50 | A significant pleasure of this class correspondent's job is the occasional phone conversation with one of our classmates. These always involve recountings of various pathways along which we have traveled since our days on the Hill. Roads, from there to here, in time and space--mundane, challenging, exotic, but always life-enhancing. It is fascinating to note how many of us benefited from the sage advice of Yogi Berra: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it!"

For example, a Sunday evening talk with Glenn Ferguson, MBA '51, who had a remarkable career in academia and government service--president of four universities (Long Island U., UConn, Clark U., and American U. of Paris), as well as ambassador to Kenya, director of the Peace Corps, and president of Radio Free Europe. In retirement he has written six books with engaging titles: Unconventional Wisdom, Americana Against the Grain, Tilting at Religion, Sports in America: Fascination and Blemishes, Traveling the Exotic, andWords for the Wise. Glenn and wife Patti are retired in Santa Fe, NM. They are lifetime philatelists, numismatists, and birders with 2,571 listings from all seven continents. Family: son Bruce (Harvard law), founder of Edenspace, an environmental company; son Scott (Harvard), an international financial consultant in Europe; and daughter Sherry, Tufts Graduate School of Law and Diplomacy and wife of Robert Zoellick, deputy secretary of state. Plus three grandsons and one granddaughter, all university students.

Sonia Pressman Fuentes, Potomac,MD, has had an exciting year: 1) one of four recipients of the Immigrant Achievement Award of the American Immigration Law Foundation; 2) one of ten honorees at a Mother's Day celebration of the National Research Center for Women and Families; 3) one of 73 Jewish women in the US included in an online exhibit of the Jewish Women's Archive entitled "Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution"; 4) notified by Xlibris Corp., publishers of her memoir, Eat First-- You Don't Know What They'll Give You: The Adventures of an Immigrant Family and Their Feminist Daughter, that she is one of their most successful authors ever; 5) featured in a documentary, "The Second Wave," about the second wave of the women's movement (available free to any organization; contact jenniferhlee@earthlink.net).

Thomas Kerwick, Rochester, NY, is retired from Eastman Kodak, where he was a photo engineer. Since the death of his wife Pat in '03 he has added two grandsons to the family. He reports that his six kids are all healthy and happy. At age 82 his diversions are golf, bowling, and the local jazz society. Ramon Aires, Granada Hills, CA, is retired from a career in electrical engineering, mostly with RCA, and now has time to work on his prime interest in constructing retro audio systems of his own design. His oldest grandson graduated last June from Cornell's School of Mechanical Engineering and continued on for a master's.

Management of tech companies was the career of Stan Taylor, Pasadena, CA. He currently serves on the boards of two non-profits that provide startup loans to small companies that benefit low-income persons. He reports having a good visit with Jim and Nancy Hubbard Brandt in his old hometown of Chicago, and with them enjoying a Toulouse-Lautrec show in the new Millennium Park.Melvin Chernev, Fair Oaks, CA, is retired as president of a firm that markets Christian Brothers wine and brandy worldwide. Bridge, chess, and gin rummy are current diversions. He has stepped down from service on the board of governors of City U., Bellevue,WA, and chairman of the board of Cogswell College, San Francisco.

Frederick Blumberg was a lawyer in Philadelphia, but is now retired in Hilton Head Island, SC, where he has served as chairman of the Zoning Board of Appeals. He currently plays golf and works on his second novel. Kent Hurley, Halifax, Nova Scotia, reports succinctly that while employed as an architect he originated the work-study program in architecture at Nova Scotia Technical College, now Dalhousie U. Ernst Albrecht, Burgdorf, Germany, spent 17 years working on European unification, as he says, "to end 1,000 years of wars," then worked 20 years in the ministries of Lower Saxony. His work in Kyrgyzstan helped save the lives of over 250 children. Regarding the world's most pressing problem, he reports, as others of our colleagues have stated or implied, "For the first time the world has become one. If we want to avoid permanent wars, we have to promote discourse among the five major world religions." Ernst has seven kids and 27 grandkids.

RogerWolcott, Sandy Spring,MD, is a retired professor of sociology and currently active in the Kiwanis Club of Olney,MD. He is a member of Christian Peacemaker Teams and also serves on various committees of the Friends House Retirement Community, a local Quaker organization. He cites Iraq as our most pressing national problem. Dave Dingle, New Suffolk, NY, continues as our class pianist and protector/promoter of traditional Cornell songs. These have been preserved in a little book, Cornell Songs, which Dave will happily send to you, postage paid. Send him ten dollars (five goes to the class treasury) to PO Box 56, New Suffolk, NY 11956.

William Atkinson,Weston, MA, spent his working years, 1950–85, in industrial design and power plant engineering.He maintains a website (http://www.atkinsopht.com) dealing with the diverse subjects of "rowing, physics, engineering, astronomy, kinetic sculpture, WWII, secular humanism, etc."He also serves as New England section chair of the American Alpine Club. Albert Neimeth, JD '52,Melbourne, FL, is retired associate dean of Cornell Law School. For over 50 years Al has served as reunion chair of his law school class of '53. His Melbourne home, which he shares with wife Doris, is in a community for retired military officers. They summer in their beach home, Breezy Point, NY. All three children are Cornell grads: Christine Neimeth Heijenga '87, Susan Neimeth Fulshaw '88, and Steven Neimeth, MBA '97.

