70 | Bob Keller (bkeller@norwood.com) and wife Liz (Mt.Holyoke/Duke '73) spent a lovely weekend back on the Hill in April 2005, as their older daughter was finalizing her college decision. He reports that unfortunately she chose city life and Penn over Cornell, so a big family rivalry is likely to develop. He is hopeful that their younger daughter will see the advantages of her father's school. She is a competitive figure skater coached by Serguei Zaitsev and is now in high school at the Park Tudor School. In May 2005, Peter (Dartmouth '72) and Becky Kvam Paquette visited Norway. This was a dream come true for her. Although they did not find any of her distant relatives, they did pass the tiny town of Kvam while on the train from Trondheim to Oslo. After 20 years, Becky is finally using her M Ed degree and working for non-profits. She is in special ed at an elementary school in Hanover, NH, and loves it. Becky's older daughter Erika is with TD/Banknorth in Portland, ME, and Devon is a senior at Vanderbilt. They write that it was great to see everyone at reunion.

I received a sad letter from Fred Kowolowski about the death of his wife: "It is with great sorrow that I write to inform you of the death on June 24, 2005 of my wife and your classmate Portia Parratt Kowolowski, following a five-year battle with cancer." Fred can be contacted at 1710 SW Canyon Dr., Redmond, OR 97756-3218. Portia was born in Ithaca and got her BS in Physics from Cornell, followed by a master's in biochemistry from the U. of Oregon. She also earned degrees in medical technology and accounting. Portia and Fred were married in 1973 and had two sons, Louis and Brian. She was a member of the American Assoc. of University Women, the High Desert Celtic Society and High Desert Celtic Dancers exhibition dance team, the Central Oregon Women's Circle, and Gaia Circle. Portia enjoyed gardening, sewing, hiking, classical and Scottish music, and especially Scottish folk dancing. She also played several instruments including piano, guitar, and violin.

Randy Kamen (Randy.Kamen@am.sony.com), who is our new class secretary, works for Sony as VP in the law department. She and her husband Shaul Arazi live in Hillsdale, NJ, with their son Adam. Last November, Randy was co-chair for an MS charity luncheon run by professional women in her area. After Adam attended reunion with Randy last June, he decided he wants to be a member of Cornell's Class of 2011! They are visiting other college campuses as well. Adam went to England last summer for two weeks at the Manchester United Soccer Camp. Then he and his dad went to Israel for family visits and Scuba diving in Eilat. The family spent this past holiday season in Curaçao, with diving for the boys and sun and relaxation for Randy.

Edward Eggers of Willseyville, NY, has written to say he has retired. Jack Bilson continues to live in Salisbury, NC, and can be reached at jmb299@cornell.edu. He is glad to have left human resources because he feels that the "imitation robber barons" are turning it into in-human resources. Jack says that the last 40 years have turned him from the moderate he was in the '60s into a much more radical person today. In 2003 Diana Christopulos moved from Texas to the Roanoke Valley of southwestern Virginia. She continues to gradually hike the Appalachian Trail and has now completed over 700 miles. -- Connie Ferris Meyer, 16 James Thomas Rd.,Malvern, PA 19355; email, cfm7@cornell.edu.

71 | On a beautiful, sunny September afternoon, the Class of '71 hosted a mini-reunion in New Haven, CT, at the Cornell/Yale football game. Although our team was defeated, it was a terrific day and there was much good cheer during our pre-game luncheon and festivities. Classmates in attendance included this correspondent and husband Joe Miller '69, as well as Leslie Jennis Obus,Martha Coultrap, Caryn Furst, Gilda Klein Linden, Andrew Tisch, Dale Cohen, Leslie Kirpich Brill and husband Les Selbovitz, Gary Sesser '72, Roger Lazoff, James Pfeiffer, Jan and Debra Greene Rothman '73, Laurie Berke-Weiss, Steve Altman,Mike Kubin, Greg '72 and Patricia Yuan Zuroski,Marcia Flicker, Richard Warshauer, Kathy Menton Flaxman, James Wanderstock, and class president Jerry Day.

Steve Altman (steve@altmanco.com) and I ate lunch together, so I have lots of news to share about him and his family. Steve and wife Pam are the parents of three children. Ben, 28, is a commercial real estate broker and was married last year to Rebecca, who works for Quest Labs. Abby, 25, lives in New York, where she reps a designer clothing line. Laura, 22, is an undergraduate at Penn and ran the NYC Marathon in November. Steve works in multi-family real estate development and is the past president of the Pennsylvania Apartment Association. He recently completed the conversion of an historic building to affordable housing for the elderly. One of Steve's hobbies is flying; he flew to New Haven in his Piper Lance. Steve keeps up with old friend Jerry Eichner on a regular basis.

Many of you may have read Mike Kubin's piece in the New Yorker magazine on August 29, 2005 entitled "The Nuclear Club" (www.newyorker.com/shouts; if you are unable to access it, contact me and I will send you a hard copy).Mike has a "day job" as a partner in a media buying company—the same industry in which he has worked since 1978. This past spring he graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism with a master's degree and submitted the piece to the New Yorker. He has also been published in the New York Observer. Two of Mike's children are Cornellians: Gregory '09 and Daniel '08. Mike's oldest son, Zach, graduated from Hamilton College and works in media in New York.Mike is active in Cornell alumni affairs, serving on the Cornell University Council and working as co-chair of our class's 35th Reunion Major Gifts Committee along with Marty Hanaka and Debbi Adelman, MS '74. Contact him at mekubin@earthlink.net.

In Tolleson, AZ, Stella Ardire (sardire@myexcel.com) works as a travel nurse, but her favorite job is being chief babysitter for her grandson Alden, born in July '04. She also enjoys country dancing and recently went ice skating again for the first time in over 25 years! Joanne Trifilo (jstark20@cox.net) lives in Scottsdale and enjoys singing, writing, travel, and cooking Italian food. She is the director of the Immigration Group at Sacks Tierney. Her son Nick was married to his lifelong girlfriend in an elopement to which moms and grandparents were invited. Her daughter Marya is a junior on a vocal scholarship at Chapman U. in Orange, CA. At this stage of life, Joanne feels nostalgic to see old friends. She keeps in touch with Kristin VandenbergWhitfield and Ann Prezyna and would like to locate Vic Lena. Jim Farmer (farmer@taftlaw.com) writes from Dublin, OH, that his sons have graduated from college, Brian in '02 and Derrick in '04. Jim moved to Taft, Stettinius, and Hollister as partner,mergers and acquisitions in April '04. Last summer he took a wonderful trip out to Banff, Lake Louise, and Jasper in the Canadian Rockies. In his spare time Jim enjoys renovating and remodeling houses, doing volunteer work with Rotary, skiing, and playing golf.

