80 | Hi, classmates! How are you all doing? I hope that you are enjoying the spring. As I am writing this in February, let me tell you, I am looking forward to those spring flowers and the weather that comes with them. Our class officers have been working overtime to ensure that we continue to stay in touch with Cornell. After all, we are all approaching our 50s and it's good to have support in keeping in contact, right? Rest assured that they are making sure we remember our roots.

Do you know that we celebrated Ezra Cornell's 200th birthday earlier this year? Check the Jan/Feb alumni magazine for an interesting synopsis of his life. Rumor has it that Walter Peek was the stand-in for Ezra when our class officers and a few friends kicked off the birthday celebration with a resounding operatic "Happy Birthday" from the staff of Victor's Café in Philadelphia. They continue to work on an operatic version of the Alma Mater. In Philadelphia for the annual CACO (Cornell Association of Class Officers) meetings were Tom Murphy,Walter and Susan Peek, Mathew Sola, Beth Santa, Tim O'Connor, Jill Abrams Klein (with sister Nancy Abrams Dreier '86), Nancy Macintyre Hollinshead, Jodi Diehl Nestle, and Jeff, JD '83, and Lisa Estabrook. Birthday celebrations continued on Saturday at Citizens Bank Field with Mark Brozina and his family in attendance.

Tim O'Connor reports from the annual Mid-Winter Meeting in Philadelphia with up-to-the-minute news on upcoming events: "For those of you who remember sleeping overnight for Lynah tickets and would love to see some Big Red hockey without the drive to Ithaca, mark you calendars now as the Big Red will be taking on Boston U. in Madison Square Garden, Saturday, November 24, 2007 during Thanksgiving weekend.We are pulling together a class pre-game get-together and block." Stay tuned for more details from your class "social chairpeople." This should be just one of the many exciting events planned for this year!

To those of you who received and responded to my e-mail asking for an update, thank you for keeping us posted. Here is the news. Marc Fine writes that he is a veterinarian and owns Acadia Veterinary Hospital in Bar Harbor, ME. He has lived there for the last nine years with wife Marion and their 17-year-old daughter Lindsay. Liz Burden Figura lives in Jacksonville, FL, and is VP, HR at a health care system, Brooks Rehabilitation. She is married with two kids in high school and plans on traveling to Portugal this spring with Diane Lerner and Sue Snyder. Bruce Falzarano writes that he is living in Sacramento, CA, with his wife and two daughters, ages 12 and 14. He is still working for HP as an R&D project manager in the Imaging and Printing Group. His daughters both loved Cornell when they visited for the Class of '80 reunion and would like to attend. Away from work, he enjoys skiing and white-water kayaking in the Sierras, about an hour from their home. He also enjoys long-distance running, and will be doing the Boston Marathon this April.

Frederic Zonsius writes, "We recently relocated our offices, Frederic Zonsius, Architecture + Design PC to 41 East 60th St. in New York between Madison and Park.We'd been down on 18th St. for the past four years, and the move is exciting as we expand and service our high-end retail and residential client base from Midtown to the Upper East Side.We recently received one of our largest residential commissions--a townhouse on 23rd St. with designer Brian Stoner. These collaborative efforts have been exciting for the team." IraWinsten is the director of compensation and benefits for CenterPoint Energy in Houston, TX. He has lived in Houston, on and off, for 17 of the last 25 years. He and wife Miriam celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary last summer. Their daughter is a sophomore at George Washington U., and their son was just admitted to the U. of Pennsylvania. Ira tries to pitch in for Cornell by attending college fairs and interviewing prospective students.

Zef Abraham writes that, in a nutshell, he is an anesthesiologist practicing in White Plains, NY, with a subspecialty practice in pain management.He has three lovely daughters. Michael Fey, PhD '80, is president of Rare Coin Investments (RCI) in New Jersey and is a member of the Board of Governors of the American Numismatic Association (ANA) with nearly 32,000 members. Recently he has been publishing, writing, and speaking about new numismatic items of interest to coin collecting hobbyists. He loves what he is doing and remembers Cornell as "a great place to live, learn, and socialize with lifelong friends."

Hope you enjoyed this update and are planning on participating in our upcoming events. Any input that you have concerning them should be sent to Jill Abrams Klein, our fearless leader, at jfa33@cornell.edu. -- Cynthia Addonizio-Bianco, caa28 @cornell.edu; Leona Barsky, leonabarsky @aol.com; Dana Jerrard, dej24 @cornell.edu; Tim O'Conner, tvoc0744 @optonline.net; and Dik Saalfeld, rfs25 @cornell.edu.

81 | It's hard to believe it's getting near summer again! Where does the time go? It's already been three years for me in Florida, and my daughter, Ella Paige, is 9 months old! She is the apple of my eye.We have been traveling all around the country visiting friends--Boston, New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC, where we saw Jill Flack (jdflack@pepcoholdings.com) and Kristi Bleyer Johnson '82. Ella is racking up her frequent flier miles and loves the plane rides. I'm still with the Junior Achievement of the Palm Beaches Inc. as their director of classroom education; it's a very interesting job and I meet tons of interesting people through it!

What's going on with you? Barbara Andelman is serving as the executive director of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys. NACBA is the only national organization dedicated to serving the needs of consumer bankruptcy attorneys and protecting the rights of consumer debtors in bankruptcy. NACBA serves more than 3,500 members in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Barbara is also a partner in the law firm of Nemeth & Associates, a Cleveland bankruptcy, consumer law, and civil litigation firm. Kevin Rooney (KRooney@PKSInvest.com) is a stockbroker with PKS Investments in Albany, NY. He told us he would like to hear from Janet Ellison Pearsall. In other professional news,Michael Rawson joined Sorrento Hotel as its managing director and co-owner of a newly formed national hotel management company, Acumen Hotel Group. The Sorrento Hotel is the first property in the new management group's forthcoming collection of independent, European-style, luxury hotels.

Sheila Gorman Steffel (jsteffel@comcast.net) tells us that she is doing the same typical school/work/running the boys to sporting events, and squeezing in some volunteer work for good measure. She also has been sub'ing a bit, working with autistic children. She has been able to get some skiing in, at least in Michigan. Another skier, Laura Dake Roche tells us that she and husband John are really busy with work--and skiing! That was a whole other story this past winter in New England!

I spoke with Ann Post '83. She does internal recruiting for Witt/Kieffer in Oak Brook, IL, and loves it! She always sees the Cornell catalogues in her boss's office--and always asks if they need her to go visit the campus! SherylWuDunn, an editor at the New York Times, appeared on TV on the "Colbert Report" in February 2007. She was a riot! Karen Osofsky Michelson (karensky@comcast.net) has reconnected with Pi Phi sister Patty Enggaard Betz '79, who recently moved to Seattle from Houston.

