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70 | Chris Aylesworth, DVM '74, and his wife Gayle live in Ferrum, VA, and can be reached at gayleandchris@earthlink.net. Their son Ryan '05 graduated in May from Cornell and is headed to grad school for his MPA. Their other children are Jen in Maine, Brendan in Atlanta, and Jill in the Chicago area. After a three-year search, Chris finally found a college professorship and sold their business and their house all within a month in the spring of 2004. Chris has become the program coordinator for the new health sciences program at Ferrum College and will teach A & P as well. Jack Bilson's change of career from human resources to horticulture continues to be exciting. Several new daylilies have been introduced, including Sweet and Petite, named for his spouse Nancy. Three miniature roses, Jack's Fantasy, Phoebe's Choice, and Fancy Nancy were requested by a major distributor. Use Google to locate his website Rosy Hem Garden. Jack, Nancy, Pitt, and Temple live in Salisbury, NC, and he can be reached at jmb299@cornell.edu. Jack adds that flowering plants make people bloom!

Jacques Blinbaum (New York City; jb422@cornell.edu) is president of Old Court Equities Corp., a real estate investment firm in NYC. He is also founder and CEO of F2B, a payment solution technology company based in São Paulo, Brazil. He is married to Dr. Lauren Cassell (Penn '74), and their daughter Julie attends the U. of Pennsylvania '06; son David is Cornell '08. Jacques is establishing the American Israeli Cord Blood Bank to support the creation of the Israel Cord Blood Bank. Christopher Carroll now resides at the Dexter House Hotel in New York City. Stephen Lowe, also of NYC (slowe44520@aol.com) proudly announces that his 18-year-old son Alex '09 is now a freshman at Cornell in the College of Arts and Sciences. Michael Crandall and his significant other,Michele Markle, live in Medina, NY; his e-mail is Michael_Crandall@ medinacsd.org.

Harry Brull (hbrull@aol.com) lives in St. Paul, MN, with his wife Myra Barrett, PhD '71. Harry is running for the national board of the League of American Bicyclists, a bicycle advocacy organization. He is training for the Tour of the Colorado Rockies, as well as the Death Ride that starts and ends north of Markleeville, CA.Myra has retired from her community mental health center position and is doing private practice. She was recently asked to be president of the Sheltering Arms Foundation, a grantmaking organization dedicated to early childhood concerns. Their daughter Jessica '06 spent the spring semester in New Zealand attending Victoria U.,Wellington, where she was pummeled on the rugby pitch by large Maori women! John and Sandy Shands Elligers (McLean, VA; jelligers@msn.com) continue to work as attorneys at the NCRB. Their daughter Karen has returned to the U. of Virginia law school after several years of teaching. In July, son Andrew married Julia Joh '01. He is at the American U. law school, and she is in a doctoral program at the U. of Maryland. Sandy and John continue their travels, with only two states left to visit!

Merry "DD" Bloch Jones lives near Philadelphia in Gladwyne, PA (jonesmb@aol.com) with her husband Robert and their daughters, age 19 and 15.Her first novel, and eighth book, The Nanny Murders, was published on May 1 by St.Martin's Press. Congratulations! DD and Robert are avid rowers (scullers, to be exact) on the Schuylkill River, out of the Vesper Boat Club. Greg Hill lives in Chesterton, IN, and continues in the same job, but with more responsibility, managing iron-making at the Burns Harbor Plant. He is now on his third company--Bethlehem Steel for 27 years, International Steel Group for two years, and now the Mittal Steel USA Company. He says it is strange--the same place, excellent employees, one bankruptcy, and one merger! Last summer he attended his cousin Hank Brittingham's memorial service. Greg says he knows of few who were such strong supporters of Cornell, and that lower Delaware will not be the same without Hank.

Art Litowitz, DMD (ANLDMD@aol.com) and his wife Kit Kimbl (U. of Michigan '71) live in New Smyrna Beach, FL, with their family.He is slowly, one class per term, earning an MBA online at Nova Southeastern U. Part-time, he is a clinical adjunct professor at the new Dental School of Orthodontics, Jacksonville U. Art also owns and manages his group orthodontic practice in central Florida (greater Orlando area).He recently enjoyed a ten-day trip to Maui and observed dolphins and humpback whales. His sister Susan Litowitz '75 is in Boston, and his brother Budd Litowitz '71 is in Plantation, FL. Kirk Menard (kmenard@menardintl.com) has an executive search business, Menard International Search, which specializes in filling senior level R & D positions in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industries. He also teaches management courses and conducts training programs for Cornell's ILR school, Siena College, and the New School U. (part-time). Kirk lives in Averill Park, NY, with his wife Ellen. Their son Matthew is an '04 graduate of Muhlenberg College, and their other son is a sophomore in high school. Kirk is in touch with Bill Jankun, Ken Brink '71, and Lee Reed '71. Enjoy a wonderful holiday season and be safe and happy in 2006! -- Connie Ferris Meyer, 16 James Thomas Rd.,Malvern, PA 19355; e-mail, cfm7@cornell.edu.

71 | As you read this column, Reunion 2006 planning will be well under way and some of you may have already attended a pre-reunion event. I hope you are planning to join us in Ithaca, June 8-11, 2006. So much for promotion, let's get on to the news.Most of our material comes from our News and Dues mailing last spring.My apologies if some of it is dated. Please note the addresses below and let us know what you're up to. Linda and I love to get your e-mails.

As the university pushed forward to find a new president, classmate Diana Daniels chaired the presidential search committee. Diana has been a member of the Cornell Board of Trustees since July 1995 and became Vice Chairman in 2004.When she isn't occupied on matters in Ithaca, Diana serves as VP, general counsel, and secretary of the Washington Post Company.

Peter '69 and Wendy Zisfein Fried joined the ranks of grandparents earlier this year. The proud parents are both Cornellians, David '98, PhD '04, and Marina Wencelblat Fried '98. The peripatetic older Frieds journeyed across Italy last year and took a walking trip through the Cotswolds in England this past summer. James Cornell also reports grandparent news from Livonia, NY.His first grandchild was born to his middle son. At about the same time he was promoted to Director of Social Services for Livingston County. If that isn't enough to keep a man busy, James is a ski instructor and gardener in his spare time.

Other career movers include Tom Kell, who checked in from Needham, MA. He took a position as CEO of a startup, Specialty Adhesives Company. Tom spent New Year's 2005 exploring New Zealand. Rose Anne Marie Raughley Zerra also made a career move of another sort. She graduated from U. of Central Florida with an MA in Exceptional Education. Victor Curran, BA '73, made a couple of moves of his own.He joined DS Graphics last year and was re-elected president of Bookbuilders of Boston, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing together people involved in book publishing and manufacturing throughout New England.

