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22 A Rivalry Forged in Mutual RespectBY BRAD HERZOGWhen the Cornell and Pennsylvania football teams square off thismonth for the 100th time, they'll continue a tradition that harks backto when footballs were made of pigskin, when piling on was a gentle-man's duty and when seats at an Ivy League football game were thehottest ticket in town.

33 Alone with the DevilBY PAUL CODY

Park Dietz spends his days examining the minds of serial killers andstalkers like Jeffrey Dahmer and John Hinkley. He spends his nightsperfecting his pistol skills.

38 Biodiversity: What's in it for Us?BY SCOTT CAMAZINE

Should we care about the modern extinction of species? After all,how can the loss of a few insects hurt humankind?A great deal, and in waysthat may not seemobvious.

Departments

4 NewsA possible case of arson; fraternity condemned;Trustee Engel dies.

8 LettersOf books and burgers.

10 Letter from IthacaNovember can be a cruel month for students,until something magical happens.

13 FacultyFaculty doors are windows into faculty souls.

16 ResearchLet it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

I S StudentsForget sleeping bags. Students now useFederal Express when they want hockey tickets.

20 SportsPreview of this winter's Big Red teams.

3 1 Give My Regards to . . .

Cornellians in the News

47 News of Alumni

S3 Alumni Deaths

85 Alumni ActivitiesGet on board the ProNet.

89 CornellianaWhen the Medical College was in Ithaca.

66 Cornell Hosts

72 ProfessionalDirectory

87 Cornell Classifieds

CoverCornell Magazine Art Director Stefanie LehmanGreen tinted the original black and white shot ofkicker Francis Tobey Shiverick '18, BA '20. For moreon Shiverick, see page 48.

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November 1993 Cornell's Adult University Vol. VII, No. 9

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VIETNAMJanuary 11—27,1994

Cruise with us from Hong Kong to Hanoi,

Haiphong, Hue, and Saigon aboard the

privately chartered M.V. Aurora I and

explore the temples of Angkor with

Sherman Cochran and George McT.

Kahin. Please inquire about space

availability.

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGOFebruary 11—22,1994

Trinidad and Tobago offer the Caribbean

at its best: tropical forests, a tremendous

range of bird and plant habitats, sunny

beaches and sparkling waters teeming

with marine life. Better yet, you'll examine

these island gems with John B. Heiser.

AUSTRALIA AND TASMANIAFebruary 11—28,1994

Join Jack and Louise Kingsbury's third

CAU adventure "down under." We'll

explore Sydney and the remarkable

coasts, highlands, towns, and history of

Tasmania. We'll experience life on

outback agricultural stations northwest of

Melbourne, and enjoy Melbourne too.

Spring

HAWAIIMarch 19—27,1994

From the telescopes atop Mauna Kea and

the craters of Haleakala and Volcanoes

National Park, to the beachfronts at Kona

and Lahaina, we'll examine Hawaii's place

in cosmic research with Yervant Terzian,

discuss Hawaiian geology and marine

biology with local experts, and sample

Hawaii's terrestrial pleasures.

NEW ORLEANS AND THEBAYOUSMarch 20—27,1994

From Basin Street to Bayou Teche, Dan

Usner will introduce you to Creole and

Cajun history and culture. We'll explore

and discuss the French Quarter's past,

enjoy its architecture and cuisine, and

spend two days in Cajun country in

Lafayette, Avery Island, and the

Atchafalaya Basin.

THEATRE IN DUBLIN ANDLONDONMay 5—15,1994

All of you who love "to play" with Anthony

Caputi and Alain Seznec will enjoy this

theatre-fest. We'll have four days in Dub-

lin and five in London to savor each city

and the excellence of its stage offerings.

For details contact Cornell's Adult University, 626 Thurston Avenue,

Ithaca, NY 14850, telephone (607) 255-6260.

LINCOLN'S WASHINGTONMay 18—22,1994

Much of the Civil War was fought, with

guns and words, within earshot of the

Potomac. Join Joel Silbey for on-site

examination of issues, leaders, and

places that determined the fate of the

nation in Lincoln's Washington.

ALASKAMay 30—June 12,1994

From Portage Glacier, Anchorage, Denali,

and Fairbanks, to Juneau and Glacier Bay

(aboard the privately chartered M.V.

Wilderness Explorer), we'll examine the

natural history and ecology of Alaska with

Verne Rockcastle. Please inquire about

space availability.

SICILYMay 31—June 13,1994

One of world's great repositories of

architecture for two millenia, Sicily's

Greek, Roman, Arab, Norman, and

Baroque towns, villas, churches, temples,

and villages will be our fare with William

G. McMinn, in Syracusa, Agrigento,

Palermo, Taormina, and at splendid

coastal and mountain settings in be-

tween. Please inquire about space

availability.

The Best of Cornell—onAudiotape

B e first of what we hope will bemany editions of The Best ofCornell—on Autilotape is now avail-able* CAU favorites Isaac KramntolςWalter LaFeber, and PeterKatzen&teϊn discuss Western Pomr,Polltim, Principle®; Towarκf theTwenty-fimt Century* The series isjotmduced by President frank HL T.Rhodes. Call or write for details*

NEWS

Dorm Fire May Have Been SetA n organization calling itself

Tupac Amaru III (TA3) claimedto have set an early morningfire in the mailroom of the Classof '28 dormitory September 8.

Although there were no injuries, andthe damage was not extensive, 200students were evacuated from thebuilding. The fire, which was limit-ed to a bulletin board, was reportedto campus police just after one a.m.

A person claiming to be a mem-ber of Tupac Amaru III, named foran Inca warrior, called campus po-lice and The Daily Sun and said thegroup was responsible for the fire.TA3, which claims to seek the hir-ing of Hispanic faculty, also claimedresponsibility for acts of vandalismon campus last spring, and hadthreatened to use violence.

Cornell President Frank H.T.Rhodes released a statement say-ing, "I condemn this intimidationwith all the energy at my command.No action is more cowardly thansetting fire to an occupied residencehall in the middle of the night. Uni-versities throughout the world arecommitted to the resolution of dis-putes through the application of in-telligence in rational discourse. Wecannot and will not permit ourselvesto be intimidated by an arsonist'storch or a vandal's brick."

Campus police investigator ScottHamilton says, "Our investigationis continuing. We have to take allthreats seriously, and we are inves-tigating this as a potential case ofarson."

Some Latino students, however,claim that reaction to the phone callwas "irresponsible" because thecaller was never identified. A letterto The Daily Sun signed by eightLatino campus leaders suggestedthat the person who made the callmay not have been Latino.

POLICE B Y ANY

OTHER NAME

Cornell's Department of Public Safe-ty has changed its name to the Cor-

nell University Police Department.According to Chief James W. Cun-ningham, the new name is a moreaccurate reflection of what the de-partment does: enforce civil anduniversity laws. Although, Cunning-ham adds, "85 percent of our timegoes into assisting people, provid-ing escorts and the like."

The name change distinguishesthe police from the Department ofLife Safety, which used to be partof Public Safety. Life Safety over-sees fire and environmental safetyconcerns, responds to fire alarms,performs fire inspections and dealswith hazardous materials. Life Safetyis now a branch of the Departmentof Environmental Health and Safety,and the University Police will bestrictly a law enforcement agency.

"In the past," Chief Cunninghamsays, "we often got calls at PublicSafety where people asked, Ίs thisthe police?' We hope this will clearup any confusion."

Cunningham said he hopes, too,that the name change will help de-fine, for the university community,what the University Police, as wellas Life Safety, actually do.

NEW UNIVERSITY

COUNSELOR

Cornell President Frank H.T.Rhodes announced August 30 thatMark A. Belnick '68, a senior part-ner at the New York City law firmof Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &Garrison, has been named univer-sity counsel and secretary of the cor-poration. The executive committeeof Cornell's Board of Trustees unan-imously approved Belnick's appoint-ment, effective in November.

"I am delighted with MarkBelnick's decision to return to hisalma mater and become a seniormember of Cornell's administration,"Rhodes says. "Mark has had an ex-traordinarily distinguished legal ca-reer, both in private practice and inpublic service. He will bring addedexperience and strength to one of

the most important positions in theuniversity administration, serving notonly as the chief legal officer of theuniversity but also as a key mem-ber of our policy-making team."

"I am thrilled to have the op-portunity to serve Cornell," Belnicksays. "It is for me a joyous home-coming."

Belnick graduated from Colum-bia Law School, and in 1987 servedas special counsel and principaldeputy to the chief counsel of theU.S. Senate Iran-Contra Committee.He was principal author of the Con-gressional Committees' Joint Reporton the Iran-Contra Affair and servedas the committees' chief liaison withthe White House counsel, the StateDepartment and the government ofIsrael. He has been admitted to prac-tice before the United States Su-preme Court.

Belnick is a member of the Uni-versity Council and the Arts CollegeAdvisory Council.

WASTE, NOT

The Cornell Waste ManagementInstitute has a new name, as wellas a new lease on life. Now calledthe New York State Waste Manage-ment Institute at Cornell Universi-ty, the program was recently award-ed $1.2 million from a state-held fundmade up of overcharge penalties paidby oil companies that violated fed-eral pricing rules in the 1970s.

The money will be used for out-reach, education and service on en-ergy-efficient waste management."We will provide technical assistanceto state agencies, communities, busi-nesses and non-profit organiza-tions—using Cornell CooperativeExtension resources wherever pos-sible, as well as publications andshort courses," says Ellen Z. Har-rison, the institute's new director."The institute will be particularlyinterested in integrated solid-wastemanagement programs and facilitiesthat can improve energy efficiency."

The institute will be a unit of

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Fraternity HouseCondemned: TheDelta Chi fraternityhouse, 102 TheKnoll, standsempty thissemester afterbeing condemnedby Ithaca buildinginspectors, whofound major waterleaks as well assignificant firecode violations,The house isboarded up whilefraternitymembers seek toraise $100,000 tobring Delta Chi inline with citybuilding codes. Asof late September,22 of the 41fraternity housesin the City ofIthaca had received certificates of compliancewith Ithaca building codes, 13 were on the vergeof certification, three had just been inspectedand two had been found to have fire-exitingcode violations, but were working toward

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eventual certification. Delta Chi had hired anarchitect and hoped to begin renovations later thisfall. In late August, a section of ceiling at the AlphaSigma Phi fraternity fell, slightly injuring a half-dozen party-goers.

the Cornell Center for the Environ-ment.

GAY/LESBIANTASK FORCE NAMED

The University has asked Vice Pres-ident for Academic Programs andCampus Affairs Larry I. Palmer tohead Cornell's working group on gay/lesbian/bisexual issues. The groupwas formed, in part, in response toPresident Frank H.T. Rhodes's vetoof the proposed gay/lesbian/bisexu-al living/learning unit earlier thisyear. The group will be comprisedof both graduate and undergraduatestudents, professors and administra-tors. The group is expected to dis-cuss gay, lesbian and bisexual issueson campus.

OLDEST ALUM DIES

Dora Earl Decker '13 died in lateAugust in Herkimer, New York atthe age of 110. She was believed tohave been Cornell's oldest livingalumnus. Decker entered the uni-versity in 1909 as a 26-year-old fresh-man; after graduating from IthacaHigh School, she had worked nineyears to save the money for tuition,room and board.

After graduating with a degreein home economics, Decker workedas an instructor at the Universityof Wisconsin, a Cornell CooperativeExtension Agent, a postal clerk andinsurance agent.

On her 100th birthday in 1983,Decker told a reporter that the keyto living so long was to "just be your-

self." Decker was awarded a spe-cial medallion by Cornell PresidentFrank H.T. Rhodes on her 110thbirthday in May.

BOARD MEMBERENGELDIES

Robert G. Engel '53, who retired inJune from Cornell's Board of Trust-ees, died in August of a heart at-tack. Engel had served on the boardfrom 1971 to 1976, and again from1978 to June.

Engel was retired from J.P. Mor-gan & Company, and was chairmanand chief executive officer of AlliedCapital Partners. He also served onthe advisory council of the JohnsonGraduate School of Management, theUniversity Council and the boards

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of the Laboratory of Ornithology andNew York Hospital-Cornell Medi-cal Center.

Engel is survived by his wife,Jane, daughters Jennifer Engel Young79 and Elizabeth Engel and a son,Robert A. Engel.

FORMER FENCING

COACH KILLED

Former Cornell fencing coach GraemeJennings was killed in a two-car ac-cident in the town of Ovid, northwestof Ithaca, when his car collided witha sheriffs patrol car. Jennings, whowas the head fencing coach from 1988to 1992, was pronounced dead at thescene. He was 47.

Jennings had coached at the Uni-versity of Chicago, and was assis-tant coach at Cornell for three yearsbefore assuming the head coachingposition.

A native of Sydney, Australia,Jennings competed on Australia's1968 Olympic fencing team. CornellAthletic Director Laing Kennedy toldthe Syracuse Post-Standard, "He wasan outstanding fencing master andhe did a really superb job with bothour teams and in our physical edu-cation program. This is a tremen-dous loss to our department."

UNIVERSITY ORGANIST DIES

Music Professor Donald R.M. Pater-son, the university organist, died inMay. Paterson had retired as organistand Sage Chapel choirmaster in Jan-uary, after teaching at Cornell for 29years. He was a founding memberof the Organ Historical Society, arecipient of its Distinguished ServiceAward and author of "An Accountof the Organs in Sage Chapel."

"The Donald R.M. Paterson Me-morial Fund has been established bythe university," says music profes-sor and music department chairSteven Stucky, "to benefit the SageChapel musical traditions Don lovedand to which he himself contributedso much."

MELLON GREEN TO RED

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundationawarded grants to Cornell's Schoolof Industrial and Labor Relations and

the College of Agriculture and LifeSciences for joint projects with theCzech and Slovak republics.

The ILR School received $440,000to help academic specialists solveworkplace problems in the republicsof the former Czechoslovakia. Fac-ulty experts from ILR will collabo-rate with a partner university in eachrepublic to jointly teach courses anddevelop materials, cases and curricu-lum plans pertinent to problems suchas human resource management andindustrial relations practices.

The Ag College was awarded$491,000 to help faculty at Slovakia'sagriculture university in Nitra trainstudents in the concepts of operat-ing a business and to better under-stand the proper role of governmentin a market economy. Cornell fac-ulty from agricultural economics willteach courses at Nitra in appliedeconomics, business management,regional development and environ-mental policy.

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You'll find a lot of people take the success of

your meeting or conference very personally at

The Statler Hotel. The conference coordinator

who is there to answer all your questions. The

AV technician who makes your presentation

go without a hitch. Even the servers who make

sure coffees always there for everyone.

You see, The Statler is part of the world-

renowned School of Hotel Administration,

located right on Cornell campus. And as a

teaching hotel, you could say that we wrote the

book on service.

Some people choose The Statler for our

25,000 square feet of meeting and banquet facili-

ties. Some, for our 92-seat amphitheater, some

for our 889-seat auditorium or for our 8 different

banquet rooms. (Some will even choose

The Statler for our access to Cornell University's

18-hole Robert Trent Jones Golf Course.)

But some will choose The Statler for our

service. Because where else can you be treated

to - shall we say? - "textbook" service like ours?

Quite literally, when it comes to hospitality, the

world takes a lesson from us.

For Reservations, call: 607-257-2500 or 800-541-2501, or fax 607-257-6432.

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LETTERS

Editor: For a book on "Murrow'sboys," the group of CBS radio cor-respondents associated with EdwardR. Murrow during World War II, Iwould appreciate hearing from any-one who knew one of them, CharlesCollingwood '39.

Lynne OlsonWashington, DC

TULLYWHO?

Editor: Chance took me to a Tully,NY eatery not long ago and thereas big as life it appeared on the menu:Tullyburgers, $2.25. The ingredientswere listed: lettuce, tomato, onion,cheese and mayo.Sounded familiar. I forone have willingly ac-cepted that Tullieswere named for JohnTully '45, that his ap-petite inspired them,and that the proximityof the metropolis ofTully is merely coinci-dental. Could it be thatsome Cornellian hasimported Tullyburgersto Tully?

Jim Hanchett '53New York, NY

Readers familiar with this particu-lar area of gastronomia are urged tosend their answers to Mr. Han-chett's quandary to HamburgerDesk, Cornell Magazine, 55 BrownRd., Ithaca, NY 14850.

HuTTON MEMOIR

Editor-. Copies of the privately printedJames Hutton: A Memoir, by MaryFuertes Boynton '31, PhD '41 andDorothy W. Tyler '30, PhD '36, arestill available for friends and formerstudents of Professor Hutton. Toobtain the memoirs, write to Dor-othy Tyler, 15 West Garrison St.,

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18018.There is no charge. Please print yourname and address clearly.

Dorothy Tyler '30, PhD '36Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

KUDOS

Editor: The new Cornell Magazineis better than ever—and it has al-ways been superb. All of us who readeach issue cover to cover can easi-ly see why the magazine was thewinner of three CASE awards thisyear.

Gail L. Baker '59Houston, Texas

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Pete Curtiss '56 of P.O.Box 536, Etna, NY13062 has provided anupdate of Cornellianscurrently available: '29-'33, '36-'41, '46, '47, '49,'52-'54, '62, '63, 70, 72,73, 76-78, '80, '81, '83-'85, '87-'91. Inquireabout earlier years.

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When you stay at The Statler Hotel, don't be the book on service.

surprised if your comfort seems very, very So when youre at The Statler, enjoying

important to our staff. The young woman the memories of your school days, relax in

who drove the complimentary shuttle bus the comfort of your modern, elegant room,

from the airport. The person who picked up Enjoy fine dining; a quick, casual meal; or a

your suit to be cleaned and pressed. The nightcap. Sample the university's fine and

waiter who suggested the perfect wine. diverse athletic facilities. Whatever you do,

You see, The Statler is part of the world- you'll be treated to - shall we say? - "text-

renowned School of Hotel Administration, book" service. Because quite literally, when it

located right on Cornell campus. And as a comes to hospitality, the world takes a lesson

teaching hotel, you could say that we wrote from us.

For Reservations, call: 607-257-2500 or 800-541-2501.

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LETTER FROM ITHACA

Facing Winter

By November in Ithaca,nearly all the leaves inthe trees have fallen.At night, when thewind picks up, they

skitter and fly across thestreets and sidewalks, mak-ing a dry, rustling soundthat's as sure a sign of win-ter as migrating geese. Soonthe days will be gray andheavy as lead, and you'llbegin to think ahead andwonder if there's such athing as Spring in Ithaca. You maybegin to picture students at South-ern Cal, at Stanford, even at the Uni-versity of Virginia at Charlottesville,and maybe imagine how those stu-dents will be wearing shorts inMarch, smelling lilac, and admiringforsythia before the semester is evenclose to being over. In Ithaca, thewinter—like a bad habit—just won'tgo away.

In November in Ithaca the nov-elty of the new semester has longworn off. The charming eccentrici-ties of your roommate are only irri-tating now—the hair in the bathroomsink, The Pogues on the stereo at2 a.m., the roommate's girlfriend whonever, ever, seems to go home. Pro-fessors aren't so witty and erudite,the readings and lectures so inter-esting, the brilliant leaves of Octo-ber—those flaming oranges, reds andyellows—are dull brown and decid-edly dead.

By November, those late Augustand early September days in Ithacaare as far away as Hawaii. Days whenthe leaves were green and the airso bright and clear it almost hurtyour eyes. Days when you couldswim in the gorges, or sit on thegrass with a friend at nighty and talkand sip warm beer until early in themorning. To do that in November

Ithaca winter: only the strong survive.

would mean wearing a wet suit, orhuddling under blankets, and thatwould be like washing your handswith gloves on.

In November, beyond everythingelse, the work falls due: the big pa-pers and the reading and the labresults. Finals loom.

So on a Tuesday night in thesecond or third week of November,you've been in your dorm room inDonlon or Baker, or, say, in yourbasement apartment on WilliamsStreet in Collegetown, five or sixhouses below Eddy Gate.You've been wrestlingwith the reading for yourMechanics of Particlesand Solid Bodies course,wrestling with linear os-cillations, non-inertial ref-erence systems, or you'rereading the Nighttownsection of Ulysses, and it'slike your head is on fire, yourroommate's girlfriend is blasting TheSmiths in the living room, the songabout getting killed by a truck, andhow heavenly it would be to die byyour lover's side.

You're hungry, there's nothingin the refrigerator but a half-emptycan of Diet Pepsi, some wilted let-tuce, soy sauce and Paul Newman'sOwn Cool Ranch salad dressing. You

get into your parka—it's toocold for a jeans jacket now—and head out the door,barely nodding to yourroommate's girlfriend.

Williams Street is near-vertical. There are overflow-ing trash cans in front ofalmost every house. Thehouses have at least fiveapartments, it seems, andyou only have about $5.00and change to last untilWednesday afternoon, and

the pizza place on College Avenuehas a $3.00-and-change special twoslices and a medium soda, and it'snever crowded after 8:00 on a week-night. At least not until the placefills up again about 1:10 a.m., whenthe bars close.

The temperature must be closeto 30. It's after 9:00, the cold bitesyour hands and ears, and there's al-most nobody on Dryden Road. TheGreek House is mostly empty; twowaitresses are sitting at a booth,smoking. A thin guy with glasses,

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They're talking quietly and ear-nestly—about a class? About beingin love? About visiting a lake lastsummer in the mountains, and howblue and warm the water was—inItaly, in the mountains, where therewere olives on trees that shined inthe sun?

You get two plain slices, a soda,and sit in front of the big windowsthat look out onto the street. Ev-ery few minutes people go by, nearlyall headed away from campus. A fewcouples, a group of four guys, butfor the most part single people passby, nearly always with backpacks orbookbags or briefcases. All of themwalk quickly in the cold.

As you're eating, staring at thepattern of grease on your paper plate,you think how in Charlottesville thetemperature is probably in the 50s,how at Stanford they're wearingshorts, and what's the point of en-gineering or James Joyce. Now youhave less than $2.00 to last untilWednesday afternoon, and more thana year and a half to go in school. Itwould be sad if your friends in Bos-ton could see you now—sittingalone, eating cardboard pizza—oryour high school girlfriend who hadthe sense to go to Stanford—she'sprobably walking on a beach withher surfer boyfriend.

T hen you look up, and you seesomething strange and famil-iar, something you haven'tseen in more than half a year.A sight so lovely and surpris-

ing that everything else falls away—the work, the bad pizza, the room-mate and his girlfriend, the lack ofmoney, even the hair in the bath-room sink. Snow is falling lightly anddelicately outside, falling like somegift you don't deserve. It remindsyou of being about 5 years old andhow every snowfall was a commandperformance by the sky, and you feltas if you'd invented the world.

Outside, there are even fewerpeople, and almost no cars. It's af-ter 10. The snow melts as it reachesthe ground. You walk, look up intothe dark sky, and there are a bil-lion flakes. They're all new, and eachone's different. And Thanksgivingis less than a few weeks away.

—Paul Cody, MFA '87

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The Doors of Knowledge

A ny college student whohas ever stood outside afaculty member's officedoor waiting for a confer-ence has probably noticed

that these same office doorshave become—if not a mirrorof the teacher's soul—at leastas important a source of infor-mation about that teacher as theshoes or hat she wears, themusic he listens to, the face heor she puts on to meet theworld. An informal walking tourof doors could address certainquestions about faculty peckingorder, about characteristics ofdoor decoration and departmen-tal work habits, about the rela-tions of door design to the flooron which an office was located.

Were senior faculty officesmore likely to be on lower floorsof buildings, and did older andsenior professors have discreet,careful and dull doors? Were thedoors of younger, poorer, gradstudent instructors really on theupper floors—or attics—ofbuildings, and were their doorsusually more interesting? Didengineering teachers put lesson their doors than artists?

Come along on a random andwholly unscientific tour of facultydoor design.

There was the head of a bighornsheep mounted on the wall of themain stairway in Fernow Hall, thetrophy, no doubt, of somebody's huntyears ago.

So the look at faculty doors be-gan in Fernow Hall, in the Depart-ment of Natural Resources, in a dif-ferent kind of hunt. There wasn'tmuch on the doors on the first floor.At room 122A there was a note say-ing, "J.P. Lassoie. Should you wishto see Dr. Jim Lassoie please stopdown the hall at 110 Fernow andspeak with Deborah Grover.Thanks." Nearby, at room 124 therewas a poster on the door which said,

Faculty doors are windows to faculty souls.

"Bringing Wildlife Back," and in-cluded photographs of deer, a tur-key and a bighorn sheep, presum-ably not the same sheep that wason the wall of the stairway.

Upstairs, at room 214, there wasa sign that said, "Dr. Aaron N. Moenhas office hours 8:30-4:30," but thedoor was locked, and the office wasdark, around noon on a Thursday.On the third floor, past two mounteddeer heads which were staring ateach other from opposite walls, theoffices were mostly occupied byteaching assistants, all of whomseemed to be graduate students.They were actually present in theiroffices, usually two or more to anoffice, and the doors were coveredwith things.

The door of Room 312A, shared

by two grad students, Louise Buckand Laura Brown, had two posterson it, one showing various breedsof dogs, the other showing marinefishes of Thailand, as well as aDoonesbury cartoon, an AmnestyInternational sticker and three ofGary Larson's "Far Side" cartoons.

One Larson, captioned"Great moments in evo-lution" shows three frog-like creatures, peekingat the shore from under-water, eyeing what lookslike an egg. The crea-tures are carrying abaseball bat.

The tour proceeded toUris 347, where SarahTarp-ley, a grad student insociology, had a yellow"Complaint Forms" cardon her door, with a smallsquare of adhesive on itwhere the forms could beleft. The yellow card read,"Fill out in triplicate.Please write legibly. Eachcomplaint will be carefullyconsidered." Upstairs, ineconomics, Teaching As-sistants Vik-ram Haskarand Linda Van Gelderhad a poem called"Bosnia Time," by Jo-seph Brodsky, on theirdoor. It begins, "As youpour yourself a Scotch,"and ends with the lines,"Time, whose sharp

blood-thirsty quill/parts the killedfrom those who kill/will pronouncethe latter tribe/as your type."

Down the hall, on the door of Uris469, someone had written on the doorwith black magic marker, "Would youplease come to my office after class?I'm in Mark's office now." On Uris 445,there was a postcard of an ape holdinga giant firecracker, and in red type,"Greetings from Cornell." Both doorsbelonged to offices of graduate studentinstructors.

Phillips Hall, the home of elec-trical engineering, has plain woodendoors. Phillips 315 had a discretesign, "Richard C. Compton, Assis-tant Professor," and a note whichread, "Professor Compton's Secre-tary is Mary Root (Room 305 PhillipsHall)." Professor Clifford Pollock had

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a taped announcement for "Ceram-ics Afternoon at Cornell" on his door,and Prof. J.R. Shealy had a woodendoor with a handle, a lock and noth-ing else.

Just down the hall, at Phillips 308,there were no names on the door,but there was plenty taped to it, in-cluding a Harper's Index, an adver-tisement from a magazine for a life-size Elvis cut-out, an Ask Shagg car-toon, and an answer from Dan Quayle"when asked whether Hawaii's uni-versal health coverage could serveas a national model." Quayle said,"Hawaii is a unique state. It is a statethat is by itself. It is a—it is differ-ent than the other 49 states. Wellall states are different, but it's got aparticularly unique situation." If ourunscientifically arrived-at patternsheld, Phillips 308 would have beenthe office of graduate students.

In Morrill Hall the door of lin-guistics Professor Allard Jongmanwas plastered with announcements,including one for "Phonetics I," fora "Conference on Binaural and Spa-tial Hearing," for "Psycholinguistics,"and for a wine and cheese recep-tion for the "Cognitive Studies Pro-gram." On the curtained window ofProfessor Carstens's office at Morrill214, a flyer said, "Interested in WestAfrica? Study Yoruba or Mandinka thisfall! It's not too late to register."

Linguistics Professor F. Land-man had postcards of what lookedlike a European city, as well as acard showing two identical drawingsof a cow grazing in front of a wind-mill in heavy rain. Under one draw-ing the card says, "Summer in Hol-land," under the other, "Winter inHolland." On the door of Morrill 218was a sign: "Prof. Suner will be work-ing for the Cornell-Michigan Pro-gram in Seville during 1993-94.Advisees and prospective Spanishmajors, please see Prof. J. Lantolf."

So it seems that grad studentinstructors have doors that are highlydecorated and use more cartoons,poems and clips from magazines, aregenerally on the upper floors of build-ings and seem to spend more timein their offices than professors do,perhaps because a windowless of-fice is better than a basement apart-ment in Collegetown.

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lower floors, and with a few excep-tions, have dignified rather than in-teresting doors. Maybe the climb upthe academic ladder has made themcareful, a little less humorous, bet-ter poker players. Somewhere be-tween grad school and tenure theirinterests have shifted from great mo-ments in evolution and life-size Elviscut-outs to binaural and spatial hear-ing and letting people know whereto find their secretaries.

O f all the buildings on the tour,Tjaden Hall had the creakiestfloors, the most worn stairs, thetallest and narrowest hallways,and is home to—what else?—

the Department of Fine Arts. Thewalls inside are brick, are paintedwhite, and are streaked everywhereby artists who didn't wash theirhands when they left a classroomor studio. There were lines and spotsof red, green, blue and black on thewalls.

The door of art professor Elis-abeth Meyer at 205 Tjaden had cardsand flyers on it, one of which an-nounced a painting show, "9 from100," at the Hartell Gallery. Another,at 203 Tjaden, announced a showcalled "Double Vision."

On the third floor of Tjaden, weended our hunt at the office door ofpainting Professor Kay Walkingstick,whose name was on the door in largeblack letters, with a red S painted byhand over the printed black S in hername. On the door was the followingunsigned message. "Press on. Noth-ing in the world can take the place ofpersistence. Talent will not; nothingis more common than unsuccessfulmen with talent. Genius will not;unrewarded genius is almost a prov-erb. Education alone will not; the worldis full of educated derelicts. Persistenceand determination alone are omnipo-tent." Here was a senior faculty mem-ber not only on the third floor, but ap-parently with some of the same spiritof a grad student.

Dozens of small streaks and fin-gerprints are on the door frame,around the handle, and especiallyaround the lock on her door. It's asif you couldn't get in to see Profes-sor Walkingstick without paint onyour hands.

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The atlas, written by atmosphericsciences Professor Daniel S. Wilksand postdoctoral associate RichardP. Cember, is crammed with 193maps of weekly, monthly and sea-sonal snowfall and snow depth prob-abilities. The maps look like topo-graphic maps, with graceful contourlines meandering across the North-eastern landscape from Maine downto Virginia, and west to Ohio.

Sound impenetrable? Wilks' andCember's atlas has more thanenough of the "coffee table" appealits authors modestly claim for it. Themaps are full of counterintuitive snowfacts, shattering some weather mythswhile supporting others (see box, thispage). Weather-grousing Cornelliansmay be surprised to discover thatparts of Virginia usually get moresnow than Ithaca. Other maps con-firm the notion that winter oftenwanes in March only to blast lulledNortheasterners with an early Aprilsnowstorm.

"The most striking revelation tome was the role that the Great Lakesand the Appalachians play in localsnow conditions," says atmosphericsciences Professor Warren Knapp,the NRCC's director, pointing to thefact that the snowiest part of theNortheast is a three-county area in

New York State justeast of Lake On-tario. Oneida, Os-wego and Lewiscounties are buriedunder almost threetimes as much snowover the course of awinter (more than140 inches) thanIthaca. The culprit:lake-effect storms,which pick up mois-ture from the warmwaters of Lake On-tario and poundareas downwind.

The atlas syn-thesizes measure-ments taken at 898weather stationsover 37 years. Ac-cording to the au-thors, however, thekey to the atlas'saccuracy and useful-ness is its statistical methodology.Precipitation measurements, inex-plicably, do not form a normal dis-tribution (the infamous "bell curve").So Wilks and Cember use the me-dian, the value that separates thehighest 50 percent of observationsfrom the lowest 50 percent. "Thereare lots of small snowstorms everywinter and only a few huge ones,"explains Cember. "The averagesnowfall figure says nothing aboutreal frequencies."

For all of its fun facts, the atlasis really about cold, hard budgets.Richard Cember hopes that trans-portation and public works officialswill be frequent users of the atlas.Says Cember: "They need to knowhow long to keep their staff at fullstrength, how much money to allo-cate for overtime at different timesof the year."

A white Christmas? It's more likelythat at least an inch of snow will fallon Christmas Day in Bayard, WestVirginia than in Ithaca.

You are almost as likely to see6 inches of snow on the groundin Ithaca on the Ides of March(March 15) as on Christmas Day.

April Fools: one out of 13 years, atleast an inch of snow falls on Ithacaon April 1st.

THE LIVING FRAGRANCEFACTORY?

In a dark incubation room, a Cornellgraduate student is growing plant cellsthat spawn the chemical precursorsof the priceless perfume ingredientbeta-damascenone.

Beta-damascenone is a volatileflavor-enhancing compound that oc-curs naturally in grapes, apples androses. It's behind chardonnay's noseand apple pie's sensory signature.Perfume manufacturers pay morethan $200 a milligram for its olfac-tory magic, hardly surprising con-sidering that there are less than 30nanograms (30 billionths of a gram)of beta-damascenone in one apple.In other words, one would have toput 3 million apples through a ciderpress to get a single drop of the sub-stance. Fragrance and flavor mak-

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Until now, that is. Food scien-tist Kenneth B. Shure, Grad, hascreated an elegantly simple recipefor the costly compound.

Shure harvests immature Con-cord grapes and leaf stems from theCornell Agricultural ExperimentStation's vineyards in Geneva, NewYork. He chops them into smallpieces, then immerses the chunksin a gelatinous matrix of nutrientsand hormones. In a matter of weeks,a microscopic cluster of cells hasgrown from the cut surfaces of thegrape pieces. These growths areremoved and re-incubated in thedark. Plates of gumdrop-sized globsof plant cells eventually emerge.

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DUSTBUSTERS

Cornell astronomers may have bust-ed the mystery of Jupiter's space duststreams.

When the spacecraft Ulyssesstreaked past Jupiter in early 1992,its sensitive instruments detectedsix unexpected, day-long duststorms, each one about one monthapart. The tiny particles, crashed intothe craft's dust detector at speedsin excess of 30 kilometers per sec-

ond. The dust seemed to comestraight from the Jovian atmosphere.Researchers had never seen any-thing like it. Where did the dustparticles come from, why were theytraveling so fast, and why thestrange, regular frequency of thestorms?

Astronomy graduate studentDouglas P. Hamilton and astronomyand theoretical and applied mechan-ics Professor Joseph A. Burns havedeveloped a theoretical model thatmay explain the Ulysses readings.According to their model, the keyto the dust's origin lies in the deli-cate interplay of electromagnetismand gravity.

In order to strike the spacecraft,dust must have some means of es-caping Jupiter's gravitational pull.The outward force: Jupiter's strongelectromagnetic field, which wouldrepel positively charged dust par-ticles. If dust could break Jupiter'sgravitational hold, electromagneticswould push it away faster and faster.

Dust grains of different sizeswould be affected in different waysby these two forces. Large objectswould be held in orbit around theplanet by gravity. The smallest par-ticles would be unaffected by grav-ity, but would be trapped by Jupiter'selectromagnetic field. Only dustgrains of a certain size could be pro-pelled into space. The particles thatstruck Ulysses during the dust stormsfell into this very size range. Butwhere did they come from?

The Cornell team thinks that thedust comes from Jupiter's faint outerring, a thin band of planetary rubbleand debris. As objects collide in thering, the dust that meets the model'ssize criteria is generated.

The last riddle for Hamilton andBurns: the dust streams' bafflingperiodicity. Dust particles on theirflight from Jupiter encounter the"solar wind," ions and electronspushed by the sun's electromagneticfield. The field rotates with the sun,traveling full circle in one month.Once a month, the revolving fieldswings by and buffets the fast-mov-ing dust grains. The Hamilton andBurns model suggests that Ulysseswas struck by these monthly wavesof Jovian dust in the solar wind.

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E arly on a Saturday morning inSeptember, a few hundred stu-dents sprawl across the arti-ficial turf in Alberding FieldHouse's multipurpose room.

Some chat quietly, others read, feel-ing already the pressure of the youngsemester. But most sit silently, theirtired looks betraying the time, andthe day. There's really not much ofanything going on.

Registration? The Grand CourseExchange? Not exactly. Welcome tothe 1993 version of Cornell seasonhockey ticket sales. The raucousLynah slumber party that hockeyticket sales precipitated in the 1970sand '80s has gone the way of thePhi Psi 500. In its place is a decid-edly efficient and sterile event—nolawn chairs, no pizza boxes, no emptybeer bottles speckling the areaaround the rink. No one brought pil-lows or sleeping bags or food sup-

Fbrget the sleeping bag.Students now use Fed Ex to

get hockey tickets.

istrators decided that students weremissing too many classes while wait-ing in line to buy hockey tickets.(Some of the Lynah Faithful queuedup as many as four days before thesale started to ensure themselvesthe best seats.) So administratorsdecided to change the procedure ofthe ticket sale. Instead of the tradi-tional camp-out, the Athletic Depart-ment would distribute numbers des-ignating line positions at a differentlocation—to be announced at the lastminute—each year. Students wouldthen be sold tickets according to theirline number. The secret locationwould be announced in the CornellDaily Sun. The new plan would ob-viate the need for camp outs.

The plan was put into effect in1990. The sale went well, but in 1991mayhem broke out as hundreds ofstudents, tipped off by loose-lippedDaily Sun staffers who knew the lo-

cation of that year'sline number distribu-tion point, filled thearea under the Schoell-kopf Crescent. Storiesabounded of peoplewho waited hours onlyto wind up without aline number because

The hockey ticket salenow resemblesRegistration, not theslumber party of daysof yore.

plies, because there was no sleep-out. The traditional hockey ticketsale is now only a memory.

The reason for the change?About five years ago, campus admin-

late arrivals managedto push and shovetheir way to the frontof the mob. "We couldeasily have had peoplecrushed to death,"says LieutenantGeorge Taber of the

campus police. "We had people get-ting dizzy and passing out."

A committee of students, faculty,campus police and athletic depart-ment staff was formed to come up

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with a plan that was both safe andfair. Last year's sale, the result ofthat committee's work, was a varia-tion of the traditional sale, completewith line-checks, a Lynah Rink slum-ber party and pizza provided by theuniversity and served by the hockeyplayers. But not everybody thoughtthe 1992 sale went so well. "Thestudents didn't want to be botheredstaying in Lynah overnight," saysSharon Lindahl Boedo, MA '87, Grad,a student member of the commit-tee. "It was clear that the majorityof the people who showed up werenot happy about having to be there."

So the committee went back towork. The result was yet anothercomplete overhaul of the sales pro-cedure. Says Boedo, "We wanted tostreamline the whole process." Thisyear, forms were mailed over thesummer to students' homes withregistration information and bursar'sbills. Students returned the formswith the $114 each ticket costs. Theywere then assigned line numbersbased on the order in which theforms were received as well as se-niority. The students were told toshow up for one of three Saturdaymorning sales at 8:30,10:00 or 11:30,depending on which sale they wereassigned to. Each student was al-lowed to purchase two general ad-mission tickets good for a specificsection of Lynah Rink; a ticket inSection B would allow the ticket-holder to sit anywhere in SectionB. In all, 1,000 of the available 1,700season tickets reserved for studentswere sold at Saturday's sale.

Some students complained thatbecause they were unaware of thisnew system they weren't on thelookout for the order form, and thatthe form itself was easily overlookedin the large packet of registrationinformation. Some have complainedthat they had not budgeted themoney for tickets during the sum-mer. But most students are pleasedwith the new procedure, thoughmany expressed concerns about the

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"This way is much easier thanthe old way, but it takes away fromthe tradition of sleeping out," saysEllen Tessler '94, adding that in thepast fans had to show their devo-tion—to say nothing of stamina—by camping for tickets. RebeccaStillwell '94 says she thinks the newsystem was much better and "muchmore orderly," although she admitsto fears that "because the tickets aregeneral admission therell be a lineupbefore every game." Kenneth Wong'94 says, "A lot of the incoming fresh-men won't be able to experiencewhat the Lynah Faithful is all about."

Stephanie Gendell '95 says thenew sale is "definitely better thansleeping in the rink," but adds thatit was more difficult to coordinateticket purchases with her friends.Gendell wasn't taking any chances—to make sure she got the best pos-sible seat, she sent her order formvia Federal Express the day shereceived it. Bill Rieke '94 says thatthe lack of reserved seating meansfans won't get to know everyonearound them as they did in the past.

Athletic Ticket Manager LaurieUpdike says the general admissionidea came entirely from the studentson the committee. "They felt thatsince most students weren't sittingin their reserved seats anyway, whynot just open things up and let ev-eryone sit wherever he wanted to,within the lettered sections," saysUpdike. "We can go back to all re-served seating in the future if that'swhat the students want."

What effect the new system hason the makeup of the Lynah Faith-ful will become apparent when themen's hockey team plays its firstregular season home game againstHarvard on November 19. Will stu-dents line up outside Lynah longbefore the rink opens to make surethey get the best seats? Will theybring chicken and fish and sieves?Or is Sun sports columnist J. EricDocktor '94 correct when he writes:"The Faithful, which recently hasbeen just a shadow of what it oncewas, is now dead"?

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SPORTS

Winter Sports Set to Roll

Icing: Men's hockey seeks to return to its winning ways.

C hange is in the air this winter,as three sports boast new headcoaches. Each winter programalso bears a distinct mission.Men's and women's basketball

hope to build upon their recent win-ning ways, while men's and wom-en's hockey wish for a return to pastglory. And wrestling? Yawn. AnotherIvy League championship. AnotherEastern championship. More of thesame will be more than enough.

Wrestling. Rob Koll prefers to thinkof the 1993-94 season not as the endof an era, but as the beginning ofone. After building the Big Red intoa national power and leading thesquad to five straight Ivy champi-onships, Cornell Wrestling CoachJack Spates last summer acceptedan offer to coach at the Universityof Oklahoma. Says Koll, a formernational champion at the Universi-ty of North Carolina who won the163-pound World Cup wrestling ti-tle in May, "Certainly Jack is hardto replace, but I would like to think

that it'll be a positive transition."And a smooth one, too. Koll was

instrumental in recruiting and train-ing the Big Red team that has takentwo straight Eastern championshipsand finished last season ranked 10thin the nation. He was the obviouschoice to replace Spates because hehelped create the Cornell wrestlingsuccess story. "I don't plan on chang-ing a whole lot of things because,quite honestly, we were doing a greatjob," he says. "I want to maintainthe same focus we've had in the past,and that is to continue to bring inquality [wrestlers]."

Three such wrestlers—two-timeAil-American Mark Fergeson '93,Kyle Rackley '93 and David Sims'93—have graduated, but the Big Redtalent pool is as deep as it is strong.Three of last year's Eastern cham-pions return in heavyweight BruceMorgan '94,118-pounder John Bove'94 and 126-pounder David Hirsch'94. According to Koll, this year'scrop of freshmen also represents oneof the best recruiting classes in the

Three new coaches onthe Bill look for victories

with young teams.

country, including a dozen statechampions.

Men's Basketball. Not since the BigRed captured the 1987-88 Ivy Leaguetitle and made the trip to the NCAATournament has there been suchenthusiasm for hoops at Cornell. The1992-93 squad rolled to a 16-10 over-all record (9-5 Ivy), including a 20-point triumph over then 19th-rankedCalifornia.

This season's hoopsters face theloss of some integral reasons for lastyear's success. After two years atthe Big Red helm, Jan van BredaKolff left for the top job at powerfulVanderbilt, taking with him lastyear's freshman phenom Pax White-head '96. Graduation took last sea-son's starting backcourt, leadingscorer Jeff Gaca '93 and five-foot-seven playmaker Mike Parker '93.

But the Big Red still has the tal-ent to make waves in the Ivy League,and as it strives to match the featsof six years ago the team will beled by a man who, served as an as-sistant coach on that same squad.Thirty-four-year-old Al Walker re-turns to the Big Red sidelines afterfive successful years as head coachat Colorado College. "This is theculmination of a dream," saysWalker. "When I left in 1988, afterCornell won the Ivy League cham-pionship, it was my goal to returnsomeday as the head coach."

Much of the responsibility inWalker's first season will rest on thebroad shoulders of 6-foot-4 forwardZeke Marshall '94 and 6-foot-7 cen-ter Justin Treadwell '94. Treadwellaveraged 10.4 points and a team-high7.4 rebounds per game last season,while Marshall was a second-teamAll-Ivy pick with 12.4 points, 6.9rebounds and a league-best 2.0 stealsper game.

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Frank Ableson '94, a 6-foot-3point guard, joins Marshall andTreadwell as a tri-captain. He'll becomplemented by shooting guardBrandt Schuckman '96, a three-pointspecialist, and forward Brian Kopf'95, an excellent defender. Severalnewcomers should also get a longlook from Walker, including JeremyFlagel '97, a 6-foot-7 forward whose20 points and 11 rebounds per gameled Kentridge (Washington) HighSchool to a state championship.

The season tips off November27 with a trip to the University ofMaryland, followed four days laterby an encounter with Syracuse atthe Carrier Dome. On December 29and 30, the Big Red will competein the Michigan State Tournamentin Lansing.

Women's Basketball. After posting a 10-16 record (4-10 Ivy) last season, itsbest performance in nine years, thewomen's basketball team seems poisedto continue its rise to respectability.Four starters return to the 1993-94squad, with only leading rebounderMarie Watson '93 leaving the scene."If there is a dark horse in the IvyLeague this year," says coach KimJordan, "we may be it."

Forward Keri Farley '95 led lastyear's team with 15.7 points pergame, 68 assists and 63 steals andearned All-Ivy second-team honors.Center Bee Sponaugle '94 paced thesquad with 25 blocked shots, andguard Susan Hunnewell '94 scored81 points and started 15 games.

Two of Jordan's best players willbe fighting for the point-guard spot.Team Captain Suzy Onze '94 aver-aged 5.3 points and 2.2 assists pergame last year and led the team with29 three-point field goals. She'll bepushed by freshman Kacee English'97, who averaged 24 points pergame in high school.

Men's Ice Hockey. One thing's forsure, Head Coach Brian McCutch-eon '71 isn't making life any easieron his troops. The 1992-93 hockeyteam suffered through a dismal 6-19-1 season, yet the 1993-94 ver-sion faces an even tougher sched-ule. Aside from a 22-game ECACslate, the Big Red will meet BostonUniversity, Boston College and

Men's Cross CountryCornell 15, Syracuse 48Cornell 15, East Stroudsburg 50Army 23, Cornell 32,Fordham Invitational: 1st

Women's Cross CountryCornell 19, Army 44Cornell 15, Syracuse 50Cornell 15, East Stroudsburg 50Fordham Invitational: 2nd

Field HockeyCornell 2, C.W. Post 0Cornell 4, Colgate 0Princeton 6, Cornell 0Lehigh 2, Cornell 1

FootballPrinceton 18, Cornell 12Colgate 22, Cornell 6Lehigh 35, Cornell 13

Men's GolfCornell/Colgate Invitational 5thSt. Bonaventure Invitational 3rd

Men's SoccerCornell 2, Adelphi 1Comelll, Colgate 0Cornell 2, Pennsylvania 0Cornell 5, Oneonta 4Princeton 5, Cornell 3Cornell 1, Syracuse 0

Cornell 3, Harvard 3

Women's SoccerCornell 5, St. Bonaventure 0Colgate 2, Cornell 1Cornell 4, Pennsylvania 0Hartford 4, Cornell 2Cornell 1, Harvard 0

Women's TennisRutgers 5, Cornell 3Penn State 6, Cornell 3Cornell 5, Seton Hall 3William & Mary 8, Cornell 0

Women's VolleyballCornell 3, Niagra 2Cornell 3, Liberty 0Cornell 3, Syracuse 1Delaware 3, Cornell 2Providence 3, Cornell 1Cornell 3, Vermont 0Rice 3, Cornell 1Cornell 3, Davidson 0Cornell 3, William & Mary 0Cornell 3, Columbia 0

Northeastern. Cornell will also com-pete in the Mariucci Classic in Min-neapolis, a tournament featuringNCAA champion Maine and runner-up Lake Superior State. "We wantto compete against the best in thecountry," says McCutcheon.

Whether Cornell will be competi-tive with the best in the country isanother matter. Two top playersfrom last year's squad—leadingscorer Ryan Hughes '93 and All-Ivyhonorable mention defenseman Eti-enne Belzile '93—are gone, and thisyear's preseason roster lists sevenfreshmen and 12 sophomores. Onthe other hand, the 12 freshmen onlast year's squad also scored one-third of the team's goals.

Look for forwards Geoff Bum-stead '94 (19 points) and ShaunHannah '94 (16 points) to lead theway, along with Brad Chartrand '96,who paced the team with 10 goalsin his rookie campaign. Andy Ban-durski '95 returns in the net, after

posting a 3.90 goals-against averageand all six wins last season.

