80 | As you read this, we have been enjoying the sun, sand, and surf and having a great summer. I have lots of good news to report.My son Jason celebrated his bar mitzvah on February 3 at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in NYC, followed by a terrific party at Tavern on the Green. The service was beautiful, and Jason made us proud. Jason's brother Jeffrey, 10, participated in the service and has been busy playing on a baseball team and in a travel basketball league. Jason has been playing on two baseball teams and continues to play basketball and trumpet.My husband Stephen Radin and I were happy to celebrate with many Cornellians, including Margery Salshutz Brauner, Esther Elkin Mildner, Linda Ripps Feder, Janet Goldin Rubin '79, Nancy Batterman '81, Eric Greenberg '82, and Ellen Federman '82.My sister Diane Barsky '83, her husband Andrew Simonson, and their girls Jennie, 9, and Nicole, 6, joined us from Philadelphia. Diane is assistant professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital, U. of Pennsylvania, and Andy is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Horsham Clinic.

Allan and Margery Brauner celebrated the bar mitzvah of their son Eric on December 9, 2006 at Temple Beth Shalom in Fair Lawn, NJ. A moving service was followed by a boisterous party at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center. Steve and I attended and enjoyed seeing Esther Mildner, Miriam Leeser, Linda Ripps, Janet Rubin, and Robin Rosenberg '81.Mark and Martha Francis Fischer celebrated the bar mitzvah of their son Greg in March in Reston,VA. A lovely service was followed by a fun party at the Marriott Hotel, and Esther Mildner reported that "a good time was had by all." Esther enjoyed the party with former Cornell roommates Nancy Farrell Greco, Nancy Schlicht Hall, Candace CrockerWarren, and Lisa Privett-Wood.

Doug Hughes writes that he finally badgered someone into marrying him. Doug married Frances McLaughlin in January 2007 at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC. Doug shared his special day with fellow Fiji fraternity brothers Alan Kanuk and Craig Keshishian '81 and law school roommate John LoBosco. Congratulations to Doug and to Howard Seibel, who married Laurie Goldenburg in Amherst, MA, last summer. Howard is a marketing consultant in NYC and requests that old friends contact him at hseibel @whartonstrategic.com. Congratulations also to Ronald Rosati, MAT '81, on his promotion in February from VP for academic affairs to provost of Alfred State SUNY College of Technology. Ron assumed additional institution-wide responsibilities, will participate in fundraising and outreach for the college, and will lead the college in the absence of the president.

Chris Spear has been promoting his book, SystemVerilog for Verification, a bestseller in the electronic design automation niche. Chris has been busy biking and traveling. He served as domestique for John Kerry in the Pan Mass Challenge, a fundraiser for cancer research, when he rode with the senator for the last five out of 110 miles. He also biked in the Pyrenees, following the Tour de France, and climbed Mont Ventous, one of the toughest mountains in Europe.Walter Peek (wpeek @optonline.net) reports that his son Walter will follow in dad's footsteps and attend the Ag college in the fall.Walter continues to broker printing papers and lives in Rye, NY, with his wife Susie.

A great way to experience Cornell camaraderie and education is to attend Cornell's Adult University (CAU). Some of our classmates have attended these programs and trips and had a wonderful time. Joan Antonik went to Florida for baseball spring training on Take Me Out to the Ballgame; Barbara O'Mara Hinsley took her family on the Tanzania Family Safari; Steven '79, MA '83, and Joy Horwitz Fram went to Mohonk Mountain House for a weekend on 2006 Midterm Elections; Blythe Reis and her father Curtis '56 experienced the Treasures of the Black Sea; Tina BochicchioWoetzel took the trip Crossing Gibraltar; and Bradford Zak went exploring on the Upper Amazon.

Your class officers have many exciting activities planned and would love to hear from you.We are also interested in hearing about your Cornell activities outside of our class and plan to publicize them in a column devoted to this topic. Please send your news and keep in touch. -- 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.

81 | Thanks so much to all of you who responded to my plea for news. I sent out an SOS to everyone with a last name from A-F. It was great to hear from you. For those of you who responded, if you don't see your news in this column, it will definitely be in the next one.

First, thanks to Chris Crehan (ccpegasus@aol.com), who always has news.His company, Pegasus Mortgage, is doing well and he's opening a new office in Dedham, MA. His oldest daughter just finished her junior year at Wellesley College, where she had the opportunity to study for a semester in Galway, Ireland. Chris had a ball at reunion catching up with Rafe Chierchio, Jim Draddy, Esther Lee,Martha Garcia Cairnie, and Bob Boehringer. Chris, Bob, and Bob's kids played in a reunion soccer game. Cornell Coach Bryan Scales gave the kids jerseys after the game and they were thrilled. Chris also got a chance to reconnect with a bunch of his old cohorts from Noyes Center Dining. "I spent more time on West Campus those three days than in my whole Cornell career up to that point, strangely." Chris's final comment about reunion: "BTW, as expected, the women looked much better than the men."

Maria Egger (marheath@comcast.net) lives in the town of Arundel, on the southern coast of Maine. She and her husband own Goose Rocks Designs and Riverbend Gallery, where they make wind chimes that are represented in galleries and fine crafts shops in the US and beyond.Maria is proud of her two stepsons, three step-grandchildren, and two daughters. Her first daughter just graduated from Smith College, and her second just completed her freshman year at Boston College's Carroll School of Management. In Salem, NH,Mary Casey Battis (mcbattis@aol.com) and her husband Patrick are busy with their two children, ages 9 and 4. After a career as senior legal counsel for Fisher-Price,Mary left the practice of law to become a full-time mom.

As always, there is lots of news from the New York area. Joshua Fried (composer@acedsl.com) is making sound waves in NYC's heady new music scene. Learn more about his music at radiowonderland.org. Claudia Bloom is a research editor at Real Simple magazine and coaches actors; see her website for details, www.claudiabloom.com. Claudia is raising her 11-year-old son in NYC.He is a real sports fanatic, and they recently attended Cornell football and baseball games. Claudia shares an annual coffee with her former roommate Betsy Rubiner, who now lives in Des Moines, IA. In Westchester County, Marcia Hopson Earle (mhearle@bestweb.net) changed firms last year after 20 years. She now serves as Northeast area marketing manager for HDR Engineering.Marcia, her husband, and sons David, 13, and Michael, 9, are boating enthusiasts.

