60 | In what may be a first, a book about one of our classmates has just been released: Alan Siegel on Branding and Clear Communications by Louis Slovinsky (Jorge Pinto, 2007). The publisher describes it as a "working biography," one of a new series of compact volumes about successful professionals such as the famous economist Paul Samuelson and our well-known classmate, described as a "master brand builder" and noted for the impact his firm, Siegel & Gales, has had in forging corporate identities for almost 40 years. Alan's impressive efforts to develop overarching strategies for organizations have proved effective for both corporate giants such as Disney and Dell and nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy and the Girl Scouts. Including a description of the influence of his Cornell education and college friendships, the biography also points out the importance of his long-standing interest in photography, which has resulted in two books and a notable collection of photographs, a large group of which he generously shared with us in an exhibition at the Johnson Museum during Reunion 2000. Alan and his wife Gloria, who works closely with him at the firm, live in New York City, where he is active on several nonprofit boards.

Congratulations are also in order for New York classmate David Friedman, whose book of prose poems, The Welcome (University of Illinois, 2006), has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Chosen as the winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series competition and praised by readers that include Cornell Professor of English Emeritus James McConkey and 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winner Stephen Dunn, the volume has been described as "full of pleasures" and as "blend[ing] surreal hijinks with gestures toward the serious." David, who in addition to his writing works as an instructor in an adult education program, now has a second manuscript ready for publication.

Proud parent Emil Cipolla, MBA '63, of Poughkeepsie, reports that his daughter Kimberly, a research scientist at the US Navy Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, RI, has been named as the Rhode Island 2006 Woman of the Year in recognition of her technical accomplishments and her mentoring of undergraduate female scientists and engineers. Both Kimberly and her brother Jeffrey, PhD '92, have doctorates in mechanical engineering. BeverlyMejo Halpin, BS Nurs '63, writes from Ventura, CA, that she recently retired from the Ventura County Dept. of Public Health after 42 years as a pediatric nurse, while husband Jack, MD '62, continues to practice as a gerontologist. "Our son is doing a family physician residency at Travis Air Force Base," says Beverly, "and our daughter is an operating room nurse." The Halpins have two grandsons. Ellen Thomson Kennedy retired as associate professor of social work at Buffalo State College at the end of August 2006. She remains on the boards of several social service agencies in the Buffalo area and serves as board president of Citizen Action of New York, a grassroots organization working to improve health care and education.

Dave Ahl sent along an e-mail saying, "Retirement is way different than I expected. Compared to five years ago, I'm actually working more hours now on charitable projects, especially micro-enterprise programs with Potter's House to help some of the 10,000-plus people who live in the Guatemala City Garbage Dump.My wife and I adopted Oliver and Laura, two 7-year-olds from the Dump, and I'm feeling as overwhelmed now as when I entered Cornell.We also adopted a 45-year-old fellow from Jersey City who graduated from the Market Street Mission drug recovery program. Rewarding on the one hand, but, oh, the challenge!" To learn more about Dave's busy life and many interests, you can visit his website, www.swapmeetdave.com.

Ron Obermeyer, MME '62, is still working full-time as a consultant to the US Dept. of Defense on a NATO project to acquire a ground surveillance capability. Ron, who lives in Fairfax,VA, points out that "this gets me to Europe, mostly Brussels, four to six times a year." John Gillies has sold his natural gas pipeline business and has, he says, "more or less retired," but has definitely retired from playing amateur ice hockey. "I was the oldest active player in Houston until November 20, 2006. Classmate John Coppage, my hockey linemate from Cornell, attended my retirement party and ceremony inducting me into Houston's Amateur Hockey Association Hall of Fame. I plan to spend most of my free time visiting my three children and nine grandchildren and working on my tennis, golf, and skiing."

"We've moved to Florida!"writes Tom Hunter. "Well, extreme northeast Florida. Amelia Island touches Georgia." Tom, who describes himself and wife Connie (Purick) '63 as "new snowbirds," says, "You can't get rid of us quite yet; we've maintained a residence in Ithaca for the months of June to December." The Hunters are planning plenty of beach walks and time with the grandkids. Ron Demer '59 sent word that Everett Seyler and Paul Grannis attended their 50th high school reunion in Dayton, OH, in August. Ev lives with wife Judy (Wetzel) in Hartford, where he is a physician, and Paul, recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000, is a distinguished professor of physics at SUNY Stony Brook. James Verna writes from NYC, "I am still practicing dentistry and still love it. I also continue to teach. I can walk across Central Park to work each morning. I also have a house in Westchester where I see my granddaughters every weekend. New York City's culture, travel, tennis, and skiing fill out the rest of my life."

I was saddened to learn of the death of Marcia Meigs Mueller, with whom I shared an apartment on West 67th Street in New York during the summer of 1960 and whose vivacity and energy I remember well.Marcia, who lived in Albuquerque, NM, with her husband Robert '59, DVM '68, had been ill with Hodgkin's lymphoma for a number of years. She is also survived by her daughter, mother of Marcia's four granddaughters, and her son, a physician recently returned from duty in Iraq. Send news to: -- Judy Bryant Wittenberg, 146 Allerton Rd., Newton, MA 02461; e-mail, jw275@cornell.edu.

