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Ever since devouring fuel 

prices descended like the wolf 

upon the fold, the automotive kingdom 

has been searching for an economyperformance 

ecumenism. 

In Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Audi has built 

a car that reconciles the gospel of high 

economy with the doctrine of high 

performance. 

The 1983 Audi 5000 Turbo Diesel. 

This automobile offers economy with- 

out boredom. And power without guilt. 

Its EPA is impressive for such a large 

luxury car: [28] mpg EPA estimated and 

36 highway estimated.* 

No less impressive is the smooth 

power thrust of its turbocharger. Just 

press the accelerator at highway speed 

and you get 25 percent more power. 

Carefully engineered, this hightechnology 

German luxury sedan is very 

reasonably priced. The new Audi 5000 

Photographed in Burghausen, Bavaria. © 1982 Porsche Audi 

Turbo Diesel. It is the turbo diesel of 

turbo diesels. 

For your nearest Porsche Audi dealer 

or details on the Audi Delivery In Europe 

Program, call toll-free (800) 447-4700. 

In Illinois, (800) 322-4400. 

*(Use "estimated mpg" for comparison. 

Mileage varies with speed, trip 

length, weather. Actual highway mileage 

will probably be less.) 

PORSCHE + AUDI 

Audi: the art of engineering*

B&PA REUNION PRESENTS: 

Henry A, Kissinger 

TOPIC: 

Geopolitical Outlook for the Coming Decade 1 

All Cornell University 

Alumni are 

cordially invited. 

Sponsored by the Graduate 

School of Business and 

Public Administration 

Mr. Kissinger will also take questions from the floor. 

Saturday, June 12 

4:00 p.m. 

Bailey Hall 

This event was made possible by a grant from the 

Frank Stanley Beveridge Foundation.

Cornell alumni news 

May 1982 

Volume 84, Number 9 

Cover 

Contestants begin the Phi Psi 500 race under the feet of a number of noncompetitive 

spectators. A story in this issue explains more. 

2 The University 

Financial aid is a question mark for students and university alike. Doings on 

campus. Staff milestones. Two All-Americans; and Coach Bertrand resigns. 

10 Communications 

Letters from readers. Footnotes: A Sun book. Etcetera. 

16 Strange Doings Near Absolute Zero 

By William Steele '54. A group of top physicists explore how oddly matter 

behaves at very low temperatures. 

22 Free to Be Fit 

By Carrie Koplinka-Loehr. Major changes in the world of phys. ed. 

25 For Want of a Key 

By Carol Kammen. Launching Phi Beta Kappa was not easy on the Hill. 

28 Running on a Full Tank 

By Louise Chunn. The Phi Psi 500 grows up. 

35 News of Alumni 

Class notes. Alumni deaths. 

61 Alumni Activities 

Recalling Elspeth Grant Huxley, SpAg '28. Reunions. Alumni in the news. A 

calendar of events. 

64 Also 

Late news of the campus and beyond. 

CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 

Uncertainty clouds 

the future of 

financial aid 

for all students 

Federal grants and loans to 

students have grown dramatically 

in the past ten 

years, making universities 

like Cornell affordable to 

minority and low income students, and 

helping to ease the burden of rising education 

costs for middle class students as 

well. 

But it is this very reliance on federal 

aid that accounts for the despair into 

which the 1982-83 federal education 

budget, proposed by the Reagan administration, 

has thrown students and university 

administrators alike. Although 

by early spring, the exact shape of next 

year's federal budget was still unclear, 

Cornell and other universities found 

themselves scrambling to make aid and 

admissions decisions amid the likelihood 

of drastic cuts in Washington's contribution 

to student expenses. 

One immediate result is that for the 

first time Cornell is considering financial 

aid candidates on more than solely economic 

grounds. Depending upon the reaction 

of its Board of Trustees, the university 

may also introduce new, higher 

levels of student contribution into its financial 

aid system to attempt to make 

up for $1.8 million of federal funding it 

expects to lose next year. 

Calculations of aid for individual students 

at Cornell and most major schools 

take into account two categories of 

funds: what students themselves provide 

("self-help") and what is given to them 

with no obligation to repay ("free money"). 

Federal budget cuts have been projected 

to affect both categories significantly.

Self-help for students includes money 

they and their families provide, money 

earned in a campus work-study job, and 

loans. For undergraduates, both the federally 

subsidized work-study and some 

federally guaranteed student loans were 

threatened by the Reagan proposals. 

So-called free money includes grants 

and scholarships from the university itself, 

industry, other outside donors, and 

from the state and federal governments. 

Again, the federal portion was due to be 

reduced. 

Specific programs under fire are: 

• Pell Grants, for low- and middle-income 

undergraduates, which currently 

bring in $2.6 million to 2,600 Cornell 

students. Under the additional cuts proposed 

by President Reagan for the 1982- 

83 federal budget, these will be cut by $1 

million next year, and another $300,000 

the following year. 

• Supplementary Educational Opportunity 

Grants (SEOG), which account 

for another $1.4 million, and currently 

benefit 2,127 students on the Hill. Next 

year, proposed cuts would shave funds 

to $1 million, and in 1983-84, the entire 

program would be eliminated. 

• The work-study program, 

which would suffer less severe 

cuts. By 1983-84, it is projected 

that Cornell's allocation will have 

dropped by $1 million, which 

would bring the number of positions 

available to students down 

from 3,600 to 2,600. 

These changes would send federal aid 

to Cornell students plummetting from 

$8.45 million this year, to $3.9 million 

by 1983-84. The gap between the aid 

needs of students and the aid available 

from Cornell, federal, state, and other 

outside sources would be $11.5 million 

next year, and widen to a $16.4 million 

gap by 1983-84, according to the most 

recent estimates of Cornell officials. 

• Also in danger are loan programs. 

For the 1981-82 academic year, more 

than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate 

students borrowed a total of $22.8 million 

through the two major federal lending 

programs: National Direct Student 

Loans (NDSL) and Guaranteed Student 

Loans (GSL). These are low interest—5 

per cent and 9 per cent respectively—and 

do not require any payment until students 

have left school. 

Existing and proposed changes to the 

loan program for the 1982-83 year would 

eliminate the eligibility of any graduate 

and professional students for the GSLs, 

and by 1983-84 discontinue new NDSLs 

altogether. 

In a letter to parents in February, 

President Rhodes attacked the cuts proposed 

by the Reagan administration, 

calling them "a retreat in federal responsibility." 