We received news from our West Coast classmates this month. Bill Grauer, JD '74 (grauerwe@cooley.com) is chairman of the litigation department in San Diego for Cooley Godward LLP, a national law firm of 500 attorneys. He was included in the 2005 publication "The Best Lawyers in America" and similarly honored by San Diego Magazine in an article on the city's best litigators. For the tenth consecutive year, Bill was appointed chair of the Federal Court Discipline Committee for the Southern District of California.His oldest daughter Kristen is pre-law at Dartmouth and editor of the undergraduate Law Journal. Bill remains in touch with good friend Doug Schwartz. Doug (doug@schwartz-cera.com) lives in Lafayette, CA, and would like to locate Danny Fruchter. Doug is the father of Andrew, 14, and Jennifer, 12. He enjoys watching baseball (he is an avid Giants fan) and playing softball and tennis, and has recently traveled to Italy, France, the Virgin Islands, and Costa Rica. Another Californian is Jeff Punim, who resides in Long Beach. Jeff is in private practice as an endocrinologist, and in his spare time plays a lot of tennis and golf. You may contact Jeff at jap49@cornell.edu.

Save June 8-11, 2006 for our 35th Reunion! And if you haven't responded to our class history project by filling out your questionnaire, we urge you to do so. Contact Marsha Ackermann (mackerma1@charter.net) if you wish to receive another copy of the questionnaire or to return a completed copy. If you enjoy reading our class column and haven't yet sent in the News Form from the class's annual mailing, sit right down at your laptop and send us an update. -- Linda Germaine-Miller, lg95@cornell.edu; and Matt Silverman, mes62@cornell.edu.

72 | Congratulations to Primetime Emmy Award winner Bucky Gunts, who won the Emmy for Best Directing for a Variety,Music, or Comedy Program for his outstanding directing of "The Games of the XXVIII Olympiad—Opening Ceremony" on NBC. I hope most of you saw Bucky's acceptance speech during the televised awards ceremony in September.

"Here's a story / About a man named Mitchell." Cheryl Kallet writes that she and John Mitchell were married in July 2002. The couple had been friends since meeting at Cornell in 1969. This is the second marriage for both Cheryl and John, and each brings three adult children to the new family unit, making a total of six kids—a real-life "Brady Bunch." Cheryl did not mention if one of the six children is named "Marcia." The Mitchell family now lives in Hamilton, where Cheryl teaches at Morrisville State College and John is president of I.L. Richer Co. Irwin Rosenfeld, class treasurer for the past 13 years, has practiced psychiatry for 25 years in Laguna Hills, CA.He was recertified in both geriatric psychiatry and addiction psychiatry in 2004. Daughter Elayna was married in 2002.

Bob Joy, BArch '73, reports by e-mail that he had an incredible experience this July! He joined a group from Trek Travel to follow the final week of the Tour de France on a bicycle. They started in the Pyrenees and worked their way up to Paris, riding 275 miles and climbing over 17,000 feet. Bob reports, "We were right there with Lance Armstrong and the Discovery team on the final day." Bob also enclosed a photo taken during the 17th stage on the road to Revel. He was wearing a Cornell cycling jersey, purchased from the Bike Rack in Collegetown. Steve Weisz, president of Marriott Vacation Club Int'l, has been named Hotelier of the Year by the Southeast Region of the Cornell Hotel Society, the school's alumni body. Steve received the honor at a banquet on September 10 at the J.W.Marriott Grande Lakes Resort in Orlando, FL. Every summer, classmates participate in Cornell's Adult University. This year, Field Ornithology was the choice of Chris Ryan.

William "Wes" Schulz of Sugar Land, TX, reports that his son Douglas is an EMT in Clear Lake, TX. During the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Doug was called to assist the New Orleans evacuees who had been sheltered in the Houston Astrodome. The following is an excerpt from his journal.

"Friday, 9/02/05. The Astrodome, the 8th wonder of the world, a Houston landmark. I saw my first Major League Baseball game there. I marched on the Astroturf there in High School Band. I watched it get dwarfed by the Reliant Stadium. I sat through many discussions of what should become of it. Now, I saw it become a home for thousands of people. Earlier yesterday, I finished my shift in the morning and was at home sleeping. A few hours later, my work pager goes off with the news that the Houston Fire Department is looking for volunteers to help work in their triage center at the Dome. I throw on my uniform and head off. As soon as I arrive at the complex, I can tell that this is just organized chaos. So many people! One of the higher-ups of Enterprise Ambulance Service, my former employer, recognizes and immediately kidnaps me. He directs me to the floor of the Dome where they have a medical area set up. People are triaged, and then either sent by shuttle bus to the Astro Arena (now a clinic), or onto an ambulance to any of the local facilities.

"The floor of the Dome is covered in people and cots. Personal belongings are strewn about, and hundreds of people are milling around, hundreds more are just lying in their new beds, with nothing to do. Lines are formed everywhere: to get a cot, to get some water, to go to the bathroom, to go to the hospital. Several times I am sent into the crowd with a wheelchair to pick up a chest pain, or a seizure, or an overdose. Ambulances are pulling out of the Dome left and right.More buses keep coming. People are walking around with signs, asking about certain individuals who are probably lost in the storm. I spend four hours at the Astrodome, and then it is time for home. I am exhausted and totally blown away. The one-time ‘House of Pain' is now a refugee center.

"After working the Dome during the day and all night on Friday, I return Saturday at about 2:00. Cars are backed up for miles filled with donations. I do some sneaky driving and find a back entrance to Reliant Park. I flash my EMS ID to anyone that stops me, and they wave me through. Things have changed. The medical area is now set up with VERY defined regions for triage, treatment (even split into medical, trauma, psych, and pedi), and transport. There are nurses and doctors everywhere. People have spread themselves throughout the dome and are now up in the seats as well as on the main floor. The Red Cross volunteers are working double-time to keep some sense of order in all regions. I run into an ambulance crew that I know and we continue to run calls for the next 18 hours.We have a command center, a staging center, and transport officers at the Dome and at the Arena (still being used as a clinic). Ambulances are lined up. There are so many different services working, it is great that we can all work together, public and private. Calls range from unconscious, chest pains, violent psychs, diabetics, and active labor to simple fractures and extremity pains. Sometimes we transport just to the Arena to be evaluated, but mostly to the hospitals all around Houston. At some time, they open up the Reliant Center and fill it with more cots. At about 3 a.m., my partner and I are ordered to get some sleep. Command directs us to some cots set up in a private room. I can only really half sleep. At 5 a.m. my partner and I scour up some coffee and place ourselves back into rotation. I am so proud of all the different services working together, so proud of Houston coming together, and I am thankful that I have the skills and will power to help these people.My roommate and friends are amazing me by setting up donation drives. I am so glad that the human spirit really wins out in the end. I am going to get some sleep now."

We want to thank Doug for giving his permission to publish these journal entries and giving us a first-person account of the post-Katrina experience at the Astrodome in Houston.We also want to thank Doug, his fellow EMTs, the medical personnel, and all the volunteers in Houston and the other evacuation centers for their dedication and hard work in assisting the Gulf Coast evacuees. Send news to -- Alex Barna, alexander.barna-1@nasa.gov; or Gary Rubin, glrubin@aol.com.

