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70 | On July 23, 2004, our beloved Henry Lee "Hank" Brittingham died after living with and battling colon cancer for 12 years. He was a dear friend, a special classmate, and an amazing reunion chairman. Hank leaves his wife Susie (LaBarre) '71 (SmlBritt@aol.com) and their grown children Jennifer, Todd, and Travis. Hank was an interesting and intriguing man, and very involved in life. He loved to talk! He delighted in stories, coincidental connections, and pieces of what he called useless information. He was a basic sort of fellow, and a detail man. Hank loved Cornell. He knew the campus, and he knew the ins and outs of Cornell's many buildings. His favorite place was the Dairy Bar and his ice cream topping was Hershey's chocolate syrup, canned only. He also loved Coke--no Pepsi for Hank--so for reunion, cases of Coke were loaded into the car for the trek to Ithaca.

Hank was in Navy ROTC and a Navy pilot for two years. He and Susie settled in Lewes, DE, when Hank joined his family's business, Lewes Dairy Inc. Later in his career he ran the ice plant division.Hank was a devoted Rotary member, a dedicated volunteer fireman, historian for the Lewes Polar Bears, an enthusiast of Punkin Chunkin, and a constant watchdog of all the activities and events in Lewes and neighboring Rehoboth.Hank would appear when something needed doing and fade away when the task was complete. One friend noted that Hank had his own character, delightfully different and eccentric, while observant, perceptive, and brilliant,with an intellect both uncanny and occasionally scary. In our memories,Hank will remain a robust man with a mane of wavy silver hair, wearing a plaid shirt, navy blue Dickies, a belt AND red suspenders, his signature black wingtips, and, of course, a broad, inviting smile while reaching out for a handshake or a hug.We will miss you,Hank. Reunions won't be the same. Thank you for sharing your life with us.

Sadly, we have lost many classmates since our graduation. I write about these friends when family members or friends send me notice of their passing. Belatedly, I must report that Jeffrey Baer died in January 2003 following his battle with cancer.As their three children were growing older, Jeff and his wife Becky became foster parents and then adopted their fourth child, now 8. Two of the older siblings went to Harvard and the third graduated from the Hotel school. At Cornell, Jeff was the Big Red Bear and the first one to take to the ice at Lynah, though initially he could not skate! Check page 82 in our 1970 yearbook. Jeff enjoyed telling stories and was a practical joker. A committed Christian Scientist, he cared for the grounds of their church in Ithaca. Jeff was an honorable man who sought to be of service to others but could be irreverently funny.

After the Straight takeover in 1969, Jeff joined Stuart Brown's ad hoc committee.When his birthday was number 53 in the draft lottery, he managed to become a general's aide in Washington, DC, and was not sent out to Vietnam. Once out of the Army, he and Becky traveled extensively and founded and published Family Travel magazine. During the late '70s, Jeff was president of First Data Corporation, which was founded by his father as Telecheck. In the 1980s Jeff and his brother bought the Famous Amos Cookie Corp. in Denver. Jeff 's last job was senior vice president of First Data in charge of global properties, and he was elected assistant secretary in 2002. Jeff was always humble and always funny and is greatly missed.

Ruthanne Kurtyka, JD '73, and husband Harvey Corn, JD'73, live in Manhattan with their three daughters. Christie, 9, is a fourth grader and her twin sisters Margaret and Olivia are 7 and in second grade at a NYC public school for gifted and talented children. All the girls are excellent ice skaters and compete frequently. They are looking forward to attending our 35th Reunion next June. Ruthanne continues as a corporate partner at Kaye Scholer LLP (rkurtyka@kayescholer.com), and Harvey continues as an estate litigator at Greenfield Stein & Senior LLP. Cindy Whiteman Waters (watersfamilyva@cox.net) lives with husband George and their 12-year-old daughter in Falls Church,VA. In January 2003, she retired from the federal government after 29 years of service.Her last position was on the Commission on the Future of the US Aerospace Industry. Previously she was on the Hart-Rudman Commission on National Security. Really only retired from a paycheck, Cindy's time is spent chauffeuring her daughter to soccer, softball, or drama, and on her many volunteer positions. Cindy is president-elect for two groups and is district representative on the Fairfax County Gifted and Talented Advisory Committee.

As 2004 ends, best wishes for a happy, healthy holiday season and 2005. As people come and go in our lives, let's be glad we knew them and thankful they brightened our existence.Mark your new calendars and join us for our 35th Reunion/Party, June 9-12, 2005. --Connie Ferris Meyer, 16 James Thomas Rd.,Malvern, PA 19355; e-mail, conimae2@aol.com.

71 | Greetings! We hope that all of our classmates are having an enjoyable holiday season.We wish you good luck and good health for the coming New Year.

In this issue many of our classmates are pleased to report that their children are Cornell students. Duane Tananbaum (djrw.tananbaums@verizon.net) lives in Mt.Vernon, NY, and has two sons, age 17 and 14. Son Robert '08 is a freshman in Arts and Sciences. Jonathan Miller's children are also Cornellians. David '04 will be graduating from Human Ecology, and Allyson '05 graduates this coming June from Arts and Sciences. Jonathan keeps in touch with Art Nevins, an attorney in New York, and Peter Star '72, who lives in Tokyo and is an editor for Japanese-English medical journals. Wendy Zisfein Fried and husband Peter '69 attended their seventh Cornell graduation last June. The Frieds live in Madison, NJ.

Another proud Cornell parent is KathyMenton Flaxman (kmf11@cornell.edu). Kathy's daughter Marian '08 is a freshman in the Hotel school. Son Robert graduated this year from Northwestern U. Since 2002, Kathy's husband David has been working at Fannie Mae in Washington,DC, as chief technology officer of their E-business division.Now that they are empty nesters, Kathy and David moved to Maryland and look forward to spending more time with old friends and new neighbors Elisabeth Kaplan Boas and Art Spitzer. Kathy was recently honored with a "Beloved Community Award" from the South Orange, NJ, civic organization for helping to foster the goals of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.

