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70 | Cheryl Wasserman (cwasserma1@aol.com) and her husband Ron Slotkin live in Washington, DC, and both work for the EPA. Their daughter Rebecca is in the Upper School at Maret and their son Jonathan is in middle school at McLean. Cheryl is associate director for policy analysis in the Office of Federal Activities. Ron is director of multimedia communications and technology. Cheryl focuses on environmental review of free trade agreements and domestic (tribes) and international capacity building in both environmental compliance and enforcement and in environmental impact assessment. She developed the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE). She was also involved in the development of ISO 14000 standards for environmental auditing and management, and developed long-standing policies on state/federal enforcement, as well as courses and student texts on the subjects, which have been widely distributed and translated into several languages. Together Cheryl and Ron started a modest side business,Viscom Studios. They make personal movies to celebrate and honor individuals, families, and groups. They also enjoy hiking, biking, swimming, and playing tennis. Cheryl sends greetings to all in the Cornell family.

For the last 30 years, Jonathan Forge (jjohn@tpg.com.au) has lived in Australia since moving there four years after graduating from Cornell. Before he settled in New South Wales, he received his MA and PhD in philosophy at London U. Jonathan is a professor of philosophy and contemplating early retirement.He has a 25-year-old daughter who is working on a PhD in political science. Jonathan is still single, though, living with his old cat. He reflects that no one compares with the Cornell co-eds from the classes of '67-73! What more can he say! To his great regret, he has not kept up with Cornell friends except for knowing a few e-mail addresses. He would be delighted to hear from old friends.

Bob Scurfield (scurfield@sktc.net) mentions the many life changes he has experienced, including a divorce and the inevitable getting older, while still trying to determine the meaning of it all. His eldest son is working in San Diego after getting his BS from Cornell in '01 and his MS in '03. Bob's other son has recently graduated from Kansas State U. Bob lives in Belle Plaine, KS, and continues working at Cessna Aircraft as in-house legal counsel. He enjoys airplanes (owns an RV6) and motorcycles.

Steve Meyerson (docsjm@aol.com) and his wife Linda live in Miami, FL. Steve closed his medical practice in September 2003, took a job with the V.A., and is now medical director at Baptist Hospital of Miami. Linda has a tutoring business in Miami. Son Eric, 30, was recently married in Sausalito, CA, lives in San Francisco, and works for Wells Fargo. Daughter Anna, 25, has graduated from the U. of Chicago Medical School and is practicing radiology. Dick Roberts (crroberts.peoplepc.com) and his wife Christine live in Bridgewater, NY. Jerry Roller's firm, J.K. Roller Architects, celebrated its 20th anniversary on June 3, 2004. The firm is located in Center City Philadelphia and is completing a major renovation and expansion of its office. Jerry and his wife Joan live in Philadelphia.

Elliot Gordon and his wife Sheila live in Irvine, CA. He can be reached at two e-mail addresses: gordone@kornferry.com and elliotg1@cox.net. He has been with Korn/Ferry International, a leading global executive search firm, for 24 years. Elliot inline skates almost every day.He is the originator and coordinator of the annual Southern California Pacific Coast Century Skate/Bike (use the second e-mail for info). Each year Elliot and Sheila take a ski vacation with Marty Hsaio-Ping Liu Katz, and he and Marty do some hiking as well. Paula Noonan conducts a professional development program, "How to Assess Student Writing," for Regis U. in Colorado. She has received the first Jones International U. faculty excellence award as content expert and faculty in business communication. Paula's son Raleigh graduated in August 2004 from Metropolitan State College. She lives in Littleton, CO, and her golf handicap is trending down to a 10.

Rani Denise Ulrich (RDeniseU@cs.com) lives in Captain Cook, HI, where she paddles with the Keauwou Canoe Club. At an informal gathering at the Waikolda Canoe Club in the spring of 2004, she met some of the students and faculty in Cornell's Earth and Environmental Sciences Program in Waimea, HI. The club provided outrigger canoe rides for those who were interested. Denise also met up with fellow artists and Cornellians Henry and Bettie Buell Lyon, both '52. Bill Kelsey, MBA '74, and his wife Tina (Meyn), MS '70, live in Findlay, OH. They spent most of last summer on the Great Lakes on their sailboat!

Jomarie "Joan" Alano, MBA '82 (jma49@cornell.edu) married William Treat on May 15, 2004. She and Bill live in Warrenton, VA. During the spring 2004 semester, Jomarie taught two classes in the History dept. at Cornell. She would love to hear from classmates in the Washington, DC, area. Bernie, PhD '81 (bneenan@neenan. com) and Theresa Flaim Neenan, PhD '77, are now living in Knoxville, TN. Michael J.C.McCarthy lives in Baltimore,MD.

To follow up on Bob Scurfield's ponderings about life, I spotted a bumper sticker that said, "What if the hokey pokey really is what it's all about?"Have a glorious spring and make plans to come to Reunion 2005, June 9-12.We'll be able to enjoy each other's company while we discuss and debate exactly what it's all about! -- Connie Ferris Meyer, 16 James Thomas Rd.,Malvern, PA 19355; e-mail, cfm7@cornell.edu.

71 | Greetings to all of our classmates! We hope that by the time this column reaches you, you will be enjoying the beginning of some beautiful spring weather. Leon and Rosemary Oaks-Lee (oakslee@aol.com) are delighted to report that their son Nate graduated in May 2004 from the College of Engineering with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 70 years after the graduation of Chester Lee '34, Nate's grandfather. Another proud Cornell parent is Edward Killam, whose daughter Erica '08 is currently attending the Hotel school. Martin P.Michael writes from Manhattan that his son Evan (Penn '99) was married in May 2003 to Kim Graham '99.

