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50 | Yes, it has been 55 years since graduation. Now is the time to confirm reservations for our 55th Reunion, Thursday through Sunday, June 9-12. A gala party is being organized by your officers and reunion committee co-chaired by Stan Rodwin and Jo Kessel Buyske.

Here's a preliminary class schedule. Thursday: Continuous evening buffet at class headquarters in Mews Hall. Friday: Breakfast at Mews Hall; Discussion, "What '50 Women Did and Why"; Lunch under Beebe tent; Barton Hall dinner/dance with Tommy Dorsey Orchestra! (See www.BuddyMorrowProductions.com.) Saturday: Breakfast at Mews Hall; All-Alumni Luncheon at Barton Hall; Reception, dinner, and dancing at Statler Hall. Sunday: Farewell breakfast at Mews. Of course, there will be all-university activities such as college events, lectures, tours . . . and much, much more.

Al Neimeth, JD '52 (Melbourne, FL), associate dean emeritus of the Law school, and wife Doris enjoy retirement living in Indian River Colony Club. They had an enjoyable two-week trip to Ireland and to Scotland, where they visited classmate Lorene Joergensen Bow, JD '52, at her home in Lanarkshire. Al and Doris happily welcomed fourth grandchild Erik, by daughter Christine Neimeth Heijenga '87. Manley Thaler, LLB '53 (West Palm Beach, FL) is still doing financial and estate planning and keeping fit with tennis and singles sculling. He and wife Dodie (Karch) '54 have one grandson at Yale and another who scored a perfect 1600 on the SAT.Manley reports having luncheon on Amelia Island with Dave Gardner, MBA '55, and Hugh Flournoy.

After 35 years, Charles "Chuck" Bauerlein (Spring House, PA) is retired as president of Recreation Consultants Inc., but still works part-time with a swimming pool construction company.He also works for several peace and justice organizations, in particular the Philadelphia Chapter of the Veterans for Peace. Chuck and wife Agnes are actively engaged in protests, vigils, and marches related to peace and justice issues. Chuck has become intensely interested in Revolutionary War history and crucial events related to the founding of our country. Responding to the "most pressing problem" item on our class reporting form, Chuck lists the Iraq War and the corruption of the US democratic system by money. Chuck and Agnes are parents of 11 children, grandparents of 23, and great-grandparents of three, living all over the US.When not working for peace and justice, Chuck enjoys camping, fishing, sailing, and an occasional golf match.

Malitte Pope Matta (Paris, France) reports as follows, "Having done what I could in India I've turned my attention to the neighborhood." She lives in an Afro-Arab neighborhood and is currently studying the Koran.Malitte chairs the Conseil Des Anciens and serves on the board of a group of young "grapheurs, taggeurs, and slammeurs et rappeurs." She is also very active in Democrats Abroad and is trying to get a census of those of similar interests. As a major concern she mentions the "disastrous image of America abroad." Marianne Preger-Simon (Whatley, MA) still works as a psychotherapist conducting mother/daughter workshops. After hours involves drawing, piano, and folk singing/guitar.Marianne is author of a recently-published book, Heart by Heart: Mothers and Daughters Listening to Each Other (iUniverse, publishers).

Betty Rosenberger Roberts (Stamford, CT) maintains an active travel schedule. A QE2 voyage to London; foreign travels in Spain, Portugal, Croatia, Slovenia, and Montenegro; plus domestic travel to New Orleans and to Vail for skiing. At home, Betty serves as treasurer of Learning in Retirement and financial secretary of Brandeis U. National Women's Committee. Betty stays fit with swimming, diving, and skiing, and with husband Dan also enjoys CAU courses. Robert Kushell (Pittsboro, NC) is still involved with franchising, domestically and internationally, a business he started in 1961. He reports still being in love after 53 years of marriage. He plans to be on campus for our 55th Reunion, his first since graduation. "No more Quonset huts like we lived in back in '46!" Raymond Ebert (New Windsor, NY) reported in with a new e-mail address but sent no news. Frank Bradley (Brewster, MA) is retired but stays active with golf, travel, family, and volunteering with civic organizations. In the Nov/Dec '04 column I mentioned Rita Rutstein Kaplan but did not refer to her as "Ricky," the nickname her close classmates knew her by. From her news report I had inferred that she worked as a secretary at a medical clinic. Actually, like many of you, she works as a "medical secretary" for her family.

Sad news: John F. Robinson died at home in Straits, NC.Marilyn Curtis reported that her husband Wesley Curtis died in Wilsonville, OR. Susie Lantos Bemont reports the death of husband Leslie in Vestal, NY. Elizabeth Severinghaus Warner reports the death of her husband Silas. Ruth Spoth (Amherst, NY) reports the death of husband Edward Spoth. Of their eight children, three sons are graduates of the Ag college.

Cornellians are scarce out here in the hinterlands of Iowa. However, last October we did pull off a gala Cornell International Spirit of Zinck's Night. Organizer Penelope Pugh '98 and seven other faithfuls gathered for a rollicking good time at the Rock Bottom Pub Des Moines. Of course, we could have fattened our attendance by inviting our namesake brethren from nearby Cornell College, but they would not have understood what we are about.

One of the pleasures of being the patriarch of a large family of five married kids and 14 grandkids is vicariously experiencing their college lives.We can currently share college experiences with ten grandkids--five out, five in. A significant change between now and then is the dramatic difference in the mass of goods that must be hassled from home to campus and back again.Moving our grandkids involves pickup trucks or U-Haul trailers. In sharp contrast, when my grandfather drove me to campus in September 1946, I packed one suitcase and a cardboard box. Similarly, when our foster son went off to Princeton in 1958 we drove him from Batavia, NY, to Horseheads (30 miles SW of Ithaca) with one suitcase and a canvas sack; he hitched the rest of way--250 miles--in the rain. Just one slice of evidence that we were born two generations too soon! And what about the new luxurious campus living accommodations on the Hill?

Do you want lifetime e-mail forwarding? As an alum, Cornell will give you a permanent "you@cornell.edu" address. Everything sent there will be automatically forwarded to whatever local account you have. If this local account changes you just notify Cornell of your new forwarding address. If you are interested, visit www.cucon nect.cornell.edu/html/forward.html. Or send an e-mail with any questions you have to Mailforward@cornell.edu. Also remember that you can send class news by logging on to our class website, http://classof50.alumni.cornell.edu.