David Beale and his wife Tina have children Janna, 22, Josh, 21, and Elana, 18. Elana is in her freshman year at Cornell in the ILR school and is interested in government and international relations. David is an attorney, and Tina works as his office manager and legal assistant. David writes,"My practice in Delray Beach is a mixture of local and national clients.My local clients are individuals and small business clients. I am not getting rich, but I enjoy what I do and like practicing in a small city environment where you get to know a lot of people. In addition to my practice, I am on the board and active in the Jewish Education Commission of South Palm Beach County, vice president of my synagogue, Temple Beth El, and active in local civic associations and nonprofits."David is our co-class president (along with Jerry Day,MBA '78) and would love to hear from you to include you in "Cornell Connections," our class newsletter. Contact him at dab38@cornell.edu.

Victor Trodella lives in Freeport, ME, with his wife Rebecca Brown. Victor is a self-employed architect specializing in waterfront homes and healthcare projects. Check out his website at www.mainearchitecture.com. He keeps in touch with Nick Lembo, Ken Margolies, Jack McKittrick, and Uson Ewart. In his free time he enjoys saltwater flyfishing, gardening, and cooking for friends. He would love to locate David Prendergast, Charles Wing, Richard Perlmutter, and Irv Rosenfeld, DVM '74, so if you are reading this column, get in touch with him at victor@mainearchitecture.com.

Howard and Arlene Rosenfeld Schenker (arschenker@aol.com) write from Rochester,NY, that their son Andrew was married last year to Desi Dimova. Cornellians attending the wedding included Suzan Rosenfeld Franz '68 (Arlene's sister), and Jeff '69 and Sandi Taylor Eisenstein. The entire family traveled to Bulgaria last summer to celebrate the marriage with Desi's family in Sofia. Andrew is completing a master's degree in Library and Information Sciences at the U. of Pittsburgh; Arlene and Howie's daughter Emily is a senior at Yale. Jim Adams (jayjay@infionline.net) lives in Virginia Beach, where he teaches eighth grade pre-algebra. Jim retired from the Navy after 24 years and enjoys teaching. His daughter Martha is in Navy ROTC at the U. of Virginia and a member of the crew team. Jim's son Jeffrey attends Bridgewater College, is a strong tennis player, and became an Eagle Scout in his senior year of high school.

Our apologies to Norm Reinach, whose name was inadvertently omitted from the attendees at the wedding of Leslie Kirpich Brill and Les Selbovitz.We also neglected to say that Norm was present at Leslie's art opening in New York last spring. Les and Norm have maintained a long friendship since Cornell. They were college roommates and also roomed together at the U. of Rochester Medical School. Again, sorry to have skipped your name in a previous column, Norm.

Sadly, we learned that one of our classmates passed away earlier this year. Peter Deierlein died on February 10, 2004.He leaves behind wife Loretta and daughters Andrea '01 and Valerie. Two years before his death Peter received his Master of Education from Temple U. in Philadelphia.He became a high school physics teacher.We send our sincerest condolences to his family.

If it seems to you that this column always talks about the same classmates, it is because these are the folks who keep writing to us and supplying us with news. If you would like to share some news, we would love to write about you! Please get in touch with us at: --Linda Germaine-Miller, lg95@cornell.edu; or Matt Silverman, mes62@cornell.edu.

72 | If you are traveling in the vicinity ofWarrenville, IL, check out the action at Harding Field, the new baseball diamond named in honor of David Harding, BA '71, PhD '83. After 16 years on the board of commissioners of the Warrenville Park District, David decided last year not to run for another term and was surprised to be rewarded for his service by having the field named in his honor. At work, David's most visible activity has been coordinating a major tune-up of superconducting magnets in the Fermilab Tevatron, the world's highest energy particle accelerator. He is in his third season with the Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassadors Network (CAAAN) and hopes that the bright, enthusiastic students he interviews "will have a future even after the Shrub in the White House completes his systematic pillaging of the environment, abridgement of civil liberties, looting of the national treasury, and destruction of all semblance of international order." In fairness, David notes that "the political opinions expressed herein are not necessarily shared by all members of [his] family, even though they should be."

Nancy Rankin and two colleagues, Sylvia Hewlett and Cornel West, recently edited a book, Taking Parents Public, about the need to invest more personally, and as a nation, in the work of parenting.Nancy is a former executive director of the National Parenting Association, and husband Paul is chief economist at the New York Stock Exchange. Their daughter Laura recently graduated from Amherst College, and daughter Rachel is a junior at Oberlin. Mark Keller, BArch '73,MArch '75, of Lake Forest, CA, says his architectural firm has doubled in size over the last two years,"which means all work and no play!"Mark and wife Jan have son Michael, 15, who recently participated in a midget hockey tournament. Dianne Gwynne Berger of Swarthmore, PA, works on the board of the AWARE Foundation, promoting adolescent wellness and reproductive health.Her husband Robert '71 is deceased.

Jessica Schwartz is in her fourth year as senior communications officer at The Wallace Foundation, which supports innovative ideas and practices in public education and the arts. Jessica has two sons, Jacob Brophy, 15, and Eli Brophy, 12.Maureen Brosnan Marcklinger is a professor and president of the faculty assembly at Roxbury Community College in Massachusetts.Her son Joseph graduated from Berkeley this year with a BA in philosophy. Eleanor Laurie Ochotny of Lansdale, PA, successfully completed the NASD Series 7 and 63 exams and is a fully licensed financial advisor specializing in helping women reach their financial goals through all life cycles, including start of work, middle age, after divorce, death of a spouse, and retirement planning. Joane Filler-Varty of Bellevue,WA, is partner and director of hospitality sales and development for the Mighty Leaf Tea Company, and travels extensively as the company develops national and international accounts and expands its product line. Joane and husband Bruce's son Seth has graduated from college and now works for Accenture in Seattle; their son Yale is entering college.