Paula Greenburg Jarnicki (jarnicki@fuse.net) lives in Cincinnati. Her son Brent graduated from Ohio State Law School and has entered his father's practice. Paula's daughter Judy is a sales representative for Merck Pharmaceuticals and also lives in Cincinnati. Paula keeps in touch with Janett Edelberg. Tom Brereton (brert@ mvschool.com) has four children ages 19, 16, and twin 9-year-olds. He writes that life is good. His daughter Rebecca is a sophomore at Colgate. Tom, wife Amy, and children traveled to the UK last summer. They spent four weeks in England, one week in Wales, two weeks in Ireland, and one week in Scotland. This trip was a gift from his board of trustees in honor of his 30 years at the Miami Valley School, 18 of them as headmaster.

We received a nice e-mail from Rick Macho in Illinois. Rick works for the Madison County Soil and Water Conservation District in Edwardsville, IL. He works with agricultural producers and other landowners in planning, designing, and constructing permanent conservation measures on their land. These include terraces, waterways, ponds, and wildlife habitat improvements. He also works closely with the municipalities in his county to control soil erosion and sediment, meeting with developers and city officials to review subdivision plans and trying to minimize any excessive sediment and stormwater problems that their development might cause. In his leisure time, Rick enjoys travel and has spent his last four vacations in the Amazon, Costa Rica, New Zealand, and Panama rain forests. He writes that these study trips have been a fascinating way to visit with people actively involved in research. Rick would like to locate Allan Horton, his classmate from the Ag college. Allan, if you are reading this column, contact Rick at rick.macho@il.nacdnet.net.

Another classmate with interesting and meaningful travel is Darlene Rugis Heller (heller51@yahoo.com), who has traveled to India, Africa, Norway, Italy, and France. On a trip to Africa she worked on a mission project setting up an infection control program at David Gordon Hospital in Livingstonia,Malawi. She plans more missionary work in the future. G. Brian Smith, MS '73 (smithclan@tru.eastlink.ca) lives in Nova Scotia, where he works as the executive director of Agriculture Services, Nova Scotia Dept. of Agriculture and Fisheries. He recently received the Nova Scotia Distinguished Agrologist award. He and his wife have a family business running a campground in New Brunswick. Brian also enjoys winemaking, travel, and gardening and looks forward to a trip to France in the near future.

Robert Crystal (crys24634@aol.com) is studying in a Master of Divinity program and would like to be ordained as an Episcopal priest one day. This past year he and his partner Curtis traveled to Quebec City, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia, where he rang bells on the towers of cathedrals. Bonnie Kaplan (bonnie.kaplan@yale.edu) chaired a conference in Manchester, England, this summer, and edited the resultant book, Relevant Theory and Informed Practice: Looking Forward from a 20-Year Perspective on IS Research.

Look for the new book Cornell University Hockey, which describes the history of Cornell hockey in photographs and text, from its beginnings on Beebe Lake through the construction of Lynah Rink and two national championships of the Ned Harkness glory years. It also covers more recent history, including the 2003 NCAA Frozen Four. The book was written by broadcaster Adam Wodon and researched by our classmate and sportswriter Arthur Mintz (am21@cornell.edu). It's available at the Cornell Store.

Our condolences to Susan Labarre Brittingham (slb45@cornell.edu), whose husband Henry ("Hank") '70 passed away in July after a long battle with cancer. Susan is living in Maryland, where she enjoys a wonderful, low-pressure job as the manager of Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach. She enjoys hiking, reading, travel, and cooking and hopes to relocate to an area with mountains in the future.

Many thanks to all of our classmates who have generously shared news about themselves. If you are reading this column, please take a moment to e-mail one of us and share some news about yourself—professional, travel, family, hobbies, or anything you consider newsworthy. We'll write about you! -- Linda Germaine-Miller, lg95@cornell.edu; and Matt Silverman, mes62@cornell.edu.

72 | Carolyn Jacobson has been reunited with her Cornell class ring, thanks to her podiatrist, the cashier in the supermarket, a Cornell credit card, and the magic of serendipity. One day Carolyn received a call from her podiatrist, who said he had found her class ring (which she had lost several years earlier). How did he find it and connect it with Carolyn? "One of the podiatrists in the office happened to be a Cornell grad and one day paid his bill at a local food store with his Cornell credit card. The cashier asked him if he had gone to Cornell and when he said he had, she told him that she had found a Cornell class ring some years ago at a swimming pool and didn't know what to do with it. So she put it in a safe place.Would he take it and try to find the owner? He brought it back to his office and told one of his associates about it. The associate (not a Cornellian) looked carefully at the ring and saw ‘BS' and ‘72' and initials that looked like ‘CJJ' and decided to go to the Cornell website.He found the e-mail address for one of our class correspondents, Gary Rubin. The rest is history. I was reunited with my ring, with the ultimate coincidence that I was a patient of the podiatrist."We realize that publishing this story may trigger an endless stream of similar efforts to reunite classmates with their class rings through the intervention of their podiatrists, but we decided to forge ahead despite the risk.

