60 | Congratulations to Larry Klein, who was elected to the Palo Alto (CA) City Council in November 2005. Allegedly, one of his friends pointed out that "Larry recycled himself," referring to the fact that he previously served on the council in the 1980s and was mayor of Palo Alto for two of those years.

Gerry Cerand sent word from Potomac, MD, that he just bought a home outside Ithaca, overlooking Cayuga Lake, where he plans to retire. "After attending Cornell, having three children attend Cornell, and growing up in Elmira, the draw to the Cornell area becomes excessive," Gerry says.He concedes the following, though: "I still plan on living in Potomac during the winters (guess why?)."His daughter Jacqueline will graduate in '07 from the ILR school, while Tanner '04 is a stockbroker and investment advisor in Washington, DC, and Lauren '01 is in New York, managing her own public relations firm. Gerry also reports that he sees Dave Auble,MBA '62, and Bob Boehlecke, BArch '61, quite often in Ithaca, and keeps in touch with several members of other classes. Thinking about old friends, he says there is plenty of room in the Ithaca house for visitors, "but call ahead as reservations are already being taken!"

Other classmates on the move include Joel and Karen Kurtz Bayer, who built a new house during the fall of 2005 in Okatie, SC, near Hilton Head. "We are enjoying the South a lot," says Karen. "I am very busy with many of the activities that the Hilton Head area has to offer."Also to be found below the Mason-Dixon line are Alan Fishman, BArch '61, and his wife Libby, who headed in that direction after he retired from the practice of architecture in Pittsburgh. Now in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Alan says, "Here we are in paradise with hurricanes. Hurricane Wilma was frightening!"He distracts himself from weather worries with part-time work at a local architectural firm and says he's "enjoying semi-retirement."

Also pleased with their situation in Florida are Cy and Gail Krantz Glickman. "Living in Sarasota and loving it," reports Gail. "Tennis, dance classes, and work are great!" The Glickmans' two sons are in Atlanta and Washington State and have produced five grandchildren thus far. Still up north are Leonard and Estelle GittlemanWeiss of Jackson, NJ. Estelle says, "We are both retired and enjoying ourselves.We have seven grandchildren, but none close to where we live at this point."Happily retired in the West are Wilfred '55, PhD '62, and JanetMerkel Klemperer of Boulder, CO. Janet says they enjoy both the winter and summer activities there, and she keeps busy with her music, both piano and choral, and her botany work with the City of Boulder Open Space. The Klemperers have four grandchildren living fairly close by, but two others are in Freiburg, Germany. Though that's far away, says Janet, "southwest Germany is a beautiful area to visit!"

I am sorry to report the death on February 7 of George Farley of Naperville, IL. A devoted alumnus and former member of the Big Red basketball team, George is survived by his wife, two sons, and a granddaughter. Further sad news arrived of the death of Sue Laubengayer Cowing of Binghamton, NY, on April 2, after a difficult struggle with cancer. A ceramic artist who earned her MFA from the U. of Chicago after graduating from Cornell, Sue was also active in the League ofWomen Voters, serving as president and in several other positions.Her survivors include husband Tom '59, a professor of economics at SUNY Binghamton, three children, and two grandchildren. Send your news to -- Judy BryantWittenberg, 146 Allerton Rd., Newton, MA 02461; e-mail, jw275@cornell.edu.

61 | Coping With Katrina. At the time we submitted this news column at the end of April, Fran Shapiro Ivker was still coping with the aftermath of losing her home, office, hospital office, and her entire ob/gyn practice in New Orleans. Here is some of what Fran reported:"My home was submerged under five and a half feet of corrosive water for three weeks.What the water didn't destroy, the mold did. Every stitch of clothing and all of our furnishings were gone." As a longtime resident of New Orleans, Fran placed the blame for what she called "this man-made disaster" squarely on the "greed, corruption, and stupidity" of Louisiana's politicians. Since she could only envision more of the same during the rebuilding, Fran resettled in Birmingham, AL, the last place she ever would have considered moving to when she was a student on the Hill. Now she has a home there, as well as her grandchildren. She's studying for her Alabama medical license and hopes to work part-time in a clinic. She and her husband Barry still return to their former home, don HazMat suits, and search through the muck and slime for family valuables.

Before Katrina last year, Fran's 3-on-3 New Orleans basketball squad was awarded a silver medal at the Senior Olympics in Pittsburgh. Ironically, the gold medal was won by San Diego, which was led by Margie Seybold, Fran's freshman year corridor-mate at Cornell. In anticipation of returning for Reunion 2006 (full Reunion Report due in the next issue of Cornell Alumni Magazine), Fran remembered fall football weekends, long walks in the gorges, the snow-covered woods near campus, and singing in the Willard Straight Music Room with Peter Yarrow '59.