A number of Cornellians traveled to the Boston suburbs of Salem and Swampscott to enjoy the festivities at the bat mitzvah of Jordyn Whitman, daughter of Andrew and Karen LevineWhitman, last December. Arriving from as far away as Australia, the group spanned class years from 1979 to 1991 and included classmates Barb Amoscoto Sabaitis, Edna Eidelberg Rosloff, Kate Berry Monahan, and Cathy Barto Meyer.

The annual Mid-Winter Meeting of CACO (Cornell Association of Class Officers) in Philadelphia in January had record-setting attendance! Since the Class of '81 just held its 25th Reunion last summer, only a few "local" officers attended: class president Steven Ritchey, reunion co-chair Heidi Fleischman, MS '83, and membership chair Lisa Kremer Ullmann (LKremerUllmann@aol.com). "We had a great time reminiscing about the food, the fun, and the friendships of the successful 25th Reunion! We also listened to President David Skorton speak about the importance of alumni input, emphasizing his openness to any alumni input on Cornell, its $4 billion capital campaign, the campus, and other matters dear to the loyal alumni base."

With the direction and assistance of our newly formed Membership Committee, the class has begun a new communications program. A new class newsletter and dues reminder is on its way to all classmates and may have arrived already.We are also looking to expand our class gatherings over the next five years, and have begun the early planning for 50th birthday parties at various locations across the country to take place in two years. Although it may seem a long way off, the event planning is already getting started. Please let us know if you have interest in helping to organize or participate in a Class of '81 50th Birthday Party in your town! Post a note through the regularly and recently updated class website, http://classof81.alumni.cornell.edu, or e-mail Steven Ritchey at SDR11@cornell.edu and put "50th Birthday" in the subject line.

Scot Martin, MBA '83 (smartin@blairfranklin.com) has changed work directions a bit. He is now a part-owner (partner) in a boutique M&A firm rather than an employee in a large bank-owned firm. "The fact that we're in the midst of a crazy (busy) M&A market certainly helps."His oldest, Alexis, is well into her first year of college at the U. of Western Ontario--he couldn't get her to apply to Cornell. Son Geoff is in his junior year of high school and is at least considering applying. Daughter Eliza is a freshman in high school and very much into drama, while Rachel, in the sixth grade, is the athlete in the family, currently in volleyball playoffs for her school, hockey playoffs for her club team, and starting her soccer training indoors for the coming outdoor season! They went to NYC for winter break for a little culture, then to Italy to get a property to live out their "Under the Tuscan Sun" fantasy--the restoration of an old stone farmhouse near Montepulciano.Wow!

John Hartman (jthartman@aol.com) tells us that when he's not working, life with three daughters doing travel sports means a lot of gyms around the country.He did reconnect with Steve Silverstein after a long hiatus. Steve works for Spencer Gifts, has three boys, and is doing well. Barb Amoscato Sabaitas (beachba@hotmail.com) traveled to the Colony on Longboat Key in Florida (the GM is Cornellian Katie KlauberMoulton '78) and had a lot of fun seeing Faith Arter '80 and others for dinner and tennis. The weather was cold, but it was fabulous to "play" with friends and enjoy sunset cocktails!

On a sad note, our classmate Eric Schmuckler passed away on December 27, 2006 after fighting cancer on and off for more than ten years. He leaves his wife,Michelle Gelbar, and two teenage sons, Ben and Matt. A former writer at the Daily Sun, Eric was a freelance writer and did some acting as well. He was very active in his synagogue, Temple Beth Abraham.

Please tell us your news--it's wonderful to hear from our classmates. Contact: -- Betsy Silverfine, bsilverfine@adelphia.net; Kathy Philbin LaShoto, lashoto@rcn.com; Jennifer Read Campbell, ronjencam@aol.com.

82 | The Class of 1982 class officers and Class Council look forward to seeing you at our 25th Reunion! Check out our class website, http://classof82.alumni.cornell.edu/, for the latest on our exciting Reunion 2007 plans and see who will be in Ithaca on June 7-10!

Terry Kilmer Oosterom says it's not too late to get involved in helping with reunion. Donating an hour or two during the weekend to help the committee would be welcomed. Donating products for our "goody bags" in any quantity is greatly appreciated. Terry also asks for help with a photo board. If you have any pictures from our year "on the Hill" they can be e-mailed to her at cornelltko@aol.com.

Congratulations to Joe and Dana LichtmanMolloy '83, who were in Ithaca in December, "proudly attending" commencement exercises for their daughter Jennifer '07, who graduated summa cum laude from the Applied Economics and Management Program in the Ag college. Daughter Rachel, 10, was along for the celebration. Jennifer started her first "real job" at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in quality management, writes proud papa. He also adds that "Dana is currently the manager of the highestvolume Weight Watcher's location in the country." Joe (Newfcity@aol.com) left the benefits consulting firm he founded in 1996 to run the benefits program for North Shore–Long Island Jewish Health System--Long Island's largest employer. The family has also moved from showing Newfoundlands to being a rescue dog family, having saved four dogs from shelters in the past three years.

Congratulations also go out to Eve Klein Samson, JD '85, who wrote because she "finally has something noteworthy to report."Her son Justin was just accepted early decision to Cornell's ILR school, following in mom's footsteps. She adds that she and husband Martin are very excited because "not only do we know that he will have a great four years, but I'll now have an excuse to visit regularly." Eve is a labor and employment law partner in the New York office of Duane Morris LLP, where she has been practicing for the past ten years. The Samsons, including son Evan, a high school freshman, live in Port Washington on Long Island. Send your congrats to Eve at EIKlein@duanemorris.com.

ScottWoroch e-mailed from Singapore, where he has lived for the past six-plus years. "Kids ages 14, 11, and 8 keep our lives full and busy, sandwiched around very regular travel for work and play in and around Asia and the rest of the globe."He adds that he "continues to be struck by the irony of being firmly entrenched career-wise in the hotel business for Four Seasons (albeit in hotel development and not hotel operations), and having graduated from Cornell--but NOT from the Hotel school!" Scott is the SVP, Business Development, Asia Pacific.Write to Scott at scott.woroch@fourseasons.com. Steve and Lisa Mummery Crump have moved to Basel, Switzerland, for Steve's work, with their three youngest; daughter Lindsey '10 began her freshman year at Cornell last fall. Steve and Lisa will be back for our 25th Reunion, and you can ask him then to include you in their holiday letter, which remains a highlight of the holiday season for many.

