80 | Weeks after graduation you got your first alumni magazine and read reminiscences from members of the Class of 1930 and sardonically marveled at what a distant world they came from. But now you have more in common with them than with today's freshmen. Is this your comeuppance? Once you were immortal, now your knees pop and you wonder what half the commercials on television are about, and what's the deal with all these tattoos? As I write this, I'm listening to a Grateful Dead concert I went to 30 years ago, and I have 20 more Dead shows in my iPod--and I used to be jealous of my sophomore year roommate's speakers, now known as "furniture," which played music from what was essentially an electric Victrola.

Freshman year I met a man from the Class of '07--the first '07, not the new one--and all I could think to say to him was, "Dang, beer must have been cheap in aught seven, but probably not very cold." I remember thinking that given the gift of such long life, would I have any regrets? I hope I still have a long way to go, but I already know the answer: Yes.Here they are, in order: I wore too much polyester, I spent too much time trying to figure out the words to "Louie, Louie," and where the devil did I put that Don Mattingly rookie card?

A Gatsbyesque North Shore mansion fronting Long Island Sound is the site of a party being hosted by the Class of '80, in honor of this year's New Student Book Project, on November 19 at the Nissequogue Golf Club. You should go. There will be live jazz, dinner, flappers, and a guest speaker. Bathtub hooch will be served, and there will be valet parking for period automobiles. Nancy MacIntyre Hollinshead is organizing the festivities, in conjunction with the local Cornell Club of Long Island and the Cornell Agriculture and Life Sciences alumni of the area. The registration link is at http://classof80.alumni.cornell.edu/. I told Nancy to make sure there is a lifeguard at the pool, because I know how that book ends.

Steve Benjamin, ME '81, MBA '82, reports that he is recovering from a heli-skiing injury, and is undergoing much post-surgery rehab in an effort to get back on the chopper and the slopes. He and wife Sheri are proud of daughter Megan, the current American equestrian vaulting champion, who represented the US at the World Equestrian Games in Germany in August. Steve is a cancer survivor and grabs life with both hands. Linnea Peterson Linderman reports that she and husband Richard, ME '81, live in Rome, NY, and have two sons at Cornell. Rich does electrical engineering research for the Air Force, and Linnea is a pediatrician. They were on campus in April for Chi Phi's Parents Weekend, and enjoyed gorgeous weather as well as a wonderful party. She writes that she would love to hear from Sue Stalzer, MD '84, and HeleneWassermann- Bloodworth.

Ellen Detmold Frankhouser's twin sister Jennifer Detmold Roberts, MBA '83, contacted us with the sad news of Ellen's death from breast cancer on November 15, 2004.

Matt Moeller writes that he is a health physicist specializing in radiation protection. His business, Dade Moeller and Associates, is in Richland,WA, where he and wife Catherine have two daughters, Katie and Kelly. He would like to hear from Denise Dodero, Reggie Durden, Doug Henderson, MBA '88, and Lily Chu, MBA '82. Caryn Krause Kaplan and her husband of 25 years, Keith, are raising three daughters. Jessica '07 is at Cornell, Amy is in high school, and Stephanie is in middle school. Caryn is the director of accreditation and regulatory affairs for Virtual Health in southern New Jersey. She writes that she would like to start spending more time at the beach.

John Verderber and wife Maria own Verderber's Landscape Nursery, which consists of a garden center in Aquebogue, NY, and a wholesale nursery in Southampton, NY. John says his extracurricular activities include fishing, scuba diving, free diving, and hunting. Someday John wants to free dive the Great Barrier Reef. Free diving, as you probably know, involves holding your breath and swimming straight down. It's just like holding your breath at the pool, only without the comforting cement walls and ready access to oxygen. And instead of exuberant children, you are surrounded by great white sharks. John says he would like to hear from Nick Potenza. Nick, don't let John talk you into anything.

Tom Murphy, one of our class officers, is soliciting pix from our Cornell years; e-mail them to harwich37@msn.com. Especially welcome are photos showing campus events and landmarks. Remember the pictures from the Phi Psi 500 you attended dressed as a condiment? You need to share. Tom will present the submissions in an entertaining fashion enabling you to blow off whole hours at work surfing the Class of '80 website, http://classof80.alumni.cornell.edu/. It's okay, you're the boss! You deserve some "me" time! -- Dik Saalfeld, rfs25@cornell.edu; Dana Jerrard, dej24@cornell.edu; Tim O'Connor, tvo2@cornell.edu; Cynthia Addonizio-Bianco, caa28@cornell.edu; and Leona Barsky, leonabarsky@aol.com.

81 | Who can believe that it's Thanksgiving/holiday time again! Time sure does fly by quickly. I have fabulous news! My husband Russ and I now have a baby girl, Ella Paige Levine, who joined our family on August 23, 2006. She is simply beautiful! We hope one day we can send her on to Cornell. Now what year would that be?! It seems like yesterday that Russ and I shared with you a fabulous weekend in June--our 25th Reunion. It still brings fantastic memories to mind-- from that weekend and from years gone by. It was great to reconnect with old friends! The planning for the next five years is already in full swing and the new officers are developing a communications and membership plan to help everyone keep in touch with what is going on with the class and with each other. Help us by logging into Cornell's online Alumni Directory, https://directory.alumni.cornell.edu, and updating your information (and e-mail address!).

