40 | Happy 4th of July to all, although this is being written with tulips and dogwoods in bloom and the trees in their leafy greenery. A short column this time, as there isn't much news. Let's hear from you without delay. Send your winter doings now, and then your summer news by Labor Day! You can't have a column unless you send news!

Bob Storandt recently wrote, indicating that he reads more of the Alumni News than just the Class of '40 column. He mentioned an article in the March/April issue by Brad Herzog '90 that told of Henry Sage's generous gift in 1872 to build a women's dormitory and how that started a widespread discussion about coeducation. Prof. Goldwin Smith even worried that competitive exams would result in women becoming "unmarriageable!" Bob affirmed that that hadn't happened, as he and Jean (Cummings) '42 had celebrated their 65th anniversary in January! No one else has commented on Prof. Smith's prediction, but '40 has a lot of couples who agree with Bob!

Forrest Griffith reported that he keeps his mind sharp playing a lot of bridge.He also enjoys painting landscapes and portraits and using his computer.He sadly reported that he's the last '40 Delta Tau Delta left since Dean Wallace died. He added that he'd been told that Dean died peacefully in his chair, holding a scotch. Claire Herrick Yetter is still in the house that she and Jack '39 moved into 31 years ago. She says she has just too much "stuff" to think about moving--a sentiment a lot of us can sympathize with, whether or not we've moved recently! She also still enjoys gardening and pottery.

That's it for this time. Send your news in SOON! Your classmates like to hear about you. I am still looking for a volunteer to write this column. Surely there's a journalist or newsletter writer out there who could easily take over and who's a lot more qualified. The magazine staff provides a lot of support, too. Best wishes to all for a fine summer. -- Ellen Ford, 300 Westminster Canterbury Dr., Apt. 416,Winchester,VA 22603.

41 | As I write this column in April, spring has come to Ithaca with golden forsythia and pink magnolias. The waterfalls are full and the trees are beginning to leaf out. Thank you all who sent in news. Cornell is gearing up for reunion and I was delighted to find out that so many were planning to return. Please look in the next issue (Sept/Oct) for a full Reunion Report.

AnnWallaceMcKendry of Lacey,WA, writes that she is still enjoying life at Panorama, a continuing care retirement community, where she enjoys many opportunities for near and far adventures. She admits that travel is now difficult--even walking is curtailed."Horizons shrink as the 80s climb!" Estelle Richmond Robinson ofWest Orange, NJ, celebrated her 85th birthday with her 90-year-old husband, three daughters, and grandchildren. She and her husband are still able to enjoy their summer home on Martha's Vineyard. She likes to keep in touch with Rutgers, where she was a professor of community development.

Lorraine Matarazzo Farina (Schenectady, NY), a regular class duespayer, sent no message this time. Frank Warner Jr., LLB '48, of Slingerlands, NY, says he is still "vegetating" in an adult retirement community, but still is in possession of most of his faculties.Howard Dunbar,MD '44, of Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, is enjoying life in his retirement community, where the average age is 85-1/2.He keeps busy with painting and with his computer and enjoys his two children, who live nearby.

Betty Scherer Lester,MA '42, of Oswego, NY, reports she is very active doing volunteer work at her church. She also belongs to a weekly bowling league, goes golfing occasionally, and walks daily. Joseph Hilzer of Flemington, NJ, sent an amusing poem about being fine--"Fine for the shape I'm in." -- Dorothy TalbertWiggans, 415 Savage Farm Dr., Ithaca, NY 14850-6504; e-mail, dwiggans@verizon.net.

42 | Joseph L.Hollowell (Hockessin, DE) was also impressed with Miller Harris '43's column on Kurt Vonnegut '44. He wrote Miller: "I enjoyed your CAM '43 class review and Vonnegut cameo. Though our trails never crossed, I sure would have liked to have met the author of: ‘Why can't we just be kind to one another, and help each other get through THIS, whatever THIS is.' [I hope I got the quote straight.] A sentiment not voiced by our fundamentalist Christian ideologues, who with noose, sword, and faggot intend to put us all on the ‘right' track."

Lots of info about Duke Shelley. Gordon Kiddoo (Hilton Head Island, SC) writes that Duke is now in a continuing care facility (Sunrise of Arlington, 1395 Mars Ave., Arlington,MA 02476, tel., (781) 777-1078) near one of his children. He had surgery for a brain tumor that was benign but affected his short-term memory. I am sure that he would like to hear from friends. His daughter,Mary Shelley '72, suggests calling before 7:00 p.m.Mary also indicates that he is making a good recovery and is happy that his book is to be reprinted. He was quite disappointed at the low numbers in the initial printing and seems to have been vindicated in his complaints.His book is on the history of tower clockmakers in the US.

Gordon's email is gk42@cornell.edu, part of the e-mail forwarding service at Cornell. "If I change my ISP, I need notify only Cornell, not my whole address book. This past summer we sold our seasonal home in the mountains of western North Carolina and now our only address is 82 Shoreline Dr.,Hilton Head Island, SC 29928; tel., (843) 341- 7889.We have a free-standing cottage in a continuing care community called TidePointe, operated by a division of Hyatt. It is owned by the residents, but operated for us by Hyatt. Loie and I are okay--aging slowing but enjoying life."

