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50 | First of all, sincere thanks for a good response to our request for news. The new yellow reporting forms provide higher quality news and also appear to be easier to use. Have you noticed that our column is slowly creeping forward in the Class Notes section?!

From her home in Oslo,Norway,Mari LundWright reports on a busy life: celebrating a traditional Norwegian Christmas with grandkids in Victoria, Canada, and enjoying a sumptuous 75th birthday dinner at the old, elegant Empress Hotel; protesting the Iraq war with 60,000 others in Central Square, Oslo; meditation and yoga; vacationing with friends in Sweden; and, like many of us, attempting to deal with a large, eclectic collection of books. Helen Cudworth Metzinger, Endicott, NY, stays with her day job as a self-employed technical writer while also serving as public relations and advertising director for a foundation dedicated to preserving historic landmarks in nearby Binghamton. Helen's son is a surgical oncologist at the U. of Kentucky.

George Jenks, Albuquerque, NM, reported in, but was skimpy with news, only reporting that his day job was "retired" and his extracurricular occupation is golf. John Peterson, MD '54, Virginia Beach, VA, has two day jobs: golf and lawn care. He has just retired after selling his business, a non-invasive vascular medical lab in northern Virginia. John is now attending Tidewater Community College studying small engine repair and residential wiring, but he did not say why. He reports that his kids are all educated with "nary a Cornellian."His most recently acquired bit of knowledge: "If you swing slower, the ball goes further."

Harriett Washburn Pellar, Carlsbad, CA, gets relief from her day job as homemaker with three passions: art, alternative medicine, and support for alternative energy as pioneered by Dr. Steven Greer's Discovery Project launched at the National Press Club May 2001. Her most recent and "ever appreciative" discovery is the value of switching to a vegan diet some 30 years back. Her most pressing problem is finding time to walk on the beach. For such interests, desires, and aspirations, she highly recommends,"Just do it!" Jean Michelini Partisch-Farley, Sarasota, FL, loves working part-time as a receptionist and assistant to brokers at a security investment firm in southwest Florida.With flextime she can enjoy traveling, especially cruises with husband Robert. They have done a Caribbean cruise, and at the time of this issue will be on a river cruise from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

It is noteworthy to report that our class colleagues attach significance to continued learning by extensive reading, foreign and domestic travel, Elderhostels, enrollment in college courses, clubs and organizations with intellectual intent, and participation in specialty courses and study tours such as those offered by Adult University (CAU). Recent participants in the latter include: Patricia Fritz Bowers (Sicily); Daniel and Betty Rosenberger Roberts, John and Carol McMillan Lawes, and Fay Binenkorb Krawchick, MA '52 (Whose Promised Land); Jo Kessel Buyske (New York Theater); Lawrence Lodico (Travel Writing Workshop); Daniel and Betty Rosenberger Roberts (The Shaw Festival); Richard Hudes and Fay Krawchick (Great American Trials); and Norman Schiek (Cayuga Lake Physiology).

This note from Joe Dwyer, JD '52, Olean, NY, jolted me: "We are about to have four sons in college at one time. Explains why I still practice (law) each day!" I, your correspondent, have four grandkids out of college and four in, and I thought for sure Joe was referring to his grandkids. So I called Joe and had a delightfully informative conversation. Joe has 11 children, of which the four sons he refers to are the youngest. One is in the second year of law school at Notre Dame, one is a senior and will enroll at Notre Dame, one is a sophomore at Gettysburg College, and the youngest is a senior in high school considering Hamilton and Gettysburg. Joe says that his after-work activity is attending his son's football and basketball games. Joe played football at Cornell, so I looked up his pictures in the '50 Cornellian. In the football team picture, Joe is at the far right in the second row. I enjoyed scanning the pictures of other classmates and found that while there are 16 players in the front row, only 13 are named! Here's a challenge: name the missing three. --Paul Joslin, 6080 Terrace Dr., Johnston, IA 50131-1560; tel., (505) 278-0960; e-mail, phj4@cornell.edu; or Ruth "Midge"Downey Kreitz, 3811 Hunt Manor Dr., Fairfax, VA 22033; tel., (703) 860-2991; e-mail, rdk12@cornell.edu.

51 | Class officers agreed to commit the following funds at a meeting in New York City on January 24: $10,000 for class activities and mailings; $10,000 for financial assistance for reunion attendance, guests, and seed money; $10,000 for the Ramin Tradition Fellowship; and $5,000 each to the Johnson Museum Print Collection, Library acquisitions, Cornell Plantations, Laboratory of Ornithology, and the Music department in memory of Bar Dee Stirland Bond, co-class correspondent. Officers attending were Rip Haley,Winifred Bergin Hart, Jane Haskins Marcham, Peg Healy McNulty, Chuck Mund, Bill Reynolds,MBA '55, Joan Singer Rosner, and Sally Williamson Williams.

Arlie Williamson Anderson '47 sent me a copy of City, Rochester, NY's alternative newsweekly, with a cover photo of Tom Hampson, LLB '55, "whose life of unusual connections has shaped Rochester's legal and cultural history."When a local bookstore wanted to sell Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and the district attorney threatened to prosecute, Tom filed a civil action suit against the DA, a friend and co-birder. Thrown out of court and reversed on appeal, the decision was written up with approval in the Harvard Law Review. It established a new procedure for the resolution of censorship issues by removing them from the process of criminal prosecution. Tom's involvement in this led to a role in the formation of the local ACLU and a bipartisan Fair Campaign Practices Committee, with members designated by the League of Women Voters, Council of Churches, Advertising Council, Chamber of Commerce, and Bar Assn.

