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90 | Do you want a good laugh? I was sorting through my attic recently, and I stumbled upon a box of old papers and junk that I had evidently lugged home from Cornell. I found a flier that had been stuck into my RPU mailbox during freshman year advertising a "back to school" sale at the Cornell bookstore.According to the ad, I could have purchased a brand new Apple Mac (not a Mac II, not a Mac Plus, a Mac), a dot matrix printer, and a "handy" carrying case with shoulder strap (ouch!) for the bargain price of $1,999! Amazing! I think I'll save this bit of history to show my kids someday.As a freshman without my own computer, I was one of the many forced to camp out in the Mac labs when freshman seminar papers were due. I wasn't even lucky enough to have a roommate with a computer, but I'm sure Ellen Braitman has one now. Ellen lives in New York City with husband David and daughters Lilith and Basha. The former editor of the Cornell Daily Sun still regularly appears on Bloomberg TV, reporting on the stock market.My former roommate stays in touch with Susie Levy and Colleen Kapklein '89 through her monthly book group, and with Jeremy Kalmanofsky '88 (formerly Jeremy Kaplan) who is rabbi at Ansche Chesed, the synagogue where Ellen is a member of the board of trustees.

We heard from Stephanie Rowe, who regularly stays in touch with Karen Murray, Christie Fanton, Sue Comba Ernenwein, and Cheryl Donnelly Burgess '89. Stephanie tells us she moved to Knoxville, TN, to be a project control manager for SAIC (Science Applications International Corp.) and that she's been busy settling into her new home. Home improvement projects are also in the works for Laura Calvert Richardson, who is renovating the family farmhouse outside of Ithaca. Laura lives in Princeton, NJ, and still works for Pharmanet Inc., where she is the manager of clinical research. The Richardsons have daughters Chelsea and Sarah. Anna Barnsley Werblow has been keeping busy with a major remodel on her 100-year-old house in Ashland, OR. Anna is looking forward to the result so she can enjoy the refurbished home with son Ilan and daughter Shoshana.

While some of us have been remodeling our homes, others have been retooling our careers. Ken Fidje of NYC has finished his MBA and has started a new job with Vornado Realty Trust, one of Manhattan's largest real estate investment trusts. Geoffrey Morgan of Alameda, CA, is also in real estate development, but in Northern California. Patrick Dowden's new position is with Quick and Reilly/Fleet Boston in Garden City,NY. John Cayer is now a sales manager for one of my favorite companies, S.C. Johnson in Minneapolis. Let's congratulate Shelly Emens DiGiulio of Snyder,NY, who was promoted from regional sales manager to vice president of Accudata Search Inc. John Wolff has left his business career with Digital Telemedia in NYC behind (for now, he says) and has moved to L.A. to break into the film business as a writer and producer. Anyone who wants to audition, send your head shots to jpw21@cornell.edu. Just kidding.

Also switching coasts is Rob Bogart, who recently left Piedmont, CA, and has moved to Washington, DC, with wife Rachel and girls Isabel and Ava. Rob left his job as head of human resources at GAP Inc. Direct to join the State Department as the senior advisor for the chief financial officer and assistant secretary.He will be "leading initiatives supporting the President's management agenda around the strategic use of human capital, improved financial performance, and expanding e-gov." I'm not sure what that means exactly, but it sure sounds intriguing. In my opinion, however, it's nothing compared to the mystery surrounding Steven Rueben's new enterprise. Steven, who lives in Las Vegas, tells us that he has founded another company, Metropolitan Entertainment, that is developing "leisure lifestyle projects." Steven, could you fill me in on this one, or is it something that can't be printed in a "family publication"? Nothing surprises me in Las Vegas!

"What's new is that we did not move this year!" reports Karen Prymak-Oldick. The previously nomadic Karen and husband Brad Oldick '91 have now settled in Granger, IN, although they both travel quite a bit for work. We also have a new address for Katherine Reynolds, who recently moved into a great new building in downtown Hamilton, NY. Katherine works at the Colgate Bookstore, and she and her husband still do lots of canoeing all over Central New York and beyond. She says she misses "all the fun things to do in Ithaca," so maybe she should contact Laura Calvert Richardson about renting that Ithaca farmhouse! Last year, Dr. Lisa Baylor David started a new ear, nose, and throat practice with a friend from residency in Lafayette, LA. Nadja Peter has joined the U. of Pennsylvania faculty in adolescent medicine, doing mostly patient care and teaching medical students and residents. She and her husband have a 2-year-old son Lucas, who is "the greatest." Nadja also tells us that Becky Holmes married Victor Johnson in Denver in October 2002, and that Antoinette Romanelli Buckley had her third daughter, Emily, in May 2002.

I would be remiss if I didn't report on some of the other new Class of 1990 legacies that we've heard about, because there are so many! Gary Weinstein and Diana Carbonell were happy to e-mail us their birth announcement for Justin Daniel Weinstein. Although he was only born last June, Gary tells us "he should be snowboarding soon!" David Cohen and wife Shelli Bodnar '91, MD '95, of San Jose, CA, welcomed a baby girl, Mia Rose Bodnar-Cohen, born in May 2003. Enthusiastic new parents Moody and Julie Kwok even e-mailed us a jpeg of Kevin Moody Kwok, born in January 2003. Rachel Pargeter and husband Chuck Lerch '91, who live in Portland, ME, are proud parents of Caroline Iris Lerch, born in February 2003. Karen Fingar Kahane of Delray Beach, FL, sent us news about her new daughter Brianna Sue Kahane.

Becoming a parent is an unbelievably lifealtering event. My husband and I were well aware of this fact when we became new parents almost five years ago. However, we were quite unprepared for the experience of having that second child. It takes multitasking to a new level! Learning this first-hand are Susan Mrozek Cavalieri and husband Jim '91 of Oakland, CA, who had their second child, Sean James, last June. Big sister Sophia is managing her best to welcome her little brother. Eric Skolnick and wife Julie (Rosenbaum), JD '96, welcomed son Avi on Mar. 18, '03. Big sister Dalia was very excited, we hear. Eric, let us know what Dalia thinks when Avi starts getting into her "stuff!" Laura Glazier Dufort, of Norwalk, CT, has given her 3-year-old son John David a baby sister: Julia Michelle was born in June 2002. David Schoenfeld, who has started his own dermatology practice in Carrollton, GA, is the father of both Claire Peyton, 2, and Max Harrison, 5.

