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JULY / AUGUST 2006 VOLUME 109 NUMBER 1 2 Letter From Ithaca alumni magazine HRR’s curtain call 4 Correspondence Discriminating thoughts 8 From the Hill President’s day. Plus: Professor Python, new chief fundraiser, digital history, comic showdown, fatal fire, and the ghost bird vanishes again. 12 Sports Lax efforts 16 Authors Features Renaissance man 18 Wines of the Finger Lakes 36 Scientist and Mechanic 2002 Hunt Country Late Harvest KATRINA FIRLIK ’91 Vignoles Dr. Katrina Schreiber Firlik spent seven rigorous years training to 56 Classifieds & Cornellians be a neurosurgeon, among the most demanding of surgical disci- in Business plines. In this excerpt from her memoir, Another Day in the Frontal Lobe, the first female resident in the neurosurgery program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center explains why brains don’t 59 Alma Matters feel exactly like toothpaste, how to remove a nail from a human skull, and other insights from her journey to the center of the mind. 62 Class Notes 104 Legacies 42 El Presidente BRAD HERZOG ’90 108 Alumni Deaths When Jimmy Smits, MFA ’82, took on the 112 Cornelliana role of a president-to-be in the final seasons Saying uncle of the NBC drama “The West Wing,” it was 112 more than a historic—if symbolic—victory for a Latino candidate on the national stage. It was a very real expression of Smits’s own 20 Currents passion for mixing activism with artistry. THE BIG ONE | Mike Abrams hands over the canon SECURITY ALERT | Safety first with Karen Greenberg 48 A Cold Hit BASIC TRAINING | Helping mothers-to-be see the nurse DAVID DUDLEY ALL THE RIGHT In 1991, twenty-eight-year-old Patricia MOVES | An unusual 20 Scoville ’86 was murdered in the woods out- therapy makes a leap side of Stowe,Vermont. Five years later, with forward the perpetrator still free and every lead exhausted, David Scoville ’61 and his wife, BODIES MEET BYTES Ann Van Order Scoville ’61, urged state law- | Digital dance revolution makers to deploy a powerful—and contro- Plus | A wilderness cam- versial—new DNA technology to hunt down paign and a wunderkind the man who killed their daughter. goes to Germany

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Letter From Ithaca

The Character of Cornell THOUGHTS ON DEPARTING DAY HALL (AGAIN)

ORNELL STANDS OUT AMONG UNIVERSITIES FOR May 27 that this project is too significant to abandon for fear of many reasons, including its commitment to democratic failure. That is a good message to new PhDs about to begin c access and opportunity, its combination of Ivy League and careers in research, and a good example of Cornell intellectual land-grant missions, and its remarkable academic breadth and courage at work. depth. It is indeed a place where any person can find instruction One final example: After Hurricane Katrina flooded New in (virtually) any study. But I am Orleans, thousands of students at struck by historian Carl Becker’s Tulane, Xavier, and the University conviction that Cornell’s ethos, its of New Orleans lost their belong- defining identity, is a passion for ings, their campus, and a chance intellectual freedom. to continue their education. Cor- You can’t measure passion, but nell stepped in to help. Experts you certainly can see and feel it in from the land-grant units traveled action. Anecdotes help, and Becker to Louisiana to join the relief tells them best: “There is the story effort. And Cornell offered admis- of the famous professor of history, sion—and free tuition—to any a passionate defender of majority student-evacuee who arrived in rule, who, foreseeing that he would Ithaca. With an outpouring of be outvoted in the faculty on the support from faculty, staff, Cornell question of the location of Risley students, and members of the

Hall,declared with emotion that U PHOTO community, 200 hurricane victims he felt so strongly on the subject spent a semester in Ithaca. Cornell that he thought he ought to have Kicking back: Hunter Rawlings is eager to return acted immediately and instinc- two votes.” to Cornell’s classrooms. tively to assist those in need. As I return to full-time teach- If Carl Becker best captured ing at Cornell (for the second time), here are my own impressions the Cornell spirit in prose, Archie Ammons is our poet laureate. of the Cornell character in action. The last lines of Archie’s great poem Garbage describe the virtues For some years, I have invited students to my office to discuss of creative tension: anything on their minds. One undergraduate, Abby Krich ’04, the stopped by frequently to urge that Cornell develop wind and solar poem that goes dumb holds tears: the line, power as alternative energy sources. I grew impatient hearing the the fire line, where passion and control waver same utopian message from the same student semester after for the field, that is a line so difficult to semester, but she made her appeals with passionate integrity, sup- keep in the right degree, one side not raiding ported them with solid research, and presented them tirelessly the other: if I reap the peripheries will I and tenaciously to dozens of Cornell administrators and engi- get hardweed seed and dried roughage, roughage neers. Single-handedly, she persuaded us to fund and implement like teasel and cattail and brush above snow in two of her proposed initiatives. Abby Krich earned her master’s winter, pure design lifeless in a painted hold. degree in engineering last month—and the respect of many a Cornellian on campus. Carl Becker often said that the Cornell spirit was free, but also As many Americans know, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology a bit wild at times. So much the better: I have no doubt that “oth- has taken a lot of heat for announcing last year that at least one erwise thinking” individuals, with independent, irreverent casts ivory-billed woodpecker lived in the swamps of Arkansas—and of mind, will continue to keep Cornell on “the fire line, where then launching an expensive and thus far futile effort to locate the passion and control waver for the field.”I can’t wait to get back to bird. But lab director John Fitzpatrick is not embarrassed, apolo- Cornell’s classrooms. getic, or ready to give up. He welcomes critiques by fellow scien- — Hunter R. Rawlings III tists and said in his address to Cornell’s doctoral graduates on Hunter Rawlings completed his term as interim president on June 30.

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Correspondence

Minority Response

IS CORNELL MAKING PROGRESS—OR PERPETUATING PREJUDICE?

IF THERE IS ONE CONCLUSION TO BE heartening to hear of the success of the drawn from the article “Minority Report” Cornell Mosaic conference at CU, as (May/June 2006), it is that racial discrim- well as similar events in New York City ination at Cornell hasn’t ended. It simply and Philadelphia. has taken another form. As the article notes, “more than 36 The fact of the matter is that Cornell, percent of the Class of 2010 self-identify by its practices, is perpetuating racial dis- as minority.”This fact, alone, would sug- tinctions and, therefore, racial prejudices. gest that it is of great importance to con- Isn’t it time that we practice what we tinue, and enhance, the efforts to create preach? Does having separate housing for more interest in the future of Cornell African Americans expedite their being across the spectrum of ethnic, cultural, accepted into the social and economic and (although the term is scientifically structure as equals? Does having separate problematic) racial groupings. alumni organizations for African Ameri- I would suggest an intensification cans, Asian Americans, and others of efforts to provide more integrative improve relations among all graduates and programs during Reunion. Having bring us closer together? helped to coordinate three panels of this Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a nature—with varying degrees of suc- dream. His dream was not just that cess—I realize that this kind of African Americans would no longer be endeavor is neither easy nor formulaic. automatically discriminated against However, based on the feedback from because of their color but that they, and all these events, it would seem that there is process. I have personally recommended the other human beings in this country, much to be gained, both by the University highly qualified minority students with would be considered Americans. His and by the Cornellians who choose to clear career goals and real working experi- dream was of a color-blind nation where attend. ence to Cornell, without any results. They all people are equal in every respect and David Burak ’67, MFA ’80 have found other universities that actually accepted everywhere. Santa Monica, California responded in a positive manner to their Cornell has failed miserably in achiev- credentials and needs. I find that there is a ing such a goal. When applicants for MINORITY CORNELLIANS WORTH THEIR double standard with student referrals by admissions are accepted solely on the basis salt want to be treated with equality, not alumni: if the referral is made by a minor- of their qualifications, when students are pampered as people incapable of under- ity alum who contributes only a modest assigned housing without regard to race or standing membership in an alumni organ- amount to Cornell, that referral is either religion, when alumni organizations are ization. The Cornell administration, fac- dismissed or ignored. no longer fragmented according to ethnic ulty, and alumni need to heed the wisdom Juan Morales ’78 origin, it will then be a truly democratic of Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele and New York, New York institution. stop demeaning people of color. Appease- Walter Grimes ’36 ment of the whiners is a bottomless pit, as Arlington, Virginia acknowledged by Liz Moore ’75 in the Speak up! We encourage letters from readers and try to pub- article. It is time for Cornell to move on lish as many as we can.They CAM DESERVES CONSIDERABLE PRAISE from the debacle of April ’69. must be signed and may be edited for length, clarity, and for its well written and impressively Joseph Deignan ’61, MD ’63 civility. researched article regarding African Amer- Glen Allen, Virginia Send to: Jim Roberts, Editor ican, Asian, Latin, and Native American Cornell Alumni Magazine 401 E. State St., Suite 301, Ithaca, NY 14850 alumni, and the prospects of increasing WITH REGARD TO THE INVOLVEMENT fax: (607) 272-8532 the involvement of individuals of these of minority alumni with Cornell, my main e-mail: [email protected] ethnic backgrounds in Cornell affairs. It’s disappointment is with the recruitment

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CORRESPONDENCE

Critical Thinking resources, and I remembered Professor ARIC PRESS’S COLUMN ABOUT “UNFIN- LaFeber. I told her to look him up in the ished business” (Letter from Ithaca, online catalog because I was sure he would May/June 2006) was right on. What the have a book that would help with her PR and development people need to paper. Sure enough, he did! understand is that the primary educa- Elizabeth Grover ’75 tional mission of Cornell (or any real uni- Palo Alto, California versity) is to teach its students to think analytically and critically. If the University HOW CHILLING TO READ THAT WALTER succeeds, then feeding fluff and pablum to LaFeber decided to retire partly because, the alumni should not go down well. as he put it, “I didn’t want to wear out my There is nothing wrong with a substantive welcome.” If elderly professors are unwel- story that is positive, but universities like come at Cornell, this is obviously just as Cornell are complex (and, dare I say, diffi- bigoted as it would be if black or female cult) institutions in a large and complex professors were unwelcome. Elderly pro- society. Thoughtful writing about tough fessors should not knuckle under to problems is to be expected. Fluff and ageism. I intend not to. As a fifty-eight- pablum are turn-offs. year-old professor at another Ivy League Sam Greenblatt ’61, MD ’66 school, I have already informed my chair- Providence, Rhode Island man that I intend never to retire as long as I can do my job—and as the daughter of LaFeber’s Legacy a thriving nonagenarian, I expect this to be THANKS FOR THE PROFILE OF PROFES- a long, long time. sor Walter LaFeber (“The Quiet Ameri- Felicia Nimue Ackerman ’68 canist,” May/June 2006). In his course on Providence, Rhode Island the history of American foreign policy, he delivered the best lecture ending I have Ed. Note: We believe that Professor LaFeber ever heard. The lecture was on the Ver- was being ironic when he said that. There is sailles conference after the First World no evidence that anyone at Cornell tried to War, and LaFeber quoted from the diary force him to retire—quite the opposite. of William Bullitt, then a young member of the American delegation. If memory Fallout serves, Bullitt described his disillusion- I FOUND MURRAY PESHKIN’S MEM- ment at the betrayal of Wilsonian ideals by oir most interesting (“Building the Bomb,” writing, “If these politicians continue as May/June 2006). I do, however, take excep- they have been, I will quit the delegation, tion to a statement near the end of the resign from the Foreign Service, go to the article, when he says that dropping the French Riviera, and lie on my back in the atomic bomb “may have been the worst sun and watch the world go to hell.” At decision ever made by a well-meaning which point LaFeber closed the book, president.” looked up, and intoned, “Well, they did, he Why? Because I owe my life to perhaps did, and it did.” the greatest and most difficult decision any Howard Reiter ’67 president has had to make. I am sorry we Storrs, Connecticut did not have the bomb sooner. If we had, my brother might have lived out his life IN MY SENIOR YEAR, I ENROLLED IN instead of being one of more than 12,000 LaFeber’s course on American foreign pol- casualties on Okinawa in 1945. icy. The lecture hall was always filled (even President Harry Truman made the though the class met at 11:15 on Satur- right decision. Saving an estimated 1 mil- days), and I never missed a class. He was lion American lives that might have been incredible. lost in an invasion of Japan was the deci- A short while ago, I was with my sive factor. And, in some distorted way, the daughter, a freshman at Yale. She was com- use of the bomb should have told pleting a paper for her freshman seminar mankind: Never again! and the topic was the Cold War. We were Harry Merker ’51 at the library looking for some additional Las Vegas, Nevada

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Campus News

From the Hill ROBERT BARKER / UP

Banner year: On May 28, the sun broke through the clouds as more than 6,000 graduates received their degrees before family and friends at Schoellkopf Field. It was Cornell’s 138th commencement, and the last to be presided over by Interim President Hunter Rawlings.

Inauguration Date Set Return on Investment CEREMONY WILL BE IN SEPTEMBER PUBLICATION RANKS ENDOWMENTS

DAVID SKORTON WILL BE INAUGURATED AS CORNELL’S IN A SPECIAL REPORT INCLUDED WITH ITS JUNE 2 ISSUE, twelfth president in an installation ceremony on the Arts Quad the Chronicle of Higher Education ranked the 2005 return on on Thursday, September 7—weather permitting. (If the always endowment investments for 247 nonprofit groups. Cornell unpredictable Ithaca weather is uncooperative, the inaugura- placed forty-sixth, with a return of 13.6 percent. The overall tion will move indoors to Barton Hall.) The ceremony is leader was Yale University, with a return of 22.3 percent. scheduled to begin at 3:30 PM and will be followed by a recep- Among the eight Ivy League schools, Cornell ranked sixth, tion on the Arts Quad. Skorton, who served as president of the with a return that trailed Yale, Harvard (19.2 percent), Colum- University of Iowa before coming to the Hill, moved into his bia (17.7 percent), Princeton (17.0 percent), and Dartmouth Day Hall office on July 1. For more information, go to: (14.4 percent), but outperformed Brown (13.3 percent) and http://inauguration.cornell.edu/. the University of Pennsylvania (8.5 percent).

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Stabbing Aftermath Tragic Loss POFFENBARGER ’08 INDICTED FOR STUDENT DIES IN APARTMENT BLAZE HATE CRIME IAN ALBERTA ’06, A FIFTH-YEAR AAP STUDENT AND FINE ON MAY 3, TOMPKINS COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY GWEN arts major, perished in an off-campus house fire in the Cornell Wilkinson announced that a grand jury had indicted ILR soph- Heights section of Ithaca, near North Campus, in the early omore Nathan Poffenbarger on four counts of assault as a hate morning of May 13. Another student resident and an Ithaca crime and one count of tampering with evidence in the stab- firefighter were also injured in the blaze, which heavily dam- bing of a visiting Union College student, Charles Holiday, on aged a two-story duplex apartment structure with six tenants. West Campus during an early-morning altercation on Febru- The fire was caused by discarded smoking materials in a plas- ary 18. Holiday, who has since recovered from a punctured tic bucket outside the building. right lung, is African American, and Poffenbarger is said to Alberta, a twenty-two-year-old senior who would have have shouted racial slurs before the incident. graduated in December, was a 2001 Ithaca High School gradu- According to the summary of facts filed at the hearing, Pof- ate and musician who played bass guitar in Somatic Umbra, a fenbarger, a twenty-year-old native of Woodsboro, Maryland, local rock band. A memorial held in Sage Chapel on May 17 had been drinking in his dorm room on the evening of Febru- attracted a crowd of more than 800 friends and well-wishers. ary 17 before attending a party at the Sigma Pi fraternity. He Alberta’s family has requested that contributions in Ian’s name was ejected around 1 a.m. after behaving violently and yelling be made to Habitat for Humanity–Cornell, Willard Straight racial slurs at an African American pledge. Outside the frater- Hall, Box 91, Ithaca, NY 14853. nity, Poffenbarger’s continued use of racial epithets attracted the attention of Holiday and his two companions; in the ensu- ing confrontation, Poffenbarger stabbed Holiday in the chest with a folding knife. After police arrived, Poffenbarger fled the Completely Different scene and returned to his dorm room, where he dismantled and hid the knife and burned pieces of bloodstained clothing in his CLEESE BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND wastebasket. Poffenbarger, who has been suspended and banned JOHN CLEESE, AN A. D. WHITE PROFESSOR FOR THE PAST from campus since the incident, remains free on $20,000 bail. eight years, will return to the Hill again as the Provost’s Visit- ing Professor. If history is any indication, Cleese will take his new post seriously. Best known for his roles in the Monty Python comedy New VP for AAD troupe and the BBC program “Fawlty Towers,” Cleese took a creative approach to his periodic visits to Cornell. He lectured CHARLES PHLEGAR TOOK OFFICE on subjects from lemurs to human development to W. C. ON JULY 1 Fields, often inviting noted experts to join him. He preferred to meet with small groups of students and faculty—such as the IN MAY, IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT CHARLES PHLEGAR HAD master classes he taught in screenwriting and acting—but he been appointed vice president for alumni affairs and develop- also addressed large audiences. In 2004, he spoke in Barton ment. Phlegar came to the Hill from Johns Hopkins Univer- Hall about religion, illustrating his points with clips from the sity, where he had worked since 2000. He was serving as the Python film Life of Brian.He proved so popular during his interim vice president for development and alumni relations original six-year appointment that the Board of Trustees at Hopkins when tapped for the Cornell job. In a statement, extended his term for two years, which ended in May. Interim President David Skorton praised Phlegar’s record of achieve- President Hunter Rawlings announced the new, three-year ment, saying that “his ongoing successes and leadership in appointment at Commencement, saying it came in response development coordination and campaign fundraising, along to many requests from students and faculty. with his notable record of fostering collaboration between academic and alumni development units, give him a strong base for success here at Cornell, as the University looks forward to a new capital campaign.” Phlegar, who holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Silver Salute Virginia Tech, has also held fundraising positions at the Uni- CAM WINS 2006 CASE AWARD versity of South Carolina and East Carolina University. On July 1, he took over from Laura Toy, who was named interim vice CORNELL ALUMNI MAGAZINE HAS ONCE AGAIN BEEN president for alumni affairs and development after the resig- honored in the annual judging for Circle of Excellence awards nation of Inge Reichenbach in April 2005. The departure of by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education Reichenbach, who accepted a similar position at Yale, was said (CASE). This year, CAM received a silver medal for general to be a source of friction between former Cornell president Jef- excellence in the category for College and University General frey Lehman ’77 and the Board of Trustees. Lehman subse- Interest Magazines. Since 2000, CAM has won four gold, four quently resigned as president in June 2005. silver, and two bronze awards in the CASE competition.

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FROM THE HILL

From Punch Cards to Cyberspace Shift Change CORNELL’S COMPUTING HISTORY YEAR-END NEWS FROM DAY HALL PUBLISHED ONLINE AS THE 2005–06 ACADEMIC YEAR DREW TO A CLOSE, ADMIN- JOHN RUDAN, MS ’62, STILL REMEMBERS THE NIGHT HIS istrative announcements included: engineering class first trooped to Phillips Hall, in 1959, to run • Kent Hubbell ’67 has been appointed to a second five-year the Computing Center’s gargantuan IBM 650 through its term as the dean of students. Hubbell, who says “my role is paces. They worked in pairs, punching holes in program cards, principally as an advocate for students on campus,” oversees loading the cards into the computer’s reader, analyzing the out- the Student Activities Office, the Office of Student Support, the put, punching more cards, and then loading them into a tab- International Students and Scholars Office, and a host of other ulator to be printed—a process that today would take only a organizations. Hubbell has been a member of the Cornell fac- few taps on a keyboard. ulty since 1993. Now director emeritus of the Office of Information Tech- • Robert Swierenga, dean of the Johnson Graduate School nologies, Rudan has witnessed—and sometimes made—com- of Management, will step down when his second five-year term puting history on the Hill. His new book, The History of Com- ends in June 2007. He will return to the faculty after taking a puting at Cornell,traces the development of campus sabbatical. During his tenure as dean, the Johnson School has computing from the punch-card tabulating equipment used expanded its academic programs and the faculty has grown by in the 1920s to the University’s Y2K strategy eighty years later. nearly 30 percent. “Thanks to his vision and leadership, the In the course of his research, Rudan took almost fifty oral his- Johnson School is known the world over for distinctive pro- tories, including his own. They are posted at www.cit.cornell. grams of the highest quality,” said Interim President Hunter edu/computer/history/. Rawlings. Rudan’s book was published by Internet-First University • Sarah Thomas has been re-appointed as University Press. As with all Internet-First publications, the full text is Librarian; her third five-year term began on July 1. Thomas available online at the Cornell Library’s D-Space site: came to Cornell from the Library of Congress in 1996. She has http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/62. Those who overseen significant growth of the University Library, especially prefer a printed book can order one through Internet-First’s in the area of rare and special collections, and advanced the print-on-demand service. The print version comes with a digital dissemination of information, including online access bookmark—a replica of a punch card. to journals and other electronic media.

Susanne Bruyère, director of the Employment and Disability Institute at Give My Regards To . . . the ILR school, recipient of the American Rehabilitation Counseling These Cornellians in the News Association’s 2006 James Garrett Award for a Distinguished Career in Rehabilitation Research. Eric Lichtblau ’87, winner of a 2006 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for his New York Times coverage of domestic spying. Shawkat Toorawa, assistant professor of Arabic literature and Islamic studies; William Horning, program director for Community Centers; and Jonathan Culler, professor of English and comparative literature, elected Jeanne Butler,graphic designer for Campus Life, winners of Cornell’s to the American Philosophical Society for his scholarship in literary theory. James Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony for a film and discussion series focusing on Africa. Robert Buhrman, PhD ’73, engineering professor and director of the Center for Nanoscale Systems; Dominick LaCapra ’61, professor of John Marks ’65, recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneur- humanistic studies and director of the School of Criticism and Theory; ship for his work as president and founder of Search for Common William Provine, professor of biological sciences; and Steven Stucky, Ground, a nonprofit conflict resolution organization. DMA ’78, composition professor and 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner in music, elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Madhura Kulkarni, PhD candidate in natural resources, named one of two 2006 Emerging Public Policy Leaders by the American Institute of N’Dri Assie-Lumumba, associate professor of Africana studies, elected Biological Sciences, a nonprofit scientific association. to the World Academy of Art and Science in recognition of her scholarship and practice on the importance of women in higher education. Amandeep Singh, fourth-year MD-PhD candidate at Weill Cornell Med- ical College, winner of a 2006 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Mustafa Abadan, BArch ’82, MArch ’84, project architect of Bridging the Americans. Rift, a life sciences research complex straddling the Israeli-Palestine border. The design won the 2006 Marché International des Profes- Tony Marks-Block ’07, Meredith Odato ’08, and Matthew Perkins ’08, sionnels d’Immobilier/Architectural Review Future Projects Award for each awarded a Morris Udall Scholarship to fund further study in envi- Innovations. ronmental public policy.

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All’s Fair? Follow That Bird ALEX DOONESBURY PICKS . . . MIT WOODPECKER SEARCH SEASON ENDS,

“THEY WANT ME! THEY CRAVE ME!” ALEX DOONESBURY EMPTY-HANDED squealed when she was accepted at Cornell. But apparently TWO YEARS AFTER THE BEST CONFIRMED SIGHTING—AND MIT wanted her more. The college-bound teenager in Gary one year after the public announcement that stunned the bird- Trudeau’s Doonesbury comic strip will be heading to Cam- ing world—the rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker bridge, not the Hill, in the fall. Or so it appears. remains in dispute. The 2005–06 search season ended in April Alex had narrowed her college choices to Rensselaer, MIT, with no additional sightings, though the Cornell-led effort did and Cornell when Trudeau put the choice to readers, via a tally four possible sightings, one by a volunteer and three by straw poll at www.doonesbury.com. “Voting was insane, ram- members of the public, during six months of scouring the pant, ingenious, and impressively ruthless,” the site reported. 550,000-acre Big Woods area of Arkansas. At a media telecon- While Cornellians made their case in “passionate, articulate, ference on May 18, Ron Rohnbaugh, director of the Lab of humorous, and convincing” postings—for which Cornell was Ornithology’s Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Research Project, given the Doonesbury Straw Poll Congeniality Award—an reported that the team members were “somewhat disap- MIT student put up a website that enabled election-riggers to pointed” with the results of this year’s search, which employed vote early and often. “I’ve voted three or four thousand times!” twenty full-time staff and cost an estimated $1 million. one MIT blogger wrote. Although most of the hacked votes Nevertheless, the Lab of O plans to hit the woods again didn’t make it into the ballot box, MIT won, the site said, next November; organizers intend to cut costs in the future by thanks to “the will, chutzpah, and bodacious craft of the vot- relying largely on trained volunteers and automated recording ing public.” (Perhaps MIT students were looking for retribu- devices in their efforts to confirm the existence of a breeding tion. Avid readers of the strip will recall that Alex’s stepmother, pair of ivory-bills. “We still have a lot of hope that there might hacker extraordinaire Kim Rosenthal, quit a PhD program in be a pair,” Rohnbaugh said. computer science at MIT.)

cal biology, Jack Freed, professor of chemistry opmental biology at Weill Cornell Medical Col- and chemical biology, and their co-authors. lege, and his colleagues published their research in Nature. Acid rain has altered the pH of soils and R&D reduced the number of sugar maple trees in Internet message boards frequented by ado- the Northeast, according to a study published lescents who injure themselves with cuts or Bacteria can detect infinitesimal changes in in Ecology. Stephanie Juice ’04, project assis- burns give many isolated teenagers a safe their environments thanks to receptors that tant at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in and supportive forum. But some postings assemble into a kind of cooperative lattice on Milbrook, New York, and Timothy Fahey, profes- reinforce self-injury and could create a “social the bacteria’s surface. The research may lead sor of forest ecology, linked acid rain to acidic contagion” effect, warns Janis Whitlock, PhD to the discovery of a general mechanism for soil, which causes sugar maples to produce ’03, director of the Research Program on Self- cellular signaling or to the development of fewer viable seedlings and to die more quickly. Injurious Behaviors. Her research was pub- molecular devices that sense a wide range of lished in a special issue of Developmental chemicals, light, and heavy metals. Nature A type of stem cell in bone marrow helps to Psychology. Structural and Molecular Biology published create the fertile ground that metastatic can- the research, conducted by Brian Crane, cers need to spread. Dr. David Lyden, associ- More information on campus research is available assistant professor of chemistry and chemi- ate professor of pediatrics and cell and devel- at www.news.cornell.edu.

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Sports Big Games APRIL 28-29, 2006

PATRICK SHANAHAN

At a time when lacrosse players were in the Outstanding: Midfielder Joe Boulukos ’08 (above) led the men’s lacrosse team to an 11-3 national news for all the wrong reasons, Cor- record and was named the Ivy League Player of the Year. For the women, goaltender Mag- nell’s squads had reasons to be proud of their gie Fava ’06 (below) won the same recognition, sharing Ivy League Player of the Year hon- accomplishments—both on and off the field. On ors with Princeton’s Lauren Vance. Both teams were co-champions of the Ivy League and April 28, the women’s team defeated Harvard advanced to the NCAA tournament. 17-8 to finish 6-1 in the Ivy League and share the league championship with Princeton. It was the first Ivy title for the women’s program. The The Big Red’s on-field efforts were following day, the men downed Brown 10-6 to matched by their community service during also claim a share of the Ivy League champi- the school year. The women’s team held a onship, their fourth straight finish atop the dodge ball tournament that raised $2,200 league. Both teams advanced to the NCAA tour- for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society nament where, unfortunately, they were elimi- and participated in such other events as the nated in the first round. The men fell to UMass, Student Athlete Advisory Council’s annual 11-10, while the women, hampered by injuries, holiday food drive, National Women in Sports were defeated 16-8 by Notre Dame. Day, and the Big Red Relief Concert for war Women’s goaltender Maggie Fava ’06 victims. In April, the men’s team held the sec- shared Ivy League Player of the Year honors with ond annual 21 Run, a fundraising event that Princeton’s Lauren Vance, and Fava joined honors former teammate George Boiardi teammates Margaux Viola ’08, Anne Riordan ’04,who died after being struck by a ball ’08, Courtney Farrell ’09, and Katherine Sim- during a game in 2004. Co-sponsored with mons ’09 on the All-Ivy first team. Not to be Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and the Family outdone, the men also garnered an impressive Reading Partnership, the event raised array of awards. Senior Joe Boulukos was $10,000 to support children’s literacy. Earlier named Ivy League Player of the Year, freshman in the year, the 21 Dinner, honoring Boiardi Max Seibald was the unanimous winner of the as well as the late Dick Schaap ’55, raised DARL ZEHR Ivy League Rookie of the Year title, and five Big more than $50,000 for Teach for America. Red players were named first-team All-Ivy: The men’s team also assisted with youth ing critically and chronically ill children. Both Boulukos, Seibald, and juniors Mitch Belisle, lacrosse programs in Ithaca and launched the lacrosse teams also pitched in for the American Matt McMonagle, and David Mitchell. Save the Day program to raise funds for assist- Red Cross blood drive this year.

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WIN STREAK Another year, another Heps sweep for the Cornell the gymnastics team to a third-place finish in the USAG Collegiate nation- men’s and women’s track and field teams. By winning the 2006 Heptago- als, the highest finish ever for a non-scholarship team. Led by Randi Bis- nal outdoor championships in bano ’07,who was the top all-around performer in the team Philadelphia, the Big Red ran event, the Big Red scored a season-high 190.600 points. its overall indoor and outdoor Colleen Davis ’08 collected Cornell’s lone first in the team Heptagonal track champi- event, winning the vault, while Bisbano took second in the beam onship streak to ten, dating competition. Davis and four other Cornell gymnasts—Megan back to the 2004 outdoor Gilbert ’08, Leslie Gregory ’08, Kari Kucera ’07, and Sari Tep- championships. Led by 800- per ’09—earned All-American honors by placing in the top eight meter winner Morgan Uceny during the individual finals. ’07 and heptathlon champion Jamie Greubel ’06,the women UPSETS In May, the Cornell lightweight crew astounded the set four meet records while experts by winning the Eastern Sprints, held on Lake Quinsiga- taking the indoor and outdoor mond in Massachusetts. Seeded eighth, the Big Red surged to titles for the fifth straight sea- the front after 1,300 meters of the 2,000-meter Grand Final and son. The men rallied from a held on to defeat Navy by three seconds. The J.V. lightweight boat 60-22 first-day deficit to over- also took first. Two weeks later, the lightweight varsity rowed to take Princeton for their fourth another national title, defeating Harvard by 0.08 second to win straight outdoor crown. The the 2006 IRA Regatta Grand Final on Cooper River in New Jersey. turning point came midway through the second day when TIM MCKINNEY ’81 COACHING Cornell took the top four spots CHANGE Women’s ice hockey coach Melody David- in the 400-meter hurdles, led Morgan Uceny by Aaron Merrill ’08. son resigned her position to accept a full-time job with DRAFT PICK Kevin Boothe ’05 became the first Cornell player Hockey Canada as head taken in the National Football League draft in nine years when the Oak- coach and general manager land Raiders selected him in the sixth round. A 6-foot-5, 315-pound of the women’s national offensive lineman, Boothe earned first-team All-American honors with the team. In February, Davidson Big Red in 2005. He was the only Ivy League player taken in this year’s had led the Canadian NFL draft. women’s team to a gold medal at the Winter HISTORIC FINISH A home crowd of more than 2,000 cheered Olympics. She will be replaced by Doug Derraugh ’91,a former co-captain of the men’s hockey team, who served as the interim Sports Scoreboard Randi Bisbano women’s coach last season. SPORTS INFO SPRING TEAMS BIG SPLASH Mike Smit FINAL RECORDS ’07 broke a 20-year-old school record and was named an All-American at the NCAA Division I Swimming Championships in Atlanta. Smit finished Baseball 10-29; 6-14 Ivy (T-3rd, Gehrig Div.) 14th in the 200-meter freestyle and was one of 14 swimmers to better Men’s Lacrosse 11-3; 5-1 Ivy (T-1st) the previous pool record. In the 100-meter freestyle, Smit swam a 44.37 Women’s Lacrosse 12-4; 6-1 Ivy (T-1st) in the preliminaries, bettering the previous Cornell record of 44.39 set by Varsity Hvywt. Rowing 2-4 Randy Sprout ’86, ME ’87, in 1985. For the women’s team, Jessica J.V. Hvywt. Rowing 3-3 Brookman ’06 earned a spot in the USA Swimming National Champi- Fr. Hvywt. Rowing 5-1 onships after setting a school record in the 200-meter butterfly at the Ivy Varsity Ltwt. Rowing 4-4 League championships. At the national meet, Brookman placed 33rd in J.V. Ltwt. Rowing 7-1 the 100-meter butterfly with a personal-best time of 1:03.85. Fr. Ltwt. Rowing 5-2 Women’s Varsity Rowing 2-7 USA! USA! After signing with the NHL’s Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and Women’s J.V. Rowing 0-9 practicing with the team during the final month of the regular season and Women’s Novice Rowing 5-4 through the playoffs, former Big Red goalie David McKee ’07 was invited to Softball 32-23; 11-3 Ivy (2nd) join Team USA at the World Ice Hockey Championships in Latvia. This fall, Men’s Tennis 11-10; 2-5 Ivy McKee is expected to play for the Portland Pirates, the Ducks’ American Hock- Women’s Tennis 8-8; 2-5 Ivy ey League affiliate, where he will rejoin former teammate Shane Hynes ’06.

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THE HUMBOLDT CURRENT by Aaron Sachs (Viking). Alexander von Humboldt was once a prominent naturalist whose writings were popular in nineteenth-century America. His fame is now far eclipsed by that of Charles Darwin, and later scholars have dismissed his tendency toward mystical romanticism. Sachs, professor of history and American studies at Cornell, attempts to reclaim Hum- boldt as the first ecologist by examining the work of four other naturalists—J. N. Reynolds, Clarence King, George Wallace Melville, and John Muir—who pursued Humboldt’s stated goal to “recognize the general connections that In Brief link organic beings.” TRIPPING by B. H. Friedman ’48 ANTONELLO’S LION by Steve Katz ’56 (Green (Provincetown Arts Press). Fried- Integer). Katz, author of Swanny’s Ways and Wier man, novelist, playwright, and the first biographer of Jackson Pollock, & Pouce, is one of America’s best experimental met Harvard psychologist Timothy writers. The critic Jerome Klinkowitz says that Leary in 1961 and became a subject in his research on psilocybin Katz, one of the founders of the Fiction Collective, and LSD. Welcoming the promise “pushed innovation farther than any of his con- of a new mental and mystical awareness, Friedman wrote reports temporaries.” In his new novel, a father and son set of his experiences to Leary. out on parallel quests. Solomon, obsessed with the Though he had reservations about some of Leary’s later behavior, Renaissance artist Antonello da Messina, disap- Friedman maintains that psychedelic drugs allow some users to pears while searching for a lost painting of St. gain clearer self-understanding. Francis; his son, Nathan, tries to find out what SEEKING REFUGE by María Cristina García (University of Cal- happened. The picaresque narrative brims with ifornia Press). Civil wars in Central humor, arcane lore, pratfalls, and imaginative leaps. America killed a quarter of a million people during the period FIRE AND BRIMSTONE by Michael 1974–1996 and drove more than Punke, JD ’89 (Hyperion). In 1917, a two million to seek refuge in Mex- fire broke out in the Granite Mountain ico, the United States, and Canada. and Speculator mines in Butte, Mon- García, an associate professor of tana, resulting in the deaths of 164 history at Cornell, argues that the miners. Punke, a former Washington leaders of these three countries lawyer, investigates the background of were more interested in free trade a disaster that catalyzed a series of than addressing the crisis. She events: strikes, the lynching of a labor describes how non-governmental leader, and restrictions on constitu- organizations aided the refugees and provided a voice for the dis- tional freedoms under the Montana possessed, and how current national security issues affect Sedition Act. migrants’ human rights.

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travel imagery in movies blurs the distinctions between genres and heightens awareness of cin- Recently Published ema as a technology for moving through space and time. Visit us on the Fiction THE EAGLE AND THE VIRGIN,edited by Mary Kay Vaughan ’64 and Stephen E. Lewis (Duke World Wide Web 4% FAMOUS by Deborah Schoeneman ’99 University Press). After the Mexican Revolution, (Shaye Areheart Books). Schoeneman’s first the government enlisted artists and intellectuals novel draws on her experience as a gossip in the effort to cultivate a distinctly Mexican for subscription columnist for the New York Observer as she fol- identity. Two historians examine the massive lows three gossip columnists through the chaos nation-building project Mexico undertook and of Manhattan celebrity life. between 1920 and 1940. advertising UNCHARTED WATERS by Leslie Bulion ’79 SUBJECT SIAM by Tamara Loos, PhD ’99 (Cor- (Peachtree Publishers). Jonah Lander spends the nell University Press). Unlike its Southeast Asian information, summer with his uncle at a seaside cabin, where neighbors, Thailand was never colonized by an he learns to confront his fears and live honestly. imperial power. However, Loos describes how its sovereignty was nevertheless limited by imperial or to stay in touch. DOUBLETHINK by J. E. Schwartz ’76 (Raise the nations while domestically its leaders pursued Bar Press). In 2012, Joe Winston is a successful control in the Muslim south. attorney in Silicon Valley when a donation to the wrong charity begins his descent from a have to GET A FREELANCE LIFE by Margit Feury a have-not. Ragland ’94 (Three Rivers Press). A former assistant editor at CAM presents insider advice on all cornellalumnimagazine.com aspects of a freelance writing career. Poetry (800) 724-8458 THE COVENANT WITH BLACK AMERICA, RED SUMMER by Amaud Jamaul Johnson, MPS edited by Tavis Smiley (Third World Press). ’98 (Tupelo Press). In his debut collection, which Tyrone Taborn ’81 wrote the chapter that deals won the 2004 Dorset Prize, Johnson writes of with African Americans and the racial digital love, violence, and how “the dead remind the liv- divide. ing of the coming of storms.” Johnson is an assistant professor of English at the University of WOMEN AND GENDER EQUITY IN DEVELOP- Wisconsin, Madison. MENT THEORY AND PRACTICE,edited by Jane S. Jaquette, PhD ’71, and Gale Summerfield Moving? Non-Fiction (Duke University Press). Contributors explore the consequences of women’s land ownership and the If so, please tell us 6 weeks before chang- A KINDER, GENTLER AMERICA by Mary need to challenge cultural traditions that impede ing your address. Include your magazine Caputi ’79, PhD ’88 (University of Minnesota women’s ability to assert their legal rights. address label, print your new address below, Press). 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The Big One NORTON ANTHOLOGY FOUNDER M. H. ABRAMS HANDS HIS LITERARY LANDMARK OVER TO THE NEXT GENERATION

STEFANIE GREEN

SINGLE VOLUME WEIGHS ABOUT the best physical—and mental—workout in two thick volumes. While the selection four-and-a-half pounds, but it they’ll get during their undergraduate of contributors has evolved over time, cer- a feels much heavier in your back- years. Since 1962, the anthology has been tain names are constants: Chaucer, Shake- pack as you head up Libe Slope to class. the standard text in English survey speare, Keats. And Abrams. For many English majors, the Norton courses, covering British literature from M. H. (“Mike”) Abrams, Class of 1916 Anthology of English Literature represents the Middle Ages to the twentieth century Professor of English emeritus, has served

Heavy reading: English professor emeritus Mike Abrams has edited seven editions of the Norton Anthology of English Literature since 1962. For the 6,000-page eighth edition, he took a back seat to the new general editor, Harvard’s Stephen Greenblatt.

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as the anthology’s general editor from the erature,” Abrams recalls. He first edition through the seventh. But for received a flood of compliments the new eighth edition, the ninety-three- from teachers and students—along year-old Abrams passed the torch—and with suggested changes. Abrams the responsibility of squeezing English lit- surveyed instructors on texts to erary history into just over 6,000 pages— add or drop for succeeding edi- to Harvard professor and Shakespeare tions. Over the years, the anthol- scholar Stephen Greenblatt. When Abrams ogy grew, and women writers and first accepted the position, he never authors from beyond the British expected it to turn into the job of a life- Isles, such as Chinua Achebe and time. “I thought that we’d get the anthol- Salman Rushdie, now share space ogy done in about a year, and the thing with Milton and Dickens. would have fair sales for about a decade or “There’s a leading and a fol- so,” says Abrams, who continues to advise lowing that goes on with this as editor emeritus. “Instead of a year, it book,” says Julia Reidhead, vice took four years, and instead of lasting a president of W. W. Norton and decade, it seems to have become eternal.” only the second editor at the com- More than eight million copies of the pany to work with Abrams during Norton Anthology of English Literature have the anthology’s history. “We follow been printed over the last forty-four years, in the sense that we listen closely to a remarkable run for a book that began as what teachers want to teach. a deeply unfashionable enterprise. In the There’s a leading in the sense that mid-1950s, when the W. W. Norton Com- we have an editorial group of pany asked Abrams to edit the first anthol- scholars who are in touch with the ogy, the field of literary studies was dom- latest movements in their fields inated by New Criticism, a movement that and are able to bring that excitement to Literary Tradition, is no longer mandatory urged readers to disregard historical and the work.” for English majors. “The field of English cultural background and focus solely on The first edition had fewer than 2,000 is now so broad and encompasses so close reading of individual texts. As a grad- pages per volume, printed on the same many aspects of culture that it’s hard to uate student at Cambridge before World ultra-thin stock used for Bibles. (“It’s not know what should be required, if any- War II, Abrams had studied with the cigarette paper,”Abrams says, but he con- thing,” says associate professor Debra movement’s founder, I. A. Richards, but he cedes that a few desperate English majors Fried, who now teaches the class. “I am no was unconvinced. When he landed a posi- may have used it as such.) When the page longer surprised at what even senior Eng- tion at Cornell after the war, Abrams count reached 3,000, “we hit the limits of lish majors have never heard of.” designed a survey class that placed English physics,” Abrams says. “The books would Students who do enroll in the English literary works and authors back in context. just fall apart if we tried to make them any Literary Tradition “expect to get a survey “I was certainly swimming against the cur- longer.” Today the anthology can be pur- of ‘the canon’ or ‘great works’ or ‘classics,’” rent,” he says. “It was the revival of an chased in six volumes, split according to says Fried. She’s never had a student com- older mode of teaching literature.” literary period, but the two-volume set plain that the anthology is too traditional But that was exactly what Norton remains more popular. or doesn’t include enough writers out of wanted. Earlier anthologies were typically While the Norton Anthology can the mainstream. “And I don’t think that put together by one or two editors. inspire passionate devotion, it’s not with- those charges would be true anyway.” Abrams asked six other scholars to join out its critics. Some accuse the editors of To Abrams, the debate has always been him, dividing up the work by literary responding too quickly to shifts in literary secondary to the Norton Anthology’s ped- period so that each would select texts and and political sensibilities, while others say agogical goal. “We had no notion at all of write introductions for his own area of they haven’t changed fast enough. The establishing a canon,” he says. “It’s clear expertise. (Abrams assigned himself the notion of the canon—a set of texts that that as the years have passed and millions Romantic period, the subject of his classic represent the eternal greatness of English of students have used the thing, it has study The Mirror and the Lamp.) And he literature—has inspired much debate of come to represent the best that has been told his co-editors to take seriously the late: interest in works by women and peo- thought and said in English literature— task of writing for undergraduates and ple of color has grown and many English the so-called canon—but our vision has those who teach them. departments now teach courses on film, always been a teachable course.” The formula clicked. “It was perfectly advertising, and other subjects that stretch He loves to hear about the unorthodox clear from the minute that the anthology traditional definitions of “literature.” At ways teachers use the collection in their became available that it would be greeted Cornell, the year-long course that origi- classrooms. Fried, for example, has enlisted enthusiastically by teachers of English lit- nally inspired the anthology, the English her students to write introductory essays

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to the pieces in the anthology, tailored to their own experiences of confusion and revelation while reading the texts. The essays are posted on the course website for the benefit of future English 201 and 202 students. It’s that kind of creativity that the Norton Anthology was meant to inspire. “One of Mike’s many virtues is that he has always had a clear eye about what would go on in the classroom,” says Stephen Greenblatt, who joined the Nor- ton Anthology project as associate general editor for the seventh edition. When he met Abrams in the 1980s, he says, their first exchanges consisted of “genial spar- ring.”The two scholars represented different generations, different perspectives. Greenblatt, whose Shakespeare study Will in the World was a popular bestseller, has a more historical approach; Abrams tends to be more interested in literary form. The latest edition of the anthology reflects this shift with the inclusion of historical doc- uments such as letters from Queen Eliza- beth I and artwork from the relevant time periods. Greenblatt has also overseen an expansion of the anthology’s online presence. Works cut from the eighth edition were added to a Norton website (http:// wwnorton.com/nael/), where they can be downloaded by teachers and students along with other supplemental materials. What won’t change, says Greenblatt, is the anthology’s commitment to its primary audience. “Mike established the principle that it’s not about impressing your three cleverest friends—it’s about thinking hard about what students need.” Abrams believes that the anthology “is as good for the teacher as for the students,” he says. “It has enriched my sense of Eng- lish literature immeasurably and kept me from being insulated in a single specialty. Nothing brings you as closely into touch with the minds of people who have lived before you, in cultures similar to but also very different from your own, like a broad knowledge of what has been thought and written in the English language.” Greenblatt hopes that the anthology will have the same sustaining effect on him that it has had on his predecessor. “It seems to be an elixir,”he says. “I think that everyone should take the Norton Anthol- ogy to bed with them to stay young.” — C. A. Carlson ’93, MFA ’96

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Security Alert KAREN GREENBERG ’77 PUTS TORTURE ON TRIAL

HEN IT COMES TO THE WAR Americans learn to trust themselves, says. “Our goal is just to get the facts.” on terror, there’s not much that instead of falling back on some easy line The Center posts its quarterly newslet- w Village Voice columnist Nat that takes them out of responsibility, ter and reports for free at www.law. Hentoff and National Review contributor there’s going to be a disconnect, and it will nyu.edu/centers/lawsecurity/publications, Andrew McCarthy agree on. Hentoff is a always be a public relations campaign while its public forums this spring venerable liberal gadfly and ardent rather than a fact-based campaign,” she brought together government officials, defender of civil liberties; McCarthy’s a former federal prosecutor with an appointment at the conservative Founda- tion for the Defense of Democracy. But as panelists in a discussion on transparency and the courts at NYU’s Center for Law and Security, the two ideological foes found a point of mutual accord: the value of meeting face-to-face. “I represented a minority position both on the panel and in the room,” says McCarthy. “But it was definitely not a monolithic set of opinions on each side. There were nuances people brought to bear, and it was a real, con- scious effort—which I think was successful—to make it a civil conversation where people were challenged on what they thought in a meaningful way. People weren’t just bloviating.” Hentoff is equally enthusiastic about the value of such events: “It’s the only way you can get people, if not to harmonize, then to recognize that there are perspectives different from theirs.” That’s exactly what NYU historian Karen Greenberg ’77 had in mind when she hosted the event. The founding executive director of the Center on Law and Security, Greenberg leads a team of scholars, lawyers, and journalists that explores the American legal system’s role in the war on terror, confronting hard questions and publicly grappling with the answers. Amid an ever-escalating war of words over 9/11, Iraq, and the threat of future attacks, the participation of informed citizens in bipartisan discussions, Greenberg believes, has never been more important. “Until

Torture foe Greenberg: “To say that to be critical is to be partisan is outrageous. Everyone wants the country to be safe.” PROVIDED BY KAREN GREENBERG

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counter-terrorism experts, law enforce- while she is a regular contributor to left- wife of the Old Testament’s Abraham, sits ment officials, scholars, and lawyers to of-center journals, Greenberg resists fram- unfinished on a shelf at home. consider the scope of presidential powers, ing the issue along partisan lines. “Repub- It may be some time before she returns evaluate the role of radical Islam, and licans are no more in favor of torture than to the novel, as NYU keeps her busy mon- delve into details of the invasion of Iraq. are Democrats,”she insists. “It may be that itoring a global struggle that continues to Greenberg is perhaps best known for people think differently about the war on spawn legal dilemmas. In 2004 the Center her work examining one of the most con- terror and what that means in terms of developed a terrorist trial “report card” for tentious policy issues to surface during the surveillance and civil liberties. But I think England, logging charges, convictions, and Bush Administration: the use of torture that abusing certain liberties, including sentencing of alleged terrorists; a similar during interrogation. With defense lawyer physical liberty, is not making us safer. effort cataloguing data from all of Europe Joshua Dratel, who has represented Guan- And I am tremendously concerned with is currently under way. In May, the Center tanamo detainees, Greenberg co-edited being safer.” assembled a panel of experts in Florence, The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu A native of New London, Connecti- Italy, to discuss lessons learned from the Ghraib,a 1,200-page compilation of gov- cut, where her grandfather once served as attacks on New York, London, and ernment memos, evaluations of the legal- mayor, Greenberg studied intellectual his- Madrid, and to compare secrecy and ity of torture, reports on the conditions at tory at Cornell, taught at Bard College, democracy in the U.S. and Europe. “We’re Guantanamo, and the conclusions of mil- and worked at the Soros Foundation’s not looking just to criticize,” Greenberg itary investigations there and at Abu Open Society Institute before going to says. “It’s about how to get to a safe but Ghraib. She’s also edited the essay collec- NYU to help launch the international also sane, rational place. We’re the tions Al Qaeda Now and The Torture education program. Her cramped Wash- smartest, most powerful, most technolog- Debate in America,both published last ington Square office overflows with books ically advanced nation in the world. The year by Cambridge University Press. reflecting her varied interests, which also idea that we can’t win this war and do it on Greenberg’s arguments against torture include fiction writing: she’s published our terms is unacceptable. That’s not par- have both practical and ethical dimen- short stories in the Partisan Review and tisan. That’s patriotic.” sions. Brutal treatment of prisoners yields Confrontation, and a novel about Sarah, — Sharon Tregaskis ’95 information of dubious quality, she claims, and its appeal is rooted more in an emotional thirst for vengeance than a search for intelligence. “If you separate out the need for revenge from the need for valuable information, you begin to understand why some people support abusive interrogation,” she says. “There’s a real sense of ‘they’re the enemy and we want to hurt them.’ That’s understandable, but that’s not what interrogation is supposed to be about. It’s supposed to be about getting information.” Moreover, historical analyses suggest that torture undermines the legal foundations of a democratic society. “There is a need to comprehend the human toll, as well as the ‘collateral damage’ to American democratic processes that has occurred as the government has wrapped itself in overt and indirect defenses of torture,” Greenberg wrote in a December 2005 Nation article. “Beyond that, there is the need to bring the story to closure, to re- empower the rule of law and to restore integrity to the realm of fact and its insti- tutional guarantor, the courts.” It is those sentiments that have endeared Greenberg to civil libertarians (Hentoff calls her “an invaluable resource for keeping the Constitution alive”). But

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Basic Training NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP GIVES SINGLE MOMS A HEAD START

AVID OLDS WAS AN IDEALISTIC Nurse-Family Partnership, and it’s gotten March. The program sends nurses into the young guy fresh out of Johns some high-profile press lately, including a homes of low-income, first-time mothers Hopkins when he started work- feature in the New Yorker in February and months before they give birth—a head d ing at a day-care center in inner- a segment on ABC News’ “Nightline” in start on Head Start. Olds conducted the city Baltimore. The year was 1970. The federal Head Start program was just five years old, and Olds was beginning to develop his own ideas about how to help at-risk kids. “I was a product of the Six- ties,” he recalls. “I thought I was going to change the world if I could help poor children get off to a good start by improving their language and development in preschool.” While the children napped, Olds wrote long letters to the man who would become his mentor: Urie Bronfenbrenner ’38, the legendary Cornell social scientist who founded not only Head Start but the field of human ecology itself. After two years of correspondence, Olds came to the Hill to study under Bronfenbrenner, earning a PhD in developmental psychology in 1976. Over the intervening three decades, Olds has been developing and honing an early-intervention program of his own, inspired by observations he made in Balti- more. Although preschool could give kids a leg up, he realized, it often wasn’t enough to counteract such negative influences as physical abuse and prenatal expo- sure to drugs and alcohol. “For some of the children in my class, it was too little and too late,” says Olds, now director of the Prevention Research Center for Fam- ily and Child Health at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Den- ver. “I realized we needed to begin much earlier.” But he also noticed that despite their underprivileged backgrounds, some of the kids were doing relatively well. “Those children had parents who were more deeply invested in caring for them,” he says. “I knew much of what I wanted to TIA BRAYMAN / THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL / DENVER focus on had to do with helping parents do a better job of managing.” House call: A protégé of Cornell social scientist Urie Bronfenbrenner ’38, David Olds, PhD ’76, The program Olds created is called the founded a program that brings specially trained nurses into the homes of single mothers.

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first trial in Elmira, New York, in 1977 (his wife was studying at the Law school, so he needed to stay near Ithaca). After years of data-crunching and fundraising, he followed up with trials in Memphis (1987) and Denver (1994). In 1996, the Department of Justice invited Olds to set up the program in high-crime neighborhoods around the country; three years later, a $10 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation enabled a nationwide rollout. (Funding comes from state and local governments, Medicaid, grants, and other sources.) Two years ago, Olds founded a nonprofit to oversee the program’s administration, and it now operates in about 250 counties, with more than 700 nurses working with some 13,000 families at any given time. Olds chose nurses, in part, because people trust them: nursing consistently comes out on top in the annual Gallup poll of the most respected professions. Also, he says, “we needed to have service providers who’d have value from the parents’ perspective, and nurses have a legiti- mate agenda to address during pregnancy and in the first few months after delivery.” Because nurses are seen as health-care providers, they may have more luck getting into the homes of troubled single moms—but the program’s agenda is far broader. Its goals are not only to improve child and maternal health (particularly by facilitating connections to care providers and reducing smoking, drinking, and drug use), but also to make families more economically self-sufficient through education and employment, and to help parents take better care of their children. The latter may involve everything from encouraging them to read to their kids to advising them on how to keep their cool Your biggest source for when coping with a cranky toddler to Visit us on the Cornell, IC & obtaining counseling for a mother who Ithaca is Gorges suffered abuse during her own childhood. World Wide Web for T-shirts The nurses—drawn from the local community and specially trained—visit weekly subscription and & souvenirs at first, tapering off to every other week advertising information, and then monthly, ending their visits T-SHIRT EXPRESS when the child is two. or to stay in touch. As a home-based program, the Nurse- 210 The Commons, Ithaca, NY 14850 Family Partnership operates on the fam- Phone: 607.273.6667 & 607.256.2777 cornellalumnimagazine.com ily’s turf. That not only gives the nurses the opportunity to observe parents’ daily (800) 724-8458 www.t-shirtexpressions.com E-MAIL: [email protected]

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lives and home situations, but forces them to see things from the client’s perspective. That way, they can avoid being seen as experts who dispense advice from on high—not an approach many young women are likely to respond to. “Rather than saying, ‘Stop drinking, stop smoking,’ the nurses need to circle around and understand, among other things, what makes a parent want to smoke or drink,” Olds says. “They have to learn how to listen. You can’t just address those counter- vailing influences on behavior by saying, ‘Oh no, no, no!’ because it will set up a reactive stance on the part of parents that will lead them not to feel heard or understood.” He recalls one young mother, a former drug dealer who faced a crisis when her friends got out of jail and tried to draw her back into the old life. “The nurse, rather than saying, ‘No, you ought not to do that,’ said instead, ‘Really? There might be a lot of reasons why returning to that lifestyle would feel good. Let’s talk about that.’” The Nurse-Family Partnership de- mands much of its participants, so it’s not surprising that dropout rates have been Cornell Sheep Program estimated to be as high as 65 percent— Blankets though Olds calls that figure misleading. Created from wool of In scholarly papers, he has listed Cornell Dorset and improved prenatal health, decreased Finnsheep, each blanket is childhood injuries, fewer subsequent serially numbered on the Cornell pregnancies, increased maternal employ- Sheep Program logo and comes ment, and better school readiness among with a certificate of authenticity. the program’s consistent outcomes. In a Red stripes at each end and red binding follow-up study of the Elmira children at accent the 100% virgin wool. age fifteen, he found reductions of 48 per- Blanket sales help to support the Cornell cent in child abuse and neglect, 59 per- Sheep Program, and $10 from each sale cent in arrests, and 90 percent in adjudi- goes to an undergraduate scholarship cations as “persons in need of super- fund. vision” for incorrigible behavior. He and Lap robe (60 x 48 inches, 1 stripe) $69 his researchers are presently gathering Single (60 x 90 inches, 3 stripes) $94 data for a study of how the original Double (72 x 90 inches, 3 stripes) $105 Elmira participants are doing today, as Queen (78 x 104 inches, 3 stripes) $129 adults in their late twenties. 8.25% tax (within NY) “I think the key in all of this is that $8 per blanket shipping. we’re biologically disposed, instinctually Cornell Orchards, Cornell Dairy Store,or driven, to protect both ourselves and our the Department of Animal Science, children,” Olds says. “We can, in almost 114 Morrison Hall, Cornell University, every case, count on that to be a funda- Ithaca, NY 14853-4801 mental human characteristic. If we can Phone 607-255-7712 find ways of helping uncover that basic Fax 607-255-9829 human instinct and support it, we can www.sheep.cornell.edu make a huge difference.” (click on blankets) — Beth Saulnier [email protected]

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Wild Thing BETSY LOWE, MRP ’80, GIVES BACK TO THE ADIRONDACKS

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ight years ago, Betsy Lowe sat with some friends in her lake cabin in the Adirondacks. While discussing how recent ice storms and blow-downs had e affected the area, Lowe, MRP ’80, started to think about founding a museum to celebrate the natural history of Adirondack State Park. This July her dream becomes a reality with the opening of the Wild Center (www.wildcenter.org) in Tup- per Lake, New York. “The Adirondacks are a special place and have a unique story in terms of the hundred years of conservation in the area,” says Lowe, whose family has roots in the mountainous North Country. “It’s a great model for protecting wild spaces.” Lowe wrote her master’s thesis on natural resource planning in the Adirondacks, then went on to put her expertise to work at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. In 1998, she launched a grass-roots effort to build a natural history center for the Adirondack region; after intense lob- bying and fundraising, her idea blossomed into a $30 million project that currently has more than 5,000 private, state, and federal funders. As the dream took shape, Lowe quit her job of twenty years to serve as the museum’s full-time project director. “You’ve got to do things when they’re hot—when you’ve got the momentum and interest and opportunity,” she says. Nestled on thirty-one donated acres at a well-traveled crossroads in the sprawling park, the Wild Center offers exhibits that range from a twenty-foot-high waterfall habitat stocked with river otters and fish to more interactive educational features such as live video conferences with scientists. “If you look up the def- inition of ‘museum,’ we don’t quite meet it,” says Lowe. “We don’t have a lot of artifacts in glass cases, but we have live animals and are using a lot of multi- media exhibits. It’s really a combination zoo, aquarium, science center, and nature center.” Lowe says that the Center’s mission won’t stop at the park’s borders. “I hope the Wild Center teaches people about the Adirondacks and how we need to take care of them,” she says, “but I also hope it inspires people just to be productive in their own lives.” — Matt Berical

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All the Right Moves A FORMER GYMNAST FINDS AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH FOR TROUBLED KIDS

ARRIE MCGEE ’89, MHA ’93, was twenty-eight years c old when she had her first child. Then the director of strategic planning at a hospital in Middletown, New York, she was married to a physician and was helping raise his four-year- old son from a previous marriage, so she already considered herself a seasoned parent. Their newborn son, Alex, had difficulty eating and sleeping, cried incessantly, and vomited often, but she didn’t worry that anything was seriously wrong. “I just thought, Colic is terrible,” McGee remembers. Then doctors discovered Alex had a heart condition and neurological problems. At six months he was diagnosed with Williams Syndrome, a rare genetic abnormality caused by deletion of several genes on the seventh chro- mosome. Specialists told McGee that Alex likely had a bleak future: mild to moderate mental retardation, cardiovascular dis- ease, serious delays in learning to walk and talk, problems with attention, and a host of other medical concerns. “The day Alex was diagnosed I quit my job,” says McGee. “It was this real wake-up call that this child needs me. I read the literature and it was just gut-wrenching.” But McGee didn’t accept her son’s sentence. As a part-time gymnastics teacher and accomplished athlete (she was a member of the Cornell gymnastics team that won the Ivy League

championship in 1988), she knew PROVIDED BY CARRIE MCGEE that repetition and practice could Head over heels: Nine-year-old Alex has Williams Syndrome, a rare genetic abnormality that his overcome even severe limitations. mother, Carrie McGee ’89, MHA ’93, has treated with a therapy called Body-Mind Centering.

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“There’s nothing genetically different is becoming more accepted, it is still between my body and your body, but I largely unknown among physicians. “It could stand there and launch myself and hasn’t made inroads in the standard med- flip over in the air,” she says. “If you tried ical practice,” says clinical geneticist Bar- that, you’d break your neck. Why? It’s a bara Pober, a professor of pediatrics at matter of deciding you want to learn Harvard Medical School and one of the something and doing it over and over foremost experts on Williams Syndrome. again until you’ve got it. I initially “My view on alternative practices is that approached Alex’s illness from there.” traditional medicine doesn’t have all the Her search for answers eventually led answers, and I encourage people to pur- McGee to a movement-based therapy sue other things as long as they are sure called Body-Mind Centering, the brain- those things will do no harm.” child of occupational therapist Bonnie The technique was so effective that Bainbridge Cohen in Amherst, Massachu- McGee eventually moved her family— setts. McGee learned about Cohen’s work which now included Alex’s younger from parents of other special-needs chil- brother, Rohan—to the Amherst area to dren who used her technique, which is be closer to Cohen. In 2001 she started based on the idea that infants compre- teaching a weekly gymnastics class during hend math and spatial relationships by the summer using Body-Mind Centering moving their bodies. According to her principles for special-needs kids; it quickly theory, children who are physically chal- filled and then expanded with the addi- lenged or suffer from poor muscle tone tion of another instructor. Seeing a need miss out on crucial experiences they need to accommodate more children in year- to foster brain development and translate round classes, McGee and several other spatial concepts into learning. parents founded Whole Children, a non- Alex was three years old when he profit resource and advocacy center that started working with Cohen. Although she teaches gymnastics, games, martial arts, had no experience with Williams Syn- and yoga to children with autism spec- drome clients, she concluded that many of trum disorder, cerebral palsy, Down Syn- Alex’s problems—he had trouble follow- drome, and other special needs. ing directions, engaging in conversation, McGee serves as the group’s presi- and sleeping—came from disordered dent, with Cohen as an honorary direc- nervous system function. “A baby has to tor and advisor. Since opening in Hadley, know how to move and how to perceive Massachusetts, in 2004, the center has its movement,”Cohen says. “I was helping helped more than 100 families and made Alex to perceive what he wasn’t perceiv- the area a magnet for families whose ing, through hands-on [therapy]. I could children have disabilities. “They are dif- move him in a way that said to him ‘I am ferent, but they are all whole as they are,” moving myself.’” says Cohen of the children the group In her sessions, Cohen spent time serves. “It’s important to acknowledge observing Alex, gently redirecting his that, rather than seeing them only as the movements, and breaking down his tasks way they are diagnosed.” into smaller achievable steps. Alex had dif- McGee’s son is now nine years old and ficulty with multiple verbal directions: if a third grader who attends public school. asked to pick up a book from a chair and Alex has curly brown hair and an affable place it on a table, he became disoriented. smile. Like many with Williams Syn- But when given visual cues—she had drome, Alex is very musical. He has per- McGee slide the chair back and forth on fect pitch, likes to “mess around” on the the floor so Alex could see it moving—he piano, and is now learning to play the vio- was able to accomplish the task. lin. Thanks to Cohen’s intervention and Alex improved dramatically after his his mother’s inexhaustible optimism, Alex first sessions, and McGee convinced one can do cartwheels and handstands. of Alex’s doctors, who was unfamiliar with McGee says, “He’s this bright light that Body-Mind Centering, to recommend to has no pretension—an incredible little her insurance company that the treatment person who is alive fully.” should continue. Although Cohen’s work — Jennifer Margulis ’90

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Bodies Meet Bytes CHOREOGRAPHY STUDENT HARNESSES TECHNOLOGY TO DANCE

ARLY IN CHOREOGRAPHER what Afanador ’06 had in mind. “That, to Kathleya Afanador’s most recent me, is interesting: to see what movement e dance, five young women run can generate in another medium, and that across the stage. Seconds later, luminous it can be done without making the multi- lines streak the darkness above them, media aspect the focus.” mimicking their speed and direction. It’s With the performance of Perimeter of a one of the few moments where it’s clear Parameter in March at the Schwartz Cen- the electronic scribbles, dots, and star- ter, Afanador and her two collaborators bursts that sparkle above their heads are joined a growing group of international coming from the women themselves. Oth- artists working with technology that inter- erwise, the dance and the illuminated acts in real time with performers onstage. graphics are of a piece—which is exactly While well-funded dance companies can

ANDREW GILLIS Computer savvy: Kathleya Afanador ’06 (at left, with Galen D’Amato ’06) integrates dancers, interactive software, and video cameras in her choreography.

