50 | To our News Form question, "If still working, describe," Bill Neef, MME '54, Prescott, AZ, replied, "HA!" Bill was a research engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Labs dealing with nuclear fusion, but now volunteers with Rotary Int'l and his Methodist Church choir. After a tour of China he recommends we all learn Mandarin. Robert Rider, Germantown, NY, says, "Yes, I'm still running the fruit farm, but at 80 it seems tougher accomplishing what 20 years ago I would have laughed at."

Norman Jennings, MS '51, Leesburg, FL, has no problem with senior idleness: Leesburg Hospital Auxiliary, reading, dancing, poker, theatre performing, genealogy, Internet, church activities, and RV'ing.Marie Mayhaus Martin, Teutopolis, IL, succinctly reported that she works for Children and Youth Services. Dorothy Coons Chadbourne, Utica, NY, enjoys easy retirement living at the Masonic Retirement Community and volunteers at the community's assisted living and health care facility. Edward Hoenicke, Punta Gorda, FL, worked as an attorney and business executive, but now volunteers as a director of Care USA. He mourns the passing of his wife Janice.

Henry Mertz, Taylors, SC, retired 20 years ago at age 58 after a career in insurance. He mourns the passing of his wife Eva, with whom he enjoyed extensive travel in all 50 US states, as well as cruises and travels to many countries abroad. Audrey Rossman Sharman, Briarcliff Manor, NY, reports memorable visits with classmates and other Cornell colleagues Tom Kerwick, John "Dirk" Ten Hagen '49, and husband Bill's roommate and best man Bob Clark '51 and wife Joyce. Also Clarence "Ben" Berner and wife Phoebe (Eisenbrown) '51. Ben was a fraternity brother of Bill and served as usher at their wedding; Phoebe was a sorority sister of Audrey.

John Griswold,Woodsville, NH, still "listens to requests for his services" as an independent business research consultant specializing in assessing markets and competitive business conditions. John sings in the 90-member North Country Chorus and is "having a blast" playing tenor sax and clarinet in a small combo at the local senior center--"all the great old tunes from the '30s, '40s, and '50s." George Barton, York, PA, was founder, owner, and CEO of Barton Associates, a mechanical and electrical design firm. Golf and yard work are current diversions.

With wife Mary Jean, Robert "Bucky" Ellis, Lake Barrington, IL, celebrated a 56th wedding anniversary. He serves on several hospital and condo committees and enjoys golf, gardening, and travel. Eric Kjellmark Jr., Ft. Lauderdale, FL, had a 35-year career with DuPont working in plastics research and marketing.He retired from DuPont in 1985, then worked for ten years as an international consultant on nylon research and development. In Wilmington, DE, his former home, Eric was the volunteer general director of Opera Delaware, president of Opera for Youth, and treasurer of Grand Opera House. Eric is cited in Who's Who in America for his service to the arts.

Helen Bull Neuhaus,Montclair, NJ, and husband Goeff missed last year's reunion because they were visiting their daughter and husband, both Fulbright art scholars at the U. of Ljubljana, Slovenia. They toured the Adriatic coast and hiked in the Julian Alps. At home,Helen paints in watercolors, takes piano lessons, and volunteers as a writing coach for ninth graders. Martha Galvin Inskip, Kenmore, NY, worked in early childhood education, but now volunteers for Meals On Wheels and as treasurer of her church's women's guild.Martha reports visiting her Cornell roommate, Marilen Tarleton Plumer, wife of our other classmate David.

Peter Rowe, Florence, MA, was Smith College professor of government. He served as faculty lecturer on an alumni trip to India and last fall took a trip up the Amazon to the Peruvian rain forests. He is a trustee of the Forbes Library in Northampton,MA, and ESL tutor for the Int'l Language Inst. Ames Filippone, MD '53,Morristown, NJ, is retired as chief of surgery of Morristown Memorial Hospital, where he has been honored with an endowed chair in surgery. He now reads first-century history and creates models of classical architectural artifacts of the period, such as the Arch of Titus. Ames is seeking advice on how to do a statuary grouping of the founding fathers in a conversational pose.

John Timmerman, Lake View, OH, is a colleague of mine in the search for answers to the UFO enigma. Over a 12-year period he toured the country with a UFO exhibit and recorded unsolicited personal accounts of UFO encounters. These are now collected in a fascinating and engaging book,Grass Roots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, by Michael D. Swords. To learn more, contact John at jptimmer@bright.net.

Concerns and Memories. Due to a stroke, John Kurzenhauser,Modesto, CA, is in the Hi-Land Nursing Home in Modesto.We mourn the deaths of classmates Joseph Kirkland, Leander, TX, A.Herbert Nehrling Jr., Timonium, MD, Conner Stephens, Alfred Station, NY, and Selleck "Jack" Carpenter,Williamsville, NY.

I'll happily receive expressions of thanks for sending from Iowa to the Hill Cornell's new president David Skorton.We previously trained the distinguished Hunter Rawlings out here in the intellectual center of the US.We shall now get busy preparing the next.My wife Erma, acquainted with Dr. Skorton through work with the American Heart Association, reports that in addition to his impeccable professional credentials, he is also a very nice guy. -- Paul H. Joslin, 6080 Terrace Dr., Johnston, IA 50131-1560; tel., (515) 278-0960; e-mail, phj4@cornell.edu;Marion Steinmann, 237 West Highland Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19118; tel., (215) 242-8443; e-mail, cjoiner@ix.netcom.com.

51 | You may wonder why there is no reunion news in this column, a month afterwards. That's because I'm writing this in April (the lead time on these columns is nearly three months). Reunion news will appear in the Sept/Oct issue.

JanWitmeyer Bone, Palatine, IL, sent her best wishes to all at Reunion. "The logistics of an early morning flight through Syracuse, the rent-a-car, and the lodging question, as well as the so-big campus are a bit more than I can handle. I got the metal and plastic knee in Aug. 2004, and due to some related complications, walk with knee-high brace and cane, and can manage--very slowly." Jan's been piloting a business communications training (volunteer) project for staff members at Meadows Community Services, a Chicago suburban faith-based agency that helps 200-300 mostly Hispanic clients. "Assuming all goes well, the project becomes the key exhibit in my cumulative portfolio for the master's degree (my second master's; first is MBA) in Training & Development, Instructional Design concentration, which I expect to receive from Roosevelt U. at the December 2006 Commencement."This spring she taught some 60 learners in two Roosevelt U. classes (English comp and a graduate psychology-writing course) and one Harper College Eng. 101 course. "I still have eight books in print, but have stopped writing books to concentrate on adjunct teaching."