Women's Ice Hockey. Yet anothernew face will be taking over thewomen's hockey program, as formerHarvard star Julie (Sasner) Ande-berhan replaces Dorothy Diggs ascoach. A three-time All-Ivy selec-tion and 1988 Ivy League Player ofthe Year at Harvard, Andeberhanspent the past two seasons coach-ing women's soccer at CaliforniaState University, Hayward.

Andeberhan has her work cut outfor her, as the Big Red lost its twotop scorers (Becky Schmalz '93 andChristina Patterson '93) to gradua-tion, as well as four-time all-leaguegoaltender Chantal Toth '93. Sopho-more defenseman Jennifer Wilson'96 is the top returning scorer witheight points last season. Katy Eh-mann '96 will replace Toth in theBig Red net.

—Brad Herzog '90

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BY BRAD

"College football in the United States owes much of its

distinction and nearly all of its tradition to the fact

that for virtually every institution, whether great or small,

there is another whose academic and athletic qualifi-

cations make the two natural rivals."

—Edward R. Bushnell, former editor,

Franklin Field Illustrated

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eorge Pfann '24, Ail-American, sits proudly in

the dim light of his Ithaca home, the sunlight

pouring in through the windows. It has been 70

years since he last graced the gridiron as Cornell'srstar quarterback, and Pfann is reminiscing.

His football credits are remarkable—undefeated as a mem-

ber of the Big Red squad, a member of both the Cornell Athletic

Hall of Fame and the National Football Hall of Fame, revered as

one of the game's all-time greats. He played varsity basketball, and

captained the football team his senior year. Yet football rests in the

recesses of his memory, supplanted by a life full of even more

impressive accomplishments: Rhodes scholar, university trustee, highly-

respected attorney, personal assistant to Gen. George S. Patton

during World War II.

When time and place become hazy to the 91-year-old, and only tbov?:. thl *??.? and" _.κ J J ' y Franklin Field Illustrated covers.

passion pushes through for the record, those are the memories

that linger. In a lifetime of off-field successes, on-field stardom

Left, Punter Frank Shiverick '18;

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Since , tlio sorios

The first meeting between thePenn and Cornell football teamstakes place in front of 4,000people on November 18 at the

__ Manheim! C r i c k e t1 Club. Penn1 outscores' its visitors

On November 28, Cornell replacesHarvard as Penn's ThanksgivingDay opponent, and the gamemoves to Franklin Field. It is atradition that will last for the next44 years.

After suffering eight straightlosses to start the series, Cornellfinally enjoys its first victory overthe Quakers, a 23-6 triumph thatwill be its only win over Penn un-til 1913.

1902Cornell takes an 11-0 lead intohalftime, but during the intermis-sion the Red asks the Quakers ifthey wish to shorten the secondhalf by 10 minutes. Offended andinspired by Cornell's arrogance,Penn comes back to win 12-11.

1906 -.„,..,,.„».„Despite finding itself inside thePenn three-yard line six times inthe second half, Cornell is unableto score. The game ends in a 0-0 tie with the Big Red ten inchesfrom the Quaker goal line.

1915 ^ F

Cornell quarterback Charlie Barrett'16 single-handedly defeats theQuakers, turning a 9-0 Penn leadinto a 24-9 Big Red victory withthree touchdowns, three extrapoints and a field goal.

becomes merely a reminder of a youth well-lived, thrilling but fleet-ing. Final scores, team records, they escape him. But one memory isindelible.

"It's only a game," he says, "but I didn't like Penn very much."

t may not boast the self-satisfaction of Harvard-Yale,the pageantry of Army-Navy, the deep-rooted divi-

sion of Alabama-Auburn or the national implications ofMichigan-Ohio State. But rivalry, after all, is a relative

term, where the only perspectives that matter are those ofthe rivals themselves. Competition is the basis of sport,

but competition eagerly anticipated is the foundation of rivalry, andno game has meant more to Cornell over the years than the annualfootball game against Penn.

This month marks the 100th anniversary of the first gridiron battlebetween the two universities. Fate has also made the November 20encounter in Philadelphia the 100th meeting between the teams, anumber exceeded by only 11 other football rivalries in the nation, asjust one football season in the past century (when Cornell suspendedits athletic program in 1918) has been completed without the Big Redfacing the Red and Blue.

Penn has won 55 of the 99 encounters, although Cornell has taken22 of the last 37. Since 1914, the series is exactly even at 37-37-4.There have been 27 shutouts, 33 games decided by a touchdown orless, winning streaks, losing streaks, dozens of school records. Butthe Cornell-Penn rivalry isn't about numbers. It is about a century ofmemories—from school ties to scoreless ties, double agents to triplethreats, arrested spectators to arresting spectacles, hurricanes to he-roes. As Art Morrow of The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote nearly a half-century ago, "In the crucible of football competition, Pennsylvaniaand Cornell have forged their friendship of the perfect metal—mutualrespect."

ootball was still in its infancy in 1893. All the foun-dations for today's game were present, but in vastlydifferent forms. Players were smaller (few reached

200 pounds), fields were larger (110 yards) and therules were still evolving. A team had three downs to

move the ball five yards, for example, and a field goal (fivepoints) counted for more points than a touchdown (four). The for-ward pass, vital to the game in 1993, did not exist 100 years ago.

It was in this metamorphic environment that the Cornell-Pennrivalry was born, a match-up that began as an uneven proposition.Penn's football program was 11 years older than Cornell's and on theverge of joining the ranks of the elite squads in the East. Cornell, stillstruggling with the notion of varsity football, had no permanent coach.

It was Saturday, November 18, a cold, rainy day at Philadelphia'sManheim Cricket Club, and a crowd of nearly 4,000 had gathered tosee Penn take on the upstart visitors. "The university students wereout almost to a man," said a press report of the day, "and with colorsflying and lungs in good repair they proceeded to make things humfor a period of two hours in spite of the unfavorable condition

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of the elements."The game in those days was preceded by a cross country competi-

tion between members of the two schools, the seven-mile race timedso that the runners reached the finish line in the stadium just minutesbefore kickoff. As for the inaugural contest itself, the first "half" lasted45 minutes, the second, 25 minutes.

Football at the turn of the century was not a game for the faint ofheart. "Piling up?," an 1897 Penn graduate named John Dennis Ma-honey wrote nearly a half-century later, "Gentlemen, it was your dutyto pile up on a man, because he wasn't down until he stopped wig-gling." Unlike the typical contest of the day, however, thefirst Cornell-Penn meeting seems to have been relativelytame and, according to the newspaper account, "free fromthose features which invariably make it look brutal to theunsophisticated."

But aside from some participants whose names wouldsoon become familiar—Cornell's Glenn S. "Pop" Warner1894 went on to become a legendary football innovator,Penn Captain Harry Mackey became mayor of Philadel-phia—that first game was less than spectactular. Penn won50-0, an inauspicious beginning to what would become oneof footbalΓs most enduring rivalries.

Three weeks later a motion was brought before theCornell faculty to abolish football. The motion didn't pass,but the thought soon did.

As bitter a pill as it may have been, Penn's dominantvictory was the start of something special. Two years later,in 1895, Franklin Field opened in Philadelphia. Cornell re-placed Harvard as Penn's Thanksgiving Day opponent, andfor the next 68 years Philadelphia's notion of the holiday revolved aroundBig Red vs. Quaker football. The Cornell-Penn game, according toLeo Riordan, former executive sports editor of The Philadelphia In-quirer, was "Thanksgiving Day with a football fringe on the top."

The festivities often extended to the Saturday after Thanksgiving,when Army and Navy would enact their traditional rivalry. Scribes andfootball fans from all over the East converged on the city. Season passeswere the only sure way of getting a seat in Franklin Field for eithergame, and legend has it that alert fans would read the obituaries andthen call the Penn ticket office for the deceased's season ticket.

It was facetime, Philadelphia style. As Penn's former sports infor-mation director, Herb Hartnett, wrote in a nostalgic look back at thecontest, "A good portion of the crowd was not the most knowledge-able, the social aspect and pure spectacle attracting those who did notknow much about football, but who knew a lot about where one shouldbe seen."

Kenny Van Sickle, sports editor of The Ithaca Journal from 1946until 1988 and a lifelong resident of the Ithaca area, estimates that hehas seen 52 Cornell-Penn games over the years, his first being in1932 at the age of 16. Crowds of more than 70,000 people, he explains,were commonplace in those days. "It got to the point where you didn'tthink anything about it. You just expected it," he says. "Being a littlecountry kid going down into the big city, you just held on to yourticket and made sure you knew where you were going."

For years, the Ithaca contingent traveled to Philadelphia via theLehigh Valley Railroad, taking the Wednesday sleeper train for Thursday'sgame. As a youngster, Van Sickle used to watch a torchlight parade

1918Only World War I can interruptthe rivalry, as the Cornell AthleticAssociation suspends its activi-ties for the year.

1921Playing in a driving rainstorm, Big

——^—-**ed Ail-American Eddieaw '23 scores five

touchdowns in a 41-0thrashing of Penn. TheQuakers record only onefirst down in the game.

1 9 2 3Eleven-year-old LouiseMcDermott '38 sits in theFranklin Field stands asBig Red Captain GeorgePfann '24 leads Cornellto its third straight vic-tory over Penn. Forty-one years later, the twoare married.

1926With Cornell leading10-0, the Quakers usethe "hidden ball" playto perfection. As the fBig Red defenders ™ rchase the wrong (pi3" Tplayer, Penn's AlWascalonis races un-touched 66 yards fora touchdown. Paul Scull boots alast-second field goal for theQuakers, and the game ends ina 10-10 tie.

1928Scull scores four touchdowns,boots seven extra points andrecords 312 total yards, as theQuakers crush the Red 49-0.

1929Penn's Dick Gentle returns a kick-off 103 yards in a 17-7 Penn vic-tory.

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THEGAMETHElTTWiϊThe football ties that bind Cornell and Pennsyl-vania began with a man named Win. In the veryfirst meeting between the Quakers and the Big Red,Winchester Dana Osgood was Cornell's alumnus andPenn's star. Osgood had played for the Big Red duringthe 1891-92 seasons, but in 1893 he switched hisallegiance to the more dominant Pennsquad. "Osgood is an old Cornell man,"said the newspaper account of the in-augural game, "yet this did not debarhim from diving, bucking and wrigglingthrough the ranks of his former com-rades."

Osgood was the first of several char-acters who played starring roles on boththe Ithaca and Philadelphia stages; themost recent was Maxie Baughan.Baughan made his debut as Cornellhead coach on September 17, 1983at Franklin Field. As a six-year linebackerfor the Philadelphia Eagles in the 1960s,Baughan had roamed that same fieldwith the presence he later carried tothe Big Red sidelines. "I love history,"Baughan said of his bittersweet home-coming, "but you can't go back."

The same can be said for Ralph"Cleo" Calcagni, perhaps the only teamcaptain in football history to play hisheart out for his bitterest rival. Calcagniwas elected captain of the Penn squadfollowing the final game of the 1942season, but World War II turned thatnotion on its head. In July of 1943, Calcagni was oneof four Quaker players sent to Cornell as part of theNavy's V-12 training program. The program allowed se-lected students to continue their college education whilereceiving officer training. The six-foot-three, 210-poundCalcagni found himself a member of the football teamhe most despised.

Though Calcagni refused to paint his helmet redand white, he was faced with the dilemma of travelingto Franklin Field as a visitor. Cornell dramatized themoment by replacing his Number 76 jersey with theold Number 5 jersey that he had worn as a Quaker.

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wrote Kenny Van Sickle in the Ithaca Journal, "the Redand Blue chose to huddle for the first time this sea-son." Penn won 20-14. Calcagni heard cheers fromboth sides.

The same respect was evident in the story of CharlieBarrett, '16. Born in 1893, just 15 days before the

first Comell-Penn confron-tation, Barrett became anAil-American quarterbackfor the Big Red in 1914and 1915 and a mem-ber of the National Foot-ball Hall of Fame. Buthis final game, one inwhich Cornell needed avictory over Penn to com-plete an undefeated na-tional championship sea-son, was his best.

He used all his skillsto almost single-handedlydefeat the Quakers.Cornell trailed 9-0 whenBarrett took over. Hescored touchdowns of 40,25 and 3 yards, drop-kicked a field goal andbooted all three extrapoints. Barrett had beatenPenn 24-9.

He joined the Navy af-ter graduation, and while

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serving on the USS Brook-lyn, he was injured in an explosion. He contracted tu-berculosis and, after several years of failing health, diedMay 2 1 , 1924.

During the 1925 football season a bronze tabletwas erected in the entrance of Schoellkopf Hall. It reads:"In memory of Charles Barrett '16, who died May 2 1 ,1924, as a result of illness contracted in an explosionon the USS Brooklyn in Yokohama Harbor, Japan, dur-ing the World War. As a tribute to his splendid loyaltyand leadership and as homage to a most worthy grid-iron adversary, we respectfully dedicate this tablet toCorneil University."

It is signed, "His teammates and friends and the1915 Pennsylvania football team." —B.H.

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down Buffalo Street, with players and cheerleaders riding in open carstoward the train station west of the Cayuga Inlet. It was a paradesaved for the Penn game only.

S^ J ORNELL ALWAYS WELCOME" read the headline fromf ^^y the 1932 Cornell-Penn game program, Franklin Field

m Illustrated. 'The outstanding feature of this long friend-m J ship is not so much which university has won the greater1 y number of games as the spirit in which the games haveV * — S been contested," read the program's introduction. "So to-day we feel that while we are encountering a stern foe on FranklinField, we are also entertaining one of our best and oldest friends."

Indeed, the two teams shared a close friendship fromthe very beginning. Following the 1893 contest, the Cornelland Penn squads shared five boxes at Philadelphia's Chest-nut Street Theatre, and Penn then gave the Big Red playersa reception at the University Club.

Legend has it, in fact, that for many years there wasno written formal contract between the two schools. Asthe story goes, the teams' two student managers met ina hotel one night to examine a contract drawn up by theproper authorities.

"I can't tell what this thing is all about," said theCornellian.

"Neither can I," replied the Pennsylvanian."Well, let's tear up the damned thing."In 100 years, of course, history tends to ease into hyperbole. But

there is some evidence to support the story. Says Van Sickle,, "Cornell'sfirst graduate manager of athletics, Romeyn Berry '04, vwas alwayscommenting on the fact that Cornell and Penn never had a contract.After the game on Thanksgiving Day, he would shake hards with theother athletic director and say, 'See ya next year.' "

The annual contest endured, even during the kind of weather thatmakes placekickers cry. The first meeting of the series was a rain-soaked affair, the 1898 game was played in nearly a foot ofr snow, andthe 1921 confrontation was met with a thunderstorm. A. 0-0 tie in1938 was contested in what the Cornell Daily Sun called "the sleet,snow and slush of probably the coldest Thanksgiving Dny that OldPhiladelphia has ever experienced."

None of that compares, however, to the elements that preyed uponthe game of November 25, 1950. The East was virtually paralyzed bythe weather, as 38 inches of snow fell in western Pennsylvania. Alongthe coast, the problem was wind and rain, with gusts of 94 miles perhour shaking New York City. Nearly 300 people died in 22 states,with property damage estimated at $400 million.

Not surprisingly, most football games were postponed. Rutgerscancelled its contest with Colgate because its stadium wa$ accessibleonly by rowboat. But the Cornell-Penn show went on, despite hurri-cane-like conditions. Winds were officially clocked at 65 miles perhour in Philadelphia as, according to Van Sickle's report, ''the teamsoozed through the goo and morass of Franklin Field."

"It was unreal," says Stu Merz '52, a halfback on tfe 1950 BigRed squad. "If you played on offense and came out of the game whenPenn had the ball, in the time it took Penn to run three plεys the mud

1 9 3 4HardworSuffredii.despite his broken arm, so he mayearn his letter as a member ofthe varsity team. Afterward, hesays, "I would have been grate-ful if Coach Harman had done thisfor me in any game, but in aCornell game . . . "

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ed by Dartmouth infamous Fifth Down

> (and one day af-he Cornell Daily Sun

efeats the Daily Penn-ylvanian in a touch foot-

ball challenge), Perm'sFrank Reagan beats aheavily favored Cornell

} team seemingly all by

M H J ώ B s e l f Despite losing^ • • j r of teeth during theC^fl^^^^^feagan scores threetouchdowns in Penn's 22-20come-from-behind vi

1943In a quirk of military training, PennCaptain Ralph "Cleo" Calcagni issent to Ithaca. After havingstarred in a 34-7 Penn victory overCornell a year earlier, he mustnow wear a Big Red uniformagainst the Quakers. Calcagniplays well, but Penn wins again,20-14.

1946After ten Cornell students arerested for painting "Beat Penn"on a statue of Ben Franklin, some78,000 fans pack Franklin Field.Penn linebacker and future NFLstar Chuck Bednarik makes agame-saving tackle at the goatline with time running out in a26-20 Quaker victory.

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After watching his team's 29-21comeback victory to beat Pennfor the mythical Ivy League cham-pionship, longtime Big Red CoachLefty James calls it "the great-est comeback a team of mine everengineered,"

In the midst of a virtual hurricane,17,846 of 52,000 ticket holdersshow up for the contest in Phila-delphia, and the game goes on.Amid high winds and heavy rain,the Big Red churns out a 13-6triumph.

1956 "~Art Boland '57 provides the high-light in a 20-7 Big Red victory witha 91-yard touchdown run on thefirst play from scrimmage in thesecond half.

Penn rebounds from a 13-0 defi-cit and scores 2 1 fourth-quarterpoints, winning 28-13 and takingthe Ivy League title.

1962 1Cornell quarterback GaryWood '64 produces 387 yardsin total offense in a 29-22defeat of the Quakers.

1 9 6 3 •"*In a game played the weekafter President John F. Ken-nedy's assassination, futureNFL stars Wood and kickerPete Gogolak '64 lead Cornellto a 17-8 triumph.

1964In the first game of the se-ries ever played in Ithaca,frigid temperatures and theBig Red prevail. Cornell's 33-0 shutout is its largest mar-gin of victory over Penn in 43years.

would be up over the top of your shoes."The kicking game was merely a matter of which way you were

facing. In Cornell's 13-6 victory, punter Bill Whelan '53 recorded a63-yard punt with the wind. He had a two-yard punt against it. Yet thegame turned out to be a tribute to the Cornell-Penn rivalry. Amidconditions that were nearly too horrendous for even a football game,more than 17,000 football fans still showed up.

uch of the excitement surrounding the Cor-nell-Penn game began to wane as the sec-

ond half of the century got underway. When formalIvy League play began in 1956, and each of theeight members began round-robin competition

against the other seven, it meant a slight de-em-phasis of the rivalry. After all, a victory against any other Ivy oppo-nent counted just as much in the standings as a victory over theQuakers. No longer could a win in the Cornell-Penn game salvage alost season.

"It's a very important league game for us," says Cornell's AthleticDirector Laing Kennedy '63, rating the relative importance of recentPenn contests. "But it doesn't necessarily carry the passion of beingThe Gamer

The second blow to tradition came in 1964. After 71 years of aseason-ending finale in Philadelphia, the game was played in Octoberon the Hill. "In this age of the thermonuclear bomb, astronauts, spaceships and moon shots, anything is possible," explained Allison Danzig'21, famed writer for the New York Times. "And so Penn has come toCornell to play a game of football."

By the new home-and-home arrangement, Penn visited Ithaca inOctober during every even season, and the Big Red closed out theseason in Philadelphia during every odd year. In 1977, the schedule

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ • ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ • ^ H was changed once again. The teams be-gan the season at Franklin Field every oddyear and closed it at Schoellkopf Field ev-ery even year. Turkey and stuffing, of allthings, had replaced Penn and Cornell asThanksgiving staples.

"I grew up in a Cornell family, and Ican remember going with my parents toFranklin Field when I was probably 10 yearsold," says Merz. "The Cornell-Penn gamewas ingrained in me from very early on.But it's lost something, partially becauseI think Ivy League football has lost some-thing."

Ask members of the current Big Redteam to name their biggest rival, and you'lllikely get a variety of answers. Some willsay Colgate, others will answer Dartmouthor Princeton, still more will contend it's

Harvard or Yale. Says current Head Coach Jim Hofher '79, "Some-where along the line, in my opinion, the rivalry changed in the mindsof the players—probably when they changed the schedule."

But when it comes down to game day on the gridiron, it still seems

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during pileups9

of icrimage . .

to be the Penn game that brings out the fiercest emotions. While tra-dition used to spur the Big Red on against the Quakers, another domi-nant aspect of rivalry has appeared in recent contests—genuine dis-like.

The 1986 and 1988 contests, for instance, took on angry tones thatwere unprecedented in the history of the series. Bothtimes, the winner of the game was crowned Ivy Leaguechampion (Penn in 1986, Cornell in 1988), and bothtimes the game turned sportsmanship, not to men-tion the notion of friendly rivalry, on its head.

Before the 1986 game, played on the frozen turfof Schoellkopf Field, the Cornell coaching staff pre-pared the team for a lesson in intimidation. "Through-out the season, Penn was known for giving cheapshots, hitting late and taunting certain players," saysScott Malaga '89, the Big Red's leading rusher in1987 and 1988. "So the week before we played thatgame, the coaches anticipated that and had some of the second teamguys acting like Penn players. They would try to intimidate us andsee what our reaction was."

When the big game rolled around, however, Penn outplayed Cornell31-21, setting up a rematch at Schoellkopf two years later, again withthe league championship on the line. In the 1988 game, nine personalfouls were assessed. There was grabbing and clawing during pileups,taunting at the line of scrimmage, spitting, barking, cheap hits.

A dead rivalry? Not quite."Penn was always looked at as the team to go after. Both teams

knew that between us we had the best players in the Ivy League, andthere was a tremendous intensity when we were out on the field,"says Malaga. "To me, that [1988] game was the most important gameof my football career."

The Big Red's 19-6 victory gave the university its first Ivy football

This photograph from the 1932 Franklin Field Illustrated shows Frank-lin Field in Philadelphia, the site of the first seven decades of Cornell-Penn football.

1970A 40-yard touchdown pass froiRick Furbush ' 7 1 to John Boz'ich'73 on fourth down and 18 withunder three minutes remaining

a dramatic 32-31 comebackry for the Big Red.

ιτ Ail-American tailback Edarinaro '72 scores five touch-

downs and rushes for two extrapoints in a 41-13 romp over theQuakers in his final collegiategame. In his three games againstPenn, he combines for a total of601 rushing yards.

Allen '74 hits John McKeown '73with a 12-yard pass in the endzone to give Cornell a 24-20 tri-

saving tackle by Cornell's SteveHorrigan '76 on the three-yardline. It is the fifth and most re-cent tie game of the 100-yearseries and only the second timein Big Red history that the teamscores as many as 28 points with-out going on to win.

tween the two teams (Septem-ber 17) and the first Ivy Leaguenight game in history.

ers score, as the Big Red wins52-13, its most dominant perfor-mance against its longtime rivals.

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Penn s five-foot-six receiver KHall sets a school record withthree touchdown receptions and252 receiving yards, including a93-yarder. Big Red quarterbackChris Metz '83 is stopped justshort of the goal line on thegame's final play, as Penn wins29-22.

In the final game of the coach-ing career of Cornell's BobBlackman, an ABC-TV regional au-dience watches the Big Red rollto a 23-0 shutout at SchoellkopfField. Derrick Harmon '84 rushesfor 179 yards as Cornell preventsPenn from winning its first out-right league title in 23 years.

On a snow-and ice-covered fieldat Schoellkopf Stadium, Penn andCornell meet in the first match-up of unbeaten Ivy teams in 18seasons. After the Quakers takethe league title with a 31-21 win,Penn coach Ed Zubrow says, "Thiswas college football at its best."

1988 .Cornell grabs a share of its firstIvy League championshipin 17 years by scoring 16fourth-quarter points in a19-6 triumph over thepreviously undefeatedQuakers. The teams areassessed a total of ninepersonal fouls.

In a throwback to the j

early days of the rivalry,Cornell and Penn meet atFranklin Field on Thanksgiv-ing Day. In a departure from thoseearly days, the game is televisedon ESPN and Cornell wins, 20-6.

crown in 17 years. It was undoubtedly equally satisfying for the coachingstaff, given Penn's reputation among some observers over the pastseveral years for easing academic restrictions to lure top athletes.Says Hofher, "They're flouting the Ivy League spirit because I don'tbelieve that a cross section of Penn's freshman class is similar to itsfootball team."

With the war on the gridiron and in the recruiting arena raging fullforce, there have been recent attempts to return to the tradition sur-rounding the game. In 1989, there was even a good old-fashioned Thanks-giving Day contest at Franklin Field, only this time ESPN was there,too, and kickoff was at 10 a.m. so as not fo conflict with other colle-giate and professional games that had leapfrogged past Cornell-Pennon the public's holiday wish list.

The 1989 game also marked the culmination of an effort by Kennedyand former Penn Athletic Director Charles Harris to return the gameto season's end every year. "We felt that Cornell and Penn playinglast was of the same magnitude as Harvard and Yale playing last,"says Kennedy. "We thought we should go back and reestablish thetradition, but at alternate sites."

As the last game of the season, the rivalry is infused by the addedpassion that comes with being the last football game many of the play-ers will ever play. The emotion of the moment undoubtedly contrib-uted to the perception of the rivalry over the years. Says former quar-terback Gary Wood '64, who went on to a six-year career in the Na-tional Football League, "It isn't like if you have a bad day, the nextweek you can make up for it. This is it."

Along with returning the game to the end of the schedule, Kennedyalso hoped to return it to Thanksgiving weekend. But his plans havebeen waylaid by the realization that it wouldn't draw well in Ithacawith the Cornell students at home for the weekend. There was somethought of once again playing a holiday game in Philadelphia everyyear, but Kennedy felt that presented the Big Red with a disadvan-tage. "Franklin Field has a lot of history and tradition, and it's a greatplace to play," he says. "But at the same time, we also want to getthose rascals from Penn into Schoellkopf every other year."

This year's contest in Franklin Field is, needlessto say, special. A "CU in Philadelphia" celebration isscheduled for November 18-21, with a wide range ofacademic and social events, and of course, the 100thanniversary Cornell-Penn game. There will be galareceptions, dinner dances, presidents' luncheons, fac-ulty symposia, but the centerpiece of it all in the mindsof many will be a simple football game.

One hundred years after the first meeting, and asthey have so many times in the past, Cornell and Pennwill be saving their best for last. A century of memo-ries will blow through Franklin Field, a historical snap-shot accompanying each snap of the ball, each one

with some lasting memory to the men who built the rivalry—oneencounter at a time.

George Pfann, Cornell's oldest living Ail-American, sits back in hischair as thoughts of the Penn game spark near-forgotten images of hisyouth. "A big game," he says, his voice trailing off. "A very big game.'Ή

Freelance writer Brad Herzog '90 lives in Chicago and is a regularcontributor to Cornell Magazine.

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CORNELLIANS IN THE NEWS

Alan L. Hillman '78, MD ' 8 1 , as-sistant professor at the University ofPennsylvania School of Medicine, whoreceived the 1993 Young Investiga-tor Award from the Association forHealth Services Research for his con-tributions to health services and policyresearch.

Kozo Yamamoto, MBA '75, and IsamuUeda, MBA '86, who were elected lastJuly to Japan's Diet, the country's na-tional legislature. Yamamoto is a formerchief of the Fukuoka tax office, andUeda is former director of the construc-tion division for the ministry of agricul-ture, forestry and fisheries.

Dr. Jack D. Barchas, the new chair-man of the Department of Psychiatryat Cornell Medical College and psychia-trist-in-chief at New York Hospital.Barchas was formerly the dean of re-search development and neuroscienceat the UCLA School of Medicine.

Dr. Kendall A. Smith, the new chiefof the Division of Allergy and Immu-nology and professor of medicine atNew York Hospital-Cornell Medical Cen-ter. Smith was formerly a professor ofmedicine at Dartmouth Medical School.

Dr. John M. Daly, the Lewis AtterburyStimson professor and chairman of theDepartment of Surgery at Cornell Medi-cal College and surgeon-in-chief at NewYork Hospital. Daly was formerly a pro-fessor of surgery at the University ofPennsylvania School of Medicine.

Norman J. Smith '50, who as a CornellCooperative Extension agent developeda technology using plastic mulch anddrip irrigation in 1964. A bronze plaqueto commemorate Smith's discovery waspresented by the American Society ofPlasticulture to Old Westbury Gardenson Long Island, site of the first instal-lation. Smith's system increases totalyield by 50 to 300 percent over con-ventional growing methods and is now

used on 1.3 million acres of fruit, veg-etables and flowers in the U.S.

David L. Call '54, PhD '60, dean of theCollege of Agriculture and Life Sciences,recipient of the 1993 Service to Ameri-can and World Agriculture award, given bythe National Association of County Agri-cultural Agents.

Susan J. Matt, MA '92, the 1993-94recipient of the Jeanne Humphrey BlockDissertation Award, given by the MurrayResearch Center at Radcliffe College. Mattwill use her grant to continue research forher project, "The Significance of Envy inChildren's Readers: An Exploration of Gen-der Role Information."

Mike Borkowski '95, winner of the 1993Oldsmobile Pro Series racing champion-ship. Borkowski is a junior in the Arts col-lege.

Music Professor Roberto Sierra, who re-ceived a Special Award from the Ameri-can Society of Composers, Authors andPublishers (ASCAP). These awards are givento artists whose music is frequently per-formed for free. Sierra has received onein each of the past several years.

Friedrich R. Bechtle '50, co-owner ofBechtle Publishing and Printing Company,who was awarded the Outstanding Civil-ian Service Medal by the U.S. Army for"exceptionally outstanding support of Ger-man-American friendship" and "articulat-ing alliance solidarity at numerous publicevents and forums," according to the Army'scitation.

Bill Pidto '87, the new co-anchor ofESPN2's "SportsSmash." Before joiningESPN2, Pidto was a field producer forESPN's "Scholastic Sports America."

Keith T. Pryor, MBA '80, the new ex-ecutive officer for external affairs and lec-turer in Cornell's Sloan Program in HealthServices Administration. Pryor will teachgraduate courses in health care strategy

and operations.

Forest Science Professor James P.Lassoie, who was named director ofthe Cornell Center for the Environment.Lassoie is a forestry specialist whoseresearch has focused on forest ecol-ogy, woodland management and treephysiology.

Law Professor Howard Shapiro, the newgeneral counsel for the Federal Bureauof Investigation. Shapiro will advise thebureau's new director, Judge Louis Freeh,on legal matters such as the orderingof undercover activities and electronicsurveillance, and agency hiring and pro-motion practices.

Paul DuBowy '65 and David Drasin,PhD '66, both professors at PurdueUniversity, who won Purdue Class of1941 Teaching Innovation Grants. Thegrants are designed to encourage thedevelopment and implementation ofcreative teaching methods. DuBowy willuse his grant to develop teaching ma-terials for a course in wetlands ecol-ogy; Drasin will use his to expand aprogram to help engineering studentswith first-semester calculus.

Bob Filner '63, PhD '73, who was aprofessor of the history of science atSan Diego State University when he waselected to Congress from California's50th congressional district.

Lawrence I. Gilbert, PhD '58, the Wil-liam Rand Kenan Jr. professor of biol-ogy at the University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill, who was awarded the GoldenHonorary Gregor J. Mendel Medal forMerit by the Czech Academy of Sciencesfor his work in insect biochemistry andendocrinology.

Jonathan W. Uhr '48, who chairs themicrobiology department at the TexasSouthwestern Medical Center at Dal-las, and has been elected to the Ameri-can Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Park Dietz spendshis days examiningthe minds of serialkillers and stalkerslike Jeffrey Dahmerand John Hinkley.He spends hisnights perfectinghis pistol skills.

b y P a u l C o d y

n the videotape of the interview, Dr.Park Dietz '70 is sitting about fourfeet away from Arthur Shawcross,the killer often women. The twoare alone in the interview room.There are no bars or Plexiglassor heavy wire mesh betweenthem.

"Why are you trying to makeme mad?" Shawcross says in re-

sponse to a question.Shawcross is a big, powerful man, and

he is wearing a blaze-orange prison jumpsuit.His eyes are small and cold and he stares hardat Dietz. They are face to face.

Dietz continues to look steadily at Shawcross.He doesn't flinch or look away. Dietz never looks,

"Really bizaire

away. On the video, he asks another question, his voiceas calm and reasoned as a minister asking somethingof a parishioner.

If The Silence of the Lambs were real, not imagi-nary, if the killers—Dr. Hannibal the Cannibal Lecterand Buffalo Bill—were people rather than charactersin a book or movie, then Dr. Park Elliot Dietz '70 wouldprobably have been called in on the case. He does teachat the F.B.I. Academy at Quantico, Virginia, where themovie opens, and he was called upon years earlier whenThe Silence of the Lambs' co-star, Jodie Foster, becamethe strange sidelight in an attempt on the life of anAmerican president. Dietz stays and works where manyof us don't even like to visit—in the minds of oursociety's real nightmares.

They do unspeakable things. They do things so bi-zarre and cruel most of us couldn't begin to imaginetheir thoughts and deeds. Some write strange lettersto celebrities. Some stalk those celebrities, call them,visit their homes. In some cases, like that of California'sRobert Bardo and the young television actress RebeccaSchaeffer, they even kill. One, John W. Hinckley Jr.,shot a President to impress Jodie Foster. And some,like Rochester, New York's Arthur Shawcross, kill com-pulsively and repeatedly. In the case of Milwaukee'sJeffrey Dahmer, the 17 murders of teenage boys in-volved dismemberment, necrophilia, and cannibalism.

How do officials get inside such a mind? Howdoes the court determine matters of sanity andinsanity in these cases?

They call on forensic psychiatrist Dr. ParkDietz. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Cornell inpsychology and biology, with MD, MPH and PhDdegrees from Johns Hopkins University (inmedicine, public health and sociology), Dietz,who is 45 years old, is one of the world's fore-most authorities on violence, deviance, and thesexually criminal mind. He has one of the larg-est libraries on cannibalism in the world.

Dietz is a clinical professor in the Depart-ment of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciencesat the University of California at Los Angeles.He has taught and been a fellow at medicalschools at Harvard and the Universities of Penn-sylvania and Virginia, has been a consultant tothe FBI, the New York State Police, and to doz-ens of corporations, police departments and U.S.Attorney's offices throughout the United States. ^ ^In November 1992, Dietz appeared in the Pub- ^lie Broadcasting Service science series "NOVA,"where his interview with Arthur Shawcross was shown.He receives dozens of requests for media interviewseach week, and has appeared on more than 100 TVshows.

Why this repeated journey into the heart of thedarkness, into the most frightening regions of the hu-

man soul? Dietz isn't always sure. He finds the workfascinating, and stopped seeing ordinary psychiatric pa-tients ten years ago. "It was just too boring," he says.His work now is "everything I love rolled together."

"With violence," he says, "there are often warningsigns. If anyone had looked at Arthur Shawcross's crimi-nal record, where he was convicted of killing a girl un-der a highway bridge as cars passed overhead, and stuff-ing her mouth full of stones, they would never have lethim out. Many lives would have been saved. Everywarning sign was there. When it's preventable, it getsto me. Sometimes the level of violence in our society,on TV, in movies, is almost overwhelming. And it's ahelpless feeling."

In a brief article he wrote in the journal Career In-sights M.D., Dietz offered some insight into his ownmind. "One afternoon in Cornell's Campus Store, I cameacross Forensic Medicine by Keith Simpson, which mademe wonder why someone would drown a baby in thetoilet, keep a corpse in the closet for years or dismem-ber a body and put the parts in a trunk."

As a student at Johns Hopkins, he continues, "Ibegan researching one of my books with the F.B.I, af-ter I observed an autopsy on an engineer who had hunghimself for the sexual pleasure of it. The man's deathhas been classified as accidental because he was wear-ing women's underwear over his head."

ietz grew up in Camp Hill,Pennsylvania. Both his fa-ther and grandfather werephysicians and, he says, "Iunderstood medicine waswhat I'd do. But my formof rebellion was to thinkof going to grad school incriminology. When I hadasked my professors ofpsychology at Cornell toexplain really bizarre be-havior, like the baby in thetoilet or the mummifiedcorpse in the closet, noneof them could. And Ithought, 'What could bebetter? Nothing could be

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ more interesting.'"^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ β The capacity for vio-

lence in human beings isprobably as old as the human race itself. The first bookof the Bible chronicles Cain killing his brother Abel.Atrocities were commonplace in Greek literature; take,for example, a young man who kills his father, marriesand goes to bed with his mother, and later blinds him-self when he discovers what he's done. Much of

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offenders reassure us. We pin labels on then.

We call them crazy, psychotic, and that makes them unlike us."

Shakespeare, despite the lofty Elizabethan verse, is aboutmass murderers like Macbeth and Richard III, or a wifekiller like Othello. The final scene of Hamlet ends notonly with the lovely line, 'Good night, sweet prince/but with a stage littered with corpses. Virtually everymajor work of the great Russian novelist Dostoevskyinvolves murder, including parricide. And in our owncentury, serial killers like Jeffrey Dahmer stare blanklyat us from the covers of mass circulation magazines.Violence, it seems, has not only always been with us,but it is something nearly everyone is fascinated with.We don't want to look, but we can't bring ourselves tolook away.

"Really bizarre offenders," Dietz says, "reassureus. We pin labels on them. We call them crazy, psy-chotic, and that makes them unlike us."

The reasons some people become criminals andothers do not are complex, and often shadowy. It seemsto involve both nature and nurture, both biological andbehavioral influences. In a long, two-part interview inCurrents in Affective Illness, a psychiatric journal, Dietzpoints to a quality that has been discovered in crimi-nals in some studies, a quality referred to as 'fearless-ness.' "Those with the fearlessness gene could becomefighter pilots or other risk-taking heroes under one setof environmental circumstances, and could become ca-reer psychopaths under another set."

Basic human emotions, like guilt and anxiety andfear, keep most people in line. Or, as Dietz told Cur-rents, others might be like "a fellow charged with theordinary range of offenses, who, when I asked him abouthis experience with anxiety or fear, was puzzled at thenotion. He had heard of the experience but wasn't cer-tain whether he had had it. He finally asked, 'Are youtalking about that cotton mouth?' I said, Ύes; have youhad that?' He said, Ύes, I had that once. I was outhunting and this bear came at me.' I asked, 'Did youget it then?' and he said, 'No, but then when the gunmisfired and I couldn't clear the jam, I got this cottonmouth. Strangest thing I ever felt.' And that was hisonly experience of fear."

"A serial killer's personality," Dietz says, "does notinvolve deep secrets. It's the coincidence of two prob-lems. First, it's a problem of character. He or she isamong that 5 percent of the population with an antiso-cial personality, a narcissistic personality, someone withan intense desire for admiration and esteem, and noappropriate way to get that. They feel that admirationand esteem is a right, not something to be earned. Theyhave little capacity for empathy. Add to that a perver-sion, a proclivity for necrophilia or torture, and youhave trouble. Usually the perversion will find an outletin fantasy, in masturbation, or activity with a consent-ing partner. But if not, and if you have the right mix,then there's real danger. And if you add intelligence,an ability not to get caught, which by definition is some-

one who has gone on to more crime, you have a po-tential serial killer."

For sexual serial killers (to be distinguished, forexample, from professional hit men) the crime is about,says Dietz, "getting someone under one's completecontrol. And they think, finally, that they'll get a bet-ter orgasm if the victim is dead. That's the ultimatecontrol."

Many killers in prison are potential serial killers.They simply were caught quickly. The F.B.I, estimatesthat there may be as many as 500 serial killers nation-wide. Dietz thinks the true numbers are hard to calcu-late because authorities have not yet linked certainseemingly disparate murders.

In his interviews with Arthur Shawcross, the Roch-ester man who was convicted of killing ten women, allof whom were prostitutes and street people, and whois now serving a sentence of 250 years in a New YorkState prison, Dietz found "an extremely interesting case."

"In my examination," Dietz told Currents, Shawcross"gave a coherent account of having taken these womento isolated locations to have sex with them, and in eachinstance gave some explanation for why he killed them—several allegedly tried to steal his wallet, several al-most attracted the attention of passing children, whichmight have led to his parole being revoked if he wereseen exposed to children, one threatened to turn himin to his wife for having had an affair, and another threat-ened to turn him in to the police as a serial killer. Ineach case, he gave an explanation of why he lost histemper and killed them."

Killers, Dietz went on, "are much more willing toadmit to the homicide and to try to cast it in someordinary light than they are to admit to the sexual com-ponent. They are typically ashamed of the sexual part,and it is much easier for them to admit to the murder.It is quite common among repetitive sex offenders tohave formed the impression in childhood that sex wasa shameful, dishonorable activity and to have retainedthat impression into adulthood."

Like the serial killer Ted Bundy, who in an execu-tion-eve interview laid some blame for his murder ofmore than 30 young women on violent pornographicmovies, Dietz sees some connection between the vio-lence in movies and the violence in our society. "Ifyou show people the use of glistening knife blades,and juxtapose that with sexy subjects often enough,"Dietz says, "more people will use knives in their ownsexual behavior. You've trained them to think of sexand violence together. Slasher movies do this all thetime, and adolescent boys and young men are the big-gest audience for these movies."

"What's shown as sexy," Dietz said, "is what peoplewill want to do."

Dietz points out that while nudity is largely harm-less, it is much more likely than violence to get an X-

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I always wash my hands after interviews with

rating for a film. He stresses the harm that can bedone by a very broad interpretation of the FirstAmendment's 'freedom of expression' provisions. Dietztook part in a civil suit brought against Soldier of For-tune magazine, when that magazine ran advertisementsfor "hit men for hire." The advertisements were with-drawn, and the magazine was held liable for damagesand now faces civil charges.

ietz heads the ThreatAssessment Group inNewport Beach, Califor-nia, which helps corpo-rations, businesses, or-ganizations and individu-als deal with 'kook' let-ters, threats from cur-rent or former employ-ees, incidents such asthe Tylenol/cyanidedeaths, stalkers, and so-called erotomaniacs, likeMargaret Ray, thewoman who has repeat-edly broken into thehome of television starDavid Letterman, claim-

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ing to be his wife. (Ray• • • ^ • • ^ • H was sentenced to, and

served, a year in a Con-necticut prison.)

In a society where stars come into virtuallyeveryone's home on television, and where TV cam-eras invade the homes of stars on shows like Lifestylesof the Rich and Famous, it's small wonder that thementally ill sometimes forget where the boundariesbetween fantasy and reality lie. Where the insane mightonce have had delusions about Napoleon or Jesus orAlexander the Great, they might now fix their obses-sions on actors or actresses, on teachers or doctorswhom the insane perceive as powerful or glamorous.A woman mailed more than 6,000 letters to the ac-tor Michael J. Fox in one year. The television ac-tress Theresa Saldana was stabbed ten times by anobsessed fan and John Lennon was shot outside hisapartment building in New York City by Mark DavidChapman.

Dietz has analyzed thousands of crank letters. TheLos Angeles Times quoted one letter sent to a singer."I am afraid I made a mistake when I told you I wasyour father. I was so proud when I thought I was yourpop. I guess that means that my daughter ain't yoursister either. I asked your manager to borrow $10,000.I hope she lets me have it."

Nearly all the letters come from the mentally ill,

Dietz points out, and though predicting the potentiallydangerous and violent from the less threatening cranksis at best an inexact science, there are warning signs.People who attempt to approach the person the letteris sent to, who call or show up at that person's homeor job, are substantially more dangerous. And peoplewho persist in writing or calling or trying to see theobject of the obsession, even after the police and courtshave tried to intervene, are very dangerous.

But the threat, Dietz told Currents, can be deceiv-ing. "A common misperception is that if a letter soundsawful or contains a threat, it should evoke worry, butif the tone is nice or friendly or loving, then it shouldn't."The question of "appropriateness," is one measure, asin the case of the man who had thought he was thesinger's father, and who asked for $10,000. Such a manmight well be dangerous.

But most cases, Dietz emphasizes, involve ordi-nary men and women who are stalked by former boy-friends or girlfriends, by ex-husbands or ex-wives, orby neighbors or friends. In the last few years morethan 40 states have passed or are considering "stalkerlaws."

One of the major parts of Dietz's work as a foren-sic psychiatrist has to do with evaluating the sanity ofpeople who have committed insane acts. And as he isquick to point out to those he interviews, he is notthere as their friend or doctor. He is not in the busi-ness of treating criminals. His job, for which he is paid$3,000 per day by a prosecutor's office, is to find out ifthe criminal is legally responsible for his or her ac-tions. Did he or she have a sense of right and wrong?

The legal definition of sanity is something quitedifferent from a medical definition. Someone who en-gages in activities like Dahmer's is someone who isclearly not normal, and in a medical sense, almost surelyinsane. Someone who shoots a United States Presi-dent because he thinks his act will impress a movieactress is someone who is obviously disturbed. (In theHinckley case, despite Dietz's testimony, Hinckley wasfound not guilty by reason of insanity. Dozens of stateshave since narrowed their legal definition of insanity.)

One loose measure of insanity, in legal terms, runssomething like this: If an armed policeman was stand-ing in the room, would the defendant have gone aheadand killed anyway? If the answer is yes, then that per-son is probably legally insane. If the answer is no, thenhe or she is sane. Arthur Shawcross or Jeffrey Dahmeror most killers, for that matter, would not kill with apoliceman in the room. Hinckley knew it was wrongto attempt to kill the President; he knew he might diein that attempt. And at the Shawcross, Hinckley, andDahmer trials, that is what Park Dietz testified.

Park Dietz, as one woman who has worked closelywith him attests, is formidable on the witness stand."He's very rational, logical, and he knows far more

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about his subject than just about anyone else in thefield," she says. "He can present information to juriesin a clear and simple way, and sometimes, when law-yers try to trip him up under cross examination, theyoften end up hurting their own cases. When a trial isover it's not unusual for opposition attorneys to askfor his card. They want Dr. Dietz to be on their sidenext time."

In Milwaukee, Dietz spent 18 hours interviewingJeffrey Dahmer. He read hundreds of pages of policereports on Dahmer, and read the transcripts of inter-views with Dahmer's family, friends and co-workers;he pored over medical reports. "It was," he told theNewport Beach/Costa Mesa Daily Pilot, "the entire papertrail that one leaves in a life. I had all that informationbefore even meeting him. I went to the apartment build-ing where the last string of murders occurred and Iwent to the gay bars where he picked up many of hisvictims."

Dietz testified for two days at the Dahmer trial. Helater said of Dahmer at a Newport Beach, California,press conference, "I don't think Γve examined any of-fender since Hinckley who was as articulate, rational,and motivated to speak the truth." Dietz testified thatDahmer did not have to kill. Dietz told the jurors thatDahmer had to "pump himself up" before his murdersby watching pornographic movies. He had to drink aswell. "It shows," Dietz testified, "he had to take thisadditional step to overcome his natural inhibition againstthe killing. If he had an impulse to kill or a compulsionto kill, he wouldn't have had to drink alcohol to over-come it."

Dahmer wanted to spend time with his victims, andif he had known of another way to be with them, hewould never have killed. "There was no force pushinghim to kill. There was merely a desire to spend moretime with the victim," Dietz testified.

Dahmer was convicted of 15 murders, and the dis-trict attorney in the case, E. Michael McCann, said thatDietz's testimony was crucial in overcoming the argu-ments of Dahmer's defense team that their client wasinsane. Dietz, McCann said, is "an extremely capableman."

"In some ways I see my work the way pathologistssee the work of autopsies. It's absolutely necessary,and can be extremely enlightening," Dietz says. "I al-ways wash my hands after interviews with offenders."When he went back to his hotel room after a day ofinterviewing a Jeffrey Dahmer, "I read gun magazines,"he says. "It used to be my career mission to rid theworld of guns. I don't feel that way now."

Dietz competes in shooting contests nearly everyweekend. "I'm getting very good at shooting," he says.He plays drums to let off steam, has developed a healthygallows humor, and is careful of burnout. "My workdoes affect my view of the world," he says. "When I

see or hear about someone opening a door to a tat-tooed stranger, I think, Ίs she crazy?'"

Park Dietz is very careful about his own privatelife. He has, he says, "a few stalkers of my own." Hedoes not like to talk in public about his family or co-workers, and is—understandably for someone in hisline of work—very well-protected psychologically.

He runs seminars for individuals, corporations andjustice departments, for the F.B.I, and C.I.A. on as-sessing potentially dangerous people—assassins, stalk-ers, disgruntled former employees who threaten to "geteven"—and offers the following warning signs of po-tentially dangerous people with a capacity for sexualcrimes: "Aside from the usual assortment of antisocialbehavior, the kinds of things everyone warns childrenabout, you should be very careful, for example, if yousee bondage and domination magazines or books orvideos in someone's home or apartment; if a partnerasks for the use of restraints during sexual activity.Get away from there."

