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We looked around but didn't see Earl
Harding who spends the N.Y. snowy months
in Florida. Otherwise Earl still enjoys growing
fruit on the family farm in Albion and
getting his three grandchildren properly
imbued with Cornell spirit. Whitney
(Mower) McGuire of Richmond, Ind., has it
tough too. Now retired from making "grass
cutters," Whit spends the winters in Naples,
Fla. and summers at Waloon Lake, Mich.,
stopping off at Richmond only for a change
of clothes and to fill the gas tank.
One of the "younger set" in our class is
Chris M. Cordley, who last June took a
bride Barbara Ellison. Chris recently purchased
"The Knoll" (not the old Delta Chi
house) on Tilman's Rd. in Ivy, Va., eight
miles from Charlottesville, where they
spend the winter months. If you want to
reach him now until Nov. 15, it's Beech
Hill Rd., Colebrook, Conn.
Brig. Gen. Robert A. Stack, Retired, enjoys
life at King George, Va., but is working
the way a retired general should as
president of an association to bring a regional
library to the five counties of King
George, Stafford, Spottsylvania, Caroline,
and Westmoreland. Bob's determined to get
stacks and stacks of books and a library to
put them in. Then he'll be known as Bob
"Book" Stack.
At last we emerge from our provincial
shell and broaden ourselves with a bit of
travel, wanting to be smart like the rest of
youse. We take off this month on a flight
to Paris and London; then a leisurely trip
through the Rhine country and Bavaria,
visiting the Austrian and Swiss Alps, the
Italian lake country and French Riviera. We
will attend the Rotary International Convention
at Nice where we will conduct a
seminar on real estate for an assembly of
real estate men from other parts of the
world. We haven't mastered all the languages
yet and may have to rely on good old
American slang to get the message across.
We've heard the scenery on the beach at
Cannes is revealingly beautiful. The eyes'll
have it!
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Women: Mary H. Donion
201 Varick St.
New York, N.Y. 10014
Doris Kinde Brandow (Mrs. Charles H.)
wrote that she and her husband were going
to spend a couple of months in sunny
Florida, where they hoped to see the Craws.
And Katherine Crowly Craw (Mrs. lohn N.)
wrote from Ellenton, Fla., that they were
south for several months and expected to
see the Brandows. So it seems likely there
was a real 1920 reunion down there, while
we more deprived New Yorkers were coping
with blizzards.
Grace Dίmelow has a new address. Now
at 49 W. 12th St., New York, Grace writes
that she retired from business in 1953 and
has traveled often to Europe, twice to the
Far East, and that she spends every winter
in Florida. Grace moved from her old
home in Califon, N.J., to the New York
apartment "to be nearer friends and cultural
pursuits and activities." She does not
say where her Florida winters are spent,
but I note she mailed her dues from Sarasota!
Such a nice, newsy letter from Ruth
Aldrich Hastings (Mrs. William F.), out in
Michigan at 119 E. Holcomb St., Athens.
Let me share it with you all.
"Has Alberta Shackelton ever told you
that we who lived on the same corridor our
senior year in Prudence Risley have kept
our Round Robin going all these years, with
a couple of long pauses? It includes Doris
Lake, Edith Stokoe, Eva Topkins Brodkin,
Elizabeth Signor Larkin, Lorraine Van
Wagenen Foster, Sarah Van Wagenen Ter
Bush, Alberta Dent Shackelton, and Ruth
Aldrich Hastings. (Ye Ed. No, nobody told
me. Now, please, cut me in on this Round
Robin. We would all like to share your
news.) Mabel Zoller, Mary Moore Shackelton,
and Olga Wolfe were in it, too.
"My husband was ill for five weeks in
October and November, but is back at his
pastorate again. We are happy in our
second grandson Stephen Roger Hastings
but haven't seen him. His mother will finish
her fourth year of medical school at the
U of Minnesota this June, and his father is
writing a book on Residue Mathematics to
come out this spring in Spartan Paperback.
He is working on self-correcting processes
in computers as a research engineer at
Minneapolis Honeywell.
"We did visit Ithaca over the weekend
of Aug. 14 last summer, as I may have
written. It's almost too exciting to be back.
We have a beautiful oil painting done by
Prof. Baker showing Ithaca in fall colors
which we enjoy daily.
"Thank you, Mary, for answering our
letters to you for 'your Day.' The picture of
you four (Ed: Alice, Alberta, Agda, and me)
amazes me. What? No glasses? Or contact
lenses? It must haye been quite a day!
"Marion Shevalier Clark and I will see
each other in the spring."
No, Ruth, no glasses and no contact
lenses. I guess you might say it's a case of
second sight in one's old age!
Margaret Winfield Fraser (Mrs. Thomas
M.) was one of those who wrote me such a
lovely letter in my Oct. 7 book! Now with
her dues there has come news of her, which
I happily pass along to you.