73 | We're glad that our correspondent Danielle Lombardo Trostorff was able to safely evacuate from New Orleans. Normally, you'd be hearing from her this month, but we're giving her some time to settle, and we hope that she's back in the Big Easy before this column actually hits the newsstands. Fortunately, we have plenty of news from our e-mail request, so here's the latest from your classmates.

Chris Cassidy reports from Rochester that he and wife Sharon (Odrobina) '77 moved their daughter into Cornell last fall. Peter Barker, PhD, does cancer research at the National Inst. of Standards and Technology in Colorado. Big changes for Chuck Cohn, MBA '77, and family, who moved from Basking Ridge, NJ, to Frisco, TX, where he's a marketing VP for Intuit. Their oldest daughter is a freshman at U. of Rochester. Lee Grossbard reports from San Diego that he snuck off to Hawaii with wife Randee last summer. He continues to enjoy the work at Sunstone, which recently went public. Leah Bissonette, MS '76, also continues to soak up the California sun in Leucadia (just north of San Diego), where she runs an energy consulting business. Recent travel has taken her to Morocco,Mexico,Hawaii, and skiing in the south of Spain. Her only complaint is not enough beach time. "I still find Cornell people to be some of the most fun folks out there," she writes.

Gail Fiteni Giordano reports from Scarsdale that son Christian's career has taken off and he now manages conventions for the Westin Times Square. Gail herself completed the Ennis William Cosby graduate certificate program for young readers at risk at Fordham, and spent the last year instructing teachers for the federal "Reading First" program. Husband Tom '72 is busy keeping up with tax code changes for American Express. Paula Smith Avioli reports that twin sons David and Matthew graduated on the same day—David with an electrical engineering degree from Bucknell,Matthew with degrees in biology and anthropology from Brandeis. Gwenn Graves Hamilton lives in Orlando, where the family travel company specializes in golf vacations to the US, Great Britain, Spain, and Portugal. Take a look at www.golfpactravel.com. Their son studies Japanese and economics at the U. of Florida, and their daughter is finishing high school.

Stephen Goldbas was recently re-appointed as assistant professor of clinical medicine at the U. of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in Biddeford, ME.His specialty is osteopathic manipulative medicine, but his second career is chauffeur to son Marcus, 15, who made first string on the Cape Elizabeth High varsity soccer team as a freshman, and daughter Emma, 13, who is a starter on the 1992 girls Maine Olympic Development Program soccer team, as well as a talented dancer. Chris Agoliati is living in Spring Lake, NJ, with wife Gail and three daughters, aged 15, 13, and 7, and spent a pleasant summer vacationing in Wellfleet on Cape Cod. Randy Barbarash lives in Orange County, NY, with his wife, two cats, and a dog and was recently named principal ofWarwick Valley High School. Their son is working on a master's in landscape architecture at SUNY.

Abraham Chian wrote from Toyokawa, a small town in central Japan, where he is currently on a three-month visit doing research at the Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory of Nagoya U. After leaving the Hill at the peak of the Vietnam War, he went to the peaceful medieval town of Cambridge, England, where he married Kwai Lin, a beautiful Malaysian girl from Kuala Lumpur, and got a PhD in applied math and theoretical physics. Abe and Kwai Lin have three daughters, Clarice (a lawyer), Elisa (a computer engineer), and Janice (an accountant), all graduates of the U. of Adelaide. For the past 11 years, Abe has been commuting between his job as a space science professor at the National Inst. for Space Research (INPE) in Brazil and his home in Adelaide, Australia.

Laurence Bernstein visited Beijing and Shanghai, where he was invited to conduct some brand strategy development seminars, which was really interesting (for him at least; he's not sure about the attendees, although everybody seemed very happy!). "Not much else has changed since the last time we did this.Was in Ithaca for Hotel Ezra Cornell in the spring, which seems like ancient history. Spent much of June doing focus groups throughout the US and learning what makes Americans tick (well, in relation to property insurance!)."

Joel Greenman's wife Rose (Jachter) e-mailed him with our request for news. "It has gotten to the point these days where husbands and wives e-mail each other!" Joel writes, "The old story of married couples not being able to communicate is no longer true. Through e-mail we communicate just fine!" Joel is currently pursuing many interests in Los Angeles. He is a magician and member of the Academy of Magical Arts, aka "Magic Castle," in Los Angeles. "Alumni who live in L.A., or who come here to visit, can contact me, and I e-mail them a pass to spend an evening at the Magic Castle in Hollywood for dinner and shows. It's a unique and magical experience." Joel's email is statman7@earthlink.net.

Arthur Cheng let us know that he and his wife dropped off their daughter Courtney last fall to start her freshman year at Cornell. She is in the College of Engineering and plans to major in Engineering Physics, like her dad did 36 years ago. Arthur reports it does not feel like that long ago! The campus has changed a lot, but he still found familiar places. Courtney is living in Balch, still an all-women's residence. Arthur also visited with professor Arthur Kuckes, who retired from the A&EP faculty a few years back but still runs his own company,Vector Magnetics, down by the inlet in Ithaca. Arthur is a consultant in the petroleum industry, specializing in downhole acoustic measurements.

We hope all of you are safe and we're thankful that Danielle is. Please send your news, written or electronic, to: -- Phyllis Haight Grummon, 1531 Woodside Dr., East Lansing,MI 48823; e-mail, phyllis.grummon@scup.org or phg3@cornell.edu.

74 | CFA (Cornell Football Association) had a big turnout at the Yale football game Sept. 24 in New Haven on a picture-perfect day at the soon-to-be (badly needsto- be) refurbished Yale Bowl. CFA attendees included our classmates Mark Allen, Jon and Beth Johnston Tracosas, and Dan Lombardo. Dan is an anesthesiologist at Yale-New Haven Hospital and busy following his sons' various athletic endeavors. Also seen by Mary Berens were Bill Howard, Kathy Platis (New Haven), and Ray Benzinger and Phyllis Schatz (West Hartford, CT). Other classmates on the registered list included Andrea Paretts Ascher, George Golenwsky, and Alfred Hamilton.

The Cornell Daily Sun celebrated its 125th anniversary September 17 at the Marriott Marquis in New York City, attracting 356 Cornellians from '38 to '06, including three Pulitzer Prize winners and featured speaker Kurt Vonnegut '44. Classmates attending included Maia Aron, Bill and Gwen Howard, Harold Levy, JD '79, Joel Rudin, and John Schroeder. John, the Sun's longtime production manager, also was a featured speaker, presenting a "Top-Ten List of the Most Surreal Moments in Sun History." The banquet was organized by Bill, Mike Cimini '92, and Lindsay Jacobson '04—truly a Cornell cross-generational effort.

