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90 | By now I hope you've all made your plans to travel back to campus for our 15th Reunion on June 9-12! If not, it's not too late to save yourself a place in line for Hot Truck on the Quad, so to speak. Don't wait! Contact our Reunion Chairs Carolyn DeWilde-Casswell and Nadine Magac, MBA '01, and get all the details at our class website, http://classof90.alumni.cornell.edu! Besides being a time to reconnect with old friends and reminisce about our younger days, Reunion Weekend is also the beginning of the next five-year term for our new class officers. Yes, Alisa and I are in the final months of our term as your class correspondents (officially known as VPs of Communications). This is my last column before Alisa and I pass the torch to our new class correspondents. I would like to say thank you to all who have faithfully stayed in touch, shared your stories, e-mailed your photos, and put up with so many of our corny columns!

Alisa and I are not only at the end of our term of service, we are temporarily at the end of our supply of alumni news! Luckily, our outgoing co-president Rose Tanasugarn was kind enough to pass on several e-mails from some of her old U-Hall 4 friends. One was from Andy Alpart and his wife Cindy Chan, who live just outside Albany. Andy and Cindy welcomed daughter Maxine Li Ling Alpart last December. You may remember a few months back, we reported what Andy misses most about Cornell: "John Lucia in the morning."Well, we heard from John Lucia who is, as Andy said, a dentist in Rochester, NY. Andy reported that he is in practice with his wife Marianela Olivares, DDS, and that they have a 4-year-old son Matthew and 1-year-old twins Noah and Olivia. I wonder if John misses Andy in the morning?

Rose also heard from Andy Bednar, former kicker for the Big Red football team and pitcher for the baseball team. He now coaches both high school football and baseball in Pittsburgh, where he is also a high school teacher. Andy and his wife Sue have three children: David, 10,Will, 4, and Danielle, 1-1/2. Alice Kim, another U-Hall 4 alum, was on the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program with Rose, but is now a new mom on maternity leave. Alice is somewhat wistful for those days of carefree travel, and she's found that being a mommy is more work than expected. "I honestly thought that my maternity leave would consist of a lot more hours on the couch reading magazines," she wrote. Alice stays in touch with Stan Yen, Bennet Ih, ME '91, Eric Chasser, MBA '92, and Jan Miksovsky.

As for Rose Tanasugarn, she was in Phuket, Thailand, a month to the day before the tsunami hit. She was there to see her sister Tammy, a professional tennis player, compete in an exhibition tour. Rose is busy teaching English in Japan, organizing an art exhibition in her town, and doing fundraising for tsunami relief efforts. The rural Japanese lifestyle of Shimane seems to agree with Rose, who wonders if she'll ever live in the US again. She will, however, be visiting Ithaca in June! This past February, Rose and Sean Williams put together a reunion warm-up event in Tokyo. Find out how it went by checking out her blog, http://hamadarose.diary-x.com/. Thanks for all the info, Rose!

We also heard from John Erthein, who "finally got married at the ancient age of 36" to the former Lela Marie Smith on October 23, 2004 at the First Baptist Church of Corry, PA. His best man was Dave Knudsen, who made the trip to western Pennsylvania from D.C., where he works for the Labor dept. John and Lela honeymooned in the western Caribbean and a few days in New Orleans. Back in Elderton, PA, John is still the pastor of the town's Presbyterian Church. He has also been named to the board of directors of Life Choices, a crisis pregnancy and abstinence education ministry, based in Kittanning, PA. John tells us that he stays in touch with Kirsten Pieper Marek, who is continuing to enjoy her work as a veterinarian in Illinois.

To some of us who are slowly approaching our "late 30s," Ellen AlenceMatheson, DVM, is a hero. In 2004, Ellen competed again in the US Women's National Lacrosse Tournament in Lehigh, PA.Her team represented the southeast US, and--once again--she was the oldest player on the team where the majority of her teammates were still in college. Ellen, who lives in Lithia, FL, with husband John, says she won't give up until she can't keep up. She's equally unstoppable in her new job at Connechusett Animal Hospital in Temple Terrace, FL.

Inspired by women like Ellen, I, Carole Moran Krus, have never let go of my dream of becoming a competitive distance runner. In the past few years, I've finished two marathons, several half-marathons, and many other road races. Although I never come close to winning any races, I compete with no one but myself, and I have broken a few personal records (PR, in runner's lingo) lately.When I'm not running through the Cleveland eastern suburbs, I'm tutoring math and science, fixing up our old house, volunteering at church, fishing with my husband David, or chasing after our kids Charlie, 6, and Bridget Frances, 3-1/2. Both kids are looking forward to seeing Cornell for the first time this summer and to watching their mom defend her title in the Cornell 5-mile Reunion Run through the Plantations.

Some of the news is a bit out of date, I'm afraid, but better late than never! In November 2003, Robert Kelly married Vidhya Rangaiah in two ceremonies from two rich and distinct traditions over two days in Bangalore, India. The couple was first wed by a Hindu priest at the Raj Mahal Villas, a wedding hall. The following day, they were married in a Roman Catholic ceremony at St. Patrick's Cathedral, also in Bangalore. Robert and his father are financial advisers in the Manhattan offices of Legg Mason Wood Walker, the Baltimore securities brokerage firm, where they operate an investment advisory unit known as the Kelly Group.More good news comes from David Paulson in San Francisco: he was recently elected as a shareholder in the office of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP. Practicing law on the opposite coast is Neera Rellan Stacy, who lives in NYC with her husband Michael and son Declan, 2. Neera works at Simpson Thacher and Bertlett LLP. Barbara Cho Kelley works in the Detroit office of PricewaterhouseCoopers and was recently promoted to manager within the Assurance practice.