Gretel Hackel lives in a rural area near Manzanola in eastern Colorado where she "can't give up caring for a few livestock." She enjoys attending horse shows with her daughter ("who shows horses all over the world"). Gretel stays in touch with JohnMarcham and Sally Nichols Perkins '49, with whom she attended grade school in Cayuga Heights. Anita Ades Goldin, Louisville, KY, was a social worker and lecturer in sociology at the U. of Louisville. She now serves as president of the board of Shalom Towers, a high-rise residence for seniors. Anita enjoys lectures and cultural events, singing in her synagogue choir, and working out at the gym.

Jane Wigsten McGonigal, our webmaster, is seeking photos that attendees took at our 50th Reunion. Please identify all parties in the pictures, and send them to 1152 Coddington Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850. -- Paul H. Joslin, 6080 Terrace Dr., Johnston, IA 50131-1560; tel., (515) 278-0960: e-mail, phj4@cornell.edu; Marion Steinmann, 237 West Highland Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19118-3819; tel., (215) 242-8443; e-mail, cjoiner@ix.netcom.com.

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52 | Spring and early summer brought awards to classmates. In May, Trudy Serby Gildea, our class treasurer, received the National Jefferson Award for Public Service. As reported in the Columbus (MS) Commercial Dispatch, Trudy was cited for her founding and work with the Suzuki Strings program, the Columbus- Lowndes Public Library, and as vice president of the Columbus Historic Foundation. The executive director of the foundation said, "She has done more for children and adults in the arts in this area than anyone." In June,Marshall Lindheimer received the Lifetime of Service Award from the Medical Advisory Board of the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois. The award citation said Marshall's career has been dedicated to the care of pregnant women with medical complications, especially hypertension and renal disease, and cited his several hundred published basic and clinical studies concerning renal function, blood pressure control, volume and water homeostasis, and microvascular function in normal and abnormal gestation.Marshall also holds the Chesley Award for research in hypertension in pregnancy and is among the fewer than 100 Americans named ad eundems of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (London) since the society's inception.

An e-mail from Dori CrozierWarren reports that she and Terry are now dividing their time between Austinburg, OH, and Tucson, AZ, where, in April, they attended a Southeast Arizona Cornell Club function with George, MBA '56, and Gayle Raymond Kennedy. Terry and daughter Karen Schneider were to join CAU's May/June trip toMorocco and Spain. Dori is restudying the experiences of fellow Punahou School classmates during the post-Pearl Harbor Japanese, Italian, and German internments in Hawaii. Terry's Ohio State Bar Foundation class is working on aid to Somalian Ohio residents. I do have first person news from George and Gayle Kennedy, who now live in Green Valley, AZ. George writes, "Gayle and I moved to Green Valley in June '04 to escape the ice, snow, and school taxes of Ithaca.We miss Cayuga Lake, Cornell, and our Ithaca friends, but now overlook a golf course and the Santa Rita Mountains. Gayle has joined a book club and travel group. I have been elected to our homeowners association board and am active on the tennis courts three mornings a week. Come visit when winter gets you down."

Frederic Rubinstein, LLB '55, New York City, still has a day job as a partner at Kelley Drye & Warren. As of his news form, stamped February 2006, his after-hours activity was advising Denise O'Donnell, former US Attorney for the Western District of New York, in her campaign for attorney general. He was traveling between Manhattan and his home in Jupiter, FL, and planning a January trip to Brussels and Paris. Edward Wilkens, East Brunswick, NJ, reports: No change. He's still working for the US Food and Drug Administration. CatherineMcDonald Hegeman, Mt. Laurel, NJ, volunteers as chair of the Social Concerns Ministry at her Catholic Church. She takes great advantage of Philadelphia and its opera, orchestra, theater, and museums. She recently attended a short course on the history, ecology, wildlife, and management of the New Jersey Pinelands, and followed that up with the Philadelphia Flower Show. Catherine came to our February class dinner and Council meeting during Mid-Winter Meeting. More of you should do that. A short note from Elaine Shannon Zimmer says that she and William '51 are still in Schenectady.

Eli Manchester Jr., Cohasset, MA, is still working four or five days a month at Kewaunee Scientific Corp., where he chairs the board. He and Anne took two Cornell trips in the summer of '05. The first, "France, Spain, and Portugal," and the second to the Italian Lake District. "They are great,"writes he. Dick Aitken, Bethesda,MD, retired from the Venable Law Firm in 2004. Now he plays golf, travels, and gardens.Howard Maisel, New York, NY, is retired.He and wife Eve France take many courses at the New School and NYU. They serve on several boards and had recently traveled to Prague and Budapest. George and Evelyn Kunnes Sutton live in Arlington,VA. Retired, he spends time with tennis, swimming, theater, travel, and model-building. The Suttons were about to take a tour of Poland when he wrote. Asked what he'd rather be doing, he, as did Howard Maisel, said, just what he's doing now.

