70 | Joli Adams writes that there is much that has changed and much that has not in the last several years. Claude is still editor at Astronomy & Astrophysics in Paris, where Joli also now works at correcting English for various international papers. She teaches English a few hours per term at the U. of Paris VII (Diderot), and also does a bit of (US) college counseling on the side. Joli does lots of gardening in their new country house (new to them as it was first built a long time ago). The home is close enough to Paris so they go back and forth regularly. Their oldest has continued studies in the US, where she is now in the vet/bio PhD program at Penn and doing well. She lives with her Yalie sweetheart [now husband after a magnificent wedding in France last summer] with their dog and cat in their own house in Center City. Recently, Claude and Joli made a short visit to confirm that all is well, and to enjoy Philadelphia.While in Philly they had brunch with Linda Jackson,MAT '73, her husband Mike Murray, and their daughter Lindsay, a junior at Penn. Joli also had coffee with a former student from Paris. It's a small world and a happy one at times. Their second daughter has her own new direction in elementary teaching in the Lyon area after years in art and later art history. She is very happy with it, and she and Joli compare notes on the métier regularly.

Alan Drucker (psori@Twcny.rr.com) of Syracuse, NY, has retired after 34 years as a principal mechanical engineer at UTC Carrier Corp., with 18 patents to his credit. He plans to continue part-time work as an independent consultant. He and wife Penny became grandparents for the first time in February 2006. Their son Aaron is a musician/ songwriter, and son Zack is a noted fine art photographer. Nicholas Adams (niadams@vassar.edu), still teaching at Vassar College, has published a history of the architectural firm Skidmore Owings & Merrill. Published originally in Italian by Electa, it will appear in English in spring 2007 by Phaidon.Work entailed visits to the Cornell Library (and writing the word Cornell many times over), not the least because Nathaniel Owings was Cornell BArch '27.

It's been a pretty exciting year around the house of Steve (Saichelle@saul.com) and Carol Tanner Aichele '72, BA '71, in Malvern, PA. On June 2, 2006, second granddaughter Sarah, aka Sally, was born. Daughter Kate Aichele Murphy '99 and husband John '99 are the proud parents, so Sally is a Cornell kid through and through. Son Tom '02, completed his Navy service May 31, 2006 and began the Smeal School of Business at Penn State. Their first granddaughter, Elizabeth, 2-1/2, is the daughter of their son Stephen and his wife Tracey. They live in East Lansing, MI, where he works for the USGS and she works for Michigan State U. In May 2006, Carol ran (albeit unsuccessfully) for the Pennsylvania State Senate. She continues as chairman of the Chester County Board of Commissioners. "Steve completed his four-year term as managing partner of my law firm, Saul Ewing, a 280-lawyer regional law firm, in January 2006, and is now chairman of the firm. He also became chairman of the Arts and Business Council of Greater Philadelphia and a director of the Union League of Philadelphia in 2006."

Dave Barbano, PhD '78 (dmb37@cornell.edu) had a heart attack on January 4, 2006 and heart bypass surgery that day. He has recovered and is back to work in the Food Science department at Cornell. He taught the dairy chemistry course during the fall semester and is continuing his dairy product research program. Dave has been on the faculty at Cornell since 1980. Carolyn Mangeng (camangeng@lanl.gov) is wrapping up 31 years working for the Los Alamos National Laboratory and looking forward to retiring soon so she can spend more time hiking, skiing, gardening, birding, and traveling with her husband Dale Spall. She is hoping to get reacquainted with some old Cornell pals! Son Brian, 23, is finishing a geology degree at the U. of Wyoming and has plans for grad school. Son Andy, 21, is completing his off-the-grid log cabin in the mountains of northern New Mexico and pursuing his dream of self-sufficiency. Last year Carolyn and Dale ventured on a Cornell Adult University educational trip to Peru and had a fantastic experience! She never thought she'd write in with news for our column, but the closer retirement comes, the more important become those old personal connections.

Dave and Nicolet Damaske continue to live in Victor, NY, and own and operate ParkView Fairways Golf Course. Their son Matt '95 works with them, and he and wife Katya have a new son, born September 28, 2006. Annually, Dave and Nicolet visit Seattle to see their daughter Teresa, MLA '02, and The Hague to visit Nicolet's family. Their daughter Mieke Damaske Smythe '99 lives nearby with her husband and three children. Enjoy the springtime! -- Connie Ferris Meyer, 16 James Thomas Rd.,Malvern, PA 19355; e-mail, cfm7@cornell.edu.

71 | Class officer Sally Clark Shumaker forwarded a nice letter to us from Mark Zakarin, who lives in California."Having started in show business as a writer, I returned a couple of years ago, after a 17-year career as an executive at Showtime and ABC, to write and produce my first theatrical feature, Keeping Up With the Steins. The film won a couple of festival awards, was picked up by Miramax for national distribution in May, and played through the summer. It stars Jeremy Piven, Daryl Hannah, Garry Marshall, Doris Roberts, Richard Benjamin, Jami Gertz and Cheryl Hines.More importantly, I have a wonderful family. Gina and I live in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles and have been married for 14 years; we have two sons, Ethan, 8, and Griff, 5. Considering that I hardly left my Buffalo and Eddy Street apartments, except for Sui Sub runs, it's amazing that I've stayed in touch with anyone from my Cornell days, but I have. Gary Weiner and Joanne Guattery of Sonoma County, CA, and Jon Kaplon of Manhattan are still very good friends of mine. So there is something to be said for agoraphobia." Contact Mark at mark@zakarin.net.

Caryn Furst has started a new business venture called Schools First. Caryn writes, "You may recall that I served on our school board for three years.Well, in May I unfortunately lost my bid for re-election. Trying to make lemonade from lemons, I decided over the summer to use both my 35 years in PR and my three years as a board member and start a marketing communications firm for school districts. I have just landed my first client—a neighboring district—and will primarily be handling their community newsletter. You can check out my website at www.schools-1st.com."Caryn also works in her husband David's computer firm, Acappella Software, and is the mother of 12-yearolds Moranda and Shara.When not in the office, Caryn and her husband enjoy taking dancing lessons, including Salsa, Lindy, Swing,Mambo, and Foxtrot.

Victor Curran writes to us from Massachusetts that this year he became a published author by contributing a chapter to The SP Century, a collection of essays on the first hundred years of the Society of Printers, an organization of Boston graphics professionals who had a profound influence on the book arts in the 20th century. (The editor of the volume was another Cornellian, Scott-Martin Kosofsky '74.) In addition, last fall Victor began a new job representing W.E. Andrews, one of the Boston area's most respected commercial printers (annual reports, etc.). Victor would like to hear from you at victor.a.curran@rrd.com. Gay Helen Perkins (Gay.perkins@wku.edu) lives in Louisville, KY, where she is a professor in the Dept. of Library Services at Western Kentucky U. Gay is a member of the American Library Association and co-editor of the The Western Scholar of Western Kentucky U. In her leisure time, Gay enjoys handicapping horses, listening to blues and jazz music and attending theatre. Gay would like to locate Judy Adler, MD '75.

