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Overrated? Duncan Watts, PhD ’97, on why the Mona Lisa may not be all it’s cracked up to be

Inside: Celebrating Reunion 2013 Dealing with deer

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September/October 2013 Volume 116 Number 2 In This Issue Corne Magazine Alumni 2 From David Skorton Going online 4 The Big Picture Holy cows! 6 Correspondence An activist reflects 10 Letter from Rwanda Art therapy 12 From the Hill State Street goes modern 44 16 Sports Hall of famers 20 Authors 2001: An NYC odyssey 42 Wines of the Finger Lakes Lakewood Vineyards 2012 Dry Riesling 56 Classifieds & Cornellians in Business 57 Alma Matters 50 22 60 Class Notes 95 Alumni Deaths 44 It’s Complicated 96 Cornelliana War and remembrance BETH SAULNIER

As the saying goes: “It’s only common sense.” But for Duncan Watts, PhD ’97, common sense isn’t a dependable source of folksy wisdom—in fact, it can be reductive Currents and even dangerous. In Everything Is Obvious, Once You Know the Answer, the sociologist and network theorist explores “the wisdom and madness of crowds.” The newly minted A. D. White Professor-at-Large argues that complex problems 22 Let’s Get Together like financial crises require equally complex answers—and sophisticated analysis— More from Reunion 2013 and that the popularity of everything from the Mona Lisa to Harry Potter can essentially be termed a fluke. “Your intuition,” he says, “is always misleading you into Fit the Bill thinking you understand things that you don’t.” Tipping points The Talking Cure Fighter for the First Amendment 50 The Buck Stops Here Hospitality, Sweet SHARON TREGASKIS ’95 Classmates design luxe hotels It may be hard for modern suburbanites to believe that white-tailed deer were once Handle with Care so rare, their sightings merited newspaper headlines. These days, with developments Cornell’s scientific glassblower encroaching into what were once woodlands, humans and deer come into constant The Unkindest Cut conflict—leading to car accidents, enraged gardeners, and bitter disputes over how Battling a barbaric practice to deal with the ubiquitous herbivores. At Cornell, researchers are addressing this cloven-hooved conundrum, aiming to set standards for proper management—and Prepare for the Worst to broker peace between bipeds and their four-footed neighbors. Coping with disaster Plus | Speak! Website E. B. White on dogs cornellalumnimagazine.com The Mona Lisa / The Louvre Museum

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From David Skorton

New Opportunities and Challenges in Online Education

irtual learning communities, as Jim Roberts ’71 The Cornell–Queen’s Executive MBA program in the John- noted in the July/August 2013 issue, are as old son School and a distance-learning master’s degree in systems as the “University” of Bologna, which in the engineering in the College of Engineering are both designed for Veleventh century had no physical facilities, and as modern as professionals who do not want to interrupt their careers while the massive open online courses (MOOCs) that Cornell and pursuing an advanced degree. Johnson uses technology to deliver many other universities are developing to share knowledge the MBA program to small groups of students in twenty-seven with students around the world. cities in North and South America, interspersed with periods of Distance education, enabled by technology, can be offered on-campus work. The systems engineering master’s includes two entirely online or through a hybrid model that includes short but week-long, one-credit courses on campus, project work super- intense periods of learning on a college campus. Some courses vised by faculty, and online courses. The Division of Nutritional Sciences offers free online education to nutrition and health professionals worldwide via the Cornell NutritionWorks website (www.nutritionworks. cornell.edu). The offerings include a twelve-unit training course developed in collaboration with UNICEF. To date, more than 5,700 professionals from 158 countries have registered for the course, and 34 percent have received certificates of completion. Despite these activities, which are very much a part of the fabric of Cornell, until recently we have been followers in the larger movement toward MOOCs. Cornell faculty, however, have been accelerating our entry into this growing and increasingly visible sphere of teaching. Now that we have joined edX, a nonprofit consortium that provides a platform for MOOCs, distinguished faculty will develop not-for-credit CornellX MOOCs on American Capitalism; Relativity and Astrophysics; Networks, Crowds, and Markets; and Wiretaps to Big Data: Privacy and Surveillance in the Age of Complete Interconnection. What can we predict from all this interest and activity? First, Cornell will not offer bachelor’s degrees online, at least for the foreseeable future. We believe that the invaluable experience of living and learning in a diverse academic community during the undergraduate years cannot be replicated online. What we will

ROBERT BARKER / UP do is use technology—and what we learn from our online programs—to enhance on-campus education and broaden our carry college credit, while others lead to a professional certificate understanding of how students actually learn. or other credential. Some are for personal or professional enrich- At the professional master’s level, I see great potential for ment, without documentation of any kind other than a record increasing the number of programs we can offer online and the of participation. number of students we educate online. These programs can reach Cornell has been both a leader and a follower in the rapidly eager learners who want to pursue advanced degrees without changing universe of technology-enabled education. It has been interrupting their careers and can provide significant revenue to a leader through eCornell, which since 2000 has provided online the University. For example, a new ILR school master’s degree certificate programs to more than 70,000 students in more than in human resources that will combine online and on-campus edu- 200 countries around the world, in partnership with several of cation has been approved by the Board of Trustees and Faculty our colleges and schools. Last year, the Faculty Senate approved Senate and is awaiting approval at the state level. In addition, as the use of eCornell to produce for-credit courses—potentially funding permits, I see great potential to build on programs like expanding the reach of our online programs. NutritionWorks to share knowledge with those who can bene- The School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions has fit, including learners in the developing world. offered distance learning courses since 1998—when lectures for a An ad hoc faculty committee is guiding the expansion of our course in public relations and advertising were transferred to VHS online educational offerings and other possible applications of cassettes and sent to those enrolled. Acting Dean Charles Jermy technology-enabled learning to ensure that we derive maximum Jr., GR ’70–74, notes that because of the relatively asynchronous benefits from our efforts. I welcome your thoughts on distance nature of the instruction, participants can accept jobs and intern- learning and online offerings that would be of interest to you. ships while they are taking an online course, and the professor can — President David Skorton be conducting research at a distant location while teaching. [email protected] 2 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 02-03CAMso13skorton_000-000CAMJF07currents 8/15/13 10:42 AM Page 3

CRUISING THE DALMATIAN COAST

BY ELMIRA MANGUM What a grand and exciting experience! Starting in Venice, Italy, with the Biennale in full swing, cruising the Dalmatian Coast created significant memories of destinations I had known so little about. I can only think in clichés to describe the unique cities, the rich- ness of the culture, the strong traditions, and the warmth of the people. Whether it was exploring the breathtaking Krka National Park, walking under a 13th-century castle, strolling the ruins of Pula coliseum, or cruising into a narrow harbor at sunrise with mountains on every side, there was one unforgettable experience after another. It was very exciting visiting certain regions as alumni traced their ancestry, hearing their stories, and gaining an understanding of the historical significance of each region while walking through the lavender fields of coastal Croatia. I also enjoyed hearing alumni talk about their experiences at Cornell and their lives since graduating. What an independent, free- thinking, and vibrant group. Getting to know them and getting a sense of their impact around the world speaks to the quality of a Cornell education. Imagine my astonishment meeting a young woman with her family in a small church in Dubrovnik, who shared that she, too, was a Cornell graduate. She was beaming with pride. Big Red is everywhere. There was plenty to do on board and on shore, either on your own or with a group. Some chose to swim in the waters of the Adriatic Sea at almost every port. We dined with the Captain, learned at the lectures, shared knowledge, danced under the stars, and made new friends. It was perfect. The Cornell flag flew high on the mast, the pianist played Cornell songs, and our alumni sang as others listened in awe. I am honored to have shared this experience with members For more information about the Cornell of the Cornell family—remarkable in so many Alumni Association Travel Program visit: ways. I hope to see them around campus in Ithaca. www.alumni.cornell. edu/travel ELMIRA MANGUM, Vice President, Division of Budget and Finance, and recent host for the Cornell Alumni Association Travel Program 04-05CAMso13bigpic_000-000CAMJF07currents 8/15/13 10:43 AM Page 4

The Big Picture

House of Cows Cornell’s new, state-of-the-art Teaching Dairy Barn isn’t just a temple to “cow comfort”—it’s an elegantly designed facility that made the cover of the July issue of Architectural Record.

PHOTOGRAPH BY BARRY HALKIN

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Stump Speech Former student leader recalls the Vietnam War

Franklin Crawford does an outstanding LeMay) was the way to deal with the job of summarizing key points in Fredrik unwillingess of the North Vietnamese and Logevall’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, the Vietcong to accept U.S. hegemony. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire In addition, there were many members and the Making of America’s Vietnam of the U.S. military who became peace (“Doomed to Repeat It,” Currents, activists after their return to the States, July/August 2013). However, I’m com- including Ron Kovic, the former Marine pelled to ask for further reflection on who wrote Born on the Fourth of July. Crawford’s use of the quote from Coun- The current Secretary of State, John Kerry, marionettes. This transition cost the lives try Joe and the Fish in his concluding became an effective voice for peace upon of between three and four million Viet- comments. By citing the lines “And it’s his return, testifying in Congress as a namese and more than 58,000 Americans, one, two, three, what are we fighting for?/ member of Vietnam Veterans Against the as well as billions of dollars. But despite Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn—next War. My point in citing this broad range our nation’s huge investment of blood, stop is Vietnam,” the writer (as was of examples of opposition to participation tears, money, and machinery, Vietnam Country Joe McDonald) is not acknowl- in that war effort—by people who refused never was “America’s.” Sadly, after the edging that many Americans who entered conscription, as well as those whose French defeat, the American war in Viet- the military did so because they’d been thinking changed based on their experi- nam became a series of tragic losses of persuaded that fighting “communism” in ences after being drafted—is to provide a life, as veterans and historians like Pro- Vietnam represented a patriotic duty. (I significant degree of support for the con- fessor Logevall have demonstrated with almost became part of that group, as I tention that many in the military did, in exceptional effectiveness. had planned to enlist before being fact, “give a damn.” That’s why many C. David Burak ’67, MFA ’80 entreated by my high school English veterans threw their hard-earned medals Santa Monica, California teacher to apply to Cornell.) over the White House fence—they were While there is a noteworthy compo- angry about being deceived about the nent of truth to the observation that many nature of our military efforts in Vietnam. Climate Change of Heart young Americans felt “an air of poignant Finally, though Professor Logevall’s What can I say about the interview of fatalism” regarding the draft, many others book is clearly a brilliant work of schol- Elaine Wethington except that she has the felt a profound moral responsibility to arship, I am troubled by the closing words arrogance of youth (“Storms Ahead,” resist conscription. Hundreds of students of the subtitle: The Making of America’s July/August 2013)? At the age of seventy- at Cornell either acted upon this sense of Vietnam. While one may contend that I’m nine, living alone in a home whose back- ethical duty or supported those that did. missing the significance of this use of the yard is bounded by salt water and where, Nationally, one of the high-profile indi- possessive form, there is something fun- two years ago, a destructive F2 tornado viduals who refused to comply with the damentally awry in that phrase. Logevall came within 800 yards, I can say that she draft was Muhammad Ali, the controver- quotes JFK, in a November 1951 speech, certainly does not speak for me when she sial heavyweight champion. Also, as the in which he tells the Boston Chamber of writes that she prefers Ithaca over the sea- war in Vietnam continued, resistance Commerce that the Vietnamese govern- coast. To try to use the elderly as another within the military began to rock the boat. ment did not have the support of “the bludgeon in the climate change debate is No longer was there unquestioning acqui- people of that area” because it was “a condescending, especially when she advo- escence to the dictates of those who felt puppet government.” What American cates mandatory evacuations. Where that bombing Vietnam back to the Stone leaders did was take over the lease of a would I go? I’m safer in my home than Age (as was suggested by General Curtis French puppet show, using a series of new wandering storm-swept highways.

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September | October 2013 7 Diane Adkin ’71 Adkin Diane John Brophy ’53 Brophy John Camas, Washington Camas, New Canaan, Connecticut Canaan, New We We should be true to our founding It all started in 2001 when the ensem- the when 2001 in started all It Wait- Cayuga’s the 2013, Reunion At Correction—July/August 2013 Correction—July/August Vic- of photographs The 16: page Sports, toria Imbesi ’13 and Stephen Mozia ’15 should have been credited to Russ Har- error. the for apologize We tung. Objecting to Technion to Objecting David Skorton’s as campus column Tech Cornell in the to refers May/June 2013 institu- a model to create an opportunity high-tech lauds sciences, for applied tion research, and praises the effort to make City a New world York center for high- Cor- that is problem The enterprise. tech nell is partnering with Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. alumni Howknow that Technion is manya direct link to the Israeli military and that their surveil- drones, develop Israel in students weapons? and equipment, lance cut and the values ethics: ties with Tech- edu- and it a science make and true nion City. York New in complex cation as the Cayuga’s Waiters as from the Waiters the Cayuga’s Fifties entertained the returning after their reunion, sixty-years-plus own classes at graduation. in time first the for met 1953–54 from ble at years a in resort forty-seven Vermont. All of the living members—nine of the original twelve—were other present.invite to and yearly It meet to decided was in group the with sung had who members sing to invited were they Then Fifties. the at 2005 Reunion and have done so each at the performances including since, year for luncheon, CRC the show, Club Savage Night. Cornelliana at and classes, several bring to repertoire old their off dust They emotions strong and memories fond back era. that from classes the for ers from the Fifties performed for as well as ’58, and for ’53, ’48, of classes the and Ecology, Human of College the CRC, at a celebration for John Nixon ’53 (a and Lea ’53 Nixon for Waiter) Cayuga’s their contributions to remarkable that these alumni, who love Cornell. It each the trip make is to and entertain, sing someyear, from as far away as Florida and California. It is heartening that the Cayuga’s Will Waiters today. campus still on popular immensely exist and are they return to sing in sixty years? Let’s so. hope Presto, Pennsylvania Presto, We now find ourselves find now We where a in situation students graduating - tradi launch cannot start to efforts tional and homes buy careers, families. start and cars, to beholden are They loans. student The enabler for this profligacy of cost of profligacy this for enabler The I believe that one of the most irre- Robert Slagle ’62, BSChemE ’63, MBA ’64 MBA ’63, BSChemE ’62, Slagle Robert public good. Although Mr. White public seems good. Although Mr. to assume I am a youth, I am in fact an older person (age sixty-three). I am in good health and hope to retain it for at least twenty-five more years, as my parents did. Thinking about the future and translates health my protect to preparing for me into wanting more information prepared. be to how about Imagine Imagine that the Class of ’53 was enter- old of up made group singing a by tained grads singing at their first reunion, and Cayuga’s the called are they that suppose Waiters from the Nineties—the 1890s, that is. This puts into perspective what years nine past the for on going been has lated at rates higher than inflation for more than forty years. No cost control [has been] exercised by universities and colleges! So we loans. has student been escalation now find ourselves in a situation where tradi- launch cannot students graduating buy homes careers, to start efforts tional and cars, and start families. damages This loans. They student to beholden are economy. overall the sponsible outcomes of my adult life has been the failure of the higher education system to control its costs. As a society, extraordinary the pay to beginning are we canary the are MOOCs error. this of costs coalmine! the in Return Reunion Cost Control Cost The article “Forward Into the Past” is a bland treatment of a corrosive development (July/August 2013). The costs of higher education in the U.S. have esca- cornellalumnimagazine.com | Deltaville, Virginia Deltaville, Gordon Eliot White ’55 White Eliot Gordon I do not have independent knowledge independent have not do I I lived through the hurricane of Sep- I believe that protecting the health of health the protecting that I believe ble. The vast majority are capable of mak- of capable are majority vast The ble. ing their own decisions about where to live and what to do, and that also is a as to whether the climate is glacial and warming, glaciology I study did though at geology and Cornell, I am well aware inhabited first man since years the in that North America, mile-thick ice lay over Ithaca and has been receding since well Revolution. Industrial the before tember 1938 that killed 600 on Island Longand in New England, more than Galve- The Sandy. of toll death the twice ston of hurricane 1900 killed more than died who those of number the times four in Katrina, and, really, no responsible meteorologist has claimed that climate change has had or any hurricanes either effect of intensity on or quency the fre- would CAM that hope would I tornados. avoid nonsense of this sort in the future do that articles better-sourced to stick and not use senior citizens fight. as climate the in weapons involuntary Elaine White Wethington responds: Mr. my and interview, this into more read has was than change, climate about opinions I intended. did not argue that tornadoes and hurricanes are connected to climate that established not is it (Indeed, change. storms will increase if there is climate change; sea level rise seems put- more But likely scenarios.) predictive some under ting the subject of climate change aside, the fact remains effects the that to older vulnerable people, more are on average, weather, extreme and disasters natural of as rate, death greater The death. including attribut- wholly not is hurricanes, during able to living in more vulnerable areas; research studies show that other factors and physiologi- social both are involved, cal. (These are noted in the interview.) has vulnerability on average greater This been recognized by the Centers for Dis- the Ameri- and Prevention, Control ease can Association of Retired Persons, and many state and local governments that that assure to place into policies put have older people are protected. The policies are based on evidence and experience bet- include disaster—these natural after more interpretable warnings, ter, locally based evacuation dis- plans, about and people) educating older just (not everyone survival. and preparation aster Obviously, good. public a is people older not all older people are equally vulnera-

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Letter from Rwanda

The Long and Winding Road

envied the premed students their pre- cocious certainty. If the purpose of life is to find purpose, they already had Ithe answer to life’s great mystery: what are we to do with ourselves? They, like the budding engineers, bankers, and architects, seemed made of sturdier stuff—the last descendants of our fathers’ generation, capable of firm decisions and lifelong dedication. While we, the ambiva- lent and harried children of the digital age, with our short attention spans, strong opinions, and wavering convictions, took jobs that paid the bills and bought us time to think, or forestalled the decision alto- gether and went to law school. I couldn’t know then that my career would take me to Rwanda and that I’d be producing a musical here, of all the improbable things. When I graduated, I didn’t have the comfort of certainty. All I Anastasia Uglova ’05 knew was that I wanted to put my political science degree to use. It made sense to ARA NASHERA join the annual migration of interns looking to make a name for themselves in the uncover career choices one never thought tals and building schools. Civil society nation’s capital. existed. The work with GHC opened an also matters, perhaps even more so, and After jobs on Capitol Hill, I joined a array of possibilities to capitalize on my the real indicator of the health of a coun- think tank to launch its first podcast pro- talents and passions. But my prior work try is the happiness of its people. gram. Interviewing Washington personal- was not wasted time. My training in busi- My Kickstarter campaign to secure ities afforded me the opportunity to nar- ness management made me a strong can- the initial production budget received full row my own interests, so when NBC didate for a challenging job in Africa, and funding. The project was also featured in called to ask if I’d be a political producer, my policy work made me an effective Rwanda’s daily newspaper, The New I thought I’d just about made it. But six advocate. Times—a testament to how starved this months later uncertainty struck again—I There was a French musical that I’d country is for creativity and the arts. My was asked to leave Beltway politics and fallen in love with some years back. I’d seemingly motley career progression had go to New York to work in business oper- translated it into English to practice my distilled into a self-directed project with ations. In my new job, I discovered it was language skills and had always wanted to social purpose, professional challenge, and unfashionable to discuss politics at parties see that version staged. Les Dix Com- personal passion. and downright unprofessional to do so at mandements, Moses’ story of oppression, One can go to school to be a doctor work. For want of civic engagement, I injustice, and hope, suddenly took on new or an engineer, but there’s no major for started volunteering with Kiva, read urgency in Rwanda—a country that expe- producing musicals in Rwanda. The path development blogs, and kept up with this rienced the worst of human cruelty in a to career satisfaction is not always straight economic theory and that aid debate. most horrifying way not so long ago. The and predictable. It can take unexpected I was thriving in my new position and timing was right to produce a work about turns before you find the thing that gives my hobbies were rewarding, but uncer- struggle, love, and reconciliation in a you meaning. Seize your opportunities, tainty nagged. If we’re supposed to find country badly needing opportunities to explore your options, and learn what you and follow our passions, why had I rally around something inspiring and can. And when in doubt, consider that become a digital media professional instead beautiful. Joy Behar taught high school, Andrea of working in development? It was time to Almost twenty years after the geno- Bocelli was a defense attorney, and Julia turn off the cruise control. I applied for a cide, Rwanda is a changed country. The Child spied for the government before she fellowship with Global Health Corps and streets are safe, tourism is again thriving, cooked on TV. Not even our enviable accepted a position in Rwanda. and the world is increasingly seeing it as doctors lead lives of certainty. Just ask Purpose, I realized, is not a deadline- a place for commerce and investment. But Charles Darwin. driven endeavor. It takes experience to development is more than staffing hospi- — Anastasia Uglova ’05 10 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 10-11CAMso13lfi_CAMma08 8/15/13 10:45 AM Page 11 12-15CAMso13fth_000-000CAMJF07currents 8/15/13 10:46 AM Page 12

Campus News

From theHill

LISA BANLAKI FRANK

Grad Student Housing Complex Rises on East State Street

The construction by a private developer of a large apartment com- for completion in the summer of 2014. The apartments range from plex geared toward the grad student market is transforming a studios to three-bedroom units. neighborhood at the southern end of Collegetown. Dubbed Col- legetown Terrace, the sixteen-acre site comprises a dozen new buildings with about 1,000 beds on East State Street, South Arts Library Gets an Overhaul Quarry Street, and Valentine Place. The project—whose modern, The Fine Arts Library in the College of Architecture, Art, and Plan- multicolored façade has altered the character of a swath of East ning will be renovated and expanded, thanks to a $6 million gift State Street—required the demolition of more than two dozen from an alumna. “Most images found within this collection are not houses, drawing the ire of some local preservationists. (The parcel readily available on the Internet,” notes the donor, California- includes the historic Williams House, home to a founder of Ithaca based architect Mui Ho ’62, BArch ’66, “and students, researchers, College; the work included its restoration.) Now partly occupied, and teachers need to use these books intensely.” The project—a Collegetown Terrace features such amenities as a glass-walled fit- research center with 250,000 volumes, study spaces, and digital ness center and underground parking; the entire project is slated resources—is set for completion in 2017. “It will be a light-filled, twenty-first-century library, glowing from behind the large indus- For rent: The complex, on the edge of College- trial windows of Rand Hall,” says Dean Kent Kleinman. “A perfect town, replaced student apartment houses. metaphor for conserving the old while erecting the new.” 12 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 12-15CAMso13fth_000-000CAMJF07currents 8/15/13 10:46 AM Page 13

Museum Showcases ‘Unimal’ Among the many creations of famed ag professor Howard Babcock was the “Unimal,” a beast that promoted animal products by combining a cow, steer, pig, lamb, and chicken. After his death in 1950, a toy version—dispensing tiny plastic models of meat and dairy foods—was sold. The Unimal is currently on display at the History Center in Tompkins County as part of its “Curiosities” exhibit, running through October 26. Other Cornell-related items include evidence from a notorious 1919 murder case in which Don- ald Fether ’19 was charged—but never convicted—in the death of a local girl during an outing on Cayuga Lake.

Synthesizer Inventor Moog’s Archive Comes to Cornell The widow of one of the leading figures in the history of electronic music—synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog, PhD ’65—has donated his archive to the University Library. It includes such materials as schematics, prototypes, letters, notes, and recordings. The

announcement last summer sparked controversy among some Moog FRANK fans, who had hoped the materials would go to the Bob Moog Look out, Old MacDonald: The Unimal is back. Foundation in Asheville, North Carolina; his widow, Ileana Grams- Moog, cited Cornell’s conservation expertise in giving the collection to the University. Once the archive arrives on campus and is organized, it will be open to all. Nobel Laureate in Physics Veteran Volunteers to Receive Ken Wilson Dies at 77 Nobel laureate Ken Wilson died in June from complications of lym- Rhodes Service Awards phoma. He was seventy-seven. A physics professor at Cornell from Six Cornellians will receive the University’s highest honor for vol- 1963 to 1987, Wilson won the Nobel in 1982 for groundbreaking unteerism, the Frank H. T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service work on phase transitions, such as the change from a liquid to a Award. It recognizes a lifetime of volunteer leadership to Cornell; gaseous state. “Ken Wilson was one of a very small number of recipients must have graduated at least thirty-five years ago. This physicists who changed the way we all think, not just about spe- year’s honorees are Ann Schmeltz Bowers ’59, Ruth Zimmerman cific phenomena, but about a vast range of different phenomena,” Bleyler ’62, Samuel Fleming ’62, Bob Huret ’65, Ronay Arlt Men- says fellow physics laureate Steven Weinberg ’54, a professor at the schel ’64, and Alan Rosenthal ’59. The awards, given by the Cornell University of Texas, Austin. Wilson’s survivors include his brother, Alumni Association, will be presented during Homecoming. David, a professor of molecular biology at Cornell.

Computing and information science professor Tanzeem Give My Regards To... Choudhury and postdoc Mark Matthews, whose phone app won a $100,000 health challenge prize. Dubbed These Cornellians in the News MoodRhythm, it helps patients manage their bipolar disorder.

Labor economist Jordan Matsudaira, a professor of policy Emeritus professor of astronomy Joseph Veverka, winner of analysis and management, appointed to a one-year term on the Kuiper Prize, one of the field’s top honors. President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers. Squashetti, which earned Cornell first prize at the annual Physics professor Paul Ginsparg, PhD ’81, honored by the White Institute of Food Technologists student competition. It’s a House as a Champion of Change for founding the scientific low-calorie Italian-style entrée with spaghetti squash article aggregator known as arXiv. instead of pasta.

The Cornell Autonomous Underwater Vehicle team, which won Horticulture professor Mark Bridgen, winner of a Fulbright first place for the second consecutive year at the RoboSub Scholarship to study Alstroemeria flowers in their native competition with its submarine, Ragnarök. habitat in Chile.

Computer science professor Jon Kleinberg ’93, winner of the CUAir, an engineering team that took first place in the Stu- highest award for excellence in the field of data mining. dent Unmanned Air Systems Competition.

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CORNELL PLANTATIONS

Health economist John Cawley reports that paying employees to lose weight can be an effective way to improve health and lower medical costs. He and Joshua Price, PhD ’10, analyzed R&D 2,635 workers in company weight-loss programs. More information on campus research is With the aim of better understanding osteoarthritis, engineers available at www.news.cornell.edu have developed a computer model that mimics the stresses on joints over time. The Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva has released two new apple varieties: SnapDragon, descended from Honeycrisp, Cornell Food and Brand Lab researchers report that labeling and RubyFrost, geared toward fans of Empire and Granny Smith. portions with such terms as regular, half, and double-size affects how much people eat, regardless of the actual amount. Skipping breakfast can be an effective weight-loss strategy, say nutrition professor David Levitsky and grad student Carly Ending a decades-long quest, veterinary researchers have Pacanowski. Their study found that breakfast skippers con- found the mutation that makes a harmless coronavirus turn sumed an average of 408 fewer calories per day. into the lethal feline infectious peritonitis virus.

To track avian migratory patterns, engineers are designing According to Medical College researcher Michael Pesko, the lightweight “backpacks” equipped with sensors powered by a stresses of the 9/11 attacks prompted about a million former bird’s own motion. smokers to resume the habit, leading to increased mortality and more than $530 million in health care and other costs. Brain chemistry may explain why some people are extroverts. Human development researchers say the brains of extroverts Plant breeder Mark Sorrells is growing red fife wheat in Cornell release more of the neurotransmitter dopamine in response to fields, aiming to give organic farmers pure seeds of the prized social interactions, “rewarding” them for being outgoing. ancient grain untainted by modern varieties.

Researchers in economics and in soil science are studying the The link between speech and gesturing—“talking with your coffee supply chain to determine a viable way to produce the hands”—evolved from a brain area shared by all vertebrates, crop while protecting the environment and supporting farmers. says neurobiologist Andrew Bass, who has traced it to fish.

Using data from the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, astronomy Engineering professor Mingming Wu and colleagues have researcher Matthew Hedman determined that a plume of water developed a potentially powerful research tool: a device that vapor and ice on Saturn’s moon Enceladus is controlled by the mimics the microenvironment of a cancer cell. planet’s tidal forces. Poor planning skills are one reason why children from low- A study by human development professor Qi Wang has shown income families do worse in school than their more affluent that, due to encoding differences in the brain, a truism is cor- classmates, human ecology researchers report. Causes include rect: women are better than men at remembering past events. frequent moves, family turmoil, and crowded environments.

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cornell tech update

Advancing Innovation and Economic Development

t’s hard to believe that less than two years ago Cornell NYC Tech didn’t even exist. On December 19, 2011, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg selected Cornell and our academic partner—Technion–Israel Institute of Technology—as the winner of the city’s Iapplied sciences campus competition. We have been working nonstop since then to create innovative academic programs and plan a sustainable campus in the heart of New York City. And we’ve made enormous progress in both areas. Cornell Tech is designed to address two significant challenges slowing innovation and economic development in New York and around the country. The first is that the growth of the tech sector is being held back by a shortage of top-level tech talent. The second, broader challenge is that the way we innovate and commercialize research ideas in this country is changing, and universities and companies both need to adapt to remain at the forefront of technology innovation. It is time for / UP BARKER ROBERT new thinking about how industry and academia Beta class: A first-semester master of engineering in computer work together. Cornell Tech will be at the forefront science “open studio” held at Cornell Tech. with new models for graduate tech education, research, and commercialization. We’re off to a flying start. Just over a year after winning the the New York City public review process for the campus in the competition, Cornell Tech welcomed its first Master of Engineering spring, and have been grateful for the overwhelming support in Computer Science students (our “beta class”) in January 2013 throughout the city for our vision and campus plans. Our future to a temporary campus in space donated by Google in its Chelsea home on Roosevelt Island will be an innovative, sustainable campus headquarters. For the fall semester, we will have approximately made up of a combination of academic space, corporate co-location twenty master’s students on campus, plus about ten PhD students. facilities, an executive education center and hotel, housing for stu- We have been hiring world-class faculty from around the coun- dents and employees, and more than two acres of publicly accessi- try—computer science pioneer Deborah Estrin was our first hire— ble open space. Overall, the fully built-out campus will comprise and by fall we will have six permanent faculty on board. more than two million square feet of new space located in a series Recently, we announced two new degrees that will launch in of architecturally dynamic buildings. For the signature first aca- the fall of 2014: a one-year Johnson School MBA at Cornell Tech demic building, being designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect that fuses business, technology, innovation, and entrepreneur- Thom Mayne of Morphosis, we are aspiring to achieve “net-zero” ship; and a groundbreaking two-year dual degree with the Tech- energy usage over time. We have also partnered with Forest City nion in connective media. The dual degree will be offered by the Ratner Companies, the developer of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion–Cornell Innovation Institute to build the first corporate co-location building, with design by (JTCII), named in honor of a $133 million gift from Joan Klein innovative architectural firm WEISS/MANFREDI. Many other world- Jacobs ’54 and Irwin Jacobs ’54, BEE ’56; students will earn both class designers are also engaged, including Skidmore, Owings & a Technion and a Cornell degree. This program combines informa- Merrill for the campus plan and Field Operations (designer of New tion technologies with social and media studies, and it will be York City’s popular High Line) for the landscaping. part of a broader program in applied information-based sciences This has been an extremely exciting time, not just for Cornell in one of our three “hubs” focused around leading New York City Tech but for the entire Cornell community. We look forward to pro- industries: Connective Media, Healthier Life, and the Built Envi- viding more updates about our progress in future issues of Cornell ronment. Alumni Magazine. Planning for the permanent campus is moving forward at a — Dan Huttenlocher, Dean, and rapid pace. We are on track to break ground in early 2014 and Cathy Dove, MBA ’84, Vice President open our doors on Roosevelt Island in 2017. We have finalized a master plan that will shape the evolution of the campus over the For more on the progress of Cornell Tech, go to: many years of planned development. In addition, we completed www.tech.cornell.edu.

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Sports

Clint Wattenberg

TIM MCKINNEY ’81 Honored Athletes

he Cornell Athletic Hall of Fame will welcome 12 new members during its annual induction ceremony in September, raising its ranks to 555. The Class of 2013 consists of Sarah Averson ’03, women’s lacrosse; Michael Halperin ’01, men’s tennis; Katy Jay ’03, Twomen’s track and field; Ryan McClay ’03, men’s lacrosse; Mike McGrann ’88, football; Taylor McLean ’03, women’s polo; Doug Murray ’03, men’s ice hockey; Win Osgood 1892, football, track and field, tennis, wrestling, rowing; Erik Rico ’02, baseball; Carl Shields ’75, men’s track and field; Clint Wattenberg ’02, BS ’03, wrestling; and Nicole Zitarelli Danielsen ’01, softball.

Sarah Averson

Katy Jay

MCKINNEY MCKINNEY

Sports Shorts

OVERALL EXCELLENCE Reaching a level usually reserved for the richest college athletic programs in the country, Cornell cracked the top 20 of the Capital One Cup standings, which are based on NCAA championship results and season-ending coaches’ polls. The Big Red placed 18th among Division I men’s programs, tops in the Ivy League and second among Football Championship Subdivision schools nationwide.

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FULL PLATE Cornell Athletics didn’t have to look far when it chose to appoint its first coordinator of sports nutrition. Clint Wattenberg ’02, BS ’03, was named to the post less than a week after he was announced as a new member of the Cornell Athletic Hall of Fame. A two-time All-American, Wattenberg has been a nutrition specialist for the Cornell Healthy Eating Program for the past two years and will split his time between those duties and the athletic department.

TOUGH BREAK After being selected in the J. C. Tretter fourth round of the 2013 NFL draft by the Green Bay Packers, J. C. Tretter ’13 saw his hopes for a strong rookie season dashed when he broke his ankle on the first day of a May mini-camp. He may miss the entire season. A second-team All-American at left tackle, Tretter was the first Big Red player drafted since Kevin Boothe ’05 went to the Oakland Raiders in 2006. Tretter’s teammate Luke Tasker ’13 signed a free-agent contract with the San Diego Chargers after earning first-team All-Ivy honors and setting single- season school receiving records with 1,207 yards and eight touchdowns.

MCKINNEY

ROBERT CRAWFORD MULTIPLE MEDALISTS Forward Eitan Eitan Chemerinski ’13 was a member of Chemerinski the gold medal-winning United States men’s basketball team at the Maccabiah Games in Israel in July. The U.S. went 6-1 in the tournament and beat Argentina 85-76 in the final to avenge its only loss. The U.S. junior team, coached by Yanni Hufnagel ’06, currently an assistant coach at Vanderbilt, finished second, losing to host Israel 71-62 in the title game. Other Cornell medalists included fencer Michelle Verhave ’80, who won a silver medal in the masters foil and bronze in the masters epee, and rower Caroline Post ’10, BFA ’11, who earned bronze in the female double sculls.

B-BALL EXECUTIVE The new president of the NBA’s Sacramento Kings is Chris Granger ’93. He was named to the position in July after spending 14 years working in the NBA offices, including his most recent job as vice president for team marketing and business operations. He will oversee a Kings organization that sold for an NBA record $525 million in May.

ROWING RESULTS At the Under-23 World Championships in Linz, Austria, Ned Benning ’16 brought home a bronze medal in the men’s four; his boat was third in the heats and second in the repechage. Leigh Archer ’13 took seventh in the women’s pair, while Colin Farrell ’05, now an assistant coach at Penn, coached the men’s four boat to a sixth-place finish.

COACHING CHANGE Former Big Red defensive back Emani Fenton ’11 has joined the Kansas City Chiefs as a coaching assistant after two seasons on the Cornell football staff. He was the team’s defensive backs coach in 2011 before serving as inside linebacker coach and recruiting coordinator in 2012.

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Authors

After the Bubble Burst

Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon ’59 (Penguin)

ynchon sets his latest novel in New York City in 2001, between the dot-com bust and Pthe fall of the Twin Towers on 9/11. His heroine, Maxine Tarnow, is a divorced mother of two young sons and an unli- censed fraud investigator who operates in the shadowy world of Silicon Alley, where she encounters con artists, venture capital- ists, drug runners, code monkeys, Russian mobsters, and hackers who vie for what crumbs are left after the boom. She discov- ers plots, paranoia, the Deep Web, and more about the “spectrum of hometown larceny” than she bargains for.

The Last Next Time by Paul Cody, MFA ’87 The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere by William (Irving Place). After more than two Michael Schmidli, PhD ’09 (Cornell). When decades of sobriety, novelist and former Jimmy Carter entered the Oval Office at CAM associate editor Cody fell into pre- the height of state-sponsored violence in scription drug addiction. Although he Argentina, he tried to shift U.S. policy was still able to teach, he knew he from tacit support of the military’s “dirty needed help. He entered rehab at the war” to condemnation of human rights Caron Treatment Center in Pennsylvania, violations. Schmidli, an assistant professor one of the oldest in the nation, where he of history at Bucknell University, shows spent almost six weeks and met lawyers, how Carter played an important role in soldiers, doctors, fighters, and business- convincing the junta to accept a visit by the Inter-American Com- men who were also addicted to heroin, mission on Human Rights. By the time Reagan became president alcohol, methamphetamine, cocaine, or pills. He sees his fellow in January 1981, however, Carter’s idealism had largely been sup- addicts’ struggles—and his own—with greater understanding and planted by a more traditional brand of Cold War realism. compassionate clarity. Magic Health Remedies by Joey Green ’80, Revenge Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger BFA ’81 (Rodale). Joey Green has made a ’99 (Simon & Schuster). In the sequel to The career out of finding unorthodox applica- Devil Wears Prada, Andy Sachs no longer tions for everyday household items. Using works as an assistant for Miranda Priestly, inexpensive brand-name ingredients that editor of Runway and the world’s most can be found in refrigerators, pantries, or demanding boss. Now her life seems perfect. kitchen cabinets, he demonstrates how She’s the co-founder of The Plunge, a suc- they treat common ailments—everything cessful high-end bridal magazine she from allergies and back pain to hay fever launches with Emily Charlton, Miranda’s and morning sickness. Frozen peas, apple other former assistant. And she’s engaged to cider vinegar, mustard, Jell-O, vanilla extract, coffee, peanut but- Max Harrison, the wealthy scion of an elite New York City family. ter, Cool Whip, and canned tuna are just a few of the things that But the dream turns to nightmare when Andy finds a letter in can serve as home remedies. And each chapter ends with advice which Max’s mother begs him to marry someone else. that requires no products at all. 20 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 20-21CAMso13authors_020-021CAMso08authors 8/15/13 10:48 AM Page 21

Fiction Chinese Cubans by Kathleen López, MA ’95 (North Carolina). In the nineteenth century, Midnight by Kevin Egan ’74 (Forge). more than 100,000 Chinese were brought to Employees of the New York County Court- Cuba as indentured laborers. They were later house continue to be paid until the end of followed by merchants and free migrants in the year if the judge they work for dies. search of better lives. An assistant professor When Judge Alvin Canter dies in chambers of Latino and Caribbean studies at Rutgers on New Year’s Eve, his law clerk and his University follows the history of the Chinese secretary try to conceal the judge’s death as they made the transition from “coolies” until the next day. But their plan to guar- to full citizens of Cuba. antee a year’s pay soon goes terribly awry. Mothers Unite! by Jocelyn Elise Crowley Recipe for a Happy Life by Brenda Janowitz ’92 (Cornell). A professor of public policy ’95 (St. Martin’s Griffin). Hannah Goodman at Rutgers University analyzes the work of seems to have everything going for her— five national mothers’ organizations and success as a lawyer and a handsome argues that they have the potential to boyfriend—but when it all comes crashing turn the issue of workplace flexibility into down she retreats to her glamorous grand- the foundation of a true movement. mother’s house in the Hamptons where she A Living Exhibition by William S. Walker ’00 learns to put her life back together. (Massachusetts). The Smithsonian Institu- tion has undergone profound changes in Love Gone Mad by Mark Rubinstein (Thun- the last fifty years. An assistant professor der Lake). After heart surgeon Adrian of history at the Cooperstown Graduate Douglas falls in love with Megan Haggarty, Program, SUNY Oneonta, shows how the a neonatal ICU nurse at the hospital where Smithsonian’s exhibitions of cultural his- they work, strange things happen and they tory, anthropology, and folk life reflect the soon realize their lives are in danger. A larger context of social movements and stalker seeks revenge against them for a public debates in the nation. crime that exists only in his mind. Financial Justice by Larry Kirsch ’62 and Poetry Robert N. Mayer (Praeger). In the wake of the credit collapse of 2008, consumer, The Spectra by Fred Muratori (Stockport labor, civil rights, fair lending, and com- Flats). In his third collection, Muratori, munity groups came together to fight bibliographer for English-language Litera- against predatory lending. An economist ture, Theater, and Film at Cornell Univer- and his co-author follow the campaign to sity Library, writes about the mystery of pass the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform thought—“its heft, its velocity, its unpre- Act and create the Consumer Financial Pro- dictability, its sad attempts to emulate the tection Bureau. physical.” Epidemiology of Women’s Health by Ruby Fannie + Freddie by Amy Sara Carroll, MFA Tomberg Senie ’57, BS Nurs ’75 (Jones & ’95 (Fordham). The winner of the Poets Out Bartlett Learning). A professor of epidemi- Loud Prize cuts through what she sees as ology and sociomedical sciences at the the sentimentality of post-9/11 rhetoric to Mailman School of Public Health at Colum- portray contemporary America. bia University surveys the major chronic, infectious, autoimmune, and psychological Heart. Wood. By Eric Torgersen ’64 (Word). health conditions that affect women. In his latest collection, a professor emeritus of English at Central Michigan Univer- A Companion to Organizational Anthropol- sity reveals the wisdom of the heart with ogy edited by D. Douglas Caulkins, PhD self-deprecating humor. ’82, and Ann T. Jordan (Wiley). A professor emeritus of anthropology at Grinnell Col- Non-Fiction lege edits a collection of studies on the anthropology of such complex organiza- The Emergency State by David C. Unger ’67 tions as government agencies, nonprofits, (Penguin). “Without recognizing it, let and transnational corporations. alone debating it, America has slipped into a permanent, self-renewing state of emer- Developmentally Appropriate Practice gency,” states Unger, a New York Times edited by Carol Copple, PhD ’73, et al. editorial writer. He argues that America is (NAEYC). In two volumes, one devoted to trapped in a state of war. “This change has infants and toddlers and the other to deformed our politics, diminished our lib- preschoolers, the editors provide teachers erties, distorted our relations with the rest with resources to help students reach of the world, and undermined America’s goals that are both challenging and inherent economic strengths.” achievable. September | October 2013 21 22-41CAMso13currents_000-000CAMJF07currents 8/15/13 12:34 PM Page 22

Currents

From the 5th to the 75th, alumni celebrate Let’s Get Together Reunion

PHOTOS BY JASON KOSKI / UP EXCEPT AS NOTED

Back to school: Festivities included (clockwise from top) the Reunion Row; the Glee Club concert in Goldwin Smith; and the Alumni Baseball Game.

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JAY WAKS ’68

eunion 2013 brought more than 6,000 people to campus for three days of parties, programs, picnics, and more. Highlights of this year’s Rfestivities included a joint celebration by the classes of Hill happy (clockwise from top): Reveling in the 1938 and 2008; an update on the Cornell Tech project; tents; a 45th Reunion concert by dermatologist/ a talk on the Vietnam War by a history professor who drummer Jay Goldstein ’68 and his Boston-area recently won a Pulitzer Prize; and a panel discussion on band, Brogue; and a Haudenosaunee (Iroquois the evolution of teaching on the Hill from the Sixties to Confederacy) Social. Below: Enjoying a wine the present. tasting in Kennedy Hall. The 4,517 alumni who attended included three members of the Class of ’38; the oldest attendee was Continu- ous Reunion Club member Mary Clare Capewell Ward ’37, who traveled to Ithaca with her daughter. Cornellians returned to campus from around the globe, hailing from such far-flung locales as Australia, Brazil, China, Hungary, Israel, Korea, Luxembourg, Pakistan, Singapore, Sweden, and Thailand. In his annual State of the University address, President David Skorton focused on the importance of faculty renewal. He noted that as of last fall, more than 43 percent of the faculty was over fifty-five and more than 13 percent was aged sixty-five to seventy-four. Over the next decade, he said, the University expects to recruit up to a third of its faculty and staff. “That presents us with a once-in-a-generation opportunity to maintain strength across all areas of this university while building leadership in select areas of importance,” he said, “and we are seiz- ing the moment.” For reports of the Reunion classes and the Continuous Reunion Club, see page 60.

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Fit the Bill

Hotel professor Michael Lynn makes a meal of tipping research

As an undergrad at the University of Texas, Austin, Michael Lynn majored in psychology and economics and worked his way through school as a tuxedoed waiter at an upscale French restaurant. It was apt preparation for what would become his avo- cation—as one of the world’s foremost experts on tipping. Now a professor of consumer behavior and marketing in the Hotel school, Lynn has published dozens of studies on tipping and regularly appears in the national media, including a June interview on NPR’s Freakonomics Radio. As one of the hosts noted: “Tipping is an idea that economists, traditionally, have a hard time with. Why should I give more of my money to someone else on top of what I’ve already paid for a meal or a ride to the airport?”

Cornell Alumni Magazine: Where did the custom of tipping come from? Michael Lynn: There’s a retired anthropologist who theorizes that tipping originated as a way to forestall the server’s envy. He thought, if you’re a customer at a tavern, and you’re eating and having fun, the servers are likely to be envious. They could spit in your food; who knows what they might do? So tipping evolved as a way of saying, “Here’s some money; have a drink on me after you get off.” His argument for this is that the word for tip in many countries translates to “drink money” or, in Asian coun- ANDY FRIEDMAN tries, often “tea money.” 22-41CAMso13currents_000-000CAMJF07currents 8/15/13 10:51 AM Page 25

CAM: If that’s the anthropologists’ expla- ML: There’s no single reason. I’ve done thing on the back of the check. You’re nation, what do economists say? studies that looked at predictors of tipping personalizing yourself, so you’re not this ML: They tend to think that tipping exists across nations. And while we’re at the top bland food-delivery mechanism. because it’s an efficient way to monitor in our propensity to tip, we’re not at the and reward employees. If you’re ignoring top in those predictors. For instance, more CAM: Demographically, which servers get my table, management doesn’t know if extroverted populations tip more. More the best tips? you’re doing a bad job or if I expressed a tough-minded, as opposed to tender- ML: White servers get better tips than desire to be left alone. It’s hard for them to hearted, populations tip less. black servers—and that’s true whether the evaluate your performance as a server, but customers are white or black. Blonde it’s easy for me as a customer. So we tip CAM: In addition to working in a fancy waitresses get better tips, as do slender those professions where the customer has French restaurant, you’ve bartended and waitresses. Waitresses in their mid-thirties an advantage in evaluating performance. waited tables at casual joints like Pizza get better tips than those who are younger Why don’t we tip our doctor? In part, Hut. Did you get good tips? or older. Also waitresses with larger because we can’t tell if he did a good job. ML: I didn’t get bad tips, but I didn’t get breasts, though I hesitate to say that. great tips either. Especially in casual din- CAM: That may be why the system ing, there were other servers who always CAM: Why? exists—but why are individuals motivated made more money than me. And now I ML: Of all the research I’ve done, I got to tip when they don’t strictly have to? understand why: because they were more the most flak over that. There were a lot ML: For a lot of reasons—but the domi- outgoing and sociable. In casual dining, of letters and e-mails to our dean. People nant one is to avoid the server’s disap- it’s all about the rapport you establish even called Cornell, checking if I had IRB proval. Part of human nature is that we with the table, because then they’ll care [Institutional Review Board] approval. care what people think about us. more about your opinion of them. I’ve studied race differences and not gotten those kinds of reactions. CAM: Where does America stand in the CAM: And how can a server do that? tipping hierarchy? ML: There are a lot of specific behaviors CAM: Speaking of which: can you talk ML: We tip more service providers, and that we know, through experimental about racial stereotypes in tipping? larger amounts, than anywhere else in research, increase tips. Introducing your- ML: Blacks are widely perceived in this the world. self by name. Touching the customer country as poor tippers. There was a lightly on the arm or shoulder. Simply famous case in 1999—a restaurant in CAM: Why is that? writing “thank you” or drawing some- Florida charged a black couple an auto- — Beth Saulnier — Beth I have no doubt that if the service is service the if that doubt no I have I interview customers leaving restau- leaving customers interview I aren’t that strongly related to service in a for controlling after And place. first the still you service, of rating own customer’s strongest The difference. black-white a get explanation I’ve found so far—but it’s differences are there that partial—is only About norm. of the tipping in awareness the is what asked if whites, of two-thirds give will restaurants, U.S. in tip customary you a response in the 15 to 20 percent range, but only about a third of blacks will. So blacks are less familiar with the it with comply don’t and norm therefore readily. as CAM: Given how fraught the issue is, it? study why impli- negative of lot a has it Because ML: cations for the restaurant industry, and also for the black community. Servers don’t want to a have communities wait black in Restaurants on black tables. hard time attracting and retaining wait to want don’t chains restaurant and staff, open in black communities because it’s going to be hard to staff them. Now we can have a discussion that’s “You’re racist not for just,saying it,” and start solutions. for looking CAM: In your Freakonomics interview, you mention that due to race-based dif- sys- tipping our power, earning in ferences illegal. be actually might tem unlaw- it made Act Rights Civil The ML: on the in employment to discriminate ful basis of race. The Supreme Court that are practices that even neutral ruled has relying discriminate—like to intended not on tips as a major source of employees’ income—are unlawful if they adversely classes. protected these of one impact tipping that mentioned you Earlier, CAM: is not particularly dependent on service. true? be really that Can tell and service ML: the rate to them asking much rants, how and was bill their much how me 4 per- about only I that find tipped. they din- among differences tipping the of cent quality. service by explained is parties ing possible? that is how But CAM: me give didn’t you “OK, say, People ML: you want don’t still I wanted; I service the to think I’m So a I’ll tip cheapskate. you less.” lot a whole not less—just dreadful? just is service the if What CAM: tipping— ML: without leave will people abysmal count. really doesn’t it rare so that’s but It has a little to do with income and income with do to a little has It matic matic gratuity and didn’t charge it called to They a table. next the at couple white and his the response manager was, over, called They tip.” don’t people black “You sensation. media a became it and police, the empirical interesting an is This thought, I enough, sure it—and studied I So question. average. on whites than less tip blacks that? is why And CAM: ML: education differences. 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First Amendment lawyer Marjorie Heins ’67 has devoted a career to defending freedom of speech

sional crackdown on outré Heins has also worked on the other material, they sued. They side of the courtroom. As head of the civil argued that Congress’s new rights division for the Massachusetts requirement—that grantees Attorney General’s office, she was called meet “general standards of upon to defend state law. But even there, decency and respect for the she was no stranger to controversy: dur- diverse beliefs and values of the ing her tenure, she headed an investigation American public”—was a vio- in the wake of the notorious Carol Stuart lation of the First Amendment. murder. In 1989, Charles Stuart claimed They won—but the gov- that a black man shot him and killed his ernment appealed, and the pregnant wife in the Roxbury section of case eventually went to the Boston, prompting a massive, racially Supreme Court. And sitting charged manhunt and the arrest of a sus- “second chair” during oral pect. It later came to light that Stuart had arguments for National En - murdered his wife, shot himself, and con- CATHERINE BOALCH dow ment of the Arts v. Finley, cocted the story. It fell to Heins to explore on the side advocating free expression, how the homicide unit had conducted its was Marjorie Holt Heins ’67. investigation, which left many of the city’s A longtime First Amendment lawyer, African American men feeling that their author, and academic, Heins has worked civil rights had been trampled. “This,” she on free speech and civil rights issues from notes, “didn’t make me popular with the a variety of perspectives. Early in her police department.” career she was a journalist for alternative Heins grew up in Brooklyn in the n the late Eighties and early newspapers in San Francisco; her first Fifties, the daughter of a high school social Nineties, censorship was a hot book, Strictly Ghetto Property: The Story studies teacher and a homemaker. “It was topic. Museum directors were being of Los Siete de la Raza, chronicled a the Cold War, and we had to hide under Iprosecuted for displaying the sexually racially charged 1969 case in which a our desks during defense drills,” she explicit work of photographer Robert group of Latino youths was acquitted in recalls with a wry laugh. “That was going Mapplethorpe. Conservative “pro-family” the death of a police officer. She has served to save us from nuclear attack by the organizations were urging advertiser boy- as a staff attorney for the ACLU, arguing Soviet Union.” At Cornell in the mid- cotts of edgy TV shows like “NYPD freedom of speech cases in federal court; Sixties, she majored in English and Blue.” Some Americans were outraged by they include a 1997 Internet censorship reported for the Daily Sun. “I got inter- taxpayer support of allegedly obscene art, case brought by six college professors in ested in the civil rights movement,” she including Andres Serrano’s infamous Virginia, who claimed that a law pro- says. “I wanted to go south one summer sculpture Piss Christ. hibiting state employees from accessing to register voters in Fayette County, Ten- Among the lightning rods of the era was sexually explicit materials online could nessee, but my parents wouldn’t let me— Karen Finley, a performance artist known hamper academic freedom. “One of our and I wasn’t yet prepared to defy them.” for audacious acts such as smearing her plaintiffs was an expert in the poetry of She joined the Cornell chapter of Students naked body with chocolate—creating, as she Swinburne,” Heins explains, “and there’s for a Democratic Society, becoming pas- put it, “a symbol of women being treated some kinky stuff in Swinburne.” (They sionately involved in the antiwar move- like dirt.” When Finley and three other won, but the decision was reversed on ment and the burgeoning political activi- artists, dubbed the NEA Four, lost federally appeal; the ACLU appealed to the ties of the New Left. After graduation she funded grants in the wake of a Congres- Supreme Court, which declined to hear it.) married a classmate and, after time in

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C New York City, they made their way to “Indecency,” Censorship, and the Inno- that censorship remains a threat. Among urrents San Francisco in an old camper van; they cence of Youth. Her most recent—Priests of her concerns, she cites the concentration were en route when they heard that Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Aca - of media in the hands of large corpora- Robert Kennedy had been assassinated. d emic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist tions; declines in investigative journalism The couple had two children and Purge—came out in February. in the wake of newspaper cutbacks; the eventually relocated to Boston, where Today, Heins lives on the Upper West persistent use of “loyalty oaths” by some Heins attended Harvard Law School with Side of Manhattan and teaches a course employers, including the State of Califor- the aim of using her JD to promote free- on censorship at NYU. She’s also the nia; the perennial debate over indecency dom of speech and social justice. In addi- founder of the Free Expression Policy in broadcast media; and an increasingly tion to front-line litigation, she has Project, a small nonprofit that describes secretive government in the post-9/11 age. authored several books including Cutting itself as a “think tank on artistic and intel- “Whether we technically call it censor- the Mustard: Affirmative Action and the lectual freedom.” Even in the age of the ship,” she says, “we do have to worry Nature of Excellence; Sex, Sin, and Blas- Internet—when Americans often feel more about what information people are get- phemy: A Guide to America’s Censorship bedeviled by information overload than ting—or not getting.” Wars; and Not in Front of the Children: by constraints on expression—Heins says — Beth Saulnier

Speak!