Some people we haven't heard from in a long time checked in last spring. Dave Mason writes from Cornwall, CT, that he runs Mason Antiques in Tarrytown, NY, and exhibits at East Coast antique shows. Dorothy RollerWiswall continues to "enjoy the wonderful life I have . . . playing violin with husband Tom and various music groups, swimming, and entertaining friends." Dorothy is an adjunct professor at Buffalo State, teaching German. Dara Prisamt Murray debuted her cabaret act, "Songs Along My Way" last June at Helen's Hideaway Room in NYC. She has been a featured singer with Dr. Joe Utterback, also in NYC. In the close call department, Jonathan Ruskin, JD '74, wrote that his son David was on a cruise ship, Semester at Sea, enroute from Vancouver to Pusan, South Korea, when it was hit by a 50-foot wave. Amazingly there were only two minor injuries, and everyone returned safely. The Ruskins live in Falls Church, VA.

Elisabeth Kaplan Boas sent me some updates last summer from Ithaca at Cornell's Adult University (CAU). She ran into Bruce Wagner '64, ME '66, who joined her and husband Art Spitzer for "a little field trip we took around the lake, including a stop at the Women's Rights National Historic Park in Seneca Falls and dinner at the very old-fashioned and famous restaurant in Skaneateles called The Krebs (est. 1899)." Elizabeth has three busy children. Her oldest daughter is in a joint MBA/JD program; her son spent last summer in Japan, then returned to Brown for his senior year; and her youngest daughter is a senior in high school.

Sad news arrived this past June about the death of Gerry Shields. Gerry's principal volunteer involvement with Cornell was chair of the property association for Phi Delta Theta fraternity; his commitment to this role was extraordinary and exemplary. Other sad news to report is that Susan LaBarre Brittingham lost her husband Hank '70 to cancer in July 2004. --Matt Silverman, mes62@cornell.edu; and Linda Germaine-Miller, lg95@cornell.edu.

72 | Dr. Ronald Kendig died of lung cancer on April 27, 2005, though he was a non-smoker. Ron was associate professor of orthopedic surgery and rehabilitation at the U. of Mississippi Medical Center, specializing in pediatric orthopedics. "In this world, there are givers and takers. Ron Kendig was a giver. His presence in this world made it a much better place," said Dr. Robert A.McGuire Jr., chairman of the department of orthopedic surgery at Mississippi. "Ron was truly a gentle giant," according to Dr. Owen B. Evans, another of Ron's colleagues."He was one of the kindest physicians I've ever known and a meticulous surgeon who always put his patients first. His young patients loved him." Ron frequently lectured for continuing medical education programs across the country about congenital orthopedic problems and metabolic bone disease in children. His obituary was sent to us by his sister Karen Walter.

Charles Stuart Heyman was recently cast as Henry Higgins for a production of My Fair Lady at the DeSoto Family Theater in Memphis. He also directed Hansel and Gretel for the Como Opera Guild and is in his seventh year of staging opera scenes for the Memphis Vocal Arts Ensemble. Raymond De Stefano, a thoroughbred racehorse breeder in East Williston, NY, evidently knows how to apply his professional skills to produce thoroughbred humans as well. His daughter Bethany, 10, is enrolled in a program for gifted students, enjoys dance class and gymnastics, and was recently accepted to start classes at a prominent modeling agency.

Anne Carver Rose writes: "My daughter Ellie '05 graduated in May, making her a fourth-generation Cornellian (beginning with my grandfather, Alvin W. King, class of 1907 and followed by my uncle, Douglas B. King, class of 1937). Although she majored in English, her heart was in rowing. She has been a coxswain for the lightweight men's rowing team for three years, earning a varsity letter each year as well as membership in the Red Key Honor Society (2004) and the Coach's Award (2005). Her varsity boat's silver medal at the national championships in June 2005 earned them a chance to compete in the Henley Royal Regatta in England in July. Ellie's father Adam, PhD '74, and I are professors at Penn State U. in the departments of geography and history, respectively. Our son Jon is a freshman in Penn State's College of Science."

Robert Profusek has been named global head of mergers and acquisitions for the Jones Day law firm, working in the firm's Manhattan office. Jerome Goldman is deputy global vice chair of global executive board accounts at Ernst & Young in New York City. His son Larry '01 married Jennifer Brown '01 last May, after meeting her in the freshman dorms on West Campus. Randy Spector and Gary Sesser (and spouses) reunited with Jerry at the Cornell-Yale hockey game in February. EugeneWeber is managing partner of Weber Capital Management LLC in San Francisco.

Jane Friedlieb Greenman joined Tyco Int'l two years ago as VP for compensation, benefits, and labor relations. Previously she was a partner and chair of the employee benefits department at Hughes Hubbard & Reed in New York City, and later VP and deputy general counsel at Honeywell (formerly Allied Signal). Her husband Charles is a partner at Troutman Sanders in NYC. Oldest daughter Margot graduated from Cornell in 2000, spent several years at the World Bank, and is now attending Harvard Business School.Middle daughter Jaclyn graduated from Trinity College and is now an MBA student at Johnson & Wales. Youngest daughter Danielle '07 recently completed her sophomore year at Cornell. Steven Silbermann, ME '73, spent 31 years at Kodak and is now a manager of system engineering at ITT Industries, following ITT's purchase of the Kodak division where Steve worked. Steve and wife Susie have son Josh '03 now working at the Kodak Research Laboratories in Rochester, and son Ari, a member of the Class of '08 in the College of Human Ecology.

Edward,MBA '73, and Muriel Mulgrew Klein live in Sarasota, FL, and spend their summers in New York City.Mimi is pursuing an advanced certificate in creative arts therapy at the Ringling School of Art and is involved with several Sarasota organizations working with children in the schools and in "at risk" situations. Ed actively manages money through his own firm, KR Capital Advisors. They have a son who graduated from Vanderbilt U. and married his college sweetheart, another son who graduated from Duke U. and will be attending NYU law school in the fall, and a daughter who is still in high school.Mimi writes: "Over the past year we have seen Bob Selander and his beautiful wife Nancy; Jeri Sielschott Whitfield and her husband Pete and sons; Paul Rubacha, MBA '73, and his wife Frances and children; John and Wendy Small Wannop and all four children; and Dave, MBA '73, and Cheryl Nash! All of these people are dear friends from the Class of '72 and we've been lucky to catch up with all of them." -- Gary L. Rubin, glrubin@aol.com; Alex Barna, alexander.barna-1@nasa.gov.

73 | It was great seeing Bill Welker and other Glee Club alums at the class meeting last January and getting a chance to sing the senior verse of the "Song of the Classes," to which I (little-known fact) added the "still unemployed" punch line for the spring concert as a senior. It is my one published lyric. By the time you read this, we should be on the way to our most remarkable Christmas sojourn ever, but more about that later.