Edward Hoffman presented several lectures at Japanese universities last year. One of his personal goals is to learn Japanese and improve his fluency in Portuguese. Last year he interviewed acclaimed Japanese film director Mirokazu Koreeda at his Tokyo studio. Ed keeps in touch with Jack Fei, Eric Freedman, and Harvey Gitlin '72. In the future he hopes to continue his writing and teaching and would like to collaborate on cross-cultural psychology research. Matt Silverman, my trusted and dedicated co-correspondent and Cornell pal, tells us that he is still working for a living and actually often enjoys it. "I have a nice position with a small software company based in Austin, TX, which takes me there frequently, as well as visits to customers, mostly in the Northeast and Canada.My kids are doing what most kids do—they grow up and leave. Son Jason, now out of college, is earning a living selling and renting NYC real estate while he contemplates his life's work. Daughter Sally has ambitions to be a chef, and after high school graduation this spring, plans to matriculate for a bachelor's in culinary arts and education. Off-hours I participate in a community fraternal organization that does fundraising for local charities."

It's always so nice for Matt and me to hear from classmates with news about their lives. If you enjoy reading this column on a regular basis, please take a moment now and send off a quick e-mail with your news.We'll write about you! -- Linda Germaine-Miller, lg95@cornell.edu; and Matt Silverman, mes62@cornell.edu.

72 | Maxine Roeper Cohen is a member of the Class of '72 Council and looks forward to seeing friends at our 35th Reunion in June. She tells us that the reunion chairs, along with the Class Council, are preparing what promises to be a wonderful roster of events.Maxine continues to work as an educator for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County. She and husband Larry celebrated 30 years of marriage in August 2005. Their oldest son recently completed a neurosurgery residency in Pittsburgh, their middle daughter (Cornell '01) is in a psychiatry residency program in Syracuse, and their youngest daughter graduated from Penn last year and has stayed there as a graduate student; two "furry children" remain at home.Maxine keeps in close touch with Shelley Rothenberg Nyman, Carolyn Jacobson, and Stan Fish, DVM '75.

Elizabeth Post Falconi has "retired" after six years as township supervisor in Newtown, PA. She now spends two to three days per week babysitting for her granddaughter, born in July 2005. Grandma Betsy is still active on the board of trustees of George School and manages $2 million in grant funding for a village streetscape project in her township in addition to gardening, walking, swimming, cooking, and traveling to Chile in early 2006. Thomas Ames, ME '77, changed jobs in April 2006 and is now doing environmental work for Compliance Plus Services in Hatboro, PA.He is adjusting to working for a small company of ten people after having worked for the US Navy and a large school district for most of his career. Tom and his wife have been happily married for 30 years and celebrated the weddings of two of their children between Dec. 2004 and Nov. 2005. Robert Blye is an ecologist with Normandeau Associates Inc. in Stowe, PA, and enjoys vegetable gardening, birding, hunting, fishing, and "botanizing." Daughter Amy Blye Cohen '97 presented Rob with a granddaughter, Sara, "Class of 2022!"

Michael Goldsmith, JD '75, lives just outside Park City, UT, and has taught at Brigham Young U. Law School (where he is the only Jewish professor) since 1985. He spent the winter of 2005 as a visiting law professor at Cornell. "Based on that experience, I can report that everything on campus is just the way it's always been like it's never been before!"Michael says. RobertWolpert of Durham, NC, writes that son Kyle '10 has joined his sister Genevieve '07 at Cornell, and "for one glorious year" both of them are on campus. Steven Coren's daughter Erica '10 is a student in ILR, and son Andrew '05 is doing well at JPMorgan Chase. Gail Povar's daughter Alexandra recently entered Brown, and son Justin recently graduated from Brown. "We're a Brown/Cornell family and still loyal to Cornell despite our kids' defections," Gail says. Husband Larry Bachorik '71 is now working in international affairs at the US Food & Drug Administration, requiring trips to London, Paris, and Geneva all in the past year.

James Kozuch is a partner in the Philadelphia law firm of Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow and represents clients in intellectual property litigation, including patent, trademark, and copyright infringement. He also handles due diligence studies, US and international patent prosecution, and the preparation of agreements and intellectual property opinions. Jim is a licensed professional engineer and a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and has served on the board of commissioners of Lehigh County and the board of commissioners of Salisbury Township, Lehigh County. In October 2006 he discussed the basics of intellectual property law with approximately 80 graduate students in Cornell's Master of Engineering program, as part of the university's weekly seminar series on "enterprise engineering."

Salim Chishti (formerly David Adler) is now the representative of the Sufi Order Int'l in Knoxville, TN. He operates the Nur-al-Iman (Light of Faith) Sufi Center there with his wife Tara. In April 2005 he spoke at a conference in Lahore, Pakistan, on Universalism and Islam, delivering a talk on Islamic interpretation of dreams. In October 2006 he spoke at an interfaith contemplative outreach symposium in Boston on contemplative traditions in Islam. Vivian Katzenstein Friedman is a full professor and clinical child psychologist at the U. of Alabama, Birmingham School of Medicine's Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology. She has four children, ages 26, 23, 21, and 17. The oldest is a PhD candidate in engineering at UCLA. The next is a fellow at the Harvard Initiative for Global Health in Cambridge.Vivian loves the South and "invites y'all to come visit."

Carolyn Jacobson saw Joyce Jaffe Reynolds, Jo Ann Flickinger Patross, MBA '74, and Dorothy Spear Oakes in Colorado Springs at a meeting of the President's Council of Cornell Women last October. A few days later Carolyn decided to visit Joan Brooks Alexander in Buffalo on her way to ILR alumni board meetings in Ithaca during Homecoming weekend. Carolyn had an unexpectedly long visit because of the surprise snowstorm that hit Buffalo the day after she arrived. She never made it to Ithaca, as the roads were closed and there was no electricity. Joan tells us that even when the going got tough, Carolyn displayed the charm, good humor, and resilience of a native Buffalonian. Richard Schild reports that Charles Perrella passed away in May 2006. Richard is a senior systems designer living in Valley Cottage, NY. -- Gary Rubin, glrubin@aol.com; Alex Barna, ab478@cornell.edu.

73 | As I write, the Honda generator is keeping the refrigerator and the computers going. A once-every-hundred-years windstorm saw Mercer Island and most of the Seattle area carpet-bombed by evergreen limbs. Out here in the Pacific Northwest, we love our trees, and grow 'em big (the Ross Estate features a 120-ft Douglas fir in the backyard), but the affection isn't always returned. Hence this month's terse style—the result of word processing on emergency power. Omit needless words, save gas.

Samuel '71, MD '76, and Sandra Sharon Rapoport (rapoport5@aol.com) now have three children with Ivy League ties, Benjamin (Harvard '03 and MIT PhD), Ezra (Harvard '06), and Sarah (Brown '10 and Brown Medical '14). I detect in the Rapoport clan a culture of accomplishment. Sandra is co-author of The Passions of the Matriarchs, and Sam practices neurology in NYC. Jon Kaplan, MBA '74, is busy as interim CEO and president of Family & Children Services of San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, as well as working for Hillel at Stanford. He reports that son Chaim graduated from Loyola Marymount in L.A. last May.

With sadness we note the passing last April of Elissa Pellegrino Packard of Fort Wayne, IN. She is survived by husband Phillip (papackard@juno.com) and daughters Christina, 26, and Cheryl, 23.William Irons passed away in September after a two-year battle with cancer. His wife Barbara (barbaradayi@bellsouth.net) and children Elizabeth and Christopher remember a courageous husband and father who, through it all, never complained or asked why.

