40 | A happy Fourth of July to all, even if this is being written on a cold rainy April day! As I've noted before, such is the "lag time" in producing these columns.

A postcard from George Mueden highly recommends a vacation, for those of us with worn-out knees, of barging on France's rivers. It involves sitting on the deck reading while passing beautiful scenery and being wined, dined, and generally pampered! On the other hand,Whitman "Sev" Severinghaus prefers a more active life, playing golf three to five times a week, battling weeds in his flower garden, and doing some sailing with friends. He has two sons who graduated from Cornell, with four grandsons and one granddaughter stretched from Virginia to Washington State. Interestingly, too, he maintains correspondence with friends in Sweden, South Africa, and Venezuela! He gave his books on South Africa to Cornell, about one-third of which were written in Afrikaans. Like all of us, he regrets the deaths of so many classmates.

Betty Russell Owings is happy with her Florida home after all her years in California. She drove along the Keys and took some cruises around the Caribbean Islands and thinks that the Pacific islands are prettier than the Atlantic ones. A News Form from John Weiner told of his founding Free Books, which raised significant funds for the homeless in White Plains, NY, and of helping his wife get her book on Freud published in English. It is already in its second printing in German.His family news included that his 11-year-old great-grandson is teaching him to play chess! Jackson Chamberlain reported that before retiring he had converted the family farm into an egg production and distribution business serving southwestern New York State and northern Pennsylvania. Jack and his wife Wanda have also done a lot of traveling, but that has been limited since 2002 when he suffered two broken hips.

Betty Huber Knudson keeps active with bowling, golfing, and walking and makes an annual winter trip to Mexico for golf and sunshine. Her first great-grandchild will celebrate his second birthday about the time you're reading these words. Morris"Mob"Krapes keeps busy with local civic affairs, woodworking, and looking forward to the marriages of his grandchildren. Doris Van Alstyn Peller traveled a great deal until recently, visiting all the US states and all the continents except Antarctica. Recently the entire family went on an Alaska cruise--her only "repeat." Phyllis AndreMontanari keeps traveling, especially to the United Kingdom, and makes family visits to Skaneateles and, in December, to NYC.

That's all for now. Have a good summer and send in the news of your vacation doings!" -- Ellen Ford, 300 Westminster Canterbury Dr., #416,Winchester, VA 22603; tel., (540) 665-5788.

41 | One of the benefits of authoring these news columns every other month is that, sooner or later, classmates realize that you are still alive and kicking. As a result, I've had several calls from classmates recently, one being fraternity brother Tony Pennock of Atlanta, GA. Tony and I reminisced a bit, and he told about the time he and Jim Fortiner, together with three other Hotelies, drove to Fort Lauderdale, FL, over Spring Break in 1941. Thereafter he sent me a letter, elaborating on the trip. Quoting him in part, "We had white flannel outfits with the red Cornell crest on the breast pocket of the blazers, white suede shoes, and a convertible! We were kings of the coast.We hit the beaches during the day and the bars at night, picking up girls, swimming, dancing, drinking, having a fine time. Then it was over, and back to the Hill for the final stretch to graduation. A year later we were in the Navy . . ."

Dick Lee,Washington, DC, has a different way of communicating his news.He simply refers us to his website, www.dickleemusic.com.When I opened the site, I found it to be a very interesting promotional for "Transparency in Song--Inspirational Solos, CDs, and Sheet Music for Churches and Individuals." There was a subtitle, too: "24 Inspirational Solos composed by Richard Henry Lee."Having read through the other material as well, I can understand how Dick would offer this as telling us about himself. Very impressive!

Last we heard from Stanley Reich, Piedmont, CA, he was teaching radiology part-time at two California universities. It seems he fell off a ladder recently and broke his pelvis. He admonishes us,"Don't do it!"He hoped to be back to teaching in April. Herbert Cogan, New York, NY, says he is retired from seeing patients, but continues trying to keep up with his specialty of psychoanalysis, writing and lecturing in his field. He is also writing poetry, swimming daily, and enjoying time with his lively grandson. And playing tennis with braces! Irving Drantch, BS '81, Beverly Hills, CA, who attended our 65th Reunion with his daughter and son-in-law, enjoyed himself so thoroughly that he now says he is looking forward to the 70th with them.Way to go, Irv!

Several 2007 News Forms were sent in by classmates in March; hence, the preceding news items. They were very welcome! Let's send in lots more! -- Warner Lansing, 6065 Verde Trail S., #G310, Boca Raton, FL 33433; tel., (561) 487-2008; e-mail, wlansing@bellsouth.net.

To say that Cornell is a global university is certainly true, but we can extend that and say that Cornell has even farther horizons--like the planet Mars. A delightful letter from former president Hunter Rawlings informed me of the Mars Rover Mission, all of which somehow reminded me ofWendell Willkie, who ran for president in 1940 on a One World platform.My late husband, Ed Sargent '39, PhD '52, worked for his election--in fact, I always thanked Wendell Willkie for paying for my engagement ring. Willkie, of course, lost to FDR and we went to war, and dreams of a peaceful planet faded.

