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tions made in response to our calls, in addition
to which there were many who promised
to see what they could do and then do
it. We couldn't tabulate those results, but
some will materialize. We didn't call those
classmates who had already made contributions
this year, and we limited our efforts
to classmates who had manifested their interest
in Cornell by contributions at some
time in the past.
"We should have made our calls 'collect.'
I recall one Reunion at which Ed
Case, the Squire of Gouverneur, N.Y.,
placed collect calls to classmates all over
the world who were not attending. Calls
went to Peru, California, etc., etc. Only one
classmate refused to accept the call. The
others were not so disturbed by the collect
charges as they were by the fact that just
about every call came in at approximately
4 a.m. (local time). So it was with malice
aforethought that I selected Ed for my list.
When the call got through, his wife told me
that Ed was in the shower. Without identifying
myself, I told her that it was an
emergency and that she should get him to
the phone immediately. I got a nice contribution
from the big dripper (to be distinguished
from the Big Drip).
"Perhaps I owe you an explanation for
the length of some of my calls that night.
You see, Zac, I am entering my third and
final (?) retirement. Bob Lyon told me
that this entitles one to a certain amount
of freeloading. So after first soliciting for
the Fund on each call, I put in a pitch for
bed, board, and drink for a night. Fared
rather well! Now if I can find a civil engineer
in the class who will compute the
minimum mileage route connecting all of
these freeloading points, I'll have an itinerary
on which to start when the snows
melt. As for reciprocity, I have rented an
apartment in Montreal from June 1st on
(I'll send you the address and telephone
number) and I'll buy a drink for any classmate
who attends Expo 67. The apartment
has only one bedroom. Sorry about that!
Have a good trip."
News on Cobb, Dodge Jr., Katein, Heine,
Freeman in addition to the latest on
Marples, Torπiella, (H.) Taylor Jr., etc..
promised for this column, will be used in
the next issue because of limited space.
'29
Women: Ethel Corwin Ritter
22 Highland Ave.
Middletown, N.Y. 10940
Edna Smith Stein (Mrs. Michael), 261
Clinton Rd., Brookline, Mass., sends us the
following: "I am probably the busiest person
in my town. To list a few activities:
president and founder, Brookline Assn. for
Mental Health, Inc.; member, Mass. Commission
on Construction of Mental Health
Centers; exec, committee, METCO; exec,
board, Planned Parenthood of Mass.; exec,
board, Mass. Council for Public Schools."
We agree—she is the busiest. Family news
from Edna is that oldest son, Peter, is an
associate professor of physics at Cornell
and has three children; second son, Robert,
is an electrical engineer with Raytheon; and
daughter Jane is a graduate student.
Ethel Francisco Roys, 5121 Radnor Rd.,
Indianapolis, Ind., and husband Ed may be
traveling now. She says Ed retired Feb. 1
as chief engineer for RCA's records division
and they were selling out and traveling
for as long as their health holds out.
We hope that is many, many years. There
will be foreign ports on their itinerary.
Only son graduated from Purdue and now
works for RCA.
Florence Crist Powers (Mrs. William C),
2844 Santa Rosa Ave., Altadena, Calif., has
had a most interesting two years, with her
main interest being the Altadena Community
Theatre, Theatre Americana, one of
only two or three community theatres in
the US producing all original plays in order
to encourage playwrights. Flo was on the
board of directors last year and the playreading
committee this year, and "always
costumes, sets, etc., to work on and loads
of partying." She is also on the board of
governors of Cornell Club of Southern
California. Between the theatre and traveling
(Lake Louise, Banff, and Jasper last
summer), she has had little time for writing
with the exception of helping organize,
edit, and proof: Shasta County Place Names
by Steger and Land and People of Iran
by Hinckley.
Helen Jones Schilling (Mrs. Charles B.),
RD 1, Fayetteville, is an avid gardener and
the Schilling grounds attest it. It is a timeconsuming
hobby and her beautifully
tended borders and garden groupings are as
beautiful as we have seen. She says of a
visit from Lizette Hand, "She visited here
when in the vicinity for a librarian's conference
and we got fairly well caught up
on our yakking, which we seem to be able
to do quite well, taking up just where we
left off no matter how long the interim."
Frances Lappeus Gallinger, 910 Dewitt
Rd., Webster, is running me an almost-close
race for number of grandchildren. She has
12, five boys and seven girls, including a
pair of twins. (She should get extra points
for twins!) She and Ken went to Switzerland
last fall to visit Ellen Medden McCann
'31 and her husband in Basel.
