60 | As this is being written, on Presidents' Day Weekend, about a dozen classmates are cavorting in Philadelphia at the CACO (Cornell Association of Class Officers) Mid-Winter Meeting. Along with socializing, they are allegedly also starting to hatch plans for our 50th Reunion.More on this in the next column.Meanwhile, we have just received a letter of warm thanks from University Librarian Sarah Thomas for our endowment of the Class of 1960 Rare Books and Manuscripts Restoration and Binding Fund. Its income is being used to purchase and care for the university's most valuable collections. Just recently, with monies generated by the endowment, the curator of rare books was able to purchase volumes by James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov (who taught at Cornell when we were undergraduates), and E. B.White '21.

Congratulations to JillWeber of Brookline, MA, on the occasion of her one-man (one-person?) show of new paintings in February 2006 at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston. The 2004 winner of the Maud Morgan Prize, given annually to woman artists in mid-career, Jill continues in her painting to depict elements of architectural space, a fitting linkage to her previous career as an architect.

I'm relieved to report the re-appearance of Michael Glueck,MD, who temporarily went missing from all of the alumni records, including the 45th Reunion Class of 1960 Directory. As Mike tells it, "According to my friends and classmates, I disappeared faster than a spell from a first-year student at Hogwarts. Les Stiel of La Jolla, CA, was the first one to report that I was missing from class listings, and then the usually reliable Alumni Magazine mysteriously stopped coming. I began to question whether I had really been in Ithaca during the years 1956-60, though I do remember cold weather, hills, and a relative paucity of girls--most of whom were smarter than the guys and had splendid calves. Could I have been accepted at Harvard?"Mike wrote to re-assert his Cornell alumni-hood and to say that he can still be seen on the streets and byways of Newport Beach, CA, or reached by e-mail at 72143.2077@compuserve.com.

Word comes from Nancy Hoeft Eales of Malvern, PA, that life now "revolves around birding, gardening, and volunteer activities. Dick '59 is chairman of the Pennsylvania trustees of the Nature Conservancy, a job that takes lots of time, and I'm deeply involved (mired) in board work for a small Baroque music orchestra in Philadelphia--the usual groveling to raise money for the slighted arts. I'm also doing a lot of work for our local Planned Parenthood affiliate and a historical preservation group trying to save a clutch of old (200-plus years) buildings in the area. All this is shoehorned between our many birding and ‘civilian' (i.e., non-birding) trips. In the last 15 months we've been to Australia, Uganda, Russia, Turkey, and Antarctica, and we're off to Thailand and Cambodia for three weeks in February." The Ealeses somehow also manage to find time to visit their children--Tracy, who lives with her husband in Seattle, and Alex, currently working in Houston.

Jean Belden Taber reports that she and her husband sold their business and their house in Princeton, NJ, and moved permanently to Block Island, RI, in May 2005. Back in 1988, her husband left his job as an editor at Time magazine to start a weekly business publication, NJBIZ, and over the years Jean became more involved, gradually assuming the duties of publisher. She notes, "Running one's own business was a sometimes stressful and always 24/7 existence. Now, on this little piece of heaven out in the ocean, about 13 miles from the mainland,my husband is writing books and I have time to do all the things I put on hold to help run a business for the past 18 years. It's a very different sort of life!"

Bob and Toby Jossem Silverman have taken refuge from the Rochester winter in their new home in Naples, FL, where they plan to stay until April. Toby reports that she and Bob spend a lot of time with Bernie '59 and Myra Rosenzweig Gross and recently had dinner with classmates Joel and Karen Kurtz Bayer. She also has plans to visit her sister Susan Jossem Mitloff '67 in Sarasota. On the return trip north, the Silvermans will visit their daughter Deborah Silverman Shames '89 and her husband Martin '89, and look forward to spending the summer months in the Rochester area with their sons Steven '92 and David and their respective wives and children. Toby has stepped down as a board member of the Cornell Club of Rochester after many years of service, but she and Bob will continue their work on the scholarship committee, which supports many Rochester-area undergraduates.

It is with great sorrow that I report the death of Cathi Morgan Hunt of New York City on December 25, 2005. She had been in declining health for many months and died after a brief hospitalization following a bad fall. A memorial service will be held sometime in the coming months.Many of us remember with gratitude the graciousness with which Cathi hosted Class of '60 parties in the penthouse of her apartment building on East 56th Street during the annual CACO meetings. Her survivors include her son Kevin Hunt of Briarcliff, who wrote that "she was truly blessed to have so many people care about her so deeply." Keep the news coming! -- Judy Bryant Wittenberg, 146 Allerton Rd., Newton, MA 02461; e-mail, jw275@cornell.edu.

61 | Sam Dugan, an adjunct asst. prof. of pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School, was named "Retired Pediatrician of the Year" by the New Hampshire Pediatric Society. Retired since 2004, Sam was recognized for being a strong advocate for his patients. Doris Ruth Markowitz Greenberg is a developmental and behavioral pediatrician in Savannah, GA. She has spoken extensively about ADHD. Her son Michael Greenberg '87 is a Cornell grad, as is her 97-year-old father, Benjamin Markowitz '30.