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afford high-end motion sensors and other says. “When you have another medium, thing Kathleya did from day one.” sophisticated equipment, artists like you have a whole other contrast with Choreographers have been experi- Afanador have embraced low-end versions either the music or the movement.” menting with interactive technologies that require not much more than a laptop Afanador, a College Scholar who was a since the 1960s. Merce Cunningham had or two. Their work spans fields from dance major, and the dance program’s can- dancers in his 1965 piece Variations V music and the DJ/VJ scene to installation didate for Undergraduate Artist of the Year, approach vertical antennae on stage, trip- art and dance, fed by listservs where they has a talent for exploring movement with a ping sensors that emitted the electronic trade tips on manipulating the most pop- fresh and inventive approach, says Joyce bleeps of John Cage’s musical score. ular software and hardware. Afanador says Morgenroth ’66, a member of Cornell’s Decades later, the advent of personal com- interactive technology offers another tool dance faculty for twenty-nine years. “For puters set off a wave of digital technology, in her choreographer’s toolbox. “When me, it’s a fantastic adventure if students are especially in the United States. The field’s you just have movement and music, you able to start to explore movement possibil- center has since shifted to Europe. At the can see the contrast between them,” she ities on their own,” she says. “That’s some- University of Genoa, Afanador studied for

Of Mice and Metal GRADUATE ART STUDENT WINS GERMAN FELLOWSHIP

athan Bennett, MFA ’06, has earned one of the art world’s humanely euthanized.) In a corner of the gallery, he used the most prestigious fellowships by making sculpture from room itself as another, larger box (perhaps with the viewer n humble materials: salt, rust, thread, and the carcasses of taking the rodent’s role) by piling 1,500 pounds of salt into an several unfortunate mice. Thanks to Bennett’s ability to rework eleven-foot mound. mundane objects, he was awarded a coveted scholarship by the “I like artwork that’s difficult,” Bennett says, and his own is Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, or German Academic inspired by such notoriously abstruse writers and theorists as Exchange Service. It will fund a year of study with the avant-garde Georges Bataille and Jacques Lacan, as well as the artist sculptor Rebecca Horn at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. Joseph Kosuth’s concept of “anthropologized art.” In Berlin, For his MFA thesis, Bennett created a series of installa- Bennett says, he’ll take the outsider view of an anthropologist tions titled “Caprice: Jouissance and the Mute” in the Tjaden to transform common objects and other elements into art. Gallery that reflect his interest in philosophy, science, linguis- So far his sculpture has generated an array of responses— tics, and systems of interpretation. The series includes stacks and that’s fine with him. “Even if it’s a complete dismissal of of metal-framed glass boxes speckled with rust and encrust- the work and someone says, ‘Eww, a dead mouse,’ that’s bet- ed with salt. Inside one hangs an intricate webbing of thread; ter than people getting glazed over and walking out without say- another holds six rusty wire balls. Each of them also houses ing anything.” at least one decaying mouse. (The mice, he says, were — Matt Berical

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a summer with the creator of EyesWeb, one of the more popular software programs. But it wasn’t until Afanador saw a dance by American choreographer Trisha Brown, titled how long does the subject linger on the edge of the volume, that she knew technology could offer more than a gimmick. “The video was like calligraphy; it complemented the choreography just beautifully,” Afanador says. “Seeing that made me think, ‘Yes, OK, I can do this.’” She began talking about Perimeter with Allen Fogelsanger, PhD ’88, the dance program’s coordinator and music director, last spring. Initially they were inspired by the mobiles of artist Lee Bontecou and the delicate lines that stream from the mobiles’ cores. Then they inspired each other. “It started with me, doing a chunk of movement,”Afanador says. “Then Allen started composing. After that, we just kept making chunks and showing each other what we had made.” Fogelsanger eventually wrote two movements of grinding industrial music split by a crystalline piano interlude. Afanador created a similar structure: two jagged, fragmented sections that sandwich a unified one. Meanwhile, Ryan Spicer ’06 worked on the computer programming and graphics. He devised a system in which a video camera tracks three aspects of each dancer: the color of her costume and the speed and size of the “bounding box”— the rectangle made by her extremities. The EyesWeb program analyzes that data. A second software program then translates it into graphics that indicate each dancer’s movement, speed, and placement on stage. The graphics are projected within seconds onto a transparent screen (a “scrim” in theater parlance) in front of the dancers. The trick was keeping the graphics from overwhelming the piece, Afanador says. “We kept saying, ‘Sparse, sparse.’” Afanador is pleased with the results, but sees ways to expand on their work. She’ll continue to explore the possibilities this fall at Arizona State University, not only as a choreographer but as a PhD student in cognitive psychology. Working in the Arts, Media, and Engineering Program, she’ll research how viewers perceive the links between dance and interactive technology. “The connections aren’t always obvious,” Afanador says. “But they are there.” — Susan Kelley

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hen Katrina Schreiber Firlik ’91 came to the Hill in 1987, she intended to major in cultural anthropology. “Even as a child, I was fascinated by the idea that there isn’t one ‘correct’ way to live or to think about w things,”she says. “I sought out anything foreign and had pen pals from around the world. Cultural anthropology seemed to fit with that, because it examines the shared thinking that forms the basis for culture.”

It wasn’t long, though, before her interests began to veer in a more scientific direction. Part of that was because of her husband-to-be, Andrew Firlik ’90, MD ’93. “We met at Okenshields when I was a freshman,” she says. “He wanted to get to know me, so he threw a piece of lettuce at me.”Andrew was pre-med, and Katrina took an interest in some of the subjects he was studying—especially the brain. “That was a natural extension of my interest in cultural anthropology,” she explains. “I could examine things one step deeper— the part of us that forms the basis for those shared thoughts.” After graduating, Katrina returned to her native Cleveland to attend medical school at Case Western Reserve University. She maintained a long-distance relationship with Andrew, who went to Cornell Univer- sity Medical College, and the couple married in 1993, just before Katrina’s third year of med school. After receiving her Neurosurgeon MD, she joined her husband as a neurosurgery resident at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where she was the first Katrina Firlik ’91 woman admitted to the neurosurgery program. During the seven rigorous years of training as a neurosur- gets inside your geon, Katrina kept a journal. “I didn’t necessarily have a book in mind,” she says. “I just knew that I was seeing some incredible head things, and I thought that I’d like to keep track of them. But once I finished my training, I realized, well, I can’t waste these stories. I have to do something with them.”What she did was write a book called Another Day in the Frontal Lobe,which was published in May. Katrina says her interest in writing was spurred by a Cornell course called the Art of Essay, taught by the late Charles Levy, PhD ’62. “He gave us free rein. He would say, ‘OK, this is an essay where you have to con- vince somebody of something controversial’ or ‘Here’s one where you have to describe how you do something difficult.’ That was so much fun, it wasn’t even work.” She must have gotten an “A”from Professor Levy, because her writing is clear and graceful, and she has the ability to make even the most abstruse neurosurgi- cal procedures both understandable and a bit less frightening. Currently in private practice in Greenwich, Connecticut, Katrina also serves as a clinical assistant professor at the Yale University School of Medicine. Her husband, while still a practicing neurosurgeon, holds an MBA and works as a venture capitalist with a special interest in the development of medical devices. He is a partner at Foundation Medical Partners in Rowayton, Connecticut, and a member of the Life Sciences Advi- sory Board at Cornell. Now expecting her first child, Katrina Firlik says she hopes to continue her writing career, perhaps by picking up where her first book left off. “The last chapter is about the future, so after I finished that, I was inspired to think about book number two, which would be a blend of fiction and non-fiction,” she says. “What will the future look like in ten or twenty years? I have some ideas about cognitive enhancement— procedures performed on normal people who want to improve their memories and that sort of thing. It sounds futuristic, but I think the field is going in that direction.” — Jim Roberts ’71

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Excerpt from Another Day in the Frontal Lobe

he brain is soft. Some of my colleagues The scientist in me revels in the ethereal manifestations of the compare it to toothpaste, but that’s not brain: the mind, consciousness, memory, language. The mechanic in me is satisfied by the clear fluid that rushes out of the end of quite right. It doesn’t spread like tooth- a tube I insert into a patient’s brain to relieve excessive pressure. paste. It doesn’t adhere to your fingers In everyday surgical practice, the science may take a backseat to t the handiwork, and that’s okay. If you have an expanding blood the way toothpaste does. Tofu—the soft variety, if clot in your head, you want a skilled brain mechanic, and prefer- you know tofu—may be a more accurate compari- ably a swift one. You don’t care if your surgeon published a paper son. If you cut out a sizable cube of brain it retains in Science or Nature. I’ll give you an example of a most straightforward and man- its shape, more or less, although not quite as well ual case. I was paged to the emergency room a few years ago dur- as tofu. Damaged or swollen brain, on the other ing my training and received the following brief report over the hand, is softer. Under pressure, it will readily phone: “carpenter coming in with a nail stuck in the left frontal region of his head . . . neurologically intact.” What is going express itself out of a hole in the skull made by through my mind at this point? Do I hark back to my studies of a high-speed surgical drill. Perhaps the toothpaste frontal lobe circuitry and mull over the complex neural networks involved in language and memory? No. I’m thinking concrete, analogy is more appropriate under these surgical thoughts: nails are sharp; the brain is full of blood ves- circumstances. sels; the nail may have snagged a vessel on the way in. These thoughts are instantaneous, of course. I spell out the simple logic The issue of brain texture is on my mind all the time. Why? I here purely for effect. am a neurosurgeon. The brain is my business. Although I What I encountered in the ER was a young man, in his thir- acknowledge that the human brain is a refined, complex, and ties, sitting up on an emergency room gurney. Perfectly awake mysterious system, I often need to regard it as a soft object inhab- and alert, arms crossed in repose and still in his construction iting the bony confines of a hard skull. Many of the brains I boots, he smiled nervously when I walked in. Was he the right encounter have been pushed around by tumors, blood clots, infec- patient? He looked too good. tions, or strokes that have swollen out of control. Some have been He was the right one. The carpenter explained that he and his invaded by bullets, nails, or even maggots. I see brains at their friend were both on ladders along the side of a house. His friend most vulnerable. However, whereas other brain specialists, like was working a few rungs above. They were driving heavy-duty neurologists and psychiatrists, examine brain images and pontif- nails into the siding with automatic nail guns. His friend’s hand icate from outside of the cranium, neurosurgeons boast the addi- slipped upon firing in one of the nails, and the nail entered the tional manual relationship with our most complex of organs. We left frontal region of my patient’s head below. For the first few are part scientist, part mechanic. moments after impact, the carpenter doubted what had happened.

FROM ANOTHER DAY IN THE FRONTAL LOBE BY KATRINA S. FIRLIK, M.D. COPYRIGHT © 2006 BY KATRINA S. FIRLIK, M.D. PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH RANDOM HOUSE, AN IMPRINT OF RANDOM HOUSE PUBLISHING GROUP, A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE, INC.

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Although he noticed a stinging sensation within a split second of his friend’s slip of the hand, and heard the loud expletive coming from the same direction, there was no trickle of blood and he felt nothing unusual as his fingers frantically searched the top of his head. He wasn’t sure if it went in. His friend knew otherwise. Upon close inspection of his scalp, past his short crew cut, I could see the flat silver head of the nail, not quite flush with the scalp, but a bit deeper. Apart from the nail, he looked great. I performed a quick five-minute neurological exam and found nothing wrong. I sent him down the hall for a CT scan. The nail entered his brain perfectly perpendicular to the surface of the skull. It had been driven a good two inches into his left frontal lobe. Luckily, it didn’t snag any sizable blood vessels along the way. There was no evidence of bleeding within the brain. Unlike the more common gunshot wounds we see, this was a respectably neat and clean penetrating injury. At this point, my biggest fear—bleeding in the brain from entry of the nail—had been put to rest. Now, do I take a breath and mull over any complex scientific issues at this point? Am I exercising my formidable brainpower as a brain surgeon? When people say, “it doesn’t take a brain surgeon,” they refer to the assumption that we are the smartest ones around. Have I demon- strated this superior intelligence so far? Again, my thoughts return to the practical and concrete. We need to get the nail out of this guy’s head. It didn’t cause any bleeding on the way in. We need to avoid bleeding on the way out. I walked out to the waiting room. His wife was there and so was his friend, who was pale and despondent, looking down at the floor. I tried to cheer them up a bit. Yes, the nail entered his brain, but his brain function, as far as we could tell, was normal and the nail caused no bleeding. Without looking up, the friend opened his hand and offered me a large silver nail that had been warming in his palm, the same type embedded in my patient’s head. “I don’t know . . . it might help you guys to have one of these ...so you KIT KITTLE know what you’re dealing with.”I hadn’t been able to tell from the Dr. Katrina Firlik ’91 scan that the nail had two copper-colored barbs sticking out from the shaft at acute angles. I’m not a carpenter, but I figured that the skull, backward. After soaking the bone in an antibiotic solution, purpose of the barbs was to ensure a strong hold. I thanked him we neatly plated it back in place with miniature titanium plates and pocketed the nail in my white coat. On my way back to the and screws and sewed his scalp back together. Actually, rather ER, I ran my fingers over the pointy barbs and thought about the than suture, we used surgical staples from a staple gun to close issue of bleeding again. Avoiding and controlling bleeding are ele- the final layer of his scalp, unaware, at the time, of the subtle mentary and pervasive themes in surgery—not quite the stuff of irony in that move. Within less than twenty-four hours, the rocket science, but critical nonetheless. patient was on his way home, joking the entire length of the hall After calling on the appropriate team, including the supervis- with the friend who nailed him in the head. ing neurosurgeon and anesthesiologist, I took him to the OR, When I recounted this story to my family and friends after shaved a small patch of hair around the nail head, and made a dinner one night, they all nagged me with the same question: short linear incision in his scalp, down to the skull. There are no “How could he be normal? This went into his brain.” Finally, how-to entries in our textbooks regarding removing nails from here’s where the scientist in me gets to pontificate a bit, settling heads, so we improvised using common sense. We drilled out a into a fast-paced question-answer session in the comfort of my disc of frontal bone from his skull, with the nail head at the cen- own home with a captive audience. I am not just a mechanic, ter of the disc. Slowly, we lifted this piece of bone up away from after all, and the brain is not just tofu. the surrounding skull, bringing the firmly embedded barbed nail How could he be normal? First of all, his brain function was with it. Although we could see a small jagged tear in the covering considered normal based on our typical bedside examination, of the brain and a puncture wound on the surface of the brain which is, admittedly, a bit coarse. His speech was fluent. He itself, there was no blood oozing from the hole, and we considered answered simple questions appropriately. I asked him to remem- ourselves lucky. (“Better lucky than good” is a favorite slogan ber three objects over a five-minute time span, and he did. His among surgeons.) pupils reacted when I flashed a light in his eyes and his eyes Then, using large tools fit more for our patient’s line of work, moved symmetrically. He had no drooping of his face. The we clipped off the barbs and pounded the nail through the disc of strength in his arms and legs was normal and so was his sensa-

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tion. His reflexes were fine. He was capable of rapid and coordi- narrow swath of injured brain in only one frontal lobe would be nated hand movements. In other words, his five-minute neuro- inconsequential. Even if a faint cognitive deficit could be identi- logical examination was perfectly satisfactory. fied with detailed and time-consuming neuropsychological test- But the frontal lobes harbor quite sophisticated functions, ing, would the patient really care? Would he, or anyone else, even more sophisticated than the relatively simple ones I tested. The notice the problem? Would his life as carpenter, husband, or frontal lobes make up the largest section of the brain and are the friend be affected? Doubtful. On a more cold-blooded and prac- most recently evolved. Compare the forehead of an ape to the tical note, would the patient or the hospital be willing to pay for forehead of a human. One slopes, the other bulges. We can thank, these tests? His insurance would certainly balk at the cost and or blame, our frontal lobes for much of what we consider to be question the necessity. Besides, given my confidence in the our personality and intelligence. Damage to the frontal lobes can resilience of his frontal lobes, my biggest concern was not slug- be subtle, including changes in insight, mood, and higher-level gish thought but sluggish carpentry. What if he gives up the auto- judgment (“executive function,”in the professional lingo). I’m not matic nail gun altogether? going to detect such changes in the ER during my five-minute And with this final thought, the mechanic in me reclaims the exam before he is whisked off to the CT scanner. I’m just the neu- front seat, as the scientist heads again to the back. rosurgeon here. We would need to consult a neuropsychologist to help us evaluate these more complex brain functions. “So why didn’t you send this poor guy for more sophisticated testing?” my dinner audience asks in a confused and mildly accu- satory tone. Why did I simply proclaim him “fine” and send him on his way? I explain that the foreign object was a nail, not a jack- t doesn’t necessarily take a brain surgeon to think like a hammer. A relatively minuscule portion of brain was violated. brain surgeon, especially when it comes to the fundamen- The large frontal lobes, in particular, can be quite forgiving, espe- tals. Consider this elementary notion: there is a limited cially when only one side is involved. It’s not unusual to see a amount of room inside the skull. Another central truth, frontal lobe tumor, for example, grow to impressive citrus fruit idirectly related to the first, is: the brain is not the only thing inside proportions before the patient even detects a problem. In fact, the the skull. The brain, in fact, makes up about 80 percent of the patient often does not detect a problem at all. It is frequently a intracranial contents. The other 20 percent is split about evenly spouse or friend who insists on the doctor appointment, explain- in volume between blood and cerebrospinal fluid. Once you mas- ing: “He’s just not right, but I don’t know what it is.” ter these central tenets, a good deal of seemingly complex neuro- There is a redundancy and resilience to certain brain func- surgical decision-making becomes transparent. tions. What is compromised in one portion can sometimes be Neurosurgeons learn to care just as much about the 20 per- compensated for in another. (A remarkable ability referred to as cent as they do about the 80 percent, even though everyone else “plasticity.”) Even if the brain doesn’t compensate directly, the is blinded by the mystique of that 80 percent. I get plenty of patient often can cope indirectly, without even realizing it. If a wide-eyed questions about the brain, but no one ever cares to ask person develops minor difficulty with memory, for example, he about the cerebrospinal ﬂuid, a real nonissue as far as the public may start to write more things down, thereby maintaining the is concerned. Neurosurgeons care about the cerebrospinal fluid otherwise seamless flow of his existence. There are limits, though, because if there’s too much of it, the brain could be rendered next to useless. In learning to think like a neurosurgeon, you have The large frontal lobes, in to take these thoughts one step further: given the rigid, fixed-volume container of the skull, and the particular, can be quite forgiving, 80/10/10 balance of its contents, what can be done if

the equation is disrupted? This tips us more into the ‘especially when only one side is realm of mechanic than scientist. Consider what would happen if you were

involved. It’s not unusual to see a punched in the eye. The area around the eye becomes swollen and is free to swell as much as it needs to. frontal lobe tumor, for example, Aside from the social and cosmetic downsides of hav- ‘ ing a puffy, swollen eyelid and face, the swelling itself grow to impressive citrus fruit is usually not dangerous. It’s not constrained. It goes down after several days, and the skin and underlying proportions before the patient soft tissues recover nicely. even detects a problem. A swollen brain is another matter. There’s not much room for it to swell. Swelling within a fixed container leads to elevated pressure, and unchecked to the power of plasticity. Damage to a single frontal lobe is fre- pressure can lead to a cascade of events—namely a last-ditch shift- quently well tolerated (the opposite frontal lobe can compensate ing of delicate intracranial contents—that can be fatal. So as neu- to some degree), whereas damage to both sides is often irre- rosurgeons, we do whatever we can to maintain a normal pres- versibly devastating. sure within the skull when things go awry, such as in a serious Getting back to our carpenter, we were confident that the very head injury.

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Although this is “brain surgery,” the options we have for treat- in certain life-threatening situations. In a strokectomy, a portion ing high pressures within the head are relatively simplistic and mech- of dead brain tissue is surgically removed in order to leave more anistic: drain off cerebrospinal fluid from within the skull, shrink room for the remaining, unaffected brain. The concept is some- the brain tissue itself with a temporary dehydrating agent, or con- what controversial and the practice is not widespread, but it truly strict the blood vessels in the brain via hyperventilation (although can be a lifesaving procedure. The question, of course, is whether this one can be dangerous in situations when the brain needs all the or not the life in question should be saved, given concerns of qual- blood flow it can get). If these options fail, there are more extreme ity over longevity, and that’s where the decision can get tricky. measures, as a last resort: remove a portion of relatively “unimpor- I did a brief neurological exam on the patient while the fam- tant” brain tissue to create more room, or remove a section of skull ily waited outside the room. He was clearly in dire straits. I to allow the brain to continue to swell. The decision as to which of ordered a stat dose of mannitol to be given through the IV to buy these extreme measures you choose is largely a matter of who your us some time. This would temporarily lower the intracranial pres- mentor was and what he or she preferred to do. sure by dehydrating his brain a bit. The effects don’t last long but As an example, here is how I handled such a decision recently. it’s perfect for such a situation. I would have a few minutes to talk It was a warm sunny Sunday afternoon and I was sitting at an to the family, the neurologist, and the internist in order to get the outdoor table at an Italian restaurant with my husband. We were critical big-picture view, as this was my first time meeting the eating salad and waiting for our Margherita pizza, content in our patient. What was he like? What would he want? What do we idle people-watching and discussing what we wanted to do after want? lunch. Our contentment was interrupted by my pager. It was one A living will doesn’t always give clear direction. I remember of the medical interns at the hospital: “Dr. Firlik, we need you to seeing one in a patient’s chart that included a few lines at the end see a patient in the ICU, soon as you can. He had a stroke a few that the patient had added in his own words. It said, in large, days ago and now he’s herniating.” almost childlike, handwriting: “I do not want no machine hooked “Herniating” refers to the end-stage shifting of the brain in to me. Soley to keep me alive.” Unfortunately, I couldn’t extract response to increased pressure. The word puts everyone into cri- any further meaning from these words apart from what was sis mode, including my husband who, overhearing my conversa- already in the legal text, but the handwritten words were far more tion, had our pizza boxed up so he could eat it while sitting in the endearing. passenger seat of my car as I sped down the highway. He is also a Conversations like this require as much listening as talking, if neurosurgeon but, because of his passion for innovation and not more listening than talking, and this is when the neurosur- entrepreneurship, pursued a career in venture capital. He has geon is neither scientist nor mechanic. After holding court with always been interested in challenging cases, so he still likes to offer all parties, the decision was clear: no surgery. The patient was eld- his two cents when it comes to critical decision-making. erly, and fragile in so many ways. His neurological deficits were “So what are you going to do for this guy?” he baits me, significant, and his outlook was bleak, even with a technically suc- between bites, his smile glistening. cessful emergency operation. Everyone agreed to no “heroic” “I don’t know. I haven’t seen him yet,” I answer, stating the measures (an odd term in a situation like this, as sucking out dead obvious, not interested in debating the pros and cons of surgical brain tissue in a frail elderly man seems more pathetic than intervention as we have done on so many other occasions with heroic). each other and with colleagues, to the point where it feels that we In the instant the decision was made, the intensity that had are following a script. stricken that small world vanished. The nurses moved more “Well, just call me if you’re going to the OR. I’ll leave my cell slowly. The looks of panic, fear, and confusion on the family on.”He gives up and pulls a second slice out of the box while won- members’ faces were replaced by a simple sadness. The neurolo- dering out loud what he should do to amuse himself while I’m gist and internist left the ICU to attend to other concerns. I lin- busy. He’ll probably go to a café and read a couple newspapers, fur- gered for a few moments in an attempt to soften the blow, as if I ther broadening his understanding of the world we live in. could somehow soften the blow. We arrive at the hospital and my husband assumes the driver’s In thinking like a neurosurgeon, not everything comes down seat. I leave the car, enter the hospital through the automatic glass to a mechanistic evaluation of the intracranial contents. You do doors that seal shut behind me, walk down the hallway to the have to know about everything that can go wrong, and then about ICU, and prepare to immerse myself in a very small, intense, and everything you can do to ﬁx it, but then you also have to know isolated world. when to do nothing. Certain decisions come down to a judgment I have three priorities: evaluate the scan, evaluate the patient, call based on the gut, and that’s when both the scientist and the and then step back for a gestalt, big-picture view of everything. mechanic step aside. The patient’s scan is a textbook example of a major stroke that I returned to the nurses’ station and dialed my husband’s cell has swollen aggressively. An “ischemic” stroke—due to blockage phone. He answered and I heard music in the background. I could of blood flow to a portion of brain—causes part of the brain to picture him in the café, sipping a latte and ﬂipping through the die. (Just as a heart attack causes a portion of heart muscle to die.) New York Times “Week in Review” section. Dead brain tissue swells. If a large portion of the brain has died, “Can you come pick me up?” I asked him. such as in a complete middle cerebral artery stroke, the swelling “Sure. No surgery? Let’s enjoy the afternoon then,” he said, can be quite impressive, to the point where it causes the brain to matter-of-fact. shift within the skull, threatening the viability of the remaining And I did enjoy the afternoon, strangely enough. Because, in normal brain and brain stem. thinking like a neurosurgeon, you also have to know how to make Where I trained as a resident, a “strokectomy” was advocated a decision in the face of tragedy and then just move on. C

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NBC el presidente His administration was fiction, but Jimmy Smits, MFA ’82, is an actor with a real-world agenda

By Brad Herzog

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t may not be the Oval Office, but Jimmy Smits’s place of business at El Sendero Productions, his production company on the third floor of the Animation Building at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, is a spacious and immaculate reflection of a man who wields some power in his industry. On one wall is a painting of Smits in one of his early film roles, starring (along with Jane Fonda and Gregory iPeck) as a Mexican general descending into madness in Old Gringo.On another hangs a framed portrait of his role model in the entertainment business, the late Raul Julia. Sitting on a table in the center of the room are a few items from his most recent foray into the public consciousness—a placard and a couple of political buttons touting the Santos/McGarry presidential ticket. Dressed in a light gray sweater, blue jeans, and black loafers, Smits, MFA ’82, leans back on his chair’s hind legs. For a guy who, in two days time, will be named leader of the free world— at least in the eyes of the 8.4 million viewers who will tune in for the results of a fictional election on “The West Wing”—he seems eminently relaxed as he muses on the moment when he was asked to run for president. “John said all the right things,”he says, referring to John Wells, the NBC program’s executive producer. It was during the summer of 2004 that Wells flew from Los Angeles to New York to chat with Smits, who was playing the love-torn Benedick in a Shakespeare in the Park production. In the midst of Much Ado About Nothing, this was something. They spent a couple of nights talking about the power of television, about the political process, about the need to galvanize the youth of America, and about a particular story arc Wells was considering. Jed Bartlet, the show’s fictional president (played by Martin Sheen), was nearing the end of his term. “The West Wing” was looking for a new statesman. In what would be the last two seasons for the long-running drama, which broadcast its final episode in May, the show would focus on the promise of a new beginning. And Wells wondered: isn’t it time to put a Latino on the ticket? “He really wanted to see what the dynamic would be of having a Latino character who got into the political arena out of a pure sense of doing good,” says Smits. The actor wasn’t sure this was a path he wanted to pursue. Should he join a show entering its sixth season? Hadn’t he just signed a deal to develop a new show on ABC? But there were other factors to consider, too. Like Shakespeare’s Benedick, Smits admits to a certain amount of cynicism. But unlike Benedick, he has no lack of self-knowledge. He knew full well the potential significance of such a move, having been inspired only days earlier by a speech at the Democra- tic National Convention by U.S. Senator-to-be Barack Obama (who, like Smits, boasts a mixed heritage). On the other side of the political aisle, Alberto Gonzales was on the verge of being named the nation’s first Hispanic attorney general, and Cuban émigré Carlos Gutierrez would soon be named secretary of commerce. In a world where perceptions spawned by pop culture can generate new realities, why not take it one step further, presenting a Latino commander in chief to awaken America to very real possibilities?

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“I thought long and hard,”Smits says. “NYPD Blue” (five Emmy nominations, demographics—Hispanics make up about “But I can show you letters and e-mails I one Golden Globe), he was a sensitive cop 14 percent of the U.S. population but only received from people in the business who with a heartbreaking personal history. As a small piece of TV’s primetime mosaic. heard about it, and they all said the same presidential candidate Matt Santos on Sanchez, who serves as chairman of the thing: You have to do this. You have to “The West Wing,” he created a character NHFA, insists it isn’t only about the quan- do this.” trying to strike a balance between ambi- tity of roles, but the quality as well. “We The funny thing is, Smits already had tion and family, politics and principle. really want to see a more complex, three- a political agenda of sorts, a mission that Each of the roles, he insists, was less a rev- dimensional, and contemporary portrayal might be best described as embodying elation than an evolution. of Latinos,”he says. “We want to show that and enabling the breadth of the Latino “What’s interesting about episodic TV Latinos have achieved the American experience. His devotion to his roots man- is that it kind of lives and breathes from dream—more than the American con- ifests itself in myriad ways. There he is, episode to episode. So the writers get to sciousness realizes.” serving as grand marshal of the Puerto see the dynamic of the performer, and Historically, Latino actors have often Rican Day parade in New York City, host- they get to add more of what that per- had to choose from well-worn character ing a Latin music segment of the Grammy former is bringing to that particular char- types—the sassy housekeeper, the defiant Awards, and listening to that same music acter,” says Smits, who—trivia collectors gang member, the Latin lover. By promot- at the Conga Room, a Los Angeles-area take note—was Don Johnson’s original ing Latinos in front of and especially nightclub in which he is an investor. There partner in the “Miami Vice” pilot, but was behind the camera with mentoring work- he is, too, sitting for a roundtable discus- killed off in the first fifteen minutes. shops, internships, and scholarships in sion with students from Cornell’s Latino The roles turned Smits into a sex sym- fields ranging from stage and film direct- Studies Program, hosting a PBS series bol. In 2002, TV Guide named him one of ing to costume design and business about how second-generation Hispanics the Fifty Sexiest TV Stars of All Time (he administration, the NHFA hopes to shat- are adapting to American society, and was number seventeen, right behind Dean ter those stereotypes. Smits’s career, from shouting “Viva la educación!” while snip- Martin, Jennifer Aniston, and Linda Cornell to fictional candidate, is essentially ping a ribbon at a ceremonial opening of Evans). But one might argue that it was his a standard to which the Foundation the ASPIRA Youth Leadership Charter characters’ inner beauty—conscience- aspires. “Jimmy has been so fortunate to School in North Miami. driven and complex—that captured the play these characters that are giants in the In his film career, Smits has taken on hearts of the viewing public. Smits is com- worlds they live in,” says Sanchez, who is multidimensional characters that allowed mitted to giving other Latino artists the CEO of TerraCom, a public relations firm him to explore his heritage. After his turn opportunity to reveal that multidimen- in the nation’s capital. “There’s a tremen- as a Chicago drug kingpin in the 1986 sional aspect of themselves and their cul- dous amount of integrity, generosity, Billy Crystal vehicle Running Scared,he ture, and ten years ago he figured out how insight, compassion, and determination. has tried to avoid the stereotyped gar- to best accomplish the task. It’s clearly who he is.” dener-or-gangster roles given to Latino In 1996, while campaigning for Bill actors. Later parts have ranged from a Clinton in San Antonio, Smits had a con- Cuban refugee faced with personal and versation with fellow actor Esai Morales political dilemmas (Little Havana) to the about how to get Latinos into positions of title character in a made-for-TV remake power. That dialogue led to other discus- mits was the oldest of The Cisco Kid to a military veteran sions with Morales, Brazilian actress Sonia of three children, slowly embracing responsibility in Mi Braga, and attorney and political consult- and, according to his Familia, an intergenerational saga exam- ant Felix Sanchez. The result was the birth certificate, he ining the triumphs and tragedies of a National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts was “Jimmy” from Mexican-American family. And then, of (NHFA), a Washington, D.C.-based non- the get-go. His father course, there was Senator Bail Organa, profit created to advance the presence of SCorneles (a factory manager originally Viceroy of Alderaan (and Princess Leia’s Latinos in the entertainment industry. The from Dutch Guiana, now Suriname) and adoptive father), in Star Wars episodes II NHFA focuses on fostering talent through his Puerto Rican mother, Emelina, raised and III. It may not have had the gravitas education and building a network of their family in various New York City of some of his other parts, but, as Smits young professionals with shared heritage neighborhoods. But amid this peripatetic once joked on the PBS talk show “Speak- and aspirations. Funded by corporate and upbringing, it was another move that ing Freely,”“you have to have a Latino in private donations, the Foundation offers played the biggest role in developing what space.” graduate scholarships (totaling more than Smits calls his “Latino-ness.” Still, his most resonant characters have $850,000 over the past decade) for Latino When Smits was nine, he moved to been small-screen heroes who were college students at programs with Ponce, Puerto Rico, with his mother and morally grounded and who transcended pipelines into the entertainment industry, sisters (his father remained in New York) to ethnicity. As Victor Sifuentes on “L.A. such as the University of Southern Cali- be closer to his grandparents. Ancestral or Law” (for which he was nominated for six fornia, Yale School of Drama, and Colum- not, it was a foreign land to a kid from the Emmy awards, winning in 1990), he was a bia School of the Arts. Bronx. “It was an identity thing,”he recalls. high-powered defense attorney with a The NHFA’s mission includes a push “They would call us ‘Yankee’ and stuff like heart. As detective Bobby Simone on to have the television industry reflect that because we spoke primarily English.”

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MARK ANDERSON Leading man: According to TV Guide, Jimmy Smits is one of the fifty sexiest television stars of all time. But it’s his inner beauty— conscience-driven and complex—that has captivated many of his fans.

Smits talks of a having a void in his Upon returning to New York, this time aspire.”The NHFA, Smits notes with pride, knowledge of American culture as a result to Brooklyn, Smits discovered the joys of now presents an annual Raul Julia Award of his two-year residence in Puerto Rico. theater while participating in junior high for Excellence to the person or organiza- The British Invasion? He was listening to school musicals. Later, he became trans- tion that most advances its mission. bomba and plena.“Gilligan’s Island”? He fixed by forays into Manhattan to watch In high school, Smits encountered was more concerned with survival on his professional performers—in particular, another clash of cultures, as time restraints own, unfamiliar isle. But he also refers to Raul Julia and James Earl Jones. “Raul had forced him to choose between football and the period as his “wonder years,” a time a Puerto Rican background,” says Smits. the drama club. He chose the latter, and when he learned the language and “He had a pronounced accent, but he was his moment of validation came when a rhythms and culture and history of his still able to do all the classic plays. And group of his former teammates attended maternal ancestors, all a source of pride James Earl Jones had a speech impediment the final play of the school year and, much for him four decades later. “Although it at one time, yet he was doing Shakespeare to his surprise, responded with a sincere was traumatic for a kid, I look back now and Shaw. The fact that they were ‘minori- ovation. “They came and supported me and a large part of my identity was ties’ didn’t hamper them in the least, and and didn’t throw tomatoes,” says the six- cemented, I guess, from that time,”he says. their performances gave me permission to foot-three Smits, who at age fifty-one still

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looks as if he could handle himself between the hash marks. However, his family took a bit more convincing. By seventeen, Smits had fathered a daughter, and while his grandparents helped with childcare he worked his way through Brooklyn College. (Smits would later marry his girlfriend, Barbara, and have a son; the couple have been divorced for more than two decades, but he maintains a long-distance relationship with his now-grown children. He also has a long-term romance with actress Wanda de Jesus.) Smits was one of the first in the family to pursue higher education, let alone a graduate degree, so his parents viewed schooling in understandably practical terms— even when he earned his BA in drama from Brooklyn and gained admission to Cornell’s master’s program for theater. “Their whole PROVIDED BY STEPHEN COLE frame of reference was: this means Stage struck: That’s Smits—in feathered Aztec headdress—as Petruchio in a 1981 staging of you can teach drama in college, The Taming of the Shrew. Margaret Reed, MFA ’81, played Katherina. right?” says Smits. When Smits arrived on campus for the two-year MFA program, he was “one of At Cornell, it Street Blues.’ But it gave me tools I could the sweetest people you ever knew,” says use, in terms of how to approach a role.” Stephen Cole, associate professor in the became monas- In contrast to his first stage appear- Department of Theatre, Film, and Dance. ance on the Hill (as the nearly silent As an actor, however, he was somewhat ‘tic in a lot of Chief in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s raw. “He came in with little methodology, ways,’ says Nest), Smits capped his Cornell experi-

little craft, and a lot of talent,” says Cole. ence by playing one of the most chal- “He was used to whisking through a role Smits. ‘You’re lenging roles in theater—the lead in on instinct, which is what he did for a George Bernard Shaw’s four-and-a-half-

while. Then we took that away from him. just eating, hour masterpiece Man and Superman. He labored the first year, getting rid of old drinking, sleeping “He graduated ready,” says Cole. habits, which is what the first year is supposed to be about.” whatever part‘ of In Cornell’s MFA program (since the theater or quarter-century replaced by a BFA program), there were later, Smits still con- never more than a half-dozen students music you’re tends nothing can accepted each year, so the training was be more beneficial intense. “The primary idea of casting MFA involved in. to an aspiring actor people in plays was to help their progress, than broad-based whether they were suited for the role or monastic in a lot of ways,” says Smits. schooling.a “Always be prepared” is his not,” recalls Cole, who co-founded the “You’re just eating, drinking, sleeping mantra, and, as evidenced by the mission Ithaca Repertory Theater (now the Hangar whatever part of the theater or music of the NHFA, he believes preparation is Theatre), where Smits often performed. you’re involved in.”He occasionally chafed fed by a graduate education, and talent is Smits’s ethnicity was a non-factor in cast- at seeing his old audition-mates earning enabled through formal training. But, he ing, says Cole, except once, when he played small roles on TV while he was busy admits, it is the networking advantages in Petruchio in a production of The Taming studying text analysis and mime and the process that are the key to opportunity of the Shrew set in revolutionary Mexico. dance. “I’m at the ballet barre at seven in in what may be the ultimate who-you- “The wonderful thing about the pro- the morning at Cornell, and I’m wonder- know industry. gram at Cornell—and programs like it ing, Did I do the right thing by coming “When I talk to young people in around the country—was that it became here? Because I just saw my friend on ‘Hill school, I can’t in good conscience say, ‘If

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you get a graduate education in theater contends the role fit Smits “because he ters. “Anytime something allows people to arts, you’re going to be successful in our projects that kind of humanity and imagine what a certain kind of scenario is business,’” he says. “It doesn’t work like authority and gravitas.”Sanchez, the polit- like, I think it makes people feel more that because there are so many factors that ical mentor, claims that Smits was believ- comfortable with an idea,” she says. “I you’re not in control of. But I can talk able as a would-be president because “he would certainly suspect that having Jimmy about my experience, which was that an came to it with a keen understanding of Smits on ‘The West Wing’ as a viable and arts education expands your horizon in so political life.” appealing and smart candidate for presi- many ways that it can only add to what Indeed, Smits has long impressed dent would make people more comfort- you’re going to be as an artist.” observers in the nation’s capital. In 1997, able with the notion of a person of color Smits doesn’t hesitate to roll up his Capital Style magazine described him as as a candidate.” sleeves to further the NHFA’s efforts, but “the best example of a new breed of activist Comfortable enough, in fact, that in he also understands that his celebrity celebrities who are coming to Washington November 2005, following a live debate makes him, to a large extent, the face of armed with information, media polish, between Matt Santos and Senator Arnold the organization. So he has been known to and attitude.” Which is not to say that there Vinick (the Republican presidential candi- hold a press conference with the Congres- is a nonfiction political role in Smits’s date played by Alan Alda), Zogby Interna- sional Hispanic Caucus, for instance, or future. While acting on “The West Wing,” tional pollsters asked 4,492 would-be vot- phone prospective donors who have he decided to limit his political contribu- ers, evenly split between Republicans and ignored calls from others. In these efforts, tions to the financial, rather than the Democrats, which candidate they would his role on “The West Wing” has been a rhetorical, arena—to allow “space between put in office. Santos won in a landslide. powerful resource. Being taken seriously is the character and the actor.” The result might say much about Smits a constant challenge for activist actors who Cyndi Schiebe ’76, PhD ’87, who used (he had the overwhelming support of yearn to be more than photo ops and to drive Smits to rehearsals at the Hangar female fans), but it also speaks to the via- political props, and Smits says that his role Theatre when she was the props master bility of a Latino on the ticket. as a faux candidate has been “a total civics and he was one of the lead actors, con- Perhaps the line between fantasy and reality isn’t as distinct as one might assume. When Smits was on “L.A. Law,” fans would approach him about legal matters, and Latinos would tell him he was the reason they pursued a law degree. So maybe it’s not surprising that the Chicago Tribune,a newspaper that hasn’t endorsed a Democratic presidential candidate since Horace Greeley in 1872, declared “MAT- THEW V. SANTOS FOR PRESI- DENT” in a tongue-in-cheek editorial last December. Although heartened by the reaction to his make-believe candidacy, Smits remains well aware that there can be a chasm between small-screen acclaim and big-picture attitudes regarding Latinos. And there are PROVIDED BY STEPHEN COLE times these days when the actor can Comedy and philosophy: Smits played opposite Mary Stockhaus, MFA ’82, in a Cornell indeed sound much like an ambi- production of Shaw’s Man and Superman. tious public servant. “I think things are improving in terms of where our lesson for me.” tends we should not underestimate the place is in the American scheme,” he says. Esai Morales has called his longtime power of popular entertainment. Schiebe “But while I’m on TV doing this fictional friend the “Abe Lincoln of Latinos” for is now an associate professor of psychol- character who’s running for president, I’m snagging a stint as a presidential candidate ogy at Ithaca College, where she directs the watching television and I see people talking (the irony being that there has always been Center for Research on the Effects of Tele- about this immigration bill, and there are a Latino president on “The West Wing,”as vision and leads a media literacy initiative code words that they use—‘aliens’ and Martin Sheen, a longtime NHFA sup- called Project Look Sharp. Among the such. And I’m thinking, something’s not porter, was born Ramon Estevez). But 15,000 hours of program content in her right. There’s stuff to do.” C Smits’s admirers point out that he brought archives is every episode of “The West at least as much to the role as the role Wing,” which, she says, is a good example In seven seasons, BRAD HERZOG ’90 never brought to him. Cole, the acting coach, of how people relate to fictional charac- missed an episode of “The West Wing.”

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Five years after their daughter’s death, David and Ann Scoville made a promise to do everything they could to find her a killer cold By David Dudley

Sometimes, especially lately, people ask David Scoville hit about the man who raped and strangled his daughter. If you could get that guy alone in a room, what would you do? The question was for a long time an abstract one; the perpetrator seemed to exist only as a sample of Maybe this is supposed to give Scoville an opportunity DNA recovered from the clothing of Patricia Scoville to vent some bitterness; maybe those who ask are just gen- ’86, who was twenty-eight when she disappeared on a uinely curious. Either way, it doesn’t work. David Scoville bicycle ride near Stowe, Vermont, in October 1991. No arrests were made in the case for more than thirteen ’61 is a sixty-seven-year old retiree with the mild voice and years. But now Howard Godfrey is sitting in a Vermont preternatural patience of a former elementary school correctional facility, awaiting trial for Patty’s murder. teacher, which is what he is. He’s not the type to relish the Godfrey is a thin, weathered man with bristly grey hair, notion of beating the man. “I have no desire to do that,” he fifty-eight years old, the owner of a window and door company. The fact that he is in a cell is at least in part confirms, polite and a little bemused. because of the efforts of Scoville and his wife, Ann Van Order Scoville ’61. This might explain the apparent lack of animus toward his daughter’s likely killer: in a sense, David Scoville has already exacted a deeper revenge. The unfolding of that vengeance, if that is what to call it, was

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agonizingly slow. After Patty’s murder, the Scovilles waited more Patty was in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell, but than a decade for police to find the culprit, returning several times academics and career weren’t yet a priority. “Patty did well, but a year to the scene of the crime in an effort to keep their daugh- unlike a lot of Cornell students, she didn’t sweat the small stuff in ter’s name in the newspapers. When the investigation foundered, life,” says Linda Falkson ’86, one of Patty’s close friends and an they fought to rewrite the law itself. The Scovilles wrote scores of Alpha Phi sorority sister. “She had a balance in life.” Patty served letters, appealed to politicians, and testified to lawmakers in sup- as sorority president and was “a wonderful leader—just a ball of port of legislation to establish a DNA database that could connect energy. She was petite, but had a huge presence and personality.” crime-scene evidence with convicted offenders. All the while, they Career plans were still vague. Patty returned to Denmark for professed an unshakable faith in the criminal justice system, and one semester in her junior year and then traveled around Europe. in the technology that would, they were certain, eventually deliver When several friends moved to Boston after graduation, she fol- up the man who killed their daughter. lowed, taking a human resources job at a bank and enjoying the That faith was rewarded in March 2005, when an FBI analyst excitement of city life for a few years. But the corporate world linked Howard Godfrey’s DNA profile with a sample retrieved didn’t engage her, and when her firm folded, Patty decided on a from Patty’s clothing in 1991. In cop-show parlance, this was a major change. She would resettle in Stowe, Vermont, where a “cold hit”—a computer match between crime-scene DNA evi- friend and classmate, Neil Hillmer ’86, had a family vacation dence and a suspect registered in a databank. In the Scoville case, home. Except for the Hillmers, she didn’t know anyone in town the hit was very cold indeed. State and local police had followed and had no job prospects. From Boston, she answered an ad and hundreds of leads and discarded scores of suspects in the thirteen rented a room in a two-bedroom apartment to share with a years since Patty’s death, and, without the DNA database that the woman she’d never met. In the fall of 1991, Patty drove to Stowe Scovilles urged, Godfrey could have remained unknown forever. and put most of her belongings in storage. “Patty had this confi- The journey to his arrest last year would be, for the Scovilles, a dence that things would just happen as they were meant to,”Falk- primer on the promise and perils of a technology that may revo- son says. lutionize criminal justice in America, and a fresh reminder of how Back in New York, her parents fretted mildly about Patty’s life can change overnight. sudden life change. But Patty told them she’d saved some money and was planning to find a job as a ski instructor for kids at one of the local resorts. Besides, Ann was busy caring for her father, who was struggling with terminal cancer, and had little time or he Scovilles live in a neat white house on a leafy emotional energy for her independent daughter. “She was just so street of older homes in Canandaigua, a lake good at taking care of herself,”Ann says. The two spoke by phone resort town south of Rochester. The family has on October 5, a few days after Patty arrived in town. She clearly deep roots in central New York: Ann grew up in had things under control, as usual: she was looking for her own Skaneateles and Ithaca, and she followed both apartment, had signed up for the Red Cross CPR course she her father and grandfather to Cornell, as did a needed to complete before getting the ski job, and raved about the younger sister, Patricia Van Order ’72. When beauty of the area. “Once we got used to the idea, we gave her our ther oldest child, Patty, applied for early admission to Cornell and blessing and said we’d visit,”Ann says. was accepted, she was thrilled, just as her own father, Robert Van She pauses. Order ’35, BS ’36, was when she went off to the Hill. The timing, “And we have.” too, seemed perfect: David and Ann’s Class of 1961 and Patty’s Class of 1986 would celebrate their reunions in the same five-year increments. Ann now talks about Patty with an air of practiced compo- avid Scoville has saved every newspaper sure, unspooling the familiar details of her daughter’s short life. story he could find on his daughter’s “For a long time it was very difficult,”she says. “But after a num- killing, mounting them in a large album. ber of years, you don’t have as many opportunities to talk about There are now two of these huge bound her. Telling the story helps us accept the reality.” volumes, a meticulous chronicle of The couple met as freshmen at Cornell—a blind date set up Patty’s story from October 21, 1991, by one of David’s Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity brothers. Ann was when she was last seen alive. in the College of Home Economics, studying early childhood edu- dIt was a warm day at the height of leaf season, and Patty was cation; the less studious David “busted out” in 1959 and ended riding her green Fuji ten-speed bicycle, the one she’d had since up at the University of Maine. Ann followed him there after grad- junior high, around the village of Stowe. That evening, her mother uation, and they married in 1962. A year later, Patty was born, the left a phone message for her. Patty didn’t call back the next day, a first of three children and their only daughter. The Scovilles Tuesday. On Wednesday, Ann became perturbed, called again, and moved back to New York, where David worked on a master’s reached her roommate. “Didn’t she call you?” the roommate degree at Syracuse and started teaching language skills at schools asked. in a series of upstate towns—Little Falls, Saugerties, then The police were called on October 23, and a missing person’s Honeoye. Patty’s childhood was a series of small-town touch- report was filed. Late that day, the phone rang at the Scoville stones—Girl Scout, cheerleader, honor student. An avid skier and home. It was Ken Libby, then chief of the Stowe police depart- hiker, she had a love of the outdoors—and a passion for travel. In ment. A couple had reported seeing an unattended green bike at high school, Patty went to Denmark as an exchange student. Moss Glen Falls, a popular scenic attraction and hiking trail a few

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The odds of any two people sharing the same DNA profile can be in the quadrillions, making it an exceptionally useful tool for identifying people. But its powers, police learned, work in unexpected ways.

miles north of Stowe. “You’d better come up here,” Libby said. police had the killer’s DNA; why, they wondered, couldn’t they The search lasted almost a week. The state police were called just test every man within 100 miles of Stowe until a match was in, and spotter planes, helicopters, dogs, scuba divers, and more found? than fifty volunteers scoured the rugged countryside near the falls. Publicly, however, David Scoville was more diplomatic. That On the sixth day, authorities mounted a last-ditch effort, a grid May, with no apparent progress, he told the Burlington Free Press search with cadets from the Coast Guard Academy in nearby Nor- that he and his wife remained steadfast. “The evidence is there. wich, walking shoulder-to-shoulder through the woods. The body It’s just a matter of elimination,” he said. “We feel confident that was well hidden. Patty had been buried in a shallow grave not far this will be solved. We have to feel that way.” from the falls, covered in leaves and twigs. On October 29, eight days after she disappeared, Stowe police captain Ken Kaplan and Aimee Stearns, the Lamoille County victim’s assistant, told the Scovilles that their daughter had been found. he first successful use of DNA testing in a “Is she alive?” Ann found herself asking, though she already criminal investigation was in England in the knew the answer. mid-1980s. The case followed close on the Stearns, who now works with the state’s attorney’s office in heels of the invention of DNA “fingerprinting” Montpelier, says that no one was prepared for that moment. Mur- technology by a University of Leicester geneti- der was all but unknown in that part of the state. “None of us had cist named Alec Jeffreys, who discovered that ever dealt with anything like this,” she says. “I did everything segments of the DNA found in all human cells wrong.” She told the Scovilles that they couldn’t see their daugh- tcontained distinctive, non-repeating codes unique to each indi- ter’s body—a process then thought to be unnecessarily trau- vidual. Using a laborious process of chemical analysis and matic—and instead asked if they would like something to eat. radioactive labeling, Jeffreys was able to create patterns that looked Ann Scoville remembers the moment well, and smiles ruefully vaguely like bar codes on X-ray film. This profile—the so-called at the mention of it; after a rough start, she has become close DNA fingerprint—could then be matched to DNA found at a friends with Stearns. And the years have given her a different per- crime scene; depending on how many points of comparison were spective on that awful morning. What, she wonders, would her used, the odds of two unrelated individuals sharing the same life have been like if Patty’s body had remained undiscovered, her DNA profile could be in the quadrillions, making it an excep- fate unknown? “It’s funny the things we’re grateful for,”Ann says. tionally useful tool for identifying people. But its powers, as police “But we’re grateful they found her.” soon learned, work in unexpected ways. Medical examiners quickly ruled the case a homicide. There In 1986, a fifteen-year-old girl in Leicestershire was found was a deep laceration in the back of Patty’s head, but the cause of dead; she had been raped and strangled, and semen samples death appeared to be asphyxiation, and she had been sexually matched those found on another teenage girl murdered in a assaulted: traces of semen were found on her clothing. The sam- nearby town in 1983. A local seventeen-year-old named Richard ples were in good condition—another break. Forensic investiga- Buckland confessed to the Leicestershire crime but denied the tors were able to successfully isolate the assailant’s DNA. Police 1983 killing, so police sent both samples to Jeffreys, along with a were initially confident that the case would soon be closed. Any blood sample from Buckland. DNA analysis confirmed that the suspects could be confirmed against the DNA evidence, and Patty perpetrator of the two killings was indeed the same person, but it had kept a detailed account of her three weeks in Stowe. Armed wasn’t Buckland, who would make history as the first innocent with her day-planner and address books, investigators were able man exonerated by DNA profiling. to construct an elaborate timeline and a list of suspects—old British police, impressed with the precision of Jeffreys’s tech- boyfriends in Boston, local acquaintances, a young man she had nique, launched a huge genetic dragnet to find the real killer. met at a barn dance the previous weekend. But the DNA samples More than 5,000 local men in neighboring villages were asked to volunteered by those suspects failed to match the killer’s profile. give blood samples to be tested and matched. The Jeffreys lab The case transfixed the state for months. Police received hun- worked for six months, and found . . . nothing. But a year later, a dreds of telephone tips, and rumors swept the region about the woman overheard a co-worker claim that a friend had asked him young woman from Boston who was killed so suddenly. As weeks to take the blood test for him. Police picked up the man, took a became months, the Scovilles grew increasingly dismayed. The blood sample, and matched his DNA to the two murders.

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The case was a landmark demonstration of the new technol- ment interference. ogy’s capabilities, and its limitations. The U.K. became an aggres- Besides, with the technology and resources available at the sive proponent of DNA profiling, in 1995 establishing the U.K. time, the lab work involved would have taken years. Dr. Eric Buel, National DNA Database, which now holds the profiles of more the head of the Vermont State Forensics Lab, notes that the tech- than three-and-a-half million people. The British system takes nique used to analyze DNA in the early 1990s, called restriction genetic samples from all arrestees, regardless of the severity of the fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), had numerous steps and crime or, indeed, whether charges are later dismissed. With its vast required a substantial amount of material to obtain a reliable pro- scope—it’s the world’s largest genetic library—the database’s value file. “To verify a match, we were looking at four to five weeks of as a policing tool is unquestionable: a rapist or murderer can be work,” Buel says. His lab analyzed samples from about fifty sus- quickly identified, even if his only previous brush with the law pects, all of whom were cleared. involved being suspected of drunk driving. But to privacy advo- For David and Ann Scoville, each suspect crossed off the list cates, handing over one’s genetic information to the state without brought fresh anguish. “There were a couple of times we thought, probable cause is a civil liberties nightmare—and, in this coun- This is going to be the guy,” David says. “It just looked so good.” try, a violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. Indeed, without the DNA evidence, it’s possible that one of these It was this legal and ethical roadblock that the Scovilles faced individuals—some of whom confessed to the crime—would have in Vermont. Some suspects refused to provide a DNA sample, been prosecuted, perhaps successfully. But DNA, with its mad- forcing police to obtain court orders. (In other cases, anticipating dening, mathematical precision, exonerated them all. a refusal, they obtained the orders before approaching the sus- Years passed, and with each anniversary the Scovilles traveled pects.) And, of course, those who balked at giving DNA quickly to Stowe. “We made a pact that we’d do everything we could to became the subject of investigators’ attentions, which in turn con- keep this case in front of the public,”says David. They sponsored sumed more time and resources. Simply casting a DNA dragnet tree plantings, dedicated a bench, held a memorial bike ride. The and demanding samples from all likely males within the imme- reward money they offered climbed to $10,000, then $15,000. diate Stowe area wasn’t a legal option, not in an independent- After five years, they sat down with Bruce Merriam, the lead inves- minded New England state with a healthy suspicion of govern- tigator with the Stowe Police Department. The department was

Crime & Punishment The battle for the future of DNA evidence

ric Buel, the director of the Vermont State eral states have expanded the legal scope to include those convicted Forensics Lab, calls it “The ‘CSI’ Effect.” It’s of lesser offenses. This summer, New York State lawmakers considered the notion—dramatized weekly in the pop- the All-Crimes DNA Bill, endorsed by Governor George Pataki. It would ular CBS police procedural—that forensic require anyone convicted of a misdemeanor or youthful offense to investigators can take a strand of wayward submit a DNA sample. Police say that casting the wider net will help hair or a scrap of cellular debris and prevent more serious crimes, many of which are committed by crimi- instantly divine a vast amount of personal nals with lengthy prior records. Foes of the bill, which include the einformation about the unknown perp who left it behind. “People American Civil Liberties Union, cite a number of concerns about secu- expect us to be able to do everything,”he says. “It’s not so simple.” rity at crime labs, misuse of personal information, and the constitu- For one thing, the DNA profiles used for forensic identifica- tional right to privacy. tion and stored in computer databases reveal little more than a It is a clash that has been brewing ever since DNA profiling tech- standard fingerprint—each is a series of fifty-two digits keyed to nology was invented, says University of Washington professor Phil so-called “junk” DNA, which does not code for any known char- Bereano ’61, MRP ’71. He has chaired the ACLU’s Committee on acteristics. “We look at all these numbers and we really can’t Databases and Civil Liberties and is a founding member of the non- tell anything, except sex,”Buel says. “It’s just a small snapshot.” profit Council for Responsible Genetics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Nevertheless, the potential of DNA evidence to reshape “We predicted all this twenty years ago,”he says. “It was always obvi- policing and criminal justice is of growing interest to lawmakers, ous that this is a technology of control and surveillance.” legal ethicists, and civil liberties advocates. The key issue for Bereano’s objections to DNA databases are based on the under- many is the use—and misuse—of the databases of DNA profiles standing that government control of such information is a fundamen- maintained by local, state, and federal law enforcement. Initially, tal erosion of civil liberties. “With these databases, there’s this notion such databases were limited to the most violent convicted that we’re divvying up the world into good people and bad people,”he offenders and sexual predators, but since the late 1990s sev- says. “But just because someone is suspected of shoplifting doesn’t

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stepping up its efforts, they were told, and as part of a renewed Vermont General Assembly in support of a database bill in 1997. media blitz, they would also publicly announce, for the first time, The bill had been approved by the Vermont Senate in 1996, but that Patty had been sexually assaulted, in an attempt to dislodge stalled in the House of Representatives. Buel’s job was to explain new witnesses. The Scoville case was one of very few unsolved to lawmakers exactly how DNA fingerprinting works. “I tried to murders in Vermont, and by far the most high-profile. “We basi- assuage their fears about DNA and what we were doing with it.” cally said, ‘What on Earth can we do?’ ” Ann recalls. “We needed Opponents of the database voiced several concerns. What if to do something.” health insurers, for example, had access to this genetic library? Merriam suggested channeling their energies into advocacy. If Who would be included in the databank—all suspects, or only Vermont established a DNA databank, the odds might change in felons convicted of serious, violent crimes? What happens to the their favor. In 1994, Congress had passed the Federal DNA Iden- actual blood or skin cell samples—which contain a wealth of yet- tification Act, which led to the development of the Combined unknown personal information? Most states held onto the sam- DNA Index System (CODIS), a three-tiered network of local, state, ples, even after profiling, and some had no provisions for destroy- and national forensic databases that enables investigators to ing the DNA or purging the profiles of innocent suspects or exchange information among jurisdictions. But the individual non-convicted arrestees. The legal waters that surrounded the databases were subject to state control and regulation; in the mid- rapidly developing new technology were exceedingly murky. 1990s, Vermont and Rhode Island were the only two states with- It was into this fray that Ann and David Scoville stepped. Soft- out any such database. Additionally, Vermont didn’t require vio- spoken and eloquent, the couple proved to be formidable advo- lent felons or sexual offenders to give DNA samples, a step that cates. “They put a face on the legislation and what it could do,” forty-two other states had taken. Because the state didn’t partici- Buel says. “It got it down from the abstract to something real.” pate in the national program, investigators couldn’t compare their David threw himself into research, talking to DNA and legal DNA evidence with those on file in other states. experts and writing letters to Vermont legislators. Ann’s role was There was a reason for this: “Vermont is a pretty liberal state,” to make a more emotional appeal. “I’d talk about Patty, because Buel says, “and there was a lot of resistance from a personal free- that’s what I needed to do,” she says. Before a House Judiciary dom standpoint.” He joined the Scovilles in testifying before the Committee hearing in Montpelier, Ann detailed her final phone

mean they have forfeited the right to privacy.” exclude?” Building a DNA database via the criminal justice sys- Though DNA profiles themselves contain little personal informa- tem, he insists, is not only expensive and inefficient, it deepens tion, the samples of blood or skin cells that they are derived from a corrosive racial disparity. “This needs to be as inclusive as do—and much legislation doesn’t address how, or if, these samples possible. If the database has a wildly disproportionate repre- are disposed of. Individual jurisdictions have varying practices; in Erie sentation of African American males, they will be the ones County, New York, for example, the local crime lab files DNA samples found to have committed previously unsolvable crimes. And from crime victims as well as suspects, along with profiles of when patterns of enforcement are racially skewed, the laws arrestees who were later cleared—often without their knowledge. themselves are delegitimized.” Police have successfully used this database to close unsolved crimes, The solution: a universal DNA database. “It’s unpalatable but lawyers with the Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo when presented, but I’d say you’d have to take the DNA at birth,” School of Law in Manhattan have attacked the policy as a violation of says Smith. Blood samples, he notes, have been taken from the state’s DNA database laws. newborns for decades to screen for inherited conditions, but For Bereano, it’s another example of how DNA databanks invite the samples are not processed for the identifying DNA profiles. and justify misuse. “If the cops could just smash in everybody’s doors, Such an idea has many prominent proponents, including scien- they’d probably find a lot more crimes,”he says. “The Constitution’s tist James Watson, the man who co-discovered the double-helix founders knew this—that’s what the Fourth Amendment is about.” structure of DNA. A prerequisite for establishing a universal Advocates of offender databases, however, can cite such policy database, Smith says, should be some mechanism that would discrepancies as proof that more robust DNA legislation is needed. “I insure that the sample itself—where the significant personal think you write the law and make sure it’s fair and funded, and you information resides—is purged after the profile is obtained. “To make sure the abuses don’t happen,”says David Scoville, who testi- paraphrase, It’s the sample, stupid,”he says. “If we could make fied for the New York All-Crimes Bill in Albany. “Part of the law has to a device where you can destroy the sample as it is being typed, be figuring out how to expunge people who’ve been wrongly con- then what’s the issue?” victed.”He also doesn’t support proposals to expand the federal data- A universal DNA library of some manner may ultimately be base beyond the ranks of convicted criminals. “If you’ve broken the a foregone conclusion, but public resistance is strong, in part law, the public has a right to put your DNA into a database. But that’s because the concept of DNA databases has now been firmly only if you’ve been convicted.” linked with criminality. “Is taking someone’s DNA punishment? I University of Wisconsin law professor Michael Smith, who is the don’t think it is,”says Smith. “As it stands, we require justifica- chair of a working group of the National Commission on the Future of tion for sampling people’s DNA. On closer examination, the DNA Evidence, has a more radical proposition. “I want to reframe the legal reasons turn to dust. But we’ve established this habit and question,”he says. “Why do we exclude people and who do we it’s going to be hard to break. We’ve boxed ourselves in.”

