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70 | Our 35th Reunion is a few short weeks away, Thursday, June 9-Sunday, June 12.We have a great party weekend planned for you. There is still time to register for Reunion 2005, so contact Sandy Schorr (sjs73@cornell.edu) or Connie Ferris Meyer (cfm7@cornell.edu) and we will get you signed up. The university is offering many exciting events including, among other things, the Olin Lecture, Cornelliana Night, many athletic events, the Savage Club, and the tents on the Arts Quad Friday and Saturday. One Class of 1970 highlight will be the barbecue luncheon on Saturday to honor and celebrate the life of Hank Brittingham and the lives of our other classmates who have died since our 30th Reunion or since graduation in 1970.We will enjoy our class dinners in the atrium at the new Duffield Hall on the Engineering Quad and the Memorial Room at the Straight.With the Class of 1965, we're co-sponsoring a double class forum titled "Cornell University is Different" by author Carol Kammen, and "Greying Baby Boomers and American Politics and Culture" by demographics expert Brad Edmonson. Our reunion finale will be our farewell brunch in the Ivy Room.We will be entertained and serenaded by the Sherwoods. See you all at Reunion 2005!

Last May, Tom '69, BS '71, and Jean Myers Smith, MS '72 (Richmond, VA; djsmith@hsc.vcu.edu) were in Ithaca enjoying the graduation of their daughter Emily '04. She earned her BA in Science and Technology Studies and is now doing graduate work in the area of environmental interpretation at SUNY Syracuse. They stayed with Jean's grad school roomie Carol Ayres Bisogni, PhD '76, and her husband Jim, PhD '73. Jean and Tom's older daughter Jennifer is in a three-year Doctor of Physical Therapy program at Old Dominion U., so the tuition payments keep on going. Susan (Elmira '70) and Bob Gordon (Wayne, NJ; rgordondvm@aol.com) celebrated the graduation of their son Geoffrey '04 from the College of Engineering with a fabulous Ithaca weekend. Sadly, they suffer from the sudden, unexpected death of their longtime friend and classmate David Linden in March 2004. Bob is in his second year of a two-year term as chairman of the American Veterinary Medical Foundation. Last March, the New Jersey Medical Association honored Bob with the Distinguished Service Award.

Barbara Nelson has lived in California since 1972. She directs a mental health and social services program for refugees. She and her husband Stephen Wright live in Lafayette, CA, and their e-mail address is nelwright@aol.com. Their daughter Sarah graduated from Yale in 2003 and lives in New York City. Son Daniel started as a music major at UC Santa Cruz and is now studying at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Barbara and her freshman roommate, Suzanne Smith Quick, delight in their annual summer rafting trip together. Recently, Barbara saw Paul Krochmal '69. Jeff '69 and Claudia Kramer Springer (claudia.springer@gmail.com) continue living in Miami, FL. Last May, she finished a three-year fellowship at the U. of Miami and received her PhD in English literature. Starting in August 2004, Claudia's new job is dean of academics and interim high school principal at Westminster Christian School in Miami. Jeff is doing consulting in hospitality management and hotel development as president of The Springer Group. Their son Matthew '96,MSEE '97, now works for Google. Claudia's father-in-law, George Springer '40 is enjoying retirement in Cleveland and Scottsdale. Other "off-Springer" non-Cornellians include daughter Holly (Georgetown U.), who is a partner of the Molly New York dress line. Their son Tim (Stanford U.) is CEO of SSB Technologies, a consulting firm in ADA compliance in IT matters.

I received a wonderful Christmas "letter" from Scott Brush and his four children (Palmetto Bay, FL; brushco@aol.com). Although Scott claims he is extremely lax with correspondence, he is getting better at answering e-mails and enjoys hearing from friends.His high school class had a 38th reunion this past May (they always were a little unconventional being the '60s radicals they were!). His involvement was with "communications"—a seemingly inappropriate role for him. The reunion was a success and a rehearsal for their 40th in 2006! Scott's oldest daughter Sara's primary focus is college as she attends Miami-Dade College full-time while bartending full-time at Applebee's. Next in line is Rachel, who is a sophomore at the U. of Central Florida, Orlando studying health science with an emphasis on physical therapy. She waitresses at a local grill and coaches soccer for 3-year-olds at the local Y. Jonathan achieved the honored rank of Eagle Scout in May 2004, along with 26 of his fellow scouts (most of whom had been together since Cub Scouts!). Congrats.He is a high school senior and hopes to go to either UCF in Orlando or USF in Tampa. Scott's youngest child Alex (aka "Christine") has an extensive career in babysitting while a sophomore in the medical program at Coral Reef High School. Alex is a dancer and manages both the girls' varsity soccer and softball teams at Coral Reef! --Connie Ferris Meyer, 16 James Thomas Rd.,Malvern, PA 19355; e-mail, cfm7@cornell.edu.

71 | A combination of business travel and bad weather kept me from attending the annual gathering of '71ers at the Cornell Association of Class Officers (CACO) Mid-Winter Meeting last January. For those who did make it to the New York Hilton, our class had "the best time."As Dale Cohen reports, "The Saturday meetings went well and the evening party was swell. Even with the snow, we filled two and a half tables at the gala! Despite-the-blizzard-attendees were Elisabeth Kaplan Boas, Jim Roberts, Rick Furbush, Jerry Day,MBA '78, David and Tina Beale (with daughter Elana '08), Kathy Menton Flaxman and husband David, Laurie Berke-Weiss and husband Brian Berke, Gilda Klein Linden, Marsha Ackermann, Marcia Flicker, Joel Glasky and wife Bonnie (Wolfman) '73, Ken and Susan Goldman, and Martha Coultrap and husband Harvey Bagg."Martha Coultrap, incidentally, is one of four Cornell Trustees from the Class of '71. They include Ken Goldman, Andrew Tisch, and Board VP Diana Daniels.

The big topic of that snowy day was the 35th Reunion to be held June 8-11, 2006. Co-Class Presidents Jerry Day and David Beale led the group in planning discussions. All interested classmates can join the Reunion Committee by e-mailing Reunion Chair Kathy Flaxman at kmf11@cornell.edu.You may also want to assist Cornell Fund Chair Mike Kubin,mek24@cornell.edu, in organizing and running our Class Reunion campaign. Keep up with activities by joining our Cornell71 Yahoo Group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cornell71/.

