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Cornell alumni news 

May 1984 

Volume 86, Number 9 

Cover 

A student and his dog enjoy the verdancy and color of the Lua Minns 

Garden near the Plant Science Building. Its earlier site is shown on page 32. 

Another earlier garden is described in the story on page 16. 

2 University 

Industry and the state join Cornell to develop biotechnology. Enter primary 

politics. People. Post-season sports honors and a start on spring. Books. 

12 Communications 

All hail, Willy Strunk! and other letters to the editor. Footnotes. Etcetera. 

16 Daisy's Garden 

By Elizabeth Anne Thomson '85. A graduate student hopes to restore 

plantings first set out by the vivacious Mrs. Livingston Farrand. 

21 History, SI! 

By Jeremy Schlosberg. Walter LaFeber produces a book on Central America 

that affirms why we study the past. 

25 The University-Industrial Complex 

By William Steele '54. Cornell relies increasingly on private sources to 

support research and the institution at large. 

28 Patents and Funding 

The university shores up its income from patents and the government, too. 

29 The Waiting Game 

By Louis Mihalyi '43. The Sheldon Court Restaurant introduced one 

sophomore to the joys of serving table. 

33 News of the Classes 

Class notes. Alumni deaths. 

60 Alumni Activities 

By Carol Kuntz '84. How and why former students work hard to recruit new 

ones. Eight graduates from one family. Rep. Conable '43 to retire. News of 

colleges, graduate and other alumni. A calendar of events. 

64 Also 

Kiplinger '39 to head trustees. A new provost, and other late news. 

CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 

Scientists join 

in search for 

breakthroughs 

in biotechnology 

Cornell has launched a new 

program in biotechnology 

that is a collaboration between 

the university, private 

industry, and state government 

to do basic research with some very 

immediate practical applications. 

Biotechnology is the engineering arm 

of biological science. It's far from new— 

plant and animal breeding, for example, 

are forms of biotechnology. But it is only 

since the discovery of the chemical 

codes of the genes that control the workings 

of living cells, and the methods for 

manipulating those genes, that the field 

has come into its own. 

Biotechnology now promises the ability 

to program living cells in culture that 

will manufacture enzymes, hormones, 

and other complex organic chemicals, 

and to modify plants and animals for 

faster growth, higher yield, and resistance 

to pests and diseases. The payoff, 

both in dollars and benefits to society, 

can be tremendous. 

Engineered cells, for instance, could 

manufacture vitamins, flavors, and 

sweeteners, convert light to chemical energy, 

isolate metals from ores, detoxify 

wastes, and turn agricultural leftovers 

into fuel or high-protein animal feed. 

Many such products can be made by 

changing the relatively simple genetic 

structure of bacteria. The future holds 

the possibility of modifying the genetic 

codes of higher plants and domestic animals 

to create new characteristics beyond 

the range of any breeding program 

(see ''Green Genes" in the March 1983 

News). 

The program will have two distinct

administrative parts—an institute to 

bring university and corporate scientists 

together to do research in biotechnology, 

and a center to help New York 

State industries take advantage of discoveries 

in the field. 

The Biotechnology Institute will be a 

collaboration with private industry on a 

scale never before seen at the university. 

Eastman Kodak, General Foods, and 

Union Carbide are the first "full partners," 

each committed to contribute 

half a million dollars a year over a five 

year period. Corning Glass has agreed to 

take part on a slightly lower level, committing 

itself for two years. Eventually 

there's hope two or three more companies 

will join the team. 

In the second aspect, New York State 

has designated Cornell as a Center for 

Biotechnology in Agriculture. With 

funding of $810,000 in 1983-84, and 

about $1 million per year expected in the 

future, the center is to emphasize research 

of benefit to the chemical, agriculture, 

and other food industries of 

New York State, and to study the economic 

impact of biotechnology on those 

industries. 

Around Ithaca, it's hoped biotechnology 

companies will locate research and 

manufacturing facilities locally in order 

to be near the new center. 

Gordon G. Hammes, the Horace 

White professor of chemistry and biochemistry, 

has been named director of 

the combined program, with Prof. Milton 

Zaitlin, plant pathology, as associate 

director. They report to an executive 

board composed of university and industry 

representatives. A scientific advisory 

board decides on research projects 

to be funded. 

Biotechnology spans a broad range of 

disciplines. The Cornell program brings 

together workers in four colleges—Agriculture 

and Life Sciences, Arts and Sciences, 

Engineering, and Veterinary 

Medicine—and the Divisions of Biological 

Sciences and Nutritional Sciences. 

Support also comes from the Boyce 

Thompson Institute for Plant Research; 

the Plant, Soil and Nutrition Laboratory 

of the US Department of Agriculture; 

the US Department of Energy's Ecosystems 

Research Center; the James A. 

Baker Institute for Animal Health; and 

the Institute for Comparative and Environmental 

Toxicology—all institutions 

that are located on or near the campus, 

but the first three of which are not formally 

part of the university. 

The state's part of the program—the 

Center for Biotechnology in Agriculture—will 

include an Economic Development 

Committee, chaired by Prof. 

Olan Forker, marketing, with membership 

including four Cornell economists 

and six representatives each from New 

York State industries and state govern-

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merit. Forker says the committee will 

work on ways to get the results of Cornell 

biotechnology research into the 

hands of New York companies, and will 

support economic research to try to predict 

the impact of biotechnology developments 

on the state's business. "There 

isn't any way we can restrict the output 

of the center to New York State," 

Forker says. "The intent is to get as 

much out of it for the state as possible." 

The center at Cornell is one of seven 

established by the New York State Science 

and Technology Foundation, each 

focussing on a different technology, and 

all with the goal of boosting the state's 

economy. 

Eventually, it's predicted that the total 

biotechnology program at Cornell 

will have an annual budget of some $18 

million, including federal funding. 

The combined program will serve as 

an "internal granting agency," Hammes 

says. "We want research that is not an 

extension of existing work, and that is 

strongly interdisciplinary, linking together 

people that are not now working 

together." A call for research proposals 

in June 1983 brought seventy-seven responses, 

from which eighteen projects 

and three facilities grants were chosen. 

Some of the research money is specifically 

reserved for "young investigator 

awards" designed to attract new faculty 

members like Prof. Doug Clark, Chemical 

Engineering, a specialist in the brand 

new technology of immobilized enzymes. 

"Everybody was after him," 

Hammes says. "I think the reason he 

came to Cornell was the biotechnology 

program." 

For now, Hammes says, research will 

be concentrated on molecular biology, 

enzyme use, and agriculture. Projects 

will include studies of how genes work 

and how to manipulate them, the use of 

enzymes—biological catalysts—in industrial 

processes, creating symbiotic relationships 

between plants and microbes, 

and improving the genes of domestic animals. 

An important function of the program, 

he adds, will be to create and operate 

central research facilities with 

equipment of the sort that no single researcher 

could afford. These include a 

cell culture laboratory, a monoclonal 

antibody facility and equipment for 

making oligonucleotides—short pieces 

of DNA or RNA that can be used to tag 

specific genes for study. 

Such equipment is now scattered 

around the campus, while the administrative 

work of the program is handled 

from a single office in Chemistry's Olin 

Laboratory. Eventually everything will 

be brought together in a new building to 

be built on the east side of Garden Avenue, 

north of both Teagle Hall and a 

new entomology building that's nearing 

completion. The new building for biotechnology 

is about three years down the 

road, Hammes says. 

Scientists from the research staffs of 

the participating companies will also be 

working on campus alongside faculty researchers. 

The first of these to arrive is 

Roy Snoke, a biochemist who has been 

with Eastman Kodak's research laboratories 

since 1972. At Kodak, Snoke 

helped develop blood testing kits which 

the firm markets to medical laboratories. 

Since coming to Cornell last August 

he has been working with Prof. Stanley 

Zahler, microbiology and genetic development, 

doing basic research to learn 

how the genes in a bacteriophage are 

regulated. Such research has obvious applications 

in industry: it could give genetic 

engineers a "switch" to turn chosen 

genes on or off at will. But it also 

contributes to basic knowledge about genetics, 

and could be applied to, say, a 

better understanding of cancer. 

Snoke says that such "non-productrelated 

research" gives him "an opportunity 

to do a lot of learning that I 

couldn't do at home. It's a sabbatical 

for me." He will spend two years at Cornell, 

possibly moving to other departments 

in the second year. Next year he 

will also teach a course, "Bioscience in 

Industry." No stranger to academic life, 

Snoke was an assistant professor at the 

University of Wisconsin before joining 

Kodak. 

It is this sort of close contact with university 

faculty that is expected to benefit 

corporations taking part in the biotechnology 

program most. None of the research 

done in the program, including 

that done by visiting industrial scientists, 

is proprietary. That is, everything will be 

published and made available to everyone. 

Standard university patent policies 

apply to any patentable inventions arising 

out of the program's work, including 

wbrk done by corporate scientists on 

campus. Participating corporations are 

expected to be given first refusal for licensing 

such patents. What the participant 

firms will get is the chance for a 

continuing, close-up look at the "cutting 

edge of research" in a field with tremendous 

commercial potential. 

The idea for the biotechnology program 

actually originated with Kodak. A 

few years ago Prof. W. Donald Cooke, 

Chemistry, who was then Cornell's vice

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Is Democracy Safe? 

The View from 1984 

at Cornell, Juhe 5-7 

As the oldest republic in the world, the United States 

boasts an impressive tradition of free, democratic rule. 

But history warns us that democracy is fragile: easily 

abused, easily destroyed. From ancient Athens to 

modern Lebanon, democracies have disappeared, and 

Americans have long worried about the impact of particular 

groups and institutions on the survival of our 

democratic system. Equally disturbing is the fact that 

democracy is subject to excesses of its own; majority 

rule can lead to the repression of dissenting views and 

groups at home and to feckless behavior abroad. 

How safe is American democracy today? What are its 

strengths and weaknesses? Is it threatened? Is it threatening 

to others? How serious are the challenges confronting 

our democracy and how capable are we and 

our system of responding to them? These are the questions 

that will guide our two days of study with three 

superbly qualified members of the Cornell faculty: Alice 

Cook, Professor Emerita of Industrial and Labor Relations; 

R. Ned Lebow, Professor of Government and 

specialist in international affairs; and Theodore Lowi, 

the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions. 

June 1984 

pre-reunion seminars 

Oceans and Ice: Ithaca's 

Geological Past 

at Cornell, June 5-7 

The Ithaca region is known not just for its beauty, 

but for two aspects of its geology: the sandstone and 

shale that were once part of an ancient ocean floor, and 

the dramatic glacial landforms created by the ice ages of 

more recent geologic periods. Designed for Cornellians 

curious about the origins of Ithaca's gorges and natural 

topography, this field seminar will provide an introduction 

to geological reasoning as well as a fine opportunity 

to better appreciate Cornell's marvelous surroundings. 

Led by Professor Arthur Bloom, an internationally 

respected geologist whose field courses have drawn rave 

reviews from past CAU participants, we will seek out 

answers to many geological questions. Why were some 

valleys deeply eroded by glacier ice while others were 

left untouched? How many times have Fall Creek and 

Cascadilla Creek been forced to re-excavate their valleys 

through the campus? How do geologists estimate the 

length of time involved in fashioning the landforms we 

see today? No background in geology is required; just 

bring comfortable walking shoes and clothes that can 

withstand a rain shower. Moderate physical activity 

will be involved. 

Scheduled to enhance—not conflict with—the full round of Reunion activities planned for June, our pre-reunion 

CAU seminars will begin with a late afternoon reception on Tuesday, June 5, and continue with lectures, discussions, 

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president for research, was approached 

by Kenneth Kennard of Kodak Research 

Laboratories, who asked if the university 

would be interested in a cooperative 

research program. Cooke convened a 

group of thirty-six faculty members that 

created a proposal. 

"At that point," Cooke recalls, "Kodak 

began to think they'd like to do 

something bigger. We thought, well, to 

make a larger impact, why not see if we 

could involve some other industries." 

Cornell selectively approached industries 

that might benefit: chemical companies, 

Pharmaceuticals, agriculture-oriented 

companies. 

Hammes admits he was a little apprehensive 

at first about having industrial 

scientists on the advisory board that decides 

what projects are to be funded. 

"But the first meeting went extremely 

well," he says. "There was very little 

disagreement. Good research is good research, 

no matter whose eyes you're 

looking through.'' — William Steele '54 

Articles by Steele on pages 25 and 28 

explore other relationships between 

Cornell and industry, and the patents 

policy on university research.—Ed. 

On campus: politics, 

hazing & other flaps 

Students became involved in the 1984 

national election during the semester, 

particularly among Democrats and particularly 

on behalf of Colorado Senator 

Gary Hart's primary candidacy. Students 

worked for him in March in Massachusetts, 

where he won. 

A campus poll conducted in mid- 

March by the Willard Straight Program 

Board among more than 300 students 

showed President Reagan ahead with 35 

per cent of those polled, followed by 

Hart with 18, former Vice President 

Mondale 17, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson 

at 15. Democrats polled 56 per cent, and 

minor party candidates 9 per cent. 

Carl Sagan, the Duncan professor of 

astronomy and space sciences, was one 

of a number of scientists at Worcester, 

Massachusetts who endorsed Hart three 

days before that state's primary on "Super-Tuesday." 

Sagan, who has become 

an activist on nuclear warfare and stockpiling, 

said he thought Hart "has farseeing 

and practical approaches" in the 

areas of Sagan's concern. 

Students from various organizations 

on campus joined to encourage fellow 

students to register to vote during the 

presidential year, both in their home 

states and in Ithaca. 

Chi Psi became the third fraternity to 

be put on probation this school year, 

after an incident that administrators 

termed hazing and the brothers did not. 

Members followed a house tradition 

when they kidnapped several of their 

pledges and left them naked at Pi Beta 

Phi sorority during a party, hands tied 

behind their backs, and strategically 

covered with shaving cream. 

The administration charged nineteen 

students with violating the campus code 

of conduct when they blocked the doorway 

to a room in Barnes Hall where a 

US Central Intelligence Agency recruiter 

was interviewing students for jobs. A 

twentieth person, a resident of Ithaca, 

was arrested by city police and accused 

of trespassing. The CIA interviews took 

place. 

The Cornell Review, a periodical that 

seeks to offer a conservative point of 

view, published its first issue in mid- 

March with help from a New York City 

foundation, the Institute for Educational 

Affairs, which says it has helped 

found thirty-eight such college journals 

since 1980. William Simon, former US 

secretary of the treasury, was a founder. 

The first issue drew complaints from 

gays and feminists who felt derided by 

an article in the Review, and some concern 

among the Cornell College Republicans 

that the periodical was too "elitist" 

and might work against the interest of 

the Republican student group. Students 

edit and set policy for the Review, and 

hoped to put out four or five issues this 

spring. 

In late March the Board of Trustees 

approved a research program based on 

development of a "supercomputer," described 

in an article in the Alumni News 

in October 1983. Work will be done in a 

proposed Center for Theory and Simulation 

in Science and Engineering. Nobel 

laureate Kenneth G. Wilson is one of the 

center's founders. The trustees approved 

the concept of the center and left it to 

President Rhodes to OK a formal 

launching at a later time. The center 

would have an annual budget of $18 million 

by 1987, according to its prospectus, 

and employ a support staff of 100. 

Where's the space, or 

who pays for parking? 

An administration proposal to provide 

more parking on campus, and to pay for

it from increased fees charged to faculty 

and other employes and users, ran into a 

buzzsaw of opposition when the plans 

came up quickly in March for trustee action 

at the end of the month. 

The need for more parking near the 

center of campus has increased as new 

buildings rubbed out existing parking 

areas. The administration proposed a 

460-car building on the corner of Hoy 

Field towards the Statler Hall. The baseball 

field would be shifted on its present 

site to make way for the building. 

Also on the boards are expanded 

parking lots below Collegetown and east 

of campus, road and intersection improvements, 

and continued maintenance 

of a bus system that moves commuters 

from parking lots to campus and back— 

all at a capital cost of nearly $6 million. 

Fees for on-campus parkers, generally 

faculty and top administrators, would 

go from $144 a year at present to $204 

next year, and more later. One peripheral 

lot, used by employes who want to be 

relatively close to campus, would cost 

employes $60 a year to use, where no 

charge is made at present. 

The United Auto Workers local, 

which represents service and maintenance 

employes, insisted the matter was 

subject to collective bargaining, and 

filed a grievance. The Faculty Council of 

Representatives on March 14 voted without 

dissent to ask the Board of Trustees, 

meeting March 23, not to commit capital 

funds until faculty committees have a 

chance to review the proposals and comment 

on them. 

The administration's plan was to go to 

the trustees for approval on March 23. 

The trustees approved the plans for 

added spaces, but put off action on how 

to pay for them. 

People: faculty, young 

and old, are honored 

Eleven Cornell faculty members are 

among 200 engineers and scientists in the 

United States to receive the first Presidential 

Young Investigator Awards. The 

awards carry an annual base grant from 

the National Science Foundation (NSF) 

of $25,000 per year for five years. In addition, 

NSF will provide up to $37,500 a 

year to match contributions from industrial 

sources, bringing the possible total 

support to $100,000 per year. Each university 

is responsible for raising the nonfederal 

funds. 

Those receiving the Young Investiga- 

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structural mechanics; Clifford 

R. Pollock, electrical engineering, tunable 

lasers; Andy L. Ruina, theoretical 

and applied mechanics, geomechanics; 

Jery R. Stedinger, environmental engineering, 

stochastic hydrology and ecosystems 

management; Michael Thompson, 

materials science and engineering, 

rapid solidification; and Sally L. Wood, 

electrical engineering, computer image 

processing. 

Composer Karel Husa, the Kappa 

Alpha professor of music, has won the 

first Sudler International Wind Composition 

Competition with his Concerto for 

Wind Ensemble. The $10,000 prize was 

presented to him in April at the Kennedy 

Center for the Performing Arts where 

Husa conducted the US Marine Band in 

a performance of his concerto. 

Husa is an internationally known 

composer and conductor who is much in 

demand as visiting lecturer and guest 

conductor. He received the Pulitzer 

Prize in 1969 for his Third String Quartet. 

Husa is also the musical director of 

Ithaca's Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, 

which is performing his ballet, The Trojan 

Women, with the Ithaca Dancemakers 

May 12 and 13 at Willard Straight. 

Prof. David F. Delchamps, electrical 

engineering, is the winner of this year's 

Award for Excellence in Engineering 

Teaching. Earlier in 1984 he was named 

one of the first national Presidential 

Young Investigators Award winners. 

Delchamps joined the faculty in early 

1983 and was selected soon after as the 

'83 winner of his school's excellence in 

teaching award. This year's honor, for 

the entire College of Engineering, is 

sponsored by the Cornell Society of Engineers 

and the student chapter of Tau 

Beta Pi, Engineering honorary. 

Susan H. Murphy '73, Grad, an admissions 

and financial aid officer since 

1978, is the new director of financial aid 

for the university. She has been acting 

director since last fall when William Bushaw 

resigned. 

May B. Hines, an administrator of minority 

student programs on the Hill for

the last six years, is the new director of 

the Office of Minority Educational Affairs 

(COSEP). She too has been an acting 

director since last fall when Darwin 

Williams resigned the job. 

The new president of the Potato Association 

of America is Prof. Edward D. 

Jones, plant pathology. A member of 

the Cornell faculty since 1958, Jones directs 

the New York State seed potato 

certification program and has been in 

charge of the Cornell-Uihlein Foundation 

Seed Potato Farm at Lake Placid, 

NY since 1961. In 1979, he was instrumental 

in establishing the Henry Uihlein 

II Laboratory, a meristem tissue culture 

facility designed to produce disease-free 

seed potatoes. The laboratory is regarded 

internationally as a model for 

producers of nuclear seed stocks. 

The Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

has established a flower show award 

in the name of Arno H. Nehrling, who 

was a professor of horticulture at Cornell 

from 1921-27. Nehrling was flower 

show manager of the Massachusetts 

Horticultural Society from 1933-65. The 

award is to be made annually at the New 

England Spring Flower Show in memory 

"of a man who did so much for the 

Spring Flower and other shows—camellia, 

daffodil, tulip, iris, peony, rose, 

daylily, lily, gladiolus, harvest, and 

chrysanthemum—during a long and 

productive tenure." 

Teams: honors 

at season's end 

Team and individual titles were still at 

stake for winter teams in March and 

April, even as spring teams began their 

play. One hockey player was named 

most valuable in his sport in the Ivy 

League, and a basketball player copped 

rookie honors. (See Also, page 64 for 

later winter and spring team results.) 

Men's polo got to the semifinals of the 

Intercollegiates before losing to the perennial 

champion, California-Davis, 

7-18. In the preliminaries, the Red 

topped Texas A&M 12-7 and Colorado 

14-10. In the first and third matches, 

Alan Friedman '87 led scoring for the 

Red, and shared honors with Eric Brown 

'85 against Colorado. 

Three Big Red divers represented the 

swim teams in the NCAAs. Nancy Biggs 

'85 led the way with a 24th in the threemeter 

event, and 32nd at one meter. 

Steve Bannerot '87 placed 29th off the 

low board and 35th at three meters, and 

Jim Ackerman '84 33rd and 34th respectively 

in the two events. 

Men's fencing placed eighth in the Intercollegiates 

and Stefan James '84 qualified 

for the NCAAs with an 8-3 record 

in the foil. Capt. Mike Quattro '84 had 

an 8-3 record in the epee but didn't qualify. 

Clifford Rawn '85 and Robert Talley 

'85 were named to the second team All- 

Ivy in the sport, Rawn in foil and Talley 

in saber. 

Christine Hamori '85 placed 13th 

overall in the NCAA women's fencing 

championships, and Stefan James '84 

was 24th in the men's foil. 

Pat Welch '85 represented the university 

at the NCAA wrestling championships 

in the 150-pound class. He opened 

with a 7-6 win over All-American Dave 

Holler of Illinois State, then was pinned 

by the third seed, Marty Kistler of Iowa. 

In the consolations he won a default and 

lost a decision to finish with a 26-3 record, 

All-Ivy for the second year in a 

row, and the Eastern champion. Other 

Big Red men on the All-Ivy first team 

are Robert Arao '84 at 126, Mike Mankowich 

'84 at 158, and Ken Griffin '84 at 

177. John Cvetic '86 made the second 

team at 142. 

Duanne Moeser '86 shared Ivy League 

Player of the Year honors in hockey 

with Harvard's sophomore goalie Grant 

Blair. Moeser plays at right wing, and 

led the league in scoring 11 goals and 21 

assists. He and forward Geof Derwin 

'84, third in league scoring at 11-9, also 

made the first team. Center Gary Cullen 

'85 and defenseman Mike Schafer '86 

made the second team. 

Next year's hockey team will play in a 

new league format, because seven 

schools pulled away to form a new collegiate 

league in the East, at first selfdubbed 

the Super Seven, and more recently 

Hockey East. Boston U, Boston 

College, Providence, New Hampshire, 

and Northeastern pulled out of the Eastern 

College Athletic Conference 

(ECAC) and are now joined with independent 

Lowell in Hockey East. They 

will play one another more often than 

under the old ECAC format, use athletic 

scholarships in the sport, and aim for 

equity with the western schools that play 

on such terms. 

The remaining twelve ECAC teams, 

mostly its present West and Ivy regions, 

form the new ECAC Division I: six Ivy 

schools, Vermont, and five New York 

State teams, Army, RPI, Clarkson, Colgate, 

and St. Lawrence. Each will play 

the other twice, except for Army, which 

is trying out membership in the division 

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for one year and will only play the other 

teams once. 

Guard John Bajusz '87 won rookie of 

the year honors in the Ivy basketball 

league. Center Ken Bantum '85, a cocaptain, 

was named second team All- 

Ivy. Bajusz and the other co-captain, 

forward Brad Bomba '84, received honorable 

mention. Bantum led the team in 

scoring with 369 points, followed by Bajusz's 

279, Drew Martin '86 with 276, 

and Bomba with 273. 

The team survived charges that coach 

Tom Miller, in his fourth year, was too 

intense and harsh in his coaching. Penn 

and Princeton, which dominated the 

league for years, no longer appeared to 

have the recruiting edge that kept them 

on top, and other teams and their 

coaches, Miller among them, were credited 

with making the league more competitive. 

Cornell tied for second behind 

league champ Princeton. 

Don Dickason '53, now dean of admissions 

at Penn State, adds to our report 

on the award of an NCAA Postgraduate 

Scholarship to a Cornellian. 

He notes that Dan Mackesey '77, a previous 

winner of such a grant, is the first 

recipient to serve later on the selection 

committee. Mackesey starred in lacrosse 

and soccer. Dickason himself was a 

championship wrestler, and serves on 

the committee. 

Dave Bliss '65, a former Big Red basketball 

player, got a measure of attention 

in the NCAA championships when 

the team he coaches, Southern Methodist, 

pushed No. 2 Georgetown to the 

final buzzer before losing in the West 

Regional preliminaries, 36-37. 

Darren Eliot '83, the backup goalie on 

the Canadian Olympic hockey team this 

winter, is in the pro ranks now, a member 

of the New Haven Nighthawks in the 

American Hockey League, part of the 

Los Angeles Kings system. He learned 

last year that he had diabetes, and has 

spent the winter months adjusting to insulin 

treatment as well as playing hockey 

nearly fulltime. 

The athletic department will run its 

fifth annual Summer Sports School this 

year, with one-week sessions from June 

24 through August 3. Varsity coaches direct 

instruction in a variety of men's and 

women's sports, and arrange evening activities 

for the campers as well. Pete 

Mariano Jr. is director, reached at Box 

729 Cornell, Ithaca 14851 or (607) 

256-7333. 

Spring reconstruction 

The job of rebuilding a number of 

spring season teams that were denuded 

by graduation began during the March 

recess. Men's tennis, baseball, and lacrosse 

all recorded their first wins early 

in the going. 

Lacrosse lost its opener 12-13 to Adelphi. 

Attackman Kevin Cook '84 led 

scoring in both this match and the next 

one, a 10-5 win over Harvard. 

Baseball started with a loss to William 

Paterson, in Florida, 10-12, split with 

Florida Atlantic U, 10-1 and 3-5, and 

then lost to nationally ranked Miami U 

6-8 after leading 6-1 after 6V2 innings. 

Men's tennis won %Vi-Vi over Rochester, 

and lost to Penn State 4-5, 3-6 to 

Navy, and 2-7 to James Madison. The 

women lost their opener to James Madison 

2-7 as well. 

Men's track finished second and the 

women third in meets in California 

against Santa Barbara and Fresno State. 

Chris Chrysostomou '87 won the men's 

triple jump and was second in the long 

jump; Erik Bernstein '87 won the 

javelin, Tom Basting '86 the 1,500 meter 

run, and Tim Trible '86 the high jump. 

Lauren Kulik '85 won the women's triple 

jump in a Cornell record 38 feet, 3 

A 

inches and was third in the long jump. 

Pam Carter '84 took the 800, and Amy 

Bragdon '87 the 400 hurdles. 

Wade Bollinger '82, former Ail- 

American attackman, will coach the lacrosse 

JVs this year. Andy Mason, an 

Ithaca College graduate, moves in as assistant 

coach of baseball. 

Books: of math, 

cranes, and money 

Bridges to Infinity: The Human Side of 

Mathematics by Michael A. Guillen, 

PhD '82 (Tarcher/Houghton Mifflin). 

Sixteen essays on mathematics which allayed 

the math anxiety of the New York 

Times book reviewer and were described 

• by Esquire as "a book on math that you 

can actually read. And enjoy." 

The Hermeneutic Mode, Essays on 

Time in Literature and Literary Theory 

by Prof. W. Wolfgang Holdheim, comparative 

literature (Cornell U Press). A 

discussion of works by Constant, Hugo, 

Gide, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky, 

and the interaction between literary 

theory and criticism. 

Torsion of Reinforced Concrete by 

Thomas T.C. Hsu, PhD '62 (Van Nos-

trand Heinhold). An explanation of design 

criteria for concrete buildings and 

bridges and how to design spandrel 

beams, wall foundation beams, beams 

that support cantilever slabs and balconies, 

frames and out-of-plane loading, 

spiral staircases, and skew structures. 

Cranes of the World by Paul A. 

Johnsgard, PhD '59 (Indiana U Press). 

The comparative biology of cranes, and 

natural histories of the fourteen extant 

species. 

English-Russian, Russian-English 

Dictionary by Kenneth Katzner '52 

(John Wiley & Sons). The first full-size 

Russian-English dictionary to be compiled 

and published in the US, and the 

first to be based on American English. 

Advising by Faculty by Howard C. 

Kramer, associate dean of students, and 

Robert E. Gardner, director of Engineering 

admissions (National Education 

Association, West Haven, Connecticut). 

Students often list poor academic advising 

as their reason for dropping out of 

college or transferring to another 

school. 

Landscape Ecology: Theory and Application 

by Prof. Arthur S. Lieberman 

'52, landscape architecture, and Zev 

Naveh (Springer-Verlag). A study of the 

relationships between human societies 

and their living spaces that provides a 

conceptual framework for landscape appraisal, 

reclamation, and environmental 

planning, management, and conservation. 

Workers at Risk: Voices from the 

Workplace by Prof. Dorothy Wolfers 

Nelkin '54, sociology, and Michael S. 

Brown, MRP '80 (U of Chicago Press). 

Workers routinely exposed to chemicals 

speak of their jobs and their health and 

the double bind many of them face—a 

job with hidden danger or no job at all. 

Narrative Irony in the Contemporary 

Spanish-American Novel by Prof. Jonathan 

Tittler, Romance studies (Cornell 

U Press). An examination of static and 

kinetic irony in Carlos Fuentes' The 

Death of Artemio Cruz, Juan Rulfo's 

Pedro Paramo, Manuel Puig's Betrayed 

by Rita Hayworth, Guillermo Cabrera 

Infante's Three Trapped Tigers, Mario 

Vargas Llosa's Aunt Julia and the 

Scriptwriter, Julio Cortazar's A Manual 

for Manuel, and Isaac Goldemberg's 

The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo 

Lerner. 

Arbitration in Practice edited by Arnold 

M. Zack (ILR Press). Fourteen arbitrators, 

including Prof. Jean T. Mc- 

Kelvey, Industrial and Labor Relations, 

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'57 (NAL Books). The author of Good 

Communications 

To Willy Strunk! 

Editor: It is encouraging to read (March 

Alumni News) that The Elements of 

Style is required reading in several thousand 

college English courses. Actually, 

its influence in academe is a good deal 

wider than that. Most manuals of scientific 

writing that I know of recommend 

Strunk and White. 

Robert Day writes: "If you have any 

interest whatsoever in learning to use 

English effectively, you should read 

Strunk and White's The Elements of 

Style. . . . Anyone writing anything 

should read and use this famous 'little 

book' " (Day, R.A. 1982. How to Write 

and Publish a Scientific Paper, 2ά ed. 

ISI Press, Philadelphia, p. 146). 

Day, a relatively new manual, is required 

reading in my course The Literature 

of Biology (a core course in the major 

in Biology at Bemidji State), but I 

have required The Elements of Style ever 

since I began to teach the course, almost 

twenty years ago. I suspect such use of 

Strunk and White in courses outside of 

departments of English is widespread; I 

hope so. 

Evan B. Hazard'51 

Bemidji, Minn. 

The writer is professor of biology at 

Bemidji State U. 

Editor: The two articles about E.B. 

White in the February and March issues 

of CAN, by Prof. Scott Elledge, were 

marvelous, bringing together the details 

of White's Cornell experience and especially 

his relationship with Professor 

Strunk and Strunk's little book, Elements 

of Style. I have long been an admirer 

of Andy White, about whom I 

have heard ever since I was chosen by 

Prof. Martin Sampson to become a 

member of The Manuscript Club, to 

which White had belonged a few years 

before me. The portrait of White on the 

cover of the February issue made me 

Housekeeping's "Your Money" column 

gives readable explanations and concrete 

advice on how and when to spend, borrow, 

save, and invest. 

wonder if Cornell seniors in our day always 

looked as young as he did. 

Elledge describes Strunk's Elements 

of Style as a forty-three-page pamphlet 

in its original form. When I was a freshman, 

three years after White's graduation, 

all first-year English classes had to 

buy copies of the Strunk book, which he 

had copyrighted in 1918. My copy was 

published by Harcourt, Brace and Company 

in 1920. I bought it second-hard. It 

had obviously been used by some former 

student or students before 1924. 

My copy had a sort of hard cover and 

contained fifty-two pages. As a sophomore, 

when White took Strunk's English 

8 class, he may have used an earlier 

pamphlet. Surely he must have known 

about the Harcourt-Brace edition, which 

appeared in his junior year. Elledge 

doesn't mention that edition or explain 

how Macmillan acquired the 1920 Harcourt, 

Brace copyright for the enormously 

popular Strunk-White edition of 

1959. 

White's revision of the original text 

was minimal, and the new edition, which 

must have astonished Strunk's ghost, retains 

the eight basic rules of usage that 

were impressed on Cornell freshmen for 

many years. White's essay on style, 

Chapter V in the new edition, replacing 

Strunk's Chapter V, "Words and Expressions 

Commonly Misused," is the 

best analysis of that subject ever written, 

in my judgment. The glowing style of its 

»author superbly illustrates his points. 

After thirty-eight years, White said in his 

introduction to the 1959 edition, he had 

been "delighted to study it [the original 

text] again and to discover its rich deposits 

of gold." His additions put a lovely 

polish on that gold! 

During the twelve years after my retirement 

from the Foreign Service, I was 

professor of English at the Marine Corps 

Command and Staff College, at Quantico, 

Virginia. There I continued to use

the Strunk-White book, always showing, 

with considerable pride, my first 

edition of Strunk's text. In 1975 the Marine 

Corps Press published a little text 

for use in my classes, which I had written, 

based on Strunk's eight rules. I arbitrarily 

added six more that I thought 

military communicators, not always appreciative 

of Strunk's—and White's— 

simple style, badly need. 

Like White, I knew Willy Strunk 

through the meetings of the Manuscript 

Club. He was also a member of my doc^ 

toral committee, whose graduate classes 

were much less entertaining than he was 

personally in his informal relationships 

with his students. I especially appreciated 

White's description of Strunk's 

''puckish face, his short hair parted 

neatly in the middle ... his eyes blinking 

incessantly behind steel-rimmed spectacles 

as though he had just emerged into 

strong light, his lips nibbling each other 

like nervous horses [our simile was rabbits 

rather than horses], his smile shuttling 

to and fro under a carefully edged 

mustache." That's good White style, 

too. 

Argus Tresidder '28 

Λnnandale, Va. 

Calling '60s writers 

Editor: As part of the Class of '64 Reunion 

(June 7-10, 1984) a group of published 

poets from the class will read from 

their work on Saturday, June 9. 

We all had close ties with The Trojan 

Horse and Images, the two Cornell student 

literary magazines of that era. We 

hope this gathering of writers from the 

Class of '64 may become the basis for a 

more general gathering of Horse/Images 

writers and editors—a kind of mini-reunion 

within the June 7-10 Reunion. 

We'd like to hear from long-lost (and 

not-so-lost) Cornell writers from the 

early-through-mid '60s, and we'd especially 

like to see them in Ithaca this summer. 

For more information on how this 

is coming together, friends and fellow 

ink-slingers should write either to me or 

to Joe Bruchac (Joseph Bruchac III, The 

Greenfield Review, Greenfield Center, 

NY 12833). 

Peter Klappert '64 

Fairfax, Va. 

Klappert can be addressed at the Graduate 

Writing Program, Department of 

English, George Mason U, Fairfax 

22030.—Ed. 

A kick remembered 

Editor: The list of Cornell gridiron 

heroes is not so long that we can make a 

case for ignoring the passing of one of 

them. 

Emerson Carey '27, whose death you 

have reported, is the man who kicked 

the field goal in the closing minutes of 

the 1926 game against Dartmouth, climaxing 

a seventeen-point rally in the 

fourth quarter with the final score Cornell 

24, Dartmouth 23. There must be 

hundreds, maybe a few thousand of 

Cornellians who were there that day 

who, some fifty-seven years later, could 

describe the scene, and their emotions 

on that occasion, as if it were yesterday. 

That must have been a pretty good 

Dartmouth team, too; the following 

year the score at Hanover was Dartmouth 

53, Cornell 7. 

Harry L. Case'29 

Chapel Hill, NC 

Press coverage 

Editor: I believe that a count would 

show that Yale regularly is the subject of 

many more New York Times articles 

than any other college. Can this be because 

they have the best PR department? 

Or are Yale alumni well placed in the 

Times hierarchy? Or is Yale most newsworthy? 

Charles Cogen '24 

New York City 

A career recorded 

Editor: I have been saddened by the 

news in the February issue of the passing 

of Lilian Jacobson (Tenzel) '25; I had 

been in a class behind her. As we both 

majored in physics, both of us also 

ended up in the field generally known as 

radiological physics or medical physics, 

quite by accident. For each of us the accident 

has proven to be exceptionally 

fortunate and our paths have crossed 

numerous times in the ensuing fifty-five 

years. 

Should some of her friends be interested, 

and have the facilities available, I 

would like to mention that about five 

years ago Lilian was one of some two 

dozen early radiation workers with 

whom I did video tape interviews covering 

their background and early career. 

Because of our early association in Ithaca 

this was an especially rewarding experience 

for me. Copies of these video 

tapes may be borrowed without charge 

CORNELL 

REUNION 

RUN 

8:00 AM, Saturday, June 9, 1984 

Start/Finish: Sibley Hall/Arts Quad 

The Cornell Association of Class 

Officers invites alumni, students, faculty 

and staff to celebrate Reunion with 

a five-mile run through the Cornell campus 

and Plantations. Reunion Run 

T-shirts for all registered runners. Age 

group awards. Water stops and firstaid 

available. Computer timed race results. 

REGISTRATION: $5.00 per entry. Mail 

check payable to CorneJJ University to 

Robert Platt, 1260 21st Street, NW 304, 

Washington, DC 20036. Entry must be 

received by May 31, 1984 to guarantee 

a T-shirt. 

Conducted with the cooperation of the 

Finger Lakes Running CJub and Cornell 

Safety Division. 

CORNELL REUNION RUN 

In consideration of my application being accepted, I 

hereby, for myself, my heirs and executors waive, 

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Footnotes: Winαns '07 

and Wichelns Ί6 

A recent issue of the Southern Speech 

Communication Journal contained a 

symposium on liberalizing influences, 

featuring four great teachers. Two of the 

four were Cornell professors: James A. 

Winans, LLB '07 and Herbert A. 

Wichelns '16. 

In his paper on Wichelns, Carroll C. 

Arnold of Penn State, who was his colleague 

at Cornell for fifteen years, pays 

primary attention to his method of 

teaching, which was not to serve as a 

source of knowledge but to join individual 

students and groups of students in 

searches for knowledge. 

Arnold concludes that Wichelns, 

"with vast knowledge, scrupulous care 

for the personal integrity of the others, 

and unquenchable curiosity," bettered 

the Socratic model of teaching. That appraisal 

will seem extravagant even to 

those who admired Wichelns the most. 

Loren Reid of the University of Missouri 

also offers a personal statement 

about Professor Winans, who taught at 

Cornell for twenty-one years, beginning 

in 1899. Reid was his colleague both at 

Dartmouth and at Missouri. To most of 

us, Winans always described himself as 

primarily a teacher. But Reid shows that 

he worked very hard for many years to 

secure from the Cornell faculty permission 

to offer graduate work in public 

speaking, quoting his statement that 

"we shall feel better and do better . . . 

and teach better, when we have more 

scholarship." 

That leads to what to me has always 

been the great puzzle about the Winans 

career. Why, when he finally had permission 

to offer graduate work, did he 

move to Dartmouth in 1920? By so doing, 

he left it to Alexander Drummond 

and Everett Hunt to inaugurate the Seminar 

in Classical Rhetoric, setting off an 

explosion of research in universities 

throughout the country which has illuminated 

the theory and practice of rhetoric 

from the time of the early Greek sophists 

to the present day. 

This is the story as Reid tells it: "Cornell 

salaries were indecently low; as one 

source put it, professors took part of 

their pay in the right to view the Cornell 

landscaping and architecture. Winans, 

however, very much wanted to stay. The 

Dartmouth people, most persistent, finally 

asked him to set his price. He therefore 

made them an offer so grandiose 

that he was sure they would be discouraged. 

" 'You must pay me a certain salary, 

he said; my informants estimate it at 

$6,000 to $8,000. 'If any member of 

your faculty is ever given a higher salary, 

you must raise mine to that figure.' To 

his astonishment, Dartmouth met the 

terms; so Winans was honor bound to 

move." 

Most of us didn't know this story, but 

all of us affiliated with the Cornell 

School of Rhetoric called Winans 

"Chief" as long as he lived. 

—Ray Howes '24 

Etcetera 

C. Michael Curtis '56, mentioned in an 

article in this issue on Prof. Walter La- 

Feber, history, is a former long-time 

contributor to the Alumni News. In particular, 

he contributed many articles on 

faculty members during the first half of 

the 1960s, while a graduate student on 

the Hill. Since then he has writen for us 

on a number of subjects. 

We guessed when we wrote in February 

that the person who signed the name 

of E.B. White '21 on his senior photograph 

was "an alumni office record 

clerk." The university's alumni operation 

was so young then that it is unlikely 

the handwriting commonly found on 

yearbook photos in the 1920s belonged 

to a university clerk. More likely it was 

put there by a Cornellian staff member 

in the course of production of the yearbook. 

We were too eager to make it clear 

it was not White's own signature. But if 

not, whose? 

Our assistant editor spoke in January

with a number of alumni surprised to 

learn this magazine welcomes articles 

from non-staff writers, "freelancers" as 

they're known in the business. We will 

give such articles a reading and consideration, 

although we encourage writers to 

query us in advance so time isn't wasted 

on subjects which we already have 

covered. 

Newsweek magazine expected to publish 

an article last month marking the fifteenth 

anniversary of the occupation of 

Willard Straight Hall by black students 

in April 1969. The project was to be the 

work of several alumni on the magazine's 

staff, including Dennis Williams 

'73, its education editor. 

Our masthead, on page 4 of most issues 

of this magazine, gives credit to the 

photographers whose work we publish. 

One other group of people deserve credit 

for the quality of reproduction in our 

business, and there's no formal place to 

name them except right here, so we will. 

They are the people who copy the art 

work of others, or convert color prints 

to black and white, or produce the photoprints 

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printing: 

Over the years, Gertrude and C. Hadley 

Smith have helped us in numerous 

ways, converting color prints to black 

and white, and taking poor negatives 

and producing the best possible prints. 

John Gillespie and his staff at Triaxon 

Ithaca Inc. produce negatives and photoprints 

that we use in each issue. And 

the staff at Media Services in the College 

of Agriculture produce occasional color 

conversions for us, as well. To all, professionals 

in every way, our thanks. 

—JM 

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June issue. Thus May 1975 was Volume 

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Plans are afoot to restore plantings first set out 

by the vivacious wife of an earlier president 

Daisy's 

Garden 

By Elizabeth Anne Thomson '85 

The smell of warm soil lingered on Daisy 

Farrand's clothes as she got up and 

walked toward the house. Almost to the 

back door, she stopped, turning to admire 

her handiwork. Before her spread a 

vista of soft color, originating from 

flowers in several garden beds. The subtle 

blending of shades swept far back to 

the end of the property, bordering the 

carriage house to her left. She smiled, 

pleased with the effect. Resuming her 

walk, she entered the house. 

Though such a scene could hardly be 

familiar to Cornellians today, students 

fifty years ago knew it well. Mrs Livingston 

Farrand, affectionately known as 

"Daisy," was a popular figure—and 

wife of the fourth president of the university. 

She was also an avid gardener, 

and could often be found working in her 

flowerbeds behind the A.D. White 

House, the home of Cornell presidents 

through the 1940s. These beds were impressive 

and extensive, spreading back 

past the carriage house, currently the Big 

Red Barn. 

Today, the landscape behind the President's 

Mansion is dominated by a wide 

green lawn. Little remains of the original 

gardens. But the flowers may come to 

life again, with the help of Susan Cipperly 

'79, a graduate student in the De- 


partment of Floriculture and Ornamental 

Horticulture whose master's project 

relates to garden restoration. 

Over the past few years, Susan has researched 

the gardens, their creator, and 

the history behind the A.D. White 

House grounds. This has been no easy 

task. As Prof. Robert Mower '56, PhD 

'61, Susan's project adviser, comments: 

"Though the buildings at Cornell are 

well-documented, records often aren't 

kept about the grounds surrounding 

them. You'd have to hunt to find details 

on the various plantings around the university." 

Daisy's gardens proved to be no exception. 

But with help from the Cornell 

Archives, several books, and Mrs. William 

Almon Wood (one of the Farrand 

children), Susan began to visualize what 

the gardens must have looked like. The 

original size and detailing of the beds 

were determined from old photographs, 

including an aerial view, and paintings. 

Coupled with Mrs. Wood's recollections, 

these also helped date the gardens 

and identify plant varieties used. 

But the gardens were more than just 

borders of soil and plants; they were inextricably 

tied to Daisy Farrand. Susan 

describes her as a woman with "enormous 

personality," as evidenced by 

most everything she did. Founder and 

first president of the Ithaca Garden 

Club, Daisy was also "the first woman 

to wear pants at Cornell," remarks Susan. 

Mrs. Farrand was an avid horsewoman 

and gardener, and one can understand 

her reasons. 

"Daisy was of English background," 

continues Susan, "and had a penchant 

for formal gardens." When the Farrands 

and their five children moved into 

the President's Mansion in 1921, Daisy 

developed that interest by designing the 

first of her six gardens. 

Dominated by the focal point of a 

clump of trees in the center of the lawn, 

three of her gardens occupied the backyard 

of the President's Mansion. These 

are the beds Susan is now working to restore. 

Though each was unique, they 

had two uniting themes. First, all the 

flowers within their borders were of pastel 

shades. Pinks, whites, pale yellows, 

and the like blended together in soft profusion. 

Second, the plants formed a succession 

of bloom; as one finished flowering, 

another would begin. The beds 

Mrs. Livingston (Daisy) Farrand in her 

garden behind the President's House, 

in the mid-1950s. A slate wall, since 

removed, is behind her.

MAY 1984

A spring view of the curved slate wall 

in the garden designed by Daisy 

Farrand. The border was always filled, 

early with pink Darwin tulips, later 

with yellow Talisman roses and 

heliotropes or germaniums. 

At right, Mrs. Farrand in the 'secret' 

garden that she brought into being in 

the 1920s. 

were constantly changing, as new colors 

and textures blended with the old. 

The first garden constructed was located 

directly behind the house, nestled 

along a low, slate retaining wall. A little 

off-center to the middle a short flight of 

steps cut through the rock, graced at 

each side by a tall white urn. This wall 

served as background for the stately 

pink Darwin tulips and tiny light blue 

forget-me-nots that bloomed in the 

spring. 

Come summer, one of two planting 

schemes was used. Salmony-pink geraniums 

dominated the first plan. "Mrs. 

Wood remembers them blooming in the 

urns," relates Susan. Dianthus completed 

the scene, sprinkled along the 

ground at the base of the geraniums. 

Similar to a minature carnation, dianthus 

has a delicate, spicy aroma. "Daisy 

loved the scent," Susan remarks, "and 

implemented dianthus in all her 

borders." When geraniums and dian- 


thus weren't used, yellow Talisman roses 

and purple heliotrope, another fragrant 

flower, took their place. 

To get to her second garden, Daisy 

walked up the slate wall-garden steps. 

To each side were two parallel beds, 

each fifty feet long and twelve wide, bordered 

by privet hedges to each outside 

edge. Between these were two smaller 

companion gardens with curved inner 

edges that softened the otherwise square 

beds. 

Both back borders and companion 

beds had approximately the same varie- 

ties of plants. In the foreground of each 

grew the inevitable dianthus. Towards 

the middle, pink poppies and peonies 

were joined by the blue spikes of delphinium, 

the seeds for which Daisy imported 

from England. Completing the 

picture, tall iris, asters, and phlox composed 

a colorful background to the 

flowers in front. Daisy used these blossoms 

inside the house as well as out, often 

inviting horticulture students over to 

make cut flower arrangements for her 

luncheons and dinner parties. 

Though it was difficult to identify

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The gardens of Daisy Farrand at the 

President's House between 1921 and 

1937: 1, the slate wall; 2, back borders 

and beds; 3, far back borders; 4, twotiered 

wall rock garden; 5, the secret 

garden; and 6, the woodland garden. 

many of the plants from the photos 

available, Susan Cipperly had no trouble 

recognizing the dominant flower of the 

gardens. "Daisy's borders were practically 

a sea of white phlox," she exclaims. 

"They were white with pink centers, 

and named after her—variety 'Mrs 

Livingston Farrand,' as Mrs. Wood recalls." 

More of the same could be found in 

the third garden, which contained the 

same varieties of plants as the second. 

Located at the end of the backyard, this 

garden completed the progression of 

\ \ 

soft color begun at the slate wall-garden. 

Again composed of two parallel beds, it 

was similar to the second, but without 

companion plantings. 

The focal point of this garden was the 

carnage house bordering the left bed. 

Currently known as the Big Red Barn, 

this building housed Daisy's greenhouse 

(where she grew most of her plants from 

seed), her horse, and a few automobiles. 

The building was carefully integrated into 

the design of Daisy's landscape. "The 

Big Red Barn used to be some shade of 

green," explains Susan. Evidently plants 

were chosen to specifically complement 

this color. 

The end result was a pleasant intermingling 

of shades and textures, from 

barn to gardens, and flower to flower. 

Daisy and her gardener, Louis DiRusso 

Sr., worked daily to maintain the beauty 

she had created. But in 1937, the Farrands 

moved out of the A.D. White 

House, and for a number of reasons the 

gardens began to decline. 

For example, Daisy herself removed 

some of the plantings when she left. This 

changed the gardens from the start. 

Though DiRusso remained to look after 

the gardens, he had other maintenance 

responsibilities across the campus. 

During this time, the university was 

expanding. The Buildings and Grounds 

crew became responsible for an increasing 

number of landscape projects, decreasing 

the time they could spend at any 

one site. Therefore when President Edmund 

E. Day and his wife came to live in 

the mansion, "Mrs. Day was concerned 

about the gardens," relates Susan, but 

there was little she could do. 

When President Deane W. Malott 

took office, he and his family were the 

first to live outside the President's Mansion. 

Susan contends that with this 

event, "There was no longer the 

pressure of the president living in the 

house to keep the gardens maintained, 

or the gardeners motivated." The 

university redirected the Building and 

Grounds crew to other, more critical 

areas around the campus. The flowerbeds 

fell into disrepair. 

Today, little remains. The slate wallgarden 

is hidden by nondescript shrubs; 

the back borders and their companion 

beds are nonexistent. Though both far 

back borders still exist, they are planted 

with varieties uncharacteristic of Daisy's 

original design. 

