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happy going to our club, playing bridge,<br />
etc., and my chief delight are the grandchildren<br />
and great-grandchildren. You may<br />
remember I was the first great-grandmother<br />
in our class, but by now I suppose others<br />
have joined me. We have added a little<br />
great-granddaughter, Melissa, age 14 mo.<br />
Michael is now almost 5."<br />
Winifred Woodman Curtis, MD. }<br />
St.<br />
Mark's Ave., Stony Brook: "Still doing fulltime<br />
g.p. medical practice, and still love it,<br />
in spite of husband, three married children,<br />
and 11 grandchildren. Hobbies too numerous<br />
to complete; interests, all outdoors. Activities,<br />
trying to do too much in too short<br />
a time!"<br />
Frances Jansen Card (Mrs. Wendell T.),<br />
Center St., Sylvania, Pa.: "We still live in<br />
our tiny town of Sylvania. Our only daughter<br />
lives on the ancestral farm with her husband,<br />
a math teacher at Mansfield State<br />
College, three children, 135 head of sheep,<br />
and two ponies. My husband operates a<br />
furniture hospital where he is kept busy repairing<br />
and restoring antiques."<br />
Amy L. Tooker, 116 Riverside Dr., Riverhead:<br />
"President—Suffolk County TB &<br />
Public Health Assn.; board of directors—<br />
N.Y. State TB & PH Assn. In pursuit of my<br />
husband's hobby of photography, we have<br />
traveled quite a bit. Last year we were in<br />
the Middle East; this last February toured<br />
up and down South America, and this coming<br />
year plan to go to the South Pacific,<br />
New Zealand, and Australia. Two of our<br />
children are in Riverhead. Bob is in the law<br />
firm with his father; Peggy is busy with a<br />
new baby. Betty teaches anthropology at<br />
Temple U. There are six grandchildren. I<br />
am certainly looking forward to Reunion<br />
and seeing you all again."<br />
June Deming Mills, 2009 Arbor Lane,<br />
Mound, Minn.: "I live alone by beautiful<br />
Lake Minnetonka, since I retired from<br />
teaching. My hobbies are grandchildren,<br />
bowling, and flower gardening. Looking forward<br />
to June '67."<br />
Mary Guernsey Satterlee, 61 Quarry<br />
Dock Rd., Niantic, Conn.: "No unusual<br />
news about me. I flew to Europe in Sept. on<br />
BOAC for three weeks. I spent AV2 months<br />
in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and the rest of<br />
my time in Niantic, Conn. This year I'm<br />
spending on leaks in my roofs, etc., etc., ad<br />
infinitum. Just repair bills will keep me<br />
home. Come see me."<br />
Alice Brewster Porter, 1 Furman PL, Delmar:<br />
"Active in community work. Past pres.<br />
of the Delmar Progress Club (women's club<br />
of 300 members). Past pres. <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
Women's Club of Albany and the Delmar<br />
Camera Club. Member of AAUW and N.Y.<br />
State Retired Teachers Assn., served 10<br />
years as state historian of the Fed. of<br />
Women's Clubs, serving as the first woman<br />
elder of the Delmar Presbyterian Church.<br />
My husband George passed away Dec. 5,<br />
1965 after 13 years of invalidism from a<br />
cerebral hemorrhage. Photography has been<br />
my hobby for about eight years, with some<br />
degree of success. I received a grand prize<br />
in five annual local newspaper photo contests.<br />
These winners were chosen for the<br />
national competition and each received a<br />
certificate of merit. They were on exhibition<br />
in the National Geographic Bldg. in Washington,<br />
D.C. I do all my own developing<br />
and enlarging of black and white. My second<br />
hobby is travel. I have made two recent<br />
trips to the Hawaiian Islands and developed<br />
a travelog—"Aloha Hawaii." This slide lecture<br />
has been given free to 20 organizations<br />
in my community and still going<br />
