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26 The Business ofJuly NextBY STEPHEN MADDEN

When Hunter Rawlings takesover as Cornell's president onJuly 1, he will face many chal-lenges. He is eminently pre-pared to handle them. ^s^

36 The 161 ThingsEvery Cornell StudentShould DoIn which we enumerate thestunts, activities, arguments, read-ings, writings and ponderingscentral to the Cornell experience.

44 That Old HouseBY JIM HANCHETT

The melody of fraternity life in the'50s lingers long after the house—and the songs—are gone. Whoremembers? Better to ask, Whocan forget?

Departments

2 NewsTown-gown hostility boils over; alumni serviceaward winners announced; ClΓs most favoredstocks.

6 LettersHow was Lincoln received at Gettysburg? Kudosto Kennedy; unfair to doctors?

13 FacultyAg Dean David Call is retiring from a collegetransformed.

16 Letter from IthacaKeith Johnson's history of the university picksup where Morris Bishop's leaves off.

18 ResearchStill another reason to drink your 0 J.

2 0 StudentsThe horror—the horrors!—of the ride board.

22 SportsMust eating disorders be part of being a femaleathlete?

25 AuthorsAlison Lurie's new book.

53 News of Alumni

Alumni Profiles62 Educate the Children68 John F. Murphy '5973 William B. Durham '6986 Kathleen Moran '92

90 Alumni Deaths

91 Alumni ActivitiesCornell offers its alumni a new on-ramp to theInfobahn.

92 Calendar

95 Give My Regards To...These Cornellians in the News

96 CornellianaA campus sends its best and brightest to war.

76 Cornell Hosts

82 Professional Directory

94 Cornell Classifieds

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City Demands More University Cash

T he great thaw of January may have setrecord high winter temperatures inIthaca, but relations between City Halland Day Hall dropped well below thefreezing point after Ithaca put a freeze

on campus building permits.City of Ithaca officials imposed the building

permit freeze after reaching an impasse on dis-cussions to increase Cornell's voluntary con-tributions to the local government. Aside fromharming town-gown relations, the permitfreeze effectively halted approximately $100million of renovation projects planned for en-dowed facilities that fall within city limits.

The freeze was ordered by Ithaca MayorBenjamin Nichols '41, who is also an emeritusprofessor of engineering at Cornell, to add lev-erage to the city's demand that Cornell donateapproximately $2.6 million more dollars to citycoffers every year. That request breaks downto $1 million for fire services, $1.5 million inpayments in lieu of taxes on non-academicproperty owned by the university and $65,000in lieu of tax payments for the Campus Store.

Nichols said that the city's request is rea-sonable since Cornell is a major user of Ithaca'sstreets, facilities and services. In addition,Nichols pointed out, almost half of the prop-erty in the city is tax exempt, which makes fora heavy tax burden on Ithaca private propertyowners.

Cornell officials have replied that the city'srequest is unreasonable because the univer-sity is a tax-exempt institution that alreadymakes voluntary contributions. Each yearCornell donates $146,000 to the city for fireservices. It also gives $213,500 to the IthacaCity School District in addition to paying$955,000 in lieu of property taxes.

Cornell and city officials have discussed thematter in depth, but Day Hall would not com-mit itself to more voluntary payments. In re-sponse, the city broke with decades of prece-dence by strictly holding Cornell to city zoninglaws.

In the latest round of brinksmanship, cityofficials refused to issue a permit to install newfume hoods in the Spencer T. Olin ChemistryLaboratory because, according to city zoningrules, Cornell does not have enough parkingspaces for its buildings. City officials have saidthat they are going to strictly enforce their

zoning laws on campus. The city has neverbefore enforced its parking requirements oncampus.

During a recent presentation to TompkinsCounty business officials, Vice President forUniversity Relations Henrik Dullea '61 said thatCity Hall and Day Hall both know that themayor's demand really has nothing to do withparking spaces. "It's about the mayor's beliefthat Cornell should be forced to pay upwards of$2.56 million [extra] annually to the city treas-ury as the price for resolving the buildingpermits issue," Dullea said.

The real outcome of the building permitfreeze is fewer local construction jobs and ahalt on about $100 million in proposedprojects on portions of the endowed campuslocated within city limits, maintain universityadministrators. Those projects include reno-vations of Lincoln, Rand, Sage, Sibley andTjaden halls, plus plans for updating equip-ment in the Olin Laboratory building and inUpson Hall.

"We have been told by Mayor Nichols andthe staff of the building department that majorprojects on the Cornell campus will not beauthorized to proceed, because we are alleg-edly out of compliance with city zoning ordi-nances related to parking," Dullea toldIthaca's business leaders at a speech to theRotary Club in January. "Now, it's one thingto say that it's difficult to find a visitor's park-ing space on our central campus during themiddle of the day. It's quite another to saythat city parking regulations that quite appro-priately have not been applied to the campusfor many decades should now be suddenlyenforced on all major projects."

If the campus were to comply with thecity's parking space requirements, Dulleasuggested, Cornell would "be required to cre-ate so many new parking spaces that wewould effectively have to pave over the ArtsQuad."

As of late January, university officials werehoping to resolve this unprecedented disputewith City Hall—but their position is firm thatCornell should not be forced to increase con-tributions that are not required by law. A pollconducted by the Ithaca Journal in Januaryshowed that readers supported the univer-sity's position by a 4-1 margin.

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"We continue to stand readyto cooperate with the City ofIthaca in many areas, particularlyin well-thought-out strategies foreconomic development. How-ever, the university cannot andshould not serve as the 'deeppockets' for the city budget, whenthe long-standing law in this stategoverns our exemption," Dulleasaid.

Six ALUMNIRECOGNIZED FOR

OUTSTANDING SERVICESix Cornellians have been namedrecipients of the first Frank H.T.Rhodes Outstanding Alumni Ser-vice Award, the Office of AlumniAffairs announced.

The six honorees receivedthe Rhodes Award based on "thelength and the quality of theirservice/' to the university asalumni, explained Jim Hazzard'50, director of alumni affairs.They are: Madolyn M. Dallas '58of Morristown, New Jersey; Rich-ard C. Jahn '53 of Darien, Con-necticut; Susan Phelps Day '60,ME '62 of Avon, Connecticut;Austin H. Kiplinger '39 of Wash-ington, DC; Mort Lowenthal '53

Big Red's Top Ten StocksThe Temple of Zeus, the cafeand popular hangout in thebasement of Goldwin SmithHall, is moving. Its new locationwill be in the same building, inRoom 46M, where the College ofArts and Sciences records andscheduling office is currentlylocated. The fate of the statuesin the Temple of Zeus is a mat-ter of vigorous debate, becauseuniversity officials are not surethere will be space for them inthe new location.

As of September 1994, Cornell University's top ten stoclholdings totalled $89,086,120, which accounted for 7.1percent of the university's Long Term Investment Pool of$1.25 billion.

The top ten stock investments, ranked by marketvalue, are:

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Parametric Technology

Cisco Systems

General Electric

Philip Morris

United Technologies

FNMA

Hewlett-Packard

DuPont

MCI Communication

Warner Lambert

$13.55 million

12.15 million

11.56 million

9.33 million

8.18 million

7.85 million

7.62 million

6.06 million

6.5 million

5.7 million

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of Stamford, Connecticut; and JohnE. Rupert '49 of Lakewood, Ohio.

The Rhodes award is the brain-child of Cornell's Alumni Federation,which decided that it would be ap-propriate to recognize alumni whohave consistently dedicated time tothe university after they graduated.

Candidates were identified byother alumni. "We went out, as wewill each year, to alumni leadersacross the country, looking foralumni to be considered for theaward," Hazzard said. That list wassent to a selection committee, whichis authorized to name up to six hon-orees each year.

The Rhodes award selectioncommittee includes a broad cross-section of university officials, amongthem the president of the AlumniFederation, the president of theCornell Association of Class Officers(CACO), university counsel, theimmediate past chair of the AlumniTrustee Nominating Committee andthe director of alumni affairs.

RHODES PART OF NEWYORK GOVERNOR'STRANSITION TEAM

President Frank H.T. Rhodes andfour university trustees were namedto New York Governor George E.Pataki's transition team. Pataki, aformer member of the New YorkState Senate, defeated former Gov.Mario Cuomo in the November 1994elections.

Governor Pataki also named oneof the trustees on his transition team,Joseph H. Holland 78, MA 79, asNew York State commissioner ofhousing and community renewal.Holland was joined on the transitionteam by Trustees Richard C. Call '52,Ernesta Procope and Richard J.Schwartz '60.

The team was created to advisePataki on the many important issuesthat will have an impact on New YorkState. In addition to the 221-membertransition team, Pataki appointed a 54-member transition committee that

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MANN LIBRARY ADDITIONPASSES ENVIRONMENTAL

REVIEWA proposed 110,000 square-foot ad-dition to Mann Library passed a ma-jor hurdle when the State UniversityConstruction Fund approved theproject after it accepted the findingsof an environmental review.

By New York State law, Cornell'splans for the addition had to be ex-amined with procedures establishedby the State Environmental QualityReview Act. The State's UniversityConstruction Fund, which is respon-sible for designing and paying for theaddition, commissioned the study inthe spring of 1994. The impact state-ment concluded that the additionwould create no significant negativeimpact on the wooded area north ofthe library site.

Bidding on the library additionwill begin in the spring of 1995 andconstruction is expected to start thefollowing fall or winter.

DIRECTOR OF AMERICANINDIAN PROGRAM NAMED

Jane Mt. Pleasant, a professor of soil,crop and atmospheric sciences, hasbeen named director of Cornell'sAmerican Indian Program. She as-sumed her post in January.

The program is designed to edu-cate and strengthen the American In-dian community on the Hill. It is anintercollege program based in the Col-lege of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Native American and other stu-dents benefit from the program's aca-demic courses. In addition to itscourse offerings, the program pro-vides support for American Indianstudents on and off campus throughresearch on issues of concern toNative Americans.

Mt. Pleasant succeeds formerDirector Ron LaFrance, who re-signed in 1993, and interim DirectorBarbara Abrams.

—Joe Schwartz

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LETTERS

Who liked Lincoln?Editor: I enjoyed the Cornell Maga-zine article on Lincoln's GettysburgAddress, but there are some inaccu-racies in it.

In the first place, the GettysburgAddress was given 17 months beforeLincoln's assassination (November19, 1863—April 15, 1865) not lessthan five months as noted in the ar-ticle.

More important, the reception ofthe Gettysburg Address by the pub-lic was probably not as lukewarm asthe article indicates. The first bookdescribing the dedication ceremoniesto be published after the address wasgiven was published by Baker &Godwin. It was written by reportersfor the New York Tribune, Times,Herald and World who attended theevent. While it is true that the im-portance of the Address was notimmediately appreciated (the Ad-dress appears on page 40 of the pro-ceedings entitled "President Lin-coln's Speech"), the reporter notesfive points at which the speech wasinterrupted by applause and, at theclose, that it received "Long contin-ued applause."

The description of the event bythe Chicago Times cannot be takenseriously. The Times was the Demo-cratic Party's instrument, describingLincoln as "Uriah Heap" during theLincoln-Douglas Debates, claimingin one case that Lincoln had to beremoved from Douglas's presence byhis friends who "Seeing that his mindwas wandering, took him in chargeand bundled him off the ground."

With respect to Edward Ever-ett's compliment regarding the Ad-dress, Lincoln's response should benoted. He wrote back to Everett,thanking him for his sentiments andnoting that the audience would nothave put up with a shorter speechthan two hours from Everett, andwould not have countenanced alonger speech from himself.

David R. Macdonald '52Washington, DC

Associate Editor Paul Cody, authorof the article, responds: Mr. Mac-donald is correct in noting the inac-curacy of our reporting on the dateof Lincoln's death. We regret the er-ror. But to imply that Lincoln'sspeech, like the man himself, wastreated in his time with the kind ofrespect and honor that it—and he—deserved (and with which they arenow regarded) is far from accurate.Lincoln himself regarded the speechas "a flat failure," as he told hisfriend Ward Lamon, and the smat-tering of applause that interruptedthe speech and greeted its ending ledLincoln to note that "The people aredisappointed," as many newspapersof the day reported. As the eminenthistorian Shelby Foote notes, Lin-coln had indeed been invited toGettysburg almost as an after-thought, and he was considered byboth Democrats and many fellowRepublicans as a "political cipher."As Matthew reminds us in theBible, "A prophet is not withouthonor, save in his own country."

Editor: When I arrived at Cornell asa freshman in the fall of 1969, at thesuggestion of my high school historyteacher I went to see the university'scopy of the Gettysburg Address. Atthe time I thought, and still do, thatCornell could receive tremendousfavorable public reaction by puttingits copy on display in Gettysburgrather than keeping it locked awayin a library vault. I then started adialogue between the university andthe National Park Service. This wenton for about a year, with Cornell's finalposition being that the United Statesgovernment has three copies of theGettysburg Address—put one of itson display, we aren't giving ours up.

Several local civic groups workedto get a copy of the Gettysburg Ad-dress on display in Gettysburg butfailed.

After graduation I then revivedthe effort by petitions and public

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LETTERS

relations requests to the Library ofCongress. Finally, in 1979, a copy ofLincoln's Gettysburg Address beganits display for all "the people" to see.

Paul S. Witt 73Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

SORRY STATE

Editor: Re: "Faculty Survey: Rhodes'sSuccessor Should Support Research"("News," November). The faculty'spreference for research over under-graduate teaching and even freespeech in choosing university lead-ership is symptomatic of what ailsAmerican higher education.

"Research," of course, brings fatgrants from the government andfoundations. The term now covers amultitude of sins, as faculty neglectundergraduates and teaching in fa-vor of selfish grantsmanship and thepublication of arcane articles in tinyjournals read only by other academ-ics. The resulting sorry state of un-dergraduate teaching will not bereversed by university presidentsdrawn from within the academy.Memo for prospective students andtheir parents: Caveat emptor.

On the multicultural front: nexttime Dinesh D'Sousa visits campus,please publish his remarks, even ifyou must condense them. The man'swords are much more important thanhis picture.

Robert Fairchild '66Hampton, Virginia

LAING LAUDED

Editor: In August '94 Laing E. Ken-nedy '63 resigned as Cornell's direc-tor of athletics and physical educa-tion after 35 productive years serv-ing Cornell, first as an All-Americanhockey goalie, then in a variety ofposts around campus.

In 1983, Laing became Cornell'sdirector of athletics and physicaleducation. Cornell's athletic directordoes not find available large rev-enues from football or basketball, nordoes he have the expense (or ben-efit) of athletic scholarships. Never-theless, Cornell has one of the mostcomplete athletic programs in thecountry. Laing also served as Cor-nell's able representative on NCAA,ECAC and Ivy League committees.

Since 1974, Laing has been avolunteer member of the RobisonCommittee, which oversees the dis-tribution of funds for projects involv-ing athletics, physical education, theUniversity Library and the Planta-tions. Among the Robison Commit-tee-aided projects Kennedy workedon are the renovation of Barton Halland Schoellkopf Field, the irrigationof Upper Alumni Field, the construc-tion of the new Equestrian Centerand the expansion of the GrummanSquash Courts. Thanks to Laing'swork, Cornell today has some of thefinest competitive facilities in the IvyLeague.

Cornell can also take pride in themeasures Laing Kennedy has sup-ported. In 1992, more than 30,000students played intramural sports onJessup Field alone; add to this orga-nized participations at other locationsand the number becomes 55,000.The Outdoor Education Programoffers recreational opportunities tomore than 2,000 students.

Again Cornell leads the way.Thanks, Laing Kennedy!

John Hawkins '28Delmar, New York

CONTENTION REJECTEDEditor: As a woman professor, as wellas a Cornell alumna, I absolutelyreject Meredith Small's contentionthat it is part of my job to be a "rolemodel" ("Someone to Look Up To,"November) and I sure hope I neverget such an inflated opinion of my-self that I expect students to regardme as "someone to look up to."

The view that women faculty areobliged to be role models and,"whether they want the job or not,"to take on an extra "burden ofmentoring" not shared by their malecolleagues is clearly sexist, as it as-signs women faculty a special rolebased on gender, rather than abilityand inclination. The role model men-tality also insults women students,by treating them like children.

Here's a suggestion for womenfaculty who "get so tired" of being rolemodels with far more counseling andmentoring responsibilities than theirmale colleagues: Just say no.

Felicia Ackerman '68Providence, RI

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Aprils FoolsBY PAUL CODY

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LETTERS

Ackerman teaches philosophy atBrown University.

LEARNING LANGUAGE

Editor: Having just completed teach-ing certification in English as a sec-ond language, and having taken sev-eral courses on theories of languageacquisition, I read Hillel Hoffmann'sarticle "Born to Speak" ("Research,"November) with great enthusiasmand some prior knowledge.

Prof. Barbara Lust's work soundsfascinating, and I wish I could be apart of such "hands on" researchrather than simply reading about it.However, the phenomenon of "Uni-versal Grammar" was originated byNoam Chomsky in the 1950s. Thisis not an original term invented atthe Language Acquisition Lab atCornell in 1994. Dr. Lust's researchcertainly adds credibility to thistheory, and her mapping techniqueshave far-reaching implications for theteaching of second languages and forhelping to overcome, or compensatefor, language aphasia and certainlearning disabilities.

Thank you, Dr. Lust and col-leagues for taking this theory andrunning with it. Hopefully, in the nearfuture, we educators will have con-crete techniques at our disposalwhich will facilitate the teaching ofsecond languages, much as they arein foreign countries.

Judith Reiser Powell '68Livingston, New Jersey

STRAW AUTOMOBILE

Editor: Talk about setting up a strawman (or automobile)! Poor RachelDickinson ("Pregnant Again, Fifties-Style," November) can't find a car bigenough for her brood.

Let me recommend my Tauruswagon, American made, which car-ries five with ease. Or my daughter's(Lisa Aronson Fontes '82) MercuryVillager, a seven-passenger vehiclewhich carries Lisa, husband Carlos,daughters AnaLua and Marlena, in-laws Carmina and Moises and En-glish-as-a-second-language student,Angie. The Mercury is also Ameri-can made.

Son Eric Aronson '82 drives a carI heartily suggest to Ms. Dickinson,

although it's not American made.The all-wheel-drive Subaru Legacyis not only spacious and comfortablebut can conquer Ithaca's hills inCornell's icy winter. She and herbrood will be safe, warm and backhome with no delay.

Rachel, discuss this with thosesuperbrains at Telluride, if they canget away from global philosophicalproblems for a full 15 minutes. Stoplonging for the great big Americancars of the '50s. They are here still,only streamlined and better looking.The main virtue of the old cars wasthe room for getting pregnant in theback seat.

Shepard G. Aronson '33, MD '37Tappan, New York

SOMEWHAT BIASED

Editor: I found your article "TheBattle Over Birth" (November) to besomewhat biased, attacking physi-cians as money-hungry doctorselecting to perform Cesarean sec-tions to earn extra cash. Ten monthsago, I gave birth to a healthy babygirl at The New York Hospital-Cor-nell Medical Center. I had a great ob-stetrician throughout my pregnancywho ensured that all the necessarytests were completed, including anultrasound done by one of Dr. Cher-venak's technicians. [Medical Col-lege Prof. Frank Chervenak wascited in the article.] After I leaked asmall amount of fluid three weeksprematurely, on Christmas Eve, shechose not to perform a C-section(after completing a biophysical pro-file/non-stress test) and told me togo home and enjoy Christmas. Mydue date Qanuary 12) came and went.My obstetrician thought I was goingto have a big baby and two days laterwe elected to simply break my wa-ter and see what would happen.Eleven hours later my eight pound,15-ounce daughter was born via anormal vaginal delivery with no com-plications.

Had my doctor elected to per-form a C-section, her charge to doso would only have been a small por-tion of her overall compensation.Even in a high malpractice area suchas Manhattan, she chose to wait itout. My real complaint is with theinsurance companies and the hospi-

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tal. The insurance company did notreimburse me for a routine lab test(about $200) but reimbursed thehospital for the average cost of adelivery without complications in-cluding room and board. In my case,my new baby and I elected to leavea day early but the hospital overbilledand the insurance company paid it!In all, this cost a few thousand dol-lars more.

It's too bad Congress can't get itsact together and address these is-sues. But please don't pick on all thedoctors.

Kellie Reynolds Bosenberg '87Middleton, Wisconsin

BIGGER NOT BETTEREditor: Having just arrived in SanFrancisco via Portland, Seattle andVancouver, I was overwhelmed bythe sheer numbers of people. Driv-ing from the vast and wild Alaskanboreal forests south through BritishColumbia and down the West Coast,I mourned the progressive loss ofopen spaces where instant commu-nities, malls and expressways haveinsatiably gobbled up rich farmland,woodlands and pastures.

Reading the several articlesabout birth in your November issue,I couldn't help but reflect on the ever-exploding population growth in ournation and world, and wonderedwhere it all will end. How much isenough? It's a shame we don't seemany articles about the effects of somany people on resources, quality oflife and healthcare.

I'd guess Cornell graduates andfaculty are like most people in want-ing a good life for themselves andtheir families. More people in theworld, however, seems to me todetract from a high quality of life.More and bigger isn't necessarilybetter.

John DouglasFairbanks, Alaska

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of the debate of the last few years isflawed because it denies the realityof how students make friends. Thefirst people you meet upon arrivingat Cornell are those who live in yourresidence hall. Then you meetpeople in your classes. From theseinitial contacts, you soon meetfriends of friends who live in differ-ent areas and attend differentclasses. I lived in Founders Hall fortwo years and had a great time withmy fellow residents. I met peoplefrom around the country and theworld, and they always shared theircultures with those around them. Itwas a natural learning process be-cause it took place during my dailyactivities.

Although I attended culturalevents throughout my Cornell ex-perience, I learned more about dif-ferent cultures from my friends inFounders Hall. Living off campus fortwo years provided similar opportu-nities because social engagementswere more free-spirited and at-tended by an even more diversegroup of friends. I never thought "Iwish there was a Korean LivingCenter so that I could learn abouttheir culture."

As more and more minority stu-dents attend Cornell, residence hallswill become less and less "white."Placing freshmen in living centerswould counter this natural trend.Students are free to choose ethnicand religious living arrangements,including fraternity houses. Letthem make that choice after experi-encing a mix of cultures, somethingthat can only result from living inuniversity-supported, all-inclusiveresidence halls.

John-David Bamford '94Evanston, Wyomingjdbamford@aol.com

WHO'S FABELHAFT?

Editor: It used to be that when I gotthe old Alumni News, I would glancethrough the articles, read the Classof '37 column, then go to the obitsand maybe read one or two itemsbefore depositing it in the round file!

Now it takes me an afternoonjust to get to the "Class Notes"—and who really cares that much aboutthe obits, though it is sad to read how

we are dropping off each month. Andthere are too many items. I reallyhave to file stories for future refer-ence. If I can screw up my courageto hit the Infobahn, I may be back toyou on cornell.e-mail, though be-tween learning the intricacies ofWP6.0, scanning, and my Globalinktranslator, I really should go back toschool! All the same, I do have thetime to learn by my mistakes.

The magazine is fabelhaft undunwahrscheinlich interessant ge-worden so that I do congratulate allof you.

James G. Dodge '37Imst, Austria

Danke, Herr Dodge. For those read-ers whose German is rusty, ourkind reader has told us that themagazine is "fabulous and hasbecome incredibly interesting."Dodge and his work with children'svillages were featured in "KinderCare," March 1991 CornellAlumni News.

WHOSE BRAINS?Editor: In the excellent Decemberissue of CornellMagazine I find at lasta name in the '47 column of "ClassNotes" that rings a bell: No Brains.

Edmund T. Weiant '47, V-12Charleston, South Carolina

Correction: Our October articleabout the Internet ("CyberspacedOut") stated incorrectly thatBurundi's annual budget was $326billion. It is $326 million. Ourthanks to Walter Southworth '25 forpointing out—via the Internet, noless—the error.

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A Dean's Dean Calls it QuitsAg college Dean David Call is retiring in June. His

legacy is a new way of studying food systems.

David Lincoln Call '54, PhD '61,the Ronald P. Lynch '58 Deanof the College of Agricultureand Life Sciences, has over-seen what he calls a "paradigm

shift" in both the study and practiceof agriculture. Call will retire in Juneafter 45 years of direct involvementwith the Ag school—as undergradu-ate, doctoral candidate, professor andadministrator. And since 1978, asdean, Call has helped the Ag collegemove from a "more parochial" insti-tution concerned first and foremostwith agricultural production to onethat deals with virtually every as-pect—from the molecular to the glo-bal—of what Call describes as the"food system."

"Forget the word agriculture andlet's say we're the college for the foodsystem," he says. "Diet, nutrition andhealth, the price of food and com-modities, how food gets onto super-market shelves, food production.Everybody eats, so we have to beconcerned with every aspect of howthat food goes from the farm to thetable. That includes soil and waterand the environmental issues thatsurround agriculture. A lot of theproblems agriculture faces are goingto be solved with answers that comefrom biotechnology, and that dependson computers and modern biology.And we want to disseminate this in-formation to the broadest possiblerange of people, so electronic infor-mation becomes important. What wehave here is a sense of what a mod-ern college of agriculture can be andwhy it's important to keep that outfront for people to see."

New York State could not havefound a better-prepared person torun its land grant college. Call, theyoungest of six children, was bornand raised on his family's farm inBatavia, in western New York. His

Paradigm shift: Call, on his Roberts balcony, has overseen a change inthe way agriculture is studied and practiced.

family has long and deep connectionsto Cornell—his father, Robert V. Call'17, and all five of his siblings have atleast one Cornell degree; brotherRichard C. Call '52 who co-owns oneof the state's largest farms withbrother Robert '50, is a member ofthe Board of Trustees; David's wife,Mary Gentry Call '54, served as aTompkins County legislator; nieces,nephews; in-laws; and children toonumerous to mention also attendedCornell.

Call's father paid him a quarterfor each woodchuck he could shoot,even though young Dave's favoritepet was—you guessed it—a wood-chuck. He enrolled at Cornell in thefall of 1950, and spent summers dur-ing college in the Midwest as part ofa combine team that harvestedwheat. He eventually earned his PhD

in agricultural economics in 1961.After two years as a professor of agec at Michigan State, he returned tothe Hill as the H.E. Babcock profes-sor of food economics.

Call got his first taste of the ad-ministrative life in 1973 when formeruniversity Provost Robert Planeapproached him about considering anadministrative position at Cornell. "Ihad served on some committees andPlane said to me, Ύou're always com-plaining about how the administra-tion never does anything right, sohere's your chance to show how it'ssupposed to be done,'" Call remem-bers.

The opportunity came at just theright time in Call's career. "I hadbeen the Babcock professor in thegraduate school of nutrition for 12years and I was having trouble keep-

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Part of CalΓs advantage, accord-ing to some university observers, ishis ability to fix things. "I wouldn'tnecessarily say that he has the schol-arly vision that some other deanshave, but nobody else is as good atsolving problems as Dave Call," saysuniversity archivist Gould Colman

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'51, PhD '62, author of a history ofthe Ag college. "He is utterly con-centrated on problem solving, andthat's what makes him so damned ef-fective."

Call has had more than his shareof problems to solve. In the late 1980sand early 1990s, the state of NewYork significantly cut the college'sbudget (the state, through the StateUniversity of New York system,currently provides 38% of the col-lege's operating budget), forcing Callto make cutbacks. "We went twoyears without a pay raise and justbefore those years we hired someyoung faculty members," he says."We didn't know at the time we hiredthem that they'd go two years with-out a raise, and some of them suf-fered. That's part of the job I coulddo without. I don't like dealing withdisappointed people. We did what wecould for them, but it's still hard."

Another problem the dean hashad to deal with is faculty turnover,although in typical Call fashion hesees this more as an opportunity thana difficulty. More than half of thefaculty members teaching when Callbecame dean in 1978 have retired.In one year alone, 1982, some 40professors retired. Turnover is notalways associated with the longtimehealth of an organization, but Callsees it as the source of one of Ag'sgreat strengths. It has allowed thecollege to increase the number offemale faculty members more thantenfold and to hire faculty memberswith the skills necessary to take theCALS where it needs to go—wher-ever that may be.

"When we hire a tenure track

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assistant professor, there's a 70 to80 percent chance that that individualis going to be with us until he or sheretires," Call says. "So we're mak-ing a 30- to 40-year commitment.And I've always viewed the hiringprocess as one of the most impor-tant things we do."

"First, you have to define the po-sition. Is this an area of science that'sgoing to be important to the State ofNew York and this college in 30 to40 years? And is this an individualbright enough to adjust to changes—because in 20 years he or she is prob-ably going to be working in an areavery much different from what wehired him or her to do. It's the na-ture of scholarship."

Call says that the wholesale de-partures of 1982 allowed the schoolto redefine its mission and focus onan area that has won the collegemuch attention, acclaim and, perhapsmost importantly, research grants,in the past decade: biotechnology.

I n the mid-1980s, the collegehired five professors to act as thecore of the university's plant bio-technology program. The efforthas flourished: now, hundreds of

university faculty members work onbiotechnology projects, and NewYork State's biotechnology center ishoused on campus.

Call considers the creation andgrowth of the biotech program as oneof the achievements of his tenure ofwhich he is most proud. It's part ofhis philosophy, as he described it inhis year-end letter to Ag alumni, of"riding your winners and cutting yourlosers." "I'm also quite proud of the

establishment of the American IndianProgram and the Entrepreneurshipand Personal Enterprise Program,"he says. "They affect the entire uni-versity."

"We've had to make some pain-ful decisions in the last few years, butthey were made for the good of thecollege," Call says. "They've helpedus redirect the college in a way thatprepares us for the future—of thecollege, the university and the futureof the state."

Will Call miss his job? The an-swer is a qualified yes. "This is prob-ably the best job at the university,"he says. "You have a large enoughunit with enough flexibility and a fi-nancial base that allows you to dothings. You can—pardon the pun—plant seeds and watch them grow andhoe them out if you need to. I can bea leader here. But on the other hand,after I step down I'll be able to setmy own schedule. I have to be hereevery Memorial Day for Commence-ment, and to be honest with you I'drather be fly-fishing. [Call owns anAdirondack camp.] Now I can."

Call plans to write a monographon the food system, and to take sometime to figure out what to do "withthe rest of my life." He sits on thegoverning boards of Seneca Foodsand Mutual of New York, which hesays ought to help keep him busy.But not as busy as his 17-year ten-ure as dean. "I'll miss the job," Callsays, showing a visitor to the door."But it's time for someone else tocall the shots."

Then, offering a hand: "It's beena privilege."

—Stephen Madden '86

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The list of contributors as well as a collection of letters will bepresented to Dean Call in June at Reunion. If you would like tomake a gift to the fund or have a letter included in the presenta-tion, direct your mail to: The David L. Call Fund, ALS Public Affairs,272 Roberts Hall, lthaca? NY 14853-4203.

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LETTER FROM ITHACA

Evolution on the I I How one Ithαcα kidleft town—and thecame back, and it wasall so different.

I thaca," says Keith Johnson'56, "was an idyllic place togrow up in the 1940s. Therewere wonderful woods allaround and great places to

wander. It seems as though it snowedmuch of the time, and we did lots ofsledding as kids." Johnson's fatherwas John R. Johnson, the Todd pro-fessor of chemistry, who taught atCornell from 1927 to 1965. Hismother, Hope Anderson Johnsonearned her MA at Cornell in 1925."We lived in Cayuga Heights,"Johnson says, "across the street fromHans Bethe." [Nobel laureate Betheis the John Wendell Anderson pro-fessor of physics, emeritus.]

He remembers going with hisfather to Baker Lab, and a half-cen-tury later, he recalls the strong anddistinct chemical smells there. "Iremember World War II," Johnsonsays, "and the trainees drilling onSage Green, near where the Engi-neering Quad is today. During andafter the war, there were barracks-

like dorms on campus to help housethe overflow of students. Thingswere beginning to change, but whenI started as a student at Cornell in1952, I think there were only twoblacks in my class, and almost nowomen faculty members outside ofthe College of HomeEconomics. If womenstudents wore shorts oncampus, they were sup-posed to wear a raincoatover their shorts."

Those changes, andthat utterly differentworld, gave Johnson theidea for writing a bookthat would pick up ex-actly where MorrisBishop's A History ofCornell left off—at almostthe very same time thatKeith Johnson was afreshman on the Hill.

"There was a very strong senseof community in Ithaca and atCornell," Johnson says. "And eventhough Cornell was probably farmore diverse in both academic and

hat happened to Americanuniversities after World War II—the de-mocratization of higher education, theinflux of federal dollars into research, theG\ Bill, the changes in student life, theprotests, the changes in the roles ofwomen and minorities—has had aprofound effect on society as a whole,just as the tumult in society hasaltered universities/'

Keith Johnson '56

socioeconomic terms than, say,Princeton or Yale, that strong senseof community here was probablyeasy to build with such a relativelyhomogeneous population. The fewAsian and black students you'd seeon campus were far more likely to

be from Africa or Asiathan from America."

After graduatingPhi Beta Kappa with ahistory degree, John-son spent a frustratingyear at Harvard LawSchool before movingto Manhattan to jointhe staff of the NewYork Herald Tribune.The Tribune wasknown as a writer'snewspaper; Johnsoncovered city and statepolitics before moving

to Time Inc., where he would spendthe next 32 years writing and editingin New York, Los Angeles, Washing-ton, DC, Paris, London, and for a fewmonths in the late 1960s, Vietnam.Johnson was a founding editor ofMoney when it was launched in 1972,was executive editor of Discover andfinished his Time Inc. career at iw-tune, where he was on the board ofeditors for nine years.

"In 1990,1 had a sabbatical leavefrom Fortune'' Johnson says. "I was55 years old, and I asked myself whatI wanted to do with the rest of mylife." He thought of Prof. MorrisBishop '13, PhD '26, the Kappa Al-pha professor of Romance languages,emeritus. Bishop, who died in No-vember 1973, was a huge presenceon campus. "He was larger than life,and he had this great mane of whitehair and a white mustache, a won-derful baritone voice and a big, fulllaugh," says Johnson, who studiedFrench literature with Bishop, and,as editor in chief of the Daily Sun,

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invited Bishop to speak at the paper'sannual banquet.

He had always admired Bishop'sA History of Cornell—Johnson'smother gave him a copy of the bookfor his 27th birthday, inscribed byBishop. "It's one of the best histo-ries of a university," Johnson says."Bishop was a great storyteller, andhis history was a series of superblytold tales. He knew many of thepeople he wrote about in the book,and had lived through half of Cornell'shistory himself."

Bishop could speak a half-dozenlanguages and had written scholarlybooks as well as biographies of LaRochefoucauld and Champlain. Healso contributed light verse and shortstories to the New Yorker for morethan three decades; he was knownfor the wit, grace and lucidity of hiswriting.

In the early 1960s, PresidentDeane W. Malott asked Bishop towrite a history of the university intime for its Centennial, and gave hima year's leave from teaching to writethe book. Malott told this magazinethat it actually took Bishop only threeor four months to write A History ofCornell Published by Cornell Univer-sity Press in 1962, the book is nowin its sixth printing.

As good as Bishop's book is, saysUniversity Archivist Gould Colman'51, PhD '62, himself the author of ahistory of the Ag college, A Historyof Cornell has some flaws. "Bishopwas hired and paid for the work byMalott, and in some ways he wasbeholden to Malott," Colman says."And while Bishop is superb whenhe's writing about students and tell-ing stories, he doesn't do as well inthe larger historical sense—of relat-ing the particulars of Cornell's his-tory to larger themes and larger his-torical events."

After his sabbatical fromFortune,Johnson began to ask people atCornell if anyone was working on afollow-up to Bishop's book. "Cornellis almost squarely placed betweenHarvard, the great private university,and the University of California,Berkeley, the great public university.It is both public and private, and insome ways you can argue that Cor-nell is the quintessential Americanuniversity," Johnson says. "And what

happened to American universitiesafter the Manhattan Project and af-ter World War II—the massive de-mocratization of higher education,the influx of federal dollars into re-search, the GI Bill, the vast changesin student life, the protests, thechanges in the roles of women andminorities—has had a profound ef-fect on society as a whole, just as thetumult in society has altered univer-sities. The cares and turmoil of theworld used to be held at arm's lengthfrom the university, but that allchanged."

The more Johnson looked intothe project, the more enthusiasm hefelt for the idea of a book aboutCornell after World War II. Why notuse Cornell as a paradigm for theimmense changes that have rockedAmerican society in the years sincethe war? Pick up more or less whereBishop left off (at the same momentthat Johnson began at Cornell as afreshman), but do a history thatwould be more thematic than anec-dotal, to fit the post-war years?

So when he retired fromFortuneat the end of 1993, Johnson knewwhat he wanted to do. He had beenlaying the groundwork for his projectsince his sabbatical year. Now he isa visiting scholar associated withCornell's Division of Rare and Manu-script Collections. He has a window-less office three levels below thelawn between Goldwin Smith andStimson halls, and he spent much ofhis time last fall sifting through thou-sands of documents, in the dozensand dozens of cartons of the papersof Cornell's presidents, from DeaneMalott to President Rhodes. Presi-dent James Perkins left 44 cartonsof papers, Malott left 33, almost 135came from Dale Corson and some400—thus far—from PresidentRhodes, 1.3 million pages just fromthe last four Cornell presidents. Addto that hundreds of cartons of papersfrom the faculty minutes of meetings,for example, hundreds of interviewswith everyone from President Per-kins to Tom Jones '69 (who helpedlead the takeover of Willard StraightHall in 1968 and is now a member ofthe Board of Trustees) to PresidentRhodes to emeritus ILR professorMaurice Neufeld—and Keith John-son has plenty to keep him busy.

"It's a little daunting," he says,"the scope of this project. But I'm nottrying to do it in one year, and al-though I'll have the full cooperationof the university and I have a facultyID card, I'm not being paid by theuniversity." Johnson will spend eachfall for the next few years in Ithaca,and the rest of the year reading andwriting in his Manhattan apartmentand his Connecticut home. And howlong will it take? "It takes as long asit takes," Johnson says, laughing,quoting a Fortune colleague.

So after spending most of his first22 years in Ithaca, and the next 30-something years reporting on theseismic shifts in the larger world,Johnson has found a quiet place to putthe two together. To study and writeabout how the world and the univer-sity have changed, and how he re-turned to the place of his childhood,and it was all so strangely—andmaybe happily—different.

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taking dietary supplements.

A ccording to Cornell nutritionalscientists, drinking orangejuice may reduce the risk ofdeveloping cancer. The secretingredient is not vitamin C.

Nor is it anything you can buy in adietary supplement. OJ gets its anti-carcinogenic powers from the mix ofpigments, aromatic oils and othercompounds that make it up. Thewhole, in this case, is better than thesum of the parts.

"When most people think aboutnutrition and orange juice, they thinkabout vitamin C," admits nutritionalscience Prof. Robert S. Parker. "Butthere are a lot of other things in or-ange juice that we don't understandyet."

Over 95 percent of the "wetweight" of orange juice is water. Thenutritious, disease-fighting parts ofthe juice are hidden in the remain-der. Some components, like sugarsand vitamin C, are water-soluble.Others, constituting roughly tenpercent of orange juice's dry weight,are fat-soluble. They include pig-ments and essential oils, which arethe primary ingredients in aromaticorange extracts, flavenoids, vitamin

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E and thousands of other compounds,many of them unidentified.

"An orange without these fat-soluble things wouldn't be very in-teresting," says Parker. "First of all,it wouldn't be orange."

Parker and collaborator MartinM. Root 73, MS '91, a doctoral can-didate, had reason to suspect that thefat-soluble constituents were prom-ising. Earlier studies suggested thatsome of the fat-soluble compoundsin fruit and vegetable juices, like beta-carotene and flavenoids, might haveanticarcinogenic properties. But inorder to determine which elementsmight prevent the development ofcancer, the researchers needed toseparate the different fat-solublecompounds into fractions.

Parker and Root created an ex-tract of orange juice's fat-solublecompounds by adding an organicsolvent to frozen concentrate. Com-binations of other solvents wereadded to portions of the extract toobtain two subtractions: one contain-ing all of the carotenoid pigments andmost of the essential oils, anothercontaining primarily flavenoids.

The team then fed the wholeextract, the pigment/oil subfraction,the flavenoid subfraction and a con-trol liquid to four groups of rats thathad ingested aflatoxin, a powerfulcarcinogen. The rats that receivedthe whole extract developed 40 per-cent fewer precancerous lesions thanthe rats that ate the control liquid.The rats that ingested the subtrac-tions with suspected anticarcinogenicpowers did not develop significantlyfewer precancerous lesions.

Parker and Root entertain twopossible explanations for their re-sults. One is that perhaps the com-pounds in the two subfractions arealtered or destroyed during theirchemical creation. But far more pro-vocative is the thought that sub-stances from both subfractions arerequired to inhibit the formation ofprecancerous lesions. "Perhaps, byseparating the subfractions, wesomehow lost the cooperative, con-certed action of a number of differ-ent components," hypothesizesParker. "That's a very exciting pos-sibility. It suggests that when itcomes to protection from diseaseprovided by foods, attempts to iso-

late single active ingredients may beinappropriate. From a dietary stand-point, that would be important, be-cause it would indicate that a protec-tive effect would be best obtained byconsuming the foods themselves asopposed to one or two componentsof these foods."

How much orange juice would ittake to receive the same benefits asthe rats that ate the whole fat-solubleextract? Parker estimates that ahuman would have to drink a gallonof juice a day to get a proportionaldose.

"That's not realistic for mostpeople," he admits. "But the protec-tive effect that we observed was verylikely to underestimate the protec-tive effect of the intact, unfraction-ated juice. We didn't include any ofthe water-solubles, like vitamin C,"another likely anticarcinogen. Par-ker's advice: next time, considerskipping the vitamin aisle and headstraight for the produce or juiceaisles.

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Ozone remains a public health para-dox. Too much ozone in the tropo-sphere, the layer of the atmospherenearest the earth, irritates the eyes,nose and lungs. Too little ozone inthe stratosphere, the layer just abovethe troposphere, leaves humans vul-nerable to ultraviolet radiation, caus-ing skin cancers and cataracts.

Scientists understand the chemi-cal processes that create the low-altitude ozone surplus and high-alti-tude ozone decline. But wheneverchemists tried to calculate ozonelevels, they always came up short.For years, measuring instruments onweather balloons and satellites foundten to 30 percent more ozone thanatmospheric models predicted. Ateam of chemists led by chemistryProf. Paul L. Houston has discovereda mechanism that explains the infa-mous "ozone deficit." Improved pre-cision of prediction will allow policy-makers to make more informed de-cisions when regulating automobileexhaust, chlorofluorocarbons andother emissions that affect ozonelevels.

And every little bit helps. "Evena one-percent decrease of ozone in

the stratosphere will cause 50,000skin cancer cases and 100,000 cata-ract cases a year," Houston says.

Ozone molecules are formedwhen oxygen molecules combinewith rare "free" oxygen atoms. Nor-mal ground level air contains less thanone part ozone per million parts air.Excess ozone is created in the tropo-sphere when nitric oxide from auto-mobile exhaust and other sourcesstarts a chain of reactions leading tothe production of oxygen atoms,which then recombine with worka-day oxygen molecules. About ten to30 miles above the earth's surface,normal ozone levels hover around sixparts per million parts air—enoughto form a UV-ray-absorbing shield.Ozone is destroyed when it absorbsultraviolet light. The breakdown ofozone in the stratosphere is catalyzedby chlorofluorocarbons from aerosolpropellants and refrigerants, whichcreate ozone-destroying chlorine.

Houston tested his theories atground level. He and his colleaguesblasted ozone with a laser, disassoci-ating the O3 molecules into fragmentsof O and O2 They expected that theO fragments would end up on oneparticular place on the screen. In-stead, they found O fragments clus-tered in two areas—some fragmentstraveled slower than others.

Houston believes that slow-mov-ing fragments translate some of theenergy from the disassociation oftheir ozone "parent" into vibrationalmotion. That means that a fraction ofthe molecular fragments of ozone (Oand O2) in the air are flying around inwhat Houston calls "a high state ofvibrational excitation."

If their vibrational energy is highenough, the collision of two "excited"O2 molecules yields ozone and a freeoxygen atom. The resulting oxygenatom can then recombine with otherO2 molecules to form even moreozone.

Can this newly discovered modeof ozone production account for theozone calculation deficit? "Recentcalculations of the concentration ofstratospheric ozone that include thenew reaction are now in agreementwith measurements," says Houston."The deficit is greatly reduced at allaltitudes."

—HUM I Hoffmann '85

MARCH 199519

STUDENTS

Cornell's Ride

Board will get

you out of

Ithaca, prob-

ably home and

maybe arrested

or in love.

Highway to Home, Heaven or Hell

Anyone who has spent timearound a college campus hasprobably witnessed thatstrange phenomenon, at theonset of holiday breaks, and on

many weekends throughout theyear—the Collegiate Exodus. Dur-ing these times, everyone who canfly, drive, walk, hobble or swim isdoing so in a mad attempt to get asfar from campus as possible. Trafficpiles up on the highways, cars withsuitcases, boxes and bags of dirtylaundry hanging out of them streamthrough campus and frantic studentsare scrambling to get away any waythey can.

Like many notions born of des-peration, the necessities of the exo-dus breed strange company. Thosewho can't pay for a bus ticket, or can'tafford gas for the car they alreadyown, often resort to sharing rideswith complete strangers whomight—or might not—be going theirway. The three ride boards on cam-

pus are located in the Willard StraightHall lobby, at Noyes Center and onCUInfo. They are well-trafficked,especially before major breaks, withclose to 100 notices posted before thewinter break this year. The boardsare a kind of unofficial hitchhiker'sguide to out-of-here, where thewould-be rider or ride-giver posts anote in the proper geographic spoton the board, and those who need toconnect watch the postings.

This is a semicivilized process,and one which becomes increasinglycreative as break gets closer andcloser. A note which early in thesemester might read, "Looking for aride home to Poughkeepsie overChristmas break, will pay my shareof gas and tolls" might end up onDecember 20 sounding more like:"My mother is very ill and all my busmoney is going toward hospital bills.My dog misses me, too. If you haveany humanity left, please take mehome."

Those who succeed in getting aride usually arrive home on time, andsome even manage to have fun do-ing it. One grad student says, "It'sbeen a good experience. I'm comfort-able with it—people are very cour-teous." As Suzanne Ehlers '95 ofDallas puts it, "It's a way to meetsomeone new. There's nothing likea car ride to get to know someone. Iended up getting my roommatehooked up with a serious boyfriend.He took me to Boston for Fall Break,and then took her home for Thanks-giving. They dated for over a year."

But romance is the farthest thingfrom most students' minds whilethey're on the road. If a car ride is away to get to know someone, it canalso be an effective way to come todetest him or her. Twelve or eightor six or even two hours can seemas long as sitting through a root ca-nal when you're trapped in a car withsomeone who really gets on yournerves.

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"I deserved everything I got be-cause I didn't offer a ride until waytoo late," says David Banfield, a se-nior chemistry major. "I just threwmy name out there to catch the laststragglers who were as lazy as I was.The first call was from a guy headingto northwestern Pennsylvania," hesays. "It wasn't far out of the way,plus I was desperate for gas money."David left a message, thinking all wassettled—then a panicked communi-cation from another would-be ridercame his way on the Internet. It wasa classic case—a feminine-soundingname, a broken-down car, and noother possibility ofgetting to StateCollege for the holi-day. "Sucker forwhat I thought wasa woman in dis-tress, I said, 'Sure,it's only threehours out of myway. What thehell.'"

"On Wednes-day morning, Ipicked up Harry[rider number one,not his real name]and started off tofind Penelope [ridernumber two, alsonot a real name].We got to the bagel shop and couldn'tfind Penelope. I finally called outPenelope's name and found out that'she' was actually an Indian man of30." During the course of the roadtrip, David found out that Penelopewasn't even celebrating Thanksgiv-ing. "Turns out his wife goes toschool at State College, and he goesto visit two or three times a month.This was just a regular visit. I startedfeeling less and less goodhearted, butit was too late." Snow set in a shortwhile later.

Bob McMurray, a freshman fromNorth Carolina, had similar problemsgetting home for Thanksgiving."Dreading the thought of a Big AΓspizza for Thanksgiving dinner, eventhough I had a coupon, I searchedvaliantly for a ride," he says. "But theclosest I could get was a little townin Virginia named Warrenton. Myparents weren't about to drive fiveor six hours to get me, though, and

I could hear Big Al calling my name."Bob's girlfriend from home came

to the rescue. "She talked a friend ofhers into driving up to get me. Shecalled and told me the news, while Idid a little dance in my room. I wasready to go."

Not so fast, Bob. "Monday nightI got a shocking call from my girl-friend. Her friend wanted to be homeby 12:30, and we wouldn't arrive inWarrenton until 10:00 at the earli-est. There was no way we couldmake it; my girlfriend's friendcouldn't make the drive. I calledaround, and began giving up. One

hometown friend'scar was broken,one was leavingthat morning tosurf in HurricaneGordon. I had justabout given upwhen I decided tocall my stodgiestfriend back home,Dave, the leastspontaneous per-son I know. To myutter shock, hesaid yes! I dancedsome more andwent to bed."

The rest ofBob's saga went al-most smoothly.

"The next day I met up with Ed, acomputer science major with agoatee, and we started our journey,"he says. "He was driving, and I wassleeping on the mountainous bags ofdirty laundry in the back of his van.We arrived in Warrenton an hourlate, due to Ed's inability to drive onthe right road, and my friend Davewas there. I hopped in his car, kissedmy girlfriend, gave Dave a peck forgood measure, and off we sped. Wewere feeling great until about fivemiles from home, when we saw somefamiliar blue lights behind us. Thecourt date is December 28."

Not all ride-board journeys are soeventful, and not all days are so bad.But for all the peaceful road tripswhere nothing much happens, therewill always be a few "learning expe-riences." Maybe that's the kind ofthing Ezra Cornell had in mind infounding a university, after all.

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SPORTS

The Rage of Weight70 percent of women athletes

have eating disorders.

A t a team dinner the night before the 1992 Hep-tagonal Cross Country Championships, whilethe rest of the Cornell women's cross coun-try team was filling up on mounds of pastaand loaves of bread, one runner became the

object of suspicion by ordering just a bowl of soup.She covered teammates' questions by saying thatshe had eaten before the group meal and that shehad snacks in her hotel room for later.

Lou Duesing, Cornell's track and cross coun-try coach, recognized the paltry order for what itwas—a sign of an eating disorder. Duesing says thatthe occurrence of "eating problems"—such asbulimia and anorexia—goes in cycles for his team.In 1992 several of his female athletes were, he says,"at the very least, way too preoccupied with food."He encouraged them to seek therapy throughUniversity Health Services and arranged for the Nu-trition Clinic of Elmira to give a presentation to theentire team on the causes, symptoms and effects ofeating disorders. Still, two athletes left the teamthat year because of problems brought on by eatingdisorders. This year, he says, his team has a morehealthy attitude toward food.

