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60 | You'll soon be getting information in the mail about reunion, so be sure to save the dates June 9-12, 2005 and plan a return to Ithaca to celebrate our 45th.Your hard-working Reunion Committee, which includes Bill Fisher, PhD '68, Gale Jackson, and Linda Jarshauer Johnson, MS '63, among others, has been busy these past months firming up details for next June's celebration. Several of them have traveled to campus to meet with staff members and make preliminary decisions about housing, hospitality, and panel presentations. If you want to volunteer to help with reunion, please contact Sue Phelps Day, M Ed '62, at spd6@cornell.edu. Take note: All of you who pay your dues by December 1 will receive a free Class Directory.

Someone in Fort Wayne, IN, sent along an online news story about Willis Clark, who was honored in July for his long history of community activism on behalf of the arts with the Sagamore of Wabash, the highest civilian award given by the governor of Indiana. His award was obviously well-deserved:Willis has served eight years on the Indiana Arts Commission, including two as chairman, and has also chaired the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne, and the Urban League. A founding member of the African/African American Historical Society,Willis has also been on the board of the Indiana Humanities Council. He is married to Ginny (Buchanan) '61 and has four children, including Brian '85 and Allison Clark Levy '84.

Sydney Clark Menger recently retired after more than three decades as a computer consultant specializing in application development for businesses. She says, "I did love my work, but am now enjoying this ‘new age.'" She and Bob '57,MBA '59, took their granddaughter to Disney World and went on a Cornell Alumni Tour to France.When last I heard, they were planning to join the October 2004 Alumni Tour to Greece along with classmates Ev and Judy Wetzel Seyler.When at home in Concord, MA, Sydney sings in the local chorus, plays tennis several times a week, and does volunteer work at her grandchildren's school. Speaking of our upcoming reunion, Sydney says, "I remember thinking as an undergrad that anyone who came back for a 45th Reunion was really old. Good thing that is no longer so!"

Ron Pereira is still in Virginia, where he runs the Whimsical Galerie in Old Town Manassas and the Mountain Store in Madison. His son Charley is a charter boat captain in Buxton, NC, son Will is a fly-fishing guide in Montana, daughter Michelle recently graduated from Old Dominion U., son Ronny attends the College of Charleston, and daughter Danielle is in high school in Fairfax. Ron and his wife Karin live in Woodbridge. Bobbie Spelman Josepher and her husband Tony became grandparents for the first time in October 2003, with the birth of Chelsea Josepher Brea to their daughter Laura and her husband Juan. Bobbie continues to work for the League of Women Voters in Syosset and for the Sierra Club, but says she's "now living for her weekly trips on the Long Island Railroad to see her granddaughter in New York City."

Carol Sue Epstein Hai spent three weeks in Africa in late 2003, on an extended safari in Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe, followed by a trip through South Africa that included Cape Town, Pretoria, and the wine country. C-Sue is still working in Rochester, but says she's "trying to cut back some" in order to spend more time enjoying her family, which now includes a new daughter-in-law Stacy, who married son Paul in September 2003, along with daughter Jill '85 and son-in-law Marc Rubenstein '86, JD '89, and their two children.

Other busy Rochesterites are Bob and Toby Jossem Silverman. Bob is a volunteer teacher at Senior Net, a national program that offers computer courses for the over- 50 contingent, and Toby continues her work as Scholarship Chairman for the Cornell Alumni Association of Greater Rochester. The Silvermans have six grandchildren, three of them the offspring of daughter Deborah Silverman Shames '89 and husband Martin '89, and also enjoy frequent visits from classmate Myra Rosenzweig Gross and her husband Bernie '59 of Quechee, VT.

Priscilla Miles Yarnall writes from New Milford, CT, that she and Kent have "bought an RV and are planning to drive wherever the spirit takes us!" Pummy reports that she stays in touch with Beth Hooven Morsman, who lives with her husband Ed in Deephaven, MN. Beth sent along a brief summary of life at the Morsmans: "We're retired, we travel, we dote on our grandchildren. Life is good." Marcy Sheehan Freeman of Sarasota, FL, continues her productive life as a writer; she had four children's books published in 2003 and prepared a schoolwide writing instruction program that has been adopted in several states and is now available in a video format. She and Mike '59 are still enjoying the Florida weather, she says, "especially after visiting our sons Mike and Dave in New Jersey and New York City." A more recent inhabitant of the Sunshine State is Bob Samuels, who moved just a few months ago from Las Vegas to Boca Raton, FL, and now works in the convention sales department of the Boca Raton Resort and Club as Director of National Accounts.

Brian Finger of Damascus,MD, has retired after 20 years as sales manager at Summit Hall Turf Farm.He and Joan became grandparents in February, and are now "seriously considering a move" to be near their son and his wife in Georgia, "to get away from the cold weather and bad traffic" of the Washington, DC, area. Send news! -- Judy BryantWittenberg, 146 Allerton Rd., Newton,MA 02461; e-mail jw275@cornell.edu.

61 | Bart Winokur was re-elected chairman of Dechert LLP, which advises corporations and financial institutions on regulatory and litigation matters. Bart has built a reputation as a renowned mergers and acquisitions lawyer.

AllanMetcalf's latest book is Presidential Voices: Speaking Styles from George Washington to George W. Bush, a study of the speaking style of each of our presidents. Prompted to write this study of the way in which presidential words and phrases have contributed to our language by the verbal mannerisms of our current President, Allan found that George Washington was the first user of "bakery" and "indoors." John Adams first wrote down the word "caucus," and Theodore Roosevelt named the "lunatic fringe" and created a new meaning for "muckraker." George W. Bush, whom Allan calls the "Blunderer in Chief," added "misunderestimate,""subliminable," and "embetterment" to our vocabulary.

