90 | Reunion vibes are ubiquitous when Rose Tanasugarn is around. Before coming to Ithaca for this summer's 15th Reunion bash, she managed to cross paths with several classmates and Cornellians in a quest to organize a get-together in Japan. Kenichi Kiriyama, MPS '90, is president of the Kobeya Baking Company, a major baked goods manufacturer and restaurant chain operator. Although he was too busy to help Rose put together a reunion event, he pointed her to Shiro Atsumi, MPS '90, general manager of the Hotel Hopinn Aming in Amagasaki that is owned by Kirin Brewery Company. In late April 2005, the hotel temporarily housed residents of a condominium who were displaced when seven cars of a Japan Rail train crashed into the building.

Shiro also informed Rose that the manager of the Portopia Hotel in Kobe, where she was staying, was another Cornell grad. After dropping the magic password "Cornell," the staff took her to meet Hitoshi Nakauchi '92, MPS '92. Coincidentally, a Cornell intern had arrived the very same day, so Hiroshi hosted Rose and June Kim '06, MPS '06, for lunch in the hotel's swanky Chinese restaurant. Rose has learned first-hand that Hotel school alums are lurking in every corner of the world, and it may pay to mention the Cornell connection when you travel! This summer in Nagasaki, Rose also met up with classmate Steve Thenell, one of the masterminds behind Kozo, the Sumo Hippo, a much-copied Internet sensation. Kavin Bloomer, MPS '90, and family are still in Tokyo. Kavin recently moved from Goldman Sachs & Co. to Morgan Stanley, where he is vice president of Morgan Stanley Properties. He is helping a group of hotel industry professionals manage 11 hotels (and growing!) throughout the Asia Pacific area.

Carrie Gallup Friend gave birth to her third child last July. Luisa Eldythe joins big brother Noah, 7, and sister Manaia, 4. Carrie also started her own consulting company, Friendsight. In her own words, "After 15 years of working for someone else, it feels great to put my experience as a focus group moderator, facilitator, and strategic marketing consultant to work for me! Of course, seeing more of my kids and my husband (who is a stay-at-home dad) makes it even more worthwhile."Classmate Andrew Friedman and his wife Karen Harriman had to skip reunion last year because of the April 15 birth of their second child, Aidan Joseph Harriman Friedman. The couple also has a daughter, Alexandra Rose Harriman Friedman, who turns 3 this May. Andrew is now senior VP, general counsel at MaggieMoo's Int'l, where he has worked for the past two years. The Columbia, MD-based company is a fast-growing franchiser of super-premium ice cream stores, with 175 stores open today and plans for 1,000 to open by 2008. Andy sees classmates Alex Ruiz, Jonathan Pierce, and Eric and Laurie Levinson Wenger.

Although London-based Julian Ha was also unable to attend reunion, he enjoyed a mini-pre-reunion with some of our West Coast classmates. Julian and his wife Annett took a two-week trip to California to relax before he started a new job as director of Evolution Securities China, a full-service investment bank targeting crossborder Chinese M&A and capital markets transactions. "If you know of any Chinese companies that want to raise money, go public, or expand overseas, you know who to call!" Julian and Annett started their sojourn in San Francisco, where they met up with Paul Tauber, his wife Shawna, and Richard, their "very handsome and well-behaved" 2-year-old. The pair then saw Eileen McPeake and her husband Julio Dolorico "at their beautiful new home in Orinda, and enjoyed home-baked cookies on the patio while playing with Eileen's adorable 2-year-old daughter Caitlin." Julian also tried to rendezvous with Verna Polutan, who successfully runs her own law firm in Los Angeles, but in the end had to jump the pond back to London before he could catch up with her in the City of Angels.

Masaki Takai, MCE '92, and his wife Amanda, a UCLA grad, had baby girl Marika last June.Masaki is a doctor in Hawaii. Mark Tanouye also lives in the Aloha State with his wife Suzanne. He returned there after graduation and worked for the state as a geothermal regulation officer and drilled water wells. Entering the hightech industry, he worked for Bose and Apple Computer. However, throughout this, he continued to perform music, sharing the stage with Cecilio & Kapono, a popular Hawaiian duo,Valery Ponomarev,Michael MacDonald,Martin Denny, Ipso Facto, and Maxi Priest.Mark is "currently pushing the next generation of post-bop jazz, funk, and exotica out of Hawaii."

John Cayer is maintaining his Cornell connections by becoming the president of the Cornell Club of Minnesota. Last summer, David Coyne took advantage of the "absurd real estate market around Boston" to move into a more capacious home close to his wife Diana's hometown,West Springfield. The Coynes have children Sophie, 4, and Jason, 2, who are loving the extra space and proximity to their grandparents. Dave has abandoned his IT career to follow his passion and start his own interior restoration and remodeling business. Although Dave reports that he and his family will miss seeing their Boston-area friends, they hope to spend more time with Cornellians near his new home, like Mike Cimini and Angela Cheng-Cimini '92 and Eric Goldberg. Clearly looking to put guest room space to good use, he invited "those who pass through Springfield on their way to the Berkshires (you know who you are, Matt Rubins!)."He added the further enticement that his family is now "not too far from Tanglewood and are only a town away from Six Flags, so give us a holler and come have a mojito with us!" -- Tamiko Toland, stmoluag@yahoo.com; AmyWang Manning, aw233@cornell.edu; Kelly Roberson, kroberson@lightswitch.net.

