00 | Although you're reading this column in early winter, I'm writing it in late summer, or, what all of us 20-somethings know as the middle of wedding season. So, let's jump right into the nuptial news.

We'll start with news of some double 2000 couples. Justin Compiseno sent word that he and Stella Kalnitsky were married on July 22, and then honeymooned in Costa Rica. Stacey McIntyre and Derek Snyder wed in Newport, RI, last October. AllieWesson and Dave Lesser tied the knot on April 29 in Central Valley, NY. Cornellians Jeff Goldsmith, Peter D'Antonio, Brian Pfleger, Dan Riiff, Jen Mogy, Jen Hogan, and Julie Vultaggio '02 were in the wedding party, and Andre Black '99 serenaded the groomsmen and bridesmaids down the aisle. Also in attendance were Nick Molinari, Liz Stavis, Jeff Pernoud, Alex Goldenberg, Ira Noble, and Eric Kanterman. Allie and Dave live in Jersey City with their cat Sperry. Allie also wrote that fellow AOPi Kristen Sweeney recently moved to Atlanta, where she's going to wow the town with her engineering skills and spend time with Amy Killoran.

Adam Schwartz reported that Patrick Noonan and Samantha Buckingham '03 married in Washington this past June. Adam, Nate Gunsch, AdamWatson, and Aaron Lustbader all served as members of the wedding party. Pat remains an active duty naval officer in Seattle, while Adam, Nate, and Adam are all happy to be living in Charlottesville, VA, together while they pursue graduate and law degrees at UVA. Another newlywed, Kilty Collins, wrote that she and John Tolbert married on August 5 with many Cornellians in attendance. The couple now resides in Remsen, NY. Daria Sharman is working as a government contractor for the Navy, and was recently married to Nikolas Rongers, a Navy helicopter pilot. The wedding was on the beach at Naval Station Mayport in Atlantic Beach, FL.

Kate Steinacher and Joe Rossettie '98 were wed at Sage Chapel last December and enjoyed a reception at the Statler. Cornellians in the wedding party included Hollis Wells Silverman,Melissa Steinacher Provencher '94, Kelly Steinacher Jasso, Fred Peightal '98, Eric Klein '98, and Dave Casillo '97. The Rossetties and their guests enjoyed a performance by Cayuga's Waiters during the dinner service. Joe and Kate live in San Diego, where Joe is an attorney and Kate is a pharmaceutical sales manager. Caroline Baumann and Paul Motika '99 also married at Sage Chapel. The couple met in medical school at U. of Rochester and they are both working on their final year of medical residency training in Ann Arbor, MI.

Let's shift from the newly wed to the newly graduated. Howard Katzenberg recently received an MBA from Wharton and founded a company called SmartMotion Technologies that develops muscle-like motors for prosthetic and robotic applications. Anna Rips graduated from Duke U. with a JD/MBA. She looks forward to starting as an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate,Meagher, and Flom. John Cahalan graduated from St. John's Law School in May and started work at Kaye Scholer LLP in September. Timothy Keefe is just getting started on his professional degree. After spending six years living and working in Boston, Tim reported that he's heading to New Haven to pursue an MBA at Yale School of Management.

Rory Halperin recently moved from Child magazine to Time Out New York Kids, where she is now a senior editor. Ivy Suriyopas is in the second year of her Equal Justice Works fellowship at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) in NYC. She provides direct legal representation for survivors of human trafficking. Mike Schramm reported that he lives and works in Burlington, VT, with his wife of three years, Erika Obstfeld '99.Mike obtained his professional engineering license last year and works for an engineering consulting firm on water resource related projects. John Kim is a dentist for the US Navy and just returned from Iraq, where he served as a dental officer on a Marine Corps base in the Al Anbar region.