Newsweek said that much of the book's fun "comes in discovering the best and worst our nation has to offer."A professor of English at MacMurray College and executive secretary of the American Dialect Society, Allan has written a number of books on language.

Reunion co-chair Ginnie Buchanan Clark has every reason to be proud of her husband Will '60. He was honored for his service to the arts in Indiana with the Sagamore of the Wabash, the highest civilian award bestowed by the Governor of Indiana. In addition, the Fort Wayne African/African American Historical Museum bestowed its annual award on Will. A regular attendee at our '61 reunions and other events,Will has served on the Indiana Arts Commission, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, the United Way, and the Fort Wayne Urban League over the past 15 years.

Plans are under way for classmates to once again travel to Carefree, AZ, in October for a pre-reunion gathering. The last such event, held in 2000, proved to be very popular and successful. This mini-reunion offers a mix of reunion planning meetings, social gatherings, and outdoor venues such as golf, touring, and hiking in the scenic area just north of Scottsdale.We expect to have access to the meeting space, restaurants, and golf facilities at the nearby Boulders Resort.

The program for Carefree, including motel availability and costs, will be announced in the spring.All classmates are invited to participate in this spectacular three-day event. You do not need to be a reunion planner to come; nevertheless, your ideas and talents are certainly welcome should you wish to attend the planning meetings.

We may be getting older and wiser, but we continue to yearn to "tread the Hill again," to recall our wonderful days at Cornell, and to once again enjoy each other's company and joie de vivre. So plan to come to the 45th, which will take place June 8-11, 2006. Season's Greetings and Happy New Year to all! --David S.Kessler, dsk15@cornell.edu.

62 | By the time this sees print, you'll be well into midwinter holiday planning. Please consider sending me a copy of any holiday letter you write, either to the new address below or to my e-mail address. Also, you probably have received a copy of this year's freshman class book-to-read, Kafka's The Trial. Our class is known in Ithaca as the trailblazers for our efforts to set up a Web-based discussion group for classmates. Details are not firm as of this writing, but check the class website, http://classof62.alumni.cornell.edu. Log on and enjoy discussion of the book with other classmates.

Bob '59 and I moved from Portland to Seattle in October. Even after a quarter-century of selling residential real estate, the concept of moving is different when you're the one doing it! We loved our 27 years in Lake Oswego, and suspect we'll be frequent visitors. Bob has been retired for nearly two years and I plan to keep both Oregon and Washington real estate licenses. The big draw for the move, of course, is two sons and their families (five grandchildren), so we're now located halfway in between. Son Larry sells residential real estate and Will is CFO of the Northwest Pella distributorship, so they're ensconced here. Daughter Val is all over the world with the Foreign Service, but considers the Northwest home, and her husband Chip likes it here, too.

Also moving to be closer to those irresistible young family members is Jane Jaffe Giddan (jgiddan@mco.edu), who has moved to Carrollton, TX (near Dallas) to be closer to kids and grandkids. After 39 years in Oceanside, NY,Michael and Judith Lichtman Elkin (Jelkin@optonline.net) have moved to Hopewell Junction in the Hudson Valley of Dutchess County, "where we hope to enjoy new experiences and a new lifestyle, and be closer to our two grandchildren."

New addresses also for H. Laurance '60 and Nancy Lawrence Fuller, who sold their home in Wheaton, IL, and moved to the western North Carolina mountains. "We love living in a rainforest in summer and a maritime forest in winter." Larry's activity on the Cornell Board of Trustees and with the Lab of Ornithology take them often to Ithaca. Their three adult children and their families are all in the Boston area.

When your travels next take you to Mumbai, look up Ramesh Khanna (8khanna@holidayinnbombay.com).He's the owner/operator of the Holiday Inn there, and also of the Majorda Beach Resort. He and Andree have two adult sons. If you're traveling to London, you can look up James Greenberg (jgreenberg@onrglobal.navy. mil), who's at the US Office of Naval Research there.He's on leave from Carnegie Mellon U., where he was head of mathematical sciences from 1995-2002. Check out the website at www.math.cmu.edu/people/fac/greenberg.html for a summary of his research and selected publications. Or, if you're heading to France, Caroline Simon summers in a farmhouse there with her husband Louis Gambaccini. Between them, they have eight children and 13 grandchildren ranging in age from 16 to 3. Cal is working on "Cornell letters to Dad, 1958-1962" for our 50th Reunion.

From Fayetteville, NY, David Tyler, MS '64, reports that he is chief of surgery and a board member of Community General Hospital there. He and Sherry (Northrup) '64 have two children, including Christy '91. Otto Doering III, PhD '73, writes, "I stepped down from my term on Indiana's Commission for Higher Education only to be ‘rewarded'with service on the organization revising our public school standards. This is in addition to what a professor normally does--absolutely fascinating and a challenge, but keeps one occupied."Otto and wife Barbara (Woodward) '65, MS '69, live in West Lafayette, IN. Ann Farnsley lives in a small river town in Indiana (Vevay) as a professional artist. She does portraits and traditional work. "I'm always looking for commissions. I also paint childlike primitive paintings in my own unique style." E-mail her for images at afarnsley@yahoo.com.