Why do some college athletes go over the edgewith weight control? And why do some teams havemore problems than others? A recent Sports Illus-trated article reported that 70 percent of womenathletes have eating disorders, and a recent studyfrom a Toronto hospital says that as many as 60percent of "seriously anorexic" women were oncecompetitive athletes. No one keeps statistics oneating disorders at Cornell, but experts and coachesagree that while they are a problem for some BigRed athletes, they are not as prevalent on the Hillas the national figures suggest. That doesn't meanthere are no problems here.

"Athletes feel very comfortable using the latestscience in their weightlifting, equipment use andphysical training techniques, and yet I don't thinkthe majority of them nutritionally use the same kindof science," says Mary Turner DePalma, a psychol-ogy professor at Ithaca College and a member of aresearch team that studied the eating habits ofCornell and Ithaca College athletes.

Athletes sometimes use weight loss tactics asstrategies to improve athletic performance, and thegreat irony is that sometimes the deprivation actu-ally works. In sports where performance is judged,

such as gymnastics and diving, a slight figure oftenimproves scores as well as agility. In aerobic sportslike running and swimming, dropping weight allowsathletes to increase their aerobic capacity and sus-tain a faster pace for a longer period of time. Someathletes trim down to a light, but natural, competi-tion weight and improve their performance. Otherscan cross the fine line to become compulsive aboutweight loss. According to Myra Berkowitz, a regis-tered dietitian and nutrition counselor at Cornell'sGannett Health Center, the danger comes whenathletes "put the goal of reducing body fat ahead ofoverall health and wellness."

Clinical definitions of anorexia nervosa (self-imposed starvation) and bulimia nervosa (repeatedbinge/purge cycles) come from the Diagnostic andStatistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). TheDSM gives strict criteria for anorexia and bulimia,saying, for example, that anorexics must be at least15 percent lighter than the minimum body weightexpected for their height, and that bulimics mustaverage a minimum of two food binges per weekfor at least three months before being clinicallydiagnosed. Few people fit the clinical definitions pre-cisely.

"What we see in reality is a continuum of eatingpractices," says Berkowitz. If "eating disorders" arean extreme condition based on psychological prob-lems and distorted body image, then "disordered

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Men's Basketball(7-9) cumulative recordHofstra 82, Cornell 56Cornell 78, Eastern Washington 74Cornell 99, Hobart 83Army 81 , Cornell 68Cornell 80, Holy Cross 73Stanford 67, Cornell 55Notre Dame 84, Cornell 53Cornell 87, Lafayette 83Bucknell 89, Cornell 78Cornell 82, Columbia 76Cornell 94, Buffalo 92Cornell 68, Columbia 59Colgate 78, Cornell 61Yale 73, Cornell 67Brown 80, Cornell 65

Women's Basketball (6-10)Northeastern 64, Cornell 41Georgia Tech 90, Cornell 66Cornell 73, Colgate 59Georgetown 79, Cornell 58Villanova 63, Cornell 47Coppin State 59, Cornell 53American 66, Cornell 57Niagara 78, Cornell 67Buffalo 72, Cornell 49Cornell 66, Columbia 41Cornell 69, Lafayette 37Cornell 73, Columbia 48Yale 59, Cornell 54Brown 57, Cornell 50

Women's Fencing (4-14)Princeton 23, Cornell 9Columbia 21, Cornell 11Harvard 26, Cornell 6Wayne State 18, Cornell 14Temple 27, Cornell 5James Madison 20, Cornell 12N. Carolina 29, Cornell 3Air Force 25, Cornell 7Cornell 20, Long Beach State 12Cornell 21, Lawrence 11Ohio State 22, Cornell 10Cornell 18, Chicago 14Notre Dame 28, Cornell 4

Yale 29, Cornell 3Pennsylvania 29, Cornell 3

Women's Gymnastics (1-3)Vermont 181.025, Cornell 167.875Pennsylvania 183, Cornell 173.9Cornell 173.9, Indiana (PA) 159.3Ithaca College 173.33, Cornell 166.08

Men's Hockey (5-9-3)Cornell 2, Yale 2Princeton 6, Cornell 3Michigan State 9, Cornell 4Michigan Tech 7, Cornell 3Cornell 4, Union 1Rensselaer 4, Cornell 1Cornell 8, Army 2Colgate 7, Cornell 3Colgate 6, Cornell 0Cornell 8, St. Lawrence 1Cornell 4, Clarkson 4

Women's Hockey (6-8)Colby 5, Cornell 2New Hampshire 8, Cornell 1Northeastern 6, Cornell 1Cornell 4, Harvard 3Cornell 4, Middlebury 1Dartmouth 9, Cornell 0Cornell 8, Bowdoin 2Cornell 4, Yale 0Cornell 4, Harvard 2

Men's Squash (2-11)Western Ontario 9, Cornell 0Harvard 9, Cornell 0Franklin & Marshall 9, Cornell 0Cornell 5, Rochester 4Trinity 9, Cornell 0Dartmouth 7, Cornell 2Cornell 9, Tufts 0Williams 9, Cornell 0Yale 8, Cornell 1Hobart 5, Cornell 4Brown 9, Cornell 0

Men's Swimming (3-4)Cornell 135, Columbia 102

J5c ore boardf ^ m• • • • • • •Bf lBIHHMINavy 149.5, Cornell 93.5Syracuse 154, Cornell 86Princeton 183, Cornell 108

Women's Swimming (5-3)Cornell 155, Columbia 138Cornell 158, Ithaca College 129Dartmouth 159, Cornell 141Cornell 168, Syracuse 129Cornell 177, Buffalo 110Princeton 165, Cornell 127

Men's Indoor Track (5-4) 1Georgetown 106, Cornell 51Rutgers 68, Cornell 51Cornell 51, Syracuse 46.5Cornell 51 , Colgate 9.5Cornell 60, Fordham 23Cornell 60, Villanova 46Cornell 60, St. Joseph's 23Pennsylvania 133, Cornell 60Harvard 70, Cornell 66

Women's Indoor Track (5-3) !Georgetown 83, Cornell 45Penn State 80, Cornell 45Syracuse 51, Cornell 45Cornell 45, Colgate 1Cornell 87 2/3, Villanova 34 1/3Cornell 87 2/3, St. Joseph's 36Cornell 87 2/3, Fordham 13Cornell 65, Harvard 53

Wrestling (9-4)Cornell 24, Clemson 8N. Carolina 28, Cornell 12Cornell 26, Virginia 9Minnesota 25, Cornell 12Cornell 31 , Bloomsburg 4Navy 19, Cornell 13Cornell 44, Princeton 10Cornell 39, Ithaca College 6Cornell 21 , Pennsylvania 11Cornell 34, Seton Hall 6

eating behaviors" exist along theranges of the continuum, she says.

Duesing says he had athletes atvarious points of the continuum in1992, and that the severity of prob-lems varies year to year. "What weseem to have is an ebb and flow phe-nomenon," he says. "People changefrom year to year and therefore team

dynamics change."An athlete who loses weight and

improves performance can temptteammates to do the same. And, saysDePalma, coaches' and spectators'positive reactions can reinforce dis-ordered eating. "It's very reinforc-ing to the athlete," she says. "It's alsovery reinforcing to other members

of the team."Duesing recalls a runner who,

after watching a thin teammateachieve All-American status, beganto lose weight. When her weight losscontinued, he warned her that losingmore could lead to trouble. Aftertheir discussion, she worked to sta-bilize her weight. Her times contin-

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SPORTS

"The problem's not the

sport," Duesing says of

long distance running,

"and the problem isn't

the school. The prob-

lem extends a lot far-

ther back to home en-

vironment, priorities

and issues like that."

ued to drop and she became an NCAAqualifier. "It's a success story thatnever gets told because it neverbecame a problem," he says.

The nature of some sports mightfoster compulsive eating behaviorsmore than others, but in the case offull-blown eating disorders, there isusually "a pre-existing psycho-logical setupthat's just wait-ing to happen,"says Berkowitz.

"The prob-lem's not thesport," Duesingsays of long dis-tance running,"and the problemisn't the school.The problem, tome anyway, ex-tends a lot fartherback to home en-vironment, pri-orities and issueslike that." Thepressures from the competitive at-mosphere of school and sport justspark some people's obsession withweight.

T his obsession is similar to adrug or alcohol addiction, saysDuesing. "The beauty of drugsand alcohol is that they work,but only as a temporary es-

cape," he says. "You're back whereyou were and you've made thingsworse, not better. Similarly, beingunder hypercontrol of your weightcreates a solution in that you run alittle bit faster, but it also creates awhole bunch of problems becausethat obsession can grow to affect yourpersonal, social and academic life, andeverything else."

Those with disordered eatingproblems may avoid eating with oth-ers in social situations and becomeso preoccupied with food that theykeep detailed, daily accounts of whatthey've eaten. Maintaining a lowweight over sustained periods of timewhile under the stress of school andtraining makes these athletes moresusceptible to stress over time andslow to recover from sickness andinjury. Serious long-term effects in-clude amenorrhea in women, low

bone density and cardiac arrhythmia.This "anything to win" mental-

ity leading athletes to deprive them-selves for the sake of sport isn't lim-ited to women. Sports with outrightweight restrictions such as light-weight football (Cornell maintainsone of only five lightweight football

teams in thecountry) andwrestling can en-courage disor-dered eating.While some ath-letes enjoy beingcompetitive infootball and wres-tling at their natu-ral weight, othersstruggle to meetweight criteria.Wrestling CoachRob Roll says thathe'd rather havehis athletes liftweights and moveup in weight cat-egory than purge

to drop weight. "We'd like to have aguy get stronger and become a goodwrestler rather than a good weight-cutter," he says.

But the reality of the sport, hesays, is that some athletes who can'tcompete at their natural weight tryto reduce to fit into a lighter weightclass. Using purge tactics rangingfrom excessive exercise to diuretics,laxatives and self-induced vomiting,male athletes "are engaging in be-haviors that are technically the sameas eating disorders," Berkowitz says.The difference, she says, is that thesebehaviors tend to be seasonal com-petitive strategies rather than year-round, psychologically based behav-iors.

"An eating disorder is not sea-sonal," DePalma says, adding thatwhile lightweight athletes who'vestruggled to lose weight probablycan't be diagnosed with an eatingdisorder, they do sometimes experi-ence long-term effects such as for-getting to eat, eating too much, feel-ing ill at ease around food and failingto establish consistent eating pat-terns.

Koll says he never requires awrestler to drop in weight class andtries to help those who choose to do

so by inviting nutritionists to speakto his team each year about generalnutrition, dehydration and vitamins.He also says several of his wrestlershave sought nutrition counselingthrough Cornell Sports Medicine."I've never had anyone with a long-term eating disorder," he says.

Pressure from sports may helptrigger disordered eating patterns insome athletes, but teammates andcoaches can also act as a supportgroup, one that doesn't exist formany other students. Sometimes itis coaches, trainers and teammateswho spot athletes' disordered eatingbehaviors or attempts to cover themup and make referrals to profession-als.

A coach's attitude and team at-mosphere can also play an importantrole in fostering or discouraging dis-ordered eating. "Athletes sometimesreflect the disposition of theircoaches," says Duesing. Some over-ly-intense coaches at other schoolswho yell at athletes and are disap-pointed with a second-place finish, hesays, have teams with a preponder-ance of injuries and eating disorders.He says he tries to promote a"stress-free" environment at prac-tices and competitions by keepingpractices short and encouraging ath-letes to do their best rather thanpressuring them to win.

Berkowitz agrees and sayspeople should, ideally, "look at ath-letics as something fun, somethingthat adds to a person's life and en-riches it," rather than something thatcreates an obsession with winningand with weight.

—Loren Mooney '93

BRADLEY TRACK CENTER

In February, in conjunction with theIndoor Heptagonal Championships,the new H. Hunt Bradley TrackCenter was dedicated in Barton Hall.Bradley '26 was manager of the trackteam as an undergraduate, a univer-sity fundraiser from 1948 to 1956 andthen general alumni secretary of theuniversity from 1956 until 1967.Bradley wrote a history of organizedalumni activity as well as a biogra-phy of longtime Cornell track coachJack Moakley. Hunt Bradley died inJune 1982.

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AUTHORS

The Ghosts and Prof. Lurie

Prof. Alison Lurie

L ast fall, in the season of witchesand goblins, Alison Lurie, theFrederic J. Whiton professor ofAmerican literature and winnerof the Pulitzer Prize for her

1984 novel Foreign Affairs publishedher 16th book, Women and Ghosts(Nan A. Talese/Doubleday).

Women and Ghosts is a collectionof nine short stories of womenhaunted by ghosts, both literal andmetaphorical. It is a literary meltingpot of satire, irony, realism and fan-tasy, where the lives of ordinarywomen are disrupted by the super-natural. There's Marguerite Robbins,a housewife, who is visited on Hal-loween night by the ghost of a littlegirl she once knew. There's CeliaZimmern, whose close encounterswith men bring her face-to-face withher dead fiancee, and there's JaneGraber, a bigot, who forbids the menworking on her home to cool off inher swimming pool, and is punishedby "the pool people."

"I've always enjoyed ghost sto-ries," says Lurie, "but prefer thosein which the ghosts are not crudefigures of blood and horror. I believe

that in a good ghoststory the supernaturalcan be seen either asreal or as a metaphor forsomething that is hap-pening psychologicallyto the central character.When I began to planthese stories, somehowthe central characterwas always a woman.The stories are in-tended to be 'spooky'but also occasionallyamusing, and to saysomething about realwomen and their lives.For instance, most of usdo not literally see theghost of an old loverwhen we kiss a new

one, but many people have 'seen'these former lovers in their mind'seye at such times."

Lurie grew up in WestchesterCounty. As a child she was encour-aged to be creative because "I didn'thave much else going for me," shelater wrote in an essay. "I was askinny, odd-looking little girl. I wasclever, but I couldn't seem to learnto ride a bike or sing a tune, and Iwas always the last person chosenfor any team."

But "with a pencil and paper,"she continued, "I could revise theworld. I could move mountains; Icould fly over Westchester at nightin a winged clothes basket; I couldcall up a brown-and-white-spottedmilk-giving dragon to eat the neigh-bor who told me and my sister not towalk through her field and bother hercows."

Lurie has been teaching at Cor-nell since 1968. She teaches coursesin narrative writing, folklore andchildren's literature. And of the sto-ries in her new book, Women andGhosts, does she have a personal fa-vorite? Says Lurie: "I love my nineghost stories, like my three children,equally."

Recently

Snow Angels by Stewart O'Nan,MFA '92 (Doubleday). The first novelby O'Nan, whose story 'The Doctor'sSickness" was featured in CornellMagazine (October 1994). In astarred review, Publishers Weekly saidof Snow Angels, "O'Nan is a skilledwriter who views the lives of his work-ing-class characters with unsenti-mental compassion. The novel's el-egiac tone is perfectly controlled, andangst and the lingo of male adoles-cence are rendered with wry fidelity."

Stellar Interiors: Physical Prin-ciples, Structure, and Evolution byCarl Hansen and Steven Kawaler'80 (Springer-Verlag). A textbook foradvanced students in astrophysics.

Families: Poems Celebrating theAfrican American Experience byDorothy S. Strickland and MichaelR. Strickland '87 (Boyds MillsPress). An anthology of poems cel-ebrating the diversity of African Ameri-can families.

Baseball Heaven by George Atkins'79 (Lux Fiat Press). A photographi-cally illustrated screenplay about asoftball coach's romantic involvementwith a player.

Prenatal Testing: A SociologicalPerspective by Aliza Kolker and B.Meredith Burke, Grad '67-68(Greenwood Publishing Group). Ananalysis of the social, psychologicaland ethical implications of invasiveprenatal testing.

Sickle Cell Disease: Basic Prin-ciples and Clinical Practice, editedby Stephen H. Embury, M.D., RobertP. Hebbel, M.D., Narla Mohandas,PhD, and Martin H. Steinberg '58,M.D. (Raven Press). A comprehen-sive work on sickle cell disease.

Succeeding Generations: On theEffects of Investments in Childrenby Robert H. Haveman and BarbaraKϊngshoff Wolfe '65 (Russell SageFoundation). A study that links pov-erty and broken homes to the im-paired ability of children to lead suc-cessful lives.

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of JulyNext'"'

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When Hunter Rawlingstakes over as Cornell'spresident on July 1,he will face manychallenges. He iseminently preparedto handle them.

by Stephen Madden

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magine that you are aheadhunter.

Your client is an IvyLeague university seek-ing to replace a much-beloved, long-standingpresident many observ-ers say is irreplaceable.This particular univer-sity is a peculiar blend ofprivate and public, re-ceiving funding from thestate as well as from pri-vate sources. Like mostuniversities, your client

is facing tough times—tuition continues to risefaster than inflation, public perceptions ofhigher education's relevance are at an all-timelow, the faculty (always an irascible bunch) aregrumbling about decreases in funding and in-creases in pressure to pay attention to the un-dergraduates. The undergraduates are increas-ingly balkanized, and the alumni, the most gen-erous in the nation, wonder just what the hellis going on up there, anyhow.

It is a very tough job.The chairman of the search committee

jokes—sort of—that the person who is offeredthe presidency will have to resemble God. Andafter reading the three-page job description theBoard of Trustees issues, you are not inclinedto disagree with him.

You send out feelers and letters of inquiry,ask the university's faculty and alumni for in-put, call your friends, ask around. One namecomes up time and again—Hunter Rawlings,president of the University of Iowa. So you zeroin on this guy and start asking people who knowhim—colleagues at other big Midwesternschools, people on his staff, the students andalumni at Iowa—what they think of him.

Your ears buzz at their replies. "He tack-les hard questions and isn't afraid of hard is-sues." "His attitude motivates people andkeeps morale high." "An unbelievable commu-nicator." "Inspiring." "Has strong moral prin-ciples so people don't worry about his deci-sion-making." "Combines optimism with real-ism." "Spontaneous and straightforward."

"Down-to-earth." "Receptive to new ideas.""Loves students." "A great teacher." "Under-stands the value of inclusion." "A terrific guy.""Very accessible."

And the two best things any prospectiveemployer could hear about a prospective em-ployee: "I'd hate to see him go." "He's the bestboss I ever had." You go back to your clientand recommend they hire Rawlings. Theyagree, and do.

So on July 1,1995 Hunter Ripley RawlingsIII will succeed Frank H.T. Rhodes, becomingCornell University's tenth president.

But just who is Hunter Rawlings, and whathas he accomplished that makes him the per-son to lead Cornell into the second millenium?

In a two-hour discussion with him and ininterviews with more than a dozen of his col-leagues from the University of Iowa, formerprofessors and members of Cornell's searchcommittee, a portrait of Rawlings similar to theencomia from the Iowans emerges.

Rawlings ("Hunt" to those familiar withhim) answers questions in a direct, straight-forward manner. He looks an interviewerstraight in the eye, laughs easily and is gener-ally warm and gracious, filling a visitor's coffeecup himself. If he doesn't have an answer to aquestion, he says "I don't know." He is suc-cinct when he needs to be, expansive when hewants to be and never dodges a question. Thedoor to his Jessup Hall office in Iowa City re-mains open during the interview, as it alwaysdoes. And showing his cusp-of-the-Baby-Boomroots, Rawlings actually uses the word"groovy" to describe Boulder, Colorado, homeof the University of Colorado, where he workedfor 18 years.

Does this make him the God-like charac-ter that Board of Trustees Search CommitteeChair Paul Tregurtha '57 said Cornell was af-ter? Rawlings, 50, grimaces at the simile, ashe does when asked about taking over fromRhodes. "It would be a mistake to comparemyself to Frank. People keep asking me if it'sgoing to be hard to take over from someone aspopular and successful as he was, and I tell themno," Rawlings says. "Comparisons are inevi-table, but in a way it will be easier for me to

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take over from Frank than from someone whowasn't as good because the university is in suchfine shape. Cornell is in excellent health andmy job will be to build on that."

In its three-page document outlining its ex-pectations for the new president, the Board ofTrustees listed 12 specific tasks the next presi-dent would perform, as well as 25 personal char-acteristics and 12 qualities based on experiencethe person should have. How does Rawlingsmeet those expectations?

Like a headhunted s dream.

The president is expected to act as the principalpublic spokesperson for Cornell, reflecting andenhancing its standing within the region, theUnited States and throughout the world. . .

By most accounts, Rawlings has been anideal voice of leadership for the University ofIowa. "I am pretty well-known in the state ofIowa," he admits. "There are only three uni-versities in the state, and the University of Iowais by far the biggest. And my height [he standssix-foot seven] makes me pretty recognizable."

So does his constant outreach. During thefirst year of his almost seven-year tenure atIowa, Rawlings made it a point to travel aroundthe state, talking with citizens, educators andlegislators about the role the university couldplay in the daily life of the state, in the processwinning friends and helping to ease what hadbeen somewhat tense relations between thestate legislature and the university. Says SteveCollins, a professor of electrical and computerengineering and radiology at Iowa and chair ofthe committee searching for Rawlings's re-placement: "He gave people the sense that thiswas not just Iowa City's or Johnson County'sor northeastern Iowa's university, but that thiswas the state's university. It enormously im-proved relationships." Adds Linda Kerber, anIowa professor of liberal arts and history,"Presidents stand on the boundary between theuniversity and the community. He communi-cates that the university is not outside thecommunity, but part of it. He does a good jobexplaining why the university is important tonon-university people."

Such skills will be important at Cornell,which in fiscal 1995 expects to receive $129million from Albany for the four statutory col-leges. It will also help Rawlings in his quest tomake Cornell more service-oriented than italready is. "Cornell has a wonderful opportu-nity, with its global reputation, to really effectsome positive change in the world," he says."At a time when society faces so many prob-lems, we have a great opportunity, through bothteaching and research, to show that universi-ties are absolutely vital to helping solvesociety's problems. I intend to extend Cornell'sefforts in that respect."

. . . Must be a person accustomed to the intellec-tual dynamism of a faculty thoroughly engagedin institutional life. . .

To say that Hunter Rawlings is accustomedto intellectual dynamism is to engage in under-statement. Any conversation with him is livelybut promptly takes on a new vigor when it turnsto intellectual subjects. He is clearly an intel-lectual first and an administrator second.

Rawlings is a native of Hampton, Virginia,where his father and grandfather worked forWaters & Martin, a wholesale hardware com-pany. When Hunter was around 10, his mothergave him a copy of Homer's The Iliad, thussetting her only son on a lifelong love affair withLatin and Greek as well as the writers andphilosophers who used those languages.(Rawlings's mother still clips The New YorkTimes Book Review for him, sending reviews ofbooks she thinks he might be interested in.)

He graduated second in his high school classand attended Pennsylvania's Haverford College("There was no question that I would go any-where else," he says) and studied the classics.He graduated with honors in 1966 and enrolledat Princeton, where he studied Thucydides'sHistory of the Peloponnesian War. "Because ofAmerica's involvement in the Vietnam War, itwas a fascinating time to be studying the his-tory of a war that tore a society apart," he says."The parallels between Athens and the UnitedStates were pretty clear, even if Vietnam wasa war that barely changed the way Americans

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lived and the Peloponnesian War, much of itfought on Athens's own territory, was verymuch a daily presence for over 20 years."

After earning his doctorate in 1970,Rawlings headed west to join the classics fac-ulty at the University of Colorado, editing ar-ticles and reviewing books for scholarly clas-sics journals and winning numerous teachingawards. He became a full professor in 1980before taking on increasingly important admin-istrative duties—associate vice chancellor forinstruction, vice president for academic af-fairs and research and dean of the Universityof Colorado system graduate school. In 1988he was appointed President of the Universityof Iowa.

ut throughout his climb up the ad-ministrative ladder, Rawlings hasinsisted on staying engaged—tothe extent that time allows—withhis academic discipline. He ad-mits that his duties as a univer-

sity president have made it nearly impossibleto continue to do research in his field, but hehas had an appointment to the classics depart-ment at Iowa and will be a member of Cornell'sclassics department as well. ("I hope to be ableto lecture at Cornell, but I think I might havemy hands full for a while," he laughs.) Rawlingsalso gives lectures each semester at Iowa, mix-ing his knowledge of the ancients with classiclines from Monty Python skits. "Students lovehim because he's really down to earth and notintimidating at all, and it's really clear he knowshis subject," says Iowa student governmentvice president Gretchen Lohman. So weddedis Rawlings to the ideals and ideas of the clas-sics that he borrowed an idea from Athens'speripatetic scholars—who developed their phi-losophies in conversations conducted duringlong walks—and had parts of the Iowa Citycampus re-landscaped to provide more walk-ways and better greenery.

Rawlings becomes decidedly more ani-mated when asked what books are on hisnightstand. "I've been reading a lot by and aboutJames Madison," he says. "Growing up in Vir-

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A PROFESSOR WAS ONCE REPORTED to have beenasked how he liked being chairman of an academic department

at a large university. He paused, then said, "It's a little like trying

to herd cats."

If heading a department is tough, imagine how much tougher

it must be to lead an institution like Cornell. Said Trustee Paul

R. Tregurtha '57, who led the search committee that found Hunter

Rawlings III, "We came up with a composite picture of what we

were looking for in a president, and it looked pretty much like

God."

Whatever incoming President Rawlings looks like—God or a

chief herder of cats—there are a few things, some perks, some

not, that come with the job.

SPEECHES. President Rawlings will give plenty of speeches.

President Frank H.T. Rhodes gave some 150 talks last year.

Rhodes has an employee who helps him outline speeches and

write special reports, and several who help with research. Un-

less the text of a speech will be released to the media, requiring

that he read from a manuscript, Rhodes speaks extemporane-

ously—from an outline he has edited himself.

OFFICE. Cornell's president's office is in Day Hall, on the roof-

top level, looking out on the Day Hall courtyard and south across

Wee Stinky Glen toward Sage Hall. It is furnished with a desk

and conference table. President Rhodes added a couch and had

the chairs reupholstered.

MEETINGS. President Rhodes's day is filled with back-to-back

meetings when he is in his office—with Provost Maiden C.

Nesheim, PhD '59, Vice Presidents James Morley, Richard M.

Ramin '51 and Susan Murphy '73, PhD '94, students, faculty

members, administrative staff, department heads, development

and public relations personnel, visiting dignitaries—often with-

out even a break for lunch. President Rawlings will no doubt be

having many meetings.

PARKING. President Rhodes has his own parking space in the

lot between Day and Stimson Halls. The space costs him—not

the university—$950 each year.

TRAVEL. President Rhodes has traveled extensively during his

tenure; he spent 128 days on the road in 1994—48 percent of

those travel days on the Cornell Campaign, 17 percent on inter-

nal affairs such as meetings with the Board of Trustees and

Medical College officials and 35 percent on public relations. Over

the past seven years he has been especially busy because of

the university's capital campaign. President Rawlings will take

on the last few months of the campaign, so the first six months

of his tenure should also involve extensive travel.

Ό BE PRESIDENT

PROTESTS. There are plenty of student protests at Day Hall each

year, according to the Cornell Police. In the decade from 1985

to 1994, there were 54 protests where groups actually entered

Day Hall, including a November 1989 sit-in on the third floor,

and the takeover by Latino students in November 1993. There

are many more protests outside Day Hall, where marchers, signs,

chants and bullhorns are very much in evidence, but where pro-

testers never actually enter the administration building.

PARTIES. The President attends and hosts plenty of parties—

too many to count, according to sources queried. The parties are

rarely just a social event. Receptions, dinners and teas for pub-

lic affairs and development, to honor faculty, students, holidays

and volunteers, and for freshmen and faculty fellows are among

the events held in President and Mrs. Rhodes's home.

DESSERTS. A Cornell alumnus and fan of President Rhodes says

the president's favorite dessert at receptions seems to be the

chocolate-covered strawberries; this alumni always knows where

to find Rhodes to say hello. So discovering President Rawlings's

favorite dessert could be pivotal in knowing where to find him.

FACULTY. President Rawlings, who will also hold a joint appoint-

ment as a tenured classics professor, will lead a faculty of 2,325—

an enormous number of cats to herd.

ginia, you're surrounded by history, and I gota little tired of Virginia history as it's taught inthe schools. That's one of the reasons I got in-terested in the classics—I wanted to know whatcame before the American Revolution. Butlately I've become quite interested in Madison,who often gets overlooked by people rushingon to Jefferson. Few Americans read Madison.And everybody goes to Monticello, but fewpeople go to Montpelier. But when Jefferson

wanted a polemic or a thought-ful essay written he oftenturned to Madison. Madisonwas a fine mind and often over-looked. I liked the way he re-ferred in his writings to theConstitutional Conventions as"the business of May next."

And as if to get in bettertouch with Madison, Rawlingsand his wife Elizabeth Trap-nell Rawlings, translations co-ordinator at Iowa's Interna-tional Writing Program, havebought a house in Virginia."It's an excellent place to re-turn to," he says. "It providesa sort of homecoming as wellas an escape hatch for whenwork gets to be too much."

. . . Lead the university to con-sensus on major policy issues

among competing or conflicting constituencygroups. . .

The American Heritage Dictionary defines"consensus" as "collective opinion." There isno such thing at a place like Cornell, or in anypart of the academy, for that matter. Rawlings,who has been at either a college or a universitysince John F. Kennedy was in the White House,is well aware of this. "If I ran a company withthe same size budget as the University of Iowa[more than $1 billion annually], people wouldsalute me when I said Ήere's what we're go-ing to do,'" he says. "Here, everybody tells mewhat's wrong with my decision. But it's impor-tant that that be the way things are at a univer-

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sity. People should know that they are free tospeak their minds."

awlings describes his manage-ment style as "consultative."

m ,? Iowans give him high marks forI % getting lots of different factions

- J L - % at Iowa involved in decisionmaking. He also earns points

for his accessibility, communication skills,open-mindedness and genuine interest in whatpeople think. "He's very tolerant of civil dis-course," says Ann Rhodes, Iowa's vice presi-dent for university relations. "You can disagreewith him but still think very highly of him."Adds Susan Buckley, an Iowa personnel pro-gram director who says she has not always seeneye-to-eye with him: "President Rawlings un-derstands the value of inclusion. He knows it'snot smart to hold employees—from the ten-ured professor to the janitor—at arm's length."Early in his tenure, the university's profes-sional staff asked Rawlings to meet with themmonthly to discuss issues of concern. Heagreed, and continues to do so. "In most waysthere's less gap between his rhetoric and hisactions than with most heads of institutions,"says Buckley. Still, Rawlings isn't afraid to buckthe tide if he thinks he's right. "He's decisive,"says Cornell ILR Prof. Ed Lawler, who duringhis tenure at Iowa had worked on theuniversity's strategic plan. "He tackles hardquestions and isn't afraid of tough issues.People feel they've been heard, even if thedecision goes the other way."

Rawlings will need all his consensus-build-ing skills if he is to tackle the many tough is-sues that face Cornell, not the least of which isconsolidation of too-similar academic depart-ments. It is currently possible to study math,economics and writing in more than one of theuniversity's colleges. "I don't know enoughabout what's going on to say definitively whatI will do," he says. "But certainly there are waysto achieve efficiencies and we will try to do that."

If there is one group at Iowa that does notwarm to the subject of Hunter Rawlings, it isthe university's sports fans. Soon after assum-

GlVING FREE ADVICE TO PEOPLE in prominent positions

can be worth, as more than one wag has noted, about what is

paid for it—which is to say, little or nothing. But which of us has

ever watched a presidential speech, a political debate, a foot-

ball game or even a spouse behind the wheel, and not offered

some bit of free advice to a candidate, a president, a coach or

quarterback or driver? And when that prominent person, the

incoming president of a favorite university, say, is new and about

to take over an institution so many have loved so well for so

long—the instinct to offer advice may be strong indeed.

In that spirit, Cornell Magazine asked a random sampling

of members of the Cornell community what they thought Presi-

dent Rawlings should concentrate on when he becomes presi-

dent. And while a short deadline and the natural shyness of

some university administrators prevented an outpouring of

advice, the following people did offer Hunter Rawlings these

suggestions:

The challenge to President Rawlings will be to build upon

Cornell's current strengths while moving us forward to a new

level of excellence. He will need to fill key positions and build

a strong leadership team. Using the Strategic Plan to help define

the university's priorities and guide its budgetary decisions, he

will need to strengthen its teaching agenda and support those

major projects at the cusp of cutting-edge technology and re-

search. In doing this, he will need to build community and en-

courage dialogue, creating a teaching and working environment

that promotes respect, partnership, learning, risk-taking, and

service.

—Beth I. Warren is associate vice president,

human resource services

An 1865 Charter mandate to make Cornell education readily

accessible to students, later extended to New Yorkers in their

home communities by Cooperative Extension, and more recently

internationally to our Pacific rim neighbors, is being defeated.

Contrived meaningless jargon that seeps into this and other

universities from business and government, with assistance from

various high-priced consultants, is striking at Cornell's tradi-

tion of being accessible. Surely we cannot expect to educate

externally while confusing each other with language that nei-

ther informs nor enriches. Dr. Rawlings, please address your

resources to making Cornell administrations jargon free.

—Gould P. Colman '51, PhD '62 is university archivist

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Among the significant results of Frank Rhodes's leadership

is the increase in alumni support in terms of both volunteer

programs and gifts to Cornell. His efforts with alumni have fos-

tered a sense of real caring for them and a stronger sense

among them of their importance to the university. These efforts

Λ A W L I N G S advice to Cornell's tenth president

have created an environment in which public affairs staff work is

very productive. While he was on campus, Hunter Rawlings's people

skills were very apparent, and to ensure ongoing growth of alumni

support, he will want to engage alumni with these talents.

—Jim Hazzard '50 is director of alumni affairs

In a university with so much to be proud of, today's student

body is increasingly characterized by a lack

of school pride. With 19,000 students, some

wonder what defines and unites Cornellians,

while students who pay attention to college

rankings feel second-best. Cornell's next

president, Hunter Rawlings, has pledged

himself to working with students, promising

to visit them "on their own turf" to find out

their true feelings. When he does, I recom-

mend that he talk through this issue and

then concentrate on helping students to

regain the pride that so many of our alumni

feel when remembering Cornell.

—Karin Klapper '96 is a student-

elected trustee

Continued leadership transforming into

a cohesive, vital community the energy, skills and intellectual

talents of an increasingly diverse university family is a priority.

Firm, vocal commitment to respecting differences in race,

ethnicity, gender and religion and to supporting those with dis-

abilities and those who are lesbian, gay or bisexual will require

immediate attention. Recognition of the institutional strength

and benefits of inclusiveness is central to addressing the is-

sues that define a renowned university. These include a broadly

based curriculum, inspired teaching, a vibrant research enter-

prise, economic stability and a climate that is open to new in-

stitutional directions.

—Joycelyn R. Hart is associate vice president

for human relations

The strengths of Cornell are many, and one such asset fre-

quently referred to is the autonomy and independence of our

colleges. Creative intra-college problem-solving has yielded

numerous innovative student programs and services. This de-

centralized decision-making, however, just as frequently ben-

efits a few people while negatively affecting the student life of

the overall undergraduate and/or graduate populations. Many

student services at Cornell are nationally renowned and receive

a high student approval rating. Students are offered a plethora

of housing and dining options, all of which provide supportive

living and learning environments. The maintenance of overall

program standards, however, is continuously threatened as

college priorities consume both the energy of senior university

leaders and the physical resources of the campus. A commit-

ment should be made and action taken to ensure that student

life professionals are active participants in the campus strate-

gic planning process and in major college decisions that could

or will impact student programs and services.

—Margaret I. Lacey is director of campus life

As a department that excels in teach-

ing (some 2,000 students take general

chemistry each year and another 1,000 are

enrolled in organic), we welcome the oppor-

tunity to work with President Rawlings in re-

kindling the emphasis on fine teaching that

is part of Cornell's long tradition. But don't

forget research! The National Science Foun-

dation recently released its analysis of fis-

cal year 1993 research expenditures at

United States universities, and in that re-

spect, Cornell (which ranked eighth) is very

different from the University of Iowa (which

ranked 41st). With Rawlings's leadership in

Washington, Cornell can and should main-

tain its stature as one of the world's pre-

eminent research universities.

—Bruce Ganem chairs the chemistry department

Cornell is unique in the variety of its strengths. The princi-

pal challenge for the future will be to capture more effectively

what those strengths can contribute to one another and thus to

the strength of the institution as a whole. This will require stimu-

lating and leading a constructive dialogue among all of the parts

of Cornell and inspiring in each of them a belief that we can only

become truly stronger by working more effectively together.

—Don M. Randel is the Harold Tanner dean

of the College of Arts and Sciences

When a leader takes up a new challenge, he throws himself

into an effort to do his very best at it. To do anything as well as

humanly possible, however, is to neglect everthing else. It is

logically possible to maximize only one goal at a time. But no

one thing—not even Cornell—is more important than everything

else. Cornell itself gains its importance from the roles it plays

in a much larger drama. A student of Thucydides already learned

this—he needs only not to forget. My advice: wander occasion-

ally on a piece of the Finger Lakes Trail; give your job almost as

much as you can. A university president should regularly con-

front a wildflower.

—Henry Shue is Wyn and William Y. Hutchinson

professor of ethics and family life

m

ing Iowa's presidency, Rawlings proposed tothe NCAA that freshmen be prohibited fromplaying intercollegiate sports. He reasoned thatat an institution of higher learning, athletesshould be students first; the freshman banwould give them time to get their academicbearings. Iowa's head football coach, HaydenFry, threatened to resign; Hawkeye sportsfans—including the Iowa governor—and manyalumni howled. Rawlings dropped the issue.

I hat was probably a good idea. IowaI is part of the Big Ten conference,

and sports bring in $6.5 million tothe university each year. On foot-ball Saturdays, Kinnick Stadium(capacity 70,000) becomes the

third-largest city in Iowa. But Rawlings sayshe was acting on the basic principle that ath-letics are not the raison d'etre of the univer-sity. "It can be an important part of an educa-tion, but that shouldn't be why students arehere," says Rawlings, a member of thePresident's Commission of the NCAA.

Rawlings brings the perspective of a formerstudent-athlete to the proceedings. AtHaverford, the basketball team he played onwon 39 games and lost 21 during its big center'stenure; Rawlings had a 2.17 earned run aver-age in 91 innings as a left-handed pitcher (atryout with the Baltimore Orioles produced thefollowing report on the southpaw: "Goodfastball. No curve. Go back to school."). Now,a bad back prevents Rawlings from playingsquash or golf, his two favorite sports, but heand his wife, who climbed many of Colorado'shighest peaks together, are looking forward tospending some time on the Finger Lakes Trail,which wends its way through Ithaca. He alsoplans to be a presence at Cornell sports events."I think the Ivy League does sports the rightway," he says. An enthusiastic supporter ofIowa's championship wrestling team, Rawlingssays he was impressed and heartened to findout that Cornell produced an NCAA championin wrestling last year, David Hirsch '94. "Thatproves that you can have both—academic ex-cellence and athletic excellence," he says.

. . . Candidates will have an understanding ofand proven commitment to excellence in researchand graduate, professional and undergraduateeducation and teaching and a sincere interest instudents of all backgrounds and the total qualityof student life.

Rawlings will be the first Cornell presidentto come out of the humanities since JamesPerkins. This has raised more than a few bloodpressures in Cornell's science departments,where some faculty members fear thatRawlings may favor the arts over the sciences.

Those fears seem groundless. UnderRawlings's guidance, the University of Iowa hasseen its externally-funded research grants andcontracts rise from $115 million in 1988 to $188million in 1994. Iowa is one of only nine U.S.institutions selected to map the human genome,which brought the university a $15 milliongrant. "I guess I can understand their fears,"says Rawlings of the science faculty members."But Cornell has such strong programs in thesciences and engineering that to erode any ofthat would be foolish. The humanities arestrong. That doesn't mean we can't make thoseprograms even better, but to do so at the ex-pense of the sciences is not a wise idea."

Rawlings has a demonstrated track recordin reaching out to students. He was well-knownat Iowa for just walking around campus, show-ing up unannounced at dormitories and dininghalls to talk to students. "He doesn't hide, theway you get the feeling that some professorsdo," says student government vice presidentLohman. "He's very accessible."

Increasing the diversity of Iowa's enroll-ment has also been among Rawlings's goals.The population of Iowa is 96 percent white,which makes diversifying the student body par-ticularly challenging. "We recruit studentsquite aggressively in Chicago and in Californiaand Texas," he says. [Rawlings personally doesa fair amount of recruiting of high school stu-dents.] "We've taken the minority enrollmentfrom 5 percent in 1988 to 9 percent now. I'dlike it to be higher. [Cornell's minority enroll-ment is 25 percent.] It's important not just forminority students but for the kids from small

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towns in Iowa who have no exposure to stu-dents of color before they come here. If we don'thave a diverse population here we're short-changing them, because the America of the 21stcentury is going to be even more multicultural."

. . . lead the university communities in the devel-opment of shared values and a clear sense ofshared mission; demonstrate a high level of com-mitment in supporting all aspects of theuniversity's life and motivate others to do the same.

Part of Rawlings's talent as a leader, Iowanssay, is his ability to clearly articulate goals, tosay, "This is where we're going. Now followme and I'll get you there." He also is well-known for the high morale of people who workwith him.

Why? Professor Kerber says much ofpeople's belief in Rawlings stems from his"strong moral principles." "People know abouthis principled approach and so they don't worryabout his decision-making." She adds that muchof his moral grounding and knowledge is at-tributable to his reading of the classics. AddsJerry Loewenberg, a political science profes-sor at Iowa: "President Rawlings is alwaysupbeat and always looking at possibilities tem-pered with a knowledge of feasibility."

One of the first things Rawlings did afterarriving at Iowa was to appoint a committee todraft a strategic plan for the university. Com-pleted in 1989, "Achieving Distinction" hasserved as a blueprint for Iowa's drive to be oneof the top ten public universities in the countryand has guided budget and planning decisionsfor five years. Rawlings made sure that the com-mittee included representatives from everyfacet of university life, a decision that affectedthe plan's outcome. "I think our strategy wouldbe a lot different—and much less complete—if we heard only from a few of the groups thatneeded to be consulted," he says.

Rawlings possesses a quality that is in shortsupply among leaders today: he's inspiring.Professor Collins tells the story of how his wifemade him go to a convocation, which he ex-pected to be thoroughly boring. "Hunter gavethe speech," Collins recalls. "By the time he

was done I was thinking to myself, This guy isin the wrong job. They ought to put him inpolitics. Put him on TV, run him for governor,then four years down the line run him for Presi-dent.' He's an amazing communicator."

And there's another aspect tocommunity bridge-building thatRawlings holds near and dear: hesincerely wants to be part of thecommunity. "Elizabeth and I arelooking forward to being part of

the community in Ithaca," he says. "Frankly,the town and the community there were a veryattractive part of the job offer. We really areeager to put down some roots there, and to getto know people. And not just on the level of mybeing the president of the university. I'm re-ally tired of people who want to get to knowme only because of my title. We want to get toknow people for who they are, not what theirtitles are. I hope that will be possible in Ithaca.I think it will be."

. . . All of the above should be carried out withintelligence, courage, grace, dignity and, impor-tantly, a sense of humor.

It is 15 degrees below zero in Iowa City ona hard, clear January day. An absent-mindedreporter forgets to pick up his tape recorder—containing the substance of a two-hour inter-view with Hunter Rawlings—from thepresident's desk. The reporter is halfway acrossIowa's main quad when he realizes his mistake.He heads back to Jessup Hall and hears a famil-iar voice calling his name. And there is HunterRawlings—not his secretary, not an assistant—running coatless through the cold to return therecorder.

Rawlings laughs as he hands over the equip-ment. "I wouldn't want you to forget any of mypearls of wisdom," he says.

Not likely. H

Stephen Madden is editor and publisher ofthis magazine.

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Truth Number One:There is no such thing as a typical Cornellian.

Truth Number Two:There is no such thing as a typical

Cornell experience.

Truth Number Three:There are at least 161 things all students should

do while they're at Cornell.

hile Truth Number Three may

not seem to follow, a priori, from

Truths Numbers One and Two,

it is still self-evident: if you're

going to do Cornell—or any

university—correctly,

there are certain

things you just ought

to check out.

What follows is an admittedly incomplete

list of what Cornell Magazine's editors, their

friends and some members of the univer-

sity commmunity consider to

be the seminal experiences of

ife at Cornell. (Additions to

the list are welcome and en-

couraged.) They aref each and ev-

ery one of them, things that

educated, adventurous, cu-

I ^ C ^ rious, hungry, growing, chal-

lenged, sleep-deprived,

TtJL learning people will do,

"—-~ ς some of the things regard-

less oτ where the college is located.

All of which leads us to think: perhaps there is a

typical Cornellian.

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21.Get to know a professor so well she invites you to dinner;

discover that professors have families.

1. Stay up all night arguing aboutthe existence of God.

f

2. Try to go a whole semester with-out doing laundry.

3. Take courses outside your ma-jor—way outside your major.

4. Get yourself entangled ina long-distance relationshipwith someone at anothercollege, one that's closeenough to drive to, butfar enough away tomake yourself crazy.

5. Get sick drink- „ing too much;vow to neverdrink again.

6. Call yourparents and ^tell them you ^love them.

7. Get so far behind in your workyou stay in Ithaca over a vacation.Get absolutely no work done as youexplore the town and the surround-ing area and realize what a beautifulplace it is.

8. Take a service-oriented, mini-mum wage job. Gain a whole new

appreciation for the art and practiceof tipping.

9. Get in a shouting match with thepeople behind the counter at the

Bursar's Office.

10. Amass enoughparking tickets to betold you won't getyour diploma untilyou pay them.

11. Go on the rushtours of fraternities and

sororities.

12. Try to hitchike home for aweekend. Get picked up by a scaryguy. Take the bus home fromBinghamton.

13. Switch majors.

14. Read the follow-ing books while youa r e st'H >n school:Been Down SoLong it Looks LikeUp to Me; A Fare-well to Arms; TheElements of Style;On the Rood; Zenand the Art of Mo-torcycle Mainte-

nance.

1 5. Have a 2a.m. breakfast

at the StateDiner. Acquire *

a taste forfrench fries and gravy.

16. Get at least one F;nothing prepares you forsuccess quite like a failure.

17. Kiss someone on theSuspension Bridge.

18. Climb the steps of

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McGraw Tower; watch achimesmaster at work.

19. Buy a Cornell-raised apple froma vending machine.

20. Learn the first two verses of the"Alma Mater" (here they are):Verse 7;Far above Cayuga's watersWith its waves of blueStands our noble alma materGlorious to view.Chorus:Lift the chorus, speed it onwardLoud her praises tell.Hail to thee, our alma materHail, all hail, Cornell.Verse 2:Far above the busy hummingOf the bustling town,Reared against the arch of heavenLooks she proudly down.

21. Get to know a professor so wellshe invites you to dinner; discoverthat professors have families.

22. Skip class to playhackeysack on the Arts

Quad.

23. Hear the echo inthe side of the

Johnson Museum.

4. Tray down Libeϊlope.

25. Skinny dipin the gorge atnight.

26. Have aStraight cookieduring a studybreak.

27. Go to ahockey game.

45.Fall helplessly in love, get dumped,

be shell-shocked, recover.

28. Visit the Lab of Ornithology atSapsucker Woods; start a life list.

29. Walk around Beebe Lake.

30. Cross-country ski at the Planta-tions.

3 1 . Bowl at Helen Newman Lanes.

32. Stand in line for 45 minutes ona Saturday night at the Nines; eat awhole deepdish pizza yourself.

33. Stop at the Collegetown Con-venience Store for Turns; eat awhole roll yourself.

34. Fall asleep in the library; panicthat someone saw you with yourmouth agape.

35. Over Winter Break, criticize yourparents for their middle-class values;later, remind them to send in yourtuition check.

36. Sell your text books at the endof the semester; blow all themoney on a Frosty at Wendy's.

37. Write an indignant letter to theeditor of the Sun.

38. Freshman year: look at the classcolumns in Cornell Magazine andwonder aloud to your friends whoin the hell would want to read suchstuff.

39. Senior year: volunteer to be aclass correspondent.

40. Stand in the freezing rain at afootball game; catch a cold.

4 1 . Eat at every one of Cornell'snine dining halls at least once.

42. Live off-campus in aCollegetown apartment; watch forthe looks of horror as you showyour parents around, telling them

how great it is.

43. Have an'epiphany iι\ttie stacks

of Olin Library on a beautiful fallafternoon that grades are not themost important thing in the world;leave the library and take a walk.

44. Take the following courses:Wines, Psych 101, Sex, Intro toNatural Resources, CS 100, an Introto Art History.

45. Fall helplessly in love, getdumped, be shell-shocked, recover.

46. Get on a first name basis withBob Petrillose.

47. Have Sunday brunch at theStatler; put it on Cornell Card.

48. Have the courage of your con-victions to tell a professor what youreally think about his or her class.

49. Ace at least one class. Nothingprepares you for success like suc-cess.

50. Switch majors. Again.

5 1 . Get a mantra.

52. Guys: Read the collected works

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of Henry Miller and decide to moveto Paris.Girls: Stay as far away as possiblefrom these guys.

53. Girls: Read the collected worksof Sylvia Plath.Guys: Stay as far away as possiblefrom these girls.

54. Prepare to pull an all-nighter bydrinking three Mountain Dews andtwo cups of coffee and eating ahandful of No-Doz; accomplishnothing due to an inability to sit still.

55. Get sick from drinking toomuch; vow to never drinkagain.

56. Ask for an exten-sion on a termpaper. Be askedwhy. Learnthatworkload isno goodanswer.

57. Get aninternship so as to be better able tojudge your career prospects.

58. Apply to grad school.

59. Tape tons of stuff—especially"Calvin and Hobbes" comic strips—to your dorm room door.

60. Spend the summer in Ithaca.Let your friends roll their eyes whenyou tell them how beautiful andpeaceful and quiet it is. You knowbetter.

6 1 . Be an Orientation Counselor.

62. Watch a polo match.

63. Study a foreign language, thengo to, say, a French Club meeting.

9O.Stay sober on Slope Day and be amazed

at what's going on.

Lose your inhibitions and parlez-vous.

64. Drive out to the observatory onMt. Pleasant; bug the graduate stu-dents until they let you look at thestars and planets through the tele-scope.

65. Take an Outdoor Educationcourse or a Wilderness Reflectionstrip; learn more about yourself in aweekend than you will in a year ina classroom.

66. Let a harried mother go aheadof you in line at Wegmans or Tops;show the locals that not all studentsare rude and self-absorbed.

67. Visit the local wineries; learn tospit.

68. Play intramural innertube waterpolo.

69. Carve your initials into a table atthe Chapter House, then drink ayard of beer.

70. Camp out on the Arts Quad.

71. Have a buttered, toasted LongIsland bagel at Collegetown Bagelsafter last call.

72. Flirt with someone—anony-mously—via the Sun personals.

73. Pedal a bicycle around CayugaLake.

74. Yell—bleary-eyed—at the peoplein the dorm corridor making noiseat 3 a.m. Apologize to them thenext day.

75. Road trip!

76. Go to Fall Tonic. Hum alongwith the singers.

77. Link arms with your friendsand sing the "Alma Mater" dur-ing half time of a football gam(

78. At least once, find yourselfin a situation where you askyourself, "My God, what am Idoing here?"

79. Learn how to use theInternet.

80. Go South for SpringBreak. Call home for moremoney.

81. Host a prospective freshmanduring Cornell Days.

82. Go on a campus tour. Ask theguide for a tour of the MedicalCollege.

83. Have breakfast with PresidentRhodes. Ask him if he's going tofinish his muffin.

84. Go to a Theatre Cornell produc-tion. And while you're at it, checkout the theater scene in downtownIthaca.

85. Be the subject of a psychologyexperimentin a window-,less room inUris Hall.

86. Chalkmessages onthe sidewalk.*

87. Take atleast oneclass in eachof Cornell'seight col-leges.

88. Go to the Space Sciences Build-ing and see the color photographs

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from Voyager.