C.V. Noyes, MBA '55,Harpswell, ME, writes that his present day job is president of a fire/rescue company, volunteer ambulance driver, and chauffeur for Betsy (Sachs) '54. After hours, he skis and sails. Recently, he has been "wondering why I receive these weird books, no doubt at class expense. Please desist."Actually we have. No book for this year at least. Frank and Mary Rowley Forthoffer,Middletown, NY, are both retired, Frank from retail management and Mary from teaching. Frank is now into HO model railroading and Mary swims competitively. They both volunteer for Meals on Wheels and Frank is a sub-driver for a "handi-van," which takes people, presumably elderly, to doctors appointments and so forth. The Forthoffers were planning some trips for 2006 and thinking of furnishing a condo in Florida to use from January to March.

All for now. Check out our Web page: http://classof52.alumni.cornell.edu. -- Joan Boffa Gaul, 7 Colonial Pl., Pittsburgh, PA 15232; e-mail, jgcomm@aol.com.

53 | Some of us started out in our student days to attend lots of reunions and are still at it, even in years that don't end in 3 or 8. 'Fifty-three supplies the Continuous Reunion Club (CRC) with more members than any other class and was well represented again last June. Floridians Gerry and Sue Grady came the farthest but let others mix the milk punch this time. Bob '52, M Ed '55, and Judy Resnik Chabon came from the house they had just sold, a little past the other side of Collegetown. They are downsizing to exurban Ithaca. Bob was checking out the 55th Reunion of '51. (Ours is approaching.) Bill, JD '59, and Nan Bellamy were there, along with Ernie, PhD '69, and Jane Little Hardy, Joyce Wisbaum Underberg, Jim and Sandy Blackwood, Bill Gratz and Jay Bruno, daughter Susie Hanchett '90, and moi. Dick Halberstadt was there to help wife Peg (Jones) '56 celebrate her 50th. Sweet, sad moments: the Savage Club bid a farewell to one of its finest, the world's seventh greatest magician Jack Mannix, JD '58, recently departed. CRC did likewise for the late Dick Kirwan. They are missed.

Martin Ginsburg continues to teach law full-time at Georgetown, which he has been doing since 1980 and, when asked what he'd rather be doing, he slyly replies,"Nothing." He was honored last May with a lifetime Distinguished Service Award from the American Bar Association's Section of Taxation. "Strong rumors that the selection committee was drinking heavily at lunch were ignored by most who attended," he submits briefly. His most unforgettable character at Cornell? "My wife (of 52 years), Ruth Bader Ginsburg '54," says he.

What's keeping Miguel '52 and Barbi Brothers Abizaid busy out in Broomfield, CO, is "taking care of each other and planning trips." But, she says wistfully, she'd rather "be young and back at Cornell."Her most unforgettable character? Government professor "Mario Einaudi, an exemplary citizen and caretaker of Cornell and the world-- and a superb teacher."What would Felice Bernstein Burns rather be doing? "I'm satisfied with volunteer work, sports, and grandchildren. Now that our grandson is a freshman I get vicarious enjoyment of my years at Cornell." Jean Baldwin Harries (Duluth, MN) is back at the U. of Minnesota--as a student, auditing classes at the school where she used to teach. She and canine companions consider their four-mile hikes along the Lake Superior shore time well spent. Jean fondly remembers an auditor in one of her freshman courses--a Great Pyrenees who dropped in on a Goldwin Smith history lecture, joined the prof on the stage and resisted all efforts at persuasion to leave until he was good and ready. Never heard of a pooch busting a prelim.

Former Daily Sun sports colleague Gerould Young learned to drive F-86 jet fighter planes, F-100s, B-47s, and, for 282 Vietnam combat missions, Douglas Skyraiders in the USAF. He hasn't flown since 1976, but did find out how to make space gadgets work right and has moved past the typewriter. "Our sons dragged us into the 21st century by getting this monster for our 50th anniversary," he wrote.He admits the computer makes composition easier. After 23 years in the wild blue yonder, Jerry "retired and worked as a space engineer at TRW, then retired again and taught math in high school and Cal State--Dominguez Hills."Now, "just a little volunteer tutoring in high school. I lived in Torrance (near L.A.) for 37 years and am still an Aggie in my backyard garden. Getting creaky, but did ski 34 days last season so it can't be all bad."

From Bob Neff, JD '56 (Princeton, NJ): "Julie and I are both fully occupied in (ho-ho) ‘retirement.' Part of that is directly related to still having a high school sophomore as a child--probably a few classmates will relate. Son Will is boarding at Blair Academy (where I have taught a corporations course the past two winters). He's a varsity football and tennis team member, which provides lots of watching and cheering. For the past few years I've been affiliated with an investment group in Washington, overseeing their interest in an airline--something I learned ‘the hard way' in another life. Nice to be able to put old experience to work again." Old lacrosse player Pete Haswell's grandson Derek Haswell '06, a national scoring leader for this year's NCAA playoffs team, was named Scholar All-American by the US Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association for his outstanding performance both on and off the field. He carried a quick stick--and a 3.5 GPA in Mechanical Engineering.

