90 | Happy Mother's Day,Memorial Day, Flag Day, Father's Day, and first day of summer! Can't wait for that last one. Oregon's winter rains made me think I could sell a book titled Ark-building for Dummies--but I've kept your news high and dry!

Former class correspondent Kristyn BenzigerWhitney and husband Scott welcomed Katarina Scott Whitney on July 11, 2005, after a whopping two days of labor. Wrote Kristyn: "I am never doing this again!" Katarina has a big brother, Callan. Gail Hoffman Limmer has become an elementary school librarian in Uniondale, NY. "I love my new career," she wrote. "I find it much more rewarding than my hospital/nutrition career." Gail and husband Scott have young daughters Julia and Danielle.

More career news comes from Bill Navas, who left Starwood after seven years to join Hospitality 3, a New York hospitality development and consulting company. He and wife Susanne have two young kids, Jackie and William. Dermatologist Kimberly Bazar splits her time between private practice and a county/government hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area. She and husband Anthony Yun, an analyst with Palo Alto Investors, have son Jeremy, born July 2002. Dr.Michael Giovanniello, now of Salt Lake City, helped found the SMART Clinic, a comprehensive spine clinic that specializes in minimally invasive surgery. It apparently didn't keep him busy enough--he and wife Christine Chen have acquired two children, daughter Andrea through adoption and son Matthew by birth.

If you were at our 15th Reunion, you may have seen Nandini "Dini" SatheMerz seven months pregnant. She and husband Stephen '91 provide closure by announcing the arrival of Ryan Merz on Sept. 6, 2005. Sisters Asha, 7, and Nina, 5, are thrilled.Deidre Hubbard Michael and husband Mark '89 also now have a family of five. Colin Hudson Michael joined them May 31, 2005. He has a big brother Sean and a big sister Catherine. Deidre is an attorney with Baker & McKenzie in New York.

My former Cornell Daily Sun colleague John Gauch, a financial analyst with IBM in Massachusetts, reported that on Oct. 11, 2005,Helaina "Hallie"Gauch entered the world. She has a big sister Emelia. John's wife Shari Becker published her first children's book,Maxwell's Mountain, in February 2006.Matt Lesnick started his own law firm in Santa Monica, CA, specializing in commercial bankruptcy, restructuring, and litigation.He had been a partner at Bingham McCutchen.Matt attended Rob Becker's October 2005 wedding in Utah and went mountain biking in Park City with Rob and Monte Frank, JD '93.Matt wanted it known that "Monte almost slammed into a moose."

Another vacation tidbit: Audrey Kelleman wrote from Daytona Beach, FL, that she and Sheri Appel celebrated Queen's Day 2005, the official birthday of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, in Amsterdam. Jill Pfefferbaum married Oct. 9, 2005, and is now Jill Saverine. She is director of human resources at Priceline.com. Cornell's Adult University (CAU) sent word that Michele Plaue Kijak participated in its summer 2005 golf clinic, taught by James M."Matt" Baughan and the staff of Cornell's Robert Trent Jones Golf Course.Hey, maybe Michele could work that Big Red network to score a round at the private Carolina Golf Club in Charlotte, NC: Roger Wolfe is general manager there. He's also the father of Ben August as of Jan. 10, 2006.

We hope you'll work the network, too, by keeping your updates coming! -- Amy Wang Manning, aw233@cornell.edu; Kelly Roberson, kroberson@lightswitch.net; Tamiko Toland, stmoluag@yahoo.com.

91 | Greetings to all and welcome to another reunion year for the Class of '91.We certainly hope to see many of you on the Hill this summer for our--gulp-- 15th Reunion. It is so hard to believe that 15 years have passed since we marched through the Quad and into Schoellkopf Field for Commencement. So much has happened since then for all of us and it has been a pleasure bringing you the news as one of your class correspondents over these last few years. We are in the late-season part of the cycle for Class Notes and Class Dues, so we are a bit light on the news, but I will give you what we have at this time.

I will start with myself, as my wife and I welcomed our fourth child--and fourth daughter--into the family. Kennedy Isabelle Smith was born on November 22, 2005.My wife had suggested the name Reagan but I figured the Republicans control enough of my life as it is, so we went with Kennedy. Everyone is doing well, and while you might pity me, the lone male in the household, it isn't so bad. Pity me in about 12 years when I have four teenagers. I think I'll be moving out around then.

The rest of the news consists of some scattered musings from around the class. David Stern wrote to tell us that he joined Clearstone Venture Partners, formerly known as Idealab Capital Partners, and is helping them focus on technology and media investments. David wants to know if anyone has any idea where Starck Johnson and Scott Peppet call home these days. Mark Tatum was promoted to NBA senior VP of marketing partnerships. In this role he will oversee the NBA's relationships with brands such as Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, Gatorade, and Nike and work with them to develop NBA-themed promotions and advertising. He is credited with helping Southwest Airlines in the creation of Slam Dunk One, an NBA-themed plane. I've been on that plane,Mark, and I have some suggestions. Give me a call sometime.We'll do lunch. Bring LeBron James.