Jazz is Tom's other unusual connection.He had a jazz show on WVBR at Cornell, and bought a $50 license from the FCC in Rochester that became WCMF, where he also had a jazz show.When the license was sold for $400,000 in 1980, his share helped get the kids through college. He continued to host a show called "Mostly Jazz" on WXXI-FM. A would-be jazz drummer, Tom has his own drum set in the basement, where he accompanies singers on albums.When jazz drummer Buddy Rich was about to be arrested on an earlier charge of marijuana possession in the midst of a performance at a Rochester nightclub,Hampson arranged for his defense. Later, Rich and Hampson collaborated on a PBS performance, "Rich At the Top," which became a PBS jazz series.

Ruth Hamilton Fisher phoned in from South Dennis, NJ, reminiscing about Ithacans Marjory Lyons Thayer, Janet Raleigh O'Connor, and Jean Gleason Esteve, and promised her own news later. Dan Nesbett, Essex, CT, wrote to say that he roomed with Tomas Blohm their last year of school and asked for his address. Dan commented on how much he learned from him (not about crocs) and recommended retirement in eastern Connecticut.Barbara Hai Freed,Menands, NY, owns a travel agency, Heritage Travel, and volunteers with WAMC radio and the Congregation Beth Emeth Social Action Committee.

Evan Hazard, professor emeritus of biology at Bemidji State U. in Minnesota, wrote Dean Susan Henry complimenting her on the policy of canceling subscriptions to encourage the practice of pricing journals within the budgets of academic subscribers. Evan gave an illustrated talk on New York City at the mid-(20th) century to the Bemidji Area Academy of Lifelong Learning (BAALL, partly funded by the Minnesota Humanities Commission) last spring.He says he has "scads of Kodachrome from that era." I wonder if that has anything to do with his wife Elaine (Willis) '52 getting her nursing degree from CUNYH in 1953. Evan is a lay speaker for the United Methodist Church and an advisory board member for BAALL.

It takes a speed reader to keep up with the output of classmate Harold Bloom, who recently published his 28th book, titled Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Minds, an 800-page opus. Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale, his earlier books include Shakespeare, The Western Canon, and How to Read and Why. More recently, in the October 14 Wall Street Journal, he explained why General Wesley Clark should be the next president of the United States. Warren "Scotty" '48 and Peggy Martin McPherson celebrated weddings of two of their grandchildren in August last year, one in New Jersey and the other in Pennsylvania. Visits with family in Seattle,WA, Sarasota Springs, NY, and Cape Cod were a delight. They tried something new last year, a week at a Silver Bay YMCA conference on Lake George in the Adirondacks, and recommend it. In Fredonia, where they live, Scotty consults on insurance projects, sails on Lake Erie, and cross-country skis.

We've lost touch with some of our classmates and hope that readers of this column can help us find a current address for Harold Abramowitz, Bruce L. Allen, BArch '51, John B.Anderson, MNS '52, Roger R. Baldwin, and Allan M. Barker (for a start). Please send your news to --Brad BonØÚ01 Hillside Way,Marietta, OH 45750; tel., (740) 374-6715; e-mail, bbond@ee.net. Barry Nolin's Class of '51 Web page is http://classof51.alumni.cornell.edu.

52 | Jack and Patricia Thornton Bradt sent their new address but that's all. They planned to be in residence in Bethlehem, PA, by February 2004, just seven miles from their old Easton home. Ron Gebhardt sent a photo of Dick Groos, Eli Manchester, and himself, all on skis at Alta. He thinks more of you should join them. Once you reach 80, which they haven't, you can ski for free at Alta. The photo should be on our Web page--check it out. Speaking of Ron, my husband Stuart and I were in Charleston in March, and a voice said, "Joan?" It was Ron--on a Mt. Holyoke trip with his wife C.A.! Paul and Polly Prine Herman, our webmasters, welcome photos for the '52 Web page. Their address is in the directory, or you can e-mail them at phpdx@attbi.com for a "how-to."

Judith Winter Burger, New York, NY, writes that she and Bob celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with Cornell friends Edie Wilson Kutscher '53, Richard Newman '54,Howard Maisel, and Nancy Ralph Balbus '53 among the guests. The Burgers had a great family trip to the Galapagos in December. Judy is sorry to have missed our last reunion and hopes to make the next one. Lewis Ward-Baker, Rochester, NY, is still singin'--this year in a Broadway revue--and he is baritone soloist in a Unitarian Church choir.His parents recently celebrated their 75th anniversary! Bob's wife is working on a PhD, and last year he was in Washington,Maine, Southern California, and Miami.

Eleanor M. Gates, Ivoryton, CT, sent a long note. Since 1953, she's spent time at a variety of jobs and taken ten trips to Europe. From the early 1970s through 2001, she wrote and researched two books, one on the collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance (1939-40), and one on Leigh Hunt. She has also edited her father's book on William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt. She writes,"Both seeing Europe and graduate work at Columbia U. served as inspiration for these works."

Lillian Hughston Uherka, Lansdown, VA, has moved into a condo in the Washington, DC, area, following the death of her husband. Carol Singer Greenhaus's home base is still Mamaroneck, with four months in North Palm Beach, FL. Of the Greenhauses' six grandchildren, two are at Brown and one at U. of Pennsylvania. "Ivy Leaguers all, but not one at Cornell,"writes Carol. "Three more chances to go." Peter Shuster, Seneca Falls, NY, and his daughter Sue really enjoyed attending the alumni football game. That evening, he and his daughter-in-law Paula were "carried away by the Glee Club." Next year, he plans to take his wife and 5-year-old son. Shuster Farms is still in business with seed, soybeans, and strawberries. U-Pic strawberries are the fun crop. "God bless you all," closes Peter.

Harold Rapp, Ewing, NJ, retired from Nabisco as a principal scientist in 1996.Most of his career was in new food product development, where he helped create a number of marketed brands.He holds some key patents for branded products. Since retirement, his interests have turned to the environment.He co-chairs the Central Jersey Sierra Club Groups. He hikes, canoes, gets plenty of exercise, and still plays volleyball. He has four children, and three grandchildren, including "adorable boy-girl twins who live nearby."Henrietta Moscowitz Kuhl,Merrick, NY, is still grateful to Cornell for starting her avocation as a folk dancer. She has continued for 53 years. Last year, she retired after 27 years as a travel consultant. Her last trip was a six-port cruise, beginning in Dover and ending in Barcelona. Honey now takes history courses at a community college and writes, "Elaine Rose Ruderman spent several days with me in my home and it was great!"

