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60 | Among all the piled-up e-mails awaiting my return from a series of trips over the winter and spring was the exciting news that Samuel Bodman has been appointed Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.Washington is now a familiar place to Sam, who served in the Bush Administration as Deputy Secretary of Commerce for more than two and a half years before moving on to the Treasury Department. Ron Demer '59 reports that Sam is enjoying the challenge of his new government assignment and says, in what may be the understatement of the year, "We have lots to do." A much briefer foray into the seat of government power was reported by Al Lippert of Mercer Island,WA, who visited President Bush in the Oval Office in December along with a student of his who won the Mathcounts National Competition. Al says he also appeared on television when the competition was broadcast on ESPN, "so I had the first two minutes' worth of my fifteen minutes of fame. Nice perk to having brilliant students."

Don Dewey, BA '65, retired at the end of October 2003 from General Reinsurance, where, he says, "I headed all business applications development and support worldwide." Don and Sandy plan to divide their time between homes in New Rochelle and Chautauqua Lake in western New York State. Also on the list of recent retirees is Michael Marks, who just stepped down as senior vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary of Alexander and Baldwin of Honolulu, HI.Mikes notes, "As general counsel for 23 years, I served longer than any general counsel of a public company in Hawaii's history."His plans include continued service on nonprofit boards, working as a lecturer in law at the U. of Hawaii, and traveling extensively overseas and to the US mainland.

Roland Philip of Cleveland Heights, OH, retired from the Ohio Permanente Medical Group after practicing general surgery for 30 years. Roland says, "I am enjoying myself and have kept myself occupied with several courses, including a Web-based bioethics course at Cleveland State U." Thomas Hunter's recent note says it clearly: "RETIRED! As of the end of '03. I'm thinking about volunteer and part-time activities, plus, of course, visits to children and grandchildren in New York City, Washington, and London. And--Cornell hockey!" Tom and wife Connie (Purick) '63 live in Ithaca, where they have easy access to Lynah Rink. Leonard Gang sends word from Incline Village, NV: "I have semi-retired for the third time, and am now limiting my law practice to mediation and arbitration."His other activities include "skiing, scuba-diving, and flying my new Cirrus SR20 airplane." Lenny's wife Roberta (Singer) '61 is kept busy lobbying for women's and children's issues at the Nevada legislature, which, he notes, "fortunately only meets every other year." The Singers divide their free time between Lake Tahoe and Las Vegas, where their two daughters and four grandchildren live; their son graduated from law school in 2004.

Another pseudo-retiree is Paul Becker, who stepped down from his position at Cummins Engine and then signed on as a research professor at the U. of Tennessee. He is now working at Oak Ridge National Labs and commuting home to Bloomington, IN, and wife Gail (Hirschmann) '62 on weekends, which involves a six-hour drive in each direction. A similar report comes from Ellie Ross Garfinkel of Nanuet, who notes that although husband Alan "sold his office, he still works there most of the time." Fortunately, Alan's new schedule still allows breaks for the Garfinkels to travel to the Bahamas, the Canyons and Las Vegas, and to take golfing vacations. They also find plenty of time to be with their five grandchildren.

Jack Wilde of Tampa, FL, thought he was winding down toward retirement when he made the transition from building chemical plants around the world to running a mechanical contracting business in the 1990s. He finds now that, "eight years later, we have well over 100 employees and retirement is nowhere in sight." Jack and Doreen celebrated their 46th wedding anniversary in January. Bob Schnur now has a 60 percent appointment at the U. of Wisconsin Law School and also continues, he says, "to practice law on the side. Reflecting my increased law school responsibilities, Betty and I have moved to a beautiful glass-andwood house in a forest near Madison, where we enjoy the ambiance and amenities of a lovely college town."

Fittingly, for someone who spent three decades in the US Army, Bill Flanagan now has two children in military service. One is stationed in Hawaii and the other one is in Germany, and Bill and Diane made recent trips from their home in Colonial Heights, VA, to visit each of them. Bill continues to work as a legislative aide in the Virginia House of Delegates and also, he says, "had the honor of chairing Senator George Allen's Military Academy Selection Committee. It's refreshing to see so many outstanding young people interested in going to a military academy." A brief but tantalizing note was sent by Harry Skilton from Malvern, PA, with his dues: "Sailed the Chesapeake with Carl and Joyce Arnold Johnson." How about filling us in on this, Harry? It must have been a memorable trip.

Our condolences to Brooke Peery Russell of Wilmington, NC, who lost her husband Frank about a year and a half ago. "Although not a Cornellian," says Brooke, "he rarely missed one of our reunions and loved Cornell. I have been traveling a lot and keeping myself busy as I am learning to adjust." Send news to -- Judy BryantWittenberg, 146 Allerton Rd., Newton,MA 02461; e-mail, jw275@cornell.edu.

61 | Among classmates serving overseas are Stephan Minikes and Steven Stein. Stephan continues to serve as the US Ambassador to the 55-member Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, headquartered in Vienna. He took part in a Berlin conference in April on the nature of anti-Semitism and how to deal with it. In his words, it was "the most significant event of its type in the post-1945 period." Steven Stein and wife Susan (Volpert) '62 live parttime in Geneva, where Steven is an international arbitrator.He continues to practice law in New York, while Susan teaches statistics at Baruch College. The Steins have five grandchildren.

