90 | Hello from fabulous San Francisco. I'm the third of your new class correspondent team who is nervously clutching the baton because my fellow correspondents Tamiko and Amy are professional journalists. Yikes! Off and running . . .

During Reunion, Tamiko and I braved the heat and spoke to the following alumni--whether they wanted to chat or not. Deborah Klein married Gary Glasser on April 30, 2005, attended by Julie Mazur, Nancy Solomon Weiss, and Christy Consler--practically a mini-reunion with better AC. Marla Porter Gross, attorney, currently works for an international adoption agency that specializes in Eastern European and Central American children's adoptions. She and her husband have three children. Ken Mroczec has worked at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases for five years as an orthopedic surgeon. Bill Callis asks Marla to return his sweatshirt. Bill and his wife have a 2-year-old son who greets dad after a long day as a Bank of America stockbroker.

William Davidson, ME '92, actually uses his MatSci degree at the office for his work with carbon fibers. Edward Lewis recently moved to New Jersey with his son and wife. Jeffrey Goldstein, whose exhaustive knowledge of alumni never fails to amaze, has daughters Hanna, 4, and Shira, 1. I'll be calling him soon, I'm sure. Karen and Jeff Cohen drove the kidlets Shoshana, 5, and Jonah, 2, to Reunion in a sleek new hybrid car. The Cohens' recent move to Boston makes visiting the Children's Museum a whole lot easier. The ever-charming Michael Karangelen reports that he still dances the Rock Lobster at bar mitzvahs.

Sprinting into the parenting news, Linda Kow and David Lee '89 celebrated the birth of their first child, Serena Jade. John and Stephanie Swan Barbaggiovanni have twins Samuel and Alden, 3. Jennifer Dilworth hikes with daughter Elena, 6, and whitewater rafts in Tacoma,WA. Undoubtedly, Elena sleeps well at night.Howard and Laura Talesnick Fogel and son Adam welcomed daughter Amanda on March 1. She arrived with fully functional lungs, which she often uses to maximum effect. Laura has her quiet time while working part-time at a local accounting firm. DeLaune and Daniel Lawrence Fried share their lives with son Walter, 2. Daniel produced the feature film O with Julia Stiles and Josh Hartnett. He is currently producing a new Kirk Douglas film, Illusion.

Eric '88 and Elizabeth Wayner Boham have children Anna, 4, and Tismark, 2. Elizabeth practices integrative medicine at Canyon Ranch in Lenox, MA. Bradley '91 and Karen Prymak Oldick's son Brock arrived March 18, 2005. The delightful boy inspired the words, "Why didn't we start sooner?" Karen attends to small animals as part of her veterinary relief work, which is almost as enjoyable as spending time with her son. Enthusiastic parents Jennifer and Jim Love never stop parenting with five children sharing their lives: Michalie 7, Sydney 6, Jamie 4, Eric, 3, and Jason, 1. Jim works as Executive Director, Counsel of USAA's Executive Management Group in San Antonio, TX. Robert '89 and Lisa Baylor David celebrated their 13th anniversary this summer. Children Robert, 7, and Katherine, 4, breathe easily because mom is an otolaryngologist. Robert is a labor attorney in Lafayette, LA. Lisa saw Margaret King Coleman, MS '96, in New York City during March. In Granby, MA,Matthew Richardson and Chrystal Wittcopp have daughter Anna, 3.

What is more challenging than parenting? Moving and parenting at the same time! Eva Satell recently moved to Lake Charles, LA, with her husband and 10-monthold son Aydin. The Satells would very much like to meet other alumni in the Lake Charles area. You can send an e-mail to one of your class correspondents and we will forward. Baby Aydin has excellent on-site healthcare because mom is a rheumatologist and dad is a cardiologist. Deborah and Peter Christakos happily moved to Northampton, MA, in July. Son Nicolas, 3, helped to pack his toys.

News from alumni who run their own businesses. In Hong Kong Caroline Ma and Jason Yung have a 1-year-old son. Caroline and Jason work together at their 4-yearold interior architecture firm, which has recently expanded to another office tower floor. Scott Rodwin from Boulder, CO, became president of Northern Colorado's American Inst. of Architects. He also sculpts stone and teaches contact improvisational dance, which in my opinion abstractly relates to architecture, because walking through a building is similar to dancing through sculpted stone. His work appears at www.stonedancestudio.com. Risa Arin married Paul Heitlinger in 2002 and recently started her own business with her mom. Her company, www.sspdirect.com, specializes in computer products for seniors and limited-vision individuals.

Now that I have reached the column's finish line, I will remind everyone to keep completing those Class of 1990 News Forms and sending us e-mails. The class correspondent team appreciates them greatly. -- Kelly Roberson, kroberson@lightswitch.net; Tamiko Toland, stmoluag@yahoo.com; and AmyWangManning, aw233@cornell.edu.

91 | Happy New Year . . . though before we launch into 2006, let's take a moment to review news from our busy classmates! Andrew Nolan updates us by reporting that in 2002, he started LLC Corporation R.E. Nolan Assoc. in Auburn, NY, for which he is currently president. His company provides agricultural and environmental consulting to energy companies such as El Paso Corp. and Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company with responsibilities such as environmental permitting and construction, post-construction oversight, and restoration management.When not managing the business, Andrew also serves as a consultant to sons Ryan, 10, and Eric, 9.