Up in the Watkins Glen area, Debra Chesman (yodelady@stny.rr.com) is a washtub bass player and one of the singers in the Cotton Mill Girls. The group does a variety of old-time folk songs and fiddle tunes; they take their name from the song made famous by the late Hedy West that speaks of the hard times women had in the early cotton mills. Just outside Flemington, NJ, Diana Waters Carr, MBA '82 (mddacarr1@aol.com) and her husband Michael have boys ages 12 and 10. Diana stopped working when she and her family moved to England in 1997. They moved back to New Jersey in 2002, and she has been spending massive hours volunteering since then.

Erica Schwartz Edelman (edelmanfamily@msn.com), a child psychologist in an early intervention program, lives in D.C. with husband Alan '80, a trial lawyer with the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. They have three children: Leah, a senior at Brandeis; Avi, a freshman at Columbia; and Sam, a freshman in high school. In Pittsburgh, PA, Adam Becker (a1becker@hotmail.com) writes: "Our family is currently running a lot."His children (Julia in middle school and Miles in high school) are both on the track team and have successful records. Adam coaches the Pacer Track Club, a team of 90 athletes, ages 8-14.

Gladys Margarita Dias-Jourdain,MArch '82 (gladmag@urbaniza.us) is enjoying life in Miami.Her company, Urbaniza (meaning "she urbanizes") is doing well, and her historic preservation project, the Coral Rock Village, was featured in the December issue of Casa & Estilo magazine. Glad will be hosting several Cornell interns this summer to help with the creation of a Live-Work Zoning Overlay District in Coral Gables. In Atlanta, GA, Dana Ciraldo (dana@ciraldofamily.com) writes that he recently married for the second time. He now has children aged 15, 13, and 2 months. "Sleepless nights are the current challenge!" Dana's business, HWE, is doing great, having sold $6 billion of hotels in 2006. Isabel Ackerman Brandt (isabelbrandt@charter.net) continues to live in St. Louis practicing as an independent hospitality consultant. In the afternoon, she switches to her underpaid chauffeur job, usually taking daughters Madeline, 14, and Mackenzie, 12, to skating practice where they both are on synchronized figure skating teams. Isabel is president of the Metro Edge Figure Skating Club and used her food service background volunteering as hospitality chairperson for the 2006 National Figure Skating Championships in St. Louis.

For the past 16 years, Deirdre Brophy Farmer (farmerd@crcna.org) has been a program manager for the IT department at the Christian Reformed Church North American Headquarters in Grand Rapids, MI. She and her husband Richard (Oneonta State) have three children: Ray, a student at Western Michigan U.; Greg, a senior in high school planning to attend Grand Valley State U.; and Jacque, a junior at Rockford High School. In Illinois, Susan Felleman (felleman@siu.edu) is an associate professor of cinema studies at Southern Illinois U., Carbondale, where she and husband Peter Chametzky '80, associate professor of art history, have been on the faculty since 1998. Susan's second book, Art in the Cinematic Imagination, was published last year. Peter and Susan spent the 2005-06 academic year on sabbatical in Berlin with their children Ben, 13, and Hallie, 9.

In Tustin, CA (think O.C.), Debbie Hirsch Ewing (dewing@cox.net) is a "never at home" mom, not earning money but active in both children's schools, the local children's hospital, a Bible study group, and on the boards of her church and the Tustin Public Schools foundation. She missed reunion because husband Mark's 25th was the same weekend at Occidental College."He won by coin toss!" The Ewings have children Kristen and Sean in the eighth and fifth grades, respectively. Rosemary Flynn (rtf7@pacbell. net) lives in Newport Beach, where she worked in land use and environmental planning/policy for most of her career. She is currently not working due to medical problems, but stays busy taking classes, volunteering as a literacy tutor, and helping out at the local ecological preserve and arboretum.

In Moscow since 2002, Steven Fisher (sfisher914@hotmail.com) works as the corporate bank head for Citigroup's business in Russia. He lives there with wife Lucille and daughter Gabbi, who is in 7th grade. Older daughter Kira will be a sophomore at Vassar in the fall. Steve is planning to start an alumni club in Moscow this year, so stay tuned. He says they might call it "Vodka high above Cayuga's waters!" Steve stays in touch with classmates Ruth Lowenkron and Andrew Ritwo. Kimberle Crenshaw (crenshaw@law.ucla.edu) teaches law at Columbia and UCLA law schools, but is currently the Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the university in Rio, Brazil, where she is teaching a comparative law course on race, rights, and social inclusion. This summer she is planning to travel to Japan and then later will host 22 scholars from around the world at a ten-day retreat on affirmative action at Bellagio, Italy. Next year, she may take a sabbatical.

That's it for now. Drop us a line and tell us about your summer. -- Kathy Philbin LaShoto, lashoto@rcn.com; Jennifer Read Campbell, ronjencam@aol.com; Betsy Silverfine, bsilverfine@adelphia.net.

82 | I am writing this column almost two months before our 25th Reunion, but it will not appear in the magazine until after reunion has come and gone. Coverage of the reunion, including our class's Reunion Report, will appear in the following (Sep/Oct) issue. By then we will be feasting on our fond memories and trying not to digest the collateral knowledge that for some of us the slim physiques and full heads of hair are also now in the memory category.Meanwhile, this column's news once again reflects the professional and charitable contributions that our class continues to make to society.

Dawn Crismon Amos and husband Mark '81 are taking their three daughters, 19, 11, and 8, to Kenya for five weeks for a service work camp this summer. They are helping to build a "Peace Center" that provides workshops for the Alternatives to Violence Program under the auspices of the nonprofit African Great Lakes Initiative. They are also gathering clothing and supplies for distribution. Classmates wishing to learn more about their efforts can visit www.aglionline.org. Cornell's distribution to alumni of last year's freshman reading project book, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, was one inspiration for this adventure.

Fellow U-Hall 5 dweller William Basuk is currently practicing ophthalmology in San Diego, CA, as chief of ophthalmology at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla and director of the San Diego Eye Bank. Bill volunteers regularly with several international eye care organizations, including Orbis Int'l and the Flying Samaritans, and has taught ophthalmology in some 25 countries. He says, "Recent volunteer surgical teaching trips have taken me to Mexico, Tanzania, Albania, the Sudan, and Myanmar. I guess I love to combine my love of medicine with my sense of adventure. As a native upstate New Yorker and now a Southern Californian, I'll admit I miss the trees, the beauty of the campus, and the autumn leaves. I recently ran into Kim Benson when we bumped into each other in an elevator and discovered that we practiced at the same hospital."

