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1999 SPRING VOLUME 86. NUMBER 2

Telluride Association President i a+ $i ~~m~z- Telluride House circa 1912, and McGraw Tower 1996. On July 7,1911, the Telluride Constitution was completed and signed, bringing with it the prescription that the Association should convene annually to assess its progress, renew its mission, and set new goals. Thus, for eighty-seven years, our mem- bers have met to review the work of a year gone by and to chart the course of the one to come. On June 10, as the voice of the desert melds with the campanile chime, we will take up this challenge once more. . . . continued on mctpage

Alumni Notes

Corneil Branch Community Service Projects Cornell Branch Graduates

Deep Springs Main Building Renovation Summer Program Scholarship Winners

SPRING 1999 TELLURIDE NEWSLETTER 1 PHOTO: CONVENTION 1990 AERIAL VIEW PHOTO: CAROL OWEN AND JON PEASE DURING 1990 CONVENTION WITHIN OLD SHELL obse~ations,drawn from various will progress a bit more toward writings by and about L.L. Nunn, as to becoming such a trustee. In the By L. Jackson Newell, DS56 There are many small tasks to be the principles on which Association meantime, we will practice by being President of accomplished in preparation: commit- members might productively reflect. good trustees of . . tee preference forms to be completed, reports to be written, and plane tickets Our founder's goal, in creating the In practical terms, this year, that If you had awakened at Deep Springs this morning after to be purchased. There are at least two educational institutions that were his means reviewing our established an absence of a year or more, you would have blinked as large ones, as we expect to purchase the life's best work, was to provide his projects and planning their continued you gazed at the Main Building. It appears just as you site for our Michigan Branch and to students opportunities to seek "the success. It means meeting the mem%rs remembered it, but on closer examination you notice the select an administrative director eternal moral truths of the universe" - of the pilot branch of Telluride Associa- stucco and paint are both fresh, and there is neither a crack between now and June 10. Yet, as not merely so that we might know tion at the University of Michigan, and nor a sag in the great beam over the front porch. A closer important as these tasks are, they these truths, but so that we might live working with them on the inaugural look reveals graceful porches on the north and south ends should not overshadow the more vital them. In his vision, as we searched for Branch project (which, like its succes- of the building, large windows where high little ones once PHOTOS: (ABOVE) MAlN BUILDING AT DEEP SPRING TAKEN IN 1971; (BELOW) preparation of individually refreshing those truths, we would learn temper- sors, will address the concept and illuminated the library, and skylights dotting the roof from MAlN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION IN PROGRESS. 1999. our sense of Nunnian purpose before ance, loyalty, charity, and courage. We practice of governance in the broader end to end. Walk up on the front porch, open the freshly we convene as a body. If we do not would marry the ideal with the society). It means examining proposals varnished old door, and you blink twice. The Main Room approach our Convention with this practical, and find "hard work for head by the Custodians, the A.dvances-in-Aid is seven feet wider and the ceiling rises from both sides to sense, we will fail to make the most of a and hand." We would grow wise, and Audit Officers, and the Risk a pair of beams across the middle. To the right of the old vital opportunity to transmit our valuing knowledge not for its own sake Management and Personnel Commit- fireplace and mantle, a door leads outside to a small institutional values to our younger but for what we could accomplish with tees to determine what directions we courtyard. Down the south hallway, the office is generally members and associates. it. We would find a way to make should take in those areas. And, as you remember it, but when you reach the old library practical that which to others seemed perhaps, it means conducting our final things are different. You find the classroom is in the Telluride Newsletter Many of you make a practice of only visionary. Ultimately, Nunn Ithaca Convention for this millennium, corner now (big windows on south and west exposures), and a student committee room, two faculty offices, and Thls publicatton Is produced two tlmes a year In Ithaca, rereading our Constitution and other believed, we would dedicate ourselves as we expect to have the facilities for an . Submit news. letten, or comments lo: institutional writings in preparation for unselfishly to lives of sewice. Ann Arbor Convention in 2000. two guests rooms fill the David Mossner Memorial addition of the 1970s. Go back through the Main Room Edltor, Tellurlde Assoclatlon. 21 7 West Avenue, Ithaw. New Convention, and you will find your Regardless of which details we spend York 14850 [email protected]. source of inspiration there. Others, These are among the most four days discussing in June, I look and open the doors to the north wing and the beautiful new library unfolds in front of you, along with the Eonm - C.A. Carlron. and G. Bradley Mmondson however, have asked if I would distill important principles that inform the forward to continuing the pursuit of MWGINGEMOR - Nowfood Andrews some of Telluride's principles into work of Telluride Association. To be a my Nunnian education with you. relocated post office, bookstore, computer room, and Paooucnm Mwca- Cynthia EsteSmlth archive. Thanks to the visionary LL Nunn, LLC partner- COMRIWTORS- Nowfood Andrews. C.A. Carlson, Thornas Newsletter form in order to provide a part of the Association is to be commit- Hawks, Jack Newell, and Carol Owen starting point for your reflections. ted to the task of embodying them - of ship with Telluride Association, Deep Springs' Main PHOTOGRAPHCRFDKS - Raven Hall, Usa Moynlhan. Matthew Although it would be impossible to becoming a "trustee of the country's Building is nearly ready to serve students for another Trall, and the TA Archi~es capture all that Telluride means in a welfare." On June 10, we will meet in century. It will be rededicated at our 82nd Anniversary A publication of Tellurlde Association few sentences, I offer the following Ithaca with the hope that each of us Reunion on Labor Day weekend. Telluriders and Deep Springs are all invited to attend.