An appeal from our appealing '53 secretary, Caroline Mulford Owens (OwensNews@aol.com): "I am increasingly involved with environmental concerns, especially efforts to improve the ecology of Sunset Lake," a beauty spot right smack next to her Bridgeton, NJ, living room. "It has a serious green algae and silting problem. I'd love to hook up with any classmates who have worked on this kind of problem. Also anyone who has started a nonprofit environmental association." A worthy cause indeed. Physician David Gluck, MD '57 (New York, NY) was a leader of the Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) conference in Bethesda,MD, in April. He has been active in raising public awareness of the generic drug naltrexone, FDA-approved since 1984. It's a promising treatment for HIV/AIDS, narcotics and alcohol addiction, cancer,multiple sclerosis, autism, and many life-altering autoimmune conditions. It's generic and affordable, but pharmaceutical firms have been uninterested.

See you at Homecoming? (Colgate, Oct. 13-15.) And stay tuned for '53 Mid-Winter (Jan. 19-20) Philadelphia plans. -- Jim Hanchett, 300 1st Ave., Apt. 8B, New York, NY 10009; e-mail, jch46@cornell.edu.

54 | Dave, PhD '60, and Mary Gentry Call finally have the time, and luckily the energy, to pursue their lifelong love of trout fishing in the American West. A dream trip took them through Colorado, with a stop to see Bill and Diane Tucker, to the tiny town of Dutch John, UT, at the Flaming Gorge Dam. They fished the cold, swift, crystal-clear river below the dam for two days, surrounded by 1,500-foot cliffs. From there they proceeded south to their base at Moab. From Moab they explored Canyonlands and Arches National Park, where Dave's Cornell hat garnered many a conversation. Continuing their southward trajectory they explored Mesa Verde National Park before arriving at their second fishing area, the San Juan River in New Mexico, where it's claimed that the trout run to a whopping 30 inches. In two weeks they drove eight passes over 8,000 feet through a landscape little changed in 2,000 years.

Jason Pearl, JD '56, tutors "at risk" first graders while continuing to practice law. Spare time is spent traveling the world, including Serbia, India, England,Mexico, and Israel. As to what he would rather be doing, no change appears necessary.Would say many of us feel that way, with only health concerns diverting us from enjoying interests honed over a lifetime. Robert Hellmann, MS '57, has restored nearby farm fields to their original forests and meadows so that come fall his entire front yard will be ablaze with goldenrods soon to be followed by purple and white asters. No recent report on critters living in and about his property. Daniel Nadler and wife Serga are traveling to major museums in the US and Canada giving illustrated talks on the silver featured in his book Silver: From Fetish to Fashion. James Potter would appear to have honed his interest in opera to an ideal point.He lives in East Hampton enjoying the Met for most of the year then proceeds to Santa Fe, NM, for the summer months, where he is director and treasurer of the Santa Fe Opera. If you haven't experienced Santa Fe Opera doing Mozart's Don Giovanni with a thunderstorm for backdrop, you have missed a musical treat of mythic proportion.

Dick and Phila Staines Slade have a knack for taking fascinating trips, many involving water. Recently they explored the Rhone and Mosel rivers, finding the Delta Food Control Project in the Netherlands awesome. Phila never misses an opportunity to record her impressions via her paint box and did so on a three-day painting workshop to Cornell's Isles of Shoals Marine Laboratory. Allen Hale is also at home in an aquarian habitat via his love of sailing. As his "day job"Allen works part-time at West Marine surrounded by the tools of his avocation. His "after hours" work involves aiding his homeowners association with procedural and organizational concerns. Things fondly remembered from his days on the Hill? "Walking across the Quad late one brilliant fall day as the chimes played and I crunched through the fallen leaves."Makes you wonder why we don't hold our reunions in October. Susan and Bob Morrison left Hawaii to head southwest for three weeks Down Under before winging their way east to Boston and thence to cruise the Danube,Main, and Rhine rivers.We are a water-loving class.

Virginia BeamerWeinhold is another who lists condo board management in her "after hours" activities. Her management duties have her overseeing the pool, where she also teaches swimming. Although retired from the interior design field, she is still active with the coalition for interior design licensing in Ohio. Now that retirement has become his "day job" Kenneth Sheldon enjoys modern Western square dancing with wife Ruth, along with furniture refinishing and gardening. Ted Valentiner cites no recent trips to visit his US offspring, but rather has traveled to Spain for a bit of golfing and beach walking.