Henry Nestler and wife Emily have a daughter Laurie, who is an associate producer for the National Basketball Association; son Tim '03 is attending Cornell Law School. Jerome Goldman reports that son Larry '01 is also working at the NBA, and son Michael '04 works for Teach for America in Philadelphia. Jerry and wife Mary are in touch with Ed Schechter '73,MBA '74, and wife Wendi, and Gary Sesser and wife Rachel. Patrice Kasten Schwartz and husband Elon's son Jeremy '00 is now a medical student at the U. of Rochester and was awarded the Fogerty fellowship from the National Institutes of Health for research in Uganda next year. Their daughter Keara is graduating from Carnegie Mellon U. as an industrial designer. Steven Seifert's daughter Sara '07 is a sophomore at Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, majoring in biology. William Reinhardt's son Seth is attending the Ag college as a freshman.--Gary L.Rubin, glrubin@aol.com; Alex Barna, Alexander.Barna-1@nasa.gov.

73 | The Olympics ended last evening; it was a thrill to see Israel win its first gold medal. As you read this, autumn is in full swing, and I have very little classmate news to report. Your annual News and Dues mailing may have arrived already. Please do your part and continue to send news in for your struggling class correspondents. I particularly challenge my sorority sisters from Delta Phi Epsilon--Abby, Amy, Debbie, Ellen,Melanie, and Vicki--to send in their news.

Daniel Sperling has contacted us for the first time. Thanks, Dan! He is director of the Institute for Transportation Studies and professor of engineering and environmental policy at UC Davis, with a joint appointment in civil and environmental engineering and environmental science and policy. Dan earned his PhD from UC Berkeley and has written eight books on hydrogen energy, electric vehicles, road ecology, sustainable transportation, and such. He is married with a 13-year-old daughter. Dr. Richard Isaacman announces that he is officially an empty-nester. Son Sibren '05 is a senior physics major, while his younger brother Gabriel has followed a non-dynastic approach to college and is flourishing as a sophomore at Wesleyan U. Rich and his family continue to travel extensively, both for business and pleasure, including a scuba trip to Belize, a conference in Hawaii, and a driving tour of Switzerland, northern Italy, and southern France, all within 2003.

Proud Dad Bill Welker,MBA '75, writes from London that another Welker has begun to "tread the Hill." Son Stephen is now a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, which Bill promises will certainly increase the frequency of his and wife Francey's campus visits over the next four years. Bill is Director, Supply Chain for Nestle Purina Europe.

Since I'm out of news, I must resort to my own family saga. I now volunteer at the Gorman Heritage Farm, a 110-acre working organic farm flourishing in the midst of housing subdivisions in suburban Cincinnati.My husband Gerry Greenberg remains busy as head of the mergers and acquisitions group at his downtown law firm. Our son David Greenberg '05 is a senior government major and plans to attend law school next fall.We triumphed in the Super 8 Motel graduation lottery and actually have rooms for May 2005! Please e-mail me with your Ithaca restaurant recommendations.

David returned to work this summer at the American Jewish Archives, helping to organize archival material to celebrate the 350th anniversary of Jews in America. He spent the month of July studying Mideast politics at Hebrew U. in Jerusalem. Our daughter Allison Greenberg is a junior molecular biology major at Princeton U. She enjoyed a research fellowship this summer at an allergy and immunology lab at Children's Hospital here in Cincinnati. She is spending her fall semester at King's College in London, working on her British accent. Gerry and I will visit her there in late October, adding our first visits to Brussels, Bruges, and Amsterdam to the end of the trip. -- Pamela S. Meyers, psmeyers@fuse.net; Phyllis Haight Grummon, phyllis.grummon@scup.org or phg3@cornell.edu.

74 | A big thank you to Linda Meyers Geyer and Betsy Beach for a decade of service. They are moving on to new jobs as class officers as we welcome two new class correspondents, Bill Howard and Betsy Moore. Writing this column is a labor of love for the correspondents, and we love it when you send us copy! You'll find contact info at the end of the column, so please e-mail us with your news.

First, some reunion stats we can all be proud of: we had the most duespayers of any class and record attendance for a 30th Reunion, plus we raised $5,613,854 from 1,064 classmates, including 114 Tower Club members, breaking the 30th Reunion record for number of donors, number of Tower Club members, and number of Cayuga Society members. AND we had more donors and more Tower Club members than any other 2004 reunion class.

And now to the news. Scott Gillin wrote earlier in the year to say he ran into Walter Howard, ME '76, and his sons Scott, Brian, and Warren at a Lehigh-Towson football game. Scott's son Bradley is a junior at Lehigh with Wally's son Warren. Scott is a gastroenterologist in the Summit Medical Group, and Wally continues to live and work in Connecticut.

Sandy Presant was not able to attend reunion in June because of a family wedding, but sends the following news: he has remarried to Nancy Loeb from Chicago (they've been together for five years).Nancy's brother and sister-in-law are Michael and Barbara Snyder Loeb, both '69. Sandy has three children from two marriages. Jarrett is a junior at Florida International U., and Danny, 16, and Lauren, 12, are both with Sandy in L.A.Nancy's two daughters, Sara, 12, and Amy, 9, also live with Sandy and Nancy. Sandy left his law practice at Battle Fowler in 2000 to become the national director of real estate tax strategies and opportunity funds at Ernst & Young LLP. He divides his time between New York, L.A., and London, and is a frequent speaker at the leading partnership tax and real estate private equity conferences around the country and in Europe. He is also the co-author of Tax Aspects of Real Estate Investments, a two-volume treatise (2004 Ed.). Sandy sends his regards to his old AEP brothers.

Bill and Lisa Seegmiller Turner sent in a note to say that George Kozak and his wife Mary Ann watched daughter Jenny '04 graduate last spring. Bill celebrated his 51st birthday at the luncheon after the bar mitzvah of Bob Frieden's third son, Drew. Bill and Lisa invited Karen Liebhaber Hoyt to stay with them at reunion. Marsha Feinman Byrnes wrote to comment on her 27-year marriage (and still going strong) to Jonathan. Son Dan graduated from Columbia and is living in the city, and son Steve is at Harvard on a big scholarship.Marsha is the administrator of Jon's consulting business, and is also treasurer of her Temple Sisterhood. She keeps in touch with Janet Sisman Levy in Chappaqua, and her sister Sandie Feinman Antar '71 in Great Neck.

