firm; he has not career His flying air shows. occasional and an emer- made Zayac close calls. some been without to his first air race en route on a road landing gency years of couple a and trouble, engine to due Reno in crash-landing a controlled to do was forced he ago Rocky Mountains. up over the blew after his engine in the rocks it between some “I was able to drive Zayac off,” wings the rip and mountains the of peaks aircraft the slow time same that at “and recalls, fuel.” excess the lose all and down Linda Sue Guerin, Nancy Gilroy all in attendance. On all in attendance. Dana, Gordon Meyer, and and Meyer, Hello folks! Hope all’s well, and Hope folks! Hello last win- from snow that all the Our class officers ter has melted! , [email protected]. , hen John Zayac races, he can finish a five-mile course—complete with turns he races, Zayac John hen than a more For seconds. seventeen and about a minute turbulence—in and planes dozen a half which in racing, air of devotee a been has Zayac decade, Douglas, dskalka@npm- Skalka c Steven Crump, [email protected]; -Waterhouse, -Waterhouse, The Class of ’83 was well represented at the ’83 was well represented Class of The Sky Captain W fly a route including three turns at about 240 miles per hour. Zayac says the whole experi- whole says the Zayac hour. at about 240 miles per turns three including fly a route each of start the at come moments scariest the that but rush, adrenaline an offers ence 83 had a meeting in New York City a few months back months few a City York New in meeting a had Mark events. to discuss upcoming , Rhodes Conference Alumni Leadership 2011 Cornell Jan- of end the at DC, Washington, in held (CALC) with Andyuary, Lovero-Waterhouse, Sosa, Linda Daphne Gilroy, Sue Guerin, Nancy Gordon, Dana Diane, and Mobley Shakin Lovero Abbie Bookbinder a holiday for Calf Sunburnt in NYC at the met catching After December. in meeting brunch/class loved about stories sharing and times old on up a class- for discussed 2011 plans group the ones, Consider- Celebration. Party Birthday 50th mate us (and year for birthday this is a “milestone” ing it thought group the misery loves company!), with celebration, would be fun to have a national of (kind locations at multiple held being parties half-century the for Night Zinck’s a national like please stay finalized, were plans While no folks!). locations! and date the for tuned As the article points out, they still share a love still share they out, points article the As It Ithaca. to visitors frequent are and Cornell for interest- our most two of about piece is a great your news. all of again for Thanks classmates. ing for about your plans too early to think is not It you before be here will It our 30th Reunion. it. know law.com; Fernau E. Mark Mark New York Times York New retired in 2004. retired 8/23/10). Robert Mike (CT) News when he wrote. he when Al Harnisch, and proudly reports that he is one of the of is one that he reports proudly Dave Kimichik). They had Paul, Mullenhoff reports that he moved to Sausalito, CA, moved that he reports , Rich Castillo Robert, MRP ’96, PhD ’07, is a pro- Young earlier this year. The article, The this year. earlier Greg Chu, Like many of us, Johnus, of many Like Pisacane From the San Francisco Bay Area, Doug Area, Bay San Francisco the From Al- We received quite a bit of news from the West the from news quite a bit of received We In closing, let me report on an report let me In closing, also turned 50 last year; while the also turned emotion- traumatic was fairly event and He so far. is surviving he ally, 12 years also celebrated wife Teresa in col- has two sons He marriage. of from graduating a third and lege is the John this year. school high County Clara Santa the of president his 25th chair of the Society, Dental looking and reunion, school dental our 30th Re- to attending forward in touch keeps He year. next union with , Laprocido a wonderful celebration 50th birthday had He last July. in Cabo San Lucas ski his 21st annual from just returned with DU fraternity trip in Colorado brother university to infuse sustainability into (NYT outreach.” community and its curricula development economic the of also was a co-author and He Oregon. Kitzhaber of Governor for platform child. third their birth of the his wife celebrated Henry Herz Chevy the to be driving San Diego of first residents other and ownership his Volt of result a As Volt. the for was nominated he activities, energy green “Energy Energy’s Sustainable for Center California He Homeowner). (Outstanding All-Star Award” process to offer Solutions Lean Business launched services. consulting and training improvement leavitch San Francisco. Bay and the of views loves the and company device a startup medical works for He technology a novel developing (AEGEA Medical) in close contact Doug keeps health. women’s in Delta Upsilon ( from bothers with fraternity Marotto keep in touch with his freshman roommate Irwin roommate freshman with his in touch keep Monica wife with Atlanta in lives who , Waldman ca- long After a Gabriela. and Ethan children and Janet Accenture, at reer Simons Scott, 13, children busy with her keeps She his career 7. Following Adrienne 10, and James, Steve Cor- husband, her consultant, as a financial the of is chairman and politics town entered reia, also MA. They Wayland, in selectmen of board USVI. St. John, in house a have Coast. U. of at the planning regional fessor in city and Ini- Cities Sustainable the co-founded He Oregon. the in up written was which tiative, as by effort comprehensive most “perhaps the a US Times Opposites At- Polar Met: They “How de- Lab,” University at Cornell tract unusual the scribes in detail marriage subsequent and romance girl, Julie a Brooklyn of DeSimone, NY, Avoca, boy from a country and Will Will were and Conner. Julie weeks after our grad- three married three and 30 years Nearly uation. in Brook- reside later they children has an active Julie where CT, field, Will works and practice nutritionist Ameriprise. advisor for as a financial Mitch. 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Deb Goldman Weis, a transplanted New So many classmates have (yikes!) children Gazing out my window—finally Yorker in Pennsylvania (whose birthday was a who are either attending college or pursuing their . . . SUNSHINE! It’s still cold, week after the Super Bowl), is still working at own careers. All are undoubtedly urged to apply 85 but there’s sun. By now we’re GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare as director to Cornell—and many are or will be on the Hill! recovered from the blizzards of 2011, but I per- of business development for North America. She Adam ’83 and Margot Davis Sappern are still ex- sonally did not sign on for the “snow that lasts spends her time looking for companies/brands patriates living in London, with children Billy and more than a day” clause when I moved to Geor- she can acquire, products she can shift from Chloe. Billy was recently accepted into the Class gia. Seeing photos of the Northeast, Midwest, prescription to OTC status, and new products/ of 2015 and his parents are excited for him! and most of the South, I am thankful that the technologies she can help bring to the market. Melanie Bull Byers is proud to welcome a fourth- groundhog predicted an early spring. Outside of work she stays busy on the home generation Cornellian into the family. Son Kenny Pediatrician Scott Bookner (Scarsdale, NY) front, raising two teenage boys. Life is never Byers ’14 is a freshman in CALS, studying Envi- writes that oldest daughter Ilana will be a fresh- dull. Jason, 15, is a freshman in high school, and ronmental Engineering, and rowing with the man at Johns Hopkins U. this fall. While proud Matthew, 13, is in 7th grade. They are both ac- freshman lightweight crew. “Generation four-and- of Ilana, he remains a Cornell lacrosse fan. Scott tive in sports. Matthew also celebrated his bar a-half—our 6-year-old daughter Kelly, helped spent time with Michael and Nancy Kroll mitzvah this past October, which kept Deb quite move her big brother into his dorm last August Richardson in Nashville and saw Joon Kim ’84 busy planning for the event throughout 2010. In and loves going down to Ithaca for a visit. She in his hometown. Gerald Ortiz, MD ’89, reports the little spare time remaining, the family (in- routinely tells Kenny, ‘Have a good day at col- that daughter Alexandra ’14 is in her second se- cluding husband Mark and the boys) “are big fans lege!’ Kenny, Kelly, my husband Charles ‘Chazz’ mester on the Hill. Like him, she enrolled in the of the Pittsburgh Penguins and go to about a Geiwitz, and I recently returned from a week in Ag college; she hopes to be press secretary to the dozen games each season. It brings me back to Disney World. They were glad to get away from US president someday. Awesome! Denis Hurley’s my days of watching Cornell hockey at Lynah the record-setting snow besetting the Syracuse, big news is that son Denis ’14 is a freshman in Rink—where my passion for the sport began.” NY, area, but learned that even Florida gets cold Arts and Sciences. Daughter Grace, a junior at Acad- Gretchen Horlacher’s book Building Blocks: in January. On the plus side, there were minimal emy of the Holy Names, is gearing up for SATs and Repetition and Continuity in Stravinsky’s Music was crowds and virtually nonexistent lines.” softball season. Denis, a personal injury trial lawyer, published by Oxford U. Press in March 2011. Like many of our peers, Chazz and Melanie and wife Anne are avid runners, completing a half- Gretchen, who received her BA in the College are part of the Sandwich Generation, caring for marathon in Saratoga Springs this past Septem- Scholar program, is the chair of the music theory parents as well as children. Melanie’s 83-year-old ber. They keep involved with Cornell attending department at the Jacobs School of Music at Indi- mother, Beverly Cheney Bull, moved in two years hockey games and Cornell Club get-togethers. ana U., Bloomington. Diana Darcy writes, “After ago and will be staying for the foreseeable fu- Bev Schwartz Halperin, BS ’84, MBA ’85, mar- taking a not-so-restful hiatus to care for my daugh- ture. Melanie subsequently sold the family home ried on lucky 10/10/10, writes that her twin boys ters for a few years, I have changed careers from in Homer, NY. Beverly, too, has a Cornell con- will attend Cornell this fall in the Engineering and engineering management to genetic counseling. nection, having worked as a receptionist for Cor- Hotel schools. Congrats on all accounts, Bev! S. Last year I completed my MS in human genetics nell United Religious Work when the department Coleman Bookbinder IV is with Wells Fargo and and genetic counseling at Stanford U. School of first moved to Anabel Taylor Hall in 1952. While doing well. He, wife Eileen, and children Quinn, 8, Medicine, and I was then board certified in genetic at Cornell, Beverly did graduate study in voice and Grace, 5, sailed the Virgin Islands at Thanks- counseling. I’m now working at Santa Clara Valley under Sir Keith Falkner for three years before he giving. Niece Madison Meyer ’11 will graduate Medical Center in San Jose, CA, and also at Palo returned to England to become head of the Roy- from the Hotel school this year. Todd Shallan Alto Medical Foundation in Mountain View. There al Academy of Music. writes in from “the Del” (Hotel del Coronado in Cal- is never a dull day in genetics, and I love my pa- Michelle Schaap’s daughter Elana will be ifornia) that he begins the college search with his tients. I am thrilled with my new career!” attending Haverford College in September. oldest son. He had cocktails with David Merritt Diana is not alone in being thrilled with a new Michelle says, “There is still hope for Cornell grad recently. Kim Brown Hummel and husband Paul career. Twenty years after receiving her BS in Hu- school.” Son Josh is pursuing a career in com- (Atlanta, GA) are trying to fight off middle age by man Development and Family Studies, Carla Schorr puter networking/network management. Mean- juggling two careers, three sons in two schools, Rose received her MA from NYU’s Steinhardt School while, Michelle has been named one of the NJBIZ one geriatric cat, three kittens, and three gerbils. and has become a board certified, NYS-licensed cre- Best 50 Women in Business for 2011. She is an They look forward to beginning the college appli- ative arts therapist. Carla is currently employed by attorney who represents a varied client base that cation process with their oldest son next year and, the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx, ranges from Fortune 500 companies to smaller, of course, will be lobbying hard for Cornell. and is the only art therapist on staff at CHAM. closely held businesses. She practices primarily Alums with new careers or jobs include Dan She works with children and young adults in a pe- in the areas of corporate law, construction law, Autiello (Orlando, FL), who has a new job as re- diatric medical setting, using art as a modality technology law, commercial transactions, and gional director of sales for Ritz Carlton Develop- for therapy and life affirmation. She works in both franchising. Michelle still lives in Millburn, NJ, ment Co. Dan has triplets (!) who just turned 16 inpatient and outpatient settings, runs several with husband John, and they are celebrating and another daughter turning 15. Dan spends plen- groups each week, and sees individual patients and their 24th anniversary this year. ty of social time with Brian Miller, Pat Healey, families on a referral basis. Carla writes, “I found Michelle caught up with Marty Heebner Steve Tamasi, and Steve Garrison. Jeanne Var- a way to combine my lifelong interests in human while Marty was in NYC for a trade show pro- ney heads back to Ithaca in July for a lecture fac- development, art, and psychology, and get a great moting her line of Rebagz Eco-Chic handbags. All ulty post in Facilities at the Hotel school (I’m deal of satisfaction encouraging patients to access Marty’s bags are made using recycled materials totally jealous!). Shaz Kahng, a senior executive their innate creativity to help them through what- and under fair labor conditions (the bags even at Nike, worked on the launch of the chip in your ever challenges they are facing.” Carla remembers carry Green America’s Seal of Approval), and her running shoe that ‘spoke’ to your iPod Nano. She Prof. Lambert Brittain, who encouraged her to pur- company was named 2009 California Small Busi- has since moved to California with husband Bill, sue her passion in this area, saying, “You may be ness of the Year. Rebagz were also voted favorite becoming the president of lucy activewear. Shaz someone who can make a difference.” “I feel lucky eco-bag by InStyle magazine’s readers. Check encourages all Cornell women to check out lucy every day to have found work that inspires me.” them out online! Laurie Ratner Girsky just start- apparel online or at a local retailer. In addition to owning and operating a ed her new business, G-Squared Advisory LLC Judy Kepes has moved to Alaska to work as Chyten Educational Services business, Kevin Hunt (www.gsquaredadvisory.com). She is doing finan- a clinical database analyst for Providence Alaska continues to be very active in the Briarcliff cial planning, focused primarily on women, with Medical Center. Her family is into the Alaska Manor (NY) Fire Dept. as a member (and driver) services that include budget analysis, college sav- lifestyle; they adopted an Alaskan husky, Quest, of the hook and ladder company and an officer ings, estate planning, investment advice, and re- who introduced them to Skijoring. They also vol- in the ambulance corps. His son Lars, 16, is now tirement planning. After working on Wall Street, unteered in last year’s Iditarod. Monica Schwal- a junior member of the volunteer fire department Laurie says she took a break for a while, and now bach is moving to Baker City, OR, to become the and completed Firefighter 1 this summer. Kevin it’s time to get back to work! forest supervisor of Wallowa-Whitman National says it’s an incredibly challenging course, most More news to come in the next issue! c Forest. She graduated from our Natural Resources often taken by 20-somethings, that qualifies one Janet Insardi, [email protected]; Karla program. Karen Carr, magna with a double major to be a certified NYS interior firefighter. The spir- Sievers McManus, [email protected]. Class in Classics and Archaeology, was professor at it of community service lives on! website, http://classof84.alumni.cornell.edu. Portland State U. in Oregon for 20 years. She has 80 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes , Au- Teach June 2011 81 Susan Selig- | c (Kuna, ID) is a (Kuna, May Water Balloon Water , and Vernick. In 2010, HarperCollins Vernick. veterinarian practicing conven- practicing veterinarian as well as home- medicine tional Ellen German Hine, [email protected]. Howell, [email protected]; or [email protected]; Howell, Another writer among us is children’s author us is children’s writer among Another Glen NY) was Doherty, JD ’89 (Loudonville, Audrey Glassman Kindergarten? for Ready Buffalo Is Your published Today by USA books recommended four of (one She Loved and crowd) back-to-school the for Library Manley Story, a Junior Effa Baseball: The see a sequel, This year will Guild selection. 2003,a completed she program master’s mid-career Government. of School Kennedy at Harvard’s Drums to Play your Buffalo a fourth for Super Lawyer York selected as a New year.consecutive 5 Only in all attorneys of percent news the Per distinction. can earn such York New em- and management Glen “represents release, law, employment and labor of ployers in all aspects discrim- emphasis on employment with particular non-competition harassment, sexual and ination organiz- union litigation, discharge wrongful and collec- and practices, labor unfair campaigns, ing of news For more arbitration.” and tive bargaining well . . . you’ll just have to come our classmates, you there. seeing to I look forward to reunion! to: updates your news Please send drey’s debut novel for middle-grade readers, to be readers, middle-grade for novel debut drey’s Mifflin). (Harcourt/Houghton by Clarion published books coming picture additional has three She online visit her can 2013. You out in 2012 and www.audreyvernick.com. at sohn Laura Nieboer 87 opathy, chiropractic, and laser therapy. Her free Her therapy. laser and chiropractic, opathy, Farhi, (www. Risa Mish, Joyce Zelkowitz c Carry A Paintbrush: How Carry A Paintbrush: Have you registered yet for our yet for you registered Have 9-12 is fast June 25th Reunion? If now! so register approaching, . Her first book, . Her One person to look for at reunion is Susanne at reunion person to look for One to be the Artistic Director of Your Own Career Your to be the Artistic Director of career 21st-century about carryapaintbrush.com), Su- hoping We’re was just published. development, at re- or reading will have a book-signing sanne enjoyed Susanne book, the to writing Prior union. pro- as a movie first working career, an eclectic mov- before in Hollywood screenwriter and ducer to era dot-com the of beginning the at north ing to good degree Engineering Mechanical put her In websites. for design user experience use doing Goldstein you haven’t made it to a previous reunion, this is reunion, it to a previous you haven’t made Join silver anniversary! to attend—our one big the at head- dinner and hour happy for night us Friday Satur- at the with classmates reconnect quarters; Campus; partic- on West dinner barbeque and day rediscover Saturday; on Sun the in Fun in ipate new explore spots on campus and your favorite alumni at Cor- of with generations bond buildings; the at friends new and old meet Night; nelliana concert; a chimes hear parties; tent Arts Quad State Skorton’s President or Lecture Olin the attend more! so much . . . and address University the of information. more for Visit www.alumni.cornell.edu 86 [email protected]. from the mail I receive, I believe we are trying to trying we are I believe I receive, mail the from our children, ourselves, for better place it a make and Be happy children. our children’s I hope, and, to: your news stay well. Send [email protected]; Cornett, or [email protected]; Zwiebel Topper Elizabeth , among others, , among Sharon Tolpin Engdahl and Sisi and Engdahl , Boyd Setchko e-mailed me with me e-mailed Setchko Nichols received the Charles the received Nichols , a, Kidipede children’s encyclo- for crying out loud!” They live in live They out loud!” crying for Sue Mould Langston and husband Yancey spent Yancey husband and Langston Patricia Yule Patricia Christine alumni affairs of , director Natsios Marjorie Riemer It pays to have friends who write the column. write the who to have friends pays It It never ceases to amaze me how we were all we were how me ceases to amaze never It Mozesky Amaz- anniversary in Croatia. 20th wedding their Park, National at Plitvice waterfalls of scenery ing Island visits to the and Tito’s residence, a tour of topped were Montenegro and Dubrovnik, Hvar, of evenings. romantic and food delicious only by the Cortland. in house a bought school, Hotel the at to getting look forward Chuck boyfriend and She (as this spring yard out to work on the we all are!). out checking already 16, is granddaughter, Her fleeting! is Time colleges. was VP for while Sharon met David husband and video an online Mention, at Critical marketing designer. was a consultant David and company, on to another to move decided Just as Sharon But director. as creative joined David venture, later they months Two them. deter not that did they later year a and married, then engaged, were www.warmbread own company, their launched design and marketing a digital creative.com, Creative Bread Warm City, Based in Jersey agency. design, to Web branding from everything handles out! them Check illustration. and marketing, e-mail resigned to publish to publish resigned and performance exemplary for Award Russell Bard with a Tiffany Along Inc. 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Marjorie adds: “No, I “No, adds: ME ’87. Marjorie to a married not am own right. in my I one am nor bazillionaire, multi- universe kind have a super-cool, save the not I do shaker. and mover a large-scale I am not job. of step- and four of just a mom celebrity status, No water and above the head my to six. Keeping mom Except Barney.” to say that I *heart* unashamed is a totally cool part, I think she Barney the for kind universe with a save the shaker, and mover important. most the of One job: Mom. of how, in our lives and point same at the at Cornell toward we have all progressed graduation, since paths different down walked and goals different col- in children have Some now. are we where to have some toddlers; and have infants some lege, while oth- levels in companies, risen to executive fields. in different ventures new starting ers are in this world and role all play an important We 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 81 Page AM 11:27 4/13/11 56-95CAMMJ11notes 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 82