Alfred, PhD '60, and Dolores Blumstein, Pittsburgh, PA, took their kids (three) and grandkids (four, nearing their teens) on a four-day Caribbean cruise. Al's year as INFORMS Morse lecturer has taken him to York, UK, Honolulu, and New Orleans for plenary talks on operations research. Henry, JD '52 and Phyllis Fein Bobrow, Stamford, CT, are still getting used to being Connecticut residents after being New Yorkers all their lives, but they are closer to their Westport son,Richard '79, and family. Daughter Joanne Bobrow Shoelkopf '76 lives in Winter Park, FL. Marc and Denyse Ginzberg, Rye, NY, report that the Johnson Museum showed their collection, "African Forms," in September 2004. Their website is www.africanforms.net.

Joan Falconer writes from Iowa City, IA, that she was able to reestablish contact with Mary Osborn Gallwey, PhD '58, Seattle,WA, as a result of the Nov/Dec 2004 class column. Joan traveled to Jordan and Egypt in 2004. She was in Cairo over Election Day and also when Arafat died and was memorialized there. "Quite an exciting time," she writes, "and very instructive to hear the Egyptians' take on both subjects." John and Rose Carpenter Gernon '53 spent three weeks touring New Zealand in 2005. "Great country and we had a lot of laughs with fellow Brits and Aussies." John is still working with Habitat for Humanity in Glendora, CA, with 14 houses completed. Their seventh grandchild, born prematurely in Paris, is doing well despite a 720-gram birth weight, and was expected to return to the States last May.

Robert Matyas, Lansing, NY, reports meeting Martha Servis Ruhling, Branford, CT, at the Brooker Creek Environmental Education Center in Tarpon Springs, FL. Bob and Betty wear their 50th Reunion jackets everywhere they travel, and Marty, a docent there, said she had "one of those jackets at home."Marty, a retired researcher from Yale's School of Medicine, sends greetings to her Pi Phi sisters and hoped to come to the 55th Reunion. Bob and Betty visit their son John '78, MS '85, and wife Nancy (Wright) '77 in Calgary annually, where two grandsons play hockey--both goalies.

The Frederick P. B. Thorntons, Drexel Hill, PA, have added a grandson on Fritz's side and a granddaughter on Olga's side,making a total of 13. Fritz's recent leg and foot injuries have restricted playing with them, but he is rehabbing and hopes to soon resume hiking, biking, canoeing, tennis, and fly-fishing. He recently retired as president and chairman of two 501(c)(3) environmental corporations. He is still active on the board of the Heinz Federal Wildlife Preserve. He sees Dave Maroney,Villanova, PA, periodically and reports he is doing well despite the loss of his wife Mary.

John B.Henry retired from medicine in June 2005 after "50 wonderful and productive years" as a distinguished service professor. He retired from the US Navy in 1993 and then directed Transfusion Medicine Service (including HLA & Immunogenetics) and taught at SUNY Upstate Medical U. for another 12 years. He discovered and reported with colleagues a new HLA A0101 null allele. He reports from Skaneateles, NY, that his first grandchild graduated from Dartmouth cum laude in 2004 and plans to go to law school in 2006. He has eight other grandchildren and prays for a Cornellian. Georgette and he married at Sage Chapel on June 10, 1953, and he looks forward to retirement life, including more sailing on Skaneateles Lake.

Barry Nolin,Water Oak, FL, sent a photograph of a lunch get-together at the end of February with Edie Quinn Franklin '53, Ken '52 and Joanne Huntington Tunnell, MPA '52, Lena and Donn Terhune '52, and himself. "Edie and the Terhunes live in the Villages, Barry lives nearby, and the Tunnells were on their way back north after an annual visit to Sanibel Island." Barry's Class of '51 Web page is http://classof51.alumni.cornell.edu. Please send your news to -- Brad Bond, 101 Hillside Way,Marietta,OH 45750; tel. (740) 374-6715; e-mail, bbond@ee.net.

52 | Present at the joint '52-53 class dinner the night before the February Cornell Assn. of Class Officers (CACO) Mid-Winter Meeting in Philadelphia were Joy Rees Hoffman, our reunion co-chair; Dean and Lynn Heidelberger MacEwen; Jack and Pat Thornton Bradt, who was to go to Oxford this summer to discuss the Dover School Board case; Cass and Jean Brown Craig, who were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary the next day; Judy Calhoun Schurman; Catherine McDonald Hegeman; Trudy Serby Gildea, our class secretary; and our co-presidents Tom Foulkes and Jan Hofmann McCulloch.My husband Stuart, seated across from Lynn and Jan and between Judy and Cass, did not suffer.All looked great, but the person who looked most the same was Jack Bradt. The next day Judy and Catherine, along with Terry, JD '56, and Dorrie Crozier Warren, joined the class officers, which by then included GordonWilliams, treasurer, at the class meeting. For a full rundown on the meeting, memories, and 55th Reunion news, check our class website, http://classof52.alumni.cornell.edu.

Richard Bosshardt e-mailed to say that he and Joan (Clifton) '54moved back to Switzerland in 1982, where Joan, who had majored in Textiles & Clothing Design, applied her degree and opened "Nostalgiekleider Shop" (Nostalgic Clothing Shop) with 1,500 items of 1910-1970 clothes for rental and sale.He continued, "At its successful peak, Joan died suddenly of an embolism on Dec. 5, 2003.My daughters urged me to continue in her memory. Amazingly, I was better able to close sales than the substitute ladies I later engaged. Now, at age 76, I am slowly preparing to move back to the US in 2007. The business has been sold to an old friend, who will carry on nearby, exactly in the same pattern as now--a fitting tribute to Joan's memory. You can even see her picture with our models on the website: www.nostalgiekleider.ch." Thank you, Richard.