Exciting news from William Bates of "restoring Macs fame."He and his sweetheart of ten years were wed this past December. Bill says there is nothing like romance for feeling young at heart again. Congratulations, Bill, and do let us know the lucky lady's name. Bill said he enjoyed running up the hill to the Ag campus, which in turn helped him prepare for his tour of duty in the USMC. He is the first to fondly remember running those hills.Martin Rubashkin, JD '56, has migrated to Osprey, FL, and joined the Cornell Club of Sarasota along with a number of other classmates. The Rubashkins have found that attendance at their grandkids' life cycle events invariably conflicts with reunions at Cornell. Alden ReedWest is active in community theater playing the roles of Aunt Jenny in I Remember Mama and Elsa in The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 this past year.

For those of you who would like to contact classmates, just sign on to the Cornell online Alumni Directory. There you will find addresses, phone numbers, and sometimes e-mail addresses.While there, look for additional classmates or Cornellians in your area. -- Leslie Papenfus Reed, 500 Wolfe St., Alexandria,VA 22314; e-mail, ljreed@ speakeasy.net. Class website, http://classof54.alumni.cornell.edu/; Cornell Directory, https://directory.alumni.cornell.edu/.

55 | Anne Morrissy Merick Janicek and her husband Don returned from a month-long trip to the Far East.Many of you know that Anne spent seven years in Saigon covering the Vietnam War, and her book,War Torn, was published by Random House. This was her first trip back in more than 30 years, and this time she had a chance to visit North Vietnam, which was off-limits to reporters during the conflict.Hanoi was about what she expected for a Communist city, Anne reports, but she found Saigon even more vibrant and exciting than before. "The new skyline has brought Saigon into the 21st century and is definitely worth a visit." Anne and Don also went to Cambodia to see Angkhor Wat, which was just being reclaimed from the jungle in 1970. Now that five temple areas have been cleared, Anne believes it "can truly be claimed as one of the wonders of the world."Anne's daughter and her family are living an expat life in Lagos, Nigeria ("Following in my footsteps," says her mom), and Anne hopes to visit them in South Africa at Christmas.

Irene Adler Hirsch has helped establish a website for the Cornell Israeli Club and hopes to host visiting Cornellians. Renie writes that she's enjoying art lessons and class exhibitions, directing and performing (Crossing Delancey and other plays), and playing bridge, "which I never had time for at Cornell, with so many labs!" She recently organized a musical evening to raise funds to purchase a defibrillator for Laniado Hospital in Natanya, where the Hirsches live. Renie and Henry also participated in a two-week program of SAR-EL, international volunteers in the Israeli army.

Dave Hyman, DVM '57, writes that he greatly appreciated hearing from friends who sent their condolences upon learning of the death of Dave's brother John '52. They remembered John as the Tau Delta Phi pledgemaster who presided over a sleepless initiation weekend that bonded "a group of guys who hardly knew each other"--including Len Hittner, Al Kaye,Marty Korn, MD '58, Paul Hyman, and Mike Sena--into "a tight knit group of friends."

You may recall that Nancy Eisenberg Grabow and her husband gifted the ILR school with the Reference Desk in the Catherwood Library, and in celebration of our 50th Reunion, they furnished an audiovisual room in the library. A recent travel highlight for the Grabows was a trip to Morocco and Spain to study the coexistence of three cultures: Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. Barbara Ramsey Adsit writes that she's "given up life as a bag lady, which I enjoyed for ten years," and has moved to Portland, OR, where her 3-year-old twin grandchildren are "a big attraction." Barb's "bag lady" phase meant spending summers at Lake George with her sister, renting apartments in Northern California in the winters, and traveling in between. One of her favorite destinations is Bali, where two of her children live. Next on her travel schedule was a trip to Paris and Prague last May. She also visited Carol Rittershausen Byron in Seattle, and learned that PatWells Lunneborg is recovering from back surgery. Hope that's going well, Pat.

Veralee Hardenburg McClain and husband Chuck, MA '57, are both retired from Muhlenberg College, and celebrated their 50th anniversary in Maine with all of their children and grandchildren. Still punching the time clock are Shaw Dallal, JD '59, who's a professor of Middle East studies and Arabic at Colgate U., and Judith Silverman Duke, editor and publisher of Advanced Technology Libraries ("a full-time job and then some").Malcolm Whyte says he's excited to be curating and writing the catalog for an exhibit of American Indian art that will open next spring at the Johnson Museum on campus. On view will be about 50 original paintings, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Whytes' own collection.Mal is still chairing the Cartoon Art Museum's board in San Francisco and curating an exhibit of original children's book illustrations.

Congrats to Bill and Sara Smith Ellison, whose record of attending every reunion ("11, including that baby reunion of 1958") remains intact. Our 50th Reunion even led to further get-togethers, the Ellisons report. Konrad and Dell Tauscher Bald '52 were visiting family in California "and we had a delightful time together." Then Sylvia VerinMangalam, MA '57, whom Sara knew from elementary school, came from Nova Scotia on a family visit, and got together with the Ellisons for dinner. "We're looking forward to the class's 55th--and our 12th."