A friend of mine once warned me that having a third child involves going from a "man-toman" to a "zone" defense. I hope this analogy helps Tracy Evans Krantz of Rockville, MD. Tracy is mother to Stuart, 7, Gabriel, 4, and new baby Sophie Ilana, and what has surprised her most about life beyond Cornell is "loving being a family of five." William Reisacher and wife Cynthia live in Monroe, NY, and are having a ball with children Mariana,Matthew, and baby William Robert III. Marla Porter Gross is mother to a new son, Mason Alexander, born last March. Mason will be looked after by big sisters Gabby and Lily. Marla tells us that she runs her own law firm and international adoption agency in Weston, FL.

As a parting note, Alisa and I would both like to congratulate Karen Mitchell and Rob Choddock '89 on celebrating five fabulous years of marriage! Mazel tov! -- Carole Moran Krus, clm42@cornell.edu; and Alisa Gilhooley, alisa gil@aol.com.

91 | Greetings, everyone. It is once again time for an edition of the Class of '91 Class Notes. We are weathering a very "harsh" winter here in the Carolinas. Of course, the winter is nothing compared to what people in more northern climates are facing, but for those of us whose blood has thinned with prolonged southern exposure, this feels pretty bad all the same. We are running a little light on news this time around. Everyone must be mulling over their selections in the upcoming congressional and presidential elections rather than being out there meeting up with fellow Cornellians or doing what appears to be a popular pastime with our class, adding to the list of potential Cornellians for the Class of '22 and beyond. Make sure to send in your News when the annual Dues mailing comes this spring, or write us any time of year at the e-mail addresses below.

What news we do have kicks off with information from Michelle May Koellermeier. She writes that she left the indentured servitude of the military physician's life in the US Navy and entered a private ob/gyn practice in Neenan, WI. Her son Adam Vance was born on Dec. 14, '02. Michelle, if you find yourself humming the tune of "On Wisconsin," then you know it is time for a trip back home to East Hill. Lucinda Rosenfeld wants us to go out and buy her new novel, Why She Went Home, being published by Random House and available as of March 2004. This is the follow-up to her first work, What She Saw . . ., published four years ago. If you want to see her, she will be doing readings and signings of her new book in New York City, Boston, and the Bay Area in March as well. She also says she will be moving into her new home in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, with her significant other, John.

Other literary announcements include one from Nat Jarvis, who writes, "If our ‘kinderku' birth announcement left you scratching your head, you can now read one for yourself in my wife Marcy Porter Jarvis '82's latest book, A Broad in Swabia: Memoir from the Black Forest. It's a hilarious, thematic account of the culture shock our family experienced when my California product design company transferred us to Germany in 1998." The book can be obtained from Amazon.com and other online outlets.

Bill Munze gives us the news that he and fiancée Janine Dowling eloped in Tuscany on Oct. 5, '03. No mention of whether Diane Lane showed up or whether it was under the Tuscan sun. However, he does note that the small ceremony --attended by a handful of family and friends (I have the wrong friends)--was interrupted by a shotgun-wielding hunter. Thus, Bill can say that he had a shotgun wedding in Italy. Those are a dime a dozen here in rural North Carolina, Bill. The couple then returned to Boston, where on Nov. 8, '03, he and Janine had a reception and met up with Sameer Desai, as well as Karen Schmeidler Sagor and her new husband David.

Lastly, the news ends on a sad note. Classmate Scott Houser died on Oct. 30, '03, at Inova Hospital in Fairfax, VA.With the permission of his wife, Emily Yance-Houser, we note his passing in this column and send our thoughts and prayers to his family and friends. He was covaledictorian of his 1987 Westminster (MD) High School class and lettered in soccer and track. At Cornell, he was a National Merit Scholar and earned his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering while on a Cornell Tradition Fellowship. He would later earn a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech and worked for Logistics Management Institute in McLean, VA, where he recently received an award for an analysis of European air traffic management that was presented in Budapest, Hungary. He and Emily married on Nov. 2, '02. A scholarship fund is being established for a graduate ofWestminster High School in his honor. Contributions to the Scott A. Houser Scholarship Fund may be sent to WHS at 1225 Washington Road,Westminster, MD 21157.

That is the news for now, everyone. Next time I write, I will be in the beautiful Spanish countryside near Vitoria. Until then, everyone be safe and secure, and of course, keep sending news and notes to your friendly neighborhood class correspondents. News can reach us at the Class of '91 website, http://classof91.alumni.cornell.edu, or by e-mailing us. -- Dave Smith, docds30@yahoo.com; Corinne Kuchling, kuccori@hotmail.com; or Nina Rosen Peek, nsr5@cornell.edu.

92 | The hint of spring is in the air and I imagine the flowers in front of my house will be in full bloom by the time this column hits your mailbox. In my life these days, spring and good weather mean lots of playground trips for my two children (now 2-1/2 and 1) and lots of hiking for my husband and my dog. Please share the news of your springs and summers so we can report it this fall. Our traditional news sources sometimes run low, so please e-mail me, Renee, or Wilma Ann with your updates.

Laurel Beverley writes that after finishing an orthopedic surgery residency in Boston, she completed a sports medicine fellowship last year at the Cleveland Clinic. She states, "It was actually pretty cool to be able to stand on the sidelines of Browns games, work with the Cavaliers, attend spring training with the Indians, and also work the Gravity Games." Laurel is now in private practice in Lowell, MA, doing mostly sports medicine. She is also the team physician for the professional AHL hockey team the Lowell Lock Monsters. At the end of her fellowship, Laurel traveled to Scotland and Ireland and then saw Drew Ries while he was finishing up work in London. Laurel writes that Drew has now relocated to the US, but is traveling extensively "throughout the planet" while he plans his next career.

