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60 | Be sure to sign up for Reunion—June 9-12—if you haven't done so already. Plans are all set for an exciting four days, which include great meals and music, a private tour of the Johnson Museum with Director Frank Robinson (where we will view the art collections of classmates Alan Siegel and Les Stern), and a talk by Glenn Altschuler, PhD '76, professor of American studies, with the provocative title, Camelot at Cornell: Aspiration, Anxiety, and the Class of 1960. Check out the class website for more details and a list of classmates who've already registered: http://classof60.alumni.cornell.edu/. See you in Ithaca!

Leigh Buchanan Bienen has an intriguing new website: www.homicide.northwestern.edu. Senior lecturer in the School of Law and director of the Chicago Homicide Project, Leigh has created a searchable database of the 11,000 homicides committed during the years 1870-1930. The website also highlights 25 of the cases and provides a historical context. Leigh and her husband Henry live in Evanston, where he serves as President of Northwestern U.

John Stratakos has left Rochester, where he was President of the ENI division of Emerson Electric, and is now in San Jose, CA, working for MKS Instruments, which serves the semi-conductor industry. John's two sons are both electrical engineers and are also nearby in Silicon Valley in the computer chip industry, but John says he still has other family and friends in Ithaca, "so I travel back to my roots periodically." Jim, MBA '63, and Becky Quinn Morgan finished building their new house in Los Altos Hills, CA, last fall in time to celebrate Thanksgiving there with all the family, including daughter Mary, a physician, and son Jeff '84, head of an organization dedicated to preserving endangered historical sites in lesser-developed countries, along with their spouses and the Morgans' five grandchildren. Jim now serves as chairman of Applied Materials, after 27 years as CEO, and Becky runs the family foundation and serves on the Cornell Board of Trustees.

Another West Coast pair also moved just before Thanksgiving. Dave and Michaelin Reamy Watts left their place in Menlo Park for a new house located among the huge oaks and abundant wildlife in the Santa Lucia Preserve in Carmel Valley, CA, where they had celebrated their marriage in 2003. Dave stepped down as CEO of Granite Construction, but remains an active chairman, and Michaelin is completing several major interior design projects and plans to return to writing and teaching. The Wattses are also busy with travel between Carmel Valley and their place in St. George Island, FL, with occasional stops in New York City for get-togethers with classmates.

Stratton '55, PhD '61, and Caryl Koerper McCallister had a busy year of travel in 2004, with trips that included a drive across Canada to Victoria and a trip to Russia that featured a cruise from St. Petersburg (where they were impressed with the splendors of the art in the Hermitage and the summer palace of Peter the Great) to Moscow.When at home in Delafield, WI, the McAllisters are busy with various activities centered around music; they host an annual Beethoven Bash in their music room, and play with local orchestras.

Bob Wickes says he's still "busy, busy, busy, traveling to Japan, Singapore, Korea, and the UK, as well as visiting company sites in Texas and California on compensationrelated matters." When not on the road, Bob and Nancy can be found in Landenberg, PA. Letitia Heller Davidson moved in Fall 2004 from Long Island's Glen Cove to Rockville, MD, to be closer to family members. Tish says, "I am loving the change. I still visit New York and see my friends and take in the shows and museums, but life is very easy and pleasant here."

Diane Cestari Andrewes writes from Halifax,Nova Scotia, that she and Peter, ME '60,"have our own busy bridal business and are not yet ready to think about retirement." Peter also does volunteer work in hospice care. Diane says she "enjoys watercolor painting whenever time permits," and adds, "Three of our youngest grandchildren live close to our home and are positively life's great reward." Edgar King runs a large dairy farm in Schuylerville, NY, along with wife Carolyn and sons David '85, Larry '87, Jan '90, and Jeffrey '93, which must be some sort of record for the number of Cornellians in one family business. The Kings market both milk and registered Holsteins, and also run a bed-andbreakfast at the farm. Ed served more than a decade as New York State Deputy Commissioner of Agriculture and is now director of Dairylea, a milk cooperative, and vice-chair of Dairy Management Inc.

Paul Grannis is completing a stint as chairman of the Dept. of Physics at SUNY Stony Brook,where he also holds a professorship.He and Barbara managed to find time last year for a sailing trip in the US Virgin Islands, a week spent visiting the Zion, Brice, and Grand Canyon national parks, and a summer sojourn on a lake in Maine.

It is with sadness that I report the death of Edward Cliggott, M Ed '61, of Hyannis, MA, on December 9, 2004. He had a long and satisfying career as a history teacher, first at Ithaca High School, then at Barnstable High School on Cape Cod, where he also served as chair of the social studies dept. for more than two decades.He retired from teaching in 1996. Send news to -- Judy Bryant Wittenberg, 146 Allerton Rd., Newton,MA 02461; e-mail, jw275@cornell.edu.

61 | Michael Brockelman has been named a "Massachusetts Super Lawyer," an honor accorded to only five percent of the attorneys in the state.Michael practices in the area of estate planning with Bowditch & Dewey. Sandy Perrott has spent the last five years as an administrator and director of nursing at an assisted living facility in Morristown, NJ.Her oldest daughter, who lives in New York City, is a ballroom dancer.Another daughter married an Englishman and lives in Bristol. A son in York,ME, is involved in experiential and outdoor education. Sandy's travels last year took her to Italy and the Laurentians in Quebec for skiing. She also cruised the Hawaiian Islands with her mother and NYC daughter. She is active in her church, classical music, sailing, hiking, and cross-country skiing.

