Class Notes
NOV./DEC. 2006 VOLUME 109 NUMBER 3

70 | As I write this column in mid-August, the temperatures around the country have been in the 90s and above, and I am thinking about the coolness of late autumn and the coldness of early winter. Best wishes to everyone for a good end to 2006 and a wonderful holiday season.

At the U. of Michigan, Flint campus, where he is a professor of sociology, Charles Thomas Jr. (cbthomas@umflint.edu) won the 2006 faculty Distinguished Service Award. Charles recently went to a family reunion in San Francisco. Steve Meyerson (docsjm@aol.com) is program director of the hospitalist program at Baptist Hospital of Miami. He and his wife Linda live in Miami. Their son Eric was promoted to vice president of Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco, and daughter Tina has completed her medical internship in Chicago and started a fellowship in radiology at UCSF in July 2005.

Neil Murray (Niskayuna, NY; nvm@cs.albany.edu) stepped down as chair of the Dept. of Computer Science at SUNY Albany on September 1 after seven years in the position.He has been treasurer and ex-officio trustee of CADE Inc. since 1993. Along with the School of Information Science and Policy and the interdisciplinary PhD program in information science, the department is joining a new College of Computing and Information. In May 2005, Neil was the symposium chair for the Int'l Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2005) in Saratoga Springs.With co-authors, he had two papers there. He also presented a paper at TABLEAUX 2005 in September 2005 in Koblenz, Germany, where his co-author, Erik Rosenthal '57, MD '61, was an invited speaker. Neil and Erik also have a paper in the Journal of Automated Reasoning.

John Squires wrote in 2005 that he was selling residential real estate in the Port Washington, NY, area and adjusting to new family arrangements as he and his partner, Diane Wolfe, melded their families. They met while performing at a local community musical theatre and discovered a mutual interest in ballroom dancing. They jointly performed in a Cancer Care fundraiser. Diane is a thyroid cancer survivor, and her husband died in 2002 of pancreatic cancer. John's ex-wife, Hinda Frankel Squires Levy, died in October 2004 of lung cancer. John says he knows it is sobering, but it has made them more conscious of the small stuff that can grow (like a cancer) if we let it. He sends best wishes and says to smile—it's catching! In 2002, Rodger Beck (Cortland, NY; rbeck@twcny.rr.com) started his own company. He works with companies to help them become more effective in the areas of strategic thinking and business planning, as well as organizational development in the areas of leadership, management, sales, customer service, supervision, time strategies, and executive coaching.

Ken Gilstein (k.gilstein@gmail.com) and his wife Paula (Fairfield U. '75) have been living on the Hawaiian island of Kauai for over two years. Ken is working as the clinical psychologist for Waimea High School, the westernmost high school in the US, and at Kekaha Elementary School, the westernmost school in the US. Ken also has a small part-time private practice in clinical and neuropsychology. He is collaborating with the Children's National Medical Center, the U. of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and Dartmouth College in doing research on concussions in children ages 6 to 15. Ken says it is definitely warmer in Hawaii than it was in Ithaca! Joan Parker, PhD '74 (Haverford, PA; JoanParker@aol.com), continues in her active career as an arbitrator and mediator of labor and employment disputes. She is thrilled to report that her son Tommy Felix '10 is a freshman in the ILR school.

Anthony Biddle III (ajdbiddle@aol.com) is a financial advisor for the Red Cross in Washington, DC. Tony and his wife Karen (Erskine) '71 live in Philadelphia, PA. Karen is a math teacher in the Philadelphia school district. In 2002, Steve Gorbos (sgorbos1@hotmail.com) retired from AT&T after a 32-1/2-year career and is currently employed by CTC Communications in Philadelphia. Steve and his wife Rita-Ellen live in Bethlehem, PA. Their son Stephen is a doctoral candidate at Cornell in Music Composition. Stuart Kendall's son Tyler '98 is in a PhD program in linguistics at Duke U. Stuart lives in Oak Bluffs, MA, and his e-mail address is stuart@vineyard.net.

Edward Zuckerman (Manhattan Beach, CA; ezucker199@aol.com) is still "hacking around at various TV jobs."He spent six months as executive producer on "Killer Instinct," "a cop show that ran on Fox last fall, although no one seemed to have noticed." Ed is now an executive producer on "Runaway," a new drama that premiered this fall on the new CW network. Sandra Savard Goodling (sgoodling@earthlink.net) works part-time as a visiting nurse. She and her husband Rodger live in Carlisle, PA, and spend the winters in Bonita Springs, FL. They have four children and three grandchildren. -- Connie Ferris Meyer, 16 James Thomas Rd., Malvern, PA 19355; e-mail, cfm7@cornell.edu.

71 | Greetings! We are still receiving lots of news from many classmates who attended Reunion. If you were not able to join us at our 35th Reunion, remember, there are only 4-1/2 years left to our 40th! Plan to be there. You'll hear great lectures by outstanding professors, the campus is magnificent, and you'll have the opportunity to see old friends and make some new ones along the way.

Sally Clark Shumaker, one of our very capable and enthusiastic class officers, enjoyed reunion this year, dividing her time between our reunion activities and those of her mother, Helen Harding Clark '36. (Let's hope that in another 35 years, we will all be back in Ithaca for our 70th reunion!) Sally is the manager of business development for an international consulting firm. In addition to travel to Ithaca this year, Sally also attended (and helped organize) pre-reunion parties in New York and Philadelphia. Sally would love to hear from you at scshumaker@aol.com.

Last spring Squire Junger, MBA '72 (jsquirej@yahoo.com) hosted a pre-reunion party at his home in California that was a huge success. In addition, Marc Cohen and Steve Scheck '72 and Squire hosted a fraternity reunion party in November '05 for about 20 "Sammies."Norman Rafelson was to be a host of the SAM reunion, but he took a job as general manager of a new hotel in Shanghai so he was unable to be involved. Sammies who attended included David Beale, Joel Glasky, Ken Goldman, Alan Cantor '70, Dennis Cooperson,Mark Greenwald '70, David Schwartz, Aaron Rubinstein '72, Stew Kobritz '70, David Schiff, and Ed Fisher '70.