Paul Franks, Tulsa, OK, is still a certified geologist:"Mostly retired now, but still doing some consulting on environmental geology in Iowa."He had a trip to the Wye River Valley along the Welsh-Gloucestershire border in January. Israel Hurwitz, Sudbury, MA, is semi-retired from his orthopedic surgery practice. Bud writes, "I'm still active in hospital board, savings bank board, and VNA-Hospice board. I sorely miss my wife Eleanor, who passed away last November. I see Shelly Appel quite often; he looks and is doing great."

Jack and Elisabeth Hunsberger Craver went to Kenya for a bird trek and wild animal tour last November. The group counted 617 different birds. Libby writes: "Jack, not being a birder, still counted 527.We were charged by a black rhino, had hippos dining on our room patio at 4:30 a.m., and saw 55 types of wild animals, including the ‘Big Five.' " The family is all well, and their six granddaughters are "really something else."Walter and Rosemary Manno Bortko '55, Bonita Springs, FL, are now fully recovered from their huge family reunion, June 25, which celebrated their 50th anniversary. Those in attendance ranged from Rosemary's grandmother, 92, to Ethan, their first great-grandchild, 7 months old. The Bortkos were looking forward to December for a cruise and Christmas in Hawaii.

Bill '50, MS '54, and Gertrude Strong Neef, MS '54, Prescott, AZ, cruised to seven ports in the Baltic last July. In October, Gertrude and her daughter took a mother-daughter trip following the trail of the Reformation in Germany, Switzerland, France, and England. The Neefs planned to be in California for Christmas. -- Joan Boffa Gaul, 7 Colonial Pl., Pittsburgh, PA 15232; e-mail, jgcomm@aol.com.

53 | Some who missed the 50th Reunion made it to DC's rite of spring '04 and actually saw cherry blossoms on the March weekend Pete and Lois Crane Williams, M Ed '60's capital idea, '53 Goes to Washington IV, drew folks from afar to a moveable feast. Ruth Christoff Landon and husband Bill '52 brought a brisket of beef from their Indianapolis kitchen. Mrs. J. Hanchett (aka Hat,Wellesley '57) created hors d'oeuvres at home in NYC. These, and Pete's authentic fish house punch, were presented at the Williamses' Friday dinner in Potomac, MD. There was exchange of views, as you might expect from 30 '53s and fellow travelers at the time Clinton-Bush terror tsar Richard Clarke's bombshell book sold out immediately and security advisor Condoleezza Rice was being pressed to reply. Under oath.

Mark present: '53 nursing grad Martha Teeter Olmstead and husband Brent, Bob and Cid Brandon Spillman '56, Barry Weiss, Clark and Claire Moran Ford, Jerry Nisenson, the Bob Manns, BArch '57, Helen Wallace Miksch, the Jim Blackwoods, the Tom Wares, and Harriet Schwartzberg Rotter.

Murray and Enid Spangenberger Miles laid out a groaning Saturday breakfast board at their Chevy Chase,MD, home. Gloria Gross Kreisman said she was a student again, brushing up on her Jane Austen (and some Shakespeare--quite unlike our Brit lit prof. Arthur Mizener's judgments) while helping husband Norman come back from bypass surgery. Bill (aka Will) Marsh, riding a chair as he mended from a tumble in NYC last fall, presided over a visit to the National Cathedral, where he is a volunteer, from crypt up.Murray Miles mentioned breaking a leg there as a crucifer in the cathedral school. The visitors admired the stained glass (one huge window, evoking Creation, suggests a big bang), amid a Gothic celebration of history. Bill then led a trip to the Corcoran Art Museum, DC's oldest. Some saw a lively, topical farce, Shear Madness, at the Kennedy Center, then dined grandly at its rooftop restaurant, with night views across the Potomac and of the National Cathedral, illuminated on the high ground.

Bill Landon wrought Sunday breakfast--crepes Hoosier, including chives and smoked salmon (probably not Indiana-hatched). "I had a lot of fun learning how," he said. And so home, on the 25th anniversary of the Three-Mile Island incident, well-remembered by the nuclear types present.Hail once again to Lois (still the hostess with the mostes') and Pete, the Mileses, the Landons, and Bill Marsh for efforts far above and beyond the call.

In February, Jeffrey S. Lehman '77 and club prez Barbara Green Bock drew a representative '53 group to a Sarasota, FL, Cornell Club reception for the presidential road show: Lilyan Affinito, Bob and Lou Schaefer Dailey '54, the Gerry Gradys, Dave Rossin, and the Swede Tornbergs.

Tony Quartararo, JD '59, decided enough was enough last year, packed in his law practice, and moved to Dataw Island, SC, where, says he, golf at the two local championship courses is great and flyfishing on the flats for redfish is even better. Former Cayuga's Waiter Al Packer (Granville, OH), retired from both Allied Signal and the Air Force reserve, isn't exactly on idle, what with visits to 11 grown children aged 38 to 50 and a bit of real estate agentry. Arthur Stein (Tafton, PA), a pilot, sailor, and psychotherapist, oversees a residential program for female alcoholics, teaches (Richmond College and NYU grad school), and even walks fast (in the NYC Marathon). Sigma Chi bros. and freshman lacrosse teammates Jim Logsdon (Pacific Palisades, CA) and Carl Hobelman (Washington, DC) and wives shared "a memorable meal" at Rome's Hotel Eden while awaiting separate cruises last fall.