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STEFANIE GREEN Resolution: David and Ann Scoville with the memorial tree they planted for their daughter, Patricia, in Cornell’s Ag Quad. “We decided early on that if we were going to do something it was going to be positive,” says Ann, “and it was going to be in Patty’s name.”

call with Patty a few weeks before she disappeared, their plans and their work.” dreams, the wedding and grandchildren that would never hap- David Scoville says that the frustration was always there, but pen. “We were both Cornellians whose class reunions would fall kept behind closed doors. “At home, we weren’t so patient,” he the same year,” Ann told the hearing, “so we theorized that no says. “But I’m enough of a teacher that I know to deal positively matter where we were or what we were doing in life, we could with people. You catch more flies with honey.” count on meeting at least every five years in a setting that we both That frustration only grew as the realities of assembling and loved. Now those occasions are another reminder of our loss.” using a DNA database became apparent. With the 1998 bill, Ver- The DNA bill passed in 1998. Stearns, the victim’s advocate, mont was able to use CODIS to search the national DNA registry. says that the Scovilles were major players in its success. “They But Buel’s lab struggled to process a backlog of offender samples think it’s nothing, but if you talk to people in Vermont they’d say that at one point grew to around 3,000. Due to lack of funds, the the Scovilles were very instrumental in getting that legislation processing technique that the lab used at the time wasn’t consis- passed,” she says. “They poured all their energies into it. They’re tent with the method required for inclusion in CODIS, further amazing people.” delaying progress. Part of the effectiveness of their approach was their own per- In 1999, the FBI received the DNA sample found on Patty sonalities, says Linda Falkson, now a deputy judicial administra- Scoville and filed it in the national database of crime-scene evi- tor at Cornell. Unlike many family members in similar positions, dence. But no match with an existing criminal profile was made. the Scovilles did not seem motivated by personal anger or bitter- “The system was working,” David says. “It just wasn’t working ness. “For them, it’s not about revenge. It’s about making sure for us.” there’s justice,”Falkson says. The couple also seemed to possess a The Scovilles continued their advocacy work, testifying for a nearly bottomless reservoir of faith in a criminal justice system DNA bill in Rhode Island, speaking out for several victim’s rights that had, so far, done so little. “I’ve worked with a lot of victims groups, and maintaining their annual pilgrimage to Stowe every professionally over the years. What was always so remarkable October to observe the anniversary of Patty’s death. In 2002, they about the Scovilles was that, even over all those difficult years, traveled to Washington, D.C., to receive the National Crime Vic- never did I hear them be anything but thankful for the police and tim Service Award; in 2003 Fox TV’s “America’s Most Wanted”

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took up their case in an episode dramatizing the killing. And, with phone calls and e-mail, they kept a close eye on investigators in Vermont. “When they didn’t stay in touch, I had absolutely no feel- I made sure we did,” says David, who often forwarded newspaper clippings and reports of similar crimes in other ings about him—it was a

states to the police in Stowe. ‘ “If they hadn’t been so vigilant,” says Stearns, “I don’t

think there would have been as much activity on the case void,’ Ann Scoville says. as there was.” But Ann had grown weary of this chore. “I felt like they ‘To me, he was a non- ‘ were saying the same thing over and over again,”she says. “I didn’t want to hear any more about what they had done and person. Just like Patty what they were going to do. You wait and you wait and you wait, and you think, Maybe this is never going to happen.” must have been to him.

ack in August 1996, while David and Ann Scoville were beginning their advocacy pleaded not guilty. Though he had admitted to detectives that he work,Howard Godfrey was arrested in had sex with Patty Scoville, he denied killing her. Ann Scoville sat Morristown, Vermont, a few miles from and watched. Stowe. He had struck a woman in the back “I had absolutely no feelings about him—it was a void,” she of the head with a piece of wood and stuck says. “It wasn’t hate and it wasn’t forgiveness. To me, he was just a loaded shotgun in her abdomen. The a non-person. Just like Patty must have been to him.” bwoman, thirty-one-year-old Karen Kerin, managed to escape, and David was struck by the unreality of the scene: the packed Godfrey was convicted of aggravated assault in 1997 and sent to courtroom, the TV cameras, and the haggard man in handcuffs St. Johnsbury Regional Correctional Facility. According to Stearns, at the center of it all. “It was like we were watching a movie,” he who worked on the case as a victim’s advocate, Kerin once won- says. At one point he turned to Aimee Stearns, who sat next to dered aloud if the man who attacked her might be the famous him at the courtroom. “What a shame,” he said, “that two peo- Stowe killer who had eluded police for the last five years. ple’s lives were wasted.” Godfrey was a model prisoner, and he made parole in 2001. Neither Scoville is a death penalty supporter. “It’s answering At some point during his incarceration, however, his DNA sam- violence with violence,”says Ann. “Doesn’t make sense.”Godfrey ple was taken, in accordance with the new state law. It arrived at will likely spend his remaining life in prison, and the Scovilles will the Vermont Forensics Lab in January 2000, and remained there, receive the thin but tangible satisfaction of knowing that they unprocessed, for more than four years. A private lab contracted helped put him there. They try not to dwell on the what-ifs that by the state received the sample in September 2004, and the result- have accumulated over the years, the lost investigative opportu- ing profile was finally uploaded into the national DNA database nities and near-misses that could have put Howard Godfrey away on February 23, 2005. Five days later, an FBI analyst in Quantico, five years ago, or ten, or fourteen. “That’s fruitless,” David says. Virginia, found a match: convicted felon #2000-0043, Howard “The people involved feel bad enough as it is.” Godfrey, was linked to the DNA found on Patty Scoville in 1991. That is true: Ask Eric Buel about the five-year delay at his lab For Vermont police, the endgame to the thirteen-year-old case and he’ll admit that there could be unprocessed DNA samples was brief. Detectives placed Godfrey under surveillance at his con- from other Howard Godfreys sitting in storage right now. “In ret- struction business in Orleans, in the state’s Northeast Kingdom. At rospect, I wish we’d been able to move things along faster,”he says. the time of the murder, they learned, Godfrey had owned a house “My fear is that there’s somebody bad out there, and we don’t only six miles from Moss Glen Falls. Via a discarded cigarette butt, have the manpower to profile him yet.” they were able to obtain a third DNA sample that matched the Which, in part, is why the Scovilles say that their work isn’t existing profiles, and Godfrey was arrested on March 30. done. Recently they’ve testified before the New York State Com- The next day, David and Ann Scoville made the familiar mission of Investigation in support of a bill that would expand seven-hour drive to Stowe from their home in Canandaigua. This the state’s DNA database to include all offenders, included those trip, however, would be different. “It was just like going up there convicted of only minor misdemeanors. If passed, the law would the first time,”Ann says. be the most expansive DNA legislation in the country. There will The news had brought other echoes of the past. Ken Kaplan, be more opportunities to tell their story, how it finally ended, and now the Stowe police chief, called before the arrest to tell them why, as Ann says, they still consider themselves lucky. They found that the FBI had informed the Vermont Forensics Lab of a hit. their daughter, and now they will see her killer in court. “We were numb,” David says. “Bewildered. Flabbergasted. We Exactly when that will happen, however, is unclear. Attorneys didn’t know what to say to each other.” have some 15,000 pages of evidence to sift through, the residue The couple arrived in time to watch Godfrey’s arraignment of the prolonged investigation. A trial was promised this year, but before a district court in Hyde Park on March 31. The legalities next year is more likely, if then. The Scovilles are in no hurry. were perfunctory; Godfrey, assigned a local public defender, “We’re patient people,” David Scoville says. “We can wait.” C

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t its February 4 meeting, the Committee’s candidate for one di- second terms: Dean Burrell ’77, BS the Cornell Alumni Feder- rector-from-the-region position to ’79, Angela Clark ’88, and Linda Vec- ation board unanimously serve for one year, also beginning in chiotti Saal ’71. Directors-at-large A endorsed the Nominations May. In all, eighteen directors represent Andrew Chang ’74 and Ann Ferreira Committee’s slate of candidates for Cornell clubs and alumni associations ’88 retired when their terms ended five at-large and nine director-from-the- from nine regions around the world. in May. region positions. The directors began Jerrold Day ’71, MBA ’78, began a New directors-from-the-region are: serving their two-year terms in May. new term as director-at-large, joining Aaron Gadouas ’86 (Midwest), David The board also unanimously endorsed veteran directors-at-large who began Tetor ’65 (New York/Ontario), Shana Mueller ’95 (Northeast), Debra Alzner ’93 (Southeast), and Bradford Wellstead ’83, MS ’96 (Western). They began two-year terms, while Janet Fallon ’76 (New York/Ontario) started a one-year Come Home to Cornell! term. The new regional directors will join Charles Schilke, JD ’88 (Mid-At- lantic), and David Harap ’89 (South- Celebrate Homecoming October 13-15 west/Mountain), who began second terms. Continuing on the board for an additional term are: Bernard MacCabe Big Red vs.Colgate ’75, MBA ’79 (International), and Scott Oct. 14 Pesner ’87 (Metro/New York). Six regional directors retired when For more information, please visit their terms ended in May. They are: Eliese Fisher ’88 (Midwest), Ross Lan- www.alumni.cornell.edu/homecoming/ zafame ’77, MPS ’79 (New York/On- or contact the Office of Alumni Affairs at 607-255-7085. tario), Saunders Wilson Jr. ’69 (New York/Ontario), Martha Sherman ’73, For football and parking information, MPS ’75 (Northeast), Bruce Stirling, contact the Athletics Ticket Office MBA ’73 (Southeast), and Mark New- man ’92, MEN ’93 (Western). The at 607-254-BEAR. CAF thanks all incoming and outgo- ing directors for their loyal service. July / August 2006 59 059-061CAMJA06alma 6/19/06 2:51 PM Page 60

barbecue. Contact Erick Lavoie, [email protected], 313/390-5446. CC/Pittsburgh,August 2—Cornell Dinner Club. Con- Calendar of Events tact Mady Bauer, [email protected]. July 15 – September 15, 2006 CC/Pittsburgh,August 9—Freshmen and returning stu- For updated information, call the Office of Alumni Affairs, (607) 255-3517 dents send-off. Contact Mady Bauer, [email protected]. or visit us online at www.alumni.cornell.edu CAA/Central Ohio,August 16—Board meeting. Con- tact Rose Cacioppo, [email protected]. CC/Michigan,August 19—Outing to the Detroit Zoo. Contact Shonda May, [email protected]. New York/Ontario CC/Boston,August 12—Trip to Isle of Shoals. Con- Southeast CAA/Central New York,August 14—Community serv- tact Jens Kullman, [email protected]. CC/Eastern Florida,August 13—Student send-off, ice project: Adopt-a-Highway clean-up. Contact Bruce CC/Rhode Island & Bristol County,August 19—All- Simmons, 315/682-7603. Palm Beach Zoo. Contact Dick Marks, rhm22@ Ivy Clamboil, Waterfront Haffenreffer Estate, Bristol. cornell.edu. Northeast RSVP by August 12. Contact Jeff Koplik, koplik@ abaquseast.com, 401/884-7537. CAA/Atlanta,August 13—New student send-off, CC/Boston, July 15—Boston Red Sox vs. Oakland home of Joel and Karen Moss, Sandy Springs. Con- A’s, Fenway Park. Contact Rick Arena, rarena@cornell CC/Boston,August 24—Cornell Professional Network tact Joel and Karen Moss, [email protected]. club.org, 617/734-6060. Event: Charley Storey, Harpoon Brewery’s marketing VP, guides a brewery tour. Contact Paul Hayre, Southwest/Mountain CC/Rhode Island & Bristol County, July 23—Whale [email protected]. watching expedition. RSVP by July 10. Contact Jeff CC/New Mexico,August 19—Bizet’s Carmen, Santa Koplik, [email protected], 401/884-7537. CC/Berkshires,August 27—Annual meeting, with Fe Opera. Contact Helen Pynn, [email protected], guest speaker Myra Hart, Cornell trustee. Contact Toby 505/986-1830. CC/Boston, July 25—Wine tasting dinner, Lumiere Levine, toby@tobtlevine, 413/298-3868. Restaurant, West Newton. Contact Jens Kullman, Western [email protected]. CC/New Hampshire, September 10—Board meet- CEN/Northern California, July 17—Women in Tech- ing, Bedford Library. Contact Jill Mayo, ljm28@ nology and Science Luncheon Series: Josie Thomp- CC/New Hampshire,August 5—Trip to Isle of Shoals. cornell.edu, 978/373-5728. son and Rochelle King. Co-hosted by Cornell Silicon Contact Jill Mayo, [email protected], 978/373-5728. Valley and PCCW. Contact Shannon Murray, shm4@ Regional Office, September 11—Boston Alumnae cornell.edu, 650/755-9711. CC/Cape Cod,August 8—Martha’s Vineyard Big Red Dinner, Tasca, Brighton. Contact Zuania Pomales, Reunion. Contact Barbara Silver, 617/236-1969. [email protected], 617/953-6680. CC/Western Washington, July 23—Annual picnic, Woodland Park, Seattle. Contact Amy Faber, anf5@ Regional Office,August 8—Boston Alumnae Dinner, Regional Office, September 14—Young Alumni gather- cornell.edu, 206/256-0442. the Naked Fish, Westboro. Contact Debbi Silverman, ing, Clery’s Bar & Restaurant, Back Bay, Boston. Contact [email protected], 508/836-8983. Shara Freeman, [email protected], 617/557-4168. International Cornell Hotel Society/Japan, July 22—Summer gath- Regional Office,August 10—Young Alumni gather- Midwest ing, the Publick House, Brookline. Contact Shara ering, Hakone Hotel. Contact Satoko Ban, hisyog@ Freeman, [email protected], 617/557-4168. CC/Michigan, July 23—Paddle the Huron River and greenhouse.co.jp. Carnelian Ahoy

embers of Club 44, the Class of 1944’s travel group, dusted off their M traveling shoes again in February, this time for an eleven-day cruise-tour of Florida, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Panama, and Aruba. It was the Club’s seventeenth tour since 1992. “Great weather, interesting shore tours except for desolate Aruba,” writes Art Kesten. “The post-cruise reports indi- cated everyone had a fine time.” About thirty classmates, family, and friends came along, including twelve class officers. Pictured here are (left to right): Art Kesten (webmaster), Kit Sigety (past PROVIDED BY ART KESTEN president), Harold Parker (Upstate New Janet Buhsen Daukas (Connecticut vice Middleton (Upstate New York vice pres- York vice president), Dotty Kesten (pres- president), Hank Bates (Cornell Fund ident). Also aboard ship were Nancy ident), Dorey Jenkins (treasurer), Alison representative), Andy Capi and Dick Rundell (class correspondent) and Janet Barry (New England vice president), Evans (co-senior vice presidents), and Don Daukas (Connecticut vice president).

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Scenes from Reunion 2006

ALUMNI.CORNELL.EDU / VITALIY DAROVSKIKH Tribute in Tokyo obert Beck, PhD ’54, former dean of the Hotel school, was honored on April 19 at a joint gathering of the Cornell Club of Japan, the Cor- nell Hotel Society’s Japan chapter, and the newly formed Cornell Food Marketing Society of Japan. More than 100 Cornellians gathered for DAROVSKIKH R a presentation on Beck’s accomplishments, the unveiling of CC/Japan’s new website, and socializing at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Tokyo’s Ginza district. Among those pictured here are (seated in front row, second from left): CC/Japan President Chiaki Tanuma, MPS ’80, Jane Boggs, Dean Beck, food science professor Bob Gravani, PhD ’75, and Eri Tanuma.

SONJA WATKINS-KELLY Rainy days: Despite the cool weather, Reunion canoeists got their paddles in the water. For those who stayed indoors, there was a tuba serenade in Barton Hall—and a chance to talk, like Class of ’41 friends Eleanor Slack Randles, Jean Way Schoonover, and Anna-Rose Tykulsker. Stay tuned—lots more Reunion

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Class Notes

As this is written I have no news MA 02554-2088, tel., (508) 760-4250; e-mail,  notes, even from your most “faith- [email protected]. ful correspondents.” However, I did find a mislaid folder marked Recently I have heard grumbling “Emergency Filler,”which I had created a couple  that an abundance of electronic of years ago for just this situation. I thought it devices is smothering both leisurely was time to remind you of the contribution of conversation and written corre- one of the greatest of the ’31ders to our class’s spondence to the detriment of civility and what distinctive history. You may recall that I have told once was thought to be respectable grammar. you of my own reaction to the “Sy Katz ’31 Some relaxation of the rules of syntax (such as Parade” down Fifth Avenue in New York City “never split an infinitive”) is welcome, as James after Columbia games. So I thought the follow- J. Kilpatrick points out from time to time in his ing were timely: the reactions of the band mem- syndicated column, but I still prefer an informal bers themselves, as reported in issues of “Big Red speech by Frank H. T. Rhodes to the prattle that Band Notes,” the alumni newsletter of the Big comes from our television set. Red Band. When I find a well written letter, one that Ali Rodriguez ’05 (Sax): “For the past two pleads no cause, among the pile of mail that seasons all I’ve heard is how great and wonder- arrives daily, I often save a gem and take pleas- ful the Columbia trip is. The City! The lights! ure in rereading it long after it reached me. The shows! The midnight bus ride! But for me John V.Rice, the son of the dean of Ag, grew the truly memorable part was the Sy Katz ’31 up on campus. He died in August of 2001. For Parade! It was raining as we lined up in front of several years he sent me handwritten letters on St. Patrick’s Cathedral. People were standing lined notebook paper, many running to three or alongside of us, probably a mixture of Cornell more pages. They were great exercises in stream alums and random New Yorkers. I heard the of consciousness with many recollections mixed drum beat. The cadence began and off we went, loosely together. Here is one: marching down Fifth Avenue. All during the “My wife’s family and my family used to parade I had a huge goofy grin on my face. I have our Thanksgiving dinner at Taughannock couldn’t believe we were actually marching down Farms Inn. There we listened on the radio to the one of the most famous streets in the US, if not Cornell-Penn game. However, at one time we the world. We stopped in front of the Cornell did not do that and we listened to the game on Club and performed a concert. I have never been bleachers in the Drill Hall. Someone had a direct more excited about playing. I was bubbling over. line to the game and reported the info to us. Yes, In just one trip, I made a lifetime of memories.” I think this was later done in Bailey Hall, where Susan Kloet ’06 (Piccolo): “One of my most a large number of people could listen in greater treasured memories was the road trip to Colum- comfort. Bull Durham always reported to the bia. After the football game we rode down Fifth crowd on how the game progressed. Those were Avenue to St. Pats. To a girl who had never been the days. I hope you will find the Xerox copies to New York City before, this was arguably the from the Alumni News interesting.” sweetest thing ever. Then came the Sy Katz ’31 The Xeroxed material mentioned above con- Parade down Fifth Ave. Despite the rain, there sisted of six pages plus a full-page picture of a was a big turnout of Cornell alumni there to Boy Scout ostensibly lighting a fire by the friction cheer us on. What an awesome feeling! Next method. The article covered the early days of came a concert for the Cornell Club. I’ve never scouting’s ties with the university. I have no rec- seen so many people watch one of our concerts ollection of my inflicting this detailed account on before. Then came a great buffet dinner—and a my readers; that might have shut down our Class warm shower.” Notes prematurely. Incidentally, the Bull Durham Our Sy would have loved those tributes. It mentioned above as giving the play-by-play was his idea that a band as great as Cornell’s (more or less) of the Penn game was Charles ought to have a parade. He went down to City Love Durham, PhD 1899,professor of the Clas- Hall and got a permit about 30 years ago, and the sics. ❖ Jim Oppenheimer, 140 Chapin Pky., band is still marching down Fifth Avenue. I’m Buffalo, NY 14209. afraid none of us ’31ders will be able to march on Nov. 11, 2006, but I’m sure the band will wel- Reunion is already behind us as come all other Cornell classes. Join the fun!  you read this, but deadlines being Look for our full Reunion Report in  what they are at the Alumni News, the Sept/Oct issue of this magazine. ❖ Bill this column is being written in Vanneman, 237 N. Main St., S. Yarmouth, mid-May, well in advance of Reunion 2006. We

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received news from several ’36ers indicating that Magazine, 401 East State St., Suite 301, Ithaca, NY criticize! I enjoy listening to books on tape, and they were coming back to the Hill in June. Stay 14850; e-mail, [email protected]. visiting kids and grandkids in Maine and Ver- tuned to this space for a full Reunion Report in the mont. Wish I could still be working at fighting Sept/Oct issue. I hope that all of you had a pleas- diseases and teaching medical students and resi- Ernest Cole, MS ’59, wrote in April and was  ant spring and are ready for a dents.” Bernard Gartlir is still practicing law in looking forward to seeing the people and the Cor- beautiful summer. We love to hear New York and Florida, and recently celebrated 65 nell campus again. His news was penned by his from you, so please keep us in- years in practice, as well as his 65th wedding caretaker, Ms. Irene Dalrymple: “Mr. Cole lives at formed of your many activities. anniversary with wife Shirley (Richmond) ’40. the Sunrise senior community in Palm Harbor, Elizabeth Nichols Sheldon writes that she In his spare time, he plays golf. Martin Beck and FL. He is mostly in a wheelchair and has aides who and her husband are living in a retirement home wife Lorraine are retired in Boynton Beach, FL help him walk each day for stamina. A wheelchair and appreciate the convenience and support they ([email protected]). George Batt (Prince- van helps with taking trips out to eat and other receive. Elinor Sisson Furnival recently moved ville, HI) is an occasional tour guide for the rides. Health permitting, he would like very much from Central New York to 3895 Old Vineyard Waioli Corp.—“three to four times a month, as to take a cruise sometime this year. He had 50 years Rd., Apt 32B, Winston-Salem, NC 27104-4943. needed. Other activities include being chaplain in the Rotary Club and enjoyed it immensely.”She She claims that the weather is “fairer” and there for the Masonic Lodge, ushering at the Congre- adds that he does not look his 93 years! With help is no snow. She keeps busy doing Sudoku puzzles. gational Church, paddling my outrigger canoe from her daughter, we also heard from Ruth Grif- We have an active traveler with Beatrice once or twice a week, and gardening and taking fiths Bennett (Bellevue, NE). Connie Bennett Hirschfeld Blumenson. Having traveled world- care of flowers in the yard. We have orchids Meunier ’64 writes that her mother was looking wide, she has settled for winters in Tucson (six growing on trees around the house.” forward to attending the 70th Reunion and hoped months) and six months in New York. In JewelRost Paley is keeping fit in Boca Raton, that others from her class would be there too. between time, she is a reading volunteer. Sarah FL. She plays bridge and golf. James Moyer Arthur Glasser (Shoreline, WA) wrote ear- Shute McMahon keeps occupied by playing (Ellenton, FL; [email protected]) is also trying to lier in the year and was working on plans to get bridge and traveling (her last vacation was to stay healthy. He and wife Ruth (Pierce) ’41, PhD to reunion with the help of his son Sam ’67.“I Portugal) and has now become an antique dealer. ’69, travel and golf. Page West (Towson, MD) is am now permanently retired and have been liv- Mabel Carroll Street, MA ’41, visited her keeping busy and walking as much as possible. ing in the Crista Senior Community since Sep- granddaughter Sarah Ordonez ’08,a sophomore “I attend an occasional cocktail party and have tember 2004. While in Seattle (28 years), we lived in the College of Human Ecology. Mabel wrote, dinner with friends at the club.” Hobart Roberts across the street from the U. of Washington. This “Cornell is still very beautiful. What a swinging (Elma, NY): “Doing well. I’m currently residing in served to make me a bit humble whenever I place it is compared to the deep Depression era.” my own home that I purchased in 1953 with my looked across the street—while rowing number Her daughter Janet Street Ordonez was Class of late wife Bertha. After retiring from Trico Corp., 7 on the Cornell J-V crew, those lads beat us ’78.Son John is a pilot who flies a DC-7 and lives I caught up with boating and travel. My grand- twice! One of our sons-in-law is on the faculty in Ohio. Barbara Pratt Smiley celebrated her daughter and great-grandson reside with me and there. At present, I am working with two grad 90th birthday during her annual trip to Vermont take good care of me, as I have dementia. Due to students at Fuller Theological Seminary (where with all her relatives, many of whom are Cornell that, I’ve been unable to join in at reunions or I served for 29 years), helping with their disser- graduates. She and other relatives attended Mar- travel like I used to.” WilliamKumpf, MS ’50 tations. They are both tackling cultural/theolog- ion Mack’s memorial services. She was their (Elk City, OK; [email protected]): “Retired. ical problems in churches in Southeast Asia. I cousin and a former longtime Cornell employee. I’ve been ‘working’ with my computer, exercising, am also involved with Project Mercy, a school Please continue to write us—any time of and planning a trip with my son and grandson and hospital complex in Ethiopia.”Arthur’s wife year! ❖ Selma Block Green, 15 Weaver St., to Buffalo and Rochester in May.” Alice is in a nearby Alzheimer’s facility, “after 63 Scarsdale, NY 10583; tel., (914) 472-0535. Here’s a sampling of our writers’ fondest Cor- wonderful years of sharing life together,”and he nell memories: Meeting and later marrying my walks the distance regularly to visit her. “I’m We still have a big stack of news best friend, Elsie (Hughes) ’39;we celebrated our enjoying good health, coupling my visits to Alice  to report on from all of you. To fit 65th wedding anniversary last year (Phil Wolff); with four separate weekday walks around a  as much in this space as possible, the fellowship at Kappa Sigma (Jim McKay); the nearby track. One hour a day keeps me in shape we’ll let you speak for yourselves. beautiful campus, good teachers, a friend bring- for whatever a Cornell visit would entail!” Check out the last paragraph for a walk down ing dates from Watertown, NY (Manny Wolin- As you know, Harry Bovay mailed a letter to Memory Lane. ski); snowball fights at McFadden Hall dorm and all classmates last November to talk about reunion Phil Wolff (Saranac Lake, NY, and San Diego, the winter walk to Baker Lab for an 8 a.m. class! and discuss reunion gifts. Bill Bebbington sent an CA; [email protected]): “We are retired and (Bernard Gartlir); house parties and dancing engaging and interesting response: “My personal enjoying life. I am founder, past president, and (George Batt); the high quality of the Physics fac- estate, all of which derives from the education I curator of the 1932-1980 Lake Placid Winter ulty (Jim Moyer); winters, and sleeping on the received at Cornell, is in a living trust. In that trust, Olympic Museum. In 2005, this museum was the screened porch at the DU House (Page West); the I have designated only a few specific beneficiaries, recipient of the Olympic Cup, a yearly award given beautiful campus and field trips with Dr. Ken the remainder to be divided equally among my by the Int’l Olympic Committee. I am the oldest Post and Prof. Ralph Curtis (William Kumpf). three children. The most notable of the exceptions licensed two-man driver of bobsleds at the Lake Haven’t written us yet? Please send your is to Cornell, specifically the Chimes and Sage Placid Olympic Run. I also golf, work in my hobby news and best Cornell memory to: ❖ Class Chapel for operating costs such as maintenance shop, and build ship models.” Jim McKay (Chevy of ’38, c/o Cornell Alumni Magazine, 401 East and equipment, but not for capital expenditures. Chase, MD; [email protected]): “I am working five State St., Suite 301, Ithaca, NY 14850; e-mail, I am making this gift because the Chimes and the days a week at my law firm, Covington & Burling, [email protected]. Chapel were very dear to me and my wife, Bar- doing 100 percent pro bono work—primarily rep- bara (Wilson).We were married in the Chapel resenting veterans in the US Court of Appeals for The 2006 Reunion will be over by and had the Chimes played for us. Barbara died of Veterans Claims. I am also very active as a trustee  the time you read this column, leukemia in 1986 after a wonderful life together.” of the George Preston Marshall Trust and am written in April. After a relatively Bill reiterates how important Cornell was to him president of its foundation. In my spare time, I mild winter with very little snow, in his letter to Harry: “I’ll hazard a guess that you sometimes watch movies on Netflix.” spring has sprung in all its glory with the for- were a CE. I was a ChemE. Baker Lab, which Manny Wolinsky, MD ’41 (Beachwood, sythia hanging down the wall on University occupies the first page of the 2006 Cornell cal- OH): “Haven’t been doing too much. I am legally Avenue, the magnolias all over in full bloom, endar, is where I learned about everything of blind and otherwise physically handicapped, but and furious games of Frisbee dotting the Arts consequence.” ❖ Class of ’36, c/o Cornell Alumni still up and around. Wife Marjorie drives, and I Quad. Only a few more weeks till exams and

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graduation, and then quiet will descend on the Alfred Kuchler lives in Barneveld, NY. He trees are beginning to leaf out. Thank you all campus and town until the middle of August. returned the News Form with his class dues pay- who sent in news. Cornell is gearing up for That much has not changed! ment, but sent no message this time. Here’s a mes- reunion and I was delighted to find out that so Our Cornell Tradition Fellows, Mary Mon- sage to all of you: No need to wait for our annual many were planning to return. Please look in the tague ’07 and Michelle DuMond ’08,have writ- class mailing to send in news. Write us at any next issue (Sept/Oct) for a full Reunion Report. ten delightful letters thanking our class for its time—by e-mail or postal mail. ❖ Phil Twitchell, Ann Wallace McKendry of Lacey, WA, writes help and telling us a little about themselves. Mary 1963 Indian Valley Rd., Novato, CA 94947; e-mail, that she is still enjoying life at Panorama, a con- is very involved in the Sports Medicine depart- [email protected]. tinuing care retirement community, where she ment and travels with the women’s lacrosse team, enjoys many opportunities for near and far adven- although she can no longer play due to an injury Happy 4th of July to all, although tures. She admits that travel is now difficult— her freshman year. She is taking lots of science  this is being written with tulips even walking is curtailed. “Horizons shrink as the courses and hoping to make a career in sports and dogwoods in bloom and the 80s climb!” Estelle Richmond Robinson of West medicine after college. She says, “Cornell has trees in their leafy greenery. A Orange, NJ, celebrated her 85th birthday with her been a life-changing experience for me, and I short column this time, as there isn’t much news. 90-year-old husband, three daughters, and grand- would personally like to thank you for that.” Let’s hear from you without delay. Send your children. She and her husband are still able to Michelle is a legacy. Her father and his fam- winter doings now, and then your summer news enjoy their summer home on Martha’s Vineyard. ily are Cornellians. She is a pre-med, planning to by Labor Day! You can’t have a column unless She likes to keep in touch with Rutgers, where she become a doctor, and finds the Biology major you send news! was a professor of community development. pretty demanding. However, she still manages to do other things she enjoys, like singing in an a cappella group and leading backpacking trips into the woods as part of the Orientation pro- What a swinging place Cornell is gram for pre-freshmen, one of the popular ice- ‘ breakers before classes start. She’s involved with compared to the deep Depression era. a volunteer group called Books Thru Bars, which supplies reading material to prison inmates. “I MABEL CARROLL STREET ’37 ’ am so thankful for the Cornell Tradition that I cannot express my gratitude enough. I just hope that someday I will be able to help others the way Bob Storandt recently wrote, indicating that Lorraine Matarazzo Farina (Schenectady, you all have helped me.” he reads more of the Alumni News than just the NY), a regular class duespayer, sent no message Part of the requirement for the Fellowship is Class of ’40 column. He mentioned an article in this time. Frank Warner Jr., LLB ’48, of Slinger- that the recipients must do paid work for 250 the March/April issue by Brad Herzog ’90 that lands, NY, says he is still “vegetating” in an adult hours, and both women are enjoying that—Mary told of Henry Sage’s generous gift in 1872 to retirement community, but still is in possession of at the country club, and Michelle in a biology lab. build a women’s dormitory and how that started most of his faculties. Howard Dunbar, MD ’44, of Both claim the work experience is invaluable. a widespread discussion about coeducation. Prof. Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, is enjoying life in his retire- When we read the wonderful letters the Fellows Goldwin Smith even worried that competitive ment community, where the average age is 85-1/2. write, it enforces our belief in the good we do by exams would result in women becoming “unmar- He keeps busy with painting and with his com- supporting the Tradition Fellowships. May I sug- riageable!” Bob affirmed that that hadn’t hap- puter and enjoys his two children, who live nearby. gest that if you contribute to the Cornell Annual pened, as he and Jean (Cummings) ’42 had cele- Betty Scherer Lester, MA ’42, of Oswego, Fund, you might indicate a gift to this worthwhile brated their 65th anniversary in January! No one NY, reports she is very active doing volunteer program in the name of the Class of 1939. else has commented on Prof. Smith’s prediction, work at her church. She also belongs to a weekly Jane Davison Fast sent an impressive Christ- but ’40 has a lot of couples who agree with Bob! bowling league, goes golfing occasionally, and mas card of herself with her large and handsome Forrest Griffith reported that he keeps his walks daily. Joseph Hilzer of Flemington, NJ, family, and good wishes to us all for a healthy and mind sharp playing a lot of bridge. He also sent an amusing poem about being fine—“Fine happy year. Dorothy Kelly Sennett writes that she enjoys painting landscapes and portraits and for the shape I’m in.” ❖ Dorothy Talbert Wig- and her husband still live in their own home and using his computer. He sadly reported that he’s gans, 415 Savage Farm Dr., Ithaca, NY 14850- are doing very well, with strong family support. the last ’40 Delta Tau Delta left since Dean Wal- 6504; e-mail, [email protected]. “We love our spot next to the woods where we lace died. He added that he’d been told that Dean can feed the birds and watch the deer.” She died peacefully in his chair, holding a scotch. Joseph L. Hollowell (Hockessin, remembers Jean Smith McElwee with great fond- Claire Herrick Yetter is still in the house that she  DE) was also impressed with ness, saying Jean was one of the bravest persons and Jack ’39 moved into 31 years ago. She says Miller Harris ’43’s column on she has ever known, and an inspiration always. she has just too much “stuff” to think about Kurt Vonnegut ’44.He wrote One change of address: Barbara Babcock Payne, moving—a sentiment a lot of us can sympathize Miller: “I enjoyed your CAM ’43 class review and 606 Savage Farm Dr., Ithaca, NY 14850. with, whether or not we’ve moved recently! She Vonnegut cameo. Though our trails never crossed, Have a wonderful summer! ❖ Ruth Gold also still enjoys gardening and pottery. I sure would have liked to have met the author of: Goodman, 103 White Park Rd., Ithaca, NY That’s it for this time. Send your news in ‘Why can’t we just be kind to one another, and 14850; e-mail, [email protected]. SOON! Your classmates like to hear about you. help each other get through THIS, whatever THIS I am still looking for a volunteer to write this is.’ [I hope I got the quote straight.] A sentiment Bob Reid writes that he and wife Becky are column. Surely there’s a journalist or newsletter not voiced by our fundamentalist Christian ide- now living in Green Valley, AZ, in an assisted- writer out there who could easily take over and ologues, who with noose, sword, and faggot living facility called La Posada. They seem to be who’s a lot more qualified. The magazine staff intend to put us all on the ‘right’ track.” quite happy there. Their daughter Janet works at provides a lot of support, too. Best wishes to all for Lots of info about Duke Shelley. Gordon the US Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, and a fine summer. ❖ Ellen Ford, 300 Westminster Kiddoo (Hilton Head Island, SC) writes that comes to visit them on occasion with her chil- Canterbury Dr., Apt. 416, Winchester, VA 22603. Duke is now in a continuing care facility (Sun- dren Andrew, 9, and Ian, 3. Glenn Robinson is rise of Arlington, 1395 Mars Ave., Arlington, MA living with one of his children in Brockport, NY. As I write this column in April, 02476, tel., (781) 777-1078) near one of his chil- The basement has been finished off in a nice,  spring has come to Ithaca with dren. He had surgery for a brain tumor that was cozy apartment. The picture he sent indicates golden forsythia and pink magno- benign but affected his short-term memory. I am that he feels well and is enjoying his family. lias. The waterfalls are full and the sure that he would like to hear from friends. His

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buff ever since my days in Cornell’s Dramatics Club. In July we will go to Ithaca for a week of reading a modern Russian novel—The Master and Lost in Translation Margarita—with Prof. Pat Carden. Whenever the BETSY SMALL SCHRADER ’43 Class of 2010 arrives in Ithaca, our granddaughter Caroline will be there, and she is looking forward to it. I am so happy that she has made this choice. Our eldest son was a member of the Class of 1970, n the mid-1970s, when Cleve- so this makes a third-generation representative of land was flooded with a wave of the family at Cornell.” Now there’s an alum. Arvin White (Grand Junction, CO) moved i emigres from Cuba who didn’t from Upstate New York to a retirement home know English, Betsy Schrader knew close to his daughter. He enjoys his two grand- how they felt. The ESL tutor had children and his daily walks. Married 42 years to experienced the frustration of being Helen, he is looking forward to his 90th birthday. unable to communicate in a foreign Glenn and Evelyn Bronson (Canandaigua, NY) send their e-mail: [email protected]. country, first after World War II when Glenn was elected president of the 99th Infantry she lived in Japan and the Philippines Division Association. Six hundred attended the as a Red Cross worker, and later in annual reunion in San Antonio, TX. The 99th Brazil, where her husband was em- Division fought across Europe, including the Bat- ployed for four years. After reading tle of the Bulge and the Remagen Bridge crossing. about a Seattle organization that Charles and Doris StrongCastor ’41 (Vero Beach, FL) enjoy life in an ACTS retirement com- offered free emergency translation, munity. They enjoy gardening, church activities, she co-founded the Language Bank and traveling to visit family and friends. Cele- of Cleveland in 1974. She believes it brating their 63rd anniversary, Charlie authored is only the second organization of its two books on family history and an official his- kind in the country. “I know what it’s tory of the 59th Armored Field Artillery Battal- like to be on the other side of the ion, all copyrighted and sent to the Library of Congress. He’s presently writing a personal his- street,”Schrader says. “It’s a bummer. tory for his family. They have four grandchildren. And it can be resolved, generally, in a then the Clevelander can say, ‘Aha, they One works in D.C. for Congressman Mike Pence couple of minutes by somebody who speak Lithuanian!’” Schrader explains. of Indiana. Dory is recovering from two knee speaks your language.” The non-English speaker’s difficulty replacements, as well as one hip. Charlie remem- The nonprofit’s 100 volunteers do usually stems from simple miscommu- bers singing in the Sage Chapel choir and con- just that. Fluent in fifty languages, they nication or cultural differences: he is tinued choir singing for 60 years thereafter. Sadly, Harry Vawter (Highland Lake, IL) answer forty to fifty calls per month, heading to Toledo, Ohio, but has mis- passed away recently. He always remembered most from police and hospital staff takenly gotten off the bus in Cleveland, Cornell with fond memories. unable to communicate with recent for example, or is unfamiliar with the Some interesting facts regarding changes immigrants from Hungary and Roma- concept of a telephone area code. But since the year I was born—1921: There are three nia. Sometimes the biggest problem is speedy translation can be as crucial as times as many people. The cost of a three-bed- just identifying the correct language, so the quick response of police or emer- room home has risen to more than 50 times as much.Average income is up 43 times. A new the Language Bank posts maps of the gency medical services. “When you don’t Ford costs 75 times as much. A gallon of gaso- world in airports and other strategic need it, you don’t even know or care if line is up 49 times as much, bread 12 times, milk public places. “If someone can point it’s around,” Schrader says. “But when three times, and a First Class postage stamp 19 out on the map where they are from, you need it, you need it right now.” times. It’s hard not to think of the original costs as they continue to rise daily. I enjoy all your e-mails and newsletters. They make such interesting reading. ❖ Carolyn Evans daughter, Mary Shelley ’72,suggests calling before by the residents, but operated for us by Hyatt. Loie Finneran, 8815 46th St. NW, Gig Harbor, WA 7:00 p.m. Mary also indicates that he is making a and I are okay—aging slowing but enjoying life.” 98335; tel., (253) 265-6618; e-mail, carolynfinn@ good recovery and is happy that his book is to be Lynn Timmerman (Boynton Beach, FL) comcast.net. reprinted. He was quite disappointed at the low heard from Don Lathrop ’53, MD ’57, about numbers in the initial printing and seems to have Duke’s surgery also. Christina Steinman Folt- Sadly we turn down an empty been vindicated in his complaints. His book is on man (Ithaca, NY) reports that Duke’s daughter  glass for Bob Baker,for erst- the history of tower clockmakers in the US. lives in Ithaca—as she does. Take a look at Mary’s while Big Red lacrosse stalwart Gordon’s email is [email protected], part of interesting website, http://www.maryshelleyfolk Bill Pape (Surprise, AZ), for the e-mail forwarding service at Cornell. “If I art.com/. Robert Robison, MS ’46, microbiologist, agron- change my ISP,I need notify only Cornell, not my Nice words from Elaine Hoffman Luppescu omist (North Brunswick, NJ), for James “Scotty” whole address book. This past summer we sold (Atlantis, FL). “Have not written to you in a long Wilson,engineer, teacher, caring caretaker our seasonal home in the mountains of western time, but so much of Cornell is in our lives right (Thomaston, CT), and for former member of North Carolina and now our only address is 82 now that I wanted to let you know. First of all, my the Federal Reserve Board Jim Lorie, MA ’45, Shoreline Dr., Hilton Head Island, SC 29928; tel., husband Harvey and I are going to London in May who in his 25-year career at the U. of Chicago, (843) 341-7889. We have a free-standing cottage with CAU’s ‘The Play’s the Thing’ group. This will some of it as dean of the graduate school of in a continuing care community called Tide- be our second time with this program and we will finance, conceived and directed the extensive Pointe, operated by a division of Hyatt. It is owned surely enjoy it just as much. I have been a theater (years of input and analysis) computer-generated

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stock market studies that led to, among other Fortunately we had moved into Jenner’s Pond and viewed shows. They gathered each evening innovations, today’s index funds. retirement community and their facilities made for cocktails and games. Bob and Doris Lee Zabel (Webster, NY) her illness easier to cope with. I lead birding trips The games began with a putting contest, write: “We have moved to Cherry Ridge Retire- on campus, and to New Jersey’s Cape May, then cartoon captioning, guessing celebrity ment Community—only three miles from our Delaware’s Bombay Hook, and a few miles down names pinned on backs (Who Am I?), best buy, home of 45 years. We love it here—our cottage, Route 1, Pennsylvania’s Conowingo Dam, where rip-off contest, boo-boo (certified injury), hold old friends, new friends, familiar territory, close to bald eagles gather at year-end. We counted 150 ’em and fold ’em (poker), and weather prog- our church and our grocery store. Last summer one day. Wish I’d spent more time with Dr. Allen nostication (how many rainy days?). Daytime we enjoyed a visit to Ithaca to celebrate the 100th [Prof. Arthur Allen 1907] when I was on the Hill.” games included shuffleboard, bridge (four-day anniversary of Phi Kappa Tau, Bob’s fraternity. Class VP Caroline Norfleet Church (Lenox, tournament), and cerebral golf (9 holes untimed Being as old as we are, we get the ‘gold’ treatment.” MA) writes: “Maybe someone else wrote this to treasure hunt). The players—Fred Allen, Hank Aline Snyder Raisler (NYC): “I’ve been spending you: [Affirmative; it was Doris.] In late summer Bates,Janet Daukas, Ellie Bloomfield Scholl winters in Palm Beach, FL, taking courses and play- I took a train with Doris Fenton Klockner and (and daughter), and the Barrys, Capis, Evanses, ing golf. Have met many Cornellians here, includ- Liz Call Kingsley to northern New Hampshire Golds, Jenkinses, Kestens, Middletons, Parkers, ing TedZimmerman,DVM ’43, Emery Polya, to visit Jean Hammersmith Wright, who is now Rundells, Sigetys, and four guests of Doris Annette Fox Levitt ’42, and one-time Sun editor living at Wake Robin, just south of Burlington. Holmes Jenkins. All winners received points and Dan Kops ’39.Hope to attend our 60th Reunion.” Had a great time. Sad not to be talking with our prizes lugged aboard by Dotty and Art. The one [Aline, you might’ve just missed that one, but I late friend and class officer Grace Reinhart with the most points is Top Dawg. Surprise! The think you’re on target for our 65th. See you there.] McQuillan. I do keep in touch with Ginger winner: NTR.Dick Evans was second, Bud Run- A note from Joaquin de la Roza (San Fran- Shaw Shelley and Edy Newman Weinberger.” dell third, and Phyllis Evans fourth. cisco, CA): “Long time since Boldt Hall. [“Keen” [Sounds like my cue.] Last month Joe ’42 and A sad note. One night during the trip Ali- roomed next to me, across the hall from Don Edy hosted their granddaughter’s wedding on son King Barry’s husband Alan died. They were Yust.] I’m aging fast, Miller. It’s the good who Long Boat Key, FL, with Ruth Ohringer Frank flown home to Massachusetts from Colon. die young.” John Vanderslice writes: “Dottie and in attendance. Edy writes: “Had lunch recently Others are traveling. Connie and Lew Mix I now live at The Woodlands, St. Barnabas with Helene Scheuer Rosenblatt, BS HE ’94, and of Virginia Beach, VA, spent two weeks in Turkey Retirement Communities just north of Pitts- Maxine Katz Morse, both ’45.Maxine is a most in September. They toured Istanbul, Izmir, and burgh. We like it very much. Last fall we cruised enthusiastic and loyal Cornellian, spearhead for the sites of the seven churches in the Book of down the Mississippi—St. Paul to St. Louis— her class, but she’s upset that ’45 isn’t at work on Revelation. Clifford Earl wrote from Bluffton, with Marilyn and Bill Grimes.A shame that a Compendium.”[Don’t look at me, Maxine.] ❖ SC, that he and Ann vacationed on St. Croix, VI, Phyl and Bill Hopple, MA ’50, had to cancel S. Miller Harris,P.O. Box 164, Spinnerstown, PA with his brother Dick Earl ’43 and wife Barbara (he had pneumonia); it was a real fun trip— 18968; e-mail, [email protected]. (Johnson) ’42 at his son’s condo. Dunbar King good weather and fine accommodations on the said the engine on his 1926 Model-T Ford has Mississippi Queen.” It’s April and the D.C. area is been rebuilt twice since its journey to Ithaca. It “Utterly surprised that we (Bernard ’42 and  awash in cherry blossoms, mag- was ready for its annual trip from West Islip to Lillian Kornblum Sachs) are now 84. Still in our nolias, redbud, and fruit tree Verona, NJ, via Avenue V in Brooklyn. own home, doing a lot less yard work, enjoying blooms. Forsythia and Bradford The trend to CCRCs (continuing care retire- our four grandchildren. Still in touch with our pear are phasing out as azaleas begin to pop. The ment communities) continues. Lena Hunt Bur- Cornell roommates. We continue to be impressed Kestens’ report on the CACO (Cornell Association din describes a quick move to Mt. Pleasant, SC, by the reading matter in Cornell Alumni Maga- of Class Officers) meeting in Philadelphia this year where she and husband Arthur ’38 felt young zine.Always a great read. Enjoyed a visit from Jean was sent to the 56 names on the letterhead. But among the old. They settled for the humidity of Lewinson Guttman (Waban, MA). Keep tabs on for the other 246 members, here’s the story. the Charleston area versus the winters in Ithaca Muriel Blum Lipman (Hamden, CT).The phone Attending the meeting with the Kestens were (children and families in those climes). They just rang: Muriel! ESP! We shared news of Jean Peg Pearce Addicks, Hugh Aronson, Bill Brown, have probably adjusted to 4:30 dinnertime by Guttman and Elaine Stone Millner. Old isn’t as Janet Buhsen Daukas, and Charlie and Dorothy now. She wrote of her daughter Judy Burdin bad as I once thought!” The aforementioned Kleine Van Reed ’45.Newly appointed officers are Asuni ’69,who is founder and executive direc- Muriel and her unmentioned till now spouse Barbara Hall Bowne, replacing Bob Garmezy, tor of an organization in Nigeria that is helping Bernard,DVM ’43, write: “At Holiday time we Janet Buhsen Daukas for Lou, Bob Greenberg to bring peace to the area. She has been given the heard from Dorothy Eckstein Hyde, Betty Ann for Lew Mix, and Rocky Mountain dwellers Phil title of “Special White Woman of the King in Bischoff Swezey (Palo Alto, CA), and Rosemary Lewin, PhD ’69, and Jane Knight Knott. Ughelli Kingdom.”She credits Cornell with cre- Williams Wilson (Thomaston, CT). We are Announcements included the awarding of ating new courses for her intended life in Africa. delighted to have granddaughter Sarah Jennifer two $4,000 scholarships from the Fellowship Barry and Cushing Phillips have settled into Lipman at Cornell working toward double mas- Fund, the 2006 value of which is $285,085. The Elmcroft in Montgomery, AL. Cush is in the ter’s degrees in Hotel Management and Finance, Periodical Endowment will be used for the pur- Alzheimer’s unit, Barry living in an apartment the latter in handsomely renovated Sage Hall chase of scholarly journals as well as popular next door, “allowing frequent visits.” With their where my own Cornell affiliation began.” periodicals. The excess donations to the Cornell son and family nearby and her two Jack Russells Miller Harris writes: “I was pleased (read: Daily Sun Digitization Project will be used to for daily companionship, she is “relearning her flattered) to learn that good friend Barbara support the ’44 Memorial Room, which needs way around Montgomery. Everyone is enjoying Wahl Cate had made a donation to Cornell in air-conditioning. The website account is $15,362, the change.” my honor. Go thou and do likewise. If enough and Art reports completion of 700 pages with Zelda Guttman Damashek and husband left of you follow suit, there’ll soon be an Endowed 3,000 photos. He will add 300 more pages. their home of 47 years in Scarsdale to move to Chair of Class Notes Writing: How To Scribble The hard-charging meticulous Kestens did it an apartment in White Plains. Their children for 50 Years. At home. In Your Spare Time. again—shepherded 29 classmates and friends on and grands are well. They claim three grandsons Without Remuneration.” [Get a grip, Miller. a ten-day Celebrity Caribbean cruise. Thirty-two and one granddaughter. Bill Swain in Sarasota, Recognition like Barbara’s is all the recompense headed for Fort Lauderdale and Andy, MD ’46, FL, wrote, “Connie and I and three sons, a one would ever need. That, and $5/word.] and Sherrill Capi’s grand send-off dinner party. daughter, and six grandchildren are well and Bob Hickman (West Grove, PA): “Lost my But Al Archer and Nancy were rerouted to a hos- active.” He says that the William H. Swain Co. good wife Andy this past June. She and I enjoyed pital in Atlanta when Nancy fell en route. The had one of its best years. He still works part-time 12 years of travel, music, and theater, but a others visited Jamaica, Costa Rica, Colon, but wants to sell and asks for offers. [Bill, send three-year bout with Alzheimer’s took its toll. Panama, and Aruba, dined sumptuously, danced, in a description and I’ll put it in the column.] ❖

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Nancy Torlinski Rundell, 20540 Falcons Land- his heart with many wonderful memories.” The help in locating an old classmate from EE school. ing Circle #4404, Sterling, VA 20165. problem is that no current official Cornell doc- Allan Slocum ’45, BEE ’47, entered Cornell with ument or list has such a name. If anyone has any her but left for the Army, returning later. A Cornell endowment status helpful information, please let me know. In early April, JoyceManley Forney (Dallas,  report was recently issued, includ- Another ongoing mystery is the identification TX) updated her January news: In addition to ing our class’s gifts; we should be of those in the class photo taken at our 55th being the editor of the Bugle,a monthly publica- proud of our assistance. The Class Reunion. Helpful information keeps trickling in, tion for the 600 residents of her retirement village, of 1945 Tradition Fellowship was established in but I am not yet ready to publish a list. Please take she is caring for her husband Ross ’52,who has 1993 and currently has a value of $218,437; cur- another look at your copy and tell me if you rec- Alzheimer’s. She keeps in touch with Priscilla rent awardees (at $4,000 each) are: Michael ognize any of the following (identified by row from Alden Clement, Ginny Dondero Pfundstein, Alice Barnoski ’07,Architecture (Stanley, NY); Jeffrey the front and position counting from the left): #2- McKinney Luttrell, and Sara McKissock Vick. Rudnik ’08, Engineering (Brownsville, TX); and 1, #2-2. #2-3, #2-6, #2-8. #2-16, #3-11, #3-12, #3- She’d like to hear from Mary Mershon Hoffmann Jose Gonzalez ’09, ILR (Lynn, MA). We have 17. Many look familiar to me but the memory isn’t ’45. Elizabeth Pearson’s daughter wrote that her also sponsored three Plantations stewardship what it should be! Thanks. ❖Prentice Cushing Jr., mother is in a nursing home in Grand Marais, projects, totaling $96,250: the Class of 1945 Path 713 Fleet Dr., Virginia Beach, VA 23454; tel., (757) MN, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. I know her to the Wildflower Garden; Class of 1945 Stair- 716-2400; e-mail, [email protected]. Delta Gamma sisters remember her. Joan Auchter case; and Class of 1945 Endowed Lecture Series, Kraft (Bethlehem, PA) is a volunteer chaplain in established in 2005, which supports lecturers in Last December, I received about the Pastoral Care Unit of St. Luke’s Hospital and the Fall Lecture Series.  20 News Forms, and I apologize is the bereavement chairman at St. Anne’s Parish. One of the prime movers for the Plantations  for the tardiness of getting your The first of our Reunion news will appear projects, Jane Knauss Stevens, MBA ’48 (Pittsford, news into the column. I hope in the Sept/Oct issue. In the meantime, continue NY) has been chosen by the Cornell Alumni Fed- you’ll continue to send to me your important sending news to ❖ Elinor Baier Kennedy, 9 eration as a 2006 winner of the Frank H. T. Rhodes news (just being alive at this age is important), Reading Dr., Wernersville, PA 19565; tel., (610) Exemplary Alumni Service Award, which will be as your old classmates are interested in knowing 927-8777. presented at a banquet in October. Jane follows our what is happening to you. Here are some excerpts other well-deserved winner/classmates Bill Berley from the mailman’s delivery after Christmas. We’d love to report on reunion, but our (NYC) and co-president Maxine Katz Morse (Rye, My favorite handwritten note was from deadline for this July/August column is April 15, NH). On the subject of awards, I received a mes- Louise Carmody Wiley (Naples, NY). She has had nearly two months before our “60th in ’06.” Eli- sage from Bob Olmsted (NYC) in which he com- quite a bout with MS, but is still hanging in there. nor Baier Kennedy, ’46 Women’s Correspondent ments about our report (in the March/April I remember when Ken brought her to Reunion— for 50 years, and I, celebrating ten years as Men’s CAM) that he didn’t think that his being featured I sure wish we could see her again. I also heard Correspondent, will together grind out recollec- in a New York Times article was nearly as much from New Yorkers Maurice ’44,MBA ’48, and tions during Reunion’s waning hours. Our 50- of a “big deal” as his honor by NYU’s Robert F. Naomi Colvin Gellman (NYC). Naomi is a retired plus-ten years of service equals “60,” Reunion’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service of high school math teacher and spent ten years magic number. Watch for our report in the Sep- receiving its Lifetime Achievement Award in doing budget work for the Health Dept. Larry and tember/October issue. Transportation. Regardless, he is worthy of both! Sylvia Helbert Paul (Williamsville) live in Florida Our News Form recently added a request for My old roomie, Mark Pendleton (Islesboro, during the winter. “We have the experience of “Who is the old Cornell friend you would most ME), called to inform me that spring is starting to preparing for hurricanes. In 2004 a tree hit our like to hear from?” The early leader is Rod Stieff. arrive “down East” and that he’s doing well, with home just ten days before our month tour of Italy.” Two classmates who chose him are Allen L. his grandson soon to be a college graduate (Wake Marguerite Fellows (Canandaigua) is retired Boorstein (New York City; [email protected]) Forest). Spring has come and gone in Virginia from SUNY Brockport and wrote, “Having fun and Russell C. Scott (Richmond, VA).Allen’s pres- Beach and it’s getting warm. The oceanfront hotels moving into new houses and out of old ones— ent primary interest is “use of ‘System Dynamics’ are primping for the summer mobs, and the big Maine, Florida, and back to the Finger Lakes.”She in strategic planning for governments and busi- topics around here are the possible closing of NAS is very active with golf and downhill skiing as sea- nesses and in the field of education.”Wife Jane’s Oceana (owing to BRAC) and the Ford assembly sonal activities. In the winter she also enjoys the work is in global population issues. Recently, Allen plant in Norfolk. My daughter, girlfriend, and I indoor pool, reading, and listening to classical has labored at moving his New York office into went to Bermuda for a few days in March, but it music. Hazel Brill Brampton (Ithaca) is involved their NYC apartment. To make room, he donated was cool and rainy there while 80 degrees here! in genealogy. She is preparing a small booklet on many books to the library in Farmington, ME— My son and family flew in from Glendale, CA, for one of her great-grandmothers who sent her near their second home. Among other things he’d a pre-Easter visit, so I keep busy, as does Mary children to Cornell. She also enjoys dancing at rather be doing, Allen lists “rowing on the Cornell Wright (Cooperstown, NY), who sent a pleasant the Straight and Barnes Hall, theater, reading, gar- 150-lb. crew, eating dinner at Krebs with fraternity message about her longtime contributions as an dening, and volunteering at the History Center. brothers—especially William “Skippy” Fuerst alumni news columnist for the Hotel school, She’d like to hear from Cornellians Regina Dutky ’39, MS ’61—or just enjoying opera at the Met.” which she enjoys because it is fun to keep in touch Marshall and Alec Hyde ’47, BME ’45. Otis Kid- Russell has had a rough year and a half in and to hear from classmates from whom you well Burger (NYC) wrote that she was taking care hospitals and rehab, but is now on the road to haven’t heard in a long time. That is true and I’m of a heart patient, making ceramic sculptures, and recovery.Anne and Russell have moved to a con- starting to run out of news items, so get busy and writing another novel. She has two daughters, two tinuing care community, where they would wel- send me some tidbits if you haven’t done so yet. granddaughters, and a menagerie of pets. come calls and notes from friends. (Ed.: Please Mary is active in Rotary and helps out at Fly Creek Floridians responding included Bill and contact your correspondent for their address and Cider Mill & Orchard, a nearby working water- Phyllis Stapley Tuddenham (Naples). They con- phone number.) They rented a large house in powered mill, winery, and country store. tinue to attend CAU classes and travel to London Hilton Head, SC, for a grand Thanksgiving party We did receive a mystery which some of you for the theatre. The highlight of their recent Euro- with children and grandchildren. Both Anne and may be able to help solve. A regular Class of 1945 pean trip was visiting their high school exchange Russell are thankful for memories of extensive News Form, sent out with our class mailing 1-1⁄2 students who are now in their 50s. Joe and Kath- travel and sailing enjoyed in younger days. years ago and returned to the Alumni Affairs leen Smith Mancini (Palm Coast) wrote that Kay Rev. Donald W. Beers and wife Teresa still office, reported the death, in December 2005, of retired from teaching in 1982, at which time they reside in Belvidere, NJ. He has retired after a long, John Edward Warner, Fairlawn, OH. It appears moved to Florida. She is a real estate broker with satisfying career in the Episcopal Church. Now to have been sent by one of his children, as it Coldwell Banker. Marian Cudworth Henderson he has plenty of time to pursue stamp and coin states that “my father always had Cornell close to (Ormond Beach) is still traveling. She’d like our collection. He fondly remembers years of playing

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soccer at Cornell. When Donald S. Ironside bazooka out of a pipe, with a tee at the end of the Dianne Shapiro Gasworth, Palm (Haverford, PA) retired in 1967, he toyed with pipe and a vacuum cleaner connected to the tee.  Beach, FL: “Retired judge, Civil creating PPM (Philadelphia Precision Measure- With the vacuum cleaner running and a piece of  Court of NY. Present mediator in ments). Evidently, he couldn’t determine what to paper over the end, he put a projectile in one end Palm Beach County. Reading, measure. He and Beatriz are enjoying their retire- and it shot out the other end traveling 80 feet. tennis, bridge. Took Tauck Tour to see Mount ment institution called The Quadrangle. It’s The kids were impressed. Good work, Dick. It Rushmore, Grand Canyon, etc. Traveled to Maine handy to Philadelphia and their 47-year suburban sounds as if you were carrying on the tradition of to see grandson, a cellist. Would rather be back neighborhood. Don and Beatriz live within three Freshman Physics professor Guy Grantham, who on the bench or be a student at Cornell. My three hours of their immediate family, all of whom “are put on similar shows every Tuesday and Thurs- children are lawyers, one of my granddaughters in fine fettle.” Don hoped to make our “60th in day in Rockefeller Hall. Dick and Mary Lou have graduated law school, and a second daughter ’06.” If so, we’ll tell the world in our next issue. a vacation home at Lake Tahoe; home is Palo Alto. started law school. World’s problem today is get- TO PUBLISH YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS, They welcome calls and visits from classmates. ting out of Iraq. Wish I knew how.” e-mail it to me. Include your name and city and state of residence. Send news to: ❖ Paul Levine, 31 Chicory Lane, San Carlos, CA 94070; tel., (650) 592-5273; e-mail, [email protected]. Having fun moving into new houses Class website, http://classof46.alumni.cornell.edu. ‘ and out of old ones. It’s hard to believe that at this  time next year we will have al- MARGUERITE FELLOWS ’46’ ready had our 60th Reunion. 60! How is it possible? Barbara “Bimby” Everitt Bryant (bryantb@ Dick’s second report is one he says he sent Jean Chamoulaud Kimmell, Cornwall, PA: umich.edu) responded to the recent News and to me in 2002 but never saw in the column. I’m “Disposing of mountains of mail; i.e., catalogs, Dues letter via e-mail, telling us she is still work- sorry for that, as it’s interesting and about magazines, charities, bills. I actually had nine cat- ing at the U. of Michigan as a research scientist. friends. Tom Talpey and his wife Betty (Alden) alogs the last three Mondays. If I could just dump Remember when we were so proud that she, our ’48 recently created “The William E. and Elva F. them—but there might be a treasure to buy, classmate, was head of the Federal Census? She Gordon Distinguished Lectureship” to be given something to learn, or a waif to save. After-hours reports that she celebrated her 80th birthday yearly at Cornell’s Arecibo Observatory. Tom’s activity consists of ‘Desperate Housewives,’ with one of the same people with whom she first job after graduating from Cornell was with ‘House,’ and ‘Monk,’ plus whatever special things spent her 18th—her freshman roommate Lois Bell Labs, and one of his assignments was Cornwall Manor thinks up. It’s like living in a Stamey Spear.Lois and her husband Monty ’46 designing and building telescope receivers for the sorority on my resident hall. There is as much were visiting at Bimby’s Scottsdale, AZ, winter electronic telescope. On an important visit to the activity in the laundry room and corridors as there home. The three then took a 1,300-mile jaunt to observatory, Tom and Betty invited their son Bill, is in the apartments. As you get to know the peo- San Diego and Palm Springs, CA. I hope they Dick and Mary Lou, Betty’s sister Priscilla Alden ple around you, the more you realize everyone has will all attend reunion. Clement ’46, and her husband Gordon ’44, BCE a story. Some cope with life better than others, in I had a lovely phone conversation with Mary ’47, to attend the inaugural lecture on Novem- spite of what horrors are thrown at them. Recently Lou Gedel (now just “Lou”), who called me ber 12, 2002, arranged by Cornell’s National visited the mountains of Maryland and the horsey because she wanted contact information for Bea Astronomy and Ionosphere Center. area around Charleston, WV. Tomorrow my Carlson Murray, whom I had written of in the Arecibo’s radio telescope is the most sensitive beloved daughter-in-law and I are going to be March/April issue. Lou is retired but had a busy life in the world. The spherical reflector, 1,000 feet in ‘the ladies who lunch at a beautiful restaurant’— as a nutritionist/dietitian. She worked at Johns diameter, fills an entire valley. The feed structure very posh, yet informal—in an old Queen Anne- Hopkins for 20 years, then moved to Alabama is suspended by cables 500 feet above its center style Elmira/Ithaca-type Victorian. Central Penn- where she first was county, then state, nutrition- and is five stories tall. All seven took the five- sylvania may be straight-laced Bible belt, but they ist for over 24 years. The duties of her job entailed minute cable car ride from the surrounding hill to know how to eat well. I have eight grandchildren. traveling around the state, and she also adminis- the top of the feed. There they toured the steering “If you had mentioned philosophy to me at tered the WIC Program. In retirement, Lou is and focusing machinery and saw the receiver pre- Cornell I would have run away screaming. Now busy: tap and line dancing, warbling in a chorus amplifiers, as well as one of the transmitters, send- I discover all of my conclusions about life that singing music from the ’40s and ’50s, and playing ing 2,000,000 watts at 10 centimeters wavelength. have taken me 78 years to learn could have been in a washboard band of about 50 people in which They walked off via a narrow suspended catwalk absorbed in the ’40s at school. Most pressing she plays the drum using a can. Her groups enter- one person wide and about 600 feet long. They problem today is making decisions, but I can’t tain in hospitals and retirement homes. Lou trav- met with one of the lecture namesakes, Bill Gor- decide what the solution should be. World’s els, too, and had one special trip where she started don, PhD ’53,a former Cornell professor, now most pressing problem is religious intolerance. in Canada, crossed Lake Ontario, embarked onto 84, who supervised construction of the observa- Considering human history since we climbed the Erie Canal, and entered the Hudson River, end- tory in 1960-63 after planning and promoting it. out of the primordial ooze, there is no solution. ing in New York City. Sounds wonderful to me. Bill was Tom’s boss for three years while Tom, on Blame it on our genes. Have learned that a good H. Richard Johnson ([email protected]) leave from Bell Laboratories, lived in Arecibo hug can help people more than I ever realized. has contributed two good reports. Recently Dick with Betty and their two children and helped You just have to know when it’s appropriate. Life and wife Mary Lou visited their daughter Karen develop the observatory’s first super-sensitive is. Accept it. Deal with it. Can we be ghosts while in Bend, OR. Karen is a fourth grade teacher and receiver. At that time, their son Billy, then 5, asked we are still alive? I often walk along the familiar asked Dick to come to her school to put on a a construction worker if he could walk out onto paths of childhood and youth. I know I will show celebrating Physics Week. The Johnsons the catwalk, then under construction. When the never see them again physically but the memo- arrived with a carload of apparatus for the proj- worker learned his age, he replied, “Too bad, you ries are bright, shining, and happy. Meet me ect. When the students questioned the existence have to be 6 to go out on it.”Billy, now 46, finally behind the falls, beyond and under the suspen- of air pressure, Dick emptied air from a paint can got up there. All were treated royally. sion bridge over Fall Creek Gorge.” by boiling water in the can, causing the can to fill Happy summer! Stay well. ❖ Arlie William- Phil Rowe, BS Hotel ’73, Wyomissing, PA: with steam. Dick snapped on the lid, causing the son Anderson, 238 Dorchester Rd., Rochester, The Reading (PA) Eagle reports that Phil, “own- condensed steam to cause the can to collapse, NY 14610; tel., (585) 288-3752; e-mail, arlie47@ ing over 30 restaurants in his 58-year career, hav- showing air pressure at work. Dick also made a aol.com. ing bought and sold many, including the chain

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of 14 Dempseys Family Restaurants, is ‘retiringly’ raising our spirits on St. Patrick’sDay. The high year. Immediately after, we are off to five coun- ensconced in his only remaining Dempseys Res- point of this move was to open the front door tries in Central America in our plane with a taurant at 2250 Lancaster Pike West, in Cumru and be greeted by the singing of the Alma Mater group of five other planes. Should be great!” Tow nship (but he might at any minute start by Henry ’42 and Ruth Goodyer Jones ’42, and Norman Baker (Windsor, MA; CapNorm@ expanding again). Almost everyone in Northeast Barbara Stryker Pratt ’48.They knew all the aol.com) mourns the loss of his wife Mary Ann. Pennsylvania has probably eaten at least once in words. They were rewarded with Big Red cheer- “She has left us with an unfilled emptiness,” he a Dempseys. Phil started working in 1947 at his leader megaphones and a ’48 Reunion favor . . . writes. What makes him feel better is playing with grandfather’s restaurant, the Buttonwood Diner thus reducing our inventory a bit. his three grandchildren, “who never, ever fight in Reading, where for 50 cents you would get a Bill Herzog (Columbus, NJ) reports that he with each other, and make me laugh. I flew my meat, a vegetable, a potato, applesauce, bread, and wife Carol (Felder) ’51 met at Cornell and little Skyhawk to Washington, DC, Pascagoula, butter, and coffee.’” that son Don ’78 met his wife Linda Winkler ’80 MS, Dallas, TX, Albuquerque and Santa Fe, NM, St. Louis, MO, and home, visiting friends, old Navy buddies, and family.” Dorothea Dashefsky Fast (Livingston, NJ; [email protected]) is Can we be ghosts while we are still alive? “doing all the retired things—traveling, reading, lunching—and keeping a 50-year-old house ‘ JEAN CHAMOULAUD KIMMELL ’48 ’ together.”She has lots of family involvement and takes the grandkids, one at a time, on big trips. Dorothea writes, “So far so good as is.” Bill O’Brien and classmate wife Patricia on the Hill. Now their daughter Emma has been Dick Dietz (Chadds Ford, PA) sent this e- (Hayes), East Aurora, NY: “Bill is retired but doing accepted. Maybe history will repeat. We received mail last summer, and it has found its way into occasional radiation inspection and consulting. a note from Robert Corbett (Annapolis, MD), the column. “I recently became a late-in-life All- We enjoy seeing grandchildren grow up ‘too a fellow ATO. He says he is a mostly retired American. I returned to competitive skeet shoot- fast’—hope one goes to Cornell. How blessed are architect and a member of the Class of ’50,but ing some years back, mostly as a social activity. we to have friends as we grow older. How great would like to transfer to ’49 where most of his Last year, I participated in enough competitive were the Cornell years. We attended a Cornell off- friends are. Bob started in 1945 and graduated shoots to qualify and was selected to the 2005 year reunion 2005. It was great! Son Joseph, PhD the five-year undergrad course in 1950. It is Veteran Class (over 70) All American Skeet Team. in Biology and currently in the US Forest Service, amazing that anyone in this era knows his or her I still do some occasional freelance writing, was with us. He was very impressed with Cornell. class—it was a jumble. Welcome, Bob! Anyone wilderness travel, and field exercising of Labrador Our problem is to find enough hours in the day who has a premier ski run at Jackson Hole retrievers (mine or those of others). Still keep in to enjoy family and friends. No solution! World’s named after him is welcome. touch with former Cornell roommates Herb problem is ecology, global warming, and peace. “Day jobs,”“after-hours activities,” current Twichell ’50 (Gowanda, NY) and Bob Piper ’52 Also Hurricane Katrina. People need to try to get goings-on . . . We’ll fit as many people in this col- (Bozeman, MT).” along and take care of each other. We should try umn as we can. Here’s what’s been happening Richard Gilbert and wife Joy (Stern) ’51 to live every day in the best way we can. Life is recently. Marilyn Gruenberg Luebeck (West live in Lexington, MA ([email protected]). great!” Harriet Morel Oxman, Sarasota, FL: Bloomfield, MI; [email protected]), Richard is president of Joy Realty Associates Inc., “Returned from a journey to Egypt in May ’05; facilitator and chairman of the Inst. of Retired and works about 60 percent of the time. He says departed Oct. ’05 for Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Professionals, does tutoring with the Oakland his son is now running the business. In his spare and Vietnam. I just keep going!” Literacy Council, substitute teaches in the local time, he does photography and builds model Steve “Coop” Cooper,Fremont, CA: “Pres- elementary schools, and leads a book and biog- boats, and he and Joy continue to travel. Recent ent day job is taking care of girlfriend, also after- raphy group. In addition to that, she’d like to be trips have been to the Black Sea, Central Amer- hours. My children are smarter than I. Their staying out of doctors’ offices and writing the ica, and the Rhine and Mosel rivers. Arno Nash children are smarter than their parents. I was Great American Novel. Lee and Jan Steele Regul- and wife Doris have moved permanently to their smarter than my dad. Boy, he must have been ski (Clearwater, FL; [email protected]) write new home in Munich, Germany, and spend their ignorant! Took trip to Cooperstown last June, that they travel as much as they can: “Elderhos- days learning to speak German better. David L.A. in August. I’d rather be playing golf, trying tel programs, ‘convertible with the top down’ and Joan Dickey Hardie (Lansing, NY; dave to shoot my age—on the front nine. Plan to auto trips—wherever fancy takes us.” Herbert [email protected]) have been traveling to attend the 114th Infantry Reunion in Washing- Schwartz (Briarcliff Manor, NY; heschwartz@ Greece and visiting relatives in the US. “We are ton, DC, in September, spend Christmas with aremco.com), CEO of Aremco Products Inc., is very happy to enjoy our home, farm, church, girlfriend and her children in Chile, and attend recovering from arthritis in his back, which and Big Red Hockey!” our 60th Reunion in 2008. Since all three of my keeps him from playing golf and tennis as much What do you remember best about Cornell? children live in Fremont, we have BBQs, birth- as he’d like. He does, however, spend time paint- How about this from the above ’49ers: Profes- day parties, and backyard swims frequently. ing watercolors and as a counselor for SCORE, sors, courses we took, and people we met (David Recently discovered how to work on my roof a national organization that mentors people who and Joan Hardie); Octagon Club and many of without breaking the tiles. God has a plan for would like to start their own businesses. the professors—especially Prof. Smart (Marilyn each of us. Live each day so we are ready when Ruth Samuels Hanft (Charlottesville, VA; Luebeck); a come-from-behind last-minute vic- He discloses it. God Bless all ’48ers.” ❖ Bob Per- [email protected]) and husband Herbert tory over Dartmouth in November 1944 (Her- sons, 102 Reid Ave., Port Washington, NY enjoy concerts and dinners with friends. During bert Schwartz); the music room at the Straight 11050; tel. and fax, (516) 767-1776. the day, Ruth serves on community boards and (Ruth Hanft); rowing on the 1949 Henley committees, and participates in study groups. Championship Lightweight Crew . . . and keep- We’re off. To say that we are set- She would like to be traveling more. Travelers ing those friendships (Norman Baker); the  tled in at our new home is a real Chuck and Sis Reynolds (Vero Beach, FL; beauty of each season, including those elm trees stretch. Crates to be opened/ [email protected]) sent a long note: “We (Dorothea Fast). unpacked. Things to be found. I are enjoying our life at Orchard Island in Vero Haven’t sent in your news yet? Or your best give it a year and all will be calm. No matter how for seven months and then Mantoloking, NJ, for memories of Cornell? Now’s a good time. More skilled the movers, or all the help you get, a five. We are traveling a great deal and love to do news to come in the next issues. Stay well. Stay move like this is a traumatic experience. Thanks it. Next week we are going to NYC for a week- happy. Be proud to be a ’49er! ❖ Dick Keegan, for all your e-mails while this was going on, and end with all of our children and their spouses to 100 Ashlar Village, Wallingford, CT 06492; e- special thanks to Tony Tappin (Tucson, AZ) for celebrate Sis’s 80th birthday. Mine follows next mail, [email protected].