Margaret Corbit,MS '95, of Spencer, NY (corbitm@tc.cornell.edu) says she loves "floating in her pond on a hot summer day," presumably, that is, when she isn't engaged running a Cornell outreach program connecting CU members with teens across the country through the Internet. RichardWarshauer recently reconnected with classmate Jan Rothman and says, "I am preparing for my 17th annual Lower Manhattan Walking Tour." Richard and wife Rosalind have two children starting law careers. Fishing enthusiast and architect Vic Trodella (victor@mainearchitecture.com) sends regards from Freeport,ME, where he designs and develops waterfront properties on the Maine coast.His busy practice supports his love of bonefishing and flyfishing. "Nothing better," he says, "than enjoying a good cigar with a drink after a day of bonefishing in the Bahamas." Reporting that she retired in October 2004, Eileen Nuhn Petrillo (epetrill@aol.com) is working on mastering the digital camera and photo software. She travels to Clearwater, FL, Las Vegas, and Scituate, MA, and is looking forward to visiting the British Isles and isles in the Caribbean. Conservationist Michael Sheibel (scherbeaux @aol.com) lives on an island—Shelter Island, NY. Besides hunting, fishing, and birding,Michael is a part-time ferry captain for South Ferry Inc., which runs from Shelter Island to North Haven, CT. At the very western tip of Long Island you will find Brooklyn Heights, NY, where Stephen Zweig checked in with us. He is founding partner of the now year-old New York City office of Ford and Harrison LLP, specializing in labor, employment, and benefits law.

Gary Weiner (garyweineradr@hotmail.com) recently returned to private practice, specializing in general civil mediation and arbitration after 4-1/2 years as Dispute Resolution Director for Sonoma County Superior Court. The Weiners live in Sebastopol, CA,with their two teenage children. Learning to play golf and attending sports events and jazz concerts with husband John Sullivan keeps Gay Perkins (gay.perkins@wku.edu) busy in between work hours at Western Kentucky U. A librarian and scholar, Gay is a researcher on library research methodology and co-editor of The Western Scholar. Gay and John live in Lousiville, KY.

Joining the growing ranks of '71ers with grandchildren, Stella Ardire and husband Dave Renn reported the birth of their first grandson. Stella (sardire@myexcel.com), a resident of Tolleson, AZ, is a traveling RN. She is working on gaining additional certification in behavioral health. Michel Stouppe Dash's three youngest grandchildren were flower girls at her marriage to Terrence in August 2004. The Dashes currently live in Locke, NY, but are seriously seeking a move to Virginia.Michel, whose e-mail address tells a story—foxygrma1949@yahoo.com—retired from the Tompkins County Dept. of Social Services and now works as an outpatient counselor at Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services.

Susan Phipps-Yonas and husband Albert Yonas, PhD '69, have been traveling widely. They ventured to Egypt to visit one daughter, who teaches in Cairo, then went on to Israel, Jordan, and Turkey. A few months later they spent an enjoyable three weeks in Tuscany. The St. Paul, MN-based couple plans to split their professional time between the Twin Cities and Phoenix, AZ. Susan (spyonas@yahoo.com) continues to have a forensic psychology practice and serves on the Minnesota Psychological Association Ethics Committee.

Finally, the peripatetic Peter Saunders, ME '72, traveled to Okinawa, Japan, Guam, ten national parks, and 26 states in the past two years. Peter says he looks forward to visiting more states and national parks. He likes "setting his own schedule, while dabbling part-time with an East Coast construction company looking to set up an office in the Puget Sound area."A retired US Naval Captain, Peter (saunderspd@gtcinternet.com) and wife Cindy resettled in Silverdale,WA, after he left the Civil Engineer Corps.

Please send news of yourself and any Cornellians with whom you are in touch. --Matt Silverman, mes62@cornell.edu; and Linda Germaine-Miller, lg95@cornell.edu.

72 | It was a very long time coming, but the Curse of the Bambino was finally laid to rest and the Boston Red Sox won the World Series for the first time since 1918.What made the Championship even more memorable was the victory over the hated New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series after the Sox fell behind 3 games to 0. Congratulations to all the loyal Red Sox fans in our class.

Bill Trommer writes from Maine that he, daughters Heather and Leah, and son-in-law Matthew traveled to Montana to spend the Thanksgiving holiday. Bill's brotherin- law lives right next to the cross country ski trails in West Yellowstone, so they had a great time skiing right out the back door twice a day.Heather is working in Chicago as the business manager for Jump Rhythm Dance Project, a professional company of jazz dancers. She also has a second job, teaching dance to children. Leah worked at the Ferry Beach Ecology School last fall and is currently living in Bar Harbor, ME. David Hall '71 corresponds from Colorado that daughter Melissa graduated from Jacksonville U. with a degree in dance education. She hopes to attend graduate school at U. of Oklahoma. Dave's elder daughter Jennifer works at Denver Channel 4 (CBS) producing the 5:00 to 6:00 AM news,Monday through Friday. Robert F. Shaw of Santa Cruz, CA, reports that he plans to retire from coaching high school lacrosse at Santa Cruz High School now that his youngest son Luke has graduated. Bob still keeps busy skiing, mountain biking, and investing in real estate in California and Upstate New York.

Gerry Roehm '69, BS Ag '72, sent me some photos and a report of his safari to the Serengeti Plain in Africa. Gerry and his group encountered many wild animals including giraffes, wildebeest, lions, zebras, ostriches, a cheetah, and some bizarre birds. But the "beasts" that struck the most (fear) were the flying dung beetles. Flying at speeds up to 40 mph, they entered the moving Land Cruisers through the open canopy and pummeled the heads and torsos of the tourists. Relegated to a life of pushing balls of elephant excrement across the Serengeti, the beetles' kamikaze attacks were, no doubt, provoked by their despondency over a dubious career choice.

Alan Weitberg wrote Carcinoma of the Lung: From Molecular Biology to Practice Guidelines (Humana Press, 2002), which reviews the pathogenesis and treatment of lung cancer. Alan is professor and chairman of the Dept. of Medicine at Roger Williams Medical Center, RI. William Schulz, ME '73, sent me some photos of Houston, TX, on Christmas Day covered with two inches of snow. "Wes" works for Houston Power and Light at the local nuclear power plant. He's sort of the Homer Simpson of East Texas. Wife Diane keeps busy with her home glass bead-making and attending bead conventions across the country. Son Doug is a paramedic for two ambulance services near Houston, and daughter Amy is a graduate student in NYC. She studies writing and acting at the prestigious Actors Studio Drama School.