Lynn Timmerman (Boynton Beach, FL) heard from Don Lathrop '53, MD '57, about Duke's surgery also. Christina Steinman Foltman (Ithaca, NY) reports that Duke's daughter lives in Ithaca--as she does. Take a look at Mary's interesting website, http://www.maryshelleyfolkart.com/.

Nice words from Elaine Hoffman Luppescu (Atlantis, FL)."Have not written to you in a long time, but so much of Cornell is in our lives right now that I wanted to let you know. First of all,my husband Harvey and I are going to London in May with CAU's ‘The Play's the Thing' group. This will be our second time with this program and we will surely enjoy it just as much. I have been a theater buff ever since my days in Cornell's Dramatics Club. In July we will go to Ithaca for a week of reading a modern Russian novel--The Master and Margarita--with Prof. Pat Carden.Whenever the Class of 2010 arrives in Ithaca, our granddaughter Caroline will be there, and she is looking forward to it. I am so happy that she has made this choice.Our eldest son was a member of the Class of 1970, so this makes a third-generation representative of the family at Cornell."Now there's an alum.

ArvinWhite (Grand Junction, CO) moved from Upstate New York to a retirement home close to his daughter.He enjoys his two grandchildren and his daily walks.Married 42 years to Helen, he is looking forward to his 90th birthday. Glenn and Evelyn Bronson (Canandaigua, NY) send their e-mail: gbronso1@rochester.rr.com. Glenn was elected president of the 99th Infantry Division Association. Six hundred attended the annual reunion in San Antonio, TX. The 99th Division fought across Europe, including the Battle of the Bulge and the Remagen Bridge crossing.

Charles and Doris Strong Castor '41 (Vero Beach, FL) enjoy life in an ACTS retirement community. They enjoy gardening, church activities, and traveling to visit family and friends. Celebrating their 63rd anniversary, Charlie authored two books on family history and an official history of the 59th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, all copyrighted and sent to the Library of Congress.He's presently writing a personal history for his family. They have four grandchildren. One works in D.C. for Congressman Mike Pence of Indiana. Dory is recovering from two knee replacements, as well as one hip. Charlie remembers singing in the Sage Chapel choir and continued choir singing for 60 years thereafter.

Sadly, Harry Vawter (Highland Lake, IL) passed away recently. He always remembered Cornell with fond memories.

Some interesting facts regarding changes since the year I was born--1921: There are three times as many people. The cost of a three-bedroom home has risen to more than 50 times as much. Average income is up 43 times. A new Ford costs 75 times as much. A gallon of gasoline is up 49 times as much, bread 12 times, milk three times, and a First Class postage stamp 19 times. It's hard not to think of the original costs as they continue to rise daily.

I enjoy all your e-mails and newsletters. They make such interesting reading. v Carolyn Evans Finneran, 8815 46th St.NW, Gig Harbor,WA 98335; tel., (253) 265-6618; e-mail, carolynfinn@comcast.net.

43 | Sadly we turn down an empty glass for Bob Baker, for erstwhile Big Red lacrosse stalwart Bill Pape (Surprise, AZ), for Robert Robison, MS '46, microbiologist, agronomist (North Brunswick, NJ), for James "Scotty"Wilson, engineer, teacher, caring caretaker (Thomaston, CT), and for former member of the Federal Reserve Board Jim Lorie,MA '45, who in his 25-year career at the U. of Chicago, some of it as dean of the graduate school of finance, conceived and directed the extensive (years of input and analysis) computer-generated stock market studies that led to, among other innovations, today's index funds.

Bob and Doris Lee Zabel (Webster, NY) write: "We have moved to Cherry Ridge Retirement Community--only three miles from our home of 45 years.We love it here-- our cottage, old friends, new friends, familiar territory, close to our church and our grocery store. Last summer we enjoyed a visit to Ithaca to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Phi Kappa Tau, Bob's fraternity. Being as old as we are, we get the ‘gold' treatment." Aline Snyder Raisler (NYC): "I've been spending winters in Palm Beach, FL, taking courses and playing golf.Have met many Cornellians here, including Ted Zimmerman, DVM '43, Emery Polya, Annette Fox Levitt '42, and one-time Sun editor Dan Kops '39. Hope to attend our 60th Reunion." [Aline, you might've just missed that one, but I think you're on target for our 65th. See you there.]

A note from Joaquin de la Roza (San Francisco, CA): "Long time since Boldt Hall. ["Keen" roomed next to me, across the hall from Don Yust.] I'm aging fast,Miller. It's the good who die young." John Vanderslice writes: "Dottie and I now live at The Woodlands, St. Barnabas Retirement Communities just north of Pittsburgh.We like it very much. Last fall we cruised down the Mississippi--St. Paul to St. Louis--with Marilyn and Bill Grimes. A shame that Phyl and Bill Hopple, MA '50, had to cancel (he had pneumonia); it was a real fun trip--good weather and fine accommodations on the Mississippi Queen."