End of Reis-Hill trip: "Arrived in Honolulu
on our second Sunday (we had crossed
the International Date Line as we flew from
Tokyo). We swam, drove around the Island,
saw pineapples growing, ate them and mangoes
to our hearts' content, and stayed two
extra days because of the air line strike,
and then took off for Los Angeles and
home." During the trip, Jo Reis, who is on
the national board of directors of YWCA,
visited branches in India, Thailand, Kyoto,
Tokyo, and Hawaii. Special note: The Reis-
Hill trio (Jo, San, and Kit Curvin Hill)
with the Reises' daughter, Dale '58 and
Dick '57 Johnson, will take another roundthe-world
trip next summer, this time via
Spain, Nairobi, New Zealand (tentative),
and Fiji. If you want more reports of their
impressions next fall and winter, send me a
card.
'30
Men: Abram H. Stovkman
One Colonial Lane
Larchmont, N.Y. 10538
Edwin W. Hicks and wife, 61 Drexel
Ave., Westbury, announce the marriage of
their daughter Janet to Graham Johnson on
Sept. 27, 1966. Janet obtained her BS degree
from U of Rochester '64, and her MS
from U of Wisconsin '65. Johnson is U of
Virginia '65, and is now doing graduate
work at Georgia State U. Ed mentions that
both Janet's and Graham's mothers are
Wellesley '30.
Class Treasurer Joe Wortman, 3601 Johnson
Ave., Bronx, and his wife went off to
Mexico in February for their annual winter
vacation.
The last time we heard from Lowell G.
Powers, 2904 Woodburn Ave., Cincinnati,
Ohio, he was planning a trip to Yucatan
and Cozumel last fall and a trip to the
Aegean this spring, to go sailing among the
Greek islands. Son Charles is now a senior
in Arts.
Fred Muller Jr., 1536 Vinton, Memphis,
Tenn., writes that daughter Ellen is living
in Nashville with her husband Robert Williamson
and their baby girl, Ellen III.
Daughter Ginny is teaching school in Syracuse
and becoming a Yankee; daughter
Cristina is a senior at the U of Alabama;
son Dexter is still at home.
James E. Crouch, 10430 Russel Rd., La
Mesa, Calif., says that the textbook on
which he collaborated, Functional Human
Anatomy, published in March 1965, is already
in its third printing. He is now working
on a text to be called Atlas of Cat
Anatomy. He is chairman of the division
of life sciences and professor of zoology at
San Diego State College. He and wife Mary
traveled in western and southern Europe
and the British Isles last summer, a pleasure
and professional trip. They celebrated their
35th wedding anniversary in November.
Donald B. Saunders, 1 Kennsington Ter.,
Maplewood, N.J., is hoping to get to Ithaca
this spring for Parents' Weekend. Son Tom
is '68. Daughter Mary is at Connecticut
College for Women. Don and wife Helen
(Nuffort) '31 attended her Reunion.
Richard Churchill, 3295 Matheisen Dr.,
NE, Atlanta, Ga., has retired from his
career as landscape architect. Geoffrey, his
son, is assistant professor of business administration,
U of Kansas. Daughter Diana
is married to R. H. Moore, who is doing
graduate work at the U of Wisconsin.
Robert W. Waring, 197 Old Post Rd.,
Fairfield, Conn., writes that he's spent the
last 10 years inventing, and has also started
a small company. Bob reports that Robert
Jr. and his wife have two sons, whom Bob
hopes will follow in their father's and
grandfather's footsteps by going to engineering
school at Cornell.
Lawrence G. Mohr, 59 Lane Place, Atherton,
Calif., manager of the Atomic Energy
Commission's Palo Alto area office in California
since 1961, has been named area
manager for the proposed 200 billion electron
volt (BEV) proton accelerator project
at Weston, 111., near Chicago.
Mohr joined the AEC in 1947 as an engineer
at the Los Alamos area office in
New Mexico. He transferred to Washington
in 1950 as chief of the construction branch
in the division of construction. In 1958 he
became an assistant director of the division.
As manager of the Palo Alto area office,
Mohr has been responsible for administration
of the prime contract with
Stanford U for construction and operation
of the Stanford Linear Accelerator.
After graduating Cornell with a BCE,
Mohr did graduate work at MIT and
George Washington U. He is married and
has four children.
'31
Men: Bruce W. Hackstaβ
27 West Neck Rd.
Huntington, N.Y. 11743
With our letter, sent to the class in January,
a listing of the council and officers
was included. Bob Sίeiglity is endeavoring
to activate the several regions of the country
and has written to all of the regional
vice presidents. A list of classmates and addresses
was sent with his letter. We hope
you will be able to participate or communicate
in your region in an effort to close the
class ranks. We realize distances are often
great, but a gathering after so many years
will be found to be most invigorating.
In the above area, a letter from Christopher
W. Wilson last December might be
helpful. Chris is executive vice president of
the First National Bank of Chicago and
lives at 714 Rosewood Ave., Winnetka, 111.
None of his four children attended Cornell.
But—"hardly a week passes that I do not
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