Congratulations to Nancy Dworkin Miller of Jersey City, NJ, honored by the National Association of Social Work Foundation as an NASW Social Work Pioneer for exceptional contributions to the profession. Drs.Mark Granick (mgranickmd@umdnj.edu) and Carol Singer-Granick '74 live in Livingston, NJ, and report that their oldest daughter is putting her Cornell Architecture degree to good use in Cambridge, MA. Jeffrey Algatt, MBA '74 (jralgatt@aol.com) writes that he and wife Ellie are empty-nesters in Center City Philadelphia (walking to work, to the theatre, and to restaurants), with a guest room ready to host itinerant Cornellians.

Ann Elizabeth Prezyna (houseboata@theriver.com) helped move her dad from the family homestead in Buffalo into a retirement home. She and husband Gordon Lewis have their own retirement ranch in Arizona, where they now host 100 burrowing owls made refugees by spreading subdivisions.Marc Berk (Mberk1@starpower.net) and wife Helene live in Gaithersburg,MD.He's a senior research fellow at the National Opium Research Center; she's a special education teacher. Daughter Rachel is newly married, and son Joe is a freshman at Temple and a third degree black belt.Marc is eager to hear from the gang at 301 Eddy Street.

Shelley Grumet Schimelman (Sgs1951@gmail.com) enjoys serving as part-time reference librarian at the Clifton Park-Halfmoon Public Library in the rolling hills outside Albany, NY. Husband Mark '72 practices medicine in Troy, daughter Rachel is an art curator at the U. of Texas, San Antonio, and son Benjamin is a senior at RPI. But the big news was the September wedding of oldest daughter Sondra at Nantasket Beach. Charles Wait (charleswait@hotmail.com)—newly elected to the Cornell Council—and spouse Candace report from Saratoga Springs that Charles Jr. '04 is now in his third year at NYU Law School, son Chris has graduated from Vassar, and daughter Alexandra has joined the Cornell Class of '10, making her the second member of the fourth generation of Waits to storm the rocky heights.

Grandparentage has touched '73. After 34 years of marriage, Frederick Yosca (fyosca@bloomberg.net) and wife Patricia are the grandparents of Sammy Waxman, as well as the proud parents of Pam, 33, and Matt, 30. They make their home in Lynbrook, NY, and recently encountered classmates William Krise, who directs a federal fish hatchery in Bozeman, and Jon Shure, who runs a public policy firm in Ewing, NJ. Gregory (Gpage55@hotmail.com) and Susannah Page live in Greenwich Village with daughters Elizabeth, 12, and Victoria, 14. Greg founded the Cornell women's track team before graduation, and later founded the women's tennis teams at Syracuse and NYU before leaving coaching in 1998 as the youngest coach ever to earn the NCAA and IC4A Silver Coaching Awards. He now works as a contract attorney in NYC.

Anne McComb (annemccomb@aol.com) lives in Leverett, MA, and has retired from her private psychology practice. She and David vigorously pursue the pastoral life, now that she's free of the answering machine. That includes hiking, horseback riding, and raising two new puppies. Richard, MS '65, and Claudia GaillardMeer's son Jonathan '02, MPA '03, is clerking for a county judge in New Jersey after graduating from Rutgers law. Claudia now has 32 years at Rutgers and 12 as CAAAN's Bergen County chair. Jerelyn Marcus Cohen (jerri2sons@hotmail.com) is an optometrist in private practice in Great Neck, NY. She and husband Bernard are raising sons Jeff, 18, a freshman med scholar at U. Rochester, and Adam, 16.

Prof. Bruce Jentleson, PhD '83 (bwj7@duke.edu), author of American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century (3rd Edition), reports that daughter Katie '06 graduated Cornell magna cum laude. Bruce is spending his 2006-07 sabbatical at Oxford at the Int'l Inst. for Strategic Studies (London), and in Spain on a Fulbright Fellowship. Craig Peterson (craigp@rochester.rr.com) reports that son Kyle is a senior in ILR, and daughter Katie '09 is a sophomore in the Ag college.William Lacey (wslassoc@ aol.com) is retired in St. Joseph, MI, and consults on nuclear plant management.

Roger Joseph (Roger.Joseph@bingham.com) is on the management committee of Bingham McCutcheon, which specializes in complex financial transactions, and made Fortune's 2006 "100 Best Companies To Work For" list—due in large part to Roger's influence, I'm guessing. Roger Jacobs reports that son Joshua '06 is a first-year law student at Cornell, and daughter Rachel '10 is right behind him as a freshman.

In brief. Classmate offspring attending the 2006 Cornell Summer College Program included: David Jenkins, DVM '77's son Steven;MaureenWhitefield's daughter Alexandra; Irene Kohan Yesowitch's daughter Hannah; Harlan Korenvaes's son Max; and Mark Liff's daughter Stephanie.

Our daughter Emilie is winding up 27 months as a Peace Corps volunteer in the village of Tanka Lokoto. The family spent two weeks in China last spring cruising the Yangtze and breathing in—with some difficulty—China's new capitalist spirit. Daughter Caitlin ran for Washington State Legislature after our return, the only Democrat willing to go up against four Republicans. She emerged with 40 percent of the vote and a lot of experience, including a new respect for rodeos, grange halls, and cattle ranches, and a far deeper knowledge of Eastern Washington water rights than her Dad.

Time to power down now, since this column is costing about $2.65 a gallon.With 20,000 people off the grid and heating with Duraflame and old newspapers,Mercer Island frankly smells a lot like Chinese capitalism. If the heat doesn't return soon,my Time magazine collection is on deck. I'll start with 1974.Watergate. It's all online now anyway. -- Dave Ross, dave@daveross.com; Phyllis Haight Grummon, phg3@cornell.edu.

74 | Thanks to all loyal payers of class dues and those who jot down responses on those yellow News Forms. Based on a decidedly non-scientific methodology,my observation is that most '74 forms seem to be sent in by classmates from the Northeast, Florida, California, and Nevada. Betsy Schilling Card writes that she lives with husband Steven in Reno, NV, and works as a diagnostic radiologist in Carson City. Rodger Engebrethson of Benicia, CA, is managing controls systems for Shell, working in the L.A. refinery and commuting from the Bay Area. He enjoys staying active, playing soccer, skiing, hiking, surfing, etc. Jeff fondly remembers 214 Eddy St. as a great place to live and wondered what happened to "the ladies upstairs," Bonni Schulman Dutcher and Marianne Stein Kah. As luck would have it,Marianne Kah recently sent in a business card listing her position as chief economist for planning, strategy, and corporate affairs at Conoco Phillips. She and husband Jeff Coe live in Houston, TX.

David Ehrlich sent a lengthy report, inspired by his attendance at his wife's 30th Boston College law school reunion, although her most famous law school classmate, John Kerry, did not attend. David is a trademark and copyright lawyer who works in NYC as a member of the Fross Zelnick law firm. Some of his clients include Lego, Sega, and Bozo the Clown. He lives in Maplewood, NJ, with wife Janet Painter. They married in 1983 and have two sons. Andrew, 21, skipped college and serves in the Navy, stationed at the Pax River Naval Air Station in Maryland. Other son Edward, 17, is a high school senior and is looking at colleges. David says, "Big professional developments are few at my age, but I was named to the 2006 International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, Trademarks section. It is a pretty select group, selected by a poll of lawyers in the field."