Steve Piekarec touched base from Vienna,VA, that he traveled to Antarctica last winter, and is still working at the AFL-CIO. Dana Woroniecki Jurak, ME '75, and husband Scott built a vacation resort home on the Turks and Caicos Island of Providenciales and are renting out the Jimmy Buffet life to interested classmates at a discount. Regular correspondent Bonni Schulman Dutcher has been working for Sanofi for over three years and has been involved in setting up clinical trials for their new drugs to combat colorec- tal cancer. "Lots of travel, and managed to have dinner with Milton Lorig in SF, and to Venice with Devon Bingham '75." She also sees Roger Boner, Tom Dolan, and Glen Strahs.

Eli Goldblatt directs a writing program at Temple U. and teaches poetry and literacy studies in the English dept. His most recent poetry book is Without A Trace (Singing Horse Publishers, 2000).He lives in Philly with wife Wendy, who is a printmaker and fabric artist, and son Les. Mary Whalen Bossart couldn't make it to reunion, but did make it to campus for her daughter Katherine '04's graduation from Cornell last spring. She and husband Rob,MBA '73, have three other children, Robert II (Marist '02),Ann Marie (Duke '07), and Christopher, who is a junior at Holy Trinity Diocesan High School in Rockville Center,NY. Rob has his own law firm, specializing in international tax, and Mary is a co-director for the Respect Life Office of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Center. She is serving her second term as an elected Village Trustee.

Norman Kirk Birrell is a proud member of a five-generation legacy with daughter Brittany attending in the Class of '07. Laurie Zelon writes from Pasadena, CA, that she was confirmed last year as a Justice on the Court of Appeals. One son is in New York, and the younger one is a senior at George Washington U. Margot Biegelson Ellis writes from Tel Aviv, Israel, where she is posted as a Foreign Service officer. She is currently deputy director of the US government's economic assistance program to the West Bank and Gaza. This program contributes to the foundation for an eventual peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians.Her husband Mervyn is an economist also serving in Tel Aviv. The family previously was posted to Pretoria, South Africa, and Harare, Zimbabwe. This past May,Mervyn and Margot celebrated the joint bar and bat mitzvah of their son Eden and daughter Erin in Israel.

Elizabeth H.Coit joined the Peace Corps and was stationed in Antigua after leaving Cornell. She got a master's in public health at Columbia, and subsequently directed international programs for the Unitarian-Universalist Service Committee in Boston. Fast-forward to 2004 and she is now VP for Membership and Development at The Wilderness Society in Washington,DC, helping to preserve wildlands for future generations. In between, she was with a number of organizations, including the Women's Health Coalition and the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, and was involved in supporting the marketing campaign for Take Our Daughters to Work Day. Hope Comisky was elected a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, a nonprofit professional association honoring the leading lawyers and the practice of labor and employment law. She practices in the Philadelphia office of Pepper Hamilton LLP.

From Darien, CT, comes news from Marleen Pasch.Writing as Madeleine Parish last summer, she's published her novel The Geography Lesson, published by Tyborne Hill. Set in Central Pennsylvania, Vietnam,Madagascar, and, yes, Ithaca, the novel revolves around questions of forgiveness and revenge, courage and fear. Lila Miller, DVM '77, touched base to say she's the editor of a new textbook, Shelter Medicine for Veterinarians and Staff, is an instructor at the Vet college, and is a member of the board of the National Board of Veterinary Examiners, and a former member of the board of the NYS Board for Veterinary Medicine. Also newly elected was Robert Morgan to the New Jersey State Assembly.

Phyllis Turner-Williams is living Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, with husband Vernon and their three children. Zandile is at MIT, Zena is boarding at the Harrow School in Bangkok, and Vernon Jr. is in fifth grade at the Saad School in Alkhobar, SA. Phyllis is publishing a children's book this year and keeps herself busy photographing North Africa and the Middle East, as well as doing fundraising for the women of Arabia without financial support. Wendy Goldberg is an artist with a long list of exhibitions scheduled from Great Barrington, MA, to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Gilbert Rosenthal checked in to say his eldest daughter is at Wellesley and his youngest is advancing through a Quaker high school, while his wife was recently ordained as an Episcopal priest. He continues to travel around the country using our tax dollars to transform the worst public housing into newly revitalized mixed-income communities. This year he's working in Birmingham, AL, Chattanooga, TN, Stockton, CA, and Pittsburgh, PA. Please send your news to: --Steve Raye, spr23@cornell.edu; Bill Howard, billhoward@comcast.net; or Betsy Moore, emoore@cazcollege.edu.

75 | "Dear Colleagues." That's the given salutation for most of my academic memos, but I think it's a suitable greeting for ourselves, as a community of former students. First the international news. Phil Ionta is in Saudi Arabia, but took some time last March to bring his son to Cornell's Engineering Open House. That was Phil's first time back in 25 years.Guess what--it had just snowed! He remarked, though, "at the risk of being declared crazy," that it was beautiful.He also thought it was fantastic that someone had put white toilet paper in the trees on the Arts Quad. Steve "Cat" Kelleher writes from Ontario (skelleher@hyundaicanada.com), where he is president and CEO of Hyundai Auto Canada. He coaches two hockey teams, one for 7- and 8-year-old boys and a second for 9- and 10-year-old girls. His workrelated travel has taken him overseas to Spain, France, and South Korea, and within the US, to Hawaii and Alabama.

Etienne Latour Genore Hughes Sheppard writes from Naples, FL, where he is an artist and a model.His works can be seen at the Cajun Restaurant and at the Meliu Gallery, both in NYC.He also writes poetry and prose. Etienne notes that he truly enjoyed the spiritual and intellectual community at Cornell.Moving to the Southwest, Steve Bigalow, who resides in Houston, TX (sbigalow@msn.com), has authored a book, Profitable Candlestick Trading. He created and runs a website on how to use candlestick charting. John Beckert was appointed CEO of ClubCorp, the world leader in delivering premier golf, private club, and resort experiences. John is the company's first chief executive not a part of the founding Dedman family. Congrats! Jane Freeman,MBA '78, is now Senior VP and CFO at Scientific Learning Corp. She lives in El Cerrito, CA. Traveling north to Washington, we received news from Dane Keehn. There he directs the City of Seattle's Dispute Resolution Program.He writes, "It was exciting to get paid to work for peace!"

