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70 | John Bandfield (jbandfield@aol.com) lives in Rose Tree, PA, with daughter Ann, 16. John retired in June 1996 and now collects and restores antique English cars, including Rolls-Royces, Bentleys, Jaguars, MGs, and Landrovers.He also enjoys gardening and water-gardening at his place. Recent travels have included Singapore, Bali, Aruba, and Barbados--"Great deep-sea fishing in Barbados."Ann caught a 70-plus-pound Wahoo, the largest catch in the family. John figures he'll never hear the end of it. Ann is a junior at the Baldwin School for Girls in suburban Philadelphia. She plays soccer, volleyball, and lacrosse and is beginning to look at colleges."Hope she likes Cornell."

Ligia Corredor (lichalic3@hotmail.com) retired in July '01 and has been enjoying travel both abroad and in the US.After spending two winters in Florida, she purchased a new home in Weston, FL, in the spring of '03. In August '02 her daughter Suzanne Fishel '00 married Jeff Ugine '00,MAT '01, at the Cayuga Nature Center. Anne Simon Moffat '69 attended with her husband Keith. After Ligia, Suzy, and Jeff took a trip to Alaska that October, the newlyweds departed for Mozambique to serve as Peace Corps volunteers. Ligia did volunteer work with the Rotary District 7040 in El Salvador in Jan. and Feb. '03.

After 20 years directing the publishing operations of the 2.7 million-member National Education Association, Sam Pizzigati,MAT '71, retired and now writes full-time. Sam and wife Karabelle (Lastique) '71, PhD '76, recently celebrated their 30th anniversary. Sam is also celebrating the publication of his third book, Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality That Limits Our Lives, this past spring. He will be in Ithaca Sept. 24, '04, to speak about his book at the Cornell Center for the Study of Inequality, one of the university's most exciting new interdisciplinary programs. Sam invites you to read excerpts of his book online at www.greedandgood.org. The Pizzigatis live in Kensington,MD, and Sam may be contacted at spizzigati@comcast.net.

After five years, Toby Marion and his wife continue living in Hong Kong while considering their next steps. He has been consulting in HK for three years with his own company and two years for a NASDAQ company. They have several ventures in the works for China and are eyeing California for retirement. This past March 19 the Cornell Club of Hong Kong had a scholarship gala and it was a great networking evening for local Cornellians. Toby can be reached at tmarion@pacific.net.hk. Carol Peacock (carolpeacock@comcast.net) is pleased to announce the publication of her two new children's books this fall. Pilgrim Cat (Whitman 2004) is a picture book about a cat who arrived on the Mayflower; Death and Dying (Scholastic 2004) is for readers aged 10-13 and is useful for parents as well. The latter book offers tools and strategies for grieving children. Carol lives in Newton, MA, with her husband Tom Gagen.

For over 20 years, Cheryl Falkinburg Newman, PhD '75, and husband Stagg, PhD '74, have done 50- and 100-mile one-day endurance racing on horses. Their sport has taken them over countryside from San Diego to Vermont and many places in between. They have been to Calgary for a North American Championship, as well as to Holland for a World Championship. Cheryl and Stagg feel fortunate to have horses that enable them to compete at these levels. One horse, Ramegwa Drubin, now 21 years old, has been competing for 17 years and this year was inducted into the Endurance Ride Conference Hall of Fame (only one per year). They are very proud! To support their "horse habit," Cheryl is employed at Lucent Technologies, and Stagg works at McKinsey. They are fortunate to live in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains (Candler, NC), a working virtual office.

Sadly, two of our classmates have died recently. Michael Shearer Weber, who lived in Gansevoort, NY, died Dec. 7, '03, after a short, fierce battle with metastatic lung cancer. He leaves a 19-year-old son Owen and a special best friend Denise DeGrasse. In recent years,Mike had taken advantage of Cornell's excellent trips to, among other places, Borneo and Central America. David Linden of Upper Saddle River, NJ, died of a pulmonary embolism on March 13, '04. David, a member of Phi Epsilon Pi, was a graduate of the College of Engineering (ORIE) and had been the owner of a men's clothing store until 2001. He then moved on to a second career in commercial real estate management. David's widow is Gilda (Klein) '71.

Michael, MS '72, and Barbara Fuchs Turell '69 (Frederick, MD) spent a week last spring taking cooking lessons in the Tuscan region of Italy.Mike (mturell@erols.com) continues to investigate "vector-borne" diseases, specifically why certain mosquitoes are able to transmit some viruses while others are not. The introduction of the West Nile Virus has necessitated a lot of extra work and has resulted in travel to Honduras, Trinidad, and the Republic of Korea.Mike is still active in Boy Scouts and is the adult advisor to the "Bug Patrol," a 4-H Club devoted to studying insects. Kurt Krammer (Concord, MA) changed professions two years ago. No more country clubs--human services instead.He is now the director in residence at an assisted living company. Robert and Barbara Furst Gormley have had their street name changed by the post office. They are now at 881 Artesia Way in Virginia Beach,VA. --Connie Ferris Meyer, 16 James Thomas Rd.,Malvern, PA 19355; e-mail, conimae2@aol.com.