Author's Corner. Barbara JacobsMitnick just completed The Hyde and Watson Foundation: A History, which chronicles how two esteemed private foundations merged in 1984 to form one of the leading organizations serving the capital needs of non-profit organizations. In the book, which is meant to be a primer for foundation boards, she also delves into the history and regulation of philanthropy in the US. Barbara and her husband Howard are planning to move from New Jersey to downtown Philly later this year. Their son John is a lawyer in the White House Counsel's office, and their daughter Jane is a certified gemologist.Mark Goodman of Lake Worth, FL, is writing both a professional memoir and a coming-of-age novel set in the '50s.

Leaving on a Jet Plane (or Train). Doug Fuss and his wife Sue toured Israel for nine days with a group of Savannians. The tour was exceptionally well-run (and very secure), according to Doug.He was pleased with the mix of culture, religion, history, and politics that they learned about. Following the trip, they spent some time in Paris before returning to Savannah in time for Doug to umpire some US Tennis Assn. and NCAA tennis matches. He became certified several years ago and likes the idea of getting out of the house and becoming active with young people in the sport. Following Reunion 2006, Gail SmithMcDougall was scheduled to take the VIA Rail Canada's Rocky Mountain Rail Vacation beginning in Vancouver and continuing through Jasper, Banff, and Lake Louise to Calgary. Last winter's vacation took Gail to Mexico, where she "went swimming with the dolphins."At home in North Rose, NY, Gail is developing a website that will feature her unique, one-of-a-kind pins and pendants fabricated from antique and costume jewelry. Jim Keenan and his wife Ginny enjoy European travel.When they're back home in Reno, NV, Jim is the county purchasing manager and an adjunct professor at a community college.

Retired and Loving It. Bill Friedman, MS '65, has retired from Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Upstate New York. He wrote, "Now it's finally the right time for me to be able to do the things that I'd like to do, not what I have to do." Craig Moore's retirement activities in Melba, ID, consist of music and looking after his ranch.How nice is that!

Update on Cornell Fund activities.With a little over a month to go before reunion, we were closing in on our goals of 550 participants and 61 Tower Club members. The Cornell Annual Fund reported that '61 attained its goals for this reunion ahead of all other reuning classes. This ensures the continuation of '61's outstanding philanthropic legacy to Cornell and the strong tradition of "giving back" in honor of reunion.

Retirement of Class Correspondent. After ten years of reporting the news of the class, your correspondent is planning to turn the post over to a new volunteer. Thanks to those who have written to tell me how pleased they were with the class columns. And, by the way, thanks and much appreciation to all of those classmates who were so kind and considerate in calling regularly and visiting me during my recent recuperation from total knee replacement surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital. These included Carol Gittlin Franklin, Rochelle Kramer Busch, Bobbi Horowitz, Doug Heymann, Dale Abrams Adams, Ellie Browner Greco, and Frank Cuzzi, MBA '64. I'm expecting to be in tip-top shape by reunion and ready to advise others. Gail Smith McDougall calls it the "Popular Club" for our generation. --David S.Kessler, e-mail: dsk15@cornell.edu. Class website, www.cornell61.org.

62 | THE MORE THE MERRIER! That is the goal of the Affinity Group Chair for our 45th Reunion, Cathy Van Buren Bomberger. Please write her (cathybomb@ aol.com) if you are willing to contact your Cornell friends to make sure your group has a great turnout on the Hill next year. NOW is the time to make contacts so everyone can plan to take advantage of this opportunity to have a wonderful time, renew friendships, make new friends, and enjoy beautiful Ithaca.

News from Cathy and Pete '61: "We're just fine, but falling apart, so that's the old part! Disgusting! We're getting in shape (put back together) to go to Hawaii in August and Montana in September.We'll also be attending Pete's reunion in June. This has been a fun year for our family with two new granddaughters. Son Craig and Melissa in Arlington, VA, have 6-month-old Ella Mary, while our daughter Kristen and Gerard Boston, in Covington, LA, have 3-month-old Claire Mae. Luke Boston is 5 now and king of the group.We've been visiting Louisiana about every three months, hoping to be of support. They evacuated to Indiana and are now doing quite well. They were lucky, however, with limited damage." Jay Keller has operated the Shire Inn in Vermont for the past 13 years, and "it is time to move on to phase two of our careers, whatever that turns out to be.We are building a home in DeLand, FL (map, plans, and pictures at www.twokellers.com) and will venture from there."

For the past 16 years,Marvin Shaub, aka Moose (MHShaub@aol.com), has had a consulting company in Princeton, NJ, called Teletienda, specializing in marketing to Hispanics. "Last August, when I turned 65, I decided I had had enough of business and decided to retire and do something else. So I have enrolled in an interesting PhD program and hope to have the degree in two years. It is a small program (only three people per year) co-sponsored by the Taos Institute (a social science think tank in Taos, NM) and Tilburg U. in Holland. I am writing about the acculturation experiences of American immigrants, particularly Hispanic, Japanese, and Muslim,with my main premise being that in recent days much of the immigrant community--of a substantially different nature from previous major immigrant groups--goes through a process that leaves them not in the Great American Melting Pot but as part of the rising wave of American bi-culturals--people who can move back and forth seamlessly between cultures and languages. Years of dealing with Hispanics left me with a lot of knowledge about them and their culture. I can speak from personal experience about the Japanese, as I lived in Japan for a few years, have a Japanese wife, still have some things going on in Japan, and have a lot more knowledge about their unique culture than most gaijins (foreigners to Japan). The Muslim culture is one that I do not know much about. However, most other non-Muslims don't know much either, so whatever I find out will enlighten someone.When I get the degree I hope to teach some college-level seminars. And there are a few books I would like to write."