Tom Kelsey, MBA '77, writes, "After a wonderful four years in Stockholm, where I met and married my wife, I'm now the commercial counselor at the US Embassy in Zagreb, Croatia—a great travel destination and an improving business climate. The B&B is now open!" Nicholas Seay, an intellectual property attorney with Quarles & Brady LLP in Madison, WI, is listed in "The Best Lawyers in America 2005-06." Beverly Rabeler Settle of Madison, NY, says, "The latest from here is the onset of the empty nest.My youngest joined the US Marines, and now my second youngest, who has been living at home, is getting married. The older two married and moved out a while ago. I have three grandchildren in Alabama and almost two overseas. Professionally, I became a tenured teacher last fall after receiving a master's in information design technology from SUNYIT in May. Thanks to Nancy for keeping in contact even when I don't reply and to 'Nette for being a best friend after all these years."

David Harding, PhD '83,Warrenville, IL, enjoys his work with the Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassadors Network (CAAAN), talking with high school students oneon- one and at college fairs. Daughter Betsy is a member of the Hotel school Class of '06. Mark Schimelman, Clifton Park, NY, reports that daughter Sondra is living and working in Boston, daughter Rachel is working in San Marcos, TX, and son Ben is a sophomore at RPI. --Gary L. Rubin, glrubin@aol.com; Alex Barna, alexander.barna- 1@nasa.gov.

73 | As I write, the election is finally over, except for the protracted gubernatorial recount here in Washington State. As for my own campaign for Congress in Washington's 8th district—well, it looked very competitive after my win in the September Democratic primary . . .

That's right, your class co-correspondent decided to take a leave of absence (and possibly his senses), cross to the dark side, and experience politics up close and personal. I spent five of the most exciting months of my life door-belling, phone-calling, and speechifying. Nancy Pelosi came out for a joint news conference. Al Gore added me to a panel on stem cell research. I brought conventions to their feet, and flung rhetorical red meat to partisan crowds from the caboose of a campaign train. But alas, cheers don't always mature into votes. Delays in the vote count on election night spared me a televised concession speech, but I conceded privately the next morning with 47 percent, and went back to my old job at KIRO. Friends and supporters keep assuring me I have more influence doing a talk show than I would have had as a minority member of Congress, but our 450 volunteers—who I cannot praise enough—don't take much comfort in that.

I will say that thanks to the $8.5 million spent by the various parties and interest groups for and against me, I am now a member of that elite group of celebrities who enjoy the rare honor of being recognized by strangers in the men's restroom. Fortunately, most people are pleasantly surprised to discover that, despite what some of the ads implied, I do not have cloven hooves . . . although I do notice strangers sneaking glances at my feet when I de-shoe at the airport. So ends a year that included a week in New Hampshire covering the primary, a week in Baghdad last April, and five months of fundraising calls to raise money I never got to touch. It was the ultimate reality show. I plan to spend my spare time this year splitting fire logs.

On to class news: Alan Ireland is in Kula, HI, where he is managing partner of the "Manana Garage."His brief and cryptic note provided only the title of the business, which sounded at first like a service station where the mechanics never quite get around to your car. But a Google search revealed that it's a wildly popular Nuevo Latino restaurant on Maui, now in its fifth year of Tequila Tuesdays.Which probably explains the comment on his Cornell news form: "All's quite well, thank you." If I ever run in Hawaii, I'll know where to throw my next consolation party!

Ken Luckow, DVM '78 (kenvet810@aol.com) lives in Holbrook, NY, with wife Brenda. Eldest daughter Tracy '99 is back from Cork, Ireland, and on track to receive her PhD in food science. Lori '01 recently vacationed in Paris; Amanda is a freshman at SUNY Plattsburgh; Danielle is in the 11th grade making her mark as a cheerleader and part-time model; and Benjamin—yes, finally a boy!—has celebrated his second birthday and is on a glide path to graduate from Cornell as a member of the Class of '23, exactly 50 years after Dad. Linda Dubins is married to David Baer and living in Piedmont, CA. She reports that daughter Hilary is at her dad's school (U. of Michigan) majoring in political science, daughter Rachel is RISD '07, and daughter Anna attends Piedmont High School.

Lawrence Taylor (larrytaylor@aziotics.com) reports that daughter Jessica is a freshman at Boston U. studying environmental policy. In sharp contrast to my own efforts, Larry had no trouble winning election to the Board of Advisors of the US-Indonesia Society and the World Affairs Council of St. Louis, where he serves as vice president. He also teaches as an adjunct professor at St. Louis U. and serves on both the Cornell Alumni Federation and the Cornell Council. Congratulations to Jeffrey Lallas, MPS '03, on joining SUNY Cortland as director of facilities planning and construction.He'll be responsible for all planning, architectural, and engineering design for the $70 million dollar capital improvement plan at the Cortland campus. His previous credits include work at Cornell's Facilities Management dept., where he helped create an awardwinning grounds maintenance program. I expect the Cortland campus is destined to become the new jewel in the Crown City.

Paul Wise, MD '78 (pwise@stanford.edu) has moved from Boston to Palo Alto to become the Richard E. Behrman Professor of Child Health and Society in the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford U. He reports that son Ben is a junior at Brown, daughter Marissa is Cornell Class of '07 (Arts & Sciences), and daughter Diana is in 6th grade. Richard Rawson and his father are now living with relatives in San Antonio after the passing of his mother last November. He's recently retired from Meijer's Inc. in Dayton.