We were also happy to hear from Lisa Baylor David, who wrote to us from Lafayette, LA, where she lives with her husband Robert '89. Lisa tells us: "I spent a wonderful weekend in March in West Palm Beach, FL, at the beautiful home of Rina Shamash Fern '89. Getting together were Sandy Lithgow Ramirez, Margaret King Coleman, MS '96, Adrienne Perfilio Sullivan, and myself. I also saw Kim Klimczak Lisboa in May while she was visiting New Orleans. Great to see old friends." I couldn't agree more, Lisa! It will be great to see all of you in Ithaca next month. Please, don't be shy--stop and say hello. I'd love to finally meet in person some of the classmates that we've been writing about for the last five years! Thanks! -- Carole Moran Krus, clm42@cornell.edu; Alisa Gilhooley, AlisaGil@aol.com.

91 | Greetings to everyone. Another Valentine's Day is behind me as I write this, and I am happy to report that roses bought at the last minute from the local grocery store are still a good way to bail yourself out when you get halfway through the work day and realize that you forgot to get anything for your spouse. Of course, I felt like everyone in the checkout line knew I had forgotten and was judging me for it, but that was better than my wife judging me for giving her nothing but a kiss. So, now that I am safe for another year, it is time to get to this edition of the Class Notes.

Stephen Schwartz and wife Melanie (Rebak) '90 announce the birth of their second child, Reid Alexander, on January 28, 2005. Older sister Jessica is now 3.With a newborn and a 3-year-old in the house, Stephen and Melanie may have yet to get a full night's sleep by the time this column comes out. David and Celeste Tambaro D'Alessandro welcomed son David to the family in December 2002. Celeste is a senior managing director and head of Latin American Equity Sales at Bear Stearns & Co. Inc.David is a senior cardiothoracic surgery fellow at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, which means he has yet to see his son. John Kang,MBA '96, kept the boy theme going, as son Anthony was born October 6, 2003. Angela Shipman Cassidy reports that after years of traveling the US working in public relations, she has assumed the role of ‘Mom' in giving birth to her first child, Emma Elizabeth. If nothing else, that is always good PR with the grandparents. She and husband James are very excited.

Additional family news comes from Laura Hubbart DiCarlo and husband David, PhD '94. They still live in Mississippi with their sons John, Sam, and Will. Laura notes that she saw Matt and Crissy Moeder Shaul, along with Jenny Ritter Kelly '89, last summer in Ithaca. Brian Mellone and his wife Tait welcomed Matthew Kyle into their lives on March 15, 2004. Howard and Adrienne Freed Markus now have two future Cornellians, son Jeremy born in July 2000 and daughter Naomi born in May 2003. Maria del Mar Ortiz Fournier now has three children,Mana del Mar, Emilio, and Juliana.Maria owns her family's law firm specializing in personal injury law. Additionally, she and husband Emilio are working toward their private pilot licenses. Teaching a personal injury lawyer how to fly must cause some degree of indigestion for the people running the flight school.

In general news and notes from our classmates, BeverlyOtema Yirenkyi has self-published a collection of poems entitled Pieces of a Rhapsody in Words. The work is described as being "inspired by a 12-year journey traveling across both physical and spiritual barriers to places of discomfort to realize that our humanity truly unites us," and has been named an Editor's Choice book recognizing superior writing and excellence. Tadayuki ("Tad") Hara recently completed his PhD in the Hotel school and Regional Science program so he is now PhD '04 as well as Class of '91.

Susan Tuttle Owen received an MBA in 1996 from the U. of Chicago. She had been a principle and leveraged loan/high yield bond analyst at Octagon Credit Investors, but took a position as a full-time mom to son Connor and couldn't be happier. She says she lost touch with a lot of her Cornell friends and encourages them to give her a call or write her at susanowen3@hotmail.com. Kristin Markussen Karcher, MS '93, and husband David are moving their family to Mystic, CT. David has a job with Daticon Inc., and Kristin is going to be a stay-at-home mom with daughter Greta.Mystic is a wonderful town--I hear the pizza is pretty good there.

Chris Proulx was recently named CEO of eCornell after serving six months as its Chief Operating Officer and two years as Director of Program Management. DebMcMahon- Williams was recently appointed to the position of Manager of Organizational Development and Training for Bayer Pharmaceutical. Deb says this is a great opportunity for her as she has always had a passion for change management and organizational design and sees this as a position from which she can make an impact on the future success of the company. She also updates us on Julie Varga Quay, who is a pastry chef and has owned her own business, The Cook and Baker Café, for nearly four years.

John Brown received his medical degree in 1999 and joined the Peace Corps, serving in Uzbekistan working with the USAID Child Survival Program. John is also happy to announce his marriage to April Rich in September 2002. Kim Bixler Brown and husband Timothy, JD '93, fled Atlanta to the Berkshires three years ago in order to transform their lives. Kim says they are happier, healthier, and only a little colder. She encourages anyone to contact them if in need of an escape to a small town. Jennifer Caci remains in the military, having been promoted to the rank of Major in February 2002. She was in Kuwait and Iraq for the first seven months of the war and earned a Bronze Star for her service in Operation Iraqi Freedom. She is currently at Ft.McPherson in Georgia but says she hopes to return to Iraq in 2005. She also tells us that Luisa Santiago-Jones has been in Afghanistan as a US Army lawyer, and John McMurray was in Iraq as an Operations Officer with a combat support hospital. Lastly, Kevin Klipstein was named the new CEO for the US Squash Racquets Association (USSRA). Kevin was with Sun Microsystems, where he was in the Worldwide Marketing Operations group, and also led Partnership Marketing, where he developed relationships with MLB.com and the National Hockey League. Kevin was a member of the squash team at Cornell and was a second team All-American as a senior. Before starting his career in business, he worked as a teaching pro for several years. The most remarkable thing about the press release announcing Kevin's new job is that there is a national governing body for squash in the US. I have to admit that I had no idea.However, it has to be better than working with the NHL right about now.

That's all for this column, everyone. I always have fun writing it--hope you have as much fun reading it. Keep the news coming to your friendly correspondents. -- Dave Smith, docds30@yahoo.com; Corinne Kuchling, kuccori@hotmail.com; and Nina Rosen Peek, nsr5@cornell.edu.