Bruce McGeoch,MEE '73, and spouse Cyndy sent a Christmas card and letter from their new home in South Burlington,VT, where they enjoy great views of Lake Champlain and the Green Mountains. Daughter Lauren graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown and is currently living in Seattle and working at the U. of Washington. Last summer Bruce and Cyndy traveled to Winnipeg for the Folk Music Festival and visited Montreal for their anniversary. That visit was so much fun that they returned to Montreal for Cyndy's birthday in December. Bruce says that it is wonderful to have such a cosmopolitan city only two hours away from their new residence.

Our class was well represented at Cornell Adult University in the summer of 2004. Dianne Gwynne Berger participated in the Sailing Clinic. Pete Ingraham, DVM '76, took Introduction to Fly-Fishing.Mary Beth and Peter McCarthy attended The American Feast and Immigration. Beverly Roth and Cynthia Mahoney (with friend Randolph Ross) enjoyed Normandy Revisited: Strategies ofWorld War II.

In case you missed it, an article in the Summer 2003 issue of the Cornell Communiqué cited Kevin Weitsman, MEE '73, for being the driving force behind the sending of millions of dollars worth of high-tech equipment to the loading docks of Cornell's engineering labs and to its business management classrooms. Kevin arranged for his employer,Agilent Technologies of Palo Alto, CA, to donate a DNA printer to Cornell's Biotechnology Resource Center and a four-stack diffusion furnace to the Nanofabrication Facility in Duffield Hall. Kevin likes to spend time on campus in the fall, when he enjoys the added bonus of watching his son A.J. '06, a member of the Big Red football team.

Last March I spent two days in San Luis Obispo, CA, about four hours south of my home, where I saw the Cornell baseball team play Cal Poly during the Big Red's annual Spring Break trip to the Sun Belt. Unfortunately, the Big Red, coached by Tom Ford, lost both games by scores of 8-1 and 4-1. The second game was very competitive. Cornell led 1-0 early in the game and Cal Poly's lead was only 2-1 into the seventh inning. Cornell had as many hits as Cal Poly and hit the ball hard all night, but couldn't put together any rallies.After the games in SLO, the team continued its trip down the coast to play UC Santa Barbara.

With seven players on the team from California, there was a sizeable Cornell rooting sections of players‚ families and a few alumni. There were even some families who made the trip from the East and Midwest for the week.We had about 50-60 Cornell fans in the stands, coming close to outnumbering the hometown fans. Ken Light, MD '76, was in attendance to watch his son Matt '05, who is a pitcher for the Big Red. I spent both games sitting next to retired Cornell baseball and freshman football coach Ted Thoren. He and his wife Jean made the trip with the team. It was fun to listen to all his stories about his past Cornell players, the famous college coaches he's known over the years, and the upsets his baseball teams accomplished over Arizona State,Miami, and other college baseball powers. Coach Thoren still works tirelessly organizing the annual Alumni Baseball Game during Reunion Weekend. Send news to --Alex Barna, alexander.barna-1@nasa.gov; or Gary Rubin, glrubin@aol.com.

73 | Greetings from New Orleans. I am happy to report that the January CACO Mid-Winter Meeting and 100th Anniversary Gala in New York City were well attended by '73 Class Officers despite the snowstorm.We also have lots of news from our classmates. Thanks for making my scribing a joy.

Steve Braddon (eloi1951@yahoo.com) moved his family to Sydney, Australia, in August 2004, as his wife accepted a research position at the university."Mid-life adventure!" Vicki Boxer Samson, Scottsdale, AZ, now has two grown children working in different parts of the country. Daniel, 25, is an appellate litigation attorney with Greenberg Traurig in Miami, FL, and daughter Rachel, 22, is a financial analyst with Huron Consulting in New York City. Cynthia Kovacs Perry (jockette00@aol.com) lives in West Lake Village, CA. Her son Bret '08 is a freshman in the Arts college. Daughter Meredith is a drug formulation chemist at Pharmatel.

William Balchunas survived the ravages of Hurricane Ivan in Pensacola, FL. He is now studying for his recertification boards in neuroradiology. Christine Davis Chase (Gainesville, FL, ctdc@mail.ifas.ufl.edu) has been promoted to full professor in the horticultural sciences dept. at the U. of Florida and is co-editing a book on plant biotechnology that was to be released early this year.Her niece Heather Davis '08 is a Cornell freshman. Christine's husband Josh '70,MBA '71, a tax manager at a regional CPA firm, also devotes time to his North Florida tree farm. Clifford Glade (Islamorada, FL; cglade2069@aol.com) is a veterinarian.His wife Diane is a hospital administrator, and daughter Nicole, 15, is active in US swimming.

Linda Francis Scherruble (Coral Springs, FL; ftlnative@aol.com) is a registered nurse in the cardiac unit of a local hospital and her daughter Kristin '05 is a senior at Cornell. She sees the "light at the end of the tuition tunnel."Husband John,MBA '74, is a project manager for Edward Don & Co., designing commercial kitchens for hotels and restaurants in South Florida and the Caribbean. Their son Grant juggles school and work in Florida. Madeline "Mandy" Griffin (Atlanta, GA; mgr6673@fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us), a retired juvenile court judge, is now working part-time in the Dekalb School System as a parent mentor for special education. She lost her husband Jim to cancer in 2002 and is raising their two high school age children Megan, a Downs syndrome child, and Kelly.

Sandra Snitzer Tristano (Glenview, IL; stristano@yahoo.com) currently serves as an elected Cook County Circuit Court judge (since 2002) and raises two children,Matthew, 17, and Amy, 13, with husband Michael. Eric Rothenberg was recently named a Massachusetts super-lawyer by Boston Magazine and Law & Politics. Jay Shulman, Baltimore, MD, a bankruptcy attorney, became a partner in the law firm of Saul Ewing LLP. William Evans (Basking Ridge, NJ; wcevans1@aol.com) is trying to reconnect with his freshman year second floor South Baker dorm-mates.He is currently working at Computer Sciences Corp.His daughter Alexandria is studying to be a graphic designer. Neil Fredman (White Plains, NY; nfredman@fredmankosan.com) sent his contact information but no news.

Charles Wait (Saratoga Springs, NY; charleswait@hotmail.com) received the Dennis Kemball-Cook Award for service to Skidmore College in October 2003.He and his brother Ned sailed in the Newport to Bermuda Race in 2002.His son Charles '04 is a first-year law student at Saint John's Law School. Son Christopher and daughter Alexandra are both attending college. Charles reports that Juhaina Farouki '72 is living in Kuwait running his own construction company. Craig Peterson (Pittsford, NY; craigp@rochester.rr.com) has son Kyle '07 in the ILR school.