Chris Reynolds now has two children, Casey and Ciaran. He noted that he just started with Fimat on the Credit Derivatives desk and is working alongside Sean McAuley '89. He also recently enjoyed a golf outing at Old Memorial in Tampa with Bob Budington. Bob and his wife just had their third child, Thomas. Aram Adourian writes that he, his wife, and their children will be returning to Armenia this year to celebrate their third wedding anniversary. They were married in Armenia and have a summer home in the mountains there. An Armenian mountain getaway sounds much better than DisneyWorld. I need a new travel agent.

Julie Leung has joined North Highland Co. as a senior manager in its Philadelphia office. North Highland is an independent management and technology consulting services provider. She had previously spent time working with American Water, Accenture, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Novartis. Julie is proof that an ORIE degree is very useful.

That's all I have. Again, don't forget about Reunion Weekend, June 8-11, 2006. Events and activities are planned for all members of the family, so bring the kids and have a great time on the Hill with your classmates. Bob Baca is our webmaster extraordinaire and has an info site for us at http://classof91.alumni.cornell.edu. Check it out, stay informed, and join us in June. Until then, good luck and goodnight. Keep sending info to: -- Dave Smith, docds30@yahoo.com; Corinne Kuchling, kuccori@hotmail.com; Nina Rosen Peek, nsr5@cornell.edu.

92 | When you receive this magazine we will be about one year away from our 15th Reunion. Almost impossible to believe until I read all of the updates you send and look at all of our classmates' accomplishments since graduation. And the planning has already begun for our return to Ithaca.We are looking for volunteers to serve on the Reunion Committee for 2007. If interested, please contact either Michelle Struble Bouton at mlbouton@hotmail.com or Tracy Furner Stein at tracy@hylandgroup.com.

We've done a lot of impressive and exciting things personally, professionally, and academically over the last 14 years. Please remember to keep sending us your updates. The annual News and Dues class mailing should have arrived recently, so if you haven't done so yet, please fill out the form and send it in. Renee,Wilma, and I look forward to hearing the latest news about you and any of our classmates that you've been in touch with.

Debra Birnbaum writes that she has recently started a new job at Life & Style as the deputy editor-in-chief. She said she never imagined she'd spend so much of her day on Brad and Angelina, Tom and Katie, and Jessica and Nick! Debra lives in Manhattan. Cynthia Caruso is now working in Citigroup Asset Management as a managing director in human resources. Last summer she traveled to Egypt and Jordan for two weeks on vacation, sailing up the Nile, visiting the pyramids, and going to Petra. Cynthia was in touch with Ben Matos and Matt Hagopian last Thanksgiving, and she says that they are both doing great.

Tracy Furner Stein and her husband Simon had their first child last year. Evan Philip was born on August 2, 2005. Tracy notes that Evan looks exactly like Simon, which she personally thinks is a great thing! Tracy is currently the executive VP for the Hyland Group in Chicago, IL. Allison Abel-Kahn and her husband Eric have made their family four, with the addition of daughter Lily Belle Kahn on February 22, 2006. Lily joins big sister Mady, who is now almost 2. Joe and Leslie Kurzik Dragon are living in Ottawa, Ontario, with their children Max Joseph, 4, Olivia Rae, 2, and David Hans, born on October 24, 2005. Joe recently took a position with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada as the director of outreach and recruitment programs. Leslie has formed her own marketing and communications company named Dragonworks.

Benkai Bouey and his wife Theresa welcomed their second child, Caeleb Edward, into the family on June 22, 2005. Big sister Kaiya Elizabeth, who will turn 4 this June, is "absolutely smitten"with her new little brother. The family continues to reside in Los Angeles. Last year, Adam Rosenberg was named the chief of staff for the Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore. In this role, Adam manages the executive department and strategic planning for the organization. Previously, Adam worked for the Baltimore-based law firm Janet, Jenner & Suggs. He also served in the Office of the State's Attorney for Baltimore City for seven years. Adam, his wife Jennifer, and their twin daughters live in Pikesville, MD.

In December 2005, Laurent Campo was named general counsel for Voxtec Int'l Inc. (manufacturers of a hand-held translation system). Prior to joining Voxtec, Laurent practiced law at several law firms in Washington, DC. John Huber will start a new job in July 2006; he will be serving as the next head of school at the Barnesville School, a Pre-K through 8 county day school of 250 students in Barnesville, MD. John and his wife Janine (Blanchard) have boys James, 9, and Brian, 7. Barbara Auderieth Levison checked in from Florida and reported that she and her family are doing well. She said her "girls are growing up too fast!"Her oldest, Sarah, is 8-1/2 and in third grade. Her younger daughter, Amy, is 5, and starts kindergarten this fall. Barbara works as a geriatric care manager, which, she notes, is a growing business in Florida.

