80 | It has been a lovely and relaxing summer and I hope everyone enjoyed sun, sand, and water. Steve Radin and I are still located in Manhattan and are happy to reconnect with Cornellians. I was just reelected to a second term as a member of the board of directors of the ILR Alumni Association and I'm eager to hear from fellow ILR graduates. Steve continues to practice corporate governance and litigate corporate and securities cases with Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York.My oldest son, Jason, 12, graduated from sixth grade and has been playing trumpet solos at various performances. Son Jeffrey, 9, finished third grade and has become a photographer, developing his own pictures. Both boys spend their summers playing basketball, baseball, and tennis and are avid Yankee fans.

Richard and Linda Ripps Feder celebrated the bat mitzvah of their daughter Lauren on May 20 in Philadelphia. Steve and I attended and enjoyed catching up with Margery Salshutz Brauner, Esther Elkin Mildner, Janet Goldin Rubin '79, and Steven Goldenberg '81. The service was beautiful, and Lauren made her family proud, including her Cornellian grandmother, Jane Trynin Feder '55. Linda has her PhD and is working in the nutrition field for the Community College of Philadelphia and the Jefferson Home Care Network. Linda's husband Richie is Chief Deputy City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia Law Department, and her son Kenny is entering 11th grade. Margery Salshutz Brauner is doing well and living with husband Allan and children Eric, 12, and twins Caroline and Jonathan, 11, in Fair Lawn, NJ.

Mark and Esther Elkin Mildner celebrated the bat mitzvah of their daughter Erica on May 29 in Ardsley, NY. A moving service was followed by a boisterous party. Steve and I attended along with Linda Ripps Feder,Margery Salshutz Brauner, and Janet Goldin Rubin '79. Other friendly Cornellians in attendance included Mary T. Farrell, Martha Francis Fischer, Lisa Privett-Wood, Candace CrockerWarren, Robin Rosenberg '81, Stacey Levine-Silverman '75, H. Jay Sloofman '75, and Lisa Talcott Gaylor, who started with the Class of 1980 in U-Hall 1. Esther has her own general legal practice, including the trusts and estates and real estate areas, and Mark has his own accounting practice and is the CFO of HIAS (Hebrew Immigration Aid Society). Esther's daughter Carrie is entering tenth grade, and older daughter Alana is very excited to start Cornell in the fall with the Class of 2010, majoring in Policy Analysis and Management in the Human Ecology college.

With a PhD in genetics from Pennsylvania State U., LaurenMiller joined Bausch & Lomb in Rochester, NY, as Director, Pharmaceutical Evaluation and Licensing. Andy Kessler reported that his new book, The End of Medicine: How Silicon Valley (and Naked Mice) Will Reboot Your Doctor, will be published in July. Jeffrey Bennett was to be married over the summer.He is running his own software company, Bennet-Tec Information Systems Inc., in New York. Brian Miller is working as a theatrical set and lighting designer in Colorado and recently finished ten shows in five months. He reports that it is time to put his MBA back to use and rejoin the business world. Michael Lee is an orthopedic surgeon and has recently relocated to Calabasas, CA.Maura Kates-Rutkin, DVM '83, retired from her practice as a veterinarian to spend time with children Aviva, 15, Brad, 10, and Corey, 7, and cheer the boys' hockey teams to victory.

Enjoy the fall, and please write us with news of special occasions and significant events in your lives. -- Leona Barsky, leonabarsky@aol.com; Dik Saalfeld, rfs25@cornell.edu; Dana Jerrard, dej24@cornell.edu; Tim O'Connor, tvo2@cornell.edu; and Cynthia Addonizio-Bianco, caa28@cornell.edu.

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82 | A year from now, the class correspondent will be writing about the grand time we had at our 25th Reunion. So save the date--and plan ahead--June 7–10, 2007!

Meg Murray's oldest daughter's bat mitzvah was a reunion of sorts, attended by many Cornellians including Ned '81 and Anne Shuter Pride, Susie Kalus '80, David Heller '81, Kathleen Cullen Harwood '81, and classmates Beth Tremer Herrick, MD '86, Elena Nachmanoff, Karin Bain Kukral, Amy Murphy, Jan Feinberg Singer, Danielle Lichter Goldstein, Terry Ries Stepano-Vitch, and Bill Henry.Meg writes that it was "such a special day, made even more special to share with old and dear friends."

ChipMyers, DVM '87, is looking forward to hearing from "anyone.""All adult talk is appreciated" since he and his wife Dana Kellerman '85, DVM '90's son Benjamin Noah was born in December 2005. Chip writes, "As most of our contemporaries are thinking of colleges for their offspring, Dana and I had our very first and only child." The new parents are partners in a specialty veterinary internal medicine practice in Pittsburgh that offers mobile ultrasounds and endoscopies at their clients' regular primary veterinary caregivers.Write to Chip at cmyers97@aol.com.