61 | Godot finally arrived! After waiting nine years, the Cornell Glee Club scheduled Savannah, GA, on their Southeast Winter Tour. Susan and I attended, along with about 200 Cornellians, supporters, and friends. Also attending from Hilton Head were Jim Baden, MD '65, and wife Sheila. Jim is an alumnus of the club and joined them for their closing songs. The Glee Club put on a rousing performance, as usual. The enthusiasm of these young men is impressive and takes us back to our own youth on the Hill. Following stops in Charleston, Naples, and Orlando, they returned to the frozen north.

By this time all of you have seen that PeterMeinig was re-elected as chairman of the Board of Trustees.He will serve as chairman for three years, from July 1 this year through June 30, 2010, and his term as trustee will be extended through July 1, 2011. Peter has certainly distinguished himself over the years with his outstanding sustained contribution to Cornell. And, while many of us are pursuing leisure, Peter continues to set an example for all of his classmates.We all owe Peter a round of applause and thanks. Congratulations!

On a similar note, Bill Eaton was nominated as a Cornell trustee, along with Jacqueline Cox '71, Stephen Ettinger '62, DVM '64, and Jay Waks '68, JD '71. At the time of authoring this column, the ballots were in the mail. The outcome will have been announced by the time this copy of CAM reaches you.

Larry Wheeler, our webmaster, attended the January CACO Mid-Winter Meeting in Philadelphia, along with Pat Laux Richards, Bill Eaton,Walt Cottrell, MBA '63, and 600 other attendees. Larry has added major content to our website. In a class meeting at MWM, they also agreed to add information devoted to our two scholarship programs. Larry recently completed a Website Effectiveness Study soliciting input to continue updating and refreshing the content. Several ideas emerged that will be incorporated in the near future. So if you wish to remain current and up-to-date, all classmates are urged to regularly visit www.cornell61.org for the latest in class news.

Since our last column, several more classmates have sent e-mail updates of their comings and goings.Writes Peter Sherman,"My son Daniel '10 just completed his first semester in Arts and Sciences. No classes in GS ‘B' where I recollect spending three years watching the coeds knit while George Healey and Clinton Rossiter rambled on and on. The times they are a-changing." And from Gary Busch: "I have been spending my time in Africa, especially the Ivory Coast, working on the removal of France from African countries. If anyone is interested in the death of Litvinenko (the polonium poisoning) I can recommend visiting the website http://www.frontlineclub.com/video/annapolitkovskaya. html#c5037, where he appeared and made his speech condemning Putin. I was a member of the panel that night and was surprised to see him.We were to have spoken as panelists at another conference three weeks later, but that was the day he was rushed to the hospital and didn't show."

Cathy Evans Latta wrote that she and husband Larry '59, MBA '61, enjoyed a summer cruise, sailing on a 65-ft. catamaran off Corsica and Sardinia in June for his 70th. "Sailing plays a big part in our lives." Cathy won first in multi-class racing in Boothbay, ME, as well as a club first in J-22 sailing. She was delighted when the not-for-profit corporation she founded in 1999 to promote sailing in the community (Boothbay region of Maine) and promote the sport and preservation of an antique fleet finally received its IRS 501(c)(3) status as a charitable entity on Aug. 31. Building the organization to make this a success was rewarding and a challenge.When not in Maine, the Latta family is in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Larry works in the hedge fund industry and is a consulting economist. Cathy continues writing and is active in the Stanford writing community. She encourages anyone wishing to contact her to "Google me."

And finally, for those who remember the tragic tornadoes that devastated Lady Lake, FL, in late January, we have the following from our co-correspondent Joanna McCully. "WESH-TV news sent out serious tornado warnings for Lady Lake starting at 11:00 p.m. Being a cockeyed optimist, I was sure we were fine and went to bed.My 15-year-old terrier, Ezra Cornell, is terrified of thunder so I gave him a dog tranquilizer and took him to bed. Around 4:30 a.m. it hit. The sound of the thunder was like a dozen jackhammers beating through the roof. Ezra was shaking with fear and I could not calm him.Morning found the house unharmed but the poor dog probably had a heart attack. I found him dead beside my bed. The tornado hit about five miles southwest of my home. Not a branch had been broken nor a leaf had fallen in our neighborhood.We were very lucky."

Please e-mail your input to Joanna or me. -- Doug Fuss, 5 Pineside Lane, Savannah, GA 31411; e-mail, dougout@attglobal.net; Joanna McCully, 1607 Hilton Head Blvd., Lady Lake, FL 32159; e-mail, joannacelticlady@aol.com.

62 | Log on to http://classof62.alumni.cornell.edu to make sure your name is on the list of those who'll be in attendance in Ithaca, June 7-10, as we celebrate 45 years since graduation! The class website is also the best way to find breaking information on this once-in-a-lifetime experience.We are expecting a great turnout based on information received to date. If you haven't already signed on, the website is the best way to do so. It will be a great gathering. Be there. It just won't be the same without you!