A reminder: Our late good friend and classmate Sam Johnson was one of the most generous contributors Cornell has ever had. Please consider a generous contribution to the Class of '50 Sam Johnson Scholarship Fund. Designate this on your check and mail it to Brenda Teeter, Cornell Fund, 55 Brown Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850. Your contribution will be counted in this year's Reunion Fund. Let's continue our tradition of breaking every reunion gift record for our reunion year. -- Paul Joslin, 6080 Terrace Dr., Johnston, IA 50131-1560; tel., (515) 278-0960; e-mail phj4@cornell.edu; or Ruth"Midge" Downey Kreitz, 3811 Hunt Manor Dr., Fairfax,VA 22033; tel., (703) 860-2991; e-mail, rdk12@cornell.edu.

51 | Your correspondent Brad Bond signed up for four months as a volunteer at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico's Rio Grande valley. He alternates between the visitor center, the phones, the fee booth, and what they call roving maintenance for four days and then visits his daughter's family in Belen, NM, on weekends. All this by way of apology for not having at hand his record of who has been heard from least recently in the class column. And he gets paid 80 cents an hour!

The College of Staten Island (CSI) honored Sally Williamson Williams at their Starlight Cabaret October 18, 2003. The award citation highlights Sally's career. As a native Staten Islander, Sally enjoyed a 35-year career with the federal government, retiring as the Chief of the Staffing Services Division of the US Office of Personnel Management, Philadelphia Region. She was formerly president of the New York Chapter of the International Personnel Management Association and the New York Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA). She is National Chair of the Section for Personnel and Labor Relations for ASPA. Thanks to Arlie Williamson Anderson '47 for sending the news. Sally herself writes that she and Peg McNulty attended a fascinating discussion of Cornell's Interdisciplinary Immersion in Life Sciences, from research to application, at New York City's Museum of Natural History. She says she is working nearly full-time again, at no pay, as president of the Greenbelt Conservancy-- 2,800 acres of woodlands and traditional parks in the center of Staten Island. They will have opened a Nature Center by June--5,400 square feet of high-tech, interactive exhibits that will educate more than a thousand kids a year.

In August, Paul '50, MBA '51, and Peg Brackbill Brass moved to The Highlands, a continuing care retirement community in Wyomissing, PA, just five minutes from their previous home. The advantages? Keeping familiar friends, community, and activities--just a change to a smaller space. Leonard Steiner's family has launched a campaign to name the examination suite in the new NYU Clinical Cancer Center in honor of Leonard's late wife Arlyne.With his new wife Barbara he has been traveling to Japan, Korea, and South Africa, and they look forward to New Zealand and Australia. Home is in Harrison, NY.

Cecilia and Tomas Blohm, Caracas,Venezuela, have ten grandchildren and slightly over 200 Orinoco crocodiles. They got rid of four chimps and received a live pig for Tomas's birthday."Hence, our neighbors still hate us."He reports hearing from Paul Ledig and Harlow Cameron '52, DVM '59.Marcia and Arthur Johanson of Shalimar, FL, report that they have retired.

Sam and Phyllis Hochberger report that their son Stuart escaped 9/11 a few minutes before Tower II collapsed and is now retired from Fiduciary Trust Int'l as executive vice president (289 of the company were lost).He and a colleague carried an elderly woman down 97 floors to safety. Sam says, "Our family and three grandchildren are very grateful." Sam is still adjunct professor (spring semester only) at Stevens Inst. of Technology in the master's program in construction management. They plan to move to a townhouse in Upper Saddle River, NJ, after 38 years in Tenafly. June 2003 saw the family celebrating 50 years of marriage at the Cary, NC, home of their daughter.

Aaron and Sheila Epstein Akabas celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary by visiting Aaron's father's birthplace in Lithuania with all 17 children and grandchildren. Their oldest grandchild, Sam Akabas '07, finished his first year at Cornell. He is a fourth-generation legacy; Shelley's father and grandfather also went to Cornell.Many historic Jewish sites in the Baltic and a wonderful week in Jerusalem completed the trip. Shelley is still working full-time as a professor at Columbia U.'s School of Social Work, where she directs the research, training, and program consultation center called The Workplace Center. She was selected to give the annual Weber Memorial Lecture by the Visiting Nurse Services of New York. She continues to serve on the ILR Advisory Council and Hillel Board of Trustees at Cornell and the Advisory Board of New York's Work Exchange, an educational agency for providing mental health services.

Marjory Lyons Thayer sent a clipping from The Press, Atlantic City, NJ, with a photo of Ruth Hamilton Fisher participating in a protest against glyphosphate spraying of phragmites at Cape May, NJ, last fall. The newspaper report quoted her as saying that spraying phragmites would also kill milkweed plants, a food for the migratory monarch butterflies that frequent the area. "If they don't have food, they won't survive, and they may be killed outright by the poison itself." The US Corps of Engineers plans to do the spraying with backing by the state and federal Fish and Wildlife Services and the Nature Conservancy under protest by Concerned Citizens of Cape May County, Citizens Association for the Protection of the Environment, and Clean Ocean Action.

We've received our first response to the request for locating missing classmates. Burt Gold of Atlanta, GA, reported that his roommate Burt Besner died in the mid- 1980s.

Barry Nolin's Class of '51 Web page is http://classof51.alumni.cornell.edu. Please send your news to -- Brad Bond, 101 Hillside Way,Marietta, OH 45750; tel., (740) 374-6715; e-mail, bbond@ee.net.

52 | Thanks to you, I now have new news--lots of it. But first, a follow-up on the last column. I have talked with Ted,MS '53, and Trudy Kreuger Winsberg, Boyton Beach, FL. Thanks to the hurricane, they were without power for almost a month, but now are in good spirits and sound as upbeat as they always did.

Now to what's new from you. Bruce Wilkins, PhD '67, e-mailed from Solomons,MD. "Sandra (Enevoldsen), MPS '89, and I are enjoying southern Maryland very much in a retirement community on the Chesapeake. Travel to Italy and London this spring, back to Ithaca this summer, and presenting papers at the American Fishery Society have been a common pattern the past few years." Bruce says there are half a dozen alumni in his community. He finds it a "good place to benefit from both the D.C. and Maryland Cornell alumni activities."

