00 | Happy New Year, classmates! Can you believe it's 2007? I'm sure I say that every year, but it still seems that time is going by so fast. It feels like just yesterday that I was writing last edition's column for you as I studied for the Bar exam. And now, as I write this one (we write these columns months in advance), I await the results, which come out in about two weeks.Wish me luck. Anyway,my point is: time is flying by. And what makes me notice it the most is when I visit with all my newly married friends whom I remember as freshmen not so long ago . . .

My best friends Waina Cheng and Jason Satran just celebrated their one-year anniversary last month. Yay! And I am happy to report that they are blissfully living the quintessential married life in their new Upper West Side apartment, terrace and all.Waina was also just recently accepted into Columbia Presbyterian's hematology-oncology fellowship program. She says she is delighted to remain at Columbia (where she is completing her internal medicine residency), and is also very excited about Jason's "snazzy and fresh" new haircut! Ah, the married life. Across the park, another dear friend of mine, Brad Coffiner, was married this past fall.He and wife Sasha wed on September 10, 2006 at Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. The couple is now living on the Upper East Side. I can't wait to see you guys AND your new place!

Lori Sachs and Alex Harrison were married on August 26 at the Pearl River Hilton in Pearl River, NY.Many Cornellians were in attendance including Lori's father, Joel Sachs '63, and Lori's sister Beth Sachs Zoller '96. Lori and Alex honeymooned in Thailand and live in the Union Square area of Manhattan. Alex graduated from Columbia Business School in May, and Lori is an intellectual property associate at Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner LLP. And last, but not least, another one of my friends whom I have known since freshman year tied the knot as well. DougWeine married the beautiful Romy Park (Yale '99) on June 10, 2006 in New York City. Romy is working toward her Master of Fine Arts in graphic design at Yale, while Doug completes his final year of internal medicine residency at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell Medical Center. Apparently, Doug is addicted to the Big Red. After graduation he went on to complete his medical degree, and when he finishes his residency this coming year, he will stay with our alma mater to do his gastroenterology fellowship.

On that note, I would also like to congratulate Evan Grossman, who will soon begin his fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Evan had wonderful personal news to report as well. His brother Craig Grossman '97 and wife Lauren (Alpert) '97 recently brought a darling baby boy into the world. Uncle Evan says that his new nephew, Ethan Sawyer (I love that name), is absolutely lovable and extremely bright. It already looks like we'll have yet another Grossman to grace the Cornell campus in upcoming years! Another happy birth occurred this past year on April 1. Anna Gravino Salerno left her human resources job at Quest Diagnostics to have her "April Fool's baby," Isabella Katherine. Isabella is a welcome addition to the Salerno home, as her big brother Matthew now has a new playmate!

In the spirit of the New York City marathon (which we just celebrated here in the City), here's an update on Trent Stellingwerff and his wife Hilary. As mentioned in the Sept/Oct issue, Trent assists in coaching his wife, an Olympic-level distance runner. The couple recently moved to Lausanne, Switzerland, so Trent could start his new job at the Nestle Research Centre as a senior scientist in the sports nutrition division for PowerBar. Both Hilary and Trent love living in Switzerland and spend their free time road cycling, mountain biking, and hiking. If you would like to read more about Hilary and her fabulous accomplishments as an athlete, log on to www.runhilaryrun.ca. Have fun out there, you two, and best wishes from your classmates back home!

As for me, I graduated from Brooklyn Law School this past June and have started work at the New York City Law Department as an attorney for the corporation counsel, Michael Cardozo. And, just as in every other life stage through which I have transitioned, I have run into Cornellians. Both Amy Rozenfeld '01 and HollyWinefsky Gerstenfeld are working with me as attorneys in the Tax & Bankruptcy Division. And I recently made a new Cornell friend, David Cooperstein '03, who just graduated from Cardozo Law School and is a member of my new attorney class. I guess you never stop meeting Cornellians, do you? Anyway, that's all I have to report for now. Remember, we love hearing from you, and we love writing for you. So send us some news! -- Andrea Chan, amc32@cornell.edu; Christine JensenWeld, ckj1@cornell.edu.