71 | Alumni Class officers are always working on activities to maintain our Cornell class connections. Although this column is, of course, one of the mainstays of that purpose, only people who pay class dues see it regularly.We decided to try something different--an online discussion group. Look for it at http://groups. yahoo.com/group/cornell71/.We hope you will log on and join the group. The idea is to keep in touch with your friends and classmates, perhaps post a picture of you and your family, or share information about other Cornellians. Thanks to Jan Rothman for assisting me as co-moderator of the group and posting some 2004 graduation pictures of himself and wife Debra (Greene) '73. Now, we head on to the news.

Co-correspondent Linda Germaine-Miller sent me a report on the opening of Leslie Kirpich Brill's art exhibit last April. The exhibit, entitled "Seeing the Forest,"was shown at the Blue Mountain Gallery in New York and featured scenes of Fall Creek Gorge. You may want to view images of Leslie's oil paintings at www.artincontext.org/ artist/b/leslie_k_brill. The Class of '71 was well represented at the opening reception by Leslie Jennis Obus, Diane Brenner Hardy, Dale Cohen, Cara Nash Iason, Gilda Klein Linden, Andrew Tisch, Steve Altman, Steve Gorfine, Jan Rothman, and Marilyn Young.

The annual spring News and Dues mailing has begun to return news of '71ers. Lisa Steinman, PhD '76, who teaches at Reed College, read some of her work at the Andrew Dickson White House this past April. Lisa is an accomplished poet with five books of poetry, plus two books about poetry, to her credit. She is co-editor of the poetry magazine Hubbub. Dennis Berman, MBA '73, writes from Potomac,MD, that he and wife Robin led an entire high school of 185 students and 35 adults on a trip to Israel last Thanksgiving. His travels have taken him to Alaska, as well as to Israel six times. Interestingly, Jonathan Ruskin, JD '74, wrote that one of the classmates he was trying to find was Dennis Berman. It turns out that the Ruskins are also Beltway residents, less than 20 miles away from the Bermans in Falls Church,VA. Jonathan and wife Ruth (Zafren) '75 have two children. He works for the Dept. of the Navy. Still another beltway classmate, Earl Harrison, MNS '73, lives in Greenbelt,MD. Earl was recently appointed to the editorial board of The Journal of Nutrition. Earl returned to Ithaca last December for the first time in over 20 years.He gave a seminar at the Division of Nutritional Sciences. "It was great to see Ithaca again and I look forward to more frequent trips there."

Horseback riding enthusiasts might want to stop in for a visit with classmate couple Jay, MEng '72, and Juliann Reisner Carter. After Jay retired from Lucent in 2003, he and Julie opened Maple Run Stables (www.maplerunstables.com), an equine boarding and training center in Hillsborough, NJ. The Carters have two girls, and the older one is in the Hotel school. Kristin VandenbergWhitfield, a self-avowed "Type A," combines an "after hours" occupation as state-level executive of Business and Professional Women of Massachusetts with a newly acquired professional accreditation--and solo practice--in acupuncture and oriental medicine. Similarly, Nancy Ann Miller received her Master of Acupuncture degree this past June 6. She is now a licensed acupuncturist in Arlington, VA, on the board of the Acupuncture Society of Virginia, and invites any classmates with an interest in acupuncture to contact her via e-mail at maidstonebishop@cs.com. Across the country, in Seattle, Charles Staadecker reports that his real estate business is thriving. He specializes in bringing commercial tenants to Seattle. That's fortunate because, as the bumper sticker says, his money and both his children go to Cornell.

If you are among the millions who visit Orlando, FL, every year, you might stop in to see Pete Watzka. In fact, if you are a customer, take your compliment or complaint to him. Pete is chief customer officer for Marriott Vacation Club International. If you don't find him in the office, you will likely find him on the golf course. He and wife Penny have four children, including one from the Class of 2004, two also in college, and one in high school.--Matt Silverman,mes62@cornell.edu; and Linda Germaine-Miller, linda_germaine-miller@vmed.org.

72 | The Stanley Cup playoffs have just ended and now I will go into hockey withdrawal for several months. The Northern California alumni who are San Jose Sharks fans (including yours truly) were very disappointed that the Sharks lost in the Western Conference finals.When we were sitting in cozy Lynah Rink over 30 years ago watching the NCAA Hockey Champions, who would have guessed that in 2004, the Stanley Cup resides in Florida? Congratulations to the Tampa Bay Lightning. Let's hope that NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman '74 can help negotiate a settlement to the NHL labor dispute so the 2004-05 season can start on schedule.

T.W.Hughes sends an e-mail to inform us that he and wife Ben (short for Benjawan) and their German shepherd Tabu III recently completed their first year living in South Korea. It's his 11th country to live and work in, which T.W. says honestly amazes even him.He remembers years ago wishing and praying to work internationally; as they say, be careful what you wish for. IMG (International Management Group) asked T.W. to relocate from Hainan Island, China, to spearhead their move into South Korea. Before coming to Korea he was involved with IMG in his third golf club resort-opening project in China (out of 300 golf clubs in the entire country). This is IMG's first management agreement in South Korea, and T.W. manages IMG National Country Club. This is also the first time the Hughes family has had to deal with four real seasons in over ten years. Their rule up until now has been only to live where banana trees will flourish. There have been a lot of adjustments to living in Korea and having to deal with a real winter again certainly ranks right up there as one of them.