Bert and Karen Prescott Dalby just brought their son Brian up to the Hotel school for his freshman year. They cannot believe it! In July Steven Ritchey gathered with friends on Long Island for the 10th Annual Ira Block Memorial Golf Tournament. In addition to a few sports celebrities playing, Cornellians at the event included Justin Block '84 and Ben Frick '82. I'm still working with Junior Achievement of Palm Beaches Inc. and enjoying my time as their director of classroom education. Florida is a good place to be able to do a lot of outdoor activities, which I love. Between swimming and boating, I have become a lover of water!

Michael Maring writes that he is a landscape contractor in Lowville, NY, and owner of North County Landscape & Nursery Inc. He'd love to hear from Tom Sutcliffe '78. Rosalee Charpentier practices public interest law in the Hudson Valley-Catskills region of New York State, although she'd rather be sipping champagne in Reims, France. She would love to hear from Kurt Edelman and Lolli Gaines. David Friehling is a CPA and president/owner of Friehling A. Horowitz CPAs PC. He is a member of the board of trustees of the JCC-Y of Rockland, NY, and president-elect of the Rockland County chapter of the NYS Society of CPAs. He also plays basketball and softball and runs daily. He would love to hear from Dickran Kazarian and Clifford Kirsch.

John McConnon of Houston, TX, works on contract in the information technology field. He would love to hear from Keith Olbermann '79. Jay Kimmel and Wendy Grolnick live in Longmeadow, MA. Jay is an orthopedic surgeon in Hartford, CT, and Wendy is a professor of psychology at Clark U. They spend time watching over their two teenage girls, who play tennis and field hockey. Linda Koski Geevers (Princeton Junction, NJ) was elected to the West Windsor Township Town Council in May 2005 and is serving a four-year term ending June 2009. She previously served for six years on the West Windsor-Plainsboro Board of Education. She hopes someday to get elected to the State Legislature.

Stephen McGovern, PhD '93, lives in Haverford, PA, and is an associate professor in the Dept. of Political Science at Haverford College. He would love to hear from Lovell Camnitz, PhD '86. Edgard Nau is a podiatrist in NYC. He would like to hear from Claire Card, DVM '86, PhD '89. Fran Hoffinger is a partner at Hoffinger Stern & Ross LLP, specializing in white-collar criminal defense. She has started the college search with her daughter Rebecca.What a difference from when we looked at colleges! Peggy O'Sullivan Conway is a full-time mom with four children. She made a big switch when she moved from Bronxville, NY, to Hershey, PA. Gladys Margarita Diaz-Jardain, MArch '82, lives in Coral Gables, FL, and is the owner of a real estate investment firm. She purchases properties and renovates them. She recently designed a retrofit solar-powered property as a prototype for hurricane-resistant construction. She would love to hear from Elrica D'Oyen Gebert '80.

Adriana Gormly Silver is an assistant superintendent for business in the Locust Valley, NY, school district. From across the pond, Elise Kuebelbeck Johnson is an acupuncturist in Essex, England. She would love to hear from Donna Gunther '80 and Michael Frawley '80. Gail Henry Katz is executive VP/general manager of Lorn Henry in Hartsdale, NY. She would love to hear from Stephanie Goldpin Dowdle '80. Ellen Ruck Perry and her husband have been co-owners/partners in Colony Farm Antiques of Chester, NJ, since 1987, specializing in 18th- and 19th-century fine antiques in farm settings at trade shows on the East Coast. Ellen also opened a museum shop for fine gifts and reproductions in fall 2005 in the 1794 John Prall Jr. historic-registered house in Stockton, NJ. She says she would love to have more time to develop another side business--detailing luxury sports cars for serious collectors and owners of fine automobiles for Concours D'Elegance. She would love to hear from Gail Yager.

Please tell us your news! It's wonderful to hear from our classmates. v Betsy Silverfine, bsilverfine@adelphia.net; Jennifer Read Campbell, ronjencam@aol.com; or Kathy Philbin LaShoto, lashoto@rcn.com.

82 | Christopher Hanson is working for Boeing in southern Italy, coordinating design work by Alenia Aeronautica for the horizontal stabilizer for the new 787 airplane. Chris reports that his main extracurricular activity is trying to get enough time off work to sightsee in Italy with wife Katherine and his family and to ride his bicycle.Mary Ellen Plubell Miller, husband Danny, and son Skyler, 4, live in Johnson City, TN. She has just changed jobs, recently becoming the "first-ever executive editor of Marquee Magazine," a regional publication that caters to the Mountain South area, and "working like crazy" as she goes straight from her position as law firm marketing director into the new position.Mary Ellen says, "See where those ‘Comm Arts' degrees lead?" She is also especially happy with "being a mom." The fond Cornell memory that she reported on the news form resonated with me and brought to mind my own fond recollections: Mary Ellen loved "walking through campus during the quiet times--late at night or early on Sunday morning." The Cornellian from whom she would most like to hear is Sara Klein Brill, her "Kappa big sister and former College Ave. roommate. Sara, how are you? Where are you?"