- - 2 TELLURIDE NEWSLETTER SPRING 1999 SPRING 1999 TELLURIDE NEWSLETTER 3 MICHIGAN PILOT BRANCH TAKES SHAPE PHOTOS: (LEFI) THE NEW MICHIGAN BRANCH AT 1735 WASHTENAW, IN ANN ARBOR. (BELOW) MBPRC CHAIR LARS WULFF. By Thomas Hawks, SP85 CB86 TA87 Michigan Project Director

The past six months in Ann Arbor have faculty of the 1999 Michigan TASP, matic mission between the two been among the most productive ones Janet Hart and David Frye. Joining Branches, and signaled an encouraging for Telluride since the Association these guests were an assortment of TA beginning to inter-Branch relations. As decided to found a new Branch here at members - Carol Owen, Jessica the open house drew to a close, many the University of Michigan. The past Cattelino, Lars Wulff, Marilyn Migiel, enthusiastic students promised to seven years of committee reports and David Porter, and Denis Clark. By the submit applications and the visiting Convention debates have begun, at end of the evening, new friendships trustees left town expecting great last, to take on flesh for concrete, as the had been struck up and several old things from the applicant pool. case may be), and to involve both new acquaintances re-established. Many of and older generations of Telluriders. us remember the January reception as As it turned out, they were not As many TA members have remarked one of the most pleasant Telluride disappointed. We received more than to me, one of the most gratdying duties we had undertaken in some forty strong applications for the 8-10 aspects the past year has been to watch time, and we are grateful to the available places in the Pilot Branch and the Michigan Branch intrigue alumni, Livermores for opening their home to MBIC returned to Ann Arbor during- administriators and students who are us. We look fo&ard tireuniting this the weekend of March 12-14 to encountering it for the first time. As group early next year in the new interview a group of 16 finalists. After quickly the familiar rhythms of occupancy up to 70 people, possesses new faces appear in our meetings, the Branch. a lengthy day of interviewing, MBIC Telluride debate asserted themselves in large meeting rooms and dining PREFERMENT Michigan Branch begins to take on a selected 8 students as Pilot the deliberations of the Pilot Branch. facilities and a few well-appointed life of its own, which is, of course, By the weekend of the reception, branchmembers, one of whom de- public rooms. It appears to be entirely The Association Committees what its planners have hoped for all Pilot Branch recruitment was begin- clined our offer in order to study As the Pilot Branch was taking suitable to Telluride's use even in the charged with the selection along. ning in earnest as well. The day abroad. During the remainder of the shape, MBPRC was also having success absence.of any renovations. Still, of preferment recipients this following the party at the Livermores', weekend, MBIC met in intensive at last locating a building to house the MBPRC is currently working to create winterannounce are pleasedthe following to In January, we inaugurated the 50 University of Michigan students sessions with the Pilot Branch. Almost Michigan Branch. 1735 Washtenaw, a a renovation plan that will make the new year in grand style with a recep- found time on a rainy Sunday after- the entirety of Sunday was spent 17,600 square foot sorority, went on the house more attractive and better winners: tion for local alumni, friends and noon to attend the first Telluride open brainstorming ideas for next year's market in late December, the first time tailored to Telluride students. this prospective students graciously hosted house on the U-M campus. Several of Pilot Branch project, then debating and i a house size had been listed in the CORNELL BRANCH by Nancy and Shaw Livermore the reception attendees spoke to voting on those ideas. The committee I campus neighborhoods since 1992. Planning for the new house is, in (SPF64). Several generations of interested students, and MBIC was and I realized at some point Sunday MPBRC's negotiations were successful, fact, proceeding on a number of fronts. ACADEMIC YEAR 1999-2000 Nunnians attended, ranging from Paul especially lucky to have Raven Hall, a afternoon that we were watching the 1 and we successfully closed on the After MBPRC purchased the house at Todd (CB39 TAG), Roy Pierce @SO current CBTA member, on hand to first housemeeting of the Michigan property on May 13, with the blessings 1735 Washtenaw, TASP Board decided CB46) and Richard Ament (CBGG) to recruit U-M students. Raven's visit Branch, and we were impressed and of the City, the sellers and the neigh- to move the 1999 Michigan TASP from CORNELLCAMPUS Amina Omari fSP98 CB991 and the represented, I think, the first diplo- concerned in eclual parts at how i bors. Unlike our previous candidates, rented rooms in the Oxford Conference Jason Stockmann the former Alpha k Delta house at Center to the new, permanent Telluride 1735 Washtenaw is zoned for student House. P hrthis summer's TASP DEEPSPRINGS COLLGE concludes, MBIC plans to Graeme Wood use the house as a base for next year's Pilot Branch activities. Pilot Branch MICHIGAN BRANCH members will gather weekly in the house for meetings, ACADEMIC YEARS 1 999-2001 lectures and seminars. Even before the first student moves in, we hope that the MICHIGANCAMPUS Telluride House will make a Emily Ahonen name for itself on campus, Brian DeBosch and that this reputation will Joseph Koo prepare the way for the Rashad Nelms launch of the Branch in the Sarah Nelson fall of 2000. Courtney Rae Rawls Joseph Sosa** Seth Yalcin