Vivek Chopra and I work together as prosecutors at our local State's Attorney's Office in Montgomery County,MD.When at Cornell, we used to drive back and forth from vacations together in my old station wagon, and now we sit down the hall from one another.Vivek is a general felony prosecutor, focusing on certain geographical areas within our community, and I specialize in prosecuting domestic violence cases.Vivek and his wife Amber have son Noah, who is 6 and "doing great." As for me, my kids are getting bigger.My son, also Noah, is almost 5 and will start kindergarten this fall; and daughter Tali is not far behind at 3-1/2.My husband Steve and I still live in the Maryland suburbs with our kids, the dog, and (did I mention?) our minivan.

As I said at the beginning of this column, it's hard to imagine that almost 15 years have elapsed since Cornell, but it's easy to believe when we look at how much has happened during that time. Please send us your stories soon. -- Debbie Feinstein, Debbie_Feinstein@yahoo.com;Wilma Ann Anderson, info@WilPowerEnterprises. com; Renee Hunter Toth, rah24@cornell.edu.

93 | Happy spring, everyone! I have a lot of news to share this time, so I will get right to it. Several of our classmates have found themselves in locales a far cry from Ithaca. After earning an MA at Harvard and an MBA at Wharton,Monica Quock Chan worked overseas, traveled extensively, and finally settled down in Honolulu, where she started a freelance writing business.Monica and husband Stephen are enjoying life in Hawaii and wish everyone a big "Aloha!"Hiromasa Mori is an "ex-pat in Japan, having a culture shock."Hiromasa is a director at GE Healthcare in Tokyo and has children Sofia, 3, and Antonio, 6 months. Carolyn Durand is a real estate broker on Nantucket Island. Carolyn lives with her husband Benjamin and their dogs. She recently ran the San Francisco Marathon. Congratulations, Carolyn! Sarah Hoehn married Julian Mattiello in Fiji in May 2005. Sarah is a pediatric critical care attending and assistant professor of pediatrics at the U. of Chicago. In her (no doubt limited) free time, she enjoys running by Lake Michigan with her dogs. Finally, Amanda Cramer and husband Mauricio not only live in an interesting place, but Amanda has an interesting job as well; she is a winemaker at Nine Wine Estates in Paso Robles, CA.

We heard from several classmates-turned-attorneys this month. Dan Emerson recently became VP/associate general counsel of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., a video game publisher. Dan lives in Manhattan with wife Vanessa and 1-year-old twins Jack and Charlotte. Brett Halsey practices commercial litigation with law firm Tew Cardenas LLP. He lives in Miami with his partner of 11 years, Frank Zanca. Last year Robb Tretter, wife Elizabeth, and daughter Stella moved back to Manhattan from Philadelphia where Robb began working at Linklaters, a large international law firm. He says, "Stella has been keeping us both busy and we've all been enjoying the city." Finally, Robert Cohen recently left his law firm and moved in-house as associate general counsel, labor and employment with Omnicom Group. Robert and his wife Heidi live in New Jersey.

It's really nice to hear that so many of us volunteer our time to good causes. Douglas Egbert has been a volunteer policeman in his neighborhood on Long Island since 2001. During business hours, Douglas is a civil engineer with the NYS Dept. of Transportation in the construction division. Debra Rine Garcia volunteered extensively with the local SPCA while she and husband Jonathan were living in Monterey, CA. The Garcias now live in Virginia, where Debra is a biology teacher and field hockey coach at the Fredericksburg Academy. She writes, "At the moment I'd rather be doing much more work with the local humane societies here in Virginia." Courtney Erickson spent last summer volunteering as a tutor to teach literacy to inner city children.When he's not volunteering, Courtney is a teacher and private tutor as well as a freelance sportswriter and high school basketball and baseball official living in Niskayuna, NY. Esther Semsei Greenhouse, MS '03, volunteers at her son's school and also for NTSAD, an organization dedicated to the treatment and prevention of Tay-Sachs, Canavan, and related diseases. Esther is a research consultant with the Cornell Inst. for Translational Research on Aging (CITRA).

As is often the case, several of our classmates have written in to announce marriages or new arrivals. Kelly Horl married Richard Limekiller on November 27, 2004 in Red Bank, NJ. Fellow Cornellians Sima Asad Ali, Laurie Appel Barkman, and Lisa Moskin were bridesmaids. Kelly is currently working in the network sales department for the CBS television network. She and her husband recently left their apartment in Manhattan and purchased a house in Middletown, NJ. Rosemarie Ferrante Hooker wrote,"My husband Dan and I had our third (!) child, Grace Stephen Hooker, on April 5, 2005. She joins brothers William, 4, and James, 20 months." The Hookers recently relocated from Westchester County, NY, to Northern California. Tricia TafeWilliams and husband Evan, JD '96, also have three children. Natalie Louise was born on August 17, 2005. Tricia says, "Big sibs Sophie, 5, and Owen, 3, love to visit Cornell for football games!" The Williams family lives in Troy, PA, where Tricia is a family physician. Irene Argue Christy and her husband Tom had a baby boy named Perry Thomas on December 14, 2005.