Joseph Allegro, wife Etty, and family live in Jamaica Plain, MA. Joe has started his own company, Allegro Construction Services, and is busy building up backlog and client base. The company provides construction management and dispute resolution services. In his spare time Joe coaches youth baseball and soccer. He fondly remembers his friends at Psi Upsilon and would like to hear from Mike MacHikas.Hearing from Joe reminds me that his twin brother Steve Allegro lived across the hall from me freshman year in good old U-Hall 5. I can still hear his cries of "Go you Red Sawks!" during the days leading up to Mr. Dent's fateful swing in the playoff game that fall. Also reporting in from the Boston area is Mindy Jane Roseman of Cambridge, who is the academic director of the Human Rights Program and a lecturer in law at Harvard Law School.

Martin Markiewitz is living in Wilmington, DE, and working in Elkton,MD, at W. L. Gore and Assoc. Inc. (developers of Gore-Tex), for whom he is the procurement administrator, working in filtration technologies. He also spends time as treasurer of his homeowner association, remodeling his home, and "helping my kids with homework." He fondly remembers swimming and hiking in the Ithaca gorges. On the other side of the country, Elizabeth Smith checks in from Eugene, OR, where she lives with spouse Mike Lambert and her 12-year-old daughter and is director of social services in the China Program of Holt Int'l, an adoption and children's services agency. She travels to China at least once a year and also spends time gardening, volunteering at a local school, and "taking care of my daughter's activity and social schedule." She would love to hear from Karie Huttar, Ann Connors Kedia, and Agnes Liptak '83.

No column would be complete without hearing from the doctors, and this time we have five correspondents. Physician Raymond Victor and wife Carol live in Windermere, FL. Edwin Williams III is a facial plastic surgeon in New York who also enjoys farming, foxhunting, skiing, and spending time with wife Cherie and family. From Atlanta, GA, anesthesiologist Roland Pinkney tells us he also spends "precious" time with wife Lisa, family, and friends when not at work. He also spends time running, playing golf and basketball, and traveling. He fondly remembers the "competitiveness in both academia and sports" (he played football) and the lifelong friendships established at Cornell. He would like to hear from Joseph Holland '78, MA '79.

Lynn Levy Senderoff lives in Milford, CT, with husband Ned and two sons. She is an adjunct professor of anatomy and physiology and is also home-educating her son. Lynn "loves being a mommy, wife, and occasional professor." She looks back fondly on playing rugby at Cornell and being on the rugby selection committee, and would love to hear from classmates Lori Penner Hurwitz, Penny Borenstein, Stephen Kagan, and Art Flatau. Recently returned from a six-month deployment in Kuwait is Michael Panosian (Dayton, OH).While overseas, he supported Operation Iraqi Freedom as medical group commander, charged with keeping deployed troops healthy. He was responsible for safely aeromedically evacuating sick and injured troops back to the US and flew as a C-130 flight surgeon, for which he was awarded the Air Medal. He is now commander of the 88th Surgical Operations Squadron and chief of surgery for the 88th Medical Group at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. He occasionally keeps in touch with Alan Tucker.

By the time you read this, the big 25th Reunion will be only months away! It is hard to believe that we've been away for longer than it took us to grow up and graduate. So let's all get together to celebrate and/or commiserate. Please look for news and registration information in the mail and plan to return to Ithaca in June! -- Mark Fernau, mef29@cornell.edu; and Nina Kondo, nmk22@cornell.edu.

83 | This round of class news included a good amount of submittals from classmates who responded when they paid their class dues.We were given a few boilerplate questions to kick-start our thinking processes, such as what is your current position, what you would rather be doing now, your fondest memory while at Cornell, and which classmate you'd most like to hear from.Many took the fill-in-the blank format too literally and responded in kind with short, bare-bones responses. Believe me, I'll take any news over no news, but for the sake of variety, don't ever hesitate to personalize your responses with a revealing detail or two, or short anecdotes. It makes for a very interesting read. Now, if you will excuse that little bit whining and preaching from your humble class correspondent, on to the news.

From Portugal we hear from Susan Corte Lomega, who is enjoying her position as a sales representative for an artists' cooperative. Besides that job, she has also been very enterprising--she organizes and chaperones specialized tours for small groups (six to eight people) in Portugal and Spain, markets upscale estate wines, and does English/ Portuguese translations for technical manuals. Susan also keeps busy developing a virtual gourmet shop specializing in regional products: smoked meats, nuts, olive oil, and cheeses. And she is planning on opening a small restaurant. (Whew!) Susan remembers all of her time at Cornell very fondly and keeps up with most of her friends, but she would like to hear from Jane Lee and Susie Eilers Craig.

While preferring to be lying on a beach in Hawaii, Penny Nemzer, DVM '87, is enjoying her life as a small animal veterinarian in Scarsdale, NY.Married to Dan Taitz, JD '86, and mother of four children, Penny says she enjoys gardening and doing alumni interviewing for Cornell in her spare hours. She also has been busy trekking all over the country looking at colleges with her son Eric. Penny remembers fondly the long walks she took at the Cornell Plantations with her dog Rebecca. She still gets to see her favorite Cornell friend Liz Meller Alderman often. "She is very important to me!"