Ed Goldman and his wife Judith Riven spent nearly three weeks in Vietnam and Cambodia last December. They were fascinated by the places they visited, which included Hanoi,Ho Chi Minh City,Hue, Phnom Penh, 850-year-old Angkor Wat, and some hill tribe villages. The people were warm and friendly, and the food was surprisingly good, according to their report.

Jon Greenleaf and his wife Barbara have a new grandson, Benjamin Aaron Ross. Barbara organized the first Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival, which attracted a huge attendance in March. Jon helped as her Man Friday and official graphic designer.When not working for Barbara, Jon arbitrates customer disputes for the Ford Motor Company, serves on the boards of the Music Academy of the West and the Santa Barbara Zoo, and continues to work on his golf game. Jon has recently taken up studies in digital photography. But one of his favorite activities is playing with (and building dollhouses for) his "best buddy," 5-year-old granddaughter Megan.

After being divorced for many years, Stan Marks has given up the dating scene (with younger women, according to his note) and has been reunited with his first love from his junior high/high school years. At that time, they both served as school officers, and are now, Stan reports, really in love. Professionally, Stan is one of those "vilified" (by the US President) trial lawyers who sues drug companies, manufacturers of defective products, etc.He says that he loves his work. Stan and his new/old flame live in the Scottsdale area.

Gail Kweller Ripans wrote that she is looking forward to next year's 45th Reunion, June 8-11, 2006. Speaking of reunion and Scottsdale, a pre-reunion planning session involving the class officers, reunion co-chairs, and any interested classmates is scheduled to take place on October 28-30, 2005 at the Boulders Resort in nearby Carefree, AZ. Our host for the meetings, social events, and a golf outing at the Boulders will be Dick Tatlow. Accommodations are available in Carefree. The last time we were in Carefree, most of us stayed at the Tumbleweed Motel, which, as the name implies, combines the "hospitality of the Old West" with modern motel conveniences. Again, all interested classmates, whether in the area or not, are invited to participate. Send an e-mail message to Walt Cottrell, MBA '63, at cottrellgw@aol.com if you wish to be notified regarding the details.

Even before our Arizona retreat, there will be another class outing on Saturday,May 21 involving a self-guided tour of the Frick Collection at 1 East 70th St. in NYC. Following the tour, we will have a luncheon at a nearby East Side restaurant. Check our class website for details, or e-mail me for the information.

Both of this year's class scholarship winners thanked the class in writing for their awards. Sara Alcorn '05 (Class of '61 Scholarship) is graduating from Arts and Sciences, where she studied biological sciences. Originally from a small farming community in California, she had never been east of Nevada. She is captain of the Big Red Band Colorguard, a member of Sphinx Head Society, and a research assistant in the Natural Resources dept. Her community activities comprise an extensive list. Sara plans to attend medical school this fall. Also graduating from Arts and Sciences with a major in Government, Anpao Duta Flying Earth '04 is a writer, lead singer for the Pine Singers, and a member of the Native American Students at Cornell.He was awarded the Michael Schwerner Memorial Scholarship.His primary interest is in helping his tribal government in South Dakota, and then moving on to the National Congress of the American Indian in Washington, DC. The texts of these letters will appear on our newly updated website (www.cornell61.org). Class members are encouraged to check the website regularly for photos from class events, Marshall Frank's messages from the president, and news and notices regarding 45th Reunion plans.

The Class has taken steps to clarify the criteria for recipients of the Class of 1961 Scholarship. The original intent, to help children of '61 class members who attend Cornell, has been restored. Indeed, the eligibility has been extended now to grandchildren. If classmates desire clarification, we can put them in touch with the appropriate university officials.

Classmates sometimes ask us about the latest statistics involving the Class of 1961. For the record, the university count of living class members is 1,382. Of these, 400 are duespaying members (a little below the average for classes of the Sixties).We had a total of 471 Cornell Fund donors last year. For the 45th Reunion, the attendance record is held by the Class of '55: 228 classmates.Most of us think we can top that. The same class holds the record for 45th Reunion Cornell Fund donors at 637.

Don't forget to check, update, and approve your online Alumni Directory listing. All you need is your ID number. Go to: www.directory.alumni.cornell.edu.-- David S. Kessler, dsk15@cornell.edu.

62 | The Idaho Bar Association has recognized our own Ken Pursley by awarding him its annual professionalism award "for those who have engaged in extraordinary activity . . . which reflects the highest standards." Ken is a pioneer in land-use planning in Idaho and co-founded the Idaho Conservation League. He is a founding partner at Givens Pursley in Boise. Contact information for C.Willis Ritter is writter@uhlaw.com.Will is with Ungaretti & Harris in Washington,DC. Jack and DeeDee McCoy Stovel (ddstovel@sbcglobal.net) have taken a sabbatical from retirement (!) and are living in San Carlos, CA, near two daughters and their families. They've enjoyed contact with the many Bay Area Cornellians. DeeDee is writing her fourth cookbook, to be published this fall.