So here we are today, struggling to co-exist with many very different cultures--which makes the announcement by the College of Human Ecology of a Global Health Program very exciting news. There is also a new student exchange program with Hong Kong Polytechnic U. Our medical school in Qatar and many other programs emphasize that globalism is a reality for Cornell.

My introductory remarks were occasioned by the fact that many of your latest News Forms hadn't yet reached me. Please do respond if you haven't done so yet, so I will not have to "philosophize."You, however, may do so! Gretchen Fonda Gagnon (Cohoes, NY) reports on the great memories of our 65th Reunion, though many of her close friends are no longer with us. In August she and almost her entire family spent two weeks in Wells, ME, where her 87th birthday was celebrated with lobster, champagne, and views of the ocean--and perfect weather! Later on, she went to Orlando, FL, with 13 family and friends for a week at Disney World and Sea World. It was a momentous trip for Gretchen because it was her first air travel. She loved it.

Martha Perkins Melfi (Liverpool, NY) is not taking many trips, but is in good health and gave a talk at the March 12 meeting of the Cornell Women's Club. Her subject was the book she has created using her computer to copy the 400 letters her husband sent her before his death on January 24, 1945. She has had it bound as well. This is a wonderful tribute,Martha, and gives all of us a reminder of how important it is to preserve family history.

I received a request in March from Corinne Hickox Vaughan, who asked me to forward a letter to Jean Palmer Gerlach. Jean had indicated in her News Form that she wanted to get in touch with Corinne. I was delighted to do so and want to extend this service to all of you. Cornell Alumni Magazine has a wide readership, and re-establishing contact with old friends seems to become more and more important.

May the sun be shining and cool breezes blowing for all of you when you read this. -- Shirley Richards Sargent Darmer, 20 Haddington Lane, Delmar, NY 12054; email, kid12054@aol.com.

42 | Liz Schlamm Eddy (NYC), reunion chairman Don Kent, MD '45 (Palm Beach Gardens, FL) and treasurer Jim Kraker (New Smyrna Beach, FL) are in constant conversation regarding our 65th Reunion in June. Reunion news will be published in the Sept/Oct issue. Everything takes time (this column was written in April).

Meir Sofair, BCE '42, was selected to study abroad when he was a youth in Baghdad. He attended the American University in Beirut where he won a medal for physical fitness and swimming. He sailed on the Queen Mary to New York and ended up in Ithaca.With Civil Engineering and Architecture degrees he ended up in Cairo, Egypt, where he married and lived for ten years. Immigrating to the US, he was a member of the American Inst. of Architecture. After living in Philadelphia,Washington, DC, and Potomac, MD, he now lives in Vienna, VA. He has been honored often for his work with the Har Shalom.

Ed Markham (Bainbridge Island,WA) writes: "Interesting--perhaps a bit foreboding . . . or at least a bit disconcerting! Rough count shows only five pages in CAM for the classes of '31 thru '42, and 48 pages devoted to '43 thru '07! Alumni deaths: nine for 1930-42; and 50 for 1944-88. Hmmm. Nonetheless, I rode my bike a hilly, rainy six miles this a.m. and planted some garden seeds (peas and nasturtiums).Maybe it all adds up to: (1) keep exercising, (2) keep busy at a healthy hobby." Ed wrote that he'd see us in June for the 65th. Jean Fenton Potter is doing well in New Milford, CT, although having trouble with her eyes. Her four sons and daughter are fine, and luckily three live nearby. Her cat Garibaldi keeps her company, and she enjoys playing bridge and the fine dinners at her retirement home.

A thoughtful dissertation was submitted by a classmate whose name was, unfortunately, illegible. But his words are exceptional:"My life since leaving Cornell in '39 has been very unusual. After three years flying an airplane for the US Air Force in Europe, I returned to St. Louis and began working on a metallurgical research program which has led, as a result of serendipity, to the discovery of the thermonuclear process by which the heavy elements comprising the earth were formed by nuclear synthesis at the time of the origin of the solar system 4-1/2 billion years ago. This has caused a very serious problem for the governmental authorities, in view of the fact that it has led to a realization that the government's nuclear science research program is inseparably connected with religious belief." I hope this classmate will get in touch with me so I can acknowledge his authorship.

Another interesting e-mail came from author Philip Young, a friend of the late Ken Stofer '43, BCE '48, who was touched by Ken's death. A golf nut like Ken, he was a great fan of A.W. Tillinghast, who designed the Cornell golf courses. He and Ken served on the Tillinghast Association board of directors, which Philip said "was a sincerely great privilege."Ken enjoyed Philip's writings and was greatly supportive when his biography of Tillinghast was published.He also sent me another of his poems, "The Hapless Hooligan of Harmony Hill," which, again, is a really fun read. There are many rewards for writing this column.