Paula Gutlove is living with her husband and two daughters, ages 17 and 22, in Cambridge and Martha's Vineyard, MA, and has put her Cornell degree in Human Development to good use as deputy director of the Inst. for Resource and Security Studies. She runs the International Conflict Management Program (ICMP) and has brought her conflict resolution concepts to groups in the US, the Balkans, the former USSR, Japan, Australia, and the Middle East. Don Fisher reports that he's taken full ownership of Pomeroy Appraisal Associates, the largest real estate appraisal and consulting firm in Central New York. His big project right now is a Syracuse shopping/convention/ theme park/ hotel/R&D complex called DestiNY USA, which would be the largest of its kind in the world.Who ever thought Syracuse would be a destination?

Yvonne Jara Dunbar lives in South Texas, where, she reports, the tea you leave in the car is hotter after work than when you fixed it that morning. She's completed her second year as coordinator of an Even Start Family Literacy program. Husband Frank '74 teaches journalism at Porter High School in Brownsville, as well as helping with their gourmet dinner/education group, "Soiree."As for the kids, son Michael has graduated from Yale and teaches social studies at a private school in Ft.Worth. Eldest daughter Gabrielle '00 lives in Las Vegas and works in the restaurant industry. Second daughter Nina graduated from U. of Texas, Arlington and has an executive position at Travelocity in Irving, TX. And Adrienne '06, the youngest, graduates from Cornell next spring.

After more than 25 years of working at Cornell in Plant Pathology and Plant Breeding, Edward Cobb is back at the Plant Biology department. If you need plants that can survive a "benign neglect" gardening style, Ed registered a new hardy boxwood called "Vera Green" that stays green even through tough Ithaca winters. Jacqui Bower lives in the Bay Area and took a job with Census 2000 to set a civic example for her youngest daughter. She enjoyed the work so much that she's now a lead field representative. She's also been surveying beaches as a volunteer with the Gulf of the Farallons Marine Sanctuary since 1995.Husband Richard is still plant manager at Evergood Fine Foods in San Francisco, hiking and refereeing soccer in his spare time. Oldest daughter Caroline '99 is a captain in the Air Force, working as a typhoon duty officer on Oahu.

Mary Gilliland, MAT '80's poems have recently appeared in AGNI Online, Passages North, Seneca Review, and Smartish Pace. She directs the Writing Walk-In Service at Cornell, and will teach the spring '06 term in Doha at the Cornell Branch Campus in sunny Qatar. Marcy Sonneborn Fabiani continues to practice law part-time in Midtown Manhattan. Son Joseph is second year Harvard Law School; son Michael is second year Tufts U.; and daughter Charlotte is in tenth grade.Marcy is president of the Human Ecology Alumni Association. EllenWalser deLara, PhD '00's latest book is And Words Can Hurt Forever: How to Protect Adolescents from Bullying, Harassment, and Emotional Violence with Dr. James Garbarino (Simon & Schuster). Her youngest son is a junior at Princeton and spent last summer in Russia.

Roger Ellis, DVM '77, is a field veterinarian for the NYS Dept. of Agriculture and Markets and lives in Granville, NY, with wife Claudia. Daughter Lisa '00 is a master's candidate at the U. of Illinois. Son Tim is finishing his communications major in Albany. As a volunteer for Heifer Int'l for the past 20 years, Roger has traveled extensively in Central America, Africa, and the Mekong River Region of Southeast Asia. His latest project was working with dairy farms in Western Siberia. Dana Friedman lives on Long Island, where she's president of Women on the Job, spreading the word that Ozzie and Harriet are no longer. She reports being emboldened by her three daughters, the oldest of whom is at MIT.

David Felderstein remains an unrepentant tenor, singing in the symphonic chorus in Sacramento, CA. For close to 30 years, he's been the California Senate's go-to guy on collective bargaining and public employee retirement. He lives with Daniel Hoody, his partner of 15 years, and continues to be actively involved in the ongoing struggle for gay rights, contributing to the development of domestic partner laws. Timothy Flanagan reports that the daily grind of a trial lawyer isn't quite like TV, but he's finding inspiration playing in a band with people he describes as "quite a bit younger."We all know what he means. He, along with wife Nancy and daughters Caroline, 14, Claire, 12, and Fiona, 6, vacationed in Spain, and summer plans include a possible reunion of members of the Slaterville Inst. of Higher Level Wellness on Mount Rainier with classmate Scot Finer.

Harold Doty works for Dow Chemical and lives with wife Dee in Quintana, TX, one of the oldest (and smallest at population 41) communities on the Gulf Coast. He reports that if it weren't for the noise of the waves keeping him up at night, it would be paradise! Michael Asmussen lives in Brazil where Asmussen & Associados does conceptual design and strategic planning for the lodging industry. His company's latest project is a full Amazon Jungle Eco-resort, which you can check out on Google Earth: 09 degrees 03' 45" South, 56 degrees 35' 36" West. Eldest son Christian Willy is an IT manager and recently married; second son Michael Aage just graduated as a physics engineer; and wife Camilla and their daughters Sophie Victoria, 7, and Caroline Emilie, 9 keep dad in shape.Home is a farm that Michael shares with his parents and a herd of ostriches.

TomClausen is in his 30th year working at Mann Library in the Access Services department, living in the house he grew up in on Slaterville Rd. He commutes by bicycle, and in his spare time writes haiku, senryu, and tanka. His most recent collection is called being there, published by Swamp Press, and he has a Daily Haiku link on the Mann Library home page. Finally, Bill, PhD '89, and Lauren Tozek Cowdery '72, PhD '80, report that daughter Betsy has just enrolled as a freshman at Cornell in Arts and Sciences and is following in her parents' footsteps, living in Risley College and pursuing music and theater. Bill works at the Congregational Church in Cayuga Heights and does adjunct teaching at Cornell; Lauren designs and constructs costumes for theatrical groups in the area.

Thanks for all the news. Our big Christmas trip will be a journey to Niger, where oldest daughter Emilie is in her first year of a two-year Peace Corps assignment.Wife Patti (Miller) '72 and youngest daughter Caitlin can't wait to join her in her thatched hut, free of the constraints of electricity, running water, and ample food.Me? I've booked a beachfront hotel in Senegal. Thanks for the great response--which has forced us to push some your news into next month's column! -- Dave Ross, dave@daveross.com; Phyllis Haight Grummon, phg3@cornell.edu.

74 | Thanks to all of you for responding to my e-mail for news (seems like a lot of you can empathize with pleas citing publication deadlines). For those we haven't touched base with, consider this a formal invitation to tell us what's happening in your lives. Don't wait for the News and Dues forms--just send an e-mail to any of the addresses at the end of this column.