"Utterly surprised that we (Bernard '42 and Lillian Kornblum Sachs) are now 84. Still in our own home, doing a lot less yard work, enjoying our four grandchildren. Still in touch with our Cornell roommates.We continue to be impressed by the reading matter in Cornell Alumni Magazine.Always a great read. Enjoyed a visit from Jean Lewinson Guttman (Waban, MA). Keep tabs on Muriel Blum Lipman (Hamden, CT). The phone just rang:Muriel! ESP! We shared news of Jean Guttman and Elaine Stone Millner. Old isn't as bad as I once thought!" The aforementioned Muriel and her unmentioned till now spouse Bernard, DVM '43, write: "At Holiday time we heard from Dorothy Eckstein Hyde, Betty Ann Bischoff Swezey (Palo Alto, CA), and RosemaryWilliamsWilson (Thomaston, CT).We are delighted to have granddaughter Sarah Jennifer Lipman at Cornell working toward double master's degrees in Hotel Management and Finance, the latter in handsomely renovated Sage Hall where my own Cornell affiliation began."

Miller Harris writes: "I was pleased (read: flattered) to learn that good friend BarbaraWahl Cate had made a donation to Cornell in my honor. Go thou and do likewise. If enough of you follow suit, there'll soon be an Endowed Chair of Class Notes Writing: How To Scribble for 50 Years. At home. In Your Spare Time.Without Remuneration." [Get a grip,Miller. Recognition like Barbara's is all the recompense one would ever need. That, and $5/word.]

Bob Hickman (West Grove, PA): "Lost my good wife Andy this past June. She and I enjoyed 12 years of travel,music, and theater, but a three-year bout with Alzheimer's took its toll. Fortunately we had moved into Jenner's Pond retirement community and their facilities made her illness easier to cope with. I lead birding trips on campus, and to New Jersey's Cape May, Delaware's Bombay Hook, and a few miles down Route 1, Pennsylvania's Conowingo Dam, where bald eagles gather at year-end.We counted 150 one day.Wish I'd spent more time with Dr. Allen [Prof. Arthur Allen 1907] when I was on the Hill."

Class VP Caroline Norfleet Church (Lenox, MA) writes: "Maybe someone else wrote this to you: [Affirmative; it was Doris.] In late summer I took a train with Doris Fenton Klockner and Liz Call Kingsley to northern New Hampshire to visit Jean HammersmithWright, who is now living at Wake Robin, just south of Burlington. Had a great time. Sad not to be talking with our late friend and class officer Grace Reinhart McQuillan. I do keep in touch with Ginger Shaw Shelley and Edy NewmanWeinberger." [Sounds like my cue.] Last month Joe '42 and Edy hosted their granddaughter's wedding on Long Boat Key, FL, with Ruth Ohringer Frank in attendance. Edy writes: "Had lunch recently with Helene Scheuer Rosenblatt, BS HE '94, and Maxine Katz Morse, both '45.Maxine is a most enthusiastic and loyal Cornellian, spearhead for her class, but she's upset that '45 isn't at work on a Compendium." [Don't look at me,Maxine.] -- S.Miller Harris, P.O. Box 164, Spinnerstown, PA 18968; e-mail, millerharris@ netcarrier.com.

44 | It's April and the D.C. area is awash in cherry blossoms, magnolias, redbud, and fruit tree blooms. Forsythia and Bradford pear are phasing out as azaleas begin to pop. The Kestens' report on the CACO (Cornell Association of Class Officers) meeting in Philadelphia this year was sent to the 56 names on the letterhead. But for the other 246 members, here's the story.

Attending the meeting with the Kestens were Peg Pearce Addicks, Hugh Aronson, Bill Brown, Janet Buhsen Daukas, and Charlie and Dorothy Kleine Van Reed '45. Newly appointed officers are Barbara Hall Bowne, replacing Bob Garmezy, Janet Buhsen Daukas for Lou, Bob Greenberg for Lew Mix, and Rocky Mountain dwellers Phil Lewin, PhD '69, and Jane Knight Knott.

Announcements included the awarding of two $4,000 scholarships from the Fellowship Fund, the 2006 value of which is $285,085. The Periodical Endowment will be used for the purchase of scholarly journals as well as popular periodicals. The excess donations to the Cornell Daily Sun Digitization Project will be used to support the '44 Memorial Room, which needs air-conditioning. The website account is $15,362, and Art reports completion of 700 pages with 3,000 photos. He will add 300 more pages.

The hard-charging meticulous Kestens did it again--shepherded 29 classmates and friends on a ten-day Celebrity Caribbean cruise. Thirty-two headed for Fort Lauderdale and Andy, MD '46, and Sherrill Capi's grand send-off dinner party. But Al Archer and Nancy were rerouted to a hospital in Atlanta when Nancy fell en route. The others visited Jamaica, Costa Rica, Colon, Panama, and Aruba, dined sumptuously, danced, and viewed shows. They gathered each evening for cocktails and games.

The games began with a putting contest, then cartoon captioning, guessing celebrity names pinned on backs (Who Am I?), best buy, rip-off contest, boo-boo (certified injury), hold 'em and fold 'em (poker), and weather prognostication (how many rainy days?). Daytime games included shuffleboard, bridge (four-day tournament), and cerebral golf (9 holes untimed treasure hunt). The players--Fred Allen,Hank Bates, Janet Daukas, Ellie Bloomfield Scholl (and daughter), and the Barrys, Capis, Evanses, Golds, Jenkinses, Kestens,Middletons, Parkers, Rundells, Sigetys, and four guests of Doris Holmes Jenkins. All winners received points and prizes lugged aboard by Dotty and Art. The one with the most points is Top Dawg. Surprise! The winner: NTR. Dick Evans was second, Bud Rundell third, and Phyllis Evans fourth.