As he told Currents, "I believe that bizarreness ismistakenly taken to designate insanity by laymen be-cause humans have a need to attribute the unthink-able to alien forces. It may be that that kind of attribu-tion accounts for the origins of the vampire and werewolfmyths. I suspect, for example, that the way those mythsoriginated was that mutilated corpses were found dumpedsomewhere with human footprints nearby. You canimagine villagers believing that a man must have beeninvolved because of the footprints, but that only a beastcould do such a thing. Therefore, it had to be a man-beast. They couldn't accept the realization that peopledo such things to one another. I believe that that oc-curs in a different, albeit less concrete form today, withthe attribution of grotesque crimes to madness, reflectingour need to blame some alien force, instead of recog-nizing that people have the potential to commit gro-tesque crimes."

Park Dietz looks repeatedly into the darkness ofthe human soul. And what he finds are not only hor-rific thoughts and deeds but, most frightening of allperhaps, like Shakespeare and Sophocles he finds whatis deeply human. When we read about serial killersand see their faces on the covers of magazines, per-haps we are so interested because—in a way we don'teven want to understand—we are seeing somethingwe recognize. As Dietz might say, the killer is closerthan we'd like to think.

What does Park Dietz dream about when he goesto sleep at night? "I don't remember my dreams," hesays. H

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IT FOR US? by Scott Camazine

everal billion years ago Earth was just anotherlifeless planet spinning around the sun. But througha series of events, perhaps unique in the uni-verse, life began. For 2 or 3 billion years the mostcomplex life forms were the primitive cyanobac-teria (formerly called blue-green algae). They dom-inated the world, but then, by fits and starts, Earthbecame home to an incredible diversity of organ-isms— trilobites, sea lilies, fish, dinosaurs

and others. Today, no one knows the full extentof earth's biodiversity. Except among the fewwell-studied groups such as vertebratesand flowering plants, only a min-ute fraction of evolution'sintricate tapestry of spe-cies has been examined.

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Recent studies in thecanopy of the Brazil-ian and PeruvianAmazon rain forestreveal enormousnumbers of new in-sect and arthropodspecies. Although tax-onomists have alreadynamed about 1.4 mil-lion species of livingorganisms, scientistsnow estimate theremay be 5 million.Some put the numberat a staggering 30 mil-lion.

But after gaininga tenacious footholdin nearly every nookand cranny on Earth, the progres-sion of life has not been simple. Sci-entific evidence suggests that peri-odically in the past, cosmic forcesfrom deep space have exterminatedvast numbers of well-establishedspecies, decimating biodiversity. Insome scenarios, every 26 millionyears or so, a meteor or comet struckthe earth, wreaking havoc across theplanet like a bad science fictionmovie. The impact of an objectmerely ten kilometers in diametercould trigger global wildfires andcontinent-shattering earthquakes. Inthese ancient cataclysms, many ofthe planet's organisms perished. Fivemajor mass extinctions have punc-tuated the last 600 million years oflife's history, but one in particular,the Permian extinction 240 millionyears ago, was by far the worst.About 96 percent of all species onEarth vanished.

So extinction is a way of life. Ithas already claimed 99 percent ofall species that ever lived on Earth.

But now a far more subtle, andperhaps more destructive forcethreatens to be life's ultimate DarthVadar. That force is Homo sapiens.At this moment, we are launchingan assault on biodiversity that maybe worse than any previous massextinction. Before it's complete, weshould at least pause and ask our-selves: Should we care aboutthe lossof biodiversity? Does it matter? Ifso, can something be done?

By the end of thePleistocene Ice Age,12,000 years ago,humans had hon-ed their huntingskills and tech-nology, and hademerged as ahighly efficientand thoroughpredator, an an-cient terminator.In less than amillenium, mostlarge mammalsin North Ameri-ca—mammoths,mastodons, sab-er-toothed cats,giant ground

sloths—became extinct. Although sci-entists debate whether or not man'scunning use of traps, snares andspears were the sole cause of theseextinctions, it clearly played a role.

In the more recent past, forexample, the American bison, whichonce teemed across the Great Plains,numbered as many as 40 million.Over 2 million were killed annuallybetween 1870 and 1875, often fortheir tongues and hides, leaving thecarcasses to rot. By the turn of thecentury, only 500 remained.

Species that have perished in-clude the huge flightless moa, theTasmanian wolf, the Carolina para-keet, the great auk, the Toolachwallaby and, that very symbol ofextinction, the dodo bird. Others arebalanced precariously on the brinkof extinction: the bison, the whoop-ing crane, golden lion tamarin, gi-ant panda, California condor, the el-ephant, gorilla, blue whale, snowleopard, red wolf, Florida panther andbald eagle, to name a few.

The plight of these animals of-ten sparks public sympathy andsometimes provokes costly cam-paigns of protection and captivebreeding. Since the 1930s, millionsof dollars have been spent to savethe California condor and preserveits habitat. When the Florida Gameand Fresh Water Fish Commissioninitiated a recovery program to savethe Florida panther, perhaps 50 catslurked in the cypress swamps. But

even now, 11 years after the projectbegan, it's still unknown whether thepanthers will survive. The peregrinefalcon breeding program, conductedfirst at Cornell, has been a phenom-enal success; 700 pairs are now inthe wild, compared to only 60 pairsin 1975.

While these efforts are admirable,they are not the critical battlegroundsfor humanity's assault on biodiv-ersity. Though it makes sensationalnewspaper headlines when a dyingspecies is rescued, the cost and ef-fort involved mean that attempts willonly be made to save the most spec-tacular and heart-warming species,the so-called "charismaticmegavertebrates," cute wild kittens,cuddly bears or majestic falcons.Some argue that this accomplisheslittle more than easing a nation'scollective guilt.

The plight of wide-eyed spot-ted owls in old growth Pacific North-west forests may capture our hearts,but it is not the heart of the prob-lem. The vast majority of speciesperish not as a result of any con-certed effort to hunt a species toextinction, but as a result of disrup-tion of the environment and large-scale habitat destruction. The pri-mary cause of species extinctionsis the clearing and disruption of foresthabitats. Tropical forests cover only6 percent of the Earth's land sur-face, yet they contain at least 50percent of all species.

Over the past few centuries,there has been a net worldwide lossof more than 3 million square milesof forest, an area roughly equal tothe 48 contiguous states of theUnited States And each year 51 mil-lion acres of tropical forest disap-pear, an area larger than Florida.Each hour 5,800 acres of tropicalforest are destroyed.

What happens when this muchhabitat is destroyed? Some speciesare killed outright. Others linger andslowly perish. According to HarvardProfessor E.O. Wilson, one of themost ardent champions of conser-vation, when 90 percent of a regionis cleared, 50 percent of the spe-cies will perish. Estimates varywidely, but if current deforestation

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rates continue, one-quarter to one-half of all living organisms on Earthcould be extinct by the year 2000.Worldwide, 50 to 150 species be-come extinct each day. At that ratetens of thousands of species die eachyear, and in our lifetime over a mil-lion species will disappear.

Everyone would prefer to haltthe decline of biodiversity, but atwhat cost? The growth of the hu-man population inevitably eliminatesother species. It is unrealistic to thinkthat our planet can support 5 or 10billion people and simultaneouslymaintain large areas of virgin forestteeming with millions of diversespecies. For the half-million yearsup to the time of Christ, the Earthhad fewer than 300 million inhabit-ants. By 1850, the population reached1 billion, still a comfortable number.But by 1930 it doubled to 2 billion,forty-five years later it doubled againto 4 billion. Earth now is home to5.4 billion humans. By 2050 thepopulation will soar to 10 billion. Manis finally capable of transforming theplanet as only volcanoes, continen-tal drift and the impact of meteorshave in the past.

The surging population contin-ues to clear more land for crops, even

ity is "roughly infinite over the timespan of relevance to most of us,which would be 50 to 150 years."But what of our children and grand-children? Presumably, he does notworry, remarking that "again andagain" we have forestalled Malthu-sian disaster. He is probably cor-rect. With science and technologyand time, we might comfortably feed20 billion people. But at what costto our fellow creatures?

According to Wilson, a winnerof both the National Medal of Sci-ence and the Tyler Prize for envi-ronmental achievement, "The con-sequences will be dire—unless thetrend is reversed." Unfortunately,I believe the current trend may beimpossible to reverse. Stanford Uni-versity Professor Paul Ehrlich ar-gues, "Above all, the growth of thehuman population must be halted,since it is obvious that if the scaleof human activities continues to in-crease for even a few more decades,the extinction of much of Earth'sbiota cannot be avoided."

But human population growthwill not be halted in time. Even ifdeveloping nations decrease theirbirth rate from the current 3.8 chil-dren per mother to 3.3 by the year

restrial NPP," says Ehrlich.More and more, we are told the

tropical rain forests must be pro-tected to save plant species whichmay provide miracle drugs to cureAIDS or cancer. Or that humanity'sdevastation of the environmentthreatens to rupture the delicate webof life that maintains the health ofall living organisms. But that doesnot mean that the survival of hu-manity is at risk.

There are four good argumentsfor preserving biodiversity. The first,the practical argument, states thatspecies possess immense possibili-ties for tangible benefits for human-kind. E.O. Wilson believes, "The onlyway to make a conservation ethicwork is to ground it in ultimatelyselfish reasoning." So from a prac-tical viewpoint, we can considerbiodiversity a commodity to be ex-ploited.

In the realm of human health,evolution emerges as a master phar-macologist and biochemist. For mil-lions of years evolution has beentinkering with molecules, creatingunusual compounds that the bestchemists could not imagine, let alonesynthesize in the laboratory.

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In our lifetime over a million species will disappear.though that land will offer only mar-ginal productivity. And more peopleneed more wood for homes and fuel.Oxides of sulfur and nitrogen fromauto exhaust and factories are con-verted to acid rain. Levels of car-bon dioxide and methane, so-called"greenhouse gases" that trap heatin the atmosphere, steadily increaseas we burn fossil fuels, threateningglobal climate change.

Although Thomas Malthus haswarned that "The power of popula-tion is infinitely greater than thepower in the earth to produce sub-sistence for man," some authoritiesdoubt this. Allen Sinai, chief execu-tive officer of the Boston CompanyEconomic Advisors, an economicanalysis group, pooh-poohs the over-shoot-and-collapse scenario. He in-sists that the earth's carrying capac-

2000 the population will surpass 11.6billion by 2150.

The cornerstone of life on earthis the food energy that green plantscapture during the process of pho-tosynthesis. A quantity that ecolo-gists call the net primary produc-tion (NPP) is the total quantity ofenergy fixed by plants in photosyn-thesis, minus the energy the plantsuse for their own life processes.Ehrlich estimates that this amountsto a production of 225 billion met-ric tons of organic matter a year. Butwith a human population of 5.4 bil-lion, we appropriate nearly 40 per-cent of this NPP. Barring some enor-mous catastrophe—mass starvation,disease, war—Homo sapiens willdouble their population within thenext century and will "commandeerupwards of 80 percent of the ter-

flower, the rosy periwinkle found inMadagascar, demonstrates the clas-sic natural products success story.Two alkaloids from the plant,vinblastine and vincristine, haveproven effective against Hodgkin'sdisease and acute lymphocytic leu-kemia. Five other periwinkle spe-cies grow in Madagascar, but havenot yet been carefully studied.

Professor Norman R. Farnsworthat the University of Illinois explainsthat "for the past 25 years, 25 per-cent of all prescriptions dispensedfrom community pharmacies in theUnited States contained active prin-ciples that are still extracted fromhigher plants." Drugs derived fromplants and microorganisms includedigitalis, penicillin and other antibi-otics, morphine, reserpine, curareand quinine. Two newcomers in this

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arsenal against disease include thefungus metabolite cyclosporin, animmune suppressant used to pre-vent the rejection of organ trans-plants, and ivermectin which com-bats river blindness, affecting 20million people. But ivermectin camenot from the rainforests but from amicroorganism found in the soil ofa Japanese golf course.

And there's taxol, an extraordi-nary drug touted as a key element

more than just a pharmacy. At least75,000 plant species have edibleparts, and some are far superior tospecies currently in cultivation. Thewinged bean (Psophocarpus tetra-gonolobus) of New Guinea has moreprotein than cassava or potato; itsnutritional value matches that ofsoybeans. Reaching a height of 15feet in a few weeks, it is one of theworld's most quick-growing plants.Every part of it is edible. The spe-

Voes anyone believe that the best strategy forseeking an AIDS therapy is to search among

the glands of tree-frogs?'

in the battle against breast cancer.(See Cornell Alumni News, January/February 1992). The compound isextracted from the Pacific yew, gen-erally considered a "trash tree"growing in the lush forests of theNorthwest. The lowly yew has beenelevated to heroic stature.

In a rented warehouse in Mary-land, thousands of samples of plants,fungi, marine animals and microor-ganisms await testing. Scatteredthrough the jungles are hundreds ofthousands, perhaps millions of or-ganisms, each a unique chemicalsupply house. How many moretaxols will be discovered?

Colin Tudge, a fellow of theRoyal Zoological Society of Londonargues, "The examples abound, orat least make an impressive list. Butnone of them is critical. The humanspecies is not dying for lack of drugs,and if you should say, 'what aboutAIDS?' we might answer 'does any-one believe that the best strategyfor seeking an AIDS therapy is tosearch among the glands of tree-frogs?' " More and more, our mostpotent pharmaceutical weaponscome from biotechnological ap-proaches, in which specific therapiesare carefully designed, based uponour growing knowledge of how adisease attacks the body. Screen-ing vast numbers of plants and or-ganisms for Pharmaceuticals will nodoubt yield novel medicine^, but inmost cases it is not the best way tospend research dollars.

But biodiversity offers much

cies has been introduced to 50 tropi-cal countries.

At one time or another, humansutilized about 7,000 plant species forfood, but today we obtain 85 per-cent of our food from 20 species,such as corn, wheat, rice, rye andmillet. Humanity can flourish with-out the winged bean.

Another argument has to do withthe idea that our planet functions asan interconnected web of biologicalactivity, as the poet Alexander Popewrote, a "vast chain of being."

Species do not exist indepen-dently. Each depends upon othersfor survival. Some species may evenbe keystones in their ecosystems.When Florida alligator populationsdipped to dangerously low levelsabout 20 years ago, biologists no-ticed that other species also declined.It turned out that during the dryseason in the Everglades, many spe-cies depend on alligator wallows astheir source of water.

Forests hold the soil in place andprevent the erosion and silting ofrivers. Trees absorb and give offmoisture, recycling the planet'swater. They capture enormous quan-tities of carbon-dioxide, a major heat-trapping "greenhouse gas," convert-ing it to cellulose biomass. Wouldtampering with part of this web oflife, especially the forests, risk al-tering the atmospheric concentra-tion of gases? Warns physicist JohnHoldren, a carbon-dioxide inducedclimatic change could cause faminesthat would kill as many as a billion

people before 2020.As we continue to whittle away

at species after species, and destroyhuge swaths of forest, do we riskreaching the point of ruining a frag-ile network of life?

As much as some scientistswould like to rely on the ecosys-tems argument, it simply isn't true.As Tudge points out, "A greatly sim-plified forest, dominated by commer-cial species of Eucalyptus, diptero-carp or Aralcaήa, stands up just aswell, and as far as we know for justas long, as pristine tropical forestthat contains hundreds of species oftree." Many of us may prefer tovisit the rain forests, but there isno evidence that biodiversity is re-quired. Taking an extreme view-point, Tudge argues that the "elimi-nation of all but a tiny minority ofour fellow creatures does not affectthe material wellbeing of humans oneiota." We may not want to admit it,but this view may well be accurate.

The third argument takes a dif-ferent tack: maintaining that everyspecies is unique and has a moralright to exist, regardless of whatvalue humanity places upon it. Somethink it's the height of human arro-gance to "play God" with biodiver-sity. Isn't it wrong to exterminatea species? But where our interestsare concerned, humanity has shownlittle compassion for other membersof our own species, let alone caringfor non-human species; we havedestroyed entire cultures of nativepeople across the American conti-nents, at times even putting boun-ties on their heads. As the inexora-bly expanding human population re-quires more land and resources, eth-ics will take a back seat to humanity'simmediate needs.

Finally we can consider the aes-thetic argument that each speciesis a unique and wondrous creation.Walt Whitman wrote,

/ believe a leaf of grass is no lessthan the journey-work of thestars,

And the pismire is equally per-fect, and a grain of sand, andthe egg of the wren,

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And the running blackberrywould adorn the parlors ofheaven.

Would we trash a painting by VanGogh or Leonardo? What valueshould we place on a species thathas taken millions of years to evolve?In their book Extinction, biologistsPaul and Anne Ehrlich plead the caseof endangered species: "All have thebeauty of interest—the beauty ofintricacy, of sophistication of design,of unusual behavior, of great antiq-uity—the capacity to fascinate".

The practical argument and theecosystems argument may fail tosave our fellow creatures. If we pre-serve a species only for its valuefor humanity, then less value willjustify allowing a species to die. Ifwe can synthesize taxol, some maysay, damn the forests of the PacificNorthwest. Better to cut them alldown and develop the land, put itto "good" use.

I agree with Paul Ehrlich whenhe says that a "quasi-religious trans-formation leading to the apprecia-tion of diversity for its own sake,apart from the obvious direct ben-efits to humanity, may be requiredto save other organisms and our-selves."

If we admit that bio-diversity is worth sav-ing, then we need toaSK, How? Or is it al-ready too late?Sadly, the solutionsare more obviousthan the implemen-tation. Populationgrowth must stopnow, not later. Andwe must all make

sacrifices.Some authorities continue to

express optimism that humanity willwake up and confront the problem.Says E.O. Wilson:

"I have enough faith in human na-ture to believe that when people areboth economically secure and awareof the value of the biological wealththey will take the necessary mea-sures to protect the environment."

Out of that commitment will grownew knowledge and an enrichmentof the human spirit beyond ourpresent imagination.

It's nonetheless difficult to beoptimistic, to believe that humanitywill begin to provide the basic se-curities of food, space and shelterthat will permit the blossoming of arespect and reverence for our fel-low creatures. Humans are very goodat solving problems, but far less con-cerned with preventing them. Per-haps because we are so good at solv-ing problems, we have little incen-tive to prevent them.

There is little hope of restrain-ing the population to fewer than 10billion people, many more than anyplan of sustainability can hope toaccomodate. The 1992 Earth Sum-mit in Rio focussed on the effectsof humanity on the environment. Inthe draft of the Rio declaration, theonly reference to the populationproblem was an intentionally ambigu-ous phrase in which countries wereurged to adopt "appropriate demo-graphic policies." Gagged by pres-sures from the Vatican and funda-mentalist Muslims, the most impor-tant issue concerning the world to-day—population growth—cannot beopenly addressed. As warningsmount about the threat of overpopu-lation, factions lobby vehementlyagainst any mention of family plan-ning or access to contraception.

In Rio, many nations pledged topreserve the diversity of their na-tive species. But a stipulation heldthat the richer nations will give fi-nancial assistance to the poorer coun-tries to attain that goal. The UnitedStates stood virtually alone in re-jecting the treaty. In a clash betweendomestic economics and global en-vironmental concerns, PresidentBush appears to have let election-year politics take precedence overglobal welfare. "I will not sign atreaty that in my view throws toomany Americans out of work," hesaid. Referring to the open-endedcommitments to help poorer nationsfinance the protection of their plantand animal life, he said "the day ofthe open checkbook is over." He alsorefused to sign the treaty becausehe fears it may adversely affect the

fast-growing biotechnology industry.So there the matter stands.

World population surges, and is pre-dicted to reach over 11.6 billion by2150. Poor nations consume theirforests so they can attempt to feedtheir hungry and to improve de-pressed living conditions. They don'tsee why their plans should sufferin order to clean up the problemscreated by rich nations. And richnations refuse to budge, are ada-mantly opposed to changes that en-croach on their lifestyles or increasetheir costs.

How much would you sacrificeto save the Furbish lousewort, thesnail darter, the spotted owl or afew acres of rain forest? Would yougive up your car and rely on publictransportation? Would you pay twiceas much for the New York Timesto save some forests from becom-ing paper pulp?

So the issue of preservingbiodiversity may be a lost cause.Population growth and our influenceon the environment are too greatto permit quick fixes. And withouta simple solution, the problem willinevitably get worse. Still, the endresult may not be catastrophic forhumanity. Even if we cause the ex-tinction of 99.9 percent of all spe-cies, many will still survive and flour-ish. We can now imagine a planetwith 10 billion people, and a smallvariety of other species survivingquite well.

Earth has experienced numer-ous other extinction crises. But, al-though it may not matter in the longrun, the loss of biodiversity shouldstill matter to us as individuals. Weshould mourn the extinction of eachspecies. The beauty of a planet fullof tens of millions of wondrous crea-tures may give way to a planetcrammed and choking with human-ity. We are living at a turning pointin the diversity of life on earth; themeteor is heading toward us. Andwithin our lifetime we will see ifthe meteor will hit. H

Scott Camazine, PhD '93 is authorof The Naturalist's Year and otherbooks, and was the 1987 BBCWildlife Photographer of the YearHe is an emergency room physician.

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faculty was photographed—probably in 1921 or 1922—on the steps ofStimson Hall, which housed that part of the Medical College situated inIthaca. They are wearing lab coats, and displaying a few of the essentialsof a medical education, including a book, scalpels and a whetstone and, of

course, plenty of skulls and bones. The monkey may have been a mascot but,more likely, had been a participant in an experiment.

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Class NotesI ^ % Here's more information gleaned

Jk § 1 from responses Mildred Stev-I \ / ens Essick received when sheI ^ m w r o t e t o classmates urging themI I 1 to attend Reunion last June.M. ^ ^ Cyrus W. Jagger's reply, writ-

ten early in May, was particularly inter-esting. He wrote, "Believe it or not, some-where down the line the name Stevensdoes ring a bell in my memory, but I can-not pinpoint it." Concerning the 75th Re-union, he admitted, "It surely would begreat to attend, but unfortunately I am un-able to get about to any extent. I becamea partial cripple years ago in 1964, beingrun down while crossing the street in N.Conway, NH.

"I can still get about to a limited ex-tent around my home. I still drive my car,live alone (I lost my dear wife in 1986),and with the help of Meals on Wheels man-age to remain healthy. My greatest bless-ing, of course, is my family—a son anddaughter, six grandchildren, and eightgreat-grandchildren—who, although nonelive nearby, are all so loving, caring, andhelpful. I celebrated my 99th birthday inJanuary of this year and am now well inmy 100th year.

"I don't know if your records show thatI never completed my college education,"Jagger continues, "World War I broke out inApril 1917 and while returning to Ithaca fromSouthampton after spring break and in myjunior year, I stopped off in New York Cityand enlisted in the Naval Reserve. After thewar and release from active duty, I did notreturn to college. Here's wishing you, oneand all, a joyous Reunion." Qagger's son Jimand wife Colly, in Massachusetts, kindlytyped and mailed the letter for him.) CyrusJagger's address is 93 Island Creek Rd.,Southampton, NY. In a few short monthshe should be enjoying the pleasures of his100th birthday.

Gladys Van Hoesen Bristol, Main St.,Copake, NY, wasn't able to attend Reunion,but she was happy to note, "Still in my ownhome at 97!" She mentioned that her hus-band Albert '19 had died in 1986, and lists"two daughters, two grandsons, and twogreat-grandkids."

Also, see page 48 for a photo and in-formation about one of our class's footballstars, the late Francis Tobey Shiverick.A photo of him appears on the cover ofthis issue, and a silhouette made from an-other photo of him appears on the back ofthe official T-shirts being made availablefor the Cornell festivities in Philadelphiathis month, November 18-21, in associa-tion with the 100th anniversary of the Cor-nell-Penn football rivalry.

We hope that any classmates whoattend any of the weekend's events willsend us a report. • Class of '18, c/o Cor-nell Magazine, 55 Brown Rd., Ithaca, NY14850-1266.

I ^ N As I write this near the end ofM f 1 August, New England is havingI I I another spell of hot weather andI \Λ I'm thankful my condo is air-con-I * I ditioned. Having been alone mostΆ. ^J of August, I welcomed a visit re-

cently from my youngest (23-year-old)grandson, Bruce Wooster, who graduatedfrom Stanford last year. He has been work-ing for Magic Inc. in Palo Alto, and cameEast to see his family in Vermont and twin,Becky, in Connecticut. He is fond of sailingand tall ships and will spend Septemberworking as a deck hand on the windjammerShenandoah, cia and family have returnedfrom their Vermont vacation, and theirdaughter, Vanessa, is about to leave for NewHaven and her junior year at Yale. She is atalented musician and spent the summer atTanglewood as a counselor supervising 25juvenile musicians.

As a former coxswain of the freshman,JV, and varsity crews of 1915-18, I receiveperiodic reports of crew activities from theCornell Rowing Assn., and I marvel at thecontrast between modern-day crew facilities,equipment, and scheduled trips and those inmy day. During the winter we practiced onthe rowing machines in the Old Armory un-der the tutelage of Charles E. "Pop" Court-ney. No Teagle Hall with its two rowingtanks. Come spring, we rushed to the oldboathouse and practiced on the Inlet, lateron Cayuga Lake, with Courtney followingalong in the launch, driven by John Hoyl,who kept our shells (usually only six) in goodrepair, adjusted outriggers, etc. In spite ofthese Spartan facilities, Cornell crews hadenjoyed an enviable record of victories un-der Courtney, until his unfortunate accidenton the way to Poughkeepsie in June 1915,his retirement in 1917, and death in 1920.

Now the crews enjoy two modernboathouses, the Collyer (a gift of John L.Collyer Ί7) for men, Robison (a gift ofEllis H. Robison Ί8) for the women; nu-merous shells for both men's and wom-en's varsity, JV, and freshman boatings;and both heavyweight and lightweightcrews for the men. Last year's lightweightvarsity eight did not win the national titleagain this year, but the junior varsity light-weights did win the championship at theEastern Sprints. In addition to Head CoachDave Kucik, Cornell now has several assis-tant coaches, and the crews face competi-tion from more college crews than in myday. Also a heavier schedule of trips awayfrom Ithaca, for dual meets, the EasternSprints at Worcester, MA, the Intercolle-giate Rowing Assn. (IRA) Regatta at Syra-cuse, events in Ohio and San Diego, and theHenley Regatta in England. As all this in-volves considerable expense, the crews andCourtney/Sanford Fund deserve our contin-ued and loyal support. • C. F. Hendrie, 67Cannon Ridge Dr., Artillery Hill, Watertown,CT 06795.

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A Kick in Time

FRANCIS TOBEY SHIVERICK ' 18

T he silhouette of the kicker which adorns the official T-shirts ofthis month's Cornell in Philadelphia celebration is that of Fran-cis Tobey Shiverick '18, BA '20, who was himself—like the Penn-Cornell game—a football legend in his day. According to his obituary

in the November 5, 1936 issue of this magazine (then named the Cor-nell Alumni News), "He is remembered by alumni of his generation asthe outstanding kicker and ground-gaining halfback of the unbeaten1915 football team which administered to Harvard its first defeat since

1911; as the quarterback whose fieldgoal broke the seemingly inevitable20-20 tie in the famous Michigan gamein 1916 to win for Cornell, 23-20, andas the captain of the 1920 team whoscored all 9 points against Oberlin andaccounted for the 3-0 victory overWilliams." He's also shown on this

issue s cover.Shiverick left the Hill for the U.S.

Army in 1917, was stationed as a cap-tain in France, and returned to Cornellin 1919.

An account of Shiverick's prow-ess appeared in the March 4, 1937Alumni News. Long-time U.S. Con-

gressman Daniel A. Reed 1898 described the 1915 Harvard game, playedduring his tenure as assistant coach at Cornell. "Early in the game,"Reed told an Associated Press reporter, "Charles Barrett '16 suffereda concussion; it looked dark for Cornell. Our star was lost and in hisplace we had to use a 17-year-old kid named Shiverick. Soon he wasback on his goal and forced to kick against a strong wind. The Harvardforwards were ready to break through and block the punt. Walter Camp,sitting on the bench with me, said, Ί don't know that youngster but ifhe can kick 20 yards in this game he's a marvel.' To the astonishmentof everyone, Shiverick booted 80 yards downfield. I still don't knowhow he did it. It took the starch out of Harvard and we won."

Alas, even with the great Shiverick back from World War I andcaptaining the team, Cornell lost the 1919 game to Penn, 24-0.

—Paul Cody, UFA J87

^ X I The latest word from Rosalie Ul-I I Jk rich Rosenberger, whose award

m \ from the Nassau County Bar Assn.r I was featured in the September is-

/ i I sue column, reports she is, at 94,Imm JL now retired from the practice oflaw, but that she continues to attend socialaction meetings, plays bridge, and goes tothe gym three days a week. She writes,"Hope to make the 75th Reunion in 1996."

Dr. Helen Stankiewicz Zand sent lotsof news on her News & Dues form last De-cember (almost a year ago, now; we hopeshe will send us any newer news). She ad-

dressed her reply to Agnes Meehan Halli-nan, who was women's class correspondentuntil her death in April 1993: "As you know,since you were there, too, I had the greatpleasure of attending our 70th Reunion. Thereason I did not write you sooner, or paythe current dues on time, was that I had atouch of the flu around Christmas 1991 anda bad case of it (almost as bad as the one Ihad at Cornell in 1918) during most of thespring, summer, and early fall of this year[1992]. I am fine now and catching up onaccumulated mail.

"All my family news is good: children

and grandchildren all doing satisfying, good,and interesting things and my first great-grandchild, born on Oct. 23, '92, is a beauti-ful and healthy boy, born to his 40-year-oldmother, who had had a kidney transplantseven years ago, after being on dialysis forabout four years before that. She and mygrandson married 15 years ago in KualaLumpur, Malaysia, where they met while hewas serving in the Peace Corps. My familyis scattered, but we keep in close touch andsee each other fairly often. My best wishesto you and your loved ones and to all ourclassmates. I hope to see you all at our 75thReunion, or sooner." Dr. Zand lives in Erie,PA at the Sarah A. Ried Retirement Center,2214 Sassafras St.

We need more news from all of you toshare with other readers through this column.Please write. • Class of '21, c/o Cornell Maga-zine, 55 Brown Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850-1266.

^ \ ^ \ I n view of the fact that our veryI I I I efficient Class Correspondent

/ / Edward "Ned" Giddings, off I Cazenovia, NY, is in the hospital,

/ If I I will attempt to act in his placeUlLJk to keep the news of our class still"percolating," a job which Ned has been do-ing so well for several years. First of all,beyond thanking him for the splendid job hehas been doing, we wish him a speedy andfull recovery from his hospital stay and thathe will return home very soon.

It's just marvelous how our classmateWalker Cisler keeps active in world affairsand is able to continue trips all over theworld helping other nations with their ener-gy problems. This past summer he was inSpain, at the request of the Spanish govern-ment, advising them and assisting in theirenergy problems. Now, more recently, at theinvitation of Mr. Yeltsin, he has been in Rus-sia assisting them in a similar manner. Walk-er seems to thrive on these trips and con-tinues his "upbeat" attitude year after year.In the telephone conversation I had with himrecently he told me that in September thisyear he was to attend a World Energy Con-ference of 100 nations in Indonesia. Walkeris chairman of the Overseas Advisory Asso-ciates Inc. with headquarters in Detroit, MIand is honorary chairman of the World En-ergy Conference to be held in Indonesia.Walker still goes back to his old home inGradyvίlle, PA, where the property has beenin the family for 86 years. In spite of his 96years (October 1993) he still retains his in-terest in energy and the contribution thathe is making in this field throughout the world.

I talked with William Chapin Conditin Syracuse, NY recently. At the time, hewas on his way to his summer home at LakeGeorge. His health remains excellent, andhe is able to enjoy the beauty of Lake Georgein spite of his eye problems. • Clarence"Keeze" Roberts, (acting correspondent),155 Park Ave., Leonia, NJ 07605.

^ \ ^ \ One of those who sent in NewsI I I I & Dues, short on the news, is

/ J Bertha Marks Heller (Mrs. Isa-/ \ iah) of New York City. Another/ i l I is Col. Albert S. Baron, who didtmM\J report that last February "my be-loved wife, Jean McCreary Baron, died

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peacefully in her sleep and I moved into theResidential Care Home where I am now liv-ing." He also listed his two children, AlbertA. and Patricia Baron Jenna, three grandchil-dren, and two great-grandchildren.

Another colonel, Col. Raymond O.Ford, reported he has moved from Miami,FL to Maitland, a year after he had sold hisShort Hills, NJ home to move to Florida tolive with his daughter. His principle hobbyis cruising on the Royal Viking Sun, hewrites: "In January I sailed from San Fran-cisco to Hong Kong, in May I sailed fromHamburg to Istanbul, and in October I planto sail from Rome to Fort Lauderdale." Nowthere's a world traveler!

George Myers sent no news, but heand wife Martha (Gold) '31 still live at 22Heritage Rd., #106, Guilderland, NY. DorisPinder Renn (Mrs. J. Marshall) of Hopewell,VA expressed her regret that she could notget to Reunion last June. Her most recenttravel was to New York State to visit hersister. Her husband is deceased and she isactive in Girl Scouts, hospital auxiliary, andSt. John's Episcopal Church. Her daughter,also named Doris, has a daughter Debbie.

Allen S. Rickard, 28 Clinton St., POBox 406, Jordan, NY sent this new address,but no other news. Please let us hear fromyou, so we can share your news with class-mates and other readers. • Class of '23, c/oCornell Magazine, 55 Brown Rd., Ithaca, NY14850-1266.

^\ V A short time ago, Lillian RabeI I /I McNeill suggested that it might

M 11 ^ e °f interest to know how manyt ^\ί of our classmates are still living.

I i ^ 1 ^ This prompted some research onmΛ A my part, and here are the figuresas of August 1993. There were 1,159 of us—849 men and 310 women—who matriculat-ed and became members of the Class of1924. Of these, 928 went on to graduate—688 men (80 percent) and 240 women (77.42percent). Now there are 165 of those whomatriculated who are still living—88 men(10.37 percent) and 77 women (24.84 per-cent). Among them are two couples of class-mates—Gwendolen (Miller) and StephenWebster Dodge; Katherine (Cone) andJohn Odell Todd—and both couples havebeen married since soon after 1924.

In going through my Cornell files, I haverun across a document dated Sept. 27, '20(see photo, this page).

After reading "A student is expectedto show both within and without the Uni-versity such respect for order, morality,personal honor and the rights of others,as is demanded of good citizens and gen-tlemen. One who fails to do this will beremoved from the University," I called theOffice of the Registrar on campus andasked if there is any certificate of this kindbeing used today. The answer was, "No,all the students get today is an ID card,with several notations on the back limit-ing its use." I asked specifically if therewas any statement similar to the one fromour day about respect for order, morality,etc. The answer was again, "No." I said,"that would probably be illegal today." Thereply was, "Probably, yes." • Max Schmitt,RR 5, Box 2498, Brunswick, ME 04011.

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Max Schmitt '24 still has his first Cornellregistration form. See '24 men's column.

The most recent news was a phone call fromLillian Rabe McNeil—a refreshing bit on ahot and humid day in July. We enjoyed rem-iniscing about the two years we spent in ahouse on Oak Avenue and our many friendsthere. Lillian carries on cheerfully despite aconstantly aching back. This reminded meof a poem a friend once sent to me, entitled,"Γm Fine. How Are You?

There's nothing whatever the matterwith me,/Γm just as healthy as I can be./Ihave arthritis in both my knees/And when Italk, I talk with a wheeze./My pulse is weakand my blood is thin/But Γm awfully wellfor the shape Γm in.

I think my liver is out of whack/And aterrible pain is in my back./My hearing ispoor, my sight is dim/Most everythingseems to be out of trim/But I'm awfully wellfor the shape Γm in.

I have arch supports for both my feet,/Or I wouldn't be able to go on the street./Sleeplessness I have night after night/Andin the morning Γm just a sight./My memoryis failing, my head's in a spin/I'm peacefullyliving on aspirin,/But I'm awfully well for theshape Γm in.

The moral is, as this tale we unfold/Thatfor you and me who are growing old,/It'sbetter to say, "Γm fine" with a grin/Than tolet them know the shape we're in.• Gwendolen Miller Dodge, 230 ShirleyDr., Charlestown, RI 02813.

^ X ^ The evolution of the Class of1 1 1 1925 was roughly contemporane-

# 1 ^ ous with the life of the Model T/ \ Ford. Although the Model Tf i l I didn't go into production untilL ^ v / 1908, the Ford Motor Co. cameinto existence in 1903, as did many, if notmost, of us; and while the last Model Twasn't built until May 1927, the model wasobviously on its way out in 1925, when Fordceased to be the world's largest producer.Since the Model T had been the cheapestand one of the most durable cars on thescene, it's not remarkable that in our time itprovided most of the student-owned trans-portation, generally after an active life else-where. I don't remember ever seeing a new,

or even relatively new, Model T in studenthands, and those that reached that state wereoften "cut-down" jobs, from which fenders,running boards, and the standard body hadbeen removed and replaced, more or lesselaborately, with bucket seats, a cylindricalgas tank, and perhaps a toolbox or trunk,usually acquired from a junkyard. Many "cut-downs" were also "underslung," whichmeant that special spring hangers (perhapsdesigned by a major in fine arts, certainlynot by an automotive engineer) had beenused to lower the chassis several inches,which didn't quite make the car look like aStutz Bearcat, but that was the general idea.

Claude Le Roy '24 owned a well-wornunderslung job that had obviously had nu-merous prior owners, which he conveyed tome "as is" for $50 a few weeks before hisgraduation. There was a rather heavy motorknock, which required a new bearing capcosting 40 cents; otherwise, it ran quite re-liably—with the exception hereinafter not-ed—until my own graduation, when I sold itfor $50 with certain value-added items, suchas a windshield.

One balmy fall evening after I hadfetched a Risley resident home following arare (for me) tour of the charming country-side, the motor wouldn't start. You neededdry cells to start an old Model T by crank-ing, and mine had just gone dead. I wheeledthe load out into Thurston Ave., and a pass-ing Samaritan helped me start it "on mag"(magneto) by pushing. When the engineroared into action, I backed up to ask theunknown Samaritan if I could take him wher-ever he was going, forgetting that if youbacked a well-worn Model T too fast, thefront wheels would flop from side to side;reverse caster effect, I guess. Upon this oc-casion, the wheels flopped so hard that theybroke the "underslung" spring hanger, thefront axle moved aside, and the Model Tchassis dropped in the middle of the Thurs-ton Ave. trolley track. Fortunately there wasno trolley nearby, which could have beenserious. The Samaritan and I dragged thewreck over to the curb, he went on his way(I never did find out who he was), and Iwalked home to consult Brother Herbert

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G. Wallace, who was an engineer and alsoowned a standard Model T touring car. Heforthwith loaded his Model T with the hand-truck the janitor used to transport ash cans,a rope, and a monkey wrench, and we wereoff to Risley. Herb disconnected the frontwheel and axle assembly from the wreck andput it all in his car, somehow got the frontend onto the hand-truck, and tied the ropefrom the hand-truck to his car; and we start-ed back to Edgemoor Lane with me runningalongside to make sure the front end of thewreck stayed on the hand-truck—which,miraculously, it did, all the way. A day or solater a shop downtown which owned a lathemade a new spring hanger for $6. ••• WalterT. Southworth, 744 Lawton St., McLean,VA 22101.

The Honorable Richard Aron-s o n> o u r '26 classmate and friend,died recently in Syracuse."Shorty," as he was affectionate-ly known by his many friends,once jokingly remarked during

his Cornell days that he walked among gi-ants, referring to the six-foot-plus-ers whomade up the Cornell varsity crew with himas coxswain. But Shorty was a giant in ourClass of '26. Besides crew, he played varsi-ty hockey as right wing (non-political, he lat-er noted), was a wearer of the "C," and wasa member of Student Council, During hiscareer Shorty served for 20 years as a jus-tice of the New York State Supreme Court.After retirement as a justice he was askedto serve as a judicial hearing officer, refer-eeing civil cases and conducting pre-trialhearings. For the past year he volunteeredwith the Victims Witness Assistance Pro-gram for the district attorney's office. Dur-ing his career, he also played a major rolein intercollegiate rowing, acting as a starteror referee for many regattas. He was elect-ed to the National Rowing Hall of Fame.Shorty was treasurer of the State Bar Assn.,but found time to act also as '26 men's classtreasurer, since 1972, succeeding WarrenBentley, who in turn followed Gene Kauf-mann. Shorty is survived by his wife Bar-bara, son Robert, daughter Margery, andfour granddaughters. Please note: Present-ly (or soon) you will receive your News &Dues notices for 1994, pink for women,white for men (unless the postman fell overyour dog). William H. Jones is men's pres-ident, Laura Pedersen Menconi-Hen-ninger, women's; Walter W. Buckley andDorothy Lampe Hill are Cornell Fundreps. •> Stew Beecher, 106 CollingwoodDr., Rochester, NY 14621.

^ % IΠy Lou Seaman, after patient and\ I f I verily monumental research into

m I the roster of our class, has com-f I posed under the titillating title of

/ i I "The Class of '27—Who AreIBJI I We?" the following stanzas ofsurnames for our whimsical delight (if notalso our intellectual improvement): '27 hasthose who are Short or Stout; another maybe Trimmer or perhaps Strange/As theseasons change we enjoy the Flowers, aRose and other Blume(s), and a time toPick a Berry or two/In the Field we canfind both a Lamb and a Lyon, and watch a

Partridge fly over the Wood and Waters;and as to what we do—classmates include aCarpenter, a Cook, naturally someSmith(s), a Seaman, a Shoemaker, and aPorter, even a Dean/A Baron and a Knightadd a touch of royalty and when needed wehave an Archer, a Hunter, a Bowman anda Winner to keep us from Harm.

[The other identifying names of thoselisted above are, in order mentioned, Agnes(Collier); Howard; Elizabeth (Reece);Edson; Josephine (Parke); Edwin; Eliz-abeth; Philip; Herbert; Wallace; David;Gilbert; Philip; Preston; Ulrica (Judson);William; Albert; Barbara (Jacobus);Abraham; Mabel (Ray); Louis; Wil-liam; Dorothy (Smith); Louise (Gris-wold); Nathaniel; William; John;Charles; Charles; Katherine Bruner; andBarbara M.]

Class historian Jerv Langdon Jr.,whose thoughtful address at our 65th Re-union so stimulated the audience, has writ-ten an engrossing article for The ChemungHistorical Journal, recounting Jerv's WorldWar II experience from the time he foundhimself as an Air Corps captain under or-ders to report to the China-Burma-IndiaWing of the Air Transport Command (head-quartered at Chabus in the northeast cornerof India with Tibet and the Himalayas to thenorth and Burma a few miles to the east)until late 1944 when as a colonel he servedin the Southwest Pacific theater of opera-tions as chief of staff for the Air TransportCommand there.

One bob-tailed excerpt may convey theflavor: "Overloading of all aircraft was rou-tine, and there was many a prayer on initialtakeoff. . . Severe turbulence was inescap-able. Cross winds from the south . . . couldblow you into the much higher mountains tothe north. A lost engine meant an immedi-ate bail-out . . . I made 23 trips—alwaystense. Of the hundreds of crew memberswho had to jump, over 70 percent were res-cued . . . All in all, more than 1,000 planeswere lost on the Hump." • C. L. Kades,PO Box 132, Heath, MA 01346.

We are happy to announce that our 1927Memorial Scholarship student for 1993-94 isHeather Mitchell '97, granddaughter of ourclassmate, the late Walter Nield, who, un-fortunately, passed away last March. Shecomes from New York City, is enrolled inArts and Sciences and rooms in Mary Don-Ion Hall. Our fund now has a book value of$36,000. George Hearnden, as always, senthis dues in August with extra for the treas-ury and for the Scholarship Fund in lovingmemory of his late wife Estelle (Uptcher)."As a pedestrian," he wrote, "I got involvedin a road accident; not serious, no brokenbones, but the shock put me in the hospitalwith high blood pressure and 'shallow breath-ing syndrome.' "

Val Hieby Frederick did close out herMcAllen, TX home and returned to NY State,where she is in the process of settling into asenior citizen's complex in Chatham. Ruth"Bonnie" Bohnet Jenkins spent her usualsummer at Lake George with her family.Fran Hankinson expected to leave herStowe, VT home on Sept. 9, earlier this year,as she wanted to get back to Staten Island

and ready herself for cataract surgery. Shewas to stop in on me on the way down, tobreak up her trip. • Sid Hanson Reeve,1563 Dean St., Schenectady, NY 12309.

Ira Degenhardt attended our65th Reunion, but soon after thathe had a few falls and is now in anursing home. Clifton Ewing,20 years after retiring from West-inghouse Electric, runs an invest-

ment advisory service. His advice is to buycarefully and almost never sell.

John Hawkins, who also attended Re-union, keeps busy at home mowing thegrass, tending the shrubs, raking leaves,plowing snow, and growing vegetables. Nel-son Smith lost his wife in 1991 and remar-ried in 1992. His new home in Pavilion, NYis just two miles from his previous home.He is interested in woodworking and ingenealogy. • Theodore Adler, 2 GardenRd., Scarsdale, NY 10583.

I start by quoting a letter dated August 17from Anne "Madge" Marwood Headland."Now for something more to rejoice over.Our class's special place on the A. D. WhiteHouse property (the Secret Garden) is en-dowed legally. I signed the Letter of Agree-ment late last week. There were numerousletters, phone calls and xeroxing to clear thedecks and make the endowment a fact. I amboth relieved and happy."

Also, she writes "I hope the men real-ize how grateful we are. In the course ofnegotations I came to know the '28 menwanted also to honor Daisy Farrand." Madgehas been in charge of the Memorial Fundover the years and we appreciate her work.

Mid-August I received a letter fromEleanor Bretsch Burden (Mrs. H. W.). Ihad tried to phone her several times, withno luck, to see if she could come to Reunion.It seems she was hospitalized for threemonths with a heart problem. Her doctorsaid she could not live in her house alone.Therefore she now lives in the ElizabethBrewster House not far from her home. Shehad hoped to come to the Human EcologyBreakfast but the heart problem returned soshe could not. Eleanor plans to auction herhouse in September. Her present addressis Elizabeth Brewster House, 41 S. Main St.,Homer, NY 13077.

Ruth Lyon was enjoying summer inVermont with her friends. She sent copiesof the letters regarding the endowment. Sev-eral classmates have also sent donations tothe fund. Just send your contributions toRuth or Madge at any time.

Now it is November and Thanksgivingwill soon be here. We have much to bethankful for and need to reflect on the goodthings that are happening to us. Write meabout yourself so I can let others know howyou are. • Rachel A. Merritt, 1306 Han-shaw Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850.

^ \ ^ \ News is extremely scarce thisI II 1 time, but do not despair, we have

w\jk some good news about our hon-f ^rt orary Class of '29er, Cathy

I i * I Dowhos, who tends to class dueswmm^J affairs for '29 men in the alumniaffairs office. Cathy was married on Aug. 6,

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'93 to become Mrs. Cathy E. D. O'Gorman.She was married in her home town of Thun-der Bay, Ont., Canada. We are very happyto get this news, Cathy, and wish you a life-time of happiness.

Now, the rest of you, send news! • BobDodge, for Albert W. Hostek, PO Box2307, Hedgerows Farm, Setauket, NY 11733.

Dear Classmates: There's beenno direct news from EleanorSmith Tomlinson lately, butGertrude Coyne Drake wrotethat they had talked on the phone.Our love and best wishes are al-

ways with you, Eleanor.Evelyn Reader McShane writes that

her brother Dr. George McShane '40, MD'43 was the recipient of the Maurice R.Greenberg Award, one of the highest in med-icine and public health. All the family attend-ed the award dinner at the Plaza in New YorkCity. Evelyn reports having health problems,but keeps up with bridge clubs and church.

Frances Crossman Bailey reports thatshe traveled to Arizona last year to attendthe graduation of her grandson from EmbryRiddle U. She also has a great-grandson, 2.Now and then she chats, on the phone, withMiriam Bloomer, who left her Hudson-viewing home for a retirement center inHamden, CT. She appreciates the activitiesthere, especially during those snowy days ofwinter. Margaret Saxe Nicholson writesthat she stays mostly in Sun City, AZ, ex-cept for short visits to friends and family backin Colorado, where she used to live. Now Ireally do need more news for future columns.•> Joyce Porter Layton, 1029 Danby Rd.,Ithaca, NY 14850.

This is catch-up with some of the flood ofblue-sheet items that came in weeks ago,which some of you senders may suspect Iforgot or lost, i.e., acted my age. This time Ibegin at the near-end of the alphabet withJoe Wortman's not-so-startling news thathe celebrated his 86th birthday and is "stillmarried to Ruth," who now resides at theApplegate Health Care Center in Hights-town, NJ. Our good wishes, Joe. He playsbridge, and sings with an entertainmentgroup, The Melody Singers, at Ruth's andother nursing homes; goes to movies andshows at Princeton; and swims and plays golffor, he says, balance problems. Doesn't soundlike "problems,"more like youthful energy.