92 | Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the spring. I am starting out with a piece of sad news that I received regarding our classmate Diane Reiss Sidoli, DVM '00, of West Milford, NJ. She was in a serious car accident in September 2004--hit head-on by a drunk driver--and, among other traumatic injuries, lost both of her legs. She and husband Richard '91 have a young child. Diane's recovery is slow, and family, friends, and colleagues have stepped forward with fundraising efforts focused on making the needed renovations to the Sidoli home. For more information, you can write to: Race4Diane@yahoo.com.

Onto the other news of our classmates' lives. Douglas Carroll announced that he and wife Liz Vega celebrated their sixth anniversary on July 3, 2004. "[It's] hard to believe that we've known each other for 16 years.We met as freshmen and now we are the parents of two beautiful girls, Gabriela, 3, and Xitlali, 2 (it means ‘star' in Nahuatl/Aztec). There's no time for vacation. Just two weeks off in Lake Tahoe." On the career front, Douglas is one step closer to his PhD in computer science at UCLA after presenting a paper in Norway. Timothy Germain sent a quick note to let us know that he is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon. Karen Miller Cheng recently moved and also visited China and Korea for the first time. She is currently working as a technical manager at General Dynamics. Anita Lee, JD '98, reports that she and her husband Philip Hsia, MBA '99, had baby Madeline on October 8, 2004. "I don't have anything else to report since this is a very significant event for us!" Congratulations!

Sarah Stone has been appointed to the position of beautification director for Kane Realty Corp., with responsibilities in landscape, site amenities, design, and exterior maintenance. She will be involved in all decisions that impact exterior design, as well as the operations and standards for exterior maintenance. Her primary focus will be to ensure that guests, tenants, and residents of Kane properties have an exceptional physical environment in which to shop, dine, work, and live. Beyond Cornell, Sarah's background includes experience in landscape design and installation for residential and commercial real estate properties. She is a speaker at garden symposiums and workshops and has also worked as the Southeast US area assistant for Habitat for Humanity Int'l.

Amy Klempay, CEBS (Certified Employee Benefits Specialist) of New Hartford,NY, has joined the Upstate New York Employee Benefits Practice at Marsh, an office of the world's leading insurance brokerage and risk advisement companies. Amy will serve Central and Eastern New York clients out of the Albany office as part of the company's Employee Benefits Services (EBS) division. As a senior EBS consultant, her responsibilities include managing new and expanded business and advising clients on the strategy, design, compliance, and implementation of comprehensive employee benefits programs. She is an expert on flexible benefit plans, and has experience across a wide range of industries. Amy is also an active participant in numerous professional and community-related activities.

Christine Duncan and William E.Wilson were married on September 11, 2004 on Long Island in New York. Christine's maid of honor was classmate Danielle Austen. Other Cornellians in attendance on this stunning day were Jennifer Malila, Thomas James Lepore, Shannon O'Barr Decker, Andrew Yonteff, and Christopher Ortiz '93, who traveled from Spain for the event. A great day was had by all. Unfortunately, four-year roommate Kimberly Joyal Martins could not make it to the wedding, but recently announced the birth of her third child, Cody, born on December 7, 2004. Christine is currently an ob/gyn in Lake Success, NY, in her fifth year of private practice in an allfemale group.

Nicole Reninger married Alan Whyte in June 2004 in Scotland and they are living in Edinburgh. The happy couple held wedding receptions in Scotland and New York. Jennifer Siegler made it to both continents, and Eileen Carmody Byman '93, Alyssa Cohen Goldman, Liza Cohen Tillinghast '91, Beth Flanigan Horrigan, Karen Hovorka, Kevin Lyons, Jennifer Lynham, and Beth Kravchuck Hensel all celebrated in New York. Nicole is studying to requalify as a solicitor in Scotland and also has been busy job hunting, working on her new "flat," and "improving [her] swing in the home of golf!" David Chang writes that he had lots of changes last year: "Shereen Shermak and I got married (on our sixth anniversary).We moved to Boston, bought a place in the South End, and she switched jobs (back to the private sector as VP at State Street). I joined www.tripadvisor.com, an online site for leisure travel research, as the director of new products, where I'll be responsible for coming up with new products/services that consumers need when they do research on travel."

Inger HultgrenMeyer writes: "It has been a big year for me and my husband Matthew.Matt and I were married on October 18, 2003 at the Locanda dell'Amorosa in Tuscany, Italy.We were very fortunate to have a number of Cornell friends in attendance, including: Jennifer King Hartung and husband Chris '90, Anne Tevebaugh Baurmeister and husband Eric, Kana Muraki Miao '91, Jennifer Chuang '91, Lisaanne Lutz, and Heather Nelson Koch and husband Randy. My sister Julie Hultgren Gifford '96 was my matron of honor." Last July, Inger and Matt moved from their home in New York City to Basel, Switzerland.Matt is working in the Global E-Marketing Group at Novartis. When she last wrote, Inger was working on finding a job in her field--environmental law. Prior to moving to Switzerland, Inger spent five years working in the environmental group at the law firm of Bryan Cave in NYC. Inger and Matt would love to hear from fellow Cornellians who may be passing through Basel, or living in Switzerland. Please e-mail them at ikhultgren@hotmail.com.

Colleen Duffy sent in an update to cover the years since graduation: "Since graduation, I completed my master's degree in education, got married, bought a house, and had two girls (Katie, 2-1/2, and Lindsey, 1-1/2). I have been a stay-at-home mom since Katie was born, and although I am really enjoying the time with them, I am looking forward to returning to the classroom in the next couple of years as a high school math teacher, which I find extremely rewarding. I keep in touch with Kasey Connelly Zanolli, who is doing very well out in Las Vegas with her husband and two children. She started her own company about a year ago and business has really taken off recently. She is very busy. She usually takes a trip home to Long Island every summer to visit friends and family, so I am planning to visit with her this summer."