Stacey Neren Lender lives in New York City with husband David and their daughters Avery, 4, and Carson, 1. Charles Taylor also lives in New York City, where he is the product marketing director for Yahoo! hotjobs.com. Off the clock he fills his time by caring for 3-year-old son Alexander, running marathons, traveling, hiking, mountain biking, and playing squash and soccer. Todd Schlifstein writes that he is deeply entrenched in the medical community in New York City. Among his credentials are clinical assistant professor at NYU School of Medicine; attending physician at NYU Medical Center, Rusk Institute; attending physician at the Hospital for Joint Disease, Orthopedic Inst.; and medical expert at the House Reform Committee, US Congress Steroid Hearings. Todd has also provided interviews for CNN-Live, ABC News, CBS News, the Discovery Channel, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and Maxim magazine.

Liza Jones Hards reports that she and husband Steve are living in Dumont, NJ, and run an educational day camp in Englewood for children ages 7-12. She frequently visits with fellow Tri-Delt sisters in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, including Ariane Horn, JD '96, Suzanne Skalski, Denise Law, Crissy Moeder Shaul, and Laurie Fronhofer. Becky Levine Leibowitz lives in Scotch Plains, NJ, and recently welcomed her second child, Sam. She reports that Sam's big brother Jonah will be the Yankees' biggest 3-year-old fan this season.

Sean '90 and Kathryn Kraus Bolks celebrated the quintessential Cornell wedding on August 6 by marrying in Sage Chapel and possibly setting the world record for Cornellian guests. The wedding party included Karen Kraus '88, Carl Boehlert, John Crosby '90, and BrettWilson. Classmates Kim Clark Borden,MBA '95, Jim Crozier, Christine Reidl Fladda, Mike Koopman, Craig Miles, Nicole Halpern Murphy, Dave O'Leary, Eric Rosario, Chris Schallmo, Doug Tabish, BEE '92, and TimVanini were in attendance along with nearly 20 other Cornell alumni. After a reception at Statler, the bride and groom ended the evening in true Cornell style, visiting Dunbar's and the Hot Truck!

Neva Flaherty writes that after five years in Moscow, a Berkeley MBA, and four years working in the San Francisco Bay Area, she has recently settled in Arlington, VA, working both in consumer goods sales and on her golf game. She hopes to reconnect with any classmates living on the East Coast, especially those living near Washington, DC, with an addiction to skiing out west. Perhaps Neva can look up Scott Deutchman, who works as managing director at the LawMedia Group in Washington, DC. Or Rachelle Seeger Jayner, who lives in Gaithersburg,MD, with sons Nicholas, 1, and Ryan, 3, and husband Michael. Further south, Katharine Knowlton lives in Blacksburg, VA, where she was just promoted to associate professor of dairy science and awarded tenure at Virginia Tech.

Laura Panko announces that she was married to Mark Guarraci last August. She lives in Grayslake, IL, and recently began working as a college adviser and lecturer in biological sciences at Northwestern U. Michael Fisher lives in nearby Evanston, IL, and works at Maritz as an account manager in the Hospitality Research Group. He and his wife Anne-Marie, 2-year-old Jennifer, and new baby Marisa enjoy cookouts, visiting the beach, and traveling. Ellen Goode and husband David recently adopted Midwestern small-town life in Rochester, MN, and are experiencing a bit of culture and weather shock after living in Seattle for nine years. She is working at the Mayo Clinic as an assistant professor of epidemiology and is hoping to connect with Cornellians living in the Midwest.

Barbara Wilinsky Selznick lives in Tucson, AZ, with husband Sanford, son Ellis, 2, and daughter Lily, 4. She works at the U. of Arizona, where she has received tenure and was promoted to associate professor in media arts. Sabine Vinck, ME '93, recently left her ten-year banking job to work for the London Business School as director of finance programmes, and she invites any Cornellian who is considering studying finance in London to give her a call. In her spare time, Sabine enjoys music, with a particular passion for playing piano; she reports that she was thrilled to participate in a recital after an eight-year hiatus.

Kimberly Jordon Stone recently left her post in Southern Italy and was transferred to Virginia, where she works at the Portsmouth Naval Medical Center as a family physician. She reminisces about her honeymoon tour in Italy, from which she has many photos and memories, not to mention unique driving skills. She also recently attended the spectacular wedding of Loretta Dougherty and Fred Gallo '90 just outside of New York City. Loretta and Fred's wedding was attended by Kathy George, Shawn Frank, Perry Ground and his wife Jenny, Sue Ulman Kravitz '89 and husband Marc, Dave Luzadis, Pam Eaton, and VickyWasserstrom Carson and husband Steven.

Jennifer Leeds and husband Rob Hess live in Arlington, MA, where Jennifer leads the infectious diseases laboratory at Novartis Pharmaceuticals in nearby Cambridge and reports that she has two new Cornell grads in her group. Rob recently passed the patent law Bar exam and began his new career as a technology specialist with Boston firm Bromberg and Sunstein. Jennifer and Rob are also raising two boys, Tjaden, 7, and Max, 4, who often visit Ithaca, since their grandma is married to Prof. Terry Fine. Living in Massachusetts, Jennifer frequently sees her former housemate Julie Voveris Furtado (and her twins), in addition to Karl Yoder '87 and Marina Memmo '89. Jennifer also reports that good friend Mark Blucher '90 and his family moved to St. Louis last year. She does not get to see them as much, but hopes to see them at reunion in June!

That's right--reunion! It only happens once every five years! Speak to your friends and mark your calendars for June 8-11, 2006. Our 15th Reunion is right around the corner, and as usual, our co-chairs JeffWeintraub, MD '95, and Dorine Colabella Scher have a fabulous weekend in store for you. The fun-filled weekend promises a generous mix of planned events and free time. Be sure to seize this opportunity to explore campus and visit with old friends. Considering bringing the kids? There will also be plenty of activities planned for the younger set during the weekend.Make sure to visit our impressive class website, http://classof91.alumni.cornell.edu, developed and maintained by Bob Baca to keep you informed about weekend specifics and help you plan your return to the Hill this June. Look for registration materials in your mailbox in March. -- Corinne Kuchling, kuccori@hotmail.com; Nina Rosen Peek, nsr5@cornell.edu; and Dave Smith, docds30@yahoo.com.