From the mailbag. Emily and Theodore Castner, now of Pittsford, NY, moved from southern New Hampshire to a retirement community. Ted is still doing research in condensed matter physics, but is retired from other academic activities.He hikes, bikes, attends RPO concerts, skis cross-country, interacts with grandchildren, and reads new and old books. The Castners had enjoyed an Elderhostel to the western Grand Canyon that included a hike to Supai Village. In retirement, Martin Cohen, Belmont,MA, is a museum volunteer, makes toys for his grandchildren, and is active in local politics. As do so many of you, he answers the "What I'd rather be doing now" question as follows: "What I am doing now. I have a ‘satisfied mind.'"

Phyllis Berger Corwin, Basking Ridge, NJ, writes,"Most recently returned from a transatlantic cruise on the Queen Mary II, a fabulous ship. But both of us [husband Stan] agree that late fall is probably not the best time to take advantage of all the ship has to offer. From one extreme to another: a month earlier we had cruised the Columbia and Snake rivers on a small ship, tracing the footsteps of Lewis and Clark, whose Voyage of Discovery was an amazing feat."

News from Californians. Ivan Gendzel,MD '56, Palo Alto, reports that he is an "almost retired psychiatrist."Apart from that, he serves on the civil grand jury of Santa Clara County, is a Red Cross disaster mental health volunteer, and serves on the board of the Pacific Skyline Council Boy Scouts of America.Also in California, Jim Gibbs writes from Stanford:"My wife Jewelle and I had a two-week trip to China in October 2005.Highlights included the Yangtze River gorges and the Three Gorges Dam." Roger, PhD '65, and Joan Ganders Glassey are in Berkeley. Roger is still teaching computer programming for robots built with Lego's Mindstorms kits to upperclass industrial engineering and operations research engineers at UC Berkeley. After hours, he is on the church maintenance committee, plays tennis, and acts.

Joan Jago Townsend, Arlington, TX, recently attended the Cornell-Harvard game in the rain, and also went to the Texas-Baylor game. She writes, "Three of our kids are UT grads and had season tickets to TCU.We sure can pick some winners!" Richard Reichart, Princeton, NJ, retired, is "still doing some survey research, both revenue-producing and pro bono."He is active in the Ethical Culture movement, both locally and nationally. Recently he has been doing a lot of e-mail and is starting regular gym workouts to get his walking legs back in shape.

Paul Herman forwarded news from Sandy Lyon, daughter of Henry and Bettie Buell Lyon, who lived in Hawaii, that Bettie passed away in late March, and that Henry had had surgery shortly after that. "He is doing as well as can be expected and is dealing with that and the loss of Mom." As Paul, who has known both of them since seventh grade, says, "It gets harder and harder to accept these things." It does. -- Joan Boffa Gaul, 7 Colonial Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15232; e-mail, jgcomm@aol.com.

53 | Adirondack attorney Jack Mannix, JD '58, billed as the world's seventh greatest magician, and fixture at Savage Club shows at many reunions, left the world a better place when, it's sad to say, he died this spring. But he left a legacy of warm nostalgia in a note he sent a few weeks earlier. It seems he was mousing his way around vintage '52 Daily Suns on the 'Net (find it through the Sun or Library sites in www.cornell.edu) and ran across an account of a whupping George Boateng, MS '55, and his soccer teammates laid on Navy."He was a native of the Gold Coast and the best I ever played alongside," said Jack. "As a freshman, he had a terrible time adapting to soccer shoes since he had always played in his bare feet.We all told him that he had to wear the soccer boot because if anyone stepped on his bare foot he was probably done with his soccer career at Cornell.

"Well, he adapted.Did he ever! He was All-America for three years.He told me in our freshman year that he was not skilled enough to make his local team back in the Gold Coast.Anyway, the athletic doctor told him not to play against Navy because he had a small fracture in his left instep.George would have none of that.He insisted, and prevailed. Doc Rachun wrapped his foot in sponge rubber and turned him loose. George scored all five of our goals with a broken foot. I think the last time I saw him was at our graduation."

If you Google George Boateng, you get a Middlesbrough (UK) midfielder born in Ghana in 1975. He has his own Web page.

"My child bride Dorraine, 13 years younger than I," says BarryWeiss (Playa del Rey, CA), "rescued me from widowhood by asking me to merengue with her at a dance for guys over 40 and gals over 35, 14 years ago. That brought me to her two sons to add to my own two sons.Her oldest, a rabbi at Aish Hatorah in Jerusalem, is the only one to provide us with the delight of grandchildren. That gives us ample reasons for one or two visits a year and a wonderful appreciation of Israel and Judaism as well." Barry and Dorraine are partners in Secure Financial Services, which, says he, "helps people use their assets more effectively."About that first date: "The night we met I said I expected to marry someone I'd met at a political event.Well, Dorraine was treasurer of our local Democratic club for nine years, and we work for common sense in government. That's an uphill battle, for it seems, as Jim Hightower titled his book, If God Wanted Us to Vote, He'd Have Given Us Candidates.

Retired kindergarten teacher Louise Klein Sussman (Elkins Park, PA), current full-time potter, has been teaching kids' clay classes.Marylyn Aker Graff (Warren, RI) has been reading copy for a local bi-weekly newspaper. Helen AbelWang (Oceanside, CA) is a Gideon's Auxiliary, providing Bibles for medical offices, teaching English to older Chinese people, and visiting convalescent homes. Jane Cody DeVries (Woodbury, CT) points with justified pride to three accomplished offspring, sons Thomas (science teacher and paleontologist), Paul (geologist), and Mark (chemical engineer). Jane has been a pillar of the local Board of Education and Board of Finance, as well as chairperson of the Democratic Town Committee.

Over in Litchfield, CT, Joe Alfredo and sons operate a driving range. The sons are very good golfers, Joe assures us. Two other sons are continuing in the landscaping business. Joe divides the year unequally between Greenwich, CT (eight months) and an oceanside home in Highland Beach, FL (four months). He divides club time between the Westchester Country Club in Rye, NY (48 years), and Boca Raton Resort and Club (35 years). Edgar MacBurney "Mac" Storm, JD '60 (Savannah, GA) keeps listing his maiden name on our news and dues form as Ellie Hawes. That's in memory of the way he, well, dragged through sorority rushing when we were very young. (He settled for Zeta Psi.) He's still plying southern waters and teaching the fine art of sailing. There has been one trip to the deep, deep south--a visit to Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay to celebrate spouse Barbara's 70th birthday and the Storms' 42nd anniversary.