As usual, the East Coast mailbag dominates! From the Washington,DC, area, we hear from Richard Eichner, who manages a small law firm in DC that specializes in affordable housing. He keeps in touch with classmates Bob Lewis, John Brooke, and Marilyn Gleason Anthony. His last vacation took him to the Cayman Islands, where, along with his dad James '48, he went scuba diving. Richard has three children, ranging in age from 9 to 14. David Levy celebrated his 25th anniversary with the law firm Sidley Austin Brown and Wood, right in DC.David specializes in telecom and postal law. Jerald Pinto lives in Charlottesville,VA,where he was recently appointed VP in the CFA Program Division of the Association for Investment Management and Research. He just completed co-authoring the second edition of Quantitative Methods for Investment Analysis.

Nick Monnet was recently appointed General Manager at the Venice Inn in Hagerstown,MD. He is a newlywed, having recently married Eleanor Pugrad, whom he met at a Professional Development Program. Joseph Levitt is retired from the Food and Drug Administration, after 25 years there. Even so, he became a partner in the law firm of Hogan and Hartson. He lives in Montgomery Village, MD, with his wife Barbara (Shumaker), who is retired from the Montgomery County Public Schools. Their older daughter Karen works in Maryland, and their 10-year-old daughter Emma is full of life.

Two pieces of news come to us via Pennsylvania. Carl Emilius lives in Ivyland, PA,where he is "semi-retired."He has developed a robotic pick-and-place spreading conveyor system for Hershey Foods.He volunteers his time on the Masonic Charity Committee for seniors and crippled or orphaned children. Carl is a grandpa eight times over! Is that a record for our class? Marc and Margie Curtis Cohen write from Abington, PA. Their son Michael graduated from Cornell last June and will be attending medical school at the U. of Pennsylvania. Their younger daughter Rachel is a freshman at Washington U. in St. Louis.

Moving to the New England area, Ann Kavicky Franzen lives in Southport, CT, where she is a principal of the Southport Marketing Group.Her son Willy is an ILRie, Class of '06, and her daughter Katrina is completing high school at the Green Farms Academy. She recently celebrated big birthdays with Sally Solomon Cohen, Eileen Schneider Kowal, and Liza Stark Mirisola. I don't know how she finds the time, but her volunteer work includes service with the Fairfield Historical Society, the Sasuanauq Association for Village Improvement, the Fairfield Garden Club, and the Green Farms Academy Parents' Association, plus she is an alumni interviewer for Cornell. Jim Ross, JD '82, has had two short stories published--"Bet Your Wife" in the Santa Clara Review and "Tomolini" in Phantasmagonia. He resides in Rowagton, CT, where he coaches basketball for his younger son's team. He modestly notes that his team is undefeated! From Newburyport, MA, we hear from Robert Videyko, who is a chiropractor. Parker Shipton is an associate professor of anthropology at Boston U. Parker is married to Polly Steele '74. They are longtime residents of Cambridge, MA, where they live with their 12-year-old daughter Susannah.

Congratulations to Nicole Weinstock, daughter of our classmate Bonnie Siber Weinstock, who was accepted into the College of Arts and Sciences, Class of '08. Bonnie resides in Melville, NY. Ruth Kaplan Treiber, MD '78, practices medicine in Rye, NY, with her husband Eric. Their speciality is dermatology. Son Jonathan is a member of the Class of '04. Other son Adam is a sophomore at Syracuse. From nearby New Jersey we have news from Eric Rosenblum, an EVP for American Properties Realty in Woodbridge, NJ. Eric just completed a 130-room Marriott Hotel in Mercer County, NJ, and volunteers his time on the Board of Trustees at the Hun School in Princeton.He is also active in the Cornell Alumni Ambassador program. Eric has sons Tim, 23, at Columbia, Scott, 21, at Roanoke College, and Colin, 15, at the Hun School.

Noel Kemm lives in Salem, NJ, where he hopes to retire soon.He is a nuclear power plant operator and is a member of the Salem County Historical Society.His son Matt '03 is with the Peace Corps in Nicaragua. Prof. Allen Nicholson has been appointed acting dean at the College of Science and Technology at Temple U. He lives in nearby Moorestown, NJ.

That's about it. It is so great to hear from you! Keep it up. -- Karen DeMarco Boroff, boroffka@shu.edu; Joan Pease, japease1032@aol.com; Mitch Frank, mjfgator@aol.com; and Deb Gellman, dsgellman@hotmail.com.

76 | It's our age, I guess. Lots of us are sending offspring forth to college. From Wayne, NJ, Ed Julie writes that Cory, 19, is a sophomore at Brandeis U.; Jackie, 18, is entering Emory U.; and Ben, 14, is entering Solomon Schechter Day School in West Orange. Ed is a cardiologist in private practice in Clifton.He lectures extensively on hypertension and hyperlipidemia--high cholesterol, that is.We have also arrived at the age when those topics acquire an ever-greater fascination.

Kathy Kuhn and Bob Lefferts have already sent Rebecca, 20, off to Lawrence U., where she is a sophomore this year;Matthew, 18, is a freshman at the U. of Idaho; and Wesley is a high school sophomore. From Portland, OR, Kathy writes, "I left law 11 years ago, began and ran a pottery business, specializing in pit-fired pottery, and last year decided to return to school to get formal art training and so am attending Oregon College of Art and Craft half-time and love it! Bob's start-up, Accelerant Networks, was acquired at the end of February '04 (with eight days' cash left in the bank!) by Synopsys, based in California. Bob is now director of engineering of his group within Synopsys, working very hard and traveling too much.He got to see Barb Shenk (now Keller) and family at their home in Colorado last August. They are doing great, and Barb looks the same as always. Got e-mail pics of Kathy Scanlon Catanach's girls, and the youngest looks exactly like she did in college."

Joel Libove lives in Orinda, CA. He and spouse Barbara have daughter Robin, 19, in the pre-med program at UC Davis. Eileen, 13, is in eighth grade and active in many sports. Joel has 16 patents, including two for ultra-high-speed sampling pulse generators that are the fastest in the world at 100 billion electrical pulses per second.