91 | Josh Berman has been appointed the new local chair of the litigation and business regulation practice at the Washington, DC, office of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP. Josh's expertise includes white-collar criminal litigation and investigations, SEC investigations, and complex civil litigation. He was recently named national co-chair of the American Bar Association's White-Collar Crime Subcommittee on Public Corruption and Extortion. David Zaslow is a practicing attorney at White and Williams LLP in Berwyn, PA. David and wife Lori live in Bryn Mawr, PA, with their 6-year-old daughter Erika and 5-year-old son Jake.

Kyle Yang and Mary Helen Immordino-Yang '93 announced the birth of second child Theodore on May 5, 2005. Theodore joins older sister Nora, who is 3. Kyle writes, "Forty-eight hours before giving birth to Teddy, my wife handed in her doctoral dissertation, so she is now done at Harvard.We will shortly be moving to Los Angeles for her to take a job at USC." Robert Todd Felton writes from Amherst, MA, where he is writing literary travel guides for Roaring Forties Press.His first guide, Transcendentalists of New England, will be out in April 2006. Todd and his wife have children Tim, 7, and Liam, 4. Todd just recently went backpacking with Scott Marshall and Federico Larco.

Julia Morehouse Landry was recently promoted to director of logistics for Smucker's. Julia and husband Stephen are living in Cincinnati with their daughters Alison, 5, and Lauren, 3. Thomas McCauley is working as a principal investigator at Archemix Corp. in Cambridge, MA.

Doug and Kirsten Blau Krohn wrote to announce the birth of their fourth son, Asher Henry, on June 9, 2005, joining older brothers Caleb, 7, Simon, 4, and Oliver, 3. Doug is hoping that Asher will "buck against his Yankee brothers and join me in rooting for the Mets." Doug started a medical reference publishing company this year, called COSA Media, located in Scarsdale. The first publication, an advertisement-supported manual with a circulation of over 50,000 pediatricians, is scheduled for launch in spring/summer 2006.Michelle Michalik Shield and husband Dan are thrilled to announce the birth of their son Matthew James on December 6, 2005.

Last but not least, don't forget that our 15th Reunion is quickly approaching. Hope to see you all there! -- Nina Rosen Peek, nsr5@cornell.edu; Dave Smith, docds30@yahoo.com; and Corinne Kuchling, kuccori@hotmail.com.

92 | Do you find your pride in being a Cornell graduate continues to grow? Chris Brady, an associate professor in classical and Jewish studies at Tulane U. in New Orleans, recently sent in this e-mail: "I have been very proud of my alma mater for taking in some 200 students from Tulane who have been displaced due to Hurricane Katrina.My colleague, Dr. Christopher Dunn, has also been warmly welcomed by Cornell faculty (as have other faculty members). Reports from both students and colleagues are that the Cornell community has been wonderful in this difficult time! It is nice to have even greater reason to be proud of Cornell."As I receive updates about fellow classmates and their accomplishments, I find my pride in Cornell continues to grow, too.

Kayvan Pirouz continues to work as an investment banker in the Leveraged Finance Group at Banc of America Securities, having been promoted recently to principal. This past summer, he and wife Chris welcomed their third child, Konnor James. Kayvan and classmates Mike Malarkey, Jim Gavitt, Dan Branon, Rick Green, and Rob Ring caught up on old times at a golf weekend.

Lou Diamond and wife Janet have kids Alec and Toby Kate and live in Westchester, NY. Lou is working at Merrill Lynch in institutional fixed income sales and trading.Michael Reinhorn and wife Stefanie have been married for three years and live in Sudbury, MA, with their children Noam and Tamar.Micki is a general surgeon in Concord, MA, specializing in minimally invasive and laparoscopic abdominal surgery. He notes they now spend most of their free time keeping up with two kids, but still enjoy cooking and playing outside, especially snowshoeing and skiing.

Daniel Domenech has been working in human resources at Bristol-Myers Squibb for five years. He is involved in his church and has been nominated to be an elder. However, he says, "I like to think my special talent is being able to help raise three boys (Danny, Joey, and Andy) all under age 6 with my wonderful wife Nikki. I enjoy trying to stay in good health and you can find me regularly at the New Brunswick Fitness Center by 6:00 in the morning."Cynthia Caruso took a break from her job at Citigroup Asset Management as a managing director in human resources and traveled to Egypt and Jordan for two weeks this summer. She sailed up the Nile, visited the pyramids, and went to Petra. Back home, Cynthia caught up with Ben Matos and Matt Hagopian during Thanksgiving and reports they are both doing great.

Mindy Zane Rosenthal sent an e-mail to me from her home in Miami. "I'm not sure if I ever mentioned that my second child, Emma Zane, was born on January 9, 2003, and her big brother Benjamin (born in 2000) has been competing with her ever since. I have put my career as a teacher on hold these past few years to spend my time taking care of these little people.While no doubt rewarding, life as a stay-at-home mom can be really tough, even for someone with a degree from Cornell."Congratulations to Greg DellaRocca who married Kelly Alberty on November 5 in Columbia,MO. They live in Columbia, where he works as an orthopaedic trauma surgeon at the University Hospital.

Maia Albano Coladonato, husband Greg '93, and 3-year-old son Gavin left the Bay Area in 2003 so Greg could attend Wharton in Philadelphia.Maia transferred with SAIC to work from a home office, and when Greg finished in May they moved back to the Bay Area. Greg works as a product manager with Google, and Maia remains with SAIC. Before their move, they took a quick trip to Europe, where they were hosted by Dan Noll '93 and wife Audrey Scott in Prague and Marc Bacinic '95. Tania Tyles Dempsey and husband Steven have a son Alexander, almost 4. Tania has practiced internal medicine in White Plains, NY. Her professional interest is in women's health. Bill Carson reports that he married his longtime friend Amy Drummond in a waterside ceremony at the St. Louis Art Museum on September 24. The couple and his new stepchildren (12 and 8 years old) live in a newly rehabbed 100-year-old home.