On a professional note, Squire reports that he stayed at Arthur Andersen "until the bitter end" and then established Insight Consulting LLC, where he provides the same services he led at Andersen, including mergers and acquisitions, financial diligence, and post-merger integration expertise, as well as transaction litigation support.Marc Cohen (mcohen@kayescholer.com) is an attorney and partner at Kaye Scholer in Los Angeles. This year Marc was honored by the Century City Bar Association as Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year. In a volunteer capacity he has enjoyed his work with the L.A. fire department. Two of Marc's children attended Cornell, Jessica '01 and Amanda '03.

Many classmates who are Cornell parents contributed to our column this month. Among them is Peter Gilman of Wynnewood, PA, who is the father of three boys. Benjamin '10 is a freshman in Arts and Sciences, Andrew '04 was a Government major, and Jon '05 majored in Economics.Mark Jose and Barbara Covey are the proud parents of Dylan '10, who also began his freshman year at Cornell. You may contact them at covjos@adelphia.net.

Another Cornell parent is Margaret Speer Bank, mother of Nathaniel '05. Her son Christopher graduated from the U. of Michigan in 2006.Maggie works at Honeoye Family Practice LLP in Rochester, NY. She is a family nurse practitioner, providing health care to folks from birth to old age.Her particular areas of interest include women's health, adolescent health, and mental health.Maggie's brother Tom Speer '68, BEE '73, and niece Lindsay '04 are also Cornellians.Maggie was recently in touch with David Cofrin '70 and would like to locate Maggie Hochfelder, Laura Katz, and Patti Rosenberg Connolly. Contact Maggie at mbank@rochester.rr.com. Ted Urban writes that his daughter Claire graduated with the Class of 2000. Ted enjoyed attending Prof.Walter LaFeber's final lecture in New York last spring with many classmates.

Robert Glenn Staehle is the general manager of Bonita Bay Club, a private golf club in southwest Florida. After more than 30 years he reconnected with Diane Goller '74, to whom he was "pinned" in 1971. They are now happily married.What a nice story of Cornell romance!

Please keep in touch with us and send us some news for our upcoming columns. Our mailbag starts to empty out by this time each year and we would love to hear from you. -- Linda Germaine-Miller, lg95@cornell.edu; and Matt Silverman, mes62@cornell.edu.

72 | Joel Friedman writes,"My family and I were one of the fortunate few who lived in the one area of New Orleans that was not affected by the flooding associated with Hurricane Katrina. Our home suffered only minor wind damage and other damage associated with a leak in the roof, but that was all repaired during our four-month exodus to the friendly confines of Pittsburgh.We stayed with my sister's family there and I taught two sections of Evidence at the U. of Pittsburgh Law School.We (my wife, our 9-year-old daughter, and our 7-year-old twins—boy and girl) returned to a devastated New Orleans in mid-December. I cannot really describe the extent of the damage; you have all seen a narrow angle lens view of it on television. But, again, fortunately for us, the area where we live and where Tulane U. is located was largely spared, and by now our neighborhood has returned to what passes for normal. On the professional level, I was able to get a lot done while in Pittsburgh during the fall semester and then here during the recently completed spring semester. I finally completed my authorized biography of the late US Circuit Judge John Minor Wisdom (a towering figure in civil rights law) and saw the publication of Employment Discrimination Stories, a book that I edited. I also completed and saw the publication of the second edition of my casebook The Law of Civil Procedure and the 2006 Supplement to my casebook entitled The Law of Employment Discrimination. I continue to go across the country speaking at federal judicial conferences on behalf of the Federal Judicial Center. So, all in all,my family and I have absolutely nothing to complain about and much to be thankful for."

Salim Chishti of Knoxville, TN (formerly David Adler), writes, "After converting to Islam eight years ago, I have now become an Imam and lecture frequently on Interfaith dialog, Sufism, and dream interpretation." John Dennis, PhD '87, and Minfong Ho '73, MFA '82, have been back in Ithaca for more than ten years.Minfong writes children's books. John is writing a biography and renovating historic buildings. Their oldest child,Danfung '05, is embedded with troops in southern Afghanistan as a photographer with World Picture News. Their middle child,Meimei (UC Santa Cruz '06) is heading to Beijing (where Danfung is based) to study Mandarin. Chris, 15, is a sophomore at Ithaca High School. James Nelson, Bethesda,MD, retired in February 2006 after 30 years at the US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of General Counsel, most recently as the associate general counsel for crosscutting issues. He hopes to spend more time bird-watching and traveling.

Diane Spanier Linker wrote in May: "In August 2006, we will be taking our youngest child, Annie, up to Ithaca to start her Cornell career.We have had kids in the house for the last 30 years and are looking forward to the next stage with enthusiasm tinged with nostalgia and a little sadness." Diane retired a year ago from her job as a lawyer with Verizon Communications and planned to take an extended vacation until the fall,"when I will decide what my next career will be."Robert Efron, DVM '75, has a veterinary practice in Cromwell, CT, and lives happily in West Hartford. Bob tells us,"My children have left the nest and are both teachers (i.e., not living in the basement waiting to find themselves).My wife Sharon is the best! I'd love to hear from my now old fraternity brothers/friends from Phi Sigma Epsilon. Jeff Glantz '71, where are you? If I'm not running, biking, or kayaking, you can find me at bobak2@aol.com."Mitchell Sudolsky is director of Jewish Family Service of Austin, TX, and teaches at the U. of Texas, Austin. His daughter Claire entered Cornell in the fall as a graduate student in art history.

Patricia Guy has completed two years as the US consul for public affairs in Munich, with two more years to go. Last summer she participated in programs involving the World Cup, in addition to more usual subjects. She says Munich is "quite a change after the challenge of postings in the former Soviet Union."Maxine Roeper Cohen writes, "I am serving on the Class of '72 council and look forward to seeing many friends at our reunion next June. The reunion chairs, along with the class council, are busy preparing what promises to be a wonderful roster of events. On a personal note, I continue to work for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County as an educator. I celebrated 30 years of marriage last August with my husband Larry (Wharton '70). Youngest daughter graduated from Penn in May and will continue there in grad school. Middle daughter Dana '01 is in a psychiatry residency program at Upstate in Syracuse. Oldest son just finished a neurosurgery residency in Pittsburgh. Two furry children remain at home on Long Island. I keep in close touch with classmates Shelly Rothenberg Nyman, Carolyn Jacobson, and Stan Fish, DVM '75."

Daniel Fenti of Kissimmee, FL sent us a one-word message: "Retired!" -- Gary L. Rubin, glrubin@aol.com; Alex Barna, Alexander.Barna-1@nasa.gov.