Gainfully (we trust) employed as secretary/treasurer of the family business,Mickie Furnas Thurston has a hand in tending the 700-acre family farm and developing oil and gas in eight states. She gives time to support cultural activities, flora, and wildlife. She claims her life is leisure-free but does putter with philately and managed a camera voyage to 74 degrees north--Svalbard/Spitzbergen--aboard a Russian research vessel. Deborah Cornell Henderson (Ponte Vedra Beach, FL) submits that she's "expanding as a writer" in the Ithaca Journal and elsewhere.Marcia Wright Treiber (Tulsa, OK) visited son Laird, a Foreign Service economics officer, at the job in the US Embassy in Poland last fall. From Catherine Austin Smith, who came to us from Venezuela, and spouse Lawrence, a Piffard, NY, home boy, presently migrating between Piffard and Frutillon, Chile: "Renewed by Reunion. Our impressions of those young people of 50 years ago still hold. They are still beautiful, they are still contributing, and life is still a challenge."

Not all our doctors are out, not by a long shot. They may be '53's least-retired group per degree held.When last heard from, Leo Buxbaum was still practicing gastroenterology full time in Whittier, CA. Full-time? Well, when asked about family events, travel/vacations, and leisure activities, he replied the same for all: None. John Siegel (Englewood, NJ) admitted to some European travel but said it was connected to medical educational activities befitting a professor of surgery, cell biology, and molecular medicine (at NJ Medical School and as a visiting professor in Rome) and director of the Jersey med school's crash injury research center. Eli Schessel (Forest Hills, NY) was mainly teaching plastic and reconstructive surgery, particularly for large wounds, with an external skin expander he helped develop.

Look for much improved (we hope) football, under rookie coach Jim Knowles '87, vs. Colgate, Oct. 16 (and Homecoming dinner with others our age). See you at Tanglewood July 11? --Jim Hanchett, 300 1st Ave., Apt. 8B, NYC 10009; e-mail, jch46@cornell.edu.

54 | This column, having been written in April, does not include coverage of our 50th Reunion. That column will appear in the September/October issue.

Frank Winnert, MBA '55, has given up his raising and showing of Newfoundlands to spend more time on golf courses--both on Maui from January to April, and at home in Lake Kiowa the rest of the year. Ted Howell writes that he and Phyllis find life as retirees just fine. They had great visits from two of Ted's Pi Kappa Alpha brothers last summer. He plans on returning for Homecoming in the fall. Gerald Orseck (Liberty, NY) will be a delegate at the Democratic Presidential Convention this August for John Edwards. Donald Miller is still hard at work as chairman of Axiom International Investors, managing international stocks for 70 institutions and private clients.

Michael Stone, MD '58, is presently a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia. He maintains a half-time practice in psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy. The other half is spent in research on personality disorders at Weill Cornell or Mid-Hudson Forensic Psychiatric Hospital. He has authored or edited nine books and 190 articles and chapters, mostly on borderline and other personality disorders. He has lectured widely in Europe, Japan, Australia, and South America. At home, he and wife Beth enjoy opera at the Met. Joanna Stein Dalldorf, MD '54, has retired from her practice in developmental and behavioral pediatrics in Chapel Hill, NC. Now she is totally captivated by art history and volunteers as a docent at the North Carolina Museum of Art. She also spends a considerable amount of time trying not to forget the birthdays of ten grandchildren. Although Joanna has lived in the South and close to UNC for 40 years, her ties to Cornell remain close. Her son Peter is Class of '83 and she and her husband Frederic, MD '58, have attended Adult University (CAU) programs.

Stanley Scheinman has reached nirvana after 70 years. He now lives in a terraced apartment overlooking the Globe Theatre, the Thames with all its boat traffic, St. Paul's Cathedral, and Westminster.His three daughters are all launched and he has a lovely Irish wife with an extended Irish family. Ann Hakenjos McConaughy and husband Dan have sold their farm, where they raised and sold Christmas trees part-time, and moved to a retirement community. They love the lifestyle. The grass gets mowed and dinner gets cooked and they don't do it. Sid Glasberg is late in joining the club, but his first grandchild did arrive last April and he claims it is all it's cracked up to be. Congratulations, Sid.

We've found yet one more migration route: Saratoga, CA, to the Berkshires. This route is flown by Seymour "Sy" Bross, retired pediatrician. Sy is currently volunteering in a pro bono children's medical clinic and tutoring English as a Second Language, and is a member of the Santa Clara County Environmental Health Committee. Frank, MBA '55, and Sally Stephens Logan '55 have relocated to Virginia Beach, VA, after living in Framingham, MA, for over 40 years. They should be out of boxes by now, so feel free to knock on their door.

Mildred Cohen Levine, another Alexandria classmate, is an antiques dealer specializing in porcelain. She and her partner, son Steve '83, have just been elected to membership in the American Ceramics Circle--a great honor, as they only accept two dealers per year.Mildred and husband Len have just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Ken Berkman writes: "Ken Berkman after four years of ‘walk-ons' with Cornell Dramatic Club and 50 years of playing Shakespeare to his bathroom mirror, finally received his first paying role on national television.He was ‘Irving Schnitzler,' the fictional creator of Pac Man on Spike TV's First Annual Video Games Awards Show this past December. His performance received mixed reviews. His day job continues."Wayne Close is still working part-time at Goodrich Corp. A widower of four years,Wayne has found time to take cruises to Alaska,Mexico, and the Caribbean.

Harold Fisch retired from teaching science several years ago, but continued substituting prior to his move to Milford, OH, last year to be closer to his family. Anne Wendt Nagy has two daughters in Skopje,Macedonia, one as Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy and the other as a Fulbright Scholar teaching English literature at the local university. George and Ethelanne Renfield Dembow are in Paradise Valley, AZ, enjoying the climate and the proximity of their two sons and their families who are but five minutes distant.