He went on to ask students and 

parents to lobby Congress to reconsider 

MAY 1982

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moves that "will effectively destroy the 

precepts of open access and free choice 

to institutions of higher education." 

'To urge this [reconsideration of budget 

proposals] is not to deny that federal 

spending must be reduced. It is not to 

deny that some abuses in the use of student 

aid have occurred . . . But it is to assert 

that federal support for education 

involves not only spending but also investment, 

and investment in the future 

of individuals and of the nation," he 

concluded. 

By the end of February, the wheels of 

protest had ground into motion. Concerned 

students from Ithaca College 

joined with Cornell groups for a rally in 

Bailey Hall. Among the speakers were 

the presidents of both institutions, University 

Assembly members, and Congressman 

Matthew McHugh, Democrat 

from Ithaca, who told the audience that 

"Congress will listen if people really 

speak." However, only 400 students attended 

the rally, sending out a whimper 

rather than the loud roar that might 

have reached the Capitol. 

The following weekend about sixty 

Cornell students went to Washington, 

DC to attend a National Student Lobby 

Day organized by the National Coalition 

of Independent College and University 

Students. Nearly 4,000 students from 

throughout the country were involved. 

But while the university did not wish 

to be fatalistic, it was compelled by its 

tight admissions schedules to make contingency 

plans should the proposed federal 

budget cuts be adopted. As early as 

December—when the first applications 

for enrollment in the fall semester of 

1982 began processing—admissions 

committees were instructed to mark acceptances 

with grades for "overall attractiveness." 

Although Dean of Admissions 

and Financial Aid James Scannell 

first called this system "purely pragmatic," 

it was recommended to the Board of 

Trustees in late March, and may ultimately 

become the basis for awarding financial 

aid to accepted students. 

The system would work like this: Each 

college would divide its admitted students 

into one of three categories based 

on academic record, standardized test 

scores, leadership, community activities, 

and athletic prowess. This would determine 

the amount of self-help in a student's 

financial aid package. For example, 

the most attractive students would 

be asked to come up with $3,200 in loans 

and work-study. Those in the bottom 

rank might need to assume $4,200 in 

loans and work-study. All continuing 

students would be placed on the average 

self-help level of $3,700, and, administrators 

say, the university does not plan 

to increase the level of self-help required 

for the next two years, regardless of academic 

performance. 

In the present year, all except low-income 

and COSEP program students are 

asked to assume $3,000 in self-help. 

Low-income students—those whose 

family income is below $10,000 a year— 

assume $1,000 in self-help, and an increase 

of $500 is envisaged for next year. 

Minority COSEP students are already 

graded into levels according to parental 

income, and Cornell proposes to raise 

their contributions accordingly. 

Increased university-wide tuition 

charges would also provide more funds 

for what is referred to as "student-tostudent 

subsidization." At present, 

around $700 of a full-paying student's 

annual tuition of $7,000 goes toward 

scholarships for needy students. Next 

year, says Scannell, Cornell will use 

some of its projected 14 per cent hike in 

tuition to increase the university's 

scholarship contribution by 18 per cent 

to $7.2 million. Another $3 million 

would come from endowments. 

"The question is whether this is doing 

enough," says Scannell, "or whether we 

have gone as far as we can, subsidizing 

some students with money from the 

others." 

In late March, an emergency loan 

fund of $1 million was proposed by 

President Rhodes, to benefit next year's 

financially needy students. Funds for the 

plan will scoop up almost a half of the 

dollars expected to remain unspent from 

the present year's university operating 

budget, and alumni will also be encouraged 

to support needy students through 

the Cornell Fund. 

Administrators are worried about the 

possible effect of cuts in aid—and the 

campus community's reaction to them— 

on the university's place in the competitive 

college market. Among the Ivy universities, 

Cornell's self-help requirement 

is already high; a $3,800 median would 

place it second only to MIT in the selfhelp 

contribution it would be seeking 

from financial aid students next year. 

Scannell compares Cornell's situation 

with Yale's—unfavorably. The latter is 

better-endowed and has a wealthier 

group of students that it aids financially, 

with an average family income nearly 

$6,000 a year higher than Cornell's. 

Consequently, Yale's self-help level for 

1982-83 will probably rise by only $250 

to $3,000, compared with Cornell's 

jump of $1,200 for a high of $4,200. 

Cornell administrators do not expect

Please accept this invitation to join me on an 

Unforgettable 16-day 

Flower Tour of Europe" 

Professor Raymond 7". Fox, Dept. of Horticulture, Cornell University 

We will visit some of the most beautiful and historic gardens 

in Holland, France, Germany, Switzerland and England. 

July 27 thru August 11, 1982 

• Holland's once-every-decade flower spectacular... 

the fantastic Floriade. 

• The world's largest flower auction. 

• Royal Horticultural Society of Great Britain summer 

v flower show. 

DAY 1 — We depart in the early evening from New York's J.F.K. Airport. 

We enjoy a delicious dinner, stereo music and a movie as our jumbo jet 

glides over the Atlantic bound for Amsterdam. 

DAY 2 — We arrive this morning in Amsterdam. At the airport, well meet 

our full-time, English-speaking tour director/guide who'll help us enjoy 

our trip to the utmost. The balance of the day is for relaxation to become 

adjusted to the jet-lag. 

DAY 3 — The world's largest flower auction highlights the day. Marvel at 

the colorful, fragrant spectacle of some 6 million freshly cut flowers... 

over 32 acres under one roof! Later, we'll taste samples at a cheese farm 

and see wooden shoes made at a factory. 

DAY 4 — "The Floriade." Whether a gardener, botanist or flower lover, 

you'll enjoy this sprawling flower and garden show, offered only once 

every 10 years. See the latest in model gardens. Optional trips take us to 

picturesque Volendam, a fishing village on the Zuiderzee, and the National 

Art Gallery. 

DAY 5 — Motoring through the industrial Ruhr Valley, we anticipate an 

awe-inspiring sight — the soaring twin-Gothic spires of the Cologne Cathedral. 

Soon we board a Rhine steamer for a breathtaking river trip 

through steep hillsides crowded with vineyards and sometimes adorned 

with medieval castles. 

DAY 6 — Rhineland — to the Black Forest. We're off to romantic Heidelberg, 

inspiration for "The Student Prince" and home of Heidelberg castle. 

There's time for snapshots as we move southward to the famed Black Forest. 

DAY 7 — Black Forest — Mainau — Lucerne. First we visit the tiny island 

of Mainau in the Lake of Constance with banana, palm and other exotic 

flora in centuries-old gardens. Next: The magic country of Switzerland. 