In nearby Redwood City, John, ME '65 (johncurtis6111@aol.com) and Janie Curtis are busy with work and community activities. They attended the Rotary International Convention in Osaka, Japan, and enjoyed an evening in Tokyo with Dean Williams '63 and son Sean '90. John is Parks and Public Works Director and is currently president of the Los Gatos Morning Rotary, as well as the Santa Clara County Public Works Officers.He and Janie are building a retirement home near Dallas.Andrea and Bob Hastings have moved from Florida to Maine to be near their grandchildren, offspring of Rob '89. The Hastingses divide their time between Falmouth and their home in St. Quentin de Barone, France. "In Falmouth, we are very happy to be neighbors of John and Edie Milhorat Boothby '61. Find Nancy Simon Hodin at Nhodin@earthlink.net.

Don Juran (drj5@cornell.edu) is pleased to report that wife Carol's chemotherapy has had the hoped-for result. Their offspring Adam, Josh, and Rebecca joined them for the Komen Race for the Cure in June, with Carol proudly wearing her pink survivor's T-shirt and cap. "It rained during much of the five kilometers, but that did not dampen our feeling of solidarity in the slightest." The Jurans' activities include senior coed softball, synagogue choir, ushering at Arena Stage, and walking. Both appeared on the county cable TV station's program "Senior Moments," a series of interviews with active seniors. They celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary, a number dwarfed by Don's parents' 78 years of marriage. Don continues software consulting. In April he completed his third 184.5-mile through-hike of the C&O Canal.He is area coed softball league commissioner and has been active in Maryland Senior Olympics. In the performing arts, Don played Lord Stanley in Richard III and is now rehearsing as Balthazar in The Comedy of Errors.

In January your class council convened in New York. Some tidbits of information from that meeting: our class has given $90,690,583 to the Cornell Fund since graduation; we are third or fourth in terms of total giving among classes; and our 2004 gifts are running ahead of those during our 40th Reunion year.

Preparations are under way for the 20th anniversary of our 25th Reunion! If you'd like to work on this event, please make yourself known! We will actively be searching for "lost" classmates—again, make yourself and your friends known! Judy Prenske Rich continues to work on our class history and has found many interesting and funny items. This is a work in progress. Judy showed interesting photos received from one classmate and spoke of our "old age" confusion over who were really our initial class officers. Judy will continue her worthwhile project! If you have any input, do contact Judy at jprcom1@aol.com.

It was proposed that we divide our class gift fund into three equal gifts to: 1) the Class of 1962 Photography Collection at the Johnson Museum (this would aid in filling a gap in the collection of 19th-century photography); 2) the Frank and Rosa Rhodes Class of 1962 Cornell Tradition fellowship; and 3) seed money for a Lab of Ornithology project.

Several classmates participated in CAU's excellent summer programs in Ithaca. Learning about Beowulf were Carol Keon '61, BA '62, and Sam '61, MD '66, and Judith Shapiro Greenblatt. Science of Everyday Things was attended by Judith and Gerald Gauland '60, BS '62. J. Peter Gemeinhardt, MS '64, went to Secrets of the Garden, while wife Patricia (Brown) took in the culinary class, Eclectic Ethnic.

There will be a gathering of alumni at the Yale-Cornell football game next fall in New Haven, CT. If you'll be there, take note!

How are you coming along with Kafka's The Trial? Your classmates are eager to discuss it with you online. Check the class website, http://classof62.alumni.cornell.edu. Please keep those cards, letters, and e-mails coming! --Jan McClayton Crites, 9420 NE 17th St., Clyde Hill,WA 98004; e-mail, jmc50@cornell.edu.

63 | Thanks to those of you who keep me posted with e-mail messages. I am short on news and anxious to hear from you. You will be reading this after you have received your request for 2005 News and Dues, so send me news by e-mail or snail mail!

Joe Brennan wrote that the first weekend of October 2004 was the fourth annual Cornell mini-reunion of '63 Fijis (Phi Gamma Deltas) at the Pamelia A. Haynie Texas Historic Home (1853) of John "Whip" and Karen Gunn in Chappell Hill, TX. The Gunns hosted three other Fiji couples: Norman "Punch" and Nancy Smith; Blair and Pat Crum, and Joe Brennan with his significant other Elaine Burns. The four couples reminisced about times on "the Hill," poring over old fraternity party pics, eating home-cooked meals, and draining the Gunns' liquor cabinet. Blair was the weekend chauffeur of the group, which Joe said resembled a circus car when they all climbed out at their destinations wearing red Cornell waiter's jackets. The group also danced at the local watering hole, The Crossroads, and the people there are still commenting at the dancing skills and the great uniforms they wore.Next year's reunion will be at Joe Brennan's Belmont, CA, home and the welcome mat is open for other '63 Fijis.His e-mail is jab296@cornell.edu.

Fred Parkin wrote, "With daughter Kathryn '04 off at her first job in Cleveland and son James '07 stuck in the Ithaca winter, Fred and Wendy (Stanford '65) Parkin will have celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary in Vietnam on April 1." Fred was last there 40 years ago, flying airplanes compliments of Cornell ROTC. Fred and Wendy are both retired and split their time between Litchfield, CT, and San Francisco. Stephanie Tress dePue retired last April and went to Milan and Florence, Italy, to celebrate. She went to Wilmington, NC, last July and saw Marty and Vivian Grilli de Santo. Stephanie admits that with all the ideas that she has for travel she wonders how she ever had time to work!