T.W. observes that Koreans are avid golfers. His club, with 27 holes, will do over 110,000 rounds this year. It's amazing, as they will play in snow or below freezing conditions, and rain is no problem. The funny thing is, T.W. doesn't play a very good game of golf.He came up on the management side--hotels, then resort hotels, then golf club resorts--and not the golf pro side. On top of that, T.W. says he works pretty hard normally, so he plays golf perhaps once a week at most. He points out that in Korea they play golf year-round. The day he sent the e-mail was a Saturday in winter. The temperatures were below freezing, and yet they had 101 teams booked to play the course! T.W. says that he enjoys golf, but when you need mittens and a scarf to play a round, forget it! The Hughes family would love to make the next reunion in 2007. T.W. has only been back to the States once in the past 15 years and he would love to show Ben Cornell and Ithaca (since he was a townie as well, graduating from Ithaca High School).

A press release from the Philadelphia intellectual property law firm of Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow Ltd. of Philadelphia announced that it has named partner James Kozuch as a shareholder in the firm. James joined the firm in 1998 and focuses his practice on litigation, client counseling, and patent prosecution in the fields of mechanical engineering and business methods. A licensed professional engineer, James is on the National Roster of Neutrals of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), and is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). After getting his BSME at Cornell, James received his JD from Temple U. and an MBA from Lehigh U. Recently James was named to the "Pennsylvania Super Lawyers" list in the Intellectual Property Law section.

Dr. Marc and Mary Davis Levenson '74 proudly announce that son Daniel '04 graduated from Arts and Sciences, where he majored in linguistics. Larry Baum and wife Trudy write from Ithaca, "One down and one to go!" Their son Brian graduated from RPI with a degree in management. Brian's love of the theater will serve him well in his first job with Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, MA.He has been involved with Shakespearian acting in college and will be Network Administrator for them. The Baums' younger son Ari '07 is in the ILR school. The odd thing, says Larry, will be that Ari's reunion year will be the same as ours! Larry says that it's fun to have Ari around Ithaca. A big hockey fan, Ari is one of the founding members and column writer of RedLine, a student website dedicated to Cornell hockey (www.curedline.com). Since the time Joe Nieuwendyk '88 played for Calgary, Ari has been a big Flames fan and he was very excited with the Flames in the Stanley Cup finals this year. Ari actually got out to Calgary during Round One, and he and Larry went to Detroit during Round Two to see Calgary upset the Red Wings 1-0.

Larry also found time to be executive producer of the Cayuga Lake Wine Country DVD along with Kevin Hicks '90 and Eric Lindstrom. The DVD features the 15 Cayuga Lake Wine Trail wineries and is available at http://www.cayugalakewinecountry.com. Larry and Trudy now live in a newly renovated house on the west shore of Cayuga Lake, after 17 years in Cayuga Heights. Larry says that it's great to be on the lake, even in the winter when the lake is actually quite amazing. But the summer is much better! A former professional photographer, Larry has been going through his archives of negatives and slides from the '70s for Arthur Mintz '71 and radio announcer Adam Wodon, who are doing a book on the history of Cornell hockey.

Beverly Roth moved to the Park Slope area of Brooklyn. She invites any classmates living in the area to call her. Bruce McGeoch, ME '73, and spouse Cynthia made a big lifestyle move by leaving California and heading to Vermont. Bruce retired from his high-tech job and is starting a consulting business and planning to work part-time. After 30- plus years in high tech and 20 years in Silicon Valley, he says he is ready to slow down a bit. Bruce reports that he and Cyndy have a great summer house on North Hero Island in Lake Champlain and are building a new house at the Vermont National Golf Club in South Burlington. Cyndy has a brother and sister in the area, and Bruce's brother and father are near Albany, only about three hours away.He says that at this point in their lives they really wanted to be closer to family. Bruce's father turned 90, so Bruce is looking forward to spending more time with him.

The McGeochs hope to get back to the San Francisco Bay Area for lots of visits, especially in the winter! They drove back East on their move and took the southern route, stopping at the Grand Canyon, then spending a few days visiting with William "Wes" Schulz, ME '73, and wife Diane in Houston. Bruce and Cyndy eventually ended up in Providence, RI, for daughter Lauren's graduation from Brown. Lauren earned Phi Beta Kappa and a science fraternity called Sigma Xi. She also played on Brown's water polo team that had a great season, making it to the NCAA Eastern Regional semifinals. Going in the opposite direction from the McGeochs, Leonard Joseph and wife Nancy moved from New York to California. Len is with the same company, Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers, just a different office. Send news to -- Alex Barna, alexander.barna1@nasa.gov; or Gary Rubin, glrubin@aol.com.

73 | Sometimes an instant changes your life. It reminds you of how important each instant is. On May 8, I managed to total my husband's car at 7:15 a.m. As you can see, I survived. Sometimes survival is what it's all about. Passing too fast, trying to do three things at once, I hit the rumble strips, then the median, and then flipped like I was on the hammer at the Tompkins County Fair. Two instants during that 20-second period kept me in the survivor column, I guess. One was when I just felt the word "safe." I'm guessing the airbag went off. The second was when the hammer started and I thought, "Just relax, nothing to be done, go with the flow," and I collapsed in the seat.When the crunching and spinning stopped I was still conscious and alive.Nothing seemed to be broken, although my right arm was rapidly going numb and my neck and back hurt like the dickens.