Last but not least,my husband Josh and I are happy to announce the arrival of our first child. Justin Harry Fox was born on December 23, 2005.We are all doing well and enjoying life in Los Angeles. Thanks to everyone who filled in a class news form. I will report on your news eventually. Keep it coming! -- Erica Fishlin Fox, ericazzz@aol.com; Yael Berkowitz Rosenberg, ygb1@cornell.edu.

94 | Greetings to one and all--hope everyone's getting ready to "take it outside" and enjoy some warm, summer weather! I'm writing this right after the Northeast was blanketed with over two feet of snow, so I'm really hoping the weather clears up soon!

Charles and Angela Chapman Haase write in from Delaware, OH, where Charles is a design engineer at Honda and Angie is a stay-at-home mom to Marcus, Elise, and Stephen. Also busy raising babies is Javier DelCastillo and wife Ann, who live in Denver, CO. Javier is a director in the corporate development group of Tomkins PLC. Ann and Javier are raising two girls, Sofia and Isabella.

Lots of new parents to report! Nicole VantunoWagner and husband Stephen welcomed twin boys, Leo Benjamin and Calvin Theodore, on October 27, 2005. This was five weeks after defending her thesis and earning her master's degree in microbiology from Seton Hall U., a part-time effort while she continued to work at Schering-Plough. Brian and Kirstin Licciardello Nicholson welcomed twins Emily and Colin on July 5, 2005. Paul Donahue welcomed daughter Claire in August 2005.He and wife Sarah live in Mountain View, CA, where Paul works for Azul Systems, a start-up company.Kenneth BrooksWorthington and wife Julie welcomed son Bryan Brooks Worthington on October 3, 2005.Michelle Ostrelich and Howard Schlossberg's daughter Fiona turned 1 in January; the family lives in Niskayuna, NY. Scott Aronson and wife Jacquelin welcomed their third child, Jayne Isabelle, on November 7, 2005. And Louis Ramos's wife Michelle gave birth to Matthew Colman Ramos in January 2006; the family resides in Washington, DC, where Lou is an assistant US attorney.

Elizabeth Golluscio writes from New York City, where she is the marketing director for a technology start-up. She notes that she completed her eighth marathon in November, and recently has been busy "getting married to an MBA classmate from MIT," spending two years in Ireland/Italy, and then coming back to NYC two years ago. Also from New York is Yoav Irom, who lives with his wife Lisa and works as a consultant focusing on insurance and employee benefits.

Enid Haley Williams reports in from Madison, WI, where she is a seamstress for a local upholstery shop. She's starting a business called Haley Studio; go to www.haleystudio.com to check it out! Enid also reports that she was married October 30, 2005 to Erik Nielsen. Don and Sandra Lean Patterson write in from Irvine, CA, where Don is an assistant professor at UC Irvine. The family is busy raising their two kids and getting used to California, where they moved from Washington after Don received his PhD in computer science.

News shorts from other classmates. Amy Unell is director of operations for Blue Plate Catering in Chicago.Marc Laribee is a dairy farmer in Lowville, NY, where he lives with wife Christina. Osa ArmiWolff lives with husband Greg '93 in Oakland, CA. Pei Hua Ku is in the military, serving as an assistant communications department head in Japan. Jennifer Power Doubet is a materials engineer for Medtronic Neurological in Minneapolis and lives with husband Ryan. Sanjib Kalita is a marketing manager for Citicorp credit card products in New York. And Thomas Gellert, MBA '99, JD '00, is vice president for Atalanta Corp. in New York City. Thanks to everyone for writing! Hope you're enjoying the spring! -- JenniferMarchant, jennifer.marchant@kraft.com, Dineen PashoukosWasylik, dmp5@cornell.edu; Dika Lam, dikaweb@yahoo.com.

95 | It always strikes me as odd when I sit down to write a column for a magazine that will be published in a completely different season. Case in point, there is roughly a foot of snow on the ground in Washington, DC, as I write this column, which you are now reading well into spring. At least being downright Ithaca-esque outside puts me in the right frame of mind to write about Cornell.

But let's start first with our classmates who have escaped "Ithacation" for warmer climates. In Los Angeles, Courtney Goldstein (cagoldstein@hotmail.com) is a managing director for attorney search consulting firm Major Lindsey & Africa and writes that what she remembers most from her time at Cornell is "track and field, Pi Beta Phi sorority sisters, and wine class." (Note no reference here of missing Ithaca weather!) Up the coast, Jason Erdell (jerdell112001@kellogg.northwestern.edu) checks in from San Francisco, where he is a senior director for Gap Inc., and N.Holland Foote (hfoote12@yahoo.com) sends the happy news that he and his wife welcomed daughter Meghan Elizabeth into the world on July 6, 2005.

In Boca Raton, FL, Rob Friedman and his wife Ruth also welcomed a daughter, Rose Natanya, on December 5, 2005. Rob writes, "Rose's older brother Sammy Rey, 2, likes helping take care of her." One day before, on December 4, out in the place I'd most like to be right now--Hawaii--Noelehua Lyons Archambault (noe@noeandchris. com) and husband Christopher also recently welcomed a new baby, Kaeia James. However, Noelehua's thoughts are not far from the Northeast, writing that classmate Elif Bali married Fred Holland '96 back in Ithaca last 4th of July weekend.