Done with a "long and satisfying" adult and pediatric urology practice, Stan Landau, MD '56 (Hewlett, NY) now reviews cases as a urology expert for medical malpractice lawyers. There's time for a look at faraway places, like Antarctica, the Falklands, and India. He and wife Maxine duck the New York winter in Sarasota, FL, and beat the southern heat at the Big City's museums, plays, and concerts. He's replaced "the joys of sailing with the frustration of golf." Stan has discovered digital photography and rediscovered classical piano. (He's taking lessons again after 64 years.) He and Maxine are avid duplicate bridge players. "Our children are great and have given us nine grandchildren. Daughter Leslie Landau, JD '83, is now a Superior Court Judge."

Ask what's keeping you busy these days and you never know what you'll be told. Here's Lawrence Smith's report from his old home town, Piffard, NY: "I draw manure and worry about multiculturalism. I plant and harvest my crops and ponder Darwin.We are planning a fence to keep the barbarians out.We study Jared Diamond (you remember, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel, the first freshman summer reading assignment).We visit the Maya. Spouse Cathy (Austin) commutes once a year to visit family and friends in Chile." -- Jim Hanchett, 300 1st Ave., Apt. 8B, New York, NY 10009; e-mail, jch46@cornell.edu.

54 | Lee '57 and Ginny Glade Poole were kind enough to send along a newspaper clipping on Dorothy Vandercher Klotzbeacher's vision to create a nursery school for 2- to 4-year-olds in her local church in Cranberry, NJ. The school has grown from 17 students to 144 over the past 20 years, adapting along the way to new ways of teaching, given our electronically cluttered lives, while maintaining an awareness of the specific needs of small people.William Osterhoudt's "after-hours" activities center around antique cars, family genealogy, and maintaining the largest garden in the county of Oneida, NY. Fond memories of Cornell include the 60-cent pitchers of beer at the Royal Palm. Letitia Martin Heil has recently spent two months in Thailand and was witness to the total solar eclipse on a Mediterranean cruise this spring. Letitia is looking for Leonore Hess Yaverbaum. Can anyone help? My search has come up empty.

John Clarkson has not yet given up his day job as CEO/CFO of Intertego, insurance investigators.However, like many of us, John would like to be spending less time seeing doctors in St. Louis and more seeing the Atlantic from their Ponte Vedra condo in Sawgrass. David Lipkin wrote that he actually enjoyed walking up Libe Slope in winter. Perhaps that's why he hasn't moved South and is still practicing general dentistry in New Jersey.He does escape for some travel, but did not say in what direction--Alaska, perhaps. Joseph Hartwig lives in Florida, but is still enthusiastically employed expanding his manufacturing business. Joe makes high quality furniture and equipment for public and private schools. Since his retirement five years ago, Steve Krauss has been able to spend more time in his printmaking studio where he works on woodcuts, etchings, and monotypes. The Krausses, being a musical family, have their own string ensemble, with Steve on the piano. This past year Steve and Carol did a walking tour of Tuscany and a shipboard Elderhostel trip in British Columbia exploring the Strait of Georgia and the Vancouver Islands.While at Cornell, Steve enjoyed walks in the surrounding countryside and taking courses from professors Healy, Vlastos, Burtt, and Fritz Stern.

Having decided she would rather swing than shovel, Betty Siebert Libera has traded in Upstate New York and made Stuart, FL, her primary residence.We received another upbeat note from Doris Caretti Oniskey. I've decided that the only thing Doris doesn't do is play golf, and she may take it up any day. She appears to be in motion at all times, be it driving the elderly, seeing Canada via rail, checking out Colonial Williamsburg, or viewing the Pyramids along the Nile.Doris recalls walking to the Straight, looking out across the valley, and thinking how very lucky she was to be at Cornell. She still feels that way.Doris is seeking the whereabouts of Willi Beam '55. If anyone can lend us a hand here, it would be appreciated. The last question on the news form is stirring a number of memory banks. I'll list a few people in each column if Chick Trayford and I can't find them.

Gill Henoch, LLB '58, has cut his lawyering hours a bit and therefore has time for taking on a major home renovation, figuring he and Sheila will stay in New York a bit longer. They took time out to visit the Canadian Rockies of Lake Louise and Jasper fame and came away awestruck, as does everyone who has seen them.We have a few classmates that are so delighted with their lifestyles that they have one answer that fits all. Linda Stagg Long is retired, and chauffeuring grandchildren fits her after-hours activity, doing-recently activity, and rather-be-doing activity. Cruising would appear to fill the same bill for R. M. Skelton. Frederick Battaglia finds fishing and biking fills most of his recreation time, with a bit of travel thrown in for a change of scenery. It would appear the same for Richard Harley, only mix in a bit of golf with the fishing. Ah yes, and one might add recovering from three hurricanes in 15 months. Yet with it all Richard does not miss the cold winters of his days at Cornell. Bob and Jan Levitan will celebrate a double wedding for their Cornell grandchildren and then contemplate a move. Bob is accepting suggestions for Moves Made Easy. I hadn't heard from Harry Butler in a bit so was glad to know he too is delighted to be doing exactly what he wishes. I loved his fondest memory of Cornell--the girls. Thanks, Harry.

Letetia Holloway Brown may have retired from hospital chaplaining as a profession, but her life is still one of caring: for grandchildren, for her mind via reading and reflection, for her husband during six months of chemotherapy, for her garden, and for church outreach programs. James Ritchey has retired to the land of hurricanes and is fast becoming an expert in dealing with their aftermaths. Isabel caused his latest devastation. Jim, have you ever thought snow might be less of a hassle? Jim is the first person to mention his fond memories of being on the Foreign Student Council and how much it helped him over the years.Mary Ann Smith Bliek and her husband Ralph live on a farm south of Lake Ontario where they raise vegetables for the Farmer's Market in Lyons while their son tends the apple orchard. -- Leslie Papenfus Reed, 500 Wolfe St., Alexandria, VA 22314; e-mail, ljreed@speakeasy.net. Class website, http://classof54.alumni.cornell.edu/; Cornell Directory, https://directory.alumni.cornell.edu/; class news online, http://www.alumni.cornell.edu.classes.htm.