time is occupied playing sports with her three Margaret Toole Newland writes, “I complet- son Alex into the world in Dec. 2005. Jan gradu- daughters. Ellen thinks often about Phillips House ed a master’s degree in human development at the ated from Syracuse U. with a master’s in 1990. She and “all the fun people who lived there with me.” U. of Rochester. I have been a registered yoga worked in the communications field for a number Exciting news from Debra Howard Stern: “I’ve teacher for the last six years and love to share the of years and now lives on Long Island with hus- spent the last two years working on an applica- gift of yoga with a very stressed human popula- band Raymond and their children Brandon, born tion for a public charter school in Mount Vernon, tion! As far as Cornell, two things I have enjoyed/ in July 2001, and Donna, born in May 2004. NY, which was just approved by the New York benefited from since graduating are 1) traveling If we were playing “Jeopardy,” there could be State Regents. The Amani Public Charter School back for reunions, sometimes all by my lonesome, a category called “Traveling Cornellians of ’88”— will be a middle school (grade 5–8) opening in but always creating new memories of great times which I’ll take for 500 points. Joel Fetzer spent September 2011.” Congratulations, Debra. at Cornell; and 2) the CyberTower lecture series. the 2009–10 academic year in Buenos Aires with 60 undergraduates. He toured all over South Amer- ica, but especially liked Uruguay and Chile. In March he is off to Ireland and France for fieldwork I love to share the gift of yoga with on a new research project. Deb Gerardi Kemper has been living in Shanghai. She has seen Paula ‘ Greeno, who went to China for business reasons a very stressed human population! twice this year. Deb spent the summer months back in the US. Scott Brooks ’87 lives down the Margaret Toole Newland’ ’87 block and Bridget McAvoy is 45 minutes away. Also trotting the globe, Debbie Brown (Deb.A. [email protected]) vacationed in Australia last Charlie and Debbie Kranz Muller (Summit, NJ) This is a fantastic site for life-long learning. I year and is now planning a trip to India. Debbie have sons Matthew, 14, Timothy, 12, and Henry, 9, now know how to deliver a PowerPoint presenta- continues to work at 3M in St. Paul, MN, as a and have been lucky to spend a lot of time with tion without reading all the slides and staring at safety and health professional. For fun, she and Cornellians lately. Debbie’s aunt Lillian Schneider the screen (this drives me nuts in a presenter!).” husband Mark enjoy Siberian huskies (both their Innerfield Gerstman ’52 and Tim Mulligan and his Anita Bonacci Nygaard and husband Rolf cel- own dog and various foster dogs). family spent last Thanksgiving with them. Charlie ebrated eight years together in September. Daugh- Perhaps Debbie’s travels Down Under coin- plays lacrosse once a week with his old Chi Psi and ter Anya turned 6 in August. Anita writes, “We cided with those of Sheree Ruland, who has had New York City roommate Steve Long and old team- saved for seven years to buy a home, hoping, two stints in Australia for her work in federal gov- mate Steve Dadourian ’85. Debbie’s company, HR praying, swearing (oops!), and saving, and were ernment services at Dell. Sheree is the lead re- Acuity, continues to grow; hopefully 2011 will see delighted to move into a short-sale home in Or- cruiter, hiring government-cleared professionals additional success. Lissa Wonneberger Kowalski is ange County on the end of a cul-de-sac and at the with counter intelligence and full scope poly- still with Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, but recently took beginning of a lovely neighborhood family park graphs and has worked in the intelligence com- a new role leading human resources for Biothera- maintained by the city of Laguna Niguel. This was, munity for more than ten years. She’s been peutics Research and Development in Cambridge, in many senses, our dream home. Shortly after recruiting since graduation and has the distinc- MA, and now spends her time commuting among closing escrow, even before moving in, the home tion on LinkedIn.com of being the second most her homes in Mystic, CT, Cambridge, MA, and NYC. projects began. And we now realize, after moving connected female in the world and the sixth most From Stacey Pineo Murdock: “I am complet- in and addressing ‘the essentials,’ that there is no connected recruiter in the world (http://www. ing my master’s in higher education and student end in sight. Why? Because there are hidden es- linkedin.com/in/sheree). Sheree resides in Durham, affairs at the U. of Connecticut. As part of my sential projects, ancillary essential projects, pre- NC, and works from her home office. program, I have a graduate assistantship where quel and sequel essential projects, and otherwise Mark Tamis could also be in the “Traveling I run a program called Careers for the Common unnecessary HOA-preferred essential projects. This Cornellians of ’88” category on “Jeopardy.” I think Good, which is a joint collaboration of career is, after all, the OC, and each neighborhood has we should create a new category just for him, services, community outreach, and the Human its reputation to uphold. We’ve resigned ourselves though—“World’s Most Fun Job”—because in his Rights Inst. I work with students who are look- to the fact that it will be our major financial ‘baby’ new role, Mark runs guest operations at Carnival ing to follow socially responsible career paths. I for either the rest or our lives or until we close es- Cruise Lines. He is senior vice president at Carni- can’t believe I’m back in school—and spend most crow and sell it to another sucker (er, I mean ‘love- val and oversees the core areas of hotel opera- free moments doing homework!” ly family’) at some future point. Hence, overall our tions and services for the line’s 22-vessel fleet, Our own Hollis Thomases Williams was fea- financial goals now reflect: a) plan for retirement, including dining, housekeeping, entertainment, tured in a Cornell U. webinar in January: “Seven b) plan for Anya’s college, and c) plan to sell the and guest services. No surprise, Mark attended the Deadly Sins of Web Marketing: Selecting a Web house. Separate, yet potentially related, I have School of Hotel Administration. Prior to joining Marketing Plan in the Age of Social Media.” Hollis picked up a second job teaching HR certification Carnival, Mark spent 14 years with Four Seasons is the author of Twitter Marketing: An Hour a Day. classes at Chapman U. in my spare time (i.e., Sat- Hotels, where he earned the prestigious AAA 5 Di- The webinar highlighted some of the critical— urdays), while continuing to build my HR consult- amond Award at properties in Newport Beach and yet often overlooked—aspects of Web marketing ing practice. My husband is also giving thought to Santa Barbara, CA, and Nevis, West Indies (among strategies and tactics, combining general best a potential second source of income and dreams other awards). Mark’s great year doesn’t stop practice principles with real-world examples of of ‘passive income.’” Good luck, Anita! there. He also celebrated 20 years of marriage to Web marketing gone awry. Beth Weinstein has Well, that’s all for now. Continue sending us Amanda (Mehler) ’90 this year. A father to had an exciting year starting her own consulting your news through the link on our Class of ’87 Web three, Mark is actively involved in a wide range practice focusing on executive coaching and or- page, or through our Facebook Group, Cornell Uni- of civic and community service organizations, in- ganizational consulting. Beth resides in the San versity Class of 1987. c Heidi Heasley Ford, cluding Big Brothers Big Sisters and Special Francisco Bay Area. [email protected]; and Brenna Frazer McGowan, Olympics. Mark and daughter Isabella founded From Marc Lacey we hear, “After nine years [email protected]. www.dadsforgiving.org, an organization that en- overseas, I returned with my family to the US over courages fathers to volunteer with their children the summer. We now live in Phoenix, where I con- to benefit their communities. tinue to work at the New York Times, now as a na- I continue to be amazed at the And speaking of dads . . . Justin Milberg lives tional correspondent covering news in Arizona and accomplishments and spirit a- on the Upper West Side in Manhattan with wife New Mexico. The Times has quite a few Cornell 88 mong Cornellians overall and our Vanitha (Badari) ’92. They visited Orlando, where Daily Sun alums, including Eric Lichtblau.” Izzy class in particular. First up: Class of ’88 twin sisters son Devin, 9, played in the chess nationals and Sanchez writes that 2010 was the first full year Jodi Wiener Andel and Jan Wiener Zirimis. Jodi daughter Anya, 7, enjoyed the local attractions. for his new company, Quality Professionals Int’l, graduated with a master’s from Northwestern U. Justin works in the financial institutions group at which offers business performance efficiency con- in 1990 in learning disabilities. She lives in Wheel- BofA Merrill. Frank Martini still has his program- sulting via Lean Six Sigma services. The company ing, IL, and has been a special education teacher ming company, Cadence Development (since ’92), has 16 consultants, with multiple national con- and tutor for 20 years. In 2003 she married hus- but for the past six years he’s put his spare time tracts with private and government entities. band Kevin, and the happy couple welcomed their to good use mentoring two boys—now young men. 82 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes Fox, Cava- Anne Kelly Eliza- Jason Hervé, , Judy Copen- Kimber- Stephanie c June 2011 83 , and Susan , and Melisa Levitt reports a new reports Strella, Strella, | Morton, Morton, , and her sister her , and Susan Portman and spouse Ann and , ’91 ’91 Kirsche retired from retired Kirsche May and wife Gina had a had Gina wife and Carol Borack and and , and Laurie, and Jennings ’96. Stephanie Keene Scher Scher Moldow Moldow and a number of excited of number a and Naomiinstrumen- English, Osgood started a new job in job started a new Osgood Graham): In October, Chana In October, Graham): will be updating consistently. will be updating Greetings, fellow alumni! I hope Greetings, and well you finds spring the action-packed your lives full of Jordan Katherine McGee Collins. Debbie reported that there reported Debbie Collins. Heather Alexander Seltzer Michele Trester Labovitz, [email protected]. Howard Byck Treadwell Bliss, [email protected]; Bliss, Treadwell Lisa Berg Graham, [email protected]; [email protected]; Graham, and and Susan Cohen ’88. Cassidy, Cassidy, Avidon, [email protected]; [email protected]; Avidon, in Southern California, Susie California, in Southern Mrozek Dorine Colabella Dorine Trevor Steer , ’90 We received reports of the following wonder- following the of reports received We Judy Prutzman so keep in touch, to keep like classmates Your Finally I’ll add to the mix with my own news mix with my to the I’ll add Finally busy as a Daisy leader, Cub Scout leader, and leader, Scout Cub leader, Daisy a as busy Kimberly Levine Jeff Lee, ME ’90, Debbie Schaffel news: ful in marriage on Lisa’s magical reported classmates The 15 to Russell Yellin. Beach on January Palm by Heather attended was wedding Borden beth, Payne Guarnaschelli activities Homecoming future for ideas of lots are reunions,and tuned, so stay if you have some and Do to our class officers! them send ideas, great Judy which out our class Facebook page, check and on CornellConnect your latest info Please update our class and information correct so we have the you about alumni activities. can contact Michael Cheryl Osgood, Prutzman Rink Canady Salman Macklin announce that daughter Ruby Hope that daughter announce Macklin world on Oct. 26, 2010. the joined Macklin Trester and research of director is an assistant Michele ne- AFSCME, 37, Council District at negotiations em- municipal of on behalf contracts gotiating Michele City government. York New the ployees of with could talk shop nurs- the for negotiations labor in summer last tal covers 12,000 which Cities, Twin in the es union Art 14 hospitals. and nurses Buser Elizabeth. Helena daughter, January, working as a policy analyst for Nevada’s for analyst as a policy working January, after 15 years working Sandoval Brian Governor two teenage busy raising She’s as an attorney. alumni activi- in various participating boys and Alumni Cornell at the time had a great She ties. where DC in Washington, Conference Leadership saw Robshe , Chodock and mail, or snail e-mail via that news sending And ’89 Facebook page. Class of out the check 2014! 5-8, June Reunion, forget don’t ly Levine ( big Leah, 8, and sister Shira big joined Rivkah 4, and Tzvi, 6, Avraham, Naphtali brothers Barry, British husband, my keep 2. They Yoseph, a DC, raising Washington, on his toes outside negotiators. team of Bloom the Navy in December 2010; she had served since in December 2010; she Navy the with to stay home excited is now She graduation. Briankids. four her Zeitlin has four in early 2010. Brian Molly, daughter, invest- own his co-founded has and daughters Group. GreensLedge firm, ment Czaplinski Lauren Flato haver writes that Sherry Peck Rachel Adleman ’91, lieri lieri kindergarten field trips. Her son Ari, 10, and son Ari, Her trips. field kindergarten husband and her 7, keep Leora, daughter ’91 with Deirdre is in touch She soccer coach. New- man 90 news items. Our own Rob items. news . ’s Rick Levin- Ferrari at Ferrari -McGuin- as a serv- (Sunnyvale, decided that decided Randi Rimer- The Happiest Mom: The Happiest magazine for a write- for magazine Karen Saul Miller ’90 Lauracrossing , Seaver Zakery’s Bridge: Children’s Bridge: Zakery’s and and Fields, and Ruthellen and Fields, Lev- started World Discovery Box, Discovery World started Shaw, ToriShaw, Margolis moved from a faculty position a faculty from moved .com. Author Susan.com. Author Comninos is in private an anesthesiologist has been admitted to Columbia/ has been admitted Howard idge and sister-in law Jessicaand (Silber) ’94 Sternlicht and Andi and Sternlicht Permutter Sheldon got together for a September for together got Sheldon Serota and Serota Mary Leong Allison Strang W. Lee Kraus W. Judy Nguyen John Skowlund man their 25th high school reunion over Thanksgiving reunion school 25th high their with brother time to spend got and weekend Jentis ’93 on the Ilissa is in Manhattan Jersey. while in New Upper West Side with daughters and David husband that she’s reports 9, and Natalie, Rachael, 12, and for bat mitzvah celebration May the been planning to see in NYC, hoping daughter her London Business School’s Executive Global MBA Executive School’s Business London Phil in May. starting program Penn son in Charlotte, NC, works as an optometrist and NC, works as an optometrist son in Charlotte, 11, with help Samantha, 14, and to Jacob, mom up with Ilissa caught Dan. She husband from Ru- binstein now is and enough was life corporate of years 21 de- area the to become his own company forming Mudd Mountain the for Connecticut veloper for to excited He’s franchise. drink coffee espresso The business. and coffee for his passions combine to goes award wandering Tom husband and She Magellan. of Straits the in South motorcycles have been riding Grenon southwest Bolivia, Chile, explored They’ve America. Antarctica, a ship to hopped They Argentina. and a shared and salt flats, world’s largest saw the Day. Year’s on New family with a rural lamb asado Christyness, Carlson enter trip. annual an hopefully on Nantucket, weekend hockey ice both play ladies’ Ruthellen Allison and each other. to play teams their for arranged and Chase Chevy played the Hockey Womens’ So Navy Chase, rink in Chevy on an outdoor Moms” ”Mighty MD) has two sons, (Millersville, MD. Ruthellen 15 13. Elanaand Adleman Feinsmith to plan 18 degree Hotel Cornell CA) used her at Cornell to a new position as a director of a re- of as a director position to a new at Cornell Southwestern Texas U. of at the center search for Center Green Ida and H. Cecil Center’s Medical Stacy Sciences. Biology Reproductive Jentis Journeys From Around the World to Iowa World From Around the Journeys understanding. international to benefit project ice pur- and first two stories the can read Cornellians to charity) at: (proceeds book online chase the www.zakerysbr Virginia, in Northern practice her of most spending as anes- volunteering and riding trail time free missions medical for thesiologist the around world. in Latin primarily completed 12 missions, She’s was born and she where Vietnam, and America delivered she Smile, Operation Through raised. needed who than 250 kids more for anesthetics in also volunteered and palate repair cleft lip and her celebrate She’ll earthquake. after the Haiti 2011. May in anniversary wedding 15th which offers fascinating science collection boxes collection science fascinating offers which to in- hoping schools and families for It’s kids. for out the Check majors! science Cornell future spire Maybe www.worlddiscoverybox.com. cool stuff at Deborah with in touch get should John , Skolnik editor at Parenting a senior first book, edited her up! She’s time Enjoying Motherhood. By the 10 Secrets to the wrote she this it will be published; you read Kay all moms! note, so take foreword, Ganshaw Smith has co-authored serves as a judgefor theJewish Daily Forward 100th the to commemorate poetry competition Factory fire. Triangle the anniversary of Brad (Eng: ORIE). (Eng: . The site features new site features . The ’s report that daughter Jen- daughter that report ’s renewed his emergency med- his emergency renewed Gary ’87 , [email protected]. , I’m writing this in a frozen tun- this in a frozen I’m writing of fondly thinking and dra lots of I’ve got days! warmer Stemme, [email protected]; Stemme, Brad Mehl, [email protected]; c Honeymoon Junkie: Everything but the Girl Howard Greenstein joined Penton Media last summer as vice last summer Media Penton joined We’re at so many different stages of life now, of stages different at so many We’re A final entry from Shaun from entry A final ’94. Hawkins , MBA own. my of I’ll close with an update Thomas Bottoni I’m proud to be associated with such kind- with such to be associated I’m proud Laurie Teller Markin updates on our classmates to report, so strap on strap so report, to classmates our on updates e- who your seatbelts! I apologize to those will here—it news their see don’t and me mailed issue! next be in the married, getting us are of Some it’s astounding. and to our families, additions new reporting some I was blown away Amazing! college! talking others by 2015! Class of Cornell the of nifer will be a member rather Nutrition studying will be in HumEc, She Biology) (Ag: footsteps in Laurie’s following than dad, her of or those 89 icine ten years another for certification ABEM board attend to to Las Vegas with a trip celebrated and 2010the in September at Assembly Scientific ACEP gath- largest the was It Casino. Bay Mandalay the the around from physicians emergency of ering world. an place to be if there’s a good like (Sounds awarded was Thomas Last summer, emergency.) time) third the (for year award the of teacher the instruction clinical and to teaching dedication for at program residency medicine emergency the for he where VA), (Portsmouth, Center Medical Naval associ- and physician staff contractor civilian a is on Navy served in the he Previously ate professor. his wife and Thomas 1992–2002. from active duty, cruise took a two-week Alaska and enjoy travel with a lifetime trip of it was the tour; land and abundant and whale watching, glaciers, pristine April the Boston (for trips included Other wildlife. NC. Head, Nags FL, and Orlando, 2010 marathon), 2008, of spring the in Street Wall Shaun departed pas- “greener of in search after a 12-year career, this correspondent Far be it for as a writer. tures” so I’ll simply writer, a professional to paraphrase has been mentally “It Shaun’s own words: relay first My side. creative my to tap into rewarding this was published book, written as a memoir, summer. Kindle and Amazon.com, is available at Borders, www.shaunchawkins. website, personal on my and on Ama- reviews reader at the glance com. A brief value! book’s entertainment zon will confirm my up a copy! My pick artist and Support a struggling title is “The working Its book is a novel. second soon.” will be published Swan Diver” I hope, and, books! with your luck of best Shaun, One is a premed sophomore at the U. of Texas; the Texas; U. of at the sophomore is a premed One Cruz! Frank Castle is soon-to-be-pop-icon other in Houston. six) doggies six (yes, with his resides Mehl research. and development audience for president brands, 100 media marketing for I’m responsible de- and growth, digital company’s the accelerating our mar- for capabilities new and revenue veloping For fun, last year I started services. research ket with class a website called www.GoodAdorNot.com officer ads, some Good and some Not—but that’s what that’s Not—but some and Good some ads, to check Feel free site determine. visitors to the comments. your in with weigh and out it well And classmates. accomplished spirited and too! traveled, Sharon Nunan Steven Tomaselli 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 83 Page AM 11:27 4/13/11 56-95CAMMJ11notes 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 84

