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00 | Summer is nearly here! Didn't that seem like an extraordinarily long winter? Congratulations to all those who have completed their graduate school work, especially those finishing medical school! If you are beginning your residency this year, be sure to write to me and Sarah, and tell us where you matched. There are some of us still hitting the books, so let's see what those hard-working students are up to.

Jamie Bessich started her first year at Dartmouth Medical School, and told us that she is extremely excited about going back to school. Jamie also informed us that Melissa Bersofsky is now at Harvard pursuing her MA in higher education, and that Jennifer Marchell is working in Cincinnati at Procter & Gamble. Jamie has also heard from Amy Goldbeck, who is in Philadelphia at Temple Medical School. Down in sunny Florida, Jordan Tomalty is in dental school at U. of Florida.

It was also good hearing from Alison Moed, who is currently in her fourth year in the clinical psychology PhD program at the U. of Pittsburgh. Her fiancé Andrew Gilbert is a fellow in child and adolescent psychiatry at the U. of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Also studying clinical psychology, Catherine Ayers is in a PhD program at George Mason U. Carrie Harausz is headed back to the Hill to attend Cornell's highly esteemed Veterinary college. She reports that Elizabeth Harausz returned from the Peace Corps in Africa to begin medical school at Tufts. Carrie has also kept in touch with Julia Zanieski, who is working in Chicago, and Nyea Sturman, who graduated from Marquette Law School. On the West Coast, Lucy Zhang began an MBA program at Pepperdine U.

Now, students are not the only members of our class with exciting news.Many other classmates have entered the working world and are making a name for themselves. Sean Twohig has accepted a full-time position with Abacus Inc. in the Fredericksburg, VA, area. He has been assigned a long-term project as a graphic designer for the Virginia Dept. of Transportation. Alissa Grad is the director of business development at TAG Associates. She is the first person to hold this position in TAG's 20-year history. Alissa often speaks at alternative investment conferences, and is an "Angel"member of 100 Women in Hedge Funds. Wayne Lee, ME '01, just informed us that he has been living in Charleston, SC, and is in the US Navy. Jennifer O'Neil made a switch from Sony Music Entertainment in NYC to Sony in California.

Also relocating, Lynn D'Silva went from working in Puerto Rico and London for Merck & Co. to living in a suburb of Philly. She has run into Patricia Capote, ME '01, Sulaiman Al- Shasheen Al-Rubaie,Matt Cinelli, Nicole Fuccillo, Mandy DeRoche, and Dave Adler. Lynn also mentioned that she toured Europe for a while, visiting London, Luxembourg, and France. Josh Krupnick also spent some time backpacking across Europe, then returned to complete his master's in systems engineering at the U. of Virginia. He is now an analyst for the US Army.

Finally, I would like to highlight some of our classmates who have simply written about the new and exciting events in their lives. (Bear in mind, you do not have to be in graduate school, in a fantastic job, or in a wedding to be making news. We want to hear about everything!) Danny Tseng writes that he is still enjoying the "City of Angels."He cannot get over the extensive diversity and all the city has to offer (natural beauty, nightlife, culture, ethnic cuisine, great weather, museums, farmers' markets, tourist attractions). Danny just got a motorcycle license and purchased a Yamaha Seca II. He says it's the best thing he could have done. Danny moved from Santa Monica to Culver City to be closer to his job at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotel. He has visited Miami, FL, to spend time with his parents and sister Linda Tseng '02. Danny is also a "Big Brother" volunteer to an 11-year-old boy for the Asian Pacific Women's Center, a temporary shelter and provider of services for victims of domestic violence. He has heard from Warren Lee, ME '01, who is in the Navy's Officer Candidate School in Pensacola, FL, and has seen his best friend Jason Hsiang '02, MPA '03, in Miami, FL.

