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40 |Class President Bob Schuyler lost his friend Norman Briggs of Fullerton, CA. Norman earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering at Cornell, where he was a "wearer of the C" in 150-lb. football and a violinist in the university orchestra. His working years were spent in aeronautical engineering and, later, as president of his own real estate firm in Southern California.He continued to serve Cornell as a class officer and council member.We were also informed of the death of Dr. Robert Griffith. June Lash reported the death of her husband and our classmate Ralph on Sept. 12, '03.

We always have news of Bette Limpert Mayhew (10429 W. Monterosa Dr., Sun City, AZ). She and daughter Beth took their first cruise aboard the Norwegian Sky to Canada and Alaska. At a sorority gathering in June, Bette received an award for being an active member of Kappa Gamma for 65 years. She continues to be active in the AAUW. A switch in locale for Ruth Maughan Russell: she moved to 1010 Waltham St., # 427, Lexington MA, leaving sunny Sarasota, FL. This keeps her in easier touch with her son Alan Maughan MacRobert '72, who lives close by. Ruth sends an affectionate "hello" to sophomore year Balch roommate Marge Baker Tummons.

Certainly not retired is Dr. Thressa Campbell Stadtman, MS '42. She has reached what I think must be the peak of her career, working in the biochemical research lab at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. In December 2003 she helped present a symposium celebrating the 30th anniversary of their discovery of Selenium as an essential component of an enzyme, and the identification of the Selenium in Selenocysteine. She lectured at an international symposium in Rome in September 2003, as well as a symposium in Ventura, CA. She also lectures in chemistry departments at universities in Los Angeles,Auburn,AL, and Louisville, KY. Thresssa is married.No children, but what a contribution of worldwide service to all humanity! She can be reached at tcstadtman@nih.gov.

Laurence Gardner spends winters at 14186 Cancun Ave., Fort Pierce, FL.He has been a limited farm consultant for many years. He also enjoys repairing his home and serving on the Bath Country Club Clubhouse and Pro Shop committees.His travels have taken him to Duke U., Wintergreen Golf and Ski Resort, Fort Augustine, and Key West. His son Dean has been promoted to restaurant development manager where he works.His granddaughter will be graduating from U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in May 2004. James Trousdell, MD '43, is a retired physican living in Oyster Bay, NY. He enjoys gardening and following sports activities. He corresponds with Roy Dietrich of Stamford, CT, and Al Lotz of Buffalo, NY. James spends summertime in his house in Townsend, VT. He and wife Marjorie have four children, six granddaughters, and one great-grandson.

William Fisher (26206 Mesa Dr., Carmel,CA 93923) is retiring s-l-o-w-l-y from the practice of law.He is active in the community, including the art museum, York Prep School, and the symphony. His other interests include skiing,music, tennis, rowing, canoeing, reading, aviation (now grounded), mountaineering (now grounded), and woodworking. Bill spent four years in WWII and two years in Korea in the US Army.At Cornell he was on the freshman and varsity crew, as well as in ROTC and Quill and Dagger. He has enjoyed cruises, including an icebreaker trip through the Northwest Passage. Quoting Bill, he has "two daughters (approaching their 50s), one wife, one ex-wife." -- Carol Clark Petrie, Box 8, Hartford, NY 12838; tel., (518) 632-5237; e-mail, floydharwood@juno.com.

41 | Marjorie Lee Treadwell and husband Don continue their busy lives in Naples, FL, and Grosse Ile, MI. They are enjoying physical comfort, thanks to modern chemistry, and are busy on committees at the Naples Country Club and the retirement complex, Glenview, where they live in the winter. Betty Carpenter Block sent greetings last Christmas, saying she and husband Roland are in good health and are able to travel to visit their son in Vermont, as well as entertain their two daughters who live nearby in western New York.

It was a nice surprise to hear from Betty Niles Gray, who has been living at The Forest in Durham, NC, for the last ten years. A broken leg in August did not prevent Betty and husband John from making a trip to Costa Rica and Panama on a small French cruise ship in November. Betty, as usual, is continuing to be very active--growing flowers (14 orchid plants) and vegetables and playing bridge and golf. Shirley Richards Darmer is happy to write that she and her husband have no major health problems and are able to leave snowy, frigid Albany, NY, for Punta Gorda, FL, for three winter months. In the summer they live in Northville, NY, in the Adirondacks.

Mary Munson Benson and husband Clarence celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in Lansingville, NY, at a surprise party their daughters organized. The Bensons stay close to home these days, enjoying their large family, many of whom live nearby. Barbara Benson Mansell reports she is keeping body and soul together. She is very happy with Medicare, which paid $166,000 to the hospital and untold amounts to surgeons for her October 2002 heart surgery--and she is still alive! She's able to travel to meetings and to visit family-- Dorothy Talbert Wiggans, 415 Savage Farm Dr., Ithaca, NY 14850-6504, tel., (607) 266- 7629; e-mail, flower@localnet.com.

Bill Webber spent last Christmas visiting children and grandchildren in Minneapolis and St. Paul.He planned to be at the Assn. of Class Officers (CACO) Mid-Winter Meeting in New York City in late January. Jean Way Schoonover, class treasurer, and Eleanor Slack Foster-Randles, MS '78, past president, will be there with Bill also.

Walker "Pete" Peterson Jr. should be recognized as a member of our class. He doubts we remember him, as he graduated from Lehigh after his dad stopped paying tuition at Cornell. "I have lived in Baltimore all my life, and retired from a small manufacturing company at age 75. I have three daughters--one went to Wells College. I lost my wife, who died of cancer three years ago. I've been abroad several times and soon will go to New Zealand, where I was stationed in WWII. I see Bob Herrmann and Travers Nelson. I also have a friend who has a summer place in Jaffery, NH. He wanted to see Ray Kruse, but Ray was sick."