Alison Dobes Key reported some baby news.On March 3, 2004, Anne Dodge Gilchrist and husband Tony '91 had their second child, a baby girl named Heather Suzanne. Alison herself had twin girls on February 6, 2004, Margaret Campbell Key and Sara Stewart Key. That's all for now. Keep us posted. -- Debbie Feinstein, Debbie_Feinstein@yahoo.com; Renee Hunter Toth, rah24@cornell.edu; and Wilma Ann Anderson, info@WilPowerEnterprises.com.

93 | Hello, Class of '93! Lots of news has been reported in the last few months, so let's get right to it! A few of our classmates have reached big milestones. Jessica Graus Woo wrote to share the good news that she passed her dissertation defense in November and finished her PhD in epidemiology. She officially graduated in December and will be hooded in June. In September, Andrea Sarkany Riskin finished her dissertation and completed her PsyD in clinical psychology.

Moving on to wedding news, Jessica Raab writes, "I got married January 16, 2005! I married Aran Kadar (Dartmouth '93) down in Delray Beach, FL, at the Sundy House Inn.We live up in Boston and were happy to miss the blizzard while on our honeymoon! We plan to stay in the Boston area, where I am a creative director and Aran is finishing a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care at Boston Medical Center." Holly Zax wrote that she married Richard Shuter on November 20, 2004. Cornellians in attendance included Alexandra Migoya Freedman, Diana Matcovsky Nero, Carolyn Duarte Pierson, Julie Rosenberg, Pamela Gladstein Sole '94,Matthew Jacobson '91, Andy Zax '86, David Slepyan '64, MD '68, Alan Jacobson '61, and Eli '56 and Renni Bertenthal Shuter '58.

There are also a lot of new babies to report! Scott Urman sent in the news that he and his wife had daughter Almarah Rose on May 1, 2004. Michelle Otterman Emmett writes,"My husband Peter and I are happy to announce the birth of our son David on April 28, 2004! We are still living in Perth, Australia, enjoying the laid-back lifestyle and cool Indian Ocean breezes." Joseph Holton McGee and his wife had their first child, Connor Allen, on August 28, 2004. They are living in Delray Beach, FL, where Joseph is the senior director of annuity sales for Metlife. Recently he visited with Kristen Mustad and her brother Andreas '94. They bought a fishing lure manufacturer outside Miami.

Alyssa Frantz Lanner, MRP '94, passed along the good news that Sharon Hartnett Ricart and her husband Guillermo recently adopted a beautiful baby girl from Guatemala. Isabella Madelyn was born Sept. 19, 2004. Four months after her birth, Sharon and Guillermo were able to go down to Guatemala and bring her back to California. The adoption process went fairly smoothly and relatively quickly and the whole family is doing well. Lori Pehoski Jones wrote, "It has been a great two months for my family! On November 29, 2004, I gave birth to our second son, Colin Christopher. He joins big brother Evan, 2-1/2, who is thrilled to have a little brother! My husband Scott opened a bicycle shop last year in Duluth, GA, targeting kids and families and is doing well.Hopefully the boys will someday want to work with their dad--then again, maybe not! I am still working for Siebel Systems, looking forward to being a stay-at-home mom sometime in the next couple of years. I am still getting together each summer with my best friends from Cornell (our 11th trip this year is a cruise to Mexico!): Jodi Krause, Ava Danner, and Deanna Smith '92."

Jessica Baker Flechtner, PhD '00, wrote, "Don, PhD '99, and I welcomed our first child on November 21. Hogan Ronald was a perfect Thanksgiving gift! Look out, Class of 2025!" Scott and Lisa Ness Seidman recently adopted new baby Morris Mathew in November.Morris is named for Scott's father and for our classmate Matt Kleiner, who is missed by many. He joins sister Hannah, 4-1/2.

In other news, Roland "Maestro" Nicholas writes,"My current status is a training manager for a pioneering luxury resort known as Raffles Resort Canouan Island, in the heart of St.Vincent and the Grenadines. For those who know me, you realize that my new career is a far cry from my Mechanical Engineering degree. Goes to show what a brilliant foundation an education from Cornell U. provides." Michael Riskind recently left UBS Investment Bank to join KeyBanc Capital Markets, where he is the manager of New York Institutional Equity Sales. This past spring, he joined the Cornell Young Alumni Council. He lives in New York City and is married to Sheri Warshauer, who is an artist.

That's all the news for now. Thanks to all those who wrote in.More news in the next edition! -- Yael Berkowitz Rosenberg, ygb1@cornell.edu; and Erica Fishlin Fox, ericazzz@aol.com.

94 | Happy spring to all '94 alums. Hopefully everyone's enjoying the warmer weather after another long winter. Lots of happy news to report, although the quantity of news is short--keep mailing in those News Forms or e-mail us directly at the addresses below!

My husband Michael, daughter Lindsay, and I recently attended a mini-Cornell reunion of some fellow Mary Donlon Hall freshmen. Thanks to Jason Abrams and wife Susan for opening their Maplewood, NJ, home to everyone! It was great to see Sanket Sant, who is an investment manager for Met Life in Morristown, NJ, and Semil Mehta, MD '98, wife Shilpa, and daughter Sonia, born September 22, 2004. Semil is an instructor in the pulmonary critical care unit at Northwestern U. Tara Parmiter and Devin Ratliff '95 also attended the brunch. Tara is finishing her PhD in American literature at NYU and Devin is an architect at Kohn Pedersen Fox in New York. Joseph Basralian and wife Daniele were there. Joe works for Bank of America in New York City in their securities division. Joe also reports that Tyler Felgenhauer recently drove cross-country with his wife Mary Jane and their two children. The family lives in Chapel Hill, NC, where Tyler is pursuing a PhD in environmental studies.

Sanford Gordon reports that he married Alice Davenport '91, MPA '94, on October 24. They met at Cornell in the summer of 1993 when Alice was a master's candidate, but weren't in touch for ten years until a chance encounter at a birthday party of a mutual friend two years ago. At the wedding, Nicole Vantuno Wagner was in attendance along with husband Steve, as were a whole bunch of folks in different classes. Sanford currently resides in New York City, where he is asst. prof. of politics at NYU. Ingrid Kist-Leader Lutz sent in her recent travelogue. In the past few years she's been to Russia, London, France, and Alaska. She's proud to report that she's listed in America's Who's Who of Teachers and was awarded tenure. Also, she has twice received yearbook dedications by her students. Great job! Ingrid also reports that Aruna Noan Kampani has started vet school in West Virginia.