92 | I hope this news finds you in the best of spirits! One of my New Year's resolutions is to get my personal and business finances in order. Look for my money makeover in the Jan/Feb issue of Budget Living magazine! The holiday season always reminds us to be open to giving good (and well). I've learned that receiving good soon follows. Here's my chance to give some good news.

Stacey Erth Symonds reports that she and husband Keith '85 had a beautiful baby daughter, Sadie Ilene, on October 31, 2004, a true Halloween pumpkin! Keith is a high school math teacher and Stacey is in her third year at Capital One Financial in McLean, VA, as a group manager of marketing research. Julie Remick Bettencourt tells us she has a son, Tyler, 5 years old. He wears his Cornell sweatshirt at least once a week! Amy Richter shares that it's been a busy year for her. She moved, changed jobs, and got married all within the same month. Cornellians at the wedding included Lynne Strasfeld, Mark Strauss '87, and her brother Josh Richter '94.

Patricia Santiago-Munoz announces she just had her first baby with husband Omar Gonzalez. Victoria Cristina was born January 13, 2005. Patricia finished her fellowship in maternal fetal medicine in June 2005, and started a new job in Dallas as assistant professor at U. of Texas Southwestern. She often sees Seth Kaplan at alumni activities and at doctor visits--he's the family pediatrician.Minhaj Arastu says, "Romana and I have moved to Hyderabad, India.We have rented a flat very near ancestral properties belonging to her family and mine. It has been wonderful reestablishing contacts with relatives and friends. I have taken a teaching job at the Oakridge Int'l School in Hyderabad after teaching at Irmo High School for nine years."

Patricia A.Wagner, MS '95, tells us that she owns her own relief veterinary business focusing on emergency and critical care. On a similarly exciting note, she got married to Bradley Corsello on September 4! Lorena Stabins McDonald and spouse Jack '93 report that their 2-1/2-year-old son Scott is very into dramatic play--he loves to compose his own songs and perform. Lorena resigned her teaching position to stay at home with Scott, but she's started her own card-making business. She makes custom handmade greeting cards, invitations, etc. She also teaches card-making classes at her home.

Dohee Lee joined Gensler in 2000 and has recently been appointed to the position of associate. Per a press release, Dohee "possesses a proficiency in CAD that, combined with her knowledge of both exterior and interior architecture,makes her a great asset to Gensler." She recently worked as a project architect on Castle Harlan Inc. and Proskauer Rose LLP, with involvement in all phases of design through construction administration. Neil Zwiebel is proud to announce the opening of his new podiatry practice, Park East Podiatry in Manhattan. Neil is married to Alissa Fox and they have a 1-year-old baby girl, Alexandra. Camille Semple-Daly writes in to tell us that in September 2004 she opened her own practice--Access Women's Health Ob/Gyn LLP--in Willingboro, NJ. She specializes in natural/bio-identical hormone replacement therapy and offers full ob/gyn services. She is married to Vernon Daly, a doctor and president of the Heureka Center for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. They have children Leila, 3, and Vernon Jr., 1.

David Lin and his wife Cheri have a son Noah Brandon, 3-1/2, and a daughter Sophia Danielle, 1-1/2. Alexandra MacDowell reports that in 2004, she became director, production management at A&E Television Networks. She was also invited into the Producers Guild of America and became a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. She is excited to share that her husband Anthony DeCurtis recently published a book entitled In Other Words: Artists Talk about Life and Work. He has also been an editor at Rolling Stone magazine for over 25 years.

Brian Cantor finished a two-year fellowship in laparoscopic surgery and is practicing in the Washington, DC, area. Adrien Kant completed a year of robotic surgery research and another as a surgical critical care fellow at Children's Hospital of Michigan. She says, "I'm currently in my next-to-last year of general surgery residency at Wayne State U./Detroit Medical Center. In the last year and a half, I've presented some of the research in Hawaii, New Orleans, and Venice, Italy." Renee Ryan is a single mother with a 2-year-old daughter. She's also begun residency in family practice at Wilson Medical Center in Johnson City, NY.

Heather Garbacik Savickas tells us that son Corey John was born February 22, 2005 at Providence Medical Center, Kansas City, KS. She also shares that classmate Caitlin Haas Garbacik gave birth to Arleigh June on March 3, 2005. Martha Rice Epstein and husband Wayne have a 2-1/2-year-old daughter named Juliana.Martha began a new position as a kindergarten teacher with the Lakeland Central School District in Yorktown, NY, in January 2005. Suzannah Johnson Creedon and husband John, MBA '99, welcomed Diana Gabrielle on March 29, 2005. She joins big sister Eleanor Claire, born June 30, 2002. Suzannah says, "We miss Boston and the great Cornellians up there, but love being back in Washington, DC."

It is great to be in a warm, cozy place called home. I am home right now, cuddled up with a cup of hot chocolate and sharing all this good news with you. Now it's your turn! Write to us. -- Wilma Ann Anderson, info@WilPowerEnterprises.com; Debbie Feinstein, Debbie_Feinstein@yahoo.com; or Renee Hunter Toth, rah24@cornell.edu. Until next time. Be a light, and be well.