Robert R. and Mildred Warriner areliving a quiet existence but with Mildred go-ing through osteoporosis after-effects, spi-nal difficulties requiring surgery. Last yearthey went on a Caribbean cruise and spenttime in Florida, and they hoped to visit theWest Coast later this year. Harold E.Travis, who has retired, is helping developa "Handicapped Trail" at Lake Erie StatePark in Brocton, NY. Andrew A. Toth,nearing 90, still practicing architecture, en-joying good health, has 37 grand- and great-grandchildren all over the US. He keepsyoung gardening and improving the environ-ment and, hear this: Andy has the "miracle"process for eliminating pollutives out of allwaters in the US. That's his "goal."

Robert E. Terwillegar, our vice pres-ident for class Reunions, and Helen "Dol-

Another man and I

are rebuilding the

Wright Brothers

Number 17 engine,

built by them in

1910.

— G I L COLE

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ly," who is the assistant vice president forthe same function, note with sorrow thepassing of Col. John "Doc" Payne and Lin-coln Field, Class of '30 Ithaca compatriotsof Dolly and Bob and regular Reunion at-tendees. Bob and Dolly remained in Ithacalast winter, enjoying it with three marrieddaughters with fine husbands and sevengrand- and seven great-grandchildren. TheirCayuga Lake cottage is still a summer vaca-tion and Reunion "magnet." Wilmer C.Swartley and Eleanore are in "reasonablygood shape," he says. They summer in Nan-tucket, winter in New England, with visitsin California with daughter Ariel Swartley,who is a writer, her husband Kit Rachlis,editor of L. A. Weekly, and granddaughterAusten. • Benedict P. Cottone, 1255 N.Gulfstream Ave., Sarasota, FL 34236; (813)366-2989.

^ \ A Sixty-two years after he got his MEI I J degree Gil Cole (387 Porter St.,

^ I Manchester, CT 06040) is still en-" ^ I joying his Cornell training as he

I I I rides an interesting and rewarding^ ^ M> hobby. He went back only 21 moreyears for something to do. "Another man andI are rebuilding the Wright Brothers Num-ber 17 engine, built by them in 1910. Wehope to run it again. We are doing this forthe New England Air Museum." It's not all"work" (if that kind of a hobby is work forGil). He also notes, "Have just returned (lastMay) from a great trip in Idaho and Mon-tana. The highlight was Hell's Canyon andthe Sunshine Mine."

Jerry Finch (110 N. Stanworth Dr.,Princeton, NJ 08540), who spent most of hisdistinguished academic career "deaning" atPrinceton U., is a double "31der." He writes:"As far as I can tell, I'm holding together."(Perhaps Jerry and the rest of us should heedSatchel Paige's sage advice not to look—something might be gaining on us!) "Foryears I have been an honorary member ofthe Princeton Class of '31, and attend a lunchor dinner from time to time. But I still missCayuga's waters!" A nice testimonial to theeffects of four years "far above."

"Snowbird" Abbott L. Hessney (5 Cir-

cle Dr., Binghamton, NY 13905) wrote onthe back of his dues notice last May, "Justgot back from our annual winter trip to GroveCity, FL." As an indication of how long ittakes me to get this "news" to you, Hess isprobably getting ready for another flightsouth right now.

From PO Box 127, Naples, NY 14512(NOT Naples, FL 33940) comes a neatlytyped note very kindly easing your report-er's job by being set down in the third per-son all ready for submission to the new Cor-nell Magazine: Don R. Morey is "enjoyinghis retirement from industrial physics at hiscountry home in the hills above Naples, NY,where he enjoys the scenic views. There hedoes some wood sculpture and, in addition,has led a local adult education class inphilosophy." • William M. Vanneman,Thirwood PL, #121, 237 N. Main St., S.Yarmouth, MA 02664-2075.

A great big thank you to all you faithful dues-payers who sent enough news to fill this col-umn and more. Be patient. Your turn willcome. Dorothy King Hoyt Dillinghamwrites glowingly of her June trip to Missou-la, MT, where her sons Tony and Alan Hoytlive with their families. "This visit is alwayssuper satisfying—seeing the grandchildrenand two great-grandsons, absorbing theamazing beauty of the Rockies, the wildlife,and being a part of the Montana lifestyle. It'snever possible to stay for the Indian PowWow because it's too hard to sacrifice anypart of the Cayuga Lake summer. The localflooding of the lake did cause damage to alldocks, boathouses, and to (husband)Howard's pet antique Chris Craft. But allgets fixed and we look forward to the usualsummer by the water next door to my sisterEdythe King Fulton '32 and her husbandJames, PhD '34, who make it from Hous-ton, TX each year."

We'll close with a wry comment fromAnnaliese "Annie" Schloh Caster in Cin-cinnati: "I am quietly vegetating at home,trying to dispose of the accumulation of twopack rats!" Sound familiar, anybody? •> Hel-en Nuffort Saunders, 445 Valley Forge Rd.,Devon, PA 19333-1239.

^ \ ^ \ At irregular but welcome intervals1 H I I receive communications from

J M William R. Bagby of Lexington,^ r KY. Bill has a wonderfully respon-

I mξ I sive mind which is readily trig-\βmmM gered by all sorts of stimuli. Forinstance, this magazine recently printed alarge picture with some text concerning thelaunching of the Liberty Ship Cornell Victoryin March of 1945. That reminded Bill thathe, then a Navy lieutenant, spent 16 monthsas a member of the Armed Guard aboard SSThomas Clyde transporting men and suppliesacross a frequently turbulent North Atlantic.

He recalls that during one crossing hespotted another Liberty in the convoy andthat it bore the name Southall Farrar. It wasnamed after the father of Joseph BeverleyFarrar '33, one of Bill's closest friends atCornell. Bill's letter goes on to say that"Bev" Farrar commanded a tank corps withGeneral Patton's forces in Europe.

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Liberty ships and the contribution they madeto the winning of World War II. The pack-age also included two cartoons which ap-peared in The Armed Guard, a national mag-azine apparently for veterans who served inthat branch of the service. My capacity fordescription is not up to bringing the cartoonsto you, but they were genuinely funny.

When he wrote us a few years ago,Sheldon W. Williams was working morn-ings as a volunteer agricultural economist atthe U. of Illinois. His most recent news fol-lows: "We continue with eight grandchildren,most of whom are, or soon will be, in ad-vanced studies. No great-grandchildren inprospect. We are well for our age." Maj. Gen.William B. Keese hasn't sent any news ofhis activities in a very long time. Bill, weknow you're doing something interesting andwe'd like to know about it. • James W. Op-penheimer, 140 Chapin Pkwy., Buffalo, NY14209-1104.

Catherine Laney Beyland is still living inher own home and enjoys keeping a garden.She would like to take more trips. Heryoungest grandson is class of 1996 at Vas-sar (her emphasis). I note from her returnedNews & Dues form that she added to thedues a contribution in memory of JeanMiner O'Connell. This is a lovely way tohonor a Cornell friend.

Helen Maly is still active in her church,having recently been president of the wom-en's society. In the retired teacher's organi-zation she is the southeast regional chair of"friendly services," and she attends the statecommittee meeting and the Owego, NY workshop. She is less active in other organizations.

Let us all count our many blessings aswe approach the Thanksgiving holiday. Andif you will kindly add a bit about yourselfwhen you return your News & Dues form,there will be that many more blessings forme to count. • Martha Travis Houck, POBox 178, Bedminster, NJ 07921.

^ \ ^ \ Madeline Stoddard BamakoI I I I self-published a book, Tails, Tees,

J J and Tales, back in NovemberN ^ 1992. It tells about a powerful

I I f I group of ecologically-minded Sau-^J^J con Valley Country Club squirrelsand chipmunks who, because one of thesquirrel's nests was destroyed by a lady play-er's erratic shot, demanded fair play for allcreatures. In March 1993, Madeline and hus-band Frank enjoyed a delightful Caribbeancruise.

Jonas L. Bassen, several years ago,purchased a Sony eight-millimeter camcord-er and is finding new uses for it all the time,such as keeping a visual record of his fami-ly's history, his granddaughter's wedding,recording a family reunion, etc. Video tapesare sent to friends and relatives. BeatriceLevin Young (Mrs. Israel) had a sixth great-grandson added to her beautiful family lastyear. Her other great-grandchildren, triplets,celebrated their first birthday on Nov. 29, '92with a huge family gathering.

Isabel Guthrie Russell and husbandDonald '32 enjoy seven months each yearin Sun City, FL. They play golf, bridge, andtake a cruise almost every year. The otherfive months they spend in Virginia near their

Madeline StoddardBaranko's booktells about a pow-erful group of eco-logically-mindedSaucon ValleyCountry Clubsquirrels and chip-munks who, be-cause one of thesquirrels' nestswas destroyed bya lady playerserratic shot de-manded Mr playfor all creatures.—ALLAN- .GRUICKSHANK

son and daughter and their families. Edward"E. J." Williams and wife Carol keep busywith civic activities, mostly church and hos-pital for "patient services" and Meals onWheels. His son, Christopher '67, strokedthe lightweight crew to victory at Henley in1967. This year Edward and his wife wentto New York for their daughter's graduationwith a PhD from New York U. to Houstonfor his grandson's college graduation, andthen to Boston and fall apple picking withhis two sons.

Gladys Tapman Blum, whose husbandNorman died three years ago, plans to sellher apartment in New York City and moveto La Jolla, CA, where she has spent the past12 summers and has many friends. She nowhas six grandchildren, two of whom are en-rolled in college. Both her children and theiroffspring live in Norwich, VT. Margaret S.Kopicki finally finished the needlepoint rugshe started four years ago, which measuressix by nine feet. She enjoys playing bridgeseveral times a week, reads more than ever,still enjoys cooking and gourmet baking,some birdwatching, and all the pleasures ofsimple country living.

Norma Kenfield Pieters, whose hus-band Richard died after a long illness, keepsbusy participating in many church activitiesincluding teaching a class in personal record-

keeping. She plays bridge quite a bit. PegSaxe Nicholson '30 is her partner for twomonthly bridge clubs. Thomas S. Shull at-tended an Adult University (CAU) seminaron Appledore Island, Isles of Shoals, in Sep-tember 1992 with Dr. Richard Fischer,PhD '53 and Dr. John Heiser, PhD '81(Birds and Whales). He also went on a 2,300-mile RV trip with Elderhostel to Gulf Shores,AL. • Allan A. Cruickshank, 48 Tangle-wood Rd., Palmyra, VA 22963; telephone,(804) 589-2447.

Members of our class attendingthe pre/post Cornell-Penn foot-^all game parties on November20 will meet at the table set upfor the Classes of the '30s. I hopeto attend and look forward to see-

ing some of you there. The following is atrue golf story from Otto Hilmer, Cincin-nati, who wonders if any other '34ers canmatch it. Playing with two friends on theKapalua course in Maui, Otto shanked athree-iron drive on a par-three hole into thewilderness. His two opponents then hit theirdrives and were short of the green. Otto teedup again and with the same three ironknocked his ball into the hole for an easythree. His opponents both took fours.

Jim Kittleman represented Cornell atthe inauguration of the new president ofRockford College on March 20, '93. Jim isstill doing some management consultingwork in the non-profit area. Later this year,he and wife Madeline will move permanent-ly from Evanston, IL to Salida, CO. JohnBennett and wife Mary recently visited sev-eral ancient Mayan sites in Belize, Guate-mala, and Honduras.

After 52 years of federal service, KarlKrombein retired last January from theSmithsonian Inst. but he will continue to beactive as senior scientist emeritus at theMuseum of Natural History. He will also beperiodically active at the Archbold Biologi-cal Station, Lake Placid, FL, following hisappointment last December as a researchassociate at that facility.

For the first time in more than 50 years,we have news from Doug Williams, Care-free, AZ. Since his retirement ten years ago,Doug has been involved in community af-fairs, including service on the board of theScottsdale Memorial Hospital until hestepped down last year because of age re-quirements. One other interesting activity ischairing the council of emeritus advisors ofthe business college of Arizona StateCollege. •> Hilton Jayne, Carter Point,Sedgwick, ME 04676.

Tobye Pecker Gaster died March 8, '93 inBeverly Hills, CA. Margaret Taylor Planksays she reminisces by phone frequentlywith Mildred Holman Williams about Cor-nell. They live within a few miles of eachother. Isabel White West lives on Martha'sVineyard at the edge of a marsh. She andhusband Francis enjoy good health and theseasonal changes of wildlife. They seeosprey, great blue heron, ducks, a few otter,and an occasional rare deer. Her son and fam-ily live "here," she says. Her daughter livesin faraway Vienna, Austria. Martha EnglishMartin tells of grandson Jeremy Martin '95

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living on the fourth floor of Risley in a longroom under the eaves, able to stand up onlyin the middle of the room. She asks, "Didn'tthey store the trunks and suitcases there in1934?" Alice Bennett Planck is now a per-manent Floridian, having spent the summerof 1992 sorting a 40-year accumulation of be-longings.

Helen Rowley Munson spent the sum-mer of 1992 celebrating her 80th birthdayand her 50th wedding anniversary. This pastwinter she had expected to tour the Phoe-nix, AZ area. She is excited about our 60thReunion in June 1994. I, too, look forward tobeing there. • Lucy Belle Boldt Shull, 3229S. Lockwood Ridge Rd., Sarasota, FL 34239.

Happy Thanksgiving! Eugeneand Helene Murphy cruisedthrough the Panama Canal in

ySouth America at Cartagena, andthen visited relatives on the West

Coast. They still regret the theft of theirfaithful 1982 VW Rabbit (probably a chop-shop victim) that had carried them to our50th and 55th Reunions. Now the Tauruswagon, equipped with all kinds of power op-tions, accommodates. Anne Strong VanCampen in May had "a lovely week atYosemite." She wrote of the death, July 18,of her brother-in-law John Van Campen.We send our sympathy.

Steve M. Smith thinks his "qualifiesas a Cornell family: his dad, Edward, attend-ed short courses near the beginning of thecentury, son Edward '64, (PhD '69), daugh-ter-in-law Andrea (Laughlin) '65, sisterLe-Vantia Smith Harrington '38, uncleRobert L. MacCutcheon '22, cousin Phil-lips Nichols '42. Nine grands and two great-grands still have a chance."

Helen Sands Wolpert was "breakingup our time at the Cape with a trip to Lak-enheath, England, to visit our son and fami-ly. He's a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force(social worker)." John Sullivan spent amonth in France last summer in a smallhouse south of Albi Castres in the Tarn dis-trict. From there he went to Geneva, Swit-zerland to visit friends.

Vivian Michaelson Goldman and Alwent to California in August and enjoyed theElderhostel program at Ventura. While inLos Angeles they visited Dora IovinelliDeAngelos, who was recuperating from asevere car accident. Best wishes for a fastrecovery. Gustav Gant's family had a re-union in July at Eagle Ridge Inn, Galena, IL,to celebrate his 80th birthday. Son Fred andhis wife brought their three sons—7, 5, 3—and son Michael and wife Debbie brought 3-year-old Debbie and 9-month-old Michael tocelebrate with grandfather. In June, JanetHollowell Bradley entertained MargaretKraemer Rumble '36 and they "neverstopped talking." Jan also took a SS UniverseWorld Explorer Cruise to Alaska with herdaughter Susan and husband.

Ed Miller and Virginia (Sturtevant)'39 enjoyed the Van Cleef Dinner (endowedby Mynderse Van Cleef 1874) on campusin June with James and Viola Miller Mul-lane, the Bailey Hall programs, and visitingtheir cousin, Marie Underhill Noll '26, wholives near campus. "Our big events this year

were our two granddaughters' graduationsfrom eighth grade and high school at PortWashington, NY." The Millers summer atChateaugay Lake near Malone and winter atSeabrook Island, SC. • Mary Didas, 80 N.Lake Dr., Orchard Park, NY 14127.

Christmas and Holiday Greetingsfrom your officers. Now that theseason for greetings is upon usI want to use the column for amessage from us to all the Per-feet '36ers. We want to ask all

'36ers to become duespaying members ofthe class and supporters of your class and ofthe university.

It is surprising in checking the recordsthat of the 648 living members of our class,only 331 are active duespayers and support-ers of class projects and functions over theyears. The cost of being a member in goodstanding is only $30, and it covers a sub-scription to the Cornell Magazine. This mag-azine gives you up-to-date information aboutthe activities of the university and about yourclassmates. So become a member and sendin your dues and contributions to help uswith the following class projects.

We made a promise to Joe King, ourpast president, that we would match a$75,000 gift from Olive Bishop Price for theconstruction of the Beebe Lake Outlook andPicnic Area. In seeing the project every yearsince it was finished I can see the wondersof the site and can enjoy the beauty of thegrounds. It is interesting to sit there andenjoy the restful area and remember thewonderful years and times we had at Cor-nell as undergraduates.

In checking I notice that we have raised$23,845 at the present time, and we should—by our 60th Reunion—match the wonderfulgift of Olive Bishop Price. Also we shoulddonate to the Children's Literature Fund thatwas started by Charlotte Putnam Reppertand was the ladies' project for many years.We hope that you will remember this fund.Let us make this worthwhile activity of ourclass a real benefit to the university and herfuture students.

SO: become a duespayer and supportour excellent class projects and see if we canaccomplish what we have started, and by our60th Reunion, or even before. Let us be aclass that completes the projects authorizedby our fine past officers and keep our slogan"Perfect '36ers" correct. Letters are nowgoing forth, so let us respond quickly, please.Best of wishes for the holidays. • Col. EdMacVittie (AUS, ret.), 10130 Forrester Dr.,Sun City, AZ 85351-2315.

Elizabeth "Fessy" Fessenden Washburnwrote of an alumni cruise around the Colum-bia River/Olympic Peninsula/British Colum-bia some time ago on the Discoverer, withseven other Cornellians on board ("almostlike a family group"): Don McCaskey '34,former editor of the Cornell Daily Sun, Clar-ence Dubois '35 (who died in February1993) and his wife Betsy, and Howard Jen-sen '51. The Clipper cruise gave them roy-al treatment, super-abundant food, and an all-around good time.

Anne Myers wrote from Honolulu, HIin 1992 after the hurricane, when they taped

up their windows but luckily suffered nodamage. She said that on Kauai most schoolsand pupils had lost their books; she asked ifour Children's Literature Fund could spareany books. In June she had taken a triparound Lake Michigan, where she had nev-er been before. They landed in Chicago at atemperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit andended up in Phoenix at 110. "Hard on theold bod," she opined.

Elsa Meltzer Bronstein reported thather sister Herma "Nona" Meltzer Ziek '33had died in October 1992. Elsa and Arthurstill spend eight months in Oakland, CA andfour in Monterey, MA—"the best of twowonderful worlds," she says. • Allegra Law-Ireland, 125 Grant Ave. Ext., Queensbury,NY 12804.

^ \ Ψ7 We're reaching virtually all class-I I f I mates this month and again in

J m December as the Cornell Maga-^ • zine—the former Alumni News—

I I I goes to both duespayer subscrib-^J I ers and the "lost ones." If you'reone of the latter, wouldn't you love to hearfrom Cornell—and '37—every month? Re-member, news from everyone is welcome forthe class column.

Cornell Fund Representative WilliamJ. Fleming hasn't let relying on a wheel-chair for the past ten years or so get in theway of enjoying an active life. Last monthhe and Kathleen sailed into Ft. Lauderdale,FL on the Westerdam after a 29-day voyagefrom Vancouver, BC, Canada, through thePanama Canal, with stops in the British Vir-gin Islands. In September they had taken acruise to Alaska on the same ship with theirdaughters. During a 1992 cruise from Lon-don to Montreal, Bill, too enthusiastic in us-ing his arms, tore biceps and pectoral mus-cles and recovery was slow.

At graduation time Bill had experiencedthe first attack of multiple sclerosis, whichlater necessitated relying on one and then apair of canes before he "graduated" to wheelsto keep up with a family and remain inde-pendent. He was born and raised in Titus-ville, PA, where he was active in oil-relatedbusiness, served on the bank's board and asa director of Mine and Smelter Supply Co.He was president and CEO of the Tίtusvillehospital for some 25 years. The Flemingshave lived in Palm Beach Shores, FL since1976. The long-time "conscience" of ourclass in encouraging contributions to theμniversity, Bill urges us to give generously,explore opportunities for establishing in-come-producing endowment funds, and es-pecially remember Cornell in our wills.

The Rockwell Azalea Garden off TowerRoad near the Andrew D. White House andBailey Hall is always a beautiful and invitingquiet retreat on a bustling campus, especial-ly when ablaze with multi-hued flowers inthe spring. On a Reunion visit last June, yourscribe felt a surge of pride to read on a bench,"The Class of 1937 restored this Azalea Gar-den as a Fiftieth Reunion Gift." Nearby onanother tablet is the inscription, "In Memo-ry of Edmund V. Mezitt, 1915-1986, Classof 1937. A life devoted to creating beautifulhardy plants for northern gardens."• Robert A. Rosevear, 2714 Saratoga Rd.,N., DeLand, FL 32720.

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Beth Dawson CaldwelΓs husband, Wal-lace, PhD '48, has retired as physics pro-fessor from Iowa State U. in Ames, IA. Herchildren are the Rev. Greg Caldwell, 52, andLinda Gahring, 53. Beth has six great-grand-children. Anna Thomas Bissell reports fourchildren, seven grandchildren, and sevengreat-grandchildren. Son Larry is in air con-ditioning in Buffalo, NY; daughter Laurel, aregistered nurse in Mississippi; son Tom, aretired Navy man, works for Lockheed atNASA in Florida; daughter Trudy is secre-tary for a family gun shop in Pennsylvania.Anna has sole care for husband Harvey,SpAg '34-36 (paralyzed from the chestdown), which she admits keeps her prettybusy and out of mischief. Her civic activitiesare her church and community fundraising.

I found it delightful to hear from Luci-ana Hnatt who reminded me of our classwith Harry Caplan '16. Luciana considersdiscarding results of recipe experiments oneof her hobbies. She reports that Arthur(Arthur-i-tis, that is) has prevented any travelsince her 1982 trip to Madeira. She is a lit-eracy volunteer and sector in St. GregoryChurch in Harrison. Her important civic ac-tivity is regular separation of her garbage intopapers, containers, and others. • GertrudeKaplan Fitzpatrick, PO Box 228, Cortland,NY 13045.

Walt King and wife Peg havemoved to a life-care community(733 Plantation Estates, #417-B,Matthews, NC) near Charlotte,NC; and it may be some kind of arecord, their 26th move in 52

years! Seymour Kaplan reports "a greattime" on a Rhone River boat trip with innu-merable Cornellians. Steve Fordham's anactive hiker in the Arizona Sun City WestSportsman's Club and takes part with oth-ers of the military-affiliated radio system(MARS) in the forwarding of messages serv-ing armed forces personnel.

The Jay Fishes, after having been boat-less for a year (sort of like being up the well-known creek?), bought an unfinished wood-en mini-tugboat, finding that there's "a bit ofa culture shock, after 60 years of sailboat-ing, even though a craft will make only sev-en knots;" but Jay settles his nerves by play-ing four times a week in various bands andsmaller musical groups. Jim Outhouseserves on a couple Purdue U. committees,is an AARP chapter president, veep of a Peo-ple to People chapter arid in his spare timeis secretary of a Royal Highlanders pipe band(no, folks, he doesn't smoke); he and wifeLouise work in some travel and stay withfamily in Dallas, Florida, Minnesota, andpoints in between. The Alex Stouts do sometravel, but it's been reduced a bit by illness;summertime gardening—taking care of 70 orso roses—and occasional golf game; but, win-tering in Florida, "We get real lazy!"

Charles Severinghaus winters in Flor-ida and continues research on white-taileddeer population. Maynard Boyce, retiredsince 1974 from Alfred, reports himself "en-grossed" in such endeavors as six years as acounty supervisor, current service-since 1990as a county legislator, planning board mem-bership, membership in Masonic groups andLions, 50 years a volunteer fireman and,

hardly least, "still living with original wife,Kathryn, after 54 years—Bless her forbear-ance!" • Fred Hillegas, 7625 E. CamelbackRd., Maya Apts., #220-A, Scottsdale, AZ 85251.

Mabel Levy Gerhart's 37 years of highschool teaching were excellent training forso-called "retirement." Now she juggles tripsabroad (last year to Germany, Denmark, andScandinavia) with community activities andhostessing guests from many lands. Herchurch is celebrating its 250th anniversary,and, as a member of the planning commit-tee, Mabel was closely involved with every-thing from the publication of a church histo-ry and a cookbook to the scheduling ofspecial organ and choir concerts. The Scotts-dale, AZ musical world is a priority in thelife of Willie Mazar Satina and husband Al,but Willie is also active in the Writers' Cluband the Toastmasters and has published anumber of articles in women's magazines.The Satinas' travels this past year took themfrom San Francisco to the East Coast—tomuseums, spectacular canyons, Wolf Trap,Virginia, movie studios—just name it! Visitswith children and grandchildren are an add-ed bonus, particularly as the older grandchil-dren are also developing careers.

Norma Jones Cummings's usual Wash-ington activities were hampered last winterby a badly broken ankle and a large cast, butluckily she could still continue her bobbin-lace work. She is an active member of sev-eral lace guilds, both in Britain and the US,and a volunteer at the zoo. Grace (Ballard)Lotspeich and husband Ed celebrated their50th anniversary with their four children, in-laws, and six grandchildren about them. Theycontinue to spend eight months of the yearat Walloon Lake, MI, with Sanibel Island, FLtheir winter haven. • Helen Reichert Chad-wick, 225 N. 2nd St., Lewiston, NY 14092.

Let's see—the Big Red should beabout 4-3 now. (That's a guess!)Too bad the Homecoming game(November 6) is so late. If wemake it, I hope we see some ofyou there. Recently saw Bill and

Rosemary Lynch, Lew and Jean Fancourt,C. Mortimer and Velma Durland, John andAstrid Hull, and William "Skip" Fuerst atan old guy's 80th birthday party. Will see themen again next week (as I write) at the 1994Reunion Kick-off meetings in Ithaca. Haveyou sent in your Reunion questionnaire? Itlooks like a good attendance, so please sendyours soon, so we can get plans underway.If you've lost the card, call or write BillFuerst 220 Triphammer Rd., Ithaca, NY14850; telephone, (607) 257-1462.

Pauline and I had the pleasure a fewdays ago of a visit with John and Astrid Hullin their lovely home on Chautauqua Lake.Had a sail and a motorboat ride—a real treatfor us landlubbers! Speaking of boats, lastyear Lee Rogers "Scotty" Kirk and Nancy(his bride of 47 years) went from Honfleur,France to Paris by boat—a six-day trip—thenenjoyed eight days in Paris. Scotty says afortnight in France is nearly the cost of fouryears at Cornell when we were there.

Dr. Gene Gerberg is an adjunct pro-fessor teaching medical and veterinary en-tomology at the U. of Florida. In 1991, he

attended an international congress on malar-ia in Rio de Janeiro and last year was a speakerat a symposium at the American Inst. of Bio-logical Sciences in Hawaii.

You can buy a hot dog and coke on Nia-gara Falls Blvd. for 39 cents. Stolen tidbits:"Happiness makes up in height what it lacksin length." • Henry L. "Bud" Huber, 152Conant Dr., Buffalo, NY 14223.

As I was flying back from a wonderful visitwith my sister in Oregon—where we en-joyed the marvelous Shakespeare Festivalin Ashland and caught salmon in the Pacif-ic—I bumped into Dawn Rochow BaldenSeymour in the Chicago airport. It's greatfun to come upon a dear friend unexpected-ly. Dawn was on her way home from Cali-fornia, where she had gone for a sister's 50thwedding anniversary and to be with her son,Bill Balden, while he had surgery. Dawn hadbeen having some wonderful experiencesthis year: in July at the 40th annual Experi-mental Aircraft Assn. Fly-In convention inOshkosh, WI, one of the world's largest avi-ation events, special salutes went to theWASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots, anorganization in which Dawn has been thenational president). In May, in Sweetwater,TX, a statue and walk of honor were dedi-cated to the WASPs and Janet Reno '60was the banquet speaker. Janet's aunt Wini-fred had been a WASP with Dawn and be-came young Janet's inspiration. "I made upmy mind that if those ladies went out andflew planes, I could do anything I wanted todo." In October Dawn was to proudly ac-cept for Jacqueline Cochran, who first pro-posed the idea of women pilots for the wareffort, the honor of induction into the Wom-en's Hall of Fame at Seneca Falls, NY. Any'39 news will be anti-climactic after Dawn'sstories, but I do want to write that the fourof us who lived together our senior year inBalch—Mary Dodds Phillips, Betty Lux-ford Webster, Peggy Schuman Green andI—had our tenth or so annual mini-reunionat my house, where we swam, ate, playedbridge, did jig-saw puzzles(!) but mostlytalked and laughed and had a wonderful time.You will, too, at our 55th in June. • SallySteinman Harms, 22 Brown's Grove,Scottsville, NY 14546.

W ^ V Toward the end of my summerΛ m 1 in Hartford, where the freshest

/ I I I breezes blow, I saw Eleanor/ l l I Slack Randies '41. She is very^ | l l I active in the W. Hebron Church.

X ^J It was at the annual women'sflower show that Eleanor was given recog-nition for her service to the church and toher community.

A gift of $1,000 has been given to theCornell Tradition Fellowship in memory ofWilliam Dixon of Monmouth Beach, NJ,who died of a brain tumor last January. An-other classmate, Harold P. Turner of So-dus, died in 1953 during the Korea conflict.Class President Curt Alliaume gave $100of class funds to the Korea/Vietnam Memo-rial project in his name. The Memorial Com-mittee places names and class affiliations onthe stone marker facing the World War IIMemorial in Anabel Taylor Hall, inside theAnabel Taylor Rotunda.

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The following from Henry S. Thomas-sen, alive and well: "A special report tostockholders from the chairman of the board:In early February the housing of his mainassembly plant suffered considerable dam-age to the degree that production slowedconsiderably. After preliminary inspectionand careful consultation, structural expertsat Pinehurst Medical Clinic advised that thedamage would not remedy itself and wouldinevitably increase over time. They recom-mended opening the lower right panel of theplant's housing, determining the state of theunderlying girders and support cables, thenconnecting these members as originally de-signed. The repairs, scheduled for March 9,were completely successful. The chairmanwas allowed to return to his office March10, provided he relinquish his main dutiesfor at least two weeks. A subsequent inspec-tion of the completed project on March 24revealed the girders and cables had been re-turned to their normal stress and tension,and the assembly line ready to operate al-most at a normal speed. However, we con-template that it will 'be another four to sixweeks before high level production may beresumed."

Your correspondent is not able to lookinto her files or she could tell you just whatcomes off this assembly line of Hank's. Godbless! • Carol Clark Petrie, 18 CalthropeRd., Marblehead, MA 01945.

W I To continue with those classmates/ I λ n o t r e P o r t e d o n recently, Marjo-/ 1 I rie Brass Greene is rightly proud

^ l i I of son Richard '76 who was one^ W I of ten to receive the Arthur S.Flem-

X JL ing Award for "scientific achieve-ments" (in biopolymer research) on May 7, '93in Washington, DC. She and husband Dick '41attended this exciting event. Congratulationsto your son on this great honor.

Ruth Puff finds that her retirementhas given her many enjoyable reasons tokeep busy. Among them are Habitat forHumanity, Meals on Wheels, League ofWomen Voters, and Elderhostel. Some ofthe same interests are shared by NancyRider Bishop. She and husband Ron areretired MDs and are probably traveling tonational parks in the West as I write this(in August). Trips to see eight grandchil-dren in Florida, Massachusetts, and Mich-igan also keep them busy.

Madelon Rufner Umlauf still contin-ues her work with Allentown, PA Hospi-tal and Muhlenberg College, as well as en-joying the Cotillion Dance Club, but has anew and absorbing interest. She has start-ed a branch of the Alliance for Mental Ill-ness (AMI), a support group for those witha loved one suffering from mental illness.It is a much-needed organization to pro-mote education and to fight the stigma ofthose afflicted by a physical illness of thebrain.

Ruth Aranow Cresson has had avery demanding year due to her husbandFrank's diagnosis in May 1992 and subse-quent extensive surgery and treatment forbladder cancer. However, Ruth reportsthat, except for swallowing difficulties, heis back to normal now. Let's hope someof those trips that were put on hold can

Home for Reunion

JEANNE AVERY GERVAIS '41

I n 1991 Jeanne Avery Gervais went toher 50th Cornell Reunion. A year later,she went to her 55th reunion—also inIthaca, but this time to mark her grad-

uation from Ithaca High School.Her Ithaca High and Cornell classmate,

Hugh Cosline, did some research and dis-covered there were 40 of Ithaca High's 1937graduates in Cornell's Class of '41.

'The Ithaca High reunion brought meback to life," Gervais says. "The news ofmy death, in one of the class newsletters—apparently when I hadmoved and didn't contact anyone—was grossly exaggerated. I am nowcorresponding with a number of early Ithaca friends who said theywere pleased that I was still around."

She retired from IBM in 1985 and now lives in Miami and is in-volved in garden clubs, music, and is an accomplished artist.

Gervais has vivid memories of growing up in Ithaca. "During thegood old days in Ithaca we had a great place to swim," she says.'There used to be a beach just beyond Beebe Lake Bridge, in theForest home area. On hot summer days my brother or a friend and Iwould hike along the Beebe Lake path to the swimming hole underthe bridge, dump our clothes and jump in. It was deep enough then sothat someone could dive off the bridge into the water. I never daredtry it."

In the winter, she says, "My family wouldn't let me go toboggan-ing at Beebe because it was too dangerous. There were a number ofbad accidents there. But I did go to the Johnny Parson Club, which atthe time had a "warming room" for putting on skates. There was asnack bar, but I don't remember much about it. After paying ten centsto go skating I didn't have anything left for a hot drink. But I livedjust down Thurston Avenue, anyway."

And what did she think of coming home—twice? "I had a won-derful time at both reunions," she says.

—Paul Cody, UFA '87

now be taken, Ruth.Your holiday letters are always welcome

as an update on your activities. Best wishesfor an enjoyable Thanksgiving. • ShirleyRichards Sargent, 15 Crannell Ave., Del-mar, NY 12054.

How about a retired '41er who gets up at5:00 a.m. to report as a hospital volunteer?Bob Brunet is that devoted! Anne and I metBob in Boston. He looks healthy, with a CapeCod tan and a full head of hair with a smalltouch of gray. He authored a letter whichbrought in over $35,000 for Engineering'sscholarship fund.

Lots of good news from Ray Kruse. Hecompleted hospital therapy. Ray and Deb willcelebrate their 50th anniversary on theQueen Elizabeth II, spend four days in Ire-

land, and fly a Concorde to New York City.Ray and Millard "Brownie" Brown plan toattend the Harvard and Dartmouth games.Brownie and wife Helen were visited byFred Hillsley in October. Al Aschaffen-burg has moved to 732 Carrollton Ave.,Metairie, LA. Man-on-the-go Matt Urbanconstantly travels to book stores autograph-ing his book, The Hero We Almost Forgot.There's a picture in the book of PresidentCarter awarding Lt. Col. Urban the Congres-sional Medal of Honor. Matt also visits manyschools, veteran and civic organizations.

John Kruse writes, "Had a big tri-ple-A operation in December 1992." BothJohn and Dick Davis confirm that theyplayed golf in Green Valley, AZ. • RalphAntell, 9924 Maplestead Lane, Richmond,VA 23235.

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W ^ \ In mid-August, 35 had already/ I \ I signed up for the Big Class Party/ • m in Philadelphia for the Penn-Cor-

£ l i / nell game, Nov. 20. We will be^ l ^ i L s t a v m § a t the Rittenhouse and

A imΛ the Holiday Inn-Midtown, withthe class dinner on Saturday after the gameat the Rittenhouse. Peter Wolff and RayJenkins are making sure all our arrangementsare perfect. Γm sure I'll see many of you andit's not too late to decide to go! Don't miss thisgreat mini-reunion. Call Ray, (215) 643-5777.

Beatrice Mead Hagedorn (ColoradoSprings, CO) leads a busy life. She is seniorvice president of Mid-Colorado InvestmentCo. and MCI Water Co., and director of anAustralian wool-growing company which shevisits frequently. She home-tutors for theColorado deaf and blind in math and is a nurse'saide at the Fr. Carson Hospital. Beatrice gavea reception for all Cornell engineers in theColorado area to greet Engineering DeanWilliam Streett. She also had time for sur-gery on rotator cuff tears, at the Mayo Clin-ic in Rochester, MN, that was not complete-ly successful so may have to be repeated.Sons George Hagedorn '75 and Al Hage-dorn '69 are doctors, so she is in good hands.

Christian Haller (Geneseo, NY), a re-tired veterinarian, now teaches classes onastrophysics at The Anthenaeum, Roches-ter. He is assistant coach to SUNY College,Geneseo rowers and president of the Vetcollege's alumni association. He recentlytraveled to New Zealand and enjoys golf,rowing, and scuba diving.

Doris Stone Hanrahan (Punta Gorda,FL), who must have loved Free Willy, wenton a whale-watching expedition in the Seaof Cortez. Stonie also goes whale watchingout of Montauk with the Okeonos Founda-tion. She says she plays a lot of "hit and gig-gle" golf. Joe Hoffman (White Plains, NY)is still working in his import/export business.He cruised Eastern Europe on the Danubeand stayed in Istanbul, Turkey, where hemade many videos. Tsu-Wang Hu (Wash-ington, DC) held down the fort while wifeMargaret visited Kunming and Chengdu,China to visit family for the first time in 40years. Bertram King (Flushing, NY) alsovisited China and Indonesia. He rides his bi-cycle 15 miles every day.

Gilbert Johnson retired to Vero Beach,FL to work on his golf, as did Manuel Gal-do, in Key Biscayne, FL, where in 1990 hewon the annual golf tourney. Bob Moyer(Syracuse) retired from his architectural andengineering firm. He now volunteers at theOnondaga Historical Assn. Joe Parker (Co-coa Beach, FL) retired from Pan Am WorldServices. He is interested in computers,plays tennis three times a week, and cooksfor 250, four times a month, at his church.Wife Mimi is into shell art work. Togetherthey have six children, 12 grands, and onegreat-grandchild.

Sadly, Rosemary Dailey MacFarlane(Massena, NY) passed away in 1992. Her hus-band, William, wrote that her years at Cornellwere probably among the best in her life andshe spoke of them fondly. Her grandsonAaron LeClaire '92 graduated with honors.

Looking forward to seeing you all at thegame. • Carolyn Evans Finneran, 293376th, SE, #13D, Mercer Island, WA 98040.

August found Mary Louise(Snellenburg) '45 and yours tru-ly in Sante Fe for the first timeever, where the highlight of the^ v e ^ a ^ s w a s ' ^ e ^ e v e it o r n o t>visiting Vanna and Jim Lorie at

their handsome spread atop the mesa ofnearby Tesulque, not to mention dining withthem (and, get this, on them) twice. Jim hasretired from his posts at U. of Chicago Grad-uate School of Business and from the boardof Merrill Lynch, although he retains hisseats on four other boards. Judging by thenumber of people who approached our tableat various eateries to kiss the hem of histrousers, he has made almost as strong animpression on the cognoscenti of New Mex-ico as he did on me when first we met onthe Hill in 1939. The high desert country ofNew Mexico is breathtaking (7,000 feet up,for Goodness sake), and I don't wonder thatthe Lories spend summer and winter there,returning spring and fall to Chicago. JamesTaylor is their next door neighbor, havingbought the house of Vanna's mother, a de-lightfully spry lady of 84. My middle-agedchildren, some of whom know Jim, seemedmore impressed than necessary with theTaylor connection. Alas.

Ralph Colson, now that he has retiredfrom biology/ecology, found time to write thefirst installment of his US Army career in-cluding ROTC on the Hill, Fort Sill withCharles A. "Bud" Colbert and the late BillCochrane (housed—or rather, hutted alpha-betically), through the ETO with the 44thInfantry Div. as forward artillery observer.Says that in April 1945, D. James Gleason(now deceased) landed his liaison plane infront of Ralph's battery, got his bearings, andtook off. That was the last time Ralph sawhim. He promises to write more but spacedoes cost the earth, and I don't promise torun it.

"Took a five-week trip," writes RobertCologgi, "to Texas, Florida, North Caroli-na, and Pennsylvania, visiting children andgrandchildren. Spent two weeks in Califor-nia, where grandson graduated from U. ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara. Missed Reunionwhile vacationing in Alaska."

Stanley Gittelson, who retired fromthe practice of pediatrics and had his firstgrandchild all within the past year, waspleased and honored that his patients hadsurprised him on his retirement with a par-ty and a gift of $9,000 to Schneider's Chil-dren's Hospital in Manhasset, NY. Anotherdoc, surgeon Dave Frucht, has hung up hisscalpel and sutures and moved full-time tothe Eastman community in Grantham, NH."We recently sold the boat we had in theCaribbean," he writes, "and except for anoccasional trip to New York, California, orFlorida, are pretty well occupied with lifehere in the North Country. Town conserva-tion commission, lake committee, skiing,tennis, golf, and officiating at Dartmouthtrack meets. Daughter Martha FruchtRives '76 teaches art in Amherst, NH; sonBill '77 is in publishing in NYC; and daugh-ter Sara (Yale '79) is some sort of computergenius in Berkeley, CA. She tries to explainto me what it is she does. In vain. In vain."My comments: (a) lucky there are no downsin track, right? (b) seems to me that 50 years

ago, writing for The Widow, Dave was fun-nier. Hoping you the same. • S. Miller Har-ris, PO Box 164, Spinnerstown, PA 18968.

A huge thank you to Grace Reinhardt Mc-Quillan and Caroline Norfleet Church forcovering for me the gala Reunion which EdyNewman Weinberger and I regrettedmissing so very much. Edy's granddaugh-ter Jodi Siegel '96 is now a fourth-genera-tion Cornellian, living in Cascadilla, thefreshman-year dorm of her grandfather Joe'42! Great-Granddaddy was Kenneth C.Newman '10; Jodi's mom is Jane Wein-berger Lapple '69. Edy was happy to hearfrom her many friends after having had ahip replaced. Bea Swick Ornitz and Mar-tin '42 took a fabulous world cruise in thespring on the Royal Viking Sun; took 3-1/2months and circled the world, traveling40,000 miles. They were married 50 yearson June 13.

I have talked to S. Miller Harris andhe reported the 50th to be THE BESTEVER. Hope all who attended had a blastand will write to me about it. I continue tolook for your mail. Get on it, NOW!• Helene "Hedy" Neutze Alles, 15 OakRidge Dr., Haddonfield, NJ 08033.

44In the July 28 New York Timesthere was an article with photoabout Ed Johnson and his"Johnson Redbook," a weeklyindex of sales at the 25 largestnational retail chains. Despite

high taxes and unemployment, he predictsChristmas sales will be up 9.5 percent. Hewas right about holiday sales in 1992. In fact,since 1960, Ed has published his "JohnsonRedbook" with great success. HubertGerstman sends no news of himself butsays his wife, Lillian (Schneider) '52, hasa claim to fame. She and Supreme Court Jus-tice Ruth Bader Ginsburg '54 graduatedfrom the same public school and high school,as well as Cornell.

Jim McTague wrote of his job as di-rector of Catholic Charities, USA, whichcomprises 1,300 agencies. His work involvesa lot of travel, which he finds very interest-ing. But, he says, "Such close proximity tothe mountains of problems is frustrating anda bit frightening." Jim also puts in manyhours managing his investments and polish-ing his tennis game.

A note on Cornell Club stationery camefrom Melvin Hirsch, who, having retiredas CEO of Transportation Capital Corp., re-sides at The Meadows, Sarasota,FL. He andDorothy spend summers on Nantucket whiledaughter Susan '75 works in the fashionindustry in Manhattan and son Jon '77 is avice president of his father's firm in Boston.Jack Murray retired in 1987 as associateprovost, director of continuing education andprofessor of agricultural communications atthe U. of Delaware. Recalled as dean of theBranch Campus System (a two-year liberalarts college in each county) he served sixmore years. As of June 1993, he and Anne(Dickinson) '49 have retired to their Penn-view Farm in Landenberg, PA. John Ho-taling, recovering from major cancer sur-gery, expected to resume all activities suchas "farm, concert, marching band, Florida va-

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cations." He looks forward to our 50th.Anthony Prasil is curator of the Hoff-

man Clock Museum in Newark, NY. He andGeorgiana visited daughter Marilyn last fallin San Jose, Costa Rica, where Marilyn playsviolin in the National Symphony Orchestra.In June they attended Georgiana's 50th re-union at Ithaca College. They're ready forours. Blanton "Bud" Wiggin sent a clippingfrom a recent Wall Street Journal about Ar-nold Tofias, a developer who discovered anddonated 784 shovels to Stonehill College inEaston, MA. The collection, covering thehistory of shovels from the first one made inthe US in 1774, includes blueprints and pat-ents as well as ledgers and letters of mem-bers of the founding Ames family. Arnold'sdevelopment office is called "Shovel ShopSquare." He has a Cornellian son, Donald'69 (BA 70).

Dr. Richard Alexander of Rancho Mi-rage, CA has retired from active practice butworks six to seven months a year surveyinghospitals (mostly in the western US) for theJoint Commission on Accreditation of HealthCare Organizations. He has a summer homein LaCosta, CA. Richard writes of a surpriseand happy meeting with Merril and MitziZahler Sands at a New Year's Eve party inDecember 1992. Now he's looking for Her-bert Eskwitt, who, he hears, also wintersin that area. Joseph File retired a year agofrom Princeton's Plasma Physics Lab. Sincethen he has been having a good time con-sulting, traveling, and enjoying his home andsix grandchildren; the oldest, a high schooljunior, is planning to be a Cornellian. Joe andwife Dorothy look forward to the 50th.• Nancy Torlinski Rundell, 1800 OldMeadow Rd., #305, McLean,Va 22102.

This month "CU in Philadelphia"celebrates the 100th Cornell-Penn game; if you aren't signedUP> a t least come to the game andby all means attend our '45 post-game cocktail party at the U. of

Pennsylvania Faculty Club "Tea Room" onSat., Nov. 20, at 5:30. Reunion Chair StanJohnson has ordered an array of horsd'oeuvres to go with our victory beverages.

Speaking of Penn, Miriam Taylor Saj-kovic (S. Hadley, MA) and husband, Prof.Emeritus Vladimir (both have Penn PhDs),are by no means inactive, although they'veretired from teaching at Mt. Holyoke Col-lege. Miriam is the philosophy departmentat Holyoke Community College and has justpublished her second book, Visionaries ofOur Time. Russian specialists, they traveland present papers comparing philosophiesof the East and West; next May in Berga-mo, Italy they will be active at the third In-ternational Vladimir Soloviev Society meet-ing, named for Russia's greatest philosopher.Although Miriam has been teaching for 45years, Henrietta Burgott Gehshan(Southampton, PA) decided that 25 years ofteaching home economics classes wereenough. Hank enjoys her seven grandchil-dren and four children: Gloria (at MIT's Lin-coln Lab), Gail (American Bankers Assn.)—both Smith graduates—and her Cornellians,Shelly Gehshan Marqusee '76 (marriedto Jeff '76) and Virginia Gehshan '74, adesign consultant. She and Lois Georgia

Hubert Gerstmanreports wife Lillian(Schneider) '52 andSupreme CourtJustice Ruth BaderGinsburg '54graduated from thesame public schooland high school, aswell as Cornell.—NANCY TORLINSKI

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Humphrey (Ithaca) travel extensively, as doRuth Phelps Latimer and husband Bob '39(Kendall Park, NJ), who enjoy Elderhosteltrips and are heading for Costa Rica about now.

Reunion spirit grows: Kay KilburnBullard (S. Dartmouth, MA) reports a sur-prise call from Ina Hundinger Wolf (Larch-mont, NY), promoting one with BarbaraPaul Quillman (Nashville, TN);

Elizabeth Price Wehrle (Naples, FL)joined Maxine Katz Morse (Manchester,NH) at a Cornell Club tea in Florida, metCarolyn Usher Franklin '46 and MargeMcNair, Fred's widow; and Marjehne An-drae Hoefer and Albert left their former Ith-aca home for a five-week motorhome trip toMichigan, visiting brother Reed Andrae '42,on through South Dakota and Texas, and fi-nally to their new home near Elizabeth"Trish" Price Wehrle in Atlantic Beach FL.The Hoefers then welcomed new neighborsHerb and Janet Eagle Peeler. The next RVtrip is to San Diego to visit sons AlbertHoefer '70 and Bill Hoefer '74.

Other visitors to Cornell offspring areWilliam Berley and wife Isabel (Mayer)'47 (NYC) who see Richard '75 and hisfamily in Seattle, as well as Jan BerleySublett '78 in Corvallis, OR. They metwith Marty Greenfield '49 and wife Ro-berta "Bobby" (Horowitz) '49 twice onAdult University (CAU) trips and also visitJerry Silver '47 and Barbara (Bayer) '47,and Werner Kaplan '48. Actively raisingfunds for Cornell scholarships, they're alsoon the Johnson Art Museum advisory coun-cil and University Council.