Bob and Elsie Harley have moved to 976 Tracey Lane SW, Decatur, AL 35601. "We have downsized for the third time. Our daughter Gretchen is at nearby Spring Lake. At age 85, it is not a bad idea to live near some spring." Howard Schuck, MS '43, has written a book about the threat of an atom bomb. He can send you a description of the book, or the book itself, if you write to him at 14000 N. Lobelia Way, Tucson, AZ 85737-7142.

Two of our favorite honorary classmembers, Jeanne and Ted Thoren, are great correspondents. Ted has some health problems. He still likes to hear from former Cornell athletes he coached in many sports. He was head coach in baseball and still stages the annual alumni game at reunion. It would be a most welcome tonic if those who played for him would write Ted at 3 Sandra Place, Ithaca, NY 14850. Ted also mentioned that present baseball head coach Tom Ford uses current endowment funds to pay air fares to the Sun Belt area for pre-Ivy League games.Why not honor Ted by giving to the Fund?

Need the address of a classmate? Just let me know. -- Ralph Antell, Beaufort Towers, 7015 Carnation St., #408, Richmond, VA 23225.

42 | Trust the New York Times to feature our Edward Rogers, who passed away recently, in their "Lives They Lived" for 2003. I met up with Ted at one of our reunions and learned he had produced the 1952 "Checkers Speech," making Richard Nixon look very good, indeed, before 60 million viewers, thus becoming Nixon's image maker. Ted, at age 30, had produced "The Lone Ranger." In 1956, he brought Nixon to Cornell for a televised Q & A session. In 1960 when Nixon ran against Jack Kennedy, Ted arranged "The Great Debates," produced by Don Hewitt (of "60 Minutes" fame). Following his Nixon era, Ted remained a media executive, bought two Florida radio stations, and wrote a novel warning of the "threat of image superseding substance in elections"-- much in evidence today. Ted remained the same funny, interesting guy he was when he was a Hotelie, a Deke, and on all our class committees.

The Adult University's (CAU) bulletin for 2004 sounds interesting. If anyone decides to go on any of the attractive tours offered or to the classes in Ithaca, please let me know because this may encourage others in our class to attend. Could be fun.

I received a nice e-mail from Bessie Kaufmann Grossmann (beekg@aol.com), who loves living in my hometown of Rockville Centre, NY. She spends her winters in Sun City, AZ.Whatta life! Ed Markham (Bainbridge Island, WA; chiefredsneaks@bainbridge.net) is very busy in retirement with his horticulture travel tours, writing, and photographing. He serves as a board member of an enviro-political organization, and recently traveled to Vancouver, BC, to the 40th anniversary of the United Flower Assn. He enjoys woodworking, biking, hiking, gardening (of course), and his "zillions of friends old and young." Joe Kandiko (Appleton, WI) sends lovely photos and remarks, "When your child turns 53 you are lucky to be walking and talking." Joe, how about when they turn 60! He enjoys Florida visits and is proud of his grandchildren, who are all in pursuit of higher educations and careers--including Cammy '02, who is at U. of Pennsylvania for an ME.

Art and Fay Foster (Bellevue,WA) are welcoming their first great-grandchild and are pleased at the progress, health-wise, Art has made this year. Dick and Rosey Thomas (Meadville, PA) are proud of their grandson, who starred on the local high school hockey team that won the state championship. Their travels included a Caribbean cruise with Rosey's sisters, trips to Myrtle Beach and the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and a special guided tour of the Gettysburg battlefield by Rosey's son, a Civil War re-enactor. They feel most fortunate that six of their eight children live in the Meadville area and all visit frequently.

Virginia Young Scarlett (Pittsburgh, PA) took her four daughters and grandson on a fun tour of Ireland in a rented van. Her daughter Lynn is currently Assistant Secretary of the Interior in Washington, DC. John '44 and Edith Sheffield Lesure (Altamonte Springs, FL) celebrated the 60th anniversary of their Sage Chapel wedding with their eight children and families "for a memorable weekend of love." Richard Wagner (Boca Raton, FL; wag561 @bellsouth.net) is brushing up on his Spanish to keep in touch with the times. He still visits prisons as a church volunteer and has become a Marlins fan since moving to Florida--even getting excited over the World Series. He and Tess hope to return to Ithaca in 2007 for reunion. Joe Hoffman (Scottsdale AZ; joehoff592@msn.com) volunteers at the Mayo Clinic Hospital. He and Roma visited China again. They cruised the Yangtze River, among other interesting activities.

Ed and Jane Holub (Media, PA; jbh1919@riddlevillage.com) are happy they moved to the Riddle Village life-care community. They limit their travel to their second home in Maryland. They do keep in touch with Edson and Marjorie "Midge" Millison Ryder (S. Yarmouth, MA) and Bob Wright. Geraldine Backus Berg (hbergjberg@aol.com) volunteers with church groups and Kappa Alumni. She and Harold boast five great-granddaughters. Ruth Simes Morgan (Bonita Springs, FL) reports on the long and arduous recovery of husband Rex '39 following a serious operation. After two months in the hospital and four months' recovery, he is "back to bridge, half mile walks, and eating out." Ruth's good golf continues as she won her last two tournaments.

John Baer (San Diego, CA; dajackbaer@ coy.net) sent dues but no news. And Arthur Jones's passing in September 2003 is sadly acknowledged. Mildred Jane Haslett Williamson's daughter writes requesting friends to write to her mother at 4225 N. Askew Ave., Kansas City, MO 64117. Jane enjoys receiving mail now that she is in a long-term care facility.