Mark Cohen and his wife started a recycling company, Office Paper Recovery Systems Inc., from scratch in 1989 and are now the largest independent recyclers from Boston on north and operate a 76,000-sq.-ft. plant, "arguably the best in New England."Mark summarizes the last 24 years: "I've been married for almost 18 years to a great Tufts civil engineering grad and we've been fortunate to have two boys and a girl, now age 12, 10, and 8, respectively.We love living in Concord, MA, where we've been since 1992."Mark adds, "A woman came over to me after our 10-year-olds had been playing on the same soccer team for weeks and said I looked familiar. It turned out to be Ann SchragerWarner, who lived in either U-Hall 3 or 4. Small world!"

Also living in Massachusetts is Eric Aronson, in Cambridge. By day, he is a clinical psychologist, and his extracurricular activities include being an Amnesty Int'l human rights activist.He has been preparing to train trauma counselors in Sri Lanka in response to the 2004 tsunami and the ongoing war. Eric has been spending time with Irwin Waldman and wife Monica, as Irwin is in Cambridge on sabbatical. Eric would love to hear from Rich Sklar. E-mail Eric at earonson@earthlink.net.

Michael Clements (mjacseuss@cox.net) writes that he "recently closed his practice due to increasing expenses and declining reimbursements, another victim of the healthcare crisis that is adversely impacting this country."He is now working for the State of Connecticut as a physician for the Dept. of Corrections, and his after-hours activities include family tree research, reading, and numismatics.Michael would like to hear from his old roommate Larry Bass. Congratulations to Michele Riess, who started a new job as SVP and chief HR officer at Gartner, an IT research and consulting firm in Stamford, CT. In addition to her day job,Michele takes care of daughters Nicole and Kaitlin, enjoys travel and exercise, and would rather be "sitting on the beach in St. John" fondly remembering working at Noyes Lodge and hoping to hear from Miriam Blumberg. Please write to Michele at meriess@aol.com.

Andrew Jones is a production planner for Jeppesen Sanderson, a Boeing-owned company that produces and distributes flight charts for commercial and business pilots across the globe.He and his family live in Denver, and his youngest son is a "middie" on a Columbine youth lacrosse team that AJ is "lucky enough to coach."He adds,"Next year he enters high school, and maybe he can play for the Big Red one day." One of the fondest memories he has of our time at Cornell was the madness at Lynah Rink. He wishes he could get back there more often and would love to hear from Mark Depta. Reach AJ at ajtheyeti@champmail.com. Robert Hoffmeister also has fond memories of games at Lynah. He is currently an IT manager for CSC, and living in Apex, NC, where he plays in an adult ice hockey league and is raising two daughters with his wife Diane. Steve Mendell is an EVP of acquisitions and development at HEI Hospitality, where he spends his time "buying hotels" and his after-hours on family, golf, and the Yankees.

Our latest news form asks, "What is the one thing you remember most fondly from your time at Cornell?" The overwhelming response so far has been about the friendships that were formed then, and continue to this day. Echoing those sentiments are Liz Dibs Dole, DVM '86, John Pisacane, and Angelo Alberto, who adds, "and the fun times while staying up late in Rand Hall." Linda Harris Crovella wrote, "Walking through the Arts Quad on a sunny fall day or moonlit spring evening"; Beth Tremer Herrick, MD '86, wrote, "Swimming in the gorges"; and Cyndy Schillinger Rochford remembers "the ice cream!" Linda would love to hear from Ingrid Hall Johnson, Dana ToddWebster, Ginny Pados Beutnagel, and Robin Horowitz Friehling. Cindy wonders if ChrisWoiwode joined the FBI! And Liz Dole is looking for Barbara Safran, Rob Palumbo, and Ned Ensor.Write to Liz at blklabvet@aol.com.

When asked which old Cornell friend you would like to hear from, Mark Portera, a regional sales director with the Hershey Company, answered Larry Carrozzella. Keo Opton is hoping to connect with Aya Zbinovsky and DebbieWolfe.

Who would you like to see at our 25th Reunion? Start connecting now with help from the online Cornell Alumni Directory at https://directory.alumni.cornell.edu/ and make plans for Ithaca in June 2007! See you then, if not before. -- Nina M. Kondo, nmk22@cornell.edu; and Mark E. Fernau, mef29@cornell.edu.

83 | When I was a new alum, I sometimes wondered why the same people always seemed to have their names and news in our class column. After two years in the role of class co-correspondent, I now know that it's because a relatively small number of us are dedicated and consistent correspondents. So, if you've been wondering why you and your old chums are never in the column, please send us your news! Send it in along with your annual dues statement, or at any time online (http://classof83.alumni.cornell.edu/). Don't wait for life-altering moments only; we want to hear about your everyday lives as well.We're sending out a special plea for news from any of you who have kids attending Cornell or entering this fall.