Adrian Phaneuf retired in 1989 and moved to Homosassa, FL. He and Madeleine work as volunteers at Acadia National Park, Gettysburg National Military Park, and the Cradle of Forestry in Brevard, NC, for three-month "tours of duty." Best of all, Adrian adds, "we are both healthy." Bill Laube still owns and operates the Pleasanton (CA) Hotel Restaurant, but says he's looking for a motivated buyer. In his spare time, Bill marches in a comic drill team. Last February the team participated in "Carnaval" parades in Nice, France. Thank you, Barbara BrottMyers, for your kind words of appreciation to the 50th Reunion committees--"It was a great Reunion and much appreciated!" Hope that you, like the Ellisons, are planning to be with us in June 2010.

We extend our deepest sympathy to Joan Fellerman Hartz, who was widowed last July. Joan reports that adjusting to her new life is "more difficult and takes more time than one would like, but it gets easier as time goes on." She's reinstated her membership in the Cornell Club of New York, and says, "I look forward to being able to give of myself to Cornell again." -- Nancy Savage Petrie, nancypetrie@juno.com. Class website, http://classof55.alumni.cornell.edu.

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57 | "Oh, we are the seniors, a-taking our ease / We cut recitations whenever we please. / We go to the theatre and cut quite a swell / For soon we'll be leaving this school of Cornell." Remember those words? Fifty years ago this month we were singing them, and 50 years ago this coming June we gathered on the Quad to parade off to Barton Hall on a beautiful sunlit day.Here's hoping it will be another sunny day next June when many of us return for our 50th, June 7-10. Kathleen "Dede" Brennan Daly is planning on it, and Jane Marcus Chetron is still thinking about it. Jane has been in touch with Barbara Freid Conheim, Donald Kane, Jerry Greenspan, Nancy Astor-White, and Gerry Kravitz Loeb, so perhaps they'll help her with the decision. Sue Breslow Dillon is already getting organized by inquiring about our accommodations. Sue always enjoys reunion with her daughter Eleanor Dillon Petigrow '87. This past June the Merrick, NY, Chamber of Commerce honored Sue as Woman of the Year for her 35 years of community service.Having retired from teaching six years ago, Sue is presently working part-time for a county attorney.

Charles "Sandy" '58, MS '63, and Barbara Baltzel Burton will probably make it back for the 50th. As Barb writes: "It seems appropriate that, having gotten this far in life and having attended quite a few reunions, that it would be a shame not to." Sentiments shared by others out there? The Burtons are enjoying their five grandchildren, singing in the church choir, and participating in Project Feederwatch. The latter activity is sponsored by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Sandy and Barb have been avid backyard birdwatchers for many years. Olga Duntuch Krell has marked reunion on her calendar. Olga, grandmother of six, celebrated her 70th birthday in São Paulo, Brazil, with 80 guests.

Elsewhere in the magazine you can read about Reunion, which took place this past June. Some of our classmates, married to '56ers, had a preview of coming attractions. MarilynWay Merryweather, AnitaWisbrun Morrison,Marilyn Hester Ridgley, JaneWedell Pyle, Sue DeRosay Henninger, and Susie Howe Hutchins were spotted at the '56 tent. That class had 50 first-timers at their reunion. Hopefully, we'll beat that number at ours. Co-chairs Dori Goudsmit Albert and Paul Gladstone, along with Connie Santagato Hosterman, were on hand and busy taking notes to facilitate our own 50th, to make it a glitch-free one.

Judy BirdWilliams played tour guide to Ruthe "Skip"Hewlett Gorman and Judy Richter Levy, LLB '59, earlier in the year on the big island of Hawaii. "Bird" has relocated to the rain forest in Hilo, where she lives in a three-level house that she calls her tree house. Judy used her pick-up truck to drive her guests around Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. Traveling last April on the Cornell Alumni Holidays tour of the Adriatic Riviera were Ed and Carla Mills Boardman, Lee and Yoshie Blakeslee, Larry and Marilyn Zeltner Teel '58, and Ken '59 and Eva Stern Steadman. The group visited Slovenia, Croatia, and Venice by ship, train, and hydrofoil.

Watch your mail for the latest updates on reunion plans. -- Judith Reusswig, 19 Seburn Dr., Bluffton, SC 29909; e-mail, JCReuss@aol.com.

I once again had the pleasure of experiencing the wonderful hospitality of Rod and Liz Beckwith at their magnificent home in Keswick, VA. The pre-dinner conversation touched on Rod's recent kidney transplant, the donor being his son-in-law, and, just to keep his doctors from falling asleep, his broken back, which happened shortly after the transplant. I'm happy to report that the next morning saw Rod back on his daily routine of cartwheels and back flips, and scheduled for a cameo appearance on "General Hospital."

It's been two years since JohnWolberg became professor emeritus at the Technion in Haifa, but he still teaches on a voluntary basis when his golf schedule allows. Five years after retiring from the Leiden (Holland) U.Medical Center as chief of neuro-anesthesia, Barry Cohn has decided to step down, after 25 years, as president of the Jewish Community of Leiden. In conjunction with his 70th birthday, the Dutch Queen awarded him with a Knighthood in the Order of Oranje-Nassau (sic). He and Annelies relaxed in Italy over the summer, and look forward to our 50th next June.