** I998 TASPer who accepted fall PHOTO: (FROM LEFT) SETH YALCIN. DIANE THOMPSON. AND SARAH preferment scholarship. PHOTO: SHAW AND NA~~yLIVERMORE HOSTEDTHE PHOTO: FROM LEFI. JESSICA CAllELINO, RAE RAWLS. AMANDA LIllAUER. AND JOE KOO. NELSON. JANUARY RECEPTION FOR AREA FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES

1999 4 TELLURIDE NEWSLHTER SPRING 1999 (1. SPRING TELLURIDE NEWSLHTER 5 initiate a service project in the Ithaca area. Telluride Association decided that both the award and the project should exist, and separate funds were set aside for This Three seniors and one Lincoln Scholar Screw." Outside of class, Jose has been Senior Julia Watts has also been an I a group service project. spring, the House's ambition to get involved with will be leaving Telluride House in May, a member of MEChA (Movimiento active member of the Cornell commu- the community took the form of two official projects. as their time at Cornell comes to an end Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan), the nity. A College Scholar studying and they start on the next phase of their Chicano/Latino student association at religion and social change, Julia has lives. For ea~h,~lifeafter the House Cornell. When Jose looks back at his spent three years working with Peer Housemember Raven Hall was upon their schedules. The House has cient for honoring their friend's life. will give them a chance to follow the time in the House, he says his favorite Educators in Human Relations, a already a volunteer at the Beverly J. donated its three used Macintosh The garden will allow them to plant a interests and concerns which have memories will include bartending at student-directed group that holds anti- Martin After School Program, and her computers to the school, setting up an flower and a marker commemorating shaped their time under Telluride's faculty parties, "pool table proscras- oppression workshops for students and experience with the school, which Internet connection and encouraging their friend, making sure that the roof. tination," and late-night t.v. with fellow staff. She's also served as a board serves the residents of Ithaca's low- the students to participate in a nation- memory of that person remains part of housemember Tim Mitin. Harvard Law member for United Pagan Ministries' income housing area, convinced her wide email penpal program. Lakeside's communal life." When the Along with her M.A. in modem is his destination in the fall, but the and for Cornell United Religious Work, that Cornell Branch could provide some Housemembers have also worked with Ithaca spring permits, a group of European history, Sophie Handler is summer will be spent in New York worked with the LGBT Coalition, and important support and activities for the students on writing stories which will housemembers will go out to Lakeside finishing the second of her two years at City, eating sushi, dancing salsa, and facilitated Dialogue, a gay spirituality children, ages 4 to 11, who attend the be collected at the end of the project. to assist residents in the garden- the House as part of the graduate interning at a law firm. interfaith discussion group. In the I afterschool program. Working with The most visible sign of Telluride's digging, planting, and purchasing exchange program with Lincoln fall, she's off to Berkeley to study at I the program directors, Hall came up work with the afterschool program is a flowers needed to establish the site. College at Oxford. Her field of Rosten Woo's post-graduation Starr King School for the Ministry, a with a proposal that would allow mural, created with the children, specialty is French history, and her plans will also take him to New York. Unitarian seminary that is 'part of the I housemembers to participate as painted on the wall of one of the At different times in the history of thesis addresses narrative and cultural The former Deep Springs student has a Graduate Theological Union, to get an individuals or in groups, depending program's rooms. The culmination of Cornell Branch, community service has dimensions of the Dreyfus affair. She fellowship with the Common Ground M.Div. in Community Ministry. How these activities was a party for the held different ranks in the list of values speaks warmly about her years in the group in the city. He will be working does Julia recall the &ne that she has children at Telluride House, celebrating that the House encourages, and it has House and wiil be extendkg her stay a Times square homeless shelter, spent in the Telluridean community? everything that was accomplished been defined in many ways. With the for one summer, working as one of the doing labor market research and Although she's graduating after only during the project and the newly- opportunities offered by these projects, potwashers at the Cornell TASPs. designing a job training program for three years, she say, "They were packed formed relationships between the service - defined as engagement with the residents. The work is a natural ones, and full of great memories... I housemembers and the Beverly J. the world immediately around us -has Jose Talavera describes himself as outgrowth of his studies and experi- came to Cornell largely on account of Martin students. become, once again, an important part a "lifer." An alum of the 1994 St. John's ences at Cornell. A major, the House, which, since I've lived in of House life. Hall says, "The most TASP, he has spent all four of his Rosten has worked with the Cornell wonderful houses with fabulous folks, Housemember Martha Case has successful aspect of the project has been Cornell years in Telluride House. His Organization for Labor Action (COLA), I've never regretted." also initiated a group service project getting housemembers to participate in academic life, which has included and he has volunteered at the Tompkins this spring, this time assisting older the greater Ithaca community. Occa- courses in French, English, and Latino County Jail. In his spare time, he's community members. Last fall, the sionally, we get so caught up in Cornell literatures, is culminating this spring picked up spare change by working as Lakeside Nursing Home started a and Telluride that we forget about the with an honors thesis critiquing a photographer at frat parties and PHOTOS: (LEFT) JULIA WATTS; (ABOVE CENTER) JOSE Memorial Garden. Case says, "Often local community. And we're not done psychoanalytic interpretations of the giving sociological surveys (not, we TALAVERA. ADRIAN ALVAREZ. AND SOPHIE HANDLER: residents lose someone close to them, yet. I think that once we've completed (RIGHT) ROSTEN WOO WITH FRIEND MINDY PEDEN. Henry James novella "The Turn of the believe, simultaneously). and they can't attend the funeral, or the project, we'll know how much of an they feel that the funeral is not suffi- effect it's had on the House."