Iris Figursky Litt-Vaughan is a national director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Clinical Scholars Program. Iris, who was also awarded an endowed chair at Stanford, had a mini-reunion in Santa Fe with Deanna "Dee" Palmer Kaplan, M Ed '62. Anita Hollmer Hodson is an emergency physician in Christiana, DE, and a clinical instructor at Thomas Jefferson Medical College. Anita has been spending lots of time in Saratoga County in upstate New York, where she is supervising the restoration of her 150-year-old childhood home. She's looking forward to our 45th Reunion two years from now and the warm feeling she gets when returning to Cornell.

History buffs in the class include Ellie Browner Greco and Edwin Niles. Ellie and husband Bill have been visiting historic and scenic areas of the Eastern seaboard. She is active in her local historical society and, as she promised at the last reunion, Ellie has been spending more time on family activities. Edwin is a member of the Mayflower Society and has been involved with genealogy. His other activities include mentoring in an elementary school and volunteering at nursing homes.

Art Tasker is now officially retired. He and wife Lucia moved from their house in Forest Hills, Queens, to a high-rise apartment in the area. Other recent retirees and their activities are: Mary Bissell Bavarskas (tennis, computer art, designing special reading programs and materials for pathologists), Diane BailletMeakem (golf, boating, nine grandchildren), Susan Joyner Hine (skiing in Utah, living in Shelter Island, NY), Donald Dean (having fun driving a bus at Disney World), Sabina Klein Millens (moving to a warm climate), Dave Valenza (Syracuse Highland Pipe Band and Syracuse Symphony, five grandkids), Samuel Greenblatt, MD '66 (gave up practice, still continuing to teach), Humberto "Joe" Cordero Jr., ME '63 (golf, photography, travel, the beach, gardening), Dr. Jim Baker (golf in Hilton Head, travel, reading, and a new wife, Sheila Henderson), Robert Herdt (formerly VP/Director of Agriculture at Rockefeller Foundation, now Visiting Fellow and adjunct prof. at Cornell, continuing his interest in helping developing countries), Gus Kappler, MD '65, and wife Robin (kayaking, skeet shooting, keeping up their farm in Amsterdam, NY), May Lee Ling (10th year of completing a 200-mile bike ride for cancer research), Carlo Brunori (volunteer work with conservation groups, gardening, hunting, fishing, hiking, reading), and Ellen Brock Narins (trustee of the Aurora Historical Society and guide at the Millard Fillmore House).

Don Spero and wife Nancy Chasen visited their daughter in the Anapurna foothills in Nepal. The Speros also went rafting on the Snake River in Idaho. Don maintains his rowing skills; perhaps the Big Red oarsmen could still use his powerful strokes ("Onward,make her cut the water"). Bob Stamper and wife Naomi went on a Kruger National Park safari. Juliann Powell Bidwell and husband Dan '60,MBA '61, traveled to Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia, to visit their children. The family hiked to the summit of the highest peak in SE Asia on the island of Borneo.

Will '60 and Ginny Buchanan Clark were in Prague for the marriage of their son David to a Czech. Back home in Indiana, the Clarks are busy with a variety of community activities. Charlie Hecht, LLB '63, went scuba diving in Fiji and the Solomon Islands with his significant other, Leslie Toepfer. His sculptures can be seen at charleshechtart.com. Charlie indicates optimistically that his golf handicap is approaching single digits. Pete Whiskeman and wife Donna moved to Montrose, CO, to enjoy the rural life and to have greater access to hiking, horseback riding, fly-fishing, mountain biking, and skiing. Pete reports that many newcomers to "ranch country" have come for the same reasons. Among them are several Cornellians. Marshall and Rosanna Romanelli Frank biked and hiked their way through Greece in April. On May 22, 25 class members and their guests enjoyed a tour of Sagamore Hill, Teddy Roosevelt's home and museum in Oyster Bay, NY.

Your correspondent, David Kessler, was on hand on April 25 for one of the Big Red lacrosse team's greatest triumphs in recent years. The laxmen upset the 5th-ranked Princeton Tigers 12 to 11 in an overtime thriller in Princeton. The Tigers had won the NCAA lacrosse championship six times in the past ten years. Proving they were a quality team, Princeton came back to tie the game after being down 11-8 with three minutes to go. But Cornell prevailed two minutes into OT to the jubilation of the many Cornellians in the crowd. Have a great summer, everyone! --David S.Kessler, dsk15@cornell.edu.

62 | Watch your mailbox! This year's freshman class will be required to read Franz Kafka's The Trial. You may know that each entering class is assigned a book to read, and this is the choice for 2004. Although you're not required to read it, you'll be receiving a copy and it's hoped that we can generate some book discussion among classmates.

Jane Barrows Tatibouet reports that she's recovered from the effects of a ruptured aneurysm in her brain and feels "like Rip Van Winkle catching up with life." Jane is back into the hotel development and consulting business. She is also a member of the Board of Regents for the ten-campus U. of Hawaii. She and Andre are "at last" settled in the new home they built on the site of their old one in Honolulu.

Bettis Laboratory in Pittsburgh announces that Dr. Sam Harkness is manager of materials technology there. Among his current projects is one funded by NASA providing propulsion to the moons of Jupiter. Sam and his wife live in McMurray, PA.