David Behrens honed his typing skills while a compet at the Daily Sun and has been filing stories ever since. David is a feature writer with Newsday working out of the Park Avenue office in Manhattan. He was on hand last summer at the Cornell Club in NYC with other Sun alumni to celebrate the acquisition of a new and permanent home for the newspaper in downtown Ithaca. Over the years David has mentored undergraduates on the Sun staff and feels it a privilege to work with such talented students who have enlarged the range of coverage of the paper and expanded its size from the 12 pages of our era to the 48 pages of today. -- Leslie Papenfus Reed, 500 Wolfe St., Alexandria, VA 22314; e-mail, ljreed@speakeasy.net.

55 | We thank Jay Hyman, DVM'57, and wife Anita for hosting a wonderful pre-50th Reunion gathering at their home, El Paraiso, in Delray Beach, FL, last March. Billed as "An Afternoon of Art, Animals, and Aesthetic Enjoyment," the event reflected the Hymans' interest in the rain forests of Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, and showcased their collection of Latin American art, sculpture, tropical plants, and birds. Classmates in attendance, along with their spouses or guests, were Micki Levy Black, Ann Blodgett Brown,Hilly McCann Dearden, Donald Demske, Bill Doerler,Hal Fountain, Ron Ganeles,Marlene Medjuck Green, David Hyman, Gerri Sobel Katz, Bob Leader, Don Marshall, Jan Lepard McPhail, Ann Overbeck, Jim Petzing, Dick Pew, Herb Roleke, Dick Rutledge, and Stanley Wyler.

The Doerlers had lunch with Lee '54 and Barbara Loreto Peltz, during which the guys regaled their wives with old Air Force flying stories, and they also attended a reception for President Jeffrey Lehman '77 in Boca Raton with the aforementioned Jay,Hilly, Ron, and Gerri. The Katzes (Gerri and Steve) have permanently moved to Boca Raton, FL, but spend summers in New York. They've seen Myrna Stalberg Lippman and Charlotte Bialo Picot recently. David and Nancy Hyman threw a party two years back to introduce their grandson Olin, who was then 6 months old. Although both of the little guy's parents graduated from MIT, Dave decided a "subliminal message" was in order, so he asked all the Cornellians present (including Lou '54 and Joan Steiner Stone) to sing the Alma Mater. "I'm sure the message was received," Dave reports.

Carol Sugar Shulman celebrated her 70th birthday in a novel way: she became a bat mitzvah, "which must mean that I just turned 13--a drastic way of turning back the clock!" Studying Hebrew took up all her spare time for nearly a year, and the ceremony brought friends from both coasts, including her former roommate Lynn Goldfine. Congratulations! When he's not staying in shape with yoga, swimming, and walking, Don Minini says his transportation technology consulting firm keeps him busy. Dan Sachs is a member of the housing opportunities commission of Montgomery County, MD, helping to develop affordable housing. He's also reading to the sight-impaired and completing his memoirs for his grandchildren.

A recent article in Cornell's Communiqué magazine featured alumni talking about their most memorable Cornell class. Fred Antil wrote about the American Ideals course with Professor Milton Konvitz. Several weeks after the article appeared (and just before he died), Prof. Konvitz wrote Fred "a wonderful note of thanks, which has joined my notes from the class as treasured mementos." Fred's unique avocation is impersonating Abraham Lincoln every February, and in the course of his research he has visited Lincoln home sites in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois, and was treated to a private tour of the White House.

Malcolm Whyte writes that after 20 years he is still volunteering with the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, which he founded.Mal's also publishing limited edition illustrated books, although this work is becoming "more and more limited by the bum economy." Peter Hoss expresses the opinion that living without fear and being free to express our opinions compensates for the depressed economy, however. Peter attended Cornell for only two years before moving back to California and Stanford, and therefore has few contacts with people he met in Ithaca. Still, he says, "I hope my dues contribution helps my classmates celebrate reunion. Cornell is a great university and I remember it happily."

Now, looking toward Reunion, let's keep in mind that our 50th Reunion campaign will be judged on the following factors: total dollars, number of participants, and number of Tower Club members. Ned Arps, MBA '57, Chairman of Major Gifts, will be working with Participation Chairs Dick Pew and Nancy Livingston Hop- kins. Any classmates who would like to help our class set 50th Reunion records can contact Ned (nedarps@yahoo.com), Dick (pew@bbn. com), or Nancy (nlh@nii.net). I'm sure we all agree with Deborah Golub Leibowitz, who puts it in verse: "I'm really glad that I'm alive/to reunite with fifty-five!" -- Nancy Savage Petrie, nsm55@juno.com. Class website: http://classof55.alumni.cornell.edu.

56 | There has been a lot of News from classmates. Some are retired and keep very busy with exciting new activities, some are still working and enjoying it, others are volunteering, and many are traveling to visit other parts of the world--and sometimes seeing Cornellians there.Margaret "Molly"Muirhead Tyler, Stuart, FL, reports that she is vice president of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra, a chamber-sized group that plays in Vero Beach and Stuart, FL, to sold-out houses. Baxter Webb, Palm Beach, FL, loves retirement and volunteering at the Cornell Club of Eastern Florida in public relations, the Palm Beach Civic Assn., and the Palm Beach Republican Club. Last October he had a mini-reunion with about a dozen Cornellians in Washington, DC, including classmates Paul Coon and Al D'Agostino. Among other events, they had a private tour of the White House and the Capitol.

Shelby (Ellen S.) Singleton Fillingane,Vienna,VA, is employed by the US government in contract work. She is also the deacon of her church. As part of a church mission, she spent a week at an orphanage in Tijuana,Mexico, constructing, painting, and "working with wonderful Mexican kids." Ellie Schaffer, Paris, France, is recovering from eye surgery there, and sends her best to all classmates who remember her. Ellie has called Paris home for most of our post-Cornell years.