On that note, Rachel Greengus Schultz sends "cheers from London! I am writing to let you know that another generation of Cornellians is about to happen in my family. My oldest son, Joshua, will be starting at Cornell in the fall.He will be the class of 2010, which seems very weird to me, but I am so excited for him. It also means we will get up to visit Ithaca at least once a year. It is quite a schlepp from London, but not impossible!" Rachel reports enjoying life as an ex-pat and taking advantage of the European home base by doing some exciting traveling. Last winter, Rachel and family went to Kenya for a safari, and in February went north of the Arctic Circle to Lapland, where the high temperature was -10. They also spent a week in Eilat on the Red Sea and enjoyed an "amazing" day trip to Petra. Plans for summer 2006 include a walking tour of the southwest coast of Turkey.When not traveling, Rachel works as an anesthetist in the National Health Service, which has been an eye-opening experience. "I am keeping notes and am thinking of writing a book called ‘Another Ridiculous Day at the NHS.' True life is far stranger than fiction."

Another ex-pat, Aron Lender, MBA '85, reports that he is living in Lima, Peru, with his wife Francis Barmac and children Orly, 4, and Nathan, 3. Samir Soubra, Lebanese by origin, writes that he is hoping to see his native country become stable and prosperous again. Samir is currently working as a landlord and is single but hoping to marry in a few years. Like many of us, he misses Ithaca, Cayuga Lake, and an old favorite of mine, Taughannock Farms Inn. In January, Joanne Gernstein London, MA '87, and family hosted a dinner in honor of Eric Gouvin's visit to their home city ofWashington, DC.Virginians Dan Loehr and Chris Hudson, MEE '85, also attended along with their families. This group gets together with other Cornell friends every three years or so for a week's vacation somewhere in the US. Participants (representing at least eight different states) have included Mary Thompson, Sam Bryan, JohnWalters, Scott Greene '84, Kate Foley '84, MS '88, Bill Starr '84, and Missy TurinWick '82.

We're still getting some thoughtful responses to co-correspondent David Pattison's e-mail request for news, updates, and thoughts on the nearly 25 years since we left the Hill. Fast-tracker Benny Yih hopes to run across the Grand Canyon again sometime during the next ten years. Seth Krosner misses that "cool" early '80s music (What were we thinking?). He never expected to be a trauma surgeon and never thought he'd be living in Southern California (San Diego). Seth worked at Noyes Dining on West Campus all four years, and STILL sizes up food service workers and restaurants ("I could handle that short-order line faster!"). Seth and his partner Phil Johnson have been together just under 15 years.

Also sizing up the hospitality industry is Barney Gallassio, who moonlights as a food critic when not at his day job as VP for client service operations at Medco Health. Barney encourages classmates to visit his website, www.undercoverconcierge.com. Twenty-three years ago, Julia Fox, PhD '99, was looking for a job as a radio reporter. Now she's on the faculty at Indiana U. as an assistant professor in the telecommunications department. Eva Bostek-Brady has changed careers exactly . . . zero times. She wonders, "Is that unusual--to still be in the same profession now as on the day I graduated professional school? But in addition to never changing careers, I've actually only changed animal hospitals once. I worked my first two years in a small animal practice in Massachusetts, and have spent the remainder of these years in a small animal practice in my home state of New Jersey. Despite all of my education and experience with all types of animals, I am approaching a hard-to-believe first in May 2006: the first birthday of the first puppy I've ever raised and trained! What a fun experience--I can't believe it took me this long!"

Judi Binderman, our class webmaster, is a computer guru in her professional life as well. She started working for Siemens Medical Solutions in July 2005 as a physician consultant for hospitals that use Siemens software for computerized physician order entry. Judi helps the physicians in the hospital learn to use the system, works with builders to build order sets, and helps the nursing staff understand how they can use the system to take care of patients. She also works with a third party vendor (through Siemens) to help hospitals use the latest research and evidence to offer the "best practices" when taking care of patients with a variety of diagnoses. She still loves living in Phoenix and closed on a home of her own in May. "I will finally be out of apartment-land, which I've lived in since grad school! It's about time!"

By day, Richard Haberek works in housekeeping for St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Utica, NY, and runs his own business (Dick's Office Cleaning) on the side. He'd rather be traveling, though, having recently enjoyed a trip to Spain and Portugal with dreams of future trips to Scandinavia or Australia in the future. Proud mama Elanor Brand announces that on February 16, 2006 she, husband David Levine, and daughter Samantha, 7, left for Seoul, South Korea. The family returned on February 25 with their new son, Brian Lewis JinHo Levine, who was born on August 13, 2005. They had a wonderful trip and are enjoying being a family of four. Leaving the rat race for the mommy track is Randi MiloroWarshall, proud parent of four children, ages 13, 12, 11, and 6. "Being the president of the PTA is a far cry from a union organizer, which I was prior to having my children. I traded picket lines and contract negotiations for car pools and sporting events! I can't say if it is better or worse; it just is what it is!"

By the time you read this, our 25th Reunion will be less than two years away. Plans are under way to make this a very special event for all of us. Send us your input and suggestions along with your news! -- Dinah Lawrence Godwin, Dinah.godwin@earthlink.net, and David Pattison, dpattison@earthlink.net.