Another world traveler is Claudette Gabriel Karabey (CKarabey@aol.com), who looks forward to seeing everyone at reunion and says, "I can't believe it's 25 years--is that a typo or something?" Daughter Lara, an 11th grader, will join her, since she is in the midst of college prep, as will son Hakan, an eighth grader, and husband Omer. Claudette adds that one of last year's highlights was when Omer's niece Verda Ak '98 married Alikerim Akkoyunlu in Istanbul, Turkey, in September. Claudette was "so pleased to be there for such a lovely wedding in a magical setting and happy to re-meet Cornellians from Verda's class: Haywon Byun '98,Amy Lee '98, Gun Alppay '96, MS '98, and Nicholas Karytinos '98,MArch '05, who had traveled from afar to be at the wedding.We all had a great time reminiscing about Ithaca and dancing late into the night!" She was very impressed with the Cornell spirit and to see that it was alive and well!

Barbara Wood (blouwood@aol.com) wrote, "While many classmates are moving on to the empty nest, I am thrilled to be beginning the journey. The last two years have been busy.My son Julian Lucas Wood was born August 29, 2005 in San Benito, Peten province, Guatemala. He and I were first united just over a year ago (January 2006) when he was just 4-1/2 months old. He is absolutely awesome and a thrill to be with, though he does keep me moving and busy. Being his mom is great and being a single mom has interesting challenges." Barbara continues to teach math and chair the math department. She is also a senior class advisor and a member of the college counseling team at Poughkeepsie Day School (a progressive, independent pre-K-12 school), where she has been for 25 years. She currently teaches pre-calculus and AP calculus, although over the years she has taught every level from fifth grade up. Also keeping her busy is teaching photography, running the yearbook, creating and directing a school-wide swimming program, and directing theatre productions. Barbara volunteers with the American Red Cross as an instructor trainer in water safety and lifeguard training. And she is a member of the local Democratic committee and three years ago ran for county legislator against a five-term incumbent. Barbara ends by saying, "While I only came close to winning, and close only matters in horseshoes and darts, the process was amazing. That said, I have no interest in ever running for public office again!" Barbara would love to get to reunion, especially as she has never been, but the Poughkeepsie Day School schedule may keep her from joining us.

Catherine Cull Chatfield (cac92@cornell.edu) wrote that she joined the Hartford as a business resiliency specialist. "This means that I'm now working full-time on emergency response, crisis management, and business resumption related issues." She's looking forward to seeing folks at our upcoming reunion, and adds that she "also really enjoyed a terrific presentation by Jim Bell last spring, offered by the Greater Hartford Cornell Club, on the Mars Rover."We received a press release from the law offices of Connolly Bove Lodge & Hurtz LLB that Rachel Dwares Shanfeldt joined the firm as "of counsel" in their Wilmington, DE, office. Rachel "practices in the area of business law, including commercial leases, commercial real estate, Delaware opinions, real estate acquisition, development and finance, and securitized or conduit loans."Whew. CU in Ithaca! -- Nina M. Kondo, nmk22@cornell.edu; Mark E. Fernau, mef29@cornell.edu.

83 | Thanks to everyone who took pity on my empty mailbag and responded to my plea for news, especially all you first-time contributors! We had such a great response that many of your submissions will be carried forward into our next column, which will come out in early summer.

After a couple of years working for Israel Aircraft Industries as a stress engineer, followed by a stint in the Army, Ricardo Freund, MS '85, moved back to El Salvador, where he now works for his family-owned home improvement business. In addition to spending time with wife Daniela and daughters Shany, 11, and Shelly, 7, he enjoys woodworking, running, and contributing his talents to nonprofit organizations that support public education. Ricardo is seeking sister schools and sister cities for schools and school districts in El Salvador, as well as donations of school supplies, backpacks, clothing, and other items. He especially appreciates corporations and other institutions willing to donate used computers when upgrading their systems. Interested in helping? Contact Ricardo at ricardof4@freundsa.com.

From sunny Bangladesh, where she's been living since graduation, Shereen Mahmood Isphani reports that her second daughter is in her freshman year at Harvard College with her Cornell roommate, Sibel Asantugrul '84, as her guardian. Sibel and Shereen remain very close and often plan summer holidays together, as their kids are also good friends. Sibel's boys are Deniz, 17, and Taner, 13, and Shereen's crew includes Alia, 20, Sanam, 19, and Mirza, 15. David and Susan Place Everhart '84 relocated from Boulder, CO, to Shanghai, China, in 2006 when David accepted a position with Korn/Ferry, a global executive recruiting firm, to manage the development of a new leadership development consulting business in Asia. Daughters Naomi, 12, and Sara, 10, are happily enrolled at the Shanghai Community Int'l School and busy making friends from all over the world. David and Susan are happy to be living in Asia again, having lived in Japan during the 1980s.

Also on the move, Daniel '85 and Julie Carlin Sasaki relocated to Naples, FL, in 2004 after living in London for more than six years. Daniel is busy with his real estate career at Prudential Florida WCI Realty. Daughter Tori, 13, is an accomplished musician performing with the symphony and opera in Naples, and recently celebrated her bat mitzvah with an oceanside party. Clayton, 11, is a weather buff who spends his free time on sailing and fencing teams. The Sasakis enjoyed a summer visit from Shari Rabinowitz Reig and her family, vacationing on nearby Sanibel Island. Julie would love to reconnect with other classmates as well; she can be contacted at ogdenavenue521-alumni@yahoo.com.

Two classmates reported recent achievements in the film industry. Elizabeth Kim, MFA '95, is completing work on an MFA in film production at USC, and her short film Yasin had its international premiere at the Berlin Int'l Film Festival in February. See www.yasinmovie.com for more information. Robert DiGiacomo, a member of the Int'l Cinematographers Guild, works as an assistant cameraman on commercials, feature films, and music videos. In the fall of 2006 he worked on a project directed by Martin Scorcese. This feature-length documentary, featuring the Rolling Stones performing live at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, will be released in September 2007. For more information on this project, visit: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0893382/.

Layne Meyers Lieberman announced her recent marriage to Michael Liebelson in St. Barths, merging their families in "Brady Bunch" style (Layne has two boys, 14 and 17, while Michael has two girls, also 14 and 17). They have three residences, in Bozeman,MT, New York City, and Quogue, NY. Layne continues to consult for the King Kullen Grocery Co., and is on the regional board of the American Heart Association and the advisory board of Dr.Memhet Oz's Foundation for the Advancement of Cardiac Therapies (FACT). Each year Layne participates in the Cornell externship program and offers the opportunity for Cornell nutrition students to spend a day working in the grocery industry. Layne's older son is a junior at Trinity High School in NYC and is applying to Cornell's summer program to learn more about Engineering studies.