93 | Happy New Year! I cannot believe that it is now 2006. 2005 seems to have just flown by! I apologize that some of this news did not make it into an earlier addition, but I did want to make sure to pass it along. Kim Martucci wrote that she is working as the a.m. meteorologist at WVSA-TV9 in Washington, DC, a CNS station owned by Gannett. Eliseo Rios is director of corporate administration at the Cartel Group in San Antonio, and he writes that advertising is keeping him busy. He has visited with Stephanie Haase, who now lives in Austin.

David Rosen sent a synopsis of the past few years. He is now married to Jen Lubin, a Princeton grad, and they have three little girls. They live in Maplewood, NJ, and he works as an orthopedic surgeon in Union County, NJ. From the New York Times wedding section,Mauricio Garrido married Louisa Terry on April 9, 2005 at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Miami.Mauricio is a fellow in cardiothoracic surgery at Columbia U.Medical Center in New York. Jeff Drayer e-mailed to let us know that he married Natalie Wolkoff, a UCLA med student, on September 3, 2005 in Beverly Hills. His best man was Brian Quaranta, and groomsmen were Andres du Bouchet '94, Pete Fasold, and Bryon Colby. Also present were Matt Estabrook, Rick and Jessica Silber Jentis '94, GeorgeWhang '92, Geoff Manikin '92, and Ken Bagchi '91.

My former co-correspondent Greg Paradise sent in some news about himself and some others. He writes, "Jay Drezner married Pamela Devon on May 12, 2005 in Kapalua,Maui, HI. The ceremony was outside, overlooking the ocean. Pam is from Sydney, Australia, where Jay met her while working there for a few years. They have now moved back to NYC. I was in the wedding party. Also there from Cornell were Ian Wright '94 and Jennifer Sowman Knapp '95. Most of the guests spent the whole week in Maui. Jay and Pam planned several great group outings including a luau and a sunset catamaran cruise.We all had a great time."

Greg continues: "Noah Seth Paradise was born on January 15, 2005. He's been strong from the start, pushing up on his arms and holding his head up from 2 minutes after birth. Jen and I have had such a fun time watching him grow and learn. Noah is looking forward to joining the Cornell Class of 2027! I have accepted an offer from an intellectual property law firm in New Jersey, very close to my home (Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik LLP). I will primarily being doing trademark work (litigation, prosecution, counseling, etc.), but the firm handles patents, copyrights, trade secrets, etc."

E-mail brought a few other pieces of mail. Pankaj Talwar wrote, "I got married last year to Jyoti Jinwala. Among the many Cornellians at the wedding, we had the following classmates: Vijay Chandrasekaran and his wife Nivedita (Das) '94, Anil and Waikuen Yee Thomas, Sunita Desai, and Bill Healy.We followed many of the traditional Hindu customs, and one of the highlights of the wedding was arriving at the ceremony on a horse for the "Baraat." Currently, I am working as a VP of marketing for George Weston Bakeries for the Thomas's brand. Jyoti and I are living in Manhattan."

In case one new piece of information wasn't enough, Holly Davies wrote to say, "I have moved across the country, had a baby, gotten a new job, and bought a house. I am a visiting assistant professor in the biology department of the U. of Puget Sound in Tacoma,WA. I finished my post-doc at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, and moved to Olympia,WA, in Sept. 2004.We had our second child, a baby girl named Margaret Jean Spidle, on December 24, 2004.We are closing on our new house in Olympia at the end of August, so we haven't actually bought the house yet. It was built around 1900 and is on the city's historic register.My husband Adrian Spidle '90, MS '94, and I celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary in June.We recently took two weeks to go back East and visit with lots of family and friends and to celebrate my parents' 40th wedding anniversary." Finally, Tara Blitzer Benson e-mailed that she and husband Tom welcomed their first child, baby girl Cassandra Reese, on October 24, 2004.

Congratulations on all the new babies, new spouses, and new jobs! Have a happy and healthy New Year! -- Yael Berkowitz Rosenberg, ygb1@cornell.edu; and Erica Fishlin Fox, ericazzz@aol.com.

94 | Greetings, classmates! One of the ongoing challenges for every class is that many classmates move and change contact information from year to year. As a result, each class begins to accumulate a list of "bad addresses." That is, the university either has no address for an individual, or the system lists a historical address (also known as "last known address") that is no longer valid.

An important aspect of keeping our class connected is trying to keep the number of "bad address" classmates to a minimum. Please update your contact information with the university by sending it to: alumni-updates@cornell.edu. Let's stay in touch!

Send news to: -- Dineen PashoukosWasylik, dmp5@cornell.edu; Dika Lam, dikaweb@yahoo.com; Jennifer Rabin Marchant, jennifer.marchant@kraft.com.

95 | Just when we thought wedding season had ended,my husband Matt French and I found ourselves back on the road to attend several weddings of classmates this fall (apparently, September is the "new June"). Indeed, in just one weekend, we made the trek from our home in the Washington, DC, area to Truro,MA-- at the tip of Cape Cod, about two hours from Boston--to attend the wedding of Scott Lajoie and Wendy Petty, then drove from there down to New York for the wedding of Drs. David Podwall and Barbara Loewenthal.

Scott and Wendy married on the beach September 17, joined by a number of classmates. Stephen Paul, who has two children with his wife Rebecca, played the trumpet at the ceremony, and David Grubman, a lawyer in Pittsburgh, served as master of ceremonies. Also in attendance were Marci Binsack Yemola, who works for Aetna and lives with her husband Joe outside of Philadelphia; Dean Bowles, who married wife Erin on July 9 of this year and works in Detroit for a Japanese auto parts company; Lisa Brodbeck, who works for a company manufacturing surgical equipment in New Haven, CT, and provided the Cornell representation at another recent wedding, that of Patrice Winter and James Rousell on July 23 in Seattle; and Todd Edebohls, who works for Amazon.com, also in Seattle, where he lives with wife Julie. Not in attendance was Stephen Miller, who works for BMW in Germany and was not able to make it back to the US. Scott is the managing editor for Cape Cod magazine while Wendy works in sales for PepsiCo Foodservice. The two honeymooned in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.