JonathanWeis and Lisa Friedheim-Weis recently enjoyed a vacation to the Galapagos Islands and Machu Picchu. Last year Jon was named a shareholder at his law firm, Levin Ginsburg, where he is a commercial litigator and the hiring partner. Lisa continues to practice labor law as a senior trial attorney at the National Labor Relations Board in Chicago. Daniel Peirce is a brand manager for the Gatorade Company in Chicago, where he develops advertising and communications strategy. Jeff Osterman gave me a nice summary of his adventures over the last decade. In 1995 he graduated from Harvard Law School, and in 1996 he married Susan Matula '93. In 1997 and 1998 they lived in Japan, where Jeff worked in-house at the legal department of Matsushita Electric Industrial (best known for its Panasonic brand) and Susan taught English. In 2003, Jeff was elected partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, a law firm in New York. He works on intellectual property and technology transactions. Scott Weitzenhoffer lives in northwest Houston and works for Atmos Energy as a quantitative analyst.Wife Rebecca is a middle school ESL teacher, and their daughters Salem and Raven are 6 and 4 years old, respectively. Scott's hobbies include astronomy, photography, homebrewing, and growing carnivorous plants.

"Even 13 years after we graduated,my husband Ken, JD '96, and I still keep in touch with many Cornellians,"wrote Lisa Chin Potash from her home in Weston, CT. Lisa and Ken have children Isabelle, 5, and Jack, 3. Ken is practicing law, and Lisa recently co-founded a stationery business, PiPo Press. "We recently had dinner with Lisa Slow, Danielle DeMaio, Lynne Strasfeld, Lisa Lederman Kaufmann, Gabrielle Mollo Hartley, and Cheryl Knopp." Lisa Slow is a producer at CNN, where she won two Emmys in 2002 and 2004, Danielle is about to start work on a film, and Lynne is practicing in the area of infectious diseases at New York Hospital/Cornell. Lisa Lederman married Adam Kaufmann '87 in 2002 and is now home with her daughter Juliet. Gabrielle is practicing law in Leeds, MA, where she lives with husband Mitschka Hartley. Cheryl practices law for Bloomberg LLP in New York and occasionally in London. Danielle recently visited Andrea DelDuca Cohane in London, where she lives with her husband and daughter Samantha.

David and Christine Watters Stuhlmiller '93 of Madison, NJ, have found a new love in their lives, first child Sarah Christine, born September 21, 2005. David works for Emergency Medical Associates in the ER at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, NY, and Christine manages the finances of the Dept. of Surgery at New Jersey Medical School, UMDNJ-University Hospital in Newark, NJ. Sarah Ballow Clauss works as a pediatric cardiologist in Bethesda and does research at the NIH on Progeria Syndrome. Husband Mark, MBA '93, is still at Corporate Executive Board in D.C. Their children are Alexa, 4, and Jack, 2. Sarah writes, "I recently asked Alexa if she was going to go to Cornell and she said she would like to go to kindergarten first."

Jeff Richmond, MD '96, is an orthopaedic trauma surgeon at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island. His daughter Madeline is now 4, and his son Andrew was born in July 2004. Seth Isenberg works for SAP America Inc. and lives in Portland, OR, where he is involved with the local Cornell Club. Joann Pezzano and husband Andrew Steinberg welcomed Daniel Joseph Steinberg on November 22 and live in New York City. Kevin '91 and Amy Sachs Yam, DVM '98, are busy chasing 2-1/2-year-old Benjamin while tending to his new brother Mitchell, born in September.

Now that you've read what some of our classmates have been doing, send a note and let me know what you are proud of. -- Renee Hunter Toth, rah24@cornell.edu; Debbie Feinstein, debbie_feinstein@yahoo.com; and Wilma Ann Anderson, info@WilPowerEnterprises.com.

93 | Hi, everyone.Welcome back to the Class of 1993 news. Helen Chen Johnson updated us with the news that she is working as a trading system architect at eSpeed.When she is not at work, she enjoys spending time with her husband and her sons, 4-1/2-year-old Colin and 2-1/2-year-old Dylan. Kim Melchionda McCormack also has two children, 3-year-old Sydney and 18-month-old Grant. She is a product manager at Schering Plough, where she is responsible for new product development and licensing of the Coppertone brand. She recently returned from a great vacation in South Africa, where they explored Cape Town and surrounding vineyards and also went on a safari!

MegMorrissey Heinicke is a wine auction manager at WineBid.com and has a daughter, Charlotte, born in June 2004. She is also busy enjoying all San Francisco has to offer.Michael McMahon writes that he has a consulting business that specializes in the purchase of thoroughbred racehorses and breeding stock. He recently purchased 60 acres to develop into a horse farm.

Some news also came from online News Forms. Abraham Kang sent us the following update: "Outsourcing and burnout have taken their toll. After working for nine years in software development and information technology, I am looking to make a career change. I plan on applying to law school this December. I have a beautiful wife who gave me two beautiful and talented kids. Daughter Bella, 6, loves hockey, and son Esau, 8, loves fencing and hockey." Jill Nunes writes that she is a regional director of revenue management for Starwood Hotels and Resorts in Chicago. She also says, "I have some Cornell grads in my life, most notably my new brother-in-law Tim O'Hara '91. At my sister's wedding I met several of his Theta Delta friends. Allison Hutt LeGrand just had her first son, Jack, and I've been able to spend time with her. As for me, I bought a condo in Wrigleyville nearly a year ago. I'm able to travel often for my job. I took up sculling this year and still haven't tired of exploring Chicago." Ann Wang writes that she is developing a private wealth management business and loving it. She is also getting used to being a homeowner and a landlord; she and her husband recently purchased not just their first house but also their first rental property.