Lewis and Carol Childs are in Rochester, NY. Lewis retired from public service and formed his own architectural practice.He has completed a fire training facility and several industrial projects, some residential projects, a volunteer ambulance corps, several projects at Monroe Community College, and a historic renovation. Cliff Argue, ME '66, retired last August after 34 years in the airline business, which included 13 at Continental and, more recently, 21 years at Alaska Airlines in Seattle.At Alaska Airlines, he was staff vice president of Airport Affairs. Cliff and his wife Theo welcomed their first grandchild last fall, a son born to daughter Christina and husband Dennis Thomatos. Their other daughter, Irene Argue Christy '93, lives in Troy,MI, with husband Tom. Irene is a traffic engineer for Washtenaw County. Last spring Cliff was elected to a three-year term as president of the board of directors of the Orthodox Christian Mission Center, the worldwide mission agency for the Easter Orthodox churches in America.He also serves as a trustee of St.Herman Theological Seminary in Kodiak, AK.

Before Christmas, I had an e-mail from Peter Lee (Cornell Western Regional Office Director) regarding Annie McGavernHeasley.Another classmate, TomStirling, attended the annual Cornell Club of Hawaii holiday party in December and sat next to Diane "Dee"HeasleyVan Dyke '57. Dee's brother was married to Annie before Annie died—at too early an age—in the Seventies. Dee mentioned to Tom that it would be wonderful if anyone who had memories of Annie at Cornell could relate those to her daughter Heidi Heasley Ford '87. If any of you would like to send some thoughts to me at my e-mail address below, I would forward those messages to her daughter.

Warren and I were in Weston,MA, over Christmas and made contact with Steve (NYU '61) and Marjorie Walker Sayer.We had a chance to grab a cup of coffee and catch up on news. The Sayers sold their house in Weston this fall and are now living in Brookline while they work on building a house in Brattleboro,VT. Quite a change. They both enjoy traveling and took a nice trip to Mexico and Chile in January. They ran into friends of ours at the Ballet Folklorico in Mexico City. The small world kicked in and they discovered, after small talk, that they both knew us.What fun!

That's all for now since I am temporarily out of news. Enjoy the spring and remember to pay your dues if you haven't already. -- Nancy Bierds Icke, 12350 E. Roger Rd., Tucson, AZ 85749; e-mail, icke63@msn.com.

64 | Spring has sprung! And so too has news from your classmates.Here 'tis. Richard Reed describes himself as a "retired geologist and burger flipper."Richard, who lives with wife Sharon in Bellaire, TX, reports he's working in a "burger shack" and writing, having finished a comedic play. The Reeds have two daughters in college, with Susannah '06 in the Hotel school. Richard is a member of the Cornell Club of Greater Houston. Alice Schwartz Chabora-Tobias, PhD '67, is a retired orthodontist (five years and counting), and husband Gerald '60, DVM '62, has been retired for ten years from his private veterinary practice. Both are enjoying retirement immensely, especially the freedom to travel for one to two months at a time. Last year their trips included a month in Italy and time in Costa Rica, which included going through the Panama Canal. They live in Bayside, NY, but Alice says they are rarely at home, what with spending winters in Scottsdale, AZ, summers in East Hampton, and enjoying outdoor (tennis, hiking, biking, skiing) and cultural (theater,movies, bridge) activities. In addition, spending time with their two grown daughters and their grandchildren provides much joy.

Robert Strudler, vice chairman and COO of Lennar Corp., and wife Ruth live in Houston, TX, and have two grown sons, including Keith '92, who will be getting married next month. Bob has spoken at the Cornell Real Estate Conference in Ithaca and also addressed a seminar at the ILR school. In Jan. 2004, he was named recipient of the Legend of Residential Marketing Award by the National Sales and Marketing Council. Bart and Nancy DunhoffMills are still interviewing movie stars.Nancy now writes a Hollywood column for the New York Daily News and other newspapers. Like their parents, both their children are Cornellians (Kevin '93 and Bonnie Mills Trenga '91) who married Cornellians. The Millses often travel to their former home in London, return to Ithaca every year from their home in Manhattan Beach, CA, and remain active in the Cornell Club of Los Angeles, of which each was once president. In addition, Bart serves on the University Council and Nancy works with the President's Council of Cornell Women. Bart and Nancy are otherwise very active in senior softball, which they say is "very big in sunny Southern California."

Alan Loss is a certified financial planner/wealth coach who helps business owners, wealthy retirees, and executives make sound financial decisions. Alan and wife Linda live in Lancaster, PA, and have eight children scattered around the country, one of whom, their youngest son, just joined his father's firm, Personal Wealth Advisory. Alan is president of the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the Financial Planning Assn. and is on the boards of the Lancaster County Estate Planning Council and Lancaster Leave-a- Legacy. He and Linda both enjoy travel and golf.

Sad news from England from Bernard Moss, who sends word that his wife, classmate Neysa (Post), died last May of a brain tumor. Neysa is buried north of London. A plaque on a bench in her memory near their home in Hampstead reads, "La flamme douce qui demeure" ("The gentle flame who lives"). Neysa is also survived by their son. Bernie is a professor of European history in London and had a book published last December,Monetary Union in Crisis: The European Union as Neo-Liberal Construction. He belongs to the Cornell Club of London.

Robert Cochran recently moved from Houston, TX, to Campton, NH, but sent no other news. Professional horseman John Franzreb produces and officiates at major equestrian events and already is eagerly looking forward to the 2012 Summer Olympics, which he hopes will be held in NYC. Equestrian, motocross, softball, and cycling are planned for Staten Island, where John lives with wife Judith. The Franzrebs have three grown sons, and in addition to riding, enjoy playing tennis with each other. They also enjoy warm climates, having traveled last year to Costa del Sol, the Caribbean, and Central America. John is on a number of local and professional boards, but writes that the Boy Scouts of America "is near to my heart." Paul Lyon, who lives in Montreal with wife Louise, writes that he still works as a translator and freelance singer.