The next day, September 18, David and Barbara were married at Temple Israel in Lawrence, NY. Cornellians in attendance included groomsmen David Jakubowicz, who, with wife Pam, has three children, and Russ Levitan, as well as Stephanie Gendell, Stephanie Lessans Geller, Scott Klein, SumitMittle, Doug Cohen '92, Jeremy Sperling '94 and his wife Erika Ozer '94, and Jeanine Schoen '96. David is a neurologist at a private practice in Great Neck, NY, and also works out of North Shore and St. Francis hospitals. Barbara just finished her radiology residency at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan and is now a radiology fellow at Cornell Hospital in New York City. The newlyweds spent their honeymoon in Tahiti.

Driving to Dave and Barbara's wedding by way of Connecticut brought to mind an e-mail I'd received from Veronica Brooks-Sigler, recounting her wedding and honeymoon, which began July 15 when she married Jeffrey M. Sigler at Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford, CT. Patrick Omilian officiated the wedding, and Janice Siegford, Thomas Hughes, Christopher Morris, and Kelly Gonzalez '96 all attended.Writes Veronica, "I am told they did a nice rendition of 'The Rainbow Connection' while gazing out onto the Long Island Sound!"And the fun didn't end there. According to Veronica, the honeymoon was "a real adventure.""We originally planned to go to the Canary Islands.Well, the part of the Canary Islands where we ended up was not the vision of luxury we had for the honeymoon. Jeffrey and I stayed there for about 5 hours, hopped a plane to London and remained there for a few days. Among the many misadventures that occurred while we were there (I sprained my ankle, etc.), none was more of a reality check than being in downtown London during the second round of bombings.We definitely have stories for posterity!"Veronica and Jeffrey have purchased a condo in Wallingford, CT, where he is finishing up a PhD at Yale and she is teaching at the Alternative Center for Excellence in Danbury.

Also having bought a new home in Connecticut and recently married is Wendy O'Neill, who works in architecture in Stamford. She and her husband, a graduate of the Naval Academy, celebrated their June nuptials in Rhode Island and honeymooned in Hawaii.While they "haven't seen each other's college campuses, (we) are both convinced that our own is the most beautiful." But,Wendy writes, "once he sees Cornell, I'm sure he'll agree that it is better than Annapolis!"And in baby news,Hanna Stevens Buchanan, a resident physician at Yale U., and husband Gordon welcomed Gwendolyn Ada on August 16, 2005; in May, Hannah Alessandra joined proud parents David and AngelaWhitehead Quigley '96. Ronan James Gallagher was born to Christian '94 and Libby Smith Gallagher in Terre Haute, IN, on September 17, 2005; and Alison Ford Balan,MPA '97, and husband Todd-Michael welcomed their daughter Carter Rosalie on September 5. Alison writes that 2-year-old Davis is loving his new role as big brother.

To close this column, I will reiterate Abra's plea for more news--I mean, do you really want an entire column devoted to her pugs?! (Just kidding, Abra. You know I'm a dog lover too!) Your annual News and Dues form should have arrived in the fall, so fill out that News Form and send it in, if you haven't done so yet. And here's a question for you to mull over for 2006: Now that we're more than ten years out and can reflect on our college years a little more soberly (literally and figuratively!), what was the one defining moment during your Cornell career that helped you get where you are now? (And please let us know where you are now and how it helped you.) Or if you don't feel you had one defining moment, is there one thing you would have done differently that you think would change where you are now? E-mail your responses to Abra or me.We'll publish as many as fit and are suitable. Thanks--and Happy New Year! -- Alison Torrillo French, amt7@cornell.edu; Abra Benson, amb8@cornell.edu. Class website, http://classof95.alumni.cornell.edu.

96 | One of the biggest differences between living in Washington, DC, where I used to live, and London (my current home) is that in D.C. I'd see people on the street and think I knew them and it would turn out that I would. In London, I see people I think I know, squint at them through the rain, get splashed by a bus because I'm looking in the wrong direction, only to realize I'm staring at a stranger. Except sometimes I'm not. The other day I was crossing Waterloo Bridge and bumped into Dominique Lazanski, who I have not seen since graduation. (We only spoke when she squinted and read the name on my employee ID.) Dominique has recently moved to London, where she's working on a master's degree at the London School of Economics. Unlike me, she has seen Monica Lewinsky twice. "She is a very short woman,"Dominique reports. "I had no idea!"

Speaking of Monica, if you're wondering why the news you sent in has vanished faster than her handbag business and her Weight Watchers deal, I invite you to cast a vote on whether to blame the US Postal Service or the Royal Mail--but more importantly, to send it in again. Pretty please.We really don't like having the column be an allyou- can-blather night at the word salad bar in an attempt to fill space any more than you do.

From our Boston bureau, Carin Lustig Silverman reports that she traveled to Las Vegas in May for a few days with Jeanine Schoen, a marketing innovation manager for Unilever Foods. Jeanine is currently living in NYC, and often can be seen running or rollerblading along the West Side Highway. After finishing a one-year mid-career master's program at Harvard focused on the intersection of the public and private sectors, Eric Sinoway recently accepted a strategy job at the university. Carin writes, "Eric's wife Jennifer is an elementary school teacher and we get to see Eric and Jen and their dog Lady on a regular basis." She adds, "As for us, Josh just began the second year of his otolaryngology residency at Harvard and I am spending some time at home with our 17-month-old daughter Abigail and 4-year-old dog Maddie before re-entering the job market."