Price, MRP ’91, send a much-needed and well- close friends Paul ’91, DVM ’96, and Nicole Doria- clean technologies. Mark and Karen Suarez Grif- detailed account of recent activities. Susan writes Rose ’91, PhD ’98, who live nearby in Kensing- fith ’93 were married in 2000 and have a daugh- that she sits on both the Sharon, MA, planning ton, MD, for an adults-only dinner outing. Jim ter, Kendra Rose, 3. They moved from Winchester, board and her family board in the role of mom. still practices telecommunications law for Sprint VA, to Seattle in 2005. Mark is a project manag- Meanwhile, Rob often sits in his office chair at CVS Nextel Corp.; Paul and Nicole are both researchers er at Boeing. Rob and Seema Mital Kubarek live headquarters, where he is the chief marketing offi- at the National Institutes of Health. in Palm Harbor, FL, with their two sons, ages 6 cer. Susan adds, “We both had a blowout at Reun- Elisa Barfus Bremner has started part-time and 3. Seema is a pediatrician, and Rob is a pilot ion.” The family band Full Price recorded a CD last work at Northern Westchester Hospital Center as with Southwest Airlines and a reservist for the summer, “Waiting for the Rain,” which is available the clinical dietitian for the surgical weight loss Air Force. They connected with Alysia Leavitt in on iTunes, at www.fullpriceband.com, or on Face- unit. “I love working in a hospital that supports Santa Fe for a ski trip. Carolyn Richmond cele- book. Sharon asks that we friend Full Price Band and nutrition in patient-centered care. My niece, Sophia brated 40th birthdays with friends at the Borga- send her a message if you are interested in a shiny Levine (daughter of David ’88, MD ’92, and Dav- ta in Atlantic City, noting, “It took two years of silver CD. The band is thrilled that the Clinton Bush ena Barfus Levine ’88) was accepted early deci- juggling schedules, but all eight managed to put Haiti Fund chose their song “Haryssa’s Song,” about sion to Cornell as a Communications major (same careers, kids, and husbands on hold for 48 hours.” the earthquake, as an official selection. In addi- as me!). My own children are still many years from Claudia Novinsky Liff still works for Procter & tion, the President of Haiti and the First Lady ac- college and currently concentrate their efforts and Gamble in Ohio. Sharon Kaufman Moreland prac- knowledged the song with a phone call. The band talents on music (drums, guitar, bass, piano, tices law. She and Susan Segalowitz Bernbach contributes 10 percent of the proceeds to CBHF. French horn, and tuba among them), rock climb- live in New Jersey. NYC residents included Carolyn, Wow, I must say this deserves a standing ovation! ing, and . I took my husband to Ithaca Tracy Stemple, MS ’93, and pediatrician Karyn Seems that a few classmates have been shak- last summer (my first trip back since graduation) Ginsberg McConnell. Karen Rosenberg Rothen- ing and moving lately. Katrina Christakis (Chica- and was amazed at how different the campus berg ’92 and Amy Carver Andrus ’92 came from go, IL) left “big law” two years ago and started looks. I could barely find my way to West Campus Westchester. Fun was had by all. a boutique banking and financial services law or my old sorority house! This summer I will be Linda Doerrer enjoys academic life as an as- firm. Her extracurricular activities include check- working for my third year at Camp Wayne for Boys, sistant professor of chemistry at Boston U. Teach- ing the kids’ homework, Facebook posts, and iPad as dietary coordinator and cooking instructor.” ing 18-year-olds keeps her mentally flexible and apps. Mary Ann Apostolakis Bross, MILR ’90 Antonio Caviglia, MBA ’93, has lived in Italy provides tremendous . Lisa Dale is (Solebury, PA) is a VP of human resources at Som- since 1998. After 11 years with Emerson Electric, the legislative program manager for the Colorado erset Medical Center. In her off hours, she has de- he entered the pleasure boat business, first as Division of Wildlife. She has two teenage boys and voted some time to emergency preparedness. The EMEA business development and strategy director regularly sees Debbie Fine, Jenny Harris, Shar classmate she wishes to contact the most is Nan- for the US company Brunswick Corp. and later as Carter Heslam, Kara Niles, Kari Ginsberg Nesbit, cy Sanchez, MILR ’90. Nancy, if you read this, sales director for the superyacht shipyard San- Kris Hurley Van Riper, Cynthia Lee Dow, and Kris- please drop the class correspondents a line and lorenzo, Baglietto and Cantieri di Pisa. He writes, ten Sciacca. They all plan to attend reunion! Ar- we’ll reconnect you. Deborah Lu has changed “I currently live near the Cinque Terre on the lene and Greg Stoller reside in Boston with their jobs and is now a shareholder at Vedder Price PC. northwestern Italian coastline, where I also breed, three children. Arlene is an educator at a region- In addition, she is an inaugural member of the exhibit, and race Russian sighthounds.” How cool al hospital and is pursuing her master’s in nurs- intellectual property group in the NYC office. Alan is that? Well kids, that’s the news wrap for now. ing. Greg runs a commercial real estate company Flyer ([email protected]) opened a Math- Please keep sending us your news items and we’ll and has been teaching MBA students for ten years nasium Learning Center in Roslyn Heights, NY, in blacken your name in ink. From 35,000 feet inside in the Boston area. He hopes to see everyone at January (www.mathnasium.com/roslyn). The new a silver bird over my home state of Arizona: c reunion! Also in academia, Kathryn Rudy writes, business venture is part of a global franchise that Kelly Roberson, [email protected]; “I am a scholar of late medieval manuscripts helps kids of all aptitudes and ages learn math in Amy Wang Manning, [email protected]; Rose (14th-15th centuries) and developed a new a way that makes sense to them. Alan is excited Tanasugarn, [email protected]. method of measuring what people read in the pe- to bring this resource to his local community and riod: I use a densitometer to measure the dirt in to be part of an exciting global initiative. the margins of medieval manuscripts. My new ar- Perhaps the freshman seminar writing classes, Our 20th Reunion is right around ticle on this topic received more than 500 hits in rather than math classes, have proven useful for the corner! Join hundreds of our its first week and I’ll be lecturing on the topic in Matt Gallaway (New York City). “My first novel, The 91 classmates on the Hill, June 9-12, London, Cambridge, Jerusalem, and Ghent. In Metropolis Case, was published by Crown/Random for a weekend you will never forget. Register now January 2011 I will join the faculty of the U. of House and has received some great reviews” (in- at: http://classof91.alumni.cornell.edu. No doubt St. Andrews in Scotland.” cluding the New York Times and Washington Post). there will be great stories to share afterwards Cavarly Berwick Garrett lives in Montclair, The book should be available in most bookstores thanks to the amazing weekend planned by our NJ, with husband Michael and girls Avery, 9, and or through the website, http://www.themetropolis co-chairs Jeff Weintraub, MD ’95, and Dorine Brynn, 6. She is an asset manager for commercial case.com. It’s a good thing that freshman semi- Colabella Scher and class president Bob Baca. real estate with JP Morgan, and Michael is a stay- nar classes were not held in Barton—think of the Jeff and Cindy Miller Mason celebrated their at-home dad trying to keep his sanity when the noise in its hangar-like structure! After almost 21 fifth anniversary. Cindy looks forward to recon- girls get too girly and giddy. Cavarly remains con- years on active duty and 18 days shy of 25 years necting with ChemE grads and everyone else at nected with Susan Lyons, who visited from D.C. stepping into for the first time, LTC reunion. The market for chemists and chemical with daughters Helen and Paige, and Kathryn Noelle Briand of the 82nd Airborne Division at engineers has changed so much since 1991, Cindy Lancioni Sachs ’92, who visits NYC monthly from Ft. Bragg, NC, retires from the US Army on July wants to hear how (and what) others are doing. Rochester. She also saw Laura Miller Moody at a 31, 2011. “It has been a great run filled with Despite moving to Cambridge, England, Tim crew race outside Philadelphia where Laura rowed tremendous opportunities, challenges, and ulti- Menasveta is still planning to attend reunion. So a mixed eight for the first time since Cornell. mately rewards! I’ll be hanging up my boots to is John Kang, MBA ’96, with his wife and kids, Alarik Myrin is making a major shift from a tradi- be a full-time mom to Mackenzie, 7, and Logan, ages 7 and 3. He works in financial management tional commercial cattle ranch to all-natural grass- 4, and an Army wife to LTC Michael Carr (USMA for the McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. in NYC and fed beef (cmrbeef.com). He and wife Staci have ’91)! I’m excited for the future!” also does some teaching. Susan Lipetz Brown kids in three different schools, two of which are In February 2011, Bethesda, MD, was the site writes the notes for her grad school class and was big rivals. Staci and Annika, 13, accompanied for an impromptu Class of 1990 and 1991 reunion. kind enough to share an update. She works at Alarik on a hunting trip to South Africa last year. Troy Norin traveled from Scotland on a business Siemens Corp. as the director of compensation for “All three of us hunted and each took record-book trip for Agilent Technologies and also sandwiched the US and is trying to juggle life in NYC, work, trophies.” Carrie Koenig (Carrie_Koenig@yahoo. in a visit with Jim Goldstein. Troy arrived during and sons Stephen, 3, and Max, 1. According to com; www.VisitTellurideCO.com) has been in Tel- a massive snowstorm in the Washington, DC, area Susan, “I’m hoping to make it to reunion, espe- luride, CO, for nearly 20 years working as a real that knocked out power in many homes for 24–48 cially since I haven’t connected with many Cor- estate broker and running her own vacation rental. hours. After the power returned, Troy stayed with nellians in the last year!” Jessica Lifland, BFA ’92, was photograph- Jim in Bethesda and toured the sites in D.C. while Otto Pohl is a Sloan Fellow at the Graduate ing in Haiti and the Dominican Republic last sum- reliving the “glory days.” Troy and Jim met with School of Business at Stanford concentrating on mer. Some of her work from Haiti is online at 84 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes are Megan received Tina Thung June 2011 85 | Marsha Wittink Phillips directs a pre- Phillips directs Bumb is VP for com- Bumb is VP for May at Baltimore’s Dept. of Baltimore’s at Raj’92. ME Datta ’90, lives with his wife, Jennifer, lives with his wife, is nearby, working in Baltimore working is nearby, Kathryn Rudy ’91 The days are getting longer, kids longer, getting are days The of end the for antsy getting are and planted, are school, Scanlon and husband Sean have husband Scanlon and Castellano, [email protected]. Castellano, wrote in from Maryland that he is the he that Maryland in from wrote Valerie McConnell . Valerie McGuire ’94 Torrance, [email protected]; Torrance, Lisa Taylor Don’t forget Reunion—June 7-10, 2012— 7-10, Reunion—June forget Don’t Josh ’94, and , BFA Owen From our News Forms, we received several we received Forms, our News From Steven Copeland Jean [email protected]; , Kintisch c Fee Lois Duffy and our class Facebook page! Please send us your Please send Facebook page! our class and at http://www. it electronically do you can news; or alumni.cornell.edu/participate/class-notes.cfm so much! thanks and care Take write us directly. school nutrition program while raising her children her while raising program nutrition school Justin in sunny husband with Zachary and Emma my remember “I writes, She CA. Pasadena, South classes fondly,Botany and course I still use what of I or- year when class senior Wines in the I learned course Ballroom P.E. the I taught or buy wine. der Zoë I still enjoy dancing.” and as a senior Dancing from hear to like would moved back to Ithaca after 13 years in Chicago. back to Ithaca moved hills and back with the “I love being Lisa writes, beautiful fallI colors!” many think of us ZoëLisa’s sentiment! echo would Marchal updates—please keep them coming! You can send You coming! them keep updates—please or e-mail at www.alumni.cornell.edu online news below. addresses at the correspondents the of any Earl Pinto manage- resource and administration of director Service. Health Occupational Federal the for ment William Andersen into ran He architect. as a landscape in Philadelphia. years after ten in Rochester living soon we’ll break out the tractor for the upcoming the for tractor the out break we’ll soon late these are moments favorite season. But my a little to linger sun seems the when evenings, with that brings you catch a breeze and longer, some there’s I’m sure summer. of promise it the it, but that’s term that describes meteorological be- things of Speaking capabilities. my beyond Jeanne capabilities, my yond Hardebeck Scientists for Award Early Career Presidential the re- fundamental her for (PECASE) Engineers and fo- research Jeanne’s seismotectonics. in search strengths the and prediction cuses on earthquake Fault sys- San Andreas the particularly faults, of presti- a such earning on Congratulations tem. Jeanne! award, gious works last September and at a conference Hugg with Recreation and Parks. In his free time, he enjoys he time, In his free Parks. and Recreation during MD, City, Ocean in friends with jet-skiing months. summer the in Boulder, CO, has and a on been busy working new Hong from most to hear like He’d launch. product Choi ’90 Bank in Bellevue, at First National lending mercial OH. 93 was and Kevin and ’ Laurel Bever- columnist. Bet- and her husband, her and took classes that included is an alumni mentor to three is an alumni mentor Sheryl Wu Dunn ’81 Karen Limsat at Betty ’02, there. ’94, MBA the dirt in the margins of medieval the dirt in the margins manuscripts. I use a densitometer to measure I use a densitometer Valery Alicea Alex that his ’92, announces , BFA Hoffert CAU’s in participated classmates few a Lastly, . She had a daughter in 2009 and reports that reports in 2009 and had a daughter . She ‘ third child, Samantha Abigail, was born on Oct. Abigail, Samantha child, third 29, 11, Harrison, brothers older her joins 2010. She well is doing Sarah, 6. Alex’s wife, Nathaniel, and focus- while Alex at home kids to three adapting Catapult at director managing as job new a on es Avon is the His client CT. in Westport, Marketing I’ll see “Maybe says, Alex Cancer. Breast for Walk NYC walk in October (hint, in the classmates some job new to walk!). Between the . . . register hint world has turned whole baby girl, my new and pink is else seeing pink.” Someone ley a chief is now She back to Cleveland. moved she Karen surgery. orthopaedic of Hovorka Cor- (hopeful also had a baby girl, Mandy Lyons enjoy 2010; they 2032!), in August Class of nell very at the them joined Mandy Tahoe. life in Lake NV. in Reno, Night first Zinck’s vicari- a “It’s says, She students. Cornell current (with some back to college going ous way of my under already life experience hard-earned Romance a Pure and is an attorney belt)!” Valery have been mar- husband her and She consultant. them girls bring says her she and 13 years, for ried Stacey laughter.” and wonder, Rappaport “joy, Erik 2010 program. summer DiGiacomo, wife Jil- Jose and lian, Irizarry CAU painting. landscape and cooking, clinic, a golf an in- explore way to visit campus and is a great season! summer delightful Ithaca’s during terest and advisors, they are looking for ways to bring to ways for looking are they advisors, and Chinese to alumni. events team-building COE more up catching of celebration 15-day is a Year New go- by it off Betty kicked friends. and with family an- Alumni Association’s Asian Cornell to the ing by banquet, attended Year New Asian Pan nual Betty friends. alumni and than 300 Cornell more was Rhodes Frank Emeritus President that reports and commencement our at was he as eloquent as saw Stephenthat she and ’02, , ME ’93, MBA Mong wife and journalist a table with Pulitzer Prize–winning trustee Times a New York Kristof, Nicholas use the about opportunity to ask them ty took the during tool. Also as a journalistic media social of friends with up met Betty season, holiday the Johnny The Zachery. baby and Ng, his wife May, reunion and cloth diapers, babies, talk was of 2012)! 7-10, (June Lincoln of directors of board elected to the corpora- a nonprofit Inc., Legal Services Square Law to of U. School by Fordham established tion op- education with clinical law students provide in a year-long Stacey participated portunities. is and program education Law clinical Fordham women’s the chair of and partner a litigation now Hadley Tweed, Milbank, at committee initiative City. York New in LLP McCloy & Bill Terry Horn, , runs the runs Jonathan and Anna- and Jay swung Jay Jim Wilcox Todd Kantor- Bolks, klk22@ Bolks, opened his own his opened Heslam, sheslam@ Heslam, Cunningham. Jennifer Cunningham. Ariane Schreiber Karen, McCalley Mark Bellantoni Scott Zittel works for Morgan Stanley in Morgan works for Meredith Rosenberg Kathryn Kraus Happy spring! It’s hard to hard It’s spring! Happy now year from but one believe, back on we will be gathering c Esmeraldo also visited the Finger also visited the Esmeraldo live in Batavia, NY, with their three their with NY, in Batavia, live Sharlyn Carter , MAT ’92, and Diana ’92, and , MAT Liu Munger ’90 Joe Moran Betty Eng, has three kids and runs a premium dairy in dairy a premium runs and kids has three As you may know, my husband, husband, my know, you may As Betty Eng and Jonathan Simon are two of the two of are Simon Jonathan and Betty Eng John Thanks for sharing your news. As always, we always, As your news. sharing Thanks for 92 campus for our 20th Reunion! It’s not too soon not It’s our 20th Reunion! campus for THE DATE—June so please SAVE to start planning, improved and new a has class Our 2012. 7-10, Please 1992. of Class Cornell page: Facebook use to free feel And us! “like” and out it check the link to recommend to Friends” “Suggest the class. the of members to other page fan , PhD ’98, and AllisonHorner, PhD ’98, and are . Here Bergstrom officers. class other and these on updates some advisory invited to serve on the members newest advocates As Education. Outdoor Cornell for board , and I are reunion chairs, along with veter- along chairs, reunion I are , and czyk Ianan chair Todd . This past January, Kutner Confer- Alumni Leadership Cornell the attended there, DC. While (CALC) again in Washington, ence Jennifer met he Lynham marketing of director as a senior Cornell works for con- While at the analytics. business and strategy 1992 meet- in a Class of participated Todd ference, with fellow officers ing Simon, [email protected]. White Plains and refuses to leave NYC. Mark Bel- NYC. Mark to leave refuses and White Plains All of County. in Westchester is a fireman lantoni with Jim. . . . along reunion plan to attend them after biking stand cream stopped by Jim’s ice live have two girls and They Lake. Cayuga around John and is a doctor Diana where in Minneapolis, up catching night a great had They is an attorney. room- I were and Jim, “John Per after 20 years. looks like Diana year. our sophomore during mates 1990.” Lisa stepped out of she Epstein She kids. three her with hello say to town through in NYC. at a private school teacher is a preschool Denise Doyle berkshirepartners.com; Lakes. She and husband Alex live in Connecticut live Alex husband and She Lakes. GE. works for she and CA. He Chico, and in Redding clinics care wound this with Vickie marriage 18 years of celebrated Andy has two girls. year and Boerman have two daughters. Marna and He Agway. Ithaca at Cream season, Jim can still be found the During on Ithaca of located 25 miles north Top, at the mar- that he Jim shared lake. the of east side the we when was at IC She two years ago. Cindy ried . . . it just took him 15 years to at Cornell were the Running both left Ithaca. after they her find a vacation! like is a job that seems store to see you. Hope from to hearing look forward you at reunion! cornell.edu; cornell.edu; maria Dalton in Saratoga in September. Emily and Emily September. in Saratoga in Dalton maria Lee Winters STdycm SheUSAToday.com. with worked Smile, Operation a missionmedical organization that performs surger- ies on children with cleft world. the around fa- other lips/palettes and deformities cial Wow! a for updates enough provided at- full column after thetending of wedding Scott feed business. his own Lee runs kids. Nichols two kids, and with wife Jodie NY, lives in Warsaw, as a chiropractor. has his own practice and Peck is also very involved in local He NY. Schuylerville, politics. 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 85 Page AM 11:27 4/13/11 56-95CAMMJ11notes 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 86