Marilyn Hope Markman Denkin lives in Aberdeen, NJ, with husband Nathan. She's a counselor at the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Daughter Dawn is now a mother herself, daughter Danielle '00 studied chemistry, son Joshua studied graphic design, and daughter Laura is in veterinary medicine. Don Horn lives in Wyoming with wife Eileen and develops real estate, as well as retaining an interest in a New Jersey restaurant. Son Donnie is a senior at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, son Chris is playing football and tackling the books at Stanford, Ryan is a freshman majoring in environmental engineering at Colorado State, and Sean and Kelly attend Tongue River High School in Dayton. That's the news. I'll wrap up by reporting that Emilie (our oldest) joined Patti (Miller) '72 and me to spend Christmas in Paris with daughter Caitlin, who's studying French and international relations through Gonzaga's program at L'Institut Catholique. An evening probing the Internet turned up a great price on an apartment on Rue St. Denis, located in a neighborhood described by the landlord as "diverse." That turned out to be a reference to the entrepreneurs de la nuit, and had I been elected,my choice of rental would undoubtedly have created my first political scandal. But as a member of the private sector, I am just another naive tourist.

Emilie then headed to Philadelphia for Peace Corps orientation before beginning three months of training in Niamey, Niger, as an agro-forestry extension agent. The training will have to be intense, since, to my knowledge, her Master of Arts in French at Middlebury didn't include a lot of African agro-forestry. And to think that as a kid she frequently refused to do yard work because there were "too many bugs outside."Children will break your heart. Keep the news coming. --Dave Ross, dave@daveross.com; Phyllis Haight Grummon, phg3@cornell.edu.

74 | My term as a class correspondent got off to a good start when I attended NOLT (New Officer Leadership Training) in Ithaca this past October.With other class officers, I participated in alumni volunteer "indoctrination" workshops, and saw up close the huge machine that is the Alumni Federation. Class president John Foote and wife Kristen Rupert (a former class president and continuing VP) hosted a gathering at their home in Forest Home for attending fellow '74 officers, including Ann Goodwin, Dale Lazar, JD '77, Nancy Maczulak Fisher, Lois Fish Niland, MBA '78, and myself.

Several Delta Gamma alumnae joined us for a delicious dinner of Cornell BBQ chicken, including Mary Berens, Director of Alumni Affairs at Cornell, and her husband Paul Feeny, professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Science in the Ag college. Mi O'Connell came over from nearby Elmira, where she works as HR director for Schweitzer Aircraft, recently acquired by Sikorsky UTC. Marlene Kay Davis, professor of architecture at U. of Tennessee, brought her younger son Robert along for a visit to son Stephen '08. Stephen has apparently made quite a splash with his original comic strip, Adventures of Ant Man: Cornell's First "Insect-American"Undergrad, which appears weekly in the Cornell Daily Sun.

Kris and John were on campus again the weekend that Kevin Malchoff, MBA '75, was recognized as an outstanding alumnus by the Ag college and the ALS Alumni Association. Kevin is US/Canada Group president for Rich Products Corp., one of the largest family-owned diversified food manufacturers in North America. As a member of Rich's executive leadership team, he shares responsibility for the overall strategic direction, financial performance, and organizational development of Rich Products' food business. Kevin is an active ambassador for Cornell; he currently serves on the Cornell University Council and has hosted several scholarship events on behalf of the Cornell Club of Greater Buffalo. He and wife Cindy live in Eden, NY, and are the parents of three adult children, including son Jeffrey '03.

I ran into classmate Gary Dufel, ME '75, at, of all places, my husband's office Christmas party in Cazenovia, NY. Gary came in from Connecticut where he manages New England operations for Stearns & Wheler, "an environmental engineering firm headquartered in cold, cloud-covered central New York." Gary reports that he spent three weeks in Europe this summer with his 17-year-old son Gregory visiting the family's ancestral villages in Alsace and northwest Germany; he notes that spending real quality time with his son was a spectacular treat. Gregory particularly enjoyed skateboarding around some of Europe's oldest and most beautiful cathedrals, but his biggest memory was eating puffin in Iceland. Such pretty birds just shouldn't taste so great. Gary has caught the genealogy bug big-time and has written a book about his family. He ended up learning German so he could converse with distant cousins. He reports that he occasionally hears from classmates Arnold Olender from the Atlanta area, and Doug Johnstone, who lives in New Jersey. Gary lives in Danbury, CT, with his two sons and wife Deborah.

Betty Horstmeyer Ugolini still lives in Derby, KS, and works as a district computer technician for the local public school system, with its 2,400 workstations. Over the past six months, she's been busy supervising software upgrades for nine elementary schools. She was delighted to become a grandmother this year; Emily Paige was born to daughter Merissa, who lives in nearby Belaire. Son Kris, 24, is a grad student in math and physics at Kansas State, while son T.J., 19, majors in music and theater at nearby Wichita State U. Carol McKenzie Moore and Tom '79 (my youngest brother) recently purchased a home with acreage in Hampton Falls, NH, quite a switch from their condo with postage-stamp yard in historic Marblehead, MA. Apparently Tom has been stocking up on property management equipment, including a riding mower, snowplow, leaf blower, etc. Carol claims to be too busy for yard work, as she does a lot of unpacking and manages their menagerie of dogs, cats, African gray parrots, and assorted other birds.

After 30 years in the business, Edwin Drexler and his wife Pauline (Brooks) '75 have ceased running a dairy (a.k.a. milking) operation. But they still have other irons in the fire. They continue to grow and sell Christmas trees in suburban Syracuse; they also raise heifers on contract for a local farmer, as well as sheep (how do I say this delicately?) for the "Easter dinner" lamb market. For the past three years, Ed and Pauline have been breeding a herd of alpacas, selling the luxury fiber to processors. Their agribusiness, Springside Farm, offers guided tours to school groups and features an alpaca barn with NY-certified products. Son Paul, 27, and his wife are teachers in the Albany, NY, area. Daughter Emily '03 works north of Albany as a calf manager for a large dairy operation; daughter Renee is a freshman at Binghamton U.; and son Travis, a junior at Fabius High School, is the last worker bee left at home.