DannyWen and Shawn Liu started a design studio, Iridesco Inc., three years ago. Danny wrote, "It's been a most adventurous and rewarding few years thus far, but in many ways we feel we're just getting started."Within the last year, the team released a social content aggregator (SuprGlu), a time-tracking application for small business (Harvest), and a publication for small business (Hear, Hear). Check them out at www.iridesco.com. TiffanyWinslowWilding-White works as a sport psychology consultant, helping athletes in a variety of sports achieve peak performance through mental training. Her husband Carter '01 designs and installs solar electric and solar hot water systems. The couple purchased an 1840 Colonial house in Lee, MA, in the Berkshire Hills. -- Christine JensenWeld, ckj1@cornell.edu; and Andrea Chan, amc32@cornell.edu.

01 | As the year comes to an end, there are many milestones and accomplishments to note. During this past year, 510 classmates generously gave over $76,000 in gifts to Cornell to help exceed our reunion-year dollar goal, and our class now includes six Tower Club members, seven Quadrangle Club members, 24 Charter Society members, and 57 Ivy Society members.

EileenWojtal and Brian Yasutis were married on June 3, 2006 in North Brunswick, NJ. Among the many Cornellians in attendance were classmates Katie Augustine, Dede Bocala, Stephanie Dawson,Mike David, JD '04, TonyWebber, and BradWeinstein, JD '05. Only one month later, Katie was married to Nick Kruczynski, MEng '02, on July 2, 2006 in New York. They live in Mobile, AL, where Katie teaches third grade and Nick works for DuPont. Dede is teaching at the Lab School of Washington, DC, and also finds time to teach a course at American U. After working at a law firm in Atlanta for the past year, Stephanie has decided to head back to academia to pursue a master's in public health at George Washington U. this fall.Mike has been busy living in New York City and practicing law at the firm of Latham and Watkins. Tony planted roots in Silver Spring and is an engineer for Northrop Grumman. Since his graduation from Cornell Law School, Brad resides in New York City, where he works for Latham and Watkins.

Congratulations also to classmate Lee Rudofsky, MPA '02, on his marriage to Soraya Freed on June 4, 2006 in Newport, RI. Serving as best man was Derrick Zandpour '02, who served on Student Assembly with Lee and roomed with Lee during his graduate year. Also in attendance were Sam Merksamer '02 and Bernadette Galiano '03. In August, Lee and Soraya left Massachusetts, where Lee had been clerking for the Supreme Judicial Court and Soraya had been attending Harvard Law, for a year in Fairbanks, AK. He is clerking for Judge Andrew Kleinfeld of the US Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, and she is clerking at a local Fairbanks law firm. They will then return to the lower 48 and both join the firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Washington, DC.

Already in D.C., Courtney Jean lives downtown. Following her graduation from Georgetown Law Center in May 2005, she worked as a securities lawyer for Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP. A former roommate of Courtney's, Betty Sun, MS '05, recently moved to Sacramento, CA, to work with the Public Health Inst. on the California Children's Five-a-Day Campaign (a social marketing campaign to encourage children to eat more fruits and veggies and to be physically active every day). Betty loves her job and being in California, since the hiking and farmer's markets are so great.

Since graduating from Cornell, Libby Leist has worked at NBC News in Washington, DC. Her bureau covers Washington events for "NBC Nightly News," the "Today" show, MSNBC, and MSNBC.com. She began the summer before September 11, when the news was focused on shark attacks and the frenzied search for Washington intern Chandra Levy. Five years after September 11 and two wars later, a news day does not go by without mentioning the ramifications of that tragic day. She has been fortunate to cover these historic days as an NBC assignment desk assistant, researcher, associate producer, and now off-air reporter/producer. Currently, Libby is covering the State department beat, after two years of working for NBC's chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell. In the past year, Libby traveled to Baghdad twice with Secretary of State Rice to cover the Iraq conflict and US efforts to help rebuild that nation. This past summer she traveled with Rice to Beirut and Jerusalem as she began her first inperson attempts to bring an end to the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel. On a day-to-day basis, Libby attends the daily State department briefing and any public events Secretary Rice attends, and often contributes to MSNBC.com and the "Daily Nightly," a blog site run by NBC Nightly News.