Enslie "Bud" Oglesby (Dallas) stuck tohis Cornell architectural principles through40 years of introducing modernism to Texasbuildings he designed, including CarrolltonCity Hall, El Centro and Richland Colleges,high schools, and renovation of the Majestic

Theatre. He was widely admired for hiswork, which he studied under the legendaryWilliam Wurst and Scandinavians Alvar Aal-to and Ralph Erskine. Sadly, he died this pastsummer, as did our loyal Reunioner Bill Al-lison (St. Petersburg), lawyer and hotelier,and active in many civic activities there.• Prentice Cushing, Jr., 317 WarwickAve., Douglaston NY 11363-1040

46This is the first of two issuesbeing sent to our whole class sowe will be reaching the homesof some classmates we haven'theard from either in the form ofnews or dues. We hope many of

you will join us by sending current news toBill Papsco or me and dues to RuthCritchlow Blackman. May I say "welcomeaboard"? In three more years, we will becelebrating our 50th and we want to makethis the BIGGEST Reunion in attendanceand in support of Cornell that we have hadto date. Remember we want to see YOU inJune 1996.

Eventually everything is printed in thiscolumn. Received a newsy Christmas letterfrom Francis and Barbara Kelsey Martin,updating us on their 11 children and 12grandchildren (maybe more, by now). Franwas still doctoring in the Rockville Centre,NY area. Barb had a visit from Marie Dick-er Kaufman Haas '45, a former '46er whograduated in 1945 and who wants to "reune"with us. Marie lives in San Francisco, CA.Barb hopes to join Marie at our 50th. Treas-urer Ruth sent a short note informing me ofthe death of her husband on May 17 followingheart surgery. We will all miss seeing Bill atour next Reunion—he was always present, re-cording us on video for posterity. Beth Stu-art Wells (Cleveland Heights, OH) receivedthe Kiwanis-E. Cleveland award for work-ing with mentally retarded Sunday schoolclasses. She added: "Glorious retirement—it was worth working and waiting for. Praisebe for good health. Enjoy 'grandparenting,'trips, and Elderhostels." • Elinor BaierKennedy, 503 Morris PI., Reading, PA 19607.

Ken Voeller is still working with his familycompany, Hemisphere Trading Co. Ltd.Since trade has re-opened in Latin Americahe is very busy and traveling back to coun-tries he hasn't visited in years. And he isenjoying it. On a personal note, he spentthree weeks with family, grandkids, etc. inVermont. Ken is a faithful correspondentwho lives in Puerto Rico, where his busi-ness is headquartered, in the winter. I notean interesting coincidence. We have two "Dr.Herman"s in our class. I wrote about Dr.Howard Hermann (two ens) in 1991 andnow we have a note from Dr. Grace GalesHerman (one en). Both are physicians. Graceretired from practice in 1988 and has recent-ly published a collection of poetry titled SetAgainst Darkness. It was published by TheJewish Women's Resource Center, NationalCouncil of Jewish Women in New York City.She has two successful daughters, one a phy-sician and the other a senior vice presidentof Phoenix Home Life Insurance Co. Con-gratulations are certainly in order to you,Grace, for having your works published.

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to see our classmates excel in areas otherthan their chosen professions. I would mostappreciate it if others in our class who haveactive alter professions or avocations wouldwrite, so we can share it with our class.Donald Ironside took the inevitable step.He writes that "although I planned to retire'never,' others had different ideas, so I havebeen wrestling with the new way of life forjust over a year." Then he gets to the goodpart. "Project for this year is a trip to Eu-rope, first time on the Continent." Now youhave the right idea, Donald. He sends hisbest to the 45th Reunioners and hopes tosee all in 1998.

My poor classmates. I have just exhaust-ed all of the notes from our classmates. Youmay be subjected to a lengthy discussionabout the capital gains tax differential inthe next column. To avoid this PLEASEsend in the personal notes. P&H. • BillPapsco, 3545 Clubheights Dr., ColoradoSprings, CO 80906.

J 1 7 Wel1'that CU in Philly was sure

#1 f I t o ^ e quite the affair. Details will/ 1 m ^ e spiu mg around for a spell. As^ l i 1 for '47, it was expected to set a^ W I tone for our Big 50th Reunion in

L I 1997. Hail to John Ayer and C.Stu Ladow for stimulating attendance.More than a few who didn't sign up will learnto regret same. Bless Margaret NewellMitchell, who is co-chairing Cayuga Societydoings in her usual stylish ways. "Workingwith her is a real pleasure" was one com-ment heard around this Ithaca town whenwe were not being observed. We first hadthat reaction in 1945! By the way, CayugaSociety interests concern planned-giving ar-rangements, something all of us should bethinking about every so often. Have you?Are you? Will you?

Sanford Reis asks that mail be sent to846 Village Green, Westfield, NJ. JeanneSchmidt has retired from stockbrokering;still carries Garrison, NY address. Harold"Tep" Tepperman is identifying self as clin-ical research associate; Dick Tousey enjoysthe Delray Beach, FL area at 611 SE 7thSt., PH2. We appreciate Dick Turrell ofShort Hills, NJ sending additional dollarswith his dues last June. Same with JeanHough Wierum, who said she'd had a busystream of visitors in Amelia Island, FL.Pleased to have long note from Ruth Thie-berger Cohen, who is deeply involved withfamily travel overseas and has taken courses inthe study of Hebrew and Hebrew literature.

Did you know that Joseph H. Butler,the doctor, has moved from Endicott to 67Highland Ave., Binghamton, NY? C. O.Henry retired? Doubt his statement, thebusy little beaver. Says he's active in Ma-sons and church, along with time for 12grandchildren. We had no idea until the read-ing of dues form that Marian J. Calale isdirector of regional sales , NBC TV Network,at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. For the record, Carland Connie Foley Ferris's new address inFlorida is 10 Seagate Dr., Seapoint PH IS,Naples, FL. Jim Hutchison of Garden City,NY remains focused on paper— as presidentof the sales association of the paper indus-try and consultant in the same industry. Ad-rina Casparian Kayaian and husband Berge

Visited the peacetable at Panmunjonwith North Koreansoldiers guardingtheir side of tableand South Koreansoldiers on our side.—MARTHA SMITH

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became happy grandparents of twins, back aspell. Another flash from Binghamton—Is-rael Margolis, judge in NY State Court ofClaims, reports son Michael J. '84 and wifeMaureen are now on faculty at U. of Con-necticut dental school. • Barlow Ware, 55Brown Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850.

N Here's a trio of Reunion newsI items: Anne Roark Karl, Scotia,

j j NY: "Great being back on cam-% pus, seeing classmates, visiting1 the Ithaca area and viewing Cor-

• nell sunsets." Greta AdamsWolfe, Lake Stevens, WA: "Delightful to seeold and new friends. Weather perfect, foodgood. Wish more could have come." GerryHaviland, Naples, ME: "Kudos to NancyHorton Bartels for hosting the ice cream bash("social"), a real fun night. Will be back in1998 for some tennis with the 'Curmudgeon'."

Now we're back to items you sent wellbefore Reunion. Charlotte Smith Moore(our president), Binghamton, NY: "Daugh-ter Betsy Moore '74 married last year toDavid Porter, Cazenovia, NY. GodparentsJohn '47 and Helen Allmuth Ayer '47,brought their class headquarters red andwhite floral arrangements to help decoratethe house. Ed and I went to England, Scot-land, and Ireland for two weeks last year withonly five minutes of rain! Most recent thinglearned is what an amazingly fine presidentHarry Truman was." Bob and MarjorieWright Mueller, Clermont, FL: "We drove18,000 miles from Florida through Texas(two daughters and son) up to Idaho, throughCanada, up the Marine Highway, all overAlaska, back through British Columbia andYukon Territory to Pennsylvania (onedaughter), south to Virginia (another daugh-ter) and back to Florida by September."(Those Floridians will do anything to escapethe heat.)

Leo Smith, Holland, PA: "Retired, dovery little consulting. Attended Al Atwood'sfuneral at Arlington National Cemetery lastyear where he was buried with full militaryhonors. Wife Nicolette survives with two

sons, Al A. Ill 'Mike' and Peter." MarthaSmith Sowell, Palos Verdes Estates, CA:"Last year (give or take a year) was plan-ning trip to Guadalajara. Last week select-ed fabric for new living room curtains. Yes-terday, helped husband set up fax machineand make new list for earthquake kit. Nowwe have to eat up last year's supply ofcanned goods and replace. Bob is KoreanWar vet and we visited Korea on the Veter-an Revisit Program. We were wined anddined and presented with medals and gifts.Visited the peace table at Panmunjon withNorth Korean soldiers guarding their sideof table and South Korean soldiers on ourside. We then went to Seoul and Inchon andtook two weeks to visit Singapore, Bali, Lom-bok, and Kuala Lampur. Learned to kayak onLake Union (Seattle) while visiting daughter.Today's solution is not to put off anythinguntil tomorrow!"

Claude "Bud" Stone, Morton, IL:"Nothing new, but very busy with countyboard activities." William A. ThompsonIV, Oakdale, NY: "Son Erik '93 graduatedAgriculture and Life Sciences in June. I amgoing through first phases of retirementshock. Enjoyed family reunion in Norwaylast summer. Seventy-nine cousins gatheredin Fredrikstad. Brother Sawyer '47 and sonjoined us on ten-day visit to fjords, Lille-hammer (site of '94 Winter Olympics), Oslo,and country homes. Have learned that twodogs and three cats are too much!" GretaAdams Wolfe, Lake Stevens, WA: "Hadthree grandchildren all to myself for ten dayslast August. Lovely! Went to first Elderhos-tel last year at Roche Harbor, San Juan Is-land (Washington). Last week went overNorth Cascade Pass—spectacular! Wentpast Ross Lake and Diablo Dam to towns ofWinthrop and Twisp. We needed the recentheavy rains which helped the mushroomsgrow. Took trip to Greece with Greek friendlast March. Cold! They haven't learned torecycle and clean up their—everything!Went to Williamsburg, VA and Washington,DC last September. Beautiful!" Joe Calla-han, Humble, TX: "Most recent familyevent has been receipt of monthly SocialSecurity checks. Last year toured New Eng-land, New York, and Pennsylvania and lastweek paid bills. Spent yesterday proddingmedical and dental insurance carriers to payclaims. Have recently observed that mostpeople I know can't read or write and talkby snatching words from a grab bag. Thisincludes some English, journalism, and lit-erature majors. They seem only one stepbehind the dinosaurs. Will hoist a few withJohn J. Sullivan over the Thanksgiving hol-iday. Have learned not to believe the fig-ures you see. They are all well corseted,especially the federal government econom-ic statistics. Today's solution is to give writ-ing and speaking the same status as moneyand sports." • Bob Persons, 102 Reid Ave.,Port Washington, NY 11050.

49Forty-fifth Reunion is a-borning.Bette McGrew Benedict, Re-union chair, and President Rich-ard Lustberg convened thecommittee for a marathon-lengthplanning session, which resulted

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nized and very imaginative, has a number ofplans and surprises lined up. The final planis dependent upon the number of returnees.If you have not responded, please return thepostcard today. If you lost the postcard, makeup your own. A yes, no, or hopeful is vital tothe decisions to be made.

The planning session had its moments.At one point, someone suggested a "sing-along," meaning group singing of Cornellsongs. President Lustberg responded: "Youmean one of those Japanese singing things?!""Oh, no," said a keen one, "we don't mean acarioca!" A movie buff replied: "That's adance Carmen Miranda did. Dick means akaraoke—the microphone and music thingyou sing to." The class secretary immedi-ately scratched the above interlude from theminutes . . . confident that none of these peo-ple were ever Rhythm Club members, andbesides, we didn't know how to spell thedamned thing!

It is obvious that Reunion 1994 is onthe minds of many '49-ers as we read the"I'll be there" comments. We received a cardfrom Killarney, Ireland reporting a mini-re-union held on the links by Paul and Priscil-la "Pris" Bassett Bretschger, Walt Peek,and Dick Reynolds. Peek wrote: "You willnever amount to much." Our ego was saved,in a back-handed way, by Robert "Buck"Lewis, Leawood, KS: "You're a great man,and there's only a few of us left!" We seemto have become a conduit between Buck andPaul Kiely, Ithaca, NY, who writes, "Sup-pose Buck ever realized he was used as arole model for the movie, The Sting? Justback from an alumni tour of the Fiji Islands,New Zealand, and Australia." Your shot,Buck. Charlie Cope, Parkersburg, WV, sentan article from Chemical and EngineeringNews about a project that "seeks better yieldfrom alligator eggs" with a note that wewould "recognize its significance without dif-ficulty." Yes! We are up to our hips in alliga-tors right now. One questionnaire commenton this column said it "seemed to be per-sonal" at times. Guilty. What '49ers sow,they shall reap.

After reporting Ed Wesely's marriage,we learned he was honored for his work incivil justice reform by the Board of Judges,US District Court-Eastern District of NewYork. Carl Anderson, Phoenix, AZ report-ed that he is now fully retired and that hisson George '93 graduated from Arts & Sci-ences this past May. Marilyn "Pat" MyersHolzworth, Hobe Sound, FL: "Sold Connect-icut home after 31 years. Enjoying this golfcommunity." Jim Henry, Cherry Hills, NJ:"Still semi-working. Winter home in Naples,FL. Travel to California to see daughters andto Europe every year." Bill Ohaus, NewVernon, NJ: "Still part time in Connecticutbusiness. No visitors. Thought Keegan wouldshow up." (Personal comment: too close tothe Yalies.) Daniel Ninburg, Santa Ana, CA:"Retired after practicing occupational andfamily medicine for 30 years. Member Or-ange County Human Relations Commission.Married Aviva Goelman in 1991." CharlieWolf, Binghamton, NY: "Still reliving greattour of Russia last year." Dot DashefskyFast, Livingston, NJ: "(Husband) Shelly, JD'50 and I retired. Love the leisurely pace.Shelly's law practive is being run by son

Tom, the third generation of Fast and Fast."Our 40th Reunion emcee, Jerry Al-

pern, Englewood, NJ pens: "Winter wascold, boring . . . decided to liven it up byhaving 40 percent of my stomach removedalong with a benign leiomyoma, whichsounds like a town near Honolulu, but real-ly is a muscle tumor. Result: lost 18 pounds,which had been carried in a cute poucharound my waist for years. Procedure didwonders for me. For you, try Slimfast first.Elected to University Council in 1992; stillon ILR advisory council and serve as an offi-cer (a vice president) of our Johnson Gradu-ate School of Management class ('50) alongwith our football/swim star J. B. "Jack" Rog-ers '45 (BCE '49), who is president, and ourbrilliant dairyman, Harlan Wengert, anoth-er vice president." Jerry then detailed theAlpern family tree, obviously aided by his"child bride," Enid Marjorie (Levine) '47.He could never do it alone. We were con-fused, but a photo helped. GranddaughterEmily, contributed by Susan Alpern Fisch'81 and Ricky '79, is expected to be in theClass of 2011, and her cousin Sarah, theClass of 2014. Jerry thinks "It's great thatSarah and I get to reune together!" This epicreminded us to ask all Reunion returnees tobring back photos for a giant wall montagein Risley . . . photos from Cornell daze, yearsin-between, past Reunions, and, certainly,grandchildren.

" '94 is 4 '49!" • Dick Keegan, 179 N.Maple Ave., Greenwich, CT 06830; (203)661-8584.

50Douglas Manly, Fredonia, NY,has recently returned fromNairobi, Kenya, where he servedas a volunteer with the Interna-tional Executive Service Corps(IESC). Douglas, a food technol-

ogy consultant, was recruited to help in long-range planning, developing export markets,and identifying future collaborators. Duringhis stay in Kenya, he wrote a three- to five-year product development plan, exploredexport opportunities for current products,and suggested a semi-automatic approach topineapple processing. This was Douglas'sfourth IESC tour of duty. Carson Geld re-ports from Fazenda pau D'Alho in Brazil thatonce again he and wife Ellen (Bromfield)'53 were back in the US—Dallas of all plac-es—for a cattle show in October 1992. Car-son has no retirement plans "as long as San-ta Gertrudis cows give birth." Carson, thisis a rather expansive promise, but Carsonalso reports he is president of the local San-ta Gertrudis Breeding Assn. and the Brazil-ian Cornell Club. Ellen is finishing a newnovel set in the fascinating Pantanal floodplains of Brazil. Carson and Ellen have 12grandchildren "of many sizes." CharlesFiden, Cincinnati, OH, reports that he andwife Ruth had a wonderful 24-day tour ofChina last year which was a really excitingexperience. Jim Farrell writes from Liv-ingston Manor, NY that last year he and wifeVera (Johnston) '49 flew to Seattle anddrove through British Columbia and Alber-ta on a real golf vacation. Jim and Vera havefour children (three, James '77, Thomas'78, and John '84, are alumni)and eightgrandchildren in California with one daugh-

ter and grandson still left back in the East!Theodore Eskild writes from Palmyra, NYthat he has been enjoying retirement—read-ing, golfing, and woodworking as much aspossible. Theodore serves on the advisorycommittee of the Griffith-McLauth Founda-tion. John Chapin writes from San Diegothat he is now retired and lists travel as hismain hobby. Last year John completed a Vol-ga River cruise which took him through thenorthern lakes and canals and eventually toSt. Petersburg. Harry E. Cassel, MD re-ports from Flatrock, MI, that he has been afamily medical doctor for 26 years but Har-ry says he is slowing down and now doingoccupational health with an after-hours clin-ic two evenings a week. Harry and wife Con-stance Ann have seven children and sixgrandchildren. Charles Brate Bryantwrites from Hartland, WI that he has nowreduced his time involvement at BryantProducts Inc. and the company has never runbetter. Brate's marriage, in February 1992,to Bonnie Shambeau brought his home backup to full-time bustle, including the activi-ties of a new 21-year-old daughter and anOld English sheep dog. Brate reports fourchildren and nine grandchildren—all still inWisconsin. Elinor Moore Brink, Sussex,NJ, reports that she has retired as a homeeconomics teacher and now can spend threeto four months in the winter in a campgroundat Key Largo, FL. Husband Horace '48 hasalso retired, after 20 years as manager ofSussex Rural Electric. Their two sons have sixgrandchildren between them, including a setof twins. Shirley Kabakoff Block writesfrom Chapel Hill, NC that she is still work-ing as a learning disabilities specialist in pri-vate practice. Shirley says she has been amember of the Democratic precinct commit-tee and was thrilled by the outcome of thenational election, but embarrassed by NorthCarolina's senators! Shirley and husbandMarvin have five granddaughters, ages 14months to 17 years! • Ralph C. Williams,2516 NW 20th St., Gainesville, FL 32605.

^ ^ A Joan Ferreira, our class presi-I j A dent, writes, "We hope to seel^k I many of you in Philadelphia, No-

1 I vember 18-21 for a celebration ofI I I Cornell past, present, and future;\ J A the 100th football game with Penn,and our Class of '51 reception at the War-wick following the football game. And, forclassmates who will be in Ithaca November6 for the Homecoming game against Yale,join us for a post-game reception hosted byMarybeth (Weaver) and Jack Ostrom attheir home."

Dave Fielder, a consultant in trafficengineering, retired from a career with theCity of Akron in 1990. He and wife Sarahlive on an island with 23 other families whohave a club house, tennis court, sailing club,and acres of woods—all owned in common.Travel activities of late have included visitsto Japan and Hong Kong, where a son lives.

Peggy Brackbill Brass and husbandPaul '50, live in Wyomissing, PA, wherePeggy operates a "personal accounting busi-ness," managing the business affairs of eld-erly relatives and friends. Their children arespread far and wide and a recent trip tookthem to Helsinki to visit a former exchange

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student who had lived with them during the1970s. Joan Vorwerk Howie retired fromteaching in June 1992 and now has time fortraveling, doing Elderhostels and spendingtime with grandchildren. Like so many oth-ers, Irving Candee, recently retired, says"Don't know how I found time to work. Stillbusy with home, garden, travel, church andfire department activities. Five children andeight grandchildren and counting, all re-turned to within the boundaries of New YorkState." Irving's home is in Baldwinsville.Alfred Blumstein has resigned as dean ofCarnegie Mellon's Heinz School of PublicPolicy Management after seven years in theposition. He is returning to the regular fac-ulty. Al was recently awarded the first Pres-ident's Award of the Operating ResearchSociety of America for "service to society."

One classmate who indicated early onthat he plans to attend the Cornell gather-ing in Philadelphia this month is Eric Jen-sen. Eric, who's still active as an arbitrator/lawyer in Stamford, CT, also has plans toattend the Winter Olympics in Norway inFebruary 1994.

J. Barry Nolin, former correspondentfor this column, works in sales for the An-dros Company, Battle Creek, ML Russ Rossis a professor and chairs the pathology de-partment at the medical school at the U. ofWashington in Seattle, while Myron Schaf-fer is a veterinarian at the Redwood Veter-inary Clinic in Santa Rosa, CA. • Bob andJoanne Bayles Brandt, 60 ViennawoodDr., Rochester, NY 14618.

W^ί ^ \ This is being written in August.1 ^ I I By publication date many of youl^k m will have been in Ithaca for

\M Homecoming and related festivi-I mi ί ties. Now it's almost time for Cor-\JlmA nell in Philadelphia, starting withregistration on Thurs., Nov. 18 and finishingwith a class dinner after the football game.Last-minute reservations for any events maystill be available from Jack Bradt, (215) 253-8507, or the Cornell office, (607) 255-0535.

Corinne Friedner Austein's last va-cation was skiing in Jackson Hole. She andElliot also hike, bike, and swim. They lookforward to seeing classmates in Philadelphiaat the time of the big celebration. Home: 19Fallenrock Rd., Levittown, PA. Jeremy "Jer-ry" Judge, 34 Gramercy Pk. E., NYC, is stillgoing to college. This time he's studying fora law degree, but that does not interfere withtravel: Turkey this year, Poland, Czechoslo-vakia, and Germany last year. Both tripswere with Adult University (CAU). Jerry re-cently biked ten miles with Marian (Nel-son), MA '54 and Milton Carr Ferguson.The Judge family has a weekend retreat inRoxbury, CT. This year has been difficultfollowing the death last December of sonPeter, 35.

I'm a year late in reporting news of Lee"Tweeter" Wilson Schmoll. As a registeredlandscape architect, she teaches horticultureand does professional garden plans. She andhusband Frank live at 2618 S. Dundee, Tam-pa, FL and have a get-away apartment in asmall fishing village in Spain. *

Frank Vitale responded to my requestabout publications. While at U. of California,San Diego, he published Individual Fitness

Programs—covering exercise, diet, weightcontrol, and stress management. It was usedas a textbook by more than 100 colleges andwent through 14 printings. Frank is now re-tired and has been busy planning the Cor-nell/Columbia football reunion scheduled forColumbus Day. You can reach Frank at hisnew address, 2991 Murat St., San Diego, CA.

Lehigh U. in Bethlehem, PA recentlyhonored David A. Thomas for 25 years ofdedicated service as professor of materialsscience and engineering. John H. "Jack"Voigt of 395 Prussian Lane, Wayne, PA sayshis last real vacation was in the British Vir-gin Islands, where he helped crew a 55-footsailboat. He's still "in the trenches" full timeas a manufacturer's rep in metal service, flu-ids, and related technical fields after a forcedearly corporate retirement punched holes inhis long-term plans.

Lewis B. Ward, MD plans to retire inDecember when a birthday makes him eli-gible for Social Security. Then he will makemusic. Recent vacations have been in Bel-gium, France, and Holland. Another visitorin northern Holland was Robert D. Ander-son, who spent April 1992 there on a biketour. Robert lives at 170 Townsend Ave.,Pelham Manor, NY. Cynthia Smith Ayersis a part-time travel agent, enjoying all theperks of discount travel. She and husbandJonathan '50 are sailors and planned to taketheir boat to the International Regatta inKingston, Ont. The Ayers's address: 317 BayAve., Huntington, NY.

Send news! • George and Gayle Ray-mond Kennedy, 18306 Shaver's Lake Dr.,Deephaven, MN 55391.

Andy Campbell is out of the bar-rel business at last, or at leastmarching to a different drum. Hereports from Hillside, NJ that hehas "closed down the family bar-rel business. Now helping anoth-

er drum company with their sales and work-ing at a much slower pace. Three kids out,"he adds, "one with one year to go at Deni-son U. Oldest started his own manufactur-ing business with three partners. Workinghis tail off but so far, so good. Older daugh-ter currently with the Philadelphia Philliesin the sports marketing field." Her dutiesinclude supervising the Phillies' golden gloveball girls. And speaking of the Philadelphiasports scene, it's not too late to get in on thecentennial Perm game and our Bookbinders15th St. bash after the game. Recruit a friend.

Senior-year roommates Klaus Brink-mann and Gordon Lankton cruised theGreek Islands, Istanbul, and the Black Seawith Alice Heft Saligman '55 and Gordon'swife Janet (Kilby). They found economicconditions in Ukraine even more depressingthan they expected, but still pronounce thecruise "great." Gordon and Klaus have a 20-year business relationship between Klaus'sWestbury, NY instruments company andGordon's plastics molding firm, the nation'slargest, says Klaus.

Settled down again after selling theirhouse in Wilton, CT, and traveling the world,Diane Martin Cox and husband Tom areready to receive classmates in Santa Rosa,CA. Tom was a visiting fellow at Victoria U.,Wellington, NZ, for a semester. They lived

in London for six months after treks throughAustralia, Singapore, and Bangkok. Dianesays she hears regularly from Tri Delt sis-ters Margie Horsfall Schadler, BarbaraHathcock Mooney, and Claire Engle.

Mel Atwater reports that "Marge andI took a long drive around the country lastyear and looked up C. Ivor and Shirley Kep-ner in Clarence, NY and John and LauraKeyes in," I do believe it says, "Soddy Dai-sy, TN. Since retiring in 1986, we've en-joyed several cruises as well as trips withinthe US. Five grandchildren keep us busywhile at home in Olympia, WA. We wouldwelcome any classmates visiting the greatNorthwest." And Harry Butler, retiredbanker and US Air Force officer, tells of anInauguration week trip to Washington. "Ourdaughter Betsy worked for the Clinton cam-paign in Southern California and," a whileback, was "awaiting a 'speedy' appointmentin the administration. She was able to tradeevent tickets enough that our family was ableto attend most of the events. We do quite abit of traveling, first class when Peg is withme. Otherwise, I do a fair amount of USAFspace-available travel: British Isles last year,Japan and Korea in April 1993." Harry sayshis three daughters are all unmarried, "justwhen I could be a helluva grandfather!"

The class and Cornell are diminished bythe sudden loss of Bob Engel, universitytrustee from 1971 to 1993. After early re-tirement from Morgan, Bob became presi-dent of New York City's Cathedral Churchof St. John the Divine. His wide-ranging,quiet generosities are a shining memorial inthemselves. [Seepage 5, this issue.—Ed.] Wemourn with Jane and the many others whomhe leaves to recall grand days on the foot-ball field, in the alumni world, and farbeyond. •Jim Hanchett, 300 1st Ave.,NYC 10009.

Gordon Hills writes from Alas-k a that his son Aaron Meadows-Hills graduated from U. of Cali-fornia, Santa Cruz last year witha double major in environmentalstudies and biology. Jerome

Jarvis writes that he and wife Rima (Klei-man) '55 have three grandchildren, Erick,Nicholas, and Shoshana. They sailed for 33days in the Windward Islands last year. Cor-nellians they've visited with include Ron andJane Kent and Donn Resnick '55 and hiswife. Hal Eaton's grandson Kyle, 1, is theson of Bob Eaton '81 and wife Lori. H.Lynn and Jane Gregory Wilson welcomedtheir first grandchild, Lauren, last year, cel-ebrated a surprise 60th birthday party withRalph "Snuffy" and Annadele FergusonJackson, and later got together with Clemand Betty Wagler Striso and Dick andNancy Rink Kelly.

Gerald Grossman is with Sterling Na-tional Bank in New York, running their as-set-based loan division. Wife Barbara isstudying at the Art Students League and hashad several shows of her paintings. JeanVettel Forstall and husband Lloyd '52have three grandchildren. Lloyd retired fromAmoco after more than 38 years and is en-joying the free time. They are both involvedwith church work and spent two weeks onMaui last year.

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Paul Sternheimer lives in Saarlouis,Germany and is an executive at ASTRAWerke, where they make folding boxes forleading international firms—a switch fromcigarettes to packaging.

Nancy Moskowitz Wachs chairs theAlumni Admissions Ambassador Network(CAAAN) committee Numberl83 in Roch-ester, NY and attended leadership trainingat Cornell in September 1992—she says thecampus is more beautiful than ever. She andArthur went sailing in the Grenadines andalso spent some time in Martha's Vineyard.She is an associate in the AIA. Lew Stoneand wife Joan (Steiner) '55 have built theirdream house in Lake George, NY, wherethey'll live full time, looking forward to win-ters, snow skiing, etc. He is consulting onadvertising claim substantiation and Joan isworking full time in the non-profit sector.Bob Morrison writes from Hawaii that heand Susan visited Pete Eising and wifeMarion (Howze) '55 in the San Juan Is-lands last year. They also caught up withPete Downey '53 and wife Sally, who di-vide their time between Washington Stateand Florida now that Pete has retired fromBoeing. Faithful correspondent Bert Rosenwrote of his trip to Latvia, Lithuania, Esto-nia, Poland, and E. Germany. He says of thecities, "The central core is usually baroqueto classical, carefully restored, so you are inthe past with a lot of TV antennae on theroof. I mean 27 on a building that looks like12 apartments. Warsaw has changed themost since my last visit in 1987. Then it wasa grey, cheerless, flyblown empty-feelingplace. The stores had little and that little wasshoddy, tacky, and cheap looking. All that ischanged. It is a spruced-up enthusiastic placewith a free press, lots of attractive storeswith European quality goods; the skyline isdominated by large signs that read, 'Sony,Panasonic, Mitsubishi, Honda.' It was niceto see." And nice to hear, too, Bert Thanks!• Louise Schaefer Dailey, 51 White OakShade Rd., New Canaan, CT 06840.

It's definitely not too early tostart thinking Reunion! PatWells Lunneborg had lunch att h e U. of Washington FacultyClub with Laura WeeseKennedy and the three of them

(Pat, her husband Cliff, and Laura) are ten-tatively planning to fly back together fromthe West Coast to attend our 40th. MartyGorman King also plans to be here for Re-union in June 1995. She's having both kneesreplaced, "hoping that this retread will en-able me to continue teaching for severalmore years and enjoy traveling more." HerbRoleke says he's "looking forward to the40th." Herb, who's in real estate, adds thathe can't retire: "It's impossible to sell prop-erties in New York City without large loss-es." Ken Hunt travels to the United King-dom each month on business, and he plansto get back for Reunion, since he hasn't beenon campus since 1963.

Sally Stephens Logan and husbandFrank '54 celebrated last New Year's Evewith Marilyn Brady Jensen and husbandFred '54 at the the Jensens' vacation houseon the Cape. Sally is still with the SeilerCorp. in Waltham, MA, but has changed ca-

Bert Rosen wrote

of Warsaw, Poland,

Ίt is a spruced-up

enthusiastic place

with a free press,

lots of attractve

stores with

European quality

goods/

—LOUISE SCHAEFERDAILEY

reer direction from regional operating man-ager to director of compensation and bene-fits. Congratulations are due to MarieChandesh Spollen, who was promoted toassociate professor at Tompkΐns CortlandCommunity College, and to Millicent SiglerFicken, a pioneer in the development of an-imal behavior studies in the US, who re-ceived the 1993 Graduate School Founda-tion Annual Research Award at the U. ofWisconsin at Milwaukee. Get well wishesgo to Carol Sugar Shulman, who sustaineda concussion and other injuries as a resultof a car accident, and has had to reduce herhours of private practice as a psychologist."Any magic cures would be appreciated!"And apologies to Barbara Loreto Peltz,whose name was omitted from the list ofclass council members.

Traveling well is the best reward! BillForbes is back from Singapore and Malay-sia. Don Scheer visited Scotland and is plan-ning a trip to Antarctica. Hazel BowdrenRitchey not only travels extensively on busi-ness but vacationed in New Zealand and Ta-hiti. Dan Sachs spent three weeks in Thai-land, Korea, and Japan. Back home, Dan isstill at the Montgomery County HousingOpportunities Commission. He invites'55ers to tour the just-opened independentand assisted-living housing accommodationsfor seniors in Kensington, MD. Doris(Wunsch) and Peter Neilson have plansfor "big travels" to Irian Jaya, Zambia, andZimbabwe, after which Doris, who's retiringfrom teaching, plans to go into the travelbusiness. Ginny Wallace Panzer marriedDr. Harold Wiener, with whom she visitsIsrael once or twice a year and "other coun-tries in between." Hal and Ginny have 11grandchildren between them.

The best entry in the "wish we'd beenthere" department comes from Mai Whyte:"Karen and I had a great Cornell meeting inFebruary on the Big Island of Hawaii with

John and Connie Jones Bloxom and Peteand Joan LΌrange. The LΌranges put ona marvelous, authentic Hawaiian dinner, thenPete brought out his ukulele and we sangold Cornell and Beta Theta Pi songs. Wewent to the volcano park and down to theshore where lava still pours into the oceanfrom 1989, creating giant quarter-mile-longflumes of steam and rapid explosions of rockand dust two or three stories into the sky.The trip back to 'Kona-side' was toppedoff with a cool chardonnay salute to a fab-ulous sunset at the shore of Pete's beachcabin. Memorable, memorable." • NancySavage Morris, 110A Weaver St., Green-wich, CT 06831.

From our far-flung-classmates-de-partment, Ellie Schaffer joineda group of her fellow humanitari-an Parisians via bus to the city ofSplit in the former republic of Yu-goslavia to see what's going on

for themselves. Ellie is writing her first-per-son account for the International Herald Trib-une and promises this column a story, aswell. Ed Berkowitz, our hard-working classofficer in Washington, DC, took some timeoff this summer to trek and canoe in thewilds of western Canada. You can alwayscount on Ed for adventuresome vacations.

Movings: Ellen Levine Brown andhusband David have relocated to Tampa, FLfrom Rochester. David is heading the OCSInformation Systems operation in Tampa.Ellen sold her Rochester gallery and is de-veloping many new clients in Tampa as anart consultant.

Mary Brown Howland, Stamford, CT,is director, medical care systems, The Stam-ford Hospital. In their spare time, Mary andhusband Harry enjoy sailing on Long IslandSound and Narragansett Bay.

Marilyn "Lyn" Thomas Kennedy,Elm Grove, WI, is director of the Milwau-kee Symphony League, and the Wisconsinregional committee of the National Cathe-dral Orchestra. Last year Lyn and husbandDon '55 were on the Club Managers Inter-national Wine Society tour of Burgundy—spending a week in Beaune during the 1992harvest! Also on the tour were DennisMeermans '74 and his wife Kathryn, andAra Daglian '57, the former manager of theCornell Club—New York.

We heard from Bob Ridgley. As usual,Bob is very involved in Portland, OR com-munity activities . . . specifically, chairing theOregon Business Council and the OregonGraduate Center business support commit-tee . . . as well as his real job at the Ameri-can Gas Assn. Ruth Heit Licht, New YorkCity, in charge of curriculum developmentat the Calhoun School (NYC), has a master'sfrom the Bank Street School of Education,and her PhD from Columbia U.'s teacherscollege. Her specialties include non-sexistcurriculum. She is a member of the Presi-dent's Committee on the Status of Women.

Michael Fawer, Dallas, TX, is a crim-inal defense attorney there, and among hiscivic activities Michael is a member of theACLU. Dr. Gary Kirby, Brielle, NJ, is a con-sultant in corrosion, metallurgy, and materi-als. His community activities include the ten-or role in the Garden State Philharmonic

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WANTEDMissing Persons of Class of '57

'To TREAD THE HILL AGAIN"*Please contact Alumni Affairs at (607) 255-2390 if you know the current address or

phone number of the following missing classmates of the Class of 1957

Linda Shick AaronsonArthur L. AfricanoStanley W. AlbroJennings A. AllenFrank 0. AltimoreJudith Shields AndersonNoel ArmstrongG. Amelia BakerWalter R. BakerPeter T. BallantineAngelo BardasisMary Tharaldsen BaumbachAugusto S. BehrensFrank G. BelcherRichard M. BellCarl J. BellasNed BenhaimBruce L. BensonAlan BernsteinCharles H. BlakeRoger W. BlakelyRoger G. BloemekeMiriam Fishman BloomJames C. BohanPeter L. BonameCapt. Jean S. BordenBarbara Loose BottnerAbram T. BowenDavid C. BowneJohn N. BradburyMartin M. BresslerRoy L. BrickeyNeil W. BrokawJoseph C. BrownsteinRonald J. BrunnerPatrick F. BurkeJohn C. BushLincoln L. CamposDavid A. CarpKenneth H. CasnerHelma Bremser ChartierSydney 0. ChaseJoe ClarkRoland E. ClarkJoan W. ClingmanAngelos CocconisJames D. CockcroftEva Sperling CockcroftPaul K. CohenBarry F. CohnSteven R. ColeCharles R. CornerStuart B. CottonJohn L. CraigRichard H. CroftPaitoon CruagaoJane Warren CuylerJames K. DavisGeorge W. DawsonPeter S. De FoeIrve W. DellBurhan DermanAlfred P. DiCensoMary Rusk DirksCharles W. DoepkeMartin S. DouglasJohn A. DrakeHarold R. DramerJoseph M. DrumSandra Casman DugganJohn S. DunhamEmilio W. DusioElizabeth Bruce EdingerPeter A. EksteinSarah Rebecca ElbertJames P. ElderDean G. EliasRussell G. EllsworthStephen J. EmermanRobert G. EmptagePaul W. Engelhardt

Robert F. ErbGene E. EricksonEugene J. FeinbergHerbert FeinrothSidnie Dresher FeitPeter Vinton FergusonRobert L. FeroCharles T. FessendenThomas F. FisherThomas J. FitzpatrickJerry D. FlacksPhilip F. FlemionMichael FosterJohn J. FoxThomas H. FrazzettaWilliam J. G. FreakesBarton C. FriedbergRoberta M. FullerDonald K. GalbraithJohn T. GattoNancy Moore GehmanWilliam A. GiffordMichael E. GoldbergerAnn Summer GoldgrabenMichael Arthur GoldmanLeonard E. GoodmanRalph E. GoodridgePhilip GoorianAlan L. GordonRoger B. GormelCharles F. GormleyTheodore J. GreenCapt. Emmett C. GreenleafArnold J. GrossmanYvonne L. HallJohn L. HallermanRobert S. HamadyDavid A. HancockCampbell A. HarlanEdgar N. HarlandAnthony U. HarringCharles A. HayniJames T. HealyEdgar A. HendeeHarry HenzelGeorge C. HibbardRobert E. HickemellRoy F. HillmerPhilip G. HortonMichael L. HughesE. Chase HurlbutSezai IkizRobert L. JaffeJohn R. JamisonMichael JaremaLinda Goldhaft JohnsonSandra Levinsky JosephsonSanford B. KaiserWalter A. KannapelCarolyn Groh KayserStephen D. KeeffeDaniel D. KelleherMartin J. KennedyWard M. KennedyMerle Schwartz KentRichard F. KilgoreRobert B. KinkeadJohn M. KirkwoodJoel P. KleinRonald J. KnasiakCharles G. KurlandHarold D. LaddCarole Calhoun LakeRonald K. LanzalottiRaymond F. LawlerMyron LeiterIvor M. LeonardRobert H. LeyensonStephan G. CewisCharles F. LillieJanet McMains Limouze

Michael D. LinehanLloyd A. LiscumDonald C. LivingstonDavid R. LoeserBernard LourieEmanuel W. LucekRobert Von Der LuftDaniel H. LuxenbergRobert A. MackinDavid T. MageRalph E. MagnusIlka List MaidoffWalter F. ManskeJay L. MarkleyAlan J. MarksWilliams S. MartinJean Ashdown MatthewsMichael L. MatusAlan N. McCartneyRobert J. McCormickJudith Saari McCroneJawrence F. McGoldrickElsa Steinbrenner McKayGordon B. McKayDorothy F. MeeseCarmen R. MendozaJack C. MettauerRichard MichaelsEduardo MolinariMiguel F. MolinariRaymond M. MorseRobert M. MossCarol Fairbanks MyersJohn NessPaul D. NeuwirthRoseann Moyer NolanElizabeth Moyer NorthrupVictor NoubleauLaurence 0. NumarkGerard P. O'Ma'lleyGeorge J. OehrleinPaul Arnold OotAngelo V. PaceWilliam C. PaddockLawrence A. PalmerJohn W. ParisAllison ParkerNils Parr

Robert F. PasternackKerry J. PatakiHenry C. PaulsenKenneth L. PeckLaurence T. PennyLt. Leo Alfred PepinGerald PerriDonald J. PersicoColeman B. PhelpsWalter G. PietschMartin M. PincusLeonard L. H. PinkasJohnson T. PlattSaar A. PorrathBurt Powell

Margaret Ingley PrestonRobert N. PriceJohn T. QulllinanRobert A. RauhForbes R. RebackMarie Curtis ReesRaymond E. ReinheimerBernard I. ReisJoel Alvin ReiskinCatherine Annet ReisnerBernhard George RennerRobert F. RileyPreston C. RipleyBryce M. RittenhouseRodger L. RitterJoan Goldhirsch RoelofsManfred RoosMelven Rose

Leonard C. RosenMiguel E. RoviraMahdi H. RabaiiThomas W. RuffnerBarbara Cohen SacksWilliam J. SahleinRichard T. SalίmanEvelyn Rapaport SassRoss A. SchillaciThomas L. SchillingRobert SchneeWilliam D. SchulzMary Lawson SearlesJoann Torbert SeifriedSanford P. ShapleyHugh R. ShawRhoda Brilliant ShermanEdward F. ShoemakerDaniel S. ShusterJoel SilverbergDavid A. SimkinFenwick R. SmallDonald E. SmithJames R. SmithJael Saretzky SobelGeorge E. SpoffordShirley Greene SpragueRush B. SteelmanJames V. StevensPeter D. StockyJohn P. StohrBeverly Erickson StullPatricia Ann SturdevantLuis Felope SuarezClaudia Pound SukoffMartin J. SurtesGerald SussmanRichardo C. SyMatthew A. SyrigosBruce J. TeckJon L. Teeter

Barbara Boswe ThompkinsJoan Davis TitusSharon Cohen TomlinsonGene S. TraubWilliam D. UsherPeter J. VandewaterGerman VargasNino M. VolpeMarshall D. WadsworthStephen WaingerClinton B. WalkerMilton D. WallaceDonald J. WarrenJune Opdyke WebsterChristopher G. WeimanSandra Shavitz WeinbergJulian R. WeinbergRalph B. WeinrichPeter H. WeirPerry S. WelchHenry G. WetzlerHelga Mund WhitePhilip W. WhiteGeraldine Guardia WhiteRoger T. WickersNachum WiesenfeldJoseph G. WiestGordon G. WillardThomas R. WillmonJohn A. WillsonJohn M. WilsonAlan WinkelsteinGloria WinrockWolfram D. WίslicenusGeroge B. WoodinDonald C. YoungPeter S. YoungRonald D. YoungWendy Hayman ZambelliRichard W. ZeuhlkeRobert A. Zugger

Chorus in Toms River, NJ. Nancy FowleMorse, Urbana, IL, comes back East for va-cations at the Jersey Shore—to spend timethere with her grandchildren.

Honors Department: Barbara BarronStarr and husband Bob were honored by theAmerican Jewish Congress at a brunch at theHilton Hotel in Short Hills, NJ, Oct. 10. Theevent coincides with their 20th wedding an-niversary and Bob's 65th birthday! Manycongratulations and best wishes. • PhyllisBosworth, 8 E. 83rd St., Apt. IOC, NYC 10028.

• ^ Tt ^ u r c l a s s m a t e Beverly Jane\ J I Martin died last July in Ithaca af-l^k m ter a long battle with cancer. Bev

• I was a native of Ithaca and uponi l l graduation from Cornell began a^J I distinguished career in the localpublic school system. Early on she taughtelementary school and was a reading spe-cialist. Before moving up to administrativepositions with the Ithaca School District shewas principal of the elementary school whichshe had attended as a young girl. Last yearthat school was named the Beverly J. Mar-tin Elementary School. Bev was an activemember of the Ithaca community and servedwith a number of civic organizations. Shecould always be counted on to be at our Re-unions, and her presence will be missed.

On this page you will find a list of class-mates for whom we'd like addresses. Classpresident Judy Richter Levy has found afew. Among them Sue Sutton Moyer, whois at 6519 Sunnyland Lane, Dallas, TX. If youare one of these "missing" persons or you'rein contact with any, please send the address-es to Judy at 40 E. 10th St., NYC 10003.

If anyone is visiting London betweennow and December 20 and needs some help-ful hints about places to visit, where to eat,etc. Priscilla "Johnnie" Kiefer Parrish is at3 Walpole Ct, London NW6 4ES, phone 071-624-2550. • Judith Reusswig, 5401 West-bard Ave., #1109, Bethesda, MD 20816.

Since this edition goes to a number of class-mates not normally reached, it is an appro-priate time to put in a pitch that the newsfaucet be turned on full. News items tradi-tionally reach your faithful correspondentwhen dues are paid, with a long dry spellin between. Instead of recommending duesbe paid on a $ I/month schedule, I wouldmention that if you have an item you wouldlike included in this column, bypass thered tape and send it directly to me. Withthe delightful exception of a phone call fromErnie Stern '56, my news cupboard is bare."Wrong Way" Ernie continues to work inNew Jersey and live in Manhattan, but ex-cept for that, seems to be of sound mindand body.

With nerves of steel and hands so steady,Your correspondent's at the ready;He'll tell you tales of thieves and spiesNot seen before by mortals' eyes.

He'll even tell of days of yore,But that would be an awful bore;He'd rather list the news of now,To tell you when and where and how.

Our classmates, '57s all,Are standing firm and walking tall,

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Where Mind Meets Spirit

MCHAEL ISAACS *58

ore than 20 years ago, Michael Isaacs taggedalong with his stressed-out wife, Faith,who hadregistered to go to a yoga class, They werethe only people who showed up, aside from

the teacher, so Isaacs stayed, and nothing has everbeen quite the same since.

Today, the man who has beenpracticing law m New Jersey Tornearly 30 years is also a certi-fied psychoanalyst, a teacher ofyoga, meditation, stress reductionand holistic health, and recentlyopened the Center for Psycho-therapy and Holistic Health inWesrwood, NJ.

The center offers traditionalpsychotherapy, but will augment

that with "utilization of body-mind techniques suchas rhythmic breathing, relaxation response, \ ogastretching and postures, meditation, awareness ofthe importance of proper nutrition and exercibe, cre-

ative visualization, mindfulness and retraining life'sproblems."

Isaacs teaches classes at community schools andat Ramapo College, and explained to a reporter forthe Ridgewood News, "Yoga means 'union/ and wasdeveloped in India almost 2,000 years ago. It's com-pletely natural, and most of the positions are namedafter animals—locust, cobra, crocodile, lion. When we'rein class, maintaining a position helps students to fo-cus-—to' learn how to release and erase tension. Peoplebecome much more aware of the mind moving whenthey keep their bodies perfectly still."

Isaacs graduated from Cornell with a BA in his-tory, has a law degree from NYU, a master's in socialwork from Case Western Reserve University and gradu-ated from the New Jersey Institute of Psychoanaly-sis. He and Faith have two daughters. The lawyer,the teacher, the psychoanalyst, the father, the hus-band—all seem to have found a balance, and a home,in the person of Michael Isaacs.

—Paul Cody, UFA '87

Not sitting in their setting sun,But exalting in their morning run.So send along a line or twoOf whom you've seen—of what you do;We'll make this column come alive,We'll bob and weave and juke and jive.

• John Seiler, 563 Starks Bldg., Louisville,KY 40202; (502) 589-1151.

^ 1 ^ \ For those of you who are plan-1 ^ I I ning to go to the Penn-Cornelll^k j f game on November 20, there will

1 # \ be a class get-together! Unfortu-I I I I nately, at this writing I don't haveV ^ V ^ the info yet. Many thanks to ournew additional vice presidents, appointed atour Reunion meeting. The following mem-bers are given the title—Stephen Bender,Bob Blake, Art Brooks, Ramona TaylorCraniotes, Barry Gravatt, Bill Hazzard,Chuck Jarvie, Charlotte Blomquist Jen-sen and Bill, Neil MacCormick, MurelKing Taylor, Robin Bielski, Marty Blind-er, Barbara Buehrig Orlando, Bob Dunn,Annette Fogo Harper, Jon Howell, DickKay, and Sandy Meyer. We thank all ofyou for being willing to help the wonderfulClass of '58 and our thanks, once again, toAl Podell for chairing the nominating com-mittee and for all the other wonderful thingshe has done for and with our class. Al hasalready made a suggestion for a 40th Re-union project—updating the 25th Reunionyearbook and class survey. It would be awonderful time for people to do a summa-

tion of their lives!Yura Wolchek Mohr has her own cafe,

retail shop, and off-premise catering busi-ness in New York City. She is planning toexpand into larger quarters on Third Ave-nue next spring. Rachel Aber Schlesingeris a university professor at York U. in Cana-da. She teaches in education and socialchange, as well as concentrating on womenin family life. She and husband Ben, PhD'61, also a professor of social work, finallymanaged a few years ago to have a sabbati-cal together and spent the whole year trav-eling from Europe to Israel, Hong Kong,Thailand, Australia, and Hawaii. She inves-tigated "aging" in all these settings and herhusband continued his investigations intocross cultural aspects of one-parent facilities.