Michelle Perales started her own home building business and residential development company in San Antonio, TX. She was working for an affordable housing developer in Dallas, but decided to be her own boss instead! Lt. j.g. David Sweeney returned from a six-month deployment to the Persian Gulf on the USN destroyer Carney. The crew was assigned to interdict trade of contraband oil and goods in support of UN mandates. David has traveled through many waters, crossed the equator, and become a full-fledged shellback. Last but not least, Jonathan Douglas was rowing for the US National Rowing Team, and competed in the 2002 World Rowing Championships in Seville, Spain. He won a bronze medal in the USA Lightweight 8. Congratulations to all!

Remember: We love hearing from you and we love writing for you--so keep it coming! -- Andrea M. Chan, amc32@cornell.edu; and Sarah Striffler, sjs34@cornell.edu.

01 | Believe it or not, in less than two years we will be heading back to the Big Red for our 5th Reunion. I hope many of you are looking forward to reconnecting with old friends, visiting the old sites on campus, and participating in the fun activities being planned by your classmates. Save the dates, June 8-11, 2006, and contact classof2001_reunion@cornell.edu if you are interested in helping plan our first reunion event.

It is always great to hear from classmates and to report on the great things that people are up to. Lets kick things off in the legal profession. Hearty congratulations to those classmates who went straight to law school and are now graduating, including David Baharvar, who will soon receive his JD from Harvard Law School. Currently a second-year student at Harvard, Lee Rudofsky, MPA '02, spent last summer as an intern for White House Council staff and will spend this summer at Kirkland Ellis in Washington, DC. Joining the ranks of law students after two years as a paralegal at Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Lauren Eade is pursuing a degree at William and Mary Law School. Not far from the legal world, Edan Lichtenstein serves as a legislative correspondent to US Congressman John Lewis, the civil rights hero from Atlanta, GA. Edan is also taking classes toward a master's degree in computer science.

Joining Edan in the graduate school world are Martine Combal and Andrea Hoberman. Martine is attending the U. of Pennsylvania's Design School for a master's in city planning, while Andrea has recently moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA's School of Public Health in pursuit of her MPH. Before moving out west, Andrea was working at the National Inst. of Mental Health in Bethesda, MD, and was living with Debbie Lyons, a Teach for America fellow in DC. Carrie Richter,MAT '02, joins Debbie in the education field as a seventh grade life science teacher at Hartnett Middle School in Blackstone, MA. Evan Grant is working at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center for the Northeast Amphibian Research Monitoring Initiative, while Ryan Sarsfield has been traveling in Central and South America, working with Adult University (CAU) and doing field research on rattlesnakes in Sonora,Mexico.

In the corporate and consulting world, we've heard from Peter Bowen, who is completing his third year at Bain & Company in Boston. Lyndsay Wegman is an analyst in Bank of America's Securities Analyst Program, working on student loans, credit cards, and mortgage securitizations in Charlotte, NC. In New Orleans, Robert DeJean III has recently opened a new Quiznos Sub restaurant and is scheduled to open a couple more this year. We've also heard from Jonathan Fursman, one of our classmates proudly serving in the armed forces. Jonathan has been deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as Executive Officer, Bravo Company, 2-3 Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division–Stryker Brigade. We wish Jonathan and the rest of our classmates serving around the globe a safe journey and peaceful return.

Many of our classmates are pursuing medical careers, including Maria Isabel Rosso, who is completing her third year of medical school. After completing a Master of Science in Biochemistry at SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Ester Cobb is currently a first year at the U. of Oklahoma School of Medicine. Other med school rookies include Victor Pascua, New York Medical College, and Nathan Connell, U. of Miami School of Medicine. Nearing completion of their degree, Adam Suslak is a fourth year student at New Jersey Medical School, and Jennifer Lee Young is finishing her degree at SUNY Upstate Medical University and is interviewing for ob/gyn residencies.