My home mailbox had a note from William Orr, PhD '62, Carmel, IN, that included a talk he'd given at the Carmel Rotary Club. Bill received his degree in Engineering Physics in 1953. As part of NROTC, he spent six years with the Navy, followed by a return to Cornell for the PhD.He then joined Bell Labs and helped create the advances that produced touch-tone and Trimline telephones. He remained with Bell until 1989 and has been teaching ever since, most recently working through the Executive Service Corps to help IPS improve their science education in elementary schools. Descriptions of the experiments and kits he used will soon be published. On the personal front, Bill and Donnie have a combined family of six children and four grandchildren, with a fifth anticipated as of September 2004.

It seems that many of us keep in touch and have a good time doing it. According to Dorothea CrozierWarren, Austinburg, OH, Pi Phis get together a lot. In October, Dori and Terry, JD '56, Jack and Mary Shear Brennan, and Terry DukeWalters met with Jim and Betty Waltz Grimm for their latest reunion, this time in Bridgewater and Cape May, NJ. A good time was had by all. Need proof? Dori sent a photo, and it's on our Web page, http://classof52.alumni.cornell.edu. If you have a photo you are willing to share, send it to Paul and Polly Prine Herman via e-mail at phpdx@comcast.net, or snail mail at 7025 SW 84th Ave., Portland, OR 97223. Please identify everyone and write a brief description of where and when. If you wish, the Hermans will return your photo. I've also forwarded comments on The Trial to Paul and Polly. A Web page discussion is going on, and they could use more input.

Liddell Tauscher Bald, Barrington, IL, wrote that she and Konrad '55 celebrated their 52nd anniversary with a trip to Alaska last summer. Unfortunately, the trip was dampened--"smoked"?--by forest fires, but highlighted by a visit with Muriel Sandifer Hermes '53, who has been living in Anchorage since her wedding in 1954. Jane Kiely Davis, Malibu, CA, reports that her and Dick's children and in-laws "are doing fine and their children are growing in size and numbers." Jane had recently returned from a trip to the Canadian Rockies and the Drumheller area of Alberta organized by Cappy Heyl Innes. Bibbi Antrim Hartshorn and Gene Powers Johnson were also on the trip. "It was gorgeous," wrote Jane, "and Cappy planned beautifully for us.We had a great time."

D. Anne Bezer Lombardo is in St.Mary's, GA. As I read her notes, she and Daniel have five children--three lawyers, a doctor, and a writer, six grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren, all of whom seem to be busy and doing well. The Lombardos are retired and enjoying their new golfing community, Osprey Cove. Suressa Holtzman Forbes wrote that the highlight of the year for her and Richard ("outside of visiting our four children, spouses, grandchildren--and even great-grandchildren") was their March trip to Iran with CAU. "The Iranians were warm and friendly, and we thoroughly enjoyed the itinerary--especially visiting Persepolis." Suressa and Richard saw Stuart and Katherine Woodbury Haskins last winter, and Pearl Schwartzberg Hochstadt and her husband last summer. "All are doing well."

Not yet retired is John Hyman, Chicago, IL.He writes, "Can still make it up the hoists and ladders and down 40-50 flights of stairs, so continue to work part-time, donning my hard-hat to monitor building construction projects for lender banks. Through most of 2003, I commuted weekly to a hotel job in Austin, TX." (And I think 10- pound weights are something!) John reports a delightful visit in June with his three-year roommate Dr. Norm Ballin, who was in town for the 45th Reunion of his U. of Chicago medical school class. The Hymans make annual visits to John's brother M. David Hyman '55 in West Palm Beach to enjoy sun and spring training. John sends "best to all." Tony Monte, Recife, Brazil, writes that he and Vera have been married for 47 years. They have a daughter in Rio and two sons in Recife, who have given them a granddaughter and two grandsons. Tony writes, "At the present moment, for over one year, I am an independent financial and administrative consultant for Maralco Comercio de Alimentos LTDA, a McDonald's franchisee for the State of Pernambuco, with three stores and five kiosks."

Not all news that comes in is all good. Carlton "Jack" Porter Jr., Byron, NY, writes, "The most difficult information to pass along is the death of my son Stephen J. Porter from a brain tumor in June 2004. He was a partner with his older brother Michael in Porter Farms in Elba, NY. He is surely missed. Stephen's oldest daughter is at Cornell in the Ag college majoring in biology." Last summer, Jack was happy to see Dick and Dot Stilwell Rowe '51, whom he hadn't seen since the early '60s, and talk with his old roommate William Ash '53, PhD '60. "They were true friends while I was on campus." Jack married Bernadette in October 1995. His first wife, Dorothy (Klimajeski) '53, died in 1985.

Lois Anderson writes from Southold, NY, that Bob is wheelchair-bound, suffering from Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's. Two of their six sons live locally and the other four are elsewhere in the Tri-State Area. Lois says, "We are blessed with 11 grandchildren, two of whom graduated from Notre Dame." Fortunately, there is live-in help. Lois goes on, "We continue much as we did before ill health struck.We entertain, enjoy the company of our grandchildren who spend the summer with us, and get out and around as much as we can." Thank you, Lois.

News from Thomas Weber, PhD '63,Williamsville, NY: "I retired in 2000 and am enjoying retirement immensely. I swim five days a week and am a US Masters Swimmer. I'm trying to learn to swing a golf club. This year Marianne and I have been to the Panama Canal, Scotland, and Norway. In the meantime, we visit our daughter and family in Minneapolis, and our son and his wife near Philadelphia."

By the time you read this, if USAirways has remained in business, I expect I will have been in New York in January for the Mid-Winter Meeting of the Cornell Association of Class Officers (CACO) and our class meeting. I may even have been at a joint '52-53 Dutch Treat Dinner. I'll let you know who I saw, how they were, and what happened. CACO moved to the Hilton this year, and the early '50s joint dinner at the Cornell Club was scrapped in favor of the CACO Anniversary Gala. Sorry for all the misinformation I passed along in January. If I do have a New York report, you will read it in May. As my editor says, "The magazine's lead time is hard to explain."Now I'll close, as so many of you do, with best to you all. -- Joan Boffa Gaul, 7 Colonial Pl., Pittsburgh, PA 15232; e-mail, jgcomm@aol.com.