89. Attend a lunchtime political rallyoutside the Straight; get into aheated debate with supporters ordetractors of the group the rally isfor; miss class because of it.

90. Stay sober on Slope Day andbe amazed at what's going on.

91. Help clean up Collegetownduring the annual "Into the Streets."

92. Be a Big Brother or Big Sister tokids in Tompkins County.

93. Milk a cow during Ag Day.

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94. Take a class S/U. Work harderthan you did for any graded class asthe prospect of failure looms beforeyou.

129.Take a poetry class with Archie Ammons.

95. Get yourparents Cornellsweatshirts.

96. Have dinnerat the Terrace in theHotel School on anight whenundergradu-ates run theplace.

97. Have anice cream cone atthe Dairy Bar.

98. Drive up to the very top ofBuffalo Street in a standard trans-mission car; learn how not to rollbackward at the yield sign at thetop.

99. Dragon Day!

100. Have your picture taken inA. D. White's lap.

101. Be a Blue Light escort.

102. Watch the sunset from the topof Libe Slope. (Do this as often aspossible.)

103. Go to the ROTC museum inBarton Hall.

104. Sit quietly and alone in SageChapel. Admire the stained glasswindows.

105. Write a senior honors thesis.It's the only way to graduate fromCornell with honors.

106. Drive through a blindingsnowstorm to see a concertin Syracuse orBinghamton. Think a lotabout snow tires on theway home.

107. Take great solace in the end-less supply of boiling hot waterdelivered at fire-hose pressurein the showers at Teagle Hall.

108. Tell yourself how brilliantyou are.

109. Tell yourself how stupidyou are.

•110. Play pick-up basketball atBarton Hall.

111. Attend aCornell Concert

Series performance inBailey Hall.

112. Always smile andsay hi to the peopleserving food at RobertPurcell CommunityCenter.

113. Take an auto-tutorial class.Realize that all education is auto-tutorial.

114. While walking home from thelibrary late at night, be startled, thenamused, by the raccoons that live inIthaca's sewers and prowl the nightfor food.

115. Tie a bandana around a dog'sneck and teach him to fetchFrisbees on the Ag Quad.

116. At 6:30 p.m. in a crowdeddining hall, stand up and sing yourhigh school's fight song. (Everyonewill think you're doing an experi-ment for a psychology class.)

117. Go to a service for a religionyou know nothing about.

118. Help serve Thanksgiving dinnerat the Salvation Army.

119. Be able to explain the Theoryof Relativity to the man on the street.

120. Commit to memory at leastone of Shakespeare's soliloquies.

121. Force yourself to read all ofGravity's Rainbow. (You'll be gladyou did.)

122. Stop for coffee and bananacream pie at the Roscoe Diner onRoute 17.

123. See the following films atCornell Cinema: Stop Making Sense(midnight show only), Citizen Kane,8 1/2, The 400 Blows, Casablanca,It's a Wonderful Life (make fun ofthe people who cry), Diner, Apoca-lypse Now, The Graduate, Haroldand Maude.

124. Go to the Synchrotron and askfor a tour.

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14O.Read King Lear. Decide you are one of the daughters.

Inform your parents.

125. Stick your hand in the ruminfistula cow at the Vet college OpenHouse.

126. Take friends who visit fromother schools to Uris Hall to see theCornell Brain Collection; tell themthe legend of Mr. Rulloff. Then goto Rulloff s in Collegetown for din-ner.

127. Go see the rock and mineralcollection and the seismograph inthe lobby of Snee Hall.

128. See Bound for Glory at theCommons Coffeehouse in AnabelTaylor Hall.

129. Take a poetry class with ArchieAmmons.

130. Start saving for retirement.

131. Go strolling through ForestHome. Walk hand in hand with yourbest girlfriend/boyfriend.

132. Write a letter to your parentsthat begins: "Dear Mom and Dad,Please ignore every previous letter Ihave ever sent you."

133. Decide absolutely your mis-sion in life. Change it five times.

134. Write a poem that ends: Ooz-ing out of the shell/and into thedarkness that/never ends, that/hasmy name." Send it to your parents.

135. Research a paper on witchcraftin Europe using the Kroch LibraryDepartment of Rare and ManuscriptCollections' "Cornell Witchcraft Col-lection" and discover a spell thatwill, give your ex-boyfriend/girlfriendan undefinable sense of yearningfor you.

136. Travel abroad.

137. Two weeks before graduation,complete a wardrobe that willbe utterly useless by next fall.

138. Read Hamlet. Decide youare Hamlet.

139. Get sick from drinking toomuch; vow to never drink again.

140. Read King Lear. Decide youare one of the daughters. Informyour parents.

141. Go to a fraternity partydressed as a disgusting object.

142. Publish an opinion piece inthe Sun claiming the toilet paper inDay Hall is superior to that in thedorms.

143. Take a Graduate EntranceExam in a subject you have barelystudied. Inflate the results to yourfriends.

144. Learn to play bridge.

145. Write three papers in thesame night.

146. Write a thesis that is at leastten pages longer than yourroommate's.

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147. Use the words "seamless" and"dichotomy" and the phrase "pre-cious few" in the same paper.

148. Keep a diary. Write in it atleast once a year.

149. Play one memorable practicaljoke on a dean.

150. Invent something.

151. Take a date to Connecticut Hillto watch the stars on a clear night.Claim to see at least eight shootingstars ("There's one!") when nothingappears.

152. Plan a tour through a countryin the midst of civil war. Send theitinerary to your parents.

153. Play Twister.

154. Inform your new roommatethat you are "anal retentive."

155. Hold a nostalgic conversationabout "Sesame Street."

156. Enter a conversation in whicheverybody quotes dialogue from aMonty Python movie. Make up dia-logue and claim it is in the"unedited version."

157. Say something politically incor-rect in a public place.

158. Go to the Rare and ManuscriptCollections and ask to hold theGutenberg Bible.

159. Go to a Trustee meeting.They're open to the public.

160. Go hear a band you knowabsolutely nothing about.

161. Take to heart Frank Rhodes'sadvice that there is no such thing asa stupid question. a

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Houseate one June night in the early 1960s,

I drove up the driveway to my old fra-

ternity house on Thurston Avenue,

expecting my regular lodging on a win-

dow seat for the Reunion weekend.

The house wasn't there. What I found

was a hole in the ground. I knew the

property had been sold to alma mater and the old house was

coming down but I didn't expect it so soon. I explained the

situation at the fraternity across the street and room was found

on a couch.

A new house was built, but of course it wasn't

the same, couldn't be, as the ancient,

noble, wooden firetrap it replaced. And

now, 30 years later, they're looking to fix

up that one—in a big way. What's on the

drawing board looks Gothic and grand but

of course it isn't the old home away from home.

I still go by that curving Thurston Avenue driveway occa-

sionally, but never up it. From time to time I've visited the

new place on Stewart Avenue, just a short stumble from the

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In the words of a student who had fought in the Battle of the Bulge,

Chapter House Qim's, to me). Somehow the inhabi-tants keep getting younger and now those who werehosts to my daughter in her day of visiting fraternityhouses are alumni themselves.

Not so long ago, current undergraduate brothersjoined some who had gone before at a chapter alumnidinner. The young men resembled their elders, evento the button-down collars and somewhat short hair-cuts. Did they look at us the way we looked at ourbrothers of the '20s? A time came for the telling of tales.Four '50s-vintage brothers heard of blind dates whodid not resemble Kim Basinger (or Kim Novak) andtailgate misadventures and misunderstandings with theauthorities and unfinished papers, stories the youngrose to relate amid much raillery. Did we do thingslike that? Is that the way we were?

There came a time when they felt it was our turnto recite. "Tell us some stories about the old house,Jim."

The faces look out from a 1950s fraternity compos-ite photo. Very short haircuts. Sharp coats and ties.(The white bucks don't show.) Greeks of Ithaca. Sin-cere. Fun-loving. Brothers.

ven in the beginning, there werefraternities. In the first year afterEzra and Andy opened Cornell'sdoors, seven national Greek-lettersecret societies had taken root.Twenty-two of the national frater-nities we know today were estab-lished before the Civil War, at

places like Union College and Miami of Ohio andHamilton and Williams and Yale, and most of them werequickly drawn to Ezra's pasture. Cornell's first soror-ity, Kappa Alpha Theta, arrived in 1881, a year beforePhi Beta Kappa.

Andrew Dickson White was an old fraternity manhimself. He had been a member, variously, of SigmaPhi, Psi Upsilon and Alpha Sigma Phi. He disapprovedof the raucous ways of dormitory life and at first nonewas built. By the late 1880s, a quarter of undergradu-ate men lived in fraternities, and the system flourished.It provided beds and that helped the authorities seethe advantage in the face of doubts.

By the 1950s, late in their first century among us,the houses were filled with the Silent Generation, whichhad inherited them from the vets, who had found themempty following World War II. The postwar influx cre-ated an ever-expanding universe and unheard-of num-bers: 10,560 members in the Class of 1946,10,830 in '47.

(In the early 1950s, there were 51 houses on theHill and about 2,500 members, or about 40 percent ofthe male population. In 1993-94, there were 2,800members in 42 houses out of an undergraduate total of12,812—51 percent male—still about 40 percent. At

one time, 68 percent of the men at Cornell were affili-ated.)

Neighbors along Thurston and Stewart avenuesmay have wondered what made Time magazine call usthe Silent Generation. They heard the sound of theSilents on Saturday nights, even if it was not yet elec-tronically amplified, and recall the Lawn Party, a Sun-day afternoon monster when throngs from many housesreveled on the vast lawn of Phi Kappa Psi with about100 kegs of beer. Such events were quickly banned.

Fraters came from all over and might be findinginstruction in any study. So what was the differencebetween an independent and a brother? Badges? Theywere usually worn on the shirt pocket (with ties), un-der jackets so as not to be ostentatious, like letter sweat-ers worn inside-out. The badges were many: stars,crescents, skulls, swords, scrolls, crosses, dragons ora handclasp appeared on a diamond or a shield or per-haps some esoteric shape. Or they might simply bejeweled, superimposed Greek letters. Sweatshirts andT-shirts showing the sacred letters were out, unlikenow.

Brothers' pins were not taken lightly. After all, aformer captain of a high school football team may havehad to shine a whole houseful of shoes to earn the rightto wear one. Many houses, with the beaming supportof L.G. Balfour Co., forbade using the emblem to "pin"a best girl and become "engaged to be engaged." Balfourwas pleased to make sweetheart pins available, and ifshe lived near enough, the entire brotherhood mightwalk over to her place after chapter meeting and ser-enade her—just like in those B-movie musicals of theday.

Some houses decreed that badges were not to begiven to potential life companions because, should theglow of undying devotion diminish, the fraternity wouldnot want the pin to turn up in a pawn shop.

One man who had been a handyman in the samehouse for generations confided before retiring that he'dlike to have a pin. That was impossible, it was deter-mined, but he did get a sweetheart pin.

So what did you have to do to get a pledge pin?In those days, fraternity rushing began in early

September, before classes started, and in most of thehouses the brothers returned early to shape up the oldhomestead. That took lots of mops and grass-cuttingand sandpaper and paint because the beloved templehad undergone some hard use in the last days of thespring term, during Commencement, Reunion and overthe summer.

At the onset of so-called formal rushing, it becamelegal to contact potential members on campus and, byInterFraternity Council (IFC) rules, everyone did it atthe same time, with brothers, ties in place and shoesaglow at precisely 8 a.m., knocking at doors for a chanceto meet freshmen they had heard about or pre-rushedat their homes during the summer or otherwise already

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'Why should T let some 18-year-old

paddle my posterior SO I Can

call him brother?"'knew. They would invite the prospects for lunch ordinner at the house some time during the two-weekformal rushing period. No other contacts were permit-ted. Not at classroom or lab, playing field or bar.

The brothers were said to be rushing the prospects.There were long lines for prominent newcomers. Anold hand recalls being admitted to the room of one pairof freshmen. As he tried to make small talk, an unim-pressed prospect read aloud from a magazine articlecalled "How I Return Punts" written by Emlen Tunnell,a giant among football Giants at the time, and demon-strated TunnelΓs advice, in the room. Both freshmenroommates ended up to be Sigma Nus, like many oftheir teammates, and Cornell Sports Hall of Famers.

For the visit to the house, the potential brotherswould be picked up in members' cars and deliveredhome afterward. The more favored young men wouldride in the more impressive cars. Freshmen might visitLlenroc, the stone home of Ezra Cornell, which hadbecome the home of Delta Phi, or the Jennie McGrawmansion, occupied by Chi Psi, or the house Robert E.Treman '09 bought for his film star wife, Irene Castle(Sigma Chi). They could tour Alpha Delta Phi if invitedbut not its star-shaped goat house. Only a very fewwould become members and get to attend chaptermeetings there.

The brothers gave their guests the grand tourbefore the meal. Rushees would see fraternity dormi-tories, study rooms in inspection condition, oak-pan-eled living rooms and bars adorned with ancient oarsand small pieces of goalpost. They paid heed. Theymight be living there for a year or two. There was muchhandshaking.

There was, needless to say, no alcohol, and all themembers were encouraged to meet all the prospects.Very few brothers were kept hidden. But some lega-cies—descendants of very important brothers—re-ceived lukewarm welcomes.

It was an ever-shrinking process of selection, whichbecame intense at hash sessions. Personalities andprospects were examined far into the night and theone-ding system ruled. Any member had the right inmost houses to block any invitation to membership ashe chose. Very few would stand alone against theirbrothers to drop the ding but it was done from time totime. The unit rule also meant that any member of thenational fraternity could blackball any prospectivemember at any chapter, such as a Southern brotherexercising veto power over a potential Northern mem-ber.

At length, the bids, screened by the IFC, were of-fered, and accepted, and suddenly the senior who wastreating you like a newfound brother on Friday wassaying, "Get me some matches. You don't have any?

Get some, Pledge." And it turned out one was requiredto produce them on demand forever, or until initiation,whichever came sooner.

Fifties pledges were apprentice fraternity men andwere expected to prove worthiness and devotion overa period of months during which they were also to learnwhat they were getting into. They were required tomemorize the full names—including middle—andhometowns of all the active brothers, and the otherpledges. They were expected to eat lunch and dinnerat the house, be sociable, answer the house telephone—politely—on the night their turn came, not get in theway, not demonstrate undue familiarity or contemptfor their elders, pass their courses, create a favorableimpression on campus, absorb fraternity history, songsand lore, go out for something, rake leaves, shovelsnow—in short, to participate, but not to excess. Inreturn, they were made to feel that they had reason-able chances to become actual members at some time.By the '50s, most could expect not to be paddled. (Inthe words of a student who had fought in the Battle ofthe Bulge, "Why should I let some 18-year-old paddlemy posterior so I can call him brother?")

Many of the required qualities could be demon-strated on a pledge trip. At least one fraternity sent allits pledges to visit all neighboring chapters of the na-tional. Maybe not quite as far as Dartmouth, but all 20or so were sent to see brothers all over New York Stateand Pennsylvania. They had a February weekend toget there and back, without money, of course. Teamsof two—smoothies paired with crude oils, not buddieswith buddies—had the opportunity to show self-reli-ance and initiative and social agility. The brothers to be

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Meanwhile, Lucky Strike cigarettes had launcheda campus contest. The Cornell fraternity that turned inthe most wrappers in five weeks would win a televi-sion set, one of the first to come to Tompkins County.Brothers and pledges alike were set quotas. Pledgeswere to produce 100 wrappers a week, in any old con-dition, and cartons of them came in the mail from friendsback home or on other campuses or maybe in the laun-dry from mom.

So during the trip to Pennsylvania Mu, pledgesdiscovered unmined lodes. There wasn't a Lucky wrap-per left on a barroom floor in Williamsport, PA, afterthat weekend.

The house finally submitted 108,000 wrappers—and came in second to a coalition of other fraternities.The TV set worked for a time, but it wasn't fancy. Andsome acquired long-lasting cigarette-smoking habits outof that pledge task.

Eventually, pledges who were in good academicstanding and otherwise still acceptable to the brother-hood—and there were now more hash sessions—wereready for initiation. It could come in the spring of thefreshman year or the following fall. The formal induc-tion was preceded by "informal initiation," in whichpledges' mettle was put to the stress test.

The rites of passage were designed to help pledgesprove that they really, really, wanted to be brothers.What went on wasn't actually hazing, of course. Thatwas banned by the IFC. But there were challenges. Allthe candidates might be called upon to know and reciteupon request: "Sir, if the fresh skin of an animal beclean, dried and divest of all hair and other extraneousmatter and immersed in a dilute solution of tannic acid,etc., etc " right down to "That sir, is leather," justlike their big brothers had to do to get through flightschool a few years before. Or the task might be tai-lored to the pledge and it could be demanding: "Bringus the stockings of the Dee Gee housemother." If youdid, and they liked you, and you made it through theall-nighter that was the informal initiation, you stoodon the brink of brotherhood.

Branding, it must be said, was not practiced. But it

might be simulated. A candidate could see irons heat-ing, and be blindfolded, and hear the sizzle as the ironstruck a piece of cow meat while at the same instant anice cube was applied to his skin. But that was unusual,besides being cruel.

The formal initiation followed, after a general clean-ing of the house—by the neophytes—and some rest.The fraternal mysteries were revealed. Only now mightthe new brother learn the true meaning of the Greekletters he would proudly wear and maybe only now hewould find out what the officers' titles meant. He wouldnot be taught the secret grip, although the more obser-vant had already grasped it or had it handed to them bya visiting alumnus who didn't realize. (Besides, manyof them are quite similar.)

The ancient rites and disguised significances couldoccasion mirth—the term mumbo-jumbo did arise—and, if the mysteries were not held in awe, still theywere part of a bond the initiates shared, maybe beyond50th Reunions. Some say they feel more tied to theirhouses than to Cornell, even now.

Besides the secrets, the brothers were bound to-gether by close day-to-day contact. Much give, muchtake. Most brothers lived in the house at least two years,maybe sophomore and senior, and ate together. All wererequired to take two meals a day at the house. Therewere economic reasons for that. At most houses, thebrothers slept in a common dormitory.

The day's badinage began in the kitchen coffee line,early, if not bright. Midway through the morning, thebrothers could meet again in the Ivy Room, then backto class, then back to the house for lunch. There, onemight be caught in the never-ending bridge game.Fourths were in demand, and one might protest less-than-mild interest or skill but be drafted anyway andthen find the drafter fixing one with a cold stare aftera setback and the eternal question: "Ever hear of draw-ing trump?" Only the very rare lodge had television.So there was much conversation, often until late atnight, and a house might be divided on Senator JosephMcCarthy, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, discriminationclauses (some houses had them), Truman versusMacArthur and what are we doing in Korea anyway.There were views on the Red Sox versus the Yankees,IFC election coalitions, the rough edges of one's fra-ternal contemporaries and other matters of the sortcommonly mentioned in barracks.

Schoolwork was taken seriously and in the '50s thefraternity scholastic average surpassed the all-men'saverage. Freshmen were tutored by older brothers.Houses had files of exams and prelims that had gonebefore, not to betray answers but to show the kind ofquestions one might confront. The authorities wereaware of the practice and did not disapprove.

There were dress codes. One wore jacket and tieto meals in the house and to classes, and suits on "suitnight" and Sunday dinner. (Sunday night was the cook'snight off at most houses and so one dined at an Ithacaeatery.) Some brothers might be waiters or dishwash-ers in the house and they were not scorned, as they

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would be in a Hollywood film. Indeed, the kitchen staffformed an elite of its own, a core-within-the-house,and it did not accept all mere regular brothers.

Once every week came Saturday night and most ofthem were party nights. Esquire's story about partycolleges of the time excluded Cornell and Dartmouthon reasonable grounds ("They're pros."). At Cornell,some said, "We work like hell during the week andparty like hell on Saturday." But some in the brother-hood frowned upon hypersocial activity.

omen were not per-mitted in the housesunless the party was

registeredwith the uni-

versity in ad-vance, and had

to be out by 1a.m. to be home

before the 1:30curfew. New York

State required thatimbibers be at least

18 years old and alma mater required chaperones forparties to be registered: two married couples, no mini-mum age, no minimum time married; better, bythe brothers, if they were likely to be in the bar,best if one of them were a pianist. It took a heapof singing to get all the songs sung of a Saturdaynight, from "Don't Send My Boy to Harvard,"through "It Was Sad When the Great Ship WentDown," to "The Coed Leads a Sloppy Life."Others came after the girls went home and the"Thank God They're Gone" party began, fol-lowed by the trip to Obie's or Wes and Les din-ers.

There was singing and dancing and talk.There were chugalug games. But there werebounds. ("Is this going to degenerate into a seriousconversation?" was one echoing refrain.)

It seemed important one spring night when anentire neighboring sorority appeared at the window ofthe dining room (on a rare beer-and-spaghetti night),with lawn hoses. There was more beer and it turnedout to be a memorable party night. (But the appear-ance of extempore was misleading. The house had beenregistered in advance.)

The granddaddies of fraternity bashes were thethree big houseparties of the year: Fall Weekend, Jun-ior Week and Spring Weekend. For those, the housecould be registered overnight for two or three nights,to accommodate the houseparty queens, imports fromafar, maybe girls from back home. They slept in thehouse, if they slept (many stayed up all night so thatthey wouldn't miss any of the party). Those who didsleep were snug in a partitioned-off portion of mosthouses. In at least one fraternity, there was a $25 finefor crossing the line—a week's pay for many in the

outside world—and it was never paid in the four yearsbecause there were no violations.

There were dances in a gussied-up Barton Hall,with big bands like Vaughn Monroe's and WoodyHerman's, and engineering masterworks outside thefraternity houses with bears puffing real smoke frompipes and squeezing oranges, smooth dinners and buf-fets in the houses, float parades, duck races on BeebeLake. And the partying was intense. Just before dawnon Sunday, all unused booze from the fraternity raths-keller along with a few quarts of ice cream, a few gal-lons of milk and a sprinkling of nutmeg would appearin a milk can. Voila! Milk punch. It would be consumedto get hearts started for breakfast.

Some of what was said survives. Like this, from aformer GI, uttered at a fraternity bar deep, deep into onehouseparty, inspired by a contemporary report in Lifemagazine: "And so we see platoons of returning veter-ans, lending their mature, sobering influence to theimpressionable youth of 1950." Well, they did. Mostly.

And now the veterans are long gone, some fromthis planet.

The waiters still use the same set of chimes tosummon the brotherhood to dinner. But there arechanges. We do see an occasional black face aroundthe house these days—we didn't see any back then.There are stories of women students who lived in their

Esquire's story about party colleges of the time

excluded Cornell and Dartmouthon reasonable grounds

("They're pros.").own rooms in fraternity houses.

The same old piano is still there and one remem-bers old brothers in chorus—"Oh, Friday night is hereat least. Squeedle-dee-boom-boom," or "I Wish All theGirls Were Like B-29s." And some ghosts. A pianoplayer who would make up verses to fit all present. Hewas the favorite chaperone and an advisor to manygenerations in the chapter. A drinking buddy or two.Others.

There are newer ghosts. About 40 of the youngergeneration traveled far to the burial of a contemporarylast fall and earlier about as many had made the funeralof a favored house cook.

And many of their elders still remember most ofthe songs and lots of the secrets—and even remain asfraternal as ever—long after their badges have gonemissing. H

Jim Hanchett '53 is a writer and editor for the New YorkDaily News.

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embers of the Big Red Marching Bandtook to the streets of New York Citylast Fall, following the football team'sgame with Columbia (a 38-33 loss, alas).The Band was keeping up a tradition be-

gun by Seymour "Sy" M. Katz '31 in the early1970s.

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Class Notes^ \ <4 Florence Beck, 115 S. Quarry St.,

I I D-208, Ithaca, NY is an ever-faith-m I ful subscriber and duespayer. Her

m I address when she wrote last fallI / I was a new one, she explained, forβ B ^ "I have moved into Ithacare, a'community especially designed to encour-age the independence of older adults.' " Sheadds, "It is a lovely place—clean, comfort-able—and staffed with friendly helpful peo-ple. We are provided with three good mealsdaily and help given generously whenever,whatever one's needs are. I recommend ithighly."

Two other classmates who paid dueslast fall, but who sent no news, are GraceH. Smith, 34 Washington St., Box 292, Con-way, NH, and Frederick J. Muth, 1115Marietta Ave., Apt. 11, Lancaster, PA. Newsof duespayer Irene Zapf Witkop (Mrs. JohnC. Sr.) was supplied last October by herdaughter, Frances Witkop Almeter, whowrote, "Mom is still living with us. She ishaving a problem with her vision, so is mostgrateful to the NY State Library for its Talk-ing Books.' These she really enjoys, but issorry Cornell Magazine is not on the list. Shesaid the rest of her ailments are probablyno different than those of the rest of herclassmates. She wishes everyone a grandThanksgiving and a blessed Christmas."

Returned dues notices brought news,too, that three classmates had died. The wifeof Abraham Toplitt wrote that he had"lived past his 95th birthday on June 22, '94.He passed away on July 31, '94 after a won-derfully productive and healthy life until1993. We had a spectacular 25 years togeth-er, even though he was 25 years my senior.He left many, many faithful and loving friends."George A. Jackson is reported to have diedon March 21, '94. And Harry B. Lyford'sdues notice was marked to indicate that hehad passed away, but no date given.

Please send news to share with class-mates to the following address. • Class of'21, c/o Cornell Magazine, 55 Brown Rd., Ith-aca, NY 14850-1266.

f \ m One of the classmates withI Λ whom we were very pleased to

m / • visit at our 70th Reunion wasM Lm4 Roger Egeberg. Roger has veryI j I kindly sent me a copy of his book™" ^ titled The General, telling abouthis fascinating, exciting—and often danger-ous—experiences during World War II aspersonal doctor and aide de camp to Gener-al Douglas MacArthur. Let me quote a fewparagraphs, recounting his first meeting withGeneral MacArthur. "I was ushered into theGeneral's relatively large office. As I en-tered, there is no doubt that I was a bit un-nerved. The General came toward me in aneasy, loose-jointed gait and extended hishand, which I gladly shook. There was awarm smile on his face. The corncob pipein his left hand gave almost the support of a

swagger stick. The informal, open collar, nocoat, suited the field of training or of actionin Australia and New Guinea. After thegreeting, the General suggested we sit downand then asked me to tell him about myself;about a bit of my life, what some of my ex-periences had been. This was certainly notwhat I expected, but I started pouring it out:my birth in Chicago, my education and lifein Gary, IN, and in Norway; my college, Cor-nell, a year in India when I was 20, explor-ing in the Himalayas, medical school atNorthwestern U.; teaching; the practice ofmedicine; and finally, my entrance into theArmy through the affiliated unit, the 4thGeneral Hospital from Western Reserve U.He listened, I felt, with interest, asked somequestions, suggested we talk more later,then told me what he hoped I would do.'Colonel (I was a lieutenant colonel by then),I want you to be my doctor and if necessarywould like to have you take care of my wifeand our son, Arthur. I also want you to bethe doctor for the officers of GHQ.' The nextday, I had a call, telling me my orders wouldbe cut and I could expect to report for dutyin three days. I had been picked."

We'll have more on Roger's associationwith General MacArthur in the next issue.• Max Schmitt, RR 5, Box 2498, Bruns-wick, ME 04011.

Marge Pigott Wedell has a beautiful viewover Sarasota Bay from her apartment in ahigh-rise building. Daughter Frances Beck,who lives in Menlo Park, CA, sent inMarge's class dues, but with no news. Wedid not know who she was, or whether itmeant that Marge had moved, or what washappening. So I wrote to Frances, and shephoned me! She told me that Marge had bro-ken her hip due to a fall back in the sum-mer. She was getting special nursing careand would soon be back in her own apart-ment, getting around with the help of a walk-er. We all hope that by now she is able todispense with the walker, and is her formerexuberant self.

Mildred Neff, known as Molly, nowback home in California, reports that it wasgreat to be back "on the Hill" and to seethe '24 grads. She also used the time to vis-it old friends in Trumansburg, which unfor-tunately caused her to miss being in theclass picture, for which the rest of us werevery sorry. Alice Elizabeth McCartneyHolgate, known to most of us as Alibeth,resides in Weems, VA, where she still livesindependently and enjoys a quiet life. Shesays she has no interesting news. Here inMaine, Flo Daly was very busy paintingminiatures and other small-size paintings forher church fair, which was held during theweek before Thanksgiving. I do hope thatall of you had beautiful and happy holidaysand that you will send me news in 1995—Ineed it! • Florence Daly, 91 Old WinthropRd., Augusta, ME 04330.

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^ \ Ψ* Just came across a1 1 ^ sliver of newsprint

m r V which reveals howm I I disposed of thef i l l cut-down Model T*•• ̂ ^ to which this col-umn was devoted in the issue of November1993. All it took was a three-line item inthe Cornell Daily Sun classifieds (adv't):"FOR SALE—Sumptuously appointed un-derslung speedster, chassis by Ford. $50.Call 2017." No name, just the telephonenumber; could I have had all the brothersprimed to handle inquiries, or was it a num-ber provided by the Sun? Anyhow, itworked; I recall that I got the $50, but haveno recollection of the lucky buyer, who musthave been impressed by such de luxe de-tails as an operating speedometer (accord-ing to which the rig's maximum speed was42 mph) and a big Chalmers (remember theChalmers?) light and ignition switch, ac-quired from the same junkyard as the Mod-el T speedometer.

Along with the "Musical Clubs' Christ-mas Trip Itinerary" described in the Decem-ber issue, I found a little "Notice to Guests,"presumably taken from one of the hotels weused, which may have historical interest. Itstates: "The Prohibition Law forbids fur-nishing accessories with knowledge that thesame are for use in the consumption of in-toxicating liquor. Any violation of the lawmay subject you as well as ourselves to se-vere penalties. In order to avoid embarrass-ing situations, we shall appreciate your co-operation in a strict observance of the law."After due deliberation, particularly as towhat might constitute an accessory in thisconnotation, we conclude that the "notice"was simply a request to keep the booze bot-tle out of sight while the waiter was deliv-ering an order for glasses, ice, and gingerale or whatever. More signifcant, perhaps,is the request for a strict observance of thelaw to avoid "embarrassing situations," rath-er than the severe penalties which viola-tion might invoke under the letter of thelaw. Come to think of it, Prohibition wasmerely a mild annoyance compared withpresent goings-on.

Last month's prediction that we wouldbe back in the news business by this timehas been 100 percent wrong. The next dead-line should be far enough away, however,to permit us to shift our optimism forwardanother issue—particularly since you willhave learned, by that time, of the simple e-mail alternative now available. Provided, ofcourse, that you maintain a supply of grand-children near enough, and young enough,to lend a hand. • Walter Southworth, 744Lawton St., McLean, VA; e-mail address,walters669@aol.com.

^ \ ^ \ Walter Buckley writes that heI m is still convalescing from a bro-

m l ^ k ken hip suffered two years ago./ I I He also wrote that his son,f j I f Walter Jr. '60 (BA), MBA '62,*•• ^ ^ has financed several scholarshipsin Civil Engineering in Walter Sr.'s name.What a wonderful tribute. Let's hear fromsome more of you folks. • Samuel T.Buckman, PO Box 365, RD #3, Mountain-top, PA 18707; (717) 474-5007.

^ ^ l ^ f Graduations and weddings ofI m grandchildren continue to be the

m m big news. Frances Bourne Taftm I saw her granddaughter graduatef j I from Hope College last June, the* • • fourth of her family to graduatefrom that institution. Ann McCreary Reil-ly participated in the celebration of the mar-riage of her granddaughter, at which threegrandmothers were present, she the eldest.

One of Becky Martin Starr's grand-sons was married in Pennsylvania last May,and another in Boston in August. SylviaWells Hodgkinson writes that Becky isamazing how she gets around; that she en-joyed her visit for lunch and bridge. Manywrote of limited mobility and resorting tothe telephone instead. After driving aroundthe campus last July, Barbara JacobusCook wrote that she was glad that the ArtsQuad was still there; that the campus wastoo crowded. The listing of the 81 duespay-ers in our September News-Dues letter wasappreciated. We will be fortunate to reach70 this year. News sent any time will be dulyappreciated by all of us. • Sid Hanson Reeve,1563 Dean St., Schenectady, NY 12309.

When Dr. Whitman "Whit" Reynolds wasat Cornell, few would have guessed that hislife would be as varied and eventful as ithas turned out to be (even though when atCornell he chose sports as contrasting asfootball and track). Following graduation, heattended the College of Physicians and Sur-geons at Columbia U., from which he grad-uated in 1931. Whit's much-condensedautobiography follows: "Three years of in-ternship and residency training were fol-lowed by five years of general practice inGreenwich, CT. During this period I becameone of the early members of the NationalSki Patrol System. At the time, the organi-zation was simply a group of skiers inter-ested in providing care for people injuredon snowy slopes and ski trails. I providedthe first-aid instruction for the group. In19411 became an officer in the 87th Moun-tain Infantry regiment, and within a few dayswas ordered to join special troops in the Co-lumbia ice fields in northern Alberta. Forthe next three years, in various locations, Iworked with troops being trained for moun-tain operations. The remainder of my mili-tary career was spent on the faculty of theInfantry School at Fort Benning, GA." Later,Whit became a medical underwriting offi-cer for the Equitable Life Assurance Soci-ety of the US, and president of the Assn. ofLife Insurance Medical Directors of America.Then, Whit continues: "After I retired in1984, I skied winters and sailed summers.Then, when I became too old for these activi-ties, I began bird carving. In 1988 I made atwo-foot by three-foot copy of the Duck Stampfor 1987—a winter scene of red head ducksover a frozen winter marsh. Today I still draw,and am planning another large work."

Bill Payne and wife Bea moved fromMoorestown, NJ to the Clearwater area onthe west coast of Florida in 1955, where hedeveloped many subdivisions and, when heran out of subdivision lots in 1970, beganbuilding on parcels scattered on the out-skirts of Clearwater. After building 350homes, he retired in 1973. Now 91 years

old, Bill recalls, "People liked my housesbecause I did not skimp; I gave 'em goodvalue." • C. L. Kades, PO Box 132, Heath,MA 01346.

I bet most of you do not write witha cockatiel on your finger. That iswhere mine is as I write the newsthis month. He has to know whatis going on! Shall we say winter'sback is broken? Some days you

can feel spring in the air—others that winteryblast. Once more, I have to admit, there's notmuch news to send along. A note from Kath-ryn Altemeier Yohn, our president, camewith a suggested letter to send to all. WhenAlyene Fenner Brown and I can plan, wewill probably send you the questionnaire.Please respond to it, for then I will be able totell about our classmates. I know you wouldlike to know what they are doing. I am sure itwill be good reading.

A friend from Ithaca visited a CortlandCornell Club meeting recently and met Eliz-abeth "Betty" Denman Oesleby there. Youremember the two sisters, Betty and Car-lotta Denman (Mrs. William H. Kimball).Carlotta lives in Augusta, ME; Betty, inHomer, NY.

Remember, if all of you fill out the ques-tionnaire, we will have news for all ofyou. •> Rachel A. Merritt, 1306 HanshawRd., Ithaca, NY 14850.

Bud Mordock and his sister, Kay MordockAdams, are the oldest alumni of the NorthShore Country Day School, which wasfounded by the Mordock family 75 years agoin Chicago's north shore town of Winnetka.Both attended homecoming festivities. Theschool serves students in junior kindergar-ten through the 12th grade from Chicagoand 24 suburbs.

Stan Krusen has moved to VicarsLanding in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, whichis a retirement community near the MayoClinic. He and his wife spend five monthsin Manchester, VT. Stan's chief Cornell ac-tivity is the Program for Religious Studies,which he helped start three years ago. Cor-nell is no longer a "godless college."

Our late classmate Floyd Mundy cre-ated a trust in his will which goes to Cor-nell upon the death of his daughter. It is avery significant gift. Floyd's previous giftswent to the Cornell Plantations, where theMundy Wildflower Garden was establishedand is maintained with a gift from Floyd andhis late wife, Muriel.

Ted Adler is joining other alumni inJanuary on a clipper ship cruise to the Gren-adine Islands.

A former class officer, Hank Boschendied last September. He was living in a re-tirement community in Essex, CT. Also de-ceased are Wellington Kuntz and HymanYudewitz. • Ted Adler, 2 Garden Rd.,Scarsdale, NY 10583.

^ ^ ^ ^ A nice note came from CarlI I I "Bud" Brandt, who had a career

m I I in the advertising world. Hem ^ ^ played quite a bit of golf, but is

f j if now a "hacker." Like I did, heI" \J married a co-ed. She was MaudeMollie" Drumm, whom I remember as a

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language expert. After dividing his time be-tween Florida and New England for manyyears, he now plans to stay up north nearLaconia, NH. Fran Troy, a former Ithacan,lives 3,000 miles away and says he has thesame problem as most of us. (We don't getaround much any more.) He and Anita havecelebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.

George Lacey reports a wonderfulEuropean trip, covering most of the WorldWar II historic sights, from Churchill's WarRoom to Hitler's hideaway. Tour guideswere not provided when George was in Eu-rope in 1944-45. Jack Steele has four chil-dren and 12 grandchildren (with lots of col-lege degrees among them). At our Reunionhe enjoyed taking the Cornell Plantationswalk, a walk well-known to me as an Ith-acan. I always like stopping to see the Heas-ley Rock Garden given by Kay and WaltHeasley '30. The plants are settling in andbeginning to look at home.

Glad to hear from you all. • Don Lay-ton, 1029 Danby Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850.

Dorothy Heyl Jones reminded me that sheis part of a four-generation Cornell familystarting with her father-in-law, H. RogerJones '06; husband, Roger W. Jones '28;son Roger H. Jones '57, and grandson Mi-chael H. Jones '83. Cornell can be veryproud of such loyalty. Dorothy is on a walk-er but she still "would come to the door towelcome Cornell-related visitors."

Eleanor Pease Page lives in FreedomVillage Retirement Home in Bradenton, FL,which sounds very comfortable. She doesn'ttravel much except to see her family, someof whom live in Mansfield, PA. She regretsshe didn't get to Reunion, but she lunchedwith M. Gene vie ve Coon, who showed herpictures and told her about the activities.

Frances Levinson Zippin earned hermaster's at Columbia and taught English atJames Madison High School for 40 years.Her husband, Leo, a mathematician, was oneof the co-solvers of Hubert's Fifth Problem.This sounds occult to me. He must be verybrilliant. Both daughters are Cornell gradu-ates. The Zippins live on Riverside Drive inManhattan and are brave enough to walk inRiverside Park.

Charlotte "Charlie" Gristede Corishclaims she was the only one at Reunion tobe using a cane. However, it wasn't notice-able, so I hadn't realized it until she wrote.She sent a picture of the class attendingReunion, "in color," taken by EleanorSteele, spouse of classmate John A. Steele.Charlie hopes to be able to send everyonewho was in it a copy. Thank you, Charlie!She recently moved into a retirement home.• Grace Carlin Wile, 184 Shady BrookLane, Princeton, NJ 08540.

^ \ ^ \ Ruth Beadle and II I I agree that our

^ F I I growing up in the• I I s m aM towns of Wa-

l I I I hoo,NEandValois,V ^ \ / NY was better thanmost present-day upbringings. Our teacherswere a part of the community. Everyone kneweveryone else . . . and there was no need formetal detectors at the door. No one expecteda car for a graduation present. If we wanted

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one, we earned it!Dorothy Wertz Tyler is feeling fine

after hip replacement. In fact, she walkedfrom their car up into our house withouteven a cane. Eleanor Smith Tomlinsoncalled on Election Eve and we discussedOregon and New York politics. Her brotherlives in Rochester, so she keeps up on NewYork news . . . Helen Louise RichardsMorse in Phelps, NY says she is quiet sinceher husband died in 1989. She now lives ina senior citizen apartment, near an ever-helpful daughter. Two other daughters livein Chevy Chase, MD and Wilmington, DE;four great-grandchildren live near her. Shedrives her car, and keeps busy with church,historical society, and the Phelps Businessand Professional Women, of which she is a40-year charter member.

We are sad to hear of the death of Lu-cille Harden Bruns of New Canaan, CT.She was a dear friend of Evelyn ReaderMcShane, and will be much missed.• Joyce Porter Layton, 1029 Danby Rd.,Ithaca, NY 14850.

In my previous column, I erred: DouglasM. Roy is the one whose doctor said hewas stressed from "too much dating," notRowland H. Ross. My apologies to bothof them. An explanation, and correctly at-tributed news, will appear in the April is-sue. Fred Muller Jr. sorrowfully notesthe loss of his former roommates, CarlHoffman and Jim Paxton. (Cornell Mag-azine October 1993 class column.) At 85,Fred, joined by his youngest daughter andher family, is rejuvenated, living "with ahouse full of teenagers" and by churchgo-ing, woodworking, fishing with his son inCanada and around Memphis, driving acar, and "even" dancing, "as the widowskeep you busy."

Donald L. Otis retired as a dentist in1972, and engages in his hobbies of wood-working and stamp and antique collecting.Joseph R. "Whitey" Wortman, since thedeath of his wife early in 1994, has movedto a permanent retirement home. In an en-joyable phone conversation with him, hisgreat sense of humor was at its best. Hemade it easy to believe that he is happy, is"entertaining all the young chicks and doc-tors," and that we will enjoy his promisedpresence at our 65th. We will all be sure tobe happy, too, when we all attend.

Charles H. Diebold spends sixweeks a year in central Mexico to helpsubsistence farmers with drinking water,crops, and roads through ARTA, a non-profit organization. C. H. Diebold Mis-sions, of which he is treasurer, helps Pres-byterian congregations in remote moun-tains. He still operates an 88-acre irrigat-ed farm in Albuquerque. Everyone spreadthe word that '30 Reunion 65 is a com-mand performance. Being there will whetyour appetite and fortify you for the70th. • Benedict P. Cottone, 1255 GulfStream Ave., Bay Plaza 802, Sarasota, FL34236; phone (813) 366-2989.

Here on Cape Cod in the middleof November it is still a beautifulIndian Summer day. TropicalStorm Gordon is raging to thesouth after weeks of heavy rain.Deluges and blizzards out West.

Then, in today's mail, came this magazine'sreminder of the deadline for copy for thisMarch 1995 issue and a health newsletterwith an article about "Recognizing Depres-sion in the Elderly." No problem with thelatter. I know the weatherman will balancethings out eventually. Hope all you snow-birds had a fine, warm, dry winter.

Along with a generous additional con-tribution and his 1994-95 dues, LeRoy H.("Roy" or "Doc") Wardner (51 WatersideLane, W. Hartford, CT 06107-3523) sent thefollowing: Ten years retired from ob/gyn; 55years married; five married daughters; 13grandchildren; spring and fall gardener; sum-mer in the Adirondacks; keen interest ingenealogy of Wardners in America from1752, and in establishing connections withthe original branch ("Roots?") of the familyin the Black Forest of Germany: done roam-ing—EXCEPT for our 65th in 1996."

In December 1993, the Class of '31 wasrepresented by Ted Osborn (7979 S. Tami-ami Trail, #262, Sarasota, FL 34231-6870) ata swimming alumni reunion and banquet atthe Statler. Our drum major in the Big RedBand (now "The only REAL marching bandin the Ivy League.'") isn't listed as a swimmerin my Cornellian, but we have arrived at theage when our support of undergraduate activ-ities is noticed and much appreciated.

Gerry Blumberg is another of our le-gal eagles who can't seem to find the timeto retire. His firm (Gerald and LawrenceBlumberg, 521 Fifth Ave., NYC 10175) re-cently received wide public recognition fortwo precedent-setting cases in trusts andestates and tax law. One brought about a $5million refund for the client. (What makesme think our taxes will now have to go upto make up that loss?) • William M. Van-neman, Thirwood PL, #121, 237 N. MainSt., S. Yarmouth, MA 02664-2075.

With sadness we report the death of Miri-am Prytherch Crandall last August in Cal-ifornia—Prythie was one of our true classleaders, involved in all Women's StudentGovernment Assn. (WSGA) affairs, editor ofits news. She was a member of Sigma Kap-pa and Mortar Board. Incredibly, VirginiaClark Southworth has just been through her30th operation and writes that she's "healedand back on the road again." She lists seven

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members of her family associated with Cor-nell in earlier days, including her father, Dr.W. Lowellyn Clark, DVM '07, a veteri-narian much loved and revered in SenecaFalls. "My one accomplishment that hasbrought me much joy," she adds, "was tu-toring an 8-year-old girl born with spasticparalysis. Together we found different waysto do things, and eventually she graduatedfrom Alfred U. magna cum laude."

Note a new address for Tina OlsenMillane (Mrs. John J.): Pine Run Communi-ty, 8 Chestnut Cluster, Doylestown, PA18901. Welcome to the Keystone State,Tina!

So many dues sheets arrived with pay-ments (many thanks!) but NO news. Thecupboard is bare. Please take pen in handand come to the rescue. • Helen NuffortSaunders (Mrs. D. B.), 445 Valley Forge Rd.,Devon, PA 19333; (610) 989-9849.

Donald A. Russell and Isabel(Guthrie) '33, BS HE '34 go toFlorida about the middle of Oc-tober and return to Oakton, VAin May. This spring they plan acruise (their tenth with the Hol-

land American Line) to celebrate 60 yearsof marriage. Benjamin H. Greene is afaithful respondent to the News and Duesmailings, but he hasn't sent us any newsfor ages. Ben now lives in Corona Del Mar,CA and did much sailing when he wrote tous in 1986.

From La Jolla, CA, Walter F. DemingII reports that the San Diego Cornell Clubis doing a great job, with excellent programs,etc. Walt observes that '32ers are scarce inhis neighborhood, but the young generationis more than pulling its weight. Walt is ourclass treasurer. Another active classmate,Bernard L. Falk of S. Orleans, MA, ourReunion chair, says to mark June 1997 onyour calendar for our 65th. Ben has beenable to stay away from doctors and occa-sionally to break 100 at golf. That's encour-aging; if he keeps it up, he'll soon be shoot-ing his age.

Dr. Herbert Kalmanoff obviously hasfound the fountain of youth. He continues hispractice as a psychoanalyst, plays a lot of sin-gles tennis, enjoys New York City's many cul-tural offerings, and spends his winter vaca-tions in, Jamaica and summer holidays inNew Hampshire. John T. Livingston hashad two back surgeries and a knee replace-ment. He signs himself "Deadeye." With somany new sub-assemblies he wonders howmuch of him still belongs to the Class of'32. I am informed that so long as 20 per-cent of a person is original equipment, he isstill one of us. • James W. Oppenheimer,140 Chapin Pkwy., Buffalo, NY 14209-1104.

Jessie Lidell Duvoir asks, "Is this the 'Mar-tha' who was our supervisor in the RisleyDining Hall? A 'Martha' kept me busy work-ing in Risley and doing extra assignmentsat Willard Straight." Although I also workedin the Risley Dining Hall during our junioryear, I merely carried trays. I well remem-ber moving into the kitchen one noon witha loaded tray. I made a left turn, but thedishes kept going straight ahead. What aracket! In those days, what we broke we

paid for. Jessie says she worked with Ger-aldine MacConnell Rogers and HarrietGibson Bruce '31. Since 1979, Jessie haslived alone in the beautiful green, highdesert—elevation 4,200 feet—where she"shakes and bakes" with a few earthquakesand the warm sun. Her brother Don A.Lidell '18 and sister Beatrice E. '24 werealso alumni. She treasures Cornell Magazine.

Norma Phillips Putnam and Camp-bell celebrated their 62nd wedding anniver-sary on July 9, '94, with a party of familyand friends at their cottage at Chautauqua,NY. They wish everyone could equal theirhappiness together through those years.Both Norma and Camp are active in churchand community organizations. Their threechildren and spouses, and the six grandchil-dren bring them much joy. Norma says, andwe agree with her, that one of the hardestthings to bear as we grow old is losing be-loved friends. Two classmates who wereclose to Norma from freshman year, LoisWebster Adcock and Dorothy Lee Ben-nett, died in 1993.

Many thanks to those of you who includ-ed news with your News and Dues form.Please write to me as the months bring yougreat-grandchildren, trips, and other goodtimes. • Martha Travis Houck, PO Box 178,Bedminster, NJ 07921.

Greetings from the Class of1933! We salute you, PresidentFrank Rhodes, on the occasion°f y°ur soon-to-be retirement af-ter 17 years of outstanding ser-vice to Cornell. The university's

position in the academic world has benefit-ed greatly under your leadership. TheRhodes years add a special and honorablechapter to the history of Cornell. In appre-ciation of your long and distinguished ca-reer, the Class of 1933 is proud to presenta retirement gift of $2,000 to the Frank andRosa Rhodes Scholarship Fund. We wishyou and Rosa many enjoyable and fruitfulyears to come.

The above statement will appear on ourpage in a scrapbook being compiled from theclasses as a farewell gift to our retiringpresident. Class President Marion FordFraser and Treasurer C. S. "Ted" Tracyconferred on the project in arriving at thedecision to add to the scholarship fund.

Ted and his bride, Cynthia, are embark-ing on a farewell cruise from Tampa in No-vember for a weekend with his brother, whohas been an employee of the Grace Line cruiseship. In January, they have planned a cruiseto Costa Rica and the Panama Canal.

Marion and David Fraser, JD '37 tookadvantage of the beautiful autumn weatherto view the colors on three weekends at anelegant bed and breakfast home near Roch-ester, a second at Cooperstown, and the lastin the Thousand Islands. Norma KenfieldPieters's new address is 9932 Crosby Cir.,N., Sun City, AZ 85351. She had worked asa tax analyst for GLF (now Agway) until shemarried in 1947. As a faculty wife at Phil-lips Academy, she traveled with her hus-band, Dick, now deceased, who was involvedin mathematics nationally and internation-ally. In 1988 she gave six-week courses onpersonal record-keeping at Faith Presbyte-

rian Church using her computer; also in1989 and 1993. With her husband and Isa-belle Everhart Barker, she attended theNew England Cornell Club event at Apple-dore Island in 1989.