After serving four years as president of the Cornell Alumni Federation,Micki Bertenthal Kuhs is concentrating once again on her law practice in the area of mediation and negotiation. Daughter Keira Kuhs '87 and her children live in NYC; son William '89 was part of the emergency team that stayed on to rescue zoo animals during Katrina. Jeffrey Fisher retired three years ago, but works as a consultant in developing exit strategies for owners of family businesses.He, his wife Patricia, and their dog Baxter have homes in NYC and East Hampton. John King is a computer consultant for small businesses, and teaches computer classes in adult ed. He and his wife Susan (Boesel) '62 are planning a trip to Tanzania, South Africa, and Namibia. The consulting practice of Jim Goell, PhD '65, includes helping companies that produce electronic equipment reduce time on marketing, development costs, and product failures.

Do you remember "romping and stomping"with Peter Yarrow '59? That's the memory highlighted by Janet Ballantyne, PhD '76. As Group VP, International for Abt Associates in Bethesda,MD, Janet traveled last year to destinations such as Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Jordan, and Peru. Bob Lincoln, associate general counsel at the Library of Congress, plans to retire soon to Virginia Beach, where he expects to polish his golf game.

Alfred "Ted" Rauch Jr., senior VP of Advest Investments, plays tennis and squash regularly and is involved with the Cornell soccer programs. He has served as a trustee of the Haverford School. Ted's best times on campus were spent at Psi U, Jim's place, and on the soccer team.What would he rather be doing? In his own words: "I would like to have a senior position with the Phillies--so we could finally have a World Series held here in my lifetime." Lee Forker Jr. is president of the Bostonbased investment firm New England Research and Management Inc.He hopes to pass the business to a partner and spend more time on wine trips. Lee fondly remembers his profs in the Economics department.

The class has a "Fab Five" group of women who lunch together from time to time in Boca Raton. They include Dale Abrams Adams, Lori Carlson Lustig,Marian Pearlman Nease,Marlene Alpert Tein, and Sheila Weinrub Trossman. The advice given by Dale prior to their first meeting on how they would recognize each other was: "Please don't wear your '61 beanies; I know I'll recognize each of you by your elasticized waistbands." Susan Koslosky Stone visited her daughter Robin Stone and grandchildren Justin and Austin in Santa Cruz. Robin and her husband Lee Fratto operate doggiecamp.com, a vacation haven for California dogs.

Bob, MS '63, and Lorna Lamb Herdt '62 retired to Ithaca, where Bob holds an adjunct position in International Agriculture, Economics and Management at Cornell. Among the joys of living in Ithaca, he reports, are cutting firewood, running the snowblower, growing vegetables, and community choral singing. As president of Alice Travel, Jerry Davis and his wife Irene have traveled extensively. The camaraderie of his fraternity brothers is something Jerry fondly recalls.

Holly Ripans '94, daughter of Allan '55 and Gail Kweller Ripans, married Doug Witten in Atlanta in November. "It was a glorious affair with many Cornellians in attendance," according to Gail. Joe Santamaria's son Jason married Kimberly Seidel in Greenwich, CT. Joe still works as an architect, and plays tennis and golf for recreation.

When the sun fades far away in the crimson of the west . . . Eleanor Stanford Erskine remembers the chimes playing the "Evening Song" as she walked through the Arts Quad at dusk. A retired librarian, she enjoys film, theater, travel, and volunteer work at her church and at a women's resource center. Her "literary ladies" book group plans trips based on their readings. Bob Treadway recalls an on-campus debate between Norman Thomas and William F. Buckley Jr. Bob teaches English and travels in China. Nat Kolodney fondly remembers riding his motorcycle, playing his guitar, and philosophical discussions at Noyes. His volunteer work includes supervising grad students in the area of child abuse and helping in Westchester, NY's Artist in the Schools program.

Ron Barnes misses his Fiji brothers. He and his wife Addie helped plan the '61 mini-reunion in Arizona last fall. Noah Greenberg fondly remembers football weekends and the Johnny Parsons Club (JAPES). As an architect, he is restoring an 1878 grand estate in Falmouth, MA. -- David S.Kessler, dsk15@cornell.edu. Class website, www.cornell61.org.

62 | Mike Duesing (jmd29@cornell.edu) reports on the Phi Gam golf tournament hosted by Jack, ME '64, and Libby Loose in Huntsville, AL. According to Mike, the Class of '62 bested the '61 contingent, and a good time was had by all. Classmates in attendance were John Doolittle, Dick Gaven, Fred Hart, Hal Bunshaw, John Lowrie, Narl Davidson, Byron McCalmon, M Ed '70, Dave Morthland, and Mike. It was noted that the members of the Class of '61 should be "questioned in a sincere manner to disclose the outcome of the three-day match." In case you want to ask those questions, the players were Pete Whiskeman, Dick Tatlow, Ken Blanchard, PhD '67, Pete Meinig, Jack Neafsey, MBA '63, Phil Hodges, and Warren Spicka, all '61.More from Mike: "Wife Joan and her business partner Molly Fitzpatrick (spouse of Dr. John of Ivory Bill fame at Lab of Ornithology) and I stayed at the Morthlands' Tucson condo while the ladies went to the Tucson Gem Show. Joan and Molly are designing and making necklaces of semi-precious stones and selling them like crazy."