Marsha is researching patient decision-making and Speaking of reconnecting, while reunion may looking forward to the summer season! Since I last seeing patients at U. of Rochester Medical School. seem a long way away, there are many things we wrote this column, I changed jobs within Post Josh is associate professor in industrial design at can do to start to get ready. We hope that many Foods. Instead of being on the brand marketing/ Rochester Inst. of Technology, and also runs his of you will come to reunion in June 2013, and strategic planning side, I’m now leading our inter- product design practice. You can check out Josh’s we’re working on reaching out to those we’ve nal sales planning and sales operations teams. work at his website, joshowen.com. They both missed at past reunions. Are you able to contact Very different world! I hope many of you have love living “in the woods” with their children a few of your friends from our days on the Hill tried some of Post Foods’ new offerings (e.g., Jasper and Saskia. Rossanna Wang relocated re- and invite them to come? We’re starting a group Pebbles Treats snacks and Raisin Medley Honey cently from the West Coast to New York City, where called “Reunion Reach Out & Connect” and we’d Bunches of Oats)! she’s working at a fashion Internet startup. Jay like you to be a part of it. If you’re interested, I’m vamping a bit because the news this Drezner also moved recently from New York to Cal- contact Earl Pinto at [email protected]. Any month was anemic. We typically send out a solic- ifornia and is the CFO of a nutritional supplement time you can spare would be a great help toward itation via e-mail once a year, but that only lasts company. His wife, Pamela, and kids Nathan and making our next reunion more special. We could us a few issues. If something exciting happened Alexandra are enjoying the warm weather and out- also use your help in making sure your e-mail ad- to you (new job, relocation, family news, Cornell- door activities that come with living in California. dress is correct as we try to shift more of our ian sighting, etc.), write and let the rest of us Stacie Heck Fitzgerald recently celebrated class communications toward eco-friendly e-mail, know about it! her 13th anniversary with Justin with a trip to so please drop by www.alumni.cornell.edu and On to the class news: Kim Moffitt Hehir Mexico and has already started working on plans update your contact information. writes from Honolulu, where she and husband Sean for our 20th Reunion! Stacie is in private prac- In the midst of work, family, and time with ’96 just moved from New York City. Congratula- tice as a therapist and is co-director of Impact friends, we hope that the upcoming summer is a tions! In other news, Anne Paoletti (Binghamton, Project, a volunteer organization that helps with happy one for you. Please keep sending us your NY) writes that she “enjoyed a recent visit with home repair for low-income and elderly house- news and updates! c Melissa Carver Sottile, Yvonne Lee ’95. Yvonne lives in Philadelphia now holds, while continuing to volunteer at her [email protected]; Yael Berkowitz Rosenberg, and drove up to Binghamton. We had a great time church. Stacie and many of our class officers at- [email protected]; Melissa Hart Moss, melimoss@ at karaoke and can’t wait to get together again!” tended the Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference yahoo.com. Ted Mertyris (Ringoes, NJ) responded when asked (CALC) in Washington, DC, this past January. They what he’s been doing recently: “I am fulfilling two had the chance to listen to Jon Gordon give a longtime goals. First, I am transforming my in- very fun keynote address, as well as get great tips Greetings from New Jersey! I vesting hobby—now 12 years in the making—into on reconnecting with class members, planning for hope everyone survived a crazy, a business. Second, I am dipping a toe into pol- reunion, and strengthening our class ties. 94 snowy winter and that you’re itics. I have been elected Hunterdon County com- mittee member.” Sean Alexander, MBA ’01, sent in his business card from Macquarie Securities Group—he lives in Hong Kong and has traveled to Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Sean writes that he continues to train for Vision Quest triathlons and plays rugby for the Hong Kong Cricket Club. In his spare time, Sean raises funds for Child’s Ilana Lidsky McGuinn ’95 Dream in Thailand. Marc Gallagher wrote that he and wife Amy Unckless live in Sud- s an undergrad in Arts and Sciences, Ilana Lidsky McGuinn sometimes got into bury, MA, just outside of Boston, minor car accidents and bumped into things in the dark. At the time, she figured with son Ryan. The couple added an- A that her clumsiness was due other future Cornellian last summer to being absent-minded. Then, along with daughter Shayne Elizabeth. Amy with her sister and brother, she was is the chief administrative officer for diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, Columbia Management, the asset management arm of Ameriprise. a genetic eye disease with no known Marc trades government bonds for a treatment or cure. small hedge fund, BWT, at which he In 2005, McGuinn’s family found- is a partner. Marc wanted everyone ed Hope for Vision to fund research to know they went to the Harvard/ on retinitis pigmentosa and other Cornell hockey game last month in blinding diseases such as macular Boston, and his son was heard degeneration. With just one full-time chanting “Scrape him off the ice.” (You can never start them too employee, Hope for Vision relies on a young.) Marc also enjoyed the an- network of volunteers, who raise nual “CRUNK” trip to Las Vegas with funds by hosting benefits in cities fellow Cornellians Sunil Srivastava, from New York to Los Angeles. Michael Marchant, Louis Ramos, A stay-at-home mother of four, and Joe Femino ’95. Sunil and wife McGuinn has lost about 90 percent of Rachel Gurshman have relocated to Cleveland, where Sunil now works at her vision in dim lighting and almost the Cleveland Clinic. And Louis notes all her peripheral vision; she gave up that he recently changed jobs in driving several years ago. “I can read Washington, DC; he is now at Pfizer, and I can see my kids’ faces,” says McGuinn, who holds a PhD in psychology. “I can do a as part of the compliance interna- lot of things with my central vision that I’m very grateful for.” She notes that advances tional investigations team respon- have been made toward reversing other forms of blindness via chip implantation, gene sible for Latin America. Tim VandeWater, MBA ’00, and therapy, and vitamin treatments, offering hope for retinitis pigmentosa patients like her- Lisa Chagala also welcomed their self. “Science will advance,” says McGuinn. “We will help fund that science—and one day second child; Caroline (“Callie”) people who have blinding diseases will be able to see.” joined their clan in March 2010, — Allison Ong ’12 greeted by brother Jonathan. Finally, 86 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes . Robb capped June 2011 87 spends her af- her spends | Daily Progress Karen, Szczepanski May , Darcy Peterka Darcy Storm is director of con- of is director Storm ). Most of Jun’s free time Jun’s free of ). Most shared an Ithaca apartment an Ithaca shared Ingrid Schmidt Hubertthe to According . Tsai Ron raj6@cornell. Johnstone, As you read this column, the you read As be lovely outside. should weather will have sprung spring Finally, Allen welcomed Mark husband and c and and Sheila Di Gasper and their products were included in gift included were products their and Slumdog Millionaire -Silverman, [email protected]; Carin Lustig-Silverman, Alicia Parlanti In 1995–96, Class Notes regulars Marguarite regulars In 1995–96, Class Notes Audrey Kleinsmith The lofty title of senior vice president of busi- of president vice senior title of lofty The after a winter memorable for extreme weather extreme for memorable winter a after get outside, lunch your Take country. the across have a seat on that playground, to the your kids enjoy! While and tree, blooming the under bench life good about how thinking and relaxing you’re the beauty of The update. us a quick shoot is, an- one to us connected that keeps technology you don’t is that etc.) iPhones, (Blackberries, other computer a of front in time out carve to have wait! So don’t in with classmates. to check screen advantageTake us update and that connectivity of new those time it. By the of thinking while you’re sun are springtime the you from leaves shading 97 is spent playing with his daughter, 3, and “not 3, and with his daughter, playing is spent luxury men’s their at work building Hard sleeping.” twins are (TwinLuxe) business products grooming Anthony Tsai Carmody, and struction services at Habitat for Humanity of Humanity for at Habitat services struction rec- was March in and VA, Charlottesville, Greater wom- top four Charlottesville’s of ognized as one the in profiled 40 and under en Michelle Pirozzi 2011. 27, on Feb. world the into Dorothea Caroline now Michelle California, Southern from Originally also in- which family, with her lives in Minnesota the for attorney is an Michelle son Zachary. cludes Senate. Minnesota When 3. Diana, after daughter chasing ter-hours mar- was also getting she last summer, wrote she Ingrid a house! buying and Haynie) (to Troy ried Hos- Animal at VCA Davis veterinarian is associate 2-1/2 days “I work part-time, CT. pital in Stamford, best the It’s daughter. my a week, so I can raise the forget never says she’ll Ingrid both worlds.” of would and out with friends, hanging times great Mitchfrom hear to love Huang’96. ME ’95, Report 2011 Gram- at the bags distributed to musicians and armed be will Bieber Justin Thus, Awards. my hair. facial by confronted is he when and if ready spring! Happy edu; Courtney web- Class Rubin, [email protected]. http://classof96.alumni.cornell.edu. site, ness affairs at Warner Bros. Pictures belongs to belongs Pictures Bros. at Warner affairs ness than Jun other none Oh, lives in Los Angeles who movies studio major for deals talent negotiates and (e.g., a revolu- for stands “TwinLuxe website, company’s a daily in shaving—transforming change tionary Apparently— ritual.” daily a luxurious into chore revo- the to triggering improbably—critical and silver-tipped badger of incorporation is the lution by was designed brush, which shaving fur in the Rolls-Royce auto- works include whose someone has been written up in the TwinLuxe mobiles. during their senior years. Fourteen years later, all Fourteen years later, years. senior their during husband and Alicia first children. had their four 2010 in May off things kicked Dennis Madison hus- and by JD. Karen goes who Dennis, with Jack Novem- in came daughter Engelkraut’s Brett band ber Marguarite to born was Kennedy Ryan 2010. 17, 2010, and on Dec. Yedinak James husband and and later Sheila six days Anthony. with Magnus festivities the , Shawn and hus- and Mike Pulizot- (Haworth, NJ; jmarchi , and John, and Chiarizzi. Everybody Loves Whales ons. Tara was also named also was Tara ons. Tara MacLean Sweeney Cunningham (Boston, MA; Cunningham gest locally owned and op- and locally owned gest -Sigler, vkbrooksigler@gmail. Perrie, [email protected]. Perrie, Marchisio It’s hard to believe it has it believe to hard It’s already we graduat- been 15 years since your loved you and hope ed! We Alison Torrillo French Kampani ’94 in 2008 and serves onin 2008 and numerous “Juv” , served as the campaign manager for manager campaign , served as the -Feliberti ([email protected]) and Eric and ([email protected]) -Feliberti and husband John Morris had a son, An- Morris John husband and “Noon” “Noon” Sonia Malhotra Kevin , and Jonathan, and Bloedow ’93, ME ’94, Juve- , MEE ’96, president and vice president vice and Matt, MEE ’96, president Abra Benson There’s no better place to start the class news better place to start the no There’s Juvenal Brian Society Dallas the of Rose, a member Veronica K. Brooks Veronica c US Senator Lisa Murkowski’s successful write-in successful Murkowski’s Lisa Senator US Ah-include children Tara’s and Kevin campaign. will be featured actor who 11, a budding maogak, movie upcoming in the 96 than the last frontier. last frontier. than the ones will come back to to be a in what has proved share 9-12, and June Ithaca our for 15th Reunion, there! you See Hill. the on weekend fantastic senior is the she where Alaska, in from checked Slope Arctic for affairs vice of external president lar the Corp., Regional in excess with revenues in Alaska, business erated than 10,000 employees more and $2.3 billion of the of all facets for is responsible Tara worldwide. as relations, government and media corporation’s has been honored and well as communications, pro- and rights Native Alaska advocacy of her for val- on cultural that focus local programs moting traditi and practices, ues, Journal Alaska by the leader business as a rising Commerce of hus- In 2010, her boards. nonprofit and business band, which was filmed in Alaska. in filmed was which [email protected])man- brand senior as job new a has good a spends He Foods. B&G at Ortega for ager after (his) little “running time his “extra” of deal McCloskey, James Like Brooke.” and Christian kids, to hopes who Sonia from hear May, to ’94 Rohit with in touch to get wants nal , Mehrotra Aruna com; of Chartered Financial Analysts and a private in- and Analysts Financial Chartered of “serves on a committee helping firm, vestment school Dallas public preparing a curriculum design entrepre- and technology in careers for students Power the of is also a member He neurship.” (beta.poweracrosstexas.org) Board Texas Across the of board the for treasurer as functions and Power Texas. North of Association Alumni Cornell aware- that promotes is a nonprofit Texas Across issues. energy around cooperation and of ness Anna Zakos son, Nicholas have a new Virginia Feliberti of and 8, Stella, 6, Anastasia, of brother Charles, sis- older with all those 2. (Good luck Gabriella, ters!) re- human of director [email protected]), Co.), & Johnson Depuy (a Johnson for sources Ben- welcomed (Georgetown) Tom husband and on April 23, 2010. Benjamin joined jamin William 4. Nate, brother band Sarah welcomed 1995, respectively, Class of the of 28, 2011. Class treasurer on Jan. Christie Hecht 2010. 7, Dec. on Morris, Thomas derson elementary/middle school for the past few years. the for school elementary/middle “es- she that notes and it “challenging” finds She stop not does This teens.” teaching like(s) pecially with works She challenges. other seeking from her runs midnight monthly that coordinates a group Bible (her) of outgrowth “an (midnightrun.org), to deliver coordinate volunteers talk,” wherein poor. the to food and toiletries, clothing, was , dika (Levittown, NY; (Manchester, NH; (Manchester, Marchant, jennifer. Marchant, (lisamicchelli715@ Dineen Pashoukos I in to was a little late phoning confer- last officer the of one calls because I was catch- ence of Falls Church, VA, writes that writes VA, Falls Church, of Perrie, MBA ’04, introduced me to me introduced ’04, MBA Perrie, Lisa Micchelli Jennifer Rabin c Much like the proverbial cat and dog weath- dog cat and proverbial the like Much Tara Dawood’s “LADIESFUND (edawood.com/ Tara Suzanne Perry changed “Also 17, 2009. on May was married she Latin counsel, chief 4, 2011 to Jan. jobs on My Ltd. Investments Overseas Darby at America to have a to Falls Church I moved and husband enjoyable an for wishes Best dog.” our for yard summer! [email protected]. [email protected]; [email protected]; Dika [email protected]; Wasylik, Lam gmail.com) has been teaching Spanish at a private has been teaching gmail.com) ing cats for a trap-neuter-release program in New program a trap-neuter-release cats for ing this was an thought officers other All the Orleans. I bemoaned When tardiness. for excuse excellent to our class from news any barely I had fact the to have might and column upcoming my in put crazy-cat-lady-ness, my on column whole a write Abra Benson Erin is involved who Harty ([email protected]), Cats Maryland called Community with a nonprofit primarily focusing (CCMD; communitycatsmd.org) involved “Everyone writes, Erin City. Baltimore on so vets, the including volunteers, clinic with the just for vaccinations and spay/neuter we can offer cats at than 500 feral more fixed $20 per cat. We also seeks to edu- group in 2010.” The our clinic trying are who neighborhood in the cate others CCMD Since cats. feral and stray many the help to Erin conducts cats, with feral concerned is mainly that she estimates own. She on her efforts rescue she than 100 cats since more has “re-homed” five years ago. to Baltimore moved plea after my down started raining news the er, Jennifer officers. the to Cottone [email protected]) volunteering has been in (MoMath.org) Mathematics of Museum at the write les- help and volunteers NYC. “I coordinate devoted first museum nation’s the for son plans “I have always loved says Jennifer. to math,” next it on to the is to pass hope my and math Jamesgeneration.” McCloskey first mag- is “Pakistan’s magazine The launched. entrepreneurs.” and professionals women for azine , Ms. Commissioner British High may- deputy former and guest (chief Jalil Nasreen the attended Husain Ishrat Dr. and Karachi), or of 150 busi- with along luncheon Influence of Women nesswomen. [email protected]), a shareholder services spe- services a shareholder [email protected]), New in Mellon York New of Bank the at cialist Cedars the of Lady Our at out helps Hampshire, would like James Church. Catholic Greek Melkite of to his busy schedule volunteering more to add likes the meeting and activities Cornell attending Huckabee. Mike and Mitt Romney, He Ron Paul, of also quests in their candidates local political aids He James! vote, the rock to granite Way office. for England New the of stadium view also enjoys the and in hiking interest has an “avid games, Patriots and up skiing has vowed to take and nature,” was at 2010 James June in 2011. In snowshoeing for Dialogue (ny-forum.com) Forums York New the with Tara Conference Action of our VP , Dawood class secretary. and communications sponsored advisory services financial ladiesfund/) luncheon,” networking first women’s Pakistan’s and fellowships group’s the for money raised which LADIESFUND Magazine the and scholarships, 95 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 87 Page AM 11:27 4/13/11 56-95CAMMJ11notes 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 88