6 TELLURIDE NEWSLHlER SPRING 1999 ! SPRING 1999 TELLURIDE NEWSLHlER 7 He is chair of the philosophy depart- knows no bounds, as can be seen at position against incumbent Dennis Public Health of Columbia University. ment at the Metropolitan State College http J/www.inch.com/-joannawl I Vacco in 1998. She's going to school part-time and PARK HONAN, DSQ6, writes, "I'm a of Denver. He also reports that his stig.htm1." working full-time at Project Reach slow writer, despite E.M. (Johnny) (former) stepson, CHRIS FLINK, SP91, TARA SMITH (nee Shannon), SP86 Youth where she coordinates a preg- Johnson's fine tutorials at Deep Springs, is attending Reed College. CB87 TA88, and SHEPARD SMlTH, nancy prevention program for teenag- DS88 CB90 TA91, announce the birth of ers from Red Hook. 1991 Williams but after ten years of research I've I published with Oxford University Press CYNTHIA CUPPLES, SP8O CB81 TA85, a daughter, Morgan Kathleen, on TASPers can reach her at the biography Shakespeare: A Life. I'm successfully defended her doctoral I January 21,1999 (7 lbs, 12 ozs). [email protected]. also indebted to Si and Eunice STEVE HEYMAN, SP75 TA79, AND dissertation, '"Ames &Elite1: Visionar- Whitney's play-reading evenings and to ALISON 'KATE' BALDWIN, SP77 ies and Politics in France from the Holy I DEREK JACKSON, SP88, is working at HAVOC PENNINGTON, SP93, has the stimulus and friendship of Deep CB78 TA81, announce the birth of their Catholic League to the reign of Louis I the NAACP Legal Defense Fund as a graduated with honors from the Springers. Elected a Fellow of the son, Andrew Baldwin Heyman, on XIV" at Princeton University on March legal assistant. University of Chicago, and is living and Royal Society of Literature, I've just November 29,1998 (8 lbs, 9 ozs). 11, 1999. working in Chicago. talked to the Society in London on STEPHEN FIX, CB74 TA75, was 'How to Write a Life of Shakespeare,' a JOANNA WISSINGER, SP77, writes VICTORIA KUOHUNG, SP86, married Indiana University professors and named the Robert G. Scott '68 Profes- cheeky enough title." that "After five years of freelancing, I law school classmate, Raymond 1 DANIEL GURVICH, SP90, completed former TASS faculty, YVETTE ALEX- sor of English at Williams College this took a corporate job (with Buck Nomizu, in December 1997. She lives his masters in Vocal Performance from ASSENSOH, and A. B. ASSENSOH, spring. President of the College Consultants), had a baby, quit the in Chicago and welcomes 1986 Chicago the opera department at Boston both SPF97, published books last Harry C. Payne said, "Mr. Scott chose corporation and am now working for a TASPers to look her up at ! University and a fellowship at the summer. Yvette's book, entitled to designate his generous gft to MARTIN PEARLMAN, SP62 CB63 small internet marketing company, [email protected]. 