E. B. White’s granddaughter publishes a collection of his dog-related writings

E. B. White ’21 wore many hats. stairs in his stride—literally in his stride, one paw after another. Author of children’s books He merely crouches slightly and glides up or down. A dachshund, (including the beloved because of his low center of gravity (which in some individuals is Charlotte’s Web); co-writer simply a center of frivolity), is incapable of going up and down of the classic grammar stairs one paw after another. He, or she, must tackle stairs in a guide The Elements of series of bold, sometimes hysterical leaps, the two forepaws and Style; longtime New the two hindpaws operating in pairs. The ascent of a dachshund is Yorker essayist; all- a sort of conniption. It requires considerable driving power, most around raconteur. of it supplied by the hind legs. The descent, far more difficult and Another lesser-known in some instances disastrous, is a series of suicidal leaps, with the title: dog-lover. White dog in imminent danger of nosing over. lf you have never studied owned dogs through- the descent of a dachshund, perhaps a brief description will help. out his life—though The animal first gets himself into the correct launching position, he may well have forepaws down one step, hindpaws poised at brink of takeoff. If he E. B. WHITE argued that they is an elderly dog, he remains in the launching position for several owned him. He wrote minutes, reviewing the situation and making side remarks. Having on many canine-related topics over the years, from comically fraudu- determined to go, he throws himself outward with just enough lent “reports” by his elderly dachshund, Fred, to coverage of force to drop him onto the next step down, still in the launching assorted run-ins between four-legged Manhattanites and the law. position. Obviously he must neither overshoot nor undershoot. And Last spring, Maine’s Tilbury House published a hardcover collection he must re-launch himself the very instant he makes contact; that of White’s canine writings, edited by his granddaughter, Martha. E. B. is, he must continue to bounce, legs tensed and in pairs, one step White on Dogs features New Yorker stories, poems, letters, essays, at a time, till he reaches the bottom. A dachshund with long toe- sketches—even a moving obituary to his Scottie, Daisy, run down by nails descending an uncarpeted staircase makes a sound unlike any a yellow cab that jumped the curb. Many of the pieces evince both other sound in nature. White’s signature wry wit and an abiding understanding of the dog- We can say with assurance that a stairway having ten-inch lover’s lot. “My advice, if you have a dachshund puppy, is to subscribe treads and seven-and-a-half-inch risers is a practical stairway for to the New York Times,” he wrote to a friend in 1950, “and instead an adult dachshund in reasonably good health. A stairway with of reading it just distribute it liberally all over the house.” narrow treads—seven or eight inches, a size common in old New Among the book’s entries is “Architects and Dachshunds,” England houses—can cause a dachshund to crack up nervously. published in the New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town” section on Sep - Circular stairs, popular with modern architects, are unfair to dachs- tember 3, 1949: hunds; such stairs often have no risers at all, which is unnerving, and the descent requires not only a bounce but a bounce with a Serious consideration should be given by architects to the twist. Our own residence, built before either architects or dachs- problems of people who own dachshunds. The modern boys—the hunds were highly thought of, is unsuitable for dachshunds, and Wrights, the Gropiuses, the Neutras—are full of startling ideas we are thinking of installing an electric chair-lift for our animal. about functional design, but it is one thing to design a house While we are at it, the chair might as well be big enough to hold around a person and it is something else again to design a house both of us. around a dachshund. Chief of the problems is the matter of stairs. FROM E. B. WHITE ON DOGS. COPYRIGHT © 2013 BY MARTHA WHITE. REPRINTED BY PER- Here, proportion is everything. An English setter takes a flight of MISSION OF TILBURY HOUSE, PUBLISHERS, GARDINER, MAINE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 30 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 22-41CAMso13currents_000-000CAMJF07currents 8/15/13 10:51 AM Page 31

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Hospitality, Sweet

Three ’87 classmates travel the world designing interiors for high-end hotels

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oger Hill ’87 and his classmates-cum-colleagues have come a long way since their first commission: redesigning a public restroom at the leg- Rendary “Purple Hyatt” in suburban Chicago. That was a quarter-century ago. Today their interior design and branding firm, the Gettys Group, works on major hotel projects around the world—from a Ritz Carlton in Miami to a Sher- aton in Seoul to a Hard Rock in Macau to a Westin in Abu Dhabi. Among their flagship projects: the recently completed $58 million renovation of Hong Kong’s venerable, colonial-era Peninsula Hotel. But not all their work is high-end; their Chicago-area portfolio, for example, includes a DoubleTree and a Ronald McDon- ald House. “We have become storytellers—whether we’re doing it in something as elegant as the Peninsula or a fantastic Hampton Inn in Tupelo, Mississippi,” says Hill, the firm’s chairman and CEO. “That’s what’s been exciting. Being able to do that at all

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those price points makes us quite unique.” Hill is based out of the firm’s Chicago headquarters, as is president and COO Andrew Fay ’87; managing director and principal Ariane Steinbeck ’87 covers Asia and the Middle East from her base in Hong Kong. They’re an international bunch. Hill grew up in Wisconsin; Steinbeck was born in Germany and reared in Spain; Fay is from Tasmania. (A fourth founder, Julius van Heek ’86, who’s no longer with the firm, hailed from Amsterdam.) “Design wasn’t that important when I first went into this niche of the profession,” Steinbeck observes, speaking via cell phone from the back of a Hong Kong taxi. “It was important for the hotel companies to be consistent and meet the needs of the guest. The emphasis on design, having a unique environment,

became more important as time went on.” In the U.S., about 90 percent of Gettys’s work involves renovations; it’s the opposite abroad, where new construction is favored. “There’s a stronger desire for more environmentally friendly design and projects that are more socially responsible,” says Fay, forming the third leg of a tri-continental conference call as he speaks amid the chatter of a Dubai shopping mall. “There’s also a desire for projects that are more authentic, in that they embrace their local culture—using indigenous materials, developing a stronger connection with the environment the project is in. A lot of our earlier projects, you could’ve been in Kansas City or Sydney or Moscow. But now, customers are a lot more sophisticated in their expectations.” But as Steinbeck notes, guests’ underlying desires spring eternal. “You want a comfortable place to sleep and a great shower,” she says. “You want to feel safe. You want to make sure you can do business or have a fabulous vacation.” The firm’s first high-end project was designing the spa at Chicago’s Four Sea- sons. Its first large-scale commission: renovating the more than 2,000 guest rooms at the Hyatt Regency Chicago—at the time, the largest American hotel outside Las Vegas. Gettys pioneered a number of inno- vations, including a method for reuphol- stering guestroom chairs on site. (Since there were 4,000 of them, not having to cart them to a repair facility whenever they were broken or soiled saved a lot of time and money.) Then there was another clever bit of engineering—a simple-but-elegant notion that remains beloved to power-hungry travelers the world over. “We were the The good life: Gettys Group design projects include (clockwise first people to put an outlet in a hotel from top left) the Ritz Carlton in Key Biscayne, Florida; the Al lamp,” Hill says, then adds with a laugh: Ghurair Rayhaan in Dubai; the Mamoz in Hong Kong; the Hotel “We only regret that we didn’t figure out a Felix in Chicago; and Sheraton’s D Cube City Hotel in Seoul. way to patent the technology.”

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Meet Cornell’s own scientific glassblower

ature abhors a vacuum. But scientists love them—and need CRAWFORD FRANKLIN BY PHOTOS them. Specifically, Cornell’s researchers need someone who Nknows how to make and maintain proper glass vacuum tubing. Enter David “The Glassman” Wise. Wise is the University’s full-time glassblower. When he arrived on the Hill two decades ago, the glassmaking Clear vision: David Wise is the University’s only shop—located in the basement of Olin Chemistry Research Wing, full-time glassblower. Inset: His Olin workshop. Room B-66—was a two-man operation; now it’s just Wise. A tall, burly fellow who spent nineteen years at Corning Glass, Wise could pass for a bouncer when he dons his dark safety glasses, At Cornell, researchers seek his services for a variety of proj- but he’s disarmingly soft spoken. “I was lucky to get this job,” he ects. But mostly, Wise makes vacuum tubing for chemists and says. “Corning was starting to outsource and I saw the writing biologists. He also does glasswork for materials science, food scion the wall. I’d worked my way up from crating glass to making ence, physics, and, occasionally, textiles. One surprise assignment one-of-a-kind glassware. When I left, the company had 400 glass- came from the theatre department: design an elaborate Victorian blowers on the floor. Today, none.” laboratory with large test tubes, flasks, beakers, and more. (The 34 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 22-41CAMso13currents_000-000CAMJF07currents 8/15/13 10:52 AM Page 35

play, naturally, was Frankenstein.) That Cornell employs a dedicated glassblower may seem a bit of a throw- back. And in some ways, it is. While it’s still standard for a top research university to have its own dedicated glass shop, more and more researchers are ordering their glass online—but they can’t fix it when it’s broken. That’s when Wise gets a knock on his door. “He’s a genuine arti- san,” says David Collum ’77, newly appointed chair of chemistry. “I don’t know how we’d run our vacuum lines— our experiments—without him. He’s fix- ing them all the time.” The value of having someone like Wise on staff is underscored one June afternoon when a professor stops by with a concept for a simple device he needs quickly. He sketches the design and hands it to Wise, who looks it over. “No problem,” Wise says, after they exchange some technical questions. “I can throw that together and have it for you first thing Monday morning.” It’s closing time on a Thursday. Now that’s good service. Much of Wise’s work is done on a machine called a glass lathe. Equipped with torches at either end and a set of jets in the center, it allows him to join tubes or cylinders, one clamped at each end. As flames throw menacing shapes and figures around the glasswork, Wise manip- ulates the piece with what looks like a WORKING WINERY & RETAIL common spatula. He may seem noncha- lant around the searing flames, but every move is nuanced and cautious. Later, he fires up a fixed torch on his workbench and puts the finishing touches on a piece of tubing that looks like a baby bottle. Large billows of flame roar as they encir- cle the vessel, a mesmerizing sight. The TASTING ROOM & CRAFT SHOP piece is then placed in an annealing oven • 65 total acres; 12.5 acres to cool overnight. In the morning Wise established vineyards will check for weaknesses in the piece • 17 additional tillable, suitable using a special light; a frailty shows up as for vinifera grapes a cloudy area. • Includes 4 rental cabins, small These days, one of Wise’s favorite petting zoo activities is leading a mentoring program • 2 small outbuildings, and equipment in glassblowing sponsored by the chem- • Pond, stream & waterfall, istry department, open to all Cornell stu- as well as Cayuga Lake views! dents. Not many sign up, though—and $1,200,000 many who do don’t stick with it. “They Call for our latest inventory! find out that it’s not all that easy,” he says. “After a while, they lose interest.” Reflecting on the lack of apprentice glass- blowers, both Wise and Collum joke about one area in which glassmaking is a growth industry: in downtown Ithaca, Mel Russo, numerous storefronts are lined with intri- Lic. Real Estate Broker/Owner cately designed hookahs, bongs, and other 315-246-3997 or 315-568-9404 paraphernalia, selling for as much as [email protected] $3,000 apiece. www.senecayuga.com — Franklin Crawford

September | October 2013 35 . PROVIDED BY TOBE LEVIN TOBE BY PROVIDED Queue ’” As the women’s rights movement grew movement rights women’s the As small a of founder the is Levin Today, ever going to do anything, you’d better act better you’d anything, do to going ever this. on learning was Europe mid-Seventies, the in about FGM from African women with read had Levin article The to tell. stories generated magazine feminist German a in so much reader mail that an editor was Ger- In influx. the with cope to just hired Levin joined a cam- letter-writing many, paign entreating UNICEF to designate flu- Already abuse. rights a human FGM ent in Spanish and French, Levin gained arti- translating by German in proficiency cles about FGM, giving subject the on speeches,stories reporting and eventually “My publications. for German-language remembers. Levin terrible,” was German important too is topic This thought, I “But grammar.” perfect about worry to me for press devoted to publishing works in that mentioned rarely topic a FGM, address many Even publications. English-language feminists, she says, “don’t want to face Women’s rights: Toby Levin, PhD ’79 (inset), ’79 PhD Levin, Toby rights: Women’s on Brandeis at exhibit art an mount helped painting, oil this included It FGM. The Unkindest Cut Unkindest The or Tobe Levin, ’79, a PhDmagazine article sparked a lifetime of activism. Then twenty- Activist Tobe Levin, PhD ’79, ’79, PhD Levin, Tobe Activist mutilation genital female battles It was 1977, and clitori dectomy—the clitori and It 1977, was nine and living in Germany, Levin gazed, Levin Germany, in living and nine simultaneously transfixed and appalled, at a feature beschneidung.” story entitled - “Klitoris traditional removal of all or part of the as practiced widely genitalia female outer a tribal, cultural, or religious ritual regionsin of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East—was just becoming known in the Levin’s made concept The world. Western head after spin. years, Though several for she’d issues been feminist reading about learning about the practice—now commonly called female genital mutilation genital female as known also but (FGM), to a call felt circumcision—she or cutting this before I done had most “The action. abortion for agitating groups to join was rights. I was a paper participant,” says Levin. “This issue said to me, ‘If you’re F cornellalumnimagazine.com | deadline: Advertise in Advertise 2013 issue 2013 Sept. 23, 2013 23, Sept. Sept. 16, 2013 16, Sept. Copy deadline: Copy section designed designed section Space reservation Space to give our readers our give to gift-giving ideas for ideas gift-giving A special advertising special A cornellalumnimagazine.com Cornell Alumni Magazine’s Magazine’s Alumni Cornell November/December November/December Marketplace Finger Lakes Lakes Finger the December holidays December the

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September | October 2013 37 Blood — Kristina Strain — Kristina , about two women falling in —a memoir of FGM, arranged mar- arranged FGM, of memoir —a After a traditional suburban child- Through three decades of reporting, UnCut/Voices’ first release was was release first UnCut/Voices’ riage, and spousal abuse written by young Senegalese woman named Khady a into translated been already had “It Köita. seventeen languages before I could get it published who Levin, says English,” into Köita’s book in include 2010. scholar Henry (Its Louis Gates admirersJr., who called it “wrenching and necessary reading.”) Since has then, UnCut/Voices a play, including titles more two released Waafrika press, the At 1992. in Kenya rural in love translator, editor, hats: many wears Levin all—activist. and—above author, hood in New Jersey in the Fifties, Levin earned a BA in English from Ithaca Col- lege, then an MA in French from New York University in Paris, followed studies by at the Sorbonne and a PhDcomparative in literature “Freifrau name the to answers also from (Levin Cornell. von Gleichen”; in the to addition In marriage.) by baroness Germany, she’s a press, she splits her professional among teaching time language and women’s study pro- at College’s studies Maryland gram in Europe, at Goethe University in Harvard. at and Frankfurt, translating, and speaking many have grappled—as has out Levin FGM, against does when a conundrum: activists—with a cultural ritual become human dignity? Who is entitled to make a breach of such a restrained determination? by these kinds of concerns,” “Many it called an “Anthropologists says Levin. felt act of love.” But after giving birth to a daughter in 1984, enhanced Levin perspective daughter your on putting gained imagine the can’t “You practice. an do,” mothers many so that—but through an act me, of it’s cruelty says Levin. “To that at of abuse the rights human a same it’s and time regretted, is coerced and magnitude.” highest the the horrible, horrible truth.” The facts are facts The truth.” horrible horrible, the that estimates WHO the sobering: indeed under- have girls and women million 140 a deemed was which procedure, the gone violation at the Conference1993 World press, the started Levin Rights. Human on mak- of hope the in UnCut/Voices, called Euro- as FGM of aware as Americans ing Italy and France, Germany, “In are. peans not were that published being were books translated into English,” she says. “No English publisher wanted them.” not are who those for “is says, she press, The lite.” feminism practicing in interested Stains cornellalumnimagazine.com |

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REUTERS Prepare for the Worst

Cornell-based program helps New Yorkers cope with all manner of disasters

eith Tidball practices tain. After the third tropical storm to hit what he preaches. New York in a year, people are realizing A former Army in - that it might not be a bad idea to have a fantry officer, Tidball few of these things around the house.” carriesK a twenty-pound backpack wher- Tidball is state coordinator for the ever he goes. It contains, among other New York Extension Disaster Education things: water, a first aid kit, a radio, a Network (NY EDEN), a Cornell-based

flashlight, a GPS, one Meal Ready to program devoted to helping residents pre- PROVIDED Eat, and a gizmo that charges his phone pare for, survive, and recover from all and laptop via solar power. “I can pret- manner of calamities. Run through Cor- Emergency management: ty much respond to anything right out of nell Cooperative Extension (CCE), NY Last fall, Hurricane Sandy this bag,” says Tidball, PhD ’12, a sen- EDEN aids officials, municipalities, and (top) caused severe ior extension associate in the Depart ment individuals, often tapping the University’s flooding throughout the of Natural Resources. “Even if I’m not research acumen for needed informa- New York metropolitan using it all the time, the backpack is sym- tion—from the effects of post-storm salin- area. Above: NY EDEN bolic of the mindset I’m trying to main- ization on farmland to the potential haz- head Keith Tidball, PhD ’12.

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ards of having untold gallons of milk urrents wash into rivers from flooded Upstate ‘We’re trying to fill the gaps, as we dairies. The organization is part of a watch what FEMA or the Red Cross national EDEN network, headquartered at Louisiana State University, that has is putting out. As the disaster’s branches at each state’s land-grant school. “Whether or not something is a disaster is unfolding, we end up being a a purely social phenomenon,” says Tid- ball, who did his dissertation on the clearinghouse of information, a effects of Hurricane Katrina on New central node.’ Orleans. “There are hazards; hurricanes and earthquakes have happened since the we end up being a clearinghouse of infor- ment program that helps residents replace beginning of the Earth. Whether or not mation, a central node.” appliances lost in a disaster. “Keith said they become disasters depends upon the Tidball regularly monitors long-range yes, there was,” she recalls, “and I didn’t culture. It’s going to be less of a disaster if forecasts; when extreme weather is in the even know about that.” there’s a culture of readiness and offing—say, two weeks before a hurricane During and after a disaster, NY EDEN resilience—to bend and not break.” is on track to strike the state—he puts NY offers a boon to state and federal agencies: NY EDEN’s website (emergencypre EDEN leaders on alert. Three days in the perspective of CCE, which has a pres- paredness.cce.cornell.edu) offers a wealth advance, with the event a virtual certainty, ence in each of New York’s sixty-two of information and resources pertaining the group assesses what resources will be counties. As agencies marshal a response, to a wide variety of threats, from infec- needed most and coordinates with emer- CCE staff can provide essential facts. tious diseases and food-borne illnesses to gency managers in Albany. By one day Which roads are impassible? What bridges radiation leaks, fires, and terrorism. Its prior, NY EDEN is sending out alerts and are out? Are floodwaters still, or are they section on power outages, for example, updates by Facebook and Twitter. In the dangerously rapid? “Since we have an includes the phone numbers of the com- aftermath of a disaster, the organization office in every county, we have eyes on the panies that serve New York homes; infor- offers links to resources on recovery and ground,” says Rod Howe, chair of the NY mation on the safety of portable genera- rebuilding, such as advice on preventing EDEN advisory board and assistant directors and on preventing carbon monoxide mold in water-ravaged homes or on talk- tor of CCE. “Not many organizations poisoning; and fact sheets about staying ing to children about tragedy. “It’s an have this kind of statewide network.” warm in an unheated house, food safety important and effective service that we But perhaps the most salient letter in in the absence of refrigeration, and more. provide for state officials, and also for the group’s acronym is the second “E”— The section on “animals in emergencies” individuals,” says Helene Dillard, a pro- reflecting its underlying mission to educate includes links to the ASPCA and Ameri- fessor of plant pathology and the longtime New Yorkers on how to protect them- can Humane Association and information director of CCE. “It’s hard to appreciate selves and their families when disaster about such illnesses as mad cow disease, it until something strikes—but when it strikes. With decades of relative calm foot and mouth disease, and avian does you realize, Wow, this is really great between the duck-and-cover days of the influenza. “What I love about EDEN is information.” Cold War and our current era of extreme that it provides ready-to-use materials that Dillard recalls the case of a man who weather, Tidball says, it isn’t always easy we can pass on to leaders in our commu- contacted the organization during Hurri- to get Americans into a be-prepared mind- nity,” says Ronald Bunce, executive direc- cane Sandy trying to find out where FEMA set. “Surprise and change are the norm— tor of CCE for Oneida and Madison had set up shop in his area, prompting NY though for a little while we duped our- counties. “They have direct, tangible EDEN to put out a tweet listing the federal selves into thinking it was otherwise,” he resources that we’re able to use rapidly, agency’s locations. “People were so happy observes. “It’s a challenge to develop a often at a time when things are rather to get that information—and we thought culture of readiness. We’re still in a culture chaotic and people are trying to figure out everybody had it,” Dillard says. Then, the of ‘It can’t happen to me.’ ” how to cope beyond the basics of food, same man inquired if there was a govern- — Beth Saulnier clothing, and shelter.” As Hurricane Sandy approached the state in October 2012, NY EDEN offered information on everything from evacuation orders to airline ticket-change policies. Last March, when a Herkimer County man killed five people and dug in for a two-day standoff with police, NY EDEN kept residents apprised of the “active shooter” danger via real-time updates on social media. Over the summer, as heavy rains pelted the state, the NY EDEN Face- book page offered a constant stream of updates on flood warnings, crop damage, “boil water” orders, and more. “We’re trying to fill the gaps, as we watch what FEMA or the Red Cross is putting out,” Tidball says. “As the disaster’s unfolding,

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akewood Vineyards is truly wines have remained a bit under the a family operation, owned radar. That may change soon, as critics and operated by three gen- are beginning to take notice of Lake- Lerations of the Stamp family. In 1951 a wood’s Rieslings. Earlier this year, noted dentist named Frank Stamp left his pro- British wine critic Stuart Pigott, writing fession to buy a farm on the west side in his Riesling Global blog, called a trio of Seneca Lake. Frank’s son Monty of 2012 Lakewood Rieslings “the best and his wife, Beverly, steered the farm wines I ever tasted from them. . . pro- toward grape growing, and after pelling them into the leading group of more than three decades of selling FLX Riesling producers.” their grapes to large juice and wine One of these wines is Lake- producers, Monty, Beverly, and wood’s fabulous 2012 Dry Riesling. their children opened Lakewood At $12.99 per bottle, this wine offers Vineyards in 1988. great value. Its beautiful balance, Today, Beverly’s son Dave is in complex fruit flavors, and tangy charge of vineyard management, freshness make it an ideal partner for while his brother Chris (Food Sci- many foods—try it with fish and ence ’83) is the winemaker. Other shellfish, spicy curries, roasted veg- aspects of the business are handled etables, and light chicken prepara- by Chris’s wife, Liz (Animal Science tions. And to learn more about the ’85), his sister Terry (Human Ecology Stamp family and their wine production, ’90), and daughter Abby (CALS ’13). For check out the website at www.lakewood twenty-five years, the Stamps have produced vineyards.com. well-made wines in a variety of styles rang- — Dave Pohl ing from dry vinifera-based wines to sweet- and-grapy crowd pleasers. Perhaps because the winery makes Dave Pohl, MA ’79, is a wine buyer at something for everyone, Lakewood’s top Northside Wine & Spirits in Ithaca. 42-43CAMso13wines _CAMma08 8/15/13 10:52 AM Page 43 44-49CAMso13watts_CAMma08 8/15/13 10:54 AM Page 44

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Pioneering network scientist Duncan Watts, PhD ’97, tackles the fallacy of common sense It’s Complicated By Beth Saulnier

arry Potter author J. K. Rowling probably didn’t mean to conduct a sociology experiment when she published her latest book, a crime novel about a one-legged detective investigatingH a supermodel’s suicide. But as Duncan Watts, PhD ’97, wrote in an essay for Bloomberg.com in July, that’s pretty much what she did. Rowling published the book, The Cuckoo’s Calling, under a pseudonym; while it got strong reviews, it sold fewer than 1,500 copies. Then its true authorship came to light—and it rocketed to the top of the bestseller lists.

For Watts, a sociologist and network theorist at Microsoft having a few early downloads, which set a song on the path to Research who was recently tapped as an A. D. White Professor- popularity—a phenomenon Watts calls “cumulative advantage.” at-Large, the case echoed an online experiment he’d done, Watts’s point, as it pertains to Rowling, is that quality is dubbed Music Lab, in which 30,000 people were asked to listen hardly a predictor of success—evinced by the fact that a critically to, rate, and download songs by unfamiliar bands. Some of the well-received work by the writer of the most successful book participants—who were randomly separated into “worlds,” or series of all time went nowhere until it latched onto the coattails iterations of the experiment—could see how often others had of a boy wizard. There’s no intrinsic reason, he argues, that The downloaded the songs; the rest didn’t know. The researchers Cuckoo’s Calling became a bestseller—or, for that matter, why found that when people could see what others liked, “inequality the first Harry Potter launched a global juggernaut of movies and of success” increased; popular songs got more downloads, and theme parks, when equally worthy works of young adult fiction unpopular songs got fewer. “Second and more surprisingly, each do not. But Watts admits that his view is hard for many people song’s popularity was incredibly unpredictable,” Watts writes. to swallow. “People just cannot accept that you got struck by “One song, for example, came in first out of forty-eight we sam- lightning,” he says. “They think there has to be a reason. And pled in one ‘world,’ but it came in fortieth in another.” So what there is a reason—it’s called cumulative advantage—but we don’t made success more likely? The more or less random situation of like that. We like the ‘it’s special’ reason. You try to tell Harry SHIA LEVITT SHIA September | October 2013 45 44-49CAMso13watts_CAMma08 8/15/13 10:54 AM Page 46

Potter fans that it’s just notes that Watts’s nom- reader been told the real answers in the an ordinary book that, ination as an A. D. first place she could just as easily have rec- in a different version of White Professor was onciled them with other things that she reality, they wouldn’t supported by a remark- already thought she knew,” Watts writes. have bothered to pay ably diverse group of “‘City men are more used to working in attention to, and they’ll faculty—not just in crowded conditions and in corporations, think you’re crazy.” sociology, but in eco- with chains of command, strict standards The Harry Potter nomics, human devel- of clothing and social etiquette, and so on. phenomenon is one of opment, management, That’s obvious!’” many Watts explores communication, phy - The point, Watts writes, is that if an in his most recent sics, math, ILR, and answer and its opposite can seem equally book, Everything Is computer science. “Dun - obvious through the right mental gym- Obvious, Once You can continues to have a nastics, there’s something wrong with the Know the Answer. transformative influence idea of “obviousness” in the first place. Subtitled How Com- on the social and behav- “We make this mistake so often, and it mon Sense Fails Us, ioral sciences,” Macy really hurts us,” Watts says. “We can’t the book examines the says. “He’s not only a understand the social world just by telling fallacy of conventional gifted writer but a a bunch of cute stories. You need theories, wisdom in explaining complex systems— charis matic speaker, with an uncanny experiments, data. It’s tricky and counter- why, say, the notions of economy that we ability to make even highly technical top- intuitive, and everything is more compli- apply to our own households don’t trans- ics come to life for broad audiences of cated than you think it is. Your intuition late to international financial markets. If non-specialists.” is always misleading you into thinking one person can balance a household A central part of Watts’s argument is you understand things that you don’t.” budget or settle a dispute between neigh- that hindsight isn’t 20/20; it’s bors, why can’t Congress fix the deficit, reductive and unreliable. In a sec- or the right leader bring peace to the tion on the Mona Lisa, for Middle East? “We attribute collective example (see excerpt), he dis- atts didn’t start off change to individuals,” Watts observes. cusses how the painting lan- in sociology. Grow- “This is why we compensate CEOs the guished in relative obscurity for ing up in a small way we do; why we lionize Steve Jobs; centuries, only becoming world town in southeast why we have the ‘great man’ view of his- famous after it was stolen from Queensland, Aus- tory; why we think the President actually the Louvre in the early 1900s— tralia, he thought he has an effect on the economy. We’re but since the idea of its greatness Wowing wanted to be a physicist. Then, more or always overestimating the importance of to a fluke is so inherently unsatisfying, less out of the blue, he decided to join the individuals in driving social change.” people ascribe post-facto “common Navy, attending college at Australia’s Such a message isn’t necessarily pop- sense” explanations. (It’s the smile! It’s the national military academy. After gradua- ular or easily understood, notes Watts’s fantastical background! It’s the genius of tion, he owed five years of service. “I former graduate adviser, math professor Leonardo da Vinci!) “Common sense is really wanted to go to sea, but I had bad Steve Strogatz. “I think it’s hard for peo- the mythology—the religion—of the eyesight and they wouldn’t let me,” Watts ple to appreciate the book,” he says. social world,” Watts says. “It’s the simple recalls with a rueful laugh, “so I ended up “When I look at the reviews on Amazon, answer that maps directly onto our expe- in all these jobs I didn’t like.” Watts a lot of readers want a simple, facile mes- rience, the explanation we need to make wound up in his nation’s version of the sage. It’s difficult to get a handle on what things make sense. So we hear thunder Pentagon, doing work that eventually he’s trying to say. He’s not saying that the and say, ‘The gods are fighting.’ That’s sparked an interest in sociology and— great individual carries the day, but he something we understand; people get though he didn’t have a name for it then— doesn’t deny that great individuals exist. angry and throw things. Common sense network science. “One thing you learn in So what is the point? As far as I can see, is socially adaptive. If we constantly had the Navy is that you never want to use the it’s that it’s very hard to make these things to grapple with the complexity of the chain of command, even though you’re scientific. It would be much more com- world, we wouldn’t be able to get out of always supposed to, because it breaks; mercial, and perhaps better for him pro- bed in the morning.” everything goes up and gets jammed,” he fessionally, if he came up with a simpler In the preface to Everything Is Obvi- says. “So instead you go horizontally. You message. But he’s not going to do that, ous, Watts cites a sixty-year-old paper in find the person over in Supply Squadron because he’s honest. So he gives you, as which sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld de - who was a classmate of a friend of yours, clearly as he can, his very complicated scribed the findings of a study of service- and get them to help you get whatever you message. And that takes integrity, because men during and after World War II—for need. Whereas, if you go through your it’s a hard sell.” example, the fact that men from rural commander’s commander’s commander, While the book may not offer user- backgrounds had better morale than their nothing will ever happen.” friendly tropes in the vein of Malcolm urban counterparts. That makes perfect The lesson, he says, is that there’s an Gladwell, to some in academia and sense, Watts notes; after all, rural men in important distinction between how we beyond, Watts’s approach offers an the Forties were accustomed to harsher liv- think the world works and how it actu- intriguing and potentially powerful way ing and more physical labor, so it follows ally functions. While we’re comfortable to approach complex problems—particu- that military life would seem more pleas- with the idea that a few trendsetters dic- larly in an era when the Internet can facil- ant. But then Lazarsfeld pulls a switcher - tate fashion, for example—or that a itate virtual experiments on a massive oo: it was actually city natives who were Patient Zero is responsible for the spread scale. Cornell sociologist Michael Macy happier in the Army. “Of course, had the of a deadly disease—the truth is far 46 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 44-49CAMso13watts_CAMma08 8/15/13 10:54 AM Page 47

Group Think

n 1519, shortly before he died, the Italian artist, scientist, and inventor Leonardo da Vinci put the An excerpt from finishing touches on a portrait of a young Floren- Everything Is Obvious tine woman, Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo, whose husband, a wealthy silk merchant, had explores the ‘wisdom commissioned the painting sixteen years earlier to and madness of crowds’ celebrate the birth of their son. By the time he finished it, Leonardo had moved to France at the invitation of King François I, who eventually purchased the painting; thus apparently neither Ms. del Giocondo By Duncan Watts Inor her husband ever got the chance to view Leonardo’s THE LOUVRE MUSEUM handiwork. Which is a pity really, because five hundred years later that painting has made her face about the most famous face in all of history. The painting, of course, is the Mona Lisa, and for those who have lived their entire lives in a cave, it now hangs in a bulletproof, climate-controlled case on a wall all by itself in the Musée du Louvre in Paris. Louvre officials estimate that nearly 80 percent of their six million visitors each year come primarily to see it. Its current insurance value is estimated at nearly $700 million—far in excess of any painting ever sold—but it is unclear that any price could be meaningfully assigned to it. The Mona Lisa, it seems fair to say, is more than just a painting—it is a touchstone of Western culture. It has been copied, parodied, praised, mocked, co-opted, analyzed, and spec- ulated upon more than any other work of art. Its origins, for centuries shrouded in mystery, have captivated schol- which nobody seemed to be paying the slightest atten- ars, and its name has leant itself to operas, movies, songs, tion. As far as I could tell, the Mona Lisa looked like an people, ships—even a crater on Venus. amazing accomplishment of artistic talent, but no more Knowing all this, a naïve visitor to the Louvre might so than those other three. In fact, if I hadn’t already be forgiven for experiencing a sense of, well, disappoint- known which painting was the famous one, I doubt that ment upon first laying eyes on the most famous painting I could have picked it out of a lineup. For that matter, if in the world. To start with, it is surprisingly small. And you had put it in with any number of the other great being enclosed in that bulletproof box, and invariably works of art on display at the Louvre, I’m quite positive surrounded by mobs of picture-snapping tourists, it is it wouldn’t have jumped out at me as the obvious con- irritatingly difficult to see. So when you do finally get up tender for most-famous-painting award. close, you’re really expecting something special—what Now, Kenneth Clark might well reply that that’s why the art critic Kenneth Clark called “the supreme exam- he’s the art critic and I’m not—that there are attributes ple of perfection,” which causes viewers to “forget all of mastery that are evident only to the trained eye, and our misgivings in admiration of perfect mastery.” Well, that neophytes like me would do better simply to accept as they say, I’m no art critic. But when, on my first visit what we’re told. OK, fair enough. But if that’s true, you to the Louvre several years ago, I finally got my chance would expect that the same perfection that is obvious to to bask in the glow of perfect mastery, I couldn’t help Clark would have been obvious to other art experts wondering about the three other da Vinci paintings I throughout history. And yet, as the historian Donald had just walked by in the previous chamber, and to Sassoon relates in his illuminating biography of the Mona Lisa, nothing could be further from the case. For centuries, the Mona Lisa was a relatively obscure paint- Reprinted from the book Everything Is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer by ing languishing in the private residences of kings—still a Duncan J. Watts. Copyright © 2011 by Duncan Watts. Published by Crown Business, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random masterpiece, to be sure, but only one among many. Even House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company. Used by permission. when it was moved to the Louvre, after the French Rev- September | October 2013 47 44-49CAMso13watts_CAMma08 8/15/13 10:54 AM Page 48

olution, it did not attract as much attention as the works convey meaning to other people. But every time they of other artists, like Esteban Murillo, Antonio da Cor- used the Mona Lisa, it used them back, insinuating itself reggio, Paolo Veronese, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, and Pierre deeper into the fabric of Western culture and the aware- Paul Prud’hon, names that for the most part are virtually ness of billions of people. It is impossible now to imag- unheard of today outside of art history classes. And ine the history of Western art without the Mona Lisa, admired as he was, up until the 1850s, da Vinci was and in that sense it truly is the greatest of paintings. But considered no match for the true greats of painting, like it is also impossible to attribute its unique status to any- Titian and Rafael, some of whose works were worth thing about the painting itself. almost ten times as much as the Mona Lisa. In fact, it This last point presents a problem because when we wasn’t until the twentieth century that the Mona Lisa try to explain the success of the Mona Lisa, it is pre- began its meteoric rise to global brand name. And even cisely its attributes on which we focus our attention. If then it wasn’t the result of art critics suddenly appreciat- you’re Kenneth Clark, you don’t need to know anything ing the genius that had sat among them for so long, nor about the circumstances of the Mona Lisa’s rise to fame was it due to the efforts of museum curators, socialites, to know why it happened—everything you need to wealthy patrons, politicians, or kings. Rather, it all know is right there in front of you. To oversimplify only began with a burglary. slightly, the Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in On August 21, 1911, a disgruntled Louvre employee the world because it is the best, and although it might named Vincenzo Peruggia hid in a broom closet until have taken us a while to figure this out, it was inevitable closing time and then walked out of the museum with that we would. And that’s why so many people are puz- the Mona Lisa tucked under his coat. A proud Italian, zled when they first actually set eyes on the Mona Lisa. Peruggia apparently believed that the Mona Lisa ought They’re expecting these intrinsic qualities to be apparent, rightly to be displayed in Italy, not France, and he was and they’re not. Of course, most of us, when faced with determined to repatriate the long-lost treasure person- this moment of dissonance, simply shrug our shoulders ally. Like many art thieves, however, Peruggia discovered and assume that somebody wiser than us has seen things that it was much easier to steal a famous work of art we can’t see. And yet as Sassoon deftly but relentlessly than to dispose of it. After hiding it in his apartment for lays out, whatever attributes the experts cite as evi- two years, he was arrested while attempting to sell it to dence—the novel painting technique that Leonardo the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. But although he failed in employed to produce so gauzy a finish, the mysterious his mission, Peruggia succeeded in catapulting the Mona subject, her enigmatic smile, even da Vinci’s own fame— Lisa into a new category of fame. The French public was one can always find numerous other works of art that captivated by the bold theft and electrified by the paint- would seem as good, or even better. ing’s unexpected recovery. The Italians, too, were thrilled Of course, one can always get around this problem by the patriotism of their countryman, and treated by pointing out that it’s not any one attribute of the Peruggia more like a hero than a criminal—before the Mona Lisa that makes it so special, but rather the com- Mona Lisa was returned to its French owner, it was bination of all its attributes—the smile, and the use of shown all over Italy. light, and the fantastical background, and so on. There’s From that point on, the Mona Lisa never looked actually no way to beat this argument, because the back. The painting was to be the object of criminal Mona Lisa is of course a unique object. No matter how activity twice more—first, when a vandal threw acid on many similar portraits or paintings some pesky skeptic it, and then when a young Bolivian, Ugo Ungaza Ville- drags out of the dustbin of history, one can always find gas, threw a rock at it. But primarily it became a refer- some difference between them and the one that we all ence point for other artists—most famously in 1919, know is the deserving winner. Unfortunately, however, when the Dadaist Marcel Duchamp parodied the paint- this argument wins only at the cost of eviscerating itself. ing and poked fun at its creator by adorning a commer- It sounds as if we’re assessing the quality of a work of cial reproduction with a mustache, a goatee, and an art in terms of its attributes, but in fact we’re doing the obscene inscription. Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol fol- opposite—deciding first which painting is the best, and lowed suit with their own interpretations, and so did only then inferring from its attributes the metrics of many others—in all, it has been copied hundreds of quality. Subsequently, we can invoke these metrics to jus- times and incorporated into thousands of advertise- tify the known outcome in a way that seems rational ments. As Sassoon points out, all these different peo- and objective. But the result is circular reasoning. We ple—thieves, vandals, artists, and advertisers, not to claim to be saying that the Mona Lisa is the most mention musicians, moviemakers, and even NASA famous painting in the world because it has attributes X, (remember the crater on Venus?)—were using the Mona Y, and Z. But really what we’re saying is that the Mona Lisa for their own purposes: to make a point, to increase Lisa is famous because it’s more like the Mona Lisa than their own fame, or simply to use a label they felt would anything else. 48 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 44-49CAMso13watts_CAMma08 8/15/13 10:54 AM Page 49

messier and more complicated. “We bring he puts it, “all my time was sucked up by ‘I’ve spent my to bear common sense that seems right to everything except research.” Jettisoning a us,” he says. “It seems right that the tenured professorship at an Ivy League whole life world is hierarchical. If we try to under- school may sound like career suicide—but stand how information flows, we say it’s typical Watts. “I’ve spent my whole doing what there’s got to be someone special doing it, life doing what other people aren’t otherwise we don’t know how to under- doing,” he says. “I pretty much always other people stand it. We don’t have a way of thinking gravitate to the crack between the stools.” aren’t doing. of decentralized systems. When people He spent five years at Yahoo Research tried to understand how the brain works, before moving to Microsoft about a year I pretty much they thought there must be a little guy in ago. “I’m still interested in the same prob- there making all the decisions.” lems as when I was working with Steve,” always After a couple of years in the Navy, Watts muses. “Collective dynamics of Watts applied to graduate school, winning social networks—whether it’s risk in gravitate to a Fulbright to study theoretical and financial systems, epidemics of disease, applied mechanics at Cornell. (He was outbreaks of political violence, or chang- the crack eventually able to avoid returning to mili- ing social norms. These are the biggest tary service by reimbursing the govern- issues of our time and they affect every- between the ment for his training costs.) On the Hill, one, but we have very little idea of why he worked under Strogatz on a project they happen. It’s endlessly shocking to me stools.’ that started with how networks of tree how unscientific we are about how we go crickets synchronize their chirps, and about solving these big social and eco- wound up as a career maker. In work that nomic problems—that we leave it to our essentially served as a roadmap for mod- instincts to make these weighty and con- ern network science, Watts and Strogatz sequential decisions. So that’s the mission; cracked what’s known as the “small that’s what gets me excited.” world” or “six degrees” problem— why, even in a system as large as the population of the Earth, a relative atts is well aware handful of connections unites us all. In of the fact that the paper—“Collective Dynamics of he is, in many ‘Small-World’ Networks,” published in ways, a poster Nature in June 1998—the researchers child for cumula- demonstrated the “six degrees” phe- tive advantage— nomenon in three disparate systems: the how flukes can engender long-term suc- power grid of the western U.S., the neuralWcess. He went to grad school because the network of the worm C. elegans, and col- Navy wouldn’t let him go to sea. The laborations among actors on the Internet Nature paper got a second look because Movie Database. that one review was so peremptory, the The paper caused a sensation, prompt- editor sent it out again. The paper gave ing stories in the national media—a pop- him the cachet to get Small Worlds pub- ular parlor game at the time was “Six lished; that book’s editor was instrumen- Degrees of Kevin Bacon”—and helping tal in getting his next one, Six Degrees: Watts get his first book, Small Worlds: The Science of a Connected Age, published The Dynamics of Networks Between by another house. Six Degrees helped him Order and Randomness, published by get tenure at Columbia—and so on. “Peo- Princeton University Press. It remains one ple often think it’s depressing to say that of the most cited papers in the field, with things are random, they’re unpredictable, more than 20,000 citations on Google and that undercuts their meaning,” Watts Scholar. But Watts notes that it almost muses. “They think if the Mona Lisa is didn’t get published, initially being rejected just an accident, they’ll never be able to by Nature because the reviewers didn’t look at it the same way again. But mean- know what to make of it; one of them dis- ing is different from explanation. It’s true missed it in two highly critical sentences. that if we re-ran history, some other paint- “There was no such thing as network sci- ing would be famous and not the Mona ence,” Watts notes. “I didn’t even know Lisa. It’s probably true for your life, your CENTRE POMPIDOU what to call what I was doing. It wasn’t relationships; how I met my girlfriend was Sincerest form of flattery: sociology. It wasn’t graph theory. There a total accident that could easily not have Marcel Duchamp’s classic were no jobs and no funding. Before Steve happened. Almost anything of impor- parody of the Mona Lisa would let me work on the problem, he tance—meeting Strogatz—was a random made me promise that I wasn’t interested fluke. But meaning is a different thing. To in having an academic career.” say that something is random is not to say But he did have one; he went on to that it’s not meaningful. Meaning is a con- become a full professor in sociology at struct that we place on the event once we Columbia, eventually leaving because, as know it’s important.” c September | October 2013 49 50-55CAMso13deer_CAMma08 8/15/13 10:55 AM Page 50

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The Cornell’s deer Buck management program tackles a cloven-hooved Stops conundrum Here By Sharon Tregaskis

osh Eckenrode ’01 was at the register of his other than the stitches and some bruising, its only mark of the day’s adventure was a bro- downtown Ithaca café when he heard the ken antler. “They’re very resilient, tough.” crash of a plate glass window shattering. It Perhaps too tough, if the rising tide of was a Sunday in early June and, on the side- conflict with humans is any indication. Every spring, does preparing to fawn clean Jwalk outside the historic Dewitt Mall, throngs of pedestri- house, chasing their yearling sons from their ans had gathered for the annual Ithaca Festival. natal territory. And every spring, as those young bucks search for a territory of their own, reports escalate of deer in places where As Eckenrode looked up, a ninety-pound yearling buck—bleeding, confused, they don’t belong. “They get into all sorts of and a little off balance as it slipped across the linoleum floor—careened from the trouble as they try to find new habitat and toy store into the windows of the oriental rug and book shops, then straight for home range,” says Boulanger. The conflicts some thirty Café DeWitt diners enjoying a brunch of huevos rancheros, lemon boil down to basic arithmetic: with minimal soufflé pancakes, and some of the strongest coffee in town. “It was pandemo- predation and expansive forage thanks to nium,” says the restaurateur. “People were screaming; stuff was knocked off farm fields and lush landscaping throughout tables.” the Northeast, deer populations have risen In the café, the deer clattered along the bench seats at the back of the dining exponentially. Meanwhile, humans aren’t area, put a hoof through a half-wall of aquariums, and slid into the dish room. going away; in fact, we’re spreading out, The four people inside beat a hasty retreat, locking the door behind them and trap- creating ever-richer habitat in the form of ping the deer inside. The local police summoned certified wildlife biologist Jay subdivisions, office parks, and golf courses. Boulanger, PhD ’07, program coordinator for Cornell’s Integrated Deer Research In the case of white-tailed deer—the and Management Program. country’s most common large mammal and Boulanger and a tech arrived within the hour, bearing the office dart gun. A the official animal of ten states—the overlap single shot of anesthesia knocked out the creature before the pair blindfolded it, all but guarantees an array of conflicts with bound its legs, and loaded it on a stretcher. “We discreetly carried it out, covered humans, in the form of motor vehicle acci- with a blanket, so people at the Ithaca Festival wouldn’t see the body we were dents, rising costs associated with plant loading in the pickup truck,” says Boulanger. “It was quite a circus.” damage, and an explosive increase in Lyme On campus, a vet cleaned and stitched the deer’s lacerations and tagged its ear disease and other bacterial infections trans- with a unique ID. Afterward, Boulanger drove the still-snoozing animal to an mitted by the ticks that mate and feed on undisclosed location on Cornell land, “as close as it could be to where it was deer, then make the leap to humans. found.” Unbound and its blindfold removed, the deer received a second shot revers- “There’s been a definite trend in recovery of ing the first. “It got its head up, stood up, and walked away,” he says, noting that species that are very adapted to the land- TOM REICHNER / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM REICHNER TOM September | October 2013 51 50-55CAMso13deer_CAMma08 8/15/13 10:55 AM Page 52

scapes humans create,” says associate footed ruminants remained nationwide. includes 250 human fatalities and 30,000 professor of natural resources Paul Cur- Sightings were so infrequent throughout hospitalizations each year. Lyme disease is tis, founding director of the deer program the first half of the twentieth century— now the second most commonly reported and coordinator of the online Center for including in 1942, when Disney produced infectious disease in New England; in Wildlife Damage Management Program. the animated film Bambi—that newspa- Tompkins County, incidence has risen by “It’s not only white-tailed deer. Canada pers published the rare reports of farmers 1,086 percent over the last five years. geese, coyotes, and several bird species who’d seen one in their fields. Farmers bemoan losses of more than that do well in fragmented landscapes Today, populations of Odocoileus vir- $100 million in annual crop damage; with a lot of subsidized food resources are ginianus are on par with Homo sapiens in urban communities catalog expenses closer also making a rebound.” the U.S.—and rarely are the species’ to $250 million. Naturalists wail, too: in Back when Cornell was founded, encounters as idyllic as Bambi fans might Pennsylvania hardwood forests alone, white-tailed deer were rare. Centuries of hope. Every day, deer are implicated in these herbivores are credited with damages unregulated hunting, combined with agri- 4,000 motor vehicle accidents. In New of $367 million annually through their cultural expansion, had nearly eradicated York State, insurance companies pay $200 destruction of seedlings. For home gar- a pre-Columbian population estimated at million annually for deer-related motor deners—simultaneously enchanted by a some 30 million; just 300,000 of the fleet- vehicle claims, and nationwide the toll also frolicking fawn and infuriated by the vora- cious appetite of a creature that consumes Bucolic buffet: A “browse line” shows deer damage. four to six pounds of plant material daily—the costs can’t be calculated. PROVIDED BY TODD BITTNER Now beginning its sixth year of operation, Cornell’s Integrated Deer Research and Management Program was launched in 2007 to reduce “deer abundance and associated impacts” by 75 percent on central campus and 50 percent in the Uni- versity’s outlying areas through a combination of sterilization and controlled hunting. Now funded primarily by CALS—the University slashed the program’s funding from $100,000 to $30,000 as part of its recent cost-cutting efforts—Curtis and Boulanger oversee 5,000 acres of University land, making their project the largest in Tompkins County, responsible for many of the same tasks now standard for municipalities throughout the Northeast. In addition to overseeing the surgical sterilization of dozens of does on central campus—and extracting animals from such unsafe settings as downtown cafés— the program also manages hunting on farther-flung University property. In six years, hunters have taken 500 deer from campus, says Curtis, and the team has yet to document a shift in herd size. “Subur- ban deer issues are probably the most difficult,” he adds, noting that the animals’ home ranges of 150 to 500 acres or more rarely correspond to the maps drawn by their human neighbors. “The most effective programs look at multiple management options across a wide scale and get municipalities to work together.” On central campus, the deer sport ear tags and radio collars, testament to the array of investigations pursued by faculty in natural resources and veterinary medicine related to the animals’ biology, ecology, and interactions with humans. (The café deer hasn’t been seen since its release, says Boulanger, but others tagged on central campus have ranged as far as Mara - thon, thirty miles east, and Geneva, fifty miles north.) Recent publications detail 52 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 50-55CAMso13deer_CAMma08 8/15/13 10:55 AM Page 53

LISA BANLAKI FRANK

Capture and release: A deer at the Plantations bears ear tags and a radio collar.