Ted Raab sent along the sad news of the death of Fred "Shape" Jones, his dear friend and Sig Ep fraternity brother. After Cornell, Fred received his PhD in metallurgical engineering from the U. of Michigan, and went on to secure four patents for processes he invented involving earth permanent magnet materials during his career with General Electric and Hitachi Metals. His battle cry was, "There comes a time in the life of every project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin producing results." In addition to working and traveling around the world, Fred had time to enjoy fishing, taking care of his dogs, and teaching the wonders of magnets to his granddaughter's second grade class.

Bob Watts spent three weeks in Antwerp in June with daughter Jenny and her two daughters, continuing on to Zurich for a few days before returning to Vermont to get ready for a July visit of Jenny and the girls. Bob then took them, his two sons, and two other grandchildren on a hiking trip in the White Mountains, hoping to enhance their appreciation of "life in the forest."Myron Green is still unemployed (retired) after many years as director of Unemployment Insurance Adjudicated Services in the New York State Dept. of Labor. He continues to serve as a director of the Southeast US region board of the Red Cross Society of Israel. Brooke is also retired, but active in Elmira College alumnae news reporting. I wonder if she missed a meeting also, and was "elected" to serve in that august capacity. -- John Seiler, 221 St.Matthews Ave., Louisville KY 40207; tel., (502) 895-1477; e-mail, suitcase2@aol.com.

58 | Robert McGuire, M Ed '63, is retired and busy remodeling a barn to house livestock and chickens. He recently moved from the Village of Cobleskill, NY, to the town of Cobleskill (out in the country with less restrictive zoning laws). He recently had facial surgery to correct a loss of muscle control on the right side of his face. Peter Oettinger is the CEO of INPHO Inc., a four-year-old high-tech company manufacturing control systems for miniature X-ray tubes. He still plays classical guitar and enjoys skiing and traveling.

Edward Grevatt is the editor of Home Devotions, an ecumenical weekly for ministering to the homebound. He is also singing with the Sandwich (NH) Singers and is enjoying a lot of travel. He recently made a great road trip of many historic sites in New Hampshire, and also took a two-week Elderhostel Norway cruise visiting coastal ports and Spitsbergen, 750 miles from the North Pole. Robert Hendricks, PhD '64, is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech.He is very involved in new curriculum development, aimed at getting more women interested in engineering. He loves what he does and plans to keep at it for many years.When asked what Cornell friend he would like to hear from, he commented, "MSE '58 classmates--there were only nine of us!"

Connie Cornwall Powell is the librarian for the physical sciences at RPI. She has recently been writing histories of scientific research organizations including Chemical Abstracts Service and the National Inst. of Standards of Technology. Bev Amerman Lewin is retired and enjoying traveling and her grandchildren. She was on sabbatical last spring in Chicago and reunited with her freshman-year roommate Karin Jones Bull after a 50-year hiatus! Bev lives in Israel.

Maddi McAdams Dallas is always busy and in charge. I get to see her frequently, as her son and three grandsons live in Dallas. She is president of the Kappa Kappa Gamma of Cornell Foundation, second VP of the Cornell Club of Sarasota/Manatee, and co-chair of the 21st Century Committee of the Cornell Plantations. She also finds time for tennis, golf, and traveling. Joyce Halsey Lindley works out a lot and loves biking--including biking through Italy. She is slowly recovering emotionally from the death of her daughter of colon cancer at the age of 42. She would love to hear from Dorothy Gibson Bremner, who she can't seem to locate.

Ann McGinnis Daiber is a chaplain to the local hospital through the church. She also plays the recorder with a modern-day Collegium Musicum at Old Dominion U. Last summer she had a reunion with Carol HencleMerrell and Robbie Arvine Fishman on Block Island. She also saw Sandy Mosher Dwork and her husband as they went on a cruise out of Norfolk, so stayed in Hampton for a day. Speaking of Carol Merrell, she is a calf-raiser in Wolcott, NY. Some of her other activities are: Dollars for Scholars, Clerk of Session at church, choir, committees, quilting, grandchildren, and gardening. Robbie Fishman is presently at leisure with friends, family, and grandchildren. She is still on the board of the League of Women Voters and does lots of physical therapy for a bad back. Recently she fought for the extension of the Patriot Act and is trying to round up friends to go to NYC and see plays and hear concerts.

John Spivack,MBA '60, sent me his business card, which states, "Retired and available for all sporting events. Fax (310) 836-1436."He also sent a wonderful picture taken on the Cypress Point golf course with himself, Phil Marriot, MBA '60. and Ken Derr, MBA '60. They gathered at the beautiful vacation home of the Derrs in Carmel. They drank many toasts to Cornell and agreed not to let another 46 years pass before another reunion! -- Jan Arps Jarvie, 6524 Valley Brook, Dallas, TX 75254; e-mail, jjarvie@sbcglobal.net; Richard Haggard, 1207 Nash Dr., Ft.Washington, PA 19034; e-mail, dhaggard@voicenet.com.