But last fall, the first steps towards 

restoration were begun. In September, 

ground was broken to form the two back 

borders. These and the two far back 

beds will be planted this spring with the 

help of horticulture students from one 

of Professor Mower's courses. 

Though flowers will be similar to 

those Daisy used, the borders will not be 

identical. Professor Mower explains: 

"This is a garden restoration activity, 

but in keeping with the '80s. It will resemble 

the original very closely, but with 

some modifications." A number of factors 

necessitate these changes, including 

limited funds, landscape alterations, and 

the influence of modern horticulture. 

As an example, the left back border 

(as observed from the house) is slightly 

to the right of the original. An outdoor 

watering system was put in one year, and 

if the gardens were replicated exactly, 

the outlet for this would be located in 

the center of the bed. 

In planting the border gardens, some 

of the original varieties will be replaced 

by their modern counterparts. Susan ex- 

MAY 1984


Daisy Farrand in the mid-1930s and, 

left, the rock garden she designed. The 

West Highland Terrier was her The 

Hon. Tim my Chichester. 

Below, the same area below the 

White House, today, rebuilt as the 

Ruth Uris Garden.

plains that "many are just not offered in 

the trade anymore, while others are 

weaker and less disease-resistant than 

current cultivars." Also, no funds have 

been allocated to send to England for 

Daisy's delphinium seeds, so a native 

variety will have to suffice. 

Irene Lekstutis '81, another graduate 

student in horticulture, is supplying a 

good number of the plants. Having completed 

her research on the taxonomy of 

herbaceous perennials, Irene is donating 

appropriate plants from her test gardens 

to the restoration project. 

She will also help Susan design a new 

planting scheme for the far back borders, 

because the colors in Daisy's original 

plan would clash with the Big Red 

Barn today. Susan and Irene will be substituting 

warmer colors for the pastel 

shades of sixty years ago, as well as introducing 

some currently popular plants 

that Daisy would not have used. 

"The far back borders will be a compromise," 

Irene explains. "We will update 

them for the current trends in plant 

materials." However, Susan points out 

that "we will still try to use some of the 

same criteria Daisy used in designing the 

beds." 

Once the gardens are planted this 

spring, Irene predicts "it will be three 

years before we'll really see the whole 

effect, and the plants become established." 

She also believes that only continued 

maintenance will prevent the restored 

beds from meeting the same fate 

as their predecessors. "A perennial 

border is an artist's garden, and takes 

keeping after, as opposed to one initial 

planting and then that's it.' " 

Susan agrees, and is developing a proposal 

for the future maintenance of the 

gardens. Possible solutions include turning 

the beds over to the horticulture department 

as a classroom project, and 

hiring a student as summer curator. 

However, Professor Mower says that to 

be most effective, "Maintenance will 

have to be within the framework of the 

regular help," which includes the Building 

and Grounds crew. 

Though lost for many years, Daisy 

Farrand's gardens will once again grace 

the lawns behind the President's Mansion. 

But the flowers are more than an 

addition to the landscape; they represent 

a small artifact of Cornell history. Much 

as the statue of Ezra Cornell on the main 

quadrangle immortalizes the founder of 

the university, so the A.D. White House 

gardens will preserve the memory of 

Daisy Farrand. 

History, Si! 

Walter LaFeber 

produces a book 

on Central America 

that affirms why 

we study the past 

By Jeremy Schlosberg 

A visitor leaving the office of Professor 

Walter LaFeber will notice on the wall to 

the right of the door a quotation that has 

been framed, hung, and placed there, no 

doubt, so it will be seen on the way out. 

It reads: "Those who do not know history 

are bound to repeat its mistakes. 

Those who do know history are bound 

to repeat its mistakes anyway." 

Risking the sort of generalization that 

all good historians scramble to avoid, 

one might find epitomized in this aphorism 

the sense and sensibility of the man 

whose walls it decorates. On the one 

hand an imposing figure—LaFeber is an 

acclaimed foreign policy scholar, lecturer, 

and author; he is also quite tall— 

this unassuming professor of history is, 

on the other hand, a man who repeatedly 

undervalues his own importance. 

This has been even harder to do of 

late, since LaFeber's conspicuous entry 

into the increasingly heated debate over 

United States policy in Central America 

with the publication last year of his book 

Inevitable Revolutions: The United 

States in Central America. In the book, 

LaFeber denounces the dominant, militaristic 

role of the US in Central America—not 

only the one the country is currently 

taking, but the role it has taken 

throughout the 20th century. 

Yet even as he has become a pursued 

speaker and commentator, Walter La- 

Feber himself demurs at the role many 

are ready to assign him. "People think I 

know the historical background, so they 

think they can get that out of me fast 

Jeremy Schlosberg © 1984 

and cheap," says LaFeber, with a small 

grin that often accompanies his quiet 

humor. When it is suggested that he is 

somewhat of an expert on the subject, he 

responds quickly, "I'm not." After a 

pause, he elaborates. 

"Dale Corson [the former president] 

defined an expert as anyone with a briefcase 

sixty or more miles from home." 

LaFeber stops to laugh. "If that's the 

definition, I qualify. But there are people 

around Cornell who know a hell of a 

lot more about Central America than I 

do. The only reason I think people call 

me up is because I just happened to publish 

a book." 

The person who lured this mild-mannered 

historian into the center of such a 

volatile debate was C. Michael Curtis 

'56, a senior editor at The Atlantic. 

Long an admirer of LaFeber's work, 

Curtis enjoyed a 1978 treatise of La- 

Feber's on the Panama Canal enough to 

review it positively in The Atlantic. 

When Central America began making 

the headlines in 1980, Curtis called and 

asked if he would do an article on the region 

for the magazine. 

"I said sure," recalls LaFeber. "I said 

I'd get it to him in a couple of months." 

He pauses. "It took me about eighteen 

months, I think, to figure out what was 

going on, and when I finally was ready 

to write the article for Mike, I'd written 

something like 500 or 600 manuscript 

pages." 

It was, he says, the only way he found 

to organize everything he was learning. 

"I really didn't know the area very well 

at all, even though I had done the book 

on Panama." Most of the other nine 

books he has written (or, in one case, cowritten) 

have dealt with American expansionism, 

Russian-American relations, 

or both. 

Central America presented him with 

"an incredibly complicated story," he 

says. "There was an awful lot to look at. 

You're dealing with five different countries, 

not one, and they're all different, 

as I discovered." What he finally wrote 

for The Atlantic turned out to be the key 

part of his argument in the book, which 

itself took shape after 150 pages were cut 

from his original work. 

Now that he does know a thing or two

about Central America, LaFeber is involved 

in "informing the debate," as he 

says, even though he admits he doesn't 

particularly like to go out and talk ("I 

do not like to fly in and out of Ithaca in 

the middle of the winter, for one thing, 

and I've got obligations here, which I 

take quite seriously"). That he nonetheless 

continues to make public appearances 

and statements addressing the situation 

in Central America is testament 

both to his concern for what is happening 

there and to what he feels is his "obligation 

as an educator." 

Much of Inevitable Revolutions concerns 

the historical illustration of one of 

the quotations with which LaFeber 

opens the book: the eye-opening 1980 remark 

by Ambler Ross, the US ambassador 

to Panama, that "[w]hat we see in 

Central America today would not be 

much different if Fidel Castro and the 

Soviet Union did not exist." 

Examining the history of American 

domination in the region, LaFeber 

shows how successive US administrations 

have misunderstood Central America's 

miseries. Although employed time 

and again, both economic aid and military 

intervention have done nothing but 

accelerate revolutionary conditions, he 

maintains, and will continue to do so so 

long as the US puts its own interests 

above an objective reading of the region 

and its history. 

LaFeber analyzes what he considers to 

be the two main approaches toward 

Central America competing for favor today 

in the United States. 'One is associated 

with the Reagan administration," 

he says, "and that is that you use military 

pressure until governments change 

and become what you want them to become. 

"The other one [argues] that the Reagan 

approach has produced very bad results. 

It's driven some of those governments 

farther to the left, and accelerated 

the revolution. So a better way of doing 

it might be to bring in outside negotiators—a 

so-called contadora group [consisting 

of representatives from Venezuela, 

Colombia, Panama, and Mexico]— 

into the situation and allow them with 

the United States to try to mediate between 

the different factions, and ask for 

ceasefires, and try to work out political 

solutions. 

"Which would be very difficult," La- 

Feber hastens to add. "Extremely difficult. 

I don't think the Reagan administration 

can do it. Politically, they're 

about the least talented group we've had 

in power in a long time. And I just don't 

think they can probably negotiate something 

like that. But it seems to me that's 


He argues calmly, 

even in public, 

without crusading 

as do others 

in current debates 

much preferable to the military policy 

that they've been trying to follow, and 

that has not produced much." 

LaFeber states his arguments calmly; 

even when speaking in public, he lacks 

the strident, "crusading" tone that often 

seems to characterize many who address 

Central American issues. He delivers 

the facts as he's discovered them with 

perspective, avoiding neither the gruesome 

reality of human rights violations 

nor the occasional opportunity to inject 

a touch of humor. 

For instance, in a Citizen's Forum on 

Central America held at Ithaca High 

School in late February, LaFeber discussed 

the different theories which the 

US has applied in Central American 

countries. In Honduras, we've employed 

the "Hallmark Theory, as in Hallmark 

cards," he explained. "That is, when 

you care enough to send the very best, 

send the United States Marines." 

As Virginia M. Harrington, Grad, 

notes, "He's not the crusader type. It's 

just not his style." 

"I care about this issue a great deal, 

because there are people dying down 

there," he says. "So if you know something 

about the area, and you think you 

can do something about it, you like to 

feel you're contributing something to 

helping resolve the situation. 

"When it comes right down to it, the 

reason I did the book, and the reason I 

accepted Mike Curtis's offer to do the 

thing for The Atlantic which set this all 

off, was that I had the feeling, and I still 

have the feeling, that we're talking 

about this very much in a vacuum. That 

we talk about policy in Central America 

as if it started in 1979, or in 1981. And 

you simply cannot understand what's 

going on down there until you go way, 

way back and see the roots of it." 

The Midwesterner 

There are some who might suggest that 

Walter LaFeber is a consummate midwesterner—confident 

yet low-key, solid 

but self-effacing. There is good reason 

for this "midwestern" turn of character: 

LaFeber was born and raised in Walkerton, 

Indiana, a quiet town of 2,500 

("eighteen miles from Notre Dame Stadium" 

is how he locates it). 

As he grew up, and even as he headed 

down to Hanover College in the southern 

part of the state, LaFeber never assumed 

his life would ultimately take him 

very far out of Walkerton. His father 

ran a local grocery store; young Walter 

figured he would eventually do the 

same. He did not come to realize his father 

had larger things in mind for him 

until one summer early in his undergraduate 

career. 

"One night, he and I were working 

very late," he remembers. "I said something 

about coming back to town and 

running the grocery store someday. And 

he said, 'No, you're not going to do 

that.' Which was news to me, because I 

just assumed he thought I was going to 

come back." 

Himself barred from college by a father 

who needed him in the store, the elder 

LaFeber refused to consign the same 

life to his own son. 

Suddenly stripped of his presupposed 

career, Walkerton's Walter LaFeber decided 

to pursue the study of history due 

nearly as much to a great teacher he had 

as to his own love of the subject. Right 

there "in this little Presbyterian school 

in southern Indiana," says LaFeber, "I 

had really the best teacher I've ever run 

across. He got a lot of us interested in 

history. Just in the four years I was 

there, he probably produced six PhDs in 

history." 

A year and a half after graduating 

from Hanover, LaFeber received, in 

1956, his master's degree in history from 

Stanford University. Proceeding to do 

his doctoral work at the University of 

Wisconsin, he studied there under Prof. 

Fred Harrington '33, who soon became 

Wisconsin's president. 

After a rough start in a doctoral program 

so rigorous and tedious that he and 

two close friends were on the verge of 

quitting, LaFeber and his classmates 

found their strength and faith renewed 

in'a late-night talk with Wisconsin's renowned 

"revisionist" historian, William 

Appleman Williams. (Disputing the 

work of many leading historians, especially 

concerning the nature of the Cold 

War, revisionists like Williams sought to 

remove what they saw as ideology from 

historiography, and to inject a true sense 

of history into contemporary writing 

and thinking.) 

On this particular night in Wisconsin, 

the three PhD candidates confronted

Walter LaFeber, the Marie Underbill 

Noll professor of American history, 

with a student in LaFeber's book-lined 

office in McGraw Hall. 

Williams with the basic question of 

4 * whether or not history was really worth 

anybody's time," says LaFeber. "And 

Williams convinced us without a doubt 

that it was. The three of us came out after 

that saying, Ύeah, we want to do 

this.' 

"One of the things Williams did was 

convince us history could contribute to 

present politics," he adds, a theme that 

has proven central to his own years as a 

historian. As Prof. Joel Silbey, American 

history, says of LaFeber, "His 

whole career has been to try to give people 

a sense that history counts, that before 

you can know anything, you must 

know the history." 

Coming to Cornell straight from graduate 

school, LaFeber found himself 

stepping into the footsteps of a noted 

Cornell historian, Dexter Perkins, the 

man LaFeber credits with having established 

the study of diplomatic history on 

the Hill. "I did not replace Perkins," 

stresses LaFeber. "Nobody replaces 

Perkins. I sort of got the job." 

And he's sort of been doing the job 

ever since. "He's immensely popular," 

reports Prof. Thomas Holloway, a historian 

and director of the Latin American 

Studies Program. Every year, students 

flock to LaFeber's survey course 

on the history of American foreign 

policy. "It's a matter of finding a room 

big enough to hold them," says Holloway. 

"If you've ever tried to see him during 

his office hours, you'll know how popular 

he is," Virginia Harrington adds. 

"He's always got a line." LaFeber is the 

chairman of Harrington's graduate committee; 

she has twice been a teaching assistant 

for his courses. 

LaFeber's warmth shines through 

even in the lecture hall, where he stands 

and speaks not from behind a lectern 

reading notes, but out in front of any 

such obstruction, with his arms folded 

comfortably, or hands resting on whatever 

table or counter happens to be near. 

LaFeber doesn't really "lecture," he 

talks. His manner makes even the most 

well-prepared material appear extemporaneous; 

his talks have the exact sense of 

information, drama, and humor needed 

to sustain the interest of a large class 

through a full fifty-minute period. 

The lectures are "finely-crafted, setpiece 

presentations," according to Holloway. 

"I think everyone would tell you 

he's a great teacher," Silbey adds. "You 

can see it in the dedication and devotion 

of his students." 

If Cornell students admire LaFeber's 

work as a professor, LaFeber returns the 

favor. "Students in my senior seminar 

from 1981 to 1983," he wrote in Inevitable 

Revolutions''s acknowledgements, 

"were not only delightful to work with, 

but helped me understand US-Central 

American relations far more than their 

grades indicated." 

"Cornell students have always been 

good," he adds, "but I really think there 

have not been any better than the ones 

we've got right now. Nor any any more 

fun to teach." 

LaFeber also praises another resource 

of the university: "The great fringe benefit 

of Cornell is the library. My wife 

and I lived in Washington for five 

months [he was teaching at the Cornellin-Washington 

program], and I think 

the thing I missed immediately was that 

library. When I had to do writing down 

there, I was frustrated, because I 

couldn't get to the Cornell library." He 

says he came to appreciate its collection 

when writing Inevitable Revolutions, 

working in fields in which he had to 

learn a lot in a hurry. 

His problem in educating himself on 

Central America embraced more than 

just the volume of material to study. 

"There's been a lot of work done, but 

it's sort of spread out, in out-of-the-way 

places." In addition to the Cornell librarians, 

the staffs at various US presidents' 

libraries were particularly helpful 

in his search for necessary sources. 

Further help came from colleagues in 

the history department. "It's easily one 

of the top dozen history departments in 

the country," LaFeber asserts. "We 

know each other pretty well, especially 

on the American side. I feel very free in 

giving manuscripts to these people, and 

they're very frank in taking me apart on 

them." 

Praise & Grumbles 

Inevitable Revolutions won the approval 

of many critics and readers outside the 

university. Murat Williams, former ambassador 

to El Salvador, has called it 

"the best book on Central America in 

over 100 years." Even LaFeber himself 

acknowledges he's had "a number of 

good reviews." 

Still, there are bound to be grumblers, 

and his book has attracted its share. One 

of the criticisms, he reports, has been

that he didn't cite enough Spanish material. 

"One reason I didn't use more 

Spanish sources," he explains, "is because 

some of them are so critical of the 

United States that it would look as 

though I loaded the book. Maybe I 

should have put some of it in; maybe I 

made a mistake. 

"The other reason I didn't is because 

some of the best stuff—for example, on 

the impact of American policy on the 

Central American military—is in English." 

In general, says LaFeber, the book's 

detractors "tend to be people who were 

closely associated with John F. Kennedy 

or Jimmy Carter. I'm very harsh on 

Kennedy and Carter in the book, and 

these people read the book, don't like 

what I did to their heros, and so they 

don't like the book in general. 

"And that's understandable," he 

continues. "If I didn't want to get into 

that kind of thing, I would have written 

a book about one hour of the Battle of 

Gettysburg. When you get into a highly 

politicized, highly sensitive topic like 

this, you expect it. And I take a very 

strong, critical view of American 

policy." 

LaFeber says he arrived at his conclusions 

through his determination to read 

the information he found as objectively 

as possible, something he suggests is not 

always done, especially in Washington, 

DC. 

"The White House gets excellent information 

on what's going on in Central 

America," he says. "But it's also very 

clear that the White House has not paid 

a whole lot of attention to that information. 

They simply filter it out." 

After LaFeber finished work on his 

book, he decided to take a trip to Central 

America, "to see what I'd been writing 

about." As on a 1977 trip to Panama, 

Tom Holloway joined him. Holloway 

is fluent in Spanish; LaFeber is not, 

although he can, according to Holloway, 

read the language very well, and 

understand "a lot more than you might 

think for not having lived in a Spanishspeaking 

country." 

The two of them traveled to Costa 

Rica and Nicaragua—two countries 

about as different as could be, according 

to LaFeber. "Costa Rica is democratic," 

he says. "Really democratic. It has 

a higher literacy rate than the United 

States." It also has, he discovered, a 

considerable community of Cornellians. 

"Then you fly for about forty-five 

minutes," LaFeber notes, "and end up 

in Nicaragua. And there you are in the 

middle of the Sandinista revolution. In 

the middle of a city that was just devas- 

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Sheer volume 

of data puts 

a big premium 

on experience 

among historians 

tated by the '72 earthquake and never rebuilt." 

LaFeber and Holloway were able to 

see a little of the countryside during their 

Nicaraguan stay. LaFeber was struck by 

how great an American cultural and economic 

influence remains there, even as 

the country strives to break away from 

all things North American: "It's very 

strange," he says, "that the Nicaraguan 

national anthem—the revolutionary national 

anthem—condemns the United 

States, and then you look across the 

street and there they are playing baseball." 

LaFeber's visit confirmed his apprehension 

over what American policy has 

been doing to Nicaragua. "The United 

States is putting such tremendous military 

pressure on Nicaragua now that the 

Nicaraguans are going to get help from 

anywhere they can get it. So, in a real 

sense, Reagan's policy has pushed Nicaragua 

closer and closer to Cubans and 

Soviets. And I think that has to be understood." 

Regardless of the high profile his involvement 

in Central American issues 

has given him, Walter LaFeber remains 

nothing but what he has been now for 

more than twenty-five years, a dedicated 

historian. He rejects the thought that 

any one type of history might be more 

"relevant" than another. "Any field in 

history or political science is important 

for what it tells us about the present, depending 

on the kinds of questions you 

ask of it. 

"All of us are historians in one way or 

another," he adds. "We all make decisions 

every hour of the day based on our 

view of history. That's not even a question. 

It's just whether or not you're conscious 

of it, and you do it on the basis of 

good or bad history, that's all." 

LaFeber acknowledges that the ability 

to make such historical judgments is not 

getting any easier. One reason is the advent 

of telecommunication. "Presidents 

like Washington, Lincoln, and the 

Adamses conducted a lot of their busi- 

ness in writing," he says. Starting with 

McKinley, however, presidents began to 

conduct their affairs by cable or by telephone. 

"It changes the nature of the research. 

You depend more and more on 

oral history, and that is a very dangerous 

kind of history." 

Another complication is sheer volume. 

"There was a great historian at 

Cornell named Carl Becker," LaFeber 

says, "and he and his generation believed, 

in the words of one of them, that 

written history was an act of faith. And 

to a certain extent it is. You can't totally 

recreate the past. Particularly when you 

get into 20th-century material, there is 

so much archival material, so much 

manuscript material, that you can research 

your subject forever." 

Ultimately, he says, "you've got to 

work out some kind of basis for selection 

and be able to defend that. That's 

the nature of history, whether you're 

writing about the medieval period, or 

about US policy in the 1980s. You cannot 

totally recreate the past. You've got 

to do it on the basis of selected evidence, 

and particular kinds of approaches, and 

then be ready to defend it. 

"Many years ago," adds LaFeber, 

"the American Historical Association 

heard all this business about how either 

mathematicians or physicists do their 

best work before the age of 30, or something 

like this—their most innovative 

work. So they took a poll of the profession 

to find out when historians do their 

important work, or their most innovative 

work. The average age was 49. 

"And I think that's the nature of the 

profession," says LaFeber, who turns 51 

in August. "It usually takes you that 

long to figure out what's important, and 

how you handle evidence, and how you 

can do it honestly and creatively. It takes 

you an awful long time to do that." 

More than fifteen years ago, LaFeber 

himself wrote for the Alumni News an 

article discussing the work of the revisionist 

historians. His conclusion is 

worth restating. For just as Walter La- 

Feber has risen to become, in Joel Silbey's 

words, "a very, very important 

historian—a leader in the revisionist 

school of history," so do his words from 

1968 acquire renewed meaning when reflected 

onto his own exceptional career. 

"[W]hatever else the revisionists accomplish," 

he wrote, "perhaps their 

greatest contribution will be a reaffirmation 

of the faith that the study of history 

is the necessary means through which 

the promise of the past can be transformed 

into fulfilment." Luckily we 

have people like Walter LaFeber to remind 

us of the promise of the past.

The University- 

Industrial Complex 

Cornell relies 

increasingly 

on private 

sources to help 

support research 

By William Steele '54 

Cornell is seeking closer ties with 

America's industrial corporations, and 

by no means just because federal aid for 

higher education is slacking. 

This is a natural move for the university, 

in the view of President Frank H.T. 

Rhodes. He notes that the Morrill Land 

Grant Act of 1862 created a partnership 

between the nation's farmers and the 

land grant universities that is largely responsible 

for the outstanding success of 

American agriculture. But the land grant 

act was also meant to promote the ' 'mechanic 

arts," and there we haven't done 

so well, he suggests. 

Rhodes says he would like to see a 

closer partnership between the universities 

and private industry to meet national 

needs, to help universities prepare 

their students for careers, and to attract 

and hold faculty. 

Financially, at least, such a partnership 

with industry is beginning to appear. 

Although the federal government 

is still the biggest supporter of university 

research, the amount contributed by private 

industry is on the rise. Many see this 

as a positive trend, good for universities 

and their students, as well as for industry. 

Even good for the country. A few 

urge caution, saying that the industry 

connection could change the way university 

research is done. 

At this writing, ninety-seven private 

companies are funding research at Cornell 

with a total of $9 million. The big 

spender is IBM, with seventeen separate 

projects (some spanning several years) 

totalling $1,657,000. The largest single 

grant is from Semiconductor Research 

Corporation, a newly organized consor- 

tium of computer companies devoted to 

supporting basic research, which has 

contributed $998,000 for the current 

year to support work by Prof. Jeffrey 

Frey '59, Electrical Engineering, at the 

National Submicron Facility on campus. 

At the other end of the scale are grants 

of $1,500 here and $3,000 there to support 

projects in floriculture and vegetable 

crop breeding. Overall, however, the 

list is heavy with chemical, computer, 

and agribusiness companies, with typical 

grants running on the order of $50,000 

to $100,000 per year. To the university, 

this is money for teaching as well as research: 

it is by working on such research 

projects that graduate students learn to 

4 'do science." 

The contributions to Cornell by 

American industry are many. Corporate 

officers and scientists serve on the Board 

of Trustees and on college and departmental 

advisory boards, as well as offering 

advice individually. Corporate philanthropy 

includes unrestricted funds, 

contributions of equipment and material 

for research worth several millions of 

dollars a year, as well as the sums tied to 

specific sponsored research projects. 

Looking at research funding alone, industry 

now contributes about 3.8 per 

cent of university research funding nationwide, 

and by some estimates that 

figure could soon double. Cornell is well 

ahead of the national average. According 

to its Office of Sponsored Programs, 

6.1 per cent of Cornell's research funding 

for the 1982-83 fiscal year came from 

industry. 

That constitutes more than $9 million 

out of a total research budget of about 

$150 million. Most of the rest comes 

from the state and federal governments, 

along with about $8 million budgeted 

from Cornell's own funds. 

Figures for the current year aren't yet 

available, but Thomas R. Rogers, director 

of sponsored programs, guesses from 

the contracts coming across his desk that 

industry contributions to the university 

will be substantially larger than last year, 

even without counting the large sums 

(story, page 2) for the new biotechnology 

program. 

Cornell receives more industry fund- 

Hill?" October 1983 News) draw heavily 

on private support. Close behind is 

Prof. Lester Eastman '52, PhD '57, 

Electrical Engineering, with $257,550 in 

funding from five different companies. 

(He also receives nearly $4.5 million in 

federal funds.) 

Besides direct grants for research, the 

university has a number of "associates" 

programs. In return for annual contributions, 

companies enrolled in these 

programs get a continuing update on research 

in their fields. Among these are 

the Cornell Manufacturing, Engineering, 

and Productivity Program 

(COMEP) in manufacturing engineering, 

and the Program in Submicron 

Structures (PROSUS, described in 

"Thinking Small," April 1982 News). 

Prof. Robert Barker, biochemistry, 

the university vice president for research, 

thinks the amount of money 

coming from industry might possibly 

double, but is unlikely to increase much 

more than that. But, he says, "One of 

the most important things about it is the 

message it delivers that industry sees the 

research universities as being important 

elements in their survival, and the message 

it delivers to undergraduates that 

there are opportunities in industry for 

worthwhile careers." 

Money isn't the only reason for seeking 

closer ties with industry, President 

Rhodes notes. Among others, he lists the 

fact that most of Cornell's graduates will 

find employment in industry, so the university 

needs a better understanding of 

what they'll be doing, as well as the fact 

that the university has a stake in keeping 

the economy healthy, by helping industry 

develop the "technology of tomorrow." 

"What we're looking for as well," he 

ing than many other schools for several 

reasons: it is a "research university," 

rather than one where teaching is the only 

major activity. Usually it is listed 

among the top ten nationally in research 

funding, along with other schools with 

much larger student and faculty populations. 

Its engineering and agriculture schools 

have always had close ties with industry. 

And finally, there is what Ronald Stone, 

the university's director of corporate development, 

calls the "extraordinary entrepreneurial 

nature" of the Cornell faculty. 

Researchers with a project in mind 

will go out and find their own funding, 

from whatever source is available. 

The current "superstar" in entrepreneurship, 

according to Barker, is nobelist 

Prof. Kenneth Wilson, physics, 

whose Theorynet and proposed Theory 

Center ("A Supercomputer on the

says, "are joint research programs, industrial 

companies who will come to us 

as affiliates or send visiting lecturers, 

continuing programs in professional education, 

joint conferences, opportunities 

for consulting and faculty work in 

industry, joint efforts to address national 

problems like pollution, productivity, 

automation. All of those we ought to be 

playing an increasingly important role 

in, and we've got to do it in partnership 

with industry." 

About three years ago, with such ideas 

in mind, Rhodes created the Corporate 

Liaison Committee, composed of highlevel 

executives in industry, many of 

them Cornell alumni. Robert G. Engel 

'53, vice president and treasurer of Morgan 

Guaranty Trust Company, and 

Charles F. Knight '57, chief executive 

officer of Emerson Electric, are cochairmen 

of the committee. 

According to Knight, committee 

members see their job as one of helping 

the university "interface" with industry, 

for the benefit of both sides. "The channels 

of communication get better and the 

money gets spent more effectively," he 

says, emphasizing that the committee 

has merely made suggestions, and that 

any actual accomplishments in improving 

industry-university cooperation 

should be credited to university staff. 

Rhodes credits the committee with 

helping to restructure the office of the 

vice president for research, bringing 

graduate and post-doctoral education 

and patents and licensing under its jurisdiction. 

The committee is to meet again 

this spring, and Rhodes hopes it will, 

among other things, look at ways Cornell 

can contribute to continuing professional 

education for industry. 

Others, like Prof. W. Donald Cooke, 

Chemistry, who retired last year from 

the research vicepresidency Barker now 

holds, point out that industry-university 

ties used to be very close, but have faded 

since the federal government began to 

supply massive funding for basic research. 

Barker agrees. "Most chemistry departments 

thirty years ago had lots of industrial 

connections," he says. "Some 

of them have kept a few, but they became 

less and less important as the federal 

money poured in." He sees what's 

happening now as a "pendulum swing" 

back to the old ways. Both agree that a 

number of changes in society over the 

last few years have helped move the pendulum. 

Among them: 

• Industry is becoming more and 

more dependent on high technology, 

both for its products and the methods of 

manufacturing them. The time lag be- 


President summons 

alumni to plan 

new avenues 

of cooperation 

with companies 

tween basic discoveries and marketable 

products is growing shorter. 

• Engineering colleges are doing more 

research, in addition to teaching. 

• Industries themselves are doing 

more, and better quality research. This 

means a company will have more scientists 

on its staff who have some sort of 

relationship with university scientists. 

• Industry depends on the universities 

to train future workers, and today they 

must be highly trained in science and 

technology. They get this training by doing 

and being exposed to actual research, 

so it's in the best interests of industry 

to support that research. 

• New technologies, especially biotechnology 

and semiconductors, have 

caught industries napping, without any 

research base of their own. Most of the 

advances in biotechnology so far have 

been in universities, so industries are going 

to the source. 

• Increasing numbers of university 

scientists are being tied up in exclusive 

contractual relationships in their offcampus 

hours with one company or another. 

Getting industry funding for oncampus 

research seems preferable. 

• When Congress cut back on research 

funding, it also increased tax 

credits to industry for research expenditures. 

Industries can often get "more 

bang for the buck" by financing outside 

research than by doing it in-house. 

Campus research relationships with 

corporations lead to corporate giving in 

other areas, according to Ron Stone. 

"We would not have received $12.8 million 

in corporate philanthropic support 

last year," Stone says, "if it were not for 

the history of faculty ties with companies. 

We are known to many of those 

companies because of the research ties." 

Stone's job is to keep in touch with 

key people at some 200 corporations to 

which Cornell might turn for specific financial 

needs. He doesn't handle research 

funding, which is Barker's responsibility, 

but he sees research relationships 

as one of many entrees—he 

uses the word "ports"—through which 

he might approach a company, along 

with, say, student recruiting or alumni 

who work there. 

Corporate philanthropy, like research 

funding, is based on enlightened self-interest, 

Stone believes. "Corporations 

are not in business to give away 

money," he points out. "In fact, they 

are in business to keep it. That they give 

at all is somewhat amazing!" They do 

give, he says, because their lifeblood is 

tied to the educational process and to its 

product. 

Industry representatives agree. Richard 

Darragh, PhD '57, director of product 

development for Procter & Gamble, 

says, "I think most corporations realize 

corporate citizenship is important. If society 

is not healthy, we can't maintain a 

healthy corporation." 

Not everyone welcomes the industry 

connection, however. When the biotechnology 

center was brought before the 

Faculty Council of Representatives for 

approval, there were about eighty 

"ayes" and four or five "nays" in the 

voice vote. According to Barker, the dissenters 

argued that there are such different 

philosophies guiding the university 

and corporations that the two cannot interact 

without one perturbing the other. 

Barker adds that "the people putting 

forth that argument perceived that all 

the perturbation would be in the direction 

of the university. You could argue 

that it might all flow the other way." 

Prof. Walter Lynn, Environmental 

Engineering, director of the Program on 

Science, Technology, and Society (STS), 

and Prof. Franklin A. Long, Chemistry, 

emeritus, a member of STS, have studied 

industry-university interaction in 

some detail and written two articles on 

the subject. Lynn suggests several concerns 

that he feels must be dealt with if 

the university is to work more closely 

with industry. 

First, he worries that emphasis at universities 

may shift away from basic to 

applied research. Even when they support 

"basic" research, industry funders 

will be looking for practical applications, 

at least somewhere down the road, 

and not all basic research comes with 

built-in justification. For example, Lynn 

says, "If I want to study the stars, I really 

have to struggle to explain what use 

it's going to be. The interest of astronomers 

is really just to understand something. 

The object of basic research is to 

try to understand what nature is about in 

extraordinarily lavish detail." 

"The training of graduate students," 

he adds, "is intimately tied to the research 

those students do. If they do ap-

plied research, we're clearly talking 

about turning out a different kind of 

student. The university is really there to 

educate people with a responsibility to 

expand our knowledge base." 

A more immediate conflict is that industries 

funding research often want to 

keep the results to themselves, to preserve 

a business advantage. "If the connection 

with any external funder begins 

to impose covenants of a proprietary 

form," Lynn says, "you really put the 

institution in grave jeopardy. Its educational 

mission is threatened." He says 

that under such conditions faculty members 

could begin to function as independent 

entrepreneurs with no institutional 

connection. 

So far, Cornell has resisted attempts to 

impose secrecy, in government-funded 

as well as industry-funded research (see 

"Science's Need to Know" in the October 

1983 News). Barker cites one minor 

exception: in some cases a corporation 

may wish to provide a researcher with 

background information that it wishes 

kept secret. For example, a faculty member 

working on pest control might be 

told the structural formula of a company's 

current pesticide, to use as a standard 

of comparison to a new chemical 

being developed. "We can do that," 

Barker says, "provided it is well understood 

what that means, because it could 

[otherwise] result in a situation where 

the investigator couldn't discuss his results." 

Cornell will accept a delay of up to 

three months before publishing the results 

of research, to allow time for a patent 

application to be filed. This delay 

isn't onerous, Barker says, because it usually 

takes much longer than that to get 

a faculty research paper into print. He 

adds that delay agreements don't prevent 

a researcher from discussing results 

with colleagues in the meantime. It's 

publication, not private communication, 

that compromises the possibility of obtaining 

a patent. 

Corporations often hold out for patent 

rights on research they finance, 

Lynn says, even where it's quite obvious 

that nothing patentable could emerge. 

This, he says, is the corporation's legal 

counsel looking out for its client's interests. 

Cornell tries to hold onto the patent 

rights resulting from on-campus research, 

but will then grant an exclusive 

license to exploit the patent to a private 

firm (see the next article). 

Another danger in increasing dependence 

on industry funding, according to 

some critics, is that the interests of large 

corporations may not always be the best 

interests of society as a whole. If agribusiness 

pays for agriculture research, 

what becomes of the needs of the small 

farmer? If oil companies control energy 

research, who will support studies of solar 

energy? There seems no simple answer 

to this question, which can also be asked 

of a system of federal funding (the Reagan 

administration, for instance, is far 

from supportive of solar energy). 

Asked if the university itself could 

support research to correct such imbalances, 

Barker is doubtful. "The university's 

contribution to research and scholarship 

is through faculty salaries," he 

explains, adding that research that requires 

resources beyond existing university 

laboratories and libraries must be 

supported from outside. He notes that 

private foundations can take up some of 

the slack, and that the university does 

exercise some "moral decisions" about 

the kinds of research to be done when it 

chooses whom to hire. 

Most research contracts with private 

companies originate from personal relationships 

between faculty members and 

scientists working in industry. Once they 

reach agreement to do research, a pro- 

MAY 1984 27

posal is passed on to the corporation's 

headquarters and to Cornell's own administrative 

staff, where the legal details 

of the agreement are worked out. 

Barker emphasizes that the university 

is not involved in designing programs for 

its researchers. "Cornell," he says, 

"should very properly resist functioning 

in that corporate sense except [after] the 

thrust and the concept is developed by 

those who will actually be involved with 

the program. Other institutions have 

tried to work it the other way around 

and I would absolutely resist that at Cornell." 

He says, for example, that the university's 

new biotechnology program was 

conceived by a group of faculty members 

and ultimately voted upon by the 

entire faculty, and that the currently 

proposed "supercomputer" and Theory 

Patents 

The university's patent policy has been 

updated in recent years to keep in step 

with new federal laws and in hopes of 

bringing Cornell additional income from 

ideas developed by its scientists. 

Patentable ideas developed on campus 

are assigned to the Cornell Research 

Foundation, Inc. (CRF), a quasi-independent 

subsidiary of the university, 

which secures the patents and attempts 

to license the inventions to private companies 

for marketing. The university's 

vice president for research, Prof. Robert 

Barker, serves as president of CRF. Income, 

after expenses, is shared between 

the inventor and the university on a sliding 

scale: the inventor's income can 

range from 50 per cent of the first 

$10,000 down to 15 per cent of earnings 

over $100,000. The university's share 

goes to the inventor's college, usually to 

be spent on more research. 

Until recently, Cornell's biggest seller 

was the process for making honey butter, 

developed by Prof. E.J. Dyce, PhD 

'31, entomology, in 1931. Lately, the 

most profitable inventions have come 

out of the College of Veterinary Medicine, 

including a vaccine against canine 

parvovirus, and a test procedure for 

equine infectious anemia developed 

under funding by the New York State 

Racing Association. Veterinary products 


Center ideas are now going through the 

same process of discussion. 

"We can help," he says, "pull out of 

the community those ideas that the community 

wants to develop." The resultant 

research proposal then involves shared 

responsibility between faculty members 

and members of the staff of the vice 

president for research to take out and 

market to possible corporate sponsors. 

Cornell is becoming more aggressive 

in marketing its research talent to private 

industry. To many, this seems an inevitable 

result of changing times—not only 

a way to survive, but even a necessary 

step to serve the community outside the 

ivied walls. The trick, it seems, is to 

build a relationship with industry without 

compromising the underlying nature 

of Cornell. 

are much easier to bring to market than 

medicines for human beings, because 

federal testing requirements are less 

stringent. 

At present there are high hopes for a 

computerized Chinese text writer 

("High-Tech Linguistics,'' October 

1983 News), a method of cloning rare 

orchids, a simple method for controlling 

powdery mildew on greenhouse plants, 

and a realistic Concord grape flavoring. 

In the thirty years since CRF was established, 

a total of $5.6 million in royalties 

has been earned, but about $2 million 

of that has come in over the last two 

years. It has become much easier to market 

faculty members' inventions since 

the Government Patent Policy Act of 

1980. This law allows universities to seek 

patents in their own names on ideas developed 

with federal funding, and to 

grant exclusive licenses on such patents. 

In January 1983, Cornell adopted a 

policy permitting exclusive licensing. According 

to Barker, this policy is the best 

way to carry out the university's responsibility 

to make knowledge available to 

society. It's not worthwhile for a company 

to make the investment needed to 

bring an idea to market, he explains, if 

someone else could offer the same product. 

"We did the experiment on the com- 

munal sharing of the communal property 

of basic information, and it doesn't 

work in our society," he says. The new 

law allows exclusive rights to last only 

for a limited period, usually five years 

from the date of first commercial sale or 

eight years from the date of granting the 

license. The university also retains 

"march-in rights," which allow it to reclaim 

an invention that's not exploited. 

When an invention results from research 

financed by a private industry, 

ownership of the patent will depend on 

the terms of the research contract. 

Again, Cornell tries to retain such rights 

wherever possible, sometimes granting 

the funder first refusal on licensing. 

The actual work of securing patents 

and marketing is done by the Patents 

and Licensing Office, a division of CRF 

directed by H. Walter Haeussler. 

According to Haeussler, his office will 

be "taking a higher profile" in the future, 

going out to the university community 

to look for patentable ideas, rather 

than waiting for inventors to come in 

with them. With the federal redefinition 

of patent policy, he says, the university 

saw the advantages of ownership; all 

new and current employes are being 

asked to sign an agreement acknowledging 

that right. 

Haeussler also hopes to become more 

aggressive in marketing, with CRF perhaps 

taking a role in the development of 

an invention from a "laboratory curiosity" 

into a marketable product. 

He believes a lot of inventions are being 

given away. "Last year only sixty invention 

disclosures came through this 

office," he says. "That can't begin to 

scratch the surface of the number of inventions 

made at this university." —WS 

Alumni contribution of patents to the 

university is discussed in the Class of 

1922 column in this issue. 

Funding 

At the same time the nation's universities 

push for more funds for research 

from private industry, they are seeking 

to clarify and improve their funding relations 

with the federal government. 

Dale Cor son, president emeritus of Cornell, 

is the first chairman of a group un-

dertaking that improvement. 

The National Academy of Sciences explains 

the effort in its February News 

Report under the heading "Roundtable 

to Study Funding Tensions": 

"Government support for university 

research has been essential for the creativity 

and productivity that have marked 

American science and industry since 

World War II. But strains have developed 

between the federal government 

and universities in recent years as widespread 

growth has given way to tight 

budgets, stiffer regulations, and new accountability 

requirements. 

"Officials in government and universities 

have increasingly been at odds over 

such questions as how to award research 

grants, compute the costs of scientific 

study, or ensure the long-term capabilities 

of scientists and research institutions. 

Private companies, which turn often 

to universities for new ideas and 

trained manpower, have increased their 

own support of university research, but 

not without raising such other issues as 

ownership of scientific information or 

possible conflicts-of-interest among professors. 

"In an effort to bring together all the 

parties involved to ease tensions and discuss 

common problems, a Government- 

University-Industry Research Roundtable 

has been formed as an independent 

entity under the aegis of the governing 

Council of the National Academy of Sciences. 

The Roundtable, which began operation 

on January 16, seeks to enhance 

the relationship among the three groups 

by analyzing the complex institutional issues 

involved and exploring alternative 

approaches. 

" 'We hope to make American science 

as productive as possible,' said 

Dale R. Cor son . . . who is serving as the 

Roundtable's first chairperson. 'We believe 

there are ways to increase this productivity 

if we can solve some of our 

problems in an objective, rational way.' 

4 The Roundtable will be governed by 

a council of about ten distinguished representatives 

from government, universities, 

and industry. The members, who 

will be selected by the president of the 

Academy with the advice and consent of 

the Academy's Council, will identify 

and arrange for the study of specific 

problems that hinder effective interaction 

among the three groups and block 

effective university research. 

" 'We are going to try to understand 

the problems and lay out options for the 

different players,' Corson said. 'We 

hope to provide for the sort of constructive 

give-and-take that is not possible on 

a partisan basis.' " 

The Waiting Game 

Depression student 

trades three hours 

in a white shirt 

for daily meals 

at Sheldon Court 

By Louis Mihalyi '43 

There were many surprises, even shocks, 

for which I was unprepared when I entered 

college. One of these dealt with 

eating. I was not prepared for the Sheldon 

Court Restaurant. 

I was a freshman when I first entered 

the Sheldon Court Restaurant in Collegetown 

in 1939. This restaurant was located 

on College Avenue, below street 

level at the apex of the Sheldon Court 

building. Directly above was the Triangle 

Bookshop. 

As you went down the steps to the entry 

you were assaulted by the kitchen exhaust 

fan. With practice and careful 

reading you could pretty well tell the 

menu, especially after you had eaten 

there for several weeks. 

It was a family run business with 

"Mom" supervising the kitchen and 

dining room while "Pop" took care of 

the cash register. Two sons also helped 

out. In the kitchen were two substantial 

ladies who cooked. They were somewhat 

rough ladies, at times gruff, who had received 

their education in the school of 

life. They had taken a number of graduate 

courses in the same school and were 

no-nonsense queens who ruled over the 

hot ranges. 

My first exposure was the evening 

meal, the climax of the restaurant day. 

The turmoil was hard to believe. The din 

that assailed one's ears was a mild cacophony 

of talk, laughter, eating 

sounds, and the usual restaurant sounds 

of rattling dishes and clinking tableware. 

It was not unpleasant but I was astounded 

at the activity and organized 

confusion that presented itself. 

Booths lined three sides of the room. 

Tables filled the center. Near the door 

was Pop's stand where he guarded the 

cash register and cast a piercing eye over 

the dining room. Probably a dozen 

white-jacketed waiters bustled around 

the room delivering steaming plates of 

food. Every seat was taken. I had to 

stand in line until seats were available. 

The menu varied from meatloaf and 

Salisbury steak on up to T-bone steak. 

Everything was a la carte. Usually two 

vegetables and potato were offered. 

Rolls, beverage, and dessert were available. 

With care, and if your tastes were 

not extravagant, you could get a reasonable 

meal for 40 to 50 cents. The offerings 

were by no standards gourmet fare 

but they were substantial, reasonably 

well prepared, if at times unimaginative. 

The several eating places in the Collegetown 

area offered meal tickets. For 

$5 you could get $5.50 worth of food. 

That extra 50 cents was important. If 

you were careful, skipped a meal now 

and then, made do with a hamburger or 

ice cream on campus,or a 10-cent malt 

frost from the little ice cream parlor on 

Dryden Road, you could almost stretch 

the meal ticket for a full week. 

Each of the eating establishments had 

a reputation for some specialty. A small 

eatery on Eddy Street was well known 

for its huge portions of mashed potatoes, 

cradling a half cup of gravy. When 

the budget was low Eddy Street was the 

place to go. On certain days a cafeteria, 

Gilletts, offered corn fritters. This was 

another high calorie, low cost meal. 

It became apparent by the end of my 

freshman year that my funds had to be 

supplemented. Food was about the only 

thing over which I had much control. So 

before the year ended I applied for a job 

as a waiter at the Sheldon Court Restaurant. 

It was my choice because it seemed 

to employ the largest number of college 

students. 

Pop told me to come around in the 

fall. I left secure in the knowledge that 

the next year I could take care of my 

food expenses. When I returned in the 

fall Pop didn't remember me but said 

that he guessed he could take on one 

more waiter. I was given a starched, 

white jacket, a pad and pencil and was 

turned loose. This was on-the-job train- 

MAY 1984 29

ing last year's prices on my little pad. 

The white slips that were presented to 

Pop did not reflect the nickle and dime 

increases over the previous year. But 

since I was green and it my first meal I 

was allowed to survive. 

For three hours of service you were 

paid three meals. Each waiter worked a 

half hour at breakfast, an hour at noon, 

and an hour and a half during the evening 

shift. You could order anything on 

the menu except the expensive items like 

steak. Some of the whitecoats ate before 

their shift, some upon finishing. The 

shifts were staggered, especially for the 

evening meal when the tumult was highest. 

It was the evening meal that took your 

breath away. For about an hour, around 

6 p.m., every seat was taken and a line 

waited to be seated. The friendly bedlam 

constantly assaulted your ears. The waiters 

produced a steady flow of blurred 

white as they streamed in and out of the 

kitchen. The eaters contributed to the 

dissonance with laughter and loud talk. 

The talk had to be loud to be audible. 

Mom watched her dining room with 

quick eye and quicker tongue if you 

failed her standards. 

Of the two bosses, Mom was the most 

gentle. Her voice had a sharpness to it 

but she rarely needed to use it. Pop, on 

the other hand, had a mild soft voice but 

from under his moustache severe words 

could issue if the occasion demanded. 

Once one got into the routine it was easy 

work, if hectic. Three meals for three 

ing in every sense of the word. There 

were few instructions. I was shown the 

drawer where the rolls were kept, where 

the beverages were, the butter, and desserts. 

I had eaten there the previous year 

which seemed to be sufficient qualification. 

The sequence was simple enough. You 

wrote down the order from the customer 

and took the white slip to the kitchen 

where the cooks filled the plate. Then, 

sometimes with several plates piled on 

your left arm and two in your right 

hand, you steamed into the dining room. 

The two plates in your right hand were 

placed on the table and the contents of 

the left arm dealt like cards to the appropriate 

customers. Rolls and beverage 

were deposited with little fanfare. Sheldon 

Court did not stand on ceremony. 

Get them in and out as fast as you can 

was the primary rule. 

The bustle and confusion was the 

same as the year before and I soon was 

immersed in taking and delivering orders. 

I failed to look carefully at the 

menu and was hauled on the carpet during 

the middle of the meal. I was charg- 


'Get to know 

the cooks' 

proves a rule 

in peace and 

wartime, too 

hours made a substantial contribution to 

the budget. 

As the evening wound down so did the 

manic frenzy of food dispensing. By 

7:30, certainly by 8, there were more 

waiters than customers. Informality was 

the word. If there was no one to wait on, 

you sometimes sat in a booth with 

friends, always keeping an eye on the 

door should an unfed customer arrive. If 

one arrived and a waiter was not by his 

side as he sat down Pop's steely eyes 

would put you on your feet. 

Among the college crowd, tips ranged 

from unknown to nonexistent and they 

were not expected. However, occasionally 

a stranger, an outlander as it were, 

did leave a tip. These occasions were 

most likely to occur on a weekend when 

some university function brought the 

strangers to Ithaca. One big football 

weekend, I think it was the Ohio State 

game, one of the whitecoats suggested 

we pool any tips so all could share. It 

was agreed and all tips were deposited in 

a small tea pot. As I remember I got two 

25-cent tips, which went into the pot. 

The following Monday the pot was divided 

and my dividend was 15 cents. So 

much for high finance. 

An avid whistler, I was somewhat apprehensive 

one evening when I caught 

myself whistling as I delivered the 

mounds of food to my tables. No comment 

was forthcoming so I cautiously 

continued with my music. The informality 

was such that the whistling fitted 

right in. Soon most of the whitecoats 

were filling the steaming, smoky air with 

snatches of the popular songs String of 

Pearls, Mairzy Doats, Dipsy Doodle, 

and the like. 

While the cooks were gruff, underneath 

they were gentle souls. Exposure 

to years of college-type waiters had covered 

them with a steel crust. Once one 

penetrated this armor the kitchen was a 

different place. It was here that I learned 

a very important rule for surviving institutional 

life: "Get to know the cooks." 

Little did I know that within a few short 

months I would put this survival technique 

to good use in the military. 

I soon became friends with these regal 

masters of the kitchen. If I had a customer 

with a special request they would do 

what they could to satisfy it. After several 

weeks I was told, or rather ordered, to 

tell them when the plate they were filling 

was my meal. I became the recipient of 

substantial helpings of potato and vegetable. 

If there was an extra large pork 

chop in the oven it might find its way to 

my plate. An extra slice of meatloaf 

might be hidden under the mashed potatoes. 

Often they advised me as to what was 

good on the menu for that meal or even 

more important what was not so good. 

It was a pleasant and rewarding arrangement. 

I have fond memories of those unpolished 

diamonds. 

The Monday after Pearl Harbor 

brought a drastic change at the Sheldon 

Court Restaurant. The usual dissonance 

disappeared. There was noise but it was 

not the boisterous, raucous blast of previous 

days. Even the air was different. 