Castleton is home to newly retired Bill and Evelyn Spieske Dufur. Enny retired five years ago, and they've been on the go ever since, with visits to grandchildren in Baltimore and Charlotte, hiking, boating, etc. "Life is good and we are very fortunate." Recently retired Burt Davis (burtdd@aol.com) has relocated from Chicago to Henderson, NV. He spent 40 years in the adhesives industry, most recently as VP/business manager at Henkel. Burt and Dianne welcomed their first grandchild in February. Craig and Debbi Rubin Wolfarth, both '85, have presented Bob '60 and Charlotte Loewy Rubin with two grandchildren adopted from South Korea. The Wolfarths live in Laurel, MD. Charlotte has edited a full-color manual on "Identifying Options" to assist high school and college students with disabilities to select two-year and associate programs at CUNY. You can view it online at city-tech.cuny.edu/students/studentsupport, and click on "identifying options."

Bonnie (Woodward) '66 and Albert Haberle, DVM '64, are restoring their old brick 1833 house in Westport in the Adirondack Park. They enjoy views of the Green Mountains and Lake Champlain. After stints in the Army and then at the Columbus Zoo, he has built and sold three veterinary hospitals in Connecticut. He recently hiked with Peter McAfee '67, who now lives in Lake Placid and hopes to host a gathering of Delts within the year. From Stanley Kozareski (StanleyKozareski@presidency.com): "Just had breakfast in Atlantic City with Joe Skladanek and his wife Mazie.Mother Nature has been very kind to them--they haven't aged since their wedding day. Unfortunately, Mother Nature didn't give us any luck at the gaming tables." Stanley lives in Goshen.

Chicago has been home to Howard and Jean Horn Swanson, MS '64 (jswanson@csc.cps.k12.il.us) for a long time.Howard has retired from chemical engineering and plays the violin in chamber music groups and local orchestras. Their two daughters and five grandchildren live nearby. Jean writes, "At this stage, just surviving another year in the budget to work with parents in the Chicago Public Schools is an accomplishment. I'll know soon if I'm working next year." Jean adds that her father, Henry Horn, just signed off as secretary of the Class of '33. "He is 91 and still active.My mother Catherine (Stainken) '36, MS '39, at 89 is not as mobile, but knows all the Cornell songs."

Congratulations! We have increased our number of class duespayers to the point of having a slightly longer column than we've had for a while. Now it just needs your news! -- JanMcClayton Crites, 9420 NE Seventeenth St., Clyde Hill,WA 98004; e-mail, jmc50@cornell.edu.

63 | It has been a busy summer and will be a busy fall in the Icke household. As of early October, Warren '62 and I will be moving from Racine, WI, to Tucson, AZ. Please note our new address at the end of the column. Our e-mail address will be changing eventually as well.We decided after many years in Racine to move to a warmer climate and live within a day's drive of our summer home in Telluride, CO.We also have two of our three sons, their wives, and our three grandchildren in the Phoenix area.We are excited about the change. News from classmates starts with a few tidbits from last summer's news.

Judy BrantonWilkins and Paul write that son Brian is involved with Evolution Entertainment in Hollywood, and daughter Cathy is a UCLA grad. Judy teaches piano part-time, and Paul is a part-time arbitrator for the Superior Court. Ruth Opler Perry, MA '65, a professor of literature at MIT, has authored a book on eighteenth-century literature and culture and is now studying English and American ballads. She has always been a folksinger and is enjoying putting both her academic interests and folk singing together. Her son Curtis and his wife Jaya Yodh are both Class of '87 and parents of two.

Up-to-date info: Larry Le Vine writes from Poughkeepsie that he and wife Nancy enjoy seeing their first grandson, Gavin, who is the son of Chris '93 and his wife Erin. They also see daughter Caren '96 and son Joe '02. Caren returned from Dublin, Ireland, last year, where she completed her master's in environmental resource management. She currently works for BKA-Terranex. Joe works for Oxford Lodging in New York City as an operations analyst. Larry keeps in touch with Cornell Dawson, who has trained for and participated in a marathon for the benefit of stroke victims. Daniel O'Connell retired last December after 23 years as a senior loan officer at Farm Credit of Western New York. He says he is enjoying life as a "recluse"--not sure what his wife Barbara thinks of that. Richard Thackaberry plans to sell his practice and be semiretired. He just stepped down after six years on the board of the American Animal Hospital Association.He and wife Kathy will spend winters in Grand Cayman. They were looking forward to their son's wedding in July.

This year's update from Madeleine Leston Meehan is interesting, as always.Her drawings of young, brilliant musicians from the Perlman Music Program were featured in the commemorative booklet for the Perlman Music Program's 10th anniversary on Live from Lincoln Center. The program is Itzak's wife's summer program on Shelter Island. Cruise ship caricaturing will get Madeleine and husband Jim Welker to the Mediterranean to celebrate their fifth anniversary in October. From May 1 to November 1,Madeleine spends time in East Hampton, and a trip to the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC, in late May/early June rounds out her busy year. John Rasmus was attending a business meeting in San Diego in April and had dinner with Dick Altes, ME '65, and his wife Lyn. Dick and Lyn had just had a set of twins! Edward and Carol Hoerning vacationed on the Outer Banks of North Carolina in April. They live near their two grandchildren and enjoy their visits.

Sad news from Jennifer Patai Schneider: her daughter Jessica Grace Wing (Stanford '92) died of colon cancer last July. Just before her death she completed a modern opera, Lost, which opened in August 2003 in New York to excellent reviews. The "Today" show and the New York Times ran pieces about her at the time. Jennifer's son Ben is doing graduate work in linguistics. Jennifer is a part-time specialist in chronic pain management using opioids (narcotics).Her latest book, Living with Chronic Pain, was published this past summer. Patricia Sutton Lipsky has produced a painting that was sold to the Lincoln Center to be reproduced both as a poster for the Great Performers Series and as a signed silkscreen edition. Pat had a solo show in September and has her poster for sale at the Lincoln Center.