A recent press release noted that Bradd Siegel was named for the 20th consecutive year to The Best Lawyers in America, also a peer-review selection process. Bradd is an attorney with Porter Wright Morris & Arthur in Columbus, OH, and among other achievements, serves as editor of Ohio Employment Law Letter in the area of labor and employment law. Jeffrey Gold, MD '78, serves as the EVP and provost of health affairs, as well as the dean of the College of Medicine at U. of Toledo in Ohio. Jeff says that earlier career achievements as a cardiac surgeon and professor of cardiothoracic surgery prepared him for "this transition into the front lines of academic medicine."He notes that this is a challenging time in American medicine,"when physician leadership is particularly important in education and far beyond." Jeff and his wife Robin Hayworth '75, a practicing ophthalmologist, have children Matthew, 22, and Stephanie, 17.

Attorney Linda Mariani and husband David Neusner reside in New London, CT, where Linda continues to have an eventful career as partner/owner of law firm Mariani & Reck LLC. Among the highlights noted on her CV are special appointments as arbitrator, special master, and judge trial referee in the New London judicial district, as well as leadership positions in many local civic organizations.Welcome news from the heartland finds Paul and Janet Donnelly London, a licensed clinical social worker, living in Wilmette, IL. Janet's practice, London and Associates, offers individual, couples, and family therapy. Diana Perryman Taliaferro and husband Phil of Erlanger, KY, have built and decorated an Adirondack log home on Schroon Lake, NY. She would rather be sitting by a fire at the new cabin, but for the present, has kept her day job as a trial consultant.

Indefatigable class leaders Kristen Rupert and John Foote met up with Janet Blick McKinley in Cambridge in early November at a women's volleyball game between the Big Red and Harvard. Janet was there to watch her daughter Kathryn (Harvard '09) make a valiant attempt to bring down the Big Red team. Cornell won the match 3- 2, led by the daughter of another '74 classmate, Ivy League Player of the Year Elizabeth Bishop '07, daughter of Mort Bishop.

John, Kris,Mary Berens, Dale, JD '77, and Debbie Lazar, Chris Cobaugh,Mi O'Connell, yours truly, and several other classmates were among those who attended the Christopher Reeve Celebration on Saturday, Nov. 18. This day-long event featured several films in which Chris played a part, including The Bostonians, Remains of the Day, and, of course, Superman. Chris's stalwart mother, Barbara Johnson, attended the activities and shared anecdotes about Chris at the touching dedication ceremony. In addition to the unveiling of a plaque bearing Chris's (handsome) likeness at the Schwartz Center, class VP Evan Stewart, JD '77, announced progress toward the formation of a '74-sponsored Christopher Reeve scholarship, intended to support a student majoring in English or Theatre.Mira Tetkowski Berkley (MS '76, Buffalo State; PhD '00, SUNY Buffalo) was one of several who made the trip back to campus (some for the first time since graduation) based on a personal link to Chris.Mira recalled herself as a shy student who met him at Risley Hall, which in 1970 served as a dorm for students interested in the creative arts. She serves as the coordinator of the Early Childhood Education program at SUNY Fredonia.

Earlier in the fall, Paul Foley and Russell Galbut were on the docket for the Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series in the Hotel school. Paul is president and CEO of MAIR Holdings Inc. and its primary business units,Mesaba Aviation and Big Sky Transportation. Paul has previously held a number of executive-level positions at airline and airline- related companies and returned to Cornell for the 80th Annual Hotel Ezra Cornell as an industry leader on the panel, "Flying High for Years to Come." Russell is the managing principal of Crescent Heights, the nation's largest residential condominium company. An expert at "uncovering emerging real estate trends—from residential and hotel construction to redevelopment and adaptive re-use"—his company was recently awarded the Freddie Mac Multi-Family Development Firm of the Year Award by the National Association of Home Builders, the first time this honor has been bestowed on a condominium developer.

Marie Van Deusen received the 2006 CALS Outstanding Alumni Award.Marie, as an SVP for Smith Barney Citicorp, serves as a mentor for young women in the financial services field and has been instrumental in starting a program in Maryland to assist low-income people in income tax preparation, finding affordable housing, accessing legal assistance, and enrolling in Medicaid. James Shiffner and wife Cathleen Carter live in Buffalo, NY, where James is a psychologist in private practice. He enjoys golf, gardening, yoga, and "hassling insurance companies," but would rather be writing. A few steps ahead and looking for a publisher is Ron Pies of Lexington, MA, who has just finished "Everything Has Two Handles: The Stoic's Guide to the Good Life."

Dena Goodman, professor of history and women's studies at the U. of Michigan, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and will be spending spring 2007 at the Carnegie Foundation in Cassis, France. There she will be finishing her book on women's letter-writing in pre-revolutionary France. Ken Gittelson lives with wife Linda in West Hempstead, NY, and works as a teacher of mathematics, both at Benjamin Cardozo High School and as an adjunct professor at Queensborough Community College. He enjoys playing tennis, golf, and duplicate bridge, and would most like to hear from Mark Kon.

That's all for now. Please keep the cards, e-mails, and press releases flowing to: -- BetsyMoore, emoore@cazenovia.edu; Bill Howard, billhoward@comcast.net; or Steve Raye, spr23@cornell.edu.

75 | As I write the news of my college classmates, I think of how different my life is now with my son Jack away at college, and my mind wanders back to the good old days high above Cayuga's waters. During fall semester of freshman year, Art History was on Saturday morning (poor scheduling on my part—never again!). Dan Malone, star freshman football player who mistakenly thought that this topic was an easy one to fulfill his humanities requirements, was also in the class. A long way from art, the attorney Daniel P.Malone has been awarded the State Bar of Michigan's Champion of Justice Award, one of their most distinguished honors. Dan was recognized for creating the Generation of Promise Program, whose goal is to build a community of young leaders who celebrate diversity and are dedicated to reducing polarization that hamstrings metropolitan Detroit. This innovative, year-long experience helps to create a corps of future leaders with broader vision. Congratulations, Dan! Dan works with the Detroit-based law firm of Butzel Long, where for the past 28 years he has focused his practice on civil litigation, product liability, and automotive government compliance.

Fellow class correspondent Mitch Frank (mjfgator@aol.com) is teaching at Barry U. School of Law in Orlando, FL, where he was granted tenure after seven long years. He and wife Serena have two beautiful daughters, Briana, 9, and Arielle, 6. Florida Gator football games are a highlight of Mitch's fall, although I'm certain that he's still following our own Big Red teams as well.When asked what he'd rather be doing now,Mitch replied, "With the exception of Buck Briggs '76's job—absolutely nothing!" Another legal professional from our class, Eliot Schuman (eliotms@aol.com) is a trial attorney for Schuman, Sall & Geist in White Plains, NY. A member of CAAAN, Eliot currently enjoys teaching, coaching, and mentoring high school mock trial programs, but would also like to be playing golf and traveling more often.

Chris Jenks (chrisjva@aol.com) lives in Chantilly, VA, just a few miles from my home. He's manager of the Transit Cooperative Program and Airport Cooperative Research Program for the Transportation Research Board in Washington, DC. Paul Feldblum (pfeldblum@fhi.org) is an epidemiologist doing reproductive health and HIV prevention research in developing countries.When not working or watching his son play soccer, Paul enjoys basketball, biking, gardening, reading, and traveling, and would love to hear from Paul Masters.