53 | Chuck Juran's son David, PhD '97, who teaches business at Cornell and Columbia, was one of the windblown few at last fall's Cornell-Columbia game in NYC. He appears to have heard somewhere about how Big Red football was in our time and has been passing the word along, urging his students to tailgate. Anything really can happen in Ivy League football, says David. He should know. He was one of us who hung in there to the end that blustery November day. They saw Cornell--behind 26-7 with nine minutes and 33 seconds left to play--prevail, 32-26. Yep. A victory that made history. The new, improved Big Red, retooled by first-year coach Jim Knowles '87, nearly won its last six games, and many hold great expectations for what's ahead.

Nina Wilcox Merson (Sherman Oaks, CA) has words for her 3-year-old granddaughter ("brilliant, adorable, and irresistible"). That's no tall story ("We're not in the LEAST prejudiced"). Nina and husband Marc "have been invited by some private interests and some gov't entities to do our Eco Expo environmental trade shows and conferences in China," says she. "The country is exploding. The UN predicts that half of all construction over the next ten years will take place in China.We are working closely with the Chinese to encourage their adherence to the toughest green building and environmental standards in that construction." Dorothy Black Wagner said good-bye to Hollywood after 38 years, moving to Santa Rosa, CA, to be near descendents. Son Bill won a Bravo Award from the Los Angeles Music Center for excellence in teaching the arts (music at Ojai (CA) High School). Helen Abel Wang (Oceanside, CA) continues to direct the Children's Ministry at her church. Lorraine Putzig Felch (Lansing, NY) is a Tai Chi devotee and a creative quilter, besides bestowing tender loving care on shrubs and perennials, church activity, and the local library. There are offspring to visit in MA, MD, CA, and VT.

Rich Klein (Tenafly, NJ), who "had just about given up on the grandparenting experience," reports a welcome surprise: a first grandchild, Jack, born to daughter Liza and her husband David Hughes. And, Rich adds, "If this is semi-retirement, I'm all for it. I work two days a week as an internist at the medical department I founded at Automatic Data Processing (ADP) in Roseland, NJ, teaching end-of-life care to house staff and students. Joan and I are enjoying our four-day weekends.More time to travel and to see old friends. Since reunion, we've reconnected with several Phi Sig buddies and their spouses." Murray and Enid Spangenberger Miles (Chevy Chase, MD) celebrated their 50th anniversary with a cruise of the northern border of the Holy Roman Empire, from Amsterdam to Budapest, by rivers and canals. There was also a 50th reunion of the destroyer Cogswell and a 50th of the first nuke submarine, the Nautilus.

We asked what's keeping you busy these days and Jim Lansing (Springfield, PA) emphatically replied,"My wife Kay! She's retired after teaching high school chemistry for 30 years.We just returned from a Caribbean cruise.We could not vacation in the winter before because she was working." Bob Corrie and wife, the former Ann Cameron, a Wells grad, report they're enjoying life and the occasional company of other Cornellians at Williamsburg Landing, a continuing care retirement community about three miles from Colonial Williamsburg and the College of William and Mary. Good works with resident groups and his local church help keep Bob busy. Ira Berman, LLB '55 (Boca Raton, FL) looks back on 45 years practicing law in NYC and points with pride to a plastic surgeon son living in Boca Raton, and his daughter, the Long Island lawyer. He still acts as counsel but there's more time now for golf and world travel.

Hail, all hail the Rev. John Twiname, recipient of Union Theological Seminary's Distinguished Alumnus Award last fall. The HealthCare Chaplaincy he and wife Carolyn (Anderson) '54 built is the world's largest clinical training center for seminary students and clergy. It's the only institution that involves clergy working together as a multifaith team in the ministry of healing. "I am still doing God's work,"Harvard business law prof. emeritus Joe Hinsey, LLB '55, submits in a Harvard Biz School '57 class notes column forwarded by Warren G. Grady Jr. One manifestation is "helping business executives cope with ever-increasingly complex laws that continue to come into being." The Harvard class scribe cites Joe's article on the cumbersome effects of the post-Enron Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. It requires among other things that publicly owned companies divulge whether their audit committees include a financial expert who is independent of management. Joe saw pitfalls and offered solutions of great, good sense. The Harvard correspondent thanked him and allowed as how "classmates who are still on boards of public companies will find your wisdom helpful." Will (aka Bill) Marsh, walking much better than he was last spring, spent another autumn in New York City for the UN General Assembly session as he began his 45th year with the US Foreign Service. Those years took him to Saigon, Saudi Arabia, and Paris, to name but a few of the hot spots. -- Jim Hanchett, 300 First Ave., Apt. 8B, NYC 10009; e-mail, jch46@cornell.edu.

54 | As I write the column the winter solstice is fast approaching, our first snow is covering the season's merry lights and decorations, giving this old town a light dusting of magic, and the land is slipping into its winter slumber.When you read this, daffodils and fruit trees--replacing the snow and colored lights--will be heralding the coming of spring, and the class once more is beginning its migration, moving from south to north and west to east. Also appearing with the first signs of spring in Ithaca will be Dan Nadler's The Lure of Silver: North African and Asian Jewelry. On display at the Johnson Museum from April 9 through June 19 will be a portion of Serga and Dan's extensive collection of silver jewelry. The Nadlers' latest book, Silver: From Fetish to Fashion, should be in the bookstores as you read this. Dan had the galleys at reunion and they were magnificent.

Alby and Ethel Rabb Kass may be retired from the hospitality industry but remain in constant motion traveling the United States and points elsewhere. Last year they circumnavigated South America via sea and land. Ethel particularly enjoyed rounding the Horn. Ethel regrets missing our 50th, but hopes to attend reunion this June with some of her friends from the Class of '55. Jane Barber Smith, retired from teaching, has shifted gears to the world of politics, serving as vice chair of the Dutchess Co. Democratic Committee. She had her hands full a while back when both her husband and her daughter ran for public office.Marg and Chuck Summer have been in Nashville but four years and are already totally enmeshed in their adopted community via travel and volunteer activities. Anita Zicht Fial has good reason to be still working--she now owns the company she has been with since graduation.Having moved the company offices, she also moved herself into the city and finds both moves to be just great. Ernest, MA '55, and Elaine Harrison Cohen of Upper Darby, PA, are very much involved with the Sustainable Society Action Project. Norman Lynn, partially retired from the yarn business, still resides in NYC, works three days a week, and fills in the rest with reading and house and garden projects.