the most effective repellents to protect effective management of the herd.” niche between sun and shade. In the landscaping, analyze the relative efficacy From an ecological perspective, how- understory, trillium, red columbine, berg- of chemical and surgical sterilization tech- ever, the University has a long way to go amot, wild geranium, jack in the pulpit, niques, and investigate methods for treat- before it can celebrate truly effective man- angelica, lobelia, beardtongue, asters, ing free-ranging deer with tick repellent to agement, says Bernd Blossey, an associate goldenrod, and milkweed bloom beneath reduce Lyme transmission. Both Curtis professor of natural resources who organ- a canopy of sycamore, basswood, and and Boulanger also travel throughout the ized the committee of thirty stakeholders sugar maple. In the shrubby mid-story state, presenting their work and facilitat- from the Plantations, Cornell Police, Risk between, immature hardwood saplings ing meetings hosted by communities seek- Management, and the Department of Nat- thrive alongside redbud, purple flowering ing guidance on humane, affordable, and ural Resources that now oversees the deer raspberry, viburnum, spice bush, and red effective tactics to manage their herds. program. “The most important stress in and yellow dogwood, providing food and “There’s always the option to do noth- Northeastern forests might not be the habitat for songbirds, amphibians, rep- ing,” says Curtis, “but then the local com- emerald ash borer or acid rain, but white- tiles, and small mammals; the blooms sus- munity has to live with the consequences.” tailed deer,” says Blossey. “If a University tain hundreds of species of native polli- building is dilapidated, it gets renovated. nators and in spring and summer the air If the lights go out, the heat or air condi- hums with their activity. t Cornell, University tioning don’t work, we fix them. Yet our But just beyond the fence—erected in Police catalog per- outdoor classrooms are being ruined. We 2008—it looks like an army of gardeners haps forty deer-relat- can’t study or teach ecological interactions, has been hard at work. “There’s no ed incidents each other than disaster zones, given our deer woody plant between my ankle and year, primarily in - populations.” chest,” says Todd Bittner, director of the volving injured ani- For evidence, consider the Plantations’ Plantations’ natural areas. “It’s not peo- mals and those trapped where they don’t Mundy Wildflower Garden, a twenty-five- ple on mowers—it’s deer mowers.” Even Abelong—inside fenced areas or indoors. acre native plant refuge on an active flood- the trees look as though they’ve been “We’re fortunate that we don’t have the plain of Fall Creek in the Forest Home tidily pruned to preserve a clear line of volume of car-deer accidents seen in other neighborhood. Surrounding six of those sight several hundred feet through the jurisdictions,” says deputy chief of Co r - acres is an eight-foot woven-wire fence. woods. “That noticeable browse line,” nell Police David Honan. “One reason for Within it, lush, dense growth extends in says Bittner, bending to search for even a that is the low speed limits; the other is every direction as native plants find their single sapling or tree branch below four- September | October 2013 53 50-55CAMso13deer_CAMma08 8/15/13 10:55 AM Page 54

and-a-half feet, “means deer damage is off of having unique horticultural varieties if damaged by trees, to get people in and the charts.” they can’t be seen and appreciated by the out, to respond if a deer gets inside.” Even While deer nibble more than 600 public?” Bittner muses. “Every time some- worse, he says, is the prospect of simply species of plant materials—from mush- thing is ready to flower, it gets eaten.” absorbing the increasing rate of browse- rooms and lichen to tree bark and twigs, Back when the Mundy Wildflower related damage. “Canopy trees may re- cacti, nuts, foliage, and an array of agri- Garden was fenced, Plantations staff pro- seed,” he says, “but the bulk of plant cultural crops—they favor easily digestible posed a similar perimeter for the Newman diversity in northeastern forests is the new growth. Fawns learn browsing pat- Arboretum. Neighbors objected, and the understory. Once those species are extir- terns from their mothers much as young Plantations deferred. Instead, staff now pated, there’s not much we can do to put brides once inherited prized family recipes, cage individual specimens—some perma- them back. If we lose them, we lose the and each herd tends to specialize on a nently, some seasonally. “Deer have insects, birds, and other vertebrates that short list of some forty or fifty preferred diminished food resources in this whole are part of that system. If we lose 90 per- plant species. Should the deer population area, so they’ve switched to less-preferred cent of the foundation, we lose 90 percent of the ecosystem.” To quantify the pressure imposed by Fence me in: An eight-foot barrier protects Cornell’s Mundy deer in search of a square meal, Blossey Wildflower Garden from hungry herbivores. Opposite: A deer goes has launched a research project using red bipedal in search of a meal. oak seedlings to measure browse damage. White-tails prefer trillium and other members of the lily family to the oak saplings, so the trees’ survival rate serves as a valuable indicator of just how desperate the animals are for calories. An army of research assistants monitors survival rates of the seedlings, some fenced and others unprotected, on campus and elsewhere throughout Upstate New York. “Hunters may care how many deer there are, but from a conservation perspective, we need to know their effect,” says Blossey, who argues that the one-size-fits-all ratios of deer per square mile bandied about in civic struggles over white-tail management have limited utility for conservation purposes. “Whether it’s five deer per square mile or 100, it’s a useless debate. If there are 1,000 on campus and all they do is breathe air and avoid the cars, it doesn’t matter if they’re there.”

or the villages of Cayuga Heights and Lansing, both adjacent to campus, the ques- FRANK tion of carrying capac- boom or their access be limited by fenc- forage,” says Bittner. “If pressed by high ity is far from aca- ing, those tastes can be transformed in the population, even resistant plants get eaten. demic. In Cayuga Heights, where any course of a single growing season. Eventually, the only things left behind are formF of hunting is illegal and lush land- In 2012, an extended summer drought highly unpalatable or poisonous.” This scaping provides abundant habitat and turned the Cornell Plantations into an her- summer, the Plantations started budgeting forage, Curtis’s studies suggest that the bivore’s dining destination. “As a practice, for an enclosure to protect nine acres of census teeters upwards of 125 deer per we water the plants in the Botanical Gar- the botanical gardens. “Deer target areas square mile. Residents concerned about den, so they remain healthy showpieces,” with nutritious plants,” says Bittner. “It’s increasing vehicle collisions and landscape says Bittner. “The Botanical Garden was gotten to the point where it’s untenable to destruction put management on elected the only green space in the area; it was maintain a living plant museum with this officials’ agenda in the late Nineties, like a salad bar for deer.” For animals density of deer.” spurring an increasingly acrimonious bat- craving dense nutrients amidst scarcity, At the scale of the University’s 3,400 tle. In December 2012, after town leaders the healthiest plants are an obvious place acres of natural areas scattered through- won a legal challenge and then failed to to start. And as specimens are noshed, out Tompkins County, says Bittner, fences garner the requisite permission from Plantations employees apply repellants, are neither financially nor logistically fea- landowners to stage a massive culling erect temporary fencing, and, when all sible. Erecting and maintaining the operation approved by the state Depart- else fails, replace what’s been lost—at a Mundy Wildflower Garden fence cost ment of Environmental Conservation, 137 total cost of $8,000 in 2007 and more $62,000 in its first three years alone. “It does were baited, trapped, anesthetized, than $27,000 in 2010. “What’s the point requires effort to insure that fences aren’t and surgically sterilized, using techniques 54 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 50-55CAMso13deer_CAMma08 8/15/13 10:55 AM Page 55

developed on Cornell’s campus. vehicle accidents—over the The procedure—in which a doe’s last six years, Blossey has yet ovaries are removed via an abdominal to document a shift in forest incision—takes about ten minutes, once regeneration in Lansing. It’s a you know what you’re doing, says veteri- different story on the 350 narian Kyla Ortved, who learned the pro- acres that he and his partner cedure as a resident at the Vet college own in nearby Tioga County, from 2007 to 2010. Now a postdoc, where he and friends have Ortved spent a week last winter working reduced the herd by forty ani- as a contract surgeon for the Village of mals over the last two years, Cayuga Heights. Surgery costs about giving away the meat they $1,200 per animal, says Curtis, and it couldn’t use themselves. At works—slowly, but surely—on relatively least six large, healthy deer small, relatively fixed populations like remain—they can often be those in Cayuga Heights and on the cen- seen frolicking in the tral campus. Despite the appeal of chem- meadow—and Blossey main- ical sterilization—think birth control pills tains eight-foot fences to pro- for Bambi, a tactic the mayor of Hastings- tect some twenty acres of on-Hudson has announced his town will native ginseng, orchids, and pursue—Boulanger says currently avail- other native wildflowers. Yet

able options aren’t cost-effective. Curtis many of the unfenced natives FRANK conducted a pilot study of the technique have rebounded. “Trillium in Cayuga Heights in 2005 and more that never flowered before are massively acre swath of land in Tompkins County. recently with Boulanger (whose disserta- flowering,” says Blossey, “and over two While hunters still require landowner per- tion he advised), and published a com- years of planting seedling oaks, only one mission and must abide by all local laws, prehensive literature review for the jour- has been eaten.” regulations in the focus area decreased nal Human-Wildlife Interactions. “It Two programs permit hunters on Uni- costs, raised harvest limits, and extended requires booster shots or repeated treat- versity property. For both, applicants the hunting season. “The idea had been in ments,” explains Boulanger. “You capture authorize Cornell Police to conduct back- consideration by DEC for several years, a doe, give it a shot, then have to do it ground checks and anyone with a felony and they were looking for an area where again a year or two later.” Deer aren’t stu- conviction is rejected. Most sites allow they could get good evaluation data,” says pid, he points out, and they don’t like get- only archery; firearms are heavily Curtis, who consulted on the program’s ting caught. “After you capture it once, restricted and hunters must report such design and execution along with Bittner, it’s harder to capture it the next time.” details as the age and sex of deer taken Boulanger, Blossey, and other Cornell For larger, less densely residential and observed. Hunters who fail to com- experts. “Given that we’re already esti- communities, says Curtis, hunting is a ply with all regulations are barred from mating abundance on campus, and the cost-effective alternative to sterilization, as participation in subsequent years. Village of Cayuga Heights was looking at long as citizens get behind the effort and In Boulanger’s Earn-A-Buck program, its options, this seemed like a good area furnish hunters with access to enough covering 4,027 acres of University-owned for an evaluation to be done.” land. In Lansing, Blossey oversees a pro- agricultural fields and woodlots, hunters In October, three weeks after the fall gram launched in 2007 that enlists expert must remove a quota of antlerless deer archery season begins in Tompkins County, archers with landowner permission who before earning the right to take a trophy. the Plantations will host journalist Jim take does from Village property during Last year, 538 hunters harvested 165 ani- Sterba—author of Nature Wars: The the regular hunting season, using special mals. The other program, on the Planta- Incredible Story of How Wildlife Come- permits issued by the Department of Con- tions’ 3,400 acres of natural lands, uses a backs Turned Backyards into Battle- servation. Hunters comply with all state password-protected online reservation sys- grounds—for a public lecture. The next regulations, including setbacks from resi- tem. “Part of our strategy is to have as day, Cornell’s Deer Management Commit- dences and schools. In six years, there hasn’t many hunters in the field as is safe,” Bitt - tee will host Sterba with elected officials, been a single accident. “Concern about a ner says. Last year, more than 1,000 land managers, public agencies, and schol- hunter misidentifying a target comes from hunters applied to hunt in the Plantations; ars for a series of panels and small-group guns—the idea that you might shoot at a 238 showed up, taking ninety-six deer. conversations about coordinated deer man- sound or something moving,” says This fall, when Bittner received vague tres- agement in Tompkins County. “We’re not Blossey, whose queries to state agencies in passing complaints at one site, he used just putting up fences and shooting deer,” search of accidental shooting reports what few details he had to triangulate says Bittner. “We’re bringing people involving archers have come up empty. within his electronic records. “I figured together to work collectively. It’s part of “There are reports about bullets going out who it was and kicked them out of our land-grant mission to pursue solutions through windows, or someone getting the program,” he says. “We don’t want to to challenges. To be a successful, world- shot hanging out laundry—but that’s be bad neighbors, and if our hunters are class university, we have to have a world- about bullets. Even goldenrod can deflect trespassing, they’re either willfully break- class deer management program.” c an arrow, so you really have to know ing the law or they don’t know where what you’re shooting at. And surely you they are—either way, that’s not safe.” On the Ithaca farm operated by CAM know whether it’s a cat or a dog or a tod- Local efforts got a boost in 2012–13 contributing editor Sharon Tregaskis ’95 dler and not a deer.” when the state’s Department of Environ- and her partner, an eight-foot fence Despite the removal of 250 deer by mental Conservation launched its pilot protects four acres of fruit and vegeta- hunters—and another 250 or so in motor Deer Management Focus Area, a 60,000- bles from marauding deer. September | October 2013 55 56-56CAMso13cibclass_050CAMmj12CIBclass 8/15/13 10:56 AM Page 56

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By Stephanie Keene Fox ’89 hen I started on this journey as a marquee event and to actively par- two years ago, I knew that the ticipate in the Cornell Alumni Leadership W Cornell Alumni Association Conference. With our staff partners, we was about to embark on a period of in- created a training track for regional club credible change. I also knew I had been leaders. We supported participation in chosen to lead it through that change. CALC by awarding scholarships. We cre- When I think of the CAA’s evolu- ated a “care package” program for re- tion, I compare it to building a house. gional clubs and a recognition system for There are three parts to the construction outgoing club leaders. We wrote compre- of our house. My predecessor, Nancy hensive descriptions for board positions. Abrams Dreier ’86, laid the foundation We created a new award, the CAA Cup, and we worked during her tenure to de- to recognize excellence in clubs, classes, velop a vision for CAA. and affinity groups. My job was to build the walls. I CAA has done a wonderful job of rec- needed to strengthen the organization ognizing top volunteers through the Frank by shifting our structure and culture— H. T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service moving us from an honorary to a work- Award. Each year, this award goes to up ing board. Tremendous credit goes to our to six alumni who have given thirty-five CAA board members and partners on the or more years of service to the Univer- Our next area of focus is branding University staff for making it possible. sity. Rhodes Award recipients are among our organization. Incoming president Change is hard, especially when it comes the treasures of our great university. Kelly Smith Brown ’88, MBA ’92, has to something as near and dear to our Throughout, we continued to sup- expertise in this area and is a perfect fit hearts as our relationship with Cornell. port Cornell Alumni Magazine. We know to lead us forward. Kelly will make sure Every decision we made was based an independent point of view is impor- the roof on our CAA house is water- on one fundamental goal: supporting tant to alumni. The magazine is owned tight. We have already begun the brand- Cornell. I became known for asking, “To by the CAA and thus journalistically in- ing conversation, and I am truly excited what end?” In this way, we examined dependent of the University—one of the about the possibilities. why we were doing things—and if we few among our peer institutions. How- I look forward to spending more could do them in a way that better served ever, the economics of the magazine are time with my family, now that my “Cor- the University’s needs. It was critical challenging as the publishing world con- nell job” is done. But it is bittersweet. I that we never lose sight of the reason we tinues to change. This needs to be an will miss the late-night calls with the ex- are connected: we are alumni of Cornell area of focus going forward. ecutive committee and the camaraderie University. CAA’s purpose is to engage Back to the building analogy: I think of board meetings. I have been on the our alumni with the University and con- of the structure as the walls of our CAA board for fifteen years. During that time nect alumni with each other. house. The mortar that connects the my family moved four times. I gave birth We’ve accomplished a lot, in two walls to the foundation and keeps the to four children. I lost my father and sis- main areas: structure and culture. These bricks together is the culture of the ter. Through it all, one of my anchors changes have made CAA more effective CAA. Now that we have the foundation has been my relationship with Cornell, as an organization. We were better able to (vision) and walls (structure and culture and I am grateful for that. support the expansion of Homecoming change), we are ready to put up the roof. (continued on page 58)

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Cornell Boards Welcome New Leaders

he University’s major alumni Cornell Association of Class Officers ’72, and Teresa Port ’84 were elected to groups have elected new leaders, Jay Waks ’68, JD ’71, has been elect- an additional term as vice chairs. T whose terms began on July 1. ed president of CACO. Several board Joining the administrative board as Cornell Alumni Association members will hold new positions as, or elected members are Raj Chandnani Kelly Smith Brown ’88, MBA ’92, remain, vice presidents: Michael Avery ’95, Ronald Demer ’59, E. Eric Elmore has been elected president of CAA. A ’55 and Paul Cashman ’73 (co-vice pres- ’86, JD ’89, Robert Everett ’65, Rosan- former alumni-elected trustee, Brown idents—communications); Lauren My- na Romanelli Frank ’61, Lisa Barsanti will oversee a sixty-four-member board ers-Marion ’97 (vice president—diversity Hoyt ’79, Susan Deitz Milmoe ’71, and work to define the CAA brand. Re- and inclusion); Simon Krieger ’76, MBA Tomoko Morinaga, MPS ’89, Reuben maining as vice presidents are Laura ’77 (vice president—leadership); Debbie Munday ’69, MPS ’74, Christine Wat- Fratt ’81, Shana Chacko Mueller ’95, Schaffel ’89 and Nancy Sverdlik ’79 (co- ters Stuhlmiller ’93, Margaret Mitchell and Scott Pesner ’87. Bobby Tsai ’83 and vice presidents—membership); and Weingart ’78, and Frank Wilkinson ’84, Randy Rosenberg ’74 have joined the ex- Charles Stuppard ’82 (vice president— BArch ’85. ecutive committee as vice presidents. students and young alumni). President’s Council of Cornell Women Seven new directors-from-the-region In addition, ten new directors-at-large Jill Goldy, MS ’78, and Linda Gads- were elected to first terms. They are: Brad were elected to the board. They are: Bob by ’88 have been elected co-chairs of Grainger ’79 (Upstate New York/On- Baca ’91, Jonelle Bradshaw de Hernandez PCCW. Its mission is to enhance the in- tario), Jennifer Ritter Kelly ’89 (South- ’96, Nancy Taylor Butler ’64, Lindsay Li- volvement of female students, faculty, east), Michael Lee ’99 (Metro New York), otta Forness ’84, Carl Jones ’03, Antho- staff, and alumnae as leaders within Jeff MacCorkle ’88 (International), Sandy ny Lopez ’09, Amy Wang Manning ’90, Cornell and its many communities. Robinson Torget ’94 (New England), Jay Doug Mitarotonda ’02, PhD ’09, Stan Serving as committee chairs are Di- Treadwell ’61 (Mid-Atlantic), and Mari- Rodwin ’50, and Diana Tyler ’01. anne Renwick ’82 (alumnae engagement), lyn Yodlowski ’75 (Pacific). In addition, Cornell University Council Daphne Mobley ’83 (annual meeting, Marie-Jouvelle Aubourg ’06 (Metro New Katrina James ’96 was elected to Ithaca), Jeannette Perez-Rossello ’91 (an- York) and Theresa Flores ’93 (Southwest) serve an additional one-year term as chair nual meeting, New York), Elizabeth were elected to second terms. of the University Council. It is made up Ngonzi, MMH ’98 (communications), Elected to first terms as directors- of Cornellians, parents, and friends who Eileen Weingarten ’75, BArch ’76 (de- at-large were Shane Dunn ’07, Steven have shown exemplary leadership as velopment), Rita Redberg ’77 (diversity Flyer, JD ’91, Tom Pasniewski ’98, and alumni volunteers, in their professional and inclusion), Laura Ericson Granger Debbi Neyman Silverman ’85. Heather lives, or in their communities. New vice ’83 (grants), Theresa Brown-Edwards Knauss Wells ’02, Sam Pollack ’99, and chairs of the administrative board are ’89 (membership), Sarah Emerson ’84 Jonathan Simon ’92 were elected to sec- Mary Maxon Grainger ’79, MPS ’87, and (mentoring), and Christine Stefanou ond terms. Jason McGill ’88. Jay Carter ’71, MEng Perry ’85 (transitions).

(continued from page 57) Wherever my family has lived or Homecoming: September 20–22 visited, Cornellians have welcomed us. inishing touches are It is still remarkable to me how pas- being put on this year’s sionate our alumni are about their alma F festivities. The events mater. There is a bond that connects us kick off on Friday evening, across class years, affinities, areas of study, and geography. I think that is why with the second annual Fire- being CAA president has been one of the works and Laser Light Show- most rewarding experiences of my life. case at Schoellkopf Field. The It is a wonderful feeling to give back to evening begins at 7:30 with something you love. It is a privilege. music by local favorite DJ It seems fitting to end this farewell Double A and continues with letter with a final “To what end?” Why a special Homecoming dance give time and talent to Cornell? We are showcase featuring campus- incredibly fortunate to be alumni of one and Ithaca-based ensembles. of the world’s great universities. The The light show and fireworks work Cornell does has true impact. display—which garnered rave reviews last year despite a rainstorm—will start at 8:45. From exploring Mars to supporting agri- Saturday will bring an array of events, centered on the Cornell vs. Bucknell game, culture on our own planet—in every with kickoff at 3 p.m. Prior to that, the Big Red Fan Festival will be held throughout area of science and humanities, art and Kite Hill and the athletics areas, with food, music, and beer tents, plus free rides and commerce—Cornell makes huge con- games for the whole family. In addition, many fraternities, sororities, and affinity tributions. As alumni, you have an op- groups are planning events for their alumni. portunity to be part of this. As alumni, The University is running special buses to transport attendees to campus from it is your responsibility to be part of it. Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C. Also, alumni who pre-register for Home- Here is one thing I know: your con- coming will receive a special gift at check-in. nection to Cornell is one of the most For more information, go to homecoming.cornell.edu. lasting relationships you will have in your lifetime. It is worth investing in.

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Club Spotlight: Big Red Bands Alumni Association

t Homecoming, alumni of the with students to hold Big Red Marching Band and Big phonathons, reaching out A Red Pep Band will gather for a to alumni to ask them to big celebration: the dedication of a new support the band. “It was practice facility behind Schoellkopf probably the first time a Crescent on Kite Hill. It was launched student group pitched its with a lead gift from former members alumni for a major finan- David Fischell ’75, PhD ’80, and Sarah cial undertaking,” Mon- Thole Fischell ’78, MEN ’79, whose chil- talto says. “To this day, dren were also in the band. The new fa- the students still do it. cility will offer more practice and And they know that once storage space—and move the bands out they leave the band, they of their home of more than fifty years, will be expected to sup- a cramped room in Barton Hall. port the band the same The Big Red Bands Alumni Asso- way, so there is a natural ciation (BRBAA) is almost done raising evolution and financial the $1 million it needed to build the fa- support has grown.” cility—a major milestone in that orga- However, BRBAA nization’s history, which has long knew that phona thons worked to provide financial support for would cover only annual both bands. The Alumni Association operating expenses and was founded in the early Eighties out not long-term needs such of financial need for the marching as instrument and uni- band. “When I was a freshman in 1978, form replenishment. So the music department told us that in the mid-Eighties, it cre- within three years they would stop fi- ated an endowment fund. nancial support of the band,” says Chaired by Vicks, the suc- Stacey Hunt Montalto ’82. “For the cessful campaign was next two years we tried all sorts of launched with a 1989 fundraising options, but it wasn’t Carnegie Hall concert cel- enough.” When Montalto was elected ebrating the retirement of student head manager in her junior the band’s longtime music year—and facing the band’s potential advisor, Marice Stith. dissolution—she took a huge step. BRBAA has also taken Gathering all the financial data she on an advisory role, help- could find, she presented her case to ing to guide the student Beautiful music: Band alumni got their first look at the new Kite Hill the Department of Athletics as to why leadership of both bands. practice facility during Reunion, when they played together (top) and it should support the band. “They had “There’s an important perused some vintage photo albums. a limited budget, but they were able to part of BRBAA that is al- give us money, and we became associ- most as valuable as the ated with Athletics,” Montalto recalls. financial aspects,” says current president social media,” says Frank. “We are also “We were also very lucky because the Lowell Frank ’99, MD ’03, “and that’s cultivating our relationships within the assistant in that office was Georgian the empowerment of the student lead- University to improve communication Leonard, who loved the band and took ership—whether it’s offering advice and on campus, and we’re working on more us under her wing. For the next two experience, providing continuity over the long-term financial planning.” decades, she would do whatever she years, or serving as a liaison between While the band has come a long could to support the band. It was all University units. It’s challenging at way—from its original status within out of the goodness of her heart.” times, because our involvement will ROTC to the admittance of women in But the Athletics funding wasn’t morph each year as different students 1971 to the new facility on Kite Hill— enough. Luckily, former drum major are elected to leadership positions, but there is nostalgia for times past. But Dwight “Duke” Vicks II ’54, MBA ’57, preserving the student-run nature of the alumni know things need to change. entered the picture. His daughter, band is very important.” “Many of us will miss Barton Hall; Cathy Vicks ’80, was serving as drum In addition, BRBAA helps make small, cramped, under-ventilated quar- major during Montalto’s freshman sure that alumni are connected with ters do lead to a lot of bonding,” says year; son Dwight III ’84, MBA ’91, the band and to each other. Since 1981, Frank. “Still, many of us alumni are a would eventually become drum major former members have been invited to little bit jealous of their fantastic space himself. Vicks saw the desperate times play on the field at halftime of the and the larger symbolic role it can play the band was facing and rallied his Homecoming game. BRBAA also hosts for the students. Their time, dedication, classmates. With the aim of providing get-togethers at road games or when spirit, and sweat do matter to Cornell— ongoing financial support, the Big Red the pep band travels. “We’re trying to and they should know that the work Bands Alumni Association was found- adapt our communications strategy to they do is appreciated.” ed in 1982, with Vicks as president and get information out to our alumni and The Big Red Bands facility dedica- Montalto as vice president. With supporters in a more timely manner, tion is set for 11:30 a.m. on the Satur- Leonard’s help, BRBAA began to work through an evolving Web presence and day of Homecoming.

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Class Notes

Many have agreed for with vintage songs, like “Oh Gee, Say Gee, you Every Year.” This was the 107th time and we look many years that the ar - oughta see my Gigi from the Fiji Isles,” etc. The forward to many more. CRC chi tecture far above has voices were well-attuned echoes of good old days We couldn’t do it without help from our been of many styles, not the least being collegiate on the Hill. CRC announced its annual donation friends like Margaret Gallo ’81, Cathy Forster Gothic. But there was a new look this year, new to an especially worthy Big Red team—volleyball Hogan ’70, Katie Beth Freyer and Lauren Coffey even to the dedicated Old Reds of the Continuous this year. Assistant coach Trude Vande Berg, pinch- of Alumni Affairs, CRC’s Connie Hosterman ’57 and Reunion Club (est. 1906, without moi). What they hitting for head coach Melissa Batie-Smoose (who our magnificent head clerk Josh Grider ’14, and saw more of than ever before was glass skyscrap - was on the road seeking new talent), gave the our intelligent, enthusiastic, imaginative, super- ers. Very impressive, particularly when they were team’s thanks with amazing grace. active class clerks Antoinette Gayle ’13 (who will lit up (the buildings, not the reunioneers), streaked Athletic director Andy Noel, whose Big Red be teaching middle school science with Teach For with blue lights. There’s a lot of that going around teams won seven Ivy titles last year and 74 total America Corps this year) and Aaron Kaufman ’14, these days. It has been said that the glass makes in his 14 years in charge besides 17 national an Ithaca-raised club squash player and wrestler for better conditions for scholarship. championships in that time, noted with pride that who’s eyeing a career in international politics. c The hurricane season opened Reunion week, two Big Redders were considered among the na- Jim Hanchett ’53, 300 1st Ave., #8B, New York, and Tropical Storm Andrea was making nasty tion’s outstanding collegiate players—wrestler NY 10009; e-mail, [email protected]. threats along the Atlantic seaboard. That made Kyle Dake ’13, SI’s top male college athlete of some reunion regulars reluctant to venture onto the year, who won national championships four roads that lead to places with leaky skies. So the years at four different weights, and attackman Rob Cornell welcomed three mem - crowd was a mite smaller this time. But there was, Pannell ’12, Division I Lacrosse’s leading scorer bers of the Class of 1938 back to as always, much to do and many old and new ever and winner of this year’s Tewaarton Award, 38 the Hill for their 75th Re union, friends with whom to revel. Our old homestead, the Heisman Trophy of lax. Andy said, “Two things and this magazine caught up with each of them the (Brud) Holland Int’l Living Center Low Rise 8, drive athletic success: the quality and will of head during the All-Alumni Lunches at Barton Hall on began to hum as returning Cayuga’s Waiters of the coaches and alumni support.” He added, “I expect Friday and Saturday. Fifties sang their signature songs during their first coaches to bleed red, but you must have the oth- Photos of Reunion in the Jul/Aug ’13 issue rehearsal since last year. Jack Brophy ’53 began er stuff.” New head football coach Dave Archer of this magazine (pp. 6-7) included a shot of our rounding up the Waiters, an a cappella triple (or ’05 “is ready in every way.” conversation with John Clement, who came to so) quartet, for reunion appearances a few years Later in the program, Noel called Carolyn Reunion from Toledo, OH, with his daughter-in- back. Most of them have stayed at HILC8 in recent Samp son, Ken Hershey ’54, Zach Schwan, and law, Chris. John, who got his degree in Mechan- years. That livens things up—that and CRC mem- C.K. Poe Fratt Jr., MBA ’89, to the dais and an- ical Engineering, was here for the whole weekend bers picking up where they left off in June ’12. nounced the following awards: to Sampson (most and arrived in time for the Spirit of ’31: Passing The doors opened at noon. First to check in beautiful woman present), Hershey (best sweater), It Forward ceremony on Thursday evening in the were Connie Santagato Hosterman ’57, Bill Bel- Schwan (best hair), and Fratt (best pants). Statler Ballroom. Stepping in for Lucy Howard lamy ’53, MBA ’58, JD ’59 (also reuning with ’53 Archer welcomed the opportunity to lead the Jarvis, who registered for the weekend but was and the Law School), Harry Merker ’51 (regular Big Red to further football fortunes. Raised in unable to come, he presented the 2008 reunion Ted Thoren Alumni Baseball game figure), Mr. Binghamton, he was sought by Harvard and banner to two members of the 5th Reunion Jean Rowley ’54, MBA ’56, Bill and Enny Spieske seemed to be headed there. A visit to Ithaca class—and got his picture taken again! The event, Dufur ’62, Bill Recht ’52, LLB ’54 (also back for changed that. Then came a call from the Harvard as described in the Cornell Chronicle, was estab- the Law reunion), John Cecilia ’70, MBA ’79, and coach, which Dave’s dad, a noted high school lished in 2011 to mark the first-ever 80th Reunion Jon ’03, ME ’03, PhD ’11, and Katie Marie Nel- coach, took. “Go hug your son,” the coach said. at Cornell, “connecting the most senior returning son Schoenberg ’03, PhD ’10 (also marking their “You should be real proud. He’s been accepted alumni with the newest reunion class.” 10th, with babe-in-arms Marie). here.” “Well,” Papa Archer replied, “I’ve always A US Army veteran, 1941-46, John was part Once again, the Savage Club of Ithaca drew been proud of him, long before he got into Har- of the Detroit Ordnance District and was stationed CRC members to the Statler on Thursday evening, vard.” When the acceptance to Cornell came, in cities around Michigan, including Flint, Saginaw, this time for its 118th annual variety show of Dave called the Harvard coach to tell him. “No- Lansing, and Detroit. Afterwards, he began work Cornell songs, jazz, classical, rock and roll, Broad- body says no to Harvard,” was the reply. “Well, in product liability at the Bock Laundry Machine way songs, instrumentalists, and magicians. It’s you can start a new list and put my name at the Co., and ultimately took over the position of pres- an offshoot of the Savage Club of London and the top,” said Dave. ident from his father. He has been married twice Cornell Mandolin, Banjo, and Glee Club and has The lunch ended with Gerry Grady ’53’s tradi - and widowed twice, and has four daughters, two been entertaining Ithaca “more or less continu- tional financial report. He called for a moment of sons (who both live in Toledo), 11 grands, and ously” since 1895, when Mater was 30 years old silence in memory of members lost since the pre- five greats. One granddaughter lives near Ithaca, and Grover Cleveland was president. Even before vious meeting: Janet Buhsen Daukas ’44, Ben in Groton, and works for Cooperative Extension at CRC. The Arts Quad tents didn’t open until 9 p.m. Franklin ’50, JD ’52, Tom Foulkes ’52, Ingvar an after-school program for middle schoolers. Friday, but there was socializing at CRC after the “Swede” Tornberg ’53, and Lee Morton ’54. Bettina “Tink” Frost, MS ’40 (Medford, NJ) Savages. Opinions were liberally—and also con- Distinguished faculty lectured in the after- and Miriam “Mimi” Johnson Faulkner (Rochester, servatively—shared. noon—on microbes, micro-nutrients, and neuro- NY), who also enjoyed lunch at Barton Hall, have There were bird walking, a mathematics library transmitters, an international studies roundtable, been friends since their childhood days growing open house, and a panel discussion of the explod- and our cosmic history and a new view of our ori- up in Ithaca. Bettina earned a BA in Biology (pre- ing world population and how to feed it without gins. Pulitzer Prize-winning Prof. Fredrik Logevall’s med), an MS in Microbiology with a minor in Bio- endangering the environment among the many, Olin Lecture looked sharply back at Vietnam—and chemistry, and a PhD from Rutgers. Ultimately, she many more scholarly pursuits on Friday morning ahead. There was music from the tents and the ended up doing research at Merck & Co., but in before the traditional annual CRC luncheon at the University Chorus and Glee Club Friday night. the years before that she worked at several hos- Statler ballroom. Jeanne Thoren was an honored President David Skorton presented his view of the pitals as a medical technician, then at the US guest. Her late husband, esteemed baseball and State of the University on a misty, moisty Satur- Dept. of Agriculture in a testing lab for brucellosis football coach Ted Thoren, was the senior, and day morning. CRC enjoyed gracious dining at the in cattle. It was while she was working in a New honorary, CRC member. He was a CRC regular be- Country Club of Ithaca before Cornelliana Night Jersey hospital that her boss informed her that fore most of the group. Ted opened many of those at Bailey Hall. Between the songs and stats came she needed to return to school for her doctorate, luncheons with his own Thorenesque wit and wis- a reference to CRC from associate VP for alumni and he personally took her to Rutgers in New dom. This time the Waiters kicked off the lunch affairs Jim Mazza ’88: “The People Who Party Brunswick to begin her studies. Unfortunately, she 60 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 60-95CAMso13notes ready_000-000CAMMA12Notes 8/13/13 3:56 PM Page 61

had to maintain the hours at her job as well, thus as well: “I’m thankful to be able to say that I’m (Dodds), who passed away in 2006, they were beginning an exhausting cycle of working, going doing well. My health is good, I’m still driving my both stellar class members. They had three chil - to class, rushing back to work, and making up the car, and I enjoy watching my grands and great- dren, two boys and a daughter named Althea ’77, missed hours every weekend for seven years, fi- grands do exciting things—and they surely do. It BS HE ’78, who also graduated from Cornell but nally earning her PhD in 1958. seems they are involved in everything—and that was then killed riding her bike on the Cornell cam - Mimi Faulkner earned a degree in Biology at keeps me busy. I sit back and watch.” Marjorie pus. They established the Althea Kraker Scholar ship Cornell and started teaching high school in Itha- Treadwell (Naples, FL), noting that the past sev - in the Governeur Foundation, if you would like to ca after graduation. At that time, students were eral editions of the Class Notes had started with make a contribution (mail to: The Governeur Foun - mostly grouped by academic ability, and she found the Class of 1942, sent dues but no news. Anne dation, 133 E. Barney St., Governeur, NY 13642). the most satisfaction in teaching at the two ends Caro Guttman sent dues from Boynton Beach, FL. Liz recalls a story Jim told about them being in of the spectrum—the very high achievers at one John Powers, BS ’43 (Wilmington, DE; jrace Paris. He was stopped by a cop who asked to see end, and the low achievers at the other who were [email protected]) started with the Class of his driver’s license. When he showed it to him, he anxious to pass their Regents exams and move on 1941. “Being a Chem E put me in ’42, and an ac- took it over to another policeman and they both to a trade (forestry, for example) after high school. cident delayed graduation until ’43. Now I have came back to Jim in the car and saluted him. They When this tracking was gradually disbanded, she moved from Georgia back to Delaware and am thought the address of “Governeur” meant that found she was frustrated in the mixed classes, busy writing a book entitled ‘How to “Comm,”’ he was the governor of New York! We’ll always feeling like she couldn’t be as much help to as about how to communicate. Hope to publish it remember Dotty and Jim. many students in that environment. She left with DuPont in several months. Now 93 years old. Jeffrey Bennett ’14 (Chestertown, NY) is the teaching to become a social worker, doing regu- Looking forward to 100. Regards to all.” Another recipient of the 1942 Memorial Scholarship. He lar casework until moving to Memphis, TN, for six Chem E, Julian Smith, BS ’42 (Ithaca, NY) writes was valedictorian of his class, a member of the years with her husband. He preferred that she not that he is “still casting a shadow.” Julian sang National Honor Society, and on the Dean’s List in work full-time, giving her time for a new interest: with the Savage Club at the 2012 Reunion show 2011 and 2012. He majors in Physics and Astron- raising pure-bred cats and judging cat shows. Back and again in June 2013. “Also in 2012, I visited omy. Our congratulations to Jeffrey. north, in Buffalo, NY, and then Rochester, Mimi Tahiti on a cruise with four younger people. This Thanks to all who continue to support our was a cat show judge for 36 years! year’s April cruise was to Italy, Greece, and Croa- class and for sending in information about their Our thanks to John, Bettina, and Mimi for tia with the same group.” lives. This column only exists because we want to taking the time to talk to us! Carol Thro Richard- Sylvia Jaffe Abrams (Washington, DC) has hear about our “old” friends and the classmates son wasn’t able to come to Reunion, but did send lived in the same house since 1965, “now, alas, you still keep in touch with. Do you have a live- greetings from Stony Brook, NY, where she spends with only the spirit of my beloved husband, in pet? I have a wonderful little dog (named for time reading, knitting, playing bridge, and—like Isidore. Greetings and good wishes to the Great Rudy Giuliani) and Liz has a pet cat. There are 258 us—having lunch with friends. Send news to: c Class of 1941, present and past.” Lawrence Kalik class members and 80 actually pay dues. So do Class of 1938, c/o Cornell Alumni Magazine, 401 (New York, NY) writes, “I am still putting in vir- keep in touch with me throughout the year. My ad- East State St., Suite 301, Ithaca, NY 14850. Class tual full time at my law practice with Herzfeld & dress, e-mail, and phone are all below. I’m usu- Notes Editor e-mail, [email protected]. Rubin in addition to being a Special Master in the ally home and would love to hear from you. Hope Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, but man- you are all doing well. c Carolyn Evans Finneran, age plenty of time to move around. In summer 8815 46th St. NW, Gig Harbor, WA 98335; tel., So nice to hear from Toni Saxe 2011, right after our 70th Reunion, I took off on (253) 326-4806; e-mail, Carolynfinn@ comcast. net. Stewart, who writes from Ken dal an Eastern European tour, and in summer 2012, I 40 at Ithaca: “I’ve been read ing, enjoyed a remarkable tour of Iceland. In between, gardening, and visiting husband Jack ’38, JD ’40, I visited a granddaughter and a niece in Califor- A couple of weeks before his in Kendal’s nursing home. Also attending PEO nia and grandchildren in D.C.” Mary Munson Ben- death, your class president and meet ings and Kendal activities.” Toni remembers son now has 27 great-grandchildren. She writes 43 unabashed class correspondent, bringing a small radio, a bedspread, and family that she is in good health and lives in a senior S. Miller Harris, dictated one last paragraph to his pictures with her to Cornell freshman year. Jeanne apartment complex in Lansing, NY. faithful editor. “The Class of 1943,” he de claimed, Robinson Cowden is in Brecksville, OH. She lost Herbert Cogan (New York, NY) is writing an- “by unanimous assent, has elected Shigeo Kondo her husband, James, at the end of 2012. other psychoanalytic paper, doing supervision, to the position of First Vice President, which means Elizabeth Schmeck Brown, MS ’45, is back in and swimming several times a week. “Aghast at that he is in line to become the president of the her apartment in Skillman, NJ—and learning to what’s happening in our world. Hanging in.” Jack class. This would make him the first vet eran of the walk again—after a long period in the hospital Weikart, BS ’42 (Hockessin, DE) is looking for- Japanese Army to become president of a class at and in other medical facilities. She continues to ward to the next reunion in 2016. “Who knows? Cornell University.” Very true. Miller passed away give away her historical costume belongings, some I may need two chaperones. All is well, consider- peacefully, on June 9, surrounded in his last days to Cornell, some to the U. of Rhode Island, some ing. I can locomote without a walking stick ex- by his large and loving family who felt blessed to as gifts to several experts in various areas, and cept on uneven ground. I drive, I drink, I eat, I be able to say goodbye. Shig Kondo (skkondo@ 4,000 items to Houston (TX) Community College, look. Best to all.” Martha Perkins Melfi (Syracuse, gmail.com) shares this: as reported previously. “I could not sell the things NY) is 94 and happy to be back paying class dues “We are filled with sorrow at the loss of our I loved—better to give them to people who would after missing last year. Her daughter notes that esteemed class correspondent, Miller Harris. He also love them.” Thanks to all for your news! c she is “alive and well after nine kids, seven was in poor health and, on doctor’s orders, missed Class of 1940, c/o Cornell Alumni Magazine, 401 grandkids, and 35-plus years of service to SUNY our 70th Reunion. We assumed that he would East State St., Suite 301, Ithaca, NY 14850. Class Environmental Science.” write this column forever, but it was not to be. Notes Editor e-mail, [email protected]. More news to come in the next issue from I am filling in temporarily to report about our Herbert Ernest, William Turin, Edward White, and glorious 70th. John Matthews—and anyone else who would like “Cornell planned everything, and with the Back with more news from the Class to send us news. Looking forward to hearing from help of hardworking staff, there were no glitch- of 1941! “Hello to all class mates,” you! c Class of 1941, c/o Cornell Alumni Mag- es. Thirteen of our classmates attended, with 41 writes former class correspondent azine, 401 East State St., Suite 301, Ithaca, NY family and friends: Jerome Batt, Abraham Brook, Shirley Richards Sargent Darmer (Delmar, NY), 14850. Class Notes Editor e-mail, [email protected]. Barbara Wahl Kaufman Cate, Ruth Ohringer “and a special thank you to our class president Frank, Roy Herrmann, Barbara Larrabee John- Bob Mueller, BArch’42, for his letter.Ken and I are son, Shigeo Kondo, Clyde Loughridge, E. Firth still ‘aging in place,’ which has its hazards, one of Class pres Liz Schlamm Eddy Perryman, Aline Snyder Raisler, Stephen Teetor, which will be lessened by wristbands with buttons (New York City) called in mid- Edward Wagner, B Chem E ’47, and Edy Newman to push in case of emergencies. I under stand they 42 June with the very sad news of Weinberger. During Thursday’s opening ceremo- are required in many senior complexes, so I am the passing of Jim Kraker (New Smyrna Beach, ny, ‘The Spirit of ’31: Passing it Forward,’ Presi- joining many of you. A special hello to Marge Lee FL) on June 11. He did much for our class in dent David Skorton singled out Miller with much Treadwell and Gretchen Fonda Gagnon.” Speaking recent years as an alumni VP, and it was always so praise, and it was so disappointing that he could of whom, Gretchen Gagnon (Cohoes, NY) sent news pleasant to hear from him. Married to Dorothy not be present.