Alan Krueger would prefer to be swimming in his pool, but maintains his day job as professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton U. Laconically, he puts down on his class news form that he has been kept busy doing a "lot of writing." (A quick Google search reveals that Alan Krueger was a regular economic columnist for the New York Times, but now is working on a textbook.) He enjoys unwinding playing tennis, traveling, and going to the movies. His most fond memory of Cornell was meeting his wife at the Straight--Lisa (Simon). (She said they met while he was nibbling on a roommate's salad and she scolded him.) Lisa is teaching high school math in Princeton as well, and they have two teenagers, ages 14 and 16. Both have been to Ithaca as prospective Cornellians. Alan says the Cornellian he would most like to hear from is Bob Jones '81.

From Abbie Bookbinder Meyer, who serves as our class historian with Omar Saldana, we hear that she is CEO of Meyer Family Enterprises. Current job description and responsibilities, according to Abbie, involve "driving people, cooking, and picking up three kids and a husband." She recently had a great time attending a taping of the "Oprah" show with freshman-year roommate Tracey Taslitz Kritt. Abbie says she remembers most fondly the longtime friends she made at Cornell. From Short Hills, NJ, we hear from class officer Susan Wasserman Guerin, who along with co-reunion chairperson Andy Sosa is beginning the planning phase and the gearing up for our big 25th. She will be looking for volunteers. If you have special skills that you think would be helpful, or you just want to be first in line to volunteer, please contact Susan at susan.guerin@paxar.com. Susan is president of America's Apparel Group, a division of Paxar Corporation. Her children's activities--soccer, horseback riding, wrestling, lacrosse, and baseball--occupy the rest of her busy schedule. Please keep the news coming! -- David Pattison, dpattison@earthlink.net; and Dinah Lawrence Godwin, dinah.godwin@earthlink.net.

84 | Mike Schiumo reports that he and his wife Kristin Schaefer '93 had their first child, a baby boy named Michael, in July 2005. Also, he was recently appointed the assistant dean of alumni affairs at Fordham Law School in New York City. They reside in Manhasset, NY. Earl Kim is the superintendent of schools in Verona, NJ. He is also a trustee for the Foundation Academy Charter School in Trenton, NJ; trustee for the Policy Research Inst. for the Region, Princeton University; and a Sunday school teacher at Calvary Lutheran in Verona, NJ.His favorite memory from Cornell is "wrestling practice at Teagle Hall and hanging out over Winter Break with the wrestling team." The Cornell friends he would most like to hear from are: Jeff Gilbert,Michi Yukawa '85, and Carol Hubbard '85.

Celeste "Celia" Shin is working at the Barl Restaurant and doing real estate. She has been busy setting up a new home in Sonoma County, CA, and taking care of her six dogs, including a special needs dog. Her favorite memory from Cornell is "how much I enjoyed taking Carol Greenhouse's Anthropology class." Robert Feinberg is VP, general counsel for Prism Business Media Inc. in NYC. He is also an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School. He's been spending most of his time recently raising his kids James, 8, and Lily, 5. His favorite memory of Cornell is "the beauty of the campus."He would most like to hear from Steve Valk.

Emily Sherman Brooks is a gynecologist who spent the past year retiring from obstetrics, skiing in winter, swimming in summer, and walking her dogs year-round. She and her husband Allen have daughters Laura, 11, and Julie, 10. Her fondest memory of Cornell is her friends. She would most like to hear from Austin Duell Booth and Ted Jonas, JD '91. Dorothy Pelovitz Frank and her husband Andrew Hollander, JD '91, have toddler twin boys. Dorothy is going back to school to get her master's degree in teaching. For the past year she has been getting acclimated to their new town, fixing up their new house, and taking care of their twin boys. Chris Read, MS '86, and his wife Melanie (Lundry) '92 have twin baby boys and two older boys. Understandably, all of Chris's time is spent either running his startup consulting business or taking care of the kids.

Amy AllenMoorman and her husband Robert live in Nebraska. Amy was recently appointed chair of the Division of Economics and Business at Doane College in Crete, NE. She writes, "I am pleased to be working with another Cornellian, Jonathan Brand, JD '96, who was recently inaugurated as president of Doane College." Nelly Silagy Benedek and her husband John have two boys. Nelly is director of education at the Jewish Museum in NYC. Recently, she has been teaching in museums and developing resources for educators on art and museums. Her fondest memories of Cornell are "my art classes and my friends."Nelly would most like to hear from Naomi Levy.

Anne ParksWolf does obesity research. She is also a black-belt Nia instructor and loves gardening and being with her family. Recently, she has been working on creating a beautiful home.Her favorite memory from Cornell is "the quiet reading on Libe Slope the week after graduation." She would most like to hear from Elizabeth Sprague Petrie. Leah Levy Soltas is an at-home mom, married to classmate Scott. In her spare time, she does marketing and lots of parent council activities at the boys' school. Recently she has been helping an artist friend, Suzanne Osterweil Weber, market her custom portraiture. Leah has also been dabbling in "house staging."Her fondest memories of Cornell are of her dearest friends in their Transfer Center dorm rooms, the former Psi U. She would most like to hear from Julie Stockholm Kleinert.