Jim Bays enjoyed a long stint working for the Democratic National Party.Most recently he coordinated efforts to "get out the vote" for the Kerry campaign among Native Americans in Wisconsin. Jim now works as a public affairs consultant and helps oversee the operation of a family dairy farm in Smyrna, NY.My husband, Dave Porter, and 8-year-old son Kevin, recently took a road trip to Rochester, NY, to watch Jim's middle son, Jason, play varsity soccer at Roberts Wesleyan College. His oldest son, Andrew, will be starting a master's degree in computational linguistics at U. of Buffalo. Youngest son Alex is completing his junior year in the local high school where Jim's wife Janice teaches foreign languages. Susan Dallimonti Peck reports that she has been in ob/gyn practice in Hanover, PA, for 15 years; her husband is a family practitioner in private practice. Susan has a married 20-year-old daughter in college and a son, 18, who is a race car driver.

From press releases, we learn that attorney Brian Winters has been made a partner in the Milwaukee office of Quarles & Brady LLP. Brian practices in the areas of antitrust, trade, and public utility regulation, as well as appellate litigation. He earned his law degree from Yale and lives with his family in Milwaukee. Hope Comisky, a partner with Pepper Hamilton LLP, has been elected vice president of the board of trustees of the Center of Literacy, one of the nation's largest community-based, nonprofit adult literacy organizations.Hope practices in Pepper's Philadelphia office and concentrates in employment law counseling, training, and litigation. She recently was elected a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. David King has been named Loews Hotel's new Regional VP of Operations for the company's southeast region. Headquartered in Orlando, David will oversee the operations of Loews' three on-site resorts at Universal Orlando. Originally a native of Upstate NY, David is married and has two daughters.

Henry Grillo (MFA, Carnegie Mellon U.) won an award for excellence in teaching this past spring from the Board of Governors of UNC. Grillo is an assistant dean, graduate program director, and director of technical training in the School of Design and Production at North Carolina School of the Arts. In his own words, Henry states: "I want my students to be able to recognize and enjoy the profound effect that their involvement in the arts can have upon others, as I have been fortunate enough to experience myself."Henry is also president and general manager of the North Carolina Scenic Studios.

This wraps up my inaugural class column, and it's been fun. Checking facts has already put me in touch with old friends and with several classmates I never met at Cornell. I can see where this job can quickly turn one into a reporter looking for leads in every corner. Please send news! -- Betsy Moore, emoore@cazenovia. edu; Steve Raye, spr23@cornell.edu; and Bill Howard, wkh2@cornell.edu.

75 | Thankfully, hurricane season is now over. Three in five weeks passed over my house, after not one in Orlando in 40 years. Unbelievable. Snowstorms would seem such a relief. Here now the news. Lorraine Edwards DeJong,MAT '77, is co-president of the Cornell Alumni Association of the Blue Ridge Mountains (http://caabrm.alumni.cornell.edu) and invites new alums in the region to join. Lorraine was promoted this spring to assoc. prof. at Furman U. in Greenville, SC. Susan Lustick, MS '77 (slustick@warrenhomes.com) is in her 16th year selling real estate in Ithaca and among the top 5 percent of all agents nationwide. Husband Lowell Garner '76 has been building their new house, which Susan describes as a "huge educational experience." Daughters Lindsay, Rachel, and Sara Garner '06 are, respectively, working in real estate with Mom, a first-year med student at Upstate Med. Ctr., and a junior at Cornell.

Michelle Lissner Beadle and husband David are still in New Orleans, and very grateful that Hurricane Ivan passed them by (I know the feeling; Ivan would have been our fourth). Their daughter Monique has started law school at American in D.C., with a concentration to come in international human rights.Michelle describes the suffering of her great-grandparents and grandparents in the Holocaust as motivating her decision. Son Ben is a high school senior anxious to start a career in sports administration. Benoit Gateau-Cumin and wife Susana have remodeled their Beverly Hills home, using Julie Moody '84 in the process. Benoit's new pride and joy is his 1965 Bentley Continental Mulliner Park Ward two-door coupe, and he says business this year for his boutique search firm was incredible. He saw a number of his classmates at the Hotel Show in November, and looks forward to our 30th Reunion in June.

The Cornell Alumni Federation's Committee on Alumni Trustee Nominations has endorsed and nominated four candidates to run for election in 2005 for two seats as Alumni Trustees. They are our classmate Jill N. Lerner, BArch '76, Jeffrey F. Berg '79; Abe Tomas Hughes '84; and Dale Susan Rosenthal '78. Please remember to vote when the ballots come to your home in February. Jill is a principal with Kohn Pedersen Fox in NYC, was inducted as a Fellow of the American Inst. of Architects, and lives in Mamaroneck with husband Bill Bintzer '73, BArch '74, and son Will. Daughter Laura is a junior at Syracuse.

Dr. Nancy Myers Hacker (hackern@hhsd.k12.nj.us) lives in Cherry Hill, NJ, and has been named superintendent of the Haddon Heights Public Schools. Nancy is also an adjunct prof. at both Rowan U. in Glassboro and Widener U. in Chester, PA. Preston Maynard (pres10@att.net) and wife Amy Goldfarb, a psychologist, live in Guilford, CT, with sons Adam, 15, Asa, 12, and Isaiah, 4, who keep them busy with jazz music, dance classes, and play dates. They ski in the winter and sail in the summer. Preston is VP of the Community Economic Development Fund, a statewide non-profit fund, as well as president of the Guilford Preservation Alliance and advisor to the Nat'l Trust for Historic Preservation.