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“Our Statler Hotel accommodations were first Lauren Coakley Vincent ’04 and husband Lesley, Kay Kesten, 1 Crestwood Rd., Westport, CT 06880; class and central to most of the activities. The new whom she met while in the Peace Corps; and neph - e-mail, [email protected]. Statler Hall, just a hole in the ground when we last ew Peter Stern and spouse Eileen. Sorry, Peter is a met, is connected to the hotel, and many of the graduate of the U. of Rochester.Missing was grand - activities were there. Our Friday dinner was in the daughter Shannon Coakley ’07. Art left Cornell in Your class co-correspondent Bob Atrium, and that is also where our class photo was 1943 to serve in the Army and later re ceived his Frankenfeld, MD ’47, had a fine taken. Alice Statler Auditorium in Statler Hall is degree in 1949. I graduated in 1943 and worked 45 birthday celebration on May 30 impressive, and we heard Dean Dan Huttenlocher for the Manhattan Project until leaving in 1945 to (the original and only authentic date of Memorial talk about Cornell NYC Tech, which we will hear join Art, who was serving with the oc cu pation Day). Relatives and guests ranging in age from 12 much more about in the future. We had our re- forces in Japan. Art left the service in 1948, and to 89 (me) came from far and wide; son Paul cooked served section in Bailey Hall, where we heard the we lived in NYC until moving to West port, CT, in “coq au vin” and sister Miriam made English trifle. Olin Lecture by Prof. Fredrik Logevall, the Glee 1955. We’re still active in a few business ventures A few young people kept up the merriment (and Club concert, President Skorton’s State of the Uni- and still involved with the class. Hope to see libation) till 3 a.m. This segues to our class’s 70th versity address, and the rousing Cornelliana Night. many of you at our 70th Reunion in 2014!” Reunion in 2015, when we can sing, visit the old “Fortunately, most of these programs are on Elizabeth Scheidelman Droz (Utica, NY; eliz a haunts, renew our friendships, and be treated in the CornellConnect video site (http://www.cornell. beth [email protected]): “I am leading a weekly the style befitting our maturity. The following edu/ video/),sojust type a pertinent word into the Bible class and keeping in touch with nine chil- items are somewhat dated, but still significant. search box, and you’ll be able to view all these Re- dren, plus grandchildren, nieces, and nephews. Thelma Emile Hunter (St. Paul, MN) wrote union events. (Do you remember the time we dis- Heading to Old Forge, where I’ll be till around that she is a community volunteer, still practices rupted the program at Bailey Hall by marching on Labor Day.” Elizabeth wishes she could still be the piano, and serves on the board of two musical the stage with our ‘Don’t Pee on ’43’ banner? We dancing, something she did with her late hus- organizations. She attends concerts, judges musi- were part of the ‘Greatest Generation’ and nothing band, John, in three formal dance groups. She re- cal competitions, and participates in a weekly sem- bothered us.) For our Saturday night banquet at members bringing an oversized appointment book inar during the fall and winter. With a group of ten the hotel, with both classmates and guests, we to Cornell freshman year—to keep track of dates. other like-minded people, she commissions new had live music playing our favorite songs (arranged “There were seven times as many men—I dated music from emerging composers. All this, as well by Miller with the help of his friend Steve Pond, 98 guys freshman year.” Durland Weale, MS ’53 as traveling, playing chamber music, and keeping chairman of the Music department at Cornell), (Addison, NY): “Still working for Addison Town- up with three sons and families who live in Min- delicious food, good conversation, and welcom- ship; helping area Model A Ford owners repair nesota. I attended one of her recitals on campus ing speeches by various class members. We also their vehicles; growing strawberries; and main- 71 years ago, where the person introducing her thanked Alumni Affairs’ Erin Kennedy, without taining a large garden (including dahlias) and said she had developed a strong interest far re- whose helpwecouldn’t have made this all happen. lawn (mowing, repairing tractor, etc.).” Durland moved from music—namely, basketball. Most of “The latest building nearing completion is came to Cornell empty-handed: “No computer, no the audience knew he was referring to Sam Hunter Gates Hall (http://blogs.cornell.edu/gateshall/), auto . . . just ready to work. My four years at Cor- ’43, star basketball player and later Thelma’s hus- across from Barton Hall. Fortunately/unfortu- nell cost my parents $125. Money was tight . . . band and an eminent cardiologist, now deceased. nately, the campus is being covered by buildings. nor did I borrow.” Our reunions have been highlighted by Thelma’s Ezra would be proud as we approach the Sesqui- Prof. Howard Evans, PhD ’50 (Ithaca, NY): “I virtuosity on the piano and her delightful presence. centennial Year of 2015. In closing, I hope that volunteer for first through fifth grades in two pub- Peg Taylor Macdonald (Chapel Hill, NC) is still all of you can contribute to this column, with Re- lic schools, reading about animals and plants, studying genealogy. She was recently hospitalized union notes and personal anecdotes, to continue looking for fossils, and giving talks to nature with a small health problem and says she would Miller’s legacy. We are fortunate to have Adele groups. Lately I’ve also been checking for correc- have preferred a cruise in Europe. She would like Durham Robinette as editor, so please send your tions in the 7th Edition of Guide to the Dissection to hear from Faith Gregory Hall ’46, BCE ’48. Ed- notes to her at: [email protected].” of the Dog, and attending meetings of the student mund Cranch, BME ’45, PhD ’51 (Bonita Springs, Epilogue: Miller’s memorial service, a week Herpetology Club.” Sigmund Hoffman, MFS ’48 FL, and Ithaca, NY) is active in tennis, studying after his death, brought family and friends back (Ridgefield, CT) has been reading and walking, but economics, and hiking. We also know of his great to the Philadelphia area. It was an afternoon of writes that he’d rather be working. He brought enjoyment of pop and jazz music of the seven music—including a New Orleans-style funeral pro- warm clothes with him to Cornell freshman year: decades past the 1930s. He wrote of a three-week cession, complete with jazz quartet—and of trib- “shirts, underwear, socks, jackets, ear muffs et reunion last year at Eastertime that even includ- utes with recurring themes: his love of cooking al.” Janice Taylor Scott (Highland Beach, FL; jts ed a great-grandchild’s visit from Germany. Ed re- (and for fennel in particular), his devotion to his 1023@ gmail.com): “Trying to fit into the digital members fellow students and getting around Navy wife, Mary Louise (Snellenburg) ’45, and all the world. Enjoying life in South Florida, still in my rules while in the V-12. He and class president generations of his family, his success in the shirt own apartment. Saw Charlie and Kit Snell Sigety, Maxine Katz Morse are responsible for the great business, his humor, his intellect, and his grati- a Tri Delt sister, last winter. We live near each success of our 65th and mini-reunion. Please keep tude for his life. He also wanted to be remembered other here in the season.” us informed of your and your family’s activities. to Cornellians in this way: “Say how much Cornell Richard Cook, BME ’48 (Oakland, CA; ploverc@ c Bob Frankenfeld, 6291 Bixby Hill Rd., Long means to me—that I am the Class of ’43 presi- aol.com): “I have moved to a retirement commu- Beach, CA 90815; e-mail, betbobf@aol. com; or dent, that I won the Vanneman Award, and that nity in California to be closer to my daughter, who Julie Kamerer Snell, 3154 Gracefield Rd., Apt. I wrote the ’43 Class Notes for the Alumni Maga- also lives in Oakland. The weather has been fan- 111, Silver Spring, MD 20904, e-mail, julie. snell@ zine for 60 years, each column taking me about tastic, so I haven’t missed the old weather in Flori- verizon.net. five hours—which equals about one year of my da.I’ve had a few health problems (like falling and life.” Amen, he would say. Thanks for listening. managing to fracture five ribs). However, maybe c Class of 1943, c/o Cornell Alumni Magazine, the corner has turned. Best to all.” Pete Bellis We report further on the “Auto - 401 East State St., Suite 301, Ithaca, NY 14850. (North Andover, MA; [email protected]) has biography of Andrew D. White” Class Notes Editor e-mail, [email protected]. been reading, writing, playing bridge, and manag- 46 and the challenges facing Cor - ing family affairs. “I completed and had published nell’s first president. Having formed an Ag School, my memoir, titled A Good Life—full of recollections President White addressed the other technical Wow!Thanks for all your news— of people, places, and things—which I will give department specified in the Congressional Morrill which should keep this space to my family and all those whose presence has en- Land Grant Act. That department, vaguely termed 44 filled for several issues. First, as riched my life. Doing fine in my 90th year.” Pete “Mechanic Arts,” “led at first to much groping to is fitting, a note from Dotty Kay Kesten (dot says he brought one suitcase of clothes and his find just what ought to be done.” [email protected]): “Art and I celebrated our admission to Cornell. “My first task was to find a First was a delicate matter. Ezra Cornell wished 67th anniversary on July 8 with a family dinner room and a job that gave me three meals a day. to establish great factories within the universi- (we met freshman year at a social at Willard I managed this in my first day in Ithaca.” More ty to produce shoes, chairs, etc., thus offering Straight Hall). We were happy to share the oc - to come in the next issue! Send news to: c Class many students opportunities for self-support. Per casion with son Dale ’72, BA ’75, and his wife, Liz; of 1944, c/o Cornell Alumni Magazine, 401 East Dr. White, “I pointed out to him that the man- daughter Lynn Kesten Coakley ’74; grand daughter State St., Suite 301, Ithaca, NY 14850. Dorothy ufacturing would be a business venture never 62 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes , MA , Herb , who , Ander- (jhutch . . Maybe (marvin m (marvin (RLGavin@ Ann Kramer Kenneth David Kenneth October 2013October 63 Hosie, MNS ’49, MNS Hosie, Win Shiras | Gene Streicher Henry Darlington Jr. , MD ’50 (dbarrmd@ msn. (dbarrmd@ ’50 MD , Jim Hutchison Arlie Williamson of NYC reports broke that his leg he at age 88. Marvin Wedeen Richard Gavin hotmail.com) has moved into a home in retirement IL. Glenview, Jones (tedann22@gmail. com) has moved from the to of Isle Ulva in Scotland remember I NY. Willseyville, running into Ann at the A&P years ago when she lived around the NY. corner Rochester, in me from c our class lifetime we have we our class.In lifetime September September Best reunion ever! In ever! we 1948 reunion Best As classmates. 2,156 graduated of May 17, we know of 1,035 Cornell Cornell Alumni Magazine Sylvia Kilbourne Shain, [email protected]. Shain, David Barr ’ ([email protected]), Highlights: Highlights: [email protected]). Keep those cards, letters, and coming! forms news ’48 ([email protected]) had a stroke last winter, from hear to nice was It recovering. is but Brinberg now and College Baruch at professor a still is who from also and great-grandfather, a of Bethesda, MD, and [email protected]) of Sewickley, PA, received PA, of Sewickley, be [email protected]) should ”which defibrillator, ceramic second his years.” seven to five for good son, 238 Dorchester Road, Rochester, NY 14610; Rochester, Road, Dorchester 238 son, Sylvia Kianoff com) has moved back to NYC, to “take more ad- more “take to to NYC, back moved has com) He has to offer.” Apple Big the what of vantage “but orchids, raising and piano the playing still is the window sill limits the size of the crop.” Hampton, NY, NY, Hampton, lost his wife a few years ago, remarried Connielou remarried ago, years few a wife his lost home from driving the all did Connielou 2012. in to Hampshire New and Boston to IL, Evanston, in drove on Friday and wedding, An- a Thursday attend Storm Tropical torrential through Boston from arriv- to Ithaca, non-stop Pike Mass on the drea Win Conclusion: banquet. Friday’s for time in ing is a to how Connielou ’em, and pick knows sure very competent and courageous person, never drove She before. Coast East to the been having de ceased, 387 non-mailable, lost, strayed, stolen, strayed, lost, non-mailable, 387 ceased, still 734 de leaves That deceased. presumed or - AWOL, (hope and dues pay 233 whom of mail, receiving fully) read this Thursday for us joining and cut miles 290 retire, to driving after eagerness her in dinner, and cocktails as frame bed the of the projection and metal a on leg her overnight bandaged was It in. climbed she In- the at house,” the “on treated, was day next all She still attended with ten stitches. firmary, resilient. are ladies Cornell events. you’re one of the 211 ’48 donors (65th Reunion (65th of one 211 the ’48 donors you’re a (also $10,430,957 raise us helped who record) 65th Reunion record) a raised $83,055,332—not record (we are showed late holders degree ’48 Forty-three bloomers). etc., up, siblings, many with children, spouses, seven of whom Arts graduated (17); from other Engineering were classes. represented Colleges (4); Hotel (7); Ecology Human (17); Sciences ’48 and our at attendance Total (2). ILR and (3); CALS of all about know don’t I souls. 79 was functions I reunion, five-year a to go I time every but you, I am now ten years back younger. come feeling you? ’bout How infancy. my in living 48 to Eli- David Barr ’47 Barr David c ’s (izeg by by Julie Blackman The The Great Brothers in Brothers The window The sill limits limits sill size the crop. the of Jay Milner ‘ Joyce Bauer Ruth Critchlow Gill Guns, Guns, Germs and Steel Maj- and and Fitzgerald’s Karlsson The new freshmen have ap peared ap have freshmen new The on campus and are discussing the book all were assigned to Antigone Kennedy, 9 Reading Dr., #302, Werners - Werners #302, Dr., Reading 9 Kennedy, When When the Was Emperor Divine “Mickey” . Having all the incoming students read the read students incoming the all Having . Speaking of the library, you may have seen the seen have may you library, the of Speaking The recent news forms (thanks for sending The next call was to to was call next The hard is (it mistakes any made I if write Please Char lotteChar Cooper 47 [email protected]) of copy capable a [email protected]) gotten management of have will our you of many dues, class the book ocles’ Soph Gatsby to give is intended book over the summer same they when discuss to - experience common a fac them university the Additionally, campus. on arrive of series a for students with gather - staff and ulty in got alumni year, Last discussions. small-group Jersey to New the in action book when the the about library conducted sessions two cussion Anne dis librarian university fall, This Manhattan. and book Otsuka’s about discussions hold Club. will Kenney Cornell NYC the at and Westchester in classmate our of obituary are classmates our of few a that report in!) them on the move. After selling his house in East Otsuka, about a Japanese-American family that Otsuka, about a Japanese-American wide- with and three spends a recall half years in all an internment we time “a WWII, Cornell during Jay. camp says memories,” and emotions ranging rolled out the New Student Reading Project in ranged has that reading summer assigning 2001, from Jared Diamond’s collec- large a donated she death, her the May.to Before materials audiovisual and papers tionher of films, 463 includes collection The Library. Cornell including recordings, 184 audio and 796 videos, “Con- Show,” Brothers Joyce Dr. “The of episodes appearances Brothers’s Dr. and Brothers,” Dr. sult cor- oncontains other also network television shows collection during theThe 1960s. and 1950s files, subject letters), fan (including respondence our While by Joyce. books and with photographs, much scripts, do or reunions to come didn’t Joyce she that know to nice is it graduation, after class through Cornell with relationship her maintained her donation. She was also the proud granddaughters. Cornell grand-of a couple of mother read over the summer.Thanks to to summer.Thanks the read over Gabel, who lives in a retirement home in Willow was call last My PA. Street, to I and NY), learned (Hurley, that her husband, Jack, is on oxygen full-time. Years ago we visited their huge corn farm two Their 209. and Rt. on stand produce are sons two and daughters Cor- Her now. both running took recently son grand nell a Purdue. with job same the at phone the hold and notes down jot to to: news send meantime, the in and time), nor Baier (Newtown, PA), who was our faithful treasurer for treasurer faithful our was who PA), (Newtown, re- a into moved she us, of many Like years. many and Bill’s death no after husband home tirement our She 65th attended in drives. Reunion longer 2011 with classmate Britt ville, PA 19565; tel., (610) 927-8777;comcast.net. e-mail, mopsyk@ Paul c Andrew Paolella Forney— , , and getting the “Mechanic sof Pat Kinne Joyce Manley (Wyndmoor, PA) to hear to PA) (Wyndmoor, SP SP Ag ’44-45 Ginny Dondero Pfundstein , , , LLB ’48, died shortly after at- after shortly died ’48, LLB , Orrie lmn and Clement Gerard ’s graduation from Cornell. He is follow- is He Cornell. from graduation ’s , 31 Chicory Lane, San Carlos, CA San , 94070; Carlos, 31 Lane, Chicory White decided that graduate decided White plan. the further to volunteered trustee One list To your in e-mail address your submis- News has been sparse recently. I only received only I recently. sparse been has News I made a phone call to Ann McGloin Stevens Levine [email protected]. e-mail, 592-5273; (650) tel., http://classof46.alumni.cornell.edu. website, Class contemplated by our charter; that it was ex- ceedingly doubtful whether such a corporation institu- with an be could educational combined fit- best men the that both; ruining without tion likely hardly were factory a great to ted manage of institution a great of managers best the be to . . such why . reasons many finally and learning; a scheme the contravened Act of Congress and the of legislation the I State. that insisted our main purpose must be to out to send State the to de- graduates trained thoroughly Nation and velop and improve the main industries lo- every in of the artisans skillful up train and country Tena- admirable. was conduct Cornell’s Mr. cality. cious as he usually was when his position was and formed, view.” much as it this must have to cost him to yielded he project, (pet) his up give acquaintance practical have should program Arts” before machinery of use and construction in the they could become leaders in great mechanical enterprises. Cornell Mr. agreed. But the sundry large pieces of farm machinery he contributed academ- to economically converted be not could be unlikely would trustees university The use. ic a at such for that time expenditures to approve a machine as teaching idea establishing radical supplied expense, own his at White, Dr. so shop, etc. power-lathe, appropriate an associ- and friend old Cornell’s Mr. Sibley, Hiram supply would enterprise, telegraphic Me- in ate their of College Sibley equip and erect to funds the chanical Engineering. It became the most suc- and country our in kind its of department cessful we shall arose: A question world. the in perhaps of samples or value, pecuniary of things produce commercial without workmanship finished highly to able were Sweet and Morris Professors value? students many employ and purposes both combine Mr. Thus, value. market had that work best the in without accomplished was idea original Cornell’s chairs. and shoes producing to resorting Include below. e-address the at me e-mail sions, to: news Send state. and city, name, your one news note—from note—from news one (Winter Park, FL), who is busy as the caregiver of caregiver as the is busy who FL), Park, (Winter her husband, grands (four came from Chile). “I still write to Alden Priscilla Cornell friends for over 50 years.” Ginny arrived at arrived Ginny years.” 50 over for friends Cornell trunk. a steamer only with Cornell ready fam- to downsize. Her 27-member travelsa and have included a Augustine St. to trip church ily reunion that included seven children and 12 (Lakewood, NJ), whose oldest grandson will be at- be will grandson oldest whose NJ), (Lakewood, were blessed with four grandsons and one grand- one and grandsons four with blessed were tending Endicott College near Boston this fall (he fall this Boston near College Her Endicott tending parents). his with City Mexico will in FL, lives presently Jacksonville, in live who grandchildren, twin sis- sorority called I Next school. high entering be ter about her trip to Ithaca for her grandson grandson her for to Ithaca trip her about Kagen ’13 law entering and footsteps grandfather’s his in ing fall. this school Orrie and Ann in 2006. 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home to Evanston from Ithaca—wow! The class- plays duplicate bridge twice a week and party Ruth Davison Dorfman and her husband, mate who came the farthest was Gerald Sallus, bridge once a week, and is “still painting, though John, JD ’49 (Wayne, PA) are looking forward to from Culver City, CA, but he used an airplane. Af- mostly portraits or plein air from photos.” Jan trips to South Carolina and Florida and to both ter working for Hughes Aircraft and others for 22 writes that “40-plus years of California sun has Homecoming in the fall and to our wonderful 65th years, he became a lawyer in 1970. resulted in melanoma, and she has been making Reunion next June. Ruth has made a full recovery from a broken back suffered last year from a fall in her bedroom. Chuck Reynolds Jr. (Vero Beach, FL), writing last year, suggested we discontinue send- Every time I go to a ﬁve-year reunion, ing the yearly calendar. “I get so many and throw them all away. The biggest change for us was sell- ‘ ing my plane last July after five airplanes, 600-plus I come back feeling ten years younger. hours of flying, and so many great adventures and memories, including two trips to Alaska, California Bob Persons ’48’ countless times, the British Virgins, Central Amer- ica, including Panama, and of course many, many trips to the Bahamas and the Turks. We enjoyed a The class dragged the bottom of the barrel a lot of doctor visits.” She would rather not be great privilege at Cornell, which literally changed and decided to make me president, and continue “spending time in the Dr.’s office.” Jan commu- our lives. Wish I could do it all over again.” me as membership chair, correspondent, and cur- nicates with two old Cornell friends at Christmas, Max Kraus (Middlebury, VT) wrote last year, mudgeon-in-chief. No problem! I will be ably as- but her closest friend died a few years ago. “We “Lois and I marked our 30th wedding anniversary sisted by our long-serving Ithaca point ladies were roommates in Ithaca and NYC.” last fall and as my 85th birthday approaches, we Martha Clark Mapes, MS ’49, as VP and Jean Ge- Fred Wayne (East Bloomfield, NY), married decided to celebrate both with a National Geo- nung Pearson as secretary-treasurer, and the Squire to Doreen, tells us that he enjoys watching sports graphic trip to Patagonia. No fellow Cornellians, of Newtown, PA, John Kent, as reunion campaign on TV and spent a recent winter in South Florida. but a fabulous group and trip. We returned to chair. Everyone stay healthy and fit for our 70th Prof. Meek at Cornell had the greatest impact on Middlebury to move to a cottage in a new retire- Reunion in 2018. Back to news from the mailbag him. Albert Condo, MS ’51 (Newtown Square, PA; ment community near the Middlebury College in the next issue. c Bob Persons, 102 Reid Ave., a.c. [email protected]) and his wife, Virginia, have campus. With most boxes unpacked we are back Port Washington, NY 11050; phone and fax, (516) moved recently to a continuing care retirement to bike riding and enjoying this most interesting 767-1776; e-mail, [email protected]. community where he is enjoying working on proj- and supportive community. We would love to hear ects in the wood shop and helping maintain the from friends.” Sadly, we heard of the passing of trains in the model railroad. He wrote that they George Tesnow of Brevard, NC, in April 2012. He Our 65th Reunion! Next June— were looking forward to spending most of the is survived by his widow, Louise. Thank you all next year! Class president Jack spring at their home on the New Jersey Shore. for your news. And start now! It is never too ear- 49 Gilbert (Ithaca, NY) and reun - Donald Feiman (Naples, FL; dfeiman@embarq ly to start preparing to attend our great reunion ion chair Carl Schwarzer (Manlius, NY) enjoyed mail. com) is active with the Cornell Club of next June! c Dorothy Mulhoffer Solow, 3608 N. this past Reunion Weekend with the Continuous Southwest Florida and as a CAAAN volunteer. At Sunset, Farmington, NM 87401; (505) 258-4778; Reunion Club (CRC). Carl, who has wasted no time their monthly luncheon he spoke about his trip e-mail, [email protected]. working to ensure that our 65th will be a most to Cuba. Don also plays tennis and golf and goes mem orable one for our class, spent much of his fishing. His family and friends have purchased an time checking out everything from possible menus apartment complex, their 12th property,inNew Jer- We have all known someone for our events to the locations that the university sey. Robert Hill (Medford, OR; rhillfvm@charter. who, we might say, “knows the has assigned to us. He consulted with the Class of net) is “reading science and novels, scanning the 50 price of everything but the value ’48, which was holding its 65th in the Statler, to Web, walking, learning history, computing, reading of nothing.” This was brought to mind by a small see what improvements might be made for ours. the New York Times, and drinking wine—even some notice in the May/June issue indicating that, for CRC gives us the opportunity to come back to of my own. We have retired to a wonderful retire- this next year, tuition in the endowed colleges will campus every June and enjoy CRC reunion events ment place in Medford, OR, with 1,000 others: be $43,185. Other ex penses such as lab fees, room and festivities with members of almost every class. marvelous food, ongoing tutorials of all kinds, and board, and activity fees (but not clothes, trans - Jim Hanchett ’53 (New York, NY; jch46@ cornell. and great views of the Rogue Valley—activities portation, etc.), will take the yearly cost to $13 less edu) is the man to contact for membership. without end.” Marilyn Gruenberg Luebeck (West than $60,000! Aquarter of a million for four years! Patricia Meid (Stuart, FL) wrote, thanking the Bloomfield, MI; alvin [email protected]) was How does price vs. value work out on this? class officers for the handy pocket calendar and widowed last December when her husband, Alvin, Well, consider an alternative. For a financial return, commenting on the larger day block style: “Any died from injuries sustained in a fall. She belongs invest the quarter million at 5 percent, if even for extra space is a help!” Richard Guilbert (Hilton to three book clubs, having read Cleo patra, Tor- only ten years, for a financial return of $427,585. Head, SC; [email protected]), married to Car- tilla Curtain, and Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, and For an educational return, invest 30 hours a week ol, has been “getting FundMark up and running, facilitates three groups at the Inst. for Retired for four years on the Internet and in the local playing tennis, and doing some travel.” Dick notes Professionals: movies, acting, and biography. Mar- library. But is the comparison fair? No! It leaves that he was one of two members of his EE class ilyn adds, “I am substituting in Bloomfield Town- out the most significant benefit of a Cornell ed- who was not a WWII vet. “I learned as much from ship schools and getting a feel about children ucation—quality of life. Something we can all my classmates as I did from class,” he writes. He three generations younger than I. My husband al- understand and relate to. That explains why our would enjoy hearing from Howard Smith ’47. Cyn- ways said I do it because it makes me feel treasured alma mater had 40,000 applicants for thia Foster Clements (Gainesville, FL; cjclements@ younger, and what’s wrong with that?” Going to the 6,062 acceptances for the Class of 2017. gator.net) is married to husband Jack and loves Cornell, Marilyn brought “nothing but clothes. My This widespread understanding of the endur- living at the Oak Hammock retirement communi- grandchildren, on the other hand, feel it neces- ing personal and professional value of a liberal arts ty, “which provides a multitude of activities and sary to bring computer, microwave, refrigerator, education matched to the vocational is not con- lectures by U. of Florida professors. I’m also writ- and a chest for storing CDs and phones.” She is fined to Cornell. Note that all the top private re- ing for our newsletter and taking lessons on paint- thinking about coming to reunion! Milton “Bill” search institutions and all the top liberal arts ing with acrylic and watercolor.” She adds, “Yes, Herzog (BillHerzog82@ gmail. com) writes that colleges are doing just fine: increased applications I’m a Gator (except at Cornell functions).” he and his wife, Carol (Felder) ’51, have relo- and percentage of donors, growth in endowments, Robert Engelbert (Rocky River, OH; rbtengel@ cated from New Jersey to Ann Arbor, MI, to be and updating and beautification of campuses. As gmail) is married to Georgia (Ganson) ’47 and close to their family. Both of Bill’s sons live in the Cornell grads we are keen and intimate witnesses would like to hear from Carl Irwin. Richard area. Steve ’74, PhD ’81, is a CPA in Ann Arbor, to what was once reserved for the elite, but is now Schreiber, BArch ’49 (Springfield, OH; schreipad@ and Don ’78 teaches in the law school at U. of available to many—Ezra’s ideal of an education aol. com), married to Charlene, has been spend- Michigan. Don is married to Linda Winkler ’80, for any person in any study; enhanced by that ing time as a member of Kiwanis, reading, and and their daughter Emma Winkler Herzog ’10 subtle, indefinable something that a first-rate col- doing yard work. Jan Schultz Moss (Aptos, CA) visits on occasion. lege education contributes to the good life. 64 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes , 101 , Guide .” Seulowitz ’52 Nora Walden Jan Hofmann , , Kuhl Kuhl October 2013October 65 Brad Bond Evelyn Hoffman and and | c Kiok (NYC) writes: “At Jeffs (Ann Arbor, MI: (Ann Arbor, Jeffs Bob Lev MacEwen sent a program a sent MacEwen . It’s an exciting project. exciting an . It’s Ed ’51 Lois Rasmussen Stern Costello, but both they since Costello, September September ’s daughter Vickie wrote to ’s tell Vickie wrote daughter us Back in the day, as I recall, the I as recall, day, the in Back was ratio six to Often one. the that much pretty in comes news Widom writes that she is living in living is she that writes Widom Honey Moskowitz “Hank” are still in Ashford, CT (jan mcculloch@ (jan CT Ashford, in still are Joan , and and , Marilyn Goldstein ’52 Pat Mahoney Lynn Heidelberger As As Frank Decker Lois Sanow 52 way. This month, however, the ratio is closer to is closer ratio the however, month, This way. make and Day” “Woman’s it call Let’s reverse. the will. we what it of McCulloch “For last the Jan in wrote October, gmail.com). months been I’ve myfor caring ailing husband— Jan is who our is past better.” now class doing mother her 1948, In chair. reunion and president Is- on Long home their from to Ithaca her drove land. She brought: “Clothes!” her school, Nursing the in was [email protected]) Huffman (Kansas City, MO) was exercising and do- and exercising was MO) City, (Kansas been had Huffman She traveling. of lots and housework ing to the “East it— name Coast, Coast—you West She first condominium.” for the perfect looking Syracuse, bus and from by train to came Cornell only.” “clothing bringing frompaedic the May of Chair Ortho 8 Endowed MacEwen Investiture Ceremony Shands/ ofhusband, Her the Inst. DuPont I. Alfred the at 1986, Surgery to 1969 from institute the of director Dean, sur- of young was for treatment his recognized “successful of training [and] children of thousands over all teams orthopaedic head now who geons sco- treating in pioneer a also was He world.” the dysplasia. hip and liosis Engel Engel a result 2012, 18, March on death father’s her of fibrosis. pulmonary condition, en- medical a of chemical chronic a as career professional his began He Refining/Atlantic Atlantic the with 1951 Rohm in the gineer joined he 1955, In (ARCO). Co. Richfield Af- in 1985. for retiring manager in Co. Philadelphia, & Haas business the was Frank retirement, ter a was He years. two for School Friends Abington of member the Rotary longtime Club of Jenkin- the with years 30 over for volunteered and town, County. 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Cruz, Santa controversial and beautiful years 17 for and Learners Lifelong in active very Bay the over & Archi- ‘Art all called a group leading I been have interest of places visit We tecture.’ special my indulging mostly travel, to love I Area. of two Although PhD), one architecture. in modern and BA interest (one Cornell to went children my other making be to seem sadly, grandchildren, my choices.” live in the East, I haven’t seen them recently.” them seen haven’t I East, the in live , . The Bob King , who , Roger Harold Managing Sturtevant, joining us.” joining and and this year, co- year, this Margaret DeLong Carmen Reynolds Sam Rose ’01 , 237 West Highland West , 237 last year, Bloom in Bloom year, last Dottie Hull , , both both celebrated the writes from Safety Harbor, FL, Harbor, Safety from writes Ostrom, and and Ostrom, wrote: “This is the first time I is time “This first the wrote: Gordon Huckle ’52 Exit 44, southeast to Canandaigua Exit to 44, southeast Fasick Fasick (San CA) Francisco, pub- National National Geographic Bloom James Bible James and and 0at Marion Steinmann , at his 75th Reunion and 97 years young, years 97 and Reunion 75th , his at —had lunch together in downtown Ithaca downtown in together lunch —had , 6080 Terrace Drive, Johnston, IA 50131- Johnston, Drive, , Terrace 6080 Harry Merker Ellis Glazier eety five ’51 HumRecently, Ecs— Ave., Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19118-3819; tel., (215) netcom.com. cjoiner@ix. e-mail, 242-8443; Joslin 1560; tel., (515) 278-0960; e-mail, phjoslin@ aol.com; 51 Plaisted ’50 Adele Mongan perhaps that think “I Holt. Leslie with authored now I’m ready to retire from the library world. volunteer chief my of is League Women Voters The Ellie Plaisted Overbaugh Marybeth Weaver class- other many of news the all on up catch to mates. good “A time was had by all, with textbook the of edition 4th the lished Libraries Public in Services Children’s Huckle As ton ished at how frequently new Bloom books ap - ap books Bloom new how frequently at ished what’s of survey ton brisk a it As found and it read I pear, centuries. the over literature Western affected he has headed Greeley, to Horace contrary that, a be will NY, Cortland, to and then Florida, to east his restarted 2008, he in from heard class Last paid snowbird. and Magazine the to Alumni subscription re- June several attended Harry 2006 till Up dues. Base- Alumni annual the in part took participated. and unions players former many where Game, ball thought Harry game), 10th (his 2005 11, June On However, player. former oldest the was he ’30 Abell Shad ow ow of a A Rock: Great Appreciation Literary Shad circa uniform cotton) (not woolen his in appeared field— connect- swings, then center several 1930.into took Mr.base Abell second over shot a with ed He ran it a out to legit single. first base! Harry see plus 2013, Reunion at again up suit to hoped In- 96th the for efforts personal his of results the Highway—Route Memorial (WWII) Division miles fantry 11 York—approximately New Upstate in 232 from I-9 long (NY (NY 21). was Harry’s brother killed in action in in living was Harry Infantry. 96th the with 1945 bill. the signed Pataki Gov. when Vegas Las is a neighbor. We have covered 50 years of Cornell of years 50 covered have We learned I neighbor. a is Sadly, Paz.” La of corner little own our in af- days five died major chemistry fellow my that 24. April on entry, above the sending ter have written to the Class Notes after all these years these Notes afterthe all to Class written been have having never and Cornell from away being of into back in to a life After mostly the visit. trips working side some with industry, pharmaceutical and Eileen wife my work, defense and aerospace in Mexico, Sur, California Baja Paz, La to retired I 25 some peninsula, California Baja southern the to home is capital, state the city, This ago. years institutions, research aof and number university a biology. marine with concerned are which of most of one has and ocean small is our Cortes de Mar Af- life. marine of collections greatest world’s the work, to back went I years and leisure of couple a science ter in papers of editor author’s an as both one of school grad the in professor a as part-time Biologi- for Center the CIB, labs, research the of am I years, 20 than more After Investigation. cal thorough- and editor author’s an as working still grads Cornell be may other it. There ly enjoying one, only met have I but here, , Paul H. Paul William , MD ’54 MD , ) worked ) , , MS ’54 c ,TX Christina ’05 , MD ’54, as he as ’54, MD , , , JD ’52 (Olean, Bill Neef , who headed the , headed who (Houston Harry Daniell Williams Weis (Osprey, FL; eaweis@ FL; (Osprey, Weis Branch (Saranac Lake, NY) Lake, (Saranac Branch Joe Dwyer Dorn (Sheffield, PA), birder PA), (Sheffield, Dorn de Roos (Johnson City, NY; “Cooly” “Cooly” , played football at Cornell. She Cornell. at football played , , PhD ’94, is a professor , in the PhD is ’94, a professor (Palm City, FL; dchabot948@ aol. dchabot948@ FL; City, (Palm Jim Ralph (Weston, MA; atkinsopht@ gmail. com) gmail. MA; atkinsopht@ (Weston, Jan ’78 Brita Smith George AtkinsonGeorge 1885 aqeieFlo Smith Fulton Jacqueline Arlene Arlene Le Beau Betsy Alexander Claire Zwart Dan Chabot Botany faculty for many years. On a recent trip to trip recent a On years. many for faculty Botany Florida, photographed and located environmentalist, and a burrowing owl—a rare and protected species Florida. western and Texas to native the of State Dept. section students exchange the in husband, Her the on still is com) hwdaniell@aol. CA; (Redding, the at also and practice practice medical internal job in private family of professor clinical as serves a grand enjoyed He Medicine. of School Davis UC school medical his with Francisco San in reunion roommate, finally got around to retiring from her life’s work life’s her from retiring to around got finally State. York New for dietitian regional a as her great-granddaughter, new a with spon- trips involved field stays with assisting and her of club, book company local the enjoys also She AARP. by sored dogs. two his and grandson Atkinson operating WWII in navigator bomber a B-29 was and BME a earned He Islands. Mariana the of out Mann in Bill at- plants. of power designer was a lifelong reception Pathology Plant a Cornell grand- tended his of honor in exhibition an dedicating Hall father, was honored as a Master of the American College American the of Master a as honored was recommends Harry a As physician, Physicians. of with a health service emphasis on national the provided. services the of ratios cost/benefit verizon.net) is “taking it easy after four careers: four after easy it “taking is and verizon.net) wife professional, Scout Girl teacher, ec home at- and daughters, seven and son one of mother gradu- college are eight All order. that in torney, the enjoy now I degrees. advanced with six ates, the playing reading, of clock, no to alarm pleasure visit once-a-year a and garden, little my piano, all my kids scattered about After the country.” died— husband her after and kids, eight raising 40 years after graduating from Cornell—Betsy Pittsburgh. from degree JD her earned Be of good cheer and send us send and Be news. cheer of good Hotel school; and a granddaughter, granddaughter, a and school; Hotel [email protected]) is a de- landscape retired [email protected]) home. her in hooking rug Cor- teaches now and attended signer have family her of generations Three son nell: is an MS in geology. is an MS in geology. his do as thinks, [email protected]) NY; firm, legal his for works still he that colleagues, in ensign Naval a was Joe Lyle. and Black Dwyer, foot- on tabs his Cornell to keep tries He WWII. large his of activities the as well as buddies ball two CFOs, nurses, three attorneys, three family: his of One mom. stay-at-home one ed- and MD, one Cornell his describes Joe deceased. is children (Livermore, CA; [email protected]) volunteers [email protected]) CA; (Livermore, on reports He Livermore. of Club Rotary the with daugh- his at anniversary wedding 60th dandy his sparked it because education Cornell his values Bill peers. his by respected highly is and curiosity his ucation in two terms: solid and enduring. enduring. and solid terms: two in ucation com) is a retired publishing CEO and now volun- now and CEO publishing a retired is com) and Society Oceanographic Florida the with teers In his retire- Foundation. Resources the Natural 44 and Cornellians “19 are there community ment English, speak whom of all Switzerland, in living Spanish. and German, French, ter’s home on the north shore of Hawaii’s Maui. of Hawaii’s on shore home the north ter’s Dartmouth dudes.” Dan has multilingual grandkids multilingual has Dan dudes.” Dartmouth 60-95CAMso13notes ready_000-000CAMMA12Notes 8/13/13 3:56 PM Page 65 PM Page 3:56 8/13/13 ready_000-000CAMMA12Notes 60-95CAMso13notes 60-95CAMso13notes ready_000-000CAMMA12Notes 8/13/13 3:56 PM Page 66

parents drove her into the New York City campus notebooks, a portable typewriter, basic clothing, able to determine that it truly came off the orig- from New Haven. A footlocker and suitcase ac- “and little else.” William Hodges (Lynchburg, VA: inal printing press and how that affected the his- companied her. Now she is involved in temple ac- [email protected]) still sings with a church tory that then lay ahead. tivities and classes, and continues “a small private choir. He lives in a residential community where The Olin Lecture in Bailey Hall is a perennial practice with parents and their infants and young he is on the activities committee and in charge of high point of Reunion and it always triggers con- children, counseling families on their challenging 15 flower gardens and 23 fruit trees. He is active versation, one of the main things that go on with role as parents in a changing world.” Barbara Oles with Kiwanis and in charge of a train restoration old and new Cornell friends. Cornell International Monty (Knoxville, TN: barbaramonty@hotmail. com) project which, after ten years, is just about fin- History professor Fredrik Logevall took a hard look is still working full-time as director of the Knox ished. At Cornell, he rather wishes he had taken back at Vietnam, about which his Embers of War County CAC Office on Aging. She celebrated 40 a business course of study. He came to Ithaca the won the Pulitzer Prize. US diplomat Will Marsh, years of developing and administering about 20 first time on the Lehigh Valley and walked the who was stationed in Saigon up to perilously near programs to serve seniors, and she and Ken cele- streets of Collegetown to find a room to rent. the very end, concurred. There was fine dining, brated their 60th anniversary snorkeling in Roatan, Bill and Ruth Christoff Landon ’53 are in mostlyinAppel Commons, where sweet pound-and- Honduras, with their five kids and their spouses. Roanoke, VA ([email protected]). Bill wrote that a-half lobsters (seconds available) were there for Lillian Schneider Gerstman (Buffalo, NY: lillian he had been shuffling doctor appointments, sched- the cracking and dissection of those who chose. [email protected]) was “trying to be as effi- ules, and money management in case he lived too Jack Brophy rounded up a number of Cayuga’s cient as I used to be” as she maintained home, long. He had also traveled to visit kids and for Waiters of the Fifties—including Jim Galusha, friends, travel, hours at the Blue Rose Foundation, weddings, wakes, and funerals. What had happened John Nixon, and Al Packer, of the almost-original and “reading too late and exercising too little.” Her recently? “Installed defibrillator, pacemaker, knee cast of that a cappella triple quartet. There were Blue Rose Foundation has been growing with the replacement/rehab, etc.” In January he expected no rusty pipes in that group reprising those good onset of bullying as a national problem. In 1948 to be napping on the beach. Back in 1948 Bill old songs, like “Halls of Ivy,” “Fiji,” and “Good she writes, “My dad took me to the Lehigh Valley came to Cornell in a 1935 Ford coupe with a rum- Night, Little Girl.” (That last one, you might recall, RR in NYC and bought my $7.49 ticket—off I rode ble seat, bringing a footlocker of clothes and a ends with, “I thought I could win you, with all to a place I had never seen and continue to love.” portable typewriter. In spring ’49, the car “rolled that gin in you.”) Liz Fuchs Fillo ’58, who stands She brought an old camp trunk and two new suit- over on a rainy night return from an Elmira bar in for her late brother who was a Waiter, composed cases that held only clothing and favorite books. hop.” Frederick T. Estabrook writes that his father, a droll, saucy, response, with which she serenad- “Everything came with me on the Lehigh Valley.” Frederick F. Estabrook, died on January 10, 2013. ed the lads at the ’53 Saturday lunch. It ends with, Libby Hunsberger Craver (Lancaster, PA) is Frederick F., a civil engineer, was with New York “You couldn’t continue with all that gin in you.” reading, gardening, exercising, and “coping with State and Chautauqua County from 1953 until he All in good fun. At the same lunch, we learned aging.” She would rather be dancing. A train trip retired in 1982. He held the dual positions of coun- that our fundraising leaders, John and Lea Paxton first brought her to Cornell, and she brought: a ty director of transportation and director of engi- Nixon, Barbara Zelfman Gross, Jim Blackwood, bike, “forgetting the hills.” Richard ’51 and Nan- neering from 1975 until his retirement in 1982. and Mort Bunis, JD ’55, convinced classmates to cy Harrington Booth are in Brooklyn, CT. Nancy FYI: For privacy reasons, addresses and phone donate at least $12 million to mater this year. writes that, due to bad knees, she is now mostly numbers are not included in the column. Howev- That’s a record for a 60th Reunion class. at home caring for her 22 rescue cats, and lately er, I do include e-mail addresses where given. If Cork Hardinge, MBA ’54, brought his walker for her husband who is bothered by minor health you do not want your e-address in the column, from Mercer Island, WA. Chuck West, MBA ’56, problems. She was due for a cataract operation, please so note on the News Form. c Joan Boffa stowed his wheelchair in the handicapped van he but still drove easily doing errands, shopping, and Gaul, [email protected]. drove from the Deep South—St. Augustine, FL. taking cats to the vet in her 2002 used Liberty Dick Hayes came from even farther south for a Jeep. As she recalls, she first arrived in Ithaca on somewhat infrequent visit from his Brazil home. a motorcycle—”a great ride over from Coopers - Our exemplary chairfolk of ’53’s Jane Little Hardy, of the ’53 Ithaca contingent, town”—bringing the usual things. Nancy also re- Sweet Sixtieth Reunion,Caroline stayed at Mews Hall, ’53 Headquarters. Long, members that someone took a photo of her and, 53 Mulford Owens and Dick Halber - longtime class historian Dottie Clark Free, who she thinks, Nancy Rittershausen McDowell arriv- stadt, appear to possess superkeen foresight. They couldn’t be there, was thanked in absentia for ing for their first day of freshman camp. Persons chose big Big Red umbrellas, with Dave Gatti’s creating—at the very last minute—a handsome unidentified, it was used as a full page photo in vin tage ’53 logo, appropriately amended, as a re - photo album of reunions past. She donated it to an old issue of the Alumni News, possibly in the union souvenir, and they decided to forego tents. the class. Bill Gratz received well-merited acclaim 1960s or early ’70s. If the magazine could be All meals were indoors, mostly in the student union for his key role as transportation czar—getting the found, she would like the women identified. named for our Bob Appel. (It tells you some thing buses and vans to roll on time—and herding the Patricia Dexter Clark (Concord, MA: sip when they start naming buildings for your con tem - cats (classmates) onto the buses. Such efficient clowes@ gmail.com) wrote that she “had a great poraries.) And there was copious precipitation. effort cannot be sufficiently recognized. time at Reunion with Hazel Lowe von Rosenvinge. Every day. It’s a shame at least some of it couldn’t There was, at the Saturday lunch, a quasi- The committee did a great job.” Always good to have been diverted to Cowboy Hall of Famer Linda class meeting, which included notification of hear. She also wrote that her husband, Cliff, has Mitchell Davis’s parched New Mexico ranch. She Homecoming ’13, with football against Bucknell serious Parkinson’s disease and that she is his said later she was probably the only one cheer - on September 21. It will be the first game for our caretaker. Pat has a season ticket to a concert se- ing for the rain. On the other hand, it was a dryer enthusiastic new head coach, David Archer ’05. ries, plays bridge once a week, belongs to a book reunion than many we fondly remember. (Not Kickoff will be at 3:00. Postgame dining is planned. club, and knits hats and scarves for homeless many around the Belvedere lounge piano way after Nominations chair Joyce Wisbaum Underberg men. She also keeps her community’s library in mid night this time. A sign of creeping octoge nar - proposed, and the class elected, Bill Gratz to suc- order. She first came to Cornell as a kid from Bel- ian hood, perhaps?) ceed Bill Bellamy, MBA ’58, JD ’59, as treasurer mont, MA, as her parents were both Cornellians. But Cornell reunions have moved far beyond and Dick Halberstadt to replace Caroline Mulford She later traveled by bus. She brought a number the tents. Nowadays, any reunioneer can find in- Owens as class secretary. Caroline becomes a vice of things, most importantly a wooden bulletin struction in just about any subject. So Caroline president. Otherwise, the class officers, including board her dad made for her. and Dick offered tours of the Ornithology Lab, the moi, your class columnist and prez, continue in John Talmage (Riverhead, NY: seagull2@opt library’s rare books collection, the Johnson Art the same roles. The class council remains intact. online.net) also wrote of Reunion: “Attended 60th Museum, and behind the scenes at notable ath- Barbara Mestel Schaeffer accepted a presidential Reunion with Carol, which we really enjoyed.” letic facilities. Ruth Christoff Landon was im- appointment to that body. John is still flying, 66 years after soloing a yel- pressed with the sight of many, many taxidermied Here’s to Lauren Coffey of the Alumni office low Piper Cub in 1946. “I fly a 1931 red open- birds, such as a drawer full of assorted orioles and and ’53 class clerks Hana Bae ’15, Zinzan Fern cockpit biplane, which I restored and fly from our the skeleton of a python—a bird watcher maybe, ’15, Helen Giles ’13, Jessica Horst ’14, Connie farm grass airstrip.” He notes that the plane was but not a friend of feathered creatures. Guion Potter ’15, and XiaoXiao Yang ’10 for all they built in Brooklyn, “one year after I was built.” In “Tex” Trau Taylor appreciated not being talked did to make this one a supergreat one. 1948 John’s parents took him to Jersey City from down to—or up to—at the rare book collection Oh. As in a few other years, when the cars Long Island, where he boarded the DL&W that and, like many, was particularly interested in the were loaded and the revelers were on the road took him to Ithaca. He brought a dictionary, original Gutenberg Bible page—how scholars were Sunday, the nature of the Ithaca climate we know 66 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes (“I Bill Len checked ’ , MBA ’57. MBA , , MBA ’58, MBA , October 2013October 67 Tom Steiner reports that he’s that reports | we hiked up to the to up hiked we Donna Jean Avery .So , MBA ’57, were in at- were , ’57, MBA Dick Stanton Al Blomquist and I became friends in friends I and became . Two other Chi Psi pals, pals, Psi Chi other Two . Oehl says, “We are never sure never are “We says, Oehl Sue Hurd Machamer September September Donald Minini inviting students to take part in part take to students inviting Jim Hanchett ’53 Hanchett Jim contributes his time these days these his time contributes and and Sun Dave Findlay Jeff Dick Strazza and and rsil Rice Priscilla celebrated his 80th with the help of fam- of help the with 80th his celebrated Mort Kolko Marianne Oehrlein Association. Next winter it will be Myanmar and it be will Myanmar winter Next Association. for- am “I borealis. aurora the see to Alaska then trips major three to two take to able be with to me tunate presented kids my ago years few A year. a that birthday my for plate license vanity special a BN2ALL7.” reads: Wilmot “finally retired from a career of nearly 60 years of years 60 nearly of career a from retired “finally sell- He’s sales.” engineering and management IT Cor- of a set including eBay, on people things many ing elderly drive also “I buttons. many cloisonné meet nell and appointments doctors’ to me) (like way.” that people interesting Chi Tai Taoist teaching been has ’61, MS Darling, An lives. she where Enfield, nearby and Ithaca in of a touch DJ “enjoyed she says traveler, ardent in Land late Holy the visiting while spring early February.” involvement his continues Jeff NY. Holley, from in busi- consulting geological international his with man- and own daughter their and Sue while ness, about learn can You market. and farm fruit a age fo- business, preserve gourmet baskets, gift their www. at tastings dinner and programs, lunch cus hurdorchards.com. to several such organizations, not-for-profit as Foodlink and grand- Hospice,their with time and spending heenjoy andBradleigh, his wife, note, brief a In children. birthday 80th a surprise he attended that wrote for party tendance, “and we all enjoyed the reunion.” reunion.” the enjoyed all we “and tendance, Ladin including friends, and ily last last knew him to be teaching at UC Santa Bar- bara”). list- homes three the to referring live!” we year where the divide Oehls The card. business her on ed in thirds, spending time in Pittsburgh, Avalon, a finished just They’ve FL. Village, Ocean and bridge NJ, improving on session Scholar Road five-day “I “I Dan it,” loved sure skills. Pris wasn’t said. hear to like She’d sport.” good a was he but did, ’55. to ’51 from Thetas any from Len’s been traveling, tending to his perennial and perennial his to tending traveling, been Len’s fa- A the and attending in Copake, City. gardens woodland York New in Philharmonic the cui- and opera Spanish contemporary cooking is hobby vorite from hear to like sine.would Len Dickson V our freshman year. One day, we a saw day, One year. V freshman our Dickson the in notice an upcoming livestock show to be held on the Ag the on held be to show livestock upcoming an to hog own their get would Participants campus. groom, train, and show—and prizes this would be thought we reason, crazy some For awarded. project great a like sounded assigned were and day appointed the on Quad Ag named promptly We hog. a big black-and-white (Savage) name last my combining Savannah, her given were We (Annie). nickname Marianne’s and around Savannah guide to which with stick big a much not was Savannah course, Of ring. show the spent Reed, Nelson Robert lives in lives Iris Gar den Iris Gar John Eisele Richard Elliott also has the rivers and rivers the has also Catherine Ryan Leslie Papenfus was reported by his son, was reported . He c and wife Linda have not left Travis who wrote: “Dad a received BS The The death of classmate Whitman retired 16 years ago from ago years 16 retired Whitman , MBA ’59, who volunteers and plays and volunteers who ,’59, MBA , MBA ’57, was a great loss. Ned was a was Ned loss. great a ’57, was MBA , Linda Mitchell Davis was probably was Davis Mitchell Linda the only one cheering for the rain. the for cheering one only the Edwin Faber One of the hard parts of our lives at this Nancy Taft 1996, he became aMaster Gardener and a Master a and Gardener aMaster became 1996, he ‘ Wilmington, DE, of stillU. verythe at active classes on nonprofit retiree at regulars and boards Delaware. They are close to half together. of time a fun have theirand grands ten leslie [email protected]. Class website, http:// class http:// Class website, [email protected]. leslie alumni.cornell.edu. 54. of recently, saying she was at MD Anderson Hospital Anderson MD at was she saying recently, had She hopeful. and cancer battling Houston in treat- the handling was and partners bridge found note, of hopeful I this write could Before ment. we had notice that Catherine had passed away February 13, 2013. before losing her in 2009. We received news that news received We 2009. in her losing before April. late in away passed he almost three decades caring for his wife, Rinkey, wife, his for caring decades three almost Rhinebeck, where both are active in their home- in their active are both where Rhinebeck, takes park, community a at to steward a is Ed time town. his lends also and College, Bard at courses her successes. with Planned Parenthood Linda help Cornell’s to contributions his light- retirement: reward— cherished most his and football weight diversity. to value learning golf, but hasn’t played much basketball or lacrosse or basketball much played hasn’t but golf, of each us, he day and enjoys many Like lately. possible. as fun much as having on plans friends. and classmates to farewell saying is point from note a gotten had I Davis, CA, and has ample opportunities for course- for opportunities ample has and CA, Davis, ac- very a in volunteering and Davis UC at taking tive environment college fly-fishing for nearby Sierra lovely the of streams golfing of tad a does he yes, oh and, birding, and a de- contains list bucket John’s from again. and note now a Atlanta, From France. to return to sire Dave Bradfield 55 in Ornamental Horticulture and at also wrestled Horticulture in Ornamental College Westminster at tiring biology taught He re Cornell. After years. 30 for PA, Wilmington, New in in that remember you will Aggies of Some Beekeeper.” Travis, “Barney” Bob was the son Bernard of Dr. from department in Entomology the taught who in of The death 1972. his 1949 retirement until - sen Edward Arps repre our and class our of member active very He years. 15 for Fund Annual Cornell the to tative seen be could and crew, ’55 the of member a was have We at Lake on all ing reunions. Cayuga row of death of the notice so received al Schwartzbaum. Our sympa thies to all their families. their all thies to Our sympa Schwartzbaum. the music department at the U. of Nebraska, but Nebraska, U. of at the department music the recent A is still traveling. very active is as a now member of three music hobby biggest Her clubs. for scheduled she’s and Ex- Ethiopia, to her took Orient trip Eastern the on tour Bangkok-to-Bali the Alumni Cornell the by sponsored October, in press , c Ken Jack Mitzi Greif, Greif, Reed, Reed, have upset my upset have , MBA ’60, ’60, MBA , Mary Gentry Call Peggy Hill Les Papenfus , , Chick Trayford Gardiner Powell Do Do you recall where you I were 1951? 10, November Saturday, a few than more a feeling have , , PhD and ’60, , 300 1st Ave., #8B, New York, NY York, New #8B, , 300 1st Ave., Dave Cindy Noble , , Russekoff, Russekoff, Elizabeth and and Elizabeth Your reunion committee left the Class of ’53 of Class the left committee reunion Your for registration does Affairs Alumni Cornell’s , and , and says it is a more relaxed area, even if he is still hard he still if is area, even relaxed a his is says more it replaced has pantry food a at Helping work. at Club, Exchange the with volunteering of years 54 emphasizing the commitment many of us have John and Eileen Schmutz support. community to in residents community retirement are longtime migrations, some NE to SW, but none until now in- now until none but SW, to NE some Gardiner migrations, Arkansas. to Illinois from move a dicating co-chairs (e-mail them at [email protected]). at them (e-mail co-chairs in our point at this south to relocations for north tracking data indicating arrows most have I lives. Sutton Vail Hershey working on transportation issues, or just being a being just or issues, transportation on working With part thanks of from the workforce. overall your committee: reunion 54 remember well the raised voices of 35,000 fans, of 35,000 voices Red well the raised remember Big the cheering for Schoellkopf, ever most the Rose old Bowl and Big Michigan, an Mighty to victory. continue to town 20-7 to a come had with Champs, Ithaca Ten left They 1889. in started rivalry loss defeat to the Big Red. It was 21-14 a very good the fall for with commencing part, most the - saw a buzz Sta into straight we ran but Palmer Syracuse, of Princeton’s in Co. and Kazmaier named was at with the game our correspondent Your forget dium. her let did never who friends, Princeton Tigers. the of paws ofthe 53-15 at defeat legendary commitment and energy of full weekend Reunion 5-8, June 1954, of Class the for 60th the plan to 2014. 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interested in being prodded by two clueless girls, animal practice in 2006. Wife Mariel and I rotate the Hotel school. She is the daughter of Charles but we did our best. And, much to our great sur- between Shelter Island, Hendersonville, NC, and and Karen Weiner Goss, both Class of ’85. Joan prise, Annie and I won first prize! We received a Melbourne Beach, FL—a continuing vacation! Have Jeremiah Reusswig was also at graduation to see cutlery set—one cleaver and one boning knife (an made trips to the Silk Road, the Galápagos, Costa her granddaughter Courtney Stevenson, a fourth- award that seemed rather inappropriate, consider- Rica, and St. Thomas in between. We also hold a generation Cornellian, receive her diploma. Any ing our fondness for Savannah). The knives had lobsterfest every July with family: one Cornellian other ’57 grandparents there for the occasion? A wood handles and were imprinted Chicago Cutlery. son, two daughters, and four grandchildren.” Bill few weeks later it was Reunion Weekend, where But the bottom line is this: today (60-plus years is a volunteer and trustee of Mashomack Preserve, Marj Nelson Smart spotted a ’57 vest on someone later) those knives are still my favorites and the a nature conservancy preserve on Shelter Island. at Bailey Hall. It turned out to be Barbara Baltzel Burton, who was there with husband Sandy ’58, MS ’63, for the ’58 reunion. Eva Stern Steadman was also at the All-Alumni Lunch. Eva’s Geneva- My kids presented me with a special area neighbor Mabel Klisch Deal was in Hilton Head, SC, in June for a visit with her son, who is ‘ the CFO for Hilton Head’s Chamber of Commerce. vanity license plate for my birthday: A correction to an item in an earlier issue: I wrote of the passing of a friend of Rachel Law - BN2ALL7. rence, but had an incorrect name: it should have been Judith Anderson Marion. Sorry for the error ’ Nancy Taft Whitman ’55 and the ensuing confusion. c Judy Reusswig, [email protected]; John Seiler, suitcase2@ aol.com. first ones we reach for! Anyway, Marianne gradu- “We have a ‘nest box trail’ there with 52 nest box- ated from the Nursing school in New York City and es, and our Eastern bluebird numbers have been married Leo van Dijk, DVM ’57. Margaret “Bunny” increasing every year over the past 12 years. I am “Oh, I want to go back to the old DeForest—who married Jack Csenge—and I were also a member and director of the NYS Bluebird days / The good old days on the bridesmaids at Marianne and Leo’s wedding. Society, which has been very successful in bring- 58 Hill . . .” If you were there, you’ll With our 60th Reunion coming up in 2015, ing our state bird numbers back since the 1970s. always remember it; if you weren’t . . . well, we we’d like to hear from you! Tell us your best I am still active in Rotary and many committees missed you and hope you’ll make our next. Our memories or favorite highlights of your Cornell for the town, etc.” 55th was a smash hit by apparent acclamation of years. c Nancy Savage Petrie, nancypetrie@opt More to come in the next column. Send news all 100 classmates present, plus their partners, online. net. Class website, http://classof55.alumni. to Phyllis and me anytime of year, and look for guests, and other friends. The early dampness di - cornell.edu. the annual class News and Dues mailing coming min ished, the mild temperatures held, and high this fall. We look forward to hearing from you! spirits prevailed among us all. We all thought Alice c Steven Kittenplan, [email protected]. Cook House was a great venue, with reasonable Apologies to several of our class - rooms (dorm living has come a long way) and mates whose news didn’t reach spaces for dining, chatting in cozy areas, good 56 the column until now. Bob and Reconnecting with classmates is gatherings (Women’s Forum on Friday morning; Diana Motycka Day (Silver Spring, MD; dayhaven always a delightful experience, beer and wine tasting; music groups; class meet - 1@ verizon.net) sent this update earlierinthe year: 57 and Mona Reidenberg Sutnick ing), and cracking open lobsters Saturday evening “We continue to be active in the Cornell Club of has recently been in touch with Sally Tuthill before heading to Cornelliana Night. All this with Washington and in many other volunteer charities. Knapp, MNS ’58. Sally, whose husband passed buses running on time to get us wherever we Bob looks forward to celebrating the 25th anni - away last fall, spent the summer in Maine. Mona needed to be: campus tours; the president’s State versary of the Organization for Anacostia Rowing and her husband are avid music lovers, so living in of the University address Saturday morning; Glee and Sculling (OARS Inc. of D.C.), an initiative he the Philadelphia area gives them many opportu - Club and Savage Club productions; Ithaca Country helped launch in 1988 to turn Washington’s other nities to enjoy recitals, ensembles, and concerts Club for Friday night’s dress-up dinner (luscious river into a recreational asset for rowers and pad - presented by the Philadelphia Orchestra. They also and with libations flowing freely); and other spe - dlers and a venue for competitive racing.” Summer attend performances at the Curtis Inst. Bill and cial events like Saturday’s All-Alumni Lunch (with 2012 found the Days on a Baltic cruise, with side Jan Charles Lutz have downsized to a retirement lots of sound from the Big Red Band). With Sun day trips to Berlin, Dresden, Warsaw, and Krakow—”a community in Philadelphia, called The Hill. In the bright and sunny, our time together was capped bit of nostalgia for Bob, who served in American spring they enjoyed “a fabulous three-week trip by a brief and meaningful Service of Remembrance embassies in Berlin and Warsaw.” through Japan and came home delighted with the for those classmates we’ve lost since our 50th. Vera Johnson Winter Lee, BS ’58 (San Fran- friendliness of the Japanese people, the lovely Some random comments were captured dur- cisco, CA) continues to usher for the S.F. opera parks, and the beauty and cleanliness of their ing the weekend. Sam Bernstein, a second-timer, and ballet. “I also made a trip to Cuba in May country.” A granddaughter’s wedding and a barge said: “It was delightful to see the people whom 2012 with a group of 60 singers. We sang four trip on the Rhone River are on the fall agenda. we knew, and wonderful to meet new classmates concerts in three cities and visited music and Ruby Tomberg Senie, BS Nurs ’75’s 41-chapter as well.” “Programs were varied and good!” said dance schools, taking supplies they are short of.” textbook, Epidemiology in Women’s Health, has Norinne Cole, “and the Ithaca Country Club din- We received news of Howard Schneider, JD ’59 been co-published by Jones & Bartlett Learning ner was excellent. A few more bathrooms would (New York, NY), who is now a senior consultant and the American Public Health Association. And have been good too.” (We’ll work on that for next in the finance practice at global consulting firm Bill Schmidt’s oil on canvas “Winter on Back time, Norinne.) Jeannine Gustafson Douglas’s Charles River Assocs. Howard has extensive legal Creek” was part of the Cruising Southern Waters husband, Hal (Dartmouth ’58), wrote: “A delight- and consulting expertise in the futures and de- exhibit at the Quinlan Visual Arts Center in ful reunion as a spouse of Cornell ’58. The friend- rivatives industry, and has been legal counsel in Gainesville, GA, this summer. ship, the memories, the hospitality were top both the derivatives/futures and securities fields, Mina Rieur Weiner and her husband took a notch.” “Great music provided,” said Myron as well as in general corporate, mergers and ac- fascinating trip to Cuba with CAU in March. “We Stacks. “Overall, a wonderful experience.” quisitions, corporate governance, and legal ethics. enjoyed the leadership and commentary of an ex- Cornell VP Susan Murphy ’73, PhD ’94, pro- He is a member of the American Bar Association, cellent Cuban guide, the insightful lectures of Cor- vided some interesting background on the “new where he chaired the Committee on Futures and nell Prof. Gustavo Flores-Macias, and the company dorm life” at Cornell during her lunch with us Fri- Derivative Instruments, and the Association of the of other Cornellians, their spouses, and their day. Fraternities and sororities had gatherings too. Bar of the City of New York, where he chaired the friends. It was a particular pleasure to spend time Sonja Kischner Wilkin reported that Chi Gamma Committee on Futures Regulation. with classmate Shirley Axtmayer Rodriguez and had 12 members back; Kappa Delta had nine, and Bill Zitek, DVM ’59 (Shelter Island, NY) writes, her daughters, one of whom is Alexandra ’93.” both sororities and many others had receptions at “After 47 years as owner of the North Fork Animal The Weiners were on campus in May to attend their chapter houses on Saturday afternoon. Sonja also Hospital in Southold, NY, I retired from my small granddaughter Jessica Goss ’13’s graduation from thought it would be great to have a class choral 68 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes , , Bill and Don s s Janice E’ reunion Pat Hicks Carl Leubs - Carl Leubs Sarah Mac - Sarah Mac Fred ’59 Anita Albert Jenny Tesar Carrie Warnow October 2013October 69 and and c . Sue Phelps Day | Cornell Daily Sun Daily Cornell , MS ’65, during their vis- their during ’65, MS , David Simpson We received We a received note gratifying with good of Class news recent the from and thanks warm September September Rissmeyer, now a Master Garden- Master a now Rissmeyer, Dave Hugle ’56 and and to the annual annual to the , who graduated in May with a major in a major with May in graduated , who and what they are doing now. Of course, Of now. doing are they what and Billings, who had come north from Corona from north come had who Billings, In late April, class webmaster webmaster class April, late In Thanks Thanks to class president The final song used Bizet’s Habanera music The song final used Habanera Bizet’s Carmen first heard from the suave lover, who lover, suave the from heard first Carmen had a good visit from class treasurer treasurer class from had a visit good Sun in New York City. “There’s always a good turnout a good always the “There’s City. around York in New go “We Carrie. says Sunnies,” former of on did they what says everyone nearly and room the the three of us are now among the oldest there oldest the of us among three now the are So it young. awfully seems staff current the and . goes that . also reports .” Carrie home retirement her from moved just has Karasu on Cape Cod to be in order CT, to in Stratford, a Village, condominiumOronoque community, aoe wentMakover with dorf ’59 Linda Miller Kelsey ’60 sev- on and Valley, Noe in lives who a son to its with together gotten has occasions eral with “along out that, Sue points in Kleis Gilroy. Barbara Esdorn Com- in together lived all we NY, Tarrytown, in er year.” junior our stock Petro graduation the for Ross husband her with Mar del Berkeley. UC from granddaughters their of one of seen also has she that reports Sue 60 1960 W.I.S.E. Scholarship recipient, recipient, Scholarship 1960 W.I.S.E. Lean ’13 - grad she begins In September in Ecology. Applied enrolled is she where Berkeley, UC at work uate a doctoral summer the program of part in spent Sarah environmental science. graduation, Island After Appledore on Lab Marine Shoals - Cornell’s at under her during did she as Maine, of Gulf the in years graduate when she served as a sistant shore in teaching island’s the the Field as on Ornithology course project and research a with helped the of support generous the for you “Thank has birds. Cornell at time “My Sarah. wrote ’60,” of Class way a find I hope I and life-changing, truly future.” been the in manner similar a in back give to pass- for CA, in Kensington, living now ’62, MEd ing along along with Sarah’s letter, other news and Sue May, In area. Francisco San the from ’59 and was sung by Carmen. She thanks the four up- four the thanks She Carmen. by sung was and perclassmen and then announces her choice: freshman Harold Horms (“My will rest the home because selected is is Harold in dorms”). the for Harold have I’ll “But sings, Carmen graduate. the of use first the was This YEARS!” MORE perhaps FOUR even America—or of history the in phrase in At the world. Cornell, 1956. tel., 06801; CT Bethel, Village, Hill Chestnut 97A [email protected]. e-mail, 792-8237; (203) began with, “Here I am the campus lover / Around lover Icampus the am “Here with, began me honeys always hover.” Next,“Shingles are my prime career / theI’ve 49 so far, BMOC: intellectual, brainy The this year.” plus 20 more “At learning the by I followed was am textuals” my most quotes Rossiter effectual / smart, too not I’m Clinton Altho / athlete an am “I jock: neat.” I’m think coaches my Avenue (now the Chapter House), which used mu- used which House), Chapter the (now Avenue and told sic the from opera the tale of a lovely (?) who was Carmen, coed, by courted four up- be- and by perclassmen a Horms, Harold nerdy, SA by written was It freshman. spectacled Rector ’57 Ron Jack recently Stewart eon Harriet Ben- offers a model a offers , , MD Rev. ’63. Making Sense of Sense Making , , one of the few s Plac s m’ Ji tin William Tyler , JD ’65, reports that American American Queen eg hmeli Beringer Peggy Chamberlain s long list of contributions to the school, the to contributions of list long s and and to show you the script and photo on k’ , BME ’60, PhD ’68, was named interim dean interim named was ’68, PhD ’60, BME , , who had hip-replacement surgery earlier this earlier surgery ,hip-replacement who had Phil McCarthy “Back on my feet and able to get over to the to over get to able and feet my on “Back As you plan end-of-year contributions, re- hus- her embracing Lady First the of photo A sorori- and fraternities Cornell 1950s, the In late 2012, during which she participated in a tech - tech a in to trip India had a She in great concerns!”) age participated she which during 2012, late And nology her in conference. latest education this book fall. will be available Life Stages: The Workplace and TMI and Workplace The Stages: Life TMI and Age Information the of sense making for ing Flow The (Too sensemaking Much Information). select TMI handling and book—for the in Charts has that approach sorting-out a cies, alternatives—are agen government corporations, by used been - infor use better to seeking services military and proaches ap innovative find to technology mation problems. of definitions new for and problems for was I when journey sense making all a on into started “I ran and FL, Naples, in townhouse a plus buying ventions, con and rules, codes, life aging the and overload chaos as in described information Cindy. Chapter 10. says The lot!” and perspective a charts I me later helped book the in used year. “Relaxing, cooking, doing fix-up jobs . . . i.e., . . . jobs fix-up doing cooking, “Relaxing, year. reports living,” just Bob ’58 jamin NYC Cornell Club events again,” says says again,” events Club Cornell NYC NJ, moved from to Basking Ridge, a retirement to ME, to two be closer in Topsham, community Earlier grandchildren. eight their of six and sons trip Cornell-sponsored a enjoyed they year the in entitled “Civil New WarSouthern to and Mississippi sailing the on and Memphis in embarking Culture,” on Orleans the enjoyed “We river. on the sternwheelers from genuine those including alums, other of company the and music Dixieland great plus universities, other stops along the way such as at the Shiloh and Peggy. writes battlefields,” Vicksburg And Fund. Scholarship 1959 of Class the member on your events important as you marking begin be 2014 sure to calendar, our include 25th Re- ask might union on you June 5-8. While at reunion renewing stories, sharing and friendships Face- campaign’s Obama the on posted was band on p.m. 11:15 around accounts Twitter and book pres- the clear became it as night—just election its and picture The term. second a won had ident know Few viral. went Years”) More (“Four caption used first was Years” More “Four phrase the that Google first its before years 16 Cornell, at 1956 in and Convention, mention by CREEP (Committee to Republican Re-Elect the 1972 the at President) Demo- 2012 the at appearance media second its delegates. Obama of chorus a by Convention cratic at skits comedy original performed and wrote ties gathering then-campus the at contest annual an 1956 in won SAE Room. Ivy Straight’s the place, with “Carmen Co-Ed,” se wrote: “Jack has earned our apprecia- and trust has earned “Jack wrote: tion as our ‘go to’ leader at times of important Provost’s the to move to prepare I As . . . change in school the I that leave I am confident office, colleague.” and leader a trusted of hands the Demer tale: lexicological this based he which Evans of U. the at School Business from Kenan-Flagler position the of the in serving is Jack Carolina. North time which it at year, this December through July cho- been have will dean new a that expected is not- Jr., Dean W. James dean, outgoing The sen. Jac ing ; for Lar- Ron- Renni Gladys Audrey Jansing Dale Reis Shoemaker Chuck Hunt Soskin. Soskin. , PhD ’65, and ’65, PhD , for leading our leading for , our co-chairs; our , Miller for the Maddi McAdams , richardhaggard Ronni Schulbaum Ronni George Ubogy Jarvie, janjarvie@ Jarvie, Dick and and Esther Puram Jarvie and Dick Haggard. Dick and Jarvie Meyer Gross Glenn ) helped behind the scenes the behind helped ) Jan Arps , a fifth-timer, summed it up it summed fifth-timer, a , Bob Beringer , in a tragic car accident. He accident. car tragic a in , Irene Lazarus Anita Podell Cynthia Cavenaugh a to days work three continues week as coordinator university Dick Haggard Jan Arps Strell for her decorations; decorations; her for Strell c for his presidential leadership of the of leadership presidential his for Russ Taft , and for our first, and so far Cornell’s far so and first, our for and , Shuter and and Shuter Bob Dunn Sears, Greeters Chair; Chair; Greeters Sears, (the (the class raised nearly $7.9 million—a Stifel for her excellent updated class di- updated Stifel for her excellent We We have many people to thank for leading After our delectable lobster dinner, we had a had we dinner, lobster delectable our After Just before Just Reunion before the class lost its West at the Southern Maryland Higher Education Center Education Higher Maryland Southern the at is boss 78, so MD. (“My he has no in California, 59 group—we have so many singers—and that was that singers—and many so have group—we noted. duly Bertenthal well: “Each visit allows me an opportunity to meet to opportunity an me allows visit It’s “Each well: school. at while know didn’t I classmates ‘new’ paths many the all about learn to wonderful also traveled.” have people this grand gathering, most especially of our past reunion experts, are already starting already are experts, of our reunion past hope sincerely We in five.” our “return for plans encourage and welcome we and there, be will you our to returning always and yearning and “longing ni Schulbaum Lunge all; to given rectory, Remembrance; of Service class their helpers who appeared early, especially especially early, appeared who helpers their gmail.com. 60th Reunion co-chairs are Dick and Connie Case Connie and Dick are co-chairs Reunion 60th one Hunt, with along Chuck and they, Haggard, are we as 60th, our for suggestions and ideas any old Cornell.” his fine background piano (and chimes ringing for ringing chimes (and piano background fine his of the class benefit and and certainly campus); Bill Standen a (for last five years of 25 total these class out our Freyer, Katie thank to got also We’ve 55!). of Cornell staff liaison, who our work so excel- helpedof process course, well, and, the whole bonuses maximum earned who clerks seven lent throughout care attentive and efficient their for (Gladys, arrivers early Other days. four the Wildner Connie Case Haggard and enjoyed their time togetherwas gave a class The in Bill gift to honor above. Cornell withand Bill, thoseand Meyer, Renni, retirees our of his for thanks small a as box wood carved a given service. of years many for the and officers elected class short meeting president, are: They years. five next Au- here, Case Connie Haggard; first VP and membership, years her continuing treasurer/secretary, contin- chairs, also Gifts Sears; Major Wildner drey years, many their uing Dallas con- leadership, their best’—under reunion ‘class to raised co- the $72 million substantially class tributing classes); reunioning the all by Cornell for correspondents, ry Severino blogger, class only, VP, Coast him. miss will we and remembered was re- other Our post. his fill to elected was Johnson New for Gross Meyer re-elected: VPs were gional Russ Taft and New England; Pennsylvania, York, and for overseas; Hawaii and [email protected]; Newly elected chairs are: for affinity groups, groups, affinity for are: chairs elected Newly for the Midwest; Renni Mid-Atlantic. the and Jersey New for Strell elected Our post. nominations the on took Shuter Southwest (and Women’s Forum); Irene Soskin for Soskin Irene Forum); Women’s (and Southwest and Southeast; the and Florida 60-95CAMso13notes ready_000-000CAMMA12Notes 8/13/13 3:56 PM Page 69 PM Page 3:56 8/13/13 ready_000-000CAMMA12Notes 60-95CAMso13notes 60-95CAMso13notes ready_000-000CAMMA12Notes 8/13/13 3:56 PM Page 70