Cathy Lisa Glick-Halman is a cardiologist in a large private practice in Jackson, MI, specializing in echocardiography and heart disease in women. She's chair of the medical ethics committee at the local hospital and just finished two years as synagogue president. She and husband Lawrence have three children, Loren, 19, a sophomore at UMass, Erin, a senior in high school, and Shelley, a sophomore in high school. Michelle Toppin Thompson was promoted in April to acting chief operating officer of Cook County Hospital in Chicago. She and husband Michael '77 live in Burr Ridge, IL.

Dana Beyer presented a paper entitled "Prenatal Exposure to Diethylstilbestrol (DES) and Gender Variance: Results from a Five-Year Study" at the Int'l Behavioral Development Symposium, which convenes every five years in Minot, ND, and is the premier global event in the field of human sexual development. "Not bad for a retired ophthalmic surgeon," Dana adds. David, MS '77, and Kathy Moutner of Whitehouse Station, NJ, celebrated their 25th anniversary in October. Daughters Sarah and Amanda are finishing up at Rider College and starting out at Delaware, respectively. Dave is a consultant in IT project management and process improvement.

Saundra Whitney Curry, MD '82, checked in to say she's still married to Don '73, "whom I married in the summer of '73. Believe it or not, it was 32 years this past summer.We started a family late, so our son Peter is 12 and thinking only about baseball and video games. He's determined to go to Cornell. I'm thrilled, but I've had to explain to him that Cornell isn't the place to go if he truly wants to be a Major League ballplayer." Saundra is a senior member of Columbia's Department of Anesthesia in New York, adding, "Knocking people out (and bringing them back) is truly a gas, as we say," and has taken on an advisory dean's position. She's kept up with Kathy Tonnessen; they made the 25th, skipped the 30th, and hope to make the 35th ("Yikes, I remember those attendees looking so old when I was a student"). Lastly, "I ran into Harold Levy at a hospital emergency room back in 2003. Don had been skiing and broke his leg.We were in a small hospital up north and Harold comes waltzing in with a sick friend.We had a nice chat while waiting for our loved ones to get treatment."

Condolences to Norma Meacham, JD '77, whose husband Melvin Osterman '55, LLB '57, passed away Aug. 14. They were married 23 years and lived in Delmar, NY; Melvin was a noted figure in Capital District legal circles and a founder of the area's largest firm.

Joan Bensing Boehnen of Northbrook, IL, has a son, 24, pursuing a PhD in computer science at Notre Dame, and a daughter, 16, who was diagnosed 18 months ago at Mayo Clinic with a rare genetic disorder called POTS, a form of dysautonomia, "kind of a cross between fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue, with nerve pain, migraines . . . She is not able to attend school." Joan is part of a support group, POTS (www.potsplace.com), and looking for other families affected or ideas from professional fundraisers for generating research money. Contact her at jbaynen@aol.com.

Three classmates took part in the summer 2005 Cornell Adult University programs: Lynn Santeler (Sailing), Christine Burke Breslin (Wines), and NathanMann (Gorgeous Gorges). If you've never taken part, CAU courses are fun.More than a little care goes into insuring that professors and instructors are both informative and interesting, and there are companion programs for children and teens. Check it out: www.sce.cornell.edu/cau.

Ellen Franklin has been living in the Los Angeles area for 25 years, having moved out with ABC-TV. She's executive director of Temple Judea, a large Reform synagogue, and married with three kids, now 12, 15, and 17.Within a short span she saw these other Cornellians: niece Alison Santopolo '05; Merrill Naughton, formerly MerriWeitzner, who continues her banking career, lives in Larchmont, NY, and has daughters 14 and 16; and Eric Roth.

"I may have the dubious distinction of being the only Hum Ec graduate to pursue a career as a freelance craft designer,"writes Susan Niner Janes from the greater London area, where she's lived for 24 years.Married with two children, Susan has written eight craft books, including Bright Ideas in Papercrafts (North Light Books, 2004). Marlene Barmish, MA '76, of Madison, WI, reports that daughter Lara '04 "has been gainfully employed and living in NYC" after graduating from the Arts college.Marlene is manager of administration for Wisconsin's largest homebuilder and says, "The construction business and industry have become quite the passion for me."Marlene continues as chair of alumni admissions in the Madison area.

Writer/comedienne/performer Randee Mia Berman of New York City has been back on campus twice recently, "once in December amidst a frigid but crystalline, mesmerizing Ithaca winter snow to visit my old friend and English professor M.H. Abrams, and once in March to see singer/songwriter/storyteller Gordon Bok perform at Anabel Taylor as part of the Cornell Folk Song Club. She's had articles published on Gordon Bok in the premier issue of Maine Times; on falconry in Cigar Aficionado; and on our 30th Reunion in the Ithaca Journal. She has been on NPR twice, once doing a weekend commentary on swift boats, and once interviewed on "All Things Considered" for her unique skill of talking backwards. She's performing comedy and storytelling at the Moth (The Bitter End) in New York and working on a book on women and the Sisterhood.

Ken Brown married Florida native Elizabeth Sanjuan and they're now living in Hollywood, FL. "I'm having a great time with longtime rowing friends at One Equity Partners LLC, now the wholly owned subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase, traveling the world on a regular basis from our New York home base, home every weekend to Florida, and building up that nest egg to buy the ranch in Colorado." Ken transitioned from the Architecture, Art & Planning Advisory Council last year to the Engineering College Council. Son Bryson, 25, is in the New York Teaching Fellows program; Charles, 20, is a junior at UCLA and spending a semester at Meiji Gakuin U. in Japan; Ted, 17, is a senior at Thacher School in Ojai, CA, and thinking about East Coast colleges ("not Cornell, sorry to say"); and Cashin, 10, "is my last, best hope for a Cornell legacy." Please send your news to: -- Bill Howard, billhoward@comcast.net; Betsy Moore, emoore@cazenovia.edu; or Steve Raye, spr23@cornell.edu.

75 | As I write this, it's fall and I've attended the Cornell-Yale football game (more about that in a later column), but I still have great memories of our reunion this past June. Check out our class website, http://classof75.alumni.cornell.edu, and find out who showed and what you missed.We had 308 register, including 206 classmates.We spent time with dear old friends, while finding time to meet new ones.We also got to experience Ithaca in all its beauty (despite the overwhelming heat; when are we old enough to stay in the A/C dorms?!). I have spoken with classmates since then who had a great time, and one of the first topics was a rebuttal to Mitch Frank's opening sentence to our reunion column. Sorry,Mitch, but none of us marks this as the last third of our lives! I am constantly amazed at how much younger we look than our parents and their friends were at our chronological age.