The kindness of strangers--what a blessing and a miracle, it would seem. I knew I must have looked pretty bad because the first person on the scene thought I was a man. (OK, no shower, short hair, not the first time someone's missed my gender.) Someone called 911 and I knew I was going to the hospital.No walking away from this one.What's a mother to do? Of course--call the husband and tell him what kids need rides that morning and that you'll call him from the hospital. Shock is an amazingly adaptive state of being. Eight weeks later I can finally begin to let myself feel the terror, fear, and relief of the moment I knew the kids still had a mother.

The next eight hours were busy with X-rays, MRIs, reflex testing, and cleaning the mud out of my ear (how did that happen?). As I prayed in the ambulance, the attendants told me to open my eyes and I'd be OK. Silly them, I was praying in thankfulness, not fear. One strained brachial plexus, bruises, and a severely sprained ankle later, I went home with pain medication and exhaustion. Boy, was this ever not how I expected to spend Mother's Day. But my learning was not over.

Four days later I drove again--to the dentist to get a cap replaced. Decay had snuck under a crown and I was eager to get it replaced.What can I say--not my week. A freak dental accident sent me to the ER again. The final sanding disk caught the bottom of my mouth and drove the tip of the drill into my tongue. I felt my mouth fill with blood and thought, "Didn't get me the first time so now it's over."Wrong again, thankfully.My tongue filled my mouth and blocked my breathing. A night in the ICU ensured that the swelling would go down enough to send me home. The feel of the blood pressure cuff was almost more than I could endure. Pavlovian, I found myself clenching everything in terror every time it inflated. Home again, I can barely swallow liquids. No problem, hard to be hungry when all you can do is try and not hurt. And it didn't end there, either.

I had a cloud of "floaties" in my right eye and had planned on going to the optometrist to have them checked out after my dental appointment.You guessed it, I didn't make it to a retinal specialist until nine days after the accident.He informed me that surgery would be the next day, and that due to my nearsightedness I'd be driving an hour and a half to have a buckle put around my eye. One buckle and an air bubble later, I'm laying on my left side for a week. Eight weeks later I can finally get checked for a new prescription to correct my now nearer-sighted right eye.

The most telling instant, though, happened 16 days after the accident. The case nurse assigned to help me manage my medical needs for the car insurance company had visited me the Friday after my eye surgery.We talked about car accidents. She'd been in one and had injuries similar to mine.We talked about kids. She was off to pick up a grandchild in a nearby city.We talked about how much she drove and that she wished she would be assigned a car with better back support.When she left, I felt like I'd given her as much as she'd given me and I hoped I'd been present enough for her. I told her to take care driving. The next Monday, when I could read again, I opened the paper to the obituary section--you know, where we all look now that we're AARP material. In the center was a picture of the case nurse, along with her obituary. She died in a car accident shortly after leaving my house.Why her? Why not me?

So, in an instant we are left remembering that no one knows. Our purpose here constantly unfolds and every moment offers us the chance to touch someone with love and kindness. Every moment keeps us real and alive. Take your moments and hold them dear. Love yourself. Give to others. And always be present for the world. Thanks, Big Guy.-- Phyllis Haight Grummon, phg3@cornell.edu or Phyllis.grummon@scup.org.

74 | Reunion Report

75 | Another school year is beginning up at Cornell. I am writing this in June, which always reminds me of the best weather in Ithaca and of Reunion. Please reserve June 9-12, 2005 for our 30th.

President Jeffrey Lehman '77 has been making the rounds across the country,meeting Cornell alumni.Many of our classmates have attended and have had a chance to meet with Jeff and his wife Kathy Okun. I met them at the Cornell-Princeton football game last fall and spoke with them in between visits with members of the Cornell Big Red Band. I am not sure why, but our president has a special affinity for the tuba section and they were particularly grateful for the attention. Karen Mueller Buzby and Carl Emilius attended in Philadelphia. Karen is a nutritionist at Hospital University of Pennsylvania. Carl (carl@emilius.com) is president of J.A. Emilius Sons in Cheltenham, PA. The company manufactures equipment for the confectionery and food processing industry.Max Rudmann (maxlaw7@aol.com) attended in Palm Beach, FL. He is an attorney in Boca Raton. Fred Hirschovits (fhtwenty@cs.com) was in Naples, FL, with wife Susan and several Cornell Hotelies. Fred is president of Twenty/Twenty Worldwide Hospitality LLC. He founded the Cornell Hotel Society Suncoast Chapter in 2002 and is now president of the chapter. He is also on the Naples Community Redevelopment Agency Advisory Board and the Florida Gulf Coast University School Advisory Board.

In Dallas, Caren Whiteman Kline (ckline@dallas.net) was impressed with our new president. She brought along her husband Peter '69, MS '71. They live in Dallas with their daughters Catherine, 11, and Christina, 8. In Houston, Richard, ME '76, and Wendy Haynes Hauptfleisch '78 attended, as well as Mike Rosepiler, ME '76. Richard and Wendy live in Bellaire, TX, where they work for Exxon Chemical, and Mike lives in Katy where he is manager for finances for British Petroleum.