Susan Bisom-Rapp has just published a co-authored casebook, The Global Workplace (Cambridge University Press, 2007), which is the first law text on international and comparative employment law. Susan, professor of law and director of the Center for Law and Social Justice at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, lives in San Diego with husband Charles and sons Skylar, 17, and Ezra, 7. The Bisom-Rapps will travel to Hangzhou, China, for 23 days in late spring when Susan teaches in Thomas Jefferson's Study in China Program at Zhejiang U.Within the last year, they've had occasion to see several fellow alums including Alfred Pang, Al Cowger '82, Jackie Stewart '82, Bill Bravman '82, and Seth Harris.

Katherine Heil Hamilton is taking some time off from lobbying for renewable energy to focus her own energies on keeping up with her four kids. Her youngest, James, is now 3 and, like his 5-year-old brother Henry, happens to have Down syndrome. (Writes Katherine, "It is possible to win twice with the same lottery ticket!") Alison, a high school junior, and Ian, a freshman, are great older siblings. Husband David is "wildly busy" as director of global warming for the Sierra Club. As assistant principal of Westbury High School in Springfield Gardens, NY,Marcia Crayton was fortunate to accompany her school's NJROTC class to Honolulu, HI ("Exciting when you are from New York!"). They visited all of the usual sites, but Pearl Harbor was even more special than expected, since they hadn't anticipated that the base was still operational. The beaches ofWaikiki were also fun! Marcia is working on building her photography business and preparing to send her daughter, who is finishing her junior year, to college.

From New Jersey, Cindy Goldberg Fine and husband Jay send their greetings. Jay is a research scientist at Schering-Plough Corp., while Cindy is now a stay-at-home mom after having practiced tax law for 15 years. Rounding out the Fine family are David, 14, and Rachel, 11, who is multiply disabled and requires Cindy's full-time care, attention, and love. Patricia Lehtola Lee has been working hard at her two jobs. She acts as the in-house designer and construction supervisor for the family-owned developer Lehtola Homes, which builds custom and semi-custom homes south of Boston. Her second job is "carpool mom" for daughter Jackie, 12, a seventh grader at Sacred Heart Intermediate School in nearby Kingston, MA. Pat drives the afternoon shift, which is why there are already 9,000 miles on the minivan she got in mid-September 2006. Husband Bill '84 is a VP at State Street Corp. Pat looks forward to seeing everyone from U-Hall 4 at next year's reunion.

Speaking of which, your class officers Andy Sosa, Dave Pattison, Judi Binderman, Omar Saldana,Mark Rhodes, and Lisa Esposito Kok attended the CACO Mid-Winter Meeting, January 19-21 in Philadelphia. Believe it or not, Reunion 2008 planning was the main topic and it is well under way! Saturday night the Big Red took over the Diamond Club at Citizens Bank, home of the Phillies, for Ezra Cornell's 200th birthday party. Lucky attendees got a full tour of the stadium, team locker room, and Hall of Fame, and everyone got to down Philly cheesesteaks and dance with two furry mascots--the Philly Phanatic and the Big Red Bear. You can see photos on our class website, http://classof83.alumni.cornell.edu.

Please keep sending us your news, and watch for more information about reunion! -- Dinah Lawrence Godwin, Dinah.godwin@earthlink.net; and David Pattison, dpattison@ earthlink.net.

84 | It's a great column, thanks to the wonders of the Internet and very helpful classmates! I could not print everyone's news in this column, so Karla will use some of it in the next one. Barbara Balocki Downey (CALS), Kappa Kappa Gamma, lives in River Forest, IL, with her husband Gerry and their children Colin, 12, Brendan, 9, and Julia, 8. During a holiday party, neighbor James Mizgala (A&S) surprised her by showing up with a group of "singing Santas" and singing the Cornell Alma Mater. It was a special surprise, especially for Barbara's dad, as he is a big Cornell fan. James and his wife Dawn have children Julian, 12, Gabby, 11, and Ezra, 6. Also present at the party were Michael Jones '83 and his wife Margaret.

Arie Blitz and family moved to Cleveland from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Thankfully, the family was intact, but their house and valuables suffered quite a bit of damage. Arie is director of heart transplantation and ventricular assist device surgery at Case Medical Center U. Hospital in Cleveland. He has kept in touch with Lisa Tormino '86 in New York. Arie also works closely with Dave Thomas '88. Dave works for Jarvikheart. Rick Betsch (CALS) is happily married with four children, ages 22, 20, 17, and 15. Rick has been with Procter & Gamble for nearly 23 years, lives in Cincinnati, and works as global strategic alliance manager, North America and Latin America. Rick is also the Cornell director of recruiting for P&G Customer Business Development internships and careers at P&G. His oldest daughter is serving in the Army in Germany and has been attending Ohio State U. Rick's oldest son attends Butler U. and plays baseball, following in Dad's footsteps as a former Cornell baseball co-captain.

Gary Daniel has been appointed coordinator of the National Intellectual Property Group at the law firm of Blake, Cassels & Graydon in Toronto, where he has been practicing for 20 years. He has been told that this new job is somewhat akin to "herding cats." Gary and his wife Robin are busy raising their sons Reese, 8, and Oliver, 6. He keeps in touch regularly with Karl Groskaufmanis (ILR), a lawyer in D.C. Gary writes, "I recently had the pleasure of meeting two other classmates. It turns out that all three of us are lawyers.We are working collaboratively on a case for a mutual client. If and when the matter is wrapped up, the three of us will have an interesting story to tell about how three members of the class who did not previously know each other managed to end up working on the same case!"

My Hotelie friend Carol Bender Conforto, husband Bruce, and their daughters Emily, 16, and Lexi, 12, live in Hanover, MA. Emily is an accomplished figure skater, the 2007 New England Open-Juvenile Champion. Lexi is in seventh grade and plays basketball and lacrosse in town leagues. Carol is on the board of trustees of the local Congregational Church, teaches church school, and is a board member of the Pilgrim Skating Club. Bruce works from home as a consultant and enjoys being a lacrosse referee. Carol reconnected with Rachel Eggert Chevalier, who still owns a restaurant in Stowe but is living in Montreal. Rachel and husband Marc have two Asian restaurants in Montreal. Rachel's daughter Alex is attending McGill, and their son is in a French-speaking high school.

Bob and Yvonne Brouard Altman '83 have been married for 20 years and have three boys ages 13, 10, and 6, who keep them busy with Cub and Boy Scout activities,music, swimming, etc. Bob is an ob/gyn in practice in Modesto, CA, where he is also chair of the Sutter Gould Medical Foundation board of trustees and serves on the board of the Modesto Symphony. Yvonne is a pediatrician in practice in Modesto as well.Matt Arnold (Eng), Sigma Phi Epsilon, has embarked on a writing career over the last decade and published his second novel last spring, An Open Universe. The opening chapters take place during Senior Week at Cornell; the ending wraps up again in Ithaca four years later. Matt always likes hearing from readers and long-lost friends and can be contacted at GraniteMountain@comcast.net.