Jon Simon filled me in via e-mail of the latest happenings in his life. Jon and his wife Diana Maxant '94 welcomed their son Jeremy Wendell on Nov. 29, '03.He notes, "Of course, life has not been the same since." Jon is currently a sixth year associate at Van Ness Feldman PC in Washington, DC. He represents utilities and natural gas pipeline companies in the environmental permitting and development of electric transmission lines and natural gas pipelines.He also represents companies that provide visitor services in the national parks, including an association of river rafting outfitters and guides in the Grand Canyon. Recently, Jon was elected First VP of the Cornell Club of Washington after serving as VP of Programming for a year. Jon is in touch with Scott and Terra Smolker Samuels. Nathaniel Jackson, born Jan. 27, '04, recently joined Scott, Terra, and big sister Marissa.

Gabrielle Mollo writes that she and Mitschka Hartley met at our 10th Reunion (they both lived in U-Hall 2 freshman year) and began dating long-distance from NYC to Ithaca. They became engaged Dec. 31, '02 and were married in Auburn, NY, on Oct. 25, '03. Gabrielle notes that there were about 30 Cornellians at their wedding. The couple now lives in Ithaca. Gabrielle works in Syracuse at Alderman and Alderman, a matrimonial law firm, and Mitschka is a wildlife biologist for Audubon at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Last year, Alex Hoffert opened a sales promotion unit within a NYC advertising agency. He writes that "the long hours and commute from Connecticut have all but prohibited keeping in touch with my long-lost friends, but I do stare at a computer screen all day, so e-mail should help get me back in the loop." (You can e-mail Alex at ash26@cornell.edu.) On the home front, Alex and wife Sarah celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary in February, and Alex notes that his 4-year-old son Harrison makes sure he makes time "just to play." Alex serves as the vice-chair on Harrison's preschool's board of directors.

Allison Abel-Kahn is in touch with many '92ers and wrote me the following update. Allison is still working at Charles Schwab in San Francisco, where she was promoted to Vice President last fall. She works in the Schwab Center for Investment Research, helping to establish advice policies and guidelines for Schwab's brokers. Allison writes that Ellen Ho '93 and Steve Ongchin '91 recently moved to Johannesburg, South Africa, with their son Justin. Tanya Steinberg Schreibman, husband Dave, and their children Alana and Benjamin are relocating from New Haven to Sarasota, FL, where Tanya, a doctor, will be in private practice. Kate Grossman and Peter Fidler '94 had their first baby, Talia Sorell Fidler, on Jan. 18, '04. Kate, Peter, and Talia live in Chicago.

Allison recently saw Kathy Halsey Connolly, Amy Sugarman, and Adam Greene in New York City. Amy is a clinical psychologist at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in NYC. Kathy recently moved to Garden City, NY, with husband Jimmy and sons James and Luke. Kathy is a VP in finance at Goldman Sachs. Adam married Carolyn Fink on July 12, '03. Cornellians in attendance included Liz Weinreb Feely,Marjorie Shapiro, Allyson Wenig, Cindy Spera, Jim Conroy, BS '91, MBA '92, Rich Stockton, Amy Sugarman, and Allison. Adam is currently a director of Global Specialized Finance at West LB in NYC. Allison is also in touch with Karen McCalley, who is extending her stay in Berlin, Germany, for one more year (until July 2005). Karen would love visitors!

Tracy Furner Stein writes that she plans to do the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer Research in Chicago on June 5-6, 2004. Tracy thanks classmates Sarah Chambers Potter, Pam Murray Bilfield, Shelley Halloran Holland, Heather McHugh, Colleen Durham, and Laurel Beverley for supporting her efforts and the cause. Tracy recently visited Heather McHugh at her new home in Austin, TX, where Heather works for Fox Hollow selling medical devices. In February, Tracy visited with Bob and Carol Heppes German and saw their "adorable" twin girls Isabelle and Katie. Tracy is also in touch with Anne Fogarty Kain who, along with husband Syd, welcomed a baby boy, Conor Jonathan, on Feb. 11, '04.

Alyssa Cohen Goldman dropped me a note reporting her family's good news. She and husband David had another baby boy on Nov. 12, '03. His name is Noah Benjamin, and he joins big brother Ari, who turned 4 on Mar. 27, '04. Andy Yonteff and wife Kim recently had their first child, Adam. I received this bit of news from Vivek Chopra, who writes that Andy thinks that Adam is a Yankees fan, and Kim is pulling for the Red Sox. Benkai Bouey writes that he has joined the Los Angeles-based private equity firm Triton Pacific Capital Partners as a director. In addition, he has been selected to join the Financial Advisory Board to the City Council of Rancho Palos Verdes, CA.

That's all for now. Keep us posted. -- Debbie Feinstein, Debbie_Feinstein@yahoo.com; Wilma Ann Anderson, Wilpower1@aol.com; Renee Hunter Toth, rah24@cornell.edu.

93 | Hi, everybody, and welcome to the spring edition of your Class Notes. Thanks to those who have been sending in news via News and Dues forms and e-mail! Esther Semsei Greenhouse, MS '03, wrote that in the summer she completed her master's at Cornell, which examined how lighting can minimize the visual deficits associated with Alzheimer's Disease. Her 4-yearold son is learning to read, and her husband Brooke '91 is growing a home building company. He is also vice president of the NY State Builder's Assn. Jason Halio wrote that he has switched jobs to help start the new Boston-based sales trading desk at Morgan Stanley in Boston.

Tenleigh Blomquist recently passed the CPA exam and is currently working as an internal auditor for Chubb Insurance in Warren,NJ. Jennifer Derow e-mailed, "I have moved back to Pennsylvania and taken a job at my alma mater, Strath Haven High School, as a guidance counselor in Wallingford, PA.My sister Alison Derow Gaudet '96 lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and my niece, who will be 1 in January.My good friend Priscilla Skarada King is still living in London with husband Steven and their newborn son Thomas." Pankaj Talwar sent an e-mail to say, "I am enjoying my role as the director of strategic planning for a consumer packaged goods company, George Weston Bakeries. For those of you who are in Manhattan, drop me a line at ptalwar@mba1998.hbs.edu or (914) 673- 3650 to get together for drinks or dinner."

In wedding news, Paul Trisket wrote that he was married on Sept. 27, '03, and in addition to a wife, acquired a stepdaughter, Rachel. Irene Herman and Joshua Goldstein were married at Chelsea Piers in New York on Nov. 15, '03. Josh is a pediatric neurologist and Irene is a vascular surgeon. Cornellians in attendance were Jocelyn Spielman, Kathy Fleming, Miriam Plavin and Jon Lobell (along with their 9-month-old son Jason), Bryan Fuhr and his partner Matthew Zucker '92, Rebecca Zulli Lowe and husband James, and Dan Appelbaum '91.

