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32 | I have heard the suggestion that if one has nothing to say, it is best to say nothing. Obviously this wise admonition applies equally to the written word, but bad habits die hard so I'll keep trying a little longer. One solution is to repeat a few recollections that I found gently amusing. For example,Walter Lee Sheppard wrote and published what I was given to believe was the foundation text on the subject of making acid-proof concrete. In my capacity as class correspondent, I was notified and charged with the responsibility of keeping our classmates fully informed.

When the book appeared in foreign languages it was my job to keep the class up to date. This led to correspondence between the author and me.His first letter roundly scolded me for referring to him as "Walt" when everybody knew that he preferred to be called "Lee." I remembered him from ROTC summer camp.His next letter said that he didn't remember me, but could still recall the names of each of the six horses in the team to which he was assigned.

Statistics has never been a topic that I find fascinating, although I am always impressed when my tablemates at lunch recite numerical data having to do with the performance of baseball players. Now it is my turn. I found a scrap of paper that I think are notes I took when Inge Reichenbach addressed us during a Reunion luncheon a few years ago. Here are the stats: Class enrollment of Class of '32 in 1928: men 920; women 313; total 1,233. Same class in 1932: men 863; women 292, for a total of 1,155. Personally, I do not have absolute confidence in the university's records because I have seen a number of Flat Lists (computer printouts) purporting to represent the class membership from the beginning to the present. I looked up three friends from my freshman year and found none listed.

A while back I received several reminiscences from Peggy Wilkinson Smith Schenck. They were simply great grist for this mill and included the occasion when uninvited visitors appeared in the bell tower. Because it was a hot day and playing the chimes is hard, physical work, Peggy had removed her shirt. Prof.Wilkinson was present to save the day. Peggy also wrote that she had always been moved when "Taps" was played at day's end when she was at scout camp. One summer afternoon when she provided chimes music for, I think, a wedding, she decided to close the recital with "Taps." That caused quite a furor, and the president wanted to know who had died. And then there was the time when the Smiths returned for reunion and Milt Smith, Peggy's husband, was to row in the ceremonial shell. Unfortunately, he was a little out of practice and put his foot through the bottom of the boat. -- Jim Oppenheimer, 140 Chapin Pky., Buffalo, NY 14209-1104.

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34 | Ethel Bonan Hoefler (eebee@verizon.net) sent an e-mail in early June: "It was saddening to see no notes for my class or those surrounding it, so I send greetings from Sarasota, FL, to anybody searching the classes for a familiar name."

Thank you, Ethel, for writing us. Readers, send us a letter or an e-mail, and we'll publish your greetings, too. E-mails can be sent right to the Class Notes Editor at adr4@cornell.edu, and letters can be sent to: -- Class of '34, c/o Cornell Alumni Magazine, 401 East State St., Suite 301, Ithaca, NY 14850.

35 | Florence DeRemer, our class secretary, of 1028 Ellis Hollow Rd., Apt. 218, Ithaca, NY 14850, sent a color photograph from the March 30 issue of the Ithaca Journal, which honored her for 15 years of volunteer work at the Service League of Ithaca at the 14th Annual Women Making History Celebration. Congratulations, Florence. She also keeps active with duplicate bridge tournaments and daily walks. She visited relatives in Florida during March as a respite from the Ithaca winter. Murray and Joan Socolof have just moved to 401-02 Park View, Pompton Plains, NJ 07444.Murray keeps active with tennis, walking, and bridge.

Joseph Cohen of 620 Barstow Rd., Albany, GA 31705, is retired, but keeps occupied with his computer, dancing, and crossword puzzles, as well as frequent celebrations with a very large family. Harry Olmstead of 308 South River Rd.,Walton, NY 13856, writes that he will be 95 in July and has been twice widowed. He recanes chairs and lives in his own home with his dog Lilly. This past Christmas, as in many prior years, he made 50 pounds of peanut brittle (one batch at a time) for his many friends.

My supply of news is meager and I would love to hear from more of you so that we can keep the column in business. The best to all of you. -- Albert G. Preston Jr., 252 Overlook Dr., Greenwich, CT 06830; tel., (203) 869-8387; e-mail, davada35@aol.com.