More on the Morthlands: Dave and Ginny (Hoffman) '63 (morths@comcast.net) have sold their home in Oregon and moved to a condo in Tucson, AZ. In addition to keeping a condo in Lake Oswego, to have a spot near their son Cam and his family, they spend several months of the year on their boat, a 47-ft. Selene trawler, cruising the inside passage in Northern British Columbia. They keep the boat in Olympia,WA. "We will take her, the Ina Marie (named after my mom) to the Queen Charlottes this summer and who knows, maybe Alaska next summer."

Don Juran (drj5@cornell.edu) recently made his operatic debut as Zaretzky in Eugene Onegin, in which son Adam '94 sang the title role. Don played Balthazar in The Comedy of Errors and is now rehearsing as Justice Shallow in The Merry Wives of Windsor. He and Carol took an Elderhostel course in lighthouses and life in and near the Bay of Fundy, which was based on Campobello Island in New Brunswick. They were joined there by Don's brother Chuck '53 and his wife Carolyn. "We all learned a lot and did our best to make the Maine lobster an endangered species.We intend to do more Elderhostels in the future."

The Gibbons law firm in New York mourns the loss of Peter Cobrin, a director in its intellectual property department, who died on December 3, 2005. The notice from his firm states, "Those among us who had the privilege to know him were blessed by his humor, his grace, and his gentle manner. Greatness is often used too casually when we lose someone we love, but in Peter's case, his humanity earned him that accolade." Peter served as a patent examiner in the US Army after graduation from Cornell. It was during his Army tenure that he decided to merge his passion for protecting the rights of inventors with his desire to practice law. Upon receiving his law degree from Georgetown, Peter founded his New York law firm, Cobrin & Gittes, and built the firm's reputation and experience to become a wellrespected intellectual property boutique serving many of the region's leading corporations. In 2002, his firm, with its eight attorneys, joined Gibbons and bolstered that firm's New York intellectual property practice."Mr. Cobrin was a colleague, mentor, and friend to all who knew him, and he inspired and assisted the firm's intellectual property attorneys with a variety of matters. He will be greatly missed by all of his colleagues, clients, and friends," concluded the tribute.

"One advantage of being old," writes Frances Li, PhD '71 (fli@nsf.gov), "is that I placed 11th out of 88 in my age/gender division in my second Marine Corps Marathon."When not training, Frances is program coordinator for East Asia and the Pacific for the National Science Foundation. Her husband Carl Schaefer, PhD '71, works on bioinformation at the National Cancer Inst. Their son is a senior at Williams and daughter a sophomore at Towson State U. They live in Chevy Chase, MD.

Your classmates, and your correspondent, are hoping to hear from you! Do tell! -- Jan McClayton Crites, 9420 NE Seventeenth St., Clyde Hill,WA 98004; e-mail, jmc50@cornell.edu.

63 | Joe Brennan and his companion Elaine Burns are active in Belmont, CA. Joe enjoys his three grandchildren who are nearby. He and Elaine just finished a Dean Ornish Preventive Medicine program with a 90-day vegan diet, daily yoga, aerobic exercise, and weekly group support meetings. John "Whip" and Karen Gunn are slated to rent a house with Joe and Elaine in San Miguel de Allende,Mexico, in mid-July. Also, Joe,Whip, and Norman "Punch" Smith are planning their next Fiji mini-reunion in early October on Sullivan's Island, SC. Joe encourages anyone who would be in the area during either of these events to e-mail him at jab296@cornell.edu.

On October 13, 2006, two of our classmates will be honored with the Frank H.T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Award. J. Thomas, MBA '64, and Nancy Williams Clark '62, M Ed '64, are being recognized, as well as Benson Lee. The award is given in recognition of extraordinary service to Cornell, in both length and quality of contribution by the individual, through activities within the broad spectrum of Cornell's various alumni organizations, associations, and related groups. Congratulations to Benson, Tom, and Nancy.

Vivian Grilli DeSanto, her daughter, two grandchildren, and friends held one of Parade magazine's "Great American Bake Sales" in December. The bake sale proceeds went to Share our Strength, the national anti-hunger organization.Vivian and Marty are busy in Wilmington, NC. Martin Dollinger, LLB '66, a partner in the Woodbridge, NJ, office of Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP, was ranked number one in the Real Estate category among top attorneys in New Jersey in 2005-06. Martin was noted for impressing clients with his easy handling of complex real estate transactions and responsive commercial service, according to Chambers USA. Chambers USA is a publisher of the renowned guides to the legal profession worldwide.

Bob, MBA '65, and Cindi Blakely have been living in Washington, DC, but have kept their house in Houston, expecting to return in early 2006. Bob had retired twice but was called back to be CFO of Worldcom while it was in bankruptcy. In 2004 it emerged from bankruptcy as MCI. He was then involved in the sale of MCI to Verizon. This last adventure was the most challenging and professionally satisfying assignment of his career. Bob and Cindi see Tom and Nancy Clark frequently since they are both members of the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee of Cornell.

Richard McKee's summer 2005 news included a trip to Ithaca for the 2004 Homecoming and a trip to St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, in 2005. He and partner Mustafa Miseli had a great visit with Madeleine LestonMeehan in St. Thomas.Madeleine put on a great exhibition of her oils and drawing of musicians and dancers of the Caribbean.Mustafa loved the Virgin Islands, but had a hard time understanding fraternities during a visit to Cornell. Peter Heinrich is still active as owner/operator of the Lodge at Woodcliff Resort and Conference Center in Rochester, NY.