In Boston, Barbara Foote Shingleton (bfshing@aol.com) is busy managing three houses and visiting three grown children. She serves on several nonprofit and for-profit boards of directors, and is currently working on a number of major projects, including Boston Trinity Academy, a new prep school in Boston, a co-op renovation for one of her daughters, and building a new house on St. Thomas. In nearby Hanover, NH, Aline Ordman aordman@sover.net, an artist and teacher, was awarded prizes in 2005 and 2006 at the Pastel Society of America's juried shows in NYC. Aline also won honorable mention in the 75th Annual Hudson Valley Art Association's juried show.

Jeffrey Weinberger (jhwmd53@mac.com) has spent the past 24 years practicing general internal medicine in Greenwich, CT. His daughter is a freshman at St. Lawrence U. in Canton, where dad proudly cheers her on at her crew regattas. Jeffrey fondly recalls the outstanding faculty at Cornell, including Profs. LaFeber, Kammen, Keeton, Eisner, Lowi, and Maas, all of whom have had a profound impact on their students over the years. Another physician classmate, Andrew Weinberg (andrew.weinberg@med.va. gov) is chief of geriatrics and extended care at the Dorn V.A.Medical Center in Columbia, SC, and professor of clinical medicine at VSC School of Medicine. After hours, Andrew is a naval rescue flight surgeon with the HMM 774 helicopter squadron base in Norfolk, VA.

A few of our Texas classmates have written with news as well. Dianne Veris Puls (dpuls@spencerstuart.com) and husband Mike are in Irving, where, after 21 years of being a stay-at-home-mom, Dianne is now working for SpencerStuart, an executive search firm in Dallas, and loving it.With her free time filled with fitness activities, book club, caring for her 85-year-old handicapped mother, and keeping up with her two sons (Jeremy, a sophomore at U. of Colorado, Boulder, and Garrett, a junior at Texas Tech), Dianne wishes that she had more time for travel. Reminiscing about Cornell, she recalls the "Straight breaks" and the beauty of the Finger Lakes Region, as well as friend Nancy Newcomer Vick '74, from whom she'd like to hear.

From the "Big D," Todd Teitell (txtdal@aol.com) reports that he and wife Betsy have been spending a lot of time traveling to visit their three children at the U. of Texas, U. of Georgia, and Oklahoma State. Todd serves as president of Colemont Insurance Brokers in Dallas. Our class secretary, Vickie Thaler Vaclavik (vickie.vaclavik@utsouthwestern. edu), a professor in the Dept. of Clinical Nutrition at the U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, has co-authored the sixth edition of Dimensions of Food with two retired Cornell professors,Marcia Hutchins Pimentel '45, MS '50, and Marjorie Mealey Devine, PhD '67.Vickie has been involved as the lead author since the third edition in 1990, and participated in researching data for the first edition while still a Cornell student. Vickie also serves on the board of the Cornell Alumni Association of North Texas.

Outside the US borders, we've heard from Wendy Sneff, who moved to Seoul, Korea, in August to study Korean prior to her becoming deputy press officer at the US Embassy in Seoul next summer. Wendy's daughter Caitlin attends Seoul Foreign School. A bit closer to home in Pickering, Ontario, we find Stephen Kelleher (skelleher@hyundaicanada.com), president and CEO of Hyundai Auto Canada. He and wife Ursula have a daughter Erin and a son Michael. Steve reports that he's working far too much but still enjoys playing and coaching minor hockey, recalling fond memories of his Cornell team beating Harvard 5-4 in overtime at Harvard in 1974. It was a great game, Steve! And speaking of Cornell hockey, John Czelusniak, MBA '76, attended his first game at Lynah Rink in 30 years, enjoying the talented skating of our team and the energetic fans, who John says are as loud as ever, though perhaps with more scripted cheering—and the ever-present cowbell! As finance manager for Eastman Kodak, John lives in Spencerport, NY. His daughter Sandy '07 is a member of the Cornell Chorus, so he has spent much more time in Ithaca these days, attending her concerts.

Also in Ithaca for musical endeavors was the legendary rock-and-roll band Zoltan, whose members got together for a brief but exceedingly well-received Central NY Reunion Tour at Sigma Pi fraternity on Homecoming weekend. Eponymous drummer Peter Phillips (formerly Zoltan Peter Petrovits) and bass player Reber Carroll were joined by lead singer Sandy Kraker '74 and alternate drummer Tom Garr '76. John Valyo '77 took care of lights and sound. Joining them in the audience for what felt like a walk back in time were John Stetson, Fred Parker,Willie Dougherty, JohnMorrison,Mike Quaid, Jeff Craver, and the recently betrothed GaryWicks, PhD '81, and Wendy Roxin Shinay. The attraction of hearing those old Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, and Steve Miller favorites was enough to draw approximately 100 fellow Sigma Pi alumni back for the show. To broaden the appeal to the current House members, Reber and the Rebettes (the entire Reber Carroll family) belted out a short punk-rock set that really got the house rockin'!

We look forward to receiving your news for our next columns. Send your info to: -- Joan Pease, japease1032@aol.com; Deb Gellman, dsgellman@hotmail.com; Karen DeMarco Boroff, boroffka@shu.edu; or Mitch Frank, MJFgator@aol.com.

76 | I'm sitting in my kitchen writing this column while listening to the CD given out at our 30th Reunion, reflecting the songs of our years in Ithaca.Memories! Here's to the present and the memories!

Rick Brunette writes from Kalispell, MT, where he enjoys river rafting, boating, hiking, fly-fishing, kayaking, and camping. He is the president/state director at Northwest Montana Association of Realtors, handling a high-growth recreational second home market. Fondest memories . . . the friendships at Cornell. John "Jack" Bramkamp lives in San Dimas, CA, and is a territory manager, vegetation management for United Agri-Products. He writes that he spends his time watching daughter Kelly, 9, participate in drill team competitions for "Shooting Stars," having attended two competitions at Knott's Berry Farm and Sea World. Now he's in the process of saving up for his daughter Amber's wedding in July. He fondly remembers trudging up and down snowy hills to class and attending football and hockey games.

Janet Tompkins Rydell lives in Los Alamitos, CA, and is a cash manager with Toyota Financial Services. Her free time is spent helping her sixth grader with homework, going to the movies, book club, etc. She has fond memories of relaxing Friday afternoons at Helen Newman, going for a swim and sauna. She'd love to hear from Sheryl Goldstein or Karen Klein Polakoff and her Donlon 5th floor friends. John McPhee is a program manager, supply chain at Enventure Global Technology. He spends time golfing, cooking, and camping and would like to be doing more of it. He's living in Houston, TX. Brian Boland lives in Charlotte, NC, and is VP and assistant general counsel at Wachovia Corp. and Wachovia Bank. Brian writes that he moved from New Jersey and is making additions to his new home in Charlotte. He aspires to take a year's sabbatical and do extensive international traveling. He would like to hear from Steve Lau '77, ME '79, Florence Keenan, Leslie Starr, and Jordan Lee.

Kate Thompson Mahers is a nephrologist at a multi-specialty clinic in Seattle. She has fond memories of playing Hearts with roommates at the Highland House apartment and would love to hear from Janis Fleishman, Elyse Sharfman, Elaine Lubin Robbins, and Marc Popkin.Michael McClellan is an attorney and lives in Lattingtown, NY.His daughter Katelyn is ILR '08.He fondly remembers the Chapter House, the Haunt, hockey games, and swimming in the gorge. Nancy Arnosti is a biotechnology consultant. She spends a good deal of her time chauffeuring her children Derek and Juliana. Nancy would love to be skiing more and fondly remembers the physical beauty of the campus. She would like to hear from James Beede.