JeffreyWatts is a principal for Deloitte Consulting in Los Angeles. In his spare time, he volunteers at the L.A.Music Center Education Division, sails, and does indoor rock climbing with his son. His fondest memory of Cornell is Cornell hockey. He would most like to hear from Scott Greene and Suzanne Bricker Sullivan. John Toohey is the chief meteorologist for NBC/Telemundo.He started guitar lessons last summer and continues to fly his Cessna 210. This past spring, he made another appearance on NBC's "Weekend Today" show as meteorologist John Morales. His fondest memories of Cornell are friends, views, and weather forecasts! Alison Clark Levy teaches 8th grade social studies at Essex Middle School and loves it! She received her master's in education from the U. of Vermont in 2003 and has kept busy teaching and spending time with her husband Max and four teenage children. -- Karla Sievers McManus, Klorax@comcast.net; Lindsay Liotta Forness, fornesszone@aol.com. Class website, http://classof1984.alumni.cornell.edu.

85 | You have answered our call for news, so a Big Red thank you to everyone who wrote. There is much news to share, so I will get right to it. Dawn Viapiano Bierschwal wrote from West Chester, OH, where she owns the Becoming Mom Pregnancy Spa and Imaging Center, which she will soon be franchising. She also just finished writing a screenplay with Jeanne Veillette Bowerman, and they are working on their second. From her time at Cornell, Dawn most remembers being a little sister at Chi Phi. As a former class correspondent, Ed Catto knows that we are sometimes in desperate need of news, so we are grateful he continues to stay in touch. Back in June, Ed was busy sketching and painting in preparation for an art show. Ed definitely remembers our time at Cornell, and wrote, "Other than Roberta Zwiebel Farhi in fencing class? The brilliant ideas and big dreams!" Jim Sears, if you are reading this, Ed would love to hear from you.

Liz Dolinar is busy as the director of gardens for an ever-expanding 60 acres at a resort in Harrisburg, PA. She also volunteers for a rabbit rescue organization and is active in Pennsylvania politics. The person she would most like to hear from is "fellow Aggie and all-around good guy John Sheeley." Alicia Hallock Terry is the director of planning for Schoharie County, NY. Recently Alicia developed a response and recovery plan for the potential failure of the Gilboa Dam, to protect the 9,000 who live nearby. She is kept company on her farm by 80 hens, ten cows, one donkey, and a Paso Fino horse. If that doesn't keep the family busy enough, Alicia's 11-year-old son stays active by playing baseball and basketball. Alicia hopes to hear from Sue Robin Reiter, DVM '88, and Marie "Moe"Melodia.

Lynn Marshall and her husband Spiros Koyanis are enjoying their eighth year in Portland, OR. Lynn is assistant professor of medicine, public health, and preventive medicine at Oregon Health and Science U. She conducts research on osteoporosis in men over 65. Lynn also teaches and trains in Aikido and in Iaido (Japanese sword drawing and cutting). She fondly remembers enjoying bagels with Jon Plissner '84 at Anabel Taylor, and weeknight dinners with her housemates on Cook St. She would love to hear from Lucrezia Herman '76, Gayle Green, and Andrew Hall. Phil Otis is a 767 First Officer with United Airlines, flying to Europe and South America. He just moved from California to Severna Park, MD.When he isn't busy traveling to any sailboat racing opportunity that he can find, he is keeping up with his 7- and 9-year-old daughters. Jim Joseph recently sold his advertising agency and is now enjoying the "unbelievably fun restaurant industry" as VP of marketing at the French Culinary Inst. Jim enjoys spending time with his children JP, 11, and Alicia, 13. He lives part-time in NYC and in New Hope, PA.

When Betsy Daniels Graseck and her husband Chris aren't busy renovating homes or taking care of their daughter Maggie, 2, Betsy is a managing director at Morgan Stanley in NYC. Betsy has seen many of her fellow Pi Phis during this past year. She saw Dave and Judy Marlinski Doyno in Japan late last year. Then there was Lorah McNally Perlee and Kari Pedersen Dooley during another one of Bill Perlee's excellent dinners. In NYC, she saw Molly Tschang. In Pittsburgh, Betsy enjoyed dinner with Sue Brode and her four energetic kids, who are all under 8. In Minneapolis, she met with Laura Clark and her son Jack. Last but not least, Betsy got together with Jill Gaydosh Kafka in NYC.

Ilene Friedman had been enjoying the last six years as a stay-at-home Mom, but this past summer, she returned to medical practice at the Northport V.A. on Long Island.While at Cornell, Ilene enjoyed her time singing with Nothing But Treble, and she is happy to be singing again with a women's a cappella group.When she isn't busy doing a lot of school activities with her children, Ilene enjoys swimming, tennis, and yoga. She is very content with her life and wrote, "There's nothing I'd rather be doing." Ilene would love to hear from Marjorie Mosick. Frederic Johnson and his wife Joyce are living in Chicago, where Frederic is a telescope interpreter with the Adler Planetarium. One of his after-hours activities is star-watching, so it seems that Frederic is a lucky one--his work and his personal interests are one and the same.

Michelle Sherman Kalish and her husband Geoff live in Westchester, NY, where Michelle enjoys being a mom and a fledgling interior designer and being in training as a yoga teacher. She wrote that her after-hours time is spent "imbibing wine, watching baseball games, and e-mailing friends."Her fondest memories of Cornell are at Ruloff 's, and she would most like to hear from Lenny Goldstock. Eileen Bartol and her husband Paul were busy earlier this year moving back to New Jersey. Now that they are settled in, Eileen can focus on being mom to Genevieve.