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37 | The Class of 1937 Tradition Fellowship, our 1997 60th Reunion special project, continues to support worthy students. It is gratifying to receive letters from our scholars expressing deep appreciation for Fellowship assistance and telling about their studies and the many service activities that make up an essential part of the Fellowship grants. The Fellow for 2005, Shane Dunn '07, is a junior in the Ag college. In addition to his studies as a communication arts major, he has been active in the Public Service Center as a community programs specialist and as a Cornell University Ambassador providing liaison with prospective students, families, and alumni on behalf of the Undergraduate Admissions Office. In the fall of 2005 he was chosen for advanced studies in Bath, England. Shane has been warmly appreciative of the assistance provided by his Fellowship. Reana Carr '07, the Fellowship holder in 2004, was born and raised in Prescott, AZ, and wrote that coming to Cornell was tremendously stimulating and challenging. In addition to her studies, Reana was a busy volunteer, especially as an after-school tutor, helping in a soup kitchen, and with a reading fair. Putting a hobby to good use, she sewed some 60 blankets for underprivileged infants and children.

The current book value of our Fellowship is $151,189. The annual payout is approximately $8,000 annually.

John Rockwood still lives in Traverse City in northern Michigan, but has moved to 550 Bloomfield Rd., 49686-2840. As President Ed Shineman approaches the end of his last of many corporate directorships, he has been reliving his working career that began in the mid-1930s. He started paying into the Social Security system while on a summer job at the Beechnut Packing Company the year the system was started, and contributed his "employment tax" faithfully for an impressive 70-odd years. Does that belong in the Guinness Book ofWorld Records? Ed wonders if anyone--maybe someone in the Class of '37--can tie his record. Call him at (917) 522-1250 or write to 455 North End Ave., Apt. 411, New York, NY 10282. Ed is recuperating from two hip replacements, but is getting around better with the aid of a cane. He's in good spirits, considering.

The Great, Great 70th Reunion of the Great Class of 1937 is just over the horizon. Are you saving June 7–10, 2007 for a pilgrimage to Ithaca? -- Robert A. Rosevear, 2714 Saratoga Rd. N., DeLand, FL 32720-1403.

38 | Jewel Rost Paley writes from Boca Raton, FL, that her current activities include playing lots of bridge and some golf. She also receives regular visits from grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Ruth BarclayWright (Cape Porpoise, ME) also plays bridge, as well as mah jong, but adds that she would rather be "on the go!"Her fondest memory of Cornell is all the good friends she had--"boys and girls"--and she would love to hear from any of them. Clara Rhodes Rosevear (DeLand, FL) writes that she is a housewife--"in between meetings!" She is a museum docent for the DeLand Museum of Art and a parliamentarian at the Women's Club of DeLand, does finances for a women's club, and also volunteers with the Presbyterian Guild. She keeps in touch with old college friends through a round robin letter that started in 1936 and is still going around!

Helen O'Brien Cyran (Los Angeles, CA) describes her days like this: "Keeping up my home and grounds, Post Office, grocery, cleaners!" Sudoku is very popular with Helen ("after hours and before hours, too") but she would also like to be painting. She remembers the gorge, the beautiful rooms at Balch, and her friends from Cornell, and would like to hear from any of them."Hey, there are 200 and some odd of us still hanging in there!" Ralph Vreeland (Las Vegas, NV) wasn't able to pick just one thing he remembers fondly about Cornell--too many. Ralph is currently taking care of his wife Eileen and wishes he could also play some golf. Jane Stiles Sharp-MacRae appears to be in charge of recycling at her CCRC in Chapel Hill, NC."I recycle our and neighboring papers, cans, bottles, plastics, corks, magazines, glass, and messy electronic goods (TVs, computers, etc.). I also help husband Duncan rise above aphasia to speak on his latest book, An Academic Odyssey." In addition to all that, she attends concerts and public events and is cleaning out for a move to assisted living, possibly sometime in 2007. Jane remembers Triphammer Falls, Balch, and her Physics, Chem, and Engineering classes and friends.

Carol Young Whitehill writes that she and husband Richard '39 live independently at a nursing home park in Fort Pierce, FL. Lately she has been "staying inside where it's warmer in Florida winter and cooler in Florida afternoons" and playing cribbage with Dick.Who is the Cornell friend she most likes to hear from? "It's my husband-- and we hear from each other daily, and garden a little. Sixty-six years." Tom and Helen Brew Rich are retired and live in Venice, FL. At Cornell, Tom was the captain of the basketball team, and now he keeps active with occasional games of golf.