From NYC, Cynthia Raymond writes that she voluntarily retired from her 35-year career in the travel industry after 9/11. Fortunately, she is now back at work 30 hours a week at a major travel organization. She has seen David and Debra Willen Stern more frequently since the Sterns recently had their fifth grandchild in New York City. Frances Cate Fowler married Dr. Gene Collins in February 2005 in Knoxville, TN. Frances's book, Policy Studies for Educational Leaders, has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Leonard and Louise Salwitz Hochron are happily retired. They spend winters in Boynton Beach, FL, and the rest of the year in NYC and traveling. Their travels in 2005 included Guatemala, Greece, and Turkey--they love to travel. They would also love to see any classmates in the Boynton Beach area.

I had breakfast with Nancy Deeds Meister, who, I found out, has lived in Tucson for 23 years. She and her friend, classmate John Ruether, PhD '68, were on a two-week hike in the Andes in northern Peru in August. On the 13th day John, unfortunately, died of high altitude pulmonary edema. Nancy, John, and several others from Tucson were at about 14,000 ft. at the time of his death. They had spent the prior week in Cuzco and Machu Picchu acclimatizing. Before his death, John was senior manager and technical adviser for the US Dept. of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory near Pittsburgh. His PhD at Cornell was in chemical engineering. John was well-known in his field for his research and many presentations on global warming. His surviving children are Andrew '95 and daughters Kristin '99 and Robin. Nancy Meister is a clinical social worker on the bone marrow transplant team at University Medical Center in Tucson. Our sympathies to Nancy and to John's family. -- Nancy Bierds Icke, 12350 E. Roger Rd., Tucson, AZ 85749; e-mail, icke63@msn.com.

64 | This column is a bit thin because it contains the last of the classmate news I have.More forms should arrive shortly, so be sure to send yours with your class dues.

Frederic Fischer, an attorney with Seyfarth Shaw in Chicago representing management in the field of labor and employment law and immigration law, has been named one of 20 "super lawyers" in Illinois by the publication Law and Politics. Ric also was cited by his peers as a "leading immigration lawyer" in Illinois. He is a fellow in the College of Labor & Employment Lawyers, served as chair of the 7th Circuit Credentials Committee, and has been a co-chair of many ABA committees in the labor and employment fields. Ric lives in Highland Park, IL, with wife Gale. One of their two children is grown; the other will enter college next autumn.

Historian John Fatherley finally has received formal credit for his longtime study of how US President Rutherford B. Hayes settled a little-known 19th-century South American border conflict. Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson formally cited John in the Jan. 6, 2005 Congressional Record for our classmate's endeavors to have Hayes recognized for arbitrating a boundary dispute between Paraguay and Argentina in 1878. A Paraguayan town,Villa Hayes, was established in honor of the president's work there, and John has labored hard over the years to build ties between the village and the town of Hayes Center, NE. Sen. Nelson's citation notes how John often journeyed both to Hayes Center and to Villa Hayes to educate students and townspeople about the American president's contribution to hemispheric peace. In appreciation,Villa Hayes presented John with its town seal--which John in turn donated to the Hayes Center Historical Society. John still lives in Chicopee, MA, with wife Danielle.

Alaskan Michael "Tree" Smith, PhD '73, has kept busy roaming his state while hosting classmates. In July '04, he and Michael Gibson spent two and a half weeks hiking in the remote Brooks Range. Then in February '05, he hosted Alan Hirshberg and Alan and Barbara Greenspan Goldenberg '68 for viewing of the northern lights, skiing, snowshoeing, and the start of the famed Iditarod dog sled race.

Don Whitehead still owns and operates his Barons Cove Inn in Sag Harbor, NY. He also has a management company, Hospitality Enterprises. Don says he's redesigning his house after having lived there for 30 years. Tennis, jazz, and basketball are his other current interests. John has three daughters: Melissa '96, who followed her father into the Hotel school; Julianne '94, who kept somewhat close to the tradition by majoring in Human Ecology; and Heather. His whole family--12 in all, including five small grandchildren--went to Disneyworld last Thanksgiving. Paul Lyon, who lives in Montreal with his wife Louise, keeps busy as an English- French translator, consultant, singer, and orchestra conductor. He prepared Tales of Hoffmann for presentation in Quebec a year ago May, and reports he's overall doing more music and less translating. He's also preparing for retirement, which he plans to spend motoring through the US and Canada in an old camper.

Sandy Vogelgesang continues to write, consult, get involved in local politics (she lives in Bethesda, MD), and do importing from Nepal and Tibet, an area of the world she and her husband Geoffrey Wolfe, also a retired Foreign Service officer, came to know during her three-year assignment as Ambassador to Nepal, which ended about nine years ago. She also travels the country making speeches on the role of women in US foreign policy, and on the challenges facing women in developing nations. Sandy also enjoys her annual trek to Ithaca to attend the President's Council of Cornell Women meetings. She had a reunion luncheon in Washington, DC, recently with fellow Marylanders Gloria Moore Dorward and Pat Hammond Pearson, as well as Joan Kather Henry, who was visiting from Washington State. And to ensure she keeps busy, Sandy has two teenagers at home and enjoys hiking and photography.