55 | Feeling nostalgic for the old days at Cornell? I want to remind you that you can still order that great CD of the Cayuga's Waiters, which has combined 22 tracks from our two favorite albums. The cost is $10, plus $3 shipping and handling, for each CD.Make your $13 check out to Mark Husbands, and mail it to:Mark Husbands, 27 Sailmaster Common, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928.

Hilly McCann Dearden's daughter Laurel Gardner has been appointed by the Governor of Alabama to serve on a council concerned with ecology. Laurel, who's a veterinarian, will be working with other doctors and veterinarians on this project.Hilly herself is still working, but has gone back to being an independent contractor, "and working part-time when I feel like it." She finds she can get as much done working from home, and doesn't miss the 50 miles a day driving. Congratulations to Kay Hartell Cattarulla, whose documentary, "Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater," was shown on PBS last March in conjunction with Women's History Month. Some may remember that Margo Jones gave a lecture at Cornell in the early 1950s when she was a national figure, famous in the American theater world as the Texas Tornado. "She fought for success in a man's world, lived too fast, and died too young," but her vision "transformed the American stage." In the documentary, Jones is portrayed by Judith Ivey, and Richard Thomas plays Tennessee Williams.

Bob and JoanWeisberg Belden are taking a Volga boat trip between Moscow and St. Petersburg with Elderhostel this summer, and then they will visit the Northern Italian Lake country with other Cornell alumni in October. Ruth McDevitt Carrozza e-mails us that she's enjoying her 16th year in Florida, despite the hurricanes. As a landscape designer, "this is flower heaven for me." Like the Beldens, Ruth also recommends the university-sponsored trips, such as the one to the Italian Riviera that she recently enjoyed. Besides traveling, Ruth keeps busy as a member of the board of an organization dedicated to helping abused women and children. She also belongs to a gourmet group with Claire SchubertWeston '54, who lives nearby. "There are a lot of Cornellians here, but all a lot older!" (Those '55 coeds never lose their youthful spirit.)

Carroll Dubuc responded to Pete Bowell's question about what historic event will be celebrated in 2007. "I believe it is the 400th anniversary of the Jamestown settlement in Virginia."Try as he might, Carroll says he can't lose the "Duke"moniker around his Cornell friends.Rae Pullen Alexakos reports that they are still in Quechee,VT. Their three children and 11 grandchildren live on Long Island as well as in Hingham,MA, and Lexington, KY ("all lovely places to visit on our way to and from Sarasota, FL"). Rae keeps busy with charity work, golf, bridge, and aquacize, and still gets back to visit Puerto Rico, her old home. Mike Avery writes, "After 15 years in the travel business, I'm in the initial stages of a new career, that of real estate salesperson."Mike has finished all his education, gotten his license, and will be working with Long and Foster, a mid-Atlantic regional company. "So all you '55 alumni, send me your references!"

This June marked the graduation of Ned, MBA '57, and Paula Bussmann Arps '56's first two grandchildren--from college! By the time you read this column, Ned and Paula will have been back to campus to celebrate Paula's 50th Reunion, and from there they'll head to Cape Cod for the summer. Axel Hochkoeppler announces that he is "slowly turning green from mold," due to the continuous rain that's been pelting Northern California. Axel is still active in his consulting business. Their latest client is the only microbrewery in the country owned by a Native American tribe. "So far, so good," he notes, in that he has "not yet been voted off the island." Eva Konig Ray reports that she's "never enjoyed life more."After a busy, interesting career in science, Eva now has more time for skiing, sailing, family, and friends. She also advocates for women and families and the elderly, and--"at the opposite end of the spectrum"--participates in the Infant Health Advisory Council.

Philadelphia was the site for this year's CACO (Cornell Association of Class Officers) Mid-WinterMeeting. Co-presidents Fred Antil and Barbara Loreto Peltz report that the '55 group--Mike Avery, Carroll Dubuc, Phil Harvey, Hilda Bressler Minkoff, Ginny Wallace Panzer-Wiener, Dick Pew, Eva Konig Ray, and Charlie and Mary Ann Peck Wolf--enjoyed "a lot of learning and a lot of fun." Fred assumed his annual February persona, that of Abraham Lincoln, and officially kicked off the meeting dressed as the Great Emancipator, right down to the beard and top hat.More on the fascinating connection between Lincoln and Cornell in a future column.

Finally, some local news: I ran into Marggy Doorty Kerr Richenburg last week, whom I hadn't seen since last summer when we had a very enjoyable luncheon with Barbara Peltz and Nancy Livingston Hopkins.My husband Ed Petrie still continues his winning ways as the varsity basketball coach at East Hampton (NY) High School, so during the season (November to February), we stay pretty close to home. Springtime brings the opportunity for a little change of scene: a cruise to Bermuda and the Caribbean in May; and during the summer we'll combine a trip to San Francisco with a stopover visit in Utah, where Ed's son has built a new house adjacent to a golf course. Please send me your news via e-mail or snail mail, and I'll be sure to include it in a future column. Your classmates want to know what you're up to! -- Nancy Savage Petrie, nancypetrie@juno.com. Class website, http://classof55.alumni.cornell.edu.

56 | Writing this column has presented some difficulties: I am writing it several months before our 50th Reunion, and due to the needs of publishing deadlines, you will be reading it a month afterwards.Maybe it will be news of classmates who couldn't attend reunion and tell you their news in person, or maybe it will be the same news with a different slant. So here goes, anyway.

Some current news about our class writers. Erika Holzer (née Phyllis "Tish"Tate), Indio, CA, has published her newest book, Ayn Rand: My Fiction-Writing Teacher. It is part memoir, part how-to, as Erika writes about her mentor-protégé relationship with Ayn Rand, the author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. Erika's previous books were the espionage novels Double Crossing, written during the Cold War in the 1980s, and Eye for an Eye, written in the 1980s and turned into a movie starring Sally Field and Kiefer Sutherland, and nonfiction books written with her husband, Prof. Henry Mark Holzer, Aid and Comfort: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam and Fake Warriors: Identifying, Exposing, and Punishing Those Who Falsify Their Military Service. You may remember an earlier reunion when Erika was one of our guest speakers. Steve Katz, Denver, CO, retired from the faculty of Colorado U.His newest book is a novel, Antonello's Lion. Patricia Brodie, Concord, MA, has had over 70 poems published in literary magazines and poetry anthologies, and has recently won prizes for her short stories and poems.