Elizabeth Reynolds Wilson retired toBradenton, FL after 27 years with NY StateElectric and Gas Corp. She now assists withMeals on Wheels and belongs to the localCornell Club. She is a former president ofthe Alumni Assn. (CAA). She has traveledto Asia and Germany. Her son David is aprofessor at the U. of Florida, and daughterAnn lives near Washington, DC. HelenBurritt Latif became headmistress in 1971at the Welham Girls Junior School in DehraDun, India. She retired in 1983 and returnsto the States every two or three years. Shespends her time in reading, gardening, andtraveling. Classmate Charlotte SpencerStevenson, MS '36 was an assistant in theAnimal Nutrition Lab while getting her mas-ter's. She was a nutritionist for Delaware'sstate board of health, then stayed home forfive years having two children. During thenext nine years, she was a home demon-stration agent in Burlington County, NJ,then cafeteria supervisor for Burlington CitySchools. She has traced her ancestors backto the Puritans, and is living at FriendsHome, 1731 Quaker Lane, Sandy Springs,MD. Claire Ornstein Hollander taughthome economics after graduation andworked in the Personnel Equipment Lab ofthe US Air Force. She learned rug-hookingat Cornell and was a part-time instructor atthe U. of Oklahoma. She is also a volunteerteacher of rug-hooking. She now enjoysquilting and hugging her grandchildren.• Marjorie C. Brown, PO Box 804, OldTown, FL 32680-0804.

^ \ A Sad to report that Jerry Brock• Λ died on Dec. 23, '94. Earlier he

^ / I had written that on Veterans^ ίΛi Day last year, 51 years after it

l l W happened he (a former Navy^ ^ ^ lieutenant commander) leafedthrough a recently declassified official re-port of how the 328-foot LST (Landing Ship/Tank) under his command took five directhits while landing 200 soldiers and 200 tonsof artillery, light tanks, and trucks on thebeach at Salerno, Italy on Sept. 8, '43.Among his crew of 125 men, one was killedand eight were injured, including Jerry, bythe shrapnel from exploding 88-millimetershells. Jerry is reported to have said thathe wasn't frightened at the time but whenhe got into a hospital (in Tunisia) two dayslater, he was like a wet rag.

After attending our 60th Reunion lastJune and congratulating our Reunion com-mittee on the fine job they did, Howard"Pete" Peterson and wife Sally departedfor England and then on to Paris to relivesome of Pete's experiences in World WarII. These included his landing on OmahaBeach on D-Day plus four with the US Army25th Artillery Regiment. They returned forthe summer to their home on Chappaquid-dick, MA, except for a trip to Fort Riley,KS, where Pete received an appointmentas a Distinguished Member of the 25th Ar-tillery Regiment. Pete and Sally are now attheir winter home in Stuart, FL.

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Dr. Peter Miceli of Westbury retiredseven years ago and is surviving the multi-ple infirmities consistent with his years. Heis sorry to have missed our 60th Reunion,and he would very much like to hear fromhis classmates. Elmer Olsen, Edmunds,WA, suffered a stroke in September 1993.He is doing very well now, but he is con-fined to a wheelchair at home, and also wouldwelcome letters from his classmates.

Our dutiful Class Treasurer M. "Bud"Breier, who is now retired and spending thewinter months with his wife at Doral Es-tates in Miami, FL, is the former mayor ofAmsterdam, NY and was a member (andchairman) of the Montgomery County (NY)Board of Supervisors. We are all grateful forBud's computer expertise and for keepingour financial records in good shape. • HiltonJayne, 8202 River Crescent Dr., Annapolis,MD 21401; tel. (410) 573-5950.

The class News and Dues blue sheets final-ly caught up with me in November when Ireturned to St. Pete, FL from Elba, NY.Betty Krause Barnett brings us up-to-datewith a new address at Wood River Village,3200 Bensalem Dr., #109, Bensalem, PA19020, where she relocated after the occur-rence of "the California earthquake whichwas very destructive of my neighborhoodand my home in Santa Monica."

Lucy Allen Karwell writes, "I some-times skip off to Tortola, Africa, Australia,even Alaska to broaden my horizons. Mymain passion is writing poetry, some ofwhich has been published. My two publishedvolumes, Wellsprings of the Heartland andForever Fountains, are on sale locally and ina college in Illinois." In the "not so good"news department, Alice Goulding Herr-mann says, "Nothing good to talk about—alot of health problems in 1994," which waswhy she didn't join us at our 60th Reunion.Our sympathies go out to Marion Ganzen-muller Goulard, who lost husband Everettlast year and to the family of WinnogeneBarth Treiber (our class vice president formany years) who died Aug. 22, '94.

Class President Bill Robertson toldme the new '34 directory was published bythe Cornell Alumni Federation and paid forout of our class funds. I encourage you touse it to make contact with a classmate withwhom you have been out of touch. Please,send me news to share with our classmates.• Cleo Angell Hill, 4032 Dartmouth Ave.,N., St. Petersburg, FL 33713; (813) 327-3513.

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Jim Mullane wrotethat the dedicationof the statue shownhere, "Girl Feedingthe Birds," by thelate Bo Ivar B.

Adlerbert, will be Wed., May 17, at the LuaA. Minns '14 Memorial Garden betweenPlant Science and Tower Road. Bo's wife,Lorle, plans to attend. Doris Struss Husterand Frank took a cruise to Costa Rica withtheir "second son and his wife," and thenwent to San Francisco to visit other sonsand grandchildren. Their oldest grandson isa lawyer; the youngest started pre-schoolin the fall. Their daughter, who lives in up-per Michigan, has two girls.

Eugene Murphy and wife Helene de-cided to join Kendal at Ithaca, a life-carecommunity, when it opens in early 1996.They had visited the original Kendal, a 20-year-old community at Longwood, KennettSquare, PA, in 1993 and were impressed byit and its people, including Brian ChandlerBellows '36 and his wife, Louise (Mat-thies) '37, (who, we have learned, died lastAugust). So last June, Gene and Helene at-tended the Kendal ground-breaking ceremo-ny in Ithaca.

Helen Sands Wolpert last fall "discov-ered a group of Delta Gammas and went toa mini-reunion in New Haven." She missedtheir Christmas party, as she was en routeto the South. Jack Todd "at the latestcount" has 2-1/4 great-grandchildren. He andwife Polly are in excellent health, have livedin their present home for 33 years, and aretoo busy for retirement. They'll be at Re-union. Jean Fischer Mitchell had an 11-dayAlaska cruise aboard the Sun Viking. Everyday was clear and wonderful. She urges trav-elers to cruise the Tracy Arms and the MistyFjords—"the scenery and glaciers are spec-tacular." Theodore Woodruff, wife Beulah,and their two daughters drove out to Cali-fornia to visit son Philip. Mary SteinmanDeBarger and husband Charlie took an Alas-kan cruise on the Royal Princess — InsidePassage, Denali, et al. Back in Seattle, WA,they flew to Eugene, OR, to visit Mary's sis-ter Jane, to San Francisco to visit relatives,and to Sacramento to visit a New York Mil-itary Academy classmate of Charlie's. Theyflew to Rochester, NY to visit their daugh-ter at Keuka Lake, then to Scottsville, NYto visit sister Sally Steinman Harms '39.

William Haynes and wife Dorothy Star(William Smith College '38) "celebrated 54years of married bliss by enjoying five lightoperas (including two by Gilbert and Sulli-van) at the Ohio Light Opera Festival inWooster, OH. We continue to reverberatebetween the East and West coasts to visitfriends and relatives. A hip replacement isin the offing for me and Dorothy's heart oc-casionally acts up. Other than that, we arein good health."

We are sad to report the death ofFrances Weil Reid on Nov. 6, '94. We sendour sincere sympathy to her son, Neil H.Reid '72. • Mary Didas, 80 N. Lake Dr.,Orchard Park, NY 14127.

John H. Peck, in Connecticut,has a grandson, Daniel C. Peck,Grad, who is at Cornell work-ing on his doctorate. The Peckshave three children and eightgrandchildren. William and L.

Frances Crain French '35 retired fromthe Syracuse area to North Carolina in 1975;they were looking forward to celebratingtheir 55th anniversary in April 1994. Thecouple enjoy Elderhostels in some years(one at Valdez, AK), and they take coursesat a local community college and also domuch volunteer work.

Dr. Frank "Bob" Drews, in Easton,MD, now retired for ten years after about40 years in surgical practice, is busy withthe "usual pastimes": golf, bridge, garden-ing, travel, and volunteer activities. He for-merly owned some harness horses andtrained them himself, but found it too de-manding and gave it up after 20 years. Heis now a certified bridge teacher, with acourse at Chesapeake College. This year heand wife Rita had a 14-day cruise along theAlaskan coast, taking a train home via Kam-loops, Banff, and Lake Louise. They winterin Tequesta, FL, where they see Don Hart,Andy Schultz, Howie Heintz, Ron Wil-son, and other Cornellians. Last year theywent to a Cornell Glee Club concert in FortLauderdale. Bob goes to Pittsburgh, PA, andvisits George Dimeling in Clearfield occa-sionally. Rita and he look forward to the 60thin 1996.

Jacob Carroll, in Annapolis, MD, hasa grandson, Jeffrey Goldman '97, a third-generation Cornellian. Susan Carroll Gold-man, MS '70 is Jeffrey's mother, and hisfather is Stephen Goldman, PhD '73. Ja-cob's son is Michael Carroll '72, MBA '77(hospital administration).

Frank Macy, in W. Des Moines, IA,retired in 1986 as administrative assistantfrom the Iowa Cubs, which is the TripleA affiliate of the Chicago Cubs. Previous-ly he had retired as a buyer for Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co. in 1981. He andRuth have four grown children and agranddaughter. Frank enjoys walking andbeing a spectator at professional baseball,college and professional football, and col-lege basketball.

Katherine "Karen" Simmons Zelle,in Albany, OR, sent a Christmas card witha long letter in 1993. She has taken acruise on the Nieuw Amsterdam of theHolland American Line, sailing down theMexican coast to Puerto Vallarta andAcapulco, Cartagena, Colombia, thencruising the Caribbean. They stopped atmany places, but one place was namedHell, and she mailed three cards fromHell. Karen is very busy with communityactivities and visiting her husband, Jean,and reading to him. They reside in a resi-dential complex, where there are manyactivities which are a help with hislife. • Allegra Law Ireland, 125 GrantAve. Ext., Queensbury, NY 12804-2640.

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^ ^ 1 ^ 1 Laboratory animals raised bymm Taconic Farms, a research facili-

^ m ty where Class Co-President^ • Edward W. Shineman Jr. is a

i l l director, have been space travel-N ^ m ers on recent NASA projects. Edis also a director of Fenimore Asset Man-agement and very upbeat about that compa-ny's Value Fund. Doris (Thompson), theother half of the co-presidency, and Ed havea "retirement" apartment in Arkell Center,Canajoharie, NY, although most of the yearthey live at their New York City apartment.Ed is president and a trustee of the ArkellHall Foundation. The Shinemans celebrat-ed their 55th wedding anniversary in 1994.

Charles E. Gray returned to WorldWar II invasion sites last summer, an inter-esting and really memorable pilgrimage.Charlie, a retired hospital administrator, andlong-time buddy—since Llenroc Lodge col-lege days—Baldwin C. "Baldy" Avery, re-tired manager of Pocono Lake Preserve, PA,share a passion for golfing. Charlie lives inClay Center, KS and Baldy, in Ft. Myers,FL. Another golfer, John H. Weidman, Jr.,is still trying to shoot his age but lamentshe needs to find a shorter golf course nearFt. Worth, TX.

Past Class President Robert H.Wright is courageously determined to getback on the golf course. Bob suffered astroke last April and has been in a series ofhospitals and rehabilitation centers sincethen. He is currently at Tryon Estates, Co-lumbus, NC, the retirement communitywhere he and Ruth have made their homesince 1978. Joining the Aluminum Co. ofAmerica after graduation, Bob's whole pro-fessional career of 41 years was with Alcoa.

Albert D. Miller and Dorothy havemoved from Binghamton to the Hill Topcommunity, a Methodist retirement homein Johnson City, NY. Their family includesfour children, 12 grandchildren, and a great-grandson. William A. Buckhout, who man-aged to reach the quarter-finals in the Na-tional Grass Court Championships last Sep-tember, regrets not seeing Bill Simpson atthe Supersenior National Tennis Champion-ships. From their home on Sanibel Island,FL, Bill and Lee have visited the US andBritish Virgin Islands and CostaRica. • Robert A. Rosevear, 2714 Sarato-ga Rd., N., DeLand, FL 32720.

By this time, everyone's had along time to think over the pos-sibility of taking part in the all-time-champeenship-novelty"mini" reunion of perhaps Cor-nell's greatest class. Now, all

that it takes is to mail in your reservationnow so's to meet the reservations deadlineof June 1 with co-chairs Elsie (Harrington)and Bill Doolittle, 17 Ridgewood Rd., Glas-tonbury, CT 06033. Meaning, of course, theSeptember 13-15 Barge Canal cruise fromSyracuse to Albany, returning by bus to capit all off with a final gabfest. Warning: Don'tdilly-dally, because capacity's limited!

Phil Wolff, packing to leave "beautifulAdirondacks for sunny San Diego winter, fi-nally saw the opening of the 1932-1980 Win-ter Games Sports Museum at Lake Placid,"for which Phil's had an active part in volun-

Had no troublewith driving on leftside of road butoften flicked on thewindshield wipersinstead of a turnsignal.

—CHARLES, P H D '47 ANDNATALIE SILVERSTONNIXON '40

teer search for memorabilia; and he calls hishaving been chief of staff for the 1980 Olym-pics "great fun and the thrill of a lifetime."Jim Moyer, now of 1520 Stone Brooke Rd.,Ames, IA 50010-4100, had an extensivemotor trip to Our Nation's Northwest sights.He describes the new hometown as "a flatIthaca." His first wife, Nedra Blake, diedin January 1991, and a Cornell Plantationstree memorializes her. Last year, Jim andnew wife, Dr. Ruth Pierce Moyer '41, MSHE '49, PhD '69, retired as an Iowa StateU. department head, honeymooned in Anti-gua, and also traveled to Switzerland, andboth US coasts to visit their children; 1994travel included Hawaii, England, and Scot-land, plus Arizona. For the- first time, Jim'sa golfer despite a vision problem, but Ruth'said and instruction have provedsuccessful. • Fred Hillegas, 7625 E. Cam-elback Rd., Maya Apts., #220-A, Scottsdale,AZ 85251.

With two sisters, Eloise Thro Greenstone'43 and Barbara Thro Boyd '40, on theWest Coast and a daughter in Paris, CarolThro Richardson's trips are frequentlylengthy, but she was in Ithaca for Home-coming, as well. The newspaper articleabout her, mentioned in the illustrated pieceon page 50 of the January/February issue,resulted also in a TV segment on Channel2. Alma Nay lor Elliott is confined to awheelchair much of the time, but she wrotea welcome note about her youngest grand-son, Nathan A. Elliott '98, a fifth-genera-tion Cornellian. Medina, NY resident FernBentley Blackburn is involved with churchactivities and her homeowners' association,and serves as secretary of the Cornell Wom-en's Club of Batavia, which marked its 60thanniversary last fall. Son Lee is a guidancecounselor in Pavilion, NY, daughter Neldateaches in Middleport's Central School,while son Gary is superintendent of high-ways in Medina. The family also includessix grandchildren and a great-grandson.

Jean Burr Joy and Ken, '35-37 SpAg

are Skaneateles, NY residents, whose daysare filled with projects such as Fish (trans-porting patients to medical and dental ap-pointments), sports matches in which theirgrandchildren participate, and other localactivities. With family members dispersedfrom Chicago to Arizona and New Mexico,they are frequently on the road, and are nowplanning a 50th anniversary celebration,which is imminent. • Helen Reichert Chad-wick, 225 N. 2nd St., Lewiston, NY 14092.

Writing this just before Thanks-giving, I am thrilled by a letterfr°m President Frank H. T.Rhodes thanking me for my "giftof books to the University Li-braries"—over 1,000 books in

1992-94 from the 1800s and early 1900s,many of them rare. If you have old children'sbooks to donate, write to Marcia Jebb, Col-lections Development, 504 Olin Library,Cornell U., Ithaca, NY 14853-5301.

More pink slips have come in withnews. Ethel "Piney" Piness Abrams is re-tired after 16 years of high school teachingand is language consultant to multi-nationalemployees of many Fortune 500 companies.In winter she goes to Florida, where shereunes with Edith "Edie" Meyers Meyerand Rawley Apfelbaum Silver. On visitsto Washington, she meets with HelenFrank Sheingorn. She plans to take Elder-hostel trips. Helen Stephenson De Luca,Priscilla Buchholz Frisbee, and BarbaraGay Ringholm had a mini-reunion in Alba-ny last September. The Frisbees had re-turned from a Panama Canal cruise, Barbarahad toured England, and the De Lucas werepreparing to go to Florida.

Anne DuBois Irwin and family had amemorable August vacation touring Cana-da. Catherine Grady Degler and husbandCarl spent ten days in Berlin, Germany lastApril. They are both retired from teachingand enjoy their grandchildren, ages 3 and 5.

On a sad note, Eileen Ford Wood'sdaughter notified us of her death and Bar-bara Clark Bailey is now a widow. • EllaThompson Wright, 7212 Masonville Dr.,Annandale, VA 22003; (703) 573-5403.

As a former teacher, Arnold Allison is de-lighted to be working with pre-school chil-dren while wife Shirley volunteers with re-tarded youngsters. Grandson NathanGreen '98 is in ILR. He is the son of Ro-chelle (Allison) '73 and Arthur JamieGreen '73. Bob Wilson and his wife arenow into their 19th year of Florida retire-ment. Between Elderhostels and churchwork, Phil Twitchell keeps occupied. Hisgranddaughter Lauren '96 is in Arts.

Moses Goldbas reports that he is tryingto wind up his affairs "before the ax falls." Ahigh school classmate of mine, John Present,keeps occupied with golf, yard work, meet-ings, and an Alaskan cruise. Bill Flanigan isstill building highways, but a new sailboatmay make him think about retirement. Re-tired from the presidency of SUNY Ag. andTech. College, Delhi and Utica/Rome, BillKunsela keeps busy with consulting workand travel—15 trips to nine countries.

Last summer John Hull and Astrid en-joyed a month at their island home outside

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Stockholm. Unfortunately, two later tripswere necessitated by the illness and deathof Astrid's father. Retired for 21 years, StanC. Hoffmann has been changing addressesforever but decided it was time to look atretirement homes, and is permanently nowin Seattle. Sam Whittlesey continues astax counselor for AARP and IRS, along withvarious church jobs, including financial sec-retary. He and Betty volunteer at the Hos-pice of the Florida Suncoast, the largest hos-pice in the world.

Already looking forward to our 60th,Ward Simonson keeps busy serving on theCornell Campaign committee for the Cleve-land area. Bob Boochever is still pluggingaway as a senior judge in the US Court ofAppeals. A trip last fall to Alaska enabledhim to share his legal expertise at courthearings in Anchorage.

Tidbit: Faults are the easiest thing tofind. • Russell Martin, 65 Woodcrest Ave.,Ithaca, NY 14850.

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A ^ \ Think Reunion!A l l What better time

/ I I I and place for JohnLJLf I Weiner of White

W I m Plains to gain ma-Ά ^ ^ terial for his ar-

chive on memorabilia and recollections of theBorscht Circuit Catskill Summer Resorts inthe 1920s, 30s, and 40s. Many Cornelliansworked at White Roe, Weiner family man-agement. He would like to hear from you.Write to him at 25 Park Cir., White Plains,NY. Think back, everyone. A few have al-ready let me know they are planning tocome: Helen Wells Evans, Ruth Ho wellDavis, Ralph Cerame, and maybe SamTrifilo. Dorothy Weitzman Seely is look-ing for someone in the Port St. Lucie or Stu-art, FL area with whom she could travel toIthaca. Call her: (407) 489-2926.

More from Florida: Shirley (Rich-mond) and Bernard Gartlir '38 continueto fly back and forth from New York City totheir house on a golf course in Palm BeachGardens. "Retirement" is not in Bernie'svocabulary. They see Phyllis SingermanCrane and Jerome Cohen often.

Raymond Goldstone is coming fromVan Nuys, CA and can give us news of him-self. A sad note: Howard Armstrong, Stow,OH, has lost his wife, Marilyn (Sherman)'43 in November 1991. It takes a while toget into print, Howard. {But it shouldn 't takethis long. An item will appear in this issue's"Alumni Deaths " listing.—Ed. ] Natalie Sil-ver st on Nixon and husband Charles, PhD'47 had a trip to New Zealand and Australiain the spring of 1994. They drove a lot whilethere, having no trouble with left side of roadbut often flicking on the windshield wipersinstead of a turn signal. They got back safe-ly to their home in Los Angeles. She stilltrains and supervises clinical social work-ers, psychologists, and marriage and familycounselors at a local psychiatric clinic 'parttime'—'the way to go at my age,' she says.Chuck, professor emeritus of political sci-ence at UCLA, continues research on issuesof power and responsibility.

Russell Curtis Oakes from RioRancho, NM and wife Dorothy (SUNY Col-lege, Geneseo '75) have five children, four

grandchildren. Two sons are in western NΎ;one has two little girls. Youngest daughteris in Vermont, where she works in familyplanning in an area north of Montpelier.Same trip took Russell to his alma mater,Kearney High School in New Jersey, wherea celebration was held in October for thereconstruction of the old auditorium organ.The project cost about $100,000, to refur-bish the beautiful old pipe organ which wasone of the finest in North Jersey when in-stalled in the new high school in the early1920s. A late-afternoon cocktail party fol-lowed by an organ concert was enjoyed. Curtand Dorothy spent that night with daughterBarbara, who is a second-grade teacher inNew York City's Chinatown. "Secondary"trips took them to see many friends in NYState. They have had an explorer trip up thecoast of Alaska, but return to New Mexico.They love to show New Mexico to visitingfriends, as long as no one interferes withthe November 'fireworks'—you know—re-sults of election! Thanks for writing, Curt.

James Alan Young of Cherry Creek,NY died in September 1993. He had beenretired from the NY State Div. of Equaliza-tion and Assessment. He had written, "Itseems unusual to me that at our 50th Reunionwe had four graduates of Cherry Creek HighSchool (from a class of 20) attending! Theywere Frederick Newcomb and wife Phyl-lis, Paul Mount '41, and myself."

Hope to see a lot of you in June.• Carol Clark Petrie, 18 Calthrope Rd.,Marblehead, MA 01945.

A " ^ Lou Conti kept on the go in 1994,Λ I attending his Marine unit's re-

# I I u n i ° n He was proud to see hisLΛΛ I World War II recon plane in a

W I Pensacola, FL museum. The^ ^ plane had his name on it. Lou said

he was "honored to represent all the otherpeople who made our unit an outstandingsquadron." Brief messages: Bill Robinson:"Between volunteering and golf, I staymighty active." Bob and Jean Hardenburgcelebrated their 50th wedding anniversarywith family on a Panama Canal cruise. Also,had a game of golf with Millie and WaltMatuszak. Walt confesses, "Still trying toplay good golf, but it's slipping. Had a longtalk with Nick Drahos. He's good as ever.Keep swinging! Irving Orkin retired astreasurer of the Cornell Club of the GoldCoast in Florida. Julian Smith writes, "Agreat cruise in March 1994 from Acapulcothrough Panama Canal, with stops in CostaRica, Grand Cayman, and Fort Lauderdale.A welcome relief from Ithaca winter."

A couple on the go—Ruth and EarlHowes—spent the summer traveling intheir Airstream trailer. They attended ral-lies in Columbia, SC, Kingston, Ont., andBrandon, Man., Canada. They met manyfriends, old and new. John Borst and Lu-cile "Mickey" (Heise) '42 remain in rea-sonably good health. They enjoyed the 1994winter in mild, sunny New Mexico. PeterVanderwaart is now enjoying full retire-ment. He is active in local area hiking, cam-era club competitions, and color pencil draw-ing, with works accepted in several areashows. One more talent: he writes poetry.Lawyer Frank Warner is semi-retired. He

is in the office every day, but no more tri-als. His wife, Virginia, has two new hips."Otherwise, we're functioning well, withexception of my so-called golf game."• Ralph E. Antell, 9924 Maplestead Lane,Richmond, VA 23235.

First of all, I must apologize to Ruth PierceMoyer for not catching the fact that the hap-py news of her marriage on Jan. 23, '93 toJames W. Moyer '38 was deleted by theeditor from the April 1994 column, and Ineglected to add it to a subsequent column.Ruth retired as a professor of home eco-nomics at Iowa State in 1987. May you andJames have many great years together,Ruth!

Many of you have enjoyed re-living theCornell connection through children and,now, through grandchildren. One such isMarjorie Carpenter Block, whose grand-daughter Alexandra attended Cornell Sum-mer College in 1994, taking Critical Read-ing and Writing and participating in the Col-lege Study Skills seminar. This sounds likea wonderful pre-college program and onesome of us might want to consider for ourgrandchildren.

Virginia Ward Elkins and husbandBill, '38-40 SpAg have moved from Cale-donia, NY to an apartment in Leesburg, FLwhere they will live until the Lake PortSquare retirement complex is completedthere in the fall of 1995. Their new addressis 1112 W. Main St., Unit 1-5, Leesburg, FL34748-4949. Another Floridian, FrancesWolfsie Levitsky, writes that she and Leoonly go to college graduations and weddingsnow that they have 14 grandchildren.

Cheers. • Shirley Richards Sargent,15 Crannell Ave., Delmar, NY 12054.

A ^ \ Flora "Mousey" Mullin BriggsΛ I of Liverpool, NY has recovered

/ 1 m from her first-ever broken limb,mΛά m her leg. That's something we all

I I j have to be watchful for. The^ new condo community she

moved to has adopted a Vietnamese familywith eight grown children. She says it is chal-lenging and fun, as is wintering in Florida.

Glenn Bronson (Penn Yan, NY)cruised to Alaska and toured our nationalparks. He hunts elk in Colorado, mule deer,in Utah, and pheasants in South Dakota. Heand Evelyn celebrated their 50th anniver-sary with their four daughters and 11grands. Irving Davis '43, Ed Lemon '44,and Bud Cushing '44 were the Bronsons'guests on Keuka Lake.

Mario Cuniberti (Columbus, OH) isstill working on the restoration of two 1932Franklins and a 1931 LaSalle. Some of theparts for the Franklins came from the carhe had during freshman year! Dick Quigg(Pueblo, CO) sold his insurance agency andnow helps out the new owner. His two sons,one an attorney, the other an archaeologist,have produced three grandsons. GeorgeOrr (Youngstown, NΎ) limits his lawyeringto a few hours a day. The rest of the time,among other fun things, he cruises along thenorth shore of Lake Ontario on his sailboat.

Fred Burton (Zephyrhills, FL) visits hisdaughter, the comptroller for the City of Al-bany, NY, and sons Fred Jr. '65 (CE) and

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Stephen '69 in Oneida, NY and Medford, NJ.He is pleased that granddaughter Betsy '95marks their third generation at Cornell.

Congratulations to Jim and DottyDodds Kraker (New Smyrna Beach, FL)for taking charge of our Reunion, guaran-teeing a fun weekend for us all. Brig. Gen.Myron "Mike" Lewis (Rochester, NY) en-joys an active retirement. He received theLegion of Merit, Department of DefenseAward. His three daughters are a highschool principal, an Army Reserves major,and, if I read him correctly, the third playedthe mother superior in Nunsense in Bostonfor 18 months. Mike's wife, Katherine(Robinson), passed away last year.

Abbott Putnam (Columbus, OH) re-tired from a consumer research business.He vacationed on Cayuga Lake last July. Hishobbies include a Z-gauge model railroad,boat models, traveling, and his children. Onedaughter is a research professor at U. ofTennessee, the other is vice president ofConsumer Design & Research.

Sadly I report the passing of Jean Cof-fin McClung (Greenwich, CT). A native ofIthaca, we all remember the red-haired Jeanand her dad, Foster '12, the director of Wil-lard Straight while we were there. Althoughshe suffered a stroke in 1965, she lived afull and exciting life, undeterred by her de-pendence on a wheelchair. She continuedher many activities, which included travel-ing abroad and coming to Reunion. She in-spired her family, her friends, and us withher zest for life.

Thank you for continuing to write tome. • Carolyn Evans Finneran, 2933 76th,SE, #13D, Mercer Island, WA 98040; tel.(206) 232-3092.

A ^ \ People send me snapshotsΛ m which will never see print with-

/ 1 ^ out an accompanying extraordi-LMi m nary story. Elsie McMillan'55,

I i l column editor, would laugh me^ ^ ^ off the page if I send in this shot

of a none-too-svelte guy in a white Cuba-vera shirt, white shorts, glasses, goatee,shit-eating grin; reads on the back: "Not asurgeon, not a hairdresser, not a masseur,not a barber, not an ice-cream vendor; a realretired Cornell engineer. Art Behrer '48."The guy isn't even a member of The Class!

Or a group of nine people gatheredaround the groaning board in a rather love-ly setting. Inscribed on the back: "Dinnerat Lowell Inn, 9/12/94. Thelma (Emile) '45and Sam Hunter at table with several Cor-nell friends." Other than Sam and Thelma, Irecognized only the Milt Coes, the HughBennetts, and what looks like the top of DonKastner's head, or it could be someone elsewearing the top of Don Kastner's head.

A note from Robert Pape, dated 9/29/94: "Finally retired. Pro bono here/therewith Catholic charities. Enjoying life withAnn." Followed much too soon by this fromAnn (Lynch) '45: "Sad to report Bob diedof congestive heart failure in October. Hegraduated from St. John's U. law school;practiced 43 years with Rockville Centre,LI, firm of Bennett, Pape, Rice and Schure;25 years, attorney for Adelphi U. and Mal-loy College; 15 for NY Inst. of Technology.He was village attorney for Stewart Manor

and S. Floral Park; president of Cherry Val-ley Club, 1991-92." Sad. Sad.

With Haiti much in the news, I cameacross a very old newspaper story dealingwith Joseph Arnaboldi's foray into intro-ducing solar cooking to the inhabitants tothus cut down their need for fuel. At thattime, and things have probably not improved,the average Haitian earned between $50 and$250 annually. Not only does one week'scharcoal cost $12, but the island's forestshave been stripped to the point that peoplescavenge daily for fuel. Having retired fromhis veterinary practice in Port Jefferson, NY,Joe founded Solar Box Cookers Internation-al, a non-profit organization focused on help-ing impoverished nations not only to cookwithout fuel or power, but also to build ad-ditional cookers. His interest in Haitistemmed from his concern 35 years agoabout integration, leading to a role as laypreacher, deacon, and elder in the AfricanMethodist Church, and then as a mission-ary to Haiti with the Christian VeterinaryMission. "For almost 30 years he has col-lected clothes and raised funds for Port-au-Prince Parish, and has regularly traveled toHaiti to volunteer his services as a veteri-narian, preacher, and solar energy expert."Nothing in the article mentions his golfhandicap. • S. Miller Harris, PO Box 164,Spinnerstown, PA 18968.

A A Football season news—bigΛ Λ turnout for Homecoming. Par-

/ • / • tygoers (tailgate or wine/l a J ^ t e l i cheese apres game gathering

T Γ in the Joseph Driscoll Memo-^ ^ rial Room at Alberding Field

House) included: Howard Evans and Ep-pie, hosts of the after-game party, PhyllisStout, Lou and Janet Buhsen Daukas'46, Pearne Billings and Nancy, Len Mix,Bob Dillon and guest Regina, Howie andMarian Graham Blose '46, Dan Morris,Bob Gallagher, Bob Ballard and Renata,Janet Elwin Starr '47, Bob Garmezy andAlice, J. Haines Gridley, Art and DottyKay Kesten (who sent this info) and TedThoren (former baseball coach) and Jeanne.

On Oct. 22, Cornell defeated Dartmouthin the last 43 seconds. Kestens, Daukases,and Phyllis Stout cheered while MaryanneTrask Pfeiffle and Don (Dartmouth '44)booed? cried? or just shook their heads? Itwas Council Weekend for the Kestens.

Joan Och Saybolt has done a completeinventory with histories of valuable furnish-ings so children will not have to wish theyhad asked. What a neat idea! She also hasbeen writing and illustrating children's sto-ries for her grandchildren. Happily dwellingin Hilton Head, SC, she and Wayne still trav-el, but mostly in the USA.

After Reunion, Ed Ahrens and Camspent a week in Canada, then visited familyin Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina,and eventually Florida, with a two-week tourof China sandwiched in—their great sum-mer of 1994! Milt Stolaroff and Ursula didKenya and Tanzania for two weeks on a se-ries of safaris. "The people and countrysidewere fascinating, but the experience amongthe vast array of animals was one thrill af-ter another!" Don Waugh and Lynn cruisedaround the Greek Islands and Turkey aboard

the Radisson Diamond from Athens to Istan-bul. He says the number one highlight wasa concert under the stars at Ephesus. AlanLederman seems to always be on the road.In the past few years he has traveled toAustralia twice, England three times, Pap-ua New Guinea, French Polynesia, France,Scotland, Austria, Belgium, Holland, theAmazon, and—the latest—to Ireland. Heregrets having missed Reunion, but had toattend a graduation.

Another 50th wedding anniversary, thisfor Hildred Gleason Merrill and Duane,was celebrated with four children and theirspouses, and eight grands at Trader Vic'sRestaurant on San Francisco Bay. As theygazed at the Golden Gate Bridge at sunset,they agreed the years were happy and suc-cessful for all.

Doris Holmes Jenkins wrote about hereldest grandchild, Erica DuBois Kreblin,daughter of Larry '69 and Nancy JenkinsKrablin '69, who was to have been a fourth-generation Cornellian; however, she choseto attend Yale. They're hoping another willcarry on the family tradition. George andHazel Ross Getman report the birth oftheir 20th grandchild, son of Anne GetmanBaldwin, JD '89, who practices law in Uti-ca. They claim ten grandsons and ten grand-daughters, and among their children are fivelawyers (three sons and two daughters).Four other daughters chose different ca-reers. How many are Cornellians?

A note from Philip Williams, a V-12student for two semesters and proud mem-ber of the soccer team that tied Penn forthe championship, asks about any other '44V-12s. He sent dues, but no address for meto publish. The Kestens must know.• Nancy Torlinski Rundell, 1800 OldMeadow Rd., #305, McLean, VA 22102.

A Ψ* Only three monthsΛ 1^ before the Golden

/ • r \ 50th! Reunion fe-ίΛ4 I ver overcame 67

W I f classmates who^ ^ ^ couldn't wait for

June and gathered at the art-filled Manhat-tan apartment of Isabel (Mayer) '47 andWilliam Berley on Nov. 3, '94 for wine,cheese, and other goodies, not the least ofwhich was an informal talk by Susan Mur-phy '73, Cornell's new vice president forstudent and academic services. There's notenough space to list all those present, butmost of our Reunion committee was there,including the New England contingent:George Rautenberg (Lexington, MA) andMaxine Katz Morse (Laconia, NH), whotook the safe, reliable train and suffered aflat wheel in New London, CT which madetheir trip a small nightmare. Next time,they'll fly. The committee met at the Cor-nell Club—New York for breakfast the fol-lowing morning to finalize plans. AnnLynch Pape, Stewart Manor, NY, hadplanned to attend but, sad to say, husbandRobert '43 had died of heart failure theweek before. Bob's brother Bill '43 andBob's and Ann's daughter Margaret PapeKraseski '75 are helping Ann carry on.

Among those planning a June journeyto Ithaca is Dr. Saul B. Seader, who leftMerrick, NY for a permanent residence in

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Boca Raton, FL after turning over his vet-erinary hospital to his two sons. He playsdaily tennis, except when traveling (recent-ly in Greece, Israel, and Australia). Also tak-ing time from travels to join us will beFrances Shloss, Beverly Hills, CA, whoparticipated in the 50th anniversary of D-Day with a cruise on the Vistafjord fromSpain to Gibraltar, Casablanca, Lisbon, Brest,Dieppe, Cherbourg, etc. The Glenn MillerBand was on board to help bring back thoseWorld War II memories. She also attendedthe AIA convention in Los Angeles and en-joyed meeting Dean William McMinn at aCornell architects' cocktail party.

Elizabeth Broadhurst Cauhape (Syr-acuse) reports that she and Nancy LutherBaird (Arlington, VA) will be attending Re-union together, which will be a respite fromher cross-country commuting. AlthoughBetsy's house in Berkeley Canyon burnedin 1992 and she moved back to the areawhere she had grown up, property andgrandchildren in California keep her hopping.She's re-writing her psychotherapy book forpaperback publication and still maintains aprivate practice. Helen Goodspeed DeCam-illo (temporarily in Stamford, CT) and Betsycan exchange notes, since Speedy's houseburned on last Boxing Day after an oil-burnerexplosion. The eight occupants all escapedsafely, and by now she should have a newhome completed.

Another returnee to Reunion will beMary Wright, now of Batavia, NY, who'sstill consulting but says she'll have news forus at Reunion about her plans. Dr. RichardWeishaar, Machipongo, VA, doesn't prom-ise to come for Reunion, as he's still sortingout his feelings about Cornell's rifle-bearingtrustee. I think Bud should come up andsound off, as there's nothing wrong withvoicing your opinion. Barbara BenjaminWestlake objected to my doing so in a re-cent note; we hereby encourage Benji tocome to Ithaca in June and make her standin favor of what she strongly believes.• Prentice Cushing Jr., 317 Warwick Ave.,Douglaston, NY 11363-1040.

m ^Λ ^e^otanewsyl°n&notefr°m

Λ M^ our faithful correspondent Ray/ 1 l^k Hunicke. He and Barbara are

U l I "Professional Touristes," asI I I Ray calls them. They travel by

^ ^ ^ commercial air, their ownMooney, and cruise ships. It is apparent theyuse their Mooney for most of their travel.Ray says they've put over 600,000 miles onthe plane in the 14 years they have ownedit. Ray still chairs the board of Lewis Corp.He's proud of the fact that corporate saleswere up 14 percent last year. His other re-sponsibility, which Ray calls a "dead endjob," is president of the Roxbury CemeteryAssn. It's always good to hear from you, Ray.

We have a new report from JosephMcConnell. "We retired to the McConnellfamily farm near Mansfield, PA in 1988, af-ter 40 years in the general insurance busi-ness in Ithaca. Susan (McKinney) is cur-rently serving as president of the local PEOchapter, while Joe is still active leading var-ious-sized orchestras for weddings, ban-quets, and balls; "Still working hard on trum-pet and piano to become one of the world's

Still active leading

various-sized or-

chestras for wed-

dings, banquets,

and balls.

E MCCONNELL '46

great jazz musicians, and both of us are try-ing desperately to salvage once-decent golfgames! Meanwhile, extensive travel in Eu-rope and nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild interfere." Everything about yournote is good news, Joe, except your com-ments about your golf game. Most of us suf-fer from that disease. Aloha fromMaui. • Bill Papsco, 3545 Clubheights Dr.,Colorado Springs, CO 80906.

Many of our classmates attended Adult Uni-versity (CAU) off-campus programs. MaryHankinson Meeker attended three—CapeCod, Trinidad/Tobago, and Monterey, whileboth Jeanne Corcoran Halpin and PhyllisCrane Gainey went to Vietnam; and EthelHandelman Mayrsohn and husband Ber-nard '45 went to Hawaii. Some of these galshave been on CAU trips before, and thor-oughly enjoy them.

Ruth Knapp Gieschen (Kansas City,MO) wrote, "The Cornell Club of Nebraskaand the Cornell Club of Mid-America joinedin a festive/informative/entertaining event inBrownsville, NE with a social hour and bar-beque dinner. James E. Morley Jr., seniorvice president, brought us up to date on con-struction projects, campus issues, and uni-versity challenges. All enjoyed the music ofthe Hangovers." Her major trip of the sum-mer was a literary tour to Vienna, Prague,Leipsig, Dresden, and Berlin.

Sal and Pat Kinne Paolella finallyjoined the grandparent generation—DiegoRivas was born in Mexico City in May 1994,and Sal and Pat were there to greet him.They had gone to an Elderhostel at WestPoint in January, when even the teacherscould not make it, as the Hudson was fro-zen. In February they took their first cruiseto the Western Caribbean and the PanamaCanal. One lecturer was from Cornell—aspecialist on Mayan culture. It sure was ayear of firsts! (The Kennedys got caught upwhen we visited them at the Jersey shorein October.) Pat asked me to remind youabout our special project—the WillardStraight Rock Garden. Our goal is $50,000by our 50th in 1996. You have been won-derful with your news—THANKS—hopeyou are patient though, as I still have newsfrom last year. • Elinor Baier Kennedy,503 Morris PL, Reading, PA 19607.

A J^t Back in November we saw theΛ i redesigned Connect publication

/ • m of the Office of Alumni Affairs.^Λi • Great format; capsuled informa-

W I tion. It's put together for a wide^ • variety of Cornell leaders. Lots

of material about Cornell events and sched-uling details which can be helpful in plan-ning Cornell events of special nature. Ourclass officers [ten of them] receive Connect.Warning to all: your correspondent hasscheduled a Rotary-oriented trip to EuropeJune 6 to July 11—working the RI Conven-tion in Nice, then on to Vienna-Bratislava-Prague-Zurich-Neuchatel-Fribourg-Geneva.So don't try to find Ware in Ithaca, on- oroff-campus, at that time! But if you want toread poetry on-air, contact our ίrwin Gon-shak, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 5Union Sq. W., NYC 10003-3306; you can putsame on a cassette. Irwin is producing a ra-dio series for NYC's Board of Education,WNYE-FM. The Collaborative has a fasci-nating schedule covering many tender top-ics of the day. Enid Levine Alpern sentdues last summer with no news! Why? Re-tired Culpeper, VA farmer Ed Stapletonmust still be touring the USA in his motorhome visiting far-flung children. Does heknow that Ware went to nearby WoodberryForest School, 1939-43? Shirley Buck Ra-beler writes of her family pride in havinggrandson Paul Fouts '95 at Cornell and amember of Alpha Zeta, following the foot-steps of his great-grandfather, CliffordBuck '22. Georgia Franklin Olsson ofNashua, NH would like to hear from class-mates; she was in Home Ec and no doubtserved many of us during her three years ofwork in that cafeteria. Ah, that delicious foodand pleasant dining company week after week.

Oh, here is Shirley "Sy" YenoffKingsly, perhaps still winterized in LongboatKey, FL, saying that she and husband San-ford always do a Adult University (CAU)week at Cornell. Hey, those programs havesuch variety and appeal to so many. Haveyou thought of signing up with CAU or evenskimming the choices offered? Or are you aCAU-experienced pro? An interesting tidbitcomes from Pat O'Sullivan, identifying hiswork as editor of a forthcoming foreign-lan-guage dictionary, all of which may be factby now. Norma Isaacson Remes in spring1994 had returned from her first Elderhos-tel trip. She started with a week in Honolu-lu, then in a group of 12 persons plus leaderit was Fiji, Tonga, and Western Samoa.Words about tropical paradises, indigenouscultures, village lifestyles. The followingdays were spent in California with relatives;then came merry conversations and repack-ing days in New Jersey with her daughtersbefore going back to Israel. Socko, Norma.

Does anyone wish to compare notesregarding needed repair and restoration ofthose bulging family mausoleums dottingcountrysides? Our class age is such thatmaintenance commonly falls to this genera-tion, and the dollar outflow can be down-right floodlike in some dire situations. Weoften wonder whatever possessed our dear,devoted ancestors to go that route; but then,they were in the now-hazy but effervescentpast, and we go about making decisions theynever thought would come to us. And so to

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tlie Children

ot only does Cornell nurture col-lege students for future careers,but members of its community

have an active role in nurturing the future of impover-ished children in Nepal.Educate The Children,founded and operated byPamela Carson, withsupport primarily fromComellians, is working toupgrade the schools ofthat distant land.

"Cornell has perhapsmore Nepalese stuαentsthan any other universityin the U.S.," says DanSisler, PhD '62 professorof agricultural, resourceand management eco-nomics, and a memberof ETC's board of direc-tors. Sisler has beenworking with Nepalesestudents since 1968. inthe intervening years, hehas been an advisor for11 doctoral studies deal-ing with economic andagricultural affairs inNepal.

Nepal is one of the poorest countries in theworld, he says. Public education is free onlythrough the primary grades and even then parentsare expected to pay fees. But the dropout rate isstill high. Nepalese families need for their childrento enter the workforce. As a result, Nepal's literacyrate is one of the world's lowest, especially forwomen. And illiteracy brings even greater povertybecause it results in a higher birthrate and poorerhealth and nutrition. That's why Educate TheChildren's priority is the education of females.

Today, ETC has offices in Ithaca and Kathmandu.In recent months ETC, which supports more than 100children through individual sponsorship, has shifted itsfocus to community-based projects. "Selecting andmatching up students with schools has been a bigjob," Sisler says. "We feel we can get more bang forour bucks, can educate a greater number of childrenin a more cost-efficient way, by improving schools

and the teachers."But getting funding for larger projects is more

difficult than finding sponsors for individual chil-dren. "There's not as much appeal," Sisler says.

"The sponsor cannot share the student's dreams ofsuccess."

Educate The Children started by accident. Whileon a visit to Kathmandu in 1988, Pamela Carsonencountered three ragpickers. About 500 such boysroam the ancient city, living off pickpocketing, beg-ging, scavenging. They sleep on the streets in potatosacks. "They know three English phrases," Carsonsays, " 'no father, no mother, no money.'"

Her heart was touched, and she decided tosponsor enrollment of the three in a boarding schoolwith the help of a local businessman. When shereturned to check on their progress, she was be-sieged with requests from children for sponsorship.From this came Educate The Children, which sheincorporated in 1990. For information about EducateThe Children call (607) 272-1176, or write to POBox 414, Ithaca, NY 14851-0414.

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bed. • Barlow Ware, 55 Brown Rd., Ith-aca, NY 14850.

^ Here's more news compiledI almost a year ago. Tom Bak-

£ er, Birmingham, AL: "Γm a^k project manager. Remarried in

I 1991 to Kathy. Wish I was re-^ tired and golfing." Lyle Buck,

Ellicott City, MD: "Γm a Presbyterian min-ister." (No other word from Lyle.) Bill E.Carroll, Reston, VA: "Number five grand-child arrived in Addison, TX while we werevisiting there, June 1993. Two years agocruised around Tierra del Fuego, CapeHorn. Returned last week from autumnmotor trip through Canada's Atlantic prov-inces. Really had a good time at our 45th."

Isadore Ray Cohen, Tarrytown, NY:"Formally retired as president and CEO ofA.L. Labs. Work halftime as vice chairman,consultant and chairman of executive com-mittee. In May 1993, wife Joan and I tookthree-week trip to China as gift from thecompany for my 70th birthday. Our compa-ny made an $8.5 million investment in anIsraeli company to do pharmaceutical re-search. I sit on that board and attend meet-ings. Joan and I were in Israel three timesin 1993. Son David is criminal litigation at-torney in San Diego. Daughter Shari '84 iscompleting her PhD at U. of California,Berkeley in Eastern European politics.Daughter Bonnie is completing her master'sat Stanford in documentary film-making."

Bill Copeland, Hamilton, OH: "Retiredas vice president, sales, Becket Paper Co.Now executive director, Miami U. Pulp andPaper Foundation. Grandchild number 12born June 1993. Barbara and I have plannedtrip to Spain, Portugal, Florence, and Vien-na. I was surprised to see Al Gore stand upto Ross Perot and come away looking sogood." Lawrence R. "Dick" Dows, BonAir, VA: "Until 1973 I was program manag-er, technical facilities, GE Co. Space Divi-sion. From 1974-87 wife Joan 'Gerri' (Egan)and I owned a stamp and coin retail store.Retired in 1987 and have spent large partof time raking oak leaves. Have learned youcan't beat the system. It's best not to growgrass, just carpet with oak leaves. Threechildren with no formal teaching degrees areteaching computer techniques, quality as-surance systems, and scuba diving. One isalso managing procurement systems and an-other also sells Xmas trees. Six grandchil-dren." Fred Edmunds, Wilsonville, OR:"Retired from rose production, watchinggrandchildren arrive. Anarchy is the bestsolution. Government is too expensive."

Tony Ferrara, Valley Stream: "Re-tired after 45 years in March 1993. Nextday set up my own small consulting busi-ness and find it hard to limit the work load.It's impossible to retire suddenly. If onereally wants to, it takes three years to winddown. I've learned that 'old' is merely aframe of mind. Don't give up! There aremillions of opportunities out there, but youmust look for them."

Louis C. G. Fisher, Berkeley, CA:"Γm still practicing as a stupid contractor,but believe I'm digging out of the hole.Spent Xmas vacation 1992 visiting last cous-in who lives in Santo Domingo. Have been

concerned about my southern California kidswho are exposed to the fires and quakes.Almost lost my home in the Berkeley fire.Yesterday I signed the payroll. It annoys methat my workers take home more than I do.Took a three-week bicycle trip from Prague(delightful, old-super beer, violinists, andjazz) to Vienna then on to Budapest (gor-geous-excellent wine, castles, etc.). Themore you ride the more you can eat. Havelearned to beware of 'personal guarantees'and that there are too many attorneys in theUS, especially in California. Solution is toclose all law schools." • Bob Persons, 102Reid Ave., Port Washington, NY 11050.

M ^ \ It's great to hear of your spe-Λ I 1 cial interests, jobs, and hobbies.

/ I I I Lois Bergen Abbott, Boulder,LΛέ ^M CO, writes: "Still teaching de-

1 I I velopmental biology and doing^ ^ ^ research on fruit flies at the U.

of Colorado; recently appointed an assistantprofessor of molecular biology—lots of ex-citement in this field these days." Anotheracademic, Donald H. "Pete" Johnston,River Edge, NJ, is director of the interna-tional media and communications programat Columbia's School of International andPublic Affairs. "I teach journalism courses,advise 50-plus grad students (one-third, for-eign), and coordinate a busy schedule ofmedia conferences, lectures, and seminars—challenging and stimulating. This came af-ter teaching for 14 years at Columbia's Grad-uate School of Journalism, preceded by 12years at The New York Times. Summer onCape Cod. Wife Jane continues to writemystery novels. Intend to stay at my funjob until I run out of gas!" Also at Columbiais Gloria Green Caro, Pleasantville, NY.She is an adjunct professor in the School ofSocial Work, which provides her with won-derful flexibility for family visits and travel.

In the same vicinity, Richard N. Gold-stein, Rye, NY, writes, "I have moved mylaw practice to White Plains after 40 yearsin New York City. Ran for mayor of Rye,but lost. Appointed acting city judge. Stillactive in senior tennis." Art Lowenthal,Saratoga Springs, NY, with wife Terry, wasmugged and robbed on the street in Barce-lona on the second day of a month-long vis-it. "We licked our wounds, got new pass-ports and travelers' checks, and continued.Many churches and Roman ruins later, tosay nothing of 2,500 miles of driving, weheaded home." Ralph Pickus, Centerport,NY, vacationed in Hawaii and later took amotor trip to include the Great Lakes,Southwest, and South.

Janet (Molin) and Tom Brown '50,E. Amherst, NY, winter in Jupiter, FL."Tom's the golfer and I play tennis two tofour times weekly, thoroughly enjoying my-self, amidst persistent guilt feelings," writesJanet. Marilyn Thatcher Kreider and hus-band Dan love the Florida sunshine and aresettled in Sun City Center. She's the golferin the family. Their Apple MAC makes themvery popular in any organization they join!"See Chuck '48 and Pat O'Reilly Seel-bach '50 regularly, and Bet Delano Donau-er '48 when we rendezvous in North Caro-lina for a golfing week eightsome." AnotherFloridian, Shirley Steele Paddock, Pensa-

cola, thanks retirement from Navy life (butnot LIFE!) for enabling them to live this longin the same house and place. "Love tennis,am art museum docent, travel some, and haveten grandchildren, with five living here."