Dr. Louis Fishman (Hightstown, NJ) retired in 2002. Despite a major stroke for which he is in therapy, he is busy with his many interests, including the computer, TV, reading, and music appreciation. He also visits friends in Ithaca and Saranac Lake. His fondest memories of Cornell include its natural setting and all the sources of knowledge--" the best years of my life."He'd love to hear from Ruth Kessel Butterly '41, JackWeintraub '41,Morris Krapes '40, and classmate Norman Hecht, BS Ag '47. Arleen Heidgerd Perry (Sarasota FL) keeps busy as Building Rep on her Residents Council and is a "Helping Hand" driver for Sunnyside Village residents. She's also Treas. for the Sunnyside Village Store and is on the Women's Board for her church. She visits her children in Georgia,Washington, and Lyons, NY, and remembers most fondly all her friends at Cornell.

The latest class list is a difficult read as so many of our classmates have passed on. So here's congratulations to all survivors. I have other news for the next issue, so keep up the good work of enjoying later life, and keep writing about your careers, which are so interesting to everyone. -- Carolyn Evans Finneran, 8815 46th St. SW, Gig Harbor, WA 98335; e-mail, carolynfinn@comcast.net.

43 | Jerry Kennard, BME '47 (Fairview Park, OH) sent us an expansive Cleveland Plain Dealer article, complete with a color photo of himself as a spiffy wartime navigator (framed) and as a spiffy octogenarian (unframed). The story: POW/MIA Joint Command is looking for a missing B-24 crew shot down over Catania. "One man bailed out and presumably drowned," the account said. Correction: one lucky man--Cornell '43--did it right: bailed out and survived.While in training Jerry had asked if he could practice parachute jumping and was turned down with, "There's no use practicing something you have to do right the first time."

"I keep in touch with Lawrence and Betty Ann Bischoff Swezey, who live in Palo Alto, CA, with their large family and love it. One grandson goes to Stanford," writes Dorothy Krisher Phillips. "We are still in Jenkintown, PA, and hope to stay here for some more years.We go to Cape May in June and September for the salt air and delicious sea food at the Lobster House on the dock." From Marblehead, MA, Gladys Dingle Poor writes that husband George, serious back problems and all, reached 91 last March.

"Life is good! This year we plan to attend the 100th anniversary of Bob's fraternity, Phi Kappa Tau. And we're much pleased with our retirement village digs in Webster, NY,"writes Bob Zabel's wife Doris (Lee)."No mowing grass or shoveling snow." [Nice for you, Doris, but Bob still dusts and changes the bed, right?] William "OB" O'Brien (Fort Worth, TX) writes, "Jeanne, suffering with Alzheimer's, is in the James L.West Presbyterian Rest Center here.We celebrated our 59th in March. I visit every day and bring her home weekends. $43 for dues has a nice ring to it. [Too bad we weren't Class of '99, eh?]

In 1960 Wilson Greatbatch '50 greatly improved upon the work of two Swedish inventors by creating the Charback-Greatbatch implantable pacemaker. His incorporation of the corrosion-free lithium-iodide battery led to the Medtronic Co. commencing manufacture and further development of cardiac pacemakers.Wilson wrote a book about the project and sent me a copy because it mentions the valued contributions by our own Sam Hunter,MD. I planned to read it--The Making of the Pacemaker-- on a flight to San Francisco, but it set off the bells at security and the rascals took it away.

Robert Fritz (West Linn, OR) tells us: "After retiring from Exxon, Anne and I moved to New Bern, NC, where I became devoted to the Neuse River Foundation, whose mission was to prod the state to correct problems caused by frequent flooding.We sailed on Pamlico Sound and lived in a house built on stilts, but the elements just laughed. We were flooded by three successive hurricanes, the last of which saw me break bones in a fall and sent me to the hospital and then rehab. Enough. Enough.We moved to our daughter's home in Oregon, where it's rainy and windy, but her house is dry and nary a stilt in sight. Look for us at Reunion 2008."

"After two years we are still enjoying retirement living at the Classic Residence by Hyatt in Dallas." That from Mary Jo Borntrager Ray, the one who tripped over a suitcase and broke her neck. That Mary Jo Borntrager Ray. "Our only trip (no pun intended) this year was a visit with our oldest daughter and family in Manhattan. They had lived in London for several years, so, although this was a shorter flight, we still had to take our shoes off. Thank you, '43, for the books. I enjoyed re-reading The Great Gatsby. Things Fall Apart was most interesting and enjoyable." Stay tuned,Mary Jo; the next frosh reading--and yours--is Nadine Gordimer's Pickup. Followed by, we hope, classmate Charles Harris's One Man's Medicine. Charlie writes: "Have I mentioned that Shig Kondo once told me he returned to the US when the war ended because ‘even after four years in the Japanese army, I couldn't speak the language well enough to get on there.'"Charlie says he sails, plays tennis, volunteers for the Medical Defense Corps, and spends the other half of his day fighting off duplicate solicitations with notes such as,"Did you lose track of the money I sent you last month?" -- S.Miller Harris, PO Box 164, Spinnerstown, PA 18968; e-mail, millerharris@netcarrier.com.

44 | You're reading this in mid-summer but it's springtime in D.C. Cherry blossoms, forsythia, magnolia, and Bradford pear suddenly create a fairyland!