1 Tanglewood Music Center. He is now Neighborhoods, Family, and Political recognize a member of the faculty FreeRide Media, as senior writer. My 1 Behavior in Urban America was pub- TA67, received a second Grammy I perfonning lead roles with the touring who has shown exceptional distinc- lished by Garland Publishers, and A. nomination for a recording of the husband Paul Mann and I are happily RICHARD BAUM, SP86 CB87 TA88, I National Opera Company which is tion in teaching and senrice to the Monteverdi Vespers with Boston settled in Brooklyn, just having moved divides his time between Brooklyn and i based in Raleigh, N.C. Fellow TASPers: B.'s book, Afncan Political Leadership: community. Throughout his 20-year Baroque, his orchestra and chorus. to Windsor Terrace, accompanied by Albany, New York as Chief of Staff for he would love to hear from you at 9191 Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah, and tenure at Williams, Professsor Fix has Earlier in the seabn, they gave the our darling toddler, Thompson Charles New York State Attorney General, Eliot I 828-2539. Julius K. Nyerere, was published by shown precisely that level of distinc- modern world premiere performance Waveney Wissinger-Mann, a.k.a. Tom, Spitzer. Rich managed then-candidate Krieger Publishers. The couple are tion." and recording of The Philosopher's Stone, born July 29,1997. His adorability Spitzer's successful campaign for the MARIE SEGARES, SP91, is in the MPH pleased to announce the birth of their Fix lived at the Cornell Branch an overa recently found to include program at the Mailman School of second child, a son, on April 20,1998. of Telluride Association as a ~aduate music by Mozart. student in the Department of~n~lish; he received his Ph.D. in 1980. During WILLIAM WALLACE, CB62, writes his time at Cornell, he was recog- that the keynote speech given at a nized twice for his teaching with the conference on Gender and Interna- Martin Simpson Teaching Award. He tional Relations at the London School joined the Williams College faculty in of Economics last September was 1979, sewed as dean of the college given by GAYATRI CHAKRAVARTI from 1985 to 1992, and chaired the SPIVAK, CB63 CBG86, who is now Department of English from 1994 to Avalon Professor of Humanities at 1998. He also helped to found and Columbia University. "Gayatri made oversee the highly successful and number of references in her speech to fondly remembered Williams TASP the intellectual atmosphere in which program which ran for over ten American universities approached years, from 1982 to 1993. 'area studies' and international He is currently at work on two relations outside the Atlantic area in projects which reflect his area of the early 1960s-the experience we scholarly expertise: a teaching had shared at Cornell, as seen from anthology of the works of Samuel Telluride." Johnson to be published by Yale University Press; and a book titled TIMOTHY GOULD, SP64, recently Samuel Johnson's Terror, a study about published Hearing Things: Voice and how literary encounterswith terror, Method in the Writingof Stanley Cave11 fear, and other forms of psyhic (University of Chicago Press, 1998). dislocation shaped Johnson's critical values. PHOTO: CORNELL BRANCHMEMBERS DAVID "PETE" WILDES, AND NICOLE BLUMNER AT THE APPLE HARVEST FESTIVAL PHOTO:CORNELL'S ARTS QUA>HOUSEMEMBERS [FROMLEFT: TIM MITIN, NNEKA JACKSON,JULIA WATTS, AND DAVID Williams College Press Release HELD ON THE ITHACA COMMONS EVERY FALL. "PETE" WILDES) MAKE THEIR WAY BACK TO CORNELL BRANCH FOLLOWING AN OUTING TO THE PLANTATION'S HERB CIAKUtNS.- --- - I 8 TELLURIDE NEWSLmER SPRING 1999 I SPRING 1999 TELLURIDE NEWSLmER 9 * I