In 2004, Frances Li, PhD '71 (fli@nsf.gov), ran her first marathon and enjoyed it so much she did it again in 2005. A trip to China as program coordinator for the East Asia/Pacific region of the National Science Foundation precluded her joining in last year's run, but she plans to do so again this year. Frances and husband Carl Schaefer, PhD '71, traveled to Ireland with a Cornell group last summer. Their home is in Chevy Chase, MD.

After 43 years as a pediatric nurse, Joy Harwood Rogers retired last June. Joy and husband Bob Parker toured Iceland, Norway, and Sweden with the Vogue Knitting Tour ("Bob was the total hero, coming along with all the women knitters") and returned with "more yarn, wonderful memories, and new friends." The Rogers-Parker household is here in Seattle, and they enjoy wonderful local sailing opportunities on their sailboat. They welcomed three new grandbabies in 2006. "Our children and grandchildren continue to be a great source of pride and joy." Sailing is also a big part of life for Dale and Marion Krause Benedict '66 (dbenedic@comcast.net), with Sandbox racing thrice weekly during the summer. They took third in two Lake Huron races last year. Dale has been a ski patrol member for 41 winters, the past ten years at Mt. Brighton near their Commerce Twp., MI, home. Dale is semi-retired from FormTech LLC, allowing more time for travel, visiting grandchildren, and sports.

Dick Levine retired recently as vice president of news and staff development for Dow Jones after 40 years with the company. Dick spent the first part of his career as a reporter in the Washington bureau of the Wall Street Journal in positions that included military correspondent, chief economics writer, and Outlook columnist. In 1980, he became editorial director of the company's new electronic publishing division and later served on the Dow Jones management committee and as VP and executive editor of Dow Jones Newswires. He continues as president of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Inc., a private foundation that promotes careers in journalism through internships and scholarships for college students. A member of the boards of Princeton's McCarter Theatre Center, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, and the National Junior Tennis League of Trenton, Dick is spending more time writing, playing tennis, and, with wife Neil Ann (Stuckey) '63, their family, which now includes five grandchildren.

Paul, MPS '74, and Mary Davis Deignan (pbd7@cornell.edu) have relocated from Nevada to Gettysburg, PA, where they enjoy showing off the area, in addition to gardening and traveling. Ralph '60 and Jeannette Butler Miller (ralph1@aol.com) are in Berne, NY, where Jeannette is president of the Friends of the Town of Berne Library. They enjoy gardening, traveling, and a book club. Jean Horn Swanson, MS '64, retired from the Chicago Public Schools central office last year and looked forward to spending more time with her six grandchildren and her parents, Henry '33 and Catherine Stainken Horn '36, MS '39. She's been coordinating the schools' office of local school council relations, including No Child Left Behind and PTAs. Jean remembers walks in the gorges and her eclectic selection of coursework at Cornell.

Whether to retire was the latest question from Vivian Lasser Beenstock (vbeenstock@yahoo.com), who is a psychotherapist in East Brunswick, NJ. She's enjoyed taking courses at Princeton and Rutgers. The walk from Sage Hall to the golf course was a favorite for Vivian. Pediatrician Paul Schreiber (pschreiber@bgpma.com) is injury prevention officer in the Massachusetts chapter of the National Academy of Pediatrics. Paul and Merilyn (Klorman) '65 enjoy visiting their five young grandchildren. "Don't they say that ‘no news is good news?' " asks retired Ted Osborn of Ithaca (uncted@hotmail.com). His only recent change has been a new phone number. Ted won't have far to travel to Reunion. BarbaraWoll Jones (ragnhild@aol.com) continues "to practice architecture and to live happily on Cape Cod!"Her granddaughter Sophia Sorensen Jones will be 2 in February and resides with her parents in Chicago, where Ben is a professor of economics at the Kellogg School of Northwestern U., and Juliet works for US Attorney Pat Fitzgerald. Barbara's other son, Evan, works at the Dartmouth College development office in NYC.

It's not too late to volunteer to help with reunion. Just call Ruth Zimmerman Bleyler at (603) 795-9912 or e-mail her at rzb3@cornell.edu. Be sure to check the class website (http://classof62.alumni.cornell.edu/) for the latest updates to the schedule. There may be some good surprises! -- Jan McClayton Crites, 9420 NE 17th St., Clyde Hill,WA 98004; e-mail, jmc50@cornell.edu.

63 | It's hard to believe that our 45th Reunion is a year away. Start making plans now for June 5-8, 2008. Class president Ed Butler, MS '65, wrote, "Ten of our Class of 1963 leadership team met in Philadelphia as part of the Cornell Association of Class Officers (CACO) annual Mid-Winter Meeting in January. Plans for reunion are proceeding nicely under the leadership of Marijane BeattieWatson. If you would like to help, please contact Marijane at mj92@sbcglobal.net. She would also like any suggestions for reunion activities. Dick Lynham is putting together his reunion campaign team.

"Congratulations to Carol Bagdasarian Aslanian, who is the incoming president of CACO, and to Paula Trested Laholt-Oeste, who will become a member of the CACO Board—another example of the wonderful contributions and support our class has given to Cornell. And speaking of '63 support for Cornell, our class leadership has decided on an exciting 45th Reunion gift initiative.We will learn more about this initiative in a special letter to all classmates this spring as plans get finalized. Stay tuned!"