Alan Loss, a certified financial planner, is part of a group of financial advisors participating in the Ultimate Gift Experience, which, Alan says, "should have a major impact on how wealthy families move from success to significance."Alan lives with wife Linda in Lancaster, PA.He enjoys golf and travel, last year to Costa Rica in March, Aruba in June, and golf and sightseeing in South Africa last October. Peter Mansky is director of the Nevada Physician Health Program for physicians who suffer from psychiatric disorders, drug addiction, and alcoholism. The group also promotes general wellness in physicians. Peter is a Distinguished Fellow in the American Psychiatric Assn., and recently completed eight years on both the board of the American Society of Addiction Psychiatry and the board of the Federation of State Physician Health Programs.He and wife Susan have two grown children and one still in high school. Peter enjoys playing guitar, photography, and bicycling.He writes that they love living in Las Vegas, and that he finds valuable the skills he developed in his 12 years as a medical director in New York.

Sonia Kosow Guterman, MS '67, a patent attorney with Lawson & Weitzen, works in patent preparation and prosecution in the biotech and nanotech fields, which recently included obtaining a patent for Harvard U. She has two grown daughters, lives in Belmont, MA, is on the board of directors of the Wellesley Symphony, and is learning to play the violin. Sonia also is into ballet--and boxing! Her last big vacation was to Prague.

That's all for now as I have run out of your news. Help keep the news flowing by responding soon to the annual Dues and News appeal you received with our class newsletter in mid-February, and 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 | It's hard to believe that a year ago at this time many of us were preparing to head back to campus for our 40th Reunion. This year,May will be just the month that we begin to prepare for summer.

I recently received a letter from our co-presidents Barry Cutler and Sharon HegartyWilliams that brought the news that Penny Skitol Haitkin had been honored by Cornell. Penny was one of the eight alumni to be recipients of the 2006 Frank H. T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Award. The Rhodes Award is given in recognition of extraordinary service to Cornell, in both length and quality of the contribution to alumni organizations, associations, and related groups. This honor is not based on personal financial contributions to Cornell, business or professional achievements, or outside community service.We all know of Penny's long-standing support of Class of 1965 activities. She and the other honorees will be recognized at a banquet on Friday, October 13, 2006 during Homecoming weekend in Ithaca.

We received a lot of news from Michael Ross. His daughter Taylor is now a sophomore at UCLA majoring in English. Younger daughter Jourdan finished high school early and is in France studying French and art. She was planning to apply to Cornell to be a member of the Class of 2010. On a personal note,Michael reported he is presently VP and managing principal of HGA Architects' Los Angeles office.His firm has been involved in a large number of university and civic projects throughout the state of California.Michael and his wife Jacqui live in Santa Barbara, CA. Thanks to Michael we learn that Peter Narins, PhD '76, is a tenured faculty member at UCLA. Peter travels the world lecturing on his specialty--frog communication.

From north of the border, we received news from Peggy Lavery Kochanoff. She and husband Stan '66 are still in Nova Scotia growing trees and doing landscaping and landscape design. Their son Jim is working with them and is studying accounting, while son Tom is a personal trainer at St.Mary's U. Both their sons graduated from Dalhousie U., Jim in business and Tom in sociology. Stan is one of seven registered consulting arborists in Canada--the first in Atlantic Canada. Peggy has written and illustrated two nature books, A Field Guide to Nearby Nature and Beach Combing the Atlantic Coast, and son Jim has had his novel,Men of Extreme Action, published. Not to be left out, son Tom was in a book demonstrating difficult exercises on the stability ball.

Closer to Cornell, we received news from Dianne Rosborne Meranus. Dianne and her husband Philip, JD '66, live in Riverdale, NY. Recently the Meranuses celebrated the marriage of their son Andrew to Rachel Asche. Dianne and Philip are experienced grandparents, as their daughter Elizabeth and husband Michael Lazaroff have seven children. Last fall, Dianne resumed the chairmanship of the human ecology department at Marymount College of Fordham U. She has been on its faculty for 21 years. Finally, James Goodrich brought us up to date with the activities of his three daughters. Early 2005 was a busy time for James and his wife Marcia. Oldest daughter Charlene, who is working on her doctorate in music, is married and had a baby girl in March 2005. Next daughter Beverly was married in January 2005 and was expecting her first child early in 2006. Youngest daughter Sabrina is a student at the U. ofWisconsin,Whitewater. James and Marcia live in North Prairie, WI.

Please pass on your news with the dues notice, or contact us directly: -- Ronald Harris, 5203 Forestdale Ct.,West Bloomfield, MI 48322; tel., (248) 788-3397; email, rsh28@cornell.edu; Terry Kohleriter Schwartz, 36 Founders Green, Pittsford, NY 14534; tel., (585) 383-0731; e-mail, TerryKS7@aol.com; and Joan Elstein Rogow, 9 Mason Farm Rd., Flemington, NJ 08822; tel., (908) 782-7028.

66 | Reunion is near! June 8-11, 2006. Ithaca, NY. I just came back from a meeting in Philadelphia sponsored by the Cornell Association of Class Officers (CACO). Those of us from '66 who were there spent most of the meeting planning just what would take place at reunion. It will be very interesting and lots of fun. Although we won't be the most senior class attending, our membership in the Class of '66 ensures that we will have great places to stay and meet and party.