J. David Rubin has retired from East-man Kodak and is hoping to use some of hisfree time to upgrade his collection of "Mile-stone" automobiles! Irene Lazarus Soskinhas also retired (from teaching), and she andhusband Harry celebrated with a Nile cruiseand two weeks as volunteers on an archeo-logical dig in Israel. She discovered a mosa-ic floor in a church overlooking Tiberias thatcaused the directors of the dig to redate thatpart of the church from 8th century to 6thcentury—the floor was named the "SoskinSquare!" Irene now has a paralegal certifi-cate and is employed by a law firm. SusanBrockman had a solo show of work (photo-graphs and films) in Japan at the Interna-tional Art Fair in Yokohama last March.Blake Cullen is not just the owner of the

Hampton Roads (VA) Admirals. He is a hock-ey retailer. He provides customers (the fans)with a product they want (a winning team)at a competitive price (about the cost of amovie). The goal: profit. Blake has made acareer in professional sports. He spent 11years in the Chicago Cubs organization andwas a top administrator in baseball's Nation-al League. In 1987 he owned a minor-leagueaffiliate of the Chicago White Sox. Now, withhis Hampton Roads success, the Admiralshave taken over as the hottest sports ticketin town! • Jan Arps Jarvie, 6524 ValleyBrook, Dallas, TX 75240.

While many of us return to Cor-nell as reuniting alums, othershave been returning as students.Carolyn Gowdy Virtuoso, anagent with Cornell CooperativeExtension, returned for her mas-

ter's. She was on campus during the fall 1991and spring 1992 semesters and loved everyminute of it. The course work for her de-gree is completed; now she's finishing herthesis. "Since I am working full time, it isnot progressing too rapidly," she writes, butshe hopes to have her degree in hand in timefor our 35th.

Also planning to be at Reunion Qune 9_12) is Bob Weinman, who writes that heretired this past June after 25 years atNorthrop so that he can pursue a new ca-reer as a marathon runner. And he owes itall to Cornell! It was winning the CornellReunion Run at our 30th Reunion that in-

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CUinPhiladelphia

November1 8 — 2 1

100th Anniversary,Cornell vs Penn

Football

Let's all stay together.

Hotel rooms areblocked at discounted

rates in theFour Seasons Hotel

and theEmbassy Suites Hotel(next to each other).

(Write in your hotel choice on theCornell housing form.)

A hospitality suite willbe open all weekendin the Four Seasons

Hotel.

Saturday night dinnerat 7 p.m., just around

the corner, atMorton's of Chicago,"Philadelphia's best"

—New York Times.

Join us if youcan. It's a

mini-reunion.

spired him to take up marathon running, andhe's now competitive in our age division.

"Our best vacation ever," says RoyPritchard of a family skiing trip to Califor-nia last March, "it was a great way to get toknow our adult children better." Roy start-ed his own personnel consulting business lastyear and finds being his own boss immense-ly enjoyable. He credits much of his successto his wife Betty, who gave him a crashcourse in computers.

Nancy lams Walsh, a clinical dietitianat Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in NJ,enjoyed a "very interesting" trip to Turkeyin June. Also in June, Bill and Carolyn HillRogers of Glastonbury, CT made their firsttrip to England, as part of a tour group orga-nized to celebrate the 300th anniversary oftheir town. Among the group's stops: leg-end-filled Glastonbury in southwestern Eng-land, for which the Connecticut town wasnamed. For Mary "Mimi" Peterman Mer-rill, a financial advisor in Madison, WI, sum-mer vacations mean biking. Last year shebiked in Holland as part of a group of 22 thatincluded four Cornellians. This year sheplanned to bike along the Danube in Austria.

W. Hardy Eshbaugh, professor of bot-any at Miami U., has done extensive researchon a variety of tropical plants; however, theplants that have long been of greatest inter-est to him are the chili peppers, particularlythose native to South America. A fascinat-ing article in a recent Miami U. publicationdiscusses Hardy's efforts to learn how An-dean Indians grow, market, and use peppers.Hardy's resourcefulness was evident whenShining Path guerrillas prevented him fromcollecting specimens in southern Peru: hepersuaded a missionary to have parishionersin the area collect the peppers for him.

What's my line? "I have 200,000 peopleunder me," writes Jim Weisbeck. Since1991, Jim has been the business manager ofHoly Sepulchre Cemetery in Rochester, NY.Ed Tavlin, stockbroker and securities ana-lyst, has gained a new title: on May 10 hewas elected mayor of Bay Harbor Islands, FL.

New addresses: John Kriendler can bereached by mail via IS/USM, PSC 81, Box56, APO AE 09724. John is spending his thirdyear in Brussels where he's in a senior po-sition at NATO. He calls the city "a fasci-nating place at a most interesting time." Phy-sician Gerald Schwartzberg has moved to7134 N. Third St., Phoenix, AZ. Paid Paffen-dorf, northeast regional sales manager forSolvay Animal Health, is at 141 AutumnRidge Rd., Bedminster, NJ. Sheldon Mor-ick, president/CEO of With Design in Mindin Chatsworth, CA, has moved to 22701 DeKalb Dr., Calabasas, CA. • Jenny Tesar,97A Chestnut Hill Village, Bethel, CT 06801:(203) 792-8237.

^\ J Too soon to advertise our next Re-• " A union? Yes! Longer and more te-y\ I dious than a presidential campaign!II I Nevertheless, listen to Pat LauxI I I Richards, who recently met BruceV ^ M. Le Page (retired after 30 yearswith IBM, now executive director of As-petuck Land Trust in Connecticut): "We feltfortunate to meet a terrific classmate we hadsomehow missed as undergrads. It's likecoming to Reunion—seeing not only trea-

sured old friends but also meeting very spe-cial people we weren't fortunate enough tohave known before. Just think! Our 35th isin June 1996." [See page 68, this issue, fornews of another classmate—Ed.]

Other mini-reunions: "Gourmets inGear" Marshall E. (of News & Dues fame)and Rosanna Romanelli Frank with MortHodin and wife Nancy (Simon) '62, bik-ing and eating on the Jersey Shore this pastsummer. Dick Harris with Chris Brown,discussing old-but-not-forgotten roommatesEd Ochester and Bill Onorato. And on theFourth of July weekend, right in Ithaca,James E. and Tamara Greenberg Goellwith Barry Beckerman and wife Nancy(Greyson) '64.

"Looking Backward" Howard and Deb-bie Kaufman Kirschner, Dr. Irene Su So,and Sarita Daniels Berkenblit and sonHoward Berkenblit '92 drank a toast lastwinter with a bottle of champagne from our25th Reunion weekend. Jill Beckoff Nagy"finally watched the 25th Reunion videotapewhen I visited my hi-tech daughter lastmonth. (We don't have a TV, let alone a VCR,here in Troy.) She was amazed by the music."

If you've paid News & Dues and havemoney left over, consider this request fromWinslow A. Davidson: "I am now pursu-ing research in agricultural education in Guy-ana, and I am looking for funding. Any sug-gestion or help?" His address: 64 EasternHwy., Lamaha Gardens, Georgetown, Guyana.

Time for Ian Wetherly: "Collecting andmending old clocks is my absorbing hobby.Bells, gongs, cuckoos, and chimes reach acrescendo at midnight. At a country auctionlast summer I spotted a little grandfather ofsuch simple proportions and plain brass dialit almost looked modern, but it sang to me,Tm old, Γm old!' I could hardly contain myexcitement, it went unrecognized. I bid in adream and brought it home in disbelief. Ismile every day as it ticks and below thedial I read the name 'Richard Lyons,' who Iknew was a past master of the London Clock-makers Guild in 1683 and died in 1690."

Next time your clock cuckoos, notifyNancy Hislop McPeek or this humblecorrespondent. • Allan Metcalf, 212Brookside Dr., Jacksonville, IL 62650.

^\ ^ % Thanks to Michael Miller for hisI l | | gift to the class fund. He wasL ^ m looking forward to CU in Phila-I 1 / delphia in November, and expect-I I / i ed daughter Laurie '86 to be^J wrnrn there, too. Michael's in Allentown,PA so won't have too far to travel. It's not toolate to make your plans to be there, too!

Coopersburg, PA is home to AllenMale. From Rydal, PA, Joseph Meyer re-ports that he and Carolyn (Gottlieb) '63celebrated with fellow Cornellians at thewedding of daughter Cindy '89 in March.Among the guests were Don Sladkin, Bil-ly Chipin, Dick Stern, Lee Michaels, BobBlank, Ken Kershbaum '63, Judy BogartJernow '63, and, of course, Jennie Meyer'87. Just beginning the road as a Cornell par-ent is Harold Don, whose son Michael wasto enter as a freshman this fall. Harold is anattorney in Mechanicsburg, PA and lives inHuntingdon Valley. Michael's sister Sara isat New York U. George Loveless is a Phil-

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adelphia lawyer with Morgan, Lewis andBockius. He and Shirley (Morrison) '63live in Moylan, PA.

Massachusetts residents include AlexSteinbergh in Cambridge, Victor Morganin Wakefield, and Sidney Watt in Lexing-ton. A doctorate in entrepreneurship is thegoal of Myra Maloney Hart, who expectsto complete her Harvard degree by June1994. "Both daughters have brought comicrelief and lots of excitement to this other-wise tedious program. Jeanne Hart '89 wasmarried in March on top of Copper Mt. inColorado (first lift up in the morning), com-plete with snowball fights, 360-degree viewsand gentle flurries, followed by a day of ski-ing. A unique celebration." Holly Hart '86was to be married in August; "Just to makethings easy for me, both grooms are namedSteve and both daughters are keeping theirown names." Great planning, Myra!

Three copies of this magazine havebeen going to the Stein household in Green-wich, CT, addressed to Steven '61, class-mate Susan (Volpert) and their son Daniel'92. Susan is a professor at Baruch Collegein New York. Four New Jersey residentschecked in: Don Shaffer is in Skillman andAl Shields in Bernardsville; Dick Levineis an executive with Dow Jones in New York,but he and Neil Ann (Stuckey) '63 stillreside in Princeton; Eugene Schoeberleinhas retired in Woodbury.

Margo Hebald Heymann has also beendoing a lot of traveling. She visited Hunga-ry, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia,and Vienna, finishing with a visit to her par-ents in Rome. She plans to take the AdultUniversity (CAU) trip to Russia this year andvisit her parents again. Other stateside tripshave kept her busy, as has her architecturalfirm in Santa Monica, CA. Her son graduat-ed from U. of California, Irvine in June andher daughter is a master's candidate and re-search assistant at the U. of Rhode Island.• Jan McClayton Crίtes, 2779 DellwoodDr., Lake Oswego, OR 97034.

I'm working hard at including allthe news I have received fromlast spring's dues notices, sohang in there if your name hasYet to appear in print. Nan Rickwas at Reunion and wants every-

one to know about her wonderful book store,called Thursdays, in Boise, ID. You can or-der books from her and she'll ship them any-where. Dean Williams has plans to retirenext year from a consulting engineering busi-ness in Pasadena. He has spoken with Ger-ry Sydorak, whose son was captain of theStanford tennis team; John Curtis '62, inPalm Desert; and Clive Riddiford, who ischief engineer with Smuckers in Ohio.Dean's oldest son, Sean '90, graduated fromthe Hotel school and has his master's fromthe U. of Tokyo. Daughter Jill is U. of South-ern California '91 and son Steven is a soph-omore in high school. Harold Sallada,though ill, has been traveling extensively toHawaii, South America, Bali, Java, an Afri-can safari, and even made it to Chicago tosee Jack Heitman '64.

Dr. Anthony Schwartz is associatedean, clinical education, and chairs the sur-gery department at Tufts's veterinary school.

Wife Claudia, works for Planned Parenthood.Son Tom attends the U. of Wisconsin andson Eric, Tufts '91, went to Madrid and isnow pursuing an acting and voice career inNew York City. The Schwartz family skiedwith Tony and Joanne Lewis Kahn lastwinter in Vail. Tony and Joanne were at Re-union. News arrived that Col. Paul Scharf—wife, Lynne (Grantier) '65—is planning toretire after 30 years of commissioned ser-vice in the US Army. Living in GuatemalaCity has given Paul a chance to enhance hislife-list of birds to 2,998.

Margaret Musgrave Bennett andhusband F. Lawrence, PhD '66 live in Fair-banks, AK. Margaret is administrative assis-tant at the U. of Alaska, Fairbanks musicdepartment and works with the Unique FineArts Camp for high school students. Larryis in UAF's engineering school and has writ-ten a book on cold regions engineering. Theyspent last fall on sabbatical in Sweden. SonAndrew studied abroad with Dartmouth andson Matthew is at North Carolina School ofthe Arts. Peter Cummings is still in Gene-va, NY teaching and writing about Shake-speare at Hobart and William Smith Colleg-es. He has been published in The UpstartCrow and the Sewanee Review (America'soldest literary journal!). He recommendsclassmate Webb Nichols as an excellentarchitect. From Cincinnati comes news fromDr. Stephen Goldberg, who is a physicianat the Jewish Hospital of Cincinnati. He isproud that son Ken '93 graduated last June,while son Bryan '97 entered this fall.Daughter Melissa has been accepted toNorthwestern U.'s MBA program. MarilynSchur Hellinger (husband Gary '61) is anexecutive at Gary Precision Products inGreenwich, CT. Gary and Marilyn have sonRichard '95, a junior this fall; Jeremy, 11(who keeps them young); and a 2-year-oldgrandson. Allan "Gus" Keysor, who hadhoped to attend Reunion (I didn't see him),has been promoted to vice president/gener-al counsel at Linotype-Hell Co. in Setauket,NY. His family has been to Greece this pastyear for a family wedding and has skied inthe Jungfrau region near Interlaken, Swit-zerland. Son Ted is a freshman at Colby Col-lege; Dwight is a high school soccer, bas-ketball, and lacrosse player; and John is anactive fourth-grader. Wife Nan has recentlybecome a paralegal. Lots more news to come.Don't be shy about writing me directly withnews or requests for classmates' addresses.• Nancy Bierds Icke, 5 Maplewood Ct.,Racine, WI 53402; (414) 681-1598.

64Only seven months 'til our 30thReunion. Hope you're planning tojoin us for it! There are severalpromotions to report this month.Frank E. Fee Jr. is now copydesk chief of the Rochester Dem-

ocrat and Chronicle, a morning newspaperthat emerged from a 1992 merger of twonews staffs, this after 12 years as copy deskchief of the afternoon Times-Union. Franknotes the change in his work hours "hasbeen a difficult adjustment." Frank, an avidbackpacker, also teaches journalism at U. ofRochester and is now president of Genesee-Orleans Cornell Club. With one child goneand the other in college, Frank and wife Peg-

gy live at 8029 Creamery Rd., Bergen, NY.Robert A. Schreiber is now executive

vice president for client services with SmithBarney Shearson in New York City. Rob saysthat Ed Rosen '66 and Randy Sherman'66 sang a "special version" of the "AlmaMater" at his 50th birthday party. With bothchildren in college (one being Nate '95 inILR), Robert and wife Helen (Schonbrun)'68 live at 44 Ruth Dr., New City, NY. Wil-liam H. Ritchie is now general managerfor Mobil-Saudi Arabia. He and wife Pamelacan be reached c/o Mobil Saudi Arabia Inc.,PO Box 40228, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Bothof their children are in US schools. Dr. PaulM. Gitelson, 70 E. 10th St., NYC, has beenappointed executive director of the JewishChild Care Assn. of NYC and is president-elect of the Assn. of Children's ResidentialTreatment Centers.

Betty Drummond Murphy, an indus-trial psychologist, has been appointed to sen-ior scientist of CTA Inc of Rockville, MD.She also was accepted into the PhD programin cognitive and experimental psychology atthe U. of Maryland. Betty, husband John, andtheir two children live at 8321 Hobart Ct.,Fairfax, VA. Norman Schaeffer is nowmanager, engineering department, at RustEnvironmental. Empty-nesters now, he andwife Barbara (Conway) live at 2219 PineSt., Boulder, CO.

If you're Switzerland-bound, you mightdrop by the Zum Schutzenhaus in Basel,where you will find the innkeeper to be class-mate Hans P. Weishaupt. Hans took overthe historic (1466! If it were in the US anarchaeologist would call it "Pre-Columbian")inn in April. In March, he attended a meet-ing of the Cornell Society of Hotelmen inBerlin. Hans and wife Arenda (Spiele), MS'61 live at Spalenring 151, CH 4055, Basel.Daughter Stephanie '92 graduated from theHotel school.

Sandra Vogelgesang, a US Dept. ofState foreign service officer, has received thePresidential Senior Service Award. Sandyand husband Geoffrey Wolfe, also a foreignservice officer, currently reside domestical-ly at 9009 Charred Oak Dr., Bethesda, MD.Their paired careers aside, she reports: "Ourgreatest challenge and reward now, howev-er, revolve around two children we adoptedfrom central Siberia." Nearby, Nancy Ron-sheim, an ophthalmologist, and husbandDonald Vitale live at 7721 Brookville Rd.,Chevy Chase, MD.

Last June, Elaine Tutton Newcomb(RD 1, Box 240, Vermontville, NY) waselected president of the Ag college alumniassociation. And, recently, Nelson Kesh-en (11001 SW 93rd Ave., Miami, FL) wasappointed to the executive council of the realproperty and trust law section of the FloridaBar Assn. Jill Waxman Polymeropoulos (65Donaldson St., Highland Park, NJ), managerof advertising research for AT&T, is presi-dent of the New Jersey chapter of the Amer-ican Marketing Assn. and chairs the market-ing research conference for NJ-AMA. Jill getsto the Washington, DC area to visit sonMarc Polymeropoulos '91. ThomasMueller, a mechanical engineer who doestechnical intelligence for the Navy, reportsson Steven '96 is in Engineering. Tom isnow more involved in thoroughbred racing,

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having purchased a minority stake in a newcolt 18 months ago. An archaeology and ancienthistory buff, he attended Adult University(CAU) in Turkey and the Aegean last fall.

Journalist-authors Barton and NancyDunhoff Mills, 563 29th St., ManhattanBeach, CA, remain active in print—and inCornell activities. Each has celebrity profilesprinted regularly in newspapers across theUS and they recently collaborated on twonew books: Beverly Hills 90210—Exposed andMelrose Place—Off the Record. Bart chairs anAlumni Admissions Ambassador Network(CAAAN) committee that handles 150 ap-plicants a year, while Nancy organizes wom-en's networking meetings for the CornellClub of Southern California. The Mills chil-dren are daughter Bonnie '91, now teach-ing English in Japan, and son Kevin '93 whograduated last May. Nancy also serves asthe director from the Western region on theAlumni Federation board with Nancy LoreEinhorn, the director from the Midwest,whose husband, Steve, has opened a jointventure in the Czech Republic called M&AInt'l. to assist Western firms wanting to in-vest in the Czech and Slovak republics. Nan-cy and Steve are still at 8205 N. River Rd.,Milwaukee, WI.

Please keep the news coming. • BevJohns Lamont, 720 Chestnut St., Deerfield,IL 60015.

See '66 column for information onCU in Philadelphia, November18-21. Call Penny Skitol Hait-kin, (212) 986-7202 for details.Bonnie Tavlin Kay writes fromBryn Mawr to announce that

daughter Lisa Kay '93 graduated "on themost GLORIOUS day. The day was doublywonderful," she notes, "as I had not attend-ed my own graduation; I got married in-stead!" to husband Michael '64.

Our own Billy Kaufman writes, "Withmy 50th birthday at hand, I am facing myown mortality head-on. I'm now taking med-ication for cholesterol and exercising daily,in addition to many hours on the tennis court.My knees are holding up, but my speed isdiminishing. The kids are great: Jane (Brown'94) is pre-med and Abby has eyes on Yaleor Dartmouth. Judy (Silverman) '67 is backat work administering a residence for seniorcitizens and the handicapped or disabled. Shedoesn't get enough days off to permit asmuch traveling as we would like, but we stilldo our annual ski trip to Aspen at Christmasand to St. John for scuba diving in January."

This from Ronald S. Harris of South-field, MI: "I'm now commanding officer ofmy Navy Reserve unit in Cleveland. I've tak-en a new position at Ford: international strat-egy manager, Ford Truck operations. I keepin touch with local classmates in Michigan:Susan Frank Weitz, Marge Levy Lom-bard, Dick Brown, and Larry Lombard."

Donald G. Gates of Endicott is nowdirector of purchasing for Crowley Foods ofBinghamton. His wife Carolyn is a nurse onan open-heart cardiac team at United HealthServices. Richard L. Drake, Scottsdale, AZ,proudly sends news that his son Adam '97is in the Hotel school.

Al DeFlorio, Wilton, CT, says: "Icouldn't resist IBM's very attractive offer and

so left last year after 26 years. I recentlyjoined The Hastings Center, a research cen-ter focused on biomedical ethics as directorof corporate relations."

Perennial traveler Dave Bridgemangives an update from Cartersville, GA:"Moved out of the travel trailer which hasbeen our home in three states since 1985and got into an apartment. Took the trailerback to California and parked it on our lot inthe condo RV park, so we can use it for va-cations without having to fly out and rentmotorhomes anymore. Still working for DowChemical and hoping they will move us outWest. Became grandparents in March; wealways look forward to seeing little Coreyagain. We can be reached through Com-puServ; if any of you have that capability,please let us hear from you."

Dr. Ronald M. Becker is still doingcardiac and thoracic surgery in Chicago.Daughter Heidi is a sophomore at Reed Col-lege (in Portland, OR), son Mark is in highschool in southern California, son Noah is atenth-grader, "threatening to go to Cornell."

Dr. Robert L. Becker of St. Louissends news that his daughter Susan is ingrad school at Washington U. in social work,and daughter Deborah is a sophomore atAmerican U. in Washington, DC.

Dr. George Arangio sends news fromAllentown, PA that his son Joseph is a jun-ior at Ithaca College; Julianna '96 is on theHill, and Kathleen and Patrick are at Allen-town Central Catholic High School. Dr. Ger-ald Isaacson wrote some time ago fromHighland Park, NJ: "I have been re-electedto the Highland Park Board of Education andI will continue as vice president for anotheryear. My son Avi just completed his first yearat West Point and will be doing cadet fieldtraining at Camp Buckner. Son Sam, a fifth-grader, took a summer program at GoucherCollege, sponsored by the Center for Tal-ented Youth at Johns Hopkins. DaughterRachel is at Camp Harlan in PA. Bernie isat home, enjoying being an only child. Mywife Sara is starting a new job as a schoollibrarian. I'm principal of the Valley View El-ementary School in Lebanon Township, agrowing community in northern HunterdonCounty. It has been a very busy year! I stillinterview for the Alumni Admissions Am-bassador Network (CAAAN) in central NJ,and appear in local theater with my childrenwhenever possible."

Dr. Hester Goodenough Gelber ofStanfordc CA writes, "Son Gideon Gelber'91 was in Architecture. Son Jesse is to en-ter the New England Conservatory to studycomposition and jazz performance. Myself,I'm to serve as faculty-in-residence in theStanford dorms for a third year."

Here's news from Bill Fine and Dotty(Hoffman) '66 of Boston: "We've been do-ing some traveling: in fall 1992, we took asix-week vacation in Nepal. We trekked for30 days to the north and south base campsof Kanchenjunga. The weather was good andthe views were awesome. In June 1993,along with Steve Krich '66, we were partof a group of 30 bicyclists touring the backroads of New England and Quebec from Bos-ton to Quebec City. We cycled 65 to 75 milesper day and relaxed each evening at somevery nice bed and breakfast or motel."

Please keep those news sheets coming.A safe and merry holiday season to everyone of us. • Scot MacEwan, 2777 SE By-bee Blvd., Portland, OR 97202-8733.

Welcome to classmates who arereceiving this sample issue ofCornell Magazine (formerly, Cor-nell Alumni News) courtesy of theuniversity, in hopes you will en-joy it, then join the class as dues-

paying members and receive all ten issuesper year. This is where you'll find timelynews and features about Cornell and Cornel-lians. Don't miss out; sign up right away. Thenews items in this column, gleaned from lastyear's News and Dues forms, may be outdatedby now, so send us the latest word, promptly.Your news is what makes the column.

Samuel "Sandy" Fox reported that histhird child was in pre-school and tuition pay-ments for all three children will continuewell into the next century. Sandy does notplan to retire early. He and his wife havetraveled with their children to Mexico, Ver-mont, and New York. Sandy is an entertain-ment attorney and spent a week in NewYork City in October 1992 as attorney forthe Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert.The concert was well attended by many1960s people. Dick Rothkopf '67 visitedwith Sandy and mentioned that he roller-blades to work. Apparently this is a ratherconservative step for him.

Judy (Payne) and Ernie Getto cele-brated their 25th anniversary by travelingto Europe with their three children. Erniewas litigating an environmental case in Cal-ifornia involving a waste site. They live inLos Angeles. James Adams has changedboth his address and career, moving from ajob as medical director of a psychiatric in-tensive care unit in Manchester, NH to med-ical director of a Meninger Clinic NetworkProgram in Tampa, FL. He now has thechance to teach, do administrative work, andrun a private practice. James and his family,including three children, ages 10 to 19, liveat 809 S. Rome Ave., Tampa.

Nina Kaplan Singer was in the pro-cess of moving her private psychotherapypractice from New York City to Woodstock.She would love to hear from any Cornelliansin the Woodstock area. Susan Frame hasnot moved, but divides her time betweenNew York and the Hamptons, and the South-west, including Santa Fe, NM and Telluride,CO. She has established a styling and an-tiques business in addition to her psycholo-gy and psychoanalysis practice. Sue wentskiing last winter with Joan Ratner Leik-en, and Michael '63 and Marilyn Ratner inTelluride. While there she visited with JohnKavash and Nancy Kurtz and their daugh-ter Josie, and also ran into former SherwoodEric Blackstead '65.

Jon Ain has become part owner of aBed and Breakfast on a ranch in southernColorado. It has great mountain biking, flyfishing, tennis, a private stream and the RioGrande River. Al Frost is still in the Navy.He is a captain and was commanding themedical operation at the US Naval Acade-my. Martha Goell Lubell is associate pro-ducer of "Teacher TV"; a joint project of theNational Education Assn. and the Discovery

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High on Climbing

J O N RANTZMAN '61 AND STEVE POLANSKY Ό 7

S teve Polansky '67, (shown on the right) a gynecologist andobstetrician in Carmichael, California, and Jon Rantzman '61,a lawyer and administrative judge in Berkeley, show theircolors at 16,000 feet on their way down the Mt. Mera glacier

in Nepal.'Our 30-day trek took us through the Everest region of

Nepal and then finally to an ascent of Mt. Mera, which, at 21,247feet, is the tallest nontechnical climb in the world," Polansky re-ports. "Basic mountaineering skills were necessary, but the ten ofus who made the trip were not greatly experienced mountain climbers.

"Although both of us made it to a little below 21,000 feet,oxygen and glucose deprivation kept us from reaching the summit.We were treated to the most incredible view of four of the fivetallest mountains in the world and were able to experience theamazing vistas on the Mera glacier. Half of the members of ourgroup were able to make the actual summit.

"Although 30 days was a long time to be away from mywife Karen (Kaufman) "67 and children—my middle daughter, Jenny,is a Cornell senior—I have started to get the bug again, so a groupof us are planning a possible trip to Aconcagua, which, at 22,000-plus feet, is the tallest mountain in South America."

Network. The programs air Sunday eveningson the Learning Channel.

Ronnie Barrett Lacroute told us thather daughter Natalie LaCroute '96 had justfinished her freshman year in Arts and Sci-ences. Over that winter break the Lacrouteswere able to entertain Arts and SciencesDean Don Randel and his wife, Carol, whilethe Randels were on a trip to California. Ron-nie and her husband continue to developtheir vineyard in Oregon.

I attended the 100th Anniversary Con-vention of the National Council of JewishWomen held in Chicago this past March. Iran into classmates Madeline "Madge" Sal-ner Weisberg and Alexandra "Sandy"Shecket Korros. Madge was there with herdaughters Ali and Jill, as well as' her motherand sister. She lives in Stamford, CT. Wemet by a computer putting us at the sametable for dinner one night. Sandy and I woundup at the same work session. She is a histo-

ry professor at Xavier U. in Cincinnati andwas a resource person for one of the histor-ical seminars.

Important! It's not too late to makeplans to join thousands of Cornellians for CUin Philadelphia, November 18-21. Lectures,seminars, and the 100th meeting of the Cor-nell and Penn football teams. Join classmatesat the '66 tent for a pre-game picnic and ral-ly at Hill Field, Sat., 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.Call Alice Katz Berglas, (212) 288-0464 fordetails. • Susan Rockford Bittker, 424 PeaPond Rd., Katonah, NY 10536.

^% W^ Lots of different things this time:I " f / Denison U. in Granville, OH re-IA^ I ports that Barry Weller, a pro-II I fessor of English at U. of Utah,I I I who edits the Western Humanities^J I Review, delivered two lectures inan endowed series at Denison on Dicken-sian Eros and Shakespeare Against Plot.

Peter Buchsbaum, 126 Bowne Station Rd.,Stockton, NJ, reports that the American BarAssn. has published his book on state andlocal comprehensive growth planning. In ad-dition to practicing law, Peter writes a legalcolumn and is active in the ABA. He reportsthat Roger Abrams recently became deanof Rutgers law school in Newark.

Peter C. Woglom, 471 Santa Rosa Dr.,Los Gatos, CA, was named general manag-er for the Ground Systems division of FMCCorp. Since joining FMC in 1973, he's beena program director, operations director, andin charge of strategic planning for the De-fense Systems group.

Edward L. "Ned" Robertson II, POBox 826, W. Falmouth, MA, is vice presi-dent of the Bank of Boston and reported thatson Willaim "Rob" '97 graduated from St.George's School, Newport, RI, then enteredArchitecture, Art and Planning this fall.

Helene Dansker Bergman, 80 EastEnd Ave., #14F, NYC, is a regional chairfor the Alumni Admissions Ambassador Net-work (CAAAN) interviewing committeethere. Mary-Louise Sandifur is now at13821 176th PI., NE, Redmond, WA.

John C. Gerhard III, 1648 BrentwoodDr., Mundelein, IL, is administrator of a uni-versity medical school clinic and of facultyprivate practice. What's more, he's a Rotar-ian. He and wife Wei Jan have two children:Lilly, 17, and John IV, 14.

Regret to report the death last Decem-ber 10 of Douglas Romich Wade Jr., ofGap, PA.

For information about class membership(see ad on these pages) call Cathy Dowhosin the alumni office, (607) 255-7088. Also,see '66 column for word of the CU in Phila-delphia celebration later this month. CallMarsha Beirach Eisen (201) 489-4751(evenings) for details.

Hope to have seen many of you around'n' about this fall, but don't wait to find me,write a few lines about what you're doing andwhat's on your mind. • Richard B. Hoffman,2925 28th St., NW, Washington, DC 20008.

Hope you're having a very pleas-ant fall. It's almost ski season!Turning to some professionalnews, Peter Papenhausen wasnamed the national director ofgenetics at Roche Biomedical

Laboratories in Nutley, NJ. Peter will be re-sponsible for coordinating the company's di-agnostic genetics program. In addition to hisCornell degree, Peter has a PhD from NewYork U. and is the author of publications con-cerning prenatal, postnatal, and cancer cyto-genetics. Joe Gellert lives in Chappaqua,NY and is in the cheese importing businesswith Long Island Cheese based in New York.It was great seeing Joe at Reunion.

Lauren Kingman recently attendedthe Adult University (CAU) program at SagHarbor, NY. Richard Newman lives in Au-burn, NY. Vera Kubie Balluff joined thePeace Corps as a trainer in Spanish and Lat-in culture after graduating from Cornell. Asa native of Colombia, SA, Vera brought akeen personal knowledge to the subject. In1972 she married Robert Balluff, and in 1975they moved to Bogota, Colombia where herhusband was manager and part owner of a

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plastics manufacturing firm owned by herfather. Vera and her husband have two sonsand talk of plans to move back to the US,which may have already happened. JaneGleklen Wyeth is a private art dealer in NewYork with husband Nichols.

Kenneth Hurd recently received thePlatinum Circle Award established by Hos-pitality Design magazine to recognize out-standing individuals who have helped createand uphold excellence in hospitality design.Ken's Boston-based firm is recognized asone of the leading hotel design firms in theworld. Also receiving the award was class-mate Dick Penner, currently a professorof property management with the hotelschool in Ithaca. Jon Bursen lives in An-napolis, MD. John Stambaugh lives in ElToro, CA. Susan Mascette Brandt lives inPittsford, NY and continues with the law firmof Harter, Secrest & Emery in Rochester. Ilook forward to seeing Sue at Reunion. LesKristt lives in Monticello, NY and has anoffice supply business called the Kristt Co.

Jeff Gorwit is a cardiologist in Escon-dido, CA. Tom Hadderman is a vice presi-dent of human resources at the Chilton Co.in Radnor, PA. James Hanna lives in Be-thesda, MD. Judy Fersh Borodin and hus-band Allan, PhD '69 live in Toronto. Allanis a professor of computer science at the U.of Toronto. Judy reports having had a num-ber of interesting sabbaticals abroad—Zur-ich, Nice, and Jerusalem—as well as a se-mester in Ithaca. Judy works part time forthe Toronto Board of Education as a parentworker, which means she is the sole staff ina drop-in center for preschool children andtheir parents or caregivers. Toronto has anetwork of these centers which are uniquein public education. She reports having losttouch with most classmates, except for RinaDavis Okonkwo, a professor in Nigeria.

Janet Ellsworth Graeber lives in Mor-gantown, WV. Corinne Ertel is a pediatri-cian in Weston, MA and her office is aboutone mile from my house. Corinne reportsthat Roger's and Ruth Mandel Pincus'sson David '96 is in Arts. Adele DiamondThompson lives in Portland, OR. Joel Tur-ok lives in Mexico City. It was wonderfulseeing Joel at Reunion. The Turoks didn'tbring their four boys—11, 7, 3, and 1—sothat they were able to more fully enjoy thetime with each other and friends. Joel is oneof those lucky people who doesn't look verydifferent than he did when he graduated in1968. I look forward to hearing from you.• Gordon H. Silver, Putnam Invest-ments, 1 Post Office Sq., Boston, MA 02109.

Donald Gardner is now manag-ing partner (Bedford, NH) at De-vine Millimet. He practices lawprimarily in insurance defensepersonal injury litigation. His wifeSusan is into oils and pottery.

They have children Brieghan and Aaron.Donald writes that he is occasionally in touchwith Fred Sutton and family. Alan B.Shineman is a Chase Manhattan Bank vicepresident providing systems support for theNorth American sector. Alan visited Cornelllast fall "on the perfect weather weekend"with his wife Genny and their children Di-ana and Doug. Niece Katryn Shineman'96,

daughter of brother Edward Thompson"Tom" Shineman '66, is in the Arts college.

Laura Jane Barneke Bellmore writes:"I've been married six years to Chris Bell-more and have son Max, 4. We just returnedfrom a trip to the Great Smoky Mountains—the magnificent colors reminded me of thefall in Ithaca and the excitement of startingeach new school year." Saunders Wilsonmoved to a new home (Manlius, NY) in Au-gust 1992. He was elected to the board ofthe Central New York Alumni Chapter andwas conference chair for the Cornell Societyof Engineer's 10th Annual Conference, andhe completed an alumni-in-residence pro-gram. "Two days in freshman dorms and backin class. Fortunately, no homework to do."

Formerly a senior partner at Wolf, Pop-per, Ross, Wolf & Jones, Ellen Chapnickhas left to become director of public interestlaw programs at Columbia U. law school.Ellen was expecting several Cornellians at a50th birthday party she had planned for hus-band Bill Schleicher '64. She also reportsseeing Ward Mintz, who is associate direc-tor in charge of programs at The JewishMuseum in New York City.

For the past seven years Arnold I.Fischman has been the executive directorof the Santa Cruz (CA) Community HousingCorp., a non-profit organization which devel-ops affordable, cooperatively owned housingfor low-income families and seniors. Active

in local politics, Arnold helped coordinate thesuccessful city council election campaign ofCornellian Mike Rotkin '68 (BA '69). Thefinancial director of Arnold's agency is Jan-et Oestreich '73 and Wendy Moorhouse'86 is administrator at their property man-agement firm.

Daniel Taubman was appointed ajudge in the Colorado Court of Appeals byGov. Roy Romer. Among those attending theswearing-in last March were Dan's father,Joseph '40, and his former roommate EdNottingham, who is a federal district courtjudge in Colorado. Prior to his appointment,Dan had been director of the Colorado Coa-lition of Legal Services Programs.

Emmanuel Vakalo, BArch '70, a pro-fessor in the College of Architecture andUrban Planning at the U. of Michigan in AnnArbor, says he "would love to hear fromfriends and acquaintances from my times atCornell (1965-72)." Carolyn Ugiss Altierivisited with freshman roommate JudyBraunstein Bailyn in Boca Raton last No-vember. She also saw Pat Harbison Potts;now living in Buffalo, in Syracuse the nightbefore Pat drove her daughter KimberlyPotts '95 back to Cornell.

Naomi Block Esmon (Oklahoma City)reports she is obedience training her canineLabrador—"lots of training, not much obe-dience." Also, " Getting to see some of ourbasic research in the body's natural antico-

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agulation system coming to some fruition inpre-clinical trials and 'orphan drug' status forsome rare thrombotic conditions." RobertStanley (Chicago) continues to keep busywith his internal medicine practice at RushNorth Shore Hospital, as well as his singingwith the William Ferris Chorale. In Septem-ber 1992 he traveled to Botswana's Okavan-go Delta and to Lake Kariba and VictoriaFalls in Zimbabwe.

In April 1991, Ronne Knapp Thielen(Sacramento) was appointed by StateTreasurer Kathleen Brown to run the Cal-ifornia Tax Credit Allocation Committee."Leaving my 20-year-old son in charge of mynorthern Virginia home, I moved out by airwith just ten UPS boxes of personal be-longings. Starting a new life has been ex-citing and challenging. I often wonder whereI'll end up next." Gregory Colman is "aliveand well and still in private practice of der-matology in Santa Monica. Enjoying a new'toy'—a copper vapor laser for removing un-wanted pigmented and vascular skin lesions.Results are promising." Son Geoffrey "acedkindergarten and finished in top 1 percent ofall children his age on Stanford test given inCalifornia."

Arthur D. Eisenberg (Darien, CT) isnow working as grants manager for biomed-ical research. "We receive about $20 millionfor use in biomedical science research fromthe tobacco industry. The Council for To-bacco Research awards grants based on sci-entific merit only. I'd love to hear fromfriends who also work in Manhattan, or wholive in Connecticut. Call me at (212) 421-8885 if you think you might benefit fromgrant support."

Last-minute reminder, Cornell in Phila-delphia, Nov. 18-21, with the 100th meetingof the Cornell-Penn football teams on Satur-day afternoon. • Joan Sullivan, 51 SkyhillRd., #202, Alexandria, VA 22314.

Once again—hope you will bejoining us at the CU in Philadel-phia 1993 Celebration, Thurs.,Nov. 18 through Sun., Nov. 21.Call me, Connie Ferris Meyer,at (215) 644-0319, or P. Scott

Drahos (215) 643-0391, for details. It willbe a fun and interesting weekend! JohnMacionis is a professor of sociology atKenyon College in Gambier, OH, as well asthe author of leading textbooks in his disci-pline. His wife Amy opens their home inMount Vernon, OH to campus visitors al-most every weekend as the Oak Hill Bedand Breakfast. They do some farming andJohn spends his limited free time restoringantique autos. They have a son McLean, 2,and a daughter Whitney, born this pastspring. There are plans to pack up the fami-ly in the fall of 1994 to join the U. of Pitts-burgh's Semester at Sea. John will be teach-ing 500 students in a global education courseas they travel between ports in 11 countriesin 15 weeks. (Where do we sign up?) Hehears from Richard Barron, former room-mate and co-founder of several campusbands, who lives in Chatham, NJ. (Our classdirectory lists Maple wood, NJ.)v

Sherry and Howard Ginsburg becamethe proud parents of daughter CourtneyBrooke on Jan. 15, '93. Barbara Smith Kan-

tor reports she is a professional volunteer inthe decaying public school systems of Colo-rado. Sandy and Allan Ropper are having agreat year with their kids, Alex and Dana, inNewton, MA. Allan is chief of neurology atSt. Elizabeth's Hospital in Boston and is alsoa professor at Tufts U. medical school. Inthe past two years he has published twobooks and is now co-authoring a major textto be entitled "Principles of Neurology."Sandy is a research associate of Dr. MattMesselson, a Harvard biochemist, whosemain interest is biological and chemical war-fare disarmament.

Sharon Goldberg Cohen lives withhusband Avi (Avraham) and children Tani,14, Kinneret, 14, David, 12, and Pinny, 8, at9-06 Plymouth Dr., Fair Lawn, NJ 07410(note: directory change). They had spent thelast 20 years in Israel. While spending sometime in the States, Sharon is an insuranceagent (Homestead Insurance in Fair Lawn)and Avi is a student. The family had planneda cross-country trip for this past summerwith hopes for seeing as much of the US aspossible! She'd love to hear from Cornellianfriends, especially those from Hillel, YoungIsrael, and Alpha Epsilon Phi, either by mailor phone: (201) 796-7620. Her sons are play-ing Little League Softball, but claim to pre-fer soccer. Her high-school-aged daughtersare amazed at how competitive Americanstudents are when compared to Israelis.They say that in Jerusalem getting goodgrades on tests was a cooperative class ac-tivity and they find that here students won'teven share notes. Sharon says she doesn'tremember such extremes in the 1960s andwonders if American society has changed somuch or is her memory losing its tone!• Connie Ferris Meyer, 16 James ThomasRd., Malvern, PA 19355.

•*f I Some of us are going through whatf IA used to be called mid-life crisis. I,

# I for one, have foregone the legal• I practice, and am directing all myI I energies to Murai Associates, a1 M company of which I am president.

We are presently involved in the securitiza-tion of Japanese-owned US real estate andmortgages, the development of a world fi-nancial and trade center in St. Petersburg,Russia, and a venture in biomedical prod-ucts in Asia-Pacific. We are working throughjoint ventures on all of these projects. I hearfrom Janice Pigula Hoff that she is current-ly between jobs and trying to decide whatshe wants to be when she grows up. In her"former life" she was an applications pro-grammer-analyst. Today she is spendingtime with her sons with Little League, icehockey, and golf lessons. She had visitedwith Rita Broser Shiff and Susan Gold-berg Wax when in the Boston area attend-ing training at DEC. Catherine KvaraceusHunter is also into something new. Shemoved to Boxborough, MA and a new job aspart-time curator for three-dimensional ob-jects at The Jackson Homestead in Newton,specializing in textiles and costumes. Sus-an "Susannah" Silkowitz Jonas is the cre-ative director of Scarborough & Co., a sub-sidiary of Crabtree & Evelyn Ltd. In Marchshe spent two weeks as a volunteer withConservation International in the Peten rain-

forest region of Guatemala identifying anddeveloping botanical resources for use by theperfumery and toiletry industries. In Aprilshe traveled with husband David and sonAdam, 11, down the Pacuare and Reventa-cion Rivers in Costa Rica by raft and visitedseveral beautiful rainforest reserves through-out the country.

Others of us are not changing. RichardKalikow still practices law with SkaddenArps in New York. Mark Kantrowitz re-mains an engineer living in Portland, CT.Walt King is still purchasing manager forPhiladelphia Electric Co. and lives in W.Chester, PA. Matthew Klein is a doctor inOcean Ridge, FL. Ivy Samuels Lenz, inPortland, OR, was recently promoted to cor-porate secretary of Standard Insurance Co.,reporting to the CEO and with responsibili-ties for human resources, communications,public affairs, and facilities. MarlynnLampert Littauer is president-elect of theWashington State chapter of the NationalSociety of Fund Raising Executives. She hasbeen director of development and communi-ty relations at Seattle Children's Home since1988. Daughter Amanda Littauer '97 en-tered the Arts college this fall, accepted ear-ly decision. Mike Macris is living in Con-necticut and practicing law in New York City.Daughter Margaret '97 was also to enterCornell this fall. The Philip Mangonesesreport no change in their lives. Philip stillenjoys his position as an associate justice ofthe New Hampshire Superior Court. Hiswife, Linda (Watson), has handled Keene'sCommunity Development Program since1992, which involves applications for admin-istration of federal grants for economic de-velopment, housing, and other projects de-signed to benefit lower-income households.Alice Stone Nakhimovsky is a professorin the Russian department of Colgate U. Shereports that Cornell Alumni News, nownamed Cornell Magazine, missed her newbook: Russian Jewish Literature and Identity(Johns Hopkins, 1992). Her husband, Alex-ander "Sasha," PhD '79, is also on the fac-ulty at Colgate, and she adds that the Classof '71 is well represented on the Colgatefaculty. Bob Kraynak and Matt Leoneare also there. •Joel Y. Moss, 110 Bar-nard PI., NW, Atlanta, GA 30328.

^ψ^\ If y° u want to feel young, start' I I I keeping track of the birth an-

m M nouncements still being made bym j our classmates. Susan OΉaraI I i and husband Alan Miller '71 re-I \mΛ port the birth of daughter, Joan-

na, on Oct. 2, '92. Sue is a pediatric nursepractitioner at Fairfax Pediatrics in Fairfax,VA. Also, Thomas Albright and wife Patri-cia Pillette were blessed with their first child,Alexandra, on Friday the 13th of November1992. Dr. Steven Swersky delivered Al-exandra, Tom supervised, and Patricia per-formed all the labor. Tom lives in Manhattanand is an attorney with Baer Marks & Upham.

My old buddy James Branegan, intrep-id international reporter for Time magazineand formerly intrepid token frat rat for theSun, abandoned his bachelorhood last yearat a Rome wedding (held in Italy, not NewYork). Jay's beloved, Stefania Pittaluga, is aphysician who practices pathology, climbs

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the Alps, and lives a life of culture, travel,and adventure. Jay is now based in Brussels,having spent several years in Hong Konginterviewing Asian bigwigs, crawling throughmalarial jungles, and otherwise compilingmaterial for his highly entertaining annualletters. Since I, too, married a practicing fe-male physician, I can attest that Jay remainstruly fearless in every way.

Kyle Shelly Brush and husband D.Craig reside in Birmingham, MI and willcelebrate their 20th wedding anniversary inDecember. They have sons, 19, 15, and 12,who have all followed in their father's foot-steps and live for hockey. The oldest, Matt,will be playing against Cornell as a memberof the 1994 Princeton hockey team. SaysKyle: "Go Tigers!"

Charles Stuart Heyman writes: "AsI approach the end of my third year in Mem-phis, my situation in life has changed dra-matically. The last year has seen me losemy job as production manager for OperaMemphis (through a change of administra-tion) and my wife (through divorce). I havebeen concentrating on acting this past yearand am presently making plans to move backto W. Palm Beach to work on a new theatercompany with friends there." J. KevinNeels heads the Cambridge, MA office ofQuintiles Inc., a contract research organiza-tion, and is vice president in charge of healtheconomics worldwide. Kevin's job is to studythe economic properties of new medicaltherapies as a means of helping internation-al clients reduce health care costs. He andwife Cindy (Hannig) 7 3 bought a Victori-an house in Winchester last year.

Harold Belodoff moved last Septem-ber from Boston to Short Hills, NJ in orderto establish a new personal lines insurancecompany, Palisades Safety & InsuranceAssn., based in Hoboken. Hal was formerlydeputy commissioner of the MassachusettsDept. of Medical Security and vice presidentof US Healthcare, a major national HMO.Gary Masterson is project manager forbank systems and technology at Citibank'sLatin America Consumer Bank in Fort Lau-derdale, FL. Gary and wife Marilyn recentlymoved to southern Florida after Gary com-pleted a similar function for Citibank's offic-es in Chicago. Douglas Herron has accept-ed a new job opportunity as chief financial offi-cer for Safelite Glass Corp. in Columbus, OH.

News submitted with class dues wassparse this year. Please send more. • GaryL. Rubin, 512 Lenox Ave., Westfield, NJ07090; (908) 232-8468 (H); (212) 686-7700 (0).