DAY 8 — Lucerne, "Swissest of all Swiss towns." This is THE place to 

shop: watches, clocks, wood carvings, music boxes, cowbells, embroideries 

— a shopper's paradise! Options include trips to the peak of Mt. 

Pilatus and a Swiss folklore show. 

The price for this once-in-a-lifetime 

opportunity? Only $2097 from New 

York. This is probably less than you 

thought possible since we will be 

able to make many arrangements 

that would not be possible on your 

own. This unforgettable trip includes 

first class hotels, most meals, fulltime 

professional tour guide, complete 

flower and garden program, 

fantastic sightseeing and much more. 

• Professional, full-time English-speaking tour 

director. 

• First-class hotels and most meals. 

• Deluxe motor coach especially designed for 

sightseeing tours. J 

DAY 9 — Lucerne — Bern — Dijon. First, a stop in Emmental, home of the 

famous Swiss cheese. We'll see rich farmland and well-kept farm homes 

with hand-carved flower balconies and colorful vegetable and flower 

gardens. Next the bear pit of Bern, and Dijon in France's Burgundy wine 

country. 

DAY 10 — Leaving Dijon, toward Paris. We'll see the splendid 16thcentury 

Palace of Fontainebleau and the lakes, terraces, pools, statuary, 

fountains, greenery and cascades of the chateau garden of Vaux le 

Vicomte. Then to Paris. 

DAY 11 — In Paris ... Eiffel Tower... Notre Dame... Arch of Triumph. 

See the Tuileries and Luxembourg Gardens, walk the famed Champs 

Elysses, enjoy the lighthearted French spirit in countless sidewalk cafes. 

Options include tours of the Palace of Versailles, the Louvre, a Seine 

boat trip, the Paris Metro (the world's best subway system). 

DAY 12 — Paris to Kent, England. We say goodbye to Paris and head for 

Calais on the English Channel. There we board ship for Dover, England, 

where we'll see the famous "white cliffs" rising 400 feet above the port. 

The county of Kent has quaint villages of thatched-roofed cottages, deepgreen 

hills and gardens ablaze with color. 

DAY 13 — England — County of Kent. We'll see Hever Castle inherited in 

1506 by Ann Boleyn's father and centuries later restored by Lord Astor 

and view the elegant gardens and grounds before moving on to London. 

DAYS 14 and 15 — London. The summer flower show of the Royal Horticultural 

Society of Great Britain features carnations, delphiniums, fruit, 

vegetables and hardy flowers — a gorgeous finale to our tour. You'll have 

time to see Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, No. 10 Downing Street, Buckingham 

Palace and sample the famous night life. 

DAY 16 — Leaving London — and back home. It's great to experience new 

things but it's great to come back. We leave for the states in early afternoon. 

Relax and reflect on the never to be forgotten memories of the last 

two weeks. 

Send for your FREE detailed itinerary today! 

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Ithaca, New York 14850 

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the federal budget cuts to show their full 

effects next fall, but they say the following 

year could well be the more disastrous. 

"We simply don't know what will 

happen. We may reach the ceiling for 

loans, work-study, and the amount a 

student can be expected to come up 

with," Scannell says. 

Of more immediate concern is the real 

possibility, raised in late winter, of barring 

all new graduate and professional 

students from the Guaranteed Student 

Loan program, which in this academic 

year was the source of $9 million for 

2,000 Cornell graduate and professional 

students. Under the GSL, graduate and 

professional students could borrow up 

to $5,000 annually at an interest rate of 9 

per cent. 

If these students are made ineligible 

for GSLs, they will be thrown back onto 

a new program, Auxiliary Loans to Assist 

Students, with the appropriate acronym 

ALAS. Although the proposed limit 

on ALAS is up to $8,000 per year, the 

14 per cent interest payments would not 

be delayed until a student has left college; 

in fact, a four-year graduate student 

borrowing the full amount would 

pay $11,200 in interest alone during the 

four years while still a graduate student. 

This federal proposal coincided with a 

Board of Trustees decision to lift enrollment 

limits on the Graduate School in 

order to meet what university leaders 

term "a very high demand" for doctorates 

in engineering, the physical and biological 

sciences, and several other fields. 

Now it is questionable how many of 

these students—and those in the professional 

schools of law, medicine, and 

business—will be able to afford a further 

education, or, conversely, whether Cornell 

as a university, and society in general, 

can afford to be without them. 

Apart from the economics of the various 

proposed federal cuts, many students 

and other university people were 

predicting darkly that together they 

could limit Cornell to a student body 

drawn primarily from the extremes of 

the economic scale and, in the process, 

lower admissions standards. "We're 

scared, no doubt about that," one assistant 

dean at the Graduate School of Business 

and Public Administration put it 

pungently: "Our student body could become 

richer, less diverse—and possibly 

dumber." —LC 

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service in the most beautiful and unspoilt parts 

of the old country. All travel, accommodation 

and other facilities provided from your arrival in 

England to your departure. A special welcome in 

1982 for Cornellians. Write: CLAYTON-COUR- 

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CRUISE RIVERS, canals: Great Britain. Selfdrive, 

weekly charters, comfortable live-aboard 

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More power 

The university and a Maryland firm, 

Synergies Inc., have each applied to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 

for a license to build a hydroelectric 

plant at the foot of Ithaca Falls. The Fall 

Creek site is near one for which Ezra 

Cornell developed a tunnel in the wall of 

the gorge, a tunnel that carried water to 

an earlier waterpower site near the present 

Ithaca Gun Co. Synergies, as the 

first to apply, was given an early edge to 

receive the license. The City of Ithaca 

has a right to preempt the private developers, 

and was being urged by some 

residents to do so. 

The university reopened a powerplant 

further up Fall Creek in late 1981 ("Water 

Works" in the February 1982 Alumni 

News). 

The Student Assembly was concerned at 

mid-term over a string of actions its 

leaders viewed as restricting its authority. 

A first complaint came when the administration 

raised campus parking 

meter fees without waiting for Assembly 

comment. Then President Rhodes asked 

the Assembly to reconsider a plan it 

adopted to alter the categories of its 

membership. And finally the president 

again asserted his right to ask the Assembly 

to reconsider any of its actions when 

he applied the authority to an Assembly 

plan to submit the work grievances of 

student employes to binding arbitration. 

The Student Assembly is one of three 

bodies that represent campus groups, 

the others being the Employe Assembly 

and the Faculty Council of Representatives. 

Each sends representatives to a 

University Assembly. 

