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63rd St., New York, and wife are returning
to Reunion via Bombay, Tel Aviv, and their
old home, Antwerp, Belgium. Bob Wilder's
(613 Elm Ter., Riverton) daughter Judy,
Delaware '62, is with the Peace Corps
teaching English to Iranian children. Em
Collins, president, First National Bank,
Duluth, Minn., is an eight-star grandpa.
Em is also a member of Northwest International
Bank Board, 40 Wall St., New
York, and a member of the Minnesota
Power & Light board of Duluth.
Chuck Baker, 1339-27th N.W., Washington,
D.C., is eager to get back to the 40th
to see if all he reads about Cornell beatniks
and the fraternity agitation is true, but is
looking forward with pleasure to seeing his
old '27 friends. Glen Bennett, 912 Mc-
Clyman St., Schenectady, has a son Dick
'57, a USAF pilot who now instructs at San
Antonio, Randolph AFB after a stint in
Saigon. J. Phil Allison, 18407 Chagrin
Blvd., Shaker Heights, Ohio, retired two
years ago from Erie Lakawanna RR where
he was asst. vice president.
Phil Hoyt, 67-58 Exeter St., Forest Hills,
is a three-star grandpa. Bill November, 21
Bond St., Great Neck, is senior v.p. of
Windsor Life Ins. Co. of America and v.p.
of the Society of Actuaries. Herm Redden,
50 Bellvale Rd., Mountain Lakes, N.J., now
retired, will move to a new home in Strafford,
Vt. Jay Achenbach, 8019 Seminole
Ave., .Philadelphia, Pa., W3QB talked with
Art Saldana, KP4TL, San Turce, Puerto
Rico. Art Trayford, Friendship Rd., RD 3,
Waldoboro, Me., is with the US Dept. of
Agriculture, consumer and marketing service
inspection.
Bob Zautner, 1500 New Scotland Rd.,
Slingerlands, is incorporated with his brother
in real estate as a second business. He continues
his Ice Cream Tollgate operation with
his sons. Dr. Wilbur Brooks, 312 Ruby
Ave., Syracuse, has a son, Mark '69, a
daughter, Allis, attending Syracuse, and two
other daughters coming along soon with
eyes both ways. Good luck, Wil.
Hope to see you all at Reunion!
J ^S P"! Women: Grace Hanson Reeve
/ I 1563 Dean St.
*-* I Schenectady, N.Y. 12309
In Florida, at present, besides those
mentioned in the March issue are Elizabeth
Moyer Trainer, Carmen Schneider Savage,
Marie Parkhurst Wills, and Grace Babble
Zimmerman. Val Hieby Frederick wrote
from Texas where she and her husband
spend four months every winter. The most
exciting news came from Dot Sharpe Trefts.
She and Bud left the country on Feb. 19 for
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, via Athens, where
Bud starts on March 1 as field treasurer for
United Presbyterian Church, USA, for a
three-year stint. Her address is Box 1111,
American Missions, Addis Ababa, and she
says please write.
Grace Guthmann Burnett, who came to
our 35th, has just returned to her home
in Sao Paulo, Brazil, after another visit.
Betty Reamer Carson is moving to the new
home she and her husband are building at
93 Stewart Rd., Short Hills, N.J. Since
Jim has retired, summers are spent at Cape
Cod, mostly on their boat. Honey Haskell,
MD, is busily building a house on Long
Beach Island, N.J., where she says she
may some day retire, unless she chooses
Barbados, where she has a license to
practice.
Fannie Dubofsky Johannes, who is looking
forward to retirement as a librarian in
a New York high school, has just returned
from a sabbatical in Mexico, a country that
Norma Colp Rothenburgh has traveled to
innumerable times. Norma recently went
abroad, and a highlight was visiting Estelle
Uptcher Hearnden in London. Pauline Ace
Eck flew to Scandinavia and visited Veora
Tyrrell Lewis and Windsor in Stockholm.
Alice Klein Feller left her New York apartment
three years ago and built herself a
home at Aspen, Colo., which she calls the
world's greatest resort.
Jo Conlon Ernstein traveled to the Southwest
last year for the first time in her life
and said she was "bedazzled" by that section
of our country. Jo, who has traveled all
over Europe, has retired after 38 years of
teaching in Ithaca High School, the last five
as head of the foreign language department.
She now lives on her ancestral farm at
South Lansing. Peg Fischer Harshbarger has
just plunged into active landscaping practice,
designing a mile-long parkway for Iowa
City, new subdivision plantings, and many
residential properties.
Helen Fien Keiper is still active as an
attorney in general practice as an associate
of her husband, Frank, a patent attorney.
Barbara Muller Curtis continues to be
busily employed at Dorr-Oliver in Stamford;
she also leads the grandmother parade
with 11 grandchildren. Jane Potts Collins
has just returned from a three months'
tour of Europe where she left her daughter
who is working for her doctorate on a
fellowship at the American School of Classical
Studies in Athens.