Melissa Dills Boglioli and husband James recently relocated to the Albany area where James accepted a job with Whiteman Osterman and Henna LLP, Albany's largest law firm, as an environmental/land use attorney. Barry Schutter writes that he and wife Amy sold their house in New Jersey, quit work at Johnson and Johnson and ImClone, respectively, and moved to London, where Barry will be working for a church on the west side of London.

On to the baby news. Melissa Unemori Hampe celebrated the birth of her first child, Elizabeth, at the end of October in Washington, DC. She and husband Greg live in Virginia. Stacy Miller Cowan and husband Mo welcomed their first child,Miles Christian, into the world on April 20, 2004. The family lives in Massachusetts. Jennifer Quin Henninger and husband Kurt added daughter Elisabeth Ann to the family on January 12, 2004, joining big sister Abigail. Shortly after that they moved back to Colorado where Kurt is working with an Army Reserve unit. Jennifer also writes that Erin Iverson left the Army ranks and is now a youth director for several churches in Maryland. Karen Chelius Bates and husband John had daughter Allison on November 17. They live in Washington, DC.

Amy Finkelstein Snider and husband Matt '95 welcomed son Jackson Henry a while back (September 6, 2003). The family recently went to Washington, DC, and visited David Holden '95 with new son Eli, as well as Tasha (Fleury), DVM '98, and her husband Brian Rodgers '95.While there, they also saw Becky D'Aleo '06 and Julie Stumbo '06. As for Amy, she started an LLC in September 2004 to run a women's semi-pro soccer team and triple crown sports soccer event business franchise. Best of luck! And congratulations to Nancy Richmond Goldstein, MBA '96, JD '97. She and husband Eric welcomed son Zachary Matthew on April 6, 2004. The family lives in New York City. Also, Ted Lynch and wife Michele had daughter Jamie Grace on October 7, 2004. The Lynches live in New Jersey.

Have a safe and enjoyable summer! -- Jennifer Rabin Marchant, jennifer.marchant@kraft.com; Dineen PashoukosWasylik, dineen@wasylik.net or dmp5@cornell.edu; Dika Lam, dikaweb@yahoo.com.

95 | This is it, folks . . . the last column before our 10th REUNION! Can you believe it? On behalf of our class officers, a big thank you to all our duespayers and we hope to see everyone back on the Hill, June 9-12! Now on to the news.

Speaking of class officers, one of our very own Reunion Chairs, Dana Yogel (day2@cornell.edu), sends news she is a senior project manager for a residential/mixed-use infill builder-developer in Long Beach, CA, and received her American Inst. of Certified Planners license. Dana writes that classmate AraWeiss works as a financial analyst at Disney, and Kirk West '96 married Pilar Perez last summer in Las Vegas. Also married last summer (in June) was Sarah Maynard Scott (smaynard@udel.edu), who teaches Air Force ROTC at the U. of Delaware. Tony Fernandes and Troy, MBA '93, and Mary Ellen Basden Simoni '94 were in attendance to witness Sarah's union with husband Derek in Massachusetts.

Lisa Durham Taylor (ltaylor@johnmarshall.edu) recently celebrated her first wedding anniversary with husband Brent on April 17. The two were married in Atlanta, GA, attended by bridesmaids Cathy MacIntyre O'Neill (who, with husband Tim'94, had her third baby in four years--a boy named Michael--in July), Melissa Damann (who also has a son, Julian, 2, and last fall began a master's program in linguistics at UNC, Chapel Hill), Atena Rosak (a third-year resident in general surgery at Dartmouth), and Kirsten Mixter '94, and reader Karen Helmuth Blackwelder '94. Lisa and Brent currently live in Atlanta, where he owns a construction business and she is a professor at the John Marshall Law School.Writes Lisa, "Brent has never been to Ithaca, but I can't wait to get him up there to show him around!"Hopefully, this will be rectified very soon.

Another newlywed who wrote in to rally the troops for reunion was Dominic "Vu" Nguyen (vunguyen73@yahoo.com), who misses "all the folks from 3FD."Vu's wedding to fellow Cornell engineer Lee Murashige '98 occurred on August 21 in Honolulu, HI, where she grew up (check out pictures at http://home.comcast.net/~lee-vu). Cornellians at the wedding included Mark Notarfrancesco, Janice Myint, ME '96, Michael Seaton '97, and Kathleen O'Hara '98.Writes Vu of his bride, "We actually didn't meet at Cornell, but had lots of stories to share about Olin Hall."Vu and Lee both work for Intel in Portland, OR, where Vu was recently promoted to Engineering Group Leader in one of Intel's leading microprocessor Fabs. Vu received his MS in electrical engineering from OGI in '99, and got another "degree" the following year: a second degree Black Belt in Taekwondo.

Another 3FD (for the uninitiated/those who lived on West Campus, this stands for "Third Floor Donlon") alumnus, Sanjoy "Biz"Biswas (sb28@cornell.edu) works at GlaxoSmithKline in microbiology and is pursuing a second master's degree in quality assurance and regulatory affairs at Temple U. in Philadelphia.His other big news is that a picture of him playing the tabla (Indian hand drums) was recently published in RASA: Performing the Divine in India, out on Columbia University Press (and, no, there is no link where we can view it but he says the book is available on Amazon). Biz reports that fellow floormate JamesWhitaker works for T. Rowe Price in Colorado Springs, Chris Golgert and his wife recently had twin girls in Dallas, TX, and Anthony "Pepo" Diaz works as an actuary in Chicago. And Kathy Schoenfelder won't have any trouble making reunion--she works on campus in the fashion department in Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, where her work with a "body scanner" is being used to help make better-fitting clothing.