01 | Happy New Year, Class of 2001! We hope that the New Year finds you well and that you're off to a great start! On May 21, 2006, classmates Heather Bernstein and Steven Kopleff were married. Earlier in May, Heather graduated with a master's degree in art history and archaeology from the Inst. of Fine Arts at New York U. In the fall, she began studying for a doctorate in Egyptology from NYU. Steven works as a senior manager at American Express in Manhattan, where he does quantitative analysis in the small business risk-management department.

Congratulations to Holly-Katharine Johnson, who wed Ernest Mathews III on May 27, 2006 at Trinity Church in Princeton, NJ. The bride's godfather, the Very Rev. James Parks Morton, performed the ceremony. After college, Holly-Katharine received a Master of Fine Arts degree in writing from the Vermont College of the Union Inst. and University. She works as an assistant professor of English at Mercer County Community College in West Windsor, NJ. Congratulations to Nicole Neroulias and Salil Anil Gupte, who wed on July 29, 2006 at Sage Chapel. Until last summer, Nicole was a religion and city reporter at the San Mateo County Times in California. Salil Anil received an MBA from Stanford last year and is now an associate at Goldman Sachs in New York, working in a group that invests in stocks, bonds, and real estate of public and private companies.

Congratulations to Cory Belnick and Chris Kercher, who wed on September 3, 2006 in Deer Valley, UT, and honeymooned in Tahiti. They had lots of Cornellians at the wedding, including members of the wedding party. Bridesmaids included Kelly Belnick '97 (maid of honor), Allison Menkes, and Jessica Engel. Groomsmen included David Lifeso (best man), Giancarlo Turano, Ryan Feldman, Brendan Roche, Brian Glueckstein '00, and Christopher Virelli '00. The happy couple resides in New York City. Cory is currently a medical student. After graduating from NYU Law School in 2004, Chris now works as a litigation associate at the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.

Last April,Melanie Schori won a Fulbright award to the Philippines.Melanie, now a doctoral student in plant and biological sciences at Ohio U. in Athens, OH, has been spending the 2006-07 year studying a little-known group of forest trees in the Philippines. To quote Melanie's experience, she says, "I know that my life will be permanently changed during my time in the Philippines and by the people I meet there. It's my only opportunity to do field research for my dissertation, which is very important to me, but I know that in the long run, the cultural experience and the connections I make will be the most significant aspects of my Fulbright."

Last summer, Lisa Dughi spent three weeks traveling to Rarotonga in the Cook Islands as part of a team of volunteers who are tutoring children in reading skills on the picturesque South Seas island. The experience was coordinated by Global Volunteers, a nonprofit organization that offers short-term service programs around the world. Lisa and her volunteer teammates worked one-on-one with students and, over the course of the program, forged bonds of common understanding with the local community. She also had the chance to watch fifth and sixth graders learn the traditional island dances of Rarotonga, and even participated in the class. During her free time, Lisa took in the natural beauty of the island, touring its wild interior, strolling its beaches, and attending island shows and cultural lectures.

David Solarz checks in from Boston, where he is currently a second-year resident in internal medicine at the Boston U.Medical Center. Although he would have liked to attend reunion, he was unable because he was at the wedding of classmate StuartWeiss. David is a member of the Cornell Club of Boston and currently lives with Janelle Luk in South Boston.

So . . . what's new in your lives? Any exciting trips? New job? Grad school? Weddings? Babies born? E-mail us at classof2001@cornell.edu.We hope that all is well with each of you--let us know about it! -- LaurenWallach, LEW15@cornell.edu; and Trina Lee, TKL6@cornell.edu.