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To our News Form question, “If both Fulbright art scholars at the U. of Ljubljana, some related complications, walk with knee-high  still working, describe,” Bill Neef, Slovenia. They toured the Adriatic coast and brace and cane, and can manage—very slowly.” MME ’54, Prescott, AZ, replied, hiked in the Julian Alps. At home, Helen paints Jan’s been piloting a business communications “HA!” Bill was a research engi- in watercolors, takes piano lessons, and volun- training (volunteer) project for staff members at neer at Lawrence Livermore National Labs deal- teers as a writing coach for ninth graders. Meadows Community Services, a Chicago subur- ing with nuclear fusion, but now volunteers with Martha Galvin Inskip, Kenmore, NY, worked in ban faith-based agency that helps 200-300 mostly Rotary Int’l and his Methodist Church choir. early childhood education, but now volunteers Hispanic clients. “Assuming all goes well, the proj- After a tour of China he recommends we all for Meals On Wheels and as treasurer of her ect becomes the key exhibit in my cumulative learn Mandarin. Robert Rider,Germantown, church’s women’s guild. Martha reports visiting portfolio for the master’s degree (my second mas- NY, says, “Yes, I’m still running the fruit farm, her Cornell roommate, Marilen Tarleton ter’s; first is MBA) in Training & Development, but at 80 it seems tougher accomplishing what Plumer,wife of our other classmate David. Instructional Design concentration, which I expect 20 years ago I would have laughed at.” Peter Rowe, Florence, MA, was Smith Col- to receive from Roosevelt U. at the December 2006 Norman Jennings, MS ’51, Leesburg, FL, has lege professor of government. He served as fac- Commencement.”This spring she taught some 60 no problem with senior idleness: Leesburg Hos- ulty lecturer on an alumni trip to India and last learners in two Roosevelt U. classes (English comp pital Auxiliary, reading, dancing, poker, theatre fall took a trip up the Amazon to the Peruvian and a graduate psychology-writing course) and performing, genealogy, Internet, church activities, rain forests. He is a trustee of the Forbes Library one Harper College Eng. 101 course. “I still have and RV’ing. Marie Mayhaus Martin, Teutopolis, in Northampton, MA, and ESL tutor for the Int’l eight books in print, but have stopped writing IL, succinctly reported that she works for Children Language Inst. Ames Filippone, MD ’53, Mor- books to concentrate on adjunct teaching.” and Youth Services. Dorothy Coons Chadbourne, ristown, NJ, is retired as chief of surgery of Mor- Alfred, PhD ’60, and Dolores Blumstein, Utica, NY, enjoys easy retirement living at the ristown Memorial Hospital, where he has been Pittsburgh, PA, took their kids (three) and Masonic Retirement Community and volunteers honored with an endowed chair in surgery. He grandkids (four, nearing their teens) on a four- at the community’s assisted living and health care now reads first-century history and creates mod- day Caribbean cruise. Al’s year as INFORMS facility. Edward Hoenicke,Punta Gorda, FL, els of classical architectural artifacts of the Morse lecturer has taken him to York, UK, Hon- worked as an attorney and business executive, period, such as the Arch of Titus. Ames is seek- olulu, and New Orleans for plenary talks on but now volunteers as a director of Care USA. He ing advice on how to do a statuary grouping of operations research. Henry, JD ’52 and Phyllis mourns the passing of his wife Janice. the founding fathers in a conversational pose. Fein Bobrow, Stamford, CT, are still getting used Henry Mertz,Taylors,SC,retired 20 years John Timmerman, Lake View, OH, is a col- to being Connecticut residents after being New ago at age 58 after a career in insurance. He league of mine in the search for answers to the Yorkers all their lives, but they are closer to their mourns the passing of his wife Eva, with whom UFO enigma. Over a 12-year period he toured Westport son, Richard ’79, and family. Daugh- he enjoyed extensive travel in all 50 US states, as the country with a UFO exhibit and recorded ter Joanne Bobrow Shoelkopf ’76 lives in Win- well as cruises and travels to many countries unsolicited personal accounts of UFO encounters. ter Park, FL. Marc and Denyse Ginzberg,Rye, abroad. Audrey Rossman Sharman,Briarcliff These are now collected in a fascinating and engag- NY, report that the Johnson Museum showed Manor, NY, reports memorable visits with class- ing book, Grass Roots UFOs: Case Reports from the their collection, “African Forms,” in September mates and other Cornell colleagues Tom Ker- Timmerman Files,by Michael D. Swords. To learn 2004. Their website is www.africanforms.net. wick, John “Dirk” Ten Hagen ’49, and husband more, contact John at [email protected]. Joan Falconer writes from Iowa City, IA, that Bill’s roommate and best man Bob Clark ’51 and Concerns and Memories. Due to a stroke, she was able to reestablish contact with Mary wife Joyce. Also Clarence “Ben” Berner and wife John Kurzenhauser,Modesto, CA, is in the Hi- Osborn Gallwey, PhD ’58, Seattle, WA, as a result Phoebe (Eisenbrown) ’51.Ben was a fraternity Land Nursing Home in Modesto. We mourn the of the Nov/Dec 2004 class column. Joan traveled brother of Bill and served as usher at their wed- deaths of classmates Joseph Kirkland,Leander, to Jordan and Egypt in 2004. She was in Cairo ding; Phoebe was a sorority sister of Audrey. TX, A. Herbert Nehrling Jr.,Timonium, MD, over Election Day and also when Arafat died and John Griswold,Woodsville, NH, still “listens Conner Stephens,Alfred Station, NY, and Sell- was memorialized there. “Quite an exciting time,” to requests for his services” as an independent eck “Jack” Carpenter,Williamsville, NY. she writes, “and very instructive to hear the Egyp- business research consultant specializing in I’ll happily receive expressions of thanks for tians’ take on both subjects.” John and Rose Car- assessing markets and competitive business con- sending from Iowa to the Hill Cornell’s new pres- penter Gernon ’53 spent three weeks touring ditions. John sings in the 90-member North ident David Skorton. We previously trained the New Zealand in 2005. “Great country and we had Country Chorus and is “having a blast” playing distinguished Hunter Rawlings out here in the a lot of laughs with fellow Brits and Aussies.”John tenor sax and clarinet in a small combo at the intellectual center of the US. We shall now get busy is still working with Habitat for Humanity in local senior center—“all the great old tunes from preparing the next. My wife Erma, acquainted with Glendora, CA, with 14 houses completed. Their the ’30s, ’40s, and ’50s.” George Barton,York, Dr. Skorton through work with the American seventh grandchild, born prematurely in Paris, is PA, was founder, owner, and CEO of Barton Heart Association, reports that in addition to his doing well despite a 720-gram birth weight, and Associates, a mechanical and electrical design impeccable professional credentials, he is also a was expected to return to the States last May. firm. Golf and yard work are current diversions. very nice guy. ❖ Paul H. Joslin, 6080 Terrace Dr., Robert Matyas, Lansing, NY, reports meet- With wife Mary Jean, Robert “Bucky” Ellis, Johnston, IA 50131-1560; tel., (515) 278-0960; e- ing Martha Servis Ruhling, Branford, CT, at the Lake Barrington, IL, celebrated a 56th wedding mail, [email protected]; Marion Steinmann, 237 Brooker Creek Environmental Education Cen- anniversary. He serves on several hospital and West Highland Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19118; tel., ter in Tarpon Springs, FL. Bob and Betty wear condo committees and enjoys golf, gardening, and (215) 242-8443; e-mail, [email protected]. their 50th Reunion jackets everywhere they travel. Eric Kjellmark Jr., Ft. Lauderdale, FL, had travel, and Marty, a docent there, said she had a 35-year career with DuPont working in plastics You may wonder why there is no “one of those jackets at home.” Marty, a retired research and marketing. He retired from DuPont  reunion news in this column, a researcher from Yale’s School of Medicine, sends in 1985, then worked for ten years as an interna- month afterwards. That’s because greetings to her Pi Phi sisters and hoped to come tional consultant on nylon research and develop- I’m writing this in April (the lead to the 55th Reunion. Bob and Betty visit their ment. In Wilmington, DE, his former home, Eric time on these columns is nearly three months). son John ’78, MS ’85, and wife Nancy (Wright) was the volunteer general director of Opera Reunion news will appear in the Sept/Oct issue. ’77 in Calgary annually, where two grandsons Delaware, president of Opera for Youth, and Jan Witmeyer Bone, Palatine, IL, sent her best play hockey—both goalies. treasurer of Grand Opera House. Eric is cited in wishes to all at Reunion. “The logistics of an early The Frederick P. B. Thorntons, Drexel Hill, Who’s Who in America for his service to the arts. morning flight through Syracuse, the rent-a-car, PA,have added a grandson on Fritz’s side and a Helen Bull Neuhaus, Montclair, NJ, and and the lodging question, as well as the so-big granddaughter on Olga’s side, making a total of 13. husband Goeff missed last year’s reunion because campus are a bit more than I can handle. I got the Fritz’s recent leg and foot injuries have restricted they were visiting their daughter and husband, metal and plastic knee in Aug. 2004, and due to playing with them, but he is rehabbing and hopes

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to soon resume hiking, biking, canoeing, tennis, in her memory. Amazingly, I was better able to expected and is dealing with that and the loss of and fly-fishing. He recently retired as president close sales than the substitute ladies I later en- Mom.” As Paul, who has known both of them and chairman of two 501(c)(3) environmental gaged. Now, at age 76, I am slowly preparing to since seventh grade, says, “It gets harder and corporations. He is still active on the board of the move back to the US in 2007. The business has harder to accept these things.” It does. ❖ Joan Heinz Federal Wildlife Preserve. He sees Dave been sold to an old friend, who will carry on Boffa Gaul, 7 Colonial Place, Pittsburgh, PA Maroney,Villanova, PA, periodically and reports nearby, exactly in the same pattern as now—a 15232; e-mail, [email protected]. he is doing well despite the loss of his wife Mary. fitting tribute to Joan’s memory. You can even John B. Henry retired from medicine in June see her picture with our models on the website: Adirondack attorney Jack Mannix, 2005 after “50 wonderful and productive years” www.nostalgiekleider.ch.” Thank you, Richard.  JD ’58, billed as the world’s seventh as a distinguished service professor. He retired From the mailbag. Emily and Theodore greatest magician, and fixture at Sav- from the US Navy in 1993 and then directed Castner,now of Pittsford, NY, moved from age Club shows at many reunions, Transfusion Medicine Service (including HLA & southern New Hampshire to a retirement com- left the world a better place when, it’s sad to say, Immunogenetics) and taught at SUNY Upstate munity. Ted is still doing research in condensed he died this spring. But he left a legacy of warm Medical U. for another 12 years. He discovered matter physics, but is retired from other aca- nostalgia in a note he sent a few weeks earlier. It and reported with colleagues a new HLA A0101 demic activities. He hikes, bikes, attends RPO seems he was mousing his way around vintage ’52 null allele. He reports from Skaneateles, NY, that concerts, skis cross-country, interacts with grand- Daily Suns on the ’Net (find it through the Sun or his first grandchild graduated from Dartmouth children, and reads new and old books. The Cast- Library sites in www.cornell.edu) and ran across cum laude in 2004 and plans to go to law school ners had enjoyed an Elderhostel to the western an account of a whupping George Boateng,MS in 2006. He has eight other grandchildren and Grand Canyon that included a hike to Supai Vil- ’55, and his soccer teammates laid on Navy. “He prays for a Cornellian. Georgette and he married lage. In retirement, Martin Cohen,Belmont, was a native of the Gold Coast and the best I ever at Sage Chapel on June 10, 1953, and he looks MA, is a museum volunteer, makes toys for his played alongside,” said Jack. “As a freshman, he forward to retirement life, including more sail- grandchildren, and is active in local politics. As had a terrible time adapting to soccer shoes since ing on Skaneateles Lake. do so many of you, he answers the “What I’d he had always played in his bare feet. We all told Barry Nolin,Water Oak, FL, sent a photo- rather be doing now” question as follows: “What him that he had to wear the soccer boot because graph of a lunch get-together at the end of Feb- I am doing now. I have a ‘satisfied mind.’” if anyone stepped on his bare foot he was prob- ruary with Edie Quinn Franklin ’53, Ken ’52 and Phyllis Berger Corwin,Basking Ridge, NJ, ably done with his soccer career at Cornell. Joanne Huntington Tunnell,MPA ’52, Lena and writes, “Most recently returned from a trans- “Well, he adapted. Did he ever! He was All- Donn Terhune ’52, and himself. “Edie and the atlantic cruise on the Queen Mary II,a fabulous America for three years. He told me in our fresh- Terhunes live in the Villages, Barry lives nearby, ship. But both of us [husband Stan] agree that man year that he was not skilled enough to make and the Tunnells were on their way back north late fall is probably not the best time to take his local team back in the Gold Coast. Anyway, the after an annual visit to Sanibel Island.” advantage of all the ship has to offer. From one athletic doctor told him not to play against Navy Barry’s Class of ’51 Web page is http://class extreme to another: a month earlier we had because he had a small fracture in his left instep. of51.alumni.cornell.edu. Please send your news cruised the Columbia and Snake rivers on a small George would have none of that. He insisted, and to ❖ Brad Bond, 101 Hillside Way, Marietta, OH ship, tracing the footsteps of Lewis and Clark, prevailed. Doc Rachun wrapped his foot in sponge 45750; tel. (740) 374-6715; e-mail, [email protected]. whose Voyage of Discovery was an amazing feat.” rubber and turned him loose. George scored all News from Californians. Ivan Gendzel,MD five of our goals with a broken foot. I think the Present at the joint ’52-53 class din- ’56, Palo Alto, reports that he is an “almost retired last time I saw him was at our graduation.”  ner the night before the February psychiatrist.”Apart from that, he serves on the civil If you Google George Boateng, you get a Cornell Assn. of Class Officers grand jury of Santa Clara County, is a Red Cross Middlesbrough (UK) midfielder born in Ghana (CACO) Mid-Winter Meeting in disaster mental health volunteer, and serves on the in 1975. He has his own Web page. Philadelphia were Joy Rees Hoffman, our reunion board of the Pacific Skyline Council Boy Scouts “My child bride Dorraine, 13 years younger co-chair; Dean and Lynn Heidelberger MacEwen; of America. Also in California, Jim Gibbs writes than I,” says Barry Weiss (Playa del Rey, CA), Jack and Pat Thornton Bradt,who was to go to from Stanford: “My wife Jewelle and I had a two- “rescued me from widowhood by asking me to Oxford this summer to discuss the Dover School week trip to China in October 2005. Highlights merengue with her at a dance for guys over 40 and Board case; Cass and Jean Brown Craig, who included the Yangtze River gorges and the Three gals over 35, 14 years ago. That brought me to her were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary Gorges Dam.” Roger, PhD ’65, and Joan Ganders two sons to add to my own two sons. Her oldest, a the next day; Judy Calhoun Schurman; Cather- Glassey are in Berkeley. Roger is still teaching rabbi at Aish Hatorah in Jerusalem, is the only one ine McDonald Hegeman; Trudy Serby Gildea, computer programming for robots built with to provide us with the delight of grandchildren. our class secretary; and our co-presidents Tom Lego’s Mindstorms kits to upperclass industrial That gives us ample reasons for one or two visits Foulkes and JanHofmann McCulloch. My hus- engineering and operations research engineers at a year and a wonderful appreciation of Israel and band Stuart, seated across from Lynn and Jan and UC Berkeley. After hours, he is on the church Judaism as well.”Barry and Dorraine are partners between Judy and Cass, did not suffer. All looked maintenance committee, plays tennis, and acts. in Secure Financial Services, which, says he, “helps great, but the person who looked most the same Joan Jago Tow nsend, Arlington, TX, recently people use their assets more effectively.”About that was Jack Bradt. The next day Judy and Catherine, attended the Cornell-Harvard game in the rain, first date: “The night we met I said I expected to along with Terr y, JD ’56, and Dorrie Crozier and also went to the Texas-Baylor game. She marry someone I’d met at a political event. Well, Warren,joined the class officers, which by then writes, “Three of our kids are UT grads and had Dorraine was treasurer of our local Democratic included Gordon Williams,treasurer, at the class season tickets to TCU. We sure can pick some club for nine years, and we work for common meeting. For a full rundown on the meeting, winners!” Richard Reichart,Princeton, NJ, sense in government. That’s an uphill battle, for it memories, and 55th Reunion news, check our retired, is “still doing some survey research, both seems, as Jim Hightower titled his book, If God class website, http://classof52.alumni.cornell.edu. revenue-producing and pro bono.” He is active Wanted Us to Vote, He’d Have Given Us Candidates. Richard Bosshardt e-mailed to say that he in the Ethical Culture movement, both locally Retired kindergarten teacher Louise Klein and Joan (Clifton) ’54 moved back to Switzerland and nationally. Recently he has been doing a lot Sussman (Elkins Park, PA), current full-time pot- in 1982, where Joan, who had majored in Textiles of e-mail and is starting regular gym workouts to ter, has been teaching kids’ clay classes. Marylyn & Clothing Design, applied her degree and get his walking legs back in shape. Aker Graff (Warren, RI) has been reading copy opened “Nostalgiekleider Shop” (Nostalgic Cloth- Paul Herman forwarded news from Sandy for a local bi-weekly newspaper. Helen Abel Wang ing Shop) with 1,500 items of 1910-1970 clothes Lyon, daughter of Henry and Bettie Buell Lyon, (Oceanside, CA) is a Gideon’s Auxiliary, provid- for rental and sale. He continued, “At its success- who lived in Hawaii, that Bettie passed away in ing Bibles for medical offices, teaching English to ful peak, Joan died suddenly of an embolism on late March, and that Henry had had surgery older Chinese people, and visiting convalescent Dec. 5, 2003. My daughters urged me to continue shortly after that. “He is doing as well as can be homes. Jane Cody DeVries (Woodbury, CT)

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points with justified pride to three accomplished family genealogy, and maintaining the largest and Jasper fame and came away awestruck, as offspring, sons Thomas (science teacher and pale- garden in the county of Oneida, NY. Fond mem- does everyone who has seen them. We have a few ontologist), Paul (geologist), and Mark (chemical ories of Cornell include the 60-cent pitchers of classmates that are so delighted with their lifestyles engineer). Jane has been a pillar of the local Board beer at the Royal Palm. Letitia Martin Heil has that they have one answer that fits all. Linda Stagg of Education and Board of Finance, as well as recently spent two months in Thailand and was Long is retired, and chauffeuring grandchildren chairperson of the Democratic Town Committee. witness to the total solar eclipse on a Mediter- fits her after-hours activity, doing-recently activ- Over in Litchfield, CT, Joe Alfredo and sons ranean cruise this spring. Letitia is looking for ity, and rather-be-doing activity. Cruising would operate a driving range. The sons are very good Leonore Hess Yaverbaum. Can anyone help? My appear to fill the same bill for R. M. Skelton. golfers, Joe assures us. Two other sons are con- search has come up empty. Frederick Battaglia finds fishing and biking fills tinuing in the landscaping business. Joe divides the year unequally between Greenwich, CT (eight months) and an oceanside home in Highland Beach, FL (four months). He divides club time Stan Landau has replaced “the joys of between the Westchester Country Club in Rye, ‘ NY (48 years), and Boca Raton Resort and Club sailing with the frustration of golf.” (35 years). Edgar MacBurney “Mac” Storm,JD ’60 (Savannah, GA) keeps listing his maiden JIM HANCHETT ’53 ’ name on our news and dues form as Ellie Hawes. That’s in memory of the way he, well, dragged through sorority rushing when we were very John Clarkson has not yet given up his day most of his recreation time, with a bit of travel young. (He settled for Zeta Psi.) He’s still plying job as CEO/CFO of Intertego, insurance investi- thrown in for a change of scenery. It would southern waters and teaching the fine art of sail- gators. However, like many of us, John would like appear the same for Richard Harley,only mix in ing. There has been one trip to the deep, deep to be spending less time seeing doctors in St. Louis a bit of golf with the fishing. Ah yes, and one south—a visit to Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay and more seeing the Atlantic from their Ponte might add recovering from three hurricanes in to celebrate spouse Barbara’s 70th birthday and Vedra condo in Sawgrass. David Lipkin wrote 15 months. Yet with it all Richard does not miss the Storms’ 42nd anniversary. that he actually enjoyed walking up Libe Slope in the cold winters of his days at Cornell. Bob and Done with a “long and satisfying” adult and winter. Perhaps that’s why he hasn’t moved South Jan Levitan will celebrate a double wedding for pediatric urology practice, Stan Landau, MD ’56 and is still practicing general dentistry in New Jer- their Cornell grandchildren and then contemplate (Hewlett, NY) now reviews cases as a urology sey. He does escape for some travel, but did not a move. Bob is accepting suggestions for Moves expert for medical malpractice lawyers. There’s say in what direction—Alaska, perhaps. Joseph Made Easy. I hadn’t heard from Harry Butler in time for a look at faraway places, like Antarctica, Hartwig lives in Florida, but is still enthusiastically a bit so was glad to know he too is delighted to the Falklands, and India. He and wife Maxine employed expanding his manufacturing business. be doing exactly what he wishes. I loved his fond- duck the New York winter in Sarasota, FL, and Joe makes high quality furniture and equipment est memory of Cornell—the girls. Thanks, Harry. beat the southern heat at the Big City’s muse- for public and private schools. Since his retirement Letetia Holloway Brown may have retired ums, plays, and concerts. He’s replaced “the joys five years ago, Steve Krauss has been able to spend from hospital chaplaining as a profession, but her of sailing with the frustration of golf.” Stan has more time in his printmaking studio where he life is still one of caring: for grandchildren, for discovered digital photography and rediscovered works on woodcuts, etchings, and monotypes. her mind via reading and reflection, for her hus- classical piano. (He’s taking lessons again after The Krausses, being a musical family, have their band during six months of chemotherapy, for 64 years.) He and Maxine are avid duplicate own string ensemble, with Steve on the piano. her garden, and for church outreach programs. bridge players. “Our children are great and have This past year Steve and Carol did a walking tour James Ritchey has retired to the land of hurri- given us nine grandchildren. Daughter Leslie of Tuscany and a shipboard Elderhostel trip in canes and is fast becoming an expert in dealing Landau, JD ’83, is now a Superior Court Judge.” British Columbia exploring the Strait of Georgia with their aftermaths. Isabel caused his latest dev- Ask what’s keeping you busy these days and and the Vancouver Islands. While at Cornell, Steve astation. Jim, have you ever thought snow might you never know what you’ll be told. Here’s enjoyed walks in the surrounding countryside and be less of a hassle? Jim is the first person to men- Lawrence Smith’s report from his old home taking courses from professors Healy, Vlastos, tion his fond memories of being on the Foreign town, Piffard, NY: “I draw manure and worry Burtt, and Fritz Stern. Student Council and how much it helped him about multiculturalism. I plant and harvest my Having decided she would rather swing than over the years. Mary AnnSmith Bliek and her crops and ponder Darwin. We are planning a shovel, Betty Siebert Libera has traded in Upstate husband Ralph live on a farm south of Lake fence to keep the barbarians out. We study Jared New York and made Stuart, FL, her primary res- Ontario where they raise vegetables for the Diamond (you remember, the Pulitzer Prize- idence. We received another upbeat note from Farmer’s Market in Lyons while their son tends winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel, the Doris Caretti Oniskey. I’ve decided that the only the apple orchard. ❖ Leslie Papenfus Reed, 500 first freshman summer reading assignment). We thing Doris doesn’t do is play golf, and she may Wolfe St., Alexandria, VA 22314; e-mail, ljreed@ visit the Maya. Spouse Cathy (Austin) com- take it up any day. She appears to be in motion at speakeasy.net. Class website, http://classof54. mutes once a year to visit family and friends in all times, be it driving the elderly, seeing Canada alumni.cornell.edu/; Cornell Directory, https:// Chile.” ❖ Jim Hanchett, 300 1st Ave., Apt. 8B, via rail, checking out Colonial Williamsburg, or directory.alumni.cornell.edu/; class news online, New York, NY 10009; e-mail, [email protected]. viewing the Pyramids along the Nile. Doris recalls http://www.alumni.cornell.edu.classes.htm. walking to the Straight, looking out across the Lee ’57 and Ginny Glade Poole valley, and thinking how very lucky she was to be Feeling nostalgic for the old days at  were kind enough to send along a at Cornell. She still feels that way. Doris is seeking  Cornell? I want to remind you that newspaper clipping on Dorothy the whereabouts of Willi Beam ’55.Ifanyone can you can still order that great CD of Vandercher Klotzbeacher’s vision lend us a hand here, it would be appreciated. The the Cayuga’s Waiters, which has to create a nursery school for 2- to 4-year-olds last question on the news form is stirring a num- combined 22 tracks from our two favorite albums. in her local church in Cranberry, NJ. The school ber of memory banks. I’ll list a few people in each The cost is $10, plus $3 shipping and handling, for has grown from 17 students to 144 over the past column if Chick Trayford and I can’t find them. each CD. Make your $13 check out to Mark Hus- 20 years, adapting along the way to new ways of Gill Henoch, LLB ’58, has cut his lawyering bands, and mail it to: Mark Husbands, 27 Sail- teaching, given our electronically cluttered lives, hours a bit and therefore has time for taking on a master Common, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928. while maintaining an awareness of the specific major home renovation, figuring he and Sheila Hilly McCann Dearden’s daughter Laurel needs of small people. William Osterhoudt’s will stay in New York a bit longer. They took time Gardner has been appointed by the Governor of “after-hours” activities center around antique cars, out to visit the Canadian Rockies of Lake Louise Alabama to serve on a council concerned with

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ecology. Laurel, who’s a veterinarian, will be two grandchildren—from college! By the time month afterwards. Maybe it will be news of class- working with other doctors and veterinarians on you read this column, Ned and Paula will have mates who couldn’t attend reunion and tell you this project. Hilly herself is still working, but has been back to campus to celebrate Paula’s 50th their news in person, or maybe it will be the same gone back to being an independent contractor, Reunion, and from there they’ll head to Cape Cod news with a different slant. So here goes, anyway. “and working part-time when I feel like it.” She for the summer. Axel Hochkoeppler announces Some current news about our class writers. finds she can get as much done working from that he is “slowly turning green from mold,” due Erika Holzer (née Phyllis “Tish” Tate), Indio, CA, home, and doesn’t miss the 50 miles a day driv- to the continuous rain that’s been pelting North- has published her newest book, Ayn Rand: My ing. Congratulations to Kay Hartell Cattarulla, ern California. Axel is still active in his consulting Fiction-Writing Teacher.It is part memoir, part whose documentary, “Sweet Tornado: Margo business. Their latest client is the only micro- how-to, as Erika writes about her mentor-protégé Jones and the American Theater,”was shown on brewery in the country owned by a Native Amer- relationship with Ayn Rand, the author of Atlas PBS last March in conjunction with Women’s ican tribe. “So far, so good,” he notes, in that he Shrugged and The Fountainhead.Erika’s previous History Month. Some may remember that Margo has “not yet been voted off the island.” Eva Konig books were the espionage novels Double Crossing, Jones gave a lecture at Cornell in the early 1950s Ray reports that she’s “never enjoyed life more.” written during the Cold War in the 1980s, and Eye when she was a national figure, famous in the After a busy, interesting career in science, Eva now for an Eye,written in the 1980s and turned into a American theater world as the Texas Tornado. has more time for skiing, sailing, family, and movie starring Sally Field and Kiefer Sutherland, “She fought for success in a man’s world, lived too friends. She also advocates for women and fami- and nonfiction books written with her husband, fast, and died too young,” but her vision “trans- lies and the elderly, and—“at the opposite end of Prof. Henry Mark Holzer, Aid and Comfort: Jane formed the American stage.”In the documentary, the spectrum”—participates in the Infant Health Fonda in North Vietnam and Fake Warriors: Iden- Jones is portrayed by Judith Ivey, and Richard Advisory Council. tifying, Exposing, and Punishing Those Who Falsify Thomas plays Tennessee Williams. Philadelphia was the site for this year’s CACO Their Military Service.You may remember an Bob and Joan Weisberg Belden are taking a (Cornell Association of Class Officers) Mid- earlier reunion when Erika was one of our guest Volga boat trip between Moscow and St. Peters- Winter Meeting. Co-presidents Fred Antil and speakers. Steve Katz,Denver,CO,retired from the burg with Elderhostel this summer, and then Barbara Loreto Peltz report that the ’55 group— faculty of Colorado U. His newest book is a novel, they will visit the Northern Italian Lake country Mike Avery, Carroll Dubuc, Phil Harvey, Hilda Antonello’s Lion. Patricia Brodie,Concord,MA, with other Cornell alumni in October. Ruth Bressler Minkoff, Ginny Wallace Panzer-Wiener, has had over 70 poems published in literary mag- McDevitt Carrozza e-mails us that she’s enjoy- Dick Pew,Eva Konig Ray, and Charlie and Mary azines and poetry anthologies, and has recently ing her 16th year in Florida, despite the hurri- Ann Peck Wolf—enjoyed “a lot of learning and won prizes for her short stories and poems. canes. As a landscape designer, “this is flower a lot of fun.” Fred assumed his annual February Gideon Panter, MD ’61, an ob/gyn, says, heaven for me.” Like the Beldens, Ruth also rec- persona, that of Abraham Lincoln, and officially “What’s all this talk about retirement? I just ommends the university-sponsored trips, such as kicked off the meeting dressed as the Great bought a new office at 1060 Fifth Ave., New York the one to the Italian Riviera that she recently Emancipator, right down to the beard and top City,where I plan to practice for many more enjoyed. Besides traveling, Ruth keeps busy as a hat. More on the fascinating connection between years.” Morton Landau,Lawrence, NY, retired member of the board of an organization dedi- Lincoln and Cornell in a future column. from the construction business in New York City, including work on damaged buildings as a result of 9/11. Dr. Rose Goldman Mage, Bethesda, MD, is still working at the NIH after 42 years, concen- Sanford Kaiser liked retiring trating on immunogenetics, boosting the Rabbit ‘ Genome Project, developing a rabbit model of so much that he did it twice. lupus, and, in her spare time, belly dancing. Wow! MarleneGrass Paikoff and husband Sidney JOHN SEILER ’57 ’ divide their time between the snows of Syracuse and the sun of Boca Raton, FL. Curtis Reis, Rolling Hills, CA, has relinquished the presi- cated to helping abused women and children. Finally, some local news: I ran into Marggy dency of Alliance Bank, and now serves as chair- She also belongs to a gourmet group with Claire Doorty Kerr Richenburg last week, whom I man and CEO. The bank has over $600 million Schubert Weston ’54,who lives nearby. “There hadn’t seen since last summer when we had a in total assets. Phyllis Miller Lee, Dorset, VT, are a lot of Cornellians here, but all a lot older!” very enjoyable luncheon with Barbara Peltz and exhibited her paintings on birds and satirical (Those ’55 coeds never lose their youthful spirit.) Nancy Livingston Hopkins. My husband Ed subjects at the Southern Vermont Art Center Carroll Dubuc responded to Pete Bowell’s Petrie still continues his winning ways as the var- earlier this year. Anne Jackson,Ridgefield, WA, question about what historic event will be cele- sity basketball coach at East Hampton (NY) is a retired immunologist “with two dogs and brated in 2007. “I believe it is the 400th anniver- High School, so during the season (November two acres to tend.” sary of the Jamestown settlement in Virginia.”Try to February), we stay pretty close to home. Dr. Roy Curtiss,Paradise Valley, AZ, heads as he might, Carroll says he can’t lose the “Duke” Springtime brings the opportunity for a little a research group of 30 young scientists from 17 moniker around his Cornell friends. Rae Pullen change of scene: a cruise to Bermuda and the countries and six continents. Their major new Alexakos reports that they are still in Quechee, VT. Caribbean in May; and during the summer we’ll initiative is to develop a vaccine to prevent pneu- Their three children and 11 grandchildren live on combine a trip to San Francisco with a stopover monia in newborns. It’s part of the Global Long Island as well as in Hingham, MA, and Lex- visit in Utah, where Ed’s son has built a new Health Initiative funded by the Gates Founda- ington, KY (“all lovely places to visit on our way house adjacent to a golf course. Please send me tion. Lenore “Lenny” Brotman Greenstein to and from Sarasota, FL”). Rae keeps busy with your news via e-mail or snail mail, and I’ll be (Naples, FL, and Lenox, MA) and husband Rabbi charity work, golf, bridge, and aquacize, and still sure to include it in a future column. Your class- Howard Greenstein ’57 tell us that their son gets back to visit Puerto Rico, her old home. Mike mates want to know what you’re up to! ❖ Nancy Rabbi Micah Greenstein ’84,who heads a con- Avery writes,“After 15 years in the travel business, Savage Petrie, [email protected]. Class gregation in Memphis, TN, was the first Jewish I’m in the initial stages of a new career, that of real website, http://classof55.alumni.cornell.edu. clergyman to deliver the sermon at the National estate salesperson.” Mike has finished all his edu- Cathedral in Washington, DC. The event was last cation, gotten his license, and will be working with Writing this column has presented April and many Cornellians were in attendance. Long and Foster, a mid-Atlantic regional company.  some difficulties: I am writing it Sonia Goldfarb Brody, Anita Hurwitch “So all you ’55 alumni, send me your references!”  several months before our 50th Fishman, and Charlotte Edelstein Gross, soror- This June marked the graduation of Ned, Reunion, and due to the needs of ity sisters at Cornell, are living in the same apart- MBA ’57, and Paula Bussmann Arps ’56’s first publishing deadlines, you will be reading it a ment complex in South Orange, NJ. Art and

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Sharon Linkletter Hershey,Calabasas, CA, say, something that I now enjoy in my home. I thank gives seminars on the art of inspecting to “Life just doesn’t get any better.” Margot for her enduring friendship and guid- national and local chapters of the American Soci- Norman Miller,Tiburon,CA, a retired urol- ance over these 54 years since we met in Septem- ety of Home Inspectors. He and Betty are within ogist at St. Lukes Hospital in San Francisco, CA, ber 1952 on the second floor of Dickson Five. ❖ 3-1⁄2 hours drive of three of four children and six is a member and past chairman of the Golden Phyllis Bosworth,8 East 83rd St., New York, NY of nine grandchildren. Sanford Kaiser liked retir- Gate Regional Center for the developmentally dis- 10028; e-mail, [email protected]. ing so much that he did it twice, the first time in abled. MariaRadoslovich Cox and her husband 1979 from the Air Force and again in 1997 from Donald donated more than 40 pieces of their con- Ed ’54 and Joyce Dudley McDow- the Naval Air Systems Command, where he func- temporary art collection to the Jacksonville (FL)  ell had a very busy 2005. In addi- tioned as a senior logistics engineer. Museum of Modern Art, including work by first- tion to celebrating 50 years of mar- Also leading the good life are Walter and generation abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann, riage with friends and family at the Birgit Wills,who report on a delightful Italian an oil-on-canvas by Russian-born painter Ilya Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, CA, they trav- trip from Sorrento to Rome and spending time Bolotowsky, and sculpture by Nancy Graves. The eled from the Arctic to the Antarctic, viewing walking through history, then flying to Gothen- Coxes started collecting in the New York art world polar bears near Baffin Island and penguins in the burg, Sweden, to continue the adventure with in the early 1970s. Maria is now concentrating on Ross Sea. And after a Snuff Bottle convention in family and friends. Don and Mary Singer went garden designs for her home in Ponte Vedra, FL. Beijing, they journeyed to Tasmania, enjoying the to Israel last summer (first time for both) and James Plunkett,Milwaukee, WI, has been wildlife and several wineries. Janice Littell,BS saw most of the country in a whirlwind ten days. recognized by his firm, Plunkett Raysich Archi- Nurs ’58, turned 70 the day after Christmas and Don milked his 70th birthday pretty well, tects, for his 50 years of service to the company. celebrated aboard the Norwegian Crowne as it extending it for four days, with family and office During his tenure, he helped build the firm from made its way down the east coast of South Amer- pals passing off the baton. 20 to 120, making it one of the largest architectural ica and around Cape Horn. Stops for Janice in- I’m not sure if John Brooke is a professional firms in Wisconsin, with offices in Milwaukee and cluded Montevideo, Uruguay, and Buenos Aires driver or simply has a lot of cars, but he spends his Madison, as well as in Illinois. Jim continues to and Ushuaia in Argentina. Janice describes it this time driving cars south in the fall and north in the practice as a specialist in civic and governmental way: “In all, it was a bang-up 70th birthday.”She spring. I doubt that he drove to New Zealand to architecture. John Anderluh, John Talierco, and plans on attending reunion in 2007 and hopes congratulate his daughter’s fiancé. He lived in Chris Schmid and their wives played golf last Mary Lou Hennekens Mahan will be there, too. Auckland at the time, but since the wedding this spring in Florida with former Cornell coach Ted Joyce Edgar Schickler, BS Nurs ’57, had two spring, now lives in Pueblo, CO. Gonzalo Ferrer Thoren and his wife Jean just before John Ander- big celebrations for her 70th last year: a trip to has purchased a new home in Vermont and came luh has his second hip replacement. John Talierco Disneyland with three children, their spouses, across a ditty concerning the thoughts that went followed with two hip replacements. and eight grandchildren, and then a summer through (and probably still do today) the minds As those of us who will have shared our 50th gathering for a clambake/lobster roast in Rhode of the engineers as they relaxed on the East Wing Reunion now know, Margot Lurie Zimmerman’s Island. Joyce gets together with nursing school steps of Sibley. Not surprisingly, it involves their collection of modern Asian art was part of our classmates Kay Hitchcock Bailey, Yohanna assessment of the coeds who passed in review. program and exhibited at the Johnson Museum. Casalini, and Carolee Gordon Stray. Sue David- Eph McLean reports that he is having too Margot and husband Paul formed their collection son Braun should be fully recovered from much fun as Regents professor and G.E. Smith while serving in the Peace Corps in Bangalore, cataract and hip replacement surgery by the time Eminent Scholar’s chair at Georgia State U. in India, in the 1960s. Paul was the director of the reunion rolls around. Although Sue has retired Atlanta to contemplate retirement. He is active US Peace Corps for South India. Margot, Barbara from the San Diego Board of Education, she con- in both teaching and research. Leighton Kle- Barron Starr, and I lived together at Sage during tinues to volunteer her services by working to vana has a fascinating job as president and CEO our sophomore and junior years, and on adjacent implement universal preschool in California. of Advanced Global Investments, with offices in corridors during our freshman year at Dickson Efforts continue here in South Carolina to get Prague and Tampa. He shuttles back and forth Five. Barbara, her husband Bob, and I were priv- a Cornell Club going. There was a gathering of in search of a myriad of investment opportuni- ileged to be at the opening of the exhibit this past Cornellians of the Low Country last March organ- ties. Bob George,my old lacrosse buddy, spent April. Margot told me how she arrived in South ized by Jim Vaughn ’72, assisted by Southeast time in Ithaca last fall watching the Big Red foot- India with Paul (who was busy leading the Peace Regional Director Karen Weinreich ’89.Drinks ball team dispatch an opponent and gawking at Corps volunteers) and their young children, and and finger food preceded a short talk by Life Sci- the size of the Hotel school and other changes wondered how she was going to fill her days. She ences Provost Stephen Kresovich, followed by a Q on campus. He also mentions the good times took the children to the outdoor markets, and & A session. Among the attendees from ’57 were after graduation spent at Lackland AFB with one day they saw an oil of a Christ-like figure that Joan Jeremiah Reusswig, Tom Paterson, and Don another lacrosse stalwart, Bob Hoffman ’58. they were fascinated with. They came back to the Fellner.Ruth Anne and Henry “Hank” Parker ’59 A plea: My eyesight might be a little suspect, market several times, and the painting was always were also there, as well as Henry Vaughan and but I couldn’t read a few of the news items and there attracting Margot to this new world of con- Valerie Jones Vaughan,both Class of ’60. thus couldn’t report them. If possible, typing and temporary artists expressing themselves follow- We do manage to have a small group that especially e-mails ease the pain considerably. ❖ ing India’s independence from the British Empire. meets the first Friday of the month for lunch at John Seiler,221 St. Matthews Ave., Louisville, KY Margot never bought that painting, but there the Yacht Club of Hilton Head (fancy name but 40207; tel., (502) 895-1477; e-mail, suitcase2@ were many pieces of art they did purchase. Mar- just a simple little place), so when you snowbirds aol.com. got and Paul began to do research and visited or part-timers get down this way in a few artists in their homes wherever they traveled, as months, join us. Marj Nelson Smart visited me Before getting to some of your Paul’s work took him all over South India visiting in early spring and we played golf with Kevin and  recent individual News, here’s an the Peace Corps volunteers. I would get letters Betty Ann Rice Keane here in Sun City. Getting  update from the class meeting from Margot detailing their visits to places with our games in order for reunion time—less than held at CACO’s Mid-Winter gath- then-unfamiliar names. The collection grew, and a year away! ❖ Judith Reusswig, 19 Seburn Dr., ering in Philadelphia last February. Highlights then when they were posted in Iran in the late Bluffton, SC 29909; e-mail, [email protected]. from Betty Anne Steer Merritt say that the ’60s, the Zimmerman Collection included Persian CACO meeting itself gets high marks for content, and modern Iranian artists. When they moved to Chuck Loppacker,who used to daily update especially in VP Susan Murphy ’73, PhD ’94’s Kenya for Margot’s work in family planning and the statistics of each Baltimore Oriole, moved on glimpse of five outstanding students’ lives, and of health, their collection continued to grow. Margot to a more frivolous career as home inspector for the current hot theme of “collaboration” (which has taken me to their favorite artists and dealers, home-purchasing clients. Now retired and living continued in a workshop Betty Anne attended), and at Margot’s urging, I would always purchase with Betty in the Williamsburg, VA, area, he still illustrated by how such diverse fields as sound

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engineering, biology, and music can merge—if Since retiring six years ago from his large grandparents for new foreign graduate students. collaboration is fostered. A workshop attended Washington, DC, law firm, John Denniston has He is particularly enthusiastic about the Partners by class co-president Chuck Hunt showed how been mountain-trekking, including three trips to in English program begun last year, in which Cornell’s support to our website can be put into the Himalayas, two to South America, and one to volunteers meet weekly with foreign language- play. Chuck is considering becoming our class Antarctica. On the last trip, he participated in a speaking students to familiarize them with webmaster to bring about site improvements that reenactment of Ernest Shackleton’s 1916 cross- idiomatic local speech and to afford them an you should see later this year. ing of the Island of South Georgia. Medical opportunity to practice English conversation “Luncheon was not to be missed in the oncologist Herbert Goldman says he’s starting skills in a relaxed and supportive environment. beautiful Philadelphia Room . . . the hotel hav- to prepare publications in his field, especially in Alexander and his wife Lucy also serve as volun- ing a subtle beauty that we seldom see in NYC,” pulse corticosteroid therapy of myeloma, while teer ushers at Orchestra Hall for Minnesota Betty Anne writes. She, Chuck, and co-president also working on more exotic vacations (having Orchestra concerts. Lastly, he serves on the Carol Boeckle Welch, along with Harriet Auer- visited Iceland and Vietnam/Cambodia to start). County Reserve Medical Corps with other active bach Peters, MS ’75, Gladys Lunge Stifel, Judy He and Sarah live in the Virgin Islands. and retired health workers. The Corps’ objective Welling Baker, Barb Buehrig Orlando, and Jim Robert Mayer adds to last issue’s commen- is to be prepared to deal with possible flu epi- and Annette Fogo Harper much enjoyed the tary that besides continuing work as a financial demics and other public health emergencies. luncheon as well as discussion of Glenn consultant for IRAs, he gardens, collects wine, Ruth Chimacoff Macklin has “no thoughts of Altschuler, PhD ’76, and Isaac Kramnick’s book, plays golf, and travels. His trip to Oregon’s Pinot retirement.”A longtime professor in the Depart- The 100 Most Notable Cornellians. Noir country yielded “too much wine and ment of Epidemiology and Population Health at At the later class meeting, efficiently run by poundage,” he reports. Bob can be reached at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, Carol and Chuck, several actions were taken: NO [email protected]. The last Newsnote in the NY, Ruth’s focus is on international medical class dues increase (we have about $70K in the file is from Jim Quirk,still residing in Orinda, research involving human beings. She serves on treasury), even though Cornell Alumni Magazine CA, with wife Peggy and enjoying full-time retire- two committees at the World Health Organiza- has increased its price; a plan conceived for an ment. Jim is an antiquer who also gets out on the tion and a human rights committee at the Joint Elsie Dinsmore Popkin painting award to a grad- slopes (last at Lake Tahoe) and on the links. He United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. She uating senior; another plan to help sponsor a spe- travels a lot, says he most remembers his Phi also directs a training program in research ethics cial program during our next reunion featuring Gamma Delta years on the Hill, and would like in Buenos Aires. Her latest book, published by Jennifer Tipton,renowned stage lighting expert. to hear from Al Knight, his freshman roommate. Cambridge University Press, is Double Standards Finally, the class reps decided to send an Jim is reachable at [email protected]. in Medical Research in Developing Countries.Car- updated “welcome letter” and open-ended ques- I hope this finds all ’58ers enjoying summer. rying on Ruth’s Cornell tradition is her oldest tionnaire to all classmates with the annual mailing Please take a moment to send News so Jan Arps granddaughter, Alex Taylor ’09, daughter of Jim in September. They would like to do this via e- Jarvie and I can keep in business for you. ❖ Dick ’85 and Shelly Macklin Taylor ’84. mails as much as possible, so all ’mates are encour- Haggard,1207 Nash Dr., Fort Washington, PA Steve Douglas,MD ’63, medical director of aged to send their latest e-mail addresses to Chuck 19034; e-mail, [email protected]. For the immunology laboratories at Children’s Hos- to help us expedite that correspondence and save other news and events of our class, see: http:// pital of Philadelphia, is investigating cells in the money for the class. We trust you’re aware of how classof58.alumni.cornell.edu. immune system, especially those in children and easy it is to obtain a free, permanent e-mail for- adolescents with HIV. Of particular interest in warding address from the university by way of a HarryPetchesky,co-chair with his research are monocytes and macrophages, link on the Alumni page (go to www.alumni.  Dave Dunlop of our 50th Re- cells that play an important role in inflammation cornell.edu and click on “Services”); use that if union, was in the audience when and host defense. His goal is to understand how you wish, but one way or the other, please send Peter Yarrow spoke at the Cornell these cells interact with cells of the central nerv- your e-mail address to Chuck at [email protected]. Club earlier this year. Harry has launched a cam- ous system. His wife MaryAnn Foricea, also a Other matters to garner our attention and paign to restore English 355-356—Ballad and doctor, is a professor in geriatric medicine at the decision-making in ’07 (in the same city, Jan. 19- Folklore, popularly known as Romping and U. of Pennsylvania Medical School. They have 20; mark your calendar) include a Ron Lynch Stomping—to the Arts college curriculum. “Of two daughters: Hope attends Penn, and Annie scholarship, a book restoration project, and all the courses I took at Cornell, this proved to be begins her junior year in high school this fall. funding and celebrating reunion in new ways. most relevant to understanding the events of the Since 1995, Paul Levine has been clinical pro- Your questionnaire responses will help. ’60s and ’70s, and it certainly was the most fun,” fessor of medicine at George Washington U. Med- On to individual news. We hear again from he says. As student instructor, Peter played a critical Center, and since 1997 has also held the title of ArtShostak,who reported that he is to receive an ical role in the course—and in ’59ers’ apprecia- research professor of epidemiology and biostatis- award from the American Sociological Association tion, and memories, of those classes. tics at the George Washington U. School of Public at its annual meeting in mid-August in Montreal. Also attending the Cornell Club event was Health and Health Services (SPHHS). He currently The annual Distinguished Sociology Practice Carol Horowitz Schulhof,M Ed ’61, who retired teaches and does research in cancer. At NIH, he Award is given only to one for lifetime achieve- this June 30 from her “rewarding and gratifying served as project officer on such projects as stud- ment. Art is in his third year of retirement after career” in education. For the last 28 years, Carol ies of aggressive breast cancer in Tunisia and pro- teaching the last 37 at Drexel U. in Philadelphia. worked at the Packer Collegiate Inst. in Brooklyn viding laboratory support for processing and stor- He travels and gives papers around the world and Heights, NY, and for the last 13 years was head of age of biological specimens from persons at high writes new material to add to his 31 books and the Pre and Lower School. She writes that quite risk of cancer. He is on the editorial board of the 150-plus articles. Art would welcome hearing a few of her students had parents who are Cor- Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and is past- from any of us who, as movie-goers, believe that nell alumni. “One third grader told me the other president of the American Association for Chronic seeing a particular scene helped them change day that he wants to be in our school chorus Fatigue Syndrome. He is married to Mimi (Gray). their lives. He’s reachable at [email protected]. because his father was a Cayuga Waiter!” Carol Mimi has been a high school teacher in Rochester Following up on the news release about Hedy and her husband Peter just celebrated their 45th and subsequently a professional photographer, Cohen Rose’s Convocation Address covered here wedding anniversary, and now in retirement among other experiences being photoeditor of last issue, we report that Hedy also gave two Carol plans to heed the advice to “learn some- Washingtonian magazine for two years. Her pho- more lectures at Utrecht U. on the Holocaust and thing new, travel, and do your good works.” tography currently includes digital improvement on the process of becoming stigmatized. Hedy Alexander Levitan is co-chair of the U. of of old, damaged photos. They have three children writes and researches as a Five-College Associate, Minnesota’s Retirees Volunteer Committee, and six grandchildren, all living in the area. having retired from teaching and administration. a group that works on a variety of projects Anne Jackson and her husband Norman Her e-mail address is [email protected]. throughout Minneapolis and serves as surrogate Gauss ’58,now of Paso Robles, CA, were at

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Cornell at the same time but didn’t meet until of Jackson, NJ. Estelle says, “We are both retired which was led by Margie Seybold,Fran’s fresh- many years later in Los Angeles. They met in a and enjoying ourselves. We have seven grand- man year corridor-mate at Cornell. In anticipation support group for people with chemical injuries children, but none close to where we live at this of returning for Reunion 2006 (full Reunion and led a group called the Environmental Health point.”Happily retired in the West are Wilfred ’55, Report due in the next issue of Cornell Alumni Association. Last summer Anne traveled East for PhD ’62, and Janet Merkel Klemperer of Boul- Magazine), Fran remembered fall football week- her high school reunion, staying with Anne der, CO. Janet says they enjoy both the winter and ends, long walks in the gorges, the snow-covered Townsend Salisbury and her husband, who live summer activities there, and she keeps busy with woods near campus, and singing in the Willard on the shore of Keuka Lake. her music, both piano and choral, and her botany Straight Music Room with Peter Yarrow ’59. “Those CAU trips are really great!” writes work with the City of Boulder Open Space. The Author’s Corner. Barbara Jacobs Mitnick just Nancy Iams Walsh, who traveled with CAU to Klemperers have four grandchildren living fairly completed The Hyde and Watson Foundation: A New Zealand in February. Also on the trip was close by, but two others are in Freiburg, Germany. History,which chronicles how two esteemed pri- Helen Watrous Flanagan. “I don’t think I had Though that’s far away, says Janet, “southwest vate foundations merged in 1984 to form one of seen her since we were in Clara Dickson together Germany is a beautiful area to visit!” the leading organizations serving the capital needs as freshmen,” says Nancy. Perhaps they’ll meet again at our 50th Reunion—just three years from now! ❖ Jenny Tesar, 97A Chestnut Hill Village, Bethel, CT 06801; tel., (203) 792-8237; What the water didn’t destroy, the mold did. e-mail, [email protected]. ‘ FRAN SHAPIRO IVKER ’61 ’ Congratulations to Larry Klein,  who was elected to the Palo Alto  (CA) City Council in November I am sorry to report the death on February 7 of non-profit organizations. In the book, which is 2005. Allegedly, one of his of George Farley of Naperville, IL. A devoted meant to be a primer for foundation boards, she friends pointed out that “Larry recycled himself,” alumnus and former member of the Big Red bas- also delves into the history and regulation of phi- referring to the fact that he previously served on ketball team, George is survived by his wife, two lanthropy in the US. Barbara and her husband the council in the 1980s and was mayor of Palo sons, and a granddaughter. Further sad news Howard are planning to move from New Jersey Alto for two of those years. arrived of the death of Sue Laubengayer Cowing to downtown Philly later this year. Their son Gerry Cerand sent word from Potomac, of Binghamton, NY, on April 2, after a difficult John is a lawyer in the White House Counsel’s MD, that he just bought a home outside Ithaca, struggle with cancer. A ceramic artist who earned office, and their daughter Jane is a certified overlooking Cayuga Lake, where he plans to her MFA from the U. of Chicago after graduating gemologist. Mark Goodman of Lake Worth, FL, retire. “After attending Cornell, having three chil- from Cornell, Sue was also active in the League of is writing both a professional memoir and a dren attend Cornell, and growing up in Elmira, Women Voters, serving as president and in several coming-of-age novel set in the ’50s. the draw to the Cornell area becomes excessive,” other positions. Her survivors include husband Leaving on a Jet Plane (or Train). Doug Fuss Gerry says. He concedes the following, though: Tom ’59,a professor of economics at SUNY Bing- and his wife Sue toured Israel for nine days with “I still plan on living in Potomac during the hamton, three children, and two grandchildren. a group of Savannians. The tour was exception- winters (guess why?).” His daughter Jacqueline Send your news to ❖ Judy Bryant Witten- ally well-run (and very secure), according to will graduate in ’07 from the ILR school, while berg, 146 Allerton Rd., Newton, MA 02461; e- Doug. He was pleased with the mix of culture, Tanner ’04 is a stockbroker and investment advi- mail, [email protected]. religion, history, and politics that they learned sor in Washington, DC, and Lauren ’01 is in about. Following the trip, they spent some time New York, managing her own public relations Coping With Katrina.At the time in Paris before returning to Savannah in time for firm. Gerry also reports that he sees Dave Auble,  we submitted this news column at Doug to umpire some US Tennis Assn. and MBA ’62, and Bob Boehlecke,BArch ’61, quite  the end of April, Fran Shapiro NCAA tennis matches. He became certified sev- often in Ithaca, and keeps in touch with several Ivker was still coping with the eral years ago and likes the idea of getting out of members of other classes. Thinking about old aftermath of losing her home, office, hospital the house and becoming active with young peo- friends, he says there is plenty of room in the office, and her entire ob/gyn practice in New ple in the sport. Following Reunion 2006, Gail Ithaca house for visitors, “but call ahead as reser- Orleans. Here is some of what Fran reported: Smith McDougall was scheduled to take the VIA vations are already being taken!” “My home was submerged under five and a half Rail Canada’s Rocky Mountain Rail Vacation Other classmates on the move include Joel feet of corrosive water for three weeks. What the beginning in Vancouver and continuing through and Karen Kurtz Bayer,who built a new house water didn’t destroy, the mold did. Every stitch Jasper, Banff, and Lake Louise to Calgary. Last during the fall of 2005 in Okatie, SC, near Hilton of clothing and all of our furnishings were winter’s vacation took Gail to Mexico, where she Head. “We are enjoying the South a lot,” says gone.” As a longtime resident of New Orleans, “went swimming with the dolphins.”At home in Karen.“I am very busy with many of the activities Fran placed the blame for what she called “this North Rose, NY, Gail is developing a website that that the Hilton Head area has to offer.”Also to be man-made disaster” squarely on the “greed, cor- will feature her unique, one-of-a-kind pins and found below the Mason-Dixon line are Alan Fish- ruption, and stupidity” of Louisiana’s politicians. pendants fabricated from antique and costume man,BArch ’61, and his wife Libby, who headed Since she could only envision more of the same jewelry. Jim Keenan and his wife Ginny enjoy in that direction after he retired from the practice during the rebuilding, Fran resettled in Birm- European travel. When they’re back home in of architecture in Pittsburgh. Now in Palm Beach ingham, AL, the last place she ever would have Reno, NV, Jim is the county purchasing manager Gardens, FL, Alan says, “Here we are in paradise considered moving to when she was a student and an adjunct professor at a community college. with hurricanes. Hurricane Wilma was frighten- on the Hill. Now she has a home there, as well as Retired and Loving It. Bill Friedman,MS ing!” He distracts himself from weather worries her grandchildren. She’s studying for her ’65, has retired from Knolls Atomic Power Lab- with part-time work at a local architectural firm Alabama medical license and hopes to work oratory in Upstate New York. He wrote, “Now and says he’s “enjoying semi-retirement.” part-time in a clinic. She and her husband Barry it’s finally the right time for me to be able to do Also pleased with their situation in Florida still return to their former home, don HazMat the things that I’d like to do, not what I have to are Cy and Gail Krantz Glickman.“Living in Sara- suits, and search through the muck and slime for do.” Craig Moore’s retirement activities in sota and loving it,” reports Gail. “Tennis, dance family valuables. Melba, ID, consist of music and looking after his classes, and work are great!” The Glickmans’ two Before Katrina last year, Fran’s 3-on-3 New ranch. How nice is that! sons are in Atlanta and Washington State and Orleans basketball squad was awarded a silver Update on Cornell Fund activities.With a lit- have produced five grandchildren thus far. Still up medal at the Senior Olympics in Pittsburgh. tle over a month to go before reunion, we were north are Leonard and Estelle Gittleman Weiss Ironically, the gold medal was won by San Diego, closing in on our goals of 550 participants and

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61 Tower Club members. The Cornell Annual For the past 16 years, Marvin Shaub, aka passions—the things that keep us involved, moti- Fund reported that ’61 attained its goals for this Moose ([email protected]), has had a consult- vated, intense, focused, centered, or otherwise reunion ahead of all other reuning classes. This ing company in Princeton, NJ, called Teletienda, active. A passion might be called a refocusing and ensures the continuation of ’61’s outstanding specializing in marketing to Hispanics. “Last different pacing of our drive and ambition. It philanthropic legacy to Cornell and the strong August, when I turned 65, I decided I had had might be a talent, such as music, art, or writing. tradition of “giving back” in honor of reunion. enough of business and decided to retire and do It could be work or work-related. Some of us have Retirement of Class Correspondent.After ten something else. So I have enrolled in an interest- hobbies, such as theatre, genealogical research, years of reporting the news of the class, your cor- ing PhD program and hope to have the degree in and sports, that we are now able to address with respondent is planning to turn the post over to two years. It is a small program (only three people the verve that we have previously only imagined. a new volunteer. Thanks to those who have writ- per year) co-sponsored by the Taos Institute (a Maybe it’s giving back in an area of our commu- ten to tell me how pleased they were with the social science think tank in Taos, NM) and Tilburg nity or world that we are committed to improv- class columns. And, by the way, thanks and much U. in Holland. I am writing about the accultura- ing, making our planet a better place to occupy. appreciation to all of those classmates who were tion experiences of American immigrants, partic- Perhaps it’s a second career. Many of us are on a so kind and considerate in calling regularly and ularly Hispanic, Japanese, and Muslim, with my threshold, a transitional passageway of one sort or another. What is that like? What takes us over the threshold? What makes us want to leap out of bed in the morning? What gets our juices flow- Dave Cummings retired two years ago ing? What do you think? Please send ideas for ‘ speakers, passions, and help to me at evieskin@ and has been on the road ever since. aol.com SOON. This symposium takes a lot of planning, and a lot of good ideas! Don’t hesitate BEV JOHNS LAMONT ’64 ’ to volunteer yourself and/or your own passion.” There’s more to come. We need more duespayers in order to have more column space, so if visiting me during my recent recuperation from main premise being that in recent days much of you haven’t done so yet, please return your News total knee replacement surgery at Lenox Hill the immigrant community—of a substantially and Dues from our most recent class mailing. ❖ Hospital. These included Carol Gittlin Franklin, different nature from previous major immigrant Jan McClayton Crites, 9420 NE 17th St., Clyde Rochelle Kramer Busch, Bobbi Horowitz, Doug groups—goes through a process that leaves them Hill, WA 98004; e-mail, [email protected]. Heymann, Dale Abrams Adams, Ellie Browner not in the Great American Melting Pot but as part Greco, and Frank Cuzzi,MBA ’64. I’m expect- of the rising wave of American bi-culturals— Class president Ed Butler,MS ’65, ing to be in tip-top shape by reunion and ready people who can move back and forth seamlessly  and other officers Carol Westen- to advise others. Gail Smith McDougall calls it between cultures and languages. Years of dealing  hoefer Anderson, Donna Fors- the “Popular Club” for our generation. ❖ David with Hispanics left me with a lot of knowledge man, Paula Trested Laholt-Oeste, S. Kessler, e-mail: [email protected]. Class web- about them and their culture. I can speak from and Gwen Sibson Porcaro met at the Cornell site, www.cornell61.org. personal experience about the Japanese, as I lived Association of Class Officers (CACO) Mid-Winter in Japan for a few years, have a Japanese wife, still Meeting on the weekend of February 18. Ed was THE MORE THE MERRIER! have some things going on in Japan, and have a lot encouraged by the increase in duespayers from  That is the goal of the Affinity more knowledge about their unique culture than 2004-05. He hopes that your response will be  Group Chair for our 45th most gaijins (foreigners to Japan). The Muslim even better this year. It was decided to increase Reunion, Cathy Van Buren culture is one that I do not know much about. class dues in 2007 due to a slight increase in the Bomberger. Please write her (cathybomb@aol. However, most other non-Muslims don’t know Cornell Alumni Magazine subscription. com) if you are willing to contact your Cornell much either, so whatever I find out will enlighten The book that is assigned reading for the friends to make sure your group has a great someone. When I get the degree I hope to teach incoming freshman class will be mailed to all turnout on the Hill next year. NOW is the time some college-level seminars. And there are a few class duespayers—maybe that’s an incentive to to make contacts so everyone can plan to take books I would like to write.” pay! There was a lot of discussion at the class advantage of this opportunity to have a won- Moose received his MBA at Harvard, then meeting, as well as subsequent e-mails, regard- derful time, renew friendships, make new spent three years with the USAF, followed by ing a class gift for our 45th and then our 50th. friends, and enjoy beautiful Ithaca. Ogilvy and Mather, McKinsey, and the Franklin Reunion 2008 is only two years away. Please e- News from Cathy and Pete ’61:“We’re just Mint. He has three adult children and three mail Ed at [email protected] with suggestions fine, but falling apart, so that’s the old part! Dis- grandchildren, all living in New York. “Addition- for what you would like to have included in gusting! We’re getting in shape (put back together) ally, I have a daughter about to turn 12. She is bi- reunion or if you want to work on any of the to go to Hawaii in August and Montana in Sep- lingual, bi-cultural, a good student, and a fine ath- reunion committees. Marijane Beattie Watson tember. We’ll also be attending Pete’s reunion in lete. She is an up-and-coming figure skater around is reunion chairman and is already hard at work. June. This has been a fun year for our family with these parts. We also have a bulldog named Davy, We just had a visit from Neil and Edie two new granddaughters. Son Craig and Melissa so if anyone would like to give his or her regards Osborne Kochenour, MD ’69. Edie retired from in Arlington, VA, have 6-month-old Ella Mary, to Davy, this would be a great opportunity.” the U. of Utah in 2003, where she administered while our daughter Kristen and Gerard Boston, If you’re in Switzerland, you may want to look the study skills program in counseling. Neil will in Covington, LA, have 3-month-old Claire Mae. up Jackie Browne Bugnion in St. George (jackie@ retire in June as medical director of the U. of Luke Boston is 5 now and king of the group. bugnion.org). Lou Albright, PhD ’72 (LDA1@ Utah hospital. He had been an ob/gyn for 30 We’ve been visiting Louisiana about every three cornell.edu) is a faculty member in the Biological years. They are planning to move to Tucson next months, hoping to be of support. They evacuated and Environmental Engineering department at year and spend their summers in their home in to Indiana and are now doing quite well. They Cornell, with the stated goal of working a few Big Sky, MT. We are excited at the prospect of were lucky, however, with limited damage.” Jay more years and then gradually working less. having them around Tucson. Marion Travalini Keller has operated the Shire Inn in Vermont for The class is fortunate that Evelyn Eskin has Rodd is account manager with St. John Record the past 13 years, and “it is time to move on to agreed to chair the traditional class symposium Programs in Valencia, CA. One daughter, Allison phase two of our careers, whatever that turns out for reunion next year. Here’s how you can help. Rodd Ceppi ’92, is a marketing manager for to be. We are building a home in DeLand, FL Your class council has been talking about possi- Warner Home Video and has one son. Daughter (map, plans, and pictures at www.twokellers.com) bilities; some of their ideas are reflected in these Amy Rodd Mackenzie (Colgate ’94) received her and will venture from there.” thoughts. “We are considering focusing on our MD from Drexel College of Medicine and has a