Agnes Varga Wells sent news that she and her husband Chad purchased their first home in Woodbridge,VA, where she is a workforce services representative for the Virginia Employment Commission. Aggie also reports on freshman year roommate Olive Thomas and her new husband Mark Koopmann, who had their first child, Kordehlia, last summer. From Florida, Phil Spiller,ME '96 (pdsflynavy@hotmail.com) writes that he is in the final year of his naval service obligation, completing a 2-1/2-year instructor pilot tour in Pensacola, which was hard hit by Hurricane Ivan. "The community is bonding together and rebuilding as quickly as possible." Phil, who looks to join the restructuring airline industry as a passenger transport or cargo pilot, spends his free time taking flight students across the country, riding his Harley, taking care of his pet stingray, and keeping up with classmates.He sends a wish for a quick and safe return for our servicemembers across the globe.

On behalf of our class officers, we also wish a safe trip for all our classmates returning to the Hill in just a few weeks.We look forward to seeing you soon! -- Alison Torrillo French, amt7@cornell.edu; and Abra Benson, amb8@cornell.edu. Class website, http://classof95.alumni.cornell.edu.

96 | Send news to: -- Allie Cahill, AlexandraCahill@aol.com; Courtney Rubin, cbr1@cornell.edu; or Sheryl Magzamen, slm1@cornell.edu. For updated class events, news, and resources, visit http://classof96.alumni.cornell.edu.

97 | Spring has finally sprung--and with it comes high season for weddings. As you'll see, we're still catching up on wedding news from last year, so if you've sent in a wedding update, please continue to watch for it in a future column. And if you've got plans to be a bride or groom in the coming months, please send in word of your event once the leftover cake is stashed in the freezer and the dust has settled on the dance floor. But first, some non-wedding updates (they do exist!).

David Hollman writes that he took 2004 off and traveled--mostly hiking--in Costa Rica, New Zealand, England, Scotland,Wales, and France, as well as San Francisco, Death Valley, and Joshua Tree National Park in California. Afterwards, Dave returned to work at Sapient and moved to London. Last summer, he saw Beckie Rawlinson, Grainne O'Neill, and others at Sharmila Murthy's wedding. Jason Friedman traveled to Portland, OR, with Seattle resident Aravind Swaminathan and other friends to run the Hood-to-Coast relay race, which stretches 197 miles from the top of Mt. Hood to the Pacific in Seaside, OR. Jason attended Adam Levine's wedding last July and caught up with former roommates Josh Sullivan and Tony Caravella. Jason notes that Tony and wife Christina are proud parents of a daughter born last summer. Barbara S. Lee, who works for UPS as an investor relations analyst in Atlanta, has kept busy traveling to London, Paris, Barcelona, Shannon, Dublin, Costa Brava, and Durham, NH, and training for marathons (she's completed two already).

Heidi Straub Henderson and her family relocated last fall to the Boston area from Jacksonville, FL, where they visited with several Pi Phis and their families, including Jeannette Brady Townsend, Amy Barbato Martin, and Heather Mulcahy '96. Heidi also recounted a reunion with ROTC families from the Class of '96, including the Stantons, Gelstons, and Chevines, as well as Eric Anderson '98 and Mark Sweeney '96. The event brought together four future Cornellians born within six months of each other.

Steven Froeschl is a chiropractor in Aquebogue, NY. Jennifer Personius-Zipoy offered a general update on major events in her life over the last few years, including obtaining an MA from the U. of Nevada, Las Vegas in August 2001, getting married in May 2004, and beginning a PhD program in sociology last September. Mark Harrahy collected an MBA from NYU and is working for Unilever HPC as a demand planning process manager in Trumbull, CT.

Rebecca Soffer married Joshua Grossman on November 13, 2004 in Waltham,MA. In attendance were many Cornellians, including classmates Amanda Berke, Cathy Heinzelman Hill, Christina Anton Benamati, Kenny '99 and Jami Gorman Schultz, John '96 and Donna Viggiano Wilson, Alanna Gelbwasser Updegraff, Tanya Axenson Macallair, Kenneth Todd, Hani Aldulaimi, and Reuben Rosof. Josh and Rebecca met as undergrads at Cornell, but lost touch after graduation, only to reconnect when Josh moved to Boston to get his MBA at Babson. Rebecca is a marketing manager at Bose Corporation, and Josh recently cofounded an online flower delivery company, Beyond Blossoms (www.beyondblossoms.com), which aims to improve on the online floral experience by offering fewer products and price points and a more elegant, minimalist interface to avoid overwhelming consumers. They live in Bedford, MA.

Jennifer Ohrenberger Holder got married last year and honeymooned in Italy. Christie Trotter Post served as maid of honor. Jennifer practices broker-dealer defense litigation in Los Angeles at Bingham McCutchen. Scott Hatherley married Stephanie Licht of Newtown, CT, last September in Westerly, RI; Brad Hopper and wife Laura attended the festivities.

Donell Hicks married Dawn Denise Rhodes at Walt Disney World on October 9, 2004. Steve Kinsey and Sama Habibi tied the knot September 10, 2004 in Morris Plains, NJ, after being introduced four years earlier by fellow Cornellian Mike Keeley '95, ME '96. A host of classmates attended the event, including Scott Christensen, MBA '04, Alex LePage, Tyler and Erika Pluhar Tatum, Amy Lyttle, Dave Grannis, Andy Miner, and Linley Grandison, MBA '97. Sean Blake checked in with news of his marriage to Lori Ponzo on November 1, 2003 in Norwich, CT. Cornellians attending included Giancarlo Zuliani, Jay Nath, Ash Jhaveri, Greg Boudewijn, Tom Arsenlis, and Matt and Kelli Stauffer.

Several classmates tied the knot last May. Cori Altshuler married Daniel Galpern in Lenox, MA. They work in NYC, where Cori is the international fashion director at Vogue and Daniel is executive vice president of Curtco Media Labs, a publishing business developer and parent company of the Robb Report publications.Maureen Connelly married Mark McGrath in NYC.Maureen and Mark collected law degrees from Fordham and both work as attorneys,Maureen at Cohen,Weiss & Simon and Mark at Kelley Drye & Warren.