Susan Maldon Stregack (Silver Spring, MD; sms51@cornell.edu) has been married to Rollin Fraser for more than four years--and they still feel like newlyweds. "My life is good. I am living, loving, and laughing in ways I never imagined! I would love to hear from classmates." She has been to Israel twice and to Poland and Prague on a study tour. Sue is still quite an avid photographer; she mentions having been to Jewish crematories, the Warsaw ghetto, and several death camps. "I said Kaddish (the memorial prayer for the dead) there." I got an e-mail from Michael Hirsh (finanintl@aol.com). He writes, "I am country director for the Peace Corps program in Peru.We have 120 volunteers working on development projects throughout the country.Have been here about a year and hope to stay three or four more. Would welcome visits from classmates. Kids are in college in the States. Hope to make reunion."

Mary Moneen Polk Duhe,MAT '67 (Katonah, NY; MMPGD99@aol.com) is teaching at a NYS correctional facility in Taconic. "I find it both incredibly challenging preparing 40 women ages 17 to mid-50s to pass their GED tests and incredibly rewarding. As much as I may have taught them, they have taught me more about real life, determination, humor, and the resilience of the human spirit."Mary has a daughter graduating from Buffalo State College with a BS in social work, and a son awaiting acceptance (please) from the ILR school. He was his high school's representative to Boys' State last summer. Her husband Jim works in fashion publishing (Bridal Guide magazine). I hope she adds the following to our '66 Reflections on the website: "The older I get, the more I appreciate the ‘gift' of my Cornell experience-- the scholarship, the setting, and my classmates . . . especially my '66 friends."

CharlesWeiss (Cornell@sfcalif.us) is in Atherton, CA. His youngest daughter, Rebecca '09, was admitted to the Arts college. Daughter Jessica '03 is going to UC Berkeley for a PhD in psychology. Ed Arbaugh writes from Cincinnati that "the nest is now empty," now that their last child is off to Northwestern to study journalism. They plan a cruise of the Greek Islands for their 25th wedding anniversary. They will renew their wedding vows when the cruise ends in Rome. Peggy Kapisovsky and her husband Mark took a fabulous two-month, 10,000-mile winter road trip, meandering their way from their home in Georgetown, ME, to Arizona, visiting family and friends, and having wonderful birding adventures along the way. Sandra Semon Carberry is living in Newark, DE (Carberry@cis.udel.edu). "For the last five years I have been chair of the Dept. of Computer Science at the U. of Delaware. This year I am on sabbatical and will return to full-time research and teaching. My husband John and I recently returned from a month in China, where I visited several Chinese universities.We now have four grandchildren (including 1-yearold twins) and are thoroughly enjoying the opportunity to spend so much time with them."

Kurt Jenne (Chapel Hill, NC; kurtjenne@earthlink.net) is looking forward to "just old friends" at reunion. "I have lived in Chapel Hill on and off for 33 years now, as a city planner, city manager, and later, on the faculty of the Inst. of Government at the U. of North Carolina. I retired in 2002 because of my deteriorating memory, but I regularly attend guest lectures and social events, where I stay in touch with friends and colleagues. All in all, life is sweet." Steve Krich, PhD '72 (sikrich5@ aol.com) is in Lexington, MA. His daughter Abigail '04 is now back at Cornell getting an MEng in EE. "I am still working, but reducing my hours." Linda Jensen Hamlet lives in Steamboat Springs, CO, where she refers to herself as a "corporate volunteer," sitting on several boards, including the Colorado Mountain College Foundation.

I have heard from an equine veterinarian and an advisor to a senator on racing and gaming matters. He is also a member of the Albany Law School Board Government Law Center and on the Cornell University Board of Trustees. Jerry Bilinski, DVM '69, take a bow (drbilinski@aol.com). I also need to mention that he is on the Advisory Committee of the Vet college. Finally, I heard from Jim Unckless (Fairport, NY; junckles@rochester.rr.com). He was in Ithaca last July for the wedding of his son Rob '97, MS '99, and Heather Fiore '97 on the terrace of Willard Straight Hall.

See you in June! Be sure to look at Roy Troxel's Class of '66 Web page, http://classof66.alumni.cornell.edu. -- John Miers, Johngmiers@comcast.net; Bill Blockton, bill@rbsfabrics.com; Susan Rockford Bittker, ladyscienc@sbcglobal.net.

67 | 40th Reunion--June 7-10, 2007. Get ready! And check out our class website for details in the months ahead, http://classof67.alumni.cornell.edu/index.html.

From Edwards, CO, Charlie Powers writes that he and wife Martha are enjoying "a lot of skiing in Vail" and suggests that Al Hoyt (Boise, ID) and family come to reunion.Margaret Meyer Rich (Ewing, NJ; stuartandmeg@aol.com) organized a daylong "Everest Anniversary Conference" at Princeton, at which "non-mountaineers were also welcome. Free of charge." She adds that son Mike married Ann Lawrence in 2001 in Paris and still teaches at the Lycée Internationale St. Germainen- Laye.

Ted Hamilton (Walnut Creek, CA; tvhami1967@aol.com) is a civil engineer and construction manager with Harris & Assocs., Concord, CA. As with a number of us, he writes that he'd rather be retired and mentions that Bob Holman (Olympia,WA) attained that status last October. Ted would like to hear from Vernon Noble '63, BCE '64. Nancy KeuschMayers (Austin, TX; wowmom53@aol.com) reports: "Our family has just opened a new restaurant in Austin, TX, called Manny Hattan's New York Delicatessen.When in town, visit us for the best corned beef sandwich served with a Texas attitude! This is keeping us very busy, but I still find time for my pottery."