Some news didn't make this column so you can look forward to reading more updates in the next one. Please keep the news coming so we will continue to have a lot to share with you. -- Leslie Nydick, LNydick@aol.com; Joyce Zelkowitz Cornett, jmcornett@bellsouth.net.

86 | Hello! We're your new class correspondents: Susan Seligsohn Howell and Laura Nieboer Hine.We're sitting on lovely Shelter Island, NY, attempting to write our first column together. Neither of us lives on Shelter Island. Susan is in Boxford, MA, north of Boston, and Laura is in Wilmette, IL, just outside of Chicago. Our families have met on Shelter Island numerous times since our Cornell years, thanks to the hospitality of Clark and Sue Joyner Hine '61, parents of Laura's husband Clarkson '85.

Even though we just went to reunion, it feels like a mini-reunion with five Cornellians (including Susan's husband Steve '84) sitting around the table laughing and joking about the chances that our three 13-year-olds could be class of 2015 (Laura has twins Nick and Sam, and Susan has daughter Olivia). And if we get that lucky, could they be followed by Jake Howell, 10, or Emmie Hine, 8? We'll let you know, because we'll still be your class correspondents then.We've signed up for at least the next five years!

In the meantime, let us know your news.We're interested in any bit of information, however mundane it might seem to you. It doesn't have to be a wedding or a birth. For instance, Cecilia "Vicky" Beer lives north of Seattle and tells us she's busy not only as a doctor and mother of a 3- and 4-year-old, but she's also knitting a cashmere scarf for her husband. She's hoping to finish it next winter. Keep us posted,Vicky! We've all been there on the project that never seems to end. In the meantime,Vicky is also planning a family trip to Alaska and volunteering at her daughter's preschool.

And since we've mentioned one doctor, we'll add info on some of our other medically minded classmates. Marc Meyer works for the City of Houston as a paramedic and supervisor.He's out there saving lives while going to law school part-time.Will Marc give new meaning to the term "ambulance chaser"? He missed our 20th, but swears he'll be at the 25th, "Come hell or high water--a real concern in Houston!"Mette Larsen is also a doctor, but when we first read her info sheet, we thought maybe she was a veterinarian because she owns and manages a large equestrian facility in Huntington, NY.Mette has time to ride her horses, but reports that she doesn't have enough time to fish.

Moving on . . . Apparently, Cornell provided many of our classmates with the background needed to conquer the world of high finance. Sudip Thakor is managing director at Credit Suisse and lives in Riverside, CT. Christian Bergmann is in London working for Alegro Capital.He spends his free time skiing in Austria and Switzerland, but he'd rather be surfing south of Biarritz, France. Phil McCarthy is at Merrill Lynch in New York City. Phil attended Reunion and reported that the House of Shalimar is still in business on the Commons!

Erik Codrington married Tracey (Reynolds) '85 (our Kappa sister). They met on Erik's 20th birthday at a Christmas formal, "just like ‘Some Enchanted Evening,' " says Erik. He's at Citigroup Global Markets in NYC raising debt financing for energy and industrial projects in North and South America. He and Tracey live in Chatham, NJ, with their 13-year-old daughter Victoria.When not working, he's busy in their local church, plays squash, and races his Porsche around the countryside.

Send us your news or you can't complain that you don't know anyone in next issue's column! -- Laura Nieboer Hine, lauracornell86@sbcglobal.net; Susan Seligsohn Howell, susancornell86@comcast.net.

87 | Thanks to all of you who responded to my plea over the Labor Day weekend for news.My wonderful colleague Tom Tseng, ME '94, was unable to write the column at the last minute and, unfortunately, had all the news forms. Thankfully I remembered that I had a way to reach out to many of you via e-mail, so I gave it a shot and below is some of the news I received.More of your news will appear in the next few columns.Many of you wrote of news items big and small. For me, just hearing from some old friends was wonderful news--not everything has to be as exciting as my quest to get onto a reality TV show. The everyday,mundane, we-are-living-a-life-in-anytown-USA is great to hear. I am also happy to hear that so many of you are planning to come to reunion in June!

Stephanie Greene Bosworth was the first to respond to my e-mail. She and husband Eric '85, ME '87, live in Robbinsville, NJ. Last spring, they hosted a two-part winetasting series in their home for the Princeton CUAA Chapter. They have children Arielle, almost 10, and Ethan, 7. The Bosworths enjoy traveling--with and without the kids. They spent a week in Provence and Burgundy by themselves and later traveled to Toronto and Niagara Falls with the whole family. Of course, a trip to Cornell was on the agenda. They would love to meet other Cornellians on the road. Elizabeth "Lisa" Hsiao-Wecksler reports that after life as an engineer at Xerox Corp. in Rochester, NY, grad school in Berkeley, CA, and post-doc'ing in Boston, she is now in her fifth year as an assistant professor in the Dept. of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She and her partner of 17 years, Robin, have two great sons, Jessick, 6, and Doren, 2.