Some classmates are still at work. Dan Morris, BA '76, writes feature articles for the Ithaca Journal, teaches writing to engineers of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and was editing the new World Book on Earthquake Engineering and a guide to construction dewatering. Son Gregory '87 is a writer, daughter Misty Morris Fearon '89 is a licensed physical therapist, and son Christopher '96 is a maritime archaeologist.William Lane, MNS '48, is very active, traveling to Hong Kong twice a year where he and a Chinese partner run VIP rooms in Macao. This project may overtake Las Vegas in size within three years. Bill still has mining interests in Peru and land holdings in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. His I.W. Lane College of Integrative Medicine and the Lane Inst. in Orlando, FL, are accredited and growing. He and his wife live in Port Orange, FL. Helen Wright Murphy of Wappinger Falls, NY, writes, "In good health and working full-time." (Ed. Query:What kind of work?)

Mitchell Zavon of Sarasota, FL, carries a full schedule of consulting in occupational medicine and civic activities including Common Cause. Keeping up with children, grands, and great-grands also fills his leisure hours. Anthony Prasil works as curator of the Hoffman Clock Museum in Rochester, NY, and takes care of his wife who has Parkinson's disease.William Calvert just added president of Clinton (CT) Education Foundation to his ongoing school board duties.

Virginia MacArthur Clagett of Atlantic Heights, NJ, reports being on an election board with new machines that look like a Star Wars creation. "It squats."Duty requires arriving at 4 a.m. for 6 a.m. voting for the very few who come at that hour. Priscilla YoungWaltz of Sea Cliff, NY, went to Maine for her annual family reunion (17 members) and fly-fishing. She carries a sketchbook, converts to paintings, and exhibits in shows. She sees Ann Lynch Pape '45 often. She claims five of eight grandchildren in college, one an '06 grad. The other three--granddaughters--are high school soccer players. Cal De Golyer and Bunny still live on the farm in Castile, NY. Cal doesn't describe any work, but says Bunny is doing well.

Doris Holmes Jenkins's family is ever loyal to Cornell. Granddaughter Stephanie '10 joins Amanda '09. Jenks, DVM '43, and Dorey went to Princeton, MA, last May to attend the wedding of Joanna Krablin '00, daughter of Nancy (Jenkins) '69 and Larry Krablin '69. They went on to three other grandchild graduations. "We spent the rest of our discretionary time attending ballgames and funerals."

Bob and Ruth Caplan Brunton celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in June '06 with 33 family members. Art and Dotty Kay Kesten were surprised at their 60th celebration by the arrival of their granddaughter Lauren Coakley '04 from Grenada, where she is halfway through her Peace Corps assignment. -- Nancy Torlinski Rundell, 20540 Falcons Landing Cir., #4404, Sterling, VA 20165; tel., (703) 404-9494.

45 | Many of us were saddened by the report of the sudden death, in March, of BobWallace, MD '47, after having been delighted by his love of and marriage to Sherry Madison Devers (Tucson, AZ) after renewing their undergrad friendship at our 60th Reunion and seeing them together two years ago. Time fleets; take advantage of it!

Henrietta Burgott Gehshan (Southampton, PA) reports with pride that her daughter Virginia Gehshan '74 was honored by being invited to the festivities surrounding the opening of the Weill Greenberg Center, a new 330,000-sq.-ft. ambulatory care facility at Weill Cornell Medical College, where President and Mrs. Skorton,Mayor Bloomberg, and others complimented her on her designs for signage thereat.

Somehow I have been added to the e-mail list of Sally Clark Shumaker '71, business development manager of a consulting firm in Westlake Village, CA. She has been collecting political comments and sending them around (is this what the young folk call blogging?). She prefaced a recent one with, "I don't like Bush but am not a liberal" and proceeded to print some Bush-bashing by poets, professors, and the like. I'm not sure of her objective, but if she wants to run against Nancy Pelosi it might not be all bad!

From Sarasota, FL, Bill Knauss, MBA '48, advises that, by pure happenstance, during a pool party he ran into lawyer Norwin Rosner '46, BA '45, JD '47 (San Diego, CA). Bill says that they had a great time reminiscing.

On the subject of reminiscing, the New York Times of April 9 indulged in some when it printed, "The governor swings his pickax, but the pavement is too hard. A jackhammer is brought in to loosen things up. The governor and the mayor lay to with gusto. The Second Avenue subway is born, or so it seemed at the time. The sideburns were long and the neckties wide because it was 1972. The president was Nixon. The governor was Rockefeller. The mayor was Lindsay. And nearly 35 years later, no trains have ever run under Second Avenue. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority took over the city's subway system in 1968. Its chairman, Dr. Ronan, began championing an ambitious range of projects, including the Second Avenue subway, from Whitehall Street to 138th Street in the Bronx. In 1968 the subway line bore a remarkably modest price tag of $335 million, but by the time of the groundbreaking in 1972, it had risen to $1 billion. That ceremony was preserved in an 8 mm film shot by Robert A. Olmsted, who was a top planner at the transportation authority. In the film, the sun is shining brightly, although some of the men are wearing coats and fedoras. There is a holiday air, and the mayor and the governor are all smiles. The two have been feuding for years, but on this day, they manage to keep their pickaxes aimed at the street. ‘We were optimistic,' recalled Mr. Olmsted, who is 82. ‘It looked as if we were going to get something done.'"Unfortunately, Bob's planning collided with reality and despite the recent optimism and some bond money, it appears that he, and we, will never see the completion.

