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63rd St., New York, and wife are returning<br />
to Reunion via Bombay, Tel Aviv, and their<br />
old home, Antwerp, Belgium. Bob Wilder's<br />
(613 Elm Ter., Riverton) daughter Judy,<br />
Delaware '62, is with the Peace Corps<br />
teaching English to Iranian children. Em<br />
Collins, president, First National Bank,<br />
Duluth, Minn., is an eight-star grandpa.<br />
Em is also a member of Northwest International<br />
Bank Board, 40 Wall St., New<br />
York, and a member of the Minnesota<br />
Power & Light board of Duluth.<br />
Chuck Baker, 1339-27th N.W., Washington,<br />
D.C., is eager to get back to the 40th<br />
to see if all he reads about <strong>Cornell</strong> beatniks<br />
and the fraternity agitation is true, but is<br />
looking forward with pleasure to seeing his<br />
old '27 friends. Glen Bennett, 912 Mc-<br />
Clyman St., Schenectady, has a son Dick<br />
'57, a USAF pilot who now instructs at San<br />
Antonio, Randolph AFB after a stint in<br />
Saigon. J. Phil Allison, 18407 Chagrin<br />
Blvd., Shaker Heights, Ohio, retired two<br />
years ago from Erie Lakawanna RR where<br />
he was asst. vice president.<br />
Phil Hoyt, 67-58 Exeter St., Forest Hills,<br />
is a three-star grandpa. Bill November, 21<br />
Bond St., Great Neck, is senior v.p. of<br />
Windsor Life Ins. Co. of America and v.p.<br />
of the Society of Actuaries. Herm Redden,<br />
50 Bellvale Rd., Mountain Lakes, N.J., now<br />
retired, will move to a new home in Strafford,<br />
Vt. Jay Achenbach, 8019 Seminole<br />
Ave., .Philadelphia, Pa., W3QB talked with<br />
Art Saldana, KP4TL, San Turce, Puerto<br />
Rico. Art Trayford, Friendship Rd., RD 3,<br />
Waldoboro, Me., is with the US Dept. of<br />
Agriculture, consumer and marketing service<br />
inspection.<br />
Bob Zautner, 1500 New Scotland Rd.,<br />
Slingerlands, is incorporated with his brother<br />
in real estate as a second business. He continues<br />
his Ice Cream Tollgate operation with<br />
his sons. Dr. Wilbur Brooks, 312 Ruby<br />
Ave., Syracuse, has a son, Mark '69, a<br />
daughter, Allis, attending Syracuse, and two<br />
other daughters coming along soon with<br />
eyes both ways. Good luck, Wil.<br />
Hope to see you all at Reunion!<br />
J ^S P"! Women: Grace Hanson Reeve<br />
/ I 1563 Dean St.<br />
*-* I Schenectady, N.Y. 12309<br />
In Florida, at present, besides those<br />
mentioned in the March issue are Elizabeth<br />
Moyer Trainer, Carmen Schneider Savage,<br />
Marie Parkhurst Wills, and Grace Babble<br />
Zimmerman. Val Hieby Frederick wrote<br />
from Texas where she and her husband<br />
spend four months every winter. The most<br />
exciting news came from Dot Sharpe Trefts.<br />
She and Bud left the country on Feb. 19 for<br />
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, via Athens, where<br />
Bud starts on March 1 as field treasurer for<br />
United Presbyterian Church, USA, for a<br />
three-year stint. Her address is Box 1111,<br />
American Missions, Addis Ababa, and she<br />
says please write.<br />
Grace Guthmann Burnett, who came to<br />
our 35th, has just returned to her home<br />
in Sao Paulo, Brazil, after another visit.<br />
Betty Reamer Carson is moving to the new<br />
home she and her husband are building at<br />
93 Stewart Rd., Short Hills, N.J. Since<br />
Jim has retired, summers are spent at Cape<br />
Cod, mostly on their boat. Honey Haskell,<br />
MD, is busily building a house on Long<br />
Beach Island, N.J., where she says she<br />
may some day retire, unless she chooses<br />
Barbados, where she has a license to<br />
practice.<br />
Fannie Dubofsky Johannes, who is looking<br />
forward to retirement as a librarian in<br />
a New York high school, has just returned<br />