Some of our kids are even following in our Cornell footsteps. Zed and Cheryl Parks Francis sent Zed IV '07 off to Cornell last year and report that he had a terrific experience. The Francises live in Burr Ridge, IL. Bob,ME '77, and Ellen Sender's daughter Juliana is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.Home for Juliana is Livingston, NJ. Bryan and Janet Gompels Marler '78, PhD '00, of Delmar, NY, also have a freshman in Ithaca: son Peter is a freshman in ILR.

Noah Zable, ME '83, and spouse Robin Kramer have just sent their daughter Stephanie off for her freshman year at Oberlin College. They live in Leawood, KS.Meanwhile, Bill Hanavan '76 and I have just sent our younger daughter Emily off to the very same place.Oberlin is small enough that they might actually meet up. Faith Rosenbluth Levine and husband Richard have a son in his second year of medical school. Jason, 21, is at U. of Miami in the fourth year of a six-year medical program. Daughter Alison, 18, is a freshman at Emory U., and Julie, 14, is a high school freshman. Faith is a vice president and Metrobank commercial loan officer. The Levines live in Pinecrest, FL.

Sonia B. Richards has great news from the wonderful other end of parenthood. She writes, "I adopted a little boy at birth on February 21, 2003.His name is Dominic Skyler Richards, and he is the joy of my life." Sonia is a physician specializing in infectious diseases in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California. She adds: "Patricia Samuels '75, MD '79, has a wonderful son named Julian, and she lives here in L.A. Adriana Vernon Taleghani '74 also lives here in L.A. and has a daughter named Leila."

Judith Motzkin was a visiting artist at Harvard last fall and had a solo exhibition at the Zeitgeist Gallery the year before. Her art was featured in the cover article of the November 2001 issue of Ceramics Monthly magazine. She has also had a book cover for Lark Press, titled "500 Bowls," and an article for a U. of Maine Press publication. Judith and spouse Richard Mandel live in Cambridge, MA. Andy O'Neill writes that he is living and working in Hong Kong for the next three years. Arun K. Khanna and spouse Rashmi are living in New Delhi.

As I wrap up this column in August, I'm about to take off for parts west for a fabulous 50th-birthday-year reunion with my old roommates and pals Ellen Cord Dember, Karen Krinsky Sussman, Sandy Widener, and Karen Polivy.We're converging from New York, California, Colorado, and Michigan on Park City, UT, for a lovely weekend together.We'll drink a toast to you all. Cheers! -- Pat Relf Hanavan, relf@tds.net; Lisa Diamant, ljdiamant@aol.com; Karen Krinsky Sussman, krinsk54@aol.com.

77 | I want to start this month's column with a bit of my own news. I am pleased to report that my son Michael's baseball team not only won the county championship, but the state championship (Maryland) as well. Immediately following the states, we went up to Oneonta, NY, to play in the Cooperstown Baseball World Tournament. (I say "we" because I feel my role as chauffeur and laundress qualifies me as a member of the team.) In addition, my husband's softball team won their championship. Needless to say, I spent most of my summer using phrases like "Nice cut!" and "What's the count?"Who knew I liked baseball?

Mike Dohr (c0atf0@aol.com) writes, "This past year has been part ‘Hotel California' and part ‘On the Road' for my family and me." The Dohr family felt like Hotelies as several long-term guests came to stay with them. Veronica Wilkins '04, a Cornell intern, spent January with them as she observed Mike's World History classes at Rubidoux High School. They also hosted a French high school student, Anne-Pauline, for three weeks and even had two visitors from Japan who they escorted through the Southern California tourist sites and Las Vegas in six days.

For the "On the Road" portion of their year, their high school-aged daughter Allison accompanied Anne-Pauline on the tourist stops, while their older daughter Karen moved to Irvine, where she works at and attends the U. of California.Mike's wife Mak Nai spent two weeks in the Ukraine promoting better dental care. As for Mike, besides playing chauffeur for all their guests, he traveled on a ten-day tour through Chicago,Memphis, Birmingham, and Atlanta in July with a select group of teachers in the Teaching American History for 21st Century Citizens project. The trip focused on the heritage of the civil rights movement and was both inspirational and informative.Mike says, "In some ways, starting teaching again in September will be a nice vacation from a nice vacation!"

Mike Thompson (MLT42055@aol.com) and his wife and three children live in Burr Ridge, IL. He is President and CEO of Fair Oaks Farms, suppliers of products for McDonald's. Previously,Mike served as VP of McDonald's Corp. North American Supply Chain Management.Mike also serves on the board of United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Chicago. Michael Nolan is a senior managing director at Bear Stearns in the Private Client Services area.Michael was named a director of the board of the Deafness Research Foundation. Hawley Wolfe (bpresby@bellsouth.net) is pastor of the Broadmoor Presbyterian Church of Baton Rouge, LA.He was named Louisiana Preacher of the Year for 2003 by the Louisiana Moral and Civic Foundation. After Cornell, Hawley graduated from the Princeton Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity.While at Princeton, he developed a lifelong interest in the Turin Shroud. Hawley also spent a year studying at Cambridge, where he met his wife Anne. Hawley and Anne have three daughters and one son.

Gerard "Gerry" Tango (gtango@i-55.com) lives in Covington, LA, and is a special research consultant for Georgetown U. working on interdisciplinary curriculum development and other special projects. Gerry also is working on an extensive documentary of the musical life and work of his paternal uncle,Maestro Egisto Emilio Tango (1875- 1951), who was musical director in Berlin between 1903 and 1909, moved to Hungary and then Romania, and eventually ended up in Denmark. Prior to a disabling accident, Gerry was an applied research geoacoustician/infrasonicist for various oceanographic organizations. Tina Isaris Nauman and her husband Joe just celebrated their 25th anniversary. They live in South Dartmouth, MA, with their twin 13-year-old boys Drew and Kyle. Tina is involved in a number of charitable organizations, and Joe is general counsel for the Acushnet Company (Titleist Golf and Footjoy).