73 | The absolutely coolest news that I ever have reported in this column: Howard Milstein and wife Abby have made a $7.25 million gift to Weill Cornell Medical College that will establish the Abby and Howard P.Milstein Chemistry Core Facility and the Abby and Howard P.Milstein Program in Chemical Biology. "Together the Program and Core Facility will expedite the discovery of new drug treatments; foster unique and innovative collaborations; and bolster the fight against disease, with an initial emphasis on infectious diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis, which are particularly challenging problems in Africa. The gift, which is part of the Medical College's recently completed capital campaign, will support the creation of the Core Facility and provide operating funds for the Program in Chemical Biology." Howard, a Cornell trustee, is chairman of New York Private Bank & Trust, as well as co-chairman, president, and CEO of Emigrant Savings Bank. Abby and Howard were both classmates of my husband Gerry Greenberg and me at Harvard Law School, Class of '76, where I am sure both Howard and Gerry got a lot of grief for dating classmates back in the day when female law students were still an object of some derision.

Class president Marty Slye Sherman, MPS '75, recently sent me a lovely e-mail alumni postcard with a super picture of McGraw Tower to request that I remind everyone of the dates of our 35th Reunion: June 5-8, 2008. Also, I suggest you visit our class website at http://classof73.alumni.cornell.edu for updates and to assist us in finding missing classmates.Many thanks to Marty for supplying and drafting most of the rest of the news in this column.

Kay Fountain Aurand, MS '78, finally moved to the Sioux City, IA, area after commuting back and forth between Iowa and New York for almost a year. Husband Tom, PhD '79, took early retirement from Rich Products in Buffalo and has joined Well's Dairy in LeMars, IA. They currently live in an apartment because their house will not be ready until December. Kay says Iowa is quite a change from western New York, but the people are very friendly. Their son Chris is at the U. of Guelph in Canada but spent the summer at Cornell in the ten-week Summer Scholars program in the food science department, so Kay and Tom had a nice trip to Ithaca to drop him off at Balch. (Hey, I thought only women could live there. Did I miss the breaking of the trust news?) Kay saw Sylvia Perez-Hardy, MBA '76, a sorority sister and freshman corridor friend at RIT, when she was visiting the campus with the Aurands' other son, Kyle. Sylvia is now a professor at RIT.

Ron and Lorraine Palmatier Skalko are enjoying living in the Atlanta area after years in Syracuse. They have adapted well to not having to plan extra time to shovel out the driveway before heading to work! Lorraine still works at Delta Airlines, with most of her flight time on the international routes. Ron works as a tax preparer during the tax season, but the rest of the time he spends managing their party rental company and traveling with Lorraine. They enjoy taking their granddaughter to fun places such as Disney World and the beach, but then also manage trips to exciting locales.Marty has gotten postcards from them from Spain and Provence, and probably received one from Prague, where they were headed for a week in August when this column was written.

At the end of April, 12 DGs (Delta Gamma for you non-Greeks) from the classes of 1973-75 got together for a "girls only" weekend in Charleston, SC. Karen Broten Sieburgh and Marty represented '73 and roomed together so they could catch up on news. They had not seen each other since our 30th Reunion.While there, they looked up Bob Seidler at the Wentworth Mansion, a delightfully refurbished bed and breakfast hotel. Bob has been living in Charleston for several years now, and as his wife hails from there, he figures his days of moving around from hotel to hotel are over. Karen and Jules '72, MBA '74, spent several months living and working in the Bahamas, but have recently returned to their home in Bethesda, MD.

Rick, MBA '74, and Lynn Rosenbluth Saltz '75 attended the May graduation of their younger daughter Marcy '06.Marcy has been living at home while job hunting. Their older daughter recently graduated from Tufts with her master's, and son Ted is a sophomore in high school. Judy Katz Cates was installed as the first woman president of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association at the group's annual convention in Chicago. Judy was former assistant state's attorney in St. Clair County and has been active in the Bar associations in Illinois,Missouri, and Florida, as well as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

My best friend from Cornell, Sheila Kojm, MILR '75 (Bedford, MA), has completed her Cornell family sweep: daughter Emma Stuhl '10 started Cornell this fall in the Arts college. Emma's enrollment completes the tradition that commenced with Sheila's undergraduate Arts college degree and master's from ILR, husband Louis Stuhl's PhD in Chemistry ('78), and older child Benjamin Stuhl '05's Physics degree. The family visited Benjamin earlier this year at the U. of Colorado, Boulder, where he is in the second year of his PhD program in physics. After a year off from those New York State roads, the route from the Boston suburbs to Ithaca remains genetically ingrained!

Not much new to report from the Ohio Valley. Picking up a tennis racquet for the first time at age 51 is not recommended, but I finally can hold my own in a match, and was inspired by all this physical activity to join my village's Recreation Commission. I now consistently provide the couch-potato perspective on our small village's (approximately 3,000 residents) recreation activities and expenditures. Son David Greenberg '05 has started his second year at NYU School of Law, and spent this past summer in New York working for two law school professors. Daughter Allison Greenberg made us all proud at her Princeton graduation this year, having survived her senior thesis in molecular biology.We enjoyed hearing NPR humorist David Sedaris at Baccalaureate, as well as former President Bill Clinton on Class Day. Allison began a research training fellowship at an immunology lab at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD, in August and is adjusting to city life in her Bethesda garden-type apartment. Her current plans are to work at the NIH for two years, followed by medical school and a career in disease research.My husband Gerry philosophically stated that although any early retirement options from his law firm now seem dim, the timing is good because David will be finished with law school two months before Allison starts medical school! When you receive this Nov/Dec issue, we will have returned from a two-and-a-half-week vacation trip to Italy, our fifth annual empty-nester fall vacation. Viva Italia!

Send your news to your class columnists! For your convenience, you can use the News Form that comes with our annual News and Dues mailing in the fall, or write us via e-mail any time of the year. -- Pamela S.Meyers, psmeyers@fuse.net; Phyllis Haight Grummon, phyllis.grummon@scup.org or phg3@cornell.edu.

74 | John Powers has recently taken over as president and CEO of Stanford Management Co., which invests the Stanford U. endowment. Brad Buchanan is the project engineering manager for Biogen Idec in Cambridge, MA, where he manages the construction of their pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities. "I am an avid Harley rider and have just returned from my annual motorcycle tour, traveling 3,000 miles throughout the Canadian Maritimes."David Ring checked in from Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, CA, where he is a professor of philosophy. Dave taught in Texas and North Carolina before moving permanently to California in 1995. He and his wife own three dogs and two horses and live in La Habra Heights. He has been in touch with Linda Mariani and Neil Romstedt, and recently had visits from Fabio Saturni and Bruce Rothstein.

