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'63<br />
Men: Lt. Thσmas L. Stirling Jr.<br />
374th RRC USASSD<br />
4th Inf. Div.<br />
APO San Francisco, Calif.<br />
96278<br />
Out of Harvard Law School with an<br />
LLB last June, Robert N. Weisman promptly<br />
married Aline Jay Massey (Smith '66)<br />
and set forth for Australia and some study<br />
at Melbourne U under a Fulbright grant.<br />
Planning to practice law in New York<br />
when he returns at the end of this year,<br />
his present address is 7/49 Haines St.,<br />
North Melbourne, N. 1., Victoria, Australia.<br />
Lawyer Dave Julian (LLB from U<br />
of Michigan last June) practices in Illinois<br />
out of 919 W. <strong>University</strong>, Champaign,, but<br />
is currently taking a six-month respite with<br />
the Illinois National Guard. Back in Ithaca,<br />
Douglas A. Dimock works for the Frank<br />
Hanshaw Construction Co. and, having<br />
taken to wife Nancy M. Goodman, took<br />
her to 310 E. Buffalo St. Having "spotted<br />
her at Adelphi U, when I was taking some<br />
courses there," Ed Fraser married Elizabeth<br />
Adamowicz last Dec. 17. The Frasers live<br />
at 35 Willis Ave., Floral Park, where Ed<br />
is a systems engineer on the LM (Lunar<br />
Module) project at Grumman Aircraft.<br />
Kwan T. Mao, who stayed on at <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
for an MCE, is a soil mechanics consultant<br />
with Woodward, Clyde, Sherard & Assoc,<br />
1425 Broad St., Clifton, N.J. Blair Savage,<br />
of 111 N. Broadway, White Plains, now<br />
owns a master's in astrophysics from<br />
Princeton.<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> Dawson has just initiated pursuit<br />
of an MS in industrial engineering at Stanford,<br />
address 444 Ventura Ave., Palo Alto,<br />
Calif., after two years in the Peace Corps<br />
working in university development (teaching,<br />
curriculum, and lab development,<br />
among other things) in Santiago, Chile. Of<br />
said stint, he says, "It proved to be a very<br />
valuable and rewarding experience and I'm<br />
sure I was able to help in many concrete<br />
ways. While there, I was able to show<br />
Santiago to Doug Eichorn and his friends,<br />
all vacationing from their Peace Corps assignments<br />
in Arequipa, Peru."<br />
Those of us in the War Corps now include<br />
Army Lt. Bob Gellert, who has something<br />
to do with untangling the mess of<br />
supplies that pile up at Saigon's port; address<br />
HHC—506 Fd Depot, Director of<br />
Supply, APO, San Francisco, Calif. 96243.<br />
Also, Lt. John Wagner, Company Commander<br />
of HHC, 79 Engr. Gp., APO San<br />
Francisco, Calif. 96491, in the Long Binh<br />
area just northeast of Saigon. John, whose<br />
wife just had their second girl, recently<br />
went to school in Saigon with the US Mission<br />
at JUSPAO to learn something about<br />
revolutionary development. He comments:<br />
"I really learned a great deal of what is<br />
needed in this country and how little our<br />
effort is compared to the tremendous problems<br />
facing us." He adds that Jim Shields<br />
'65 is in nearby Phu Loi with the 86th<br />
Engr. Bn. Navy Lt. (jg) Lawrence R. Sharp<br />
of Rt. 1, West Hurley, was awarded an Air<br />
Medal with gold star, aboard the carrier<br />
Roosevelt in the Tonkin Gulf, for meritorious<br />
achievement while flying with Attack<br />
Squadron 72 in action over North Viet<br />
Nam. At Chu Lai, Capt. Dick Bardo was<br />
cited for flying Marine Fighter/Attack<br />
Squadron 542's 5,000th combat mission of<br />
the war. Army Capt. Patrick A. Schlenker<br />
of Rt. 1, Cortland, serves with the 85th<br />
Evacuation Hospital in Qui Nhon. Air<br />
Force Lt. Bob Rakowski, a^ bio-environmental<br />
engineer, is part of a 50-man Air<br />
Force staff charged with turning the world's<br />
first Modular Dispensary into a medical<br />
proving ground. This prefab hospital is located<br />