Gideon Panter, MD '61, an ob/gyn, says, "What's all this talk about retirement? I just bought a new office at 1060 Fifth Ave., New York City, where I plan to practice for many more years."Morton Landau, Lawrence, NY, retired from the construction business in New York City, including work on damaged buildings as a result of 9/11. Dr. Rose Goldman Mage, Bethesda,MD, is still working at the NIH after 42 years, concentrating on immunogenetics, boosting the Rabbit Genome Project, developing a rabbit model of lupus, and, in her spare time, belly dancing.Wow!

Marlene Grass Paikoff and husband Sidney divide their time between the snows of Syracuse and the sun of Boca Raton, FL. Curtis Reis, Rolling Hills, CA, has relinquished the presidency of Alliance Bank, and now serves as chairman and CEO. The bank has over $600 million in total assets. Phyllis Miller Lee, Dorset,VT, exhibited her paintings on birds and satirical subjects at the Southern Vermont Art Center earlier this year. Anne Jackson, Ridgefield,WA, is a retired immunologist "with two dogs and two acres to tend."

Dr. Roy Curtiss, Paradise Valley, AZ, heads a research group of 30 young scientists from 17 countries and six continents. Their major new initiative is to develop a vaccine to prevent pneumonia in newborns. It's part of the Global Health Initiative funded by the Gates Foundation. Lenore "Lenny" Brotman Greenstein (Naples, FL, and Lenox, MA) and husband Rabbi Howard Greenstein '57 tell us that their son Rabbi Micah Greenstein '84, who heads a congregation in Memphis, TN, was the first Jewish clergyman to deliver the sermon at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. The event was last April and many Cornellians were in attendance.

Sonia Goldfarb Brody, Anita Hurwitch Fishman, and Charlotte Edelstein Gross, sorority sisters at Cornell, are living in the same apartment complex in South Orange, NJ. Art and Sharon Linkletter Hershey, Calabasas, CA, say, "Life just doesn't get any better."

Norman Miller, Tiburon, CA, a retired urologist at St. Lukes Hospital in San Francisco, CA, is a member and past chairman of the Golden Gate Regional Center for the developmentally disabled.Maria Radoslovich Cox and her husband Donald donated more than 40 pieces of their contemporary art collection to the Jacksonville (FL) Museum of Modern Art, including work by first-generation abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann, an oil-on-canvas by Russian-born painter Ilya Bolotowsky, and sculpture by Nancy Graves. The Coxes started collecting in the New York art world in the early 1970s.Maria is now concentrating on garden designs for her home in Ponte Vedra, FL.

James Plunkett,Milwaukee, WI, has been recognized by his firm, Plunkett Raysich Architects, for his 50 years of service to the company.During his tenure, he helped build the firm from 20 to 120,making it one of the largest architectural firms in Wisconsin, with offices in Milwaukee and Madison, as well as in Illinois. Jim continues to practice as a specialist in civic and governmental architecture. John Anderluh, John Talierco, and Chris Schmid and their wives played golf last spring in Florida with former Cornell coach Ted Thoren and his wife Jean just before John Anderluh has his second hip replacement. John Talierco followed with two hip replacements.

As those of us who will have shared our 50th Reunion now know,Margot Lurie Zimmerman's collection of modern Asian art was part of our program and exhibited at the Johnson Museum.Margot and husband Paul formed their collection while serving in the Peace Corps in Bangalore, India, in the 1960s. Paul was the director of the US Peace Corps for South India.Margot, Barbara Barron Starr, and I lived together at Sage during our sophomore and junior years, and on adjacent corridors during our freshman year at Dickson Five. Barbara, her husband Bob, and I were privileged to be at the opening of the exhibit this past April.Margot told me how she arrived in South India with Paul (who was busy leading the Peace Corps volunteers) and their young children, and wondered how she was going to fill her days. She took the children to the outdoor markets, and one day they saw an oil of a Christ-like figure that they were fascinated with. They came back to the market several times, and the painting was always there attracting Margot to this new world of contemporary artists expressing themselves following India's independence from the British Empire.

Margot never bought that painting, but there were many pieces of art they did purchase.Margot and Paul began to do research and visited artists in their homes wherever they traveled, as Paul's work took him all over South India visiting the Peace Corps volunteers. I would get letters from Margot detailing their visits to places with thenunfamiliar names. The collection grew, and then when they were posted in Iran in the late '60s, the Zimmerman Collection included Persian and modern Iranian artists.When they moved to Kenya for Margot's work in family planning and health, their collection continued to grow.Margot has taken me to their favorite artists and dealers, and at Margot's urging, I would always purchase something that I now enjoy in my home. I thank Margot for her enduring friendship and guidance over these 54 years since we met in September 1952 on the second floor of Dickson Five. -- Phyllis Bosworth, 8 East 83rd St., New York, NY 10028; e-mail, phylboz@aol.com.

57 | Ed '54 and Joyce DudleyMcDowell had a very busy 2005. In addition to celebrating 50 years of marriage with friends and family at the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, CA, they traveled from the Arctic to the Antarctic, viewing polar bears near Baffin Island and penguins in the Ross Sea. And after a Snuff Bottle convention in Beijing, they journeyed to Tasmania, enjoying the wildlife and several wineries. Janice Littell, BS Nurs '58, turned 70 the day after Christmas and celebrated aboard the Norwegian Crowne as it made its way down the east coast of South America and around Cape Horn. Stops for Janice included Montevideo, Uruguay, and Buenos Aires and Ushuaia in Argentina. Janice describes it this way: "In all, it was a bang-up 70th birthday." She plans on attending reunion in 2007 and hopes Mary Lou Hennekens Mahan will be there, too.

Joyce Edgar Schickler, BS Nurs '57, had two big celebrations for her 70th last year: a trip to Disneyland with three children, their spouses, and eight grandchildren, and then a summer gathering for a clambake/lobster roast in Rhode Island. Joyce gets together with nursing school classmates Kay Hitchcock Bailey, Yohanna Casalini, and Carolee Gordon Stray. Sue Davidson Braun should be fully recovered from cataract and hip replacement surgery by the time reunion rolls around. Although Sue has retired from the San Diego Board of Education, she continues to volunteer her services by working to implement universal preschool in California.