Sandy Vogelgesang writes that she's getting heavily involved in promotion of women's rights at home and abroad via writing, speaking, consulting, and participating on boards of international organizations. She says, "So much to be done!" Sandy lives in West Bethesda, MD, with her husband Geoffrey Wolfe and their two teenagers. Add gerontologist Karen Sommer Shoff to our list of classmate authors, having had published There's No Place Like (A Nursing) Home—except "A Nursing" are crossed out in the title; I couldn't replicate the characters here. The book, which was very favorably reviewed in the Sunday New York Times in Aug. '03, is a guide to home care, and its subtle theme is that home care can be far better than a nursing home. Karen works in long-term care insurance with husband Allan. The Shoffs live in Santa Monica, CA, and have a grown son and daughter.

Finally, as I am now totally out of news from you to report,Cornell Adult University (CAU) sent a list of last summer's attendees—and quite a few were our classmates.Nancy Greyson Beckerman took a sculpture course the same week LoisWeyman Dow was in the Family History Workshop. Lois then stayed for the Wall Street 2004 course the next week, also taken by Paul Kruger (while his wife Mary took a literature course). That second week also saw Wistar Morris and John Looney studying insects' behavior. John's wife Susan joined him for the Week 3 seminar about the arts & crafts movement in New York State,while Arnold Braitman and wife Susan took the golf clinic. The fourth week, Bruce Wagner, ME '66, and Larry and Pat Minikes Siegel '67 studied Eight Close American Presidential Elections.

That's all for now. If you have not already done so, please respond quickly to the News and Dues appeal you received recently; please take a fewmoments to put news of yourself on the enclosed form. This column depends on your responses. Keep the news flowing—and be sure to visit our class website, http://classof64.alumni.cornell.edu. -- Bev Johns Lamont, 720 Chestnut St., Deerfield, IL 60015; e-mail, blamont@tribune.com.

65 | Based on reports that I've received from our 40th Reunion chairs George Arangio, MD '69, Grace Morgenstein, and Dave Tetor, arrangements are coming together to make our 40th the best reunion ever. The save-the-date mailing got a great response and we are well on the way to breaking the Cornell record of 264 classmates for a 40th Reunion. I'm sure the weather in Ithaca this June will be better than the snowstorm that hit New York City in January, the weekend of the CACO Mid-Winter Meeting, when a number of the class officers met to review the plans for reunion. So make your plans to be in Ithaca on June 9-12.

Recently I received a report from Ithaca on classmates who participated in Cornell Alumni University (CAU) in the summer of 2004. It looks like a number of our classmates were getting a head start checking things out on campus in advance of our 40th. Mary Esther McHugh Haggerty '64, who got her BS Ag in '65, spent a major portion of her summer in Ithaca. She took courses in each of the first three weeks of the program: Family Stories (Week 1), Personal Fitness (Week 2), and Travel Writing (Week 3). Other participants included Carol Greenwald Bender (Culinary Workshop), Penny Skitol Haitkin (Elections), Barbara Selzer Lewis, MAT '67, and her husband Jack, JD '69 (Immigration and Sailing), and John McGrew with Barbara Ivy (Wines and American Home).

We got a very short note from Kathleen Imholtz, who writes that she is now an advisor to the government of Albania. Bill Rodgers had a lot of family information to pass on. His daughter Beth '90 is married to Bill Pope '90, and they have children Nicholas and Brian. Bill's son Brian '95 is married to Tasha (Fleury) '95, DVM '98. Bill and his wife Susan often make it up to Ithaca from their home in Bethesda, MD, for football and lacrosse games.

We received lots of news from another Maryland-based classmate, Carol Sacks Sekura and her husband Ronald, PhD '77 (Medical College). Their daughter Robin, a pediatrician, and husband Todd Larabee (an ER doctor) recently moved from Annapolis,MD, to Denver with their daughter Sophia. Carol and Ron now will be into some cross-country travel and are looking for '65 classmates in the Denver area to see when they are out there. Carol is a consultant to the biotech pharmaceutical industry on FDA issues in manufacturing products. She reports that she met classmates Fran Auerbach Rubin, PhD '70, and Elizabeth Fowler at recent professional meetings. Carol also reports that last summer she met Natalie Teich in London for the weekend. She reports that she got to see plays, concerts, and museums, and made a visit to Greenwich. During Hurricane Frances last summer her Cornell roommate Maddy Gell Handler and husband Phil '62, MArch '65, overnighted with Carol and Ron at their Key Largo home. Because of the hurricane, the Handlers' ship landed one day late and they couldn't get a flight home.When the Sekuras aren't in Key Largo, they can be found in Rockville,MD.

Barbara Press Turner and husband Bill (Fontana, WI, and Hobe Sound, FL) had a lot of news to pass along. 2003 brought two new grandchildren into the Turner clan, for a total of three boys. Daughter Lisa Lang has children Alex and Jacob. Son Christopher Turner '94 and his wife Carrie (Kurtz) '94 have son Jonah. Jacob and Jonah were the 2003 additions. As for their other children,Melissa, in San Francisco, is a buyer for Banana Republic; Sarah recently completed a master's in English at the U. of Chicago; and Kelly entered graduate school last fall to get a master's in social work. The Turners are now retired from full-time work, having sold their company, Edie Systems. They now publish At the Lake magazine and are involved in a number of real estate projects in their lakes area.