Congratulations to the following classmates whose kids have been accepted into Cornell for the Class of 2009: Chris Shiber's son Aaron, Alice Brown's son Philip, Evan Zuckerman's son Tyler, Jodi Sielschott Stechschulte's daughter Lynne (number three for her!), Nancy Baldini Howard '75's son Scott, and Perry Jacob's daughter Jessica (who's in 221 Donlon!).

Also on the list, Dan Vlock shared the good news that daughter Elizabeth will be attending Cornell in Arts and Sciences in the fall. She follows her brother Jonathan '03, who is now working for a publishing firm in New York City. If she is lucky (or unlucky, depending on one's perspective), she may even spend her freshman year in Donlon as did her father and brother. Congrats to David '73 and Karen Farber Freedman, MAT '75, who attended the Cornell graduation of daughter Amanda this past June.

Larry Lewin is president of Niagara Casinos after nearly 30 years of running hotels and casinos around the world with the Hilton and Hyatt companies. Larry and wife Cher live in Clarence, NY. Ithaca resident Diana Drucker sent in a short e-mail expressing her disappointment in the university's decision regarding Redbud Woods.

Carol Bradford and Jim Greenwald are living in Syracuse. Jim teaches family medicine at Upstate Medical U., and Carol writes about gardening for the Syracuse Post- Standard. They celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary last year. "Our older son Andrew graduated from ILR in 2003 and received his MBA from the Johnson School in 2004. He's now working as an investment analyst in NYC. Our younger son Tim is in 7th grade.We get to Ithaca often, and were amused to see that our hangout Collegetown Bagels has moved out on Triphammer Road, far from Collegetown. But the Johnny's Big Red neon sign is still up even though Johnny's is gone."

After 25 years in management and information technology (IT) consulting, Hart Boykin Jr. decided to pursue his dream of being an actor. "For the past couple of years, I've been studying and have landed guest roles on such TV projects as ABC's ‘General Hospital,' ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live,' and Nickelodeon's ‘Unfabulous.' Film credits include L.A. Riot Spectacular and Crown Heights. The change from corporate life to the artistic life has been a nice and needed change of focus, but I'm not sure which is the more hectic pace. I still freelance as a consultant, as I don't think I'll ever lose my interest in technology and the automation of business and everyday life.My wife Aysegul and I celebrate our 18th wedding anniversary in October. Aysegul is from Istanbul, Turkey, and we met while I was on a consulting assignment in the Middle East in the early '80s. We have started our retirement plan with the building of a home on the Aegean Sea in Turkey."

Thomas Birch owns a group of radio stations in North Carolina and Virginia. He's happily married, with three children--two college grads and one going into college. They have a summer home in Aurora, NY, on Cayuga Lake (30 miles north of Ithaca), and so get into Ithaca from time to time during the summer and fall. "Cornell has grown markedly since our years there. It's still beautiful, but I'm not a fan of the architecture of the newer buildings.We travel between our two homes in Raleigh, NC (we moved to Raleigh in April, after 30 years in South Florida), and Aurora, and we're stretched in three other directions as well--to see our kids in Florida, my wife's mother and sister in Montgomery, AL, and my parents and sister in Binghamton, NY. And I have to take another side trip to Cooperstown, NY, to visit my brother Bob '79 and his family. Biggest challenge we're now facing is dealing with aging parents." Tom is still close friends with Stuart Lewis, who now resides in Denver, and has seen Pete Saracino a few times; his next door neighbor in Aurora is George Slocum '62, MBA '67, who is a Cornell trustee.

Vincent Coggiola is general manager of Famous Dave's BBQ in Hillsborough, NJ, where's he's been working for the past four years. Vince is single and living in Hatboro, PA, about 20 miles north of Philadelphia, but recently visited Mark Liebig and his wife Connie. Former class correspondent Jodi Sielschott Stechschulte passed along the news that she sent daughter Lynne off to Cornell as a freshman in Arts. Brother John '06 is there in Engineering. Lisa '04 graduated from Arts last year and is living and working in the D.C. area. Paul will be a high school senior next year and is determined to check out other schools and see how they compare. Lauren will be in 5th grade. Jodi said she is on the long-term program of parenting!

Claudia Benack, MS '75, is senior principal, Center for Science and Technology (CSAT) at Mitretek Systems. "I am moving on, following an exciting career with the GEOMET as director of the GEOMET BioDefense Laboratory." She's got a top secret government security clearance. She served on the Hum Ec Alumni Board from 1995 to 1999. Two children, Jonathan and Gillian, graduated from U. of Texas, Austin. Jon double majored in French and English literature. He's studying for the Law boards and working as a bank loan officer. Gillian graduated with a BA (with distinction) in the natural sciences and is taking a year off and working in Austin.

Harvey Gold wrote to say that he celebrated his 20th anniversary at DuPont. "For the past five years, I have been a Six Sigma Master Black Belt, which is a type of quality initiative designed to understand the voice of the customer. In addition to training Six Sigma Green Belts in central research and development in Wilmington, DE, I have helped train Green Belts for DuPont Canada, and I have been the instructor for several Black Belt waves in the US and Europe. Quite a departure from my previous assignments as a PhD analytical chemist. In a sense I have come full-circle, back to an assignment centered around teaching, much like my seven years on the faculty at the U. of Delaware before joining DuPont. As one who is increasingly youth-challenged (as is everyone in our class), my daughter Lynn (age 15, entering sophomore year in high school) and son Rory (age 10, entering 5th grade) keep me tied to more youthful interests." Please send your news to: -- Steve Raye, spr23@cornell.edu; Bill Howard, billhoward@ comcast.net, or Betsy Moore, emoore@cazenovia.edu.

75 | The crisp fall air as we read this column is an indication that classes are in session "on the Hill," but many of us are still reflecting upon the events of our 30th Reunion in June. E-mails, phone calls, and correspondence that I've received during the past few months all confirm that if you missed our celebratory gathering, you should know that attending the 35th will be a must! Personally, Reunion was cathartic, meeting up with old friends and making a few new ones . . . participating in some of the same activities that I did 30 years ago (spending time with my DG and DU friends, checking out the Chapter House, and walking the campus and Collegetown), and also taking advantage of a few new challenges (watching the Alumni Baseball Game in 90-plus-degree sun, sleeping without AC, and even climbing the indoor rock wall).

In addition to renewing old acquaintances, a new group of class officers was elected during Reunion to guide us through the next five years: Charlie Temel, president; Rich Marin, MBA '76, VP; Vickie Thaler Vaclavik, secretary; Karen Kaplan, treasurer; Mario Giannella, ME '79, webmaster; and Martin Mack, membership contact. Cornell Fund representatives are Charles McClure (Major Gifts) and Stephanie Feit Gould. Susan Fulton and Jeanne Fattori Smith will once again assume the daunting role of reunion co-chairs after doing a great job with our 30th. Representatives for Class Council will be Kenneth and Elaine Johnson Ayres, John Halloran, and Dean Toriello. Your class correspondents will remain Karen DeMarco Boroff, Mitchell Frank, Deborah Gellman, MBA '82, and Joan Pease.