Moose received his MBA at Harvard, then spent three years with the USAF, followed by Ogilvy and Mather,McKinsey, and the Franklin Mint. He has three adult children and three grandchildren, all living in New York. "Additionally, I have a daughter about to turn 12. She is bi-lingual, bi-cultural, a good student, and a fine athlete. She is an up-and-coming figure skater around these parts.We also have a bulldog named Davy, so if anyone would like to give his or her regards to Davy, this would be a great opportunity."

If you're in Switzerland, you may want to look up Jackie Browne Bugnion in St.George (jackie@bugnion.org). Lou Albright, PhD '72 (LDA1@cornell.edu) is a faculty member in the Biological and Environmental Engineering department at Cornell, with the stated goal of working a few more years and then gradually working less.

The class is fortunate that Evelyn Eskin has agreed to chair the traditional class symposium for reunion next year. Here's how you can help. Your class council has been talking about possibilities; some of their ideas are reflected in these thoughts. "We are considering focusing on our passions--the things that keep us involved, motivated, intense, focused, centered, or otherwise active. A passion might be called a refocusing and different pacing of our drive and ambition. It might be a talent, such as music, art, or writing. It could be work or work-related. Some of us have hobbies, such as theatre, genealogical research, and sports, that we are now able to address with the verve that we have previously only imagined.Maybe it's giving back in an area of our community or world that we are committed to improving, making our planet a better place to occupy. Perhaps it's a second career.Many of us are on a threshold, a transitional passageway of one sort or another.What is that like? What takes us over the threshold? What makes us want to leap out of bed in the morning? What gets our juices flowing? What do you think? Please send ideas for speakers, passions, and help to me at evieskin@ aol.com SOON. This symposium takes a lot of planning, and a lot of good ideas! Don't hesitate to volunteer yourself and/or your own passion."

There's more to come.We need more duespayers in order to have more column space, so if you haven't done so yet, please return your News and Dues from our most recent class mailing. -- Jan McClayton Crites, 9420 NE 17th St., Clyde Hill,WA 98004; e-mail, jmc50@cornell.edu.

63 | Class president Ed Butler, MS '65, and other officers CarolWestenhoefer Anderson,Donna Forsman, Paula Trested Laholt-Oeste, and Gwen Sibson Porcaro met at the Cornell Association of Class Officers (CACO) Mid-WinterMeeting on the weekend of February 18. Ed was encouraged by the increase in duespayers from 2004-05. He hopes that your response will be even better this year. It was decided to increase class dues in 2007 due to a slight increase in the Cornell Alumni Magazine subscription.

The book that is assigned reading for the incoming freshman class will be mailed to all class duespayers--maybe that's an incentive to pay! There was a lot of discussion at the class meeting, as well as subsequent e-mails, regarding a class gift for our 45th and then our 50th. Reunion 2008 is only two years away. Please e-mail Ed at Ebutler24@ aol.com with suggestions for what you would like to have included in reunion or if you want to work on any of the reunion committees. Marijane BeattieWatson is reunion chairman and is already hard at work.

We just had a visit from Neil and Edie Osborne Kochenour, MD '69. Edie retired from the U. of Utah in 2003, where she administered the study skills program in counseling. Neil will retire in June as medical director of the U. of Utah hospital. He had been an ob/gyn for 30 years. They are planning to move to Tucson next year and spend their summers in their home in Big Sky,MT.We are excited at the prospect of having them around Tucson.Marion Travalini Rodd is account manager with St. John Record Programs in Valencia, CA. One daughter, Allison Rodd Ceppi '92, is a marketing manager for Warner Home Video and has one son. Daughter Amy Rodd Mackenzie (Colgate '94) received her MD from Drexel College of Medicine and has a young daughter.Marion reports that Bill '62 and Karen Kraengle Evenden raise lavender and olives in Ojai, CA. John, PhD '68, and Kathy Reimer Hartnett, MA '67, live in Santa Barbara.

Carolyn Handler Miller and her husband Terry Borst live in Los Angeles. Carolyn splits her time between Los Angeles and Santa Fe, NM. She belongs to Cornell clubs in both places. Her book, Digital Storytelling: A Creator's Guide to Interactive Entertainment, was recently published by Focal Press and is already going into its second printing. She has given workshops in South Africa, Rome, and Paris, as well as around the US. She'll be in Dubai in the fall.