Also in upstate New York, Tina Pantuso Soares is a social worker and mother of two who teaches at the University at Albany. Extracurricular activities include teaching her son to skate and making home improvements, though she admits what she'd rather be doing is "sitting on a beach!" (Wouldn't we all!) Tina also writes that she would love to hear from old Cornell friends Kristin Manley, Juliette Sorhagen, Lanie Bittner, and Brad Suter. Tina, you'll be happy to know that Juliette also sent in some news. Now married to Brian Fershtman, she recently celebrated the first birthday of daughter Siena, on November 14, 2005.

Also approaching a first birthday, on August 17, is Jacob Shechter, son of Carrie Fox and David Shechter, who write that their 3-year-old daughter Ilana loves being a big sister. Carrie, who attended our 10th Reunion, added, "Climbing up all those hills in the sweltering heat while more than six months pregnant was not easy. I really appreciated the kindness of friends and fellow Cornellians who helped push me up Libe slope, brought me cold water, and gave me a seat during the tent party."Across the ocean, in London, Larissa Selepouchin Stockton (larissa@larissastockton.com) is also keeping quite busy with son Harris Richard, born December 21, 2004, and her two companies Larissa Stockton Design and its sister company L. Stockton Kitchens Ltd., launched this past November. Together with husband Richard '92, a director of real estate at Morgan Stanley, the family has found time to escape the London weather and travel to warmer climes including exotic locales like Abu Dhabi and Dubai, as well as more familiar territory like Miami.

Back in New York, some of our classmates are being featured in the media. Leland Stone (leland@stonestandard.com) recently had one of his company's "more unusual products--cloth-covered wire"--featured in the New York Times. Leland and his partner Curtis Johnson have also moved into an historic home built in 1875, and recently attended a birthday party of classmate Eliseo Rios on the rooftop of another historic building, the Bushnell, built in the 1920s.Meanwhile, Goats.com, the brainchild of New York-based classmates Jon Rosenberg and Phillip Karlsson, was the lead-in to a Washington Post article on Web comics published last summer. Goats.com, now nearing its 10th birthday (the comic debuted April 1, 1997), boasts a readership of more than 80,000 on many days.

That about wraps up this installment of Class News. Don't forget to e-mail us with your latest and greatest. Remember, if you e-mail your news to Abra or me, it gets into the column a lot quicker than if you snail-mail hard copies, which don't come to us directly. If you mailed something in and haven't seen it in the column yet, that could be why. Stay tuned. Enjoy your spring and see you in July! -- Alison Torrillo French, amt7@cornell.edu; Abra Benson, amb8@cornell.edu. Class website, http://classof95.alumni.cornell.edu.

96 | Ciao from Torino, Italy--or more specifically, Sauze d'Oulx, the tiny mountain village where I'm based to cover the Olympics. I haven't seen this much snow since the blizzard freshman year--and at least there most of it was cleared quickly. (If you don't believe me, ask Dominique Lazanski, who's come out to visit me from London, where she's doing her master's at the London School of Economics, and is staying for a PhD.) Here I'm either literally walking on ice--you haven't seen anything until you see a bunch of macho sports reporters creep down hills like little kids hugging the edge of the ice rink-- or on the equivalent of a Slurpee.My flat is at the top of a Libe Slope-grade hill, and to add to the freshman-year nostalgia, the other day I decided that rather than fall down the icy hill, I'd tray down. People clapped when I got to the bottom. Just look for me on the US skeleton team for 2010 in Vancouver!

Call this the all-nostalgia all-the-time edition of Class Notes, because Alexandra Clinton wrote to tell me the Chariot is closed, thus dashing my plans for a corn nugget fest when I get back to Ithaca this summer. Alexi is currently living in Boston, completing a dietetic internship at Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center. She reports that her best friend (and former roommate) Staci Nugent is now working at a Finger Lakes winery after earning her master's in viticulture and enology from UC Davis last year.

Wedding Watch: Alicia Parlanti and Dennis "Rusty"Madison were married Oct. 8, '05 in New Jersey.Marguarite Carmody and Sheila DiGasper were bridesmaids, and Karen Szczepanski, Erica Gantner, Tim and Robyn Tuttle Burns, Darcy Peterka, Gina Saline Accordino, Geraldine Zikely, Chris and Denise Kothe Monti, and Dave Pospischil attended. "It poured on the day of the wedding, but we still had a great time,"Alicia e-mails. The couple are living in Jersey and both working in sales, Alicia for Myriad Genetic Labs and Dennis for US Foodservice.