And now, here's more news from Reunion attendees. Julia Loeb Aurigemma is an administrative judge of the Middlesex Superior Court in Connecticut. She and husband Andrew are both reunion regulars, and are now experiencing the "empty nest." Son Will is a junior at Boston U., a Marine ROTC, and will be a Marine lieutenant in 2006. In honor of his commissioning, Julia will run the Marine Corps Marathon! Their other son, Dave, is in the master's program at Boston U.Medical School, planning to enter medical school in Sept. 2006. Susan Corner Rosen came to Reunion from Charleston, SC, taking a break from a thriving civil trial law practice. Check out an impressive list of her litigation accomplishments at rosen-lawfirm.com.

Howard Green flew to Reunion from Los Gatos, CA, where he is a technology marketing consultant. You can reach him at sr.verde@comcast.net. In a related area of business, David Glass is an independent consultant in licensing technology transfers in Needham, MA. He reports that son Josh, 18, starts at BU this fall, and daughter Tamara, 16, is doing well. Lil Konowitz Calish came to Reunion from Boston, showing pictures of the spectacular 1894 home that she and husband Jeff, a computer consultant, own. Lil, who works in quality control for Winthrop Printing, has daughters Abby, 14, and Zoe, 16. Konrad Wos works in real estate management, traveling to Reunion from Rye, NY, with daughter Carson. Residing in Rockville, MD, Jill Siegel owns OMR, a thriving market research company.

Ken Wingate is a commercial builder in Baltimore and is kept (forever) young by wife Lisa, MA '85, and son Matthew, 6. Another contractor that I met up with at Reunion is Ben Peyton, currently in the Watertown, NY, area.With the exception of his long wavy hair having turned white, I wouldn't have known that the clock had moved forward 30 years!

Traveling to Ithaca from Dallas, where she works at U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the Dept. of Clinical Nutrition, Vickie Thaler Vaclavik says, "Reunion was fun and it brought back good memories as well as new friends. In my days at Cornell studying in the field of nutrition I met lifelong friends, a husband, and co-authors. I built my faith, and more." Could any of us ask for more out of Cornell than that? You can contact Vickie at Vickie.Vaclavik@UTSouthwestern.edu. Michael Tannenbaum is dean of the School of Science at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY. A recent highlight he recounts was watching Cornell win the ECAC Hockey Tournament this past spring in Albany. Fellow DG and class correspondent Karen DeMarco Boroff and husband Joel brought their two children to Reunion for a great family vacation. Each time I saw them they were heading to another sporting event such as canoeing on Beebe Lake, climbing the indoor rock wall, or hiking through the gorge . . . fun things that I wish I had done more of while a student!

While not in attendance at Reunion, we have news from a few classmates whose hearts were with us! Graphic designer Laurie Musick Wright was home in Vermont attending the high school graduation of her twin daughters. Karen Leung Moore was continuing her travels around the world with Build-A-Bear Workshop, having recently opened two new stores in Australia, four stores each in Japan and the UK, and one at Tivoli Gardens in Denmark. Son Jamie is now a senior at U. of Kansas, while daughter Kristi is a Williams College freshman.

Nancy Baldini Howard wrote that she attended husband Walt '74's 30th Reunion last year. They have three sons. The oldest, Brian '04, graduated from Cornell Engineering and works as a consultant for PRTM in Stamford, CT.Warren is a senior at Lehigh U. majoring in chemical engineering, and youngest son Scott '09 is a Cornell Engineering freshman. She writes that we can only imagine what living with all of those engineers must be like! Christine Curran Williams lives in Potomac,MD, with husband Keith and three children. Oldest daughter Kelly attends Ithaca College.High school senior Elizabeth attended a Cornell summer program, while son Matt went to UVA during the summer for his college experience.

Please send your news with your class dues to any one of us who faithfully write the 1975 class column: -- Joan Pease, japease1032@aol.com; Deb Gellman, dsgellman@hotmail.com; Karen DeMarco Boroff, boroffka@shu.edu; and Mitch Frank, MJFgator@aol.com.

76 | Thanks for the influx of news via our annual News and Dues mailings! William "Willy" Bemis writes, "In June 2005, I relocated from the U. of Massachusetts to Cornell to serve as Kingsbury Director of the Shoals Marine Laboratory and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. It is great to be back at Cornell! My wife, Betty McGuire, is also joining the faculty in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Our children Kate, 12, and Owen, 9, are looking forward to happy times in Ithaca and on beautiful Appledore Island, home of the Shoals Marine Lab. I am looking forward to our 30th Reunion next year!"

Many of us have had occasion to return, at least for a visit. Gay Eng writes, "I attended my niece's graduation at Cornell in May, and the campus sure has changed. I am a financial manager for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Dept. of Housing and Community Development. I have two children and am married to Jerry Sun, who is also a Cornell alum (PhD in psychology). I recently visited classmate Raul Rivera, who has a flourishing architectural practice in Puerto Rico and would love to hear from fellow Cornellians." Jean Toni Benson Griffiths, MPS '05, has been back at Cornell on a more extended basis, having just completed her MPS degree with a major in animal science and a minor in education. During 2004, she wrote both a thesis and an equine science book. Jean is a Cornell Cooperative Extension horse specialist and lives in Freeville.

John Berndt sends best regards from a new address in Kowloon, Hong Kong. He says, "My wife and I enjoy Hong Kong very much.We have been in Asia since 1995. We enjoy traveling and are challenged by the present bullish economy and growth opportunities in China. I have recently joined a well-established development company, HK, parent for Marco Polo Hotels, participating in the regional growth opportunities.We have had the pleasure to see many alumni and friends passing through on interesting business/holiday travels."

Richard Neff writes from Manhattan Beach, CA, "After running a boutique international intellectual property law firm (Neff Law Group) for 12 years, I merged it into Greenberg Glusker last July (2004), a very appealing mid-sized L.A. firm with a strong reputation in litigation and entertainment. I'm heading up the intellectual property and technology department. I've been to Mexico and Peru in the past six months with my girlfriend." Richard's son Josh must by this time be a junior at Harvard, and Sara has started at Berkeley. Richard says, "She finished a good year as co-captain of L.A.'s club women's varsity crew team (Marina Aquatic)." As of May, Hilary was "finishing eighth grade at Chadwick School and occasionally riding the national circuit (equitation over fences)."

On another coast,Marjorie Silberman recently joined the Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the U. of Miami's Miller School of Medicine as assistant chair of finance and administration. Joseph Colosi, ME '77, and his spouse Sheila must be proud to have seen oldest daughter Lisa '03 graduate from Cornell. Her degree was in biological engineering. Sarah Getman Steele was recently appointed associate VP for faculty relations at Quinnipiac U. in Hamden, CT, after serving more than 21 years as director of personnel services at Hamilton College. And our old friend Gil Gleim reports that he has a new position as clinical monitor with Merck, which required him to relocate. He is now based in Rahway but trains from Princeton Junction most of the time.