In Los Angeles, attendees included: Cynthia Lewis Cummings (imara@worldnet.att.net), Joe Pesaresi (jp338@cornell.edu), and Alexandra Hawrylak Soluk (cornellhello@ hotmail.com). Cynthia is executive director of Community Parents Head Start in Brooklyn, NY, Joe works for Cornell Alumni Affairs in Ithaca, and Alexandra is in management at Vamp Inc. Joe also attended in San Diego, as well as Richard Jaffe. Richard is the president and managing partner of Jaffe Investment Group and Chairman/CEO of Alexis Communications. Robert Wolfert and Howard Green (heg22@cornell.edu) attended in San Francisco. Robert has been VP of Diagnostics for diaDexus Inc. since November 2000. He has spent most of his career in research and development, directing programs for the detection and treatment of ovarian, breast, and prostate cancer, osteoporosis, and neurological and cardiovascular disease. Howard is a consultant for Green and Assoc. in Los Gatos, CA. His son Michael is starting UC Santa Cruz this fall. Howard keeps in touch with classmates Mark Powers (powersma@aol.com), Tom Berry, ME '76 (tjb43@cornell.edu), Paul (morrisdo@aol.com) and Marcia Langwell Morris '74, and Jon Rubinstein '78, MEE '79.

There are several Cornell and Ithaca employees among our classmates: Fred Schneider is director of Cornell's Information Assurance Institute. He is a professor in the Computer Science department and partners with the US Air Force in developing hacker-proof computer languages and networks. He is also an advisor to Microsoft, Intel, and other companies regarding computer security. Scott Sutcliffe (sas10@cornell.edu) is associate director of the Imogene Powers Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity at the Lab of Ornithology, which opened in 2002 on the edge of Sapsucker Woods in Ithaca. Mary Hirshfeld, MS '81, is Director of Horticulture at the Cornell Plantations.

We also have some classmates who have gone back to the Hill to help teach. The Ag college held a Centennial Forum in April with a "Return to the Classroom" on campus for its 100th Anniversary. One of the offerings was The Enology and Viticulture Major: Addressing the Needs of New York State's Wine Industry. Joseph Hotchkiss, chair of the Department of Food Science, and Peter Saltonstall of King Ferry Winery gave the class. After 25 years investing in distressed companies, Jim Rubin (jbr@resurgencellc.com) founded Resurgence Asset Management, where he is Chairman and Chief Investment Officer. He began speaking at the Executive Program at Cornell's Johnson School of Management. Recently, he began to co-teach a new MBA course that deals with investing in distressed corporations with MBA professor Jerry Hass, the first James B. Rubin Professor of Finance (endowed by Jim).As an MBA grad, I read all about this in a Johnson School publication, but I recently received an e-mail from Jim. All the proud papa could say for Class Notes was that his daughter Jessica was accepted early decision into the Class of 2008!

Another classmate involved in teaching at the Johnson School is our class president Rich Marin,MBA '76 (ram38@cornell.edu).He teaches a class on private equity investing. Rich is now Chairman and CEO of Bear Stearns Asset Management, and I was able to hear him give a talk about hedge funds at the Cornell Club of New York in May. I also attended a Cornell Club event covering an inside look at the NFL and Major League Baseball. Buck Briggs '76, Assistant General Counsel for the NFL, gave his take on NFL issues. Buck told me that he had been in Baltimore last fall to help celebrate a 50th birthday for Brian Dawson (bluehen@prodigy.net). Brian is counsel for Travelers Insurance and he has been watching his 10-year-old daughter Sydney compete and win in a state gymnastics championship. Also attending the party was James Coffin, MS Ag '80 (jlcof@aol.com), who is an attorney with N Plus Sport Management, Barry Bernstein, ME '76 (deanerino@aol.com), who is an attorney in Basking Ridge, NJ, Charlie Zacharchuk '76, and Dave Dunn '77.

I was glad that the president was visiting across the country with alumni so I would be able to get some news on classmates to report. It WOULD be easier if you would send us e-mails or letters, but don't worry, we will find ways to get the news out! Send your news to -- Deb Gellman, dsgellman@hotmail.com; Karen DeMarco Boroff, boroffka@shu.edu; Joan Pease, japease1032@aol.com; or Mitch Frank, mjfgator@aol.com.