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young daughter. Marion reports that Bill ’62 and Janet Spencer King, Linda Cohen Meltzer, Car- been president/CEO since 1997. In a ceremony Karen Kraengle Evenden raise lavender and olyn Chauncey Neuman, Judie Pink Gorra, Bar- last September, former President Jimmy Carter olives in Ojai, CA. John, PhD ’68, and Kathy bara Furman Attardi, Steve and Nancy Lore Ein- helped him in the planting of American chest- Reimer Hartnett, MA ’67, live in Santa Barbara. horn, Nancy Taylor Butler, Lenore Weitzman, nut trees at the Carter Center and spoke at their Carolyn Handler Miller and her husband and Bruce Wagner, ME ’66. Marcia is still a pro- public dedication. Terry Borst live in Los Angeles. Carolyn splits her fessor at Community College of Philadelphia and David Keranen is retired from teaching math time between Los Angeles and Santa Fe, NM. with husband Paul lives in Gladwyne, PA. at Bakersfield (CA) Community College, in the She belongs to Cornell clubs in both places. Her Brief notes: Accountant Cynthia Fulton town where he lives with wife Elizabeth. The Ker- book, Digital Storytelling: A Creator’s Guide to Edmondson lives in Houston, TX. Heather Cole, anens have three grown children. David enjoys Interactive Entertainment, was recently published a librarian at the Lamont Library at Harvard U., golf, reading, and travel, recently to Italy, New by Focal Press and is already going into its sec- lives in Cambridge, MA, with her husband Stratis Zealand, and France. Also retired are Fred Bel- ond printing. She has given workshops in South Haviaras. Charles Thornton,a partner in the law linger and his wife Linda, who live in Indianapolis, Africa, Rome, and Paris, as well as around the firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, still lives IN, where Fred enjoys gardening and woodcraft- US. She’ll be in Dubai in the fall. in San Francisco. ing. Their recent travel included Florida, Ten- Fern Goldstein Schair and her husband Thomas Mueller, ME ’66, is retired but has nessee, and Wisconsin. Alice Anderson Rapasky, Alexander Forger live in New York City. Fern is what he calls a “pretend job: betting on thor- who lives in Sequim, WA, reports she and husband senior vice president at American Arbitration oughbred race horses twice per month.”He also Rick recently bought a place to crash in Seattle, Association. Her pro bono work includes chair- is an election officer once a year, which, he says, convenient for their enjoyment of ballet, Broad- ing the board of Fund for Modern Courts (a NYS gives him a chance to meet his neighbors, but he way shows, and the symphony. The Rapaskys court reform organization), being president (and wishes more people would vote. Tom watches enjoy cruising, recently to Scandinavia, St. Peters- co-founder) of Children’s Law Center (an organ- Cornell hockey on TV with the Cornell Club of burg, the Panama Canal, and the Mediterranean. ization of lawyers and social workers representing Washington. Beth Corson Wagner says her pas- Correction: In last November’s column, I children in New York’s family courts), and being sion is photography, mostly black and white, now reported that Steve Gottesman attended a CAU first vice president of National Equal Justice almost completely digital, and mainly of flowers, course in Great Trails. That should have been Library. She has children Alison Schair and Adam scenic vistas, and architecture. She even has her Great Trials. Kindly excuse the error. Steve writes Schair ’90,who is married with two children. photos on her website (www.bethwagner.com). that he is recuperating once again from renal Father David Willis Geib is a Catholic priest. He Beth and husband Wayne live in Venice, CA. She cancer, which already has cost him one kidney. has worked for the past 24 years as a campus min- was contacted recently by her Cornell roommate Despite this, and assuming his healing proceeds ister and recently joined the staff at the Catholic Rita Maras,who lives in NYC and Germany, has as hoped, Steve plans to return to Cornell once chaplaincy at Stanford U. in Palo Alto, CA. enjoyed their renewed friendship, and looks for- again as an “extramural” student, taking law If you haven’t done so yet, please send along ward to seeing her again after all these years. school courses as he did in the ’90s. the News Form that came with your dues request. Last March, Harold Evensky, MCE ’67, chair- That’s all the news I have on hand, so as I Or e-mail me directly. Don’t forget Reunion in man of Evensky & Katz, an investment manage- write this in April, I am hoping lots of news 2008! ❖ Nancy Bierds Icke, 12350 E. Roger Rd., ment firm in Coral Gables, FL, discussed key issues comes in soon from the annual class mailing. Be Tucson, AZ 85749; e-mail, [email protected]. raised in his book, Retirement Income Redesigned: sure to visit our class website, http://classof64. Master Plans for Distribution,a retirement plan- alumni.cornell.edu. ❖ Bev Johns Lamont, It’s early summer. Time for some ning guide for baby boomers, at a company- 720 Chestnut St., Deerfield, IL 60015; e-mail,  light reading. So settle back and sponsored lecture. Harold co-edited the book with [email protected].  enjoy the news from your class- his firm’s partner, Deena Katz. Warren Bowman, mates. Congrats to attorney ME ’66, is retired but keeps busy traveling with As I sit down to write my first col- Richard Rivitz. Last January he was elected man- wife Arlene. They visited Argentina and Chile  umn as your new class correspon- aging partner of his law firm, Kahn Kleinman, early this year, went to Budapest and Prague in  dent, I must tell you how much I of Cleveland, OH. Richard and wife Joan live in April, and will be in Italy in October. At home in have enjoyed reading all the news nearby Moreland Hills, OH, and have a grown Wilmington, DE, Warren enjoys walking, biking, I have received. However, we can always use more son and daughter and two grandchildren. Last weight training, music, and reading. Brian Wru- news so please write or e-mail any one of the year they vacationed in Jackson Hole, WY. ble, ME ’66, and wife Kathleen divide their time three of us and tell us what’s new in your lives, Dave Cummings retired two years ago, sold between their home in Manhattan, Maryland’s what you are doing, if you have seen or spoken his home in Sedona, AZ—and has been on the Eastern Shore, and Key West, FL, where they re- to any classmates, and anything else you think road ever since, traveling with wife Chris in a cently acquired a home. Their youngest daughter, might be of interest. 40-foot mobile home, visiting national parks and Zane, is attending this season’s Cornell Summer Steven Lazarus writes that Electronic Health small towns, plus spending time with their chil- College program for high school students. Records: Transforming Your Medical Practice, dren and grandchildren in St. Louis and Con- When it comes to travel, Leslie Seiden sim- written by him and Margaret Amatayakul, was necticut. Once the summer’s traveling is over, they ply notes, “all over.”Leslie is a psychiatrist with a one of the two recipients of the HIMSS 2005 will return to their condo in Palm Desert, CA, full-time practice in Manhattan and the Poconos. Book of the Year Award. Administered by the that they moved into this last spring. JoeJames She lives in NYC with husband Hal Rosenblum Healthcare Information Management Systems and wife Shirley also moved—from Fresno to and they have two grown sons. Leslie enjoys ten- Society, the award honors books in the health Carlsbad, CA. He still works as a produce broker nis, golf, and exercise, and writes, “Keeping busy information technology field that offer practical for his own company, Joe James Inc. During the keeps me young.” Also still working is Dennis guidance or strategic insight for healthcare infor- winter, Joe works out of Nogales, AZ. Lois Wey- Sweeney,a restaurant consultant. Dennis recently mation and management professionals. Steve is man Dow celebrated her “Class of ’64 is 64” by was appointed ’64 class director for the Cornell president of Boundary Information Group, a getting married to a high school classmate, Hotel Society. He also continues as an industry national healthcare information systems con- William Rowe, whom she re-met when her high advisor to Hotel Ezra Cornell. Wife Maria Pala- sulting firm headquartered in Denver, CO. school class celebrated its “Class of ’60 is 60.” cios-Hardes was recently inducted as an hon- A letter from Peter Heylin talks about a 40th Last February, Marcia Goldschlager Epstein orary member into the Cornell Hotel Society for SAE reunion. “Many attended, and one out- welcomed the class officers who attended the first her work teaching Hotel school students. The standing part of the reunion was about classmate Cornell Association of Class Officers (CACO) Sweeneys live in Orange, CT. Bob Crosby,who died in a tragic accident while Mid-Winter Meeting to be held in Philadelphia in Marshall Case reports that a second US pres- serving in the Vietnam War. He was an only child 101 years, an event which she played a large role ident has participated in an event of the Ameri- and all of his family is dead. Who was going to in organizing! 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us? Consequently, they made the biggest part of Rogow, 9 Mason Farm Rd., Flemington, NJ Harvard Law School as a “distinguished alumnus.” their reunion a memorial to Bob. The flag from 08822; tel., (908) 782-7028; and Ronald Harris, There are unsubstantiated rumors that Ron Gold- his Swift Boat was mounted and now hangs in 5203 Forestdale Ct., West Bloomfield, MI 48322; stock, Rick Mezan, and Steve Moldof and fellow the SAE dining hall along with a plaque telling tel., (248) 788-3397; e-mail, [email protected]. Harvard Law graduates were promised vacations vignettes of his short life. A memory book will in paradise if they nominated Rich. Just kidding— be placed in the chapter library.” Peter is retired Congrats to Jean Pechuman a very well-deserved award. Rich and Rai are very and on the Santa Cruz, CA, County Commission McIntyre, Waterville, ME, who proud of both of their children. Son Derek is a and two county advisory committees.  recently retired from the Colby senior at Occidental College and plays strong safety Fellow class correspondent Ron Harris writes College chemistry department. on the football team (which just repeated as Divi- that he and his wife Marcia bought a condo in Her husband has also recently retired from sion 3 NCAA champs for Southern California, Lake Worth, FL. Marcia spent the winter there, Colby, where he taught German for 30 years. We going 9–0); and daughter Laurel is finishing her missing a Michigan winter, and Ron went down wish them both well in their golden years. Anne master’s in public health at Columbia and will about a week a month, as he is still working for a Gerhart Larrison writes from Columbus, OH, graduate in May ’06. This has meant a lot of trav- small consulting/staffing company, ASG Renais- that she went back to and graduated from law eling back and forth from Hawaii for Rich and Rai. sance. Their daughter Elana (Penn ’96) is an edi- school in 1986, worked for the Ohio Supreme Please continue to send your news (and tor for an advertising company that specializes in Court, and then spent ten years as director of the dues) to any of your correspondents or to Rolf the Internet. Son Andrew ’98 lives in Chicago. He Ohio Judicial Conference before she retired. She Frantz ([email protected]) or Alice Katz Berglas received an MBA from the U. of Michigan and and husband Larry recently purchased an old ([email protected]). A full Reunion Report will works for ZS Associates, a consulting firm that farmhouse where they plan to spend time with appear in the Sept/Oct issue. ❖ Bill Blockton, specializes in marketing and sales. Ron is still their five grandchildren. They also are spending [email protected]; Susan Rockford Bittker, interviewing high school students who have a lot of time on Lake Erie and in Michigan when [email protected]; and John Miers,John applied to Cornell. Class VP George Arangio,MD Larry can get away from his stockbroker job. [email protected]. ’69, has been appointed clinical professor of John Hyland is also enjoying retirement, after orthopedic surgery at the Milton S. Hershey Med- 33-plus years as a high school teacher. He lives in Lots of catching up to do. Some of ical College, Pennsylvania State U., and has been Oceanside, CA, but occupies most of his time vis-  this has gotten long in the tooth, appointed to the American Orthopedic Foot and iting new places and revisiting old haunts and peo-  but if something about your news Ankle Society research committee. George and ple he has recently met or known for years. Retire- needs updating, please let me wife Judy recently traveled to Ireland with friends. ment allowed him to actively learn a new pace of know, preferably by e-mail. Michael Platzer, Myron Jacobson ran into Bob Kessler and life and he loves it. His biggest problem is trying MA/JD ’71 ([email protected]) is re- Robert Huret (not at the same time) having to choose among the myriad of opportunities tired in Vienna, Austria, which makes me think dinner at the Cornell Club in NYC. Myron and activities that present themselves every day. that our forthcoming reunion (June 7-10, 2007— wants to know if any classmates would be inter- Not everyone is retiring. Dr. John Richert be there!) might be titled “Reunion in Vienna” ested in an off-year mini-reunion in NYC. You and wife Nancy are maintaining their Chevy after the Robert Sherwood play in the ’30s starring can contact him at 14 Strawberry Lane, Roslyn Chase, MD, address but moving to New York City, the Lunts. Just a thought. Michael writes that his Heights, NY 11577. In an interesting e-mail, Dr. where John has taken a new job as vice president two daughters completed master’s degrees, Miriam Leona Fass writes that she has been a front-of- for research and clinical programs at the National at Teachers College, Columbia, and Barbara at the house volunteer at the Sunset Cultural Center Multiple Sclerosis Society. Nancy will join the U. of Chicago. Son Nicholas was finishing a BA in Theatre in Carmel-by-the Sea, where she resides. Dept. of Radiology at Mount Sinai Medical Cen- film and television studies at Bond U. in Australia. As part of this, she was a volunteer at the recent ter. Congratulations to both of them! Carolyn “Having the best time of my life as my busi- performance by John Cleese. Not just a Cam- Rider Chase e-mailed from Salt Lake City that she ness continues with robust growth: www.coopers bridge alum and Monty Python alum, etc., he is continues to be a real estate investor and is keep- townstay.com,” Lonetta Swartout (Cooperstown, now Andrew Dickson White professor-at-large ing up her many hobbies—photography, garden- NY; [email protected]) reports. “As founder at Cornell. Leona also writes that the Carmel ing, staying in touch with family and friends, and and CEO, every day is a learning curve. Having Residents Association Citizen-of-the-Year hon- skiing the greatest snow on earth (Utah). learned to reinvent myself more than once, I’m oree for 2006 is architect, artist, former City Sad news to report. Robert Stewart Ball died realizing all past experiences were only prepa- Councilman, and former Planning Commis- this last December in Washington, DC, where he ration for this. Would love to participate in sioner Olof Dahlstrand ’38,BArch ’39. was attending a meeting. He was director of the women’s senior rowing events. Where do I find a Jean Dahlstrom Marcucci is presently in the NYS Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse crew for women our age?” Anne Healey Holling- Peace Corps in Kenya. She writes, “We’re living Services. He had also been in VISTA and the worth ([email protected]) outside Nyeri, north of Nairobi, between Mt. Army Reserve, and before his career with the is “still at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Kenya and Aberdares National Park. I can be State of New York, he had human service plan- Dallas” as senior library information specialist reached by e-mail (we go into town about once or ning positions for local governments in New and volunteering at Botanical Research Inst. of twice a week to a cybercafé) at danjean@allmail. York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. Our class Texas (BRIT). “Glad to be in botany once again! net, or by phone, 0736 808 284—text is best. I’d sends heartfelt condolences to his family. Doing plant drawings for BRIT.” be especially happy to hear from anyone living in Madeleine Levine Fay is busy working at the John Macaluso (Newport Beach, CA; john Kenya.” Laura Star Sbarra is retired and has Fallon Clinic as an endocrinologist, keeping very [email protected]) was inducted into La moved to Green Valley, AZ. busy dealing with the big increase in diabetes in Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin at Clos de News from two bicyclists. Bruce Bennett, this country. She is also raising a high school stu- Vougeot in Burgundy. John adds, “I sold all my who lives in Oakland, CA, finished a 200-mile dent—and many of us remember the challenges restaurants in the last few years and formed a bike ride from Oakland to Yosemite in two days. of that! She writes that in her spare time she consulting group.”“On the move again! Back to Jon Farbman from Atlantic Highlands, NJ, has enjoys traveling, tennis, and skiing and is still try- the beautiful Northeast (western Massachusetts),” been a competitive road/criterium bicycle racer ing to get her life back together since the death writes Dave DeBell (Westfield, MA; ddebell@ for the last five years. of her husband Fred ’65 eight years ago. mestek.com), who “started as vice president, Please send in news directly to one of our Richard Turbin fills us in on his last five hec- human resources, for Mestek, a leader in HVAC class correspondents or send it in with your tic years. He was elected president of the Hawaii and metal-forming equipment. Much closer to annual dues. We’re looking forward to hearing State Bar Association for 2005 and organized a family—and back to hills and trees!” from you. ❖ Terr y Kohleriter Schwartz, 36 major international Bar convention in Honolulu. Judy Limouze Price ([email protected]) Founders Green, Pittsford, NY 14534, tel., (585) He and wife Rai continue to run a very successful “retired from Cornell Cooperative Extension of 383-0731; e-mail, [email protected]; Joan Elstein law practice, and Rich was honored recently by Monroe County on April 1 (no joke) after 18-1/2

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years. Still have a contract with the Division of high school as well as Cornell, and was very Charlotte Bruska Gardner notes there are just Nutritional Sciences in HumEc at Cornell to serve sorry to hear this news. too many incredible Cornell memories to recall as a food preservation expert/resource for the Steve Siegel, our class secretary, let me know and that her school friendships have been life- NYS Extension System. I’m still playing in a hand- that nearly 40 classmates attended History pro- long! Recently, Leslie Abramson Conason, Patty bell choir at my church, volunteering on various fessor Walter LaFeber’s special final public lecture Stahl, and Nancy Althouse Heath—all freshman committees there, and really enjoying the fact that at the Beacon Theater in NYC on April 25. Many corridor-mates—got together for a mini-reunion. the alarm clock has been permanently shut off.” also joined in the class dinner afterwards that At home, Charlotte is a real estate developer and More retirement, this one by Prof. Jeffrey Chesky Steve organized at a local restaurant. As you may realtor who kayaks, swims, skis, and gardens in (Springfield, IL; [email protected]) from the have read in the May/June issue, Prof. LaFeber is her leisure hours. However, with a daughter at U. of Illinois, where he gave the keynote talk at the Illinois Mental Health and Aging Conference and has also been selected for the Miami Beach High School Hall of Fame. Jeff adds: “Heard Ronni Where do I find a crew Chernoff give a terrific talk in St. Louis and had ‘ dinner with Harvey Greenberg in El Paso.” for women our age? James Munger (Mexico, NY), married to Mary Jean Satterlee of Clyde, NY, writes that he LONETTA SWARTOUT ’67 ’ retired as a science teacher at Mexico Central School in 2000. Son Keith is now 32 and daughter Maureen is a physical education teacher in retiring after 47 years of teaching, and the event, Penn State, she has also been spending time Kingston, NY. James, who’s related to Rose O’Neill, attended by more than 2,000 Cornellians, was a traveling between Vermont and Pennsylvania. creator of the Kewpies, maintains his interest in moving tribute to a beloved teacher and mentor. Charlotte writes that she would most like to hear Kewpie dolls and is a volunteer for the H. Lee While I’m not able to list everyone’s name from Jacqui Stark. White Marine Museum in Oswego, NY. Amid all here, I would happily receive news from anyone “It was a big year for traveling,” say Al and the retirement news, Paul Schweikher (Phoenix, who attended the event if you would care to share Claire Scully DeLauro.In May they took deliv- AZ; [email protected]) remains director of col- your impressions of the evening or other news of ery of a new car in Europe, which they used to lege counseling at Phoenix Country Day School. your life. In addition, our annual class News and tour Germany and France. Then in the fall, it He and wife Mary have children Erich, 24, and Dues mailing was sent out in the spring, and I was off to northern Spain. On both trips, they Claire, 19. ❖ Richard B. Hoffman, 2925 28th St. look forward to hearing from you all on the visited with friends, sampled the local wines, and NW, Washington, DC 20008; e-mail, rhoffman@ News Forms. ❖ Gordon H. Silver,2 Avery St., enjoyed the cuisine. Back in the US, they erols.com. #26C, Boston, MA 02111; e-mail, gordon_silver@ attended the wedding of Allison Bartlett, daugh- comcast.net. ter of John and Maria Keiser Bartlett, where I hope this finds all well with they caught up with Carolyn Ugiss Altieri and you. I’m writing this in early Bob Kaufelt,whose picture Suzanne Backiel Slattery. More recently, the  May, and am off to Ithaca next  appeared on the cover of this DeLauros got together with Peggy Johnson weekend to visit my daughter, a  magazine some months ago Nichols and her son Patrick ’97 in Austin, TX. sophomore in the Arts college. I greatly look for- with an accompanying story Douglas Yoder wrote a week after Hurricane ward to each trip back. about Murray’s Cheese Shop, writes, “The most Wilma. “The fall has been dominated by cleaning John Grocki lives in Enfield, CT, and works remarkable thing ...They put my picture on the up after hurricanes that should not have caused as a consultant in the metals industry. He enjoys cover of the Alumni News under the heading the extensive damage that they did. At the hiking, biking, kayaking, and snowshoeing. John ‘Cheese Whiz’ (or was it ‘Big Cheese’?). This moment we continue to be without power a week would like to hear from Bill VanEe, an old friend. elicited two reactions from classmates: ‘Kaufelt, after Wilma, and the extensive tree canopy in I recently saw Bill Falik and Alice Richmond at you barely attended classes. Why the hell are you Coral Gables has been substantially destroyed . . . a Harvard Law reunion in Cambridge. Bill lives in on the cover?’ And the other was, ‘Maybe women noticeably worse than (after) Hurricane Andrew.” California and has recently sold the large residen- will call you now.’ It all proves that you can never Doug’s concern is professional as well as private, tial real estate project that he had been develop- tell about life: Government major / law school since he is the asst. director in the Miami-Dade ing for many years. He is now considering future dropout finds happiness in cheese.”Writes Dale Environmental Resources Management Dept. plans. Alice lives in Boston with her husband Coats,who retired several years ago only to start After Katrina but before Wilma, he and his wife David and daughter Betsy, who attends Brown. another career in real estate, “I do like what I’m adopted an abandoned dog from New Orleans. After a highly distinguished legal career, Alice is doing.” He is the site manager for a large senior Doug says that she has fit in quickly and shows now exploring other opportunities in the foun- housing complex, as well as a part-time realtor. her affection at every opportunity. Before the spate dation and non-profit world. And if that doesn’t keep him busy, Dale says, “(I of hurricanes, Doug enjoyed an occasional round Carol Fisher Ganz ([email protected]) am) grandpa of seven ...and the doer of the of golf with his son Todd, and adds that they both lives in Atlanta. Carol has three grown children, honey-do list.” He also finds time to jog, relax at sing in the Congregational Church choir. Soon two boys and a girl. Her daughter lives in NYC his cottage on the St. Lawrence River, and cheer the Yoders will be making their full-time residence and is a lawyer with Simpson, Thatcher. Carol the Ottawa Senators. In answer to the question elsewhere, as Doug is planning to retire. would love to hear from any classmates in the about fond memories of Cornell, Dale recalls Madelaine Dryer is thinking wistfully about Atlanta area. Rebecca Johnson Irvine lives in tray-sliding and notes that he still has the tray! retirement but remains busy as a sales engineer for Ephrata, PA, with her husband Keith. Their son Another classmate who happily remembers Reliance Gear Corp., a manufacturer of all types Matthew ’96 is married and lives in London. tray-sliding is Naresh Khanna.He now lives in of open gearing to service diverse fields from med- Son Joshua is also married and works as a ther- New Delhi, India, where he is a jeweler specializ- icine to the aircraft industry. In off-hours, Made- apist in Pennsylvania, and daughter Charity ’01 ing in precious stones, as well as a hotel investor. laine is involved in music. She sings in a commu- is currently attending graduate school for train- Naresh writes that he has been traveling on busi- nity chorus in addition to attending opera, the ing in counseling. Rebecca teaches in Lancaster. ness to jewelry shows, most recently to New York symphony, and locally produced plays and musi- I regret to report the following e-mail from City,Dubai, and Singapore, but that he would cals in her native Chicago. Not surprisingly, her Michael Schenker, JD ’74. He writes, “It is with rather be traveling for pleasure, perhaps cruising fondest Cornell memory is walking across the Arts great sadness that I have to inform you that or visiting scenic places and resorts. KenHamlet Quad on a crisp fall day listening to a chimes con- David Muntner passed away suddenly earlier ’66 and Chris Ryan ’72 are old Cornell friends cert.Another music enthusiast, Carol Hudson in April. 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Unitarian Church choir. Since retiring as a food Washington, DC, Park City, UT, San Miguel, the Counsel. Murem Sakas Sharpe writes that she saw technologist and nutrition researcher, Carol vol- Azores, Narragansett, and Bloomfield Hills, MI. In Paula Noonan and her husband Phil Doe while unteers for AACC Int’l, an organization for cereal 2005, 13 DGs visited Kim Dubin Saporito’s home they were visiting New York from Denver in the chemists. Carol serves as treasurer for the North- in Boulder, CO. In addition to Hsiao Ping and fall of 2005. Paula continues to teach and consult ern California section and secretary in the nutri- Kim, those attending were Sue Nelson Anderson, in distance learning, as well as serving as publisher tion division. And she is the secretary of the Bel- Bonnie Ershowsky Caruso, Peggy Fitzpatrick, of her son Raleigh’s new magazine. Cathy Souser gian Sheep Dog Club, makes pottery, and is an Rachel Verowitz Gubman, Linda Horecker Lally, Henning and her husband John have developed amateur photographer. What Carol remembers Nena Donovan Levine, Judy Mustille, Buzzi a spectacular sheep farm and gardens from what best about Cornell is its scenic campus. Cliff Neal Brueckner McVay, Debbie French Peverill, Sue were originally untended acres in Petaluma, CA. lets us know that he is in global project manage- Smith Quick, and Jane Gegenheimer St. John. ❖ Connie Ferris Meyer, 16 James Thomas Rd., ment with Pfizer, based in Groton, CT. They visited Celestial Seasonings Tea and NCAR, Malvern, PA 19355; e-mail, [email protected].

As this column is going to press, it is  more than a month before our 35th One of my section-mates and friends ended Reunion. We ask that you check the ‘ September/October issue of Cornell up being the current American president. Alumni Magazine for coverage of Reunion Week- end plus the Reunion Report for our class. JOSEPH CONNOLLY ’72 ’ Approximately 71 classmates gathered at the Chevy Chase home of ArtSpitzer and Elisabeth Kaplan Boas on March 26 for a pre-reunion Can anyone tell us about the following peo- painted pottery, went tubing down mountain party. The theme of the party was “Show Your ple: Robert A. Lester, William D. Alford, Edwin streams, visited national parks, and talked and Colors—Wear Red” and many people did. The G. Jackson, Peter M. Konefal, Alan J. Levine, talked. Next they will visit Buzzi in Minneapolis, house was decorated with red and white tulips, John R. Gimbel, Brent G. McGee, David A. where they will have private guided tours of Cornell memorabilia, and red balloons. Our Lettick, Robert B. Jacobs, George H. Manlove, every significant art gallery and go horseback reunion chair, Kathy Menton Flaxman, and Clifford S. Korte, Dennis G. Adelman, Martin A. riding. In 2008 their plans are to visit China to Michael and Janet Lynn Cornfeld ’72 helped Levine, Michael Goedeker, Victor P. Addonizio, celebrate our 60th birthdays together. Hsiao Ping considerably, introducing many classmates who James B. Lewis, Kathleen Kohles McGuinn, and says that as they have seen their families grow did not know they knew one another. There Stanley J. Jakubaszek. ❖ Arda Coyle Boucher, 21 and themselves age, they have cherished and were delightful reunions among classmates who Hemlock Hill Rd., Amherst, NH 03031; e-mail, shared wonderful memories together. turned out to be tied to each other in neighbor- [email protected]. Allan Weitzman (aweitzman@proskauer. hoods, workplaces, or volunteer commitments, com) and his wife Regina have lived in Boca or through children’s schools. More than a few Sandy Schorr and her husband Raton, FL, since 1995. Allan is board-certified by people were meeting up with classmates they  Chuck Breckheimer, MAT/MS the Florida Bar as a specialist in labor and had not seen in decades. Our pre-reunion gath- ’69,enjoyed our 35th Reunion, employment law and a Fellow of the College of erings would not have been so successful with- despite the heat, and especially Labor and Employment Lawyers. Since the 11th out the hard work of our class networking cap- had fun on campus with Sandy’s former room- grade, he has always wanted to practice labor and tain, Sally Clark Shumaker. Thanks, Sally, for mate Maryellen Gaidusek Mitchell and her hus- employment law. His ambitions and dreams have your infectious spirit and dedication to our class. band Bart.They had some fun moments remi- been fulfilled, since he has spent his entire pro- Victor Curran ([email protected]), niscing in the Tri Delt house where Bart was a fessional career at Proskauer Rose LLP and who worked so tirelessly on our beautiful pre- kitchen boy and Maryellen and Sandy worked as became a partner in its labor and employment reunion party invitations, lives in the Boston area. waitresses for their board. Bart went straight for a law department in 1981. Much of Allan’s time is Victor’s career has been in printing, publishing, broom and showed them how he could clean the spent litigating in either state or federal court at and graphic design. He has taught design classes kitchen floor in less than a minute. They all the trial or appellate levels. He was selected by his at Northeastern U. and he now works in sales for stopped at the Chapter House for a beer. The place peers for the 2005 and 2006 editions of the Best DS Graphics in Lowell, MA. Victor has two chil- hadn’t changed, but the hill seemed a bit steeper Lawyers in America and his speaking has led to dren, Andrew, born in 1984, and Marcelia, born than any of them remembered. Chuck just retired recognition in an international Who’s Who of in 1987. Thank you, Victor, for all your hard from teaching high school AP Chemistry (27 years Management, Labor and Employment Lawyers. work on behalf of our class! in Ithaca; six in Colorado). Last August, Sandy and Because of his experience as a management advo- This month we received news from Richard Chuck moved to a town outside Asheville, NC, cate in arbitration proceedings, he lectured at the Greif ([email protected]), who lives in Dobbs where she is a pediatrician and they are both closer ILR school to human resources practitioners. The Ferry, NY. Richard is a cardiologist practicing in to family. They can be reached at breckschorr@ topics were “The Investigatory Grievance: Devel- Yonkers. He and his wife Vicki have three chil- aol.com, and would love to hear from any friends oping Facts and Evidence,”“Increasing Effective- dren who are all Cornellians. Arel ’03 is working who happen to be traveling through. ness in Arbitration,”“Advanced Arbitration Skills,” in New York for a media company, Dylan ’06 Many years ago, Tom Newman (tnewman@ and “The Clash Between Management Rights and majored in English and Government and co-pub- pharmanet.com), a physician by training, left Privacy Invasion: Drug Testing, Polygraphs, and lished the Public Journal while at Cornell (check it practice for the pharmaceutical industry. Recently AIDS.”Allan is often consulted and interviewed out at www.publicjournal.com), and Shana ’07 is he was appointed COO of Pharmanet Inc., a con- by business newspaper and magazine columnists majoring in Psychology. While at Cornell, Richard tract research organization. He lives just outside for their articles on employment law issues. was on the tennis and squash teams. He still plays of Princeton, NJ, and looks forward to watching Richard Ruebel has once again been named tennis regularly, including USTA leagues and an the Big Red pummel the Tigers (which even hap- among the “2006 Super Lawyers” published by occasional tournament. (Coincidentally, Richard pened in basketball this year). Tom says he Cincinnati magazine and Ohio Super Lawyers and Rich Perlmutter,who we wrote about in enjoyed reunion in June ’05, although he never magazine. He was in fact listed in the Top 50 our March/April column, met when they were 12 believed it could get that hot in Ithaca! Hsiao Ping Super Lawyers in Cincinnati. Richard is a part- years old at summer camp and their two camps Liu Katz reports that for many years the Delta ner with the law firm Drew and Ward Co. LPA, played each other. They met again at Cornell Gamma Class of 1970 has held annual mini- where he specializes in estate planning and also when they both tried out for freshman tennis!) reunions at various members’ homes. Locations practices in probate and taxation. He is a Fellow Erik Videlock,a partner with the firm of Pep- have included Chicago, Santa Fe, Arrowhead, CA, of the American College of Trust and Estate per Hamilton, is a patent and intellectual property

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rights attorney in Philadelphia. He was recently local business school. One of my section-mates Kong charities and schools through community elected to the board of directors of Family Sup- and friends ended up being the current American service and monetary grants. Every once in a while port Services, a not-for-profit social services agency president.”Others in Joe’s circle include “Cornell we’re able to join in a Cornell Club activity—a operating in Philadelphia and Delaware counties. classmates Bob Selandar,now Chairman and night at the races a few months ago was great fun.” JimCunningham ([email protected]) writes from CEO of MasterCard Int’l, Patty Guy, US Consul Wendy Gerber Buchberg, MAT ’74, began Lexington, MA, that he is running the town Cable in Munich, Eric Edelman, US Under Secretary a new teaching position last September with the TV station and is the project lead for restoration of Defense, Rich Johnston,a Boston lawyer, and New Visions Health Sciences program at Cayuga of some important revolutionary war sites. Rick my best friend, Jay Branegan,now doing some- Medical Center in Ithaca. The program is for Furbush ([email protected]) checked in thing on Capitol Hill. Frank Ruiz is chief archi- high-achieving high school seniors who aspire to from St. Petersburg, FL, where he has been im- tect in Albany and Sherri McNulty is a judge in careers in medicine. She has developed an inte- mersed in building his custom woodworking the same city.”Joe “quite enjoy[s] academia” and grated curriculum that combines 12th grade hon- business. Rick says he enjoyed his trip to campus describes his American U. chair as “a nice perch.” ors English, economics, government, anatomy for Trustee/Council Weekend. He has been pres- June Feeks Brooks writes: “Last time I wrote and physiology, medical ethics, and medical law, ident of the Cornell Club of the Sun Coast for it was to tell of the sudden death of my husband while also supervising her students’ weekly rota- the past eight years, which recently hosted a visit of 32 years. This time I have happy news to tions through each department of the medical by Frank Rhodes. report. I was married last summer to Dan Kaye, center. Wendy writes: “I (almost!) feel as though We received a nice note from Diana Petitti in an old friend with whom I had recently recon- I’m in medical school, since we are able to observe Sierra Madre, CA ([email protected]). “After nected. Dan is the director of the public library surgeries and many other kinds of procedures finishing medical school at Harvard in 1975, I took in the small town where I teach. We now happily performed at the hospital. It’s great to stretch my flight from the winters of the East Coast. I lived commute together from our home in Eugene, brain and try something new!” Her daughter first in Northern California for 17 years and then OR. We are both looking forward to retiring in Annie ’03 is completing her master’s degree in in Southern California for the most recent 14, with just one more year. Unbelievable!” June and Dan May ’06 in the Sloan Program for Health Admin- a brief stint in Colorado. I am an epidemiologist recently spent a weekend in Portland visiting with istration at Cornell and is looking forward to (nothing whatever to do with skin—think epi- Tom Har vey and his wife Jan (Wagenhals) ’73. beginning her professional career. Wendy would demic). My professional life has been research and She reports that Tom is a family doctor in private like to hear from classmates at [email protected]. writing. I still do both, but also a lot of policy work practice and Jan is a school psychologist in the Margaret Clark of Katonah, NY, tells us that with regard to the delivery of medical care. Now public schools. Their youngest son (of three) has her daughter Caitlin ’06 will be graduating from life. I make quilts, work with glass, hike, and bicy- just left home to begin his freshman year at Mid- Arts and Sciences this year with a degree in eco- cle, but not as much as I should. I have a couple of dlebury in Vermont. This summer, June and Dan nomics. Caitlin’s grandfather, William Clark ’50 cats. My only child, a daughter, is 27 and out of the plan to visit June’s former roommate, Deborah (Margaret’s father), graduated from Cornell Engi- nest—going to law school. I sure miss the fall and Kondis,who is a gynecologist and mother of two neering, and her aunt, Sara Clark ’77 (Margaret’s the spring in Ithaca and, of course, the parties.” in Nashville. From Nashville they will drive to sister), graduated from CALS. Steven Bienstock Richard Immerman (rimmerma@temple. Williamsburg, VA, to visit another roommate and is pleased to announce that his son Josh has edu) writes that he is currently living in London fellow Pi Phi, Nancy Drews Harding. June’s old- been accepted to Cornell and will start in the and wouldn’t be able to return for reunion. est son, Christopher, will leave home this sum- fall. Daughter Sarah is in the sixth grade, recently Richard is a history professor and director of the mer and begin work on his PhD in modern played the role of Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Center for the Humanities at Temple U. His schol- European intellectual history at UC Santa Cruz, Dream, and also plays the flute and sings. Her arship focuses on the history of US foreign rela- and younger son Adam is working in a medical twin brother Eli finished his wrestling season by tions since World II and the history of Intelligence. office and will be getting his own apartment, “so placing fifth in the state, and is now on to baseball, With former Eisenhower Under Secretary of State Dan and I will soon have that empty nest.” where he is a starting pitcher. Steve’s wife Debbie Robert Bowie, he co-authored Waging Peace,a Steven Seifert is a professor at the U. of is a sign language interpreter and a captionist, and book about Eisenhower’s Cold War strategy. Nebraska Medical Center and medical director of Steve continues to practice law in Rockville, MD. We sadly report the death of Louis Serpa the Nebraska Regional Poison Center. Last Octo- Among the talented high school students who last September. He had been a resident of ber he organized and hosted an international sci- attended Cornell’s Summer College Program last Arlington, VA, since 1987. Louis was a business entific symposium on venomous snakebites. Steve year: Justin Ellis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Ellis; broker and owned a number of businesses in the was also named a senior reviewer by the Annals Alexandra Bachorik, daughter of Dr. Gail Povar Virginia/D.C. area. Survivors include Nancy, his of Emergency Medicine for excellence in manu- and husband Lawrence Bachorik ’71; and Anne wife of 18 years, and three children, Michael, script peer review. He plays tenor saxophone in Linker, daughter of Diane Spanier Linker and Matthew, and Kathleen. The Serpas lived in a virtual band, recording and digitizing his parts husband Arthur. ❖ Gary L. Rubin,glrubin@aol. Lagos, Nigeria, from 1998 to 2001, where Nancy and e-mailing them to other band members com; Alex Barna, [email protected]. was assigned to the US Embassy. located in another city. “We do get to play live As your class correspondents, we are always when I visit, but they tell me I sound better at a Greetings again from Seattle. We happy to receive news about classmates for the distance,” he says. Daughter Sara “will graduate  spent the holidays in Niger, West column. Please contact us and we will be de- from CALS in ’07,which means we’ll have our Africa, in what turned out to be a lighted to write about you. ❖ Linda Germaine- reunion years together. Let me tell you, these fairly intense visit with daughter Miller, [email protected]; and Matt Silverman, things take some long-range planning . . .” Emilie at her Peace Corps assignment. An R&R [email protected]. Kathy Price Chiron writes: “My husband Stu- week in Senegal allowed for a little decompres- art ’71, director of regulatory affairs for PCCW, sion, but the rest of the time we were packing Joseph Connolly is the Willard and I have been living in Hong Kong for about five ourselves into bush taxis, coping with the 100-  Brown Distinguished Professor of and a half years. I retired a few years ago and now degree heat, and fending off merchants and beg- Global Finance at American U. in work harder than ever as a full-time volunteer! gars. Things calmed down considerably once we Cairo, after a 30-year career on Currently I’m serving as president of the Ameri- were in Tanka, Emilie’s assigned village, 120 km Wall Street and in London. He is also the US can Women’s Association, an amazingly diverse east of Niamey. As the only four white Americans Commissioner for the US-UK Bilateral Commis- group of nearly 800, representing over 40 nation- in town, we were stars, although accommodations sion for Fulbrights and a trustee of the American alities and spanning seven decades in age. We pro- were basic—no running water, no electricity, two- U. in London. He maintains homes in Manhat- vide educational and social opportunities for our room mud-brick house with a hole off to the side. tan, Boston, London, Paris, Zurich, and Cairo. members (lots of trips around Hong Kong and But the chief, his wives, and the villagers couldn’t With elegant understatement, Joe writes: “After I throughout Asia, mahjong, bridge, book clubs, lec- have been friendlier—charmed, no doubt, by our left Cornell I went back to Boston and went to a tures, activities, hikes, etc.) and also support Hong rudimentary Zarma. “Fo fo!” (“Hi there!”)

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I was invited to a morning prayer service (it’s Sandra Sharon Rapoport lives with hus- That’s it! Great response this month. Con- a Muslim country, so the women remained in the band Samuel ’72, MD ’76, in NYC, where she is tact us at: ❖ David Ross,[email protected]; back) and our hosts even killed and prepared a a writer and mother of three. She recently docu- Phyllis Haight Grummon, [email protected]. goat for us. The toughest part was getting to sleep mented the untold stories of the women in the at night, since without phones, TV, or books, the Bible as co-author of The Passions of the Matri- Go see a football or basketball game. evening entertainment consists of gathering in archs.Attention Shiela McGuirk:Sandra’s look-  Or log on to www.elynah.com. Over the main road to gossip and dance until 11 p.m., ing for you. Cynthia Weniger (csw25@cornell. the past couple of years, I’ve gener- creating a human din so loud I had to use my Air edu) teaches ethical culture at Fieldston School ated a bushel of friendships in per- France earplugs. Our next journey is a cruise in Riverdale, NY, and in her spare time sings in son and online with Cornellians a decade older down the Yangtze before the big dam inundates a chorus, hosts foreign students, and fixes up an and too depressingly many decades younger. China’s interior, probably the last family vacation “old creaky house” in Tarrytown. We’ve met for dinner at Pepe’s in New Haven before the two girls spiral off into various orbits. Denise Meridith ([email protected]) is a before Yale and Quinnipiac hockey games and at On to the news. Daniel Smith (SmithDC@ business consultant in Phoenix, and the author the Nines in Collegetown before a variety of home hawaii.rr.com) is in Honolulu as chief of emer- of Thoughts While Chillin’: Autobiography of a sports events. The “eLynah Forum” covers topics gency medicine at Queens Medical Center. His Black Public Servant,available online at www. far broader than just the 200-by-85-foot surface only regret is waiting so long to leave Western thoughtswhilechillin.com. She shows Cairn ter- at the rink. Sports events are a great way to stay Massachusetts, where the fishing and diving riers, misses Cornell ice cream, and wants to in touch, as we’re pretty much halfway between weren’t nearly as colorful. Wife Janice (Gorzyn- hear from Karen Knight. Torin Togut (tandt@ reunion years, and not very significant reunions ski) teaches organic chemistry at the U. of mindspring.com) lives in Lawrenceville, GA, at that—past 30, heading for 35, and a long way Hawaii, Manoa. She’s working on the second with wife Teresa and works for Georgia Legal from 50. Sheesh, can it be that many? Indeed. edition of her chemistry text, published last year Services, frequently representing students with Sandra McLean became a judge of the Supe- by McGraw-Hill. Erin is training in emergency disabilities. He’s also president of the Georgia rior Court in Butte County, CA, in December medicine at UCLA. Jenna graduates from the U. ACLU, although he admits he’d rather be vaca- 2005. In conjunction with that role, Sandra, pre- of Hawaii in May, then heads to Korea to teach tioning in the Greek Islands. Wouldn’t we all! viously Sandra L. Schweitzer, says she resumed use English. Twins Matthew and Zachary, 11, enter Jeff Corwin teaches neuroscience at the U. of of her maiden name. She lives in Chico, CA, with middle school next year. Virginia School of Medicine, spends summers as husband Douglas Keister. Bill Ruskin, JD ’77, of Charles Steiner (steinerc@wichitaartmuseum. a researcher at the Marine Biological Lab in Greenwich, CT, joined the New York City office org) directs the Wichita Art Museum, and mount- Woods Hole, MA, and is fixing up an old stone of Epstein, Becker & Green PC in its national lit- ed his second one-man show at the Wichita Cen- house on the sunrise side of the Blue Ridge igation practice. Although based in New York, ter for the Arts last spring. “Gardenscapes” Mountains named “Ahaluna” or “the lookout Bill will be servicing Connecticut clients through focuses on the elaborate gardens that Kansans place.” It was at a Cajun dance class that he met EBG’s Stamford office. He came from Shipman & cultivate to break up the serene monotony of the fiancée Linda Beard. Goodwin and will handle environmental, prod- natural landscape. Abby Ershow (ershowa@mail. Norman Lange ([email protected]) is a uct liability, and toxic tort litigation. He also sits nih.gov) and spouse Hans Plugge live in Colum- commercial loan officer at Cleveland’s National on the board of the New York and Connecticut bia, MD, with children Arie, 20, and Riecka, 18. City Bank, and breeds horses when he isn’t read- League of Conservation Voters Education Funds. Abby’s a nutrition program officer at the National ing stuff like The Peloponnesian War and assorted Laurie Harris is a high school math teacher Heart, Lung, and Blood Inst. in Bethesda, as well Peter Drucker books. He’d like to hear from old in Concord, CA, where she lives with husband as a weightlifter and a singer in Columbia Pro friend Joseph Yancy ’72. Sheila Kennedy Holtz- Paul Crissey. Life has been busy obtaining her Cantare. She’d love to hear from Janette Cush- man,MBA ’74 ([email protected]) and hus- teaching credential, and in her spare time Lau- man, Mary Jo McNamara, Rosemary Batt, and band Richard ’76 will celebrate their 25th rie dabbles in property management. Marianne Joan Oremland Richter, MD ’77. anniversary with a trip to Fiji, one of the few Stein Kah and husband Jeff Coe are looking to Donald Orlovsky ([email protected]) is a spots able to compete with Koloa, HI, where they the future: “Purchased land in Santa Fe, NM, law partner in West Palm Beach, specializing in live with son Kevin. Daughter Jennifer is a Syra- and hope to retire there.” federal Indian law, although he admits he’d cuse grad, and Whitney is a junior at ASU. John David Barenberg is a gastroenterologist liv- rather be sailing Drake’s Passage or studying Kontrabecki, JD/MBA ’77 (jtkontrabecki@tkg ing in Danbury, CT, with spouse Phyllis. Fred Hawaiian culture in Lahaina. He serves on the international.com) works in real estate develop- Siegel and wife Cheryl live in Durham, CT. Fred board of directors of Comprehensive Alco- ment with TKG in San Mateo, CA, but discov- is an ob/gyn—“days, nights, and weekends.”(He holism Rehabilitation Services and keeps busy ered a latent love for farming and recently sold says he’d rather be relaxing.) Another ob/gyn, raising his 14-year-old daughter and 11-year-old his first 100 acres of wine grapes. Wife Nicole Susan Dallimonti Peck, loves her career and son as open-minded, involved citizens. He gave birth to son Charles, so named because thinks she’ll work forever—at least until she’s 70, remembers Cornell as “perhaps the greatest uni- “everyone we know named Charles we like”— when she plans to open a bookstore/cafe. Susan versity community in the world” and says his especially classmate Charles Steiner. and husband Michael live in Glenville, PA. When only regret is that “it passed far too quickly.” JayGoland ([email protected]) is she’s not working, although she appears to be Christina Kallas won election as president of an ENT doc in Long Beach, CA, who misses the working most of the time, she plays tennis and the New York Women’s Bar Association and “beautiful women” at Cornell and the creaky field hockey, sings, and does auto-racing with works on the professional development of wooden floors. They remind him of old friend her son in the Hooter’s Pro-Cup Series. Barbara women lawyers and the fair and equal adminis- Walt Jacobson ’72—where are you, Walt? Julia Gales is a physician and adjunct asst. professor tration of justice. Perfect, she says, for a child of Smyth-Pinney, BArch ’76, is a professor of archi- living in Brooklyn, NY. She admits that she, too, the Sixties. tecture at the U. of Kentucky College of Design has been working too hard and would some- James Hilderbrant lives in Whitney Point who spends her spare time in vigils and peace times rather be spending time in a foreign coun- with wife Anne-Marie and is a consumer safety marches against the war in Iraq—when she isn’t try like Saudi Arabia. She keeps fit at the health inspector. He misses those intense conversations hatching plans to rehab downtown Lexington, spa and bicycling. Barbara remembers the peace- over shrimp rolls at Cornell. Jeffrey Hubsher KY. She spent 2-1/2 years in Rome researching ful tranquility and diversity of Cornell and owns South Salem (NY) Animal Hospital and Borromini’s church S. Ivo alla Sapienza and would like to hear from Elizabeth Pritchett ’76. lives in Ridgefield, CT, where he spends time “having a life.” She remembers Cornell as the In addition to 1974s among the ranks of pro- with his two kids, rides horses, skis hard, dreams place she found her life-long passion for art and fessors and administrators, several are in alumni of being an artist and writer, and misses being architecture, and would love to hear from Siri relations and development work. There is, of young and invincible. Attention Al Giuffrida, Schwartz Mills, Kathy, Marjorie, and the other course, Mary Berens, director of alumni affairs Jeff wants to hear from you. grads of Fine Arts ’73. for Cornell. Also, Bob Boynton is executive

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director of the office of alumni relations for New curriculum projects at CFA Institute. But his big Shop Talk 2000 in Alton, IL, which provides sales Jersey Inst. of Technology in Newark. Bob com- news is his January 2005 wedding to Rosemarie evaluations and training primarily for the hospi- mutes from Staten Island (from his days working Spence. Congratulations! Also south of the tality industry. Laurie and husband George are at Wagner College there) and keeps his parents’ Mason-Dixon Line, Mark Powers (power022@ parents of four children ages 5 to 21, which leaves old house in Ithaca, where he weekend-commutes mc.duke.edu) and wife Karen Lauterbach live in little time for her other loves—traveling and vol- regularly to work on a fleet of antique cars (Tri- Chapel Hill, NC. Mark admits that he would unteering. She’s also been active in the Library umph, Ford F250 pickup, Ford Model A) and sail rather be traveling, sculpting, playing, and read- Foundation Board, the CAAAN committee in St. his Catalina 22 harbored on Cayuga Lake. Eliza- ing novels rather than working, but his job as Louis, and several school and parent volunteer beth Coit of Arlington, VA, is director of devel- assoc. clinical professor for pulmonary, allergy, projects. Laurie ([email protected]) would like to opment for the Center for Community Change, and critical care at the Duke U. Medical Center find classmate Maureen Millane Rusk if anyone an organization that is dedicated to social and occupies the majority of his time. knows where she might be. economic change for low-income communities and communities of color in the US. After hours she writes, bikes, hikes, and travels, goes to movies, and is active in the Unitarian Universalist Church. Susan Dallimonti Peck does auto-racing She’d like to do more traveling and travel writing, ‘ but changing jobs has meant lots of after-hours with her son in the Hooters Pro-Cup Series. work, and she periodically helps care for her mother in assisted living. An old Cornell friend BILL HOWARD ’74 ’ she’d love to hear from is Janis Kelly ’71. Please send news to any of the class correspondents. We’ll make sure the right person gets Kenneth Rosen lives in N. Caldwell, NJ, and Randall Smith (randall.smith@midwestair it. These are prime years for college matriculations is partner and chairman of the bankruptcy and lines.com), VP of sales and distribution for Mid- and graduations, weddings, and even news of creditors rights department at Lowenstein Sand- west Airlines, resides in Kansas City, MO, but com- grandchildren. If you’ve retired early, tell us—go ler PC in Roseland, NJ, and NYC. He’s a mem- mutes weekly to the headquarters in Milwaukee ahead, rub it in. ❖ Bill Howard,wkh2@cornell. ber of the board of Saint Barnabas Healthcare to help build Midwest’s market share and visibil- edu; Betsy Moore,[email protected]; and System and chair of Saint Barnabas Hospice & ity. He’s rebuilding their sales team and mentor- Steve Raye,[email protected]. Palliative Care Center. Ken would like to hear ing new leaders in their organization. Randy and from Steve Rubenstein.Across the river in NYC wife Christine are raising children Griffin, 13, and Several of your class officers at- is Susan Hirsch,who works in public relations. Katie, 10. While Randy reports that he’s currently  tended the CACO Mid-Winter She’s been enjoying all that the Big Apple has to “having a grand time ...life is good,” he fondly Meeting in February, held for the offer—theatre, fine dining, concerts, museums, recalls the great hockey games at Lynah Rink. Also first time in Philadelphia. Charlie and galleries—and wishes that she were retired in the Midwest is Marty Siegel (tcrealtor@aol. Temel (president), Vickie Thaler Vaclavik (sec- to be able to enjoy more of these wonderful com), who works in real estate in Eden Prairie, retary), KarenKaplan (treasurer), Susan Fulton activities! Fond memories bring Susan back to MN. After hours, he’s on the board of trustees for (reunion co-chair), and I enjoyed the great sto- Straight Breaks at 9 pm after long hours of study- the Boys & Girls Club of the Twin Cities, serves on ries, long-standing memories, and camaraderie ing in the library. How could we forget! Susan the executive board of Park Nichollet Health Sys- of fellow Cornellians as we learned about excit- ([email protected]) would like to hear from tem, and founded Trees for Toys, which has col- ing research by professors and students, the new Ellen Mazur and Robert S. Harrison ’76. lected more than 100,000 toys for local charities residential colleges on West Campus, and a myr- Nina Weisbach Palmer (jpalmer756@aol. during the past 15 Christmas seasons. In January, iad of campus and alumni activities. Our own com) is a psychiatrist at Harvard Vanguard Marty joined fellow ’75 classmates Andy Reese planning for the upcoming years included a new Medical Assoc. in Boston. She and husband and Steve Semlitz,MBA ’76, for their annual look for the Class of ’75 website and new events Jonathan live in nearby Newton and enjoy trav- “Rendezvous in the Rockies” ski trip to Vail. and communications with classmates. eling with their family. Nina fondly recalls the fall Harry Solomon ([email protected]. First, the news from around the Washing- days at Cornell picking apples, having lunch at com) missed reunion last year because of sched- ton, DC, Beltway where I live. Joe Lavin (jlavin@ the Dairy Bar, walking Libe Slope, and her sum- uling problems. Five years ago he moved from harborstonehospitality.com) is president of Har- mer job with Paul Buck in the Nutrition depart- Philadelphia to Highland Park, IL, about 23 borStone Hospitality in Potomac, MD, a new ment. Also in Massachusetts is Patricia Gray, miles north of Chicago, where he works for GE company that he founded to develop and own senior VP and chief legal officer for Panera Bread Healthcare, defining international standards for hotels. Joe has also served as “executive-in- in Needham. She enjoys traveling for business sharing electronic medical records. As a result residence” at the Hotel school for the fall 2005 and golfing in Palm Springs, but is looking for he’s been on the road frequently to Washington, semester, where his daughter is a junior. I spent someone to accompany her to Ireland for golf. DC,San Diego, Stockholm, and Budapest. In his four wonderful days with fellow DGs in Interested? Update your passport and e-mail her spare time, Harry sings tenor in the Chicagoland Charleston, SC, walking, touring, shopping, din- at [email protected]. Jewish Community Chorus. He and wife Judy ing, and enjoying the company of good friends. From the West we’ve heard from Rex Gris- help run the Monday International Folk Dance Diane Kopelman ’74 once again organized a wold ([email protected]). He and wife Mary in Evanston, an interest he first developed at fabulous get-away attended by Susan Corner Ellen sold their restaurant, and Rex was elected Cornell. They have three sons, one who lives in Rosen (who with husband Robert lives and to the City Council of Mesa, AZ. They enjoy Oregon (his Dad calls him sort of a hippie), practices law in this wonderful city, and hosted their three grandchildren and local politics. A another a civil engineer in New York, and the us one evening), Karen Leung Moore, Myrna teacher at the Nevada City Elementary School, youngest a student at Brandeis. Bank Gardner, Elyse Byron, Laurie Musick Francine Zalkin Foster lives in Grass Valley, CA. Writing from Greenwich, CT, Ron ’74 and Wright, Betsy Beach ’74, Kimberly Christy She and husband Mark took a hiking trip to Myrna Bank Gardner ([email protected]) Gordon ’74, Jackie Dolat ’74, Marty Slye Sher- Switzerland last year, and Francine rates hiking, are both excited that their daughter Callie was man ’73, and Karen Broten Sieburgh ’73.My wine tasting, skiing, political action, book clubs, accepted to the Class of 2010. I had met Callie son, Jack Keefe, will be a freshman at Swarth- and gardening on her list of favorite after-hours during our 30th Reunion last summer and can more this fall (much to my chagrin, I couldn’t activities. Susan Sullivan,Francine asks that you vouch that she’ll be a wonderful asset to the up- talk him into Cornell!). contact her at [email protected]. and-coming ranks. Also with a daughter in ILR South of us, in Charlottesville, VA, Jerald Hotel alums Laurie Clemente Milnor and at Cornell (Lauren ’07) is Steven Benenati Pinto ([email protected]) is director, Nancy Kiesendahl Bloch ’71 are partners in ([email protected]), who lives in Norwich,

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NY. For the past 22 years he’s been labor rela- It’s been 50th birthday party bar mitzvah. Mark’s old Cornell roommates Stan tions administrator for the School Alliance, a  season for me, involving a fair Bernstein and Myles Akabas attended. Karen consortium of seven public schools sharing amount of travel to celebrate with Zelkind Buglass moved to Potomac, MD (a neigh- labor and legal services. When not working, classmates. In March, we drove up bor!) last summer after 23 years in Winchester, Steven enjoys basketball, weight training, and to Scarsdale to be at a surprise party for Janet MA. Karen and her family moved for her to take watching son Ryan (who’s applied to Cornell Lorn Cobe, MBA ’78, hosted by her husband a job as a fourth grade teacher at Green Acres ILR) play football, basketball, and track as a high Burt.Burt’s sister Patty Cobe Feldstein is a Cor- School in Rockville, MD. Green Acres has a won- school senior. His youngest is in eighth grade nellian, Class of ’70.Also at the party were Mona derful reputation and Karen says she loves her job. and also loves basketball, track, and soccer. Mahlab Longman ’79 and her husband Tom. Husband Ralph ’75 had been director of commu- We’re looking forward to hearing from They came directly from their ski vacation, hav- nications for a public policy think tank up in more of you, so please pass your news along to: ing just dropped off their three kids and luggage Boston, and daughter Amy is a senior at Ithaca ❖ Joan Pease,[email protected]; Deb Gell- before coming over to the Cobes’.Two weeks later, College, majoring in photography. Amy has been man,[email protected]; Karen DeMarco we drove up to New Jersey again for a party at active in the IC radio station and jokes that her Boroff, [email protected]; and Mitch Frank, Dave Joseph’s home in Manalapan. Bob Bowers perfect job would be as a staff photographer at [email protected]. and Mark Monroe and their families were there, National Public Radio (where my husband works too. All of our kids are around the same age, but as political editor). Karen would love to hear from As I write this column in April, our we hadn’t gotten together in years as we live in her old Donlon, Dickson, and MVR friends; her e-  30th Reunion is two months away Maryland, the Bowers live in Pennsylvania, and mail is [email protected]. Paula Spina notes,  and our class is making prepara- the Monroes live in New York. So what would be “I’m supposed to be retired again, but it seems all tions. By the time you read it in July, more natural than to meet in the Garden State in I do is work.”In addition to acquiring real estate, many of you will have already made the trip to celebration of our combined 200th birthday? The she does folk dancing and martial arts, skis, and, Ithaca and had a great weekend on the Hill. A full eight adults laughed all evening while the kids as she lives in Seattle, sails the Puget Sound and Reunion Report will appear in the Sept/Oct issue. rolled their eyes at our stories, obviously amused the Strait of Juan De Fuca. Paula says the last News was sparse in the early spring, so if at the fact that we old people thought we knew three years have been a roller coaster ride. She got you haven’t done so yet, please send an update how to have fun. And I just printed off my air- divorced, but now is getting into as much trouble with your annual dues payment, or write any of plane boarding pass in anticipation of an all-girls as she can—sort of reliving her lost teenage years. us via e-mail at any time. Debra Hertz wrote weekend at the Ritz Carlton in Key Biscayne, FL, Rick Jaso is married to Debbie (Graham) that her daughter Laura Southerland ’06 grad- to celebrate with Ellen Haas Sternberg ’78 (mar- ’78 and is a managing partner at Unisys. He has uated from the ILR school. Younger daughter ried to Bill ’78) in honor of her 50th birthday. been playing golf with Steve Corbo ’78 and Jon Clemente ’78.Son Ben ’07 is a junior at Cornell while Michael is a freshman at the U. of New Hampshire. Rick has many great memories of I have nicknamed the new car Katrina. Cornell and was back there on a crisp morning last fall. The chimes of the Bell Tower brought ‘ MARK MAYRSOHN ’77 ’ back a flood of memories. Brenda Jacobs works at Sidley Austin in international trade, representing retailers, importers, and foreign govern- Erica will graduate high school this year; at the Mark Mayrsohn is a resident of Key Biscayne ments and manufacturers. time Debra wrote in February, Erica had not yet and wrote of his horror story during Hurricane Chris Haynes will be moving his family to chosen a college. Caroline Hecht sent an e-mail Katrina. “When the storm hit Key Biscayne, I was Richmond, KY, to build a chemical weapons from the alumni.cornell.edu website. Her pres- driving home and was two blocks from my demilitarization facility. This is his 18th reloca- ent day job is as a Web programmer at Cornell. house. Suddenly the street became a river that tion in his 27 years of employment with Bech- She has three children, including a freshman at stalled my 2003 Lincoln LS. I had to jump out of tel. Judy Gross spent the past 20 years in various Oberlin, a senior in high school who will prob- the car to avoid the rising waters and walk home legal jobs on Wall Street, but has recently started ably attend Cornell Engineering in the fall, and through the hurricane in the dark. After the hur- her own consulting firm to advise hedge funds a sixth grader. Caroline still remembers hanging ricane passed, my insurance company declared on start-up operations, compliance, and legal out at the Commons Coffeehouse when she was the car a total loss as water had risen in the car issues. Sandra Gong and husband Victor Sloan at Cornell. up to the level of the dashboard. The electrical live in Flemington, NJ. Sandra is VP for human Some personal news. I had a flashback to system was shorted and the engine was flooded. resources at Merck. They recently traveled to the last final exam I took while at Cornell. For Now I’m driving a Volvo CX90 with the highest China with daughter Wei-lin to adopt another professional development I recently completed ground clearance of any SUV on the market. I beautiful girl in September 2004. Her name is a graduate course and had to take a final exam. have nicknamed the new car Katrina.”I also spoke An-lin Eileen Gong Sloan. Sandra says, “We’ve After 30 years, it was hard to remember how to to Maria Reyes Schoen right after Hurricane Rita. won the Chinese adoption lottery two times!” study for it. I think I passed. I am in my 13th She lives in League City, TX, which is between The event of the season is reported by Benn year teaching in the Lexington Public Schools Galveston and Houston, and right in the path of Edney Fass Jr.He returned to Ithaca on Labor and enjoying the second graders in my class. My the hurricane. She evacuated while her husband Day to celebrate his 50th birthday bash arranged husband Morris Diamant ’74 has been honored stayed home and watched over the house. Fortu- by fellow Hotelies. The bash was hosted by Prof. as “Man of the Year” by the Temple Emunah nately, they didn’t have any damage. Emer. Greg Norkus, MS ’87, and wife Kate at Brotherhood. His dedication and services to the I also heard from Marc Schlussel,MBA ’78, their cabin on 40 acres. Attending the event was Brotherhood and Temple are extraordinary. We fairly recently. Marc is a real estate developer work- Drew Nieporent,who provided a magnum of will be joined by John Gmeiner ’74 and his wife ing primarily in New Jersey. He chairs the Teaneck Chateau Neuf du Pape, as well as John ’74,MBA Faye, and other friends and relatives at a break- Economic Development Corp., promoting busi- ’76, and Elaine Mead Alexander,Cindy and Bill fast in Morris’s honor. Our daughter Julia, who ness development in Teaneck. He is also very Grant,Jody and Craig Mance,Brenda and John is finishing her freshman year at Mitchell Col- involved in Cornell Hillel. Marc’s daughter Katie Longstreet, Mark and Diane Petersen Parmer- lege, and son Sam, who is working and in school is studying in Israel this year and will be attending lee,Vera and LarryReinstein,Kathy and Scott in Sarasota, FL, will be joining us. ❖ Lisa Dia- Brandeis next year. Middle child Emily is a soph- Tremble,Mary Kay and Mark Woodworth, MPS mant, [email protected]; KarenKrinsky omore at Frisch, a yeshiva high school. She is the ’78, and Mike Harney.The festivities included a Sussman, [email protected]; and Pat Relf jock of the family, playing both soccer and hockey. party (with boat tours) at the home of John and Hanavan, [email protected]. His son Adam is in seventh grade and just had his Brenda Longstreet on Cayuga Lake. All in all, the