W"W^\ I hope that many of you will bef m I I enjoying yourself at the CU in

m J Philadelphia Celebration, Novem-I ^ ber 18-21. Cheer the football teamI 1 • o n t o a victory over Penn! Fre-1 ^ ^ drica "Riki" Poster Sheehan

writes from Bethesda, MD that since "retir-ing" from a Capitol Hill career a few yearsago she has been serving as a part-time con-sultant to the John F. Kennedy Center in theareas of federal relations, budget, and artseducation, as well as consulting on projectsto promote women's health issues. Riki isgrateful for the opportunity to spend time onschool activities with her sons Ben andJonathan and still have some time for travel

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J. Frederick "Fred" Brunk reportsthat he graduated from the Kellogg Execu-tive Master's Program (master of manage-ment degree) at Northwestern U. last De-cember. He has a new job as vice presidentof sales and marketing, Fluid Managementin Wheeling, IL. I was even more impressedwith his son Alex's accomplishment: in 1992,at age 9, he was one of the six finalists atthe US Lego Building Championship. Per-haps we have a candidate for admission toArchitecture or Engineering.

Francis "Fran" Minnock has settled inW. Orange, NJ with wife Kathrynn and chil-dren Kate, 17, Christian, 10, and Whitney, 7,after living in five houses in four cities sincegraduation. Having worked for several largecompanies, Fran tried his hand at his ownbusiness. Unfortunately the economy didn'tcooperate with his efforts, and Fran wentback to a research and development positionwith another large company, GAF. Fran or-ganized our class's New York City area "Re-union Kick-Off' at the Cornell Club—NewYork last January.

Mary Corcoran Murray, husbandMichael, and family have really been on themove since 1973, and Mary and family havemoved for the last time! Mary has had 18addresses since leaving Ithaca 20 years ago.She enjoys being "at home" and keeps busywith volunteer work. Todd Dalland (BArch77) and Nicholas Goldsmith 7 4 (BArch75), principals of FTL Architects in NewYork City, recently received several designawards. Todd's design for the showroom, of-fices, and production facilities for the Car-melo Pomodoro Co. on 7th Avenue in NYCwon the Record Interiors 1992 Award forExcellence in Planning and Design from Ar-chitectural Record magazine, in addition to theInterior of the Year award from InteriorsMagazine.

The best part of this class correspon-dent position is receiving information onclassmates I knew but have lost track ofsince 1973. Millie Sherman Gordon (frommy freshman year in Balch) is living in Car-mel, NY with husband David and son An-drew, 3. She has been working for Pepsi-Cola in marketing for almost 12 years. JulieHailparn Ginns (a fellow "Little Sister" atSigma Alpha Epsilon) serves on the board oftrustees of Summit Child Care Centers, anon-profit corporation that operates six cen-ters. Julie lives in Chatham Township, NJwith husband Daniel and daughters Rebeccaand Maddy.

Elaine Anderson Phillips wrote a noteon her News & Dues form last January thatI'm sure hits close to home for many of us."I have noticed that very few people include'non-success' stories in the class columns!Because the small, private college at whichI served as academic dean and professor ofbiblical studies closed in June 1992, I havebeen unemployed. Finding teaching positionsis not easy these days! We are thankful thatmy husband Perry, PhD 7 3 is employedas a math/physics consultant for a local in-dustry." Best of luck in your job search, Elaine.

As Thanksgiving approaches, I hope thatwe all take the time to reflect on the manyaspects of our lives for which we can bethankful. • Lorraine Palmatier Skalko,4586 McDonald Rd., Syracuse, NY 13215;(315) 475-0034.

W^ W We received (in November 1992!)f m Λ lots of news about folks turning

m 11 4 0 * ^ a r y Loesch wrote, "While• ^Λi the local tavern did not have theI ^ j i ambiance of the Creeker or theB A Chapter House, Joseph Sheehan

7 5 and myself and spouses celebrated my40th by tipping a few in Sayville, NY." Ce-cilia Hermann Le Beau and husband Paulcelebrated their 16th wedding anniversary,then the big 40. They have children Laura,12, David, 9, and Christopher, 7. Ceciliateaches piano in Holliston, MA. She seesLinda Gilbert Harper and David 7 5 andcorresponds with Pat Latus Barry, KathyReyen Judd 72, and Ellen Goldner 73 .

We got a long note from CaryFrumess, who is an associate psychoana-lyst in Manhattan with the National Assn.for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. Hiswife, Leslie (Kushner) 76-78 Grad, isheading up research in the pediatric urologydepartment at Long Island Jewish MedicalCenter. Daughter Jeannine, 5, is "lovable,intelligent, and quite an opera fan." Carypassed along news that Jeff Hoffstein, whoteaches math at Brown U., and wife Wendyhad a boy, Adam, in June 1992.

Larry Kleinman went to Adult Univer-sity (CAU) the summer of 1992 with wifeSally, his parents, and his daughters Carlieand Rebecca. Larry writes that his motherbecame "the star of the week" in OutdoorSkills and Challenges by jumping off theCrescent and climbing 40 feet up the Lind-seth Climbing Wall in Alberding Field House.The climbing wall also attracted MartinLesser and son Lenny, 14, who attended thewall-climbing program in the summer of1992. Martin lives in E. Rockaway, NY.

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drew Levy, Paul Tilley, Richard Bauerand wife Susan, Cliff Goodman and wifeAmy, and Philip Genetos and wife Dor-othea spent a weekend at Longwood Gar-dens outside Philadelphia in August 1992.Kurt writes, "It was wonderful to be able totalk about old times and to look forward toour next Reunion." Betsy Kyger is livingin Buffalo, NY, having been in practice as afamily physician for over ten years. Betsyhas children Danny, 7, and Ellen, 4. LorenAlexander writes that he has boys Josh, 18,Casey, 16, Scott, 11, and Ryan, 9. Wife Amypassed her NY State boards to become a reg-istered nurse. As of November 1992, Lorenwas working as an equipment operator for aroad construction firm and continuing thesearch to get back into agriculture. He askedthat his address (3710 Lyncourt Dr., Cort-land, NY) be passed along to fellow heavy-weight oarsmen from '74, '75, and '76.

From E. Lansing, MI, James Lake re-ports that he ran in the Marine Corps Mara-thon in Washington, DC in October 1992 andlived to tell about it. Dave Smiley writesthat he left Colorado and started his ownconsulting firm in Cedar Rapids, IA. Themove has slowed down his plans to hike allof the "14ers" (all mountains over 14,000feet in Colorado).

Some more recent news from New YorkCity is the birth of Kyle Ross, son ofHoward Joel Berman, in June 1993. Kylejoins brother Ryan, born in 1988. In early1993, the Corning firm of Hunt Engineers& Architects named John Ashley Cake Jr.vice president for architecture. Recently, hewas honored by Historic Ithaca and Tomp-kins County for designing the renovation of

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Ithaca's historic First Unitarian Society build-ing. John lives in Newfield, NY. Also fromIthaca comes news that Dan Decker, asso-ciate professor of natural resources at Cor-nell, has added associate director of researchfor the College of Agriculture & Life Scienc-es to his job responsibilities. Charlene Fish-er Baxter was recently elected second vicepresident of the Ag college alumni associa-tion. Charlene lives in New London, NH.Christine Shiber has recently been namedpastor of the Montclair United MethodistChurch in Oakland, CA.

Jack Cutler and Kristen Rupert or-ganized a class outing to the Shoals MarineLab in August. A good time was had by all:Mary Berens; Paul Burmeister, wife Gail,and two children; Ben Brungraber and boysCarl and Griffen; Virginia Neptune Essonand family; Akira Yamamoto; CharlesCard; Betsy Beach and husband Bob Sim-mons and children; and Kris and Jack.

I report that after my job as a manage-ment consultant at Digital Equipment Corp.went away last December, I started workingin January for a computer start-up company,The Modular Group, in Concord, MA. I de-veloped and implemented many of the hu-man resources activities (benefits, employ-ee handbook, etc.) but now that those pro-grams are up and running, I'm doing moreon the sales and marketing side. I've reallyenjoyed working in a start-up environment.• Betsy Beach, 4 Thoreau Dr., Chelmsford,MA 01824.

It's great hearing from classmatesaU around the country. JosephSacco writes that he and brotherTom (a chef from the CulinaryInst. of America), have startedmanufacturing healthy, no-fat dog

treats called "Wagabees"™. Joseph is livingin Olney, MD, and we look forward to see-ing his product on the shelves.

Beth Rodgers is an internist at WingHospital in Belchertown, MA. She and hus-band Steve Jones have children Daniel andLindsay. Beth reports that she is "living veryhappily." News from Eden Prairie, MN:Martin Siegel and wife Cindy are the proudparents of Adam David. Martin continues tothrive in the residential real estate business,having been recognized as one of the toprealtors in the Twin Cities and nationwide.

Congratulations to Susie Corner Ros-en and husband Robert. They have a newaddition to the family, baby Ernest William(Will), who joins big sisters Annie and Alex-andra. Susie is an attorney at Rosen, Rosenand Hagood in Charleston, SC. Another ad-dition to the Cornell family comes from Ali-cia Kavka and husband Dale Willis. BabyNoah joins big brothers Joey and Joshua. Ali-cia is a physician practicing pathology inRichmond, VA.

Practicing environmental law is CarolDorge. She and husband Kevin Kenzenkoviclive in Lake Bluff, IL. Catherine Hart Mat-thews currently lives in Fernandina Beach,FL and is president and owner of a new the-ater company there named "Stage-Struck!".

We love to hear from Cornelliansabroad. We received a note from Philip Ion-ta. After a five-year stint working for Lock-heed Missiles and Space Co. in Sunnyvale,

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CA, he accepted a job offer with Saudi Aram-co and has been with them since 1992. Hesays that there are plenty of fighter jets fly-ing around so he and his family feel "safe"enough. Philip and his wife have two chil-dren and he writes, "Thank God they don'tresemble me in any way!"

I have had the opportunity to stay intouch with many alumni. Most recently, I hada surprise phone call from Mary Berens'74, who happened to be visiting classmateTanis Reid Maniscalco '74. Tanis and hus-band Bob, JD '75 live in Fairfield, CT withtheir two children. Mary also recently visit-ed Laurie Musick Wright who, with hus-band Greg and three daughters, moved fromSouth Dakota to Vermont. Word is that theyhave a beautiful house on top of a mountainoverlooking Killington Mountain!

We'd again like to acknowledge our fel-low classmates who support us with theirdues, but no news! Thanks to Hans Hahne,Stockelsdorf, Germany, Gary Smith, Lou-donville, NY. Allen Syphers, Gwynedd Val-ley, PA, Maj. Bill Haner, US Army, Ken-neth Levin, Silver Spring, MD, EileenNugent Simon, Chatham, NJ, Burton Au,Solon, OH, Karen Beckvar, Phoenix, AZ,Bruce Buchholz, Cicero, NY, PaulDubowy, W. LaFayette, IN, Frank andKaren Cook Esposito, Dayton, OH, JohnFerris, Fremont, CA, David Fischell, FairHaven, NJ, Randy Friedman Freedman,York, PA, Vincent Gentile, Princeton, NJ,Cindy Johnson Giambastiani, Gales Ferry,CT, Pete Herzog, Houston, TX, Bill Hop-ple, Cincinnati, OH, Richard Jaffe, Del Mar,Cal, Debra James, Roosevelt Island, NY,Nancy Kober, Charlottesville, VA, RonLinton, Rhinebeck, NY, Darcy WalkerO'Neill, St. Louis, MO, Karen Pearl, Bronx-ville, NY, Eileen Weingarten, Larchmont,NY, Bonnie Siber Weinstock, Melville,NY. •> Karen Leung Moore, 18 Tolland Cir.,Simsbury, CT 06070.

^^Ί^\ Think back 21 years ago to yourJ mm " first approaching Thanksgiving at

I lf\ Cornell. Remember us then and1 1 1 s e e u s n o w Now, Salim M.I l l Samji is president of North Amer-I ^ ^ ican Trading Co. in Albuquerque,

NM. Robert. D. Schaffer has a son, Joseph,2, and is working as a patent attorney in theintellectual property department at Shea &Gould in New York City. Now, David Schul-man is a veterinarian in Brookville, NY andFlorence Zee-Sena is working for XeroxCorp. in Orlando, FL. As of Aug. 1, '93, Cur-tis Wolff was to join Individual, Inc. as theirchief financial officer in Cambridge, MA, af-ter four years of working in Providence.Martin Westman is a mechanical designengineer in Allentown, PA.

Now, Bob Sender lives in Livingston,NJ with wife Ellen and their children Julianaand Andrew. Bob recently began working forHome Box Office as director for internationalanalysis. Leslie Sheldon was recently pro-moted within AT&T Network Systems toan engineering director. She expected tomove from Potomac, MD and look for a homein the Baltimore/Hunt Valley, MD area. Leslie'sbeen with AT&T for 15 years. Now, Bill Thornand spouse Toni have a son Eric, who wasborn on Feb. 6, '93. They hope to make their

first trip up to Ithaca this fall. ChristopherYarworth is a civil engineer in Norton, MA.

Now, William Silberg is a medical writ-er in Chicago, IL. Bill and wife Char Woodsproudly announce the arrival of son Jacob onDec. 11, '92, a big one, weighing in at ninepounds. A fullback perhaps? Gabe Valen-tin Jr. is an engineering manager for Sum-ma Technology Inc. in Huntsville, AL. Now,Jim Sollecito is happy to report he is gladhe took so many propagation courses at Cor-nell. His light horticultural vignette "TheGreen Spot" is currently in several NY andPA markets on network television. He andhis wife Megan have daughters Hannah andRachel. Albert Trefts Jr. is a treasurer forFord New Holland Inc. in New Holland, PA.

Now, Cara Schnaper is a banker at J.P. Morgan in NYC and lives in Summit, NJ.Dan Stewart and wife Karen live in Mont-clair, NJ. Dan just left as a principal of KPFInterior Architects, PC as head of hotel/hos-pitality projects, and joined with a Japanesehotel owner/developer as partners forprojects in the US and Japan. Now, LynnePollenz Weber is a principal in a "quantita-tive management consulting company"; sheforecasts markets for new high tech prod-ucts for her clients (has crystal ball, will trav-el). Lynne and husband Griff have kids Alli-son, 4, and Bobby, 2. Lynne lives in Red-wood City, CA and would welcome lettersand visits from old Cornell friends.

Now, Jon Tannen writes that he justmoved into a great new co-op apartment inNYC and is looking for a wife! Would like tostart a family before it's too late! Jon is acreative graphic designer and just finishedworking on two new Apple Macintosh soft-ware products for creative film, television,and advertising professionals . . . the soft-ware products are called "Scriptwriter" and"Storyboarder." If you are interested, justgive him a call and mention Cornell. NadineShaoul is living in White Plains, NY and isa lawyer in NYC for DH Blair InvestmentBanking Corp. Now, Suzanne Sheng is anarchitect in W. Hartford, CT. Mark Slivkais an attorney in Mamaroneck, NY. EllenTedaldi is a physician at Temple U. Hospi-tal in Philadelphia, PA. Michael Stepano-vich is a division manager with Alfa LavalOil Field in Houston, TX. And, last but notleast, Steven Stein is a physician in William-antic, CT.

It is now, 21 years since our firstThanksgiving at Cornell, and we'd love tohear from you. Please write! Now, I am ahomemaker, wife, and mother. ••• KarenKrinsky Sussman, 29 Margaret Ct., GreatNeck, NY 11024.

ψ^ ^Mjj As I write, I can't help but remem-J I J m ber that we arrived in Ithaca for

m I our freshman year 20 years ago• m this month. Twenty years! I sus-I I pect our hair is probably some-I I what shorter, our jeans are less

tattered, and our ambitions to repair theworld may be somewhat chastened.

Manhattan is still the professional hometo a large number of our classmates. MariaHeilbron Richter is an investment bankerat Salomon Brothers; Glen Vetromile is inthe real estate business at Citicorp; RobertB. Bernstein is an attorney at the law firm

of Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler;Linda Jacobs is an interior designer withISI; Ellen Fields is in advertising with Jor-dan, McGrath Case & Taylor; and AmyBirnbaum, who was married to BernardFurnival in September 1992, is a producerwith CBS News. Others in the New Yorkarea include Mitchell Kirsch, a nephrolo-gist on Long Island, and Lisa Lipner Hunt-er, a management consultant with the New-port Consulting Group in Tarrytown, NY.

Upstate are Robert Cohen, an associ-ate professor at SUNY, Buffalo; Dennis Di-donato, the manager of Fox Run Pare inCoxsackie; Joline Hemminger, an instruc-tor at Cazenovia College; and StephenJohnson, who is a product manager at GEin Schenectady, after having spent four yearsin South Carolina.

In the Washington, DC area is FlorenceNg, the director of operations at Contempo-rary Technology in Rockville, MD; EstesSher, the director of sales at the RamadaHotel Tysons Corner in northern Virginia;Rebecca Smith, who is an attorney at Uni-sys Corp. in McLean, VA; and Jeffrey Bia-los, a partner at the law firm of Weil Got-shal & Manges in DC.

This paragraph and the next containnews supplied by Mark Petracca, class co-correspondent. Anthony J. Cusano is "fi-nally settled" in Southbury, CT, practicingnephrology at Waterbury Hospital. Tony isa clinical instructor at Yale's medical schooland president of the Waterbury MedicalAssn. "Being in Southbury gives Kathy andme lots of opportunity to enjoy activities withKaitlin, 4, and Sean, 2, either close by, inNew York City, or in Boston," writes Tony."And it's great to be working with some fel-low alumni (Bob Toffler '60 and RichardDyer '59). We, as they say, 'manage to keepthe Big Red's end up' in this end of the IvyLeague." For those who may want to readmore into Tony's cryptic remark, I believenephrologists study kidneys; not quite the"end" you may have in mind.

Up in Ann Arbor, Jeffrey S. Lehmanis now a tenured law professor at U. of Mich-igan's law school, specializing in studies ofthe welfare state. Along with wife Dianne(Becker) '79 and the three kids—Becky,Jacob, and Benjamin (born in 1991)—Jeff maybe off to Paris in the first half of 1994 toconduct comparative research on the Frenchwelfare state. (Like political scientists, lawprofs will use any ruse to justify foreign trav-el!) Congratulations and bon voyage, Jeff!

I (Gilles) continue to practice law at Sid-ley & Austin in Manhattan, concentrating ininternational corporate and financial trans-actions. My wife Lina and I live on the Up-per East Side with our boys Elliot, 5, andJakie, 3. Enjoy the fall! • Gilles Sion, 501E. 79th St., Apt. 20A, NYC 10021.

ψ^^\ I t w a s great to see so many class-f i \M mates at our 15-year Reunion this

m \ί past June. My only frustration isI m\ that, after attending three Reunions,1 1 1 Γve yet to run into some friends I've1 V ^ lost touch with over the years. In

my official capacity as class correspondent, Ihope you now have a valid excuse to put pen topaper (or fingers to keyboard).

Bonnie Greenfield Warren is constant-

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ly on the go in Norristown, PA between see-ing to her three children, ages 6 and young-er, and numerous activities. She stays intouch with Marilyn Shapiro, an attorneyin New York City, when Marilyn is not jet-ting off to places like Europe and beyond.Also immersed in the joys of parenting isFrancene Quimby Langford, who has sonsWill, 3, and Benjamin, 1. Francene notes thatshe's becoming a whiz at T-ball. During ourtravels this summer through Cleveland, wevisited with another U-Hall 2 buddy, Alex-andra "Sandy" Buchanan, her husband Bill,and sons Tommy, 5, and Bobby, 1-1/2. Sandyis still hard at work, stirring things up withOhio Citizen Action. Her former roommate,Rae Nelson, has left the White House andis now working for the US Chamber of Com-merce. Sandy also recently spoke to ScottBallotin, who is working in publishing inWashington, DC.

Lenore Diamond Robins is enjoyingtime with her daughter Cara, now 3. We vis-ited Lenore and her husband Steven in BocaRaton, FL several years ago and found theirhome to be a virtual showcase of Lenore's ar-tistic talents. Lenore stays in touch with Pam-ela Poulin, an attorney who is also in Florida.

Kimberly Paterson writes that she isa partner in an internal medicine practice atCrozer Chester Medical Center in Upland,PA. Last year she saw Kate Myre Stewartat the wedding of Tad Myre '76. Kate andhusband Dan own a consulting firm in Lou-isville, KY. They have a son, Zachary.

Ellyn Graff and Lawrence Mix ofDanbury, CT are busy combining careers andfamily. Ellyn is a dentist, and Larry is an at-torney. Their sons are Michael, 7, and Jas-on, 3. They write that in their treasured freetime they enjoy boating on CandlewoodLake. David Wheeler is vice president andgeneral manager of Hardin Interior Servic-es, specializing in interior construction andrenovation in Atlanta. He and his wife Trudywelcomed Hunter Garrett Wheeler into theworld on Oct. 13, '91. David said he's enjoy-ing his tenure as the Southeast Regional Di-rector of the Cornell Alumni Federation.

Bringing news from overseas is DianaKatcher Bletter, who is living in ShaveiZion, a farming village in Israel. She writesthat she has four children, is writing a nov-el, and running marathons (four kids soundlike enough of a marathon to me!). • EileenBrill Wagner, 8 Arlington PI., Fair Lawn,NJ 07410; Sharon Palatnik Simoncini, 1454th Ave., Apt. 6A, NYC 10003; Henry Far-ber, 6435 289th Ave. SE, Issaquah, WA98027; Lori Wasserman Karbell, 20 North-field Gate, Pittsford, NY 14534; Andre Mar-tecchini, 110 Heritage Lane, Duxbury, MA07081; and Pepi F. Leids, 7021 Boot JackRd., Bath, NY 14810.

•"JjΛ The CU in Philadelphia festivitiesf mm 1 are scheduled for this month, No-

m I I vember 18-21. To join classmates• ^rm at dinner on Saturday or brunch,I f f Sunday, call Mary Willensky• \J Kahn (215) 440-9458. Also, the

class needs help to reach our Cornell Fund15th Reunion goal of 850 donors. Volunteer'79ers are needed to assist with various geo-graphic-area phonathons to take place thisfall and next spring. If you can give a few

Twenty years! I

suspect our hair is

probably somewhat

shorter, our jeans

are less tattered,

and our ambitions

to repair the world

may be somewhat

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hours of calling to help get classmates in-terested and excited about attending Re-union in June 1994, call either of our Cor-nell Fund co-chairs, Karen Mineo Weale,(609) 987-0554, or Michael Tucker, (312)853-5562.

Another summer is winding down as Iwrite. I'll be writing the column for dead-lines through December and then will turnit over again to Cindy Ahlgren Shea. I'vehad some of your news for quite a while, soI'll start there. Janice Smith Yensan wrotein January that her second son, MatthewLee, was born in July 1992, joining Bradley,6. Janice has left Colonial Life Insurance tostay home with the children and complete herpharmacy degree. She and husband David livein Columbia, SC and welcome visitors in thearea. Peter Diemer and wife Katie(Brown) also became parents in 1992 toElizabeth Wicker Diemer. Peter hopesElizabeth will be a fourth-generation Cor-nellian following great-grandmother,grandmother, and dad. Peter designs soft-ware in the Silicon Valley, and Katie is anattorney in San Francisco.

More recent parents are VivianneFilmer Burke and husband Shawn. Shan-non Susannah Burke joined brother Devin,2, on June 9, '93. Vivianne resigned her po-sition as vice president, research, at J. P.Morgan Securities Inc. "to care for these twolittle munchkins." Linda Sarazen writesthat she and husband Pat Hiskert visited theBurkes in November 1992 at their home inRumson, NJ. Linda has been named a part-ner in the law firm of Petree Stockton inCharlotte, NC, where she practices cor-porate finance law. Richard Novitch isan assistant professor of medicine at theCornell Medical College in the pulmonaryand critical care medicine division. He alsoruns the pulmonary rehabilitation programat Burke Rehabilitation Hospital in WhitePlains, NY. Richard, wife Dana Sherman'83, and son Adam live in Greenwich Vil-

lage, New York City.Other Manhattan residents are Marcy

Wachtel and husband Gary Horowitz '78and daughter Allison, 3. They celebratedtheir tenth wedding anniversary in April.Marcy practices matrimonial law and Garyis a corporate attorney in NYC. CindyGreen writes that she received her PhD inpublic administration from New York U. inJanuary 1992. She is a public policy analystfor the Citizens Budget Commission in NYC,where she monitors the finances of NY Statefor a nonprofit watchdog organization. Cin-dy and husband Lee Cohen have childrenClaudia, 5, and Benjamin, 2 .

Mark Hallock is an investment bank-er at Salomon Brothers in NYC. He marriedClaire Borri on June 24, '92. Another new-lywed is Wayne Meichner, who marriedLisa Romano on Dec. 31, '92, then the cou-ple spent a two-week honeymoon in Tahitiand Bora Bora—a sharp contrast to home inNYC. Wayne is currently a vice president,divisional merchandise manager in mens-wear at Saks Fifth Avenue.

From the other coast, Michael Peifferwrites that he is in sales management withAdvanced Micro Devices Inc. in San Diego,CA. He took a seven-week dive/underwaterphotography trip to the Great Barrier Reefin Australia last year and invites North-erners to come visit him at the beach whenthey're tired of snow. From Sacramento,CA, Philip Romero writes that he is chiefeconomic advisor in the governor's office.He advises Governor Wilson on competi-tiveness and economic policy and runs an80-person policy analysis shop. He hasbeen married to Lita Flores (Dartmouth'78) since 1984.

Michael Branigan has left KennethLeventhal and Co. to form Branigan & As-sociates. His new firm specializes in finan-cial consulting services to real estate, hos-pitality, and financial institution clients. Heand Sarah Woodward were married in April1991 and reside in Dana Point, CA. A few ofmy former Alpha Phi sorority sisters sendnews: Jeanne Hartley Talbourdet writesthat she and husband John live in Danvers,MA and work at Loral Infrared and ImagingSystems in Lexington, MA. Jeanne is in-volved in getting weather satellites up so wecan get good weather reporting. She notesthat fellow Alpha Phi Alice "Sunny" Hal-lanan McMillan and husband Martin had alittle girl, Baird Julia, in October 1991. Theylive in Pittsford, NY where Sunny is an Epis-copal priest.

Janis Reiser Nafis and Doug writethat daughter Debi started kindergar-ten in 1992. They see Joan Placek once ayear on Long Island when visiting Doug'sparents. The Nafises live in Mt. Prospect,IL and had a call from Charlie Goodas he was passing through OΉare Airport.Charlie works for Penetone Corp. in Ten-afly, NJ as a chemist. He is responsible forsupporting the company's military businesswhich produces an environmentally safe re-placement for ozone-depleting aircraft clean-ing compounds. Charlie continues to play thetrombone and will be marching in the Alum-ni Marching Band at Homecoming. • KathyZappia Gould, 912 Meadowcreek Dr., Rich-mond, VA 23236.

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Here's news held from an earli-er column: Tracy Sartin Hawk-ins reported that she and hus-band Tim had Rachel in March1992. Son Daniel is 3. Tracy wasa commercial lender at Fleet

Bank of Maine. Tim was practicing pediat-rics part time and moonlighting in emergen-cy medicine. They were living in NewGlouchester, ME.

Karen Lifton Healy of Parker Ave. inBuffalo wrote two books for the pre-teenpopulation with her sister. They were pub-lished last August by Scholastic Inc.' The se-ries, called "Not for Blondes Only" is aimedat 9-to-12-year-olds. Karen said the "old girlnetwork" was at work since the books' edi-tor was Amy Scheinberg '85, who is sis-ter of our classmate Ellen Scheinberg Ra-nard. Karen's and husband Ed's daughterMeg was 4, when Karen wrote.

Lisa Hogan of N. Moore St., NYC is acomputer specialist who has been pursuinga singer-songwriter career. Musician Maga-zine names hers as one of the Top 100 BestUnsigned Bands. She wanted to know if any-one in our class is in the music business orconnected to someone who is. She's also aPC and mainframe trainer and does somelight programming and technical writing.Sara Hurlbut D'Aprix of Solana Beach, CA,works as associate director of Cornell'sWestern regional office. Her sister, KarenHurlbut '86, was working as senior salesmanager at The Statler Hotel. In July 1992Sara married David D'Aprix. He is theformer food and beverage director at theStatler and was a lecturer in the Hotelschool for more than ten years. PeterHrechdakian reported working as admin-istrator of the Unifert Group in Brussels,Belgium. •> Jon Craig, 213 Wellesley Rd.,Syracuse, NY 13207.

^\ I Many classmates have had a busy1 I J year, creating a possible Cornellj f I Class of 2015! Laura Fratt and

y \ I husband Michael Isby have a son,I I I Alexander Dallas Isby, born early^ ^ M. this year. Laura reports purchas-ing her first home in Scarsdale, NY andworking for RAM Mobile Data, a wirelessdata company. Alison Sherman Arkin andhusband Mike '78 had their first child, Mon-ica, in May 1993. They live in NewportBeach, CA. In Weston, MA, RosemarySchrauth'Gale and husband Alan also hadtheir first, Samantha, in June 1993. ClassVice President Wendy Rosenthal Gellmanand husband Stephen have their secondchild, Alexa, born last March. Alexa joins sis-ter Lindsay, 3, in New York City. In N. An-dover, MA, Audrey Long O'Connor andhusband Neil have their second child, Andrew,born in May 1993. Andrew's sister Kelly is 2.

Other classmates have tied the knot.Clay Pittman wed Lisa James in May 1993and they live in Columbus, OH. In June, KenJohnson married Laurie Gordon in West-hampton, NY. Cornellians present includedDuncan Scott, Mark Goldberg, MikeGrogan, Howie Borkan, and Ken Sargentand wife Beth. Following a honeymoon inthe South Pacific, the Johnsons expected tolive in Manhattan, where they are both at-torneys. Also attending was Jim Gast, who

reports the wedding was "a rainy but fabu-lous time!" Jim recently bought a condo inBrookline, MA. He's an architect workingfor Wallace, Floyd Associates in Boston.

Daniel McQuade was promoted to vicepresident of Tishman Construction Corp. ofNew England. He is serving as project man-ager for the 350-bed expansion of the Wom-en's Correctional Facility in Niantic, CT. Danlives in Rowayton, CT. A promotion prompt-ed Dr. Doreen Orion to relocate from Tuc-son, AZ to Boulder, CO. Doreen is busy withher hospital duties, her private practice inpsychiatry, and her newspaper column onwomen's mental health issues. She and herhusband live in a house that they built in themountains. Judith Orland Lorenz is humanresource manager for ELS Education Ser-vices Inc. in Culver City, CA. She states thatwhen not working she enjoys country-west-ern dancing, as well as keeping track of fel-low Cornellians. She recently caught up withTodd Dewey, a marketing representativefor JD Edwards and Co., who's located inCosta Mesa, CA. She also sees JoanSchwadron Freedman, who recently com-pleted her PhD in clinical psychology. Joanis completing her postdoctoral studies andhas a private practice in Santa Monica, CA.

Donald Phykitt and wife BonnieNorton write that, after finishing his familypractice residency last June, Don is complet-ing a sports medicine fellowship in Harris-burg, PA. Bonnie continues as a small ani-mal veterinarian in the New Jersey/Pennsyl-vania area. From Connecticut, Lora Millerwrites that she is a vet with the Animal Hos-pital of Berlin in Kensington, CT, and hus-band Dan Blackburn, PhD '85 is an asso-ciate professor of biology at Trinity College.They live in New Britain with four cats, abird, and 75 lizards. Paul Leo reports hav-ing become a board-certified anesthesiologistin October 1991 and working as a LocumTenens physician in NYC. He visits Cornellfrequently as vice president of the Beta The-ta Pi Alumni Corp. and has enjoyed recenttravels to India and Thailand. It's not too lateto register for CU in Philadelphia festivities,November 18-21. Catch up with fellow Cor-nellians at this fun event. Contact SteveRitchey, (215) 644-5578. Happy Thanksgiving!• Jennifer Read Campbell, 103 CrescentRd., Glastonbury, CT 06033; Robin Rosen-berg, 2600 Netherland Ave., Apt. 201, River-dale, NY 10463; Kathy Philbin LaShoto, 114Harrington Rd., Waltham, MA 02154.

^ \ ^ \ Wow! Our pleas for news haveI l | I been answered with an avalanche\f m of News & Dues forms. Thanks.# \ / Next request: Let's improve ourI 1 / i number of subscribers so they'll\JwmΛ give us more space to get in allthis news! David Ilan Weis recently servedas a delegate to the Anti-DefamationLeague's convention in Washington, DC,where he attended a speech by AttorneyGeneral Janet Reno '60.

Julia Vargo is a freelance writer inTexas. Her work has appeared in the DallasMorning News's "House & Garden" section,and she has written an "infomercial" for aline of nutrition supplements. Diane Ver-derame has begun a desktop publishing ser-vice in Albany, NY and recently vacationed

on the beach in North Carolina with KarenMahlke and husband Leonard Hurteau,Mary Wang and husband Robert Yu MingWang, and Donna Jung Parkinson and hus-band Jonathan, as well as assorted children.Jill Schwartz Rowan and husband Tomspent a week in Honduras in May on a mis-sionary trip, building a Baptist campsite forchurch meetings.

Kathryne "Keo" Opton [See photos andstory on page 75 of the October issue.] last yearplaced second in a state-wide bodybuildingcontest in Massachusetts. Now she's intocompetitive aerobics and is working to bringfitness awareness to the deaf community.Cliff Atlas was recently named a partner athis New York law firm. Geoffrey Garver,who recently began working for the US En-vironmental Protection Agency in Washing-ton, reports that Fred Sporon-Fiedler tooka five-month leave from Hewlett-Packard towindsurf in Oregon and cycle through Nor-way. Paul DeSomma, a glassmaker, visit-ed Venice, Italy to work with some of theworld's most skilled glassmakers. He wonders:"What the heck happened to Adam I. Davis?"

Kid news! January: Caren BrenmanParker and husband Randy welcomedGeorge Cameron. April: Lori SchreiberKirschner and husband Ronald added BradMichael to the family. May: Charles Krelland wife Daisy greeted Isabella, and Steveand Arza Rayches Feldman welcomedMichelle. June: Peter and Suzanne Bren-ner Sanborn had their third daughter, Lind-sey Ryan, and Adele Lubus Towers andhusband Jeffrey greeted Jackson Douglas.

David Russo and Mary Gail Gearns,JD '85 had a baby girl, Sarah Elizabeth, backin July 1992, but an additional newsworthytwist is that Mary's pediatrician is the Classof 1982's very own Jona D. Weiss. Keepthose cards and letters coming! • Neil Fi-delman Best, 207 Dellwood Rd., Metuchen,NJ 08840 (new address), and Nina M. Kon-do, 323 W. 82nd St., Apt. 4A, NYC 10024.

Well, it seems that the Class of'83 had quite the busy summer.Doug Leyens and wife Donnamade the big move from the cityto a new house in the 'burbs.They're now neighbors with

Jackie Cetron Soslow, who just threw abash for daughter Genna's 2nd birthday. I'msure there were plenty of Snickers Bars onhand since Jackie is a franchise manager atM&M/Mars. She also reports that Gail Dor-ros Dorfman and Elaine "Laini" WexlerMitchell are both doing well. Another firsthome in New Jersey belongs to Eva Bostek-Brady. She and her architect husband havebeen fixing it up all summer. I had the pleas-ure of being a surprise guest at the newhome of former-housemate Adam Holiberand his lovely wife this past Fourth of Julyweekend. They are the most gracious of hosts.

In the "It's a small world" category wehave Ellen Ilivicky Siegman, who marriedmy former high schoolmate Ira (Brown '80).The couple recently moved to the Bostonarea and they are thrilled to be back in theNortheast. They would love to hear fromfriends in the area. Also on the move isKeith Browning, who took a new job withCopeland Corp., a subsidiary of Emerson

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Paradise Found

WALTER PLACHTA, MS '82BEVERLY ROBERTSON PLACHTA, MPS '82

H ow do you get from Ithaca, NY to Guana Islandin the British Virgin Islands?" asks Bev Rob-ertson Plachta. How do you get from a placereputed to be one of the grayest, iciest places

in North America to "a privateisland hideaway where the sunalways shines," claims someenticing ad copy, "the trade-winds keep the temperature

where you like it and there is ΈβjSSftl^^Σ^ /*no pace to keep but your own?'' iMSiHβHfek. * 1

You manage an 850-acre,private island resort, whereonly 30 guests are allowed ata time, that's how. And you getinto that line of work in gradu-ate school, in a place like Ithaca,where you are houseparents atPi Beta Phi for four years. Thenyou manage a bed and break-fast in Florida, but "after two years you decide to movenorth (after tiring of constant blue skies and palm treesdecorated for Christmas)."

You own and manage a B&B in Vermont, then teach

and go to school some in Maryland. You manage ayacht club, then answer a blind ad in the Cornell Soci-ety of Hotelmen magazine's "Career Mart"—andpresto—you wake up in paradise.

Guano Island was once asugar cane plantation, and inaddition to being a resort is anature preserve. "Since com-ing here," Bev Plachta says,"we have learned more than weever thought we'd want toknow about desalinizationplants, generators, iguanas,flamingoes, the customs offi-cials and West Indian culture."

Bev Plachta's graduate de-gree is from the Hotel school,of course, and Wally's is in flo-riculture.

Where will they go next?Says Wally Plachta, "Before we ventured out to theislands, we sold off cars, furniture, canceled insurance,phones, cable." So maybe they'll stay in paradise awhile.

—Paul Cody, MFA '87

Electronics in Dayton, OH. He and wife Pamcelebrated the birth of their daughter in May.Trevor, 5, and Alex, 2, finally have a sister.We also hear from Keith that Paul Ciolinois a father again with the birth of Jacksonthis past April. More proud parents: LauraLange Anastos and husband Ernie wereblessed with Erik Stephen on April 19 inWashington, DC. Also Yvonne BrouardAltman gave birth to Alexander Ronald onMay 10 with a little help from husband Bob'84. Appropriately, she is completing herpediatrics residency at U. of California, SanFrancisco and will be chief resident at SanFrancisco General Hospital for 1993-94.

On the career front Layne Lieberman-Anapol informs us that she is the director ofnutrition for a grocery chain and frequentlyappears on local television promoting cre-ative nutrition education programs in theLong Island area. In addition to this she alsoconsults with restaurants and chefs on cre-ating "spa" cuisine menus. Back up in Bos-ton, David Chabon has stepped down fromactive management of the Union Street Res-taurant and Bar to enter Northeastern'sGraduate School of Professional Accounting.After passing the CPA exam he plans to stayinvolved in the restaurant business on theaccounting end. James and Teresa Conover

are both professors at the U. of North Tex-as College of Business, teaching interna-tional finance and advanced accounting, re-spectively. They live with daughters Jes-sica, 5, and Susan, 3. Ronald Dreifusscontinues his Cornell affiliation with a fel-lowship in cardiovascular and intervention-al radiology at New York Hospital-CornellMedical Center. Also in New York is JeanParker Hill, who started Amara KosherMeats, named for daughters Amanda andClara, a mail-order business designed tomake quality kosher meats more accessi-ble to all parts of the US.

Lastly, we hear from Steve Hard-ardt, who hosted a pre-Reunion mini-re-union last spring at his home in Dayville,CT, where he lives with wife Nancy andsons Steven II, 6, and Danny, 2. The mem-bers of the "Eddy Street Gang" whoshowed up—Dan Newman, Bob Stelle-tello, Martin Voorbach, Anibal Esco-bar, Bennett Egeth, and David Spey-er—were all looking forward to seeingeveryone else on campus again.

Keep those cards and letters coming.• Matthew Tager, 13909 Old Harbor Lane,#202, Marina del Rey, CA 90292, FAX (310)823-1549; Nancy Schlie Knowles, 5 Elm-crest Circle, Ithaca, NY 14850.

^\ ^ ^ As promised, here's the nuptialI I | A news. Naomi Weinstein, assis-j f l ^k tant director of alumni relations

g \ I at Riverdale Country School, sentI I I I word of the wedding of Ron Han-\f V / delman '91 to Teren Sito, atwhich Mark Richmond and wife Mary(DeSanctis) '86 and Patrick Plummerwere also present. Ron is school psycholo-gist for the New York City Board of Educa-tion and is studying for a PhD in educationalpsychology.

In belated bride news, Amy GrodenKatz, an attorney at Foley, Hoag & Eliot,wrote of her 1991 wedding to Jonathan (Ith-aca College '85), whom she met throughLeora Halpern Lanz, public relations man-ager for the Sheraton in NYC; and Marga-ret Wilde, a PhD student, wed Craig Freyin a June 6, '92 ceremony attended by "twopregnant bridesmaids, Nancy ParkhurstLawless and Stacy Hickox," and Olive Si-erra Boyd.

Two months later, Robert Beniers,owner of dBm Technical Sales, toasted hisnew bride, Chris (Maglione) '86, in a cele-bration shared with '85ers Mike Kariotis,Art Pogorzala, Duncan and Morgen Til-ling Gillis, Paul Gillard, Steve O'Brien,Jim Rosecrans, and Randy Rich. Our oth-

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er August groom, John Robb, an internistwho "left chemical engineering behind," tiedthe knot with "fellow physician and Montre-aler Mary Hill." Lightweight crew membersJohn Tower, Henry Whiting, Mark Rus-sell, Pete Fredricks, and John Sievers '86were among those present to wish theirformer teammate well.

Susan Howland Myers, a computer/software analyst for the Internal RevenueService, found the job of wedding Williamnot at all taxing, while Margaret NagelGnegy, special project manager for the Uni-versity Health Network, supervised success-fully her most special project to date: herwedding to David, a cardiologist at U. ofPittsburgh. Wellwishers at the Gnegy wed-ding included Melinda Messick, Curt andJennifer Sidell Cornelssen, CatherineBahna, Tara Larson Capecci, Doug Seeb'84, and Christine Miller '84. Also thatmonth, Steven Katz, a fellow in reproduc-tive endocrinology and infertility at U. ofCalifornia, San Francisco, wed Lisa Levin andsays he is "still waiting for a Gary Bialebaby."

The year 1992 ended on a terrific notefor Michele Payne, who completed herMBA from the Johnson School in May andcompleted her walk down the aisle withgroom Bill Koch, MBA '93 in December.Steven Payne '72 officiated, with sisterMarcia Payne Me Kenzie '78, BA '79,brothers Christopher '82 and John '74, andWendy Silvershein Goldstein and MaryAnn Morse '87 in the wedding party. Guestsof the MBA couple included Donna BruderHellman, Amy Groden Katz, Jennifer Steig,Leora Halpern Lanz, Michelle Gubar, GilaMeidonick Willner, Mark Boyland, MitchRosich, and Debbi Neyman Silverman.

Brides Linda Schadler and CaryNormile rang in the new year with Januarynuptials. Linda, an assistant professor inmaterials engineering at Drexel, said "I do"to Tom Feist (Williams '85), with NancyWarter, Colette Casey Brenner, and Ter-ri McCormick on hand to do rice-throwinghonors, while Cary, an adolescent/familytherapist, wed Craig Sellers at a Manhattanceremony witnessed by Kathleen McCar-vill '84, Kathy Vavura Wiant and husbandMatt '84, Mark Vanacore '84, Bob Ja-cobson '86, and Laura Normile '89.

Julie Seider Miller tied the knot withDavid in a March ceremony on Long Islandthat was attended by Lawrence Scherr '50and wife Peggy (Binenkorb) '53. MichaelGoodman became a newlywed that samemonth, when he wed Cathy Tischler before'85ers Sam Gershenfeld, AndrewShuster, James Adelson, Adam andWendy Auerbach Slutsky, David Gerber,Michael Oringer, Lenny Berkowitz, andGila Meidonick Willner.

Katie Snyder, an assistant professorof English at U. of California, Berkeley,capped a storybook romance with a springwedding to Tim Culvahouse, with LauraPayne, Gerry Nadeau '83, and Ed Rekosh'84 as members of the wedding. Anotherspring bride, Chris Pelkaus, wed StevenBecroft this past April at Sage Chapel be-fore onlookers Margaret Viggiani, PamPerry, Lindsay Wickham, and LindaMessinger, whose spirits could not be

dampened even by the typically heavy Ith-acation raining down on the guests!

Γm out of room, but not out of news, soyou'll get more bride and baby reports nextmonth. • Risa Mish, 269 Broadway, #2D,Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522.

One of the best parts of writingthe columns is catching up on thewhereabouts and activities of oldfriends. When sorting throughthe most recent shipment ofNews and Dues sheets, I discov-

ered that Laurie Greenberg Goldheim hadleft her position with Thacher Proffit & Woodin New York City, where she was drowningin a deluge of mortgage-back securities trans-actions, in the spring of 1992, and beganworking as a private adoption attorney withthe noted private adoption attorney StanleyB. Michelman. Laurie says she finds herwork extremely rewarding, and the hours lether spend more time with her new husband,Jonathan Goldheim, a computer consultant,whom she married in April 1993. News alsoreached me that Esther Pearl married Lar-ry Rubin last year; which was particularlyexciting for me once I discovered that Larrywas the Larry Rubin who grew up a blockaway from me!

Joe Bonafede wrote to say he hadspent 11 days in Hungary last year as co-leader of a project sponsored by his localchurch, visiting and encouraging a group ofmissionaries stationed in Hungary with theChristian Resource Ministries of Fullerton,CA, some of whom had been in Hungarysince before the communists were in pow-er. While in Hungary, Joe helped convert anolder farmhouse near Lake Ralaton into acenter for conferences and retreats. He alsospent 20 days earlier this year visiting hissister and her husband in Israel and said heenjoyed the time and the country tremen-dously. Joe is an officer in the US Air Force—stationed in Hanscom AFB, near Boston.

Paul Martecchini is living in Boston'sSouth End and working as a new conceptsbusiness manager for Taco Bell, installingTaco Bell kiosks in non-traditional locationssuch as at airports, universities, and ski ar-eas. Jay Coburn is working as a lobbyistwith the AIDS Action Council in Washing-ton, DC, a national lobbying organization rep-resenting more than 900 community-basedAIDS education and service organizations.Angela S. Gitt, a real estate broker withColdwell Banker in Fair Oaks, CA, was mar-ried to Tim Hemmen in Sacramento in May1993. Emily Citrin-Glasberg flew out fromNew York City to attend the wedding. PeteGooley is a retail management consultantwith Management Horizons, the retail man-agement consulting division of Price Water-house in New York City.

When Karen Gryson is not scuba-div-ing and water-skiing while on vacation in theFlorida Keys and the Turks and Caicos Is-lands, she is a research engineer withProcter & Gamble Co. in Cincinnati, leadingthe technical redesign of the Luvs diaper.Karen may want to contact James Gallagh-er, now an attorney in Cleveland, OH withSealy Inc., who is the proud father of An-drew James Gallagher, born Nov. 1, '92. Iam sure James and wife Michele (Biron)

'87 would have some helpful tips on what toredesign! Another new parent in the class,Caylee Nychis Florence, and her husband,Brian '85, have a son Spencer, born in July1992. Dr. Nicole Bramesco wrote fromDecatur, IL—where she is a sensor special-ist with A. E. Stalcy—with news of daugh-ter Rosalind Dora Kichler, born June 20, '92.

Lisa Maier is in her second year of aninternal medicine residency at Duke U. Med-ical Center in Durham, NC, where she oc-casionally sees Julie Lapp '87, in her firstyear of medical school at Duke. While inter-viewing for a fellowship position in pulmo-nary and critical care in Denver, Lisa ran intoDenise Mitchell, who is working in Den-ver with Arthur Andersen Consulting. Lisaplans to join Denise in Denver in July 1994,when she starts her fellowship at the U. ofColorado. Other Cornell doctors (or doctors-to-be) checking in this month are ShobhinaChheda, currently in her residency in med-icine and pediatrics at the North Shore Uni-versity Hospital on Long Island and AlanJacobs, who is working toward completinghis MD and PhD in neuroscience by May1995. Alan recently helped Jim Joseph '85celebrate his 30th birthday with Jim's wifeMarie (Raffa) '86, Bill and Stephanie(Liniger) and Robbie Page ('85, '85, andpotential 2014, respectively), Mark Martin'85, Jim Miller '87, and Glenn Muscosky'87.

Jennifer Moore Stahlkrantz, a free-lance writer/editor out of her home in PoundRidge, NY, wrote to say that she and sever-al other Delta Gamma '86ers had traveledto St. Augustine, FL, in May 1993 to cele-brate Mary Otis SeeΓs "bachelorette"weekend. Seeing Mary out of maidenhoodin style, along with Jenny, were Lyle Still-man, Amy Ciabattoni Keating, ColleenFahey Rush, Cara Noferi Rogers, Sue Tre-gurtha Marshall, and Jenny Gummere.Melanie Maslow Lumia was unable to jointhe party as she had given birth to LouiseCady Lumia one week before. Meyung Johalso missed the party as she was recoveringfrom recent surgery. Both were sorely missed.

I am busy as a tax attorney at Fried,Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in NYC,and riding on my weekends. We have, at lastcount, three other classmates working atFried, Frank: Andrew Dady (real estate),Joe Herz '85, (BA '86) (bankruptcy), andMichele Adelman (litigation). Let me knowwhat you are up to! • Holly Isdale, 240Nassau Ave., Manhasset, NY 11030.