Elsewhere in TV Land, did you happen to catch sisters Miki and Radha Agrawal's appearance on ABC's reality show "One Ocean View" this past summer? Although ABC only aired two episodes of the show, the Agrawals' pizza store in NYC, Slice: The Perfect Food (www.sliceperfect.com), was prominently featured. Send news to: -- Trina Lee, TKL6@cornell.edu; or LaurenWallach, LEW15@cornell.edu.b

02 | I went up to Ithaca in early August for a dose of nostalgia, and reveled in how much the campus has changed just in the years since we graduated. The Engineering Quad's Duffield Hall (for nanotechnology) is on top of where the Quad was,West Campus will resurrect with more dorm space, and they are reconstructing all the fields in front of Schoellkopf. I think by the time our kids are applying to Cornell, we'll see the finished product!

"I thought I'd finally contribute with a brief update for the alumni magazine," writes Laura Dombrowski. "I just graduated medical school in June '06 from LECOM (Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine)--good times! I finally started life in the real world in July for my internship in Pittsburgh, PA, at UPMC, then will continue a residency in anesthesia at the U. of Buffalo next summer. It's great to finally not be a student anymore!" Laura also wanted to send out a congrats to fellow alums Lena Vasquez, who just graduated med school from U. of Texas Health Center at San Antonio, and Phil Rosenman, who graduated law school from the U. of Pittsburgh. Jason Freedman recently graduated from SUNY Upstate Medical U. in Syracuse, NY. He is currently a pediatrics resident at the Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian/ Columbia U.Medical Center. "I aspire to a career in pediatric oncology," he says.

Enjoying life as a newlywed, Kimberly Mohr Rotundo is living near Lincoln Center in Manhattan with her husband Joe, and works at Towers Perrin. Ellen Brosius is in Columbus, OH, going on four years now. She works as a merchant for Abercrombie & Fitch, responsible for business management and product development for Abercrombie boys and Hollister guys fleece departments. The job has her traveling to far out places like Hong Kong, China, Pakistan, Brazil, and Peru to work with their overseas partners. Recently single, she sold her house and has bought a Mini Cooper! Kate Bennett graduated in May 2005 from Washington U. in St. Louis with her MSW and moved to Portland, OR, over the summer. She has been doing some exploring and likes the area more and more with every new discovery! Currently, she is volunteering for NW Documentary while searching for full-time social work opportunities.Marise D'Souza is entering her fourth year at New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY, and preparing to apply for residency programs.

Jordan Schwartz is living in Manhattan in East Midtown and recently purchased a fabulous flat-screen/flat-panel television with which he has been quite pleased.Brad Unger returned to the Hill to begin his MBA this fall at the Johnson School. Having received her master's in education from Harvard a year ago, Susan Cohen is living in Stuyvesant-town in Manhattan and working in admissions at Cooper Union. Joanna McNeil and Dave Aveline bought a little bungalow outside Los Angeles and have two cats, two lizards, two bunnies, and two turtles. They are a modern Noah's ark! Joanna is still working as a "nanny to the stars" full-time, but also finds time to work toward a master's in marriage and family therapy at Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena. Dave is still pursuing his PhD in physics at the U. of Southern California and works for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, also in Pasadena.

I recently ran into Sara Roccisano and Joe Cornell, who are both living in the city. Joe is working in finance, and Sara is at UBS while pursuing her part-time MBA at New York U.'s Stern School of Management. Ziv Feldman is teaching high school math at his alma mater in Brookline, MA, and working toward his master's in math education at Boston U.