Alpha Chi Omega hopes to become the 

eleventh sorority on campus next spring. 

It was accepted by the ten present sororities 

that make up the Panhellenic Council. 

ACO does not yet have a particular 

house in mind. Kappa Alpha Theta, 

which returned in 1980 after a fifteenyear 

absence, has yet to find a house. 

Panhel noted that 100 women "rushed 

and didn't get in" during formal rush 

this winter, as an indication a need exists 

for another chapter on the Hill. 

Panhel and the Interfraternity Council 

both reported more members this 

year than last, Panhel an increase of 6 

per cent and IFC 15 per cent. Bruce 

Cohen '82, outgoing IFC president, said 

that while six or seven houses were "in 

trouble" at rushing time last year, only 

ALUMNI 

FLIGHTS 

ABROAD 

This is a special program 

of travel for alumni of 

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, 

M.I.T., Cornell and 

certain other distinguished 

universities. It offers an unusual series of tours, with great civilizations of the 

past and areas of exceptional beauty and natural interest: 

The splendor of ancient Egypt ... the ancient treasures of Greece, Asia 

Minor, and the Aegean . . . Carthage and the Greek and Roman cities of 

Sicily and North Africa . . . South America, the remarkable islands of the 

Galapagos, the Amazon, and ancient archaeological sites . . . the Moghul 

treasures of India and the Himalayas of Nepal . . . the unusual world of 

southern India . . . the classic beauty of ancient Japan and the countries of 

southeast Asia . . . Borneo, Ceylon, Sumatra and other islands of the 

East . . . the primitive world of New Guinea . . . Australia and New 

Zealand in the South Pacific ... the wilds of Kenya and Tanzania in East 

Africa and the beautiful islands of the Seychelles. 

The program features exceptional intineraries, designed for the educated 

traveler. Most tours are of three to four weeks duration, with some of thirtyfive 

days and some from nine to seventeen days. For descriptive brochures 

contact: 

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FLOATING HOTELS 

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A unique experience—one week 

gourmet hotel boat cruises on the most 

beautiful of the French canals, featuring 

good food, good wine and good 

'company while relaxing on the sundeck, 

strolling or cycling alongside on ancient 

tow paths. 

Visit the vinyards, wineries, chateaux 

and villages of provincial France at the 

afternoon and evening stops made each 

day. 

Gourmet chefs create the very best 

cuisine aboard our five luxury hotel 

boats, carrying from 6 to 16 guests 

(charter or individual) from April through 

October. 

Paris or Bordeaux pickup and return. 

For information about a week of peace 

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rush to garner new members. 

The student-run radio station WVBR- 

FM has moved to the top in a Tompkins 

County listener survey, conducted last 

fall. The survey gives the station 18.9 per 

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Four faculty members are new fellows of 

the American Association for the Advancement 

of Science (AAAS). Elected 

this year were: Professors John L. 

Cisne, geological sciences; William Wilson 

Lambert, psychology, sociology, 

and anthropology; David M. Lee, physics; 

and Nell I. Mondy, PhD '53, nutritional 

and food sciences. An AAAS 

fellow is described by the association as 

"a member whose efforts on behalf of 

the advancement of science or its appli- 

Ivy League 

cations are scientifically or socially distinguished." 

Brett Kahr '82 is winner of a Marshall 

Scholarship to study psychology, physiology, 

and philosophy for two years at 

Oxford University. He is one of twentyone 

men and nine women selected this 

year for the award created in 1953 as an 

expression of British appreciation for 

the generous help given Europe under 

the US Marshall Plan. While at Oxford, 

Kahr will do a clinical internship at Warnerford 

Hospital, Oxford's psychiatric 

hospital. 

Kahr has been on the Dean's List in 

Arts and Sciences every semester while 

carrying a dual major in psychology and 

French literature. He has been active in a 

variety of on- and off-campus programs 

—from playing piano at the Statler Club 

bar (as many as forty hours a week) to 

serving as a counselor with the Suicide 

Prevention and Crisis Service. 

Joan Roos Egner, EdD '65 became an 

associate provost last month, responsible 

for coordinating the university's Affirmative 

Action efforts for all academic 

appointments, and for university planning, 

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She joined the faculty in 1964 as a lecturer 

in education, rising to full professor 

by 1977, and became associate 

dean in Agriculture and Life Sciences in 

1978 after two years as associate director 

of both the college's Office of Research 

and the Agricultural Experiment Station. 

Egner has served on the Provost's Advisory 

Committee on the Status of 

Women, the Executive Committee on 

Women's Studies, and the Campus Governance 

Review Committee. 

Evan J. Morris, longtime owner of 

Triangle Book Shop in Collegetown and 

for a short time owner of Sheldon 

Court, died March 10 in Ithaca at the 

age of 90. He owned Triangle Book in 

Collegetown from 1925 until 1956, and 

owned and managed Sheldon Court, 

buying it in 1947 and selling it to the university 

in 1957. 

The death of three faculty occurred during 

the late winter: 

Prof. Frank Glenn, surgery, emeritus, 

died January 12 at the age of 80. He 

joined the resident surgical staff of the 

Medical Center in New York City in 

1932, and served as chairman of the surgery 

department and surgeon-in-chief of 

the New York Hospital for twenty years, 

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Glenn received the first Maurice Greenberg 

Distinguished Service Award at the 

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named a new intensive-care unit for cardiopulmonary 

problems after him in 

1973. He was a past president of the 

American College of Surgeons, the NY 

Academy of Medicine, the NY Cancer 

Society, and the NY Surgical Society. 

For many years he served as consultant 

in general surgery to the Veterans Administration. 

Prof. John D. Gilpatrick, plant pathology, 

died March 3 at Geneva General 

Hospital at the age of 58. He joined 

the staff of the Agricultural Experiment 

Station at Geneva in 1968. Gilpatrick 

was one of the leading authorities in the 

world on fungal diseases of apples and 

other tree crops, and was particularly 

well known for his research on the chemicals 

known as fungicides. 

Prof. Herbert Mahr, physics, died 

March 10, after a long illness, at the age 

of 52. Mahr, who joined the faculty in 

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Two All-Americans; 

Bertrand resigns 

as hockey coach 

Two winter athletes achieved All-American 

honors and a third broke into the 

All-Ivy ranks for his team's first time in 

five years* 

And, the season ended with the blockbuster 

news, as well, that the head coach 

of men's hockey for the past twelve 

years, Dick Bertrand '70, had resigned 

to coach another Division I school, Ferris 

State, in Michigan (see below). 