By the time this sees print, you'll have received the annual News-and-Dues solicitation from the class. Please be the first on your block to respond! --Jan McClayton Crites, 2779 Dellwood Dr., Lake Oswego, OR 97034; e-mail, jmc50@cornell.edu.

63 | Some very good news from the Cornell Alumni Federation involving our class president! Ed Butler, MS '65, and wife Nancy (Taylor) '64 are among the 2004 Frank H.T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Award winners. They will be honored at a special banquet during Homecoming Weekend this fall. Congratulations! We are very fortunate to have Ed as our class president as well. You will have received the News and Dues letter by the time you read this column and I hope you have responded by now. A bonus this year for paying your dues will be to receive a copy of the book The Trial by Franz Kafka. This is the book for the Class of 2008 Freshman Reading Project. Class officers who met in January were given the opportunity to participate, and our officers decided to include this as an incentive to duespayers.

John Wagner is the chief landscape architect for Weston and Sampson Engineers, a top 500 engineering firm of 200 employees. John's company was privileged to participate in the permitting, design, construction, and dedication of the Massachusetts Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Worcester, MA. John got another bachelor's degree and his master's at U. of Massachusetts. He then went to Vietnam from 1965-1967 as a company commander, Corps of Engineers, Airborne, Combat. He and wife Joy have three daughters who graduated from UMass, Mt. Ida, and Framingham State. John and Joy also have eight grandchildren. John served as our 20th Reunion chairman and is pleased to have Cornell graduates as employees. He states: "Cornell was the most difficult and the greatest experience of my life." I think we all agree with that.

Elenita Eckberg Brodie wrote that Vicki Fielding Maxant visited her in Orlando in February. The highlights of the visit were viewing the Dale Chihuly exhibit at the Orlando Museum of Art and snorkeling with manatees. Rochelle "Shelley" Davis Mandelbaum and husband Donald (Harvard '61) celebrated their 41st anniversary in 2003. Shelley had helped organize a Cornell reunion of the School of Nursing Class of 1963. The Mandelbaums have three children and six grandchildren. Shelley owns Luxury World Travel by Shelley. She arranges dream vacations, especially cruises, with concierge services. She and Donald have traveled around the world on various cruise lines. Shelley is also a professional photographer with stock photos and transparencies taken all over the world. I wonder what happened to the nursing career!

Bob Freeman still has the Buena Vista Cafe in San Francisco and the Water Street Grille in Sausalito, CA. He invites anyone to stop by for an Irish coffee! Robert and Arline Kramer live in Roslyn, NY. Robert and Martin Garfield '64 are partners in oral and maxillofacial surgery. His hobby is cooking and he has taken an Italian cooking course at Adult University (CAU) in the Hotel school. The Kramers' travels have taken them to San Francisco, Las Vegas, Florida, and Hawaii. Robert,ME '66, and Linda Eakin Rakowski '64 are in Athens, OH, where Robert accepted the chair of biological sciences at Ohio U. He was glad to see that Cornell changed the Chemical Engineering name to encompass biology. He feels that Cornell chemical engineers can do just about anything!

Charles and Nancy Reisler Wexler have two children and one grandchild. Daughter Karen is an attorney, triathlete, and mother of one. Son Michael is a psychiatrist practicing in Santa Barbara, CA. Nancy is the author of Mama Can't Remember Anymore: Care Management of Aging Parents and Loved Ones. She is also a licensed marriage and family therapist and professional geriatric care manager. Nancy also rescues older dogs, has season tickets to Dodgers baseball, swims, walks, gardens, and is just busy! Lewis and Carol Childs are living in Rochester, NY. Lewis is recently retired from Monroe County. He started his own private practice specializing in public works training facilities, small institutional projects, restaurants, and residential. His last project with the County won APWA (NYS) Project of the Year, RCAIA Design Award, and NYACE Gold Award.

Among many classmates who celebrated 40th wedding anniversaries last year were Richard '62 and Neil Ann Stuckey Levine. The Levines have two sons and five grandchildren. Son John (Purdue '91) is VP Counterbalanced Sales, Yale,Materials Handling Corp. Russell (Michigan '94) is director of production, NHL Ice. Neil is an independent scholar focusing on immigration history and is busy writing and speaking. She spends as much time as she can with the grandchildren. She is also on the Board of Directors of the Cornell Club of NY and is now a member of the Cornell Council for a four-year term.

Marion Travalini Rodd moved to Ventura, CA, in 2003 and would love to hear from Cornellians in the area. She has daughters Allison Rodd Ceppi '92 and Amy Rodd Mackenzie (Colgate '94), who is in medical school at Drexel in Philadelphia. Herb and Rhoda Rahn Cohen, MS '64, are in East Brunswick, NJ. Rhoda is a senior survey researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton, NJ. She is currently directing studies of the national School Lunch Program for the US Dept. of Agriculture. That's all for this month! Pay your dues! --Nancy Bierds Icke, 42 Campus Ct., Racine, WI 53402; e-mail, icke@execpc.com.

64 | This is always an awkward column because it comes to you just after we've all met at reunion and so risks being old news. But still, the more "news" I enter here (based of course on your steady input) the better, for not all of us made it to reunion. So at the risk of repetition--here goes! A full Reunion Report will appear in the September/October issue.