John Brindley lives in Austin, TX, and is president/CEO at Seton Medical Center.He spends time on community boards, United Way, American Cancer Society, etc.Warm memories of Cornell are walking from North Campus to MVR in the winter or playing rugby in the fall.He would most like to hear from Tim Mason, BArch '78. Cindy Soffen Cooper of Durham, NH, is a gynecologist. She spends time on the National Board of Medical Examiners, Step 3 Committee. She has warm-hearted memories of evenings at Greek Peak and would really like to hear from Sharon Friedrich Aspis, Charles Stoopack, and Leonard Kingsley '75, BA '76.

Steven Weinstein, MS '78, writes from Hartsdale, NY. He is a physician-scientist conducting clinical trials of investigational biologics. He claims his present after-hours extracurricular activities to be "ingesting post-fermentation products of macerated vitis vinifera" (you figure that one out!). His fondest memory at Cornell is meeting his wife MarciaMeislin-Weinstein '75.He would like to hear from grad student Ralph Loring, PhD '80. Bob Harrison lives in NYC and is currently CEO at Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a partnership between the William J. Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association focused on child obesity.He spends lots of time with his daughters Justine, 11, Amanda, 9, and Caroline, 7.He retired as a partner at Goldman Sachs after 22 years on Wall Street and worked on the presidential campaigns ofWesley Clark and John Kerry. Then he worked for President Clinton at the Clinton Foundation. Tender memories for Bob are the Rockin' Remnants DJ on WVBR on Saturday nights and the after-parties that followed.

Patricia Briscoe DeJarnett lives in Cincinnati, OH, and is the director, school-based health care at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. She is involved in some not-for-profit organizations and in her community council. She has two teenage daughters who keep her very busy and is enjoying playing tennis. Patricia fondly remembers the summer of 1975, staying in off-campus housing and making some very close friends with whom she is still close to this day. She would love to hear from Elizabeth Kennedy '78, an old roommate. Reena Sigman Friedman and her husband Aryeh '75 live in Huntingdon Valley, PA, and have four children: Ilana, 24, Uri, 20, Shira,16, and Tamar, 14. She is an associate professor of modern Jewish history at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, PA. She has published a book, These Are Our Children: Jewish Orphanages in the US, 1880-1925, as well as numerous book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and articles.William "Willy" Bemis writes from the Shoals Marine Laboratory where he is the Kingsbury Director. He spent summer 2006 on Appledore Island and hosted a post-reunion party for fellow Class of '76ers. He fondly remembers courses with Bill Wimsott, Harvey Pough, J. B. Heiser, Rie Martini, John Anderson, Howie Evans, Chuck Walker, Jon Foltor, and others.Willy would like to hear from Greg Dobson.

I close on a very sad note. This past fall, we lost a dear friend and classmate, George Dentes, JD '79. George died suddenly, leaving behind his wife Elsie (Little) '77 and children Tess '05, Scott '07, and Zak '09. George, a native Ithacan and Tompkins County District Attorney for 16 years, positively touched so many lives. He was an inspiration to all who knew him, as was reflected by the hundreds of people who came to pay their respects, including 20 of his DU fraternity brothers. George is one of my fondest memories of Cornell. -- Karen Krinsky Sussman, Krinsk54@aol.com; Pat Relf Hanavan, Refl@tds.net; Lisa Diamant, Ljdiamant@rcn.com.

77 | Thanks to all who sent in class news forms over the last several months.We'll work our way through your updates in the next several columns. In honor of our upcoming 30th Reunion, June 7-10, let's start with a review of what some of our classmates remember most fondly from their time on the Hill:

Break times at the Straight (Stephani Wilson Humrickhouse). Hearing and reading poems at the Temple of Zeus; swimming in Ithaca waterholes; dancing . . . (Diane Freedman,MAT '78). Living in Collegetown with friends (Camille D'Annunzio-Szymczak). The camaraderie with my fellow students (Mitchell Kirsch). The beauty of campus, my roommates, AFROTC, the apples (Susan Huyler Bomalaski, MS '82). Great ice cream in the dining halls from the CU Dairy (Ian Friedland). Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity (Jim Haswell). Football and hockey games, reservoir watching, friends, getting a great education (AndrewWeber).

Great memories! Do plan to come back to Ithaca this June. Registration material for reunion will arrive this spring.

What are all those classmates up to now? From Stephani Humrickhouse (shumrickhouse@nichollscrampton.com): "I am a partner/shareholder at Nicholls & Crampton, PA, a boutique law firm in Raleigh, NC, where I practice bankruptcy law, representing corporate debtors. I am mother to son John, a sophomore at UNC, Chapel Hill. I am also taking a Spanish course and I volunteer at Wake Relief, an organization that provides food for at-risk families.My husband Scott and I just returned from Italy, where we rented a villa in Sienna and took cooking classes.Makes me think I'd rather be drinking a glass of good red wine with some old friends right now.Would love to hear from Elise Epner."

Diane Freedman (Durhamdpf@unh.edu) is a professor of English at the U. of New Hampshire, teaching and writing on American literature (contemporary memoir, poetry, nature writing, Jewish-American literature). "After-hours activities include spending time outdoors—lake swimming, walking in the woods, bicycling—traveling, and following my son's music activities with husband Brian McWilliams,MFA '83. Recently, I've been working on a book project and have traveled to France.We're planning a trip to Australia in the future.Would like to be living in France and retired right now!" Camille D'Annunzio-Szymczak (dannunzio1@comcast.net) is the modeling lead for the Chem Bio Explosives Defensive Systems at Northrop Grumman. She and husband William live in N. Potomac, MD, where Camille is involved in Girl Scouts, PTA, and other kid-related activities. She would like to hear from Laura Epstein Schlatter '76.

Nephrologist Mitchell Kirsch (seif54@aol.com) and wife Iris live in Setauket, NY: "In June 2006 I received the National Medical Award in Nephrology, given by the Kidney and Urology Foundation of America. I'm very busy with three children, ages 13, 15, and 17, the oldest a high school senior.We visited Cornell last year and she was excited about applying there."What he'd rather be doing? "No change; no regrets." Susan Bomalaski (sbomalaski@hotmail.com) and husband Dave have been living in Alaska for just over a year and have been exploring the state. "I am executive director of Catholic Social Services, which runs a homeless shelter, a shelter for women and children, a food pantry, and adoption, refugee, and disability services. After hours I cross-country ski, hike, snowshoe, and play classical guitar." Susan would like to hear from Jeff Rowell and Charles Abate.

Ian Friedland (Arlington, VA; FriedlandIM@comcast.net) is director of structures research for the Federal Highway Administration. Lately, he's been working ("Would rather be retired!"), participating in Cornell Club of D.C. community service events, and scuba diving. He made a trip to Bonaire and plans another to the Cayman Islands. Jim Haswell (boys3@optonline.net) and wife Kathy (Beauregard) '81 live in Westport, CT, and are raising three teenage sons. Jim is a pathologist at Griffin Hospital, a small community hospital in central Connecticut. He writes, "I just ‘retired' from coaching basketball and baseball with my three sons." Physician Andrew Weber (lungsdr@optonline.net) has a solo practice in internal medicine, pulmonary diseases, and critical care. He doesn't have a lot of "after hours," but is a tennis enthusiast and a runner. He and wife Laury live in Woodbury, NY, and recently enjoyed the bar mitzvah of their son.