You can visit the new Cornell Sports website, http://victorious.alumni.cornell.edu/, for the latest news on the successful athletics campaign to improve Cornell's standing within the Ivy League. Pres. Liz Schlamm Eddy's newsy letter urges all to visit our website, http://classof42.alumni.cornell.edu, for the latest info on class activities. Our new Memorial Scholarship goes to Kathryn O'Regan '08, granddaughter of Kenneth Fuller. Katie will boost Cornell sports, as she is a fine soccer, field hockey, and cross country athlete. Do write to all those submitting their e-mail addresses, and to me. -- Carolyn Evans Finneran, 8815 46th St.NW, Gig Harbor, WA 98335; tel., (253) 265-6618; e-mail, CeeFinn@juno.com.

43 | I'm home and navigating--with the help of sundry contrivances. They remind me of a marketing meeting we held at the shirtworks perhaps 30 years ago. Straying well offtrack, we considered a line of apparel for the elderly, but abandoned the idea as soon as we realized that our factories were not equipped to make sweats or sneakers. Not soon enough, however, to cancel the prestigious labels I'd ordered: Crutch & Walker.

Also upbeat and navigating--no word on sweats and sneakers--Sallie Atlas Hewett (White Plains, NY): "I have been living in a senior residence for the past year. No marketing, laundry, cooking, or cleaning to do. Plenty of good company at mealtime, and bridge games three or four times a week.Wonderful current events programs and diversified recreational events like poetry workshops."

Robert R. Clement (Lynchburg,VA): "2003 has been full of the unexpected! Lightning in May caused major fire and smoke damage to our 42-year-old house, but we hope to be back home long before you read this. My only brother, Gordon '44, BS Chem '47, died of asbestos cancer in June '03. Tragic. Lost my left eyesight in a cataract operation that went sour; artificial replacement due in January '04. We keep busy visiting our five children's families-- 21 grands and four greats. Retired from GE in 1983, and 20 years later concluded my electric utility consulting business.Wife Janet (Sutherland) '46 is my real anchor and soul mate.We love living in the Blue Ridge of Virginia."

Ruth Ohringer Frank's husband Jim '40 died suddenly in January. Urbane, suave, genteel, natty, Jim was my idol and mentor in Ivy League 101. He, along with the late Greil Gerstley '41, who went down with his destroyer in 1944, made me--and many of my peers--want to become urbane, suave, genteel, natty ZBTs. A few of them made it. Jim Lorie, Dexter Kohn, Ted Hankoff, for three.

More sad news. Ebullient, blithe spirit Hugh Brown, erstwhile stroke of the lightweight crew, died Dec. 30, '03. Ever stuck at 150-plus pounds, he wrote this for the "Compendium": "I sat on Carl Snavely's bench for a season until Bill Buxbaum persuaded me to join him on the 150-pound football team. We were both too heavy and had to make weight, so he had me don a sweat suit and go into the laundry room, sucking on a lemon and perspiring. It worked. Sort of. I lost the pounds, but was too weak to play any football. In one game, I was deemed a running back and Bill would block. I was a second stringer. Sometime during play the coach decided to put me in. The opponents weren't dumb; they knew what I was there for. Bill's blocking ability failed and they hit me hard, knocked me down, and knocked me out. I was carried off. From then on, Bill called me ‘Oneplay Brown.' "Writes Hugh's widow Mary: "He was very proud of his class- and crewmates."

We heard from Gladys Totah (Rockville, MD) that husband Edward died Oct. 7, '03. "Edward and I have attended '43 reunions since 1963, and Adult University (CAU) with the children. For the past 20 years, we were fortunate to have our son Thomas '83 join us for reunion weekends." During Ed's long career in design and development of ordnance systems, he was involved with avionics and satellite systems at Fairchild, and wire-guided torpedoes, surfaceto- air and ballistic missiles, and anti-submarine warfare systems at Vitro Laboratories.

"I'm in the process of building 13 kitchen cabinets for the Boy and Girl Scouts of Castile," writes Frank Walkley (Gainesville, NY). "It will probably take me until some time next summer. Pat (Curtis) '44 and I hope to spend most of the winter at Habitat Headquarters in Americus, GA. There are numerous Cornell alumni near us in Wyoming County, but I think I'm the only male '43er. Marydith VanCise DeGolyer still sings in our church choir."

Bruce Pope (Osprey, FL): "Still in good health. Bike riding with two clubs--some outof- town rides, but not out-of-state." Bruce writes that he lost a grandson, an undercover drug enforcement agent for the government. He was a victim of an identity leak and was murdered. "Have six great-grandchildren in the Midwest keeping everyone jumping. Sold our big house and moved over to the other side of the main highway. A small house--better for old people."

Christian Fenger (Old Saybrook, CT): "I went from Cornell to the Navy and served (without incident) as engineering officer of USS LST 119. Following my service, I worked two years each for Cummins Engine Co. and Baird Associates in Cambridge, MA. The rest of my working life was with Pratt & Whitney Aircraft. After retirement,my wife Joan and I traveled to Europe,Mexico, Costa Rica, and islands of the Bahamas and Caribbean. Two trips to Spain followed my completion of the Spanish language course at Connecticut College in New London."

Some musings from Charles Harris (Island Heights, NJ): "In reflection, I'm on the take, having received much more from this land than I have given . . . but that's the way a lottery works. Almost everyone bitches about the cost of welfare, but just add up what we elders have received. I hope all who read this have the lucky numbers. Present-day Cornellians may live past 100. I hope there will be something left for them."Having just seen what my rehab hospital charged Medicare, I can only say "Amen."-- S. Miller Harris, PO Box 164, Spinnerstown, PA 18968; e-mail, millerharris@netcarrier.com.

