40 | Hopefully, cherry and apple blossoms are welcoming all of you who've been through the long, hard winter so many had this year--although as I write this in February, the trees (and my car!) are snow-covered, and the temperature has rarely crept above freezing for weeks and weeks.We didn't have the kind of snowfall much of the country had, but it was a lot for here! On to class news.

Both of your "prexys" braved a cold but snow-free January weekend in Philadelphia to attend the annual Cornell Association of Class Officers (CACO) Mid-Winter Meeting and hear Cornell's new president, David Skorton, speak at the Saturday luncheon. The news includes word that Bill Fisher is retiring after 59 years of legal practice and has too many interests and hobbies to enumerate! Way to go! Annette Shapiro Elstein is still a full-time immigration judge, but finds time for a lot of traveling. She boasted of four great-grandchildren, but Toni Saxe Stewart still holds the class record, as far as I know, with five! If anyone can boast of more, let me know.

Francis Greenspan, MD '43, is still a practicing endocrinologist, although now limiting it to half-time, plus teaching at the U. of California Medical Center in San Francisco. In his spare time he likes to sail in San Francisco Bay. Henry "Bob" Rose is still building steel warship models--nine feet long and fully radio-controlled. Some of his previous models are on display at several Navy-oriented museums. For fun, he plays tennis and bridge. Two granddaughters have graduated from Cornell and he expects a 5-year-old great-grandson to follow in the family footsteps.

The News Forms are getting low, so send your spring travels and other news to me or to Cornell Alumni Magazine! -- Ellen Ford, 300 Westminster Canterbury Dr., #416, Winchester, VA 22603. Cornell Alumni Magazine, 401 East State St., Suite 301, Ithaca, NY 14850.

41 | We go down to -1 degree tonight, so it helps me to imagine Cornell in the spring with forsythia trailing the walls on Stewart Avenue and warm sun to help on treks from Balch out Tower Rd. for Ag Engineering.

Christmas greetings from Betty Bourne Cullen, my roommate in Balch, reported on an enjoyable life in Fort Collins, CO, and the arrival of a seventh great-grandchild, who she will be able to watch grow with family nearby. It was also delightful to hear from Marjorie Lee Treadwell. She and husband Don spend eight and a half months at their Naples, FL, home and the rest of the year in Grosse Ile, MI. She and Don enjoy several tennis matches a week and treated 24 family members to an Alaskan cruise as a combined celebration of Marjorie's 85th birthday and their 60th wedding anniversary. Their lovely Christmas card was created by son Jamie, who works for Youth in Europe and the Middle East. He came from England for the cruise.May good health and good times continue in 2007.

Last year's News Form tells us that Betty Scherer Lester, MA '42, from Bethel Park, PA, is a lector in her church as well as a volunteer at the rectory. She keeps fit physically by bowling and going to the golf driving range, and mentally by playing bridge every two weeks with friends. A good combination, Betty.Mary Jean Hamilton Antrim currently lives in Woodcliff Lake, NJ, at Sunrise Assisted Living, near family that includes nine grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. She enjoys traveling to homes in Naples and Marco Island, FL.

Martha Lawson Morse still lives in Houston, TX, and spends summers at Seneca Lake in New York. Grandson Alan Morse '02 serves as boatswain on the Pride of Baltimore II (replica of the 1812 Baltimore Clipper). Grandson RickyMorse '00 does computer work in Boston, grandson Tim is working on a PhD at Cornell in Engineering, and granddaughter Danielle (MIT '02) has a master's in meteorology at Florida State. A great group,Martha.

Betty Niles Gray, from Durham, NC, has moved with her husband of 62 years, John, to an apartment in their Duke retirement community. They formerly had a cottage there.Many of us missed you both at our reunion, and we'll hope to hear from you even though you no longer travel. Ruth Marshall Kibbey of Tuscaloosa, AL, reports good health and continued volunteering at the local hospital, university arboretum, and church. Visits to children in Amarillo, TX, and Charleston, SC, add to her joy of living.

My supply of news is now exhausted, so e-mail me or get those news forms in early! Please put "Cornell" in the title of any e-mails--to separate mine from Ken's U. ofWisconsin's. Many thanks, and ENJOY! v Shirley Richards Sargent Darmer, 20 Haddington Lane, Delmar, NY 12054; e-mail, KID12054@aol.com.

Your men's correspondent met classmate Morris Povar, DVM '44, for the first time on a bus right here in Boca Raton. It turned out that Morris and his wife live in the same lifecare retirement community in Boca that my spouse and I do, and we were all on our way to the same Lifelong Learning lecture at Florida Atlantic U.We ran into one another again last spring at a Cornell Club brunch, held in the Boca home of a considerably younger Cornell alumnus. Good turnout, good food, very enjoyable! Finally, a neighbor who is a member of a State of Florida oversight committee on FAU's use of animals in various biological research programs mentioned that Morris is on the committee, too.His Cornell Vet college skills make him a perfect fit!

I received an e-mail from Morton Beer, MD '44, the other day relating, sadly, that Mort's Phi Sigma Delta roommate JulesWiener, JD '47, had passed away. Quoting Mort, "Jules served his country well as a captain in the US Air Force during WWII. His station was in the Pacific Theater."Mort lives most of the year in Morristown, NJ, and has a condo here in Boca as well, for spending the winters. Albert Aschaffenburg writes that, for more than ten years following retirement from hotel management, he has been teaching public speaking at the U. of New Orleans. He says he gets along very well with his department head, who just happens to be Cornellian Phil Karnell, MFA '77.He also mentions remembering such good friends as classmates JeanWay Schoonover, Dave Ketchum, and Eddie Burgess Bartholomew.