Phyllis Bell Jonas (Atlantic Beach, NY; phyllisjbj@aol.com) is in her 24th year of teaching pre-K at the Brandeis School in Lawrence, NY. She celebrated her 60th last August, with Fran Keller Fabian, Joan SolomonWeiss, and Toby Tucker Hecht joining in the fun. Phyllis spends time with her four grandchildren, including Matthew Isaac born last September. And then there's "theater, ballet, concerts, and walking the boardwalk with my special guy." Robert Cucin, MD '71 (New York City; robert@cucin.com) is chief executive officer of BioSculpture Technology Inc., a medical device company, and director of Airbrush Liposculpture of NYC. He'd rather be "sitting on the beach at St. Tropez or bashing the bumps on Ajax in Aspen," and recalls "Brit Lit with Healey and Psych 101 with Maas" fondly from Cornell.

Toni Ladenburg Delacorte (Alexandria,VA; tdelacorte@aol.com) is vice president of NAPS, a national news production and distribution service, and also serves on the board of the Brown Ledge Foundation and Northern Virginia Intergroup. She also volunteers--with golden retriever Remy--for Fairfax County's "Pets on Wheels" program. Jay Moses, DVM '70 (Mill River, MA; jthmoses@mindspring.com) "un-retired after two years" and picked up five silver medals at various World Masters Competitions. Lou Giancola (Providence, RI; lgiancola@schospital.com) is president and chief executive of South County Hospital in Wakefield, RI, a 100- bed community hospital.Wife Pam is a developmental/behavioral pediatrician at Brown U. Oldest daughter Jennie is a second assistant director who worked on YaYa Sisterhood. Zoe is a social worker, and Anthony majors in film at NYU.

The advance deadlines for this column mean that sometimes news crosses. In the January column we had what had been current news about a classmate who turned up the same month on the obituary page. Apologies all around, and we'll do our best to avoid such happenings.

Class officers met in Philadelphia in February, and reunion plans are well under way for June 7-10, 2007. After meeting in New York City for a century, Cornell has booked their class officer association (CACO) Mid-Winter Meeting in Philly for three years. Seemed to me as if someone must have mistaken their identity for our old rivals from Penn. -- Richard B.Hoffman, 2925 28th St.NW,Washington, DC 20008; e-mail, rhoffman@erols.com.

68 | I hope you're all having a good spring. Steve, JD '71, and Sharon LawnerWeinberg, PhD '71, were proud to welcome their first grandchild, Danielle. The parents are their daughter Allison and her husband Jason Barro, who live in Boston. Rich Cohen and his wife Kathy Krieger are labor lawyers in Washington, DC. Rich is with the NLRB, where he has argued numerous cases in the US Court of Appeals. Kathy is a partner in a union-side firm. They have a 15- and 13-year-old. Rich reports that his fraternity brothers David Heiden, Jon Ellman, and Steve Schwartz all have young families as well. Rich also sees Howard Kaufman and Bill Persina in Washington. He reports that Marc Durant enjoys traveling around on his motorcycle, which is "not one of those big Harley-type jobs," but more the type you see in action movies. I think Rich Cohen is right on the mark when he concludes, "What truly amazes is the number of Cornell friends who continue to enrich my life."

Eric C. Johnson and his wife Nancy live in Kalamazoo, MI. They volunteer for the Red Cross on disaster relief, and have been very busy in the last two years, including service in Florida and Louisiana. Eric retired from Kraft Foods around four years ago. He also enjoys volunteering with other local charities, such as Habitat for Humanity. David Gorelick reports news of his children.His son Daniel received a PhD in molecular medicine from Johns Hopkins, and daughter Sarah graduated from Penn and works for IBM. Son Jonathan is a grad student at Rutgers, and fifth child Jacob had a bar mitzvah last year.

Corinne Ertel is an MD in the Boston area. She has a 15-year-old daughter. Corinne is in touch with Jane Friedlander Gerard and Ruth Mandel Pincus, both of whom are new grandparents. Corinne is also in touch with Nonie Diamond Susser and her husband Pete, who are veteran grandparents with three grandchildren. Ed Kemp, DVM '71, and his wife Carol are busy in the residential real estate business on Cape Cod. Their company is Act 1 Carol O'Loughlin Real Estate in Falmouth, MA. Ed's older daughter, Lindsey, graduated from Bond U. in Australia and is recently engaged. His daughter Julia attends Savannah College of Art and Design. Ed attends regular reunions with fraternity brothers from Sigma Pi.

Steve Boucher was recently named Entrepreneur of the Year by the New Hampshire High Technology Council. The award honors individuals who have made significant contributions to the advancement of high tech business in New Hampshire. Steve is chairman, CEO, and founder of Airmar Technology in Milford, NH. Airmar specializes in the marine electronics industry and sells "transducers for recreational and commercial salt-water fishing." Its marine technology is used in acoustic deterrents for fishing and aquaculture and the investigation/survey industry.

In the fall of 2005 Karolyn Kinsinger Mangeot and Catherine Owen spent two weeks in China touring with Tai Chi friends of Karolyn's husband Richard. The two travelers in China chronicled everything--Karolyn taking notes and Cathy taking hundred of pictures each day. Jay Goldstein is an active dermatologist in the Boston area. Bill Falik writes in from a trip in Australia with his wife Candy. Bill notes that after 26 years, "We now have an empty nest and are exploring the world together again." Bill has stopped practicing law and sold his final master planned community in Roseville, CA. He is enjoying seeing the world "with different eyes than we did when we traveled 27 years ago."