Wedding Watch.Wedding One: Amy Heusinkveld, MAT '00, and David Baer '00 were married in July 2004 in the chapel at Anabel Taylor Hall. Cornellians included in the wedding party were Miriam Solomon, DVM '00, who is working as a vet in New York City, Jennifer King Fadla, a lawyer in NYC, and Peter Wang '99. Other classmates in attendance: JulieWu, MS '00, who is living in Maryland, Vivek Puri, who works as a consultant in Boston, Carin Lustig Silverman,Matt Hill, who's still working outside of NYC, and Scott McDonough, who's finishing up his PhD from UCLA and has moved to NYC. Amy and David are living in Arlington, MA, where Amy is working as a seventh grade science teacher. David just completed his Master of Divinity at Yale.

Wedding Two: Albert Pizzica married Meghan Walsh on April 16, 2005 in Malvern, PA. Cornellians in attendance included a number of freshman friends from the Class of '18 Hall such as Eric Sinoway and his wife Jennifer, Josh Silverman, Carin Lustig Silverman, Jeanine Schoen, Edie Marshall, and Gina DiMartini, as well as Bill Hander, Fred Mischler '94, and Joe Adiletta. Al and Meg honeymooned in Switzerland, where they spent several days skiing in the Alps. Al is currently the COO for Pizzica Health Systems in Philadelphia, and Meg is a sales representative for Pfizer.

Wedding Three: It was a dark and stormy night in August 2003 when James Edwards met Elise Wuhl. Actually, it was seriously hot and humid--and Jamey brought two girlfriends with him for backup, and Elise brought her ex-boyfriend. An auspicious beginning indeed. Fast forward to 2005, when the couple--who'd met through Karen Schnelwar--married on Sept. 25 at Shadowbrook on the Jersey Shore (owned by a Hotelie, no less). Cornellian witnesses included Ari Nagler (co-best man), Karen Schnelwar (of course), Gail Rosenberg, Tanya Boone, Andres Gonzalez, Eric Gershenbaum, Alejandro Luna, and Mook Cho. Also the groom's sister Jessica Edwards-Reich '94 and Dan Shur '94, MBA '03, plus a bunch of Jamey's Cornell business school friends. "It was definitely a Big Red event," he writes. The couple honeymooned in Australia before returning to NYC, where the bride is a reality TV producer and the groom is at Lehman Brothers.

Wedding Four: Meredith Resnick married Ed Rerisi on Aug. 21 at the Garden City Hotel on Long Island.Meredith's matron of honor was Andrea Fuhr Saporito (who came to the wedding with husband Alex '97). Other Cornellians in attendance included Matt and Kerry Klein Atlas,MPA '97, Jason '95 and Lori Schwartz Frischer, Toby Reiter, Emily Luskin Schonbraun, and Vinny and Lisa Scaccia Salerno, as well as her and Ed's fellow Duke Business School classmates who are also '96ers: Eric Hession, Alexandra Jaritz, and Mike Intravaia. "Ed is looking forward to his first trip to Ithaca for our 10th Reunion in June,"Meri writes.

And on the subject of reunion, we bring you the following public service announcement: Erin Sullivan Caimano, Rob Cunjak, Karen Fadden Fabbri, and Marilyn Mawn are leading a committee of more than 20 classmates for our 10th Reunion Campaign. Our goal is to raise $130,000 from 625 donors, including 100 Giving Society members and six Tower Club members. Thanks so much to those who have already supported our efforts by making a gift to Cornell. If you haven't had a chance to make your gift yet, please join us! Gifts can be made online at http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/giving.htm or by calling (800) 279-3099. See you on the Hill--save me some corn nuggets and a turn at the Dunbar's jukebox! -- Courtney Rubin, cbr1@cornell.edu; Sheryl Magzamen, slm1@cornell.edu. For updated class events, news, and resources, visit http://classof96.alumni.cornell.edu.

97 | If this fall's seemingly unending hurricane season is any indicator, this winter may be a long haul. Bitterly cold days remind me of Ithaca, and while those thoughts may not warm the toes, at least they warm the soul. If a jaunt to a sunny Caribbean destination isn't on your agenda this winter, try grabbing a Cornell buddy, hitting a local watering hole, raising a glass, and sharing some warm memories.

Classmates Samara Friedman and Daniel Turinsky are keeping very busy. Dan is an attorney at Kasowitz, Benson in New York City; Samara is chief resident of orthopaedic surgery at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and plans on completing a fellowship in pediatric orthopaedic surgery at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia next year. On May 11, 2005, the couple welcomed son Zachary Ryan. Samara notes that Zachary is already preparing for his application to Cornell. She says, "It is difficult to say whether motherhood or residency is more tiring. Everything right now is sort of a wonderful blur." On August 8,Wynn Alexander Alsko made his grand entrance into the world.Wynn joins big sister Ella and proud parents Mike and Gillian Alsko.

Wedding bells continue to ring for members of the Class of '97. After meeting in March 1995 in the elevator at Sheldon Court and starting to date the following year, Rob Unckless, MS '99, and Heather Fiore got married on July 16 on the Terrace at Willard Straight Hall. The reception was in the Memorial Room. Cornellians in the wedding party were Amy Unckless '94 (serving as Rob's best man), Marc Gallagher '94 (groomsman and Amy's husband), Chris Littlejohn '98, MAT '99 (groomsman), and the groom's father, JimUnckless '66. Also returning to Ithaca for the festivities were classmates Colin and Elizabeth Soto-Seelig Cushing, Jennifer Thom, MS '04, Brad Marshall, Rob Glesmann, Russ Giasomo, Ruth Potes, and Tamarra Strawn, JD '01. The couple lives in Rochester, NY, where Rob is a biology and environmental science teacher in Penfield and Heather is a dietitian for Strong Memorial Hospital and the city school district.