Emerson Cole writes from Pinehurst, NC, that, after 27 years, he is still producing and hosting a weekly three-hour radio show, "The Big Bands are Back."He says he is the world's oldest disk jockey! Robert Lowe, BA '46, from Honolulu, HI, states that he retired from real estate a few years ago and that "the bloom is now off" that field of endeavor in Hawaii.

Bob Haase, Overland Park, KS, and wife Arlene are struggling a bit health-wise. He asks whether Fred Munschauer is still alive and kicking. Regretfully, no. Fred died just last December. JohnWeikart, BS '42, Hockessin, DE, who lost his wife in 2004, reports that he is blessed with "reasonably good health and a fine, supportive female neighbor." And perhaps that is a good note upon which to end the news.

Before I close, like Shirley, my supply of news is exhausted, so please start up your computers and send some e-mails or (pardon the term) snailmail! -- Warner Lansing, 6065 Verde Trail S., Apt. G310, Boca Raton, FL 33433; tel., (561) 487-2008; e-mail, wlansing@bellsouth.net.

42 | Pres. Liz Schlam Eddy (NYC), Reunion Chairman Don Kent, MD '45 (Palm Beach Gardens, FL), and Treas. Jim Kraker (New Smyrna Beach, FL) are in constant conversation regarding our 65th Reunion, June 7-10.We're in good hands.

Don writes, "As for Chickie and me, except for a couple of hip replacements, which turned out great, and cataract surgery (also great), we are enjoying living here.We're still playing golf about twice a week and have an active social life, including playing a moderate amount of bridge. In addition, we just celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary with our four children, grandchildren, and spouses--12 people in all--cruising the Caribbean on the Radisson Mariner--a great ship. The only drawback to living in Florida is the fear of hurricanes.We've been through a couple of them and they are truly frightening, with winds gusting up to 130 miles per hour."

Jim Kraker gave me a Merry Christmas call last year, and I learned that his grandson Jeremy '07, who graduates this June, is a fifth-generation Cornellian. Jim states, "The fifth generation deal is not too unique, but I believe he is the first and only fifth-generation Cornellian whose great-great-grandfather was in the first class to start and receive his degree from Cornell. Augustus James Rogers 1871,my grandfather, entered with the first freshman class in the fall of 1868.Half of those received a degree in 1871, after only three years. They had the best grades. The others received their degrees in '72. There were degrees granted in 1869 and 1870, but they were to transfers. Subsequently, all needed four years for a BA or BS degree. A. J. Rogers's daughter,my mother, married my dad, James Kraker '12, and they had me. Dottie (Dodds) and I had son James Kraker '74, and he and wife Joline Hemminger '77 had Jeremy."

I recently received the sad news that Ken Hubbard (Ft.Myers, FL) died on Jan. 1, 2007. He began life in Yonkers, NY, enlisted in the Navy V5 Flight Program during WWII at Bennett Field in Brooklyn, and flew an open-cockpit biplane. After the war he graduated from Birmingham Law School and worked for 25 years with USF&G Corp. He then purchased the Ft.Myers Insurance Agency, finally retiring in 2000. He played tenor banjo and was a vocalist with the Ft.Myers Rebels Band, the Bonita Banjo Society, the Bill Porter Group, the "Fun with Music" Band, and the Gulf Coast Banjo Society. He loved to fish and swim and garden, growing many varieties of fruit.He once wrote that he liked to jitterbug as often as he got the chance.We'll miss him.

Jean Fenton Potter (New Milford, CT) and Jean Pardee Cole (Chesterfield, MO) are both enjoying all the activities at their retirement communities and would welcome visitors when in the neighborhood. Doris Stone Hanrahan (Montauk, NY) still awaits the rehabilitation of her home in Punta Gorda, FL. The house is done, but her furnishings suffered almost a total loss from being too long in storage. In a nice phone call, she said she may just stay on Long Island.

Shirley Clark Shumate (Hurley, NY) has retired to pleasant hours with her garden club and book club and the RSVP Chorus. She remembers most fondly all her Cornell friends. Charles "Fred" Dye (Rochester Hills, MI) retired from Ford Motor Co. after 30 years.He then worked as a consultant on and off for the next ten years. He is now working as a volunteer and trustee for the Michigan Nature Association to save the wild lands of Michigan. He fondly remembers Cornell's lovely scenery, being in the band and the symphony orchestra, being on the track team, and his fraternity, Delta Chi. He'd love to hear from Dick Wagner.

Connie CaffreyMcMurray, now passed on, was a devoted bird lover who would cheer the recent Lab of Ornithology report stating that there is no risk of getting Asian bird flu in the US. If you wish to identify birds, go to the website, www.allaboutbirds.org. Don Kent sent the sad news of the passing of John Rivoire, MBA '48, at Kendal at Ithaca in January.We will miss him at reunion.