Lee Bender was part of a mini-'84 reunion of sorts during the January Mid-Winter Meeting of CACO (Cornell Association of Class Officers) in Philadelphia. Following the CACO meetings, Cornellians gathered to celebrate Ezra's 200th birthday at the Phillies Diamond Club. The event was hosted by Joe Giles, an executive with the Phillies baseball team. A silent auction raised over $5,000 for the Cornell Club of Greater Philadelphia Scholarship Fund, of which Lee is the chairman. In attendance were Terri Port McClellan, Christine MillerWhaley, MBA '89 (with her new baby, Harry), and Carol Leister.

Dr.Hyun Kim (Law), LLM '84, senior partner of Sechang Law Offices in Seoul, became president of the Cornell Club of Korea in December 2006. He was also inaugurated as secretary general of the Korean Bar Association in January 2007 for a two-year term. Jenny Merritt Chantz (HumEc) sends the news that her son Benjamin '10 is a freshman at Cornell and is in the Big Red Band. Jenny writes that her friends Bill Whitlock '86 and his wife Lecia (Cushing) '86 have a daughter who was also recently admitted. Larry Delhagen (ILR) has mentioned in the past how ChrisWronsky (ILR) and he play golf every spring in the "Wronsky Open." The "Open" came to Ithaca, as Chris, his wife Sue, Paul and Luanne Hoffman Howard, both CALS, and Larry and his wife Kathy all ventured to Cornell the first weekend in November. They stayed at the Statler ("You know you're old when you can afford to do that"), tailgated at the Cornell/Dartmouth game, watched the Big Red win, walked the entire campus, and had dinner at the Nines and drinks at Rulloff 's.

Marcy Dubroff is in Lancaster County, PA, and had a photo show entitled "The Selective Eye" at the Phillips Museum at Franklin & Marshall College this March. "Life these days is a blur of work (still running the news bureau at F&M), chauffeuring my children, and gearing up for some major home improvements."Marcy is also putting that CALS degree to good work, as Steve and she have adopted about 50 ducks who have taken up residence in their backyard.Marcy has heard from Bob Geoghegan '84; he and his wife Valeri welcomed a beautiful daughter, Sally, in late 2006. Bob and Marcy are still hoping for a second gathering of Cornell Daily Sun photographers; contact Marcy at marcy.dubroff@fandm.edu. Ed Coburn (A&S) is the publishing director of the Harvard Health Publications division of Harvard Medical School, but he's cheering on the Big Red when Cornell hockey comes to town. Ed is also the VP of branding for the Specialized Information Publishers Association. He's living in Weston, MA, with Sandy, his wife of 20 years, and their three kids. He keeps in touch with a good number of Cornellians, mostly Beta Theta Pi alums. "I recently saw ‘Pistol' Pete Olmsted (A&S), who was visiting from Leeds, England, and was at DougWeiskopf '85's (CALS) when Tim Davis '85 (A&S) came to town."You can reach Ed at ehc6@cornell.edu. -- Lindsay Liotta Forness, fornesszone@aol.com; Karla Sievers McManus, Klorax@comcast.net. Class website, http://classof1984.alumni.cornell.edu.

85 | As I sit at the computer to write this,my 5-year-old is nestled on the sofa. Seems he doesn't want to sleep in his bed tonight and I'm a little too tired to argue.We celebrated Dad's 41st birthday last night (yes, I married a younger man!), and I was up way past my bedtime.My son comes home with homework every day and is learning how to add. He has read all of Green Eggs and Ham and we are working on Curious George. I know that this is not just the genius that is my son, but that all 5-year-olds are doing this now. I really could have used another year of just filling up the finger painting portfolio instead of sitting each night and doing homework.

It seems we are all quite busy with the day-to-day routine that keeps us moving forward. I understand that days get away from us and the next thing you know it's 2007 and you wonder how that happened! But please take some time after you read this to go find that News Form from our annual class mailings and send it in. Or send an e-mail to me or Leslie (addresses below), even if it's just to reconnect with someone or remind everyone of something that happened at school.

On to the news.Maryellen Fisher Magee writes that after nine years at the most rewarding but most difficult job a woman can have--stay-at-home mom--she is headed back to the high school classroom as a math teacher. She started in January in Algebra I. She has a massive commute of three miles, and in about four years, her son Ian may be one of her students.Maryellen shared that Jeanne Varney is living in Boyds, MD, with her husband Steve and their 2-year-old son Lincoln. Jeanne is working with Host Marriott. Hans Herrmann has been on sabbatical from the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico while working with a start-up company in nuclear physics. In his spare time, he does triathlons unless he is skiing, hiking, or doing some other outdoor activity.

One of my old roomies, Karen Magri Dadd, has been busy commuting to the Jiangxi Province of China for the past year. She and her husband Chris have adopted Charlotte Grace ShiCi, who turned 1 in February. Karen and Chris are truly awed by the development of Charlotte, not only the physical growth in those first months in the States, but how quickly she has adapted to her new home. Lucky for Karen and Chris, she has a good sleeping pattern already. They are so happy to be parents. Congratulations!

Junior and senior year of Cornell, I lived with ten wonderful, cool, strong, funny, and driven women.We covered almost every school at Cornell, save the Architecture program, and we all had our own dreams and ambitions.We continue to stay in touch, letting one another know of marriages (and, unfortunately, divorces), the births of our children, the moves we've made, jobs we've had, and life choices we've made, and we try to get together between reunions to reconnect in person. They have been there for me when I needed them most and I have tried to repay the favor. Like Glenn Close says in The Big Chill, "I was at my best with you people" . . . or something like that. I know they are all consumed with their daily lives, as am I, but I know they were and still are a great part of my life, and I am taking journalistic license to thank them all right here.

Well, '85ers.We are three years away from our next reunion. I do hope that everyone is happy, healthy, and terrific, as Prof. Tom Kelly used to say in Big Quantities in the Hotel school.Word has it that he has a ranch here in Florida somewhere and does the whole bull-riding or calf-roping thing. If you are reading this, Prof. Kelly, let me know what rodeo you will be at next. I'd love to see you. That's all for now. Send news or questions to: -- Joyce Zelkowitz Cornett, jmcornett@bellsouth.net; or Leslie Nydick, LNydick@aol.com.

86 | By the time you read this, the snow will have melted and blossoms will be on the trees. I've enjoyed meeting with many prospective Cornell students this winter, as I'm a volunteer for the Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassador Network (CAAAN). Having a daughter who will enter high school in the fall, I've found the process enlightening. In addition to having an opportunity to promote the university and keep up with what's happening on campus, it's helped me become familiar with the public and private high schools in my area, as well as the college preparation process for this generation. I think CAAAN is always looking for new volunteers. If you're interested in getting involved, check out http://caaan.admissions.cornell.edu or check with your local Cornell Club. Onto your news, and thank you to all who responded to my e-mail plea for stories.