Barbara Grove Purtee, Gulfport, FL, is retired and taking care of her husband, who had a stroke last year. She volunteers as Church Council chairperson, and in the Gulfport Garden and Bird Club. James Sterling, Hermosa Beach, CA, is VP of network marketing with Metro Networks Division of Westwood One. Larry Levin, Denver, CO, is practicing land use law. Larry and wife Carol spent time in New York City and visited classmates Arthur and Marilyn Penn and Bert and Bobbie Weissman Lewis '57. Larry is a member of the Colorado Jewish Community Relations Council, the Denver County Cultural Council, and the Blueprint Denver task force re-writing the Denver zoning code.

Paula Johnson Camp, Downey, CA, visited with classmates Norma Leidenberg MacLellan in Flat Rock, NC, and Deborah Bickford Leonard in Albuquerque, NM. Nancy FowleMorse, Urbana, IL, visited with George '54 and Mary LueMueller in Toronto, Canada, and at their dairy farm in Clifton Springs, NY. Stephen Bailey, Fairway, KS, is retired. He volunteers at the Johnson County Library, and is scholarship chair for the Cornell Club of Mid-America.

Margot Lurie Zimmerman, Chevy Chase, MD, has been officially retired since 1997 and accepts several consultancies a year, "to make myself stay abreast of what is happening in my field of international public health." Last year she accepted an assignment in Albania, a country that was isolated from the world for over 50 years. The assignment was to evaluate a mass media family planning campaign.Margot found the Albanians eager to "catch up" and learn. They were friendly and hard working, and Tirana, the capital, was both charming and seedy, with the boxy-style communist-style architecture being replaced or upgraded. As retirees,Margot and husband Paul (Dartmouth '57, Yale Law '60) are usually on vacation. Earlier this year they led a group of friends through South India, a region of the world they lived in when Paul was director of the Peace Corps in the 1960s.

Peter Dirlam works at J.I.Morris Co. in Southbridge, MA. Peter and wife Joanne enjoyed several river cruise vacations, including Moscow to St. Petersburg and the Cornell Alumni Federation cruise that included the Christmas Holiday Markets in Germany. Bart Friedman, PhD '64, Cleveland Heights, OH, retired as emeritus professor of English from Cleveland State U.He says, "I'm still writing and doing research, and occasionally teaching a literature workshop at the Psychoanalytic Inst. of Cleveland." The Friedmans' son Jonathan '84 is a member of the scientific staff at the National Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, which is administered by Cornell.

Peg Jones Halberstadt,Wyoming, OH, and husband Dick '53 sent me a wonderful photo of their nine grandchildren--all in their Cornell T-shirts. Indoctrination time! Dick was co-chair of '53's 50th Reunion. Jim Yates, Lemoyne, PA, is still a very active surgeon in central Pennsylvania. Harold Grunert Jr., Rochester, NY, plans to continue obstetrics for several years. He is part of a group practice; one of the other partners is Don Terwilliger '52. Classmate Curtis Reis is still chairman, president, and CEO of Alliance Bank in Culver City and Irvine, CA. Curtis is also director of the Brotman Hospital in Culver City, chairman of the California Bankers Assn., director of the Culver City Chamber of Commerce, trustee emeritus of Cornell U., and a member of the University Council (Arts and Sciences committee and the Athletic Advisory Council) and the Cornell Club of Los Angeles, as well as being the VP of the Class of 1956.

Arthur Reimann, Lakeland, FL, is a self-employed meat broker. Arthur enjoys seeing his Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity brothers whenever they visit Florida. Peter Curtiss, Tupper Lake, NY, has been acting as a clearinghouse for Cornellian yearbooks for many years. He has been able to connect over 300 happy alumni with the missing, lost, destroyed, or never-acquired yearbooks they wanted. Nancy Kerry Kienzle,Westport, CT, retired in 2002 from teaching at Staples High School in Westport. She is now working for EF AuPair as LCC. Nancy Van Valkenburg Sunshine-Seroff, Rego Park, NY, retired from the practice of psychology. In her newly found free time, Nancy works with the Quaker Meeting in Flushing, "to be more active in peace building." Bonnie SmithWhyte, Reston,VA, is retired and volunteering with the Reston Museum. Stanley Komaroff, JD '58, New York City, senior partner at Proskauer Rose, has joined one of the firm's clients, Henry Schein Inc., as a member of the executive management committee. Stanley also serves as vice chair of Continuum Health Networks and is on the board of directors of Overseas Shipbuilding Group and The Edmond de Rothschild Foundation.

Susanne Kalter DeWitt, Berkeley, CA, is a retired molecular biologist, and is now chairman of the Israel Action Committee of the East Bay. Roy Curtiss, St. Louis, MO, reports a great year: four patent applications were filed, five new research grants were received, and a vaccine to prevent salmonella in chicken eggs was licensed (approved) by the USDA. Clarence "Neil" Burgher, Linden, PA, a retired veterinarian, attended the "white coat" ceremony at the Cornell Veterinary College.

I've run out of space! Thanks for all your updates--more to come in future issues. -- Phyllis Bosworth, 8 East 83rd St., Apt. 10C, NYC 10028; tel., (212) 734- 5009; e-mail, phylboz@aol.com.

57 | Some of you may have been in Ithaca this summer to attend Adult University (CAU) or for a spouse's reunion (unless you return every June with the Continuing Reunion group). Others, like Dooley Sciple Kiefer, live there year-round. Dooley is a copy editor at the Ecological Society of America and also serves as a Tompkins County legislator. Claire Sanford Perrault retired a few years ago from her job as copy editor at New York magazine. Her current day job is "getting to senior exercises, serving on the board of the neighborhood organization, slogging through the paper, and tossing daily junk mail." In May she reconnected with Dee Heasley Van Dyke at the Baldwin School's 50th Reunion. Last fall Claire and Bob traveled to Europe, stopping in London for a visit with Claire's sister Maryann Sanford Johnson, GR '67-69, before heading to Spain. They especially enjoyed the Guggenheim in Bilbao, as well as Barcelona and surrounding areas. As for Claire's most pressing problem today (responses to the class news form are greatly appreciated), it's "surviving the news in the New York Times."And Claire's solution? "Reading the New Yorker: cartoons first; editorials second."