From Moorestown, NJ, two news items:1) Sheldon M. "Shel" Paskow writes, "Start-ed my own consulting business seven yearsago. Thought I would work for a year or so—still working with no end in sight—as long asit's fun!" 2) Arthur M. Wood says, "Overmy head in volunteer activities, more time-consuming than full-time work! Active inMorris Habitat for Humanity, as a volunteerincome tax assistant, and counseling onhealth insurance for Medicare enrollees."

Moving west, Betty Ellen Wood Ries,Highland, IN, has almost finished her 14thyear as a tax-aide volunteer for local RSVP-AARP-IRS program. Husband Al '51 (BChem E) works with same program. Intogenealogy as a spare-time project. GeorgeNixon, Sun Lakes, AZ, cruised from Lisbonto Barcelona (beware!) via Seville. Lookingforward to the 50th Reunion.

Back to the beautiful Cornell campus,we find Marilyn (Mintz) and R. H. "Bob"Wasserman, PhD '53, Ithaca, NY. Bob,James Law professor of physiology in theVet college, has been a member of the fac-ulty since 1957. Marilyn and Bob have asummer cottage on Lake Cayuga.

What are your interests? Do you knowwhat you want to do when you grow up?• Mary Heisler Allison, 470 Chandlee Dr.,Berwyn, PA 19312; (610) 640-1387.

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Arthur YoungW I"it e s from Tem-pie Hills, MD, thathe retired from theUS Census Bureaualmost seven years

ago. His wife is Anne Lanzoni Young '49.Last summer they spent a wonderful monthin Hawaii, and this year had 2-1/2 weeks inBritish Columbia. Arthur and Anne have sixchildren and six grandchildren. John D.Griswold, Woodsville, NH, is still workingand enjoying his management consultingpractice, but finds time to chime in the bassparts along with his wife Karen (alto) in theNorth Country Chorus. They spent twoweeks in Scotland during June 1994 on aconcert tour with this chorus, which includ-ed visits to oodles of castles, abbeys, and out-buildings of interest from Ayr to Inverness.The high point of the tour was their perfor-mance of Verdi's Requiem in Queen's Hall atEdinburgh with 400 other singers and full or-chestra under the direction of ChristopherBell. John's wife, Karen Woefle Griswold,works as the planning and production coordi-nator in the Office of Continuing Education atDartmouth's Hitchcock Medical Center.

N. Austin Weston reports from Al-tadena, CA that he is still teaching at U.of Southern California in the industrial en-gineering department as an adjunct pro-fessor, but that he has cut back on his con-sulting work so that he and his family canspend more time at their condo on the is-land of Molokai in Hawaii. Molokai is stillone of the least developed of all the is-lands and seems more like what peopleconsider the old Hawaii. Elizabeth "Lib-

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by" Severinghaus Warner writes fromOsterville, MA, that she moved back Eastfrom Carmel, CA, after her husband Si'sdeath. Libby reports that George Cam-mann and wife Nancy visited for a week-end, and that E. C. "Rusty" Davis is near-by and great company. Rusty sang at thememorial service for her father, LeslieSeveringhaus '21, that was held in SageChapel on Oct. 15, '94. It's great to haveyou back East, Lib!

Ronald A. Ward writes from Rock-ville, MD, that he retired June 30, '94,from Walter Reed Army Inst. of Researchin Washington, DC, after 38 years of fed-eral service. Currently he serves as theeditor of the Journal of the American Mos-quito Control Assn. His wife, Harriet, re-tired from the Montgomery County (MD)Public School System after teaching highschool math for 14 years. Robert E.Strong, Mesa, AZ, reports that he is inthe middle of writing a book on his familygenealogy—that's okay, Robert, theyhaven't finished mapping the human ge-nome yet, there's still time! He alsoworks on Habitat for Humanity and singsin the Orpheus Male Chorus. Good work,Robert! William A. Sharman, BriarcliffManor, NY, is still practicing architecturefrom his home base. He wonders what isretirement—part-time bookkeeping? Heand wife Audrey (Rossman) recently haddinner with Alan Howell and Dale Ad-ams '61, who also live there in theirquaint town. One daughter lives 20 min-utes north, and one 20 minutes south, sothey are enjoying lots of get-togethers.

Frederick E. Shaner reports fromHeritage Plantation, Pawleys Island, SC,which is situated right on the Intercoast-al Waterway. Frederick volunteers now atBrookhaven Gardens, which is located atMurrells Inlet, SC. His wife, Elinor, justretired after 17 years with Sears Roebuck.Harold M. Rosen writes from Wood-mere, NY, that he retired as president ofHarold Rosen Associates, an engineeringconsulting firm based in New York City.Recently he and wife Joyce had a greattrip to Grand Teton National Park, Yel-lowstone, Glacier, and wound up with an87th Infantry Division Reunion fromWorld War II. This sounds like a lot ofmemories and telescoped experiencerolled into a short time, Harold! Jack E.Peterson writes from Annandale, VA, thathe retired from active surgical practice in1986 and that now he and wife Elfriederun a non-invasive vascular lab whichhelps doctors and others figure out prob-lems with their blood vessels. Jack andElfriede make a point of weekly visits totheir beach house, situated somehow, asluck would have it, right on the water atVirginia Beach. Golf is an added attrac-tion and long-time addiction for Jack.

Gregory S. Pappas writes from Clear-water, FL, in our Sunshine State, that heand wife Nancy (Card) '57 are now retiredand helping take care of small grandchildrenand doing absolutely nothing constructive.I beg to differ, Gregory, those grandchildrenare the hope of the world for all of us!• Ralph C. Williams Jr., 2516 NW 20thSt., Gainesville, FL 32605.

a Brad Bond and Bardee (Stir-land) have been spending theirretirement on the road, includingElderhostels to Costa Rica, NewZealand, and Australia. They'vealso worked with Earthwatch in

Cape Tribulation Rainforest in Australiasorting insects by order, as well as a similarprogram at Rocky Mountain Biology Lab.Another retiree, James Gallup, is presidentof the Retired Agriculture Teachers of NYState. Jim also travels, as well as doing vol-unteer work. Timothy Edlund has beenpromoted to associate professor of strategicmanagement at Morgan State U. in Mary-land, where he teaches civil engineering stu-dents. He also does extensive traveling,mostly in conjunction with his work.

Charles "Chuck" Ahrend is serving hisseventh year on the county board of super-visors of Rockingham County in Virginia andcurrently chairs that board. He has a 30-headcow/calf operation, is active in Republicanpolitics, and still finds time to play golf twicea week. Al Blumstein is a professor at Car-negie Mellon U. Mabel "Mibs" Martin Fol-lett and Don '52 spent two months inPrague, Czech Republic last spring whereDon was volunteering to help a Czech com-pany develop strategies to compete in a free-enterprise world after 40 years of commu-nism. Martin Kasbohm is retired andspends winters in Florida and spring, sum-mer, and fall in Williamsville, NY. GuyDechadenedes of Family Financial Servic-es in Colorado Springs spends much of histime working on retirement funding andhealth funding programs for retirees. Whennot thus occupied, he and wife Janice (Bri-wa) '50 spend time traveling to see theirvarious children, who are scattered through-out the country. Karl Ratzsch is retired andliving in Carefree, AZ. Just the name makesit sound like a retirement heaven. He playsgolf four to five times a week, and advisesany hotelies heading that way to call—he'sin the phone book.

Len Steiner writes, "Spent twomonths during the snowy winter of 1994 inScottsville. We are having a winter homebuilt there for us, our three children, theirspouses and six grandchildren. Obviously,I'm greatly enjoying my retirement for thelast five years." The Steiners spend thewarm months in Harrison, NY. • Bob andJoanne Bayles Brandt, 60 ViennawoodDr., Rochester, NY 14618.

f ^ ^ ^ Jim and Suzanne Taylor Fall-1 ^ I er joined Pierre and Anne Cod-r \ m ding Tonachel for a week on the

• m Erie Canal at the end of Septem-l l Kj ber. East of Rochester, they were\ # M joined by Richard and SueHoltzman Forbes for lunch and a shortboat ride. Six members of the class on holi-day together—must be a record. This wasthe second narrow boat trip taken by theFallers and Tonachels. A year ago theyspent a week on a similar trip in Englandand Wales. They highly recommend the hol-iday. For classmates interested in tryingtheir hands, just remember that you handlethe tiller yourselves, and in Great Britainyou also open and close all locks by hand.

Henry and Bettie Buell Lyon say

their last vacation started in 1978 when theymoved to Hawaii. It's still going—with sidetrips to Australia and New Zealand this year,and to the wilds of Michigan and New Yorkin the future. Henry says he is working asan artist. They are members of the WaikoloaMarine Life Fund, acting as docents. Theyspend a morning each week "greeting visi-tors (who come) to a world-renowned con-tinuing research and demonstration facility forbottlenose dolphins." Walking the hills of theirnew home reminds them of Ithaca, and forfurther exercise, Bettie is in water aerobics.They don safety orange and participate inthat national sport, Adopt-a-Highway.

Our illustrious class president has justpublished a revision of his book SuddenDeath and Cardiovascular Disease. SidneyGoldstein heads the Division of Cardiovas-cular Medicine at the Henry Ford HeartInst. and is a professor of medicine at CaseWestern Reserve U.

New addresses: John H. Crager canbe reached c/o HCRl-Box 27, Upper Jay,NY. John S. Mallery Jr. moved—new ad-dress, Box 366, Long Lake, NY. John is run-ning a bicycle tour company called TrueWheel Tours Inc. and coordinates educationworkshops for the Appalachian MountainClub. Marian C. Maag retired in July andis currently settling into her new home at45 Gull Lane, Pinehurst, NC. Next step willbe golf lessons, horseback riding, and vol-unteer work. In October, Whitney Mitch-ell and his wife joined three other couplesfor a trip to South Africa after three yearsof planning. Their new home is 2090B NEOcean Blvd., Stuart, FL in the winter, andthey are in Nantucket, MA during summer.

Shirley Sagen Norton hasn't moved,but her address is now 6354 CR 27, Can-ton, NY. She traveled in Great Britain inJuly 1994, and before that did an Adult Uni-versity (CAU) study tour in Hawaii, focus-ing on volcanoes and telescopes. DonaldJ. Parmet seems to spend most of his timeon his 42-foot sloop, Courtship, and char-tering sailboats in Greece and Turkey.When on land he can be found at 9 GiffardWay, Melville, NY. Dr. Bernard C. Pat-ten Jr. has accepted a position as regentsprofessor at the U. of Georgia in Athens.His home there is at 177 Chinquapin Way.

Patricia Cox Robbins writes that shehas just entered an assisted-living facilityat 6525 N. High St., Apt. 215, Worthington,OH. Irwin J. Sitkin says his apartmentnumber has been changed to 1601, at 3500Mystic Pointe Dr., Tower 400, Aventura,FL. Irwin and wife Helen recently madetheir first trip to Santa Fe and Taos, wherethey enjoyed the scenery and the food. Wil-liam R. Schneider has moved to 1851Chowan St., Elmont, NY. A recent trip oftwo weeks in Italy was too short—he plansto return.

James H. Stanley has had enough ofwinters in Illinois. Sold the house in Chica-go and is building at Sugar Mill, just southof Daytona Beach. For now his address is320 Gleneagles, New Smyrna Beach, FL.

William M. Teegarden is busy withvideography, country music, line-dancing,and travel. His new address is 9 Terra MarrCt., Endwell, NY. And Hazel Lowe VonRosenvinge now lives at 65 Norwood Hgts.,

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Annisquam, Gloucester, MA. She and hus-band Theodore took all their children andspouses bareboat sailing in the British VirginIslands. Nine on board for one happy week.

Send news to our almost-remodeledhouse at the address below. By the time youread this, we should have furniture! Fax orphone, (607) 272-3786. • George and GayleRaymond Kennedy, 9 Maplewood Point,Ithaca, NY 14850; FAX (607) 272-3786.

The Big Red hasn't dealt withHoly Cross in football since LeftyJames was Carl Snavely's help-er. (What did we know, it was1943 and we were very young.)Anyway, our guys will be trying

for a tenth straight Homecoming win onSeptember 23, '95 (vs. the 'Saders) and '53'sgame plan is developing. There were stir-ring days around Schoellkopf, Boston, Buck-nell, and the Bronx in 1994, and severalsolid citizens return from cheering a teamthat made more comebacks than SebelaWehe. On fall weekends after that earlyHomecoming, '53 watchers spotted LilyanAffinito, Bill Bellamy, Bob Appel, MortLowenthal, Dottie Clark Free, Pat Gun-derson Stocker, John and Lea PaxtonNixon, C. Rich Jahn, Earl Flansburgh,W. Gerry Grady, Bill Sullivan, AndyCampbell, Craig (celebrating Guy Fawkes'Day) Falk, John Will, Tony Quartararo,Ernie and Jane Little Hardy, Dick Clig-gott, Bob Dailey, Bob Abrams, TomTweedale, Clark and Claire Moran Ford,Marianne Russ Rees, and fellow travel-ers. And a jack o'lantern face on the LibeTower clock, the Big Red Band on FifthAve., and '53 windbreakers all over.

Georgetown law Prof. Martin Gins-burg says he'd "likely" still be at Columbiaexcept that his wife, you know, Ruth (Bad-er) '54, was appointed to the US Court ofAppeals for the DC Circuit in 1980 by Pres-ident Carter. He has served as visiting lawprofessor at Chicago, Harvard, New YorkU., and Stanford. He teaches, writes, and"in a modest way, continue(s) to practice,mainly in the field of federal taxation." SonJames produces classical recordings. Daugh-ter Jane is a Columbia law professor of copy-right and trademark. She has two children,"and Ruth and I dote on both of them." BillMarsh says "Work kept me here in Rome(Italy, not NY)" at Reunion time. "As USpermanent representative to the Food andAgriculture Organization and other UNagencies, I meet a lot of alumni, but noneyet from '53. (As an Arts and Sciences un-dergraduate I met far fewer Ag people thanI have here!) Living in Rome is great (sun,two millennia of buildings, good food) andterrible (traffic, electricity, shortages, pric-es of that good food)." Bill has a 35-yearpin for US government service and faces"compulsory retirement (age 65) in 1996.(Can this be the same boy who boarded theLehigh Valley only yesterday for some un-known town called Ithaca?) At least retire-ment will put us closer to our sons in Colo-rado and Washington, DC."

"Still working for A.T. Kearney Inc., asvice president of the Houston office, andenjoying it," submits Jack Bradshaw. Heand wife Betty have three children, all in

Living in Rome is

great (sun, two

millennia of build-

ings, good food)

and terrible (traffic,

electricity, short-

ages, prices of that

good food).

—BILL MARSH '53

Houston, and two grandkids. "I use the tracknear my office every day. Working withFaith Alive, coordinating weekends in Epis-copal parishes whenever asked. Cornell Clubof Houston is active," he adds, but therearen't many '53ers there. Or Rome. MaryAnna Friederich enjoys Cornell Club ac-tivities in Scottsdale, AZ, the most livablecity in the US by vote of US mayors, shesays. She interviews Cornell applicants anddoes office ob/gyn for the county. Dietitianand nutritionist Roberta Pesner Becker(Monsey, NY) is into local Cornell Club ac-tivities, besides keeping "busy with workand granddaughters." • Jim Hanchett, 3001st Ave., NYC 10009.

W* A Thanksgiving turkey, ChristmasL*. Λ w r aPPm§> a n d a March deadlineΨ^k / • in the same day doesn't seem

I ^ M i logical, and yet that's how thisl l W job is done. Trying to alter a^ ^ ^ Scarlett O'Hara mentality afterall these years will take some of the fun outof life, but we're still young enough to ac-cept changes in our lives, right? I realizemuch of this column addresses and announc-es changes in our lives, be it locations, fam-ily members, or retirement. Reading of youradjustments keeps the mind alert and opento new adventures.

I opened up my e-mail the other day tofind a message from Ellie Shapiro Saalberg,who penned this column in the early yearsright after graduation. She was looking forJudy Greifer Benjamin's address. I was ableto tell her Judy lived in McLean, VA, andforwarded her address. Ellie has promisednews of her retirement activities in return.This is one of the exciting perks of being inthe catbird seat. . . reuniting old friends.

Dan Schwartz faxed a note re his re-tirement after 26 years as director of forensicpsychiatry at Kings County Hospital in Brook-lyn. He plans to spend more of the wintertimeat his condominium in N. Miami Beach, butwill continue to work as he is needed.

Eloise (Mix) and Don Unbekant '53

relocated, shortly after Reunion, to Boston.Don is now executive vice president of Peri-ni Corp., in charge of all their heavy con-struction. Trading the suburbs for the cityand hi-rise condo living has been a completechange in lifestyle, and Eloise loves it.

Retirement seems to be responsible forthe majority of lifestyle changes, and per-haps the most enjoyable. David Narinswrites from Sarasota, FL that not only wasReunion great, but retirement is better thanhe dreamed it could be. He has set a goal tosee the world . . . all of it . . . big as it is.Claire Schubert Weston, another retiredFloridian, leaves Mt. Dora in her motorhome—the only way to go, according toClaire—and explores the US. Any of youmotoring by Mt. Dora, drop in and sharetravel tips with Claire. Bill and Cathy RyanNelson take off from Rockport, TX and ex-plore the Southwest via Airstream trailer.They travel with other Airstreamers led byCornellians Earl '50 and Rose Ellen GarisMullen '49. Their agenda for Fall 1994 in-cluded joining the Death Valley Days Cara-van with the grande finale being ring-sideat the Rose Parade. Also retired to Texasare Carol Cochran '57 and Frank Win-nert. Retirement has allowed them moretime to train and show their Newfoundlands,but has not diminished time devoted toalumni work via the Cornell and JohnsonSchool clubs of Dallas. Truly do not thinkwe are permitted, nor desire, to retire fromour Cornell commitments. Ro SeelbinderJung has retired to another corner of thecountry at Martha's Vineyard, but it is hardto catch her at home. We spent a week to-gether in March 1994 doing an Edlerhostelwatercolor course at Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu,NM. Abiquiu was a magnificent setting, theparticipants were marvelous, and the pricereasonable. Ro has since been to Maine,England, and back to Ghost Ranch. I find allof the above a great inspiration.

The physicians in the class are not asretiring. Robert Patterson ("Dr. Pat") stillworks a single-man practice in rural Maine.Joan writes that last summer they joined 11friends for a two-week tour of inner Alaska,just a wee bit off the beaten path. JohnCraig, a long-time summer visitor to Maine,has retired to the Pine Tree State and isnow a neighbor of the Pattersons. JohnEisele, who has lived up the road from mefor years in Davis, CA, has retired from ac-tive practice but will continue to work part-time in the pain management center. Learn-ing from John's note that we both havehomes at Tahoe, I called the Eisele resi-dence and had a great chat with John's wife,Pamela, who is a vet at U. of California, Davis.

Bob and Barbara Brenner Levine '55are both still active in their professions: Bar-bara as an assistant clinical professor of fam-ily medicine, a marriage and family thera-pist, and director of the human sexuality pro-gram of the family medicine department,SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse.Bob is a professor of medicine in the Dept.of Medicine's section of gastroenterology,dividing his time among research, teaching,and clinical practice. Son John '81 present-ed them with a grandson Samuel; son Doug,a fourth-year med student at Mt. Sinai, wasmarried last July at the United Nations

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Chapel to Yasemin Glik; and son Gary is alawyer in Boston.

True to the spirit of our class project,Robert Hellmann is a consulting environ-mental biologist in Hilton, NY and EdieBuermeyer Ledbetter looks after ourocean's health as vice-president of the Cen-ter for Marine Conservation in Washington,DC. • Leslie Papenfus Reed, 17 HillsideAve., Kentfield, CA 94904; fax (415) 925-9404; e-mail LJReed@aol.com.

40THREUNION

Thanksgiving isjust around the cor-ner as I write, andJune seems a longway off, but it'snot—we've already

heard from nearly 200 classmates who saythey hope to be with us for Reunion 1995!Max Mattes and Phil Harvey are puttingit all together; Joan Steiner Stone's incharge of registrations and reservations—and many of you have indicated that you'dlike to pitch in and help. This phenomenaland early response has us geared up for agreat Reunion Weekend. Put June 8-11 onyour calendar now.

Joan Fellerman Hartz is expressingthanks this holiday season for her marriage("a good one, at last!") and the bonus ofhusband Bill's children and grandchildren inher life. Allen Brezinsky counts his bless-ings as his four children—"all solid citi-zens"—grow and prosper. The Brezinskysare "totally healthy and happy and doingwell. What more can a person ask for?!"Frank Baldwin retired from orthopaedicpractice after 26 years, and is now return-ing to Cornell to study forestry in the natu-ral resources department. This past year,he went to Costa Rica to work on a refores-tation project. Frank recalls his "single bestmoment" during our undergraduate yearswas winning the interfraternity cross-coun-try track meet.

Inez Dunn Morrison and husbandDonald are active in the antique car circuit.Their patience in restoring their Ford Mus-tang coupe, 1966 vintage, has paid off in na-tional and local trophies in car shows. Inezis also the art gallery coordinator at the KingCenter for Performing Arts in Melbourne,FL. "It's been a really rewarding experience,starting the gallery program from groundzero and seeing it grow." Dick Kurtz'shobby is also antique autos—he has a 1933Austin roadster and a 1936 Ford convert-ible sedan. Sounds like the Kurtzs and theMorrisons will want to touch base withGordon White at Reunion. Gordie racesantique racing cars, and set a world speedrecord in 1989 in his 1948 Kurtis Offenhaus-er racing car, which had already won GrandNational First Prize in the Antique Auto-mobile Club of America.

Marcia Willemen Sutter's best day atCornell began with Commencement on June13, '55 and segued into her wedding withPhilip at the Lutheran Church in College-town that afternoon. The Sutters' firstgrandchild was born to son Carl '85 andwife Theresa (Reiser) '85. Philip Alkonis a wildlife ecologist at Ben-Gurion U. ofthe Negev in Israel, having received his PhDat Cornell in 1974. This year, Phil has a

Hosting TheSports Reporters'on ESPN is greatfun. Everyone insports seems towatch it, and loveit, or hate it!— D I C K SCHAAP '55

Senior National Research Council associate-ship to conduct studies at New Mexico StateU. on wildlife responses to stressors indesert ecosystems. When looking back onhis undergrad years, Phil recalls "thethoughtfulness and friendship of classmatesand faculty when I was laid up in the oldclinic on State Street with a severely bro-ken leg, thanks to Hurricane Hazel (Octo-ber 1954)." Overall, "the Cornell experiencewas a kaleidoscope of challenges, rewards,and opportunities."

Congratulations to Dick Schaap, whoreceived an Alumni Achievement Awardfrom Columbia U.'s journalism school lastMay. Dick reports that hosting "The SportsReporters" on ESPN is "great fun. Every-one in sports seems to watch it, and love it,or hate it!" Janet Lepard Me Phail, wholives in Grosse Pointe, MI, left Coopers andLybrand after 14 years "with some trepida-tion," but has found being self-employed"decidedly more lucrative and less stressfulthan I could have imagined." Jan's work at alocal family office offers her "a nice vari-ety"—securities, investments, financialstatements, and tax returns. We send goodwishes for a quick recovery to Martha Gor-man King. Marty took a year off from herteaching job after having two knees replaced.Bob Cowie says that he and Vanne (Shel-ley) '57 used to divide their time betweenwinters in Arizona and summers in Tole-do—but by Reunion their summer home willbe Ithaca, where they're building a newhouse on the lake. "Classmates and otherCornellians welcome, once we move in!"Who says you can't go home again?• Nancy Savage Morris, 110A Weaver St.,Greenwich, CT 06831.

I attended a wonderful birthdaydinner-dance for my Cornellroommate, Barbara BarronStarr, hosted by her husband,Bob. Guests were Barbara'sfriends from all aspects of her

life—including the following alumni andspouses: Burt Siegel (and Naomi), CaroleRapp Thompson (and Paul), the Starrs' chil-dren—Michelle Schaap Perkoff '84 (and

John), and Ian M. Starr '73 (and Natalie)—a cousin, Janet Slater Lobsenz '57 (andTed), Flora Weinstein Perskie '57, andDavid '55, MBA '57, Robin RosenbergCohen, '69 BS Nurs (and Jerry), and DanielKram '48 (with Joan). More perks of beingyour class correspondent: I also attended abook publishing party to honor CharlesBernstein and his wife Norma in one of the'board room' private dining rooms at Mor-ton's Restaurant, in Manhattan—one of thesuperb steak restaurants in that chain . . .The location was perfection becauseCharles's book is about chain restaurants:called Winning the Chain Restaurant Game,and published by Wiley. A must for the li-braries of all you hotelies.

I received several newspaper tributesto our classmate, the late Thomas W. Ro-gers, Moline, IL. As most of you know, Tomwas stricken with polio in 1953 before oursophomore year. Tom was an inspiration toall who knew him. Here is a quote from acolleague: "Tom Rogers redefined courage,grace, and majesty of spirit. His wit, hisgoodwill, and his spirit of adventure buoyedall who knew him. I am forever in his debt."Amen. Tom passed away Aug. 24, '94, atSt. Mary's Hospital in St. Louis, MO. Itshould be noted that although Tom was par-alyzed from the neck down, he successfullyran a brokerage firm. Tom is survived byhis widow, Kera.

Stephen Kittenplan and I received along newsy note from Bob Gerhardt, whocaught us up on his family's latest events.Bob has a financial planning practice spe-cializing in estate planning and managingmoney. Something we all need advice on, itseems. Peter Curtiss, Etna, NY, expectsto retire from Cornell in 1995. FYI: Peteracts as a clearing house for Cornellian year-books. Currently Peter has three copies ofthe 1956 Cornellian, available for those wholost theirs or never had one. Peter is reach-able at Cornell or at home, PO Box 536, Etna.

Gwendolyn Grohmann des Cognetsand husband Archer '57 MBA '60 of Lin-coln Center, MA, just returned from a six-month 'adventure' to Hong Kong. Archerwas consulting for United Asset Manage-ment. While in the Far East, they went toChina, Thailand, Australia, Singapore, andTaiwan. Gwen and Archer attended a Chi-nese banquet in Hong Kong with PresidentFrank and Rosa Rhodes.

Susanne Kalter DeWitt, Berkeley, CA,is still working full time at Xoma Corp. (abio-tech firm in Berkeley). Priscilla DrewDiggins, Mesquite, TX, is a part-time pro-gram assistant for Dallas County 4-H.

Thanks for all your news. StephenKittenplan and I appreciate hearing fromyou. • Phyllis Bosworth, 8 E. 83rd St.,NYC 10028.

f ^ f ^ f Among the travelers in 1994m^ m were Charles and Jeanne Wa-r V m ters Townsend, along with Mol-

I • lie Turner, who had a fantasticl l I three-week visit to China last^ ^ • fall. Living abroad for five monthslast year certainly agreed with AdrienneMcNair and her husband, Prof. EmeritusAnthony Caputi (English and comparativeliterature). Adrienne writes that she had

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lots of visitors to their Rome apartment andenjoyed the excuse to take them to see thenewly-cleaned frescoes in the Sistine Chap-el. Once back at the Upstairs Gallery in Ith-aca, Adrienne acted as curator for a show-ing of Carol Anderson Brown's paintingslast fall. Carol was married last year to Dr.Howard Schwartz, Columbia's team doctor.

Even though Election Day is way behindus, here's an election result you may not haveread—Christina Links Clark was re-electedto the post of county commissioner forMetamora, MI and surrounding townships.

Summer vacation for Paul '55, MD '59and Joanne Field Bleakely was spent atCape Cod and visiting their kids far andwide—Laura in Phoenix, Jim, Jeff, a residentin surgery at Mass General in Boston, andPaul, now a third-year law student in Balti-more. For Marty '55 and Phyllis ShamesKorn, last summer was spent getting readyfor and thoroughly enjoying the August wed-ding of their daughter Rachel '90 in thegardens of Belhurst Castle, Geneva, NY.Rachel and her husband, a Harvard man, areliving in Boston, where Rachel is pursuinga MSW degree at Boston U.

Mary Christine Balluff Fanning diedsuddenly last August after completing a5,000-mile auto trip to Canada and the Mid-west with her husband of 35 years, Delvin'54, MS '59. Delvin and Mary, an author,were married in Anabel Taylor Hall and livedfor many years in Berwyn Heights,MD. • Judith Reusswig, 5401 WestbardAve., #1109, Bethesda, MD 20816.

I'm sorry to report that Don W. Smithpassed away last summer. Don started hiscareer with AT&T when we graduated, and

. never worked for anyone else; probably oneof the few in our class who could say that.His last assignment was vice president forLatin America, based in Coral Gables. Oursympathy goes out to Lonnie and their fourchildren.

Andy Schroder has moved from Wil-ton, CT, where he lived in the same housefor 27 years, to Sanibel, FL. Those of youin that area can look forward to seeing theSchroders at Southwest Florida Cornell Clubfunctions.

Anyone reading fairy tales to grandchil-dren might slip this one in to see if the kidseems to have any intelligence: Don Mc-Dermott is working on this project at theNewark branch of Rutgers U.—"Bio-Reme-diation; Aerobic Degradation of Monochlo-rophenols, Isolation and Identification ofBacteria with such Capabilities."

Al Collard sends along news of his fam-ily—daughter Elizabeth '91 has finishedNew York U. law school and is working fora patent law firm in New York City. Son Bill(Lehigh '93) is at Emory law school in At-lanta and son Tom is in his sophomore yearat Brown, where he's playing varsity la-crosse. The senior Collards spend summerweekends at Shelter Island sailing, fishing,and bike riding.

All of us fortunate to know Jack Whitewell during and after our years in Ithaca knowhim to be a "straight from the shoulder—tellit like it is and let the chips fall where theymay" type of individual. In that context, hewrites (concerning your reporter), "I always

look forward to your wit and wisdom in theMag (sic)." Now that is something yourgrandchild will understand. • John Seller,Starks Bldg., Suite 563, 455 S. 4th Ave.,Louisville, KY 40202; (502) 589-1151.

We have a note from UniversityCouncil member and formerClass President Richard Kaythat last fall's Council meetingwas excellent. Dick writes thatwith the election to the Board

of Trustees of Ellen Gussman Adelson, wenow have four classmates on the board:Ellen, Allan Tessler, Ken Derr, and RonLynch; Ron is one of the vice chairs. Pres-ident Rhodes, in his State of the Universityaddress, announced that Allan has endowedthe deanship of the Law School and thatEllen has established a professorship in hon-or of her father, Herbert Gussman '33.Several years ago, classmates will recall,Ron Lynch created the endowment for thedeanship of the College of Agriculture andLife Sciences. (Dick wonders how many oth-er classes have endowed two deanships?)Two '58ers, A. C. Dake and Harvey Dale,co-chaired Council Weekend and, Dick ex-claims, deserve many congratulations forsuch a well-planned event. Also presentwere fellow Council members Don Frisch,Maddi McAdams Dallas, and Pete Stifel.

And we have some notes from 'matesin education. Connie Cornwall Powell con-tinues her work as a science librarian at U.of Kansas; she was selected to representher work area at American Chemical Soci-ety meetings. On the home front, Connieand family celebrated Uncle Edwin Slack's99th birthday in February 1994. Mrs. JoycePalmer Loughlin is a teacher in Wethers-field, CT. English Professor HerbertDonow plans to write a book about the ad-ventures of David M. Barkley, Alben's sonand a "dilettante with a genius IQ who flewplanes and chased women" . . . and led aquite unusual life. Herb stumbled uponBarkley's letters while teaching an advancedwriting class at Southern Illinois U.; we'llwatch for your book, Herb—let us knowwhen it's available. Ed Fox continues asdean and professor of business administra-tion at Dartmouth. He had to miss our Re-union due to graduation there, but writesthat "Cornell came to Hanover in the per-son of President Rhodes, who received anhonorary degree and who told me that it[Reunion 1993] was a great weekend." Inlate 1993, Barbara Wood Gray receivedcontinuing education in mediation trainingat the Boulder Center for Dispute Resolu-tion with hopes of working for non-profitorganizations and expanding her career con-sulting business.

Pete Hartdegen, a small businessowner in Orinda, CA, started up his newcompany in 1986, with all the family remod-eling their 1920 two-story Georgian officebuilding. Pete's two sons now live in Colo-rado Springs, CO, where they also own smallbusinesses in the residential constructionand remodeling area. Meanwhile, Pete isstill remodeling their house—a 29-yearproject, so far, and going strong. VictorJohnson Jr. remarried in 1992 and, afterhaving retired for five years, now finds him-

self working full time for his wife, Millie,who has a very busy psychotherapy prac-tice in Rome, NY. From those reporting NOnews, we have on this round heard fromMrs. Carol Mayer Utter, a tax preparerwith H&R Block in VA; James Harper,Martin Berger, and Liz Fuchs Fillo. Also,we have received dues from Ellen Adelson,of whom you read above (congratulations,Ellen!); Don Alpaugh; Mrs. Toni Dingle-dy Barker; Roger Boulton (from Caracas,and vice president of his company); AlanBrenner; John Brinsley; Dr. James F.Brown; and Carolyn"Beanie" Bean Cae-sar, an editor/publisher for Jobs in Dieteticsin Santa Monica, CA.

Al Podell has completed another videoproduction, having made the "documenta-ries" (now classics?) A Class Above (withwhich we're all familiar) and 1959's TheClass on the Cutting Edge. The new produc-tion is Lift the Chorus, edited with ChrisRobinson (Dartmouth '94), and with soundand video provided by a host of Cornell cin-ematographers. The new video features 22Cornell songs and five adaptations, illustrat-ed with more than 1,500 photos and film clipscovering all 130 years of Cornell history andhaving taken some 4,000 hours to put to-gether. It looks as if E. C. "Chuck" Hunt isour source for getting one of these, at $25each, with checks payable to "Far AboveFilms." Al writes that the "approach of thevideo is based on upbeat nostalgia, good hu-mor, and a love of and a deep appreciationfor Cornell and its special spirit." Nice go-ing, Al; we'll look forward to seeing yourlatest work. • Dick Haggard, 1207 NashDr., Fort Washington, PA 19034.

Carol Horowitz Schulhof ofBrooklyn, NY brings a wealth ofclassroom and administrativeexperience to her next post asdirector of the pre- and lowerschools at The Packer Inst., a

150-year-old independent day school for stu-dents aged 3 up through grade 12. Carol hasbeen associated with Packer since 1978. Sheis also a governor of The Brooklyn HeightsAssn., a member of the University Council,and the New York City general chair ofAlumni Admissions Ambassador Network(CAAAN).

Mort Diamond, Hollywood, FL, hasretired from his practice of cardiology topursue other career interests. He wrote thathe was sorry to miss Reunion, but his son,who graduated from medical school lastMay, was married on Reunion weekend. Awedding also prevented Bob Mayers andwife Florence (Cassen) '61 of NYC fromattending Reunion. In the fall, Harry N.Abrams Co., which previously published tenMucoum ABC books by Florence, releasedher Baseball ABC, aimed at baseball fans ofall ages.

There's a new edition out of SidneyWolfe's best-selling book on prescriptiondrugs, Worst Pills, Best Pills. Sid is directorand co-founder of Public Citizen's HealthResearch Group in Washington, DC. Green-wood Press published Contemporary Lesbi-an Writing of the United States: A Bio-Bib-liographical Critical Sourcebook by SandraPollack of Ithaca, NY. Sandra, a professor

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John F. Murphy '59, LLB '62

ome were shot by faceless, name-less gunmen, outside their court-rooms. Some were struck down by

crude, homemade bombs. Still others, even today, sitcowering in their chambers, turn-ing the blind eye of justice to savethemselves.

The rampant killing of judges afew years back by henchmen of apowerful drug lord was a warningto Colombia and the shots wereheard around the world. The mes-sage was clear: such internationalterrorism needed attention—fast.

From his book-piled, shelf-lined cubbyhole at Villanova Uni-versity School of Law, far from thetangled mess of kingpins and slainjudges, Professor John Murphy hassome answers. He is an unlikelysoldier in this international war-fare, with his thin-framed glassesand gentle face, his blend of NewEngland and Nebraska. But thisexpert on international terrorism,author of the definitive text Pun-ishing International Terrorists: TheLegal Framework for Policy Initia-tives and current reporter for theAmerican Bar Association's Task Force on an Interna-tional Criminal Court, is making his views heard onthe highest levels—from the United Nations to CapitolHill.

"Every time there is a major terrorist attack,"Murphy says, "I get phone calls. I guess I suffer a bitfrom the Clockwork Orange syndrome of terrorism—I've done so much work, I almost need to bedeprogrammed."

He became interested in international affairs

sitting in his criminal law class at Cornell. The per-son sitting next to him had just returned from atwo-month tour behind the Iron Curtain. Murphydecided to take a similar tour, his first trip out of

the country. "It was a wholenew world to me," he says.

He's served as a consultantto the Departments of Stateand Justice, on the ABA's com-mittees on international terror-ism and national security and asan alternate observer to theU.N. He's currently a member ofthe executive committee of theInternational Law Associationand previously chaired its com-mittee on international terror-ism.

If the ABA's recommenda-tions are adopted, the Interna-tional Criminal Court wouldprovide an option to countriesunable to prosecute criminals intheir own courts, or unwilling toextradite them to other nationsto stand trial. Judges would beelected by the countries whosign on to the U.N.-sponsoredcourt.

And with sentiment seemingly turning on theeffectiveness of the United Nations—with agonizingbotches like Bosnia and Somalia in the news eachnight—the next question is, will the world commu-nity commit to an international court?

"I think there's a 50-50 chance of this work-ing," he says with a small sigh. "As one of my fa-vorite philosophers, Yogi Berra, said, Ίt's difficult tomake predictions, especially about the future.'"

—Shu Shu Costa

of humanities and women's studies atTompkins Cortland Community College,took a sabbatical during the last academicyear, during which time she traveled ex-tensively in Europe, as well as to Mexicoand Alaska, "partly for research and also forfun," she writes.

It is with deep sadness that I report thedeath on Nov. 5, '94 of Rick Cohen, husbandof Linda (Rogers) and father of Carrie '89and Lara, our class treasurer since 1979, and

a highly respected and talented profession-al. Rick, a long-time resident of Great Neck,NY, was director of the Lexington Centerfor Mental Health Services, chaired theAmerican Psychological Assn.'s profession-al practice and standards committee, andwas a former president of the NY State Psy-chological Assn. All who knew him will re-member him as a beloved friend, a man witha grand sense of humor, a compassionatehuman being. He is greatly missed. ••• Jenny

Tesar, 97A Chestnut Hill Village, Bethel,CT 06801-2643; (203) 792-8237.

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Your 35th Re-union mailingshould have beenreceived by now.If not, call Re-union Chair Ken

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help the class plan better, and you'll be as-sured of choices. We're hoping to break allrecords for a 35th—people, donors, and dol-lars. Most important is your presence! Theclass goal for the 35th Reunion was an-nounced by Sue Phelps Day during Trus-tee-Council Weekend in October—$6 mil-lion with 700 donors! We hope to break thedonor record for a 35th Reunion as we didat the 30th. Remember, your participationin this special addition to the 125th Cam-paign helps ensure a sizable increase in Cor-nell's endowment and in funds available forscholarships, both essential to Cornell's sig-nificance as a world-class university in the21st century. A donation of any size is wel-come and appreciated.

Dick Morrison is a senior economistat the National Science Foundation, Arling-ton, VA. Dave Auble won the 1993 Mas-ter's Veterans World Championship in To-ronto at the 62-kilogram (136.5-pound) class,and plans on staying in the sport as "long asthe body lets me." Work with the IthacaCollege wrestling team in the winter helpskeep him in shape. His occupation involvesproperty development in the Ithaca area.Samuel J. Gilbert married Susan Peck inAugust 1993. He is of counsel to Rosner &Goodman, New York City, and his wife is aColumbia graduate and dental hygienist.

Henry S. Bienen has been namedpresident of Northwestern U. He has beendean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson Schoolsince 1992 and a member of the Princetonfaculty since 1966. He is a specialist in Afri-can politics, US foreign policy, civil-militaryrelations, comparative urban politics, and is-sues of political and economic development.His wife is Leigh (Buchanan) '59.

Don Dewey's younger daughter, Eliz-abeth '98, is in Arts and a member of thewomen's soccer team. Daughter Jennifergraduated from Harvard in June and was amember of the sailing team, earning fourvarsity letters, and was the recipient of theHillary H. Smart Award for special contri-butions to Harvard-Radcliffe sailing. RobertLaufer's daughter Susan '94 graduatedfrom Human Ecology. Dr. Albert Tripodi,a primary care physician in Syracuse, notesthat he is looking forward to the 35th. Da-nila "Neila" Obrdlik Darko has retired fromhigh school teaching and has a new address:2134 Morning Park Dr., Katy, TX.

Alan Fishman is vice president of thePittsburgh architectural firm IKM Inc., spe-cializing in health care. Wife Libby is a law-yer. Son Charlie is in Colorado, and Beth'89 (Arts) is in the Ph.D program at U. ofCalifornia, Davis. Jessie Barker Hill wasblessed with a third grandchild four days af-ter her graduation from law school. She con-tinues "with an incredibly interesting job ashouse counsel for an orthopaedic devicemanufacturer." Phil Schneider retired inJuly from the US Senior Executive Service,and is now an assistant professor of philos-ophy at Coastal Carolina U. He lives on Paw-leys Island, SC. Also retired is RichardTomes, who left government service aftermore than 31 years, most recently as portdirector for the US Customs Service inWilmington, NC.

Class Treasurer Dave Flinn and Maryare starting to "phase out" after more than

20 years of raising Clydesdales and Cleve-land bay horses. Mary continues to serveon the national boards for both breeds, andDave is active as ever in Rotary. JoyceMyron Zohar and husband Joseph recentlycelebrated their 35th anniversary. She is di-rector of marketing for Optronic Devices,an American subsidiary of ELOP, the Israe-li military electro-optics specialists. Thistakes her to Israel often, to visit an exten-sive family living there. Daughter Karenteaches science in Aspen, CO, and sonDaniel is an attorney in Clearwater, FL.

Ed and Anne Sterling Maglisceaureport that he retired from IBM after 30years and has been consulting and, duringthe fall, officiating in football. Anne is dieti-tian for Meals on Wheels in Greenwich, CT.Evie Edwards Milman and Stephen '58,MBA '59, are now at 5 Pratt Island, Darien,CT. Her tour group, "Day Trippers," spe-cializes in visits to museum towns and his-torical sites. Stephen is president and di-rector of the Genesis-funded partnership ofNeuberger and Berman, NYC.

Bill Ballou is working on a book ex-ploring the metaphysical basis for humanfreedom. He notes, remembering Cornell:"I remember asking myself, 'Where did allthese outstanding faculty come from?' Af-ter 35 years, I still hold in awe those suchas Larry Burckmyer [professor of electricalengineering], who advised me to devote mytalent and energy to the social sciences. Hegave me good advice."

June 8-11 will provide the perfect op-portunity to refresh your memories—andalso to savor and be inspired by the new,cutting-edge Cornell. Do start making yourplans now to join classmates and faculty "onthe Hill." • Gail Taylor Hodges, 1257 W.Deer Path, Lake Forest, IL 60045.

Information from Adult Universi-ty (CAU) indicates that two class-mates—Julia Werner Stern andAnne Klein Rothman—recentlyattended CAU sessions. Theymight be good resources for you,

if you have considered the programs butwould like some references. Some updates:Richard and Janet Nelson Lipinski areactive members of the Cornell Club of Alas-ka, where Jan chairs the Alumni AdmissionsAmbassador Network (CAAAN). LassieTischler Eicher notes that she and husbandM. M. "Mike" '60 are pleased to be cele-brating five years at one address in St. Lou-is, having made 19 moves in 35 years. KarisRicketts recently reached the 20-year mile-stone as a CPA in public practice, the last16 with her own firm, which specializes intaxation. Peter and Cathryn Van BurenBomberger '62 have been enjoying week-ends at their second home, located on LakeMichigan. Arthur Kroll received recenthonors when he was admitted to Who's Whoin International Law.

Grandparent status: Sally Abel Neustadt,Spring Savitt Asher, and Gary Hellinger.

A note from Meredith Wood Einaudirelayed the following: "Marco Einaudi, cur-rently an endowed professor at Stanford inapplied earth sciences, recently returnedfrom an invited lecture tour of Japan, Ko-rea, and the Philippines. He was the inter-

national exchange lecturer for the Societyof Economic Geologists, and was accompa-nied by Meredith, who teaches dance andfitness classes. They frequently accompanyStanford's travel/study programs, especial-ly walking tours of Tuscany and the Tyrolmountains, where Marco lectures on localgeology and Italian wine. In November, bothwere in Ithaca for a university memorial ser-vice honoring Marco's father, Mario Einau-di, Goldwin Smith professor emeritus ofgovernment, who died in May. Mario Ein-audi founded Cornell's Center for Interna-tional Studies (which is named for him) andtaught at Cornell for 25 years."

Stephen G. Milks also wrote of a spe-cial Cornell link: "The 100th anniversary ofthe Veterinary college included numerousreferences to Prof. Howard Jay Milks,DVM '04—a pioneer in small animal re-search at the Vet college—my grandfather."

Having spent some time on the alpinetrek in New Zealand, Carol Moore Durelland her husband are eager to share theirenthusiasm and offer advice to anyone in-terested in a similar experience. Just callthem at (614) 888-5713.

Allan Metcalf and I hope you willshare, too—news, that is, for our class col-umn. We appreciate hearing from you.• Nancy Hislop McPeek, 7405 Brush-more, NW, N. Canton, OH 44720; (216) 494-2572 (h); (216) 438-8375 (w).

Once I was a

normal Cornell

Class of 1960

graduate with

a good job,

loving wife, and

nice family.

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35th Reunion,

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something!

Reunion: June 8-11,1995.

Mark yourcalendarTODAY!

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Update your address book forJane Gribbin Andrews, who'snow at 31 Round Hill Rd., Scars-dale. Mail for James Moore nowgoes to Box 274, Worcester, PA.You can reach Ellen Henshaw

Kaufmann at 1229 E. Fairmont Dr., Tempe,AZ. Chuck and Kathy Skinner Delsant-er '63 have moved to 12411 Crestline, Dal-las, TX. Chuck is a real estate developer.Robert W. Cutler Jr. now resides at 633Steamboat Rd., #4, Greenwich, CT.

Dr. Richard Kaiden and brother Jef-frey '69 have moved their ophthalmologypractice to a nearby location in Westwood,NJ—"What a job after 20 years on the samelocation!" Son Jonathan '88 and daughter-in-law Helene Press Kaiden '88 are proudparents of Nicole, a potential member of theClass of 2015(?). A Cornell family!

Alcor Systems of Wheatridge, CO, isalso a Cornell family, with Tom Hoekel-man as president, Jon Hinebauch as vicepresident of sales/marketing, and GeorgeSlocum as chairman of the board. The com-pany manufactures breath-alcohol detectioninstruments for law enforcement and work-place applications.

Active alumna Aline Holstein Lotteris vice president of the Cornell Club of NewHampshire, a trustee of White Pines Col-lege, and treasurer of the Manchester BarAssn. She's recently seen Pete and RuthZimmerman Bleyler in Boston and TomDe Marco (EE '63), who is a traveling com-puter consultant based in Camden, ME.

Hal Sieling also travels as a consul-tant. Based in San Diego, Hal has beenworking for Pizza Hut. He saw John Zie-gler and Bill Eaton '61 at the NationalRestaurant Show. Also a Californian, OwenJ. Sloane practices entertainment law, rep-resenting some notable celebrities includ-ing Paul Anka, Elton John, Suzanne Vega,and "a number of artists only your childrenwould recognize." Owen is a speaker be-fore various legal and trade groups, and re-cently spoke at Harvard Law School, "a rar-ity for a Yale lawyer." Owen and Beverlyhave three daughters.

Lisa Slutsky '94 graduated with a gov-ernment major, reports proud father Charles.He's manager of the Fallsview Hotel in Ellen-ville. W. Jack Mead is just beginning theCornellian-parent routine: His youngestdaughter, Sybil '98 is in Arts. Jack and Su-sanah look forward to spending more time inIthaca from their home in Indianapolis. He'swith Commercial Union Insurance there.

From Bob Simpson, a liaison engineerwith Chrysler International: "Chrysler's suc-cess in overseas markets has been evenmore dramatic than that in the US. We havesignificantly increased the number of differ-ent models offered for export and the num-ber of markets where these products areavailable. This expansion has been managedwith no increased US support staff—we'revery busy!" Bob and Dianne enjoyed see-ing Vic Ericson, Chuck Schmid, BillStowe, and Warren Icke at the weddingof David Icke, son of Warren and Nancy(Bierds) '63, in the Memorial Church inHarvard Yard. Bill arranged for the groupto use the Harvard boathouse and equipmentfor a row on the Charles on Sunday morning.

Bill Brozowski still sells fruits andvegetables "from Mex and Tex" in the RioGrande Valley. Bill's hobby is caring for his30-acre wildlife area in Edinburg, TX: "Plen-ty of birds, cactus, and thorn brush." DonJuran is a computer specialist with theDept. of Health and Human Services inWashington, DC. Don and Carol have madeseveral trips to Ithaca, for the vocal recitalsand the graduation of Adam '94. NephewDavid Juran, '93-94 Grad, son of Chuck'53, is the fourth of the Juran clan to attendCornell. Don reports, "With several dozenother maniacs, I hiked the Chesapeake andOhio canal towpath from Cumberland, MDto Washington: 184.5 miles in two weeks.With generous doses of fresh air and low-impact exercise, this was perhaps the bestvacation of my life. The worst thing abouttent camping is not being able to removeone's clothes standing up." Another activevacationer is Donald Sladkin of Potomac,MD, who repeated his Maine Whitewatercanoe trip with Dick Stern, Bill Chipin,and Lee Michaels.

"Can a popular place to live and workretain its appeal when it becomes 'too' pop-ular?" asks Sara Allensworth Michl as amember of the city planning board in Boul-der, CO. Her husband Josef is a chemistryprofessor at U. of Colorado. Injury-preven-tion activities are a rewarding sideline forpediatrician Paul Schreiber of N.Easton,MA. He has finished a grant promoting bi-cycle helmet use and was very involved withthe passage of a mandatory bicycle helmetlaw for Massachusetts children. GaryGrunau is a contractor-developer in Mil-waukee, WI. One of his firm's developments,Schlitz Park, was awarded the CUED andULI National Awards of Excellence this year.

Out of space—more to come! Happyspring! • Jan McClayton Crites, 2779 Dell-wood Dr., Lake Oswego, OR 97034.

Class news usually comes fromthe infamous News and Duesrequests. I recently receivednews from Jay O. Light's fresh-man dorm counselor, Ron De-mer '59. Ron sent a copy of the

Harvard Business School Bulletin which an-

nounced that Jay, a professor in that busi-ness school, was the first recipient of theDwight B. Robinson professorship, to beused to further management education. Jayis an authority on investments, investmentmanagement, and capital markets. Congrat-ulations, Jay! A news release from PennState U. announces Dr. Steven M. Wein-reb's appointment as head of the Dept. ofChemistry. Steven is an organic chemistbest known for research on synthesis andstructure of pharmacologically useful natu-ral products, including anticancer com-pounds. He has a PhD from the U. of Roch-ester. He joined the Penn State faculty in1978, after eight years at Fordham U.