76 | First of all, Happy 50th Birthday to all of those who have celebrated and to those about to celebrate. As I write this column in mid-June, I am hoping your summer was fun and restful.Having just received a slew of new News Forms, I have lots to share. Carla Holder writes from White Plains, NY, that she has taken the role of Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis with Mosaica Education, a firm that organizes and manages charter schools. Steven Stein is in his 19th year in solo practice as a gastroenterologist and in his eighth year as a partner in a real estate development company.His daughter Rachel was married this past fall, his son David is at Cornell (Arts & Sciences), son Andrew will be attending NYU, and daughter Julie will be in the arts. Richard and Debra Sabin Nemchek report that their daughter Cara is in the Class of '05 (Human Ecology), son Dennis is at Syracuse, and son Kyle will be a junior at Stamford High School. Dale Brodsky Bernstein was promoted to the position of Senior VP,Human Resources at the New York Stock Exchange and has become a member of the advisory council for the ILR school. She and husband Gary '75 have a son Zack who is at Georgetown U. in the School of Foreign Service.He will spend his junior year at the London School of Economics. Their son Max is at Stuyvesant High School and not looking forward to the college application process. Dale and Gary have recently visited with Alice Mascette in Washington and Jeryl Dansky Kershner in Boston.On a recent visit of the Kershners to New York, they also had Ann Rosovsky Beaton and her family over for brunch. William Gullickson Jr.'s daughter Emily is attending St. Lawrence U. this fall. Older son Eric is at the U. of Maine. Amy Andersen writes about her children Eric (Duke U. '07) and Carrie (Harvard College '08). Eric plays trombone in the Duke Marching Band and Pep Band. They have seen him a couple of times on TV playing at Duke basketball games. Carrie is planning to play in Harvard's band, too, and perhaps one ensemble. Darlene Chakin Basch has a full-time private psychotherapy practice in which she does body-mind therapy. She guides clients to a heightened sense of aliveness and consistent sense of self, grounded in the body using mental health tools such as breathing and journal writing. Darlene also writes that her oldest son Michael is at USC and manages a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf store in Beverly Hills. Son Ethan is the star catcher at Beverly Hills High School.

Ileana Acero Shook and husband Thomas '73 write that their daughter Emily was married at Sage Chapel in June, with a reception at the Johnson Museum of Art. Katrina Chan Leung and husband Kam, PhD '77, proudly note that son Anson will be at Cornell this fall. The legacy continues. Janis Versteeg Halvorsen Olson was married on October 4, 2003 to a wonderful man, Kurt Olson. Her daughter Lara is expecting, so she looks forward to being a grandmother and adds, "What more can you ask for--and turning 50 to boot!"Her brother Don Versteeg '77 and his family attended the wedding. Per John Ostman and wife Susan hosted the Cornell Men's Heavyweight Rowing Team at an outdoor luncheon at their home in York, PA, after their regatta against Navy and Syracuse. Their son Per, a senior rower, arrived in a bus with 50 of his teammates, followed by a long boat trailer--all into their cul-de-sac.He also recently got together with fellow classmate and ATO brother Andy O'Neill on Cape Cod. Paul Stander continues to practice internal medicine and geriatrics and serves as medical director at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ.His oldest daughter Karli will attend Washington U. in St. Louis this fall. In addition to academics, she will continue her softball career after being captain of her high school varsity team, which captured back-to- back Regional championships.

Roni Pelzman Brissette will be traveling to India this winter to study with B.K.S. Lyengar, who was recently voted as one of Time's most influential people in the world. In the spring, Roni will be conducting yoga workshops in North Carolina. She also writes that her son Jackson will be entering high school in September '04. Ann Rosovsky Beaton and husband Neal celebrated lots of graduations in 2004. They proudly report that their eldest son Eric '04 graduated Cornell, and their middle son Greg graduated from Hunter College High School in NYC. He is foregoing Cornell's offer of admission and is heading south to warmer climates to attend Duke. Andrew, son number 3, will be starting 7th grade in 2004. Sylvanus Ashamole and wife Patricia live in North Brunswick, NJ. He has eight children: Sylvia, 28, (BA from Rutgers U., pre-med), Benjamin, 26, Robert, 13, Clifford, 19, Darlene, 11, Austin, 17,Marguis, 8, and Jeffrey, 15. Cameron Munter is still a Foreign Service officer, Deputy Chief of Mission in Warsaw. He and wife Marilyn (Wyatt) '75 write that their son Dan, 19, goes to Penn, and their daughter Anna, 12, is at the American School ofWarsaw. Gregg Krieger and wife Joan have a daughter Stephanie, who will be graduating from Cornell in May 2005. Gregg notes that she had a wonderful experience majoring in Design and Environmental Analysis (DEA) and participating in the Gymnastics Club. Younger daughter Jocelyn will be going to William & Mary in September '04.

Jody Jacobson Wedret married Loren on Jan. 19, 2003 at Temple Beth Am in Los Angeles, CA. Cornellian Maureen McCormick was in attendance. Jody is a Getty Center docent and remains active in the regional board of the B'nai Brith Anti-Defamation League. She is a senior pharmacist at UCI Medical Center, and assistant clinical professor, College of Medicine, UCI family practice division. She co-authored her first book on collaborative pharmacy practice. And lastly, I look forward to celebrating a communal 50th birthday gathering in Aug. '04 with Cornell buddies Sandy Widener, Pat Relf Hanavan, Ellen Cord, and Karen Polivy.We are all taking a long weekend away from family and heading to Park City, UT, to remember the good old days! Be well and happy. Regards to all -- Karen Krinsky Sussman, Krinsk54@aol.com; Pat Relf Hanavan, relf@tds.net; and Lisa Diamant, ljdiamant@aol.com.

77 | Cynthia Fairbank Lewis completed her Master of Science degree at SUNY Buffalo in May 2003 in evolutionary genetics in ecology. Currently, she is a research specialist studying coral-algal symbiosis and coral bleaching around the Caribbean, something she studied in Buffalo as well. She hopes to have the opportunity to study the real thing in the Caribbean.