Allen Shotwell, MS '54 (Leesburg FL) writes to correct the reference to his first wife as Sherrill Merrill, which should have been Sarah "Sally" (Merrill). Sally, who passed away in 1988, was president of Sigma Kappa sorority. She taught home economics for four years while Allen was in the Army, and also did substitute teaching in Union Springs, NY, where Allen taught for 38 years. He often sees Donald Robinson '41, MS '54, whose wife Thelma (Drake) died in 2004.

Keep writing about your lives and careers--so interesting to everyone. Hope you're all ready for reunion. -- Carolyn Evans Finneran, 8815 46th St. SW, Gig Harbor,WA 98335; e-mail, carolynfinn@comcast.net.

43 | Sad news. Longtime class leader, one-time class president, Navy poster boy, and smoke-ring-blower from a billboard high above Times Square, affable, handsome (see pix in the Compendium) Bill Dunn died February 5 in Hobe Sound, FL. A first lieutenant in field artillery in the ETA (he had served his Navy stint; see above), Bill was a partner of Johnson & Higgins (insurance) until his 1983 retirement. He then served eight years as mayor of Mill Neck, NJ, and as director and president of the North Shore Wildlife Sanctuary. In 1993 the Dunns moved to Hobe Sound, FL, where Bill served on the vestry of Christ Memorial Chapel and as Jupiter Island town commissioner.We will miss the man and his ready smile.

As will we former Sun sports editor Parker Smith, who died February 13 in Holyoke, MA. After serving with a field artillery battalion during the long battle for Cassino, Parker returned to a 43-year newspaper career: sports editor, Detroit Free Press; news editor, New York Herald Tribune; managing editor, Newsday, Long Island. A lifetime member of the Baseball Writers of America, he was an avid tennis player, a jazz enthusiast, and a lifelong Red Sox diehard. I knew him as a quick wit, a brilliant writer of headlines, and a consummate layout man who loved white space.We wrote and spoke often. He was one sardonic cookie, accepting of and outrageously wry about his ongoing bout with emphysema and cancer. He may indeed have died hard, but likely with a knowing smile and one final bit of ironic wordplay.

Another Sun sportswriter, alive and well, Al Gould reports from Jekyll Island, GA: "I'm stroke-free, except on the links, where they just keep piling up.Wife of 60 years died in 2002. Down here, winter with an old sweetheart from Long Island High School days.We summer at her place in Vermont.Who her? Nan Stone, my first house party date, November '39."

Excerpt from e-mail Ping-Pong with Ray Ward (Waverly, NY): "About the book.Many years ago I examined six trunks in an undertaker's attic in the Endless Mountains (southern NY, northern PA), containing close to 10,000 documents dated from the 1750s. Since my material had a gap throughout the Revolutionary War years, I realized there must be a seventh trunk which I did indeed locate. It contained damning material: the forefather of the undertaker was a double agent. There were records of disbursements, disguised as merchandise receipts, to known spies. I ached to go further, but with school and the war, the project went on permanent hold. Childhood neighbor Rod Serling pushed me to do an initial draft. Years later, in '91, a houseguest professor of journalism, seeing that draft, jump-started me and I began to play with the manuscript. It's called March into the Endless Mountains: The Beginnings of War on the Frontier of America. Exciting, man. I dug through old newspapers of the time, read (skimmed) every book on the subject. The characters are drawn from real life; the conversations invented. As for the Indian words, I buried myself in the library stacks and learned the Seneca language. My bestowed name is Hah-gah-heh: He who shows the way."

Amazon says: "The book reconstructs the dramatic story of two cultures in clash and the adventures of a double spy who almost changed American history. $19.95." The cover says, "Ward describes in vivid details the battles spreading amid the mountains and along the Susquehanna River, westernmost boundary of Colonial settlement." I now have in my hands a soft-cover copy. Impressive. Good read.

Writing in the third person, here's Helen Cookingham Turner: "Helen, widowed, lives at Sunrise in Roseville, MN. She has one daughter in the area, three grandchildren, three great-grandchildren. Two more children live in Arizona." Ginger Shaw Shelley (this from Caroline Norfleet Church) has moved to Kendal at Ithaca from New Hope, PA, to be near sculptress daughter Mary Shelley '72. Lilian Fuller Jones writes: "Husband Alan and I reside in Las Vegas, NM, not the Nevada Sin City with its slots and its crowds. In spite of, or due to, their absence, we're busy and very content."

Not required reading from Leon Schwarzbaum (Valley Stream, NY): "Did you know that I am the only member of '43/'44 who was not a close friend of Kurt Vonnegut '44? I did know Hank Heimlich '41, MD '43, but to this day I'm sure he never knew who I was. Also worth noting is that I was the only senior at DeWitt Clinton High in the Bronx who didn't date Bess Meyerson.While in the Pacific Theater of Operations, I never met Adm. Chester Nimitz or Gen. Douglas MacArthur. I did meet Gen. Curtis LeMay, who had no inkling of my valor on Guam and therefore never awarded me a medal. Until now I've kept these accomplishments to myself, but you're obviously running low on stimulating news,Miller, and I'm happy to help out. Let me know when you need more." Ready when you are, Leon, he lied. -- S.Miller Harris, P.O. Box 164, Spinnerstown, PA 18968; e-mail, millerharris@netcarrier.com.