44 | This is the last column before Reunion. Art and Dotty Kay Kesten are expecting a banner turnout. If you can't buy the package, do come by for at least one event.

CCC is the news of the day.More and more classmates are settling into Continuing Care Communities, delighted with the good easy life and the many activities. Arthur Widmer took the plunge in April in Webster Groves,MO, but still volunteers at BBB and his Lions Club. A few weeks later William Kaegebein and wife Marion moved two miles from home into The Estates at Carpenter's in Lakeland, FL. He gave up hospital volunteering but still does Habitat for Humanity and plays golf with old buddies. In June Eleanor Bloomfield Scholl found a new home in Delray Beach, FL, overlooking the inland waterway and the ocean beyond. She celebrated her 80th birthday in New England with family, then on to New Jersey for a visit with friends. Greta Wilcox Leighton and Paul '42 made the move in July to The Classic Residence by Hyatt in Scottsdale, AZ. This is similar to Friendship Village Life-Care Retirement Community in Milwaukee with which Paul was involved for many years. They have enjoyed Tucson, especially Catalina Foothills Church where they "have had the opportunity to serve the Lord." As of August 15 Christine Sexauer Simons and Bill are happily ensconced in Suncoast Manor in St. Petersburg, FL. She says, "At last, even I get to retire!"

Now about legacies. Marilyn Wise Douglass claims a grandson Patrick Douglass who graduated in '02 and is now a paralegal in NYC. Marilyn, widow of Gael '43, has been living in the same house in San Jose, CA, for many, many years. Norman Brandt's grandson Harrison Leavens, son of Laurel Brandt '72, will graduate in June '04. Peter and Nancy Miller have three grandchildren on campus: Elizabeth Sargent in a graduate program, Anne Sargent '04 returned from Bologna, and Morgan Miller '07--"three good reasons to visit Ithaca." Barbara Gans Gallant spent a week at the Cornell Club in NYC going to theaters and visiting grandchildren, of whom Becca '06 is one. Dotty and Art Kesten's daughter Lynn Kesten Coakley '74 is the mother of Ahannon Coakley '07. Norman and Gertrude Durfree Allen '45 of Schaghticoke, NY, say, "Four of our five children are grads of Cornell, two grandchildren are grads of Cornell, and two grandchildren are now attending Cornell." Gene and Nancy Claney Hoffman left cool Wayzata, MN, for hot Tucson to attend a grandson's graduation from the U. of Arizona. The family reports graduates from Cornell, Northwestern,Missouri, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Swarthmore as well. "Cornell still seems the most special."

Many of us are traveling. Jean Abbott Ault and daughter Jane tour yearly with Tauck Tours. This year they did England--"What a beautiful country." Arnold Tofias of North Easton, MA, traveled to London, St. Bart, then Highland Beach, FL, to celebrate his 80th in February. He has an office in Boston that he uses from time to time. And he sold a condo in Florida, but bought another (unfinished) at the same location, Toscana. "Not too smart, but gives us another opportunity to ‘howl' elsewhere." Jim McTague went to New England, then to canyons before taking his four girls (sans husbands) to Berlin, Prague, etc.He lives in Naples, FL, where he was involved in the 5th annual Catholic Charities' "Undy Sunday" collection of underwear and socks for needy school kids, abused spouses in shelters, etc. Forty-five churches and synagogues participate. 2003 yielded 50,000 pairs of underwear! Joseph and Jeanne Neubecker Logue have been traveling since they sold their Bahamas home. They toured Pueblo ruins and Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, then cruised Alaska before attending a grandson's wedding to a Romanian girl in her country. Pete and Gloria Bellis cruised the coast of Norway from Lapland to Bergen to Oslo and home. Bob Greenburg and friend Sally cruised New Zealand on a small ship, then with 14 of her family cruised Alaska. He still plays tennis with Ed Carman, takes courses at American U., and visits his granddaughter as well as his roommate Peter Tolins in San Francisco. Bill Falkenstein, recently a widower, has been taking monthly trips that included Homecoming (with Bob Dillon), Saratoga Races, Grand Canyon, and Germany.

And then there are reunions. Frederick Allen of Stamford, NY, wrote about Memorial Day weekend '03 when all the children, grandchildren, wives, and significant others gathered at The Roost in the Catskills. "Eighteen of us had loads of fun barbecuing, parading, fishing, and visiting." Ann Bode Muth Jennings toured New England, devoting one week to hostessing a biennial Muth family reunion. All five children plus mates and grands camped in two ski lodges near Okemo Mountain. They numbered 18 also. Carol Goldfarb Schreiber tells of reunions with old friends Amy Hall Bronstein, BA '43, Zelda Guttman Damashek, and David and Frieda Diamond Lawrence. She keeps busy with tennis, bridge, French, piano lessons, and a reading group.

See y'all June 10-13 at our 60th! -- Nancy Torlinski Rundell, 20540 Falcons Landing Cir. #4404, Sterling, VA 20165.

45 | Co-president Tod Knowles, MBA '49 (Annapolis, MD) led a small delegation from our class at the 99th annual Mid-Winter Meeting of the Assn. of Class Officers (CACO) in New York City. The information received has been distributed and will be useful, especially concerning reunion, only a year away. Our other co-president, Maxine Katz Morse (New Castle, NH), still didn't have her joints working well enough to attend, but she's on the mend and will be ready to lead the reunion parade.We had previously been informed that headquarters would be at Statler Hall, but we will be back in Hurlburt House, where we enjoyed the great facilities last time. You will receive all the information in plenty of time. Apparently there was a lot of talk in New York about websites and Home Pages. I have been informed that my effort, which has been online for about eight years, is obsolete and I should get with the program by following the instructions of the young techies on the Hill. If I can get what's left of the brain into gear, we will see. I was forced to change e-mail address and also our Home Page address (see below) and sent out a notice to my entire class e-mail address list. Over 20 bounced, meaning that our requests for updates on the Home Page and in annual mailings may not be making enough of an impression. If yours has changed since last reunion, please e-mail me with your current one.We also have a long list of "lost classmates" with bad addresses in the university's files. If, as requested, we put it on our Home Page, look through it and let me know if you can help us shorten the list.