E-mail still tends to bring the most recent news. Jason Rylander shared that he and his wife Elizabeth welcomed their first child, Lauren Mari, on November 29, 2005. The family is living in Arlington,VA, and Jason is an attorney for Defenders ofWildlife and enjoys spending his days working on protecting wolves, plovers, sea turtles, and other "neat critters."Greg Coladonato e-mailed that he and wife Maia (Albano) '92 moved out to California in the summer of 2005, after spending two years in Philly while he earned an MBA at Wharton. Greg accepted a position as a product manager at Google, and Maia is back at SAIC in Oakland. Their son Gavin now toddles around the house and practices his Mandarin and Tagalog on his parents.

Keep the news coming.We're happy to hear it all--weddings, babies, graduation, new jobs, or just a general update on your life! Thanks for writing, and enjoy the spring! -- Yael Berkowitz Rosenberg, ygb1@cornell.edu; and Erica Fishlin Fox, ericazzz@aol.com

94 | As I write this, the snow is on the ground and the news is drifting in. Back in July, Thomas Gellert, JD '00, a vice president of New Jersey's Atlanta Corp., married Melissa Miller in Manhattan. Lara Hanlon wed Michael Palese '93 and gave birth to a daughter, Sierra Olivia, on November 28.

As usual, the Northeast is rich with updates: Leigh Benevento-McHugh is a corporate accounts manager for Syngence, as well as a part-time psychotherapist. She and husband Thomas have a 2-year-old daughter, and Leigh turns to basketball and socializing in her free time. Michelle Manning Fahey and husband Paul, both employees of Met Life, are raising two daughters in the Scranton, PA, area. Chris Horan, a new homeowner in North Bergen, NJ, recently married Karen Rinaldi; he works as a commercial sales manager at Tyco.Matthew Hiltzik, formerly the head of corporate communications at Miramax and the producer of the documentary Paper Clips, now runs Freud Communications in New York City. He and his wife Dana have a 2-year-old daughter Ella.Michael Healy wrote in from his position as a campaign director for the fundraising firm Community Counseling Service. One notable drive was for St. John's U. in Jamaica, Queens, which surpassed a goal of $250 million.

Putting us desk jockeys to shame, Diane Dubovy, of Manhattan's Dubovy Consulting, completed the Ironman Florida triathlon on her 33rd birthday back in November (mere weeks before Turkey Day). The course consisted of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike, and a 26.2-mile run, the whole of which she finished in 13 hours, nine minutes, and 31 seconds.Wrote Diane, "After finishing the bike, you are reassured by thinking, I only have a marathon left." Through the organization Athletes Helping Athletes, she took a turn as a model for a worthy cause, posing for a triathlete calendar to raise money for handcycles for disabled children. Go to www.raisingheartrates.org for more information.

As giving birth is another form of marathon, congratulations go out to the following '94ers who have recently been visited by the stork. In Terre Haute, IN, on September 17, Christian and Libby Smith Gallagher '95 welcomed Ronan James into the world. Kim Charlton Bedetti of Red Bank, NJ, gave birth in July: 2-yearold David was joined by new addition Daniel Thomas. In November, Karen Bierman Hirsh, her husband Peter, and her son Ryan welcomed daughter Avery Jordan. A couple of classmates have made the full transition to family life. From Glastonbury, CT, Joanne Galinsky Fontana wrote, "I just quit my job as an actuary to stay at home with my two kids! Lauren is 3 and Adam is 9 months, and I decided that they'll only be young for a little while, so I'd better savor it." Laura Sauter Stein, who has left the cruel winters of the North for Charlotte, NC, describes herself as "temporarily retired" from her job as a finance manager to care for her 2-year-old son Scott.

Now for some reports from warmer climes. JoshWilson, MBA '98, recently found time for a golf reunion in California with some of his Zeta Psi fraternity brothers. He's a consultant for Watson Wyatt in Atlanta. Break out the gifts of tin and aluminum for Channing and Jennifer Sayler Hamlet, who will be celebrating their tenth anniversary this summer. The couple lives in San Diego, where Jennifer is a veterinarian and Channing is a partner in a mergers and acquisitions firm. Another Golden State classmate is Tara Roth McConaghy, who wrote from Los Angeles with an extensive update. Tara earned an MBA from Oxford U. and made time for travel during her stay in the United Kingdom. Now, in addition to doing yoga and hanging out with family, she is "helping to launch a new magazine called Good that will rebrand the culture of good and highlight the ideas, institutions, and people who are making a positive impact on society." One candidate could be Neil Cantor, the co-CEO of Design that Matters, which links engineering students with communities in need. The nonprofit was recently honored by the Tech Museum of Innovation for its Kinkajou Portable Library and Projector, which transforms "how illiterate adults in nighttime classes in rural Mali learn to read and write."

A few relocations. Tom and Holly Johnsen Hoehner recently left NYC for Syracuse, where Holly is a lawyer at Hiscock & Barclay and Tom is studying patent law at Syracuse U. and working at Wall,Marjama & Bilinski. They have a son James Thomas. Attorney Nancy Richmond Goldstein, JD '97, now works in Washington, DC, and lives in Bethesda,MD, with her husband and son Zachary. Last fall, JarridWhitney and Todd LaLonde cheered for our alma mater at the Harvard-Cornell men's hockey game. Jarrid has traded his admissions job at Stanford to pursue a master's in education at Harvard."Hopefully, this degree will help me become a dean someday, but first, I have to get used to rooting for the Big Red while in a sea of crimson!" -- Dika Lam, dikaweb@yahoo.com; Jennifer Rabin Marchant, Jennifer.marchant@kraft.com; Dineen PashoukosWasylik, dmp5@cornell.edu.