The steamy, smoky, haze cleared. Every 

corner was visible at a glance. The whitecoats 

still delivered their wares swiftly 

and with dispatch but a seriousness crept 

into their talk and movements. 

Within months, the whitecoats and 

the diners they served disappeared from 

the campus to disperse to far corners of 

the world, some never to return. And the 

Sheldon Court Restaurant closed its 

doors.

1984 Vacation Study lor Cornellians 

SPRING WEEKEND SEMINARS May, 1984 

4 The Soviet Union: Its Future and Ours," will provide ample food for thought at Skytop, 

Pennsylvania, May 4-6, with Professors George Gibian (Russian literature), Richard Rosecrance 

(international politics) and George Staller (Soviet economics). "Ecology in the Migration 

Season" will be explored in field study at Cape May, New Jersey, May 17-20, with Cornell's Richard 

B. Fischer (environmental education) and Ronald Howard (natural resources), joined by 

John Bull (ornithologist for the American Museum of Natural History), and Anne Galli (director 

of education for the Wetlands Institute). 

REUNION 1984 SEMINARS June, 1984 

Offered for the first time this year, pre-Reunion seminars on * Oceans and Ice: Ithaca's Geological 

Past," led by Cornell geologist Arthur Bloom, and "Is Democracy Safe? The View From 

1984," led by Professors Alice Cook (Industrial and Labor Relations), R. Ned Lebow (international 

affairs), and Theodore Lowi (American government and politics), will offer you a chance 

to experience CAU's special approach to learning just before the start of the '84 Reunion festivities. 

Both seminars will take place at Cornell, June 5-7. 

SUMMER CAU: ON-CAMPUS July,^1984 

Five one-week sessions beginning July 1. Twenty-five courses for adults and ten for 

youngsters to choose from, and a host of cultural, social, and recreational opportunities will 

make your week at Cornell absorbing and relaxing. Register early to be with the best of the Cornell 

faculty during Ithaca's most pleasant season of the year. 

SUMMER CAU: OFF-CAMPUS August, 1984 

Three different marine science programs led by director John Heiser and his able staff at the 

Shoals Marine Laboratory, Appledore Island, Maine: "Marine Mammals," August 6-11; "From 

Sea Floor to Table," August 20-25; "Science of the Sea," August 29 - September 1. 

FALL WEEK AND WEEKEND SEMINARS September & October, 1984 

Explore the impact of altitude on flora and fauna, from the top of Mt. Washington, New 

Hampshire to Appledore Island in the Gulf of Maine, September 9-15. Or join us for weekend 

field study in ornithology and ecology at Assateague, Virginia, October 18-21 or of courtship in 

human and animal society at Foxhollow, Massachusetts, October 19-21. 

Details: To obtain more information, please return this coupon to: Cornell's Adult University 

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News of Alumni 

Class Notes 

Items that may be of interest to 

readers of many classes are highlighted 

by the small head of a bear. 

We forward clippings, press releases, 

and other information about alumni 

to their class correspondents. Addresses in 

the following columns are in New York State 

unless otherwise noted. 

15 Slow Boats are Best 

I received a very interesting and enlightening 

letter from Felix Kremp, Box 215, Laughlintown, 

Pa. He has been a subscriber to the 

Alumni News since he graduated in '15. He is 

now retired, having worked for Crucible Steel 

Co's executive offices, in Pittsburgh, Pa, 

NYC, and Wash, DC. He retired in '53 and 

his wife and he had 5 yrs of marvelous travel 

to Europe, had several trips to the Caribbean 

and to Japan, including an 80-day trip by 

freighter. They found lst-class traveling by 

freighter is the best way. His wife suffered a 

stroke in '67 and died in '82. Felix now lives 

in a secluded woodland area 75 miles east of 

Pittsburgh. He is in good health, except for 

his legs. (That's my trouble, Felix.) Felix seconds 

my efforts in a search for news. Don't 

worry—we will continue to serve '15 along 

that line. 

Col Luis F Cianchini, 16801, Norwood Rd, 

Silver Spring, Md, is having trouble with his 

sight and goes monthly to Walter Reed Clinic 

for check-ups. We are still waiting to hear 

from Julian J Hast. Samuel W Guggenheim, 

935 Park Ave, Rochester, NY 14610. 

16 Music Man 

Who enlivened our Reunions over the yrs? R 

A "Andy" Anderson, of course, uke artist, 

composer, lyricist, singer, often great duets 

with his wife Peggy. Andy reports from Honolulu, 

Hawaii, he still makes recordings for 

local commercial release, at times accompanied 

by clarinetist son Allen '48. Andy, we 

need you in '86! 

A sundial inscribed in memory of Lua A 

Minns '14 provides the centerpiece for a 

garden of annuals and perennials at the 

corner of Tower Road and Garden Avenue. 

Miss Minns started the garden behind the A 

D White house and in front of Bailey Hall 

in 1915, as a practice garden for her 

students in herbacious plants. Daisy 

Farrand (see p 16) helped raise money for 

the sundial after Minns's death in 1935. In 

1960, the Miss Minns Garden was moved to 

its present location along Tower Road, next 

to the Plant Science Building, to make way 

for Malott Hall, home of the Graduate 

School of Management. 

We are sorry to learn that George H Bradley 

died last Oct 17, and extend our sympathy 

to Mrs Bradley, now living in Rome, Ga. 

George specialized in entomology, later earning 

his PhD. George retired in '63 after a lifetime 

in US Government service. He was an 

authority on the study of insects and their importance 

to disease control. We honor 

George for his contributions to human welfare. 

Vice President Ed Ludwig, Vero Beach, 

Fla, now 90, has quit golf and night driving. 

If that is all—no sympathy from us, Ed! Alfred 

Ricciardi, Hollywood, Fla, is always 

modest about news, but I can vouch for his 

wellbeing. "Rich" and I have been friends 

since '05. Harlowe Hardinge attended the Oct 

meeting of the Univ Council with son H 

D"Cork" '53, who is also a member. Harlowe 

is now a councilmember, emeritus, after 

25 yrs of service. Thanks, Harlowe. 

Robert "Ty" Cobb, at age 87 our class 

youngest, has retired—at last! He is enjoying 

his youth in Manchester, Mo. Sam Newman, 

Pompano Beach, Fla, sends best wishes to all 

classmates and reports, "Thank God, I have 

been well and enjoying the zest of living." 

Well said, Sam! We are sorry to learn from a 

friend of Henry Raymore that he is in poor 

health and confined to the Veteran's Home, 

Bennington, Vt. Our thanks to Sydney Chapman 

for visiting Ray daily. 

Willis Henderson and Irene celebrated 

their 65th wedding anniversary last Sept. Still 

living on the old 1,250-acre farm in Geneva. 

David Paulson, San Mateo, Cal, reports, 

"Health fine; will soon be 92 yrs young." 

Paul Young still lives in the Elyria, Ohio, 

home, reports good health, and is sure he will 

make our 70th; "Best to Murray." Harland 

Cushman and Stella are in a retirement home 

in Winter Park, Fla, and "enjoying life despite 

some health problems." 

John Stotz is enjoying good health at home 

in Beloit, Wise. Jack recently visited classmate 

Tom Rice in Hamilton, Ont, Canada, 

and reports his wellbeing. All is well with 

Stowell Armstrong, who as usual is spending 

the winter in Atlanta, Ga. 

We welcome hearing from 3 other classmates, 

even though without news—J Walker 

Hill, Fairfield, Conn; Dixon C Philips, 

Hightstown, NJ; and Norman Suitor, Albuquerque, 

NM. Just remembered that Murray 

Shelton has been our president since Chuck 

Barrett died in '24. That is 60 yrs! We expect 

Murray to beat the Cornell record of almost 7 

decades, held by Jim Munns '14, capt of that 

great 1913 team that broke the Penn jinx. 

Jim, a frequent guest at our Fla luncheons, 

always praised the great Ί6ers on his team. 

Happy memories! 

Just a word of assurance that, beside athletics, 

'16 has promoted higher education. 

We are happy to announce that Jonathan D 

Culler has been named Class of 1916 professor 

of English. Professor Culler has been on 

the Arts and Sciences faculty since '77, and is 

a noted lecturer, writer of books, and was a 

Rhodes Scholar. Welcome aboard, Professor 

Culler, and don't forget to attend our 70th 

Reunion dinner. Some of us who almost 

flunked English I, now appreciate its importance. 

Felix Ferraris, 2850 S Ocean Blvd, 

Apt 404, Palm Beach, Fla 33480. 

17 One Lap More 

Welcome springtime—a time to revive the 

memories of undergraduate days, an experience 

which Prof Scott Elledge, PhD '41,—not 

unlike that of Elwyn B "Andy" White '21, 

noted author, writer, and journalist—so aptly 

described in his recently published book 

chronicaling Andy's student days (Ί7-21). 

Much of it could, with equal aptitude, be said 

of other Cornellians, including Ί7ers: ". . . 

as a most important aspect of his experience 

at Cornell . . . was not the training he received 

there, but rather the nourishment he 

found in the physical and social climate of the 

place, and the reassurance he gained simply 

in the course of his daily life as an undergraduate." 

(This came from the Feb issue's excerpt 

from the book EB White, by Scott Elledge; 

W W Norton & Co, publisher '84.) 

Lloyd B Seaver (BS Ag), residing in 

Thompson, Conn, sends the good news he 

keeps active and physically fit doing work for 

his boyhood church in the Adirondacks, and 

playing golf (an amiable kind of play and exercise 

for retirees) at his son's summer place 

in South Hampton. The son, Lloyd is proud 

to say, is a vice president of CBS. Gerald M 

Best (ME), on the other hand, from his Beverly 

Hills, Cal, home, after walking the dog, 

driving the car, and minding the doctor, to 

fill in his spare time poses the question, "At 

88 what else is there to do?" Why not try 

golf? May Morris Kelley (BS HE), wife of the 

Rev Irvin, our honorary chaplain, in her 

spare time, "bakes a batch of bread." 

It is always sad to receive news of a classmate's 

death, an altogether too frequent happening. 

C Stuart Cooper (BS Ag), our 1st vice 

president, following a long illness, died Nov 

6, '83. He had a lifetime career with the NJ 

Bell Telephone Co. As an undergraduate he 

was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, the 

track and cross country teams (manager in his 

sr yr), and several honorary societies. He is 

survived by wife Lucΐe, 2 children, and 9 

grands. Mannon McPherson (BS Ag) died 

Oct 16, '83, at his home in Morrisvilίe. He 

was a lifetime faculty member of SUNY Ag 

and Tech College at Morrisville. He is survived 

by his son Mannon, also a faculty 

member at Morrisville.

Paul H Harbach, (BArch), 90, died Feb 3, 

'84. He had had an active career, distinguished 

by specializing in church, public, and 

commerical buildings. He traveled widely and 

was active in local civic, fraternal, and alumni 

affairs, as well as finding time to paint watercolors 

and do decorative wood carving. He 

served as a 1st It in World War I, and as a civilian 

pilot in the Air Patrol, western NY region. 

He is survived by his wife Anna Boyd 

(Smith College Ί9), 3 children, 9 grands, and 

4 great-grands. By this means the Class of '17 

extends sympathy and condolences to the respective 

survivors for the loss of their beloved 

deceased. [Word came as this issue went to 

press that George A Newbury died Mar 5, 

'84. We will have more in a later issue.] 

Have you noticed the cute little head of a 

bear that sometimes appears in columns to 

call attention to an item of general interest? 

Your correspondent would like Little Bear to 

stop by the '17 column, and I'm sure he 

would be delighted to, if and when it warrants. 

So, why not send me a note of general 

interest about yourself, a classmate, or another 

Cornellian. Class of Ί7's fiscal yr ends 

June 30; before then, unpaid dues will be 

gratefully received to bridge the gap between 

the group subscription cost and the dues received 

to date. Thanks, and don't forget a 

story for Little Bear. Marvin R Dye, 206 

Edgemere Dr, Rochester, NY 14612. 

18 Concerts & Castles 

The '16-17 season of the Mandolin Club is 

given a "rave" review in the '17 Cornellian. 

Beside a concert on Nov 10, there was a joint 

concert with U of Penn "on the eve of the 

Thanksgiving Day game," which is labeled 

"sensational." On a Christmas trip they 

played to "large and enthusiastic audiences," 

and offered a "skillful Hawaiian trio," and a 

notable "saxophone sextette," the 6 players 

wearing clown (harlequin?) costumes, as 

shown in a photo on p 377. If you own a '17 

Cornellian, it's worth your time to look these 

up! 

Coming back to the present, we are happy 

that Dagmar Schmidt Wright represented '18 

at the Class Officers' (CACO) meeting in 

NYC in Jan. She reports '18 was at the head 

of the list, being the earliest class represented. 

Dagmar is "fortunate, in knowing so many 

Cornellians." Husband Oliver '20 and Dag-, 

mar are now great-grandparents! Daughter 

Dagmar's son "Richard and wife Dayna had 

a baby girl on Feb 8." Congratulations to all 

concerned! 

Joe Lay, and also Mildred Stevens Essick, 

fled to Fla to escape the rough winter: Joe to 

New Port Richey, with his "oldest daughter 

and her husband. . . . We have a nice trailer, 

excellently equipped." Joe is "minding it," 

while the other 2 are off "sailing to Bermuda 

—they are avid sailors." Mildred didn't find 

much sun or warmth in Orlando, "visiting 

my nephew and his wife." Still, the stay was 

"far better than the sub-zero days and snow 

back home." 

John H Bowker spent his Mar 8 birthday in 

the VA Hospital at Danville, 111. Daughter 

Barbara drives John's wife Frances to see him 

as often as possible, and they hope John will 

soon be back at their PO Box 875, St Joseph, 

111, address. He would enjoy cards and letters. 

Frieda Schoeffler Starzenski, of Galway, 

read our column and wrote, "Thought you 

might like some material for it." (Indeed we 

do!) She lives with her "only son, Bruce, and 

his family. I taught many yrs, but am now retired." 

For yrs, also, Frieda was on the Galway 

Village Board. She has "traveled extensively 

abroad and in the US," and finds 


1919 

65th 

1984 

"nothing compares to the beauty of Cornell 

and the memories I have of it." 

At the time of our 65th Reunion, the Mardons—Lucy 

and Dick—children of our classmate 

Marie Dickey Mardon, were "in the 

throes of showing [our] Castle to viewers. Ardross 

Castle took the public fancy when advertised—2,500 

enquiries! We took groups 

around for 6 wks." Lucy was "up early to 

dust, and to keep the 67 vases of flowers 

nice." Now it's sold, and "we're only awaiting 

the tax men, to see what they leave! Yes, 

I'm in my new home, with mirrors and things 

from the castle, making it seem familiar." 

Dick and his wife Marie are "getting [their] 

house enlarged and fixed up. He will go on 

farming." Dick, an honorary member of our 

class, brought his mother to 2 Reunions. Our 

best to all Marie's children! We feel that, collectively, 

we've lost a litle glamor—not every 

class can claim a castle! Irene M Gibson, 

119 S Main St, Holley, NY 14470. 

19 A New Record 

Belated reservations for our 65th were received 

from Harry H Davidson of East 

Hampton, LI; Frances Bayard Kazmann of 

Portola Valley, Cal, who is bringing her 

daughter Prof Marion K Richards of Los 

Altos, Cal; and Irene Frank Gill of Santa 

Barbara, Cal, whose intended trip to China 

and Tibet was cancelled. By Mar 1, the 

"score" numbers 31 classmates (22 men, 9 

women), 14 spouses, 7 relatives, and 2 guests 

for 54, total, with a few more expected. All 

Statler rooms allocated for our use have been 

assigned; however, we hope they will release 

more for us in late May or early June. Meanwhile, 

we have reserved a few hotel rooms for 

the overflow, in Collegetown Motor Lodge 

and Ramada Motor Inn. Both have frequent 

bus service to the Statler. If we all stay 

healthy, a new record for attendance at a 65th 

will be attained. See Mike Hendrie's May 

(and final) letter. 

Joseph F Addonizio of New Rochelle, consultant 

for 50 yrs to the NY State Legislature, 

writes that he and his wife Rose returned last 

Nov from a 5-wk, 7-country tour of Europe. 

They will be at Reunion. With spring at hand, 

several other "reuners" have returned from 

winter vacations in Fla, among them Harold 

L "Cap" and Mary Creal, from Englewood, 

Fla; Ross and Helen Preston, from Sun City 

Center, Fla; and Mike and Essie Hendrie 

from Ft Myers Beach, Fla. 

One of our past "regulars" whom we'll 

miss this June is Prof Norman T "Fig" Newton 

of Cambridge, Mass, prominent landscape 

architect, who advised us he has too 

many commitments. Last fall he wrote, "I 

still put in 3 afternoons a wk at the Harvard 

Graduate School of Design, kibitzing with 

students in design studios. Am also doing a 

review for an English town, and planning a 

review on the papers of Frederick Law Olmsted." 

Others we will miss, but were glad to 

hear from, were Dr L E Tomsuden of Saranac 

Lake, retired dentist, who proudly re- 

ports he and wife Melissa have 2 great-granddaughters; 

and Victor R Daly of Wash, DC. 

Victor retired in '66 from government service, 

having served in the US Dept of Labor, 

'34-66, as deputy director of the US Employment 

Service in DC. He says, "At 88 I'm too 

old to make news." Don't believe that, Vic. 

Keep in touch! P S Wilson, 325 Washington 

St, Glen Ridge, NJ 07028. 

Some who have returned Reunion questionnaires 

have given us no information beyond 

name; but others who cannot be with us have 

remembered that we who are there will be interested 

in knowing a bit about them. 

Mildred Wicker Jackson still lives in Hemlock. 

She doesn't get around as well as she 

used to, but enjoys visits from friends and 

family. She has 3 children and 6 grandchildren, 

but no "greats." Letters would be welcome. 

Louise Baker Short, living for some 

time in the Lake Park Residence in Oakland, 

Cal, writes, "My experiences at Cornell have 

always been a great help to me. The peaceful 

beauty of the campus, all the friends, 

courses, etc, have been of use, and Reunions 

are happy memories." She has a son, 2 

granddaughters, and a "great." 

Edna Griffin Graham has moved from Mc- 

Graw House, in Ithaca, to The Rochester 

Friendly Home, 3750 East Ave, Rochester. 

Her sight was failing for several yrs and now 

is gone—but not her courage. She has learned 

Braille and is learning to type. She would enjoy 

hearing from any who remember her. 

Margaret Kinzinger, 316 Dayton St, Ridgewood, 

NJ 07450. 

20 Winter & Spring 

At the Jan Cornell Club meeting in Sarasota, 

Fla, Cort Donaldson did his usual fine job of 

leading the "Alma Mater." I also saw Don 

Hoagland, who did a fine job pinch hitting as 

class correspondent for the men. We welcome 

Ho Ballou as he takes over. Among the Cornellians 

present at the meeting in Fla was a 

lovely blonde freshman, home for holiday 

break, who is housed in Cascadilla Hall. That 

brought memories of '18 SATC, when my 

husband Robert "Champ" Clark was in Cascadilla 

and the flu epidemic decimated the 

young men stationed there. The speaker gave 

us almost a biography of Robert Oppenheimer, 

developer of the atom bomb and onetime 

professor at Cornell. I found the lecture 

fascinating. 

People do read the Alumni News and I 

have proof. Two friends (not of our class) of 

Adelaide Elliott Vergara saw her name in my 

column and wrote for her address. How delighted 

she would have been to hear from 

them. Gertrude Shelton Glaccum is very 

pleased that Minn has a Cornell Club. She reports 

still being active and in good health. 

Wrong diagnosis and treatment made life difficult 

for Marjorie Roberts but we are happy 

to say she still can care for herself. I visited 

her in her retirement home 4 yrs ago and 

found her nicely situated. 

Theodora VanHorn Carter's granddaughter 

Judy entered Columbia Med School last 

fall. Theo's grandson James Carter is a chef 

at Box Tree Restaurant in NYC. Marguerite 

Hess Parrish must be added to our '20 losses, 

as she died on Thanksgiving Day. Agda 

Swenson Osborn hopes to attend the memorial 

service for Peg in the spring. After 3 

months in Alexandria, Va, with her son 

Hugh, who has a new job at Ft Belvoir, 

Elaine Hedgecock Stevenson spent the winter 

in Oxford, Pa, at Amyr, the home of 80 purebred 

Arabian horses. Elaine's son-in-law is a 

veterinarian with a "large" animal practice. 

May life treat you gently and the spring of

the yr find you enjoying being alive. God be 

with you. Marion Shevalier Clark, RR1, 

Box 14, Angola, Ind 46703. 

"Herb" Grigson has resigned due to health 

conditions at home. 

The column will not be listing obituaries as 

the Alumni News has all that listed in the rear 

of each issue. The reason there are questions 

in this column is because we hope you'll be 

back for a 65th Reunion in '85 if possible; but 

please write to me, anyway. 

I'm willing to write for '20 if classmates 

will help bring back memories of our war 

days of '17, etc. These questions will test your 

memory and give you something to write 

about—so here goes: What was the Black 

Diamond? What was the Mud Rush? Where 

was the Swimming Pool? What was the ''Jennie 

McGraw Rag?" What college was Bristow 

Adams in? What yr did Andrew Dickson 

White die? Who was Romeyn Berry? What 

did "Delay, Linger and Wait" stand for? 

Where was the Dutch Kitchen? Where was 

the Alhambra? Where was Zincks? What was 

known as "The Shortline?" Ho Ballou, 7 

Midland Gardens, Bronxville, NY 10708. 

21 School Days 

Harold W Blodgett, retired Union College 

professor, writes: "Expect as usual to share 

my 84th birthday, Mar 24, with my twin sister, 

Elsie Blodgett Ludlum '22, of Rockville 

Centre. We will visit Southold, LI, to see the 

brass plaque placed on the wall of Southold 

High School in honor of our brother, Lewis 

A Blodgett '19, who was a long-time school 

principal there. 

Joe J Rady has been spending some time 

helping in the development of the branch of 

the U of Texas at Arlington. He considers 

this as a sort of repayment for what Cornell 

did for him. Dr Irvine H Page recently finished 

writing a book of 3,500 pp, about hypertension. 

He does not expect it to be a bestseller. 

As a project suggested by their teacher, the 

children of a 6th-grade class in Maine wrote 

to several well-known authors and 

artists and requested original 

works to be compiled in a book. 

Elwyn B White responded with an 

essay called "An Imaginary Maine Animal 

Story." The book containing this and the 

other contributions is called A Gift from 

Maine, published by Gannett Books of Portland. 

Leslie R Severinghaus wrote in Jan: "My 

latest trip to the Far East was in Mar and Apr 

'83, when I returned to Peking and had reunion 

with 37 doctors and nurses who were in 

my English classes 60 yrs ago. I have just returned 

from 2 wks on the tall ship Sea Cloud 

under the sponsorship of Adult U." 

Amos L Main was again spending the winter 

in Fla, living in his Airstream trailer. Harold 

A "Tige" Jewett reports he continues in 

fairly good health. George A Jackson notes 

that he hears from very few classmates. 

James H C Martens, 123 S Adelaide Ave, Apt 

ID, Highland Park, NJ 08904. 

22 Get-Togethers 

Cornellians like to get together. Grace Morris 

Race, in Feb, says several who live in or near 

Rydall Park, Rydall, Pa, gather occasionally. 

Edna Cassell Ί7 got a group together soon 

after Elizabeth Burnham Steinmetz '23 and 

Betty Warner '23 were back from their 60th 

Reunion and found much to talk over. The 

Races also had a happy family gathering at 

Christmastime. Included were grandson 

Mark Thistle '83 and his wife. 

A note from Dr Gertrude Fisher Kinsey 

gives her new address—1428 S Marengo Ave, 

Alhambra, Cal. It is an Episcopal home and, 

to date, she finds it satisfactory. She must use 

a wheelchair and has tried 3 retirement 

homes, so her address changes. 

Ruth (St John) and Harrop Freeman '29 of 

Ithaca recently established at Cornell an annual 

prize of $1,000 for an outstanding graduating 

sr who has shown interest in the area 

of peace studies and who intends to continue 

work in that field. Harrop is professor of 

law, emeritus, of the Law School, with 3 law 

degrees. Ruth received her BA in '23, after 

staying out of college a term because of her 

mother's illness. She earned an MA '25 and 

was the 1st woman to serve as an instructor in 

the Arts College. They are the Freemans who 

all these many yrs have entertained '22 Reunion 

women for a Sunday farewell breakfast. 

We love them! Evelyn Davis Fincher, 44 

Sheraton Dr, Ithaca, NY 14850. 

Between their canal-front homes in Eustis, 

Fla, and on Lake George, Caribbean Christmas 

cruises, and visits to the Leesburg Retirement 

Home to listen to the Cornell Glee Club 

(but with no '22s around), Walter Knauss in 

his 225-lb trim, pines for a small informal reunion 

of Floridian neighbors, say of C R 

Roberts, E L Jewett, T McLean, R G Wright 

(from Mt Dora), R S Ackerly, R E Roesch, 

and so on. If he or others of '22 feel Central 

NY State fantasies and Reunion fever coming 

on, let them join the Continuous Reunion 

Club, which meets on campus every yr, June 

7-10, this yr. To join CRC write or phone 

Alumni House, 626 Thurston Ave, c/o 

Howie Hall '30. 

We have urged acceptance of promising 

patents—as gifts to Cornell—from other than 

its faculty or staff. The following is a reply by 

H Walter Haeussler, director of patents and 

licensing for the university: "Cornell's office 

of patents and licensing, through Cornell Research 

Foundation, obtains patents on faculty 

and staff inventions, sharing income between 

the inventors, the related university 

unit and the patents and licensing office. In 

recent yrs, patent royalty income has varied 

between about $.75.million and $1.2 million. 

'On occasion, alumni have offered to assign 

their own patents to the Research Foundation. 

If alumni wish to discuss the possibility 

of assigning their patent rights to Cornell, 

they can contact H Walter Haeussler, director 

of patents and licensing at East Hill Plaza, 

Ithaca, phone (607) 256-7367. 

"If your patent has economic value, the 

gift of the patent rights to the Research Foundation 

could create seed money which could 

pay the costs of patenting and licensing future 

Cornell inventions, thereby creating the 

potential for significant increased, sustained 

royalty income to the university. 

"Alumni who are patentees will appreciate 

that, while not all patents produce income, 

the opportunity for marketable inventions 

among Cornell's faculty and staff is significant. 

The gift of your own patents rights 

could help to exploit this potential." (See article 

on patents, this issue, p 28.) Rollin H 

McCarthy, 19B Strawberry Hill Rd, Ithaca, 

NY 14850; also John M Maloney, 16C Strawberry 

Hill Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850. 

23 'Till Next Month 

Our 61st Reunion is coming in June and our 

enthusiastic and efficient chairman John 

Vandervort had, in Feb, a list of 43 classmates 

planning to come, 17 with spouses. 

(Broder Lucas's name was inadvertently left 

off the list of members coming for the 61st. 

He and Evelyn will be there.) This list in- 

cludes 10 classmates who had not attended 

the 60th, last yr. This assures a fine Reunion 

and the numbers probably will increase as the 

date approaches. 

Although the Class of '24 decided to forego 

a mini-reunion in Fla last Feb, so as not to 

draw from the 60th in June, about 40 Cornellians 

and spouses who spend winter months 

near Palm Beach met informally in Feb for 

lunch, Cornell songs, and conversations. Lee 

and Sue Post and Ros and Olive Tjaden Van 

Sickle '25 attended. 

In reviewing class correspondence and 

notes, I find that some material prepared for 

the last July issue by my predecessor George 

West had not been used and include it now 

with some changes and additions. Roger J 

Coe made good on his "Looking forward to 

our 60th class Reunion." He hails from 

Chatham, Mass, on Cape Cod, and is active 

with the "Cod" Cornellians. His wife died 

after a long illness. He remarried and has 

made Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla, his principal 

home but will spend his summers in Chatham. 

He is a volunteer in tax counseling for 

the elderly. Early in '83 he took a Caribbean 

cruise on the Island Princess. 

Raymond O Ford and his wife Lily live in 

Short Hills, NJ. In '83 he was president of the 

Old Guard of Milburn, NJ, an organization 

of 165 retired men who meet once a wk and 

enjoy various recreational activities. He is active 

in bridge and has won the duplicate 

bridge championship 4 out of the last 7 yrs. 

Six other Cornellians are in the group. 

Clarence Faust lives in Holland (NY). Six 

grandchildren now grace the family tree. He 

claims he is still on a vacation that started in 

'70. Sam Blackmore says he has no news for 

publication. Walter E "Walt" and Helen 

Loring Flumerfelt, MA '24 live in Edina, 

Minn. They have 9 grandchildren, 13-27. 

Walt says, "Keep busy at gardening—life 

member of the Men's Garden Clubs of America—play 

golf and enjoy spectator sports— 

also an avid reader of all Cornell publications 

that come my way. Heart arrest slowed me 

down 2 yrs ago, lost 200 lbs; now 180 and can 

lick my weight in wildcats." 

Fred W Fix and Lillian live in Northbrook, 

111: "Not retired, yet, but slowing down considerably. 

Still in photography. The Alumni 

News provides me with a good tonic, plus occasional 

letters from friends." An operation 

in Apr '83 kept him from the 60th Reunion 

and was slowing him up a bit, although it had 

turned out well. Ernest W "Ernie" and 

Esther Downs live in Falmouth, Mass, on 

Cape Cod. Ernie is active in the affairs of the 

Falmouth Historical Soc and a member of the 

Cape Cod Cornellians. He reports he is in the 

process of perusing letters written home during 

the college yrs '19-23, which were preserved 

by his mother and record such happenings 

as heavy snows on sidewalks (no shoveling), 

40Φ meals, arrival of Dr Farrand as president, 

the Mud Rush, student hoaxes, concerts, 

and plays. Also winning streaks for 

Cornell in sports featuring football victories 

involving '23 football heroes Eddie Kay, 

George Pfann, and others, and, of course, 

Gil Dobie. A veritable mine of the '23 era in 

treasured memories." Roswell C Van Sickle, 

2100 S Ocean Lane, Apt 1009, Ft Lauderdale, 

Fla 33316. 

24 Reunion Exhibit 

Florence Daly did some watercolors on Appledore 

Isl last summer. She donated a picture 

of the Shoals Marine Lab's pet whale 

skull to the lab; it was raffled off and earned 

$300 toward the lab's new boat. Flo will exhibit 

18 or 20 watercolors at the Johnson Museum 

during Reunion. 

35

A note from Hortense Black Pratt (Mrs 

Schuyler B '25) included a list of people who 

had responded positively about attendance at 

Reunion. I missed a few names, but 34 people 

plan (or hope) to attend. 

We seem to be slowing down. Mildred 

Robinson Thomas (Mrs J Clyde), Miriam 

Bailey Williams (Mrs George C '24), Alice 

McCartney Holgate (Mrs Robert), and 

Louise Miller Belden (Mrs Elwin E) commented 

on, "civic and volunteer activities," 

"I'm retired," or "Through with all that!" 

Some people apparently still enjoy driving. 

Margaret Aeschbach Combs (Mrs Paul) 

drives for Meals on Wheels and Carroll 

Griminger takes various people in her apartment 

house to doctors, dentists, hairdressers, 

etc. Ellen Nydegger Bryden (Mrs Colby W) 

belongs to so many organizations, I'm sure 

she must have wheels spinning a good deal. 

• Dorothea Johannsen Crook, 7003 Westmoreland 

Ave, Takoma Park, Md 20912. 

In early Mar, 52 men planned to attend our 

60th Reunion: Carlyle Ashley, Paul Beaver, 

George Bibbins, Laurence Block, Chester 

Brown, John Cheney, Robert Croll, S Webster 

Dodge, Allan Dodson, Charles Elliott, 

John S Ensor, Roscoe Fuller, Henry Givan, 

Norris Goldsmith, Kermit Green, Robert 

Hays, William L Hearn, Otto Jaeger, Richard 

W D Jewett, Bernard Kovner, Robert 

Leonard, John D Lincoln, Robert Lintz, 

Charles D Lippencott, Waldron Mahoney, 

Frank W Miller, Norman Miller, Bernard 

Olin, Howard Onstott, Howard Orcutt, Roland 

Porter, John Pennington, George 

Pfann, Alfred Rauch, James Rowan, Max 

Schmitt, Carl Schraubstader, Ed Searles, 

John Seibel, Morris Shapiro, Charles Skeele, 

Frank Smith, Robert Sprague, Frank 

Thompson, Alva Tompkins, Victor Wehle, 

Clifford White, Allyn Wicks, Don Wickham, 

Fred Wood, John Wood, Richard Yates. 

And, 16 men "hoped to" attend: Charles 

Cogen, Walter Clarke, Victor Crowell, Roger 

Egeberg, Solomon Goldsmith, John Hartell, 

Jesse Jackson, Herman Knauss, David Liston, 

William S McCrea, Kenneth Preston, 

Richard Raymond, James Rogers, Varian 

Steele, Fred Uhl, and Robert Volkening. This 

is your chance of a lifetime to have an unforgettable 

time with the great class you have 

been proud of for 64 yrs! 

Frank L "Tommy" Thompson (CE) has 

had a double career: he was an engineer in 

NYC Civil Service until ? 

retirement in '54; then he 

helped organize the Allied 

Federal Savings and Loan 

Assn, of which he was \ 

president until '79, board |^J| 

chairman until '82. His wf 

wife Marcie has also had 2 |||| 

careers: as a schoolteach- -^ 

er; now as a sculptress. ^ lp* \ 

Their daughters are Judy ^ |pι 

Thompson Hamer '60 

(PhD in teaching from Columbia) and Carolyn 

Thompson Brown '65 (PhD in Chinese 

literature from American U). 

Dec 12 was "Wilton Jaffee Day" in Aspen, 

Colo. The scroll presented read "our senior 

citizen who brings honor to himself and his 

community." Many of Aspen paid $100/plate 

to dine with him and raise money for Aspen 

Valley Hospital. Norman D Harvey, former 

mayor of Pelham Hgts, died of a heart attack 

before Christmas. Norm was NY sales manager 

for Union Carbide until '63. His wife 

writes that at the end of the memorial service, 

the organist played, loud and clear, "Far 

above Cayuga's Waters." Alva Tompkins, 

RD 2, Box 2, Tunkhannock, Pa 18657. 


26 On the Move 

I find it difficult to settle down to write this 

column, having just returned from a beautiful 

trip to Hawaii, including all 5 islands, and 

an extended visit in Cal. The snow storm 

which greeted me on return was unfair! 

Dorothy Lampe Hill and Helen English 

Syme reported enthusiastically on the Class 

Officers' (CACO) meetings and the reception 

for the Center for the Performing Arts. A digestive 

upset prevented my attendance. Beatrice 

Benedicts Willie is fast becoming a 

champion airline commuter: A son, Dr John 

Willie Jr, is at Rochester, Minn; a daughter, 

granddaughter, and great-granddaughter are 

in Berkeley, Cal; another daughter and sons 

are in Md. She took 2 grandsons on a trip to 

Hawaii. When home she is active in Civitan, 

NAACP, AARP, church work, and teaches 

at the Sr Center. And, she is working on a 

book of essays and a novel. 

Theresa Herman Trynin reports, "At this 

stage of life, no news is good news. I keep 

busy with concerts, ballet, and whatever 

NYC has to offer. I also volunteer for the Organization 

for Rehabilitation." 

I am sorry to have to close with sad news— 

the deaths of beloved classmates Elizabeth 

Beattie Lovejoy and Ruth Burns McMahon. 

• Billie Burtis Scanlan, Heritage Village, 

109A, Southbury, Conn 06488. 

Richard F Pietsch, Crozet, Va, speaks enthusiastically 

about enlisting his son and 2 grandsons 

to help take Dick's fiberglass wherry to a 

nearby reservoir for a rowing clinic. He says 

they catch on fast! However, future rowing 

for him presents a problem: the county park 

system thwarts every move for a water-level 

dock. Dick says the hardest part for him is 

getting in and out of a boat: stiff knees. 

Dr Frank M Falkenbury, 41 Sherman Ave, 

Glens Falls, has been retired nearly 2 yrs from 

medical service in Glens Falls. He's proud of 

his twin daughters and 3 granddaughters. 

John A Schaeffler, Hockesin, Del, says he's 

nearly back to normal after a slight stroke 

last June. He spent a wk in a hospital, 7 in a 

rehabilitation center. His chief limitation was 

that he doesn't, yet, drive a car. 

Leonard L Huttleston, who served as director 

of the NY State office of Parks and Recreation 

and Historical Preservation until his 

death in '64, had awards given in his name at 

a special ceremony in Corning, to 2 long-time 

employes who had made extraordinary contributions 

to the parks and recreation program. 

Hugh W Manchester, 4257 Oak Knoll 

Dr, Youngstown, Ohio, is now retired after 

53 yrs in law practice in Youngstown, 41 yrs 

as secretary, Board of Trustees, Youngstown 

State U. He enjoys his free time, much of 

which is spent visiting 5 children and 14 

grandchildren. Nine of the latter are attending 

various colleges or have graduated. 

Capping a life-time career in typewriters, 

Edson G "Ed" Moshier of 6 Elmridge Rd, 

Jamesville, is now deeply involved in setting 

up an industry exhibit of early typewriters at 

the Onondaga Historical Museum, 321 Montgomery 

St, Syracuse. A sort of self-appointed 

guardian of early typewriters, Moshier retired 

15 yrs ago from Smith-Corona, where in '37 

he had taken over engineering operations. 

He's compiling a history of the typewriter 

and keeps tabs on private collections involving 

more than 220 kinds of typewriters made 

since 1874, when Remington Arms Co introduced 

the 1st that was commercially successful. 

The Smith-Corona historical typewriter 

committee agreed to move its collection 

(about 500 old typewriters) to the Onondaga 

History Museum, and Sperry-Univac, which 

owns about 200 early Remingtons, offered its 

collection on a permanent loan. Peter 

Ham, 2 Rabbit Run, Wallingford, Pa 19086. 

27 Remember the Mini 

Barb Jacobus Cook's love of snow was sated 

with 55 inches by Christmastime. Her itinerary, 

"Laser beam check-up on eyes in Chicago, 

111; Fla in Mar; NY State in Apr; then 

Cape Cod." Vicky Lansing Landfear's husband 

Earl will receive the RPI Alumni Key 

award for service at the June commencement. 

Last Sept, Hildegarde Whitaker Tanno and 

husband enjoyed a memorable tour of China. 

Henrietta Moench Miller is happy in her retirement 

home. She plans to fly to Cal in the 

early summer to visit with her son in his Sierra 

home and to meet with others in the family. 

D D Detlefsen Otteson moved from her 

home in Scarsdale to Apt 6H4, 260 Garth Rd, 

(zip still 10583). Mikki Wilson Cavenaugh is 

readying her home for sale. She spent Christmas 

with her family, gathered at the home of 

daughter Cindy Cavenaugh Jones '59. Ruth 

Hooper Neely's sons were a great help to her 

during a trying time last winter when she was 

hospitalized with injuries suffered during assault 

and robbery. 

Our condolences to the families of Grace 

Guthmann Burnett, who succumbed to pneumonia 

on Dec 3, and Frances Stesel Stout, 

who died Sept 21, '83; loyal supporters over 

the yrs. Remember to put the mini-reunion 

on your calendar. We will be housed in Low 

Rise #7. Sid Hanson Reeve, 1563 Dean St, 

Schenectady, NY 12309. 

Count on attending the '27 mini-reunion, 

June 8-10, '84. Please reserve to Sid Hanson 

Reeve or me. Judge Ray Reisler will dedicate 

the '27 Bench on Libe Slope. Headquarters 

will be in Low Rise #7. If you missed recent 

Reunions you'll be inspired and impressed 

with many campus improvements, along with 

new buildings, seminars, alumni luncheons in 

Barton Hall, fine exhibits etc. 

Modern science has given Ulric Moore new 

eyesight with plastic implants in each eye: She 

sees "better than 20 yrs ago." Don Huntington 

keeps active in Spartanburg, SC, Rotary 

Club, while wife Lucy keeps the home fire 

burning, plus Garden Club and DAR hobbies. 

Col Gil Lamb states, "Not very much 

since the passing of my gracious wife. A 

grand tour with the International Garden 

Club in Europe, covering the beautiful gardens 

of Munich, helped fill a void." 

Herb Edlestein, editor of monthly bulletin 

Wellington, W Palm Beach, Fla, has 2 granddaughters 

in Karmiel, center of Israel's "Silicon 

Valley." Rosalind, the oldest, looks forward 

to next yr, when she'll serve in the Army. 

Herb bemoans: "It doesn't make us happy 

but we must accept what we cannot control." 

Herm Soloway is a semi-retired lawyer. 

He sent Art Nash an extra $20 for a less 

fortunate classmate's dues. Daughter Robin 

'65, (U of Wise PhD '71) is a math professor 

at Cal State U, at Chico. Leon "Doc" Telsey 

likes Lane Cooper's books. Son Steven '67 

(a*nd Columbia) and daughter Nadia (Bryn 

Mawr, Barnard, Bank St Educational College) 

keep him in tune with the times. 

Dr Whit Reynolds carves miniature birds. 

He has 3 grandchildren in Wellington, New 

Zealand, who provide deep interest in our 

world. Lindy Linderman is a retired teacher, 

wife Francis, a retired librarian. They meld 

now in golf, bridge, and church activities. 

"Age, in all things, soon catches up," says 

Jim Wright, retired from Mt Doral, Fla, 

bank board and fundraising for Waterman 

Hospital. Good news—Ray and Harriet Reisler 

are recouping well on La Jolla shores, Cal. 

Daughter Nancy Reisler Wexler '63, Mort

Braus, and Hal Gassner supply added cheers. 

Bad news: the deaths of Norm Bissell, Hiram 

"Dud" Ives, Francis Davenport, Elliott 

Rhodes, and Maynard Withered, whose dear 

wife Bobby (Gallagher) '31 had died several 

months before. To all surviving relatives: our 

deepest condolences. Don Hershey, 5 S 

Landing Rd, Rochester, NY 14610. 

28 Modern Times 

Andrew McConnell retired, back in '77, as a 

senior engineer with General Electric Co. He 

had 19 patents. There are 2 Cornell offspring: 

Nancy McConnell Davidian '62 and Barbara 

McConnell Miller '76. Richard Mansfield has 

a 2nd home in Gaffrey, NH. He is now chairman 

of committee of Lincoln, Mass, Historic 

cal Soc, is bringing out a history of Lincoln, 

has done birding in US, Portugal, and Spain. 

John Moor, NOT retired, is still engaged in 

the practice of law and in Mar '83 had a vacation 

on Madeira Island. 

Phil Will celebrated his 51st wedding anniversary. 

He also retired officially as a director 

of Perkins and Will after 48 yrs. Going from 

Chicago, 111, to the "Willage" on Higgens 

Lake, Mich, Phil had a bad auto accident. 

Fortunately, because of "life saving chest/ 

seat belt" there was no damage; but "no reasonable 

test, procedure, nor medications 

were omitted." The newsletter of the Office 

of Estate Affairs had a long interview, with 

picture, of Stan Krusen about how much he 

had helped Cornell's educational excellence. 

Herb Levine says his yrs at Cornell were the 

best yrs of his life. His son is Stephen '57 

(BEE) MBA '58, and his granddaughter is 

Lauren Jill Levine '87. He told of his regrets 

about not being at Reunion. 

Sol Clark has received some more honors. 

The State Bar Assn of Ga awarded him a 

"Pro Bono" plaque. Sol is particularly interested 

in Legal Aid. He established the Savannah 

Legal Aid Soc in '48 and served as either 

chair or vice chair for 25 yrs and, for many 

yrs, was on the board of the Natl Legal Aid 

Assn. This is just one of many awards Sol has 

received as a lawyer and judge. He and Ted 

Adler had a nice visit last yr when Ted was 

sightseeing in Savannah. Last yr, Lowell Bassett 

was in Spain. He says the NW corner of 

Spain is like Fla. Drove over a 2-lane highway 

with many hairpin curves, but did not like 

either their politics nor the 9:30 pm dinners! 

Ed Howard is now fully retired from his architectural 

practice. He founded his firm, 

now known as Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann 

Assoc, in '38. The firm is one of the leading 

architects in Western Pa and has had a leading 

role in the Pittsburgh II Renaissance. 

Louis Freidenberg, 200 E 57th St, NYC 

10022. 

Rachel Merritt awaits your reservations for 

housing at June's mini-reunion. Already the 

officers and committees have been assigned 

to a suite in Clara Dickson. Have you sent 

your Cornell Fund donation to Ithaca and responded 

to Kay Geyer Butterfield's letter? 

The donation yr ends in June. Ruth Lyons is 

to receive donations for the '28 Women's Memorial 

Fund gift. Madge Marwood Headland 

hopes you make or add to a gift to the 

memorial. Ruth collects the checks and will 

report at the mini-reunion in June. 

Travel news—Katty Altemeier visited 

South Africa (Kenya, Victoria Falls, Tanzania, 

Zimbabwe, and Zambia) to see a myraid 

of fabulous animals. She plans a trip to Norway, 

Sweden, and Denmark, with a plane trip 

to Lapland, Land of the Midnight Sun, 

preferred over the usual ship's cruise. This 

Apr she was to go to Charleston, SC. A high 

point was to be the 2 Yi-hr boat trip on the 

Then: Lehigh Valley 

Now: Our Fifty-Fifth 

bay and a visit to Fort Sumter. She looked 

forward to the fine Charleston city sights, 

gardens, and plantations, while traveling with 

a senior group from Port Jervis. In Apr, also, 

Marjorie Hershon Wing was to take off from 

Sun City, Ariz, on a shelling and sightseeing 

trip to Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Exotic, 

when compared with a tour of Cape Cod in 

May by Dorothy Knapton Stebbins. Let's 

hear about your trips, activities, and/or 

plans. Dorothy Knapton Stebbins, 94-30 

59th Ave, Elmhurst, NY 11373. 

29 Show & Tell 

A few general observations on classmates you 

will meet at Reunion, or of whom you will receive 

news, recent and vintage. You will learn 

of '29ers, retired or still active, in the fields of 

medicine, business, chemistry, library services, 

writing, teaching, nursing, social services, 

dietetics, art, geology, law, and banking. 

Nor am I forgetting those who have also 

created loving homes and raised children of 

whom they are rightly proud. (So, stuff your 

wallets with pictures of grandchildren for 

"Show and Tell" at Reunion. 

If our traveling classmates were to write of 

their combined adventures they could produce 

some fascinating books. The amount of 

their time spent in club and volunteer work is 

astounding. Their hobbies, too, are varied, 

including bridge, crafts, collecting, dancing, 

and birding, and many participate in active 

sports. My letters from classmembers are upbeat 

and enthusiastic, proving that age is relative. 

Even members with physical problems 

are cheerful, uncomplaining, and active. 

You have reason to be proud of being a '29 

woman. Edith Stenberg Smith, 155 Beech 

St, Floral Park, NY 11001. 

Onward and upward! At least, it's up from 

downtown as we move onward toward our 

55th Reunion, June 7-10. Mike Bender, Reunion 

chairman, among his other duties, can 

always find rooms for more classmates, but it 

helps if he knows your plans in advance. The 

"LV" in our logo is the Roman numeral of 

this Reunion; for those who preferred the 

Lackawanna we say—don't Delay, Linger, or 

Wait in sending in your reservations. 

Mention, in the Mar issue, of The Elements 

of Style, better known as "The Little Book," 

which E B White '21 helped to make bigger, 

set me to re-reading my copy. White's contribution 

included a paragraph on how to write 

a class column, with a gorgeous example of 

how not to. It made my ears burn. Pat Pirone 

tells me his name has been inscribed on the 

list of illustrious graduates of Mt Vernon 

High School; another name is E B White, 

who had graduated 8 yrs earlier. 

Charles Huddleston reports that he and his 

wife spent July and Aug cruising the southern 

New England coast from Nantucket to Long 

Isl Sound, a great cruise, as he describes it. 

That's where our classmate Carl Weagant 

learned the seamanship that took him from 

Ithaca, NY, to Ithaca, Greece, and back in 

1929-30. 

Sid Beyland is restoring a 200-acre farm 

with a house built in 1804, in Peru (NY) near 

Plattsburgh. We envy him the challenge it offers, 

but would prefer that it be 600 rather 

than 6 miles south of that town. 

In closing, let me quote from a column by 

Rym Berry '04 in June '49: "After a certain 

age, Junes come around pretty rapidly. 

You're taking chances if you skip any of 

them!" c H F Marples, 40-24 68th St, Woodside, 

NY 11377. 

30 All in Family 

Ben Carpenter, Whitehall, and Bill Carpenter, 

Thompson, Conn, who, according to 

Ben, "to the best of knowledge never met 

during 4 yrs on the Hill, finally got together 

(last yr) at the home of the late Robert H Carpenter 

'23 in Cape Coral, Fla. Also present 

was Frances Carpenter Roberts, daughter of 

the late Charles A Carpenter '25. The topic 

for the evening—the Carpenter family genealogy." 

Before retirement, Ben was editor of 

the Whitehall Times, and Bill, a district manager 

for Metropolitan Life Ins Co. 

Douglas Roy, formerly of Bristol, Conn, is 

now a resident of Montague, NJ. He writes, 

"Have become single again. ... I leisurely 

engage in real estate, insurance, and local affairs." 

Dr George Alpert has also changed 

residence: from El Cerrito, Cal, to Laguna 

Hills, Cal, "to be near married daughters and 

grandchildren." A retired pediatrician, he is 

now "doing real estate to keep busy." 

Stanley Miller, Ft Lauderdale, Fla, who retired 

in '69 as controller-treasurer of the 

Tagel Div of Teledyne, writes that son Richard 

'65, after a career as a naval officer, is 

now in the civilian side of the US Navy as 

project manager in the Office of Naval Research. 

Ben Cottone, Sarasota, Fla, is "almost 

in full retirement" having closed his 

Wash, DC, law office in Feb and donated "a 

large portion of communications law library 

to Cornell Law School." He had practiced 

communications law since his '53 resignation 

from the FCC, where he had been general 

counsel. He and new bride Rosemary spent 7 

wks in Europe last summer. 

Though he retired in '73 from executive 

functions and responsibilities with Paxton- 

Mitchell Co in Omaha, Neb, James L Paxton 

Jr remained as board chairman. In Sept '83 

the company stock was purchased by the top 

supervisory group, who invited Jim to stay on 

as a director and board chairman. He writes, 

"Gardening continues to be my principal 

hobby. However, Jackie—Jacqueline (Fuller 

Lyon) '44—and I have been doing more traveling 

. . . , also spend 2 to 3 months each winter 

in Hawaii." Daniel Denenholz, 250 E 

65th St, NYC 10021. 