Joyce Dudley McDowell's annual holiday letter was filled with news of travels, activities, literary recommendations, and even a grammarian reminder that "au jus" is not a noun. Ed '54 and Joyce have made Kilauea, HI, their official residence--although their collection of snuff bottles is still located in their Hermosa, CA, home, where they hosted a group of Snuff Bottle Collectors last October. Did you know there is an International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society? Is Joyce the only collector in the class? The McDowells took a Norwegian cruise that sailed to almost 80 degrees north. They also visited the Orkney and Shetland Islands, as well as Portugal, before heading to Boston and Joyce's 50th high school reunion.

Joan Reinberg Macmillan is enjoying retirement, and when not organizing the house and settling financial affairs, is off traveling, most recently on an Alumni Holiday Danube cruise in June. Rochelle Krugman Kainer was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to St. Petersburg in Russia. She was there this past spring teaching her clinical book, The Collapse of Self, and to research the artist Kazimir Malevich. Ron, MBA '57, and Helen Kuver Kramer took their second trip to Antarctica in December with the CAU group. Their daughter joined them and placed second in the Iron Penguin Triathlon. The travelers enjoyed a New Year's Day dip in the ship's pool-- filled with Antarctic Ocean water. Brrr! Just the thought should cool us off on these hot July days! -- Judith Reusswig, 5401 Westbard Ave., #813, Bethesda, MD 20816; e-mail, JCReuss@aol.com.

Thanks to the generous support of Al Suter, MBA '59, and Bob Staley, MBA '59, our 45th Reunion class project of raising $250,000 to underwrite the renovation and restoration of the Kinkeldey Room at "the Libe" has now been completed. The goal line has been crossed and the room is now officially named the "Class of '57 Kinkeldey Room." Special thanks to Steve Laden, Phil McIndoo, Judy Richter Levy, LLB '59, and Sue DeRosay Henninger for their outstanding leadership and dogged determination in taking us over the top.

Bryn Mawr, PA, was the setting in early April for the wedding of Dan Moore and Debbie Cooke, both of whom were at our 45th Reunion. Bob Watts attended, along with Peter, ME '59, and Frances Wolf, Gil and Bobbie Haglund Schlerf, and Alan and Nancy Kressler Lawley.

I had a chance to experience Jack McCormick's hospitality during the past winter, and he passed along to me an article from the Orthopaedic Journal at Harvard Medical School honoring Art Boland, MD '61, for his "enthusiasm for teaching, mentorship of residents and fellows, academic achievements, outstanding patient care, clinical wisdom, and surgical skill."We all know of his athletic prowess, captaining both the football and track teams in our senior year and being a member of the university's Hall of Fame; his medical career has achieved those same high standards. After graduating from Cornell Med School in 1961 and completing his military service as a medical officer in Germany, Art was in private practice until 1981. In 1975, he became the head orthopaedic surgeon for Harvard athletics, and continues to see patients today in his office at Mass. General. To say that he is a giant in the field of sports medicine is to say Babe Ruth was a pretty good ball player. His honors and accolades would consume this and many more columns.

Other honors have been handed out, namely to Gonzalo Ferrer, who, having shaken off a couple of medical nuisances, has been appointed a lifetime member of the University Council.He must have set some sort of record by catching (and releasing) 48 sailfish on a recent fishing bonanza in Guatemala with his son and daughter- in-law. I can't help but wonder how many of the 48 were repeats who were having too much fun to quit. Steve Gottlieb has been re-elected to a second term on the NYC Civil Court and continues to serve as an acting Supreme Court Justice in Queens County. Of his four children, two are involved in the legal profession, one lives in Ithaca and works for the university, and daughter Jessica is assistant women's basketball coach at the U. of Richmond. Dwight Emanuelson, still with Wachovia Securities on Hilton Head, is a member of the Board of Trustees of Telfair Museum in Savannah. -- John Seiler, 221 St.Matthews Ave., Louisville, KY 40207; tel., (502) 895-1477; e-mail, suitcase2@aol.com.

58 | Here we are at mid-year again, but with only a few News notes that have straggled in over recent months.While watching for more to come, our column length has been cut by a third since we're under 400 subscribers, a situation one hopes will change as you send in your News and Dues for the year. One of our few notes is from a "PhD classmate," John M. Fenley, PhD '58, who got his advanced degree as we received our ABs, MEs, etc. John has published his first book and it deserves a plug, since it may be of interest to many. It is entitled Living with Multiple Sclerosis: A Caregiver's Story, about a subject I hope few, if any, actually have to deal with (although some of our classmates already have). As John explains, the book "documents caregiving as he experienced it, in the multifaceted care of his wife Eileen. In the 43 years following her diagnosis in Ithaca (while John was first a grad student at Cornell, then an asst. prof. in Extension Education in Ag), MS reduced,muscle by muscle, Eileen's ability to live a normal life. For her last six years, she was unable to move a muscle under her own power, and unable to speak." The book, from this UC Berkeley undergrad ('39, MS '48), "describes his training and life as an MS caregiver, in several US states, in Europe, and in Africa (foreign service with USAID and the UN's food and ag organization, and in Nigeria with their family) as they tried to live, despite the harsh effects befalling an MS patient." If any wish to correspond with the author, John resides in Modesto, CA, at 1745 Eldena Way, #116.

Ned and Anita Podell Miller still write from home in Albuquerque, NM. They had a great trip to Spain last December, and Anita planned to be off to Moscow in June with the Int'l Women's Forum (over which she presides for the New Mexico chapter). Anita still teaches at U. of New Mexico School of Law, as well as at the School of Architecture and Planning, in land use law. Jim Doyle, MS '66, and wife Karen Sue celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in April; Jim says that "the third time is the charm!" Daughter Tara moved to Nashville to be closer to her mother and FedEx, the latter for whom Tara flies the A300 Airbus. Recently, Jim bought a 10-acre farm in Brooksville, FL, and now raises beef, citrus, pears, and grapes, having retired five years ago from the Center for Independent Living in Tampa. A year ago he helped build out a new Wal-Mart Super Center, the largest in Florida, and now also works there in the lawn and garden center.