from a sabbatical in Mexico, a country that<br />
Norma Colp Rothenburgh has traveled to<br />
innumerable times. Norma recently went<br />
abroad, and a highlight was visiting Estelle<br />
Uptcher Hearnden in London. Pauline Ace<br />
Eck flew to Scandinavia and visited Veora<br />
Tyrrell Lewis and Windsor in Stockholm.<br />
Alice Klein Feller left her New York apartment<br />
three years ago and built herself a<br />
home at Aspen, Colo., which she calls the<br />
world's greatest resort.<br />
Jo Conlon Ernstein traveled to the Southwest<br />
last year for the first time in her life<br />
and said she was "bedazzled" by that section<br />
of our country. Jo, who has traveled all<br />
over Europe, has retired after 38 years of<br />
teaching in Ithaca High School, the last five<br />
as head of the foreign language department.<br />
She now lives on her ancestral farm at<br />
South Lansing. Peg Fischer Harshbarger has<br />
just plunged into active landscaping practice,<br />
designing a mile-long parkway for Iowa<br />
City, new subdivision plantings, and many<br />
residential properties.<br />
Helen Fien Keiper is still active as an<br />
attorney in general practice as an associate<br />
of her husband, Frank, a patent attorney.<br />
Barbara Muller Curtis continues to be<br />
busily employed at Dorr-Oliver in Stamford;<br />
she also leads the grandmother parade<br />
with 11 grandchildren. Jane Potts Collins<br />
has just returned from a three months'<br />
tour of Europe where she left her daughter<br />
who is working for her doctorate on a<br />
fellowship at the American School of Classical<br />
Studies in Athens.<br />
Esther Hunter Coleman, who holds a<br />
master's certificate as a flower show judge,<br />
is planning a trip to Europe shortly for a<br />
spring tour of gardens. Ginny Lawson<br />
Churchman, Mildred MacFarland Meredith<br />
and Elizabeth Beckwith Rutenber will not<br />
be with us in June as they will be traveling<br />
in Europe.<br />
Among the retired are Jessie Snyder, after<br />
39 years with Consolidated Edison of New<br />
York; Grace Colton, who celebrated by<br />
going abroad; Emily Claxton; Jane Colson<br />
Romaine, after 37 years as a social service<br />
case worker; Elsie Van Deusen, who had<br />
been a chemist for Procter & Gamble since<br />
she left <strong>Cornell</strong>; and Olive Kilpatrick, after<br />
teaching homemaking for 37 years. (She,<br />
however, found a job again as librarian for<br />
the public library in Lowville.) Bebe Stow<br />
Norgore, who will be our toastmistress, is<br />
planning to return to teaching and is now<br />
taking courses at the U of Washington with<br />
this in view. Dot Smith Porter, who teaches<br />
English in Baldwinsville, says she is too<br />
young to retire, but the Porters have relinquished<br />
the running of their farm to<br />
their son and daughter.<br />
More to come.<br />
'28<br />
Men: H. Victor Grohmαnn<br />
30 Rockefeller Plαzα West<br />
New York, N.Y. 10020<br />
Word comes from E. Eldridge (June)<br />
Pennock (picture), who is casualty supervisor<br />
for Lehnhard-<br />
Burgess Corp., independent<br />
insurance adjusters<br />
with offices at<br />
1400 N.W. 36th St.,<br />
Miami, Fla. June tells<br />
me he is very happily<br />
married and lives at<br />
45 Antilla in Coral<br />
Gables. "I am a past<br />
president of <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
Club of Southeast<br />
Florida, and past president of South Florida<br />
Claim Men's Assn. I still weigh about 145<br />
lbs. but have had to give up golf because<br />
of my service-incurred 'gimpy' leg and have<br />
to content myself with swimming and spectator<br />
sports—of which, fortunately, there<br />
are plenty in Florida. I do feel fine though<br />