Another friend and fellow Daily Sun alumnus Rob Simon had a book published in May that will be of great interest to many longtime sufferers: Snore No More: Remedies and Relief for Snorers and Snorees Everywhere. Rob describes it as "a funny look at a serious problem, mixed with well-researched info on what causes snoring and how to stop it." Rob says he had gone to great--yet unsuccessful--lengths to cure his own snoring problem and began to do some serious research.He writes, "Turns out 90 million people snore in America. That means there are perhaps another 90 million people--the snorees--who try to live with the snorers. The snorees are the ones suffering even though they aren't the ones with the problem.My book is one of the first to ‘feel their pain' and make them laugh a little about it, while giving them practical advice. And since mostly men snore, my book is mostly for women." Rob's wife Marisol is also a writer. Her first novel, published by HarperCollins, The Lady, The Chef, and the Courtesan, "tracks three generations of South American women struggling with issues of love, duty, work, and family." It won Latino Novel of the Year. Rob says, "Meanwhile, I decided to sell my interests in my ad/marketing/PR agency, the one I had for the last 16 years. I'm working out of my house, solo, trying to make a career of consulting, writing, and, just in case, a new business idea I have for database marketing. Nothing like an approaching 50th birthday to motivate me to think big!"

Judith Brown responded kindly to an e-mail request for news, writing, "I'm an assistant attorney general in Connecticut, handling a variety of civil litigation, collections, and paternity cases for the state, as well as a small amount of criminal prosecutions.My husband Michael Schub teaches Arabic at Trinity College in Hartford. Our daughter Naomi has just finished her first year of college at Eugene Lang College of the New School in Manhattan. Our son Zachary is in high school." Cynthia Soffen Cooper is a gynecologist in private practice in Dover, NH. She serves on the committee of the National Board of Medical Examiners that makes up the certification tests that medical students take in order to become licensed physicians. She and her spouse David and children Kathy, 18, Kara, 16, and Sam, 13, live in Durham, NH. Cynthia saw our classmate Bradley Britigan in May and reports that he recently became chairman of the Dept. of Internal Medicine at the U. of Cincinnati.

More Ohio news: Pat Briscoe DeJarnett and her spouse Alexander live in Cincinnati with daughters Simone, 14, and Camille, 13. Pat is interim president/CEO of Neighborhood Health Care Inc., in Cincinnati. Michael VanDemark and spouse Connie are in Springboro, OH. Their children are Jessica, 25, Christina, 22,Matthew, 19, and Catherine, 11.We wish the very best to Christine Butler Lenoir, who has been recalled to active duty in the Navy Nurse Corps as commander in support of Operation Noble Eagle, whose mission is defense and civil support at home. She will return to civilian work at the Virginia Beach Dept. of Public Health in June 2006.

Speaking of 2006, let's all plan now to get to Ithaca for our 30th Reunion. It's a must for anyone who missed our 25th. And anyone who went to our 25th will require no urging to repeat--and perhaps enlarge upon--the fun. I'll plan to see you there. Cheers! -- Pat Relf Hanavan, relf@tds.net; Karen Krinsky Sussman, Krinsk54@aol.com; Lisa Diamant, ljdiamant@rcn.com.

77 | Scott and Elaine Zajac Jackson '78 are the very proud (and tuition-poor) parents of two Cornell students. Aaron '06 and Meredith '08 are both in the Engineering college. Aaron also works for Lynn Wingate Baird '78 at the Cornell Theory Center. Scott notes that he continues to survive the relentless cutbacks at an unnamed major chemical company (note that the Jacksons live in Wilmington, DE, so the attempt to protect the innocent(?) unnamed company may fall to deductive reasoning . . .). Another '77/'78 couple sent in news of a child at Cornell--Chuck Ortenberg and Patty Stone '78 noted that their son David was accepted as an early admittance to Arts and Sciences for the Class of 2009. Chuck and Patty live in Menlo Park, CA, and keep in touch with a number of classmates. They saw Bob Dutkowsky and his wife during the 2004 summer. Bob and his wife Lorraine live in Boston, where they are adjusting to the empty nest syndrome. (Don't even remind me! I have three years before my son graduates high school and I'm already a wreck.) Chuck and Mike Weber got back in touch after our 25th Reunion and spend lots of e-mail time trading jabs about the ALCS. Chuck is thrilled because it's the first time his team won.Mike is with Xerox in Rochester, NY.

Rachel Wechsler '07 is the daughter of Ron and Debbie Biegelson Wechsler, who met during our junior year. Rachel lives on campus in JAM ("Just About Music"). The Wechslers' other two children, Bennett and Jordon, are 16 and 12, respectively, and they all live on the Upper West Side in New York City. Debbie recently started a job at McBride & Associates, an architectural firm. Ron works at Citigroup in real estate finance with a number of (much younger) Cornell alumni. The Wechslers stay in touch with a lot of classmates and have recently seen Roxanne Nersesian Paul, Roy Cohen, Eric Brook, Gilles Sion, and Alvin Lee.

Algernon and Nancy Garmus Greenlee reside in Sacramento, CA. Algernon recently was promoted to director of marketing for Blue Diamond Almond Growers. Nancy manages her own landscape design business, helping to make Sacramento a beautiful place. The Greenlees have two children. Rachel was busy applying to colleges when news was sent in and Ben was a high school freshman starring in the school play. Bruce Patterson is a dentist in New London, CT, and has two children at the U. of Vermont: Gilbert, a junior, and Lucy, a sophomore. Bruce's youngest child, Daniel, is in 11th grade at the Williams School. Bruce notes that classmate MikeWald attended his 50th birthday party. AndreaWarnick Masterman and her husband Jim '76 have three children, including Justin, who is a sophomore at the U. of Pennsylvania. Their other children are Kayla, 13, and David, 16. Jim is a partner at Masterman, Culbert & Tully in Boston. The Mastermans also reconnected with Laura Konowitz Ratner, whose daughter Jess chose Brown. From the complete other end of the alumni children spectrum, Paula Zwerdling Zirinsky of New York City announced the birth of her new baby, Ethan Albert, born May 13, 2004.