Mitch mentioned a panel of '75 architects who spoke at reunion. Here's more: The AAP Dean of Students moderated a panel of Jon Ross, Ann Marion, Mark Strauss, John Lahey, TomFisher, Marc Levoy '76,MArch '78, EileenWeingarten, and Jill Lerner. Jon (jromyo@comcast.net) lives in Arlington,MA, with wife Mary Young '74 and son Will. He is principal at SBRA Architects, specializing in the design of education, science, and healthcare facilities. Ann lives in Sudbury, MA, with husband Moe Shore and daughters Sarah and Amanda. She is president of MarionWorks and producer/designer of Mediated Learning Environments, creating new concepts for multi-media and user interface.Mark (markes@aol.com) lives in NYC with wife Jaye Medalia '72 and children Jesse and Lily. He is a principal at Fox & Fowle, where his work has won numerous urban planning awards. John (john.lahey@scbdesign.com) lives in Chicago with wife Debbie and children Mary, Jack, and Frank.He is president and design principal at Solomon Cordwell Buenz. Tom (fishe033@tc.umn.edu) lives in St. Paul, MN, with wife Claudia and daughters Ann and Ellen. He is dean of the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the U. of Minnesota.Marc lives in Palo Alto, CA, with wife Laurie Winslow and children Adrienne, Julia, and Benjamin. He is an associate professor of computer science and (jointly) electrical engineering at Stanford U. Eileen (eweingarten@fcrc.com) lives in Larchmont, NY, with children Andrew and Sam. She is a project executive for Forest City Ratner Companies, with major projects including a mixed use project for Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards to include Frank Gehry's proposed basketball arena for the Nets. Jill lives in Mamaroneck with husband William Bintzer '73 and children Laura and Will. She is a principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox, leading large academic and medical projects, and was elected in April 2005 to serve as a Cornell trustee.

Reunion gave me the chance to catch up with some of you who have sent news for the column. It was an opportunity to personally apologize to Steve Berman (stephen_berman@hotmail.com) for misplacing his October 2003 e-mail in my inbox for over a year. Steve wrote of spending a wonderful weekend at Cornell visiting with his younger daughter Cheryl '07, who had just started her freshman year in the Ag college, and her sister Julie, who subsequently graduated from Ithaca College in 2004. Steve's father Herb Berman '47 and wife were able to join in for the weekend visit. Steve is VP of shopping services at Bloomingdale's, overseeing stores nationwide. His office is in New York, but he travels to stores across the country. He works with a number of Cornell alumni and enjoys their Big Red visits. I went on a bird walk at the Ornithology Lab with Claire and Bob Brennan (rtbsb@yahoo.com) and Lynn Arrison Harrison (lah2127@aol.com).We met up with Jim Thul, who when not being VP of Thul Machine Works in Plainfield, NJ, is a bird-watcher extraordinaire. He became our personal guide for a tour of the grounds. Bob runs Brennan & Priest, a residential construction company in Stony Brook, NY. His son Michael graduated from U. of Delaware in 2005, son Shane is now a junior at Marist College, daughter Kaitlyn is a freshman at FIT in NYC, and daughter Meghan is a junior in high school. Lynn is a paralegal in New Jersey, where she lives with husband Chip '74. Son Ridgely lives in Boston, daughter Katie is a senior at Middlebury College, and son Willie is a sophomore at St. Lawrence.

The North Campus Union was our headquarters and a good place to catch up with people. Rick Hayes (rhlawyer@mindpring.com) came from Haverhill, MA, where he is an attorney. Wayne Henderson traveled from Stamford, CT, where he is a project manager for Arch Chemicals. Brad Jordan lives in Glen Rock, NJ, and was running around so much having fun, that's about all I could get out of him! Dale Porter is a chiropractor in Watertown, NY. I played tennis Sunday morning at the new Reis Tennis Complex with Michael Cunningham, who is a cardiologist in Cleveland. I spent time with Leslie Hudson (leshudson@prexar.com) and John Halloran (jhalloran@prexar.com), who came from Orono, ME. Leslie, a conservation consultant, spent much of Reunion with 16 returning Pi Phis; and John, a research economist for the USDA, connected with a number of DU brothers.

Sue Fulton and husband Alan Burrows '76 and Jeanne Fattori Smith and husband Nick '74 were around the headquarters constantly, making sure that everyone had a great time. Sue (sfulton@teamwash.com) runs marketing for 40 Domino's franchises in Washington, DC, and Jeanne (jmf37@cornell.edu) works at the Saddle Acres School in Houston, TX. Steffi Feit Gould (gouldpjaks@aol.com) came to her first reunion and made it a double-duty trip, helping to pack up son Andrew '05 after his graduation from Cornell. Steffi and husband Perry '74 live in Woodmere, NY, where she is on the local school board. Son Jason is a sophomore at U. of Michigan, and Keith is a junior in high school.Maybe Jason can meet up with Pep Perry Stephan's son Andy, who is a freshman at U. of M. Pep lives in Sharonville, OH, with husband Jens. She works at P&G testing products. Pep's older son Rob is at U. of Cincinnati working on a PhD.

Karen Lauterbach and Mark Powers came from Chapel Hill, NC. Karen (kel@rti.org) is director of communications, information, and marketing for RTI Int'l.Mark (powersma@aol.com) is an associate clinical professor at Duke U.'s School of Medicine in the division of pulmonary, allergy, and critical care.He is helping to start an intensivist program at Durham Regional Hospital and will be teaching residents and fellows. Their son Luke is studying for his master's at Keck Graduate Inst. in Claremont, CA, and Kyle is a sophomore at UNC. Louise Belevich (louise@lmbelevichconsulting.com) was busy connecting with her many friends from DG, but I have seen her at Cornell events in NYC so we have caught up over the years. She is working as a management consultant with small businesses and nonprofit organizations. She has worked extensively with the UN and its agencies for the past eight years. She also loves to travel to off-the-beaten-path locations such as backpacking in Eastern Europe, India, Nepal, Southeast Asia, and China. She has also gone trekking to Indonesia, Bhutan, and Patagonia.

That is my news from Reunion. I do have plenty more to write about in my next column, so please tune in and keep sending news.We will be sure to get it into a column as soon as we can. -- Deb Gellman, dsgellman@hotmail.com; Karen DeMarco Boroff, boroffka@shu.edu; Mitch Frank, mjfgator@aol.com; Joan Pease, japease1032@ aol.com.

76 | With our 30th Reunion less than six months away, there's been a lot of activity so far and lots of preparation under way. Reunion chairs Mary Pykosz Creekmore, Maureen McCormick, Martha Plass Sheehe, and Ellen GobelWalsh are hard at work putting together a first-rate weekend, June 8-11. In keeping with class tradition, we hope to have a large turnout and we're looking to break another reunion record with more than 311 attendees. The more the merrier!

Reunion season got off to a great start when several classmates made it to New Haven for the Cornell-Yale football game in September. Kudos go to Steve Garcia for getting classmates an invite to tailgate with the Cornell Football Association. Class president Rob Hellman reports running into classmates Steve Karr, BArch '79, and Carl Neuss, who were with him at the Cornell Real Estate Council conference in Ithaca. They talked up gathering again in June at Reunion. Along with our Reunion Chairs, special thanks go to Gary Davis, Karen Rupert Keating, and Eileen McManusWalker for leading the class Major Gifts effort this year, while Diane Baker is taking the lead on campaign participation. They're also working hard to maintain our record-breaking traditions.