closer to her son and his family, who are in the students performed musical numbers, ending with footnote to David Kessler’s narrative, I coinciden- process of moving to Connecticut. Anita stayed a spectacular presentation of Asian Taiko drum- tally met Fred a few years ago at the SCORE na- with Carrie at her place in Fairfield several times ming carried out with much verve and precision. tional meeting in Nashville, TN. Both of us were while she was checking out real estate in the area. The entire program underlined the multi-faceted attending as chairpersons of our respective chap- On a recent visit to California’s Silicon Valley, talents of the current students. ters, Fred’s in Chattanooga and mine in Savannah. I learned from Dale Rogers Marshall ’59, enjoying “While on a recent campus visit, we (Joe ’60 As a further update on our efforts to enhance retirement on the West Coast after a decade as and I) had a delightful chance meeting with Jack class communications electronically, Larry Wheel- president of Wheaton College and several years in ’60 and Pat Laux Richards, who were there for er, our webmaster, has added a LinkedIn group leadership positions at Wellesley College, that a Pat’s Plantations organization meeting. You all for the class, “Cornell Class of 1961.” It is now op- biography of one of our distinguished classmates, will remember the outstanding reunion affinity erational, and a link to it has been placed on our former US Attorney General Janet Reno, is being program she directed. We also attended the class website homepage in addition to our exist- prepared by Judith Hicks Stiehm, a professor of wrestling dinner celebrating Kyle Dake ’13’s un- ing Facebook site. Please feel free to ask other political science at Florida Int’l U. Prof. Stiehm has precedented fourth NCAA win at four different classmates to join. This is a closed group with already contacted some members of the Class of weights. He attributes some of his success to get- content only for members of the Class of 1961. ’60 about this; for others who would like to share ting eight hours of sleep each night. That, too, Larry will act as administrator, approving those information about Janet’s undergraduate years, she is an accomplishment.” who request to join. Despite our efforts on the In- can be reached at [email protected]. May 11 marked the mini-reunion and tour of ternet, we still encourage your e-mails and hard- Arnold Clayton Henderson writes from Hay- the US Military Academy at West Point. David copy class notes. Send us your latest adventures. ward, CA, that he continues to be hard at work on Kessler, our predecessor as the’61class scribe, sent c Doug Fuss, [email protected] or Susan his retirement project, organizing years of his pho- the following write-up, as well as a collection of Williams Stevens, sastevens61@ gmail. com. tographs and poetry into Web-published books. The photographs that have been posted to our website, latest one to appear online is The Oakland Flats, www.cornell61.org. “We had a wonderfully inform- which depicts young African Americans and their ative and entertaining special tour of West Point What alovely afternoon we spent surroundings in the heart of the California city that ledbyEdward Sobiesk, a faculty member and father together in May: Joy Harwood in the late 1960s was an important location for of a Cornell student. We got to see areas that the 62 Rogers, Marilynn Schade Stew - the militant group the Black Panthers. Arnold says, visitors ordinarily do not see: the Superintendent’s art, and I enjoyed lunch and catching up on the “I was, at the time, volunteering at the West Oak- Conference Room, the new US Military Academy past half century. Marilynn (marilynns@optonline. land Boys Club, introducing kids to darkroom pho- Library (very high tech), the Thayer Award Room, net) was visiting her daughter’s family here in Se at - tography and having many happy strolls with them and the Cadet Mess Hall (it’s enormous and feeds tle. It turns out her son-in-law is the tennis coach around the city.” You can view Arnold’s book and several thousand cadets at each meal). The tour for my daughter-in-law. Small world! Mari lynn lives a previous one, Nudes, Metanudes and Real Peo- ended at Trophy Point overlooking the Hudson Riv- in Southold and has retiredasan ex ec utive assis - ple, by going to www.blurb.com/bookstore, enter- er, with Col. Sobiesk telling the story about how tant in corporate NYC. Joy (rogersparker@ com cast. ing his full name, clicking on “Preview” and then the Continental Army blocked British ships from net) and Bob live in Seattle. A retired school nurse, the full-screen icon on the lower right to make the sailing up the Hudson by stretching a chain across she sings with the Seattle Choral Company and works large enough to read well. “More books are the river. He also recounted the saga of Benedict sees grandchildren regularly. coming later in 2013,” he says. Arnold’s treasonous acts when he was Command- Notes from Barbara Byrd Wecker (bbw2050@ “Still on the job as Chief of Staff, House of er of Fortifications at West Point. Following the gmail. com) have had a long journey in cyberspace, Delegates Majority Leader, Virginia,” reports class tour, the group had lunch at the Thayer Hotel on but finally returned home. She writes that “despite officer Bill Flanagan. “Every year in Virginia we campus.” Twenty classmates, spouses, and friends gracious reminders from Judith Prenske Rich,” she have an election, but, with Virginia being a bat- made the trip on a gray spring day. David added neglected to submit a “bio” for the 50th Reunion tleground state, we are having much more activ- that NBC’s foreign correspondent Richard Engel is book. To make up for that omission, she respond- ity than usual. Keeps me off the street!” Over the the son of Peter Engel. Small world. ed to my entreaty for news for the class column. Christmas holidays Bill and his wife, Diane, spent Fifty-one years ago, Cornell graduated nearly Barbara (“Bobbie” in Cornell days) retired in 2006 two weeks in Germany visiting their daughter Tai- 100 Mechanical Engineers, including me. Number as a judge of the Appellate Division of the New mi, whose husband, a lieutenant colonel in the US one in the class was J. Frederick Weinhold. Now, Jersey Superior Court. She is “of counsel” to the Marines, returned from Afghanistan in May, where I again rely on David Kessler for an informative Newark, NJ, law firm of Greenberg Dauber Epstein he served as a battalion commander and then was update. “The Class of ’61 has not heard from Fred & Tucker PA, where she is chair of the Alternative assigned to the Marine Element in Stuttgart. This Weinhold EVER. Never attended a reunion, even Dispute Resolution Department. As much as she spring, the Flanagans enjoyed planning for their though he grew up in Ithaca (his father was on the loved her work on the court, she is delighted with 50th wedding anniversary celebration, scheduled faculty). And I have not seen him or heard from her new freedom, which allowed her to partici- for August in Garden City, SC, with at least 30 him since our last year, 1961-62. I ran into Fred pate in a presidential campaign for the first time family members in attendance, including as many at the Woodrow Wilson School Graduate Alumni in more than 25 years. She is an arbitrator and of their children, grandchildren, and great-grand- Reunion in May. Following his graduation, Fred did mediator, as well as a consultant on appellate and children as can make the trip from various loca- a four-year stint in the Navy. Then he was admit- litigation matters. Her children are Lori Balaban, tions around the US and Europe. After this, he ted as an MPA student at the WWS and received a pediatrician in Charlottesville, VA; Terri Maxwell, says, “I will be focusing on preparation for our his MPA four years after I earned mine. In the an- an attorney with ING Investment Management in 55th Reunion. I hope all ’60s will be putting this nals of both Cornell and Princeton it seems that Atlanta, GA; and Jonathan Wecker ’92, the CEO event on their calendars for June 2015.” Keep the it is quite unusual, given the competition for ad- of a medical device startup in Wellesley, MA. Sev- news coming to: c Judy Bryant Wittenberg, mission at the WWS, for two members of Cornell’s en grandchildren warrant frequent weekend visits [email protected]. Mechanical Engineering program to receive grad- to those cities. uate degrees from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson Barbara maintains close ties with Cornell class- School. Keep in mind that my graduate class at the mates and SDT sorority sisters, who “have had a School’s out! As I write this class WWS numbered only 24. There may have been a profound impact” on her life. She and her signif- column, graduation is over, as are few more in Fred’s class, but in any event, it’s quite icant other, Lane Brandenburg, were introduced by 61 the reunion festivities. Although a select group. According to his career profile, Fred their mutual friend, classmate Myra Hoffenberg we are still three years away from our 55th, it is worked on energy policy after leaving the WWS. He Strober. Lane and Barbara frequently exchange not too early to plan for this event. For most of worked for the Federal Energy Administration and overnight visits with Barbara’s former roommate this column, I can thank two of our classmates was involved in the creation of the Dept. of Ener- Linda Goldfarb Roberts and her husband, Michael for providing the content. gy. He also worked with the Ford Foundation’s en- ’61, PhD ’66, who live in Darnestown, MD. Their First, a note from Pauline Sutta Degenfelder, ergy policy staff. In 1979, he began working with son David ’91 and Barbara’s son Jonathan ’92 our reunion co-chair. “I’ve been engaged with Cor- the TVA in Chattanooga and retired from the TVA (who met at our 20th Reunion) became friends as nell, having attended the recent Tower Club event in 1994. Currently, he consults on converting waste Cornell students and remain friends today as near in NYC and having the good fortune to meet with to energy. He is focusing on the use of scrap tires neighbors in Massachusetts. Barbara and Lane Marshall and Rosanna Romanelli Frank. After in cement kilns. He added that he is active in the have also spent wonderful times each February in President Skorton’s opening remarks, a number of Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE).” As a Sarasota with Linda Gilinsky Klineman and her 70 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes , , Pat The , JD , ’ , , October 2013October 71 Craig Peterson Jonathan Perry | Icke; and recording and Icke; Richard Heinrich Carol Grumbach ’78 Grumbach Carol Meehan, Meehan, Aslanian, class president, class Aslanian, Icke, 12350 Icke, E. Roger Rd., Sayer, BFA ’63, organized an organized ’63, BFA Sayer, September September Our 50th Reunion is now in its in now is Reunion 50th Our gestation period equivalency, just nine months away (June , BArch ’64, was at Reunion and said that the that said and wasReunion at often since his time on the Hill. Hill. the on time his since often Davenport; campaign chair: Dick chair: campaign Davenport; Nancy Bierds McAfee and Dick Clark; reunion chair: reunion Clark; Dick and McAfee Judy Prenske Rich ’62 Rich Prenske Judy Lipsky, BFA ’63, and Marjorie herself. Marjorie and ’63, BFA Lipsky, Nancy Bierds Madeleine Leston c Carol Bagdasarian At our class meeting at Saturday night’s din- night’s Saturday at meeting class our At Marjorie Walker That’s That’s all for Reunion news. I’m always in- Joe Brennan 64 5-8,2014). As the event gets closer,we’ll have ever have closer,we’ll gets event the 5-8,2014).the As of part become to all encourage to news more co-chairs reunion our June, early In celebration. ner, Ed Butler presented for presented Butler Ed check a ner, with Center, Tatkon the of director ’87, Tatkon that years In two the reunion $124,108. $292,000. donated have we project, our been has done has Center Tatkon the what summarized Carol generated year per $12,000 approximate the with been has series coffee/talk A endowment. the by be will plaque a and 1963 of Class the for named room. seminar named our in installed thanked the outgoing class officers for their hard their for officers class outgoing the thanked presented officers New years. five past these work by elected were Billings Jim chair nominating by presidents: vice Stregack; Joe a President: landslide! Nancy Cooke Joanne Jordan Lynham; Vivian treasurer: Grilli De Santo; class correspondent, Alan Chimacoff ’64, BArch Dick Lynham, Sutton art show of classmates’ work at Tjaden Hall (the Hall at Tjaden work classmates’ of show art house open an Saturday On Hall). Franklin former open was display the and class, the for held was exhibiting Those well. as Reunion of days two for were Climate Change is Elementary out of Celebration, of out Elementary is Change Climate and schools help to intended is program “The FL. toward action meaningful to take begin families understanding and solving the climate crisis.” Contact Dave at [email protected] for with volunteers David Sheaff information. more vet- disabled takes which Waters, Healing Project fly-tying. teaches and fishing erans terested terested in e-mails telling me what you are up to. [email protected]. e-mail, AZ 85749; Tucson, Elements of Style of Elements secretary: Retta Presby Weaver. Class Council mem- Council Class Weaver. Presby Retta secretary: issue. next the in appear will names bers’ White E.B. new the dedicated Deltas Gamma Phi honored and surprised then and Room Leadership a plaque, was beautiful a it with him Joe For presenting by him remarks. generous some and his from picture, recognition the receiving honor: double a Internet FijinetCornell the organizing for brothers mem- 130 than more for group Yahoo (a program same the bers of on the Cornell Phi Gamma Delta hung classes of plaque a “having and 1959-65); au- world-renowned the has Joe heroes, my of one White.” as wall E.B. president, Fiji former and thor & White Strunk his to referred and treasured , from , and , June , , MBA Weaver, Lew - Sol Ned - Mor , , Crites, jmc Crites, and and I - just re Mario Concha LaHolt LaHolt and her Jim Billings , MS ’65, , ’65, MS Dave Finnigan Dick Clark Retta Presby , , Cornell Daily Sun Daily Cornell , , MD ’69, Jan McClayton , the associate director of director , the associate DeSanto, DeSanto, c Porcaro, Porcaro, Ed Butler Rodd entertained classmates Bennett, Bennett, , , Paula Trested Warren Icke ’62 turned from the Class of 1963 you of those For Reunion. 50th David Sheaff , PhD ’70, and me. and ’70, PhD , Neil Kochenour Vivian Grilli Gwen Sibson , , Corey Earle ’07 Judy Clarke , , , , That time in Paris when I when was Paris in time was That 19 Dick Lynham the beginning of a affair. of love beginning lifelong the Classmates are hoping to hear from you— Thursday afternoon’s Class of ’63 Forum fea- Forum ’63 of Class afternoon’s Thursday Saturday morning found the class in the 425 classmates and guests spent the week- spent and guests 425 classmates ‘ send a note today! note a send [email protected]. our graduation day, Monday, June 10, 1963! The 1963! 10, June Monday, day, graduation our cooperate—we not did weekend the for weather had three days of rain. The suncampus. leave to up came packing was outeveryone as tured student programs in the Office of Alumni Affairs, Alumni of Office the in programs student About Know You Think Do You “What presenting Each had Cornell?” attendee a to clicker use to dur- was it as Cornell about questions to respond reminiscing. fun was It campus. on time our ing the “Can panel, faculty class a with began Friday Fed without Be Well Health?” Population World Exploding Human and Environment the Endangering Four professors from the College of Agriculture two- thought-provoking a gave Sciences Life and Buses took then talk, hour with Q&A following. for a out bar- to classmates Plantations Cornell we by where becue, were the entertained Sher- woods. At Friday night’s sit-down dinner, Dick a to check for Lynham presented the university Out of a of total classmates, $4,721,513. 1,295 Club also We had 73 Tower en- donated. 33 percent Skorton President 63). was goal (the members talk. his with us tertained breakfast tent enjoying a panel of classmates talking about “Revitalizing Retirement.” Taylor able able to the Freshman view lots of memorabilia: Register (aka the Pig Book), sorority/fraternity the of a copy and photos, end attending forums and lectures as well as so- as well as lectures meals. and forums good attending end enjoying and classmates with cializing on We were housed Campus North in the newer class- As dorms. Court/Kay/Bauer air-conditioned mates gathered in the they headquarters, were 63 who weren’t there, you were missed. A great time great A missed. were you there, weren’t who was had by all— ter rif ic committee did a fabulous job. Thanks to Thanks job. a did fabulous ic committee rif ter Paula, mon o ’64, Solomon, Lew gens Joe Stregack Marion Travalini changes the and careers their of stories the with start- many who made as they went through life’s experi- Cornellians, well-educated These ences. and doctors, ed out scientists, as businessmen, in- ski a as instances some in up ended teachers, a juggler. and rabbi, a ship’s CO, Vail, in structor writing involved career juggling Finnigan’s Dave running now is he and juggling, on books several , , Rita . . Roth- ’61 . They go . They Agatston, (icke63@ Bruce ’60 Cal Simon Bryant, Bryant, Nina Gershon Swartz, MEd ’64 Swartz, Grossman Grossman Anne Klein Warren Giddan, Giddan, Amy Smith ([email protected]). They ([email protected]). Janice Brodfeld , as well as as well as , , JD ’57, who now live , in live Uni- now JD who ’57, Nancy Bierds Icke ’63 Neuborne, Neuborne, Maxine Shulman Jane Jaffe Madeleine Fried , , Ron ’55 Gershengorn, Gershengorn, and and ’61 Also dividing time are John Fitzpatrick, director of the Cornell Lab Cornell of the director Fitzpatrick, John and Jerry It’s It’s been an year interesting for Margot Hebald Judy Prenske Rich recovering from knee replacement! replacement! knee from recovering and another visit with our daughter.” All this while this All daughter.” our with visit another and Evelyn Eskin husband, husband, versity Park, FL. A mini-reunion of SDT ’62 brought ’62 SDT of mini-reunion A FL. Park, versity April in Spa and Hotel Harbor Safety to sisters 14 2009, including Linda Goldfarb Roberts, Linda Strober, Hoffenberg Myra Klineman, Helen Redleaf Milkman and and And, then, finally, we will head home via London via home head will we finally, then, And, man man reading all the books I am currently downloading currently am I books the all Lithua- reading from emigrated father My mini. iPad my an to has 5. was Vilnius he when parents his with nia to I’m hoping where archive, national extensive isn’t there research—although family of a bit do we’ll Since alive. is still anyone that chance any a include plans our Europe, Eastern in be already side trip to Riga and a jaunt to St. Petersburg. ([email protected]) have recently sold their sold recently have ([email protected]) East in house new a purchased and condo Florida Hampton. They plan to spend weekends there, Vil- East the in apartment their from commuting lage in NYC. They enjoy traveling, recently to grandchildren. 11 visiting and Spain, of Ornithology, of wrote Ornithology, a letter of thanks to the of support in Lab the to gift recent our for class NestCams. Check cams. out the following link to see http:// work: at camera the of results some allaboutbirds.org/channel/8/Great_Blue_Herons/. including outreach, with busy Lab has been The Paradise of Birds the of with presentations nationwide Understanding of Memorandum recent an the created and which Ornithology, for Trust British the forth- The eBird. with been partnership has global historic Biology Bird of Handbook Cornell coming 294 found Texas in Team Day Big The completed. Ameri- North previous the than Lab 30 more species, Ornithology the by stop to sure Be record. can Ithaca! in you’re time next the gmail. com) and and com) gmail. and spends his time hiking, biking, and swimming. He between CO, Telluride, and Tucson, AZ. swimming. Warren and biking, hiking, time his spends of Southern Club Cornell of the is president also at patrol volunteer the of a member and Arizona in located oasis desert a natural Canyon, Sabino Forest. National Coronado Tucson’s at- Bruce where by Salzburg, in week trip March a the spent ended course, of and, seminars, tended where visiting their daughter in Lithuania, London. In late Sep- Vilnius, to head you will “As they tember, professor. law visiting a as serve will Bruce man- “I Judy, writes Vilnius,” to directly fly can’t Paris, through flight connecting our make to fa- my aged is Paris days. few a for linger will we where the from to city starting in world vorite whole the year junior our in Cornell of out dropped I city. time French this in novel American great the write Ithaca to returned I reluctantly why very and when How Paris in time that But tale. whole another is af- love a lifelong of beginning the was 19 I was to returned have I and Bruce that city a with fair an rented we ago years Two again. over and over for there two apartment weeks to my celebrate is teaching in Vilnius I will be amusing myself 70th birthday and I got to see Roger Federer and Federer Roger see to got I and birthday 70th men’s the at person in and close up Nadal Rafael Bruce While Hallelujah! Open. 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Linda Cohen Meltzer, Bruce Wagner, ME ’66, and I work hard for the thriving Cornell Club of Los continues in his law practice. They enjoyed trav- Joan Melville (with class president Susan Mair Angeles, me as treasurer, she fostering the unique el to India recently. Being a grandfather also oc- Holden and treasurer Barbara Lutz Brim) attended Cornell in Hollywood program. Nancy remains ac- cupies happy times—four grandchildren from ’63’s 50th Reunion. The constant rain did not tive in show business and journalism, mainly for daughters Jennifer Dubin Ludgins ’95 and damp en their spirits as they scouted out the USA Weekend magazine and Danielle Dubin Rutz ’98. events, which included tasty meals, lectures, the New York Times Syndi- Jeff recalls bringing his concerts, party tents, and many other pleasures. cate. I have retired in order typewriter and lacrosse The goal of the reconnaissance was to note the to pursue a second career in I am a stick when he arrived at scope of activities—and how they balanced and senior softball—I play four Cornell for freshman year. worked together—and gauge their relative success to five times a week, enjoy- ‘ Sharon Plahy Blase (Vine - and ac ceptance. At least ten other classmates also ing the camaraderie of con- prodigious land, NJ; soblase@ aol. en joyed Reunion Weekend, some with ’63 spouses. temporaries. I’m currently com,) belongs to the We need updated e-mail addresses for all our reading Morris Bishop ’14, creator of Cumberland County Re- classmates. Please send your preferred one to Lin- BA ’13, PhD ’26’s marvelous publican Women’s Organ- da Meltzer ([email protected]) as soon as pos- A History of Cornell, full of crossword ization and the South sible. Having your e-mail address enables us to all the facts and stories I Jersey Healthcare Hospi- send messages about reunion, and encourages never had time to glean tal Auxiliary. The past few classmates to keep in touch with each other. All before. I look forward to puzzles. years she has traveled addresses will be posted on our website (cornell returning to campus every with Cornell alumni trips 1964.org) unless you request yours not be made October as a University Adam ’Perl ’67 to the Italian cities of public. Now is the time to start talking to all your Council member, visiting the Sorrento and Cortona, Cornell ’64 friends about coming to this most spe- Sun office downtown, and and also cruised to Italy, cial of all reunions, so let’s encourage as many meeting my smarter-than-me successors there.” Greece, and Turkey. Sharon plans to become more classmates as we can to attend. Larry Siegel (Great Neck, NY) writes that he involved with a wider group of people during her Longtime Hotel school professor A. Neal still works at NYU, but now just three days per retirement years. She would love to hear from Fran Geller, MBA ’74, was heralded in last spring’s Ezra week. Larry and wife Pat (Minikes) ’67 are kept Pearsall Craig. Arriving at Cornell, she brought magazine as a “faculty legend.” Neal, himself a busy with three grandchildren, his “living hobby” her typewriter, linens and hangers, and money for Hotelie (he even grew up in the resort business), of enjoying New York City and all it offers, plus a checking account. has been teaching in the school since 1974, be- “picking up the pace” on travel, recently to Spain Nancy Felthousen Ridenour, MAT ’73 (Ithaca, ginning when he returned to Ithacatoget his MBA. and perhaps also Istanbul and the Black Sea re- NY; [email protected]) writes, “Post-gradu- Ted Teng ’79, president and CEO of the Leading gion. Larry writes, “I plan on attending next year’s ation, I spent five years in Laos working in the Hotels of the World Ltd., said of Neal, “He made reunion and hope many, many others will partici- villages in community development. In 1973, I the numbers dance on paper . . . The tools he gave pate.” Lois Beach Conrad, MEd ’65 (Thousand started a teaching career in biology at Ithaca High me have stayed with me my entire career.” (Teng Oaks, CA) is still teaching chemistry at a Catholic School and retired in 2005. Since then, I have trav- established his namesake Dean’s Teaching Excel- girls’ school, plus helping her daughter with her eled extensively and pursued a second career as a lence Awards to honor Neal and six other faculty two sets of twins, 2 and 5 years old, respectively. photographer. In January I spent a month in Flori- members who inspired him as a student.) Neal has Lois says she and electrical engineer husband John da and photographed birds. My artwork is on my authored two books and numerous professional ’63, MS ’69, both love their jobs; however, she website, http://nancyridenourartist.zenfolio. com.” journal articles, has been an industry consultant, adds that she’s looking forward to the 50th Re- Nancy has been president of the Campus Club at and has served as the school’s director of gradu- union and that she should be retired by then. She Cornell and program chair for technology for the ate studies and associate dean for academic affairs. would like to hear from classmate Jennefer Austin Ithaca Garden Club. She volunteers as a docent at As our 50th reunion approaches, some class- Hirshberg. Literary agent and classmate John Ware both the Cornell Plantations and the Cornell Art mates have taken to sending reminiscences of their died last April in NYC. John began his career as an Museum. Her daughter Sheryl ’91 lives and works student days at Cornell, and what it meant to their editor for Doubleday and agent for Curtis Brown in Chicago and has an MFA in poetry from the lives and careers. Here are some samples: before founding his own agency in 1978. He was School of the Art Inst. Various friends she keeps Leon “Butch” Anziano, ME ’66, writes, “I will most renowned for being the agent for adventure in touch with include Joyce Crego Dwyer, Ellen never forget my first few months at Cornell. I had author Jon Krakauer’s landmark books Into the Wild Sullivan Strader ’63, MEd ’65, Judy Mohney Den- never seen the campus, never been away from and Into Thin Air, and for being historian Stephen nis ’63, MEd ’64, and Joe Regenstein, MS ’66. home, never been on my own. It was a frighten- Ambrose’s agent, among many other things. Travel, painting, good restaurants, and going to ing and exhilarating experience. My friends in the Finally, Henry Logan,ME’66, deserves a chuck- the gym are major pursuits for Fred Firestone U-Halls were both friendly and scary—scary in le for the news form he submitted, in which he du- ([email protected]). Fred and wife Lynne that they seemed more worldly than me. I was tifully updates us by saying . . . nothing. Really. make their home in Hillsborough, CA. overwhelmed! The next several years raced by. Hal fills in most blanks with the word “None,” chil- Surviving 26th Street is the latest novel by These were the best years of my life—and the dren and grandchildren’s ages with, “Same as last Carol June Gibbs Stover and has received excel- worst! (Sounds like Dickens.) Over the course of year except all a year older,” and hobbies, interests lent reviews. The work is filled with unique sto- my time in Ithaca, I encountered the most in- and sports with, “Hardly worth mentioning.” Hal ries of growing up in northern New Jersey in the credible people (including Martin Luther King Jr. lives in Tempe, AZ, with wife Donna. We can only 1950s and ’60s, inspired by her family and neigh- at Sage Chapel). My life changed at Cornell, and hope Hal attends reunion and updates us vocally. bors. Carol ([email protected]) and husband I never stop reminiscing about the times there. I That’s all for now. Please take a few minutes Frank ([email protected]) live in have been back to Ithaca several times, but I to send me your news by whatever means (at my Chicago, where Frank is the general manager of can’t wait for the special celebration of our 50th home or online at: [email protected]), so it the Chicago Club, one of the oldest and most Reunion. Hope to see many of you there.” may be shared with your classmates. Also be sure prestigious clubs in the city. I had the pleasure Bart and Nancy Dunhoff Mills, self-admitted to visit our class website, www.cornell1964. org. of enjoying cocktails with them on a recent trip frequent readers but infrequent contributors to this c Bev Johns Lamont, 720 Chestnut St., Deerfield, to Chicago, which is such a wonderful city. Over column, sent an update. Bart wrote, “We remain in IL 60015; e-mail, [email protected]. a three-day period I took the architectural foun- our Manhattan Beach, CA, hideaway, close to our dation tour, spent hours in the Art Inst. of Chica- Torrance-based son, Kevin Mills ’93, and his wife go, saw a terrific play at Steppenwolf, wandered Jody Kraft ’92, and their three sons, 13, 11, and As we finish up the news from around the old Marshall Fields (now Macy’s) and 9. Kevin is a first-year resident in pediatrics at this past year, we are looking purchased Frango mints, took the train to the Kaiser. With two working doctors for parents, the 65 forward to receiving your most Ravinia Festival and listened to the Indigo Girls three grandsons spend a lot of time at our house, recent updates. If you haven’t done so yet, please and Joan Baez in concert, and toured the Cultur- giving us plenty of sass and exercise. For road take a few minutes and send in what’s been al Center, which features beautiful Tiffany domes trips, we can visit our daughter Bonnie ’91 in happening in your life these days! and wonderful mosaics. I definitely plan on re- Mesa, AZ, where she lives with her son and daugh- Jeffrey Dubin ([email protected]) and his turning to catch up with all the things on my list ter. She is an author and copy editor. Nancy and wife, Elaine, live in Huntington, NY, where Jeff that I didn’t get to do! 72 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes . Our . Mike , , Richard c . 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(Webster, Gordie Booth , , ME ’66, , 2925 28th St. NW, Washington, DC Washington, , St. 28th NW, 2925 Pauline Watkins Marvin Marshak John Bruns , BS Hotel ’70, and and ’70, , Hotel BS 68 of of the view of the majestic dotted edifices among the sun-drenched plush June slopes and a capped off as Sherwoods the and campus greenery entertainment, end of nostalgia, week hectic at a Cornell” glimpse fair “our of future the into brunch Skorton’s ourDavid 45th farewell Reunion President attending those to mous State of the University the of address, one in as standing a Cornell’s that Hall, jammed Bailey a impact global and universities—with great world’s medicine, science, technology, of areas the in his under heights new reach humanities—will the the of some highlighted president The leadership. to program funded generously the from successes recruit scholars world-class to carry on for the to third of over the projected retire the faculty - He next spoke decade. of develop the exciting generosity the and Campus Tech NYC the of ment of that the has expansion made the significant choral groups, the Cayuga years). 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Pete Judy Laurel Joanne . , , New York Times Karen Kauf man Karen Kauf Deanne Gebell (david.c.unger@ Sam Roberts ’68 and and , , The Emergency State The Emergency Hunny Jeong ’11 Andrea Jacoby Marian Flinker Brodsky Steve , PhD ’74, who was an En- an was who ’74, PhD , , , Lehmann (esther.lehmann@ Lehmann , and and and (Ithaca, NY; adam@pastimes. DavidCamogli, from Unger com),writing gmail. in regularly travels he says Italy, Bittker, ladyscienc@ aol.com; ladyscienc@ Bittker, Jim , and and , Fred Zappert , [email protected]; , [email protected]; Alan Richman , , (Redwood City, CA; laureldruce@ gmail. com) gmail. CA; laureldruce@ City, (Redwood Polcer ([email protected]) moved from moved ([email protected]) Polcer Steve Zimmerman ’68 Adam Perl After spending most of his professional career professional his of most spending After Esther Strauss com) writes, “I am still running my antique shop, antique my running still am “I writes, com) year—with 35th its in Ithaca—now in Pastimes, Cor- at performed I retire. to plans immediate no on nell Reunion June 6-8 with the Club Savage and the Cornell Glee Club, and I sing with two Polansky Cantor on how our national security policies have eroded have policies security national our how on was by published democracy, our constitutional Press in Penguin 2012.” David stays in contact with reports: “In iPhone, and 2011, I iPad, started my electronics, - own computer, business be teaching are clients my of Most citizens. senior to etc., the tween of ages 75 life and 92 my and have they in all change big A me. to family like become of 31 in I when 2008 my left marriage occurred Laurel my life all over again.” started and years keeps in touch with Druce Katie ’09 Engelhart 67 the US and Europe to write about foreign policy foreign to about write US Europe the and the for economics international and “My book, board. editorial at high-tech companies, Arnold Berger (aberger@ Berger Arnold companies, high-tech at elec- of professor associate is u.washington.edu) Both- Washington, of U. the at engineering trical BS Science ell. His and PhD Cornell in Materials pro- degree EE the started he as well, him suited Division the become has that school the at gram chair be will He Mathematics. and Engineering of and Arnie years. three next the for division the of his wife are grandparents to 6-year-old ’94), (Wellesley Maya(He Andrea CA. daughter, Alto, Brooke—their Palo in live Daniel, husband, her and Research American the for she Netflix, for works the of to hear “I shocked was adds, Arnie Inst.) of death gineering classmate. I remember Fred as being on being as Fred remember I classmate. gineering a plane far above everyone else.” Ed and Kurtz in to Wind- one co-op Brooklyn Slope Park their I “Since close to Park. am Prospect sor Terrace, quite involved in volunteer work in the park, I am thrilled with the new abode. We divide our Or- New in home our and Brooklyn between time please Easy, Big the to coming is anyone If leans. making Still you. see to love me—would contact going is still who as Ed, as much not but lazy music, getting I’m Orleans. New in especially strong, but business, the of aspect promotion the about singing.” still am extensively traveled husband her and stifel.com) their with celebrate and visit to winter past this family. In January they spent two Jerusalem with their two weeks oldest grandchildren, in to returned year, the for there studying are who back in then home headed their winter Florida, grand- a for February in home Jersey New their to son’s bar mitzvah. A week later they welcomed was Passover Bianca. spent new were granddaughter They families. and children the of three with adds, Esther Europe. in August spend to planning mode.” phase-out the in am but work, still “I Susan Rockford Salinger Gitner, [email protected]. Gitner, am , , ME , and (I , PhD , . Bob . . Multiple Larry - Ber yahoo. com) yahoo. , , @ @ (ralph schwartz@ (ralph Ken Brown Wall Street Jour nal Jour Street Wall Johnson, joanhpj@ Johnson, Richard Greene Real Clear Markets , [email protected]. , , kjurow45 Bruce Bergman alph Schwartz , PhD ’71, and and ’71, PhD , Joan Hens comcast.net) writes, “I have fin - fin have “I writes, comcast.net) retirement of year fifth my ished R ([email protected]) has been has ([email protected]) Ron Harris -Weiss. c Ansonia, CT; CT; Ansonia, ( . During the last year he’s also been in - in been also he’s last year the . During uiesInsider Business Susan Goodman Feldman ’67 dat Arnie Berger Larry Bailis As As you your compose news for the column, , , www.keithjurow.com, and my new Capi tal Preser - Preser tal my new and Capi www.keithjurow.com, ’67’s life ([email protected]). He received life ’67’s ([email protected]). at Cornell, Engineering in Chemical two degrees School. Business by a at Columbia year followed and writing, theater, in career a two pursued for then He editor senior as years 30 spent He editing. pub- engineering chemical leading world’s the of excel- editorial for awards four was winning he lications, between, In service. outstanding and lence 500 a Fortune for relations VP in public a senior and also theater, an founding off-off-Broadway and luck believes and easy, always not but simple, keeps too He friends. many too lost has he as ed, in touch with classmate Larry and Berger, also Meryl Chodosh a professor at Brandeis for a over at 25 Brandeis professor He years. is Service Massachusetts the of chairman board also granddaughter 6-year-old his us tells He Alliance. His was. mother her like whiz hockey a world, the already is around tours who musician jazz a is son ed- Jewish known nationally a is wife Larry’s and with touch in keep Bailises The ucator. ’75, and and ’75, careers have been a of been part have careers company. He continued the arts career by co- playwriting. taught and plays produced and wrote says that what Richard is key for him is having is life that feels He attitude. and values right the now is He success. one’s of part be may initiative a 14-part on working team a four-person of part Century.” Twentieth the to “Witness documentary, influ- many with interviews of compilation a is It shaped who life, of phases all from figures, ential volunteering been has Richard century. 20th the start- crisis AIDS the since groups nonprofit with has been writ ing Minyanville.com‘s Housing Market Housing Minyanville.com‘s ing writ been has have been articles other and years, two for Report Watch Market ger e iwdb ao iac,the Finance, Yahoo by website viewed new “My ter TV. Bloomberg and network, radio Keith April.” is in launched Report Estate Real vation with in touch keeps after teaching high school chemistry and physical and chemistry school high one teaching older after sons. 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Weill Cornell Medical College and new state-of-the- as registration chair. Bob and Bette Nelson Zip- Ann Agranoff teaches English at Queens - art facilities in Ithaca possible. pin have graciously agreed to be the chairs, once borough Community College in Bayside, NY, and is There was also a high level of confidence for again, for our 50th. trying her hand at growing vegetables at her va- Cornell’s athletic prospects after Andy Noel, While many of our classmates are still work- cation home in the Catskills. When she wrote, she Meacham Smith Director of Athletics and Physical ing (you know, 65 is the new 55 . . . I mean, 50), was planning a trip to California in August to vis- Education, speaking at the class picnic at Cornell a lot of us are fully or partly retired. Let’s hear it her daughter April, who takes people down the Plantations, described our enhanced ability to your news and what you’re doing. It might even American River as a raft guide. Ann stays in touch compete against our prestigious Ivy opponents in give us some useful ideas, and old friends might with Judy Epstein, MAT ’75, and David Kirkwood. the recruitment of highly talented scholar-athletes. contact you to share experiences. Snail-mail or e- George Gremse (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) writes, “For Andy emphasized that this has been made possi- mail me with your news, but what would also be the past two years, I have been working to help ble because of generous alumni grants and flexi- cool is to make a mental circle around June 7-10, entrepreneurs start, develop, and/or grow small ble recruitment policies. Those who attended the 2018 to attend your 50th Reunion with your businesses in southeastern Florida. As chapter tour of the state-of-the-art athletic facilities were friends from the Cornell Class of ’68. c Chuck chairman of SCORE (formerly the Service Corps of particularly impressed hearing from our various Levitan, 22 Freedom Ln., Somerset, NJ 08873; e- Retired Executives) in the greater Ft. Lauderdale coaches about their teams and how the facilities mail, [email protected]. area, I work with a team of 50 other volunteers are a recruitment tool that will help train our ath- who lead business training workshops and do one- letes and display their achievements. on-one mentoring and counseling. Last December Nostalgia was served in abundance as class- Hope you all had a great sum - I was also appointed to the board of directors of mates reunited at receptions in their sororities and mer. Thanks to everyone who the Metro Broward Community Economic Develop- fraternities; on campus, where we participated in 69 re sponded to the e-mail for ment Board, a community development financial academic and extracurricular activities; and at Cor- this column. institution (CDFI) in Broward County dedicated to nell’s superb Robert Trent Jones golf course. Par- Kenneth La Pensee (kennethlapensee@aol. small business lending in our communities.” ticularly poignant to those on campus during the com), senior director for the Medicines Co. in Par- Although he retired officially from UNH in late 1960s and early ’70s was this year’s Olin Lec- sippany, NJ, is working on launching a new anti- May 2012, Raymond Goodman, PhD ’79 (Durham, ture (available online) presented by Prof. Fredrik MRSA antibiotic—a most welcome development NH) taught a large section intro course in the fall Logevall. Drawing in part from his Pulitzer Prize- for treatment of this persistent infection. He is of 2012. “I am fully retired now as emeritus pro- winning book, Embers of War, he described how also working on a mystery novel. Kenneth would fessor of hospitality management and sit on two the US got into the Vietnam conflict, President love to hear from Philip Reilly, Nat Rabinowitz, boards: vice chair of the board of directors for Kennedy’s views on the war in 1963, and its les- and Megan Cornish. David Shannon (Mellons Bay, Mayflower Communities Inc., a retirement commu- sons for today. But it was Cornelliana Night that Auckland, New Zealand) writes that “life has nev- nity company currently building a full-service CCRC attracted the biggest turnout and largest dose of er been so fun!” He has retired from remuneration in Carmel, IN, that should be moving in residents nostalgia as the Cornell’s chorus, past and pres- consulting after 25 years and is now busier than this fall; and board member for the Glion Inst. of ent, closed their program of Cornell standards with ever with a variety of part-time and community Higher Education in Switzerland. I travel to Eu- a thunderous presentation of our Alma Mater. activities. He and wife Terri just completed a rope three times per year minimum, Hawaii once Gary Deems particularly enjoyed the Olin Lec- three-week tour of China, including Guilin, Yang- a year, and NYC two to three times a year. I also ture, but it was reuniting with his fraternity broth- shou, Shanghai, Suzhou, a Yangtze River cruise, volunteer as a rules observer for the New Hamp- ers that made traveling from San Diego worthwhile. Three Gorges, Chengdu and Panda Breeding Base, shire Golf Association and pursue my usual hobby Terry McKeegan Davis drove her VW Bug to cam- Xi’an and the Terracotta Warriors, Beijing, and the of golf.” Raymond has two married sons and four pus from her Ithaca home and had great fun shar- Great Wall, which they found “exhausting but fas- grandchildren, and stays in touch with Jim Eyster, ing cherished memories with her freshman cinating.” David serves on the board of trustees PhD ’77, Udo Schlentrich ’70, and many other roommate Beryl Schapira Levinger, who came to of the local Community Arts Centre. Daughter Cornellians. Enjoy the fall! Please send news to: Reunion from Carmel, CA. Pete Woodworth, MBA Courtney received a BFA with Honours from Auck- c Tina Economaki Riedl, [email protected]. ’69, and Bill Austin climbed the rock wall—and land U. and was traveling around the US with welcome all classmates that are in shape to do it three friends when David wrote in. Daughter Lau- with them at our 50th. Pete and wife Joie trav- rielle has completed her third year of architecture Come to our 45th Reunion in eled to Reunion from Minnesota to enjoy the study, also at Auckland U. David keeps in touch Ithaca—June 4-7, 2015. Plan - memory of their 1970 wedding held at Cornell’s with Henry McNulty, Warren Lem, Lynn Selos, 70 ning for the weekend is already Sculpture Gardens, where Reunion attendees John Lee Sanborn, Jim Bowman, Bob Woodworth ’71, in the works. Bill, ME ’71, and Gail Post Wallis are Seligman and Al and Marge Fidello were members Ted Clayton, ME ’70, and Alan Shineman. at the helm of our Reunion 45 team and are busy of the wedding party. Jeff French and wife Car- Maria Keiser Bartlett has just started a two- setting up a great “party” for us. If you have any olyn came from Seattle and particularly enjoyed year stintasvice chair of the Senior Associates, the ideas, thoughts, or suggestions for this reunion the rock and roll party Saturday night. almost 500-member volunteer group at the Muse- celebration, or if you want to be part of the re un - Dianne Charske Hanson and husband Bill trav- um of Fine Arts in Boston. She is also looking for- ion team, please let me (cfm7@cornell. edu) or Bill eled from Sandy-nipped Dewey Beach, DE, where ward to her son’s wedding next year and greatly ([email protected]) know. It’s a year and a half Diane serves as mayor. She appreciated the archi- enjoys her two preschool grandsons who live in away, but it’s not too early to start planning your tectural and environmental care takeninthe growth the San Francisco Bay Area. She often visits with trip to Ithaca and connecting with friends and and operation of the campus. Eating utensils made Suzanne Backiel Harley and Carolyn Ugiss Altieri, classmates who will be joining you on the Hill. from corn, seamless additions to classic buildings, who live in Connecticut, and is also frequently in After years of working as an international de- and rooftops covered with soil and greenery to touch with Al and Claire Scully De Lauro and velopment economist with the World Bank and a make them energy and environmentally efficient Peggy Johnson Nichols. All are doing well. Knight Dutch consulting firm, among others, Caroline were just a few examples. Joel Negrin got his high Kiplinger (Washington, DC) writes that he is “still Hoisington ([email protected]) is semi-re- running through the Plantations in the annual five- leading the Kiplinger publishing company through tired and working from her home base in Australia. mile Reunion Run, along with Len Rappe and his the treacherous shoals of rapid changes in media.” She now works only on environmental economics wife, Rona. Joel is looking forward to bettering his Son Brigham ’03 was married last fall, and daugh- and policy, most recently on marine issues. In ad- time next year at wife Linda (Schwartz) ’69’s 45th ter Daphne ’07 was married this past spring. Rob dition to some consulting, Caroline is a Fellow for Reunion, as well as running again as part of a pack and Nina Kaufelt are renovating a townhouse in three institutes. “I’m the Marine Economy Fellow of 70-somethings at our 50th. Greenwich Village, where Rob runs Murray’s Cheese. for the Centre for Policy Development, a Visiting Jane Frommer Gertler, our class president, This year, he’ll open his 100th shop in select su- Fellow at the Sydney Inst. of Marine Science, and enjoyed time with classmates she had not seen permarkets across the land, including King Soopers, a Fellow at the Australian National Centre for in decades and was also struck by Prof. Logevall’s Fred Meyer, Ralph’s, and other major chains. His Ocean Research and Security. Over the last two lecture about events we lived through and with. new warehouse in Long Island City features state- years, I’ve written quite a lot on Australia’s new- The nearly 200 members and guests of our class of-the-art cheese-aging caves. Twins Jacob and ly enacted Commonwealth Marine Reserve Net- expressed their appreciation to Henry Siegel for Rose turned 4 this summer, and his big guy, Julian, work. A summary of papers and some new articles an outstanding job chairing our previous re- turns 7 this fall. Nina’s new book, The Real Food are at: http://cpd.org.au/category/all-articles/ unions and to Nancy Nystrom Frantz for her work Cookbook, is due out next spring from Bloomsbury. sustainable-economy/marine-sector/. I also have 74 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes , , - Donald Patricia The Phoenix (Savannah, Joe Petrone and and and his wife, October 2013October 75 Gayle Yeomans | Linda Germaine Ed Heit Neurobiology for Dum- for Neurobiology c ‘ ([email protected]) is a September September , MBA ’72, and a partner are co- are partner a and ’72, MBA , Jay Branegan Stefania, Stefania, spent Easter in the Galápagos on a trip sponsored George Gremse ’69 Gremse George ersinefor Dummies Neuroscience has has been working in the US Dept. of is the State Dept.’s Diplomat in Residence at Residence in Diplomat Dept.’s State the is Donald Jean FedEx Express captain Frank Amthor ’ . I am currently writing writing currently am I . 72 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 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Meyer, Philip Schwartz lives and works as an at- an as works and lives ([email protected]) lives in lives ([email protected]) Doug Wyler Neal Weinstein , PhD ’78 (wrwellnitz49@gmail. ’78 PhD , We We thank you our for sending e-mails from sampling A life. your about current “mail bag” indicates that Connie Ferris c Fred Piscop art as possible (www.hoisingtonartwork. artpossible as gmy Bill Wellnitz Connie Fern Connie Miller In May 2010, 2010, May In , MD ’74, and several other Cornellians. other several and , ’74, MD 71 many folks are enjoying their retirement. their enjoying are folks many com) retired in 2011 after 32 years as a biology 32 years after in 2011 retired com) professor at Augusta State U. in Georgia. He moved to Rochester, MN, which reminded him of him reminded which MN, Rochester, to moved edu; cell, (610) 256-3088. 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Glenn Ford ([email protected]) recently Wildflower Preserve. She does “lots of grandchild accomplishments. As we were reminded, anyone started a new job in Corona, CA. His spouse-to-be care, because I am lucky enough to live near who graduated in 1973 is a member of the class. also works in Corona. Debra Farrell Dolinski, BFA them, and my daughter and son-in-law need the So even if you weren’t at Reunion, please know ’71 ([email protected]) is an artist and help. Lots of fundraising for the nonprofit BHWP how strongly our class supported the education- art researcher in Como, Italy. She has four grand- as I am committed to its mission of educating all al mission of Cornell. For those of you who were children and runs a creative laboratory for chil- about the importance of native plants to wildlife scholarship students, like I was, we now support dren. Her passion is gardening, and she also likes and people.” What would she rather be doing two students as Class of 1973 Scholars. I know “sky watching.” Mark Dick- now? “Nothing! I love you’ve changed their lives. erson (Colorado Springs, CO; my life and am grateful Overall, our class has donated many millions flyt. [email protected]) is a for our good fortune, of dollars to Cornell to promote its ongoing excel- test pilot and retired Air There was family, and friends.” lence. The campus is more crowded with buildings Force colonel. He also vol- Gary Rubin (the and activities than in our day and it continues to unteers with the county ‘ author of this column) grow to serve us all. We broke our own university sheriff’s department, flies way too much is pleased to report record for Tower Club donors, at 87. Since I’m still with Wounded Warriors in that the NYC law firm recovering from sending those triplets to college, sailplanes, and is a member senseless where he has practiced I can only say thanks to my classmates who pick of the board of directors of for the past 30 years, up my slack and make us look good. a charter school. beauty and Mazur Carp & Rubin, And while Prof. LaFeber spoke about the frag- Lorenzo Littles (South- PC, joined forces on mentation of the globe during our class panel lake, TX; llittles@ csllc. biz) July 1, 2013 with Schiff session, Reunion is about the vitality of long con- is general counsel of his great food! Hardin LLP, a much nections that keep that splintering from truly wife’s airport concessions larger firm with a thriv- driving us apart. Classmates came from all over business, which covers 11 US Roz Horn Schaffer’ ’74 ing national practice in the world to stand in the rain and drink beer— airports with nationally Chicago, NYC, and oth- surely life really is good! branded retail products such er parts of the country. I’ve left the telling of individual stories to my as Sunglass Hut, Swarovski, and L’Occitane en “My partners and I will continue practicing con- fellow columnists for the next few issues. They Provence. Son Wyatt completed his first year at struction law, litigation, and trusts and estates in were mostly there and so should have plenty to Columbia Law School in the spring, and daughter Manhattan with our new partners at Schiff write about. My friends will remain anonymous for Arielle will start Columbia Law School this fall. Hardin. Now we will learn how the other half the moment, but you know who you are—old and Will Fudeman (Ithaca, NY; [email protected]. lives.” c Gary L. Rubin, glr34@ cornell.edu; Alex new. Thanks to those of you who have already an- com) says he is focusing his attention on “expe- Barna, [email protected]. swered my plea at Reunion to send in news. You’ll riencing and enjoying aliveness: practicing and no longer receive as many of those lovely paper teaching qigong, doing healing work, writing, and sheets on which to write and send your news, as making music.” THEMES OF REUNION: William T. Cornell is sending almost exclusively electronic Mark Schimelman (mschimelman@gmail. Keeton, PhD ’58, was familiar to dues requests—so we need you to go electronic com) lives in Clifton Park, NY, and recently retired 73 many, just not as a dorm. with us, too. We in the column-writing business from32yearsofmedical practice. “I have been en- Gray hair, when we had it. still want to hear from you, so submit your news joying the freedom so much that I haven’t settled Multiple careers. anytime and we’ll make sure it gets in a column. into any one thing,” he says. Mark and wife Shel- Retirement: just arrived or coming soon. c Phyllis Haight Grummon, [email protected]. ley (Grumet) ’73 have started traveling and vis- All our loves, all ages, shapes, and sizes. iting their kids and their new granddaughter, and Beer, wine, and fudge in abundance. would enjoy hearing from classmates and friends. Up the Slope in buses we rode. Kevin Egan published his sixth Eugene Ungar (Palm City, FL; genesunbeltt@ aol. Down we strolled, feted, LaFeber-fragmented, novel, Midnight, in July. He de - com) recently retired from Next Era Energy after and feisty. 74 scribes it as “a noirish thriller set 28 years and celebrated the birth of his first Hey, Walter says we changed the world! largely in the New York County Courthouse.” He grandchild, “a boy and a future Cornellian.” He Whispered wonderings: who would still be adds, “Publishers Weekly commented that ‘late ac - previously worked for 11 years at Mobil Oil. here at the 50th? tion twists and reversals ensure that nothing turns Dorothy Clickner Wehnau (dotrd@ juno. com) lives Did you see the Class of ’38? They’re, like, 86! out as expected’ and called the novel ‘a thrilling in Maryland, NY, and is retired. Note: we’re already twice the age at which read.’ ” Way to go, Kevin. You can find Kevin on Robert Frazee (Cazenovia, NY; rfrazee@caz we advised ourselves not to trust anyone. the Cornell Writers list on the main university equip. com) recently retired from his family busi- Cornelliana Night, Dueling Pianos, the State website and at www.kjeganfiction.com. ness, Cazenovia Equipment Co., which has John of the University, Beer Tents! Our class continues its artistic endeavors in Deere equipment dealerships in central and north- Affinity groups, fraternities, sororities, radi- Mexico, where Esteban Rosas (egr5@cornell. edu) ern New York and is now being run by two of cals, housemates, and Phi Beta Kappas. plays guitar in bars as a hobby (“James Taylor and Bob’s sons. In the spring Bob and wife Juli took And those who never left Ithaca, but came Bob Dylan songs—for mature audiences!”) and a seven-month cruise from Lake Ontario to the Ba- to say hello. has written a book. Professionally he worked for hamas and back on their 42-foot sailboat, Ju- Did I mention the weather? Pleasant Ithaca P&G as an engineering manager, opened a lumber lianne. Now that they are home, they will spend drizzle, of the familiar variety. business, got an MS in economics, and now works more time with family, especially their five grand- Late nights, early mornings, and roaring falls. for the state government of Durango as deputy children. Julia Kosow Grosberg (Yorktown Heights, Made new friends and renewed the old. minister of economic development. “I am working NY; [email protected]) works part-time as a school Weaving silver memories and gold among toward a PhD in economics from Edinburgh Napier psychologist for local school districts in northern the threads of Red. U. and want to apply to the National System of Westchester County, still enjoys folk dancing, and Over 200 hundred of us arrived on campus in Research and spend the last quarter of my life do- plays violin in an amateur community orchestra. early June to enjoy a few days of immersion into ing economic research.” Esteban enjoys a happy “We give concerts at local libraries, assisted liv- the delights that are Cornell. With over 10 percent marriage of 38 years, travels for business to Italy ing facilities . . . anywhere we can find a captive of our graduating class represented, it was im- and Asia (investment promotion), and has two audience!” Julia would like to hear from any Cor- possible not to know someone—or someone who grandchildren (ages 5 and 3). He keeps in touch nell Savoyards who were in performances between knew someone you knew. Relationships remain at with Don Gross and Bob Hoff. 1968 and 1972. Patrice Kasten Schwartz of Cro- the heart of life, and Cornell reunions are no ex- William Salomon moved back to Woodstock, ton-on-Hudson, NY, recently retired from teaching ception. Trust that you’ll know someone and make NY, after 11 years in South Carolina and Alabama. in the Mamaroneck school district and says she is a promise to come in 2018. College was a touch- “We look forward to attending alumni events in “enjoying retirement tremendously.” stone, good or bad, and coming back lets you Ithaca and connecting with friends.” Roz Horn Betsy Post Falconi (Newtown, PA; efalconi@ have the perspective that you couldn’t have then. Schaffer ([email protected]) is director of hu- comcast.net) is an avid grandmother and gardener A delightful part of having successful class- man resources for the Barnes Foundation in and chairs the board of trustees of Bowman’s Hill mates is that we can bask in the glory of their Philadelphia, home to what she describes as “one 76 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes and Bill Deb- addi- ! In October 2013October 77 | Brian Dawson , and and , (andy@apple fig. com) and com) fig. (andy@apple Agriculture Fair Grounds were Grounds Fair Agriculture had a fellowship on Capitol Hill Capitol on fellowship a had September September ([email protected]) writes ([email protected]) , BS Nurs ’77, was there as well. Jim well. as there was ’77, Nurs BS , stage management services. A cou- A services. management stage ein Bill Totten ’73 Andy Feigin , , Wendy Sneff Please continue to contact your class corre- class your contact to continue Please Also recently honored: in St. Croix, VI, the Dr. the VI, Croix, St. in honored: recently Also Jeff Shamis At the end of May, I to at went At see the end of May, Cornell spondents and we will get your news into the wife Mimi ar wife a vacation enjoy to able cor- were a they running ago of ple after years Coast Central California’s along Son Benjamin Hewlett-Packard. for event porate devel- software is a ’09) senior Mellon (Carnegie daughter and Chicago, in Financial Enova at oper from College Eckerd and graduated Hannah has at intern management a stage as summers spent in Waterford, Conference Playwrights the O’Neill Awards Tony Annual 67th the I watched just CT. in the name Andy’s noticed on TV and ceremony the credits, and staging was magnificent Arthur Petersen Jr. (strictlyart@earth Art classmate our after named net). The press release noted that Art is link. a committed is and agriculture for advocate com- strong and cooperation, coordination, and improving to environmental, agriculture, among agri- munication many of member a is Art agencies. economic and societies agronomy and Ed- horticulture, Technical culture, and Career Croix St. the at staff on is life adolescent teaches he where Center, ucation skills. Human Lantos Tom the and Wolf Frank Rep. with Rights Commission, which is part of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Afterwards, she re- to Dept. officer to be State desk the the turned Caitlin daughter Her Caribbean. Southern the for Amer- the at studying summer last of part spent Rome. of U. ican tion, Andy was recently honored by the Academy the by honored recently was Andy tion, “The on work his for Sciences & Arts Television of Center which Kennedy Honors,” has won Emmy Come- or Musical, Variety, Outstanding as awards dy Special for several years. Andy continues to program extern Cornell the through students host Uni- the with involved actively has and become NY. Huntington, of Fellowship Universalist tarian from from Gainesville, selling FL, where he after retired practice from his planning Financial US the Ameriprise touring been has He partner. former a to it miles 9,000 on putting RV, small a in Canada and year. last his daughter Sydney. Brian is a claim counsel for counsel claim a is Brian Sydney. daughter his com- just Sydney area. Baltimore the in Travelers is on and at Delaware U. of year first her pleted wife, Brian’s team. competition cheer the co-ed is she where Hospital, Hopkins Johns at is Patty, the for of nursing/coordinator director assistant They in nursing. for excellence program Magnet Ravens the follows Brian and MD, Air, Bel in live Red! Big the as well as Orioles the and Marine Corps, and the Kamons assisted in pinning in assisted Kamons the and Corps, Marine wife, Jay’s bars. Lieutenant 2nd Garrett’s on bie (McCoy) bie the Final Four in and lacrosse saw a number of ’70s alums at the pre-game tailgate (it was an first the from guys the with time spend to honor National Champs of ’71!). Also there were adds that Garrett was awarded the Army Athletic Army the awarded was Garrett that adds Association Class Athlete, honoring those who intercol- to service valuable most the given have their careers as during legiate athletics cadets. Defense of Secretary from diploma his received He Chuck Hagel. Abbie Smith, the Boris and Irene Account- of Professor Service Distinguished Business, Stern of School Booth Chicago of U. the at Chica- at ing Address Convocation 515th the delivered year. this ceremony graduation go’s Hoffman Bob Pax- “Jay” “Jay” last year. year. last John . Carolyn made Rich made . Carolyn , , MBA ’76 (ram38@ Gould (gouldpjaks@ Gould (Karen.e.lauterbach@ Harris (cgeorge@ sgb Harris (cgeorge@ Giambastiani (cinedg@ Giambastiani ’08 (dinkyrss@ aol.com). Bob aol.com). (dinkyrss@ Kamon (cmkamon@gmail. Kamon , MBA ’79, PhD ’81 (abbie. ’81 PhD ’79, MBA , (bps44@comcast. net), and (bps44@comcast. Claire Zipf ’05 Rich Marin Steffi Feit Lundholm Lundholm ’s ([email protected]) son Gar- ’s ([email protected]) 7 [email protected]) thrown by ([email protected]), ’76 , ME ’77 (pab43@cornell. edu), Linda edu), (pab43@cornell. ’77 ME , Ting Magill Rory Sadoff , ME ’76 (nmakes@tcco. com), Pat and Pat com), (nmakes@tcco. ’76 ME , Abbie Smith Cindy Coulter Karen Lauterbach Cindy Johnson ,ME , ME ’74, Assistant Commandant of the US the of Commandant Assistant ’74, ME , Bruce Shutts Jim Thul In April, I attended a surprise 60th for for 60th a surprise I attended In April, sever- with cruise a on went I April, in Later Ting and Mark Kamon had a after year busy Kamon Mark and Ting Daughter Katie is an attorney in New York, and son and York, Rachel New welcomed daughter in Hayden in October. attorney an is Katie Daughter March, In Vermont. in advisor financial a is Willie I up drove with Brennan reunion SAE/U-Hall an had it and to Claire, how wife, know his not did band the Unfortunately, feel. and Patti were Attending Goode”! 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Bob’s to celebrate to on Alaska a trip Co. in NYC and Construction is CT, an SVP at Turner Lyme, East in lives Paul Re- CT. Southport, in Dominion lives for manager environmental an is and their celebrated ’74) (IC Linda and Bruce sources. ca- a from retired Bruce May. in lives now anniversary 38th and year last R&D pharmaceutical in reer travel, a golf, of lot enjoying Boston, of Aman- outside daughter for duties father-of-the-bride and da, who wed last September. Daughter Megan finishes son and Jeffrey Colgate from graduated keep to in vet tries in keep school 2014. Bruce Tufts “to annually Blas and Nicky, Bob, with touch hearts.” our in alive SAE and U-Halls of memories County at Nassau surgery oral of is director Rory His NY. in Massapequa, lives and Center Medical at year freshman her finished just Rory daughter UMass, where she followed ’12) in the footsteps of (Hamilton Luke and ’09) (Tufts Zach brothers team. lacrosse the on played and familylaw.com), aol.com), com), mac. gmail.com), gmail.com), Kennedyville, MD, where they are playing golf and Markgolf retired playing andare theythey movedwhere MD, permanently to Kennedyville, planning weddings! Son Mike married Lindsay married Emily daughter and October, last Devine Lorna attended also They June. this Dahne Jason and ton ’73 rett’s graduation ceremony from West Point. His Point. West from ceremony graduation rett’s by Gen. was oath administered com), and and com), [email protected] daughter Harris’s [email protected]). first-time a Cindy made Lee Dan Son husband and Cecilia. Caroline Kai daughter their to grandmother Giambastiani’s Cindy exams. his just passed CPA married Peter son and Bar- Chip Betsy Wyatt. , jjw@ , , to com- to , , and I , be- and Lynn Arrison Ken Kramer in May from CALS from May in Jack Wind Anna Denis-Rohr Rae Beasley is still head of Allergy of head still is was recently one of 30 one was recently and and (Bryn Mawr, PA; kad66@ Mike Denis-Rohr ’10 Denis-Rohr Mike has has worked in a startup com- , [email protected]; , [email protected]; John Kronstadt ’73 This is a special year for most of most for year special a is This I do not certainly us—although I 60! turning I’m like act) (or feel magna cum laude cum magna Albert Rohr Nicola ’14 ([email protected]) spends her time her spends ([email protected]) Amos Cotton ([email protected]) and husband husband and ([email protected]) Erik ’06 , [email protected]; [email protected]; , Kathleen Denis Thanks to all who responded to request the to responded all who Thanks My husband, husband, My , as her 60th was in December. 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Philadelphia of the greatest art collections in the world.” She world.” the in collections art greatest the of Philadelphia at HR in professor adjunct an also is big the celebrated I and Charlie, par- husband, “My week U. a spent We Italy. to trip a with birthday ticipating in a touring‘Foodie and Adventure,’ cooking in Tuscany. Then we traveled to Pisa, and back was to way There Roma. Terre, Cinque food!” great and beauty senseless much too bara Gales encourag- events, academic and social attending ever they than higher “reach to to people young students ing encouraging and could,” they dreamed of dreams She field. health the in learn to career a choose Africa South or Mideast the in vacationing treas- “to and purchase cultures different about to like would Barbara countries.” these from ures from hear I on the Los Angeles Superior Court bench. Court Superior Angeles Los I the on for class news. More to come next time. Make news. own your with us up to date to keep sure his wife in NYC and had a great time at the post- the at time great a had and NYC in wife his Cor- our with April in party birthday 60th poned reunion to forward looking We’re classmates. nell Ithaca.” in year next students featured in a presentation to the Arts and Arts the to presentation a in featured Cor- the to students off heads She Board. Advisory Sciences if and semester, next program Washington in nell year. a gap after school medical to well, goes all School, Business Stanford from graduating Since our son into learning blended bringing to dedicated pany a established also He schools. public underserved Alliance the support to board professional’s young which in Angeles, Los in schools charter of group America For Teach the in years two for I taught and he John Cornell. from graduating after and program court federal in he judging, enjoy to continue came grandparents to came Reese Caroline on grandparents Turner 25, 2013. 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column as soon as possible. c Deb Gellman, ds getting any younger. My husband and classmate is in internal medicine at the U. of Chicago; [email protected]; Mitch Frank, mjfgator@ Don just underwent heart valve replacement—no Michael Landau practices dentistry in the Albany gmail.com; Karen DeMarco Boroff, boroffka@ symptoms, no nothing, just a nagging wife. We area; and Jeff Snedeker is a pediatrician in Itha- shu.edu; Joan Pease, [email protected]. were lucky! That’s all the news for now. c Karen ca and has given recitals on the Sage Chapel and Krinsky Sussman, [email protected]; Pat Relf Anabel Taylor Hall organs. Hanavan, [email protected]; Lisa Diamant, Ljdiamant@ Many years ago, several of us bought Cornell Greetings! Greacian Goeke ’75, verizon.net. scarves from the Class of ’71 at the Cornell Associ- BA ’76, writes from Oakland, CA. ation of Class Officers (CACO) Mid-Winter meeting. 76 She is working for Stagebridge I wore mine at Friday night’s dinner at the Statler. Senior Theatre Co. in a new position as director Our annual class News and Dues As it turns out, the scarf was designed by our of community relations/staff writer. She is also mailing will be arriving in your classmate Terry Rosen. She also designed a simi- teaching children and teachers at Mills College in 77 mailboxes soon (via e-mailor post - lar scarf for Princeton. Unofficial reunion photog- Oakland in the Orff Schulwerk Music & Movement al carrier—or both), and we hope you’ll take the rapher Polly Kreisman took pictures of Terry, the approach. Greacian is developing two groups of opportunity to update your classmates on what’s scarf, and me. Also at Friday night’s dinner, Provost elder dancers and improvisational movement been happening in your life recently. In the mean - Kent Fuchs announced that the class had a best- artists to tour schools and community centers to time, thanks to those of you who have re spond ed ever Reunion Fund campaign, totaling $8,856,991! model healthy aging through creative movement. to our electronic solicitations for news, which we As can be imagined, the headquarters lounge She does this because dance is a language that will report on in the next column. Hope you had a was the scene of numerous reminiscing sessions. any age can speak—and for older adults, discov - good summer! Send news to: c Annette Mulee, (Your correspondent is applying maximum restraint ering their “dancer within” opens a new world of [email protected]; or Howie Eisen, howard. in publishing these stories, lest classmates’ chil- expressive possibilities at a time when reflections [email protected]. Online news form, http:// dren read this column and realize that their par- about one’s life and purpose need to find a voice. www. alumni.cornell.edu/participate/class-notes. ents were cooler than they thought.) Heidi Warner Jilada “Hart” Breadon Williams lives in Chicago, IL. cfm.CAM Digital Edition, http://www.cornell alumni Kaess and Don Ercole recalled the Fiji Island par- She manages her dental practice and, in her free magazine-digital.com. ty freshman year, when one of the purple-painted time, does sculpting. She is continuing her ed uca - revelers left an awkwardly placed handprint on the tioninorthodontics because she loves learn ing new white shorts of the lacrosse referee. The brothers areas of dentistry. Estate litigation lawyer Ilene Despite occasional downpours, of Phi Sigma Epsilon had an extensive session on Sherwyn Cooper, partner at Farrell Fritz Attorneys 228classmates, spouses, chil dren, Saturday night, led in part by Dan Button. The in Uniondale, NY, has been select ed for the 2012 78 and spies from the Class of ’79 only story from this conversation fit to print in a New York Super Lawyers-Metro list in the area of (Janet Bristol and Kathleen Perkins) had a blast family magazine involved a 4 a.m. downtown Estate & Trust Litigation. This is a list of out - at our 35th Reunion. First, kudos to Laura Day doughnut run during finals week and a locking gas standing lawyers who have attained a high degree Ayers, MBA ’86, and Suzanne Bishop Romain for cap on Brian Benhaim’s car, for which Brian did of peer recognition and professional achievement. plan ning the weekend. Suzanne gets extra credit not have the key. Some classmates participated in Additionally, she was selected by her peers for for attending with a cracked rib. Classmates were gustatory reminiscing. Saturday night Mark in clusion in the Best Lawyers in America 2013. housed at the North Campus Townhouses, which Rouleau (Derby, KS) and Doug Johnson (Haddon- In June, Ilene was ap pointed to two NYS Bar did not exist back in our day. My Townhouse-mate field, NJ) returned from the beer tents with Hot Asso ci a tion Committees: the Com mit tee on Legal was Meg Mitchell Weingart (Cleveland, OH), al - Truck Sui’s clutched in their hands. Doug and wife Education and Admission to the Bar and the though we never seemed to be in the unit or Anne (Hamilton) report that their children are Committee on Professional Discipline. conscious at the same time until just before we out of the house and gainfully employed. Updat- Jamela Franklin is one of 12 people featured left on Sunday. The classmate who traveled the far - ing to more recent times, class webmaster Paul in Aetna Insurance Co.’s Black History Month Cal- thest was Harry Rudolph, who livesinSouth Korea. Brantley and Jim Heedles discussed the pitfalls endar. She is an accomplished holistic psy- There were a few changes from our undergrad of trying to establish satellite and ham radio com- chotherapist, certified aroma therapist, certified days—and even from the last reunion. Fellow munications links with NASA space flights. Reiki master, metaphysician, reflexologist, ener- Washingtonian Henry Farber (Issaquah, WA) ar- Nina Silfen (NYC) has established her own gy medicine practitioner, and author, and she is rived without a beard. His explanation: “I grew it trusts and estates practice. Daughter Sarah thor- currently in private practice in holistic health in 36 years ago to look older, but I don’t need to oughly enjoyed the Youth Program. After Saturday’s Atlanta, GA. Jamela is pursuing her PhD in holis- look older anymore.” It was Ileane Stein Voigt’s lunch, Nina and Sarah caught a ride with Randall tic life coaching at the U. of Sedona, and is also (Highland Park, IL) first ’78 reunion. She had pre- Nixon in a Plantations van. Nina’s former suite- the host and creator of the successful weekly blog viously attended husband David ’77’s reunions. mates Anne Marie Knudsen Samuels and Diane talk radio show “Higher Consciousness,” which Classmate Linda Piccinino, MPS ’83 (Rockville, Dunn Tokoph (Naperville, IL) shared a townhouse shares information about aromatherapy, spiritu- MD) was David’s partner on the Big Red cheer- during the weekend. Elizabeth Gilkeson Aikens ality, metaphysics, nutrition, and empowerment. leading squad. Don Strenk and Diane Elliott lives outside Philadelphia and works for a nonprofit She is owner and CEO of both Jamela’s Scents and (Irvine, CA) have three children, all of whom that supports health centers in Uganda. Oyinde Enterprises. Jamela was a Cornell alumni graduated from Cornell. Two of them graduated in Several classmates were unable to attend due trustee from 2008 to 2012 and was a former co- ’03 and ’08, though, so they had to miss our two to offspring graduations or travel. Ellyn Graff chair of CAAAN in Atlanta, and co-chair of the previous reunions. Michaelis and Larry Mix’s oldest son, Michael Mix Cornell University Black Alumni Association Our ROTC classmates were well represented. ’08, is an attorney in Manhattan. Ellyn wrote: “We (CBAA). In 2006 she was instrumental in bringing One-third of the 24 Naval ROTC commissions from all enjoyed his graduation from a very different back the largest number ever of black alumni at- ’78 were in attendance, including Jim Gentile perspective. It brought back many memories for tendees to a reunion. (Mission Viejo, CA). On the Army ROTC side, Dave me.” Their middle two children are students at Stephen Malia reports that in October 2012 Crowley spends time in Pensacola, FL, and New Wesleyan and Penn State, and the youngest grad- almost 200 alumni from Alpha Tau Omega cele- Orleans. His pied-à-terre in New Orleans is con- uated from high school in June. Vic Janas, MS brated the fraternity’s 125th anniversary at Cornell. veniently located above a sushi restaurant. Vicki ’79’s (Monroe, NJ) younger son just graduated from Class of ’76 attendees were Al Trefts, John Ost- Proctor Hulick was stationed in Berlin prior to the middle school. Vic and wife Bernadette (Garchin- man, Joe Mui, Paul Stander, Mike DeBruin, Gary reunification of East and West Germany. She cur- sky), PhD ’93, have two other children. Son Vic- Schmidt, Rich Mohring, MS ’77, and Andy O’Neill. rently lives in Alexandria, VA, and does regulato- tor ’13 is a Computer Science major at Cornell who “It was a memorable weekend filled with laughs, ry consulting for financial institutions. will graduate in December, and daughter Kate is in memories, and friendship.” Rebecca Lanxner Nebe- One of my esteemed predecessors as class cor- the honors program at the U. of South Carolina. sar writes, “I have my first novel out, The Moon respondent, Pepi Leids, DVM ’82 (Bath, NY) has Cindy Sweberg Kleiman (Marlboro, NJ) wrote: “My in the Morning: A Fairytale with a New Twist. It is a new horse and is still training Border Collies for older daughter Gillian is pretty much launched out available for download on Amazon as an eBook agility trials. Susan Ziff (Georgetown, MA) did into the world; she is a reporter/ copy editor for and an audio book.” Rebecca is semi-retired, work- not make it to veterinary school, but she feels as the New York Post and lives in (of all places) ing on her art and hobbies. if she’s gone there via her experience raising Great Brooklyn (what is that about apples and trees?), A personal note to my fellow classmates: Danes and horses. Human healthcare practition- and once Rachel heads off to college in the fall stay on top of your routine physicals; we are not ers were also well represented. Mindy Schwartz (George Washington U.), the nest will be pretty 78 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes , Shea, Gould, Linda Moses October 2013October 79 c | Kathy Zappia September September writes that she traveled to Cuba to traveled she that writes Wastrel Wastrel that I made am, I - I promise have a re to true mained haze beery the through 1978 in , MPS ’82 (Huntington Beach, CA) re- CA) Beach, (Huntington ’82 MPS , resides near me in New York City and City York New in me near resides Send your news and keep this column filled! column this keep and news your Send Joyce Rosen Joyce Speaking of the Cornell Concert Commission, Concert Cornell the of Speaking moses gurevitch@ aol.com; aol.com; gurevitch@ moses in your life. You can also keep up with class events on is class what to love going hear would Classmates with up keep also can You life. your in our cgi), alumni page. www. by joining CornellConnect (http:// connections.com/olc/pub/CEL/home Facebook pagecom/ book. (https://www.face and the Class Cornell of Cornell1979/), groups/ ’79 Linkedin group. As always, you can submit news to us the throughout year at classof79@ edu, cornell.or directly to: Jacqueney has been a lawyer with Madison Garden Square for 19 years. Her triplets Mark and enjoyed really her Stephanie husband chil- arethree all when now summer this 12,nest empty and their camp. sleep-away at were dren Cynthiaor net; Ahlgren rdgould@comcast. [email protected]. late last year. She says that she loved riding in the in riding loved she that says She year. last late cars cars of are (most the 1950s oldest antique ride the was better even “but models), American one!” older even an of seat rumble the in I took now and employee Ruth Ormsby full-time a still is she that ports in living is 25, son, Her well. as mom part-time a daugh- her and CBRE, at works and at Francisco San working and home at living currently is 23, ter, months four firm. law a condo, Ruththeir andin husband her still were damage deal- water with ing I have a fond memory of Dickey Betts performing Betts Dickey of memory fond a have I my In in Barton crowd small to an unusually there. “Melissa” played Brothers Allman the when Hall telling, it was Dickey and there, me andwere you a If few other intimate. so seemed It people. tell ever never, it differently, you and remember truth. the me of another Collegetown party punctuated by sirens by punctuated party Collegetown another of be never would I that namely lights, flashing and on loud cops the calls who neighbor of kind the semester. the of end the celebrating kids too. college neighborhood, college a in live I and wife My - ses in is school when parties of plenty are There sion, and they get loud and Lest boisterous. I in my empathy “cool” too sound sanctimonious - prob I should ’hood, the in youngsters the with ably point out that I’m hard of I now. hearing blame the Cornell Concert and Commission the Brothers. Doobie 80 , Ray Lisa , , , , and and and Stephanie . . (Boulder, CO) (Boulder, Lon Dan Mansoor Scott Jacobs Bill McNamara Dave Boor , , Ducommun, MBA ’85, after undergoing cataract undergoing after , and and , Tom McKinnon (Irvington, NY) left Jefferies in Jefferies left NY) (Irvington, Patty Garr , , , ME ’80, MBA ’81, and his wife mi- wife his and ’81, MBA ’80, ME , at the Cornell-Duke lacrosse game in game lacrosse Cornell-Duke the at Carol French , MS ’80, MBA ’81, and and ’81, MBA ’80, , MS Denis Barone , , Mark Hallock Jeff Berg Jonathan Talamo ’82 Jeff Dingle Philadelphia during Memorial Day weekend.” That weekend.” Day Memorial during Philadelphia watched us of lots but game, disappointing a was praises the is singing Jeff or it on in TV. person of eyes. both on surgery grated west to Scottsdale, AZ, after selling their selling after AZ, to Scottsdale, west grated However, 2013. February in NY, Katonah, in house because Coast East the left entirely not have they summer the for Cod Cape on cross- condo a rented driving they days 11 spent “We adds, He fall. mid-May and in Massachusetts to Arizona from country sites, historical museums, parks, national visiting way, the along and, attractions, roadside cheesy classmates at Kimberly-Clark Corp. and Nike Inc., he now has now he Inc., Nike and and Corp. Kimberly-Clark at director, corporate investor, an as working been Ron was recently owner. minority Celtics Boston Cen- elected Medical to the corporateChildren’s and boards Ed, of EveryWareCareer Inc., Global to Cornell the was reelected also and ter-Dallas, do- been has He 2013. in May Trustees of Board South in safari a including traveling, of lot a ing Africa and trips to the London Olympics, Mor- Nice, children: three has Ron Lisbon. and Cannes, hon- with 2010 in Wesleyan from Pennsylvania of graduated gan U. the from graduated Adriane ors, in 2012 with honors, and Jordan will graduate in 2014. Rice from a in in “to meet need 2012 InventWorks formed that shop a for world design and engineering the can creatively attack a wide of range problems The skill set constraints.” preconceived without stage any at are who clients help to is goal firm’s of design— of the stage product early the development at are cycle. projects Often clients’ his idea an but nothing with in walk they with sometimes works also he sketches—and rough some and models solid with detailed arrive who engineers He in manufacturing. but assistance some need works with facilities in contract manufacturing volumes. production larger for Asia Steve Sues 2012 to start a financial advisory firm, M2O Pri- M2O firm, advisory a financial to start 2012 eq- M2O with private works Advisors. vate Fund uity fund managers to help them prepare for and fundraising then raise capital. The Hallock in after June to to Turkey travel planned family Hack- the from graduates Nick, son, eldest the in Mark’s College Columbia enter will Nick School. ley with touch in keeps Mark fall. MBA MBA ’80. We also saw classmates Barsanti Hoyt Yasson . , , , ME Gae- ; ; VP, Mary Karen Jones; did did a won- Angela- De Kent Sheng Vivian Wohl ; website com- website ; George Bradley Tucker, Randall Tucker, Joanne Wallen- , , Linda Jones Linda ; VP, social media, social VP, ; , , JD ’81; assistant , and and , , MBA ’63, and his and , ’63, MBA , , Mary Bowler Mary Maxon Graing - Mary Maxon Graing assured that the Cor - Cor the that assured Roger Anderson Cooper, and Cooper, A others. Pat Reilly , [email protected]; , and and !Be , donated the funds for this for funds the donated , Jordan Schell-Lambert and husband husband and Brad Mike Cook wrote from Petaluma, he was Marc Peter Keane Karbel; secretary, Karbel; secretary, Simoncini; Simoncini; membership chair, , Linda Piccinino, Piccinino, , Linda , , Marie Hagen lives in Dallas, TX. After 22 years 22 After TX. Dallas, in lives It’s hard to believe it’s been 35 been it’s to hard believe It’s years since er our you Wheth come senior to campus year. Cynthia Kubas Sheryl Hilliard re-connection and fun and re-connection that occurs Kevin Wandryk , BArch ’83, received a JD from San- from JD a received ’83, BArch , Jim Morgan ’60 (607) 257-3268 or mmgithaca@ aol. mmgithaca@ or (607) 257-3268 Susanne Solomon Lefland, [email protected]. Lefland, Cindy Fuller at tof Kahn and Kahn c Shelley Spooner Andy Paul Lorri Lofvers , , Fishman, Fishman, Becky Quinn ’60 ; treasurer, ; treasurer, Ron McCray This month’s news includes graduations, trav- graduations, includes news month’s This Our new class officer roster for the next five next the for roster officer class new Our were in Australia on Reunion Weekend visiting Weekend Reunion on Australia in were , MPS ’87, , MPS 79 regularly or seldom, we hope to see you! For cur - cur For you! see to hope we seldom, or regularly check activities, class our about information on rent CU1979Reunion and media, social website, our contact or Twitter, the azaleas are in that Silicon and the likes azaleas bloom) legend Valley er every- seeing to forward looks Paul space. serene 2014! in reunion at one campus for 18 hours in mid-May. “All was lovely, was “All in mid-May. 18 hours for campus art,of work stu- the and a world-class is Cosmos with a crying, Hall, Baker through running dent willies.” the me gave hands her in final chemistry that reports Paul derful job when with lovely the new pocket particularly garden is at (that the Museum Johnson wife, com. Homecoming on Sept. 20-21 will feature new feature will 20-21 Sept. on A ones. Homecoming com. traditional as well as activities special and at June, Last mix. the into fit will gathering (June class union re upcoming our for meetings planning 5-8, 2014) the were Graingers joined by Wilensky with meet to plan they September In ’80. Mineo and his of Paulwedding Werbaneth summer the to forward looking Yuko’s younger daughter. Paul had to it) visit the to prove photos the has lucky(and chance management in senior executive and as a lawyer and venues during Reunion 2013 and ob served the out checked many menus of number classmates ob and 2013 Reunion during venues and annual spiri when gather committee Cornellians reunion class your and community nell are plans for developing a weekend memorable miss. to want not will you that Sev- jobs. or careers switching classmates and el, eral classmates wrote from California. In May, George Atkins registered a became “I Law. of School U. Clara ta be- that decided then 2009, in back agent plan patent I do. to thing jolly a was attorney an coming De- Public County Sacramento the with intern to When results.” Bar awaiting while Office fender’s Ilene Shub stein correspondents. your as continue will I and Ilene upcoming for news your e-mail to hesitate Don’t columns! Nina Silfen, Silfen, Nina Nixon, Nixon, tano, MAT ’02, ’76 there. studying was who daughter a president, follows: as is years events, regional quiet.” quiet.” Sharon Palatnik Lori Wasserman Silva Council, Class and Brantley; Paul manager, munity Chip Brueckman secretary-treasurer, Pepi Leids; reunion co-chairs, reunion Leids; Pepi secretary-treasurer, Cor- Romain; Bishop Suzanne and Ayers Day Laura representative, Fund nell immediate past president, past president, immediate 60-95CAMso13notes ready_000-000CAMMA12Notes 8/13/13 3:56 PM Page 79 PM Page 3:56 8/13/13 ready_000-000CAMMA12Notes 60-95CAMso13notes 60-95CAMso13notes ready_000-000CAMMA12Notes 8/13/13 3:56 PM Page 80