David and Christine Dickieson Pesses (Gloversville, NY; pescreed@citlink.net) have busy children. Their oldest, Ruth (Grinnell College '01), is married to Rafael Martins from Brazil and teaches math at Woodhouse Academy in Connecticut. Emily graduated from Davidson College last year and works in Charlotte. Elizabeth attends Rice U. Patrick Knapp (Clinton, NY; stindsman@aol.com) traveled south of the equator to teach in Lima, Peru, and found it to be an eye-opening experience.

Irene Kohan Yesowitch (Alameda, CA) was planning to ride with me in the Iris Krewe during Mardi Gras but, alas, had to cancel at the last minute for a client. Too bad. We were Greek goddesses. Can't say that too often.We'll have to try again next year.Nancy Miller Clifford, MA '76's son Duncan was able to take a weekend break from Penn State to join a friend in New Orleans. I left Mardi Gras day to give an American Health Lawyers Association speech in Tucson, AZ, on Economic Credentialing to physicians and hospital administrators. Last year was an eventful one for me. I changed firms, joining Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz as a shareholder and co-chair of the Health Law dept., and was again named in Best Lawyers Health Care.Write with all your news. -- Danielle Lombardo Trostorff, dtrostorff@bakerdonelson.com; Phyllis Haight Grummon, phg3@cornell.edu.

74 | I had an interesting e-mail exchange with Perry Jacobs and promised to trade column inches for copy. Here's what he had to say: "For at least ten years I have jealously read of our classmates whose children have been admitted to Cornell. Now I can proudly add my name to the list! My daughter Jessica (my oldest) was recently admitted early decision to the Arts college and pulled her applications from Michigan and Wisconsin. Go Class of '09! I took it as an omen when Jess went to Homecoming this past fall to spend the weekend with a high school friend and her room was directly across the hall from my freshman dorm room on Donlon 2. Every '74er in Donlon fondly remembers the not-for-profit ice cream/coffee house our dorm-mates opened in one of the first floor lounges. I'm hoping my son Matt, whose main love is lacrosse, will join the Big Red in five years, but he says he'll hold out for a full ride from another lacrosse power.

"I live in Westchester and own my own company that does executive searches for partners in NYC law firms. I get to work from home, which is fantastic. I do a lot of rollerblading—even started and play in a neighborhood roller hockey game. Lisa and I do a lot of biking and have done group trips in France, Italy, Vermont, the Maryland Shore, and the Pennsylvania Dutch country. I'm hoping to bike the Sonoma and Napa valleys for our 20th anniversary. I also enjoy live music and see a lot of folk singers, as well as the big event concerts (the Who, CSNY, Springsteen, Stones, and Pink Floyd). Hard to believe all those guys are 60-somethings. I wish I could say I've stayed in close contact with my classmates, but I haven't, and I thought the 50th birthday cruise a number of my female friends took was a great idea. I've been on campus many times since '74 and always feel 20 and exhilarated when I'm there. Staying at the Statler gives me the world's best dorm room. I often talk about the great times I had and the many friends I made with great pride. One of those friends, the author of this column, encouraged me to write this semi-autobiography, so don't blame the messenger."

Other classmates have kids matriculating at Cornell: Chris Shiber's son Aaron, Alice Brown's son Phillip, Evan Zuckerman's son Tyler, Jodi Sielschott Steschulte's daughter Lynne (number three for her!), and Walter and Nancy Baldini Howard '75's son Scott.

Here's a fun bit of news from Doug Glenn. He was really motivated by Astronomy 201 and has posted a recomposition of two of the chapters from a book Carl Sagan wrote while we were at Cornell. Check it out at www.season4design.com/Starfolk/. Lynn Coakley joined Phelps Media Group in Wellington as staff writer for this equestrian publisher in Arizona.

CAU continues to attract classmates. Lynn Anderson attended the Great American Trials session, Jaclyn Spear studied Great Battles Past and Present, Deborah Linker Moriah took Un-Natural History, Sandra Sears took Cayuga Lake Paleobiology, and Louise Thomas took Introduction to Fly-Fishing. Louise, if you need any tips, give me a call; I'm a font of wisdom on fly-fishing (though a little weak on the catching part).

Ruth Fattori has been named EVP of Human Resources at Motorola, joining the company from JPMorgan Chase & Co.—which Mary Berens asserts is a very long way from South Baker Hall.You go, girl! Kristen Gerling was elected national leader for Presbyterian Women in 2004, an organization of over 300,000. Tom DeMott recently moved from Safeway to join Encore Associates, a food industry sales and marketing consulting firm in San Ramon, CA.

Always good for a bon mot and a bit of news, John Ramsay reports that Larry Thompson moved to Australia. Steve Heyer garnered a lot of press last year when he jumped from the hot seat at Coke to the CEO slot at Starwood Resorts. And we got a nice note from Diane Kopelman Verschure, who met with Kris Rupert, Karen Rupert Keating '76, and Betsy Beach for dinner in Boston for a Cornell/Harvard game. They were surprised to bump into Shelley Cosgrove, who was in town from Singapore with her daughter Nicole. The surprises continued at the game when they found they were seated a few rows from Kerry LarsonWillis, who lives in Andover with husband Dana '73 and their two kids, 2 and 5 years old! Diane passed on news from Claudia HebelMalone, who lives in Detroit with husband Dan '75 and their three kids. Son Dan Jr. is a secondyear law student at Boston College, Emily was awaiting news of college acceptances, and Molly is in the eighth grade. Claudia took a buyout last century after a career with IBM and now is a kindergarten teacher working part-time.

The Ithaca Journal did a piece in September about Nina Bassuk, calling her the patron saint of Ithaca's trees. Nina is a professor at Cornell's Urban Horticultural Inst., an institution she helped create. She recently published a book, Trees in the Urban Landscape, in conjunction with husband Peter Trowbridge. And finally, for those of you who are not regular readers of the Wall Street Journal, there was a humorous but alarming front-page story on November 22, 2004 about classmate Peter Baranay, the president of Abro Industries. He's been in a running battle to protect his company's trademarked glues, tapes, and epoxies from a piratical Chinese competitor. Turns out not only has the competitor copied Abro's products, they've usurped the name, brand, trademark, and logo as well.

Back here in Simsbury all is well. Kids Lindsay (Champlain College) and Jessica (U. of Maine, Farmington) are both juniors.My wife Sue St. Clair Raye continues to teach eighth grade science at our local middle school, and I'm in my sixth year as an independent Web marketing consultant working with brands such as McCormick, Crown Royal, Johnny Walker, and Twinings Tea. Brad Buchanan, John Ramsay, Jim Stone, ME '76, and Gary Dufel, ME '75, have all been doing a good job of keeping in touch, but not reporting news. C'mon guys! Send your news to: -- Steve Raye, spr23@cornell.edu; Bill Howard, billhoward@comcast.net; Betsy Moore, emoore@cazenovia.edu.