SUMMERPROGRAM SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

1999 TASP 1999 TASS Cornell 1-Jews, Christians, and Muslims: Scriptures, Indiana University-Law, Race, and Society: Interpretive Traditions, and the Cultural Imagination Demythologizing Common Notions of Legal Order IN MA4ORlAM Church, Candace - Kirkland, WA Adu-Brako, Omane-Hoffman Estates, a Johnson, Alisha -Suisun, CA Becton, Stephen- Inkster, MI Lehrman, Maggie -Western Springs, IL. Brown, Devin- Nashville, TN MEREDITH "FLASH GOURDINE, CB50, passed away on Martinez, Albert-Hayden, ID Bruce, Yaa - Painted Post, NY Friday, November 20,1998 in Houston, Texas. He was Mays, John- Birmingham, AL Epps, Melvin- Minneapolis, MN sixty-nine years old. He was born in Newark, New Jersey Morello, Matthew -Worcester, MA Ford, VoNique - Rockford, IL. in 1929 and attended , graduating in 1953 Morgan, Maggie -Tupelo, MS Johnson, Khadigah-Cincinnati, OH with a degree in engineering physics. As his nickname Muzyka, Dan-Grove City, OH Redfield 111, Jerry-Homewood, IL suggests, he was an outstanding athlete and garnered many Rosenberg, Jessica - Merion Station, PA Saintil, Keisha -Evanston, IL individual titles in track and field competitions while at Shere, Nicholas - Oakland, CA Savage TI, Richard-Hyde Park, MA Cornell. He won a silver medal in the long jump competi- Sobolski, Gregory- Chicago, IL. Shambley, DeWayne -Springheld, IL. tion during the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. Stringer, Deborah- Williamsville, NY Stuckey, Everett- St. Louis, MO Vara, Vauhini- Mercer Island, WA Walker, Erica - Louisville, KY Following graduation he sewed as an officer in the Wachsmuth, David - Toronto, CANADA Whiting, Courtney - Louisville, KY U.S. Navy. In 1960, while on a Guggenheim Fellowship, he Warren, Previn -Huntington Beach, CA Williams, Darin - Grand Blanc, MI earned a Ph.D. in engineering science from Caltech. Wheeler, Jessica- Rockville, MD He worked for four years in private industry before Cornell 2-Poets, Historians, and other Liars THANK YOU starting Gourdine Systems, a research and development Blecher, Joel- Oberlin, OH ... firm. In 1966, the U.S. Department of the Interior awarded De Leon, Edymari - Brooklyn, NY to all 66 associates who helped interview summer Gourdine a grant to develop large-scale electric power Galindo, Daniel - Oak Ridge, TN program candidates in 1999. plants based on a process of generating electricity directly Gurvich, Rachel- Cary, NC Andrews, Nonvood from heat (burning coal or oil). Gourdine and a pilot project Javanmardian, Kiarash -Naperville, IL. Aukerman, Miriam were featured in a 1966 Wall Street Journal article, which Morey, Kathleen- Idaho Falls, ID Kobes, Deborah obsewed that ditect energy conversion "would eliminate Pames, Nydia - Cleveland Heights, OH Littauer, Amanda costly boilers and steam turbine generators now used to Phillips, Christopher - Atlanta, GA power plans, and thus would end the plants' dependence He is survived by his wife, Carolina; his son, and three Plunkett, David -Ann Arbor, MI on water. As such, it would mean power