Belated thanks for the great response to our 

News & Dues letter. Laura Myers Warren and 

Thurman enjoyed a 6-wk trip around the 

world, touching on Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, 

India, Istanbul, and London. Daughter 

Anne '60, married to a professor at Ore State 

U, writes children's books. Son Jack is 

manager at 3M in St Paul, Minn. In '81 they 

held a fabulous 50th wedding anniversary 

celebration, attended by 20 family members 

from all over the country. 

Reine Grace Babrowe Blakeslee has been 

giving readings from her Wings O'er the Sea 

book of poems in the NYC area colleges. She 

hasn't found a great interest in poetry anywhere. 

Her 2nd volume will be published 

within a yr. Dora Wagner Conrath phoned 

me from San Francisco, Cal, with the sad 

news of the death of her former roommate, 

Frances Leonard Wright, on Dec 27, '83. 

Joyce Porter Layton has written of the death 

of Edith Cuervo Zeissig. Each was active in 

student affairs and had many friends. 

Agnes Talbot Mackay is thankful for good 

health, and is a literacy volunteer. She travels 

to Denver, Colo, to see a daughter and to 

Long Isl and Conn to visit friends. She also 

helps daughter Anne when needed while she 

MAY 1984

teaches nursery school, in Rochester. 

Please keep the news coming, especially 

those of you who haven't written us in yrs. 

Eleanor Smith Tomlinson, 231 SE 52nd Ave, 

Portland, Ore 97215. 

31 A Happy Time 

The mini-reunion of the Class of '31 was held 

as scheduled on Sat evening, Feb 18, and Sun 

afternoon, plus, on Feb 19, in Ft Lauderdale, 

Fla. 

On Sat, cocktails and dinner were served at 

the Lauderdale Yacht Club and, we believe, it 

was an excellent affair. Thirty-two classmates 

and spouses were in attendance: Helena Perry 

and Charles Kelsey, Laura and Ray Milks, 

Lucille and Leonard Gordon, Helen and Ernie 

Pope, Janet and Abbott Hessney, Harold 

Reynolds, Jessie and Otts Roessler, Marge 

and Lewis Leisinger, Julia (Shaffer) and 

Clark Wray '37, Clarissa (Smith) and Jim 

Barclay, Mary and Ted Osborn, Harriet 

(Stone) '32 and Delos Calkins, Has Forman, 

Marion and Frank O'Brien Jr, Margaret and 

Charlie Olson, Jane and Frank O'Brien III 

'61, and Ruth and Bruce Hackstaff. 

We regret that some of those scheduled to 

be in attendance had to cancel at the last minute 

for personal or business reasons. They 

were Mose Allen, Rocky Mann and his wife, 

Rosomand and Bill Vanneman, Hal McMore 

and his wife, and Ed Courtney. The real 

mini-reunion was held on Sun, at the home of 

Marion and Frank O'Brien Jr, in Ft Lauderdale, 

starting at 1:30 pm. It was for cocktails 

and hot and cold buffet, very nicely arranged 

and served. 

A note to Frank from Ken Eckerd, director 

of Cornell's Southeast regional office included 

the following remarks, "Congratulations 

on your very successful Class of '31 

mini-reunion! The layout of the food and 

cocktail service was great. The people you 

hired, both for food and drink service and the 

valet for parking, couldn't have been more 

pleasant." In addition to the above there 

were 3 men for entertainment—piano, saxophone, 

and an opera singe —all excellent. 

Additional classmates who attended on 

Sun included Ellen Kuney Whetzel, Dr Harry 

Murphy, Jack Vail and his wife, Flora and 

John Thomas, and Rickey Levy Horowitz 

and her new husband Harry Lea. Other Cornellians 

who were in attendance were Dr N 

Harry Carpenter III '48 and his wife, Ross 

'23 and Olive Tjaden Van Sickle '25, John 

Mordock '28, William "Hilly" Dearden '54, 

Claribel and Al Underhill '29, and Frank's 

neighbors, Mary and Edgar Hill (Harvard 

'31). 

The high spot of the afternoon was the visit 

of President and Mrs Frank Rhodes; Vice 

President Dick Ramin '51 and wife Fran (Anthony), 

MA '52; Trustee Bob Cowie '55; and 

Kathy and Ken Eckerd. All-in-all, a very delightful 

occasion. Bruce W Hackstaff, 27 

West Neck Rd, Huntington, NY 11743. 

Another happy wedding announcement has 

arrived in our mail basket. We'll let the writer 

tell it in her own inimitable way! 

" Ό frabjous day, callooh, callay, she 

chortled in her joy . . .' for on Feb 5 I married 

the dearest man in all the world. His name is 

Harry Lea. So now I am Rickey Lea . . ."By 

now, of course, you recognize the signer as 

Rickey Levy Horowitz Lea. We wish the newlyweds 

continued good health and the best of 

luck. Their winter address is 2774 South 

Ocean Blvd, Apt 601, Palm Beach, Fla; in 

summer, 212 Woodside Dr, Hewlett Bay 

Park, NY. 

Our Western correspondent Barbara Crosby 

Trechel spent last Aug in Scandinavia and 


adds that her trips taken here and there have 

afforded her wonderful memories. At home 

in Albuquerque, NM, she's busy as the director 

of several organizations. She concludes by 

saying, "I'm in fine health. Have lots of domestic 

crises, but life is never dull!" 

Just in time to include in this column, news 

has arrived that Virginia Clark Southworth 

underwent surgery in Feb. Ginny writes that 

she's coming along and adds, "Would like to 

hear from some of my '31 (or before or after) 

friends." Her address is Langworth Knoll, 

Amenia, NY 12501. Helen Nuffort 

Saunders, 1 Kensington Terr, Maplewood, 

NJ 07040. 

32 Sweet Wee Stinky 

Bill Sanchez wrote Jerry O'Rourk to ask if 

the supply of deodorant for Wee Stinky Glen 

is holding out. Jerry replied that the glen is 

now stinky in name only and, because of the 

generosity of '32ers and others, is a lovely 

and restful part of the campus. Bill's letter included 

an article on by-pass surgery, from the 

NY Times. The procedure must work: both 

old Berry Patch Sanchez and Jerry have experienced 

it and are active and lively. 

Semi-retired Jim Whiskeman operates a 

chain of "Wash'n Clean World" centers but 

he and Dorothy spend time motorhoming 

around the Southwest and Mexico with a 

month at their condominium on Maui, Hawaii. 

Joel Justin says none of his 14 grandchildren 

attended Cornell. JoeΓs latest travel 

touched China, Russia, Helsinki, Finland, 

and Stockholm, Sweden. Floyd Iseman, a Kiwanian, 

winters in Fla and takes short summer 

trips. Hap and Dorothy inventory 2 

grandchildren and a cocker spaniel, collect 

coins and Currier & Ives prints. Vinal Renton 

responded to Jerry's letter, but sent no news. 

Lloyd Rosenthal has a grandson at Wesleyan 

and other grandchildren ("over 9 of 

them," he says), the youngest about 3. On a 

trip West last Apr, he and Winona visited Ed 

and Sue Corlett, then went to Scottsdale, 

Ariz, to see Ernie Levinson '34, attended a 

meeting of the Cornell Club of Ariz at Camelback 

Inn. Pete Matthew sent us a greeting, 

but no news. He did note a while back that 

after Reunion in '82 he visited friends and 

relatives at Geneseo and Rochester and at 

Bayside, Me. Now in Santa Barbara, Cal, 

Pete admits to a modest social program but 

ample high-handicap golf. John Livingston 

must be a handy fellow like Dick Browne. His 

hobbies are boating, computer and electronic 

tinkering, and being "Mr Fixit" for assorted 

offspring. 

Ralph Kingsley, with wife Edith (Babiy), is 

active in real estate in Fla. Ralph describes 

Edie as a "Cornellian by association:" her 

father Dr Paul Peter Babiy was for many yrs 

curator of Cornell's entomology collection. 

Ralph retired a yr ago as president, Cornell 

Club of Southwest Fla. Dick Senn likes to 

fish, has been trying the trout streams of 

Mont and Wyo. He and Marg went to the 

Shakespeare Festival at Ashland, Ore. 

James W Oppenheimer, 560 Delaware Ave, 

Buffalo, NY 14202. 

Helen Gellis Wunsch and Harry '30 have 

lived in Westport, Conn, more than 30 yrs. 

They have 4 sons and a daughter, among 

them David '61 (EE) and Sarah '69 (BA). 

There are 3 PhDs and 2 lawyers. And, there 

are 5 grandchildren. Catherine Laney Beyland 

loved the alumni trips she has taken. She 

traveled with Jean Miner O'Connell, enjoying 

a friendship that started at Cornell. She is 

learning golf and enjoys bowling. A daughter 

and 3 sons live near, and she has 4 grandchildren 

to visit. 

Edith Piquet Kaylor took a fantastic 3-wk 

tour organized by the NC Botanical Garden, 

"Our British Garden Heritage Tour." The 

group of 20 visited more than 20 gardens, including 

those at Kew, Edinburgh, Liverpool, 

Oxford, and Cambridge. They stayed at restored 

manor houses, old inns, and a modern 

hotel in London. They saw James Herriot 

country, Adrian's wall, Edinburgh castle, 

Holyrood Palace, several cathedrals, and a 

flower show at Harrogate. 

Irma Henke Milligan and Arthur have visited 

all the continents and all states but N 

Dak and Minn. They went with their daughters 

and sons-in-law to China, Japan, and 

Hawaii. But they say the US is still the best! 

• Martha Travis Houck, Box 178, Bedminster, 

NJ 07921. 

33 New News 

The tide has turned and my request for current 

news is beginning to bear fruit in the 

form of a number of most welcome letters. 

Gar Ferguson reports he and Carol had a fine 

time at our 50th, survived the weekend in 

good health, and since then have visited relatives 

and friends on Nantucket, Martha's 

Vineyard, and, most recently, were in the 

Laurentians, north of Montreal, PQ, Canada. 

More strenuous activities include curling 

every Mon and bowling (the big pins) on 

Wed. That, plus paddle tennis and golf on a 

regular schedule has left this correspondent 

physically exhausted. Congratulations from 

one "old-timer" to another, and thank you, 

Gar, for your kind words of encouragement 

and excellent advice as I begin this new assignment. 

The Sphinx Head newsletter, fall '83, 

brought news of 2 classmates. Jack Hunter, 

during a trip to the Holy Land and Egypt last 

fall, finally got to see the original "Sphinx 

Head." Dick Wels has just served 2 yrs as 

chairman of the family law section of the NY 

State Bar Assn and is a member of the house 

of delegates and council of family law section 

of the American Bar Assn. He also finds time 

for lecturing and travel to Aruba, Montego 

Bay, the Virgin Islands, and Ariz. 

Mary and Ed Bleckwell enjoyed their Jan 

Caribbean study-cruise aboard the Sea 

Cloud. Eli Goldberg and Nat Apter, with 

their wives, completed the '33 contingent. 

Garrett V S Ryerson Jr, 1700 Lehigh Rd, 

Wantagh, NY 11793. 

No matter Buffalo's reputation for its wintry 

chill; it more than compensates for the icicles 

by way of its talented inhabitants. One of 

these is Lenore Loeser Kulberg's daughter, 

Julie Kulberg Lewitsky. Recently, the Buffalo 

News mirrored Julie's work in a large, illustrated 

article. Not only is she a fine artist, 

but a versatile one, as well. Her work includes 

color murals for a nature preserve, the Buffalo 

Museum of Science, Art Park, and early 

childhood centers, to name a few. She designs 

yearly calendars depicting early Buffalo 

homes, also stationery, original coloring 

books for hospital patients, and, quite best of 

all, her paintings hang in the Members' Gallery 

of the Buffalo Albright Knox Art Gallery, 

which has been rated as one of the very 

finest galleries in the country. 

Josephine Collins Fredenburg, who has finally 

recovered from the bad fall that resulted 

in a crushed foot bone, wrote how thankful 

she was that the injury occurred after Reunion 

rather than before. She enjoyed seeing 

her former classmates, attending the events 

and sharing memories, and could think about 

them while in the hospital. 

Mary King Crooker had taken a tour of 

Greece and Italy before Reunion. She was at

the opening of the Olympic ceremonies and 

received a real thrill, realizing that she had 

stood right at the same spot where they lit the 

torch in Olympia. Carleen Maley Hutchins 

continues with her matchless scientific talents 

and she has written an article which was published 

a few months ago. Pauline Wallens 

Narins, 40 Bridle Path, Williamsville, NY 

14221. 

34 Prize Remarks 

Our 50th surely has brought some prize remarks 

on the information sheet sent with the 

$20 check. Here are a few—Julian M Wright 

of Sun City, Ariz, wrote, "Hope to attend 

the Reunion." Zachary H Wolff of Coral 

Gables, Fla, says, "I look forward to see how 

50 yrs treated the rest of the survivors. I hope 

to make the Reunion and that many, many 

more will, too." Bob Thompson said, "See 

you next June." Everitt L Stiles, Cocoa 

Beach, Fla, writes, "Mamie and I will be 

there for our 50th. We have heard from Mose 

Hollander, Put Kennedy, Frank Williams, 

who will also come. I hope Frank ShuII, Fult 

Holtby, Jack Nichols, and others will also 

make it. It is a once-in-a-lifetime event." 

Milton R Shaw, Ithaca, says, "Anticipating 

seeing many classmates at our 50th in 

June." Karl F Schmidt, Dallas, Texas, wrote, 

"Looking forward to the 50th. To date, have 

been fortunate to attend every Reunion." 

Burr Jenkins of Chatham, Mass, said, "Will 

see you in June if the Lord is willing." E Truman 

Wright: "On June 18, Peg and I will 

have our 50th wedding anniversary. We were 

married in Sage Chapel at 7 pm, June 18, 

'34." Randall W Agor of Mayfield said, "I 

plan to attend the 50th becaue I didn't attend 

the 25th and, the law of averages being what 

they are, I just might not be around for the 

75th." In a letter from Stephen A Voelker of 

Columbus, Ohio, the following quote: "Cannot 

attend the 50th as I have fortunately 

found that sleeping in an iron lung keeps my 

congestive heart failure under control and 

this is the only higher priority." John H 

Little, Apt H-21, 275 Bryn Mawr Ave, Bryn 

Mawr, Pa 19010. 

In Newport Beach, Cal, be sure to visit a restaurant 

called The Bouzy Rouge Cafe. It is 

run by Tony Hermann '67 (Hotel), son of 

Bess (Eisner) and the late Irwin N "Dick" 

Hermann. Bess writes, "I am an active MS 

classmate, drive, swim, walk, keep in touch 

with '34 friends Alice Goulding Herrmann, 

Helen Levitan Toker, Mary Terry Goff." 

Henrietta Deubler had a delightful visit 

with Ruth Blake Wright and her husband Julian 

in Sun City, Ariz, this winter. Ruth was 

her roommate freshman yr, "a 77-lb greenhorn." 

(Ruth's words.) The Wrights have 2 

sons, a Navy captain and an attorney for Exxon. 

They have 5 grandchildren. 

Welcome to these columns Margaret Stillman 

Deitrich. Margaret hopes to be at Reunion 

so we will catch up with her doings at 

that time. She and her husband live in Pittsburgh, 

Pa. Dan Makesey '77 was inducted into 

Cornell's Sports Hall of Fame in Sept. He 

is the son of our own Eloise (Ross) and the 

late Thomas W Mackesey, '39-41 Grad. 

Tobe Pecker Gaster writes that she and her 

husband Joseph '32, MD '36, are looking 

forward to being back in Ithaca again at Reunion, 

a time which may well coincide with the 

birth of their 1st grandchild. Their son Ron 

is a corneal surgeon and assistant professor at 

the U of Cal Medical School. Daughter Wendy, 

a lawyer, was recently married. The Gasters 

live in Beverly Hills, Cal. 

Jeannette K Hughes Joiner, mother of 4, 

"having survived 20 yrs in the school class- 

room and a major tornado" thinks she'd like 

to return to Ithaca for "a taste of the good 

old days." Jeannette lives in Polo, 111. 

"In Jan we heard the Cornell Glee Club 

and decided they no longer looked like sons, 

but more like grandsons!" So writes Alice 

Bennett Planck, Tipton, Ind. She is in touch 

with Emma Mammal Case and, quite by 

chance, met Mary Seaman Stiles, recently. 

Alice hopes to attend Reunion. 

To those who cannot attend Reunion—you 

will be missed and those of us who can, will 

try our darndest to fill you in. Cheerio for 

now. Isabel White West, Box 1414, Vineyard 

Haven, Mass 02568. 

35 Old Faithfuls 

Our "old faithfuls" Jim Mullane and Dan 

Bondareff reported that the Mar 13-18 minireunion 

in Orlando, Fla, had a record attendance. 

Imagine the fun these '35ers had: 

John "Batch" and Larry Batchelar, J Frank 

Birdsall, Dan Bondareff and Esther (Schiff) 

'37, Gordie and Dottie Sullivan Booth, 

George and Varian Brewer, Clarence and 

Betsy Dubois, Dick and Helen Graybill, Win 

and Barbara Ireland, Cory and Eddy Johns, 

Earle and Millie Evans Jeffery, Jack and Eleanor 

Middleton Kleinhans, Jack and Helen 

Mindell, Viola Henry Miller, Jim Mullane, 

Larry and Eleanor McArthur, Dick and Mildred 

Almstedt Rozelle, Wen and Elise Upham, 

Sid and Marge Walzer, Professor Hollis 

N Davis '37 (Ithaca and Melbourne, Fla), and 

Professor Paul L Gaurnier '50 (Ithaca and 

Orlando, Fla). Professor Gaurnier was the 

great speaker at the class dinner. He is professor 

of management in the Hotel School and 

spoke on the work of setting up the Hotel 

School branch in Puerto Rico. 

Jim Mullane would like to hear from those 

interested in future mini-reunions scheduled 

for Bretton Woods, NH, late June; Toronto, 

Ont, Canada, Oct 20-24; and Homecoming, 

Oct 24-27. Jim can be reached at 766 Longmeadow 

St, Longmeadow, Mass 01106, or 

phoned on night rates between 7-8 am at 

(413) 567-5079. He'd love to hear from you as 

he and the Maytag repairman are lonesome. 

In the fall, Florence Groiss Van Landingham, 

328 Dyer Rd, W Palm Beach, Fla, 

wrote a long letter to let us all share news of 

her activities. One of her memorable times 

was visiting Janet Hollowell Bradley and her 

husband in Dade City, Fla. "Janet paints 

portraits, does woodcarving on a giant scale, 

plays the organ, does needlework, and specializes 

in things Chinese. They have been to 

China twice with the alumni group. Brad is 

also a collector and actually built the organ 

they have in the family room." Florence 

works at Fine Impressions, 5 Vi hrs a day, and 

enjoys the "need to toe the mark every day." 

Presently she is trying to get her genealogical 

work in some sort of shape. The research is 

finished, but getting it in order for the printer 

is less exciting and so is lagging. In the meantime, 

she's planning for our 50th Reunion. 

Elmer and Marie Shriver Manson, 1740 

Wellington Rd, Lansing, Mich, had a family 

reunion in Portugal in Feb, with their son 

Fred from London, England, and daughter 

Joyce from Tulsa, Okla. Elmer is completing 

his term as president of the R E Olds Transportation 

Museum, in its 2nd yr of operation. 

Joseph Davis, Frederick, Md, wrote, "An 

amazing incident—since my favorite barber 

has retired, I drove up Market St, spotted the 

1st red and white barber pole, parked, walked 

in, had my hair cut (even bald-headed men 

need an occasional haircut). So, as I started 

to leave, a farmer looked up at me, smiled, 

and said, 'You are Joe Davis, aren't you? I 

am Rick Hazen '34. I have a farm in Montgomery 

County.' We had not seen each other 

since '34, nearly a half-century! Rick Hazen 

is sharp." 

Dick Graybill, Abington, Pa, wrote the sad 

news of the death of Elizabeth Donovan 

Overbagh. "Lib" was the wife of classmate 

Richard B Overbagh, 23 Lafayette St, 

Saugerties, and the mother of 3 daughters 

and a son. We extend our sympathy. 

Mary Didas, 80 North Lake Dr, Orchard 

Park, NY 14127. 

36 New Activities 

Cornelius Koopman (CE), 1517 W Chestnut, 

Ponca City, Okla, is now fully retired and is 

looking forward to new activities. Charles 

Lockhart (ME), 17738 Villamoura Dr, Poway, 

Cal, and his wife are living at their new 

home in the San Diego area, yr 'round, and 

are enjoying it very much after living for 

many yrs in Buffalo. They are on the 15th 

hole of the Stoneridge Country Club and 

both are looking forward to the 50th. 

Malcolm J Mann (BA, MD), 206 Ithaca 

Rd, Ithaca, retired from medical practice after 

35 yrs. Daughter Marion died Aug 13, '82. 

Granddaughter Jean M Graef '87 is in Engineering, 

a 4th-generation Cornellian. James 

B McArdle (BS), 50 Orchard St, Cos Cob, 

Conn, is semi-retired from his family business 

and Jim Jr '63 is now James's boss. 

Since they sell seeds, plants, and flowers, the 

business is growing. Now Jim has 12 grandchildren—another 

business, with the family 

growing younguns—an indication that the 

McArdles are very good propagators. 

John S Myers (BA), 2101 Fountain View, 

#75B, Houston, Texas, has been very busy 

for the past 12 yrs as a commercial and investment 

real estate broker in Houston. He 

went there in '65 with the General Electric Co 

as an engineer on the NASA space program 

and, by now, is a "real Texan." Arthur M 

Phillips Jr (BS), 1653 Brandy wine Dr, Charlottesville, 

Va, moved there in Oct '82 and 

still loves the area but they do miss the frequent 

trips to the campus from their former 

nearby oV home in Cortland. He notes that 

the "other half of we is Ruth (Mason) '37 (BS 

HE). 

William H Scofield (BS Ag), 3134 N 

Thomas St, Arlington, Va, following retirement 

from the USDA in '75, spent 7 yrs as an 

agribusiness consultant with the Agency for 

International Development. He has assignments 

in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, 

South Africa, Indonesia, and Guyana. Full 

retirement is now in order and more appealing, 

especially while sailing on Chesapeake 

Bay. You really deserve to rest now. E Larry 

Smith (EE), 3584 Lakeview Blvd, Delray 

Beach, Fla, retired in '73 and moved to his 

present address. He is still married to the 

same great gal and they have 4 children and 3 

grandchildren. They are enjoying traveling, 

especially the alumni tours. 

Charles Courtney Simpson (CE), Box 331, 

Locust Valley, is now doing some productive 

work, like cutting brush, producing food to 

eat, fixing machinery, etc, since '78, when he 

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etired from shuffling papers (civil engineering 

design work). Artist daughter Hester 

Louise (Carnegie-Mellon, FA) visited them 

when her work allowed and was on her way 

to NM after a yr's stint at the Boston Museum. 

Jeanette, the 51 per cent of Charles's 

life, is still holding the fort with only 3 jobs 

after retiring from teaching with 21 yrs in that 

profession. His grandson Michael spent some 

time with them and he is hoping to be a Cornellian 

in '97. 

C Sterling Tuthill (BS Ag) '16 Musket 

Lane, Whiting, NJ, and his wife missed the 

45th as they were sick but are looking forward 

to the 50th with great anticipation and 

trying to stay healthy for that trip. They still 

live in a community retirement area and they 

never lack for activities to keep busy. Lois 

still is busy with stamps, coins, and buttons; 

Sterling has horticulture and environmental 

concerns. Looking forward to seeing you 

both at the 50th. Col Edmund R Mac Vittie, 

AUS retd, 10130 Forrester Dr, Sun City, 

Ariz 85351. 

Thanks to all you duespayers for an influx of 

material! On this blustery cold winter day (in 

Mar), it is diverting to learn about all the interesting 

travels you have had and your winter 

sojourns in warm and sunny climes. Anne 

H Myers, who lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, at 

1347 Puco St, writes of a trip to China last 

summer with an administration group from 

the U of Hawaii. Beside the usual tours, they 

visited 3 universities, including the U of Peking 

which, she says, has a very beautiful 

campus. Mary Tillinghast Nigro and husband 

Louis, 1990 Camino de Los Robles, Menlo 

Park, Cal, drove to Seattle, Wash, ferried to 

Victoria and Vancouver, BC, Canada, then 

drove through the spectacular Canadian 

Rockies and on across the prairies to Winnipeg 

before returning home. They are now 

proud grandparents of 4, the newest being 1, 

and a "charmer." 

A trip to Europe last summer, purely for 

pleasure, was a great experience for Dr 

Miriam Holmes Roesch (Mrs Robert), 1609 

Maple Ridge Ct, Greensboro, NC. They 

spent time at their favorite haunts in France, 

Switzerland, Austria, and W Germany, and 

now are spending the winter months in Fla. 

Despite arthritis, which necessitates using a 

cane, Babette Kurtz, 21-80 33rd Rd, Long Isl 

City, manages to get around amazingly to visit 

relatives as far away as Minn and Cal, and 

to see classmates Alice Manek Stewart, Betty 

Silver, Leanora Schwartz, and Yvonne Brequet 

Ruffner, who she calls a "human dynamo." 

Last fall Babette had a wonderful trip 

to Egypt and Israel, so take heart all of you 

who are infirm! Mary Emily Wilkins Lytle, 

119 Bedford Ave, Buffalo, NY 14216. 

37 A Mini in the Sun 

While glancing through the Feb issue of the 

Alumni News, a picture caught my eye. It was 

a group from the Class of '64 looking forward 

to their 20th Reunion this spring. Two 

of the people in the group were Carol (Britton) 

and Emmett W "Mac" MacCorkle III, 

daughter and son-in-law of Barbara (Heath) 

Britton and husband, Joe. Both Carol and 

Mac are active in alumni activities. 

This column is being written in Fla, where I 

am staying longer than originally planned because 

of inclement weather in the Northeast. 

Please forgive any errors of omission or commission, 

as my notes are incomplete. I attended 

the 6th annual mini-reunion on Siesta 

Key in Sarasota, Fla, Feb 23, and it was great 

to see so many classmates. If my memory 

serves me correctly, the following '37 women 

attended, as well as a few spouses. Barbara 


Heath Britton and Joe, Cecile Wilt Brower 

and Royce B '30, Marian Wrench Roosa and 

Charles E, I J Seidler Gardner and her husband 

(who was the official photographer), 

Clare (Capewell) and John Ward DVM '36, 

Helen Cothran Clark, Kay Skehan Carroll, 

Eleanor Raynor Burns, Claire Kelly Gilbert, 

Fran White McMartin, Carol Cline, Dr Miriam 

C Reed, Gladys Friedman Stoloff, Mae 

Zukerman Horuvitz, Elma Shaver Folsom, 

Phyllis Weldin Corwin, Marian Bellamy 

Wedow, Bea Moore Stump and Duane. I believe 

that Helen Dunn had left before I arrived. 

Helen Cothran Clark tells me she is still 

in Bradenton, has not moved to Cal, as I had 

reported previously. Mary M Weimer, 200 

E Dewart St, Shamokin, Pa 17872. 

Past-President Robert H Wright, super enthusiastic 

about his retirement hometown, 

Tyron, NC, in the mountains, is enjoying 

fishing, golf, skeet shooting, and travel. He 

and Ruth toured Greece and the islands last 

May and had a marvelous wk in Paris, 

France, en route home. Ruth is a dedicated 

hospital, church, and library volunteer. "A 

most stimulating 2nd career" is the way Harold 

L Hess describes teaching marketing and 

management at Fla Southern College in 

Lakeland since retiring in '82 from Maas 

Brothers, the Fla unit of Allied Stores Corp. 

A beautiful and long-term hobby, the fascinating 

art of bonsai, has enchanted Nelson 

Hopper for the past 9 yrs, although he admits 

that is hardly long enough to grow a good 

specimen tree. From the mid-'40s and following 

a 2-yr stint at the Ag College, he was with 

NY State agencies in Rochester and Albany. 

One accomplishment since retirement has 

been researching, writing, and publishing a 

family genealogy, with youngest son Peter as 

editor and publication assistant. The 3 Hopper 

sons all have advanced degrees, and one 

of the 4 grandchildren recently appeared in 

national TV commercials. A stalwart of the 

famous row of 10 sousaphones in the Big Red 

Band, Nelson recalls a low point in his musical 

career when a front-page picture in the 

Phila, Pa, paper—following a cold and blustery 

Cornell-Penn game—showed a certain 

tuba player standing with feet unmilitarily 

apart and leaning into the wind. The Hoppers 

come to Fla for extended winter visits but, being 

"4-season persons," return to NY State 

in the spring—occasionally slipping into Vt to 

check on a land development project, a joint 

undertaking with a son. 

Robert Z Rosenthal is a director of the 

Fashion Inst of Technology and the Jewish 

Braille Inst, and a trustee of the North Shore 

University Hospital. Zeitz golfs on Long Isl 

and during a 3-month winter stay on Fla's 

west coast. He and Ruth have a pre-school 

grandson and 2 sons: a CPA and an MD. 

Robert A Rosevear, 2714 Saratoga Rd, N, 

Deland, Fla 32720. 

38 Soul Found 

Fred reports: "lost soul" is the way Phil Hustis 

describes his frosh-yr Sheldon Court 

roomie, fellow-ATO Charlie Stephens, who 

with wife Sue reuned at the NY Plaza with 

Phil and Betty; Charlie, a Tucson, Ariz, internist, 

hadn't seen Phil since '39 (and, of 

course, vice-versa). Another Charlie—Guzewich—has 

received absolution for missing 

Reunion because he and wife made 1st European 

trip last June. Plucky Jim Bugden, hit 

by a stroke in Nov '81, with therapy progressing 

faster than 1st forecast and "perhaps can 

one day sit on the '38 bench at the arboretum," 

to which he contributed. Leo Glasser's 

penned the '88 Reunion on his calendar and 

quotes Jack Sly and Monroe Albright as vow- 

ing to attend. Rick Perna's son James F III, 

married last yr, practices law in Wash, DC. 

Julian Silverman's retired after 17 yrs in 

social services adult protection and put Ore, 

Tokyo, Japan, and Honolulu, Hawaii, on 

immediate travel plans. List as happy Reuners 

John Clement, who vows to attend 

50th, and Hugh Atwood, who with wife June 

remains active in community work. Coley Asinof's 

back full tilt after slipped-disc surgery. 

Walt McCrone is teaching at Cornell as well 

as elsewhere with intensive 1-wk courses in 

use of the light microscope, 30-plus of such a 

yr. And Harold Segall was invited for a 2nd 

yr to teach law to managers at Yale's School 

of Organization and Government. 

New duespayer Dick Williamson's temporarily 

at PO Box 704, El Dorado, Cal, following 

resignation as business school dean at 

LA's Loyola Marymount U, after 16 yrs, and 

beginning a sabbatical as visiting scholar in 

accounting at U of Cal, Berkeley; he will return 

to LMU as accounting professor. Bill 

Kumpf writes, just "Nothing new." Semi-retired 

Stu Mertz saw Bill Kruse at their 50th 

high school reunion. Bob Breckenridge avers, 

"A peaceful summer at the beach at our age 

ain't too bad, at that." 

Len Roberts is "feeling fine, still scrambling 

in busy ob-gyn practice, and liking it." 

Len, your GP will tell you all work and no 

Reunion may make jack, but no fun for those 

who missed you! Bill Doolittle's clan goes but 

everywhere: He and Elsie had an archeology 

tour to West's "4 corners." A son had a 2nd 

Antarctica research trip, while 2nd son is turbocharger 

project manager at Chrysler. Jim 

Outhouse has visited Portugal, England, 

Wales, Scotland, since retiring as Purdue U 

animal sciences professor in '82. He has 7 

grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. 

Dudley Buck's busier than ever after 8 yrs of 

retirement, active in associations and with 

golf, bowling, and duplicate bridge, plus 

travel—3 wks in China; 10 days in a 4-some 

playing Scotland's best golf courses. But, he 

says, "a large yard with many shrubs keeps 

me busy the rest of the time." 

Hobe Roberts yearned through winter for a 

64-degee Christmas of the yr before. Bill Arthur 

capped Reunion with 3 wks' driving 

'round Ireland, coming home on Queen Elizabeth 

II and even enjoying a sail through 

gale. Dick Buchauer's still interested in Indian 

archaeology, local historical society, and 

church work. Maynard Boyce's been retired 

from SUNY, Alfred, since '74 and says, 

"Travel, home maintenance, gardening, and 

income tax preparation" vie with bridge and 

golf for attention. Fred Hillegas, 7625 E 

Camelback Rd, #220-A, Scottsdale, Ariz 

85251; also Steven DeBaun, 220 W Rittenhouse 

Sq, Phila, Pa 19103. 

Betty Thompkins missed Reunion because of 

a California visit with Janet Dempster Loew. 

(See final paragraph.) Marcia Aldrich Lawrence 

of Key Colony Beach, Fla, has a son 

Randall, MBA '76, living in Glastonbury, 

Conn, with his family. Barbara Tupper Sullivan 

and husband summer on the shores of 

Lake Champlain and winter in Cocoa Beach, 

Fla. Barb lunched with former roommate 

Barbara Hunt Toner while at Martha's Vineyard 

last fall. So many of you have written 

favorable comments on Reunion that I shall 

try to pass them to Gerry Miller Gallagher 

and Gil Rose; they deserve our praise! 

Jane Stoutenberg spent a month last fall in 

the Pacific, with stops in Kyoto, Bangkok, 

Bali, and Singapore, among other exotic 

places; at last writing she was off for a winter's 

stay in Tequesta, Fla. Jean Scheidenhelm 

Wolff wrote that she and Al '37 thoroughly 

enjoyed their recent alumni tour in

Russia and Romania, made even more pleasant 

by having Elfreda (Plaisted) '40 and Jim 

Lilly '37 and Henry Godshall '36 as traveling 

companions. Back in Hilton Head, the 

Wolffs are displaying their usual prowess on 

the golf course, but jean still finds time for 

her painting, while Al is treasurer of the newly 

formed Cornell Club there. 

Here is a new address for Ruth Barclay 

Wright: 4 Flicker Lane, Rowayton, Conn, 

closer to her children. Ruth underwent successful 

hip surgery last fall, looked forward 

to some golfing and bowling by spring. 

Many of us have been saddened by the 

news that Janet Dempster Loew lost her long 

fight against cancer in Jan '84, and I know 

you will sympathize with her family. 

Dempy's college activities were many and 

varied, touching all of her classmates in some 

fashion, and culminated in the presidency of 

WSGA. Helen Reichert Chad wick, 225 N 

2nd St, Lewiston, NY 14092. 

39 A Sampler 

Peg Schuman Green (Pawling): "Eggie '40 

retired, serves on board of managers, YMCA 

and Country Club, is treasurer, local civic 

assn. Daughter Margaret (Ithaca College '65) 

is married to Thomas Koehler '61, projects 

engineer, Eastman Kodak; they have Kristin, 

14, clarinetist in band, and Pamela, 12, cellist 

in concert band—both on school swim teams. 

Daughter Elizabeth (Kirkland '75) is married 

to Sam Rodgers (Hamilton '76) had 1st oneperson 

art show in '83; Sam does furniture 

design, fine cabinetmaking. Son Charles '71 

(U of Alaska '80, geological engineering, cum 

laude), is assistant director, State of Alaska 

Mineral Development; lives in Fairbanks with 

wife Ellen (Maine ' 82) soil science, now with 

Alaska Dept of Transportation." 

Hilda Morehouse Leet (Utica): "Finding 

retirement exciting, fun, full of activities, volunteer 

work, travel." Cryptic note from 

Dawn Rochow Seymour, Naples (NY): 

"Tried playing Tarzan; missed vine, fractured 

right arm." 

Florence Morgenstern Dresen-Barth, NYC: 

"Daughter Aleson '74 (Harvard Law '77); 

daughter Laura '70 (NYU MA). I travel, have 

visited China, Africa, Russia. Aleson works 

for NY law firm in Hong Kong; I went to 

Thailand and Singapore. Went with daughter, 

son-in-law (partner in law firm) to St 

Marten villa for vacation. I was Dept of Labor 

commissioner, NYS, counsel to NYS Labor 

Dept, retired to do labor arbitration 

work. Husband Richard still active as partner 

in his CPA firm." 

Fran Johnson Fetzer, Rolling Meadows, 

111: "Biggest event of yr was arrival of 1st 

grandchild: daughter Joan and Steve produced 

Lynne, Mar 19, '83. In early Sept, 

Charles and I reuned on Cape Hatteras with 

son John and Susan from New Orleans, La. 

Lunched with Mary Rogers Hillas once in 

'83, but she is only Cornellian I've seen recently." 

Come to Reunion, and see more! We want 

YOU there. Binx Howland Keefe, 3659 

Lott St, Endwell, NY 13760. 

Another month closer to our Reunion and 

from reports of Chairman Bill Lynch, the 

projected attendance is very good. We look 

forward to seeing many of the old gang in 

about a month from the time you read this. 

Carol and I just returned from our annual 

fishing Competition in Belize. We are both 

happy—I caught the most bonefish (what I 

call "skill" fishing) while she caught the 

greatest variety, the largest fish, and the 

most, excluding the "bones." Nothing exciting 

happened unless you count the time we 

makes it 

We want YOU there! 

were halted by the British Army while trying 

to cross a bridge during a bomb scare, or running 

aground at 4 am on a mangrove island. 

Yes, we'll go back again next yr, plus a possible 

wilderness float trip in Alaska for salmon. 

Knowing Carol, she'll probably tell the grizzlies 

what nice fur coats they have while I give 

them all my fish and promise to catch them 

more. 

For news in general: last night I talked to 

George Peck, who by now should be on his 

way to Myrtle Beach, SC, for his annual golf 

outing; Bill Lynch got off to Fla after a delay 

caused by 2 ft of snow in Ft Erie, Ont, Canada; 

Bill Fuerst returned safely from a trip to 

England, after getting stuck in a bath tub (?); 

Lew Fancourt is celebrating the return of his 

wife Doris from the hospital after a hip replacement 

operation; and we saw Russ Martin 

at the wkly meeting of the City Club, 

looking bright and happy in retirement. 

Bill Flanigan informs us he is vice chairman, 

P Flanigan & Sons Inc, a 99-yr-old 

highway construction business; is vice chairman, 

board of trustees, Bon Secours Hospital; 

and has 4 children and 4 granddaughters, 

all living near him in the Baltimore, Md, 

area. Looks as if the family business will 

prosper for another 99 yrs. Bill just returned 

from a Cancun, Mexico, vacation. Bud Huber 

lives upstate in Kenmore, near Buffalo, 

and frequently sees the Lynches and the Fancourts. 

In Mar ' 83, Bud and Pauline vacationed 

at Marriott's Sam Lord's Castle on 

Barbados. They recommend it as a beautiful 

and quiet place to go for a rest. Lawrence 

Kaplan is a neuropsychiatrist in NYC, while 

his wife Janet is in paralegal work. They have 

a son Richard, who is president of "Muffin 

in the Oven," a maternity boutique, and a 

daughter Laurie, who is editor, Center for 

Humanities, and—I cannot neglect to mention—they 

have grandson Wesley, 4. Larry 

and Janet went to China, Burma, Southern 

India, and France on their last vacation. 

Dan Kops sold Kops-Monahan Communications 

in early '83. He spanned the yrs since 

buying WAVZ, New Haven, Conn, in '49, 

adding an FM station, and also operated 

WTRY Albany-Troy-Schenectady. He and 

Nancy also sold their travel agency, although 

she continues as a consultant. All this gives 

them more time to travel, most recently to 

Cozumel, Mexico, in Feb, and South Africa, 

in Mar. Dan stays busy in New Haven as 

chairman, board of directors, Schubert Performing 

Arts Center, an extensively remodeled 

Schubert Theatre which had been closed 

for 8 yrs. Dan has many activities and has 

had many honors, including a community 

leadership award, New Haven Chamber of 

Commerce membership, industry awards, 

such as the Alfred-duPont (twice), and has 

been radio vice chairman, Natl Assn of 

Broadcasters. J M Brentlinger Jr, 217 

Berkshire Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850. 

40 Top This 

Sometimes it is hard to get "up" for this writing 

chore. My 2 youngest have returned to 

"rent" their rooms, etc! So I am very busy 

moving too many things around. However, 

the latest news sheets from Elsie "Susie" 

Cook Cobb came yesterday showing some interesting 

stats. Study these for starters: 

Carl and Marion Wightman Potter have 26 

Cornellians in their immediate family. Three 

of their 6 children graduated from Cornell: 

Jim '65, Susan Potter Newman '66, and Bob 

'69. Bob is chairman of his 15th Reunion this 

June. Carl didn't list them all. He and Marion 

have been visiting a daughter in Japan, 

also going to Germany, Turkey, and India. 

He has semi-retired from his veterinary practice 

in Homer. 

Bob and Dottie Talbert Wiggans '41, in addition 

to themselves, have 10 Cornellians 

among their children and in-laws, with 13 degrees 

among them. Bob and Dottie have lived 

in Aurora, spending 20 yrs farming before 

Bob became active in insurance work as a 

special agent for Northwest Life for 3 yrs and 

a general agent for Farmers and Traders Life 

Insurance Co for 7 yrs. He also served as director 

of education for Metropolitan Milk 

Producers Bargaining Agency for 5 yrs. He 

mentions leadership roles in the Presbyterian 

Church, Rotary Club, Life Underwriters, Cayuga 

Producers Coop, and Cayuga County 

Transportation Committee. They both have 

enjoyed 3 Elderhostel trips, which they highly 

recommend. They are now planning a trip 

with 20 other infantry veterans to retrace the 

Italian Campaign of '43, '44, and '45, in 

which they all took part. 

These large Cornell families make interesting 

reading. Please send more. Maybe at Reunion 

we could take a count. 

Speaking of Reunion, Bissell Travis and 

Marge Adams Stout will be heading the Reunion 

committee for our 45th NEXT June. 

Margery Sauter Travis sent this news, along 

with a lot more! Marge and Bissell recently 

married—Apr 23, '81. She had 3 daughters 

with Harry Copeland and was divorced in 

'69. Bissell was married to Phebe (Allen) '42, 

had 3 children before Phebe died in Jan '80. 

Marge and Bissell live in a condo at 4487 Post 

PI, 3-182, Nashville, Tenn, where he is a sales 

executive in engineering. Marge received her 

MSLS at Syracuse in '72, was head librarian 

in several private schools before being public 

librarian in Miami, Fla. As of last Sept, they 

have returned from a cruise up the Inland 

Passage to Juneau, Alaska, and the Glacier 

Fields, also toured Vancouver, Victoria, BC, 

Canada, and around the Olympic Peninsula 

to Seattle, Wash. In Juneau they visited Bob 

Boochever '39 and Connie, who have lived 

there since '46. Bob is a federal judge, Appeals 

Court of the Western States. 

A few more classmates not seen in the column 

in several yrs: Joan Bardach's life has 

been really concentrated in one area. She has 

a PhD in clinical psychology and has a certificate 

in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. In 

Nov '83 she retired as professor and director 

of psychological services at NYU's Inst of 

Rehabilitation Medicine. She is still a supervisor 

in postdoctoral psychoanalysis program 

at NYU Graduate Arts, and still has a private 

practice. She was project director of an 

award-winning film: "Choices: In Sexuality 

With Physical Disability." Also, she served 

as a member of the International Scientific 

Commission on Criminology and Penology 

at U of Messina, Sicily, giving a paper there, 

in Dec '83, on psycho-analytic underpinnings 

of alienation. She does tell of fun in her life— 

a trip to the Galapagos Islands to see and to 

film the creatures that gave Darwin his theory 

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of evolution. Joan lives at 50 E 10th St, NYC. 

Earl Westervelt, PO Box 153, Clarksville, 

had been married 30 yrs when his wife died in 

'77. He has a daughter Janis Shannon, who 

has a young son. Earl spent 40 yrs as director 

of environmental conservation education in 

NY State and had 38 yrs service—was in 

World War II and Korea—retired as It col, 

Med Dept Hospitals. After his wife's death 

he lived in Hawaii 3 winters. He has traveled 

to Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Panama, 

Colombia, the Antilles, and the Fijis. Retired 

in '75, he lives near Albany, in Honolulu, and 

in Ft Myers, Fla. He attends Cornell Club 

meetings in Fla and in Albany. Some of this 

news is not too recent—hope we hear again. 

Wallace Borker recently moved his law office 

from 57th St to Park and 41st, NYC, 

making his commute from 15 Stonehouse Rd, 

Scarsdale, a "cinch." Son David '68 (BA), 

formerly a professor of Slavic languages, is a 

rate accountant in Columbus, Ohio, having 

passed his CPA exam last summer. 

Newell Beckwith, retired as a process inspector 

at Aero Supply, later Geosource, in 

Erie, Pa, still enjoys Boy Scout work, having 

served as scoutmaster for 17 yrs. I had a note 

from him at Christmastime telling of his annual 

trip home to Corry, Pa, after driving his 

wife Mary to New Port Richey, Fla, where 

she can be close to 2 of their daughters, for 

the winter season. Having been a 4-H Club 

agent yrs ago in Sullivan County, after Ag 

school, he can really enjoy these trips North. 

This time he took Rt 65 through Ala, Tenn, 

and Ky, driving through farmlands and seeing 

a wide variety of growing crops. 

Next time I sit down to write to you all it 

will be spring! Carol Clark Petrie, 62 

Front St, Marblehead, Mass 01945. 

41 Busy Women 

Carol Ogle Woods (Mrs Lauren) still enjoys 

being a school librarian in Richmond, Va, 

and will continue another yr. Her husband 

will retire from administration in the near future 

and return to his pharmacology field. 

They have a neuroscientist son in Berkeley, 

Cal, with one child; an antique-dealer son in 

Iowa, with 2 children; and a scientist daughter 

in Wash, DC, attending law school. I bet 

they wish those grandchildren were closer! 

It was good to hear news from Janet Wilbor 

Warner (Mrs Lyle). She tutors part time 

for Special Services in Webster, is active in 

her church, plays bridge, swims, and participates 

in KKG activities. Her married daughter 

teaches school in Webster and her son recently 

acquired a bride in Indianapolis, Ind, 

where he is in business. 

Jean Way Schoonover (Mrs Raymond) is 

president of Dudley-Henderson-Yutzy Public 

Relations Co which is now affiliated with the 

5th largest public relations group in the 

world. Daughter Katherine Straus is a NYC 

lawyer; son Dan is a writer; and son Jim '79 is 

with Shearson American Express in Chicago, 

111. Jean is a Univ Council member, emeritus, 

member of the Hum Ec advisory council and 

the boards of the YWCA of Greater NY and 

the American Red Cross. In spite of her involvement, 

she and her husband have a great 

interest in the NY and London theater, and 

took a marvelous Valley of the Nile trip. A 

busy, productive lady! 

Jean Mackie Furgol (Mrs Ted) has reaped 

some lovely jaunts to the United Kingdom 

while her son Edward has been studying 

there. Last spring she attended his graduation 

from the U of Oxford, where he received his 

doctoral degree, and last fall she went to enjoy 

the added attraction of a yr-old grandson. 

I decided not to include addresses so the 

column will read better. Let me know if there 


is anyone with whom you would like to communicate. 

Besides, I'd like to hear from you! 

• Marge Huber Robinson, 11915 Longleaf 

Lane, Houston, Texas 77024. 

Phillip G Kuehn, president and chief executive 

officer of the New Orleans Cold Storage 

and Warehouse Co Ltd, , * 

was recently honored in 

New Orleans when he was 

selected to receive the C ^ rt: -* 

Alvin Bertel award for 

'83. The award, which 

was established in '67, is 

presented annually to the 

person whose contribu- ^, 

tions to the advancement ^ip * ΛV 

of the Port of New Or- ||| 

leans are judged to be out- ^ 

standing. Buz has spent his career m the 

refrigerated warehousing industry and has 

served as chairman of the Intί Assn of Refrigerated 

Warehouses and as president of the 

Refrigeration Research Foundation. In making 

the award, the president of the New Orleans 

Traffic and Transportation Bureau said 

that: "The accomplishments Kuehn has provided 

to the community included the improvement 

of economic opportunities and 

quality of life in New Orleans through his active 

participation in numerous civic organizations." 

And further, that: "The standards of 

interest and concern demonstrated by Kuehn 

should provide a goal of accomplishment to 

our present and future community leaders." 

N Travers Nelson, 5 St Martins Rd, Baltimore, 

Md, who retired from Bethlehem Steel 

in '82, writes he has lots of time for tennis, 

golf, and a little consulting; also, had a minireunion 

with Clark and Eva Burton in the 

winter of '82-83. Howard A Schuck, Mirror 

Lake Ave, Lake Placid, says after 

45 yrs of trying to skate well with- 

^ * •=>* out benefit of an adequate manual 

of instruction, he was forced to try 

to write one himself. It took 7 yrs and $7,000 

of his own money. Though it costs $11 to 

print, he makes it available for $7 to skating 

communities, as his contribution to the skating 

world. Its title: Efficiency in Ice Skating: 

for Hockey, Speed, and Recreational 

Skaters. Howard says he was writer, typist, 

publisher, distributor, copywriter, and advertiser. 

You may note he has forsaken Colorado 

Springs, Colo, for Lake Placid again. Research 

of Big Band sounds continues to involve 

a lot of time. Currently it is Billie Holiday, 

and Howard says, "I am ashamed to admit 

that during the Big Band era I must have 

been so color-blind or ignorant that I didn't 

even recognize the existence of such a fantastic 

artist. 'Better late than never' I have finally 

awakened to a full appreciation of her contributions 

to music." 

Zachary P Geaneas, 456 Morris Ave, 

Boonton, NJ, after 26 yrs in the US Foreign 

Service has retired and is enjoying life in rural 

Boonton. He keeps busy with international 

consulting, and is a member of the board of 

directors of the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of 

NYC, cdr of the Boonton American Legion 

Post, adj of the Dover, NJ, chapter of the 

Disabled American Veterans, and dabbles in 

politics and community affairs. 

Alfred F Brady, 215 Seminole Lane, 

Franklin Lakes, NJ, returned from Southeast 

Asia, where he witnessed his 7th, since '71, 

total eclipse of the sun in Java on June 11, 

'83. How about that! Burtt D Dutcher, 

2645-0 Frontier Trail, Chamblee, Ga, has 

been driving all over the US gathering information 

for his book about the Burtt, Dodge, 

Howell, and Miner families. John Dowswell, 

7 Sequoyah Rd, Colorado Springs, Colo 

80906. 

42 Posies Are Reward 

Burke Wright, class treasurer (914) 332-4282 

and Jean (Hammersmith) '43 flew to London, 

England, to celebrate their 40th after enjoying 

a gala celebration thrown by daughters 

Sharon and Amy '74. Jean is still career 

counseling and Burke is still vice president, 

public affairs at United Brands, as well as 

sending me most of the info you read here. 

Cancel any plans that might interfere with 

Ithaca, June '86, for Ed Buxton (201) 

366-2230 has accepted chairmanship and a 

super Reunion is thus guaranteed. Have you 

read the '43 and '44 columns with their great 

ideas for Reunion activities? Also, recently, 

the superb humor of Miller Harris '43. Joe 

Driscoll '44 makes the 40th sound exciting. 