Thinking of co-president Max reminds me that she sent a good report on last fall's "absolutely wonderful" Rhodes Award dinner, at which she was rightfully honored for her long commitment to our alma mater. Helene Scheuer Rosenblatt, Wayne and Maralyn Winsor Fleming, and Lib Hemsath DeProsse (Ithaca) also attended.Max and Maralyn spent time with the Alumni Fund staff discussing plans for our 60th Reunion campaign and had a most enjoyable luncheon with undergraduate Jean Lee, one of our Tradition Fellows.Max was prowling the bookstore and bumped into Dr. Bob Harwick (Wyncote, PA), who plans to be present next June. Another class officer, secretary Ann Lynch Pape (Garden City), also reported in with some news, including satisfaction with her new knees. Ann traveled to Los Angeles last year to celebrate her great-grand-daughter's second birthday and to Springfield, MA, for a visit with her cousin and a reunion of USS Manning (DE-139), the WWII ship of her late husband Bob '43, which she enjoyed immensely. A year ago, in May, Ann hosted a combined family reunion/Mother's Day/80th birthday celebration at her beloved Cherry Valley Club. These days our classmates are specializing in 80th parties, and the accounts are too numerous to mention. The most important part of this phenomenon is not the 80, but the party. Keep it going!

Frohman Paul Davis (Guilford, CT) has been making use of the BFA degree he received from Florida Atlantic U. by indulging his spare time with sculpture, etching, and photography. Fred also serves on the board of his local association, both in Connecticut and at his condominium in Hillsboro Beach, FL. He quit traveling after 9/11, but for the previous five years enjoyed visits to Australia, China, Thailand, Japan, France, and Spain. Others have likewise been discouraged, such as Caroline Rattelman Esperson, BA '44 (E. Falmouth, MA), who did travel to Tortola, BVI, to check on her house, now rented, but says that she is "turned off" by the airlines, so keeps busy with church activities, fund-raising for the local library, the Cornell Club of Cape Cod, and erratic bridge-playing.

Even our most inveterate traveler, Frances Shloss, BArch '44 (Beverly Hills, CA), says she has been staying close to home, keeping occupied with the same sort of activity as "Rattles," but, more importantly, carrying on a major campaign against the ineptitude of her post office--with results. However, Fran says she did not want to lose her frequent-cruiser reputation, so booked on Caronia for a Med cruise. Likewise intrepid, Seaward, PhD '55, and Mavis Gillette Sand '46 (East Aurora) attended the XIX International Congress of Genetics in Melbourne, Australia, hoping to visit the Great Barrier Reef and check up on the kangaroos. Sandy and Mavis have joined the Continuous Reunion Club, so expect to be on the Hill often.

From Dallas, Roy Hughes sends word that he will be at the big 60th if for no other reason than to reune with Bill and Mary Lib Mershon Hoffmann, whom he misses since their move to Annapolis, which he terms the "Eastern Establishment." I'm not too sure that Doris Klein Lelchook would agree with that, since she inhabits Newton Upper Falls, MA, but does venture as far west as the Berkshires in the summer. She is glad to stay home and enjoy visits from her two Israeli granddaughters, one of whom took leave from the military to be there. Doris did dare a trip south a year ago to participate in an Elderhostel in Miami Beach, during which she enjoyed a visit from Mitch '43 and Betty Reiner Kurman (Westport, CT), who drove from their winter digs in Boca Raton to reminisce among the palms at the outdoor pool. -- Prentice Cushing Jr., 713 Fleet Dr., Virginia Beach, VA 23454; e-mail, CescoVA1@aol.com. Our class Home Page: http://hometown.aol.com/CescoVA1/CU1945.html.

46 | I'd already written the March/ April news that was due December 15 when these Christmas cards arrived. Charlotte Cooper Gill (Hurley, NY), our faithful writer: "Husband Jack has had two bypasses plus one artery too blocked for a stent. Life and its challenges. Grandson John graduated from Cornell in May and is back on the farm." Ruth Critchlow Blackman (Newtown, PA) wished us good luck on our anticipated move. "My move to Pennswood Village was one of the smartest moves I ever made. I can't believe it has been five years." A poem arrived from Jan Bassette Summerville (Sackets Harbor). "Six grandchildren, 5 to 22 continue to thrive." Jerry Finch's wife Ann (Blufton, SC) calls their move three years ago from Cayuga Lake "enough to last a lifetime." Jerry is active in three clubs: bike, computer, and woodworking. He is also on a community planning commission and volunteers on a local safety and community committee. Ann, into genealogy, has found a connection to my husband Phil. They have four grandchildren: "oldest granddaughter majoring in math at U. of Illinois and youngest, a high school junior on the honor society and swim team; oldest grandson accepted at U. of Illinois but also interested in the Air Force and youngest in eighth grade and on the football team."