Efforts continue here in South Carolina to get a Cornell Club going. There was a gathering of Cornellians of the Low Country last March organized by Jim Vaughn '72, assisted by Southeast Regional Director KarenWeinreich '89. Drinks and finger food preceded a short talk by Life Sciences Provost Stephen Kresovich, followed by a Q & A session. Among the attendees from '57 were Joan Jeremiah Reusswig, TomPaterson, and Don Fellner. Ruth Anne and Henry"Hank"Parker '59 were also there, as well as Henry Vaughan and Valerie Jones Vaughan, both Class of '60.

We do manage to have a small group that meets the first Friday of the month for lunch at the Yacht Club of Hilton Head (fancy name but just a simple little place), so when you snowbirds or part-timers get down this way in a few months, join us.Marj Nelson Smart visited me in early spring and we played golf with Kevin and Betty Ann Rice Keane here in Sun City. Getting our games in order for reunion time--less than a year away! -- Judith Reusswig, 19 Seburn Dr., Bluffton, SC 29909; e-mail, JCReuss@aol.com.

Chuck Loppacker, who used to daily update the statistics of each Baltimore Oriole,moved on to a more frivolous career as home inspector for home-purchasing clients. Now retired and living with Betty in the Williamsburg, VA, area, he still gives seminars on the art of inspecting to national and local chapters of the American Society of Home Inspectors.He and Betty are within 3-1⁄2 hours drive of three of four children and six of nine grandchildren. Sanford Kaiser liked retiring so much that he did it twice, the first time in 1979 from the Air Force and again in 1997 from the Naval Air Systems Command, where he functioned as a senior logistics engineer.

Also leading the good life are Walter and Birgit Wills, who report on a delightful Italian trip from Sorrento to Rome and spending time walking through history, then flying to Gothenburg, Sweden, to continue the adventure with family and friends. Don and Mary Singer went to Israel last summer (first time for both) and saw most of the country in a whirlwind ten days. Don milked his 70th birthday pretty well, extending it for four days, with family and office pals passing off the baton.

I'm not sure if John Brooke is a professional driver or simply has a lot of cars, but he spends his time driving cars south in the fall and north in the spring. I doubt that he drove to New Zealand to congratulate his daughter's fiancé.He lived in Auckland at the time, but since the wedding this spring, now lives in Pueblo,CO.Gonzalo Ferrer has purchased a new home in Vermont and came across a ditty concerning the thoughts that went through (and probably still do today) the minds of the engineers as they relaxed on the East Wing steps of Sibley.Not surprisingly, it involves their assessment of the coeds who passed in review.

Eph McLean reports that he is having too much fun as Regents professor and G.E. Smith Eminent Scholar's chair at Georgia State U. in Atlanta to contemplate retirement. He is active in both teaching and research. Leighton Klevana has a fascinating job as president and CEO of Advanced Global Investments, with offices in Prague and Tampa.He shuttles back and forth in search of a myriad of investment opportunities. Bob George,my old lacrosse buddy, spent time in Ithaca last fall watching the Big Red football team dispatch an opponent and gawking at the size of the Hotel school and other changes on campus. He also mentions the good times after graduation spent at Lackland AFB with another lacrosse stalwart, Bob Hoffman '58.

A plea:My eyesight might be a little suspect, but I couldn't read a few of the news items and thus couldn't report them. If possible, typing and especially e-mails ease the pain considerably. -- John Seiler, 221 St.Matthews Ave., Louisville, KY 40207; tel., (502) 895-1477; e-mail, suitcase2@aol.com.

58 | Before getting to some of your recent individual News, here's an update from the class meeting held at CACO's Mid-Winter gathering in Philadelphia last February. Highlights from Betty Anne Steer Merritt say that the CACO meeting itself gets high marks for content, especially in VP Susan Murphy '73, PhD '94's glimpse of five outstanding students' lives, and of the current hot theme of "collaboration" (which continued in a workshop Betty Anne attended), illustrated by how such diverse fields as sound engineering, biology, and music can merge--if collaboration is fostered. A workshop attended by class co-president Chuck Hunt showed how Cornell's support to our website can be put into play. Chuck is considering becoming our class webmaster to bring about site improvements that you should see later this year.

"Luncheon was not to be missed in the beautiful Philadelphia Room . . . the hotel having a subtle beauty that we seldom see in NYC," Betty Anne writes. She, Chuck, and co-president Carol BoeckleWelch, along with Harriet Auerbach Peters, MS '75, Gladys Lunge Stifel, JudyWelling Baker, Barb Buehrig Orlando, and Jim and Annette Fogo Harper much enjoyed the luncheon as well as discussion of Glenn Altschuler, PhD '76, and Isaac Kramnick's book, The 100 Most Notable Cornellians.

At the later class meeting, efficiently run by Carol and Chuck, several actions were taken: NO class dues increase (we have about $70K in the treasury), even though Cornell Alumni Magazine has increased its price; a plan conceived for an Elsie Dinsmore Popkin painting award to a graduating senior; another plan to help sponsor a special program during our next reunion featuring Jennifer Tipton, renowned stage lighting expert.

Finally, the class reps decided to send an updated "welcome letter" and open-ended questionnaire to all classmates with the annual mailing in September. They would like to do this via e-mails as much as possible, so all 'mates are encouraged to send their latest e-mail addresses to Chuck to help us expedite that correspondence and save money for the class.We trust you're aware of how easy it is to obtain a free, permanent e-mail forwarding address from the university by way of a link on the Alumni page (go to www.alumni.cornell.edu and click on "Services"); use that if you wish, but one way or the other, please send your e-mail address to Chuck at chuck@nysra.org.

Other matters to garner our attention and decision-making in '07 (in the same city, Jan. 19-20; mark your calendar) include a Ron Lynch scholarship, a book restoration project, and funding and celebrating reunion in new ways. Your questionnaire responses will help.