Reunion chair Marijane Watson is spending about six weeks in Sea Island, GA, and Orlando, FL. Her husband Larry is an avid golfer! Edward Hoerning is one of 54 individuals who submitted stories about their role in the egg products industry for a book published in November 2006, It All Began with an Egg . . . And Hatched into a Worldwide Industry. The book, written by Ken Klippen and edited by Dean Hughson, is a journal that chronicles some of the egg industry leaders worldwide. Ed, now retired, had a 42-year career with the US Dept. of Agriculture and had oversight in inspecting liquid, frozen, and dried egg products. Peter Lee writes from San Francisco, where he is director of Cornell's Western Regional Office. Last fall Peter attended a brunch hosted by Roger and Joan RasmussenMcGee in Tiburon, CA. Those attending were Sue Justin Garmston, Barbara StrongWinslow, and J.C. and Bobbi Boicourt Richards. He also spent last summer on crutches following arthroscopic knee surgery.

I always enjoy hearing from Madeleine Leston Meehan, who writes, "Most of us celebrated our Big Deal Birthdays this year. In between painting, drawing, and exhibiting my MostlyMusicArt (imaging the sound and movement of musicians, dancers, and performers in concert), my Big Deal Birthday Blast included: ballooning in Tuscany and attending the famous Palio horse race in Sienna; a party at the Barn, East Hampton, including a surprise visit from my husband Jim Welker, Richard McKee, and dear friends; turning bionic with a full hip replacement on the side hit by a spinning airplane propeller at Tompkins County Airport 45 years ago; and attending the Hamptons Int'l Film Festival." I wonder if any of us can beat that celebration! Madeleine also mentioned the passing of classmate Janet Saltzman Chafetz. Janet, a PhD, was a sociologist at the U. of Houston and author of 11 books. She leaves behind her husband Hank and son Josh, a Yale Law School graduate and Rhodes Scholar.

Richard Clark is a Washington lobbyist (independent contractor). He is preparing for semi-retirement and opening a new antique business. He is involved in theater, community service boards of directors, and volunteer counseling—"incarcerees" and substance abusers—and is left-fielder and pitcher for the D.C. Nationals of the men's Senior Baseball League. Gary Orkin, MS '66, is a financial planner and registered investment advisor. His hobbies are gardening, running, and model railroads. He and Martha visited daughter Rachel (Amherst '01) in London, where she works for Christie's Auction House. Son Joel (Hamilton '05) worked and traveled in New Zealand for eight months in 2006.

David and Beryl Klinghoffer Goldsweig live in Farmington Hills, MI. They are building a vacation home on a mountaintop in Rochester, VT. According to Beryl, it has a "breathtaking view of the valley below and mountains beyond." Beryl is assistant prosecuting attorney for the Washtenaw County (Ann Arbor, MI) Prosecutor's Office. Nancy Blanford is a freelance editor in New York City. She is involved in community activism, attends community board and block association meetings, and is building her editing business. That's it for now. Don't forget to send in your dues and news when the mailing arrives this spring. -- Nancy Bierds Icke, 12350 E. Roger Rd., Tucson, AZ 85749; e-mail, icke63@msn.com.

64 | Ted Weinreich reports he's now living in a high-rise in Miami Beach, FL, where he enjoys travel, theater, consuming too much good food (including his wife's baking), and performing with the Miami City Ballet when he's not working selling custom eyeglass lenses/coatings. A big reason the Weinreichs enjoy living in Miami is to be near their daughter Karen WeinreichWeiss '89, Cornell's director of the Southeast Regional Office, who was recently married and also recently traveled to Puerto Rico with former Interim Pres. Hunter Rawlings last summer as part of her responsibilities.

Fred Bellinger, who lives in Indianapolis, IN, with wife Linda, is retired and enjoys gardening and wood crafting. Alice Anderson Rapasky and her husband Dick, of Sequim, WA, recently bought a pied à terre in Seattle, giving them closer access to the ballet, shows, and symphony they enjoy, ". . . and will do as long as we can." The Rapaskys are cruise aficionados, recently visiting Scandinavia, St. Petersburg, the Panama Canal, and the Mediterranean.

Congrats to Robert Goldfarb of Farmington, CT, who in January was named one of six winners of the Frank H. T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Award. The award is given in recognition of extraordinary service to Cornell, in both length and quality of contribution by the individual, through activities within the broad spectrum of Cornell's various alumni organizations, associations, and related groups.

I apologize for the mix-up in the Jan/Feb column's news about last summer's CAU attendees. Carol Greenwald Bender '65 is Mitchell's widow, not Bruce's wife. She and Mitchell's three children are all Cornellians: Dr. Jacqueline Bender Brecht '94, David '96, and John '00.

Lawrence Hrebiniak, Bryn Mawr, PA, last June celebrated his 30th year teaching at the U. of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. He also remains very active in consulting and publishing. Larry's most recent book,Making Strategy Work (Wharton School Publishing), is doing very well as a source of information on strategy implementation and execution. Robert Hamburger is another published author. Last October, his novel, Shiraz, was published by XOXOX Press of Gambier, OH, and is available on Amazon. Shiraz follows the lives of three young Americans living in Iran in the mid-1970s—the apex of the shah's reign. It examines the problematic nature of intervention on several overlapping levels (political, social, and personal), and questions whether even the most honorable intentions justify imposing one's values on others. Shiraz is Bob's sixth published book. Among his earlier writings, one was a finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, another was a finalist for the Western Writers Prize for Biography, and yet another won him a New York Foundation of the Arts award in creative nonfiction. On three occasions, he's been a writer-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH.