Moving from weddings to births, Edward Andre "Andy" Velez and wife Marti had son Jason Scott on Mar. 15, '03. John and Ellen Johnston McDonnell wrote, "We had our third child, Sarah Anne, on Aug. 21, '03.Her two older brothers treat her very well. She is, of course, a joy. John continues as a quality engineering manager at Hyperion Solutions, and Ellen does consulting for Beck Evaluation and Testing Associates, working on all those newly required state tests, thanks to the No Child Left Behind Act." Alison Amsterdam sent in the information that Debbie Silverman Rothschild and husband Jeff welcomed son Jonathan Evan into the world on Sept. 14, '03. Eva Johnson Schenkman also sent baby news: she and husband Thomas welcomed their son Thomas on Nov. 25, '03. He joins his big sister Hannah, who just turned 3. Eva is employed as a senior embryologist at J.T. Mather Hospital in Port Jefferson, NY, and her husband is an executive VP at Goldman Sachs in Manhattan.

In January, a number of your class council members met in New York City for the Assn. of Class Officers (CACO) Mid-Winter Meeting. They discussed the success of our 10th Reunion, as well as ideas for future events. If you are interested in getting involved with the class, you should contact our President Todd Rethemeier, ME '94, MBA '95, at todd_rethemeier@hotmail.com. That's about it for this edition, please keep the news coming and happy spring! --Yael Berkowitz, yberkowitz.y@mellon.com; and Erica Fishlin Fox, ericazzz@aol.com.

94 | It's another cold, wintry day here in New Jersey--snow on the ground and more coming! But with our 10th Reunion upon us, I'm sure I'm not the only one doing a bunch of reminiscing these days.Where have the years gone! Clearly, many '94 alums have spent the past ten years getting married and having babies. I have a bunch to report today, starting with my fellow Kraft colleague Brett Elias. He and wife Julie welcomed James Robert to their family on November 9, and the clan moved to New Jersey the same week! On November 7 William Thomas was born to Annette Wells Elias and husband John.William is their third child, and he is adapting well to life with older sister Anna and older brother John Jr. Annette is currently working at a veterinary hospital in Pennsylvania.

Jeanne Ramage Rentezelas also welcomed a son, Evan Nikolas, on November 3. She and husband Ed live in Cherry Hill, NJ. Brian Smith and wife Sara welcomed son Brandon on October 16. Brian works as a child and adolescent psychiatrist and faculty member at Michigan State U. Rosario Gonzalez and husband Luis Rodriguez '93 just had their first baby. Sofia Irene Rodriguez-Gonzalez was born on October 10. Rosario reports that Sofia's uncles are Mauricio Rodriguez '93, BA '95, and Oscar Rodriguez '96. Lauren Blaeser Miller welcomed daughter Logan Leigh Miller on September 17. She and husband Michael, whom Lauren married in September 2002, live in the Boston area, where she practices as a veterinary specialist.

In other baby news, Kathryn Spadoni Myers and husband Michael welcomed Owen Keller in June 2003. The family resides in Roanoke,VA. Also born in June to Jason Whitney and wife Julie was Justin Max. Immediately following the baby's birth the family moved to Cherry Hill, NJ. Jason also reported in on Eric Steinberger's recent wedding to Jaime Murphy; classmates in attendance included Dave Fleisch, Jeff Rothman, Wally Weinstein, Dina Peck, and Brian Landau.

Now let's catch up on some babies who are already over 1 year old. Eileen Sierk Adams reports that she is a stay-at-home mom to daughter Elizabeth, born in November 2001, and new daughter Emily, born in April 2003. Eileen is active in her church and in La Leche League and lives in Fairport, NY, with husband Daniel, a volunteer firefighter. Also a stay-athome mom is Cathy Papalia-Boyle, who is raising son Michael and daughter Laura. She and husband Ted live in Alpharetta, GA. Lastly, Mark Lippmann and wife Sharon currently live in Scarsdale, NY, returning to the area where they both grew up, after living and working in Tokyo for three years. The Lippmanns welcomed son Samuel David in December 2002.

From births, we now go on to the marriages! Chrissy Emmons reports on her marriage in September 2002 to Kurt Eisenhard. The couple live and work in Atlanta, GA. Michelle Connolly married Paul Campagna on Sept. 6, 2003 in Nashua, NH. One of the bridesmaids was classmate Kaila Colbin, who traveled all the way from Denver. The couple lives in the Boston area, where Michelle works as VP, property management for a real estate investment firm.

Kathleen Burdette married David Shields in September 2003, and reported on two other Class of 1994 weddings: Amy Moskovitz Lahana was married in July and Elizabeth Brown Somilleda was married in August. Kathy also reports that she was recently elected to partnership at her law firm, Choate, Hall, and Stewart. Jarrid Whitney wrote in about his July 2003 nuptials to Shelley Arakawa in her hometown of Honolulu, HI. Lots of Cornellians made the trip to the islands, including Gurmit Saluja '93, Stacey Merola, PhD '01, Gretchen Bookbinder LaLonde, and groomsmen Todd LaLonde, Young Hui Chang '93, and Mike Badagliacca '93.

So what is everyone else doing? Practicing medicine, it seems! Lila Nichols O'Mahony is finishing medical school, then planning to take a year off before a pediatrics residency. Lila was married in Ireland in 2003. Madhuri "Mani" Roy recently finished a PhD in neurobiology from Stanford U., and is now completing a postdoctoral fellowship at a biotechnology company. Mani recently celebrated seven years of marriage to Kannan Ranganathan. Evan Sorokin writes that he has recently opened a private plastic surgery practice in the Cherry Hill area, where he resides with wife Michelle.

David Hirsch and wife Elena live in New York with daughter Kaitlin. David is completing an oral/maxillofacial residency at Bellevue Hospital. Lily Wong also writes to report she's a practicing ob/gyn at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City. Jacqueline Bender Brecht, a pediatric urologist, and her husband Stephen, an orthopedic surgeon, will be leaving Cleveland for Anchorage, AK, this summer. Jacqueline writes, "Our son Mitchell Alexander will miss his pediatrician, Joanna Luty '93, but looks forward to his backyard caribou!"