Mixed news from James Giberti. I got an e-mail from him in February that he was in a head-on automobile collision four years ago and is now disabled and retired. This aside, he runs a small breakfast/lunch restaurant where he lives (Wareham, MA) and is involved in town activities (finance committee, capital planning, fire district, and the local high school alumni association). He says that, otherwise, things are great and pretty "laid back." Jim has two grown sons.

Patricia Seaver recently relocated from New Jersey to Potomac,MD, where she is expanding "Positive Transitions," her life- and executive-coaching practice, while continuing to work with family and matrimonial law attorneys as a co-mediator and consultant in divorce settlements. Pat is a licensed psychotherapist and diplomate in clinical social work and a Life Coach. Before founding her own company, she was EVP and COO for Cellcom Corp., a national reseller of cellular phone service. She encourages classmates to check out her website, www.4positivetransitions.com. She was looking forward to making contact with fellow Cornellians in the capital area (which, given our large and active presence there, I'm sure she has). Pat has a grown son and daughter and four grandchildren.

Matthew Sonfield is still at Hofstra U., where he holds an endowed professorship in interdisciplinary business.Wife Judy (Jayson) '66 retired from social work several years ago and now runs a small garden design business. They have two grown sons. William Jolly is an environmental program manager for the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission.Wife Carol (Blau) '65 is also with the state, as a senior policy analyst/advisor in the governor's Executive Policy Office. Bill and Carol, still living in Olympia, have two grown daughters and enjoy theater, camping, canoeing, and backpacking.

Judy Makowsky has re-married and is now Judy Goldfein, living with husband Mort in NYC. She's a regional director for Emily's List, which helps elect prochoice women Democrats to political office. She is also chair of "Women in Need," a NYC provider of shelter and services to homeless women and their families. Her activities include photography, tennis, and hiking. Tony De Laurentis wrote that he will have missed reunion. He and wife Carole instead celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary with 200-plus guests (!) on June 12, the only weekend in June he could book a hotel ballroom big enough close to their Crofton,MD, home.He says he plans to make our 45th.

Mary Ludlow Bookout retired from teaching and now is "actively enjoying" volunteering at her church, with the Interfaith Hospitality Network working with homeless families, and for 4-H.Mary lives in Rochester, NY, and has two grown children. Another of her activities in the last five years has been helping older family members dismantle households and make new homes in smaller quarters (including organizing family celebrations in nursing homes).Wistar Morris sent a wistful letter on growing older (he spoke of his few remaining hairs changing colors and his few remaining neurons trying to communicate with one another) and also told of writing a book after retiring a few years ago for his three grown daughters on what it was like going to work in the financial world and how much fun he and their mother had.Wistar planned to be at reunion--his first.

Albert Meier is another recent retiree, he from being a Cooperative Extension Specialist (4-H) for Colorado State U. Al and wife Sandi live in Windsor, CO, and have seven children and 13 grandchildren. Al's interests include hunting, fishing, and RV-ing. Not retired is Margaret Jones Jensen, gift shop manager at the Cortina Inn in her and husband Lawrence's hometown of Rutland,VT. Peggy's activities include VP of the Board of Sunset Home, an assisted living facility for women in Rutland, and member of the Board of Region 4 Trustees for the Vermont Symphony. The Jensens, who have two grown sons and two grandsons, also enjoy sailing (they have a 34-foot sloop), skiing, and walking. And Roberta Fisher is definitely not retired. In fact, she wrote on her News Form: "I read with dismay that people are retiring. I just changed jobs!" Specifically, Bobby's now Director of Administrative Services for the Steuben County (NY) Community Services in Bath, near her Seneca Falls home.Work must agree with her, but she writes that Tai Chi, yoga, and knitting keep her "de-stressed." This last spring, Bobby also went to Paris to visit one of her two daughters, her first visit there in 25 years.

Well, sorry, Bobby, but here's yet another recent retiree: Fred Bellinger, who writes, "Retirement is great!" Fred retired from Land O'Lakes more than three years ago. He lives in Indianapolis, but travels frequently, most recently to Wisconsin, Tennessee, Florida, Ohio, and Illinois. And yet another recent retiree is Alexandra Kressel Sussman, from her position as a supervising administrative law judge for the NYS Dept. of Motor Vehicles. Sandy, who has two grown sons, enjoys singing, reading, serving on an ACLU Legal Panel, and traveling from her Slingerlands home--most recently to Alaska, the Caribbean, San Francisco,Montreal, NYC, and Florida. She says of retirement: "I was born to be retired! I love getting up late."

Ruth "Sherry" Northrup Tyler is a volunteer for Refugee Resettlement, her county medical alliance (she lives with husband David '62, MS '64, a surgeon, in Fayetteville, NY), various garden projects, and church work. Their leisure time activities include hiking the High Peaks in the Adirondack Mountains. Sherry and David have two grown children.Word from Arnold and Mary Cantor Hammer, both of whom will have attended reunion, is that he's a recently retired attorney; she's an HR consultant and outplacement counselor. They live in Rockville, MD, and recently traveled to Israel, Spain, Canada, and the Caribbean.