Maureen Laffey Bills and husband Stephen '84 are already familiar with the college preparation process as their daughter is a freshman at Cornell this year.Maureen wondered if she is the first Class of '86er with a child at the school.Maureen reports that the hockey crowds are as wild as ever.When not visiting her daughter at Cornell,Maureen is a volunteer firefighter and EMT. She keeps in touch with Lloyd and Melinda Czerwinski Kinnear, who, with their two children, have a farm in Canandaigua, NY.

Getting in touch with old friends has been a rewarding benefit of this position. I was recently reunited with my former housemate at Cornell, Nancy Keates Siker, when a friend forwarded me her column from the Wall Street Journal. Nancy is living in Portland, OR, with her husband and two sons and working as a correspondent for the WSJ. She is currently writing a "Teardown Diary," a column that details her decision to demolish the home where she lives with her family and build anew. She chronicles what led to the decision, the financial costs, hiring an architect, knocking down her house, choosing the features of her new home, and the final product. Readers can join her on this journey and share thoughts, opinions, and experiences at the Teardown Diary Discussion Board at WSJ.com.

It's great to know our class is staying fit in our 40s, as many of you wrote in about your athletic pursuits. In fact, Ivan Rudolph-Shabinsky and Peter Klose '89, both former Cornell oarsmen, have begun the River Rowing Association on the Hudson River in Nyack, NY. It's a community-based organization offering programs for youth rowers and novice rowers of any age, and rowing for the physically challenged. Inspired by the Nyack Rowing Association's history of notoriety and prestige in the late 1800s, the River Rowing Association dreams of returning to the waterfront in the shadow of the former NRA boathouse.

Additional athletic pursuits . . . Diane O'Shaughnessy Briggs enjoys squash, running, and tennis when she isn't fundraising for a boy's school near her home in Pound Ridge, NY. She also enjoys raising her three children, ages 9-12, and would love to be sailing around the world with her family! Paula Arnet Bolio enjoys tennis and hiking in Piedmont, CA, where she is a program manager and mother of two boys. She is looking forward to a summer vacation in Italy. Ana Borges DeMeo is a stay-at-home mom in Short Hills, NJ, who loves running and golf and is involved in her children's school and at her church. Her fondest memories of Cornell are Friday nights at Johnny's, hanging with friends, and just being "young."

Perhaps Ana got to relive some of these youthful moments when she attended Traci Rimerman's wedding in Chicago last November. Anne Feldstein Baretz writes that it was a mini-reunion when Traci married Joe Schofield at the Drake Hotel. In addition to Anne and Ana, other Cornellians in attendance included Mindy Kaplan Silberg and Traci's sister Randi '88. The band was great, the bride was beautiful, and the groom even serenaded her (Anne says Traci will blush when she reads this). Everyone had a great time and reminisced about their old days at Cornell (although they didn't stay out nearly as late as they could back then).

Others wrote in about their careers. Richard Forte of Locust Valley, NY, is a hematology/oncology physician with three children. He and his family enjoyed vacationing at Tyler Place in Vermont last summer. Richard would love to hear from EricWagle. RobertWhitman recently joined the law firm of Seyfarth Shaw in NYC as a labor and employment partner. Seyfarth Shaw has one of the most widely known management labor and employment practices in the US. Mark Barnao has been working as a financial advisor for Merrill Lynch in Cupertino, CA, for the last ten years. He and his wife Wendy have two sons, ages 7 and 6. Todd Baker is also working at Merrill Lynch, near his home in New Canaan, CT, as a managing director in investment banking. He has enjoyed recruiting Cornell grads to work there. Todd has three children, ages 16, 13, and 10. He keeps in touch with Javier Masias, who is living in Lima, Peru. They are working on setting up an exchange program with their kids, so each can experience family life in a different culture.

Ji-In Kim Almstead works in pharmaceutical research as a medicinal chemist at Wyeth Research. She has more than ten patents and publications, related to drug discovery, in both antibacterial research and cardiovascular research. Ji-In lives in Princeton, NJ, with her three children and her husband, a chemistry professor. Jan Bernstein Chargin works as the director of public information at Gavilan College. As a board member of the California Community College Public Relations Organization, she is helping to plan that organization's annual conference in Lake Tahoe, CA. She is also starting her second semester in a master's program in public policy. Jan lives with her husband Tom and her 5-year-old twins in Gilroy, CA.

After spending 18 years at Philip Morris USA, Susan Blohm has joined the North Highland Co. as a principal consultant. North Highland is a private management consulting company based in Atlanta with a local in New York City and 13 other cities. She is looking to build the practice in New York, so please contact her if you are interested in a consulting position or have any consulting needs. Please keep your news coming. -- Susan Seligsohn Howell, susancornell86@comcast.net; and Laura Nieboer Hine, lauracornell86@ sbcglobal.net.

87 | As you read this column, think of heading to Ithaca for reunion, June 7-10, and waxing nostalgic on Libe Slope about your glory years. I am looking forward to visiting Cornell (or as my 5-year-old calls it, "Cornucopia") with my family for our 20th--I can hardly believe it.

Mark Frucht is also having a hard time believing that it is nearly 20 years since graduation, but it is,Mark, it is.We will see Mark, his wife Lori (Rothstein) '90, and their 7- year-old twins (boy and girl) in Ithaca.Mark has been the chief financial officer of the US offices of Bank Hapoalim (Israel's largest bank) in Manhattan for nearly two years. Greg Denton, MS '99, lives in Key Biscayne, FL, with his wife Silvana Avellaneda, MPS '92, and their 6-year-old daughter Christina. Greg is now working as Executive VP of Gencom Group, a hotel investment and development firm based in Miami.With assets throughout the US, the Caribbean, and Europe, Greg spends his spare time fantasizing about a lifestyle that doesn't entail racking up 100,000-plus frequent flier miles every year.

Leila Belkora Hans, MS '88, is a work-from-home mom in Irvine, CA, taking care of daughter Alicia, 5-1/2 and about to begin kindergarten.Husband Randy works in aerospace. Leila helps teach an online course in astronomy, grades physics exams on a contract basis, and does freelance science writing. You can check out a class with Leila at Swinburne U. of Technology in Australia at www.astronomy.swinburne.edu. Debbie Garkawe Gilman is a stay-at-home mom living in Livingston, NJ, with her husband Gregg '85, daughter Sarah, 12, and son Ben, 10. She is an active volunteer in her children's school, as well as in the pediatrics department at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. She just returned from spending a week in Long Beach Island with Patty Nordhausen and Rebecca Fisher and regularly spends time with Michele Heiman Ventura, her husband Ron, and their two adorable girls.