Fern Goldstein Schair and her husband Alexander Forger live in New York City. Fern is senior vice president at American Arbitration Association. Her pro bono work includes chairing the board of Fund for Modern Courts (a NYS court reform organization), being president (and co-founder) of Children's Law Center (an organization of lawyers and social workers representing children in New York's family courts), and being first vice president of National Equal Justice Library. She has children Alison Schair and Adam Schair '90,who is married with two children. Father DavidWillis Geib is a Catholic priest.He has worked for the past 24 years as a campus minister and recently joined the staff at the Catholic chaplaincy at Stanford U. in Palo Alto, CA.

If you haven't done so yet, please send along the News Form that came with your dues request.Or e-mail me directly. Don't forget Reunion in 2008! -- Nancy Bierds Icke, 12350 E. Roger Rd., Tucson, AZ 85749; e-mail, icke63@msn.com.

64 | It's early summer. Time for some light reading. So settle back and enjoy the news from your classmates. Congrats to attorney Richard Rivitz. Last January he was elected managing partner of his law firm, Kahn Kleinman, of Cleveland, OH. Richard and wife Joan live in nearby Moreland Hills, OH, and have a grown son and daughter and two grandchildren. Last year they vacationed in Jackson Hole,WY.

Dave Cummings retired two years ago, sold his home in Sedona, AZ--and has been on the road ever since, traveling with wife Chris in a 40-foot mobile home, visiting national parks and small towns, plus spending time with their children and grandchildren in St. Louis and Connecticut. Once the summer's traveling is over, they will return to their condo in Palm Desert, CA, that they moved into this last spring. Joe James and wife Shirley also moved--from Fresno to Carlsbad, CA.He still works as a produce broker for his own company, Joe James Inc. During the winter, Joe works out of Nogales, AZ. LoisWeyman Dow celebrated her "Class of '64 is 64" by getting married to a high school classmate,William Rowe, whom she re-met when her high school class celebrated its "Class of '60 is 60."

Last February,Marcia Goldschlager Epstein welcomed the class officers who attended the first Cornell Association of Class Officers (CACO) Mid-Winter Meeting to be held in Philadelphia in 101 years, an event which she played a large role in organizing! Attendees included class president Janet Spencer King, Linda CohenMeltzer, Carolyn Chauncey Neuman, Judie Pink Gorra, Barbara Furman Attardi, Steve and Nancy Lore Einhorn, Nancy Taylor Butler, LenoreWeitzman, and BruceWagner, ME '66.Marcia is still a professor at Community College of Philadelphia and with husband Paul lives in Gladwyne, PA.

Brief notes: Accountant Cynthia Fulton Edmondson lives in Houston, TX. Heather Cole, a librarian at the Lamont Library at Harvard U., lives in Cambridge, MA, with her husband Stratis Haviaras. Charles Thornton, a partner in the law firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, still lives in San Francisco.

Thomas Mueller, ME '66, is retired but has what he calls a "pretend job: betting on thoroughbred race horses twice per month."He also is an election officer once a year, which, he says, gives him a chance to meet his neighbors, but he wishes more people would vote. Tom watches Cornell hockey on TV with the Cornell Club of Washington. Beth CorsonWagner says her passion is photography,mostly black and white, now almost completely digital, and mainly of flowers, scenic vistas, and architecture. She even has her photos on her website (www.bethwagner.com). Beth and husband Wayne live in Venice, CA. She was contacted recently by her Cornell roommate Rita Maras, who lives in NYC and Germany, has enjoyed their renewed friendship, and looks forward to seeing her again after all these years.

Last March,Harold Evensky, MCE '67, chairman of Evensky & Katz, an investment management firm in Coral Gables, FL, discussed key issues raised in his book, Retirement Income Redesigned: Master Plans for Distribution, a retirement planning guide for baby boomers, at a company-sponsored lecture.Harold co-edited the book with his firm's partner, Deena Katz.Warren Bowman, ME '66, is retired but keeps busy traveling with wife Arlene. They visited Argentina and Chile early this year, went to Budapest and Prague in April, and will be in Italy in October. At home in Wilmington, DE,Warren enjoys walking, biking, weight training, music, and reading. Brian Wruble, ME '66, and wife Kathleen divide their time between their home in Manhattan,Maryland's Eastern Shore, and Key West, FL, where they recently acquired a home. Their youngest daughter, Zane, is attending this season's Cornell Summer College program for high school students.

When it comes to travel, Leslie Seiden simply notes, "all over." Leslie is a psychiatrist with a full-time practice in Manhattan and the Poconos. She lives in NYC with husband Hal Rosenblum and they have two grown sons. Leslie enjoys tennis, golf, and exercise, and writes,"Keeping busy keeps me young."Also still working is Dennis Sweeney, a restaurant consultant. Dennis recently was appointed '64 class director for the Cornell Hotel Society. He also continues as an industry advisor to Hotel Ezra Cornell.Wife Maria Palacios-Hardes was recently inducted as an honorary member into the Cornell Hotel Society for her work teaching Hotel school students. The Sweeneys live in Orange, CT.