^ % 1FW By the time I finished this col-I 1 f t umn, I felt like I had tackled a\/ I marathon. Between feeding,# \ m burping, changing, and loving 2-I I I month-old daughter Halloran^ ^ I Taylor, I managed to type abouta sentence a day. My husband David and Iwelcomed Halle, our first child, on June 29.So . . . I can't help but start this month'scolumn with Class of '87 baby news. Danieland Kathleen Teel Wagner recently wel-comed nine-pound James Lawrence. Thefamily resides in Victor, NY, where theyfounded Wagner Consulting Inc. and are "do-ing well." Joshua Michael Begleiter was bornon January 16 at Mt. Sinai Hospital in NewYork City. Mom Karen Saponar reports

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he weighed seven pounds, three ounces. SteveLipic wrote that he and wife Traci have a beau-tiful daughter, Natalie Ann. Steve also reportshis promotion to quality control manager at theEmerson Electric Co. in Russellville, KY.

Dana Rudy Nottingham gave birth toAndrew David on Aug. 25, '92. Dana is aphysician at Riverside Methodist Hospitalsin Columbus, OH. Andrea Wolga, an elec-trical engineer with ABIOMED in Danvers,MA, reports that Jean Graef Martin's babyboy, John Peter, arrived in October 1992. BobForness and Lindsay Liotta '84 welcomedtheir first child, Keri Anne, on April 13, '93.Bob writes that "Pop-Pop" Carmine Liotta'61 and Aunt Colleen Forness '90 are es-pecially happy. Bob is the president of the Prin-ceton Area Cornell Alumni Assn. and sits onthe Ag & Life Sciences alumni group's board.

Wedding news was abundant in the lat-est batch of News & Dues forms. EricSzweda was married on May 20, '90 to ElisaDavidson, whom he had met at Vanderbuiltlaw school. They live in Atlanta, where Ericis an attorney with Troutman Sanders. Theyhave a baby girl, Sarah Elizabeth, who wasborn on March 23 of this year.

Lisa Rathmann and F. Michael Stew-art were married on May 2, '92 in Alexan-dria, VA. Lisa writes that while "honeymoon-ing in Australia, we ran into Margie Kramerin Sydney—we walked out of a restaurantand there she was! Talk about a smallworld!" On May 30, '92, Donna Lee mar-ried Mark McMaster. Karen Lee was maidof honor and Sue Cutler, Nancy Klein, andDaisy Dhabhar Layman were bridesmaids.After a six-week honeymoon to Spain,France, Italy, and Switzerland, Donna re-turned to a new position working as a manu-facturing product manager for Silicon GraphicsComputer Systems in Mountain View, CA.Amy Comstock married Ithaca Collegealumnus John Kinglsey on Oct. 3, '92. Amyis an analyst with the Federal Reserve Bankof Boston and lives in Southboro, MA.

Dr. Tracy Ward married Dr. CalvinBooker on Oct. 23, '92 in King Ferry, NY.Sharon Brown served as maid of honor.Tracy is living in Calgary, Alta., Canada, andis working as a large animal veterinarian.Robert Solomon, a controller with ShieldsHealth Care Group in Brockton, MA, wasmarried in September 1992 to Sue McGown,a Brown U. alumna. Robert earned an MBAfrom New York U. in February 1991. And,last but not least in wedding reports, AlissaAaronson, an attorney with Morgan, Lewis& Bockins in Washington, DC, married EricHorvitz on March 6, '93. Classmates in at-tendance were: Julia Chu, Dr. Colleen Fo-garty, Jill Feasley, Katy Petras, DianeHirschorn, and Margaret Cahill. •> StaceyPineo Murdock, 428 Porter St., Manches-ter, CT 06040; Tom Y. Tseng, c/o Engi-neering Admissions, Carpenter Hall Annex,Ithaca, NY 14853-2201; Richard Friedman,32 Whites Ave., #2205, Watertown, MA 02172.

It's hard to believe that we grad-uated from Cornell more thanfive years ago! Perhaps nothingdemonstrates how far we havecome since graduating in 1988than all of the accomplishments

and travel, career, education, and life events,

Andrea Hale wroteabout her involun-tary inclusion inthe World TradeCenter bombing:'those 40 minuteswere more thanenough excitementto last a long time.'—KRISTYN BENZINGER

'90

including marriages and births, that mem-bers of the Class of '88 have experienced inrecent months!

Like lemmings to the sea, Cornelliansare heading back to New York City. GraceTanaka received her MBA from theJohnson School and headed for NYC to workin the equities department of Morgan Stan-ley. Dan Frommer was returning to theBig Apple after living in Los Angeles. Alsoback in NYC is Christopher Dingle, whois working in systems at Lehman after hav-ing lived in Osaka, Japan for three years.Dave Rearing left Montana and headed eastto attend medical school in the NYC area.He can get the scoop on the medical profes-sion from some of our class MDs. I knowDr. Christy Brown has some amazing op-erating-room stories to tell from her expe-rience as a surgery resident at New York Hos-pital—Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan.

Other classmates on the move includeMary Hunter, now in Chicago working forMorningstar Financial Publishing Co. Shesees Tierney Kennedy '87, Carolyn Sav-age Cruz and Eric '87, and ChristopherMoore, who is at Northwestern law school.Mary loves the Windy City, and when shemisses the East Coast she manages to fittrips back to NYC into her extensive work-travel itinerary.

Anne Yablonski is living in Washing-ton, DC and putting her operations researchskills to work as a transportation planner forCOMSIS. Margaret McHugh is pursuingher passion for journalism as a staff writerat the Daily Record in Parsippany, NJ. Stu-art Hurwitz has left Oracle Corp. (the re-lational database and software company) inSan Francisco to attend a one-year MBA pro-gram at Insead in Fountainbleau, France.Enver Yucesan, PhD '89 is a professorthere, so perhaps they can form their ownCornell Club and sip some local chardonnayin honor of Zinck's!

David Muenzer and Melissa Schwartz

were recently featured in New York Maga-zine as Cornellian newlyweds living in Mos-cow. She is an attorney helping countriesdevelop laws, and he is an executive for afirm which researches Russian inventionsand assists scientists in getting patents.Their glamorous life abroad includes a chauf-feured car, weekend trips to Vienna, Stock-holm, and St. Petersburg, and a "Westernstyle" apartment that is a lot nicer than someof our former Collegetown digs! Temperingthis exciting lifestyle is the reality of coldgrey winters, bribery as a common part ofbusiness transactions, and an ongoing searchfor fresh foods! They have both Russian andAmerican friends but have yet to encounterother Cornellians. Keep an eye out for Dun-can Robinson, who is in Moscow workingas a writer, and Patty Hardy '84, who isalso working in Moscow.

Kristin Matanle married SeanVenden '89 at a beautiful wedding in Ver-mont last September (during the height ofNew England "leaf peeping" season!). JeffSung '89 was best man, and Pamela An-drellos, Karen Carlucci, Dan Frommer,Patrick Kandianis, Craig Strauss and De-nise Filler (see below for more on Craigand Denise), and Tracy Tyll Meyer andhusband Chris '87 were on hand for theweekend wedding festivities. KimberlyRehberg and Gregory Grace '86 weremarried last October at Anabel Taylor Chap-el. Ushers included Geoff Grace '86, DougPatterson, '86-87 Grad, and GrahamAnderson, MBA '88. Others in attendancewere: Pam Darer Anderson, Jeanne andPhil Turano '86, Jemae Breunissen Pope'87 and husband Edward "Ted" '86, JoannBergoffen '83, Nancy and Noah Bilmes,Denise Pine, Karen Bronson '89, Suzanneand Bob Benzinger '54, and Kristyn Ben-zinger '90. Kim is a genetic counselor atChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia. Greg isdirector of engineering at a NJ electronicsfirm. The newlyweds reside in Princeton, NJ.

Denise Filler married Craig Strauss (U.of Pittsburgh '86) in Lucerne, Switzerlandin October 1992. Upon their return to NewYork, the newlyweds threw a celebration at-tended by Alison Diamond, Mary Hunter,Cathlin Brown, Mara Touey, Kara Van-neman '89, Pamela Andrellos, Karen Car-lucci, Mike Moore '87, Rob Buccini '90,and Suzy Blatt Hollander. Other Cornel-lians included Garret Filler '90, MartinFiller, LLB '62, Amy Gellert '91, andGeorge Gellert '60.

On the topic of Cornell couples, here isthe story of the three Baers: Mike Baerand wife Gail (Stoller) '87 of Washington,DC had a beautiful baby boy named DavidNathan on Aug. 7, '93 at 12:18 a.m. Perhapswe will be seeing David in the Class of 2015!Keep those cards and letters coming!• Wendy Myers Cambor, 610 W. 110th St.,#9B, NYC 10025.

A short column this month, ma-terial left over from a much ear-lier column: Garrett "Garry"Stackman and Peter Toberwere among those who went tolaw school. Gary's New York U.

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and Advil. Peter now practices in Wood-bridge, NJ. Michael Axelrod pursues grad-uate studies and holds a full-time job as agreenhouse curator at SUNY, Stony Brook.Some classmates were staying in school un-til the cows come home, persevering throughvet school: Mark Will, Nyssa Reine, Car-oline McCashion, Jody Mello, and MarnePlatt. Nyssa lives with Nichole Birnbaumin Gainesville, GA. Marne told me that be-sides Caroline and Jody she also keeps intouch with Amy Rossabi, who is a grad stu-dent in Madison, WI. All probably shareMarne's longing for her Cornell schedule,when classes could be arranged to have somedays off, instead of the 8 a.m.-5 p.m. regimenshe now has every day.

Some '89ers are learning about health-care for two-legged animals: David Gold-berg is at Tufts medical school. Sara"Suki" Tepperberg is a medical student(and class president—way to go!) at SUNY,Brooklyn. Demetria Pennington is becom-ing a "Red-Red" as a student at Cornell Med-ical College. • Alan Rozen, 839 Reily Road,Cincinnati, OH 45215.

Normally it's Sam Zia-Zarifi'sturn to write the column, but hecalled from Portugal, where he isrelaxing after finishing law schooland the bar exam, to ask me toswitch with him. So here I am

again, this time with new information fromthe dues forms you completed back in May.

I always like to start with good news,such as marriages, particularly dual Class of'90er weddings like that of Debra Helfandand Jonah Klein on June 20, '93. Classmatesattending the gala event in Woodbury, NYwere Anna Greenberg, Jen Wissman,Michael Green, Rebecca Barry, RobinWeiner, Leah Fogelman, Monte Frank,Collen O'Neal, Naomi Tein, SharonParmelee, and Abi Michael. Hey, we allthought our first Class Reunion wasn't foranother two years! Debra edits for Colum-bia University Publications and Jonah helpsoutfit the public in Giorgio Armani clothes,both in Manhattan. The couple enjoyed a fab-ulous honeymoon in Aruba.

Andrea Hale, an account consultant forAetna Health Plans, also in Manhattan, wroteabout her involuntary inclusion in the WorldTrade Center bombing. The event kept herstuck on the 24th floor for "only" 40 min-utes. ONLY? "It provided great cocktail par-ty talk for two months," she chuckles now,in retrospect, and "those 40 minutes were morethan enough excitement to last a long time."

Nancy Neuman, our Class of '90 Cor-nell Fund representative, checked in with anupdate. Nancy left Procter & Gamble in Cin-cinnati and joined Heinz USA in Pittsburgh.She is still working in product manage-ment—currently for Heinz ketchup. In Pitts-burgh she sees Caroline Misciagna, whograduated from U. of Pittsburgh's businessschool this past spring. Maybe Carolinecould give Susan Kallfelz some advice: Su-san was to enter Tuck business school inHanover, NH this fall, after a summer spentin Ithaca.

Out of the academic world, the mood ofsome of our working classmates is appropri-ately '90s—grim and cynical. Matthew

Scandale, a programmer for the Council ofBetter Business Bureaus in Arlington, VA,hit the head of the nail with these words ofwisdom, "Blessed are those who still have ajob." Sheri Katz Taback still has a job. Sheworks as commercial relationship manager/assistant treasurer at Chase Manhattan Bankin New York City. Sheri also has a husbandnow; she married her college sweetheart,Ivan '89, on Aug. 23, '92. Melanie Rebakis also one of the lucky employed. She toilsby day as director of client services for Lieb-ling Associates in NYC and somehow, some-where, also squeezes in classes at New YorkU. toward a master's in economics.

A couple of our world traveler class-mates decided to head home to settle for awhile. Engineering graduate AndrewRagen expected to get out of the Navy thisfall and move back to Portland, OR to workin an air freight company. Margaret San-cho taught English in northern Cameroonwith the Peace Corps for two years. After asummer jaunting around Europe, she is nowhome, starting the complicated process ofapplying to graduate schools for fall 1994.However, Marianne Ruane is stayingabroad for a while in Novosibirsk, Russia.She is an educational adviser for ACTR(American Council of Teachers of Russian)and would like to find other Cornellians inthe Moscow area. Her work address is117049 Moscow, Leninski Prospekt, d.2,K.503, ACTR and her phone there is (095)237-9116 or 239-1367.

And, last but not least folks: news is,Jerry Woodlock is no longer a truck driv-er! For the last two years he's been seeinga considerable amount of our huge country,touring around in a high-tech truck, plyingelectronic sensory equipment for Pepperl &Fuchs Inc. of Twinsburg, OH. No morestrumming his guitar on Route 66, thinkinghow he'd rather be a rock star; he'll be sta-tioned in their Ohio offices now, instead.• Kristyn Benzinger, 14013 Captains Row,#107, Marina del Rey, CA 90292; ReginaDuffey, 93 Penny Lane, Ithaca, NY 14850;Jennifer McComb, 2808 Kinloch Dr., Or-lando, FL 32817; Saman Zia-Zarifi, 3640Cardiff Ave., #110, Los Angeles, CA 90034.

^ N I Hello again, and welcome to thisI 1 Λ m o n t n s column. As you read this,• β I Homecoming will be fast approach-^rm I ing, and a number of our class-f l I mates will return this year as new-^ ^ M> lyweds. I had the honor of servingas best man at the wedding of Michelle(Badami), MS '93 and Matthew D'Amorein August. Matt and Michelle spent their hon-eymoon on Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyardbefore returning to New Haven, where Matt isin his third year at Yale law school. Other Cor-nellians in attendance at the wedding were ush-ers David Fishbach '92 and Vincente Sta-solla '93, and Pamela Hollerman '92. Onbehalf of our entire class, congratulations andbest wishes in the years to come!

Several other classmates have beenmarried (relatively) recently, as well. Mar-cy Sacks, a graduate student at U. of Cali-fornia, Berkeley, married Rodolfo Zuniga Vil-legas, a native of Costa Rica, in May 1992.August 1992 was busy for Thomas McCau-ley, who finished his MEng degree, married

Alison Schmied '90, and moved to Birming-ham, AL, to begin a PhD program at the U.of Alabama as Thomas Schmied-McCauley.Deborah and Travis Finn were married inApril 1992, and live in Holland Patent, NY.Travis is a dairy farmer, while Deborah is aspecial education teacher. Merit Whirtysends news that several classmates attend-ed the June 1993 wedding of Masako Shi-bata and Dave Taylor but did not namethem. And finally, John House writes thathe was married last December (no details)and recently completed his MSW degree atthe U. of Illinois. John is now working on hisEdM degree there. Congratulations to all!

A letter from Christina Guerola containsinformation about classmates in the Washing-ton, DC area. Christina is in her second year atGeorge Washington law school and recentlytook a vacation to Spain. Robin Leong is inher third year at Georgetown law school, andAmy Schmerl is working in DC. Celina Al-varez is leaving there to attend graduate schoolin international education at Stanford.

Many classmates are either still inschool or have recently completed graduatedegrees. This latter group includes Diane Hau-mann, who received her master's (physicaltherapy) from Hahnemann U. in Philadelphia,and Sally Mason, who earned a master's(health service administration) from the U.of Michigan this past May. Sally is now em-ployed as an administrative fellow at Massa-chusetts General Hospital in Boston. Alsoin that area (both geographically and profes-sionally) is Monica Ruehli, a third-yearmedical student at Tufts U. Catherine Re-ese is also at Tufts, as a veterinary student.

Moving quickly across the country, wefind Rick Field, studying for his MBA atNew York U.; Chuck Lerch, completing hisMS in statistics at Iowa State U. in Ames; Day-na Hannon, in veterinary school at KansasState U. in Manhattan; and both David Hunt-er and Andrew Keyes, at the Scripps Inst. ofOceanography in San Diego. David writes thatthere are numerous other members of our classstudying at the U. of California there.

Moving north through the Golden Stateleads us to Fresno, where Josephine Burnsis employed as a geologist after a lengthyjob search, and on to San Fransίsco, whereCristos Goodrow works as a consultant forAndersen Consulting. Cristos traveled toOslo, Norway, where he saw Annike Hoy-sater, who is working for a Norwegian pub-lic relations firm. Tracey McGrath visitedSan Fransisco last spring. She went withTom Catalano and several other friends tovisit Paul Simic '90, who is studying atStanford. Tracey is working for Procter &Gamble in Mehopany, PA, as a line managerfor a Bounty production line.

That's all for this month. I hope to seemany of you during Homecoming Weekend.Please feel free to say "hi" while you're intown. • Howard Stein, 600 Warren Rd.,#3-2D, Ithaca, NY 14850; (607) 257-3922.

I'll get right to the news . . . From ,those colored forms we all receive(which we encourage you to fillout promptly!), here are some up-dates on classmates. ClaytonMarshall is now an Air Force offi-

cer outside Dayton, OH. Carla Cordero is

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a process engineer in the Mid-Hudson Val-ley with IBM, and Wendy Chan reportedshe's an engineer for Motorola in Scottsdale,AZ. Joanna Nagel is a product engineer forPolo/Ralph Lauren, and Katherine Amos isan economist with Ernst & Young, both inNew York City. If you stay at the Four Sea-sons Hotel in Austin, TX, you may run intoJuan Venegas, who's the assistant depart-ment head of food and beverage. John Vac-caro moved back to Ithaca to be a marketanalyst with a small software company spe-cializing in foreign language utility software.

Still in school is James McCarrick, infor a five-year stint at Massachusetts Inst.of Technology's Plasma Fusion Center.Close by are Lisa Martin at the John F.Kennedy School of Government at Harvardand Christine Hand, at Tufts. David Man-son is a law student at U. of North Carolina,Chapel Hill, and Mark Mandell is studyingat the National Chiropractic College in Chi-cago. May Lau is at Columbia in the post-baccalaureate pre-med program, also workspart time as a medical assistant for a pediatri-cian. Jonathan Peterson is at U. of Massa-chusetts, Amherst for computer sciencegraduate studies. Leila Kahwati reportsshe's in good company at the U. of Pitts-burgh medical school: classmates include JoeNicholas, Gabe Foo, Alyssa Handler, DungThai, Marshal Peris, Andrea Weist, CyndiHiller '91, and Karen Booth '90.

At Northwestern we find NoelleGonzalez preparing for her PhD in politi-cal science. Ross Goldstein is at U. ofWisconsin's medical school, and GregoryFinnegan is pursuing a master's in exer-cise physiology at Kansas State U., wherehe is also an assistant strength and condi-tioning coach.

And from my mailbox I received lots ofnews after my latest plea for your letters.(Keep them coming. Please!) Leslie Grosstook time out from studies at Northwesternto say that Lisa Cosimi and Julie Bishopare at Cornell Medical College, Susan Lo-see is at Catholic U. for a master's in socialwork, Connie Blunden has a human re-sources job at a bank in Virginia, EllenHinkemeyer works for a catering companyin NYC, and Becca King is teaching En-glish in Colombia. Leslie also mentioned thatJulie Arnitz is completing her master's ineducation at Cornell, and Traci Meyer isworking in Ithaca.

N. C. Dylan Willoughby sent me thenews that he entered the MFA program atCornell this fall, and he will continue to be alive-in volunteer firefighter for the IthacaFire Department. .

I also received word that Wade Kwonhas resigned from his position as a class cor-respondent for personal reasons. Wade did agreat job and I thank him for his tremen-dous efforts. Please still keep me updatedon what you are doing, Wade.

I hope many of you are getting ready togo back to campus for Homecoming. Lookfor the tailgate for the Classes of the '90sbefore the big game. There will be a happyhour for us recent grads at the CU in Phila-delphia festivities, after the game. I hope tosee you there. But, in case I don't run intoyou, please fill out your News & Dues formsor drop me a line (note my new address!)

• Renee Hunter, 1120 Mt. Hope Ave.,Rochester, NY 14620; (716) 473-0927.

Here we are six months aftergraduation (can you believe we'renot in Ithaca anymore?) and stillgetting all kinds of news about ourclassmates. This is great! This isthe first time you've heard from

me, but it will not be the last (better getused to it), so keep writing about what's upin your life (tell us more!) and I'll get youand your news (all the good dirt) into thecolumn. Many of us are still job searching,including Jennifer E. Schwartz, who'slooking in the ILR field, Jennifer AnneHoblitzell, who's interested in public affairs,maybe even at Cornell, and Anne Theisen,who must finish her training as a child lifespecialist at Schneider Children's Hospitalon Long Island before beginning her searchin the field. Susan D. Curtis is in Cleve-land (a cool place!) looking for a permanentjob while working for Cleveland AdvancedManufacturing Program through January.William Howard Andersen III is temp-ing for GTE Corp. in Stamford, CT and lookingfor a job in the environmental consulting or realestate development fields. Recently, AnnMarieReilly moved to Washington, DC to look for ajob—I hear there are some good networkingopportunities for Cornellians there at the mo-ment. Good luck to all of you!

Some of our graduates have been veryfortunate in this tough job market. MelissaT. Carver is working in New York City atPrice Waterhouse Management Consulting,but don't be surprised if she's not homewhen you stop in New York; she'll be trav-eling most of this year. If you miss her, youmight be lucky enough to see Mark LeeMargolis, of the market and advertising re-search firm Starch INRA Hooper, Kathy Or-fanakos, of Richard Gersh Associates, apublic relations firm, or Jason D. Halio,who's in a training program at Northwest-ern Mutual/Baird Securities. If you're trav-eling elsewhere, you may also have a chanceto catch some '93ers like Scott Goodfel-low in Cincinnati, OH, where he works forProcter & Gamble, Jeffrey Eugene Wood-ring, who's working outside Chicago for AldiFoods as a district supervisor, or Jason K.Meier in Honolulu, HI (wow!), where he'sworking for a CPA firm. In Alexandria, VAyou'll find Scott Eric Mandell, working asa system engineer/administrator at Comput-er Services Group Inc. Mary Quillian canbe found in Tampa, FL (nice and warm!),where she's teaching physics and math atTampa Preparatory School, while her co-Big-Red-Band-member Christine Watters isworking for a show management companyoutside of Philadelphia. Scott A. Tarpleysends news that he is working for MitreCorp. and living in Woburn, MA. Halfwayacross the country, Gregory Balet can befound in Missouri at Fort Leonard Wood,working as a second lieutenant in the USArmy. And halfway around the world, Cathe-rine Erin Cavanaugh is an assistant Eng-lish teacher in Toyanna, Japan.

Reach me at address below, by emailame4@po.CWRU.edu. or by phone, (216)795-0236. • Anastasia Enos, 11477 May-field Rd., #304, Cleveland, OH 44106.

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'18 BS Ag—Rud J. Babor of Houston, TX,Feb. 16, 1993.

'20 BA—Genevieve Krey Loomis (Mrs.Arthur) of Racine, WI, Jan. 25, 1993; activein alumni affairs. Alpha Phi.

'20 BS Ag—Walker Smith of PalmSprings, CA, Feb. 27,1993; a retired invest-ment banker and philanthropist; active inalumni, charitable, and youth affairs. Psi Up-silon. Wife, Marguerite (Billheimer) '22.

'20 MS—Henry W. Woodhouse of Hart-ford, CT, June 9, 1993.

'22 BArch—Katherine French Pancoast(Mrs. Russell T.) of Coconut Grove, FL, Apr.12, 1993. Delta Gamma.

'22 BS HE—Hazel Wright Thompson(Mrs. Alvan C.) of Denver, CO, Aug. 24,1992; active in alumni and community affairs.

'23 BS HE—Florence Foster Durkee(Mrs. Albert J.) of Homer, NY, Apr. 20,1993;retired owner and president, Durkee's Do-mestic Bakery; involved in religious, com-munity and alumni affairs. Alpha Omicron Pi.

'23 ME—Arthur T. Hunter of Sanibel, FL,May 2, 1993. Kappa Delta Rho.

'23—William D. Shepherd of Oslo, Nor-way, October 1992; a retired attorney.

'23—Ruth Thalhimer Stern (Mrs. Leo) ofNew York City, Apr. 24, 1993.

'23 BS Ag—Alice Carlson Wakeley (Mrs.Philip C.) of Ithaca, NY, May 27, 1993; ac-tive in comunity and religious affairs.

'24 BA—Jonathan Eddy of Dickinson Cen-ter, NY, June 2, 1993; reporter, New YorkTimes', president, Standard News Associa-tion; co-founder, American NewspaperGuild; active in alumni affairs.

'24 BS Ag—Marion Roberts Joor (Mrs.Samuel F. Jr.) of Syracuse, NY, June 6,1993;high school teacher. Kappa Delta.

'25—Clifton T. Blankley of Conyers, GA,July 28, 1992.

'25 CE—Eugene S. Ovenshine of Easton,MD, Apr. 28,1993. Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

'25 MS Ag—Bryon T. Smith of Ada, OK,Feb. 9, 1993. Acacia.

'25 BLA—George F. Titus of Lake Os-wego, OR, June 7, 1993; retired colonel,US Army; decorated soldier; architect. Kap-pa Delta Rho.

'26 BA—Samuel Rabin of Floral Park, NY,

May 7, 1993; former representative, NewYork State Assembly; former justice, NewYork State Supreme Court; former presid-ing justice, Appellate Division; former asso-ciate judge, New York State Court of Ap-peals; counsel, Herzfeld & Rubin.

'27, BS Ag '28—Frederick Coville of Bur-gaw, NC, Aug. 27, 1992.

'27 BA, MA '31—Imre Domonkos of An-dover, NJ, Jan. 4, 1993.

'27, BA '28—Charles V. Haviland of Ven-ice, FL, formerly of Westbrook, NY, May 17,1993; retired executive, New York Tele-phone; active in community affairs. Delta Phi.

'27, LLB '28—H. Sol Tunick of New YorkCity, May 16,1993; lawyer; active in alumniaffairs.

'28 BA—Irene Danner Batjer (Mrs.Lawrence P.) of Wenatchee, WA, Dec. 29,1992; active in alumni affairs.

'28 BA—Louise Lytle Denmead (Mrs.Harrell) of Pompano Beach, FL, Dec. 7,1992;active in alumni affairs. Kappa Alpha Theta.

'28 BA—Roger W. Jones of Torrington,CT, formerly of Chevy Chase, MD, May28, 1993; former chairman, Civil ServiceCommission; former Deputy Secretary ofState; active in religious and professionalaffairs. Sigma Phi Epsilon. Wife, Dorothy(Heyl) '29.

'29-30 Grad—Paul Kirkpatrick of Stan-ford, CA, Dec. 26, 1992; a developer of theX-ray reflection microscope; a retired pro-fessor, Stanford University.

'29—Isobel Allison McKnight (Mrs. DonaldG.) of Syracuse, NY, Feb. 6, 1993; retiredfrom the Onondaga County health department.

'29 BA—Henry W. Sheward of JensenBeach, FL, Mar. 26,1993. Delta Tau Delta.

'30 MS—Howard W. Higbee ofLawrenceville, PA, Mar. 22,1993.

'30 ME—Edgar J. Werlich of Chicago, IL,Apr. 30,1993; active in alumni affairs. DeltaSigma Phi.

'31 BA—Folke Becker of Gastonia, NC,Mar. 7, 1993.

'31, CE '32—Mark S. Gurnee of Lake-hurst, NJ, Apr. 8, 1993. Alpha Sigma Phi.

'31—Charles D. Reeves, MD of Newark,NY, June 25, 1992, Delta Sigma Phi.

'31 B Chem—Bernard Wager of NewYork City, Dec. 11, 1992

'32 BA—Harriet Stone Calkins (Mrs. De-los S.) of Miami, FL, Apr. 21,1993; active inalumni affairs.

'32 Grad—George C. Dodge of Cincinna-tus, NY, May 21, 1993; teacher and schooladministrator; active in religious and com-munity affairs.

'32 MA—Katherine G. Shea of Chicago,IL, Mar. 29, 1993.

'32 BA—Charles H. Snyder Jr. of Oswego,NY, May 25, 1993; dentist; active in religiousaffairs.

'33 PhD—John D. Hartman of Lansing,NY, June 1,1993; professor emeritus, vege-table crops department, Cornell; active inuniversity and community affairs.

'33—Homer Hilton Jr. of Marquette, MI,Feb. 29, 1992. Sigma Nu.

'34 BS Ag—Tobye Pecker Gaster (Mrs.Joseph) of Beverly Hills, CA, of Mar. 8,1993;scientist; contributed to early research onRh factor; active in alumni affairs. Husband,Joseph '32, MD '36.

'34 BA—Samuel Izzo of Auburn, NY, May25,1993; dentist; active in religious and com-munity affairs.

'35—Robert A. Apple of Milwaukee, WI,actual date of death unknown.

'36 BA—Edward P. Smith of San Anto-nio, TX, June 3.1993; finanacial analyst; ac-tive in religious affairs.

'37 BS Hotel—Philip A. Dunn of Benning-ton, VT, May 7, 1993.

'37 BS Ag, MEd '62—Leonard P. Gunschof Newburgh, NY, Apr. 20, 1993; retiredschool superintendent, Wallkill CentralSchool District; owner-operator, GunschFruit Farm; active in community affairs. Al-pha Gamma Rho.

'37 ME—Leonard F. Peyser of BriarcliffManor, NY, May 29,1993; former president,Howdon Videx Products, Inc.; active in alum-ni affairs.

'37—Stuart J. Ryan of Weymouth, MA,Nov. 26, 1992.

'38 BS Ag—Roy M. Flowers of Larch-mont, NY, Jan. 7, 1993.

'38 MA—Robert E. Gard of Madison, WI,Dec. 7, 1992; a folklorist, and emeritus pro-fessor, University of Wisconsin. Wife, Mary(Kimball) MA '36.

'38 BArch—Harold J. Greene of Hunting-

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ton, NY, June 26, 1992.

'38-39 SpAg—William H. Hedges of Stan-fordville, NY, February 1992

'38 PhD—George W. Scott Jr. of Lancast-er, PA, Apr. 5,1993; retired physicist, Arm-strong World Industries. Sigma Chi.

'38-40 SpAg—George A. Utzman of Wa-terloo, NY, Aug. 1, 1992.

'39—George F. Ellis Jr. of Longwood, FL,Apr. 26, 1993.

'39 BS HE—Marjorie Voorhees Milner(Mrs. Harold E.) of Seneca Falls, NY, June5, 1993; retired teacher; active in alumni,community, religious affairs. Alpha Xi Delta.

'39 BS Eng—Philip M. Price of Vineland,NJ, Apr. 6, 1993. Chi Phi. Wife Dorothy(Brown) '37.

'39 BA—Louise Myers Shenk (Mrs. Nor-man) of Harwich Port, MA, Mar. 20, 1993.

'40 MD—John J. Creedon of Flushing, NY,May 16,1993; retired chairman, surgery de-partment, Flushing Hospital Medical Center.Wife, Grace (Arbogast) '41.

'40—Jane Weick Ott (Mrs. John F,) of Mar-shall, MI, Apr. 29, 1993. Beta Sigma Phi.

'41 MA—John M. Aden of Nashville, TN,Apr. 27,1993; an emeritus professor of Eng-lish, Vanderbilt University.

'41 BA—Hector W. Benoit Jr. of Shaw-nee Mission, KS, May 21, 1993; a retiredthoracic surgeon; active in religious and pro-fessional affairs.

'41 BS Ag—Truman H. Elliott of SaltLake City, UT, May 4, 1993;

'41 BS HE—Elayne May Keane (Mrs.Daniel J.) of Lantana, FL, formerly of Bing-hamton, NY, Mar. 5,1993; a former teacher,and retired member, Binghamton City Coun-cil. Kappa Delta.

'41—Oliver E. Montague of Springfield,OH, Dec. 21, 1992; active in alumni affairs.

'41 EE—Martin K. Salabes of Nokomis,FL, Mar. 30, 1993. Sigma Alpha Mu.

'42 BA—Payne C. Barzler Jr. of Mel-bourne, FL, Dec. 12, 1992.

'42 BCE—Joseph L. Boyer of Minneapolis,MN, Nov. 2,1992; active in alumni affairs.

'42 DVM—Judd T. Gilmour of DaytonaBeach, FL, Apr. 16, 1993.

'42—Ralph W. Jerome of Naples, NY, Mar.24, 1992

'42 BA—Theodore Ryder of Farmington,CT, Mar. 9, 1993; a retired librarian, NewYork Public Library; active in professionaland alumni affairs.

'43 BS Ag—John W. Wood, MD of Ithaca,NY, Apr. 13, 1993.

'45 BS Hotel '51—Richard Dixon of At-lanta, GA, May 20, 1993; active in alumniaffairs.

'45 BS Ag—Agnes K. Smith of Camp Hill,PA, Apr. 22, 1993; an educator and nationalmissionary, Presbyterian Church.

'45, BA '44—Stephen P. Taylor of Arling-ton, VA, Apr. 9, 1993; economist; retired of-ficial, Federal Reserve System.

'48 BA—Guy V. Bailey Jr. of Tucson, AZ,June 3, 1993.

'48 BA—Shirley Friedman Fastenberg(Mrs. Marvin) of New York City, July 14,1992.

'48 BS HE—Frances B. Geherin of Ith-aca, NY, June 9, 1993; active in communityand religious affairs.

'49 BS ILR—Francis X. Caluori of EastGreenwich, RI, May 29, 1993.

'49 PhD—Todor M. Dobrovsky of St. Au-gustine, FL, Dec. 26, 1992.

'49 LLB—John S. Everett Jr. of Wash-ington, DC, May 23, 1993.

'49 BS Ag—Francis J. Rooney of Peru,NY; Mar. 31, 1993; retired teacher; formermember, Peru Zoning Board of Appeals andPeru Assessors Review Board.

'49 BS HE, MS '50—Jeanette West Row-an (Mrs. William) of Greensboro, NC, Feb.27, 1993; active in literacy affairs. Husband,William Rowan '50.

'50 BS Ag—Thelma MacPherson Holder(Mrs. Charles B.) of Wappingers Falls, NY,formerly of Beacon, NY, May 14, 1993; re-tired elementary school teacher; active inalumni and community affairs. Chi Omega.

'51-53 SpHotel—Leslie E. Bond ofFreeville, NY, June 1,1993; a retired lectur-er in hotel administration, Cornell.

'51 MS—Joseph C. Huffman of Rahine,VA, June 25, 1992

'52 BS Ag—Paul R. Dries of Watertown,NY, Apr. 1993; former bank president; ac-tive in religious and community affairs.

'53 JD—John J. Appel II of Rochester, NY,Mar. 14, 1993.

'53 BS Hotel—Robert C. BinnigofNewYorkCity, Jan. 26,1993; active in alumni affairs.

'53 BA, MD '57—David A. Ogden of Tuc-son, AZ, June 2,1993; physician, co-founder,Kidney Dialysis Foundation of Southern Ar-izona; past president, National Kidney Foun-dation; directed testing of a new kidney drug;president, Habitat for Humanity Tucson; ac-tive in alumni affairs.

'54 ILR—Martin Ames of Hyannis, MA,May 24, 1993; an attorney; active in reli-gious, community, and youth affairs.

'54—Edmund M. Butler of Crescent City,FL, Oct. 14, 1985.

'54 BA, MD '58—Eugene M. Lance ofHonolulu, HI, June 7, 1993; orthopedic sur-geon; professor, University of Hawaii-Manoamedical school; pioneer in joint replacementsurgery. Wife Evelyn (Barber) '55.

'54 ME—Reay Sterling Jr. of Crownsville,MD, Apr. 15, 1993; president and chief ex-ecutive officer, Micros Systems Inc.

'57 JD—H. Bradley Smith of Waverly, NY,July 26, 1992; active in alumni affairs.

'58 PhD—Ananda K. Bhattacharyya ofCalcutta, India, June 29, 1992.

'61 EdD—Gerald E. Clarke of Sun CityWest, AZ, November 1992.

'62 BA—Robert L. Tober, MD of Andover,MA, Oct. 19, 1991; active in alumni affairs.

'66 BS Hotel—Robert E. Cole of Hun-tington, NY, Feb. 7, 1992.

'66 BArch—James M. Williams of SanMiguel Allende, Mexico, 1980.

'70 MST—Dennis E. Leonard of FairviewPark, OH, 1987.

'71 DVM—Paul E. Clukey of Lewiston,ME, Mar. 9, 1993.

'71 BA—James S. May of Arlington, VA,Feb. 16, 1993; professor, University of Bal-timore law school; retired colonel, US Ma-rine Corps; who had served as judge, Navy-Marine Corps Court of Military Review.

'72—Klaus D. Jacoby of Johnstown, PA.,August 1992.

'73 BS Hotel—Barbara H. Byrnes of NewYork City, May 22, 1993; president, T. By-rnes & Company.

'75, BArch '79—Jonathon A. Fine of WestOrange, NJ, June 2, 1990.

'77—Patrick P. DeNero of Syracuse,NY, May 21, 1993; involved in religious af-fairs and theater.

'78 BS Eng—Jeffrey R. Dulude of Corn-ing, NY, actual date of death unknown.

'80 PhD—Susan Hussar Randall (Mrs.Edward) of Newtown, CT, Jan. 9, 1993.

'80 BS Ag—Frederic P. Turin of Flush-ing, NY, Jan. 31, 1993.

'82 MS—Althea L. Ortique of Wheaton,IL, 1992.

'91—Claire C. Gardiner of SouthBurlington, VT, Sept. 4, 1992.

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Network of the Jobs

Y ou just graduated from theHotel school, and you're stilllooking for a job. You've beenreading want ads in newspa-pers in New York City and

Washington, DC, brushing up yourresume and making phone calls. Butyou keep wondering if there's somecompany in Arizona or California orAtlanta that would love to hire some-one just like you. Someone young,hungry, smart and eager to start nextweek, anywhere in the country.

Or you have a pretty good jobin Miami. Good salary and benefits,and pretty interesting, at least mostof the time. But the boss is kind ofdifficult, your husband is talkingabout wanting to move back outWest, and you've been withthe company—is this pos-sible?—16 years. You don'twant to actively seek some-thing else, but it would benice to put out some feel-ers to see what's out there.

For $25, Cornell Pro-Net can help.

ProNet is a job networknow used by alumni at 15universities, includingStanford, Yale, the Univer-sity of Michigan and MIT.Subscribers fill out ques-tionnaires about their workexperience. The informa-tion is put in a databaseavailable to some 200 sub-scriber companies—includ-ing Hewlett-Packard andGoldman, Sachs. About30,000 people are currentlylisted in the ProNet database. Hav-ing your name on the system meansbeing plugged into a sophisticated,national jobs bulletin board.

Cornell ProNet got started inSeptember, when the Office ofAlumni Affairs sent out informationon the program to 76,000 membersof the Classes of '60 to '93. "Wechose those years because wethought graduates of those classeswould be more likely to be seeking

jobs than peoplefrom earlierclasses," says Di-rector of AlumniAffairs James D.Hazzard '50. "Weconcentrated onalumni from Engineering, Industrialand Labor Relations, Hotel Admin-istration, the Johnson GraduateSchool of Management and every-one with a major that we felt couldeasily adapt to business. If some-one majored in Spanish or Russian,we contacted them about ProNet be-cause there might be an opening fora translator." But, Hazzard is quickto add, the system is open to all

How $25 connectsalumni to jobscoast to coast.

graduates of Cornell, regardless oftheir majors or their class years.

How does ProNet work? "Whena person signs up with ProNet, wesend him or her a Macintosh or IBMpersonal computer disk that has anextensive questionnaire on it," ex-plains the program's director MarkJordan. "The client fills it out andprovides us with information abouthis career history, establishing hiscareer profile in the ProNet data-

base. The profileis cross-matchedagainst requestsfrom employersusing very specificparameters. If itmatches well with

a particular request, that profile,identified by a Cornell ProNetcode— with no name attached—issent to the requester company. Com-panies do not have direct access tothe database. Should the requesterwish to contact the client, ProNetreleases the person's name and con-tact information and notifies him thatthis has been done. It is then up tothe individual and the company topursue the opportunity."

"This is not a job placementservice," Hazzard says. "It's anetwork that puts companies

in touch with prospectiveemployees. Once they'vebeen put in touch, ourjob is done."

For alumni whoare actively seekinga job, ProNet offersan expanded level ofservice for an extra$25. "In addition tocompleting your reg-istration materialsfor the ProNet da-tabase," says theProNet literature,"you can fill out aposition requestform—a one-pagesynopsis of your

professional back-ground including a short descriptionof the type of position you desire.ProNet will circulate this informationto those subscribing companies.Upon registering as an active jobseeker you will also receive, for threemonths, the "ProNet Job Bulletin,"a biweekly listing of currently avail-able positions at subscribing compa-nies for you to pursue directly."

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ITHACA

November 5. Auction to benefit the Ath-letic Department, Alberding Field House.Call (607) 255-2296.

November 5-7. Homecoming.

November 6. Air Force ROTC alumnireception in Barton Hall, room 117, be-fore the Homecoming game. Call Capt.Ed Hollandsworth (607) 255-4004.

November 6. Decade of the '80s tailgatebefore the Homecoming game. Free foodand soft drinks. From 11:00 a.m. at KiteHill. Call Andy Wallenstein at (607) 257-5133.

METRO NEW YORK

November 20. Cornell-Penn footballgame with pre-game rally and post-gamecelebration. If sufficient interest, club willcharter bus. Call Carl Irwin at (908) 766-3374. CC/Northern New Jersey.

NEW YORK/ONTARIO

November 6. Tailgate party at Kite Hillparking lot with club members andfriends. Call Frank Fee at (716) 494-2068.CC/Genesee-Orleans.

November 10. Fall tasting at Hurd Or-chards. First 30 members make it CornellNight at Hurd's. Make reservations byNovember 1. Call Frank Fee at (716) 494-2068. CC/Genesee-Orleans.

November 16. "Mayan Adventure" withLucille Baker. Call Mary Oursler at (607)753-1280. Cornell Women's Club ofCortland County.

November 16. Dr. Colman's Magic Lan-tern Show—special pictorial presentationillustrating Cornell—location to be an-

nounced. Contact Shelly Emens at(315) 451-6500. CAA/Central NewYork.

NEW ENGLAND

November 6. Ivy Plus Tennis Party.Contact Karen Sehl at (508) 744-2805. CC/Boston.

November 10. Cornell Alumni Business Net-work is planning a networking session nearRoute 128. Call Gregg Rubenstein at (617)722-5521. CC/Boston.

November 13. Johnson Club of Boston Mo-nopoly tournament. Contact Ellen Genco at(508) 921-3552. CC/Boston.

November 14. Regional Cornell Fund Phon-athon. Join other alumni as we compete forprizes and surpass previous club records. CallBill Day at (203) 673-5958. CC/Greater Hart-ford.

November 17. Cross-Country Gourmet in-vades the Harvard Club of Boston. Call NedPride at (617) 742-6200. CC/Boston.

November 19. Ivy Plus—pizza, music anddancing—Union Street. Call Karen Sehl at(508) 744-2805. CC/Boston.

MID-ATLANTIC

November 2. Visit the Washington Opera.Full-costume working rehearsal of Dona-zetti's Anna Bolena at the Kennedy CenterOpera House. Call Jerry Held at (301) 608-4614. CC/Washington.

November 2. Slapstix in the Brokerage withheadline comedians Dan Chopin and Gonzo.Showtime is 8:30 p.m. with pizza availablebefore the show. Call Todd Hines at (301)890-2325. CC/Maryland.

November 7. 76 mile tour of Baltimore Coun-ty ending at Oregon Ridge to help raise fundsfor low income County residents. Call AnneLee at (410) 252-5743. CC/Maryland.

November 10. Evening at the PhiladelphiaMuseum of Art. Guided tour, cash bar andhors d'oeuvres, live music. $6 admission fornon-Museum members. Call Gwen Koths at(215) 635-2011. CC/Greater Philadelphia.

November 18. Celebrate 100th Cornell-Penn football game with Dean's break-fasts, Presidential speech, symposia anda Gala Dinner. Call Philadelphia '93 at(607) 255-0645.

SOUTHEAST

November 11. Campaign phoning atBarnett Bank Tower. Contact Ken Ma-son at (904) 273-8100. CC/Greater Jack-sonville.

November 13. Help Hands On Nashvillesort donated goods and clothing for dis-tribution to needy families. Contact AnneLeVine at (615) 936-0430. CAA MiddleTennessee.

November 13. Luncheon with NancyMeislahn (Undergraduate Admissions)speaking on "A Current Perspective onthe Value of a Cornell Education." Con-tact Collene Parker at (407) 840-1406.CC/Eastern Florida.

November 20. Cornell-Penn football—live big screen TV telecast. The StadiumClub-Sports Bar and Grille. Call KenMason at (904) 273-8100. CC/GreaterJacksonville.

November 20. "Tailgate" with Cornelland Penn alumni at the local Penn Club.Call Collene Parker at (407) 840-1406.CC/Eastern Florida.

SOUTI IWEST/ MOUNTAIN

November 5. Campaign Kick-off with spe-cial guest Austin Kiplinger '39 at the FourSeasons Hotel. Dinner at 6:45 p.m. CallMarci Arnold at (713) 523-9062. CAAGreater Houston.

WESTERN

November 20. Cornell vs. Penn footballby TV satellite at Dooley's Pub in SanFrancisco. Call Bob and Laura Call An-dolina at (415) 358-0121. CAA NorthernCalifornia.

LONDON

November 27. 9th Annual ThanksgivingDinner at the V & A Museum. Call EmilyKramer at 071-603-5647. CC/London.

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ProNet maintains the files ofclients indefinitely, so even thoughsomeone may be content with hisor her current job, an opportunitycould arise through ProNet thatwould be too good to pass up.ProNet has conducted surveysshowing only 20 percent of its cli-ents are actively seeking jobs. Theother 80 percent want to keep intouch with the available opportu-nities. ProNet also asks clients toupdate their files each year, at noextra charge.

ProNet's subscriber companies,according to Jordan, include "high-tech and biotech firms such asOracle, Thinking Machines, AnalogDevices, Aspen Technology andCellPro." Citicorp, Taco Bell andWells Fargo are also subscribers.Companies pay anywhere from$2,500 to $30,000 to ProNet, depend-ing on the company's size, as wellas the number of database searchesthe company will conduct.

"We have an amazing list of pro-spective employees on our data-base," says Jordan. "They are thebest educated, most talented groupof people in the country."

P roNet was founded by theStanford Alumni Associationin 1989. MIT, UCLA and UC,Berkeley soon started usingcustomized versions of Pro-

Net. Cornell ProNet is owned bythe Cornell Alumni Federation."The number of universities in-volved will be limited," says Jor-dan, "because we want this to bestrictly a high-end-of-the-marketorganization."

"And the $25 fee essentially cov-ers the cost of the computer diskwe send to clients, as well as thecost of entering information on ourdatabase," says Jordan.

So for the active job seeker, orfor someone who simply wants toknow what's available, ProNet couldplay a crucial role. Twenty-five dol-lars could do much toward letting aperson know what's possible.

—Paul Cody, MFA '87

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A recitation room in Stimson Hall, which housed the Cornell Medical College from its founding until 1938.

Leaving Stimson

T he Cornell University Medical College was es-tablished by the university's trustees on April14, 1898. Six professors were appointed to thefaculty, according to A History of Cornell (writ-ten by Morris Bishop '14, Kappa Alpha Profes-

sor of Romance Literature, emeritus) including Dr. LewisA. Stimson, for whom Stimson Hall was later named.

The Medical College was housed in New York City"on First Avenue, between 27th and 28th Streets," writesBishop, "although with the opening of the Medical Col-lege in New York, a two-year course was established

in Ithaca, paralleling the first two years in theNew York school and admitting its successfulstudents to third-year studies in New York." Mostcourses in Ithaca were taught by professors whoalready taught in other colleges on campus, andmost courses came from "existing offerings."Women were admitted to the Medical Collegebut, unlike their male counterparts, were requiredto take their first two years at Ithaca.

Stimson Hall was completed in Ithaca in 1903 tohouse the Ithaca division of the Medical College. Itwas considered, writes Bishop, "the best building formedical instruction in the country."

The success of the New York division of the Medi-cal College was so great, though, that President Liv-ingston Farrand saw no need to duplicate programs, andthe Ithaca division closed its doors in June 1938. After40 years and 1,515 medical students, the Medical Col-lege was finally gone from Ithaca and Stimson Hall.

—Paul Cody, MFA '87

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