Job updates but no news: Ed Slisky isa computer programmer living in Tiburon,CA. Chris Householder Schneider andhusband Clifford '65 live in Cape Vincent,NY, where Chris is a teacher/librarian.Harold "Hal" Spitzer is an architect withSpitzer and Associates in New York City.John Sundermeyer is director of opera-tions for Synthetic Products, Cleveland. JanSuwinski is an executive with Corning Inc.in Corning, NY. Dr. Joseph Vinso is presi-dent of Financial Resources Mgt. Inc. inRolling Hills Estates, CA. Louise BermanWolitz is a professor/arbitrator at the U. ofTexas, Austin economics department. WaltZent is a veterinarian in Lexington, KY. Dr.Francine Siegal Zieverink, Portland, OR,visited daughter Christine '97 twice oncampus. She loved the coed dorms, andloved being there when she didn't have totake exams.

Margery "Nickey" Schmid Wilson,BS Nurs '64 and husband Donald, MD '65,are still in Scarborough, ME with retirementplans looming in the future. Nickey was withus our freshman year, and left to pursue anursing degree in NYC. She has retired fromnursing and now devotes her time to thepresidency of their Unitarian Church and tohouse remodeling. Daughter Jennifer, 28,has a master's in natural resources; daugh-ters Emily and Stephanie live in Boston.Carol Westenhoefer Anderson writes fromMiami that even though employment law prac-tice becomes more complex, she intends tolive more simply and develop personal inter-ests. In 1994 she completed a divorce, pur-chased a condo, and saw her oldest daughtergraduate from the U. of Delaware. Heryoungest attends Florida State. YunusAsian is deputy manager of Hotel Imbat inKusadasi, Turkey. He sends regards to allhis friends. He's happy that there has beena boom in Turkish tourism and would loveto see more Cornellians in Turkish hotels.Jane Schulz Ekstein is executive directorof Save Our Seashore—a non-profit, grass-roots coalition concerned with economic andecological consequences of coastal erosionalong NY State's Atlantic coastline. Ella An-dresen Brovitz and husband Cortland '46live in Pittsford, NY. Daughter Laurie Duf-field, Grad (Delta Gamma from Ohio State)is at Cornell's Vet college following in thefootsteps of Ella's twin brother, John An-dresen '64, DVM '66. Ella spends her timegardening and spending some time in a re-cently purchased villa in Naples, FL. That'sall for February! • Nancy Bierds Icke, POBox 1675-Eurocentre, Racine, WI 53401.

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^y M I don't know what it is—ourL ^ # 1 ^ ^ 1 R e u m o n l a s t v e a r> o r may-•^k / I ^ e w e r e Jus^ realizing we'reI I ίm4 getting on—but I have a pleth-II I ora of news for this month's^ ^ ^ column, much of it from class-mates we've not heard from in years, if atall. James Becker, president of BeaconConstruction and senior vice president ofThe Beacon Companies, was recently elect-ed secretary of the Associated General Con-tractors (AGC) of Massachusetts for thecoming association year. The AGC repre-sents leading union and open shop construc-tion firms performing the majority of cor-porate, institutional and public building inthe state. At Beacon, Jim pioneered the useof the up/down construction method on 75State Street and Rowes Wharf, two nation-ally-acclaimed Boston landmarks. He alsoteaches in MIT's civil engineering depart-ment. Jim, wife Aber, and daughter Emmaare still at 94 Juniper Rd., Belmont, MA.

Also in the development biz is CharlesHartquist, president of Chevron Land andDevelopment Co., San Francisco. Charlesand wife Barbara, who live at 340 MountShasta Dr., San Rafael, CA, have threegrown children. Last fall, Nancy AlfredPersily (9718 Whitley Park PL, Bethesda,MD) was named director of the Office ofStrategic Planning, Marketing, and ManagedCare for the George Washington U. Medi-cal Center in Washington, DC. The an-nouncement notes: "Ms. Persily was select-ed after a considerable national search . . .she comes with an excellent background inacademic medicine planning and administra-tion, and brings keen insight to the currentmanaged-care market."

In 1993, Leonard Richards, a vicepresident at Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh, cel-ebrated turning 50 by taking up flying. Heand wife Maureen live at 1025 WashingtonAve., Oakmont, PA. Hiroshi Kohda is man-ager of the Hotel New Otani Osaka in(where else?) Osaka, Japan, where his ef-forts resulted in the hotel being named thenumber one hotel in Osaka by InstitutionalInvestor for 1993. Over the years he haswelcomed classmates and other Cornelliansas guests and several children of classmatesas trainees. He also commutes back to To-kyo, from where he moved eight years ago,to perform duties as executive managingdirector of the New Otani Co. Ltd., the par-ent company. Hiroshi wrote that despite thefact that Japan is so far away, he is lookingfor an opportunity to visit the campus soon,because when he married 31 years ago, hepromised his wife that one day he wouldtake her to see his "beautiful alma mater."Hiroshi can be contacted c/o The New OtaniCo. Ltd., 4-1 Shiromi 1-Chome Chuo-Ku,Osaka 540, Japan.

More news from the Far East comesfrom Keng Bin Lee (2 Jalan 2/2 Taman Tar,Ampang Jaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia),who runs the only horticultural tropical-peatproducing company. He has been very ac-tive in Rotary International, is a past dis-trict governor. And recently he received twohonors: the title KMN, a public serviceaward, given by the Malaysian King; andKnight First Class, Order of White Rose,bestowed by the president of Finland in rec-

ognition of his 15 years' service as honor-able counsul for Finland in Kuala Lumpur.Last year, he, his wife, and both of theirgrown children traveled to their ancestralhome in Tukien Province in China.

Steve and Carolyn Stewart Whitman(34 Ray ton Rd., Hanover, NH) are in busi-ness together—her specialty being softwaremarketing and sales, his being the runningof the printing company. S. M. "Mike" '61and Alice Fried Baker (19 Thatcher Rd.,Plymouth, MA) are building a new home inSandwich, and will send their new addresswhen it's completed. They still teach at Bris-tol Community College, Fall River, and Alicekeeps active interviewing Cornell prospects.

Also in New England, Pete Gogolakmade an in-town move to 201 Long NeckPoint Rd., Darien, CT. And up in Vermont,Rosemary Frohlich Perkett (501 BrandFarm Dr., S. Burlington), who works for theAmerican Cancer Society, says she is backto single status and the empty-nest syn-drome is upon her, as the youngest of herthree children started college last fall.

Please keep the news coming. • BevJohns Lamont, 720 Chestnut St., Deerfield,IL 60015.

March is the per- ™^™^™feet time to mark oc?,?!,1!^,your calendars and REUNIONsave the date:8-11, 1995! Our30th Reunion Co-

Chairs Penny Skitol Haitkin and Dr.George Arangio are busy at work, plan-ning an exciting and memorable weekendfor us. We hope you will be there! Severalclassmates took advantage of Adult Univer-sity (CAU) last summer, both on campusand around the world. Participants includedRobert J. Aubrecht, Richard Corman,Maryann Taub Emsig, Phyllis Weiss Ha-serot, Arnold J. and Irene Rabinor, Al andDonna DeFlorio, Jeffrey and Elaine Du-bin, Robert and Judy Huret, and KirbyG. Vosburgh with wife F. Kaye (Barber)'67. They were enrolled in courses thatranged in scope from photography to mum-my curses and Quincey's cases, as well asoutdoor skills and acting. Their off-campusprograms took them to Dublin, the Aegean,Maine, and Wyoming.

News reached us from Taby, Sweden,w h e r e D r . F r e d r i k S . V o n b e r g e n is " . . .doing lots of interesting work . . . and 'fun'work in sports medicine, primarily with rug-by players" in the radiology department atthe Norrtalje Hospital. He went on to saythat he toured the major amusement parksin Sweden last summer with son Daniel,who " . . . plays rugby and soccer, takesdrum lessons . . . and acts like any normal12-year-old." Fredrik continued, "in Febru-ary 1994 my divorce was completed after15 years of marriage. Life is different, but Iam muddling through." Fredrik is an activealumnus as treasurer of the Cornell Club ofSweden.

Susan Frank Weitz wrote from Mid-land, MI that " . . . I would like to see aCornell Club in our area (Midland, Bay City,Saginaw). Michael '63 and Kathryn NohleMoyer have a mini-reunion at their cottageevery July, and this would be a good nucle-

us." Susan and husband Alexander have sonsJonathan, a high school senior, and Jordan,16, who was an exchange student in Swit-zerland last summer. The Weitz family trav-eled to Switzerland to visit Jordan, stoppingin London and Vienna. Susan is on the boardof the Literacy Council of Midland County.

Apologies are in order to Mr. LaurenLackey. He recently wrote, "I just receivedthe October copy of Cornell Magazine, andboy, was I surprised. You did a great job insummarizing my long letter, but somehow Iwas transformed from a male to a female.Since I am 6 foot, 4 inches and weigh 240pounds, I prefer to be referred to as 'he.'This isn't the first time this has happened,so don't feel bad . . . "

We hope to hear from some more ofyou soon and to see you ALL at Reunion.• Florence Douglas Bank, 6420 GoldleafDr., Bethesda, MD 20817.

66I had the pleasure of a visit fromSeth Sharr, who is vice presi-dent/project management for theSaudi Arabian Oil Co. Seth hasbeen with Aramco for 19 years,including two stints in Holland;

one in Utah; several in Houston; and, in be-tween, back and forth to Saudi Arabia. Thisman really has some mileage points. Sethhas two daughters studying in Texas, andcan be reached at either 603 Fairport Lane,Houston, TX 77079 or PO Box 2001, Dhah-ran, 31311 Saudi Arabia. During Seth's visithe recounted his days during the Gulf Warand how scuds were landing quite near hisall-glass house. Said it was an experience hewill never forget, and all of his classmates areglad that things ended up the way they did.

We have news from the university thatAndrew Blix, son of Darwin Bernard BlixII, and Brendan Hamlet, son of Ken andLinda Jensen Hamlet attended Cornellsummer college last year. Andrew tookcourses in critical reading, writing, and as-tronomy; Brendan took courses in architec-ture. The summer program is wonderful forhigh-school students looking for a transitionto college life.

We have news from Stan and PeggyLavery Kochanoff '65 that Stan receiveda master's degree in urban and rural plan-ning from Nova Scotia Technical U.'s archi-tecture school in Halifax this past May. Peg-gy is awaiting the release of her first book,First Field Guide to Nearby Nature, beingpublished by Mountain Press of Missoula,MT. She marked her big "50" with a 2-1/2-mile swim for the Children's Wish Societyin Nova Scotia, raising over $900 for termi-nally-ill children. Oldest son James has re-turned to school for computer graphics andanimation at the U. of Toronto, and is livingwith his Aunt Kathy (Lavery) '67 andMurray Stephen. Youngest son Tom hadjust completed his BA in sociology fromDalhousie U. in Halifax, and was to gradu-ate last fall.

Marty and Hilda Lichtenstein Levinehave just returned from two years in north-ern California, where Marty worked for theU. of California, Berkeley, and can now befound in Great Neck, NY at 4 HampshireRd., telephone (516) 482-7254. They write

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that they were on campus to attend thegraduation last May of daughter Jill '94. Jillgraduated magna cum laude and was to at-tend law school at Harvard. Congratulationsto the Levines.

News from Phillip Ratner is that hehas recently become president and CEO ofSpaghetti Warehouse Inc. in Dallas, TX,where he resides at 10 Eastshore, Rock-wall, TX. Prior to this position, Phillip waspresident and CEO of Acapulco Restaurantsin Los Angeles. Andrew Pfeffer returnedin early 1994 after three months in south-ern Thailand producing an action film calledMen of War, starring Dolph Lundgren. Heenjoyed Thailand so much he is even con-sidering retiring there someday. His next pro-duction was planned for the Philippines inNovember/December of last year. DaughterNicole graduated from U. of California, Berke-ley, and recently began working at Interna-tional Creative Management, one of Holly-wood's biggest talent agencies. Daughter Lisawas entering her junior year at Berkeley.

Richard Lockwood writes from New-ton, MA that son Daniel '94 graduated fromArts and Sciences and will be spending ayear in Salvador, Bahia Brazil teaching inan experimental program with street chil-dren that is partially supported by a Cam-bridge foundation called Ashoka. Middle sonDavid is Class of '96 at MIT and is major-ing in chemical engineering. Son Eric, 15,was to attend the Lexington Music Festivalto play chamber music. Richard writes thathe and Rosa have had a busy year, but stillhad time to go dogsledding in the Quebecwilderness, snorkeling in a tortoise preserveoff the coast of Brazil, and museum-hoppingin Paris. He also invites any classmatesneeding a free bed and breakfast in the Bos-ton area to contact them, as their nest isgetting emptier. Maybe we'll take you upon that, Richard!

Laura Bowman Gray writes that 1994was the beginning of a wonderful positionas vice president of the Hospital Council ofNorthern and Central California. She is veryexcited about her new position. On vaca-tion in Rancho La Puerta, Mexico, shebumped into Ben Rubin '68 and wife Judy,who are now living in Newport Beach, CA.She sent us a wonderful postcard of SantaMonica Beach, which looks better and bet-ter as the outside temperature drops here.Congratulations to Mary-Ann Klein Beck-er, who was selected by the Somerset Coun-ty (NJ) Commission on Women to receive theVolunteer of the Year Award in medicine.

Saw lots of you at the Cornell/Columbiagame in New York City. Cornell lost, but itwas a great day and fun for all. Keep the Newsand Dues flowing. We are interested to hearwhat everyone is doing and have lots of col-umns to fill. • Bill Blockton, 18 Leather-stocking Lane, Mamaroneck, NY 10543.

^ \ }jm "All three sons are at Cornell,"| A m advises C. Roy Christensen,• ^ M Millbrook Rd., New Vernon, NJ.I l l "Twins Eric (Ag) and Ken

I I I (Arts) are '95, Scott (bio-engi-^ ^ • neering) is '97; all three are onlightweight crew." Roy is a 25-year Texacoveteran currently "responsible for licensinggasification technology in the Far East."

Phyllis Goodman Berry, 10601 Prestwick,NE, Albuquerque, NM, writes, "Establisheda public relations agency when I moved heretwo years ago, specializing in health, medi-cal, and research accounts. Sherry Carr spenta weekend in Albuquerque recently, passingthrough on her way to a law conference. Gottogether with Margaret Causey, anotherDuke City resident, and had a lot of fun, in-cluding managing not to visit Santa Fe!"

"Great to get back to campus to visitour son Brian '97, ILR," reports RobertK. Niles, 808 Morven Ct., Naperville, IL,who's vice president, human resources, atHelene Curtis Inc. "Our son Marc '98 is inArts and a member of the football team,"advises Warren J. Kessler, 17438 SumiyaDr., Encino, CA. "We dropped him off lastAugust. Girls at the Noyes Center have cer-tainly improved the old University Halls. Butthe rooms are still the same." Dr. PeterM. Martin, PO Box 362, Meriden, NH, addsanother next-generation Cornellian to ourlist: son Silas '95 in Arts.

Susan S. Horsey, 390 Archer St.,Freeport, NY, is a school psychologist work-ing with the handicapped population of Nas-sau County. She has two children: Nathaniel,18, and Whitney, 16.

"Dropped our son Cristian '97 off atCornell last August to make him our firstthird-generation Davis to attend Cornell,"writes James F. Davis, 149 Holmes Ave.,Darien, CT. "My father, Francis Davis '35,will be attending his 60th Reunion in June.My brother Russell '79 is selling his farmon Long Island and buying another in Ore-gon. Brother Ralph '72 (BS Ag '91) worksfor the Environmental Protection Agency inBarrow, AK. My father is retiring and sell-ing his farm at the tender age of 84."

Jim adds news of "Tom Wood, who isan assistant high school principal at SalemCentral Schools and chairs the special edu-cation department. His son Tom '96 is inAg. Grant Mayne '67, DVM 71, wife Eve-lyne, and their two girls now live near Port-land, OR, where Grant has a vet practice.Russ Kaegebein, wife Mimi, and six chil-dren are in Minnesota, where Russ is a vicepresident at Marriott and still has his greatsense of humor. Ken Colling's wife Jean-nie (Smiley) '68 keeps us informed abouttheir clan with her hilarious annual letters.Ken is a hospital administrator for KaiserPermanente. Hank Cirillo '68 is an attor-ney in San Francisco, with his wife Marieand their three children. Is this enough foryou Dick?"

Yes, thanks. Everyone, how about send-ing me a report with as much news as Jim's!

Rita Siegel Freedman, 905 AnnmoreDr., Silver Spring, MD, reports a new job:administrative assistant to the president,American Federation of Teachers. "After 14years as executive director of Social Demo-crats USA, it was time for a change."

Last July, Helene Dansker Bergman,201 E. 62 St., #7A, NYC, spent three weeksat the U. of Salamanca under a study grantfrom the Embassy of Spain. Helene chairsthe foreign language department at HewittSchool in NYC and volunteers for the NYCCommission for the UN and Consular Corps.She also chairs Alumni Admissions Ambas-sador Network (CAAAN) Committee 026

and reports having seen Janetta ReboldBenton and Eliot '65, Faye BrunswicHarwell, and Jaye Goodman Roter. Heleneand husband Lawrence Bergman '65,MEE '66 have children: Jennifer, 19, andAllison, 17. • Richard B. Hoffman, 292528th St., NW, Washington, DC 20008; (202)667-6481.

Hope you're having a pleasantwinter. Karen Woyshner Zillis an educational specialist withpublic TV in Washington, DC.Karen reports having seenWendy Griswold, who is a so-

ciology professor at the U. of Chicago. Lastwinter Karen and her family spent sometime with Dave and Leslie Roth Silver-stein '73 at the Silversteins' condo in Sug-arbush, VT.

Lenny Rappe lives in Roslyn, "NY andworks as an internal auditor with MelvilleCorp. Lenny and his wife Rona celebratedtheir 26th wedding anniversary this year.Daughter Sandi '92 is now a medicalstudent at Georgetown. Susan CornellPoskanzer is an editor and writer at Mc-Clanahan & Co. in New York City. Susanand husband Barry '67 live in Allendale,NJ. Bill Pomper is a veterinarian with theBolton Veterinary Hospital in Bolton, CT.Bill and wife Naomi (Kaplan) live in Tol-land, CT. Jim Philip, wife Beverly, and kidslive in Chestnut Hill, MA. The Philips, in-cluding the children, are avid skiers. BobReed lives in Kailua, HI. Sue Bowie Rey-nolds lives in Charleston, SC and is a CPAat The Citadel.

Glen Rhodes is a vascular surgeonpracticing in Fairfax, VA. Neil Rivchin livesin Loudonville, NY. Paul Rohan is a projectmanager for the Financial Accounting Stan-dards Board in Norwalk, CT. Steve Ros-dal lives in Englewood, CO. David Rosenis CEO and president of the Jamaica Hospi-tal Medical Center in NYC. Dave and wifeCandi (Rosenberg) live in New Rochelle,NY. Steve Tannen lives in Bernardsville,NJ. Larry Tanenbaum is chairman of TheWarren Paving & Materials Group Ltd. inOnt., Canada. Sue Tafler is an editorialmanager for Ligature Inc.

Marc Rudofsky lives in Westfield, NJ.Dave Weisbrod is a banker with ChaseManhattan in NYC, where Dave and wifeMargaret (Simon) '66 live. He is respon-sible for the credit audit group at Chase.Margaret was just named president of theboard of the YWCA in Greenwich, CT. Shealso practices as an architect. The Weis-brods have three children. The eldest wasborn in Italy, where Dave had been on as-signment with Chase Manhattan.

Paul Weigel is a professor of biochem-istry at the U. of Texas medical branch inGalveston. Marc Silverman is a partner inthe law firm of Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walk-er in NYC, practicing in the area of labor andemployment litigation. When not practicinglaw, Marc enjoys Whitewater kayaking.

Merille Ruben Siegel is assistant pro-fessor at Passaic County (NJ) CommunityCollege. Her daughter Erica '96 is a histo-ry major in Arts. Larry Windsor lives inRedondo Beach, CA and has a media con-sulting firm called Windsor Communica-

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tions. Gary Schwarz owns an industrialdiamond company in Whippany, NJ. SueLondon Russell lives in 0wings Mills, MD.Byron "Buddy" Wittlin lives in RedwoodCity, CA with wife Linda (Goldspinner)'71. Nancy Blakeslee Wood and husbandMichael '69 live in Middlebury, VT. Nan-cy's occupation is child care giver/parenteducator. She works with the Addison Coun-ty Parent Child Center in Middlebury.

Mike Schenker is an attorney in Hart-ford, CT. Walter Schenker is with Glick-enhaus & Co. in NYC. Ira Goldman is anattorney with Shipman & Goodwin in Hart-ford. Ira and wife Linda live in W. Hartford,and daughter Sarah '98 is in Arts.

That's all for now. I look forward tohearing from you. Send some pictures fromyour winter vacation. • Gordon H. Silver,Putnam Investments, 1 Post Office Square,Boston, MA 02109.

69While trying to organize thepress clippings and announce-ments for this column, I wasstruck by how classmates havebeen appointed officers and ad-ministrators in their various

fields of expertise. Save The Childrenappointed Gary B. Shaye as its vice presi-dent for program operations, based in West-port, CT. His responsibilities include sup-porting activities that work to improve thelives of disadvantaged children and theirfamilies in 700 communities across the USand 35 developing countries around theworld. Lawrence Dean was named inter-im president of Greenfield Community Col-lege, Greenfield, MA. He will direct the col-lege's operations through next summer.Emmanuel G. "Manos" Vakalo was elect-ed to chair the doctoral program in archi-tecture at the U. of Michigan. He lives inAnn Arbor.

Gilbert Brown has been elected to athree-year term on the board of directorsand a one-year term on the executive com-mittee of the American Nuclear Society. Heis a professor and coordinator of the nucle-ar engineering program at the U. of Massa-chusetts, Lowell, and lives in nearby West-ford with wife Merryl and their two children.Elisabeth Tallon Healey is first vice pres-ident of the Pittsburgh, PA school board onwhich she has served for the past two years.She has advocated for children for manyyears and is married to Michael J. Healey.

Pamela Browning Kimmet heads thelower school at The Harley School in Roch-ester, NY. She has been associated with theschool since earning a master's degree in1970. Pam has two children and lives inPittsford with husband Gary. Betsy Cog-ger Rezelman is an associate dean for fac-ulty affairs at St. Lawrence U. and lives inCanton, NY with husband Jack '68, MS '70.They have a daughter, Alexa. Betsy writesthat she sees Ted Coviello, who also worksat St. Lawrence. Robert J. Ascher waselected as a vice president by the AmericanCopper Council. He is a first vice presidentwith Merrill Lynch Futures Inc. in NewYork City.

Sheryl Lewart Shulewitz has com-pleted a five-year program that led to rab-binic ordination this past June. She lives in

William B. Durham '69

ast year, when Bill Durham won a prestigiousAlexander von Humboldΐ Foundation Senior U.S.Scientist Award, the news was new but familiar.

Durham had also won a von Humboldt eight years ago.Durham, an experimental geophysicist at the Lawrence Livermore

National Laboratoryin California, isspending the 1994-95 academic year atthe University ofBayreuth in Bavaria,studying the defor-mation of the maincomponent of theearth's mantle, oii-vine, at the extremepressures that existin the earth's inte-rior. Durham's workhas also focusedrecently on the de-formation of iceunder the conditionsthat exist on themoons of Saturn andJupiter.

In Germany, hewill submit olivine topressures of up to130,000 times atmospheric pressure to test its mechanical proper-ties, which has implications for continental drift and the convectiveflow of minerals within the earth's mantle. "It's a good opportunity todo research I've been aching to do for a long time," Durham says.

Durham graduated from Corneli with a degree in engineeringphysics and took a doctorate from MiT in geophysics. He ss thegrandson of C. L. "Bull" Durham, PhD 1899—-a longtime Cornellclassics professor—the son of George '44 and brother of James r72.

—Paul Cody, MFA '87

Jamison, PA with husband Martin '67, andhas two college-age children. RobertKaufelt writes that he is the proprietor ofMurray's Cheese Shop on Bleecker St. inGreenwich Village after having experienceda rather turbulent ten years of both successand failure. Bob sums it up by stating, "46years old and happy at last."

A number of classmates have childrenat Cornell. I have a letter from SteveKussin, whose oldest son, Todd '97 is inArts. He notes that the trip with his son fororientation was intensely emotional. It was

made even more so by the fact that he raninto old Cornell friends he hadn't seen in20 years who were in Ithaca for the samepurpose. Steve, wife Sharyn, and twoyounger children live in Merrick, NY.Charles Pearson's son George '97 is inAg. Charles is an engineer with the FordMotor Co. and lives in Dearborn, MI.

I invite you all not to wait for thedues forms but, instead, write to me di-rectly at my new address listed below. Ineed news, lots of it. It only takes aminute to let me and your old friends

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know just what you've been up to. I can'tdo it without you! ••• Suzy Sacks Zeide,100 SE 5th Ave., #304, Boca Raton, FL33432; (407) 393-5322.

}jm ^ \ In only four months# 1 1 w e w^ be gatheringI I I in Ithaca to have aI I I w o nderful celebra-I I I tion for our 25th• ^ ^ Reunion. Christine

"Buzzi" Brueckner McVay and Hank Brit-tingham have been hard at work creating afantastic party weekend for us. Their ablehelpers are Hsiao-Ping Liu Katz and Su-san Linden Friedlander. Plan to join yourclassmates Thurs., June 8 to Sun., June 11!

Claire Garrett is the new directorof Galerie Claude Douyon (4200 AuroraSt., Coral Gables, FL) which specializesin contemporary abstract art. They havepreview receptions on the first Friday ofevery month, and she invites everyone toattend when in town. For six years, Clairehas been a member of the Bakehouse ArtComplex (561 NW 32 St., Miami, FL), anartists' cooperative created from an oldbakery. It has an open house on the sec-ond Sunday of every month, when visitorsare welcome to tour the working studios.She exhibits her bronze and organic fibersculptures at the Bakehouse, as well asin museums and galleries throughout theregion. She is active in the Art in PublicPlaces Program in neighboring BrowardCounty. Claire races sailboats on BiscayneBay when time permits, but mostly herworld revolves around the rich and variedarts community of south Florida.

John '69 and Patty Geismar Gar-nett are pleased to report that son Eric'97 is on the Hill (in Arts) and a brotherin Alpha Chi Rho fraternity. It's thumbsup from him, but picking a major has beena problem: too many exciting subjectsfrom which to choose! Last summer, Johnand Patty once again attended Adult Uni-versity (CAU), an event they look forwardto year after year. Patty visited MarshaSmolev at her home on Martha's Vine-yard, where she is busy writing. Marsha'sson Tyler Kendall '98 is in Arts, and theyare all excited about that!

Sharon Goldberg Cohen, husband Avi,and children Tani, 16, Kinneret, 16, David,13, and Pinny, 9, are living in New Jersey(c/o Goldberg, 24 Chittenden Rd., Fair Lawn,NJ) after many years in Israel. Sharon worksas a property/casualty/ health insuranceagent in the family business and is movingtoward the computer field. In 1993 they alltook a five-week cross-country road trip.Stops included Niagara Falls, Detroit, Chi-cago, the Black Hills and Badlands in SouthDakota, Yellowstone in Wyoming, Nebras-ka, and good old Chocolate Town, Her-shey, PA. It was fun for Sharon to watchUS Western history come alive for her sa-bra family. They were very impressed bythe "cowboys" in Cheyenne and Cody,dressed like in the.movies at the supermar-ket, no less. This past summer was spentclose to home, with brief junkets in NewJersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, etc. •Connie Ferris Meyer, 16 James ThomasRd., Malvern, PA 19355.

I ^ I ' Έ Professor Alice Stone Nakhi-m I movsky at Colgate U., Dept. of

m I Russian writes: "I continue asI I chair of Colgate's tiniest depart-I I ment (Russian). When I'm not™ ^ working on transporting children

here and there, I'm busy transforming theswamp behind our house into an aestheti-cally pleasing swamp. Other Hamilton, NYmembers of the Class of '71, Matt Leoneand Bob Kraynak, seem to have emergedfrom the long winter [that was in 1994] un-scathed." Patricia Samuels Muhlrad, anattorney in Port Jefferson, NY, writes: "Onvacation in Washington, DC, Memorial Dayweekend, husband Jeffrey and I ran into CliffEssman in front of the Holocaust Memori-al Museum." Alan Mittman reports on nu-merous Cornell activities: "My son Asa '98was admitted to Arts & Sciences early de-cision. He plans to get a dual degree, BAand BFA (English and fine arts). I am pres-ident of the Cornell Club of Long Island1994-95. I hosted a talk by J. B. Heiser,PhD '81 [a senior lecturer on ecology andsystematics who is very popular on the lec-ture circuit and in Adult University (CAU)programs] on April 21, '94. His speech wasattended by close to 100 persons and was arave success. My daughter, Auka, is enteringher junior year at Weslyan U. and internedthis last summer at "90210" in Hollywood intheir script department. My wife, Stephanie,had her first book purchased by Harper Col-lins, a time-travel novel called "A Bridge forYesterday." Publication, spring 1995.

Elliot Mandel, an attorney in Stamford,CT, says: "Still a partner at Kaufman, Nan-ess, Schneider & Rosensweig, PC, aMelville, NY-based labor and employmentlaw firm representing management nation-wide. Sarah, 4, and Joshua, 7, plus wife Kath-ryn and I enjoying our new house. Busycoaching Little League and working on Cor-nell activities." Marlynn Lampert Littau-er from Mercer Island, WA writes: "Daugh-ter Amanda '97 is in Arts and Sciences.Son Doug is 16. Husband Robert '70, MBA'72 is CFO and senior vice president forNeoRx, a biotech firm in Seattle, whereMarlynn is now doing independent consult-ant work in development. Have gotten a realkick out of deja vu experiences throughAmanda."

Jill Rosenfeld, a teacher in CliftonPark, NY, writes: "I have two children,Marc, 5, and Carla, 2.1 am teaching visuallyimpaired children, working for Hamilton-Fulton-Montgomery County BOCES. Myhusband, Charlie DeLaFuente, is an editorfor the New York Daily News." • Joel Y.Moss, 110 Barnard PL, Atlanta, GA 30328;(404) 255-2234.

I ^ P ^ H Joyous spring to everyone. Su-I I san OΉara of Rockville, MD re-

m m ports that daughter Joanna, 2, is• m keeping her on the run. Sue saysI j j that it's hard work being such™ ^ " "elderly" parents. The work of

husband Alan Miller '71 took the familyback to Australia in 1993, their first visit in13 years. Sue, a nurse practitioner, workspart time with a pediatric group in Fairfax,VA. Barbara Pflanzer Organek is in com-mercial real estate in Boca Raton, FL. Her

daughter is a sixth-grader at the Pine CrestSchool, and her son is in kindergarten atDonna Klein Jewish Academy.

Dr. Martin Randell is a board-certi-fied veterinarian and internist practicing inSomers, NY. He also cares for birds andexotic pets and is a licensed wildlife reha-bilitator. Marty and wife Kathy are proudparents of Heather, 11, Cory, 9, and Brett,7, and have three dogs, three birds, a chin-chilla, and a snake. Bob Robbins reportsfrom Bethesda, MD that he and wife Melin-da now have four children, ages 1-8, and"That's enough." Bob says that they knowwhen they exceeded their ability to cope—two children ago. Bob is an attorney and co-chairs the corporate practice at Shaw, Pitt-man, Potts & Trowbridge in Washington,DC. Since graduation, Oliver Williams IIIhas been a science teacher at Brighton Cen-tral School in Rochester. He has been mar-ried to Lynn for 26 years, and they havechildren Stacey, a graduate of U. NewHampshire, working for the Charles Hotelin Cambridge, MA; Jennifer, a junior atSUNY College, Geneseo; and Oliver Wil-liams IV '93, who is employed by the FarmCredit Corp. in Nashua, NH. Oliver enjoyedthe opportunities afforded to him by Cor-nell, and it was especially rewarding towatch his son graduate in May 1993.

Phil Sindel combined his consultingbusiness with another small consulting firm,Olmstead Associates in Boston. The firmspecializes in management consulting andtraining to securities and investment firms.Phil and wife Deni moved to Brookline, MA.Son Justin attends Wentworth Inst. of Tech-nology as an architecture student. Daugh-ter Jodi graduated from Boston U. Dr. MarkSchimelman, spouse Shelley (Grumet)'73, and children Sondra, Rachel, and Benspent a great winter last year learning toski at Whiteface, now that they have a va-cation home in Lake Placid. Mark's prac-tice in Troy is very busy and continues togrow. Shelley is working two part-time jobs,both book-related. She is a reference librar-ian at her local public library and also worksat a great bookstore in Schenectady calledThe Open Door. Daughter Sondra, a highschool senior, is thinking about college andhopes to continue the Cornell family tradi-tion. Mark and Shelley are members of Cor-nell Friends of Astronomy. After 20 yearsin the hotel business, Westin, Adams, Mark,and Marriott, Nicholas Smart decided tostart a business for himself. Nick purchaseda Mail Boxes, Etc. franchise and opened inAtlanta on June 20, '93. Business plans callfor five centers by 1997. Good luck, Nick.

Doron Levin wrote his second bookon the auto industry, tentatively entitled"Lee Iacocca vs. Godzilla." Doron also is acorrespondent for The New York Times.Wife Adina is a Hebrew teacher at HillelDay School. Son Guy plans to attend East-ern Michigan U. Libby is doing well in fo-rensics at Groves (MI) High School and Elanis learning to read. Sally Adair Horak is ateacher with the Cortland City Schools.Daughter Christine '97 is a biology majorand loves it. To celebrate Chris's gradua-tion from high school, the family went toDisney World, seeing classmates David andPatti Tlsty Stevens at their home in Win-

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ston-Salem, NC. Richard Scowcroft is aprofessor at Catholic U. in Washington, DC.Also in our nation's capital is Deborah Rei-ser, an attorney with Deckelbaum, Ogens& Fischer. Kathleen Parrott is a profes-sor at Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and StateU. in Blacksburg, VA. Julia Kosow Gros-berg is a school psychologist for the Peek-skill (NY) School District.

Our daughter Kelly Barna is a freshmanat St. Ignatius College Preparatory in SanFrancisco and was a trainer for the footballteam. Send news. ••• Alex Barna, 1050 Ea-gle Lane, Foster City, CA 94404.

J^ί ^ \ I have a bit of news to report,m m and Γm afraid will have to resort

m ^L to simply listing the names of• \ classmates who have paid theirI l l dues again this month. I hope by™ ^ ^ next month Γll have piles of

News and Dues forms, and you'll have amore interesting and informative column toread. Peter S. Knight has been appointedto a three-year term on COMSAT Corp.'sboard of directors. COMSAT is the largestowner and user of the INTELSAT and IN-MARSAT international communications sat-ellite networks, and serves as the US sig-natory to both organizations. Peter succeedsformer South Carolina Governor James Ed-wards, who had served as a director on theboard since 1990. Under US law, three pres-identially appointed directors sit on the 15-member COMSAT board. Former US Sen-ators Barry Goldwater and Rudy Boschwitzare the other presidential appointees cur-rently serving. Peter is a partner in theWashington, DC-based law firm of Wunder,Diefenderfer, Cannon & Thelen, where hespecializes in communications and environ-mental matters. Peter chaired the Clinton/Gore vice presidential campaign and previouslyserved as administrative assistant to SenatorGore. COMSAT is a global provider of com-munications and entertainment products andservices.

Lorraine Palmatier Skalko writesthat she's been on campus a lot this fall sincehusband Ron's and her daughter Kara '98is in the Hotel school. Kara lives in FoundersHall and is getting in shape by walking upLibe Slope. They bought football season tick-ets, and have been down frequently. DeltaAirlines has been providing Lorraine with ahotel room in Manhattan as part of her work,so she was also able to attend the Cornell-Columbia game. Lorraine says she enjoysworking/living in New York City again.Marilyn Stephens Horowitz's son Grego-ry and Robert Jackman's daughterKatharine both attended Cornell SummerCollege last summer. Gregory took Intro-duction to Music Theory and Introductionto the Universe. He and Katharine both par-ticipated in the Humanities and Sciencesseminar. Katharine took Introduction to Mi-croeconomics and Computer Science 101,The Computer Age.

Classmates who have paid their duesand where they live: John Allen, Seaford,DE; Michael Ciaraldi, Rochester, NY;Senter Fouraker Jones, Cambridge, MA;Dr. Stephen Mayeri, Chicago, IL; JeffreyStern, Glencoe, IL; Dr. Mark Stern, Tam-pa, FL; William Stiller, Morristown, NJ;

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Ron Stillman, Malvern, PA; Andrew andBeth Simon Swartz, Slingerlands, NY;Sharon Hymes Sweeney, Sugar Land, TX;Sharon Kern Taub, Riverdale, NY; Cyn-thia Warner Terry, Watkins Glen, NY;Wayne Thiel, Norwich, NY; the Rev. FredThomas-Breitfeld and Viviane (Thomas)'74, Brookfield, WI; Steven Tucker, Ken-sington, MD; Dr. Lisa Wallenstein, Phila-delphia, PA; Nancy Dworkin Weber,Brooklyn, NY; Leslie Berman Weiner,Westfield, NJ; Dr. Sara Weiss, Short Hills,NJ; Cynthia S. Weniger, Mamaroneck, NY;Frank and Vickie Armstrong Winkler,Newark, NY; Paul Witt, Gettysburg, PA;Seymour Wodakow, Old Bridge, NJ; Lin-da Wohl, Los Angeles, CA; James Wright-son Jr., Chesterfield, MO; Mark Wurzel,Brookville, NY; Jeff Isaacson, Marion, MA;Donald Partridge, Batavia, NY; June Al-brecht Spencer, Attica, NY; Karen Mc-Chesney Smith, Moorestown, NJ and hus-band Fred '74.

That brings me to the end of even thepile of dues-paying names, so PLEASE sendyour news. Many thanks. •> Phyllis HaightGrummon, 1531 Woodside Dr., E. Lansing, MI48823, e-mail, grummonp@ibm.cl.msu.edu.

J^m A Robert Brungraber is a timberm Λ e n β m e e r with Benson Wood-

m 1 1 w o r king Co. and lives in Keene,I ^Λά NH. A move was in the cards forI Γ Betsy Ellwanger Gallagher.• ^ The family moved to Tampa;

Betsy will maintain her relationship as anattorney with Kubicki, Draper and Gallagh-er, but on a part-time basis to spend moretime with children Kyle,7, and Meg, 6.

Houston's been home for 15 years toJim Hecker, who's a CPA with ArthurAndersen there. Attorney Lisa Morse prac-tices insurance defense law in Orange Coun-ty, CA. She has sons Patrick, 11, and Aaron,9. Lisa reports she still sees Laurie Mey-er Hodes. Ron Pies is a physician in Lex-ington, MA and recently published a text-book on psychiatric diagnosis.

Marilyn Neiman is an attorney in NewYork City, practicing securities and commer-cial litigation. She lives in Orangeburg withchildren Stacy Golman, 9, and Russell Gol-man, 11. Trenton, NJ is home to RobinMurray, an architect in solo practice for thepast few years. Harriet Anagnostis Drum-mond plans to run a second time for a localschool board seat. Her motivation for theeffort is her children, Stephen, 10, and Al-exander, 6.

Sotheby's, NY has a new vice presidentand associate general counsel in CharlieFerris. Roslyn Horn Schaffer reports abusy year of travel and action, with a bit ofwork as a loan officer at a Jefferson Bank inPhiladelphia thrown in. England, PuertoRico, Maine, and Houston were on the itin-erary. She also does volunteer work forPhilly's Victory Ribbon campaign race, andis active on her local board of education.

Phyllis Landsman Schatz is a physicianliving in W. Hartford, CT and reports she'stoo busy to write but welcomes calls. Reun-ing was the order of the day for Bill Steven-son, who visited with Larry Gavin andspouse during a visit to Colorado recently.

Classmates Karen Reamsnyder,DVM 77 and Robert Tasillo, Roynham,MA, report some interesting news. Karenwas back in Ithaca as part of the Alumni-in-Residence program, reliving experiences inDonlon and the Ag college. She urges otherclassmates to participate . . . call NancyLaw '84 at the alumni affairs office. Bob iswith the Joseph Polluk Corp., an automo-tive supplier.

Doug Vander Poest runs Slug-a-Bugin Melbourne, FL and comments that he'sgotten a lot of enjoyment from teachingthird- and fourth-grade classes about in-sects with a presentation titled "GoodBug, Bad Bug." Marcia Wade writes thatthe aging of the class, plus attention inher local branch of the healthcare crisishas led to her becoming president ofWoburn (MA) Medical, a seven-physiciangroup practice.

Jerry Wohlgemuth has become apartner at Apruzzese McDermott & Mas-tro in Edison, NJ. Marta Wagner re-turned to law school and graduated fromHarvard in 1992. She's now with Guer-rieri, Edmond & James, specializing in la-bor law in Washington, DC.

Roberta (Bandel) and Louis Walcerrecently moved to Solon, OH. The move camewith a new job for Lou as vice president ofbusiness development and marketing at Gli-atech, a neuroscience biotechnology companyin Cleveland. The pair, along with childrenMarshall, 8, and Adrienne, 4, are making theadjustment to life in the Midwest.

On a personal note, I'm now directorof marketing at Carvel Ice Cream, capi-talizing on skills learned freshman year atMaxwell's in Donlon. Daughters Lindsay,11, and Jessie, 10, function as very volu-ble and opinionated new-product consult-ants. Wife Sue (St. Clair) just opened ascience and art gift store in Simsbury, andcontinues as adjunct professor of biologyat the U. of Hartford while she finishesanother master's degree, this one ineducation. • Steve Raye, 25 LitchfieldDr., Simsbury, CT 06070.

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1^1 ψ^ Greetings to ther / • Class of 75! I hope

m ψ^k some of the news• I that follows will en-• I I courage those of™ ^ ^ you who have not

yet decided to do so to join the rest of us atReunion. We hope word of what some ofyour classmates have been up to whets yourappetite for even more news, and that we'llsee you on the Hill for our 20th Reunion,June 8-11.

Ann Gross has been at the forefrontof the number one item on the nationalagenda—the health care debate. She is themanager of media relations, managed carefor MetLife and, among other duties, in 1994she accompanied the company's top execu-tive to testify before the Senate and theHouse committees on health care. She'salso been active working with the press tocommunicate MetLife's point of view. Shealso writes that she married for the firsttime in April 1994. Husband Jesse Bergeris the director of financial administration ofColumbia's business school.

June Miller Woollard hasn't strayedfrom Ithaca, where she lives with husbandGary, whom she married in Sage Chapel inApril 1992. Gary's children, Jessica, 21,Brian 17, and Jill, 15, often serve as the crewon June's and Gary's 27-foot sailboat on Ca-yuga Lake. June describes her seagoingroles as including "galley/slave." They be-long to the Ithaca Power Squadron and ac-tively take part in the educational coursesthe Squadron provides. June works as alearning disabilities resource room teacherat Lansing Middle School, where she's beensince 1978.

For seagoing adventures of a differentnature, there's Bruce "Zoom" Weber, whois a commander (A-6 pilot) in the US Navyand is currently pursuing a master's degreeat the Naval War College in Newport, RI.Previously, Bruce was the commanding of-ficer of Navy Attack Squadron 85 aboard theUSS America (CV-66). I don't think I'd dareto ask what the "Zoom" stands for!

Doug Pollack writes that he hasn't sentus news in years and catches us up with thefollowing: after college, Doug moved to Cali-fornia, where he earned his MBA at Stanfordin 1978. Over these last 13 years, Doug'sworked in marketing and management for avariety of computer, networking, and software

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Lot's more information will be availableat Reunion. Call today and make your plans.In the meantime, news can be sent tome. • Eileen Nugent Simon, 91 Old Hol-low Rd., Short Hills, NJ 07078.

1^1 ^\ Greetings! I hope this column ism 1 ^ coming to you after a not-too-dif-

m W\ ficult winter with prospects for aI I I wonderful spring ahead. HavingI I I completed our collective 40th• ^ ^ birthday, it seems we've become

more reflective, so I have quite a bit of newsto relay.

Sue Gebo is a registered dietitian andhas been named Recognized Dietitian of theYear by the Connecticut Dietetic Assn. Sueserves as faculty for the U. of ConnecticutFamily Medicine Program, for SouthernConnecticut State U., Albertus Magnus Col-lege, and St. Joseph College. She providesconsulting services to the American HeartAssn., Wesleyan U., and other corporate andcommunity programs, along with personalcounseling at her private office in W. Hart-ford. Sue's book What's Left to Eat? was pub-lished in 1992.

Michael Sadofsky is a marketing con-sultant. He recently moved back to the Lou-isville, KY area, where he is continuing hisconsulting business, which he started lastyear in Michigan. Michael's business focus-es primarily on the restaurant business.Deborah Stinson writes that she, husbandBurt Pearlstone '75, and son David wel-comed David's new brother, Thomas DanielPearlstone, to the world on April 5, '94. Thom-as weighed in at ten pounds, three ounces!

This past year Debra Davis Ward wasnamed Central District director of the NYState Parent-Teacher Assn. Debbie is veryinvolved with education, parenting courses,and children of all ages. She is also very ac-tive in alumni affairs, and is a past presi-dent of the Cornell Alumni Assn. of CentralNew York. Gregory Yawman is an attor-ney in Sparks, MD. His first novel, The Ul-timate Plan, was published last summer. Heis currently working on a second novel,entitled "Tranquility Bay."

Arthur Steinberg is living in W. Sims-bury, CT. He is president of AutonomicMarketing, a marketing consulting firm withoffices in Connecticut and Chicago, IL.Arthur has daughters Briel, 9, and Rebecca,7. This past Memorial Day he had a Cornellmini-reunion with Larry Bloom '76 and hisfamily. Larry is a lawyer in New York City.Other '76ers (also former Tau Epsilon Phimembers) there were Joe Godles and fam-ily and Bill Panitch and family. A good timewas had by all!

Susan Male Smith is a freelance nu-trition writer and lives in Madison, NJ. Shesends her personal hello to Martha PlassSheehe, and is already looking forward to our20th Reunion. We'll try to get you an exactdate for that so we can all start to plan ahead.

On a sad note, we extend our sympa-thy to Daniel Stewart and wife Karen, wholost twin sons, Spencer and Sullivan. Theywere born on March 1, '94 and developedrespiratory distress syndrome and were not

strong enough to survive.Thanks for your special hello, Mike

Ossip! It's always nice to hear from an oldfriend! Be well and keep that news coming!• Karen Krinsky Sussman, 29 MargaretCt, Great Neck, NY 11024.

I^ί I^ί I'm Lorrie Panzer Rudin and I'mm m your new class correspondent.

m m First, I would like to thank GilesI I Sion and Mark Petracca forI I their years of unflagging service• • and Elaine Mead Alexander for

picking up the job in the interim. They haveshown a true commitment to Cornell, andas a member of the class, I personally wantto thank them. Next, I thought I would tellyou a little bit about myself. I'm married,have a 5-year old son, and a fascinating job.I am director of management resources atFannie Mae in Washington, DC, responsi-ble for executive compensation and bene-fits. My husband Ken is managing editor ofThe Hotline, an on-line political newsletter,and both our lives revolve around our sonMichael. I also come from a Cornell family.My parents, siblings, and cousins all wentto Cornell and the one cousin who didn'tattend married a Cornellian. As a class cor-respondent, I'll be following in the footstepsof my mother, Ginny Wallace Panzer '55,who was a class correspondent for more thanten years.

And now, as they used to say on"Laugh-In," "Here's the news across thenation." We received a lot of news fromclassmates in the medical profession. Su-san Wiegers and her husband Barry Gold-stein '76 are both doctors. Susan is a cardi-ologist at the Hospital of the U. of Pennsyl-vania. Richard Grazi is director of repro-ductive medicine at Maimonides MedicalCenter in Brooklyn, NY. He just publisheda book, Be Fruitful and Multiply: FertilityTherapy and the Jewish Tradition, and prac-tices what he preaches. He and wife Leslie(Weiss) '78 have five children, with morein sight. Also in the reproductive medicinefield is David Bick, who is a medical ge-neticist at the Genetics and IVF Inst. innorthern Virginia. He has children Carolyn,6, and Sarah, 4. Jonathan Zenilman is anassociate professor in medicine/infectiousdiseases at Johns Hopkins School of Medi-cine in Baltimore, MD, and has summeremployment opportunities in his lab for un-dergraduates. Jonathan also is chief of thesexually transmitted disease service for theBaltimore Dept. of Health. He and wife Caroland their children (Avi, 10; Aliza, 7; and Eva,3) are avid Orioles fans who are mourningthe strike. Jonathan keeps in touch withJonathan Samuels, who is associate direc-tor of medicine at Jacobi Hospital (AlbertEinstein School of Medicine). He and hiswife had three children within 18 months(including a set of twins).

We also heard from scientists. PiaLaaster Callahan is a research scientist atMerck Research Labs in West Point, PA.Pia and husband Donald Graham weatheredthe January 1994 ice storms in an unusualway—with the arrival of son Alexander! Lin-da Gritz is in Somerville, MA and writesabout an interesting program in which sheis involved. She is a pen pal to students in

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the fourth through eighth grades in an in-ternational program called "Science ByMail." The scientists and the students workon three science experiments per yearthrough the mail. Linda says the programhas been great for the students and alsohelps show that scientists "are normal peo-ple." Alumni who are scientists, or who havechildren in grades four through eight can getmore information from their local sciencemuseum or the Boston Museum of Science.

I'm looking forward to hearing frommore of you. • Lorrie Panzer Rudin, 14833Botany Way, N. Potomac, MD 20878.

| M | ^ § B e s t wishes to each of you andI I I your families for a happy and

m j ί healthy new year! Class mem-I I I bers continue to be very busyI I I with new jobs, homes, and chil-™ ^ ^ dren. Congratulations go to Nina

Silfen, our very able class treasurer, whohas been named partner in the New YorkCity law firm of Brauner, Baron, Rosenzweig& Klein. Nina practices trusts and estateslaw in the 25-attorney firm. Classmates whoattended East High School in Rochester, NYhad a chance to catch up in October at their20th (yes, 20th!) high school reunion. Ro-ger Anderson reports that Bob Blitz andChristine Agnello Hofman live in Roches-ter. Barbara Shulman has relocated fromSeattle to Silver Spring, MD, where shelives with husband Bill and daughters Miri-am, 4, and Leah, 1. Roger has some goodnews of his own. He and wife Linda wel-comed baby Lee Gerard on April 18, '94. Leejoined big sister Claire, 2-1/2. Roger recentlybecame vice president of Elmrock Capital,a merchant bank in NYC.