02 | Well, fall is upon us as I write, and Buffalo already got slammed with a snowstorm in October. Bring back memories? Hopefully, many of you were able to celebrate Zinck's night in your respective cities. A word to those of you needing an excuse to let loose: go see Borat if you haven't already. There is really nothing like it, though it's certainly not for the prim and proper. If you fit that mold, then I'd recommend reading Life of Pi. It's equally excellent, though less jaw-dropping.

Everyone mark your calendars for our 5TH REUNION, June 7-10, 2007!

Many of us are going back to the Hill for other reasons. This summer Cornell's Adult University (CAU) had several alumni attend their on-campus summer classes. Our very own Janet Ortiz, MPS '02, took Vet World. A sample of the other classes available include: Not So Pasta: An Italian Cookery Workshop; Mozart: Music, Life, and Times; The Sailing Clinic; and Understanding the Science of Everyday Things. For more information contact Alexandra Taylor '09 at ajt39@cornell.edu or CAU director Ralph Janis '66 at rj10@cornell.edu.

Many of us are back in school pursuing degrees in various fields. Judy Chan is a research analyst at the NLM Foundation in Wellesley,MA, and is also pursuing a PhD in school psychology at Northeastern U. Jen Kohler began her PhD in clinical psychology at Fordham U. Brad Unger is well into the first semester of his MBA at the Johnson School, and Steve Terry is in the Twelve-Month Option (TMO) program. Justin Lerner is in his fourth and final year at UCLA Film School. Abhishek Mathur had a busy year last year, graduating from law school at New York U. and also finding time to get married. Congratulations, Abhi!

Ellen Brosius started her fifth year working at Abercrombie & Fitch in Columbus, OH.My current consulting assignment has me stationed during the week in that state's capital, so I have been enjoying having a friend who can show me around the town. Rafael Jaramillo is now living in Chicago, IL. Susan Cohen began her second year as assistant dean of admissions at Cooper Union in New York and spent a lot of time traveling during recruiting season this fall. Jack Troidl is an environmental engineer at Comprehensive Environmental in Milford, MA.

Patrick Spann is back in New York after living in California for a few years working at Miller Lite. "Getting transferred was the best possible option--Los Angeles is not for me," he commented. Patrick still enjoys working for Miller Lite, but now without the heavily trafficked commute to work every day. Julia Ramey will be assistant editor for a new Conde Nast magazine starting in spring 2007--stay tuned for details.Maori Fujisaki is working at the architecture firm TPG Architecture in New York City. After two years in the panhandle,Mike Donikian, MArch '04, left Florida to come back to the Big Apple.We missed you, buddy!

I was in Ithaca (again) this fall and witnessed the official ceremonial dedication of the Bennett Family Concourse in Bartels Hall. Fellow alumna, Theta sister, and senioryear roommate Kate Bennett was there, along with 42 of her family members, 15 of whom are Cornellians, and seven of whom were Cornell Varsity athletes. Her father, James Bennett III '65, is in Cornell's Hall of Fame for basketball. Thanks to the Bennett family's legacy in Cornell Athletics, his gift will make possible the revamping of the entire entrance hallway concourse in Bartels, complete with 18 nine-foot double-sided banners of past Cornell athletic teams, as well as various photographs and memorabilia from sports years past. It is a sight to be seen, and it is quite rare that someone from our year has a direct connection to a piece of Cornell campus property. Congratulations, Kate!

"I married my law school sweetheart!"writes Joanna Martin Garfield. "I met Josh at Case Western Reserve Law School." The couple was married on May 21, 2006. In attendance were several Cornellians, including maids of honor Emily Steinberg and Emily Gold, JD '05. "We live in Chicago, where I am an attorney administering trusts at JPMorgan, and Josh is a patent attorney at Brinks, Hofer, Gilson & Lione." Congratulations, Joanna!

We are just over five months from our 5TH REUNION, so let's go! Get your travel plans in gear because you won't get another chance to attend this one.History has shown that the five-year mark is the year MOST alumni of any given graduating class return to campus for alumni reunions. Don't miss your chance to see the largest pool of your fellow alumni all back on the Hill--together again. In the meantime, send me your news so you'll all have stuff to chat about when you see each other in June. -- Carolyn Deckinger, cmd35@cornell.edu.