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Hotelies continue to know how to throw a good husband Zack ’71 have daughter Cait ’05 and In 2005 Walter Milani (milanivice@msn. party. One person who couldn’t make it to the son Zack, who graduated from Hartwick College. com) was with the company managing the Asian bash was Al Groos,who is manager of the They are always looking to see fellow Hotelies tours of The Sound of Music and Chicago.He trav- Chateau Sonesta in New Orleans and was deal- and keep an eye out for them when they travel to eled to Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, China, ing with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. We Florida to entertain Mansfield U. alumni in Sara- Australia, and Thailand. He caught up with inter- wish Al the best and hope for a speedy resurrec- sota, Naples, and Celebration. They also get to national hotelier and fraternity brother Larry Lee tion and rebuilding of the Crescent City. Cornell to see hockey and lacrosse games. in Hong Kong. Larry took Walter to his favorite Lastly, several of our classmates are working Angela DeSilva DeRosa ([email protected]. Dim Sum place. Lynn Adams is a senior consult- on the next generation of talented Cornellians. com), her husband Mike, and son Andrew were ant of strategic and business planning for R.W. Attending the highly competitive Cornell Uni- very busy last year. Andrew went to Europe with Beck. She is based in Denver and focuses on strate- versity Summer Program for talented high a school group last summer, and the whole fam- gic, business and marketing planning and imple- school students (which serves as a “farm team” ily traveled to Oregon last summer as well. mentation for utility clients in the Midwest region. for bringing promising students to Cornell) in Andrew attended snowboarding camp at Mount Your annual News and Dues class mailing 2005 were: James Farrell, ME ’80’s son Mac; Hood while Angela and Mike drove around arrived in the mail recently. If you haven’t Candida Kreigh Haasch’s daughter Karianna; Oregon visiting fossils, lava flows, redwood returned it yet, please do ...and send us your Charlie Peters’s son Nicholas; and Timothy forests, and beaches. A visit with Angela’s former news! ❖ Pepi Leids,[email protected]; and Chip LaBeau’s daughter Katherine. ❖ Lorrie Panzer sixth grade pen pal was also arranged in Van- Brueckman,[email protected]. Rudin, [email protected]; Howie couver, WA. Last fall, the family went to Penn- Eisen,[email protected]. sylvania to visit Fallingwater and then went on Greetings and happy summer to to Ithaca for Homecoming at Cornell, where  all. This past February, the Cor- Greg Wickham (Greg.Wickham@ they saw Mary Bowler Jones and Roger Ander- nell Association of Class Officers  DairyMarketingServices.com) is son (Roger’s mother was there to receive the (CACO) held its first Mid-Winter  the CEO of Dairylea Cooperative Frank H.T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Meeting outside New York City. The destination in Syracuse, a $1.3 billion com- Award). Andrew is in high school now and the was Philadelphia, and by all reports, the event was pany that markets milk for over 9,000 dairy family managed to fit in a trip to Disney World a big success. Cathy Cappucci Needle reported farms. The Cooperative also provides other serv- last winter to meet up with Angela’s sister that Mary Wilensky Kahn arranged for ’79 class- ices to farms such as risk management, livestock Donna DeSilva ’82 and her family. They all had mates to meet at the Bellini Grill, where everyone marketing, health insurance, worker’s compen- a wonderful time. enjoyed an evening of great food, wine, and fun. sation insurance, and supplies. Dairylea also Miriam May ([email protected]) is the Attendees included: class president and Cornell manages Dairy Marketing Services, a milk mar- executive director of the ROSE Fund. The fund trustee Jeff Berg,MBA ’81, and his wife Debra keting business that handles over 50 percent of works to help victims of domestic violence Paget; Mary Kahn and her husband Stuart; Jor- the raw milk in the Northeast. Greg and his wife regain their self-esteem through education, dan Schell-Lambert; Janet Goldin Rubin, Nancy Lisa reside in Manlius, NY. They have three chil- award, and plastic surgery programs. Miriam is Sverdlik; Beth Anderson ’80; Mike and Candace dren, Lindsay, an ’04 Cornell graduate employed married to Shaye J.D. Cohen, a professor at Har- Curran; Mike and Wendi Furman; Charlie and by Cazenovia College, Scott, a junior at the U. of vard. They have four children, Shaye’s daughter Beth Howland; Paula Fuchsberg; Doug Can- Buffalo, and Steve, a junior in high school. Ava, 27, and their three, Jonathan, 15, Ezra, 13, deub; Celinda Crego; Ted Teng; and Bob and Paul Lahti ([email protected]) is a profes- and Hannah, 7. They live in Newton, MA. Cathy Needle. CACO will meet next January in sor of chemistry and associate dean for facilities Miriam encourages everyone to read about the Philly and classmates are encouraged to attend. for the College of Natural Science and Math at ROSE Fund at www.rosefund.org and would be In early March, we received the sad news UMass, Amherst. His wife Maureen (Vickers) delighted to hear from classmates. Tom Farrell that classmate Brian Miller’s father, Prof. Emer- works in the School of Public Health and Health ([email protected]) lives in itus Frank B. Miller Jr., PhD ’53,had passed Sciences on assorted research duties. They wrote Newport Beach, CA, and is the Southwest away after a brief illness. Prof. Miller was on the that a reunion of former residents of the Holland regional executive for the Bank of America’s ILR faculty for 31 years and associated with the Int’l Living Center was held in NYC last summer. Home Builder Division. He is married to Kristy university for nearly 50 years. During that time, Their daughter Melanie attends Yale as a music and they have three teenagers, Erin, Ainsely, and he devoted himself to teaching and to mentor- major. She spent part of last summer in Berlin, Ian. Tom attended a Cornell vs. Long Beach bas- ing students and was beloved by many. Our con- studying German with Yale’s summer language ketball game last fall. The Big Red didn’t win, but dolences go out to Brian, his mother Charlene, institute. Son James graduated from UMass with Tom said the game was still fun to watch. and to his other family members. a major in computer science. Peter Schacknow Lynne Schulte DuVivier’s (LDuvivier@aol. When the class news forms were sent out ([email protected]) has returned as a senior com) company, The Creative Factor, has signed earlier this year, classmates were asked to respond producer at CNBC. He started there originally in an exclusive contract with Westport Country to questions such as “What would you rather be 1989, but then moved to Bloomberg Radio as an Playhouse to work on their marketing, merchan- doing now?” and “What is the one thing you anchor/reporter until his recent return to CNBC. dising, and branding program. The Westport remember most fondly from your time at Cor- Peter lives in South Huntington on Long Island Country Playhouse, in Connecticut, is the sec- nell?” In the news below and in upcoming with his wife Peri (Appollo) ’81.Peri is a part- ond-oldest continually running theater company columns, we are including those comments. time radio anchor at WKJY on Long Island. in the US and has just completed a renovation Write back and tell us if these thoughts triggered Doug Porter ([email protected]) joined that will allow it to host performances year- favorite memories for you. Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicago- round. Tazewell Thompson has just taken over as Mark Hallock has been living in London land and Northwest Indiana as the CEO in late artistic director from Joanne Woodward. Lynne for the past six years with his wife Claire and his 2004. Doug says the job gives him a “tremendous attended the Cornell Women’s Networking Event sons Nick, 11, and Robert, 8. He is the manag- perspective on what is really important in the that allows juniors and seniors to meet with ing director of Helix Associates. The family will fast-paced, hectic world.”He stays in touch with alumni and ask questions about career directions. be returning to the NYC area later this year. classmates Mike Fleury, Tom Scott, Cal Fastuca, Marc Perosio ([email protected]) writes that he Mark enjoys coaching his sons’ baseball and soc- Steve “Axe-Man” George, Bob Shaw, and Stew- and a group of friends from freshman year have cer teams. Mark’s fond remembrance: the Chap- art “Pid” Grote, as well as Norm Bartlett ’79 and remained close and get together at least once a ter House jukebox. Marcy Wachtel is a law part- Kevin Burns ’79. Maureen Bugglin McKenna year. Lately, the Super Bowl has been the event of ner and the head of the matrimonial law ([email protected]) enjoys living in End- choice for the get-together. The group includes department at Katsky Korins in Manhattan. She less Mountains, PA, where she is the VP for uni- Drew Bonthron, Andy Striso, Holton Falk, Mike and her daughter Allison recently traveled to versity advancement at Mansfield U. She and her Finnegan, Phil Bracht, and, of course, Marc. Greece. Marcy writes that she would rather be

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“watching the sunset behind Uris Library” and writes to us from Fort Lauderdale, FL, where he With our international Nayla, it’s hard to tell. that she fondly remembers “midnight ice cream states that his present day job is “drinking at the Other notable college-bound seniors are runs to Uni Deli for mocha chip ice cream.” beach.” Previously, our records note that he was Alana Mildner, daughter of my suitemate Esther Stephen Kaminsky is the director of protein a lieutenant in the NYC police department. Elkin Mildner, who was accepted early decision and analytical chemistry, working on AIDS vac- Enjoy your new day job, Robert! and will be attending Cornell this fall as a pub- cine design and testing at the International AIDS If you’ve enjoyed reading about your class- lic policy major; Monica, daughter of Steven Vaccine Initiative in NYC. He is married to Lisa mates in this column, please consider taking a Jackman,from Chatham, NJ, who was also Wilson and has kids that keep him busy. His few moments to write us a note with your own accepted early decision and will be attending the memories of Cornell include “great friends, great news. Send e-mail to us at [email protected] College of Engineering; and Ilyssa, daughter of town,great education!” Frank Cohen uses the so that we can all keep in touch. Also, you can Eric Meren.All of the incoming freshmen will pen name Philip Innes in his job as a restaurant write to us directly at: ❖ Cynthia Ahlgren Shea, be reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby critic for several publications; his writings [email protected]; Kathy Zappia Gould, as part of the New Student Reading Project. include a series for Slammed magazine in which [email protected]; and Cindy Williams, Everyone, including alumni, is encouraged to he critiques other restaurant critics. Frank is also [email protected]. Have a great summer! take part and contribute to the dialogue during involved in buying and selling island real estate the year, both on campus and on the Web. in the Philippines in Palawan. At some point in Well, folks, now that we have Jill Abrams Klein has had news from Matt the not-too-distant future, Frank and his wife  finished our first rotation of the Callahan,who took his stage acting career from Ann hope to retire to the Philippines and run a  new cast of correspondents, his native Philly across the country (with stops small resort on their own island while Frank what do you think? I’ve gotten from D.C. and Philly to California) and is now edits and writes articles via the Internet. rave reviews from you readers (some of whom finding success behind the scenes in the movie Judi Greif is a nurse practitioner and author are not even in our class!) in response to our industry. Matt was the set decorator in the 2005 who lives with her husband Joseph Pedreiro in new team approach. Glad you like it. And I’m movie The Family Stone, and you can see his East Brunswick, NJ. Judi is running her own happy that our new format gives us access to a name in the credits! Jill notes that Matt loves writing/consulting business, Griffin Communi- larger cross-section of the class. working in film and looks forward to continu- cations, and specializes in healthcare/medicine Our class officers have been working hard to ing his artistic endeavors. When he is relaxing, issues. She misses the opportunity to go to Cor- facilitate a new cohesiveness in our class. Their he can be spotted rollerblading along the beach nell hockey games and has fond memories of efforts have already paid off and have included in Santa Monica. Academically speaking, Ken- the camaraderie of her friends (with whom she the “We missed you at reunion” postcards that neth Pomeranz has been named Phi Beta Kappa still keeps in touch), the stimulating academic were sent out to those of you whose friends made Visiting Scholar for 2005-06. Kenneth is Chan- environment, and the beautiful campus. Debby the reunion instead of yourself, as well as the great cellor’s Professor of History and professor of East Yowe l l Alberts lives in Beverly Hills, CA, with organization of the CACO Mid-Winter Meeting Asian languages and literatures at UC Irvine. He her husband Richard and her three stepchildren in Philadelphia, where our illustrious Jeff Esta- is also the author of The Great Divergence: China, who are 5, 9, and 16. Debby is a freelance brook, JD ’83, put together our class dinner as Europe, and the Making of the Modern World graphic designer and has recently been busy well as the fabulous alumni event at the baseball Economy, The World the Trade Created, and The restoring a 1930s Spanish Mediterranean house. stadium on Sunday. It is incredible to see the Making of a Hinterland: State, Society and Econ- Debby fondly remembers working on the Cor- energy that these middle-aged former students omy in Inland North China, 1853-1937. nell Concert Commission. Jeanne Perl Rudell is still have! In addition, our own Thomas Murphy George Frantz, MRP ’91, visiting lecturer in senior VP of human resources with Clayton has set up a fantastic website to help us keep the Dept. of City and Regional Planning, had an Holdings Inc. in Shelton, CT. Jeanne is married abreast of what’s happening with fellow class- exhibition of his photographs on campus in to Rob,who did graduate work in ILR. mates! Visit it at http://classof80.alumni.cornell. March. For those of you that didn’t catch it, the Richard Maisel lives in Berkeley, CA. He is edu/ and see for yourself! exhibit consisted of a collection of photos taken a psychologist, writer, and instructor, and co- News-wise, I am happy to report that my dear during his four-week trip to central Vietnam in authored a book entitled Biting the Hand that friend Vivian Cok has written about her marriage 1996. His daughter Elizabeth had scanned the Starves You: Inspiring Resistance to Anorexia/ to Keith Harmeyer in November. Her most recent original 35mm negatives to create high-resolu- Bulimia that was published in October 2004 by note is exuberant as she describes her happiness tion digital files that he touched up, printed, and W.W. Norton Co. In his free time, Richard enjoys in having found a true soulmate with whom to framed. He has been very busy both at his day listening to music and attending concerts. John spend the rest of her life. She and Keith were mar- job and teaching his field workshop in CRP. On Schafer was recently appointed general manager ried at the Truth Presbyterian Church in Queens the overseas front, Shawn Boyne is currently liv- of the 1,100-room Hyatt Regency Denver at the by the husband of her friend Kummi Kim, after ing in Berlin, Germany, doing field research for Colorado Convention Center. Doug Wylly is the which they were off on a fabulous honeymoon in a PhD that compares prosecutors in Germany senior litigation management officer for American Greece. Vivian writes, “Our extended family now and the US. After practicing law for almost ten International Group. In his spare time, Doug consists of three terrific teenagers: Andy, Jacque- years in New Mexico, he decided to take a enjoys skiing, swimming, writing, playing poker, line, and Kendall. We’re currently planning a refresher course in school. He writes, “Thanks to and model railroading. Doug and his wife Vir- bareboat sailing trip in the British Virgin Islands the fact that I have a good orthopedic surgeon, ginia live in South Huntington, NY. for the whole family! Life is full of unexpected I am still rowing and competing in masters Dana Ellsworth lives in Ogdensburg, NY, and twists and turns, and I wish everyone patience if events in double scull.” works as a diagnostic and CAT scan technician. He they haven’t yet found their true happiness!” Alumni’s teens who had the opportunity to enjoys camping, hunting, four-wheeling, and trav- Nancy MacIntyre Hollinshead has checked spend part of their summer on campus at the eling. “My friends” comprise Dana’s best memo- in, having been sidelined from her “tennis ther- Cornell University Summer College program ries of Cornell. Stuart Kessler is the director of apy” with a shoulder injury, but is keeping busy included David and Laura Day Ayers ’78,MBA the Dept. of Emergency Medicine at Elmhurst with family and keeping a stiff upper lip. She ’86’s daughter Kathleen; Sarah Pedraza De Hospital Center in Elmhurst, NY, and the vice notes that her daughter Sarah is doing well at col- Lencquesaing’s daughter Cecilia; Walter Isen- chairman of the Dept. of Emergency Medicine lege, combining math and music, and may delve berg’s daughter Nicole; Steven Jackman’s daugh- at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Donald into modeling soon. NaylaRizk is the proud ter Monica; Esther Elkin Mildner’s daughter Menz is the owner of Blue Ribbon Pest Control mom. She writes that her oldest son, Peter, was Alana; Lily Berrios DeMille’s daughter Marie; and lives in Honeoye Falls, NY, with wife accepted early decision to Princeton for the fall. Walter Peek’s son Walter; and Craig Tendler’s Suzanne. He has been busy “growing his busi- She vows to work on younger son Andrew to daughter Helena. I hope all of these talented stu- ness” and enjoys snowmobiling. He, too, fondly come to Cornell! Nayla is busy traveling, having dents missed the heat wave that the 25th remembers Big Red hockey. Robert Eisenberg been to Japan, Spain, and Rome. For business? Reunion crew experienced!

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Don’t forget to visit our website, and feel School in 1987. Susan practices in the firm’s envi- or small” or those having ideas for souvenirs, free to share a picture or two! Any news can be ronmental section, where she counsels clients on meals, or events to e-mail Terry at cornelltko@ addressed to any (or all) of the culprits below. a full range of federal, state, and local environ- aol.com or Teri at [email protected]. On the Have a great summer! ❖ Cynthia Addonizio- mental and land use regulations. She advises reunion theme, Wendy Raymond, our class af- Bianco, [email protected]; Leona Barsky,leona developers, lenders, purchasers, and sellers of finity chair, asks: “Who would you most like to [email protected]; Dik Saalfeld,rfs25@cornell. property with hazardous waste or environmen- see when you come back to Ithaca in June 2007? edu; Dana Jerrard,[email protected]; and Tim tal permitting issues, and assists in securing per- What memories bring a smile to your face right O’Conner,[email protected]. mits and approvals necessary for property trans- now when you think of Cornell? Our class offi- fer and development. Susan was recently invited cers can get you in touch with friends, compatri- Did you attend our 25th Reunion to join an international task group to develop a ots, people from your favorite organized pastime  in Ithaca this past June? It was a national standard for evaluating vapor intrusion (Big Red Band? the Hangovers? Fine Arts majors?  grand time. Congratulations and into buildings. all Aggies?).”Send Wendy an e-mail (wraymond@ many thanks to Heidi Fleischman, If you are a Cornell alum living in the williams.edu) to get in touch. Wendy herself hopes MS ’83, JimHauslein,MBA ’84, Steven Ritchey, Boston area, you should join the Cornell Club of that she will see Nina Butwell, Jennifer Jorgensen and Celia Rodee for planning such a lovely Boston. They have some exciting events planned Dempsey, Michael Bergman, RonDombroski, weekend for all of us. Headquarters was Mary for the year, including beer-tasting in Cambridge, and all TriDelts in Ithaca next summer. Donlon Hall on North Campus and highlights a tour of Fenway Park, a day of service with We did hear from Michael Lucas (mlucas included: tent parties on the Arts Quad, a lecture Habitat for Humanity, dinner at Ming Tsai’s [email protected]), who has a new street address in by classmate Sheryl WuDunn,a beach party at amazing Blue Ginger Restaurant, and wine-tast- Chicago. He reports that he is in sales for Lead- Beebe Lake, a picnic lunch at the Plantations, ing at Lumiere Restaurant. ing Edge Investment Advisors and spends a lot of dinner with President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes, and a University Service of Thanksgiv- ing and Remembrance acknowledging the lives of our classmates. In the Sept/Oct issue of the Miriam Honore Akabas spent three days over magazine, we will have full coverage of reunion, ‘ including the Class of 1981 Reunion Report. In spring break as a tourist in her own city. that issue, your class correspondents will have all kinds of scoops for you—stay tuned! MARK FERNAU ’82 ’ In the meantime, can you believe it’s July already? How is your summer going? It’s the best time of year. Enjoy every minute of it with your On a personal note, I (Kathy Philbin La- time on business travel. After hours, he is spend- family and friends, wherever you are. Your Cor- Shoto) wanted to let you know that this is my last ing time on his own apparel design business, nell friends are busy with life, doing great things column as a Class of ’81 correspondent. Believe Catch E Designs. If he had spare time, Michael throughout the world. Here’s the latest update. it or not, I have served for the past 15 years! Yikes! says he would be vacationing in South America. Nan Simon recently hosted a ladies spa Where has the time gone? It has been such a pleas- The one thing he remembers most from Cornell weekend at her summer home on the Jersey ure keeping in touch with all of you, sharing is the time spent on the basketball court trying Shore. Attending were Leslie Watson Pearson, duties with Jenn and Betsy, and working with the to make the Big Red competitive. The old Cor- Chris Ritenis, Wendie Smith Cohick, PhD ’89, fine team of professionals at Cornell Alumni Mag- nell friend he would most like to hear from is Carol Wolverton Johnston, Monique van Perl- azine.Thanks for giving me this great opportu- Laura Jean McCarthy. Patrick Bennett checked stein, and Anita Romano.The girls had a fabu- nity. in from Santa Monica, CA. He is married to lous time and treated themselves to manicures, That’s all the news for now. Enjoy your sum- classmate Varda Hardy and they have daughters pedicures, cocktails, and walks on the beach. mer vacation. Look for us in Sept/Oct with all Paloma, 13, and Raven, 10. Patrick is the execu- Everyone enjoyed catching up with each other the reunion news. Drop us a line anytime to let tive director for business applications at E! Net- and their busy lives. Nan works as an IT special- us know what you are up to. Take care. ❖ Kathy works on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. ist at a well-known pharmaceutical company; Philbin LaShoto, [email protected]; Jennifer Donna DeSilva reports that autumn and Leslie teaches fourth grade in Greenwich, CT; Read Campbell, [email protected]; and Betsy spring have been extremely busy with travels to Wendie is an animal science professor at Rutgers; Silverfine, [email protected]. Japan, California, Arizona (the Grand Canyon), Carol is an ophthalmologist in North Carolina; Boston, Miami, Orlando, Rhode Island, Con- Monique is an interior designer in New York As I write this column in April, I necticut, North Carolina, and South Carolina, City; and Anita works as a career counselor at  just received my dues renewal with Vermont upcoming. Most of this travel is CUNY in New York. Chris recently struggled  form in the mail, which tells me associated with her older daughter Kimberly’s with breast cancer, but we are so pleased to report two things. The first is to remind college search. Younger daughter Maria was that she looks wonderful and is on the road to you all to send in those dues so that we will have admitted to her favorite private high school, recovery.Her courage and energy are amazing. a treasure chest for our 25th Reunion in 2007. Georgetown Day School, and will matriculate Pulitzer Prize-winner Sheryl Wu Dunn, who The second is that if I’m getting my dues letter there this fall. In between school travels, Donna spoke at reunion, has written two books with it means that we have pretty much run out of traveled on business with her husband overseas Nicholas Kristof. They include China Wakes: The submitted news for the previous year to report and to Asia, and for vacations. They also had a Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power and Thun- to you in this column. So if you didn’t do it right French exchange student and a school friend of der from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia. She away, fill out those news forms and return them Kim’s staying with them for the spring. The and Nicholas won the Pulitzer for their coverage with your dues so that Nina and I will have an exchange student was visiting Maria, who plans of China’s Tiananmen Square democracy move- easy job (I mean, some interesting material) for (as of this writing) to take her exchange to Paris ment in 1989. We congratulate Sheryl for all of the columns to come. in May, and Kim’s friend was with them because her success. Jackson Wong ([email protected]) Of course, a milestone reunion is on the her parents were transferred overseas for the final is a pediatrician in Palm Beach County and Fort horizon, and TerryKilmer Oosterom and Teri semester of her senior year. As with many of us, Lauderdale. He and his wife Millie My Moy live Williams Harvey, the chairs who brought you Donna reports that hectic schedules abound still. in West Palm Beach with their son Jackson Jr. such a wonderful reunion in 2002, remind you Teacher Miriam Honore Akabas writes that, Here in Boston, Susan Peck Phillips is an to get psyched for reunion, June 7-10, 2007. They with her children, she spent three days over spring attorney with the law firm Mintz Levin. She are planning a “stupendous 25th event.”They wel- break as a tourist in her own city (New York City), received her JD from the U. of Chicago Law come those interested in helping “in any way—big first visiting the New York Botanical Gardens in

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the Bronx and taking in the Orchid Show there. well done and the entertainment was great with her husband and son, when Ann was preg- Then it was on to Wave Hill, a park also in the (mummers and the Phillie Phanatic). Terry says, nant with twins. Ann has since given birth to Bronx, to see the grounds, the art exhibit, and the “I thoroughly enjoyed myself.” Emma and Eliza. Dina also recently had dinner gardens and to make kites and miniature kites. Cmdr. Charles Stuppard uses the same in NYC with Carin Lewis-Evans. Says Dina, Finally came a tour of lower Manhattan, starting phrase to report that he has thoroughly enjoyed “Carin was the first person I met at Cornell when with the Smithsonian (National) Museum for the his command of destroyer USS Arleigh Burke I arrived (we had side-by-side single rooms). We Native American, housed in the original Customs (DDG 51). He sent along a picture of himself don’t see each other as much as we’d like, but it’s Building, a glorious structure with a spectacular looking comfortable and at home in the cap- always wonderful whenever we’re together.” rotunda. From there, it was across Bowling Green tain’s chair on the outside bridge of his ship. He Beginning the college hunt with her oldest, to take in the big bronze bull of the financial dis- has spent time in Spain, Italy, Greece, Malta, and Joshua, 17, is Ellen Winchell-Goldman, the trict, the stock exchange, and 68 Wall Street (the other Mediterranean area spots, with time for thought of which, she admits, “is a little scary.” site of the Buttonwood tree, the origin of the some sightseeing. His tour of duty at sea ended Ellen is also the proud parent of two other chil- stock exchange). Then they took a bus to China- in April, and his next duty station will be New- dren, Benjamin, 14, an avid percussionist, and town for a bit of shopping and a visit to Pearl port, RI, a bit closer to Cornell than Virginia Jacqueline, 12, who will have had her bat mitzvah Paints, a huge supply store for all visual arts and Beach was. He looks forward to the fun of the in May. Ellen is in the travel business and was crafts projects. A good time was had by all. 25th Reunion and hopes to attend Cornell events fortunate to travel with her husband and children to Italy in December and Costa Rica in February. Another proud parent of a college-bound student is Debra Wilson Strauss,whose daugh- Jay Solomon had about 14 cookbooks ter Melanie is the valedictorian of her high school class and has been accepted early decision ‘ to the Wharton School at Penn, where she will in print at one time or another. be in the Class of 2010. Debra is a professor of business law at Fairfield U. Dolan School of Busi- DAVID PATTISON ’83 ’ ness and has a consulting business, where she gives presentations on judicial clerkships to law Class president Lorraine Aronowitz Danzig in Boston, my stomping grounds. We will have to schools and legal organizations, as well as sign- reconnected with Michael Hoard ’81,MBA ’82, get him into Lynah East with us to boo the Har- ings for her book, Behind the Bench: The Guide who also lives in Manhattan. While searching vard hockey team. (We won’t use that S-word, to Judicial Clerkships. She lives in Southport, CT, Craig’s List for Cornelliana, Lorraine found a Arie!) ❖ Mark Fernau,[email protected]; and with her husband Michael ’81 and children listing for someone selling a pristine unopened Nina Kondo, [email protected]. Melanie, 17, Jonathan, 15, and Andrew, 10. Cornellopoly game, circa 1990. Lorraine enjoyed Starting perhaps later than most of us with catching up with Michael, a fellow Dickson res- In March I sent out an e-mail blast the whole “parenting job” thing is Jay “J.J.” ident. He works in Norwalk, CT, and is involved  requesting news from those of you Solomon,a Hotelie who has been in the restau- with Cornell activities. Several of us journeyed  who have your e-mail address on rant business for 20 years. Currently owner of to Albany, NY, to see the ECAC championship file with the Cornell Alumni Asso- Jay’s Patio Cafe in Denver, CO, and Eat Street, a hockey games there. Mark Fernau and his daugh- ciation. Thanks to those who responded. Many of cafe in the Children’s Museum of that city, Jay is ter Leanne saw the Friday night victory over Col- the addresses were no longer current, so be sure planning to open a third cafe later this year. He gate, several weeks after witnessing a miserable to log onto our class website, http://classof83. also had about 14 cookbooks in print at one time game at RPI with Brian Rooney ’80, Joe Kane ’79, alumni.cornell.edu/, and update your latest per- or another (Amazon.com still carries some of and Michael Lennon ’81. Nina Kondo,Wendy sonal information. Now, as for the rest of you, them). In his salad days, Jay stayed in Ithaca after Raymond, and Terry Oosterom, along with var- I’m sure life has not just passed you by. If you graduating, and owned a Caribbean restaurant ious family members, also caught the weekend haven’t done so yet, please take a moment to near the Commons (“Remember downtown games. Terry reports that her son Arie, 7, experi- write and tell us what’s been up with you. Send Ithaca?” quips Jay.) He met Emily (Robin) ’92, enced his first Cornell hockey game and kept say- an e-mail directly to one of the addresses at the MS ’97, and they are now married and have three ing, “I love these fans!” (She did have to depro- bottom of this column, or send back the News children, Maddie, 6, and 4-year-old twins Noah gram him after the weekend from saying a Form from the recent class mailing. and Bella. They moved to Colorado in 1998 for certain verb related to vacuum cleaners that has News is increasingly dominated by announce- the sun, the mountains, and the people; accord- become part of the sports vernacular.) ments of classmates’ kids in or about to enter ing to Jay, all three are amazing. Musing on the Terry also gave us a recap on the Cornell Asso- college—with a few future Cornellians among thought of raising a family later than most (and ciation of Class Officers (CACO) Mid-Winter them. Dina Wolfman Baker and husband Brad I would say to Jay that there are many more than Meeting, which moved from Manhattan to are the proud parents of Audrey Baker ’09,now he thinks who followed a similar life path), Jay Philadelphia for the first time this year. Class busi- enjoying her freshman year studying Biology and had this to say: “While many people my age have ness was transacted, some of it at a great brew pub Society. They also have son Isaac, 15, a freshman grown-up kids heading for college, two of my kids attached to the convention site. Officers also in high school. When she was a student, Dina are still not ready for kindergarten. I do not regret viewed the PBS special on Cornell (which Terry never dreamed she’d be old enough to have a raising a family at this stage of my life—in fact, I reports was very well done; she learned quite a bit child attending her own alma mater! In the next may have a better appreciation for this parenting about Cornell and its founding that she never ten years, Dina hopes to get both of her children job. Okay, sure, I’ll be working till I’m 85, but at knew). A fellow Cornellian who is involved with through college “and suddenly have some dis- this stage of my career and my life, reading bed- the management of the Philadelphia Phillies base- posable time and income—at the same time—for time stories is sometimes the highlight of the day.” ball team hosted a “Welcome to Philly” event at the first time ever!” Dina also informs us that in Maintaining one foot solidly in business and the ballpark, and Terry reports that it was excep- late November, she took a position with DuPont the other firmly grounded in academia is Ruben tional, with food, Cornell hockey, and basketball as senior marketing communications specialist, King-Shaw Jr., who has settled in Carlisle, MA, live on the big screen, a meeting with the mascot, going back “inside” after five years consulting with his wife, a UC Berkeley alum, and their etc. She won two hockey sticks at the silent auc- with a variety of for-profit and non-profit clients. daughters Alexandra, 12, and Angelica, 7. They tion (won the right to pay for them actually!), one Brad continues to thrive as president/founder of have kept their home in Tallahassee, FL, as a signed by the entire current team and one signed Baker Creative, a landscape design/contracting hedge for when they cannot take the frigid New by former captain Charlie Cook ’05,who plays company since 1988. Dina caught up with Ann England winters anymore! Since leaving the for the Phantoms. The tours of the stadium were Trautman Spindler at Ann’s apartment in NYC, George W. Bush Administration in 2003, Ruben

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has established his own private equity investment living in Naperville, IL. After 15 years of apart- Bill Zempsky and wife Janna are living in and advisory firm, Mansa Equity Partners Inc., ments in NYC and lots of debt while Karen got West Hartford, CT. Bill is an associate director which specializes in selecting promising emerging her doctorate, they became happy houseowners and assistant professor in the Dept. of Pediatrics, companies and technologies that serve the health- in May 2005. Just a little over three months after Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, U. of care sector. Among its most successful holdings is moving into the house, Curt’s publishing house Connecticut and Connecticut Children’s Medical Pan American Risk Management Associates LLC, reorganized the department and let all the top Center. Janna is a pediatric nurse practitioner. which is jointly held with best friend and fellow people go, including him. With a realization that They have sons Noah, 10, and Eli, 8. Eli is a huge ILRie and freshman-year suite-mate in High Rise it was time to try something else, he’s made a Red Sox fan, and Noah is really into reading. 5, J.R. Murray.In the fall of 2005, Massachusetts complete switch and is now a division leader at Chris Martin and his wife Ginger are both archi- Governor Mitt Romney appointed Ruben as a Primerica Financial Services, a division of Citi- tects in Boston. They have recently renovated trustee of the U. of Massachusetts, and in Febru- group. Curt writes, “Starting a new career in mid- their house in Wellesley, MA, where they live with ary 2006, he was part of a delegation from UMass dle age is a bit daunting, but I certainly love their daughters Celeste, 10, and Felice, 5. The to South Africa, where former President Nelson what I’m doing. The best part of our lives is our whole family loves camping and skiing and plans Mandela and his wife Chancellor Graca Michelle 2-year-old son Daniel. Any and all future suc- to do a lot of it in the coming year. were awarded honorary degrees. “Meeting Mr. cesses I have will be due to his inspiration.” Don McManus and I are still living in New Mandela was clearly the highlight of the trip,” Christoph Meyer has been in Texas for the Hampshire. Don is a computer hardware design enthuses Ruben, “but the energy surrounding the past ten years, where he is an orthopaedic spine engineer for BAE Systems Inc., and I am an envi- re-birth and re-creation of South Africa was both surgeon. Recently, he partnered with 20 other ronmental lawyer for the New Hampshire Dept. wonderful and intoxicating. I have been reading surgeons to build a hospital, which opened in of Environmental Services. Our kids Collin, 10, how several of America’s elite universities—Har- February of this year. He writes, “It’s a great and Hannah, 6, are finally old enough to enjoy vard, Amherst, and Princeton among them— place to work and has been getting great reviews outdoor activities with us. We like to ski, camp, have begun ‘new initiatives’ to enroll talented low locally. My wife Tina and I are getting ready to and walk the beach with our Boston terrier, Molly. income and historically disadvantaged popula- go to Italy for our second anniversary, and hope ❖ Karla Sievers McManus, [email protected]; tions. Someone should include in such articles to finally move into the house we’ve been build- Lindsay Liotta Forness, [email protected]. that we at Cornell have done this successfully ing for three years!” Vicki Keenan Gillespie lives Class website, http://classof84.alumni.cornell.edu. since our founding in 1865 and that their ‘new in Australia, where she is the CFO for PepsiCo initiative’ in this regard remains at the heart of Australia. In her after hours, she is school coun- Since you are reading this column, the Cornell experience. To draw on the words cil president and the Parents and Citizens Asso-  I know you expect to read updates made famous by country music star Barbara ciation ballet patron vice president.  on friends you haven’t seen in a Mandrel: ‘We were diverse when diversity wasn’t David Kim has been living in Boise, ID, since while. There are also many who cool.’”Well said, Ruben. 1994 with wife Susan and children Zachary, 12, want to read about you, so when you’re done In February, the Cornell Association of Class and Ethan, 8. “Amazing how time moves forward reading this issue’s column, go find that News and Officers (CACO) had its annual Mid-Winter so quickly nowadays.”He works as an emergency Dues mailing from the spring and send us your Meeting. Our class representatives discussed the physician in southwest Idaho’s only trauma cen- News! Joyce and I will share it in a future column. budget, our effectiveness at fundraising, and uti- ter and is the medical center director for the hos- Thanks to all who have already written in! lizing our class website, and started the prelimi- pital’s flight program, Saint Alphonsus Life Flight. Scott Bookner is still working as a pediatri- nary planning for our 25th Reunion in 2008. They are excited to be building a log cabin in the cian in Scarsdale, NY. He may have also completely Now is the time to start thinking about what Sawtooth National Recreation Area near Stanley, lost his mind (he said that!) because despite never kind of events you would like to see held at our ID, and hope to see it finished early this summer. doing any serious running, he decided to sign up reunion. Black-tie formal? Dancing? Any partic- David continues to take advantage of his Cornell with the American Stroke Association to run a ular celebrities or faculty members for a guest education. In fact, he still enjoys squash and marathon in San Diego on June 4. By the time speaker? Also begin to consider what skills, time, downhill skiing, both of which he learned during that you read this, I’m sure that he finished the talent, or knowledge you can contribute to that freshman year gym class! He writes, “If you like marathon and is very proud of himself for raising year’s big event. We’d love to hear from you! ❖ the outdoors, Idaho is the place to be. I’m look- money to fight strokes, our nation’s third leading David Pattison, [email protected]; and ing forward to another year of fly-fishing, camp- killer. We are hoping that some of you made it out Dinah Godwin,[email protected]. ing, hiking, and rafting.” Robert Altman is an to the race to show your support for Scott. Laura ob/gyn for the Sutter Gould Medical Foundation, Clark finished up her master’s in humanities in Terri Port McClellan was wearing a 200-physician multispecialty group in Modesto, August 2005 at the U. of Chicago just in time for  a Cornell jacket at her son Harry’s CA. His wife Yvonne Brouard ’83 is a pediatri- the birth of her son Jack at the end of November.  first Little League practice. One of cian at the Medical Foundation as well. They Laura also shared that Sam Kamel and his wife the fathers came up and said,“Did have three boys, Alexander, 13, David, 9, and Karen welcomed son Jamie in January. you go to Cornell? So did I. What year did you Jonathan, 5, who are all doing well in school, Toyota Material Handling USA (TMHU) graduate?” Classmate Jim Martin was surprised scouts, sports, and community theater. Robert announced in January that Brett Wood was when Terri said 1984. Harry and Jim’s son Luke spends most weekends hiking, camping, and per- named VP of Marketing, Product Planning, and will be playing for the Hollis Indians this season. forming community services with his boys. He Dealer Development. Brett is now responsible for And Jim will have the date of our 25th Reunion has two Cornell friends that he would very much all aspects of product and strategic planning, mar- memorized by the end of the season, because Terri like to hear from: Charles Price and James Fina. keting, dealer development, and market represen- will remind him over and over and over again. Caroline Sommers Barujel has been a pro- tation. Brett has been with TMHU for 16 years. Tammy Bieber recently relocated from New York, ducer at ABC News in New York for the last six He lives in Manhattan Beach, CA, with wife where she was a litigation partner with Shearman years, writing and producing episodes of A&E Jamie and their daughter Madison. Ed Catto and and Sterling, to Washington, DC, to join the Secu- “Biography,” as well as documentaries for the his wife Kathe enjoy living in Ridgewood, NJ, rities and Exchange Commission as the senior legal Discovery Channel, Court TV, and other cable with daughters Cassie, 15, Tessa, 12, and Lacy, 9, advisor to the chief accountant. Her 12-month- clients. She and her husband Marcelo became who are all very involved with competitive dance. old son Max is enjoying being next-door neigh- parents in 2003 with the birth of son Dino Jose, When the girls are not at practice, Ed said that bors with the pandas for a few years, and Tammy followed by his sister Luna in 2004. Caroline fre- they typically transform the kitchen or living is enjoying being in the same city again with her quently travels to Argentina to see her husband’s room into a stage! When Ed isn’t enjoying his college roommate, Manette Leeds Mayberg. family. She stays in touch with Lois Baskin and daughters’ performances, he continues to work in A lot has happened over the past few years Howard Kagan from our class and looks for- New York City. He recently joined the 141World- to Curt Alliaume.He and his wife Karen are now ward to seeing everyone at the 25th Reunion! wide Division of Ogilvy Advertising as a senior VP.

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Big Brothers of Massachusetts Bay, a service As I write this in April, reunion “Sue is taking a break from her career as a social of Big Brothers Big Sisters, recently persuaded is just around the corner, and I worker to keep the kids’ teenage ‘careers’ on Wendy Foster to join their organization as the  know it will give a lot of us a track.”Recently Brian attended a reunion dinner new vice president for program services. Big chance to catch up in person. I in Los Angeles with Peter Bell, Steve McPherson, Brothers of Massachusetts Bay is the nation’s must say that connecting with old friends via tele- and Bob Goldman, along with other Cornell oldest and largest mentoring program. Wendy phone has been great as well. When else would I friends including Emile Levisetti ’87,Gregg Kauf- brings her executive leadership and a deep pas- have been able to hear my old friend Howard man ’87, Steve Bloom ’87, Steve Peters ’85, Jason sion for youth development to her new role at Feiler executing trades while simultaneously chat- Grode ’89, and Geoff DeStephano ’89.Those the Massachusetts agency. Wendy’s career has ting with me? Howard is an independent trader Phi Delts really keep in touch! included consulting for PBS, a longtime senior and broker of federal fund options in Chicago, Reunion Chairs Dina Lewisohn Shaw and executive with AOL Time Warner, and a senior where he has lived for the most part for the past KatieRoth Boyar are hearing from a lot of director with Time-Life Kids Publishing. She has 16 years. Howard moved from New York to the alumnae who will be coming back for reunion. also had a distinguished volunteer career with Midwest for business school at Northwestern and SueElliott-Sink e-mailed Dina with news that several organizations, including Girls Inc., Brook- built his life and career in Chicago. He is married, she is the editor of a brand new, upscale lifestyle line Community Taskforce on Teen Behavior, with four children ages 12, 10, 8, and 4, and is a magazine called California Driver,set to debut Meals on Wheels, and In2Books. Wendy lives in former member of the Chicago Board of Trade. in Pebble Beach, CA, in August. Sue also edits Brookline, MA, with her spouse and daughter. Many of the friends I caught up with moved custom publishing magazines for Primedia, When you read this in July, the women of from New York to other states as well. Kim Buck- including the Barrett-Jackson Experience and 216 Delaware will have already enjoyed their ner Boggess, my roommate and friend from Overhaulin’: The Magazine,both on newsstands. annual weekend reunion. Yes, those terrific AEPhi, now lives in Chapel Hill, NC, where she Also in the creative field is Leora Brayer women who lived at 216 Delaware during our is on the faculty of UNC and practicing ob/gyn. Mechanic. Leora and her sister write music for the junior and senior years are still in touch. I am Her husband John is a surgeon at UNC, and the children’s program “Dittydoodle Works,” which sure many of you remember enjoying some couple has children Emma, 8, and Mason, 5. airs on PBS Channel 21. After leaving Cornell, great parties at the 216 house (or maybe you Kim made me laugh when she told me that her Leora and her sister wrote pop songs, but they don’t remember too many of the details!). This sister, who lives in Connecticut, gets her weather have found that their catchy melodies translated year, the group met in North Carolina in mid- report from Cornellian Bob Maxon ’87.Bob was well into kids’ songs.“Dittydoodle Works” is geared May. We will share news of who made it to the studying to be a meteorologist when we were at toward children ages 3-7. Leora and her husband annual reunion in an upcoming column. Cornell and I’m glad to hear that Kim, among Steve have three kids of their own, Rick, 10, Jake, For those with whom I am in touch, you our other friends, reached her professional goals. 8, and Andie, 4. They live in Rockland County. already know that I am very active in Cornell It was great catching up with my very dear A full Reunion Report follows in the next alumni events and initiatives. Some of you have buddy Carol Baccile Rosenberger, who also lives issue! Keep sending us your news! ❖ Donna asked why I stay so involved. I have come to truly in North Carolina, in Charlotte. After college, Mandell Korren, [email protected]; Hilory appreciate that in addition to four wonderful (and Carol moved to Florida and has never left the Federgreen Wagner, [email protected]. fun-filled) years in Ithaca, these post-Cornell years South. Carol’s husband Larry works for the Bank have been a real bonus. I have connected with so of America. They have daughters Madison, in Former Cornell regional office many amazing individuals simply because our ninth grade, and Katie, in sixth. Carol keeps busy  colleague KarlaGriffin wrote in initial bond was that we attended Cornell (and with Girl Scouts and the Junior League and has  April: “Husband Paul and I moved most often not at the same time and not even in promised me that she will visit me in New York the family to New Albany, OH the same decade). These individuals have become very soon. She also filled me in on her brother (from Southern CA) at the end of March (yes, dear friends, business advisors, networking con- Peter Baccile ’84,who is now living in Green- we did it again!). New Albany is the result of Les tacts, and nice people to know. wich,CT, with his wife and four children. Peter Wexner’s vision, the founder of the Limited Whether you want social contacts, to expand works for JP Morgan Chase. Companies. Lots of new growth and beautiful your business network, or to participate in com- My husband Todd and I took a drive up to architecture and it reminds me of being on the munity outreach, connecting with Cornellians is Greenwich this month to visit with Mike and East Coast. Paul took a position with a law firm an outstanding resource. If you are not sure how Lisa Hellinger Manaster.We had a great time, in Columbus as their finance director. It was a to connect in your area, just send me an e-mail and I truly believe we haven’t changed all that big move but a good one for quality of life. We and I will put you in touch with the right person. much since our college days. At least I would like bought a house and I’m still up to my eyeballs in For those in the Metro New York region, to think we haven’t. We still laugh the same way boxes and various renovation projects. I’m getting there is an easy way for you to start getting con- we did! I traded e-mails with our pal Jim Con- pretty good at this renovation thing. I’m thinking nected. I recently started a monthly business net- nolly,who always made Lisa and me laugh. He it may be a profitable business in my future!” working breakfast at the Cornell Club-New shared the great news that he is married and has Intrepid ex-class president Gligor Tashkovich, York.Ifyou can get yourself to the Club at 7:30 a 3-month-old son Jack. He lives in Manhattan MBA ’91, played field reporter for this column. He AM, then I promise that it will be well worth and works for Citigroup in the convert bond sent in quite a few entries: The Cornell Daily Sun your time (even though you have to be a bit group. He keeps up with many of his Phi Delt published an interview of Jose Arroyo on March more sleep deprived). Seriously, it really is an buddies, including GreggKaufman ’87, Adam 13. On the previous Friday, Jose had spoken about outstanding opportunity to connect with Kaufmann ’87, Erik O’Neill, Eric Hage, Erik his rough journey of making it as a television alumni. We even have some attendees who have Sorensen ’87, Keith Olson, and Dan Thompson writer with a lecture in Kaufmann Auditorium to take a 5:00 AM train to get to the breakfast on ’88,who works at Citigroup as well. entitled “All Jokes Aside: What to Do with an Eng- time, but they keep coming back each month. I also heard from Jim’s Phi Delt fraternity lish Major.” He has been an Emmy- and Writers Please send me an e-mail if you want to join us brother Brian Parmelee,who keeps up with Guild Award-winning staff writer for “Late Night at the next breakfast. many Phi Delts as well. Brian married Cornell with Conan O’Brien.”After ten years of struggling Once again, please send us your news. Let us sweetheart Susan (Stiff) ’87 and they have three as a comedic performer and writer, Arroyo perse- know what you’ve been doing since we left children, Brendon 15, Trevor, 13, and Melissa, 11. vered to join the staffs of late-night shows, such Ithaca, if you have gotten together with fellow Brian is currently the VP, Southeast for JAMS, a as “Politically Incorrect” with Bill Maher, “Dennis classmates, if you want to hear from someone mediation and arbitration company that provides Miller Live,” and now “Conan O’Brien.”A pre- you lost touch with, or anything that you want alternative dispute resolution worldwide. Brian med when he first attended Cornell, Jose took a to share. We really do look forward to hearing reports a very busy home life in San Clemente, detour to Washington, DC, after he was asked to from you. ❖ Leslie Nydick,[email protected]; CA, with the kids’ baseball practices, school plays, take a leave. 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got hooked,” he said, after a couple of comedy Baghdad, Dave said: “Throughout this whole jour- Joel says, “It’s almost always sunny and warm in shows. He returned to the Hill as an English major ney, despite what the headlines we read and see in Malibu, but we try not to gloat too much when with a new career in mind. After graduation, Jose the US are, the morale of the troops may surprise reading reports of sub-zero temperatures on the moved back to D.C. and then New York City to you.”“The Early Show” co-host Harry Smith asked East Coast. In 2002 I married Christina Chiung- pursue opportunities in comedy. He got his big Dave on the air to compare and contrast this visit Hwa Wu, a Taiwanese computer programmer. break when Jay Leno took over the “Tonight to a previous year’s trip to Afghanistan. Dave said: Best man at the very-L.A.-style, trilingual wed- Show,”and got paid when Leno performed some “Well, I’ll tell you the conditions here in Iraq are ding (English, Mandarin, Spanish) was Ansar of his material. Eventually, a representative for significantly better than they were in Afghanistan. Fayyazuddin,now a physics professor at the U. “Dennis Miller Live” saw one of Jose’s shows and And as anyone who’s been on their second or third of Stockholm and Brooklyn College. My wife asked him to try out for the late-night HBO show, tour will say, things have really begun to improve. delivered our son, Isaak I-li Fetzer, in 2003, and ten years after he had started to pursue a career in Things are operating much more smoothly here, he is now keeping us extremely busy. Last aca- comedy. He joined Conan’s writing staff in 2002. and it’s a much more comfortable place to be. Yes, demic year we lived in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Cornell’s Entrepreneurship Legal Services there are still pockets of violence. Our base was Taipei as the faculty family for the Pepperdine- (ELS) is offering a new program in professional- shelled while we were in the Sunni triangle and in-China program.” quality legal services to emerging growth-oriented off performing. But I think most soldiers would Nancy Michalski Wall reports, “I am finish- businesses. The program is sponsored by JGSM say that, now, the hard work has begun. Now it is ing up my MAEd (Elementary) and will soon and the Law school. Its executive director is class- time to settle in.” Thank you, Dave, for showing enter the market for a teaching job. I finished my mate Zachary Shulman, JD ’90. He was a corpo- your support of the American troops. student teaching (27 fifth graders!) and think that rate lawyer for 12 years before joining Cornell. He also serves as general counsel and faculty adviser to BR Ventures, the Johnson School’s student-run venture capital arm, and BR Incubator, JGSM’s Their stories began a national debate about student-run consulting provider. On April 4, Cor- ‘ nell Entrepreneur Network, in partnership with the tensions between combating terrorism the Metro NY Regional Office, presented a talk on real estate and the hospitality industry featuring Alan Tantleff, executive VP of Jones Lang LaSalle and preserving civil liberties. Hotels. Alan discussed topics such as what made TOM S. TSENG ’87 ’ NYC hotels hot again after 9/11, and the latest trends within the hotel industry. Gligor also went to a talk at the Cornell Club-New York. Randomly In the spring, my wife Rebecca and I went I have finally found my niche! The family and I are he sat down next to classmate Gregory Morris. to Santana Row in San Jose to meet up with her also going to be headed back to Georgia, where Two classmates were in the national news this cousin Cid, who was in town on business. I ran we recently bought a home to be affectionately past spring. New York Times journalist Eric Licht- into Karen Fann Townsend,who was having a known as either ‘Stately Wall Manor’ or ‘Oz,’ blau won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. “girls night out” with some of her running bud- depending on how you look at it. All three daugh- Eric and his fellow Times reporter James Risen dies. I asked after Karl, and she informed me that ters are doing very well. Middle daughter Gabi were honored for their “carefully sourced” stories he is still with Palm and enjoying his work. He recently won an excellence award at the Okinawa on the National Security Agency’s secret domestic does not travel overseas as frequently as in the Science Fair for her project called ‘Does color eavesdropping program. They shared a cash award past, but he does like the opportunity of devel- affect perceived sweetness?’ She made good use of $10,000. According to the Pulitzer board, their oping new hand-held gadgets. Karl and Karen of my degree in Food Science. We hope to stop stories began a national debate about the tensions continue to train for marathons and triathlons, in Taipei on the way back for a little break before between combating terrorism and preserving civil a passion they developed several years ago. making Georgia home once again this summer.” liberties. During his undergraduate days, Eric Finally, I must remind everyone that our Jayne Gilbert Peister shares the following: “I worked as a Daily Sun reporter. He began his pro- 20th Reunion is now less than a year away! Please traumatically turned 40 in December! My won- fessional journalism career as a reporter in the mark your calendar, June 7-10, 2007. We look derful husband Darren threw a surprise party Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times, and forward to seeing many of you back in Ithaca. for me—and I was! Some Cornellians who were now serves as a Washington correspondent for the And remember, this class column is not as inter- there: Laura Pearlman Kaufman ’89, Alyse Etel- New York Times.Prior to winning his Pulitzer, Eric esting and informative if you don’t tell us what son Lieberman ’89, Debbie Etelson Mayblum was back at Cornell on April 10 to speak to students you’re up to these days. So send your 4th of July ’91, Damara Gutnick, and JaySchiff.My hus- on the role of a journalist in a post-9/11 world. pictures, summer vacation itineraries, and news band and I live in New Rochelle, NY, and have In Redmond, WA, Microsoft shook up its to: ❖ Tom S. Tseng, [email protected]; or daughters Emma, 9, and Sophia, 6. I am STILL senior management by moving Steven Sinofsky Debra Howard Stern, [email protected]. working for Lilly selling pharmaceuticals (since from Microsoft Office to the Windows and Win- graduating Cornell!), and in my spare time I am dows Live Group. Steve assumed responsibility Hey there, great ’88ers! Many of president of my girls’ school’s PTA, on the Reli- for the process and planning of future versions us are turning 40 this year—that gious School board of our synagogue, and of Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Steve,  seemed ancient to me when we involved in our local community in various ways. my former RA in South Baker, has been in were at Cornell. When I was 20, Not much free time! Life at 40, though, is good. charge of the Office product line after serving as I thought 40 meant you were at the top of your I had hoped I’d be exactly where I am now!” Bill Gates’s technical assistant. During his tenure career, had been married or were in a commit- Alicia Schwarcz is having double the fun! in the Office division, Steve has achieved a rep- ted relationship forever, and had “old” kids. “Just wanted to let you know about the birth of utation of meeting release deadlines. His transi- Although that’s true for some of our classmates, my twin boys Liam Isaac and Timothy Jacob on tion to head Windows and Windows Vista has many others are just marrying or having chil- January 10, 2006. They are fraternal twins with led industry watchers to predict “a rock solid dren now, and I am constantly amazed at the their own personalities and smiles that light up the release of Windows Vista in January 2007.” wonderful heights everyone continues to hit room! I’m living in Princeton, NJ, these days and Our very own weatherman, Dave Price,spent with their career advancements. Thanks to work for a satellite operator out of D.C. (Intelsat) a week entertaining the troops and reporting from everyone who wrote in and shared. selling satellite communication networks. It’s a the frontline in Iraq. Appearing on CBS’s “The Joel Fetzer tells us that last year he was ten- fun job and I get to work from home.” Early Show,”Dave accompanied entertainers such ured and promoted to associate professor of I hope you all enjoy the rest of the summer. as musician Charlie Daniels. Reporting from political science at Pepperdine U. in Malibu, CA. As always, please write us with your news and

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updates—on yourself or any other Cornellians Remember, you can send us your news all New Beginnings. Sean Bolks married Kathy you may see or bump into! Take good care. ❖ year round—you don’t have to wait for the dues Kraus ’91 at Sage Chapel on Aug 6, 2005. The wed- Suzanne Bors Andrews, [email protected]; forms. Submit the news online or just e-mail ding party included alumni Karen Kraus ’88 and and Steve Tomaselli, [email protected] one of your class correspondents. ❖ Lauren John Crosby ’90.After a Statler reception attended Hoeflich, [email protected]; Stephanie by 23 Cornellians, the happy couple visited Dun- Hope everyone is having a good Bloom Avidon, [email protected]; Anne bar’s and the Hot Truck. Marc Goldman married  summer reflecting on the memo- Czaplinski Treadwell, [email protected]; and Cara Smith on November 13, 2005. The wedding  ries of beautiful, sunny Ithaca days Mike McGarry, [email protected]. party included best man Marshall Kohen, (yes, there were many!). I spent a groomsman Scott Pesner ’87, and bridesmaid few summers on campus during our college Now that summer is warming Cheryl Goldman ’94.Many Cornellians joined years, and they were good times. Speaking of  your heels (especially in rain- the celebration: Mary Hohenhaus ’87, Doug good times, if you haven’t done so yet, please e- drenched Northern California), Onsi, Jeff ’91, MD ’95, and Robyn Lipsky Wein- mail us with your News—or send it in with your perhaps you will sip iced tea traub ’91, Arik Marks ’91, DJ and Pia Napolitano class dues payment. Not only do we, your class while reading the Alumni News. Ledina ’91, Ellen Goode ’91, Dave ’92 and Chris- correspondents, personally want to hear it, but New Kids on the Block (almost always like tine Watters Stuhlmiller ’93, Jeff Anbinder ’94, we want to share it with all our classmates. I ice tea). Christie Fanton and husband Matt and Stacy Slomovicz Rosenberg ’96.Marc is cur- know I have fallen out of touch with many, but Kuhn had a big day on Sept. 30, 2004 when baby rently an associate director at the NYU Center for it is always exciting to hear wonderful news of Zoe arrived. Larry ’89 and KimSumner Mayer Career Development, and Cara works as an assis- someone I haven’t heard about in a long time. It welcomed Eli, and everyone couldn’t be happier. tant director at Yeshiva U. Career Services. Marc makes all these years vanish in an instant! Kim works at the Children of Alcoholics Foun- and Cara live on the Upper West Side of Manhat- So let me share some of this news. Amy Wil- dation in New York City and helps families tan. The ever-charming Michael Karangelen son Goodrum wrote in January to tell us that Phil affected by a parent’s substance abuse survive reports that Jeff Bershad married Kathleen took a new job with Blasland Bouck & Lee based and recover. Just a little farther downtown from McCullough at Manhattan’s Ritz Carlton on Feb 19, 2006. Also attending was Rob Lynch,MBA ’91. Summer Vacations. Suzy Schwam Tomassetti and her husband write that life in Jupiter, FL, near Let’s hear it for long maternity leaves the beach is super, despite the hurricanes. Suzy ‘ now works part-time in real estate after eight years and long-term jobs. of pharmaceutical sales. Cary Attar works as general manager for the Central Market in Houston, KELLY ROBERSON ’90 ’ TX. Kids Hudson, 10, and Veronica, 4, will keep him busy for the summer. Theodore and Anna Henderson Endreny,MAT ’91, and their children in Syracuse. He will continue environmental con- Kim, Mike Eidelman and partner AJ Vincent are Sierra, 7, and Noah, 4, are spending the spring and sulting on human and ecological risk assessment. proud fathers to Katie and Connor, born on summer in Cyprus. Ted has a Fulbright fellowship Marianne Schnall is the co-founder and editor of June 30, 2006. Mike is a partner at West Village and is on a sabbatical leave from SUNY-ESF. Anna two popular websites: the 12-year-old environ- Dermatology in NYC. On Dec. 15, 2005, Anne is working on editing a preschool science cur- mental site www.EcoMall.com, which she runs Wilkinson and husband Steve Weirsma greeted riculum and practicing Greek with her children. with her husband Tom Kay, and the 11-year-old their new little guy Tate. In May, Anne returns to Stephanie Jensen began working as associate women’s non-profit organization and website work as an interior designer at Babey, Moulton, director of commercialization for Nektar Thera- www.Feminist.com. She is also a writer and inter- Jue & Booth in San Francisco, where she has peutics. Her company will introduce Exubera viewer whose writings have appeared in a variety worked for 13 years. Let’s hear it for long mater- inhaled insulin in partnership with Pfizer. Before of magazines and on the Web. Marianne was a nity leaves and long-term jobs. starting the new position, she will visit Indonesia contributing writer to Robin Morgan’s latest Anne Foster Foley and husband Brendan for two weeks of scuba diving in a biologically anthology Sisterhood is Forever: The Women’s An- cheered their second son Connor’s birth in July diverse marine habitat. Andy Alpart writes that thology for a New Millennium (Washington Square 2005. He spends most of his time watching his some weekend plans to see Pete Christakos and Press). She is married to her soulmate and they older brother Danny, 2. Anne stays at home with Matt Richardson were squashed by an attack of have two daughters, ages 5 and 8. What does she her children and enjoys their very family- croup. Otherwise, he spent a week in Biloxi in remember most about her time at Cornell? Good friendly Seattle suburb, while her husband works December volunteering in the wake of Katrina— friends, inspiring conversations, and lots of fun. at Microsoft. She would love to hear from fellow a life-altering experience. Benjamin Pavone is liv- On February 15, 2005 Laurence Bailen and Cornellians in the Seattle area. (Drop the corre- ing his dream life in San Diego, CA, and works as his wife welcomed twin girls Lily and Molly to spondents a note and we will forward.) Anne is a civil attorney. In Tucson, AZ, Allison Duncan the family. Big brother Daniel loves playing with in touch with Heather Meyer who, after a short and Jeff Hoppert, ME ’99,removed 30 tons of his new sisters! Stephanie Keene Fox welcomed stint back in Ithaca, is now living in Saratoga topsoil from their front yard. Undoubtedly, they twin boys Kyle and Ryan on February 5, 2006. Springs balancing work and raising her son Jack- broke new ground using their Ag and ME degrees Stephanie also has a 3-year-old son, Colin. Mom son. Heather and her husband work at Skidmore to help them decipher the mini-excavator earth- and Dad are sleep-deprived but doing well. College. Meanwhile, in Ithaca, Bob ’88 and mover’s operation manual. Here on the home front I have become Helen Herrador Arco joyfully welcomed their Thanks to all for responding to my “Friends, involved with animal rescue organizations after first child, Adam, on December 27, 2005. Romans, Alumni” news solicitation e-mail. With- losing my dear Mr. Grey to an illness. I am on the New Jobs (let’s hope there’s time for a sum- out your responses, this column would be a whole junior board of PAWS (Pets Are Worth Saving), mer vacation). Richard Kaltenbach became lot shorter. Please keep sending your updates! ❖ which focuses on turning Chicago into a no-kill associate counsel for ICAP North America and Kelly Roberson,[email protected]; city and works to alleviate the pet overpopula- is cheered on by wife Leslie and daughter Char- Tamiko Toland,[email protected]; and Amy tion program through saving lives, prevention, lotte, 2. Richard reports that Frank Cirillo mar- Wang Manning, [email protected]. and education. If you live in the Chicago area ried Alexandra Von Knorring in May 2005. Peter and are looking to adopt an animal or want to Pruyn, MS ’92 ([email protected]) now lives in Once again, alumni from the Class come out to one of our fundraising events or Cambridge, MA, where he immerses himself in  of 1991 have been busy with fam- simply want to get involved/volunteer, check out the field of organizational learning after four ilies, careers, and adventure in www.pawschicago.org. years in Houston at NASA. general. I know that many of you

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had the chance to catch up during our spectacu- Boston Chamber of Commerce. Ardrell Man- his wife Leah were in attendance, and their daugh- lar 15th Reunion in Ithaca last month. Stay tuned nings (Frederick, MD) is happy to report the ter Sophia was a flower girl in the ceremony. Also to the Sept/Oct issue for a full Reunion Report. birth of his son Kyndl and the fact that he was in attendance was head football coach and family Ina Kurcz moved to Marina Del Rey, CA, last promoted to VP of Human Resources at the friend Jim Knowles ’87. KevinRosas was married December to join her fiancé David. Another new Chase Card Services division of JPMorganChase. to Cristiane da Silva in Brazil last December. The Californian, Kim Nguyen, MA ’94, moved to Santa Craig Miles rang in the New Year by making newlyweds have since moved to Cooperstown, NY, Clara with his wife Thuy and their 2-year-old son partner in the law firm of King & Spalding, where where Kevin has accepted a job as an orthopedist. Liem. Kim is VP, Finance at Intel. After a dozen he practices international arbitration in the firm’s Becky Levine Leibowitz lives in Scotch years of living in New York City, Matthew Joseph Houston office. Last March, Seth Briskin was Plains, NJ, with her husband and two children, recently moved to Harrison, NY, with his wife elected partner at the Cleveland law firm of Mey- Jonah, 3, and Sam, 1. Becky works in the research Michele and their kids Morgan, 4, Tyler, 2, and 1- ers, Roman, Friedberg & Lewis. Seth provides labor and development division at Ethicon, a division year-old Cole. Matthew is a partner at a structured and employment counsel to unionized and non- of Johnson & Johnson. Mayra Jimenez Lucero finance practice at the law firm McKee Nelson LLP. unionized companies and was named to Crain’s writes that she has been a management recruiter Sharlyn Carter Heslam is happy to report “Cleveland Business 40 Under 40.”Seth also serves for the Capital Group Companies for 11 years. that Kristin Hurley Van Riper, Jenny Harris, and as chairman of Cleveland Bridge Builders and She joined Capital in New York City and then she all had babies within two weeks of each other serves on the executive committee for the Center relocated to San Francisco, where she lives with last August and September. Kristen welcomed for Employment Training, the American Jewish her husband Marcelo and their children Gabriel, her second baby boy, Cory; Jenny’s son Jonathan Committee, and the Cleveland Jewish News. He 3, and new daughter Natalia. Mayra also enjoys welcomed new little sister Emily; and Sharlyn is also a member of the American, Ohio State, being a mentor to Bay Area Cornell freshman celebrated her newest family member, daughter and Cleveland Bar associations, and was recently Angie Morel ’09 and plans to attend some of the Clara. Sharlyn traveled from Boston to meet the named by his peers as an Ohio Super Lawyer. upcoming Cornell Silicon Valley/Cornell Entre- other two for a brunch at Jenny’s place in New David Kadosh moved to start a new job as preneur Network meetings. Mayra reminisces that York City, and they were joined by Kari Ginsberg ass’t prof. at the U. of Texas Health Science Center nearly 15 years after she graduated from Cornell, Nesbit and Cynthia Lee Dow. They had such a at San Antonio in the Dept. of Microbiology and her deepest friendships remain with those people good time that they promptly reconvened in Jan- Immunology. Emily Jordhamo was promoted to she met during her first couple of years at Cornell. uary for a long weekend in the Berkshires, joined VP, Client Services for Quintiles Medical Com- Keep in touch. ❖ Corinne Kuchling, kuccori@ by Kristen Sciacca and all of their families. munications in Hawthorne, NY. Kate Pierson hotmail.com; Nina Rosen Peek, nsr5@cornell. Todd Merkle and his wife Sarah (Gallagher) Lundin is working at MTV in their business devel- edu; and David Smith,[email protected]. ’92 (Santa Monica, CA) celebrated the first birth- opment group on the launch of a new channel. day of son Thomas. G. Michael, JD ’94, and She reports that she and husband Steve are still liv- Remember, if you’d like to vol- Cheryl Jacobson Favale, MILR ’94, celebrated ing in New York City and loving it! After four years  unteer to serve on the Reunion the birth of their third son, Matthew, late last of working with Morgan Keegan in Memphis, Committee for 2007, the people year. Matthew joins older brothers Nicholas, 5, Brian Mellone was elected managing director. to contact are: Michelle Struble and Joseph, 2. Cheryl notes that the family relo- Brian is also head of the fixed income capital mar- Bouton ([email protected]) and Tracy cated from New York to Richmond, VA, where kets taxable banking group. Gayle Kaufman,MS Furner Stein ([email protected]). she is a human resources director and Mike is an ’92, lives with husband Kevin Bell ’90 in North I just got back from Universal Studios Florida assistant attorney general. Carolina and has two children, Emily, 6, and with my family and, oh boy, do you get your Allison and Jason Bernbach, JD ’94, and big David, 2. Last spring Gayle was promoted to assoc. money’s worth—of waiting. We got there at 11 sister Ryan, 4, celebrated the first birthday of son prof. of sociology at Davidson College and is cur- a.m. and stayed till closing at 10 p.m. We didn’t get Bryce. The entire family lives in Millwood, NY. rently on sabbatical, working on a project about to see everything because waiting in the lines took Frank and Elena Yotides Fechner live in Worces- fathers’ experiences with work/family conflict. up most of the time. I am such a get-up-and-go gal ter, MA. Elena recently changed jobs to work for Julie Nielsen Lindsey is pleased to report that it was hard for me to be still and wait 45 min- Genentech Inc. Though her new company is based that she “finally” finished her medical residency utes for a ride. But I looked in the faces of my four in San Francisco, Elena telecommutes from home, last June and has been enjoying working part- kids and saw something I had rarely seen there allowing her more time with her daughter Kata- time as a family physician in Chapel Hill, NC. before. It was determination and patience—with rina, 2. Betty Ng-Beckler and husband Laurence She spends the rest of her time raising her chil- absolutely NO complaining. Wow. They were going welcomed their second son, Gordon, in February. dren, ages 5 and 3. She also manages to do some to get on that Shrek 4-D ride no matter how long Gordon’s big brother Harrison, 3, named him local road races and play tennis. James Mister has it took. It was a much-needed reminder for me. after his favorite Thomas and Friends train! Betty worked at Cargill Risk Management since receiv- And a costly one. These theme parks are expensive! and her family continue to live in New York City, ing his master’s in international studies from I’ll start saving now for next year’s adventure, and and she plans to return to her job as VP of Deriv- the U. of Pennsylvania Wharton School. James next time I’ll be sure to wear my walking/standing/ atives Sales at Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd. Birdie lives in São Paulo, Brazil, with his wife of two leaning, super-shock-absorbing shoes. Meanwhile, Matern married husband Stephen last year and years. Geoffrey Moskowitz has lived in Moscow, I still enjoy singing with the band justCharmaine celebrated the birth of her first child, Kai, in Feb- Russia, for the past nine years with his wife (.com), I’m still at the helm of MahoganyBaby. ruary. She will soon be returning to part-time Madeliane and their kids Ivan, 5, and Mikaela, 4. com and slated to be featured in a Time magazine work as an attending family physician at Mari- He founded and manages Tip-Top Cleaning Co. article on discipline, and I’m a contributing writer copa Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ. Keith McAfee has once again relocated back to for the travel magazine Odyssey Couleur. April Horowitz Moulaert writes that daugh- the West Coast, this time to San Diego. He found Dylan Willoughby,MFA ’95, has poems ter Aurora,1,is “just perfect.”April took a new job a great opportunity with Intuit, creator of Tur- forthcoming in Shenandoah in the US and Inter- managing the State of Vermont Wetland Protec- boTax and Quicken software, and boasts that the preter’s House and Coffee House in the UK. Five of tion and Restoration Program in the Vermont weather is fantastic. Keith is still playing soccer, his poems were recently featured in Chapman,a Dept. of Forest, Parks, and Recreation. She reports and though he is sorry that he missed everyone Scottish literary journal. Priscilla Powell Coq was that earlier this year she visited Beth Huizenga at reunion, he notes that he could not resist the admitted to the Florida Bar in fall 2004. She cur- Shaz and Alice Michael in Boston. Beth has a son siren’s call of the World Cup in Germany! rently holds the position of ADA (Americans With Andrew, 1, and Alice has daughter Sadie. Emily Emily Kaplan married Gregory Dodge a year Disabilities Act) coordinator for the Miami Dade Kramer Neill and husband Dayton welcomed ago at the Four Seasons Biltmore in Santa Barbara, Housing Agency. She is married and still enjoying baby girl Addison into their family last Novem- CA, a destination wedding weekend of festivities the adventures of motherhood with her three sons. ber. Emily is living in the suburbs of Boston, and for the happy couple and their friends and family Mark Bailen is a new partner at the Wash- is VP of Business Development for the Greater from the East Coast. Classmate Philip Pilla and ington, DC, office of Baker and Hostetler LLP.