A sad note. One night during the trip Alison King Barry's husband Alan died. They were flown home to Massachusetts from Colon.

Others are traveling. Connie and Lew Mix of Virginia Beach,VA, spent two weeks in Turkey in September. They toured Istanbul, Izmir, and the sites of the seven churches in the Book of Revelation. Clifford Earl wrote from Bluffton, SC, that he and Ann vacationed on St. Croix, VI, with his brother Dick Earl '43 and wife Barbara (Johnson) '42 at his son's condo. Dunbar King said the engine on his 1926 Model-T Ford has been rebuilt twice since its journey to Ithaca. It was ready for its annual trip from West Islip to Verona, NJ, via Avenue V in Brooklyn.

The trend to CCRCs (continuing care retirement communities) continues. Lena Hunt Burdin describes a quick move to Mt. Pleasant, SC, where she and husband Arthur '38 felt young among the old. They settled for the humidity of the Charleston area versus the winters in Ithaca (children and families in those climes). They have probably adjusted to 4:30 dinnertime by now. She wrote of her daughter Judy Burdin Asuni '69, who is founder and executive director of an organization in Nigeria that is helping to bring peace to the area. She has been given the title of "Special White Woman of the King in Ughelli Kingdom." She credits Cornell with creating new courses for her intended life in Africa. Barry and Cushing Phillips have settled into Elmcroft in Montgomery, AL. Cush is in the Alzheimer's unit, Barry living in an apartment next door, "allowing frequent visits."With their son and family nearby and her two Jack Russells for daily companionship, she is "relearning her way around Montgomery. Everyone is enjoying the change."

Zelda Guttman Damashek and husband left their home of 47 years in Scarsdale to move to an apartment in White Plains. Their children and grands are well. They claim three grandsons and one granddaughter. Bill Swain in Sarasota, FL, wrote, "Connie and I and three sons, a daughter, and six grandchildren are well and active."He says that the William H. Swain Co. had one of its best years.He still works part-time but wants to sell and asks for offers. [Bill, send in a description and I'll put it in the column.] -- Nancy Torlinski Rundell, 20540 Falcons Landing Circle #4404, Sterling, VA 20165.

45 | A Cornell endowment status report was recently issued, including our class's gifts; we should be proud of our assistance. The Class of 1945 Tradition Fellowship was established in 1993 and currently has a value of $218,437; current awardees (at $4,000 each) are: Michael Barnoski '07, Architecture (Stanley, NY); Jeffrey Rudnik '08, Engineering (Brownsville, TX); and Jose Gonzalez '09, ILR (Lynn, MA).We have also sponsored three Plantations stewardship projects, totaling $96,250: the Class of 1945 Path to the Wildflower Garden; Class of 1945 Staircase; and Class of 1945 Endowed Lecture Series, established in 2005, which supports lecturers in the Fall Lecture Series.

One of the prime movers for the Plantations projects, Jane Knauss Stevens,MBA '48 (Pittsford, NY) has been chosen by the Cornell Alumni Federation as a 2006 winner of the Frank H. T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Award, which will be presented at a banquet in October. Jane follows our other well-deserved winner/classmates Bill Berley (NYC) and co-president Maxine KatzMorse (Rye, NH). On the subject of awards, I received a message from Bob Olmsted (NYC) in which he comments about our report (in the March/April CAM) that he didn't think that his being featured in a New York Times article was nearly as much of a "big deal" as his honor by NYU's Robert F.Wagner Graduate School of Public Service of receiving its Lifetime Achievement Award in Transportation. Regardless, he is worthy of both!

My old roomie,Mark Pendleton (Islesboro,ME), called to inform me that spring is starting to arrive "down East" and that he's doing well, with his grandson soon to be a college graduate (Wake Forest). Spring has come and gone in Virginia Beach and it's getting warm. The oceanfront hotels are primping for the summer mobs, and the big topics around here are the possible closing of NAS Oceana (owing to BRAC) and the Ford assembly plant in Norfolk.My daughter, girlfriend, and I went to Bermuda for a few days in March, but it was cool and rainy there while 80 degrees here! My son and family flew in from Glendale, CA, for a pre-Easter visit, so I keep busy, as does MaryWright (Cooperstown, NY),who sent a pleasant message about her longtime contributions as an alumni news columnist for the Hotel school,which she enjoys because it is fun to keep in touch and to hear from classmates from whom you haven't heard in a long time. That is true and I'm starting to run out of news items, so get busy and send me some tidbits if you haven't done so yet.Mary is active in Rotary and helps out at Fly Creek Cider Mill & Orchard, a nearby working water-powered mill, winery, and country store.

We did receive a mystery which some of you may be able to help solve. A regular Class of 1945 News Form, sent out with our class mailing 1-1⁄2 years ago and returned to the Alumni Affairs office, reported the death, in December 2005, of John Edward Warner, Fairlawn, OH. It appears to have been sent by one of his children, as it states that "my father always had Cornell close to his heart with many wonderful memories." The problem is that no current official Cornell document or list has such a name. If anyone has any helpful information, please let me know.