My fraternity brother David Block checked in and reports that he also is a refugee from the bracing weather of Ithaca.He, his wife, and boys Joshua, 4, and Daniel, 6, are "living in Miami, a far cry from the climate of Ithaca. In fact, my children have never seen snow or even water freeze without a refrigerator." First-time contributor Susan Spanton Blum writes that she has been married to Bruce for 22 years, has three sons, and sent the oldest to college this year. "I left traditional medicine ten years ago and created the Center for Nutritional Medicine, an integrative medicine practice in White Plains, NY (www.healthylifemd.com)." Susan is very disappointed that a family obligation prevented her from attending reunion.

Eric Bliss lives with his wife, twin sons, 12, and daughter, 8, in Spring City, PA, and has worked as the engineering manager at Blommer Chocolate Co. in East Greenville, PA, since April 2006. He spends non-work time coaching baseball, playing and coaching ice hockey, skiing, and gardening.He worked with Byron Reed '78 at Webber Smith Associates in Lancaster, PA, from 1996 to 2003 and stays in touch with him. Byron lives in New Holland, PA, and works at Pilgrim's Pride. Eric says that his sons played hockey with the sons of Mike Cleary '88, who works at DuPont in Wilmington, DE. Karen Baker Blum recently relocated from the mountains of north Georgia to Port Washington, NY. Along with nurturing a 3-1/2-year-old son, her first, she is growing her own practice coaching women entrepreneurs who want to do business the feminine way. She recently visited with Hotelie classmate Linda Guzylak in Scottsdale, AZ. Karen was looking forward to visiting Ithaca for reunion and seeing former instructors, professors, and fellow Hotelies. She can be contacted at theblums@gmail.com.

Neil Best recently had Paul Wessel '83 and family over for an NCAA basketball party. He still manages to run around the tennis court weekly trying to beat Michael McCoy '84, his brother-in-law and the father of Jill McCoy '09. He's still at Newsday after 22 years, hoping the newspaper industry has a couple more decades left in it. His current assignment as the sports media and business columnist has led to many interesting things: from lunch with Cal Ripken to hanging out in the CBS control room during March Madness to Opening Day at both Shea and Yankee stadiums.He has yet to achieve one career ambition: meeting (and/or critiquing) NBC hockey analyst and classmate Brian Hayward. He says,"Maybe next season, Brian."

Nazila Alasti writes, "After 20-plus years of working in different corporate and startup environments in Silicon Valley and realizing that I had limited shelf-life, I decided to start a company. Homajoon is part product and part activism. Our goal is to create a useful product for busy mothers while creating a family-friendly work environment that is hospitable, particularly to mothers and their need for flexibility.We hope to change the world by creating a thriving business that is fed and built by parenthood's wisdom and energized by its chaos. Please contact me (nazila@homajoon.com) if you are interested to hear more.We are looking for moms all over the country, available and interested in working 15-25 hours per week. You must have guessed by now that I am a mother! After Cornell, I worked for five years in engineering before attending business school at Stanford and meeting my Italian husband there. Our daughters are 10 and 7 and we live on the Stanford campus in Stanford, CA."

Michael Greenberg, MBA '83, and his wife Elizabeth were sorry to miss reunion because of an impending birth in the family.Michael has retired from his career in human resources and technology management. He and his family moved back to Denver and would love to see any friends from Cornell that are coming through Colorado. Gary Pollard, MAT '86, and his family live in Greenport, NY. He has joined the Bank of Green County as senior VP, commercial lending and will have offices in Greenport and in Catskill, NY. Gary's master's was in agricultural education with an emphasis in business, and he now has more than 20 years of experience in management and commercial lending. -- Mark Fernau, mef29@cornell.edu; Nina Kondo, nmk22@cornell.edu.

83 | Greetings, everyone. Our class officers (myself included) convened in Philadelphia this past January for the annual Mid-Winter Meeting of the Cornell Association of Class Officers (CACO). The focus of discussion for our class was on our fast-approaching 25th Reunion.We are committed to making this the best reunion ever, in terms of both attendance and fundraising. The importance to the university of alumni participation at reunions cannot be understated. As one of the CACO officers put it, every Cornellian--even someone who paid full-freight for their tuition--had their education subsidized, since tuition payments make up only a fraction of the total operating budget; the rest is paid for by the Cornell endowment. If we don't collectively give, someone doesn't get to go to Cornell.

We nearly set the record for attendance for a 20th Reunion class (being slightly edged out for that honor by the Class of '82); let's make our 25th the one that sets the mark. Now is the time to start coming together as a class and reconnecting with everyone we knew and encouraging them to come to reunion. Do you have friends and classmates from a fraternity or sorority? A local Cornell alumni club? Or maybe a roommate with whom you still keep in touch? Perhaps you were a member of the Cornell marching band, a contributor to the Cornell Sun, or a member of a varsity or intramural sports team with which you still have friends? Then it is time to remind them that the 25th Reunion--traditionally the biggest reunion of all in terms of attendance--is less than a year away.

We also want to hear from you about ideas or themes you would like to see at our 25th. Formal? Casual? Ballroom dancing or swing? Any requests for a guest speaker? We would love to hear from you! Anyone interested in volunteering is also encouraged to e-mail our reunion co-chair Andy Sosa at jas247@cornell.edu. Also important to mention is that we are running out of time for submittals of photographs to include in our class scrapbook that we hope to make available at reunion highlighting "thenand- now"moments. Please, if you have any photos, digital scans, or hardcopy images that you could possibly submit, please contact me for details at the e-mail at the end of this column. Now, with that order of class business out of the way, on to the news!

