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daughter Julia Hardin Foote to Alan Bursley
Shaw, and a spring wedding is planned.
Julia graduated from the College of Wooster,
having spent her junior year studying
in Paris. In 1965 she graduated from the
San Francisco Art Institute. She teaches
art in Washington.
Sara Jane (Scary) Wilder Silcox (Mrs.
Hampton G. Ill) wrote last year that she
wasn't making Reunion because it was
Hamp's 30th at Princeton and they would
be heading that way. Daughter Marcia,
Connecticut College '64, married a law student
and is in Seattle, Wash, (her permanent
home), and there is one grandson who must
be nearing 2 by now. Son Hampton IV is
a student at Norwich U in Vermont and
must be a senior.
Blendy has sent me some news, bless her
heart, so I'll pass some of it on to you.
Ruth Ryerson Codrington '35 (Mrs. Ned),
170 West End Ave., Apt. 20D, New York,
went with son Chris, 14, to London last
summer to visit Garry (elder son) and his
family. Then on to Sweden to meet her
daughter-in-law's family; she had the best
time she's had in years.
Eleanor Elste Gump (Mrs. Charles), 325
Mohawk PL, Dearborn, Mich., toured the
west last summer for the first time and had
her eyes opened to the many wonders of
this beautiful land. Daughter Carol was
graduated last April from the U of Michigan
and worked at nursing in Ann Arbor
during the summer, then took off in September
with a friend for five months of
wandering through Europe. Daughter Nancy
is a sophomore at Ann Arbor majoring in
art.
Mary Tillinghast Nigro (Mrs. Louis),
10654 Flora Vista Ave., Cupertino, Calif.,
says their Rosemary is working in New
York, and Norma at Calif. (Davis). Mary
is going back to school at Stanford studying
architecture and finding that it's hard
work!
Doris Hendee Jones (Mrs. Lloyd), 123
Parkwood Dr., Buffalo, has been going to
New York City occasionally with Jonesie
and Barry, combining some gay social life
with their business trips. In June, daughter
Barb, with husband Dave and little daughter
Wendy, moved back to Buffalo. Dave
is now on the staff at Goodwill Industries
and Barb is going back to school, along
with her other duties of wife and mother.
Harriet Bennett Strandberg (Mrs. M. W.
P.), 295 Harvard St., Cambridge, Mass., says
that her Jo married a Cornell girl, and
Ann Sunstein Kheel was at the wedding.
Benny sees Kay Stainken Horn quite regularly.
More next month. How about helping me
out? Just drop me a postal card.
'36 AM, PhD '39 - Seymour B. Dunn
has resigned as dean of the College of
Liberal Arts at Alfred U. He taught at
Hobart and William Smith colleges from
1938 to 1956, when he became academic
dean and director of development at Gettysburg
College in Pennsylvania. He went
to Alfred as dean and professor of history
in 1963.
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Men: Robert A. Rosevear
80 Banbury Rd.
Don Mills, Ont., Canada
With Reunion time only weeks off, Doug
King's "box scores" of returning classmates
indicate a possible record-breaking attendance
for the 30th. Don't miss this chance
to meet old friends and see how Cornell
has prospered while we've been away!
Here's a sample of those coming back
'36 Women, No. 55
• The Women's Class of 1936 started a
group subscription to the CORNELL
ALUMNI NEWS with the April issue and
became the 55th class using the plan.
Class dues pay for the subscription.
At present, all but four men's classes
between 1913 and 1964 have group subscriptions.
The exceptions are 1922,
1933, 1958, and 1959. In addition, the
Women of 1920, 1943, 1950, 1951, 1954,
and 1957 are in the Plan. The Men of
1916 and 1917 send the NEWS to the
women of their class as well.
in June: from the Midwest—Roy Sawyer
and Charlie Danis from Cleveland; Shirley
Hulse from Western Springs, 111.; Walt
Hardy, Chicago; John Weidman, Valparaiso,
Ind.; Bob Menges, Munster, Ind.;
Frank Parsons, Indianapolis; John Rockwood,
Barrington, 111.; Howie Mandeville,
Cincinnati; Roy Norton, Chicago; Vic Martin,
Detroit. Howard Robison and Jim Brew
will be up from Washington, Bob Aranow
from North Carolina, Sam Groner from
Maryland, and your correspondent from
Centennial Year Canada. Bilal R. Kutlug
regrets he can't make it this time—from
Istanbul, Turkey—but that's quite a trip
even for a Reunion!
World traveler Harvey R. Wellman
(thanks to his association with the US Foreign
Service) is now counselor and deputy
chief of mission, American Embassy, Lisbon,
Portugal. Previous to this overseas assignment,
Harvey was director of personnel
for the Department of State in Washington.
Friends can address him c/o American Embassy,
APO 09678. The Wellmans have two
daughters in college—Karen in second year
at Carleton and Judy in first year at Lake
Forest.