75 | It's late January as I write.We received one to two feet of snow this weekend, and New York City hosted the annual Cornell Association of Class Officers (CACO) Mid-Winter Meeting, which celebrated its 100th year of class leadership.Many of our classmates attended to plan our 30th Reunion in Ithaca June 9-12. Consider coming to reconnect with old friends or connect with new ones. Think about walking around North and West Campus to check out the new dorms. Or walk around the Quads to check out the new academic buildings. Cornell is ever-changing, and the best way to see it is to visit!

Attending the CACO meeting were President Rich Marin, MBA '76, VP Jeanne Fattori Reinig Smith, Treasurer Dean Toriello, and Reunion Chair Susan Fulton. Also attending were Michael Foster, JD '78, Jill Lerner, BArch '76, and Charlie and Judy Wesalo Temel. Rich (ram38@cornell.edu) is Chairman/CEO of Bear Stearns Asset Management. Jeanne (jmf37@cornell.edu), recently married to Nick Smith '74,MBA '75, now lives in Houston, TX, and works at the Saddle Acres School. Anyone willing to help out with reunion should e-mail Jeanne. Dean (shaaark@aol.com) works at Hand Surgeons of Western Michigan. Susan (sfulton@teamwash.com) is Director of Marketing for Team Washington.Michael (mjfesquire@aol.com) and wife Liz (Carter) '76 live in Westport, CT, where he is managing director of RFE Investment Partners. Son Bryan '07 is in Arts and Sciences and they are reliving their Cornell days through his eyes.Michael recently had a surprise 50th for Liz. In attendance were Don and Karen Klein Polakoff '76, Irv and Janet Share Zatz '76, and Ilene Sherwin Cooper '76, Suzanne Carter Kramer '80, Perry Gandelman '78, and their spouses.

Charlie (ctemel@aol.com) and Judy (jwtemel@aol.com) live in NYC. Charlie is VP of investments for UBS Financial Services, while Judy is director of credit research at Samson Capital Management. Daughter Laura was accepted early decision to the Class of '09. Charlie said it was appropriate to celebrate the 100th anniversary of CACO during a blizzard! Judy has been chairing the Cornell Alumnae Council since 1998. The council holds annual brunches and dinners at the homes of alumnae for upperclass women students and local alumnae to help make the transition from Cornell to careers easier. The program involves over 300 dedicated alumnae and 200 students. I attended a dinner this month and it's a great event for students and alums.

Jill (jlerner@kpf.com) is very involved with Cornell activities. She stays in touch with Eileen Weingarten, Susan Rosenstadt Bresler, BArch '76, and Marsha Pilat-Davis, BArch '75, who are all involved in real estate and live in the Larchmont/Mamaroneck area of New York. She also sees Mark Strauss, BArch '76, who is a principal at Fox & Fowle Architects PC. He is president-elect of the AIA/NYC Chapter. Jill is organizing a panel discussion for our 30th Reunion featuring seven returning '75ers from the Architecture, Art, and Planning college. It is entitled "Can That Really Be You? How Cornell Life Influenced Where We Are Today."

In 2004, two DU fraternity brothers were able to host mini-reunions when their children got married. In May, Mark and Christine Magill Kamon (kamon75@yahoo.com) celebrated the wedding of son Jake. In attendance were Mark and Kim Dewey (Byron, NY; dew99@juno.com), Jim and Lorna Thul (Flemington, NJ; jt@thulmachine.com), Jim, JD '79, and Beth Wright Seeley '76 (Marcellus, NY; seeley@bsk.com), and John Halloran (jhalloran@prexar.com) and Leslie Hudson (leshudson@prexar.com). John and Leslie live in Orono, ME, where John works for the US Dept. of Agriculture and Leslie consults for nonprofit organizations.Additional Cornell family attendees were John Magill '73 and Elizabeth Magill Billingsley '84. In July, the Kamons were guests when the Deweys were hosts for the wedding of their daughter Meghan '02 to Alex Chen '01. Along with the DU attendees at the Kamon wedding were Benny and Cathy Peyton (Adams Center, NY), George '76, JD '79, and Elsie Little Dentes '77, Dan '76 and Kathy Jones Brammel '77, Don '76 and Karen Krinsky Sussman '76, John Schabowski '74,ME '75, and Debbie Yelverton '74, Steve Bigalow (Houston, TX; sbigalow@msn.com), Jack and Debbie Brewster (Philadelphia, PA; brewdog@rcn.com), and Lu John Rossi (Princeton, NJ).

In October, I participated in a Cornell phon-a-thon in NYC. I was able to pick up some news for the column, as well as do some fundraising for Cornell. Sandy Wage Bisset (biss@aol.com) practices law in Southport, CT. She and her husband have three sons: Andy, a Williams College junior, Alex, a U. of Wisconsin freshman, and Tyler, a high school junior. Ann Gross (anndgross@mindspring.com) is a health care communications consultant. She works with USC and writes extensively on health care. She has a master's in gerontology. Jane Jablons (jjablons@kelleydrye.com) is a corporate finance attorney in NYC with Kelley Drye & Warren. Also at the firm is classmate Ken Kirschner. Jane keeps in touch with classmates Janice Portman, who lives in Houston, TX, Cheryl Crandall Tangen, a lawyer in The Woodlands, TX, and Gwenn Tannenbaum Canfield, a vocational rehab counselor in Spring Valley, NY. Madeline Ginzburg (msgdmd@earthlink.net) is an attending in oral surgery at Columbia Pres in NYC and owns her own dental practice in the Bronx. She interviews high school students for CAAAN. Her daughter Leslie Delfiner '07 is in the Ag college and her twins Alexandra and Matthew are high school juniors.

More news will be reported soon, but a rash of late duespayers caused a temporary loss of column space.We all look forward to seeing you in June and hope you will keep sending news to -- Deb Gellman, dsgellman@hotmail.com; Karen DeMarco Boroff, boroffka@shu.edu; Joan Pease, japease1032@aol.com; or Mitch Frank, mjfgator@aol.com.

76 | Hooray for the Internet! Our correspondents' list of classmates now includes e-mail addresses for some.When I found myself with virtually no class news to report, I fired off an e-mail to a random selection of classmates. These kind people, who don't know me from Adam, responded with news. Thank you to all who responded—and forewarnings to those I didn't hit this time.Why not avoid our badgering and send us a bit of news right now? (Addresses below.)