Marshall Case reports that a second US president has participated in an event of the American Chestnut Foundation, of which Marshall has been president/CEO since 1997. In a ceremony last September, former President Jimmy Carter helped him in the planting of American chestnut trees at the Carter Center and spoke at their public dedication.

David Keranen is retired from teaching math at Bakersfield (CA) Community College, in the town where he lives with wife Elizabeth. The Keranens have three grown children. David enjoys golf, reading, and travel, recently to Italy,New Zealand, and France.Also retired are Fred Bellinger and his wife Linda,who live in Indianapolis, IN, where Fred enjoys gardening and woodcrafting. Their recent travel included Florida, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. Alice Anderson Rapasky, who lives in Sequim,WA, reports she and husband Rick recently bought a place to crash in Seattle, convenient for their enjoyment of ballet, Broadway shows, and the symphony. The Rapaskys enjoy cruising, recently to Scandinavia, St. Petersburg, the Panama Canal, and the Mediterranean.

Correction: In last November's column, I reported that Steve Gottesman attended a CAU course in Great Trails. That should have been Great Trials. Kindly excuse the error. Steve writes that he is recuperating once again from renal cancer, which already has cost him one kidney. Despite this, and assuming his healing proceeds as hoped, Steve plans to return to Cornell once again as an "extramural" student, taking law school courses as he did in the '90s.

That's all the news I have on hand, so as I write this in April, I am hoping lots of news comes in soon from the annual class mailing. Be sure to visit our class website, http://classof64.alumni.cornell.edu. -- Bev Johns Lamont, 720 Chestnut St., Deerfield, IL 60015; e-mail, blamont@tribune.com.

65 | As I sit down to write my first column as your new class correspondent, I must tell you how much I have enjoyed reading all the news I have received.However, we can always use more news so please write or e-mail any one of the three of us and tell us what's new in your lives, what you are doing, if you have seen or spoken to any classmates, and anything else you think might be of interest.

Steven Lazarus writes that Electronic Health Records: Transforming Your Medical Practice, written by him and Margaret Amatayakul, was one of the two recipients of the HIMSS 2005 Book of the Year Award. Administered by the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society, the award honors books in the health information technology field that offer practical guidance or strategic insight for healthcare information and management professionals. Steve is president of Boundary Information Group, a national healthcare information systems consulting firm headquartered in Denver, CO.

A letter from Peter Heylin talks about a 40th SAE reunion."Many attended, and one outstanding part of the reunion was about classmate Bob Crosby, who died in a tragic accident while serving in the Vietnam War. He was an only child and all of his family is dead.Who was going to remember him like our children will remember us? Consequently, they made the biggest part of their reunion a memorial to Bob. The flag from his Swift Boat was mounted and now hangs in the SAE dining hall along with a plaque telling vignettes of his short life. A memory book will be placed in the chapter library." Peter is retired and on the Santa Cruz, CA, County Commission and two county advisory committees.

Fellow class correspondent Ron Harris writes that he and his wife Marcia bought a condo in Lake Worth, FL.Marcia spent the winter there, missing a Michigan winter, and Ron went down about a week a month, as he is still working for a small consulting/staffing company, ASG Renaissance. Their daughter Elana (Penn '96) is an editor for an advertising company that specializes in the Internet. Son Andrew '98 lives in Chicago. He received an MBA from the U. of Michigan and works for ZS Associates, a consulting firm that specializes in marketing and sales. Ron is still interviewing high school students who have applied to Cornell. Class VP George Arangio, MD '69, has been appointed clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at the Milton S.Hershey Medical College, Pennsylvania State U., and has been appointed to the American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society research committee. George and wife Judy recently traveled to Ireland with friends.

Myron Jacobson ran into Bob Kessler and Robert Huret (not at the same time) having dinner at the Cornell Club in NYC.Myron wants to know if any classmates would be interested in an off-year mini-reunion in NYC. You can contact him at 14 Strawberry Lane, Roslyn Heights, NY 11577. In an interesting e-mail, Dr. Leona Fass writes that she has been a front-of-house volunteer at the Sunset Cultural Center Theatre in Carmel-by-the Sea, where she resides. As part of this, she was a volunteer at the recent performance by John Cleese. Not just a Cambridge alum and Monty Python alum, etc., he is now Andrew Dickson White professor-at-large at Cornell. Leona also writes that the Carmel Residents Association Citizen-of-the-Year honoree for 2006 is architect, artist, former City Councilman, and former Planning Commissioner Olof Dahlstrand '38, BArch '39.

Jean Dahlstrom Marcucci is presently in the Peace Corps in Kenya. She writes, "We're living outside Nyeri, north of Nairobi, between Mt. Kenya and Aberdares National Park. I can be reached by e-mail (we go into town about once or twice a week to a cybercafé) at danjean@allmail.net, or by phone, 0736 808 284--text is best. I'd be especially happy to hear from anyone living in Kenya." Laura Star Sbarra is retired and has moved to Green Valley, AZ.