and somehow manage to keep very busy<br />
and active. Had dinner here with Tom<br />
Hopper '28 last fall and enjoyed catching<br />
up on class news first hand. Would particularly<br />
like to have some news of Bob<br />
(R. D.) Murdock and 'Joe' (George C.)<br />
Butler of our class. Regards to all classmates<br />
and will be glad to see any of you<br />
when and if you come to Miami."<br />
Lewis P. Seiler has added even more to<br />
his many executive responsibilities. Lew recently<br />
became chairman of Associated Dry<br />
Goods Corp. and continues as chief executive<br />
officer. Associated, a major department<br />
store chain, operates Lord & Taylor in New<br />
York, J. W. Robinson in California, Joseph<br />
Home Co. in Pittsburgh, Stix, Baer &<br />
Fuller in St. Louis, and Hahne & Co. in<br />
Newark, among others. Lew has been with<br />
Associated since 1936, became president in<br />
1959, and chief executive officer in 1963.<br />
Congratulations, Lew, on an outstanding<br />
achievement.<br />
Milton J. Firey, president of the Congress<br />
Hotel in Baltimore, Md., has been elected<br />
president of the Maryland Hotel & Motor<br />
Inn Assn. Congratulations, Milt.<br />
Don't forget the annual class dinner on<br />
Monday, May 15, at the <strong>Cornell</strong> Club of<br />
New York. Steven Muller, PhD '58, vice<br />
president for public affairs for <strong>Cornell</strong>, will<br />
be our guest speaker and will bring us upto-date<br />
on what's happening on the Hill.<br />
Don't miss it. You'll enjoy it.<br />
'29<br />
Men: Zαc Freedmαn<br />
306 E. 96th St.<br />
New York, N.Y. 10028<br />
At carefully spaced intervals I mention<br />
that this column is yours. I just sweat out<br />
the deadline, hoping that I have extracted<br />
enough interesting (to you) news to keep it<br />
going, month to month. Jerry Loewenberg<br />
(71 Plymouth Dr., N., Glen Head), proves<br />
my observation with a "beeg!" contribution<br />
this month. Who's next?<br />
"Dear Zac:<br />
"Just a few notes on the Class Phonathon<br />
that took place earlier this month. When<br />
Class Prexy Bob Lyon (fully retired) asked<br />
me to participate I had some reservations.<br />
Although professionally a solicitor (Eng.) I<br />
am wary of soliciting (Penal Code, Section<br />
847). But I do love Alma (Mater) and concluded<br />
that the end justified the means.<br />
"It was therefore without reservations<br />
that I joined the other non-nefarious solicitors<br />
for libations and other ingestions at<br />
Miller's Restaurant in the Woolworth Building,<br />
then to adjourn to the Broadway office<br />
of Class Sec. Mike Bender (Class of '29<br />
World Headquarters) for our evening's task.<br />
There were telephones enough for all who<br />
attended. It looked like the back room of a<br />
bookie joint. (Say, Zac, you don't suppose—?)<br />
"As with most affairs held in the big<br />
city, the majority of those who showed up<br />
were from out of town. Only Dan Lazar<br />
(Cayuga Construction Corp.), Mike Bender<br />
(?) and you were from the "in" crowd.<br />
Since money was the root of all effort, it<br />
was fitting that Class Banker Dave Lewis,<br />
the Jersey suburbanite, attended. Gordon<br />
Hoffman, the Connecticut engineer, came<br />
in from that hinterland, and Prexy Lyon<br />
and I mushed in from Long Island.<br />
"After a briefing by a representative of<br />
the <strong>Cornell</strong> Fund, who had come down<br />
from Ithaca for the occasion, we all bent<br />
to our tasks with sadistic glee. It was fun<br />
separating classmates from their ill-gotten<br />
gains, particularly for such a good cause.<br />
The Fund is now several thousand dollars<br />
better off as a result of specific contribu-<br />
Mαy 1967 57