Classmate Kudos. Duo Dickinson, BArch '78, lives in Madison, CT, and recently published his sixth book, The House You Build. He's gotten a lot of media exposure: the book was promoted on CNN, plus Duo writes the "By Design" column for This Old House magazine and has had many speaking engagements. In between all of this, Duo still runs an 11-person architectural firm in Madison. Duo's wife Liz is a "lapsed" lawyer-turned-editor and they have two boys fully into music. Rita Redberg is a professor of medicine at UC San Francisco in the cardiology division. Rita recently returned to UCSF after a one-year sabbatical as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow in Washington, DC. She worked in the office of Senator Orrin Hatch and loved the entire experience of being so close to the heart of health policy and politics.While in D.C., she got to see classmates Jeff Bialos and SusanWarshaw Ebner, JD '80. Since she was on the East Coast, she also visited Cornell for the Vet college open house and saw Gail Ruterman Schwartz.

Fran Wallace Epstein has been selected to be the consulting psychologist to the Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalition. She also has the honor of being the captain of "The Bagel Bunch," first place winners for the past two years in the Relay for Life, the signature fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. She was one of three people who walked for 24 hours, nonstop. Fran and her son Alex, 16, live on 23 beautiful acres in the foothills of the California Sierra Mountains. Fran's brother Lee '72, DVM '75, has a thriving veterinary practice, which is managed by his wife, Marsha (Kusnitz) '75. Fran recently visited Gary '74 and Shelly Weiner Bettman '75. Gary is living the Cornell hockey fan's dream: he's the "top dog" of the NHL. Speaking of hockey, Joseph Bruce of Rochester Hills, MI, sent in a picture of himself with Mark LaCasse '83 and Paul Landgraf '82 holding the NHL's Stanley Cub, the WNBA Championship Trophy, and NBA's Larry O'Brien Award. The Cornell alumni and the trophies got together at a Guardian Industries executive function. Guardian's owner also owns the Detroit Pistons, the Detroit Shock, and the Tampa Bay Lightning sports teams, which all won championships in the same year.

Quick Bits. Joyce Smith Mackessy has numerous credentials following her name: MS, MBA, RD, CND, CNSD. She and husband Dan live in Fayetteville, NY, where she works for Upstate Medical U. in hospital administration as service line administrator for ancillary services. Jeff Brown of Roswell, GA, manages a portfolio of long-term contracts for heavy-duty gas turbines with GE. Mark McNamara of La Verne, CA, is married with three children and is medical director for City of Hope Medical Group in Pasadena, CA. Sharon Dolin, PhD '90, and husband Barry Magid live in New York City with their 7-year-old son Sam. Sharon teaches poetry seminars and workshops at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y and coordinates the annual Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Competition at the Center of Book Arts. Sharon has published three books of poems, including Realm of the Possible, published by Four Way Books in 2004.

Margarita Knoepffler Dilley was elected to the board of directors of CH Energy Group and will serve on their audit committee. She recently stepped down as CFO and member of the board of Astrolink Int'l, a satellite telecommunications venture that provided high-speed broadband services. After leaving Cornell,Margarita earned a master's degree in chemistry from Columbia U. and an MBA from Wharton and spent her early career at Intelsat and Comcast.Margarita lives in Washington, DC. Sari Lee Schaumberger Gordon, an optometrist and mathematics instructor, sent with pride the news that her daughter Melissa received a scholarship to attend Ithaca College as a theater major with a math minor. Sari Lee is sure that Melissa will love Ithaca, just as she did while at Cornell. -- Lorrie Panzer Rudin, lorrie_b_rudin@fanniemae.com; Howie Eisen, heisen@drexelmed.edu.

78 | Jonathan Warach still enjoys the practice of neurology, which he describes as "a fascinating specialty that embodies the full range of human experience and interfaces with the mind and soul."He also addressed the AMA Litigation Center to discuss the peer review process as it pertains to expert witnesses in medical malpractice cases. This is an important issue related to diminishing "junk lawsuits." Jonathan lives in Dover, NH, with his wife Robbie. Peter Ressler (pressler@rmgsearch.com) is president of a Wall Street executive search firm. He co-authored a book in January of 2005 titled Spiritual Capitalism: What the FDNY Taught Wall Street about Money. Peter was a volunteer firefighter when he lived on Long Island, but has now moved to Tewksbury, NJ. He and his wife Monika have three children, ages 22, 20, and 9. His daughter graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College in 2004.

Stephen Colm, MBA '80 (sbcolm@msn.com) lives in Colorado with his wife Beverly, where he has a private practice in oral surgery. Stephen is also the chief of dental services at the VAMC in Denver. Stephen and Beverly adopted a second daughter, Bowen Mei Colm, from Yi Yang, Hunan, China, last year. They were quite impressed with the Chinese hospitality and their Asian experience in general. Stephen also notes that the brothers of Sigma Pi started a "Name that Pi-Man" e-mail last year. There are now hundreds of brothers receiving news and participating every week. It is great for catching up with old friends and memories. Richard Chuchla (rchuchla@aol.com) has finished an assignment managing Exxon/Mobil's exploration program in Angola and the Congo. Currently, he is the company's strategic planning manager and lives in Houston. Richard is married to Elizabeth (Green) and they have three children.Matthew is at Princeton U., Maresa '09 ("Reese") attends Cornell, and Robert is in high school. Richard also reports that he saw Ted Snedden, MS '83, at a recent gathering and mentioned that President Rhodes was in town for an enjoyable dinner and talk. Gary Smotrich is still a plastic surgeon in Lawrenceville, NJ. He and his wife Susan have boys Danny, 9, and Jonathan, 6. Gary saw Bill Maher at a party in L.A. He also saw Alan Schulman, DVM '83, and noted that he was mentioned in Newsweek as a veterinarian doing cosmetic surgery on dogs. They compared notes on canine vs. non-canine cosmetic surgery.

Kathy Landau (klandau3@aol.com) is now living in Joshua Tree, CA. She is a manager of a nearby "Curves," has lost over 30 pounds, and is having a blast managing "a place that is dedicated to the health of women of all ages, colors, and sizes."Kathy still writes every day between 3:00 and 6:00 a.m.; she is convinced that she has not left East Coast time. She has been involved in the Hi-Desert Playhouse and Cultural Center, performing in one play and helping with lights in two others. Court Williams (cdwelliot@aol.com) lives in Fairfield, CT, where he works as an executive recruiter with Elliot Associates specializing in CEOs and department officers in the restaurant chain industry. He is also an executive coach for incoming students at the Hotel school at Cornell. Court's wife Stacey has earned a master's degree in community counseling and is working with a State of Connecticut court-appointed substance abuse agency as a counselor. Court and Stacey have children Peyton, 12, and Grant, 10. Both are avid swimmers and lacrosse players. Grant also participates in karate and is keen to earn his black belt. The Williamses also have a second house in Vermont ski country.