Finally, the lawyers! Arielle Hecht Schiffman is practicing at Kramer Levin Naffalis & Frankel LLP in New York; husband Ethan is also an attorney. They are enjoying raising son Lucas, who keeps them very busy! Jorge Rey writes that he left his previous law firm to become vice president/assistant general counsel at Radian Asset Assurance Inc. in Manhattan. He recently bought an apartment in Edgewater, NJ, and is looking forward to reunion!

And with that, we complete our report. There was a bunch of news sent in the fall that I couldn't get to. Look for it in the next column! -- Jennifer Rabin Marchant, jennifer. marchant@kraft.com; Dineen Pashoukos Wasylik, dmp5@cornell.edu; and Dika Lam, DEL5@cornell.edu.

95 | I was recently speaking with a good friend from Cornell whom I still see often, and in the course of our conversation, our 10th Reunion came up. He said,"Hey, wouldn't it be cool if Joe X (name has been changed to protect the innocent!) attended this time?" He then commented that maybe this should be the project for his group of friends over the next year: to get Mr. X to reunion.

This got me thinking. I'm sure that many of you have a Mr. or Ms. X that you'd love to see at reunion, but don't know how to contact. That's where our class resources come in.When you email us with your news, let us know who you'd most like to see at our 10th Reunion in Ithaca, June 9-12, '05.We'll publish it in the column and also on our website and listserv, and hopefully some other classmate will be able to help make the connection. Other good ways to find "nomadic" classmates are through Cornell's "Find Alumni" site at http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/services/find.html. Even if you are unsuccessful with the online directory, you can use the letter forwarding service, which I once used to locate a friend with whom I'd lost touch shortly after 9/11.

And while you're doing that, please check our class website at http://classof95.alumni. cornell.edu/membership.html to make sure YOU are not a "nomadic classmate." Since you're reading this column, you probably received the magazine and, thus, are not on the list, but please check it anyway for people you know. If you see someone on there with whom you are still in contact, please have that person get in touch with us to update his or her information.

If we start early enough, perhaps we can rally these folks for reunion and set some attendance records in the process. And just to whet your appetite a little more, there are going to be many exciting things at our 10th, in addition to catching up with old friends. For those who haven't yet seen the new North Campus, it's an incredible sight. Even more amazing will be seeing the evolution of the West Campus Initiative. Since we'll most likely be staying on West, we'll be right in the heart of everything. Check out http://campuslife.cornell.edu/frames/?url=ri.campuslife.cornell.edu?catID=338 for more info.

One final note to get you in the reunion mood: keep Thursday, June 10 open for our class's "International" 365-Days-to-Go Reunion Kickoff.We'll be hosting happy hours in major cities on the same day that Reunion 2004 kicks off at Cornell--to start counting down the days until ours!

In the meantime, our classmates are busy, as always, getting married, giving birth, and making amazing career strides. In November, Dana Roth (dcroth21@aol.com) wrote in, delighted to announce the birth of her and hubby Bryan's first daughter, Eliza Allyn, born 10 weeks early on Sept. 20, '03 (at Cornell Medical Center in NYC). "Eliza was born at 2 pounds, 10 ounces (and) arrived home on Oct. 21, '03, at 4 pounds 4 ounces," wrote Dana. "Today our miracle baby is over 5-1/2 lbs., and her due date isn't until Thanksgiving!"

More additions to the Cornell family include Hannah Marie, born Nov. 14, '02, to Robert '93,MEng '94, and Emily Adams Wleklinski (ewleklinski@zcs.k12.in.us) of Zionsville, IN; Brevin Lanckton, born May 8, 2003, to Brian, ME '96 (brianwilzbach@comcast.net) and Dichele Wilzbach of Naperville, IL; and Mollie McKee, born in April 2003 to nuclear engineer Stephen McKee, ME '96 (mckee3 @charter.net) and his wife. The McKee family relocated in September to Silverdale,WA, for his new job at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. And Jeff and Julie Allen Speiser of New Jersey had their second child, Willow Eliana, on November 13.

On September 26, Isabel Pipolo married Anthony Ferrer in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. After the wedding, they spent two weeks exploring Venice, Florence, and the Tuscan countryside. Check it out at www.isabelandanthony. com. Ellen Kwan recently moved to the Boston area, where she started a new job as a family physician and bought a house. In northern Vermont, Chris Hill (cth95@hotmail.com) is "running an 800-cow dairy farm," and says that by the time this is published, he will likely be getting his master's through UVM and the Miner Inst. in Chazy,NY.He also wanted me to include his contact information for anyone who wanted to go skiing in Vermont.

Dana Yogel (dyogel@yahoo.com), one of our reunion chairs, is a senior project manager for "an infill-housing developer building luxury lofts and condominiums all over Southern California." She also writes that Joanna Miller was married in June and that Ara Weiss works as an analyst for Disney-Buena Vista Home Entertainment. And if you ever get out to the Bay Area, be sure to check out classmate Greg Medow's new venture, Jade Bar (www.jade bar.com), which was recently voted best bar by San Francisco Magazine. -- Alison Torrillo French, amt7@cornell.edu; and Abra Benson, amb8@cornell.edu. Class website: http://classof95.alumni.cornell.edu.e

96 | By the time you read this column, you may have already turned 30 like me. Fortunately, I live in New York City and that means I get to extend my adolescence indefinitely --much to the dismay of my parents. I haven't accomplished everything I set out to do when I graduated from Cornell just yet. If "American Idol" had existed in 1996, I'm sure I would have experienced my 15 minutes of undeserved fame already. For now, I will have to live vicariously through some of my more industrious classmates, including globetrotting correspondent Courtney Rubin.