In other news, reunion co-chair Joe Reina (Bridgewater, NJ; jtr25@cornell.edu) began an acting career last summer, appearing in a local production of Peter Pan. "I played Mr. Darling and a pirate.We played to more than 500 for six nights and I received a good review. I am auditioning for the fall and taking an acting class in October.My daughter Katie and son Joe are also considering acting careers." Belinda Thompson, DVM '81 (bt42@cornell.edu) and partner Kathy Bombrick, MA '84, have been rehabilitating their house in Ithaca, NY. Belinda, a veterinarian, works in veterinary support services at the Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell's Vet college. She's also involved in middle school activities and likes to garden when she's not working. Kathy Bard Levine (kathylevine@optonline.net) is a registered dietitian, a nutritionist in private practice, and, in her spare time, a Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassador Network (CAAAN) volunteer. She and husband Josh live in Katonah, NY.

From Bruce Schafer, MBA '79 (Maplewood, NJ; Bruce.Schafer@verizon.net): "I've been working as hard as I can at my new role at Morgan Stanley—on operational risk issues in institutional securities. Outside of work, I am a book collector, with emphasis on Americana (travel in the Eastern US) and early 20th century literature (Dreiser, Lewis, Steinbeck). I've been watching my girls become teens, and helping where I can." Rich Jaso (Rich.Jaso@unisys.com) and wife Debbie (Graham) '78 live in New Fairfield, CT, and see a lot of Cornell friends often, including Steve Corbo '78, Jon Clemente '78, Tim LaBeau, and Dave Ambrosia '78, JD/MBA '82. Rich wrote the following last fall: "I am managing director of emergency management consulting at Unisys. Current engagements include oversight of emergency operations for the City of New Orleans—do I have stories! Post-Hurricane Katrina and Rita response efforts have kept me frantically busy.Witnessing the devastation and its effect on lives, culture, and politics has had a profound impact on my life."

Your class officers and fellow Cornell classmates are looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible at our 30th Reunion this June. Be there if you can! Class Correspondents: -- Lorrie Panzer Rudin, rudin@starpower.net; Howie Eisen,Heisen@drexelmed.edu. Reunion Chairs:Mike Murray,MichaelL.Murray@itt.com; and Joe Reina, jtr25@cornell.edu.

78 | Lois Bottone Conwell (lois@topher.net) is a culinary arts teacher at Plano High School in Texas. She also owns two of her own companies, called "All Wrapped Up Real Estate" and "All Wrapped Up Promotional." She looks for houses to fix up and is currently restoring a historic house on Park Street. However, she'd rather be sitting on a beach with a frozen drink! Lois's most fond memory of Cornell is the Thirsty Bear Tavern. Michael Riley (mdr14@cornell.edu) lives in Rochester, NY, where he has a sports marketing business.Michael works with the PGA tour on golf events, player appearances, and corporate sponsorships.He enjoys playing golf and traveling and is still a big fan of Big Red hockey. VivianWohl (vwohl@earthlink.net) lives in Sausalito, CA, with her husband Bruno Tapolsky.Vivian works for Federated Investors Inc. Eve Murphy Reid (evereid@airmail.net) is a marketing consultant and lives in Dallas, TX, with daughter Claire. She commutes to NYC to see husband Warren Weitman. Eve is in the process of transitioning her company, but would rather be trekking in Patagonia! Her fondest Cornell memory is getting up at dawn to run five miles, even after a heavy snowfall. She would like to hear from Jim Rice.

KarenWilk Rubin (kwrubin@yahoo.com) lives in Cooper City, FL, with husband Ira. She is a pediatric dietitian at the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital in Hollywood, FL. She is also a nutrition columnist for Foodservice Director magazine. Karen and Ira are still busy with hurricane repairs at their home after Katrina and Wilma blew through. Karen is looking forward to retirement.Her fondest Cornell memories include Sunday dorm brunches, the "Pancake House," frat parties, and friends. Sarah "Sally"May Tucci writes that she and Emily Farnham Mastrianni '89 both row for a masters crew, Skidmore Community Rowing. Their boats won two national championship gold medals in 2005. They went to the FISA Worlds regatta in 2006 and won two gold medals there as well. Sally May, as we called her back then, Karen Wilk Rubin, and I (Pepi) were all on the 5th floor of Donlon Hall our freshman year.

Bill and Ellen Haas Sternberg (ellen@sternberg.com) live in Potomac, MD. Ellen is a display account executive with Legal Times. Chip and Linda Joy Baines watched the Cornell men's lightweight crew team win the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) title in spring 2006. Their daughter Emily '07 is the coxswain for that team. They edged out Harvard for the title. Their other daughter, Katie, is married. Mitch, JD '81, and Ann Zanger Lowenthal (annlowenthal@earthlink.net) live in Brooklyn, NY.Mitch is a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton, and Ann is happily at home with her son Daniel, 14, after 12 years in public finance.Mitch and Ann go skiing in Colorado as often as possible; it is their passion. Ann sends her best wishes to classmate Diane Elliott. She would also like to hear from Susan Labow Allen.

Barbara Taborsky Ludlow (beachglassbum@optonline.net) and her husband Harry '72 live in Bridgehampton, NY. Barbara is a farm stand owner/operator with her husband and children. Their son Nathan '05 joined the family business after graduation from Cornell's Ag college in December 2005. The business consumes all of their time between May and October. Other activities such as reading, house renovation, and exploring the Caribbean for snorkeling spots can be done from November through April. Barbara also does volunteer work at their church. Her fondest Cornell memory is "the end of the snow for the season."

Michael A. Johnson (maj21@cornell.edu) lives in Bowie,MD.He is the deputy assistant sergeant-at-arms for the US Senate. He's been developing a Homeland Security plan for the US Senate and also teaching at Prince George's Community College in Largo,MD.Michael enjoys tennis and roller-skating. He says that Cornell evokes memories of the gorge where he would hang out and swim. Lenore Diamond Robins (www.LenoreDiamondRobins.com) is an artist living in Boca Raton, FL. She currently exhibits her work at Art Fusion Gallery in Miami, the Wit Gallery in Lenox, MA, and the Indigo Gallery in Ft. Collins, CO. The Artist's Guild of the Boca Raton Museum of Art, of which she is president, also has Lenore's work on exhibit. She lives with her daughter Cara and husband Stephen.

Rob Dewald (rdewald@nycap.rr.com) is a social studies teacher at Scotia-Glennville Middle School and lives in Niskayuna, NY. He also enjoys coaching cross country and indoor and outdoor track. He spends lots of time with his own children, who play on travel soccer teams and are involved in the Olympic Development Program. Jayne Alexander (jalex18@verizon.net) lives in Staten Island with her husband Ed Selling and their daughter Alexis, who attends the Scholar's Program at the local high school. Jayne treated herself to a kayak for her 50th birthday and paddles around Great Kills Harbor on Staten Island. Her husband retired from the NYC fire department after serving the city for 26 years. Jayne has been a physical therapist for 21 years and works doing home care on Staten Island. Eugenie Shen (eshen168@hotmail.com) lives in Hong Kong and works for AIG Global Investment Group. LindaWilde lives in Carmel, CA. She is a judge in her "day job" and an artist the rest of the time.