outside of Bangkok, Thailand. 1374<br />
Dean St., Schenectady, handles mail for<br />
Bob and wife Linda.<br />
But, fortunately, not all of us here attend<br />
to the arts of war. Dick Brown came<br />
out here last month as an agricultural advisor<br />
in a pilot project for USAID. He<br />
will be working with a Vietnamese counterpart,<br />
promoting a program of farming<br />
improvement as closely applicable to local<br />
conditions as possible. To prepare for this<br />
job, he trained for six months, approximately<br />
half the time learning the Vietnamese<br />
language. Jim Linn, who speaks<br />
fluent Vietnamese and who has been in the<br />
country for two years with IVS, has just<br />
moved his own agricultural advisory talents<br />
from Vinh Long, in the Delta, to Nha<br />
Trang, on the Central Coast, where he is<br />
a regional supervisor of some sort. Jim's<br />
address is IVS, USAID, APO, San Francisco,<br />
Calif. 96240, a line that may also<br />
work for Jim Mack, who is now in Nha<br />
Trang on loan to USAID from the Embassy<br />
in Saigon.<br />
There are, indeed, quite a few of us out<br />
here. In addition to those mentioned in this<br />
column, I know that a partial list of classmates<br />
who have been in or adjacent to<br />
Viet Nam in some capacity would include<br />
Jerry Bates, Garry Demurest, Tom Clark,<br />
Webb Nichols, Harry Robinson, George<br />
Hibbard, Mike McGuirk, Paul Scharf, Mike<br />
Gerard, Jim Vatter, Tom Reth, Dick Lynham,<br />
Bill Lage, John Rieke, and John Lutz<br />
(those slighted please inform me)—-a total<br />
of at least 24. More will come. Some will<br />
come back. I can't speak for all of these<br />
—the experience of each is different—but<br />
I think if there is one common denominator,<br />
it is simply that we all become more<br />
concerned, more involved, more committed<br />
in some way. Certainly we are not all like<br />
Jim Linn who, after two years, admits to<br />
feeling more a part of Viet Nam than of<br />
the United States sometimes. But to some<br />
extent, we are all struck by the complexity<br />
of the situation, and become distrustful of<br />
jingoistic slogans, pat answers, and easy<br />
solutions. There are only options. (The<br />
choice of available options is never clearcut,<br />
often painful, always attended by some<br />
doubt as to the consequences.) What is<br />
needed most are some uncommon virtues,<br />
such as imagination, fortitude, patience,<br />
and faith. God help us.<br />
I invite your comments.<br />
'64<br />
Women: Merry Hendler<br />
515 E. 85th St.<br />
New York, N.Y. 10028<br />
Jeanne Kowalik was married to Michael<br />
H. Payne in September. The Paynes are<br />
now living at Ramapo Towers, 30 S. Cole,<br />
Spring Valley. Jeanne writes that Eileen<br />
Wilson Harvard became the mother of<br />
Jeffrey Carl last November. Kristine Blixt<br />
Gaisek is teaching home economics in the<br />
South Orangetown School District in Rockland<br />
County. Thanks for the information,<br />
Jeanne, and the check.<br />
Richard M. '63 and Patricia Michaels<br />
Altman became the proud parents of Elizabeth<br />
Jane on Dec. 16. The Altmans may<br />
be reached at Bldg. 5, Apt. D-l, 5 Rose St.,<br />
Oceanside.<br />
Joan (Kather) and Bill Henry '60 also<br />
became parents recently. Son William Patrick,<br />
was born on Jan. 5. The Henrys live<br />
at 580 20th Ave., San Francisco, Calif.<br />
Nancy Taylor Butler wrote telling us<br />
more of her doings. She is still working for<br />
General Electric, while Ed '63 continues<br />
toward his PhD in EE at Cal-Berkeley. He<br />
has completed all course and language requirements,<br />
is now spending full time on<br />
research, and hopes to finish in a little over<br />
a year. "We managed a trip East in September,<br />
and although we missed Homecoming<br />
by a few weeks, we were able to spend<br />
one day in Ithaca (it was raining!). The<br />