Now the rest are my AOPi sisters: Orrie, LLB '48, and Ann McGloin Stevens (Wyndmoor, PA) wrote to thank us for sending their 1947 wedding invitation back. (I returned all "old" invitations, newspaper photos, and birth announcements that I'd saved--it really helps to move. Besides, everyone enjoyed reminiscing when they arrived.) Ann reported five grandchildren, ages 13-18."Matt is a frosh at Colgate, and Brad has been accepted at Princeton. The only traveling we did this year was on a riverboat cruise on the Rhine."We eagerly awaited the annual letter from Bill and Nancy Aungier Beveridge (Staten Island). "We added canaling this year with a dozen locks going up to Lake Champlain. Bill has improved his golf from a slicer to a hacker." All their grandchildren are active in sports."Daughter Beth's children: Brian on four high school teams and mascot at U. of Delaware; his brothers Charles (captain) and Ken on Oneonta College swim team. Son Bill's children, Julie, 9, and Jackson, 7, on the soccer and swim teams. And Aliqae is finishing her college major in library sciences. Daughter Peggy is registrar at Hunter College, and daughter Annie is a New York City teacher." Harry and Mary Lou Rutan Snowden (Palatine, IL) wrote the usual for our age. "We've had an exciting year healthwise. Old age ain't for sissies." Also heard from AOPi spouse John Eckerson (Akron). "Rather quiet 2003--eight days in Holland in April with Holland Society of NY. Busy as town and village historian."

After 42 years, we are on the move. It is hard to go from a three-bedroom house to a one-bedroom apartment. Had to get rid of many things, but healthwise it is necessary. Let us hear from you. Our new address as of March 16 is 9 Reading Dr., Apt. 302,Wernersville, PA 19565. Phone (610) 927-8777. -- Elinor Baier Kennedy.

Lacking news, I phoned classmate/subscribers from whom we haven't heard recently. Each interviewee claimed he had nothing to report-- yet they furnished an interesting column. Send news and reduce my toll charges.

Richard Beard (Fort Wayne, IN) is walking two miles daily to recover from a mild stroke. Extra motivation for all this exercise is the impending visit of his first great-grandson, born on January 2. Dick was class correspondent before Richard Turner, with whom he keeps in touch. Both understand slow news periods and sympathize. Dick is volunteer supervisor of a Talking Books project for the visually impaired. After his crew of fellow GE retirees repairs quality cassette players, he tests them against a 25- point check list. Dick reminisced about his visit to California's Napa Valley wine country and its Wine Train. But his primary interest was in the GE Alco locomotive. It is a descendant of the model used on the Freedom Train national tour, which Dick helped to create.

Lewis Bonsall Beatty, BS '45 (Media, PA) and Arthur Harold Bernstein (Los Angeles; ahb10@cornell.edu) fondly remember each other--even remembering the other's middle name though they haven't seen each other since college days. It would be wonderful to get them together for our 60th in '06.We last heard from Lew in the Sept. '99 issue. He and Peggy were about to celebrate their 50th anniversary on 9/9/99, yet avoided activating the Y2K bug with that string of nines. Lew still practices law five days a week and chairs the board of his area health care system. One son, David, married a Spanish singer he met in New York and whisked her off to teach in Kuwait. David teaches third grade while wife Patricia is a specialist, teaching music in several grades and schools. Fortunately, there have been no repercussions from the violence in neighboring Iraq. Lew has good health, having just beaten a prostate problem, as has your correspondent. We remarked on how many of our contemporaries have had similar experiences.We agreed, "It's a big club."

Art, too, enjoys good health and swims daily.He is very active in Cornell's '50 Law class. After graduating from Chem E and a Navy tour, Art graduated from Cornell Law School, practiced some law, then changed careers to corporate finance.He was an early employee of Ryder Systems in Miami, then moved on to Lazard Freres in New York. There he was deeply involved in the creation of Norton Simon from Hunt Foods, Canada Dry, and McCall Corp., and became their VP of finance. After a fling at venture capitalism, he has retired to the good life in Southern California with wife Barbara.

TO PUBLISH YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS, e-mail it to me. Include your name and city and state of residence. Send news to: -- Paul Levine, 31 Chicory Lane, San Carlos, CA 94070; tel, (650) 592-5273; fax, (650) 593-2572; e-mail, PBL22@cornell.edu. Class website: http://classof46.alumni.cornell.edu.

47 | The New York Times prints their corrections each day, but we can set the record straight only every other month. So we'll start with a correction. In the Jan/Feb issue we made a few mistakes when reporting on Richard Greenfield. His correct e-mail address is rkggps@ IN2L.com. Further, we left out his long career in higher education as a faculty member, dean, founding president of two community colleges, and chancellor of the St. Louis Community College District. Richard has retired from his position as executive of the College Consortium for International Studies and currently serves on the planning commission for the City of Lafayette, CO.

Ed Gouvier wrote to say that 2003 was a year of tranquility with no moves and no major medical problems! He and wife Mary enjoyed the opera, Riverdance, and a day at the Detroit Casino. In addition, Ed served as a ring bearer at his brother's wedding in 2003. Joseph Barclay (jobar3802@cs.com) and wife Nancy live in Bradenton, FL, but have been traveling to Ireland, Las Vegas, Virginia, and Texas. Marjorie Montrose Ault, who is interested in archaeology and is studying history, traveled on the Dominguez/Escalante Expedition through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico.

Lucille Tate Musslewhite(muss1315@earth link.net) is taking organ classes and continues to play the piano. Marilyn Miller Vince wrote last spring to say that she was moving to a new address in Savoy, IL. Vera Hakanson Fox corresponds with many Cornell friends from her home in Ithaca. Elizabeth A. Brown, BS '46, MS '53, is also in Ithaca, living at Kendal and volunteering at the Kitchen Cupboard. Eileen Farley McDonnell always returns to Ithaca for her high school reunion. Her other travels take her from her home on Cape Cod to Vermont,Maine, and Williamsburg, VA.