Also on the move—Chip Brueckman,who has relocated with wife Patty Alber'81 and kids Katie and Robert from Buffaloto Dallas, where Chip is in marketing for 7-UP. Chip finds it hard being a Bills fan inDallas! Ken Mogil will be winging his wayto Hawaii this spring courtesy of HartfordInsurance. Ken is executive vice presidentof the Mogil Organization in Manhattan, andwas just named one of the top agents in theNortheast by Hartford. Ken's wife, Randi,is co-owner of Interior Sensations, a thriv-ing interior-design business. Partner LindaSchwartz Negrin is Class of '69. After 16years in Manhattan, Sharon Palatnik Si-moncini has joined many of the rest of us insuburbia. She and husband Ron now live at310 Vesta Ct, Ridgewood, NJ. The newhouse is also home to Matthew, 2, and babybrother Andrew Robert, born last Sept. 27.Sharon tells us she often sees MargaretStanton McNamara, MBA '88, who livesa mile away with husband Jim, MBA '88,daughter Katie, 3-1/2, and son Sean, 2. Mar-garet is a research analyst for Crown Advi-sors. Also in the NYC area Sandy Edel-man is a partner in the Manhattan firm ofTownley and Updike, specializing in trade-mark and copyright law. Sandy just pur-chased a country home in Kent, CT, whereshe plans to escape for some much-neededrest and relaxation. In the South, Rochesternative Laura Petronio Niemi is enjoyinglife in North Carolina with husband Fred anddaughters Amelia, 8, and Julia, 5. Laura isadministrative assistant to the director of

enterprise management marketing for IBM,and supports her alma mater as vice presi-dent of the Cornell Club of Central Caroli-na. We look forward to hearing your news.Please feel free to send it along to any ofyour class correspondents. • Andre Mar-tecchini, 110 Heritage Lane, Duxbury, MA02332; Sharon Palatnik Simoncini, 310Vesta Ct., Ridgewood, NJ 07450; PepiLeids, 7021 Bootjack Rd., Bath, NY 14810;Henry Farber, 6435 289th Ave., SE, Is-saquah, WA 98027; Lori Wasserman Kar-bel, 20 Northfield Gate, Pittsford, NY 14534;and Eileen Brill Wagner, 8 Arlington PL,Fair Lawn, NJ 07410.

Π ^ \ Michael Berman, MBA '86 is# 1 1 y i c e P r e sident and business man-m \M ager of new modalities with the• ^*M SciMed Life Systems in Maple• I f Grove, MN. Wife Judy (Van-• ^ ^ adelsberg) received tenure at

the U. of Minnesota and continues her re-search on molecular yeast genetics. Theyhave children Oren, 9, and Noah, 5. BobBottcher is an associate professor at NorthCarolina State U. in Raleigh, where he doesresearch in animal housing and environmen-tal control. He has also taken on an exten-sion specialist responsibility in this field. Heand wife Sharon enjoy spending time withdaughter Anna, 3, who is involved in tum-bling and running her parents ragged on adaily basis.

Jody Hiller Winter writes that until re-cently she was constantly challenged in herposition as director for real estate at GeorgeWashington U. At home last year, she waschallenged by Samantha, 4, and Maury, al-most 1. Maury's birth gave Jody the oppor-tunity to take the summer off and return towork in the fall as director of specialprojects. Working three days a week hasgiven her more time to enjoy being "Mom."Husband Steve is president of BrotmanCommunications, which promotes specialevents such as Ringling Brothers Circus,Disney on Ice, World Cup Soccer, etc. Jodyvisited Keith Talbert, BArch '80 in Chica-go, where he is president of Urban West,an architectural firm. She has also heardfrom David Tajgman, who is in Zimbabwe,where he is technical advisor on internation-al labor standards for Africa.

Judy Gelber and Dale Feuer enjoybeing close neighbors in Maryland. Theyhave gotten together with their husbandsand sons to hike in the Shenandoah Moun-tains and experience the fun of the greatoutdoors. Working as an attorney in Colum-bia, MD, Burke Walker and wife Darlenelive in Ellicott City with Ashley Nicole, 2,and Andrew, 3-1/2. Mark Hallock marriedClaire Borri in June 1992. He is vice presi-dent at Salomon Brothers in New York City,where he heads the private placementgroup. He sees Bill Adamski often in NYCand Scott Jacobs about once a year in NewOrleans.

Jay Mann married Lisa Schiffren inJuly 1993. Jay is a tax consultant at Deloitte& Touche in NYC, and his wife is a seniorfellow at the Center for Social Thought, anon-profit public policy research centerthere. Another relatively newlywed coupleis Bette (Kirschstein) and Jonathan Gell-

man '70. Bette is an assistant professor ofEnglish at Pace U. in Pleasantville, NY.Jonathan is a senior attorney at Murray andHollander.

Michael G. McKee married DeborahLifset in September 1993. He was promot-ed to the operations manager position at theAmerada Hess Port Reading Refinery,where he supervises 55 operators and 12supervisors in the oil refinery. Another 1993wedding united Theresa Dobel and JohnDewey. Theresa's former roommates, TobyNagle Ratcliffe and Jeanne Feng Durbeta-ki, attended the wedding. Theresa and Johnlive in Akron, OH and (one of them, at least)works as a technical specialist for DuPont.

Nancy King Bernstein and husbandRobert '77 moved in 1992 from Manhattanto Hartsdale, NY to accommodate the needsof their growing family. Also on the move—Patty Garr Milch and husband Mitchell,who moved to Ridgewood, NJ in 1993, wherethey visit with fellow alumni Sherwin Suss,Sarina Monast Bronfin '82, JenniferGrabow Brito, and their spouses. Patty alsostays in touch with Angela Gracia Sulli-van and husband John, MBA '79 in Ten-afly. Patty happily announced the arrival ofdaughter Jocelyn Taylor in October 1993.

Leslie Lewit McCauley writes that shereturned to the East Coast in 1993 to re-start her interior design business. She alsoteaches Dale Carnegie courses in self-im-provement and is a new mom. Jacob TaylorLewit-McCauley was born in November1992, and the family moved to their newhome in February. She'd love to hear fromold friends in Queens, and has been in touchwith Olivia Gollin Hoepfl and PatriciaCarter, who is now in Buffalo after ten yearsin California.

Also adding to the family in 1993 wereIris Finkelstein Stoner and husband Tad.Benjamin Levi Bond Stoner joined sisterErin, 7, in January. The Stoners live in HongKong, where Iris is a part-time editor forPC World Hong Kong. Husband Tad worksfor a new English-language newspaper inHong Kong, where they have lived for tenyears. They have been able to travel to Ne-pal and the Himalayas, where they saw theAnnapurna range and Mount Everest.

In more news left from last fall, LibbyBush Bollich and husband Lynn have beenacquiring land around them. They now own24 acres of pine and live oak, as well as cy-press swamps in Covington, LA. They lovethe peace and quiet and have planted 400pine trees with plans to plant 2,500 more.Libby works for Shell Oil Co.'s deep waterdivision, which is building an oil- and gas-producing facility for installation in 3,000 feetof water. She sadly reports the death of herfather, David H. Bush '39, in December1992. • Kathy Zappia Gould, 912 Mead-owcreek Dr., Richmond, VA 23236.

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Bitter cold has fi-nally arrived in Syr-acuse as I write thiscolumn at homealone on Thanks-giving weekend.

My family, not wanting to be held hostageby my work, has gone to visit relativesdownstate. Much of the news abuzz in NY

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State centers around election of the firstRepublican governor in 20 years. GeorgePataki named several Cornell officials, in-cluding President Frank H. T. Rhodes, tohis transition team. We had our latest-everarrival of the first snowfall last week afterseveral winters of record-deep snow.

That brings me to this interesting let-ter, which 1*11 let speak for itself: "I alwaysmeant to subscribe to Cornell Magazine, butI always forget to send a check because Ihave the attention span of a housecat onmescaline, so the only ones I ever see arethe freebies they send to get me to forkover some money, or the ones I see when Iam mooching off of Cornellians and theyhave it laying around on the coffee table toimpress people."

Some of my English professors andnewspaper editors would have killed Rich-ard "Dik" Saalfeld for that breathtakingsentence . . . but I loved it. There's more:"Somebody forwarded the latest one to mehere in the Balkans and I am getting readyto ship out to Kyrzgistan for a few weeks,so I thought I would let everybody knowwhat I was up to in case I get killed in abloody civil war, or in case I never getaround to subscribing and I end up forget-ting about the Class of '80 and the wackytimes I had at Cornell."

Dik is working in the Republic of Mace-donia for the National Democratic Inst. forForeign Affairs on a project financed by theUS Agency for International Development.He had just finished organizing and mobi-lizing 700 domestic election monitors, as wellas a few international monitors. "We are bring-ing democracy to the former Yugoslavia. Iwill be doing the same in Kyrzgistan . . .

"All of this globe-trotting will not stopme from attending my 15th Reunion, how-ever, as I want to see how that woman Ihad the wild crush on for three years turnedout. In days of yore I would say hello to herand chat, but that's about it. What a weinerI was. At Reunion I could approach her andlook soulfully into her eyes, telling her howI felt about her, but frankly, I can't remem-ber her name. I think she had hair the colorof Kansas wheat glistening in the soft sum-mer sunlight, but I'm not sure anymore.Margaret. Her name was Margaret. Yup, andshe had the Kansas hair thing. So watch out,Margaret what's-your-name. Unless you'remarried to a burly fellow much larger thanmyself; in which case, never mind. Unlessyou left him behind in Kansas, or wherev-er." (Now you know why I let Dik speak.)

Dik, who can be reached by writingSkopje for USAID, Dept. of State, Washing-ton, DC 20521-7120, said he'll be lookingfor the close, life-long friends he made andhasn't seen or heard from since, such asDavid "Hobart" Valley, Randy Brown,Bob Ford, Mark "Yogi" Willett. "If anyof them shows up with a shaved skull andwearing an orange robe, I am going to pre-tend to be somebody else."

In news on the homefront, Martha LeeRaimon, JD '85 married Craig Wolff, an as-sistant professor of journalism at Columbia,last October. Martha is director of the fam-ily law unit of South Brooklyn Legal Ser-vices. Martha's father, Robert L. Raimon,PhD '51, is a professor emeritus of labor

All of this globe-

trotting will not

stop me from at-

tending my 15th

Reunion, however,

as I want to see

how that woman I

had the wild crush

on for three years

turned out.— " D I K " SAALFELD '80

economics at Cornell. Her husband is afreelance writer and, until recently, was areporter at The New York Times.

Jack Warner, Cornell's track, field, andcross-country coach when we were in col-lege, was inducted into the Athletic Hall ofFame last fall with Jim Leonard '75. Fleet-footed classmates Adley Raboy and CarlFrancis attended the celebratory dinnerwith Grant Whitney '86, Neal Hall '78,Blonde Gray son Hall '79, Jimmy Lofton'79, Tom Patterson '75, and CharlieMoore '51, who has been named athleticdirector for the Big Red.

Some of those names bring back a floodof memories of Cornell's indoor HeptagonalChampionships win of 1977 at Barton Hall.The track alumni planned a mini-reunion forFebruary 1995 in conjunction with the lat-est indoor Heps Championships, with an all-alumni breakfast and dedication of the newH. Hunt Bradley '26 Track Center in Bar-ton Hall. • Jon Craig, 213 Wellesley Rd.,Syracuse, NY 13207.

f \ ^ Hello everybody! Hope everybodyI I I wasn't too snowed under this win-^ ^ I ter. I recently noticed a New York1 1 1 Times review of the new book byI I I Sheryl WuDunn and husband^ ^ ^ Nicholas Kristof, China Wakes-The Struggle for the Soul of a RisingPower.Ύhe book, described enthusiasticallyby the Times as "state-of-the-art China-watching," is an expanded version of theauthors' newspaper columns (from theTimes) and the stories behind the columns.The reviewer writes, "Rare among Chinajournalists, they pay as much attention tothe countryside, where most of the popula-tion still lives, as to the cities, where all theforeigners live." Sheryl and Nicholas spentfive years reporting from China, and as youmay not recall from the Oct. 1990 issue ofthis magazine, then named the Alumni

News, the couple received a Pulitzer Prizein 1990 for their China reporting. Overall,the review was favorable, and China Wakeslooks like a worthwhile purchase.

I've received a little bit of mail recent-ly, although we'd like more of you to stay intouch. Melissa Thompson Rosse wrote tocorrect some information from a previouscolumn. Her daughter Amanda was born inAugust 1993, not April as previously report-ed. Additionally, she is an attorney in NewYork City and her husband, Colm JamesDobbyn, is an attorney in Westchester. Con-gratulations to Dr. Lisa Todes, who re-ceived the Academy of General Dentistry'sFellowship Award during a convocation cer-emony in Indianapolis, IN in August 1994.The academy is the second-largest dentalorganization in North America. To earn theFellowship Award, member dentists mustcomplete more than 500 hours of continu-ing education within ten years and pass thefellowship exam. Lisa has a solo practice inEaston, PA, where she lives with daughters,Laura, 6, and Rachel, 4. In addition to beinga dentist and mom, Lisa keeps busy profes-sionally as vice president of the Lehigh Val-ley Dental Study Club, committee memberof patient relations for the Lehigh ValleyDental Society, dental examiner for the East-on Area School District, and as a member ofsome other professional and local commu-nity groups.

Congratulations to Thomas Dyevich,who married Elizabeth Arton on Sept. 18,'93. Tom is the national sales manager forHuntleigh Healthcare and lives in Prince-ton, NJ. Speaking of Princeton, Lisa (Kre-mer) and husband Michael Ullmann '80are now co-heading the Cornell AlumniAssn. of Princeton. Other '81ers have re-cently become presidents or contacts fortheir local Cornell Club/Alumni Assns.: Su-san Stiles, MBA '91 of the Cornell AlumniAssn. of Minnesota; and Doug Wright, Cor-nell Club of Arizona.

Larry Kasanoff is now president ofLightstorm Entertainment, which producedTerminator II and this past summer'sSchwarzenegger hit, True Lies. He is pro-ducer of a film based on the world's biggestvideo game, called Mortal Kombat. Larry andwife Joan live in Pacific Palisades, CA. JohnTuttle also lives in the West, in Boulder,CO. He works for the National RenewableEnergy Laboratory in Golden, CO as a sen-ior scientist in photovoltaics research anddevelopment. He is looking to contribute tothird-world development by participating inthe electrification of rural areas with photo-voltaics. Last year was a very successful onefor John, with world-record cell efficienciesand a 1993 Popular Science magazine awardfor science and technology—The Best ofWhat's New. John is currently in his 12thyear as a member of the ski patrol at Cop-per Mountain, CO. Feel free to look him upif you are skiing at Copper Mountain! Johnstays in touch with Dr. L. Neal Freeman.

Much farther west, in Hong Kong, isHisako Stiles, who is in advertising withNike International. Hisako's position has giv-en her a chance to re-ignite her passion forsports. She feels that Nike is an energetic,young company with people who are quitedriven and motivated. Hisako travels exten-

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sively between Hong Kong and headquar-ters in Beaverton, OR and also around theregion. She managed to get some time offto take a seven-day trip to Turkey. Daleand Mary Warner Webster report thatthey recently transferred to the Detroit area.Dale is with BASF as Midwest regional ecol-ogy manager, and Mary is looking to returnto the work force with a nurse-midwiferypractice. They have children Grace, 9-1/2,Graham, 5, and Garrett, 1-1/2. They got to-gether last year with Sheila Gorman Stef-fel, Patti Quinlan Murray, and Anne BirdSindermann at Sheila's lakefront home inMichigan.

We are sorry to report that Dr. StevenCattano, who graduated from the Ag col-lege and, then, from the College of Veteri-nary Medicine in 1985, passed away on June19, '94. Steven lived in Oakland, CA.• Robin Rosenberg, 2600 NetherlandAve., Apt. 201, Riverdale, NY 10463; KathyPhilbin LaShoto, 114 Harrington Rd.,Waltham, MA 02154; and Jennifer ReadCampbell, 14824 Hunting Path PL, Centre-ville, VA 22020.

^ B ^m March Madness is keeping ClassI I I Correspondent and New Yorkj £ m Newsday sportswriter Neil BestI I / hard at play . . . please tell usI I ^ i what you've been doing so we^ ^ * " • can report about it in an upcom-ing class column! Richard and Mindy Ha-ber Rosenfeld "finally have news to con-tribute!"—last August's birth of twin sonsJoshua Louis and Brian Michael. Wendy(Blum) and Brian Kushner '78, PhD '84announced the arrival of Julian Sage in Sep-tember. She and sister Amanda, 4, "will be[it is hoped] the third generation of CornellKushners. Brian's parents are Cornellians,as is his sister Stacy Kushner *85."

Nancy DuBoise and Joel Weiner sendnews of son Eli's birth last June. Nancy isback at work as a labor lawyer at a smallboutique law firm in Philadelphia doing la-bor and securities litigation. She would liketo hear from other alumni in the Philly area;the family lives in Malvern, PA. Congratu-lations to Steve Wood, who was appointedvice president of Smith Barney and is onthe board of directors of the local Boy Scoutcouncil in Kingston, NY; Susan DrangeLee, promoted to training and developmentmanager for Southern California Gas Co.;and Michele Riess, promoted to assistantvice president of human resources for thebusiness information and operations servic-es division of Home Insurance Co.

Wishing much success to Hank Zona,who opened his own executive search firm,Zona & Associates, in New York City, afterseven years in the business; Hank and wifeMarijane Magliaro '83 have moved toMaplewood, NJ. Also to Jim Petzing, whostarted the promotion marketing companyThe Synergy Group Inc. after his old firmbrought in new management. Jim "took hisclients with him and started his own com-pany," and says, "It's the best decision Iever made."

More achievers: Michael Panosiancompleted his otolaryngology residency atthe U. of Rochester last June and is sta-tioned at Sheppard Air Force Base in TX;

Angelo Alberto received his MAUD—Mas-ter of Architecture in Urban Design—fromHarvard in 1992; Thomas Tarnay is atSouthern Methodist U. law school part timewhile working at Texas Instruments in Dal-las, TX.

Classmates seen by classmates: PaulBingham met Roy Kornbluh at theDixie Grill in Washington, DC after Royreturned from 2-1/2 years as a PeaceCorps volunteer in Ecuador; KevinKeenan met Dan McGraw on the MoselRiver in the village of Bernkastel-Kues,Germany. Matthew Riedesel met TimAtkinson '92 at the Air Force health pro-fessions officer indoctrination course; theyboth attend the SUNY Health SciencesCenter medical college. Many of you mayhave seen Mark Kim on television whenhe appeared on the "Wheel of Fortune"game show; Mark has also attended abroadcast of "Saturday Night Live," thanksto Rob Smigel '81, who was a writer forthe show.

Monica Cseri, Alice Wu, CherylDresner, and Rona Stein, please fill us inon your news! Even Julia Vargo, who ownsa free-lance writing business, penned "Iwrite so much for a living that I don't havethe energy this year to do an update. Sor-ry!" • Nina M. Kondo, 323 W. 82nd St.,NYC 10024; and Neil Fidelman Best, 207Dellwood Rd., Metuchen, NJ 08840.

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northern Virginia. Leanne keeps in touchwith Lori Marshall.

Ellen Winchell-Goldman reports thatshe is a "retired" attorney, living in Trum-bull, CT. She writes that her greatest ac-complishment since graduating from Cornellis having three children under age 5 and re-taining her sanity. She carpools with Bar-bara Schellenberg '81 and sees MichelleGordon Bailey on a weekly basis. Also inConnecticut is Elisabeth Borsy Stonehill,who reports that she and husband David'85 just bought a house in W. Norwalk,where her rambunctious 4- and 2-year-oldgirls finally have some room for their "gym-nastics." Elisabeth is working part-time asa management consultant in Westchester, NY.

From the West Coast, we hear fromThomas Keegan that he completed his MSin wildlife at Louisiana State U. and is nowa PhD candidate at Oregon State U. Thom-as was married in February 1993 and movedto Sandy, OR in October 1993. John Hiehletells us that he graduated from Harvardmedical school in 1987, did his internship inHonolulu, and his radiology residency andneuroradiology fellowship at the U. of Penn-sylvania. After completing this marathon ofeducation in June 1993, John moved to Se-attle, where he is an assistant professor atthe U. of Washington.

Two classmates write us from Milwau-

kee. (Who knew Milwaukee was such astronghold for the Class of '83?) KarenLankton Schmidt informs us that she andher husband were recently relocated to thatarea, where she works as an engineer andis mother to children Mark, born in Febru-ary 1994, Kyra, 2-1/2, and Lara, 4. NancySturtevant earned her MBA from the U.of Chicago in 1992 and works for Wiscon-sin Electric. She stays in touch with Mi-chael Sampson, Debbie Grossman '85,and Beth Henry '81.

Mary Milmoe Rogers writes fromnearby Cazenovia, NY that she is presidentof her own marketing communications firmand mother to two boys. Mary keeps intouch with Cathy Vardakis Shaw. LarryHulle is living and working in Middletown,NY as a dairy science agent for Cornell'sCooperative Extension. He and his wife,Laurie, celebrated the birth of son Michaelin January 1994. Michael joins brothers An-drew, 4-1/2, and Patrick, 3.

Donna-Ruth Webb Yost sends newsfrom Lexington, MA, where she spendsthree days a week working as an engineerand four days a week at home with daugh-ter Ruth Anna, born in July 1991. Donna-Ruth and husband Ed are starting a micro-brewery in the Boston area called YostBrewing Co. Also in the area is Lynne Bur-tan, who is a physician working with NorthReading Medical Associates. Lynne marriedRobert Savino in June 1993, and Rita Gylysand Mary Lee Hale Hood were in atten-dance. Lynne tells us that Rita is an attor-ney in Boston and that Mary Lee is theproud mother of four children.

From the Chicago area, Lisa Gugliel-mone Gillis writes she is working for LeoBurnett advertising agency and living in OakPark, IL. Kim Leffert reports she joinedthe law firm of Mayer Brown & Platt in Feb-ruary 1994 to practice labor and employ-ment law. She was recruited by David Rit-ter '80, a partner at the firm. Kim lives inChicago. Adam Metz works in real estateinvestment and development in the Chica-go area. Adam and his wife and boys Sam,3, and Harry, 1-1/2, live in Glencoe, IL.

Debra Wilson Strauss and husbandMichael '81 recently built a new house inSouthport, CT. Daughter Melanie recentlystarted kindergarten and son Jonathan is 3-1/2. Michael is the chief economist at a NewYork City securities firm; Debbie recentlyresumed her law practice with a federaljudge. ••• Nancy Schlie Knowles, 5 Elm-crest Cir., Ithaca, NY 14850; Matthew Ta-ger, 14055 Tahiti Way, #208, Marina delRey, CA 90292, Fax (310) 305-8877.

Karen A. Johnston writes thatshe traveled to China last yearto see her fiance's family.Speaking of travel, Edward F.Levine and wife Vicki vaca-tioned in Maui and Sante Fe.

Then they moved to Texas, where he joinedHarvey Hotels and Vicki joined BonanzaRestaurants. Scott A. Andersen has beenworking for ten years, now, at Farm CreditBank. He is a senior loan officer/marketingmanager/credit supervisor. He loves golfand traveled to the 1994 Masters Golf Tour-nament in Augusta, GA. He hosted a Me-

morial Day crab-fest at his house in south-ern New Jersey, where he saw MichaelFleming, Jeffrey Miller, Jack Gallagh-er, and Thomas Burke.

Stephanie Perry Nolan is enjoyingher occupation of wife and mom since thebirth of her baby boy, Michael Robert No-lan, on Oct. 1, '93. Michael sleeps well atnight and is a wonderful baby—full of beansand energy! He also travels well. Since hisbirth, they have been to Ithaca at Christ-mas, and skiing in Deer Valley, Utah andMammoth, CA. Building the new hometakes up most of her day, but fortunately,husband Peter '80 has been traveling lesson business lately. They have seen class-mates Patti Keller and Darci Jorgensen—also Jim Seay, when he hosted the open-ing of the Batman ride at Magic Mountain.And, Mark Badagliacca '78 and wife Kristahad a baby girl on Oct. 12, '93.

Dr. Michelle Rossi completed hermaster's of public health at the U. of Pitts-burgh and has been an assistant professorof internal/geriatric medicine since July 1993at the U. of Pittsburgh medical school. Shemarried Stephen M. Conwell, who is a CPAin Pittsburgh, on Oct. 2, '93. They went toFrench Polynesia (i.e., Tahiti) for their hon-eymoon, which was a beautiful place! A lotof Cornellians attended their wedding: Dr.Andy Baxevanis, Ann Kurtz, Dr. Chris-tine Skotzko, Susan Goodfellow '85,Fred Cohen '81, Jonathan Hass '85, Dr.May Louie Lerner, Gail Frasier Hammond'83. Christine Skotzko and husband CarlosAlvarez, both physicians at UCLA, had a girl,Paige Xiomara Alvarez, on Dec. 31, '93.Fred Cohen '81 and wife Eileen Blecherhad a boy, Joshua Daniel Blecher-Cohen, onFeb. 19, '94. Speaking of babies, attorneyJulie Helitzer Shubin gave birth to daugh-ter Rachel Emily Shubin on Dec. 30, '93 inAlexandria, VA.

Kathryn A. McCullough recently tooka position as a staff story analyst with CastleRock Entertainment, Rob Reiner's produc-tion company. She met fellow CornelliansPeggy Pierce '83 and Jess Wittenberg'74 at her new job. She also joined the Cor-nell Club of Los Angeles board as co-chairof programming, and is mentoring a studentthrough an organization called the Fulfill-ment Fund. Bart Mills '64 is also a mentor.Kathryn spent last April driving around Tus-cany in Italy. She regularly sees her friendsand fellow alumni Mark Schwartz '85, LeeRosenthal '87, Susanne Goldstein '86,and Martha Heebner. Anne Hoskins grad-uated from law school last spring.

Sandra J. Sworts-Gardner is a teach-er in Middleport, NY. She was married inDecember 1992. Karen Cobery Owens, anengineer in Arlington, VA, had a girl,Katherine Margaret Owens, on March 23,'94. Happy 1-year birthday, Katie!

Cynthia Kannus Batterman is current-ly working as a franchise manager at M&M/Mars. She was recently back on campus asa guest speaker at two of Professor AliceIsen's Johnson school courses. Last year,Marcy Dubroff began a new job as manag-er of the news bureau at Franklin and Mar-shall College. Her husband, Steve Ulrich, isthe new commissioner of the CentennialAthletic Conference. Marcy and Steve are

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enrolled in "Leadership Lancaster," a pro-gram designed to orient new area execu-tives to the city and county of Lancaster,PA. They met their first Amish farmer andgot a dose of cow, not soon forgotten! Theyhave seen Esther Pearl Rubin '86 andZena Sternbach Langer '86.

Dr. Ana M. Lobo finished her residen-cy training in anesthesiology at the NewYork Hospital—Cornell Medical Center inJune 1994. Now, she's living in Denver, CO,where she's pursuing a fellowship in obstet-ric anesthesia at the U. of Colorado HealthServices Center. She has gotten hooked onskiing and is excited about pursuing this in-terest next (now) season. What better placethan Colorado?

You can see your name in print by sim-ply filling out the news section on the backof the class dues form. We look forward tohearing from you! ••• Karla Sievers Mc-Manus, 1465 Hooksett Rd., #299, Hooksett,NH 03106; Guy Donatiello, 321 N. IthanAve., Rosemont, PA 19010.

Sarah Willens ™^^™^Kass, an eighth- /UTHgrade English teach- REUNIONer who received anMA in Americanliterature from

George Washington U., requested a columnon members of her esteemed profession. Atthe risk of looking like a Teacher's Pet, heregoes:

For Jenny Stratton Collins, JaneKoestler, and Jenny Ebel, teaching is ele-mentary. Jenny teaches at Scotland Elemen-tary School in Ridgefield, CT, Jane at En-field Elementary near Ithaca, and Jenny Ebelin the Spanish-English bilingual program atPark Elementary in Hayward, CA, whereshe is "developing teaching strategies foruse in urban and/or language minority envi-ronments" and is "part of a team that is se-lecting a science curriculum for adoption byour school district."

Dave Mandel, a special-ed teacher anddoctoral student at Columbia, says he'sworking to become an elementary-schooladministrator. He and his wife moved fromManhattan to Montclair, NJ, where they"love having a vegetable garden and a drive-way to park in, but miss sushi and midnightfrozen yogurt."

Ron Handelman is also a doctoral stu-dent (at the City U. of New York GraduateCenter) and special-ed professional, but he'sstill able to get sushi and frozen yogurt. Ron,school psychologist at a Queens, NY highschool, also teaches research methods atThe College of New Rochelle. (As an aside,Ron reports that in a stroke of too-good-to-be-true self-fulfilling prophecy, his friendPatrick Plummer has, in fact, become aplumber.)

In addition to secondary-school teach-ing, we are also well-represented in the col-lege and graduate teaching ranks. Thosewhom students now call "Professor" in-clude: Amy Liu, the Clare Boothe Luceprofessor of physics at Georgetown; LanceFortnow, associate professor of computerscience (and recently tenured) at U. of Chi-cago; Maureen Morrow, an assistant pro-fessor of biology in Los Angeles; Susan

McCahan, professor of mechanical engi-neering at U. of Toronto; Linda SchadlerFeist, an assistant professor of materialsengineering, Drexel U.; Karen Lichten-baum Carr, professor of ancient history atPortland State U.; Todd Disotell, an anthro-pology professor at New York U.; MiraGurarie, a professor at Cardozo School ofLaw; Daria Kirby, at U. of Pittsburgh; Bry-an Bayerdorffer, an assistant professor ofcomputer science at the US Naval Acade-my; P. Renee Baernstein, an assistant pro-fessor of history at Miami U., who earnedher PhD from Harvard and married fellowhistorian Wietse de Boer; and DeborahClawson, who earned her PhD in cognitivepsychology from U. Colorado and is now anassistant professor of psychology at Catho-lic U. in Washington, DC. Deborah noteswith amusement that her office was "former-ly a monk's bedroom." (What would Freudsay about that?)

On the student side of the equation,Alison Stratton is completing her MA inanthropology; Gayle Schreier and MichelleViise are at U. of Virginia. (Gayle at theDarden School and Michelle in the Slaviclanguages and literature department); Kris-ti Swope studies at U. of Minnesota; Capt.Jon Schoenberg is a PhD candidate in elec-trical engineering at the Air Force Acade-my (and finished 98th in the Boston Mara-thon in 2:31, to boot!). At Harvard, MarthaChang Niu is a Fulbright scholar in the gov-ernment department, where she studiesEast Asian politics; Connie Sasso is in theGraduate School of Design; Kim Wagnerpursues a PhD in pharmacology; and JeanSmith is a research associate at the busi-ness school (where Nancy Crumm Ferryand Jorge Otero toil away on their MB As).

Finally, for classmates who want to ex-perience the joy of teaching (and learning)but who don't want to give up their "dayjobs," Liz Dolinar, a horticulturist with thePhipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh, has thissuggestion: become a literacy tutor. SaysLiz, "It is a great feeling to help someonelearn something as simple as how to write acheck or better understand an article. I'dencourage anyone to get involved."

While we're in the encouraging mode,I'd encourage readers of this column to sendyour Class of '85 news to me.

P.S.: Here's a none-too-subtle remind-er: 10TH REUNION, June 8-11, '95. CALLMargaret Nagel Gnegy (412) 362-5187 orJennifer Sidell Cornellssen (617) 235-0525for information or to offer assistance. • RisaMish, 269 Broadway, #2D, Dobbs Ferry,NY 10522-2123.

Grace Wolcott Wadell isworking as a marketing manag-er for Rosenbluth Internationalin Philadelphia. She and husbandAaron L. '83, MBA '87 traveledto India in November 1993 with

her parents, but we have no details on thetrip. Gail Weiss earned her MBA at Co-lumbia and moved back to Upstate NY withan old friend from Ithaca College to openher own business. Gail is looking for newsof Charlaine Blanton '87 or Leigh Web-er Thornton. John Yuen is working in apost-doctoral fellowship in rheumatology at

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Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. DianaPriolo O'Brien is working for New YorkCity's board of education in Junior High 117.Diana married Mitchell O'Brien on May 23,'93; Melanie Moen, Karin Nelles Alva-rez, and Claire Virgile '87 were brides-maids. Tara Priolo DΆmato '83 was maidof honor. Among the alumni attending thefestivities were Mary Ann Mastrobattis-to-Durantini, Marc Fleisher, Glen Har-rington '85, BS Ag '91, Hilary AuerbachChaukin, Chris Conlon, Richard Schultz,Rob Solomon '87 and wife Sue McGown,Abraham Simmons '85, BS ILR '86, KarlA. Simmons, and Keith '85 and JenniferEllenberg Symonds.

Laura Nieboer-Hine and husband C.Clarkson Hine '85 have twins Samuel andNicholas, born Aug. 26, '93. She and Clark-son spent New Year's 1994 with Susan Se-ligsohn Howell and husband Steve '85, BSEng '85 and their daughter Olivia, and Syd-ney Solomon Neuhaus and husband Harry.Sydney works for Harrison and Star PublicRelations and lives in NYC. Laura, Susan,and Sydney each wrote to say they had seenclassmates Carol Getz Abolafia and Miri-am "Mimi" Wohabe at Sydney's babyshower this past spring.

Carolyn Brown Mitchell married hus-band Paul in September 1993. Maid of Hon-or Wendy Moorhouse supervised a grandcollection of classmates, including Kimber-ly Knickle-Tierney and husband KevinTierney and Omar Hernandez '85. Caro-lyn is an attorney with Bennett & Forts, PCin Holden, MA. Susan Milner is workingfor Planned Parenthood in Silver Spring,MD. Margie Binhak Shapiro is living inLanghorne, PA with husband Neil '83, sell-ing chocolate for Hershey's and chasing af-ter son Craig, born June 4, '93. Amy E.Sharp and husband James Hammerstedthave just bought a home in Medford, NJ.Lisa Korfhage Pannel is now living in Min-neapolis, developing new breakfast cerealsfor General Mills.

Elizabeth Mead wrote from Portland,OR, where she is working as a dentist and"loving it." Elizabeth was in Norway lastFebruary for the Winter Olympics, for theentire two weeks, and managed to avoidNancy and Tonya (remember them?) theentire time. She had a ball. Elizabeth keepsin touch with Donna Lee Gargano Sellandand husband Chris, whose daughter Jenni-fer was born in October 1993. Donna Leelives in Boston, as do Deirdre MaltaisHeisler and husband Adam, with daughterAlyssa, born in March 1992.

Michael Manaster and wife Lisa Hell-inger wecomed daughter Rachel Carly, bornNov. 4, '93. Rachel joined brother Justin, 3.They have been living in Greenwich, CT,where Michael works for Gary PrecisionProducts. They regularly see Katie Roth,Donna Mandell Korren, Elyssa KatzHurlbut and husband Norm '87, and Su-san Kaye Rosenbach. They speak with KenNacar often, but apparently are unable toget together, as Michael and Lisa are bet-ting Ken won't meet the Manaster offspringuntil they are enrolling in Cornell. LeslieGrushkin Lerner took three weeks' vaca-tion in France and Italy in June 1993 withhusband Gary, and then another week in St.

Martin this past March. Leslie certainly de-served the break, as she had just receivedher PhD in biochemistry from Boston U.medical school and is now working at Col-laborative Biomedical Products as a seniornew product development scientist.

Elise Cohen Hiller's son ZacharyMoses Hiller was born on March 24, '93.Elise is at Albany law school and sends ahello to her old roommate, Nina Silberman.Paula (Spalter) and husband Yale ThomasHerer have a son, Akiva Elazar, born April26, '94 in Haifa, Israel. Yale is an assistantprofessor at the Technism-Israel Inst. ofTechnology in Haifa, Paula is a senior re-search assistant at the Technism Inst.'sSteep Laboratory. They are building a housein the lower Galilee near Nazareth.

Robert Yellen and wife Lisa have adaughter, Samantha Ariel Yellen, born July21, '93. And, saving the best news for last, Iam delighted to announce the birth of myown daughter, Abigail Spencer Ryan, onApril 13, '94, at nine pounds, five ounces.Abby, her dad, W. A. "Tony" Ryan '84,and I are doing fine. She has long curlybrown hair, brown eyes, when I wrote thislast fall, two teeth (in at four months), wastrying to walk (at six months) and, unless Iget more news from you, she'll be the fea-tured star of next month's column. •Margaret Holly Isdale, 240 Nassau Ave.,Manhassett, NY 11030-2440.

^ \ 1^1 Our Engineering alums are suc-I I I ceeding all over the country.\M m Henio Arcangeli (MEng) is1 1 • now in Los Angeles with Ther-I I I mador as director of strategic^ ^ • planning. Henio has settled inthe Santa Monica Bay area. Tim Donohueand wife Wendy recently moved to Honolu-lu, HI, where Tim is a project manager withBHP Petroleum. He says the job is a greatopportunity, and "Hawaii's not too bad ei-ther!" Chris Tull is working in Indianapo-lis as a civil engineer. He stays in touch withJim Perrello '86, Mike Lally '86, JudyWarden Reichenbach '86, Jim Knowles,and Greg Di Lisi. My OR/IE classmate BillSchneider earned an MBA from Indiana U.and is a strategic consultant for Kurt Salm-on Associates in Atlanta. Bill attended ClayKeller's wedding to Julie Peterson in April1994. Also in attendance were ToddRaessler, Dan Chai '88, Mike and VickiMay Paradis '88, Pete Sczupak '88, andSean Donovan '89.

Jay Sabin is the director of labor rela-tions for The New York Times. MarjorieKramer has started her own business,TACom Education and Consulting. She re-cently traveled to Japan where she visitedCathy and Pete Wolfe. When in New York,Marjorie sees Chris Neimeth and Melis-sa Hodes. Amy Comstock Kingsley is inBoston, and recently took a trip to Englandand France with her husband. Amy seesAnne Brady, who is working on her PhDat Tufts. Andrea Dobin is living in Phila-delphia, where she is a bankruptcy lawyerat Fox, Rothschild, O'Brien & Frankel. An-drea attended Jill IsraelofFs wedding to JeffGross in October 1993. Also in attendancewere Amy Josephson, Debbie Stein, Sta-ci Pollack, and Janelle Hansen Zurek.

Jennifer Maisel was named one of fivefinalists for the Pen Literary Award for herplay, Mad Love, which was directed by DanOliverio in New York City for the Antro-bus Group. Jennifer also stays in touch withAndy Zax '86, Lee Rosenthal, Bob Clen-denin '86, Susanne Goldstein '86, MartiHeebner '84, and Richard Ortega '85.Greg Weidner is chief medical resident atthe U. of Virginia.

Leslie Kalick married Alan Wolfe inMarch 1994 in New York City. Leslie writes,"We met at a Mets game at Shea; he laterproposed there, too!" Cornellians who at-tended the wedding included MaryKennedy Lombardi '86, Kathryn McPher-son '85, Monica Frindt, Jim and SueDavis Frontero, Cynthia "Cynie" ScherSimon, Joanne Cappucci, Rana Glasgal,Bill Bellamy, and Kim Glasgal Levy '84.After honeymooning in Hawaii, Leslie andAlan returned to their home in Atlanta,where she is a physical therapist.

Kim Kappler wrote me about her wed-ding to Joseph MacPherson Fine III on July23, '94. They honeymooned in Russia andScandinavia before returning to work inNYC, where Kim is a vice president forBusiness Development Associates Inc. andJoe is an assistant vice president at Ameri-can International Group. Many Cornelliansattended the wedding festivities, includingKim's father, Gus Kappler '61, MD '65,Lisa Stein, Dina Lewisohn '86, Greggand Jill Barnett Kaufman, Randi Kar-men, Dave and Karen Hirsh Shuster,Dave '86 and Nancy Tamasi Hunter,Kenny Klein, Kara Vanneman '89, JohnTagliaferri '86 along with wife Carol, Me-lissa Karmen '89, Sean Lynch, DianneButton Moriarty and husband Kevin, Tim'84 and Joanne Friedman McKinny, Jes-sica Miller '86, Rich and Nancy NielsenCaccappolo.

Also married on July 23, '94 was JohnKlein, to March Pio Roda in Baltimore. Inattendance were Joshua and JenniferStone Lesnick '91, Mark Hennessey,Dan Mahoney '85, Eric Bachman, RickOrtmann '88, Dan Meyer, Mike Moore,John Webster, JoEllen Veanes Scott, andRuth Townsend. John and March are liv-ing in Glenview, IL, where John is a region-al sales manager for Barber Foods. ClassCorrespondent Tom Tseng earned hisMEng from Cornell in engineering manage-ment. He recently married Rebecca Smithand took his family on a trip to Niagara Fallsand Toronto, Ont., Canada. Tom just start-ed a new position as assistant director of Cor-nell's Office of International Public Affairs.

Our families are growing. Lisa Gan-garosa writes that daughter Rachel Mariewas born on May 9, '94 weighing ninepounds, three ounces. Lisa says, "The fam-ily will be moving to Nashville, TN as I willbe starting a fellowship in gastroenterologyat Vanderbilt Medical Center." AndreaWolga reports that Nanci SwartzO'Connell welcomed Sean Michael on May18, '94. Gregg '85 and Deborah GarkaweGilman have Sarah Jordana, born on Jan.16, '94. Mary Lou Falsarella Broadwelland husband Randy had a boy namedSchuyler McNeill on Jan. 26, '94. They havesince closed on a farm. Mary Lou has opened

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a large-animal veterinary practice.Remember, the quickest way to get your

news into our class column is to write one ofus directly. • Gail Stoller Baer, 3215 Ten-nyson St., NW, Washington, DC 20015;Richard Friedman, 32 Whites Ave., Apt.2205, Watertown, MA 02172; Tom S. Tseng,c/o International Public Affairs, 55 BrownRd., Suite 220, Ithaca, NY 14850-1266.

Greetings, '88ers! As usual, ourclassmates are on the go and thefast track all over the world.Robert Fenner was electedbanking officer/municipal servic-es at Onbank & Trust Co. last

year. Robert started at Onbank as a man-agement trainee in 1989. Another banker,Sue Brish, works for the Bank of Montrealin New York City. Sue joined the bank aftergraduating from Columbia business schoolin 1992. Deb Gerardi is earning her MBAat Amos Tuck along with Sue Kallfelz '90.John Bayne is hoping his Harvard MBAwill get him a 40-hour-a-week job with stockoptions and season tickets to major sport-ing events. If you find one, John, let the restof us know! Christopher Ten Wolde has avery interesting job as assistant director ofthe U. of Cincinnati's excavation project atMidea, Greece. Christopher earned his PhDin archaeology from Cincinnati last year.Christopher doesn't have season tickets, buthe is offering guided tours of the Midea siteto Cornellians in the area.

Classmates who get arrested in Phila-delphia can call on Jeffrey Rackow for help.Jeffrey works for the federal district court.If you're arrested in Prince George's Coun-ty, MD, Kristin Hileman and Robert Lou-rie may be able to pull a few strings as as-sistant state attorneys. (Of course, not get-ting into trouble would be best.) SuzanneTaylor started her own law office outsideBuffalo in April 1993; a very time-consum-ing enterprise. Fortunately, she has a de-voted paralegal in her yellow Labrador, Tim-ber, who makes sure Suzanne gets out foran occasional walk. Wendy Greenwald canempathize with Suzanne; she and her sisterformed the law firm of Greenwald & Green-wald on Jan. 1, '94. The NYC-based firmengages in the general practice of law.

Travelers to the Boston area lookingfor a hotel room may want to speak withEric Hoertdoerfer. Eric relocated to Bos-ton last year to become the front office man-ager at the Westin Hotel in Waltham, MA.If Disney World is your destination, thenBarbara Dingee Wellman is the person tosee. Barbara helped open Disney's All-StarResorts, a 3,840-room hotel, in May 1994.Classmates closer to Disneyland can drivedown the coast a bit and enjoy a romanticstay at the San Ysidro Ranch, where accord-ing to Assistant General Manager MarkTamis, JFK and Jackie honeymooned andVivien Leigh and Sir Laurence Olivier mar-ried. Mark's wife, Amanda (Mehler) '90,runs a natural foods cafe and juice bar. Tra-cy Winkelman Ruff is also in the food ser-vices industry. Tracy and husband James andson Wesley live in Richmond, VA, wherethey own and operate Li'l Dino Sub shopsthat specialize in upscale sandwiches. Tra-cy also does some contract engineering

Attorney SuzanneTaylor has a de-voted paralegal inher yellow Labra-dor, Timber, whomakes sureSuzanne gets outfor an occasionalwalk.—ALISON MINTON '88

work in the environmental field. KathrynLeroux is a mechanical engineer at ABBCombustion Engineering Nuclear Servicesin Windsor, CT. Kathryn received her MSin mechanical engineering from RensselaerPolytechnic Inst. in 1990.

Alex Grossman, Ole Rummel '89,and Aaron Gadouas '86 attended the open-ing ceremonies of the World Cup soccerchampionships in Chicago in June 1994. Alexprovided details on the whereabouts of sev-eral of his Seal & Serpent brothers: BobSchechtman is pursuing master's degreesin computer science and languages at Cam-bridge U. in England; Steve Brown is liv-ing in Prague; and Andrew Coward is anairline pilot and lives with his wife in Alaska.

Classmates who recently took that bigwalk down the aisle include Lori Schain-Hiller. Lori married Michael Hiller (UnionCollege) on May 5, '94. Guests includedMatthew Bauer '89, Andrea Simon Neu-man '89, Debbie Stein '87, Eleanor Dil-lon Petigrow '87, Jamie Platt Lyons '89,Jay Littman '87, Howard Freeman,Karin Berger, Evan Raskas Goldfarb,Amy Susman '89, Alena Tepper Mar-golis, Sue Poliner Littman '87, and AmyBierman. Lori writes, "It was wonderfulto be surrounded by my special collegefriends on such a wonderful day." NelsonAlcaraz married Susana Castro on Sept. 11,'94 in Queens, NY. Victoria Sher marriedJohn Hecht on Oct. 25, '94 in Brooklyn, NY.

Finally, I will sign off with what seemsto be the general consensus among class-mates who filled out the questionnaires onthe back of the most recent News and Duesforms: we miss a lot of things about collegelife, but most of all we miss our Cornellfriends! It is my sincere hope that readingthese monthly columns makes the time anddistance a bit more bearable. •> AlisonMinton, 333 E. 56th St., #11B, NYC 10022;Wendy Myers Cambor, 610 W. 110th St.,#9B, NYC 10025 (CompuServe 73764.337);

Diane Weisbrot Wing, 1111 Opal St., #11,Redondo Beach, CA 90277.

Reviews of last summer's Re-union are still coming in. "I wasat Reunion and just wanted tosay 'Great job,' " writes AudreyLewis. "It was a great time andextremely well-run!" Well,

schucks. The praise is humbly accepted, al-though this correspondent had nothing todo with Reunion's success.

Audrey, by the way, is a product man-ager of pet supplies at Hartz Mountain Corp.in Edison, NJ, and is working on her MBAat night at Pace U. in Manhattan. (Note:From here on out, any '89er writing in withunabashed praise for class activities will beguaranteed the lead item in a class column.)

Eric Kussoy wins this month's prizefor cramming the most Cornellians onto adues-renewal form: 22. Eric, a labor attor-ney in New York City with Jackson LewisSchnitzler & Krupman, reports that several'89ers attended his wedding to Susan Simonin November 1993, including Mark Nelson,Christian Barry, John Allen, Pat Mur-ray, Glenn Pacchiana, and David Behr-end. (Apologies for the long lead time.)

Weddings, of course, are a prime locusfor reconnecting with classmates. DebraLeach Carney is a manufacturing team lead-er with the Clorox Co. in Atlanta. "We blowmold and fill bleach bottles!" she reports.Debra was married last April to husbandJohn. Alumni in attendance included JoanneTroischt, Sarath Ravipati, Lisa Skeete,and Mark Tatum '91.

Visiting campus is a highlight of Re-union. But some don't have to wait fiveyears to make that torturous trek up theHill again. Some maintain ties to their be-loved alma mater by working full time forthe university. David Lieb lives in Ithacaand is communications coordinator for Cor-nell's Office of Transportation Services. Oth-ers have continued their studies at Cornellgrad schools. Demetria Pennington grad-uated from the Medical college and is nowa pediatric resident at Hasbro Children'sHospital in Providence, RI. Lance Petersgraduated from the Medical college lastMay, and is a general surgery intern in Port-land, OR. Lance says he's in constant con-tact with Rob Ceske and Steve Sinaiko.

Elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest,Richard Thornton was named Junior Offi-cer of the Year at the US Navy's submarinebase in Bangor, WA. Wife Cynthia (Adams)'90 works as an Indian Health Service dieti-tian in Tacoma. Other '89ers entering themedical field include Deepak Sachdeva, whostarted an emergency medicine residency atGeorge Washington U., and Tejal Gandhi,who graduated from Harvard's med school, isdoing an internal medicine residency at Duke.

In no particular order, here's morenews: Jane Cantor Tucker practices laborand employment law at Roberts & Fingerin New York City. Michael Millette worksin Goldman Sachs & Co.'s investment bank-ing unit and lives in Westchester. KatyCraske Beltz is a real-estate consultantwith Ernst & Young in Manhattan. Janice(Viveiros) and Scott Van Ummersen livein Hopkinton, MA. Janice is a correspon-

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Clerking; the SimpsonTrial

Kathleen Moran '92

ow does it feel to be a 24-year-old law student,and caught up in what may well be one of themost famous—or infamous—trials of the century?

For third-year Pepperdine law student Kathy Moran, clerking for Supe-rior Court Judge Lance Ito (who, in case you've been out of touch,presides over the trial of OJ.Simpson) is both part of lawschool and "the opportunity of alifetime."

Moran became one of Ito'sthree clerks "through SuperiorCourt Judge Bernard Kamins, whoteaches a class that I'm taking,Criminal Practice Seminar, and isalso a friend of Judge Ito's," saysMoran. "I've been working on thecase since September 26, 1994. Iwork three half days and two fulldays a week—everything fromresearching and drafting memo-randa regarding legal issues in thecase to summarizing juror ques-tionnaires and answering mail. I have ample opportunity to observe theproceedings, then go back to chambers and discuss the day's happen-ings with the judge. He asks my opinion on what has taken place andis intent on this being a great educational experience for me."

"Since I want to be a trial lawyer myself," continues Moran, "thechance to watch and learn from some of the most exceptional attor-neys in the country is very exciting. This case involves many differentissues which provide a wonderful classroom." Moran has been inter-viewed by the Los Angeles Times, "KNBC News," "Good MorningAmerica" and "Today."

She is an Ithaca native, the daughter of long-time Cornell lacrosseCoach Richie Moran, and was a human development major on the Hill.When she decided to go to law school, she says, "I looked almostexclusively at Southern California-area schools because I felt I neededa change from the New York winters and I was drawn by the prospectof living in a big city." Kathy Moran has found some very brightlights—and a remarkable educational opportunity—in that big city.

—Paul Cody, MFA '87

dent lending account representative withNew England Mortgage in N. Andover. Alsoin the Bay State: Laura (Rossin) and Pe-ter Van Zandt live in Newton Centre.Laura is a project assistant with ScudderStevens & Clark, and Peter is a supervisingprogrammer analyst with Meditech.