strong. I have one daughter, Alice Angie,<br />
and two grandsons."<br />
Elizabeth Abbuhl Boardman (Mrs. Don<br />
A.), RD 3, Taberg: "About 1957, got into<br />
some substitute teaching. Liked it so well<br />
that in 1960 (age 64), I started a teaching<br />
career. Got an MS in education at Oswego<br />
Recent Bequests<br />
• Bequests for January totaled $135,-<br />
919.80, of which $31,075 came from the<br />
estate of Larry E. Gubb '16; $1,000<br />
from the estate of Louise S. McDowell<br />
'07; and $26,500 from the estate of William<br />
A. Robinson '06.<br />
February bequests totaled $439,072.44,<br />
of which $10,000 came from the estate<br />
of Katharine Etz '17 and $225,000 from<br />
the estate of May H. Salinger.<br />
Balances in both months came from<br />
estates previously announced.<br />
and taught until last June (six yrs.). Now retired,<br />
I dabble with a little painting (oils)<br />
and enjoy my 20 grandchildren, to say<br />
nothing of other children when I do a little<br />
substituting in the Rome schools. Teach an<br />
adult s.s. class and garden a bit."<br />
Hazel I. Stokoe, 659 Quaker Rd., Scottsville:<br />
"I am interested in reading, vegetable<br />
gardening, candy making, and cooking. My<br />
brother, William '13, my three sisters, Edith<br />
'20, Evelyn, and Mrs. William Rice, and I<br />
live on a farm which has been in the family<br />
for 150 years. I have been financial<br />
secretary of the Union Presbyterian Church,<br />
Scottsville for the past five years. I have<br />
seven nieces and nephews, and 20 grandnieces<br />
and grand-nephews."<br />
Pearl Warn Hovey, 7 Park St., Newark<br />
Valley: "Church interests; wife of a Methodist<br />
minister for over 35 years. Mother of<br />
four children: Mrs. Joyce Engelke, '41;<br />
George A. '49; Mrs. Betty Richards, Schaeffer<br />
College, Cleveland, Ohio '45; Mrs. Evelyn<br />
Richards, Oberlin, Ohio '55; grandmother,<br />
to seven, five boys—two girls. Husband,<br />
Rev. Luke W. Hovey, passed away in<br />
1956."<br />
Beatrice Duryea Vanderschoot (widow of<br />
Rudolph), 9 Asbury Ct., Binghamton: "Real<br />
estate broker. Lineage societies: DAR,<br />
Daughters of American Colonists, Daughters<br />
of Founders & Patriots, Hugenot Society,<br />
Magna Charta Dames, Sovereign<br />
Colonial Society, Americans of Royal Descent.<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> Women's Club, Pan-Hellenic<br />
of Southern N.Y., KΔ Alumnae Assn.,<br />
Who's Who in the East, Who's Who of<br />
American Women, Who's Who in Commerce<br />
& Industry, Dictionary of International<br />
Biography. One daughter, Leatrice<br />
McClernan (Mrs. Ralph), Palos Verdes Peninsula,<br />
Calif., three grandchildren: Gary,<br />
15, Danny 13, Lorraine, 9.<br />
Elizabeth Rowlee Lobdell (Mrs. A. T.),<br />
1210 Peach St., Lincoln, Neb.: "Family—<br />
eldest daughter, librarian; son in San Antonio;<br />
youngest daughter in Lincoln. Eight<br />
grandchildren, one great-granddaughter.<br />
Aside from my family, my only hobby is<br />
weaving."<br />
Mabel Baldwin Erskine (Mrs. A. M), 308<br />
W. Vance St., Wilson, N.C.: "We have just<br />
moved back East from Berkeley, Calif. On<br />
Jan. 28 I fell and broke my pelvis and have<br />
been in the Wilson Hospital. A trip to<br />
Florida had to be called off, but I am able<br />
to get around with a 'walker.' One of our<br />
sons lives outside of Pittsburgh and the<br />
other in Charleston, S.C. Wilson is on Rt.<br />
301, so why don't you stop off here sometime?<br />
Best wishes to all."<br />
Come join us at the 50th. We're looking<br />
forward to the greatest Golden Gathering<br />
ever!<br />
'18<br />
Men: Stanley N. Shaw<br />
12143 Callado Rd.<br />
San Diego, Calif. 92128<br />
Credit to the classmate writing the longest,<br />
most newsy letter goes this month to<br />
"Spud" (Robert F.) Phillips, 2929 E. Hartford<br />
Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. Writing regretfully<br />
of my having moved so far from my<br />
old haunts, Spud notes that he has lived in<br />
Milwaukee for 44 years and cannot imagine<br />
living anywhere else unless health made<br />
it absolutely necessary. Spud, like me, was<br />
born and raised in Colorado but reports no<br />
ties there since 1943. Yet he has an older<br />
brother and sister living right here in the<br />
San Diego area. Spud says he is feeling<br />
great after six years of retirement, "loving it<br />
more than ever. I spend about two days a<br />
week trout fishing from May to September,<br />
then hunt ducks from October to December.<br />
The rest of the time I plow snow, do garden<br />
jobs, try my hand in the workshop, or help<br />
raise money for the <strong>Cornell</strong> Fund." There<br />
are only two other Eighteeners in Spud's<br />
general area—Ed Nickles in Manitowoc<br />
and Tony Yon Wening in Milwaukee. Incidentally,<br />
Ed Nickles himself writes that<br />
"we retirees don't have much happening to<br />
us that would make news, but I am certainly<br />
looking forward to the 50th Reunion<br />
next year." Ed lives at 519 N. 4th St.,<br />
Manitowoc.<br />
Paul L. Garver, 4911 Morella Ave.,<br />
North Hollywood, Calif., likewise reports<br />
"nothing to report other than I am still<br />
around and keeping busy. Have switched<br />
from engineering to the investment business<br />
and having a good time at it. That and<br />
various other civic activities don't leave<br />
much time for leisure or travel, but I hope<br />
to get to Ithaca in '68." Another far, far<br />
westerner to be heard from recently is Bill<br />
(W.W.G.) Moir, PO Box 2298, Honolulu,<br />
Hawaii. Bill retired in 1959 and ever since<br />
has been busier than ever in botanic gardens,<br />
conservation work, orchid hybridization,<br />
travel, lecturing, and writing, and just<br />
cannot find enough time for it all. Some<br />
time ago he broke his left leg at the hip<br />
joint and now is "getting along with about<br />
three pounds of steel in there," but it hasn't<br />
slowed him down, apparently. He reports<br />
getting to New York about three times a<br />
year and "other places in between."<br />
Harry Handwerger, 155 E. 47th St., New<br />
York, is still going strong as a consulting<br />
engineer; his firm is Handwerger & Caldwell,<br />
of New York City. Dudley B. Hagerman,<br />
Seawood Dr., Southhold, has recently<br />
remarried and returned to Southhold, his<br />
old home town. Ed (Edward C.) Knapp, 100<br />
Court St., North Andover, Mass., writes<br />
that he was interned for four days in Damascus<br />
during a Syrian revolution and had<br />
no communication of any kind with the<br />
outside world during that period. "Tanks<br />
and soldiers in numbers in the square in<br />
front of our hotel. Finally, with the help of<br />
the Danish consul, we got out to Lebanon."<br />
Except for that incident, he reports a fine<br />
two-month cruise in the Mediterranean.<br />
Homer Neville, 33 Washington Ave.,<br />
Amityville, says: "It's nice to be retired,<br />
that is, if there is something to do. My wife<br />
says I'm busier than when I was teaching.<br />
We are at a farm in Hyndsville most of the<br />
time from April through November. I have<br />
a few insurance clients to take care of and<br />
prospective farm buyers to guide among the<br />
hills of Schoharie County. As superintendent<br />
of the fruits and vegetables department<br />
of the Long Island Fair, I must visit the<br />
farmers and encourage their interest in<br />
presenting exhibits. In addition, and to<br />
make certain I have no idle moments, I<br />
agreed to teach a 20-hour course in soils<br />
and vegetable gardening to a Peace Corps<br />
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