44 | The years roll on, and some classmates were still gainfully employed until mid-2006. Jim McTague writes, "Finally, with 52 years in the race, I officially retired from the real estate land business in Naples, FL--quite a ride." Then cancer struck.He wonders why so many are victims. Bill Swain, BEE '43, reports from Sarasota, FL, that the William H. Swain Co. sold its assets to the new company, the Swain Metals Co.He is happy with the people and their capabilities. FredWatkins, BCE '47, of West Caldwell, NJ, sold his factory in White Mills, PA--an old blue stone mill that was the Dorflinger Cut Glass Works pre-WWI. He turned 86 in September and promised to retire before his next birthday.He supports the class Elm Tree project, claiming to have raised numerous white oak trees from acorns. Janet Parsons Chapman of Baton Rouge, LA, announced her retirement after 33 years with the Presbyterian Child Development Center.

We oldsters are being recognized. Pearne Billings reports from Manlius, NY, that he has been awarded New York State's highest medal, the Conspicuous Service Cross, for earning the most medals and decorations of any Upstate New York WWII veteran. He has two purple hearts, two bronze stars, and nine other medals for two-and-a-half years' combat and five years' service--1942-46. Lew Mix of Virginia Beach, VA, received the 2006 National Dairy Shrine Pioneer award in Madison, WI. He later cruised in Alaska. Sherrill Capi, wife of Andre Capi, MD '46, has been honored as a Woman of Style and Substance by the Symphony of Americas Society in Fort Lauderdale, FL, for her 45 years of community service. She was celebrated at many luncheons and dinners--a Big Deal, Andy says. She volunteers for the Opera Society, hospice, Broward County Medical Auxiliary, Humane Society, and the 100-plus Club of the American Cancer Society. A mother and grandmother, Sherrill has a hobby of bird breeding and exhibition, for which she was inducted into the American Budgerigar Society Hall of Fame.

Retirement is busy and happy for many. Gretchen Eichorn Facq enjoys good health and friends in the orchestra, chamber music, garden, French and bridge clubs, and portrait and watercolor classes in Bound Brook, NJ. John Cummings does lots of gardening and bridge playing in Binghamton, NY. He visited his sister Barbara (Hendrickson) '49 and brother-in-law Al Goetze '46 in St.Michaels,MD. Gilbert Smith, MD '47, of Kentfield, CA, says he's "going strong with a younger wife."His activities include oil painting and "an eternal struggle to learn Spanish." Theodore Smith writes of a family reunion at the Landings, Savannah, GA. Sixteen family members included two Cornell sons and seven wannabe Cornell grands, all celebrating Ted's father, Theodore L. Smith Sr. 1916, "who started it all." Ted plays golf and tennis regularly, but says it's "getting embarrassing now that older grandkids have reached the age where they can finally edge out the old man. They love it.Watch out, Cornell!"

Art and Dotty Kay Kesten attended the CACO (Cornell Association of Class Officers) Mid-Winter Meeting in Philadelphia in January. Others in attendance were Alison King Barry, BArch '47, Janet Buhsen Daukas, Jerry Levitan,MBA '48, and Helen and PeterMiller,MBA '48. They individually sat in on appropriate sessions--Peter at fundraising, Art at website, etc. At the class meeting, donations were discussed. 216 class members donated $5,167,690 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006. $4,000 more is needed to reach the Elm Tree Beautification Project's goal of $12,000. Class membership is at 279. New officers: Jane Knight Knott and Philip Lewin, PhD '69, will represent our Rocky Mountain region. Class projects include the 1944 Tradition Fellowships, the '44 Periodicals Endowment, Cornell Daily Sun Digitization, and the '44 Memorial Room air-conditioning (cancelled per university guidance). -- Nancy Torlinski Rundell, 20540 Falcons Landing Cir., #4404, Sterling, VA 20165.

45 | News is sparse and will be enhanced when you send in your dues and news.Hard-working reunion chairman Stan Johnson, BS '48 (Mantoloking, NJ) must have been working too hard; he's been laid up with bursitis of the elbow, which he says is a new one on him, but not painful. He's back to golfing, so it wasn't serious, either. He is membership VP of the local Cornell Club, in which he's active. Another Jerseyite, Joe Lawrence (Roselle Park, NJ), husband of our classmate Muriel Wood Lawrence, recently tested his brains by passing the new New Jersey boating examination. From Evergreen, CO, energetic Cornell alumnus Harold Saunders reports that he was by far the oldest of the 45 Cornell Hotel Society group that gathered at the new Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism building on the campus of Denver U., where they were excellently served cocktails and dinner by the students. Bud says that their Rocky Mountain chapter remains active and interested.

Returning to more December 7 reminiscences, our class co-president Maxine KatzMorse (Rye, NH) recalls walking across the bridge on her way from Risley to the Library when a bunch of students were running the other way shouting that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. "Confusion reigned; where is Pearl Harbor?" Turning around, all went to back to Risley to listen to radio reports. Similarly, Miles Bailey (Louisville, KY) recalls being met at the opposite side of the campus by a Stewart Ave. roommate, who gave him the news.Miles has held many offices in Rotary Int'l, done a lot of worldwide traveling, and says he's enjoyed every minute.