Deb Galson writes that she has been married to Philip Auron since May 29, 1988. They have kids Zachary, 15, Alexander, 10, and Rebecca, 7.Deb says, "Phil and I are both faculty at the U. of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (he's a full professor; I'm an assistant professor). Phil's department is molecular genetics and biochemistry (MGB).My primary appointment is in medicine, but I have a secondary in MGB. We arrived here (town of McCandless, just north of Pittsburgh) a little over two years ago from the Boston area, where we were both at Harvard Medical School.We still miss Boston a LOT! However, our daughter has left the fold and become a Pittsburgh Steelers fan,much to our sons' consternation, as they are still ardent Patriots fans."And happy ones, this year, we assume.

Bruce Reisch is a professor of grapevine breeding and genetics at Cornell's NYS Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva. Bruce writes, "I've been here about 25 years (sheesh!) and am married to attorney Kim (Stone) '84.We have three children, ages 9, 15, and 17. Our oldest,Maren, is a high school senior and looking forward to one of two Midwestern colleges for fall '05 admission.We lead a very active life following our careers and our children's activities in sports, music, community service, and more." Margie Corwin, who lives in Severna Park, MD (near Annapolis), with her husband Neil Schechter and seventh grade son Max, writes that their daughter Julia '07 is a sophomore at Cornell and is thriving. Julia has become friendly with freshman Christina Sumpio '08, daughter of Margie's Cornell roommate Cathy Zappolo Sumpio, and her husband Bauer,MD/PhD '81.

Mitchell Stern is the director of a neonatal unit for Sheridan Healthcare in Plantation, FL. He writes,"My wife Lucy Cohen is director of pediatric rehabilitation at Health South in Sunrise, FL. Our daughter Stephanie graduated from the U. of Central Florida in December and is now pursuing a master's there in criminal justice. Our son Scott is a freshman at Washington U. in St. Louis, majoring in economics. I stay in touch with Nate Peck, MBA '78, and his family and with John and Robin Grebe Phillips and their family. I also hear from Skip Newman."

Thaddeus Rutkowski, a fiction, poetry, and short story writer, has been awarded a residency at the Ragdale Foundation for winter and spring 2005. Ragdale is a well-known artists' community in Lake Forest, IL, north of Chicago, where selected artists can work without interruption in peaceful surroundings. Thad's novel Roughhouse (Kaya Press, 1999) was a finalist for the Members' Choice of the Asian Book Awards.He has taught writing at the West Side YMCA and the Asian-American Writers'Workshop in New York City.

Speaking of peaceful surroundings, many Cornellians came to campus last summer for rest and relaxation combined with learning, including classmate Meryl Kaynard, who came from Port Washington, NY, to attend the personal fitness clinic. This summer's on-campus offerings are listed at http://www.sce.cornell.edu/cau/ on_campus/index.php. Then, while you're at your computer, send us some news! It's great to hear from you, especially if it's been a while. -- Pat Relf Hanavan, relf@tds.net; Lisa Diamant, ljdiamant@rcn.com; Karen Krinsky Sussman, Krinsk54@aol.com.

77 | Much news from our classmates this time around. As we await another snowstorm to hit the East Coast, I report on the comings and goings of our classmates in sunny California. Thomas Sze, BArch '77, has been traveling to Hong Kong frequently, working on completion of Hong Kong Disneyland, scheduled to open at the end of 2005. He reports that a bunch of architects (BArch 1977) met in Sedona, AZ, to celebrate their 50th birthdays in August 2004. Included in this assemblage (self-referred to as the "tribe") in addition to Thomas Sze are Jim Law, Jim Metzger '76, Donald Hasulak, Richard Mauser '76, Rebecca Richardson, and Michael Froelich. They stayed at the Enchantment Resort managed by Alan Cohen '76, MS Hotel '00. The next meeting of the tribe will be in Ithaca in 2007 during our 30th Reunion.

Dan Munter is a first vice president at RBC Dain Rauscher, a full-service financial planner. His wife Ora is a screenwriter. Son Jeremy, 16, is a high school junior who is first team All-State in his division for baseball and basketball. David Siegel has completed editing Season 2 of the HBO series "Carnivale," which will begin airing this year. He is about to begin work on "Law and Order: Trial by Jury" for Universal Television and Dick Wolf. His wife Jocelyne teaches French to adult students. Son Jeremy went to Cornell for the six-week summer school program in Architecture, and the whole family had the opportunity to visit Ithaca. Daughter Laurie is enjoying soccer and middle school.

Moving to L.A. is Bill Nye (the Science Guy). He is also the 1956 Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor at Cornell and has made two new series. He is host of "The 100 Greatest Discoveries" for the Science Channel (part of the Discovery Channel) and has finished "The Eyes of Nye" for PBS. Both are different from the old "Bill Nye the Science Guy" show. Bill reports that he saw Dave Laks in Seattle, who looks and sounds the same.He also sees Laurie Robinson when he is in Ithaca. Bill, on behalf of our kids, thank you for making science fun and for inspiring their generation.

Cara Kagan's older daughter Michelle recently moved to La Jolla, CA ("What a beautiful place"). Younger daughter Erica '05 is a senior at Cornell who was tapped by Quill and Dagger last spring and is president of the Student Assembly. She is applying to law school. Vally Kovary's consulting firm, International Planning Associates, celebrated three years of service to the nonprofit community, including management consulting, strategic planning,marketing strategy, and planning and fundraising consulting to nonprofits in higher education, community-based organizations, and environmental groups. Her clients are located in Ithaca and around the country and the world. As a result, she is in touch with many Cornell alumni, donors, and parents.

Bruce Schafer,MBA '79, is winding down his tenure at ADP Brokerage after 20-plus years. He is now in a "retirement phase," though he will continue to work for the next ten years (the exact locale is being decided). He has recently renewed a friendship through a collaboration with his firm. It was a Cornell connection that helped Bruce get into ADP in 1981.My neighbor Chuck Samul ofWynnewood, PA, works for Wine Bow selling wine to the finest restaurants in the Philadelphia area.His wife Pam (Shipley) maintains an active practice as an educational consultant on the Main Line. Daughter Sophie attends the Agnes Irwin School and volunteers at Thorncroft Therapeutic Kidney Center in Malvern, PA.