plants not longer daughters from a previous mamage; five grandchildren, Ponoroff, Christopher - New Orleans, LA Marder, Michael would have to be built near rivers, lakes or other water and a sister. Price, Alma - Madison, WI Meek, Emi supplies." In 1973, he started a new company, Energy Sternad, Jennifer- Lakewood, CO Innovations, which produced direct energy conversion Nestor, Amy Suguri, Henrique -Sao Paulo, BRAZIL. O'Connor, Patrick devices. He was chief executive there until his death. In Truszkowska, Natalia - Niskayuna, NY October 1994 he was inducted into the Engineering and Wallaert, Matthew - Cheshire, OR Science Hall of Fame. Weinberg, Dara- Woodland Hills, CA Former Lincoln Scholar, DOUGLAS MALCOLM Gourdine was among the first African American ALEXANDER, CB60, passed away on July 1,1998 in University of MichigawPeople in Movement Reynolds, Patrick residents of Cornell Branch, where he lived from 1950 to Worcester, England. He was born in Hong Kong in 1937 I Aleman, Diana - Northfield, MA Rosenblum, Warren 1953. In the early 1960s, he helped the Association recruit and lived in Singapore and England. He attended Lincoln Blasdel, Alexander -San Francisco, CA minority applicants for the Telluride Association .Summer College and in 1960 came to Cornell and Telluride House as Blecher, Jacob- Oberlin, OH Programs. After a visit to the Branch a short time later, he the Lincoln Scholar. Bruce, Afua - Painted Post, NY I Del Castillo, Melissa- Del Rio, TX He joined the firm March & Edwards, solicitors in Dewar, Charlotte - Middle Haddam, CT Worcester in 1966 where he practiced law until he died. He i Evans, Danielle - Fairfax, VA mamed Linde Angermeyer (Cornell B.A. 1961) and they Fraley, Carl- New York, NY Stewart-Winter, Tim Following the takeover of in had two children; a son, Alastair Martin (197l) and daugh- Graunke, Kristi 1969, he was elected to Cornell's Board of Trustees. Mrs. ter, Hildegarde Elizabeth (1972). I Gutierrez Hermoso, Jordi-Naucalpan, MEXICO Lekic, Vedran-Glen Cove, NY Swanson, Eric MacLeod wrote in her letter of congratulations, "I wish you Mater, Alexa -Portland, OR Thompson, Diane had had more chance to talk with members of the current His widow writes that in addition to his work, he had Mroczkowski, Ian-Bethesda, MD Hawks, Thomas Trail, Matthew Branch-who represent quite a spectrum of views on the an abiding interest in music, particularly opera; historical I Oster, Lily- Raleigh, NC Tregaskis, Sharon state of Cornell following the spring disruptions. We were and political biography; golf; and carpentry. He enjoyed a I Saranchak, Robert- New York, NY I Isenstadt, Ernie pretty close to the pulse of things -partly, of course, because quiet family life that included a family holiday in his Sarkar, Manideepa- Edison, NJ of having Ed Whitfield in the House. The concern of house beloved Scotland during the final month of his life. Thompson, Ian-Salt Lake City, UT members was deeply serious, whatever their viewpoints." Webb, Nicholas -Harrison, NY Willinger, Jana-New York, NY

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