News from two bicyclists. Bruce Bennett, who lives in Oakland, CA, finished a 200-mile bike ride from Oakland to Yosemite in two days. Jon Farbman from Atlantic Highlands, NJ, has been a competitive road/criterium bicycle racer for the last five years.

Please send in news directly to one of our class correspondents or send it in with your annual dues.We're looking forward to hearing from you. -- Terry Kohleriter Schwartz, 36 Founders Green, Pittsford, NY 14534, tel., (585) 383-0731; e-mail, Terryks7@aol.com; Joan Elstein Rogow, 9 Mason Farm Rd., Flemington, NJ 08822; tel., (908) 782-7028; and Ronald Harris, 5203 Forestdale Ct.,West Bloomfield, MI 48322; tel., (248) 788-3397; e-mail, rsh28@cornell.edu.

66 | Congrats to Jean Pechuman McIntyre,Waterville, ME, who recently retired from the Colby College chemistry department. Her husband has also recently retired from Colby, where he taught German for 30 years.We wish them both well in their golden years. Anne Gerhart Larrison writes from Columbus, OH, that she went back to and graduated from law school in 1986, worked for the Ohio Supreme Court, and then spent ten years as director of the Ohio Judicial Conference before she retired. She and husband Larry recently purchased an old farmhouse where they plan to spend time with their five grandchildren. They also are spending a lot of time on Lake Erie and in Michigan when Larry can get away from his stockbroker job.

John Hyland is also enjoying retirement, after 33-plus years as a high school teacher.He lives in Oceanside, CA, but occupies most of his time visiting new places and revisiting old haunts and people he has recently met or known for years. Retirement allowed him to actively learn a new pace of life and he loves it. His biggest problem is trying to choose among the myriad of opportunities and activities that present themselves every day.

Not everyone is retiring. Dr. John Richert and wife Nancy are maintaining their Chevy Chase,MD, address but moving to New York City, where John has taken a new job as vice president for research and clinical programs at the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.Nancy will join the Dept. of Radiology at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Congratulations to both of them! Carolyn Rider Chase e-mailed from Salt Lake City that she continues to be a real estate investor and is keeping up her many hobbies--photography, gardening, staying in touch with family and friends, and skiing the greatest snow on earth (Utah).

Sad news to report. Robert Stewart Ball died this last December in Washington, DC, where he was attending a meeting.He was director of the NYS Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services.He had also been in VISTA and the Army Reserve, and before his career with the State of New York, he had human service planning positions for local governments in New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. Our class sends heartfelt condolences to his family.

Madeleine Levine Fay is busy working at the Fallon Clinic as an endocrinologist, keeping very busy dealing with the big increase in diabetes in this country. She is also raising a high school student--and many of us remember the challenges of that! She writes that in her spare time she enjoys traveling, tennis, and skiing and is still trying to get her life back together since the death of her husband Fred '65 eight years ago.

Richard Turbin fills us in on his last five hectic years.He was elected president of the Hawaii State Bar Association for 2005 and organized a major international Bar convention in Honolulu.He and wife Rai continue to run a very successful law practice, and Rich was honored recently by Harvard Law School as a "distinguished alumnus."There are unsubstantiated rumors that Ron Goldstock, Rick Mezan, and Steve Moldof and fellow Harvard Law graduates were promised vacations in paradise if they nominated Rich. Just kidding--a very well-deserved award. Rich and Rai are very proud of both of their children. Son Derek is a senior at Occidental College and plays strong safety on the football team (which just repeated as Division 3 NCAA champs for Southern California, going 9–0); and daughter Laurel is finishing her master's in public health at Columbia and will graduate in May '06. This has meant a lot of traveling back and forth from Hawaii for Rich and Rai.

Please continue to send your news (and dues) to any of your correspondents or to Rolf Frantz (raf22@cornell.edu) or Alice Katz Berglas (akb66@aol.com). A full Reunion Report will appear in the Sept/Oct issue. -- Bill Blockton, bill@rbsfabrics.com; Susan Rockford Bittker, ladyscienc@aol.com; and John Miers, Johngmiers@comcast.net.

67 | Lots of catching up to do. Some of this has gotten long in the tooth, but if something about your news needs updating, please let me know, preferably by e-mail. Michael Platzer,MA/JD '71 (michaelkplatzer@yahoo.com) is retired in Vienna,Austria, which makes me think that our forthcoming reunion (June 7-10, 2007-- be there!) might be titled "Reunion in Vienna" after the Robert Sherwood play in the '30s starring the Lunts. Just a thought.Michael writes that his two daughters completed master's degrees,Miriam at Teachers College, Columbia, and Barbara at the U. of Chicago. Son Nicholas was finishing a BA in film and television studies at Bond U. in Australia.