Sherri LedermanMandell and husband Rabbi Seth Mandell have established the Koby Mandell Foundation in memory of their oldest son Koby, who was murdered by terrorists at the age of 13 in Israel in 2001. Sherri also recently published The Blessing of a Broken Heart (Toby Press), which won the 2004 National Jewish Book Award and was included in the Hadassah Book Club top picks. The book describes Sherri's experience dealing with her son's murder and her journey to find hope and healing, as well as to help others bereaved by terrorism. Sherri was honored as one of the 2004 Jewish Women International's Women to Watch. Both Seth and Sherri were honored at the Anti-Defamation League (Washington, DC, Chapter) Concert Against Hate. Sherri's children Daniel, 15, Gavi, 14, and Eliana, 13, participate in the healing programs of the Koby Mandell Foundation. For those who want more information or want to help, please contact the Koby Mandell Foundation, 7801 Norfolk Ave., Suite T4, Bethesda, MD 20814 (301- 654-7045).

Bonnie Brief Pauska owns a private nursery school/primary school and just received a premiere accreditation from the National Association of Young Children. Son Adam just graduated from SUNY Albany and is an intern at Lloyd's of London. Daughter Danielle is a freshman at Indiana U. in Bloomington, studying early childhood education. Patricia O'Brien is now the Ernst and Young Professor of Accounting at the U. ofWaterloo in Ontario, Canada. This named professorship has an endowment to support Patricia's research. Five-year-old daughter Stella Hadzilacos attends a grade 1 French immersion program and started in a Greek after-school program. Patricia and her family spend a month each summer on their family farm.

John Paul finished a stint as CEO of Realenergy, a distributed power generation business in L.A. The company was sold, so John and family are back in Asheville, NC. Son Christopher is attending a "Semester in the Rockies" with the National Outdoor Leadership School in Wyoming hiking, climbing, and skiing. Daughter Caroline is in her junior year at the Asheville School balancing academics, field hockey, and swimming. Camille D'Annunzio-Szymczak is now at Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems as the modeling head for Chem-Bio Detection Systems. Twins Lindsey and Andrew, 14, started high school. Daughter Sabrina, 10, is in fifth grade. Camille reports that Gail Kaminsky is married to Curt Travers '76 and that their oldest son is now attending Cornell.

Michael Hecht is associate chair of the Dept. of Chemistry at Princeton.Michael and his family (wife Judy Swan, daughter Shira, and son Jonathan) spent August with Ken Myers and his daughter Sarah hiking and canoeing in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge in Northeast Alaska. For Mike and Ken this was a return trip to an area they visited 25 years ago. Edward Havranek works at Denver Health and was lead author in an important article that appeared in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. This article linked the development of depression in patients with heart failure to lifestyle factors. Ed is a professor of medicine at the U. of Colorado Health Sciences Center.

Finally, after 11 years at the Temple U. School of Medicine, I moved to the Drexel U. College of Medicine and Hahnemann University Hospital (also in Philadelphia), where I am the Thomas J.Vischer Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Cardiology, and Director of the Drexel Center for Cardiovascular Disorders.My wife Judy Wolf (Yale '77, Cornell MD '81) works at Merck on vaccines and therapy for HIV. Son Jonathan, 16, is a junior at Lower Merion High School, where he plays cello in the orchestra, runs track, and writes for the student newspaper. Daughter Miriam or Mimi, 14, is in eighth grade at Bala Cynwyd Middle School and plays saxophone in the jazz band and orchestra.

That's it for the months of May and June. Please forward news and views to either of us. -- Howie Eisen (new e-mail: Heisen@drexelmed.edu); Lorrie Panzer Rudin, rudin@starpower.net.

78 | Do you realize that it's been almost 27 years since graduation and there are some of you out there who've been reading this column, year after year, giving us nary a clue as to what you've been up to? To say we're curious is an understatement, so please drop us a line.

In his first update since graduation, Gerard Badorrek (gbadorrek@cox.net) writes that he is currently VP of business operations at MCI and living in Northern Virginia outside of Washington, DC. He and his wife Barbara have three boys named Tyler, Trevor, and Brian. Since graduating from Cornell, he has received an MA in economics from Case Western Reserve U. and an MBA from Stanford. After stints in manufacturing and consulting, he moved to MCI and has been there for 20 years, including the Worldcom days. Gerard says he's become an avid golfer. He sees Mike Bernard and occasionally keeps in touch with Mike Kupin, Charlie Tall, Harry Rudolph, and Rich Kremheller.

Allison '08, the oldest daughter of David and June Drake Hayford (juniedrake@aol.com) is a freshman at Cornell. She is the fourth generation in the family to attend Cornell, following June, Peggy Ann Jack Drake '49, and Andrew Jack '19. The Hayfords live in Alpharetta, GA, near Atlanta, with their three other children. Judith LeVie Mishkin, wife of the forgetful Nathaniel (who reported everyone's news but that of his wife of 26 years in the last column), says that she took her husband's failure to supply any news about her in stride and is doing well. She's on the board of the Northern Ballet Theatre dance company.

Sarah Beran Steinberg, ME '79, has been named associate dean of Advanced Academic Programs at the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Science at Johns Hopkins U. She had worked for more than a decade for the Whiting School of Engineering there. Before coming to Johns Hopkins in 1993, she worked as a marketing manager and senior engineer at Froehling and Robertson Inc. in Sterling,VA. Sherri Miller Edelman, who lives in Reisterstown,MD, is an employee benefits attorney with Ober Kaler Attorneys at Law in Baltimore. She is a member of the California and Maryland State Bars.

Brian Murdock has been appointed to the Executive Management Committee of New York Life Insurance Co., the largest mutual life insurance company in the US. This committee, composed of New York Life's senior executives, directs the policies and procedures for the company. Brian is president of New York Life Investment Management LLC, the company's investment subsidiary, and oversees a variety of business and business support units. Prior to joining New York Life, Brian worked for Merrill Lynch for 25 years and held a number of senior positions that spanned the US, Europe, and Asia/Pacific regions. He lives in Princeton, NJ, with his wife and four children.

"Reunions, large or small, reinforce the fact that friendships formed decades ago are Cornell's true gift that keeps on giving," says Rae Nelson (Raennc@aol.com). She sent a follow-up e-mail after our mini-reunion in Cleveland late last fall at the home of her roommate and my other U-Hall 2 neighbor Alexandra "Sandy" Buchanan (sbuchanan@ohiocitizen.org). Personally, I think the sentimental quote is just an excuse for not having attended any of our past five class reunions in Ithaca. But however brief the visit, getting together with such dear friends was well worth the wait for me. Rae is co-author (with husband Karl Haigler) of The Gap-Year Advantage: How Your Child Can Benefit From Time Off Before or During College (St.Martin's Press, August 2005), which may be of interest to Cornell parents whose high schoolers or college-aged kids want to explore the world before a post-secondary commitment and/or just may not be ready to take full advantage of all that college life has to offer. Sandy is the executive director of Ohio Citizen Action, Ohio's largest environmental organization, where she's worked since graduating from Cornell. Her husband Bill Whitney is Cleveland director of the Enterprise Foundation, and their sons are 16 and 13.