On a very brief stopover in NYC from London, she told me all about her People magazine interview with "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker at the Paris Hilton (not to be confused with the omnipresent heiress and reality- TV star). Speaking of "Sex and the City," HBO writer-producer Rebecca Schader worked on spots for the award-winning series last year and has produced campaigns for Ellen DeGeneres and "The Wire." In addition to the aforementioned projects, Rebecca goes to movie junkets to conduct one-on-one interviews with actors like Jennifer Aniston, Susan Sarandon, Robin Williams, and Ray Romano. She also hangs out with Elizabeth Rand and Christina Cellini,MD '00, regularly. "Gail Rosenberg and I get together on a monthly basis. Elizabeth and I traveled to Utica, NY, in October 2003 for Jake Frame's wedding." Before that, they attended Marc Levin '95's bachelor party in New Orleans. Zev Eigen, JD '99, who works on the business side of the entertainment industry, reports that he left Littler Mendelson LLP in January 2003 to pursue a job with Fox Entertainment Group Inc. as their senior labor relations counsel.

A lot of our classmates have decided to pursue fields very different from their college majors, but some have never strayed from their original course. Jacqueline Krueger was passionate about biology when I knew her as a freshman and she still is today, as a lecturer in biological sciences at the U. of Illinois, Chicago. "I'm also quickly realizing that I'll probably need a PhD in science education, so I'm contemplating heading back to school." Another freshman year friend, Ami Gadhia (actually my Mary Donlon roommate), graduated from the U. of Connecticut School of Law in May 2003. "I am now the Esther Peterson Fellow at Consumers Union in Washington, DC. I hope this position is the beginning of a long and fruitful career in public interest law." Ami says that she is still in touch with Sandra Fried, Albert Nguyen, Deborah Gill, and many others.

Last year was very busy for Allison Jeffer Patterson. She received her license and was recognized as a New York State psychologist. She works at an elementary school on Long Island. Allison and her husband traveled to Las Vegas to celebrate her achievement, and to Thailand for their honeymoon. She says that she talks to Jennifer Tishman Willey, Suzanne Epstein, Marianne Awad Saleeb, and Maggie Zakhary. "All are doing great!"" Sidharta Oetama just finished his MBA at MIT's Sloan School of Management, Class of 2003. He and wife Carolina plan to move back to Australia soon.When Julie Farrell sent in her Class Notes back in June 2003, she was a year into her program at the UCLA School of Law.

Benjamin Kim '97 sent in a message about his brother, classmate Simon Kim, back in May 2003. "I am very proud of Simon, as he has taken on some enormous responsibilities of late, due to our family's unfortunate circumstances. Our father, only 58, is in the very advanced stages of Parkinson's. After a five and a half year stint in the US Army as an enlisted medic and an artillery officer, including two year-long tours in Korea, First Lieutenant Simon came back home to Northern Virginia in December 2001 to take care of family matters, including taking over our father's business. The struggles related to Parkinson's are indescribable, but he manages to adhere to his duties as the oldest child.We are truly grateful to have him and, again, I am very proud to have him as my brother."

This column would not be complete without a few birth announcements, and it's all girls this time. To begin with, Carolyn Broodhead Schirm had Heidi Anneliese on Dec. 27, '02. According to Carolyn, Constance Wehe Craig gave birth to Amanda in April. David '94 and Patricia Gaigals Bolduc celebrated the arrival of their first child, Natalie Grace, on May 23, '03 in Waterville, OH. On a side note, Patricia says that she "graduated on June 13, '03 with a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from The Ohio State U. College of Veterinary Medicine." Evan and Vita Craine Cohen welcomed Mia Isabelle into the world on May 13, '03; and David, MD '01, and Lauren Kalter Hass are the proud parents of Samantha Joy, who was born on Mar. 9, '03. Congratulations to everyone.

Please keep the news coming as usual.We look forward to helping you share your good news with the rest of the class. Don't forget to check out our class website: http://classof96.alumni.cornell.edu. -- Allie Cahill, Alexan draCahill@aol.com; Courtney Rubin, cbr1@cornell.edu; and Sheryl Magzamen, SLM1@cornell.edu.

97 | What will future generations of Cornellians think about our campus? They will never get to experience the U-Halls or the line for the bathroom at Clubhouse, but maybe that's for the best. I am certain that there will be many more things for them to remember fondly or complain about that we can't even imagine. I do, however, know who the next generation of Cornellians will be--read on!

Jodi Goroff Green (yosefa@comcast.net) welcomed her son Zev Ronel Green on July 21, '03. Dominic Matthew Ross, son of Anne-Marie Compton (amco101@yahoo.com), entered the world on Aug. 3, '03 in Fairbanks, AK. Grace Sundaram Chaddha (gmchaddha@yahoo.com) and husband Anil, JD '95, MILR '96, welcomed their daughter Anjini Marie on June 18, '03. Grace writes that Anjini is adjusting fantastically to her mom's other job as full-time graduate student in the MBA program at the U. of Rochester's Simon School of Business. Anil, besides being a dad, is working for GE as labor counsel for the Transportation and Aircraft divisions.

Another future Cornellian is Michael Basanese, born Sept. 18, '03 and first child of Edward and Jennifer Janisch Basanese. Dave Gearing (davidg@taconic.net) welcomed his daughter Christianna Marie on Nov. 29, '03. An update from our class website informed us of the birth of Morgan Emma Polk in January '03. Morgan is the daughter of Lorraine Hoffmann- Polk (lorraine_hazel@hotmail.com) and Woodruff Polk. Lorraine enjoyed her time as a fulltime mom shortly after Morgan's birth, but is now working as a staff attorney for the Georgia Board of Workers-Compensation.

Rounding out our updates from the stork (or is it the cabbage patch?) is the announcement of the birth of Jackson Scott Wallace on April 29, '03. Jackson is the son of Scott and Kathryn Boniti Wallace (keb14@cornell.edu). Kathryn writes that a number of Cornellians have been to visit Jackson since his birth, including James and Michelle McKee Cubbon, Zoran Filipovic '96, Kelly Patel '97, Cheryl Tourney, Laurie Rothenberg, and Keith Berger. Congrats to all our new and proud parents!

News continues to filter in from across the country. Allan Kaplan (kaplan.a@ghc.org) sent news of his activities since graduation.While currently working on a family medicine residency in Seattle, he has also served as a Peace Corps biology teacher in Tanzania and completed medical school in Albany since leaving Ithaca. Jerad Crave (jjc20@cornell.edu) is living in San Francisco and enjoying teaching third grade at a private school. He is kept busy training for the Boston marathon and keeping up with his year-old Weimaraner puppy. He has started training for triathlons and finished fifth in his first one--way to go, Jerad! He's also kept up with Vivian Kwok '96, Nat Yap '96, and Jonathan Trager.