"Three annual moves, or is it four, from
Long Island to Captiva, Fla., back to Long
Island, to New Hampshire, then to Long
Island again; three granddaughters in Port
Washington; three granddaughters, plus a
grandson in Amherst where their father
teaches anthropology at the U of Massachusetts;
as well as two large standard poodles,
conspire to keep my husband and myself
sufficiently occupied."
Those of you who know Captiva Island
(north of Sanibel) know that it's a beautiful
place. What luck, Margaret, Captiva in
winter and New Hampshire in summer!
Margaret's address is Box 88, Port Washington.
When you read this, think of me soaking
up the sunshine in Greece! Much as I admire
the archeological wonders remaining
from ancient Greece, about the time you
get this May issue of the NEWS your
scribe is likely to be more than a trifle
foot-sore and bone-weary from scrambling
over ruins and climbing the hills on which
the Greeks loved to build. After a month
there, Vienna and a week of opera are going
to be real relaxation!
Don't forget to send in your vote for
alumni trustees. Let it not be said that we
women do not value our franchise.
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Men: James H. C. Martens
317 Grant Ave.
Highland Park, NJ. 08904
One of the advantages of continuing to
work after retirement is that you can still
look forward to vacations. Your correspondent,
who retired as professor of geology
at Rutgers (New Brunswick, N. J.) and
is now teaching at Hunter College, will be
spending a vacation in Virginia the latter
part of March, hoping to see some spring.
Our most recent past-president, Thad L.
(Pat) Collum, has been mentioned several
times recently in the newspapers and on
the radio. At the end of March he completed
a 13-year term on the Board of Regents
of the University of the State of New
York. He was elected to this position by
the Legislature in February 1954; in 1961
he was elected vice chancellor of the Board
of Regents and has held that position since
then. Last November, Pat was elected a
delegate to the Constitutional Convention,
which convened in Albany on April 4 and
will probably last all summer.
About four years ago, Pat retired from
active business and turned over business interests
to his two sons, Edward '49 and
Thad '52. He and his wife now spend five
months of the year in Naples, Fla., and the
rest of the year in Syracuse.
Walter Dockerill has recently received
special notice as the top salesman in 1966
of the L. C. ludd Companies, Realtors, in
Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Walter had sales of
$1,230,000 in 1966 and is off to a good
start in 1967. Dealing in real estate is Walter's
"second career." From 1921 to 1953
he was mostly concerned with sales of anthracite
coal in New York and surrounding
areas, with time out from 1943 until the end
of the war for the position of regional director
of the Solid Fuel Administration for
War, in charge of the New York office.
Walter moved to Ft. Lauderdale in 1953
and joined the Judd organization in 1960.
Walter and wife Jane have three sons, two
daughters, and several grandchildren.
E. B. (Andy) White reports briefly from
Sarasota, Florida:
"I still do a small weekly chore for the
New Yorker, but do not have to be in the
city for it. My wife and I now spend our
winters in Florida. I'm working on another
book, which, if it is ever published, will be
my 18th. A writer is incapable of retiring,
so I am not faced with any retirement problems,
such as the necessity of taking up
golf. I get my exercise emptying the trash
and zipping up my wife."
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Women: Elisabeth Keiper
21 Vick Park B
Rochester, N.Y. 14607
Birds that fly afar in the spring aren't
all of the feathered variety. Each of the
190 members of our class can expect a
Round Robin letter, if, indeed, it hasn't
already arrived and been speeded on its
way again.
The Robin idea comes from class president,
Margaret K. Taylor (Mrs. J. Laning),
who hopes the bird will pick up news of
members as it makes its rounds and also
stimulate enthusiasm for Cornell and the
Class of 1921.
She has named a communications committee
composed of 11 members who attended
our 45th Reunion last year: Florence
G. Beck, Ithaca; Sophie Deylen Davis, Flat
Rock, N.C.; Lillian Brotherhood Donovan,
Sun City Center, Fla.; Irma M. Greenawalt,
Denver, Colo.; Theresa Fox Hart, Davis,
Calif.; Gladys Saxe Holmes, Colmar, Pa.;
Lucy M. Maltby, Corning; Ruby M. Odell,
Jacksonville, Fla.; Helen DePue Schade,
Fair Lawn, N.J.; Katharine Duddy Smith,
Wilmington, Del.; and Helen Stankiewicz
Zand, Lenox, Mass.
The class roster was divided into 11 lists
and each committee member was asked to
draft a letter and start it on its way to a
list of 15 members, each of whom will, of
course, add some news about herself and
send the Robin on after a pause of not
more than five days—it is hoped.
Another hope is that the Robin will lay
a few eggs of news in my basket, which
still isn't exactly overflowing. Maybe this
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