Carol Thro Richardson (Stony Brook, NY) continues as a clam monitor from April to October for the NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation in the clam transplanting program. "I'm traveling to Paris in November to visit daughter Joan, who works for Porlane Bakery as sales manager. It's the biggest bakery in Paris. I'm volunteering in Austin, TX, in December for a friend in the tobacco industry who sells over the Internet. Visiting friends in Los Angeles and my sister Eloise Thro Stimson '41 in Laguna Woods, CA.Would prefer living in California!" She has fond memories of the deep snow in Ithaca--and ice skating and tobogganing on Beebe Lake. She keeps in contact with several friends from Cornell.

More to come in the next issue. Please send us your news by US Mail at the address below, or by e-mail directly to the Class Notes Editor at adr4@cornell.edu. -- Class of '38, c/o Cornell Alumni Magazine, 401 East State St., Suite 301, Ithaca, NY 14850.

39 | Mother Nature was not kind to the alumni who returned for Reunion this year. It was rainy and cold almost the whole weekend, but it certainly didn't dampen the spirits of the four in my family from the classes of '41, '66, and '71. They had a wonderful time, loved the programs, met old friends and made new ones, were introduced to President Skorton, who made a surprise visit to the tents, and went home exhausted and very happy.

This is the time of year that class news dries up, so I am hoping you'll fill up my mailbox very soon. In March '06, Janna Malamud Smith, a psychotherapist and daughter of our classmate Ann deChiara Malamud, published a memoir of her famous father Bernard Malamud, called My Father is a Book. As you may recall,Malamud has always been regarded as one of the giants of 20th-century literature; a number of his novels were made into notable movies. Those of you who have read Malamud, as I have, and remember Ann, will find the account of his complicated life fascinating.

Sally Steinman Harms reports that the friendship she, JanetWasserman Karz, and Dawn Rochow Seymour have formed since our 65th Reunion has blossomed. Not only have they met for lunch, but they visited Janet's studio to admire her "exquisite" pottery, and have gone to see Dawn's "spectacular" home overlooking Canandaigua Lake, with a funicular built from the house on the cliff down to the water! She plans to join Betty LuxfordWebster and husband Bill '42 on their annual trip to Stratford, Ontario, for the season of plays.

Edna Schmidt Aakre remains very active in family affairs and enjoys participating in all the family vacations. Helen Stephenson DeLuca wrote that Priscilla Buchholz Frisbee visited her in Florida last fall and they had a great time together. I wonder how many others of you are keeping in touch with each other. I was pleasantly surprised to hear from John Hull in May, reporting on his exciting winter trip around the world. I am forwarding his letter to Phil Twitchell and I will let him tell you all about it.

May I remind you, ever so gently, that I need to hear from you.My mailbox is empty! --Ruth Gold Goodman, 103 White Park Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850; e-mail, BG11@cornell. edu.

Robert Leigh "Bob" Brown lives in Lehigh Acres, FL (209 N. James Ave., 33971). He is presently confined to a wheelchair due to an accident, and his son Bryan and other nearby Cornellians assist in taking care of him. He says that he is writing a book to be entitled "PeaceMakers Altruism Manual," presenting his ideas on destroying terrorism. He enjoyed watching the Cornell hockey team when they played in an arena near his home last December.

John Hull Jr. of Dewittville, NY, sent a couple of letters detailing recent events in his and wife Astrid's lives. In late 2005 Astrid's summer cottage near Stockolm, Sweden, was completely destroyed by fire. They made a trip to Sweden to review the damage and while there he suffered a problem with his heart that required several days' hospitalization. After sufficient recovery they flew to Manila in the Philippines and then on to Bangkok to check on his medical condition and to attend the nearby wedding of Astrid's son Jan. After the celebration they returned home, stopping off for a day in Tokyo and six days in Honolulu. Once home he spent some time at a hospital in Erie. Later they spent a month in Naples, FL, where he underwent treatment. He says that he has recovered successfully and is looking forward to swimming, golf, and a return trip to Stockholm to see their new island home under construction.

Your correspondent Phil Twitchell and wife Sylvia took a cruise of Belgium and Holland, returning in early May. It was windy and cold, but the flowers were in full bloom. It was a nice break and a most enjoyable trip. -- Phil Twitchell, 1963 Indian Valley Rd., Novato, CA 94947; e-mail, philtwitchell@comcast.net.