Shelly Porges, MPS '77, reports that after a year in the D.C. area, she and the kids are settling in. She remarried a D.C. local, Rich Wilhelm, and moved east from San Francisco, where she had been for 18 years. Son Stephen transferred to UVA, and daughter Ariel is at Georgetown Day School as a junior; she is co-captain of the volleyball team and a Cornell aspirant. Shelly does management consulting with large financial institutions and also serves on some new nonprofit boards including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, where she is on the Business and Professional Women's Council. A brief note came from Erik Perry that he's still working for the plasma physics lab of Princeton U., building nuclear fusion reactors. He was in Ithaca last July for the wedding of oldest son Dan '03 and Frances Spalding '03 in Ithaca last July. Dan also works at the plasma lab, and Frances is getting her PhD in computer science from Princeton.

Deborah Dodenhoff Purcell maintains her youthful exuberance raising son Willy, 7, who's just entering second grade.Her "old bones" are holding up (sort of), but she does occasionally feel how weirdly out-of-synch she is with peers. Deb recently visited with Gretchen Dorfner Frank and spent a glorious Easter with Mary Vane '73 and her partner Keith Pierce in Wilmington, DE. Ruth Fattori was named to the Board of Governors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, sharing that position with the likes of Denzel Washington and Ken Griffey Jr. Ruth is also EVP, human resources for Motorola. In a somewhat related group, SusanWeiss Shoval, president of GUARD Insurance Group, was one of four named as 2006 "Women of Distinction" by the Girl Scouts of Penn's Woods Council.

Donlon floormate Dan Vlock has been named VP, clinical research at Ariad Pharmaceuticals, working on cancer drug development. Ed Kilbourne, MD '78, is doing a one-year tour of duty at the US Embassy in Baghdad as director of the Scientist Redirection Program. His job is to guide former WMD/weapons scientists and engineers into projects that promote redevelopment and peace. Judge Sandra McLean was inducted into the Chico Public Education Hall of Fame. After practicing law for 25 years, Sandra was appointed to the Butte County Superior Court by Gov. Schwarzenegger in 2005.

Mary Berens, always a good source of news for us, reported a great turnout of classmates for a party following Prof.Walt LaFeber's last public lecture, which was held at the Beacon Theater in NYC. 2,500 Cornellians and friends attended the lecture. Present from our class were: Len Shapiro, Jeff Sabin, Kris Rupert and John Foote, Chuck Kerner, MBA '76, Jim Irish, Moira "Dolly" Hearne Hintsa, Eric Haas, Don Flagg, Cris Cobaugh, Alice Brown, Jessica Bram, MRP '79, RandeeMia Berman, Brian Beglin, and Renee Alexander.

From Macon, GA, comes news from Richard Kunz, who wrapped up a 15-year career in Utah as a rocket scientist and is in the process of returning to academia at Mercer U. Claudia Benack, MS '75, recently joined Mitretek Systems in Falls Church, VA, as senior principal in the Center for Science and Technology, working on chemical and biological protection programs. Larry Pape, MBA '75, retired from Hewlett Packard last year and is enjoying the transition. Son Michael '04 recently married, and Larry reports he's been in touch with Michael Jacobson, MBA '80. Anne Marie KianderMann started her own meeting planning company in 2003 and reports business continues to grow.

Arnie Olender manages the multi-discipline architect/engineering office of Burns & McDonnell. Last year, he and his wife went to the wedding of Doug Johnstone's son Brian in New Jersey, which Gary Dufel also attended. On a recent vacation, John Ramsay and family stayed in Ithaca for a couple of days and "went for a swim at Treman Park—I love that place.We ate ‘al fresco' at the Mahogany Grille down on the Commons. It seems that's where the action is now. Next day we went to Watkins Glen, did Cap'n Billy's Boat Tour of Seneca Lake, hiked the glen, and ate at the Station Restaurant at the foot of Seneca Lake."

Bob Markes, MILR '95, continues to enjoy work as the superintendent of the carpenter shop at Cornell. He completed his degree as part of the employee degree program and has served on the building trade's council management team during labor negotiations.Wife Maggie is program manager for an assoc. vice provost at Cornell dealing with animal research facilities. Bob thoroughly enjoys working in Ithaca and can't imagine a job that could get him to leave campus. They've got a wealth of children— one each a grad of Cornell,Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, and U. of Maryland—and Bob reports he's a grandpa four times.

Raymond Lange reports that a two-year assignment to build sewers and pump stations north of the Giza pyramids in Egypt turned into 14 years there, in the UK, and in Perth, Australia. He recently moved back to the States to work with MWH Constructors on a wastewater project in Tacoma,WA. Pamela Lea, DVM '78, has been a practicing veterinarian for 28 years, operating her own business in Exeter,MA. Pam raises old-style, black Morgan horses. She keeps in touch with Ivy Oretskin '75. Dennis Langley sent in a photo of his daughter Kelly '06 graduating from the Hotel school this year. On the home front, I recently visited with Bob Murton in Pittsburgh and we had a wonderful time catching up. Still hard to believe we're adults,much less approaching retirement age.

Please send in your news to: -- Steve Raye, spr23@cornell.edu; Bill Howard, billhoward@comcast.net; or Betsy Moore at emoore@cazenovia.edu.

75 | I recently enjoyed an evening with fellow Delta Gamma sister Laura Day Ayers '78, MBA '86. Laura is married to Dave '80, a member of Phi Gamma Delta who played lightweight football—now called "sprint football." Dave's dad, brother, and sister are also Cornellians. Laura now lives in Chester, NJ, but recalls growing up with Gilbey Kamens Campbell '76 and Pam CoulterMason '76. Laura serves as a CAAAN ambassador. Their daughter is now a senior at Mendham High School and truly enjoyed attending Cornell's Summer Program for high school students. Like many of us in the New York area, we regularly hear Pam give the Washington, DC-area news on WABC 770 AM radio.My work has put me in contact with other fellow Cornellians.Warren Leeds '84 is president of Dartcor Services, a food management company; his son is a high school senior at Pingry. Kim Caesar '00 is a development officer at Seton Hall U., and Eliot Krause '60 is a professor of biology here at Seton Hall as well. Fellow ILRie Norman Solomon '73 is dean of the Charles Dolan School of Business at Fairfield U.