Saul Levinson (NYC) recalls that, since there was no Ithaca Journal on Sundays, word spread by shocked mouths until the Cornell Daily Sun performed a great feat by getting out a special edition. Saul remembers just as vividly the scenes almost 60 years later when the World Trade Center towers were destroyed. One of my favorite gals, Jean Herr Gehrett (Hilton Head Island, SC) recalls very well having gone to a movie with some other co-eds and late hearing the news that changed the aspect of everyone's life. Jean's husband John served in the Pacific and says that we may have beaten the Japanese then, but they have surely beaten us now, with a prime example being the decline of our auto industry. Jean says that their main news is that their Syracuuuse (as the song goes) grandson is a captain on the lacrosse team. They spent two weeks on the west coast of France and enjoyed it, finding the locals friendly and discovering that they think that Paris is not France.

Wallace Ross (Martha's Vineyard, MA, and Vero Beach, FL) says that he's settled into a nice routine, like most of us 80-somes, but enjoys it.Wally's recollection of Pearl Harbor Day was that it took a while for the seriousness to set in. Eventually, he served with the ski troops of the 10th Mountain Division in Italy and then returned to Cornell to be a February 1949 graduate. He feels that he got more from college, being older, but missed the wonderful times together as newly elected freshman members of Psi Kappa Psi. David Hogin, B Chem '47 (Wilmington, NC) also is sure that the significance of the event didn't sink in, although it was a real life-changer. In retrospect, he recalls the subsequent years as the most exciting of his life, serving in destroyers in both oceans and participating in the occupation of Japan. Dave's wife has been gone a long time, but his five children and "a bunch of grandchildren spread around the country" keep him hopping when he isn't recovering from the broken clavicle he recently suffered as a "result of some clumsy footwork."

Alma Morton Blazic (Cincinnati, OH) reports that Dorothy Scott Boyle (Eastport, ME) has had some health problems. Scottie spent last winter with her New Jersey daughter. We were saddened to hear from Phyllis Avery Olin (Charlottesville,VA) of the death last July of her husband of more than 61 years, James '44. Jim had a distinguished career with GE and served in Congress for over ten years. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Washington & Lee, with a citation for "his exemplary moral courage." Their five children and 11 grandchildren keep Phyl busy and traveling, although she finds Charlottesville an interesting place to live.

William and Mary Elizabeth Mershon Hoffmann (Annapolis, MD) had an active 2006, including a visit to Pensacola, FL, to stay with their son, whose condo was spared by Katrina. They were awed by the damage, but fortunately had a most enjoyable visit, returning to some more good visits to show their western-oriented children what New England has to offer. Later they trekked to the Shenandoah Valley and the Poconos to further enjoy their 62 years together. Our other class co-president Tod Knowles, MBA '49, and wife Marion live nearby and they often get together. They plan a visit to my humble abode soon. I will enjoy showing them how I keep busy as the president of this co-op retirement community with a $13M budget and 500 residents, soon to become over 750 with our current expansion. It keeps me busy! -- Prentice Cushing Jr., 713 Fleet Dr., Virginia Beach, VA 23454; tel., (757) 716-2400; e-mail, Cushcu45@wmconnect.com.

46 | Orrie Stevens, LLB '48 (Wyndmoor, PA) led songs piano-side and exuded his contagious warmth for the last time at June's 60th Reunion.He died Aug. 28, 2006, the victim of prostate cancer complications. Orrie left the family dairy farm for Cornell's V12 program at the tender age of 17 in the fall of 1942. At a freshman Halloween party, he met his future wife and classmate, Ann (McGloin). They began a wonderful 59-year marriage in 1947. Ann praised Orrie as a great family man and a loyal Cornellian. Gifts in Orrie's memory to the Cornell General Fund are appreciated.

We heard recently from John Eustis and Warren Houck for the first time in years. John N. Eustis (Easton, MD; johneustis@goeaston.net), who was recently widowed, sings and flies. In good weather he pilots a Beechcraft Bonanza. In all weather he sings with a prominent barbershop quartet and serves as chairman emeritus of the Easton,MD, Airport Board. John remembers Cornell's commando obstacle course and its demanding director, Georges Cointe. Cointe insisted all his charges give maximum effort, particularly out-of-condition heavyweights. He was famous for goading them with a French accented cry of, "You can do eet, fat boy!" John served in the WWII European theater as an L4 Piper Cub pilot for artillery fire direction.When the fighting got sticky, his unit's rallying cry was Cointe's, "You can do eet, fat boy!" John later discovered the cry was common wherever Cornellians were dispatched as artillerymen or Army Air Corps crew.

Warren, PhD '49, and Rhea Leishman Houck, MS '48 (McKinleyville, CA) met at Cornell when V12 moved Warren over from Penn State U.Warren spends much of his time watching and photographing birds. He has done considerable work photographing whales and seals.Many of his photos are published in the two-volume Mammals of the World.Warren would be delighted to hear from Cornellian Jack Russell, PhD '56, a former faculty colleague at Humboldt State College, and from Dan Kelley '47.

Donald,MArch '49, and Peggy Tallman Peirce (Hilton Head, SC; dpeirce@hargray.com) have moved to the Cypress, "a very special place if you have to get old. It's just like a college campus with a slightly older student body.We're surrounded by lots of terrific people; wish we'd moved here sooner." Stuart Snyder (Schenectady, NY) lost Debra, his wife, to Alzheimer's on Jan. 2, '06. He has lived at Kingsway Village Retirement Center since 2004. There, Stu improved his "piano playing by ear." The piano may have helped attract Edith Campman, his new life companion. The piano and Edith keep him very busy. Stu remembers fondly his engineering professors, especially "Pop" Burroughs and Charles O'Rourk. The classmate he'd most like to hear from is Bart Snow. Send news to: -- Paul Levine, 31 Chicory Lane, San Carlos, CA 94070; tel., (650) 592-5273; e-mail, pbl22@cornell.edu. Class website, http://classof46.alumni.cornell.edu.