Peter Abeles has many new challenges at this time in his life. In a visit to Germany a couple of years back he found his Dad's factory converted to a college, but found something odd about how it got from the family in 1938 to its present state as a college. He is now researching the process. Backing off a bit from land development, he is now teaching at Columbia and Barnard College. Pete is now certified as a Civil Court Mediator for the New Jersey courts, doing about three cases a month. He still skis at altitudes over 9,000 feet, never an easy task, and for summer pleasure has acquired a home on Shelter Island. No mention of golf. Good to hear from Alden ReedWest, who lives in Palm Desert, CA. She is active in the Desert Kappa Alpha Theta alumni group and local theatre, when time permits. Ruth and Kenneth Sheldon (McDonough, NY) enjoyed a 14-day trip to Alaska recently. Jesse and Don McCobb, MBA '55, moved to Naples, FL, just over two years ago to escape northern winters. Aside from pesky summer hurricanes, the McCobbs find Florida much to their liking. They have no seasonal migration routes, only grandchildren ones to East Hampton and Austin, TX.

Bernice Kinard Baxter has left the world of academics, retiring as an associate professor at Hunter College CUNY. Larry Grolnick, MD '58, is still doing the reverse commute from NYC to White Plains as he continues to find the practice of psychiatry meaningful. He remains an active member of Physicians National Healthcare Program. Larry's wife Maureen is now Director of Publishing at Teacher's College Library. Marian Russell Boslaugh is one of CAU's finest spokespeople; she has attended campus programs every year for the past ten that I know of, with and without grandchildren. This past summer it was Battles and Generals of World War Two. During the rest of the year, she and husband David work on their West Virginia property, managing their forest.

It is always lovely to receive news from Norma Urtz DeWitt. Although she has been dealing with Parkinson's since 1991 and presently lives in assisted living, she always writes a long note. It was not possible for her to return to reunion, but she was thinking of us in June and the happy memories of her years on campus. Norma's address is: 4880 Tuttle Rd. #312, Dublin, OH 43017. Delvin Fanning, MS '59, officially retired in 1997 as professor of soil science at the U. of Maryland. Del remains professionally active as emeritus professor. His specialty is acid sulfate soils, in which he is recognized as a world expert. Del's passion is bridge and he often returns to campus just to participate in lunchtime games. Frank Winnert, MBA '55, has a unique migration route. He travels between homes in Lake Kiowa, TX, and Wailea,Maui, making his route rather like those of the neotropical birds and the Arctic tern--a long distance over water. -- Leslie Papenfus Reed, 500 Wolfe St., Alexandria, VA 22314; e-mail, ljreed@ speakeasy.net. Class website: http://classof54.alumni.cornell.edu/; Cornell Alumni Directory: https://directory.alumni.cornell.edu/; Class news online: http://www.alumni.cornell.edu.classes.htm.

55 | Now that Eliot Orton, PhD '71 (Las Cruces, NM) is retired, he found time to remodel his living room "in spectacular fashion, if I do say so myself!" Besides honing his interior decorating talents, Eliot stays in shape skiing and running. The Ortons' daughter donated a kidney to a 2-year-old child after the boy's mother's donation failed. Sounds like you and Sara raised a great girl there, Eliot. Dave Montague and Nancy were planning a month in the British Isles last June "and looking forward to reunion next June." Saying that he's "flunking retirement,"Dave serves as a member of the National Research Council Naval Studies Board, and as a senior advisor at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Also planning on reunion is Rex Boda, who sends the good news that he's "on the way to apparent full recovery after triple bypass surgery."

Last June, Melvin Osterman, LLB '57 (Delmar, NY) packed up his wife and three of his five children for a trip to South Africa and Zambia.Mel is still practicing law, and was admitted as a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Bernard Rodee (Kalamazoo,MI) serves on the boards of three charitable organizations, and still finds time to garden and travel, most recently a CAU tour to Greece. Bernie was pleased to reunite with old pal Doug Brodie after nearly 50 years.

David Knipe is professor emeritus after 35 years at the U. of Wisconsin, and is still doing research in South India, writing, publishing, and lecturing on Vedic studies and Hindu ritual. Dave lists his present hometown as "in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia." John Wertis has the right attitude. He writes that he's "enjoying every sunrise and sunset," and has received a New York State barn restoration grant for his 120-year-old double bay, said to be the best one in the county. John's also gaining knowledge about nut tree culture, tending his own butternut stand, plus managing his Boer goat herd, which now numbers more than a hundred.

Like John, Eva Konig Ray (Villanova, PA) expresses appreciation for her life, noting that "health is a blessing I never take for granted." Eva has recovered from a skiing accident last year, and is back to biking and planning her next ski trip. Her four children and their families all live nearby, and the whole clan spends Augusts together in Rhode Island. California girl Rima Kleiman Sharron's recent travel adventures have taken her far afield. She and John toured New Zealand and Ecuador, and swam with penguins, turtles, and sea lions in the Galapagos Islands. Rima reports that Bill, BS ILR '57, and Sara Smith Ellison (the gals were roommates) will reune with them in June.

Jerry '53 and Emilyn Larkin Jakes also hope to make reunion. Emmie still works as a library/media specialist at a Toledo public school and loves it. She's learning how to use "distance learning" technology to expose inner-city students to an ever-expanding interactive world. Bob, MBA '57, and Vanne Shelley Cowie '57 continue to spend summers in Ithaca "amidst a growing number of Cornellians of our era who are returning to live there."Vanne enjoys her affiliation with the Plantations and the CAU board, and Bob stays active with the Johnson School and the Engineering and Astronomy departments. Bob also serves on the board of the Sciencenter in Ithaca and the Heard Museum in Phoenix, near their hometown of Carefree, AZ. Herb Roleke (Hempstead, NY) and his wife celebrated their 49th anniversary with a trip to Chicago, and are looking for ideas on how to celebrate their 50th.May we suggest a really great trip to Ithaca? Herb, who builds houses and apartment buildings, declares he's busier now than he's been in 45 years, to the point that he had to import his son from Tucson to help him for a while.When they have some free time, the Rolekes enjoy their condo in Stuart, FL.

Who's who in the world of books and newspapers these days? Patricia Wells Lunneborg, former professor of psychology and adjunct professor of women's studies at the U. of Washington, sent me a copy of her new book,Women Police: Portraits of Success. This is Pat's fourth book since retirement, all of which have focused on women and law enforcement. Anne Morrissy Merick's book, War Torn, is now out in paperback. She and her husband Don Janicek split their time between Naples, FL, and Waynesville, NC. Anne's only frustration is that her first grandchild lives too far away, in San Francisco. GordonWhite's fifth book was published in 2004, and his sixth--about Ab and Marvin Jenkins and the Mormon Meteors--is under contract. Dan Sachs wrote and self-published his memoirs, Through Turmoil to Tranquility, a look at the first three decades of his life. Brian Dillon left the advertising business, got his MFA in writing, and has been getting published in literary magazines. He's also active in New York's Coalition for the Homeless, and coaches women through their job training program.