03 | Hello, Class of 2003! I hope this column finds you all doing well. The past few months have been a series of random Cornell alumni run-ins, which is always fun. Being in Seattle is great. The city is very vibrant, the people are friendly, and, no, it doesn't rain as much as everyone always says it does. Compared to the gray days of Ithaca, Seattle is a piece of cake.

I don't have as much news as I would like to report on, but if you're reading this and would like your 30 seconds of fame, please shoot me an email at noonans@seattleu.edu. My last name has changed because on June 18, Patrick Noonan '00 and I were married on San Juan Island,WA. And just a day after the wedding, I started my first class in law school at Seattle U. After six weeks of criminal law, Pat and I traveled to Portugal on our honeymoon. The married life is great, and law school isn't so bad either! Prior to the wedding Pat and I participated in a team road race from Mt. Rainer to Ocean Shores,WA.We, plus two vans full of friends and work buddies, ran the race--and ran into Ruthie Levy '02, who had come to Washington State with a bunch of other Cornellians to run the race as a team. Their team was fast and came in considerably ahead of ours, but it was great seeing her, reminiscing about the ROTC days, and meeting a few other alums from her year.

At a law school party in Kirkland,WA, I ran into Greg Fodor.We both stared at each other for a few seconds and then realized we had been in swing dance class together junior year. It truly is a small world. Greg's take on it was, "Yeah, it was pretty funny running into you--flashbacks to watching our weird swing teacher dance with his wife in the middle of a circle of confused juniors."Definitely some interesting flashbacks! Greg stayed at Cornell after graduation to complete his MEng in CS in '04. He then moved to Northern Virginia to work for Parature Inc., a firm founded by Cornellians back in 1999 that sells on-demand CRM solutions through the Web. He writes, "While there, I was the lead software architect on the Parature 6 product. Two years down the road the company secured a large round of funding from VCs from Silicon Valley and, as such, began growing quickly and became more sales-driven than engineering." Greg started looking for something new and wound up at Intentional Software in Bellevue,WA, a company trying to change the fundamental way companies build software. Also at the party were Mike Bohlander and Amy Augsburger. Unfortunately, because of the huge crowd, I didn't get the chance to really speak with them. They've kept in touch with Greg, though, and live in the Seattle area.

Tien-Hsin Yang moved to a condo on Manhattan's West Side in July, after living in Great Neck, NY. She and Matthew Lee, who received a BA in political science from MIT and a JD from Columbia, were married in September 2005. Tien-Hsin went on to earn her MA in 2006 in early childhood special education at Teachers College, Columbia U., but has decided to postpone teaching indefinitely while she and Matthew expand their family. Also on the East Coast, Tom Struble and Caitlin Stansell '04, BArch '05, were married this past September in Cohasset, MA. They had a great honeymoon in Fiji and are living in Connecticut near the Groton Submarine Base, where Tom is an officer on the fast attack submarine USS Virginia (SSN 774) and Caitlin is flourishing at her architecture firm, Fletcher Thompson. Congratulations, Tom and Cait! Ben Kostka and Adrian Korduba attended the wedding as groomsmen and are continuing their military careers. Ben is just finishing up Jump School with the Army (part of his Navy explosive ordinance training) and will be moving down to Virginia Beach at the end of the year. Adrian is on the USS Montpelier, a submarine in Norfolk,VA, and recently bought a house in Virginia Beach.

Other newlyweds include Mario and JoAnna Deblock Becerril, who were married on July 31 at Saratoga Spa State Park in New York. Lauren Levy was married to Joseph Harburger in Old Greenwich, CT, on March 19.

That's all I have right now, so please feel free to write either Sudha or me if you would like to share an update or special event.We'd love to hear from you! -- Samantha Buckingham Noonan, noonans@seattleu.edu; Sudha Nandagopal, sn58@cornell.edu.