Also last October, Bob joined fellow Cornellians Richard Denenberg, Robert Gabriner '63, Vicki Levins Gabriner '63, and Tim Hall at a large gathering in Memphis sponsored by the Benjamin L. Hooks Inst. for Social Change (a division of the U. of Memphis) to honor the grassroots civil rights movement in Fayette County, TN. In the summer of 1964, six of our classmates spent six to eight weeks in this rural community living in the homes of African-American families and working on voter registration and other civil rights projects—an undertaking that stirred up a great deal of controversy in the Cornell community. Bob did not take part in the original Cornell project, but the bold commitment of our classmates spurred him to visit Tennessee the following year, an undertaking that led to his oral history of Fayette County, Our Portion of Hell (1973), and to his recent documentary film, Freedom's Front Line: Fayette County, Tennessee, which was aired in February on WKNO,Memphis's PBS station, during Black History Month.

Judie Pink Gorra,Washington Depot, CT, is still working as a school psychologist. She recently moved into a house she designed and built, and is still adding final touches. She reports that she loved the building experience. Joanne Herron also enjoys that experience, and is very good at it. She buys fixer-uppers, designs renovations, performs some of the work, and contracts out the rest, all while living in the house—or, as I can attest from first-hand experience, living through it—and then sells the property. She started the cycle in San Francisco several years ago, moved to NYC a few years before our 40th Reunion and renovated at least one dwelling that I know of while also being a major player on the reunion committee, and then moved back to SF to start on another house. Joanne finished that project and put the house on the market in February. I saw photos of it on the realtor's website and think she did an amazing job transforming the place. By now, she might be starting a new project.

That's it for now. Please respond soon to our annual appeal for class dues and send info about your doings on the News Form or e-mail it to me. Or use the link on our class website, http://classof64.alumni.cornell.edu. -- Bev Johns Lamont, 720 Chestnut St., Deerfield, IL 60015; e-mail, blamont@tribune.com.

65 | As I started writing the column for this issue of the alumni magazine, I was at our place in Lake Worth, FL, enjoying weather in the 70s, while back in Michigan they were in the depth of a major extended cold snap. I finished it in Michigan, returning on a day we had the heaviest snowfall of the winter. Like last year, I spend a little more than a week a month in Florida, as I'm still working full-time for a small consulting firm in Dearborn, ASG Renaissance.

First, a bit of news from the January Mid-Winter CACO (Cornell Association of Class Officers) meeting in Philadelphia. There had been an opening for the position of class treasurer and, at the meeting, Beth Fowler was unanimously elected. I got some news from Judy Kellner Rushmore, who drove to Philadelphia with Myron Jacobson and his wife Michelle. Judy is in the process of moving from Roslyn Heights, NY, into a new condo in Belmont, MA, to be closer to her children who live nearby. That means she will be only minutes away from her two grandchildren, allowing her to be a part of their lives. She will also be near co-class president Sharon HegartyWilliams. Sharon and Judy (judesr@gmail.com) are trying out lots of the local restaurants. By the way, the 2008 CACO Mid-Winter Meeting will be February 8-9, in Philadelphia.

We received lots of news from Sharon Plahy Blase. Sharon is an associate professor at Rutgers Cooperative Extension group. After hours, she enjoys traveling, growing flowers, and gym programs. In 2000, she received an AAFCS (American Assoc. of Family and Consumer Sciences) Leaders Award. Sharon also has supervised a food stamp distribution education grant. She would like to hear from Fran Pearsall Craig and BarbaraWard Goetchius, MAT '66. She and her husband Michael live in Vineland, NJ.

Suellen Safir Rubin sends some news from Carmel, CA. She works with husband Jerome '64 in a support group in the family's hematology/oncology practice in Monterey. Besides being a gym rat, Suellen enjoys gardening and going to concerts—classical, jazz, folk, etc. Among the things she remembers most from her time in Ithaca were the gorge and dorm life. Suellen would like to hear from Susan Dublin Quinn.

Fay Thomas Bakhru, MAT '66, and her husband Ashok, M ORIE '65, have been very active enjoying semi-retirement. In the winter they spend time in Bonita Springs, FL. It's the place to be when the weather is bad up north. They enjoyed their first trip to Australia and New Zealand, then continued on to see Ashok's relatives in India. Last spring their daughter Romy '94 gave birth to her second daughter,Melanie. They are having great fun with Romy's older daughter Isabella and will enjoy watching their new granddaughter grow. Fay and Ashok's son Jay (Brown '97) is working for Citigroup in Mexico City and is planning his wedding. Fay closed by saying, "I think we can say life is good."

Please let us hear from you. You can send in the News Form from the annual spring class mailing, or contact us directly. -- Ronald Harris, rsh28@cornell.edu; Terry Kohleriter Schwartz, TerryKS7@aol.com; and Joan Elstein Rogow, psurutsc@aol.com.