Did you see the article in the New York Times about Ron Bush's efforts to preserve the farming history of Long Island? Having grown up on family farms, Ron was drawn to collecting antique farm implements of every kind: trucks, tractors, cultivators, buggies, sleighs, shredders, and every other kind of farm tool, which he has now organized into a unique private museum. Susan (Hurd) and Jeff Machamer (Holley, NY) and their daughter Amy were featured in a wonderful spread in the November 2004 Better Homes & Gardens. Sue and Amy grow choice fruits and berries at their farm, carrying on a tradition of almost 200 years, and also produce a wide range of gourmet products at their farm market. Jeff continues his consulting practice in mineral resource management and mineral economics, "between assignments as a jack-of-all-trades in farm activities." Jeff adds this note: "Sue's dad, Ag '23, often said that you can't be a farmer without believing in the miracle of life, and we believe in that in spades."

A final reminder about reunion: get your plans set, call your friends, and let's all meet in Ithaca June 9-12 to "tread the Hill once more." Remember to check our class website to find out all about events and who's signed up, and contact Janet Scanlan Lawrence at (856) 769-3497 or louisdixneuf@aol.com, who'll make sure your name gets added to the list. If you can contribute to reunion planning by calling or writing classmates, notify Joan Weisberg Belden at (919) 542-5713 or rsbelden@worldnet.att.net. She'd welcome your help. And if you'd like to e-mail me your news, my new address is below. Or you can fill me in on what's going on in your life when I see you in June! -- Nancy Savage Petrie, nancypetrie@juno.com. Class website, http://classof55.alumni.cornell.edu.

56 | From Dick Sklar, our world traveler and former Ambassador to the United Nations during the Clinton Administration: "All remains hectic and wonderful here in San Francisco.We continue to travel to Montenegro every three months, where I act as the Prime Minister's advisor. To make sure I don't have spare time that can lead to trouble, the Mayor appointed me to the Public Utilities Commission here in S.F., where a $3.65 billion program to renew the water and power supply we own in the Sierras needed a kick-start."Dick adds that he will probably take over the presidency of this commission in 2005, and welcomes all classmates visiting the West Coast.

Having just finished building a new home, John Burns, DVM '59 (Henrietta, NY) says, "Our small farm and woodlot give us much joy." Roy Curtiss III has accepted an appointment as professor of life sciences and co-director of the Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology at Arizona State U. Allen Togut, MD '60 (White Haven, PA) has been caring for patients with neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome. Alan Butterfield (Guararapes, Brazil) is busy with his 12 succulent and cactus gardens.

Curtis Reis has opened new offices of the Alliance Bank. They are now in Culver City (their home office), Irvine,Woodland Hills, and Burbank. Ed Wolf is active with the Phoenix (AZ) Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Robert Boger (East Lansing, MI) is "enjoying retirement after 36 years of teaching at Michigan State U. and the U. of Texas."He is looking forward to our 50th in June 2006.

Art Hershey (Calabasas, CA) is still teaching human resources management at UCLA and Loyola Marymount U., and assisting senior executives in outplacement activities "as they seek new avenues for employment." For those of you who were at our last reunion and remember Art's wife Sharon (Art Linkletter's daughter), she is still working for Quincy Jones. Art and Sharon were in Rome in spring 2004, where Sharon managed a major fundraising concert for Quincy, attended by more than 750,000 people in Circus Maximus. "It was an utterly incredible experience," said Art.

I had the pleasure of seeing Judy Jabloner Bumble (Bryn Mawr, PA) at the annual Philadelphia Flower Show. She is sculpting in terra cotta, painting in the abstract, and working on her own gardens. Phyllis Miller Lee (Dorset, VT) tells us that since moving to Vermont 13 years ago, she has been painting and drawing (mostly landscapes) and exhibiting in local galleries. Peter Curtiss (Tupper Lake, NY) is active in supporting a new Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks, and just broke ground on a $15 million building for them in Tupper Lake.

We have heard from John Bing Jr., who tells us that his father John Bing (Schaumburg, IL) is confined to a skilled nursing facility in San Diego, where his spirits are good. If you want to reach John, please contact John Jr. at 215 Austin Lane, #302, Schaumburg, IL 60195. Dr. Benny Klock, MS '60 (Milton, FL) has been volunteering for over two years for an eye surgeon in Pensacola, FL. Benny narrates the details of the surgery (cataracts, cornea transplants, and trabuculectomies) on closed circuit video to the families of the patients. Donald Woolfenden (Monmouth Beach, NJ) has retired from the Northern Territory Government of Australia, having been there over 30 years.

Larry Brown (Highwood, IL) writes that he was at Cornell for only two years before transferring to the U. of Michigan, "but a lot of my loyalties remain with Cornell and I am looking forward to my 50th Reunion in 2006."After a 31-year career at the Northern Trust Company (Chicago), Larry retired in 1989 and became a director/trustee of various Nuveen Mutual Funds in 1994. Vera Johnson Lee (San Francisco, CA) sings with two choruses, ushers for the San Francisco Opera and Ballet, and serves on the music committee at her church. Nancy Marx Thorpe (Carbondale, CO) is still working at the Aspen Institute. Jane Nebenzahl Neiman spends six months in Boynton Beach, FL, and the other half of the year in New City, NY. Robert Safford Sr. (Phoenixville, PA) is expanding his Citigroup/Primerco Financial Business to the UK and Spain, with two of his children in the business.

As for me, I spent Thanksgiving weekend in Paris as the guest of our most gracious classmate Barbara Rapoport. Barbara spends three months every year in the 6th arrondissement, in a charming apartment. Barbara loves to immerse herself in the life and language of the French.While there, I also saw classmate Ellie Schaffer, who has been living in Paris for most of the years since our graduation. Please keep your news coming. -- Phyllis Bosworth, 8 East 83rd St., Apt. 10C, New York, NY 10028; tel., 212-734-5009; e-mail, phylboz@aol.com.