Susan Silverstein Sandler is in Who's Who in America 2003. Her son Samuel is a master's candidate in artificial intelligence at Penn's School of Engineering. John Hudson, a '63 PhD in Sociology, attended the wedding of his son Bradford Hudson '93 to Caroline Coco in Boston. Mardee Sue Greenfield Jenrette moved for the first time in 33 years from Miami to St. Augustine, FL. She pointed out that one benefit of retired life is that there is "no need to factor in job issues when deciding where to live." John Nichols, PhD '69, writes from College Station, TX, that he was sorry to have missed our 40th Reunion last year due to travel. John is leading a faculty committee to create a new Department of Nutrition and Food Science at Texas A&M, which is expected to be approved this fall. He and his wife Carol are looking forward to having their son and his wife back in the US. They are returning to Connecticut from a two-year assignment in Brazil with IBM. Please keep news coming. -- Nancy Bierds Icke, 12350 E. Roger Rd., Tucson, AZ 85749; e-mail, icke@execpc.com.

64 | Reunion recap time! Co-chairs Susan Mair Holden, Barbara Lutz Brim, and Don McCarthy sent the following thank-you to us all: "We had such a wonderful time planning what had to be one of the best 40th Cornell Reunions ever and an even better time being with you and seeing so many of you enjoy the weekend! Thank you to everyone who made the trek to Ithaca, not an easy task with the busy lives we lead.With more of you there than we dared hope--225 classmates (including 36 first-timers) and 356 of us altogether--Reunion was perfect! And the weather was the best we have ever had for a reunion--cool and sunny, the perfect backdrop for our many outdoor venues. If our visualizing this weather for five years produced this result, we'll sign up for that job for our 45th!

"Our schedule of class events was extraordinary because so many of our classmates had such wonderful ideas and were eager to work to make them happen.You will receive shortly a communiqué from the university with the names of those classmates to whom we are indebted for these activities, or you can check our class website for our postreunion letter. Truly the hardest part of the weekend was to decide among the wealth of stimulating activities offered by the university, the Ithaca environs, and our class events.

"With so many contacts made among friends over the months before Reunion there was a wonderful spirit of renewal and reconnection in our class headquarters throughout the weekend.We have been delighted to hear from many of you who have let us know what a fabulous weekend it was for you, as it was for us. All three of us very much appreciated this opportunity to work closely with so many of you, and to renew old friendships and make new friends from among our classmates. Thank you! We can't wait for our 45th and hope those of you who missed this one will decide now to try to join us in 2009. See you then!"

Nurse and addictions counselor Judith Rogan Dodson, who lives in Orlando, FL, with husband Charlie (and one child still at home of the six she's had by two husbands) keeps busy by being very active in social work ("Work all the time"). Judy runs a women and children's home for women who are in recovery from addictions and who have their toddlers with them, and also works at the Lisa Merline House main campus in Orlando, counseling and running family programs. She also does experimental work and has a private practice for addicts and their families. She sends regrets for missing reunion, but her youngest grandchild was being christened that weekend. Richard and Phyllis Norton Coombe, who live in Grahamsville, NY, report that changing dietary trends and improved marketing have made their custom, all-natural Angus beef a big winner.With that, small wonder Dick was recognized as an outstanding alum by the Ag college. Both are active in Cornell and civic projects, and Phyllis does home tutoring, quilting, and knitting. The Coombes have two grown sons, with whose families they spent their annual extended family vacation on North Carolina's Outer Banks recently. They also visited St. Lucia and plan a trip to Alaska.Attorney Joseph McEntee wryly notes that his English major background serves him well trying lawsuits for Texas Instruments. Joe and wife Carol (Naylon) '66 live in Dallas. They recently spent three weeks touring China ("amazing trip") and were at reunion. Morris"Monty" Stambler of Newton Center, MA, sent regrets for not attending reunion due to his daughter's impending wedding.

Jim Reyelt, who lives in Riverside, RI, was at reunion and thrilled us all with his new hobby, sketching and pastels.He did two lovely ones of the '64 banner-draped entrance to Risley, where we all stayed.He most likes to sketch the seacoasts of New England, Ireland, and Florida, and also does friends' homes, boats, and landscapes.He plans to move into oils soon. Jim is retired from the club business and party catering, and that gave him the time to be at reunion, of which he writes: "It was great! I won't miss another."

Bob, PhD '69, and Alice Dannett Friedenson, MA '71, of Andover, MA, spent most of last April and May bicycling "down under." Their report, in part: "We biked 400 km around New Zealand's South Island supported by three wonderful Kiwi guides and surrounded by sheep, cattle, rolling hills, glaciers, rainforests, bright flowers, and pristine countryside.We proudly pedaled through torrential rains, gale winds, and mountain roads, enjoying more waterfalls daily than we had seen in a lifetime . . . swimming in rivers, lakes, and the South Ocean." They then went to Australia, where they hiked, swam, and camped in rainforests, the Tasman Sea, Kakadu Nat'l Forest, and the Great Barrier Reef "amidst kangaroos, wallabies, possums, echidna, dolphins, koalas, snakes, spiders, frogs, blue bottle jellyfish, waterfalls, barramundi, crocodiles, flying fox, wallaroos, emus, black swans, cockatoos, parrots, sugar cane, and bananas."Their conclusion: "Friendly people from throughout the world converge in New Zealand and Australia--an incredible adventure for us."Alice is on our Class Council, and Bob is our class webmaster.