Rewards for writing this column continue 

to pour in, most recently a lovely basket of 

flowers from Chuck Sweeney (603) 627-6785. 

If you get over Chuck's way be sure to call 

him—Don Boss did after a 30-yr hiatus— 

hence my bouquet! 

Dottie (Dodds) and Jim Kraker (315) 

287-3234 made it to Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 

for the Olympic Games—they have made the 

last 5 winter Olympiads, and old pros that 

they are, had tickets to everything. I hope 

they saw Phil Mahre's victory that showed up 

the ignorant US press as far as understanding 

what the Olympics is all about. 

And how about this for an offspring with 

the right stuff—Katherine (Robinson) and 

Myron Lewis's (716) 473-3291 youngest 

daughter is a capt in the Army Reserve and 

operates the Minn Dance Conservatory in 

Minn. They both practice law in Rochester 

(NY). Myron retired from the USAR and the 

Pentagon a brig gen, and they travel to places 

like Turkey and London, England. 

Marjorie Rhyther Murphy (716) 992-4535 

keeps in touch with Cornell through her 

youngest son, Sean P '86 (Arch). Another 

new Floridian is Jean Reichel Pepper, Lake 

Mary (305) 321-3792, where they are hankering 

to become sailors. Their family has been 

doing the Ted Ayers bit for yrs, now as they 

meet their 4 children and their families in a 

warm vacation spot each Christmas—Jamaica, 

Central America, Mexico, and Africa 

have all been successful sunny holidays. Another 

great idea generating from this column. 

Dick Graham (202) 337-0717 writes he is 

executive director of Ashoka Fellowships— 

an idea he thinks is coming 'round. They believe 

the best way to help a developing country 

is to help it develop leaders outside of government. 

So Ashoka helps the leaders of private 

organizations form a society, the purpose 

of which is to lend a hand to others as 

Ashoka is doing for them. Please call Dick if 

you are interested in helping him. He saw it 

all work in India and Indonesia this yr. 

Talk about keeping busy, read and whistle 

at this—LeRoy Bannister (716) 682-5517 retired 

from teaching science in '77 and now 

he's a professional watercolor artist, proving 

that it is not just women who can conquer the 

art world in a 2nd career. He also operates an 

apple and beef cattle farm in Kent and has 

been president of the Albion Board of Education 

for 6 yrs, a member for 14! 

Another sad note sent by Davis Turner '67, 

son of Lee Turner, who passed away in Jan 

'84. A mechanical engineer with Otis Elevator 

Co, Lee retired as vice president. He was a 

Tau Beta Pi. Call Pamela (201) 261-2537. Lee 

left 4 children and 4 grandchildren. 

Coincidence: Don Goodkind (213) 454-8757 

moved to Los Angeles, Cal, a couple of yrs ago 

and opened an office right next door to Fred 

Antkies (213) 556-3814. Small world! Carolyn 

Evans Finneran, 2933 76th, SE, #13D, 

Mercer Isl, Wash 98040 (206) 236-1020.

43 Celebrations 

A nice message from Barbara Hall, who recorded 

interviews on an Arctic Ocean expedition 

from North Norway to Spitzbergen, far 

north of the Arctic Circle, and over to Iceland, 

on her vacation last July. Tapes were 

broadcast on Barb's travel program on 

WHCU, Ithaca. Dr Louise Lutz, retired, 

spends her leisure time sanding and varnishing 

"the boat." No more specific than that. 

Address: Rte #7, Box 900, Covington, La. 

Clara Mossman Staehle is healthy and happy 

in NJ. Son Bill '69 is a lawyer in Chatham, 

NJ, and has 2 sons, William S and E Michael. 

Bob Staehle '71 married Barbara Tucker last 

June. He is director of food and beverage at 

the Marquette Hotel in Minneapolis, Minn.* 

My daughter Nancy Alles, sales manager at 

the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress in Orlando, 

Fla, reports this gorgeous hotel is open 

and cooking as of Feb 1. Mom and Dad were 

there for the official ribbon-cutting ceremonies. 

It is magnificent. Has a Jack Nicklausdesigned 

golf course. Hedy saw "the other" 

golfer, Arnold Palmer, in the dining room. 

All Cornellians should stop by and say hi to 

Nancy. Thank you, Ginny Farley Wetherill, 

Marge Fredenburg Knox, Pat Rider Huber, 

Mary Linsley Albert, Caroline Norfleet 

Church, and Grace Reinhardt McQuillan for 

remembering the Mar 7. More . . . Hedy 

Neutze Alles, 15 Oak Ridge Rd, Haddonfield, 

NJ 08033. 

Enjoyed watching and listening to U of NC 

Professor Bill Leuchtenberg discussing with 

Charles Kuralt on a recent Sun morning his 

book, In FDR's Shadow, in which he details 

how each subsequent president was influenced 

by FDR's leadership style. Gene Saks 

has just returned from Tel Aviv, where he directed 

a production in Hebrew of "Brighton 

Beach Memories," and is already working on 

Neil Simon's sequel to that play, "Biloxi 

Blues," scheduled for Mar '85 opening. 

After 2 decades in Congress, Rep Barber 

Conable will hang up the spikes at yr-end. To 

paraphrase an AP story: Barber 

exerted great influence last yr in 

private negotiations with the administration 

that produced at least 

a temporary solution to Social Security's financial 

problems. As sr Republican on Ways 

and Means, he focused over the yrs on legislation 

to reform the House seniority system, 

the tax system, and Social Security. Having 

been frustrated in '82 in achieving passage of 

a proposed constitutional amendment to require 

a balanced budget, his present priorities 

are government finances and election reforms. 

For all of which, thanks, Barber. 

ML '45 and I attended Norton Publishing's 

party for Scott Elledge, PhD '41, in honor of 

his biography of E B White '21 which opened 

to deservedly rave reviews. White edited The 

Sun during the time of this country's entry into 

World War I and the events on The Hill in 

his day were so similar to those in ours that 

I'm tempted to—one of these fine days— 

put them on paper. In addition to Scott and 

his delightful wife Liane, other notables that 

evening were Clifton Fadiman, Kitty and 

Knox Burger (Scott's literary agents) and 

Fortune editor Walter '47 and Ann Aikman 

McQuade '49, who afterward treated the 2 of 

us to fine French food. 

A recent or—by the time this appears—ancient 

NY Times stock market story on a gaming 

hotel index option quoted James Lorie, 

professor of economics at the U of Chicago: 

"There is an ancient and important distinction 

between gambling and speculation, 

which seems to indicate that the gaming index 

is more speculation than pure gambling. 

Gambling involves the creation of risk for 

nonproductive purposes while speculation involves 

taking on an already existing risk that 

someone must assume." Some of the things 

that Jim said when we roomed together were 

even funnier than that. 

I borrowed Fred Johnson's 7x16 frosh 

camp photo for a few moments (more like 9 

months) to see whom among those 300 (giveor-take) 

cherubic faces I could identify. 

Started with the front row and traveled to the 

back where some of you are pinheads. Make 

that: appear to be pinheads. Came up with 

Dick Bonser, Howie Parker, Pinky Evans, 

Bill Buxton, Jack Slater, Bill Dickhart, Roy 

Unger, Phil Weisman, Ed Mabbs, Bill Cochrane, 

Bob Gordon, Ware Warfield, yours 

truly, Bud Bradt, Lee Sunstein, Seth Campbell, 

Dave Mertz, Jack Kaman, Dick Nickerson, 

Wally Seeley, Roy Johnson, Barber 

Conable, an unidentified tree, Jim Lorie, 

Sandy Miller, Jerry Batt, Hugh Bennett, Gordie 

Blatz, Bub McGlaughlin, Bernie Shanholt, 

Bruce Beh, and Don Yust (pinhead with 

ears). Assume Fred must be in there somewhere; 

else he wouldn't be carrying the picture 

in his wallet. S Miller Harris, PO Box 

164, Spinnerstown, Pa 18968. 

44 Hope You're With Us 

Since this issue will be delivered to many just 

a month before Reunion, we hope that most 

class information will be passed along personally. 

But, if the crowd at Reunion is so 

great that you don't catch up on all the news 

about classmates, here is some of it. 

Vice President Fred Bailey says that he has 

no desire to retire. He continues as medical 

advisor to a major insurance underwriter. 

Son Bruce '67 is film critic for the Montreal 

Gazette. Brian '73 is at Hilton Head. Fred 

and Connie live in Upper Montclair, NJ. Another 

MD, in Wappingers Falls, is Bob Ballard. 

Son and daughter aren't Cornellians; at 

least, not yet. Their ages are 11 and 8. Bob is 

in family practice, and serves as board president 

of Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Dutchess 

County. Jerry Barad is the 3rd MD in our 

starting lineup. He has "limited practice to 

gynecology after 27 yrs of delivering babies." 

He will be in England on a lecture tour in 

June; then hopes to go back to E Africa for 

field work in the fall. (No sense in staying at 

home—Flemington, NJ—this fall, since the 

Princeton game is in Ithaca!) Jerry is also 

very active with horticultural interests, maintaining 

a large greenhouse of cacti and succulent 

plants. In the cleanup spot for our doctors 

is radiologist Andy Capi. He has to be 

the long ball hitter, since he and Sherrill live 

in Ft Lauderdale, Fla. Son Andre isn't following 

in Andy's footsteps—he's in architecture 

at Tulane. The Capis breed and exhibit 

budgerigars, and Andy continues to umpire 

major tennis matches. 

Ed Corey is not an MD, but has been consultant 

to ARENTO, a telephone organization 

in Cairo, Egypt, for nearly 5 yrs. Wife 

Peggy also works in telephone engineering. 

The Coreys live in Creve Cour, Mo. Another 

classmate is not working . . . well, not as 

much as he used to: Cal DeGolyer reports 

from Castile, "I'm semi-retired on our farm 

—nephew Willard DeGolyer '69 is buying it. 

He lets me feed the calves!" We look forward 

to having Cal and Bunny as consultants on 

the milk punch formulae (we'll have more 

than one, we're sure) at Reunion. Brad and 

Phyllis Colling Burke can be, as the lawyers 

say, "of counsel." Marge Evers diPretoro 

won't be, with her BA. In fact, she makes no 

mention of Reunion, but writes, "I think of 

all those I remember very fondly and would 

welcome visits from them should they be 

nearby in Maine." Marge lives in Harrison, 

Me. She continues, "Truthfully, 90 per cent 

of the names in the column don't ring a bell 

with me at all; but then, the coed I once was is 

a vague and distant stranger to me now, too. 

Nicknames, pets, hobbies—who cares? But 

ideas, philosophies, the inner workings— 

wouldn't you love to know these about people?" 

Yes, but how would they be learned, 

and how could they be fit into 700 words each 

month? Guess we should enlist Kurt Vonnegut 

as class correspondent. 

Bob and Edwina Greenburg returned in 

Feb from a "fabulous 3-plus wks in India and 

Nepal." That fits in well with hobbies—gardening, 

tennis, hiking, . . . and travel. Son 

David graduated from Case Western Reserve 

Law School last yr, was admitted to the DC 

Bar, and is with the Environmental Protection 

Agency. In Wash State, George and Silvia 

Work Grubb live in Olympia. George retired 

in '79 after 30 yrs teaching in Cal high 

schools and community colleges. Silvia also 

retired as school library skills teacher, but she 

does continue as a substitute teacher in that 

field and as a teacher of English as a 2nd language. 

Last yr they visited the People's Republic 

of China, traveling independently by 

bus, train, plane, and Yangtze River steamer. 

They spent Christmas with daughter and 

family, who live in Singapore. Jerry and Joan 

Hoffman also did some water traveling, but 

by trawler (their Barcarole) from Fla to 

Maine, from May-Sept. Jerry lectured at 

Tripler Hospital (Oahu, Hawaii) in Jan. He 

and Joan will be at Reunion; also believe that 

he is planning for our 60th, since he tags 

grandson Jeffrey as "Class of Ό4" (Jeffrey 

was born in July '83.) Your correspondent 

has just called Jerry out for batting out of 

order. Sorry, doctor, but the scorecard said 

that you were to follow neighbor Andy Capi 

in the batting order. Home for Nancy (Claney) 

and Gene Hoffman is far from Ft Lauderdale, 

although there probably were times last 

winter when they wished it weren't. They live 

in Wayzata, Minn. Daughter Kim received 

the BA and the MFA from U of Ind; son 

Keith received the MBA there, but the BA at 

Northwestern. Nancy and Gene visited London, 

England, Venice, Italy, and Switzerland 

in May '83, and Japan in Oct. Not so for 

John Hotaling. But he did see Harold Parker, 

Richard Eaton, Cal DeGolyer, and Paul 

Buck last summer on a trip to Western NY. 

John is still in the apple-growing business and 

writes a column, "Lessons in Agricultural 

Leadership," for American Agriculturist. 

He's enjoying 2 grandsons, "our 5th farm 

generation." John says he has no thoughts of 

retirement . . . he's too young. And, he continues 

to play drums at 10 concerts and 8 parades 

each yr in the Ghent Band, the oldest 

continuing town band in NY State. He's 

bringing his drums to Reunion to take part in 

the '44 march around Barton Hall at the Sat 

luncheon . . . again, as he did in '79. Be 

there! Joe Driscoll, 8-7 Wilde Ave, Drexel 

Hill, Pa 19026. 

45 Not Retired 

Whoops, I goofed! First time I can remember. 

Let it be known to all to whom this column 

may come, Hugh Gordon has not retired, 

and has no plans to retire. I confused 

Hugh with another Gordon who has retired. 

(Sorry, Hugh!) Hank Bernhardt is still at it in 

Great Neck. He is teaching the uninformed 

about microprocessors so they will join the legions 

of informed. (Keep it up, Hank!) Nancy 

White Beshear has a granddaughter Kimberly, 

3, and a hubby Leon, who retired from 

city government at the end of '83 and is now 

engaged in selling gems. Their spare time is 

MAY 1984

taken up with politics and the Diabetes Assn. 

Nancy is into golfing, bridge, and will not retire 

until '85. (Nancy, Portland, Ore, is a long 

way, but plan on our 40th as Leon's retirement 

present to you.) Psychologist Ed Cohen 

completed 25 yrs at Singer, located in Binghamton. 

The company builds flight simulators 

for aircraft and space craft. Ed was recently 

reappointed to the NYS Board for Psychology. 

Dr Bob Dow, the broken bone fixer (orthopedic 

surgeon) resides in Chevy Chase, Md, 

with Mimi, who is secretary at Grace Episcopal 

Day School. They have a son Bob Jr, at 

Cal Tech, and daughter Lucia, finishing up at 

National Cathedral School. The Dows recently 

traveled to Iraq, which I imagine is like 

traveling back through a time warp. Interesting! 

Gardening, carpentry, golf, and sailing 

fill the spare hrs. (Bob recently applied for 

the federal position of squirrel catcher, but 

was unsuccessful. That crowd on Capitol Hill 

didn't want anyone disturbing the nuts!) 

Coach Harry Furman is still making winning 

football teams in Geneva. Harry is the only 

"dollar a yr" football coach in America. 

Most schools pay a bit more than that, but 

Harry gets swimming privileges in Seneca 

Lake at no charge. That's a fringe benefit. 

His DeSales High School team won the Finger 

Lakes West division title this past yr. 

(Harry is considering polo as a less expensive 

alternative.) 

Bill Heinith is a vice president for industrial 

relations at Rich Products Co in Buffalo. 

He and Marsha (Wilson) '46 have a summer 

place on Cayuga Lake and a condo in 

Sarasota, Fla. All '45ers are welcome at 

either place, any time, but we must wait until 

Bill retires. (Now the catch: Bill isn't saying 

when that will be and he isn't giving out 

phone numbers or addresses!) In June '85 we 

will force the info out of him and move until 

he does retire. (Only kidding, Bill!) Jim Monroe 

is in Cincinnati, Ohio, with Ann and, 

from what I can see, he isn't telling us anything., 

They have 2 sons, 2 daughters, all married; 

4 grandchildren. And Jim, the son of a 

Cornellian, wanted one of them to follow 

him through "Far Above Cayuga's Waters," 

but no soap. All went south to keep warm. 

Now, one has moved to cold Denver, Colo, 

and another to Buffalo. (Buffalo? That's 

kids for you, Jim.) Enough for now avid 

readers; see you in June. Col William A 

Beddoe (USA, Ret), 1109 Mint Springs Dr, 

Fairborn, Ohio 45324. 

46 Children & Grands 

Bill and Phyllis Stapley Tuddenham report 

on their children: Read '72 was married in 

Nov '82 to a Navy pediatrician; Edward '74 

argued another Texas school case before the 

US Supreme Court in Jan '83; and Elizabeth 

(Ithaca College '78) was married in Sept '82 

and, at last report, was recruiting naval officers 

in Los Angeles, Cal. Bill and Phyllis 

spent a wk walking in England's Lake District 

in very liquid sunshine. 

Harry '48 and Eleanor Beach Beasley have 

3 sons, 2 daughters, and 7 grandchildren. Son 

David is a professor of ag engineering at Purdue; 

Thorn farms with father; Harry is with 

lab in Methodist Hosp, Memphis, Tenn; 

Nancy, a CPA in Memphis, has 3 children; 

Jane is a wife, mother, and bank secretary. 

Eleanor is interested in knowing of any Cornellians 

in Memphis and E Ark vicinity. You 

can contact her at Rt 1, Box 16, Heth, Ark. 

Sylvia Sverdlik Doft has Ellen, 34, Peter, 

31, Frank, 28, and Amie, 23, plus 2 grandchildren, 

Rebecca and David. Doug '45 and 

Marcia Noyes Archibald have 3 married 

daughters—Shirley (Vanderbilt U); Nancy 


(Wittenberg); and Dotsie (U of Vt)—and 2 

grandsons. Miki Karlsson Gabel reported 

that daughter Sharon and her family were living 

with her in Coatesville, Pa. Sharon has 3 

children: Jeanenne, Nicole, and Corrine. 

Jim '44, MS Ag '48, and Janet Elwin Starr 

have 3 grandsons. Janet is executive director 

of the Home Care Assn of NY State Inc. 

Walter and Jan Snyder Brown live in Menlo 

Park, Cal. They have 3 children, 3 grandchildren. 

Elinor Baier Kennedy, 503 Morris 

PI, Reading, Pa 19607. 

The new owner of his home city's soccer 

team, the Baltimore (Md) Blast, is none other 

than Nathan "Reds" Scherr, also known as 

Mr Baltimore. You may remember that his 

previous venture into sport was as owner of 

the '82 Preakness runner, Alona's Ruler. 

Red's normal vocation (perhaps now an avocation) 

is real estate developer, having developed 

the Riverview Townhouses in Essex, 

Westbury Apartments, the Brenbrook apartments 

and shopping center in Reisterstown, 

and the University One building in Baltimore 

City. His company is presently developing the 

Greene in Westminster a planned community 

of nearly 200 acres. Not bad for a start, Reds! 

We can't ask the rhetorical question of what 

are you going to do next—you're taking action 

in at least 3 major fields right now. 

About now, Philip Munisteri should be enjoying 

his 1st months of retirement from Suffolk 

City, as its assistant director of occupational 

education. Monk's daughter Deidre is 

a graduate of U of Penn Vet School; son Phil 

is a grad of VMI; and son David is in high 

school and active in football and wrestling. 

Beside doing stained glass work, as a hobby, 

and golfing, with his home in Setauket (15 

Earl Rd, N) you can be sure he gets in and on 

the water occasionally. 

From McLean, Va, (1533 Dahlin Ct) John 

Eustis reports he's doing research and development 

on cogeneration equipment for the 

Dept of Energy. That's a rapidly growing industry, 

with lots of room to grow. John has 

his own plane. He flies his hobby in a busy 

area! 

If you want to spend a stimulating and enjoyable 

wk (or 2), try a return visit to Ithaca 

this summer to participate in Adult U (CAU). 

From personal experience, I recommend it 

highly. Paul L Russell, 10 Pickerel Rd, 

Wellesley, Mass 02181. 

47 May Melange 

Word came from Raytheon Co in Feb that 

George J Monser, 7860 Rio Vista Dr, Goleta, 

Cal, has been named a consulting engineer at 

Raytheon's electromagnetic systems div in 

Goleta. This position is the highest engineering 

level attainable at Raytheon and is given 

in special recognition of continually outstanding 

achievement over a long period of 

time. George also holds 10 patents for advanced 

antenna designs and has authored 

numerous articles and papers on antennas. 

Claude L and Mary Lawrence Cornett '48, 

13347 Caves Rd, Chesterland, Ohio, are happy 

to be back home after 5 yrs of temporary 

assignments out of state. Claude is administration 

and control manager for the new 

Sohio headquarters office building being 

built in Cleveland. Our favorite Christmas 

tree farmers, Gus and Betty Davis Ruetenick, 

Box 629, Zoar, Ohio, still enjoy running their 

operation. Gus is now a director and vice 

president of the Ohio Christmas Tree Growers 

Assn, along with being a member of the 

Zoar Volunteer Fire Dept. He and Betty still 

find time for fishing in Canada, antiquing, 

and finishing their new house. Sounds like a 

pretty busy ''retirement." 

Fred J Matthies, 2383 Century Hill, Los 

Angeles, Cal, has been re-elected secretary, 

Board of Regents, Augustana College, Sioux 

Falls, S Dak. Barlow Ware, 524 Wyckoff Rd, 

Ithaca, is attendance chair of the Ithaca Rotary 

Club, which has a membership of 240. 

And, for the Diocese of Central NY (Episcopal 

Church), Barlow is chairman of the commission 

on the companion relationship with 

Egypt. Celeste Roof Hendershot (Mrs Clark) 

RD 2, Box 574, Newton, NJ, is treasurer of 

the Newton Hospital Auxiliary and active in 

the Presbyterian Church. They vacationed in 

Alaska last yr. Now that Clark has retired 

after 23 yrs as a GM automobile dealer, may 

they have many more such trips. 

John P Gould, 206 N Royal St, Alexandria, 

Va, continues as desk officer for Bolivia 

with Inter-American Development in Wash, 

DC. His work takes him to South America 

regularly. Margaret Newell Mitchell, 13610 

Larchmere Blvd, Cleveland, Ohio, had a 

Cornell Tradition student work for their business 

last summer, and most successfully. 

More of us should investigate that program. 

Glad to hear that Robert M Shavick, 601 

Bayport Way, Longboat Key, Fla, is still enjoying 

his retirement job as a consultant with 

Penner Financial Group. A nice change after 

30 yrs of law practice in NJ. 

Travel agent Barbara Dodenhoff, 315 E 

68th St, NYC, had a super trip to Rwanda 

last fall in search of the mountain gorillas. 

After a bumpy 3-hr ride and a 2-hr hike, she 

was rewarded by being able to view a family 

of gorillas just 3 ft away . . . and watched 

them for an hr. Her pictures had Arlie Williamson 

Anderson and me enthralled when 

we lunched last month. Carolyn Shaver Eisenmenger, 

92 Woodland St, Natick, Mass, is 

a part-time travel agent with American Express 

in Wellesley, but it was her husband's 

international banking conference that took 

them to Italy for a wk last summer, and they 

spent 10 days driving around Switzerland, 

which sounds pretty good. Still another travel 

agent is Jean Sullivan Hirschberg, 10 Woodland 

Rd, Glen Cove, who is also a volunteer 

with The Hunger Project. Jean travels to Cal, 

where a son has opened a French restaurant 

in Santa Rosa, and another son is a theater 

stage manager in Los Angeles. There's also a 

grandson to visit out there. The Hirschbergs 

see Burdette E "Bud" and Harriet Hammond 

Erickson of 74 Meadowbrook Rd, 

Norwell, Mass. Betty Miller Francis, 2902 

Airport Rd, #112, Colorado Springs, Colo 

80910. 

48 We're Invited! 

The youngsters of '49, through their Reunion 

Chairman Walt Peek, have invited us to participate 

in their Reunion, June 7-10, at the reduced 

rate of $125 per person, which includes 

breakfast and dinner on Fri; breakfast, 

lunch, and dinner on Sat; and breakfast on 

Sun, as well as participation in all their activities, 

which will be "high class—with good 

food." Events will include a "The Way We 

\Vere" slide show, '40s and '50s record hop, 

and some '47-49 football pictures, plus "a lot 

of other goodies." The $125 applies, whether 

you stay for 1 hr or 4 days. In addition, those 

wishing to sleep in High Rise #5 as baby sitters 

for the youngsters of '49 would pay $14 

per person per day to the Residential Halls 

authority upon arrival. 

If you're going, send check for $125 per 

person to yours truly (address below), made 

out to "Cornell Class of '48" and our treasurer 

will (at the last minute) make out a 

check to the '49 Reunion Fund to cover all 

the '48ers attending. Please indicate the 

names of those in your party and whether or

not you will stay in High Rise #5, so I can tell 

Walt the size of the " '48 suite." 

Our own Dr Edward A Wolfson, founding 

and current dean of Upstate Med School's 

clinical campus at SUNY, Binghamton, and 

adjunct professor of public health at Cornell 

Med College, has been endorsed by the committee 

on alumni trustee nominations. 

Throughout his yrs of private practice, and 

then as an academic administrator, he has 

given much time to Cornell activities, including 

Cornell Fund, and he knows the ins and 

outs of the bureaucracies of the NY State educational 

system. In addition, he has been a 

faithful '48 duespayer for 30 yrs, which is 

enough to get a vote from here. Keep your 

eye out for the alumni trustee ballot when it 

comes and read all about him. 

Good news! Dan McCarthy and Charlotte 

Smith Moore are taking on the '48 Cornell 

Fund co-chairs leading to our 40th Reunion. 

Let's give them all our support. (Char and ET 

have a 1st grandchild, in Boston, Mass.) 

Everybody! Run out and buy P&G soap, 

Crisco, Jif peanut butter, and Duncan Hines 

cake mixes, so Ray Schumacher can retire 

early, move from Ohio to the Finger Lakes, 

and help Dr Bob Baker organize our 40th Reunion. 

Dr Dorothy Flood Flynn is in geriatrics 

and, now, medical director to nursing homes 

in Wilkes-Barre, Pa, area. Daughter Monica 

is a freshman at Lafayette College. Dr Phyllis 

Flyer Kavett directs graduate program at 

Kean College of NJ, for gifted and talented, 

is now involved in developing new technology 

curriculum there and is executive secretary of 

NJ Assn for Elected Women Officials. Joe 

Douglass had all 4 children back to Miami, 

Fla, last Christmas. Son Bill is to graduate 

from London School of Economics next 

month; daughter Dawn Jr is at U of Vt; 

daughter Claudia is at school in Madrid, 

Spain; and son Carl is capt of hockey team, 

Proctor Acad, Andover, NH. Isidore Roy 

Cohen, president of A L Labs Inc, acquired 

"Dumex" Pharmaceuticals in Copenhagen, 

Denmark, last Aug and went public on the 

Amex in Feb. Son David is in law school (U 

of Chicago); daughter Shari Jr '86 is in Arts 

(Soviet Studies); daughter Bonni is a freshman 

at Tufts (intl relations); wife Joan is 

teaching history at Master's School. Betty 

Buchsbaum Weinstein is clinical psychologist 

in private practice and supervising at NY 

Hospital—Cornell Med Center (Westchester 

div) as adjunct assistant professor, while engaged 

in research dealing with parental loss 

during childhood. Mr Weinstein is art director 

in an ad agency. 

Harold Raynolds moved from Maine to 

Juneau, Alaska, where he is commissioner of 

education, (as he had been in Maine) and has 

fallen in love with the mountains, the fish, 

the villages, and the people with their "can 

do" attitude, who make it open and warm 

even when it's cold. Phil Rowe, not busy 

enough as president of Dempsey's Restaurants, 

or with his many other activities, was 

unanimously appointed to the Reading, Pa, 

Airport Authority by the city council. John 

Lillich, Lafayette, Ind, is associate professor 

of supervision at Purdue U's School of Tech 

and was just named to the natl labor panel of 

the American Arbitration Assn. 

Remember—if going to the '49 Reunion, 

send $125 per person, payable to Cornell 

Class of '48, to me; indicate room requirements. 

Bob Persons, 102 Reid Ave, Port 

Washington, NY 11050. 

49 Round the World 

Here is my next-to-last column for the current 

'49 administration. Early in July, you'll 

receive our Reunion issue with the results of 

our class officer election (both Reagan and 

Gary Hart have withdrawn) and a column 

written by your newly elected class secretary/ 

correspondent. Before closing out, may I remind 

you again that our Cornell computer is 

unable to record previous duespayers for that 

fiscal yr before mailing a 2nd reminder in 

Jan. Everyone, including your class secretary, 

receives that message. We deposit your 

checks promptly and your checkbook voucher 

is your receipt; of course, your cancelled 

check is proof positive. 

One more thing: You should be aware of 

the delay in putting your news items into 

print. This column is being written in early 

Mar. And, we always have a bagful of mail 

from which we draw upon in chronological 

order so no one appears in the column more 

often than once every 8 months, with the exception 

of class officers. And, remember that 

although your personal news may not be 

timely when it appears in this column, it is 

still "news" to someone who hasn't heard 

from you in yrs. 

Now, back to Reunion. One guy who 

won't be at our gathering is Norm Baker, 

Broadfield Rd, New Rochelle, who 

has temporarily changed his address 

to West End Slipway, 

Soper's Hole, Tortola, BVI, where 

he is "restoring the oldest sailing ship in the 

world still afloat. Her name is Anne Kristine, 

built in Norway in 1869 with huge timbers 

and steel ice plates on her bow. She is the sister 

ship to Roald Amundsen's arctic exploration 

vessel 'Gjoa', now restored and retired 

to the museum in Oslo. 

"We plan to sail around the world in her, 

stopping, reviewing, and filming oceanic 

archeological sites enroute (as well as other 

fascinating places). Major target: ruins discovered 

by my old skipper and sailing companion, 

Thor Heyerdahl (Kon-Tiki) on deserted 

islands of the Maldines on the equator 

in the Indian Ocean. We should be leaving 

this spring." Norm was HeyerdahΓs navigator 

on previous voyages. 

The NY Times, in an article in late Feb, recalled 

the Buffalo Blizzard of '77, which was 

the worst in the city's history. The city was 

cut off from the rest of the world for 4 days, 

wind gusts reached 69 mph, and snow drifts 

topped 25 ft. Bob Curran, Maple Ave, Voorheesville, 

who writes a column for The Buffalo 

News: "The trauma of the blizzard would 

be something similar to what NYC suffered 

when it almost went into default. It made us 

feel that we had to pull together if we were 

going to make it." Now, the Blizzard Ball 

marks the occasion, and things are looking 

up. 

Marty Merrifield Steen, Belvedere Ave, 

Belvedere, Cal, enjoyed a marvelous trip 

around the world last yr, meeting her father's 

family in Capetown, S Africa, for the 1st 

time. "I'm still involved with the Fine Arts 

Museums of San Francisco as a docent of the 

Western collection, and specialize in furniture 

tours. . . . We expect to spend a month in 

Italy this spring and then on to Reunion!" 

Right on, indeed! 

Dick Brown of Stamford, Conn, former 

class president, and now vice president of Villa 

Banfi (Reunite, anyone?), was recognized 

by Johnson & Wales College, Providence, 

RI, with its 1st medal of honor for his contributions 

to culinary education. The college 

specializes in the hospitality and culinary 

arts. Sev Joyce, White Rd, Perrysburg, Ohio, 

and wife Catherine loved an Adult U (CAU) 

voyage through the Windward/Leeward Islands 

in the Caribbean in Jan '84 aboard the 

tall ship, Sea Cloud (a magnificent vessel constructed 

to the order of E F Hutton for his 

bride, Marjorie Merry weather Post; a profligate 

gesture no longer practiced). The Joyces 

joined 60 or so others, including President 

Rhodes, in climbing a volcano, snorkeling, 

listening to pertinent lectures, visiting rain 

forests, and just generally enjoying the good 

life aboard the 315-ft Sea Cloud. (And without 

having to tend the jib!) The Joyces will 

have more to relate at Reunion, when Sev will 

have another opportunity to examine his favorite 

Cornell interest, The Plantations. 

Don't be late for the Sat-morning photograph! 

Donald R Geery, 321 E 45th St, 

8-B, NYC 10017. 

50 Spring Cleaning 

Now that spring is upon us, I have done some 

housecleaning in my Alumni News file, and 

have come up with the following gems, which 

I hope are not too out of date! Bob Cowley 

operates out of N Andover, Mass, with a 

Western Electric transmissions systems div. 

Bob is also active with his children and 6 

grandchildren. Ed Kinne is with the consumer 

products marketing div of US Steel in Pittsburgh, 

Pa. Herb Nehrling is still with Du- 

Pont, as assistant treasurer, in Wilmington, 

Del. 

Up in the ski country, Maurice Mix uses 

Brattleboro, Vt, as a base, while traveling 

worldwide for the Holstein-Friesian Assn of 

America. Al Howell is in that lovely town of 

Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ, operates 3 real estate offices, 

and will advise anybody in our class on 

how to make a small fortune in real estate— 

his clue is to start with a large fortune. 

Neal Fitzsimons has traveled extensively in 

The Netherlands and England recently, and 

lives in Kensington, Md. Ted Eskild is active 

on the Secondary Schools Committee in Palmyra, 

just outside Rochester, and works for 

Garlock Inc. Art Buchholz lives in the lovely 

community of Claverack, outside of Albany. 

Art is a purchasing officer for the State of 

NY. 

Ed Billings has an interesting combination 

of vocations as attorney/librarian with the 

US Dept of Agriculture, Wash, DC. Frank 

Zurn is still ensconced in Erie, Pa and, believe 

it or not, lives at 1 Zurn PI. Frank, as 

you know, is the power behind Zurn Industries. 

Our Reunion is just about a yr away and, 

in view of your many activities, it might be 

well to start planning early to return for our 

35th. Have a good summer. I hope to go sailing 

in the Fla Keys and the Caribbean, and 

will keep you advised of my adventures. 

• Manley H Thaler, PO Box 426, Boca 

Raton, Fla 33429. 

Best wishes to Lori Heymaη Gordon, who 

married Dr Morris Gordon in Sept '82. Lori 

is founder and director of the Family Relations 

Inst and the Center for Separation and 

Divorce Mediation in Falls Church, Va. The 

Gordons took a post-wedding tour of the Orient 

last fall and now reside in Alexandria, Va. 

Bertha Scheffel Seifert retired from Iowa 

State U last May. She and George, professor 

of mathematics at ISU, still live in Ames. Marianne 

Nethercot Heald writes from Jackson, 

NH, that she has taken up fly fishing. Ross 

'49 lost by a narrow margin in his bid for the 

NH state legislature, but he is still town selectman. 

Sally Wallace Murray reports that she and 

Ken '49 had a good Homecoming last fall 

with Libby (Severinthaus) and Si Warner, 

Bob Nagler, Sid Cox '43, and David Dingle. 

Daughter Louisa and Hillary Nagler stayed in 

the Balch room of Elizabeth Warner '87—a 

duplicate of Sally's freshman quarters. Sally 

still loves teaching. It's biology, this yr, ra-

ther than 8th graders. The Murrays enjoyed 

touring England by car last summer during 

the heat wave; not a drop of rain marred the 

trip. 

Mary Louise Alstein van Allen still lives in 

Rochester, Mich, where husband Neil is supervising 

librarian at the GM Research Labs. 

Mary Lou is an active volunteer, especially 

concerned with peace groups in the area. She 

has also translated her interest in needlework 

into a partnership in a craft business. The van 

Aliens vacationed in Switzerland and Austria 

last summer and can't wait to return. Kitty 

Carey Donnelly, 435 Green St, Apt 2, San 

Francisco, Cal 94133. 

51 Researchers 

Dr Russell Ross is internationally known for 

his studies of the origins of arteriosclerosis. 

He is chairman of the pathology dept of the 

U of Wash School of Medicine and heads a 

team of scientists who are attempting to find 

out why cells build up in human arteries, restricting 

the flow of blood to the heart—a 

condition that causes heart attacks and 

strokes. More than one-half of all deaths in 

the US each yr are caused by arteriosclerosis 

heart disease. R J Reynolds Industries is supplying 

Ross with $2.5 million over the next 5 

yrs for this important work. 

Dean Gernon, Glendora, Cal, is another 

westcoaster seeking to improve the human 

condition through his work at Getty Synthetic 

Fuels. He designs plants for the recovery 

and purification of landfill gas for fuel. He 

relaxes through photography, philately, and 

genealogy. His wife is head of the science 

dept at Mountainview High School. 

Frank P Keiper, Sunnyvale, Cal, is also involved 

in the forefront of technology for the 

future. He is a chief engineer for Lear, Siegler 

and is involved in telecommunications. Have 

you noticed that the careers of the 3 people 

mentioned so far in the column are involved 

with subjects we may have daydreamed about 

in '51. Frank traveled to Australia and New 

Zealand by ship. "FP" reports his spouse's 

name as "none" and that his "dog died this 

yr." No wonder he took a long sea voyage. 

Howard M Smith, Wilmington, Del, visited 

France for 3 wks this summer and spent a 

wk of it officiating at the International Rowing 

Regatta. He says, "You don't have to be 

in shape to officiate." He is active in the 

United Way of Del, especially in the allocation 

of the funds raised. Maybe Howie can 

coax Dick Ehni, Bill Hamilton, et al for a 

crew show at Reunion in '86. 

Stafford "Sandy" B Beach Jr and his wife 

Joan (Aten) '52 live in Wellesley Hills, Mass. 

He is contemplating retiring from AVCO, 

while Joan recently retired as office manager 

of a large real estate firm. The Beaches recently 

attended Dean Thomas Everhart's 

(Engineering) dinner at the Boston Marriott 

and saw many Cornellians. 

Harry Henriques, Wilton, Conn, resigned 

from Union Carbide to start his own firm: 

Wilton Chemical. He will work from his 

home and represent the chemical div of Dan 

River Mills. The Henriques's son Bob '81 is 

now in his 2nd yr at med school. William 

T Reynolds, 1 Lyons PI, Larchmont, NY 

10538. 

52 Class Piper 

Lest you think all Washingtonians are politicians, 

consultants, or lawyers, note with 

pride classmate James G Ling, 9813 Brixton 

Lane, Bethesda, Md, who was recently appointed 

assistant director for institutional relations 

and acting assistant director for life 

sciences for the Office of Science and Tech- 


nology Policy at the White House. But, even 

more impressive is Jim's extra-curricular 

docket: he still competes in solo bagpipe competitions 

at various Scottish games, and is 

currently president of the Eastern US Pipe 

Band Assn, consisting of 80-some bands and 

about 700 individual members. Jim and Ann 

have 3 children: 2 sons in college and a 

daughter in high school. Both boys are at St 

Olaf College, in Minn. Paul graduates this 

spring; Gordon is a sophomore. 

A different kind of challenge confronts 

Richard E Crews, Box 46, S Kent, Conn, who 

after 20 yrs as rector of St Andrew's Church, 

Marble Dale, became chaplain and mathematics 

master at South Kent School in fall 

'82. Dick and Joan have 2 boys: Peter, 15, is 

at South Kent, and Rick, 17, will graduate 

from Canterbury School this spring. Joan has 

not made a career change; she continues to 

teach at New Milford High School. Dick's 

community activities include work for interfaith 

housing, scholarship chairmanship for a 

community college, and service on the board 

of "Oratory of the Little Way." 

Patricia Thornton Bardt is co-author of an 

advanced botany textbook, entitled Biology 

of Nonvascular Plants, with H N Pritchard, 

another botanist at Lehigh U. It is written for 

advanced undergraduate and graduate students. 

If you are not in either category, however, 

don't despair. Start with something 

aimed at non-botanist laymen, such as The 

Youngest Science, Notes of a Medicine- 

Watcher, by Lewis Thomas. In fact, I recommend 

any Lewis Thomas book for you, 

whether you are botany-literate or not. 

Another report from Easton, Pa, from 

Don S Follett, 34 Applewood Dr, notes that 

he and Mibs have their 1st grandchild, Kristina, 

who will celebrate her 1st birthday 

about the time you read this. Kristina's dad, 

Jim, is with General Foods; brother Steve 

and his wife live in Princeton, NJ, where 

Steve is with IBM; and sister Sue is now at 

Stanford, working on an MBA after 3 yrs 

with Bankers Trust. Don continues to work 

hard building his company, while Mibs does 

development work for Lafayette College. For 

fun, they fly, ski, run, and travel. 

Another 1st grandchild report comes from 

James D Pearce, 1817 Kevin, Wichita, Kans, 

and Marilyn whose granddaughter, Laura is 

1. J D continues to enjoy managing a petroleum 

club; he was president of an Okla-Kans 

club managers' assn last yr. He and Marilyn 

celebrated daughter Linda's 1st anniversary, 

son Doug's 3rd anniversary, and their own 

25th with a family fishing vacation in Mo, 

last yr. From Winnetka, 111, Cynthia Fabian 

Gray, 555 Cherry St, invites any Cornellians 

moving to Chicago to call her (312) 446-4500, 

since she is in the real estate business there. 

Cynthia's son Stephen is in law school, and 

son Mark is with Resources Holding Co in 

Wilmington, Del. 

Jack Eisert, 12 Evergreen Way, N Tarrytown, 

is a physician dermatologist and associate 

clinical professor. He and Barbara have 2 

sons—Douglas '82 (Eng) and Richard, who 

will graduate from Andover this spring. They 

enjoyed a trip to Greece in '82. Kirkwood E 

Personius, 26 Commodore Pkwy, Rochester, 

is a county Extension agent, while Polly is a 

church nursery school teacher. They enjoyed 

a trip to San Francisco, Cal, last spring to visit 

their eldest daughter. Gus is active in university 

and club affairs, and he and Polly enjoy 

gardening, music, church, and soccer. 

Recent mail included a nice note from Harold 

D Birckmayer, 27 Chatham St, Kinderhook. 

Harold said that since he could not recall 

when, or if, he has sent news before, he'd 

give a summary: "Since leaving Cornell, I've 

taught economics at SUNY, Binghamton and 

Albany, worked for the NY Legislature and, 

for the last 3 yrs, as an economic consultant 

with deSeve Economics Associates. I'm returning 

this fall ('83) to full-time teaching as 

professor of economics and business at Empire 

State College of SUNY in Albany. My 

wife (Jennifer) is a member of the Extension 

faculty of the human development and family 

studies dept of Hum Ec. We are lucky to have 

been living for the past 20 yrs in Kinderhook, 

the village where we both grew up. Children: 

Kate graduated from Smith, is a PhD candidate 

in English at Rutgers; Johanna '83 just 

graduated; Harry is a sophomore at Wesleyan; 

Ann '87 is in Hum Ec. Animals: cats, 

pony, woodchucks, raccoons, and other assorted 

wildlife. A quiet life with probably no 

more than the usual problems of those who 

have survived 30 yrs of life after Cornell." 

Carol J Norden reports that her husband 

Warren, 1543 NW Spruce Ridge Dr, Stuart, 

Fla, died on Jan 20, after a brief illness. He 

was 59, and had been a long-time resident of 

Billings, Mont, before moving to Stuart 6 yrs 

ago. Daughters Robin, 24, and Kathy, 19, 

both live in Stuart. Warren had been active 

with the Secondary Schools Committee at 

both local high schools. He interviewed a 

prospective applicant in Dec. Warren was a 

member of the First Church of Christ Scientist 

of Stuart. Phil Fleming, 1970 Upshur 

St, NW, Wash, DC 20011. 

53 Merie Month of Nay 

Nuptials are traditional for June. However, 

for reasons that will become clear further 

down in the column, I shall report them now. 

I am always nervous in reporting marriages, 

as the lapse in time between when I get the announcements 

and the marriage is often 

enough for 2nd thoughts by the contestants— 

I mean, parties thereto, I hope Vic Wintriss- 

Christine Oatman, and John I Gilbert-Judy 

Ellen Sanford are still blissful. 

Sid—the Sid Okes of Littleton, Colo: I am 

sorry. I passed through Denver en route to 

Vail, but too late for your offer to classmates 

to drop in. Sid's son David is a sophomore at 

U of N Colo and daughter Jennie is a highschool 

sophomore. Sid's formed a new consulting 

firm, Madsen, Okes & Associates. 

The firm provides consulting services to the 

construction industry. In the meantime, Sid 

has picked up an MBA at U of Denver. 

Our Brazilian stringer, Dick Hayes, bent 

an elbow with Ned Pattison while in the upstate 

area. Dick is with the Bank of New England 

in Sao Paulo. Glad to hear from Nancy 

Van Cott Jones. She has been under canvas 

this past yr. Should that be dacron, Nancy? 

Sailed the Grenadines and British Virgins. 

Son David has started MBA program at Stanford. 

Beverly Fuller Parsons, Vernon, Conn, underwent 

eye surgery last yr. From her note, 

all is well now. All 3 daughters have finished 

college and there is even a grandchild. She's 

been 30 yrs with Ken (Syracuse '54) and 20 

yrs»with Howard Johnson—the other man. 

As long as we are in the anniversary vein, a 

certain barn in Sparta, Mich, was given a 

100-yr birthday party, ABC-TV in attendance. 

Also in attendance as guest of the 

owners: Walt and Nancy Knauss. Oh yes, the 

owners are Julie and Bob Neff. 

Muriel Sandifer Munroe, of Anchorage, 

Alaska, I know it's a little late, but I'll quote 

her: "A busy yr ('82)—2 weddings and a 

high-school graduation. Martha at Brown; 

Kim married in Anchorage, Alaska; Mark, a 

Brown graduate, married and a med student 

at U of Wash. 

This is my last column as your class correspondent. 

Dave Kopko will be pleading for

news after this issue. His address is 5245 

Brockway, Columbia, Md 21044. There are 

many people to thank, but the ones I am most 

grateful to are all of you classmates who 

wrote a little something for me for the column 

during these past 15 yrs, and shared a 

portion of your lives with us. It was fun. I got 

to know more people during these yrs than I 

ever knew in my yrs on the Hill, and I indulged 

in "writing." Thanks, too, to those 

cryptographers at the Alumni News who deciphered 

what I wrote—Elsie McMillan '55, 

in particular. 

I do not believe in long goodbyes, so— 

good luck, Dave! And—30— Bernard 

West, Old Stone Hill Rd, PO Box 274, Pound 

Ridge, NY 10576. 

54 Happy 30th! 

So many of us look forward to our 30th, just 

a short month away! Goldy Meresman Rosen 

and Richard '52 will be at Reunion, continuing 

a celebration begun earlier that wk when 

son Steve graduates from Princeton on June 

5. This will top a busy yr for the Rosens, who 

traveled to Israel in Feb '83 to visit daughter 

Susan '82 and then cruised to Alaska last Aug 

on the fabulous "Love Boat"! Home stop 

for the family is 177 Nassau Blvd, Garden City. 

Louise "Polly" Hospital Flansburgh 

writes that husband Earl '53 presides over 

Earl R Flansburgh and Associates, an architectural 

firm based in Boston, Mass. "Polly" 

is founder and director of Boston By Foot, a 

non-profit organization established in '76 to 

promote Boston's architecture. Her volunteer 

force, 190-strong, guides visitors and residents 

through the city. Son Schuyler '79 is 26; 

John, 23, is a sr at Pratt Inst. Carolyn Wilklow 

Kuhlmann and Robert '58 live in Ellenville. 

Carolyn works as a reading coordinator. 

Robert serves as superintendent at 

Woodbourne Correctional Facility, NY State 

Dept of Correctional Services. Daughter 

Pamela attends SUNY, Geneseo, majoring in 

special education. Betsy Hynes White, receptionist-assistant 

for a doctor, and husband 

Dan reside at 161 Bingham Ave, Rumson, 

NJ. Dan recently joined the NJ National 

Bank as an investment officer at the new 

Lakewood branch. Daughter Sharon graduated 

from Lehigh last June; daughter Sally 

has just finished her 1st yr at U of RI. See you 

all in a few wks. Sorscha Brodsky Meyer, 

517 Foxwood Dr, Clifton Park, NY 12065. 

Our 30th Reunion is now just wks away. It 

may be too late, but if you want to attend at 

the last minute, call Nes Dragelin at (215) 

687-3116 and chances are he'll be able to find 

room. From Philip T Eastman of New Hartford 

comes word that daughter Barbara '84 is 

in Hum Ec, while Phil Jr '80 (ME) is now 

with Phila, Pa, Electric. Barb's in the Big 

Red Band, as was Phil in his day. 

Clancy and Barbara Gavin Fauntleroy will 

be coming to Reunion from St Louis, Mo, 

where he is executive vice president and COO 

of Valley Industries Inc. Daughter Barbara, 

MFA '78 (Smith '76) is with Benton & Bowles 

in NYC; Steve (Denison '78) is with Procter & 

Gamble in Dallas, Texas; and Jim (Harvard 

'83) was in computer science. From Hockessin, 

Del, Ralph Delaplane writes of joining an 

alumni group on a trip to Switzerland and 

Germany—1st class, he reports. Ralph is a 

machine design consultant and wife Peggy 

Ann is business manager for the Episcopal 

Diocese of Del. 

Jerome A and Rima Kleiman Jarvis '55 

cruised on a bareboat charter last fall out of 

Tahiti to Bora Bora, Raiatea, Tahaa and 

Huahine. Hope they get to Reunion from 

Holliswood with pictures of that adventure! 

Hugh H Schwartz, wife Maria Rosa, Laura, 

6, and Frederick, 4, spent Christmas vacation 

in Uruguay, visiting their family there. Hugh, 

of Alexandria, Va, is a sr economist with the 

Inter-American Development Bank. 

Joseph A Thomas of Bayside was president 

of the NY chapter, Cornell Soc of Hotelmen, 

last yr. Lewis A Ross, Schenectady, mentions 

a "3rd honeymoon" at South Seas Plantation, 

Captiva Isl, Fla, but doesn't specify 

whether it was also wife Number 3. 

We regret to report the death, in Oct '83, 

of Frederick Roy Frank, architecture professor 

at Miss State U since '75, president of 

VFC Inc facilities consultants, and principal 

of Frank Architects. Sincere condolences to 

wife Barbara, sons Roy, Geoffrey, and 

Ricky, and daughters Julia and Marisa Jo. 

Alvin R Beatty, 5103 Wilderness Lane, Culver 

City, Cal 90230. 

55 Press Clips 

We were saddened to learn that Dolores Barcley 

Odell passed away early this yr. Our condolences 

to her family and friends. 

Doris Gottlieb Sherman and Philip write 

that their daughter Judith '79 was married 

last July; daughter Emily '84 is finishing up 

at Cornell; and Alan graduated from Boston 

U. Doris has 2 half-time positions with the 

Rochester School System: she works with 

learning-disabled students and arranges inservice 

activities for the teaching staff. 