Another 82-year-old, John Tip Newell informs us from Cuernavaca, "the city of eternal spring," that last December they had a "cold spell"--mid-40s--which bothers longtime residents who have become accustomed to the warmth. He says that Mexico has problems but survived the presidential uproar and will improve, and that Bush is disliked, but Americans are not.Margaret TaylorMacdonald and husband Ross (Chapel Hill, NC) have been traveling, to Italy last July and in October to Provence on their first trip with a Cornell group. They celebrated their 60th anniversary last August, and Peg is proud of her nine grandchildren, although she confesses to her inability to interest any in Cornell. Peg also advises that Erna Fox Kaplan is a fellow resident at Carolina Meadows Retirement Center and they get together often.

On "getting together," our co-president Tod Knowles, B Chem E '47, MBA '49 (Annapolis, MD) has initiated a Google group, which you can access by going to http://groups.google.com/group/cornell-university-class-of-1945. You must apply for access online.Maybe this will produce more news than I receive through the snailmail! -- Prentice Cushing Jr., 713 Fleet Dr., Virginia Beach, VA 23454; tel., (757) 716-2400; e-mail, Cushcu45@wmconnect.com.

46 | The alumni magazine made a typographical "goof" in our March/April '07 article, but it was my gain, as Janet Elwin Starr (Hanover, PA) called me directly to make changes. (I do love to talk to you, Janet.) Janet and two of her sisters,Muriel Elwin Zepp '47, BS '48 (Arlington Heights, IL) and Nancy Elwin Pegues '52 (Glen Arm, MD) spent three weeks last summer in western England and Wales. They also went on several Cornell Alumni holidays together and recommend them highly. It was Sal and Pat Kinne Paolella (Lakewood, NJ) who reported the Woodlock Pines Pocono resorts connection to Cornell.

Pat also called recently to tell me that they'd spent three weeks with their daughter's family in Florida in March. Their twin grandchildren were on Spring Break some of the time.Max and Rachael will soon be 8 years old. Phil Kennedy '47, MEE '48, and I will be attending our youngest grandson's graduation from U. of New Hampshire, and his commissioning in the Air Force in May.We recently learned that Commencement speakers will be past presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton. Send news or, better still, CALL. -- Elinor Baier Kennedy, 9 Reading Dr., Apt. 302,Wernersville, PA 19565; tel., (610) 927-8777.

San Francisco bustles with Cornell activities. Cornell's Western Regional Office and Cornell Silicon Valley club offer marvelous programs. CSV's all-day annual March Presidential Event at the Palace Hotel allowed President David Skorton and three faculty members to inform alumni assembled on events at Cornell and how well spent are their contributions of time and money. Big cameo performers were Rob Cook, MArch '82, and Carl Bass '78, BA '83. Rob is VP of software engineering at Pixar Animation Studios. He demonstrated elements and progress toward realism in the five-year process needed to produce an animated feature film. Carl, president and CEO of Autodesk Inc., showed how its premier architectural software has successfully expanded into industrial design and major artworks. Later in April, chanteuse Dottie Taylor Prey (San Mateo, CA; dmprey@aol.com) and I will network at WRO's Big Red Welcome at San Francisco's Starlight Room. Bay Area Cornell techies who have made it bigtime help fellow alums.

Elsewhere, Robert F. Brodsky (Redondo Beach, CA; rfoxbro@aol.com) writes and consults since retiring in 1997. The internationally known USC scientist and teacher has had two books published recently. His latest is On the Cutting Edge: Tales of a Cold War Engineer at the Dawn of the Nuclear, Guided Missile, Computer, and Space Ages. The earlier book is Songs My Mother Never Sang to Me.He and wife Patricia still enjoy sailing twice a week. Bob hears from senior-year roommate Dick Allen '45, BME '47. They fantasize about "going to college again in a non-war climate."

Bart Snow, BEE '48 (Cincinnati; bsnow123@aol.com) has worked and consulted 60 years for GE Aircraft Engineering.He has time now to read, golf, garden, and travel. Bart and Virginia have recently returned from Nova Scotia and Bermuda. Earlier they toured the Canadian Rockies and Alaska. In hindsight, he fondly remembers 8 a.m. classes throughout his Cornell years. He regrets that his best Cornell friends "are gone."William Sklarz (Edison, NJ; wsklarz@aol.com) writes that a "happy conflict" kept him from the 25th Reunion. Dot was nine months pregnant with their younger daughter. They thoroughly enjoyed the 50th and looked forward to the 60th, but the timing was wrong. Their older daughter's due date was June 9, 2006. No way would they miss helping her and handling her 2-1/2-year-old, especially since they had done exactly the same for her younger sister two months earlier. Having all four grandchildren under age 3 at the time of the 60th Reunion gives Bill and Dot the illusion of youth. In 2006, they visited Florida friends, cruised from Buenos Aires around Cape Horn to Santiago, and toured the US West Coast, France, and Switzerland. Bill sends regrets and regards to old school and Navy mates he missed seeing at our "60th in '06."