Doriane Lambelet-McClive '82 won 

the AIAW national 800 meter championship 

in a meet record time of 

2:04.72 to be named a track All-American 

a second year in a row. She transferred 

to the Hill two years ago from Villanova, 

and in February was part of an 

Atoms Track Club of New York City 

mile-relay team that was .03 seconds off 

a world mark for the event, in 3:40.49. 

Brian Hay ward '82 was named Ail- 

American and All-East goalie in hockey, 

the Red's first Ail-American since Lance 

Nethery '79 pulled down such honors his 

senior year. Hay ward had a .915 saves 

percentage and a 3.17 goals-against average. 

Hayward and defenseman Joe Gallant 

'82 were named All-Ivy first team. Wing 

Roy Kerling '82 made second team and 

forward John Olds '82 honorable mention. 

Capt. Mike Lucas '82 was named a 

first-string forward on the All-Ivy basketball 

team, the Red's first player on 

that team since Bernard Vaughan '77 

was named his senior year. Guard Les 

Daggs '85 placed third in voting for 

rookie of the year. 

Men's skiing is a club, as opposed to 

university-sponsored "varsity," sport, 

which has tended to diminish the attention 

accorded its star, Capt. Scott Keller 

'84 of the cross country team. Last year 

he was named to the Nordic National 

Junior Team as one of the top seven 

racers in the East, qualified for the US 

Junior Olympics, and finished twentyfifth 

in its field of 100. This year he improved 

to place sixteenth in the Junior 

World Championships in his event. 

Margaret (Digit) Degidio '83 at forward 

and goalie Sarah Mott '82 were 

named All-Ivy first team in hockey. 

Diane Dillon '83 made the second team 

at forward. 

Lauren Kulik '85 in the long jump and 

Doriane Lambelet-McClive in the 1,500meter 

run were Cornell's two All-Ivy 

women track team members. 

The women's gymnastics team finished 

a disappointing sixth in the Eastern 

college championships after being 

seeded third. Birgit Zeeb '85 placed second 

on the balance beam, Karen Walsh 

'85 fifth on the beam, and Ellen Mayer 

'84 fourth in the vaulting and sixth in 

floor exercise. Zeeb qualified for the nationals. 

The women fencers placed second to 

Yale in their Easterns, with a 4-1 record. 

Three individuals qualified for the nationals 

early last month, Christine 

Hamori '85, Mindy Roseman '82, and 

Karen Lesser '83. 

Men's polo bowed out in the semifinals 

of the Nationals, losing to Connecticut 

5-18. California-Davis repeated 

as champion with a win over UConn. 

Ernie Darquea '82 led the Red with three 

goals; Lou Hering '82 had the others. 

(See Also, page 64, for late winterteam 

results and early returns from the 

spring teams.) 

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Hockey coach Bertrand left Cornell with 

the fourth best record of active major 

college coaches, 229 wins, 104 losses, 

and 9 ties for a .683 winning ratio. This 

year's 12-13-1 was his first losing season 

and the first time Cornell was out of the 

EC AC playoffs in eighteen years. 

Under his leadership the Red won the 

Ivy League five times; won the EC AC 

title in 1973 and 1980, and was second in 

1981; placed second nationally in 1972, 

fourth in 1973 and 1980, and was in the 

top eight in 1981. 

He said he went to Ferris State, a 

member of the Central Collegiate Hockey 

Association, because hockey is that 

school's No. 1 sport, its only Division I 

sport, and he will have twenty hockey 

scholarships available. 

He said that at age 40 he needed a 

change. In various interviews he let it be 

known that the lack of hockey scholarships 

and admissions difficulties in Ivy 

schools weighed against his staying. He 

praised the university administration 

and its athletic department. 

This year's team had proved particularly 

hard to "motivate," he said, 

though "it wasn't because of the year I 

had" that he left. 

The Cornell Daily Sun's sports staff 

immediately cast about for feelings 

about possible successors, and in one 

Communications 

Like It Is 

Editor: The continuous flow of "success 

and happiness" class letters is a little bit 

boring. How about printing the following 

letter for all those who walk on the 

shadow side of the street. 

"Sewell Crisman, EE '35, writes that 

he is retired and very tired—sore back 

and stiff joints. Not doing much; just 

bumming around. Wife, Jane—Meyersdale 

Grammar School '31—in good 

health but a little obnoxious now and 

then. The children haven't amounted to 

much—can't seem to handle booze or 

pot—in and out of the slammer. Best 

hope seems to be the grandchildren but 

too early to tell. Maybe the light at the 

end of the tunnel but can't see that far— 

bad eyesight." 

Sewell W. Crisman'35 

Greensburg, Pa. 

Mike Lucas '82 and his father, 

Lonzino Lucas from Detroit, after the 

final game of the season when the Red 

captain became the eighth player in 

school history to score 1,000 points. 

He got 1,008 in four years. 

edition mentioned Lou Reycroft, Bertrand's 

assistant; Nevin (Ned) Harkness, 

Bertrand's highly successful predecessor 

and now a hockey mogul in the Adirondacks 

franchise of the Detroit Red 

Wings; and Bill Murray '73, a coach at 

Northern Michigan. 

More legacies 

Editor: Please add to your list of legacies 

published in the March '82 issue my 

oldest offspring, Jonathon Howard 

Grunzweig, who entered the Arts college 

in the fall of 1981. 

James L. Grunzweig '59 

Beachwood, Ohio 

Editor: Please add the name of our 

daughter to the list of those new students 

who have two Cornell parents: Roberta 

Lynn Rosen, daughter of Doris Rein '55 

and Stanley B. Rosen '51. 

Doris R. Rosen '55 

Silver Spring, Md. 

Editor: Apparently my grandson, who 

entered Cornell last fall, was one of

those who failed to report that his 

father, Robert P. Liversidge Jr., was the 

Class of 1961, and I, his grandfather, 

Robert P. Liversidge, was the Class of 

1931, and he, being Robert P. Liversidge 

III, is the third generation of RPLs. 

I am glad to report he loves Cornell 

and is apparently doing well. 

R.P. Liversidge'31 

Kennebunk, Me. 

We have also heard from Michael W. 

MUmoe '53 about the omission of the 

name of his three daughters who are attending 

the university and haven't been 

listed in the past as legacies. They are 

fourth generation Cornellians all, and all 

members of Kappa Kappa Gamma: 

Anne '85, Katherine '84, and Mary '83. 