Alexandra Swiecicki Fairfield, PhD '85 (afairfield@msn.com) and her husband David Cheney live in Silver Spring,MD. David, daughter Austin, 10, and son Alex, 13, have all earned their black belts in Tae Kwon Do. They divide their time between Maryland and a vacation home on a lake in the Poconos. They ski all winter and swim all summer; guests are always welcome. Alexandra teaches microbiology part-time at a local college. She reports that her former roommate Leslie Branch Kulick '77 has children Matthew '07 and Rachel '09 attending Cornell. Alexandra and Margie Ferris-Morris hope to attend the reunion of the International Living Center, which she describes as a "great dorm where we made life-long friends."Margie's husband Peter spent five weeks overseeing relief efforts in Sri Lanka and Aceh, Indonesia, after the tsunami last year. Cindy Fuller, PhD '92 (cjfuller@mindspring.com) reports that she and Julian Vrieslander, PhD '81, have fallen into a crowd of fellow "foodies" who make regular explorations into Seattle restaurants and ethnic groceries. They also visited Victoria and the Olympic Peninsula. Cindy has had a chapter published in the second edition of Cardiovascular Nutrition. She teaches part-time and does freelancing as a medical writer.

Mark Rouleau (nassaugroup@hotmail.com), his wife Lisa, and two sons live in Derby, KS. They found a 40-acre property with stables. They don't have any horses yet, but they have been clearing brush and "getting poison ivy every other weekend."Mark took his sons to Minneapolis to see their first Cornell hockey game and Mark's first in 27 years! He said that the Cornellians that were there "took over the place cheering for the Big Red." That game disappointingly resulted in an overtime loss for Cornell. Mark follows Big Red sports closely and the Internet access has made it that much easier. JuanMa Morales (sonidocosteno@msn.com) lives in Brooklyn with his wife Maria. JuanMa's band Sonido Costeno placed third in the Billboard songwriting contest for Latin music.

More news is always welcome! -- Pepi F. Leids, PLeids@aol.com; Diane Elliott, dje35@cornell.edu.

79 | First, I want to thank those of you who responded to my e-mail pleas. This column is written for you, and your class correspondents need news from you to make this happen. Send an e-mail or note to me, Kathy, Cynthia, or Alumni Affairs and let us know about you, your spouse, your partner, your children, your pets, your career, your leisure pursuits, your volunteer activities, exciting travel, plans for the future, etc.Have you attended an on-campus or off-campus program with Cornell's Adult University? Are you involved with your local Cornell Club? Let us know!

Kenneth Schwartz FAIA,MArch '83 (kschwartz@citiesthatwork.com) is serving as program chair for the AIA National Convention, June 8-10, 2006 in Los Angeles. He invites all Cornell Architecture graduates to join 30,000 others in L.A.! "My family and I love living in Charlottesville. I teach at the U. of Virginia and practice with my urban design firm, Renaissance Planning Group.My oldest daughter is a sophomore at Princeton, while my youngest daughter is still in high school and starting her college search process." Jeff Bloom, MA '92 (annejeff@comcast.net) is the Japan Country Program Director in the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon. Jeff lives in Arlington, VA, with his wife Anne, and children Jordan, 15, Jonathan, 12, and Ryan, 5. "I'm still playing hockey and singing in the men's choir. I am an assistant coach for my sons' hockey and football teams and have been sailing with my son's scout group in Key West."

Also living in Arlington,VA, is George Rogers (georgero@iadb.org). "I have 15- and 11-year-old daughters, have been happily married for over 20 years, and have lived in New York and Buenos Aires prior to the D.C. area. For eight years, I worked in the area of foreign policy/human rights and then studied law at Columbia U. I now work in development in Latin America at the Inter-American Development Bank in their legal department. I am supervising a team of project attorneys involved in international project finance, in addition to having worked on some groundbreaking projects in South America over the past few years. I love the access to the mountains, bay, and beaches that the D.C. area provides, but eventually hope to spend more time living south of the border."

Jody HillerWinter (jodywint@aol.com) writes, "So, far, it's been a fun ride. I am living in Vienna,VA, right behind the Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts. After working at George Washington U. for 14 years, I hung out my own shingle this past spring--JFW Consulting! I provide real estate consulting and project management services to a number of university and non-university related clients in the Washington area.My focus is on helping my clients solve complex real estate problems with "out of the box" solutions. Steve and I will celebrate our 18th wedding anniversary in December. Steve is president of a PR and communications firm in Falls Church,VA.My children Samantha, 15, and Maury, 11, keep me busy. Sam participates in competitive diving and Maury plays ice hockey and baseball. Can't wait to take the kids up to Cornell again. Sam says that's her first choice of schools--of course she hasn't been there in the winter yet!"

From Alpharetta, GA, Chuck Bengochea (cbengochea@hbham.com) shares news. "My wife Laurie and I celebrated 29 wonderful years this year.My oldest son is married and working in sales and marketing.My second son is just about to be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Marine Corps. My two daughters, 15 and 13, are still at home. They are sweet and beautiful. Our passion is our faith.We love our church (North Point Community Church) and lead couples Bible studies.My other passion is triathlons. I have competed in Ironman triathlons in Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, and the US, and was a member of the USA Triathlon team in 2003 and 2004. Professionally, I am president and COO of Honey Baked Ham Company. I love our brand and our company. It is a privilege to be able to do what I do. I feel very blessed."

If you visit the Cornell campus, be sure to go to Martha Van Rensselaer Hall and see the Dr. Cynthia B. Green and Lee Cohen Conference Room, located in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management. Cynthia Green (cbgreen3@aol.com) and husband Lee Cohen provided a very generous gift to the College of Human Ecology. Cynthia and Lee live in New York City, along with their children Claudia '09, Ben, and Aliza. Claudia entered the freshmen class in the College of Human Ecology this past August. Kelly Banach (kelliricky@aol.com) and her husband Richard live in Allentown, PA. "I was elected judge to the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County, PA. I sit in the criminal division and hear criminal and juvenile delinquency cases. I have sons ages 11 and 17. Older son Brett is a senior and college shopping. Cornell is high on his wish list.He spent three weeks at Cornell last summer, experiencing the academics and campus life.My husband is a 30-plus-year veteran of the Allentown Police Department and continues to keep the peace.We spend our spare time reading and home redecorating and taking regular trips to New York and Philadelphia for cultural events, shopping, and dining."

And finally, I would like to congratulate members of the Class of 1979 who have been elected to various Cornell alumni leadership positions. Elected to the Cornell Alumni Federation are Mary Maxon Grainger, MPS '87, director-at-large, and Mary Kahn, director-from-the-region (Mid-Atlantic). Elected to the Cornell University Council are: Mark Hansen, Todd Krasnow, Michael Littlejohn, Ronald McCray, Ted Teng, and MatthewWitte.

Enjoy the holiday season! -- CindyWilliams, cew32@cornell.edu; Kathy Zappia Gould, rdgould@suscom.net; and Cynthia Ahlgren Shea, cynthiashea@hotmail.com. Class e-mail, classof79@cornell.edu. Class website, http://classof79.alumni.cornell.edu.

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