95 | In like a lion and out like a lamb. That's what they say about the month of March--at least in the Northeast--and that's what they will say about this installment of Class Notes.

What's that I hear in the distance? A baby's cry? No, many babies' cries! In Connecticut, Dana Raymond Roth and her husband Bryan welcomed their second child on August 31, 2005. Two-year-old Eliza is now big sister to baby brother Lewis Nevin. Also in Connecticut, Sandy Chin Lynch, MD '99, and her husband Matthew welcomed little baby Lynch into their household in 2005.When not on maternity leave, Sandy is a urologist at a private practice in Greenwich. The road to urology took Sandy to the Weill Cornell Medical Center from 1995-99 and then to a general surgery/urology residency at Harvard from 1999-2004. After all of that intensive schooling, motherhood should be a snap for Sandy!

Dan Hirschman writes that he and his wife Caitlin "have been enjoying the adventure of parenthood this year.Hailey Alexis was born in January 2005 and at the rate she's growing, she'll be ready for Cornell very soon." Dan, Caitlin, and Hailey live outside Washington, DC, where Dan is a lawyer for the US Dept. of the Interior. And rounding up the baby news, also in D.C., Adriano Sabatelli and his wife are proud to announce the birth of their son Giovanni Arcangelo, born on October 25, 2005. "Everyone is doing well!"Adriano is a senior consultant at Thomson.

Switching to wedding news,Meredith Rosenberg married Eric Bergozyn on September 3, 2005.Meredith is a psychologist at Metropolitan Hospital Center in New York City. Edward Han, a post-doctoral researcher in neuroscience for the Howard Hughes Medical Inst., married Martha Bagnall, a PhD candidate in neuroscience. Juvenal "Juv"Marchisio married Dayana Anlas on October 2, 2005.When not preparing for his wedding, Juv is a brand manager on the Peanut Chews Candies product line at Just Born in Bethlehem, PA. In addition to Peanut Chews, Just Born makes Mike and Ike,Hot Tamales, and the world-famous Marshmallow Peeps! I bet you are popular at Eastertime, Juv!

LisaMicchelli of Mohegan Lake, NY, teaches English, writing, and math skills to Latino students. Lisa is loving life and writes, "On a good day, I feel like I'm helping people and I have a sense of humor with the kids I teach. On a bad day, I want to be teaching Spanish to elementary school students." Recently Lisa went on an eight-day trip to Mexico, as well as on a retreat to Allentown, PA. In between teaching and traveling, Lisa is taking a Spanish course on 20th century Latin American and Spanish plays. Brooke Yules James is the owner, manager, and veterinarian at the Animal Care Center of Castle Rock in Castle Rock, CO.When not at work, Brooke spends time with her husband Christopher and playing with horses, dogs, and her 2-1/2-year-old.

Jennifer Keene lives in Washington, DC, and is a director of sports marketing. She continues to freelance for DC Style Magazine. Jennifer writes, "I recently went to Spain with Ali Conlin '96 and Lisa Perronne '96. Lots of fun! Our pictures are hilarious. The three of us spent time in Barcelona and Mallorca." Chip Rollinson reports, "Last June, the day before our 10th Reunion, I received my Master of Education degree from Harvard. I'm putting it to use teaching high school math at Buckingham Browne and Nichols (BB&N), an independent day school in Cambridge. I've been busy this fall, but have been doing my best to enjoy life in the Boston area."

The final piece of news e-mailed in for this edition of Class Notes comes from Isabel Pipolo of Peekskill, NY. Isabel writes, "Unfortunately, I wasn't able to join in the reunion festivities last June, because my husband and I were moving into our new house that weekend. After a lifetime in NYC, we bought a 150-year-old farmhouse in a small Hudson River Valley town about an hour north of the city.My new full-time job is restoring our homestead to its original beauty and improving it along the way.We are especially enjoying life in the country now that fall foliage season is here, and the dog is thrilled because she has almost a whole acre to call her own, deer included!"

Joining Isabel in the joys of home ownership is yours truly, Abra Benson, MBA '04. In a period of three weeks, I decided to buy a house, got pre-approved for a loan, found a realtor, gave him a list of homes I'd like to see, toured several homes and neighborhoods, made an offer, made a counter-offer, and bought a cute little 66-year-old house on my birthday. The house is in Glenside, PA, just outside Philadelphia. All of you are welcome to visit if passing through the Philly area!

Have a lovely spring, fellow '95ers! And don't forget to send updates to Alison and me.We can always use the news, your classmates enjoy reading about you, and who doesn't love seeing their name in bold, black ink! -- Abra Benson, amb8@cornell.edu; Alison Torrillo French, amt7@cornell.edu. Class website: http:// classof95.alumni.cornell.edu.

96 | Greetings, Sixers! I'm writing this column a couple of days pre-Christmas and Chanukah from an undisclosed outpost in the frigid Midwest (although the people are rejoicing today, as the temperature hit a balmy 40 degrees). I truly forgot it can be this cold, living the somewhat decadent Northern California lifestyle that allows you to drive to and from the snow. I'm rueing the day I disposed of all of my Ithaca-weight sweaters. Folks, it's official-- I am soft.