Congrats to Brian and Jessica Dalewitz Zwerling on the birth of Jacob Seymour on Feb. 1, '06. Jessica recently completed her neurology residency at Montefiore Medical Center and is currently doing a fellowship in neuromuscular diseases. She says she'll be staying at Montefiore as an attending next year. Brian is an ophthalmologist. Rachel Balaban--who first reported the Zwerlings' news to me--has been made partner in her law firm, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal. She works in the firm's New York office. On July 27, '05 Scott and Stephanie Schwarz Sailor welcomed Jenna Lauren. "She is so amazing and growing so fast," Stephanie writes. The Sailors have made the move from NYC to Atlanta. "The weather is great and the people are so nice."

One person we will all miss at reunion this year is Daniel Rich. D.R., as he was better known, succumbed to his six-year battle with brain cancer on Nov. 16, 2005. While undergoing his treatment, D.R. persevered through law school, earning a JD from Emory Law School, and worked for a law firm in New York City. I remember commiserating with Dan over our history theses senior year--I can still see him standing on the steps of Uris Library--but I'm going to leave the real picture of Dan to someone who knew him much better than I did. To quote Jim Papa: "D.R. was known to his friends and family as a thoughtful, kindhearted, and intelligent person who never forgot to recognize a special occasion with a handwritten card or gift. His gifts were unique: always memorable and always tailored to the recipient. Dan's life outlook and vocal opinions were among the personality traits that made him loved by those who knew him."

Funeral services for Dan were held in Manhattan on Nov. 20, and 18 of his DKE brothers came from across the country. According to Jim Papa,Adam Hocherman '97,Matthew Mariani '97, Jeremy Mason '97, and Matthew Organ '97 delivered moving remarks at the request of the family, telling stories that made mourners alternately smile, laugh, and cry. Other brothers in attendance included Brent Benkovic,Michael Greenberg '97, Robert Halpin '97, Blair Jenness '97,Matthew Kirouac '97, John Konstant, Jason Lipman '95,Matthew Lusky '95, Eric Neumann, Dean Pourakis '97, Charles Spaziani '97, Andrew Yakoobian, and Greg Yenik '98.

Plans are under way to memorialize him at the DKE Lodge (13 South Ave.) during Reunion Weekend on June 10 at 5 p.m. All who knew Dan are invited to attend. -- Courtney Rubin, cbr1@cornell.edu; Sheryl Magzamen, SLM1@cornell.edu. For updated class events, news, and resources, visit http://classof96.alumni.cornell.edu.

97 | I was recently at a friend's party playing a cutthroat game of Cranium Turbo. I was doing well and getting answers quickly. I heard one person ask another, "How'd she do that?" The reply? "She went to Cornell!" Ahh, that seemed to say it all. Here's what some of you are doing with our great Ivy League education.

Kevin Cronin (Kevin.Cronin@clarkrealty.com) is currently working as a development executive with Clark Realty in San Diego.His present task? Building housing for the US Navy throughout San Diego County. In his spare time he keeps active by surfing with Ian Hafner '98 and Joe Rossettie '98. Also in California, Lisa Schwartz is completing her third year at Stanford Law School and will soon be moving cross-country to work at a law firm in New York City.While Lisa is preparing to leave California, Rachel Sprague Roseman (rachelroseman@eventsbybellissimo.com) and her husband recently moved back, setting up in Los Angeles. Rachel opened her own wedding planning business in Beverly Hills, while her husband is busy with his own new company.When not being a budding entrepreneur, Rachel is busy traveling to Australia and Hawaii. Rachel, maybe you can help Paula Gerber Gore pack for her trip. Paula (paulaannegerber@yahoo.com) is busy getting ready for a six-month trip to Sydney, Australia, with her husband Pankaj. In the meantime, she is working as an epilepsy fellow at the Barrow Neurological Inst. in Phoenix and keeps busy in her spare time with lots of hiking, dancing, and, of course, traveling. Enjoy your trip!

Dropping us a line from the Garden State is Kristen Petersen (tscankris@cs.com). Kristen reports that she moved to New Jersey in 2001 and graduated from UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 2004. She and husband Tom have sons Matthew, 4, and Michael, 2. Congrats, Kristen--that is a lot to accomplish in five years! Reminiscing fondly of Collegetown Bagels is Melissa Toner Lozner (melissatlozner@hotmail.com). Despite having a "day" job as an attorney,Melissa is busy with her infant daughter Ava Emerson Lozner, born in 2005. She and husband Josh reside in New Jersey with Ava and dogs Quinn and Stella. Sara Kelley and Doug Haden: if you are reading this,Melissa wants to hear from you!

Jeffrey Chiou (jcc15@cornell.edu) and wife Ketty announce the birth of their son Maximilian in November 2005. The family currently lives in New Jersey.Welcome, Maximilian! Also keeping busy with a little one is Zsofia Leranth-Nagy (zsofia.leranth-nagy@yale.edu). Zsofia and Csaba Nagy welcomed a baby girl in 2004. She also keeps occupied as a financial analyst for the Dept. of Ob/Gyn at Yale U.