Esther Hunter Coleman, who holds a
master's certificate as a flower show judge,
is planning a trip to Europe shortly for a
spring tour of gardens. Ginny Lawson
Churchman, Mildred MacFarland Meredith
and Elizabeth Beckwith Rutenber will not
be with us in June as they will be traveling
in Europe.
Among the retired are Jessie Snyder, after
39 years with Consolidated Edison of New
York; Grace Colton, who celebrated by
going abroad; Emily Claxton; Jane Colson
Romaine, after 37 years as a social service
case worker; Elsie Van Deusen, who had
been a chemist for Procter & Gamble since
she left Cornell; and Olive Kilpatrick, after
teaching homemaking for 37 years. (She,
however, found a job again as librarian for
the public library in Lowville.) Bebe Stow
Norgore, who will be our toastmistress, is
planning to return to teaching and is now
taking courses at the U of Washington with
this in view. Dot Smith Porter, who teaches
English in Baldwinsville, says she is too
young to retire, but the Porters have relinquished
the running of their farm to
their son and daughter.
More to come.
'28
Men: H. Victor Grohmαnn
30 Rockefeller Plαzα West
New York, N.Y. 10020
Word comes from E. Eldridge (June)
Pennock (picture), who is casualty supervisor
for Lehnhard-
Burgess Corp., independent
insurance adjusters
with offices at
1400 N.W. 36th St.,
Miami, Fla. June tells
me he is very happily
married and lives at
45 Antilla in Coral
Gables. "I am a past
president of Cornell
Club of Southeast
Florida, and past president of South Florida
Claim Men's Assn. I still weigh about 145
lbs. but have had to give up golf because
of my service-incurred 'gimpy' leg and have
to content myself with swimming and spectator
sports—of which, fortunately, there
are plenty in Florida. I do feel fine though
and somehow manage to keep very busy
and active. Had dinner here with Tom
Hopper '28 last fall and enjoyed catching
up on class news first hand. Would particularly
like to have some news of Bob
(R. D.) Murdock and 'Joe' (George C.)
Butler of our class. Regards to all classmates
and will be glad to see any of you
when and if you come to Miami."
Lewis P. Seiler has added even more to
his many executive responsibilities. Lew recently
became chairman of Associated Dry
Goods Corp. and continues as chief executive
officer. Associated, a major department
store chain, operates Lord & Taylor in New
York, J. W. Robinson in California, Joseph
Home Co. in Pittsburgh, Stix, Baer &
Fuller in St. Louis, and Hahne & Co. in
Newark, among others. Lew has been with
Associated since 1936, became president in
1959, and chief executive officer in 1963.
Congratulations, Lew, on an outstanding
achievement.
Milton J. Firey, president of the Congress
Hotel in Baltimore, Md., has been elected
president of the Maryland Hotel & Motor
Inn Assn. Congratulations, Milt.
Don't forget the annual class dinner on
Monday, May 15, at the Cornell Club of
New York. Steven Muller, PhD '58, vice
president for public affairs for Cornell, will
be our guest speaker and will bring us upto-date
on what's happening on the Hill.
Don't miss it. You'll enjoy it.
'29
Men: Zαc Freedmαn
306 E. 96th St.
New York, N.Y. 10028
At carefully spaced intervals I mention
that this column is yours. I just sweat out
the deadline, hoping that I have extracted
enough interesting (to you) news to keep it
going, month to month. Jerry Loewenberg
(71 Plymouth Dr., N., Glen Head), proves
my observation with a "beeg!" contribution
this month. Who's next?
"Dear Zac:
"Just a few notes on the Class Phonathon
that took place earlier this month. When
Class Prexy Bob Lyon (fully retired) asked
me to participate I had some reservations.
Although professionally a solicitor (Eng.) I
am wary of soliciting (Penal Code, Section
847). But I do love Alma (Mater) and concluded
that the end justified the means.
"It was therefore without reservations
that I joined the other non-nefarious solicitors
for libations and other ingestions at
Miller's Restaurant in the Woolworth Building,
then to adjourn to the Broadway office
of Class Sec. Mike Bender (Class of '29
World Headquarters) for our evening's task.
There were telephones enough for all who
attended. It looked like the back room of a
bookie joint. (Say, Zac, you don't suppose—?)
"As with most affairs held in the big
city, the majority of those who showed up
were from out of town. Only Dan Lazar
(Cayuga Construction Corp.), Mike Bender
(?) and you were from the "in" crowd.
Since money was the root of all effort, it
was fitting that Class Banker Dave Lewis,
the Jersey suburbanite, attended. Gordon
Hoffman, the Connecticut engineer, came
in from that hinterland, and Prexy Lyon
and I mushed in from Long Island.
"After a briefing by a representative of
the Cornell Fund, who had come down
from Ithaca for the occasion, we all bent
to our tasks with sadistic glee. It was fun
separating classmates from their ill-gotten
gains, particularly for such a good cause.
The Fund is now several thousand dollars
better off as a result of specific contribu-
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