84 | Mark Salzberg completed his quest to visit all 30 NHL arenas. He began in December 2003 and during that first season was able to hit 13--mostly on the west side of the continent, since he lives in Los Angeles. Plans were foiled during the 2004 non-season. Undeterred,Mark went forward this season and was able to finish during the last week of regular play.Mark's adventure got him to some amazing cities in the US and Canada (including Vancouver, D.C., Chicago, Toronto,Minneapolis,Montreal, and New York) and made it possible for him to catch up with various classmates.Wayne Darragh went to a Boston Bruins game, Jimmy Eicholzer drove from Syracuse to Buffalo for the Sabres and Niagara Falls; and Carol Leister flew to Nashville for the Predators, the Country Music Hall of Fame, and the Grand Ole Opry. Carol also went to Atlanta for the Thrashers, CNN, and all the Coca Cola products they could drink at the Coke Museum. Karin Bernt Colquitt '85 kept close tabs on each game, always offering encouragement.While each team offered awesome hockey, one fact remains: "Big Red Hockey rules."

Kevin O'Meara is responsible for all factory distribution of Whirlpool products in North America. Kevin says, "It has been a heck of a ride as the first thing I became involved in was the acquisition of Maytag!" Besides working for Whirlpool, Kevin teaches MBA courses at a local college in Wisconsin and like many of us, watches his son's athletic events. Downtime is best spent sitting by a lake in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, looking at a clear sky and reading a good book. Kevin best remembers the great walking in and around Cornell. Dan Elias has created a website called Zunafish.com that allows users to trade away the books, CDs, DVDs and other media items they no longer want to own. The start-up was the lead story in the New York Times "Circuits" section in mid-April. Dan has kept his day job--he's a television news anchor and reporter at the NBC station serving Western Massachusetts.

East Coast. Anita Riddle Schmidt lives in Fairfax,VA, with husband Steven and daughters Sierra and Christine. Anita manages procurement of maintenance labor and other resources for ExxonMobil's manufacturing facilities and travels frequently to Brussels, Tokyo, and Singapore. National parks and family visits to Illinois and Arizona occupy much of Anita's free time. Her fondest Cornell memory is traveling with the volleyball team and winning! Lisa Sotto is head of the privacy and information management practice and a partner in the New York office of Hunton & Williams. Lisa has been appointed acting chair of the US Dept. of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. Lisa and husband Bruce Saber live in NYC.

Joe D'Abbracci is the Director of Human Resources for Lockheed Martin Systems Integration in Oswego, NY. Joe would like to hear from Jon Fisse, for whom we do not have an address either. Joe can be reached at joseph.d'abbracci@Imco.com. Judy Fried Siegel is a urologist specializing in neuromodulation of voiding dysfunction in women and children. Judy and husband Jon have been camping and kayaking in rural Mexico with their three children. Judy most remembers the freedom from obligations while at Cornell and would like to hear from Don Habibi, PhD '85, Lauren Friedman '85, Larry Stanger '83, Linda Baldwin '85, Liz Benson Truman, and Meiling Lee. That sounds like a reunion in the making! Judy,Meiling Lee-Kravarik is still in the Edison, NJ, area and owns M3 Realty.

Cheryl Hoffman Yanuck and husband Sam '82 are in Chapel Hill, NC, where Cheryl is a psychiatrist. Singing is a major activity for Cheryl, as she helped with a school musical and sings with a choir. The Yanucks have been busy with their daughter's bat mitzvah and their son's athletic endeavors. Cheryl would like to hear from Lynne JenkinsMcGivern in Hawaii. Please e-mail Cheryl at chy@nc.rr.com. Christine Kwiatkowski Faber and husband Mark '81 live in Randolph, NJ. Anne Gumkowski Pierce loves life in South Florida with husband Glenn and sons Benjamin and Graham. Anne is an independent consultant specializing in visioning, strategy, development, executive relationship building, and change management, working with a large industrial client. Glenn started a new company two years ago, Pacific Charter School Development, which makes a difference in the education of many young children living in challenging urban environments. Anne's Cornell memories include time with friends from Delta Gamma and the gymnastics team.

Christopher Lindsay is establishing a consulting business in the areas of school consultation and related labor relations/human resources/workers' compensation. Chris is also developing as a newspaper and magazine feature writer on a variety of topics. The Lindsay family lives in Niskayuna, NY, where Chris is a parent representative for families with special needs children, and a member of the school district facilities and safety committees and the Clan Lindsay of America Association. If given a choice, Christopher would rather be sailing around the world with his wife Nancy and children. Christopher and Nancy would like to hear from Kristine and John Bradley '82, MBA '83, who they lost touch with after John took a VP of human resources position in London with Morgan a few years ago. You can reach the Lindsay family at lindsays6@ earthlink.net.

Marcy Dubroff is associate director of college communications at Franklin & Marshall College.Marcy still spends time as a freelance photographer and a Democratic committeeperson for Lancaster County and helping plan a Cornell Daily Sun photographer reunion in NYC.Marcy recently mounted her first group photo exhibit, "Documenting ‘Eyes Wide Open': Eight Photographers," and will have another, "The Selective Eye," at F&M this autumn.Marcy most remembers the chimes wafting over the campus. Linda Zell Randall is at home with "my three sons," as she puts it, and sings with the Naples Philharmonic Center Chorale and Chamber Choir. Linda would like to hear from Sharon Toll Rubinson and Allison Grove Gulbrandsen.