ready to spiral to the ground in autumn, you like- College, PA. The couple welcomed their first child, Amsellems live in Fairfield County, CT, where ly will have seen your news here in this column. Mia Grace, on Dec. 21, 2010. Lisa Held married Marni is a psychologist employed by Cancer Sup- Want to try something new? How about the Michael McIlhinney on Oct. 2, 2010 at the Glas- port Community. Go Big Red! c Molly Darnieder country’s fastest growing sport: paddleboarding! bern Inn in Fogelsville, PA. Emily Peterson recip- Bracken, [email protected]; Uthica Jin- Josh Vajda can get you started. In December, he rocated as her matron of honor and Heidi Godoy vit Utano, [email protected]; and Karen Dorman opened South Florida’s first stand-up paddleboard was in attendance. Lisa and Michael honeymooned Kipnes, [email protected]. specialty store, Precision Paddleboards, in Fort Laud- in Moorea and Bora Bora, French Polynesia, be- erdale. He offers lessons, rentals, and paddleboards fore returning home, where Lisa works as a pedi- themselves for kids, adults, racers, and casual rid- atric anesthesiologist at Bryn Mawr Hospital. In my six years writing this col- ers. Josh’s business hosted the first annual River- There is more baby news for this column! umn, I’ve noticed that most Walk on Water with the Riverwalk Trust; the charity Betsy Patterson and husband Noah Rosenthal 99 people skip the question, “What event raised more than $2,500 for local nonprofit welcomed their first child, Thea Katherine, on July is the one thing you remember most fondly from organizations. Josh reports that Fort Lauderdale’s 29, 2010. Diana Drobiner Sturisky (Atlanta, GA) your time at Cornell?” from the news and dues mayor attended and learned how to paddle. and husband Gary welcomed their second daugh- form. By luck, the ’ in this column all shared Melissa Altman Stein checked in on Facebook ter, Gisela, on June 9, 2010. Her big sister is Na- a great memory. to share news of son Noah’s arrival. Proud parents talia, 1. Alison Taylor Enis and husband Ryan Oliver Bajracharya (Pasadena, CA) is a patent Melissa and Jason welcomed him in August 2010. have relocated from NYC to New Rochelle, NY. and trademark attorney at Christie, Parker & Hale. Paul and Mitsy Lopez Baranello welcomed daugh- They welcomed son Cooper on Nov. 9, 2010; he He joined the firm as an associate in 2002. He’s ter Madelina Belen on July 6, 2010 in Holland, is their first child. presently teaching daughter Miri how to say her where Paul is on a short-term overseas work as- Matthew West has been promoted to vice last name using a hockey cheer—Baj-ra-char-ya, signment. Madelina joins big sister Serena. The president and chief talent officer at RCW Group, a clap, clap, clap-clap-clap. Obviously, Oliver miss- family enjoys life in Europe, Mitsy reports, and has division of McCann Healthcare Worldwide. He writes es . Perhaps Miri is old enough for a traveled to Prague, Vienna, Paris, and elsewhere. that he loves watching his daughter, Emma Bree, cowbell too? Lawyer Kevin Orloski (Allentown, Meghan Thompson is also overseas, in the small 2, learn and grow. He also enjoys guest lecturing PA) and wife Maraleen Shields welcomed their first village of Aldbury in the UK; in February, she sent in the Dept. of Communication. Simon Arpiarian son, Cole Law Orloski, last year. Kevin would a career update. Meghan is managing director of has joined the Atlanta office of Stream Realty Part- rather be “back in college,” and fondly remembers sales and industry studies for Consilium Global Re- ners as vice president. Sarah Wetzstein Long quit Sheldon Court. Marla Greco Decker (Hoboken, NJ) search, a firm that helps companies that are un- her job as a lawyer to be a full-time, stay-at-home works as a litigation associate with Cleary Gott- covered by Wall Street increase their presence in mom to Mason, 4, and Hannah, who was born on lieb Steen & Hamilton in New York. She and hus- the investment community. She keeps busy out- June 11, 2010. Sarah and husband Mark live in Los band Erik welcomed son Samuel Preston in early side the office, too: Meghan is still working on Angeles. William Robertson and wife Amanda also 2010. She misses “the first week of freshman year finding a publisher for her metaphysical fantasy, live in Los Angeles. They were married on Sept. 4, parties at Rockledge.” Aaron Arnold and wife “Resurrected!” and chases son Conall, 18 months. 2010 and spent their two-week honeymoon in Fiji. Stephanie welcomed daughter Amelia Jean on We received an update in January from Jayson William enjoys his work as the board chairman for New Year’s Eve. When not playing with Amelia and Matyas. Jayson and family moved from northwest reDiscover, an organization focused on children’s her big sister, Grace, 3, Aaron continues to work New Jersey to the mountains outside of Blacksburg, art and sustainability education. for the Center for Court Innovation, where he is VA, last spring. Jayson has been splitting his work Agustin Ayuso moved to Bronxville, NY, from leading an effort to strengthen Native American interests between business and marketing consult- Manhattan. He says that being out of the city in tribal courts across the country. Aaron’s fondest ing and several startup companies. He is also a such a nice town “makes me feel like I’m on va- memory from his time at Cornell is playing Fris- major in the Air Force Reserve; he leads the airlift cation every weekend.” Must be nice! Elizabeth bee at the Plantations with Brian Palmer, Darin plans section in the unit that provides command Dewey Efe, MBA ’06, and husband Baris, MBA ’05, Van Houten, and Sam Robaina. and control for air mobility missions. Jayson and have also relocated. They moved to London last Jill Alexander VanSlyke is the director of res- his wife welcomed their fifth child (third daugh- August, where Baris works with Barclay’s Capital. idential services at the Westin Riverfront Resort ter), Adeline Virginia, on New Year’s Eve. Jayson Patricia Boye-Williams and husband Chad Williams and Spa in Avon, CO, where she lives with hus- reports that her big sisters and brothers are very moved to Bemidji, MN, last year, after Chad fin- band Steven. She skis, bikes, runs, and takes care happy to have a new baby to hold and dote over. ished his PhD in computer science and accepted a of her young daughter. She misses her old Hotelie Congratulations to Kenneth Young, who was tenure-track position at Bemidji State U. Patricia gang and “the beautiful gorges and walking to elected to the partnership at international law also quit her job as a lawyer at Jenner & Block LLP classes in the fall.” Anna deVera Walker lives with firm Dechert LLP, effective January 1. Kenneth in Chicago and is staying home with their daugh- husband Russell, PhD ’99, in Highland Park, IL, practices in the corporate and securities group in ters Grace, 5, and Kate, 3. She writes, “At times it and is an assistant vice president of strategy and Philadelphia; he focuses on mergers and acquisi- is more challenging than representing Fortune 100 development at HSBC Finance. She chases after tions for clients in the technology, financial serv- companies, but at the end of the day, it is so much her young son, Ray, and cooks, hikes, and travels. ices, energy, and healthcare industries. more rewarding!” I couldn’t agree more! She misses the beautiful fall foliage and stunning Have something to share? Did you take a fun Tommy McKinney has left the New York of- parks. Sally Chu and Ben Bursae, please send in trip? Reconnect with an old college friend whom fice of law firm Proskauer Rose, where he had been an update to share with Anna. In Denver, Andrew you seldom see? Change jobs? Relocate? Let us a labor associate for more than six years. He joined Freeman is an assistant professor of medicine in know! c Erica Broennle Nelson, ejb4@cornell. Int’l Specialty Products as an in-house lawyer, cardiology at National Jewish Health. Extracur- edu; Sarah Deardorff Carter, [email protected]. where he is responsible for workplace issues af- ricular activities include taking care of a young Class website, http://classof97.alumni.cornell. fecting more than 3,000 employees in 27 countries. child. He misses the fall leaves. (And here’s an edu/. Facebook page: Cornell Class of 1997! Tommy and his wife, Janee (Carr) ’00, have moved embarrassing/charming confession from your class from Manhattan to Boonton, NJ, where their chil- columnist: I still have leaves from my undergrad- dren Alexander, 3, and Clara, 1, enjoy their new uate years pressed in books. Coming from Texas, Seventeen years ago this fall, we playroom. Also in the New York area is Jennifer I’d never seen real fall leaves, so I hoarded them.) were freshmen on the Hill. Some- Yen Betit, who just relocated from Los Angeles. She Linda Lu Reese Bryan is a clinic director at 98 times it seems like it was a very writes that she and her husband, J. Peyton Worley, Mount Clemens Regional Medical Center in Clinton long time ago, leading me to believe that we might love the city and enjoy connecting with other Cor- Township, MI, and mother to Lily, 4, and Vivien, be aging. More often than not, it seems like yes- nellians. Jennifer provides gratis voiceover work 3. In her spare time she is riding horses, English terday that we were running off to freshman writ- to an organization called Reading for the Blind & and Western Pleasure styles, with the American ing seminars, beginning to take very large, difficult Dyslexic, which provides low or no cost audio Quarter Horse Association. She misses “the weath- classes, and meeting the people who would become textbooks to blind and dyslexic students. er, the views, and the fresh air” of Ithaca. In our friends for life! Speaking of friends for life . . . Marni Sholiton Amsellem writes that she Cincinnati, Marissa Perman is soon to become a Congratulations are in order for Emily Peter- and husband David took their girls, ages 5 and dermatology resident, but is already a working son, who was married in 2008 to Ben Steward. Lisa 2, to visit Cornell for their first time. “It’s a great mom, running after Zachary, 1. What she misses: Held was the maid of honor. Emily is a plastic feeling to hear your kid talking about how they “Every day sophomore year, walking to class via surgeon at Mount Nittany Medical Center in State want to go to Cornell, too, one day,” she said. The the suspension bridge and listening to the Dave 88 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes , Peter Claire Steven ’ (Richmond, June 2011 89 | switched jobs and switched Gabrielle Lerner Hammer, LEW15@ Hammer, , May ’s City, in Park wedding UT, Many of you probably watched probably you of Many sur- not were Oscars and the native Island prised to see Long Lauren Wallach [email protected]. Lee, ([email protected]). c moved back to New York last year after a after year last York New back to moved moved tomoved a after Chicago in Boston. decade checks in to tell us that he has moved to moved has he us that in to tell checks Betsy catching it was great said . She Marks Our webmaster, KyleOur webmaster, McKenna So what’s new in your lives? Let us know! E- in your lives? Let us know! So what’s new We can’t wait to seeing everyone at our 10th everyone can’t wait to seeing We Lora rep- Fund Annual Cornell , also a Epstein Here are a few updates from your class offi- from few updates a are Here 02 Natalie Portman take one home for her role in role her for home one take Portman Natalie and and June! in to see everyone wait can’t and up forward to meeting him at reunion in June! in at reunion him meeting to forward us at [email protected] that hope We let us know you—and all is well with each of about it! cornell.edu; Rocco country, the across Midway City. York New weekend a great have 9-12! We June Reunion, still but yet, registered haven’t you If planned. our visit Please late. too not it’s come, to want class website at http://classof01.alumni.cornell.edu most as well as the registration, about details for youth housing, on events, information up-to-date If you have any tips. last minute and programs, orquestions Re- during to volunteer would like Weekend,union reunion contact please chair first her to have finished is excited resentative, and York lives in New She year as an associate! LLP law firm in finan- Blank Rome works at the she time, has she When services/bankruptcy. cial and see shows to catch up with friends, tries just enjoy New and restaurants, try new movies, re- wait for can’t Lora as possible. as much York Class VP to see old friends! is excited and union Michael Hanson has ’02, is sorry that he ’01, MPA but want- obligation, a family for to miss reunion it to Ithaca, makes well who ed to wish everyone be seeing He’ll class officers. new the especially in 2016. reunion Hill for you on the Bowen City. Windy to be in the happy He’s Ackerman Diana Class president cers. Tyler where One, Capital at busy keeping been has VA), team, sup- partnerships card works on the he both of needs technology information the porting partners. prospective and current is now an associate director of foundation man- foundation of director an associate is now Ad- Investment Philanthropic Arabella for agement visors in D.C. providing works with foundations She opera- daily and guidance grantmaking strategic 10th Re- to the looks forward support. She tions a professional being from a break taking and union count- and year (nine the for attendee wedding Sarah representative Fund Annual Cornell ing). Binder a six- and Australia, year in Sydney, wonderful happy to be She’s world. the trip around month She friends. old Cornell all her seeing back and to Rebeccawent Tunick where she saw Lee she where Schaffler is Mas- Chad Weld, Matt and Lynn D’Silva Cinelli ’00 Matt and Lynn Christopher David Pearce Andrea M.Andrea Chan, c are enjoying life with enjoying are relocated to Canton, OH, to Canton, relocated and wife Sarah relocated wife Sarah and Priscilla Navarrete Christine Jensen Happy spring, Class of 2001! We’re Class of spring, Happy from news great so happy to share that hope we and classmates our , welcomed the birth of their sec- their birth of the PhD ’06, welcomed Wilson Barmeyer started Lucas Environmental LLC, a consult- LLC, a Environmental Lucas started Tom ’99 Tom husband and We love the fact that we can help love the fact We students no matter where we are. matter where we students no Congratulations to Congratulations Thanks to all of you for your fantastic up- your fantastic you for to all of Thanks Shana husband PhD ’07, and Clor-Proell, ‘ 01 you’ll get to hear more of it at our 10th Reunion, of more to hear you’ll get 9-12! June simi and husband Rob on the birth of their first their birth of Rob on the husband simi and love of is the He Chance. a boy named child, look We 2010. July in birth his since lives their dates! I hope this will inspire more of our class- of more this will inspire I hope dates! share out and globe to reach the around mates you from love hearing as well. We news good their you. for we love writing and [email protected]; [email protected]. the owner and manager of Complete Plumbing Re- Plumbing Complete of manager and owner the trains and breeds time, in his spare pair Co. and Anthony Cur purebreds. Canadian rare Cooper to PA, Philadelphia, with wife Dawn from moved began his residency Anthony where WA, Tacoma, Matt Army. in the Varble after being AL, last September, Huntsville, from opportunity advancement career a huge offered serves Rubber Co. Matt and Tire Goodyear with the up heads now and manager labor relations as their Division, Racing Goodyear the for labor relations NASCAR. for tires the all makes which to Washington, DC, where Wilson practices as an Wilson practices DC, where to Washington, Asbill Sutherland, law firm of with the associate Barbara LLP. Brennan and (Fort -Snell DeMonarco works as a small and to Dean FL) is married Myers, veterinarian. exotic and animal Harvard Law School in ’04, and was named a Mass- was named in ’04, and School Law Harvard Star. Lawyers Rising Super achusetts Lucas de- land does MA, that based in Quincy, firm ing biology Christopher’s permitting. and velopment in role major a played has Cornell from background at studies his graduate finishing After his career. East Coast back to the came Christopher Stanford, soil and consultant environmental an as work to need who clients services His company scientist. it out Check assistance. permitting environmental time, In his free at lucasenvironmental.net. attend- He hiking. and enjoys cycling Christopher who friends of with a group ed our 10th Reunion we were when Hall in Dickson as RAs all worked Shanna Also in Massachusetts, students. Hillback Deng Spenser, 3, and Tessa, children two wonderful their 16 months. MA, two to Needham, moved family The of- an incredible received Shanna when years ago, Genzyme. for manager product fer to serve as the , Proell 3, 2010. Old- on June Emily Marie, daughter, ond sister. to be a big 4, is excited Abigail, er daughter in December ’09 to San Diego moved Proells The fac- Chad took tenure-track and both Shana when State U. Also on the at San Diego ulty positions move, , c , ME , has been Brady DaleBrady Rus- (Bedminster, NJ) is a NJ) (Bedminster, serves as the president serves as the Though it is common to find a to find it is common Though the around in and Cornellian area, metropolitan York New West, [email protected]; Liz [email protected]; West, Carrie Swesso Wright, [email protected]; Taber [email protected]; Wright, , Sweet Three alums have been making waves up in have been making alums Three A prime example is Lynn example A prime D’Silva Cinelli Speaking of lifelong friends, friends, lifelong of Speaking Send your news, embarrassing memories, embarrassing your news, Send has retired ashas retired a class columnist. For classmates 00 of her local Lions Club chapter. On top of that, top of On Club chapter. local Lions her of assistant manager’s as the works full-time Carrie part- and KPIC-TV at director service public and at Douglas County skills trainer as a family time day one also spends She in Oregon. Health Mental fun! for just Jewelers, Hanson at week a Jennifer Boston area. Greater the Tracy . The couple has been liv- Matt. The husband ’01, and and than two years now more for in Singapore ing After region. the around has truly loved traveling the China, Myanmar, of beautiful lands the visiting have only they Vietnam, and Thailand, Philippines, pizza and York-style New complaint—finding one on the situated two are the Even though bagels! to make still manage they world, the of side other spon- events couple attends The Cornell. for time for volunteers Club Singapore, by Cornell sored in telementoring. even participates CAAAN, and that we can fact love the “We Lynn say, and Matt What we are.” where matter no students help to time making Also models! role Cornell amazing volunteer, & Stew- Hall Choate, firm of at the partner named en- firm’s government in the a partner art. As commercial major and compliance and forcement to repre- will continue Jennifer groups, litigation in gov- individuals and corporations national sent also She litigation. and investigations ernment in- financial and corporations leading represents ar- and litigation commercial in complex stitutions from JD, cum laude, her earned Jennifer bitration. there are a vast number of alumni representing us representing alumni of a vast number are there world the around and country the parts of in other to dedicated is column edition’s this So well. as be a plane may who classmates them—our all of connected at keeping so good but are away, ride door. next right they’re that it feels like Matthews Band.” Doug Band.” Matthews Hill his In LP. USA Infineum for manager sales account El- daughter, his young plays with he time, spare football, flag softball, plays tennis, and Aspen, lie he’d nothing There’s job.” my of part as “golf, and drink- family, my with home am “I doing. be rather he Yankees,” the watching and beer, expensive ing unbelievable miss? “The he What does writes. I’m so for- people. amazing most the with times friends.” lifelong great such met have to tunate Borod or [email protected]; Heslowitz [email protected]. sell locally as he you’ll see him in Philadelphia, living issues in environmental total butt tackling kicks Action, at Clean Water as a director Pennsylvania pro- issues, on water-related focused a nonprofit This column is about mem- policies. and grams, I made friends first the of one is Brady and ories was Uris Our on-campus “hangout” at Cornell. Brady and A. D. 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Black Swan. That said, you may be pleasantly sur- Our rainy Seattle winter is fi- Menin wrote in from Miami Beach, where he is “in prised when you learn that a fellow Long Island nally winding down and I’ve al- the process of undergoing a new project. I am ren- native—and Cornell alum—was also a winner that 03 ready spotted new buds on the ovating my family’s old hotel that was purchased night. Our very own Ryan Silbert co-produced God trees in the neighborhood. I cannot wait for in the ’60s and I am finding great food and bev- of Love, which won Best Short Live Action Film. spring! I am signed up to run the Prague erage people to make it an amazing hotel.” Daniel God of Love was directed and written by Luke Marathon with hubby Patrick Noonan ’00 (A&S) Keh (ILR) shared that he and wife Angie Kim Matheny, who also stars in the film. It is billed as in May—looking forward to the race and to the (CALS) “were married in April 2009, got a puppy the story of “a love-struck, lounge-singing darts vacation! Another runner who was formerly on the in January 2010, and moved to a new home in champion who finds his prayers are answered— track team at Cornell, Conniel Arnold, wrote that Battery Park City, NY, in March 2010. 2010 has literally—when he mysteriously receives a box of she continues to work as a corporate attorney for been a great year.” love-inducing darts.” Ryan started Toy Closet Alcoa Inc. “I have been enjoying the interna- As always, a big thank you to those who gen- Films with Rob Profusek ’03 back in 2007. “As tional and commercial aspects of in-house prac- erously shared their news for this column. Please producers, we couldn’t be more grateful for this tice. I have started running road races and just keep in touch and let us know what you’ve been award,” said Ryan, via a press release issued just came back from vacation in southern Africa.” up to! c Sam Noonan, [email protected]; after receiving the award. “This film and the Beth Altshuler (A&S) shared that in May and Sudha Nandagopal, [email protected]. Academy Award show a triumph of the collabo- 2010 she graduated from a dual master’s program rative process—working with close friends and at UC Berkeley in public health and city and re- colleagues—those people whom you trust and gional planning. In October, she started working During the month of Febru- who in turn can be honest and up-front with you. at the urban planning consulting firm Raimi + As- ary—the month of love—we With God of Love, we got to see this formula work sociates in Berkeley, CA, as their epidemiologist/ 04 were tweeting about Cornell perfectly.” Aside from the Academy Award, the urban planner helping cities and counties work couples! Did you check us out? We’ll be tweeting film also won recognition from the National Board toward social/environmental justice and health about many more fun 2004-related topics in the of Review, the Telluride Film Festival, the Angelus equity through planning and public health analy- coming months, so please tune in. This month, I Student Film Festival, and the Student Academy sis and policy. She lives in Oakland, CA. Hotelie got many updates via e-mail! Thanks to all for Awards. Congratulations on the big win! Molly Hoyne Mahar enthusiastically wrote, “2010 responding to our request for news! Speaking of Adam Tope was elected to office in Washing- was a busy year for me! I married Ken in August Twitter, JP Freire writes, “I’ve been the associate ton, DC, to serve as the advisory neighborhood in the most adorable DIY garden wedding outside editorial page editor for the Washington Examiner commissioner for the North Cleveland Park/Forest of Seattle. My Hotelie train- and appearing on televi- Hills neighborhood. “I’m looking forward to serv- ing was coming out in full sion and radio doing polit- ing over the next two years,” he writes. Currently force! We left for a three- ical commentary. You can in her last semester at the Fletcher School of Law month road trip/honeymoon My passion also follow my work on and Diplomacy at Tufts U., Sara Van Wie is study- around the States after that Twitter at http://twitter. ing war-affected children and youth inclusion in and had a chance to visit ‘ com/JPFreire.” transitional justice mechanisms. “Last summer, I Ithaca. It was so nice to be for trash Sinanta Vergara spent three months in Sierra Leone interviewing back—my first time since writes, “I spent the last youth and young adults on their views and expe- graduation! My training and started in my academic year in Bogotá, riences of the country’s reparation program for war coaching company, Stratejoy, Colombia, on a Fulbright victims.” Living in Vancouver and going to grad- is growing slowly but surely. senior year. Fellowship, conducting my uate school at Simon Fraser U., Erica Olson stud- I’ve really loved branching dissertation research on ies marine ecology, tracking loggerhead sea turtles out into life coaching and Sinanta Vergara ’04 the environmental bene- using satellite telemetry. Stanley Lewis (Brook- online courses. Running a ’ fits from informal recy- lyn) bought a house for himself back in 2009. He small business that actually cling (aka ‘scavenging’) in is enjoying his role as vice president of operations helps women is an amazing the metropolis. My pas- for Stanley Lewis Plumbing and Heating. Stanley feeling. And it’s a total joy to be able to work from sion for trash started in Prof. Haith’s class, Sol- has been doing some traveling to Brazil and Ar- anywhere, on my schedule! As long as I have wifi, id Waste Engineering, my senior year at Cornell. gentina and studying to obtain his NYC master my Android, and access to Twitter (@stratejoy)— I am working on finishing up my dissertation plumber’s license. I’m set.” Congratulations, Molly! in Energy and Resources at UC Berkeley, and love Matt Lowenbraun just got back from beau- Alexa Barron, another Hotelie entrepreneur in living in the Bay Area!” Jay Williams signs in tiful Isla Mujeres, Mexico, where he attended the the Seattle area, is a product manager at Microsoft with this update: “In 2010, I started work as wedding of Danny Devinney. “It was a spectac- in the Windows Embedded group. “When I’m not group manager at Weber Shandwick, a global ular sunset ceremony on the beach and quite the at work, I’m focusing on my side venture, Lex PR agency with a strong focus on healthcare/ Cornell reunion, with more than 15 alums in at- Cosmetics (http://www.facebook.com/l/d9bd0O pharmaceutical communications. I work across tendance,” he writes. “Groomsmen included my- n_xHk1LXcQupda8pTsN6A;www.lexcosmetics.com), Genentech’s oncology franchise.” self, Morgan Hayes, Ryan Lane, Jon Eastern ’00, which is based on crowd sourcing and has a mis- Bart Nogal, ME ’05, writes, “My wife and I and Danny’s younger brother Jesse Devinney ’05. sion to give back. It has definitely been a learn- had our first son, Alexander Marc, on 1.1.11. He Evan Kuhn, ME ’03, Ryan Stewart, ME ’03, and ing experience, but I’m gaining some traction was born at a healthy (and dense) 10 lbs. 12 oz., John Glauber also made the trip south.” Do you thanks to a recent feature in the Seattle Times. and we’re pretty happy.” Congrats to the parents! know anyone who works at Tiffany’s? Now you do. Otherwise, I’ve been traveling a lot making sure Allie Hope has moved from San Francisco, CA, to Shayna Lustig Doyle, out of Jersey City, received to see our ’03 classmates.” I caught up on Face- NYC to head hotel development for Virgin Hotels, a fabulous holiday gift this year when she and book with Michael O’Hart (Hotel), who wrote, “I Richard Branson’s new venture. They are looking husband Jonathan welcomed their beautiful baby ended up working for the Four Seasons in D.C. for to acquire and develop four-star hotels in major girl, Alyssa Caitlyn, on Dec. 3, 2010. Before the a number of years, and then worked as a financial US cities and London. Nick Torsiello writes, “I excitement of having a newborn, Shayna was busy advisor at Morgan Stanley.” Mike lives in San switched from consulting to academia, now do- traveling the country leading a diamond training Diego and plans to start law school this fall. ing doctoral studies in health economics, policy, program and opening new stores for Tiffany & Co. Rachel Money (Hotel) wrote from Allen, TX, and psychology in New Haven, CT.” Michael and Brenda Weissman Benn welcomed where, aside from her work at Procter & Gamble, Jason and Jamie Peters Sonneville, MPS ’05, son Avi Harrison on Sept. 3, 2010. “His smile she volunteers on the Allen Sports Association had son Carter Jameson on April 16, 2010. Jason lights up our lives,” they write. “We moved from Ethics Committee. Back on the East Coast, Ted made a career change as the Sonnevilles have ac- NYC to White Plains in May 2010.” Kelleher (Eng) is a flight instructor in Florida. He quired a fruit farm, Lakeville Orchards, in Try anything new lately? Taking any inter- wrote, “Moved to Pensacola last March and start- Williamson, NY. Corinna Myers and Mike Ander- esting trips? Watching any underappreciated tel- ed flying students in July. It’s been pretty crazy son were married in their hometown of Tucson, evision shows? Tell us—we want to know. We since then—a lot of flying and going out of town AZ, in February 2011. Vincent Vela and Ian Cal- promise your news is newsworthy! Send news to: to weddings and other happenings. Things are houn will open their own restaurant, 80 Thoreau, c Carolyn Deckinger, [email protected]; or good down here and surprisingly chilly this winter, in Concord, MA. This project has been a dream of Jeff Barker, [email protected]. which I am loving.” Also down in Florida, Keith Vincent and Ian’s since their days as undergrads. 90 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes Nicole c June 2011 91 Jack Steiner Renee Wood- | changed fields changed Gilda PhD , Shayan May , MA ’09, is curious to see , MA ’09, is curious is graduating this month is graduating is an intern (associate veteri- (associate is an intern ([email protected]) is in Costa ([email protected]) (San Antonio, TX) works as a human re- TX) works as a human (San Antonio, is doing in Panama. rotation an international Ioana Vartolomei Matthew Turner In these past five years since graduation our graduation past five years since In these what everyone else from ’06 has been up to. On else from what everyone a PhD in Ro- fifth year of is in the she end, her this year she however, at Cornell; Studies mance Su- École Normale at the an exchange is doing on her is also working Ioana in Paris. perieure in French, revolt of poetics on the dissertation Québécois literature. and Haitian, burn Vanessa Adams narian) at and Specialists Veterinary at Florida Hospital. Bay Animal North from North Carolina State U.’s College of Veteri- of College State U.’s Carolina North from he Upon graduation with a DVM. Medicine nary at internship rotating animal will start a small in Center Emergency and Referral VCA Veterinary Bart Matthew! Congrats, CT. Norwalk, VanSteke- lenburg serv- that distributes, started a business He Rica. wa- residential and commercial installs and ices, “Life is equipment. pumping and ter purification says Bart. Visit his in paradise!” here down great Anawebsite at www.juturnawater.com. Maria Techeira Inc. Network Sygma the for generalist sources Rock & Roll Marathon San Antonio the ran She in October 2009. David Tagatac to computer sci- physics matter condensed from Polar-orbiting Joint the is supporting and ence and calibration Satellite System (JPSS) algorithm Space Flight Goddard at NASA’s efforts validation MD. Greenbelt, in Center Hill in Bio- on the doctorate her ’10, finished has then since and last May Engineering medical nonprofit a MassBioLogics, for working been in firm in Boston, as a scientist biotechnology proj- main Her discovery department. product the models vitro in implement and design to is ect assays to in vitro develop then diseases and for antibod- monoclonal human of potency test the Talya treatment. disease for development in ies was to open exhibit solo photo Arbisser’s second Center Community Jewish 5, 2011 at the on May will give an artist’s lecture TX. She in Houston, (http://www.jcchouston. a reception hold and in June! See you org/arts/deutser/). classmates have been moving along and doing and along have been moving classmates graduation Following things. great in English taught year and a for to China moved that Night Zinck’s a hosted he there, (while Xi’an year following The only by him!). was attended alumni on Cornell US the around bummed he afford- rehabilitated in 2008-09 he and couches, and with Americorps Philadelphia in able homes his A week after finishing Humanity. for Habitat on his route took a circuitous he service, year of Philadel- 5,000 miles from almost riding bicycle, Di- Continental the OR, crossing to Portland, phia 2010 of beginning In the times. nine about vide in Americorps, stint four-month another did he on tor- fieldwork doing USGS with the this time that he Desert. Following Mojave toises in the to Cairo Jerusalem tour from on a bike embarked in serving is currently it. Jack made almost and with South Pacific in the Tonga of Kingdom the Eng- and arts industrial teaching Corps, Peace the very Jack—a Wow, students. school lish to high five years! adventurous and fun Kate, [email protected]; DeGrace DiCicco, [email protected]. to set up your account, and it will help you stay help it will and up your account, to set Cor- the and page alumni the through connected network! nell , . Michelle Marissa Fang ’06 works as a registered is enjoying his time in his time is enjoying and and has started her first year has started her was given a military reas- This record-breaking winter is winter record-breaking This will be summer and gone long is the soon! This spring here , [email protected]; , [email protected]; Hullverson “EJ” is the director of administration at Insinger administration of director is the Keep the news coming and we’ll keep print- we’ll keep and coming news the Keep Kate Kastenbaum Michael Philpott Johnny Chen c 06 biggest yet since graduation—our 5th Reunion is Reunion 5th graduation—our yet since biggest do- chairs are reunion class Our just weeks away. to go this a reunion job to make a fabulous ing a mix- tours, will be wine There in history. down op- a BBQ, the tasting, wine food, late-night er, much and again, life dorm the live to portunity get so already, Also, if you haven’t done more! seconds takes It with CornellConnect. connected , [email protected]; Hilary, [email protected]; Wong Johnson [email protected]. ing it! You can share your latest happenings with your latest happenings can share it! You ing in our class form news or on the e-mail us via gradua- and inspiration, As mailings. to In addition corner. the around right are tion what your fa- let us know updates, your normal are! memories graduation vorite Slope Day and/or at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mel- Carnegie at Business of School Tepper the at lon with Jon Baker ’04 gets he where Germany, to Heidelberg, signment up with oth- met He loves. to work in a place he 2010. Ari Night on Zinck’s in Munich er Cornellians Cantor US 2010 at the August of month the spent and Cuba, to oversee Bay, Base at Guantanamo Naval lived in barracks He project. a military installation He saw detainees. and Marines with hard-charging and Society Hotel still very active with Cornell’s is pro- which Philabundance, for enjoys volunteering who PA, in Philadelphia, to families food vides line. poverty the below earn investigates the design of incentives to improve to incentives of design the investigates uncertain. are outcomes when making decision release: press School Business Harvard the From drugs, prescription for market on the focuses “He act physicians features: two important has which and treatments, in choosing patients for as agents time of ahead predict cannot often physicians pa- a particular best for will work treatment which making decision of model a builds Dickstein tient. agency physician-patient both the that captures physi- the process learning the and relationship out- a patient’s after observing undertakes cian in an empirical this model Employing come. in- specific identifies he data, with patient setting im- that can promotions drug and policies surer at lower cost to insurers. health patient prove treatment new to build results uses the Dickstein outcomes on heavily relying than Rather protocols. val- the illustrates he trials, clinical randomized of analy- on an based quality product judging ue of records in treatment rates adherence patient sis of present- are awards These collected by insurers.” in engaged students to outstanding ed annually research. dissertation innovative to hopes HEC and up on to check continues She year’s pro- another to attend to Cornell return Christinaduction. O’Herron to school graduate is also attending and nurse fond has She practitioner. nurse work as a cardiac the and Chorus Women’s Cornell the of memories close remains She After Eight. a cappella group will par- who members, After Eight with several Hotelie wedding. upcoming in her ticipate Everett global mar- of specialist product Missouri as the Novus. at keting is Julian in Sep- Roberts married Anne C. Anne writes, “I writes, c Yoonwhe Leo have launched Nina Ilic for allfor She involved.” Gregory Studer Lauren Cahoon is doing his PhD in busi- is doing writes, “My wife gave birth wife “My writes, writes, “After graduating from graduating “After writes, married married Greetings, fellow ’05ers! As I fellow ’05ers! As Greetings, of end the it is toward write, City, York in New here winter in Los Angeles. “We met sophomore met “We in Los Angeles. writes, “In October 2010 I married Vi- “In October 2010 I married writes, writes, “I married Ashley on June 6, 2009 6, June on Ashley married “I writes, Jonathan Treiber Sara Delaney Speaking of Ithaca, Ithaca, of Speaking Michael Dickstein Both are extremely excited and look forward to look forward and excited extremely Both are Raul pals. Red Big their from visits many Roman , Cedric’04, and PhD Hodgeman UBELONG (www.ubelong.org), a pioneering social a pioneering UBELONG (www.ubelong.org), af- that offers DC, based in Washington, venture to one-week meaningful and flexible, fordable, opportuni- volunteering international six-month in Latin Amer- have projects currently They ties. close to in 2011 anticipate and Asia and ica projects. their joining volunteers 1,000 to our first child, a girl named Avrie Leigh.” Avrie a girl named to our first child, Stephanie Adams Law, I moved to NYC I moved Law, of School U. Northwestern interna- at the associate to work as a litigation Deric LLP.” Strawn and Winston law firm tional Long 3, 2010. Every- we had a baby girl on Dec. and healthy.” is happy and body received a PhD from Harvard U. (in cell and de- U. (in cell and Harvard a PhD from received in October 2010!” biology) velopmental Suchman produce and in Brooklyn I live St. George. vian Regan Judith (the Sirius XM for shows two radio Vaynerchuk).” with Gary & Web Wine Show; tember in Vermont. Sara consults for the West the for consults Sara tember in Vermont. Agricultural for Fund Int’l the of Division Africa has start- Greg and in Rome, (IFAD) Development York startup in New job with a software ed a new 13, 2010 Theresa Nov. On City. Fives Michael Maas [email protected]. Jones, year in the Big Red Marching Band and were mar- were and Band Red Marching Big year in the from years later!” And eight ried in France. at INSEAD MBA my Moon: “I am doing en- we are and summer over the I was married biggest The in France. studying and living joying French my improve would be to me for challenge to Lon- to go July! I hope next I graduate before were Cornell from friends my All of year. next don this year. wedding my support for and help a big was in (our wedding in Korea ones only the Not I’ve been overseas. flew in from many but Korea), to support or- Korea with Child Fund volunteering younger the a lot of to help I would like phans. your news! sending Keep generation.” 05 and I have been mesmerized by the amount of amount by the I have been mesmerized and certainly It this winter. here we have received snow won- white winter of memories back great brings Libe Slope! down traying and at Cornell derlands Boston to be in 2008 from back to Ithaca moved to have a more and family and closer to friends in Biological foundation Her life. pace of relaxed work as a in her her to help continues Sciences a 150- also bought She writer. grant and science and lake by a small farm and year-old farmhouse im- to work on home time the enjoys finding Shari country, the Across provements. Moseley teacher. education special and specialist a resource as an educa- challenges greatest “The writes, She education about misconceptions combating tor are system the improving and group social the of memories Cornell has fond still keeps she and Wari, Wa Wanawake in touch Facebook. girls through Wari with the ness economics at Harvard. He was awarded the was awarded He at Harvard. economics ness he Research; in Doctoral Excellence for Wyss Award 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 91 Page AM 11:27 4/13/11 56-95CAMMJ11notes 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 92