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He is a member of the litigation group and con- and succinctly summarize and submit to your exercising enough!” Steve Haggerty is an equity centrates his practice in media law and com- class correspondents for inclusion in future edi- trader at Capital Research and Management in mercial litigation. He earned his law degree from tions of Class Notes, of course! Until then . . . San Francisco. Steve and wife Elizabeth have chil- New York U. School of Law in 1997 and is Many of our classmates have written in dren Julia and Billy. The New York Times reported admitted to the US Courts of Appeals, District recently to share their latest career accomplish- that Michael Rudegeair married Claudia Reit- of Columbia Circuit, US District Court, District ments. Darren Carpizo graduated from his gen- enbach ’91 on December 11, 2005. Michael is a of Columbia, District Court, District of Mary- eral surgery residency at UCLA and will begin a manager in the tax department of RSM McGlad- land, and the District of Columbia, Maryland, surgical oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan- rey, a business consulting and tax firm in New and Massachusetts Bar associations. Kettering Cancer Center. Looks like Darren and York,while Claudia teaches kindergarten. The latest round of News updates was just wife Katherine will celebrate their first wedding Traci Nadel Friedman wrote, “My husband starting to come in as this column was being anniversary in New York. Also headed east is Jeff and I recently located to West Hartford, CT, written. The many questions on the News Forms KarenNakamura.Karen was hired away from where we have met up with a number of Cor- elicited lots of varied responses from all of you. If her job at Macalester College in Minnesota to nellians. Our twins Emma and Jacob just turned you haven’t done so yet, take some time out from Yale U., where she has taken a position as an 3-1/2, and our daughter Sophia is celebrating her nurturing your lawns, planting perennials, or assistant professor of anthropology. second birthday next week.” Wil Andersen is a shuttling kids to their extra-curriculars and STOP We have several consultants among us. landscape architect with CPL Partnership, a multi- and take a breath. Write in and share your news! Gabriella Salvatore is director of corporate edu- disciplinary design firm based in Matawan, NJ. He Here’s a sampling of what had been received as cation at Vantage Partners, a Boston-based con- writes, “Currently my landscape design projects of early May. More to come in future columns. sulting firm. She runs a practice area focused on range from a contemporary church campus to Elena Brower Lyon is a yoga teacher and stu- building individual employee’s skills in the areas urban redevelopment communities.”As if that did dio owner in New York City (www.virayoga.com). of negotiation, communication, and strategic rela- not keep him busy enough, Wil is also the CAAAN Jae Pak lives in a new house in Herndon, VA, and tionship management. Gabriella writes that she chair for Hunterdon County, as well as co-chair is director of operations at the College Board. He spends her free time doing yoga and playing with for Warren and Sussex counties (all in New Jersey). is busy with work and with his family—wife Bar- her 3-year-old son. JayCammermeyer recently Finally, Elizabeth Smith DeSpirito is a psycho- bara and two daughters—and dreams of being joined management consulting and engineering therapist. She lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, on perpetual vacation. What he remembers most firm R. W. Beck’s water and waste resource prac- with husband Antonio and daughter Sofia. fondly about Cornell is life in the fraternity with tice in Seattle. Jay is a civil engineer and will pro- Please keep the news coming. You can either the brothers. vide support to project managers and teams on e-mail your class correspondents or submit your David Murphy remembers the landscape/ a broad range of design and consulting projects. news online at http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/ setting at Cornell. He lives in West Hartford, CT, Katherine Catinchi,DVM ’96, is a veteri- classes.htm. Please note that we cannot write and is a consulting engineer/hydrologist, although narian with her own clinic. Katherine lives in about engagements or pregnancies—only mar- he says he’d rather be working part-time than full- San Juan, Puerto Rico, with husband Armando riages and births. Thanks! ❖ Erica Fishlin Fox, time. That could be because he and partner Barry Rodriguez ’95, MHA ’95. Kristin Iglesias is also [email protected]; Yael Berkowitz Rosenberg, Walters just adopted a baby boy, born Feb. 1, 2006. a veterinarian. She and husband Matthew Scott [email protected]. Congratulations! David would like to hear from ’94 live in Middletown, NJ. Samantha Williams. Tomitra Latimer lives in We heard from a few of the lawyers among How many people can, in one Chicago, IL, where she is an attending pediatrician us. Erik Feig writes, “I made the move from my  year, add the titles “Ironman” at Children’s Memorial Pediatrics at the Uptown position with a large law firm to start the legal and “Calendar Girl” to their Clinic. After hours, she enjoys reading, spending department of a residential real estate multiple list- names? At least one classmate time with husband John Ehresman, and hanging ing service.” Erik, wife Heidi, and daughter Han- can—Diane Dubovy. On her 33rd birthday, she out with her sister and her two kids. She’s been nah, 2, live in Potomac, MD. Robert Guazzo was completed the Ironman Florida in 13 hours, 9 studying a lot for her pediatric board recertifica- named special counsel to Stroock & Stroock & minutes, and 31 seconds (and in the top half for tion exam, but says she’d rather be reading a great Lavan LLP, a national law firm. Robert works in her age group!). That led to the calendar gig: she legal thriller. She fondly remembers a Fashion the New York office in the firm’s corporate prac- posed for a 2006 calendar of New York City class in the HumEc school and would like to hear tice. Andy Velez is also an attorney. He and wife triathlon chicks to raise money to buy handcycles from Rhonda Johnson and Sam Harden ’91. Marti have two sons and live in Floral Park, NY. for disabled children through Athletes Helping Ann Rojas of Haddonfield, NJ, wrote just as Zachary Rabinor is founder and president Athletes. Diane is the picture in the top left hand she was about to “retire” to travel for a few months. of Journey Mexico Inc., a specialty tour opera- corner at www.raisingheartrates.org/html/the “Then I’ll look for work in public health closer to tor and travel agency that works exclusively in Project.html. “You can also go to www.raising home. I’m consulting for non-profit organiza- Mexico. The company is based in San Diego. heartrates.org/html/theCalendar.html to order tions as needed.”Ann had recently returned from Winnie Rieder-Su has also broadened her hori- your very own and support this worthy cause.” three weeks in Australia and was getting ready to zons beyond the US. She is living in Switzerland Sean Alexander,MBA ’01, is also a triath- go to Thailand in May. When asked what she’d with husband Harald and working as a consult- lete, and was recently licensed to teach Scuba div- rather be doing, she said, “I’m lucky to be doing ant for information systems at Man Investments, ing. His day job is as a vice president at Deutsche exactly what I want right now.” Of Cornell, she a hedge fund. Bank in Hong Kong. Chris Fitzgerald continues writes, “I remember most fondly the optimism Jason Halio e-mailed to say, “After five great to work as director of animal services for the City and hope that comes from opportunity and but snowy years in Boston, I relocated back to of Rochester, NY. Chris is now a single parent youth.” Ann would like to hear from Ann NYC this month. I still work for Morgan Stanley, and spends most of his non-work time co-par- Korioth ’93 and Liz Chiasson Bello. but joined the equity derivatives group. I’ve spent enting and running around with his 3-year-old We look forward to hearing from all of you. the past month reconnecting with fraternity daughter. Don Nguyen reports a busy life. In Until next time. Be a light, and be well. ❖ Wilma brothers Jeff Chabrowe, Marc Warm,MBA ’94, 2004, he got an MBA from the U. of Chicago in Ann Anderson, [email protected]; Jon Stein ’94, and colleague Dr. Michael Aber- finance, marketing, accounting, and entrepre- Debbie Feinstein,[email protected]; man and am looking forward to seeing many neurship. Since September 2004, he has been or Renee Hunter Toth, [email protected]. more Cornellians in the near future!” Jason is not working as the Metrics and Analytics Work- our only classmate in the financial world. Geof- stream Leader (financial/business analysis role) Happy summer! I hope you are all frey Suval is a partner and financial sales man- in sourcing and logistics at DuPont. He married  very busy visiting classmates and ager. Geoff lives in Reisterstown, MD, where he’s Shantii Penaredondo on September 18, 2005, and planning exotic summer vacations, been enjoying time with wife Louise, daughter honeymooned in Tahiti and Moorea. See the pic- events that you will later colorfully Anna, and son Spencer.“Eating too much and not tures at: http://dnguyen.smugmug.com/. In his

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spare time, he enjoys tennis, Tai Chi, and playing between chasing after my two sons, I continue my nursery school, followed by a six-month sabbat- X-Box Live. His screen name is “donny boy 72.” work specializing in copyright and trademark law ical as a ski instructor in Steamboat Springs, CO. Holly Ripans Witten reports, “I have had a in Tampa, FL. What are you up to? Let us know! While there I met James, we got married in Seat- busy 12 years!” After working in D.C. for four ❖ Dineen Pashoukos Wasylik, dmp5@cornell. tle in July 2005, and a few months later, we years in the hospitality industry, she got an MBA edu; Dika Lam, [email protected]; Jennifer moved to Edinburgh! So I’m now working as a from Emory U. She then moved back to D.C. to Rabin Marchant, [email protected]. project manager for an insurance company and do marketing and branding for the American looking forward to exploring Scotland for the Red Cross. Since 2003, she has been back in Greetings, all, and welcome to the next year or so!” Wow, Patrice, you have moxie! Atlanta at the helm of her own marketing com-  back of your Cornell Alumni Mag- The next stop on our back-of-the-magazine pany, Leap Forward Group. In November 2005 azine! My guess is you turned here journey will include careers, trips, and pastimes. she married Doug Witten. Deb Bushell Gans first to: a) look for your news; Remember the Olympics? Shawn Hecht and and Laura Sauter Stein were at the wedding. b) look for news about your friends; or c) read Christine Chang traveled from NYC to Torino, Elizabeth Golluscio was recently named sen- about classmates you never met while at Cornell Italy, to watch the first week of the Olympic ior director, marketing for The NewsMarket Inc., but would be more than happy to run into on games. They saw tons of sporting events, and an on-demand video platform for journalists. Jane the street. After all, who doesn’t like to run into highlights from the trip included meeting Al Lee got her MBA from UC Davis in June 2004 Cornellians, especially 1995’ers! Roker from the “Today” show, sampling every and is active with the Cornell Alumni Association of Northern California (www.cornellnorcal.com). Josh Cantor,wife Penny (Tchakirides) ’95, and sons John, 5, and Jason, 3, moved from Southern How many classmates can, in one California to Williamsport, MD, last year, where Josh works as director of parking and trans- ‘ portation at George Mason U. in Fairfax, VA. year, add the titles “Ironman” and Penny is a manager at CitiGroup. Jeff Anbinder is now an associate with the “Calendar Girl” to their names? law firm of Martin, Clearwater & Bell LLP, a mid-sized firm in midtown Manhattan that spe- DINEEN PASHOUKOS WASYLIK ’94 ’ cializes in the field of medical malpractice defense. He is proud to say that his law school Babies! Babies! Everywhere! Let’s start with pastry/pasta/chocolate from the region, and work on the Innocence Project resulted in the baby news. Amy Leitner Straus writes, “I gave cheering on the US with some of the athletes’ release of an innocent prisoner. Stacey Merola, birth to a little girl, Shayna Danielle Straus, on Sep- families and friends. Shawn commented, “Win- PhD ’01, married Peter Schildkraut; the couple tember 27, 2005. She is doing great and has joined ter survival skills from our four years at Cornell got Scuba certified while on their honeymoon! her big brother Ethan, who will be 3 in April 2006. came in handy during the freezing temperatures Janice Kam and husband Hyeon Lee welcomed I am not working and am busy with the kids in (the Alps!) and a two-hour hike during a bliz- son Emerson Kam Lee on October 21, 2004. She Plainview, Long Island.” On December 12, 2005, zard to get from the ski venue to the train. Only has the scoop on some other births: Laurie Jenny Tu gave birth to Katie Noelle Zhao. Despite in Italy! Plans were made to travel to Vancouver Kisloff, Chris Tsai, and big brother Tommy wel- lack of sleep, Jenny says the new family is doing in four years to continue the fun.” comed Alex Michael on December 4, 2004; and fine. Closing out 2005 and gaining a delightful tax Brenda Janowitz recently sold her first Wayne ’93 and Cindy Morrison Phoel wel- break, Karen Fellowes Siwinski and her husband novel—in a two-book deal—to Red Dress Ink. comed Annabel Joy in August 2004. welcomed their second child, William “Will” Look for Scot on the Rocks (Or, How I Survived My Lisa Sacks and husband Jonathan Richer Henry, on December 30. Will has 2-year-old big Ex-Boyfriend’s Wedding With My Dignity Ever-So- welcomed daughter Talia Glory on December 23, brother Jack Peter to teach him the ropes. Slightly Intact) on bookshelves in April 2007. 2004. Just two weeks later, on January 8, 2005, Several classmates started the new year with a Brenda also recently published a short story with Elizabeth Kaufmann Hale, husband James, and new family. Future Cornellian baby Peter greeted LostWriters.net. Veronica Brooks-Sigler and her 2-year-old Dylan welcomed Ryan Matthew. Eliz- his parents Matthew and Sonya Hand Stover ’96 husband Jeffrey live in Wallingford, CT, where abeth is an assistant professor of dermatology on January 10. Mindy Goodman Sickle e-mailed Veronica is an English teacher at Alternative and practices dermatologic surgery at the NYU her update: “My husband Jason and I live in NYC Center for Excellence. In Washington, DC, Brian medical center. A few months later, on February on the Upper West Side. We had a baby girl, Jor- Wildstein is a real estate attorney at Arnold and 16, 2005, Brad Hirst and wife Fran welcomed dyn, on January 12, 2006. She joins big brother Porter LLP.When not working long hours at the son Philip Joseph John Hirst. Brad is senior pro- Preston, who turned 2 on March 5. Having two office, Brian can be found riding Ducati motor- ducer on ESPN2’s morning show, “Cold Pizza.” kids less than two years apart is challenging, cycles along the “twisties” in the Virginia back Fall 2005 was a life-changing time for Nicole rewarding, and entertaining, all at the same time. country. Across the US in Oakland, CA, Shauna Vantuno Wagner. In September she earned her Sleep is a luxury these days. I am still doing con- Handrahan and her life partner Colin Tong master’s degree in microbiology from Seton Hall sulting as a project manager, but switched in 2004 started a business called Art of Eden that assists U.,which she managed to achieve on a part-time from BearingPoint to a much smaller firm that is people in building the life of their dreams. basis while she continued to work at Schering- family-friendly and requires almost no travel.”Two In the Philadelphia suburbs Sanjoy Biswas Plough. Then, on October 27, Nicole and hus- weeks later, on January 29, Jon Barnes and his wife works for GlaxoSmithKline as a senior scientist in band Stephen welcomed twin boys Leo Benjamin Stacy welcomed their first child, Emma Olivia, the microbiology department, trying to develop and Calvin Theodore. She writes, “We’re all doing who at two months is a very happy baby. Not sure new antibiotic drugs. Lucky Sanjoy managed to well despite the inevitable sleep deprivation, and if anyone noticed their stealthy behavior last June, take a five-week vacation during the first part of I am already singing Cornell songs to the boys to but according to Jon, “We knew that Stacy was the year to Calcutta, India, to visit his extended give them a head start.” Rosario “Charo” Gonza- pregnant last summer at our 10th Reunion, but family. In November 2005, Brian Rose, his wife lez had a baby girl on Christmas day. Charo since we hadn’t told anyone yet, we had to sneak Caroline, and their two children moved from Dal- reports that Victoria Isabel Rodriguez-Gonzalez around the campus store as we bought some las to Highland Park, IL. Brian is a portfolio man- is the spitting image of big sister Sofia, who is 2. Cornell gear for our upcoming baby!” ager at Magnetar Capital LLC. In addition to his I am pleased to announce a new addition to PatriceWinter Rousell sent in the lone day job duties, Brian studies the Torah with the dis- my own family. Nathaniel Dennis Wasylik arrived piece of wedding news. She writes, “The past tinguished rabbis of the Chicago Torah Networks. on December 28, 2005. Nate joins big brother year-and-a-half has been a whirlwind! I spent And last, but certainly not least, is Caroline Alex, who will be 3 by the time you read this. In Oct. 2004 in Tanzania teaching English in a Kim Oh.Caroline reports, “My husband Chong

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First, I am lucky enough to still have in my possession a 1992 Cornell Facebook. And, somewhat gingerly, I took a look at the picture I sub- Freedom of Choice mitted. Eesh. (Ben Farber and Christina Sun,if MICHELLE CRAMES ’96 you’re out there, I hope you remember the Face- book story and you’ve let a slight chuckle erupt thinking about it.) Anyway, there I am, in all my fresh-scrubbed, adolescent, archetypal Eighties fyou—or your children— hair, black-and-white glory. Interests: photogra- grew up in the 1980s or phy and volleyball. Still true. However, my two 1990s, you probably remem- lovely SLR cameras are sitting in my linen closet i gathering dust while my trusty digital camera ber the interactive “Choose Your does most of the heavy lifting these days. And I Own Adventure” books for young don’t think I’ve been in a darkroom since I shot readers published from 1979 to for the yearbook sophomore year and spent 1998. The stories were written in some rainy Saturdays among the bottles of fixer the second person and allowed and developer in the Straight. As for volleyball, the reader to decide how the my kneepads and quick set have been on temporary hiatus as I took up soccer for the last four action should progress. Michelle years (do you know how TALL these undergrads Crames remembered, and she’s are in California?). Moving along . . . Area of betting that the idea is due for a study: Pre-med. Ah, yes. That was before I real- high-tech comeback. ized that my true calling was sitting behind a Crames’s production com- monitor and looking at data. No, really, it is quite pany, Lean Forward Media, will be excellent. And I get to wear flip-flops to work. Next, I am also fortunate enough to be in releasing the first of the “Choose possession of a Class of 1996 Cornellian.Again, Your Own Adventure” series on my picture is not worth a thousand words. What DVD this August. Featuring the can I say ...again, just not having a good hair voices of actors Frankie Muniz day. The yearbook is filled with some beautiful and William H. Macy, the interactive business partner Jeff Norton came up shots of foliage ...and pristine snow, which animated movies bring the popular sto- with the idea for the DVDs. After acquir- makes me sigh with longing but rejoice at the fact that Reunion is in June, not December. ing the rights to “Choose Your Own ries to life. Each DVD pauses at crucial I also remember that the Cornell Daily Sun points in the action where the viewer Adventure” from the two original series published a list of “96 things to do before we needs to make a choice that will affect founders, Crames and Norton started graduated.” Unfortunately, I misplaced the list, the story’s outcome. “Kids don’t have Lean Forward Media in 2003. The com- but was fortunate enough to find the Class of any control in their lives,”says Crames. pany, she says, is dedicated to creating 2004’s list posted on the Web (they have 100 “They’re told when to get on the bus, content for children that not only enter- things to do). Some of them were indicators that, indeed, times have changed. For example, Num- when to eat, what after-school things tains but educates and engages. The first ber 57: Get a mantra. Wow. These young whip- they have to do. Finally, this is a mech- DVD, The Abominable Snowman, takes persnappers are sophisticated. Most of my karmic anism where they can control a story.” place in Nepal and features true-to-life chants in school involved repeating the steps of A longtime lover of children’s enter- settings and a documentary about the the Krebs cycle over and over silently to myself tainment, Crames studied both hotel region’s history and geography. “First we before a test. These next two made me laugh: management and engineering on the get them with really great, fun stories, Number 28: Tell yourself how brilliant you are; and Number 27: Tell yourself how stupid you are. Hill with hopes of a career designing interesting endings, and unexpected These actually happened to me on the same day. theme park attractions. After brief stints twists and turns,” says Crames. “And I remember a particularly bad snowstorm working at Disney and Warner Brothers, then there’s some substantive educa- sophomore year, when my roommate Jean Lam Crames was inspired to start her own tional qualities as well. We teach kids MacInnes and I convinced ourselves that no, we entertainment company. She enrolled in about making the right decisions.” wouldn’t hide out in our room and curse the Harvard Business School, where she and — Matt Berical inclement weather, but dedicate ourselves to fur- thering our education, despite snow and frigid temperatures. It took us about 45 minutes to get to class, the whole time muttering our . . . our and I just moved to Westchester this summer, Greetings, Sixers! In anticipation mantra, I suppose: “We are TROOPERS!” OK, it’s where he joined Rivertown Orthopedics, a  of the 10th anniversary of don- not exactly tell yourself how brilliant you are, but group of orthopedic surgeons, as their spine spe-  ning our caps and gowns (I’m it was some positive self-affirmation. Anyway, I get cialist. I continue to run iMentor, a youth men- writing this in April; full Reunion into class (about 45 minutes late), and it was chock toring program for high school students in low coverage will appear in the Sept/Oct issue) and full of students who had managed to get there on income neighborhoods in NYC. I’ve been at being ordained meritorious of a bachelor’s time. It was then I invoked Number 27. Number iMentor since 2000!” For those interested in degree, and as a slight diversion from writing 23: In the list of movies that are must-sees at Cor- iMentor, check the website at www.imentor.org. about marginal structural models (don’t get me nell Cinema, the Class of ’04 left out (inadver- Our tour of the back of the magazine has started), this column is filled with some pre- tently, I’m sure) 1) Blade Runner, the Director’s Cut concluded. Please exit to the right. Thank you! reunion nostalgia. Thanks to the wonders of the (fantastic) and 2) Say Anything—not so much for ❖ Abra Benson, [email protected]; Alison Internet and my penchant for retaining every ’80s nostalgia as for the mention of our dear alma Torrillo French, [email protected]. Class web- scrap of paper I’ve ever owned, this was a some- mater during an early soliloquy! Quite excellent site, http://classof95.cornell.edu. what uncomplicated task. to have a whole movie theater cheering. (You can

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check out the rest of the list at http://classof04. son Donald Thomas in October 2005. Don keeps and marketing associate with Sanafi-Arentis, alumni.cornell.edu/100%20Things.html.) busy as the owner of a retirement income plan- working to market products to the medical and The list did make me nostalgic for the things ning firm in Reston, VA. Don would love to hear insurance community with as little spin as pos- that are special and unique to Ithaca. Watching a from Adam Hills, so Adam, drop Don a line! sible. He has been loving living in California and sunset at Sunset Park. Traying down Libe Slope (or Northeast: Class president Robert Klein enjoying outdoor life. He even scaled Mt. Shasta sending a mattress down Williams Street). Sitting ([email protected]) and wife and did not lose his enthusiasm for Cornell as he in the library when you begin to realize that grades Anissa (Karp) ’98 celebrated the birth of their sang our Alma Mater to a Financial Times colum- aren’t the most important thing . . . then you go first child, Jake Phillip, on December 2, 2005. nist on vacation. He misses hanging out and out for a walk. OK, maybe that’s not unique to Robert is enjoying time with Jake and being back catching up with all his old Cornell friends. He us, but at least we could walk to get an ice cream in New York City. Robert and I agree that the says he remembers “those lazy, humid summer cone from Cornell’s very own cows. Pretty nifty. hectic pace at Cornell definitely prepares you for afternoons when campus was full of life, and time Recently, my roommate’s younger cousin, the real life juggle of work, school, and family! seemed slower ...or maybe it was just Philosophy who is applying to colleges in the fall, came out Also in the Big Apple is Marshall Kim, PhD ’97 class.” He would love to hear from all his friends, West to check out Berkeley and Stanford. Talking ([email protected]). Mar- and especially Art McGruder at the Statler Hotel. to her after her campus tour, I don’t know if she shall informed us that he is completing a fellow- Martin and Ami Walter Stallone were mar- felt as excited as I felt on her behalf. I remember ship in glaucoma at the Weill Cornell Medical ried in 2000. They had their first son, Martin, in going through that process, and I remember Center and will soon be starting a private prac- 2003 and their second son, Thomas, in October being wowed by all that was in front of me when tice in ophthalmology in Honolulu, HI. Best of 2005. Marty is a doctor/captain in the Air I drove up to Ithaca to see the campus for the luck on your move cross country, Marshall! National Guard, and Ami is a mom/homemaker; first time. The four years we spent on the Hill Based out of Fort Drum, NY, but currently she was a teacher until July 2003. They are stay- were a gift—a time and place to think and learn serving in Afghanistan with Operation Enduring ing busy taking care of their two sons. Anna Berg and grow, and carve out our niches in the world. Freedom is Captain Jason Matyas (jason.matyas@ Faatiliga is the general manager of a capital I’m looking forward to Reunion in order to gmail.com). Jason is an air mobility liaison officer equipment reseller of surface-mount assembly remember some of those triumphs, along with with the 10th Mountain Division. He spends his equipment and semiconductor equipment. She some of the humbling bumps in the road. And of time in upstate New York working on his house spends time with her husband and two daugh- course, to eat Chariot pizza and Ruloff’s nachos. and picking up hunting. Jason fondly remembers ters hiking, skiing, and generally being outdoors Thank you for letting me share some of my all those hockey games at Lynah and spending in North Carolina. Her fondest memories of stories with you. A full Reunion Report appears time in Barton Hall with ROTC. Thank you, Cornell are cramming for exams, late nights on next time! ❖ Sheryl Magzamen, SLM1@cornell. Jason, for your service to our country. campus with friends, two-liter Diet Cokes, and edu; Courtney Rubin,[email protected]. For Samara Friedman (samarafriedman@hot pizzas. Kris Gillis, JD ’79, please send Anna an updated class events, news, and resources, visit mail.com) recently published a book entitled, The e-mail—she would love to hear from you. http://classof96.almni.cornell.edu. Anatomy of Motherhood.Samara said she was in- Congratulations to Wendy Fiel,who com- spired by the birth of her son to compile this book pleted a clerkship in the Eastern District of New It is the regional edition of your of black-and-white photography depicting the York and is now a litigation associate at Cad-  class column! Pacific Northwest: hopes and dreams of mother for child. You can walader Wickersham & Taft LLP in NYC. Blakely Lord ([email protected]) find the book on Amazon.com. Congrats, Samara! Christopher Cox lives in NYC and is an analyst checks in from Seattle, WA. Blakely Finally, future Cornellian Sofia Isabel Perez at Highbridge Capital Management. Philip is currently a claims manager for Alaska Airlines entered the world on March 2, 2006. Dad Rafael “Jamie” Jones is still working on his family’s farm. and is preparing to take the Washington State Bar and mom Nicole Cuda Perez are head over heels The Jones Family Farm grows strawberries, blue- exam. In her free time she has been taking ski for Sofia. Welcome to Sofia, as well as Donald and berries, pumpkins, grapes, and Christmas trees. lessons and getting to know Seattle. She wel- Jake, our other Cornell babies from this column. He thanks Cornell, as he has opened a winery on comes any friends to let her know the next time Our news is running low. Please send Erica or his farm. In only his second year the wines have they are in the area! me updates on your lives. Loves, births, promo- been very well received, with eight different offer- Southeast: Viktoria Sveinsdottir (viksv@ tions, moves—whatever it is, we want to know. ings. He and wife Christiana have son Jackson juno.com) sends news from Orlando, FL, of her There is a lot more going on with our classmates Philip, the seventh generation at his family’s farm. marriage to Jeremy Seymour in July 2004. Vik- than listed here. Don’t be afraid to toot your own Cristzayda Matos is a lawyer and enjoys toria and Jeremy hosted the wedding in beauti- horn! ❖Sarah Deardorff Carter, [email protected]; going diving (especially in Costa Rica) when she ful Iceland. She currently works in acquisitions Erica Broennle Nelson, [email protected]. gets the chance. She traveled around Australia and development for Starwood, focusing on last year with classmate Jen Woodard. She misses mixed-use resorts. She and Jeremy also started Hello. As I sit here (Gregg) star- cheering on the Cornell men’s ice hockey team at www.orlandobootcamp.com, a fitness business.  ing out at the beautiful weather Lynah Rink with friends. Liz Hamilton married She invites any classmates visiting Orlando to  in NYC (middle of April), I’m Joseph Short on October 1, 2005 in her home- stop by for the workout of your life! counting down the days until I’m town of Simsbury, CT. Cornell classmates (and Also in Florida is Jeanette Arango Dorfman done with graduate school. Unfortunately, there’s roommates) Ruth Koepke and Emily White ([email protected]). Jeanette and husband no time to play outside; instead, I’m bogged Johansson were bridesmaids. Richard enjoy working on their house in Miami down with papers and projects. I can’t believe my More news from Joseph Rossettie (thanks and expanding the family business. She also two years at Columbia Business School is almost for all the updates!), who graduated from the U. recently finished a master’s degree in education over. What better way, however, to take a break of San Diego Law School in May 2005 and is and works as a preschool teacher. She would love from my studying than to write the Class of ’98 now a lawyer. He got married at Sage Chapel on to hear from Yesim Yetis ’95.Not too far from column. So enough about me (update on Erica: December 3, 2005. He misses the lacrosse team Miami is Ivan Irizarry.Residing in San Juan, she is still living in London, where beautiful and ATO at Cornell and wants to hear from Fred PR, with his wife of a year, Lisgelia Santana, Ivan weather is a relative concept). Here’s some inter- Peightal. Erika Johnston reports that she got is an internist in various hospitals on the island. esting information about our classmates. married to Paul MacAnanny (from Ithaca, though While he would much rather be sailing in Puerto Audrey Roy is a Foreign Service officer serv- he did not go to Cornell) on April 30, 2005 on Rico or skiing in Colorado, he and Lisgelia, also ing in Pretoria, South Africa, since October 2005. Long Island at a beautiful vineyard—Raphael in a doctor, plan to move to New York soon for She has been spending her free time going on Peconic, NY. They had a very adventurous honey- specialties in anesthesiology and cardiology. safaris, visiting Cape Town, and sampling Johan- moon, as they climbed Nevis Peak (3,200 feet) in Mid-Atlantic: Donald Megliola (don@h2o nesburg’s nightlife. She misses her nephew who the West Indies! Fondest memories at Cornell investments.com) and wife Amanda welcomed lives in Aliso Viejo, CA. Ragu Gopalan is a sales include “brilliant classmates, good friends, sunsets

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sitting on top of Libe Slope, and sitting on the graduate Erin Ouellette last July on Cape Cod. Irecently had a chance to try out ADW Bench” (where she got engaged). The pair met while at school in Ithaca. Japanese for “Jeopardy!” The audition was Angela Song—Shannon Marchegiani is was the language of love for TarynWilliams and  a lot of fun, but unfortunately I looking for you! Shannon is a pediatric resident Ryan Stubblefield, who met while taking Japanese wasn’t picked to be one of the at the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, VA. classes and got married last April in San Francisco. lucky few who compete to win big on television. She was married to Dr. Michael Melia on a beau- Where else but Japan for the honeymoon? However, that doesn’t mean we can’t have some tiful fall day on October 7, 2005 in Manchester, White coats. Heather Hillman Phillips is an fun this month playing our own version of the NH. Cornellians in attendance included Penel- associate veterinarian at Gansett Animal Hospi- game. So grab your buzzers ...it’s time for Cor- ope Pinneke Pugh, Dr. Jessica Greene Zuniga, tal in Rumford, RI. Heather was married to nell Class of 2000 “Jeopardy!” Please remember Tri-Delt Big Sis Andrea Bell Metzdorf ’96, Brian Phillips in April 2005 at Belhurst Castle in to phrase your answers in the form of a question. Alexander Lauren, and Dr. Christine Trilivas Geneva, NY. Angela N. Martin,DVM ’02, is an Our first category is Higher Education. The Lauren, who was her bridesmaid. associate veterinarian for small animals in Hunt- answer: This classmate is back at Cornell work- That’s all for now. Apologies again to those ington, NY. Rebecca Cannom spent a month in ing on the Knight Program. Question: Who is who have waited patiently for their news to Ecuador working at a hospital in Quito. She grad- Eugene Foo? Eugene is pursuing a joint MBA appear in print (we have a word limit on the col- uated from Georgetown Medical School last May and MEng degree at Cornell and welcomes any umn!). Please keep writing to us. ❖ Gregg Her- and now lives in Los Angeles working as a general questions about the program. Next answer: This man,[email protected]; and Erica Chan, hc31@ surgery resident at USC, planning to pursue sur- Yale School of Management student is interning cornell.edu. gical oncology. Erika Ann Strohmayer is an inter- at JPMorgan Chase Private Bank this summer. nal medicine resident at Mount Sinai Hospital in Question: Who is Minna Kwon? Minna is look- Remember those “what to bring” New York. After hours, and for a resident there are ing forward to catching up with other Cornellians  college checklists? Seven years not very many, this young doctor is a karaoke star. while back in New York City. How are you doing? ago at this time, checking items Financial calculators. Alice Lu graduated Ready for another? Okay, the answer is: This bio- off that list was a top priority— from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Manage- chemist’s research focuses on developing novel like shower shoes, extra-long twin sheets, bulk ment in 2004 and works as an associate product treatment options for food allergies through work quantities of ramen noodles and Snapple, and manager at Ortho Biotech, a Johnson & Johnson with an animal model. Question: Who is Michael those ubiquitous stackable crates. Our “what to company, where she’s responsible for marketing Kulis? Michael received his PhD in biochemistry bring” lists these days are a far cry from posters initiatives for Procrit, a “blockbuster” anemia from Georgia Inst. of Technology in January and and mini-refrigerators. Yes, folks, today we’re drug. Mandi White Ajmani completed her MBA currently has a postdoc position at Duke U. probably a lot more likely to be buying shower from Suffolk U. and is now working on a clinical Now let’s move to the Entrepreneurs cate- gifts than shower caddies . . . PhD program at Suffolk. Husband Sameer ’98 gory. Answer: This owner of Big Sky Hazard Baby blankets. Susie Crego Bernholdt and just received his PhD in computer science from Management calls Bozeman, MT, home. Who is her husband Chris welcomed adorable son MIT. Soon, when someone says “Dr. Ajmani,”two Pam Pedersen Shrauger? In addition to running Adam Van Ranst into the world on April 5, 2005. heads will turn for this power couple. After spend- her consulting business, Pam also married in The family is at home in Bolingbrook, IL. Third- ing five years at MTV Networks and picking up a June. Our next answer is: This NYU Stern year medical student at the U. of Minnesota, Jes- master’s degree from Columbia, Camille Garriga School of Business student runs ReIgnition sica Leighty Guiroy is also mom to 15-month- has headed to Philadelphia to attend business Recordings. Question: Who is Ross Siegel? Ross old daughter Belen. school at Wharton. Enjoying all the wintry charm also reports that he attended Wilson Barmeyer’s Fine china. Christine Ng was married to hus- of Hanover, NH, Scott Seiffert is an MBA candi- summer 2005 wedding. He went with Adam band Janis Vitols last August on Gibson Island in date at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Lindenbaum, Nick Powers, and Gabe Hand- Maryland (the same island as the summer house Passports. Bryce Hall lives in Venice, CA, ford, and says they all had a great time on the in the movie Wedding Crashers). Lindsay Camp- and has recently written and produced shows for beach in Georgia. Ready for another answer? bell Perrell and Connie Liu were part of the the Travel Channel, the Learning Channel, Dis- Here you go: Greg Friedlander founded this bridal party. The outdoor ceremony on the covery HD Theater, and the History Channel. Durham, NC-based company three years ago. Chesapeake Bay featured an international crowd, He most recently produced a show for the Travel Question: What is All American Speakers? Greg’s with guests flying in from Latvia and Australia. Channel called “Ghana: The Presidential Tour” company is a celebrity talent booking agency After a long honeymoon Scuba diving and sun with Forrest Sawyer and president of Ghana J. A. that represents companies seeking to hire moti- bathing in Bonaire and Aruba, the couple Kufuor. Marc Casalaina is back in San Francisco vational speakers, celebrities, and athletes for returned home to Manhattan. Christine works after completing a six-month stint directing a personal appearances, speaking engagements, for Goldman Sachs Int’l Securities Lending team of programmers at Oracle’s offices in Ban- and endorsements. Recent placements for clients Group and just finished her MBA at NYU. Con- galore, India. Kimberly Fitch is a PhD candidate include Tom Brokaw, Jay Leno, Harry Belafonte, nie is in her last years of residency in obstetrics in political economy at Penn, and was awarded and Magic Johnson. Greg also shared that Keren in the Bronx and has been delivering babies and a Fulbright grant to do research in Germany. Zuniga ’99 and Carolyn Costello are both liv- vacationing the world. This year she drove all Lesson plans. Alexa Rezelman Sabanegh is an ing in the Triangle area. Keren is a professor at over Italy and recently returned from Costa Rica. educational program coordinator at the Cornell UNC, and Carolyn is an anchor/reporter for the Liz Dennis was married in September to Center for Materials Research. Her extracurricu- NBC affiliate in Raleigh. George Allen on Nantucket. On hand to cele- lar activities include the Frozen Assets Hockey Next up is World Travel. The first answer is: brate were classmates Margit Louis Foley, Debra Team, book club, gardening, and cooking. It’s a This Cornell couple has recently visited India and Haym, Kristen Albano, Julie Wojslawowicz, long way from Buffalo, NY, where he grew up, but is planning a summer trip to Kuwait. Question: TimCahalane, and Joanna Weber,MBA ’04. Liz Justin Zakia now calls Pensacola, FL, home. He’s Who are Matt and Lynn D’Silva Cinelli.Lynn and George live in New York City, where Liz just a naval aviator and flight school instructor. Vic- sent word that the family is moving to Cincin- started her own line of ladies sleepwear, Elizabeth toriaCohenour Timpe lives in San Francisco and nati, OH. She is a senior analyst in supply chain Cotton. Last October, Heather Mahar Paulson was works as a program advisor for JFKU for master’s for Merck, and Matt is a brand manager for Clair- married at Mohonk Mountain House. Cornellians counseling psychology students. She’s also a part- ol. Next answer: Her travels have brought this Six joining in the celebration included Christine time life coach. In response to what she’d rather Sigma Black Belt employee to Ireland, Scotland, Ellis,who served as maid of honor, Andy Hey- be doing now, Victoria says: “Nothing, [I’m] lov- London, China, Tibet, and Hong Kong. Ques- man ’97, Shawn McDonald, Andrew Sorkin, and ing what I do right now!” We should all be so tion: Who is Catherine Beirne? Catherine is also Heather Boyd.Heather is an antitrust associate lucky! ❖ Jennifer Sheldon,jennifer.sheldon@ studying for her MBA part-time at Kellogg. at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz in Manhat- gmail.com; Melanie Arzt, snoopymel@gmail. Are you ready for Double Jeopardy? We’ll tan. KevinChipalowsky married Ithaca College com; or Jess Smith, [email protected]. start with the always popular Literature category.

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First answer: This is Tyisha Noise’s first novel. where he graduated last year. The couple moved Alaska last summer for a fishing and hiking trip. Question: What is Just Before Dawn? Tyisha is to Utah this past spring, and Chris is doing his Talia Ben-Jacob, MS ’03, finished her third year currently located in Los Angeles and describes radiation oncology residency. of medical school at the U. of Vermont College her book as a coming of age tale that brings Chris was also happy to report that Karen of Medicine and is really enjoying her clerkship together the experiences of women in their 20s Chastain married Ben Hughes, a native Aus- year. In March 2005, she was elected the New struggling to find happiness. tralian. The couple left their jobs at Merck and England representative to the American College Let’s try Winter Sporting Locales next. Our traveled for two months across the US. They of Physicians (ACP) Council of Student Mem- first answer: This popular ski resort is home to then spent four months in South America, fol- bers. One of the perks to the position is that she Heather Foulks. Question: Where is Jackson Hole, lowed by a couple of months in Europe and gets to work with one of her good friends from WY? Heather works at the Four Seasons Jackson Africa. They will end their year-long honey- Cornell, Kerry Donegan ’02,who is the current Hole. She says, “I spent a rather snowy winter, moon in Australia, where they will be making chair of the council. but am looking forward to the summer and fly- their new home. Arthur Okere checked in from Do you have any news for your classmates? fishing.”Heather invites anyone who is interested Boston, MA, where he is just starting his fourth Let us know so we can write about it! E-mail us in visiting Yellowstone or Grand Teton National year of medical school at Boston U. School of at [email protected]. Have a great sum- Park to look her up at [email protected]. Next Medicine. He is set to graduate in May 2007 and mer! ❖ Lauren Wallach,[email protected]; answer: This Harvard Business School grad works plans on applying to internal medicine residency and Trina Lee, [email protected]. in Peterborough, NH, at Eastern Mountain Sports. programs in the Northeast, eventually to start a Question: Who is Dena Zigun? Dena is the mar- career in cardiology in the future. Arthur and his Baseball season has begun. We’ll keting manager and is currently responsible for longtime girlfriend, Anna Berent ’02,just see if by the time this is published launching a new customer loyalty program. She bought a car together. Anna recently graduated  the Mets have sustained their spent last summer doing some epic travel, includ- from Northeastern U. School of Law, and started improbable standing. I graduate ing kayaking up the Sonnenberg Fjord in Norway working as a prosecutor at the Middlesex DA’s from Columbia with my master’s in industrial- and Scuba diving in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. office in Massachusetts. organizational psychology in two weeks and then One category left: Careers. First answer: She In Rochester, NY, Carrie Andrews is a labor it’s time for some R & R (aka lots of baseball). was recently promoted to director of marketing relations specialist for New York State United While it is exciting to graduate, it doesn’t come and public relations for Corning Community Teachers. She has also been working as the Mon- close to that feeling from four years ago ...and College. Answer: Who is Debbie Stayer Kelly? Debbie is working on the school’s first major gifts campaign and is planning to start a master’s in management this fall. Next answer: Areck Erica Chan is still living in London, where Ucuzian is doing this at Loyola U. Medical Cen- ‘ ter. Question: What is a general surgery residency? beautiful weather is a relative concept. Next answer: Since graduating from U. of Buffalo Law School, she has worked as a criminal defense GREGG HERMAN ’98 ’ attorney with the law firm of Harrington & Mahoney. Answer: Who is Ellen Poch? Okay, we’re down to the last answer on the board: Jodi roe County Legislator for the 21st Legislative I expect nothing will. Speaking of reminiscing, Sangster,DVM ’05, is a veterinarian at this mil- District and running a campaign for Monroe now might be a good time to tell you all to mark itary installation. Question: What is Edwards Air County Legislature—with a successful primary you calendars for June 7-10, 2007 for our 5th Force Base? Jodi is with the US Army and says the and general election win. Kathryn Prybylski Reunion in Ithaca. Start requesting those vaca- Mojave Desert is “vastly different from Ithaca.” finally moved away from Ithaca. She’d been tion days now! Ready for Final Jeopardy? Our category is working as a civil engineer for the Town of Natalie Whelan wrote to tell me about Max the Internet. The answer is: This recently Ithaca since graduation and started in late Jan- King,who recently finished third in the USA redesigned site is the best way to stay updated on uary with a small environmental engineering Cross Country Championships to earn a spot on Class of 2000 activities and news. Question: What firm south of Boston. She’s excited to have the team for the World Cross Country Champi- is http://classof00.alumni.cornell.edu/? Our web- moved to Boston and was happy to return to onships! “He is an old teammate of mine from master Phil King has been working hard to Ithaca for Reunion. Her last day at work in Cornell track and cross country. While at Cor- redesign our class’s home on the Web. Check it Ithaca was in early December, followed by an nell, Max served as captain of the team, was out! ❖ Christine Jensen Weld, [email protected]; extended drive south to Mississippi to her par- twice a heptagonal (Ivy League) champion, and and Andrea Chan, [email protected]. ents’ house while visiting friends and family earned All-America honors in the steeplechase,” along the way. wrote Natalie. (On a related note, this past week- Happy summer, Class of 2001! It Congratulations to Eric Gillman,who grad- end, Cornell men’s and women’s track continued was really good to see everyone at uated from the School of International and Pub- their success as both teams won the Heptagonal  Reunion. Thanks to all who came. lic Affairs at Columbia U. with a Master of Inter- Championships, the ninth straight track title for Stay tuned to these pages for a full national Affairs in February 2005. Thereafter, he the women and the sixth winning title out of the Reunion Report in the Sept/Oct issue. moved to Washington, DC, to start a JD pro- past seven championships for the men!) For any- Congratulations to Chris Anker,who mar- gram in August 2005 at the Washington College one wishing to extend congratulations, Max is at ried Alison Louie on April 23, 2005 at Sage of Law at American U. His next goal is to work [email protected]. Chapel. Cornellians in the wedding party as an international trade lawyer. Linda Lee lets Leah Dozier is living in Zambia, volunteer- included Koji Park, Jen Chu, and Charlotte us know that she’s working as a senior mer- ing her time for Grassroots to educate children Manning.Other Cornellians celebrating in the chandiser for menswear brands at Liz Claiborne about AIDS/HIV through the game of soccer. event included Tim Eng, Matt Sarli, Peter Hon, in New York City. However, Linda would rather Daniel Jenhsia Chiao is a software engineer for Steve Rocco, Dan Hecht, KarenChastain, be back at Cornell right now. Riya.com in Redwood City, CA. He is living in Kristina Carlson, Dina Agrapides, Chris Libby, From out West, Brooke Hafets checks in nearby Chino Hills. Abeezer Tapia works for Carolyn Louie ’80, and JerryConcannon ’73, from Park City, UT, where she’s an outreach AMD (Advanced Micro Devices Processors) and ME ’75. For their honeymoon, the happy couple manager for the National Ability Center, a non- is partly responsible for setting up connections spent a month touring national parks in Cali- profit organization that provides outdoor recre- between Cornell and the company. Recently, fornia, Arizona, Utah, and Wyoming. Chris is ation for people with disabilities. Recently, she Abeezer was on the Hill with AMD’s CEO for doing his intern year at Upstate Medical U., has been learning how to fly-fish. 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Cornell Chronicle posted a picture of a ribbon- in the wedding party. Kate will graduate from but in New York City. Adrienne is training for cutting and a short caption about how the com- Washington U. in St. Louis with a degree in social her first triathlon and ran the NYC Marathon pany donated servers to the school. work this spring before moving west to Portland, last fall! “I’ve been doing lots of traveling to Plenty of you are back in school. Elizabeth OR; Julia is finding success as a freelance writer places like the Caribbean and San Diego.” I bet Macaulay Lewis writes, “I’m currently in my sec- for New York Magazine;Angie is planning to Adrienne is getting much more sun than we are ond year of my PhD at Oxford U. in classical make the move from Wisconsin to Virginia here in Seattle. Rachel Gordon misses the Cor- archaeology. I’ve been doing lots of yoga and Beach; and Jen will begin a PhD program in nell days of eating Mama T’s and CTB 24/7, but learning how to ski. I got married in May 2005 clinical psychology at Fordham in Fall 2006. Kim she continues to stay in touch with her fellow to the English artist George Lewis. Sarah Holton and Joe met at their church in New York City SDT sisters Rebecca Harris,BFA ’04, Emily and Lizzie Andrews were bridesmaids.” Christo- and live on the Upper West Side. Congratula- Orfinger, Stephanie Moore, and Kristen Jones pher Yopp is a graduate student at UC Berkeley, tions to all of our newlyweds! Send news to: ❖ through their New York City book club. as well as a tutor. He also enjoys snowboarding, Carolyn Deckinger, [email protected]. Well, that’s all from rainy Seattle. Now go ultimate Frisbee, and hiking. “I am loving Berke- join those groups so we can start planning ley and San Fran,” Christopher writes, though Reunion is only two years away! reunion and see each other again soon! In the he’d admittedly prefer to be traveling through  So to get the Class of 2003 into the meantime, don’t forget to e-mail your updates the wilds of Central Africa. Mostly, Christopher reunion spirit and make sure that to me or Sam—anything from the mundane to remembers the beauty and splendor of the many we are all staying in touch, your the extraordinary is more than welcome. ❖ gorges and Buttermilk Falls. He’d like to hear fellow class officers and I have put together a few Sudha Nandagopal, [email protected]; and Sam from Grischa Metlay and Wyatt Hartman ’01. useful tools that I hope you will all sign up for! Buckingham,[email protected]. Some of you are on your way out of school. First of all, we now have groups on facebook. Julie Katz writes, “This is my first contribution com and friendster.com called Cornell Class of The Class of 2004 website (http:// to the alumni pages, so here goes! I’m graduat- 2003. Definitely join at least one; ideally, join  classof04.alumni.cornell.edu) has ing from the U. of Pennsylvania School of Med- both! Another way that we’re looking to keep all a new feature—blog-like entries icine this spring.” Julie starts a pathology resi- of us connected is with our new Yahoo! group. from classmates in unique situ- dency at Johns Hopkins on July 1. “Med school Just go to groups.yahoo.com/group/CUclass_2003 ations! Second Lt. Brian Donnelly makes his has kept me busy!” Anna Berent writes, “Right and click on “Join This Group!” If you have any entries from Fallujah, Iraq. He is a Marine Corps Public Affairs Officer currently deployed at Camp Fallujah and is finding the time to give us a peek into his life. Funa Maduka writes her We now have groups on facebook.com entries from St. Lucia, where she is working with ‘ the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative to and friendster.com. Join at least one; ramp up their efforts throughout the Caribbean. I will not be reprinting their posts in the Class Notes, so you must visit the site to read their ideally, join both! amazing entries. If you are also in an interesting situation and would like to share bits and pieces SUDHA NANDAGOPAL ’03’ with our class via the website, please contact Esther Tang, our class co-president, at Statler now I’m living in Boston, MA, recently gradu- problems with finding the groups or joining, feel [email protected]. ated from Northeastern U. School of Law, and free to e-mail me. And, as always, if you have Adam Wadler, ME ’05, writes that he is passed the Massachusetts and New York Bars. I suggestions for your class officers on ways that working in investment banking at Merrill Lynch just started working as a prosecutor at the Mid- we can keep everyone connected—or if you’d in New York City. Christopher Dial is also liv- dlesex D.A.’s office in Massachusetts. I have been like to get involved with reunion planning—just ing and working in the City as a NYC Board of dating my boyfriend, Arthur Okere ’01, since my drop one of us an e-mail. Education teacher. Christine Hum is working as junior year at Cornell, and we just bought a car Now to the updates that you’re all eagerly a financial analyst at Guy Carpenter & Co. She together! Arthur is just starting his fourth year of reading this column for! Jedd Narsavage writes, is an active board member of the Cornell Asian medical school at Boston U. School of Medi- “I am still happily living in Bethesda, MD, with Alumni Association (CAAA) and its co-chair of cine.” Bethanie Ricketts graduated from Case my fiancée Sadie Thorpe ’04.I design and scholarship fundraising. If you’re interested in Western Reserve U. School of Law in May 2005 develop large commercial properties as a land- more information about CAAA, contact Chris- and now works for Reminger & Reminger in scape architect for Bohler Engineering in Ster- tine at [email protected]. Cleveland, focusing on probate/trust litigation, ling, VA, while Sadie is slowly going insane as a Michelle Findley is in Las Vegas, studying for medical malpractice, and professional liability. first-year law student in Washington, DC.” Not a graduate degree in occupational therapy at Touro It’s certainly wedding season! Jen Gruner, too far away, Meredith Nagin is a research ana- U. Allison Hope is also on the West Coast, work- MS ’04, married Adam Schoenfeld on April 2 in lyst in Arlington, VA. Soon to be joining the ing as a hospitality real estate financial analyst, con- Woodbury, NY. Cornellians in the wedding party great D.C.-area alumni is Amanda Schlager, sultant, and appraiser. Recently, she has been trav- were Jason Freedman, Matthew Grant, David who is finishing up her last year of law school eling and watching a lot of San Jose Sparks games. Oliwenstein ’05, Kristal Maner, PhD candidate and will be moving to D.C. She also is very involved in several San Francisco for ’07, and Meryl Lubran, MS ’04.Adam will Meanwhile, Kamilla Chaudhery, JD ’03,is philanthropic organizations. Allison sends her begin his residency in internal medicine at Yale already an associate at Strook’s Litigation Prac- love to her sorority sisters in Delta Gamma. this summer. Shari Sheflin married her medical tice Group in New York City. She was recently the That’s all for this issue, but there is some excit- school sweetheart, Fillip Findling, on February recipient of an award for her “distinguished pro ing news in the works for the next issue, so send 25, 2006 in Bethpage, NY. Shara Freeman, Sarah bono efforts on behalf of domestic violence vic- in your updates and join the Class of 2004 groups Keim, Karen Moravec Trout, and Brendan tims.” Matt Kemm returned from his own stint of on Friendster and Facebook. If you have a time- Feheley were there to wish them well! public service—as a Peace Corps volunteer. He sensitive announcement that will occur before the Kim Mohr wed Joseph Rotondo on April 22, served as an agriculture extension volunteer in next printing of the Class Notes, you may post it 2006 in Rochester, NY. Theta sisters in attendance Matagalpa, Nicaragua. Welcome back, Matt! to our Friendster or Facebook groups. And don’t were Kate Bennett, Jennifer Kohler, Mehreen John Chuang writes that he has moved to forget to visit http://classof04.alumni.cornell. Yousaf ’01, Julia Ramey, and Carolyn Deckinger. Chicago and is now a consulting analyst at Ac- edu/—we’re constantly updating and adding new Nicole Rubinstein ’01 and Angela Hemauer were centure. Adrienne Dutt is also with Accenture, features. ❖ Vanessa Matsis,[email protected].

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Jeff Massa’s business card is plain. that I’m currently in Beijing through the U. of  With black and grey printing Minnesota’s law school summer program. Besides Moving? adorning an off-white stock, it earning six credits in comparative property use, could be considered boring. Jeff’s business entities, and Chinese economic policy, If so, please tell us 6 weeks before job, however, is anything but. While most of us I’ve also been able to see the sights. So far I’ve vis- changing your address. Include your are dreaming of making our first few million, ited the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, and the magazine address label, print your new Jeff is moving it. Daily. “At any given time I’m 2008 Olympic planning office. For those of you address below, and mail this coupon to: dealing with millions of securities,” he said. “At who are envious (and in law school yourself), first it was really intimidating. I had a ton of next summer’s program is also open to students Public Affairs Records responsibility thrown at me right away, along from other universities, with more details on 130 East Seneca Street, Suite 400 with high expectations. Every detail is extremely Minnesota’s website. ❖ Matthew Janiga,mwj3@ Ithaca, NY 14850-4353 important, so it can create a high-tension envi- cornell.edu; and Michelle Wong, michelle.r. ronment.”As an analyst for Goldman Sachs, Jeff [email protected]. To subscribe, mail this form with is at the office by six, and often isn’t done deal- payment and check: ❏ ing with clients until after the sun sets. Some- Now that exams, Senior Week, new subscription ❏ times it’s working out deals. Other times it’s  and graduation are behind us, renew present subscription entertaining clients on the town. Still, he says he  we are no longer just Cornell- loves it. “I’m always on my toes and there’s ians. We are Cornell alumni. A Subscription rate in the United States: always something going on. Each day flies by subtle distinction perhaps, but an important one. 1 year, $30.00 because it’s so intense and dynamic.” It means we have our degrees! And with those Other countries: 1 year, $45.00 His day starts by getting a feel for the Asian degrees, we are already starting to do great things. Name and European markets, then catching up on the Some of us are taking that next step in life domestic news to get a grasp on how the mar- right in Ithaca. Meredith Howell is sticking Address kets might react. He primarily deals with credit around to complete her master’s in Public Admin- products, and though he could be mistaken for istration at the Cornell Inst. for Public Affairs. Cool Hand Luke now, it wasn’t always like that. When she finishes, she plans to return to Atlanta, City “It’s a really big deal once you can start execut- GA, to pursue a career in city planning and coming trades,” he said. “You have to pass a test, get munity development. Jack Cognetta is staying State Zip a license, learn the ropes, and then once you’re local as well, to pursue a master’s in broadcast at the firm 90 days you can start executing. journalism at Syracuse U.’s Newhouse School. There’s a lot of preparation and anticipation that Leaving Ithaca and Upstate New York right Please include a Cornell Alumni goes into that first time.”And while he credits his after graduation was too sad for some of us, but Magazine address label to insure initial successes to hard work and preparation, not for all of us! Jenny Meil is leaving the chilly prompt service whenever you write us he credits his job satisfaction and enjoyment to Ithaca winters behind and heading straight to about your subscription. his co-workers. “The people I work with are all Miami, where she will be working with the cornellalumnimagazine.com really cool. They’re intelligent, down to earth, Miami Design Preservation League and soaking and fun people to work with. Just being exposed up the sunshine. Jon Bellante is joining the to a great group of people has been really SCJohnson team in Bentonville, AR, where he rewarding—it’s one of the best things about will be working on a sales rotation selling to Wal- being at Goldman.” Jeff is taking his first vaca- Mart. Kate-Lynn Timmermans is working for tion soon, traveling to Germany for the World PricewaterhouseCoopers doing auditing for the Cup with Matt Crumrine ’04. entertainment and media industry. And Blake Judging from her after-hour activity of hit- Sachs left Ithaca for a European vacation! When ting the beach, it would seem that Megan the vacation is over, she has a job lined up as Maraynes is already on vacation. In reality, she’s assistant manager for the Ritz-Carlton Chicago, far from it, instead attending classes at St. a Four Seasons Hotel. George’s School of Medicine in Grenada, West Now that we are officially Cornell alumni, Indies. When not in class (or on the beach), she’s we have a few things to take care of. So please out volunteering at health fairs on the island as take a moment to . . . a member of the American Medical Student Have your e-mail forwarded to your new Association (AMSA). And while she loves sport- account by visiting http://www.cuconnect.cornell. ing tank tops and shorts year-round in the edu/index.cfm. It’s a great way to stay connected to Caribbean, sometimes Megan joneses for Ithaca. your Cornell friends and it looks a lot more pro- place label here “Part of me misses bundling up in my long fessional on your resume than your gmail account. underwear, two pairs of socks, and hiking boots Update your address so you continue to get to go to class,” she writes. this great magazine! Go to: http://www.alumni. Karla Jones has taken a break from study- cornell.edu/update.htm. And check out the alumni ing to check in as well. She’s pursuing a master’s directory at https://directory.alumni.cornell.edu/. in public policy at Georgetown and working Connect with other Cornellians in your area. part-time at the US Dept. of Labor. She’s cur- To get involved, contact your local Cornell Club, rently serving as a research assistant in the inter- Regional Office, or other alumni organization by national labor bureau. When not in class or at visiting www.alumni.cornell.edu and clicking on work,Karla uses her spare time to meet up with the “Organizations” tab. Cornell classmates and attend dance classes. She And, most importantly, don’t forget to send also writes that there’s nothing else she’d rather your news to your class correspondents. We want be doing right now: “I love my grad program, to know what you’re doing so we can include and I love living in D.C.” your update in our next class column. Keep your Jumping from our nation’s capital to China’s, news coming! ❖ Katie Dicicco,kad46@cornell. I’d like to take a self-indulgent moment and report edu; and Nicole DeGrace,[email protected].