after a neighbor’s fire. She adds, “I have been em- of Wilmington, DE. Michael was a founding mem- recently completed an MS in STEM education at ployed in hotel development for 30 years, with no ber of the campus humor magazine, the Cornell Tufts U. and will start his PhD in STEM education line of sight to retirement yet. Currently working Lunatic, in 1978 and also served as photography at Tufts this fall. Gail Henry Katz has been run- with Carlson Hotels, based in Southern California. editor for two years. He was a sweet, quiet guy ning Leon Henry Inc., a family-owned, direct mar- We boat to Catalinaasoftenaswecan.” Other trav- with a wonderful sense of humor. For the Fall 1978 keting business, and shares the sad news that her els for Ruth and her husband have included a re- issue of the Lunatic (available in the Cornell husband passed away recently after a 27-year ill- cent dive vacation in Grand Cayman and a cruise in Archives in Kroch Library), he dressed up as an ness. Gail has twin 19-year-old boys who finished summer 2012 to celebrate their 30th anniversary. army soldier and jumped from a rope swing into their freshman year in college. She keeps in touch Jeffrey Lindy writes: “Although the game did the reservoir for a photo in the magazine. He was with Pam Weigel Brennan and Amy Berger Morse. not turn out as we had hoped, I had a great time my roommate for two years, attended my wedding, Peter Schott writes, “I’ve been enjoying my service as the Rochester (NY) district rep for the CALS Alumni Association. It’s been a great way to reconnect with old friends and make new ones. The The ﬁrst lesson Gretchen Ritter CALSAA board is really committed to serving the interests of the College and the alumni. It’s in- ‘ spiring to be involved with such a capable group, learned as dean: “Don’t follow and my appreciation for all things CALS continues to grow.” Colin Rehkugler, MS ’83, will be retir- David Skorton as a speaker.” ing after 30 years with IBM at the end of 2013. Next steps are unknown, but he is looking forward Alyssa’ Bickler ’83 to even more ski time next year. Lynn Ciolino Boyajian’s daughter Lindsay ’13 graduated from Cornell in May and received her BS at the National Lacrosse Championships [in and made me laugh out loud with his gentle wit.” ILR. She has been accepted into the ILR master’s Philadelphia], where I got together for the first c Dik Saalfeld, rfs25 @ cornell.edu; Dana Jer- program in International and Comparative Labor time in 30 years with my old friend Josh Rosen- rard, dej24 @ cornell.edu; Cynthia Addonizio- and will be staying at Cornell another year. In blatt. Josh came down from Montclair, NJ, with Bianco, caa28 @ cornell.edu; Leona Barsky, addition, she launched a startup company called his son Jackson ’16, who just finished his fresh- Leona barsky @ aol.com. Weareveryougo.com through Cornell’s prestigious man year at Cornell!” Shawn Boyne reports: “I incubator program, eLab. Kappa Delta sister Janice was recently appointed to full professor at Indi- Kerzner Tillo writes from Jacksonville, FL, that a ana U.’s Robert H. McKinney School of Law in In- This spring has been a busy one for round of golf is five hours of mental and physical dianapolis. In my spare time, I teach meditation the Adams household! I am work ing stress . . . as a parent spectator! “It was all worth at an alternative high school for students recov- 81 as a project manager for a software it, however, when our BU freshman, Emily, was ering from alcohol or drug problems.” consulting firm while also running our coffee - named the MAAC (Metro Atlantic Athletic Confer- David Mallory is a professor of biological sci- house. We are planning a trip to Yosemite this ence) Women’s Golf Rookie of the Year at the con- ences at Marshall U. and was recently named de- summer, as well as our annual week of camping ference championship held at Disney’s Palm Course partment chairman. He writes, “Kimberly and I are and boating in Bass Lake. Both our kids were very in April. All of us were on hand to support her, ex- now campaigning our 3-year-old Leonberger for active in show choir, and our son Tyler’s choir cept her older sister, Carolyn, who now has a ‘real’ his AKC Conformation Grand Championship. Who took Grand Champion title at the FAME Orlando job in Boston. Lizzie, 17, would love to join her knows, Westminster may be in his future. We are Show Choir competition. This summer he spent sisters in Beantown. Our youngest, T.J., 13, prob- still on the ICS Chili Trail, and I will be compet- two weeks in Boston. Luckily, I enlisted the aid of ably wouldn’t mind a little separation from his sis- ing for the ninth time in the World Championship my friend Kathy Philbin LaShoto to pick him up ters. He can’t get away with much having four Chili Cookoff in Palm Springs next October.” at the airport and bring him to Boston U. for the mothers!” Leslie Watson Pearson was selected as Daughter Caitlin is married, and she and hubby Summer Challenge program. Kathy is enjoying life principal of a K-5 elementary school in her home are finishing their third year of medical school at with her two college-age kids: James is a senior district of Fairfield, CT, as of July 2013. “McKin- Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine in at Bentley, and MaryAnn is at Holy Cross. Kathy is ley School is wonderful. It has about 470 students, Blacksburg. Son Max graduated from Embry-Rid- in Boston working in real estate as a regional and Fairfield is a great district. I’m very lucky to dle Aeronautical U. with a BS in aeronautical en- facilities manager. have been chosen. Needless to say, life is hectic gineering and will be a pilot in the Air Force. “He Mark Elsaesser reports from Ohio that his and exciting right now.” The Leland C. and Mary will be flying the mighty C-130!” daughter Catherine will graduate from high school M. Pillsbury Inst. for Hospitality Entrepreneurship Gail Wechsler says she just completed her in a few weeks and enter Cornell’s School of Ho- (PIHE) recently welcomed four new hospitality in- fifth anniversary as director of domestic issues/ tel Administration this fall. Recently, Catherine, as dustry leaders to its advisory board including our social justice at the Jewish Community Relations a representative of the Cornell Club of Southwest classmate Kenneth Blatt, chief operating officer Council of Saint Louis. “I love my job, which in- Ohio, presented the Cornell Book Award to a fel- of the hotel division and principal in Caribbean volves legislative advocacy and coalition building low student at her high school. After over 20 years Property Group LLC (CPG). CPG is a real estate in- on issues including the environment, health care working in public policy studies, Robert Cropf is vestment firm that owns and operates real estate access, immigration, and poverty. I was pleased now a professor of political science at Saint Louis assets in Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and Central to participate in the Leadership Saint Louis pro- U. He recently converted to Judaism, joining his America across the retail, hotel, industrial, and of- gram in 2011-12.” Last year she received a schol- wife, Gail, and two children, Hannah and Jeremy. fice sectors. Its current hotel assets include the arship to attend the Siach Jewish Social Justice/ Jeremy graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Ritz-Carlton San Juan Hotel, Spa, and Casino and Environmental Action Conference in Israel. “It was Arts in 2012 and is a video producer/editor for the Radisson Ambassador Hotel and Casino. my first time visiting Israel and I was able to sight- Crowd Supply and an artist at Hive FX, a compa- Thanks for all the great news! Please keep see and visit with relatives I had not seen for many ny that works on the “Grimm” series on NBC. Han- those e-mails coming! We love to hear from you. years.” Gail is married to Bob Cropf ’81, who last nah graduated from high school in May and will c JoAnn Minsker Adams, [email protected]; year became a full professor at Saint Louis U. “We start at Bard College this fall. Robert keeps in Barb Amoscato Sabaitis, [email protected]; are very proud of our children, Jeremy (NYU ’11), touch with classmates Aaron Stern, Peter Rosen- Betsy Silverfine, [email protected]. who lives in Portland, OR, and works for the Hive- blum, Scott Lilienfeld ’82, and Roland Bonawitz. FX film production company, and Hannah, who just He adds that he and Gail are part of a group of graduated high school and will be a freshman at St. Louisans of diverse racial backgrounds, called My fraternity brother Eric Bauer Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson in the fall.” Bridges, who meet periodically to discuss ways to writes that his fourth book, Reli - We enjoy reporting good news from our class- decrease racial polarization in the area. 82 a bility and Availability of Cloud mates, but life is tenuous, and can take a tragic Steve Cogger is finishing up his sixth year as Computing, was published by Wiley-IEEE Press in turn. Joey Green, BFA ’81, writes, “Sadly, I must a teacher after a career in industry. Presently, he 2012. I also heard from fraternity brother Randy report the death of Michael Frawley. He died May is teaching physics and a digital electronics engi- Marcus of Ithaca, who, along with fellow Lamb da 21, 2013 from esophageal cancer in his hometown neering elective at Reading (MA) High School. He Chi Greg Deierlein ’81, catches the radio show 80 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes . , , and Dee Cor- help Kyle Gary Ryan Diane Nancy . , , gto Bakos, Bakos, Jon Felice Kim Osborn ’s Athlete of Athlete ’s dean- sof’83 Peter Lynch Nancy Gilroy Diane Waters October 2013October 81 and and | Carlo Frappolli —representing us in —representing Guerin (sguerin62@ ([email protected]) Mark Matt Palumbo Barb Friedman Deane and and Deane Lucretia Gonshak ([email protected]) and ([email protected]) came to Reunion from . President Skorton was a Skorton . President Kok, Kok, , BFA ’84 (sullric@ aol. com) aol. (sullric@ ’84 BFA , Sports Illustrated Karen Gottschalk Meyer, Meyer, President Skorton. He spoke He Skorton. President sof , , “finally surfaced,” as he put it, put he as surfaced,” “finally September September Polte Andy Sosa Liz Cogan Isakson and and Isakson Barb Warner Dave Menapace , my fellow class officers officers class fellow my , achieving n nrdcdourand own introduced Clas Philip Rickey Lisa Esposito — and Lisa , and many other dear friends. If any of you of any If friends. dear other many and , Susan Wasserman and and , , Mike Rosa Gretchen Ritter was a champion yeller! Saturday night found night Saturday yeller! champion a was Omar Saldana There were several activities to choose from to choose activities several were There Here’s news from some of the attendees. Menapace Dave with hangs who Bullis, Gary I also enjoyed seeing seeing enjoyed also I , , ntrtiigremark taining ter en of how proud he was of Cornell alumni—help ing alumni—help Cornell of was he in proud how of work net recession, each other the during other other alumni and get new jobs, graduates ’13 Dake during during the and weekend, a popular one for our that class I was the zip understand line. tough act to follow, but Dean Ritter held her own, her held Ritter Dean but follow, to act dean tough as learned she lesson first the that reporting er.” as was, David Skorton “Don’t follow a speak tent the to headed class the reception, the After social cream ice 1. the and Rise Quad Arts High the on as parties remember all we what of top the at Gilroy Uris outside Terrace Founders’ the at gathered us recep- a for tower) clock the to (adjacent Library Then Slope. Libe on photo class the to Build- prior tion Sciences Physical the at dinner to on was it of dozens with location atrium impressive an ing, where that, after parties tent the to Back tables. classmates—including our of several missed I Bullis up wrapped Sunday on Brunch Tent! Karaoke the Thanks a go out great weekend. to our reunion chairs and com) gmail. elect, elect, theYear Dave Menapace lives in Syracuse, where he is where lives in a Dave Menapace Syracuse, Cor- a be to proud is He Pumps. Goulds for buyer His here. made he friends the of because nellian 2018. in here be must “You class: the to message on is an going not acceptable too much Having reunion.” attending not for excuse Robbins was also happy to be at Reunion this grad- recent daughter’s her of is proud She year. that suggests and Vermont, of U. the from uation for to we the schedule add a tournament bocce the next Do reunion. you hear that, Susan and Andy? loves possible, taking out whenever his trawler Upon question- further on Bay. the Chesapeake cruising a was trawler a that determined we ing, matches lacrosse Cornell two saw also Gary boat. with season this Maryland at for a job well done! well a job for there. be to happy was and with game Army-Navy the attended Rhodes Reunion— from share to want you anything have do life—please your in on going else anything or cor- class appointed newly our of it to one send respondents, Steve TN. Knoxville, my I role, enjoyed have below. at addresses the com- of VP, but on am responsibility the taking still is it So term. upcoming the for munications By touch! in stay all we that sure make to job my way, the her husband, Dan Kohan, have started Ruka Press, Ruka started have Kohan, Dan husband, her on environmental focused company a publishing and are nature non-fiction, about excited their Liz XL Pipeline. Keystone the covering book new is as working a in from psych counselor crisis center hear to love would and DC, Washington, rine Kostrub Barsky Abbie Bookbinder ’82 Longfellow . Peter recent- Chris Hol- (who works in works (who , , MBA ’52, is also a Leonard Tokish ’89 Sam Nazzaro , [email protected]; , (Simpsonville, SC) has Michael ’09 (Fox Point, WI) is chairman of chairman is WI) Point, (Fox At At last and family, friends, report, classmates, nearly 300 back came to the Hill children , who works in the bridges de- , in bridges works the who , and uncle uncle and , Mark Fernau over lunch and on the chilly side- on and chilly the lunch over ’89 , , [email protected]. Tom Gagne c , his son , son his John Hollands ’51 Tokish Tokish Jeffrey ’12 To bring things full circle, I’ll mention that I that mention I’ll circle, full things bring To Paul Weisman for our 30th Reunion. Most of us arrived in time for time in arrived us tions. of Most Reunion. ta 30th our for Plan the at held reception night Friday the a the and enjoyed buffet We food Thai delicious 83 been a general practice attorney concentrating in concentrating attorney practice general a been Greenville in defense criminal and injury personal dis- is He a 1992. former SC, since and Spartanburg, and attorney, US assistant special officer, JAG Har- the from degree a has also He attorney. trict vard Business School and isFaculty a Harvard memberthe and of York New the of Club Cornell with meeting CAAAN, with volunteers Tom Club. hope and “pride with him fill who Katie, people young daughter, own His generation.” next the for in Academy at St. Joseph’s student is an honors schol- college a $40,000 received and Greenville in is Colin Son law. study to hoping is She arship. Joseph’s. St. at grade sixth base- varsity Inst. Polytechnic Worcester a of lines is Mark in his for whom son pitches. ball game, satisfac- the enjoying and area GA, Atlanta, the tion and challenges of growing business TransMed as VP LLC. Co. TransMed for de- Marketing & Sales drug-testing of distribution and sales does Co. laborato- ancillary with along supplies, and vices supplies. ry Doug Skalka partment of HDR in Norfolk, VA; Sarah, studies musical theatre at Pace U. whoin NYC; and in and a school high a USTA Daniel, sophomore Engineer Cornell fifth the is Jeffrey player. tennis aunt Bob, me, with along family, the in lands Forensic US their with director a as PwC joined ly organiza- global assist He will Practice. mar- Services emerging in operating those including tions, capabilities. management threat develop to kets, Criminal US the of Dept. Justice from He comes re- Sam VA. 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ASM for marketing and sales tive have We tennis. league local men’s playing chil- three have and years 18 for Arizona in been dren: Grandpa the section of cardiology at a new medical center medical new a at cardiology of section the interven- practicing been has He WI. in Grafton, Milwau- the in years 20 over for cardiology tional 27 of wife his with empty-nesting is He area. kee tennis, and cycling with up keep to trying years, for works Eric Son Sicily. to traveled recently and is a fresh- Ryan son and Valley, in Silicon NVidia man at U. would in Paul of Wisconsin Madison. older”) love to getting any from hear old (“and classmates. Cornell grad. We recently had dinner with had dinner recently We grad. Cornell Knollmeyer fiancée.” Michael’s and Orbital), at Gilbert . Charles re- Charles . 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wrote a short thank-you to all who did so much free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Cornell our nominations chair, at robgoldwasser@ yahoo. to make his first Cornell reunion such great fun: recently joined the edX consortium. com. All other interests, please contact me, your “I met many of you for the first time, and look In New York Area news, Maria Sekas-Krum class president Lindsay Liotta Forness at forness forward to seeing you again at future events. In ([email protected]) is the founder of the Long [email protected]. Send news to your class corre- spite of the weather I think everything went well Island Chapter of the ILR Alumni Association and spondents at: c Janet Insardi, insardij@ hot and all of the class events were great.” the ILR Alumni to Alumni Network. She is also an mail.com; or Karla Sievers McManus, klorax@ In other news, the Class of 1983 has reserved ILR Board member. Maria is proud that her husband, comcast.net. a block of 100 tickets (price approx. $50 each) for Ted Krum, is part of the Beta class at Cornell Tech the Cornell-BU hockey game on Saturday, Novem- in a Master of Engineering, Computer Science pro- ber 30, 2013 at 8 p.m. in Madison Square Garden. gram. Ted can be reached at eok9@ cornell. edu. I wrote this column in mid-June, Plan to join us for this fantastic biennial event Maria is still in touch with many alumni. Shari but hadn’t heard from anyone (since 2007)! Details on how to order your tick- Cohen lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side with 85 about their big 50th party/ ets in the class block should arrive soon. her husband, Craig, and their 3-year-old son, Ari. event/ hoopla. Did you all forget? I am an October That’s all I have for now—and I hope you’ve “I recently became a partner at a leadership and birthday and party plans are in the works! Write enjoyed my efforts over the past five years! In ad- executive coaching company called Next Step any one of us at the addresses below, and let us dition to sending your news to our new class cor- Partners, where we work with leaders and teams know how you celebrated this milestone. respondents, please keep in touch via our Facebook to help them become more effective, creative, and Let me start out this column by first con- page, and join our group on LinkedIn. Best regards strategic.” Shari keeps in touch with Jessie Stein gratulating Lisa Bluestein! Lisa was sworn in on to all. c Alyssa Bickler, cousin alyssa@ yahoo. Diamond and Aviva Weintraub. Dorothy Pelovitz June 14 as the new president of the Westchester com; Barbara Warner Deane, barb deane@ barb Frank lives almost around the corner from me in Women’s Bar Association at the Mamaroneck Beach deane.com; and Jon Felice, jbfelice@ jb felice.com. Chatham, NJ. She recently started working as a and Yacht Club. Lisa had some very close friends project manager, handling procurement for Lin- there to witness the big event. Mark Irgang, a coln Educational Services. She and husband Andy high school buddy of mine and a Hotelie, lives in In the “That’s so cool!” cate - Hollander, JD ’91, have twin fourth grade boys, Greenlawn, NY, and has just accepted a new posi- gory: Chris Cummins lives in Caleb and Sam, and are very active on a number tion as general manager at the Renaissance Mead- 84 Westchester County, NY, and of boards, including the Cornell Club of Northern owlands Marriott Hotel in Rutherford, NJ. For you writes that what’s been happening is: “Syn chro - New Jersey. Dorothy sings in a choral group, is football fans, Mark will be hosting the NFL person- nicity or something like it. I got the e-mail preparing a kitchen and yard remodel, and getting nel for the planning of Super Bowl 2014. He will requesting news on the way to Cornell to give a the boys ready for their first sleepaway camp ex- then be transitioning into a regional VP position, speech on deploying CubeSats from the Int’l Space perience. They visited Hawaii in 2012 and plan on opening Concord Hotels’ first two hotels in NYC. Station. My company, NanoRacks, provides labora - seeing the Finger Lakes region this summer. Jim Joseph (Newtown, PA) has had a banner year tory accommodations both inside and out side the Jay Lindy lives in Memphis, TN, and is look- for recognitionofhis professional accomplishments! Space Station and deploys CubeSat (small satel - ing forward to our 30th Reunion! Jay is chief op- “I recently won two big industry awards: Agency lites) from the ISS. Couldn’t think of a better erating officer and general counsel for Tower of the Year from PRWeek and Social Media Icon place to talk about that.” Ventures, which is, according to the company’s Award for my blog from PRNews. Not bad for a 50 Education-related news: Scott Kominkiewicz, website, a “one-stop” shop for wireless telecom- year old!” Jim’s daughter is a junior at Penn State our new Class of ’84 membership chair, writes that munications structures. Christian Itin recently re- and is going to be studying abroad in Australia in he and his wife, Teresa (Rutgers ’88), live in East tired from Humboldt State U. and has been the spring. His son just graduated from high Brunswick, NJ, and are working through the col- appointed chair and professor of the Dept. of So- school and will attend IUP in the fall for business. lege phase of their lives with their four children. cial Work at Metropolitan State U. of Denver. He Susan Lyons writes from Ann Arbor, MI: “I “Scott Jr. graduated from Lafayette College in is happy to be back in Colorado and is looking work as a hematologist/oncologist, care for my 2012 and is teaching English in Japan in the JET forward to reconnecting with many old Cornell 13-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son, and program. Daughter Corinne is a junior at Dart- friends in the area. Daniel Colbert has success- bike, hike, and enjoy all things outdoors. I’m mouth and a member of the track and field team. fully launched a business consulting practice in looking for a new position after losing my job due She competed in her third straight outdoor Hep- Santa Barbara, CA, and is senior partner in a new to a back injury.” Susan, we wish you well. She tagonal Track and Field Championship at Prince- Russian venture capital firm. Colbert Venture Con- would love to hear from her old friend Susan ton in May. Constance is finishing her freshman sulting specializes in people and businesses in Diaz. Abby Strongin Cherner (Washington, DC) is year as a fashion major at Philadelphia U. And cleantech, materials, and nanotech. Dan has been busy raising four kids. The oldest is going to be our 6'1" ‘baby’ John is wrapping up his sophomore playing a lot of music lately (guitar, harmonicas, a member of the Hotel school Class of 2017! She year at East Brunswick high school. We attended and singing) and having a great time! His daugh- also started a cooking center training business— the Cornell graduation this year to watch our ter is halfway through her undergrad studies at the At Home with Abby. She would love to hear from niece Rachel Evanowski ’13 receive her diploma U. of Colorado, Boulder, studying psychology. Marc Goldfarb and Sue Levy. From Tenafly, NJ, and will return in July to drop John off at Cornell The saddest part of this volunteer activity is Deborah Goodman Davis writes that she has pub- track and field camp. Looking forward to our 30th reporting the death of a classmate or spouse. lished a children’s book about a runaway stroller (ouch!) Reunion next year. Dwight Vicks, MBA ’91, has informed us that his at the Guggenheim Museum entitled Speeding Candie Johnson Killackey and husband Ed wife, Jean (UVA, ’85), passed away in April after Down the Spiral: An Artful Adventure. Karen Mayo- ’85’s son Sean ’13 also graduated in May! Sean, a a 14-year battle with medullary thyroid carcinoma Tall (Burke, VA) works at the US Dept. of Education four-year ROTC scholar, was commissioned as a sec- (MTC). Her poise and strength inspired many and and enjoys reading, scrapbooking, and Pan-Asian ond lieutenant in the US Army during a ceremony was the impetus for the creation of the Int’l Thy- cuisine. She volunteers at her church and is in- at Statler Hall the same weekend. In more legacy roid Oncology Group (ITOG), a nonprofit group of volved in mentoring high school students who news, Sharon Hayner’s daughter, Kristen Hegedus, 50 leading physicians and scientists from around want to go to college through various programs. will be joining the Cornell Class of 2017. Sharon the world whose mission is to find better treat- Karen writes that it’s been a busy year with her is a patent attorney at Johnson & Johnson. Wendy ments for patients with advanced thyroid cancer daughter entering her senior year and her son Lecker is a senior attorney at the Campaign for Fis- (www.itog.org). Cornellians Mark Adams, Rob and preparing for high school this fall. cal Equity, a project of the Education Law Center. Jenny Katz Goldwasser ’85, Brian Guernier, MPS Jennifer Steig-Strugger (Maplewood, NJ; “My work focuses on advocating for adequate re- ’89, and Dave Rehmus attended the celebration Jsteig@ cheshirellc.com) is a partner at a real es- sources and equity in New York City public schools. of Jean’s life in Clinton, NY, on April 13. tate development company in NYC. Her company I am also the education columnist for Hearst Con- Finally, we are actively seeking classmates developed the luxury condos Philip House and necticut Media Groups, where my columns appear who would like to get involved with class activi- Devonshire House on the Upper East Side and in Hearst’s four Fairfield County newspapers.” ties, either locally or in June 2014 for our 30th Green wich Village, respectively. In her free time, Wendy has three children, a daughter graduating Reunion. Thank you to Karla Sievers McManus, Jenn loves to ski with her family in Vermont and from high school, another daughter one year who is stepping down as a class co-correspondent took a trip out to Park City, UT, this winter. She has younger, and a newly rising ninth grade son. Mar- after many, many years of volunteering in different been married to Bill Strugger for 13 years and they garet Crupi Skelly is working as a writer for edX, capacities! If you are interested in the work of the have three kids: Sara, a senior at Temple U., Abby, a joint venture of MIT and Harvard that provides Class Council, please reach out to Rob Goldwasser, 11, and Justin, 9. She would love to hear from 82 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 60-95CAMso13notes ready_000-000CAMMA12Notes 8/13/13 3:56 PM Page 83 C Cornellians in the Maplewood area. Dawn Mak- Cowap, Earl Cox, ME ’91, “and a bunch of people and delivered them to the school. He has worked lassNotes winski Young is missing her recently deceased on Facebook.” here doing some training with the teachers, help- husband, David. She lives in Upper Black Eddy, Lisa Wallach Mandelblatt has a third-gener- ing on computer issues and bringing them some PA, and is busy running her business and look- ation Cornellian in the family. “My daughter Jen of the various curriculum for different classics. ing forward to her kids’ return from college. She will be the newest Cornellian in the family: ILR “The school lets the students take books home would like to hear from Jeanne Varney. Nicole ’17. (My mom, Rosalie Frankel Wallach ’60 if they sign them out and bring them back the Bertomen Cooper (East Greenbush, NY) still loves (CALS), was the first.)” Lisa writes that after a next day (the Kindles will not leave the school), to swim every day and ski all winter. “I started long hiatus, she is once again involved with the and Jack brought over about 50 small recharge- my own IT consulting firm after years in the Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassador Network able lights that the kids can use at home at night, business. My daughter will be attending Cornell (CAAAN). ”It’s been so much fun meeting the ex- since most of the shanties have no electricity. I in the fall. She’s really looking forward to the tremely accomplished high school seniors that are visited the school and was really humbled by whole experience.” applying to Cornell.” John Kaprielian (Mahopac, what they do with so very little.” Jack was sched- In June I went to Breezy Point, NY, with Cor- NY) shares this news: “In 2012 I set a goal for uled to return to the States in late July—in time nell Cooperative Extension to do a post-Sandy vol- myself of writing a poem a day for an entire year. for crew camp at Cornell. Holly adds, “I have unteer work project and help with the clean-up and I studied poetry writing with Archie Ammons when wanted to visit Kenya since my grandparents were revitalization of the Breezy Point community. A I was at Cornell and it had been a while since I here around 1969. We are going to take a few days number of us from Cornell, of varying class years, had done any serious writing. In 2013, I published to see the wildebeest migration and the Masa Mara spent the day at residents’ homes doing such things all 366 poems as a book, 366 Poems: My Year in reserve on a short safari, then I head home.” Hol- as cleaning the sand off decks (almost hip height), Verse.” John’s book is available on Amazon.com. ly’s husband, Tony Ryan ’84, MS ’85, is home with painting, sheet-rocking, and planting. While Breezy Co-correspondent Holly Isdale sent this up- their daughter, Abby, who starts college this fall Point is a relatively middle-class community, many date—from Kenya!—in early July: “My 16-year-old at Hobart and William Smith. residents have been displaced and still have not son, Jack, wanted to work at the UN this summer Holly also enjoyed a mini-reunion of Tri been able to rebuild or return to their homes since and I put him in touch with a law colleague who Deltas from 1984-88 at the Philadelphia Flower Sandy. They still need lots of help down there and is with the UN in Nairobi. I figured he would end Show in March. ”Although we are all connected many residents do not have the cash or insurance up as a volunteer page in NYC; instead he went on Facebook, it was amazing to catch up with old money to get their homes in order. off to Nairobi and has been working in a school friends and reconnect, as I had not seen many of Writing from California, my dear friend Cheryl in the Mathare slums for several weeks. They want- the other Tri Delts since we left college.” Also Dembner Weingord has been married for almost ed book donations, but when he suggested using there from 1986 was Aruna Inalsingh. 18 years to husband Jerry, and they have two Kindles because they were easy to transport and News Forms have started to arrive from our beautiful daughters. Elana graduated from middle could hold thousands of books (many of which most recent class mailing, and we’ll start up with school and was chosen to give one of the gradu- are in the public domain—and free), they were them in the next column. Till then, do send an ation speeches. She is also on the Big Mountain over the moon. Jack raised money to bring over update if you haven’t already. Mail in the News Ski Team at Squaw Valley in Tahoe. Younger daugh- almost 40 Kindles—with cases—pre-loaded them Form, write to Mike or me at the addresses below, ter Hailey is entering seventh grade and is a competitive gymnast, placing first in the vault at one of her meets last season. The Weingords share their home with two dogs and two cats. Cheryl graduated from the Snow Business Tufts veterinary college and has worked as a veterinarian at Santa Cruz Veterinary Hospital for 15 years. Jeff Kohnstamm ’84 She also heads up the local Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassador Net- work (CAAAN) and interviews pro - ix thousand feet up on Oregon’s Mount Hood, Jeff Kohnstamm is surrounded by his- spective applicants. Hope you all had tory—both his family’s and that of the American Northwest. Kohnstamm is president a great summer. Send your birthday of Timberline Lodge, a hotel and ski area built in the Thirties under the Works Progress c S news to: Roberta Zwiebel Farhi, Administration. The lodge, made of local timber and stone, rfarhiesq@ aol.com; Joyce Zelkowitz was dedicated by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1937. Cornett, cornett 0667@ comcast.net; Risa Mish, [email protected]. Now a national historic landmark, Timberline is owned by the U.S. government, administered by the Forest Serv- ice, and leased by Kohnstamm’s family firm, RLK & Com- Gretchen Paul pany. The Hotelie grew up at Timberline and is the second Schnabel writes generation to run the business; his father helped save the from Indiana: “I 86 then-closed lodge from demolition in the Fifties. Kohn- am about to start my fifth year working at the U. of Indianapolis, stamm, who has three children, hopes to pass its man- after staying home with my three agement on to a third generation someday. “The cool kids for 18 years, including running thing about working in the hospitality business is that my own photography studio during it’s different every day,” observes Kohnstamm, whose firm the last four. I worked at GM as an also operates a nearby brewpub and condo resort. “We try engineer for five years in safety and to expect the unexpected.” crashworthiness until the kids start - ed coming along. I celebrated my After working elsewhere in the hospitality industry, 25th anniversary in July with my Kohnstamm took over management of the lodge in 1992. sweet husband, Ken, who is an en gi - The seventy-one-room property plays host not only to skiers neer for Rolls Royce. Our oldest son and snowboarders—who can hit the trails year-round— is a senior in college, our younger but to climbers, mountain bikers, wedding parties, and son is a college sophomore—study - more. Many of the lodge’s guests return year after year. ing engineering!—and our daughter “The culture, history, and location of Timberline are neat,” will be a junior in high school this fall.” Gretchen keeps in touch with Kohnstamm says, “but the most rewarding part is seeing people who have created family classmates Karen Abrams Hilde, memories and traditions.” Susan Mil ner, Alison Weir, Stacey — Alexandra Clement ’16 September | October 2013 83 60-95CAMso13notes ready_000-000CAMMA12Notes 8/13/13 3:56 PM Page 84