Thanks to all who responded to oping the Genghis Grill franchises in the Central Happy end of spring and begin- our e-mail request for news! Un- Florida area and should have two new locations ning of summer, Class of 2008! 07 fortunately, we couldn’t fit it all open this year. I have also returned to school, pur- 08 We hope the seasons are full of into one column, so if you don’t see your news suing a JD in a part-time evening program in Or- exciting travels and the commencement of inter- this time, look for it in the July/August issue. Mar- lando.” Another entrepreneur, Stephanie Medina esting new paths, from new jobs to graduate ianna Gomez is taking a short break from being ([email protected]) of Woodside, Queens, school to picking up new hobbies and interests. your class correspondent while living in Dhaka, works full-time as a paralegal for a law firm in Three years have passed since we marched across Bangladesh, for four months. She is taking part Manhattan. “I also work part-time as an inde- Schoellkopf Field and switched our tassels, and in an international MPH program at the James P. pendent contractor, tutoring elementary school- many of our classmates have sent in updates Grant School of Public Health with BRAC, the aged children. And I’m following my dreams and detailing their fabulous endeavors. world’s largest NGO. The program offers immediate am the founder and CEO of a video game devel- We got a chance to catch up with many ’08ers application of the public health curriculum through opment company, FourFlames Entertainment. My at January’s Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference fieldwork in the community. She began her first company is still in its early stages and I am cur- in Washington, DC. One of the conference’s high- semester as an MPH candidate in global health at rently developing a business plan along with sev- lights was the Friday night young alumni party George Washington U. in D.C. last September and eral titles for launch.” featuring Kinetics and One Love—an event that began interning with Population Services Int’l Amanda DeSalvatore ([email protected]) reached maximum capacity with more than 500 (PSI). Before she decided to go back to school, writes, “I am currently an executive recruiter for young Cornellians in attendance! The show’s mu- Marianna was a policy analyst and program man- biopharmaceutical companies and working on my sic was loud and fabulous, and the crowd was full ager for Medicaid and CHIP-funded projects for the MPH at Tulane. I am also moving to Atyrau, Ka- of friends old and new exchanging hugs and catch- State of Texas for three years. While she loves get- zakhstan, in the summer for an exciting four-year ing up, but we still managed to touch base with a few classmates. Shoshana Aleinikoff is a third- year medical student at Georgetown; she is study- ing hard and enjoys living in Arlington, VA. Tyrell I ended up with job offers in both London Robertson has been promoted to senior consult- ant at Booz Allen Hamilton and continues to en- ‘ joy exploring his new hometown of Washington, and Iceland, and I chose Iceland! DC. Neema Basri is also a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton and organized a class outing to his Stacey’ Katz ’08 neighborhood, Adams Morgan, following the show. The Class of 2008 Council had a productive class meeting on the Saturday afternoon of the con- ference, at which we developed a number of excit- ting personally acquainted with Bangladesh, she’ll expat assignment with my fiancé! In addition to ing 2011 goals: greater class participation in public be glad to return to Austin this summer for a vis- soaking up this enriching experience, I will fin- service events, publication of a 2008 quarterly it with her brother and his expanding family. ish my MPH and continue recruiting work from newsletter, and more events focused on Cornell Ashley Barry ([email protected]) wrote abroad. I am also going on a medical/public sporting events, including Big Red Hockey in Madi- in on her 26th birthday! “Since graduation I’ve health volunteer mission to Romania this spring son Square Garden in November. Our 5th Reunion been living in Manhattan and am currently the to set up free medical clinics in rural villages and is also on the Council’s minds. Save the date: June marketing manager for the Cornell Club-New York. conduct public health educational outreach in 6–9, 2013! If you have any questions or would like Matt Rogers ’06 and I had a great vacation in Ar- schools, orphanages, and community centers.” to get involved in class events or planning reunion, gentina this past October and are in the middle Also on the move is Arael Candelaresi (a.seher. please don’t hesitate to reach out to us. of planning for the future. All in all, life is good!” [email protected]): “My husband is in the Air Force Classmates have sent in news from around Jesse Eberle ([email protected]) writes, “I and graduated pilot training in February 2011. the country—and the globe. Christy Ley Kidner, have bounced around quite a bit since graduation. He has been assigned to Elmendorf AFB in Alas- BA ’07, is settling into life in Cambridge, MA, and First, I took a 30-day trip all over Europe with ka! So this fall, my husband and I will pack up writes, “After graduating in January ’08, I worked nothing more than a backpack and some money, everything we have and get ready to spend the as a legal analyst at BlackRock for two and a half then began my professional career working in the next four years of our lives in Anchorage. If any years. Subsequently (this past fall), I began pur- back office for Merrill Lynch doing cash settlements friends are looking for an excuse to travel, come suing a PhD in sociology at Harvard, where I in- for credit derivative products. I left there when I visit me in Alaska!” tend to focus on the organizational and cultural was laid off with the rest of my department after Nina Wong ([email protected]) is in dimensions of gender, race, and class inequalities. two years due to the merger with Bank of Amer- her fourth year of the clinical psychology PhD pro- Of the ten students in my PhD cohort, three of us ica. I took this as an opportunity to spend some gram at the U. of Central Florida in Orlando. Her are Cornellians: Kristin Perkins ’05, Anny Fenton of the money I had made and took a two-week clinical and research work focuses on children with ’07, and myself.” Good luck with your research, trip to Europe. I then went over to Goldman Sachs anxiety disorders and social skill deficits, and she Christy, and we’re glad to hear that you have fel- as a documentations specialist for interest rate de- has coauthored a number of book chapters, jour- low Cornellians to cheer on the Big Red at Cornell- rivatives in the Latin American emerging markets nal articles, and national conference presentations. Harvard hockey games away from Lynah! Alex space. I was let go from there due to a lack of “I have been diligently working on my dissertation Kresovich has also returned to a college campus work with a few others after only six months and and will be applying to pre-doctoral level intern- and writes that he has moved to Athens, GA, to was unemployed for about four months during ships in fall 2011.” Imran Karim (ikarim0@gmail. pursue a master’s degree in mass media at the U. which time I was looking for something new. I com) is working for the government of Canada as of Georgia. Sarah Olesiuk is graduating this month am now a sales assistant on the trading floor at a Foreign Service Officer and will be posted to the from Boston College Law School and pursuing her RBS, working with the emerging markets team who trade section at the Canadian High Commission in dream of serving underprivileged communities by trade a variety of derivative products. Still living Delhi in summer 2011. Tsui Ng (tsui.s.ng@gmail. providing legal defense services. She reports that at home and have saved a ton of money, but will com) started law school at the U. of California, she has been selected for a prestigious three-year be moving to an apartment on the Upper East Side Hastings College of the Law. Richard Scherer fellowship with Equal Justice Works’ Public De- of Manhattan in the very near future.” ([email protected]) was recently named an fender Corps and will be moving to Knoxville, TN, Nick Dorsch ([email protected]) is cur- associate at the law firm of Lippes Mathias Wexler this month. Sarah is a native of Asheville, NC, and rently the VP of marketing for Jordan, Nicholas, Friedman LLP in Buffalo, NY. He concentrates his writes that she is “very ready to return to the Elliott Inc., a company he owns with his two practice in general business counseling and busi- South after four winters in Ithaca and three snowy brothers, Jordan ’01 and Elliott. “Our company ness litigation. And Alyssa Stram (alyssastram@ winters in Boston!” owns and operates 21 Papa John’s Pizza locations, gmail.com) writes, “I am a first-year medical stu- As some classmates move across the country Fun Bike Center Motorsports (the largest motor- dent at Drexel U. College of Medicine in Philadel- to pursue new professional opportunities, some cycle dealership in the Southeast), MOJO’s Wings, phia, PA. I’m hoping to specialize in surgery.” have taken the leap of moving across the globe. Burgers & Beer (a casual full-service restaurant), More to come in the next issue! Send new to: c Stacey Katz sent in exciting news: “I just moved and MOJO’s Liquor Store. We are currently devel- Marianna Gomez, [email protected]. to Reykjavik, Iceland. Although it was a somewhat 92 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes , has Sara teach- June 2011 93 Emily Bloom | , who won the won , who is working toward working is has begun work at work begun has May Sherina Giler Ben Cole Mike, mjb262@ Beyman c idge Science. Sch Computer for olarship is at Syracuse U.’s Newhouse School of School Newhouse U.’s is at Syracuse is putting her ILR degree to work as a ILR degree her is putting is gearing up to get her master’s in nutri- master’s her up to get is gearing Lastly, the song speaks of “a time to reap, a to reap, time “a speaks of song the Lastly, For other classmates, “a time to gain” meant time “a classmates, For other time to sow.” For some, that means reaping the reaping that means For some, to sow.” time time their sowed during they Red relationships Big Hill. 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Beale, is living in Chicago with Joe in Chicago is living The Class of 2009 has turned a 2009 has turned Class of The will soon be the and corner alum- set of recent most third c Allison Wroble . to good use working in the accessories in the use working to good is grateful for the two years she has spent two years she the for is grateful East Hampton Press Hampton East the in reported As C.J. Slicklen With only the slightest sense of irony, irony, of sense slightest With only the Simma Reingold We hope you have an excellent summer and summer you have an excellent hope We Dana Mendelowitz January 26, “In Léogâne, Haiti, some of the lo- the of some Haiti, Léogâne, “In 26, January to referred fondly cal children a sustainable future. sustainable a and they’ve been getting to know Chicago and Chicago to know been getting they’ve and Chica- the loveable losers, the for to root learning Julia Cubs. go Radice with people connects that nonprofit mental they resources the and organizations, businesses, sustainable to live a more need Delli Santi Cantor a subject which math, 8th grade 7th and teaching will She For America. with Teach failed, once she out year to find next classroom the be leaving all are law school so-called perils of what these students her to keeping looks forward about, and Cor- of memories fond as well as her heart, in her will she law, the is studying she Wherever nell. lies Room that Kinkeldey silent wish it was the of hub social or the in Uris, door secret past the Libe Café. that lives in an apartment currently Julie natural of not-even-a-twinge floors and has solid can say than she more is much which gas smell, However, Avenue. 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Oh, how Oth- lifestyles. and jobs our dream us have found dark- our way in the to grope us continue ers of be to day, one hoping, that is adulthood, ness paths. our of certain 09 random move, I wanted to do something really something to do I wanted move, random in- get and culture, a new learn about different, in to Iceland I went experience. work ternational Pricewa- a job at for interviewed September and PwC at working was (I Iceland terhouseCoopers a differ- is actually but each country US, in the up with I ended short, story Long company). ent I and Iceland, and in both London job offers it’s and mid-January in arrived I Iceland! chose I’m surrounded though far—even well so going environ- business language, by a very different and in all it taking just I’m culture, and ment, and soon to learn Icelandic I hope in it. reveling I can’t wait to beautiful country, as it’s a really Stacey, job, new on your Congratulations explore.” “ex-pat” of role you enjoy your new we hope and home! your new exploring and We heard from her in March, when she was “re- she when in March, her from heard We not When Week.” Fashion York New from covering loves re- Dana latest in couture, the investigating sisters over Alpha Chi Omega with her connecting Manhattan. in downtown brunch class in with the you can share memories make love to us your news—we’d Send columns. future you! from hear years of writing fashion columns for the the for columns fashion writing years of Daily Sun Lucky Magazine of department Libbyand edu; [email protected]. , Boymel job with PricewaterhouseCoopers, but she stayed but she job with PricewaterhouseCoopers, consult- left a healthcare borders—she within US po- associate a senior WI, for job in Madison, ing within working City office, York in PwC’s New sition York- New field. technology information health the er 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 93 Page AM 11:27 4/13/11 56-95CAMMJ11notes 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 94

Alumni Deaths the Korean War, the basis for 4077th Unit of book, movie, and television fame; founder, Orange County Diabetes Association; active in communi- ty, professional, and religious affairs.