Marcia Goldschlager Epstein recently attended a meeting of PCCW (President's Council of Cornell Women), which topic that particular weekend was Women in the Arts and Entertainment and featured several classmate speakers, including: Sally Greenstein Jacobs, who is now a botanical artist; journalist and author Nancy Dunhoff Mills; and Eileen Corwin Mason, Senior Deputy Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, who made a dinner speech about her career there. Nancy Alfred Persily, Alix Schneeberg Beeney, Lynda Gould, Edie Lederer '63, Toby Kleban Levine, and Carolyn Chauncey Neuman also were present.

That's it! To all who attended reunion, some of this was probably old news. But that's all the more reason to keep sending in your updates--the next reunion is five years distant! Be sure also to visit our class website, http://classof64.alumni.cornell.edu. --Bev Johns Lamont, 720 Chestnut St., Deerfield, IL 60015; e-mail, blamont@tribune.com.

65 | Ronald Harris reports that he is still working for ASG Renaissance, a small consulting company in Dearborn,MI; his major activities are joint ventures between Ford and International Truck and Engine Corp.His son Andrew '98 received his MBA from the U. of Michigan and has accepted a position with ZS Associates, a consulting company, and will be working in their downtown Chicago office. Daughter Elana (Penn '96) lives in Washington, DC, where she is managing editor of B'nai Brith magazine. Ron and wife Marcia took a great trip and bus tour to the Canadian Rockies. They say the sights were magnificent; they took pictures like crazy and highly recommend it. They were joined by friends from Cleveland, Jane and Jordan Lefko, JD '60, and are planning another trip together to the canyons in the Southwest.

Judy Alpern Intraub wrote, "After over 30 years with the NYC Board of Education, I have finally retired.We are now trying to decide what to do with our new freedom. Summer and fall was in Killington, VT, the beginning of winter we were in Queens, NY, and then we spent the rest of the time in Palm Beach, FL. Now we are back home in Queens and getting ready for spring and summer in Vermont.What a life. All the choices are great and we have time to enjoy them. I hope to find other classmates in Florida."Anne Evans Estabrook, MBA '66, was featured on the cover of Walk to Washington 2004, an NJBIZ publication, with an interview regarding health care and its costs. She is the owner of Elberon Development Co., a real estate holding company, and the first female chairman of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce.

There was reunion in the air at the home of class president David Roitman this past holiday season--family reunion, that is. He and Linda (Lomazoff) '66 were joined for the festivities by their three Cornell sons Brian '90, Mitchell '92, and Ari '98, along with daughters-in-law Sonia (Lees) '90 and Jamie. Also very much present were their seven grandchildren, the oldest of whom is 5-1/2. "It's good reunion experience," claims David. "I never knew how daunting it can be providing activities and three meals a day for that number of people!"

Speaking of reunion, preparations are under way now for our 40th, and George Arangio, MD '69, and David Tetor are requesting more help, especially for contacting classmates who are living in the southwest, had any musical endeavors, or are engineers. If interested, you can reach George at casarangio@aol.com; tel., (610) 285-6916, or Dave at drt4@cornell.edu; tel., (845) 868-1830. George also wrote, "Judy and I recently returned from a week in ‘Bella Roma.' As always, we were awed by the antiquity and beauty of the Vatican City, Pantheon, and Villa Borghese.We drank wine in Frascati, a hill town just outside Rome, and toured Assisi and Orvieto. We are grandparents. Daughter Julianna '96 and Thomas Harrison '96 have Thomas, nearly 2, and another on the way. Daughter Kathleen (Ithaca College '98) and Brian Kunz have Kathleen, 18 months, and are also expecting in July."

Mark your calendars now for June 9-12, 2005. Please send news or updates to  --Dennis Norfleet, 3187 State Rt. 48, Oswego, NY 13126; tel., (315) 342-0457; email, dpn5@cornell.edu; Ronald Harris, 5203 Forestdale Court,West Bloomfield, MI 48322; tel., (248) 788-3397; e-mail, rsh28@cornell.edu; or Joan Elstein Rogow, 9 Mason Farm Rd., Flemington, NJ 08822; tel., (908) 782-7028.

66 | Joyce Wilcox Graff, MA '67, writes from Brookline, MA, that her son is doing wonderfully and is nearing completion of his MBA at Babson. She is now the full-time executive director of the VHL Family Alliance, working to cure VHL and related cancers. Jeffrey Collins writes that it was a difficult year because of the loss of his mom, but his dad is still doing remarkably well at 93. Jeff just completed his first year as Vice President, Transaction Advisory Group with A.M. Pappas & Associates, a focused venture capital and consulting company based in Research Triangle Park, NC.He recently signed a consulting contract with an Indian pharmaceutical company, and just returned from the first of what will be many trips to India.He writes that their biotechnology centers are absolutely fascinating.A major vacation trip with his wife Rose this past year was to northern Spain, starting in Barcelona, driving through the Pyrenees on the Spanish side, and finishing up in Bilbao and the incredible Guggenheim Museum. The scenery was gorgeous, the weather perfect, and the food outstanding. Jeff continues to keep in touch with several '66ers, including Ron Goldstock, Bill Blockton, Rick Mezan, Dick Fogel, Steve Moldof, and Rich Turbin, although he doesn't get to see them as often as he'd like. Rose started a new job in February 2003 as a medical editor with Campbell Alliance, a Raleigh, NC-based pharmaceutical company, after 18 years at Glaxo.

