30 | Bill Swartley has written from Wingate at Needham nursing home in Needham, MA, where he moved with Eleanore, his wife of 69 years (589 Highland Ave., Rm. 106, Needham Heights, MA 02494).When he wrote, he was looking forward to celebrating his 99th birthday in June. Eleanore turned 95 in May. Bill, who got his BME in 1930, writes that his Cornell experience is one of his fondest memories. The beauty of the campus and the training that prepared him for a fine career in broadcasting have been greatly appreciated.

The staff at Cornell Alumni Magazine has spoken on the phone with Bill a couple of times and can attest to his wit, wisdom, and excellent memory. It's always a pleasure to talk to him, and we enjoyed receiving his News Form as well.We urge alumni from any of the classes to write to the Class Notes Editor any time--by mail or e-mail. Let us hear from you. -- Cornell Alumni Magazine, 401 East State St., Suite 301, Ithaca, NY 14850; e-mail, adr4@cornell.edu.

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36 | We send thanks to all '36ers who submitted news for this column, and welcome any new subscribers to the magazine. Thanks also for your responses to the Class Treasury Disposition Survey. They have been forwarded to Alumni Affairs, and your input will help determine the class's gifts to Cornell.

Here's what we've heard from your classmates in the past couple of months. Fred Illston (Ft.Worth, TX) writes that his family now has "11 grandkids and eight greatgrand ones of all kinds. Very busy family with one L.C. in the Navy flying over Iraq. Recently I've been doing yard work and building a radio-controlled, one-third-scale Cub. I've also been attending USCG Auxiliary meetings and Grey Eagles meetings and preparing the boat for summer operation. I continue to go to senior citizen YMCA classes three times a week. I still enjoy trips to see family and go on a fishing trip each summer up the coast of Canada with my son and boat.My favorite memory of Cornell is playing hockey on Beebe Lake, the toboggan slide, dances at Barton Hall, some Engineering classes, field artillery camp at Watertown, and learning to fly."

Walter Grimes (Arlington,VA) is happy to report that his grandson in the Army Reserve is back home and resuming college after a tour of duty in Iraq.Walter is now retired, and his son heads his former communications media brokerage firm. Recent travels have included a month at a timeshare in Delray Beach, FL, and a trip to Alaska in the summer of 2006.Walter has good memories of Beebe Lake also--the swimming! He also remembers drinks at Zinck's and the boarding house where he lived three of his four years, 715 East Buffalo Street. Richard Vonnegut and his wife Barbara moved to an "old folks retirement home" in Indianapolis and are happy they made the move. "After two falls and a cancer surgery, I now walk with a walker or a cane."

Jean SherwoodWilliams (Fayetteville, NY) writes, "In October 1927, when I was 12 years old,my father Nial Sherwood 1908 drove me from Liberty, NY, to a Princeton football game at Cornell. He bought me a big chrysanthemum to wear, and Cornell won the game. I was so ready to apply, and enjoyed my years at our alma mater!" When Libby Raynes Adelman (Longboat Key, FL) sent news in April, she was proud to report that she was the great-grandmother of a 3-year-old boy and an 11-monthold girl. "Both are delights. I'm still volunteering--driving!--and enjoying it."

More news in the next column from Bill Bebbington, Charles Dickens, Stanley Metzger, Robert Price, Ralph Heinicke, and possibly more. Don't hesitate to send us a note at any time. -- Class of '36, c/o Cornell Alumni Magazine, 401 East State St., Suite 301, Ithaca, NY 14850; Class Notes Editor e-mail, adr4@cornell.

37 | Reunion is still a few weeks away as this column is being written, even though you are reading it after the fact. Complete coverage, including reports from the reunion classes, will appear in the next issue.

As mentioned in the previous issue, Baldwin "Baldy" Avery copied us on a letter he wrote to Paul Merz '40, and we include some of it here: "After 25 years with Beacon Feeds in Cayuga, NY, four years as Police Justice, eight years as a scoutmaster, and 15 years as mayor of the Village of Aurora--and a member of about every political or community organization around--Hat and I threw in the towel, moved our family, and became managers of Pocono Lake Preserve on Pocono Lake in Pennsylvania.We stayed there nine years--built a place right on the lake deep in the woods, was just about my own boss--and loved it.We also spent four weeks every year in the Virgin Islands."