Lilly Ramphal (lramphal@yahoo.com) is medical director of Concentra Med. Ctr. in Irving, TX. Lilly got her MPH in 1995, became board certified in occupational medicine in 1997, and in 1998 became a fellow of ACOEM. She is supported by husband Dr. Rolf Naley, daughters Krysta and Alyssa, and son Alex. Ellen Perry Dole (dolesrus@comcast.net), husband Randy, Becca (sophomore at Carleton College), and Chris (high school senior) live in Boulder, CO. Ellen is HUD's regional counsel in Denver, while Randy is director of NOAA's Climate Diagnostics Ctr. in Boulder.

Frank Tangredi (franktangredi@aol.com) and wife Pam celebrated their 25th anniversary with separate vacations—he to the Nat'l Scrabble Tournament in New Orleans, and she to a reptile convention in Florida (the latter resulting in ownership of two Australian inland bearded dragons). Frank still edits our children's ("soon: grandchildren's") social studies textbooks, continues to make progress as a playwright, and is deeply involved in a developmental theatre in NYC. There, his play Galatea received a reading in April, and he also had a one-act selected for performance at this year's Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival. Bonnie Siber Weinstock writes from Melville, NY, that daughter Nicole has joined the A&S Class of '08, adding, "It is an extraordinary experience to see Cornell through the eyes of your child."

Alan Weiss (abw@datapointusa.com) and Delaina Hodgden were married in March 2003, and honeymooned in Paris as bombs fell in Iraq. They live in San Antonio with Alan's sons Brendan, 13, and Benjamin, 17, and stepchildren Zoe, 8, and Forrest, 10. Alan works for Datapoint USA and is part owner of its holding company. Michael Tannenbaum (Mike.Tannenbaum@marist.edu) is dean of the School of Science at Marist College, and was elected president of the Council on Undergraduate Research for 2005-06.Michael hosted the Cornell alumni reception of the CU-Marist basketball game at Marist on Nov. 19, 2004. He lives in Rhinebeck, NY, with wife Karen, daughter Amy, 17 (likes acting in musicals and is in Mock Trial), and son Evan, 13 ("typical boy, interested in Play Station and sports"). Randolph Brown (unclbk@aol.com) is in New Canaan, CT, and says he keeps sane by running a cut-flower growing venture (Uncle Buck's Secret Gardens) during the warm months and on weekends after his "real job" ("See, I am using my Ag school education!"). Randolph's children are Jessica, 22, the "social conscience of the family" at XIYU; Katie, 20, at IC, "the future CEO"; James, 18, at RIT, "math wiz and avid gamer"; and Randy, 17, high school senior in soccer and track.

Diana Turek-Gever (turekgever@aol.com) lives in Langhorne, PA, with husband Harold Gever and reports that they enjoy traveling in the summer while she is off from her job as a high school English teacher. They have children Evan, 20, Allison, 18, and Dara, 13. Helen LeBrecht, JD '81, enjoys skiing, art, travel, yoga, and clothing and jewelry design while living in Waccabuc, NY. Helen also volunteers for the Children and the Law Committee of the NYS Bar Association, along with raising Alexandra, 17 (Science Olympiad team, peer group leadership, captain of her high school hockey team on defense, cross-country team, and self-taught avid guitarist), and Sabrina, 16 (Ford model,Model UN, modern dance, award-winning poet, and accomplished equestrian).

Jerald Pinto lives in Charlottesville,VA, and writes that his second edition of Quantitative Methods for Investment Analysis appeared in July 2004. Gloria Ferri, MS '85, received her BS and MS in Human Nutrition at Cornell, worked on a V.A. cooperative study for nutrition in malnourished surgical patients, and then spent 14 years working in the pharmaceutical industry in clinical research and project management. Gloria has now started her own consulting business, Focus Pharma Consulting Inc., which provides clinical research management and project management services to the pharmaceutical industry.

Consider going back for our 30th Reunion. Check out the Class of '75 website for who's already coming: http://classof75.alumni.cornell.edu. If your name appeared on it, who else might sign up that you'd love to catch up with after 30 years? -- Mitch Frank, mjfgator@aol.com; Deborah Gellman, dsgellman@hotmail.com; Karen DeMarco Boroff, boroffka@shu.edu; and Joan A. Pease, japease1032@aol.com.

76 | Having closed out the 50th birthday year for our class group, there were several reports of these celebrations shared with family and friends.My husband Don Sussman, MBA '79, and I participated in our class's Metropolitan New York celebration, organized by Lorraine Mohan, MBA '78, and Ellen Werther Ressler. They did a wonderful job arranging a gourmet tailgate at the Cornell vs. Columbia football game, followed by a celebration march with the Big Red Band (we defeated Columbia in a stunning 4th quarter comeback), and ending with a casual gathering at a restaurant on First Avenue in the City. There were nearly 40 of us who attended all or various stages of the celebration and it was wonderful seeing everyone there!

Shelly Gehshan is living in Bethesda,MD. She celebrated her 50th birthday at a great party for family and friends, orchestrated by her husband Mark Obrinksy. Attending were sister Virginia Gehshan '74, sister Gail Kolakowski (Smith '73), and mother Henrietta Burgott Gehshan '45. Shelly's son Alex graduated from Bethesda/Chevy Chase High School and entered Tufts U. last fall. Daughter Hannah is in her junior year of high school. Family hobbies include tennis, kayaking, and working on humanitarian projects in Central America. Shelly, who has a master's degree in public policy from UC Berkeley, has spent the last 18 years in Washington writing public policy for women and children. Recently she won an award for fiction—a short story published in Emrys Journal, Greenville, SC.