Speaking of returning to Cornell, Nat Bowditch sends his greetings from Menlo Park, CA, to tell us that his son Sam was accepted to Cornell for the fall. His family planned a trip to visit the campus in early April, and at the last minute his son reminded his dad that he didn't own any long pants (this California kid is in for a rude awakening that is an Ithaca winter!). Fortunately they found some, as snow duly greeted their arrival to Ithaca during our protracted cold weather this spring. But they had a great time. Nat informs us that he has a daughter, Sylvia, who is a sophomore in high school, and that besides being a proud parent, he is CEO of Apneon Inc., a company that develops innovative solutions for sleep apnea. From the company's website we learn that after graduating from Cornell as a biology major, Nat earned his MS in that subject from Stanford and also holds an MBA from the U. of Chicago. He joined Apneon as president and CEO in May 2006. Nat also serves as a volunteer member of the Santa Clara County Sheriff 's Search and Rescue Team and says he frequently attends reunions at his old fraternity.Writes Nat, "When I graduated in 1983, I buried a bottle of wine in the attic insulation of the Alpha Delta Phi chapter house. I found it and shared it with the brothers at our 19th Reunion. It was replaced with another, which was similarly shared at the 20th. A wonderful red awaits our 25th next year." (Well, at least there will be if no current brothers are reading this column!)

From Mark Lawrence of Douglasville,GA, we learn that he is enjoying working in the wellness industry--"a field that allows me to help others every day."His position as a senior marketing director also affords him the advantages of "working from home, spending the day with my wife and children, and enjoying my mother's senior years (she's 82)."His present after-hours extracurricular activities include home-schooling three of his five children.Mark remembers fondly his days at Cornell, especially offcampus living, and would like to hear from his old friend Oguz Dirilgen, MS ORIE '84, from Turkey.Mark can't think of anything he'd rather be doing than exactly what he is doing now . . . "Well, maybe playing a little more tennis."

Brad Baker writes from Wyncote, PA, that he and his wife Dina own Baker Creative, a landscape design/build firm. The company won its fourth Excellence in Landscape Design Award from the Pennsylvania Landscape & Nursery Association in February. In March, they exhibited by invitation at the prestigious Philadelphia Flower Show, where they won the honor of Best Achievement in Design of Paths & Walkways and the Flower Show Ribbon for Daily Maintenance and Condition. Brad's present extracurricular activities include golf, serving as chair of Synagogue House Committee, and coaching a teen basketball league. As of press time his family was leaving for a vacation in Cologne, Germany, where a childhood friend now lives.

We received a press notice from the prestigious international law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP that Paul Wessel has joined their ranks as a partner in their New York headquarters. He had earned the recognition as an executive compensation and employee benefits expert, and as Milbank chairman Mel M. Immergut stated, "Paul is a tremendously skilled lawyer who will add depth to our executive compensation and benefits capabilities." Paul had been serving as the chairman of the executive compensation subcommittee in the ABA Law Section. Julie Doig McPeek drops us a line from Deer Park, IL, that she is doing new business development consulting for Provisor Marketing. Other than that, her time is occupied at softball tournaments, lacrosse games, cheerleading competitions, and chorus and band concerts--all those activities attendant with raising three daughters. The two oldest just celebrated their 16th and 13th birthdays. Quips Julie, "Yes, we now have a new driver in the house and lots of new gray hairs!" Julie was planning on returning to Ithaca in June to attend the 25th Reunion of her husband Jeff '82.

Thanks to all of you who have been submitting class news, especially online. Just go to www.alumni.cornell.edu and click on the quick-link for Class Websites. It only takes a few minutes and makes our job as class correspondent a lot easier. Send your news! -- David Pattison, dpattison@earthlink.net; and Dinah Lawrence Godwin, Dinah.godwin@earthlink.net.

84 | Lee Bickerstaff received an MS in food science at the U. of Maine after graduating from Cornell. She and husband Karl Bishop moved to Syracuse in 1986, then to San Francisco in 1991, where Karl did a post-doc at UCSF, Lee worked for a small biotech company doing Alzheimer's research, and their daughter Sarah was born. They returned to Maine in 2001 and Lee worked as a research scientist at U. of Maine for four years, developing molecular biosensors. Currently, she is working at Jackson Labs in Bar Harbor, doing genotyping in a lab looking at the regulation of HDL cholesterol, among other things. Karl is teaching quantum mechanics at U. of Maine and is VP of Zeomatrix, a small company developing new materials for bioremediation of waste products. They live in Orono, where Sarah is a 13-year-old eighth grade honor student and an avid dancer, spending 15-20 hours a week in the dance studio. Lee writes, "This means my free time is mostly dedicated to commuting to work--1.5 hours each way--or driving Sarah to dance! We are hoping to stay in Orono, provided I can tolerate the commuting and Karl's company stays viable. That's about it, except to say that we are U. of Maine hockey fans, which poses a problem when Cornell takes the ice against the Black Bears.When Sarah is college-bound, she wants to go to either U. of Maine or Cornell!"

Peter Dominey has been living in Lyon, France, for 13 years with his wife Jocelyne and their daughters Emily, 13, and Alexa, 12. Peter is a research director in the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), working on brain mechanisms of human language processing applied to human-robot interaction. Look at "Robot Cognition Laboratory" on the Web. This work takes him and his wife, also a scientist, to scientific meetings abroad--recently in Kyoto for a week--making for good opportunities to visit old friends. At the Humanoid Robotics meeting in Santa Monica, Peter hooked up with old Delta Chi brothers Martin Hartmanis and Tom Schonher, who helped remind him of some good old traditions. He has since recovered.

Jim Beemer was promoted in May 2005 to natural resources manager at the US Military Academy at West Point, NY. He managed 16,000 acres in the scenic and biologically rich Hudson Highlands of Southeastern New York. Jim has received three awards in the past year: the Special Achievement Award for Professional Management of Natural Resources on Dept. of Defense Lands, presented by the National Military Fish and Wildlife Association; the Commander's Award for Civilian Service, with medal, from the Dept. of the Army; and the Outstanding Professional Award from the New York Chapter of the Wildlife Society. He and his fiancée will be traveling to Germany in June and July. Jim stays in touch with his advisor, Dr. Aaron Moen, professor emeritus in the Dept. of Natural Resources, CALS, as well as several other professors.

Steven Atherton and his wife Megan are pleased to announce the birth of their second son, Samuel Langton Atherton, on October 23, 2006. His brother, Joseph Kenneth Davis Atherton, turned 2 on January 3, 2007. Maya Koopman Bechtel is a child psychiatrist in Bellingham,WA. Her present after-hour activities include: raising teenagers, church activities, skiing, hiking, and biking. Recently, she moved from New York to Washington to get involved with a program for psychologically at-risk kids. But the big news is that Maya's 16-year-old daughter just left for a year in Japan as an exchange student. The Cornell friend she would most like to hear from is Amy Seward Stacy.