And of course, what column would be complete without a best-wishes-to-the-newlyweds section? We are proud to announce the following marriages: Olympic athlete Hannah Hardaway recently married fellow Olympian Brian Currult and has taken a year off from competitive mogul skiing to finish letting her right knee heal. Peter Bronski and Kelli Terry were married at Trinity Lutheran Church in Ithaca on Nov. 8, '03. Their reception, held on the Cornell campus, was a reunion of sorts, attended by their families and dearest friends, many of whom are present Cornellians or Cornell alumni. Lastly, James Konopack, a graduate student in kineseology at the U. of Illinois in Urbana, recently married Sheryl Lacina.

That's it for this column. Please continue to share the events going on in your life.We look forward to celebrating in June 2006 with all of you. E-mail your updates to classof2001@cor nell.edu, and we hope you will visit our class website for upcoming events and classmate profiles (http://classof01.alumni.cornell.edu).Have a great summer! -- Itai Dinour, id22@cornell.edu; Lauren Wallach, LEW15@cornell.edu.

02 | As we approach the two-year anniversary of our graduation, I bring you news of the Class of 2002 from staid academic halls, cooking classes "Down Under," banking boardrooms, and even our own sleepy Ithaca. First, from those of us who couldn't get enough of life in academia: Alicia Anderson is a PhD student in American Studies at Yale U., Erik Kim is in an Engineering Physics PhD program at the U. of Michigan, and Rachel Jacobs is in her second year of law school at Columbia U. Another aspiring lawyer in New York, Becky Sendrow is in her second year at Cardozo. She recently became an aunt. Lisa Adelman writes that she is halfway through law school at Indiana U. in Bloomington. As Vice-Justice of Phi Alpha Delta, the law fraternity, she is organizing the first-ever fashion show at the law school to help fellow students know what to wear to professional events. Back in Ithaca, Megan Schneck is in Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine's Class of '06. Cass Shields recently completed a master's in marketing at Northwestern and will be moving to Sydney, Australia, where she will be continuing work on her culinary degree at Le Cordon Bleu. She is looking forward to an Australian summer and a chance to catch up with classmate Sarah Campbell, who has been living there since graduation.

From the working world, John Kenny writes from Atlantic City, NJ, that he is working as a civil engineer and eager to stay involved with Cornell through the alumni programs. Upstate in Saratoga Springs, Celeste Richie is still working for an environmental consulting firm and enjoying life in the Adirondacks. Brent Caron got married in July 2003 to Shannon Marie Mostert and was promoted to assistant store manager of the Latham Hannaford Store. He recently purchased a new home in Clifton Park, NY. Christine Marchuska is working as a fixed income bond liaison in Morgan Stanley's fixed income division in New York City with fellow Cornellians Eric Gonzalez and Ryan Buckham, ME '03.

Scott Belsky, Yonina Fishof, Debbie Grier, Becky Walker, and Annie Rosenberg were part of the Cornell Jewish Alumni group at Little Shop of Plaster & Pottery in Manhattan for a wine and cheese party. Apparently, they braved a snowy January night and created masterpieces! Yonina is working in business intelligence at Deloitte & Touche and living on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Becky works in investment banking at Goldman Sachs in NYC. Up and down the eastern seaboard, Heather Eichhorn is working for Navigant Performance Group, an incentive travel, special events, and meeting planning company in Massachusetts, and Colin Murchie is keeping very busy in Washington, DC, working at the Solar Energy Industries Assn., performing comedy with Washington Improv Theater, and training as an EMT.

Making our way west, Michael Pedreiro writes from Longmont, CO, that he is excited about his recent promotion to assistant operations officer for Aurora Dairy Group and looking forward to an upcoming move to their corporate headquarters in High Springs, FL. In sunny California, JeffWalwyn is working as a financial analyst at J. P. Morgan in San Francisco, Tammy Miller is working at a research laboratory design and planning firm in Auso Viejo, and Annette Grew is managing the national accounts for Aramark in Burbank. She recently relocated from Boston, where she had been very successfully competing in triathlons in New England, and is enjoying the move to sunny Santa Monica.