Mike Millette lives in Westchester with wife Joy and their five children: Henry, 13, Sophie, 11, Lilly, 8, George, 6, and Claire, 2.Mike works at Goldman Sachs as a manager of the Catastrophe, Life, and Entertainment Securitization businesses. Glen Dake lives in Los Angeles, where he is a landscape architect. He just finished a four-year term as a deputy to a member of the L.A. city council and helped to found the nonprofit L.A. Community Garden Council for the benefit of community gardens and the South Central Farmers. Zach Shulman, JD '90, has been living in Ithaca and loving it. He is a managing partner at Cayuga Venture Fund and teaches at the Johnson School while his wife Angela pursues a PhD in Indian religion. Julie Zimmerman and husband Adam Ratner also wrote from Ithaca--while they were visiting Pam Bleiwas with their two boys Will and Andy! When not visiting old friends and our alma mater, Julie and her family live in Princeton, NJ.

Jill Eskin Major HaLevi is spending this academic year in Jerusalem with her husband Andrew while he teaches high school English and she stays home with their two daughters. Jill gave up her position as a public defender in the Charleston, SC, federal public defender's office to spend this year in Jerusalem. Joanne Cappucci Penne, MBA '93, lives in Chicago with husband Jake and 2-year-old son Matt. Joanne has been working at Unilever ever since completing her MBA at the Johnson School in 1993. Since graduation 20 years ago, Scott Holter has been in the Cleveland area employed with several manufacturing and consulting companies. Scott currently works at a mid-size public accounting firm concentrating in manufacturing systems consulting, ERP planning, etc.Married for 16 years, Scott and his wife Mary have three daughters, ages 13, 12, and 8. In his spare time, Scott teaches APICS classes at a local university and manages the girls' travel softball teams.

Todd Moody's family (wife Gia and sons Jake and Ben) recently welcomed daughter Emerson to the fold. Todd was recently promoted to head the Transaction Advisory Services Group for the Pacific South West Area for Ernst & Young. He is also on the board of the Los Angeles chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Rana Glasgal, ME '92, has been working for Stanford for an unbelievable nine years! She is the associate vice provost for Institutional Research and Decision Support. Rana is quite involved in Cornell-related activities in the San Francisco Bay Area, serving on the board of the local alumni association, as chair for CAAAN, as a Western Region rep to the Alumni Federation, and on the Cornell Council. Rana's biggest activity, however, is hockey. She plays several times a week and loves it! She and her husband Bruce spent a week at hockey camp in Las Vegas.

Helen Rothstein Kimmel and husband Barry celebrated the bar mitzvah of their son Ian. Cornellians in attendance included classmates Ilana Brajer Austin, MPS '92, and husband Stuart '88, and Rich and Leslie Kaufman Friedman. Helen and her family live in southern New Jersey, where she is a food writer and culinary instructor. Maria Off Kaleta teaches French and Spanish at her local high school. She and her husband Christopher have two beautiful girls, Christina, 19 months, and Kimberly, 3. They purchased their first home in 2004 and are learning many things about keeping a garden looking healthy and beautiful.

Some very exciting news: Just before midnight on Saturday, August 26, following 20 hours of debate over two days, the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia confirmed the new government of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. His Minister for Foreign Investment is our own former class president Gligor "G" Tashkovich, MBA '91. In his role, Gligor will be responsible for attracting foreign direct investment to Macedonia. He is the third generation of his family to take a leadership role in the country. His grandfather, after whom he was named (but whom he never met), was the leader of the democratic opposition during World War II. He represented Macedonia as a senator in the Federal Parliament in Belgrade. His father, Vuko G. Tashkovich '62, BArch '65, was the co-chair of the World Macedonian Congress (the Diaspora group) and the head of the U.S.-Macedonia Business Council until his untimely passing in November 1996. Gligor has nominally moved to Macedonia (while maintaining his New York City residence), but he will be spending more than half of his time traveling the world convincing investors to take a look at this up-and-coming country.Macedonia's biggest (and new) advantage is that it is the only country in the world that allows Macedonian-based companies to export their products into the 250 million-person European Union without paying any import or customs taxes.

Well, I do not get to say this too often, but I have loads more news and am out of space, so stay tuned to this column over the next few issues for your news, as well as news from many others. Keep e-mailing us! -- Debra Howard Stern, dstern39@yahoo.com; and Tom S. Tseng, ttseng@uchicago.edu.

88 | Greetings, Class of '88! I recently saw a movie starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock that has been much maligned, called The Lake House. It involves the couple in a burgeoning romance but physically separated by two years in time. I unfortunately agreed with the critics and can't recommend it, but elements of it made me recall a fantastic movie from a few years back with Gwyneth Paltrow, Sliding Doors. Her character's future was to be determined by whether she caught a glimpse of something behind a door, and it got me to pondering what would have happened to us if we had gone to Brown or Princeton, or SUNY Stonybrook, instead of Cornell.Would we have the same job we have now? Would we still have met our spouse or significant other or best friends? What effects do fate and pre-destination have on our futures?