Herbert Berman (eberman728@aol.com) was appointed to serve on the Morris County (NJ) Historic Preservation Trust Fund Review Board. He also consults for the National Executive Service Corp. (NESC). Retired veterinarian Robert Wayne Ormsbee lives in Los Altos, CA, with his daughter Susan.He has six children, 19 grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren. Arlene O'Hara O'Connor is a retired elementary teacher. She is active in the Camillus Historical Society and is a lector and eucharistic minister at St. Joseph's Church. She is president of Golden Agers and enjoys reading and gardening as well as walking and water aerobics. Arlene has seven children, seven in-laws, and 13 grandchildren. She says she loves to go to musicals and shows, and "to spend time with family and wonderful friends."

Robert Schultz spent January 2003 touring Australia,New Zealand, and Fiji and played a little golf in New Zealand. He says, "I enjoyed all three, but think New Zealand is my choice." Jean Kuttler Schreiber had a trip to China and Tibet. She especially enjoys nature walks. She has children Robert, Peter, and Tatiana. Donald Sperling went bone-fishing in the Bahamas. His hobbies include bird-hunting and fly-fishing. Donald has five children and seven grandchildren.

Betty Miller Francis serves on the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Board, Pikes Peak Arts Council, and the Fine Arts Center Advisory Council in Colorado Springs, CO. In June 2002 she took a river cruise through the Netherlands and a bit of Belgium. "The highlight" she says, "was a day at the Floriade, which only happens once every 10 years. Betty has two stepchildren, six grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Renee Gaines Wallace (Rwallace@vitaliv ing.org) is the executive director of Vita Living Foundation. Her travels have taken her from Houston, TX, to New York, Boston, and San Francisco. She enjoys art collecting. Renee received the "Giraffe Award" in 2002.What is it? It sounds interesting.

Jerome Hausman (Jeromehausman@aol. com) is active on the Evanston Public Art Committee and a board member of Collaboration- Chicago.He planned two weeks in Provence last summer and also attended meetings of the International Society for the Study of Education Through Art in Stockholm, Sweden.He continues to teach at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Muriel "Mike" Welch Brown, BS '46, sent a copy of the Hotel school's Winter 2004 Bulletin that had a dashing photo of her late husband Dick '49 on the cover. Inside the Bulletin was a lovely article celebrating Dick's life and his contributions to the field of hospitality and to Cornell. Few people know that before Dick got to Cornell he was an MP in North Africa during World War II.

Sandra Brock let us know that her mother Helen Eells Brock of Daytona Beach, FL, died just before Christmas last year. Originally from Bath, NY, Helen earned her Nursing degree at New York Hospital and went on to be Nursing Arts Director at Duke U.

I am grateful to class president Pete Schwarz's wife Elaine (Drobner) for writing the March/April column and part of this one, and also to my daughter Beth '80 for her help with this edition. Thank you both. Send news! -- Arlie Williamson Anderson, 238 Dorchester Rd., Rochester, NY 14610-1329; e-mail, arlie47@aol.com. Class '47 Web page, http://classof47.alumni.cornell.edu/.

48 | Stanley Wallach, St. Petersburg, FL: "Physician, administrator, teacher, researcher, clinical professor of medicine at New York U. School of Medicine. Executive Director, American College of Nutrition. Also collect stamps and loaf. Will retire from executive director position at ACN in January 2004. My 50th reunion of the Class of '53 SUNY Downstate Medical Center graduation prevented me from attending our 55th Reunion. Celebrated 30th wedding anniversary. I'm a member of a small group of classmates who graduated from Winthrop Junior High School in Brooklyn in 1943.We go on a three- to five-day trip or cruise every year or two.Would be interested in such groups arising among our huge Cornell class. Numbers overwhelm potential value. Today's problem is inequality among groups.We need to create more stockholders in a peaceful world. I learn something new every day, but haven't discovered the meaning of life (me and Ambrose Bierce)."

Bob McKinless, Alexandria, VA: ‘I brought my bicycles to reunion so I could train for a ride across Iowa in July. On July 6, a kid ran a stop sign and cut in front of me.We crashed and I broke my femur. Helmet got three cracks in it, but my head is fine. Partial hip replacement-- new ball in old socket. On a walker the next day; home in three. Did rehab for three months and walked without cane; rode stationary bike at gym. Attended Homecoming in October to receive my Frank H.T. Rhodes Alumni Service Award."

Lillian Soelle Austin, Chapel Hill, NC: "Alumni Admissions Ambassador Network (CAAAN) Committee, NASDAR recording secretary, neighborhood book club (we book a table in a restaurant each month). Also, church volunteer work. About to go on an Adult University (CAU) trip to Spain with Prof. Ross Brann to study interaction of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian faiths in early Spanish history. After 55th Reunion, took CAU course in Memory into Memoir with Lydia Fakundiny. Excellent! Also, family reunion in Pennsylvania and Tripp Island, SC.Had 50th anniversary with our five children on November 7. Received fifth grandchild in November 2002. The '48 Sigma Kappas continue our Round Robin correspondence that began when we graduated, chronicling the sagas of our lives. This month should bring the Round Robin from Sally McGowan Rice in New Hampshire to me in North Carolina. Each Robin flight takes about a year! World's problem is economic inequities. (Solution?) Still perfecting computer skills."

Bill Purcell Jr., Wallingford, PA: "Woodworking. Had cataract operation. Son Bill Purcell re-elected Mayor of Nashville with 84 percent of the vote. Enjoyed trip to Nashville for swearing-in ceremonies. Problems: our foreign policy in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, and Israel, and domestic economy. Solution: reverse tax cuts. Settle Palestine/Israel issue first. Stop settlements in West Bank and Gaza." John "Skeeter" Skawski, EdD '57, Dryden, NY: "Golfing, bridge, poker, reading." (John is Reunion Co-Chairman for the 60th in 2008.We will be in the Statler.)