04 | Happy New Year! I hope you have all kept your resolutions. I'm hoping to add a new one for you--sending at least one update this year to me, Vanessa Matsis, for the Cornell Alumni Magazine class column. I bump into so many of you on the streets of NYC and you are all doing such fabulous things but are too shy to send in an update. So your resolution is: "I will not be shy; I will send an update to vgm3@cornell.edu."

Zachary Hollander writes: "After graduating with a BA in Policy Analysis and Management, I went to work for Novantas LLC, a financial services management consultancy in midtown Manhattan. In my first year, I worked domestically with leading retail and investment banks in the fields of federal and state government contract strategy, predictive customer profitability, and strategic sourcing. I have spent the last year working internationally in Prague, Czech Republic, and Bucharest, Romania, redesigning the sales force and sales organization of an international banking group's recent acquisitions in the region. This fall I was on a ten-week leave of absence from Novantas working as a field operations coordinator on the Kirsten Gillibrand for Congress campaign for New York's 20th Congressional District."

After graduation, Betsy Cooper spent a year working at the Migration Policy Inst. in Washington, DC, and then received a master's degree in forced migration from Oxford U. She has deferred from Yale Law School to pursue a doctorate in politics at Oxford on the impact of immigrant integration on national security and the war on terror. "By the time I graduate at the ripe old age of 30, I will be sufficiently overeducated, bordering on poverty, and finally forced to enter ‘the real world.'" In the interim, she is happy to be close enough to continental Europe to vacation on islands, backpack, and practice the wine-tasting skills she learned in college. However, she bought cable television specifically to be able to watch her beloved Buffalo Bills on television. Betsy welcomes any Cornellians visiting Oxford to reach her at betsycooper@gmail.com.

Tiffany Yee has recently returned from a year abroad in Beijing, China. Tiffany studied Mandarin at the Beijing Language and Culture U. while exploring the city and immersing herself in the culture. She was also a lecturer at the Beijing Fashion Inst. in the interior design department. After her departure from China, she traveled around Southeast Asia. Tiffany is currently working in New York City for Vollmer Associates LLP, an engineering and architecture firm.

Lastly, another Cornellian has been trekking around China: Jesse Yu '05 is working at McKinsey & Company. Although based in Taipei, he often travels for projects around Greater China, Southeast Asia, and Europe. Among his favorite projects is conducting a due diligence for a construction equipment manufacturer in rural China. Although he puts in long hours, he tries to keep up with old hobbies like running, biking, and watching DVDs whenever he can fit them into his schedule.

Are you planning a Cornell Happy Hour or another event? Let your classmates know by posting it on our Facebook and Friendster Class of 2004 Group Bulletin Boards. Don't forget to check out the Class of 2004 website, http://classof04.alumni.cornell.edu. -- Vanessa Matsis, vgm3@cornell.edu.

05 | In October I returned to campus for my first Homecoming as an alumna. The drive up from D.C. was scenic--bright blue skies, few clouds,multi-colored foliage-- and I confess that our first stop in Ithaca was at the Dairy Barn. It felt like a great welcome home. Unfortunately, the weather was less than perfect on Homecoming Day; the biting cold, the wind, and the occasional drop of rain were harsh reminders of Ithaca's crazy weather. I guess I'm glad it didn't snow, although it was a full 20 degrees colder than D.C. temperatures. On a positive note, I got to eat some great food in the Hotel school tailgate area.Where else could you find grilled pizza, roast beef, and cheese bread with honey butter at a Homecoming tailgate? For a moment I forgot how cold I was.

It never ceases to amaze me that, in addition to re-visiting many of my favorite memories, I always manage to experience something new every time I go back for a visit. In addition to eating the much-missed local food from the ABC Cafe, I now frequent Café Dewitt, located downtown in the Dewitt Mall (in the hallway, actually--no kidding). As an alumna, I've come to appreciate the Ithaca area even more as I explore well beyond campus, and I encourage everyone else to do so as well.