I got a nice little prelude to winter, spending a great weekend in early December with Katie Butler, MBA '04, and her adorable pup Lucy in Philadelphia. Katie, also a former San Francisco resident, and I laughed about our dot-com pre-bubble days, which seem so very, very far away.We asked ourselves, rhetorically, of course, why it was that we thought abandoning our low responsibility jobs to aspire to graduate school and meaningful careers seemed like such a good idea back then. Talk about responsibility. As we woke up around 7 a.m. on a Saturday morning to give Lucy her morning walk, it struck me that for many of you out there who have recently written in about starting families, sleeping in on a weekend morning might be the utmost luxury--more so than the down coat and long underwear for which I am currently pining. I truly admire your forays into the land of responsibility. Please write us here at Class Notes and let us know how it's going for you.

Kirsten Carroll Somoza writes that she and husband Vince celebrated their first wedding anniversary in September 2005. They were married in Ottawa, Ontario, in 2004 with bridesmaids Akemi Tinder '97 and Emily Kennedy '98, and Ryan Ismert '00, MS '03, in attendance. Kirsten is working as a user interface/interaction designer at Cognos, and is also in the process of finishing up a master's thesis. Cheryl Melchiorre Snyder lives in Durham, NC, with her husband Doug. Cheryl is with Deloitte Consulting, based out of their Atlanta office.

Heather Mulcahy and Jeremy Breslau were married on November 5, 2005 in Boston. Cornellians helping the happy couple celebrate their nuptials were Jeannette Brady Townsend, Lisa Perronne,Marilyn Mawn, Joshua Friedman, JD '99, Laura Kornegay, and Nate and Heidi Straub Henderson '97. Heather writes, "We had an unseasonably warm day--almost 70 degrees in Boston at the beginning of November! We spent two beautiful weeks in Hawaii and then returned to our new condo in Charlestown."Heather is currently the VP for brand marketing at Cone in Boston. She also included in her e-mail that she joined Laura Kornegay in Dallas on December 10, 2005 to celebrate her graduation from business school. Dianna Perkins '95 and Abigail Spencer '95 also were in Dallas to cheer on the newly minted MBA. Afterwards, Laura and Dianna headed to Argentina on a celebratory trip.

Although we're a little light on the news this month, this gives me space to once again plug our upcoming 10th Reunion Celebration coming this June. This is an exciting milestone for all of us, and we hope you and your loved ones will come and share in what has proved to be a fantastic weekend in Ithaca. Those of you who were lucky enough to spend a summer up at school (as well as those of you who attended the 5th Reunion) know that there is no time like summer on the Hill.We're looking forward to seeing you all. (I have made it my personal pledge to beat fellow class correspondent Courtney Rubin in the Saturday Morning Campus Fun Run. Courtney, upholding your title is all the more reason to come back from London for reunion, no?)

Sixers, we always enjoy hearing from you--please write and let us know where you landed. -- Sheryl Magzamen, SLM1@cornell.edu; Courtney Rubin, cbr1@cornell. edu. For updated class events, news, and resources, visit http://classof96.alumni.cornell.edu.

97 | It's hard to believe that by the time this column appears in your mailbox, the Class of '97 will be slightly more than a year away from its 10th Reunion. Time has certainly flown by as we've had our fun since taking leave of Cornell. Several classmates have written recently about their fond memories of swimming in the gorges in warm weather, and slightly less fond memories of hustling across the vast campus to class on chilly winter days. It's not too early to reach out to friends you've vowed to keep in better touch with; start thinking about heading back to Ithaca for Reunion 2007!

For many members of the Class of '97, it seems as though the wedding boom of the past few years is giving way to a baby boom. Steven Walter shared news of daughter Lindsey Brooke's birth on May 10, 2005. Ian Geller and wife Kira (Silverman) '95 also added a daughter, Chloe Drew, to their household. Ian is a product manager for Mobile Music at Virgin Mobile USA. Erica Eisenstein Lynett and husband Patrick, PhD '02, report that son Evan Joseph, born August 27, 2005, is already rooting for Big Red hockey! Classmate John Crego should take note of all these new arrivals: John reports that he moved to Geneva, Switzerland, in April 2005 to take a position forecasting demand for Procter & Gamble's baby wipes division. John has kept busy rowing, hiking, and sightseeing, and he met up with Jeff Goldman in Munich to celebrate Oktoberfest this past fall.

Wedding bells continue to ring for classmates.More than ten years after meeting at Risley Hall in 1994, Erik Mulet and Megan Heller '98 tied the knot on July 16, 2005 at the Monte Verde Inn in Forest Hill, CA. The couple lives in Los Angeles. Erik is an artist and designer in the entertainment industry, and Megan is pursuing a PhD in anthropology at UCLA. Jenn Houff got married on October 10, 2005 to Chris Johnson, an Indiana U. graduate. Amazingly enough, Jenn notes, there were no Cornellians in attendance at the wedding; it was a private family ceremony on Maui, with five American Airlines frequent flyer tickets redeemed for family members to attend ("priceless after our years in consulting," Jenn observes). Jenn and Chris, who both work for IBM, included college friends in the hometown postwedding celebrations, among them Jordan '95 and Elizabeth Schepp Berman. Rebecca Goldstein married Jeffrey Hobbs on September 17, 2005 in Brooklyn, NY. Rebecca is a partner in the Manhattan-based film production company No Hands Productions, and planned to act as a producer on Keith, a feature film that was slated to begin shooting last November. Jeffrey is executive director of the African Rainforest Conservancy, which promotes restoration of African rainforests through economic and educational programs.