Here is a list of our classmates who have been doing fun things with CAU Off-Campus Study Tours: Robert Hole (Upper Amazon Crossing Gibraltar); Carol Leister, along with her mother Minette Leister, an honorary member of the Class of '45 (2006 Midterm Elections:Mohonk); and Suzanne Bricker Sullivan and John Toohey (Tanzania Family Safari). -- Karla Sievers McManus, Klorax@comcast.net; Lindsay Liotta Forness, fornesszone@aol.com. Class website, http://classof84.alumni.cornell.edu.

85 | Thank you for answering our call for news! Please keep the news coming! Jen Steig tells us that her family moved to Maplewood, NJ, in 2002, and that they love its small-town life. Jen notes, "While it's still ‘the burbs,' there are enough folks from Manhattan and Park Slope to give our town a cool vibe." Jen's husband Bill Strugger works for EMC Corp., running the competitive intelligence group. Children Sara, 14, Abby, 4, and Justin, 2, are all doing well. Sara loves dancing and hanging out with friends, Abby loves play dates, dancing, and cooking, and the happy guy Justin loves playing with blocks and trucks and running around the house marking every wall with crayons. Jen is a partner with the Cheshire Group, a real estate investment firm. She's been with them for 12 years overseeing a portfolio of multi-family properties in Metro New York. Jen's family loves to spend time with the grandparents in Bromley, VT, and they were also planning to enjoy some warmth during a family vacation in St. John in early April.

We received a press release from the Niagara Frontier Veterinary Society that Robert Reed Stevens, DVM '00, who is with the Blue Cross Animal Hospital in Amherst, NY, has been elected to a two-year term as president of the society. Reed is living in North Buffalo. Ed Dudley, MS '88, is now VP of research and development for Food Marketing Support Services Inc. in Oak Park, IL. FMSS is known for its sensory-based approach to innovative product design and development for retail and food service companies. Visit www.fmssinc.com for more info on Ed.

We appreciate that W. Ted Alexander stays in touch with us.He continues with his part-time position as the mayor of Shelby, NC, while his day job is as regional director of the SW Office for Preservation North Carolina. Ted also finds the time to chair New Wilderness Adventures, a Christian-based outdoors ministry, to speak at the Illinois Main Street Annual Conference, and to do many outdoor adventures. His memories of Cornell include good friends and the food at Sage Hall. He would love to hear from Jim Glass, PhD '87,Mark Lino, PhD '87, and David Schwartz, JD '86, at talexander@presnc.org.

Our class reunion chairs are already thinking about our 25th Reunion while they are each very busy with their children. Margaret Nagel Gnegy is busy with Mathew, 13, Katie, 10, and Andrew, 7, while Jennifer Sidell Cornelssen Ellis's youngest son Jack just turned 1.Mark Jacobson, wife Jayne, and 7-year-old twins Peder and Mathias are enjoying life in Panama City, Panama.Mark had been working with the family hotel business for several years, but is now looking to do something new--he's just not sure what that will be yet.Meanwhile, he plans to learn to surf with his boys and to finish a marathon. He also owns a restaurant, Larson's, in Honduras, for which he is hoping to find a working partner to manage the day-to-day business. Contact Mark at mark@elejecutivo.com. Rey Rodriguez says hello from sunny California, where he lives with wife Vivian Godoy and sons Diego, 5, and Pablo, 3. Rey has been working with the Walt Disney Company for 11 years.

Dr. Alejandro Badia wrote in from Miami to say that he "finally tied the knot" with Alexandra, a physical therapist from Venezuela. Alejandro thought he might have been the last bachelor holdout of our class, but I know he isn't. These new and proud parents are very busy with daughter Allesia, while Alejandro is also managing his practice of hand and upper limb surgery. He is currently building the DaVinci Learning Center, which will be the world's largest cadaveric training center for all surgical specialties. Alejandro shared news of his unique experience of performing a tendon reconstruction on Terrell Owens, of Dallas Cowboys fame, to get him rehabilitated for NFL mini-camp.He spent March taking care of the injuries during the Sony Ericsson Tennis tournament.When you are in South Beach, look up Dr. Badia at www.drbadia.com.

Jennifer Katz and Rob Goldwasser '84 are delighted to report that their son Matthew '10 is a freshman at Cornell majoring in Biological Engineering and loving it. As Jennifer said, "It's quite a trip to see your child taking the exact same classes that you took 25 years earlier!" Jennifer continues to work as a solo practitioner of dermatology (she says,"No, I don't do Botox") in Scarsdale, NY, and she hopes all of her classmates are having an annual full-body skin exam and wearing sunblock daily! Great advice!

Paul Kohn, MS '89, wrote in from Tucson where he is asst. VP of admissions and financial aid at U. of Arizona. He provided a lot of updates. Ben Geschwind is happily living in Maplewood, NJ, with wife Ethelyn and their son Aytan. He works in corporate communications for Accenture in NYC. Mike Geschwind is in San Francisco as a faculty member and clinician with UCSF and is considered one of the city's most eligible bachelors according to San Francisco magazine. Avner Leon is an MD living in Israel with his many children and his wife. Alkesh Shah and wife Kathy divide their time between NYC and Falmouth, MA. Paul, thanks for all the updates!

Lisa Reznick and husband Mike Mayer recently purchased an office building and built out a new medical office for Lisa's orthopedic and hand surgery practice. She is thrilled that after being in private practice for ten years, she has achieved her goal of paying herself rent! Lisa and Mike are looking forward to a gathering at the Jersey Shore with SheriWilensky Burke and husband Tom, SheilaWinik Silberglied and husband Scott, and Ron Prague and wife Jerilyn. Harry Chiam and his friends started a website, www.rankaroo.com, a user-friendly site to share your Internet favorites and to chat with others who have similar interests. He invites all to check it out. Nancy Parmet Cook and husband Jim live in Greenwich, CT, with their young children Jack, 4, David, 2, and Chloe, 5 months last April. Nancy is producing a film called Unstrung that will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. Congratulations, Nancy (a fellow U-Hall 1 floormate of both Joyce and Leslie).

Last but not least, this is a call for one of you to volunteer as our class webmaster.Many of you might not realize that Suzanne Montenegro has been our webmaster for at least the last eight years and she needs a break. I am hoping one of you will want to learn more about this opportunity to get involved. The time requirement is only one to two hours a month until reunion time, when it can increase to four or five hours a month. To learn more, contact Suzanne at Suzanne@darkstar.cc. Send news to: -- Leslie Nydick, LNydick@aol.com; or Joyce Zelkowitz Cornett, jmcornett@bellsouth.net.