or do it all online at: http://www.alumni. cornell. ’85, Lisa Hollis Capone, Melissa Hodes Frieden- all capped off with Cornelliana Night in a packed edu/ participate/class-notes.cfm. c Holly Isdale, berg, Aruna Inalsingh ’86, Rise LeBlanc Wilson Bailey Hall that was streamed live on the Internet. isdale@ mac.com; Michael Wagner, michael ’85, Liz Wilson Ruvo, Cathy Slade Wolfe, Jen- If you could not get to Ithaca in person, I recom- wagner@ wowway.com. nifer Sullivan Recker, Jill Fields ’88, and yours mend at least viewing Cornelliana Night online, truly all made the trip to view the flower displays which you can still do at http://www.cornell.edu/ and had dinner at Chifa, a restaurant featuring video/cornelliana-night-2013. Gail Stoller Baer still enjoys the Peruvian-Cantonese cuisine. It was so much fun, Our class owes a great deal of thanks to our visitors she and husband Mike we are thinking of making it an annual thing. The reunion chairs Pam Darer Anderson and Angelica 87 ’88, MBA ’89, get in their adopt - theme of this year’s flower show centered on Great Watson Botkin for the incredible effort they put ed hometown of Scottsdale, AZ. She writes: “Rich Britain, which tied in nicely with my sophomore into planning and managing Reunion before, dur- Friedman visited us in February, getting a much and junior year roommate Cathy Slade Wolfe’s re- ing, and after Reunion Weekend itself. Angelica’s needed break from Boston winter weather. Susan turn from living in London for the past several husband and fellow classmate Brad Botkin also Klugman Gorobetz ’84 also visited with me while years. Cathy was recently promoted to president deserves recognition for the energy he put into she was in Phoenix for a meeting. Peter Moss ’88 and CEO at Wolters Kluwer Health Medical Re- aiding his wife with running the event. Brad and and his family visit us every year for Passover/ search in NYC. She and husband Pete, along with Angelica celebrated their 25th wedding anniver- Spring Break in Scottsdale. We recently joined the their two boys, bought a house in Somerset Coun- sary just a few weeks before Reunion, having mar- Moss family in Princeton, NJ, to celebrate the bar ty, NJ, and are settling in stateside. ried one day before our commencement back in mitzvah of their son Andrew. It was a mini-reunion Lastly, congratulations to Liz Brown, JD ’90, 1988. The Botkins are quite the dedicated class- with Andrew McDonald ’88, Steve Fuchs ’88, who recently celebrated daughter Alexandra Pin- mates! Even when Reunion was over, they carted Harris Cohen, and Doug ’86 and Gayle Reichler ski’s bat mitzvah in June, with fellow correspon- 28 boxed Cornell canvas lawn chairs—our main Mazlish ’86. By chance, this April Icaught up with dent Whitney Weinstein Goodman and classmate reunion souvenir item—back to their home in Vir- ginia and shipped them out to those who had traveled from afar to get to Ithaca. A big congratulations and thank you to Brad and Angelica! Cornellians came to Ithaca from 35 Speaking of reunion “chairs,” the slate of classmates who will start a five-year term as class ‘ officers was announced before dinner on Saturday countries around the globe. evening. Alan Riffkin, having finished a term as class president, will return to serve as co-presi- Steven’ Tomaselli ’88 dent, joined by Howard Greenstein. Former reunion chair Lisa Pasquale Semmes is returning to the fold to serve as class secretary, and newcom- my Sigma Delta Tau sister Gail Schlussel Allen Victoria Lazar in attendance. That’s it for now. er Wendy Huang will take on the position of class ’86, her husband, Keith ’86, and their daughter Send us your news via e-mail to: c Heidi Heasley treasurer. Long-standing council member Jason Sophie ’16 in Ithaca during Cornell Days for ac - Ford, [email protected]; Whitney Weinstein McGill, BArch ’89, will assume the post of VP for cept ed students. I am thrilled that our daughter Goodman, [email protected]; and Liz Brown, membership, and new officers Nicholas Daniels Rachel is joining the Class of 2017, along with the [email protected]. and Clark Smith will be VPs for affinity network- children of Cornellians Lisa Wallach Mandel blatt ing. Angelica Botkin will return again as reunion ’86 (daughter Jennifer), Ken ’86 and Susan Ros - chair and will be joined by Nicole Abbatecola and en berg Cooper (daughter Rachel), and Bonnie Greetings, fellow ’88ers! Another Amanda Smith as reunion vice-chairs. Brad Lav nick Schulman ’84 (son Eric). I have also five years has flown by and our Botkin (I told you these Botkins were dedicated) reconnected in the Bay Area and Chicago (twice 88 25th Reunion is now one for the will continue as class webmaster, and Lilli Siegel in one year!) with Tom Tseng, ME ’94, and in New history books. Unlike five years ago when the Roth will once again be our class Cornell Annual York City with my Engineering buddy Wendy Myers weather was unusually hot and humid for early Fund representative. Rob Rosenberg and Paul Ki- Cambor ’88 and my sorority sister Lisa Nishman June, this reunion was marked by weather much tamura will continue as Class Council officers, and Knoop.” Thanks for all the news, Gail! more like the “Ithacation” we remember from our Kelly Smith Brown, MBA ’92, will be the nomina- Mark Mandarano lives in St. Paul, MN, where undergraduate years. Driving to Ithaca from down - tions chair, heading the search for the next slate he is a member of the faculty and conductor of the state New York on Friday morning was through of officers when another five years have passed. orchestra at Macalester College and artistic direc- light but steady rain, and the sky above campus Brad Mehl will continue as a class correspondent tor at Sinfonietta of Riverdale. He writes that he remained ashade of gray we all recognized through for another term and will be joined by Andréa has been corresponding with Anoush Boghraty, the balance of the day. However, as my California- Meadow Danziger. Retiring from class “officership” who has been living in Lugano, Switzerland, for native wife, Ann, stated, the cool dampness was are the aforementioned Pamela Anderson, plus many years. Anoush mentioned that he had not much preferable to the heat index we had to strug - Suzanne Bors Andrews, Sharon Nunan Stemme, been to New York in ages. Coincidentally, Mark was gle with five years ago. and yours truly, Steven Tomaselli. scheduled to be in NYC for a concert during the On Friday evening our class dinner, catered by There are a few important numbers to report. last week in May, and he basically guaranteed that Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, was hosted in a tent behind As of this writing (final counts may change), 320 they would be joined by a significant number of our headquarters at Hans Bethe House on West classmates attended Reunion, with 76 guests and their Sigma Chi brothers if Anoush made the trip. Campus. This was the first big event where many 128 children. Among all reunion classes, all but Lo and behold, Anoush booked a flight and, some- classmates first connected over the weekend, and three states in the US were represented (an at- how, much of the old gang was able to get the there was much laughter and good cheer as old tendee from South Dakota was “discovered” during dates worked out. Mark writes: “We were joined friends saw each other for the first time. The over - Cornelliana Night), and Cornellians came to Ithaca by Philip Devorris, MBA ’88, Brian Siff, Frank cast weather finally broke on Saturday evening from 35 countries around the globe. Our own Paul Bruno, Ted Whetstone, Ari Nachmanoff, and my during our class happy hour in front of Bailey Kitamura, who came from Singapore, and classmate brother Angelo Mandarano ’83. The guys we Hall—perfectly timed for our class photo taken on Dale Fuchs from Madrid, Spain, were part of that missed most were Bardia Mesbah and Matt the steps of Bailey, after which we all walked to international contingent. The Class of ’88 had out- Sanderson.” Mark adds: “A year ago I started my dinner in Barton Hall, where we were serenaded standing results for reunion fundraising as well. new position at Macalester College. My wife, Wil- by the Big Red Band. At the close of Reunion Weekend, the class had helmina Smith, and my two children, Augie, 9, and Much like Cornell’s motto that ends,“. . . where 662 donors to the Cornell Annual Fund, with 95 Giovanna, 7, and I travel back to New York sev- any person can find instruction in any study,” any Tower Club members and a dollar total of over eral times a year for concerts.” person of any generation could find something of $9,100,000! Both the Tower Club number and the Now that I am back living on the East Coast, interest at Reunion. There were college receptions, total dollars figure are records for class best and I’ve had a lot more opportunities to see Cornell - academic lectures, athletic events, walking tours, class reunion best. ’88ers also had 438 members of ians locally. In March, a group of Tri Delts made rock climbing, rappelling from the Schoellkopf Cres- the 1865 Society, a new giving society recognized a day of it at the Philadelphia Flower Show. An- cent, and musical concerts (including a Dueling Pi- for making a gift to Cornell for two or more con- nette Lee, Holly Isdale ’86, Ann Kahlow Hobbs anos show featuring classmate Edward Mondress), secutive years. A great Big Red thank-you to all of 84 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes - puts Devi Sheri Debra quite of- , and and , , and and , Tami Wardle October 2013October 85 . As vocalist and vocalist As . Donna Sampson Eric Horning | , a cardiac surgeon , a cardiac , MAT ’97, wrote from ’97, wrote MAT , and a few other Cor- other few a and Colleen O’Neal Pam Gillons , , took a few minutes out of out minutes few a took James Park Dave Liu Anna Greenberg , , Rodriguez September September , PhD ’00, a senior fellow in Chi- in fellow senior a ’00, PhD , and Lisa Lisa and Michael Gen . She was back in New York in January to January in York New in back was She . Jerry Lazore ’76 , , Adam Segal Taback. I used to see see I to used Taback. Matthew Gold More news of former U-Hall 4 residents came residents 4 U-Hall former of news More One-time Hawaii resident resident Hawaii One-time Steve Thwen Chaloemtiarana Another Cornellian helping schools abroad is abroad schools helping Cornellian Another , , from from with na studies at the Council of Foreign Relations. mini-reunion a had I ago, years “Several Gupta Pleasanton, CA, to let Pleasanton, us new about their know Jax son Older 20. on April born Gage, Coby son, team at supermarket Safeway the on is Steve 2. is is he a vice where & Marketing, Sales Advantage president. vas- his and hectic schedule to share thatcardiologist he has been interventional an as working last the for CA, in Fresno, work interventionalist cular between spent is time my of my “Most of years. careers ten tennis fledgling accelerating the carin and involved actively is Michael kids.” avid five U. and at Stanford on staff and research diology Boston. in with in touch stays Center Medical Deaconess Israel Beth at Bears, a Cornellian-owned pub in Osaka, was the was in Osaka, pub - per a in Cornellian-owned Bears, reacquainted to get venue Hawaii. in appropriate most resides currently family Takai The son. 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Danziger, -Linfoot sent news from Savannah, from news sent -Linfoot Lossing wrote: “My daughter, Sarah, daughter, “My wrote: Lossing sent exciting news of a Cornell ma- Cornell a of news exciting sent Bradgmail.com; Mehl, bradmehl@ Kathryn Underberg Gardner wrote from quite near Ithaca near quite from wrote Gardner There are a tremendous number of things to things of number a tremendous are There serv- of years 28 after earlier, mentioned I As Thanks Thanks to all of you who sent in quick up- Dina Weiss cornell.edu; cornell.edu; Andréa Meadow who first got me involved in class council all those all council class in involved me got pleas- first who extreme my been has It Ithaca. in ago years class, the and Cornell to back time my give to ure un- has correspondent a as years ten last the and the about Reading all. of best the been doubtedly even all are around doing classmates things amazing Cornell to connected stay me helps world do the I country. the of side other the on living when methods electronic the all of in spite that, hope look I you will all con- and with today, we stay connected Andréa, and Brad to news send to a tinue blast! been space. It’s this in it seeing to forward See you in 2018 for our 30th! As always . . . I wish you peace. you who made a gift to Cornell this past year and year past this Cornell to gift a Reunion. made for who you Ithaca to trek the made who everyone their and alumni for Weekend Reunion during do guests of all of Regardless the ages. events at- with reconnecting that believe I though, thing tended, best the is place special this and friends old spe- extra was year This reunion. at happens that vis- Grace, daughter, 4-year-old see my as to me me for cial got which time, first the for Cornell ited build- gothic the (all light new whole a in Cornell have could Tower McGraw and castles, were ings held Rapunzel captive!). 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And this college to our5-8, 2014! 25thto June Reunion, up year leads milestone! this celebrate to now plans Make lives. your in on going what’s know us let to dates Peyser Janine take and will be school high at- from definitely just graduated will It fall. the in Princeton Bri- Son tending us. from away her having adjusting, some so he will school, in high an be will a freshman chil ‘only an as years four have Potomac, MD, and enjoys running weekly with classmate their dogs, Field Spaniels Lily and Daisy. 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surfing with autistic children. He and his wife, much of her time working at her own company, of our class. c Tom Greenberg, twg22@cornell. Jennifer (West), general counsel for Levi Strauss Barrie Isaacson Management Inc. She represents edu; Wendy Coburn, [email protected]; and & Co., celebrated their 21st wedding anniversary directors, editors, musicians, and digital design- Charles Wu, [email protected]. in March and are happily raising their two multi- ers to the advertising world. Barrie has been talented daughters Kate and Saijai. spending a lot her time learning about new tech- Also celebrating 21 years of marriage in May nology for advertising and entertainment, but ac- Your latest updates hadn’t ar - were Carrie Gallup Friend and her husband, Josh. knowledges that it is hard to keep up with the rived as of the deadline for this In addition to running her own company, Friend- ever-evolving technology changes on a day-to-day 92 column, so we’ll save them for sight LLC, and bringing up three children in Con- basis. Loretta Dougherty Gallo, who lives in near- next time. If you haven’t done so yet, return the necticut, Carrie is an avid runner and aims to by Pelham Manor, NY, spends time relaxing with hard copy News Form from the class’s annual News complete 13 half-marathons in 2013, including her husband, Ferdinand ’90 . . . and three dogs, and Dues mailing (envelope provided), e-mail one Disney half-marathons on both coasts. Once a which she acknowledges may not be exactly re- of your correspondents (addresses below), or hit member of the M&M Mars product development laxing, but fun! She has been concentrating on the Send key at the online news form, http:// www. team, Carrie is now a qualitative researcher. She work, but would rather be concentrating on vaca- alumni.cornell.edu/participate/class-notes. cfm. was on a business trip in Los Angeles when she tion. Lewis Wheeler has been working in theatre The Class Notes section isn’t the only waytokeep in saw Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson on the red and film in Boston, where he has been acting and touch these days, but it’s definitely along-standing carpet at the Westwood premiere of The Intern- directing. He started a new theatre company on tradition. We’d love to hear from you. Hope you ship. Lindsay Lohan’s mom, Dina, also happened Cape Cod called Harbor Stage Co. (www.harbor had a great summer! Send your news to: c Lois to be on Carrie’s flight out west. stage.org), a professional ensemble of six actors, Duffy Castellano, LKD2@ cornell. edu; Jean Kin - Last year, I managed to get a backstage pho- writers, and directors. tisch, [email protected]; Megan Fee Tor rance, to with Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet following Our classmates are also well represented on [email protected]. his solo show in Osaka. I’m wondering if I can get the West Coast. Writing from the San Francisco one with former Cornell Engineer Hugh Anthony Bay Area, Anna Doyno Tague has been very ac- Cregg III ’72 (aka Huey Lewis) when he comes tive in keeping in touch with our former class- Our 20th Reunion was really to town in October. Maybe I should dig out my mates. She recently attended a gathering in the terrific! While we could have Cornell sweatshirt just in case. Let us know about Dominican Republic for three great days of “shar- 93 done with a little less rain, the your brushes with famous people or get-togeth- ing, reminiscing, and laughing.” Anna was amazed weather was still better than at our 15th, where ers with classmates—we really love to hear from by the group’s accomplishments and the unique the temperatures were over 90 degrees! We kicked you! c Rose Tanasugarn, nt28 @ cornell. edu; and impressive steps so many are taking in their things off on Thursday night with a reception at Kelly Roberson kroberson @ lightswitch. net; lives. The gathering included Kirsten Blau Krohn, our headquarters in Balch Hall. Friday evening we Amy Wang Manning aw233 @ cornell.edu. Jodi Rogoff Gonzalez, Katherine Miller Eskovitz, had a beach party at Beebe Lake, including canoe Meagan Heaney Wise, Alexandra Floyd Bray, Kim- rides, and then capped things off with an ice berly Seibert Sleeman, Lauren Gallagher Heil, cream social at HQ and the ever-popular tents on Greetings, Class of ’91! I hope that Maria “Cha Cha” Ortiz Fournier, Jana Pompadur the Arts Quad. On Saturday, there was lots of fam - everyone has had a relaxing and en - Kierstead, Lori Attanasio Woodring, Kerry Nel- ily fun on the Quad in the afternoon at Fun in the 91 joyable summer. I recently had the son, and Stacey Neren-Lender. Other friends from Sun, with all kinds of fun activities and crafts. In opportunity to visit Cornell with my wife, Daphne Cornell have visited Anna in the Bay Area, includ - the evening we headed over to the new Milstein Liu ’93, my brother Stefan Greenberg ’93, and ing classmates Don and Jen Bensadoun Shaffer Hall for a cocktail reception, followed by our class Tyrone Tucker ’93, during their class re union. If and John and Lisa Munter Clarke. picture and dinner outside the Johnson Museum. you haven’t been up to Ithaca lately, I highly rec - Also in the Bay Area, Sarah Abbe Taylor lives At Cornelliana Night, where all of the classes were ommend it, especially while the weather is nice. in Mill Valley, CA, and spends her time mostly with recognized, it was very moving to see three people Within a span of three days, we managed to catch her two daughters, ages 5 and 7. They like to do there for their 75th (!) Reunion and to sing the up with a lot of our Cornell friends, pad dle a canoe art projects, go on bike rides, and cook together. Alma Mater with alumni of so many different ages. on Beebe Lake, climb the Lindseth Climbing Wall, Sarah got a new job as investment associate, pro- From there you could go to Goldwin Smith to hear run through the Cornell Planta tions, and traverse gram-related investments at the San Francisco some of the a cappella groups from days of yore or the gorge. In addition to the scenic natural beauty Foundation, after staying home for the past five head back to the tents for some more music and of Ithaca, the constantly changing Cornell campus years, and also recently moved into a new house. fun. After breakfast on Sunday morning, we had never ceases to amaze me. Rebecca Darien Yodzio made a cross-country one last chance to say good-by to old friends and One of our classmates who enjoys spending move from Florida to Laguna Niguel, CA. She has the campus. Reunion Weekend was really great time in Ithaca year-round is Todd Kennett. Todd been busy unpacking, finding new schools and and a huge thank you goes out to Lauren Bailyn recently completed another successful year as the football leagues, and everything else to keep her Sapira, MBA ’94, Christine Watters Stuhlmiller, Spirit of ’57 Director of Rowing and Head Coach of boys busy in their new area. She also started a Jess Graus Woo, and the rest of the reunion com - Cornell Heavyweight Rowing. Todd has been coach- job search and networking with the alumni asso- mittee for organizing everything! ing the heavyweight rowing team for the past five ciation in Orange County. Further north, Christine It was great to see so many old friends. We years, and before that was the coach for the light- Anderson Perkins recently accepted a position as got to catch up with Jeff, ME ’94, and Galit Co- weight rowing team. He frequently sends out e- executive director of the Whatcom County Library hen over lunch on Saturday. They live in Teaneck, mail updates to Big Red Rowing alumni, parents, System in Bellingham, WA. When away from work, NJ, with their three girls, Dahlia, Mia, and Keira, and friends about the progress of the team and she spends a lot of time watching her two kids and Jeff is enjoying working for Ab Initio and race performances. As a reader of these updates play competitive soccer. starting his second year as the school treasurer at and a former rower myself, I can tell you that Short takes: Chris Reynolds (CBReynolds@ the girls’ school. I also got a chance to catch up Todd’s e-mails are interesting and inspirational. iCloud. com) and his wife, Ginette, live in Cold with my sorority sister Fern Weinfeld Silverman Todd and his wife, Jessica (Funk) ’97, reside in Spring Harbor, NY. Julie Dugoff Waxman (julie ’94 and her husband (and our classmate) Brett, Groton, NY, with their two daughters, Emma and [email protected]) and husband Scott ’90 are MS ’95. They were there with their kids Samara, 10, Sophie. Also living in the Finger Lakes region is in Scarsdale. And John Cheung Tsang (john_tsang and Zachary, 7. The Silvermans live on Long Island, Janet Sullivan Meaney, who spends most of her 1@ yahoo.com) and wife Miranda are in Los Altos, where Brett is a physiatrist in private practice and time in volunteer work devoted to climate change, CA. John is executive principal at Sabre Travel Net- Fern is the research compliance officer at the particularly stopping high-volume hydrofracking work out of Southlake, TX. He’d like to hear from Northport V.A. Medical Center. I also had a nice and gas storage on Seneca Lake. She and husband his first-year roommate, Stephen Lo. time catching up with Seth Kestenbaum and en- Donald enjoy as much time as possible with their We really appreciate the updates and encour- joyed checking out the amazing 1929 Model A Ford children and grandchildren. Janet retired from the age you to keep them coming! Submit class notes Phaeton that he drove to Ithaca for Reunion—and Schuyler County Mental Health organization in updates by visiting http://www.alumni.cornell. back home without any major incidents. Seth pur- 2006 and recently completed her last year as a edu/participate/class-notes.cfm. You can also vis- chased this car about two years ago and has slow- mental health consultant for Head Start. it our class website at http://cornellclassof1991. ly been restoring it all by himself. Barrie Isaacson Mann lives in New York City com and our Facebook page, http://www.face A new slate of class officers was elected at with husband Andreas and has been spending book.com/Cornell91, to stay up to date on news Reunion. On behalf of the class, we’d like to thank 86 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes . Jor- Toni , BArch ’99, BArch , the other day other the ’ October 2013October 87 Washington Post Washington | , dikaweb@ yahoo.com; dikaweb@ , Dika Lam ’94 Lam Dika . Tom, this is your tweet: your is this . Tom, , who was recently named , who was recently Selena Leary , who’s been working in the working been , who’s Wasylik, dmp5@ cornell. edu; cornell. dmp5@ Wasylik, September September We ask several questions We when ask questions several for news,out and one is reaching long-lost with connecting about , PhD ’08, is an assistant profes- assistant an is ’08, PhD , Dika Lam Marchant, jar 1229@ yahoo.com 1229@ jar Marchant, , so far, has not reported any such any reported not has far, so , April 14, Wolf Trap is also synony- also 14, is WolfApril Trap c rsi uebre ’96 Kristin Gutenberger writes, “Still working in investments in working “Still writes, non has moved to Smithtown, NY, to live with live to NY, Smithtown, to moved has Arvind Manocha Tom Cameron ’94 Leah Shafer Todd Sauers Kristin Barbato The arts and art education are in good hands good in are education art and arts The mystical occurrences, and would love to connect to love would and occurrences, mystical with and wondering what she was and up wondering to, and out of I nowhere, a received I request. friend did not it! tweet to have even sauers. at Todd@ e-mail via be reached can Todd wife, his with Beach Virginia is in lovely He net. classmates. 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Rosenberg, in March. Brian and his and wife, March. Brian in Moss, [email protected]; Arielle Hecht Schiffman Shana Lory Seth Stuhl Arvind Manocha was named president and chief executive of Wolf Trap. Wolf of executive chief and , recently welcomed their second daughter into daughter second their welcomed recently , , senior nutritionist at Canyon Ranch Hotel and Hotel Ranch Canyon at nutritionist senior , ‘ as watching Cornell men’s hockey in Madison every year! Go Garden Square Big Red!” Also in is State Garden the can always count on the class column to arrive in a in arrive to column class the on - count always sum can lovely a had everyone hope I manner. timely ado: further Without mer. from 9, wrote 12, Samara, and of Lucas, mother ongoing family’s her us about to tell Jersey New “We team: Tour- lacrosse men’s Cornell Classic the for support City the at birthday Lucas’s over celebrated victory decisive a won Cornell where nament, trip road a weekend, Day Memorial On lacrosse Princeton.” NCAA Cornell-Duke the for Philadelphia to it was but lost, “Cornell in order: was semifinals amazing fans—as Cornell many so see to amazing is back in the workforce after eight years as a cer- she period, that During mom. stay-at-home her of one published she busy: herself kept tainly bells hand played also she and patterns, Moun- the knitting for newsletter the edited church, her at served and Club, Multiples of Mothers Plains tain as president of the Community writes, Nursery she School U., Rutgers at Now directors. of board “It’s exciting to be back in the laboratory performing and technologies, new the on up cDNA catching and genomes of sequencing next-generation Cooperative.” Genome the for libraries 94 ary. 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Reunion news will follow in the next issue. next the in follow will news Reunion Berkowitz Hart ; , Jon , JD , , , . , , MBA ; ; class Rosen- from AGR, from Todd Rethe- ; webmaster/ ; Mike McMahon Anthony Cucchi ; VP - Metro NY, Evan Kloch the new: pres- the new: ein Moss, JD ’97, and Moss, , , -Feingold; reunion -Feingold; Evan Williams Jon Russell , , , , Brian Kirby Theresa Flores Alison Ehrmann Yael Berkowitz from from the Sprint Football Sottile, Sottile, , and and , , and , and Elise Rosenberg Scott Kauff Paul Sethi . Courtney passed away in July in away passed Courtney . Jim Murray Chris Levine , , , , Melissa Hart ; VP - executive, executive, - VP ; ; treasurer and secretary, secretary, and treasurer ; Loren Rosenzweig Mike Moravec Earl Pinto Melissa Carver , , , ME ’94, MBA ’95; Cornell Annual Fund rep- Fund Annual Cornell ’95; MBA ’94, ME , Rifino Valentine Jason Rylander Finally, we’d like to extend our deepest sym- deepest our extend to like we’d Finally, Our new class president, Earl Pinto, lives in lives Earl Pinto, president, Our class new Jessica Graus Woo wrote, “I have been living been have “I wrote, Woo Graus Jessica three my and Sandy, husband, my me, for As Mike Trepeta Brian Pessin us at Reunion, where he inspired many with his with many he inspired where us at Reunion, words during dinner on Friday night. Courtney pro- class VP of as our serving finished just had Amazingly, just a month earlier he was able to join to able was he earlier month a just Amazingly, and attitude, positive smile, contagious His grams. Please keep the news coming! news the keep Please Courtney Erickson cancer. pancreatic with battle courageous a after More missed. sorely be will enthusiasm unbridled have have given me over the years. I have truly en- accomplishments, work your about writing joyed babies. your and weddings, your adventures, your classmate our of friends and family the to pathies VP - membership, berg, to thank everyone for all the news updates you for to all the updates news thank everyone social media coordinator, social media coordinator, correspondents, correspondents, gift campaign chair, chair, campaign gift h ugigofcr and welcom officers the outgoing Lee Michelle meier resentative, Theresa Flores; reunion chairs, Jessica and Lauren Stuhlmiller, Bailyn Watters Christine Sapira, Council, Class Woo; Graus ident, ident, Em- the of director the is he where MD, Bethesda, Occupa- Federal the at and Program Health of Assistance ployee Dept. US the in Service health Health mental tional 17,000 oversees He Services. Human federal million 1.1 than more serving counselors, Gabriel, kids, three with married is He employees. a had he that said Earl 7. Aisla, and 9, Raina, 16, former with up catching Reunion at time fantastic Par- in jockeys disc former and teammates soccer assuming be to excited very is He Chuck. With ty for- looks and president 1993 of Class of role the ward to what is the next five he years will bring. VP where KY, Lexington, in lives McMahon Mike Lane Spruce a partner the at McMahon and Hilland Bloodstock and Stable Lane Bourbon manages Pinhook. During Reunion he had a great time up with catching ’94, ’94, and team. Mike and his wife, Natanya, have two kids, two have Natanya, wife, his and Mike team. Aidan. and Madison Children’s in Cincinnati for the past Cincinnati 14 at years (!) and am professor associate an now I am an epidemiologist Center. 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Michelle, and their daughter and son. He leads “risk 2012, I got married to my beautiful wife, Neha, in and all of the home improvement projects that assessments for various departments of Ameri- Boston. We had a four-day Indian wedding at the come along with it!” Keri is the assistant director group Corp.,” but what he would rather be doing waterfront area of the city.” in the Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard Busi- is “sailing around the Caribbean with a twinkling Two hours from her hometown and within ness School. Julie Schwartzman-Morris (juliesyd string of Christmas lights swinging from the mast.” walking distance of the homes of at least five oth- 29@ yahoo.com) has a new address in Port Wash- We would, too, Todd. We would, too. er Cornellians, Becky Turner Wong is living in Port- ington, NY, and works as a rheumatologist in NYC. Exciting word-nerd news for several class- land, OR. She writes, “I see Cara Roberts Eckhardt She writes that she celebrated the first birthday mates! St. Martin’s Press is publishing Brenda regularly and we were visited by Lisa Olafson- of her amazing daughter, Reilly Faith, on April Janowitz’s third novel, Recipe for a Happy Life, in Hurdal, ME ’96, last summer for a fantastic reunion. 22. Julie adds, “I’m getting together with class- July. Her first two novels, Scot on the Rocks and I also met Peter Maxfield ’96 recently at soccer mates Lauren Kalter Hass, Stefanie Schwartz Jack with a Twist, are available on Kindle. Henry practice for preschoolers in our neighborhood. I Steinberger, Rachel Balaban, Joy Guidi Wygant, Neff shares this: “I’m writing and illustrating The keep in touch via FB, e-mail, and phone with Raj Steph anie Schwarz Sailor, and several other ’96 girlfriends this fall for a reunion.” A native New Yorker and the first person in his family to forge into the restaurant business, Dave Lesser started a blog about his James Mallios is now the co-owner of Amali, a farm-driven Mediterranean restaurant in NYC’s Up- ‘ per East Side. James, a former attorney, left his experiences as a stay-at-home dad practice as a litigator five years ago to become a restaurateur, starting with manager stints at and mud run enthusiast. Tribeca Grill and Resto. Amali’s cuisine uses classic Mediterranean ingredients, and the wine list Andrea’ M. Chan ’00 is full of Greek wines “almost no one has heard of but everyone loves”—earning awards such as Wine & Spirits Magazine’s Top Newcomers in 2012 Red Winter, the fifth and final book of The Tapes- John, Tom LeCourt, Kavitha Chetty, Rohit Mehro- and Wine Spectator’s Award of Excellence, among try, a contemporary fantasy fiction series published tra, Liz Scotto Richards ’96, and about 20 others. others. Congratulations, James! Send news to: c by Random House. It’s been a wild ride and I’m Friend me on FB: Becky Turner Wong.” Becky, mar- Ron Johnstone, [email protected]; Carin Lustig- excited to bring the story to a satisfying close.” ried, with two young sons, ages 2 and 3, says she Silverman, [email protected]; Liam O’Mahony, Aside from Henry’s literary pursuits, he’s also been seeks to enhance her toddler/preschooler negoti- [email protected]. Class website, http://class of pursuing other things: “We moved from Brooklyn ation skills. “I have the pleasure of staying home 96.alumni.cornell.edu. Class Facebook page (“Cor- to Montclair (space), enjoy chasing our 2-year-old to take care of my sons while I also run my new nell Class of 1996”). Online news form, http:// www. son around (exhaustion), and are preparing for a health coaching business called Health Coach alumni.cornell.edu/participate/class-notes.cfm. new arrival this fall (optimistic terror).” Becky (healthcoachbecky/ tsfl. com) I lost all of my Juvenal “Juv” Marchisio has published Dan’s baby weight and feel so much younger because of Dumb Decision, a “fun children’s book with a moral an awesome health program, so I became a health Summer is over and already an - to the story,” through Authorhouse. The moral of coach to help others lose weight and feel as great other class of Cornellians has Juvenal’s book is never to run away from home (a as I do.” Becky also serves on the board of 97 begun their time on the Hill. It is lesson we need to unlearn as adults, right?). Juv trustees for Oregon FBLA Foundation. That’s all the hard to believe that we started our time in Ithaca says, “I actually wrote the book almost 30 years news that’s fit . . . well, that fits. Keep it coming! 20 years ago! So much has changed for many of ago as part of a fifth grade English assignment c VeronicaK.Brooks-Sigler, vkbrooksigler@gmail. us during that time. Marriages, moves, births, when I attended St. Mary’s grammar school in com; Abra Benson Perrie, [email protected]. career changes—much of it shared with our class - Closter, NJ. Sharing this fun story and life lesson mates on these pages. We would love to share with the rest of the world has always been a pas- more, so please keep submitting your news. sion of mine. Now with my own children (Christian, Your latest updates from the Donell Hicks sends news that he was chosen 6, and Brooke, 3-1/2) growing up, it felt like a class’s annual News and Dues to be part of the inaugural class of the Florida Bar good time. The book is a true family effort. Origi- 96 mailing were just starting to ar - Leadership Academy. As a Fellow, Donell will be nal inspiration from my mother, current inspiration rive at the deadline for this column, so we’ll save joining attorneys from throughout Florida in op- from my wife and children, and wonderful illus- those for next time. In the meantime, thanks to portunities for networking, interacting, collaborat- trations from my father-in-law, Pedro Anlas.” Juv those who sent news in response to our e-mail ing, building relationships with state and national is considering sharing some of the book profits to solicitation late last spring. Bar leaders, and enhancing leadership skills. As help aid local educational programs and initiatives. Sarah Yonder ([email protected]) is a fam- you might expect, competition for this honor was Although he missed the last reunion, he hopes to ily physician and assistant dean for student affairs tough and we wish Donell the best of luck in the catch up with some folks at Homecoming. at the Central Michigan U. College of Medicine. upcoming year. It sounds like an amazing oppor- Brett Blumenthal, BArch ’96, MBA ’04, is rais- She writes that she is enjoying work and family tunity. Also taking steps forward in the legal field ing a future alum. She and her family welcomed and keeps in touch with Erin James Conte, Teena is David Ratner, who recently formed his own law Alexander Lee Wax into the world on May 17. “He Kohli ’95, Joy Baldwin Astle, and Noe Copley- firm, Creative Law Network. David has been work- is already proudly wearing Cornell gear!” After Woods. Michelle Crames (mcrames@gmail. com), ing with music and entertainment for some time in graduating from Cornell, Kamal Ramani racked up her husband, and their growing family—two various roles, and after earning his law degree from a couple more degrees—a master’s in ’98 and a daughters at the time she wrote—live in Los An- U. of Denver, decided to focus on intellectual prop- medical degree in ’01. “After completing residen- geles. Michelle started a company, SkuLoop, in the erty and entertainment law. His firm, he says, is cy in 2004, I began working in both private of- mobile/social/retail technology space, and later “dedicated to helping small to mid-size business- fices and the ER in the Bronx and Westchester. In sold it to Revionics. She has traveled to every con- es and members of the creative arts community 2006, I opened my own practice in midtown Man- tinent except Antarctica (“Too cold!”), including navigate complex legal issues.” Prior to striking out hattan and expanded to a larger office named 20 to her husband’s native Netherlands, and worked on his own, he was a partner at the Denver firm East Medical in 2009. In 2011, I was one of the in India, Singapore, and China before her children of Replin, Rhoades & Ratner LLC. Congrats and best very few non-Japanese volunteer physicians to as- were born. Michelle enjoys visits from Lee ’97 and of luck with your new company, David! sist the region in Japan hit by the earthquake and Marjorie Frazier Maschler, and gets together Do you get tired of sitting around at the of- tsunami. I then began working with the people of with Daniella Ballou-Aares regularly. fice all day? Looking for an alternative to the stan- Tohoku (northeast) Japan, including setting up a Keri Salzillo Santos, her husband, and their dard desk and office chair? Then look no further medical resident education program inviting resi- two girls, ages 1-1/2 and 3, recently moved from than classmate Day Sherman Martin’s new stand- dents from Tohoku to train in NYC. For these ef- Boston to Westwood, MA. “My twin sister, Kara ing desks. Day writes, “I’ve recently started my own forts I was recently given the status of a clinical Salzillo Buckley ’97, her husband, and their two business selling standing desks. After more than a professor at Tohoku U.” Congratulations to Kamal girls (ages 2 and 4) moved from Boston to West- decade doing marketing and data analytics for sev- on his relatively recent nuptials as well: “In June wood as well. We are getting used to suburban life eral companies, most recently the wonderful CEB 88 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes , . Cindy . are living in living are Nick Powers who are es - es are who ,2, had had some very October 2013October 89 Cindy So and and Heather Barmatz Stephen Hud son Stephen Hud | has has two Noah sons. just received ten ure just received ten accepted a accepted with position Dave Lesser Ross Siegel and and Wood had her third child, September September Katie Dealy Adam Lindenbaum Peter Weinert Christopher Godfrey Lastly, it is with deep regret that I report the report I that regret deep with is it Lastly, Allie Wesson Dana Kent Our West Coast friends seem to seem be enjoying friends Coast Our West passing of one of our classmates, classmates, our of one of passing Jersey City, NJ. Allie continues to work as a fund - fund a as work to continues Allie NJ. City, Jersey and Association, Lawyers NYS Trial the for raiser kids, two their raising parent is a Dave full-time about blog a started He’s 1. Simon, and run 4, mud Penny, and dad a as stay-at-home the on experiences columnist his featured a now is and chuck- a enthusiast, for looking anyone’s If Project. Men Good www.amateuridiotprofessionaldad.com. visit le, was born on Inauguration Day in January 2009, Day in January was on born Inauguration and Eli just turned 2 for in August.area Katie and Chicago her the in residing been have family in Evanston, currently are and years nine almost near right and line city the of north blocks few a staff of chief the as serves Katie U. Northwestern America. For Teach at affairs alumni for in hiking while 2013 4, July on unexpectedly died a BS with in Cornell from graduating After Utah. degree MS an earned Cindy Development, Human and at U. the of Medicine science in biomedical pre- the completed and of Jersey New Dentistry med at program Columbia U. She was finishing at her education Rocky Vista U., College of Os- previously had She Denver. in Medicine Sesame teopathic and Inc. Scholastic for publicity in worked assistant, medical a as served also and Workshop to come to S.F. for a visit! Good luck with both with a for luck Good visit! to to come S.F. north, Further Ross! endeavors, Seat- in husband her with living been has Moreno of- front the is Heather years. three about for tle The Seattle. Hotel Pacific Pan the at manager fice couple also welcomed their first child, April. past Norah this world the into Olivia, in- Dana 22, 2013. on January James, Jonathan sis- big and 9, Aidan, brother big that us formed ter Arianna, 5, were absolutely thrilled about having a new baby counsel brother! The senior Woods live in currently is Dana and NY, Webster, at Corp. Xerox themselves as themselves well. to news with us share the Golden from exciting State. Earlier this year, he had been the VP of Pulse, at partnerships and this development Then business team. business entire their ran he where and by was Pulse LinkedIn, past April, acquired explore and fun some have to getting is Ross now are: projects His two current opportunities. new Warriors State Golden the that ensure to fighting do not build a new arena on the waterfront Class in fellow persuade to trying and Francisco San 2000ers of recently led a group of undergraduate atmospheric undergraduate of group a led recently majors science on course a career-development Great in the tornadoes five seeing two included his that with fun having also is Christopher Plains. Eleanor and 4, Kathleen, daughters, of NC, Arden, weather After the enjoying summer pecially south. down house farm yellow big their and U. past this Georgetown an from MBA obtaining spring, reports also NC.Charlotte, Peter in America of Bank to portfolio his to 27 hopes number He country added year. he that this Aruba in vacationed he - when some Ecuador or Peru either to trip 28! another number take that make and future near the in time upcoming birthday this September as this September birthday they take upcoming - de Also in trip to aca Las Vegas. first-ever their Dept. the in mia, professor associate to apromotion and - at the U. Car of Sciences North of Atmospheric with along He, Asheville. olina, , , , , — Erik Kip- Katz, Taber Amin, Uthica hus band’s hus c Hal Kaplan Erica Chan , , , , Azais Elguea , JD ’01, did a did ’01, JD , and the whole the and Molly Darnieder North Carolina.(I Beth Heslowitz Julie Pactovis Elizabeth Pomper Karen Dorman nin , , Jennifer Bambach and Rebecca Gellert Albert Choi , and and , Shana Elberg Ken Flanagan Lori ’97 Wilfling Wright, Wright, [email protected]; Lately there’s been a great deal great a been there’s Lately - class our from coming news of mates dow , , Aaron Tax Our annual class News and Dues and News class annual Our in your be will arriving mailing mailboxes soon (via e-mail or West, [email protected]; [email protected]; West, , , Pederson and her husband, Jay. I Jay. husband, her and Pederson Owen volunteered to cover Reunion cover to volunteered Owen . Congratulations, Leslie, and thanks and Leslie, Congratulations, . Puneet Agrawal , JD ’01, and and ’01, JD , Vipin Samtani Liz Borod Utano, [email protected]; [email protected]; Utano, , tabersweet@ gmail. com; com; gmail. tabersweet@ , c Rita Doyle “This was my first time back since the 10th the since back time was my first “This Cheers! Leslie attended Reunion as a newly- Reunion attended Leslie Cheers! beth.heslowitz@ gmail. com. com. gmail. beth.heslowitz@ 99 Sweet post al carrier—or both), and we hope you’ll take you’ll hope we and both), carrier—or al post the opportunity to update your classmates on what’s been in In happening your life recently. have who you of those to thanks meantime, the sponded to re our electronic solicitations for news, which we - will report on in the next col news Send you had a Hope umn. summer! good to: Melanie Grayce hope you’re all getting together down there! Class there! down together getting all you’re hope perhaps?) events, regional 2000 of Curtean recently graduated from veteri nary school nary veteri from graduated recently Curtean cine i Med and Veterinary - at a position landed of research the fantastic School cele State be Carolina will North husband her and fish! She koi studying 00 rtn e copihet and also her her brating accomplishments also caught up with with up caught also ad- crazy some about reminisce to got We brood. to fig- trying 5, in Rise including High ventures group old the of some to happened what out ure with. we touch that lost Pangborn Michelle and and Marc Weissman and it was amazing to hang out with people who people with out hang to amazing was it and reunions. 50th-plus and 50th their for there but were Cornell, about is it what know don’t I cool. So We back here. coming about is something there on Pianos had a Dueling the great to time—everythingshow Club from Savage me). Thursday for night’s highlights the of two (definitely Saturday Sat- on Smith Goldwin at out hang to got also We will I thing one The sing-offs. the for night urday It at Dunbars. nights great is the miss definitely looks like I they are closing. spent most of the with time with out hung also but Cornell magic again this past June—and I want- June—and past this again magic Cornell little two my with Red Big things all share to ed had 9-month-old and my preschooler boys—but of plans summer own. their I guess I’ll have to won- the them with share to time next until wait Fortunately, ders of our away home from home. Leslie Kirchler report: her is Here column. class our for wed, having married Brad Owen in January 2013. January in Owen Brad married having wed, close day were her her on wedding with Celebrating and Katz, Pactovis Julie Agrawal, Puneet friends Anne Law ’99 Re- us. with experience reunion your sharing for member to keep your news coming! great job and kept us all stuffed with lots of food of lots with stuffed all us kept and I job but great good, So cookies!). insomnia and may that Truck (Hot Truck Hot about something is there think bars.” the at a night after better taste it make Jinvit [email protected]; Bracken, nes, [email protected]. nes, ME ’99, ’99, ME are you out there somewhere? Reunion chairs chairs Reunion somewhere? there out you are Weinick . , ’96 Andrea -Osaze -Osaze Sarah Dear- c Erica Broennle Solomon Smart Cristina Martinez , , , the answer to the to answer the , Novelette Williams Clinical Radiology: The Radiology: Clinical , , Anika Daniels something for eve ry one. ry for something eve eis Deba, Deba, and Norman. Colleen explains that explains Colleen Norman. , and and , Nicole Innis For those of you who have never have who you of those For to for our mater alma returned reunion, you sure are missing , , Matthew Hartman sends news that despite the federal that news sends despite Miessha Thomas and promising to keep in touch via e- via touch in keep to promising and . Congratulations, Matthew. . Congratulations, Carter, [email protected]; [email protected]; Carter, Joy Hodge That’s it for this month. If you still have that have still you If month. this for it That’s Joining Day and Andrea as a Virginia resident Virginia a as Andrea and Day Joining Back in May 1998, we were saying good-bye saying were we 1998, May in Back Cornellians! From university-wide activities From university-wide Cornellians! sof , , Seinfeld Colleen Clarke Collegetown,ther eof Nelson, [email protected]. Nelson, Hope you continue to For adjust Colleen! to the South, question, “What did you do over summer break?” summer over do you did “What question, would of be, “Prepared for the professor publication of my assistant currently is Matthew book!” in Pitts- Hospital General at Allegheny radiology au- contributing and co-editor is and PA, burgh, of edition fourth the to thor Essentials update— quick a requesting inbox your in e-mail e- an send or Facebook on us Find along. it send below. addresses the at me or Erica either to mail is too nothing almost and is too short, Nothing you! from hear to want We long. dorff Jonel Daphnis ’98 ’98 Commonwealth to be closer to their parents; how- she and her husband recently relocatedparents; to the their to closer be to Commonwealth ever, it has been quite an adjustment as she’s her upside, On the life. her all York in New lived ocean! the from minutes 15 are office and house profes- as resources a human working not When in keeps Colleen industry, education the in sional with touch (Corporate Executive Board), I’ve taken the plunge the taken I’ve Board), Executive (Corporate Steady The Stand to owner. be a business small sites various in are Made America, they through are my design, desks them selling currently website I’m and Day’s out Check Curious? 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most recently at Capital Region Special Surgery. claims, contract disputes, consumer class actions, Susan Engleson joined over 50 other ’03ers on a Cindy was full of life with an infectious laugh. She employment and discrimination cases, and cor- wine tour to several Cayuga Lake wineries, and my enjoyed hiking, skiing, music, hanging out with porate governance matters. wife, Katie (Nelson), PhD ’10, and I went to the friends, and spending time with her nephews. Many Congratulations to Kenneth Vorrasi, who was Continuous Reunion Club (CRC) luncheon at the of us will remember her fondly from our days as also promoted to partner at Drinker Biddle & Reath Statler, where newly minted coach David Archer ’05 teaching assistants for Prof. Andrea Parrot, PhD LLP in the Washington, DC, office. Ken’s anti trust discussed the future of Cornell football. The class ’81, where we learned so much from each other. practice focuses on litigation, mergers, and conduct dinner Friday was casual, and an oft-repeated re- Cindy was always considered a beloved member of investigations before the US Dept. of Justice, the frain was, “You look familiar, how do we know each our TA family and I know all of her Cornell friends Federal Trade Commission, and state enforcement other?” as classmates reconnected after years. The will miss her greatly. If you would like to make a authorities, and counseling on a variety of antitrust Arts Quad tents were filled with dancing, and the memorial contribution in Cindy’s name, please issues, with an emphasis on matters at the inter- late night calzones at Risley were a fitting end to send them to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. sectionofantitrust and intellectual property. Addi- a successful, albeit wet, first full day of Reunion. Thank you for sharing your news with us. We tionally, Ken’s practice includes representing clients “Saturday breakfast served as a reminder that love hearing from you and we love writing for in government investigations and appearing be- it is still completely acceptable to wear pajamas you, and we dedicate this column to our dear fore the federal antitrust agencies to obtain clear- to the dining hall. Classmate Alexander Hayes, ME friend and classmate Cindy Marie So. With loving ance of mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures. ’04, treated Reunion attendees to an interesting memories and caring thoughts, the Class of 2000 George Jaramillo, BArch ’01, is an architect lecture about lakefront vacationing on Saturn’s sends its most heartfelt condolences to the So by training and was working at Yosemite National moon Titan. Michael and Sarah Jensen Racz, Ben- family. c Andrea M. Chan, [email protected]; Park as a historical architect. He was accepted to jamin Chen, and Daniel Broderick, ME ’04, were Christine Jensen Weld, [email protected]. the U. of Edinburgh PhD program in human geog- spotted at the Engineering dean’s luncheon in raphy in September 2012. Since then, he’s moved Duffield, and Trillium hosted the CALS wine tasting, to the UK and has been traveling around the where we connected with Daina Schatz. The after - Happy fall, Class of 2001! It’s so British Isles. Even though distance stands between noon highlight was the Cornell NYC Tech lecture, great to hear that many of our them, he’s mainly kept in touch with friends in where Dan Huttenlocher reminded the audience 01 class mates are doing well and have New York City, especially Amanda MacBlane and that the new campus is a startup itself and that had so many positive life changes since gradu - Christina Evans, BArch ’01. So . . . what’s new an entrepreneurial spirit is ever-present. The big ation. As fall starts, it’s hard not to think back to with you? E-mail us at [email protected] class dinner was held on the Ag Quad and featured moving into the dorms 16 years ago and the ex - or at the addresses below and, in between Dinosaur BBQ and a performance by the Hangovers. citement as we all began our time at Cornell. With columns, stay connected via our Twitter feed We connected with John Zelenka, MBA ’12, and that, we share the news that shows how much our (@Cornell2001) and Facebook page (www.face met new classmates, including Erika Ettin. Satur- lives have changed. book. com/Cornell2001). c Lauren Wallach Ham- day wrapped up with arguably the best Reunion An awesome achievement was made by Alan mer, [email protected]; Nicole Neroulias Gupte, event: Cornelliana Night! A big thank you to our Nawoj, who competed on March 30th in the 2013 [email protected]. reunion chairs Jaimie Hanlon and Rich Chomko.” Antarctica Marathon at the bottom of the Earth Tom and Adrian report that, upon arriving in and came in first place overall, with a time of Ithaca, they met up with Doug McLean ’02 at 3:29:56. He was one of 92 participants that hailed Not much news to report this his house, got settled, and headed over to Libe from nine countries to brave temperatures that time, but congratulations go out Slope to meet their old friend and Teagle gym hovered around 22 degrees Fahrenheit while nav- 02 to Jason Wiener of Boul der, CO. lifting buddy Ken Gabard, former assistant dean igating the hilly snow- and ice-covered course. He Jason, co-owner and general counsel at Namaste in Arts and Sciences, who retired in June after commanded an early lead in the race, extending Solar, writes that he was honored to win one of many years of service to Cornell along with his it to about 10 minutes by 20 miles into the race. five 2013 Denver Business Journal’s Best Corpo rate wife Deb Durnham, MFA ’84, senior director of Alan is an avid marathon runner (personal best Coun sel Awards. Namaste Solar, an employee- advising in AAP. The four of them had a nutri- marathon time of 2:52:27), but the race was in- owned cooperative, designs, installs, and services tious dinner at the relocated Collegetown Pizza credibly challenging and he got hypothermia solar electric systems for homes in Colorado, and (“So long Mama-T’s!”), made a stop at Ruloffs, shortly after finishing. He says it was certainly also provides project planning and consulting and ended the night on the Arts Quad dancing an experience of a lifetime. services to businesses. to a great live band until 1 a.m. Congratulations to Vicki Johnson on her mar- Marianne Drowne (Washington, DC) writes, Tom continues, “We slept in the next morn- riage to Ryan on October 20, 2012 in Washing- “Following three-plus years as an executive as- ing, then got right back in the action. A stop at ton, DC. “We held our reception at the Tabard Inn sistant to the director of the USAID Health Care Collegetown Bagels for breakfast energized us for at Dupont Circle, and in attendance were my best Improvement Project, I am now the executive as- a jaunt through campus. You would not believe the friends and classmates Cherie Carter and Amy sistant to the president/CEO of the YMCA of Met- number of new buildings, finished and under con- Cunningham Ganderson. The wedding was offici- ropolitan Washington, supporting programs in the struction!Wemade a brief stop at the campus store ated by my father, Rev. Dr. Gregory Johnson ’71. ever-changing city I’ve called home for nine to load up on Cornell swag and then went down to After our honeymoon in Spain, Ryan and I moved years. Outside of work, I have been a communi- an alumni party hosted by our fraternity house, to San Francisco and are now living in Nob Hill.” cations and events volunteer for seven years with Phi Sigma Kappa. The big white house on the cor- Vicki says it’s been great reconnecting with friends GreenDrinksDC, which hosts eco-minded happy ner of University and Stewart looked just as beau- and family after living in New Zealand for 19 hours and sustainably focused, DC-based Face- tiful as I remember. Adrian and I shared drinks and months. They had been living there since Febru- book posts.” Send your news to: c Carolyn laughs with some ’03 brothers—Dan Franco, Kyle ary 2011 when Vicki became an Ian Axford Fellow Deckinger Lang, [email protected]; Jeffrey Archie, ME ’05, and his bride Sara (Miller) ’04, and in Public Policy at the Ministry of Civil Defence & Barker, [email protected]. newlywed Dave Brechbiel and his wife, Samantha Emergency Management. Ade—and we enjoyed meeting numerous Phi Sig Arnold Mok moved back to the US after liv- brothers from other years. Dinner that night was ing in Hong Kong for the past ten-plus years. He’s Our thanks to Tom Struble, in Collegetown, then to the Arts Quad music tents. settling down in the Greater New York area and is Adri an Korduba, and Jon It was another late night with barrels of laughs. in the midst of pursuing a new business venture, 03 Schoen berg, PhD ’11, for their “Adrian headed home the next day to his social networking/media combined with consumer contributions to this report on Reunion Week end! wife, Karen, in New Jersey—and to the end of his markets. He adds that he was able to attend the Jon, our recently elected class co-correspondent, third year of medical school at Robert Wood 2012 CHS Asia Chapter-Cambodia. Congratulations starts us off. Johnson at Rutgers—and I to my wife, Caitlin to Kathryn Bisordi Deal, who was promoted to “Reunion 2013 was filled with intellectual and (Stansell) ’04, BArch ’05, and my beautiful 1- partner at Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP in the social events for our class! Class HQ at Risley Hall year-old daughter, Eleanor, in Medfield, MA. It Phila delphia office. She is a member of the firm’s sprang to action beginning Thursday, with class- might have been nice if the weather had not been commercial litigation group. Kathryn’s litigation mates trickling in from around the world, and Re- so representative of what we all remember (cold experience extends to a variety of complex com- union started in earnest Friday morning with rain the whole time), but in a way it made the mercial matters, including product liability suits, breakfast from CTB attended by many classmates entire weekend all the more nostalgic. I had a trademark infringement and unfair competition with growing families! Later on, Beth Nelms and blast and already have my 2018 calendar marked 90 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes . , . is and , , and Jeffrey Melissa Johnny Jennifer . . ’75, aunt , , , and great- and , Erin Connol- , , October 2013October 91 Jack Castle ’09 Jon Auerbach Marc D’Urso | Jeffrey Belsky ’77 David Pantirer ’03 Yasin Senbabaoglu Auerbach Auerbach , haj4@cornell. edu; , haj4@cornell. Thomas Zeihnert and and Lara Chausow , , , , Megan Blanchard Nguyen was recently pro- is currently a business/ cor- a business/ is currently successfully defended her dis- her defended successfully , cousins cousins , . After working as a as litigator working . After is in New York City and start- and City York New in is Jason Belsky ’08 , MAT ’05, and and ’05, MAT , and several and old in several friends the Hope Hope everyone enjoyed the summer! Looks like but we’re all Cornellians, busy extremely September September , [email protected]; Evan Losi is completing her internal medicine internal her completing is Sandi Belsky Sara Olson , and and , (jtn5@ cornell. edu) has opened a law a opened has edu) cornell. (jtn5@ Hilary Johnson , , Allison Higginbotham c graduated from Stony Brook Medical Larry Pantirer ’71 wrote in May that she was admitted to doc- to admitted was she that May in wrote , , [email protected]. Nathaniel Bank Colleen Ramsey Thanks to Jon and to everyone else who had who else everyone to and Jon to Thanks Brian Warshay enfrHanley Jennifer Rachel Farr ’04 , , Jennifer’s website, jenniferbellor.com, or find her find or jenniferbellor.com, website, Jennifer’s Facebook. on Dudanowicz Elizabeth Ninivaggi few years, past the for in Toronto on Bay Street Ng Jonathan firm “to serve the litigation needs of individuals of needs litigation the serve “to firm him a He to says drop level.” He at community the Toronto. in help litigation any need you if line also sends a big hello to and Charles Eric Y., T. Canadian.” favourite your “from porate/ financial attorney with Woods Oviatt Gilman Oviatt Woods with attorney financial porate/ ef- the lead “I am helping NY. in LLP Rochester, and Inc. Professionals forts of Young Rochester philan- the promoting as well as Coalition RocCity Rochester.” of NextGen mission thropic Castle psy- development and in clinical candidacy toral chology at the U. of Pittsburgh. She keeps in with touch ly uncles news and updates your keep Please share. to news coming! Michelle Wong Chen residency at Cornell Medical Center and was sched- was Jessicaand Furst Center Medical Co- Cornell at at residency endocrinology in fellowship her start to uled keeps She summer. this Center Medical U. lumbia with touch in Office the in assistant legislative senior to moted Israel. Steve Congressman of Alissa Auerbach ’09 Marc Pantirer is in New York City and a postdoctoral scholar at scholar postdoctoral a and City York New in is working Center Cancer Sloan-Kettering Memorial biology. cancer computational in Good- at associate an is and City York years New in five also last the spent has he where Procter, group. win litigation property intellectual firm’s the in their of birth the welcomed Danielle wife and He March on Grace, Allison and Murray Robert twins, 29. Proud Cornellian family members include grandmother Spark Nakamura 2009. of Class sertation in space and planetary sciences—titled planetary and space in sertation and Stability, Detection, Their Salts: Chlorine “On Europa”—at and on Mars Water for Implications the U. of This she Arkansas. started summer, a postdoctoral fellowship at Southwest Research Inst. in Boulder, CO, where she reunited with hall-mate 3-5 Dickson New Bloomberg at year this earlier job a ed new please do remember to update us with your news. your with us update to remember do please you! from hear to love We Gnerre res- a as started 1 July on and ’13, May in School will I year ident at New first York Medical College-Westchester “My NY. Valhalla, in Center Medical department, medicine internal the in intern an be in a resident be I will 2014, 1, July starting and the diagnostic radiology department. 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Visit 0 Steph - Steph Alumni , swnoonan@ , William Keim , [email protected]. , ([email protected]) ([email protected]) was an was ([email protected]) High High summer as I write this with up finishing and column, some more of - the e-mail re started their life together back together life their started Samantha Noonan c Mona Olsen intern and Class Notes name-checker! He name-checker! Notes Class and intern Thanks again to our guest columnists. I hope I columnists. guest our to again Thanks Jake Johnson When for our 15th Reunion. If you haven’t made it to made If you haven’t our Reunion. 15th for a Cornell reunion: go. You won’t regret it.up The catching and show, great a on puts university inter- in seen all those you haven’t friends with invaluable.” is years vening re- future to you attend inspire will column this forward look we then, and now Between unions! to hearing from you with your latest news and adventures! gmail.com; Jongmail.com; Schoenberg neurship (PIHE). Very excited to get involved with involved get to excited Very (PIHE). neurship Cornell!” at education entrepreneurship of the Pillsbury Inst. for Hospitality Entrepre- 04 sponses we sponses last received spring. and he that writes ([email protected]) anie Sereno ’07 on on October 16, 2011 when they got in married the in physics teaching - “After CA. Clemente, late San have I years, four for Area Bay Francisco San ly been working as an RF for systems engineer - test in Massa Systems Defense systems a Integrated Raytheon also was Stephanie where - setts, posi new chu a accepted I 2012, October In engineer. in San Diego, engineer as tion a systems senior also with Raytheon, and we made the country cross- move. Stephanie is dietetics, currently and back nutrition in MA her in getting school and I’m working on my USC.” - MS at in part-time electrical engi neering major on English the Hill, as well as an Magazine Collette, wife, his with WA, in Seattle, lives now “After 3. 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Energy Finance. “I am working on the Energy Smart bridesmaids, three were Cornellians: Joowon Ahn, clients take their ideas public.” The big news for Technologies team, performing research on the Opal Hammer, and Teresa Martorella ’09, BA ’07. Anna is that the book she’s been helping to write, markets, policies, and technologies that are driv- There was no shortage of Cornellians as wedding research, and develop for the past four years, ing change in the smart grid, energy efficiency, en- guests either, with Devin Angle, Matt Kulick, Breaking Out: How to Build Influence in a World of ergy storage, and advanced transportation sectors Tomas Lazo ’08, Jeannie Lui, Jonathan Perez, Competing Ideas by John Butman (Harvard Busi- in North America. Happy to collaborate with fel- Neil Radia, Jennifer Ratcliff, BS ’06, BJ Siasoco, ness Review Press), was published on May 21. low alumni in the cleantech and renewable ener- Timothy Schofield,ME’08, Grace Zheng, and even “Breaking Out explores how people who want to gy space.” Zachary Kaplan and his wife, Avril, Prof. Clifford Scherer (Dept. of Communi ca tions) change the world in some specific way successful- live in Washington, DC, and Zachary is working in and his wife, Jane Maestro-Scherer, all gathered ly take their ideas public and build influence with international development. Will Regan wrote in from around the world to join in the festivities. It them, ultimately impacting the way others think with a new address—also in D.C. was a great night for a Cornell reunion! and behave.” John and Anna are now expanding Thanks so much for sending your updates. Jennifer D’Amato-Anderson is also a newly- and evolving the ideas in the book, so check out Keep your news coming by writing to any of us at wed and was married in Sage Chapel on May 18, their blog at www.BreakingOutBook.com. the addresses below, or do it online at: http:// 2013, with the reception at the Carrier Ballroom Send your news to: c Nina Terrero, nt58@ www. alumni.cornell.edu/participate/class-notes. in the Statler. “We honeymooned in Fiji and Ya- cornell. edu, or go online: http://www.alumni. cfm.Welook forward to hearing from you. c Katie sawa Island—a wonderful experience.” Beth Ru- cornell. edu/participate/class-notes.cfm. DiCicco, [email protected]; Nicole DeGrace, bin will be getting married in France! She is [email protected]; and Tory Lauterbach, tory. currently an English and Italian instructor at a lan- [email protected]. guage school in Nantes and recently traveled to It’s September, but I would Austria, Hungary, and Italy. Beth keeps in touch wager some of our classmates with classmates Jenny Harbert, Julia Robbins, 08 still haven’t recovered from our On April 27, 2013, classmates Elise Pasoreck Van Buskirk, and Michael McKeon. jam-packed, whirlwind of a weekend 5th Reunion. Bryan Beutel and Iris Lim were Since graduation Bill McCarthy has been work- 754 classmates (785 people in total) showed up for 07 married in Rye, NY, in the pres - ing with Merrill Lynch as a senior financial advisor our three days of mingling, reconnecting, and rem - ence of many fellow Cornellians. The couple met and recently became the resident director of Mer- iniscing in June 2013, and all are already anx iously during Freshman Orientation, began dating in rill Lynch’s branch office located in Ithaca. Still liv- awaiting our 10th Reunion in 2018! Disappoint ing May 2004, and, after maintaining a long-distance ing in the Rochester area, Bill is active with the none, we had record attend ance, as classmates rela tion ship while attending medical schools in Cornell Club of Rochester and also volunteers with made the pilgrimage back to the Hill from both near dif ferent states, began their surgical residencies in the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America. Anna and far.For example, Stacey Katz made it to Ithaca New York City in 2011. Groomsmen included broth - Weiss writes, “I’ve been working in the hectic and from her home in Reykjavik, Iceland, and Ben Birn - ers Christopher Beutel ’11, MBA ’13, and Marvin exciting field of idea and content development for baum traveled from Israel for the weekend. Lawrence Lim ’11, and Bryan’s mother, Margaret the past four and a half years at a small Cambridge, Thanks to the absolutely flawless, and per- Garrett Beutel ’78, was also present. Of the six MA-based company called Idea Platforms, helping petually upbeat, planning of reunion chairs Mar- garet Sheehe and Ebony Scott (and the logistical masteryofhousing chair Sara Patterson), the weekend went off without a hitch . . . though with a healthy dose of “Ithacating” and Cuckoo for Coco Chips rain. Overheard in class headquarters: “I didn’t even pack a raincoat!” Vincent Kitirattragarn ’06, ME ’07 Response: “Did you forget where you were coming?” As classmate Ally Davis noted, the chilly rain was “ap- he first thing you notice is the texture—you bite down and it crunches,” says coconut propriate for the Class of ’08, as chip entrepreneur Vincent Kitirattragarn. “Then a sweet smokiness permeates your that’s how we started and ended our T mouth.” Kitirattragarn is the founder of California-based Dang Foods, which produces Cornell careers—with rain!” coconut chips sold in more than 500 stores nation- Clara Dickson Hall was the hub wide. The lightly sweet chips can be used as a dessert of activity all weekend, home to both class HQ and housing assign- topping, baked into pastries, or—Kitirattragarn’s ments for the majority of classmates. favorite—eaten right out of the bag. The dorms’ hallways were the site of Kitirattragarn’s parents were born in Thailand, joyful reunions and replays of fresh- where coconut chips are a common snack. Dang’s co- man-year living, as classmates read- conuts are sourced there, then sliced, soaked in justed to dorm life and shower shoes. syrup, and slow-baked at a low temperature. “You Many made it to Ithaca on Thursday have to take out all the moisture to get that crunch night, in time for drinks and late- night pizza in the Dickson lobby and that so many people like,” Kitirattragarn says. The an early morning wake-up on Friday product has just three ingredients—coconut, sugar, for the day’s wine tours around the and salt—though Kitirattragarn is experimenting with Finger Lakes. Buses of classmates new flavors, such as salted caramel. braved the weather to sample the re- The former biological and environmental engi- gion’s finest wines, and many atten- neering major worked in sustainability for the City dees remarked how tame these tours were in comparison to those during of New York before moving to San Francisco, where Senior Week five years ago. Friday he sold home-cooked Thai food at farmers’ markets. evening featured a class mixer and a While snacking on toasted coconut—an ingredient catered dinner by Joe’s in the class in his mother’s lettuce wraps—he realized that the tent outside Dickson. Following din- chips weren’t well known in the U.S. “It’s a unique ner, many classmates, disappointed taste profile,” says Kitirattragarn, who launched his by the lack of familiar sites in Col- business in summer 2012. He chose the name legetown (mourning the loss of Johnny O’s and The Palms since we “Dang” for two reasons. Not only is it named after his mother, he says, but it describes the graduated), made their way to the reaction he aims for when people taste his chips: “Dang, that’s good!” tent parties on the Arts Quad, featur- — Alexandra Clement ’16 ing live bands and karaoke, dancing 92 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com Class Notes , Timo- Christine Yujin Lee Maximize Your Maximize October 2013October 93 has also left the left also has | Cornell Cornell Alumni Maga- , [email protected]; , or [email protected]; Teddy Lu co-owns a female record la- record female a co-owns , ME ’11, has enrolled as an September September is entering her third year at Co- at year third her entering is , , [email protected]. writes: “I am in the process of As your class correspondent writes correspondent class your As - this column on a Sat rainy lazy, urday morning, he’s been doing Julie Cantor at the time Victoria wrote. “We are very are “We wrote. 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and management firm in NYC for two years after Navy’s Recruit Training Center in Great Lakes, IL. Hello, Class of 2013! It’s hard to graduation. Andrea Schiralli writes, “I’ve been Pfc. Cristian Espinal has graduated from recruit believe that a new school year is teaching in a rural village in China for the past training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Is- 13 upon us—and that most of us are year and will start my graduate studies in educa- land, SC, earning the title of US Marine. “For 13 not making our way back to the Hill. But this just tion at Harvard in the fall.” James Pothen also weeks, Cristian stayed committed during some of means that we are all off to our own new starts. went back to school: “I moved to NYC for a nine- the world’s most demanding entry-level military This column is a place to update classmates about week programming course and am looking to stay training that included close-order drill, marks- how post-graduate life is treating you. in the City and hack on as a programmer and Web manship with an M-16A4 rifle, physical fitness, First, let us introduce ourselves. For the next developer—a big shift from my undergrad major martial arts, swimming, and military history, cus- five years we (Rachael Schuman and Dan Kuhr) of Civil Engineering! I live in Williamsburg, Brook- toms, and courtesies.” will be here to write about and celebrate all of lyn, and absolutely love it.” Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering major the various events happening in the lives of 2013 We got a message from Ilya Brotzky ’11, BS Zachary Gould ([email protected]) is currently classmates. Rachael just spent her summer travel- ’10, who moved down to Brazil to work with Vale living in Heppenheim, Germany, and writes that he ing, while Dan is a first-year medical student at after graduation. “I fell in love with the country will be building an ultra-efficient aquaponic green- U. at Buffalo. Whether you’re attending graduate and decided to quit my job to work at a startup house in Nuremberg later this summer. “I am work- school, working on a really cool project for your nonprofit from Stanford that does market research ing with a German energy management firm called job, traveling, getting married, getting a new pet, in Rio’s favelas. I’ve since helped raise over Energy Biosphere Food here in Germany, and have or simply pondering your next move, no story is $500,000 for two different education startups here co-founded two companies related to urban agri- too grandiose or insignificant. We want to hear and am now going to join a big data company, culture back in Brooklyn, NY. One is called City Farm what you’re doing now that we’re officially alum- Acxiom, in São Paulo as a sales executive. I’ve & Fish, which will produce fresh fish, fruits, and ni. E-mail your stories to us at the addresses at been featured in Fast Company and Reuters for my vegetables in cities and then deliver them direct- the end of this column. work here. I have also recently launched the Brazil ly to your door. The other company, agrowculture, We also want to take this opportunity to in- Career Blueprint (www.brazilcareerblueprint.com), is a website that sells products and offers re- troduce the rest of the 2013 Alumni Board. Our an online course that helps those interested in sources to help people grow their own food; I co-presidents both spent their summers traveling. Brazil understand all the steps necessary to make started it with Cornell alumnus Nick McEvily ’09. Jon Weinberg was in Europe with some of his the best of their transition.” We are looking forward to expanding our services brothers from Sigma Alpha Mu, and Fiona Ismail Lastly, if you’re in the Grand Rapids, MI, area, in the coming months and fostering partnerships traveled to South Africa to visit family. Also look up Hotelie Molly Clauhs and fiancé Joel with Cornell in the future.” spending his free time traveling, treasurer Crist. Molly writes, “I currently operate a food Thanks again for your news! If you haven’t Matthew Gruber explored South America. Our truck in Grand Rapids, and am involved in leasing done so yet, write to us at the addresses below, three reunion chairs are already thinking about space to small food businesses in Grand Rapids’s mail in a News Form, or check out the online our first reunion in 2018: James Feld is serving new Downtown Market (a 130,000-sq.-ft. indoor news form at: http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/ as a high school math teacher for Teach For Amer- and outdoor food market with brewery, 24 year- participate/ class-notes.cfm. We look forward to ica in Nashville, TN; Juan Carlos Toledo started round food businesses, greenhouses, etc!).” Keep hearing from you. c Lauren Rosenblum, LCR his job at Amazon; and Ankur Bajaj worked at a your class correspondents in the loop. Facebook 46@ cornell. edu; Kathryn Ling, KEL56@cornell. technology incubator while studying for the MCAT isn’t doing it as well anymore. Send your news to: edu. CAM Digital Edition, http://www.cornell and falling in love with “Arrested Development.” c Michael Beyman, [email protected]; or alumni magazine-digital.com. Class historian Patricio Martínez-Llompart is Rammy Salem, [email protected]. about to start work as a New York City Urban Fel- low.Annual Fund liaison Renae Curless began grad- On May 11, 2013, Hudson Bova was uate school for a master’s in education at the U. of Thanks to everyone who responded to kind enough to host over 100 of Pennsylvania. Membership chair Alex Bores spent our email request for news! Lisa 12 Cornell’s youngest alumni, from the his summer interning at the State Dept. and is now 11 Opdycke wrote this at the end of May: classes of 2009 through 2012, at his family’s working at Corning in NYC. Nicholas St. Fleur, our “I will be leaving my position at Weill Cornell winery in Millbrook, NY. We bused up from Man - class webmaster, is back on his native Long Island Medical College this June as I have started my hattan and spent the drizzly day eating a delicious reporting on America’s only particle collider and own freelance writing and editing business. In ad - catered meal, touring the winery, enjoying the helping move a massive $25 million electromag- dition, I am moving from New York to Provi dence, prop erty, and tasting some fabulous wine. The net halfway across the country as a news intern RI, to start a Master of Public Policy program at event was reminiscent of the many Finger Lakes at Brookhaven National Laboratory. And Jaime Brown U.’s Taubman Center for Public Policy and wine tours we all took as students, and we tapped Freilich, our class secretary, alsoonLong Island, is American Institutions this fall.” Jacob Wynne into our undergrad spirits to enjoy such aday once anxiously awaiting the reopening of the Dairy Bar. (Santa Cruz, CA), a clinical research assistant at again. The planning committee, headed by the Here’s several pieces of news to end our first Stanford U., and fiancée Brittany Taylor, a veteri - Class of 2012 Council, Alumni Affairs staff mem - class column. While they were still undergradu- nary technician at Steinbeck Country Equine Clinic, bers Pat Burns ’09 and Margaux Neiderbach ’99, ates, Arielle Levy and Emily Mitchell contributed are also pursuing advanced degrees—”in human and of course Hudson, hopes to make this an an - a new term to a design lexicon developed by the and veterinary medicine, respectively.” nual event, so look out for news of WineTour2014! HumEc college that gives designers and architects Izzy Spyrou ([email protected]) started Our “Reunion One” (during Reunion 2013) was a common language for interior design features. Ac- coursework last spring for her master’s in educa- an amazing success! The Class of 2012 was the in- cording to an article in the Cornell Chronicle, their tion at Bank Street Graduate School in NYC and augural class to celebrate this event. Twenty class- “unroom”—spaces in homes and commercial build- loves it. She adds, “Recently I visited fellow Cor- mates came back to the Hill to celebrate Reunion ings that have no furniture but attract people— nellian Shivangi Paranjpe ’12 at her home in Weekend and joined the Class of 2013’s “Reunion will become the 86th entry in the Intypes (Interior Mumbai. I’ve also been to Italy, England, and Zero” events. Although the weather was predictably Archetypes) Research and Teaching Project. Arielle France this year so far. Looking forward to seeing unpredictable, the Young Alumni BBQ with the and Emily were the first undergraduates ever to much more of the world as I explore what I want Class of 2013 was full of sunshine! Our class defi- contribute to this project. In addition, a few of our to do ‘when I grow up.’ ” Elena Moreno (ecm 66@ nitely made its mark celebratinginthe Arts Quad classmates have been hearing wedding bells. Josh cornell.edu) was moving to Chicago in August to tents, and joined other alumni in our Cornell pride ’12, BS ’11, and Emily Schlussel Markovic were attend the U. of Chicago Law School. during amazing events like Cornelliana Night. wed in June, as were Tim and Rebecca Gregory The Fleet Hometown News sent reports on two Though it may seem far away, our own 5th Re- Shields. Camilo Acosta popped the question to classmates. Ariel Taylor recently enlisted in the union is coming, so keep an eye out for updates. Gabriela Rodriguez ’12 on the Sunday of Com- US Navy under the Delayed Entry Program of the Some News Forms have come in from our mencement Weekend on the balcony next to the Raleigh, NC, Navy Recruiting District. “The pro- classmates, and we’ll include them in the next col- clock tower with the help of the Hangovers and gram allows recruits to enter the Navy and take umn. Till then, as always, if you haven’t sent news their friends and family. Watch it on YouTube if up to one year to complete prior commitments. in yet, please update either of us with your life you’re prepared to say, “Awww . . .” Congratula- Using recruiters as mentors, this program helps re- events, Cornell-related or otherwise! c Emily tions to the happy couples! c Dan Kuhr, cruits ease into the transition from civilian to mil- Cusick, [email protected]; Peggy Ramin, mar dk453@ cornell.edu; and Rachael Schuman, itary life.” Ariel will report for basic training at the [email protected]. 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1930s ’53—Marian Wallace Kooiman, Sacramento, CA, February 5, 2013 ’35 BEE—Earle R. Elmer, Elkridge, MD, January 23, 2012 ’53 BS Ag—Charles W. Meyers, Newark, NY, February 27, 2013 ’35 BA—Robert G. Hyams, Boca Raton, FL, August 27, 2012 ’53-55 GR—Mary C. Miller, Greensboro, NC, February 28, 2013