Leonor Tomero married Douglas Shaw at Georgetown U. Leonore works for Washington, DC, consulting firm Liebman & Associates as a consultant on environmental protection and renewable energy. Douglas is manager of policy and issues analysis in the office of the president of Georgetown and is a doctoral candidate and international relations instructor. Thatcher Bell exchanged vows with Victoria Weil, an opera singer, in the Bronx on May 22, 2004.

Please note that in the January/February issue, we misspelled Stefan Marcus Lehmann's name. Our thanks to Stefan's partner, Jonas Karp, for pointing it out and also letting us know that Stefan is graduating from Columbia Business School this spring and plans to work as an associate at Lehman Brothers in New York after graduation.

Submit your news online! Visit http://classof97.alumni.cornell.edu/. -- Erica Broennle Nelson, ejb4@cornell.edu; Sarah Deardorff Carter, sjd5@cornell.edu.

98 | In anticipation of warm weather and blooming flowers, Gregg and I did a little spring cleaning of our IN boxes and delved into the folder called "save for later." Rather embarrassingly, we have uncovered some backlogged news that we had been saving up in the past couple of months. Nice surprise for us and apologies to the following classmates.Hopefully, this could be an example of "good news comes to those who wait!"

Benjamin Allen married wife Carey back in September 2002. Fast forward to summer 2004 and the busy Allens had lots to celebrate! First, they welcomed daughter Emma Riley in August.About two weeks later, Benjamin was awarded his PhD in molecular and cellular biology from U. ofWisconsin,Madison. Benjamin was recently a groomsman at Doug Allen '97,MAT '98's wedding that same August, along with Sujay Kaushal '97. Benjamin is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard.

Other freshly minted PhDs from our class are Anne Sperling and Cynthia Edwards Hawver. Last summer,Anne earned a PhD in neuroscience from the U. of Southern California. She currently works as a postdoctoral fellow in the neurology dept. at Georgetown U.Medical Center. Cynthia received her doctorate in clinical psychology in May 2004. After graduation, she took a staff psychologist position at U. of Scranton Counseling Center. Anthony Mato is also a doctor, but of the medical kind.He is currently a third-year internal medicine resident at U. of Pennsylvania.He will be specializing in hematology/oncology.He is starting his fellowship at Penn in July 2005 and hopes to pursue a career in bone marrow transplant.

Some of us cannot seem to get enough of school. Patrick McKeever completed his master's in education at St. Peter's College in Jersey City last year. In September, he started a new career as an eighth grade science teacher in Clifton,NJ.He reported that the first few months of teaching have been as rewarding and satisfying as he had hoped. In addition, Patrick and wife Cheryl (Bauer) '00 celebrated their first wedding anniversary on September 20. The couple currently resides in up-and-coming downtown Jersey City. This past fall, the McKeevers enjoyed a wine-tasting and lecture in the new Enology and Viticulture program in the Ag college, and sampled wines from Dr.Konstantin Frank's Vinifera Wine Cellars, a Finger Lakes winery.Matthew West guest-lectured for Kathy Berggren '90,MAT '93's COMM 201 class last October in Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture focused on effective listening. After the lecture,Matthew offered opportunities for employment at his advertising agency, Regan Campbell Ward in New York City. That is very nice of you, Matthew!

Speaking of jobs, Esther Wasserstein reports that she is living in Pipersville, PA, and is a physician assistant. Tara Kilfoyle is an attorney at Rogers & Hardin LLP in Atlanta, GA. Stephen Steinlight is currently practicing employment and securities law as an associate with the 20-attorney law firm of Liddle & Robinson LLP in New York City.

Jason '99 and Laura Walman Gardy, along with proud Grandpa Tony Gardy '75, welcomed Asher Cornell Gardy into the world on September 16, 2004. Laura is the assistant counsel to the Director of Enforcement at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington, DC. Jason is the manager of donor information systems at the National Rifle Association in Fairfax, VA.

And of course, no class column is complete without the mention of weddings. Melanie Carr got married last summer (on June 19, 2004) to Vance Howards.Many Cornellians were at the wedding, including Matt Hahn, Connie Chuang, and the bride's sister Jenny Carr '02. The newlyweds were headed to New Zealand for their honeymoon in November. According to Melanie, Karen Frey married Matt Evans in Portland, ME. Kari Deleeuw and Melanie were bridesmaids. Other Cornellians in attendance were Frisbee teammates Rachel Schmidt, Carrie Pollak '00, Kristi Farrell, and Jon Shu, PhD '03.

Natasha Szarkowski married Colton Brown at the Church on the Hill in Lenox, MA.Natasha and her husband are both commercial real estate brokers. She works in the New York offices of Staubach Company. On a perfect fall day in October 2004, Karen Tang married Thomas Tong '97 among lovely foliage by the Hudson River in New York. Karen is an IBM consultant and looks forward to having free time again after a full year's worth of wedding planning. In the wedding party were Stephen Tong '01, Jack Chen '97, and yours truly, Erica Chan.

Other classmates in attendance included Chun-Tsung Terence Choy, MS '98, Geri Lin, Lester Wong, ME '99, Frederick Lo, Yu Hin Felix Lau, Jonathan Yu,Wai Kwong Sam Lee,MS '98, Angel Lee, Mary Chang, and Chris Chan. Lots of frequent flyer miles were accumulated for this wedding.Hailing from Silicon Valley, Terence Choy is a project manager at Trimble Navigations by day, choral singer by night, and marathon-runner on weekends. Geri Lin flew to the wedding all the way from Taipei, Taiwan, where she is an IBM field application engineer. After the last leaves had fallen from the New England treetops, Sam Lee headed west to Seattle,WA, to work for Amazon.com. Sam had been busy prior to the presidential elections, working hard to encourage people to vote in Ohio. Fred Lo started his MBA at INSEAD in Fountainbleau, France, in January 2005. Lester Wong is still working for Accenture, and recently moved to Battery Park City, NYC. Year after year as a management consultant has left Lester with plenty of airline miles and a rather impressive collection of mini shampoo and lotion bottles in an apartment that he hardly gets to stay in. In London, Erica Chan continues to wait religiously for classmates to send news and hopes for genius and wit to strike whenever class columns are due.