Their great-grandmother was the late 

Margaret E. Mooney 1886, Mrs. Patrick 

F. MUmoe; and their grandfather the 

late Wheeler MUmoe '17. 

Also, the name of a maternal greatgrandfather 

should be added to the list 

of alumni forebears of William H.E. 

Fratt '85, making him a fourth-generation 

Cornellian as well. The ancestor in 

question is the late George Meade 

Emory '91.—Ed. 

How long 

Editor: Will I live to see the day half the 

professors in Home Ec must be men? 

They do make excellent chefs. 

My own experience has been that 

those who say "we are as good as someone 

else" do not do a superior job. 

This letter is prompted by present 

news on TV. Women are harder to understand 

and many jerk their heads in an 

"I told you so*' manner. Is this what we 

want in college? 

Furthermore this is a Christian notion. 

When two of the opposite sex are 

equal the man should have the job. 

There is a place for the female, too. A 

neighbor girl has just been accepted at 

Cornell Medical School. I know she does 

her best. But the ones who demand their 

rights should be passed by. 

Hazel Merrill Brance '26 

Wexford, Pa. 

Goody better. . . 

Editor: Fr. Nathaniel Pierce (Letters, 

March '81 News) thinks that "composed 

of" is wrong and "comprised of" cor- 

rect, as in ". . .the Ivy Policy Committee, 

composed of . . ." 

Can't we keep a distinction between 

the words, and continue to recognize 

"composed of" as a synonym of "comprise^)"? 

"Comprised of" is redundant 

and barbaric, whatever the minority of 

the American Heritage Dictionary's 

Usage Panel may think. 

Oh, well, another evidence of the End 

of Civilization as We Know It. 

David A. West'55 

Blacksburg, Va. 

Editor: This is in response to the erroneous 

view expressed by Nathaniel 

Pierce '66 in the Alumni News for 

March 1982, page 10. 

The phrase which he objects to 

("composed of") is perfectly correct, 

and the substitution of the word "comprised" 

is a very common error. "Comprise" 

means "include" or "embrace," 

and is normally used in the active form. 

Thus one can say, for example, "The 

Union comprises fifty states" or "The 

Union is composed of fifty states" or 

"Fifty states constitute the Union," The 

confusion among these words lies most 

often in the exclusive use of "com- 

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prise," as though the other two words 

had become obsolete. 

You could say, "Fifty states are comprised 

in the Union." 

This point is discussed briefly in the 

American Heritage Dictionary, under 

the word "comprise." It remarks that 

the (incorrect) use of "comprise" seems 

to be spreading. 

I think we should do all we can to resist 

the rising tide of bad grammar, although 

I fear that the cause is hopeless. 

But anyway, Alumni News, stick to your 

guns! 

R.Whitney Tucker'26 

Charlotte, NC 

Editor: Probably better authorities than 

I have written to you about Fr. Nathaniel 

Pierce's erroneous correction of 

"composed of" in the March issue of 

the Alumni News. 

Being a priest, as the "Fr." would indicate, 

he should have more than a passing 

acquaintance with the Latin language. 

Although usage has made comprise 

synonymous with compose, their 

Latin derivation makes them opposites; 

the whole comprises the parts and the 

parts compose the whole. 

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Oh, that it were so.—Ed. 

Footnotes: Sun 

views of history 

Last Christmas I received from one of 

my sons, who is also a Cornellian, a 

copy of the Cornell Daily Sun's A Century 

at Cornell. It is edited not only 

from the point of view of journalists, 

but specifically from the pόirit of view of 

Daniel Margulis '73, who was a student 

during the turbulent '60s and '70s. 

Hence it should not be surprising that 

the book begins with what the editor evidently 

considers the most important 

news story in the university's history, the 

revolt of the blacks, as illustrated by 

their takeover of Willard Straight Hall in 

1969 and their triumphant walkout carrying 

guns. 

Twenty-one large (9Vi x 14^ inch) 

pages are given to this story. (Such a 

story as Prof. Hans Bethe's discovery of 

the source of heat in the Sun and his 

winning of the Nobel Prize is beneath 

mention.) 

But in a book somewhat overloaded 

with negatives, it does seem surprising, 

at first, to find eleven pages devoted to 

the fifth down in the football game with 

Dartmouth in 1940. That was the game 

in which, losing by 3 to 0 in the last six 

seconds, the Cornell team scored a 

touchdown on a pass and ended the 

game 7 to 3. 

But Dartmouth charged that the referee 

had allowed five downs. President 

Day and Athletic Director James Lynah 

'05 immediately issued a statement that 

if it could be shown that the charge was 

true, the game would be given back to 

Dartmouth. The charge was proved, and 

Lynah telegraphed the athletic director 

at Dartmouth making the concession, although 

it ruined what had been an undefeated 

season. 

Praise poured in from every quarter. 

The New York Times and the Herald- 

Tribune ran editorials praising Cornell's 

sportsmanship. An enterprising Sun reporter 

even cornered Tom Harmon, 

then the most celebrated football player 

in the nation, in an Ann Arbor beer and 

ale establishment, and extracted this 

statement: 'There isn't a team in the Big 

Ten that would have displayed such 

sportsmanship. In my opinion, Cornell 

is about tops in any man's football 

league and their gentlemanly action at 

Hanover showed them to be good losers 

—and that's something it's hard to be 

when an undefeated season is at stake." 

What especially interests me in all this 

is that in one of the most important public 

relations events in Cornell history, 

there is no indication that Lou Boochever 

'12, then director of public information, 

was even informed, much less consulted. 

My first impulse is to conclude 

that Day and Lynah neglected the most 

elementary administrative procedure. 

On second thought, I have to concede 

that the very best public relations actions 

are often those in which someone does 

the right thing immedately and spontaneously, 

without benefit of professional 

advice. That was the story of the fifth 

down. 

The story is not at all marred by the 

fact that the editor of this book thinks 

the Cornell decision was wrong. 

—Ray Howes'24 

Etcetera 

All magazines are concerned about accuracy 

of information in their pages. No 

less so Forbes Magazine. We noted in 

this column in December 1981 that the 

August 17,1981 issue of/br&es told of a 

Cornellian who left the field of teaching 

to become president of the J.C. Penney 

Co. We reported that the man was in 

fact a graduate of Colgate, not Cornell. 

A month later we received a letter 

from Malcolm S. Forbes, chairman, 

chief executive officer, and editor-inchief 

of Forbes, explaining that the error 

was not made originally or in 1981 by the 

magazine itself, but was in fact contained 

in a letter from J.C. Penney 

himself to Malcolm Forbes's father. 