1940s ’54 PhD—Robert J. Steamer, Pittsford, NY, January 24, 2013 ’40, BME ’41—Col. W. Jordan Severinghaus, Shreveport, LA, ’54 BA—Mary E. Tilley, Ithaca, NY, March 21, 2013 September 21, 2012 ’54 BS Ag—Ivan A. Virtue Jr., Grove City, PA, March 20, 2013 ’40 BS Hotel—Catherine Strong White, Rochester, NY, March 22, 2013 ’55 MA, PhD ’60—Robert F. Berkhofer Jr., Davis, CA, June 25, 2012 ’41—H. Douglass Lindsay Jr., Williamsburg, FL, May 7, 2012 ’55 BS Ag—Eugene Holman Jr., Bellevue, ID, March 4, 2013 ’41—Elizabeth Bennett Naglee, Gwynedd, PA, March 10, 2013 ’55 BS HE—Helen Kerruish Scott, Benzonia, MI, April 3, 2013 ’41 BA—Edith Lewis Perman-Allen, South Hadley, MA, March 6, 2013 ’55 PhD—Walter L. Thompson, Jonesboro, AR, March 31, 2012 ’41 BS Ag, MS Ag ’51—Howard Sidney, Bradenton, FL, Dec. 27, 2009 ’57 BS ILR—Peter A. Stross, Seattle, WA, September 23, 2012 ’42, BA ’41—Evelyn Kneeland Schuyler, Leverett, MA, March 22, 2013 ’58 MA—Edward W. Spofford, Menlo Park, CA, February 17, 2013 ’43 DVM—Edwin O. Gilbert, Santa Fe, NM, July 4, 2011 ’58 BS ILR—Norman Weber, Rockville, MD, March 18, 2013 ’43 BS Ag—Simeon R. Gluckson, New York City, March 11, 2013 ’43 BS Ag—Walter A. Stern, Arlington, VA, December 26, 2012 ’59, B Chem E ’60, MS ’61—Richard A. Blacker, Santa Monica, CA, February 28, 2010 ’44—Lena Hunt Burdin, Ithaca, NY, March 16, 2013 ’44—William G. Weimer, Utica, NY, April 2, 2007 1960s ’44 PhD—Ernest H. Wood, Tucson, AZ, April 7, 2013 ’60 BA—Robert S. Carabell, Sedona, AZ, February 8, 2013

’45 BME—Spencer J. Dvorkin, Katonah, NY, March 1, 2013 ’61 MS, PhD ’67—Janet Sperber Schwartz, Potomac, MD, Feb. 13, 2013 ’61 MS HE—Helen Bickel Wolfe, Westminster, MD, March 5, 2013 ’46-47 GR—Elizabeth Brann Hendrickson, Allouez, WI, March 6, 2013 ’46 BS Ag—Elaine Lang Lifson, Boynton Beach, FL, December 17, 2011 ’62 MD—Nicholas L. Tilney, Boston, MA, March 13, 2013 ’46—John F. Wynn Jr., Bonita Springs, FL, April 3, 2008 ’64 BS Hotel—Herwig O. Gallian, Lotus, CA, March 19, 2009 ’47—Marilyn Vitalius Depew, Staunton, VA, February 23, 2013 ’64 MD—Frederick Schweizer, Ithaca, NY, March 4, 2012 ’47 BS Nurs—Patricia Merkley Hardy, Florida, NY, February 26, 2013 ’64, B Chem E ’65—Donald I. Townsend, Midland, MI, March 10, 2013 ’47, BS Ag ’50—Robert T. Scannell Jr., East Fishkill, NY, ’64 MS—Robert B. Waldner, Ipswich, MA, March 11, 2013 March 14, 2013 ’47 BME—Robert W. Thomen, Prescott, AZ, February 5, 2013 ’67 BS Hotel—Paul S. Zottoli, Princeton, MA, March 29, 2013 ’47, BA ’46—Carol Hirschon Weiss, Boston, MA, January 8, 2013 ’47—Virginia Bame Whalen, Jackson, MS, January 8, 2013 ’68 BS Hotel—T. Lee Chiovarou, Lyon Mountain, NY, April 1, 2007 ’47, BA ’48—Donald M. Wilson, Lake Pleasant, NY, November 22, 2012 ’68—Robert A. Dinnie, Taunton, MA, February 12, 2013 ’47—Barbara Christman Wyatt, Cornelius, NC, February 24, 2013 ’68 JD—Richard S. Lawrence, Merrick, NY, April 21, 2010 ’68, BS Ag Econ ’69, MCE ’70—Thomas S. Stoddard, Wake Forest, NC, ’48 BS Hotel—David J. Fanning, Cayce, SC, October 15, 2007 January 6, 2013 ’48 BA—Robert L. Van Ausdall, Oak Brook, IL, March 26, 2013 ’68 BS Ag—John C. Titchner, Shelburne, VT, February 8, 2013 ’68 BEE—Albert J. Zielenski, South Stratford, VT, March 20, 2013 ’49 MCE—Bruce R. Laverty, Pasadena, CA, February 2, 2013 ’49 PhD—Paul B. Simpson, Eugene, OR, January 21, 2013 ’69 BS ORIE, MS ORIE ’70—Michael H. Cole, North Eastham, MA, ’49, BA ’51—Miriam Burnett Uhlan, Massapequa, NY, February 7, 2013 April 9, 2013 ’49 BEE—Benedict P. Viglietta, Cortland, NY, April 9, 2013 ’49 BS ORIE—Silvio C. Volpe, South Weymouth, MA, April 11, 2013 1970s ’75 MPS—Deborah Dreizhe Searle, Livingston, NJ, February 25, 2013 1950s ’50, BS Ag ’51—Richard M. Anderson, Cumberland Center, ME, ’78 MBA—James B. Wells, Plano, TX, March 4, 2013 February 14, 2013 ’50—George M. Scranton, West Haven, CT, June 13, 2012 ’79 MBA, MPA ’80, PhD ’81—Lance B. Kurke, Marco Island, FL, ’50—Samuel Steiger, Prescott, AZ, September 26, 2012 July 19, 2012 ’50—Marvin Wadler, Bethesda, MD, March 9, 2013 ’79 PhD—Thomas E. Stasz, Weybridge, VT, March 16, 2013 ’50 BA—Albert J. Ward Jr., North Barrington, IL, October 2, 2012 ’79 BCE—Margaret A. Zentner, Roseville, CA, August 23, 2012 ’50—Joanna MacLeod Williams, Richmond, ME, March 23, 2013 ’50, BA ’51—Timothy S. Williams, Richmond, ME, January 5, 2013 1980s ’86 BEE—Charlton M. Harding, Lake Peekskill, NY, February 21, 2013 ’51 JD—Alan Berk, Great Neck, NY, March 5, 2012 ’88 BA—James M. Reid, New York City, February 9, 2013 ’52—Patricia Lindau Powers, Pine City, NY, May 8, 2010 ’52 MEd—Stephen S. Spurza, Gloversville, NY, March 12, 2013 1990s ’52 MD—Virginia D. Weeks, Saranac Lake, NY, May 11, 2012 ’99 MS, PhD ’00—Jodi Marie Paar, Dubuque, IA, May 5, 2012 September | October 2013 95 96-96CAMso13cornelliana_000-000CAMJF07currents 8/15/13 11:01 AM Page 96

Cornelliana Veterans’ Affairs A former Marine spearheads an effort to honor the first Cornellian to die in battle

sevelt, two stately spruces were planted in his honor in front of his fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon; a plaque was inscribed in his memory and remains in the house to this day. More tributes were to come. Brown’s brother established the Clifton Beckwith Brown Memorial Medal, still given annually to the student with the highest cumulative average in architectural design. He also commissioned Bela Lyon Pratt, an Ameri- can sculptor whose star was on the rise, to create a campus memorial. Borrowing a scene from Homer’s Iliad, Pratt designed a large bronze bas relief. Weighing some 150 pounds, the tablet depicted Thetis, mother of Achilles, holding a sword and shield made by Hephaestus, the god of fire. A Daily Sun review described the piece as “having the strong decorative sense, for which Pratt is justly noted, in the happy placing of the different elements of the composition and the delightful way in which he has treated the ornamental features.” Cornell President Jacob Gould Schurman spoke at an unveil- ing ceremony in Uris Library on January 23, 1900. “With the death of Clifton Beckwith Brown, Cornell has entered upon a new era,” he said. “He is the first Cornellian to die for his country. Our young hero has fallen and we have been baptized to a new life by the blood of a martyr.” It was a somber and resolute occasion—but Uris was never intended to be the memorial’s permanent resting place. Funds for a proposed Alumni Hall were being sought and, according to FRANKLIN CRAWFORD DKE records, the tablet was to be mounted there. That hall was never built, and as Uris expanded it was moved into storage in In memoriam: The the library, where it stayed for more than a century. Around bronze tablet that 2000, DKE alum Bill Fogle ’70 was reminded of the Brown tale honors Clifton when he became house historian, prompting the former Marine Beckwith Brown to search for the tablet via e-mail from his home in Arizona. By 1900 (left), who that time, University officials were uncertain of its exact location, 1900 CORNELLIAN perished on San a fact that frustrated Fogle to no end. How could 150 pounds Juan Hill. of bronze go missing? Rumors that it spent eight years in Barton Hall, for instance, ultimately proved untrue; Morris Bishop 1913, PhD ’26, in his History of Cornell, erroneously placed it in the ar fever gripped Cornell in 1898, College of Architecture. when America threw down the gaunt- Fogle not only wanted the memorial tablet found, he wanted let against Spain in support of Cuban it mounted in a place of honor. It was finally located in Uris— independence. Some 300 Cornellians intact and, according to the librarian who answered his query, signedW on for the fight. Among those who dropped their stud- “perhaps a little dusty.” For safekeeping, the piece was tem- ies to join the fray was twenty-two-year-old architecture stu- porarily relocated to Kroch Library, home of Cornell’s Rare and dent Clifton Beckwith Brown 1900. He was assigned to New Manuscript Collections. “The tablet was never really lost,” says York’s 71st Infantry, which landed at Santiago on July 1, 1898. University Archivist Elaine Engst, MA ’72. “It was in Uris Charged with taking a low ridge on San Juan Hill, Brown’s Library, but no one knew quite where. We brought it here so unit was shot to pieces and broke ranks. The intrepid we’d know exactly where it was until a decision was made about Cornellian ditched his Civil War-era Winchester, grabbed a its final display.” modern rifle from a fellow soldier’s corpse, and led an advance In May, the tablet was mounted on the east wall of the on a hilltop bunker. While he was clipping strands of barbed Hartell Gallery in Sibley Dome. Now that it finally has a wire, a Spaniard’s bullet pierced his skull. permanent home, Fogle plans to organize a memorial to honor Back in Ithaca, the campus mourned his death and marked the first Cornellian lost to a war. his sacrifice. In a ceremony attended by President Theodore Roo- — Franklin Crawford

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