Not to be outdone in the athletic front, Samara Friedman (samarafriedman@hot mail.com) sent in news of her tryouts for the Olympic Skeleton Sliding team in Lake Placid. For those of us that follow the summer Olympics more, skeleton is like luge, but headfirst-- yikes! Luckily, Samara noted that her skills as an orthopedic surgeon were not needed during the tryouts.When not pursuing Olympic competition, she is completing her third year of residency at Long Island Jewish Hospital while her husband Daniel Turinsky is an associate at the law firm Sills Cummis. Samara has also taken up sculpting stone and is having a piece shown in a local exhibit.

One correction: Our last column erroneously listed Arun Biswas as a student at Yale's Tuck School of Management. Arun is a student at Yale's School of Management (informally known as "Yale SOM"), not Dartmouth's Tuck School. Sorry, Arun!

I've run out of space to talk about weddings and other exciting events. Tune in next month for continuing news from the Class of '97! Please make sure to pay your class dues so that I can write more next column--the number of duespayers determines how much space we have in the column. And keep sending in your updates! -- Sarah Deardorff Carter, sjd5@cornell.edu; Erica Broennle Nelson, ejb4@cornell.edu. Class website: http://classof97.alumni.cornell.edu.

98 | Featuring: the latest stars and blockbusters in the Class of '98! (Sorry, as we write this column, the Oscar nominations have been announced and we got into the movie mood!) Raise the curtains, please . . .

Pirates of the Caribbean.Amy Safinski, Erica Volini, and Michele Diener reunited in the Caribbean. They chartered a sailboat and brought in the New Year in Dominica, British Virgin Islands, and St. Kitts. In addition,Amy and Ricky Stokes completed a half-marathon and marathon, respectively, in Miami, FL, a few weeks later. Erica moved back to New York City and continues to consult for Deloitte and Touche.Michele remains in Los Angeles and continues to work for Toyota Motor Sales, USA Inc.

Mystic River. Living by the Mystic River are Michelle Carney and Jennifer H.B. Yen. Michelle moved from Raleigh-Durham, NC, to Boston. She is an early childhood teacher and program director. Jennifer is working as an attorney (representing a pro bono client on a USC sec. 1983 Constitutional claim) in Boston and made her modeling debut in the October 2003 issue of Imagine News for ClairePhoto. She notes that she has hung out recently with Denise Oliveira and Kate Bromber '99.

The Perfect Score. After graduation,many of our classmates continued up the ivory tower and received higher degrees. Back in 2001, Adam Rayman graduated from Boston College Law School with honors, then became an associate at Keller and Heckman LLP in Washington, DC. After working there as a civil litigator for two years, he decided to accept an associate position with Windels Marx Lane and Mittendorf LLP's civil litigation group. On June 30, '03 Anabel Haley received her PhD in clinical health psychology, having completed her internship at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami this past year. She is now back in New York and was going to begin working for New York Presbyterian as a school psychologist in mid- November. Anne Sperling is in her last year of her doctoral program at U. of Southern California. She is obtaining her PhD in neuroscience. Pamela Becker also recently completed her doctorate, in clinical psychology. Julie Stein Schiff graduated from the U. of Connecticut Medical School in 2002 and is currently in her second year of a pediatrics residency at Children's Hospital in Boston. Congratulations to all!

Back to School. Julia Wells recently went back to school on a part-time basis to earn an MBA at New York U. She is still also working full-time at Johnson & Johnson as a staff scientist. She works on skin care products for Clean & Clear brands. She recently vacationed in Venice and Paris in the fall of 2003. Julia has also been busy keeping in touch with other '98ers. She saw Emily Mirsky in Philadelphia in fall 2003, as well as Courtney Stacks, Ellen White, Karen Lapidos, Angie Song, Jen Rosen, and Rick Grousset at a July 4 party in Cape Cod in 2002. If that is not enough she also saw Joe Mancuso at school. Julia is definitely keeping busy!

Cat in the Hat. Jennifer Woodard writes that she is now shelter manager of The Humane Society of Harford County in Fallston,MD. Eat, Drink, Man, Woman. Agnes C. Galvez, RD, plugged that we should check the newsstands for Muscle & Fitness, where her article on "yellow foods" should be appearing. Agnes is a freelance writer for this publication. Also check out www.theflavoronine.com, where she is also a contributing writer. Hint: look under Featured Articles/Filipino American Nutrition.

Lost in Translation. Olga Vaysman has been named instructor of linguistics and cognitive science at Pomona College. Olga specializes in Slavic languages, especially obscure Uralic languages such as Nganasan (Western Siberia in Tamyr Peninsula), and Eastern and Western branches of the Mari languages indigenous to the Ural Mountains region. She has done fieldwork in phonology in both regions and has published results from this fieldwork. The Firm. Stephanie Grise received her JD degree from Washington U. School of Law and her MBA from the Olin School of Business at Washington U. in 2003. Stephanie is a member of the business services department at a law firm, where she concentrates her practice in the area of public law and finance, with an emphasis on transportation development districts and municipal financing. She is a member of The Missouri Bar and Bar Assn. of Metropolitan St. Louis.

Father of the Bride. Jessie Lefton was married on Aug. 30, '03 to Amit Zilberstein in Los Angeles. Sarah Lefton '95, Erik Mulet '97,MFA '97, Adina Saperstein, and Megan Heller attended. Jessie moved last year from New York City to L.A. and loves the sunshine! She is currently working for a Jewish Community Center as the director of strategic planning. Parenthood. Victoria Kulli and Aaron Todd are proud to announce the arrival of their son Logan Cable Todd on Nov. 21, '03. Victoria is on a leave of absence from work at Continental Express Airlines, where she works as a pilot, and Aaron is pursuing his MBA at Cornell's Johnson School. He will graduate in May.

The End. This column was made possible thanks to viewers like you. Please stay tuned for more in upcoming issues. To submit news, write to -- Gregg Herman, gdh5@cornell.edu; or Erica Chan, hc31@cornell.edu.

