Cornell Alumni News - eCommons@Cornell - Cornell University

'53 LLB - Charles J. Urstadt of 40 Dusenberry
Rd., Bronxville, who has been vice
president and secretary-counsel to Alcoa
Residences, Inc., has been appointed by
Governor Rockefeller as Deputy Commissioner
of Housing and Community Renewal.
He is treasurer of the Investing Builders &
Owners Assn.
'54
Men: Frederic C. Wood Jr.
1010 Dulaney Valley Rd.
Towson, Md. 21204
The latest Cornell Fund report as this
copy went to press showed over-all class
giving for 1966-67 at just under 10 per
cent. If you have not already responded to
a plea from Duane Neil, from a Cornellian
in your area, or to a mailing from Ithaca,
why not take this occasion to send in your
contribution to the ongoing work of the
university?
A recent note from Martin S. Cole reports
a new address at 16 King's PL, Great
Neck, as of June 1966. Marty has been a
partner in the law firm of Elson, Aibel &
Cole since 1961. He and wife Roberta
(Bernian) '58, have two children.
Another new address belongs to William
A. Harris Jr. at 28 Oak St., Cincinnati,
Ohio. Bill is an investment counselor with
Scudder, Stevens & Clark, and writes that
after five years of marriage he has two
boys, 4 and 2.
Dr. Jerome A. Jarvis has passed his
board certifying examinations in ophthalmology
and is practicing at 86-01 Homelawn
St. in Jamaica. Jerry's home is 251-17
Thebes Ave. in Little Neck.
From Alexander Neuwirth comes news
of his marriage on May 29, 1966 to Marjorie
K. Gareff of New York. Alex and
his bride are living in New York at 8 E.
96th St., and he writes that "between trips
on vacation (Europe) or skiing we plan
future trips, or at least when we're not
looking for furniture, etc. I continue to
travel (particularly to Mexico) for Burnham
& Co. (corporate finance dept.). From time
to time I see Jim Serling, now practicing
dentistry in New Haven, Conn., and Sam
Frankenheim, with Shearman & Sterling,
attorneys, in New York."
Joseph J. Oliva writes that he "gave up
the sunny skies of Florida for the dreary
winters of Pennsylvania" when he moved
to his new address at 12 Beacon Dr. East,
Phoenixville, Pa. Joe is still with GE, and
is now with the reentry systems dept. at
Valley Forge.
Dr. Donald S. Belk reports that he, wife
Joyce (Bookman), and two children spent
the summer of 1966 in Spain attending the
Fourth World Congress of Psychiatry in
Madrid. They also saw Morocco, and are
planning on Expo 67 and Canada for this
coming summer. The Belks live at 128
Sunny Hill Dr. in East Norwich, and Don
writes that he runs into Sam Hollander
every time he takes the LIRR.
Now completing his second year as a
research chemist for Pennsalt Chemical Co.
is Robert C. Koestler of 640 Trephanny
Lane, Wayne, Pa.
From Frank Rigas at 1555 N. Dearborn
Pkwy., Chicago, 111., comes word that he
has recently been in touch with Ed Farber,
Deacon and Mary Anne Johnson, and Lindsay
Lufkin—the latter when he was in
Chicago for a training program for a month
last summer before returning to Honolulu.
Dr. Franklin M. Klion, 4 E. 95th St.,
New York, is established in medical practice
at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York,
specializing in gastroenterology and liver
disease. He and wife Barbara have two children,
a boy and a girl.
Robert W. Bower was recently promoted
to district manager in IBM's data processing
division and will soon be moving back to
Philadelphia from Fayetteville.
Since April 1966 William D. Gohr IΠ
has been Philadelphia district manager for
Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. Bill lives
at 137 Rodney Circle, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Barry D. Kolton writes that his company,
B-K Electrical Products, Inc., West
Orange, N.J., is now six years old, has 25
employes, and is still growing. Barry's firm
designs and manufactures electrical panelboards,
switchboards, and control centers.
He was recently elected to the presidents'
council of the American Institution of Management.
The Kolton clan, which includes
wife Bobbi and three children, can be
found at 16 Steven Ter. in West Orange.
Completing his residency in urology at
the Dartmouth Medical Center this June is
Dr. David J. Albert. Dave, his wife, and
three children, will then be moving to the
Cleveland area where Dave will join the
staff of the University Hospitals in Cleveland
as an attending physician. He will
also hold an academic appointment at
Western Reserve.
Louis N. Browning, Edgemont Rd., Maysville,
Ky., was recently appointed by a city
commission to a citizens' tax assessment
study committee to make recommendations
on tax assessment and valuation complaints.
Still guidance counseling at New Hartford
High School is Phillip T. Eastman,
who lives with his wife and three children
at 32 Beechwood Rd. in New Hartford.
Phil is also active on the Oneida County
Cornell secondary schools committee. The
Eastmans' most recent addition, David
Roger, was born last year on the birthday
of his grandfather, Roger G. Eastman '19.
