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isn't so wild a dream, because the mail has
already brought me a note from committee
member Helen DePue Schade, who says
she and her husband, J. Alan, plan to go
back to Reunion in June.
Helen tells me that she has been working
as director of school lunches in Fair Lawn
since 1949 and that her job has grown
along with the community, which has
enlarged the high school and built two large
and beautiful junior high schools. "We
started with five women helpers and now
employ 44 and a secretary. I must say there
is never a dull movement," is her comment.
Helen and Alan were married in 1922
and lived in Owego until they moved to
Fair Lawn in 1935. Their three children
were born in Owego and one of them, a
girl, died there at the age of 10. Their son
J. Alan Jr., served in the Navy in World
War II and returned too late to be accepted
at crowded Cornell. He's a graduate engineer
from Rutgers. Their daughter is a
pediatric nurse. Both children are married
and have three children each. "That makes
six grandchildren and we are wondering
if and when we may have any or all of
them in Cornell," Helen says.
May A. Regan, who wintered in Palm
Beach, Fla., attended a dinner of the
Cornell Club of Eastern Florida at the
Manalapan Club, March 3, at which Blanchard
Hideout, PhD '36, secretary of Cornell,
was the guest speaker.
She writes me that she has seen some
other Cornellians while in the South. She
says Marie Underbill Noll '26 and her
husband A. Robert, have just purchased
a condominium apartment in Boca Ratan on
the Intercoastal Waterway, but are keeping
their main home at Manhasset.
May also reports that Louise Dadmun '23
(Mrs. John J. Van Acker) has owned a home
in Lake Worth for eight years, has been
successful in a real estate career there, and
is active in state conservation programs. She
has a summer place outside of Albany.
A trip to Bali was the Christmas holiday
adventure of Deborah Cummings Knott
and husband James, PhD '26, who will wind
up three years in the Phillippines and return
to their Davis, Calif., home in July.
Her husband has been working with the
Cornell-University of the Phillippines agricultural
project at Los Banos.
Of the holiday trip, Debbie writes: "We
had to go to Jakarta and Singapore to get
to Bali. We felt too much tension in Jakarta
to enjoy ourselves there. Returning, we had
two days in Kuala Lumpur, likewise Hong
Kong.
"In Singapore I tracked down a couple
of strings of red-branching coral. Had some
as a child and loved it. Now, the cussed
plastics look so similar. The batiks always
intrigue and I bought a couple of pieces.
The cotton prints are such good copies it's
hard to tell the genuine.
"We had good hotel accommodations
everywhere. Ten years ago room and bath
were $10 but now it's at least $16 plus
10 per cent service and sometimes a 10 per
cent government tax. But it's still lower
than most stateside costs. "Ed is in the
throes of compiling a Southeast Asia vegetable
book and gathered quite a bit on this
jaunt."
Debbie also tells of a January visit of
Dean Helen Canoyer of the State College
of Home Economics at Cornell to the
Knotts' barrio.
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Men: Joseph Moίycka
/ / Folly Farm, RD 3
*-**-* Coventry, Conn. 06238
Keeping track of deadlines for this column
has been extremely difficult for this
scribe. I am supposed to be retired but,
now and then, I am asked to do some consulting
which takes me away or otherwise
occupies my time. I also suspect that the
NEWS has gummed up the deadlines somewhat.
Also, it is very difficult to write
when there is no news. Anyway, on April
28 we will have our annual Class Dinner
in New York at which time I will be able
to collar some of those with writing cramps
to find out what they have been up to.
At least a few of the more hardy nonmigrating
of us got together for a meeting
of the Executive Committee at a luncheon
in New York on Feb. 28. The principal
topics discussed were Reunion plans, the
Cornell Fund, the Annual Dinner, and class
communications. The following were present:
Pat Thornton, Don Baker, Hal Merz,
George Eidt, Bill Hill, Joe Motycka, Bill
Fox, Ceasar Grasselli, Don McAllister, and
Pep Wade.
Just when most of us are being forced
into retirement, the Public Service Electric
& Gas Co. announces that Winthrop E.
Mange has been promoted to be assistant
to the general manager-engineering. Win
will be responsible for representing the company
on the Keystone and Conemaugh
transmission advisory committees in the
matter of budgets and their reconciliation
with actual expenditures.
Sam Griscom retired from Westinghouse
a couple of years ago, but still does some
consulting for them, some in Pittsburgh
and some in Florida at Travernier PO
Box 612.