TO PUBLISH YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS, e-mail me. Include your name, city, and state of residence. Send news to: -- Paul Levine, 31 Chicory Lane, San Carlos, CA 94070; tel., (650) 592-5273; e-mail, PBL22@cornell.edu. Class website, http://classof46.alumni.cornell.edu.

47 | When we read this in early July, Reunion 2007 will be over. Since I'm writing in April, I can't give a report yet, but I have received current news. A full Reunion Report will appear in the Sept/Oct issue. Cornell reports that some classmates took part in CAU programs. Barry Cohen and Shirley Yenoff Kingsly, BS '46, attended the London Theatre. Shirley also went to Mohonk before the 2006 elections, and Henrietta Pantel Hillman and her husband Joel '44 took in Treasures of the Black Sea.

Ursula Holahan (Urshol@webtv.net) sent news and called. Her brother is turning 90 and her extended family is gathering the same weekend as reunion. She is sad about not seeing all of us who returned. She hasn't traveled much in the last two years, having had some important surgery from which she has now recovered nicely. In 2005 she flew to Denmark, then boarded a ship for the return trip across a rough Atlantic, stopping in Iceland and landing in Newfoundland. She sent greetings to all. Another traveler is Howard Donnelly (hcdonnelly@comcast.net), who has been to Norway, Europe, Greece, the Philippines, Hong Kong, South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Canada, and Mexico. He is a retired hotel executive and consultant, with 42 years in the hotel industry in Hawaii. As past president of the Cornell Hotel alumni there, he created the Hawaii Travel Industry School, following success in creating the Cornell Summer School of the Pacific. For two summers he brought Prof. Howard Meek and five other professors there for six-week sessions. A lot of good work!

Carl Johnson (Carlelsiej@comcast.net) is at Leisure World in Silver Spring, MD. Irwin Gonshak (igonshak@aol.com) sends a request that any alum connected with a college/school radio station e-mail him. Irwin is producing for the Writers Guild of America (East) a festival called WGAE College/School Radio Drama Festival: Coast-to Coast. The Guild is campaigning to make radio drama a regular feature of the broadcast dial. It certainly was when we were young. Good luck.

Fred Yarrington, BS '46, who retired to Naples, FL, in 1983, has been active in golf for the past 40 years, playing and being involved in tournament administration for the CSGA, FSGA, and USGA. As a member of the USGA Junior Championship Committee and USGA Tournament Rules Committee, he and his wife Bonnie have traveled the US and worked as rules officials for 54 national championships. Fred says their golf travels have helped them to see many wonderful parts of the country they would not have seen otherwise, and to golf in all 48 continental states. Besides playing regularly, he enjoys course maintenance activities and efforts to enhance golf courses environmentally and to improve the wildlife habitat of courses. He watches golf on TV to see Tiger Woods and others he has known through Junior Golf.

David Barr, MD '50 (dbarrmd@msn.com) has been studying piano, gardening, and doing some woodworking. Bob Flickinger and his wife Louise have changed from being snowbirds to moving to Venice, FL, permanently. Still more travelers are Sue Tettelbach Colle and her husband Ervin '49, who have been to Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Alaska, Norway, and the Caribbean Islands and done river cruises in Europe. Elaine Baker Temkin and her husband David are enjoying being retired and leisurely having one or two cups of coffee with the New York Times and Providence Journal. On their last trip they motored all over Sicily. They also flew to California in 2005 to visit Marjorie Maxwell Glantz and her husband Leon.

Ray, BS '64, and Shirley Buck Rabeler (rcrabeler@odyssey.net) are busy keeping up with their six children and their families, which include seven great-grandchildren. They have not traveled far because Shirley was recovering from a car accident three years ago in which she was hit head-on. But they had planned to go to Indiana last July for a granddaughter's wedding. She belongs to the Cornell Women's Club of Cortland County and volunteers in the Homer Elementary School. Ray and Shirley's youngest granddaughter, Julie Settle '09, is a fourth-generation legacy, starting with Shirley's father Clifford Buck '22.

George Gurnee has been collecting and restoring antique Oldsmobiles. After playing 1,239,342 rounds of golf and having never shot his age of 80, he recycled his clubs into car parts. In 2005 George and his wife Sheila accompanied Harold '44, BA '47, JD '50, and June Smith Parker, MS '50, on a river cruise from Antwerp through the Netherlands, Germany, and France to Switzerland. Roger Broeker (rogandmart@naples.net [winter] and rog_mart@earthlink.net [summer]) plays golf, sings in choral groups, enjoys the bright sun in winter in Naples, FL, and visits family. He and his wife Martha have visited Morocco, Austria, and Switzerland with a choral group. Roger is active in the Cornell Club of Southwest Florida.