Ruthie Levy, who was promoted to 1st Lieutenant at the beginning of December, will be going with her brigade to the National Training Center in California for a month, in order to prepare for future military operations. And lastly, the military travels of Charles Phillips and Tom Sheldon have brought them to the beautiful Hawaiian island of Oahu. Charles and Tom are stationed on the USS Pasadena and USS Bremerton, respectively, two nuclear-powered fast-attack submarines in Pearl Harbor. Their recreational activities include sailing their new boat in Kaneohe Bay and frequenting Tropics, a local establishment in downtown Kailua.

It's always great to hear that our classmates are keeping busy and finding great success in such an enormous variety of endeavors. I hope the late spring finds you all well. Keep the news coming! -- Elizabeth Richards, elizabethlauren_richards@yahoo.com; and Carolyn Deckinger, cmd35@cornell.edu.

03 | As I write this column, Valentine's Day has just passed by, and after a nice long President's Day weekend, life is back to being busy. Spring is right around the corner and for many of us, it marks our first year away from school and being "in the real world." I was so pleased to see the high number of respondents who willingly shared their news through the Class News Form. I always look forward to hearing all your fresh news, so here we go!

Many Cornell faces are home-based in New York City. Robert Profusek writes that he has started working at Lazard Freres in their restructuring group. Vanessa Graham is living in the City and has a new Boston terrier puppy, Peanut. Vanessa affectionately writes, "She enjoys chasing squirrels and chewing bones." Jay Sackett is a hard-working New Yorker too, enjoying his time as a financial analyst for Mergers and Acquisitions, Business Development Group at Citigroup. Other New York residents include Alyse Rosenberg and Jason Goldman.

Away from city life, Randi Dublin is a research assistant in the Department of Child Psychiatry at the NY State Psychiatric Inst. She helps coordinate research studies to explore treatments for children and teens with anxiety and depression. Also working in the medical field and living in Maryland, Kayte Conniff is working as a patient care coordinator at the neuro-oncology branch of the National Cancer Inst., where she received a Cancer Research Training Award fellowship. Also a researcher, Thomas Ricketts is working for a small company in Lincoln, RI, called Spherics, developing bioadhesive drug delivery systems. Mary Allison Goodman writes from Folsom, CA, that she is a rotational engineer with Intel Corp. It isn't always easy being an engineer! Kathleen Moon writes from Glenmont, NY: "I've had five temp jobs since I left Cornell--nothing in engineering yet!" Keep your head up, Kathleen.

Out in Secaucus, NJ, Molly Kate McDowell is working at MSNBC as a researcher and personal assistant for Keith Olbermann '79 on his show, "Countdown with Keith Olbermann." There are a total of four Cornellians working on the show. Rudzki Povich '89 is a senior producer, and Maryam Ayromlou '89 is a booker. She writes, "I've also done some freelance writing, most recently dishing out breakup advice in the pages of Seventeen magazine. Laura Wexler '02, a fellow English major, turned up on the softball team I joined. Although we didn't previously know each other, I thought she looked familiar."Molly also saw fellow members of the Class of 2003 at the Cornell-Princeton hockey game: Amanda Angel (who is interning at the Baltimore Sun), Alex Fineman (who is a researcher at ESPN), and Sam Paolini (who is playing hockey for the Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies). Amie Luedke writes that she is working at the architecture firm Sam Trimble Design in New Canaan, CT. She is glad to announce, "We were on the cover of Architectural Digest's January 2003 issue."