That's all for now. Keep the news flowing--and be sure to visit our class website: http://classof64.alumni.cornell.edu. -- Bev Johns Lamont, 720 Chestnut St., Deerfield, IL 60015; e-mail, blamont@tribune.com.

65 | Fall semester is well under way and reunion is rapidly approaching. Reunion chair George Arangio, MD '69, is working on an exciting weekend for us. He welcomes thoughts, suggestions, and volunteers, and can be reached at casarangio@aol.com or (610) 285-6919.

Joe Ryan and wife Vera spend three to four months each year in Venice, FL. The rest of the year Joe is involved in some interesting and complicated real estate transactions in Buffalo. His son Sean (Boston College '03) is a rookie tight end for the Dallas Cowboys. Joe is looking forward to reconnecting with classmates, especially Steve Appel, at reunion. Joel Perlman recently completed a major sculpture commission for ABN AMRO Plaza in Chicago. "Sky Spirit" is a 30-foot aluminum work that was the winner of an international competition in 2003. Joel and wife Nancy are still residents of NYC.

Loren Stephens reconnected with Phyllis Weiss Haserot, MRP '67, in NYC at the Cornell Scholarship Fund dinner party. It was great fun and was attended by many recent and older grads. Los Angeles is home for Loren and husband Dana Miyoshi, who is an entertainment industry consultant at LEK Consulting. Loren recently went online with her company (www.writewisdom.com), which specializes in ghostwriting life stories. Her second book, Life is a Game: Bet on Yourself, was just published. Son Josh (Princeton '97) is teaching and coaching at Archer School for Girls in Brentwood, CA.

Another Californian is Ron Greene. After a 30-year gap, Ron reconnected with Jim Simpson, who spent his first two years at Cornell before transferring. Ron is still passionate about fine food and wine--and whitewater rafting, often doing class 5 whitewater. His hobbies include teaching wine-tasting and collecting very old vintages of fine wines and champagnes, cooking, theatre,music, and painting. In his spare time, he is a practicing CPA, focusing on the food and wine industries and forensic accounting. Son Matt does marketing for Universal Pictures, while son Andrew is an abstract artist and poet.

Memphis, TN, is home to Jeff Kass and wife Dee. After leaving International Paper in 2002, Jeff formed a consulting company focusing on strategy, capacity building, and marketing for nonprofit organizations.His son Mike has completed his first year at Stanford Law School.Watching her son Joel '03 graduate from ILR reminded Alice Schaeffer Nadelman of good friends and good times at Cornell.Her daughter Rachel (Brown '00) is off to Nicaragua to volunteer at a women's and children's health center through the Jewish Volunteer Corps.After a satisfying career as a psychologist specializing in early childhood trauma and attachment disorders,Alice and husband Manny enjoy time at their cabin in the Berkshires and life at a slower pace.

Janet Snyder Rooker began a new career as an educational consultant. She helps prospective clients choose colleges and complete the application process. Daughter Amy has a law clerkship in Hawaii, married son Tyler is completing his PhD in anthropology, and younger son Griffin, who is getting a master's degree in applied behavioral analysis, works with autistic children. Janet lives in Connecticut and summers in Chatham, MA. Bob Stover of Houston, TX, sends news of his sons Rob, married this year in Las Vegas, and Keith '95, CPA 2000, who has been in Raleigh, NC, working for Deloitte and Touche.

Carlos Niederhauser resides in West Virginia. His daughter graduated from Georgetown U. this past May and is working in real estate investments in the DC area. His son is a junior at Columbia and is currently in Southeast Asia and New Zealand. The new director of the Master of Accounting program at Lehigh U. is classmate Jack Paul. Jim Walzer, ME '66, and wife Penny divide their time between a new winter home in New York and their home in Florida. Jim's greatest love, besides grandchildren Jason, Jill, Adam, and Joshua, is golf. Alvon Macauley and wife Pam enjoyed the CAU trip to Scotland. The programs, accommodations, and scenery made the trip spectacular. Donald Sullivan and wife Kathryn sold their home in Palm Springs, CA, and moved to a townhouse in San Diego, which they share with two new kittens. Following the move, they traveled in Hawaii, California, and Lake Tahoe.

For Ernie Berger, "life is good, really good."He relocated to the eastern shore of Mobile Bay in Alabama after retiring from a career in health care with Final Put. Equity Inv. Ernie founded SCIA (Santa Claus Institute of America), supporting 25,000 professional Santas with insurance, background checks, drug testing, costuming, and more. He has found rewarding work volunteering as a children's hospice Santa in the Mobile Bay area. He still kayaks, motorcycles, fly fishes, hunts, and golfs, and has become a born- again organic gardener. Dyle Henning and wife Oanh Thu are active in their community in Michigan, where Dyle, retired from MSU extension in '02, is serving as County Commissioner and Oanh is working for the community schools. Daughter Christene is in the US Foreign Service, daughter Joylynn graduated from Central Michigan U., and son Dyle David is in the ninth grade.

Make plans to reconnect with Cornell and Cornellians this June and send news to us at: -- Joan Elstein Rogow, 9 Mason Farm Rd., Flemington, NJ 08822; tel., (908) 782-7028; Dennis Norfleet, 3187 State Rt. 48, Oswego, NY 13126; tel., (315) 342-0457; e-mail, dpn5@cornell.edu; or Ronald Harris, 5203 Forestdale Court,West Bloomfield, MI 48322; tel., (248) 788-3397; e-mail, rsh28@cornell.edu.