I love to hear from you, especially on our annual News Forms. You must be the most active, articulate 80-year-olds around. From New York City I heard from Eloise Shapero that she is retired but volunteers at PBS and the School of American Ballet. Ruth Rothschild Mayleas is on the board at the League of Professional Theatre Women. She is co-producer of "Women in Theatre," a cable TV interview program. It is seen throughout NYC on Channel 75.Way to go!

Elizabeth StuartWells (Cleveland Heights, OH) wrote, "Good life, good retirement, and great memories of Cornell, but not so good being blind.My great husband reads to me, but no quilting."What a positive attitude! From Syracuse I heard from Alma Cook. She has been singing in her church choir for 50 years and belongs to the Cornell Women's Club of Syracuse. Arthritis problems keep her from traveling and keeping up with her nine nieces and nephews and their children, 14 greats, and 13 great-greats. Gloria Clyne would like to be sailing on the QEII, but spends her retirement collecting African violets, raising Chinese crested dogs, and attending Cornell alumni meetings.

Sad news: Phyllis Crane Chaffin (Portland, OR) wrote, "I just moved to a foster care home, as I'm in the beginning stages of Alzheimer's." The daughter of Louise Carmody Wiley (formerly of Naples) wrote to tell us that Lou died February 8, 2006 from complications of MS. I remember her from frosh year in Risley Hall. Mary Verwoert Munson (Canyon City, CA) asked to be put on the inactive list, as she lives too far away to participate.

More news is always welcome and needed.Write or call: -- Elinor Baier Kennedy, 9 Reading Dr., Apt. 302,Wernersville, PA 19565; tel., (610) 927-8777.

47 | May! Soon June and reunion! Wonderful! I received a nice message from George Axinn (axinn@msu.edu) that once a month he and Dan Belknap have an early morning phone conversation sharing information of families, friends, current activities, and memories of their days as roommates at Cornell. George also reports that last August he and his wife Nancy (Wigsten) were awarded the 2006 Distinguished Rural Sociologists Award by the National Rural Sociological Society in Louisville, KY, an honor given annually to only one person--this was the first time in its history that a couple was awarded jointly.Many congratulations! George still works, teaching an online graduate seminar at Michigan State U. Nancy completed writing a book on her travels in Nepal while teaching there. They both work with homeless persons in Tucson. George and Nancy met when freshmen and married as sophomores. A good and long life together!

Stu La Dow and I had a brief phone talk in which he promised to come in June. He and his wife stayed in the Pittsburgh area this winter because their new dog needed surgery and care. I hope the dog is well, and I look forward to arguing politics with Stu. In a news update, he said he still enjoys reading the Wall Street Journal and thinks I need "straightening out."Another interesting conversation for me was with Arnold Johnsen, with whom I had been in first grade in P.S. 45 on Staten Island. At Cornell he was in the V-12 and the Arts college studying the sciences, but I didn't know he was there till now. Funny world!

My informer BarlowWare called to tell me that Bimby Everitt Bryant's daughter Linda Bryant Valentine is the new executive director of the General Assembly Council of the Presbyterian Church USA, a pivotal position carrying important responsibilities. Like mother, like daughter! Bimby plans to come to reunion, so we will be able to congratulate her in person. Jay Graber (nejanijay117@aol.com) moved to Leisure World in Silver Spring, MD, in June 2005, had a reunion there with fraternity brothers Len Lehman '49,Marty Greenfield '49, and Bill Kaplan '48, and hopes to see everyone in June. Jay, do you know that classmate Carl Johnson is also at Leisure World? Also hoping to see us is Robert Schultz (jabobb@iinet.com), who plays golf, sings in a 65-member chorus, and travels, having taken a cruise to Hawaii in 2005 and planning for one to Alaska. Also hoping is Sylvia Kianoff Shain (iralandsyl@wmconnect.com), who reports,"No news is good news."

Calvin Carver (vze3dfg5@verizon.net) travels: on the Queen Mary from NYC to England, on the QE2 from NYC to L.A., and on the Intracoastal Waterway. Last spring he was recovering from double pneumonia and complications, causing a two-week stay in the hospital. He advises a revaccination every five years, having learned the first is not good for life. Jerome Hausman (jeromehausman@aol.com) continues as adjunct professor, School of the Art Inst. of Chicago, and as a board member, Chicago Artists Coalition and Encounter. In the spring of last year he was in Portugal attending gatherings for the study of art education in Viseu and Lisbon, then planned to visit Paris and London. He is not sure about reunion. Also not sure is Stephen Jeckovich (nfsteve@cox.net), who went to France two years ago, plays the violin in a country and western band, and participates in the Ollie Inst. at UC Irvine on energy matters.