It hasn't been easy for everyone to find a dream job. Jedd Narsavage lives in Silver Spring, MD, and writes, "After graduating, I returned to Maryland and began working for TruGreen Land Care. It ain't the greatest job, but I'm happy to be employed!" For those who decided not to face the work force right off the bat, there's always more education. David Fisher is currently a student at Cornell Law School. Further from the Hill,Huai-Chuan Wu is studying pre-chiropractic studies at Hunter College in New York. Also in NYC, Kristen Haunss is staying busy at the Columbia School of Journalism, right next door to Jacqueline Dorn, who is a law school student at Fordham U. School of Law. Josh Roth is at law school in Boston and writes that he seems to have "more work and fewer social distractions (unfortunately)." He enjoyed returning to Ithaca for Homecoming and getting a chance to catch up with fellow Acacia brothers, particularly Scott McQuade, Tom Ricketts, and Ilya Cherepakhin. Traveling westward, Michael Arredondo enthusiastically writes that he is in his first year of medical school at the U. of Minnesota, Duluth. Trevor Chlanda is a grad student pursuing a horticulture science PhD at North Carolina State, Raleigh.

Giving back to society, Ariel DeFazio was working at the Cincinnati Nature Center until the end of this past year and is now looking forward to joining Americorps. In San Francisco, Beth Altshuler is starting a youth employment program through the City of San Francisco's Dept. of Public Works called SF-CRUE--San Francisco Communities Restoring Urban Environments. From our ROTC classmates, Kamela Watson is enjoying the sunny winter months down at strike fighter/fighter navigator training in Pensacola, FL, with the Air Force, while Navy submariners Tom Struble and Adrian Korduba wrap up their last days of Nuclear Power School in Charleston, SC. Robbins Schrader is currently at the Naval Air Station (NAS), Pensacola for flight school, but was recently medically "downed" due to asthma. It's looking like he'll be changing out of the aviation designation and into something new.

I am still down in Norfolk,VA, as an officer on the USS Ross, a Navy destroyer. I laugh at the Norfolk locals when they talk about the winter. It's nothing compared to Ithaca, that's for sure! Thanks again to you all for your wonderful tidbits. I look forward to getting more. E-mail us anytime with your news--we love hearing from you. -- Samantha Buckingham, swb9@cornell.edu; or Sudha Nandagopal, sn58@cornell.edu.

04 | Congratulations! We did it! As you look back on your four years at Cornell, I beg you to forget the papers, the prelims, and the finals. Think about meeting your friends at Terrace, long lunches at Trillium, and coffee at Libe. Remember running through your dorm to your best friend's room, screaming out the window the night before finals, and sliding down the slope on an Okenshield's tray. We are the last class to live on West as freshmen, to grab frosties at Wendy's in Collegetown, to go to Bibi's and Big & Little Joe's. Think about swimming in the gorges and about your many nights out. I know you are smiling now. Keep those smiles bright and stay connected. We have created some of our favorite memories here, and just because we are about to scatter around the globe does not mean we need to lose touch. E-mail me updates at vgm3@cornell.edu.

The other officers and I would like to thank President Jeffrey Lehman '77, the Trustees, Kelly Maule '97, Margaret Gallo '81, Kathryn Buckley '01,Maya Gasuk, and Liz Kirk for all of their help with our campaign. A special thanks to John '74,MBA '76, and Elaine Mead Alexander '77, our Senior Class Campaign Challengers, for their support and contribution to our scholarship. And thank you to the hundreds of seniors who acted as Campaign Chairs, who volunteered their time, and who contributed in the effort to create our class gift to Cornell, the Class of 2004 Scholarship.

I would like to close this column with a few verses from our Alumni Song, written in 1890 by Louis Carl Ehle 1891.

I am thinking tonight of my old college town,
I am dreaming of days that are flown,
Of the joys and the strife of my old college
life--
Ah, those days were the best I have known.

Then here is the toast we will drink:
A good rousing health to Cornell!
Let your glasses clink!
A good excuse, I think,
Is a toast to her we all love so well.

I'm rejoicing tonight o'er her vict'ries again,
Though I helped not the triumph to gain;
I will shout with my might for Carnelian and
White,
And her honor forever maintain.

Good luck and keep in touch! -- Vanessa Matsis, vgm3@cornell.edu.

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