Butlers have a change of address: 517 Stannage<br />
Ave., Albany, Calif.<br />
Joanne Herron, 333 E. 66th St., New<br />
York, is still living with Susan: McLaughlin<br />
'65 and is working as the assistant to the<br />
advertising director of Peck & Peck Stores.<br />
Richard and Joyce Payne Church had a<br />
lovely Christmas present last year. Their<br />
daughter, Sheryl Beth, was born Dec. 23.<br />
Dick is busy managing their 400-acre dairy<br />
farm and is active in community affairs,<br />
now serving as president of the local Jaycee<br />
chapter. Joyce has naturally been busy at<br />
home taking care of the new arrival, although<br />
she has found time to be active in<br />
4-H work at the local and county level. The<br />
Churchs may be reached at RD 1, Moravia.<br />
Lynda Gould is now living at 170 E.<br />
83rd St., New York, and is working for<br />
Skill Advancement, Inc., an anti-poverty<br />
program involved in job upgrading. A fellow<br />
staff member is Susan Braterman Taylor.<br />
Prior to working at Skill Advancement,<br />
Lynda was with the casting department at<br />
McCann-Erickson Advertising Agency.<br />
Donna Gellis Grushka and husband Eli<br />
are in the <strong>Cornell</strong> Graduate School and<br />
are hoping to finish this June. Donna writes<br />
that they would love to have Ithaca visitors<br />
stop in to say hello. Their address is<br />
422 Wood St., Ithaca.<br />
Alice Anderson's note relates that she<br />
has left J. Walter Thompson where she had<br />
been a media research analyst for two<br />
years, and joined IBM's retail office as a<br />
systems engineer. Alice's new address is:<br />
401 E. 81st St., New York.<br />
Other <strong>Cornell</strong>ians living in New York<br />
are: Patricia S. Knack, 131 E. 61st St.;<br />
Barbara Bresnick, 418 E. 77th St.; Barbara<br />
Jo Lauter, 77 E. 12th St.; Neysa Post, 433<br />
W. 21st St.; and Joan Messing, 165 West<br />
End Ave.<br />
Virginia Mai, after receiving her MS in<br />
organic chemistry from MIT in September,<br />
is now struggling through her PhD exams<br />
in same at MIT. Betsy Moll is teaching<br />
junior high school in Lexington while living<br />
at 18 Frost St., Cambridge, Mass. Ginny<br />
also writes that E. Marie Low Hanson<br />
(wife of Ken) is well along in her PhD in<br />
inorganic chemistry, also at MIT.<br />
Received a nice note from Julia Cowan,<br />
who wrote that she taught English to Japanese<br />
adults at ELEC, the English Language<br />
Education Council, in Tokyo from January<br />
'65 to January '66. Since September of<br />
last year, Julia has been attending Katharine<br />
Gibbs Secretarial School in New York,<br />
and hopes to find one of those highly-paid,<br />
executive-secretary jobs about which she<br />
has been hearing so much. Good luck.<br />
Julia may be reached through her Ithaca<br />
address, 107 Hanshaw Rd.<br />
Have two new roommates since the first<br />
of the year, Abby Stolper and Steffi Schus<br />
'65. Abby is working as a food chemist for<br />
Stauffer Chemical Co. while completing her<br />
MS in nutrition research at Columbia.<br />
Needless to say, I have been eating very<br />
well. Steffi is an assistant in the educational<br />
service department of Donahue<br />
Sales Corp.<br />
Cynthia Fulton has returned to the US<br />
after two years of work and study in Germany.<br />
Although she lived mostly in Wiesbaden<br />
and in Marburg/Lahn, she was able<br />
to do some traveling to several other European<br />
countries. Cynthia returned last fall<br />
in order to do graduate work at Indiana U,<br />
where she plans on getting her MA in German<br />
in April '68. Her address: GRC Box<br />
341, Bloomington, Ind.<br />
Ruth Ann Peterson, 117 N. Gill St.,<br />
State College, Pa., is still taking courses<br />
and working in the plant pathology department<br />
at Penn State College.<br />
76 <strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>News</strong>