Rolf Hemnierick writes from 14 Alden
Rd., Larchmont: "There is still a possibility
that a second-generation Cornellian will hail
from my family as we have one more to
go, an 11-year-old, Robert. The odds are
getting dimmer, however, as our other three
boys are attending Penn State (graduate
work in meteorology), Stevens Institute of
Technology (engineering), and U of Denver
(business administration)."
Upgrading our squib a year ago about
Richard Steele, his firm, Salem Co., has
opened a third plant, this one in Elkin,
N.C., to manufacture ladies' and children's
classic sportswear. Daughter Margaret is
now at Abbot Academy and sons Andy and
Phil are at Princeton and Phillips Exeter.
The William Pitt Inn on Rt. 24 in Chatham,
N.J., an old landmark dating back to
1760, has been purchased by E. Oliver
Natunen. Oliver would be delighted to play
host to Cornellians and particularly classmates
passing that way. He lives at 7 Portland
Rd., Summit.
M. Wayne Stoffle has practiced architecture
(Stofrle & Finger) in New Orleans since
1948. Son William Wayne has completed a
year's service with the Navy Sea Bees while
daughter Sheryl Lee is a sophomore at
Metaire Park Country Day School. Wayne
writes, "My better half, Margie, is keeping
herself busy with the Crippled Children's
Hospital Guild and other civic activities. All
I do is work, hunt ducks (in season), fish,
and completely enjoy this wonderful interesting
and fattening city." Home is at 730
Gravier St., New Orleans, La.
John Kelly got his spring catalog (Kelly
Bros. Nurseries) out of the way in time to
put his staff on " '37 alert" to get out some
Reunion reminders for Doug King. Thanks,
John, and see you in Ithaca! Incidentally,
John's Reunion news form was sent from
Alcapulco, Mexico, during a mid-winter
vacation. He reports he caught a sailfish and
had a hard time leaving that wonderful
climate.
A Reunion in miniature was held in
Kalamazoo, Mich., last fall when Jack Ser-ι
rell's plane had engine trouble and he spent
the night with the Preston Carters (415
Thomas St.) there. Pres will be coming to
Reunion with his wife and 6-year-old
daughter Celinda. Jack, in turn, will be
leaving Coopertown Rd., Haverford, Pa. for
Reunion. Let's hope he doesn't have engine
trouble over Mauch Chunk or some other
glamorous place!
Another nurseryman, Edmund V. Mezitt,
Frankland St., Hopkinton, Mass., reports
that although he is "busy helping Lady Bird
beautify America," he'll find time to come
to Reunion with his wife. Ed, owner of
Western Nurseries, is currently interested in
another kind of nursery with the arrival of
grandson Peter William (father, Robert
Wayne Mezzitt '64 and mother Ann Elizabeth
Pickering Mezzitt '65.
Dr. Carl Kellman, who is conducting the
Veterinary Small Animal Hospital in the
Bronx, will be at Reunion with his wife.
Their daughter Sarita is conducting the
orthopedic clinic at North Shore Hospital,
Manhasset, while younger daughter Hera
has just started as a freshman at Long Island
U. Carl's home address is 1144 Pelham
Pkwy., S. Bronx.
ROTC instructor since last August at
Indiana U is Col. Robert E. Conine. Bob
and his wife Tali have one son, 4Vi, born
in Japan.
Edwin R. Webster, who returned to
Ithaca in the fall of 1961 to carry on the
work of his father, Dr. C. H. Webster '04,
representing New York Life, will be attending
Reunion with his wife Rhoda (Dunham)
'41.
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Women: Carol H. Cline
3121 Valerie Arms Dr.,
Apt. 4
Dayton, Ohio 45405
Last call for Reunion! By now you have
sent your class dues to Maggie, your questionnaire
to Gert, your contribution to the
Cornell Fund, and have mailed your Reunion
reservation. There is one more item
on that Reunion checklist: Your alumni
trustee ballot. There is a woman candidate
this year—Patricia Carry '50, a gal very
well qualified to serve Cornell and Corneϊlians
everywhere. A few years ago, another
well-qualified woman candidate was not
elected because too many alumnae did not
bother to vote at all. You have to be a
pretty special Cornellian to qualify as a
candidate for alumni trustee, and we all owe
it to those who are willing to serve to mark
our ballots and mail them back to the university
on time. (Read the instructions carefully
before marking the ballot and signing
the envelope—it is appalling how many
brilliant Cornell alumni fail to do this
properly each year, and the committee has
to throw out their ballots!) Remind all your
Cornell friends to vote too.
Yours truly was in Florida (visiting my
parents) from Feb. 10 till March 17. One
evening I had dinner and a delightful chat
with Helen Dunn at Jamaica Inn on Key
Biscayne. Helen, after her sabbatical trip
around the world, is back at Coral Gables
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