I can now be reached via e-mail. Address:dangross@panix.com. • Daniel Gross, 490

E. 74th St., #3A, NYC 10021.

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Greetings from Ith-aca, where we'veset a new recordfor the longestamount of timelapsed before our

first snowfall. The last record was set in 1918.

It's November, almost Thanksgiving Day asI write this. And today a nice loft of thesnowy stuff has blanketed all of Ithaca.Thanks to all of you for burying me in news!I actually had to sift through piles and amnot able to print all I'd like. I hope all of youcan transfer that kind of enthusiasm to at-tendance at our first five-year Reunion thisJune 8-11.

Classmates are experiencing the urgeto merge in record numbers, folks. Cere-monies were performed at Sage Chapel forAnne Marie Farrell and George PatrickFox on July 30, '94. Nearby, another cere-mony was taking place on the same day:the marriage of Stephanie Thau and Cor-bin Anderson '89, who wed at the Big RedBarn! Jennifer Henze wrote that she mar-ried John Otto '91 on July 23, '94 in Hunts-ville, AL. Attending were Rachel Korn,Andrea Lee, Bill Aliski, Kurt Fenster-macher and wife Jennifer (Demsey), Ol-iver Alma, Sue Sofia, Nick Tiliakos, andDoug Bryant '91. Jennifer just moved toDurham, NC and is working as an RN onan oncology floor at U. of North CarolinaHospitals in Chapel Hill. She also attendedthe weddings of Rachel Korn, who marriedJeremy Goldberg on Aug. 7, '94 in Geneva,NY, and Sue Sofia, who married Russ All-gor on Oct. 9, '94 in Andover, MA.

Stacey Madoff told me that Jen Ber-goine and Phil Wilken tied the knot onMay 1, '94. Stacey is now Dr. Madoff, asshe has completed medical school at SUISΓY,Buffalo and is doing her ob/gyn residencyat George Washington U. D. C. "Chris"Torrence and Meichu "Gigi" Yang '91married in August 1993 and live in Boul-der, CO, where Chris is working on his PhDin physics, writes Catherine Engle. PaulGardner was married June 19, '93 and is apartner at C.L.O. Glass Ltd. in Toronto, Ont.Canada.

Christine Poznysz, reporting fromCharlestown, MA, wrote, "I want to thankSunny Edmunds '89 for running with methrough the longest eight miles of the Bos-ton Marathon [last] April. What a surpriseto see her and compete with her again!(Sunny was captain of women's crew myjunior year rowing.)" Christine also tells usthat Kelly A. Smith '91 married Bill Blandin April 1993 in New Orleans on the Tu-lane/Loyola campus. Christine also attend-ed the wedding of Lisa Scibetta and OwenDevoss in Chicago. Lisa and Owen are nowdoctors of veterinary medicine.

Perhaps it was Rulloff s brain soakingin formaldehyde in that jar in the CornellBrain Collection that intrigued them as un-dergrads, but it seems that plenty of ourclassmates have gone into the medical field.Mark Eskenazi, a resident in orthopedicsurgery at New York U. Medical Center,married Anna Grimaldi on Oct. 9, '94 in NewYork City. Eddy Luh, MD has started hisresidency in general surgery at UniversityMedical Center in Las Vegas. Dr. LaurieLevinson Wenger has graduated with dis-tinction and as a member of the Alpha Ome-ga Alpha medical honor society from theGeorge Washington School of Medical andHealth Sciences. Laurie began her residen-cy training in ophthalmology. Laurie andhusband Eric Wenger recently celebrated

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their fourth wedding anniversary and are liv-ing in Washington, DC. And Cynthia La-bella earned her MD degree from CornellMedical College in May 1994. Cynthia re-ceived four awards: highest scholasticachievement in pathology, special achieve-ment in pediatrics, the American MedicalWomen's Assn. Award, and the John Met-calf Polk Award, the highest scholastic hon-ors given by Cornell, for placing at the topof the class for scholastic performance in allfour years. She began her residency programin pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins U. Hos-pital in Baltimore last July.

For those of you who succumb to "Mel-rose Place" and have watched Andrew Shue,our classmate Al Morales has started thenon-profit organization "Do Something" withShue and another Columbia classmate. Thisfrom Duncan Murrell, who also tells us"Jason Tanner, Dave Healy, and JimMunroe remain stationed at Camp Pendle-ton, CA in the Marine Corps; while Sou-men Chowdhury and I have recently de-parted the USMC, Soumen to be a seniorsystems engineer with MCI, and I to North-western U. for journalism, in pursuit of myfirst Pulitzer."

Bevan Das, via e-mail, told us that hehas one-to-two years left to complete hisPhD thesis at the U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He heard from Julie Smith,DVM '94, who is working in Pulaski, NYmaking use of her veterinary degree fromCornell. "She says that the weather in Pu-laski is even colder than Ithaca's, if you canbelieve it!" Kristyn Benzinger has thenext deadline, so write to her with yournews. ••• Regina Duffey, 82 Lois Lane, Ith-aca, NY 14850 or RMD5@Cornell.edu;Kristyn Benzinger, 715 Monterey Blvd.,Hermosa Beach, CA 90254; Jennifer Mc-Comb, 2808 Kinloch Dr., Orlando, FL32817; Sam Zia-Zarifi, 225 S. Olive St.,#910, Los Angeles, CA 90012.

^ ^ ^ Thanks to the continuous ad-I I I v a n c e m e n t s in technology, and1 1 I thanks to the fact that Cornell^*m I Magazine now has e-mail, thank\ j I y° u to the classmates who have^ ^ ^ used the service to tell us all aboutwhat they're doing. Kristen Markussenreported that she has moved to Fairbanks,AK, where she was promoted to a branchmanager and loan officer for National Bankof Alaska. She said she loves Alaska, andhas had the opportunity to travel all overthe state as part of her job. Kris wrote thateven when she went as far north as Bar-row, a fellow alumnus approached her in theairport because she was wearing a Cornellsweatshirt.

Mark Adams sent news of the wed-ding of Aimee (Stone) and Greg Munsellat the historic Hildene House in Manches-ter, VT. Other classmates in attendancewere Tom Easley, Hilary Thompson,Deborah Snoonian, Steven Feinleib,Scott Deutchman, Van Tankard, JosephCullon, and Melissa Arnold. Mark said "Agood time was had by all," and Aimee andGreg went to Greece for their honeymoon.

Other reported Cornellian-marrying-another-Cornellian weddings include thoseof Andrew Puzzio to Laura Leasburg

'90; Heather Tatkon to Eric Powers '86;Sunish Shah to Chiara Puffer, and DavidGitlin to Stephanie Marmelstein '90. An-drew and Laura were married in a beautifuloutdoor ceremony in Richmond, VA in June1994. Jeff Markowitz was the best man,Chris Casieri was a groomsman, and JaneDavenport '90 was a bridesmaid. Otheralumni in attendance were Jamey Dumas,Alice Davenport, Robin Goldstein Baker'85, William C. Maier '87, Pam LustigStepp, PhD '93, Linda Coye '92, AmyPearl '93, Jeremy Rosen '93, Priya Kho-sla '93, and Jen Hoblitzell '93. Andrewand Laura are living in Blacksburg, VA,where Laura is attending vet school at Vir-ginia Polytechnic Inst. and Andrew is work-ing for a non-profit environmental consult-ing firm.

Heather and Eric were married on Aug.13, '94. Cathy James reported she was abridesmaid, along with Mary "Mollie"Finch, while Rob Lee '86 and Neil Hill-mer '86 were groomsmen. At the end ofAugust, Sunish and Chiara were married intwo culturally different weddings. The first,on August 28 in Edison, NJ, was a tradition-al Indian wedding with a Hindu ceremony.The second was September 4, and was a tra-ditional American wedding at Sunish's par-ents' home in Berwyn, PA. Many classmatestook time out from late-summer weekendsto attend both weddings. Jose Irizarry wasthe best man, and his wife, Anita (Zeiba),was the matron of honor. The groomsmenincluded Jon Tuma, Brad Ginesin '92,Sam Yousif '92, Scott Mitchell, and Jur-gen Luwald. Sunish and Chiara both workin New York City and they live in Hoboken.Sunish is an account executive in telecom-munication sales; Chiara works at Pruden-tial Mutual Funds as a production coordina-tor, printing brochures. Chiara, thanks forthe compliments in your letter—it's alwaysnice to hear from happy readers.

David and Stephanie were married atthe ANA Hotel in Washington. David is nowa third-year law student at the U. of Con-necticut, where he is editor of the Law Re-view. Stephanie is an associate at Shipman& Goodwin, a Hartford law firm.

E-mail from the Navy reported mem-bers of the class who were recently select-ed for promotion to lieutenant of the USNavy: Sean Becker, Ed Bogdanowicz,Rob Cooley, Linda Craugh, Matt Dorr,T.P. Enders, Sean Ensign, Mollie Finch,Rob Greeley, Ned Hammond, Jeff Hy-ink, Scott Lewis, Keith Marburger,Chris J. Martin, Eric Schneider, andSteve Yodowitz. Congratulations to you all!

In related news, Thomas Bell wrotein about his active duty after graduation. Hemoved to Panama in June 1992 and workedas a communications platoon leader in Pan-ama City for a year. Then he moved to theAtlantic side of the isthmus in June 1993 towork as communications officer for a lightinfantry battalion. Recently, his battalion wasordered to run one of the four Cuban campsthere on the west bank of the Panama Ca-nal as part of Operation Safe Haven, wherehe is now working as the communicationsofficer for Camp 4, Operation Safe Haven.

Two more press releases arrived. Onecame from a law firm in Cleveland, OH,

where Erica Calderas joined the firm HahnLoeser & Parks as an associate. Erica willbe practicing in the litigation area. The oth-er report announced that Michele Slobodjoined the international law firm of McDer-mott, Will & Emery in Chicago as an asso-ciate in the corporate department.

That's all she wrote for now. Keep re-porting, keep sending, and keep e-mailing. • Melanie Bloom, 401 E. 80th St.,#24D, NYC 10021.

^ \ ^ \ As I write this column, we are get-I I I ting our first snow flurries of theII m winter here in Upstate New York.^^k M I can only hope that by the timeim f j you read this, we will have re-^ ^ ^ " ceived our last! It's amazing howthings can change so quickly! This same par-allel is going on in many of our lives as weare getting married, finding new jobs, and ac-cepting transfers. Here's the latest on theseevents! Pamela Davis moved to Tucson totake a job as a news anchor and reporter onKVOA-TV. She attended the Oct. 9, '94 wed-ding of Melissa Waxman and David Grie-gel '91, M Eng '92 in Lawrenceville, NJ. Con-grats to the newlyweds.

More wedding bells are ringing . . . El-yse Hudacsko married one of her cowork-ers from Andersen Consulting last Septem-ber. Two of her bridesmaids were BobbiePustelny, in med school at SUNY, Buffalo,and Anjali Patwardhan, currently a stu-dent in Cornell Medical College. Elyse men-tioned that Bobbie and Anjali spent part oflast summer touring the wonders of theWest. As she said, anyone who hikes up theGrand Canyon in August deserves a littlerecognition!

From the mailbag . . . Jeff Conuel wasbusy writing his thesis for a master's degreein chemical engineering at Colorado State U.His research was with bacteria that digest ben-zene, toluene, and trichloroethylene. Does itbring back memories of Chem 207? A notefrom Maureen Murphy Anderson '87gives us the address of her brother, Ger-ald Murphy. He's in the Peace Corps inGuatemala and says hello to anyone fromCornell who remembers him. He'd love toget mail and visitors! Reach him at PCTGerald Murphy, A/C CHP, Apartado PostalNo. 75-03901, Antigua, Guatemala, CentralAmerica.

Checking in from Boston was RichBrewer, reporting he's in his first year ofa master's program at the Fletcher Schoolof Law and Diplomacy at Tufts. He is joinedby Meredith Rosenberg and Matt Cer-cone '93. Rich keeps in touch with KateBuehl, who is in her second year with thePeace Corps in Senegal.

Jessica Torrance called me with thenews that she moved to Nashville to take apromotion to manager of sales support forMagneTek. She stays in touch with J. R.Kavanagh, whose job as a consultant al-lows him to travel the world. He recentlymoved his home base to Pittsburgh and isthinking about getting his MBA. Jessica alsoreports that Bill Carson now owns a con-do in St. Louis and works for Air Products.Meanwhile, Margaret "Megan" Fee, MBA'93 married Jessica's brother, John Tor-rance '90, on July 31, '94. They have a

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townhouse in New Jersey, complete with agarden. The Ag college is proud!

Last I knew, Andrew Sullivan wasworking at Copper Mountain Resort in Col-orado, where he got to ski 100 days in the1993-94 season. Was it as good this year?

Checking in from Tokyo was Adam J.Levinson. After spending 15 months inHong Kong, he accepted a transfer withGoldman Sachs as an investment trader andbanker. Other job news: Melissa Teitel-man is a registered dietitian at Mt. SinaiHospital, where she holds the position ofnutrition support dietitian in pediatrics. Shewas working toward her master's at Colum-bia. Karen Drotar is an animal technicianat U. of Michigan, and Brad Ginesin is astock trader for Emanuel and Co. on WallStreet. Tom Ostoyich is pursuing a PhDin English at New York U. after a year inNew Orleans. After our graduation hetoured the US by car with a short stint inSeattle with Steve Rearing, Doug Am-bach, and Greg Shuck '91. Congratula-tions go out to James Bowen, who gradu-ated from MIT's Sloan School of Manage-ment with master's degrees in managementand mechanical engineering.

We have more soon-to-be-lawyers. D.J. Stoeberl and John Corcoran are in lawschool on the Hill. Steve Glaser is also alaw student, but he's keeping the location asecret, apparently!

Todd Hartman is in his second yearin the MBA program at U. of Maryland, Col-lege Park. He did a finance internship atBell Atlantic. Meanwhile, Kelly O'Brienmoved back to NY State as a store manag-er of perishables for Hannaford Bros. Shespends a lot of time in Albany with De-Shawn Clayton, who also works forHannaford Bros.

Derek McCarthy is the winner of thismonth's most interesting job duties contest.He's a fiction writer and editor for ChapelHill's Full Moon Hedonism. He's responsi-ble for reviews and notices of upcomingpleasurable events, write-ups for stores andrestaurants that cater to the pleasure of thepalate, and procuring short fiction relevantto pleasure.

Ron Woolley wants to let everyoneknow he's running in the Boston Marathonnext month as a member of the Massachu-setts chapter of the Leukemia Society's"Team in Training." He's dedicating the runto a five-year-old boy with leukemia. Anyonewanting to make donations to the cause canreach him at (617) 666-6778. Good luck, Ron!

I can't print your news if you don't sendit to me! Write, call, or e-mail. • ReneeHunter, 1120 Mount Hope Ave., Roch-ester, NY 14620; (716) 473-0927;Reneel992@aol.com.

Hi, fellow '93ers! Since Γm writ-ing this in November, I want towish you all a Happy Chanukah,a Merry Christmas, and a Hap-py New Year, but since this isfor the March issue, I'll have to

content myself with wishing you all a Hap-py St. Patty's Day! There wasn't too muchnews to report this month, so make surethat you send one of your correspondentssome news soon, so we can keep in touch

with all our classmates.Kevin Hyman is in his second year at

Cornell Medical College. He mentioned thatJim Babashak, Adrian Feng, JonathanFillmore, Brian Katz, David Shin,Yvonne Sim, Milagritos "Millie" Tapia,and Stephen Waite are all suffering alongthrough second year with him.

I received news releases about twoclassmates. Navy ensigns Jennifer O'Neilland Scott Parsons completed the OfficerIndoctrination School. During this course,students are prepared for duty in the navalstaff field corresponding to their civilian pro-fessions. Congratulations to both of you.

Denise Labowski sent a change of ad-dress (she's moved to Huntington Station,NY) but no other news. Please send newsalong with your updates—it makes my mailmuch more interesting!

Allison Libshutz sent her class dues(what a good idea!) and told us she's en-joying her second year of law school atNew York U., though she does miss Ith-aca. Kim Martucci reports that she andLouisa Edgerly '91 trained for a yeardown in Chattanooga, TN under the USwomen's Olympic rowing coach. They bothtraveled to Duisburg, Germany, wherethey represented the US at a regatta andcame in third. (Good going, guys!) Kim isnow living in Huntsville, AL, working as ameteorologist for WAFF-TV. She also letus know that Heikki Nikkanen is in hisfirst year of medical school at the U. ofConnecticut, and Jessica Casey is also inher first year of med school. (Thanks forthe news, Kim).

David Cohen reports Eric Hausmanis the author of the "House Thermome-ter"—a measure of stock performance—which is being published in Computer Re-seller News, the magazine for which heworks. He also let me know that ChrisOrtiz is in Europe on business for J.P.Morgan for two years. (Now that's a busi-ness trip.)

Lauren Bailyn, after traveling aroundEurope and Israel, has finally settled inHoboken, NJ and begun working for theGrand Union Co. (She assured me that bag-ging groceries and stocking shelves is onlypart of her job.) She has some company inHoboken from Laura Thorne and TammiMiller '94, who live nearby. They will bejoined shortly by Rick Jentis and Pete Fa-sold, who will be moving in soon. Laurenalso told me that she saw Chris Waitersand Dave Stuhlmiller '92 after the Colum-bia-Cornell game (which we lost, unfortu-nately).

We've also had some new additions tothe New York City area. Andrea (Sarka-ny) and Greg Riskin '90, DVM '94,moved to Queens. Andrea works on LongIsland at a care facility while Greg com-pletes his internship at the Animal Medi-cal Center.

Finally, I'm happy to announce thatKristen Prosser married Daniel Borchert'92 on July 9, '94 in Syracuse. They are nowpursuing master's degrees at North Caroli-na State U., Raleigh. Congratulations!

Here's looking to warmer weather.• Yael Berkowitz, 310 W. 95th St., Apt.7A, NYC 10025.

^ \ M As I sit here on a cold, pre-I I Λ Thanksgiving Tuesday evening, III 11 find it interesting to write a col-^*m MJέ umn no one will set eyes on untilVm T March. With recent alums report-^ ^ ^ ing on their current activities,I can't help but wonder if you will be doingthe same things in March that you are in No-vember. I hope I will, at least... This columnis brought to you in part by those selfless al-ums who listed to me all of the friends theycould recall, telling what they're up to.

Debby Bushell informed me that be-sides herself, many '94 hotelies are em-ployed at Aramark (formerly ARA Servic-es) throughout the country. The list includesPamela Gladstein, Tim Simpson, Jenni-fer Mancini, Holly Ripans, Scott Gen-sler, Dana Popovsky, Shaye Siegel, andJessica Marshall. Debby also reports thatboth Alicia Schwartz and Charlie Daw-son are working for Price Waterhouse; An-drea Green is pulling double duty workingat Arthur Andersen and getting a master'sin accounting at New York U.; and MarniChasin is working for Prudential. Also,Adam Binder is with Hyatt Hotels in Flor-ida, Lauren Koch is at Cornell MedicalCollege, and Jolee (Rosenau) is workingat Macy's while husband Seth Klugherzworks for Procter & Gamble.

In other scholastic news, Carol Ber-man is earning a master's in journalism atColumbia, Howie Reifer is at the New YorkSchool of Podiatry, Erika Ozer is at NewYork U. law school, Paul Mutolo is goingfor his PhD in chemistry at U. of California,Santa Barbara, and Rachel Weiss is study-ing for a master's degree at Harvard. Also,Tina Lee is going for a PhD in chemistryat U. of California, Berkeley.

Joshua Aron is working at CantorFitzgerald in New York City, and NathanielBrackett is in Connecticut working for Pfiz-er. Others employed in the Tri-State area in-clude Carlo Lamberti, for Chemical Bank;Lisa Chagala, at Citibank; Eleanor Webb, alegal assistant at Case & White; and both RobLamson and Tim Van de Water are work-ing for Towers Perron, a consulting firm.

A letter came from Tara Roth, wholives in the San Francisco area and was sup-posed to have begun an MPA program inJanuary. She reports that William Rideoutis currently in Atlanta working for a healthcare management firm, Mark Ollendorff isin Virginia, as are Laura Rankin, TaraHemmer, and Sarah Huston. Among aCalifornia contingent, Caroline Martinworks for J.H. Baxter, Adria Popkin worksfor a computer training company, MatthewEvans lives in Lake Tahoe, Lexi Conradlives in Palo Alto, Andrea Savage is work-ing in Los Angeles, Hadley Grousbeck iscurrently living in San Francisco, and LeighGallagher, Kirsti Scutt, and MichelleRomano plan to relocate there.

Look at all the news I gathered justfrom a few people! It proves that we allknow about lots of other alums and if youknow them, I can report on them! It justtakes one letter to a class correspondent,and within three-to-six months, you too cansee all those names in print. I'm looking for-ward to your letters. • Jennifer Rabin, 885Westminster Rd., Woodmere, NY 11598.

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CLASS NOTES

I guess by now most everyonehas received a few issues of thismagazine. And it's likely thatyou've turned to this very pageto see what your friends whograduated before you are up to

in the world beyond Cornell. The fact thatwhat you're reading now is not about anyother class, but about us, the Class of 1995,is both exciting and just a little bit scary. Hereit is March already . . . . are you wonderingwhat everyone has planned for the future?

To start off, I would like to introducemyself as your class correspondent. Myname is Alison Torrillo, and I am a com-munication major in the Ag college, whocomes from that place which has becomequite well-known among Cornellians—LongIsland. (Where else?) I will be writing thiscolumn for each of the ten issues publishedin the next five years. (I don't have enoughto do with Cornell, as it is!) The reason Itell you this is not to make you realize thatyou're stuck with me for a while, but to urgeyou to keep in touch, both with me and withyour other classmates. My Ithaca addresscan be found at the end of this column, soplease, please write me! Let me know ifyou've finally gotten a job or into medschool, tell me where you plan to be, relateyour most memorable Cornell experience(within reason, of course), and I will try toget as much of it as possible into this maga-zine for you and others to read!

With that in mind, I'm going to fill youin on what's been happening over at Alum-ni House and in the lives of the members ofour senior class. First of all, our new alum-ni class officers (for the next five years) havebeen selected! They are: President Saya-ka Karitani, Arts, from San Jose, CA; VicePresident, Affinity Groups Tara Dawood,Arts, from Toronto, Ont, Canada; Vice Pres-ident, Archives Maria Carracino, Arts,from Elmhurst, NY; Vice President, Com-munications Peter Quagliaroli, Arts, fromNeedham, MA; Vice President, FundraisingRobert Kronzak, Arts, from Milford, NH;Secretary Annie Tamis, Arts, from Orange,CT; Treasurer Annemarie Segaric, Engi-neering, from Bronx, NY; and Reunion Co-Chairs Allison Halpern, HumEc, from De-witt, NY, Eva Loh, Agriculture, from An-nandale, VA, and Dana Yogel, Architecture,from Haverford, PA.

In addition, Lisa Powell, Agriculture,from Fredonia, NY, has been appointed toour fundraising council and the followingstudents have been selected to serve onour class council: Christa Bowdish, Arts,from Solon, OH; Brad Heflich, Arts, fromMartinsville, NJ; Lynn Leitner, Agricul-ture, from Loudonville, NY; Lisa Mullan,Hotel, from Dallas, TX; Amit Mitra, Arts,from Golden, CO; Alissa Pellizzari, Ag-riculture, from Quechee, VT; and AtenaRosak, Agriculture, from Sparta, NJ. Asofficers and fellow alums-to-be, all of usare here for you and will do whatever ittakes to keep our class network strong.So if you have any ideas about events fornext year or for our first five-year Reunionin the year 2000, or you just want to chatabout life at Cornell, don't hesitate to con-tact us!

So what about the rest of our class?

Seems as if lots of us have big long-rangeplans . . . but most of us haven't a clue yetas to where we'll actually be after May.Among those motivated enough to fill outall those med school applications—and in-dustrious enough to schedule and attendthose often-distant interviews without fail-ing out—are Peter Lu, John Rubino, LynnLeitner, Nimrod Day an, Dave Lopez,David Sarkany, and Julie Konowitz, whosaid that for her last spring break, she was"so enthralled with Cornell" that she stayedto study for the MCAT. Luckily, that stressis over, and these classmates will likely bemaking us sit in drafty waiting rooms andcharging us exorbitant fees in no time at all!Twenty-five years from now, John hopes toshow up brother Gregory Rubino '85, bybeing "financially comfortable enough to have

donated a library or two to Cornell." David,who plans to live in New York City, writesthat he hopes to see his sister, Andrea Sar-kany Riskin '93, and her husband, Greg'90, DVM '94, more often.

"Good luck on the battlefield" is whatSteven Goldberg wishes his classmatesand, while the outlook for next year maystill be somewhat hazy, don't give up! It'snot over yet! I know from my experience ofprocrastinating that good things often docome to those who "wait." (And I reallyhope so, since as I write this, I have no joblined up, either). So keep me posted, ev-eryone. And, in the meantime, get out thereand make the most of what's left of our se-nior year! See you at Zinck's Night!• Alison Torrillo, 117 Oak Ave., Apt. 2,Ithaca, NY 14850; e-mail amt7@cornell.edu.

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'21—Galloway C. Morris III of Lansdale,PA, formerly of Wayne, Sept. 10, 1994; re-tired civil engineer, Philadelphia ElectricCompany; active in community affairs. PhiKappa Sigma.

'22—Wendell M. Sears of Delmar, NY,Sept. 13,1994; retired institutional engineer,NY State Dept. of Education; active in civicand religious affairs.

'25 MEng—Kenneth H. Caskey of Har-risburg, PA, April 29,1993; retired consult-ing engineer; active in alumni affairs. ThetaChi. Wife, Madelyn (Reynolds) '28.

'27 LLB—Herbert S. Colton of ChevyChase, MD, formerly of Bethesda, Oct. 3,1994; retired attorney, a housing law spe-cialist, who had practiced with the firm ofColton & Boykin in Washington, DC; aformer general counsel, National Assn. ofHome Builders; helped organize HolidayInns of America and Manor Care Inc.; for-merly associated with the Federal HousingAdministration. Pi Lambda Phi.

'28 ME—Henry C. Boschen of Essex, CT,Sept. 10, 1994; was retired from RaymondInternational Inc. of Houston, TX; active inalumni affairs. Tau Kappa Epsilon.

'29—Gilbert C. Best of Fort Worth, TX,Dec. 29, 1993. Sigma Phi.

'29 DVM—Homer G. Tully of Studio City,CA, Nov. 19,1993; veterinarian. Omega TauSigma.

'30 MA—Richard A. Angus of Paoli, PA,Sept. 19,1993; retired self-employed refrig-eration sales consultant; former sales rep-resentative, Refrigeration Company of Phil-adelphia; active in religious affairs.

'32 BS Ag, MS '33—Bradley O. Gormelof Richford, NY, Sept. 20, 1994; worked atCornell's poultry research department;former teacher of agriculture, Brockport,Groton, Newark Valley, and Owego schoolsystems; active in religious, community, andprofessional affairs. Alpha Zeta.

'32—Homer A. Hutcheson of Salamanca,NY, May 10, 1992; self-employed attorney.

'34 BA—Shelby N. Lever of Rye Brook,NY, Sept. 3, 1994; retired physician, fam-ily practice, Port Chester; former head offamily practice division, United HospitalMedical Center, Port Chester; active incommunity, religious, and alumni affairs.Zeta Beta Tau.

'35 BA—Katherine Edwards Conrad(Mrs. Robert F.) of Boyds, MD and PalmCity, FL, Aug. 9, 1993; active in religiousand community affairs. Alpha Phi.

Alumni Deaths'37 BA—Robert F. Bosshart of North-brook, IL, Sept. 20, 1994; mathematicsteacher, New Trier High School; former en-gineer for defense contractors, Cook Elec-tric Company, Skokie, IL; active in commu-nity, professional, and alumni affairs.

'37 MEng—Joseph Breslove Jr. of Pitts-burgh, PA, July 22, 1993; owner and presi-dent, Breslove Separator Co., Etna; activein professional and alumni affairs.

'37—Robert E. Bumstead Jr. of Whitting,NJ, Aug. 16, 1992. Tau Kappa Epsilon.

'39 MS, PhD '49—Roger W. Barbour ofLexington, KY, Aug. 26, 1993; retired zool-ogy professor, University of Kentucky;former president, Kentucky OrnithologicalSociety; founder of Kentucky chapter, TheNature Conservancy; author or co-author of12 zoological/biological books; was consid-ered to have been the state's leading wild-life expert; active in professional and civicaffairs.

'40—Ralph Arlington of Buffalo, NY, Sept.23, 1994; engineer; design manager, Buffa-lo's downtown transit mall, Niagara Fron-tier Transportation Authority; oversawbuilding construction, SUNY, Buffalo's NorthCampus.

'40 PhD—Charles D. Murphy of CollegePark, MD, Sept. 11, 1994; retired professorof English literature, University of Mary-land; active in religious, educational, andprofessional affairs.

'40 BA—George E. Warner of Dallas, TX,Sept. 12,1994; retired from LTV Company;former school principal, Black River, NY.

'42 BS Ag—Alvern H. D. Butler of Lit-tleton, MA, formerly of West Oneonta, NY,Nov 28, 1993.

'42 BME—John R. Hull of Litchfield, CT,Dec. 31, 1991; mechanical engineer em-ployed by Ingersoll-Rand Company, Tor-rington. Alpha Chi Rho.

'43—Marilyn Sherman Armstrong (Mrs.Howard H.) of Stow, OH, Nov. 12, 1991.Husband, Howard H. Armstrong '40.

'44—Russell L. Baltz of Treasure Island,FL, Oct. 3, 1993; president, Bilmar BeachResort; developer of Florida beachfrontproperty; active in civic and religious affairs.

'45—Kitty Truax Jones (Mrs. J. O.) of Dal-las, TX, Nov. 2, 1993. Pi Beta Phi.

'46 BCE—George E. Gates of Peoria, AZ,exact date of death unknown.

'48 BCE—Gardner M. Reynolds of Palos

Verdes Estates, CA, Sept. 17,1994; retiredcivil engineer and chairman, executive com-mittee, Dames & Moore, Los Angeles, CA;active in civic, community, and professionalaffairs.

'49—Joan Hohl Dennett (Mrs. Robert K.)of Davis, CA, Nov. 6, 1993; formerly em-ployed at the University of California, Davis;active in community affairs. Husband, Rob-ert K. Dennett '48.

'50 MBA—Harry J. Muller of Manlius,NY, Sept. 19, 1994; retired manager, mar-keting division, Agway Corporation; formerpresident, United Egg Producers; active incommunity and professional affairs.

'50 BS ILR—Donald G. Stetson of New-castle, ME, Sept. 8, 1994; retired owner,Stetson & Shipley Inc., Portland, ME. ChiPhi.

'51 BS Nurs—Joan Riker Mrlik (Mrs.Michael J.) of Charleston, SC, Sept. 9,1994;retired nurse; active in community affairsand charities.

'52 BA—Ronald V. Harrington of Roches-ter, NY, exact date of death unknown; activein alumni affairs. Wife, Judith (Ginsberg) '53.

'54 LLB—James C. Dodds of Boyds, MD;exact date of death unknown; lawyer spe-cializing in international affairs.

'57 BS Hotel—James A. Louttit of Cam-eron Park, CA, formerly of Fresno, Aug. 29,1990; employee of State Farm Insurance,Fresno.

'60 BA—John R. Sadowsky of Jackson-ville, FL, Nov. 7, 1993; president of self-owned investment company. Zeta Beta Tau.

'68 BS, MEng '69—John M. Funt ofNashua, NH, Nov. 16,1993; director, CabotCorporation, Billerica, MA; former research-er at University of Pittsburgh; active inalumni affairs.

'78 BA—Scott H. Ballotin of Arlington,VA, Sept. 25, 1994; text editor, Dialogue, amagazine published by the US InformationAgency and distributed abroad; formerly aneditor and writer, Voice of America, and aneditor, Aspen Systems Corp., Rockville,MD; active in alumni affairs. Delta Phi.

'79 BS Ag—Frank A. Santamaria ofPittsburgh, PA, Sept. 8, 1994; commercialreal estate vice president, PNC Bank Cor-poration, Philadelphia; formerly of PNCBank Corporation, Pittsburgh; active inalumni affairs. Chi Psi.

'92-93 Grad—Mark A. Foster of Ithaca,NY, formerly of California, Oct. 7, 1994.

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ALUMNI ACTIVITIES

Getting On-lineA new program provides an on-ramp to the

Information Superhighway

n response to alumni requests,Cornell Information Technolo-gies (CIT), in conjunction withthe Cornell Alumni Federa-tion, is offering a new "on-

ramp" to the Information Superhigh-way. CU-CONNECT is a computerservice that allows Cornellians ac-cess to the Internet, including cam-pus network services such asCUINFO and the Cornell on-line li-brary catalogue, as well as connec-tions to one another via E-mail.

'This is a really comprehensivepackage," says Robert Bandler, CU-CONNECT project coordinator. "Iteven allows alumni to browse andshop in the Campus Store and to hearabout events both on and off campuswith just a double-click on themouse."

"E-mail is the best known andperhaps the biggest attraction of CU-CONNECT," Bandler says. It pro-vides a way to continue close friend-ships electronically without the bar-riers of geography. Bandler expects500 alumni to subscribe to the ser-vice during its first year.

CU-CONNECT includes con-tinuation of Cornell Network identi-fication numbers (NetlDs) for alumniwho had them while on campus anda personalized listing in the Cornellelectronic mail directory being com-piled by Cornell Magazine.

The university began providingNetlDs in the fall of 1992, accordingto Carol Lambert, associate directorfor support services at CIT. This fall,CIT automatically assigned all incom-ing students NetlDs, she says.Alumni without NetlDs need notworry: CIT will provide them withits CU-CONNECT Remote option.

While most commercial Internetservices charge by the hour, Cornellprovides unlimited access to Cornelland Internet services and imposes notime limits. The project's HelpLineprovides a detailed listing of access

privileges and adds a human touchthat walks new subscribers throughthe start-up process, Bandler says.

In addition, CU-CONNECT in-cludes current releases of Bear Ac-cess software for the workstation ofthe subscriber's choice to access avariety of current Cornell networkservices and new services.

Bear Access software, a packagedeveloped at Cornell that makes iteasier to navigate the Internet andthe Cornell network, is at the heartof CU-CONNECT. It offers accessto Cornell services that require aNetID or are restricted to Cornellcommunity members, services suchas E-mail, posting to Usenet (elec-tronic discussion groups on a widerange of topics), access to InternetRelay Chat (a feature to hold inter-active conversations with others onthe Internet), Who I Am (which al-lows subscribers to create a person-alized directory entry) and Just theFacts, which is geared toward cur-rent students and recent graduatesfor reviewing personal data. Sub-scribers also have access to CU-INFO, World Wide Web and Gopher,which among a variety of featuresenables them to view weather mapsand satellite photos, preview the lat-est music recordings and buy booksand CDs.

For most people, connecting tothese services requires a call to anIthaca phone number, a toll call frommost places. But soon alumni maybe able to access the network via alocal call, from anywhere in NorthAmerica. Cornell is one of four testsights connected to the BITNET III,and the goal of BITNET III is forfaculty, staff, students and alumni ofthe participating institutions to beable to reach their home networkswith a local call. Alumni in the Prince-ton, Ann Arbor and Washington, DCareas are already saving moneythrough the use of BITNET III.

t here are three subscription* options:

• CU-CONNECT Desk-s top is for Cornellians who al-

ready have an Internet con-nection, through a business or edu-cational institution, including thosepeople using BITNET III. It includesa NetID which gives subscribers ac-cess to Bear Access software. Thisoption includes a one-time $100 non-refundable initiation fee, accompa-nied by an $8 per month subscrip-tion fee.

• CU-CONNECT Remote is forpeople who do not currently have anInternet connection. This option al-lows subscribers to use a modem todial into the campus network and theInternet. It includes EZ-REMOTEfor dialing in to Ithaca, as well as allthe features of Desktop. This pack-age costs $150 for a one-time, non-refundable initiation fee and an on-going subscription fee of $20 permonth.

• CU-CONNECT Mail Forwardis for alumni who already have aNetID. It is especially useful for re-cent graduates for forwarding all oftheir Cornell-addressed E-mail toanother Internet address of theirchoosing. This option also may behandy for people moving to a differ-ent location with full Internet ser-vices. It has a $25 non-refundable fee,which must be renewed every year.Subscribers may change their for-warding addresses an unlimitednumber of times during the year.

Alumni who pursue graduatestudy at Cornell may simply keeptheir same NetID and do not need topay a subscription fee. NetlDs of allgraduating seniors will be preservedthrough September 1 of their gradu-ation year to enable them to conductelectronic job searches throughoutthe summer, Bandler says.

Fees are assessed annually andmay be paid only with a credit card.No checks or money orders will beaccepted. Annual renewals are auto-matic unless the subscriber choosesto cancel.

For more information, contact:CU-CONNECT, 222 CCC, CornellUniversity, Ithaca, NY 14853; (607)254-5200, fax (607) 254-5222 or viaE-mail: cu_connect@cornell.edu

—Lisa Wiley '94

MARCH 199591

CALENDARMARCH 16-APRIL 15

New York/OntarioMarch 20. Schenectady women'ssupper. Call Toni Walsh (518) 372-8764 or Kathy Nelson at (607)255-3516. CC/Greater Capita!District.

March 2 1 . Roger Dick—"The Peopleof South Korea, Malaysia and Tai-wan"—at the home of JudyRiehlman, US Route 11, Homer,6:30 p.m. Call Vicki Dick (607)756-7823 or Kathy Nelsen (607)255-3516. CWC/Cortland County.

March 29. investment advisor willspeak; also, a short presentationabout Kendal at Ithaca. Call JaneLawrence (607) 659-7720 or KathyNelsen (607) 255-3516. CWC/Ithaca.

April 8. Volleyball at Hot Shots. CallChristina Walker (716) 423-0437 orKathy Neisen (607) 255-3516,CAA/Greater Rochester.

April 10. Christine Day, director ofdevelopment, College of HumanEcology—will speak on "News fromthe College of Human Ecology:Women in Philanthropy"—6:30 p.m.Call Joyce Coye (315) 492-9630 orKathy Nelsen (607) 255-3516,CWC/Syracuse.

April 11. Engineering Prof. ArnimMeyburg will speak on "The Futureof U.S. Transportation"—location tobe determined. Call Debra Toy(518) 373-8564 or Kathy Nelsen(607) 255-3516. CC/Greater CapitalDistrict.

Metro New YorkApril 1. New Jersey Foodbank, 10a.m.—sort and pack food forshelters and soup kitchens. CallHyla Garien (908) 273-6158 orLorie Hine (607) 255-2390. CC/Northern New Jersey.

April 12. Accepted candidates forClass of '99 night—details to follow.Call Lou Nisivoccia (201) 361-2966or Lorie Hine (607) 255-2390. CC/Northern New Jersey.

New EnglandMarch 25. New Hampshire Sym-phony—details to be announced.Call Chandler Burpee (603) 497-2059 or Nancy Law (607) 255-3517. CC/New Hampshire.

iViarcn 2b. Connecticut Forum lec-ture—''About Death and Dying"—location and time to be determined.Call Anne Walker (203) 241-2662 orNancy Law (607) 255-3517. CC/Greater Hartford.

April 5. Luncheon, details to be an-nounced. Calί Larry Persson (508)771-1485 or Nancy Law (607) 255-3517. CC/Cape Cod.

Mid AtlanticMarch 18. Cornell Lacrosse tailgateparty and post-game get-together withCoach Moran and the team. Call AndyBaxevanis (410) 465-5017 or LorieHine (607) 255-2390. CC/Maryίand.

April 6, Nutritional Science and Psy-chology Prof. David Levitsky, "HealthyLiving on Low-Fat Cuisine"—location tobe determined. Call Susan Berke (215)635-5389 or Lorie Hine (607) 255-2390.CC/Greater Philadelphia,

April 6. Founder's Day annual clubmeeting and dinner—time and locationto be determined. Call Susan Burke(215) 635-5389 or Lorie Hine (607)255-2390. CC/Greater Philadelphia.

Apriϊ 7. Nutritional Science and Psy-chology Prof. David Levitskyf "HealthyLiving on Low-Fat Cuisine"—location tobe determined. Call Shannon Gallίvan(410) 544-8600 or Lorie Hine (607)255-2390. CC/Maryland.

SoutheastMarch 16. Biological Sciences Prof.Peter Bruns—topic, location and timeto be determined. Call Jill Seligman(404)658-9550 or Nancy Law (607)255-3517. CA/VAtlanta.

March 16. Mechanical and AerospaceEngineering Prof. Donald Barΐel—topic,location and time to be determined.Call Cornelius Halvey (813) 331-6359or Nancy Law (607) 255-3517. CC/Sarasota-Manatee.

March 17. Biological Sciences Prof.Peter Bruns—topic, location and timeto be determined. Call AnnemarieThomas (305) 591-9238 or NancyLaw (607) 255-3517. CC/GreaterMiami and the Florida Keys.

March 17. Mechanical and AerospaceEngineering Prof. Donald Bartet—topic,location and time to be determined.Caiί Richard Furbush (813) 595-7600or Nancy Law (607) 255-3517. CC/Suncoast.

March 18. Biological Sciences Prof.

Peter Bruns—topic, location anatime to be determined. Call RobertoPrats (809) 761-0123 or NancyLaw (607) 255-3517. CC/PuertoRico,

March 18. Mechanical and Aero-space Engineering Prof. DonaldBartel—topic, iocation and time tobe determined, Call Ralph Peterson(904) 469-3308 or Nancy Law(607) 255-3517. CC/EmeraldCoast.

March 24, Miami Beach happy hourto celebrate spring's return toIthaca. Call Pedro Kato Yasushi(305) 554-0638 or Nancy Law(607) 255-3517. CC/Greater Miamiand the Florida Keys.

March 30. Jacksonville Jaguarsupdate with Michael Huyghue '84,vice president of football opera-tions. Ponte Vedra Inn and ClubPonte Vedra Beach, 6:30 p.m. CallRodger Gibson (904) 285-4303 orNancy Law (607) 255-3517. CC/Greater Jacksonville.

Apni 1. "42nd Street" Saturdaymatinee at Broadway Palm DinnerTheatre. Call Christina Lurvey (813)495-8576 or Nancy Law (607)255-3517. CAA/Southwest Florida.

April 6, Industrial & Labor RelationsProf. Nick Salvatore on his bookabout the life and times of a blackCivil War soldier, Location and timeto be determined. Call Diana Calby(704) 542-0688 or Nancy Law(607) 255-3517. CA/VCharlotte.

April 7. industrial & Labor RelationsProf. Nick Salvatore on his bookabout the life and times of a blackCivil War soldier. Location and timeto be determined. Call GeraldNeenan (615)244-8490 or NancyLaw (607) 255-3516. CA/V'MiddleTennessee.

April 8. Industrial & Labor RelationsProf, Nick Salvatore on his bookabout the life and times of a blackCivil War soldier. Location and timeto be determined. Call Richard Erali(901)755-3380 or Nancy Law(607) 255-3517, CC/Mid-South.

April 13. Carl Gortzig, director ofCornell Plantations, will discuss TheCornell Plantations Path, a seven-mile walking path through campus.Call Cornelius Halvey at (813) 917-6363 or Nancy Law at (607) 255-3517. CC/Sarasota Manatee.

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SouthwestMarch 23. Psychology Prof. JamesMaas, "How to Sleep for a BetterTomorrow"—location and time tobe determined. Call Doug Wright(602) 274-5162 or Sally Cushing(607) 255-2516. CC/Arizona.

March 24. Psychology Prof. JamesMaas, "How to Sleep for a BetterTomorrow"—location and time tobe determined. Call Susan Sarich(303) 779-1234 or Sally Cushing(607) 255-3516. CC/Coiorado.

March 24, Hotel AdministrationLecturer Barbara Lang, "PopcorkExperience"—location and time tobe determined. Call Marci Arnold(713) 933-6070 or Sally Cushing(607) 255-3516. CAA/GreaterHouston.

March 25. Hotel AdministrationLecturer Barbara Lang, "PopcorkExperience"—location and time tobe determined. Call Frank Giaimo(214) 994-1345 or Sally Cushing(607) 255-3516. CAA/NorthTexas.

WesternMarch 16. Astronomy Prof. MarthaHaynes, "Mapping the Universewith the Big Ear (Arecibo) and theBig Eye (Palomar)"—location andtime to be determined.Call BillUrban (503) 222-9900 or SallyCushing (607) 255-3516. CC/Oregon.

March 17. St. Patrick's Day cel-ebration—details to be deter-mined. Call Jason Meier (808)531-3400 or Sally Cushing (607)255-3516. CC/Hawaii.

: March 17. Astronomy Prof. Martha• Haynes, "Mapping the Universe

with the Big Ear (Arecibo) and theBig Eye (Palomar)"—location andtime to be determined. Call CaseyEliis (800) 426-8790 or SallyCushing (607) 255-3516. CC/Western Washington.

March 18. Astronomy Prof. MarthaHaynes, "Mapping the Universewith the Big Ear (Arecibo) and the

I Big Eye (Palomar)"—location and" time to be determined. Call Sandy

Gibbs (907) 277-8576 or SallyCushing (607) 255-3516. CC/Alaska.

Aprii 8. Psychology Prof. ThomasGϋovich, "The Psychology of Su-perstition"—location and time to

be determined. Call Eπc Stemmeyer(310) 549-5400 or Sally Cushing (607)255-3516. CAA/Orange County.

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MUSICON THE HILL

Members of Cornell's musicdepartment faculty will give aseries of lectures and perform-ances in the United States andabroad. The following is aschedule for the series fromMarch 27 to April 15

March 27Malcolm Bilson, Perform-

\ ance: Concert; Philadel-phia Chamber Music

: Society, Philadelphia,• Pennsylvania

April 6-10Malcolm Bilson, Perform-ance: Concert; SchubertFestival and Symposium;

[ Washington, DC

April 8• William Cowdery, Perform-•J ance: Concert; Chamber

works and concetti of J.S.Bach; Scranton BachFestival, Scranton, Penn-sylvania

April 11-12• Steven Stucky, Composer

and Guest Conductor;Butler University, Indiana-

: poiis, Indiana

April 13Steven Stucky, Composerand Guest Conductor;

: Indiana University, ίndia-• napoiis, Indiana

April 14J Steven Stucky, Guest

Composer: Performanceand lecture; University of

• Michigan, Ann Arbor,•: Michigan

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To Philip L. Bereaπo '61, professor oftechnical communication at the Univer-sity of Washington at Seattle, who wasawarded the university's 1994 Outstand-ing Public Service Award.

To CUPID, a computer program devel-oped in part at Cornell, that has beennamed 'Innovation of the Year" by XpiorInternational, a non-profit association ofthe electronic printing industry, CUPIDstands for Consortium for University Print-ing and Information Distribution and al-lows documents, articles or even entirebooks to be sent over the Internet forprinting at remote locations. The CUPIDsoftware was written by Sailesh Gurnaniof Cornell Information Technologies andDavid Greenίie of Harvard University'sOffice for information Technologies,

Γo Gladys Kessler '59, who was swornin recently as United States District Judgefor the District of Columbia.

To Jeanie Kim '85, director of PrimaryCare Services at the Children's Hospitalof Philadelphia, who was presented withthe "Early Career Healthcare ExecutiveAward" by the American College ofHealthcare Executives' Regent for South-ern Pennsylvania. The award is given toan individual who demonstrates a com-mitment to excellence, innovation andcreative management.

To Laurence Steinberg, PhD '77, di-rector of the division of developmental

psychology at Temple University, andRobert D. Hamilton III '68, a Templeprofessor of management, who wereawarded ''Great Teacher Awards" by theTemple community. Each award comeswith a $10,000 cash prize.

To Fred E. Winch '64, who last fail wassworn in as the United States Agency forInternational Development's Represen-tative to the Caucasus,

To 1LR Professor Emeritus HarrisonTrice, who received the Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from theAmerican Sociological Association.

To engineering Professor Walter R.Lynn, who received the U.S. InteriorDepartment's "Conservation ServiceAward" for bringing "the findings ot sci-ence and engineering to bear on theneeds of society,"

To Jon Craig '80, a staff writer with theSyracuse Herald-Joumal/HeraldΆmeπcan, who co-authored an investigativeseries on the New York State juvenilejustice system called "Beaten by theSystem." The series won an internationalWomen in Communications Inc. ClarionAward, the New York Newspaper Publishers Association Distinguished StateGovernment Reporting Award, first placein the state Associated Press's Continuing Coverage Award and was a nationalfinalist for an Investigative Reporters andEditors Award,

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the Class of '44, unemployment upongraduation was not a problem. As thispage from the 1944 Cornellian shows, a

majority of the men in the class were goingstraight from the Hill to active duty in the armedservices. The June some of these studentsgraduated (there were graduations in Februaryand June of 1944), Allied forces were landing onthe beaches of Normandy. By October, Germantroops had been driven from most of France andBelguim, and American troops were landing onLeyte in the Philippines. The journey for some,from the Arts Quad to the jungles of Okinawaand the muck of the Siegfried Line, was long butall too certain. Ten of the 13 men pictured onthis page were already in uniform before theyshipped out from Ithaca. The end of the war waswell over a year away.

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V A C A T I O N B U L L E T I N

March 1995

Glimmerglass OperaAugust 4-7Arthur Groos

Summer opera at its best: Handel, Mozart,and Benjamin Britten.

Natural History in the

Canadian RockiesAugust 13-19John Chiment

Banff, Lake Louise, the Burgess Shales, the

Columbia Ice Shield, Calgary, and Drumheller.

Theatre in Stratford, OntarioAugust 14-18Anthony Caputi and Alain Seznec

Macbeth, The Country Wife, Long Day'sJourney Into Night, and The Boy Friend—atCanada's renowned and delightful theatricalcenter.

Sag Harbor EcologySeptember 14-17Robert Budliger and Richard B. Fischer

Beaches, dunes, and autumn migrationsalong Long Island's unspoiled eastern shores.

Study Tour to Medieval SpainOctober 6-15Ross Brann

Medieval worlds and timeless landscapes ofAndalusia and Castile: Cordoba, Granada,Seville, and Toledo.

Hittites to Ottomans:Study Tour to TurkeyOctober 17-November 2David I. Owen

Remarkable ancient sites, wonderful citiesand countrysides, from Ankara, Urgup, andAntaiya, to Kas, Bodrum, and Ephesus.

Cooperstown WeekendOctober 20-22Karen Brazell, Walter LaFeber, and

Robert Smith

"Rising Sun and Falling Star? The Past,Present, and Future of Japanese-AmericanRelations."

Charleston, South CarolinaOctober 28-November 1Stuart Blum in

Gracious homes, plantations, antebellumsociety, and the long road to Civil War.

Vol. X, No. 2

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Personality and Social Behavior Daryl Bern and guests Modernism in Art and Literature Dan

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Workshop Ron Wilson Internet Workshop Tom Bruce Field Ornithology Charles Smith Pedal-

Power Paleobiology John Chiment

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Leaders and Leadership in America Glenn Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick Lear, Othello, Macbeth

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Ithaca Geology Art Bloom Outdoor Thrills and Skills Dave Moriah

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