Suellen Safir Rubin and husband Jerome '64 of Carmel, CA, have been happily married for more than 38 years. Suellen still works in her husband's private medical practice leading patient support groups. Last year their daughter Nancy joined the practice. She is double board certified—in hematology and oncology. The Rubins' other daughter, Emily, also came back to Carmel to live. She is an often-published authority in the treatment of autistic disorders. She gives seminars and workshops around the country and abroad to other language pathologists.

Here's hoping that as many of you as possible will be joining us, June 9-12, when we are back in Ithaca to celebrate our 40th Reunion. George, Grace, and Dave and their team of volunteers are working hard to make it the best ever. Please send your news directly to one of our correspondents, or send in News with your annual Dues. -- Ronald Harris, 5203 Forestdale Ct.,West Bloomfield, MI 48322; tel., (248) 788-3397; e-mail, rsh28@cornell.edu; Dennis Norfleet, 3187 State Rte. 48, Oswego, NY 13126; tel., (315) 342-0457; e-mail, dpn5@cornell.edu; and Joan Elstein Rogow, 9 Mason Farm Rd., Flemington, NJ 08822; tel., (908) 782-7028.

66 | At last we are wrapping up your old news and looking forward to your updates. Judy Burke Stephenson (judys_44@yahoo.com) and her husband Scott Harshbarger moved to Cambridge, MA, last spring after 30 years in Westwood, MA. In April 2003, Judy and some friends spent two weeks in Cuba as part of the last officially sanctioned groups allowed to travel there. Judy is an adjunct professor at Boston College Law School, teaching in the fall semester only. She and Scott spend the winter in Boca Grande, FL, and she often travels to California to visit her daughters and grandchildren.A July 2003 trip to Ithaca for a wedding turned into a chance meeting with Phil Ratner,MBA'77, Dave Hanlon, and Fred Devlin '67, who were there for the Football Alumni Golf Tournament. Judy has also visited Ann Weigel, who now lives in London, England.

Steven Krich, PhD '72 (SIKRICH5@aol.com) spent four weeks in Israel at the Ulpan Akiva language school.He met many interesting people and looks forward to returning for future study when he retires. David '65 and Linda Lomazoff Roitman (lrr2@cornell.edu) are enjoying their children and grandchildren. The Roitmans were in Phoenix, AZ, in December 2003 for a family wedding and took a side trip to Sedona and the Grand Canyon, enjoying the beauty of both. Linda Duman Nack (lnackbeau@aol.com) retired from high school counseling in June 2003. She has been enjoying her retirement by traveling to California and New York to visit her daughters and has also traveled to Florida and Israel.

Mary Bethel Binder (mary.binder2@verizon.net) is wondering if she is the only classmate still working! At our last reunion, she found all her Hotel alumni friends had retired. Trust me, many of us are still employed.Mary is still in retailing, working at Filene's Basement as a buyer for crystal, silver, gifts, and sheets and towels. Ted A. Sprinkle Jr., DVM '69 (tasprinkle@optonline.net) has been creating businesses. In 1997 he started Healthy Pet, a consolidator of companion animal hospitals. In early 2003, he left that company to start Pet Partners, a consolidator of veterinary hospitals with a new operating model. Ted was remarried nine years ago. He and wife Cynthia have two young children. Cynthia is CFO of Pitney Bowes Management Services. They traveled to Lake George in 2003. George Wineburgh, MD '70 (stdavis@gemair.com) is working toward retirement.His activities recently included growing 300 pounds of organic potatoes and traveling with his wife Cynthia to Barcelona and Oaxaca.He also enjoys running in the woodland preserves near home with his Lab/retriever.

Even though he has been retired since 1999, Donald Asch (don.susan@verizon.net) has been a full-time dad since 2001.His wife Susan is a consultant and vice president at Cap Gemini. They live in Manhattan, but have a country home about three miles from the site of Woodstock 1969. Don has resumed his bass fishing career on a lake near their home. He has also become a serious road biker, completing the 111-mile "Tour De Tucson" in under seven hours. Tom and Katie Peddy were at the Cornell weekend in April 2004 to celebrate the coaching career of Ned Harkness. He coached soccer for three years from '66 to '68 and the team lost only one game during that time. Other classmates who attended include Hill Huntington, Bruce Mansdorf, Nate Foote, Jim Gaskell, and Buzz Lamb. Susan Maldon Stregack (sms51@cornell.edu) is president and darkroom "diva" of Dancing Moose Photography, a business she and husband Rollin Fraser run together. They do portraits and social photography and some commercial work. They are the official photographers for the Washington (DC) Jewish Film Festival. In January 2004 they went to Disney World, Susan's first time there. She loved it.

Laura Bowman Gray,MAT '67 (LauraBGray@aol.com) recently sent an update. She and Phil live in Santa Monica, CA.Until recently, Laura had been director of career development at Pepperdine U., but is now a counselor and professor with the Los Angeles Community College District. She also became a grandmother this past year. Although they often return to New York, Laura admits that living at the beach has converted her to a Californian. Leonard Coburn (coburnel@msn.com) has left the Dept. of Energy after 35 years and opened his own energy consultancy focusing on international energy issues.He received the Secretary's Gold Award for his work in the areas of Russian and Eurasian affairs. To celebrate his retirement from the DOE, he and wife Evelyn spent two weeks traveling to the Southwest. They visited Zion and Bryce national parks and the Grand Canyon, north rim. They continued on through the Hopi and Navajo reservations, including Canyon de Chelly, then on to Santa Fe, Taos, Cimmaron, and Albuquerque, NM.