A clipping from The Times Herald Record 

informed us that Alice Zufall Fellenzer of 

Middletown has been named director of the 

child care center, called Kindercollege, at 

Orange County Community College. Lorraine 

"Les" Silverman Abrash, 212 Conifer 

Lane, Walnut Creek, Cal, would love to hear 

from old friends and Cornellians in the area. 

She teaches chemistry at a nearby college and 

Irwin "Jay" sells insurance and real estate. 

Rona Kass Schneider and Martin visited 

Cornell during a vacation last summer. "We 

looked at all my old classrooms (some gone) 

and dorms and even though it was all a reminder 

of my lost youth, I didn't come near 

to tears. I think being grown up is better! 

Comfort's gotten awfully important! This 

winter we'll go back to Guadaloupe for the 

5th season in a row—we've finally found the 

perfect hotel on the perfect island." [Aw, 

com' on—tell us its name!] 

Rona sent a press release including news of 

her former roommate, Rita Smilowitz Simon. 

Rita, an artist, has a studio at "Stable Mews" 

an unusual building in Manhattan's Upper 

East Side. For 25 yrs, painters, sculptors, 

photographers, theater designers, and artisans 

have met, exchanged ideas, and thrived 

here at 414 E 75th St, NYC. Tenants have included 

Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, 

Light Opera Company of Manhattan, Jaques 

Kaplan, and Vere Henry. They recently held 

an open house. Further events include a selection 

of works and performances by previous 

tenants under the collective title "Group 

414." Ginny Wallace Panzer, 3 Mountainview 

Rd, Millburn, NJ 07041. 

Another regional look at the class, this time 

the Far West and Southwest. Ken Sanderson 

is on leave of absence from Auburn U, teaching 

at Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo, Cal. Ken 

continues as vice president of the Natl Ornamental 

Honorary Soc and has been nominated 

to the publications board of the American 

Soc for Horticultural Sciences. Ken and 

Barb still have 2 children at home and live at 

1784 5th St, Los Osos, Cal. Tad Slocum is 

vice president, investments for Shearson, 

American Express, while wife Karen is an interior 

decorator. The Slocums took a family 

trip last yr to Japan, Hong King, China, and 

Thailand. This yr, it was skiing in Steamboat 

Springs, Colo. Address: 456 Kingsford Dr, 

Morgana, Cal. Don and Caroline Maclay 

toured Scotland last yr, plus a wk in London, 

England. (Boy, am I jealous.) Don's company 

operates electronic mail/telex computer 

system worldwide. Address: 29356 Bluewater 

Rd, Malibu, Cal. Bill Laube is owner/operator 

of Pleasanton Hotel. (A great restaurant!) 

Bill and Vernie have 8 children, are also a skiing 

family. Address: 5428 Pleasant Hill Rd, 

Pleasanton, Cal. 

Dick and Rebecca Kincaid Mathewson's 

daughter Sharon Kay '82 was recently married 

to Doug Gregory '81. Nine Cornell 

alums were in attendance. Dick and Beck are 

divorced. Son Todd is at U of Wyo and 

daughter Molly is at Colo State. Dick's address: 

1208 Grove PI, Fullerton, Cal. Art 

Burns has started to take private piano lessons 

as a 50th birthday present to himself. 

(That's terrific!) The Burnses have 4 children 

and 2 dogs (George and Gracie). Art and 

Dede live at 13281 Sussex PI, Santa Monica, 

Cal. Dan Begin is president and owner of 3 

Lord Byron pizza restaurants, with wife Ann 

as his business partner. The Begins have 3 of 

4 in college. Dan continues to be active in 

Cornell Fund telethons and in the Secondary 

Schools Committee. Address: 12326 Larchmont 

Ave, Saratoga, Cal. Dave Montague is 

vice president at Lockheed. He and wife Nancy 

are planning an extended trip to the UK 

this summer, where Nancy will attend a 6-wk 

course at Christ Church College, Oxford. 

They are also planning to cruise canals. (Now 

I'm really jealous.) Address: 1205 Hillview 

Dr, Menlo Park, Cal. Malcolm Whyte and 

Karen were part of a great Cornell Beta Theta 

Pi reunion at the California Cafe, run by Bob 

Freeman '63, in Mill Valley. Attending were 

George and Ann Wiggins Riordon '56, 

George and Gloria Morson, Denny Malone, 

and Gil Schlerf and his wife Joanna. Lots of 

nostalgia and great food. The Whytes' address: 

333 Richardson Dr, Mill Valley, Cal. 

Ev "Pete" McDonough is also on the 

Coast, at 2155 El Molino PI, San Marino, 

Cal. Ned and Paula Bussman Arps '56 will, 

no doubt, travel to Ithaca in the spring to attend 

the graduation of son Ted '84 from Hotel 

School. Address: 14347 Carol Crest, 

Houston, Texas. Also in Houston, Steve 

Breslauer established his own consulting firm 

in fall '83. Wife Sandy is a legal assistant. 

Address: 7602 Coachwood Dr, Houston. Finally: 

Roger Burgraff is still doing his thing 

in Alaska. As owner of gold and silver mines, 

as well as a consultant and serving agent, 

Roger is very active in the community and in 

environmental/conservation groups. Roger 

and De Lois have 2 of their 3 children at 

home. Address: SR #200^6, Fairbanks, 

Alaska. Dave Sheffield, 76 Parker Rd, 

Wellesley, Mass 02181. 

56 The Latest 

Some additional information on Margot 

Lurie Zimmerman and family: Margot is the 

program director for IEC (Information, Education, 

Communication) for PLACT/ 

PATH, a non-profit, non-governmental 

agency. The organization provides technical 

assistance to international health and family 

planning programs in the Third World countries. 

Her work involves communicating with 

illiterates through pictures or photos so they 

can have access to the instructional information 

they need to use a health or contraceptive 

product properly, understand its side effects, 

and what to do about them. Margot returned 

in Feb from a 3-wk trip to Tanzania, Maylaya, 

and Kenya. In Apr she'll help launch a 

MAY 1984

project in Nepal. This assignment will afford 

her an opportunity to see her son John, who 

is a Peace Corps volunteer in that country. 

Last summer she and Paul visited Wales, Ireland, 

and parts of England they had not seen 

before. They especially liked the medieval city 

of Chester. They hope to visit parts of Turkey 

and some Greek Islands in the summer of 

'84. The Zimmermans live on 7902 Rocton 

Ave, Chevy Chase, Md. 

Hope you all saw Erika Tate Holzer interviewed 

on the Merv Griffin Show on Feb 16! 

"Hallelujah," says Diana Scudder Briner. 

"My last child, Bradford, 6, is in 1st grade!" 

Diana is the mother of 4 boys: Charles, 15, at 

Lake Highlands High School and active in 

church activities and soccer; Clark, 10, and 

Buggs, 8, interested in Scouts and soccer. 

Diana is working at Bradford's school, St 

Marks School of Texas, in the clerical area 2 

days a wk and loves being back in the working 

world. She remains active in PTA, Women's 

League, and is in her final yr of a Bible 

study fellowship. Her address is 8924 Capri 

Dr, Dallas, Texas. 

Carol Blicker Gartner's daughter Madeline 

graduated from Duke U last spring and is 

now in her 1st. yr at Loyola U of Chicago Med 

School. The Gartners live in Chicago, 111, at 

5740 S Kimberk. Rita Rausch Moelis, 996 

Wateredge PI, Hewlett Harbor, LI, NY 

11557. 

I have tried to decifer Dr Gerald M Gusoff's 

handwriting and have only half succeeded. If 

I am correct, his oldest daughter, Pamela, 

was just married after receiving her master's 

degree from Yeshiva U. His other daughter, 

Carolyn '84, is co-editor-in-chief of the Cornell 

ian and will graduate in June. Gerry is a 

dentist at 48 Frost Lane in Lawrence. Richard 

H Kennedy (Hotel) has been appointed general 

manager, foodservice new business for 

Heinz USA. 

Charles H Meier Jr lives at 7825 C&S Rd, 

Fountain, Colo. He is a systems engineer with 

Computer Sciences Corp, while his wife Betsy 

is a "farmerette." Charlie is the father of 3 

and leads the family in farming. The Meiers 

are loaded with horses, sheep, goats, swine, 

and cattle. It was nice hearing from him. Dr 

Fred E Stafford reports from 325 9th St, SE, 

Wash, DC, that his big hobby is Scottish 

country dancing. He and Barbara recently 

traveled through Belgium, Southern England, 

and Devon, looking at landscape gardens 

and buildings of the 18th Century. 

From Alexandria, Va, comes word from 

Martin E Abel that 2 of his daughters have 

graduated from college and the only tuition 

left is that of Andrea, at Carleton College. 

Martin is president of Abel, Daft, & Earley, 

an economic research and consulting firm 

specializing in food and agriculture. His wife 

Jane is a teacher and they reside at 2632 

Childs Lane. John Anderluh, 1507 Sequoia 

Trail, Glenview, 111, is vice president of marketing 

and sales for the US for Moore Business 

Forms. He and his wife Pat are the parents 

of 4 children. Pat is an aide at the local 

school library and is active with the rest of the 

family in outdoor sports. 

It was nice to get a new address from Michael 

J Berger: 9713 Rhapsody Dr, Vienna, 

Va. Herbert Bernhardt continues as law professor 

and father of twins at 6625 Charlesway, 

Baltimore, Md. They recently traveled 

to England and enjoy biking and swimming. 

Hal Grunert is an obstetrician and gynecologist 

at Highland Hospital and Strong Memorial 

Hospital in Rochester. They live at 32 

Cobblestone Dr, and just spent their 25th 

wedding anniversary in the Caribbean. 

Alfred Hahn, 5 Cold Spring Lane, Media, 

Pa, is in refinery planning with Getty Oil, 


Members of the Class of '57 are ready to 

burst into song. (See column for details.) 

while wife Virginia is a nurse. Robert K 

Heineman Jr has only 1 of his 3 offspring left 

in college. His wife Beverly is still studying, 

getting her master's in computer science. Rob 

is an orthopaedic surgeon and makes his 

home at 23 La Grange Rd in Delmar. Morty 

Hyman writes from 998 5th Ave, NYC, that 

he is making up for lost time very quickly. He 

and his spouse Chris Stern Hyman have 2 

children, ages 18 months and 4 months. 

Good going, Mort. 

Congratulations to Keith R Johnson for 

being selected to head the Arts College Council. 

He may be found, when not in Ithaca, at 

either Discover magazine or 329 W 19th St, 

NYC. Speaking of Ithaca, Harry Keller graduated 

a son from the Hotel School last yr and 

his daughter Patricia "P K" '84 becomes a 

full-fledged Hotelie this month. Harry is director, 

alumni affairs, for the Hotel School. 

• Stephen Kittenplan, 1165 Park Ave, NYC 

10128. 

57 A Get-Together 

The Jan meeting of class officers (CACO) at 

the Grand Hyatt in NYC, produced a good 

turnout, with Audrey Cauchois Jones and 

Phil Mclndoo giving some preliminary reports 

on our "Keep the Glow" Reunion in 

'87. Also, there were Judy Richter Levy, Jan 

Nelson Cole, Betty Rice Keane, Bobbie Haglund, 

and Paul Noble. The weekend started 

with a reception at the Fashion Inst of Technology 

to unveil plans for Cornell's new Center 

for the Performing Arts. A number of 

Cornellians from the theater, opera, television, 

and movies performed—either live or 

on tape. On Sat, various group meetings were 

followed by a luncheon with the speaker Bar- 

ber Conable '43 giving some candid views of 

Congress, taxes, and budget deficits. Steve 

Weiss stopped by our table and took ribbing 

about going for the '87 Reunion prize for 

classmate with the youngest child. 

That evening, Charlie and Judy Stanton 

hosted a dinner for class officers and some 

area Cornellians, spouses included. We managed 

to get everyone but Steve Kutler for a 

group shot (see photo) and, top to bottom, 

from left, you may recognize Jim Broad head, 

Gail Lautzenheiser Cashen, Betty Rice 

Keane, Judy Richter Levy, Bill Gold, Phil 

Mclndoo, Paul Noble, John Follansbee, Jan 

Nelson Cole, Bobbie Haglund, Charlie Stanton, 

Tony Cashen, and your class correspondent. 

As Sharon and Jim Broadhead (Glee 

Club, Cayuga's Waiters) were leaving, the 

strains of the "Alma Mater" were struck up. 

We couldn't leave it at that, so there followed 

every Cornell song for which someone knew 

the lyrics, as well as some other songs popular 

on campus in our day. Jim finally exited with 

a rendition of "Goodnight Little Girl," accompanied 

by former Glee Club members. 

• Judy Reusswig, 5401 Westbard Ave, 

#1109, Bethesda, Md 20816. 

58 From Sunny Climes 

News for May comes, in mid-Mar, from sunny 

Fla, to which place your correspondent 

and his youngest son had the good fortune to 

escape before the late winter storm hit the 

Northeast. 'Tis now like Ithaca over a typical 

Spring Weekend and what a break! Incidentally, 

the citrus tree decimation is no tale; 

those few days in the 20s at yearend really 

knocked out a lot. We'll pay for it. 

I'm glad to have some carryover news from 

'83 with which to fill this column; hopefully, 

by the time you read it you will already have 

responded to Mike Griffinger's letter for '84

News & Dues. Joe Mathis, Judy, and 2 

daughters write from Indian Hill Rd in Manlius. 

Joe is manager of economics and research 

for E Milk Prods Coop and also keeps 

busy with civic groups and Central NY Cornell 

Club. The family enjoys horseback riding, 

raising 2 horses, and gardening, track, 

and racquet club. Dr Earl S and Joan Blackwell 

McHugh sent their address: 6455 Overbrook 

Rd, Shawnee Mission, Kans. Betty 

Anne Steer Merritt sent her dues. 

Ed Monahan is still in Galway with the 

dept of oceanography at University College, 

Ireland. No news, but thanks for the dues, 

Ed. Likewise, Jonathan Ostrow, who resides 

at 3500 E Huron St, Seattle, Wash. Ruth 

Horwitt Singer visited Vienna and Budapest 

last yr. Son Michael graduated from Brandeis 

U. Ruth lives at 2769 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, 

111. Ruth reports she saw Ruth Lipson Brown 

last yr at the latter's son's graduation from 

Northwestern U. 

Eleanor L turn Suden sent her dues and address: 

8316-121 Via Sonoma, La Jolla, Cal. 

Nach Waxman writes: "After just about 20 

yrs as a book editor, I decided recently that it 

was time for a change—so I've jumped the 

fence and am starting my own bookstore specializing 

in cookbooks and carrying photography 

and antiques relating to food and 

cooking." Nach's store is at 1435 Lexington 

Ave, NYC. Maron carries on as executive editor 

at Scribner's. Ken Wing lives in Ithaca, 

that lucky fellow, and can be reached at 320 

Blackstone Ave. 

Dale Reis Johnson and Dick '57 hale from 

Cal, at 30 Encanto Dr, Rolling Hills Est. 

Karin '85, elder child, is in Hotel on The Hill 

and Craig is a sr in high school. Dale, and 

perhaps others in the family, visited China in 

'82. Jack Dougherty writes that there's "Not 

much new since last yr." Son Michael recently 

completed US Marine Corps recruit training 

at San Diego, Cal. Jack, Carolyn, and 

daughter Kathleen live in San Antonio, Texas 

at 5342 Maple Vista. Barbara Jo Merkens 

sent her dues and address: 180 Three Valleys 

Dr, Don Mills, Ont, Canada. Larry Pringle 

did the same: PO Box 252, W Nyack. 

Roger Boulton, wife Corina, and daughter 

write from Caracas, Venezuela (PO Box 929), 

where Roger is 1 of 5 directors of a familyowned 

business in wholesale distribution. He 

gets to travel frequently to the US and Europe. 

Beverly Amerman Lewin lives in Israel 

with husband Lawrence, PhD '58. The Lewins 

occasionally see Cornellians passing 

through their area, which is in Ramat Hasharon 

(address, 79 Hamelachim). Jeanne B 

Dorie, AKA Mrs Edward Marvin, lives in E 

Harwich, Mass, at 200 John Joseph Rd. The 

Marvins' vacation begins after all the Cape 

Cod tourists depart, although many visitors 

to their home there have been greatly enjoyed. 

Jeanne teaches part-time in the nursing 

program at the Community College and is 

always on the look for new Cornellians on the 

Cape. 

Fred Sharp III, Linda, and 2 young boys 

live in Chappaqua, where Fred is head of human 

resources for American Express. The 

Sharps visited Nags Head for a family reunion 

last July; they also saw the Dick Paynes 

in Canandaigua, before the latter moved to 

San Francisco, Cal. We'll watch for a new 

address from Dick. The Sharps reside at 69 

Westorchard Rd, Chappaqua. Saul Presberg 

sent dues and address: 191 Willow Bend Rd, 

Rochester. Finally, a recent press release informs 

that the Jarvies are heading Northeast. 

Chuck, former president of the Dr Pepper 

Co, has been named president of Rapid- 

American Inc's Schenley Industries. We'll 

watch for a new address. Dick Haggard, 

1207 Nash Dr, Fort Washington, Pa 19034. 

59 Ice Cream Treat 

One of the treats of strolling around the Upper 

West Side of Manhattan is stopping for a 

cone filled with delicious Alpen Zauber ice 

cream. This treat will be one that all of us will 

be able to enjoy at Reunion, thanks to Alpen 

Zauber's Marty Kroll, who has agreed to provide 

ice cream for the class picnic and barbecue 

at. Stewart Park. 

As I indicated in earlier columns, our class 

promises to eclipse the previous record for 

25th Reunion attendance: 322 returning classmates, 

set by the Class of '57. In fact, Harry 

Petchesky, who together with Dave Dunlop is 

chairing Reunion, thinks we have a good 

chance of seeing some 500 classmates in Ithaca 

on June 7-10! Let's prove him right! If 

you haven't already sent your reservation 

form, do so TODAY. 

Both the university and our class have 

planned numerous Reunion activities. Here 

are highlights from our class schedule: 

• Thurs—An evening reception and cocktail 

party at the Johnson Art Museum, an elegant 

building with spectacular views of the 

campus and its environs. Then, dinner at Willard 

Straight Hall, which Dave and Harry 

promise "will be far superior to what we experienced 

under the contract eating plan." 

• Fri—In the early afternoon, Rick 

Cohen, a clinical psychologist, will lead "The 

Way We Were, Are, and Will Be: 25 Years of 

Choices and Change." This personal awareness 

sharing experience will provide an opportunity 

for classmates to review, consider, 

and discuss where they have been as feeling, 

thinking individuals, where they are today, 

and where they might like to be. Next, we'll 

meet at Stewart Park for the cookout. 

• Sat—One of the most highly praised 

events of recent Reunions has been the worn-, 

en's breakfast. Stefanie Lipsit Tashkovich is 

organizing this event for us. Following the 

breakfast, there will be a "free-wheeling" 

discussion of how the many changes since '59 

have affected women's lives. (Yes, men may 

attend!) Another stimulating discussion will 

occur on Sat afternoon, when classmates consider 

our society and the major problems facing 

it. Sat evening begins with a reception on 

the Arts Quad. Then we'll dine, dance, and 

be entertained in Barton Hall. 

Lots of time will be available in which you 

can visit favorite campus and area sites, chat 

with friends old and new, participate in 

sports activities, etc. And, of course, there 

will be gatherings every evening in the tents 

and in the Donlon lounge. Whether you've 

been a frequent visitor to Cornell since we 

graduated or have lost touch with both university 

and classmates is irrelevant—you'll 

have an enjoyable, memorable time at Reunion. 

Bill Sullivan, who is chairing our Reunion 

campaign, reported that by early Mar we had 

passed the 60 per cent mark in our goal to 

raise a million dollars. The generosity of all 

of us is needed to ensure meeting this goal. If 

you have not yet contributed, we hope you 

will do so. If you have,'we hope you'll be able 

to add to your contribution. 

Organizing Reunion is an awesome task. 

Ensuring that all activities run smoothly will 

also involve much work and responsibility. 

Dave and Harry have asked various classmates 

to oversee individual activities. In addition, 

we have hired student assistants. There 

will be some familiar names and faces among 

the students, including the sons of Stephanie 

Tashkovich and Steve Fillo. 

While all of us are preparing to celebrate 

the 25th anniversary of our graduation, some 

classmates are also celebrating another 25th 

This is It-Our 25th! 

anniversary: that of their wedding. Valerie 

(Gilardi) and Francis Moliterno celebrated 

their 25th last Sept. Joining the celebration 

were their 3 children, Peter '80, Taia '83, and 

Alison '85. Glenn Smith and his wife celebrated 

their 25th wedding anniversary with a 

15-day trip to Hawaii. 

Among those attending Reunion will be 

Tom Cottrell, Cornell's 1st professor of enology 

(winemaking). "Coming to Geneva after 

13 yrs in the Napa Valley has been much 

more fun and work than I had guessed or 

hoped," writes Tom. "NY State wines are on 

the threshold of acceptance and success, 

making it an exciting time to be here to 

help." Paula Millenthal Cantor writes that 

she "attended a Sigma Delta Tau reunion and 

was delighted to see old friends imminently 

recognizable. Lots of good memories were revived, 

making me look forward to THE Reunion 

in June! Paula keeps very busy as president 

of women's div of the United Jewish 

Community of Bergen County, NJ. Also 

looking forward to Reunion is Rufe Soule, 

who attended Cornell for only 1 yr—"but it 

was a great jr yr," he writes. Rufe and his 

wife live in Oakland, Cal, where Rufe has a 

real estate investment business. 

News from classmates who haven't written 

us for a while: In '79, after 20 yrs of contractor 

association work in NY, John Gibbons 

moved to the San Francisco, Cal, area and 

joined the Guy F Atkinson Co as director of 

industrial relations. In '82, he was elected a 

vice president of the firm. John Kriendler 

moved to Caracas, Venezuela, in late '83 for 

a 3-yr tour as a political officer at the US Embassy. 

This move followed a very special 

event: on Sept 19, John and his wife became 

the proud parents of their 1st child, Sara. 

Gaea Bowers Williams, who lives in Broken 

Arrow, Okla, is an 8th-grade earth science 

teacher and very involved in creating curriculum 

for advanced and gifted students. She 

has 3 children in college, 1 in the 9th grade. 

Barbara Specht Frierson, White Plains, celebrated 

her 15th yr with IBM last summer. 

"It's been a great place to work, and I particularly 

enjoy my job in personnel," she 

writes, and adds, "I hope to see some of my 

friends at Reunion!" 

Usually, this magazine is sent to some 400 

classmates—those '59ers who pay class dues 

—but for several months, all 1600-plus degree 

holders of our class are receiving it. We 

hope this increases enthusiasm for returning 

for Reunion, for supporting Cornell, and for 

keeping up-to-date on what's happening 

among classmates. Personally, I also hope 

that it means lots of mail from lots of people 

willing to share, via this column, tales of 

work, play, family life, etc. Do write! 

Jenny Tesar, 97 A Chestnut Hill Village, 

Bethel, Conn 06801.

60 Where Are They? 

With the 25th a little over a yr away, it's obvious 

that many are already thinking "Ithaca, 

June 13-16, '85." More than 100 classmates 

have volunteered to help in some way with 

Reunion—an enthusiastic and promising beginning! 

As of early Mar, Steve Russell, major 

gifts chairman, was reporting at least 

$300,000 had been pledged so far. And Jim 

and Lois Lundberg Carter report having secured 

agents for almost all fraternities, sororities, 

and special activities. We want to make 

sure we reach everyone. For this reason, each 

class column, beginning with this one, will 

end with a list of missing classmates. If you 

know their addresses, please contact Sue 

Phelps Day, 107 Rocky Dr, Greensburg, Pa 

15601. 

If you are a class duespayer, you'll receive 

a surprise gift from Cornell this month—a 

copy of the current class directory, printed alphabetically, 

geographically, and with 

maiden-name cross-reference. Should be a 

great help in tracking down long-lost friends 

and roommates and making those plans for 

the 25th. 

Pat Erb Reohr reports news of her 5 children: 

John (Dickinson '83) is working for 

Lehman Brothers in NYC; Marie (Smith '83) 

is a freshman at the U of Penn Med School; 

Bill is a sophomore at the U of Va and a 

member of the crew team; Christopher is a 

high school jr and a nationally ranked jr fencer; 

and Tommy is a high school freshman. 

Pat, librarian at Shath Haven Sr High in 

Wallingford, Pa, reports she and Jack '58 enjoy 

skiing with the whole family. Carol Sue 

Epstein Hai's daughter Jill '85 is a Student 

Ambassador. Son Paul is a jr in high school 

and on the ski team. Carol Sue is an independent 

interior designer and serves on the 

boards of the Landmark Soc and Opera Theatre 

of Rochester and on the Univ Council. 

Sharon Lasky Mishkin is in her 1 lth yr as a 

Camp Fire leader, managing her 4th group. 

Husband Sid recently moved his law firm to a 

newly renovated old warehouse near the new 

domed stadium in Indianapolis, Ind. She enjoys 

tennis, Hebrew, and horseback riding 

—"Brings back memories of the Cornell 

Stables in '60." Linda Jarschauer Johnson 

was appointed executive director of the Cornell-in-Washington 

program last Aug. The 

university has a long-term lease on a building 

near DuPont Circle, less than a mile away 

from her home, and 75 students come to DC 

each semester to study public policy, architecture, 

and ILR. Linda's son Seth is a highschool 

jr, and daughter Suzanne is an 8th 

grader. Linda reported the sad news of the 

death in Dec '82 of Marion Solomon Parkus. 

Marion's husband, Larry, '59-60 Grad, son 

Jon, and daughter Jean can be reached at 22 

Nordica Dr, Croton-on-Hudson. 

Gay-Emily Morrish Massie (Mrs James S) 

is a registered nurse in Boise, Idaho (1801 Hill 

Rd) and is eager to meet alumni in the area. 

Carolyn Creamer O'Connor and Bill have a 

daughter Allyson '87 in Hotel. Sons Bill, 16, 

and Patrick, 14, are at St John's Prep in 

Gloucester, Mass. Carolyn continues to be 

active in politics and is now in her 2nd term as 

councilor-at-large in Gloucester and serves as 

a state Democratic delegate. "Our family 

opened a retail ice cream store in '82. Bill is 

vice president and general manager of a large 

bakery supply firm and works hard for Cornell 

and the Ag College. We had a fabulous 

reunion in Boston in Jan '83 (for) Pete Baldwin, 

who came from Maui, Hawaii, to the executive 

seminar at Harvard. Attending were 

Diane and Al Kaneb, Marcia and Tom R 

O'Connell '59, Angel and Dick Nicoletti, 

Paul and Marry Curry, all Sigma Nus." 


Cyrus Abbe has married Dr Judith Jaffe, a 

NY pediatrician. He is an attorney who has 

gone into Syria and Rumania to help rescue 

hundreds of Jews and also, for the last 20 yrs, 

has presented free variety shows featuring top 

entertainers in NY hospitals. John Alfano 

was elected to the Rye city council in Nov '83. 

Dave Auble moved to Key West in '83 to become 

manager of special programs to promote 

sales of marine slips and timeshared 

condos for the Galleon Resort. Consultant 

for the project is Hotel School Professor 

Chris Hart '72. Bob Beerman has his own law 

firm at 475 5th Ave, NYC. Dave Feeney's 

daughter Shawn '84 graduated from Arts in 

Dec '83, and is applying to the Grad School 

of Mgt. Son David '86 won the all-around 

gymnastics title in '83. Daughter Shari is a jr 

at U of RI, and son Daryl plays football and 

hockey as a high school freshman. Treasurer 

Dave Flinn and wife Mary (Quick) continue 

to raise Clydesdales and Cleveland bay horses 

on their farm in Lansing. Mary serves as a director 

of several breeders groups, and Dave 

oversees several selectronic-oriented businesses 

in addition to being active in community 

affairs and as a Cornell fundraiser. 

Whereabouts Unknown: Michael Abrams, 

John Agor, Davis Ammons, Norman Armitage, 

Peter Aydelott, John Babarovic, James 

Baird, Peter Banks. Gail Taylor Hodges, 

1257 W Deerpath, Lake Forest, 111 60045. 

61 From All Over 

Plenty of news of classmates from every nook 

and cranny of the USA and the world: from 

New Orleans, La, word that Bob Miller has 

been named by Ogden Corp to the new position 

of group vice president, administration, 

at its Avondale Shipyards Inc subsidiary. 

And, from Webster, David Heinzelman tells 

us he is manager of competitive products 

evaluation for Xerox Corp. He and Columba, 

with kids Steve, 11, and Cathy, 8, enjoy 

sailing, tennis, and skiing. 

Larry Bortles of Golden, Colo, reports his 

daughter Erin '88 is in Architecture. He's in 

the business of acquiring and syndicating existing 

income properties. And, Larry Carducci 

of Berkeley, Cal, is building a house on a 

mini-farm in Auburn, Cal. 

Rudy Plane and Jan Pelligrino '62 traveled 

to Greece and Turkey last June from home in 

Littleton, Mass. Rudy is vice president and 

general counsel of Nixdorf Computer Corp, 

and Jan is founder and president of Home 

Watch Inc, which oversees property and affairs 

of Americans living abroad. 

John Andrew wrote to say hello from Birmingham, 

Ala. And, Kim Alyn and Dale 

Stevens Wilson did the same from Lansing, 

Mich. Tammy Greenberg and Jim Goell hail 

from Woodland Hills, Cal. G Warren Marks 

is in State College, Pa, and Flora Conte 

White is in Woodridge, Conn. 

Fred Gallo sent class dues all the way from 

Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, but Ingram Chodorow's 

arrive in NY quickly from Upper Saddle 

River, NJ. Al Trages mailed from E 

Hampton, LI, and Goro Yamazaki shows an 

address at the Hotel Okura in Tokyo, Japan. 

Larry Abrams is in Potomac, Md, and Henry 

Bliss wrote from River Forest, 111. 

Lucienne Joncurs Taylor lives in Long 

Lake, Minn, and Bob and Lorna Lamb Herdt 

'62 report from Alexandria, Va. Bob has a 

new job as scientific adviser to the consultative 

group on International Ag Research. 

Marcia Kessler Weiss reports from Nashua, 

NH, that she is president of Les Petits Gourmets 

Caterers. Nobby Holmes said hello 

from Greenville, SC, and Richard and Janet 

Lipinski did the same from Anchorage, Alaska. 

Ted Spar writes that he is an assistant vice 

president with the Brooklyn Union Gas Co, 

and Carmen Allen Talley, Atlanta, Ga, tells 

us her daughter Lee '87 is in Arts. 

Which brings it all back home—so many of 

us from so many places with Cornell in our 

blood. May is an especially beautiful month 

almost every place and will almost surely turn 

our thoughts to that glorious time in Ithaca. 

Let's talk about it in person 2 yrs from now, 

at our 25th Reunion. Joe McKay, c/o 

Kline-McKay Inc, 3 E 48th St, NYC 10017; 

also, Ken Blanchard, c/o Blanchard Training 

and Development Inc, 2048 B Aldergrove 

Ave, Escondido, Cal 92025. 

62 Legacy Hopes 

No news, last month, was not good news. Do 

write! Rick (Richard F) Kelly did—to add the 

name of his son Rick to "what appears to be 

growing list of children of Cornellians at 

Stanford. He is a freshman math major 

there, having selected it over Cornell because 

of weather; Vt to Ithaca was a frying-pan-tofire 

situation, from his viewpoint! At any 

rate, perhaps John, 16, and/or Susan, 12, 

will brave the weather and become Cornellians. 

I would love at least one of the kids to 

go to The Big Red.' I keep busy working for 

Mt Snow (manager, lodging and hospitality) 

and doing Secondary Schools Committee 

work in 7 counties in Vt." 

Jane E Brody received an Outstanding 

Alumna award from the Ag College. Jane's 

column appears Weds in the NY 

Times and she has published a 2nd 

book, Jane Brody's NY Times 

Guide to Personal Health. In her 

address to the college's autumn "Round 

Up," she noted that the "only way to lose 

weight and keep it off is to stop dieting." She 

believes that complex carbohydrates should 

form the basis for a healthy diet and credited 

early woman as "the real hero of our 

species." While the hunters were out, the 

women gathered berries, nuts, roots, and 

grains, all complex carbohydrates. These 

staples, she noted, are "the only foods not associated 

with long-term health risks. They are 

also inexpensive." 

The Natl Council of Teachers of English 

recently honored Carolyn Johns Mullins (Mrs 

Nicholas C) for excellence in technical and 

scientific communication for her book, The 

Complete Manuscript Preparation Style 

Guide. Carolyn has a joint appointment, 

English and computing center, Va Tech; also 

owns a business, The Wordworks, specializing 

in evaluating software for personal 

computers, in consulting, and in training 

writers and editors. Home is at 1401 Locust 

Ave, Blacksburg, Va. 

Harris Palmer is enjoying the percs of nationwide 

travel in his position as national accounts 

manager with Julien J Studley Inc in 

NYC. The firm specializes in office space and 

Four Seas 

Cuisines of China 

Elegant Dining 

1-7 Central Ave., Madison, New Jersey 

(201) 822-2899 

Recommended by gourmet critic Bob Lape 

Darwin Chang'46 

Gordon Chang '73 

Susan Chang '76 

Martha Chang '85

Cornell Hosts 

A guide to hotels and restaurants where Cornellians and their friends will find a special welcome. 

Ithaca and New York State New Jersey Bermuda 

Restaurant Franςais 

1152 THE DANBY ROAD, 

ITHACA, NEW YORK 

(607) 273-3464 

Etienne Merle '69 

ntAVEl/HOUDAY MAGAZINE AWARD 1981 

William recht jr. '52 

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316 east 77th street new york 10021 (212) 988-3610 

ΆLODGE 

Economy Lodging 

Rt. 17-Exit 120 

Rt. 84 - Exit 4W 

Middletown, NΎ. 

1-800-843-1991 

George Banta, '57 

Jeremy Banta, '62 

Pennsylvania 

BOOKBINDERS 

SEA FOOD HOUSE. INC. 

Only h r -3rd A 4th G π r tlon of th 

Original Bookblnd r Restaurant Family 

215 South 15th St., Phila. 

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'57 

Washington, D.C. 

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famous for 

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Seafood Steaks Spirits 

West Orange, New Jersey 

201731-4000 

MAYFAIR 

Fine banquets and a la carte dining 

West Orange, New Jersey 

201 731-4300 

Marty Horn '50 

Don Horn, Jr/73 

Bunny Horn Rusted '77 

Jim Horn'79 

Tuckahoe Inn 

An Early American Restaurant & Tavern 

Route 9 & Beesley's Point Bridge 

BEESLEY'S POINT, N. J. 

Off Garden State Parkway 

12 Miles Below Atlantic City 

Pete Harp '60 

Bill Garrow '58 

New England 

Cool Summers 

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CONRAD ENGELHARDT ('42) 

always stays at Inverurie. Naturally. 

Because he likes to get 

around. Because the hotel's right 

across the bay from Hamilton's 

many attractions. Because at 

Inverurie he can swim, dance, 

play tennis, dine, and enjoy 

Bermuda's finest entertainment 

every night. And because he's 

part owner of the hotel. 

The Hotel at the Water's Edge 

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Hawaii 

GREETERS OF 

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P.O. Box 29638 

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office buildings, nationally. Send leads to 

Harris at 345 E 52nd St, 12P, NYC. "Big adventure" 

for the yr for the Behans, Don and 

Kelly (Gould), our hardworking Reunion 

chairfolks, was a 3-wk trip to Europe with 

Tom, Doug, and Julia. They visited France, 

Holland, Germany, Austria, Italy, and 

Spain. "Needless to say, we were exhausted 

at the conclusion, but it was worth it," Kelly 

wrote. Son Tom, on yr's leave from Yale, 

works for an advertising firm in NY; Doug is 

a freshman at U of Rochester; and Julia, a 

freshman in high school and very busy with 

dance classes. Don, with Deloitte Haskins & 

Sells, commutes from 4 Lyons Rd, Armonk. 

For those of you making summer plans, 

give some consideration to Adult U (CAU). 

The following class members attended last yr: 

Toήi Rogers Black, John Boothby, Christopher 

Coggeshall, Hamlin Gilbert Jr, Judy 

Shapiro Greenblatt, Don Juran, George 

Knaysi, Michael Miller, and George Van 

Arsdale. Try it, you'll like it! Myra Maloney 

Hart is hoping to go this yr. Others of you? 

Robert J Gaydos, who attended Cornell 

and received his degree in English from Adelphi, 

was named editorial-page editor of the 

Middletown Times Herald-Record. Jan 

McClayton Crites, 2779 Dellwood Dr, Lake 

Oswego, Ore 97034. 

63 Up, Up, Away 

Spring will have sprung, hopefully, by the 

time this is read. There is a long lead time. 

Please, please remember to give at least 2 

months leeway when sending timely notices. 

Clifford Argue, wife Theo, and family, 

Christina, 14, and Irene, 11, will find the return 

of spring most welcome. They have recently 

moved to PO Box 108, Mercer Isl, 

Wash, after 17 yrs in Southern Cal. Cliff has 

been appointed assistant vice president, properties 

and facilities, at Alaska Airlines, after a 

13-yr career with Continental Airlines. Cliff 

has done extensive work in airport development 

in the Pacific islands of Micronesia, as 

well as holding engineering positions with the 

State of Cal and the City of Oakland. His position 

with Alaska Airlines will include design, 

construction, and maintenance of all 

company-owned or leased facilities. 

J Thomas Clark has been named president 

and chief executive officer of Syncom Intl, 

producer of synthetic foam products for offshore 

oil projects and plastic composite components. 

Wife Nancy (Williams) '62 is expanding 

her Nancy W Clark Interiors in the 

Hartford area, doing many commercial and 

space-planning projects. Myra Sobelsohn 

Boxer has been promoted to the position of 

market manager at AT&T Information Systems 

Inc and is now working at corporate 

headquarters in Morristown, NJ, rather than 

in NYC. 

Check the Apr issue of Glamour magazine 

to see the remodeled Chicago, 111, residence 

of architect Michael B Rosen and wife Lee 

Haupt. Kathleen McKeegan Vittum writes 

she remarried in July and that condo living is 

the best! Son Robert, 16, flies airplanes, 

while daughter Colleen, 13, is a dancer. Kathleen's 

mother still lives in Ithaca, so she sees 

Cornell and "its wonderful changes often." 

Laurence LeVine, a sales executive for a 

Chicago, 111, printing firm, has returned to 

Cornell for the last 3 yrs for the 150s Reunion 

football game. Larry, Nancy, Chris, 13, 

Caren, 10, and Joseph, 4, are very active in 

Scouts and camping. They own an island in 

the Georgian Bay area. 

Recently you have received flyers from 

Adult U (CAU) Ellen Tremper Wayne, Dorothy 

Ross, and Valerie Shantz Cole all attended 

last summer. Valerie, part owner of a 


ballet school, returned to Adult U for "Horse 

Physiology." Susan, 13, and David, 10, attended 

the children's programs. Val "loved 

the way the campus looks without traffic— 

and the Arts Quad is looking better now that 

the new trees have some growth. Mary Don- 

Ion Hall was closed for a major remodeling. I 

worked there the 1st yr it was built! I could 

do the same . . ."On the trip to Cornell the 

Coles visited Bob Shyman, MD '63, wife 

Marcia, and children Sky and Val in their 

new home in Lexington, Ky. 

There are a number of '63 children now attending 

Cornell. Vivian Grilli King writes 

that son Jim '87 played freshman football 

and hopes to play varsity next fall. Daughter 

Jennifer is 17. Vivian had a fantastic year 

selling real estate in Ithaca—was awarded the 

Senior Knight of the Round Table, Gallery of 

Homes, award. Viv works for Dick Wilsen 

Real Estate. Valerie French's daughter Signe 

Allen '84 is about to graduate. "She's loved 

her years in Ithaca almost as much as I did; 

majored in theater, and plans on an acting career." 

Carolyn Gottlieb Meyer and Joe '62 

have a daughter Jennie '87 in Arts. Carolyn is 

the notorious "Lone Arranger," floral designer 

and party decorator, Rydal, Pa. Joe is 

an industrial real estate broker. They spent 

Christmas visiting Don Sladkin '62 and his 

family in Wash, DC. 

Also in the arts is Mary Margaret Thompson 

Hansen, who is working on a photo collage 

and montage for a show in the spring. Of 

her daughters, Mary Margaret writes, Caroline, 

16, is driving, (Hard to believe!); Jeanne 

is 13, and Mary, 9Vi. Madeleine Leston Meehan 

writes, "Exhibition schedule this yr includes 

paintings and drawings of mostly musicians 

at the Romany Kramoiis Gallery in 

Sag Harbor, opening June 16, as well as Sobo's 

in W Hempstead and Westhampton 

Beach. Come visit my new studio when 

you're in the Hamptons; telephone (516) 

324-0604. Erica Simms Forester is a lecturer 

on the history of the decorative arts at Parsons 

School of Design. Husband Bruce, a 

psychiatrist, has a 2nd novel, Signs ά Omens, 

being published by Dodd Mead, to come out 

this fall. Son Brent spent last summer in Chile 

with AFS, probably to the delight of siblings 

Robin, 17, and Russel, 10. Erica recently saw 

roommate Neil Ann Stuckey Levine and family 

in Princeton, NJ. 

Under interesting careers we have Nancy 

Blanford, as senior controller, special events, 

politics, for ABC News. Emily Dowmaux 

Newel writes, "Ed '62 and I, along with Lisa, 

18, Randy, 16, and excellent hired help, operate 

a 200-cow dairy in Western NY (registered 

Holsteins). Ed is a delegate in our dairy coop. 

. . . We farm 850 acres. Emily is still active in 

Scouting—34 yrs, a registered member. 

Dee Abbott, 236 Puritan Rd, Fairfield, Conn 

06430. 

64 One Month To Go 

A lot of you have said it doesn't seem like 20 

yrs. I agree! But next month a lot of us will 

celebrate, anyway. Hope you'll be there, too. 

A few more Reunion plans have been firmed 

up since the most recent letter: We'll be 

housed in the Gothic, stone Baker Dorms 

that stretch along the foot of the Libe Slope. 

Our welcoming event, on Fri night, will be a 

barbecue on the Arts Quad, with a blue grass 

band playing on the steps of Goldwin Smith 

Hall—look for the big red and white tent. 

After the class banquet, Sat evening, we'll 

have a "for real" fraternity party at Sigma 

Chi, with a live band playing music of the 

'60s as well as currently popular music. All 

Reunion events call for casual dress, except 

the cocktail party and banquet on Sat. 

Add 10 more to the Mar Reunion mailing's 

list of attendees: Martin Amdur, 28 Meadow 

Rd, Scarsdale; John Hall, Sherrie John Manor, 

Mechanicsburg, Pa; Anita Apeseche Heller, 

20 Lorraine Dr, Eastchester, with Bill, 

LLB '63; Gary Miller, 4024 Marietta Dr, 

Binghamton, with Madeline; Alan Berkeley, 

3800 Raymond St, Chevy Chase, Md; Mark 

Colman, an attorney, 1510 Kew Ave, Hewlett; 

David Fischer, a psychiatrist, 10,000 

Iron Gate Rd, Potomac, Md; Tom Peters, 

our featured speaker, 355 Fulton, Palo Alto, 

Cal; Mike Strick, a vice president, finance, 

with Nancy, 118 Clairhaven Dr, Hudson, 

Ohio; and Wayne Mezitt, a nurseryman, 25 

Phipps St, Hopkinton, Mass, who switched 

from a "hopeful" to a "yes." 

For the last 2 yrs, attorney Martin Amdur 

has been co-chairman of the foreign activities 

of US taxpayers committee of the tax section 

of NY State Bar Assn. John and Sherrie Hall 

and their 6 children hope all Cornellians visiting 

southern NJ, Cape May County, or Stone 

Harbor will stop by boat or car at Stone Harbor 

Marina on the Inland Waterway; they recently 

acquired it for renovation and expansion. 

For 3 yrs after graduation, Anita Heller 

taught home ec in the NYC area, but after her 

son was born in '73, she switched to a career 

as an artist, studying at Art Student League 

in NYC. Anita is also an A-level tennis 

player—a ringer in our Reunion tournament? 

And, add 4 more to the list of classmates 

hoping to attend Reunion: Bill Dunbar, 4215 

Cresta Ave, Santa Barbara, Cal; Ed Goodman, 

6133 Deloache, Dallas, Texas; Carl 

Johnston, c/o Johnston Capital Management 

(a financial planning and consulting firm), 

10020 N DeAnza Blvd, Cupertino, Cal; and 

Jim Loomis, 1902 Oakwood Ave, Bloomington, 

111. 

By day, Bill Dunbar is a knee surgeon, involved 

in patient care, primary research, and 

instrument design. By night (and weekends), 

he actively pursues instrument flight all over 

the country and tries to lower his 8-handicap 

in golf. An MD, also, Ed Goodman is a consultant 

in infectious diseases at Presbyterian 

Hospital and is associate director, internal 

medicine residency. Last summer, Ed, Rona, 

and their 2 children spent 2 ι Λ wks touring 

Europe. 

Six classmates reported new addresses: 

James Schneithorst, a within-city move to 5 

Squires La, St Louis, Mo; Lynn Steger Gleason, 

from NYC to RD 1, Box 523, Red 

Hook; Jack Sigovich, a regional manager 

with Raychem Corp, from Toronto, Ont, 

Canada to 737-64 Hannam-Dong, Yongsan- 

Ku, Seoul, Korea; Timothy Davis, from Mexico 

to Apartado 6559, Caracas 1010A, Venezuela; 

John Foote, from Hawaii to Hotel 

New Otani Singapore, 177A River Valley Rd, 

Singapore, Malaysia; and Seth Levine, from 

Houston, Texas, to the NYC area. 

After 4 yrs in Chase Mexico, Tim Davis 

now is country manager for Chase Manhattan 

Bank in Venezuela. He expects his new 

work to be "more of the same" (ie, restructuring/rescheduling 

debt)—"very frustrating 

but interesting, professionally." John 

Foote's move was to his new position as general 

manager of the above-mentioned hotel; 

he had managed Otani's hotel in Kaimana 

Beach. 

Last Dec, Seth Levine became vice president, 

operations, for Air LaCarte, airline catering 

subsidiary of ARA Services, located at 

JFK Airport. Fortunately, wife Kathy (who 

Seth says is "the greatest gal in the world") 

got a transfer to NYC. When they send me 

their new address, I'll pass it on. 

Congrats to 2 classmates on their recent 

marriages: John Sterba and Mary Ellen (wed

in Mar) will live at 980 5th Ave, Penthouse, 

NYC; and Thorn Chirurg and Lynn Louise 

(wed in Sept) will live at his house at 2115 

Bush, San Francisco, Cal. Thorn is lead partner 

at Protasis Trust Ltd, handling closedend 

currency arbitrage funds. 

And, to prove we're still young, congrats 

to 3 classmates on the births of new children: 

Richard Davis's 2nd daughter was born in 

Nov '81 (Richard, an electrical engineer, and 

family are still at 9650 S Tropical Trail, Merritt 

Isl, Fla); last Sept, Lloyd and Barbara 

Gastwirth had their 2nd son. (In the fall of 

'81, they had moved to Dallas, Tex, where 

Lloyd quickly got a job heading up the handling 

of litigation in Braniff's legal dept. Four 

months later, Braniff went bankrupt so he 

started his own private law practice. The 

Gastwirths, definitely fans of the Dallas area, 

live at 2203 Victoria La, Richardson.) And, 

last Dec, Allan and Karen Sommer Schoff's 

2nd child (his 1st) was born. (Still at 3007 

11th St, Santa Monica, Cal, Karen has given 

up social work to become a life and disability 

insurance agent. She saw Toby Rice Goldberg 

last Feb and reports "she looks great." Karen 

hopes classmates will call and visit her when 

in the Los Angeles area—for the Olympics 

maybe?—'cause she can't make it to Reunion.) 

With other timely news, attorney Don Allen, 

1911 37th St, NW, Wash, DC, reports 

that daughter Signe A '84 graduates from the 

Arts this month. (Signe is also the daughter 

of Valerie French '63.) Don's comment: 

"Now, how old do you feel?" Thanks, Don! 

Being down at Princeton U on a writer's 

grant for the '83-84 academic yr has shortened 

Lenore Weitzman's trip to Reunion; 

she's normally a Californian. 

The entrepreneurial bug bit 2 more classmates 

in the last yr. In NYC, Donna Pond, 51 

Barrow St, started a firm which develops and 

presents training programs to support automated 

systems and project management 

methods. She has to travel a lot, but finds the 

work rewarding and fun. Farther south, Herb 

Zukerman, 4057 Richardson Rd, Virginia 

Beach, Va, started his own CPA firm in Norfolk. 

Keep the News & Dues coming. We hope to 

see you, June 7-10, in Ithaca! Bev Johns 

Lamont, 720 Chestnut St, Deerfield, 111 

60015. 

65 Let's Party 

Would you enjoy an opportunity to meet 

your '65 classmates again? To renew old 

friendships, laugh, sing, and talk about the 

fun (and work) you had on the Hill almost 20 

yrs ago? To greet your old pinmate, your old 

roommate, and introduce your family to your 

Cornell friends? Plenty of chances for fun, 

here! 

Our 20th Reunion will be held on campus 

June 13-16, '85. The weather at Reunion has 

(almost) always been faithfully fine. There 

are beer tents on lawns, on-campus rooms, 

banquets at the Statler, Glee Club walking 

concerts, and good old friends to meet again, 

which is always the best part! 

Many classes enjoy setting up regional 

mini-reunions prior to regular Reunion yrs. 

Classmates in various locations can get together 

on a local, unofficial basis to enjoy old 

times. These gatherings can be as simple as a 

Mon or Fri happy hour, for example, or as 

extensive as a beach-cabin or ski-lodge weekend. 

Jim Venetos and Stephanie Schus, arrangers 

of the '80 and '85 Reunions, would be 

pleased to hear from and work with any classmate 

who would enjoy setting up a regional 

mini-reunion prior to the big 20th in '85. 

Here is part of a note Jim sent me: 'On Sat 

evening, Feb 4, '84, many members of the 

Class of '65 gathered at the home of Ed and 

Jane Schwartz for Ed's 40th birthday party. 

Among the folks were Jon Stryker, Bob 

Kheel, Roger Hayes, Ron Fox, John Lowens, 

Harold Bank (from Wash, DC), Ed, Jane, 

and myself. It made me realize the 20th Reunion 

is just a little over a yr away. Those of us 

who were at our 15th Reunion will long remember 

the Class of '65 rock and roll party 

at Chi Psi Lodge on Sat night, after the Statler 

banquet. 

'Therefore I would like to send a request 

for area Reunion coordinators. Stephanie 

and I will work with NYC and environs, and 

it would be wonderful to have coordinators in 

places like Boston, Mass, Chicago, 111, Minneapolis-St 

Paul, Minn, Fla, DC, Houston 

and Dallas, Texas, Denver, Colo, Los Angeles 

and San Francisco, Cal, Seattle, Wash 

—anywhere there is a concentration of '65 

people. Volunteers or anyone interested, 

please contact Jim Venetos at (212) 702-7166 

or (800) 255-0560." 