Some of our classmates attended CAU in summer 2006. Laura Call Andolina, MBA '86, studied Animal Health and the Veterinarian's World with Dr. Howard Evans and the staff at the Vet college. Barbara Ludwig Arditte tried her hand at a drawing class, and David Levine studied the Roman Epoch and Ours, taught by Barry Strauss. Joan Passiatore Popolo enjoyed Highlights of Astronomy, led by Yervant Terzian, and Debra Hyman Rathauser took two courses, one in bronze sculpture and one in digital photography. Jane Conable Schmieder studied Islamic Civilization: Rise, Decline, Resurgence, which was taught by David S. Powers.

Many talented high school students who are the children of our classmates attended the Summer College at Cornell in 2006. They included Jonathan Warach's son Aaron, Minda Solomon Dolmatch's son Michael, Jody Katz's son Michael, and Jeff Hawkins '79 and Janet Strauss's daughter Anne. Also attending were Joseph Lubeck's daughter Rachel,Marianne Basarab Marcott's daughter Jacquelene,Michael and Deborah Slotnick Miron's daughter Jessica, Dennis '77 and Lilian Tang Soohoo's daughter Hilary, and Donald Strenk and Diane Elliott's son Stephen.

Make sure to check out our new class website at http://classof78.alumni.cornell.edu/. Keep sending us your latest news to include in the column. -- Pepi F. Leids, PLeids@aol.com; and Chip Brueckman, jcb58@cornell.edu.

79 | As winter looms ahead of me, it is great to know that by the time you read this column it will be nearly spring.Hopefully, the winter will not be harsh as we embark upon what will be for most of us the year we turn 50. In many ways it seems like just yesterday that we were leaving life in Ithaca behind and starting on our adventures. As always, it is great to hear from you about those adventures. In particular, it would be fun to know how you are planning to spend this milestone birthday year.My husband Bob Gould and I planned a family holiday trip to the Florida Keys. Bob turned 50 in January and I followed three weeks later.We continue to enjoy our almost 27-year marriage as we adjust to the empty nest. Our 20-year-old son is a third-year political science and economics double major at the U. of Virginia. He is planning on going to graduate school, perhaps for a master's in public policy, and eventually would like to earn his PhD. Allison, our 18-year-old daughter, is finishing up a successful first semester at James Madison U., where she is planning on majoring in media arts and design. She also enjoys swimming on the JMU intercollegiate team.

I enjoy teaching nutrition at Towson U. and am applying to the EdD program there. I may be retired before I earn my degree, taking one course a semester, but there is always a benefit to the pursuit of knowledge. Bob continues in his position as marketing manager at Snyder's of Hanover. The pretzel business seems to be sound, so we feel pretty secure that it is here to stay.

I received an e-mail from former apartment-mate Laura Grinberg Bennett filling me in on her news and the whereabouts of our other roommates from the 1978-79 academic year. Laura lives in Stony Brook, NY, and is a pediatrician in a large pediatrics group. Her husband Norman is also a physician, with a specialty in vascular medicine. They have three children: Ilana, 19, a sophomore in the honors program at the U. of Delaware; Aaron, 17, a senior applying to colleges; and Evan, 14, in ninth grade. Laura keeps involved with Cornell through alumni interviews in secondary schools. She hears from Joyce Sapin-Schulman fairly often and they try to get together at least once a year. Joyce is a pediatric neurologist and is married to a pediatric nephrologist. She and her husband have two daughters and live near Philadelphia. Our third apartment-mate, Debbie Zimmerman Kotloff, is a veterinarian living near Philadelphia as well. She and her physician husband are parents to three boys.

Lisa Nadler (nadle001@mc.duke.edu) writes that she is a family physician in Durham, NC. She lives with her partner Deborah Pilkington and enjoys biking, softball, volleyball, and volunteering. She is very involved with a nonprofit group entitled SWOOP, "Strong Women Organizing Outrageous Projects." This organization provides service to low income, disabled, elderly, or overwhelmed individuals. Lisa also sits on the board of Senior PharmAssist, another nonprofit that helps provide education and access to medication for low income seniors. She would love to hear from Jackie Marr, Peggy Erlenkotter, and Christine Sellers '74.

Practicing internal medicine in Fort Lauderdale, FL, Ken Homer writes that he is working hard to support his two sons in college. He would like to hear from Jim Boop and misses long talks with Walt Kopp on Libe Slope about the meaning of life. Barbara Moldawsky Jacobowitz is a school nurse in Syosset, NY. She and husband William enjoy raising their three teenage children. In her spare time Barbara enjoys reading, walking, and listening to music. Although she wouldn't change a thing about her life, she misses the camaraderie of diverse classmates at Cornell.

Also living on Long Island, in Hewlett, Julie Pareles (giantsteps@optonline.net) writes that she is the executive director of Blue Ocean Inst. (www.blueocean.org) in Cold Spring Harbor, NY. She is busy raising identical twin boys. Emily DeNitto (edenitto@verizon.net) is a features editor at Worth magazine and a restaurant reviewer for the New York Times. She and husband Ronald Marans live in Croton-on-Hudson with their 7-year-old daughter Alexa. In their spare time they are able to enjoy NYC theatre and galleries. She would like to hear from Ray Quaranto.

The Real Deal, a book written by Sandy Weill '55 and Judah Kraushaar, MBA '80, was just released in the fall of 2006. At this writing, Judah (JKraushaar@optonline.net) was looking forward to a month-long book tour that included a stop in Ithaca.When he is not writing books, Judah is a general partner in Roaring Brook Capital, a long/short equity partnership.He is also on the executive committee of the American Jewish Committee.He and his wife Michele live in Chappaqua, NY. Judah would like to hear from Carl Corrigan and David Langbart.

Susan Schapiro Caplan (susan.caplan@yale.edu) is currently a PhD student at Yale U. She and husband Gary '62 live in Cheshire, CT, with their son.When she is not writing papers, she enjoys painting and vacationing in the Tropics. She misses walking around the gorge at Cornell and would like to hear from classmate Elizabeth Hyde. Recently honored classmate Kathy Keneally has been named to the New York Super Lawyers List in Criminal Defense:White Collar for 2006. Kathy, who received her LLM in taxation from NYU School of Law and her JD from Fordham Law School, is a partner at Fulbright & Jaworski LLP and has over 20 years of experience in representing clients in whitecollar criminal defense, tax controversy, commercial litigation, trials, and appeals. Kathy co-authors a column entitled "White Collar Crime" in the Champion and also writes a column on IRS practice in the Journal of Tax Practice and Procedure.

As a reminder to all of our classmates, the friends of Debbie Moses have established the Debra G.Moses Memorial Fund to benefit Cornell's libraries. Debbie passed away in December 2005 after a long battle with cancer. Anyone interested in contributing to the fund, which will purchase books on varied subjects, should make checks payable to Cornell University Library and send them to Library Development, 701 Olin Library, Ithaca, NY 14853. Please indicate that the check is for the Debra G.Moses Memorial Fund. Debbie was an avid reader and our goal is to pass her love of literature down to future generations. Books purchased by the Debra G.Moses Memorial Fund will include a bookplate that says,"Her love of literature and zest for life live on in those who follow."

Your class correspondents would love to hear from you. News is sometimes sparse and it is difficult to write about your exciting lives when we have no information. Send us an e-mail and let us know what is going on in your life. You can write us at classof79@cornell.edu, or directly at: -- Kathy Zappia Gould, rdgould@comcast.net; Cynthia Ahlgren Shea, cynthiashea@hotmail.com; and CindyWilliams, cew32@cornell.edu.