Jacqueline Rappoport Siegel is also living in a retirement community, Loomis Village, in South Hadley, MA, to be near her two children and two grandchildren. After graduation she lived in the Philadelphia area for 50 years with her husband Herb, until his death several years ago. Helen Tetter Kennedy reports she is enjoying life and visiting places in the US. In winter she lives in Vero Beach, FL, and from May through October is in Waynesville, NC. CarolineWood is also enjoying life, doing senior citizen activities, including lunches, trips, bingo, pinochle, farm activities involving grape vineyards, John Deere Gator work, and pleasure rides. Busy and fun!

In retirement, the Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Roe (nroe@verizon.net) is building period furniture, traveling, preaching, making shut-in visits, on the Habitat for Humanity Board, and enjoying WWII reunions. He has visited 57 countries in Europe, Africa, and South and North America. Another busy and good life. Robert Loeper, who is enjoying his retired life, has a granddaughter, Kayley Bebber '09, who is a student at Cornell. She is enjoying it and doing well. Sawyer Thompson of Juno Beach, FL, is happy doing what he's doing: on the Loxahatchee River District Board, golfing, theater, grandchildren, and TV. He remembers being part of the "Once Upon a Hill" show as a student, directed by Alexander Drummond. At the time he wrote, he and his wife Virginia were celebrating her recent hole-in-one, made at the Hobe Sound Golf Club.

Last spring I had no news reports from you and was winging it as I composed. This year I have notes I still haven't used. You have been very good in writing. Thank you. I have tried often to use forms from persons we have not heard from frequently, so if yours didn't get included, please don't feel ignored. I am allowed only a certain amount of space. Keep those News Forms coming. See you in June! -- ArlieWilliamson Anderson, 238 Dorchester Rd., Rochester, NY 14610; tel., (585) 288-3752; e-mail, arlie47@aol.com.

48 | Barbara Borden Floyd, Cherry Hill, NJ: "I tutor math and science at Cherry Hill schools, and do bridge, choir, exercise class, and swimming. Fondest memory is walking down Stewart Ave. to Zinck's.Visited Meyers Beach, FL, Key West for scuba, Black Sea, and Prague.Would rather be swimming now. I'm going to Maine for granddaughter's wedding and look forward to playing with my great-grandsons. Took one great-grandson to a Phillies game. Granddaughter Sarah Floyd is Cornell '10. Expeditions: riding the River Line with some Kappa Delta sisters; going to the shore with about 20 of the family; touring Naples with friends from Cornell '49 and '50.Would like to hear from Joanne Norton Mayer and all Kappa Deltas.Most pressing problem is those stairs. Solution is to ‘make a list.'World's problem is overpopulation--I'm part of the problem (five kids, nine grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren). Recently discovered that I'm a poor bridge player and don't sing that well either, but I press on!"

Larry Gonzer, Short Hills, NJ: "I'm 90 percent retired. Still own my company, but relying on a couple of devoted long-term associates to keep afloat. They may be doing better than I could now. Had a ‘phone chat' with Cornell Hillel at the end of which they asked for my class year.My answer provoked a low whistle. Are we really that ‘rare?' I certainly hope we're not ‘well done.'"

Harold Vroman, MS '52, Cobleskill, NY: "Retired.Working on history: local, Dutch, New York State, Palatine, and American.Working with the mentally handicapped. I'm involved in worthwhile projects, as everyone should be.My ‘problem' or ‘challenge' is to do something constructive and helpful, and I'm doing it to the best of my ability. For the meaning of life, read the Bible from Genesis to Revelations."

Tom Trafzer, Carmichael, CA: "Keeping happy.Working with Resident Council in senior retirement complex. Engaged in computer genealogy and reducing travel slide photos to PowerPoint presentation. Fondest memory was Cornell Big Band Weekend. Traveled to Egypt and Israel in April '06.We river-cruised from Vienna to Amsterdam last fall. Attended wedding of fifth of eight granddaughters.Whole clan gathered for the event. Pacemaker going strong after six years, with bi-monthly checkups. I would like to hear from Bill Gates and/or Warren Buffet.Most pressing problem is meeting retirement expenses without invading capital fund. Solution is to lower community maintenance fees. ‘Life' seems to be a miserable left-wing conspiracy."

Madeleine Miller Bennett, Big Apple: "I'm a Whitney Museum docent and involved in the New York Film Festival. Recently visited my house in Southampton. Cruised on the QEII to the South Pacific, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Cambodia, etc. Granddaughter Lily graduated high school; now in Mt. Holyoke College.My wish came true on November 7."

Jackie Smith Flournoy,Westport, CT: "It's my 22nd year as secretary on the Board of Governors, Cedar Point Yacht Club. It's a volunteer job and I try to keep new board members from re-inventing the wheel. After hours I sail my 34-ft. boat Obsession. Also work in a thrift shop that supports Norwalk Hospital. Doing crafts at church for annual sale. Fondest Cornell memory is camaraderie at sorority.Visited granddaughter at Roger Williams College in Bristol, CT. Last memory was paying bills.Would rather be sailing. Just got a trophy for winning the Division 2 Spinnaker Series--three times around Gardiners Island on Long Island Sound. Plan to stay healthy, go on trips. Had a big family party in honor of my 80th birthday.Wow! How did I get so old? Greatest problem is getting everything done. Solution is to slow down.Wish I knew the solution to achieving peace and recapturing values. Family is important to support one's ongoing journey. I keep in touch with two brothers-in-law--Hugh Flournoy '50, who lives in California, and Jon Ayers '50, who is married to my sister Cynthia (Smith) '52 and lives in Huntington, NY."