Hat and Baldy's next move was to a little house on a small lake in Ft.Myers, FL, where they were able to play golf three or four times a week. But they didn't like being so many miles away from their daughters in the Philadelphia area, so in 2004 they moved back north to Doylestown, PA. "We live in a quiet, guarded community and suddenly started to grow old. Four years ago I was painting my camp in the Poconos when someone moved the ladder (!), with the end result that I fell and broke my hip. The surgeon said it was a good operation; all I know is that it pains me constantly unless I sleep in a recliner--which is where I spend every night. Hard to do much of anything now. Hat and I both walk with a three-wheel walker. I read a lot and am now writing up my family history."

MarianWrench Roosa and her late husband Charles were both science teachers in New York State schools for 24 years, and Marian now lives in Venice, FL. She keeps busy teaching watercolor, sumi-e, and acrylics, as well as doing church work and participating in camping and swimming activities with her family in New York.Her grandson Keith does karate, and grandson Michael is an artist like his grandmother.While at Cornell,Marian illustrated three flower books for Liberty Hyde Bailey. Violet Hamilton Iversen is blind and can no longer read the alumni magazine, but sends the good news that she and her family (three daughters, their husbands, and grandchildren) get together every summer in Nantucket. Violet also enjoys walking and taking care of her plants in Greenwich, CT.

For 17 years so far, Beatrice Hirschfeld Blumenson and husband Seymour, a dentist, have spent seven months of the year in a hotel in Tucson, AZ. They have two sons, Eric and Robert, and two granddaughters, Traci and Claire. Ellen Carnell Seaburg sent a short note:"No changes from previous report." She and husband Roy live in Roanoke, VA, and have one son and one grandson. Irving and Ludmilla Uher Jenkins wrote from Las Vegas, NV. They enjoy reading and gardening.When asked about their last vacation, they wrote: "We are always ‘on vacation!'"

Thanks for all your notes! Don't hesitate to write us anytime of year and we'll share your news with your classmates. -- Class of '37, c/o Cornell Alumni Magazine, 401 East State St., Suite 301, Ithaca, NY 14850; Class Notes Editor e-mail, adr4@cornell.edu.

38 | There's so much news from '38ers that we won't be able to fit it all into one column. Thanks to all who wrote! Martha Omenson Healy ofWorland,WY, starts us off. "I'm still alive and kicking, enjoying my family. One grandson is going to Georgia (Russia) with the Peace Corps; one is a lawyer with DePaul U. (he married a doctor this summer); another just completed a year in Germany on his Fulbright and now works on the family ranch; and the youngest will graduate from George Washington U. this spring. He bellhops at the Willard on school vacations!"

With the help of her daughter Susan,Muriel Cook "Cookie" Thomas writes, "I'm now a resident at the Ashton Living Center, as I've lost my ability to see or walk.However, I can still talk and my brain continues to be sharp.My three children and my daughter-in-law visit me often. I see my grandson Jack periodically. I have a view of the Tetons from my window. I've also inherited a terrific cat named B.C. (for ‘Black Cat!')."When asked what she remembers most fondly from Cornell,Muriel says: "Time spent with my late husband Jack and his cohorts!"

Jay Fish (SFish114@aol.com) and wife Shirley live in Englewood, FL. Jay is retired and has lately been watching a contractor replace the sea wall near their home. His activities are numerous. "I play bassoon in the North Port Band, and saxophone and clarinet at the Senior Friendship Center. I'm also learning digital photography and all about computers, printers, and scanners. I'd like to be sailing and flying--but too old for either." Jay fondly remembers playing in the band at Cornell football games.

Patricia Prescott Kleps Hok recalls ice skating on Beebe Lake. Pat has the pleasure of welcoming newcomers to the retirement home where she lives in Davis, CA, and also enjoys playing bridge and doing crossword puzzles. She'd like to hear from her old Cornell friend Mary Randolph Prozeller. M. Dudley Buck, at age 93, does a daily exercise routine--riding an Exercycle five or more miles a day! He also keeps up with the grocery shopping, but would rather be playing golf. From Cornell he remembers the friends and all the activities at Willard Straight Hall.