Family at Cornell. Tom Post has been having fun traveling from Michigan to visit his daughter Katie '09, who has finished her freshman year at Cornell. Tom also attended a lightweight crew race with his dad, Robert Post '50, where he saw Greg Miller, John Skawski '83, BS Ag '85, and Tom Felderman '82. He wants to send a loud hello to members of the Cornell PhiWire (you know who you are!). Rob Goldwasser's son Matt was accepted to the Environmental Engineering program in CALS, after spending two summers at the Cornell Summer College Program. Rob and wife Jenni (Katz) '85 also have a new high schooler, Jake, and a daughter Betsey in the fifth grade. Rob and Jenni spend time in the Berkshire Mountains with the family, doing lots of outdoor stuff, especially kayaking. Rob remembers great times at the DKE house. -- Lindsay Liotta Forness, fornesszone@aol.com; Karla Sievers McManus, Klorax@comcast.net. Class website, http://classof1984.alumni.cornell.edu.

85 | Hello, fellow 1985 grads! Seems the more I drive around in Florida, the more CORNELL stickers I see on the back of cars. I always try to get close enough to see if I may, by some odd coincidence, actually recognize this person.More often than not, though, I suspect that it is for the driver's son or daughter, and so . . . I speed up and cut them off so they can see MY Cornell sticker. That's the way we drive here in South Florida.Well, we do live on the edge, knowing that hurricane season started June 1.

Several past roomies of mine, Cindy Cowan Bowman,Maryellen Fisher Magee, Karen Magri Dadd, and Jill Beckenstein Lerner, got together in North Carolina for a mini-reunion.Visiting several wineries and reconnecting, hopefully not talking too badly about the other seven or so of us who did not make the trip. Cindy and Maryellen are neighbors in Charlotte, NC, Karen lives in Cary, NC, and Jill traveled the farthest from Massachusetts. All in all, I heard that it was a great long weekend.

I, however, was trying to recoup finances after getting married on April 22 in Islamorada in the Florida Keys. The small islands off the peninsula of Florida were inundated with my husband Michael Cornett's relatives, and Leslie Nydick joined in the pre- and post-wedding festivities, representing Cornell admirably! My husband and his FSU and UF buddies enjoyed a bachelor party, fishing on the high seas, and my bridesmaids and I hit the Spa at the Hard Rock Café for a day of pampering.

The wedding was set right on the bay on a beautiful but hot Florida day, and my 5-year-old son Daniel was our ring bearer. Guests dined, drank, and then danced to Buffet, Springsteen, the Stones, and the Eurythmics for a totally '80s kind of day! We honeymooned there in Islamorada, enjoying kayaking, snorkeling, and sailing. Relaxing in the water on the sandbar and sampling the Keys‚ fresh fish, and Key Lime Pie give us reasons to return. It's a great place to vacation--even more beautiful to get married in!

I have started a new job--still as a director of culinary services, but in a different retirement community.My husband works for the local news station, WPLG, an ABC affiliate in Miami. I enjoy constant ribbing about the lack of a football team at Cornell, but I get to cheer on the Seminoles and actually see a team I cheer for WIN!

I am not the only newlywed! Jen Sidell Cornelssen Ellis e-mails that she is not only a fairly recent newlywed, but she and husband Bob '82 also have new baby Jack-- a potential fifth-generation Cornellian! Jen's grandfather and great-grandfather attended Cornell, and Bob's parents, three uncles, cousins, brother, and sister are all Cornell grads. Sounds like little Jack is a shoe-in.

Mark Sheraden, MBA/ME '92, took his 11-year-old daughter on Spring Break. No, not to Ft. Lauderdale, but to Tokyo, Kamakura, and Kyoto, Japan! Mark enjoyed the sights, but more so the quality time with his girl! On a more serious note,Mark's younger daughter suffers from juvenile arthritis. This is more common than we think and there are others in our class suffering as well. Please keep Mark's daughter, and all, in your prayers. John and Jill Castleman Bickers wrote they are looking forward to John's retirement from the Army. (Thank you, John.) John will become an assistant professor at Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky U. John writes that this retirement is a "joint accomplishment, as nobody makes it through two decades in the Army without help."

News Forms brought interesting responses. Scott Kurkela writes that he is an arborist representative/sales manager. Though Scott misses the late nights in the libraries, his "after-hours" time is well spent now with family. "Raising family and enjoying quality time with children in all seasons" is what he wants to do. Scott would like to hear from Richard Yeager and can be reached at SKURKELA@optonline.net. John Halporn (john.halporn@gmail.com) is an internal medicine physician at Emerson Hospital in Concord, MA. Though he misses the simplicity of life at Cornell, he is loving life with wife Sarah Davis and playing with his 2-year-old, Josie. He would prefer to be sailing his boat rather than the recent "scraping" of it, but hopefully it will be out on the water again soon. John would like to hear from Zay Risinger.