Kyle MacLea married Holly Portland on Orr's Island, ME, on June 18, 2005; classmate Zachary Hubert and wife Julie attended, as did Joel D. Green '00, Edwin, PhD '98, and Katherine Plante Anderson '98, and Clayton Sparks '94, a fellow Cornellian Kyle didn't know on the Hill but who joined the festivities as the guest of Kyle's graduate school friend Kathryn Chatfield. Kyle collected his PhD in pharmacology/toxicology from Dartmouth in 2003 and then spent a year as a post-doctoral student in the pharmacology department at Penn studying cardiovascular pharmacology and proteomics. Kyle took another post-doctoral position with the US Dept. of Agriculture in East Lansing, MI, in their Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory, studying oncogenic viruses in poultry. Kyle and Holly met at Dartmouth; she is currently enrolled at Michigan State U.'s College of Veterinary Medicine. Keith Berger sent in word of his marriage to Ellen Higgins in Cape Elizabeth, ME, on August 6, 2005. Keith noted the following classmates in attendance at the wedding: Brad Hopper, Aaron Daru, Dan Resnick, Oliver Chang, Trent Collins, Ythan Goldberg, James and Maria Zavala Trujillo, Mike Demetriou, Dania Braunstein, Doug Cullen, Jennifer Mattucci Santoro, and Jess and Jennifer Brown Melanson. Keith works at the law firm of Davis Polk and Wardwell in New York City, and Ellen is starting a master's program in organizational psychology at Columbia U.'s Teacher's College.

Meghan Work Boedges sent in a big dose of news. She married Jeff in September 2002.More recently,Megan was a bridesmaid when Rachel Chansky wed Scott O'Reilly on August 13, 2005 in Bretton Woods, NH. Jessica Denham and Sharon Flicker also served as bridesmaids. Nikki Arvanites, Kim Kilpatrick, Ryan '94, JD '97, and Marci Klein Poliakoff, Stu and Rikki Lober Bagatell, Katie Fallon, and Rachel Laveman Manne also attended the nuptials. Jason and Amy Blye Cohen were unable to be there; the couple was busy welcoming daughter Sara Josephine that morning.

In May, Meghan collected her master's in public health from Columbia and marked graduation and her 30th birthday with a party in New York City. In addition to many of the classmates at Rachel's wedding, partygoers included Meghan's freshman-year suite-mates James Blanco and Mike Bedell, and friend Amanda Claremon '96. Meghan reports that James graduated with his MBA from Columbia's business school in May.Meghan is working as a healthcare consultant in Manhattan and living in Jersey City, NJ. Thanks,Meghan, for sending in so much news!

Congratulations to all of our newlyweds, new parents, new graduates, and new hires. If you enjoy reading the column, please take a couple of minutes to send in an update on where you are and what you're up to. (A convenient form came in the mail last fall--did you fill it out yet?) Help us make this column good reading material! You may not necessarily feel like your news is that interesting, but you've got a captive audience that looks forward to seeing our newsy tidbits, so chime in! -- Erica Broennle Nelson, ejb4@cornell.edu; Sarah Deardorff Carter, sjd5@cornell.edu. Class website, http://classof97.alumni.cornell.edu.

98 | Happy New Year, Class of 1998! As you are recovering from the parties and vacations and trying to recall all that fun and drama over the holiday season, we bring to you stories of '98 classmates from 2005. Let's start with March. Annie Helle married Robert Gutwillig on March 27, 2005 at Calamigos Ranch in Malibu, CA. Annie works in Los Angeles as an associate manager for singer Bonnie Raitt. On April 9, 2005, Allison Weissman married Brian Citron at the Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan. Allison is an associate in financial restructuring and bankruptcy at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, a law firm in Manhattan. She received her law degree from Fordham U.

Rita Doyle Pederson and her husband Jay became parents. Jack Doyle Pederson was born on April 18, 2005 in Raleigh, NC.Mom reports that he is a healthy and happy little boy. He was a bit smaller than they anticipated, so his Cornell sweatshirt was not going to fit for a few more weeks. They moved back to NYC at the end of the summer. Not long after that, Oliver '97, MPA '98, and Gail Magpantay Althoff welcomed baby daughter Grace Malaya on May 8, 2005. Gregg has a suspicion that baby Grace will be taller than Gail. Congratulations!

July marked the happy ending to a love story that began back in 1999. Julie Ann Belkin married Michael Gerard Rand on July 16 at a farm in South Natick, MA. After graduating from Cornell, Julie received her master's degree in early childhood education from the Bank Street College of Education. She is now a second grade teacher at the Dalton School in Manhattan. As confirmed in the New York Times wedding section, Julie and Michael met in September 1999 on a blind date arranged by a mutual friend of their families. Here's the full scoop:

"I was coerced into it,"Ms. Belkin said, half jokingly. Her friend "was talking Mike up so much that I finally said, 'O.K., O.K., you can give him my number.'"Mr. Rand said: "Typically, I was pretty skeptical of blind dates. That said, I was open to it. It is just an hour out of your life." Ms. Belkin recalled that their first phone conversation followed a direct path: "I can tell from your number," he said, "that you live on the Upper West Side--where?" "Right outside Lincoln Center," she said. "Where?" "Between Amsterdam and Broadway.""What building?""Dorchester Towers.""Oh my God, we live in the same building.Why don't we meet in the lobby right now?" But she demurred so that they could have a proper date three days later.When they finally met for a drink--in their neighborhood, of course--they discovered they had yet more in common. They had attended brother-sister camps in Maine, both families had summer homes in the same small community on Cape Cod, and the two shared the same birthday, Jan. 28. "After all that, it felt like fate," Ms. Belkin said. "I thought, how could I have not met this guy before?"