Sadly, Bob Rosevear '37 sends word that his wife of 68 years, Clara Rhodes Rosevear, died April 4 after a long illness. She and Bob were married in Sage Chapel in August 1939, and over the years they lived in Ithaca, St. Louis, Toronto, and DeLand, FL. Daughter of famed Chemical Engineering professor Fred H. "Dusty" Rhodes, PhD '14, Clara was active on boards and committees in every community she lived in, particularly with the Girl Scouts, the YMCA, and the Presbyterian Church. She held positions at all levels, from Girl Scout leader, day camp director, and magazine editor to national secretary for the YWCA of/du Canada, national committee chairman of the National Camp Councils and the Canadian Council of Churches, and parliamentarian of the Presbyterian Women of Central Florida Presbytery. She was also a member of the DeLand Women's Club, the American Association of University Women, and the Guild of the Museum of Florida Art. She will be greatly missed. -- Class of '38, c/o Cornell Alumni Magazine, 401 East State St., Suite 301, Ithaca, NY 14850; Class Notes Editor e-mail, adr4@cornell.edu.

39 | I want to thank Adele Robinette, our terrific Class Notes editor, for taking over my column while Bernie '41 and I were being subjected to serious medical treatment in Boston from November to March, a difficult time for both of us.We are now back in Ithaca, wobbly but hopeful. If I did not get to wish you a very happy and healthy New Year, let me do it now. And I mean healthy! I have learned the hard way that "happy" depends on "healthy."

It was good to read your news letters again, reporting that you're still hanging in there. For example, Elvira Falco Bass, MS '40, was planning an Elderhostel trip to Tuscany over Christmas. She still works at the library and the historical society three days a week and plays lots of bridge. She set up a program on eBay to sell their donated books--elvira@bluehill-lib.me.us--which is bringing in lots of money for the library. She also sent a terrific picture of herself at the wheel of her bright red convertible. Our good old friend is still doing silversmithing and had a show of jewelry last summer.Way to go, Elvira!

Another busy classmate is Priscilla Buchholtz Frisbee, still involved with family, doctors, church, garden club, and her beloved historical society and historic Cherry Hill museum in Albany, NY, home of five generations of Van Rensselaers. She actually finished the second installment of her autobiography and is now trying to decide whether or not to continue up to the present. In the face of all the other things she wants to do, how does she do it! AliceMcFall Zwanzig writes from Denver, CO, that since her husband passed away in 2005 she is living in a high-rise retirement community with over 200 residents. It was a traumatic experience to see her old home razed and a "McMansion" built in its place. She sends greetings "to those who still remember me."

Helen Cooney Bourque is selling her house after 55 years, but doesn't say anything about future plans. She has eight children living in six states, which keeps her busy keeping track of them. Among them are three PhDs, two nurses, two social workers, and one lawyer. Helen was in Ithaca for our 65th Reunion and is looking forward to our 70th. Since she's only 87 it should be no problem, especially since she sticks to her goals. Listen to this: "I've been at Prairie State College the last 17 years as a student, taking all sorts of classes to make up for a poor start in 1935. I ended up with a 3.76, thanks to terrific teachers!" Do you wonder why you '39ers are a continual surprise and delight?

I received a note from Charles E. Green, P.O. Box 71805, Fairbanks, AK 99707 that his mother,Margaret Schuman Green, passed away in Honeyoye Falls, NY, on March 24, 2006, at the age of 88. He sends his thanks to us for being such good friends to her all these years.We send him our condolences.

Thank you for keeping in touch, and happy summer! -- Ruth Gold Goodman, 103 White Park Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850, email: BG11@cornell.edu.

Arnold Allison, now of Delray Beach, FL, sent an interesting write-up of his life. I hope others of you will do the same. After spending four years in the Navy in the Pacific--starting two days before the atom bomb fell on Japan--Arnold spent his career with young people. For 30 years he taught physical and health education in New York City.He and his wife later bought a camp in Pennsylvania that had a capacity for 300 children in the summertime. He also served as president of his B'nai Brith lodge. He has two daughters, one of them an occupational speech therapist.

In 1975, Arnold retired from the school system and moved to Fort Lauderdale and worked for a while in a preschool run by his daughter, assisting in the office and with the children. His first wife of 58 years passed away in 2001 and he later remarried. He says that he hopes to attend our 70th Reunion in 2009.

I received another message from Bob Brown, one of our class Hotelies, who appeared in this space just a couple of issues ago. He also sent a photograph of himself, which I am happy to forward on to anyone who'd like to see it. Bob mentions that he went to a Cornell hockey game last season and met Jim White, former assistant dean of the Hotel school. Afterwards, they went to his 90th birthday party. The cake had all 90 candles on it--which he blew out with difficulty and which tripped the smoke alarm, bringing the local fire company to investigate and turn the alarm off! -- Phil Twitchell, 1963 Indian Valley Rd., Novato, CA 94947; e-mail, philtwitchell@comcast.net.