86 | Last summer we were busy meeting and greeting at reunion. Favorite line, "You haven't changed a bit!" Runner-up, "How many kids do you have?" This year, if we wanted to see our classmates, we had to have our own mini-reunions. For some of us (Susan and I are both married to guys who went to Cornell), it's pretty easy. For others, it takes a wedding or birth of a child to see friends from the Hill.

Margaret Jones Carpenter counts her mother, Joan Ronalds Jones '56, as the most recent Cornellian she has seen, which sounds like an easy sighting (right up there with seeing my husband as he hands me the coffee each morning), but for this world traveler, she had to fly halfway around the world to return to New Jersey and help her mother clean out her apartment.Margaret, her husband, and their two sons live in Hong Kong. They have taught at American-style international schools for the past 17 years and have lived in Cyprus, Scotland, Saudi Arabia, and Panama.Margaret writes, "We are taking our (now) Chinese-speaking boys to Taipei next, as we are sold on continuing our adventure in Asia." She sends good wishes to Tri-Delts and the folks from U-Hall 6 who remember the primal scream.

Dale Capewell's mini-reunion was with Asok Tripathi '93 and his wife Iona (Stewart) '93. Dale and Asok got their 2-year-old sons together for a play date, which is a wonderful excuse for grown-ups to sit and talk while the boys toddle around. Dale lives near Agoura Hills, CA, and works as a VP of product development for a medical diagnostics company. Alison Carter, PhD '94, got to see Terry Linsey '87, ME '89, when she traveled from New Jersey with her 4-year-old son to Massachusetts to see Terry and her two children. Alison writes, "We played in the snow and went to a science museum. It was wonderful to see her again. I miss her a lot."When she's not visiting and playing, Alison works as a statistician in the pharmaceutical industry.

It was a girl's weekend when Irene Hendricks attended reunion with Jennifer Ellenberg last summer. She left her newborn daughter, Lauren, and her 6-year-old, Caroline, at home with her husband. She reports that she was probably the only person who caught up on sleep while at reunion. In addition to Jennifer, Irene stays in touch with lots of Cornell friends in the Stamford, CT, area and beyond. Living in Delray Beach, FL, Enrique Martinez Celaya's life has taken several interesting turns since graduating from Cornell with a degree in Applied and Engineering Physics. He went to Berkeley to earn his PhD in quantum electronics, but left to pursue a career in art. He and wife Alex have three children and live just a short bicycle ride away from his studio. Enrique's art is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney. He contributed a work to "The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama" at the UCLA Fowler Museum.When not traveling for installations or openings, Enrique also writes and publishes art books. If you'd like to see his work, you can get a glimpse on his website, www.martinezcelaya.com.

Another artistic classmate, although in the music field, is Eve Seaman Edwards. This summer Eve will be singing the role of Alice Ford in Verdi's Falstaff with Harrisburg's Center Stage Opera, Rosalinde in J. Strauss's Die Fledermaus with Philadelphia's Delaware Valley Opera Company, and a concert version of Mozart's Così Fan Tutte in Southern New Jersey.When not singing, Eve is busy with her family's company, MVD, which is a wholesaler of audio and video music titles. She is also wife to Jeff and mom to 8-year-old Aaron.

If after all that news you're still wondering, "What about all the people I knew at Cornell?" then you need to send us an update. Let us know what you're doing, who's had a baby, where you're living--anything you think your classmates might want to know about. Send your news to -- Susan Seligsohn Howell, susancornell86@comcast.net; or Laura Nieboer Hine, lauracornell86@sbcglobal.net.

87 | Now that our 20th Reunion is over, I hope everyone who made the trip back to Ithaca had a great time. It's never too early to start planning for our next one-- the milestone 25th in 2012. I want to take this opportunity to say "thank you" for being my faithful readers for the past 15 years. I greatly appreciate the privilege of serving you as a class correspondent since 1992. Co-correspondent Debra Howard Stern and I take our curtain call with this column and the Reunion Report recap that will appear in the next issue.We look forward to continuing to serve you as we each take on a different class council position for the next five years.

The beginning of a new year often means hockey road trips back East. Rebecca and I, having had to miss the last couple of Cornell games at Harvard, were excited about making the trip to Cambridge in late February. I was hoping to see Heidi Claus Perry and husband Duncan '84, MBA '88, at the game, but it was the same week as their children's school vacation and they had planned to visit Heidi's sister in Miami and enjoy some sunshine. Leslie (Kaufman) and Richard Friedman were able to join us for a pre-game drink at the John Harvard brewpub as we whooped it up with scores of other Cornellians before the Big Game.

Mary Hohenhaus drove up from Providence, RI, to cheer on the Big Red: "I got the bright idea to go to medical school sometime around our 5th Reunion, and matriculated at the U. of Pittsburgh School of Medicine about six weeks after our 10th Reunion. I was on call in the cardiac critical unit for our 15th! I completed training in internal medicine at Brown U. in 2004, served as chief medical resident from 2004-05, and am now on the general internal medicine faculty at Brown. I teach primary care in the medicine residency program, where I supervise in one of our primary care clinics, as well as see my own patients."Mary again spent part of last summer in Eldoret, Kenya, where she did a stint as visiting faculty at the Moi U. (one of two medical schools in Kenya) through Brown's active exchange program. On a more personal front, Mary said, "I rediscovered choral music during my residency, and have sung for almost five years with an English-style choir at Grace Episcopal Church in downcity Providence, where I also serve on the vestry."Mary is also the owner of a historic Victorian, which she bought a year ago. Last winter she wed Yale graduate John Totter.

Long-lost classmate Noreen Morris sent me an e-mail out of the blue after she found out that I am now working for the U. of Chicago. It turns out that for the past three years Noreen has been associate athletic director for intercollegiate services and senior women's administrator at Northwestern U. This is her second stint in the Windy City. She had been an associate commissioner in Conference USA. Then she moved to Dallas for a new job, but Northwestern came calling six weeks later. Sensing that this was an opportunity not to be missed, Noreen moved back to take the job in Evanston. She'd often spend evenings and weekends going to games, but we caught up over dinner in April at the fashionable DeLaCosta (try the ceviche!), and she immediately signed up for the class reunion.