’47, BA ’49, JD ’51—Richard A. Schwarz of Washington, DC, September 27, 2010; attorney, ’35 BS HE—Janet Hollowell Bradley of Clovis, CA, ’41 BS Ag—George A. Marshall Jr. of Fitchburg, US Dept. of Labor; veteran; active in profession- September 22, 2010; home economics teacher; MA, September 23, 2010; fruit grower; produced al affairs. Tau Delta Phi. artist; active in alumni affairs. Delta Gamma. the Marshall Mac; dog trainer; active in profes- sional affairs. Lambda Chi Alpha. ’47, BA ’46—Jane Yetter Studer of Clarks Sum- ’35 BA—Margaret Hedgcock Church of Annapo- mit, PA, September 27, 2010; executive director lis, MD, September 28, 2010; worked for the Re- ’41-42 GR—Raymond F. Novak of Fort Collins, and founder, Trehab Center; director of mgmt. publican Nat’l Committee; active in civic and CO, formerly of Williston, ND, September 26, services, Eureka Printing; also worked for Day- community affairs. Alpha Phi. 2010; president, North Dakota Farmers Union In- strom Industries; pilot; active in civic, commu- surance; veteran; active in community affairs. nity, and alumni affairs. ’35 MA—Eleanor Elmore of West Lafayette, IN, September 20, 2010; high school teacher of ’41 BS Ag—Guilford K. Woodward of Johnson ’48 BS Ag—Douglas K. Dillon of Naples, FL, Sep- French, English, and Latin; active in religious City, NY, formerly of Union Center, NY, October 1, tember 30, 2010; chairman, Dillon Floral Corp.; affairs. 2010; operated Woodward Poultry Farms; veter- veteran; active in civic, community, professional, an; active in community and religious affairs. and religious affairs. Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Wife, ’36—Charles F. Dickens of Savannah, NY, Sep- Doris (Corbett) ’48. tember 6, 2010; farmer; John Deere machinery ’42, BS Ag ’46—Leon H. Mehlenbacher of Bur- dealer. bank, WA, September 22, 2010; farmer; active in ’48 BS ORIE—Robert A. Nelson of Princeton, religious affairs. NJ, September 22, 2010; president, Nelson Glass ’37 BS HE—Elizabeth Ferguson Barell of Sher- & Aluminum Co.; active in civic, community, and born, MA, September 23, 2010; retired research ’43 BA, JD ’49—George D. Crofts Jr. of religious affairs. technician, Dana Farber Cancer Center; lab assis- Williamsville, NY, September 23, 2010; tax and tant, bacteriology dept., Wellesley College; also estate attorney; veteran; active in community ’49 MD—John A. Bell of Fishkill, NY, February worked for General Foods; active in community and professional affairs. Phi Sigma Kappa. 25, 2010; co-founder, Mid-Hudson Medical Group; affairs. Alpha Phi. veteran; active in community affairs. ’43 DVM—Robert S. Doig of Walton, NY, Octo- ’38 BME—Jay T. Fish of Englewood, FL, August ber 1, 2010; veterinarian; vet supervisor meat in- ’49 BEE—Robert T. Dean of Ithaca, NY, Septem- 31, 2010; plant manager, DuPont Co.; veteran; spector, NYS Dept. of Agriculture & Markets; ber 25, 2010; founder, Deanco, an electronics musician; active in community affairs. Tau Kap- veteran; active in community and religious af- distributor; veteran; active in civic, community, pa Epsilon. fairs. Alpha Psi. religious, and alumni affairs. Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

’38 BS Ag, MS Ag ’50—William A. Kumpf of Elk ’43 MD—John L. Norris of Nashville, TN, and ’49 DVM—Isidor Yasgur of Polk City, FL, formerly City, OK, formerly of Rochester, NY, September 6, Winter Haven, FL, October 2, 2010; professor, of Mamaroneck and Jeffersonville, NY, August 3, 2010; taught high school horticulture; also Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt U. School 2010; veterinarian; pilot. worked for Monroe County Cooperative Extension of Medicine; veteran; active in civic, community, Service; active in religious affairs. professional, and religious affairs. Wife, Margaret ’50—Donald E. Erdman of Scotia, NY, August 7, (Swann), MD ’49. 2010; retired chemical engineer; active in civic ’38 MS—Frank L. LeRoy of Monson, ME, Sep- and community affairs. Phi Kappa Sigma. Wife, tember 16, 2010; VP and general manager, the ’45, BA ’44—Charles P. Argana of Austin, TX, Mary Lou (Dorward) ’49. Colombian Petroleum Co.; business manager, September 29, 2010; chemical engineer and sales American Management Assn.; active in civic, com- manager, DuPont Co. ’50 BA—Robert S. Feller of Mammoth Lakes, CA, munity, and professional affairs. formerly of Silver Strand Beach-Channel Islands ’45, B Chem E ’47—J. Newton Hunsberger III and Thousand Oaks, CA, September 2, 2010; den- ’39 BS HE—Pearl Slocum Thompson of Newark, of Wilmington, DE, September 23, 2010; worked tist; veteran; active in community and profes- NY, formerly of Alexandria, VA, August 28, 2010; for DuPont Co.; veteran; active in community and sional affairs. Pi Lambda Phi. retired, board of governors, Federal Reserve Sys- religious affairs. Alpha Delta Phi. tem; teacher. Wayside Aftermath. ’50 BA—Lorraine Vogel Klerman of Waltham, ’45, BS Nurs ’46—Gladys Keith Sandwick of MA, August 26, 2010; professor and director, In- ’40-41 GR—Myron C. Hunt of Richmond, IN, Sep- Hermon, NY, October 2, 2010; clinical nurse in- stitute for Children, Youth, and Family Policy, tember 23, 2010; facilities manager, Dana Corp.; structor, Canton ATC; nurse, Head Start program; Heller School for Social Policy and Mgmt., at active in civic, community, and religious affairs. active in community and religious affairs. Brandeis U.; health services researcher; active in professional affairs. Sigma Delta Tau. ’40 MS, PhD ’43—Clyde D. Mueller of Fayette- ’46, BA ’47, PhD ’51—James C. Keck of An- ville, AR, October 3, 2010; worked in the com- dover, MA, August 9, 2010; professor emeritus of ’50, BA ’51—Paul S. Martin of Tucson, AZ, Sep- puting dept., U. of Arkansas; poultry dept. staff, mechanical engineering, MIT; worked on the tember 13, 2010; professor emeritus of geo- Kansas State U.; poultry geneticist, Arbor Acres Manhattan Project; also worked for Avco Everett sciences, U. of Arizona; researched the role of and Marshall’s Poultry; veteran. Research Laboratory; research associate, Caltech; humans in the extinction of large North Ameri- inventor; veteran; active in community, profes- can Ice Age mammals; studied the ecological and ’40 BA—Robert C. Ray of Tampa, FL, September sional, and alumni affairs. Chi Phi. climatic record of packrat middens; active in pro- 28, 2010; founder, Franklin Concrete Products; fessional affairs. veteran; active in community, professional, reli- ’47—John W. Jones of Lynchburg, VA, Septem- gious, and alumni affairs. Phi Delta Theta. ber 29, 2010; retired real estate broker; veteran; ’50 BA—Helen Bull Neuhaus of Montclair, NJ, active in civic, community, and religious affairs. October 3, 2010; retired administrator, New Jer- ’40 BA—John R. Snow of Chester, CT, formerly Wife, Ruth (Dymes) ’50. sey Evening School, World Trade Inst. of New of New London and Waterford, CT, September 19, York and New Jersey; taught English and special- 2010; designed sonar systems, Naval Underwater ’47 MD—William S. Montgomery of Newburgh, needs classes; author; editor; active in commu- Systems Center; consultant; author; charter mem- NY, September 18, 2010; family practitioner; nity affairs. ber, Trout Unlimited; active in community affairs. chief of staff, St. Luke’s Hospital; specialist in Pi Kappa Alpha. diabetes; served in the 4055th M*A*S*H Unit in ’50 BS Hotel—Carl C. Parker Jr. of Federal Way, 94 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 56-95CAMMJ11notes 4/13/11 11:27 AM Page 95

WA, September 3, 2010; retired internal auditor. ’55 BS ILR—Jose E. Tamayo of Shelton, CT, Sep- ’67-68 GR—Albrecht B. Pütter of Gluecksburg, Alpha Phi Omega. tember 19, 2010; owner, J.E.T. Corp. Kappa Alpha. Germany, July 22, 2010; attorney; active in alum- ni affairs. ’51 JD—Seymour Brown of New Rochelle, NY, ’56 PhD—Willard L. Lindsay of Provo, UT, Sep- September 23, 2010; attorney; founder, NAACP tember 27, 2010; professor of soil science, Col- ’67 MD—Christopher D. Saudek of Lutherville, chapter at City College of New York; veteran; ac- orado State U.; soil chemist, Tennessee Valley MD, October 6, 2010; founder and director, Johns tive in civic, community, and religious affairs. Authority; author; veteran; active in profession- Hopkins Comprehensive Diabetes Center; pio- al and religious affairs. neered the implantable insulin pump; professor ’51 BS Ag—Richard E. Holmberg of Warwick, NY, of endocrinology and metabolism, Johns Hopkins formerly of Berwyn, IL, September 24, 2010; own- ’56 BS Hotel—Robert L. Marks of West Hart- Medical School; faculty member, Johns Hopkins er, Nelson & Holmberg Greenhouses; veteran. ford, CT, formerly of Bloomfield, CT, September Bloomberg School of Public Health; program di- 30, 2010; worked in the jewelry business; restau- rector, Johns Hopkins General Clinical Research ’51 BA, MBA ’52—Archie J. Shipman of San rant owner. Phi Sigma Delta. Center; ABC News consultant for “OnCall + Dia- Francisco, CA, September 15, 2010; business sys- betes Center”; taught at Weill Cornell Medical tems analyst, Procter & Gamble and Montgomery ’57 BS HE—Barbara Haglund Schlerf of West Is- School; fellow, Nat’l Institutes of Health and the Ward; Civil Aeronautics pilot; veteran. lip, NY, September 20, 2010; home economics Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; co-author, The teacher; active in alumni affairs. Delta Gamma. Complete Diabetes Prevention Plan, The Johns Hop- ’52, BS Hotel ’53—Thomas C. Walsh of Port Husband, Gilbert W. Schlerf ’55. kins Guide to Diabetes, and Diabetes; veteran; ac- Washington, NY, September 14, 2010; general tive in professional and religious affairs. manager, New York Athletic Club. Sigma Nu. ’57 BA—Capt. Keith A. Stewart of Punta Gorda, FL, October 5, 2010; retired US Navy officer; in- ’68, BS Hotel ’69—Clinton T. Walker of Fort ’53, BME ’55—Donald R. Carhart of Naperville, IL, structor, Naval War College; senior ship-handling Lauderdale, FL, September 30, 2010; real estate October 4, 2010; mechanical engineer. Theta Chi. instructor, Maritime Safety Int’l; active in pro- broker. Sigma Pi. fessional affairs. Delta Tau Delta. ’53 PhD—Ronald H. Forgus of Vernon Hills, IL, ’69 PhD—Lucille Stoeppler Baker (Mrs. Walter October 1, 2010; psychologist; professor, Lake ’58 BS Nurs—Joan Merrill Chase of Boscawen, H. ’48) of Groton, NY, October 6, 2010; professor Forest College; staff member, V.A. Hospital and NH, October 4, 2010; registered nurse; artist; emerita of sociology and anthropology, Tompkins Alfred Adler Inst.; consultant to the NSA; author; writer; active in community affairs. County Community College; also taught in Con- active in community and professional affairs. necticut and at several Dept. of Defense base ’58—Margaret Call Hiler of Powhatan, VA, Sep- schools; executive director, Area Girl Scouts of ’53, BCE ’54—Carl D. Hobelman of Washington, tember 29, 2010; taught English and reading at America in Manchester, CT; active in civic, com- DC, August 31, 2010; attorney; senior and man- Byron-Bergen Central School; active in commu- munity, professional, and alumni affairs. aging partner, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae; nity affairs. specialist in energy and environmental law; di- ’71 BS Ag, MS Ag ’73—G. Brian Smith of Truro, rector, Adirondack Lakes Survey Corp.; veteran; ’58 BA—R. Robin Palmer of Ithaca, NY, August Nova Scotia, Canada, September 2, 2010; execu- active in community, professional, and alumni af- 20, 2010; teacher; diver, Int’l Underwater Con- tive director, Agricultural Service, Nova Scotia fairs. Sigma Chi. tractors; weatherman; tree surgeon; television Dept. of Agriculture; active in community, pro- host and producer; active in civic and commu- fessional, and religious affairs. ’53 BS HE—Joan Thostesen Kelsey of East Lans- nity affairs. ing, MI, September 8, 2010; lay leader, United ’76 BS Ag—Capt. Thomas M. Craig of Bellefonte, Methodist Church; trained Stephens Ministers; ’59 MS—Arthur L. Aronson of Raleigh, NC, Sep- PA, September 14, 2010; dairy farmer, Murmac taught “Living Fully, Dying Well”; active in com- tember 22, 2010; veterinarian; helped establish Farms; veteran; active in community and reli- munity, religious, and alumni affairs. Wayside Af- the North Carolina State U. Veterinary School; gious affairs. termath. Husband, Myron P. Kelsey ’53, MS ’56. professor and dept. head, anatomy, physiological sciences, and radiology, NC State U.; also taught ’77 MD—Kenneth A. Brown of Colchester, VT, ’53 BA—Dominic J. Scaramuzzino of Geneva, NY, at Cornell U.; editor; musician; active in civic, September 11, 2010; professor of medicine, U. of September 14, 2010; practiced internal medicine; community, professional, and religious affairs. Vermont College of Medicine; head of Nuclear Car- veteran; active in community and religious affairs. diology Dept., Fletcher Allen Health Care; expert ’59, BA ’60—Howard W. Roth of Loudonville, in non-invasive cardiac imaging; clinical fellow, ’54 JD—Carl I. Kaminsky of Brooklyn, NY, Sep- NY, September 20, 2010; taxation and real estate Harvard U. hospitals; author; former president, tember 20, 2010; intellectual property attorney; attorney; active in religious affairs. Tau Delta Phi. American Society of Nuclear Cardiology; moun- active in alumni affairs. taineer; active in professional affairs. ’60, BCE ’62—Donald W. McPherson of Ithaca, ’54 MD—Philip R. Nast of Ripon, CA, formerly NY, September 16, 2010; owner, McPherson Sail- ’90 MD—Kathreen Gimbrere of Seattle, WA, Sep- of Gladwyne, PA, September 1, 2010; practiced ing Products and Ski Center. tember 30, 2010; clinical assistant professor of at Bryn Mawr Hospital; founder, Bryn Mawr Med- psychiatry and behavioral sciences, U. of Wash- ical Specialists Assn.; veteran; active in commu- ’62 DVM—Richard K. Zeitel of Naples, FL, Sep- ington; inpatient psychiatrist, Skagit Valley Hos- nity affairs. tember 28, 2010; veterinarian. Alpha Psi. pital; active in civic and professional affairs.

’54—Walter J. Schwan of Ithaca, NY, October ’65, BS Ag ’67—Elan J. Benamy of Brooklyn, ’95 BA—Ethan T. Johnson of Minneapolis, MN, 1, 2010; owner and founder, Schwan’s Trailer NY, September 11, 2010; active in alumni affairs. September 21, 2010; research scientist, U. of Park; led consortium to build Bolton Point Wa- Minnesota; studied the biochemistry of photo- ter Plant; veteran; active in civic and communi- ’65 BS Hotel—Donald B. Ross Jr. of South Port- synthesis; musician; puppeteer; active in com- ty affairs. land, ME, June 2, 2010; president, Camelot Ho- munity affairs. tels; active in alumni affairs. Lambda Chi Alpha. ’55 MS, PhD ’56—Borislav J. Stojanovic of ’01 BS Ag, MS Ag ’03—John A. Merrill of Stakville, MS, September 29, 2010; soil microbi- ’67 BS Ag—Robert I. Ferguson of Vernon, BC, Cortez, CO, September 26, 2010; Nat’l Park Ser- ologist, Dept. of Agronomy, Mississippi State U.; Canada, October 3, 2010; administrator, Vernon vice employee; Peace Corps volunteer; active in developed methods for safe disposal of waste Jubilee Hospital; co-owner, Interior Landscape; civic affairs. , including Agent Orange; professor of active in civic, community, and religious affairs. enology and microbiology and director, A.B. Delta Kappa Epsilon. GR—Jade Moore of Freeville, NY, formerly of McKay Food Research and Enology Lab, Mississip- Soper, OK, October 5, 2010; Master of Public pi State U.; helped reestablish the wine industry ’67 BS Hotel—Richard K. Margolis of Ventnor Administration grad student; focused on public in Mississippi; author; editor; active in profes- City, NJ, September 26, 2010; realtor. Pi Lamb- and nonprofit management; active in communi- sional affairs. da Phi. ty affairs. May | June 2011 95 96-96CAMmj11cornelliana 4/13/11 11:32 AM Page 96

Cornelliana Fire Place With the end of coal consumption on campus, Cornell’s venerable Boiler Eight goes dark

f the Dragon Day beast were real, here’s where it would Visit have lived. CAM Online for more In a Twenties-era brick building at the edge of campus stood a massive iron box full of fire. You could view its cornellalumni Iinterior through narrow windows, though you couldn’t gaze magazine. directly at the flames without damaging your eyes; you had to com use a visor that turned the roiling blaze unearthly green. Open a small door that looks like something Hansel and Gretel would have pushed the witch through, and the heat—more than 2,600 degrees Fahrenheit of coal-powered inferno—was positively breathtaking. In late March, after burning for the better part of six and a half decades, the fire finally went out for good; as part of Cor- nell’s commitment to generate zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the University stopped using coal. The last lumps from the University’s coal pile—once measuring an acre, reaching as high as thirty feet, and comprising 15,000 tons—were shoveled PROVIDED onto a conveyor belt for delivery into Boiler Eight, a venerable retires, one of the thousands of iron “fingers” that fed the coal workhorse that has heated the campus off and on since 1946. into the fire. And though that blaze has gone out for good (time “It’s an impressive piece of old machinery,” says Bert Bland ’74, of death: approximately 11 p.m. on Wednesday, March 23), MBA ’96, senior director of the Department of Energy and Sus- Bland hopes to breathe new life into the boiler by someday con- tainability. “It’s built like a battleship.” verting it to solid biomass. “It kept the campus warm more than Hulbert was the third generation in his family to once when everything else went down,” VanDeMark says. “It work the Cornell coal pile; his grandfather died there, collapsing was an effort to keep it running, but I’m sorry to see it go.” of a heart attack while working the steam-powered crane with his son, Hulbert’s father. Clad in denim overalls as he leaves the plant on the fire’s final day, Hulbert admits that though he’ll miss the work, it was, literally, a dirty job. “My hands are stained,” he says, proffering blackened palms, “and I just washed them.” Cornell’s relationship with coal goes back to the University’s founding, when students burned the fuel in stoves to warm their rooms. For decades it was hauled to campus by train, but when oil prices were low in the Sixties and early Seventies, coal went out of vogue. Then the oil embargo struck, prices sky- rocketed, and the University fired up Boiler Eight again—though, since nearby railway bridges had been destroyed in a 1972 hurricane, the coal had to be trucked in. Number Eight soldiered on, more or less the same, for decades. But its fate was sealed in December 2009, when the University opened its highly efficient Combined Heat and Power Plant. Located in a new building adjacent to the 1922 facil- ity, it features two giant gas-fired turbines that gen- erate electricity, with waste heat captured to make steam that warms the campus. While the workers who tended Boiler Eight seem LANDMARK IMAGES disinclined to sentimentality, at least one—senior Power play: Cornell’s 1922 heating plant (top) no longer plant operator Dave VanDeMark, a thirty-four-year consumes coal, a fuel that once took up an acre on the veteran—plans on snagging a keepsake when he outskirts of campus.

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LISA BANLAKI FRANK ‘THE BEST VINTAGE EVER’

New York’s grape growers and winemakers extol the 2010 crop

BY DAVE POHL

s Frank Sinatra once sang: It was a very good year. Winemakers in every region of New York State are almost universally excited over the potential quality of the wines produced from the 2010 growing season. The entire state experienced an early spring andA a warm, sunny summer with just enough rain. The weather couldn’t have been much better. Many grape varieties ripened simultaneously, and most wineries began picking during the first week of September. It was an intense—but happy—harvest. Growers in the Finger Lakes region were particularly ecstatic. Last September, reported nearly unprecedented excitement for what, to many, al- ready appeared to be a great vintage. Chris Stamp ’83 of Lakewood Vineyards on Seneca Lake summed up their feelings, saying that “growing conditions this summer have been about as close to perfect as possible.” In addition, pointed out Jim Trezise of the New York Wine & Grape Foundation, “the early harvest means less risk of a killing frost that shuts down the harvest.” This nearly ideal season could have been spoiled by the heavy rains that Dave Pohl, MA ’79, is a wine buyer at North- drenched the area in late September. Fred Merwarth ’00, owner of Seneca Lake’s side Wine & Spirits in Ithaca. He came to Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard, reported that his vineyards were soaked with more Cornell in 1976 to work on a PhD in sociolo- than four inches of rain in just twenty-four hours. Fortunately, most of the grapes gy, but he was seduced by the wine had already been harvested; what remained was largely Riesling and some red vari- business and has been at it ever since. eties. And those who let their remaining grapes hang a little longer were rewarded with a return to warm, sunny weather.

COVER IMAGE PROVIDED BY THE NEW YORK WINE AND GRAPE FOUNDATION According to Merwarth, the grapes harvested in mid-October were generally

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clean, with flavors and sugars returned more growing degree days [a measure of to pre-rain levels. Some of the Riesling heat accumulation] than did Napa and grapes were affected by botrytis, a mold Sonoma in California.” He points out that that causes dehydration and is responsi- the frequency of rain was about the same ble for the honeyed flavors of late- as 2009, a cooler and very wet year. “But harvest Riesling. However, the flavor in 2010,” he says, “the rain came in short- imparted by botrytis is not necessarily er downpours, and do not absorb desirable in drier wines; to counter this, nearly as much water in heavy, short Merwarth says, “we sorted fifteen to bursts, as it runs off. Couple that with the twenty hours per day to separate botrytis heat that promotes evapo-transpiration fruit from the clean fruit that is used in and our vineyards were not nearly as wet the dry and reserve Riesling.” as they were in 2009.” Over on Keuka Lake, there is also Madill thinks the 2010 wines will be plenty of optimism. Fred Frank ’79, own- very appealing, noting that his Gewurz- er of Dr. Konstantin Frank’s Vinifera traminer and Pinot Gris show great vari- Wine Cellars, is very excited about the etal character.The Riesling grapes, he says, quality of the vintage. “Our grapevine buds opened two weeks early, SHELDRAKE POINT VINEYARD which helped to extend our growing season,” he says. “And the weather throughout the growing season was ideal, with a perfect mix of sunny days and adequate rainfall.” How are the wines? “We have begun bottling the 2010 wines,” re- ports Frank, “and we believe the quality is our best since the 2005 vintage.” Bob Madill, one of the own- ers of Sheldrake Point Winery, is likewise enthusiastic. He says that his vineyards on Cayuga Lake “experienced Bob Madill

BUMPER CROP In 2010, New York State’s grape production increased 32 percent over the previous year to 176,000 tons, about one-third of which was wine grapes. The state’s wineries crushed 59,305 tons of grapes, an increase of 17 percent. The total value of the 2010 grape crop was estimated at $68.4 million, a 44 percent increase over 2009 (a year with an unusually small crop) and a 19 percent increase over 2008 (a more normal year). Source: The New York Wine & Grape Foundation

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came in with lighter acid than 2009, and the resulting wines should provide a great deal of pleasure early on. He’s also positive about the reds: “The Merlot shows full ripeness and concentration; the Cabernet Franc is well balanced, as is the Gamay.” “Balance” is a word that is heard often in discussions of the wines of 2010. Jo- hannes Reinhardt, the German-born wine- maker at Anthony Road Wine Company on Seneca Lake, sees balance as a defining characteristic of the vintage, describing the fruit he had to work with as “very promis- ing, balanced, and good.” He is particularly impressed by the reds, and he rates 2010 even more highly than 2007 for red wines, as a bit more moisture helped avoid “some of the cooked fruit of 2007.” Perhaps the most unbridled enthusi- asm comes from grape grower extraordi- naire Jim Hazlitt ’60, who owns Sawmill Creek Vineyards and supplies the grapes for many of the area’s best wineries, in- cluding Ravines, Red Newt, Hazlitt 1852, Damiani, and Atwater Estate. He describes the growing season as “ideal” and says that “winemakers could harvest when the grapes were perfect, when every variety was clean and ripe.” While producers in the Finger Lakes were particularly excited about their prospects, the outlook for other New York wine regions was also extremely positive. Both the Hudson Valley and Long Island had early harvests, although picking of some varieties in the Hudson Valley had to be delayed because some wineries did not have the space or labor to deal with the quantity of early-ripened grapes. There, the vintage was especially kind to white varieties; late-season rains created rot problems for some of the red-wine grapes. Long Island had one of its earliest harvests ever, with picking of white vari- eties beginning in early September and reds in early October. This was quite a contrast to 2009, when some vineyards had grapes still hanging after Thanksgiv- ing. Botrytis was a problem for some later picked reds such as Merlot, but even in those cases the overall quality of the fruit was reported to be high. Jim Hazlitt predicts that many of the 2010 wines from New York State will score Uncommon in the nineties in evaluations, making it the best vintage ever. When asked if this Accommodations degree of excitement was truly warranted, In & Around Tim Martinson, PhD ’91, of Cornell Coop- erative Extension confirms that “it seems Ithaca to have been a very good year and many people are very pleased.” It will be inter- esting, indeed, to begin sampling the 800-806-4406 products of this seemingly singular year as they appear in the marketplace. www.BBIthaca.com Cheers!