Zvi (Harry Z.) Coren and wife Judith still live in San Francisco. Zvi's daughter Devra now teaches in the political science department at Cornell after getting her PhD from U. of Michigan.He recalls never having taken a class in polysci during his years as an EP/physics major (in preparation for becoming a child psychiatrist!). Anyhow, Zvi says that he enjoys his practice, including adolescent and adult psychiatry and psychoanalysis, especially since the impact of "managed care" is receding and he can once again focus on his patients. The Corens enjoyed four weeks of travel last fall in Australia and New Zealand.

A note just in from Beverly Blau Miller says that she and Melvyn newly reside in Jamesville, NY. They built a new home, a handicapped-accessible ranch (featured as "House of the Week" in the Syracuse Post-Standard last December) that will help Melvyn's limited mobility and provide lots of space for the grandchildren. Indeed, the Millers are now "really into grandparenting," Bev writes. Each of two children had a child within one year--the later just this February--and since all now live in the Syracuse area, the senior Millers get to visit often. Bev continues her work as Patient Services Mgr. for the central New York chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, doing educational seminars for the newly diagnosed and developing support groups.

Brad and Nancy Horgen Corbitt '74 spent a good portion of last winter at their place in the Florida Keys, which they had hoped to cruise throughout in their small (Watkins 25) sailboat.Managing director Dick Stormont is "a highly regarded industry leader, recognized for his expertise in hotel development and management," according to a recent news release covering the merging of his company, Stormont Hospitality Group, with the Noble Investment Group. The new combination creates a major national owner/management/development company with $240 million in premium hotel assets. Dick also is director of the Cornell Society of Hotelmen in the Atlanta area and one of the founders of the Georgia Hospitality and Travel Assn.

Finally, a plug for our class website in the sign-off below, wherein co-president Carol Welch reminds us of the availability of photos from reunion and a link to the inauguration ceremonies page. Carol also writes that a 50th Reunion planning meeting was to be held at her home in April, where Betty Anne SteerMerritt et al. were to meet before the Metro NY-area dinner and reception. -- Dick Haggard, 1207 Nash Dr., Fort Washington, PA 19034; e-mail, rhaggard@voicenet.com. Class website, http://classof58.alumni.cornell.edu.

59 | This column is being written in mid-April as spring finally is springing here in Connecticut. By the time you read these words, however, our 45th Reunion will be a memory--and we'll be looking toward our 50th! Be sure to read the magazine's September/October issue for coverage of the 2004 Reunion Weekend, including news of '59ers who were there.

Preparing for reunion: Jane TaubertWiegand of Barrington, RI, processed reunion registrations for our class and planned to be at Cornell a day or two early to help Reunion Chairs Gwen Woodson Fraze and Fred Harwood with "anything they needed." Jane retired from IBM last year after a long, distinguished career with the company as a systems engineer. After a busy summer and fall preparing for her older daughter's wedding, she spent the winter out west being a ski bum. She skied in Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico, running into Mimi Petermann Merrill in Taos during an Over The Hill Gang trip. Jane returned East just in time to work on her town's budget. She's on the Committee on Appropriations. "It is more of a budget committee," she writes. "We take the requests that the Town Manager has compiled from the municipal department managers and the requests from the school department, review them, recommend cuts (they are ALWAYS more than our State Cap allows) and present our recommendations to the Town Financial Meeting, which is made up of all the registered voters in town. Needless to say, the meeting usually is sparsely attended and generally our recommendations are approved unchanged. Folks whose pet projects have been cut are not happy, but the work is interesting and there are people who thank us for our diligence."

Another person involved in town government who planned to be at reunion is Bob Greer ofWhite Plains, NY. Last November, Bob was elected to his fourth term as a city councilman. He told me that "White Plains is a very exciting city these days because its downtown is undergoing substantial redevelopment, including new apartment towers, a performing arts theater, a movie megaplex, a state-of-the-art fountain plaza, new restaurants, and stores. This activity, in addition to serving on the boards of a few local not-for-profit organizations, has kept me very busy since my retirement from MBIA Insurance in 1999." Linda Rogers Cohen of Great Neck, NY, was filling out her reunion registration form when we e-mailed each other in early April. She's busy with her photography and as president of the Board of Trustees of the Great Neck Library--and thrilled with her three grandchildren (ages 26 months to 5 years), all of whom live nearby.

Jim Glenn and wife Gwen of DeBary, FL, planned to spend summer in New Mexico rather than attending reunion. "We will be there in spirit," he comments in an e-mail to Ron Demer. Jim and Gwen will build a retirement adobe house in New Mexico next year and will spend this summer accomplishing some infrastructure chores. "This house is our dream of over 30 years!" writes Jim. "Obviously, we're excited about it." Jim works as a realtor, helping customers buy and (mostly) sell homes in his booming Orlando suburb. Gwen is a librarian-media center director in a nearby elementary school.

Paul Read, MS '64, professor of horticulture and viticulture at the U. of Nebraska, Lincoln, continues to conduct research and educational programming in support of Nebraska's developing grape and wine industry. "The industry has grown rapidly," he writes. "In the past nine years, winery numbers have gone from one to ten and vineyard acreage has grown from less than ten acres to over 200 acres." To help commemorate the 100th anniversary of the American Society for Horticultural Science, Paul was asked to write a viticultural history, "A Century of American Viticulture," published this year in the organization's bimonthly journal Hort- Science. -- Jenny Tesar, 97A Chestnut Hill Village, Bethel, CT 06801; tel., (203) 792-8237; e-mail, jet24@cornell.edu.

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