The director of research for Forbes 

wrote the present Mr. Forbes: "I know 

you wouldn't have the sins of the father 

visited upon the soil!" 

Jack Slater '43, a publisher in his own 

right, former chairman of our Publications 

Committee, and still a committee 

member, snaps us up short about an 

item on page 6 of our own February issue, 

reporting the death of Col. Edwin 

Van Deusen. We said he died in Fayetteville, 

South Carolina. "North Carolina! 

My home state!" corrects Jack. Our error. 

Paul Sisco, Grad, who helped consider-

ably with our article on Barbara McClintock 

'23 and the golden age of corn genetics 

at the university, calls to report he 

contributed to an error in that account 

in the February issue. A picture caption 

identified a dog as Pudgie (owned by the 

Nobel-winner-to-be George Beadle, 

PhD '31) when in fact it was the dog 

Skip, owned by Prof. Rollins A. Emerson. 

We continue to look to other periodicals 

sent to alumni of the university for stories 

that might be of general interest to 

all alumni, no matter what their undergraduate 

or graduate college. In this 

connection you've noticed articles from 

Engineering, Law, and the Medical College 

in the News in recent months. 

the magazine we've called on most 

for help has been the Alumni Quarterly 

of the Medical College, for which we 

gladly acknowledge our appreciation. Its 

editor since 1974 is Prof. C. Richard 

Minick, MD '60, pathology, a specialist 

in research in atherosclerosis. 

Managing editor, and the man with 

whom we work closest, is Ben Haimowitz, 

a Columbia graduate who has been 

in public relations and publishing since 

leaving Morningside Heights in 1959. He 

has taught, has a firm in medical public 

relations with his wife, and has been ME 

of the Quarterly for four years. 

The magazine goes to 4,000 alumni of 

the Medical College and another 1,000 

physicians who trained at the New York 

Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, faculty, 

medical students, and their parents. 

As the insect wreaks ever greater havoc 

over the northeastern US, Cornell's Cooperative 

Extension has published Gypsy 

Moth, describing the pest, the damage 

it does, the trees it feeds upon, its lifecycle, 

and control strategies. Copies are 

available by mail for $2 from Cornell 

Distribution Center, 7 Research Park, 

Ithaca, NY 14850. 

Carol Kammen is a writer new to our 

pages with this issue. She is a graduate of 

George Washington University, a writer 

on local history in Ithaca who has also 

taught local history at Tompkins Cortland 

Community College for ten years 

and is editor of What They Wrote, a 

book of documents from 19th century 

Tompkins County. Her husband, Michael, 

is the Farr professor of American 

Retracing the Silk Road in 

Western China 

August 16-September 10, 1982 

history and culture at the university. 

Another new writer is Carrie Koplinka-Loehr, 

a 1980 graduate of Colgate 

who has moved to Ithaca with her husband, 

Michael Loehr, also a Colgate 

alumnus, now a graduate student in city 

and regional planning at the university. 

Carrie was editor for the Atlantic Center 

for the Environment in Massachusetts 

where she produced its periodical, Nexus. 

This year she has graded papers for 

the Communication Arts course in scientific 

and technical writing. And yes, her 

husband is one of the running Loehr 

brothers mentioned in the article in this 

issue on the Phi Psi 500. 

You'll notice in this issue's News of 

Alumni section a series of small bear's 

heads, inserted by us to call attention to 

items that may be of particular interest 

to readers of all classes. — JM 

This unusual twenty-five day tour is designed to 

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A preeminent group of physicists 

discovers how oddly matter behaves 

when cooled to very low temperatures 

Strange Doings 

Near Absolute Zero 

By William Steele '54 

It started in the early '60s, about the 

time the low temperature laboratory 

started to fall into a hole. Cornell had 

just hired David Lee out of the low temperature 

physics group at Yale. Although 

only a lowly $4,500-a-year 

instructor, he became the reigning monarch 

of low temperature research; he 

inherited a garage-sized brick and concrete 

building behind Rockefeller Hall 

that housed a helium liquifier and other 

apparatus for cooling things to within a 

few degrees of absolute zero. 

Excavations for the basement of 

Clark Hall were going on just a few feet 

away. One day Lee came to work and 

found a crack in the floor; each day it 

grew longer and wider, until it extended 

up the wall and made a gap wide enough 

for him to watch the construction workers 

walking by. The lab was evacuated 

"precipitously," Lee recalls, as the floor 

began to cant toward the hole. 

In a public lecture in Rockefeller Hall, 

Prof Robert Richardson transfers 

liquid helium into a transparent 

vacuum flask for an experiment in low 

temperature physics. The fog above the 

apparatus is from the cold helium gas. 

On the wall behind, small magnets are 

projected to illustrate how matter 

aligns magnetically at very low 

temperatures. See page 20 for the final 

phase of this demonstration. 

An inauspicious omen, perhaps, but 

in a way it symbolized a beginning. Out 

of the hole behind Rockefeller would 

rise Clark Hall, home for the newly 

created Laboratory of Atomic and Solid 

State Physics (LASSP). In Room H-8 in 

the basement the new low temperature 

facility Lee was to design would reach 

temperatures 1,000 times colder than 

anything possible in the "Rockefeller 

Annex." He would be joined by colleagues 

John Reppy and Robert Richardson, 

and the trio would build the low 

temperature experimental group into 

one that Prof. Neiί Ashcroft calls 

"probably the most prestigious in the 

world." 

Ashcroft is director of LASSP and 

their boss, so is admittedly prejudiced; 

but the world has indeed beaten a path 

to the doors of H-8. In March, 1981, 

Richardson, Lee, and Douglas Osheroff, 

PhD '73, now at Bell Laboratories, 

received the Oliver E. Buckley Solid 

State Physics Prize from the American 

Physical Society for the discovery and 

subsequent study of the superfluid state 

of liquid helium-3. In 1976 they had received 

the Simon Memorial Prize from 

the British Institute of Physics for the 

same discovery. In August 1981, Reppy 

was a co-recipient of the Fritz London 

Memorial Award for important contributions 

to the study of liquid helium. 

The group has also received a subtler 

but perhaps equally satisfying accolade: 

their graduate students are much in demand. 

"They have a remarkable reputation 

in the scientific community for the 

students they turn out," says Prof. Herbert 

Johnson, director of the Materials 

Science Center. "When students come 

out of here they are prepared to set up a 

laboratory from virtually a bare room. 

They have seeded a number of universities 

throughout the country and the 

world." 