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FOCAL POINT

Ithaca’s Finger Lakes Wine Center Welcomes Visitors to the Region

BY DAVE POHL

FINGER LAKES WINE CENTER fter many years of planning and fundraising, the Fin- ger Lakes Wine Center opened its doorsA to the public last fall. Located at 237 South Cayuga Street in downtown Ithaca, it is bound to become a favored destination for both local wine lovers and those from outside the region. Suzanne Lonergan, the Wine Center’s executive director, sees it “as a gathering place for wine lovers, a place to socialize and at the same time learn more about the area’s wines.” She goes on to say that “Itha- ca doesn’t have many spaces that aren’t bars where like-minded people can get to- gether and share a common interest.” The nonprofit center—a collaborative effort of Cornell, community leaders, and the area’s wineries—defines its goals as primarily educational. Its mission state- ment, posted at www.fingerlakeswine center.org, describes the center as “a meeting place to begin your exploration of the gorgeous Finger Lakes wine coun- try, just beyond Ithaca’s city limits.” This is accomplished with an array of tastings, seminars, and classes. The idea for the facility dates back to 2002, when its president, David Sparrow, MA ’86, met with Fred Bonn of the Tomp- kins County Convention & Visitors Bureau and others to discuss the feasibil- ity of such a center. “In 2001,” Sparrow says, “the consulting firm Randall Travel Marketing concluded in its study of tourism in the Finger Lakes that a wine center was a good, workable idea and that Ithaca would be a good location for it. So we formed a task force to study the feasibility of a wine center, and we ulti- mately decided to take it on.” Funding was pieced together from many sources, including Tompkins County A gathering place: The Finger Lakes Wine Center offers tastings and educational Tourism, three New York State grants, pri- displays for wine enthusiasts. vate money, and a loan from the City of

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Ithaca. According to Sparrow, the process was “long and hellish,” but well worth the effort. The Wine Center is governed by an eight-member board that includes winery owners, community members, and Tommy Bruce, Cornell’s vice president for univer- sity communications. Thus far, the Wine Center’s classes have included sessions on food and wine pairing, home grape growing and wine- making, choosing wine for holiday meals, and explorations of single-grape varieties such as Riesling and Cabernet Franc. Vis- itors may also taste flights of wine organ- ized around a single variety—on one recent day, the choices included Finger Lakes Pinot Noir, Cabernet Franc, Ries- ling, dry Riesling, and Chardonnay.At any given point, twenty-five wines will be available for tasting. Each is available for sale, as is a selection of wine-related items and artisanal crafts produced in the region. The wines available for tasting are rotated, so a visitor can taste some new ones on successive visits—and there is al- ways a knowledgeable person on hand to discuss the wines, answer questions, and disseminate information about the Finger Lakes and its wineries. The building itself is quite beautiful— modern and sleek. A nicely lit central space houses a wine bar, a retail area, and various educational displays, includ- ing a large folding mural that illustrates and explains what happens from month to month in the vineyard and winery dur- ing the winemaking process. A dramatic map of the Finger Lakes region domi- nates one wall. It was created from forty- one digital photographs of an 1845 map in Olin Library; the photos were used to create eight polymer panels that were af- fixed to the wall. The Wine Center has a private tasting room for meetings and smaller classes. It’s also available for rental by local groups—in fact, the entire space can be rented. So far, notes Lonergan, more than twenty groups have used the space for events ranging from birthday parties, an award dinner, and a wedding rehearsal to Cornell departmental programs, corpo- WINE GUIDE rate get-togethers, and even a book launch. On Thursday evenings, the Center The New York Wine & Grape Foundation has turns into an Ithaca gathering place, with updated its guidebook to reflect the ever- live music featured from 6 to 9 p.m. expanding wine industry in the state. The Now that the Wine Center is up and forty-page book includes detailed maps of running, its operating income will come every wine region, spectacular photos, and from tasting fees, retail sales, rentals, sem- new sections on fruit wines and meads. inars, and memberships, which are offered To access the guide online, go to at various levels. The operation is still www.newyorkwines.org, then click on young, and the board is eager to see what Information Station, Regional Guides, and this year’s tourist season will bring. Visit- New York Wine Guide 2011. ing Cornellians should plan to drop in be- fore heading out to the local wineries.

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A LIFE ON THE LAND A season-by-season account of the winemaking process

aking wine is crushing, and the stages of the winemak- hard work. If ing process. And then there’s marketing you had the no- and selling the wine, so you can bring in tion that being a enough money to do it all again the next winemaker was year. It’s tricky, difficult work—much can aM leisurely life where you could sit on the go wrong at almost any point, and even if porch, sip chilled Chardonnay, and watch everything proceeds more or less accord- the grapes grow, reading Seasons of a Fin- ing to plan, what comes out of the bottle ger Lakes Winery will disabuse you of can be mediocre. In winemaking, as Gary that notion. Barletta laments at one point, “there’s no In this new book from Cornell Uni- such thing as perfection.” versity Press, author John Hartsock The French describe the combined focuses on Gary and Rosemary Barletta, effect of climate, soil, elevation, and other owners of Long Point Winery on the east- geographical features as terroir, an over- winemaker. His account of the Barlettas, ern shore of Cayuga Lake. He weaves the arching concept that encompasses the while sometimes lapsing into sentimen- story of the their lives through a season- many factors that come together in a par- tality, enriches and enlivens what could by-season account of a year at their win- ticular place to shape a wine’s taste and have been a dry agricultural saga, provid- ery, from preparation of the vineyard in character. Another aspect, as Hartsock ing brightness, flavor, and a strong finish. winter through growing, harvesting, makes clear, is the personality of the — Jim Roberts ’71

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Casks at King Ferry Winery

LISA BANLAKI FRANK

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FLIGHT TRAINING Taste your way to wine expertise at the New York Wine & Culinary Center

BY SHANNON BROCK

any Cornellians have fond memories of learning to appreciate wine thanks to the Hotel school’s leg- endaryM Introduction to Wines course, taught by Stephen Mutkoski ’67, PhD ’76. Those looking to continue their wine education—without having to sit with a tray of wine glasses on their laps— need look no further than the New York Wine & Culinary Center. Located in Canandaigua at the north end of Canandaigua Lake, the nonprofit center offers a wide variety of courses in pursuit of its mission to sup- struction in wine-tasting technique, major wine vari- port the New York wine industry. Its classes aim to pro- eties, and food pairing. Some of the most popular in- mote awareness and sales of wines produced in the clude Wine 101, Wine & Food Flavor Pairing, Riesling state’s five major growing regions: Finger Lakes, Lake Expert, and Wine & Chocolate Pairing. Enthusiasts can Erie, Niagara Escarpment, Hudson River, and Long Is- also enjoy a pairing lunch or dinner at the Center; land. The wine instructors have been selected for their themed dinners often feature a well-known New York knowledge of New York and world wines, engaging and winery, such as Dr. Frank or Hermann J. Wiemer, and of- entertaining presentation skills, and ability to make fer multi-course menus designed to highlight the wines. wine approachable—and all classes include interactive Often, cooking demonstrations by the executive chef are food and wine tasting in a comfortable amphitheater part of the program, and wine-pairing commentary is setting. provided by visiting winemakers. Beginner and intermediate wine consumers may se- Those seeking advanced or professional-level wine lect from a menu of one- or two-hour appreciation education can choose among several center-developed classes priced from $20 to $50. These sessions offer in- programs, such as an all-day New York Wine Camp or

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Higher education: Located in Canandaigua, the New York Wine & Culinary Center offers wine classes for everyone from beginners to industry professionals.

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Wine Aroma Workshop, or enroll in the Wine & Spirit Education Trust program, an internationally recognized program in wines of the world delivered by certified instructors. courses in wine knowledge, hospitality, and tasting- room management are offered specifically to New York wine industry employees, as well as to employees of stores and restau- rants that promote New York wine. Hun- dreds travel from all over the state to attend, and classes are occasionally taken on the road to the Hudson Valley and Long Island. The Wine & Culinary Center also collaborates with Cornell’s Enology Extension program to offer a popular ad- vanced course in wine fault identification. Many celebrity wine personalities have made appearances at the center, in- cluding Kevin Zraly,Andrea Immer Robinson, Oz Clarke, and Leslie Sbrocco. Other special events held annually in- clude Rendezvous with Riesling, a walk- about tasting of the best Riesling wines from around New York; the Golden Nose, a consumer-judged wine competition; and the n’ICE Festival, a celebration of New York ice wines. The Wine & Culinary Center, which opened in 2006, counts Constellation Brands, Wegmans, Rochester Institute of Technology, and the New York Wine & Grape Foundation as its founding part- ners. It is convenient to the Finger Lakes region and Rochester, and an easy day trip from Syracuse, Buffalo, or (of course) Ithaca. Wine courses, as well as a wide variety of hands-on cooking classes, are offered year-round; a complete listing of upcoming courses may be found at nywcc.com. Online registration is avail- able and visitors are encouraged to regis- ter in advance, as many courses sell out. In lieu of taking a class, visitors may learn more about New York wines by enjoying a flight of wine in the tasting room or partaking of the Taste of New York Restaurant’s pairing menu, offered at dinner each evening. And, while the Wine & Culinary Cen- ter has a collection of fine stemware, feel free to dig out that black plastic case and bring your own glasses to relive those good old Introduction to Wines days.

Shannon Brock ’99 majored in policy analy- sis in the College of Human Ecology. After a stint with Teach For America and several years teaching in urban public schools, she settled in the Finger Lakes to follow her passion for wine. She has been the wine co- ordinator at the New York Wine & Culinary Center since its opening in 2006 and is the lead wine instructor.

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BIG RED BOAST

CALS Grads Make the Difference for Long Island Winery

t Bedell Cellars on Long Island’s North Fork, the big red boast isn’t just about its critically ac- claimedA Merlot blend, Musée—the winery also employs several generations of Cor- nell graduates. From winemaker to sales manager, the roles run the gamut, and CEO Trent Preszler, MS ’02, says it speaks to the diversity of offerings at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the breadth of skills its graduates acquire. “The CALS degrees are not one- dimensional, and the students gain expert- ise in all aspects of the wine business,” says Preszler, who received his master’s degree in agricultural economics and is a PhD candidate in the viticulture pro- gram. “They become fluent in aspects of Crunchy Apples business and marketing, chemistry and botany, microbiology and sensory science. and Sweet Cider at All those interests are then piqued and primed for when they enter a job in in- Cornell Orchards dustry, and they are ready to contribute to a winery in a variety of ways.” Bedell winemaker Rich Olsen-Harbich ’83 majored in plant science, national sales manager Adriana Coderch ’10 in food science and enology, and social me- dia specialist Steve Carlson ’06, BS Ag ’09, in food science and enology. In addition, Another bountiful harvest of more former harvest intern Benjamin Riccardi than 35 varieties of apples awaits you at the Cornell Orchards. Plus: sweet cider, Cornell maple syrup, Sheep Program blankets, local honey, WINE ICE CREAM and a selection of specialty food and gift items from around the Finger Lakes and New York State. And now for something completely different: wine-flavored ice cream. Also selling wine grapes and juice No kidding—Mercer’s Wine Ice Cream for home winemaking comes in six flavors: Cherry Merlot, 709 Dryden Road, across from the Chocolate Cabernet, Peach White Vet College on Rte. 366 Zinfandel, Port, Red Raspberry Chardon- Open Tuesday–Sunday, 8:30 am–5:00 pm nay, and Riesling. It’s the real thing, with Tuesday–Saturday after Thanksgiving 12 percent butterfat and up to 5 percent Closed mid-May to mid-August alcohol by volume. To learn more and Call 607-255-4542 check availability in your area, go to: www.hort.cornell.edu/orchards www.mercerswineicecream.com.

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’08, who majored in plant science and viti- culture, went on to become the winemak- er at Lamoreaux Landing in Lodi. “We recruit from CALS because we know these graduates will have knowl- edge specific to our industry and our growing climate,” Preszler says. “Many of them come from family farms or wineries and understand on an intimate level what they’re getting into, and they aren’t afraid to roll up their sleeves and work hard.” Olsen-Harbich says Cornell has evolved a great deal since he graduated. There was only one viticulture course then, and he had to seek out professors and other collaborators to pursue his in- dependent study on such topics as prun- ing weights, bud cold-hardiness, grafting, and the effects of sulfur dioxide on machine-picked grapes. He was one of the people who worked with former CALS dean Susan Henry to develop the four-year viticulture and enology degree program, launched in 2008. “Over the years, Cornell has both led and responded to the needs of the wine industry,” Olsen-Harbich says. “At times the University has been prodded by in- dustry to delve deeper into topics and needs, while at other points the work done at Cornell has opened new doors and pathways otherwise unseen.” Known for the way he combines tra- dition and best practices with a bit of the avant garde, Olsen-Harbich credits Cor- ON SENECA WINE TRAIL nell with providing him with the scientific training to allow him to push creativity WINERY & VINEYARD within the proper framework. “Much of what I do is somewhat frowned upon by the academic establishment—the use of indigenous yeasts, minimal intervention, and filtration, to name a few,” he says. “That being said, the chemistry and biolo- gy of the process is empirical and impor- tant to understand as one goes deeper into the craft.” GREAT BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY! Owned by the film executive and art Working Winery, Vineyard collector Michael Lynne, Bedell and its sis- & Restaurant ter winery, Corey Creek Vineyards, encom- Tasting room, boutique, restaurant, pass seventy-eight acres in Cutchogue and banquet room & party terrace Southold that yield approximately 10,000 with view of Seneca Lake • 18 acres with fully productive vines cases of wine annually. In addition to re- • 17 acres suitable for more planting ceiving recognition for the quality of its • Good retail & wholesale distribution wines—the 2007 Musée recently set a new record for Long Island reds with an award of 91 points from Wine Spectator maga- zine—Bedell is a longstanding leader in the sustainable viticulture movement on Long Island and helped author the re- $995,000 gion’s sustainability guidelines. Call for our latest inventory! — Stacey Shackford Mel Russo, Lic. Real Estate Broker/Owner Stacey Shackford is a staff writer at CALS. 315-246-3997 or 315-568-9404 This article first appeared in the January 2011 [email protected] issue of Ezra Update. Used by permission. www.senecayuga.com

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A BOOST FOR NEW YORK WINES Wine and vine experts receive $1.3 million for research

npredictable rainfall, overly fertile soils, new varieties, and a young industry— these are but some Uof the challenges in producing quality wine in the eastern United States. Cornell has been awarded $1.3 million to address these problems in East Coast vineyards, wineries, and tasting rooms as part of a $3.8 million grant from the federal Spe- cialty Crops Research Initiative (SCRI). “This grant gives us the opportunity to collaborate with more than thirty of our colleagues to tackle the issues most important to the eastern U.S. wine indus- try,” says Anna Katharine Mansfield, as- sistant professor of enology and grant New York Wine Trails Hospitality and Services co-investigator. “We hope that our work New York Wine and Grape Foundation Bed & Breakfast of Greater Ithaca will lead to enhanced sustainability and www.newyorkwines.org www.BBIthaca.com economic vitality for the industry and help us understand consumer attitudes Cayuga Wine Trail Campus-toCampus about regional wine.” www.cayugawinetrail.com www.c2cbus.com SCRI grants are notable for their man- Keuka Lake Wine Trail Cayuga Lake Cruises date to address complex problems in neg- www.CayugaLakeCruises.com www.keukawinetrail.com lected crops using interdisciplinary Seneca Lake Winery Association Cornell Orchards research. Accordingly, this large effort led www.senecalakewine.com www.hort.cornell.edu/orchards by Virginia Tech enlisted Cornell viticul- turists, enologists, plant pathologists, econ- Canandaigua Wine Trail www.cornellpress.cornell.edu www.canandaiguawinetrailonline.com omists, and extension specialists for CUVÉE projects affecting New York State and be- Lake Erie Wine Trail www.sce.cornell.edu yond, starting with the soil beneath the www.lakeeriewinecountry.org vines. “In the northeastern United States, Ithaca Farmers Market Niagara Wine Trail www.ithacamarket.com soils that are high in organic matter and www.uncorkanaturalwonder.com excessive rainfall can cause problematic Northside Wine & Spirits Lake Ontario Wine Trail vine vigor, resulting in high production www.northsidewine.com www.lakeontariowinetrail.com costs and reduced fruit quality,” says Jus- Senecayuga Properties Thousand Islands Wine Trail tine Vanden Heuvel, assistant professor of www.senecayuga.com www.thousandislandsseaway horticulture. “We will be testing the effec- winetrail.com Triphammer Wine & Spirits tiveness of cover crops to slow the growth www.triphammerwines.com Shawangunk Wine Trail of shoots, resulting in higher quality fruit.” (Hudson Valley) Vanden Heuvel will also work with www.shawangunkwinetrail.com horticulture professors Ian Merwin, PhD Dutchess Wine Trail ’90, and Alan Lakso to dissect how light (Hudson Valley) and temperature affect grape flavors and www.dutchesswinetrail.com aromas—from bitter to fruity—in Riesling Long Island Wine Council and Cabernet Franc. Plant pathology pro- www.liwines.com fessor Wayne Wilcox will look at the cor-

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responding effects on disease incidence, so the project will produce comprehen- sive cultural recommendations appropri- ate to a grower’s climate and target wine style. In addition, Lakso and colleagues from other universities will use modeling to develop decision-making tools for vine- yard managers, from identifying good matches between a potential site and grape variety to how much crop they can ripen in a particular vineyard. Mansfield’s wine research will focus on the varieties and production methods common to the region. The ultimate goal is to develop recommendations that will improve wine quality through appropriate fruit processing. She will experiment with winemaking techniques to minimize the flaws in wines made from red hybrid grapes—the low tannins and phenolics that can make them seem thin on the tongue—and enhance the signature aro- mas of such regional whites as Riesling, Traminette, and Gewurztraminer. “Ultimately, consumers will decide the future of the East Coast wine industry,” says Brad Rickard, assistant professor of applied economics and marketing. “The economic component of the project will help to pinpoint the target consumers for East Coast wines and understand how they would respond to various marketing strategies.” Rickard’s goal is to experiment with different advertising approaches to see how they influence consumers’ inter- est in—and willingness to pay for—wines made in the eastern United States. Several Finger Lakes vineyards—in- cluding Hosmer, Anthony Road, Bedient, Swedish Hill, and Lamoreaux Landing— are collaborating by donating fruit or vineyard space. And during the five years of the project, the entire New York wine industry can expect to see new online re- sources funded by the grant. Extension associates Jodi Creasap-Gee, PhD ’06, Chris Gerling ’99, MS ’06, and Hans Walter- Peterson will translate the research find- ings for growers and winemakers, with new how-to videos, podcasts, e-bulletins, and regular updates on the team’s re- search results on the Cornell viticulture and enology outreach website: http://grapesandwine.cals.cornell.edu/cals/ grapesandwine/outreach/index.cfm. — Amanda Garris

Amanda Garris, PhD ’04, is a freelance writer based in Geneva. This article first appeared in the Cornell Chronicle Online, January 17, 2011. Used by permission.

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