Brian Cranston is living in Bedford, NH, and is enjoying substitute teaching. It gives him something to do, but most importantly it gives him a connection to the younger generation.He is even going to start playing hockey again with some of the eighth grade teachers, most of whom are young enough to be his children. "You've got to love it," he says. From San Juan, Cesar A. Carrero, ME '67, writes that, thankfully, everyone in his family is in good health. He's not practicing engineering too much, but is involved in various real estate deals. Cesar enjoys cruises, traveling, and just seeing the world with wife Mayra.

Marilyn Friedman was kind enough to send her forms back typed and so easy to read.Marilyn has had an interesting "mid-life correction" as she terms it. She switched careers from being a real estate attorney to a design and decorative arts historian. About six years ago, she stopped practicing law and enrolled in a master's program at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York. She graduated in 2002 and her thesis has just been published as a book, Selling Good Design: Promoting the Early Modern Interior (Rizzoli International Publications). It's about a series of exhibitions that took place at New York department stores in the 1920s to popularize modern interior design. She writes that it's all very exciting. She lectured at Cornell last spring on the topic of her book, and at Sotheby's in New York in October (Nancy Melzak Corbin attended the Sotheby's lecture). She also lectured on the West Coast this past February. Husband Tom Block and children Ali and Jon (Yale '04 and Dartmouth '02, respectively) have adapted quite well to this change. If anybody has any ideas for book two, she's open to suggestions.

Diann Goodman Mann sent a note from her winter house in Palm Beach Gardens. The other 5-1/2 months she lives in Jackson,WY. She and her husband love the combination and think it is perfect. She didn't attend the Hotel school, but writes that she has often felt as if she were running a small hotel or B&B the past 15 years because of the visits of friends and family, which she loves. Each summer they take a driving trip through the West. This past September they rented a houseboat on Lake Powell. "What a wonderful experience.Words can't describe the beauty of this random little place on the Colorado River at the Glen Canyon Dam in Page, AZ."

Bruce Mansdorf and wife Rebecca of Pacific Palisades, CA, returned to the Hill this past fall and participated in a wonderful event hosted by President Jeffrey Lehman '77 for alumni with children at Cornell. Congrats to William and Bobbie Kilberg, who became grandparents for the first time on Oct. 27, '02 with the birth of William Jackson "Jack" Scheimonhorn. Nov. 11, '03 brought Jack twin sisters Kayla and Riley. This news is a little late in getting to us, but we're happy to share it. Bill Wilson (St.Michaels, MD) has become very active in the Cornell Football Assn. (CFA), which brings him to Ithaca several times a year. Others from the Class of '66 active in CFA events are Dave Hanlon, Phil Ratner, MBA '71, Jim Docherty, MBA '68, Marty Sponaugle, and Fred Kaiser.

We have lots of news from Dennis Lutz, ME '67, of S. Burlington, VT. He writes that son Matt was married last summer on the shores of Lake Champlain. He and his wife are teachers in the greater Burlington area, and Matt coaches basketball and lacrosse. Dennis and wife Carol acquired a great new dog--Wigs, an Australian shepherd who has dragged him into and hooked him on training. On the downside, he says, he keeps pulling muscles; on the upside, he has lost weight and his blood pressure has dropped. Dennis was recently assigned as Joint (Army-Air) Assistant Adjutant General for the Vermont National Guard with the assignment of creating a joint forces headquarters for the State of Vermont. This will be his last assignment in the National Guard prior to his retirement in July '04. He plans to spend time visiting National Guard soldiers this spring in California, South Carolina, Connecticut, and New York.When he graduated Cornell and was commissioned as an ROTC lieutenant, Dennis never thought he would still be in at age 59, survive Vietnam, and reach the rank of Brigadier General. -- Bill Blockton, rbsfabrics@aol.com; Susan Rockford Bittker, ladyscienc@aol.com; and John Miers, John_Miers@nih.gov.

67 | "2003 was a big year, with daughter Katie getting married in New York City,"writes Candy Baldwin Richards (Scottsdale, AZ; candyrichards@cox.net). "We moved to Longport, NJ, for the summer and have now become ‘official snow birds' (how I hate that phrase!) in Arizona. To move is hard enough, but to be thought of as ‘birds' is quite degrading. Arizona is all that we'd hoped for as I get ready for a swim on January 9. I lost a few years to poor kidney health, but now feel very well, thank heavens. I have been in touch with Tina Forrester Cleland '68, following her adventure in Africa with her son. Judy Brown Lillis and Carol Borelli surfaced over Christmas and what a treat that was! Judy suggested a reunion for several of us ‘while we can still get around.' Excellently put, for the aging Class of '67 members."

"My daughter Christie is a junior at Cornell," reports Catherine Blaffer Taylor (Dallas, TX; Catherine@trinkie.com). "She's majoring in health sciences and playing on the women's varsity polo team. I suspect she is majoring in horses. I am currently the president of the Park Cities Republican Women. Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick appointed me to the committee to elect the Texas State Poet Laureate, the Texas State Musician, and the Texas State Artists (two- and three-dimension)."