Lauren Eisenberg and Rob Krisch were married at Shutters on the Beach Hotel in Santa Monica, CA, on August 5, 2006. "Senior year roommate, former co-worker at Random House, and closest friend Joanna Korn was my Maid of Honor," Lauren wrote, "just as our mothers, Judy Ruchlis Eisenberg '69 and Ellen Schaum Korn '68, were for each other." Lauren's other senior year roommate, Julie Kim, was in attendance. She will be getting her JD from Cornell in May 2007.

I just found out that a Harold Deckinger '36, JD '38, is a cousin of mine. Unfortunately, we never met.With that, I encourage each of you to utilize the new online alumni database (https://directory.alumni.cornell.edu) or the hardcover version that is currently in the works, as it is every four years. If you get a call requesting your updated information, give it to them.Who knows who it will bring you closer to? -- Carolyn Deckinger, cmd35@cornell.edu.

03 | Hello '03ers! It's been a quiet summer for news, so I presume that you've all been out doing exciting things and soon enough you'll be sending me wedding announcements, details of your trip to Jamaica (or somewhere equally exotic), or news of the job promotion that you were working for all summer long. Actually, now that I'm looking over the updates I guess it hasn't been that quiet.We have quite a few classmates who already deserve congratulations for many recent accomplishments. So without further ado, let me get to the news!

Michael Cody had an exciting update to share. It's best said in his own words. "I just completed the Ford Ironman USA in Lake Placid. Training for the 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike, and 26.2-mile run through the Adirondacks obviously taught me a lot of lessons, and finishing the goal was both exhilarating and emotional. Luckily, I had a great training partner (Robert Ferris '04, ME '05) who I was able to experience this with. Fellow classmates Tracy Ellsperman,Meghan Cuddihy, ME '04, and Michael Herberg (all ChemEs) made it up to Lake Placid for support (along with a bunch of '04 ChemEs)." Sounds like plenty of hard work and fun (much like those Cornell days). Cody continues to live in Raleigh, NC, and seems to be all smiles about his plans to compete in another Ironman next year. It makes me a bit tired just thinking about running and swimming and biking that much. I certainly admire the dedication and commitment it takes to do it!

Dan Keh is already enjoying a recent change in his job.He is still in the Big Apple but recently left Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and joined Evercore Partners in their advisory group, where he will work on mergers and acquisitions transactions. Angie Kim, meanwhile, just received her MEd in human development and psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She looks forward to starting the doctoral program at Harvard, where she'll continue studying human development and education.

Abby Krich also wrote to share news of graduation and a new job. "I graduated from Cornell in August with an MEng in electrical engineering. I now work for a renewable energy developer in Connecticut and live in New Haven, and am excited to be coming back to campus for the ribbon cutting of two solar electric systems this fall."Also on the move is Ted Kelleher. He finished flight school and got his wings on March 31, 2006. Then he moved from Texas to Jacksonville, FL, to join VP-30 and learn to fly the P-3C Orion. Sounds like a busy summer.

Carlos Vargas shared an update on his life post-graduation. He writes, "Immediately after graduation I lived in Buffalo and worked in an engineering and design firm (Bergmann Associates) in Rochester as a landscape designer until May 2005. Then I moved back to Long Island (where I am from) with my fiancée (now my wife) Karen Lee '01 and my puppy pug, Lulu. Karen and I were married on June 5, 2005 on Long Island. Soon after, I started working at Gibney Design Group Inc. (a fellow alum owned the company) as a design associate/landscape designer." A lot has certainly happened in three years! Congratulations are also in order for Candace Lee and Clement Chow, who celebrated their wedding on July 8.

As for me, I just returned from a whirlwind trip to India and had a wonderful time. I'm enjoying the Seattle weather and looking forward to continuing my exploration of the city on my new bike for as long as we have this nice summer weather. By the time you read this column, I'm sure I'll have pulled the raincoat out of my closet again. Ah, joy! I look forward to hearing from all of you. Also, if you're interested in helping out with reunion planning (that's only about one and a half years away), please be in touch. The class council would certainly love the help! -- Sudha Nandagopal, sn58@cornell.edu; and Sam Buckingham, swb9@cornell.edu.