Let's say you have a great idea for a book, but you aren't sure how to put it down on paper. You need the services of Kristin Loberg (pipsterk@netscape.net), an independent professional writer and editor, working out of Los Angeles. In addition to getting great ideas on paper, Kristin trains for triathlons and continues to expand on her Cornell "Wines" education. She was also recently married to Lawrence Karasek in a California vineyard. Classmates Nancy Doon, Danielle Ledoux, Randy Martel, Jonathan Kruszynski, and Bob Delfierro were witnesses to the nuptials. The Honorable Harry J. Loberg '57, BA '59, presided over the ceremony.

Our new class news forms have resulted in some great updates from classmates. Just because you forgot to send yours in when you paid you class dues doesn't mean it's too late.We want to hear from you! If you want to hear from a particular classmate, send in a request and I'll try to fit it in the column. For example, I've lost touch with my sophomore year roommate, Jessie Colwill Souther. Jessie, if you read this, send me an e-mail! -- Sarah Deardorff Carter, sjd5@cornell.edu; Erica Broennle Nelson, ejb4@cornell.edu.

98 | The week we put this column together, the groundhog saw its shadow, and it looked like winter was here to stay for a while. So we allowed ourselves to indulge in a bit of fantasy, and started picturing in our mind the day when this column would come out in print and reach your hands. It's now May.We can almost hear the chimes playing from atop the clock tower. It would've been Slope Day back in Ithaca. Ithaca . . . doesn't it remind you of a land that you heard of once in a lullaby?

Doctors and Lawyers and Teachers, oh my! Tara Kilfoyle is employed as an attorney for the US Court of Federal Claims in Washington, DC. She married Stephen Burks in June 2005, and the couple reside in Alexandria, VA. Stephen is employed as an electrical engineer with the Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Lab in Fort Belvoir, VA. Jake Mincemoyer, JD '01, lives in Hoboken, NJ, and works for White & Case LLP. Emily Lane Kennedy is an attorney for Allen Matkins Leck Gamle & Mallory LLP in San Francisco. Lenor Marquis is an associate at Heller Ehrman and has built a pro bono practice with both breadth and depth while balancing her responsibilities at the firm. Lenor represents numerous children with disabilities in special education matters with an organization called NYLPI. In addition, she also represents homeless clients in public benefits and housing matters.

Sam Bleuez lives in Liverpool, NY, and is a first-year cardiology fellow at SUNY Upstate Medical U. He has been spending his time playing with his 9-month-old son Andrew, born Jan. 3, '05. He reported that his fondest memory of Cornell is the great times with friends. Jack Lu wrote in 2005 that he was in his third year of internal medicine residency, also at SUNY Upstate Medical U. He is doing a chief resident year in 2006 and will be applying for a heme/onc fellowship for after that.

She's off to see the . . .Willard? Jennifer Reese married Jon Reichard '96 in August 2005 at the Plantations Arboretum and had a reception in Willard Straight Hall. Jennifer is keeping herself busy these days: she is teaching science education classes at Boston U., getting a greeting card business off the ground, and doing lots of yoga! She wrote that she'd rather be hiking in Costa Rica, however, and would like to hear from Jen Rosen.

Somewhere over the rainbow . . . um, we mean, on the other side of the country, Amy Peterson and her husband recently bought a house in the Miraloma Park neighborhood of San Francisco. Amy has been working on her decorating skills and is also enjoying cooking in her new kitchen. She just started a new job at Autodesk Inc. as a project manager on the AutoCAD product. The couple wrote that they were looking forward to traveling to New Zealand and Fiji for three weeks in Feb/March 2006 to celebrate their first anniversary. Congratulations!

There's no place like . . . Uris Library. Amanda Lovallo's memories of Cornell include the beautiful scenery in Ithaca, and being too stressed out in Uris Library to appreciate it! She is currently an emergency medicine resident in Pittsburgh, PA. She works a lot and dreams of being able to go traveling! For Gwenn Lazar, there's no place like home. She bought a brownstone near her hometown in Albany, NY, that was built in 1872, which requires quite a bit of work in keeping up, but oozes charm. She lives there with Dustin Roller and a Yorkshire terrier named Princeton (when they get a bigger house, they will get a bigger dog and name it Cornell). Gwenn and Dustin both work for a company called NY Wired for Education in Albany (run by a Cornell alum). Gwenn is the director of client services (similar work to consulting), and Dustin is the VP sales and marketing. For fun, Gwenn was certified as a personal trainer and has a good time keeping active on the side. She also volunteers on the Foundation Board for a local hospital. They visited Cornell a number of times in the past few years and report that it is still beautiful, though Class of '28 Hall is gone, and the Engineering Quad has changed quite a bit.

Gwenn keeps in touch regularly with Cori Cunningham (NYC), Stephanie Bell (Sydney, Australia), Ariana Smith (Philadelphia), and Allison Davies Norton (Boston). Allison got married in Canandaigua, NY (a few lakes west of Cayuga) in August 2004. Cornellians that participated in, or attended, the wedding included Erin Brennan, Ally Byrne, Kate Cable, Lisa Viggiano Chamberlin,Meredith Gertler, Gwenn and Dustin, Jen Landers Neveu '97, BS Ag '98,Woody Sankar, Ariana Smith, and brother of the bride Randy Davies '95. After several years in NYC and a ski season in Park City, UT, Allison and husband Greg have been living in Boston since 2002, where Allison works in development for Tufts U.