Anne Aberbach sends news from Paradise Valley, AZ. She and husband Steve Lee are realtors for Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, as well as parents to Jordan, 10, and Olivia, 7. Anne and family enjoy traveling and just got back from Maui, a relaxing vacation on the beach! Anne writes that she wants to spend as much time with her kids as possible--they grow up so quickly. Kenneth Fendick (Kenneth.L.Fendick@accenture.com) is a consultant in Orlando, FL, for Accenture.He, like all good Floridians, enjoys a great round of golf and is into personal training. (Better you than me, Ken!)

Mindy Lee Manley Comstock is married to Allan, a Texas state trooper.Mindy has been an ER nurse since 1999. I'm not sure if Mindy or husband Allan is the retired City of Houston firefighter, but it's an awesome achievement! Mindy and Allan are raising children Austin, 11, Hannah, 4-1/2, and Joey, 2-1/2.Michele Holding sent just the facts, ma'am. She's an M.D., board certified in pain medicine and physical medicine and rehab. She can be reached at doctormichele@bww.com.

Friends, send in your News if you haven't done so yet. Let's keep in touch with each other. -- Joyce Zelkowitz Cornett, jmcornett@bellsouth.net; and Leslie Nydick, Lnydick@aol.com.

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87 | This column finds me with a rare daytime moment with only one child underfoot. I should be able to actually sit down from start to finish and put together the column. As always, many people sent Tom and me e-mail news directly--a good way to get a timely mention in the column. Keep it up. Our e-mail addresses are below.

Sarah Mendell Gilmour was appointed as an at-large trustee to the Endowment Committee of the Big Red Band Alumni Association. This committee makes recommendations concerning the disbursement and investment of endowment funds and coordinates long-range fundraising. Speaking of the Big Red Band, save the date for the November 11, 2006 football game at Columbia U. Afterwards, the Big Red Band will do its traditional march down Fifth Avenue (the Sy Katz '31 Parade) from St. Patrick's Cathedral to the Cornell Club-New York at 6 East 44th Street.

Gligor Tashkovich, MBA '91, was recently elected to the University Council of the American U. in Bulgaria. Douglas Kurth was activated by the Navy Reserve to work on Guam military development issues for the US Pacific Command, in light of an historic agreement with the government of Japan to relocate 8,000 US Marines from Okinawa to Guam. Susan Eng from my Balch Hall days sent an e-mail to say Howdy. So Howdy!

Many of you sent news along with your class dues renewal, which includes another year's subscription to Cornell Alumni Magazine. Again, a great way to keep in touch. Larry Van De Valk, MAT '90, is the director of LEAD New York. He was recently awarded the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service. Larry would like to hear from Mark Pokorny.Mark, are you out there? Perhaps somewhere in the mountains ofWyoming? In July 2006,Marc Lacey moved from Nairobi, Kenya, where he had been covering Africa for the New York Times since August 2001.His next posting is to Mexico City, where he will be covering Latin America and the Caribbean.Marc reports that he still doesn't work any harder than he did when he was editor in chief of the Sun.

Gordon Whiting was honored with the Young Alumni Achievement Award by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the ALS Alumni Association. The young alumni award goes to an alum of the college who is under 40 in the year of the award, so Gordon will be the last representative from the Class of '87! The award honors alumni who have demonstrated leadership to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and also has recognized success in their professional life. Steven Coutts recently joined Studley, a leading commercial real estate services firm specializing in tenant representation. Steven is a widely recognized real estate industry expert in operations, research, and information services, and oversees Studley's national research operations for the firm's 19 US offices.

Stephanie Scantlebury-Forsyth and her husband Terry '77,MAT '79, have started a thoroughbred horse farm in Cobleskill, NY. Stephanie also works as an assistant superintendent in the New Paltz Central School District. Fred Hedengren is a teacher of math, as well as the hockey and lacrosse coach at the Pingry School in New Jersey. Other academicians include Matt Nagler, an assistant professor of economics at Lehman College of the City U. of New York. He has two children ages 5 and 2.Matt sends news from Brian Giesler, who recently landed a tenure track professor position at Butler U., where his wife Kathryn also teaches. Finally, Amit Batabyal is the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics at Rochester Inst. of Technology. He recently finished his fourth book, titled Stochastic Models of Decision Making in Arranged Marriages.

Rev. Vincent Curran is a Catholic priest at St. Rita Church in Hamden, CT. Sherie Petronis Vandergast is presently the executive director of Intervention Associates, a not-for-profit care management and home care agency. She was kind enough to provide a brief recap of her life thus far. "I moved from the country to the city, then to a smaller big city (Philadelphia). Ten years later, I moved back to the country, with no public sewer/septic, no public water, and no DSL, where the closest supermarket borders a bison farm." Shari is looking for her freshman year roommate. Linda, are you out there? E-mail Shari at vandergast@hughes.net.

Andrew Karanas is general surgeon at Noble Hospital in Westfield, MA.Yoyen Aurora Lau is working full-time as a physician in Alabama and spends time with her three kids and physician husband. Lynne Raymond Martin is in the same industry I am--mommy. In the interesting job category,Wendy Knight is a travel writer. Rob Goldberg is a country lawyer in paradise--Hawaii.