04 | Right now, I wish I could be in Ithaca. I've always thought that autumn is its prettiest season. So how are you? Are you switching careers? Did you get married? Moving? Promotion? Shoot me an e-mail with your news at vgm3@cornell.edu. Are you planning on returning to Ithaca for Homecoming or another event? Let everyone know and post it on our Facebook and Friendster Class of 2004 Group Bulletins.

Now for some news. Greg Levow writes, "I'm living in Mountain View, CA--the heart of Silicon Valley--working at LiveOps as manager of business solutions and operations. We use Voice-over-IP technology to power the largest network of at-home call center agents in the US.Most of our agents work from home, and we take calls for many industries, including financial services, insurance, and direct response television. In my spare time, I've been training my dog, tasting fine wines, and learning to play golf!"

Three of my fellow ILRees have also been busy. Anthony Contardo is entering his third and last year at New York Law School in Manhattan. He has been clerking at a commercial litigation firm in Chelsea for the past year. In April, he completed his first Olympic distance triathlon in Tampa, FL, which he did to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Brian Hayes completed his master's degree in int'l employment relations and human resource management at the London School of Economics. He started work in July with Chevron Corp.'s human resource development program in the San Francisco Bay Area.While living in London, Brian traveled to numerous countries. He also interned for the US Commercial Service's Representative Office to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and attended the bank's annual meeting in May.

Sarah Sutphin joined Citigroup's human resources management associate program. She has spent the past two and a half years rotating through different businesses and different human resources functions within Citigroup's corporate and investment bank and global consumer group. Currently, she is on the other side of the world, enjoying her final rotation in Singapore. She is working with the Asia Pacific Consumer Bank regional compensation and benefits team, as they analyze their current positioning and redefine their compensation strategy for the quickly growing region. She is also focusing efforts on several diverse countries that require a more customized strategy given the current market environment. She looks forward to a continued international career.When not working, Sarah has been enjoying the opportunity to travel around the region, learning the art of bhatik painting, and keeping up with her writing and pottery endeavors. Please feel free to look her up if you are planning any travels to Asia in the near future. The ILR connection is worldwide! If you have news, send it along! -- Vanessa Matsis, vgm3@cornell.edu.

05 | Send news to: -- Matthew Janiga, mwj3@cornell.edu; or Michelle Wong, michelle.r.wong@gmail.com. Class website, http://www.classof2005.cornell.edu/. Alumni Directory: https://directory.alumni.cornell.edu.

06 | Fresh out of Cornell and already we're scattered about, pursuing our career goals. A very impressive bunch, indeed! Between summer adventures and current endeavors, the Class of '06 covers an array of professions. For instance, if you go to New York City you can find Ari Malzman, who's now the assistant manager in housekeeping at the Pierre, a Taj Hotel. In the San Francisco Bay Area, Sally Huang makes video games at Electronic Arts. In between the coasts, Lance Hall works at Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre in the artistic administration department. Outside of D.C. in Virginia, Rachit Bindal is working as a systems engineer for Northrop Grumman, a defense contractor. Living in Cincinnati, OH, Chisomaga Nwachukwu works for Procter and Gamble as a product engineer.

Marissa Goodman is working for Steve and Barry's University Sportswear corporate office in Port Washington, NY. In terms of entrepreneurship, Justin Giles started a real estate developing company called Giles Holdings Int'l. Ana Maria Techeira lives in San Antonio, TX, and works for the Service Employees Int'l Union, Local 5. Lauren Kirk lives in Atlanta, GA, where she works as an intern architect at Thompson,Ventulett, Stainback & Assocs. "The firm is internationally recognized and I will be working in their Hospitality Studio."