Mary Caponegro Gabbard Viehe is a physician assistant in cardiology at Duke U. MHS. She has a son John Gabbard. Susan Feldman Pollet is the executive director of the Pace Women's Justice Center, located in White Plains, NY. It is a non-profit legal center that was established in 1991 and is the oldest university-based domestic violence training and litigation resource in the US. They provide services in the area of sexual assault and elder abuse.

Jerry Goldberg wrote earlier from Atlantic Beach on Long Island. His daughter Dara began her freshman year at Dartmouth College. She was an All-Conference soccer player at Lawrence High School. Son Jonathan is a freshman at Lawrence High School. Bruce Piasecki, PhD '81, reports that his daughter Colette is almost 8 and is a young artist who first visited Cornell at the age of 8 weeks. Bruce's firm is in its 24th year of business through three strategic alliances, noted on www.ahcgroup.com. They are experts in environmental strategy and facilitators of corporate change. These alliances involve several Cornell graduates and friends.

Joel Seidemann e-mailed us, happy to report that on October 1, 2004, Harper Collins published his first book entitled In the Interest of Justice: Great Opening and Closing Arguments of the Last 100 Years. The book is a compilation of great courtroom arguments in famous cases such as O.J. Simpson, Oklahoma City, Bernard Goetz, Puff Daddy, Jeffrey MacDonald, Bess Myerson, the Scopes Monkey Trial, and Adolf Eichmann. The book is available at Amazon, Borders, Barnes and Noble, and other bookstores.

The YMCA of Metro Chicago named Cheryl Parks Francis as the recipient of the 2004 Leader Luncheon Outstanding Achievement Award in community leadership, one of the area's most prestigious salutes to outstanding women. Currently Cheryl serves on the board of directors for HNI Corp., Hewitt Associates, and Morningstar, and the board of trustees for Cornell. She is the former chief financial officer of R.R. Donnelley and Sons Co. and treasurer of FMC Corp. She has also served as a faculty member at the U. of Chicago. In celebration of her work for the community, Cheryl has received numerous awards, including recognition by Crain's Chicago Business as one of Chicago's 100 Most Influential Women in 1996.

Fred Kaplan has joined Relevante Inc. as director of its Finance & Accounting Consulting practice. Relevante Inc. is an advisor and financial solutions provider for clients in the Philadelphia area. Fred is past president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Inst. of Management Consultants and past president of the North Penn chapter of the Inst. of Management Accountants. He is also a member of the board of governors of the Golden Slipper Club and Charities and has served on the executive committee of the Cornell Soccer Alumni Association. He also teaches Introduction to Finance as a part-time faculty member at Penn State U.

Suzy Schwarz Quiles writes that her daughter Ruth returned from spending the second semester of her junior high school year in Australia with the AFS student exchange program. Son Rey Benjamin is a sophomore in high school, president of his class, into art and photography, and an occasional disc jockey at Princeton U.'s student-run radio station. Suzy is currently on sabbatical leave from her Reading Recovery job with the Princeton Regional School District to serve as a reading coach for the State of New Jersey. She and her husband Jose attended the beautiful wedding of Emily Shook, daughter of classmate Ileana Acero Shook, at Sage chapel in June 2004. A lovely reception followed at the Johnson Art Museum. Noting how the campus has changed, Suzy revisited Cornell again in September so daughter Ruth could look at the campus.

Please keep us up to date, as we are happy to share your news with the class. Be well and happy! -- Karen Krinsky Sussman, krinsk54@aol.com; Pat Relf Hanavan, relf@tds.net; and Lisa Diamant, ljdiamant@aol.com.

77 | Send news to -- Lorrie Panzer Rudin, rudin@starpower.net; Howie Eisen, eisenh@tuhs.temple.edu. Class website, http://classof77.alumni.cornell.edu.

78 | Send news to -- Eileen Brill Wagner, brillcon@cox.net; and Pepi F. Leids, PLeids@aol.com. Class website, http://classof78.alumni.cornell.edu.

79 | Happy spring! Spring is a time for new beginnings and for me to introduce myself as your newest class correspondent. I am delighted to be teaming with Cindy and Kathy to keep you updated on all the comings and goings of the Class of 1979. I sell real estate on Lake Norman, about 20 miles north of Charlotte, NC. In addition, I chair the CAAAN committee.We were awarded a grant by the Cornell Alumni Federation to do a direct mail campaign to guidance counselors and to host an accepted applicant reception in the spring.We can already see the results of our efforts in the number of first-time secondary schools with applicants to the Class of 2009! If your travels take you to the Charlotte area, please give me a call.

We would like to extend a special thank you to Stacie Psaras and Maria Psaras, who designed our 25th Reunion logo and have designed our class logos ever since they won the logo contest as seniors. Stacie and Maria own Psaras Design in Washington, DC. Stacie and her husband David Greenbaum, BArch '80, currently live in Bethesda, MD, and are the proud parents of two children, ages 12 and 9. Stacie and David were unable to attend reunion, as they were in Chicago, where David received a fellowship award from the American Institute of Architects.

More on Trustee-Council Weekend last October, during which the Class of '79 received three awards. The Class of 1956 Cup was awarded, as we exceeded the inflationadjusted amount of $2,010,100, which represents the amount the Class of '56 raised during their 25th Reunion campaign in 1981. The Class of 1958 Bowl was awarded, as we raised in excess of $1,000,000 during our reunion campaign. And, as Kathy Gould mentioned in the last column, the Class of 1974 Bowl was awarded, as we exceeded 1,000 donors during our reunion campaign. Representing the Class of '79 were Jane Bessin, Jeff Berg, ME '80, MBA '81, Dwight Bush, Mary W. Kahn, Steve Magacs, and Ginger So.