Finally, on a sad note I am sorry to report that Gwenn Giles Hoyt passed away in February 2006. She was living in Maine with her husband Bob and dog Sadie. Gwenn taught high school geometry for nine years and also worked at Justice Planning and Management Associates in Farmingdale, ME, and served as a consultant in Web design, graphic design, database management, and computer programming. Her husband wrote that family and family traditions were very important to her. "Gwenn created a cookbook of favorite family recipes illustrated with pictures of the grandparents who created them, and this has become a prized family possession."

Thanks to all for sending mail--and keep e-mailing us, too! -- Debra Howard Stern, dstern39@yahoo.com; and Tom S. Tseng, tst2@cornell.edu.

88 | Greetings once again, '88ers! So, have you reached it yet? My fellow correspondent Suzanne and I have both written about it in recent columns. Has it happened to you? It has happened to me.What am I speaking of? Well, reaching the ripe old age of 40, of course! For me, the grand event happened back in March.My wife Ann arranged a surprise dinner party for me at one of our favorite local restaurants. The event was attended by several close friends, including Steve Werblow and his wife Anna (Barnsley) '90, who traveled down from their home in Ashland, OR. Ann and I were only too happy to return the favor and travel north to Oregon in May when Steve W. reached the same milestone. Apart from his parents, I was the one there who had known Steve the longest and it was great fun to be able to relate old stories to his more recently made friends in Ashland. All-in-all, two very fun parties. Have any of you had 40th birthday parties with other Cornellians in attendance? Write in and let us know how you've celebrated reaching this new decade of life.

In reviewing some of the news sent in recently, a fair number of you answered the question, "Who is the old Cornell friend you would most like to hear from?" I'm going to be sure to mention as many of these as possible here and perhaps we may spark some mini-reunions across the country. For those of you seeking or being sought, I encourage you to use the online Cornell Alumni Directory at https://directory.alumni.cornell.edu/. It is a great resource for finding information that can reconnect you to a classmate.

As usual, while writing this column several months in advance, I wonder what the season will be like when you are actually reading it. Summer is just about to be begin now, but by the time you are perusing these lines, it will probably have just slipped away and many may be looking forward to cooler temperatures. Fortunately, that is not much of an issue (usually) here in Northern California. One classmate who now knows of what I speak is Roderick Lavallee. Roderick and Heather, his wife of ten years, have moved to Walnut Creek here in the Bay Area with kids Tanner, 6, and Ethan, 4. He is moving ahead with a creative writing career while being a stay-at-home dad for his sons, volunteering at his oldest boy's kindergarten, and teaching the younger son how to swim. Roderick would most like to hear from Jay Rietz.

Christopher Peterson wrote from Cincinnati in May that he recently returned from a two-and-a-half-year "fantastic" assignment in Geneva, Switzerland. Christopher is the director of investor relations for Procter and Gamble. He would most like to hear from classmates Michael and Ginny McManama Duffy, MPS '88. Someone who wrote while getting ready to depart overseas is Traci Nagle. Traci was burning the midnight oil and sent an e-mail at 2:00 a.m. the night before leaving for six weeks in France with her husband Sumit and daughter Tara. This fall, Traci is beginning a graduate program in linguistics at Indiana U. in Bloomington. She says it is "surely the last thing I would have imagined for myself when I left Ithaca." Traci has fond memories of the chimes ringing each afternoon as she walked (or slid, in winter) down Libe Slope. She states that Indiana U. has a set of chimes as well, but they "cannot compare, in sound quality or in creativity, to those in McGraw Tower."

From back in the Big Apple, Alison Minton wrote that she is busy promoting her business,Maplemint Enterprises, an event planning and hospitality consulting firm, and building its website, www.maplemint.com. Alison is the quintessential New Yorker, serving on the Museum of Natural History Committee and Young New Yorkers for the Philharmonic. She would most like to hear from Chi Kim '87. Also writing from the City is Lauren Parker. Lauren is a freelance writer whose day job is editor of Accessories magazine. Lauren spends her leisure hours bicycling, painting, and playing piano. She would most like to hear from classmate Julie Mlawer Fegan. Another '88er in business for himself is Michael Farley.Michael is an attorney who earlier this year re-opened as a sole practitioner after two years of being a partner in his former firm. Mike spends off-hours coaching kids football and skiing. He would most like to hear from Mark Baughan.

Class officer Larry Goldman sent word from Denver that life is mostly centered on work and his daughter Jane. Larry is a director of Six Sigma Marketing and has almost earned his Six Sigma Black Belt, disciplines of quality improvement and methodologies, and works to help leaders in the field understand simulation and optimization tools. He and his wife recently bought a bike seat for their daughter and enjoy long rides on the bike trails of Denver. Larry would most like to hear from Mark Evans '87, who lives in Doylestown, PA, and works as a town planner. Also in Pennsylvania is Jay Goldman. Jay and his wife had twins Will and Maggie in December 2005. The parents spend a lot of time gardening and landscaping and completed a total renovation of an 1870s farmhouse last year.