Now for some updates. After graduation, Julia Levy moved to New York City to work for Harold Tanner '52, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. She is now writing the first alumna column for the Cornell Daily Sun. Titled "One Year Out," Julia's column looks at the common experiences of young alumni after they graduate from college and enter the real world. It appears every other Friday in the Sun. She would love to hear from recent graduates in order to add their voices to the column. She also has her own blog, which features the column and allows alumni to comment: www.blogsome.oneyearout.com. In addition, Julia is writing parttime about the unusual and exciting events around NYC for gothamist.com.

Former Cornell Daily Sun editor-in-chief Andy Guess continues his interest in spreading the news through his job with National Public Radio's podcasting group. Says Andy, "I help create original online content, and I also work to make some of the most popular radio programs available on the Web."Always a trendsetter, Jade Bailey-Assam is now a sales and public relations assistant with the fashion label IISLI.Her after-hours activities include participating in New York City book, wine, and dinner clubs.KatherineMcCallum informs us that she is a municipal finance analyst with Goldman Sachs & Co., but likes to play golf when she can.

Hannah Hirschland writes that she is a "community training specialist at a day habilitation program for adults with mental retardation." She is also involved with the Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra and Jazz Workshop. Amazingly enough, Hannah manages to make time for swing dancing and Ultimate Frisbee. Edwin Krug works on land development projects as a civil engineer at Taylor Wiseman & Taylor, a small firm in central New Jersey. Although he would rather be on a beach in Côte d'Azur,Daniel Cline works as a food and beverage manager at the Court and the Tuscany, both W Hotels in New York City. A belated congratulations to Melissa Murphy, who raised $5,500 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and completed her first marathon in October 2005! She is also involved with the US Green Building Council and Universal Studios Entertainment.Melissa continues to work in Orlando, FL, as a project coordinator for architecture and design at Starwood Vacation Ownership Design, where she maintains resort design standards.

It seems that our classmates flock to both coasts to pursue advanced degrees. Caprice Cadacio is studying hard at NYU's School of Medicine, while Nancy Chan is in the dentistry program at UCLA. Sreedar Raja has returned to New Jersey to earn his medical degree from the U. of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. After completing her MS in Human Environment Relations at Cornell, Nicole Sroka, MS '06, now attends Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles. As for classmates studying elsewhere, Sean Quarry is earning his MS in environmental and civil engineering at Syracuse U. Sean and I actually attended the same elementary school and junior high before he moved to New York State.We realized we would be classmates again when we ran into each other in the lobby of the Statler Hotel during Cornell Days. Georgetown Law School has now consumed Kristen Henderson's life. She finds herself reading even more than she did while at Cornell, but some highlights include having fellow Cornellian Shana Platz '06 in her section.

I hope everyone is doing well these days. If you have any updates that you'd like to see published, please contact your class correspondents at classof2005news@gmail.com. Stay in touch! -- MichelleWong, michelle.r.wong@gmail.com; and Matt Janiga,mwj3@cornell.edu.

06 | Attending Cornell University granted me the opportunity to become acquainted with people from all over the world--a dorm-mate born in the Philippines, a floor-mate from El Salvador, Romania, and Russia, and an Aussie the floor below, as well as a darling British lad three floors below. One individual with whom I have had the opportunity to become very closely acquainted is Stéphanie Van Hassel, who was born in Belgium and raised in Japan and Singapore, and lived in New York City prior to and during her time at Cornell. Stéphanie speaks five languages. Through enduring all of the ice-cold winters, gorges, and hard studying, her Cornell degree has taken her to the other side of the world of no winters, gorgeous beaches, and hard work.