Noël Relyea, PhD '73 (Cupertino, CA; nrelyea@yahoo.com) married William Wood '70 last October. She reports the birth in December 2002 of her first grandson to her daughter Merry Catanuto. Richard Salsberg (Montvale, NJ; rsalsberg@njlegalink.com) happily reports that son Brian '95 and wife Abbie welcomed a son in June 2003, and son Corey and his wife Sandra Loeb Salsberg '97, MD '01, live in Corona del Mar, CA. Richard recently became head of the labor and employment law group at Scarinci & Hollenbeck LLC in Lyndhurst, NJ.

Carole Newman Allen (Arlington, MA; allen@massmed.org) closed her private pediatrics practice and moved it to Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Somerville, MA, where she became director of pediatrics in November 2002. She and husband Thomas '66, MEng '67, report that son David '97 is teaching fifth and sixth grade science at Trinity School in Manhattan, while daughter Abbie (Sarah Lawrence '03) is teaching for this year in a bilingual school in Honduras.

Ted Feldmeier (Eliot, ME; joanfeldmeier@yahoo.com) observes that this has been an "uneventful year--but a good one for both Joan and me; retired, both of us." It took the U. of Connecticut's winning both men's and women's NCAA basketball titles this year to get Prof. Howard Reiter (Coventry, CT; howard. reiter@uconn.edu) to confess that "me and the missus watched the first half of both NCAA championship games on TV until we fell asleep."Howard now chairs the political science department at UConn.

Your reporter has spent most of March and all of April on a court modernization gig in Skopje, Macedonia, where I can report as of now that there's been no earthquake since the one in 1963 that leveled most of the city and left the clock on the front of the old railway station stopped at 5:17, when the quake struck. This is yet another installment in what appears to be a never-ending effort by my wife and me--working independently--to work our way through all of the Balkans. -- Richard B.Hoffman, 2925 28th St.NW,Washington, DC 20008; e-mail, rhoffman@erols.com.

68 | My pile of news ran out with this column, so I hope you sent some information to us when you received your annual News and Dues mailing recently. Let me urge you to write if you haven't done so yet, and to pay your class dues, too. I always look forward to hearing from you.

The first news I report involves me, your class correspondent. After 15 years as a corporate lawyer and then 17 in the investment business at Putnam Investments in Boston, I am retiring at the end of April, which means I will have left by the time this column comes out. At the present, I plan to take some time off and then explore other opportunities in business. I have particular interest in serving as a corporate or fund director. It's exciting to consider a variety of different possibilities. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any thoughts to share about this.

Turning to some regular class news, Chuck Levitan and his wife Ellen live in Montville, NJ. Chuck is a senior vice president of investments with Salomon Smith Barney.His son Craig works for Xerox in New York City, and son Russ '95 works for Campbell's Soup Co. Chuck and Ellen keep in touch with Gerry Levitz and wife Pam. Elizabeth Cadbury and husband Arthur Borror live in Canada. Elizabeth teaches English at a college outside Montreal and sings professionally in her spare time. Last year she participated in two performances at Carnegie Hall with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Elizabeth remarried in September 2000 and divides her time between activities in Canada and another home in Pittsfield, NH, thereby putting much mileage on her car. Her husband is a retired professor of biology and ornithology at the U. of New Hampshire, and they vacation at interesting locations, watching birds and butterflies. They both are activists in environmental education.

Joan Buchsbaum Lindquist and husband Lee '66 have moved from Los Angeles to the magnificent Pacific Northwest, specifically northern Idaho. Lee has devel- oped a medical practice in Coeur D'Alene. The Lindquists have a mountain home nestled among the Douglas firs and ponderosa pines overlooking a sparkling lake. Joan reports a busy life with skiing, biking, hiking, kayaking, running, and grandchildren.

I had a very delightful breakfast recently with Steve, MBA '70, JD '71, and Sharon Lawner Weinberg, PhD '71. Steve is a partner with the New York firm of Kronish, Lieb,Weiner & Hellman and is active in international legal activities with Interlaw. Sharon is a vice provost at NYU and professor of statistics, as well as an author of a leading textbook in the field. Their daughter Carolyn is graduating from Harvard Business School in June, and other daughter Allison works at Bain & Co. in Boston, having graduated from Harvard Business School as well.

Jack Eisenberg is with the Rochester firm of Harter, Secrest & Emery. Jerry Fox and wife Ronnie live in Cupertino, CA. Jerry retired after a long and distinguished career at IBM. Among his other activities, he plays a lot of tennis and ushers at San Francisco Giants games. Jerry also does tax consulting and some work in the airline business. Paul Joskow lives in Brookline, MA, with wife Barbara and daughter Suzanne, who attends Yale. Paul is a professor of economics at MIT, and he lectures and consults throughout the world.

Jon Vinograd and wife Meg live in Saranac Lake, NY. Jon is retired from a career with the state of New York and is involved with real estate now.Meg is a speech pathologist in private practice and they have twin daughters born in 1977. Alexandra '00 is a medical student, other daughter Erika is a social worker who practices in Boston, and son Ross is Cornell '03. John has also been active with the Lake Placid Synagogue. --Gordon H. Silver, 20 Rowes Wharf, Apt. 510, Boston,MA 02109; tel., (617) 443-4174; e-mail, gordon_silver@comcast.net.