"Having the best time of my life as my business continues with robust growth: www.cooperstownstay.com," Lonetta Swartout (Cooperstown, NY; lonetta2000@aol.com) reports. "As founder and CEO, every day is a learning curve. Having learned to reinvent myself more than once, I'm realizing all past experiences were only preparation for this. Would love to participate in women's senior rowing events. Where do I find a crew for women our age?" Anne Healey Hollingworth (anne.hollingworth@utsouthwestern.edu) is "still at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas" as senior library information specialist and volunteering at Botanical Research Inst. of Texas (BRIT). "Glad to be in botany once again! Doing plant drawings for BRIT."

John Macaluso (Newport Beach, CA; johnmac@cornellgroup.biz) was inducted into La Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin at Clos de Vougeot in Burgundy. John adds, "I sold all my restaurants in the last few years and formed a consulting group." "On the move again! Back to the beautiful Northeast (western Massachusetts)," writes Dave DeBell (Westfield,MA; ddebell@mestek.com), who "started as vice president, human resources, for Mestek, a leader in HVAC and metal-forming equipment.Much closer to family--and back to hills and trees!"

Judy Limouze Price (JLP18@cornell.edu) "retired from Cornell Cooperative Extension of Monroe County on April 1 (no joke) after 18-1/2 years. Still have a contract with the Division of Nutritional Sciences in HumEc at Cornell to serve as a food preservation expert/resource for the NYS Extension System. I'm still playing in a handbell choir at my church, volunteering on various committees there, and really enjoying the fact that the alarm clock has been permanently shut off."More retirement, this one by Prof. Jeffrey Chesky (Springfield, IL; chesky.jeffrey@uis.edu) from the U. of Illinois, where he gave the keynote talk at the Illinois Mental Health and Aging Conference and has also been selected for the Miami Beach High School Hall of Fame. Jeff adds: "Heard Ronni Chernoff give a terrific talk in St. Louis and had dinner with Harvey Greenberg in El Paso."

James Munger (Mexico, NY), married to Mary Jean Satterlee of Clyde, NY, writes that he retired as a science teacher at Mexico Central School in 2000. Son Keith is now 32 and daughter Maureen is a physical education teacher in Kingston, NY. James, who's related to Rose O'Neill, creator of the Kewpies, maintains his interest in Kewpie dolls and is a volunteer for the H. Lee White Marine Museum in Oswego, NY. Amid all the retirement news, Paul Schweikher (Phoenix, AZ; pschweik@pcds.org) remains director of college counseling at Phoenix Country Day School. He and wife Mary have children Erich, 24, and Claire, 19. -- Richard B.Hoffman, 2925 28th St. NW,Washington, DC 20008; e-mail, rhoffman@erols.com.

68 | I hope this finds all well with you. I'm writing this in early May, and am off to Ithaca next weekend to visit my daughter, a sophomore in the Arts college. I greatly look forward to each trip back.

John Grocki lives in Enfield, CT, and works as a consultant in the metals industry.He enjoys hiking, biking, kayaking, and snowshoeing. John would like to hear from Bill VanEe, an old friend. I recently saw Bill Falik and Alice Richmond at a Harvard Law reunion in Cambridge. Bill lives in California and has recently sold the large residential real estate project that he had been developing for many years. He is now considering future plans. Alice lives in Boston with her husband David and daughter Betsy, who attends Brown. After a highly distinguished legal career, Alice is now exploring other opportunities in the foundation and non-profit world.

Carol Fisher Ganz (ganzc@bellsouth.net) lives in Atlanta. Carol has three grown children, two boys and a girl. Her daughter lives in NYC and is a lawyer with Simpson, Thatcher. Carol would love to hear from any classmates in the Atlanta area. Rebecca Johnson Irvine lives in Ephrata, PA, with her husband Keith. Their son Matthew '96 is married and lives in London. Son Joshua is also married and works as a therapist in Pennsylvania, and daughter Charity '01 is currently attending graduate school for training in counseling. Rebecca teaches in Lancaster.

I regret to report the following e-mail from Michael Schenker, JD '74. He writes, "It is with great sadness that I have to inform you that David Muntner passed away suddenly earlier in April. He will be missed." I knew Dave from high school as well as Cornell, and was very sorry to hear this news.

Steve Siegel, our class secretary, let me know that nearly 40 classmates attended History professor Walter LaFeber's special final public lecture at the Beacon Theater in NYC on April 25.Many also joined in the class dinner afterwards that Steve organized at a local restaurant. As you may have read in the May/June issue, Prof. LaFeber is retiring after 47 years of teaching, and the event, attended by more than 2,000 Cornellians, was a moving tribute to a beloved teacher and mentor.

While I'm not able to list everyone's name here, I would happily receive news from anyone who attended the event if you would care to share your impressions of the evening or other news of your life. In addition, our annual class News and Dues mailing was sent out in the spring, and I look forward to hearing from you all on the News Forms. -- Gordon H. Silver, 2 Avery St., #26C, Boston, MA 02111; e-mail, gordon_silver@comcast.net.