If you are in Pennsylvania be sure to check out Tiffany ZimmererWatts's restaurant, Oasis Living Cuisine, a cafe that specializes in raw vegetarian cuisine, but also caters to a variety of food preferences--traditional, vegetarian, vegan--in a non-judgmental atmosphere. She recently expanded the business into a new 4,000-sq.-ft. facility. In addition to the cafe, the location features a retail store, where customers can purchase hard-to-find raw ingredients, her own brand of packaged products, books, appliances, and really fresh roasted coffee, too. Husband Jonathan is a coffee/espresso fanatic! You can check out their place at www.oasis-pa.com. Also in the food retail business is Jill Thatcher Sautkulis, who owns a thriving wine store,Merrit Wines, in Norwalk, CT, with husband Michael. She is looking forward to bringing her kids Richie, 10, and Katherine, 8, to reunion.

Do you watch "JAG"? If you do, then you know what Karen Davis Hecker is doing at her job as an attorney with the general counsel for the Dept. of Defense, where she is responsible for managing the Guantanamo detainee litigation for the DoD. She is also a JAG in the Air Force Reserves. She lives in Alexandria, VA, with husband Damon and kids Zachary, 9, and Grace, 6. Lawrence Smith is a full-time military intelligence officer (Major) serving in the National Military Command Center on the Joint Staff (J2), where he provides the conduit between Operations and Intelligence as liaison officer. He provides the Intel folks with current situational awareness and provides the Operations folks with answers to their questions about adversaries and the environments that forces operate in. Lawrence is still keeping his hand in the horse-training business. He also sings in a band called Release. They just finished their first CD (entitled "Bittersweet Surrender"), featuring a cool new version of Big Head Todd's song "Bittersweet."He has been married for the past six years and has two stepkids and a 3-year-old son.

Also in the Washington, DC, area is Sami Besalel, who lives with his wife Fran and daughters Alina and Rachel. Sami owns Action Consulting LLC, a consulting business specializing in Web development and hosting, technical writing, and print publishing such as business cards, rubber stamps, and invitations. He is in touch with dear friends Josh and Carol Mullen Buchman, who live near Syracuse, NY, both educators with a wonderful, bright bunch of kids. He would love to hear from Meng-Choo Lim '89, Sandy Winarko '90, ME '94, Holden Chin '88, or Mike "California Mike" Lindley '88.

Jennifer Chan Burgos enjoys living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is working in strategic planning for Kaiser Permanente, planning and securing funding for new medical centers while taking care of two energy-filled boys, ages 5 and 2. Lisa Panek Francese hopes to make it to reunion from Singapore, where she has been living with husband Jim '86 for the past year. Jim is on an expatriate assignment for AMO (Advanced Medical Optics), and Lisa is a stay-at-home mom taking care of their three children, ages 13, 9, and 5. Also living far, far away is Kyu Sung, who has been working for Corning Inc. for 16 years and is now in Korea with his wife and 8-year-old son. He is a project manager at Samsung-Corning Precision Glass, a joint venture of Corning Inc. and Samsung, manufacturing glass substrate for LCD glass.

Deanna Silver Jacobson lives in Chicago, where husband Mark has a thriving allergy and asthma practice.Her daughter Rebecca is in kindergarten and son Joshua is in sixth grade. Also living in Chicago is Onjalique Clark, who recently bought and moved into a new home in Chicago's rejuvenated North Kenwood neighborhood. In spring '06, she took a two-week excursion throughout Italy to celebrate the big 4-0 birthday and had an absolutely fabulous time. Onjalique reports that she loved the food and the wine . . . but the art and architecture stole the show. Last year she helped charter the largest graduate chapter in Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority's nearly 100-year history and has also served as a mentor for the past two years for an inner city high school student who recently graduated and is now off to college. Lastly, I heard from PaulMorenberg, who lives in Natick, MA, with his wife Carrie and their new baby daughter Sarah Rose, 6 weeks old!

I look forward to seeing you at reunion.Many of you sent updates in response to my e-mail plea a few months ago.We still have those messages, so keep checking the column for your news. -- Debra Howard Stern, dstern39@yahoo.com; Tom S. Tseng, ttseng@uchicago.edu.

88 | Hello, fellow '88ers! As I sat down to write this column a few months ago, I had only one piece of classmate news on hand to report. This situation usually causes a correspondent to slip into a mild state of panic. However, in this day of technological wonders, a simple e-mail sent out to a portion of our class asking some simple questions elicited a response of a healthy amount of news,much of which appears here. Nevertheless, to ensure a steady supply of news between now and our reunion next year, please do sit down and send an e-mail to one of the addresses at the end of this column to let us know what is going on in your life.

And before I go any further, yes, I said the magic word: "Reunion." Can you believe that our 20th Reunion takes place next year? Well, whether you believe it or not, mark your calendars for June 5-8, 2008 and make those travel plans to get to Ithaca for what is sure to be a fabulous weekend of fun-filled activities and reminiscing.We'll marvel at how different we all look (or how not different, as the case may be for a lucky few) as we walk about campus and indulge in a little misty-eyed nostalgia. I certainly plan to be there and hope that many of you reading this column will be there as well.

Now, on to the news we have from far and wide. It seems fair to start with that one item that was on hand before resorting to a little e-mail begging. Classmate ShariMichels wrote to say that she was elected to civil court in New York City. Congratulations, Shari! Congratulations are also in order for classmate couple Gabriel Spera and Rachel Lee. They announced the birth of their newest daughters, twins Phoebe and Raven, in December 2006. The new siblings have an older sister, Paloma, who was born in April 2005. Best wishes to the entire family. Paul Spaulding wrote that he is indeed thinking of attending the reunion festivities in '08. Paul lives in Rochester, NY, and works at the U. of Rochester in the Office of Planning and Project Management. Paul's group manages the design, construction, and renovation of all facilities across the campus. Paul and wife Paula (Moser) '91 have children Charlotte, 6, and Zachary, 2.

One of the questions posed in the news gathering e-mail was, "What were you doing ten years ago?" Chris Siefert answered that back then he was getting married and was an adjunct professor at Louisiana State U. teaching sculpture. His daughter is now 10, and Chris is deputy executive director of the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh. Gil Santaliz wrote that many changes have taken place in the last ten years. These include his marriage to wife Michelle and the entry into his life of his daughter Kate, who's now 7.