Thanks to those of you who sent in your News Forms. In the personal news category,my husband Morris Diamant '74 and I are now empty nesters. Our kids Sam and Julia are attending schools in Florida and Connecticut, respectively, and I can say that I am enjoying this time together. Gregory Bohan moved to Pompano Beach, FL, from Vermont. He is enjoying the warm weather. After 13 years as an innkeeper, he had enough of the "Bob Newhart" dream that all Hotelies have. He has opened an office for Pinnacle Advisory Group, a well-respected hospitality consulting firm founded by Rachel Roginsky '79 in 1991. Gregory is enjoying being a full-time consultant.

In the landscape field since graduation, James Sollecito has the "dubious" honor of being the first Lifetime Senior New York State Certified Nursery and Landscape Professional in history. It does pay to stay on the top side of the turf, he says. James is pleased to see his old advisor, Dr. George Good, at various State Association functions. Instead of throwing a party when he turned 50, he spent it in the jungles and on the open water of Central America. Fly-fishing with his wife and two daughters is his new passion. Roni Pelzman Brissette is a yoga instructor and has gone up for Junior Intermediate II level of certification in the Iyengar method. Her son Jackson made the varsity hockey team at Brookline (MA) High School.

Amy Downs is a customer service rep at Software Publishing Co. in NYC. Her husband Dan is a professional wedding photographer and a middle school art teacher. They have two sons, ages 15 and 11.When the Cornell hockey team played in the NCAA West Regional in Minneapolis, Scott Smith was there.He said there were great fans and a pep band that was terrific. He hauled out an old, rather ill-fitting Cornell sweatshirt for the games, which surprised his fellow U. of Minnesota season ticket holders. Scott rooted hard for the Red, but the Gophers won. Hopefully he will still get his season tickets next year.

Alan Suna is chairman of the Queens Museum of Art and is also developing a 2.7-million-square-foot mixed-use project of housing, offices, retail, and film studios on the East River in NYC with architect Richard Rogers. On the other coast, Beverly Chiang Moris formed a new firm in San Francisco with a partner, specializing in library planning and library interior designer. After 14 years as the director of education and public relations with the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of CNY, Eileen Donahoe Muhlig resigned in March 2005 to join the department management team of USA Funds Services, a student loan guarantor.

RobHellman and LaureyMogil wrote that their son Evan is a sophomore in CALS and this year was named chairman of the CALS Ambassadors program. Their daughter Allison turned 13 and they celebrated her bat mitzvah with classmates Peter Susser, Jeff and Roni Cohen Sandler '77, Betty Saks, Sheryl Goldstein, Cindi Freedman Steinmetz, and fellow Cornellians Ivan Lustig '80, MBA '82, and Richard and Rose Gerof Kalikow '74. Returning to Ithaca at the end of May for the graduation of daughter Cara '05 from the College of Human Ecology, Richard and Debra Sabin Nemchek also had to move all of Cara's stuff from her Collegetown apartment. Susan Feldman Pollet is executive director of Pace Women's Justice Center, frequent contributor to the New York Law Journal and other professional journals, moderator and lecturer for Continuing Legal Education classes, and co-chair of Children's Rights Committee. She also serves on several task forces and boards.

The poem "Dear Daughter" by Thaddeus Rutkowski was nominated for a 2004 Pushcart Prize by the editors of Failbetter. His novel Tetched was a finalist for the 2004 Starcherone Fiction Prize. Steven Weingarten is a senior partner in the Albany lobbying firm of Weingarten, Reid, and McNally LLC. His daughter Sarah graduated from the Hotel school. Steven and wife Susan have nine children, including Kathleen Margaret, who was born March 4, 2005. The other children are Allison, 18,Maura, 13, Dan, 12, Patrick, 10, Connor, 9 and the twins, Brendan and Jack, 6.

Phyllis Shuster joined Holland and Knight LLP, in their West Palm Beach office as senior counsel. It's a great work environment with supportive, professional colleagues. She said that it was a great move for her. Daughter Rachel is at USC studying art and cinema and has already begun her filmmaking career. Phyllis watched USC win the national championship at the Orange Bowl, which was great fun. Lori Mayer wrote that she had the sad task of mailing son Daniel's notice that he will not be joining the entering class at the Engineering college, but decided to go to Caltech instead. Son Matthew finished up his freshman year at the Arts college, and daughter Sara is attending Boston U. Needless to say, the tuition bills are staggering.

JeanneMullenhoff is Assistant US Attorney, Appellate Division, Southern District of Florida. Paula Griffin Davis has been promoted to director of corporate and foundation relations at Ithaca College. She has been enjoying painting landscapes with soft pastels and attended an art workshop for a week in New Mexico.Her landscapes have been shown locally in the central Finger Lakes Region. The 2004 Clinical Nutrition Manager of the Year, North Central Division, Sodexho was Anita Bailey, MNS '84. She also volunteers at the US Tennis Association and plays tennis. Ilene Rosenthal Hochberg sadly reports that on August 21, 2004, she lost her husband Irwin. They had been together for 23 years, and the sense of grief and loss was almost overwhelming for her. It took a while to regain her equilibrium. Friends and family helped her through the dark times. One special friend is fellow Cornellian BobWood '67. He is a neighbor and has been a source of strength and happiness during the difficult period. Ilene would like to thank him for his many kindnesses and emotional support. She has returned to a full schedule, and is at work on a book about knitting, her seventh book. Although life will never be the same, she realizes that she will survive and thrive. I'm sure our classmates will join me in sending our condolences, and we send our best wishes for the future. -- Lisa Diamant, Ljdiamant@rcn.com; Karen Krinsky Sussman, Krinsk54@aol.com; and Pat Relf Hanavan, Relf@tds.net.

77 | Here are the latest updates from our classmates. Cara Lebowitz Kagan's older daughter Michelle became engaged to Joel Sandler '99 this past summer. Joel has just received his PhD from Scripps Inst. in La Jolla, CA. He and Michelle will move back to New York and be married in September '06. Cara's younger daughter Erica '05 graduated from Cornell this past May and is now at Brooklyn Law School. Cara and Erica had a great time at Homecoming, which was Erica's first as an alumna. This brought back memories as Cara watched her daughter catch up with friends.

M. Jane Klein Epstein and husband Howard still live in Lexington, MA, with daughter Wendy, a high school senior, and son Michael, a high school junior.Wendy is looking at colleges, but unfortunately found Cornell to be too big (Jane had been hoping to spend more time on the Hill over the next four years).Howard works for CISCO Systems, spending a quarter of his time in San Jose, CA. Jane, meanwhile, continues to run her own "cottage industry," Thimble Pleasures, making gifts and quilts, including personalized ones, for all ages. She can also do machine embroidery, allowing her to make her own Cornell shirts. Jane notes that Karen Zelkind Buglass and husband Ralph '75 have moved to Bethesda,MD, where Karen is working at the Green Acres School as a fourth grade teacher. Her daughter Amy is a senior at Ithaca College on the other hill.