Girard "Gerry" Haviland, Brunswick, ME: "Tennis, sleep. Almost made reunion, but the drive was too much alone. We moved from Naples, ME, to here last year. The ‘reduction of things' was horrendous, but now we know where the ‘Luzzi Good Will Store' is, even in the dark. Thornton Oaks is an intellectual retirement community. Close by are Bowdoin College and U. of Maine Senior College, where we can learn anything from Bach to Baloney.We're in the well-known lobster and seashore mid-coast of Maine. Today's problem is out-of-control people and governments. Solution: control results of passion and greed . . . but don't ask me how. Life is love!"

Herb Lobdell, Trumbell, CT: "Consulting geotechnical engineer, sailing, tennis, and woodworking. Enjoyed meeting son of our correspondent, Bob Persons III '73, ME '74, at our 55th and his 30th reunions." Ed Brenner, Boca Raton, FL: I consider myself very fortunate.Wife Lee and I spend 7-1/2 months in Florida and 4- 1/2 months in New Jersey.We live the good life, including cultural and social activities. Lee teaches part-time at Florida Atlantic U.'s Lifelong Learning Society and Elderhostel Program. I play bridge six days a week and look forward to each day."

Jim Hudson, Nashville, TN: "I'm busying myself writing articles along with colleagues at Vanderbilt in the Nashville Tennessean, advocating single payer universal health insurance-- thereby making myself completely obnoxious here in the ground-zero epicenter of for-profit corporate health care. I believe Anna and I were at the 55th Reunion, weren't we?" (Yes, Jim, you and she were there.)

Arnold Turetsky,White Plains, NY: "Teaching Jewish history, philosophy, and Talmud. Last year was hoping for a good new year. I lecture twice a year in Prague and Budapest. Plan to continue as long as I can. Shavvot restrictions on travel, etc., made it impractical to attend reunion. Bar mitzvah of grandson Zev Moshe Turetsky.His father (my son), Jonathan '77, was in the Ag college. Great adventures in post- Communist Central Europe. Problem: time flies. Solution: fly swatter.World's problem: hatred. Solution: start with you and me. Be kind.Meaning of life: ‘Don't quit.Never, never, never' (Winston Churchill). Some of my favorite moments have been preaching in Sage Chapel."-- Bob Persons, 102 Reid Ave., Port Washington, NY 11050; phone/fax, (516) 767-1776.

49 | Doesn't our 55th Reunion schedule of events look great? Our co-chairs Jack and Inger Molmen Gilbert have been busy and given us lots to look forward to--a fun, interesting time, plus each other! Richard Schreiber in Springfield, OH, is in a "hotbed" of Ohio State football fans, but he enjoys reminding them that the only two times they played Cornell, we were victorious! J. Nadine Hoyer Rumke says life gets better all the time! After retirement as an elementary music teacher in 1983 and the death of her husband in 1994, she went back to school. She graduated from the IM School of Healing Arts with certification as a Rev. She now has workshops in her home, and clients as well, and uses therapeutic touch, healing touch, reconnection healing, dowsing, and power of thought modalities.

Craig Voorhees is retired and lives in Rockville, MD. The Rev. Willett "Will" Porter, though officially retired, has been pastor of the Mount Hope UMC in Mahopec, NY, for the past ten years.

George Howitt gives us a quick summary of his life since Cornell: 1) worked at Fairchild Camera and Instrument; 2) designed TV sets at Allan B. Dumont Labs; 3) VP engineering at Charles Beseler Co.--there 25 years; 4) retirement 13 years.Volunteer work included Riverdell Regional Board of Education for 30 years and president Bergen County (NJ) School Board Assn. for three years. He traveled extensively for business and pleasure to much of the world, and now spends six months in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, playing golf and tennis three or four times a week.Marjorie Mayer Roberts plays tennis four times a week, with bridge a close second at three. She drove from Bradenton, FL, to Loudonville, NY, to visit her son and family, renting a condo for three months. Oldest grandson is a graduate of Eastman School of Music with a full scholarship to Harvard Grad School.

Jack Sheinkman, lawyer, labor leader, and classmate, died Jan. 29, '04. A graduate of ILR and Cornell Law, with a certificate in economics from Oxford U., he first worked as a lawyer for the International Pulp, Sulfite, and Paper Mill Workers. In 1953 his career with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America started: general counsel, sec.-treas., and from '87-95, president. As president he won praise from union workers and management alike. He led labor's efforts to help poor workers and their labor leaders in Central America, and engineered mergers with smaller unions, resulting in the unionization of J.P. Stevens and the strengthening of the Textile Workers Union and the Int'l Ladies Garment Workers Union. Jack chaired Americans for Democratic Action, was a member of Cornell's Board of Trustees and of the Council on Foreign Relations, and served on the President's Advisory Comm. on Trade.

A few miscellaneous items: Rev. Franklyn Cism Jr. and Gilberta (Stevens) '45 celebrated their 60th anniversary last August; Bernice Gray Whitney is hopping about to the tune of a 1- year-old golden retriever puppy given to them by their children; Mary Daniel Nelson has a new address as of last October--7431 Willow Rd., Cottage #39, Frederick, MD 21702, tel., (301) 644-4286.

Richard Reynolds summers in Stamford, CT, and winters in the Florida Keys at Tavernier and in Naples, FL. Had ankle replacement surgery last year which put golf, etc., on hold for a while. "Looking forward to the 55th."Me too! You too? Hope so! -- Mary Heisler Allison, 1812 Puerto Bellow Dr., Lady Lake, FL 32159; tel., (352) 259-0203.

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