Fun like this is easy to put together. We can 

help with phone numbers. Give Jim a call, 

won't you? Scot Mac Ewan, 2065 NW 

Flanders, Portland, Ore 97209. 

66 Focus on Careers 

Michael Kalafer is associate director of pulmonary 

and critical care medicine at Sharp 

Memorial and Sharp Cabrillo Hospitals in 

San Diego, Cal. He is also assistant clinical 

professor of medicine, U of Cal, San Diego. 

Michael lives at 2444 Via Aprilia, Del Mar, 

Cal. William and Barbara Kilberg and children 

Jonathan, 8, Sarah, 6, Gillian, 4!/2, and 

Cameron, 3Vi, live at 6703 Wemberly Way, 

McLean, Va. Bill is an attorney and partner 

at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He saw Richard 

Sigel last spring in San Francisco, Cal, and 

writes that Richard and wife Rachel have 2 

lovely children and that Richard has a very 

successful medical practice there. 

Richard and Arizete Rosa Lockwood and 3 

soccer-playing sons—Danny, David, and Eric 

—are at 44 Blake St, Newton, Mass. Congratulations 

to the John MacDonough family 

on the birth of Stephen John MacDonough, 

born Feb 25, '83. The MacDonoughs live at 1 

Busch PI, St Louis, Mo. Stuart Peterfreund 

writes that he is a tenured associate professor, 

Dept of English, Northeastern U, Boston, 

Mass. Stu spent this past summer doing 

NEH-sponsored research at the Huntington 

Library, San Marino, Cal. Stu lives at 127 W 

Main St, Ayer, Mass. 

Bruce Bergman writes that he has been 

combining a number of careers at a rather 

torrid pace. He is an attorney and counsel to 

the Garden City firm of Jonas, Libert & 

Weinstein. As a specialist in real estate law, 

he just finished his 4th term as chairman of 

the real property law committee of the Nassau 

County Bar Assn. He has been lecturing 

on real estate law for the NY State Bar Assn, 

the Nassau Academy of Law, C W Post College, 

and others. He is currently adjunct assistant 

professor of real estate at the Real 

Estate Inst of NYU and recently published his 

34th legal article. In his spare time, Bruce is 

serving a 2nd term as a city councilman in 

Long Beach. Some of us remember Bruce's 

band, The Bravados, which played so many 

fraternity parties from '62-66. Although the 

group is no longer active, Bruce still performs 

at NY hotels, and his 2nd music book has just 

been published. All of this activity was picked 

up in articles written about Bruce in the NY 

Times (Long Isl Sunday section) and Legal 

Times of NY. The only problem, Bruce 

writes, is that he doesn't have much time to 

see wife Linda Cantor, daughter Jennifer, 10, 

and son Jason, 6. So we're recommending to 

him a peaceful wk in Ithaca during our next 

Reunion as a solution to all problems. The 

Bergman family, can be found at 457 East 

Pine St, Long Beach. 

Rick Borten has completed 3 yrs as director 

of the cable television development process 

for "the City of Boston, Mass. He recently 

started as chief executive officer of the Mass 

Corp for Educational Telecommunications (a 

state authority). Rick lives at 9 Clarke Rd, 

Swampscott. He says he has been working 

closely on municipal matters with Dick Bluestein 

'65 (ILR), recently. 

Congratulations to Stanley Falkenstein, 

who recently created a new law firm, Lessner, 

Castleman and Falkenstein, PC, Manchester, 

Conn. Stan and Lois, and children Kara, 6, 

and David, 17 months, live at 60-B Ambassador 

Dr, Manchester, Conn. Congratulations 

are also in order for Rolf Frantz, who, 

through the divestiture of the Bell System on 

Oct 1, accepted a position with Bell's central 

services organization. Rolf is living at 69 

Poplar Dr, Morris Plains, NJ. William H 

Blockton, 34 Maplewood St, Larchmont, NY 

10538. 

A group of class officers met in late Feb to assess 

our financial status and plan some pre- 

Reunion activities over the next 2 yrs. We 

hope to have some regional get-togethers with 

the classes of the mid-'60s. If you live in a 

metropolitan area with a lot of Cornellians 

and would like to be involved, please contact 

Ivan and Susan "Joey" Joseph Wolff, 165 

Laurel Hill Rd, Mt Lakes, NJ. 

Susan Maldon Stregack writes that she is 

still running her lucite gift business and is 

working part time for the Tasty Shirt Co. She 

is fulfilling a life-long ambition by taking tap 

dancing lessons and doing some amateur theater. 

Joe '63 has just completed a 2-yr term as 

president of the Cornell Club of Wash, DC, 

and is on the Univ Council. Their son Howard 

was bar-mitzvahed last Nov. He and his 

sister Sherry are continuing their acting in educational 

public TV and local dinner theater, 

respectively. The Stregacks are at 321 Soapstone 

Lane, Silver Spring, Md. 

Barbara McConnell Miller still directs a 

preschool for retarded children. She is also 

active in the Cornell Club of Charlotte, NC. 

Barbara and Jerry, a lawyer, live at 600 

Boyce Rd, Charlotte, NC, with lst-grader 

Brie and sophomore Zack. Susan Frame, 11 

E 88th St, NYC, has a summer home in E 

Hampton. She is in private practice in psychology 

and psychoanalysis, teaches at NYU, 

and has a poster art dealership. 

Mary Moore has become an independent 

education consultant. She left Educational 

Testing Service in order to have a more flexible 

time arrangement of home and job. She 

lives at 2335 King PI, NW, Wash, DC. 

MAY 1984

Dues, no news: Janice Ostroff Bernstein, 

1740 W Summit Ct, Deerfield, 111; Donna 

Amariglio, 96 5th Ave, NYC; Jean Pechuman 

Mclntyre, Rte 1, Box 1448, Waterville, 

Me; Diana Tozzi Adams, 9 Murray Ave, 

Mahwah, NJ; Stephanie Lane Rakofsky, 

12510 Ramiro St, Coral Gables, Fla; Kathryn 

Sladek Smith, 45 Grosvenor Rd, Short Hills, 

NJ; Helen Martindale Roberts, 621 Old 

Gulph Rd, Narberth, Pa. Susan Rockford 

Bittker, 424 Pea Pond Rd, Katonah, NY 

10536. 

67 Heffalumpers 

"My daughter Adrienne and I recently purchased 

a registered Black Angus heifer. We 

are halter training her and feeding her from a 

bucket," reports Lawrence E Ramsey, PO 

Box 220, Dickson, Tenn. "Next spring, Adrienne 

plans to show her in 4-H and breeder 

assn shows. We are having a lot of fun. We 

plan to raise a heifer each yr for the next several 

yrs, breed them back to a registered bull, 

and then sell the offspring. Over the next several 

yrs, by banking the proceeds, we should 

earn most of the money to send Adrienne to 

college (Class of '92). Therefore, we combine 

an enjoyable father-daughter project with a 

plan to pay her way through college. With inflation, 

tuition increases, and declining financial 

aid, you have to do something!" 

Ruth Chitlik Coan, 5430 E Idlewood Lane, 

NW, Atlanta, Ga, works "to keep frail elderly 

out of nursing homes by providing appropriate 

community care" as a health care consultant, 

while she also works with a real estate 

firm involved in historic property sale, development, 

and syndication, as well as aiming 

for a 2nd master's degree, in real estate science, 

of course. Husband Mark '65 and sons 

Brian, 9, and Seth, 6, are men in motion. 

Judith Maxsom Mueller, 1169 Revere Pt 

Rd, Virginia Beach, Va, is assistant director 

of public works, there. Philip Scheff, 5100 

Oakdale Ave, Woodland Hills, Cal, says, 

"Just completed construction of my 

40,000-sq-ft office building in Sherman 

Oaks." John L Scott, 52 Oak St, Laconia, 

NH, was recently promoted to NH office 

manager of Whitman & Howard Inc, engineers 

and architects, of Concord, NH, and 

made an associate of the firm. 

Larry Noble, 40 Prospect Park W, Brooklyn, 

was married last Aug 14 to the former 

Jean Kaskowitz (Brooklyn College '72). His 

brother Steve who directed Cornell's Intl Living 

Center, '72-74, was best man and others 

on hand for the festivities were Sam Fisch 

'21, Harold Fisch '54, Paul Noble '57, Lew 

Halpern, Chris Day, Ellen Epps Ludwig '77 

and Robert '77, and Michael Epps '79. Unable 

to attend, Bruce Berlin sent his best from 

Santa Fe, NM. 

Fred Clewell, 478 N Farrell Dr, Palm 

Springs, Cal, is controller of the Palm 

Springs Medical Center and saw Terry 

Hunter at the Cornell Soc of Hotelman dinner 

in LA last Nov. Diane Weinstein Green 

and Edward L built a house last yr at 1805 

Shelor La, Blacksburg, Va—to correct a recent 

hokey item that put them elsewhere. 

Robert Y Huang, 7302 Scarborough St, 

Springfield, Va, reports arrival of daughter 

Sarah Grace last Aug 24. Max and Laurie 

Frank Krotman, 20 Park Ave, Port Washington, 

had a son, Adam Samuel, last Oct 12, 

and still manage rock bands and nightclubs. 

Their suggestion: ' 'Don't have your 1st baby 

until you're 38!" Natalie Kononenko Moyle, 

2224 Greenbrier Dr, Charlottesville, Va, married 

Peter W Holloway last July. 

"I got a divorce, shot an elk, did a 225-mile 

weekend bike ride and a 41-mile triathalon, 

skiied Telemark at Snowbird, and now am re- 


Who is this couple? Win a prize if you 

know. (See '68 column for details.) 

cuperating," writes Stephen F Johnson, 107 

Ben Hogan, Missoula, Mont. Class Veep 

Sherry Carr, 504 Bethan Rd, Elkins Park, 

Pa, advises that she transferred to Mobil's 

Valley Forge office and bought a house last 

Nov. 

Lots of News & Dues forms have arrived, 

for which my thanks, but don't fret if it takes 

a few months to get this all in print. Janet 

Cameron Barbera, 7 Tall Oak Dr, Huntington, 

teaches high school math, takes computer 

courses, saw Nancy Payne at her high 

school reunion, and met Jane Capellupo for 

lunch at P J Clarke's. Marty Pearlmutter 

Paltzik, 34 Whitney Lane, Brookville welcomed 

son Daniel in Jan. 

Beverly Beisner Noia, 156 Deerhaven Dr, 

Bailey, Colo, has been chairman of the English 

dept at Graland Country Day School for 

the past 7 yrs and last yr was on leave doing 

research in moral education as a Klingenstein 

fellow at Columbia U Teacher's College. She 

spent the summers of '80 and '81 in India doing 

relief work in Calcutta, reports seeing 

Debby Fein, who was doing research at Denver 

U Med Center: "She's brilliant as ever." 

Comment: "Mostly having a love/hate affair 

with supporting an otherwise starving husband/writer 

until the publishing world discovers 

him!" 

Carol Polakoff Hall, 10E Sturbridge Dr, 

Piscataway, NJ, recently returned to teaching 

after a 5-yr hiatus "raising my 2 daughters, 

Kylee, 4 1 /2, and Megan, 6. I work with perceptually 

impaired teenagers in a regular middle 

school setting. Jeff is now flying the 

A-300 airbus for Eastern out of all 3 NY airports." 

Nicholas W Kaufmann, 21 Innes Rd, 

Scarsdale, has "been busy coaching school 

soccer teams of daughters Elizabeth, 10, and 

Julie, 7, while they reciprocate by teaching 

me computer programming they learned at 

school. Ophthalmologist wife, Cheryl (Katz) 

'68 and son Brian, 2, participate in both activities 

when the mood strikes them." 

Richard B Hoffman, 2925 28th St, NW, 

Wash, DC 20008. 

68 Win a Prize! 

This month's column starts off with a contest! 

Identify the couple shown in the photo 

and win a prize! While this couple may look 

exactly like Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, 

in fact they are both members of the Class of 

'68, dressed as the famous pair at a masquer- 

ade party held last yr. A Dolly Parton record 

will be awarded to the 1st person sending me 

a letter identifying the couple. Please note: all 

those present at the party in question, as well 

as employes of Alumni News, Class of '68 officers, 

members of their families, and corporations 

controlled by any such persons are ineligible 

to participate in this contest. This 

contest is void in all states where prohibited 

by law. 

Returning to class news, President Jim 

Montanari recently sent out the annual request 

for class dues. If your check is not already 

in the mail, we hope it will be soon. 

Please do not forget to include some information 

about yourself for the column. 

Robert Collicott lives in Longmont, Colo. 

A note from Martha Debrine Hughes reports 

she is living in Norcross, Ga. Another Southerner 

is Lynn Rockcastle Thye, in Blacksburg, 

Va. Prince Bright O L Akiri reported 

from Nigeria that his occupation was as 

chairman of the ag advisory board in Rivers 

State, Nigeria, and he could be reached c/o 

Dept of Biological Sciences, U of Science and 

Technology, Port Harcourt, Rivers, Nigeria. 

Jack Bruso is a financial planner and lives 

in Phoenix, Ariz. A note from Bruce Carlson 

reports he is a product manager with the Du- 

Pont Co in Wilmington, Del. Bruce reports 

having seen Charlie Johnson and Bob Smith. 

Steven Charno lives in Great Neck, and is a 

physician. Douglas Dworkin is in NYC. 

Emily Perlinski Friedman reports from Los 

Angeles, Cal, that she has made the transition 

from academia, where she was an associate 

professor of computer science at UCLA, to 

management, at Hughes Aircraft Co. Emily 

and Charles and their new daughter Sarah 

live in LA. Gail Florian lives in Gladstone, 

Ore, where she is with a bank. Sandra Rappaport 

Fiske lives in Syracuse, where she is a 

practicing psychologist and professor of psychology. 

Charles Gant reports from Anchorage, 

Alaska, that he is~an economist, specializing 

in computer applications for business. 

John Belknap lives in Greenwich, Conn, and 

is in charge of financial operations at Kay 

Corp. A note from Madeline Amreich Bauer 

reports she is planning on getting a job or going 

back to tarnegie Mellon U to finish her 

PhD in computer science. (The note was a yr 

ago; by now she may have received her degree.) 

Thomas Billard reported he was with Citibank 

Student Loan Center, Fairport. Tom reports 

having obtained an MBA in Syracuse. 

Joseph Gschwendtner has become a corporate 

treasurer with Fox Meyer in Aurora, 

Colo. Karolyn Kinsinger Mangeot reports she 

lives in Big Stone Gap, Va, where she is public 

relations officer at Mountain Empire 

Community College. She has been in touch 

with Catherine A Owen, who is a public 

health doctor in Cal. Karolyn's husband 

Richard is manager of consulting and technology 

with Westmoreland Coal Co. David 

McAleavey is an assistant professor of English. 

(Where?) 

,Enjoy the spring! Gordon H Silver, 

Choate, Hall & Stewart, 60 State St, Boston, 

Mass 02109. 

69 loin Us! 

Reunion plans are rushing toward their inevitable 

conclusion—Reunion Weekend in Ithaca, 

June 8-10. By now you should have received 

a letter detailing Reunion events and a 

reservation form. If you haven't sent it in yet, 

please do so soon. Bob Potter, Reunion 

chairman, tells me we will have our own tent, 

and that we have booked Bobby Comstock 

for 2 evenings. Bring back memories? At this 

writing, at least 200 people have expressed an

interest in attending. Among them is Etienne 

Merle, who is "still in Ithaca at L'Auberge 

[restaurant], waiting for the Reunion with 

champagne." Craig Tufts, administrator/ 

educator/writer/wildlife biologist from Sterling, 

Va, who found the 10th Reunion "unexpectedly 

enjoyable" will be organizing a birdwalk 

for you early risers. 

Other news comes from Ronald S Baldwin, 

who is out of the Army and is special equipment 

engineer supervisor with Branson Ultrasonic 

Cleaning Equipment Co in Shelton, 

Conn. Maj Myron Bilyj earned his master's 

degree in management engineering while assigned 

to the military science dept at Rensselaer 

Polytechnic Inst in Troy. He was recently 

transferred to headquarters, European command, 

in Stuttgart, W Germany. George M 

Silverman is still in the Navy and is being 

transferred to the Naval Air Test Center to 

take over the mission systems test branch 

head job. George writes that some time ago 

this column erroneously reported that his 

daughter Anne was adopted. Our sincere 

apologies for the error. 

Kristelle Krack Taylor is in Columbia, SC, 

where she "has become attached to the slippery 

success of a marketing career with 

Southern Bell." It looks like Kris will be vacationing 

in Europe, as husband Dave is off 

to Germany as post commander in Bamberg, 

W Germany. Becky Faith Bever and her husband 

are "still enjoying the Navy and community 

life in Key West, Fla, and hope to remain 

in the area another yr." 

James G Miller writes from Syracuse that 

after 10 yrs of teaching at Roosevelt Jr High 

he is now teaching at the occupational learning 

center, Nottingham High School. Paul B 

Wigsten Jr moved to Seneca Falls and is manager 

of internal control for Philips ECG Inc. 

In '82 he began work on an MBA at Syracuse 

U. Dexter Wang is in Concord, Mass, with a 

3rd child and a new addition to his house, as 

well. His company provided an instrument 

that was flown on the 4th space shuttle flight. 

Ann H Sullivan returned to Ithaca and is a librarian 

at Tompkins-Cortland Community 

College in Dry den. She received her MLS 

from U of Cal, Berkeley, in "76. Art Nilsen 

and family moved to Birmingham, Ala, 

where Art is currently attending Cumberland 

School of Law. Ildiko Czmor DeFrancesco 

has moved with her daughter Sara, 5, to 

Binghamton. Ildiko is working part-time as 

an outreach social worker, helping troubled 

teens and their families. She writes: "I would 

love to hear from Cornellians in my area because 

although this is my 'home town' many 

people have moved, things have changed, and 

I would like to meet new friends. Please 

call." (Box 177, Kolb Rd, RD #5, Binghamton; 

telephone, (607) 729-0754.) 

Robert Pegan is transferring to Ferney- 

Voltaire, France, as engineering manager for 

Digital Equipment Corp. Richard M Nalevanko 

is taking over as president of Mobil 

Oil's crude oil sales company in Tokyo, 

Japan, and is transferring there for a few yrs. 

Richard W Oliver, director, marketing communication, 

for Northern Telecom Inc, is 

hosting a 15-yr old exchange student from 

Sweden, in Nashville, Tenn. 

News from the Fla contingent: Seth Bramson, 

of Miami Shores, was named general 

manager of the Playboy Club in Miami last 

yr. In Sept, the Miami Herald ran a 2-pg feature 

on the rejuvenation of the club since Seth 

took over as manager. Seth has also been 

named vice president and member of the 

board of the Cornell Club of Greater Miami. 

Suzanne Sacks Zeide, in W Palm Beach, is 

also active in alumni affairs. She is chairman 

of the Southcentral Eastern Fla region Secondary 

Schools Committee. Suzanne is also 

president of Palm Beach Educational Seminars 

Inc. Douglas Yoder and his wife returned 

to Ithaca from Coral Gables during 

Homecoming last fall. "Despite some obvious 

changes, such as the imaginative addition 

to Uris Library, the campus retains its special 

charm. Snow in early Nov, however, was a 

bit shocking to those of us now accustomed 

to Fla winters." Another admirer of Fla 

weather is Michael J Freeman, who is practicing 

law in Coral Gables. Michael is a sole 

practitioner specializing in real estate, probate, 

and foreign investment work. Michael 

A C Strauss writes that he is still single after a 

divorce 10 yrs ago. He is a senior account executive 

for Merrill Lynch in Miami. 

Another Ithaca returnee was Robert A 

Ganz, who recently moved to Houston, Texas, 

to become logistics planner/market research 

planner in the Olefin dept of Exxon 

Chemical America. He went back to Ithaca as 

a campus recruiter for Exxon. "The campus 

was in its beautiful fall colors ... the engineers 

I met were as bright as ever. Through 

the co-op program, these engineers have a 

good industrial base to make a solid career 

decision. I don't recall my classmates and me 

as having been quite so knowledgeable. Also, 

the magnitude of extracurricular activity was 

a surprise—varsity sports and community 

service, included. A super trip—interesting 

how I've kept an emotional tie to Ithaca." 

Kate Jorow is in Somerville, Mass, where 

she is now sole owner of Reynolds Jurow Associates 

Inc, a rapidly growing training/tech 

writing business. Robert Tollini, in W 

Bloomfield, Mich, founded Educational 

Video Inc, a company that will produce and 

market original video programming. Philip L 

Pollack is still freelancing in software design 

and programming in Richmond, Va. He 

spent several months last yr in Nigeria on a 

project funded by the World Bank. He sees 

Mark Birnbaum regularly. Mark, a computer 

scientist with Phoenix Associates in Bethesda, 

Md, spent a yr in Beijins, China, on a UN 

project. Phil continues to compete actively in 

disc sports and has met many fellow alums 

that way. Mervin "Van" Rhonheimer is in 

Maplewood, NJ, where he is manager of 

marketing services for Airco Industrial 

Gases. John L Gross has taken a new position 

as research engineer at the National Bureau 

of Standards and is moving into a new home 

in Bethesda, Md. Richard Greenberg has 

been working for City of Buffalo with responsibility 

for data processing and economic 

analysis. He had an article on the measurement 

of technical change published in the 

Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 

Centenary Publishing House Ltd, Kampala, 

Uganda, announced the publication of 

Pastor by the Rev Peter Larom, an Episcopal 

missionary at the Bishop Tucker Theological 

College in Mukono, Uganda. Pastor is a 

practical handbook for newly-trained clergy 

in E African parishes. The Rev Larom, who 

received an STB degree from General Theological 

Seminary in '72, recently returned to 

Uganda with his wife and 2 children after a 

short leave in NY. Joan Sullivan, 70 W 

Burton PI, #1901, Chicago, 111 60610. 

70 Posted in 1984! 

Frances Thompson, 4525 Henry Hudson 

Pkwy, Apt 802, Riverdale, loves her job as a 

teacher in NYC. She enjoys tennis, ice skating, 

arts and crafts, and crocheting. Frances 

says, "I'm glad I made it into 1984 with all 

my marbles." I imagine that there are lots of 

us that feel the same way, Frances! Linda and 

Thomas Newman live at 31 Pine Knoll Dr, 

Lawrenceville, NJ, with their son Bryan, 4. 

Since '81, Thomas has been employed by a 

pharmaceutical corporation in the medical research 

dept. He claims that the hrs are much 

better than in his "former life" as a pediatrician! 

Tom '69 and Jean Myers Smith, 219 

Southview Rd, Baltimore, Md, have 2 daughters: 

Jennifer and Emily, who was born in 

Sept '82. Jean has been working part-time for 

the U of Md Med School under a 2-yr grant 

to foster nutrition education of medical students. 

Her appointment is in the GI division 

of the Dept of Medicine, where she is an instructor 

doing some teaching and coordinating 

of nutrition-related projects, guest speakers, 

etc. The Smiths plan to go to Tom's 15th 

Reunion in June and may be back to Ithaca in 

'85 for our 15th! 

Roger Herman, 62 Sabina Terr, Freehold, 

NJ, had been in a supervisory position at Bell 

Labs until the split-up of the Bell System in 

Jan. He is now district manager in the "Central 

Service Organization." In the past yr, 

Roger has traveled to Maui, Hawaii; Appledore 

Isl, location of Shoals Marine Lab, 

where he spent a wk learning about marine 

mammals; and to Orlando, Fla, to Epcot. He 

highly recommends Appledore and Epcot. 

Roger has been an active alum—interviewing 

with the Secondary Schools Committee, treasurer 

of the Cornell Soc of Engineers, cochair 

for the NY Cornell Phonathon, as well 

as recruiting at Cornell for the Central Services 

Organization. He keeps in touch with 

Henry Weber and his wife Toby. Dick Bertrand, 

13555 Seneca Pkwy, Big Rapids, 

Mich, continues to enjoy west-central Mich 

and his head hockey coach position at Ferris 

State College. Winston Gaylor, 822 Candlewood 

Dr, Cupertino, Cal, recently left TRW 

and started his own engineering writing and 

consulting business. His 1st book, The Apple 

II Circuit Description, has been published by 

Howard Sams and Co. 

Recently, Philip Engler, 1107 Ford Rd, 

Lynhurst, Ohio, was promoted to group leader, 

material physics, at the Sohio Research 

Center. Gerald and Susan Simon Lotierzo, 24 

Dexter Pkwy, Baldwinsville, have a daughter 

Lynn Simon Lotierzo, born Nov 29, '83. At 

the end of Jan, Susan returned to her job at 

Liverpool High School, where they are both 

counselors. In July '83, they bought a cabin 

on Otter Lake near Old Forge in the Adirondacks. 

They enjoy their retreat all yr around 

with hiking, swimming, canoeing, and crosscountry 

skiing. Sally Margolick Winston, 507 

E 39th St, Baltimore, Md, has a daughter 

Carla, 2, who welcomed twin sisters into the 

world on Nov 16, '83. Both Molly and Maggie 

weighed IVτ lbs! Congratulations. Sally 

continues to work at Sheppard-Pratt Hospital 

and has opened a small private practice 

near her home. Hank Brittingham, 13 Essex 

Dr, Lewes, Del, reports that he won a wk's 

trip to Hawaii in Feb '83. James Collins, 56 

Elm St, Worcester, Mass, still works as vice 

president for administration and finance at 

Clark U. Jim visits frequently with Frank 

Santa-Donato and Stephen Hirst for golf and 

skiing. Have a great summer! Connie Ferris 

Meyer, 16 James Thomas Rd, Malvern, 

Pa 19355. 

72 Any Delegates? 

I hope those of you who live in the Midwest 

and Northeast have finally recovered from 

the snow and ice of this past winter. One positive 

note from the recent winter was the play 

of the Cornell basketball team, which came 

within a game of the Ivy League title. This 

undersized former point guard would like to 

extend his personal congratulations to the 

team. 

Bruce McGeoch and wife Cyndy are helping 

their daughter Lauren celebrate her 2nd 

MAY 1984 55

irthday. Bruce works for International Images, 

a "start-up" firm in the Boston, Mass, 

area. Bruce is active in the Cornell Club of 

Boston and reports that he spends most of his 

free time cutting wood for his woodstove. 

Cyndy is successful in the insurance business, 

having recently qualified for an all-expensepaid 

trip to Montreal, PQ, Canada. 

F Michael Barrett has been named director 

of food and beverage for the Holiday Inn 

Crowne Plaza in Stamford, Conn. Michael 

started his career as director of operations for 

a family-owned restaurant business in the 

Boston area before joining Holiday Inns Inc 

as food and beverage director for the Georgetown 

Holiday Inn, Wash, DC. Michael was a 

regional food and beverage director for Holiday 

Inn before accepting the position in 

Stamford, where he now resides. 

Happy birthday to Alaine Hallabrin who 

was 1 on Mar 22. Alaine is the daughter of 

my freshman roommate Scott Hallabrin and 

spouse Rona Levine. Speaking of birthdays, 

my daughter Kelly celebrated her 4th on Mar 

11. Judy and I treated Kelly and a few friends 

to a day at Marine World Africa, USA. Kelly 

even persuaded her dad to take her for a ride 

on an elephant. 

Kathleen Doorish Hammond was appointed 

director of marketing for Hammond 

Inc, a publisher of maps, atlases, and other 

educational reference materials. In addition 

to all sales divisions, the advertising, promotion 

and public relations depts will report to 

her. Kathleen previously held a series of advertising 

sales management positions during a 

6-yr tenure with The NY Times. She was The 

Times'*s suburban advertising manager until 

Sept '82, when she joined Hammond as director 

of corporate development, responsible for 

strategic planning. Kathleen and husband 

Dean, a sr vice president of Hammond Inc, 

live in Maplewood, NJ, with their sons Joshua 

and Connor. 

Gerry Roehm '69, BS Ag '72, had an active 

'83. He and wife Sharon vacationed in Puerta 

Vallarta, Mexico, where the water did not 

bother them, but the margaritas were deadly. 

Gerry and some co-workers from the Dept of 

Interior in NM got an "up-close and personal" 

look at the San Francisco River with a 

30-mile raft trip from Glenwood, NM, to 

Clifton, Ariz. Bill Schulz and family recently 

visited his grandparents in Austin, Texas, 

home of the U of Texas. While touring the 

campus, Wes spotted the Hiesman Trophy 

won by Earl Campbell. Wes expressed the 

opinion that the '71 Heisman Trophy should 

be in Schoellkopf with Ed Marίnaro's name 

on jt. I agree! 

If any of you are going to be delegates to 

either of the presidential conventions this 

summer, I would like to give you the appropriate 

recognition. Any delegates to the Democratic 

Convention in July in San Francisco, 

Cal, are welcome to give me a phone call at 

341-1714 or 877-7113 when you are in town. 

The cable cars should be in operation in time 

for the convention. Best wishes. Alexander 

Barna, 3410 Branson Dr, San Mateo, Cal 

94403. 

73 Eng-Physics Update 

Jim Kaye, here, this month. George M Solan 

passed on some information concerning the 

engineering physics classmates with whom 

he's still in touch. George, who went on to 

graduate study at MIT in nuclear engineering, 

now does reactor physics work at Yankee 

Atomic Electric Co in Framingham, Mass. Al 

Janos also did graduate work at MIT, earning 

a PhD in high energy physics. He now 

teaches and performs research at Princeton. 

Al and wife Pat (Ithaca College) have 2 sons, 


Brian Alanson and Christopher Michael, 2 ι 

Λ 

and 5 months (when Solan reported). Larry 

Postal, who remained at Cornell to study 

law, now practices in the Wash, DC, area. 

Pete Green, who earned a PhD in applied 

physics at Harvard, designed that university's 

new track surface. Solan caught Pete on Boston, 

Mass, television, explaining it. Pete's 

now at Johns Hopkins U. 

Richard Fincher, who graduated from De- 

Paul U College of Law in Chicago, 111 in '82, 

married Mary Jeanne Bates on Nov 19, '83, 

at Avon. Richard and Mary now reside in 

Chicago. Bill and Lauren Tozek Cowdery 

'72, of Keuka Park, are connected with Keuka 

College—Lauren as an assistant professor 

of English; Bill as a part-time teacher, while 

he continues working on a PhD in musicology 

at Cornell. Bill spent last yr on a Fulbright 

scholarship at Oxford U, studying musicology. 

Elaine Anderson Phillips is also 

teaching, while continuing her studies. Elaine 

teaches psych part-time at Pinebrook Jr College, 

while in her 3rd yr of a 6- to 7-yr doctoral 

program in rabbinics at The Dropsie College 

for Hebrew and Cognate Learning. 

Classmates continue to report the birth of 

future Cornellians. Mark and Jutta Bromberg, 

Toronto, Ont, Canada, welcomed their 

1st, Michael Jon, on Aug 22, '83. Larry Dunham 

of Rochester reports the birth of his 1st, 

Michael L Lawrence, on Nov 10, '83. Allan 

and Suzanne Epstein of Fremont, Cal, write 

that their son Aaron Justin was born on July 

24, '83. Richard B Schrafel and Carol Finlay 

'72 advised us that their 2nd son, Douglas 

Morgan, was born on Aug 5, '83, joining Andrew, 

2 ι Λ. Richard, active in local government, 

is a village trustee of the Incorporated 

Village of Bellerose an| serves on the volunteer 

fire dept. Carol Fox Hantman and Dr 

Stuart '71 write that in Apr '83 they, son 

Marc, born Jan '83, and daughter Missy, 4, 

moved to Coral Springs, Fla. Stu is a radiologist 

at Fla Medical Center in Ft Lauderdale, 

and Carol enjoys their children at home. Another 

classmate reporting the birth of a 2nd 

child is Steven Moss, whose daughter Stephanie 

Ann was born on Sept 8, '83. Steven's 

son Daniel Matthew was 2 when Stephanie 

arrived. 

The NYU Law Alumni of NJ recently honored 

their immediate past-president Roger B 

Jacobs, Esq, for his efforts in founding the 

group. Roger, now president, emeritus, of 

that group, and assistant secretary of our 

class, practices labor law representing management, 

and is also on the board of directors 

of NYU Law Alumni Assn, chairman of the 

Cornell ILR Alumni of NY, on NYU Law 

School's adjunct faculty, a labor law columnist 

for the National Law Journal, and on the 

board of directors of the Federation of YM- 

YWHAs of NJ. 

You'll hear from Phyllis Haight Grummon, 

next month. James H Kaye, 60 

Remsen St, 7G, Brooklyn, NY 11201; also, 

Phyllis Haight Grummon, 1820 Chandler, 

Ann Arbor, Mich 48105. 

74 Give for the 10th 

With our 10th Reunion only a month away, 

the Reunion committee hopes you've made 

plans to attend! Lots of interesting activities 

are planned, including a barbecue at the Big 

Red Barn, a 7.4 km road race, and an ethnic 

dinner on Sat evening. Plan to be there on 

June 8-10! 

We are rapidly approaching our 10th yr 

campaign fund objective of obtaining 1,000 

Class of '74 donors. By Mar 15, 511 classmates 

had made donations. We need your 

help to reach 1,000! If you have not been contacted 

by a fund committee member, send 

your campaign gifts directly to: Class of '74, 

726 University Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850. And 

don't forget company matching gift funds. If 

you have any questions or need more information, 

call Mary Ellen Smith at her office: 

(914) 697-4010. 

From Boston, Mass: Treasurer Craig Esposito 

is now doing development work for the 

Harvard Grad School of Education, after 

spending 3 yrs at Ithaca College as director of 

development. His wife Hope Spruance is director 

of Harvard Student Agencies. Bill 

Baker earned an MBA at Northeastern U and 

is an administrator in the gynecology dept of 

Mass General Hospital. His wife works in 

Harvard's development office. Robert Rosenthal 

is working on a PhD in philosophy at 

Boston U; he's also continuing with his teaching. 

John Barlow is doing product development 

for Data General in Westboro, Mass; he 

was instrumental in arranging Data General's 

recent gift of an MV/8000 computer to the 

School of Electrical Engineering. Herb Robinson 

is a software specialist at Stratus Computer 

in Natick, Mass. 

On the new baby scene, Merily and Rob 

Swanson of Winchester, Mass, welcomed son 

Brian on Dec 5, '83. Older brother Jeffrey is 

3. Wally and Nancy Baldini Howard '75 of 

Newton, Mass, had son Warren Jansen on 

Jan 17, '84. Older brother Brian is 2. Wally 

attends Harvard Business School. 

Danny '75 and Claudia Hebel Malone live 

in Detroit, Mich, with son Daniel, 3. Danny 

is an attorney and Claudia works part-time 

for IBM. Carlo '72 and Betty Horstmeyer 

Ugolini live in Muskegon, Mich, where Carlo 

owns a sporting goods store. Christine De- 

Paolo Baumbach and her husband and son 

live in Oak Park, 111. Also in the Chicago, 111, 

area are Karen Leung Moore (whose son 

Jamie is almost 1) and Mark and Wendy 

Zurn Allen. Mark works for International 

Playtex Inc. 

In the academic arena, James N Fry has recently 

"settled" at the U of Fla's physics dept 

in Gainesville. He was married in Mar '82 to 

Kristin. James received his PhD from Princeton 

U in '79, then spent 4 yrs at the U of Chicago. 

Teaching assignments have also taken 

him to Aspen, Colo, Cambridge, England, 

Santa Barbara, Cal, and summer schools in 

France and Sicily. Gerald Werth is in med 

school at the U of Wise. Sven Strnad writes 

that he has left the grand state of Maine for 

the cornfields of Ind, where he is midway

through the completion of a PhD in entomology 

at Purdue. His work was in part inspired 

by Professor George C Eickwort, entomology, 

at Cornell, "years ago." 

Henry and Kathryn Ganss Grillo '75 recently 

moved to Winston-Salem, NC, where 

Henry is on the faculty in design and production 

at the NC School of the Arts. Kathy is 

taking a sabbatical leave from costume designing 

to raise their 1st child, Kristin Elizabeth, 

born Sept '83. Henry writes, "Watch 

for our names in the end credits of Creepshow, 

a movie directed by George Romero 

which, after a short time in general distribution, 

will be appearing on cable television 

starting Dec '83." Henry and Kathy built 

props for the movie. 

More new babies: Stephen M Glick, manager 

of financial planning for the Linde div 

of Union Carbide, in Danbury, Conn, reports 

on the Aug '83 birth of his 2nd child, 

Jeffrey Daniel. Jay and Diane Wright Hirsch 

write, "We're pleased to announce the birth 

of our son Charles in Feb '83. Bringing him 

up continues to be our greatest challenge and 

our deepest thrill!" The Hirschs live in Hamden, 

Conn. Bill Kay and Carolyn Lang, 

NYC, welcomed Jessica Lynn on Jan 1, '84. 

Bill works for Bear Stearns and Co, a Wall St 

house, and heads the trading department for 

foreign securities. Kristen Rupert, 37 

Worcester St, Belmont, Mass 02178. 

75 South to North 

Although this column has its origin in Mar in 

the not-so-sunny South, I have a paucity of 

news from classmates living in Dixie. From 

the western fringe of the Sun Belt, however, 

Don Polakoff writes that he, Karen (Klein) 

'76, and daughter Lauren will soon be migrating 

from Dallas, Texas, to Boston, Mass. 

Don is completing chief residency in orthopedic 

surgery at Parkland Memorial Hospital in 

Dallas, and will be starting a fellowship in total 

joint replacement surgery at Harvard Med 

School. Dallas also is the home of Rob and 

Kathy Coleman Weinberg '74. Rob is still 

playing competitive chess and Kathy became 

both a mother (of Mark) and a partner in her 

law firm in '83. 

In our nation's capital, G Paul Kemp is on 

Sen Ted Kennedy's staff as an advisor on 

ocean policy and environmental matters. 

Paul is in the process of completing his PhD 

at Lousiana State U, but has found time for 

travel to Yugoslavia (as a tourist) and Alaska 

(as a consulting geologist). A little farther 

north, in the Keystone state, we find Wayne 

Miller working toward his doctor of optometry 

degree at Pa College of Optometry in 

Phila, and Dave Harkcom, recently promoted 

to general superintendent in charge of 

quality control at Volkswagen, Westmoreland. 

Dave and his wife Carol live in New 

Stanton. 

Paul Morris called last month to let me 

know that he had opened a general practice in 

Carlstadt, NJ. He and wife Marcia (Langwell) 

'74 live in Oradell and plan to attend 

both the '74 and '75 Reunions in Ithaca. 

Mickey Frish, who stayed at Cornell for a 

PhD in physics, says he keeps "running into 

Cornelΐians all the time" in the course of his 

research job with Physical Science Inc in Boston, 

Mass. Mickey lives in Acton, Mass, and 

frequently gets together with Jeff and Elaine 

Kurt. The Kurts live with son Willie in Portsmouth, 

NH, where Jeff is employed as a mechanical 

engineer. 

As for me, I am in the terminal stages of 

doctoral research in zoology at Clemson, and 

—I hope—will be writing my dissertation by 

the time you are reading this. This column depends 

on ail of you, so keep the news coming 

to the correspondents listed in the Oct '83 

Alumni News or to Christine Magill Kamon, 

907 Copeland School Rd, West Chester, Pa 

19380. Mike Tannenbaum, Dept of Biological 

Sciences, Clemson U, Clemson, SC 

29631. 

76 Baby Boom 

As I review my notes, a significant demographic 

trend becomes evident—the Class of 

'76'is in the midst of a baby boom! To start 

with, John H Phillips and his wife Robin 

(Grebe) have Mark Andrew, born Oct 12, 

'83. Lisa and husband Morris Diamant '74 

also have their 1st son, Samuel Joshua. Lisa 

reports that young Sam is being prepared early 

for Cornell. His grandfather Leo Diamant 

'44 presented him with Cornell t-shirts and 

bib. Sharon Friedrich Aspis and husband 

Harold also have a new son, Marc Nathaniel. 

From Los Altos, Cal, Diane Bingemann Garcia 

has a new arrival, Eric Bradley, to go 

along with son Christopher Michael, 3 ι Δ. 

Diane and her husband also have a new 

house, which needs a new addition (to keep 

up with the family?), and Diane has also decided 

to go back to school to get a 2nd BA in. 

graphic design. Gregg Krieger and his wife 

Joanie have a new baby, Stephanie Gayle. 

Gregg changed jobs a yr ago and is now with 

Morgan Guaranty Trust Co as an accounting 

officer. Donald Spector and Susan Green- 

Spector live in Upper Montclair, NJ, with 

daughter Lara, almost 3. Douglas J Eng and 

Dorian (Lee) '77 are parents of Diana Rae, 

born in May '83. Finally, here in Wilmington, 

Del, Steve and Michele Brand Medwin 

report new daughter Rachel Gina, born in 

June '83, to go along with Danny, 4. Steve is 

still working for DuPont; Michele has started 

her own optometric practice. 

So much for the kids. Carla H olden reports 

from Flint, Mich, that she is part of the Flint 

Arts Choral, a semiprofessional group, and 

working in pollution monitoring for the 

Buick Motor Div. Nancy Arnosti and her 

husband Steve Bednarski '77 live in Chadds 

Ford, Pa. Nancy is working for McNeil Consumer 

Products Co, while Steve is a manufacturing 

manager for Hewlett Packard. Stephanie 

S Mendel is a marketing director for 

Halston Fragrances in NYC. Stephanie reports 

having visited Ginny Miller, in Orlando, 

Fla, working for Disneyworld. She also 

reports that John Holt is the general manager 

at the Rodeway Hotel in Chicago, 111. Mary 

Lou Serafini lives in Ocean, NJ, where she 

works for the "New AT&T." Ken Kleinman 

is in Phila, Pa, where he is a mid-level associate 

at Morgan Lewis & Bockius. Ken was 

married in May '83 to Bernadette Kipp. Steven 

Sugarman, Bucky Brigg, and Gregg Krieger 

were in attendance for the festivities. Bill 

Silberg is in Chicago, 111, having left UPI to 

become assistant director of public affairs at 

the U of Chicago Med Center. Nancy Popper 

reports from the Wash, DC, area that she still 

enjoys living there and working for the Natl 

Assn of Area Agencies on Aging. Also in DC, 

Stephanie Mann tells us she is working for the 

Voice of America. 

A couple of reports from the West Coast. 

Glen Salva is employed by Taylor California 

Cellars/The Monterey Vineyard, where he is 

responsible for grape procurement in Cal central 

coast. Rich Gallagher is manager of customer 

support at PDA Engineering in Santa 

Ana, Cal. Susan D Thompson is taking graduate 

studies in chemical engineering at U of 

Cal, Berkeley. 

Lots of news makes this job fun, and I appreciate 

all of you who took the time to report 

on your whereabouts as part of the recent 

dues solicitation. We will be passing 

more news along from these reports in the 

coming months. As always, I enjoy hearing 

from any of you. Cam Albright, 42 

Woodside Dr, Centreville, Del 19807. 

78 From All Over 

Greetings! The Ithaca Journal recently ran a 

big article on Jeff Coleman. After getting his 

degree in natural resources, Jeff went to Boston 

U for his law degree and now practices in 

Ithaca. He is president of the board of directors 

of the Alternative Federal Credit Union, 

a member of the city watershed commission 

and active with the Six-Mile Creek preservation 

committee. He is more visible, however, 

as a guitarist, performing with his brother 

Fred. The two perform what they call an 

"amalgam" of rock and country and can be 

heard in concerts, at coffee houses, and at 

special benefits in and around Ithaca. 

Joanne Wallenstein was married recently 

to Glenn Fishman. Joanne is promotion manager 

for High Technology magazine and 

studying for her MBA at NYU. Glenn is a 

resident at Mass General Hospital, Boston. 

Pamela L Savage-Roglich, who joined Continental 

111 Natl Bank and Trust Co after graduation, 

was recently named an officer in the 

bond and treasury services dept of the bank. 

Sunny Bates and Jay Walker are working in 

the advertising sales dept at Folio magazine in 

NYC. 

Doug Baumoel, who worked for Polaroid 

and then Controlotron Corp, is now at Wharton 

School, U of Penn, and says he is the lead 

guitarist for Wharton's own supply-side rock 

'n roll band. Peter Johnson and Pepi Leids 

were '82 graduates of the Vet College. Pete 

has a mixed practice (meaning large and small 

animals) in Oneonta, and Pepi has a practice 

with a similar clientele in Bath. 

Bonnie (Smith) and Gary Dukart moved to 

Phila, Pa, after graduation and, in '81, to 

Long Isl. Bonnie is an assistant treasurer at 

Bankers Trust Co in NYC; Gary does clinical 

research for American Cyanamid. Lee and 

Karen Conley Coates both worked for Procter 

& Gamble after graduation, 1st in Cincinnati, 

Ohio, then in Green Bay, Wise. They 

have since moved to NJ. Lee works as an 

electrical engineer at the Great Adventure 

park and Karen is a sr process engineer with 

Congoleum Corp. 

Sharon Palatnik and I would like to welcome 

Gary Smotrich as the newest class correspondent, 

who will write his "maiden" column 

next month. But please send news to all 

of us: Roger Anderson, 1 State St Plaza, 

NYC 10004; Sharon Palatnik, 145 4th Avenue, 

Apt 5N, NYC 10003; Gary Smotrich, 

321 S Huntington Ave, Jamaica Plain, Mass 

02130. 

79 On to Reunion 

Hi again! Reunion plans are moving along! 

We have resident Ithacans Sukey Call, Chris 

Carney, Roley Bates, Brad and Mary Maxpn 

Grainger handling the food and beverage arrangements. 

If you'd like to help—let us or 

them know! We also need volunteers to oversee 

certain activities during the big weekend, 

so if you'd like to help at the registration desk 

(student clerks do most of the work), at a 

class breakfast (held each morning), cocktail 

hour or tent party, do call Kathy Best: (609) 

645-3650, ASAP! Most importantly—let us 

know and your friends know if you plan to 

come to Reunion. Past experience has shown 

that people don't think about coming, because 

they are afraid no one they know will 

be there. Well, rally the oΓ troops and come 

en masse and spread the word. It's going to 

be a fun weekend with several non-Cornellian

spouses, a good mixture of singles and marrieds, 

and lots of good partying and enjoying 

of the campus! 

Now for some news of classmates: John 

Benjamin is now media director of Brogan 

Marketing/Advertising. Margaret Raskopf 

Dodd has a son Chris, 3, and a son, Jeff, 4 

months. Diana Salzman Yun and Allen have 

a baby girl, Shira Lindy, and both the Dodds 

and Yuns are looking forward to Reunion. 

Sue Pugliese Romeri has a baby girl and 

loves Cal living; Jill Ganly has her MS from 

Hahnemann U, Phila, Pa; Joe Kirchgessner 

got his MBA from Dartmouth; Carol Zimmerman 

Buckhout is on the faculty at Morrisville 

College; Elise Rand Ciner has her OΌ 

degree from New England College of Optometry; 

Margaret Goldenhersh has her MD degree 

from St Louis U; Julie Jones is a member 

of the national honorary medical society 

Alpha Omega Alpha at Penn State. 

Weddings: Kitty Culina is now Mrs Dave 

Bessey; Jeff Ganeles is now married to Lori 

Beth Berman, and completing his dental residency 

at U of Penn; Richard Stearns is also 

married and working at Castor-Pollux in NY; 

Andrew Lindseth is married and working as a 

AVP of Phila Natl Bank; Bruce Stouffer is 

married to Tracy Patrick, living in Chicago, 

111; Andrea Simitch and Richard Olcott '77, 

BArch '79, are now husband and wife; Janice 

Comber is now Mrs Michael Auger; Linda 

Merrill is now Mrs Rick Ely; and Sandi Riklin 

is Mrs Randy Knoll. Congrats to all of you! 

Changing subjects, now: Lance Nethery is 

still wowing Swiss hockey fans with 14 goals 

and 16 assists in 13 games and his position as 

leading scorer in all of Switzerland. L Michael 

Borkan and brother Howard '81 donated 

$10,000 to Cornell for a new scholarship 

fund. Lorina Cheng Barbalas is now 

with Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ. Linda 

Roubik is at U Wash Law School after 3 yrs 

at Procter & Gamble. Celia Rea is doing well 

in NY. Eric Will is a sr engineer for Sanders 

in Nashua, NH. Cathi Gobel Farrell and husband 

Jim are now in Cambridge, Mass, 

where Cathi is development officer for the 

Harvard campaign, Richard Thompson is 

still in the oil business and heading to Singapore 

with Gearhart. 

That's all the news for now. Please RSVP 

re Reunion and call Kathy—or me: (203) 

633-5685—if you have questions, address 

changes for yourself or other classmates, or 

want to help with Reunion. Don't forget, we 

are also trying to set a new Cornell record for 

class giving! Think about making a contribution 

to the Cornell Fund now and help us 

reach that goal! 

See you at Reunion! Elizabeth Rakov 

Igleheart, 27 Butternut Dr, Glastonbury, 

Conn 06033. 

80 No Excuses 

Happy spring—for some of you, at least— 

others, like me, may still be striding through 

slush and snow. The news is brief this month: 

John T Fisher Carr was married last Sept to 

Ruth O'Neil. He is director of public affairs 

for the Natl Meat Assn in Wash, DC. When 

Scott E Thompson and Sheryl Levin, Grad, 

tied the knot in Oct (reported by Jon Craig, 

last month), Terry Levin '81, Jorge Constantino, 

and Dan Zaccardo '81 were all members 

of the wedding party. Other Cornellians attending 

the wedding included Ira Halford, 

Bruce Tagle, Sue Stalzer, Gracie Constantino 

'81, Sue Finkelstein '78, Ann Gozonsky '81, 

Eduardo Constantino '86, Michelle Sonnenfeld 

and Eric Verhouse. Bruce and Sue, and 2 

other wedding guests, Louise Abel and Boudino 

Attebury, are in SheryPs 4th-yr med 

class at Cornell Med. Scott also tells us that 


Ira is now a legal aid attorney in NYC, and 

that Eric is in computer sales in NJ. Scott and 

Sheryl are living on Manhattan; he is assistant 

district attorney in Bronx County. 

Aggie Kurt R Swenson, who received his 

business MBA from Cornell last yr, and other 

Cornell grads now at Bankers Mortgage Corp 

in Florence NC, met with Secretary of Housing 

and Urban Development Samuel R Pierce 

'47, JD '49. 

Call for news! You people will have no excuse 

in these upcoming months as the springsummer 

period should have a number of you 

finishing grad programs, changing jobs, 

moving, marrying, and having kids. Thank 

God, I'm comng back to the States next yr so 

you won't forget about your foreign correspondent 

anymore! Serena S Hu, 3547 

University St, #21, Montreal, PQ, Canada 

H3A 2B1; also Jon Craig, PO Box 51, Pleasantville, 

NY 10570; and Jill Abrams Klein, 

915 25th St, NW, Wash, DC 20037. 