66 | Class of '66ers are busy with family, retirement, and volunteer work. Martin Schwartz of Cupertino, CA, is typical of others in the class, as he is busy with his family, volunteer work, and travel. Son Bryan '94, a civil rights attorney in San Francisco, was married in April 2006, and Kevin '97 is engaged and a PhD candidate at UC Davis.Martin recently attended the wedding of Betsy Katz. Others at the wedding were Richard Katz, MD '70, Ron Goldstock, Mike Levy, and Gerry Patt, all Class of '66 Phi Sigma Delta fraternity brothers.Martin's interests include volunteer work with SCORE (Service Corporation for Retired Executives), weightlifting, biking, astronomy, and Civil War history. Travel includes Australia, the San Juan Islands, and the East Coast.

Vincent Abbatiello of Muttontown, NY, is starting to plan his retirement, using the theme,"Endless Summer."He and wife Jill have purchased two homes, one in St. Thomas, USVI, and the other in Palm Beach, FL. He is also spending lots of time with Olivia, his granddaughter. Norman Meyer recently attended the wedding of Norman Stokes's daughter. Cornellians present were classmates Lloyd Dropkin, MD '70, Ralph Janis, and DouglasWise, with their wives.

Mark Lytle, Rhinebeck, NY, published two books this year, both with Oxford U. Press. One, America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon, covers some of our Cornell years. The second, The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson and the Rise of the Environmental Movement, reflects, in part,Mark's efforts to develop a field in American environmental diplomacy. Laura Bowman Gray, MAT '67, is another class Californian. She lives in Santa Monica. Laura attended reunion and became a member of the board of the College of Human Ecology the same weekend. She works as a professor and counselor and is involved with a statewide committee to improve the quality of education for young children. She looks forward to increased involvement with the college, the university, and the class. Laura and her husband relax in a recently purchased Palm Springs mid-century vacation home.

Mary Ann Bruchac Lynch writes that she lives in Brooklyn and is happy to spend time with her first grandchild, Cora Mae Lynch, born to her son Jack Lynch and Corina McDougal.Mary Ann and her son are both photographers.Her daughter Margot is a musician.Mary Ann is also senior editor for Camera Arts magazine. She recently won honors in an international photography competition (the Lucie Awards) for her photographs "Forever Marilyn." She was also one of the featured photographers in the book Plastic Cameras: Toying With Creativity (Focal/Elsevier Press, Oct. 2006). Esther Strauss Lehmann, Teaneck, NJ, recently purchased a home in Boynton Beach, FL. She says she is "very blessed to have ten grandchildren all living locally, except for one, who lives across the George Washington Bridge in Manhattan." Esther and her husband Aaron recently went on a cruise to the British Isles and vacationed in Las Vegas and Hilton Head.

Others with new grandchildren are Judy Jayson Sonfield and her husband Matthew '64. They are enjoying granddaughter Alana Havier Sonfield, born to son Brian and his wife Janet in July 2006.Madeline Daub Kanter and her husband Stan, JD '68, are also enjoying their grandson: Gabriel Mitchell, born in May 2005 to son Joshua and Francine Silverman. Donna Swarts Piver, Middleton, MA, says she now has five grandchildren, whose photos she exchanges with other Grammies Joanna Tom Leong, Jan Boyton McCracken, and Lucy Mueller Young. Donna is a school counselor. She and her husband recently traveled to London and Paris to celebrate their 40th anniversary.

Stuart Peterfreund writes that he is now senior associate dean for academic and faculty affairs in SPCS, the adult and continuing education school at Northeastern U. His daughter Sarah is a freshman majoring in English at the same school. Another Californian, Linda Michelson Bauman is enjoying a retirement that involves "walking daily, hiking weekly, and camping monthly—and doing whatever we please the rest of the time!" Son Andrei finished his two-year music program in Germany and is now at New England Conservatory.

A gift of new solar panels on Day Hall by classmate and trustee emeritus Dick Aubrecht, PhD '70, along with a senior class gift from Abigail Krich '04, ME '06 (the daughter of classmate Steve Krich, PhD '72) will make enough electricity to light the clock tower. The class congratulates Michael Chiu, who is one of this year's recipients of the 2007 Frank H.T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Award. This year's recipients will be recognized at a banquet on Friday, October 12, 2007 in Ithaca during Homecoming weekend. The award is given in recognition of extraordinary service to Cornell, both in length and quality of contribution by the individual through activities within the broad spectrum of Cornell's various alumni organizations, associations, and related groups.Michael was also honored at a dinner in San Francisco as Hotelie of the Year-West. -- Deanne Gebell Gitner, dgg26@cornell.edu; Pete Salinger, pas44@cornell.edu; and Susan Rockford Bittker, ladyscienc@aol.com.

67 | "Elaine and I helped Marty Gold and his wife Mary celebrate his birthday the first week in January on the Upper West Side in New York City," reports Peter Buchsbaum (Stockton, NJ; PBuchsbaum@aol.com). "Larry and Karen Sharf joined the group for dinner.Marty is still lawyering at Sidley & Austin in New York, and I am still judging—now in family court—in New Jersey. Larry, however, is retired. Karen has given him significant dog-walking chores to keep him from getting bored. Having lunch soon with Fred Lehlbach, who, like me, ended up living since the 1970s in bucolic Hunterdon County, NJ.