Anyway, here's what's happening in our very real presents. Alicia Schwarcz writes, "Just wanted to let you know about the birth of my twin boys Liam Isaac and Timothy Jacob on January 10, 2006. They are fraternal twins, with their own personalities and smiles that light up the room!"Alicia lives in Princeton, NJ, and works for a satellite operator out of D.C. (Intelsat), selling satellite communication networks. She thinks it's a fun job and gets to work from home! Mark Ahrens just got back from Aceh, Indonesia, after doing two weeks of community redevelopment for tsunami victims. He and other volunteers replaced the family portraits for about 1,000 families who had lost all their possessions in the tsunami.

Meg Hardie Keilbach writes that she has had a lot of changes in her life, and shares, "I am remarried now to Eric Keilbach, a childhood sweetheart of mine who came back into my life at the perfect time.We hope to expand our family soon, which will be fantastic considering Eric has a daughter Shelbi, 14, and I have two girls, Hannah, 7, and Abigail, 5."Meg is still working at Cornell, but is now in the Hotel school as the director of development. Big news regarding our own class treasurer, Charles "Chad" Snee. Chad is a Navy Reservist, and was notified that he is being mobilized to the Middle East. "After a few days' in-processing in San Diego (beginning June 19), I will report to Camp Shelby near Hattiesburg, MS, for about two months of training. Then direct to Afghanistan for a minimum one-year tour. I will be working for the US Army as part of an embedded training team that will help train the Afghan National Army (ANA). I am a logistics (supply) officer in the Navy Reserve and my experience is needed in this particular mission. If there are no significant delays (and/or extensions), I should be back home sometime in late summer 2007."

Chad, on behalf of the Class of '88 Cornell Alumni Magazine readers, we thank you for your eight years of service as class treasurer and wish you the very best while you are deployed. Chad welcomes contact while he is overseas via e-mail at suppousnr@yahoo.com.He notes that his free time is likely to be limited, but that he will try to write back. You can also write "real" letters, with stamps affixed, to Chad at the following address: CDR Charles Snee, NAVY ETT MIKE, Bldg. 2490, 25th Street, Camp Shelby, MS 39407-1000.

Melissa Van Kirk is currently a university lecturer and psychologist and just began training for a marathon! What she remembers most from her time at Cornell is walking across the Arts Quad just after a snowfall. An "old" Cornell friend she would most like to hear from is Helena Huang. Helena, are you out there? Nancy MichalskiWall sent the following news: "We finished our move back from Okinawa to Georgia. I will soon start teaching 7th grade science at our local middle school. Daughters Victoria (8th grade) and Gabi (6th grade) will likely hope I won't cramp their style. Daughter Audrey (1st grade) will be keeping us all in line as well." Janet Helms lives in West Chester, PA, and is a veterinarian at Pfizer Animal Health. She is a member of the Junior League of Philadelphia, and works on dog agility events. She has recently enrolled in the Executive MBA Program at the Johnson School at Cornell. The thing she remembers most fondly from her time at Cornell is "hockey, eh, and singing the Canadian national anthem!"

Our class received a very generous financial gift from the Stephen and Jennifer Rubin Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Central Pennsylvania. We thank Stephen and Jennifer (Serkin) for their support! Well, that's it for now. Please keep the news coming. E-mail us anytime at:vSuzanne Bors Andrews, smb68@ cornell.edu; or Steven Tomaselli, st89@cornell.edu. Have a beautiful autumn and enjoy where life has taken you!

89 | What do you get when you add up two Little League baseball teams, one soccer team, summer gymnastics, potty training the 2-year-old, a new Labrador retriever puppy, and a house that I put a new roof on this summer? Not much else. Fall of 2006 is here and I need a Mulligan for summer 2006. Fortunately, enough of you sent updates about life that I can cobble together a meager update.

Leading with nuptials, New Yorker Faith Kaminsky got married to Jim Cohen, assistant director of room service at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, in September 2006 at the Women's National Republican Club. Also, Cassandra Ramirez married Kenneth King Jr. on May 4, 2006. She is the webmaster at Widener U. School and they make their home in Philadelphia, PA.

From Westport, CT, Gabriel Selig sends an update that he is an attorney at Gladstone, Selig & Harrington LLC. After work, he keeps busy playing New Orleans music on the saxophone in jam bands and gets his exercise with ultimate Frisbee and snowboarding. Staying in touch with old Sperry buddies Ron Pigeon, Jim Dworkin, and Mike Cabana, John Sakers sends an update that said they had gotten together, but included no details of what they'd done. John is a consulting engineer who spends time traveling, camping, and with his kids.

Stacy Baskin Paton has left the hard work of stay-at-home "momming" and rejoined the workforce with Allstate Investments. She and her family, including children Jordan, 8, and Jeremy, 6, make their home near Chicago in Glenview, IL. From the Sunshine State, John Brooke sent news that life in Key Largo was good. "I have spent the last year in my new job traveling around the country. I have recently left hotel operations to go into hotel real estate investing, and I currently manage a portfolio of 13 hotels between Colorado and the Bahamas." John makes the most of the opportunities the Caribbean provides by getting out on the boat as much as possible and traveling around the Bahamas.

Send us more to write about! You can submit the news online (http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/classes.htm), or just e-mail one of your class correspondents. -- Mike McGarry, mmcgarry@dma-us.com; Anne Czaplinski Treadwell, ac98@cornell.edu; Lauren Hoeflich, laurenhoeflich@yahoo.com; and Stephanie BloomAvidon, savidon1@ hotmail.com.