Bob Kyle is back at the practice of law at the firm of Hogan and Hartson in Washington, DC.He is married to Kate Fulton and has two great 5-year-old twin girls Grace and Ryan. Bob would love to hear from classmates who visit Washington and can be reached at (202) 637-5494. Mike Nolan provided a treasure trove of information. In September,Mike and his wife Alex attended Catherine Weiss's bat mitzvah in Washington, DC. "Cat" is the daughter of Jeff '79 and Christie-Anne Weiss. Mike also caught up with our other class correspondent Lorrie Panzer Rudin, reminiscing about living in the D.C. area.Mike provides an example of the "Cornell Connection" in action:

Rick Zimmerman called and inquired about opportunities at Bear Stearns for his son Will, and Will is now employed in Bear's FAST group. To celebrate the new hire, Brian Dunn, MBA '81, former class president, came to Bear's Executive Dining Room for lunch with Will and Mike. Brian related the hiring story at Rick's 25th wedding anniversary party. Brian's son excels in soccer, which Mike notes is the only sport that all three of the Nolan boys play. Youngest son Stephen and Mike flew back from a sojourn in Ireland in August to help oldest son Brian '09 move into his dorm at Cornell, where he is in the College of Arts and Sciences. Brian called his parents to tell them that he had to change his schedule to accommodate his position on the Cornell Premier Soccer (Club) Team. Coincidentally, he was paired up with class treasurer Chuck Ortenberg's son David as a roommate in the new Mews Hall.Mike commented on how kids are spoiled these days with beautiful, brand new dorms, refrigerators, laptops, computers, and air conditioning (just a little different from the U-Halls in the 1970s).Mike and Chuck and their families had lunch with Dick Priester '75 and his wife Iryna in Andrew Dickson White's house (Mr.White was not home at the time). Dick is Mike's wife's cousin and has two daughters who are Cornellians, Anya '07 and Taisa '09.While dropping Brian off,Mike visited the Alumni/Legacy tent and ran into Ken Paddock, whose son Seth is also a member of the Class of '09.Mike was also informed by Ben Zaitz that his daughter Hillary is a member of the Class of '09, too.Mike, thanks for all the news.

Finally, Ruth Raisfeld reports that she is in the fourth year of practice as a neutral mediator/arbitrator in employment and commercial disputes. Ruth recently attended a board of directors meeting of the ILR Alumni Association along with Bruce Gitlin, who was recently elected to the ILR Alumni Board. The Board is chaired by Lisa Hunter.

That's it for the months of January and February. Please forward news and views (and feel free to be wordy and to encourage friends to contribute) either to Lorrie or to me. -- Howie Eisen, Heisen@drexelmed.edu; Lorrie Panzer Rudin, rudin@starpower.net.

78 | Class of '78 participants in Cornell's Adult University (CAU) trips this past year included Mike Rach '77, DVM '82, and me traveling to Hawaii, and George and Betty Jean Staniulus Thacker enjoying a trip to Provence. Several of our classmates attended the CAU on-campus programs this past summer. David Bilmes took a course entitled All Hands on Deck: Navies, Naval Power, and the Flow of History. Evan Fram immersed himself in the course with the most interesting title,Move Over, Fellini: Digital Video for Everyone. David Levine took Meritocracy in America, Debra Hyman Rathauser participated in a sculpture course, and Jane C. Schmieder honed her bird-watching skills in Field Ornithology. Joan Passiatore Popolo (jepopolo@earthlink.net) enjoyed local natural wonders in the Gorgeous Gorges of the Finger Lakes course taught by Dr.Verne Rockcastle, a natural wonder in his own right. Joan and her husband Carl live in Carlisle, MA. Their oldest daughter, Elizabeth '08, attends the School of Human Ecology.

Katherine Schnare Foulke (BioKate@aol.com) lives in Portland, OR, with her husband Casey Shaar and son Carson, currently a third grader. Casey is part owner of a company that "actually manufactures a product in the United States, employing US citizens (fiber optic test equipment)." Katherine, Casey, and Carson have a dog, Lucy, who is an enormous, yet lovable, labradoodle. Katherine teaches biology at Jesuit High School after taking seven years off to raise her son. She is also the chairperson of the religious education committee at the First Unitarian Church and on the board of the Hollyrood School Foundation. In her spare time, Katherine likes to read and keep in shape.

Christopher Lloyd Ward (wardc2002@aol.com) and his wife Julia Myer live in Philadelphia with their children Dylan, 13, and Laurensen, 12. Dylan excels in squash, and Laurensen plays both the piano and violin. Christopher continues to create bronze portrait busts and sculpture and won the Philadelphia Woodmere Museum Prize for sculpture. He is also represented at the Findlay Gallery in NYC on Madison Avenue and had a show at the JMS Gallery in Philadelphia in the fall. Christopher is working as a corporate sales consultant and is helping to launch the new Henry Jacobson men's line at Lord and Taylor.

Stephen Pope lives in Santa Barbara and married Barbara Fields last summer. He is currently a senior research specialist, graduate lecturer, and composer in residence at UCSB. Peter Chatel (pchatel@na.ko.com) lives in Marietta, GA. He is a VP of operational quality at Coca-Cola North America. Peter has three daughters: Alison attends the U. of Georgia, Lindsay is a senior in high school, and Sarah is in middle school. Peter was one of four finalists for the IQPC Six Sigma Innovation Award in 2005. James Megna (megna@telephonics.com) commutes between two residences, one in Massachusetts and one on Long Island. He has daughters Kathryn '09, who is studying Engineering at Cornell, and Michelle, who goes to Boston College. James is a principal engineer for Telephonics Inc. He reports that he plays golf with Jay Prizant. Jay's eldest daughter Jennifer attends Case Western.

Karen Kuhn lives in Ohio, where she enjoys participating in agility with her Border collie, Piper. She also does obedience work with her kelpie dog, Lark.Her other dogs Casey and Torey are doing well, even at the geriatric age of 15. Jay CarolWilson (jmkus@yahoo.com) and her husband John Kuschner '77 live in Taipei, Taiwan. They have one child attending Boston College; the other two are still at home and attend the Taipei American School.

Eve Murphy Reid found her true love in Warren P.Weitman Jr., the chairman of Sotheby's North and South American operations. They first met 25 years ago in Staten Island, and both had other spouses and family over the intervening years. They became reacquainted within the last six years. Their romance reads like a fairytale, as reported in the New York Times this past summer. They got married in July and are living happily ever after! Karl Loh and his wife Gigi live in New Jersey. They have two young children, a daughter in kindergarten and a son in pre-school. They are envious of their classmates whose children have already gone off to college! Former roommate Ann Connor Ottobre received an Ohio State U. 2005 Distinguished Staff Award. The recipients were honored at the Homecoming football game (vs. Michigan State). She and husband Joe have two children. Erin, 22, attends Ohio State and is studying education, and Steven, 17, is in high school. Steven intends to enter OSU to study engineering once he graduates. Joe is a professor in the Dept. of Animal Science at OSU, and Ann is a research and instructional associate. They both recently received their "20 years of service" recognition plaques from OSU. Joe and Ann are looking forward to their 25th anniversary celebration in July 2006.