Another ongoing mystery is the identification of those in the class photo taken at our 55th Reunion.Helpful information keeps trickling in, but I am not yet ready to publish a list. Please take another look at your copy and tell me if you recognize any of the following (identified by row from the front and position counting from the left): #2-1, #2- 2. #2-3, #2-6, #2-8. #2-16, #3-11, #3-12, #3-17.Many look familiar to me but the memory isn't what it should be! Thanks.-- Prentice Cushing Jr., 713 Fleet Dr.,Virginia Beach, VA 23454; tel., (757) 716-2400; e-mail, Cushcu45@wmconnect.com.

46 | Last December, I received about 20 News Forms, and I apologize for the tardiness of getting your news into the column. I hope you'll continue to send to me your important news (just being alive at this age is important), as your old classmates are interested in knowing what is happening to you.Here are some excerpts from the mailman's delivery after Christmas.

My favorite handwritten note was from Louise CarmodyWiley (Naples,NY). She has had quite a bout with MS, but is still hanging in there. I remember when Ken brought her to Reunion--I sure wish we could see her again. I also heard from New Yorkers Maurice '44, MBA '48, and Naomi Colvin Gellman (NYC). Naomi is a retired high school math teacher and spent ten years doing budget work for the Health Dept. Larry and Sylvia Helbert Paul (Williamsville) live in Florida during the winter. "We have the experience of preparing for hurricanes. In 2004 a tree hit our home just ten days before our month tour of Italy."

Marguerite Fellows (Canandaigua) is retired from SUNY Brockport and wrote,"Having fun moving into new houses and out of old ones--Maine, Florida, and back to the Finger Lakes." She is very active with golf and downhill skiing as seasonal activities. In the winter she also enjoys the indoor pool, reading, and listening to classical music. Hazel Brill Brampton (Ithaca) is involved in genealogy. She is preparing a small booklet on one of her great-grandmothers who sent her children to Cornell. She also enjoys dancing at the Straight and Barnes Hall, theater, reading, gardening, and volunteering at the History Center. She'd like to hear from Cornellians Regina Dutky Marshall and AlecHyde '47, BME '45. Otis Kidwell Burger (NYC) wrote that she was taking care of a heart patient, making ceramic sculptures, and writing another novel. She has two daughters, two granddaughters, and a menagerie of pets.

Floridians responding included Bill and Phyllis Stapley Tuddenham (Naples). They continue to attend CAU classes and travel to London for the theatre. The highlight of their recent European trip was visiting their high school exchange students who are now in their 50s. Joe and Kathleen Smith Mancini (Palm Coast) wrote that Kay retired from teaching in 1982, at which time they moved to Florida. She is a real estate broker with Coldwell Banker.Marian Cudworth Henderson (Ormond Beach) is still traveling. She'd like our help in locating an old classmate from EE school. Allan Slocum '45, BEE '47, entered Cornell with her but left for the Army, returning later.

In early April, Joyce Manley Forney (Dallas, TX) updated her January news: In addition to being the editor of the Bugle, a monthly publication for the 600 residents of her retirement village, she is caring for her husband Ross '52, who has Alzheimer's. She keeps in touch with Priscilla Alden Clement, Ginny Dondero Pfundstein, AliceMcKinney Luttrell, and Sara McKissock Vick. She'd like to hear from Mary Mershon Hoffmann '45. Elizabeth Pearson's daughter wrote that her mother is in a nursing home in Grand Marais, MN, diagnosed with Alzheimer's. I know her Delta Gamma sisters remember her. Joan Auchter Kraft (Bethlehem, PA) is a volunteer chaplain in the Pastoral Care Unit of St. Luke's Hospital and is the bereavement chairman at St. Anne's Parish.

The first of our Reunion news will appear in the Sept/Oct issue. In the meantime, continue sending news to -- Elinor Baier Kennedy, 9 Reading Dr.,Wernersville, PA 19565; tel., (610) 927-8777.

We'd love to report on reunion, but our deadline for this July/August column is April 15, nearly two months before our "60th in '06." Elinor Baier Kennedy, '46 Women's Correspondent for 50 years, and I, celebrating ten years as Men's Correspondent, will together grind out recollections during Reunion's waning hours. Our 50-plus-ten years of service equals "60," Reunion's magic number.Watch for our report in the September/October issue.

Our News Form recently added a request for "Who is the old Cornell friend you would most like to hear from?" The early leader is Rod Stieff. Two classmates who chose him are Allen L. Boorstein (New York City; allenatamber@cs.com) and Russell C. Scott (Richmond,VA).Allen's present primary interest is "use of ‘System Dynamics' in strategic planning for governments and businesses and in the field of education."Wife Jane's work is in global population issues. Recently, Allen has labored at moving his New York office into their NYC apartment. To make room, he donated many books to the library in Farmington,ME--near their second home.Among other things he'd rather be doing, Allen lists "rowing on the Cornell 150-lb. crew, eating dinner at Krebs with fraternity brothers--especially William "Skippy" Fuerst '39, MS '61--or just enjoying opera at the Met."

Russell has had a rough year and a half in hospitals and rehab, but is now on the road to recovery. Anne and Russell have moved to a continuing care community, where they would welcome calls and notes from friends. (Ed.: Please contact your correspondent for their address and phone number.) They rented a large house in Hilton Head, SC, for a grand Thanksgiving party with children and grandchildren. Both Anne and Russell are thankful for memories of extensive travel and sailing enjoyed in younger days.