66 | Hello, People. This column is intended to share information that has come to me from class members (hint for you in the future). It really is fun to get mail and e-mail from each and every one of you. First, I want you to pull out the April 2004 issue of the New York Law Journal magazine and see an article on page 44 written by Bruce Bergman. It is entitled "Ah Truth, So Elusive." The beginning of it starts, "These college guys were just looking for dates that snowy 1965 night, but got entangled in a local racket.Was the plaintiff 's verdict really wrong?"After enjoying the article, send a note to Bruce at bjb33@cornell.edu. Grace Helen Kelley Powers (powers@lisd.net) is still loving her job as an elementary school nurse in Lewisville, TX.

Joe Jaffe writes from Weston, CT (jjaffe@sirmservices.com) that he has started a new group, SirmServicesLtd, after 12 years as Exec VP and General Counsel of Decisions Strategies. He has two children in college. I have a note from Tom Guise, MBA '72, in Sedalia, CO. "Changes on the Hill, yet still continuity--alumnus President Jeffrey Lehman '77 is ten years younger than we are!" Joanne Pakel Ikeda (jikeda@socrates.berkeley.edu) is living in San Leandro, CA. She and Roy celebrated their 34th wedding anniversary with a trip to China and Hong Kong in March 2004. She is still on the faculty of the Department of Nutritional Sciences of UC Berkeley. Her specialty is pediatric overweight, and she is speaking around the country and on the radio.

Ronni Barrett Lacroute (rlacroute@willakenzie.com) writes that she is living in Yamhill, OR, and is on the Board of Chamber Music Northwest, which brings the musicians from Lincoln Center to Portland, OR. She also does yoga daily and walks in the vineyards. (Personal tours and tastings available! See www.willakenzie.com.) James Adams has been married to Susan for over 35 years, with three grown children and two grandchildren, all on the West Coast.He and Susan have just bought a house in San Clemente, CA. Larry Berger (lhb6@cornell.edu) now heads up the Transportation Planning Division of the Mason County Planning Commission.He lives in Merrick, NY.

Gary Schoener writes from Minneapolis (grschoener@aol.com) that he and Katherine "have spent two wonderful weeks in Greece." Gwendolyn Gartland Scalpello (gscalpello@attglobal.net) e-mails from Vail, CO, that she is busy as a volunteer in things such as the Betty Ford Alpine Garden. "I bought a mountain bike last year, but am a long way from getting it up Vail Mountain! But it's great for local transportation in our predominately pedestrian village!" Richard Turbin (richturbin@aol.com) is now the president of the Hawaii State Bar Association.

Judith Jayson Sonfield (Oyster Bay, NY) and husband Matthew '64 were in Washington in 2003--the weekend of Hurricane Isabelle--for the wedding of their oldest son, Brian, along with multiple Cornellians. Susan Goldberg Kayman (kayman@gwm.sc.edu) is now in Columbia, SC, and is the deputy director of the Nutrition and Health Disparities Research Center of the Arnold School of Public Health at the U. of South Carolina. Robert "Pete" Fairchild writes from Hampton,VA, that he has retired from military service and life is good. He remembers scrubbing pots in Kappa Delta sorority from 1964 to 1966. You can reach Gerri Sussman Marcus at gerimarcus@ aol.com. She is in speech-language pathology, and her husband Averill, MILR '67, is practicing law in Miami, FL.

Please send YOUR information. Typing and labels are most appreciated. Be sure to look at the Class of '66 Web page, located at http://classof66.alumni.cornell.edu/. Roy Troxel really does good stuff! -- John Miers, John_Miers@nih.gov; Bill Blockton, rbsfabrics@aol.com; and Susan Rockford Bittker, ladyscienc@aol.com.

67 | Ted Hamilton (Walnut Creek, CA; Tvhami1967@aol.com) is "continuing to build things (concrete and ‘relationships') with Harris/Assoc.Wife Charlene is now full-time with Cerus Corp. Son Cameron graduated in criminal justice from U. of Cincinnati, and daughter Courtney started middle school with straight A's, as well as leading her CYO basketball team as MVP to win last year's Thanksgiving tournament." Ted adds that Bob Holman's daughter Sara was married last June and is living, as are her parents Bob and Sue, in Olympia,WA; son Tim teaches and coaches in Louisville, KY.

"It's been 36 years since I left the US on a Cornell charter flight,"writes Sue Haskel James, 13 Preston Close, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham,Middlesex TW2 5RU, England, who hasn't been back to Cornell since graduation, "but one day. . .Best wishes for the newly re-launched ILR school."Meanwhile, she works part-time for the Theatregoers Club of Great Britain. Sue's daughter graduated from U. of Cambridge; her son received his BA from U. of Leeds and an MA from U. of Sussex--in English, naturally. Sue's good friends since her "defection" have been Steve and Sena Gottlieb Warner,Mamaroneck, NY, who continue their work as lawyer and social worker, respectively.

Robert Mangi (Garden City, NY; mangilaw@aol.com) reports: "Barbara and I are married 35 years and have three great boys. Chris is a police detective, Rob owns an insurance agency, and Derek, a Golden Gloves fighter, just graduated last year from Hofstra U. I practice family and matrimonial law at my firm in Mineola, NY, and just finished my first book on family law. I continue my involvement in professional boxing, having been appointed deputy commissioner for New York State in 2002." Linda Angliss Meyers, MS '69 (Gales Ferry, CT; linda.meyers@eastlymeschools.org): "I have retired from my social work position but continue to work as a middle school guidance counselor in E. Lyme, CT.My husband Bruce and I enjoy hiking, sailing, and skiing." Linda McMahon Meskun, Shaftsbury, VT, advises that her daughter graduated from U. of Vermont five years ago, and son Matthew from Maine Maritime Academy four years ago.