81 Empire State Action 

News from around NY State dominates this 

month's column. George F Valentine writes 

from the Albany area that he is running a 

home for the disabled in Troy. "Great job, 

great experience," is how he describes it. 

Writing from Ithaca is Kevin D Williams, 

continuing to operate a weather-forecasting 

service for radio stations, also anchoring 

weekend weather forecasts for WOKR-TV, 

an ABC affiliate in Rochester. He planned to 

become a full-time WOKR weatherman in 

late spring and move his business to Rochester, 

the 3rd largest city in the state. Michael P 

Dudek completed MS work and is pursuing a 

PhD at SUNY, Albany, while Nicholas P 

Wilde is working on an MS in meteorology at 

the U of Wise, according to Kevin. Kevin said 

he has been giving the Alma Mater a good 

word on TV. On one show, though, fellow 

employes ribbed him for listening, or trying 

to listen, to a Cornell-Providence hockey 

game on his car radio outside the studio, in 

frigid temperatures. 

Speaking of the hockey team, it is sad and 

amazing, but true: the Big Red has not made 

the ECAC playoffs—not even the quarterfinals—since 

our sr yr. And this yr marked the 

end of the ECAC tournament at the Boston 

Garden as we knew it. Starting next season, 

the ECAC is splitting into 2 separate leagues, 

with separate post-season tournaments. Cornell 

will play in a conference consisting of the 

Ivy League and 6 other schools, including 

Clarkson and Army. 

On a brighter note, the basketball team— 

yes, the basketball team—was super this yr, 

finishing just a game out of 1st place in the 

Ivy League and a berth in the NCAA playoffs. 

NC, Georgetown, Houston, et al, were 

spared when the Red lost on the last night of 

the season to Dartmouth. I attended 2 big 

late-season home games, against Princeton 

and Penn—both victories for Cornell before, 

believe it or not, standing-room-only crowds 

in Barton, on consecutive nights, nonetheless. 

Andrew D Knobel covered one of the 

games for the Syracuse Post-Standard, and 

next to him at the press table was Mark A 

Goldberg, assistant sports information director. 

I also saw Mark H Jackson, who is his 

2nd yr in the Law School. 

Downstate, Lida B Greenberg works at the 

Irving Trust Co, and lives in Greenwich Village. 

She keeps in touch with Katherine D 

Furman, Marci E Shapiro, and Ginger Sun in 

the city. Jane Waldman is back home in Roslyn, 

LI, and working for radio station 

WLIM. She is an afternoon anchor and does 

a public-affairs show on weekends. Jane had 

been doing radio work in Boston, Mass. 

On the West Coast, Brent L Finley, a graduate 

student in pharmacy at Wash State U, 

has won a major pre-doctoral fellowship 

from the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers 

Assn. The Santa Rosa, Cal, native majored in 

biochemistry and lettered in football at Cornell. 

He won 1 of 9 fellowships the assn presented 

this yr to students in advanced pharmacology 

and toxicology programs across the 

nation. He is researching the influence of enzymes 

on the body's handling of drugs, toxic 

substances, etc. He began his doctoral work 

in '82, one of WSU's 1st students in the pharmacology 

and toxicology program. 

It has been 3 yrs since graduation, and the 

past yr has undoubtedly meant new jobs for 

many of us. Likewise, this month will bring 

new graduate degrees for other classmates. 

Fill us in on the details! Jon Landsmen, 

105B Ringdahl Ct, Rome, NY 13440; also 

Vicki E Bunis, 35 E 35th St, Apt 3L, NYC 

10016; and Shirley M Hewitt, 2681 Hibbert 

Ave, Columbus, Ohio 43202. 

83 In the News 

Did you catch a glimpse of classmate Darren 

Elliot during the winter Olympics? Darren 

represented Canada as the Number 2 goalie. 

Patti Netter was featured in the NY Times 

Thurs "Home" section. The piece dealt with 

Patti's duplex and how tough it is for young 

grads to find housing in NY. Patti is working 

as a marketing coordinator for Sweet Victory, 

a chain of shops with reduced calorie 

sweets, due to open this month in NYC. 

Other classmates in NYC are Carolyn 

White, who made a career switch from her 

job at Healthtex to a position as a production 

assistant at Kobs & Brady, a Chicago-based 

advertising agency. Carolyn's living in Hoboken, 

NJ, sharing a house with Elizabeth Kim 

and Nancy Fong. Elizabeth is teaching at the 

Princeton Review, and Nancy is a broker's 

assistant for E F Hutton. Mike Brody is 

working as a real estate broker for Cushman 

& Wakefield. Katie Calhoun is working at 

Modern Photography magazine. Matt Tager 

is working in NY with an interior design firm. 

Barbara Higgins Bakowski sent me a nice 

letter to inform of her recent marriage to 

Chris '82. The wedding took place on Sept 

17, '83, and other Cornellians in attendance 

included Emily Roth, Kimberly Bakowksi 

'86, Ron McKenna '81, Amy Moses, Ed Siegel, 

Maria Hershbain, Lucretia Gonshak '82, 

John Tacca '82. Barbara is working as an assistant/reporter 

to the managing editor of a 

small Buffalo newspaper, while Chris is 

working as a chemical engineer for Olin 

Chemical in Niagara Falls. They live in Tonawanda. 

She informed me as to what some of 

our old U-Hall floormates are up to. Emily 

Roth is working as a media planner for J 

Walter Thompson in NYC; Amy Moses is 

also in NY with a public relations firm; Karen 

Breslow spent several months studying at the 

Sorbonne in Paris, France, then traveled in 

England and Wales; Beth Waters is studying 

law at Vanderbilt U; and Maria Hershbain is 

working in NY and living in NJ. 

Valerie Luzadis is working as a Coop Extension 

agent in Schenectady County. Her 

main responsibility includes 4-H environmental 

education. Sheila Tolgyesi is at Georgetown 

Law, and Amy Mall and Juliette Tammenons-Bakker 

are both attending Harvard 

and sharing an apartment in Cambridge, 

Mass. Karen McCarty, also in Boston, recently 

was promoted to banquet manager at 

Creative Gourmet. 

Well, I'm writing this on the 1st day of 

spring, but the drifts of snow outside would 

not indicate that. Let's hope that spring is 

just around the corner. Keep us posted on all

your dealings, and note my new address. 

Suzanne Karwoski, 1704 57th St, Des 

Moines, Iowa 50310. 

Alumni Deaths 

'08 ME—Warner G Baird of Chicago, 111, 

Feb 8, 1984; honorary board chairman and 

former president, Baird & Warner Inc real 

estate firm; active in community affairs. Delta 

Kappa Epsilon. 

'13 BS HE—Rebekah M Gibbons of Winter 

Park, Fla, formerly of Lincoln, Neb, Mar 7, 

1983; retired professor, chairman, foods and 

nutrition, U of Neb. 

'13 DVM—A Cameron Goff of Ithaca, NY, 

Mar 5, 1984; was veterinarian, particularly 

interested in harness horses. Alpha Psi. 

'15 ME—Arthur Hiltebrant of Upper Nyack, 

NY, Feb 16, 1984; retired general manager, 

Bethlehem Steel's shipbuilding div. 

'15 LLB—Robert A Hutchinson of Plantation, 

Fla, formerly of Ithaca, NY, Feb 12, 

1984; retired attorney, was probation officer 

and clerk of Children's Court, Tompkins 

County, for many yrs. Phi Delta Phi. 

'16-17 Grad—Roger W Gardner of Salisbury, 

Md, formerly of Phila, Pa, 1982. 

'16 MD—Eugenia Ingerman of Newton, 

Mass, formerly of NYC, Feb 5, 1984; retired 

physician, had practiced in Greenwich Village 

for 53 yrs. 

'17 BArch—Paul H Harbach of Sarasota, 

Fla, formerly of Buffalo, NY, Feb 3, 1984; 

retired architect specializing in educational 

buildings; final work was Buffalo Public Library. 

'17, LLB '19—George A Newbury of Sarasota, 

Fla, and Buffalo, NY, Mar 5, 1984; retired 

president, Manufacturers & Traders 

Trust Co, Buffalo, and attorney; Trustee, 

emeritus, Cornell, and Univ Council member, 

was active in alumni affairs on many 

fronts; active in community and educational 

affairs. Kappa Psi. 

'18 BA, LLB '20—Edwin J Carpenter Jr of 

Penn Yan, NY, formerly of Wash, DC, Nov 

29, 1983; retired col, US Army, associated 

with the Pentagon. Kappa Psi. 

'18 BArch, Grad '19-20—Edwin J Truthan of 

San Diego, Cal, formerly of Cleveland, Ohio, 

Feb 14, 1984; retired architect, partner in 

firm of Horn & Rhinehart, Cleveland; his 

projects included hospitals, a bank, and other 

major buildings. Sigma Upsilon. 

'19 BS HE—Margaret Steer Johnson (Mrs 

Hubert E) of Avon, Conn, Nov 29, 1983. 

'19, ME '18—Charles E Norton of Tucson, 

Ariz, formerly of Hinsdale, 111, Jan 20, 1984; 

was owner, Norton-McMurray Manufacturing 

Co, Chicago, 111. Sigma Alpha Epsilon. 

'19, WA '20—Byron E Wrigley Jr of Chicago, 

111, June 21, 1982; retired vice president, 

formerly manager, foreign subsidiaries, Wm 

Wrigley Jr Co, chewing gum manufacturer. 

Delta Kappa Epsilon. 

'20 PhD—Homer G Bishop of Derry, NH, 

formerly of Phila, Pa, Nov 21, 1983; retired 

from Wash, DC, Dept of Corrections; for- 

merly associated with US Employment Service, 

after 22 yrs of teaching psychology, 

most recently at Wittenberg and Smith Colleges, 

at Cornell (Ί3-24), and at Ohio U. 

'20 MD—Richmond Douglass of Olean, NY, 

formerly of Ithaca, Feb 14, 1984; retired 

physician, Castle Point Veterans Hospital; 

formerly a thoracic surgeon, Biggs Memorial 

Hospital. 

'20 BS Ag—Kenneth C Estabrook of La 

Mesa, Cal, formerly of Binghamton, NY, 

Jan 15, 1984; was owner, general insurance 

agency, Binghamton. Kappa Delta Rho. 

'21 BS HE—Anna McConaughy Boiling 

(Mrs William E Jr) of Hendersonville, NC, 

formerly of Hague, NY, Sept 9, 1982; retired, 

was associated with registrar's office, Hunter 

College, NYC, for 25 yrs. 

'21 MD—Paul F Russell of Richmond, Va, 

and N Edgecomb, Me, Nov 2, 1983; physician, 

specialist in malaria and tropical diseases; 

retired research specialist and administrator, 

Rockefeller Foundation; as col, Army 

Medical Corps, served on Gen Douglas Mac- 

Arthur's senior staff in World War II. 

'22 CE—Edwin J Hoff of Holmes Beach, 

Fla, formerly of Ithaca, NY, Mar 5, 1984; retired 

chief gas engineer, NY State Electric 

and Gas, where he had worked for 40 yrs. 

Beta Theta Pi. 

'23—Donald O Eisenhart of Latham, NY, 

Feb 17, 1984; retired real estate appraiser, 

formerly for Mobil Oil Corp. 

'23—Talbot P Kendall of Ripon, Cal, and 

Pebble Beach, Jan 23, 1984; was joint owner, 

Cal Telephone Co, and limited partner, Dean 

Witter & Co. Chi Phi. 

'23 BS Ag—Nelson Schaenen of Delray 

Beach, Fla, formerly of Basking Ridge, NJ, 

Feb 22, 1984; retired president, Smith Barney 

& Co, investment bankers (now Smith Barney, 

Harris Upham & Co); formerly was with 

Moody's Investor Service; Univ Council 

member, emeritus, and active in alumni affairs 

on many fronts; active in community 

and educational affairs. Delta Upsilon. 

'24 ME—Sheridan C Biggs of Louisville, Ky, 

formerly of Schenectady, NY, Feb 9, 1983; 

retired patent attorney, General Electric Co. 

Theta Alpha. 

'24—Pedro Gonzalez of Las Palmas, Spain, 

Apr 1983. 

'24 ME—Vernon H Springford of N Hollywood, 

Cal, May 14, 1983; retired engineer. 

'26 BA—Theresa Egan Doherty (Mrs Thomas 

F) of Springfield, NJ, Feb 25, 1984; retired 

teacher; active in community affairs. 

'26 BS Ag, Grad '26-27—Dorothy Patricia 

O'Brien Hunter (Mrs Howard W) of Annandale, 

Va, Dec 2, 1983; retired legislative research 

analyst, Office of the US Secretary of 

the Air Force. 

'27, BS HE '28—Grace Guthmann Burnett 

(Mrs Arthur G) of Lakewood, NJ, formerly 

of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Dec 3, 1983. Kappa 

Delta. 

'27 BA—Daniel C Kaufherr of Scottsdale, 

Ariz, formerly of NYC, Feb 17, 1984; executive 

director, Phoenix Sister City Commission; 

formerly partner and senior vice presi- 

dent, Goth-Vladimir Advertising Inc, NYC. 

Phi Epsilon Pi. 

'28—Donald D Boyle of Du Bois, Pa, Oct 3, 

1983. Phi Delta Theta. 

'28 BS Ag—Lucy Hazlett Crary (Mrs George 

S) of Clearwater, Fla, formerly of E Rockaway, 

NY, date unknown. 

'28, EE '30—Richard E Shaner of Newton, 

Mass, Oct 1, 1983. 

'29 BA—Charles R Church Jr of Houston, 

Texas, Feb 8, 1984; geologist and geophysicist, 

was chief, seismic computer, Humble Oil 

& Refining Co. Phi Delta Theta. 

'29—Harold E Mertz of Sarasota, Fla, formerly 

of Port Washington, NY, Oct 26, 1983; 

was founder, Publishers Clearing House, 

magazine subscription business. 

'29 BA—Harold I Schlenker of Atlanta, Ga, 

formerly of NYC, Dec 17, 1983; was certified 

public accountant, Lybrand, Ross Bros & 

Montgomery, NYC. 

'29—George F Schwarzwalder of Arlington, 

Va, formerly of Pa, Feb 8, 1984; retired assistant 

director, international programs, US Bureau 

of the Budget (now Office of Management 

and Budget), Wash, DC; formerly was 

office manager, Pa Dept of Public Assistance, 

'32-41. 

'30—Herbert B Blackwood of Arlington, Va, 

Oct 15, 1983; retired capt, US Navy. Zeta 

Psi. 

'32 MS—Lela Reitz Koster (Mrs William J) 

of Albuquerque, NM, Sept 1983. Husband, 

William J Koster '31, PhD '36. 

'32 BS Ag—Esther Rickley (Lashley) Senning 

(Mrs William C) of Albany, NY, Feb 5, 1981. 

Husband, William C Senning, PhD '31. 

'33, BA '34—Frederick P Pokrass of Baltimore, 

Md, Sept 16, 1983; psychiatrist, was 

superintendent, Springfield State Hospital, 

Baltimore. Phi Delta Mu. 

'34 DVM—Erwin H Jones of Lowville, NY, 

Feb 14, 1984. 

'34 BS Ag, Grad '34-35—Gordon Miscall of 

Lakewood, NJ, June 6, 1983; was associated 

with Nielsen Hydraulics, Mt Vernon, NY. 

'34—(Beulah) Constance Slingerland Shipe 

(Mrs John A) of Etna, NY, formerly of Ithaca, 

Feb 13, 1984. 

'35 DVM—Montgomery A Tegg of Penfield, 

NJ, Nov 18, 1983. 

'36 BA—Martha Butler Gauch (Mrs Hugh) 

of College Park, Md, Sept 1983. 

'37 BS Hotel—Harold A Dillenbeck of Colorado 

Springs, Colo, Feb 5, 1984; worked in 

real estate; retired It col, US Air Force. Phi 

Kappa Sigma. Wife, Mary (Crary) '36. 

'37 BS HE—Kathryn Hayes Dowd of San 

Francisco, Cal, formerly of Ithaca, NY, Feb 

8, 1984; former research associate, human 

development, Hum Ec; was social worker, 

Tompkins County, and nursery school operator. 

'38, BChem '39—Harry D Greenwood Jr of 

Oakland, Cal, Nov 6, 1983. Alpha Chi Sig- 

MAY 1984 59

'39—Richard H Read of W Falmouth, Mass, 

formerly of Scituate, May 26, 1983. 

'39 BS Ag—Michael N Stehnach of Little 

Falls, NY, Apr 13, 1982. 

'40 PhD—Martin J Barnett of Wilmington, 

Del, Oct 1982; was associated with DuPont 

Chambers Works, Penns Grove, NJ. 

'42 BA—LeRoy (Cohen) Curtis, MD, of Fair 

Lawn, NJ, June 4, 1983; physician. Beta Sigma 

Rho. 

'42 BA, MS Eng '44, PhD '49—Richard N 

Work of Tempe, Ariz, Feb 15, 1984; professor 

of physics and former associate dean, 

College of Liberal Arts, Ariz State U; formerly 

taught at Pa State U and conducted research 

at Princeton U and the National 

Bureau of Standards, specializing in the area 

of polymer physics; active in professional affairs. 

Wife, Catherine (Verwoert) '45. 

'43 BS Ag—James L Cain of Elmira, NY, 

Jan 3, 1984; attorney. Lambda Chi Alpha. 

'43, BA '42—Seymour (J Deitelzweig) Dayton 

of Del Mar, Cal, Jan 6, 1984; chief of 

staff, VA Medical Center, and professor of 

medicine, U of Cal, San Diego; formerly 

chief of medical service, Wadsworth VA 

Hospitals, and vice chairman, medicine, 

UCLA; his research centered on the metabolism 

of cholesterol and its relation to atherosclerosis. 

Tau Delta Phi. 

'43 BS Ag—Rupert C Dunton of Asheville, 

NC, Jan 12, 1984. 

'44—Edward B Ashton of Saratoga Springs, 

NY, May 28, 1978. 

'47 MD—W Kendrick Hare of Birmingham, 

Ala, Nov 15, 1983; was member, faculty of 

medicine, U of Ala; formerly associated with 

Children's Hospital, Buffalo, NY. 

'49 BS ILR—Robert L Gleason of Middletown, 

NJ, Nov 30, 1979. Wife, Joan (Keeley) 

'49. 

'49 BChemE—George E Griffith Jr of Mexico 

City, Mexico, date unknown; vice president, 

production, Colgate Palmolive Co, in 

Mexico City. Delta Chi. 

'50, BEE '51, Grad '51—F Alan Longley of 

Manlius, NY, Feb 11, 1984. Psi Upsilon. 

'54, BA '55—Theodore Sander III of Portola 

Valley, Cal, Aug 1977; attorney. Delta Upsilon. 

'55 BArch—Donald B Mawha of Arlington, 

Mass, Feb 13, 1984; architect. 

'55—Patricia Wilsner Seames (Mrs Albert E) 

of Tucson, Ariz, July 27, 1983. Husband, Albert 

E Seames, MS '56. 

'56 BS Hotel—James B Earl of Phila, Pa, 

Mar 1, 1984. 

'58 BA—Stuart H Rome of Baltimore, Md, 

Oct 9, 1983. 

'64—Marilyn T Mann of Ithaca, NY, Aug 

13, 1982. 

'69 PhD—Benjamin Breier of Bedford, 

Mass, Mar 12, 1980. 

'77 BS ILR—Alan R Gersen of New Haven, 

Conn, Jan 15, 1983. 


Alumni Activities 

Ex-Students As Recruiters 

About 2,000 alumni annually converge on 

secondary school gyms throughout the nation 

to drape tables with red felt, post a picture of 

Libe Slope, and try to explain the attractions 

of the kaleidoscopic Cornell experience. 

Some parts of the message are easier than 

others: Recruiters for the university say they 

are in the enviable position of not having to 

prove the institution's academic excellence 

because most high school pupils are already 

aware of it. Instead, the message to pupils is 

of the richness of the place because of its 

breadth of offerings. 

Increasingly, the message to parents is not 

to balk at the high tuition costs because of the 

availability of financial aid. 

These alumni—members of their local Cornell 

secondary school committees—are solidly 

in the business of enticing students to the 

Hill. A business that, according to Robert W 

Storandt'40, former associate dean of admissions, 

is quite respectable: "You can hardly 

go wrong luring someone to Cornell. It is 

much easier to undersell this place than to 

oversell it." 

In addition to staffing local college nights, 

the alumni interview about 90 per cent of the 

applicants to the university. They also play 

host to an assortment of parties, picnics, and 

brunches for applicants, and coordinate 

panels where current students from their geographical 

area discuss their experience at Cornell 

with accepted applicants. 

Alumni say they devote this time to high 

school recruiting in an effort to give something 

back to the university: 'This is as tangible 

a way of aiding Cornell as writing a check 

for the Tower Club," says Edward M Butler 

Jr '63 of Tinton Falls, NJ. "We want to insure 

that it stays a first-rate institution." 

"And it takes quality undergraduates to have 

a quality university," notes Madolyn Dallas 

'58 of Alexandria, Va. 

In addition to the satisfaction of helping 

Cornell through their efforts, alumni say they 

enjoy meeting some of the most talented high 

school seniors in the nation. Interviewing the 

applicants "gives you faith in the state and in 

the country," says Richard Mathewson '55, 

who lives in Fullerton, Cal. "Not only are the 

students bright, they are eager, inquiring, and 

dedicated young men and women." 

The alumni's most important role is supplementing 

with a personal contact the stacks 

of college brochures bombarding high school 

seniors. Most of the about 18,000 applicants 

to Cornell are interviewed by alumni who try 

to answer both an applicant's questions 

about Cornell, and some of Cornell's questions 

about the applicant. 

Drawing on their own experience as Cornellians, 

the alumni look for the "selfstarters." 

The university doesn't want those 

applicants who are "good students but just 

won't make that extra commitment to the activities 

they are involved in," according to 

Dallas. "You have to seek out the students 

who wouldn't be reticent about knocking on 

a professor's door," according to Mathewson, 

"because if they won't do that, they 

won't take full advantage of Cornell." 

Alumni also try to calibrate the signifi- 

c < nι\ι y. 

The 'bible'for volunteers in the Alumni 

Secondary School committees. 

cance of each of the items on the often 

lengthy list of extracurricular activities on a 

pupil's application. Mathewson recalls interviewing 

a pupil who, like many other applicants 

to Cornell, was president of her high 

school student government. During the interview, 

Mathewson discovered that in addition 

to being president, this pupil had been instrumental 

in creating the organization. Concerned 

that there was no student government, 

the young woman had lobbied with the 

school board, collected the needed signatures 

of classmates, and helped draft the charter 

for the new group. 

Another interview highlighted skills that 

could not be communicated in the written application. 

The pupil, among the top wood artists 

in the nation, brought a number of his 

wood carvings to the interview for the alumnus 

to look at, while in the background a tape 

recorder played one of his original musical 

compositions. The pupil held the copyright to 

ten rock songs, and had written at least twice 

that number. "I enjoyed the song, and the 

carving," Mathewson said, "but what most 

impressed me was the depth of his commitment 

to these avocations." 

By interviewing in the areas around their 

homes, alumni add a needed context to the 

applications. One pupil was editor of his high 

school paper, which is also fairly common 

among applicants. It took an area alumnus 

who read the local papers to insure that the 

admissions office was aware that the paper 

had just received a national award. Alumni 

can often note, too, that most pupils at the 

applicant's high school do not apply to competitive 

colleges, so a pupil's desire to attend 

Cornell indicates great initiative. 

In the interviews, the alumni often ask the 

pupils to make judgments: about what constitutes 

their greatest contribution to their community, 

or what they seek from four years at 

college. "Their specific answer is much less 

important than how they get to their

answer," Dallas noted, "What do they value, 

and more importantly, have they been thinking 

about these issues?" 

The most common concern voiced to alumni 

interviewers is how to finance a Cornell 

education. Parents and students are often discouraged 

from finding out more about Cornell 

once the large tuition figures are quoted 

and before financial aid is fully explained. 

These concerns are difficult to allay because 

the method for determining awards is so elaborate 

that a pupil is skeptical that the costs 

can be brought within reach. Barbara Kaufman 

Smith '57 of Frankfort, Ky said students 

in Kentucky "don't need to ask if Cornell is a 

good school; they know it is a good school. 

They just ask if they can afford it." Many 

alumni say they stress that Cornell's cost is 

the lowest among the Ivy League universities. 

Alumni distinguish Cornell from its Ivy 

League siblings by stressing that the variety 

of disciplines studied in the seven undergraduate 

colleges brings a richness and energy to 

the campus missing at other schools. Mathewson 

explains this richness to California 

audiences by describing Cornell as a combination 

of the U of Southern California (a private 

school), on top of the U of California at 

Davis (agriculture), on top of the U of California 

at Los Angeles (a public school). 

The applicants to Cornell have reflected 

some of its turmoil. "In the 1970s, applicants 

tended not to think about a career while they 

were in college. They were anti-war or antipollution," 

Butler said. Dallas also notes that 

"in the last four or five years there has been a 

complete change: Most students say that they 

have a very concrete idea for their future career; 

they seem to have a career objective in 

mind before high school." 

Most alumni try to keep in touch with the 

students they've recruited and sent to Cornell. 

"Sometimes you see a student who has 

flourished during his four years at Cornell 

and it's exhilarating." Mathewson recalled 

seeing a student he had recruited attend a 

panel discussion for new applicants during 

the student's senior year at Cornell: "His answers 

were thoughtful and succinct. It was exciting 

to see how much he had matured." 

Alumni interviewers also play an important 

role if the student doesn't get into Cornell. 

They develop enough of a sense of which applicants 

have a good chance for admission to 

worry about some students who seem unlikely 

candidates for admission and have only applied 

to Cornell and other high caliber 

schools. 

"You try to get them to rethink their position" 

and encourage them to apply to at least 

one school they can be confident of getting 

in, according to Dallas. Storandt also stressed 

that "all is not lost if the student does not go 

to Cornell. You never know when the goodwill 

produced by an interview with a knowledgeable, 

and enthusiastic alumnus will redound 

to help the university." 

Between the interviewing seasons, alumni 

write letters to the guidance department at 

area high schools, to make contacts and ensure 

that they have current Cornell catalogues. 

"You need to establish a good relationship 

with the high schools, and say 'Call 

me if you have a good junior,' " Dallas said. 

Many area clubs host special functions for 

National Merit Scholars and other outstanding 

juniors to encourage them to apply to 

Cornell. 

The futher recruiters are from Upstate New 

York, the more difficulty they have luring 

students to Cornell. Enticing Californians to 

New York State isn't easy. "Crossing the 

California River is traumatic. They don't 

realize the rest of the country exists," said 

Mathewson. In states with a strong state uni- 

versity system, with the attractions of low tuition 

coupled with a location close to home 

and many friends, Cornell has a hard time 

drawing the good students. 

So while converging on high school gyms 

throughout the nation, these alumni go 

armed with something more than red felt 

tablecloths, and a picture of Libe Slope. 

"You try to convey some sense of Cornell as 

you experienced it," Dallas said. For these 

alumni, that communication proves surprisingly 

easy. —Carol Kuntz'84 

The writer, a Dean's List major in 

diplomatic history from San Antonio, 

Texas, was editor-in-chief of the Cornell 

Daily Sun this year. Next year she'll attend 

the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton. 

To Conable's Credit 

"A Good Man Steps Down," was how 

Washington Post columnist Haynes Johnson 

summed up the news that Rep Barber Conable 

'43, LLB '48 (R-Rochester, NY) would 

not seek reelection this fall. During his 20 

years in Congress, Conable has described 

himself as a conservative Republican, but he 

is widely respected for being a rare Washington 

species: a wise and independent political 

thinker who is not afraid to be candid. Conable 

writes his own speeches and refuses to 

take more than $50 from any contributor or 

more than $500 for any speaking engagement. 

Conable likes President Reagan, but is not 

reluctant to point out that many of Reagan's 

primary supporters have an odd definition of 

a conservative. "It's odd," he noted, "to 

find people thinking that the government 

must not intervene in the lives of corporations 

but is perfectly justified in dictating issues 

of morality about which there is no 

clearly established consensus." 

Conable defends the middle-class who 

make up the Republican Party as being more 

enlightened than the special interest groups of 

the Democratic Party. He says he is also disturbed 

to find his party cultivating anti-abortion 

groups, explaining, "My impression is 

that it is a bad trade to drive away the business 

and professional women's clubs, the 

League of Women Voters, the American Association 

of University Women, who have 

traditional Republican positions in a rather 

questionable exchange with the housewives 

whose children have grown beyond the age of 

accidental pregnancy." 

When Conable spoke to his fellow alumni 

at the Cornell Association of Class Officers 

(CACO) meeting this winter, he said there 

was no point in talking about the country's 

financial mess. He explained that Congress 

would do nothing about it until voters demand 

action. His first questioner asked, 

"What should be done about the fiscal 

mess?" Conable's answer was swift and 

clear: "Higher taxes and less government 

spending." 

Among Conable's retirement activities will 

be reading the journal he has kept since 1967. 

He wants to see how accurately he assessed 

his colleagues and the history he personally 

witnessed. "Following Watergate," he explained, 

"which was a very difficult time for 

me—Richard Nixon probably did more to 

rob me of my sense of pleasure in public service 

than anyone else—I wanted to run away. 

I'm glad I didn't." 

Eight in a Family 

For years we have kept records of families in 

which five or more children of one couple 

earned a Cornell degree. Until 1981, the William 

H Horns stood atop the lists as the only 

family with seven degree-holders born to one 

couple. Last May they were surpassed by the 

eight children of Mr and Mrs M R (Jack) 

Shaw '34: Linda Shaw May '61, Katharine 

Shaw Peltz '62, Judy Shaw Munsell '64, William 

R Shaw '69, Margaret Shaw '71, Susan 

Shaw McCutcheon '73, and Virginia Shaw 

Shapiro '81. The eighth to receive a first degree, 

Helen (Polly) Shaw '75, earned a BS in 

Agriculture in May 1983. And this month the 

family will welcome its first PhD, earned by 

Margaret in the field of marketing. 

In all, our records show 1 family with eight 

degree-holding children, 1 with seven, 8 with 

six (the Bernsteins, Calls, Maltis, Pastos, 

Paynes, Rices, Youngs, and Warrens), and 12 

with five (the Blosteins, Bradfields, Clementes, 

Davenports, Earles, Hanfords, 

Hoffmans, Irishes, MacDonalds, Markhams, 

Palmers, Pendletons, Rosses, and Whinerys). 

If you know of a family that belongs on 

those lists and isn't there, let us know. 

With the Colleges 

Twelve graduates of the College of Architecture, 

Art, and Planning were on campus in 

February to meet with students and faculty as 

part of the Mackesey Seminar series. The annual 

weekend seminar is named in memory of 

Thomas W Mackesey, Grad '39-41, former 

dean of the college and VP for planning. 

Steven K Peterson '65, a founding partner 

of Peterson Littenberg Architects, in a lecture 

on education said the lack of direction in today's 

architecture encourages students to 

produce flashy designs rather than thoughtful 

solutions. He praised the formal training that 

is stressed in Cornell's architectural program 

as a fine resource. 

Alumni panelists offered advice and firsthand 

experience on such topics as "The future 

of the planning profession: Would you 

want your child to marry a planner?" and 

"Fine Arts Panel: What neither mother nor 

Cornell told me." 

The Cornell Daily Sun noted that for both 

students and alumni the underlying question 

was often, "Can ideals survive outside Cornell?" 

Mark Miller '76 and Marja Vallila, 

MFA '75 told students they would have to 

choose between a stable "art-related career" 

and being an artist. Miller, art director of a 

computer graphics lab, said trained artists are 

needed in computer graphics, but "it's really 

a professional environment." He tried, but 

found it impossible to do both art and computer 

graphics, he said. 

In the News 

Four people are candidates for two seats on 

the Board of Trustees elected by alumni: M 

Arthur Gensler Jr '58 of Mill Valley, Cal, 

head of Gensler and Associates/Architects, 

an architectural design firm; Lenora Moragne, 

PhD '69, a senior adviser in the Nutrition 

Coordinating Office of the US Dept of 

Health and Human Services in Washington, 

DC; Paul Tregurtha '57, president of Moore 

McCormack Resources Inc of Stamford, 

Conn, a developer and transporter of natural 

resources; and Edward Wolfson '48, MD '53, 

a professor of medicine and dean of the Up- 

MΛY 1984

state Medical School's Clinical Campus at 

Binghamton. The winners will succeed Marjorie 

Leigh Hart '50 and Eve Weinschenker 

Paul '50, whose terms expire June 30. 

Among the 22 recipients of this year's Mac- 

Arthur fellowships were David R Nelson '72, 

PhD '75, a physics professor at Harvard, and 

George Archibald, PhD '77, co-director of 

the International Crane Foundation. The 

John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation 

fellowships are awarded to original, dedicated, 

self-directed individuals who are nominated 

by a secret committee. 

Nelson will receive $172,000 over the next 

five years with no obligation to send so much 

as a report to the foundation. A participant 

in Cornell's original six-year PhD program, 

Nelson specializes in the study of theories of 

melting and condensed matter physics and 

chemistry. 

Ornithologist Archibald, who is internationally 

known for his work in saving endangered 

cranes, will receive $192,000. Archibald 

and Ronald Sauey, Grad '71-74 founded the 

International Crane Foundation on Sauey 

family land in Baraboo, Wise 10 years ago. In 

addition to studying cranes and inspiring conservation 

projects in Asia, Africa and America, 

they also breed cranes for restocking. 

George A Newbury '17, LLB '19 died March 

5 in Sarasota, Fla at the age of 88. He was 

president of his alumni class, a lawyer in Buffalo, 

retired in 1962 as president of the Manufacturers 

and Traders Trust Co in Buffalo. 

Cornellians knew him as former head of the 

Cornell Fund, for 10 years a trustee of the 

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university, a man of great enthusiasm for life 

and his Alma Mater. 

Fifteen years ago Norm Baker '49 joined 

Thor Heyerdahl, author of Kon-Tiki, and a 

team of international scientists to cross the 

Atlantic in a papyrus boat, twice {Alumni 

News, Feb '70 and Dec '70). Baker is still responding 

to the call of the open sea in historic 

fashion. His class correspondent reported 

{Alumni News, this issue) that he is now "restoring 

the oldest sailing ship in the world 

afloat" in preparation for an around the 

world voyage. Built in Norway in 1869 with 

huge timbers and steel ice plates on her bow, 

the Anne Kristine is the sister ship of the vessel 

in which Roald Amundsen explored the 

Arctic. Sailing in the Anne Kristine, Baker 

plans to visit and film oceanic archeological 

sites including ruins on the Maldives, deserted 

islands on the Equator in the Indian 

Ocean. 

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York 

City showed originals from the postage stamp 

series, the Birds and Flowers of the 50 States, 

last month. The paintings, by Arthur Singer 

and his son, Alan D. Singer, MFA '74, were 

featured in the Alumni News of June 1982. 

Women in Communications, Inc (WICI) has 

honored Jean Way Schoonover '41 and Barbara 

Way Hunter '49 by naming them 1984 

Headliners. They were recognized both for 

recent accomplishments and for continued 

excellence in the communications field. 

Schoonover and Hunter are sisters who became 

business partners in 1969 by buying 

Dudley-Anderson-Yutzy Public Relations, 

Inc of New York City. Schoonover is president 

and Hunter is executive VP. Under their 

leadership the firm quadrupled its billings 

and doubled its staff and client roster. They 

also erased the 30 per cent salary differential 

between men and women at the agency. 

Schoonover, a former Cornell trustee, was 

the first woman member of the Public Relations 

Society of America (PRSA). She was 

elected president in 1978. Hunter, a current 

trustee, is now president of PRSA. She was 

on campus in April to present the charter to 

the newly organized Public Relations Student 

Society of America. 

WICI, which includes men as well as women, 

is one of the oldest and largest professional 

communications organizations in the 

country. Jane Little Hardy '53, communication 

arts, is faculty advisor to the Cornell 

chapter, which is the most active journalism 

society on campus. 

Kenneth Katzner '52 is one of the few people 

since Samuel Johnson and Noah Webster to 

write a dictionary all by himself. His new 

English-Russian, Russian-English Dictionary 

is the first to be published in this country and 

the first to be based on American rather than 

British English. Published by John Wiley & 

Sons, the $69.95 book contains 906 pages and 

took 18 years to write. 

In an interview in the Washington Post, 

Katzner explained that the dictionary was 

written index card by index card, totalling 

eventually 60,000. A linguist and specialist in 

Soviet affairs, Katzner has worked for various 

government agencies. For the first three 

years he worked on his dictionary full time. 

When his first publisher died, he continued 

working evenings, reading Russian papers 

and books, and adding words and definitions 

until his index cards filled 14 three-foot deep 

filing drawers. Katzner began his study of 

Russian at Cornell, where he took Russian as 

a senior—and a literature course from Russian 

novelist Vladimir Nabokov. After join- 

ing the Army, he also studied Russian at the 

language school at Syracuse. 

Some Russian words in his dictionary, although 

well known in the Soviet Union, never 

appear in Soviet dictionaries. These words include: 

samizdat, the underground publication 

of banned material; stukach, an informer; 

and Potyomkinskaya derevnya, Potemkin 

village, which means false front. Potemkin 

was an adviser to Catherine the Great. For 

her tours of the countryside he had fake 

villages built, complete with dancing peasants, 

to convince her that things were going 

great in Russia. 

The Russians have adopted some English 

words such as "jeans" and "motel" and 

"musical," but they have little use for others 

like "ranch house," "stock option," and 

"pilot light." "Once I tried to describe a pilot 

light to a Russian," Katzner said, "and he 

gave me a funny look and said, 'In my country, 

we use a match.' " 

We'll have more in the July issue about 

Charlie Muller '18, writer whose article on 

Death Valley ran in our March issue. 

Academic Delegates 

Edgar H Bleckwell '33, at the inauguration of 

the president of Florida Atlantic University, 

Feb 10. 

Kenneth C Notturno '67, at the inauguration 

of the president of Franklin and Marshall 

College, March 3. 

Alan F McCrea '61, at the inauguration of 

the president of Virginia State U, March 25. 

Curtis S Reis '56, at the inauguration of the 

president of the U of California, Apr 12. 

Graduate Alumni 

Christopher N Breiseth, PhD '64, prof of history 

at Sangamon State U, Springfield, 111, 

has been named president of Wilkes College 

in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Wilkes is a private liberal 

arts college with an enrollment of 1,950. At 

Sangamon Breiseth has taught US, American 

racial and ethnic, modern European, world, 

local, and family history. His writings and 

publications have concentrated on British history, 

the Lincoln-Douglas debates, and curriculum 

development. Breiseth was president 

of Deep Springs College, Deep Springs, Cal 

from 1980-83. 

William David Hopper, PhD '57, vice president 

of the World Bank, has been named to 

the board of trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation. 

Hopper is an agricultural economist 

who has worked throughout his career to further 

agricultural development in poor nations. 

His first professional position was in rural 

India. After teaching agricultural economics 

in Canada and the US, he worked for the 

Ford and Rockefeller foundations. From 

1970-77 he was the first president of the International 

Development Research Centre, a 

public corporation created by the Parliament 

of Canada to support research to adapt science 

and technology to the needs of developing 

countries. At the World Bank, Hopper directs 

the bank's activities in South Asia. 

The Rockefeller Foundation, founded in 

1913, is one of the country's largest private 

foundations with assets of more than $1 billion. 

It supports programs in health and population, 

the arts and humanities, agriculture, 

the social sciences, and international relations. 

The Cornell Law School alumni of the New

Hampshire Bar Assn honored Robert B Dickson, 

LLB '55 at a dinner this winter for his 

appointment to the Superior Court of New 

Hampshire as an associate justice. 

Geologist Dennis Albaugh, MS '83 explores 

his native New Hampshire hills looking for 

neither gold nor oil, but the most precious 

commodity of all—water. Albaugh works for 

BCI Geonetics, Inc of Laconia, NH, a company 

that began writing environmental impact 

statements, but found a more important 

need to fill. Many towns take their water 

from surface reservoirs or shallow gravelpacked 

wells. Both sources are easily affected 

by drought and pollution. BCI has developed 

a method to tap the large reserves of underground 

water in fractured bedrock. 

Yankee Magazine and the Dartmouth* 

Alumni Magazine reported how Albaugh and 

his associates examine historical and topographical 

data, aerial photographs, and other 

remote sensing data and vegetation patterns, 

and study the land itself on foot with geological 

hammers to find fracture zones. The location 

has to be precise for they could drill for 

months on a ten-acre site and still miss the 

one- or two-foot-wide fracture they were 

seeking. 

Many engineers are skeptical, describing 

finding bedrock water as a shot in the dark. 

Scientists at BCI are outspoken believers in 

their methods. They have doubled the town 

well capacity in Seabrook, NH, and tapped 

1.7 million gallons per day of bedrock water 

for Salem, NH. 

Calendar 

Pittsburgh, Pa: CC meeting with Prof Don 

Barr, human service studies, May 11. Call 

Herbert South '69 (412) 741-7671. 

Newark, Del: Delaware CC pot luck luncheon, 

May 12. Call Betty Lindsay Dalton 

'47 (302) 721-5560. 

Louisville, Ky: CC meeting with Prof Don 

Barr, human service studies, May 12. Call 

Carol Loeb Ash '47 (502) 425-6647. 

Syracuse: CWC meeting on designing a 

model home, May 14. Call Joyce Fincher 

Coye '47 (315) 492-9630. 

East Homer: Cortland CWC piano duo, May 

15. Call Katie Pierce Putnam '44 (607) 

836-6172. 

New York City: CAANYC cocktail hour 

presentation by Robert Dunne, investment 

analyst, May 16. Call Roz Zalutsky Baron '53 

(212) 858-9689. 

Seattle, Wash: Western Washington CC 

spring celebration, May 17. Call Sarah 

Weaver '77 (206) 324-2752. 

Anchorage, Alaska: Alaska CC inaugural 

dinner meeting, May 17. Call Walter G Bruska 

'50 (907) 561-1098. 

Stamford, Conn: Fairfield County CC luncheon, 

May 17. Call Al Preston '35 (203) 

869-8387. 

Minneapolis: Minnesota CC annual picnic, 

May 20. Call Annette Chen Petty '68 (612) 

631-8952. 

Miami, Fla: CC end-of-the-year meeting, 

May 20. Call Thomas Loane '67 (305) 

557-9959. 

Schenectady: CWC dinner meeting, May 21. 

Call Nancy Lynch Boericke '60 (518) 

399-9009. 

Woods Hole, Mass: Cape Cod Cornellians 

"Program at Sea," May 21. Call Adele Mc- 

Donald Flanigan '36 (617) 775-5036. 

Racine, Wise: Wisconsin CC meeting with 

Prof Robert Barker, VP for research, May 

23. Call Milt Habeck '72 (414) 631-2457. 

Philadelphia, Pa: CC baseball, Phillies vs 

Dodgers, May 23. Call Sam Bookbinder '57 

(215) 545-1137. 

Albany: Capital District CC luncheon meeting, 

May 25. Call Herb Roes '60 (518) 

664-8843. 

Ithaca: Senior week concert by Glee Club and 

Chorus, May 26. Graduation, May 27—baccalaureate 

service, Bailey Hall, 10 am; procession 

from Arts Quad, 12:30 pm; commencement, 

2 pm at Schoellkopf. 

Florham Park, NJ: Northern New Jersey CC 

annual meeting with Prof Yervant Terzian, 

astronomy, May 31. Call Ed Leister '45 (201) 

379-7584. 

Miami, Fla: CC first Friday of the month 

happy hour, June 1. Call Thomas Loane '67 

(305) 557-9959. 

Riverside, Conn: Fairfield County CC annual 

meeting and brunch with Maxie Baughan, 

head football coach, June 3. Call Al Preston 

'35 (203) 869-8387. 

White Plains: Westchester CAA luncheon, 

June 8. Call Bill Gratz '53 (914) 698-6190. 

Ithaca: Reunion Weekend—includes All- 

Alumni Luncheons, 11 am, Barton Hall, 

June 8, 9; evening tent parties, 9 pm-1 am, 

North and West Campus, June 7, 8, 9; college 

breakfasts and seminars, June 8, 9; 

Frank Stanley Beveridge Foundation Lecture 

with Helmut Schmidt, former chancellor of 

West Germany, Bailey Hall, reserved seating, 

4 pm, June 8; Savage Club Show, Bailey Hall 

9:15 pm, June 8; Cornell Alumni Assn meeting 

with a report to the alumni from President 

Frank Rhodes at 9:45 am, June 9; Reunion 

Forum Series on June 9; Cornelliana 

Night, Bailey Hall, 9:30 pm, June 9; Class of 

1924 and 1964 Artists exhibitions at the Herbert 

F. Johnson Museum of Art, June 7, 8, 9; 

concerts, a memorial service for alumni, and 

many tours and lectures throughout the 

weekend. Call Alumni House (607) 256-4850 

or 3516. 

Hartford, Conn: CC Thames River cruise, 

June 10. Call Rosemary Pye, JD '74 (203) 

278-0454. 

New City: Rockland County CC annual 

meeting, bus trip to Chinatown for Chinese 

banquet, June 10. Call Robert Levitan '54 

(914)638-0491. 

Syracuse: CWC picnic, June 11. Call Marylyn 

Peck Jenkins '58 (315) 635-7661. 

Haverstraw: Rockland County CC boat ride, 

June 15. Call Robert Levitan '54 (914) 

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post to Barker; 

Hathaway dies 

Two changes in leadership at the top of 

the university were announced at the 

start of spring when the Board of Trustees 

elected Austin Kiplinger '39 to succeed 

Jansen Noyes Jr. '39 as its chairman 

on July 1, and President Rhodes 

named Robert Barker to become provost, 

also on July 1, succeeding W. 

Keith Kennedy, PhD '47. 

Both Noyes and Kennedy have served 

six years in their present positions. 

Noyes will retire after twenty-three years 

as a trustee, and Kennedy after thirtyfive 

years on the agronomy faculty. 

Kiplinger is vice chairman of the trustees, 

a member since 1960, most recently 

chairman of the selection committee that 

brought Rhodes to the university as 

president, and of the committee that 

promulgated changes in the size and 

operation of the trustee board. He is editor-in-chief 

of Changing Times magazine 

and the weekly Kiplinger Washington 

Letter, a journalist since graduation, 

with the San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago 

Journal of Commerce, ABC, NBC, 

and his family's enterprises in Washington. 

Barker, a professor of biochemistry, 

came to the Hill in 1979 from Michigan 

State to be director of the Division of Biological 

Sciences. He was instrumental 

in forming the Biotechnology Institute 

(more on page 2), and became vice president 

for research and advanced studies 

earlier in the academic year. As provost 

he is the president's first deputy, and 

chief educational officer under the president 

responsible for all academic programs 

outside the New York Hospital- 

Cornell Medical Center. Like Rhodes, 

he is a native of England and a naturalized 

US citizen. 

People: Baxter Hathaway, the Old Dominion 

professor of the humanities, died 

March 29 in Ithaca at the age of 74. He 

taught English on the Hill from 1946 until 

retiring in 1973, and was founder of 


Austin Kiplinger '39, chairman-elect of 

the Board of Trustees 

the literary magazine Epoch and the university's 

undergraduate and graduate 

writing programs. 

Melanie Weymer, an assistant director 

of the Cornell Fund since 1980, is its new 

director, succeeding Murray Death '67 

who took another assignment earlier in 

the year. 

Minority education: A trustee subcommittee 

ran into criticism when it added 

to an earlier draft report (March News) 

specific proposals to bring the Africana 

Studies and Research Center more closely 

into the university's academic structure 

than has been the case since the center's 

formation in 1969. 

The trustees suggested the independent 

center become part of the College 

of Arts and Sciences; future appointments 

to its faculty be made jointly with 

other academic departments of the university; 

the director serve for a specific 

term as do other center and college 

heads; and that the center be housed on 

the central campus, rather than north of 

campus as at present. 

The center's director told audiences 

and reporters he had not been consulted 

before the recommendations were made. 

James Gibbs '52, co-chairman of the 

trustee subcommittee and a professor 

and former acting head of black studies 

at Stanford, said the director and other 

center faculty were consulted. 

Students took the Africana faculty's 

side and the faculty said they would 

henceforth refuse to discuss the proposals 

with anyone. A rally on March 1.5 

was a climax of increasingly personal attacks 

on the trustees, their report, and 

administrators. President Rhodes and 

Provost Kennedy met 150 students outside 

Day Hall, heard their statements, 

then jousted verbally with them. 

When the Board of Trustees met on 

campus a week later, the subcommittee 

stood by its Africana recommendations 

and nearly all other details of its 

150-page report that had been made 

public in draft form two months earlier. 

The full Board of Trustees received the 

report as written and turned it over to 

the administration for study and recommendations. 

Rhodes said he would begin 

to come back to the board with any 

plans for change this month. 

Alumni: The Cornell Club of New York 

moved out of its leased quarters at 155 

East 50th Street in Manhattan last 

month and began sharing space in the 

Women's National Republican Club at 3 

West 51st Street. The Columbia University 

Club is already housed there. 

The Cornell Club's move in described 

in a letter to members as temporary, until 

the club finds permanent quarters. 

Two-thirds of the way through its 

year, the Cornell Fund was running $1 

million ahead of 1982-83, at $6.5 million 

in receipts, and $650,000 ahead in gifts 

and pledges combined, at $6,876,000. 

The teams: The baseball team was atop 

the Eastern league after four games, 

while most of the rest of the spring 

teams continued to struggle (earlier 

scores on page 10). 

Baseball split with Bowdoin 8-10 and 

11-0 and Bethune-Cookman 4-9 and 6-3, 

lost to Eckerd 1-13, beat Hartwick 8-4, 

went 3-16, 4-0, and 5-8 against Toledo, 

then back North beat Penn 10-5 and 6-5, 

and split with Columbia 4-1 and 2-6 and 

Ithaca College 3-4 and 4-3, for a 9-10 

record overall, 3-1 Eastern. 

Men's lacrosse was 2-4, 2-1 Ivy, on 

losses to Maryland-Baltimore County 

14-15, Massachusetts 9-10, and Penn 

5-10 and a 12-4 win over Yale. 

Women's tennis was 2-2 on wins over 

Old Dominion and Columbia and a loss 

to Penn. Men's tennis was 3-7 and winless 

in Eastern play on losses to Virginia 

Commonwealth, Old Dominion, Penn, 

and Columbia, and wins over Binghamton 

and Albany. 

The men's lightweight varsity crew 

lost to Penn but all other boats won, and 

the women's varsity lost to Syracuse but 

beat their JV four and novice shells. 

Women's track won a four-college invitational 

at Ithaca. Women's lacrosse 

stood at 1-2, 0-2 Ivy, on losses to Yale 

8-11 and Brown 6-10, and a 12-2 win 

over St. Lawrence. —JM

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