Rev. Donald W.Beers and wife Teresa still reside in Belvidere, NJ.He has retired after a long, satisfying career in the Episcopal Church.Now he has plenty of time to pursue stamp and coin collection. He fondly remembers years of playing soccer at Cornell.When Donald S. Ironside (Haverford, PA) retired in 1967, he toyed with creating PPM (Philadelphia Precision Measurements). Evidently, he couldn't determine what to measure.He and Beatriz are enjoying their retirement institution called The Quadrangle. It's handy to Philadelphia and their 47-year suburban neighborhood. Don and Beatriz live within three hours of their immediate family, all of whom "are in fine fettle." Don hoped to make our "60th in '06." If so, we'll tell the world in our next issue.

TO PUBLISH YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS, e-mail it to me. Include your name and city and state of residence. Send news to: -- Paul Levine, 31 Chicory Lane, San Carlos, CA 94070; tel., (650) 592-5273; e-mail, PBL22@cornell.edu. Class website, http://classof46.alumni.cornell.edu.

47 | It's hard to believe that at this time next year we will have already had our 60th Reunion. 60! How is it possible?

Barbara "Bimby" Everitt Bryant (bryantb@umich.edu) responded to the recent News and Dues letter via e-mail, telling us she is still working at the U. of Michigan as a research scientist. Remember when we were so proud that she, our classmate, was head of the Federal Census? She reports that she celebrated her 80th birthday with one of the same people with whom she spent her 18th--her freshman roommate Lois Stamey Spear. Lois and her husband Monty '46 were visiting at Bimby's Scottsdale, AZ, winter home. The three then took a 1,300-mile jaunt to San Diego and Palm Springs, CA. I hope they will all attend reunion.

I had a lovely phone conversation with Mary Lou Gedel (now just "Lou"), who called me because she wanted contact information for Bea CarlsonMurray, whom I had written of in the March/April issue. Lou is retired but had a busy life as a nutritionist/dietitian. She worked at Johns Hopkins for 20 years, then moved to Alabama where she first was county, then state, nutritionist for over 24 years. The duties of her job entailed traveling around the state, and she also administered the WIC Program. In retirement, Lou is busy: tap and line dancing, warbling in a chorus singing music from the '40s and '50s, and playing in a washboard band of about 50 people in which she plays the drum using a can.Her groups entertain in hospitals and retirement homes. Lou travels, too, and had one special trip where she started in Canada, crossed Lake Ontario, embarked onto the Erie Canal, and entered the Hudson River, ending in New York City. Sounds wonderful to me.

H. Richard Johnson (dk_jhnsn@pacbell.net) has contributed two good reports. Recently Dick and wife Mary Lou visited their daughter Karen in Bend, OR. Karen is a fourth grade teacher and asked Dick to come to her school to put on a show celebrating Physics Week. The Johnsons arrived with a carload of apparatus for the project. When the students questioned the existence of air pressure, Dick emptied air from a paint can by boiling water in the can, causing the can to fill with steam. Dick snapped on the lid, causing the condensed steam to cause the can to collapse, showing air pressure at work. Dick also made a bazooka out of a pipe, with a tee at the end of the pipe and a vacuum cleaner connected to the tee.With the vacuum cleaner running and a piece of paper over the end, he put a projectile in one end and it shot out the other end traveling 80 feet. The kids were impressed. Good work,Dick. It sounds as if you were carrying on the tradition of Freshman Physics professor Guy Grantham, who put on similar shows every Tuesday and Thursday in Rockefeller Hall. Dick and Mary Lou have a vacation home at Lake Tahoe; home is Palo Alto. They welcome calls and visits from classmates.

Dick's second report is one he says he sent to me in 2002 but never saw in the column. I'm sorry for that, as it's interesting and about friends. Tom Talpey and his wife Betty (Alden) '48 recently created "The William E. and Elva F. Gordon Distinguished Lectureship" to be given yearly at Cornell's Arecibo Observatory. Tom's first job after graduating from Cornell was with Bell Labs, and one of his assignments was designing and building telescope receivers for the electronic telescope. On an important visit to the observatory, Tom and Betty invited their son Bill, Dick and Mary Lou, Betty's sister Priscilla Alden Clement '46, and her husband Gordon '44, BCE '47, to attend the inaugural lecture on November 12, 2002, arranged by Cornell's National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center.

Arecibo's radio telescope is the most sensitive in the world. The spherical reflector, 1,000 feet in diameter, fills an entire valley. The feed structure is suspended by cables 500 feet above its center and is five stories tall. All seven took the five-minute cable car ride from the surrounding hill to the top of the feed. There they toured the steering and focusing machinery and saw the receiver pre-amplifiers, as well as one of the transmitters, sending 2,000,000 watts at 10 centimeters wavelength. They walked off via a narrow suspended catwalk one person wide and about 600 feet long. They met with one of the lecture namesakes, Bill Gordon, PhD '53, a former Cornell professor, now 84, who supervised construction of the observatory in 1960-63 after planning and promoting it. Bill was Tom's boss for three years while Tom, on leave from Bell Laboratories, lived in Arecibo with Betty and their two children and helped develop the observatory's first super-sensitive receiver. At that time, their son Billy, then 5, asked a construction worker if he could walk out onto the catwalk, then under construction.When the worker learned his age, he replied, "Too bad, you have to be 6 to go out on it." Billy, now 46, finally got up there. All were treated royally.