Prior to graduation Stéphanie accepted a job as a research analyst in Sydney, Australia, at the hedge fund Voyager Funds Management. She looks at future trends within Asia, particularly China and India, and how these will change and affect the market and specific sectors. She looks at everything from pollution to energy use to dietary changes. The fund has only been trading for a few months and was started by two JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley veterans. Growing up in Japan and Singapore and now working in a firm that only trades in the Asian markets, Stéph feels like she has come home again.While Ithaca is soon expecting snow, Australia is heading into its summers, so instead of struggling to class all bundled up to keep warm, in her spare time she'll be at the beach getting a tan and enjoying the sun. Stéphanie truly enjoys her job.While it is definitely work hard and play hard, she could not be more grateful to be in Australia. She says it is a wonderful and great learning experience.

Another admirable classmate--one who has followed her passion and can sincerely say that she does what she loves--is Jennifer Munhofen. Four months ago Jennifer departed from Atlanta, GA, and arrived in Antigua,West Indies, to begin her exciting adventure on an island called Jumby Bay--accessible only by boat--to work with hawksbill sea turtles, a critically endangered sea turtle species. This fascinating research has led her to work under some of the most well-known and esteemed herpetologists and turtle enthusiasts in the world. Jennifer received financial assistance from the Ag college and elsewhere and was able to go to Crete, Greece, back in April to attend the Int'l Sea Turtle Symposium. There she met a team of turtle scientists that offered her a research position called "saturation tagging," which basically identifies all nesting females by applying a small metal tag with a unique identification number. Now she is working for the oldest and most established hawksbill sea turtle project in the world. Jumby Bay holds one of the most essential nesting grounds globally.

Jennifer feels that it truly is like the Discovery Channel, watching these marine-dwelling reptiles come up to shore, dig a nest, and lay their eggs. Currently, they are in hatchling season, so every night a nest hatches and about 150 baby sea turtles march to the ocean's edge for their long journey out to sea, where they will remain until they are about 25 years old. The females then return to the same beaches where they were born and the cycle begins all over again. Fascinating! She would like to thank Cornell for supporting her, or she would not be where she is.

Many of our classmates have chosen to continue their education. Jessica Schnell is at Rutgers (Newark) working toward her PhD in Biology (Ecology and Evolution track). Jessica Grodio is back in Ithaca in a dual DVM/PhD program at the Vet college; she has an interest in avian health and disease. Also continuing their educational goals are Anicia Ndabahaliye, who is a first-year medical student attending UMDNJ in Newark, NJ; Gaurav Sharma, a first-year medical student at NYU School of Medicine; and Christian Franco, a first-year student at Brooklyn Law School.

From the working world, Erika Jo Brown has gone from being a Long Island girl to living in New York City full-time. She is working in an arts society in Manhattan. In the beautiful outdoors we have Peter Crysdale, working as an outdoor education leader at Ontario Pioneer Camp. Simmie Berman started working in Baltimore, MD, in mid-July at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab for the Space department in the Mechanical Systems Group, designing spacecraft. In Canada, Christine Yole is working at a private boarding school in British Columbia. In addition to coaching rowing and tutoring math and science, she is an assistant house director at one of the residence halls, helping to look after 61 high school girls. It keeps her busy, to say the least. Christine says it is quite an adjustment not having academic work to do, but she feels like she is being productive in other ways and finally applying many of the skills she developed as a student at Cornell.

In New York City, Vanessa Clarke is working at Deloitte Consulting LLP as a human capital analyst. Still recovering from training in Texas and Illinois, she is anxious to begin her first client engagement. At the same time, she is seriously missing the Cornell memories and her fellow classmates. She hopes you all will keep in touch, either through e-mail or Facebook. Nihietwei Enyenihi is working as a compliance consultant at Merrill Lynch in the global markets and investment banking division. She is continuing an independent research project in HumEc's Department of Policy Analysis and Management, exploring the impact of certain government programs on the health of children. "Both are enriching experiences of which I am glad to be a part."

It's great hearing from everyone about their new adventures. Until next time, best wishes to all! -- Nicole DeGrace, ngd4@cornell.edu; Kate DiCicco, kad46@cornell.edu.