Jerold and Cindy Share announce the October arrival of twin bundles of joy. Rebecca Elysse and Kyle Zachary join their brother Benjamin in the Share household. Lori Glass Citak (lgconsulting@aol.com) now has two reasons to visit Cornell: reunions and visiting her son Jordan. Jordan is a freshman in the Ag college in the Applied Economics and Management Program and loves living in Donlon. "Jordan is taking Psych 101 with Jim Maas, who I was a TA for in my senior year. Although I would like to believe it, I had my doubts when my son told me that when he spoke to Maas and told him this,Maas said that he remembered me! My daughter Carly is in the 9th grade and I'm hoping that I just might have another Cornellian in progress." Lori is a human resources consultant, specializing in executive search and recruiting. Another classmate with a freshman Cornellian is Judah Kraushaar,MBA '80 (jkraushaar@optonline.net). Liana, 18, began her freshman year in Arts and Sciences this past August. Elias, 15, plays football and lacrosse, and Sofia, 13, is the artist. Judah recently retired from Merrill Lynch and is currently writing a book on the financial services industry.

From New Jersey, James Horn writes that daughter Jillian is a freshman at Emerson College in Boston. "I am very happy to see that classmate John Nurthen was inducted into the New York Yankees' Double AA Hall of Fame in Nashville, TN. Nice work, John!" Also in New Jersey, Nancy Kaplan Tancer (ntancer@optonline.net) and husband Steve have been very busy with family and professional activities."My three children are a handful but keep me very happy. Jason, 12, is a guitar-playing, skateboarding football player who is getting ready for his bar mitzvah.Matthew, 9, is a sweet soccer player who follows eagerly in his brother's footsteps. Lauren, 6, is a beautiful dancer who has started kindergarten. I am a child psychiatrist, specializing in psychopharmacology. I moved my practice down the street from my children's schools so that I can combine work with my 'mommy' duties. For the moment,my affiliation with Columbia is on hold."

Rich Bobrow writes that his wife Holly is a partner in the development of high-end single-family homes in Fairfield County, CT. Rich and Holly have four children: Dylan, 14, Rebecca, 11, and 7-year-old twins Kelsey and Tucker. Class Council member Brian Miller had a wonderful time at our 25th Reunion. His older son is Princeton '07 but holds out hope for Cornell grad school. His younger son attends boarding school. "So we are empty nesters—an odd thought given all of our classmates with preschoolers at reunion! I've closed my financial advisory firm and joined the management team of one of my clients as CFO. The company,World Picture News, is a distributor of news, sports, and entertainment photographs for independent photographers around the world."

Gene and Cindy Webb Cunningham have recently relocated from Ballwin, MO, to Devon, PA. They have six children, ranging in age from 3 years to 21 years. Gene works for Boeing Company as the director of business development for Rotocraft in the Integrated Defense System. Contact Gene at eugene.j.cunningham@boeing.com and contact Cindy at cindyc7558@hotmail.com. "We are enjoying life back on the East Coast again." Jacqueline Lutz Geiger (jgeiger3@cox.net) is enjoying life in Palos Verdes, CA, with her husband Greg '82 and children Valerie, 11, and Grant, 7. "We live in a beautiful coastal town with great schools and a perfect climate.We have been richly blessed." Dawn Itin Goode (dawn@goode.com) and her husband Dave have been busy moving their ski manufacturing company from Huntsville to Ogden, UT. They have three children in college, one at the U. of Michigan and two at Colorado U., Boulder. The youngest is in high school in Utah. They look forward to meeting Cornellians in their new home.

From England, Steven Franck (sgfranck@onetel.net) sends much news. "I'm well into my second career after serving 15 years flying with the US Navy. Retirement in 1994 during the big defense drawdowns led to a high tech start-up and then the Sloan School of Management at MIT. I joined Morgan Stanley in the telecommunication equity research group and have been with them for eight-plus years. After five years in equity research and three years in high yield credit research, I've recently moved to a proprietary credit-trading role in London. I had a slight setback with a recent diagnosis and operation for colon cancer, but I expect to make a full recovery by November 2004." Our best wishes for a speedy recovery, Steven.

As I write this column, Cornell has already announced early decision acceptances for the Class of 2009! Jeff Berg happily reports that his daughter Samantha has been admitted to the College of Engineering. "We're all ecstatic and I'm especially looking forward to visiting her as I continue my Cornell activities over the next four years." Speaking of Jeff, we have recently received news that the following individuals have been endorsed by the Cornell Alumni Federation Committee on Alumni Trustee Nominations to run for election in 2005 for two seats as Alumni Trustees. They are: Jeffrey Berg (Goldens Bridge, NY); Abe Tomas Hughes '84 (Highland Park, IL); Jill N. Lerner '75, BArch '76 (Mamaroneck, NY); and Dale Susan Rosenthal '78 (Bethesda, MD). Congratulations to Jeff, Abe, Jill, and Dale, and be sure to vote by returning your ballot to arrive at Alumni House by April 2, 2005.

Please keep your cards and letters coming and please pay your class dues if you have not already done so. Your class correspondents welcome personal, family, career, or any other news. To communicate with us, use the class e-mail address (classof79@cornell.edu), mail in an update using the annual News Card, or contact us directly. -- Cindy Williams, cew32@cornell.edu; Cindy Ahlgren Shea, cynthiashea@hotmail.com; and Kathy Zappia Gould, rdgould@suscom.net.

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