Two other classmates had to miss reunion, but for a good reason.MelindaWeir reported,"My husband Erik Sorensen and I are moving to London. I will be working in leveraged finance at Citigroup, and am very excited for the move. Our beautiful children Mahlon, 7, Katharine, 5, and Anna, 3, are also looking forward to London." Gail Stoller Baer checked in from Arizona."Michael and I have had quite the open door in our home in Scottsdale. In March, Rich Friedman was attending a conference, and he gave up a night at the Biltmore to stay with us. At the time, he was enjoying the break from snowy Boston weather with the Arizona sunshine.We hosted Peter Moss '88, his wife Georgie, and their children Andrew and Danny, along with Georgie's parents for Passover.We are all enjoying living in the Southwest."Nowadays Gail works as a senior manager, business advisory services, at Grant Thornton LLP.

Ann Madigan Campbell and husband Stephen live just an hour south of Ithaca these days. She is a communications consultant with the Satori Group LLC. "Besides chasing after our boys Connor, 9, Grayson, 8, and Quinn, 5, I work part-time from home developing and implementing marketing or communications activities for the Corning- Painted Post Area School District and the Elmira Corning Regional Airport." Ann also serves as an arts competition coordinator for the PTA at her kids' school. Shelby Tedesco Spak, MRP '89, dropped us a note from the Pacific Northwest last fall. "I have three kids now, John Paul, 6, Joseph, 4, and Eva, 18 months. I'm married to Cedric, an infectious diseases physician, and we've lived in Seattle for the past three years. I'm moving with my family in June 2007 to Dallas--right after reunion, so I won't be able to make it. After years of working in management consulting for Bain & Co., a couple of startups, and as a freelancer, I started my own custom jewelry business in 2005. I make custom-designed, original beaded jewelry from pearls, semi-precious stones, crystal, antique glass, and sterling silver. I sell my work in trunk shows across the US as well as in boutiques and museum shops." Speaking of artistic talent, Thomas Frederick has been awarded an artist-in-residency in San Juan National Forest by the San Juan Public Lands Center in Durango, CO. The subalpine zone location where Tom will be based will allow him to further develop his "Closer to Wildflowers" body of work.

From Kowloon, Hong Kong, Raju Harilela reported that last year he sold 16 of his hotel equipment and servicing companies to an overseas consortium. He still considers himself a freelance hotel, restaurant, and spa consultant, and he operates a venture capital fund on the side. Raju is also studying for an advanced teacher's trading certification in yoga and reading the Guru Granth and the Gita. He undertook this major change in lifestyle "to concentrate on what I believe is more important: spending time with my parents and focusing on all the things I would like to do in my life--time with my life companion, travel, study, and experiencing this incredible world we live in." When asked about his time on the Hill, Raju replied,"How proud I was to be part of this great institution, with incredible academic teachers and a wonderful group of friends who I learned a lot from." Kathleen Bliss Callow is "working as an environmental engineer in Philadelphia and living in southern New Jersey. I am widowed and have a 12- year-old son. He and I are both studying karate.He received his black belt (in 2006), and I will test for mine in December. I am active in my church and have done some volunteer work with the God's Child Project in Guatemala." From Barrie, Canada, Andrew Craig now works for Crawford SupplyLine, a packaging company headquartered in Ontario. Lastly, Adam Klein and wife Melanie Smith, MS '90, of Chappaqua, NY, went on a CAU safari in Tanzania in December 2006.

Please keep in touch, and best wishes from -- Tom S. Tseng, ttseng@uchicago.edu; and Debra Howard Stern, dstern39@yahoo.com.

88 | Greetings, Class of '88! As Steve mentioned last month, mark your calendars for our BIG Reunion June 6-8, 2008, and make those travel plans to get to Ithaca for what is sure to be a fabulous weekend of fun-filled activities and reminiscing! Steve and I both plan to be there, and would love to see you to catch up and hear more news! I would also like to mention that there are still some spots left in the great programs for Cornell's Adult University (CAU). The summer classes run through August 4, so if you are interested, please go to www.cau.cornell.edu to sign up. Other programs that run through December are also listed. Remember that you can bring your children, who will be carefully watched over while you are having your own fun!

On to our latest news. Congratulations are in order for Jude LeBlanc, who has recently been elected to partnership in the Costa Mesa office of the national law firm Baker & Hostetler LLP. Jude is a member of the business group, and concentrates his practice in mergers and acquisitions, and health and insurance law. Jude earned his law degree from the U. of Colorado School of Law in 1997.We were also happy to hear about the promotion of Craig Frances, MD '92. Summit Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm, named Craig general partner in February. Craig heads the Palo Alto office's healthcare and life sciences team, and previously held the position of principal. Among his many previous successful ventures, Craig was a co-founder of yourPharmacy.com. He has also served as chief medical resident at UC San Francisco.

Thank you to everyone who responded to our special e-mail solicitation for news. Steven Gal, BS Ag '90, wrote in that his present day job is chairman and CEO of Skoop. After-hours extracurricular activities are chess tournaments and playing basketball with son Charlie,7, and keeping Sam, 3, out of trouble. He shares that after five years cofounding and building ID Analytics, he got the startup bug again and is doing another venture-backed startup, this time in the consumer space. Steven also writes that he had the great honor of spending a week teaching at Cornell last November, and that his family also really enjoyed it. He heads back in April for the Entrepreneurship@Cornell events. Check them out!

We also heard from Richard Ballew, whose present day job is portfolio manager. Extracurricular activities include golf, kids' sports (Little League and soccer coach), wine drinking, home improvements, and getting used to living in a new area. For the past two years Rich has been preparing to start his own securities trading business (hedge fund), and after "tremendous time and effort" he hopes to be up and running by June 1. Good luck to you! Rich writes, "I wish the time-consuming administrative chores were past me, so that I could devote more time to trading, playing with my two children (Richie, 5-1/2, and Giselle, 4), and spending time with my wife Hitomi."

Andrew Gross is senior VP of marketing and merchandising at Serta Int'l. After hours he enjoys "time with my wife Deborah and kids Alex, 8, and Annabelle, 6. That keeps you busy!"He writes, "After 13 long years with Unilever, I took a new job with Serta (the mattress people) last fall. I'm leading marketing, new product development, and customer service. I'm having fun learning a new industry and finding new things for Serta's famous counting sheep to do!"He adds, "If you're not sleeping well, drop me a line!" He would most like to hear from old Cornell friend Martin Tomasz '87, ME '90. Does anyone out there keep in touch with Martin? If so, e-mail Andrew at asg25@cornell.edu.