Happy summer! Stay well. -- ArlieWilliamson Anderson, 238 Dorchester Rd., Rochester, NY 14610; tel., (585) 288-3752; e-mail, arlie47@aol.com.

48 | Dianne Shapiro Gasworth, Palm Beach, FL: "Retired judge, Civil Court of NY. Present mediator in Palm Beach County. Reading, tennis, bridge. Took Tauck Tour to see Mount Rushmore, Grand Canyon, etc. Traveled to Maine to see grandson, a cellist.Would rather be back on the bench or be a student at Cornell. My three children are lawyers, one of my granddaughters graduated law school, and a second daughter started law school.World's problem today is getting out of Iraq.Wish I knew how."

Jean Chamoulaud Kimmell, Cornwall, PA: "Disposing of mountains of mail; i.e., catalogs,magazines, charities, bills. I actually had nine catalogs the last three Mondays. If I could just dump them--but there might be a treasure to buy, something to learn, or a waif to save. After-hours activity consists of ‘Desperate Housewives,' ‘House,' and ‘Monk,' plus whatever special things Cornwall Manor thinks up. It's like living in a sorority on my resident hall. There is as much activity in the laundry room and corridors as there is in the apartments. As you get to know the people around you, the more you realize everyone has a story. Some cope with life better than others, in spite of what horrors are thrown at them. Recently visited the mountains of Maryland and the horsey area around Charleston,WV. Tomorrow my beloved daughter-in-law and I are going to be ‘the ladies who lunch at a beautiful restaurant'--very posh, yet informal--in an old Queen Anne-style Elmira/Ithaca-type Victorian. Central Pennsylvania may be straight-laced Bible belt, but they know how to eat well. I have eight grandchildren.

"If you had mentioned philosophy to me at Cornell I would have run away screaming. Now I discover all of my conclusions about life that have taken me 78 years to learn could have been absorbed in the '40s at school.Most pressing problem today is making decisions, but I can't decide what the solution should be.World's most pressing problem is religious intolerance. Considering human history since we climbed out of the primordial ooze, there is no solution. Blame it on our genes.Have learned that a good hug can help people more than I ever realized. You just have to know when it's appropriate. Life is. Accept it. Deal with it. Can we be ghosts while we are still alive? I often walk along the familiar paths of childhood and youth. I know I will never see them again physically but the memories are bright, shining, and happy.Meet me behind the falls, beyond and under the suspension bridge over Fall Creek Gorge."

Phil Rowe, BS Hotel '73,Wyomissing, PA: The Reading (PA) Eagle reports that Phil, "owning over 30 restaurants in his 58-year career, having bought and sold many, including the chain of 14 Dempseys Family Restaurants, is ‘retiringly' ensconced in his only remaining Dempseys Restaurant at 2250 Lancaster Pike West, in Cumru Township (but he might at any minute start expanding again). Almost everyone in Northeast Pennsylvania has probably eaten at least once in a Dempseys. Phil started working in 1947 at his grandfather's restaurant, the Buttonwood Diner in Reading, where for 50 cents you would get a meat, a vegetable, a potato, applesauce, bread, butter, and coffee.'" Bill O'Brien and classmate wife Patricia (Hayes), East Aurora, NY: "Bill is retired but doing occasional radiation inspection and consulting.We enjoy seeing grandchildren grow up ‘too fast'--hope one goes to Cornell. How blessed are we to have friends as we grow older. How great were the Cornell years.We attended a Cornell off-year reunion 2005. It was great! Son Joseph, PhD in Biology and currently in the US Forest Service, was with us. He was very impressed with Cornell. Our problem is to find enough hours in the day to enjoy family and friends.No solution! World's problem is ecology, global warming, and peace.Also Hurricane Katrina. People need to try to get along and take care of each other.We should try to live every day in the best way we can. Life is great!"HarrietMorel Oxman, Sarasota, FL: "Returned from a journey to Egypt in May '05; departed Oct. '05 for Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. I just keep going!"

Steve "Coop" Cooper, Fremont, CA: "Present day job is taking care of girlfriend, also after-hours.My children are smarter than I. Their children are smarter than their parents. I was smarter than my dad. Boy, he must have been ignorant! Took trip to Cooperstown last June, L.A. in August. I'd rather be playing golf, trying to shoot my age-- on the front nine. Plan to attend the 114th Infantry Reunion in Washington, DC, in September, spend Christmas with girlfriend and her children in Chile, and attend our 60th Reunion in 2008. Since all three of my children live in Fremont, we have BBQs, birthday parties, and backyard swims frequently. Recently discovered how to work on my roof without breaking the tiles. God has a plan for each of us. Live each day so we are ready when He discloses it. God Bless all '48ers." -- Bob Persons, 102 Reid Ave., Port Washington, NY 11050; tel. and fax, (516) 767-1776.

49 | We're off. To say that we are settled in at our new home is a real stretch. Crates to be opened/unpacked. Things to be found. I give it a year and all will be calm. No matter how skilled the movers, or all the help you get, a move like this is a traumatic experience. Thanks for all your e-mails while this was going on, and special thanks to Tony Tappin (Tucson, AZ) for raising our spirits on St. Patrick'sDay. The high point of this move was to open the front door and be greeted by the singing of the Alma Mater by Henry '42 and Ruth Goodyer Jones '42, and Barbara Stryker Pratt '48. They knew all the words. They were rewarded with Big Red cheerleader megaphones and a '48 Reunion favor . . . thus reducing our inventory a bit.