I recently came across an old news release that never made it into the column. Although the information may be a bit out of date, I think the subject matter resonates and so I am including the information here. Note that the information comes from the Arab News and is dated November 10, 2002 and therefore may no longer be current. The Arab News interviewed classmate Lubna Suliman Olayan in their series on the growing influence of Saudi women as role models. At the time, Saudi women comprised only five percent of the work force, yet Lubna was chief executive officer of Olayan Financing Company, a Riyadh-based holding company and number eight on the list of Saudi Arabia's Top 100 companies. After Cornell, Lubna earned an MBA from Indiana U. and initially worked for Morgan Guaranty in New York. She joined the Olayan Group, Saudi Arabia in 1983.

When asked by the interviewer if she felt that Saudi women are oppressed and abused, Lubna laughed. She said, "I think that Saudi women are very powerful.And I think that Saudi men are the greatest support to Saudi women. Saudi men have sisters, mothers, and wives, and in my working experience I have had tremendous support from Saudi men. I really don't think that Saudi women are oppressed or abused." She has found Saudi men to be very respectful of women. In fact, the biggest challenges she has experienced on the basis of her being a woman in business have come from European men. The interview covered a broad range of topics.However, the recurring theme was that women in Saudi Arabia face many of the same challenges as their female counterparts around the world, although there is a time lag in Saudi society. (For example, women cannot drive in Saudi Arabia.) Lubna has three daughters and she defines the key elements that contribute to a woman's success in business as hard work, determination, and organization. "I think a woman has to be triply organized. The thing you are short on is time."Those are words that apply across cultures and across nations.--Lorrie Panzer Rudin, lorrie_b_rudin@fanniemae. com; and Howard Eisen, eisenh@tuhs.temple.edu.

78 | Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld traveled to Australia this past summer with his family to work with the U. of Sydney around the teaching of negotiations. Joel is going there under a Fulbright grant. Jeff Kottmyer (jeffkottmyer@yahoo.com) and his wife Alice live in Laurel,MD. Steve Cohen (steve@cbgourmet.com) has been appointed CEO of Chesapeake Bay Gourmet, a manufacturer of specialty seafood items and the number one food vendor on the QVC. Their award-winning crab cakes and lobster cakes can be ordered direct at www.cbgourmet.com. Steve and his wife Dana live in Skillman, NJ. Amyas Naegele (Amyas.Naegele@verizon.net) lives in NYC with his wife Eve Glasberg and daughters Saskia, 9, and Tamzen, 5. Eve is a freelance travel editor and writer. Their travels have taken them to Spain, France, Canada, the UK, Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, and Denali and Wrangel St. Elias in Alaska. A safari in Western Kenya is the next scheduled destination.Amyas runs Amyas Naegele Fine Art Bases in NYC. It is a gallery devoted to traditional African art.He also designs and fabricates custom mounts for art and objects of all sorts.

Elaine Zajac Jackson and her husband Scott '77 live in Wilmington, DE (Jacksix1@comcast.net). Both of their children attend Cornell. Meredith '08 is in the Engineering college, and Aaron '06 is in Materials Science. Elaine is still teaching technology in K-8th grade and is involved with coaching the Science Olympiad at the elementary, junior high, and high school levels. She also does the Junior Solar Spirit and Stock Market Game with her students. Stuart Cordell and his wife Kimberly live in Painesville, OH (scordell@warrenyoung.com). Their daughter Elise '07 attends Cornell and is in Kappa Delta sorority. Stuart is serving as president of the Ohio State Bar Foundation, a public charity. Their website can be found at www.osbf.net for anyone interested in more information. Stuart enjoys doing nonprofit work and is also the president of the Civic Development Corporation of Ashtabula County, which raises money for capital projects.

Amy Grossman Applegate lives in Bloomington, IN,with her husband John (aga@indiana.edu).Amy and John both teach at the Indiana School of Law. John is the associate dean of the law school and teaches environmental law.Amy is a clinical law professor and teaches child advocacy and mediation. Their son Jesse attends Haverford College. Their son Jamey, 15, is in high school, and their daughter Gillian, 9, is in elementary school. Amy keeps busy with her children, their education,music and sports activities, work, and their congregation. Alexandra "Sasha"Swiecicki Fairfield, PhD '85, and her husband David Cheney live in Silver Spring, MD (afairfield@msn.com). Their two children have blackbelts in Tae Kwon Do. David has done four annual swims across the Chesapeake Bay--a watery 4.4 miles in 65-degree water. Sasha has retired from the National Institutes of Health and now teaches microbiology at a local college. She says,"Teaching is such a blast after years of government bureaucracy."Sasha stays in touch with classmate Margie Ferris- Morris. Sasha and her husband purchased a second home on a mountain lake in Pennsylvania. Their next door neighbors are a family of Cornellians. Steve Jacobs and his wife Cathy live in Blacksburg,VA (sjacobs57@adelphia.net). Their oldest daughter Amy studies political communication at Emerson College in Boston.Daughters Molly and Erica are in high school. Cathy is the director of family and work/life resources at Virginia Tech U. Steve contacted classmate Steve Sullivan after seeing his e-mail address in the alumni magazine. They had a good talk. Robert Weissenstein lives in NYC (ROBTXNY@aol.com). He has children Josh, 18, Ben, 14, and Emily, 12. Josh is attending Cornell this year. Robert does investments and commutes between homes in NYC and Houston.He reports that "life is good."

Gandis Mazeika (lgmazeika@comcast.net) lives in Seattle with Linda, his wife of ten years. Linda's uncle, grandfather, and great-grandfather all graduated from Cornell's veterinary college. The Mazeikas have two boys,Mantas, 7, and Kipras, 4. Gandis went to San Francisco after graduating from Cornell in civil/structural engineering.After working for nine years, he went to medical school at UC Davis.He then did a psychiatry residency at Harvard and a neurology residence and sleep medicine fellowship at Duke U. Gandis and Linda opened their own sleep medicine clinic and laboratory in July 2002 called "Sleep Medicine Northwest" (www.sleepnw.com). Martha Rosett Lutz (Martha.lutz@uky.edu) and her husband Charles live in Lexington, KY.Martha completed a PhD in science education in 2002 and finally got the opportunity to return to her first career choice, entomology. She is working on a second PhD at the U. of Kentucky, where her husband is on the faculty. Their daughter Claudia '06 attends Cornell. She had a Hughes summer research award to work with Dr. Ron Hoy in Neurobiology and Behavior.Martha and Charles both run masters track;Martha's 4x400 relay team holds a world record for women 40-49 indoors! --Pepi F. Leids, PLeids@aol.com; Eileen Brill Wagner, brillcon@cox.net.