We were very pleased to hear from Vertyl Sams, who is living in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. "I'm at the same job as ten years ago, working for the largest bank in the Netherlands Antilles. I began my banking experience with the Bank of Nova Scotia in St.Maarten, then left them for Chase (St.Maarten) and received training at the Chase Professional Center in Manhattan as a credit analyst. I now work as a credit supervisor at the Maduro & Curiel's Bank in Curaçao and process credit applications from Aruba, Bonaire, St.Maarten, and elsewhere in the Netherlands Antilles. I was recently offered a senior position at our branch in St.Maarten, but my wife didn't want to leave Curaçao. Perhaps it was for the best."Vertyl would love to go to our upcoming reunion, to show his family (his wife and two daughters) where he went to college.We hope you can make it! Vertyl would like to see classmates Arlene Hudson, Larry Smith, and Mervin Busby--are you out there?

Jacqueline Raia found the time to let us know what's going on. Thanks, Jackie! "I always intend to send in news, but life interferes. Ten years ago I had gotten my PhD in clinical psychology, was doing a post-doctoral fellowship in child psychiatry at Columbia, and was about to direct a master's program at William Paterson U. Today I am directing a renovation and a bunch of fifth graders in a play. I feel much busier now.My husband Kevin St. Germain '89 and I love seeing fellow Cornellians (even Liz Payne '89, on "Ugly Betty"!) and have a knack for living steps from Cornell couples wherever we move. Now that you broke my bubble of denial, I will have to plan to attend the 20th Reunion (are you using the metric system?) and this time we will probably bring the kids to imprint Cornell on them. Cheers to all, and look us up if you are in the New York/New Jersey area."

And last, but not least, word about an old friend, and someone I certainly hope to see at reunion, Stephen Sheffield, BFA '89. He is enjoying considerable success in the art world. "Boston, MA,March 6, 2007--Stephen Sheffield, photographer and fine artist, was featured in a recent exhibition at the Judi Rotenberg Gallery, the gallery that represents him in Boston." The show, titled "Coming Loose," featured three national photographers. It was very well received and has been reviewed in the March issue of ARTnews magazine. Joanne Silver of ARTnews writes, "Sheffield's sepia-toned pictures of a deserted jail had a commanding presence, thanks to their giant size and the exquisite detail revealing every chip of paint and rust. In three images the artist inserted himself as a shadowy figure moving through the gloomy setting. ‘Charles Street Jail #1' was triumphant, both beckoning and repulsive to see and imagine." Congratulations, old friend!

That's the news for now. Enjoy the rest of your summer, be well, and don't forget to drop us a line! -- Suzanne Bors Andrews, smb68@cornell.edu; and Steve Tomaselli, st89@cornell.edu.

89 | No one may have said it out loud yet, but most of us turn 40 this year. There it is. Right after turning 16, when most of us could get our driver's license, and 21--for obvious reasons--this one ranks right up there. Lauren Kidder McGarry and I are soberly planning a blowout late this summer, reflecting on what really matters, and taking stock of the decisions we've made and where that has us headed. Hope you're as busy making a life you love as are we.

LynnWeidberg Morgan writes, "Cornellians of the next generation are all in second grade together! My daughter Natalie is in the same class as Alexander Byck (son of Howard and Eliana Saragovia Byck) and Jonathan Foldi (son of Bonnie Glick '88 and Paul Foldi). They all attend the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville,MD. With 1,500 students, 1,800 parents, and more than 300 faculty, Eliana serves as the co-president of the Parent Teacher Organization, and I serve as a co-VP. I am serving my fourth year on the National Young Leadership Cabinet of United Jewish Communities. This summer at our retreat in Scottsdale, AZ, I was thrilled to reconnect with my Sigma Delta Tau sorority sister Dana Post Adler, who just joined the Cabinet."

Anesthesiologist Richard Day from Orange County, NY, sent news that his after-hours are filled with golf, travel, TV, and fitness activities, but he spends most of his time working. News from Toronto, ON, where Marne Platt is the director of regulatory affairs at Novartis Animal Health Canada. Back in North America after living in Switzerland on assignment, she keeps busy horseback riding and exploring Canada.Michelle Fried Berti is busy chasing after her kids Devon, 5, and Erica, 3, in West Orange, NJ, and working as a treasury management officer at a new position at JPMorgan selling treasury services to municipalities in New Jersey.

Emergency physician and new dad Deepak Sachdeva sends an update that he and his wife Nisha have welcomed their first child, a daughter named Sonali. A new baby means a new home, so they moved into a new residence in McLean,VA, where Deepak is in his tenth year of practice.He adds, "I was recently visited by Dave Lu, who came out on a trip to the East Coast from California with his wife Kelly and his children Ryan and Emily. I also keep in touch with Gidon Coll, who is producing Original Sin Cider, rated by the New York Times as the best-tasting hard cider in the US."

From across the pond, Curtis Bartosik announces that he and wife Aimee welcomed son Martin Charles to their home in Paris, France. Having just bought an apartment and incorporated a company there, they are officially putting down roots and invite all for a visit. In the proud-they-are-from-Cornell category, Joel Simon was chosen as the winner of the annual Crain's Business 40 Under 40 feature in early 2007. You can find the article at www.newyorkbusiness-risingstars.com, where Joel's success story is told.Well done.

I'll finish the news with a colorful description of contemporary life from Jinny Van Deusen Mansfield. Living in Saratoga Springs, NY, with husband Sean and kids Kate, 9, and Jack, 7, Jinny writes, "Emily Farnham Mastrianni also lives here with her husband Joe and daughters Martha, 11, Grace, 9, and Lucy, 6. Several times a year we get together with Elise Billings Hamann and her kids Margaret, 10, Caroline, 10, Robert, 8, and Andrew, 8, and Mickey Gottesman Kamfjord and her daughter Hannah, 9. Our kids call themselves the ‘college cousins!' Once a year, though, we get together with no kids or spouses for a long weekend in Key Largo--the same weekend every year. We're on year number seven and counting!" Now that's a Cornell tradition. -- Mike McGarry, mmcgarry@dma-us.com; Anne Czaplinski Treadwell, ac98@cornell.edu; Lauren Hoeflich, laurenhoeflich@yahoo.com; and Stephanie Bloom Avidon, savidon1@hotmail.com.