Bill Herzog (Columbus, NJ) reports that he and wife Carol (Felder) '51 met at Cornell and that son Don '78 met his wife Linda Winkler '80 on the Hill. Now their daughter Emma has been accepted.Maybe history will repeat.We received a note from Robert Corbett (Annapolis, MD), a fellow ATO. He says he is a mostly retired architect and a member of the Class of '50, but would like to transfer to '49 where most of his friends are. Bob started in 1945 and graduated the five-year undergrad course in 1950. It is amazing that anyone in this era knows his or her class--it was a jumble.Welcome, Bob! Anyone who has a premier ski run at Jackson Hole named after him is welcome.

"Day jobs,""after-hours activities," current goings-on . . .We'll fit as many people in this column as we can. Here's what's been happening recently. Marilyn Gruenberg Luebeck (West Bloomfield, MI; alvinmarilyn@comcast.net), facilitator and chairman of the Inst. of Retired Professionals, does tutoring with the Oakland Literacy Council, substitute teaches in the local elementary schools, and leads a book and biography group. In addition to that, she'd like to be staying out of doctors' offices and writing the Great American Novel. Lee and Jan Steele Regulski (Clearwater, FL; L.Regulski@att.net) write that they travel as much as they can: "Elderhostel programs, ‘convertible with the top down' auto trips--wherever fancy takes us."Herbert Schwartz (Briarcliff Manor, NY; heschwartz@aremco.com), CEO of Aremco Products Inc., is recovering from arthritis in his back, which keeps him from playing golf and tennis as much as he'd like. He does, however, spend time painting watercolors and as a counselor for SCORE, a national organization that mentors people who would like to start their own businesses.

Ruth Samuels Hanft (Charlottesville, VA; hrhanft@earthlink.net) and husband Herbert enjoy concerts and dinners with friends. During the day, Ruth serves on community boards and committees, and participates in study groups. She would like to be traveling more. Travelers Chuck and Sis Reynolds (Vero Beach, FL; CHReynolds@ yahoo.com) sent a long note: "We are enjoying our life at Orchard Island in Vero for seven months and then Mantoloking, NJ, for five.We are traveling a great deal and love to do it. Next week we are going to NYC for a weekend with all of our children and their spouses to celebrate Sis's 80th birthday.Mine follows next year. Immediately after, we are off to five countries in Central America in our plane with a group of five other planes. Should be great!"

Norman Baker (Windsor, MA; CapNorm@aol.com) mourns the loss of his wife Mary Ann. "She has left us with an unfilled emptiness," he writes.What makes him feel better is playing with his three grandchildren,"who never, ever fight with each other, and make me laugh. I flew my little Skyhawk to Washington, DC, Pascagoula, MS, Dallas, TX,Albuquerque and Santa Fe, NM, St. Louis,MO, and home, visiting friends, old Navy buddies, and family." Dorothea Dashefsky Fast (Livingston, NJ; fastdotmom@aol.com) is "doing all the retired things--traveling, reading, lunching--and keeping a 50-year-old house together." She has lots of family involvement and takes the grandkids, one at a time, on big trips. Dorothea writes, "So far so good as is."

Dick Dietz (Chadds Ford, PA) sent this e-mail last summer, and it has found its way into the column."I recently became a late-in-life All-American. I returned to competitive skeet shooting some years back, mostly as a social activity. Last year, I participated in enough competitive shoots to qualify and was selected to the 2005 Veteran Class (over 70) All American Skeet Team. I still do some occasional freelance writing, wilderness travel, and field exercising of Labrador retrievers (mine or those of others). Still keep in touch with former Cornell roommates Herb Twichell '50 (Gowanda, NY) and Bob Piper '52 (Bozeman, MT)."

Richard Gilbert and wife Joy (Stern) '51 live in Lexington, MA (apriljoy12@verizon.net). Richard is president of Joy Realty Associates Inc., and works about 60 percent of the time.He says his son is now running the business. In his spare time, he does photography and builds model boats, and he and Joy continue to travel. Recent trips have been to the Black Sea, Central America, and the Rhine and Mosel rivers. Arno Nash and wife Doris have moved permanently to their new home in Munich, Germany, and spend their days learning to speak German better. David and Joan Dickey Hardie (Lansing, NY; davejoanh@earthlink.net) have been traveling to Greece and visiting relatives in the US. "We are very happy to enjoy our home, farm, church, and Big Red Hockey!"

What do you remember best about Cornell? How about this from the above '49ers: Professors, courses we took, and people we met (David and Joan Hardie); Octagon Club and many of the professors--especially Prof. Smart (Marilyn Luebeck); a come-from-behind last-minute victory over Dartmouth in November 1944 (Herbert Schwartz); the music room at the Straight (Ruth Hanft); rowing on the 1949 Henley Championship Lightweight Crew . . . and keeping those friendships (Norman Baker); the beauty of each season, including those elm trees (Dorothea Fast).

Haven't sent in your news yet? Or your best memories of Cornell? Now's a good time.More news to come in the next issues. Stay well. Stay happy. Be proud to be a '49er! -- Dick Keegan, 100 Ashlar Village,Wallingford, CT 06492; e-mail, rjk27@cornell.edu.