I had a nice phone visit with Dan Belknap, during which we reminisced about our Government classes with professors Cushman and Briggs. Great men; great teachers. Dan wanted to come to reunion--he'd especially like to see Stu LaDow and Walt Fedirko--but he is having rotary cuff difficulties and is not sure he can do it. Dan sent me a special booklet--an "Announcement" of our university at its opening! I will take it to the archivist at the Library. I hope I will have seen many of you at reunion. Happy summer. -- ArlieWilliamson Anderson, 238 Dorchester Rd., Rochester, NY 14610; e-mail, arlie47@aol.com.

48 | Joe Flynn '44, San Diego, CA: "Regret to inform you that my sweetheart Kay (Feeney) passed away on Oct. 5, 2006.My fondest Cornell memory was listening to Vaughn Monroe's recording of ‘Let it Snow' in JAPES (Johnny Parsons Club), looking out at the snow falling on frozen Beebe Lake with my soon-tobe lifetime companion." Bill (William H.) Busch,Hinsdale, IL: "I'm involved in three activities. Fondest memory is being tapped for Quill and Dagger.Would rather be playing golf in the sun right now. Tomorrow I plan to do more picture-framing and increase my baking skills. Family events revolve around keeping up with 20 grandchildren."

Alberta Cassell Butler, BArch '49,Washington, DC: "Husband Frank is deceased. I'm retired. Fondest memory is living in Balch and crossing on suspension bridge. Recently visited Frederick,MD.Most recent memory is going through mail, paying bills, and discarding unwanted catalogues.Would rather be talking to someone. Plan to exercise regularly and try to regain health. Events: 1) I was baptized last spring; 2) my brother-in-law had a military funeral; 3) daughter played harp at wedding of minister's daughter. After grocery shopping on several occasions, a neighbor has been present by chance to carry in the groceries.Would like to hear from Mignon Fendler Thorne. Most pressing problem is trying to walk. Solution is exercise.World's problems are conflicting viewpoints, lack of harmony, and destruction of the environment. I'm looking for a solution. Not much luck."

Fred Jenks, St. George, UT: "Fondest memory is singing in Sage Chapel Choir and meeting my wife Marilla (Oaks) '45, BS HE '44. I'm retired, spend time reading, and was recently in the hospital. Tomorrow I'll do some shop work and attend the weddings of two grandsons.Would like to hear from anyone in the Class of '48 who remembers me.Most pressing problem is getting around back to normal. I keep working on it. Secret of life: live it fully with the best of intentions."

Charlie Elbert, Clifton, NJ: "Home maintenance, trust management, financial planning.Much reading--mysteries and technical histories. Fondest memory is Prof. Everett Strong in Franklin Hall at the start of EE classes, indicating to all present to ‘look at the person on your right; he may not be here at graduation.'He was right about attrition. Spent a weekend at Lake Winnipesaukee, NH--a wedding anniversary gift from children. Lovely hotel, long boat trip, great fall scenery. Granddaughter Melissa graduated Wilkes U. School of Pharmacy (PhD) and passed her state license tests.World's problem is terrorism and religious zealotry. Sources and support for terrorists must be smoked out and dealt with very harshly, preemptively and otherwise. Religious zealots must be reasonably contained and restrained. The meaning of life? If I only knew."

Robert Levy, Boca Raton, FL; "I invest in first mortgages (commercial). Still doing pen-and-ink sketches; currently completing a 19" x 24" enlargement of the Postal Service's ‘Super Heroes' panel of stamps.Wife Harriet and I are planning a riverboat cruise to see Moscow and St. Petersburg in fall '07. I've been there before, but am anxious to see the Pushkin and Hermitage museums again, the best Impressionist art in the world. Fondest Cornell moment was when I first arrived and saw how beautiful the campus and buildings looked. Have been to New York, Baltimore, and Mill Valley, CA (for a nephew's wedding). As I write this in October, I see the most pressing problem is charging Congress to enable a change in direction.World's problem is convincing various faiths to concentrate on bringing peace and tranquility to the world instead of war and mayhem. I don't know how.Most recent discoveries are the possibility of the existence of new worlds in space other than ours, and that many previously incurable diseases can now be cured. The meaning of life is the joy of starting each new day."

Rev. Charles Brandt, Black Creek, BC: "I'm a priest/monk here in Black Creek." Jean Lemelman Meadow, moving in New York: "Am busy moving from Catskill, NY, to Stony Brook, to reside with my twin sister, Rita Lemelman Alper, who is retired from the IRS.Most pressing problem at the moment is packing and unpacking." Dianne Shapiro Gasworth, Palm Beach, FL: "Doing some legal mediation.Would rather be on TV as a judge. Fondest memory of Cornell is graduating from the infirmary with ‘mono' and no professors requiring me to take finals."