Roberto Wirth (gmoffice@hotelhassler.it) was named Independent Hotelier of the World by HOTELS magazine. Roberto is president and general manager of Hotel Hassler Roma in Rome, Italy. The hotel has been in his family for over 100 years, but he is now the sole owner. He expanded his interests in the past several years by building and founding an international wine academy close by. Robin Wolaner recently published Naked in the Boardroom, a book on strategy and tactics for women in business. Robin rose from office temp to become president and CEO of Sunset Publishing before moving on to write, consult, and serve on private corporate and nonprofit boards. Renowned author Tom Peters reviewed the book and anointed it a "Top 5" business book for the last couple of years. Robin lives in San Francisco.

Doug Block had his documentary 51 Birch Street premiere at the Toronto Int'l Film Festival. At Cornell, Doug established a student-run theater in Risley with Dana Polan (who is now a professor of cinema studies at NYU). Doug is currently president of Copacetic Pictures in NYC, and one of his previous films was Emmy-nominated Home Page. In 1999, Doug founded The D-Word (www.d-word.com), a worldwide online community of documentary professionals, which has grown to over 1,500 members in 73 countries. Steve Levine (snlevine@yahoo.com) is executive VP of Bel-Arts Products, a laboratory products manufacturer.He and wife Laura live in South Orange, NJ, with their children Justin, 23, Zachary '07, 20, and Cassie, 18. Christine Marchell, MBA '81 (camarchell@aol.com) is president of the Cornell Club of Arizona, serving Cornellians in Phoenix, Scottsdale, and northern Arizona. Christine lives in Fountain Hills and is a financial advisor at Merrill Lynch Foundation.

In 2005, the NYS Maple Producers Association asked Cornell for help in its quest for technologies to temper the consequences of Mother Nature on maple syrup. There to help out was Stephen Childs, MS '76, a maple specialist for the Cornell Maple Program in Ithaca. Stephen is responsible for increasing maple production and enhancing sales nationwide. He was influential in developing Maple Weekend, a statewide marketing program that attracts consumers into the sugarhouses and links consumers to producers' online sales (www.mapleweekend.com).

On June 26, 2006, the board of directors of Kraft Foods Inc. announced the appointment of Irene Blecker Rosenfeld, PhD '80 (IBR10@aol.com) as chief executive officer. Irene came to Kraft, the world's second-largest food and beverage company, following a two-year stint as chairman and CEO of Frito-Lay. Prior to heading Frito-Lay, Irene spent 20 years with Kraft and General Foods, leading the integration of the $19 billion Nabisco acquisition, along with the restructuring and turnaround of several key businesses. She has been a regular speaker at the Johnson School in support of the student-run Hispanic-American Business Leaders Association and the Park Fellows program.

Carlos Corti, MBA '75 (cacorti@adinet.com.uy) is managing partner of ECM Financial Services in Montevideo, Uruguay.Michael Motes (mjmotes@verizon.net) is an associate professor at U. of Maryland University College. He lives in Chestertown, MD, with wife Linda. Gordon Paik (nhpaik@edaeyang.co.kr) is president of Daeyang Technoventure Inc. in Seoul, Korea.

I recently went to our new and improved class website (http://classof75.alumni.cornell.edu), which is really worth looking at, and a section for '75 class stories.We may have always had this feature, but I just found it and chuckled at the following entry by Jim August (jkaugust@msn.com): "In spring of '72, during the Collegetown riots, I was in NROTC.We all (e.g.,my other Navy cadets and I) were just a bunch of college kids, so we hung out with everyone else checking out the relatively tame standoff with the Ithaca police one warm spring weekend evening.Well, our Gunny Sergeant (whom we knew as ‘Gunny') did likewise, and next week we got a stern reprimand from Major King (a really great guy and Marine officer) on how we Navy officers were expected to hold a higher standard than watching (or encouraging) riots.

"Well, my roommate Marty (last name withheld) brought back a canister of pepper gas as a souvenir to our dorm room in Class of '17 Hall, which he attempted to clean up (another story) to no avail. He did manage, however, to give all our clothes a good stiff shot of pepper gas deodorizer that lasted through finals. So here I am in ROTC Thursday afternoon the next week, as we all denied our participation to Major King (all 25 of us) following his stern lecture, while my uniform reeks of pepper gas. Gunny is across the drill floor, looking at me with a big smirk on his face. I suspect everyone in our unit knew where I spent my time that week! (Big deal—everyone else was there, too, including the Major's daughter!) Funny part about it was, I went on to do a couple of tours in the Navy, and if you think this story is outrageous, you need to quaff a couple with me down at the Chapter House again! (Gunny could have quaffed my career that day!)"

Jim now lives in Colorado and is a manager at Core Engineering. There is an aftermath story also on our website that continues the saga, so go to the site and enjoy! Thanks, Jim, for reminding us what those days were like.

That's about it. Laura Day Ayers and I reconnected when Laura sent me an e-mail after reading a class column. So think about following her lead and send a line or two to one of us below. The mailbag (paper and electronic) is running dry and we all benefit from keeping connected. -- Karen DeMarco Boroff, boroffka@shu.edu; Mitch Frank, mjfgator@aol.com; Joan Pease, japease1032@aol.com; Deb Gellman, dsgellman@hotmail.com.

76 | Although cold weather approaches, we still have news to share from the hot summer. Those new class forms with creative questions about what we remember, what we'd rather be doing right now, and so forth, elicited a wild variety of answers.What has Carla Holder been doing? She writes that she attended our reunion in June: "Fun, but cold. Singing the old songs with the chorus and Glee Club was a blast." She fondly remembers Sage Chapel Choir and Risley from our Cornell days. Carla works in financial planning and livens things up with ballroom and Scottish country dancing. As of July she was getting ready to move to a new home in Hartsdale, NY, and wishing for a job with a shorter commute. She wonders where her old friend Ann Garden is these days. Anyone know?

Susan Sussman writes, "I am so sorry to have missed our reunion this year, but I am very involved in my husband Scudder Parker's campaign for governor of Vermont. As the Democratic candidate running against an incumbent Republican, we are fully engaged (and this on top of my immigration law practice!). It's an exciting time. I hope everyone had a great time at Reunion."