A long Christmas note from the Norman
Geis family reports that they are gradually
becoming New Englanders again in their
new home at East Riding Dr., Carlisle,
Mass. Norm is with the Raytheon Corp. in
Bedford, working on the HAWK missile
program, and Diane is kept busy with a
musical appreciation course and a Great
Books discussion group when she is not
watching three children and helping to remodel
the basement. Sounds like home!
'54
Women: Barbara Johnson
Gottling
15 Windy Hill Rd.
Cohasset, Mass. 02025
Last month, we mentioned a few classmates
who are juggling the demands of
motherhood and an outside job. Our random
sampling continues.
Joanne Wilson Wietgrefe, Pleasant Valley
Rd., Alfred Station, is teaching kindergarten
full time. She and Walter have a son and
a daughter.
A fourth-grade teacher in Williamson is
Mary Ann Smith Bliek (Mrs. Ralph),, who
finds it "interesting" when team teaching
puts daughter Carolyn in her reading group.
Son Jeff is enduring second grade but prefers
life on the farm at 344 E. Townline
Rd., growing celery, potatoes, apples, etc.
Mary Ann asks, "Anyone know where
M. L. Brown is?"
Carolyn Robbins Reck, who taught secondary
school art before the birth of Lisa,
8, and Allison, 4, is now working slowly
on a master's degree and is the owner and
operator of a small nursery school. She
and Melvin, an advertising manager, live at
248 Bluefield Ave., Newbury Park, Calif.,
a small town where, Carolyn reports,
Myrna Mendelson is an elementary school
teacher.
Not all of our working mothers are
teachers. Marlene Goodman Stillman (Mrs.
James) has helped out for several years in
her husband's children's clothing store
(Liebman's) in New Rochelle. Home for
the Stillmans—including Susan, 10, and Joseph,
8—is 23 Douglas PL, Eastchester.
An esoteric specialty is that of Ellen
Shapiro Saalberg (Mrs. James H.), who
works full time for The Cellar Book Shop
in Detroit, which sells books on Asia, the
Pacific Islands, and Africa south of the
Sahara. Ellen taught high school history
for three years before the birth of Jon, 4.
Jim is a senior city planner working with
urban renewal. The welcome mat is out
at 18489 Prest, Detroit, Mich., for classmates
who live in the area or travel
through.
Besides watching her two children grow
at 72 Tiernan St., Rochester, Nancy Moskowitz
Wachs (Mrs. Arthur) has two jobs:
working part-time in the Planning Bureau,
City of Rochester, and serving as our Class
Fund representative. She and her husband
were guests of Cornell at the Fund Leaders
on Campus seminar in September.
Working half-time at the Los Alamos, N.
Mex., lab in the high temperature chemistry
group is Rose Mary Hammer Boicourt
(Mrs. Grenfell P.). She observes that "it
has absolutely nothing to do with either
of my degrees (in bacteriology)!" After
years of renting from the government, the
Boicourts bought a house last year at 90
Escondito, into which they moved with their
girls, Paula, 9, and Lisa, 7, and two dogs.
For her work in devising solar wind instruments
on the first Mariner Venus spacecraft
and other associated space projects at
the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif.,
Marcia MacDonald Neugebauer has been
named California Woman Scientist of the
Year by the Muses, women's support group
for the California Museum of Science &
Industry. Marcia is still analyzing ^ Venus
data from Mariner II and designing instruments
for an earth satellite called OGO
(Orbiting Geophysical Observatory) and for
ALSEP (Apollo Lunar Scientific Experiment
Package). She has co-edited, with Dr. Robert
Mackin, a book entitled The Solar
Winds. Marcia and Gerry, associate professor
at Cal Tech, are the parents of two
daughters, Lee, Wτ, and Carol, 4.
Not all our working mothers keep working.
Jane Barber Wood, 1010 Dulaney Valley
Rd., Towson, Md., writes, "Our youngest
child, Barbara (others are Elizabeth, 8,
and Jennifer, 10) went off to first-grade this
year and I at the same time threw Betty
Friedan and the whole 'Feminine Mystique'
to the wind by retiring from teaching." The
Woods luxuriated on Florida's Sanibel Island
all last summer before returning to
Goucher College, where Fred is the chaplain
and assistant professor in the religion
department—and '54 Men's class correspondent.
Also "retired" is pediatrician Beverly Billinger
Shaver (Mrs. James O.), who devotes
full time to Anne, 4, James Jr., 3, and
Elizabeth, who must be nine months old by
now. After two years at 512 W. Stella Lane,
Phoenix, Ariz., Bev and her surgeon husband
are enthusiastic converts to the ways
of southwestern living.
In May '66, the arrival of Miriam Eva
(Missy) took Laurie Rilander Zellnik (Mrs.
Herbert) literally from her desk as senior
copywriter at Franklin Spier, Inc. to fulltime
motherhood at 215 W. 91st St., New
York. Laurie has continued to do some
free-lance writing—mostly during naptime—
but comments, "With Infant Mystique so
clear, why make what we call the Feminine
Mistake?"
Your class correspondent is devoting full
time to a new daughter, Elizabeth Ann,
born March 14. Very early tests show no
signs of tyrosinosis, a metabolic disorder
72 Cornell Alumni News