Richard Tunick (Scarsdale, NY; rdtoonick@aol.com) writes,"Moved my offices of R.D. Tunick & Co. LLC, an investment advisory firm, to the third floor of my home.While modern communications and equipment have made it all possible, the walls of my life have narrowed. I can go and play golf on five minutes' notice, but still must adjust to the absence of social interface during the average work day. Fortunately, the investment results to date have more than compensated for my compressed space."He adds that daughter Erica '04 graduated from Cornell and was heading for law school, while son Robert lives in Philadelphia and trades fixed income securities.

Elaine Kamhi Greenwald,Melville, NY, is a psychologist in private practice who worked with many people directly affected by 9/11. Her daughter Carolyn '94, JD '98, married Adam Schaye, JD '99, at the A.D.White House (reception in the Memorial Room), and lives in Ithaca. Elaine adds that her roommate Jane Littman Simon, Dix Hills, NY, came to the wedding on the Hill. Phil Scheff, ME '68 (Sherman Oaks, CA; scheff@juno.com) spent last December's holiday season in summery Australia visiting his daughter Stefanie, who's studying veterinary medicine in Sydney. Phil spoke with Sandy Melloch, "whose therapy business is doing very well and she loves the work."

Lastly, one intrepid contributor suggests I point out that Caroline Kennedy's husband Edwin Schlossberg is a member of our class. According to the Alumni Directory, he is indeed. --Richard B.Hoffman, 2925 28th St.NW,Washington, DC 20008; e-mail, rhoffman@erols.com.

68 | I hope you are all having a great fall! This column is being written in mid-August, and the day after I complete it, I leave for Ithaca with my daughter Nicole, who will be Class of '08 in the Arts college. Planning the trip has brought back many fond memories of my own experience at Cornell, and the many wonderful people I was lucky to meet there. It's hard to believe it was 36 years ago that our class arrived on the Hill for Orientation!

Turning to some regular class news, Robert Butkovich of Lincoln Park, NJ, has had a diverse career in marketing, advertising, sales, production, and distribution with companies such as Esmark and Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company. Robert has four children ages 23-30, including a set of twin boys. Joan Buchsbaum Lindquist and her husband Lee '66 live in Coeur d'Alene, ID, on a "perpetual vacation" in the wonderful natural surroundings. Their son Kevin,MBA '99, married Annette Harville,MBA '98, in February in Santa Barbara, CA.

Dan Wagner is a professor of education and the director of the International Literacy Institute at the U. of Pennsylvania. Dan and wife Mary Eno live in Philadelphia. Mary Lou Janicki Currivan lives in Shaker Heights, OH.Her daughter Melissa graduated from U. of Chicago and is staying there for law school.Mary Lou reports seeing Karen Woyshner Zill in DC, and also Cynthia Darrow Curtis, who has moved to Florida. John Dentes,MBA '69 (Aurora, NY) is very sad to report the death of his wife of 36 years, Cheryl (McCray) '77. John would like to hear from any classmates returning to the Ithaca area.

Peter Bellinger and wife Joyce live in Clifton Park,NY. Pete has retired as deputy Commissioner for Information Technology for New York State and is now involved in business development for an agency based in Newport, RI. Sandy Siegel and his wife Rita (Gross) '69 have lived in Albuquerque, NM, since 1982. Sandy is a family law attorney and Rita is Director of Labor Relations for the local school system. Robert Wolf and wife Linda live in Pasadena,MD. Lynne Buttner Frazier and husband Steve recently finished building a retirement home in Pinehurst, NC. Lynne is "mostly retired" and does occasional consulting.

Julius Gall and his wife Mary Wisniewski live in Somers Point, NJ. They are both doctors. Philadelphia Magazine recently named Julius as one of the "top docs" in the Delaware Valley. Joyce Eichenberger Dalessandro and husband John, PhD '74, (Del Mar, CA) have been busy with the weddings of their two daughters in the past year. Kenneth Miller lives in Costa Mesa, CA. In 2001, Ken started a multiple-leg voyage in his 45-foot sailboat. Recent travels included the Panama Canal, Colombia, and the San Blas Islands. Last year, Ken sold a major portion of his company, Pegasus Research Corp., and he is now trying other activities.

Nick Long lives in Little Compton, RI, where he was elected moderator of the Financial Town Meeting, which I know is an important job in any New England town.Nick's son Gabriel graduated last June from the Moses Brown School and is slated to attend the Arts college, but has deferred enrollment to play junior hockey. Nick and Gabriel had a great time during a trip to Cuba earlier this year.He also reports having seen Herb Fuller at Herb's home on Prudence Island, which is off the coast of Rhode Island. Bill Boles and his wife Genne live in the great town of Telluride, CO. Their daughter Kristin '06 will be a junior in chemical engineering at Cornell.

Art Kaminsky and wife Andrea live in Manhasset, NY. Art was a consultant on the Walt Disney movie Miracle, the story of the legendary US Olympic hockey team. Art does commentary for sports broadcasts for several networks. His daughter Alexis teaches in New York City, and son Tom attends Manhasset High School and is a medal-winning athlete. I look forward to hearing from you. --Gordon H. Silver, 20 Rowes Wharf #510, Boston,MA 02110; e-mail, gordon_silver@comcast.net.