Another classmate who mentioned gardening ("planting shrubs") is Joseph Voli. Joseph is an attending surgeon at New York's Beth Israel Medical Center in general and laparoscopic surgery. In addition to his planting, he enjoys swimming, boxing, and chasing after his three kids. Joseph would most like to hear from Ngoc Thai. Another medical classmate is Joel Goldberg, an associate surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Massachusetts. Joel and wife Hilary make their home in Needham, MA, with daughter Emily. And last but certainly not least, we hear from Deborah Feldman Friedland, MS '95, of Port Washington, NY. Deborah is the director of hospitality advisory services for the Schonbraun McCann Group LLP. She and husband Jon are the proud parents of two boys ages 3 and 6.

Well, that's the end of the news we have on hand. Please do write in with news of those 40th birthday parties and all other life events and changes. I hope you all enjoyed the summer months and are looking forward to the cooler air and varied colors of autumn. As always, until next time, I wish you peace. -- Steve Tomaselli, st89@cornell.edu; and Suzanne Bors Andrews, smb68@cornell.edu.

89 | It's hard to believe summer is over and school is starting again! The years keep flying by! Remember those great fall days in Ithaca--seems like yesterday, huh?

An e-mail came from the guys of 202 College Ave.: Adrian Baddar, Yujen Juan, Luis Molina, Michael Pannunzio, Steve Seidner, and Andrew Wong. They had their own mini-Cornell reunion last summer on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.With their families it totaled 12 adults and 11 children ranging from 8-1/2 to 4 months in two houses right on the beach. They had a great time reminiscing about Cornell and subjecting their wives and kids to endless tales of Ithaca, and even had a late night viewing of Scarface, accompanied by a decent attempt to duplicate their favorite Hot Truck sandwiches.

Here's a brief update on each of the reuners: Adrian Baddar is an orthopedic surgeon in private practice in Newport News, VA. He and wife Lauren are the parents of Eliza, 2-1/2. Yujen Juan designs chips for high definition televisions at ATI Research Inc. He and wife Susan live in Princeton Junction, NJ, with their children Kevin, 9, and Amanda, 6. Luis Molina is a manager at the Minneapolis office of GfK Custom Research, an international market research firm. Luis is married to Ximena and lives in a suburb of Minneapolis.Michael Pannunzio is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in hand surgery. He relocated from Charlottesville, VA, where he had been on the U. of Virginia's Medical School faculty, to Indianapolis, where he joined a private medical practice.Mike and wife Tracy have children Erica, 6, Alec, 6, and Emily, 1-1/2. Steve Seidner is the chief technologist at the Georgia Pacific Corp. in Atlanta. Steve and wife Siobhan have son Alex, 9, and twins Alison and Adam, 6. Andrew Wong has his own law practice in New York City in commercial litigation and trusts and estates. Andrew and wife Lily and 3-year-old twin daughters Amy and Jill live in Manhattan.

From the Class News Forms, we learned that Joelle Maher lives in Los Angeles and is VP/GM planning and operations for Lucky Brand jeans. She and spouse Darren Hallberg enjoy fixing/remodeling their home, 4x4 off-roading, and wine tasting. Ed Clary is a pilot for Southwest Airlines and lives in Tucson with his wife Martina and son Kevin, now almost 1. Robert Kim lives in Phoenix and is a partner in a management consulting firm. He and wife Dana enjoy hiking, camping, canoeing, fishing, and real estate investing. Jaime BloomWeiss is a lawyer at Hogan & Hartson, specializing in matrimonial law. She is also an adjunct professor at Cardozo Law School. She and husband Tom live in Ardsley, NY, with their two sons David, 8, and Ethan, 6-1/2.

Jodean Robbins Duarte sent us news that she is an international trade consultant for agriculture and food products doing market studies, trade missions, and buyer linkages for overseas exporters. She lives with her husband Josue in Drexel Hill, PA. Leslie Scheidt Redd is the director of admission and financial aid at the Evergreen School in Shoreline,WA. In her spare time she enjoys skiing with her husband and her two boys, ages 8 and 10.

On a personal note, I (Stephanie BloomAvidon) have been busy being the PTA president at my son Matthew, 9, and daughter Nicole, 6-1/2's elementary school in Syosset, NY. I just started my second year. It's been fun planning all the activities and events and working with the over 500 PTA members, school faculty, and teachers and district administration. Besides the time I spend at school (which turns out to be a full-time job), I am working as a marketing/public relations consultant from my home. After school hours and weekends I spend on the sport fields or in the gym, going around to soccer, baseball, lacrosse, hockey, basketball, gymnastics--you name it, the kids are in it and having fun!

That's all the room we have for this issue. Please keep sending us news! We try our best to include everything we receive in a timely manner. E-mail is easiest. Here's how to reach us. -- Stephanie Bloom Avidon, stephanieavidon@optonline.net; Anne Czaplinski Treadwell, ac98@cornell.edu; Lauren Hoeflich, laurenhoeflich@yahoo.com; and Mike McGarry, mmcgarry@dma-us.com.