Want to combine your love of travel with your enjoyment of all things Cornell? For those looking for some stimulating trips with wonderful people, consider going on one of the Cornell Adult University (CAU) Off-Campus Study Tours. Last year Catherine Anne Murray and Jeffrey and Suzanne Tougas Snedeker studied the wildlife and natural habitats of Iceland; Robert Marrazzo visited Rome to take a closer look at Life and Power in Imperial Rome; Terry Seewald Klein and Randi Lebar traveled to Costa Rica on a expedition designed for families; and Kathleen Clark, DVM '78, attended a weekend seminar on ornithology and ecology at Assateague Island,VA.

So . . . if you've made it to the end of this column, we can only assume that you care about our class and its goings-on.We're also hoping that at least of few of you, still energized from our 25th Reunion, are looking for ways to get more involved. Right now we're looking for a new class president, a webmaster, and one or two class correspondents. As an added bonus to these inherently satisfying jobs, volunteers will be able to attend the New Officer Training, a new initiative sponsored by the Cornell Association of Class Officers (CACO), which will be held in Ithaca in the early fall. Let us know if you're interested! -- Eileen Brill Wagner, brillcon@cox.net; Pepi F. Leids, pleids@aol.com.

79 | Ronda Pearlstein-Fein (feinr@aol.com) had a wonderful time seeing classmates and sharing memories at our 25th Reunion. "Just wanted to thank all of my former classmates and friends who attended our 25th.My husband had to attend to a family emergency and could not come. I took a chance, attending with my 18-year-old son Jonathan, who has autism.What an incredible group of people, the Class of '79! Because of everyone's support and help (while my son disappeared several times in the parking lot and other places), we were able to have a wonderful time." Cindy Green (cbgreen3@aol.com) and family enjoyed reunion. Cindy will now have another reason to visit Cornell, as her daughter Claudia was accepted early decision to the Class of 2009! "I can't believe that Claudia will begin her freshman year 30 years to the day when we began. It's an overwhelming feeling!"

Shirley Shung-Suazo (sas2002@optonline.net) writes, "We had a great time at our 25th, and my 12-year-old twins Justin and Christina are ready to move into the new freshmen dorms next year. After reunion, we spent a week in Europe, sightseeing in Amsterdam and bicycling in Versailles. In August, my USTA tennis team made it to the sectionals in Syracuse; we were semifinalists, just missing nationals by one set! In November, we had a dinner cruise celebration on the World Yacht in New York to celebrate my husband's (James Suazo, MD) big 50th." Julie Jones (jljmd83@msn.com) had a blast at our 25th, along with classmates Karen Matrunich and Rebecca Mazin. Julie is a family physician and has provided care to multiple generations of families in Millersville, PA, for almost 20 years. Her children Katy, 16, and Alex, 13 enjoy riding and competing on the local hunter circuit. "Maureen Nash took me up on my invitation to canoe the Delaware River with Rebecca Mazin and family last August. All had a great time."

Several New Englanders have sent news. Kelley Ready (kelready@msn.com) finished the PhD program in cultural anthropology at CUNY in 1999. She currently teaches Gender and Culture in the International Development dept. at Brandeis U. Kelley and her partner of nine years, Jacquelyn Bishop, live in Dorchester, MA. From the beautiful Berkshires, Diane Piraino (pirainodiane@hotmail.com) works part-time as a pediatrician. Diane and her husband Ted Randolph live in Richmond, MA, with their children Nora, 12, Sophie, 10, and Thomas, 8. James Kitchen (jkitchen56@yahoo.com) is enjoying life in Phippsburg,ME, and often talks with Kevin O'Donnell '77 and Jim Power.

The Washington, DC, metro area is home to many classmates. From Arlington, VA, George Rogers (georgero@iadb.org) writes,"My wife is now practicing law in international organization.My oldest daughter, Tamara, celebrated her bat mitzvah in 2002 and started high school last fall. Youngest daughter Iara loves art and basketball. Please pray for my brother Robert, who lost his family in a tragic flash flood on a highway in Kansas last August." Una Faughnan Hildebrandt (unahildebrandt@comcast.net) has lived in the D.C. area for the past 20 years and has been busy with family, career, and volunteerism. "I married the man I met on the bus on the first day of my summer internship at the College and University Personnel Association and we have been together for more than two decades! We are the proud parents of Melody and Kenneth. I work as a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton and live in Rockville, MD."

Scott Gould (gouldws@erols.com) was named VP Public Sector Strategy and Change, IBM Business Consulting Services; and Senior Fellow, IBM Center for the Business of Government in October. Scott lives in Bethesda,MD. Denise Arnot (darnot@aol.com) would love to hear from fellow '79ers in the D.C. area. "I am entering my third year as art director at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Smithsonian, where the Annual Folklife Festival on the National Mall is staged. In 2004, we presented two additional spectacular festivals with the opening of the World War II Memorial and the unveiling of the National Museum of the American Indian.My daughter Emma just turned 10.My side interest is cat rescue at our second home in Delaware."

Elizabeth Rakov Igleheart (eigleheart@aol.com) is president-elect of the board of the Community Action Center in Atlanta, GA. "We provide food, clothing, and financial aid to people experiencing temporary and unexpected financial difficulty. I chair the fundraising committee and work on the capital campaign for the kids' school.My daughter Alex, 16, is a varsity soccer player and certified referee, and my son Austin, 12, plays soccer and football. Bill and I have been married for 21 years."

In 2001, Edward Lyon (elyonwi@aol.com) received his MS in horticulture from the U. of Wisconsin. "For one year, I worked in the education department at the Chicago Botanical Garden and then spent two years as Director of Education for the Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison. I own Spellbound Garden Writing and Consultation, I write on horticultural topics for the public and industry, and I teach and give presentations across the Midwest. I help my partner, Peter Moersch, operate a specialty plant nursery, Stonewall Nursery. The nursery and home are the same property and I love designing and maintaining the display gardens. My next project is to write a gardening book!"

Visit our class website, http://classof79.alumni.cornell.edu, to keep up with your classmates and upcoming events. Our News Forms have slowed to a trickle, so please send any and all news about you, your families, and your Cornell friends. You can use the class e-mail address, classof79@cornell.edu, 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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