69 | After 35 years with the USDA's rural development office, Dale Coats retired. But only six months later, he re-entered the workforce as a substitute teacher. Next, Dale became a real estate agent, and now he has added manager to his job description, responsible for a 100-unit senior citizens' apartment complex in Gouverneur, NY. Dale says, "Loving it!"He also writes that he and wife Linda attended their son Christopher's graduation from South Florida U., where he majored in marketing. Peter Fried fills us in on his family. Daughter Lisa '95 (Georgetown, JD '01) joined the law firm of Pillsbury & Winthrop in New York City. His son David '98, MS '03, is with IBM in Yorktown Heights, NY, and is completing a PhD in electrical engineering at Cornell. David's wife Marina (Wencelblat) '98 (Harvard,MS '00) works in the Cornell admissions office. Peter's youngest child Stephen (Stanford '02) is currently at the Yale school of drama studying directing. The whole family, including Peter's wife Wendy (Zisfein) '71, spent the summer of 2003 sailing to Cape Cod,Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. Peter reports,"Had a ball."During the Christmas holidays, Ann Agranoff, husband Fred Anderes, and their 13-year-old daughter April skied in Switzerland and searched for their Anderes cousins.

Michael Glick is the managing principal at Corridor RF&S Real Estate LLC in Baltimore,MD. Nearby in Washington, DC, Marsha Gold is a senior fellow in heart policy research at Mathematic Policy Research Inc. She says, "Life is interesting, tracking the demise of private Medicare plans as Congress works to resurrect them!" On holiday last year,Marsha toured the Amalfi Coast and Sicily followed by a professional trip to Israel. Dr. Marianne Goodman has a private psychiatry practice in Manhattan and Westchester, NY.However, Lincoln Center is where she can most often be found, since Marianne is a patron of the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and the American Ballet Theater. Her husband William Norden is head of the trust and estates department at Brown Rayshan LLP. They have daughters Hillary and Samantha who attend Riverdale Country School, where they are in the twelfth and ninth grades, respectively.Marianne's two adult stepdaughters are Melissa, an attorney at ASPCA, and Stacy Norden Bess, an events planner for International Legal Consortium. Knight Kiplinger also brings us up to date on his children. Brighem '03 teaches a fifth grade class at a charter school in Washington,DC, as part of the Teach for America program.And Daphne '07 is enjoying Cornell and singing with the women's a cappella group Nothing But Treble.

April Showers is the first novel that Ann LeValley Oehler has published, and its sequel, "Sublime Recline," is already under contract.Ann's son Michael is also self-employed. He has opened My Chiropractor in Williamsville, NY. Another author and a visiting scholar at the U. of Rochester, Jane Plitt wrote Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream. Through Jane's efforts,Harper was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2003. Jane and husband Jim Bruen are also proud of their son Brett, who has entered the Foreign Service as a diplomat. Toby, son of Roger Titone, is studying aerospace engineering at Iowa State U., and his sister Nora writes for Doris Kerns Goodwin. Roger is CEO of Titronics R&D and has been working with Dr.Marc Abren of Yale on a new way of measuring body temperature by means of the brain temperature tunnel near the eye. Roger's wife Marvel has retired from the Titones' business and is presently enjoying quilting and her computer-controlled sewing machine. Additionally, Roger and Marvel have joined the Gideon's. He says, "Really enjoy the fellowship and giving New Testaments to U. of Indiana students."

Jack Liang, MPA '73, has recently joined the Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority as an administrator for development and community relations. He is in charge of strategic planning and fund development for 13 parks and golf courses, but, Jack says, "I have yet to see any improvement in my golf game." Jack's wife Debbie is a substitute teacher in the local school system, his daughters Amy and Anna are in the eleventh and eighth grades, respectively, and his son Michael attends the U. of Michigan. Jack also writes about visiting with Greg Vasse, MBA '77, another Grosse Point, MI, resident and a vice president for the American Red Cross blood services group. Dr. Joshua Freeman is chair of the department of family medicine at the U. of Kansas School of Medicine. In the spring of 2003, he was a Fulbright scholar at Federal U. of São Paulo, Brazil.

The Alamo Theatre Arts Council presented its Globe Award 2003 to Carl Rush, MRP '76.He has been involved in community theater for the past five years, recently moving into directing. Carl's day job is coordinator of the community health program at Northwest Vista College near San Antonio, TX. Carl also tells us that he spent a two-week vacation in Italy with some close friends. Another public administrator, Doug Yoder serves on the board of the Florida Green Building Coalition that encourages efficient and sustainable development. During a recent trip to Seattle, he and wife Margaret began the process of re-designing the family home, located 20 miles west on Puget Sound. They intend to live there post-retirement. Meanwhile,Margaret continues to work hard in the real estate business. Recently she spent some of her income on a bright red 1977 MGB that magically appeared in their driveway during Doug's birthday party. It duplicates the one he had when they were married. Doug says, "Aging isn't so bad and is not to be confused with maturing!" After retiring from Wall Street, Michael Smith decided to build his own car as his first post-retirement project.Michael also tells us that his son James is in the graduate architecture program at MIT, and his daughter Dawn is majoring in aquamarine sciences at New England U. You can contact Michael at smithisretired@earthlink.net.

George Remien writes that he has been married to Delis for 35 years and is gratified to have three happy children living on their own, Tanya, 34, Jason, 33, and James, 25. Both the older children have families, and George calls grandparenting "the best."George also reminisces about his early marriage: "My wife always refers to our time at Cornell as our own ‘Love Story.' We were newly married, no kids, no money, and living off the most beautiful campus in America! We were so lucky!" Delis retired after 32 years in the education business, and George planned to retire last June. They hope to spend more time at their second home on Cape Cod and travel. Since the Remiens have been to South America, Central America, and Europe, they are looking forward to seeing Australia. George also says that his career turned out to be very different from what he expected.After graduating with a BS in animal science, he ended up working as a private practitioner and school social worker for the past 30 years. --Arda Coyle Boucher, 21 Hemlock Hill Rd., Amherst, NH 03031.

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