And that's all for now.Apologies again to those who have waited patiently for their news to appear in print. Please keep writing to us so we can kick this bad habit of newshoarding! -- Erica Chan, hc31@cornell.edu; and Gregg Herman, gdh5@cornell.edu.

99 | Having recently switched from detached baseball observer to full-blown member of Red Sox Nation, it's good to be a New Englander these days. The euphoria remains, even months after the World Series victory, causing my husband, a native Bostonian, to repeatedly exclaim that 2004 was the best year of his life. The only reason that he gets away with such hyperbole is that 2004 was also our wedding year. On August 14, in my dear hometown of Buffalo, Jon Moran and I were married.While I would love to list the roster of all 18 Cornellians in attendance, I will keep my editor happy and set a good example for the rest of the class in only mentioning my bridesmaids: Chiann Bao, Cristen Viggiano Cottrell, Julie Heim Jackson, Amy Sandra Lee, and Erica Zunkel. (Don't get me wrong, we columnists love to list everyone, but it presents quite a challenge to the Cornell Alumni Magazine staff!) The day was gorgeous from start to finish, and the honeymoon in Italy was even better.

2004 looks like it was a "best year ever" for many other newlyweds in our class. Meridith Bogart married Charles Krell last August in New York. Since Meridith just graduated from Cardozo School of Law last June, she must have completed the superhuman task of wedding planning and Bar preparation simultaneously.Meridith works at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP in New York City. Angela Shum married her college sweetheart Michael Santiago '97, DVM '01, in May 2004. Fun and festivities were shared with fellow Cornellians TarynWilliams, ME '00, Danusha Selvendran, John Lin '00, Brice Wu '00, Lawrence Twohig '98, Mark Rodriguez '98, Mollie Twohig '01, Selina Lee '02, ME '03, and Lawrence,DVM '94, and Michele Balacich Buchholz,DVM '94. The couple lives in Jersey City.

Almost seven years after they met during Homecoming weekend at Cornell outside of Rulloff 's, Peter Friedland '95 and Heather Gordon returned to Ithaca to get married last September.Many Cornellians were in attendance including Heather's siblings Rachel Gordon '03 and David Gordon '06, classmates Lori Farber, Stacey Schulman, and Seema Tendolkar, Dane Glasgow, and many more. The couple lucked out with beautiful weather for their outdoor wedding ceremony. The Friedlands are at home in San Francisco.

Christine "Chrissy" Shea '00 and Jesse Brown were married on Oct. 8, 2004 in beautiful Garrison, NY, on the Hudson River, across from West Point (the alma mater of the father of the bride). Jesse writes, "In attendance, we had three Cornellians from the Class of '02 (including my brother,Malcolm Brown, MS '03), two from the Class of 2001, 12 from the Class of 2000, 14 from the Class of 1999, two from the Class of 1998, and one from the Class of 1940 (my grandfather, Burges Smith) . . . a total of 34! Chrissy and I have been living in Boston, MA, since 2001 and are the proud owners of a South End townhouse. Chrissy's still working in food and beverage and I'm still in structured finance."

Rounding out the wedding list is the destination wedding of Laura Hughes and David Greenbaum. The couple married on October 9, 2004 at the Caneel Bay resort on St. John, in the US Virgin Islands. Other Cornell alumni in attendance were Doug '98 and Victoria Cohenour Timpe, and Claire and David Abbott. Laura and David live in NYC.

On the medical career front, Kristin Schmidt lives in Dallas, where she's finishing up chiropractic school. Kimberly Zurich has enrolled in the N.D. program at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, OR. Sidney Chang, "plodding" through his internship after graduating from Cornell Medical College last summer, has been hanging out with Gordon Cohen and Sabrina How in NYC.

Frank Rapacki, MS '01, works as a senior food scientist in R & D for Pepsi in Valhalla, NY. Caryn Yukelson graduated from Yeshiva Law School and is starting her legal career with the Bronx district attorney. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 2003, Armando Rosquete clerked at the Florida Supreme Court in Tallahassee for Justice Raoul G. Cantero III.He now works for the Miami office of Hogan & Hartson LLP. Claire Coleman, married to Yonatan Zamir, is a pro bono fellow at Sullivan & Cromwell.

Wendy Tischler Thomas is a stay-at-home mom and future home-schooling teacher to her and husband Nathan's son Piper, born July 26, 2002. Philadelphia is home to Matthew Markovich, married to Shawn Mariassy '00. The couple happily announces a new addition to their family, daughter Sophie.Matthew is a senior project manager at Toll Brothers. Aida Samaniego and spouse Roberto Gonzalez are parents to 1-year-old Xitlali and 3-year-old Tonatzin. In May 2005, Aida will graduate with her MBA from New Mexico State U., and is in the process of opening up a catering business. Myisha Frazier-McElveen is the proud mother of 3-year-old Donald Lee Frazier McElveen. Myisha and her husband Julian recently bought a house in Maryland, and Myisha was promoted to Agency Relationship Manager at the General Services Administration's e-authentication initiative.

In May 2004, Maggie Mellon finished her MBA in the Langone Program at NYU's Stern School of Business, and she claims, "I am very happy to have a life again." Maggie now works as a strategist at SBI.Razorfish. Kajal Patel graduated from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and is pursuing a career as a strategy and marketing consultant in Boston. After a four-month journey across Latin America, Greg Zumas returned home to D.C. Greg has recently expanded his company, StudySmart, to NYC--now in five states--which he founded with Rich Enos '98.

Send us your new and exciting updates! Jennifer Sheldon, jls33@cornell.edu; Melanie Arzt, snoopymel@yahoo.com; Jess Smith, jessiniowa@hotmail.com.

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