Karen Shields Henes,MAT '68 (Croton-on-Hudson, NY; khenes@highbridgegroup.net) is a certified financial planner who'd "like to work a few less hours a week and learn more about wine."Aside from her work with charts on retirement income distributions, she's spinning, biking, wine tasting, doing Pilates, and being with her grandchildren and children. "I recently made a ‘late game' career change," advises Allan Hauer, ME '68 (allan.hauer@nnsa.doe.gov). "After 27 years (is that real?) at the Los Alamos Laboratory, I retired, but immediately took a new job as a full-time bureaucrat (director, Office of Inertial Confinement Fusion) at the Dept. of Energy in Washington. The transitions have been many—science to bureaucracy, mountain village to dense urban—but it has been a refreshing move. A good ‘fourth quarter' strategy."

Paul Smiley, DVM '69 (dairydun@athenet.net) is field veterinarian for a scrapie program (sheep) in eastern Pennsylvania for the US Dept. of Agriculture. Martin Leeds (Bellevue,WA; martin.leeds@bush.edu) is an upper school mathematics teacher and coordinator of deans at the Bush School in Seattle. He's sending his son off to college and his daughter to be a "TV anchor of newscasts. I love my job and the freedom an academic institution offers during holidays and summers."William Widmaier, ME '68 (McLean, VA; brwidmaier@msn.com) is an engineer at Federal Aviation Administration headquarters. He says he's raising his daughter, "12 years old, a Fairfax County GT student and UVA SEP summer student," and would love to hear from "Class of '67 and '68 electrical engineers in the Washington, DC/Northern Virginia area."

Jim Jackson (Dallas, TX; JamesJacksonD@aol.com) writes that he's "working to get my health back" and would like to hear from George McWeeney, MBA '69, and his new wife. John Lyncheski (Naples, FL; jlyncheski@cohenlaw.com) is "still plugging away as a labor and employment lawyer for Cohen & Grigsby, spending considerable time developing our Florida labor practice."He adds, "I'm crisscrossing the country for clients, board meetings, and speaking engagements. USA Today has become my hometown newspaper." Deborah Budd-Levine (North Brunswick, NJ; tigermomma45@aol.com) retired last June and is "active in the Brandeis chapter of the National Women's Committee, in my temple and volunteer work, and taking courses through OLLI-RV in music, art history, literature, and film. I'm happy with all my retirement activities and am enjoying the change from work." Son Adam Levine '03 is now a grad student in political science at U. of Michigan.

To find out why you want to come to reunion (if you've not yet signed up), go to our class website, http://classof67.alumni.cornell.edu/reunionnext.html, and read my catalog of reasons. -- Richard B.Hoffman, 2925 28th St.NW,Washington, DC 20008; e-mail, rhoffman@erols.com.

68 | Marty Glenn and wife Andrea live in New Rochelle, NY. Last November Marty was sworn in as a US Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York. Our classmates Jay Berke, JayWaks, JD '71, and Joan GottesmanWexler attended the swearing in. On the personal front,Marty reports that his daughter Leslie Glenn '98 gave birth to his first grandchild, Zachary David Lew, last April.Michael Platzer, JD/MA '71, lives in Vienna, Austria, and is a visiting professor at Bond U. in Australia. He is also a researcher with the Inst. of Criminology in Vienna.Mike's other activities include serving as counsel to Democrats Abroad-Austria and work with the Austrian UN Association.

Joel Negrin has a law practice in Larchmont, NY, just three miles from his home. He enjoys the independence and convenience of a suburban practice, after years of corporate work at a large Manhattan law firm. Joel and his wife Linda (Schwartz) '69 saw Jerry Fox during a visit to San Francisco last year. Jerry is retired from IBM and keeps busy with two part-time jobs and an intense tennis schedule. Joel and Linda also saw Lenny Rappe and his wife Rona, and they toured Turkey together.

Diane Charske Hanson has moved from the Philadelphia area to Dewey Beach, DE, and is "enjoying beach life." Diane enjoys the ocean surf, while her husband Bill is an avid golfer.Matt Herson continues his work as manager of one of the nation's leading event planning firms, the Herson Group Ltd. Having seen the amazing job he did on the launch of "Far Above . . . the Campaign for Cornell" in Barton Hall, I can understand why. The lighting, campus photos, and special effects were incredibly well done and memorable.

A message from Rich Cohen reports that Judy Gleklen Kopff is doing some wonderful volunteer work as a clown. As Rich explains, "What she really does is open her heart to people who need it. For the past several years that means helping severely injured soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital, where she and her husband Gary, MPA '71, are frequent visitors. Judy did an autobiographical presentation for the Cornell Club of Washington recently—quite personally revealing and touching. The work of an angel, really."