Cornell graduates are making headway in the financial arena. Brian Nudd works for HEI Hospitality in Norwalk, CT. HEI is a fund that acquires, improves, and then resells hotel properties to generate a return for its investors. Then there's Matthew Goodson, who's currently working as a business management associate for Cargill Inc. in their meat solutions platform. Based out of New York City, Kathryn Hessenthaler works as an analyst for the restructuring firm of Alvarez and Marsal. After spending two weeks in Israel last summer, Steven Hecht moved to Boston with his girlfriend Hope Forbes. He's working as an analyst at CRA Int'l, and Hope is a research assistant at Children's Hospital.

On the political front, Nicolas Noyes has been working as a paralegal in a small Chicago real estate law firm, Stephen Schrauth PC. He plans to break into commercial real estate or management consulting as the next step in his career. In downtown Manhattan,Whitney Bernstein works for the federal public defender's office. Anthony Ho works at the US Patent and Trademark Office as a patent examiner reviewing patent applications. Basically, he decides if they are patentable or not, using federal laws as a reference.

Some classmates have joined the world of academia. Lena Samsonenko returned from an ornithology conference in Vera Cruz,Mexico, in October, where she presented her honors thesis research. She hopes to become an intern at the Tracker School--the world's largest wilderness survival school--for six months. She exclaims, "It will be a dream come true!" John Stechschulte spent last summer at the Teach for America Summer Inst. in Philadelphia.He writes, "It was very intense and there was a good showing of Cornellians.When I wore my 'Cornell Dairy' or 'Ithaca is Gorges' shirts around Temple's campus, people would stop and ask if I went to Cornell." John now teaches Algebra I in Baltimore as a TFA Corps member. Last summer, Tyson Stutz engaged in more recreational activities--golf game, tan, and tennis skills.He now lives and works in NYC.

While some of us are out there making our mark in specified fields, others are still in the preparation phase of their careers. After teaching English in Bangkok last summer, Olga Belomestnykh is back at Cornell pursuing a master's in Engineering. Also in the Engineering college, MelissaWrolstad is pursuing her MEng in Systems Engineering. Noel Chan is studying Pharmacology in the PhD program at Weill Cornell Medical School.

Matthew Bordegaray is studying at the U. of New Mexico's School of Medicine in Albuquerque and is looking to pursue a career in orthopedics or neurology. Gabriel Villar was hired by the Epidemiology Research Lab at Columbia U.Medical School. He is part of an animal models research team whose current focus is to understand the molecular basis of psychiatric diseases such as OCD and autism, using mice as models. Jacqueline Martone is studying at George Washington U.'s doctoral program for clinical psychology. Jason Bahk is at Boston U.Medical (MAMS Program) for his master's in medical sciences and Master of Public Health. After completion of this program, he plans to attend medical school.

After backpacking in India and visiting home in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Nabil Iqbal is now in a PhD program in theoretical physics at MIT. Also studying physics, Eric Angle is a graduate student in UCLA's physics department. Laura Schoenle is in Canberra, Australia, studying the communication and mating behaviors of the galah--a rose-breasted cockatoo--with Cornell PhD candidate Judith Scarl. They tag birds by taking blood samples, and conduct sound recordings and playback experiments. Victoria Hsieh is studying for her PhD in comparative literature at UC Irvine. Eugene Chen spent last summer in Taiwan working for the US Dept. of State as an intern in the US embassy. He is currently in Ithaca completing his graduate study in Public Administration.

Other recent graduates are working toward their law degrees, including Richard Trumka Jr., who is attending law school at Georgetown, and Anne Choike at the U. of Michigan. Anne just completed the Chicago Marathon in October! Milena Pappas spent last summer working in the shipping sector in Greece. She now lives in London studying for her master's in shipping trade and finance.

I hope you all feel caught up with some of your classmates and more connected to Cornell since your departure from Ithaca. Please e-mail your updates to me or Nicole at the following addresses.We look forward to hearing from you. Enjoy the winter holidays! -- Kate Dicicco, kad46@cornell.edu; and Nicole DeGrace, ngd4@cornell.edu.