Mark your calendars and Palm Pilots NOW! Our 40th Reunion is June 8-11, 2006—plan to be there! Join our reunion leader Alice Katz Berglas, your correspondents and class officers, and your classmates for a Cornell weekend of fun, forums, merriment, and, most of all, just plain "catching up" on the Hill. Send your ideas or lend a hand in the planning. E-mail Alice (akb66@aol.com), our webmaster Roy Troxel (rrt4@cornell.edu), or your correspondents. --Susan Rockford Bittker, ladyscienc@aol.com; John Miers, John_Miers@nih.gov; Bill Blockton, rbsfabrics@juno.com.

67 | Jim Poffley (Eastport, ME; jkpoffley@yahoo.com) writes that he's now retired from Penn State U. and lives in a Down East coastal Maine village of 1,600. He's been a widower since 1988: "Raised Sam, now 20, and Elizabeth, now 19, since they were 4 and 3.Now having work done on three boats. Spoke to Malcolm Teixeira, Alex Brooks, and Tom Cullen, PhD '83, since settling in Maine last June." Lois C. Thetford spent two great weeks kayaking with partner Jean Rietschel in Desolation Sound, BC,"a fjord formation where you are surrounded by mountaintops, some with snow fields and glaciers. The water is quite warm and great for swimming."

Tom and Marti McGregor Dumas report the following: "A group of guys who lived in the Algonquin Lodge Cooperative on 526 Stewart Ave. in the late '60s has met every year since our graduation for a summer reunion. For the past six years, we've also scheduled a winter reunion weekend; most have included attending a Big Red hockey game." Present at the most recent gathering were the Dumases, Skip and Marilyn Bason, Don '65 and Janet Dana, Jim, MPS '74, and Donna Schiebel, Jeff '65, BS '67, and Ginny Snider Shaw, Dave '68 and Michele Lauzon, and Norm and Bernice Parks. Absentees were John Story '69, Bill Johnson '70, ME '75, his wife Peggy, "and our group's youngest child, Erin Parks, who's made every one of our reunions since she was born. Now a senior in high school and ardent Cornell hockey fan, she was off with her school's language club in Germany." The group's Cornell offspring are Lynn Bason Ciarlo '89, Jamey Dumas '91, MS '94, Greg Shaw '97, and Chrissy Lauzon '02.

Lots of groups of classmates hold formal and informal reunions, but it sounds like the Algonquin Lodge crew holds the record for continuity and frequency. Please let me know if you're part of a group with anything close to this mark.

Judith Edelstein Kelman (New York City; jkelman@aol.com) reports: "In April, Dr. Peter Scardino's Prostate Book: The Complete Guide to Prostate Cancer, Prostatitis and BPH, which I co-wrote with the head of urology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, was published by Avery, a division of Putnam (which will also publish my 15th novel, The Session, next January). Though I've written many nonfiction articles, this is my first book-length work of nonfiction.Dr. Scardino and I worked on the project for nearly four years, and we're delighted with the outcome. Hopefully, this will prove to be a valuable resource for the astonishing number of men (one in six) who are diagnosed with prostate cancer, the one in four who requires medical treatment for prostate enlargement, and the 50 percent of all men who suffer at some point in their lives with the infection or inflammation of prostatitis. I've been enjoying a lot of fascinating travel: three trips to Italy, plus Egypt, Israel, China, and a dozen other places in the last year, and delighting in my 1-yearold granddaughter Caroline (courtesy of son Matt '93, JD '97, and his wonderful wife Karen) every chance I get. I also see my former Cornell roommate Nora Brockner Brower regularly in NYC." -- Richard B. Hoffman, 2925 28th St.NW,Washington, DC 20008; e-mail, rhoffman@erols.com.

68 | I hope you have all had a good spring. Nick Dejevsky is the author of a new book entitled Woodland of Weir: America in 2276 AD. According to a description on the Web, this novel deals with the situation of the New United States of America emerging from two centuries of environmental catastrophe after an attempt to destroy Halley's comet has gone awry. Nick was born in a United Nations-administered refugee camp in Germany in 1945 and went with his parents to a small town in Maine. After Cornell, Nick got advanced degrees from the U. of Pennsylvania and Oxford. He had an active career in journalism and publishing and moved to Paris in 1995, where his wife Mary worked for a British newspaper. Nick is presently retired and is active with a number of charities.

Lois Gartlir retired in 2004, having practiced law for the prior 20 years. Lois has been traveling, including an awesome trip to Antarctica. She recently helped her parents Bernard '38 and Shirley Richmond Gartlir '40 move from their house in Great Neck, NY, to an apartment. Joan Gottesman Wexler is dean of the Brooklyn Law School and was elected president of the Federal Bar Council in 2004. Martin Glenn, an attorney with O'Melveny & Myers in NYC, serves with Joan on the board of this council. Joan and partner Len Orland frequently see Jay, JD '71, and Harriet Waks, and they vacationed with Carol Ziegler and husband Marty Minkowitz in Hawaii during a legal meeting.