Another former roommate, Diane Elliot and her husband Don Strenk live near Los Angeles. Two of their children attend Cornell. Michael '07 is a junior in Chemical Engineering, and daughter Nikki '09 is in the Hotel school. Their son Stephen is a sophomore in high school. Don is the West Coast VP of retail sales for British Petroleum. Diane is the director of social work services at Irvine Regional Hospital. They are both active in alumni activities and serve as chairs of the Central Orange County CAAAN. I had the pleasure of enjoying dinner with Diane, Don, and their family when they came to Ithaca last August to travel with Nikki and Michael at the start of the school year. We all enjoyed the "mini-reunion" and traded stories from the last 20 years!

Since news is running short (if you haven't yet sent in your News Form from our annual mailing, please do so), I can brag a bit. I have a Border collie with which I compete in agility.We earned our Master Agility Champion title this past summer. It was very exciting and I have another dog in training now. Please let us know what's happening in your life. -- Pepi F. Leids, PLeids@aol.com.

79 | As I write this column in mid-October under Carolina blue skies and temperatures in the mid 80s, it is hard to believe that winter and the New Year are right around the corner. Cornellians everywhere grieve for the losses suffered by our friends on the Gulf Coast in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and we thank all members of the Class of '79 for their help on relief efforts.

Ryan Bliss (rhino_reb@hotmail.com) and his wife Elaine have been living in Bangkok, Thailand, for the past five years. Last year, they welcomed a new addition, Hector— a Pomeranian! "Elaine and I have been married for seven years. Five years ago, an opportunity arose for Elaine to take a position helping to set up and run a voluntary cleaner production program in Thailand. After that program ended, she took a job with another company, managing a technical services and support contract for USAID's Asia Environmental Partnership Program. I have kept myself busy doing some editing/data analysis consulting for local academies, as well as teaching some English, writing proceedings for World Bank workshops, and writing incisive letters to the editor of the two major English-language newspapers.While living in Thailand, we both got advanced diving certification.We spend some time at the beach and we explore the national parks.We do get to travel and have been fortunate enough to visit Angkor Wat (Cambodia),Hong Kong,Macau,Vietnam, Laos,Malaysia, and Singapore. I can highly recommend Vietnam, especially Hanoi and Sapa in the northern highlands. If Cornellians are traveling in Asia, please let me know."

Emily Fish Haynes (emily.haynes@bvsd.k12.co.us) sends news from Lafayette, CO. Emily teaches science and is the space science coordinator at Boulder Valley Schools. She is a MESSENGER Educator Fellow and participated in the Athena Student Interns Program with the Mars Rover Mission. Emily and her husband Mark enjoy hiking and biking and keeping up with their daughters Tamara, 10, and Katherine, 8. Sharon Rowe Freeman (sfreeman2@nc.rr.com) and her husband of 12 years live in Clayton, NC, just outside of Raleigh. "We are both employees of North Carolina State U. and work in the same department. Terry does building construction and maintenance, and I manage a research facility where we conduct nutritional trials with cattle, sheep, and meat goats.We are both at the 25-year mark with NCSU. I am also a part-time PhD candidate and hope to graduate in May 2006! We are busy with our veggie garden: canning, cooking, and weeding.We are active with our church, and I enjoy working with Habitat for Humanity and with ARC ofWake County, where I serve as a ‘big sister' to a mentally handicapped friend. This past summer, we traveled to New York and Michigan to celebrate high school graduations with nieces.We spent some time at the Outer Banks in September and did some surf fishing."

Elisabeth Nadler (lnadler@nc.rr.com) is a physician at Triangle Family Practice of the Duke U.Medical System. In her spare time, she enjoys bicycling, hiking, yard work, and volunteering. Elisabeth and her partner, Deborah Pilkington, live in Durham, NC. Tim and Laura Hitt McCann (themccanns@comcast.net) live in Elkton,MD. They enjoy water sports and riding their Icelandic horses. Their daughter Amanda '09 is a freshman at Cornell in Arts and Sciences. Tim works for DuPont while Laura manages the house, horses, and kids, and volunteers in the community. CynthiaWolberger Adams (cwolberg@jhmi.edu) is a professor of biophysics at Johns Hopkins. Cynthia and her husband Jeff are the parents of Rachel, 12, and Joshua, 7. From Wilmington, DE, Mark Mendelson writes,"My wife Elaine and I have been going strong for 22 years.We have three boys, Aaron, 19, Justin, 17 and Kurt, 16. Aaron '08 is a Cornell Arts and Sciences sophomore ‘premed.' Justin is currently in the college search mode, but we can't fit any more Cornell stickers on our minivan! I head the global e-business development effort at Bassell Polyolefins and have been with them for 26 years.We have resided in Wilmington for the last 17 years. Time flies when you're having fun!"

Tony Mazzullo (tmazzullo@yahoo.com) and his wife Kim live in Rochester, NY. "I am currently senior VP of operations for ePlus Systems, a $570M public company headquartered in Herndon, VA. I am in Rochester, where the Software Operations Center is located.We have a very successful company that has grown 80 percent in the past year. I have three daughters and a stepdaughter. Andrea is a junior at Penn State, Katie is a freshman at the U. of Buffalo, Rachel is in seventh grade, and Christine is in second grade. I still have two chances to start a legacy at Cornell. Overall,my life is good and my Cornell education has worked well for me." Lisa Barsanti Hoyt has joined the Metro New York Regional Office for Alumni Affairs and Development as a senior associate director. Lisa will be focusing on campaign initiatives throughout New Jersey.

Wendy Schaenen, MD '83 (wschaenen@aol.com) is an internist in Lemoyne, PA.Wendy and her husband Anand Jagannath, MD '83, have children Andrew, 13, and Julia, 10. "Between our work and the kids, there isn't a lot of time left over, but we do enjoy the symphony and the opera and outdoor sports." Greg Strub and his family are now living in Harrisburg, PA, where Greg works for Pepsi Bottling Group. Greg and Joan have children Carly, 21, and Stephen and Chelsea, both 14.

Please keep in touch with your classmates by taking a moment to send us your news. You can submit news electronically to me, Kathy, or Cynthia, or at classof79@cornell.edu. -- Cindy Williams, cew32@cornell.edu; Cynthia Ahlgren Shea, cynthiashea@hotmail.com; and Kathy Zappia Gould, rdgould@suscom.net. Class website, http://classof79.alumni.cornell.edu.