Ned and Ellen Rifkin Dorman are still selling cheese. Thirty years ago when friends from Harvard and Yale would boast about the celebrities that attended their schools, including the Kennedys and Rockefellers, we would always point to Ned Dorman, of Dorman cheese, as our local celebrity. The Dairy Group, run by Ned and Ellen, is nine years old and going strong. Their daughter Maddy is a junior at Cornell presently studying abroad in London. Next year, their daughter Allison will be a Hotelie. Congratulations on continuing the Cornell legacy.

Michael L. Thompson is president of the Fair Oaks Farma LLC. The company produces meat products of all type for use in retail industry at several sites in the US, as well as internationally.Michael joined this company after 20 years at McDonald's, where he held many top-level management and office positions, the most recent being vice president at North American Supply, where he managed over $7 billion of products and services.We wish Michael the best on his new endeavor.

Milt Stevenson has four children, ages 9 to 22, and has a senior who is ready to graduate from Kansas City Art Inst.Milt, a proud Cornell engineer, finds it particularly interesting that one of his children could be so artistically inclined.He just ended two years as president of an international technical association that took him to plants across Europe and meetings in some of the finest cities in the world, including Paris, Berlin, Prague, and Lisbon. But after 25 years in Syracuse the snow and cold weather has lost its appeal (some of us would argue that it lost its appeal a lot earlier).Milt also reflects on what his children would say if he told them about streaking.We look forward to future communications from Milt as he describes the response of his children after hearing about his extracurricular activities at Cornell.

Mark Petracca is in Irvine, CA, and in 2002-03, received the Distinguished Faculty Lectureship Award for Teaching.He is a professor of political science at the U. of California, Irvine, and traces his interest in politics back to his family.He spent a semester teaching at Beijing U. in China and had access to books from an extensive library that he had the opportunity to read. He was inspired by his Chinese students, many of whom had deep interests in politics and were motivated to democratize China.Many of these students were massacred in 1989 in Tiananmen Square. Currently, he devotes himself to studying the nature of democracy and the distribution of democratic governance.

Craig Gold was married to Marietta Umali at the Portifino Hotel and Yacht Club in Redondo Beach, CA, in July 2003.Marietta is a speech pathologist who works with acute care patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and they recently purchased a home in Brentwood. Craig was elected vice president of the Assn. of the Deputy District Attorneys of L.A. County, representing 900 to 1,000 Deputy DAs in Los Angeles. Audrey Krall Pauly has recently retired from the practice of obstetrics and gynecology and now enjoys life in the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountain range.We wish you the best in retirement.

Finally, on a sad note, Cheryl Dentes passed away unexpectedly in January 2004. She was a native Ithacan and spent most of her life there before settling in Aurora in 1994. Cheryl majored in Human Development and Family Studies at Cornell, and received her graduate degree from Syracuse U. for her research on the intellectual development of premature newborns. She began her teaching career at the Freeville Cooperative Nursery School, and taught pre-K, kindergarten, and Head Start for 18 years in the Ithaca City School District's West Hill, Belle Sherman, Fall Creek, and Beverly J.Martin schools. She and her husband of 35 years taught Sunday School for many years at St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Ithaca. In addition to her husband John '68, MBA '69, Cheryl is survived by her children Michael and Matthew '93, and grandchildren Nicholas,Marleah, and Jacob. Our condolences go to Cheryl's family.

That's it for the latest in Class of '77 News. I hope your summer is enjoyable, and I look forward to hearing from you in the fall--Howard Eisen, eisenh@tuhs.temple.edu; Lorrie Panzer Rudin, rudin@erols.com.

78 | Melinda Dower (sportsfreaks3@msn.com) has begun work on an initiative to reduce diesel emissions in New Jersey, which she says cause more deaths in the state than homicides and traffic accidents combined.However,Melinda says her biggest accomplishment to date has been the construction of a poolside Tiki Bar, which is open to all who come visit her.Melinda's son Travis is in high school and plays varsity ice hockey (like Mom), and her daughter Arielle, also in high school, is an all-around great student and athlete. Sandy Lee Darrow Falcone has been a homeschool mom for 14 years.Her husband Paul is a building contractor. Sandy and Paul preside over the Houghton Area Homeschoolers, a homeschool support group of about 70 families. They have children Israel, 19, who attends Houghton College, Sarah, 17, also attending college, Rebekah, 16, at home, and Isaac, 14, who is interested in piano, dog obedience, and Irish dancing. Sandy says they have been involved in charismatic churches for 25 years, and Sandy is currently a worship leader at their church. Margaret Butkereit (pbutkereit@msn.com) graduated from the PsyD Program in the School of Psychology at SUNY Albany.Her dissertation was titled "Do School Psychologists Recognize Traumatized Children?" and has won several awards, including a student research award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.Margaret's husband Steven Farkas is a mental health therapist and certified social worker at the Coxsackie Correctional Facility. Margaret's stepson Jesse Farkas attends SUNY Albany.

Juan Manuel Morales (Moral08@msn.com) is an accomplished musician living in NYC.He is married to Maria Dominguez. Juan is known as "JuanMa" and is the leader of a band called Sonido Costeño that plays Latin music for all occasions.After Juilliard and Cornell, Juan studied the national instrument of Puerto Rico--the cuatro--with the legendary master Paquito Lopez Cruz. JuanMa wrote the score and directed and performed the off-Broadway musicals Coco Baile and Baquine, written by poet Bimbo Ribas and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. He formed Sonido Costeño as a musical vehicle to a broader audience and commercial appeal. This charismatic and down to earth approach to performing has made JuanMa y su Sonido Costeño the popular band that it is today. They have been performing in the NYC area and abroad for more than 15 years. Their engagements range from the cultural to the corporate and even commercial. They are a regular band at Tito Puente's restaurant in City Island.