I look forward to hearing from you. -- Gordon H. Silver, 2 Avery St., #26C, Boston, MA 02111; e-mail, gordon_silver@comcast.net.

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Cornell's Summer College offers high school students who have completed their sophomore, junior, or senior year and who have the academic ability, maturity, and intellectual curiosity necessary to undertake college-level work an opportunity to study at Cornell. The children of two classmates took part in 2005: Stephen Budow's son Scott and Kenneth Rubin, JD '73's daughter Kelly. Alan Cody writes that he, Jay Noyes, and Don Tofias attended the Yale-Cornell football game at Yale, along with several other classmates. And although Cornell lost the game, Alan said that watching freshman quarterback Nathan Ford '09 "throw passes like a pro was pretty amazing." Perry Smith says that he has kept in touch with several classmates and really enjoys the reunions. As a New York State Dept. of Health epidemiologist, he is responsible for communicable disease control.Most recently he was involved in pandemic influenza planning. Away from the office, Perry says, "[I] really enjoy leisure time at our Adirondack camp with my wife and 11-year-old daughter."

Ann Agranoff teaches English at Queensborough Community College and, along with her husband Fred Anderes, is building a house in the Catskills. Ann says they are doing most of the work themselves.When not teaching or building, Ann is going to PTA meetings at LaGuardia Arts High School, where her daughter is a sophomore.What she remembers most about Cornell is eating pumpkin ice cream! The chimes in the morning and throughout the day are a happy memory reported by Gloria Jacobsen Lang, who is adjunct instructor at the Fashion Inst. of Technology. After hours, Gloria is vice chair of the President's Council of Cornell Women. Another homebuilder, she and her husband Roger are putting up a "spec" house in East Hampton, just 600 yards from where they live. Gloria says that it was her husband's dream after retirement. They have also been traveling in South America, to Santiago,Mendoza, and Buenos Aires.

Another educator, Sally Weisberg Goldberg, MS '71, professor of education and a specialist in parenting, has a new position with Fox TV Channel 7 in Florida as their parenting expert on the program "Parent to Parent," a weekly news segment. In addition, Sally is working on a new book, running, and doing work-outs, and says that she would rather be having "fun in the sun."Meeting friends at the Straight is one of her fondest memories of Cornell. Ellen Gross Landau, Andrew W.Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Case Western Reserve U., is organizing an international exhibition, "Pollock Matters," and has just published Reading Abstract Expressionism: Context and Critique. In addition, Ellen tells us she was a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome.

A psychiatrist in private practice in Manhattan,Marianne Goodman enjoys a range of extracurricular activities including patron of the Metropolitan Opera, the American Ballet Theater, and the New York Philharmonic. As a mother of two daughters, one enrolled at Lehigh U. and the other at Riverdale Country School,Marianne finds herself traveling to Bethlehem for freshman events--a reminder of life at Cornell.When Lehigh beat Georgetown by a big number, she thought of Cornell hockey games in the '60s.Marianne recalls waiting on line for season tickets and the games themselves. She also remembers: slipping on the Chemistry building steps, the Boxcar, SDS, marching in front of the Straight, the State Diner at 3:00 a.m.,Watkins Glen, and the biggest tailgate party ever! Marianne remembers "just having an incredible range of possibilities and taking advantage of most of them." Thomas Levanduski is taking full advantage of his retirement after 28 years of service with the Army Reserves, including six months in Desert Storm and 30 years with the New York State Dept. of Correctional Services, where he counseled inmates. Last November, he spent the entire month exploring Australia and New Zealand, and now he has more time for hiking, camping, kayaking, and skiing, as well as indulging his love for reading and movies. Tom credits Cornell with introducing him to the great movie directors.

John Rees fills us in on our "found" classmate Pierina Parise. After receiving a master's degree in library science from the U. of Hawaii, Perri spent time in Fiji with the Peace Corps. After 12 more years in Hawaii, she relocated to Portland and worked for Marylhurst College as an instructional and reference librarian. Today Perri is employed by Emporia State U. as the director of the Oregon Distance Program for the School of Library and Information Management. Curiously, Perri lives less than a mile from John! Not so near, David Shannon resides in Auckland, New Zealand. From John's correspondence with him, we learn that David has spent many years in places that are often in the news today. After graduate school at Montana State U., a stint in the Army that included a posting to Heidelberg, Germany, going back to Cornell, and then a job with the Dept. of Labor in Montana, David says, "then it gets more interesting. "He joined the Peace Corps and went to Iran to work in the Kurdish area. During mid-tour, David traveled to Nepal via Turkey, Syria, Israel, and many other countries. Over the years David has worked for several non-profit organizations in Africa, Haiti, and Nepal. For the past 20 years, David has lived in New Zealand with his wife, and they have two teenage daughters. David is a leading job evaluation consultant who advises non-profit organizations on staff pay structures. He is also a member of the school board and the Arthritis New Zealand Regional Advisory Group. -- Arda Coyle Boucher, 21 Hemlock Hill Rd., Amherst, NH 03031, aboucher@airmar.com.