79 | The fabulous reunion of just two months ago now seems like a distant, pleasant memory. It was great to be back on the Hill and see friends that we had not seen in years. It is always comforting to know that with a dear old friend it seems like you can pick up where you left off no matter how much time has passed. Bob and I enjoyed seeing Dan and Joan Baker Scott and their children Danny and Christie. Dan and Joan still live in Northborough, MA, where Joan has gone from banking to being an elementary school librarian. Dan was about to embark on a new position with a firm in Boston that administers student loans.We also enjoyed visiting with Steve Durfee and his wife Marylou (Vanlieshout) '78. They continue to run a dairy farm in Chittenango, NY, with some assistance from their five children. Their oldest child, Nathan '06, is a rising junior at Cornell in the Ag college and is interested in returning to the family business.

Reunion was also great because it gave us the opportunity to meet the amazing classmates that are among our distinguished alumni. It is always incredible to see how much an individual can accomplish with knowledge, drive, and ambition. If you have the opportunity to read the bios of these amazing people on the class website, I really encourage you to do so.

Speaking of accomplishment, the results of the reunion sporting events were quite favorable for the Class of '79. In the golf tournament, Dan Leonard achieved first place in low net score, and Bill Minnock, MBA '83, had the closest drive to the pin. The Reunion Run saw Cornell offspring faring well, with Nick McCormick, 14, finishing first place overall in the two-mile run. Blake Berg, 14, finished in third place overall, and Jaclyn Mathieson, 14, was second in the women's division. Also in the women's division, classmate Christie Gilmartin Waters finished in second place in the 40-49 category. The five-mile run was equally rewarding. Classmates swept three of the top four spots as follows: Peter Coy, first place overall; Paul Varga, third place overall; and Henry Peck, fourth place overall in the men's division. Liz Des Cognets Champagne took first place in the women's division for her age group. Cornell offspring fared well in the five-miler, too. James Waters, 18, placed first in the men under 19; Lowell Berg, 14, placed second; and Kacie Harrington, 17, placed first in the women's under-19 division. Cheers for the athletes in the Class of '79!

In other news, Scott Schaire (woodstar0330@aol.com) writes that after being laid off in Georgia, he was lucky enough to be employed by Honeywell as an engineering manager at NASA Wallops. He is now a rocket scientist in support of sub-orbital and orbital missions. He feels that these science missions will lead to a better quality of life for future generations. Scott and his family are adjusting to rural living on the eastern shore of Virginia. Sharon Flank (sflank@datastrategyconsulting.com) writes from Washington, DC, that she is running a technology consulting business, DataStrategy, devoted to advising investors and small companies. Her children Nicole, 7, and Rebecca, 6, seem to be developing an interest in language and languages, which is great fun for the family.

Lloyd Goldstein recently left the Mills Corp., a shopping center developer, and is now an independent real estate consultant. His office is in Bethesda, MD, with Brix and Company. He and wife Robin have been married for ten years and have children Hallie, 9, and twins Max and Samantha, 6. All of the children are very active in school and sports. Lloyd is kept busy coaching Hallie's basketball team. The Goldsteins live in Gaithersburg,MD, and can be reached at lgoldstein@brixandco.com. Celebrating a special graduation in June '03 was Karen McIntosh Daniels. Her daughter Michelle graduated from Stanford, with distinction, in her major of music, science, and technology. Karen lives in Bedford, MA, and can be reached at Kdaniels@cs.uml.edu.

This June, Fern Chin Murtagh (fern@cs.williams.edu) and her husband Tom, PhD '83, celebrated two graduations. Their eldest daughter Lindsey graduated from Brown U. and is now working in NYC. Their youngest, Heather, graduated from high school and will enter the school of architecture at Syracuse U. in the fall. Shannon, their middle daughter, starts her junior year at Yale. The Murtaghs may now be empty nesters but will still be busy with kids in their jobs. Fern is an elementary school teacher and Tom is a professor at Williams College. Bob and I are pleased to report that our son Brandon graduated with high honors from Dallastown High School in June and will be attending the U. of Virginia in a few short days from this writing. After being accepted at Cornell and taking a course there last summer, Brandon decided that the southern climate won out over Ithaca's sometimes less-than-hospitable weather. He is planning on studying political science/history and is really looking forward to returning to Virginia.

Jeff Ganeles (ganelboca@aol.com) was a featured doctor on the ABC reality show "Extreme Makeover." Jeff has refined a dental implant procedure called Teeth Today. He is nationally recognized as the periodontist who perfected this technique.With this procedure, missing teeth can be immediately and permanently replaced. Prior to Teeth Today, patients waited 3-6 months for healing to occur before teeth were attached to the dental implant supports.Appearing on the show gave Jeff a rare opportunity to let people know about the latest advances in implant dentistry and how positive the results can be. Jeff is a founding member of the Nova Southeastern U. Dental School faculty and teaches this technique to post-doctoral residents. He is in full-time practice at the Florida Inst. for Periodontics & Dental Implants in Boca Raton, FL, and has performed more than 1,000 Teeth Today implants with a 95-plus percent success rate.His pioneering research and development provided some of the clinical data for an implant manufacturer's FDA clearance for this application. Jeff and his wife Lori Berman live in Boca Raton with their daughter Caryn, 15, and son Steven, 13.

Well, that's all of the news that I have for now, but please keep in touch. If you need to find an updated address for a classmate, check out the online Alumni Directory on the www.alumni.cornell.edu website. You can also communicate with your class correspondents about locating long-lost friends and other news. Use the class e-mail address, classof79@cornell.edu, or contact us directly. -- Kathy Zappia Gould, rdgould@suscom.net; Cindy Ahlgren Shea, cynthiashea@hotmail.com; and Cindy Williams, cew32@cornell.edu.

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