69 | Bob Kaufelt, whose picture appeared on the cover of this magazine some months ago with an accompanying story about Murray's Cheese Shop, writes, "The most remarkable thing . . . They put my picture on the cover of the Alumni News under the heading ‘Cheese Whiz' (or was it ‘Big Cheese'?). This elicited two reactions from classmates: ‘Kaufelt, you barely attended classes.Why the hell are you on the cover?'And the other was,‘Maybe women will call you now.' It all proves that you can never tell about life: Government major / law school dropout finds happiness in cheese."Writes Dale Coats, who retired several years ago only to start another career in real estate, "I do like what I'm doing."He is the site manager for a large senior housing complex, as well as a part-time realtor. And if that doesn't keep him busy, Dale says, "(I am) grandpa of seven . . . and the doer of the honey-do list."He also finds time to jog, relax at his cottage on the St. Lawrence River, and cheer the Ottawa Senators. In answer to the question about fond memories of Cornell, Dale recalls tray-sliding and notes that he still has the tray!

Another classmate who happily remembers tray-sliding is Naresh Khanna.He now lives in New Delhi, India, where he is a jeweler specializing in precious stones, as well as a hotel investor. Naresh writes that he has been traveling on business to jewelry shows,most recently to New York City, Dubai, and Singapore, but that he would rather be traveling for pleasure, perhaps cruising or visiting scenic places and resorts. Ken Hamlet '66 and Chris Ryan '72 are old Cornell friends that Naresh says he would most like to hear from. Charlotte Bruska Gardner notes there are just too many incredible Cornell memories to recall and that her school friendships have been life-long! Recently, Leslie Abramson Conason, Patty Stahl, and Nancy Althouse Heath--all freshman corridor-mates--got together for a mini-reunion.At home, Charlotte is a real estate developer and realtor who kayaks, swims, skis, and gardens in her leisure hours. However, with a daughter at Penn State, she has also been spending time traveling between Vermont and Pennsylvania. Charlotte writes that she would most like to hear from Jacqui Stark.

"It was a big year for traveling," say Al and Claire Scully DeLauro. In May they took delivery of a new car in Europe, which they used to tour Germany and France. Then in the fall, it was off to northern Spain. On both trips, they visited with friends, sampled the local wines, and enjoyed the cuisine. Back in the US, they attended the wedding of Allison Bartlett, daughter of John and Maria Keiser Bartlett, where they caught up with Carolyn Ugiss Altieri and Suzanne Backiel Slattery.More recently, the DeLauros got together with Peggy Johnson Nichols and her son Patrick '97 in Austin, TX.

Douglas Yoder wrote a week after Hurricane Wilma. "The fall has been dominated by cleaning up after hurricanes that should not have caused the extensive damage that they did. At the moment we continue to be without power a week after Wilma, and the extensive tree canopy in Coral Gables has been substantially destroyed . . . noticeably worse than (after) Hurricane Andrew."Doug's concern is professional as well as private, since he is the asst. director in the Miami-Dade Environmental Resources Management Dept.After Katrina but before Wilma, he and his wife adopted an abandoned dog from New Orleans.Doug says that she has fit in quickly and shows her affection at every opportunity. Before the spate of hurricanes,Doug enjoyed an occasional round of golf with his son Todd, and adds that they both sing in the Congregational Church choir. Soon the Yoders will be making their full-time residence elsewhere, as Doug is planning to retire.

Madelaine Dryer is thinking wistfully about retirement but remains busy as a sales engineer for Reliance Gear Corp., a manufacturer of all types of open gearing to service diverse fields from medicine to the aircraft industry. In off-hours,Madelaine is involved in music. She sings in a community chorus in addition to attending opera, the symphony, and locally produced plays and musicals in her native Chicago. Not surprisingly, her fondest Cornell memory is walking across the Arts Quad on a crisp fall day listening to a chimes concert. Another music enthusiast, Carol Hudson sings in the Oakland Symphony Chorus and her Unitarian Church choir. Since retiring as a food technologist and nutrition researcher, Carol volunteers for AACC Int'l, an organization for cereal chemists. Carol serves as treasurer for the Northern California section and secretary in the nutrition division. And she is the secretary of the Belgian Sheep Dog Club, makes pottery, and is an amateur photographer.What Carol remembers best about Cornell is its scenic campus. Cliff Neal lets us know that he is in global project management with Pfizer, based in Groton, CT.

Can anyone tell us about the following people: Robert A. Lester,William D. Alford, Edwin G. Jackson, Peter M. Konefal, Alan J. Levine, John R. Gimbel, Brent G.McGee, David A. Lettick, Robert B. Jacobs, George H.Manlove, Clifford S. Korte, Dennis G. Adelman,Martin A. Levine,Michael Goedeker, Victor P. Addonizio, James B. Lewis, Kathleen Kohles McGuinn, and Stanley J. Jakubaszek. -- Arda Coyle Boucher, 21 Hemlock Hill Rd., Amherst, NH 03031; e-mail, aboucher@airmar.com.