69 | Even though we have just enjoyed our 35th Reunion, the deadline for this column was last April. Look for Reunion Reports in the September/October issue. Since graduation, Ed Wilson has flown a lot, both commercially and privately. Since obtaining a pilot's license in 1979, he has criss-crossed the skies of Japan, Europe, and North America. Over the past year, he flew to Gettysburg to view the battlefields and to Severville, TN, for a family reunion. Business travel has taken him to Taiwan, India, and Argentina. On recent trips, Ed was fortunate to see both the Taj Mahal and the Grand Canyon. Ed tells us he is still on the Board of Directors of the Cornell Society of Engineers with Bill Bruno, ME '71, and Ken White, ME '70, as well as co-chair of the 2004 CSE conference along with Bill. Ed is also a liaison to the Cornell Federation for the Lake Ontario area.Meanwhile, Donald Tofias is still building his Wclass yachts and racing them around the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and New England. He spent June through October sailing between Spain, France,Monaco, and Italy, before returning to our part of the world. Donald also mentions that his son Michael '00 is studying for a PhD in political science at Duke, and his daughter Alissa '03 works in Washington, DC.While cruising at sea last August, Stephen Reynolds, MBA '71, married Judi Ashenfelter. Then, in September, they performed a second ceremony at Lighthouse Point State Park overlooking beautiful Monterey Bay in Santa Cruz, CA. His three lovely stepdaughters Chelsea, 14, Hannah, 13, and Lillie, 10, served as bridesmaids. The family lives in the mountains above Los Gatos, CA. Stephen is a mediator with Common Ground Mediation Services, and Judi manages a medical practice. Stephen also writes that Mike Madden came out of retirement four years ago to be the executive director of Habitat for Humanity in Tacoma,WA.

James Freeman retired in 2003, but serves as secretary treasurer for the Casey Jones Chapter of the Cotton Belt Division of the Train Collectors Assn. His travels include a Baltic cruise and the Canadian Maritimes. Since retiring from the Army, Myron Bilyj has worked for Anteon Corp. as a systems engineer. He regularly visits relatives in New York and "sometimes swings through Ithaca just to make certain Cornell is still there," writes his wife Cynthia, owner of a bridal business. The couple's children have both graduated from college, Ian from Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. in '96 and Sharon from James Madison U. in '99. James "Don" Donnalley was motivated to change his career to banking so he could live in the Vail, CO, area and spend more time skiing, biking, and hiking. He and wife Judy have recently traveled to Italy and France on a wine tour, visited Cape Cod, and hiked in the Adirondacks. "Adventures in the mountains," is how Ahmee Hewitt and wife Trace describe living in Boulder, CO, with their 15-year-old daughter who is an endurance runner and ski racer.

Novelist and publicist Stan Jones lives and works in Anchorage, AK. His latest novel, Shaman Pass, came out in 2003. East Hampton, NY, is now home to Gloria Jacobsen Lang, where she has just finished renovating a 32-year-old house. Gloria is an instructor in home products merchandising at the Fashion Inst. of Technology in NYC, organizes networking sessions within the home products industry, and mentors Cornell students. She also writes that she is an administrative member of PCCW, and her son Andrew attends Northeastern U.

Several classmates bring us up-to-date on family news. Glen Rasmussen reports being a consultant. He lives in Walnut Creek, CA, with his wife Susan, a librarian. Their daughter Kristin is a veterinarian, and son David attends college. Zell Berman Rosenfelt's older daughter Natalie '01 is studying law at the U. of Virginia, and younger daughter Marjorie (U. of Pennsylvania '03) is teaching English in Provence, France. Alan Shineman's daughter Diana '02 is in her second year of molecular biology at the U. of Pennsylvania's school of medicine, and son Doug attends the school of communications at Boston U.Writes Alan: "A movie he wrote, directed, filmed, and edited was judged Best Student Production at the Gulf Coast Film and Video Festival last September." Caroline Grace Casler was widowed in 1999 and is now a self-employed RN doing part-time home care and helping to raise her grandchildren Kieran, 7, and Nancy, 5. Caroline has two daughters: Jennifer is a working mom married to an NYPD officer, and Kathleen is pursuing a BS in nursing from Adelphia U., with plans to become a nurse practitioner in pediatrics.

John Berkoben writes, "When my son was choosing a college in 2000, he was torn between attending a full-fledged engineering school (i.e., Cornell) and a smaller boutique program (i.e., Harvard). Although he chose the latter, it is of interest that both the Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science (Venkatesh Narayanamurti, PhD '65) and his senior design project advisor (Matthew Welsh '96) are Cornell alumni.Maybe it is possible to get the best of both worlds." Douglas and Judith Feinstein Marcus '70 have two children who are Cornellians. Rebecca '05 is in the College of Human Ecology, and Joshua '02 is an Arts and Sciences graduate. David Halpert wonders if he and his wife Kelly have the youngest children in the class. Colton is 5 and Owen turned 2. David notes that this is his first and only marriage. The Halpert family relocated to California in 2002, where David started an investment management business. David had spent ten years in senior management at Cantor Fitzgerald in New York. -- Arda Coyle Boucher, 21 Hemlock Hill Rd., Amherst, NH 03031.

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