Those long years of graduate education are coming to a close for many of us, while others continue to hit the books. Colin Cushing graduated from Georgetown's MBA program in May 2005 and started work as a senior marketing analyst for America Online in Northern Virginia.Wife Elizabeth (Soto-Seelig) plans to collect her MBA from Georgetown in May 2006. In August 2005, Pete and Melissa Carey Heissenbuttel visited Colin and Elizabeth with 3-month-old daughter Anne in tow. Seth Guikema wrapped up his post-doc work at Cornell in May 2005 and will be enjoying milder winters now that he has taken an assistant professor position in the civil engineering department at Texas A & M. April Bruning moved to Ocala, FL, from Boston and started her own landscaping design business specializing in personalized landscapes, therapeutic design, and children's, sensory, and memory gardens. April's after-hours activities include volunteering at a local church, where she works with preschoolers and uses her creative talents on set design.

Samantha Youngman Meiler is editor for Life & Style Weekly, the first celebrity lifestyle weekly magazine. Anjana Samant is an attorney practicing employment law at Outten & Golden; she collected her JD from NYU. Kate Nemens is a staff attorney at Clubhouse Family Legal Support Project, where she represents low-income people with mental illness in a variety of family law matters. Kate is active in the Boston Bar Association and in October was selected to participate in its Public Interest Leadership Program. Congratulations are also due to Kate for her September 4, 2005 marriage to Nicholas Decaneas in Peterborough, NH; Lee Hiram and Vanessa Margolis joined the celebration. Richard Baecher is a full-line diagnostic imaging account manager for Philips medical capital equipment sales in New York. In his free time, he's kept busy studying Mandarin Chinese language and culture, pursuing a master's in international management from Thunderbird in Phoenix, AZ, and traveling in British Columbia last summer.

A number of classmates continue to work in health care. Steven Froeschl is a chiropractor on the eastern end of Long Island.Mary Anna Denman finished her ob/gyn residency in Philadelphia and relocated to Portland, OR, where she is a urogynecology fellow in the ob/gyn department at Oregon Health Sciences U.Mary Anna says she's still getting used to having free time after finishing her residency! Jennifer Mattucci Santoro finished her psychiatry residency at NYU in June 2005, started a fellowship in psychosomatic medicine at George Washington U. in Washington, DC, and began part-time work in a private practice in Northern Virginia. Congrats to Jennifer on her April 2004 wedding to John Santoro. Classmates Robin Yates and Jennifer Halsey were bridesmaids.

New York City was the site of a few classmate get-togethers in 2005. Kathryn BonitiWallace sent in word that she met up with Laurie Rothenburg this summer in NYC for lunch. Chris Braceland said it was nice to reminisce about "the old days on the Hill"with Andy Cahalane, MBA '05,Mike Bock '98, Glenn Minerley '98, and Jake Hennemuth '98 during a business trip to New York last year.

Please take some time to share your news and let your classmates know how you've been keeping busy. -- Erica Broennle Nelson, ejb4@cornell.edu; Sarah Deardorff Carter, sjd5@cornell.edu. Class website, http://classof97.alumni.cornell.edu.

98 | As I (Gregg) sit here typing away, it is 19 degrees in New York City in mid-December. Just thinking about how cold it must be in Ithaca right now is frightening. I, however, would be very excited to grab a tray and slide down the slope! And some Hot Truck afterwards to warm up, maybe. Ah, the memories . . . It seems that other people have been thinking about school as well, since we have recently received a good number of e-mails and letters from classmates. Please continue to send them in.

There must be something in the water--we have many new babies to announce. First off, Evan and Jennifer Salzwedel Shenkman have a lot of exciting (albeit belated) news to report from the Garden State! It was a summer of big life changes for them. First, they would like to joyously announce the birth of their beautiful baby boy, Jake Riley, born June 9, 2005. They also purchased a house in Montville, NJ. They moved down to New Jersey from Boston last summer and had been looking for a house ever since. They made it just in time, with their closing about three weeks before the baby was due! To make things even more "exciting," Evan changed jobs the same month as well. He left Jackson Lewis LLP and joined the Morristown, NJ, office of Ogletree Deakins, another labor and employment law firm. Jennifer is still working for Bank of America, trying to juggle part-time work from home with full-time baby care. She says it is a serious challenge, but luckily the kid is cute! They say they are truly having the time of their lives with him.

On October 14, 2005, Adam Geller and Lauren Cardillo welcomed daughter Ayla Rose Geller into the world. Adam is the director of VeriSign's sales engineering team, and Lauren is working on her PhD in social work at Columbia U. They keep in touch with many classmates and other Cornellians. They say having a baby is wonderful but definitely makes them long for the freedom they had while they were students at Cornell! Kirk Keller is a landscape architect who is enjoying time with his wife Sandra and 3-1/2-month-old daughter Emma Grace. Kirk and Sandra celebrated their second anniversary on November 1.

On a personal note, I would like to congratulate Chris Pernoud and wife Katie on the birth of their second child, Jonathan Gentry Pernoud, on Sept. 13, 2005. They definitely have their hands full, as their older daughter Grace just had her 2nd birthday party in December. Also, congrats to Ryan and Christina LuzziWilkes. Their first child, Arden Katherine, was born on November 21. I look forward to telling all your children the many things you all did throughout college. Thankfully, I have a lot of pictures. Looking forward to it!

OK, enough babies for now. In other news . . . Saad Hassan got married in May 2005 to Aamina Ismail. Naveed Chowdhry attended the wedding, and got married himself in 2004. Naveed is working at his family's medical-instrument manufacturing business (Medipak). Alyson Tuck lives in Claymont, DE, and is a corporate paralegal at Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell. She spends her free time working for the Republican Party and is a soprano in the church choir. She reports that her fondest memory is the great friends that she made at Cornell and the beautiful landscape.