Jeanne Chamoulaud Kimmell, Cornwall, PA: "Volunteer activities here at the ‘Manor.' Between these and time spent keeping the medical profession employed, plus the fun things planned by the powers that be, my calendar has more on it than it ever did when I was at Cornell. Since July 24, '06, when I sailed backward out of a high doorway and the back of my head landed on a concrete patio, all activity has been put on hold. October '06 found me back in my apartment trying to regain balance and memory.Meanwhile, old movies and sitcoms from Netflix keep me happy in the evening. Right now all memories from the Hill are fond ones. I'm amused by two freshman memories: 1) sitting in our off-campus dorm on a Saturday night saying, ‘Since there are five men for every co-ed, where are ours?' and 2) since it snowed from Thanksgiving Day until Mother's Day, we co-eds were forced into snow banks as the platoons of ‘90-day Wonders' marched in formation to classes. I never knew that my Cornellian was fighting the Battle of the Bulge at the time. I met him in 1947.My last memory was waving to my Penn State Delta Chi as he left for yesterday's football game. He is ten years older than I am and we feel like a couple of teenagers as we face new and different decades.Would rather be having a big party for all the kids and grandkids, cruising on a trip to Martinique to see where my father was raised and look for any French cousins. I plan to wake up tomorrow morning, hop out of bed, and be ready to go!" -- Bob Persons, 102 Reid Ave., Port Washington, NY 11050; tel., (516) 767-1776.

49 | Jean Schultheis Brechter, an associate broker with M.Wein Realty Inc. in Shelter Island, NY (jean@mweinrealty.com), sent a concise and informative year-inreview for 2006. It started with skiing (January at Bretton Woods, NH) and ended with skiing (December in Park City, UT).Mid-year, though, colon cancer was discovered--and the tumor removed at Sloan Kettering--followed by mild chemo for six months. Other highlights: "Skied at Park City in March, followed by a trip to the Grand Canyon (my first), Prescott, AZ, to see my granddaughter, and Las Vegas. Enjoyed a second helicopter ride. A Tri-Delt reunion for '48 and '49 was in May in Williamsburg, VA." Jean is most proud of a "third successful fundraiser for East End Hospice, ‘A Taste of Shelter Island,' with my fabulous co-chair."

Jack Gilbert shares this story from Martha Rausch O'Haus '47: "Martha was driven to the Yale men's hockey game in New Haven last November by her son Karl (a Duke alum).With him was his young son Max (maybe Cornell? maybe Duke?). Early in the game, she turned around and who was there but Dick Keegan and wife Joan (Noden) '50 and their son Stephen '80. A good time was had by all. Comment on the game (a 5-2 Cornell win) by grandson Max: ‘Awesome!' " Jack also shared that in early March, he consumed his first Tullyburger (at the Glenwood Pines in Ithaca), something he had seen on Ithaca restaurant menus for years. "For those who don't know, the burger is named after John Tully '46, BCE '45, MS '48. John was born in Memphis, TN (and brought that accent to Cornell), played football and baseball, and was in the Navy V12 program. He died in 1993, but his burger--a cheeseburger with tomatoes, lettuce, and onions--lives on." Jack says it was delicious.

Arthur Lowenthal (Saratoga Springs, NY) lists several activities that have kept him busy--board member, traveler, and babysitter--as both "day jobs" and "extracurriculars." He's on the board of directors of Saratoga Community Federal Credit Union; he's traveled recently to the Barge Canal in Burgundy, France, as well as to Quebec, Colorado, and Arizona; and he's spent a lot of time babysitting for grandchildren in Portland, ME,West Orange, NJ, Boston, MA, and Clifton Park, NY. Arthur remembers the view ofWest Hill from Willard Straight. Norris Smith, a neighbor of your correspondent, lives with wife Martha (U. of Chicago) in Wallingford, CT. He was a minister and counselor with the US Senior Foreign Service, and is now retired ("for the third or fourth time"). Recent after-hours activities have included "research on the Tao Te Ching and other Chinese philosophies of the pre-Christian era." Last spring, Norris was completing a libretto and lyrics for a short oratorio called The Magi. First performances in churches and schools were scheduled to begin last December. From Cornell, he remembers the forsythia in the spring, working at the Daily Sun, and the introduction to his career.

Richard Schreiber (Springfield, OH) is a retired architect. A couple of winters ago, he pre-fab'd a garden shed in his basement. Spring 2006 found him "finishing the assembly on the foundation laid last fall." Glenn McAvoy (Spring Hill, FL) writes that he has been doing very little and would rather be "trying to hit a baseball over the right field fence at Hoy Field."What he remembers most fondly from Cornell is his graduation. Glenn Maddy and wife Evelyn (Helena, OH) have a granddaughter at Cornell. Glenn is a retired County Extension agent from Ohio State U. and has lately been on the board of directors of Terra Community College and Otterbein Portage Valley Retirement Village. Not surprisingly, Glenn's favorite memory of Cornell is Prof. StanWarren '27, PhD '31's Farm Management class.

More to come when the next round of News Forms comes across our desk. Look for your recent News and Dues mailing and send us an update. Stay well. Stay happy. Be proud to be a '49er. -- Dick Keegan, 100 Ashlar Village,Wallingford, CT 06492.