Delaney Ruston's e-mail response told of an incredible journey taken over the last ten years. Back then, she was working 100-hour weeks in the hospitals at the U. of San Francisco as an internal medicine resident.However, she found she could not keep her creative aspirations at bay and followed her dreams to become a documentary filmmaker. Her first film dealt with an ethical issue she faced during her resident training. An elderly patient from El Salvador had a recurrence of gall bladder cancer, and her 50-year-old daughter did not want Delaney to tell her mother that the cancer had returned, fearful that this knowledge would make her mother want to die. Delaney is currently working on a feature documentary about her own schizophrenic father. The film is called "Unlisted," as Delaney hid from her father for many years. Details about the film can be found at www.unlistedfilm.com. After two years of filming her efforts to reconcile her past with her father, he tragically went off his medications and took his own life. Delaney is nearing completion of the film, but her struggle to understand her father's illness and death continues. Her career in medicine also continues as she works treating the underserved in Seattle, where she now lives with her husband Peter Small and their children Chase and Tessa. She sends her support to anyone who has experienced severe mental illness in their family and invites you to contact her at delaneyruston@gmail.com. Thank you for sharing your story, Delaney.

Glen Shannon also wrote about something that started ten years ago. His music career started when he was the first winner outside the Midwest of the Biennial Composition Contest sponsored by the Chicago Recorder Society. The win gave Glen's compositions credibility and he launched a small independent label, Screaming Mary Music, to publish his works (www.screamingmarymusic.com).He has won two more Chicago contests and, most recently, one for recorder orchestra sponsored by the San Francisco Early Music Society. One of Glen's pieces was recently published by Moeck Verlag, an important publisher in the recorder music world. Glen and his partner since Cornell days, Mark Sifling '87, own a home in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Someone I have not heard much from since she was my seat neighbor in Introduction to Wines and Spirits in the old Statler Auditorium also responded to my e-mail.Amy Tietjen Smith juggles her work as program director for a local nonprofit with running the "parental mini-van service" for son Tristan, 11, and daughter Avery, 8. Amy's husband Bruce '89, BA '91, MS '98, works for Dartmouth, and the whole family proudly wears Cornell red in their "decidedly green town," even though they are outnumbered at sporting events. Amy says they make it to Ithaca every year or two for reunions or Homecoming and will hopefully be there in both 2008 and 2009.

Last but certainly not least, we have a classmate who was not sure he's ever submitted any news in the past 20 years, so there was lots to catch up on. Jonathan Rudolph just celebrated his 15th wedding anniversary with wife Laura with a trip to Peru. He wrote,"Machu Picchu was everything I'd always thought it would be, and pictures can't even remotely do it justice." Jonathan and Laura have sons Jacob, 12, and Ben, 8. The family lives in Parsippany, NJ, in a brand new house, thanks to a fire that gutted the old one two years ago. No one was hurt, but they lost nearly everything, yet Jonathan states they now "couldn't be happier."When the family moved back to New Jersey from Colorado, Jonathan spent three years as a deputy attorney general. "Fed up with litigation," he then returned to the technology industry, working for Orchestria, a company that engineers software for monitoring and controlling electronic communications. Jonathan says he probably works twice as many hours as he did when he was a DAG, but loves every minute of it. He invites anyone who would like to get in touch to write to cornell@theRudolphs.name.What a great e-mail address!

Well, that is all the news available for this column. Once again I ask that you take the time to drop a line to Suzanne or me to update us on your own jobs, families, vacations, and general life adventures. I hope everyone enjoys a warm and pleasant summer and that I see many of you in one year at our 20th Reunion on the Hill. Until then, I wish you peace. -- Steve Tomaselli, st89@cornell.edu; and Suzanne Bors Andrews, smb68@cornell.edu.

89 | As you're reading this, the school year is winding down.We thought after we graduated we'd be on a different schedule, but now with kids, life still revolves around vacations and summer break.We're short on news, so please send us some. By now, you should have received the annual News and Dues mailing, renewed your class dues, and sent in the official form, but if not, please do so or at least send us an e-mail with updates on yourself and on Cornellians you still keep in touch with.

Some of the news here is a little dated, but better late than never! Let's start with the e-mails that came in most recently. Congratulations to Peter Donati for being appointed to the board of directors of the Human Resource Association of Greater Oak Brook, IL. Peter works for Levenfeld Pearlstein LLC and is head of the firm's Employment Service Group. Jennifer Brooks Trachtenberg wrote to tell us she continues to practice pediatrics on the Upper East Side in Manhattan. She lives in Manhasset Hills, NY, with her husband David '88 and their children Noah, 10, Eric, 7, and Emily, 3-1/2. In her spare time, Jennifer wrote a parenting book--which was reviewed in the March issue of this magazine-- entitled Good Kids, Bad Habits: The Real Age Guide to Raising Healthy Children, published by HarperCollins. The book focuses on preventing and lowering the risk of diseases for children now and in their future by changing and promoting healthy habits early on.

Former Cornell oarsman and classmate Peter Klose started a River Rowing Association with fellow Cornellian Ivan Rudolph-Shabinsky '86 in Nyack, NY. Peter practices law in Nyack and is a member of the Nyack Planning Board.He lives in the town with his wife Jean Voutsinas and two children.He has rekindled his interest in rowing and historic preservation through this new association. Anyone interested in rowing, volunteering, coaching, or otherwise helping to make a new Hudson River boathouse a reality should contact Peter at peter@kloselaw.com.

Ricardo deLozada is busy developing food trading and production chain systems in Bolivia.Marjorie Gurganus joined Pierce Atwood LLP in New Hampshire as a patent associate in the law firm's intellectual property practice group. Before becoming a lawyer,Marjorie earned a PhD in genetics and was a genetic scientist and adjunct professor at the Max Planck Inst. in Germany, the U. of Texas, Arlington, and North Carolina State U. A press release from Blank Rome LLP, one of the America's largest law firms, notified us that new partner James Masella would be bolstering the firm's corporate litigation practice in their New York City offices. Previously at Sullivan & Cromwell, James "brings more than a decade of experience in securities litigation, commercial arbitration, and takeover litigation to the firm."

We have a lot of "CEOs of the house." LynnWeidbergMorgan has three kids, Natalie, 8, Daniel, 6, and Kate, 2. Lynn is involved in community activities and is co-VP of the PTO of her children's school, Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School. She works closely with classmate Eliana Saragovia Byck, who is co-president. Abby Pomerantz Rothschild also stays at home with her three sons, Ben, 7, Ethan, 5, and Charlie, 3. Abby said, "I can't think of anything more satisfying or meaningful than raising my children." In her spare time she volunteers at the JCC of Manhattan.

Send us news! We can't write a column without you. -- Stephanie BloomAvidon, stephanieavidon@optonline.net;MikeMcGarry, mmcgarry@dma-us.com; Anne Czaplinski Treadwell, ac98@cornell.edu; Lauren Hoeflich, laurenhoeflich@yahoo.com.