On to individual news.We hear again from Art Shostak, who reported that he is to receive an award from the American Sociological Association at its annual meeting in mid-August in Montreal. The annual Distinguished Sociology Practice Award is given only to one for lifetime achievement.Art is in his third year of retirement after teaching the last 37 at Drexel U. in Philadelphia.He travels and gives papers around the world and writes new material to add to his 31 books and 150-plus articles. Art would welcome hearing from any of us who, as movie-goers, believe that seeing a particular scene helped them change their lives.He's reachable at shostaka@drexel.edu. Following up on the news release about Hedy Cohen Rose's Convocation Address covered here last issue, we report that Hedy also gave two more lectures at Utrecht U. on the Holocaust and on the process of becoming stigmatized. Hedy writes and researches as a Five-College Associate, having retired from teaching and administration. Her e-mail address is hedycrose@yahoo.com.

Since retiring six years ago from his large Washington, DC, law firm, John Denniston has been mountain-trekking, including three trips to the Himalayas, two to South America, and one to Antarctica. On the last trip, he participated in a reenactment of Ernest Shackleton's 1916 crossing of the Island of South Georgia.Medical oncologist Herbert Goldman says he's starting to prepare publications in his field, especially in pulse corticosteroid therapy of myeloma, while also working on more exotic vacations (having visited Iceland and Vietnam/Cambodia to start). He and Sarah live in the Virgin Islands.

Robert Mayer adds to last issue's commentary that besides continuing work as a financial consultant for IRAs, he gardens, collects wine, plays golf, and travels. His trip to Oregon's Pinot Noir country yielded "too much wine and poundage," he reports. Bob can be reached at bobmay13@aol.com. The last Newsnote in the file is from Jim Quirk, still residing in Orinda, CA, with wife Peggy and enjoying full-time retirement. Jim is an antiquer who also gets out on the slopes (last at Lake Tahoe) and on the links. He travels a lot, says he most remembers his Phi Gamma Delta years on the Hill, and would like to hear from Al Knight, his freshman roommate. Jim is reachable at jhquirk@earthlink.net.

I hope this finds all '58ers enjoying summer. Please take a moment to send News so Jan Arps Jarvie and I can keep in business for you. -- Dick Haggard, 1207 Nash Dr., Fort Washington, PA 19034; e-mail, dhaggard@voicenet.com. For other news and events of our class, see: http://classof58.alumni.cornell.edu.

59 | Harry Petchesky, co-chair with Dave Dunlop of our 50th Reunion, was in the audience when Peter Yarrow spoke at the Cornell Club earlier this year.Harry has launched a campaign to restore English 355-356--Ballad and Folklore, popularly known as Romping and Stomping--to the Arts college curriculum. "Of all the courses I took at Cornell, this proved to be most relevant to understanding the events of the '60s and '70s, and it certainly was the most fun," he says. As student instructor, Peter played a critical role in the course--and in '59ers' appreciation, and memories, of those classes.

Also attending the Cornell Club event was Carol Horowitz Schulhof, M Ed '61, who retired this June 30 from her "rewarding and gratifying career" in education. For the last 28 years, Carol worked at the Packer Collegiate Inst. in Brooklyn Heights, NY, and for the last 13 years was head of the Pre and Lower School. She writes that quite a few of her students had parents who are Cornell alumni."One third grader told me the other day that he wants to be in our school chorus because his father was a Cayuga Waiter!" Carol and her husband Peter just celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary, and now in retirement Carol plans to heed the advice to "learn something new, travel, and do your good works."

Alexander Levitan is co-chair of the U. of Minnesota's Retirees Volunteer Committee, a group that works on a variety of projects throughout Minneapolis and serves as surrogate grandparents for new foreign graduate students.He is particularly enthusiastic about the Partners in English program begun last year, in which volunteers meet weekly with foreign language-speaking students to familiarize them with idiomatic local speech and to afford them an opportunity to practice English conversation skills in a relaxed and supportive environment. Alexander and his wife Lucy also serve as volunteer ushers at Orchestra Hall for Minnesota Orchestra concerts. Lastly, he serves on the County Reserve Medical Corps with other active and retired health workers. The Corps' objective is to be prepared to deal with possible flu epidemics and other public health emergencies.

Ruth Chimacoff Macklin has "no thoughts of retirement." A longtime professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY, Ruth's focus is on international medical research involving human beings. She serves on two committees at the World Health Organization and a human rights committee at the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. She also directs a training program in research ethics in Buenos Aires. Her latest book, published by Cambridge University Press, is Double Standards in Medical Research in Developing Countries. Carrying on Ruth's Cornell tradition is her oldest granddaughter, Alex Taylor '09, daughter of Jim '85 and Shelly Macklin Taylor '84.

Steve Douglas, MD '63, medical director of the immunology laboratories at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, is investigating cells in the immune system, especially those in children and adolescents with HIV. Of particular interest in his research are monocytes and macrophages, cells that play an important role in inflammation and host defense. His goal is to understand how these cells interact with cells of the central nervous system. His wife MaryAnn Foricea, also a doctor, is a professor in geriatric medicine at the U. of Pennsylvania Medical School. They have two daughters: Hope attends Penn, and Annie begins her junior year in high school this fall.

Since 1995, Paul Levine has been clinical professor of medicine at George Washington U.Medical Center, and since 1997 has also held the title of research professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the George Washington U. School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS).He currently teaches and does research in cancer.At NIH, he served as project officer on such projects as studies of aggressive breast cancer in Tunisia and providing laboratory support for processing and storage of biological specimens from persons at high risk of cancer.He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and is past-president of the American Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. He is married to Mimi (Gray).Mimi has been a high school teacher in Rochester and subsequently a professional photographer, among other experiences being photoeditor of Washingtonian magazine for two years.Her photography currently includes digital improvement of old, damaged photos. They have three children and six grandchildren, all living in the area.

Anne Jackson and her husband Norman Gauss '58, now of Paso Robles, CA, were at Cornell at the same time but didn't meet until many years later in Los Angeles. They met in a support group for people with chemical injuries and led a group called the Environmental Health Association. Last summer Anne traveled East for her high school reunion, staying with Anne Townsend Salisbury and her husband, who live on the shore of Keuka Lake.

"Those CAU trips are really great!" writes Nancy IamsWalsh, who traveled with CAU to New Zealand in February. Also on the trip was Helen Watrous Flanagan. "I don't think I had seen her since we were in Clara Dickson together as freshmen," says Nancy. Perhaps they'll meet again at our 50th Reunion--just three years from now! -- Jenny Tesar, 97A Chestnut Hill Village, Bethel, CT 06801; tel., (203) 792-8237; e-mail, jet24@cornell.edu.