California news: From Berkeley, Kari Weil writes that she enjoys horseback riding, and if she had her druthers she'd be doing dressage right now. In fact, she is taking care of family, animals, and work—she's a professor of humanities at California College of the Arts. In Burbank, Robyn Zucchino, MBA '81, is field sales director for Clinique. She also enjoys horseback riding and recently has been "traveling everywhere!" Donald Vita is a landscape architect in San Rafael. In his spare time, he coaches basketball.

In July, Bruce Reisch, a grape breeder for Cornell, announced three new grape cultivars at the annual meeting of the American Society of Enology and Viticulture. Attendees had the chance to taste those new grapes, which were developed especially for the eastern US wine industry. Leslie Sheldon Mawyer, MBA '78, and husband Stan live in Lutherville,MD. Leslie is operations director for Verizon Wireline and Global Order Operations for Lucent Technologies, based in Baltimore. She has worked for the various incarnations of her company for almost 28 years—from Western Electric to AT&T, Lucent, and their upcoming merger with Alcatel. Leslie says, "I love working, but I'd rather be sipping on a cocktail, enjoying the weather, and boating in Cabo San Lucas."

These days Jeffrey Grudko is an attorney, though if he had a choice, he says he'd rather be "romping with the carefree abandon of days gone by." (He should have seen us at Reunion.) But he does play tennis and facilitates same for his children. He and wife Paula live in Medford, NJ. Sue Gebo and Joe Vasile live in Avon, CT. Sue is a consulting nutritionist in private practice in West Hartford and serves as part-time faculty for U. of Connecticut–St. Francis Hospital's family medicine residency program and at St. Joseph College. She taught her first online course last spring. Last March they vacationed in Sedona, AZ, and in spring 2005 went to the Costa del Sol in Spain. "Gorgeous!" she reports.What would she rather be doing right now? "Building a log cabin for retirement in Virginia or Idaho!" She thinks back fondly on late night chats with her roommate at Cornell, and most wishes she would hear from our classmate Laura Kush.

Ann Rosovsky Beaton is associate professor in the biology department at the SUNY College of Optometry in NYC. She and her husband Neal live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Ann serves as secretary of her condo association and is on the board of trustees of Congregation Rodeph Sholom, where she chairs the religious school and college committees. Andrew O'Neill is business development director of American Appraisal Associates in NYC. He and wife Carolyn live in South Orleans, MA.

Here in the Midwest, Arden Handler and husband Robert Carlton live in Evanston, IL. Arden is associate professor of community health sciences at the U. of Illinois School of Public Health, and she serves on the board of the Illinois Maternal and Child Health Coalition and the school improvement team ofWashington School in Evanston. She spent last summer as a visiting professor at Cornell's College of Human Ecology. From our Cornell student years, Arden especially remembers the "res," the Blue Bus, apples from the apple machine on the Ag Quad, the beauty of Ithaca, and the rigor of the education we received. Arden says the Cornell friend she would most like to hear from is Donna Flax.

Dan Greenberg is controller for La Gorce Country Club in Miami Beach and is working on his MBA in the Kellogg-Miami Executive MBA Program, finishing in December 2007. Dan says, "Went to the number one hotel school in the country, now am going to the number one MBA program in the country." If he weren't busy studying, he'd rather be drinking rumrunners on the beach in Fiji. Dan remembers the beautiful views from the gorge bridge and the top of Libe Slope, and most wishes he would hear from old Cornell friend Mark Hu '75, MBA '78.

As so many of us have dreamed of doing, Keith and Paula Griffin Davis live in Ithaca.However, in April of this year, Paula was appointed director of institutional grants at St. Bonaventure U., which involves commuting 150 miles a week, staying at St. Bonaventure three or four days of the week, and then telecommuting the rest of the week. What would she rather be doing? "Painting landscapes in soft pastel in New Mexico (I'm an artist who has exhibited in several local shows in the Ithaca area)." She remembers— and, in fact, still enjoys—Ithaca sunsets seen from Libe Slope or the Straight's patio. "They're still as beautiful!" Paula reports. She would most like to hear from old friend Patty Van Buren.

As I write,my old roommate SandyWidener and her husband John Parr are at home in Denver, preparing to send their older daughter Chase off to her freshman year at Wesleyan U. in Middletown, CT. Chase's sister Kate should be starting her college shopping process soon. Perhaps we can lure her to Cornell. Bill Hanavan and I have our older daughter Louise at home in Michigan for just a moment during her move from Bellingham,WA, to Halifax, Nova Scotia. She's driving her diesel Jetta, which Bill had adapted to burn waste vegetable oil. Rumors are true: it does smell pretty good. Our younger daughter Emily spent the summer working in Boston and will also come home for a moment before returning to Oberlin for her junior year.

Thanks again to everyone who worked so hard to make our 30th Reunion such fun. I'm already looking forward to our 35th; these five-year spans seem to be picking up speed for some reason. -- Pat Relf Hanavan, relf@tds.net; Lisa Diamant, Ljdiamant@rcn.com; Karen Krinsky Sussman, Krinsk54@optonline.net.

77 | Hello, Classmates! The planning for our 30th Reunion on June 7-11, 2007 is in full swing. "Embrace the Spirit!"

Mike Murray and I are planning a wonderful weekend of something old, something new, and something Cornell for all of you! The campus has changed some since we were undergrads, yet many of our old favorites remain alive and well.We believe we have created a weekend that blends some of the newest venues with some of the old and will not only bring alive our fond memories, but also create some special new ones.

Our Class Headquarters is in the Robert Purcell Student Center on North Campus, and we will be residing in High Rises 1 and 5. Here is our proposed schedule: Thursday: An open day to explore campus, Ithaca, or the surrounding countryside. Light snacks and beverages will be available throughout the day, with an informal dinner in the Robert Purcell Dining Room.

Friday: Continental Breakfast in our Headquarters lobby or tented courtyard. An open morning to explore campus, join one of the scheduled reunion events or tournaments, or attend a theatrical staging of the 1969 Student Takeover ofWillard Straight Hall. The All-Alumni Luncheon at Barton Hall is optional, and the afternoon is also open for later arrivals. Our Friday reception and dinner will be in the spectacular Duffield Atrium. University President Dr. David Skorton will stop by to say a few words and join some of our classmates in a musical performance! After dinner, enjoy an Ice Cream Social, stargazing at Fuertes, dancing on the tented Arts Quad, a short walk to Collegetown for a visit to Collegetown Bagels, Ruloffs, the Royal Palms, Stella's, the Nines, or the Chapter House, and, lastly, an Afterglow Party in the Penthouse Lounge of High Rise 1.