Steven Siegel was honored last year with the annual Award for Archival Achievement by the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York. Steve and his partner Rob Selden were in London last November, where they attended the Cornell Club of London Thanksgiving dinner. Beth Deabler Corwin and husband Rick are in the St. Petersburg area of Florida, enjoying retirement. They are playing golf and tennis, and Rick is training for the Boston Marathon in April. Their son Deric (Dartmouth '99) is getting married in Boston in June. Jane Frommer Gertler reports seeing a number of Donlon freshman corridor friends in New York last November. This included Nancy Bloom Brenner, Jane Friedlander Gerard, and Corinne Ertel. Of the group, Jane Gerard is the first to retire, after many years as a biology teacher in NYC.

Henry Siegel reports being busy at work trying to get international acceptance of an accounting standard for life insurance.Henry's son David '05 graduates from Cornell this year with a double major in physics and math. He combines that with Phi Beta Kappa and a one-hour better time than his father in the marathon. A note from Cornell Alumni University (CAU) reports that Margo Stout Kilbon, Lauren Kingman, Susan Krieger, David Maisel, and Susan Tafler were CAU participants during the past year. I do hear great reports about these programs.

I look forward to hearing from you with some material for our column. I have spent the last few months doing a lot of travel, including skiing out West and in Switzerland, and visits to China, California,Arizona, etc., and am now starting to think about future work opportunities in the corporate or financial services area. -- Gordon H. Silver, 2 Avery St., #26C, Boston,MA 02111; e-mail, gordon_silver@comcast.net.

69 | Laura Miller reports that she and Charlotte Bruska Gardner attended a function at Penn State U. honoring Bob Potter and establishing a scholarship in his name. Bob has a long record of leadership in Centre County, PA. During Bob's tenure on the Community Foundation board, his tireless efforts increased their endowment from $500,000 to more than $10,000,000. John Rees, ME '70, and many other fraternity brothers were in attendance, as well as Bob's Cornellian family of brothers, sisters, father, and in-laws. Peter Kutner is back at the U. of Oklahoma College of Law after a year in Tokyo on a Fulbright award. Ellen Gross Landau was named Andrew W.Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Case Western Reserve U., where she has been a member of the Art History and Art dept. since 1982. She also has a new book titled Reading Abstract Expressionism: Context and Critique (Yale U. Press). Ellen is married to Howard and they have two children. Their son Jay is planning a wedding in 2005, and their daughter Julie is majoring in social work at Cleveland State U. Author Sally Weisberg Goldberg, MS '71, introduced an exciting new event at the Miami Book Fair International—a tent in Children's Alley for parents and their preschoolers called Let's Play and Learn. It was designed around the concepts put forth in her two most recent books.

Although wife Mary Ellen is retired, Timothy Jones, MPA '71, is happy to be working and says he loves what he does. He is a managing partner with the financial planning firm of Cooper, Jones & McLeland Ltd., located in Fairfax,VA. Timothy also tells us that last summer he traveled with National Geographic to southeast Alaska, where he was privileged to see bears, salmon, whales, eagles, and much more.He also hiked through a rainforest, explored glaciers, and observed ice floes. Timothy called it an "awesome trip" and says, "Life is good." Donna Fons Brooks joined the ministry some ten years ago, making a career change from nursing to Pastor of Fellowship, United Church of Christ, and has never been happier. She tells us that her church, located in Wickliffe, OH, celebrates worship in both traditional and contemporary styles and has activities for all age groups. Donna received her MDiv from the Methodist Theological School of Delaware, OH. She and her husband Keith, JD/MBA '69, have four grown children. Darren and Evan '99 live in L.A., where Darren is a writer and Evan works in a research lab at UCLA. Donna's daughter Tammy lives in Willoughby, OH, and is an early childhood education teacher at a local day care center. Lastly, son Colin lives with his wife Michela and their daughters Ivy and Olivia near Fort Hood, TX. Colin is a captain in the Infantry and spent most of 2003 in Iraq.

Ingrid Vatsvog Wachtler, ME '70, says, "I'm just working at the nursery way too much." She and her husband Bill are also remodeling their kitchen. They are doing everything themselves, from refinishing the cabinets to tiling the counters. Ingrid and Bill do make time to use their new wakeboard boat. Ingrid says that it is about the only way to be with their 18-year-old son. Now the Wachtlers have two boys in college. Steve is at Montana State U. studying architecture, and Dan is studying construction management at the U. ofWashington. Their daughter Christina received a degree in architecture and is planning her wedding. Don Verdiani, ME '71, and his wife Sandra have two daughters. Kristey is in her first year at Harvard Business School while Jennifer is attending Arizona State U. Don is a corporate projects manager at Sunoco and has recently taken up rowing.

Mark Reiter, chairman of the ob/gyn dept. at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, DC, was happy to report that he had gotten together with all of his Cornell roommates (John Garnett, Scott Page, and Peter Rosen) for a game of golf.Mark also tells us that his daughter Lauren is a junior at Miami of Ohio. Stewart Cramer and his wife Sue (Golden) '71 wrote to say how much they enjoyed seeing Larry and Ellen Victoria Crockett, Steve Goldberger, Vivian LamBraciale, and Ron Gaster at our reunion. Jane Weinberger Lapple and her husband Walter are now living in Westhampton Beach, NY. -- Arda Coyle Boucher, 21 Hemlock Hill Rd., Amherst, NH 03031.

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