59 | "After all the excitement and drama of the stock market, there are now new paths to explore and enjoy," says Mark Ettinger, who retired last year after 43 years in the money management business, the last 15 of which he spent running his own hedge fund. Among those "new paths" for Mark and his wife Wendy was a journey through Provence and the Pyrenees this summer. Since Angelo Mirabella's retirement in 1999, he and his wife have enjoyed several "wonderful" Cornell-sponsored trips--to Ireland, Portugal, and three times to Italy. "It was a case of Ripley's ‘Believe It or Not' when we met Roy Lieberman and his wife on the trip to northern Italy," says Angelo. "We discovered that Roy had been the pediatrician for three of my nephews!"

Another unexpected encounter took place at the Philadelphia airport, when Don Leon accidentally became reacquainted with Howie Miller,"who, surprisingly, recognized me after all these years," writes Don, emeritus professor of architecture at Penn State. Among Don's many professional honors was winning, together with three colleagues, the national design competition for the Korean War Veterans'Memorial on the National Mall. "That success was a mixed blessing, and appearing before many reviewing commissions inside the Beltway proved to be the educational experience of a lifetime," he comments.

Sylvia Rich Alderman loved her job as a middle school librarian, but now enjoys being retired and having time to read "grown-up" books. She also enjoys gardening, quilting, birding, and traveling--most recently to the San Juan Islands ofWashington and to New York City. Her volunteer activities include tutoring an émigré family and a class of first graders. After spending most of his career in Philadelphia, where he founded and ran a company that published catalogs of printed classical music, Mark Resnick and his wife moved to Seattle in 2005 to be with their two children.Mark writes that he had a stroke last year: "Although I have recovered quite a bit, my movement is somewhat restricted."

Richard Samuels retired from the labor relations group at Con Edison and is busy building a new career in residential real estate in Manhattan with Prudential Douglass Elliman. He and his wife Janet spent the summers of 2004 and 2005 in Paris, exchanging homes with Parisians, and this July had a similar trip to southern Spain. Dot Eisenhart Secor keeps busy maintaining three properties: the 103-acre southern plantation that has been their residence for 33 years, a 40-acre farm in eastern Pennsylvania, and a house and 29 acres in western Pennsylvania. She and husband Don '56, MCE '59, a professor emeritus in geology at the U. of South Carolina, traveled this year to Peru and Italy. Other recent travels by classmates include trips to Peru (Linda Rogers Cohen), the Canadian Rockies (Ellie Applewhaite), and Southeast Asia (BethWeinstein Newburger-Schwartz).Marian Fay Levitt has been traveling with her husband to public relations conferences around the world, most recently to Dubai, Istanbul, Prague, Paris, and Cairo. "It's been great fun since we usually take some extra time to see the sights," says Marian, who adds: "In the words of Alan Rosenthal, ‘Keep on traveling as long as you have your arches and your marbles!' "

PhilWinters, who remarried seven years ago, lives in New York City and "loves every minute of it!"He works for Lehman Brothers (after 21 years at Morgan Stanley). Joel Goldberg has finished his second novel, Shaman: The Beginning, and has begun work on his third. In addition, he teaches at the U. of Delaware's Academy of Lifelong Learning and works at the local YMCA as a site supervisor in youth sports. Bill Herz retired from the U. of Alabama several years ago and is currently doing some work with the city of Tuscaloosa on waste reduction and recycling.His community interests are focused on bicycling and pedestrian advocacy issues. Gail StantonWillis of Houston continues to work for Prudential Gary Greene Realtors and remains phonathon chairman for the Cornell Fund in her area. Among the attendees at her daughter's wedding last October were GwenWoodson Fraze and her husband Denny.

TomMeier describes a mini-reunion this past spring with Don Katz, Dick Talkin, and Bob Rosenberg. "The last two were visiting Don in Boca Raton and I came down from Palm Beach to join them."Dinner was followed by breakfast, golf, and lunch the following day--and lots of catching up on the past 47 years, plus plans to get together again for our 50th Reunion. Also hoping to attend the 50th are Mike and Linda Goldberg Bandler '62, BS '65, who recently enjoyed a river cruise from Prague to Budapest via Vienna.Mike writes that he keeps busy playing bridge and serving as a board member on a few non-profit boards.

Bob and Sandy Tower Kelley '60 live near Chapel Hill, NC, where they "work at finding time to see other very busy local Cornellians: Pat (Johnson) and Jack Evans, PhD '68, Paul, MBA '65, and Janet McCarthy, and Bill and Susan Mattison Fraser." Bob writes that time is divided among golf, church, and community choruses, working at keeping fit, and keeping track of ten grandchildren, who are scattered from New England to Wisconsin. The youngest grandchild resides near Ithaca with his parents Susan Kelley and Jim Schechter. "Susan is our youngest daughter," he writes. "A writer and journalist, she is an assistant editor of this very magazine you're reading now!" -- Jenny Tesar, 97A Chestnut Hill Village, Bethel, CT 06801; tel., (203) 792-8237; e-mail, jet24@cornell.edu.