Saturday: Hot or cold breakfast at Headquarters, more tournaments, and faculty breakfasts. For the adventurous, try climbing McGraw Tower for a Chimes concert and spectacular views, or canoe on Beebe Lake or drive to Taughannock Falls. Be sure to return to campus for lunch on the Arts Quad and a guided tour of the Johnson Art Museum. Dinner will be back on North Campus at Appel Commons. After dinner, return to the Arts Quad for dancing and Hot Truck, then back to HQ for a final Afterglow Party.

Sunday: Awake for our getaway breakfast and a last chance to reminisce with old friends.

Please visit our class website, http://classof77.alumni.cornell.edu, take the pre-reunion survey, and send us your reunion suggestions.We look forward to seeing you on June 7-11, 2007. Until then . . . -- Joseph Reina, jtr25@cornell.edu, and Mike Murray,MichaelL.Murray@itt.com, Reunion Chairs.

78 | Jamie Colgin lives in Moorpark, CA, and is an associate director for Global Clinical QA. She enjoys hiking and sightseeing and has relocated her family from southeast Michigan to sunny Southern California. Jamie reports that she is having the time of her life and is "grateful for it every day." She would like to hear from classmates Larry Fiori and Phil Cirulli. Morris Wallack (morriswallack@nc.rr.com) is the director of presales support for Hewlett Packard. He has moved to Chapel Hill, NC, after 26 years in the San Francisco Bay Area and enjoys cooking, golf, and gardening. Richard Ellenson and his son Thomas were featured as ABC's "People of the Week" in July. Thomas has cerebral palsy and is non-verbal, and Richard and his wife Lori have developed a higher level voice recognition system for Thomas and other non-verbal children to use.

PaulMetselaar (pmetselaar@ovationtravel.com) is the chairman and CEO of Ovation Travel Group.He lives in NYC with his wife Lisa. At the invitation of Dr. Bill Carroll, Paul was a guest lecturer at the Hotel school on the subject of travel distribution. He writes, "It was a fantastic experience." Lori Rothman (lrothman@kraft.com) is a consumer research manager for Kraft Foods and lives in Oak Park, IL. She spends her "free" time being a mom. Her favorite Cornell memory is getting greased for the Fiji Island Party. She is looking to hear from Roberta Fisher.

Famous classmate Mark Rust (markrust@markrust.com) lives in New Paltz, NY, with his wife Terry, where he continues to promote his career as a singer/songwriter and recording artist. He and Terry have daughters Siena, 6, and Christina, 4. He says he'd rather be sailing Cayuga Lake right now! His fondest memories of Cornell include "first class people" and "beers at Rulloff 's." Larry Skoczylas (skocz@chartermi.net) lives in Midland, MI, with his wife Kathleen and their children Mitchel, 2, Tom, 14, and Erin, 12. Larry is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon. He and his wife traveled to Hawaii for their 15th wedding anniversary, and Larry would rather be sipping Mai Tais right now in Hawaii than suffering through another Michigan winter! Jan and Brenda Angyal Harris (jan@libertyeng.net) live in Virginia Beach,VA. Jan is a self-employed structural engineer and Brenda is the office manager. Son Dave attends Old Dominion U.,Mark is in high school, and Andrew is in elementary school. Jan is chair-elect of the Old Dominion U. Civil and Environmental Engineering Visitors Council. It's hard for him to imagine advising college faculty. Brenda is taking on the Tidewater CAAAN chairmanship. Volunteers are needed, especially in the Hampton or Newport News areas. Jan's fondest Cornell memory is of his fraternity brothers at Rockledge, and he would love to hear from them.

Craig Dunham, MBA '79 (cdunham@verizon.net) lives in New Jersey with his wife Joanie and two teenagers. Craig is the president and CEO of Dynasil Corp., which manufactures optical components, and he enjoys running, tennis, and traveling.His fond memories of Cornell include traveling for ski meets with the Cornell ski team and the social activities at Chi Phi fraternity. Lynn Levidy Adams is a senior consultant of strategic and business planning for RW Beck, a management consulting and engineering firm. She is based in Denver. Kathy Stuerzebecher Johnson (KJohn750@aol.com) has her own home-based business called Healthy and Free. She markets health and nutrition products and "teaches other people how to make a six-figure income doing the same." Kathy sings in the church choir, paints ceramics, and likes to read. She is also caring for her mother, Margaret W. Stewart '55, who has Parkinson's disease. Kathy lives in Tennessee with her husband Jack, and would like to travel the US to help more people be healthy and health conscious—with the addition of being financially free. Her fondest memory of Cornell is singing in the Sage Chapel Choir. Kathy would like to hear from classmate Mary Maxian Faulkner and Kris Anderson '76.

Cindy Fuller, PhD '92 (cjfuller@mindspring.com) lives in Seattle and is writing and doing research in cardiology at Swedish Medical Center. Her hobbies include "attempts at herb and vegetable gardening and curating the cookbook collection from hell." She traveled back East and saw numerous '78 Cornellians, including Nina Silfen, Jeff and Suzanne Tougas Snedeker, and Roger Cohen.Her fondest Cornell memory was "wide-ranging bull sessions, even without alcohol." James Kafura (jmk92@cornell. edu) is an electrical engineer and lives in Binghamton, NY, with his wife Debra. Janet Bilton Reyes (Highland, CA; edjanreyes@sbcglobal.net) is a part-time geographer at Aerial Information Systems. She says that she and husband Ed spend too much time worrying about their two teenage boys. Janet is a member of a children's writers group as well. Her fondest Cornell memories include walking around campus, especially in the fall and on winter nights after a snowfall.

John M. Taylor (john.taylor@issproxy.com) lives in Washington, DC, with his wife Takako Nagata.He is a principal researcher in international governance research services for Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS). Kathleen Raynor Meschisen (kathymeschisen@aol.com) is the R/D manager for Philips Medical. She works with low acuity monitors. She and husband Don make their home in Acton, MA. Kathy likes landscaping, golfing, and real estate, and also enjoys sailing in the summer. She has started a small property management company in Florida. Kathy and Don have two children,Michael, 21, who attends the U. of Delaware, and David, in fifth grade. Kathy's favorite Cornell memories are "Straight breaks" and chocolate chip cookies with friends.