Men: John J. Cole
110 Mountain Grove St.
Bridgeport, Conn. 06605
The news from classmates is full of
retirement traveling, and it begins to look
as though '23 has a representative in every
nice warm spot in the world. A few samples
are submitted as evidence.
Lawrence M. (Larry) Orton, who spends
his more productive hours on the City
Planning Commission in New York, decided
to do a little snooping in the Windward
Islands. His latest trip involved retracing
Robinson Crusoe's route to Tobago, and in
exploring Columbus' Spice Isle. Larry recommends
the change in climate as a good
relief from the Big City.
Ernest C. (Woodie) Woodin is stubbornly
resisting the rocking chair, and continues in
full force as manager of the mutual funds
department of Shields & Co. in the White
Plains office. He and wife Mary stole a little
time from the job, and recently stirred up
the waters in the West Indies, St. Thomas,
Curacao, Trinidad, and Barbados. Having
tasted this luscious fruit, the Woodins are
embarking on another trip to the Grand
Bahamas. I don't know when the mutual
funds get any attention.
Dave Jacobson reports an upsurge in the
academic status of his family. Daughter
Marilyn is '65, and Harvard '66 Master in
Education. With all of that intellectual
equipment, she has decided to go into more
prosaic pursuits. She is engaged to be
married in July of this year.
Francis J. Bean reports from Tucson,
Ariz, that he is still practicing internal
medicine in that area. The younger Bean
generation has elected to stay close to home,
with a daughter teaching in Yuma, and a
son working with General Electric in
Phoenix.
Stephen M. (Steve) Jenks, whose lifetime
in steel-making was reported here sometime
ago, is now a definite member of the rocking
chair brigade. His old boss, US Steel,
still needs him for occasional consulting
work with trips to New York every month.
Steve reports that he, his wife, and his
daughter Nancy, made a winter trip to the
West Coast and Canada. They enjoyed very
much going by train, which gave them a
chance to look at the scenery, and avoided
the rigors of winter driving. Nice work if
you can get it.
O. Lindsey (Lin) Clarkson is much disturbed
by the dislocation of the ALUMNI
NEWS delivery dates. He is having trouble
reading basketball news in the summertime,
and baseball stories with Thanksgiving
dinner. Be patient, Lin, the NEWS will be
back on the track within a couple of months.
He also would like to have the Penn game
moved to a Saturday instead of Thanksgiving
Day. He has no respect for the
sanctity of tradition, but feels that if he
does enough griping, they may change the
date just to keep him quiet. Will anybody
else second this motion?
H. L. (Huck) Ebersole is fully retired
from ,the department store field. Complete
idleness was too much for him, so he has
been delving into commercial financing and
real estate. Among his more newsworthy
accomplishments, he reports that he made
his first trip back to Ithaca in 42 years to
see the Dartmouth game last fall. He encountered
the same difficulty finding his
way around the campus, but had a good
time withal. He did a little reminiscing
with George Pfann '24, and there is a hope
that maybe this long-deferred trip may
induce Huck to attend our '68 Reunion.
R. F. (Ray) Jahn, who retired a few years
ago, has been alternating six months in
Long Island, with the other six months in
Florida. He has managed to outwit the
weatherman very nicely, and now for a
little variety, he and his wife have scheduled
a trip around the world for this summer.
There was an ulterior purpose in this jaunt,
because Ray's son and family are now living
in Hong Kong where he is employed by
Union Carbide.
Albert G. (Al) Joyce Jr., is still reporting
every day at Fahnestock & Co. down in
Wall Street. He is taking more time off
these days, and reports a recent Caribbean
cruise in February, with a second trip planned
for Jamaica. He is probably looking
around for a new location for another
branch office where he can be manager.
Women: Eleanor Riley Beach
593 Park Λve.
Rochester, N.Y. 14607
We are extremely appreciative to Trudy
Mathewson Nolin (wife of Albert R. '21)
for the following news items: "After considering
several Florida locations and incidentally
having a trip to the West Coast,
Hawaii, and Japan, Doris Wadsworth
Toole and her husband (James E., who retired
in 1962) have bought a home in Maitland,
Fla. Doris reports they are raising
camillias, also are 'knee deep in orange
juice.'
"Helen Northrup has retired from her
work as librarian in Madison, Wis. She
leaves March 19 for Mexico, 'hoping to see
Indians, ruins, birds, and lots of sun.'
"Maurine Beals Ferris and husband W.
Dean '21 are spending a few months touring
Mexico and the western United States in
their Avion trailer.
"Among other '23 travelers are Gertrude
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