99 | It's time for the Ezra Awards, the newly-invented and absolutely (un)necessary alternative to the Oscars for every Cornellian (especially those who submit to the column). Although no official nomination, categorization, or award process will ensue from this inane process, it's the journey more than the destination that counts in this life we lead.

On the New England front, we Massachusettans are all enjoying an early, and hopefully not false, spring. Stacy Giufre is soaking up the surreal sunshine in Cambridge, down the street from me in Somerville and Tricia Turley in Allston. Tricia is well overdue congratulations, promoted to Associate Athletic Director and Senior Woman Administrator at Northeastern U. last November. Over in Winchester, MA, Pamela Mole married Kyle Hollasch, MEng '98, in October 2003. Pamela works as a research technician at Dana- Farber Cancer Institute's Microarray Core Facility, while her husband is a sales engineer at Cisco. In response to what she's been up to, Pamela declares, "Getting married was a pretty big deal," and both newlyweds still actively daydream about their honeymoon in Hawaii.

In New Haven, CT, Charles Keith ponders the past while in pursuit of his PhD in history at Yale U. Charles certainly hopes history repeats itself when it comes to traveling; he's been around his share of the world, including the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Europe.When he finds himself back in the tri-state area for a stint, he spends his home games with good friends Jen Blumin, Ken Cunningham '00, and Ariz Mehta. Nearby in Warwick, RI, Andrew Freeman is doing his residency in internal medicine at Brown U., after graduating from the U. of Buffalo's School of Medicine in 2003.

In "the City" (as in the one, the only, NYC), Carol Carty, JD '02, spends her day-life working for Holland & Knight LLP, along with fellow alumna Colleen Sorrell '98. Carol finished Cornell Law School in 2002, alongside good friend Lillian Tsu '98, JD '02, and graduated from the Cornell Inst. for Public Affairs program in '99. Carol lives up the NYC nightlife with Lillian and good friend Marcie Woodruff. A few subway stops away in Forest Hills, Matthew Dounel excitedly reports that in early 2004 he received notification that "several of my publications have been accepted!" A recent graduate from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia U., Matthew has made several leaps forward on the public health front, including coordinating a world-class screening program at the heart of the Big Apple.

"Upstate" in Williamson, NY, Heather Hillman is working as a small animal medicine and surgery intern at Veterinary Specialists of Rochester through July 2004.Heather graduated from Oklahoma State U. College of Veterinary Medicine in May 2003 with a DVM degree. Nearby in Binghamton, Heather Bergida is in the Dept. of Psychology in Binghamton U. Meanwhile, in Farmington, NY, Jamie Block made homage to our fair Ithaca to take Taylan Sen '96's hand in marriage at Sage Chapel. They have a son Cameron and still happily live in the Finger Lakes region. Heather volunteers as an EMT for Victor Farmington Ambulance and is an enrolled agent. She is working on her MBA at the Simon School of Business, U. of Rochester. Her Cornell circle includes Virgilia Tegiacchi, pursuing her master's while working for First Pioneer Farm Credit, and Dennis Eckel, who works with Heather at Farm Credit of WNY in Geneva.

MBAs aside, in Livingston, NJ, Michael Daniels has put his business experience with a Fortune 100 company to personal use by starting his own real estate holding company, MVD Investments LLC.With properties currently held in North Carolina and New Jersey, Michael is looking to expand to Pennsylvania and New York. With his full-time job taking him across the country to fab and fun destinations including Las Vegas, Chicago, and Tulsa,Michael still manages to find time to take on a small number of personal projects, including home improvement, earning his motorcycle license, and "waiting to marry . . . errr . . . meet Alicia Keys."Nothing too outlandish, he jokes. Jersey girl Jill Clougherty is happily married with children in Gillette. The lucky man? Nils Weimann, PhD '99, who walked down the aisle with Jill in September 2000. Son Julian was born in October 2001, and daughter Nadia in September 2003. Jill confesses, "I'm a stay-at-home mother now, the best job I've ever had (with the smallest bosses!)." She's taken numerous trips to Europe to see the in-laws and hike in the Black Forest. And while loving life as Super Mom, Jill leads hikes for mothers and babies. And she'd like you to know these are real hikes--no strollers. The perfect alternative to being a mall-mom. Prekid- dom, Jill had been working for the state doing water quality testing.

On the West Coast, California universities have taken Cornell grads by storm! Claire "Libbey" Johnson is living large in Oakland, a UC Berkeley graduate student at Boalt Law School pursuing a PhD in jurisprudence and social policy. Meanwhile, Francisca Balada is attending Berkeley's clinical psychology PhD program. Francisca lives in San Francisco, next door to Cornell classmates Evan Yavarkovsky, Eric Chang, Babak Sanii, ME '00, and Jay LeBoeuf '00. They hang out with fellow alumni Frank Goldberg, Yuki Ohashi, and Irene Yu. In Davis, CA, Theresa Thomas Holliday and her husband are both grad students at UC Davis and are happy to announce the birth of son James Roy "J.R." Holliday IV, born on Nov. 21, '02. J.R. is a happy, healthy 1-year-old and his parents enjoy him tremendously.

Sarah Phelps wins "best props" for her electrifying life out in paradise--Palm Springs and the Bahamas. Sarah first and foremost announced, "I am proud to be among the ranks of the single with no pets, no plants, no children, and no husband to think about!"You just go, girl! She finished a two-year stint teaching high school French at Palm Desert High School, where she was awarded "Teacher of the Year." Back in September, Sarah and pals Lee Griffiths and Ben Farber met up in Paso Robles to celebrate the marriage of Peter Krimmel and Jill Johnston. Then, earlier this year, Sarah starred as blonde bombshell Norma Cassidy in a local professional equity theater production of Victor/ Victoria. (Julie Andrews, move over!) And what's next on her itinerary? Sarah left in February for Paradise Island in the Bahamas, where she works as a tour guide and French translator, and is in constant pursuit of the limelight at any stage or bar she can find.

We all deserve an Ezra! And that's the final word from the Academy of Cornell Columnists. We'll see y'all at Reunion, but in the meantime, keep letting us know about your awesome existences! -- Melanie "When do I get to give my long-winded acceptance speech?" Arzt, snoopymel@yahoo.com; Jen Sheldon, jsheldon@law.uconn.edu; and Jess Smith, jessiniowa@hotmail.com.

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