Janet Bilton Reyes (edjanreyes@aol.com) and her husband Ed live in California. They have children Matt and Stephen. Janet reports that at reunion last year she saw classmates Janet Borkowski Grundy and Steve '79 and Deb Teelon Siegert. They chatted briefly with new Cornell President Jeffrey Lehman '77. Janet said that she, Janet, Steve, and Jeff were all in Alpha Phi Omega as undergraduates.Walter Milani (milanivice@msn.com) lives in Mahopac,NY, and is acting in and managing an international tour of The Sound ofMusic. The show will tour China through October '04 and then head to Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Malaysia before returning in April '05.He would love to hear from ex-pats at his e-mail address. Carla Rawcliffe Lafayette (CJL43@aol.com) lives in Hampden,ME, with her husband of 26 years, Danny, and their children Daniel, 19, Ramsey, 18, Annaliese, 16, and Logan, 10. Carla and Danny own 21 hotels in Maine,New Hampshire, and Michigan. She welcomes friends from Cornell for a visit anytime.

Debora MessuriWilson (stevaug@aol.com) lives in Sudbury, MA. Her twin sons Steven and Andrew are attending Cornell this fall as freshmen in Engineering. Their younger brother Mike is a sophomore in high school. Debora has been running a single mothers' support group for nine years, as well as working as a pastoral care volunteer and running a craft business from home. She stays in touch with classmates Laurie Paravati Phillips, Kathy Riedman Griswold, Vanessa Tassone, Wendy Haynes Hauptfleish, Elaine Tannebaum Hatch, Claire Foster Callahan, and Pat Moran Peters,ME '78. Elliot ("Chip") and Linda Joy Baines live in Allen, TX. Daughter Katie graduated from Dartmouth, and daughter Emily '07 attends Cornell. Emily is a coxswain on the men's lightweight crew team. Chip is now employed by CommScope, which bought out his old division at Avaga.

William March (MarchWe@alaska.net) lives in Anchorage, AK, with his wife Bernadette. They have daughters Heather, 20, a collegiate volleyball player, and Valerie, 18. William celebrated 25 years with British Petroleum in 2003. Karis Ayrassian Johnson (karis.johnson@comcast.net) lives in Mount Pleasant, SC, with her husband Kent and two sons, ages 10 and 13. Kent is a commercial real estate developer in Charleston. Karis is presently a stay-at-home Mom and is involved with the school PTA. She enjoys gardening and playing tennis. She had worked for Citicorp and Sylvan Learning Systems for several years and also earned an MS from Johns Hopkins in 1995. She spent about six years consulting in the educational services industry.

Manette Mallon Scheininger, MS '80 (manette.scheininger@maidenform.com) and husband Jeffrey,MBA '80, live in Westfield, NJ, where Manette is the senior vice president of marketing,merchandising, and design for Maidenform. She has been with the company since earning an MS degree from Cornell in 1980. She has traveled to Europe and Asia often and enjoys her work. She also loves to read, garden, decorate the house, and watch her children Daniel, 17, and Ava, 14, play sports. From Charlene Moore Hayes of Baltimore,MD: "On June 13,my husband Floyd and I traveled to West Orange, NJ, to help another member of the Class of 1978, Sheryl Hilliard Tucker, and her husband celebrate the accomplishments of their daughters. Alexis graduated cum laude from Monteclair Academy and will be enrolling at Princeton U. in the fall. Ara completed studies at NYU's law school and will be moving to Philadelphia to begin practicing in the area of corporate law. We are all so proud of them! Meanwhile,my husband is finally joining me at Johns Hopkins U. I must now give up the single life in Baltimore's Inner Harbor area."

Diane Elliott and Don Strenk (diocusa@aol.com) live in Irvine, CA. Their son Michael '07 is at Cornell majoring in chemical engineering and has joined Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Jeff Lefkowitz (doclefko@optionline.net) and wife Mona live in Upper Saddle River, NJ. They are looking forward to their daughter Jaclyn's bat mitzvah in November. Their son Matthew is on the high school tennis team. Paul Metselaar (pmetselaar@wtsg.com) lives in NYC with his wife Lisa. They are celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary with a trip with ten other couples to Sandy Cove in the Barbados. They have daughters Allie, 16, and Lindsey, 14. Paul is launching a new travel management company called Ovation to focus on non-legal professional service firms. He recently joined Paul Fiorentino '77 and his girlfriend Catherine Aaron for dinner at a trendy restaurant. Eve Murphy Reid (evereid@airmail.net) lives in Dallas. She has a 10-year-old daughter Claire. For the last 18 years, Eve has been a designer and the president of Eve Reid Inc. She continues to stay close to her family and friends in New York, and is also a devoted community volunteer.

Keep the news coming in for our column. Please e-mail us or send in your news forms with your dues. --Pepi F. Leids, Pleids@aol.com; and Eileen Brill Wagner, brillcon@aol.com.

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