In August, Jen Hogan moved to Boston and was hoping to hear from local alums. At the time we heard from her, she was looking for a job in the environmental consulting field. If anyone in the Boston area has any leads, please e-mail Jen at jenlhogan@hotmail.com. Oktoberfest marked the end of Aaron Tax's two-month stint with the V Corps in Heidelberg, Germany. Aaron is currently an attorney at the US Army's Office of Equal Opportunity. Before heading home to D.C., Aaron managed to tour around Europe, including a quick pint in London with Erica!

"These are so last year's news," you say? In the spirit of the New Year, you are probably (we hope) feeling perky and motivated.While you are at it, add this to your list of New Year's resolutions: keep in good touch with your classmates! The good news is, this doesn't even have to involve painful diets or trips to the gym! All you have to do is e-mail your latest stories, encounters, deep thoughts, tidbits, etc. to me or to Gregg.We look forward to hearing from you! -- Erica Chan, hc31@cornell.edu; and Gregg Herman, gdh5@cornell.edu.

99 | Happy 2006, folks! As always, you Cornellians are up to a million and one things, so without further ado, your news! Dianne Miller, a meteorologist and project manager for Sonoma Technology, reportedly bought her "very own tiny piece of California," a townhouse in the wine country! A self-professed wine snob, she balances a busy lifestyle, playing for the community band, ice skating, playing volleyball, and volunteering at Guide Dogs for the Blind. Laura Knights also just purchased her first house, making Seattle her home sweet home. Laura moved to the West Coast two years ago, and is now VP for Intellisponse, a market research and consulting company. Philipp Meyer made a big move to Texas after receiving the Michener Fellowship in Writing at UT, Austin!

While on the subject of writers, Thomas M. Campbell II has spent the past several years working with his father, Cornell professor emeritus Dr. T. Colin Campbell, on The China Study, a book about nutrition and health. Released in January 2005, the book, according to Tom, is the most comprehensive study in the history of nutrition, and has startling implications for diet, weight loss, and long-term health. (Move over Atkins!) Keeping up the world wide word, Julie Karasik runs VocabVitamins.com and is in the midst of creating a vocabulary-building service for classrooms and a book for McGraw-Hill. She lives in San Francisco and completed her first Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon in June 2005! Jennifer Collins recently picked up triathlons, completing two last season in NYC and Westchester, and has four on her schedule this year! When not running, biking, and swimming, she's working on hotel and residential development as the director at Tishman Hotel & Realty.

World traveler Sarah Phelps spent seven months last year in the Bahamas at Club Med Paradise Island! She then took off with Lee Griffiths to travel the world for three months, stopping along the way in Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Helsinki, Finland, and Paris.While mixing with Parisians, they met Curtis Bartosik '89, the president of the Cornell Club in France. Now they live in Montana and hang out with friends and alumni in ski town! Caroline Bower has "one of those wow jobs worth a mention," spending the last six years as a Weather Officer in the US Air Force while also earning her master's in the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Last year, the Air Force sent her to sunny Hawaii, where she serves as Typhoon Duty Officer at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center in Pearl Harbor and writes forecasts for 90 percent of the world's tropical cyclones.

And we've got our very own Smoky the Bear! Crystal Kolden is living the life of "Twister the movie but with flames."Crystal chases forest fires to keep herself occupied in the interim between completing her master's at the U. of Nevada, Reno and pursuing her PhD. On the opposite side of the spectrum, Leigh Ann Johnson lives soggily in Seattle after traveling around the world with the Semester-at-Sea program.

Talk about cool jobs! Daniel Gardner just started a custom metal work business a few months ago called 5A Forge, creating everything from traditional wrought iron to corporate logo signs. Daniel has a line of wrought iron cuff links he's made as groomsmen's gifts. And while on the subject, several Cornellians have taken the marital plunge! On July 23, 2005 Alexandra Smith and Mark Ozerkis were married in the Berkshires. Mr. and Mrs. Ozerkis now live happily ever after in Manhattan, where Gladys Mathew and Vinod Mathew '97 were married back in September 2004. After their beautiful wedding downtown, the Mathews headed down under to Australia for their honeymoon. (P.S. they had 34 Cornellians in attendance! Wowzas!) Wendy Moros and Matt Poland tied the knot in Wilton, CT, on May 28, 2005. And on March 6, 2005, Eli Mogil married Robyn Kaiser in Toronto and honeymooned in Thailand. Eli now works as a lawyer for McCarthy Tetrault LLP.

Brady Russell reports to be the Legislative Director for Pennsylvania ACORN as of May 2005. He looked forward to the role, even though, he writes, "I'll be making no money at all, basically. It's a good job that will pay nada."Hey, Brady, I can relate! Licensed architect Eric Booth was made partner at his firm, AES ArchiTech, a 20-person architecture and engineering firm in Salisbury,MD. Eric and his wife, an Ithaca College grad, visit their alma maters each spring, walking the gorges, visiting wineries, and hanging out downtown. Folks, I'm sad to say the Booths reported that our dear old Ithaca has "finally succumbed to Wal-Mart." Hey, remember when we were freshmen and the biggest attraction was Pyramid Mall, Friendly's, and a rundown movie theater? How I miss those days, folks!

Keep writing in your news, big and small, and enjoy the new year! -- Melanie R.Arzt, snoopymel@gmail.com; Jennifer Sheldon, jennifer.sheldon@gmail.com; or Jess Smith, jessica@fenton.com.