57 | Our freshman year, I was assigned a room in Risley. In a double at the end of my corridor lived Anne Horne Warder and Mollie Turner. I learned how to play bridge in that room, thanks to Mollie, and she remained a lifelong friend. She was someone who was beating the odds on survival from ovarian cancer--traveling, skiing, serving as a class officer and visiting many of her Cornell friends despite constant chemo. But last July we lost Mollie. She will be missed.We will also miss Bob Smart, who did a fabulous job for our 35th Reunion along with his wife Marj (Nelson). Many of their Cornell friends rallied to Marj's side when Bob died last fall.

Steve Weiss and Judy Lund Biggs have been trying to help raise funds for a professorship to honor and be named for Clinton Rossiter, their favorite professor in the Government dept. Any contributions should be sent to Carol True-Palmer, Director of Alumni Affairs & Development at the College of Arts and Sciences.

Barbara Flynn Shively is using her expertise with computer graphics to design brochures for the Morris Choral Society in Morristown, NJ. She initiated the idea of releasing the brochures before the concert so attendees will be well-informed about the compositions, soloists, etc. Fredda Ginsberg Fellner, retired professor of pediatrics, says her most pressing problem is "more leisure time than I ever had so may go back to work one day a week." She and Michael '56 take advantage of all that New York City has to offer, as well as frequent trips to the D.C. area to see her son and grandsons. Olga Duntuch Krell, BArch '58, writes that the most pressing problem for her at this time is the Brazilian currency and an unstable government in Brazil. As for choosing another college at Cornell to have attended, she lists medical school because she's a frustrated doctor and surgeon. Olga, like many of us, runs into doctors who tell her to quit reading up on everything--but how else can we make informed decisions, eh?

CAU participants last year--Carol Johnson Saylor, Vanne Shelley Cowie, Barbara Weissman Lewis, Grace Wohlner Weinstein and spouses--enjoyed learning about the history and horticulture of the Hudson Valley in June. Attending the summer theater in Stratford, Ontario, were Thomas '55 and Dorothy Eiseman Litwin, and Ron, MBA '57, and Helen Kuver Kramer. The Kramers were in NYC for a family gathering last fall to cheer on their daughter Marjorie '87 as she ran the marathon.

Jane Graves Derby is grandmother to twin girls who are almost 2 and says, "It takes us both to babysit."Dennis and Jane cruised on the Danube from Budapest to Passau last year. Sally Blake Lavery cruised around the British Isles and visited London and Paris for the first time. She volunteers in all the historical associations in Amesbury, MA, where the Amesbury Carriage Museum is about to open, and enjoys Cornell chatter with Gordon Breidenbach '76 at the Scandia Restaurant in Amesbury.-- Judith Reusswig, 19 Seburn Dr., Bluffton, SC 29909; e-mail, JCReuss@aol.com.

I received a delightful e-mail from Ed Staats in which he chronicles most of what we need to survive, to wit: keep a low profile in this world, especially when you fall asleep in class; live long enough and you win everything (he won a five-mile ocean swimming race last year in the over-60 class--one of two competitors; the runner-up was classmate Stephen de Gott); looking down from 14,000 feet keeps a lot of things in perspective (he experienced a three-generation sky-dive with son, daughter, and grandson); don't get too dressed up and keep moving and they'll never think you're over the hill (the only hill he reports ever having trouble with was Libe Slope). Ed spent ten years sailing to four continents, did a few biking triathlons to celebrate his 70th year, white-water rafted in Idaho, and will bike through the French vineyards this summer. (I write this from the prone position on my couch.)

Paul Noble is retired (but I'll bet still active in many things), spending eight months in Palm Beach and four months on Fire Island. Hurricane Frances got in the way of some remodeling, and he and wife Paulette spent some time in temporary quarters. Keith Stewart had a similar experience, running afoul of Hurricane Charlie in Punta Gorda, and spends most of his time at a new home in Tennessee, having sold his condo in Portsmouth, RI. Daniel Hunter is also retired, and he and Francoise spend three months each year in their house on the French Mediterranean. Last year they went to Munich, Salzburg, Vienna, Budapest, and Prague, where they hooked up with Carl and Daniele Schwarz for a memorable dinner.

Pete and Ann Blauvelt also traveled extensively in Italy last year, joining a veterinarian group (they have a dog) that included many Cornellians. Pete has won another term as Town Justice (he was unopposed, which reinforces Ed's "live long enough and you win everything" theory), and hopes that his term expires before he does.When not dishing out frontier justice (your correspondent has audited one of these sessions), he remains board chair of a community college near Rochester. He and Ann now have four grandchildren competing for their time. Peter and Anita Cattano have become grandparents for the first time, and soon will have their grandson swimming in one of the upscale pools that Peter's firm designs and builds. One of their award-winning designs was recently featured in the trade journal Watersharks. Howard and Lenore Brotman Greenstein '56 have nine grandchildren, one of whom (Jake Greenstein) is the number one ranked 10-year-old tennis player in Memphis and number five in the State of Tennessee. Howard continues serving as rabbi of a congregation in Marco Island in the winter and Lenox, MA, in the summer.

My co-correspondent mentioned the sad news of the death of Bob Smart in October. Bob Watts adds that his ashes were scattered in a military cemetery in Randolph, VT. I know I speak for all classmates in expressing our sympathy to Marj. -- John Seiler, 221 St. Matthews Ave., Louisville, KY 40207; tel., (502) 895-1477; e-mail, suitcase2@aol.com.

58 | Some News came through in time for this March/April column, thanks to a couple dozen classmates who quickly sent responsive e-mails and posted written returns.We'll report them in order of receipt. Thanks, 'mates.

One of the first was from Russell Taft, now retired after 33 years at Haleakala,Maui, optical observatories. Russ can now make more music and increase his local acting, even while continuing his travels--last year exploring Inca land and the Andes of Peru, including a hike to the Gate of the Sun at Machu Picchu. As if that were not enough, Russ then headed down the Amazon to explore some of the river's jungles. He says, "The whole trip was fantastic." Russ was sorry to miss our 45th, but plans to be there for the 50th. Jim and Annette Fogo Harper promptly sent news, too. Their daughter Hadley '87 was married last June in Philadelphia before her parents took off for "two lovely weeks in Italy with son Jamie, an art professor at U. of Oregon." The Harpers got together in Venice with Keith Johnson '56 and Anne Rothenthaler Vendramin '60--Annette's sorority sister unseen for 45 years--and then put on a Roman dinner. Among their 22 guests were Dick and Nancy Hoeft Eales '60, and Dick and Pat Peterson Strazza, both '55.