Thanks for keeping that news coming in. It makes writing the column a breeze for us. -- Pepi Leids, PLeids@aol.com; and Chip Brueckman, jcb58@cornell.edu.

79 | First, I want to thank those of you who responded to my e-mail blast. This column is written for you, and your class correspondents need your news to make it happen. It's really very simple. Submit your news by logging onto our class website at http://classof79.alumni.cornell.edu or e-mail me, Kathy, or Cynthia. What are you up to right now? What are your plans for celebrating the BIG 50? We want to hear from you!

After 13 years in Philadelphia, Jackie Webb (jacqueline_webb@mail.uri.edu) has accepted a position with the U. of Rhode Island as professor and coordinator of the marine biology program. Jackie moved to Kingston, RI, over the summer and would love to meet Rhode Island Cornellians! Brian Hackett (bjh23@cornell.edu) has recently relocated to Charlotte, NC, from Garrison, NY. Brian owns and runs the Leadership Network and is a founding partner, along with two West Point graduates, of Apex Performance. The Leadership Network is a network of senior executives who share best practices in the areas of people strategy, organizational effectiveness, and innovation. Brian began his HR advisory career in 1980 at Towers Perrin and is a member of the editorial board of the HR Management Journal. His daughter Meighan '03 works for Apex also, focusing on the sports performance business. In July, she ran the Lake Placid Ironman. In his spare time, Brian enjoys skiing, golfing, and camping and is looking forward to becoming an active member of the Cornell Club of Charlotte.

Susan Shiebler MacDowell of Littleton, MA, writes with sad news that her mother, Sandra Cestari Shiebler '55, passed away in July. Our condolences go out to Susan and her family. Also in the Boston area, Karen McIntosh Daniels (kdaniels@cs.uml.edu) reports that she has recently received tenure with promotion to associate professor in the computer science department at the U. of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Fern Chin Murtagh (fern@cs.williams.edu) and her husband Tom, PhD '83, live in Williamstown, MA. Fern is a special education teacher for preschoolers, and Tom teaches computer science at Williams College. "Our oldest daughter Lindsey is a first year law student at Harvard U. after working in the field of public health for two years. Middle daughter Shannon graduated from Yale U. in May and is continuing graduate studies in environmental education on Bainbridge Island in Washington. Our youngest, Heather, is a sleepless architecture student at Syracuse U. In September 2005, Tom and I were at Paul and Eileen Nelson Kraeger's son's wedding. Since Eileen and I were freshman roommates, I had the honor of being her ‘oldest' friend at her son's wedding."

Lori Glass Citak (lgconsulting@aol.com) sends us news about her trip to the Greek Islands this past summer. "It was so beautiful and special that I didn't want to return home." Lori is a human resource consultant, specializing in executive search and recruiting. One of her clients is classmate Nancy Sverdlik's company.Her son Jordan Citak '08 is a junior in CALS and will be spending the spring semester studying in Australia. Daughter Carly is a junior in high school and is starting the college search process. "I certainly hope that Cornell will be at the top of her list!"

Nancy Kaplan Tancer (ntancer@optonline.net) and husband Steve have been busy with family and professional activities. "We celebrated the bar mitzvah of my oldest son, Jason, in fall 2005 and it was a wonderful occasion. Jason is playing guitar and working on starting a band.Middle child Matthew is a basketball player, and Lauren, the youngest, is riding ponies and loving it. As for my psychiatry practice, I work around the kids' schedules. I moved my office into town so I can run back and forth without wasting time. Jason and Matthew attended sleepaway camp, so Steve and I enjoyed a quieter than usual summer. Overall, I am feeling rested and happy."

Janice Smith Yensan (nasney@aol.com) lives in Columbia, SC, with her husband of 21 years, David, and sons Brad, 18, a freshman at the U. of South Carolina, and Matt, 13, a high school freshman. Janice is a part-time speech pathologist, and David is an architect. "We enjoy the boating, the beach, and the overall mild climate. I still keep in touch with Cornell roommates Paula Stelluto and Sheila Dimon Ballinger." Elizabeth Rakov Igleheart (eigleheart@aol.com) is president of the board of the Community Action Center in Atlanta, GA. The center focuses on preventing homelessness and helping people get back on their feet after an unforeseen financial or medical crisis." My daughter Alex is a freshman at SMU in Dallas, and my son Austin is a freshman in high school. Austin plays the acoustic guitar and soccer. In fact, I have just signed on to be the team manager for Austin's new soccer team. Our getaway is our mountain house in Sky Valley (north Georgia). The golf is cheap, the cell phones don't work, and the temperatures are ten degrees cooler than Atlanta!"

Kathryn Browning Hendrickson (kbhendrickson@lycos.com) won the Democratic primary for the Commonwealth's Attorney for her circuit in Maysville, KY, and will run in the general election in the fall. "I learned an enormous amount from grassroots politics—door to door, chili suppers, parades, county fairs. It has been a tremendous experience.My husband Doug has started a new phase in the development business—buying and overseeing the rehabilitation of historic residences and buildings in downtown Maysville. Our five children are spread across the US. Adair graduated from the U. of the South and is working in the D.C. area. Our goddaughter Moira O'Neill graduated from Holy Cross and is working in Worcester, MA. Zoe is a junior at the U. of Colorado, Boulder and spent the summer learning to rock climb. Laura is a senior at Emma Willard in Troy, NY, and spent the spring semester at High Mountain Inst. in Leadville, CO. And Alex is a sophomore at Foxcroft in Virginia. As for Doug and me, we are going to Florence this fall for a belated celebration of Doug's 50th birthday."

Moving west, Dawn Itin Goode, MPS '80 (dawn@goode.com) and her husband Dave moved their company, Goode Ski Technologies, to Ogden, UT, in April 2005. They compete in snow and water-ski events together. They have three children in college and their youngest child is a senior in high school. Gary Weiss (gweiss@orrick.com) recently became head of the intellectual property group at Orrick,Herrington and Sutcliffe in San Francisco. Gary manages a group of 120 attorneys in a 900-attorney firm. Terence Fowler is assistant executive director of Kahala Nui, a lifecare senior living community in Honolulu. Terence is active in community affairs with the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau, Hawaii Hotel Association, and Aloha United Way fundraising. Enjoy the holiday season! -- CindyWilliams, cew32@cornell.edu; Kathy Zappia Gould, rdgould@suscom.net; and Cynthia Ahlgren Shea, cynthiashea@hotmail.com. Class website, http://classof79.alumni.cornell.edu.