Greta AdamsWolfe, Lake Stevens,WA: "Do not like being in the first pages of the Class Notes. Look how many have followed us--I hope they have as many good memories as we do.Wish I could make the 60th, but it's far away and flying is no longer ‘fun.'" [Greta: Take a sleeper train.] -- Bob Persons, 102 Reid Ave., Port Washington, NY 11050; phone and fax, (516) 767-1776.

49 | Many thanks for all the News Forms you've sent in! We'll work our way through them as quickly as we can, and look forward to receiving word from more of you in the months ahead. Don't hesitate to write!

Christopher Codella, PhD '84, son of classmate Frank Codella, BArch '49, shared the news that his family has now graduated three consecutive generations of Cornellian brothers, starting with Frank and his brother Sam '53, BCE '57. Chris's brother Tom got his Bachelor of Science in '84, and Chris's sons are Noel, ME '05, and James '07. Frank and his wife, an Ithaca College alum, now live in Venice, FL. Chris writes,"My father is mostly retired from practicing architecture. Besides working on his golf game, he is chairman of the building committee for the Venice Symphony. He is also on the board of directors of the Waterford Golf Course community (640 homes) and often attends the Cornell alumni luncheons in Sarasota."

Donald Mintz, PhD '60 (dmintz@zoom-dsl.com) has moved to Trumansburg, NY. "Since I have become an emeritus professor at Montclair (NJ) State U., we have moved to the Ithaca area, and I have been fixing up the new house."Donald enjoys writing papers, and one long book review was on press when he sent his news in March. He'd like to hear from Des Chapin Britton, BFA '50. In Albany, NY,William Malick is treasurer of the Cornell Club of the Greater Capital District, as well as the buyer and financial manager for the Telephone Pioneer Stores in the capital region. After-hours activities include "working with various food banks, missions, and church groups acquiring day-old baked goods for their daily pantry distribution and selling the Entertainment Book for the benefit of handicapped children."He'd like to add deep-sea fishing to those activities, too.William remembers living at Cayuga Lodge and enjoying the relationships with other students. "I learned many things that have benefited me in later life."

Retired and also volunteering is Norman Merz of Morristown, NJ. During tax season he volunteers two days a week with the AARP Tax-Aid program completing tax returns for senior citizens. Other activities include downhill skiing in the winter and planning a two-week bike trip along the Gota Canal in Sweden, scheduled for May. Herman Harrow volunteers at the local hospital in Monterey, CA, and plays tennis nearly every day. "My Cornell years were unforgettable," he writes, and adds, "I retired at age 50 and wish I had done it earlier."Dr. Dorothy Rasinksi Gregory, LLB '51 (Long Beach, CA; jbgdrg@mymailstation.com) works with hospital ethics committees, primarily on end-of-life care. "I am involved with my professional society, the American College of Legal Medicine, and am a past president--the only woman to have held that office." She writes that there's nothing she'd rather be doing, except maybe seeing Machu Picchu or the Antarctic again. Dorothy remembers football games in the snow and geology field trips, and would love to hear from Marge Hoss Borglum.

Arno Nash (arnonash@compuserve.com) writes, "We have moved to Munich, Germany, and are enjoying it." Bette McGrew Benedict is retired and involved in drama activities, travel, and work with charitable organizations near her home in Lambertville, NJ. She's looking forward to celebrating the next reunion! She fondly remembers "the beauty of the Cornell campus--nature plus wonderful buildings--and the wonderful teachers. I wish they were still available." Bette would like to hear from Brett Crowley Capshaw. Larry Bayern and wife Dorothy (Crawford) '51 are still in Bozeman, MT. Larry is also retired and has been trying to play golf "like it was years ago. Of course I have found that the length of the holes is getting longer, the hills are higher, and the water holes are more treacherous."He remembers the great group of friends he had at Cornell and would like to hear from Jim Fraser and Ned Bandler.

John Efroymson (Toledo, OH; sterling75@bex.net) writes that he's "happily retired--sort of. I still consult once a week with my company. They need me to translate my handwriting on old records and files. I also volunteer at COSI (Toledo's science museum) and mobile meals, and mentor a couple of kids in a reading program at an elementary school. I just got back from a fantastic trip to Vietnam. Last year, wife Donna and I were in Israel and Egypt, and the year before we celebrated our 50th anniversary in Southern Africa." Bill and Iris Wade live in Sebastian, FL. Bill is retired and enjoys kayaking, swimming, and walking. According to his news form, he'd also enjoy counting large sums of money! He confesses to suffering from A.G.E. (Annoying Geriatric Experiences). His memory is good, though. He remembers the coeds at Cornell and would like to hear from William C. Taylor.

The final news in this installment comes from Max Kraus (MHK10@cornell.edu), who writes, "We moved to Middlebury,VT, from Philadelphia three and a half years ago and love it. The sense of community, great biking and skiing, and the ability to take courses at Middlebury College all add up to a relaxed and enjoyable life." Thanks again to all who sent news.More to come. -- Dick Keegan, c/o Cornell Alumni Magazine, 401 East State St., Suite 301, Ithaca, NY 14850; Class Notes Editor e-mail, adr4@cornell. edu.