Bob Kully, reading that I was "running dry" from the year-end column, sent an e-mail quickly with an update on his family. He and Connie still live in Omaha, NE, after 41 years of married life and his involvement in the investment business. The Kullys' four children all are married and scattered around the country, with seven grandchildren among them. Son David, JD '94, is the younger Cornell grad from the family. Bob enjoyed catching up recently with Irv Caplan, Henry Pollack, John Spivack, MBA '60, and Len Harlan. One of our class authors, Fred Brueck, says he has written a book being sold in major bookstores here and abroad. Entitled Never Say Can't, it is a 215-page, 37-chapter, 22-photo inspirational autobiography and travelogue paperback. Fred writes in Schoharie, NY, where he and Karen still reside.

John Ingley, PhD '62, and his wife Marilyn have moved West. John writes, "After being Easterners most of our lives, we are now enjoying the high desert and mountain scenery of central Oregon, having moved to the town of Bend last May." Alan Goldman responded by e-mail with the fact that he and Joanne visited a most interesting Cornellian in England's Cotswolds area.Massoud Ahari '56, BS '58, MBA '59, is Alan's fraternity brother who Alan had not seen in over 40 years and who experienced terrific turmoil in Iran--a story of its own that Massoud currently is writing up. The Goldmans greatly enjoyed the Aharis' hospitality at their charming home in that lovely English countryside.

Continuing in the order of your News Notes received, from early October we read that Peter Hartdegen plans to retire in December from selling air-moving equipment out in Orinda, CA, a career he says has been great. That will give him more time for handbells (his wife, Grace, directs), choral singing, and piano playing in his Dixieland band. Peter and Grace say they had a fun couple of days last year with Gery Torborg and his wife Ruth in the Northern California town of Eureka. Another class author, Katharine "Katie" Davis Fishman has had her third book published, entitled Attitude! Eight Young Dancers Come of Age at the Ailey School (Tarcher/Penquin). This is a narrative of the year Katie spent following these teens, who are advanced dancers at the school. First reviews have been good (I recall seeing one quite favorable in the Philadelphia Inquirer), and Katie is now doing some readings while enjoying two grandchildren under 9 of her older daughter Maggie.

Marilyn Gleber Wagner and husband John are, she writes, both finally retired from the practice of law. They met and married at Columbia Law School in 1960. Now they're enjoying their house and neighborhood in Bethesda, MD, some traveling (England and Scotland last year, more to come), tennis, church activities, and five grandchildren (so far). Martin Steinberg and Susan still write from Boston, but visited their newly married daughter in Salzburg, Austria, last November, having earlier taken the Juneau Passage to Alaska and found it beautiful. Bob McGuire, M Ed '63, married Jackie Conklin in June 2003. He says that now he has been keeping the New York City Cornell doctors busy trying to find one or more of his unknown diseases.We wish you good luck, Bob, in that pursuit. Keep us posted.

We end with a note from Renni Bertenthal Shuter, who with her husband enjoys their six grandchildren. They visited the Virgin Islands last year, along with spending a couple months on Marco Island and then Cape Cod in August. Renni says she's trying to cut back on work, but will keep selling houses in the St. Louis, MO, area for as long as she can climb stairs! And with that, we'll keep watching for more News. As winter comes on at this writing, after a long,mild fall in the Philly area, I'll still send cheers and wishes for a happy and warm spring to all. -- Dick Haggard, 1207 Nash Dr., Fort Washington, PA 19034; e-mail, rhaggard@voicenet.com; Jan Arps Jarvie, 6524 Valley Brook, Dallas, TX 75254; e-mail, jjarvie386@aol.com. See also http://classof58.alumni.cornell.edu for other news and events of the Class of '58.

59 | Last October Stan Lomax, JD '62, of Columbia, SC, was notified by NASD Dispute Resolution that he had been certified as an arbitrator to resolve disputes between securities firms and their employees. "NASD Dispute Resolution is the operator of the largest securities dispute resolution forum in the world and had just opened operations here in South Carolina," he writes. "As a newly accepted associate member of the South Carolina Bar Association, I'll be focusing on dispute resolutions in this state as well as the southeast region. These are subjects that I continue to teach at the Moore School of Business in Columbia. As we continue to mellow we seem to discover new avenues that are rewarding; teaching here was one of the best career moves I could ever dream of, and now still another path."

Congratulations to Paul and Dotty Isaacs Winick of Hollywood, FL, on the arrival of triplet grandchildren last July. "Jordan and Samantha are girls and Toby is a boy. They live near us and are a lot of fun," says Dotty. Also welcoming new grandchildren were Denny and Gwen Woodson Fraze of Amarillo, TX, whose two daughters presented them with grandsons in 2004. John and Norma Perkins Thomas of Mankato, MN, had a "healthy, happy year with the special blessing of a new granddaughter"-- their fifth grandchild.

In November, the White House announced that Steve Friedman, who had been one of President Bush's top economic advisers since late 2002, would leave as of December 31. Steve served as Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council, advising the president on matters related to US and global economic policy and serving as a liaison to Wall Street. Steve, a veteran investment banker, earlier spent 28 years with Goldman Sachs, where he served as co-chair from 1990 until his retirement in 1994.

Nancy IamsWalsh moved down the hill last spring to Tiburon, CA, where she still has a magnificent view of the city of San Francisco. She continues to work part-time in Berkeley and Oakland doing diet counseling and conducting support groups on diabetes and weight loss, working mainly with seniors. John Kriendler is enjoying his "third career" as professor of NATO and European security issues at the George C.Marshall European Center's College of International and Security Studies in Garmisch- Partenkirchen, Germany. "Lots of interesting students from the former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe, and Central Asia."His address: Marshall Center, CMR 409 Box 572, APO, AE 09053.

Classmates who participated in CAU study tours during 2004 included Philip '58 and Dorothy Willman Bartlett,M Ed '61 (Life,Wildlife, and Natural Habitats of Iceland); Ann Schmeltz Bowers (The World of Art in London); and James '58 and Lucy Tuve Comly (History and Horticulture in the Hudson Valley).-- Jenny Tesar, 97A Chestnut Hill Village, Bethel, CT 06801; tel., (203) 792-8237; e-mail, jet24@cornell.edu.

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