Jonathan Yu recently traveled to Spain with Kei Frances Chong '00 and AlanWong '01, visiting Barcelona,Madrid, and Toledo. Jon reports that they tried many Spanish tapas dishes, drank a ton of wine, and cracked lots of jokes. Jon also thinks that Spain has a much more relaxed atmosphere than New York. Last but not least, Cristy Matos wanted to share that she finally graduated from the U. of Puerto Rico School of Law this past June.

Thanks so much to everyone who sent news and announcements. Please keep them coming. If you've sent in a note recently but haven't seen it appear in the magazine yet, please be patient.We'll print it soon. Hope everyone is doing well. -- Gregg Herman, gdh5@cornell.edu; and Erica Chan, hc31@cornell.edu.

99 | Spring is here, and y'all got marriage on the mind! Just read about Oliver Bajracharya, patent attorney for Christie Parker Hale LLP in Pasadena, CA, who spends his free time "going to weddings, buying wedding gifts, looking at photos from weddings, or renting tuxes even though I own a tux."We can ALL relate! Love is in the air as '99ers boogey down the aisle, build families and careers, and enjoy the sporadic adventure!

Laura Pires and Rob Tillisch walked through a winter weddingland on Dec. 2, 2005 in Basking Ridge, NJ.Meanwhile, up in Ottawa, Jessica Strauss and Roger Schonfeld were joined in holy matrimony on Sept. 4, 2005 at the National Gallery of Canada. Jessica now works in building development for Lexington Corporate Properties Trust in New York after receiving her New York State architectural license in 2003. Ottawa was also home to the union of Marguerite Wells and Alexia "Lexie"Hain last February. The couple held a reception in August at their Ithaca farmhouse, along the beloved Taughannock Falls.

On Sept. 10, 2005, Adam Price married Syracuse grad Ariel Freedman in Sharon, MA. The Prices now reside in Manhattan, where Ariel is a fashion designer for Jones New York and Adam is a labor and employment attorney at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. These lawyers certainly have wedding fever! Nikkie Adame married her Tulane classmate and "love of [her] life" Chris Winningham on May 14, 2005 in Seattle. As of Sept. 2004, Nikkie started practicing environmental law at Fulbright & Jaworksi in Houston, TX. Of those in attendance, Taryn Williams Stubblefield had an intimate wedding ceremony of her own earlier last year on April 9. A month later, Kimberly Cobb married Kevin Powell on May 29 in a gorgeous hotel above the California Beach in Palos Verdes. Up the coast in San Francisco, Dana Kuchem walked down the aisle with her husband of choice on Sept. 4, 2005. Dana received her master's in higher education and student affairs from Ohio State U. in June 2005.

Risa Shapiro, PhD '04, attended the wedding of Susan Friedfel and Marc Tuckman '97 on Aug. 10, 2003 in New Rochelle, NY. As of May 2004, the couple lived on the Upper East Side of NYC, where Susan, a Harvard Law School graduate, became an associate at Proskauer Rose while her husband was at Columbia Business School. In New York herself, Risa received her PhD in Molecular Biology from Cornell Med in May 2005 after ten straight years as a Cornellian! (Is that a world record?) As of last summer, she started her job as research manager for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in Tarrytown.

I'll take matrimony with a twist of fun! Adrian and Heather Hollidge Madland take the wedding cake enjoying a beach wedding ceremony in Aruba on April 9, 2005. Funny story: although both '99ers, these lovebirds didn't meet up till six years later at a Young Alumni event that Heather planned in Detroit, MI. The Madlands now live in Chicago, where Heather works as a senior associate for Madison Capital Funding LLC while Adrian is an automotive vertical market specialist for Google.

The Rev. Quinn Caldwell, associate minister at the Old South Church in Boston, spends his off hours working in support of same-sex marriage rights in Massachusetts and listening to Cornell friends talk about their marriages, pregnancies, and new babies. Indeed, the ranks of Cornellians-to-be is growing rapidly! Rhiannon Fernald Bakk-Hansen and hubby Erik welcomed baby girl Liesel Elena on Oct. 3, 2005. Rhiannon tells us she's "enjoying mommyhood despite lack of sleep," and that "Liesel recently graced her parents with her first smile."Michael Rinke, a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical, celebrated the birth of his first child, Coby Robert, on May 24, 2005."Mom and baby are doing great," he reports. In April 2005, his friends Michael and Kristin Guenther Graffeo '00 had a baby girl, Daniella Nicole. And as of last September, Rochelle CraneWhaley was "on leave with twin girls and loving it!" Rochelle's currently a caseworker for the Cortland County Dept. of Social Services, and part-time court clerk for Cincinnatus Justice Court.

On the job front, we have a correction for Mike Pressman, who is actually at Columbia for business school (not law school as previously stated), along with Evan Bashoff and Anthony Sneag. Also, we heard that Aline Prentice is living and working in Ulan-Ude, Siberia, as of Sept. 2005 (send her a hello via e-mail at alinapren@ mail.ru). Congrats to Louis DeAngelis III, who opened his own law practice in Cresskill, NJ. And we have a lawyer with a fab sense of humor! Frank Goldberg, a third-year litigation associate at Cooley Godward LLP in San Francisco, continues to "live vicariously though his friends who are in rock bands." Rock on, Frank! While on the subject of living it up, last May Michael Cortelletti, MMH '99, assembled a team of friends to participate in a seven-day sailing race across the Baltic Sea between Scandinavia and Germany. "The weather was brilliant," as they sailed bravely into third place on Day 4 of the race! You make us proud to call you alumni.

Bring on the news, people, and Happy Spring! -- Melanie Arzt, snoopymel@gmail.com; Jess Smith, jessica@fenton.com; or Jennifer Sheldon, jennifer.sheldon@gmail.com.