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Legacies Richard J. Chuchla ’78 Maresa Gerald J. Citek, DVM ’80 Cooper Elizabeth Colerick Clipp, PhD ’84 Stephen he 3,558 undergradaute students who entered the University in the fall of 2005 included 519 who are Cynthia B. Green ’79 Claudia Cohen known to be the children, grandchildren, or great-grandchildren of alumni. The information for the follow- Rona Spector Cohen ’80 Jason ing lists was compiled from data provided by the descendants of alumni during the admissions process. Michael J. Connor ’75 Jeffrey t Additions and corrections to the lists are welcome. Please send revisions to: Cornell Alumni Magazine, Robert E. Crotty, JD ’72 Katherine 401 East State St., Suite 301, Ithaca, NY 14850; fax, (607) 272-8532; or e-mail, [email protected]. Patrick E. Culligan ’79 Cailan Descendants of Cornellians who enter in fall 2006 will be listed in mid-2007. Corrine Meredith Cummiskey ’72 Ryan According to the information supplied, one student who entered the University in 2005 is a fifth-gener- Gregg M. Damminga ’83 Cara ation Cornellian: Meredith Donnan is the great-great-granddaughter of George S. Donnan ’10, great-grand- James W. De Nicola ’78 Jenna daughter of Bruce S. Donnan ’30, granddaughter of Bruce R. Donnan ’58, and daughter of Robert B. Donnan Jack W. DeWeese ’83 Natanya ’81 and Courtney (Roy) ’81. Kevin W. Deans, MPS ’00 Jeremy 17 students who entered in 2005 are the great-grandchildren and/or great-great-grandchildren of Norwig R. G. Debye ’65 Maria Debye- Cornellians: Kylie Burghardt [Bradley O. Gormel ’31, MS ’33]; Katherine Duch [Donald F. Calkins Sr. ’17]; Saxinger Sarah Fitzpatrick [Philip W. Fitzpatrick ’17]; Steven Fuertes [Louis A. Fuertes 1897, Louis S. Fuertes ’27]; Edward W. Denton ’87 Michelle Miriam Goler [Benjamin Pologe ’15]; Robert Harvey [William T.Todd Jr. ’16]; Heather Hunter [James B. Calkins *Glenna Silverman Deutsch ’78 Lauren ’16 and Gladys (Gilkey) ’19]; Joseph Kasnicki [Morris H. Katz ’17]; Wilmer Masterson [Wilmer D. Masterson Renee F. Laffer ’68 Halsey Diakow 1906]; Valerie Meyer [John S. Longwell ’10]; Nicole Nussbaum [Adlai S. Coble ’15]; Edward Panarese William J. Doody ’67, MBA ’71 Emma [Samuel B. Eckert 1908]; Eric Pittard [Seymour N. Skiff ’10]; Elizabeth Rapoport [Isabelle Kittinger Young David B. Douglas ’75, BArch ’76 Natallie 1896]; Mallory Salinger [Edgar Salinger 1899]; Kaitlyn Thomas [Robert W. Thomas ’19 and Amy (Flint) ’20]; *Jeffrey R. Dulude ’78 Richard Jennifer Williamson [Leland N. Gibbs ’13]. Roy A. Ellerbrock, PhD ’76 Bryan 19 students who entered in 2005 are both grandchildren and great-grandchildren (or great-great-grand- John C. Englander ’80 Katherine children) of Cornellians: Michael Brennan [John J. Brennan, DVM ’52 and Mary (Shear) ’52; Elmer V. Shear Thomas A. Faraone ’79 Daniel ’22]; Claire Bryant [Barbara Everitt Bryant ’47; William L. Everitt ’21 and Dorothy (Wallace) ’23]; Jason Irving M. Faust, PhD ’73 Jessica Burleigh [Willard E. Ossont ’40; William F. Burleigh, DVM ’11]; Caleb Dresser [David McCandless Jr. ’48 and Kenneth S. Felder, MD ’76 Ethan Nancy Philips McCandless ’46; Joseph Bond Philips 1906]; Julian Eckhardt [Albert J. Eckhardt Jr. ’54, MBA Robert I. Feldman ’79 Daniel ’55 and Jane (Rippe) ’55; Walker L. Cisler ’22]; Emily Freund [Eugene Freund ’46, BS ’49; Joseph Freund Lorinda C. Martin ’81 Justin Fishbone ’17]; Joseph Godfrey [J. Edwin Godfrey Jr. ’39; Pasquale P. Filice ’37; Joseph E. Godfrey Sr. ’14 and Hazel Carl W. Forsythe, MBA ’82 Emily (Brown ) ’13]; Stephen Hawley [R. Stephen Hawley ’43 and Ellen (Simpson) ’43; Warren W. Hawley Jr. ’14]; Emily Perlinski Friedman ’68 Jonathan Elizabeth Howes [Raymond T. Howes ’55, M Ed ’58 and Mary (Wheeler) ’56; Raymond F.Howes ’24]; Quentin Johnny T. Fung ’81, ME ’82 Esther Llop [Manuel C. Llop ’30; George C. Miller 1887]; Melanie Meaker [A. Lawrence Meaker ’54 and Gayle (Pratt) Neil W. Garroway ’66 Jordan ’55; Arthur L. Meaker ’27]; Kathryn Panek [Hugh G. Dudley ’58 and Eleni (Starche) ’57; Russell E. Dudley Narain H. Gehani, PhD ’75 Varun ’29 and Margaret (Gilchrist) ’31]; Jeremy Phillips [Arnold B.Tofias ’44, BS ME ’46, and Evelyn Diamond Tofias Lynne Moskowitz Glasser ’74, Marla ’47; Michael S. Diamond ’17]; Jonathan Ray [Oakley S. Ray ’51 and Kathleen (Wickes) ’54; Francis A.Wickes MAT ’75 ’21, LLB ’27, and Marion (Rogers) ’27]; Sean Stainton [John Stainton ’54, MRP ’59 and Marcia Miller Marsh Judith L. Spanier ’75 Molly ’53; Walter H. Stainton ’19, PhD ’27, and Elsie (Phillips), MA ’33]; Sierra Stewart [Jane Randolph De Mott Glauberman ’48; Lowell F. Randolph, PhD ’21, and Fannie (Rane), MA ’23]; Eleanor Vaughan [John C. Vaughan ’29; George M. Golenwsky ’74 Kate Golensky Leonard H. Vaughan 1903]; Whitney Wadman [Phyllis Stapley Tuddenham ’46; Edward R. Stapley ’14, MS Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin ’73 Evan ’30]; Russell Womer [Peter T. Schurman ’52 and Judith (Calhoun) ’52; George M. Schurman ’13; Arthur W. Steven A. Gottlieb ’73 Robert Benson ’10]. Carl E. Greiner Jr. ’65, MBA ’66 Jill 9 students who entered in 2005 are both children and great-grandchildren (or great-great-grandchil- Htun Aung Gyaw, MA ’97 Kyi dren) of Cornellians: Allison Buck [Paul L. Buck ’67, BArch ’68; J. Lossing Buck ’14, MS ’25, PhD ’33]; Daniel Heidi Wurlitzer ’75 Helena Haas Budish [Amy Jacoby Budish ’74; Lester D. Krohn, DVM ’11]; Jonathan Green [Ethel Ziselman ’74; I. Erlich Fred G. Hajjar ’75 Meagan Wolfe, LLB 1908]; Katie Howard [Kathleen Carey Howard ’78; Daniel J. Carey ’18]; Georgia Maloney [Thomas S. Bruce Han ’78, ME ’79 Christina R. Maloney ’74, MPS ’84, and Marianne Ansbro ’74; Paul F. Chantal ’15]; Patrick Maloney [Thomas R. Paul E. Harnick ’73 Daniel Maloney ’74, MPS ’84, and Marianne Ansbro ’74; Paul F. Chantal ’15]; Brian Nolan [Michael C. Nolan ’77; Christine M. Cobaugh ’74 Kacie Harrington Roswell H. Rausch ’13; Charles L. Cornell, ME 1889]; Taisa Priester [Richard D. Priester ’75; Oscar F.Priester Denison Hatch ’71 Erica ’17 and Helen (Bell) ’17; Roswell H. Rausch ’13; Charles L. Cornell, ME 1889]; Sara Rosenthal [Carey M. Julia Bauer Herzog ’81 Zeva Rosenthal ’64; Pauline Scharfmann Rosenthal, MD 1904]. Dorina Simeone Hester ’77 Heather In the legacy listings that follow, deceased alumni are designated by an asterisk (*). A dagger (†) indi- Milton Horn ’72 Abbigayle cates a stepparent. Robert C. Howland ’71 Betsey Hongwei Hsiao, MS ’85 James Michael L. Isaacs, JD ’71 Emily Arthur R. Israel, MD ’78 David ONE CORNELLIAN PARENT Ellen Doyle Benson ’79 Emily Perry M. Jacobs ’74 Jessica 251 new students note one Cornellian parent. Those Ann W. Barnes ’76 Catherine Craig W. Johnson ’76 Alec who also have at least one Cornellian grandparent or Bentsen David E. Johnson ’66 Kathryn great-grandparent are listed elsewhere. Jeffrey F.Berg ’79, ME ’80, MBA ’81 Samantha Charles P.L. Joyce ’72 Charles Peter A. Berkowsky, JD ’67 Jesse Thomas G. Kahn ’64 Victoria Parent Child Scott W. Bernstein ’82 Matthew Ronald N. Kaleya, MD ’80 Sara Ronald J. Acerra ’74 Alex Michael G. Billing, MS ’77 Gregory Arthur C. Kaminsky ’68 Thomas Kathleen Moore-Alpaugh ’70 Terra Alpaugh Anne D. Neirynck, PhD ’88 Sarah Birman Caryn Krause Kaplan ’80 Jessica Christine Knauss Altavilla ’77 Jeannine Eric W. Blomain ’69 Erik Steven J. Karr ’76, BS ’78, David Bahman Atefi ’75 Bahram June Mead, PhD ’95 Katherine Bowers BArch ’79 Sandra Belsky Auerbach ’75 Alissa Paul M. Brager ’76 Daniel Candace Drexler Kaufman ’76 Daniel *Mary E. Cookingham ’73 Jean Bailey Dennis O. Brown ’73 David Kathleen A. Kearns ’85 Annie Patricia Bowen Baity, JD ’78 Philip Randolph F. Brown ’75 Jessica Steven B. Kennedy ’74 Ian Michael J. Baker, PhD ’03 Molly Linda Lechner Buehler ’77 Dennis Andrew Kent ’80 Samantha Jacqueline McDonnell Bangs ’82, Danielle Robert L. Buly, MD ’85 Jocelyn John T. Kilcoyne ’81 Shane MBA ’84 James A. Burke, MD ’84 Megan Joseph A. Kovacs, MD ’79 Joseph David M. Barash ’79, MD ’83 Ashley Clifford W. Callinan ’77, MS ’84 Nora Sandor J. Kovacs Jr. ’69 Tamas Stephen R. Barlow ’76, MBA ’77 Nora Robert G. Carman ’69, MBA ’70 Robert Donald Kovalevich ’72 Alexander Kevin A. Barr ’81 Kirsten Daniel A. Cerretani ’79 Luca Janice E. Kilburn, PhD ’94 Alexander David O. Beattie ’64, ME ’66 Alice Arthur Chuen Hon Cheng ’73 Courtney Kresovich Lawrence S. Ben ’76 Andrew Charles C. Chuang ’76 Steven Michael E. Kubin ’71 Gregory

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THREE CORNELL GENERATIONS Grandparent(s) Parent(s) Child Of the students entering in 2005, 63 are listed as third-generation Cornellians. Peter A. Huyler, DVM ’56 Duncan D. Huyler ’83 Garrett Huyler *Margaret (Rogers) ’54 Erica (Nichols) ’82 Joseph P.Cosentini ’49 Jack L. Jensen ’78 Jamie Jensen Grandparent(s) Parent(s) Child Susan Cosentini ’80, MAT ’84 Martin Ackerman ’40 Samuel K. Ackerman ’68 Jessica Ackerman Marc Joseph, JD ’50 Peter A. Joseph ’74 Nicholas Joseph *Marco A. Baeza ’44, MS ’46 Mario L. Baeza ’71 Ariel Baeza Judith (Goldstone) ’50, BA ’49 Henry E. Bartels ’48 Philip H. Bartels ’71 Christopher Bartels *Elayne May Keane ’41 †Francis R. Czerwinski, MA ’65, John Koltz Nancy (Horton) ’48 PhD ’72 John W. McCormick ’50 Steven V. Beckwith ’73 Thomas Beckwith Irving E. Sisman, MD ’37 Janet Sisman Levy ’74 Andrew Levy Susan M. McCormick, MA ’80, PhD ’82 *Gary P.Malamut ’54 William A. Malamut ’79 Scott Malamut Barton D. Seager ’55 Karlyn Seager Myers ’84 Jessica Bender Martha Koren Moskowitz ’56 Charlotte (Reit) ’55 Robert L. Kennedy, DVM ’55 John C. Mannix Jr. ’80 Sarah Mannix Stanley L. Berger ’43, BA ’42 Michael H. Berger ’72 Laurenn Berger John C. Mannix ’53, JD ’58 Marjorie (Kennedy) ’80, MBA ’82 Maynard C. Bernstein, MBA ’54 Howard O. Bernstein, Shira Bernstein Leonard Rosenstein, JD ’52 Andi Rosenstein Mathis ’78 Melinda Mathis Sylvia Taub Bernstein-Tregub ’54 MBA ’79 Mary (Ley) ’53 Robert W. Bitz ’52 Mark W. Bitz, MS ’85 Karl Bitz *Noel Mermey ’52 Steven J. Mermey ’78, Jared Mermey Ralph R. Brown ’53 Robert R. Brown II ’77 Sarah Brown Sonya (Schieff) ’53 MBA ’79 Arnold I. Burns, JD ’53 Douglas T. Burns, JD ’83 Brendan Burns David J. Nolan ’49, MS ’51 Lance A. Nethery ’79 Meredith Nethery Felice (Bernstein) ’53 Leslie F. Barbara ’85 Elizabeth (Nolan) ’79 Nancy Allen Chamberlain ’46, Samuel C. Chamberlain ’77 Elizabeth Brendan P.O'Hara ’46 Mary T. O'Hara ’80 Martha O’Connell BS HE ’45 Barbara (Wooten) ’78 Chamberlain Robert N. Post ’50 Thomas C. Post ’84 Katharine Post Hugh A. Chapin ’47 A. Lyman Chapin ’73 Elizabeth Chapin Norman N. Potter ’50 Michael F. Potter ’77 Megan Potter Bernard L. Schapiro ’52 Christopher M. Cochran ’79 Christopher Adele (Hoffstein) ’50 Amy (Schapiro) ’81 Cochran *Marcus A. Radice ’25 Anthony M. Radice ’66, JD ’69 Julia Radice Gerard E. Fuess ’57 Carleton R. Corey ’77, MPS ’82 Courtney Corey Robert C. Ready ’53 Mark J. Ready ’77, MBA ’78, Anne Ready Janet (Steinhorst) ’57 Shelley (Fuess) ’81 Sheila (McMullen) ’54 MS ’87, PhD ’90 John P.Cushing ’47, MBA ’49 John P.Cushing Jr. ’72 Whitney Cushing *Alfred H. Richley ’44 Timothy P.Richley ’77 Andrew Richley Marion (Scott) ’45 Constantine Rockas ’48 George C. Rockas, JD/MBA ’84 Mary Rockas Robert J. Czub ’58 James P.Czub ’82 Rachel Czub *Henry E. Grossman, DVM ’38 Stephen W. Rubin ’73 Camner Rubin Richard W. Conway ’53, PhD ’58 Kathryn Conway Dimiduk ’79 Jeffrey Dimiduk Robert W. Staley ’57, MBA ’59 Mark T. Salzberger ’85 Kyle Salzberger Edythe (Davies) ’54, M Ed ’56, PhD ’79 Elizabeth (Chapman) ’60 Ann K. (Staley) ’85 *Charles A. Ashley ’45, MD ’47 Joseph A. Doro ’77, MAT ’79 Matthew Doro *Malvin P.Sevin ’39 Irik P.Sevin ’69 Eli Sevin Deborah (Ashley) ’80 Ronald W. Space ’53 Ronald W. Space II ’81 Callan Space *James H. Downs ’50 David A. Downs ’71 Ashley Downs Ivy (Rumsey) ’82 Saul Janowitz ’44 †Peter Entin ’68 Madeleine Ehrlich Daniel C. Stein ’58 Judith S. Epstein ’69, MAT ’75 Luke Stein Milton Eisenberg ’48, JD ’50 Jonathan N. Eisenberg ’74 Lauren Eisenberg Larry W. Stokoe ’57 Pamela Stokoe Sweet ’82 Amanda Sweet Lori Heyman Gordon ’50 *Donald S. Taylor ’53, BEE ’56 James A. Taylor ’83 Alexandra Taylor Edwin D. Fessenden ’54 John S. Fessenden ’85 Marissa Fessenden Martin Macklin ’56, MS ’58 Shelley (Macklin) ’83 Mariann (Roese) ’84 Ruth Chimacoff Macklin ’59 F. Roger Forrence ’41 Virgil E. Forrence ’75 McIntosh Forrence William I. Tucker Jr. ’54 Robert N. Tucker ’84 Alyssia Tucker Hannah L. Hanford ’79 Robert R. Gallo, PhD ’74 Clark E. Tucker III, MILR ’78 Elizabeth Tucker Theodore Freilich ’57 Daniel A. Freilich ’84 Ariel Freilich Joan (Klink) ’74 Mary (Gallo) ’78 *Thomas P.Gaffney ’41 Gary J. Gaffney ’73, ME ’76 Rowan Gaffney Herbert Schwartz ’49 Wendy Schwartz Wein ’74 Lauren Wein Helen Gifft, MS ’44 Thomas H. Gifft ’58, B AEP ’64 Andrew Gifft Frederic H. Corell ’55 Russell W. Welser ’77 Matthew Welser Warren H. Giles ’50, M Ed ’62 Warren D. Giles ’77 Meghan Giles Mary Jean Corell Welser ’78 Alton F.Anderson ’35 Frank H. Golay Jr. ’70, Blythe Golay Bruce W. Widger ’51 Byron B. Widger ’79 Theodore Widger MAT ’71, JD ’77 Mary (Currie) ’53 Jenifer (Barthel) ’79 *William C. Arrison ’48, LLB ’50 Dale Arrison Grossman ’72 David Grossman Arthur S. Wolcott ’49 Bruce S. Wolcott, MBA ’78 Erin Wolcott Phyllis (Dean) ’48, BA ’47 *Rose Kurland Wolf ’23 Jonathan A. Wolf ’65 Jon Wolf David J. Inkeles ’50 Mark Gudesblatt, MD ’80 Melanie Gudesblatt *Ceylon R. Snider ’38 William W. Young ’74 Hannah Young Sharon Inkeles ’79, MD ’83 Ernest W. Young ’50 Barbara (Snider) ’76 Anthony T. Zambito ’44, BA ’43 Charles N. Zambito ’74 Jeanette Zambito

Steve H. Kunkes ’69 Jordan Susan Groen Maher ’76 Franklin Stephen J. Meringoff ’66 Victoria Jeffrey P.Kurt ’75 Anna Michael P.Maloney, MBA ’68, JD ’71 Kara Marla M. Gordon ’74 Jacob Messina Sunil Lamba ’73 Divij Caryn Goldsamt Margolis ’75 Riva Joette Goldman Mindlin ’77 Marielle Bruce S. Laskin ’76 Michael David C. Markant ’67 Gregory Lisa Memis Mintz ’84 Cassie Dale S. Lazar ’74, JD ’77 Vanessa Thomas S. Marshall ’59 Francesca Renee Miller Mizia ’81 Alyse Diane Berson Lebowitz ’80 Alexander Lowell F. Martin ’67, ME ’71 Eric Ronald Moses ’67 Alan Thomas J. Leonard Jr. ’71 Jamie Allan E. Mayefsky ’75 Sarah Christopher P.Muenzen ’77 Christopher Siusun Kenneth Leung, MS ’79 Terence Guy R. Mazza ’74 Guy In Ki Mun, MS ’78, PhD ’80 Heidi Michael H. Levine ’78 Samuel Michael M. McClellan ’76 Katelyn Chuka C. Ndubizu ’75, MS ’76 Ejiogu Harris Lewin ’79, MS ’81 Sara Walter H. McClure ’76 Eliza Douglas A. Negrin ’75 Stefani Cihad M. Lokmanoglu ’76, ME ’77 Ayse Walter H. McClure ’76 Rachael Gerald Nolan ’75, BCE ’78 Daniel Janet Donnelly London ’74 Hannah Michael T. McCoy ’84 Jill Jonathan Ochshorn ’74, BArch ’75 Robert Nicholas T. Long ’68 Gabriel Bunny Fulmer McCune ’80 Kelly Cephas C. Ocloo, MBA ’85 Alvin Gerald A. Longoria, MBA ’99 Jessica Richard W. McDaniel, MPA ’75, Ryan Phillip J. Oldiges, MS ’85, PhD ’89 Maria John M. Loveland ’82 Jennifer MBA ’78 Brian D. Oliver ’78 Meghan Stephen B. Lowe ’70 Alexander Kevin J. McEnery ’70, MBA ’71 Christine Karen L. Clark ’81 Michael Orkin Robert F. Lucey Jr. ’75 Caitlin George V. McKenna ’82 Caton Robert P.Palmquist ’73, MBA ’74 Barbara Alfred F. Lyons Jr. ’79 Emily Thomas H. Meacham ’60 Molly Marianne Marchisello-Paruch ’77 Peter Paruch James E. MacDonald ’73 Jenna Ann C. Shedd ’74 Gregory Meess Steven Peyser ’80 Jacqueline John T. Magill III ’73 Amy James S. Megna ’78 Kathryn Joanne Coyle Pfeil ’79, MS ’82 Andrew

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Carlos A. Pichardo ’82, ME ’83 Desiree John S. Riley ’77 Colin Stephen M. Ryan ’77 John Pattie J. Ploetz ’86 Jacquelyn Andrea Gould Robertson ’75 Cassandra Talat M. Sadiq ’69 Mekahl Steven B. Potter ’78 Brandon Logan G. Robinson ’72 Linden Lawrence S. Salant ’81 Scott Barbara MacDonald Powell, PhD ’83 Chelsea John E. Robinton, MD ’78 Tracy Chung Y. Li, MS ’87 Kristin Sangren Steven M. Pozzi ’81 Natalie William H. Roeder ’76 Briana Kenneth L. Schere ’73 Amy Alangaram Ramalingam, MS ’73, Vidhya Laurence S. Rogers ’72 Heather Richard A. Schieck ’74, ME ’75 Glenn PhD ’75 Nancy Paster Rosenbaum ’79 Pamela Debra S. Guthrie, MD ’83 Matthew Schiller Marjorie Ries Ramos ’77 Michael Samuel Rosenthal ’73, JD ’76 Danielle Kristin Blum Schneider ’82 Daniel Wendy Goldman ’77 Ezekiel Rediker Samuel Rosenthal ’73, JD ’76 Jamie Anne Rockwell Schroder ’66 Kimberley Carol Montgomery Reed, PhD ’84 Nicole Malcolm Ross ’68, JD ’75 Spencer Marshall D. Banker ’66, ME ’67 Jason Seifert Philip R. Reilly ’69 Sarah Kenneth A. Rubin ’69 Daniel Robert A. Seliger ’80 Alison Robert E. Riccobono ’66 Jane Larry V. Rubinstein ’68 Daniel Christine E. Shiber ’74 Aaron Shiber- Michael H. Ries ’70 Laura John W. Runge ’72 Carl Knowles

FOUR CORNELL GENERATIONS Of the students entering in 2005, 24 are listed as fourth-generation Cornellians. John P.Loranger ’75 Father Scott Loranger Janet Ostrom Loranger ’76 Mother Glenn J. Berger ’75 Father Aaron Berger John S. Ostrom ’51 Grandfather *Henry M. Berger ’45, BA ’48 Grandfather Marybeth (Weaver) ’51 Grandmother *Solomon Berger ’14, MD ’17 Great-Grandfather *Selden W. Ostrom ’20 Great-Grandfather

R. Daniel Bordoni ’75, MS ’77 Father Christopher Bordoni Whinfield D. Melville Jr. ’63, ME ’68 Father Jeffrey Melville *Dwight A. Webster ’40, PhD ’43 Grandfather *Robert H. Heath ’41, BS ORIE ’47 Grandfather Priscilla (Copley), MS ’41 Grandmother *Raymond P.Heath, ME ’11 Great-Grandfather *John M. Copley 1901 Great-Grandfather William F. Minnock III ’79, MBA ’83 Father Alexander Minnock Alice J. Brown ’74 Mother Phillip Brest Debra (Kearl) ’81 Mother Frederick R. Brown ’31, MA ’34 Grandfather *C. Delmar Kearl, PhD ’49 Grandfather *Aaron Brown 1906 Great-Grandfather Marjorie (Lail) ’82 Grandmother William F. Minnock Jr. ’44 Grandfather Linda Talmage Byrne ’81 Mother Carolyn Byrne *William F. Minnock Sr. ’10 Great-Grandfather Nathaniel A. Talmage Jr. ’54 Grandfather Jane (Lueck) ’57 Grandmother Sarah Noble Moag ’80 Mother Rella Moag *Nathaniel A. Talmage ’22 Great-Grandfather *John B. Noble ’51 Grandfather Nelson F. Smith ’28 Great-Grandfather David J. Dalrymple, MBA ’77 Father Henry Dalrymple *Mary Wood Dalrymple ’45 Grandmother Richard W. Newman ’68 Father Susan Newman *Edward J. Wood ’15 Great-Grandfather Carleton W. Potter, DVM ’40 Grandfather *Paul E. Newman, PhD ’37 Grandfather Richard O. Frink ’82 Father Megan Frink Julie (Robb) ’38 Grandmother Jeanette (Ryan) ’82 Mother *Byron B. Robb, SP Ag ’11, MS ’13 Great-Grandfather Charles R. Frink ’53, PhD ’60 Grandfather Roberta (Manchester) ’53 Grandmother John A. Noble ’76 Father Kathleen Noble *Robert H. Manchester Jr., ME ’23 Great-Grandfather Lorina Smith Noble ’53 Grandmother *Esther (Ely) ’21 Great-Grandmother Nelson F. Smith ’28 Great-Grandfather

Gary H. Gaige ’69 Father Gwen Gaige Judith Shaul Norback ’75 Mother Robert Norback Edith Morris Gaige ’46, BA ’45 Grandmother John D. Shaul ’40, MS ’48, PhD ’52 Grandfather *Charles E. Morris ’23 Great-Grandfather *Kenneth A. Shaul ’12 Great-Grandfather

Thomas T. Groos ’78 Father Nicholas Groos Bonnie S. Brier ’72 Mother Benjamin Rosenfield Richard T. Groos ’52 Grandfather *Barbara Srenco Brier ’45 Grandmother *Ethel (Denton) ’54 Grandmother *Evelyn Weil Srenco ’21 Great-Grandmother *Richard A. Groos ’14 Great-Grandfather Michael C. Settle ’79 Father Julie Settle Richard D. Gruen ’70 Father Mark Gruen Lorinda (Rabeler) ’81 Mother *Charles E. Gruen ’38 Grandfather Raymond C. Rabeler ’47, BS ’64 Grandfather *Edward C. Gruen ’12 Great-Grandfather Shirley (Buck) ’47 Grandmother *Clifford M. Buck ’22 Great-Grandfather Richard S. Jamison ’80 Father Michael Jamison Carol (Deininger) ’80 Mother Joanna Kingsbury Smith ’83 Mother Celia Smith Donald M. Jamison ’48 Grandfather Louise Gerken Kingsbury ’57, MS ’60 Grandmother Frances (Swinton) ’48 Grandmother *Henry Gerken ’25 Great-Grandfather *Richard H. Swinton ’18 Great-Grandfather Daniel R. Vlock ’74 Father Elizabeth Vlock David H. Jenkins ’73, DVM ’77 Father Amanda Jenkins Jay I. Vlock ’47, MBA ’48 Grandfather DuBois L. Jenkins, DVM ’43 Grandfather *Laurel (Fox) ’48 Grandmother Doris (Holmes) ’44 Grandmother *John J. Fox ’17 Great-Grandfather *David M. Jenkins ’17 Great-Grandfather Pamela Rappleyea Vredenburgh ’79 Mother Zachary Vredenburgh Lester B. Knight III ’80, MBA ’81 Father Charles Knight Clarence D. Rappleyea Jr., JD ’62 Grandfather Charles F. Knight ’57, MBA ’59 Grandfather *Francis J. Oates ’20 Great-Grandfather *Lester B. Knight Jr. ’29 Great-Grandfather

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George P.Sideris ’69 Elise William P.Burdick, MD ’79 Joshua Burdick- William H. McAleer ’73, MBA ’75 Lindsay McAleer David J. Siegel ’77 Jeremy Linsey Will ’78 Will Colleen (McGinn) ’74 Terry Kornblum-Singer ’76 Sarah Singer David H. Callen ’76 Alexander Callen Timothy P.McCann ’79 Amanda McCann Stuart A. Sirkin, MA ’71 Joshua Bette Gichner Callen ’75 Laura (Hitt) ’79 David J. Slivnick ’79 Jeremy Michael F. Cary, DVM ’82 Collin Cary James C. McDonnell ’79 John McDonnell Bruce E. Slovin ’57 Karen Ann (Freer) ’76, DVM ’82 Anne (Speciale) ’81 Karen M. King, MS ’83 Benjamin J. Christopher Cassidy ’73, MA ’77, Colleen Cassidy Shreeram R. Mudambi, MA ’84, Rajan Mudambi Solomon PhD ’79 PhD ’86 Baojun Song, PhD ’02 Shu Sharon (Odrobina) ’77 Susan (McDowell), MS ’85 Fredric J. Spar ’69 Adam Paul B. Chapman ’77, MD ’81 Rebecca Robert K. Plunkett, MS ’80, PhD ’83 Hannah Newfield- Edward D. Spear ’67, MS ’69 Paul Shelley (Clauson) ’78 Chapman Madeleine Newfield ’75, Plunkett Mark St. Marie ’79 Marleen Joseph A. Clark, MILR ’81 Camille Clark MA ’79, PhD ’83 Donald R. Stark ’73 Carissa Violet (McGirth), GR ’79-81 Roger Nitkin ’71, MBA ’76 Robert Nitkin Jodi Sielschott Stechschulte ’74 Lynn Richard J. Coniglio ’73, ME ’74 Robert Coniglio Jessica L. Bram ’74, MRP ’79 Richard J. Stein ’75, DVM ’79 Jacob Cheryl (Buckwalter) ’72, MS ’74 Daniel A. Notterman ’73 Benjamin Anthony W. Stein ’69 Lucy William W. Cowdery ’73, MA ’81, Elizabeth Robyn (Berger) ’74, Notterman Roger A. Stetter ’68 John PhD ’89 Cowdery BS Nurs ’76, MD ’83 Matthew L. Stolper ’77 Gary Lauren (Tozek) ’72, MA ’75, PhD ’80 Charles R. Ortenberg ’77 David Ortenberg Thomas W. Storey, MBA ’81 Thomas Mark S. Cramer ’72, ME ’74, Timothy Cramer Patricia (Stone) ’78 Mark D. Stratmeyer ’81, BEE ’83 Rose PhD ’76 Kenneth M. Paddock ’77 Seth Paddock Robert H. Sues ’78 Jared Susan (Marinsky) ’72 Catherine (Kullman) ’78 Subramanian Sundaresh, ME ’79 Suman Robert P.Davis, JD ’78 Peter Davis Thomas W. Piwinski ’74 Laura Piwinski Michael H. Tamaroff, PhD ’75 Rachel Jamie (Pundyk) ’80 Nancy (Sickelco) ’73 Allen L. Tan, PhD ’74 Francis George M. Dentes ’76, JD ’79 Zacharias Dentes Jamie P.Powers ’75 Ellyse Powers Jeffrey E. Thompson, DVM ’87 Mitchell Elsie (Little) ’77 Pamela (Meyer) ’75, DVM ’78 Scott W. Tremble ’77 Eric Earl H. Doppelt, JD ’77 Kyle Doppelt Randal Pratt ’77 Katrina Pratt Eric J. Trotter, MS ’72 Eric Diane (Solomon) ’79 Barbara (Wilkens) ’76 Gary V. Tucker ’79 Ryan Hans Drenkard ’81 Elizabeth Chungil Rho, MArch ’80 Anita Rho Seale W. Tuttle ’65, JD ’72 David Diane (Henke), MS ’84 Drenkard Lalita (Suepiantham), MA ’82 Adam S. Umanoff ’80 Kimberly J. William Ernstrom, JD ’71 Katherine Douglas J. Roll ’81 James Roll Alberto Vallarino ’73, Ximena Elizabeth Campbell Clarke, JD ’84 Ernstrom Francine J. D’Amico, MA ’85, PhD ’89 MBA ’74 Howard Nathel ’79 Noah Fine Nathel Karl R. Roneker ’84 Erik Roneker James S. Venetos ’65 Peter Lisa H. Fine ’79 Carol Ann (Bednarczyk) ’84 Carol L. Dunetz ’76 Lauren Wagner Neil V. Getnick ’75, JD ’78 Courtney Finerty Rick S. Rudman ’77 Amanda Rudman Jayne Solomon Walco ’78 Jeremy Margaret J. Finerty, JD ’78 Beverly (Chaleff) ’79 Robert A. Walder ’75, JD ’78 Adam Mark J. Friedman ’82 Matthew Francisco Ruiz ’72 Rebecca Ruiz William S. Waller Jr. ’77 William Cheryl (Goldman) ’82 Friedman Margaret Cangilos-Ruiz ’74 J. Bruce Waterfall ’60 Jane Paul M. Gallagher ’82 Jean Gallagher Duncan D. Russell ’71, MBA ’73 Warren Russell Frederic J. Weber ’71 Thomas Cynthia (Peck) ’83 Gail (DiVincenzi) ’71 Steven B. Weingarten ’76 Allison Cesar A. Gonzales, PhD ’79 Alex Gonzales- Warren D. Schlesinger ’74, MBA ’75 Hannah Michael P.Weinstein ’67, MD ’71 Aaron Jane E. Harsha, MA ’80 Harsha Janice E. Beal ’74, BS Ag ’79 Schlesinger Thomas K. Weiss ’68 Nathaniel Edward G. Gridley ’76 Kienan Gridley Michael Sharon ’76 David Sharon Charles F.Weiss ’66 Rebecca Kay S. Lin ’76, DVM ’79 Linda E. Kupfer ’78 Harriet Krems White ’80 Lauren Jeffrey C. Hantgan, MS ’77, Eli Hantgan Anthony W. Shaw Jr. ’76, ME ’77 Daniel Shaw *Neil C. Wolff ’74 Harry PhD ’81 Marilyn (Tebor) ’76 Randall Wroble ’75 Allison Rita Sugarman ’73, MS ’81 Michael G. Davis ’80 Kyle Small-Davis Douglas K. Wyler ’70 Ilana *James A. Hardie, MBA ’78 Kenneth Hardie Debra R. Small ’82 Gour-Tsyh Yeh, PhD ’69 Adam Elizabeth Mills Hardie, DVM ’79 David R. Smith ’76 Jocelyn Smith Benjamin J. Zaitz ’77 Hilary Thomas E. Hoerner, MD ’78 Benjamin Donna (Bacchi) ’76 Jose Zebede ’80 Michal Rebecca (Osgood), GR ’79 Hoerner Geoffrey E. Snyder ’80, MBA ’81 Claire Snyder Philip D. Zehr ’82 Jessica Walter Q. Howard ’74, ME ’76 Scott Howard Kathleen (Cote) ’80 Yu Zhang, MS ’88, PhD ’90 Jessica Nancy (Baldini) ’75 Donald G. Strenk ’78 Nicole Strenk Samuel T. Jennings ’73 Mark Jennings Diane J. Elliott ’78 TWO CORNELLIAN PARENTS Karen (Brendel) ’74 Charles S. Temel ’75 Laura Temel Eric H. Kates ’78, DVM ’81 Alexander Kates Judy (Wesalo) ’75 79 new students note both Cornellian mothers and Shari M. Watchman-Kates ’79 William C. Vautin ’80, MBA ’81 David Vautin fathers. Those who also have Cornellian grandparents James E. Kinnier ’81, MBA ’83 Sindri Kinnier Joan (McGuire), MBA ’81 or great-grandparents are listed elsewhere. Linda (Schilke), MBA ’83 Christopher C. Vreeland, MS ’83 Schuyler William B. Knight ’81 Erika Knight Gretchen (Anderson), MS ’83 Vreeland Parents Child Laura (Chapman) ’78 Jay Walker ’77 Lindsey Walker Lenard A. Adler ’78 Lisa Adler Peter M. Knollmeyer ’82 Michael Mary Eileen (McManus) ’76, MBA ’78 Rhonda Carniol ’79 Jennifer (Clark) ’84 Knollmeyer Calvin W. Washington ’77 Kyle Washington Stuart E. Anderson ’77 Ross Anderson Clifford E. Kraft ’75 Maxwell Kraft Sharon Phillipps Saunders ’79 Marcy (Fallick) ’77, MS ’79 Sue Ellen Stein, MAT ’03 William B. Weidlein ’77 Sarah Weidlein Philip M. Atkins ’80 Erin Atkins John D. Kulick, MS ’78, PhD ’81 Rachel Kulick Sharyn (Spatola) ’77, ME ’78 Noreen (McCormack) ’82 Leslie (Branch) ’77 Lawrence S. Wittenberg ’76 David Wittenberg Bradley J. Baker ’83 Audrey Baker Timothy R. LaBeau ’77 Kristin LaBeau Barbara Kane ’77 Dina (Wolfman) ’83 Ann (Kane) ’78 Andrew Yen, PhD ’77 Thomas Yen John H. Bandfield ’70 Ann Bandfield John S. K. Lee ’75, MBA ’79 Sylvia Lee Kathleen Mary Yen ’78, BS Nurs ’79 *Nita (Kasavan) ’80 Li-Lin Sung ’81 David W. Zalaznick ’76 Samantha Thomas A. Beck, JD ’81 Kathryn Beck Stephan M. Loewentheil, PhD ’75 Jacob Barbara (Milstein) ’76 Zalaznick Barbara (Maczynski), JD ’82 Beth M. Farber ’77 Loewentheil Lawrence P.Zestar ’75, MS ’77 Rachel Zestar- Andrew N. Bernstein ’74 Tyler Bernstein Kurt H. Lutgens, DVM ’78 Scott Lutgens Hellena Postrk ’76 Postrk Evan M. Zuckerman ’74 Gretchen Allen ’75, DVM ’78 John S. Brice ’77, BArch ’79 Melissa Brice Barry P.Mandel ’81, ME ’82 Julie Mandel Yvonne M. Eisner ’77 Christine (Glazier) ’81 (Continued on page 111)

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’38 BS Ag—Paul W.Christner of Pavillion, NY, July 3, 2005; active in alumni affairs.

’38, BA ’40—George Engles Jr. of Woods Hole, MA, November 8, 2005; pianist and composer; veteran. Seal & Serpent.

’38 JD—Richard C. Mitchell of Oswego, NY, October 21, 2005; attorney; senior partner, ’23 BS HE—Eva Peplinski Drumm of Niver- in community affairs. Alpha Phi. Mitchell, Mitchell and Palmer; active in com- ville, NY, July 5, 1969. munity and professional affairs. ’34-37 SP Ag—Charles A. Storie of Syracuse, ’24—Frederick C. Porter Jr. of Sarasota, FL, NY, November 5, 2005; safety inspector, NYS ’38 BS HE, MS HE ’47—Wilhelmina Mazar August 2, 2005. Delta Phi. Dept. of Labor; veteran. Alpha Gamma Rho. Satina of Phoenix, AZ, June 27, 2005; high school teacher; musician; writer; active in com- ’26 BA—Sara Rubin Baron of Woodbridge, ’35 BA—Carl H. Ahrens of Hackettstown, NJ, munity and alumni affairs. CT, July 18, 2005; retired from Stuyvesant High September 10, 2005; owner, Mecke & Co.; ac- School; active in alumni affairs. tive in community and religious affairs. Sigma ’39,BS Ag ’40—Howard I.Cobb of McDonough, Phi Epsilon. NY, September 1, 2005. ’27 BA—Ethyl Goldstein Alper of New York City,August 13, 2002; attorney; former presi- ’35 BS Ag, PhD ’39—George E. Brandow of ’39 MCE—Edward H. Dillon of Dickson, TN, dent, American Inst. of Decorators; active in Sarasota, FL, November 28, 2005; professor November 16, 2005; retired colonel, Army community affairs. emeritus, agricultural economics, Penn State Corps of Engineers; active in professional and U.;veteran. Wife, Adelaide (Wade) ’36. religious affairs. ’27—Allen H. Nelson of Adams Basin, NY, December 19, 1994. Sigma Phi Epsilon. ’35 BA, LLB ’37—Harold D. Cohen of Wash- ’39 MS—Col. Linwood E. Funchess of Auburn, ington, DC, November 14, 2005; retired attor- AL, October 21, 2005; director, Buildings and ’28 BA—Samuel C. Jones of Newtown Square, ney; active in community and religious affairs. Grounds, Auburn U.; retired Army officer; PA,November 1, 2005; chemical engineer; active in community, professional, and reli- active in civic, community, and alumni affairs. ’35—Robert D. Mulholland of Hamburg, NY, gious affairs. Sigma Alpha Epsilon. September 27, 2005; supervisor, Open Hearth Div., Bethlehem Steel Corp.; veteran; active in ’39 BArch—Frank L. McAleavey of Ft. Worth, ’29—Katheryn Worster Barbour of Darnes- community and religious affairs. TX, October 22, 2005; architect; also worked town,MD, January 28, 2003. for the Army Corps of Engineers; active in ’35—Harvey G. Starkey of Ft. Worth, TX, community affairs. Theta Chi. ’32, BS HE ’33—Esther Halsey Otteman of January 25, 2005; retired project engineer, Canandaigua, NY, May 8, 2005; retired high General Dynamics; active in community and ’39 BS Ag—Margaret Pearce Stark of West- school home economics teacher. religious affairs. Kappa Delta Rho. hampton, NJ, July 27, 2005. Husband, Oliver J. Stark ’39. ’32 BA, MS ’33—William E. Persbacker of St. ’36 BS HE—Barbara Wilson Bebbington of Albans, WV, October 2, 2005; retired from Evans, GA, June 1, 1986. ’40 MA—Catherine Hemphill Brown (Mrs. Union Carbide; active in community and reli- Stuart M. Jr. ’37, PhD ’42) of Brattleboro, gious affairs. ’36 BA—Edward J. Doyle Jr. of Englewood, VT, and Ithaca, NY, October 5, 2005; raised FL, June 18, 2004. Theta Delta Chi. giant Schnauzers; active in civic and commu- ’32 BS Ag, PhD ’36—Richard C. Ringrose of nity affairs. Troy,NY, October 30, 2005; taught at U. of ’36 BS Ag—Lewis M. French of Pulteney, NY, New Hampshire and Clemson College; active August 10, 2004. ’40 Pardon W. Cornell of North Dartmouth, in civic affairs. Alpha Gamma Rho. Wife, MA, June 1, 2005. Helen (Schroeder) ’32. ’36 MS Ag, PhD ’38—Tull N. Gearreald of Norfolk, VA, November 1, 2004. Alpha Zeta. ’40—Jane Lontz Stern of Fargo, ND, October ’33—Ruth Rabstein Pellettieri of Princeton, 25, 2005; active in civic and community affairs. NJ, November 4, 2005; workers’ compensation ’37 BA—Dorothy Houghton Grady of Bethel, attorney; member of defense team, “Trenton VT, June 10, 2005; retired librarian. Kappa Delta. ’40-41 SP Ag—Lee M.Warner of Rainbow Lake, Six” case; active in civic, community, profes- NY,October 23, 2001. Wife, Alice (Schrader) ’47. sional, and religious affairs. ’37 BS HE—Eloise Grant Jones (Mrs. Paul B. ’30, MS ’35) of Lexington, KY, September 3, ’41, BME ’42—Harry K. Crandall of Sayre, PA, ’33 BS HE—Norma Kenfield Pieters of Sun 2004; home economics teacher; active in com- September 28, 2005; clinic manager, Guthrie City, AZ, November 3, 2005; active in alumni munity and religious affairs. Clinic; veteran; active in religious affairs. affairs. Delta Gamma. ’37—John A. Joseph Jr. of Williamsville, NY, ’41 M Ed—Edward A. Doolan of Sarasota, FL, ’33 BS Ag, M Ed ’65—Amy Tobey Russell of February 2, 2005. Delta Chi. November 10, 2005. Ithaca, NY, November 7, 2005; asst. professor emeritus, SUNY Cortland; active in communi- ’37 BA—Phyllis Gronich Rosenberg of Am- ’41 BS Ag—Carl S. Salmon Jr. of Manzanita, ty and professional affairs. herst, MA, January 21, 2005; active in alumni OR, formerly of Amsterdam, NY, July 2, 2005; affairs. Alpha Epsilon Phi. retired attorney; veteran; active in civic, com- ’34 BS HE—Winifred Mulligan Cary of munity, professional, religious, and alumni Queensbury, NY, February 27, 2005. Kappa ’37—Stephen R. Snajczuk of Buffalo, NY, affairs. Tau Epsilon Phi. Kappa Gamma. October 17, 2003; restaurant owner; veteran; active in community and religious affairs. ’42 BME—Robert M. Coors of Palos Verdes Es- ’34—Janice Buckley Lynch of Greenwich, tates, CA, January 15, 2004; active in civic, com- NY,November 4, 2005; homemaker; active ’38 BA—Richard H. Brelos of Minnetonka, munity, and alumni affairs. Sigma Phi Epsilon.

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’42 LLB—Nelson C. Doland Jr. of Boonton, & Porter; veteran; active in community and ’47 BA—Stuart O.Austin of Ashland, OR, April NJ, November 24, 2005; attorney for Boonton religious affairs. Phi Gamma Delta. 3, 1998; worked for ITT. Phi Sigma Kappa. Tow nship; municipal judge; active in civic, community, professional, and religious affairs. ’44—Leland R. Crawford Jr. of Ithaca, NY, No- ’47, BME ’45—William H. Blew Jr. of Florence, vember 16, 2005; agronomist, Cornell U.; active SC, June 20, 2002. Alpha Sigma Phi. ’42 BS Ag, BME ’48—Arthur B. Dutky of Idaho in community affairs. Falls, ID, formerly of Omaha, NE, November ’47—Loretta Garrahan Jordan of Paoli, PA, 12, 2005; aerospace engineer; veteran; active in ’44 BME—William Nachbar of La Jolla, CA, Oc- October 28, 2005; worked at Safeguard Business community and religious affairs. tober 24, 2005; professor of applied mechanics, Systems; active in community affairs. UC San Diego; taught at Stanford U.; worked on ’42—Robert S. Edgar of Randolph, NY, June the Polaris missile and the Boeing 707; veteran; ’47 BS Nurs—Dorothy W. Smith of Elizabeth, 20, 2000. active in professional affairs. Phi Sigma Delta. NY, October 2, 2005; professor emerita of nursing, Rutgers U.; active in professional and reli- ’42 BEE—Francis E. Gruen of Tonawanda, NY, ’44, BA ’47—Roscoe C. Rose of North Bellmore, gious affairs. October 25, 2005; mortgage banker; veteran; NY, October 6, 2004. Wife, Nina (Kuzmich) ’45. active in community, religious, and alumni ’47, BS HE ’46—Erva Vosburgh Walsh of Grif- affairs. Kappa Sigma. ’44 BME—Max J. Stierstorfer Jr. of Allen- fin, GA, May 29, 2004. Kappa Delta. town,PA, October 30, 2005; physician; clinical ’42 BME—Harry M. St. John Jr. of Avon, CT, director of medicine, Allentown Bureau of ’47 BA—Alice Newman Wenzel of Manhasset, November 16, 2005; inventor, reverse-thrust Health; veteran; active in community affairs. NY, October 31, 2005; family therapist. propeller; sales manager, Hamilton Standard; active in community affairs. Sigma Nu. ’44 BEE—Howard G. Turner of Atherton, CA, ’48 BEE—Myron Cohen of New York City, Oc- August 14, 2005. tober 9, 2005; active in alumni affairs. ’42 BS Ag—Ilese Powell Symonds (Mrs. Paul S., PhD ’43) of Needham, MA, June 22, 2005. ’45—Chester J. Brown of Tucson, AZ, August ’48 BS Ag—Lillian B. Goldstick of San Fran- 25, 2005; worked for General Electric; asst. cisco, CA, May 17, 2005; legal logistics coordi- ’43—James K. Elderkin Jr. of Wexford, PA, professor, U. of Arizona; taught at U. of New nator, California Inst. of Realtors. November 6, 2005; stockbroker; salesman; vet- Mexico, Carlsbad; co-owner, Largo Intercoastal eran; active in alumni affairs. Marina; veteran. Alpha Tau Omega. ’48 BS HE—Ruth Skolnick Hollander of Boyn- ton Beach, FL, February 27, 200. ’43 BA—George C. Henckel Jr. of Albu- ’45—William M. Selden of Los Angeles, CA, querque, NM, March 4, 2005. Kappa Sigma. March 1, 2005; developer, COBOL computer ’48—Jerome M. Kutner of Portland, OR, April language; co-founder, GEVA Theatre in Roch- 3, 2005. ’43, BS Ag ’46—John J. Kahabka of Bath, NY, ester, NY. Alpha Zeta. August 14, 2004. Cayuga Lodge. ’48, BS Ag ’51—Donald R. Laitin of Orange- ’46, BME ’48—John P. Bagby of Anaheim, ville, Ontario, Canada, December 10, 2004. ’43 BME—George B. Marchev of Mountain CA, December 11, 2004; consultant. Phi Gam- Lakes, NJ, November 2, 2005; president, Metro ma Delta. ’48 BS Ag—E. Michael Pollack of South- Sign & Engraving; owner, Gordos Int’l; veter- borough, MA, November 8, 2005; retired chief an; active in alumni affairs. Delta Tau Delta. ’46—Mary L. Barrott of Marco Island, FL, game biologist, Mass. Division of Fisheries November 29, 2005. and Game; active in community and profes- ’43 BA—Grace Reinhardt McQuillan of Harts- sional affairs. dale, NY, November 10, 2005; active in com- ’46 MS Ag—Elmer E. Clapp Jr. of Vero Beach, munity, religious, and alumni affairs. Delta Phi. FL, November 4, 2005; director of sire procure- ’48 BEE—Arthur L.Yehle of Milledgeville, GA, ment, Eastern Breeders; professor, Canton’s October 19, 2005; director, Small Business Inst., ’43—C. Leigh Moyer Jr. of Haverford, PA, Agricultural and Technical Inst. Bunting School of Business, Georgia College October 4, 2005; retired investment banker; and State U.; taught at the U. of Memphis; vet- veteran; active in community affairs. Pi ’46 MS HE, Ed D ’60—F. June Clarke of eran. Sigma Chi. Kappa Phi. Williamsville, NY, November 20, 2005; retired home economics professor, SUNY Buffalo; ’49 MBA—Kenneth S. Colmen of Redwood ’43 BS Ag—Joyce W. Sumner of Bridgewater active in professional affairs. City, CA, May 9, 2005. Corners, VT, July 12, 2005; assoc. professor emeritus, U. of Vermont Extension Service; ’46-48 SP Ag—James E. Egan of Lecanto, FL, ’49, BA ’48—Jean M. Edgerton of Venice, FL, veteran; active in civic, community, and pro- November 14, 2005; retired from the Farmers June 15, 2000. fessional affairs. Home Admin.; dairy farmer; veteran; active in community, professional, and religious affairs. ’49 BS ILR—Richard N. Goldstein of Spencer- ’43 B Chem E—William H. Tilley of New Bern, Alpha Zeta. town,NY, October 26, 2005; attorney; VP for NC, June 2, 2005. Wife, Jean (Cooper) ’46. labor relations, NBC; veteran; active in civic ’46 BEE—Roy S. Griffin of San Diego, CA, and alumni affairs. Watermargin. ’43 BA—Helen Abeloff Weinberg of Arlington, April 15, 2005. VA,October 30, 2005; supervising medical ’49 BS HE—Geraldine Hanks Mesick of Castle- social worker, Westchester County Medical ’46 BEE—Alfred L. Koup of Southbury, CT, ton, NY, November 27, 2005; partner & finance Center; active in civic and community affairs. November 11, 2005; engineer, Sikorsky Air- mgr., Gem Farms; active in community and Sigma Delta Tau. craft; veteran; active in community and reli- professional affairs. Husband, George E. Mesick gious affairs. Jr., SP Ag ’47-49. ’43 BA, LLB ’47—Evan S. Williams of Troy, PA,April 5, 2005; attorney; retired presiding ’46 BA, MD ’49—Barbara Simpson Robertson ’50 BEE—Donald S. Byron of Ithaca, NY, No- judge, Court of Common Pleas, Bradford of Lake Forest Park, WA, January 1, 2005; vember 4, 2005; active in alumni affairs. County, PA; veteran; active in civic, communi- physician. Pi Beta Phi. ty,professional, and alumni affairs. Tau Kappa ’50 BA—Charles N. Eckert of Melbourne, FL, Epsilon. Wife, A. Louise (Eadie) ’44. ’46 BEE—John J. Sweeney of Greensboro, NC, October 12, 2005; active in alumni affairs. October 27, 2005; worked for Bell Labs and ’44 BME—Albert Beehler Jr. of Baltimore, Western Electric; veteran; active in community ’50 BS Ag—Hervey D. Forward III of Elbridge, MD, November 8, 2005; area manager, Fischer and religious affairs. NY, November 5, 2005; branch manager, J.I.

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Case Co.; veteran; active in community and 22, 2005; retired, Borden Inc. Phi Kappa Sigma. religious affairs. ’53 BS Ag—Harry A. Turunen of Baldwins- ’50 BCE—Charles B. Grimshaw of Sutter ville, NY, January 18, 2005; worked for P&C Creek, CA, April 14, 2004. Delta Phi. Foods; veteran; active in community affairs.

’50 BA—Joseph B. Kirkland Jr. of Leander, ’54-56 SP Ag—Donald K. Adair Jr. of One- TX, November 8, 2005. Delta Upsilon. onta, NY, December 2, 2004; worked for Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals; veteran; ’50 BA—Arno H. Nehrling Jr. of Timonium, active in religious affairs. Tau Kappa Epsilon. MD, August 23, 2005. Kappa Sigma. ’54 BS HE—Beulah Nyhart Fromm of Sun ’50 BA—Wilson E. Sensenbach of Honeoye City West, AZ, November 9, 2005; home eco- Falls, NY, November 5, 2005; retired lieutenant nomics teacher; active in community and pro- commander, US Naval Reserves; active in civic, fessional affairs. community, and religious affairs. ’54—Charles H. Larson of Santa Maria, CA, ’51 MBA—E. John Caruso of Albuquerque, November 23, 2004; owner, Larson Decorating. NM, October 12, 2005; consultant, E.J. Caruso Corp.; veteran; active in civic, community, reli- ’55 PhD—Jaroslav M. Burian of Albany, NY, gious, and alumni affairs. August 25, 2005; professor emeritus, SUNY Albany Dept. of Theatre; veteran; author; active ’51 BME—Richard L. Freeman of Little Valley, in artistic, community, and professional affairs. NY, November 2, 2005; active in alumni affairs. Alpha Sigma Phi. ’55, BCE ’56—Henry M. Cochran of Williams- burg, VA, November 11, 2005; exec. director, ’51 BA—Daniel Leschak of Tucson,AZ, October Peninsula Planning Dist. Comm.; veteran; 30, 2005; aerospace engineer; also worked for the active in civic, community, and professional CIA; veteran; active in community affairs. affairs. Sigma Chi.

’51—Henry W. Rittscher of Guatemala City, ’56 BS ILR—Herbert N. Bernhardt of Char- Guatemala, April 20, 2005; marketing advisor. lottesville, VA, June 11, 2002. Watermargin. Phi Gamma Delta. ’56 BS HE—Myrna Zerlin Mendelssohn of ’52 BS Ag—Michael A. Akintomide,formerly Thousand Oaks, CA, May 8, 2000. of Nigeria, December 1, 2001. ’56 BS ILR—David K. Orselet of West Chester, ’52-53 GR—Robert E. Brown of La Mesa, CA, PA,October 23, 2005; General Electric executive. November 29, 2005; musicologist; expert on gamelan music; taught at Wesleyan U., California ’56 PhD—Harley J. Otto of Mesa, AZ, No- Inst. of the Arts, the Center for World Music, and vember 24, 2005; agronomist; active in com- San Diego State U.; author; veteran; his is the last munity and professional affairs. recording on the Voyager’s interstellar record. ’56 BS Ag—Martin J. Wunderlich Pel-Or of ’52 BME—Donald D. Campbell of Cincinnati, Netanya, Israel, November 20, 2005; Israeli OH, October 2, 2005; manufacturer’s repre- guide. Wife, Susan (Cohen) ’59. sentative, Rouse Marketing; veteran. ’57 BS Nurs—Patricia Rudolph Desposito of ’52, BME ’53—Robert S. Critchfield of Garden South Orange, NJ, November 6, 2002; regis- Grove, CA, June 12, 2005. Theta Xi. tered nurse.

’52—Charles C. Ford of Cohasset, MA, No- ’57—Edward C. Evans of Pittsburgh, PA, Jan- vember 21, 2005; owner, Waterproofing Co.; uary 29, 2000. veteran; active in community affairs. Alpha Delta Phi. ’57 B Chem E—Fred G. Jones Jr. of Alma, MI, November 13, 2005; metallurgist; expert on ’52—Mary Hart Forseman of Bay City, MI, magnets; active in community, professional, June 24, 2002. and alumni affairs. Sigma Phi Epsilon. Wife, Joan (Ellis) ’59. ’52, BME ’53—Leonard J. Kraska of Moun- tain View, CA, October, 9, 2005; mechanical ’58—John C. T. Church of New York City, Oc- engineer. tober 27, 2005; linguist. Theta Chi.

’52 , BCE ’53—James G. Scott Jr. of Baldwins- ’58 JD—John J. Fitzgerald of Cortland, NY, ville, NY, January 10, 2005; VP, East Syracuse July 28, 2005. Minoa CSD; active in religious affairs. Chi Epsilon. Wife, Leona (Kaiser) ’51. ’58 BA—Janet Hoffman Gardner of White Plains, NY, November 25, 2005; editor. Sigma ’53, BS Ag ’56—Sherman R. Knapp Jr. of Delta Tau. Cincinnati, OH, June 22, 2004; general product manager, R.A. Jones & Co. Lambda Chi Alpha. ’58 BS HE—Barbara Hauck Yates of Toronto, Wife, Jacqueline (Horn) ’55. Ontario, Canada, August 30, 2004; retired consultant. Kappa Kappa Gamma. Husband, ’53—Robert M. Maloney of Houston, TX, April Edward M. Yates ’58.

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’59 BA, MD ’66—H. David Kearing of Brack- NY, April 7, 2005; director of operations, ’79 BEE—Michael R. Leibowitz of San Fran- ney, PA, September 9, 2005; ob/gyn; veteran; Orange & Rockland Utility Co.; active in com- cisco, CA, August 31, 1992. active in religious and alumni affairs. Delta munity and religious affairs. Delta Tau Delta. Kappa Epsilon. ’79, BS Ag ’83—Halroye A. Lewars of Corona, ’68 BS ILR—Susan Tenenbaum of Forest Hills, NY, September 4, 1995. ’60 MArch—Douglas C. Holtkamp of Pine- NY, June 21, 2004. hurst, NC, April 17, 2005; active in alum- ’79—Brian O. Peteler of Marlton, NJ, June 15, ni affairs. ’71 JD—Melvin Ditman of Woodbridge, CT, 2005; financial manager, New Market Power; September 24, 2005; attorney. Wife, Lynne active in community affairs. ’60 BA—Karl E. Walther of Cardiff-by-the-Sea, (Kornreich), GR ’69-70. CA, October 13, 2005. Alpha Delta Phi. ’79 BS HE—Amerigo V. Vetrano of Bronx, ’71 BS Nurs—Mary Ann Hubicki Streck of NY, August 1, 1979. ’61, BME ’62—Robert P. Guerre of Conroe, Cape Coral, FL, November 28, 2005; nurse. TX, December 3, 2004. Kappa Alpha. ’81 BA—Jeffrey A. Avizinis of Palm Bay, FL, ’72 PhD—Robert E. Tillman of Rock Stream, November 6, 2005; software engineer. ’61 BS Ag—John F. Hosmer of Stockton, CA, NY, May 31, 2005. September 8, 2004. Delta Tau Delta. ’81 BS Ag—Daniel D. Datthyn of Williamson, ’73 BS ORIE, MBA ’74—Paul J. Connell of NY, June 15, 2004; fruit grower; manager, ’61 MBA—James D. Massey of Issaquah, WA, Atlanta, GA, November 10, 2005; attorney; Wayne County Pest Co-op; active in reli- March 18, 2005; systems manager, Boeing Co. specialist in international mergers and acquisi- gious affairs. tions; active in professional affairs. Sigma Pi. ’63 BA—Carl S. Apstein of Waban, MA, ’84 DVM—Ronnie M. Cain of Greenwood, DE, November 8, 2005; cardiologist; professor, ’74, BS Ag ’78—Douglas C. VanderPoest of October 23, 2004; veterinarian; active in com- Boston U. School of Medicine; musician; Melbourne, FL, November 11, 2005; owner, pest munity and professional affairs. Wife, Mary active in professional affairs. control business; active in community, profes- (Eagle) ’80, DVM ’84. sional, and alumni affairs. ’63, BS Ag ’64—Terrance D. Blumer of Jor- ’84 PhD—Candace Widmer of Ithaca, NY, dan, NY, November 4, 2005; dairy farmer. ’75—Gary D. Graves of Franklin, MA, No- November 23, 2005; taught at Elmira College; Zeta Psi. vember 5, 2004; owner, G Square Construc- expert on human services and public policy; lec- tion; also worked for Texas Instruments. turer in cell biology, Mansfield State U.; active in ’63, BS Mat Sci ’65—Lorentz A. Johanson Jr. civic, community, and professional affairs. of Bethel Park, PA, July 13, 2005. Sigma Chi. ’79 BS Ag—George W.A. Booker of New York City,October 25, 2000. ’85 BS Ag—Pamela Horn Davenport of Suf- ’64 MBA—Brian E. Pattison of Hanover, NH, field, CT, November 20, 2005; active in com- February 4, 2005; VP finance, Traditional Mgmt. ’79—Kevin P. Doyle of Brighton, MA, Feb- munity and religious affairs. Co.; active in civic, community, and alumni ruary 12, 1998. affairs. Wife, Anne (Warren) ’64. ’85 BA, MD ’89—John A. Hinck of November ’79 BS Nurs—Jeanne M. Hausser of Brooklyn, 3, 2005; physician. ’66—John E. Swanstrom Jr. of Duluth, MN, NY, June 20, 1998; nurse. May 28, 2002. Chi Psi. ’86 BS Ag—Young U. Lim of Mill Neck, NY, ’79—Phyllis D. Hooke of Montclair, NJ, January 23, 2005. Cayuga Lodge. ’66—John J. Tobin of White Plains, NY, March September 18, 2002. 1, 1994. Chi Phi. ’96 BA—Daniel E. Rich of New York City, ’79—Ron P.Kendric of El Cajon, CA, October November 16, 2005; attorney; active in alumni ’68 BS Ag—Warren A. Palmatier Jr. of Congers, 29, 2004. affairs. Delta Kappa Epsilon.

(Continued from page 107) *Sol Feigenbaum ’41 Jamie *John A. O’Hern, MD ’44 Mark O’Hern Feigenbaum Carlton J. Porter Jr. ’52 Sarah Porter GRANDPARENT(S) ONLY Mary Harman Ficken, MA ’40 Edward Ficken Dorothy (Klimajeski) ’53 56 new students note at least one Cornellian grand- *John P.Gallagher ’50 Christopher William W. Helman III ’50, MBA ’54 Rachel Quigley parent. Other multi-generational connections are list- Gallagher Donald E. Rockcastle ’49 Logan Rockcastle ed in the introductory paragraphs and elsewhere. *G. Frederick Reinhardt, MA ’35 Philip Gebauer Eleanor R. Blum ’49 Alfred R. Goldstein ’45, BCE ’47 Jessica Goldstein Thomas O. Nuttle ’51 Molly Ryan Grandparent(s) Child Thomas C. Trafzer ’48 Katherine Gryka Ruth Raybin Furman ’46, BA ’45 Sherre Sachar Sheila Epstein Akabas ’51 Shai Akabas Jane (Bird) ’50 James H. Pert, MD ’51 Jennette Mort Lowenthal ’53 *Abbott L. Hessney ’31 Ethan Hessney Saltsman W. David Curtiss ’38, LLB ’40 Christina Alario Robert J. Bauer ’40 Dustin Howell Frederick D. Stocker, MA ’50, Patricia *Joseph G. Ebel ’53, PhD ’67 Tanya Virginia (Poole) ’42 PhD ’52 Satkiewicz Auchampaugh Edward J. Querner ’50 Brian Isett Leonard N. Young, GR ’45-46 Julie Seamon Robert P.Loeper ’47 Kayley Bebber Paul A. Jones Jr. ’51 Benjamin Jones *Sidney Meisel ’37 Harley Seligman John J. Mulcahy ’60 Miles Bloom Pauline (Bancroft) ’52 Elizabeth Patterson Hoffmann ’45 Sonam Sherpa Albert M. De Sanctis ’52 Lindsey Bober Robert L. Kennedy, DVM ’55 Carolyn Kennedy William L. Whitely, LLB ’51 Charles Slicklen Harold W. Booth ’55 Emily Booth *John R. Herman, MD ’40 Abigail Kohlman Charles E. Sporck ’51 Christian Sporck Flo Rae (Spelts) ’57 *Paul W. Van Nest ’36 Timothy Komsa *Gene W. Hanson ’43 Nicholas Trageser *Franklin F. Offner ’33 Trevor Caira Glenn E. Dayton Jr. ’50 Grace Leonard Phyllis (Lamb) ’44 Taube P.Rothman, PhD ’75 Anna Chase Beverly Gavrill Lesser ’54 Steven Lesser Harvey B. Pollak ’56 Harris Trock Donald E. Conaway Jr. ’50 Travis Conaway Martin Riger ’31 Steven Lewis Richard H. Kennedy ’56 Timothy Walch *Ivan Isaacs ’35, MD ’39 Julie Deitz John G. Woods ’48 Rebecca Lis Audrey Katzman Wald ’46 Henry Wald William T. Duboc ’45, BEE ’44 Catherine Duboc Merilyn (Baron) ’48 Edward S. Wheeler, PhD ’52 Miles Wheeler Cleon W. Easton, DVM ’51 Dana Easton William L. Bromley ’48 Benjamin Loe Joan (Petersen) ’51 *Gordon H. Eibert ’32 Erik Eibert John F. Marion ’48 Jessica Marion Charles H. Goodyear ’43 William Wolff John L. Ayer ’41 *Norma (Braun) ’51 Catherine (Young) ’43 Eugene T. Kemp ’51, DVM ’57 Jessica Farrow Emil A. Matthews ’36 Alexander Anthony Misciagna ’44, BS ORIE ’49Richard Young Matthews *Alexander Zaharchuk ’53 Sarah Zaharchuk

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OW DO I GET UP THE NERVE to propose to my girlfriend? If Bat- man is so smart, why does he wear h his underwear over his pants? Bridge jumping doesn’t seem to be a very good option, but every time I walk over Mr. Know-It-All one I keep on thinking about going over the edge ...Uncle Ezra,what should I do? From silly to serious, everyone has a HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO UNCLE EZRA, question. At Cornell, someone has an THE ONLINE ADVICE COLUMNIST answer. Dear Uncle Ezra (http://ezra. cornell.edu/), the University’s online advice columnist, has responded to more was essential. “As soon as you than 19,000 inquiries from students, have a known person, everyone alumni, and community members. The who thinks about Uncle Ezra is site, which celebrates its twentieth anniver- going to project certain charac- sary in September, is the nation’s first teristics.” Knowing age, race, or online counseling service. gender could inhibit students Long before Google and Wikipedia, from asking touchy questions, there was CUInfo, the campus-wide infor- Feist felt. But, as he soon learned, mation system created by computer scien- no topic was out of bounds. tist Steve Worona ’70, MS ’73, in 1982. In “The questions were incredi- its earliest days, this pioneering proto-Web ble—it was so clear that the peo- ran on a mainframe, listing news and infor- ple writing them were neophytes mation on a handful of terminals. But the to computers,”he says. “But there system was only lightly used, so in 1986 was a sincerity to them. They Worona and Jerry Feist, then the assistant were things people really wanted dean of students for counseling and train- to know.” ing, tried to broaden the appeal. The pair There were a few ground decided to make CUInfo interactive, with rules. Questions could not have students sending questions to an all-know- profanity or be used to get ing “Uncle Ezra.”The name, Feist says, was homework answers, but were carefully chosen: “This was someone who otherwise unedited, typos and cares about you immediately because he’s all. “We decided right away that

part of your family.” we wanted to keep the original STEFANIE GREEN Uncle Ezra debuted on September 17, flavor,” says Feist. Answer man: Jerry Feist, the original Uncle Ezra 1986. The first two questions—about how Soon he was receiving 1,000 to meet people and stop procrastinating— queries a month and using a team of answers were the responsibility of a single were fake. “We primed the pump with two assistants to help answer them. With the anonymous well-trained individual. There ‘artificial’ questions and waited to see if rise of the Web, Uncle Ezra moved off the was no answer-by-answer review by a the ‘build it and they will come’ phenom- mainframe and into the wider world of committee, and Ezra became someone the enon would strike,” Worona writes in an cyberspace. Two book collections have readers could trust. Whoever had the job e-mail message. “It did.” been spun off, The Best of Uncle Ezra,Vol- understood their function as custodian of Soon, real questions poured in— umes I and II, and the idea spread to other the Ezra persona.” nearly three hundred in the first month. schools. Students at the University of Col- Feist is now an independent consult- “Why am I here?” asked Confused. orado seek advice from Ralphie, while at ant in Ithaca, while Worona became a “Where can I buy a cheap used car?” Columbia they can Go Ask Alice. director of EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit asso- wondered No Wheels. Other colleges that tried to replicate ciation for campus IT experts. But Uncle “Who are you?” A Nosy and Curious the formula often missed the mark, Ezra lives on; the current one, as ever, Person demanded, without success. according to Worona. “The most impor- works cloaked in secrecy. “It developed a Feist, the first of five Uncle Ezras to tant part of Uncle Ezra was the human personality and life of its own,” says Feist. inhabit the character, says that anonymity interaction,” he recalls. “Uncle Ezra’s — Stephanie Bergeron

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