Because, because, because, because, because . . . Because of the wonderful things you do, because we love to hear about them, because your classmates want to know what you've been up to . . . send news and updates to: -- Erica Chan, hc31@cornell.edu; and Gregg Herman, gdh5@cornell.edu.

99 | Sometimes the task of a class columnist is best accomplished by letting you all speak for yourselves.Welcome to a Class of 1999 special edition column: "In Their Own Words . . ."

"After a grueling and often painful four years," Doctor Marissa Perman graduated from medical school at the U. of Maryland.Marissa is headed to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center to pursue a career in pediatrics. Another new doctor, Pierre Loredo, graduated from the U. of South Florida medical school and will be completing a pediatric residency at Sacred Heart Children's Hospital in Pensacola, FL. For those looking for advice on Florida's beaches, Pierre says: "As someone who grew up in Miami Beach and went to med school in Tampa Bay, I assure any and all that Pensacola has the most beautiful beaches in the State of Florida."Maria- Richetta Camille Harris completed her veterinary degree at Mississippi State U. "I just got back from South Africa, where I worked with a wildlife veterinarian on white rhinos, giraffes, and other animals. I'm now working at the Wildlife Center of Virginia caring for native wildlife--deer, eagles, hawks, owls, turtles, snakes, bats, etc."

Kate Bolton married Steven Antonelli last May. On marrying a Penn grad, Kate writes: "The Cornell-Penn rivalry rages on from our humble abode in Mahwah, NJ. It extends from sports to whose mascot is wimpier to what color red sheets we have." Kate works in circulation for Newsweek magazine. Blair Barton-Percival attended the U. of Michigan. "I obtained my Master of Social Work and my wife Rachel--both in one year!" Their son Cole Thomas John Percival was born in September 2004 and can already yell, "Go Big Red!" Jennifer Kantor Gershberg and her husband Michael welcomed Matthew Harrison Gershberg on September 21, 2005. The new mom reports: "I'm loving maternity leave, but am finally going back to work in March. I'm savoring the time between now and then!"

"I started up a company softball team at Cree Inc., and we won the championship in our first season." So writes Ed Hutchins, former member of the Big Red Pep Band and current manager of the advanced devices epitaxy lab at Cree in Raleigh. Jay Wang reports: "After 6-1/2 years in Portland, OR, I've just made the jump from newspapers to the online world, leaving the Oregonian for ESPN.com, where I'm a general editor. I've also traded raindrops for snowflakes, so bear with me while I adjust to winter again. On the plus side, Connecticut doesn't shut down because of an inch of snow."

Class of 1999 president Sheyna Horowitz graduated from UVA Darden with her MBA last May, along with classmates Rob Gaige and Anna deVera Walker. After a cross-country trip through 23 states, Sheyna will start work at the corporate office of Home Depot in their general management rotation program. "It's a two-year stint, with six months spent on the floor of a retail store selling hammers, appliances, and paint!" Katherine Ng writes: "Since my Cornell days, I have dallied in graduate school, software programming, disaster relief, financial planning, and global manufacturing to now end up in what is my most interesting challenge yet--starting a new entertainment company (PeachCraft Entertainment). I am so passionate about the work that we do that I wish I could show more people how creativity can touch all of our lives in a way that makes us more productive and appreciative of the powers we wield."

We're guessing she was always a daredevil, given that Jena Ferrarese's favorite Cornell memory involves "riding down from the Ag Quad to Stewart Ave. on the handlebars of a friend's bike." Jena spent last summer as a helirappel firefighter for the Salmon-Challis National Forest. (FYI, helirappelling is the deployment of qualified personnel from a hovering helicopter by means of an approved rope, descent device, and ancillary equipment. Yikes!) This winter she worked assorted jobs with the US Antarctic Program at McMurdo Station and writes, "I'm pretty darned satisfied with my life." Thomas Feeney writes, "After I graduated from Fordham Law last May I realized just how much I missed Cornell, so now I'm bringing my two little children and my wife back to Ithaca. I received a Cornell Fellowship to pursue my PhD in Policy Analysis and Management. Don't all the '99ers wish they could go back?"

Finally, a quick round-up of the latest crop of graduate school news: Jennifer Ann Mautone earned her PhD in school psychology from Lehigh U.; Julie Wojslawowicz received her PhD in human development from the U. of Maryland; Fadwa Hasan graduated with her master's in human resource development from George Washington U.; Andy Chen graduated from U. of Chicago with an MBA in analytic finance; and Suzann Moskowitz graduated from Stanford Law School and now practices law at Ulmer & Berne in Cleveland.

Have something quotable to say? Write to us! -- Jennifer Sheldon, jennifer.sheldon@gmail.com; Melanie Arzt, snoopymel@gmail.com; or Jess Smith, jessica@fenton.com.