Thanks to Sara StrawWinship for the following news: On the final weekend in September 2006, 13 sisters of Kappa Kappa Gamma from the Class of '68 gathered in Washington, DC, to celebrate their 60th birthdays and catch up on each others' lives. Hosted by Tina Forrester Cleland, SueWhittier, MPS '93, and Kitty Geis Daly, who live in the DC area, the ten out-of-towners included Harrell Hunter Scarcello and her husband Paul '67, Joyce Van Degna Snell, KathyManey Fox, Pamela "Penny" Gardner, Alice Scully Evangelides, Cathy Osborne Thurston and husband Paul, Janet Jacobi Grossman, Joan Gottesman Wexler, Mary Louise "Lugi"Hartman Schmidt, and Sara Straw Winship. Prior to the gathering, they had reconnected with all members of their Kappa class (no small feat) and swapped life stories. Sara reports, "The years fell away, and we found ourselves still bound one to the other." They are now planning another such weekend on the West Coast in the next few years.

I also heard about this Kappa weekend from Mary Schmidt, who I saw at a Vermont ski weekend recently with her husband Bill.Mary is a leading estate planning and family law attorney in Boston, and her husband Bill is an attorney with Wilmer, Hale in Boston. Gail ReeseWestenfeld lives in Tariffville, CT, and teaches family and consumer science in high school. Gail is head coach of a local high school crew team and also rows competitively herself. Last year she rowed in the famous Head of the Charles in Boston.

Van Dyke Billings, MS '72, and his wife Janet live in Dolgeville, NY. They moved there from Connecticut, and Van opened a real estate office selling farms and land and village homes. His other activities include fishing and land development. I look forward to hearing from you. -- Gordon H. Silver, 2 Avery St., #26C, Boston, MA 02111; e-mail, gordon_silver@comcast.net.

69 | Thank you to everyone who returned a News Form and especially those classmates who attached their business card.When I report your job title and company name, you can be confident that it will be written correctly. If you have not contacted Cornell for a while, let us know what you have been doing.Mail the News Form or just e-mail me directly; classmates would like to hear from you. Michael Masnik writes that he recently attended a meeting where he encountered Paul Harmon, the first person he met at Cornell! Paul is working for a consulting firm, while Michael is with the government as senior project manager at the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation in Washington, DC.Michael's job focuses on environmental reviews of power reactors. In leisure hours, he still rock climbs, kayaks, and retreats to his cabin in the Virginia mountains.

Although Pamela Thurber Duncan, MA '85, is retired, she is very active in her community. Pamela serves as the secretary of the Arundel-on-the-Bay Property Owner's Assoc. and volunteers at the public library and historical society, where she also fills the role of secretary. She enjoys gardening, reading, travel, and looking into her family history. In answer to the question, "Who would you most like to hear from?" she writes, "Richard Dennery" and wonders if he is still living in Arkansas. Also retired, Ted Gill is playing a lot of golf and reports giving his time to the Denver police department, the Guardian Angels, and the D-town Boxing Club.Work and travel are intermixed in Ronald Watanabe's life as a consultant, real estate broker, and expert witness. He has recently visited San Antonio, San Francisco, Reno, Lake Tahoe, and Tokyo, although he very much enjoys being at home in Hawaii with his family. Ronald's son moved back to Honolulu from NYC, and his daughter, son-in-law, and grandson live close by. Ronald recalls "wonderful friends at the Hotel school and frigid winters that were too cold for a Hawaiian." If Judy Monson or Gino Ferrieri read this, Ronald would like to hear from you.

The beauty of the Cornell campus and meeting students from different locales stands out most vividly in the mind of Diane King. Today she works in the field of microbiology as a medical technologist. However, she writes most about her pastimes, particularly canoeing and camping in the Adirondacks. Diane also keeps fit by working out on her treadmill, doing yard work, and riding dirt bikes. In addition, she lists reading, baking, and traveling as activities. Joseph Cervasio is finishing his second novel "What About Now," in addition to serving as president of Bluegreen Inst., which focuses on leadership, management, and performance development in the resort industry. Since Bluegreen is headquartered in Boca Raton, Joe commutes between Florida and his home in New Jersey. He also reports following his daughter Tina in her role as the Boston Red Sox game reporter for the NESN television network.

WilfredWege is the general manager of New York Mutual Underwriters, a small property/casualty insurance company near Albany, NY, and is planning for retirement and organizing trips for his 60th birthday. He and his wife Maureen are looking forward to vacationing in Hawaii. Other than that,Wilfred writes that he has been "resting." Looking back, he recalls fraternity parties and working at the Boxcar and the Warehouse.Wilfred has been in touch with Richard Bliven '67, RichardWenklar,Mike Smith, and Ildi Czmor, and would like to hear from Richard Carrington.

As a psychologist in the forensic psychiatry department of the Oregon State Hospital, Susan Owre Gelberg says,"My new job is very demanding (forensic ward), so I'm often working at home evenings and weekends." She notes that her hospital is where One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was filmed. Although Susan admits to having very little free time, she likes spending it with her husband Howard, DVM '71, PhD '80. They go to movies, garden, travel, and just relax together. Susan still keeps in touch with her freshman roommate Peg Johnson Nichols and would be glad to hear from Barbara Selwyn and Susan Schade. Susan writes, "Cornell was a wonderful place to develop academically, meet some great people, and work toward my goals." -- Arda Coyle Boucher, 21 Hemlock Hill Rd., Amherst, NH 03031, aboucher@airmar.com.