To which Lee adds wryly: "Where 

some of them are now in dire competition 

with us!" 

In many places it would be unusual to 

have three professors working in one 

field, but at Cornell it's becoming standard 

practice. "One of the things that's 

been rather nice about the way Cornell 

has developed in physics," Richardson 

says, "is that instead of trying to cover 

every possible field they tried to 

strengthen certain areas." 

The concentration, he says, allows the 

group to share ideas and equipment and 

makes it easier to attract outside talent; 

there's a visiting professor in low temperature 

physics almost every year. In 

return, the trio spend their share of time 

on the road. Reppy has taken sabbaticals 

at the universities of Manchester 

and Sussex in England, Richardson has 

MAY 1982

spent a year in Finland, while Lee is the 

"far eastern expert," with visits to Japan 

and China on his record. 

Although Ashcroft likes to call them 

"The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse," 

all three say, in almost the same 

words, "We are not a team." 

"We are individuals who strongly interact," 

says Lee. 

"Individual entrepreneurs," says 

Richardson. 

"A loose coalition," says Reppy. 

There are certainly no leaders and no 

followers. Lee sums up the relationship 

this way: "For us, the axiom in plane geometry 

is wrong; the whole is not equal 

to the sum of its parts. The axiom 

doesn't take into account the interaction 

between the parts." 

They certainly don't look like a team, 

though Richardson and Lee might be 

taken for brothers. Both are lanky, with 

conventional short hair and unconventional 

twinkles in their eyes. Richardson's 

voice has a kind of Jimmy Stewart 

throatiness; Lee's has the stutter. In this 

company Reppy is the misfit: shorter, 

with longish hair and beard and a lined 

outdoorsman's face that faintly suggests 

he should be carrying a bagpipe. 

Described by most as quiet, Reppy indeed 

prefers the loneliness of long-distance 

running; he's competed five times 

in the Boston Marathon, and claims to 

have run a 4:40 mile about three years 

ago (at the age of 48). But he's also a 

mountain climber, and that's certainly 

an activity that calls for cooperation. He 

seems to have inveigled Lee into some of 

these activities, at least to the extent of 

running around campus. Richardson 

sticks to more sedentary hobbies like 

gardening and playing piano to his 

daughter's violin. 

Richardson is often the most visible of 

the three, being both joiner and organizer. 

He sits on several local boards and 

committees and is often an organizer in 

national scientific meetings. A conference 

on liquid helium held at Cornell last 

summer was largely his creation. Says 

Johnson: "He interfaces well with people 

... He can analyze problems that 

have both scientific and people components. 

If I have a question about something 

I usually go to Bob—but he 

doesn't speak for them; they talk it over 

together." Reppy and Lee, Johnson 

says, are close with their students, but 

stay off boards and committees "by 

choice." 

Richardson's lectures are funny, demonstration-ridden, 

and somewhat legendary. 

For a public lecture on low temperature 

physics he shattered a "glass 

banana" frozen in liquid nitrogen and 


arranged to have Strauss' Also Sprach 

Zarathustra played in the background as 

he poured liquid helium, raising spectacular 

clouds of mist. (The lecture, titled 

"A World without Disorder: Absolute 

Zero," was videotaped and can be 

viewed at Rockefeller Hall or borrowed 

for public showings.) 

In teaching, the three professors are 

consciously a team. The low temperature 

group generally includes ten or 

twelve graduate students and two or 

three post-docs (again, more than you'd 

find in one field in most places). Students 

are not only allowed, but encouraged 

to seek help from any professor, 

and to interact among themselves. 

Lee claims that "students tend to 

learn more from each other than from 

their professors, anyway." To foster 

such interaction, Richardson has organized 

a Thursday night low temperature 

seminar that may be the only such meeting 

on campus with a negative honorarium: 

the speaker is expected to provide 

beer and crunchies for the assemblage. 

One of the reasons these students have 

been so successful, Reppy says, is that 

they have tended to stay in school longer 

than most. "During a large part of the 

time we were around," he says, "it's 

been a bad job market, so students 

wanted to be well-trained to be sure of 

getting a job." With a kind of inverted 

modesty, he adds that it's easy to turn 

out good students if you have good material 

coming in, and that Cornell is now 

getting the cream because of its good 

reputation. 

The job market is getting a lot better 

these days. Low temperature physics is, 

if you'll pardon the expression, "hot." 

Its most visible spinoff is superconductivity, 

the effect that allows certain 

metals to carry an electric current with 

zero resistance at temperatures near absolute 

zero. Engineers are hard at work 

on superconducting generators and 

transmission lines. Superconducting 

magnets may provide the means to 

create a magnetic "bottle" strong 

enough to contain a hydrogen fusion reaction. 

By about 1995 the Japan National 

Railroad hopes to cut the 350 mile ride 

on its famed "bullet train" from three 

hours to one by levitating the train a few 

inches off the roadbed with superconducting 

magnets. The promise of more 

such wonders to come certainly makes it 

easier to get funding for low temperature 

research. 

Superconductivity was discovered 

more than seventy years ago, but scientists 

are just as excited about the "pure" 

research going on today, which promises 

Profs John Reppy, above, and David 

Lee, and a jokingly mislabeled vat for 

a low temperature experiment. 

new understanding of the forces that 

hold matter together. The Cornell group 

has specialized in the study of liquid helium. 

So far there seems to be no practical 

application for any of this research, 

but liquid helium is definitely fascinating 

stuff. It was the last of the gases in the 

atmosphere—once thought to be "permanent 

gases"—to be liquified, at a 

temperature of about four degrees above 

absolute zero. 

While most of America is struggling 

with (and generally rejecting) a changeover 

from the Fahrenheit temperature 

scale to the metric-style Celsius scale, 

scientists long ago switched to a scale of 

"absolute temperature" called the Kelvin 

scale, which starts at absolute zero 

(-273° C or -459° F) and goes up. One 

degree Kelvin is equal to one degree Celsius; 

on the Kelvin scale water melts at 

273K and boils at 373K. 

With Kelvin temperatures the degree 

symbol is usually left out, both in writing 

and speaking. Oxygen boils at a 

tropical 90K, and hydrogen freezes solid 

at 14K. Helium, however, remains a liquid 

down to, theoretically, absolute 

zero, and this is one of the things that 

makes it exciting. 

Absolute zero was once defined as the 

temperature at which all motion would 

cease. Like a lot of other theoretical predictions 

in low temperature physics, that

one turned out to be wrong. While all 

thermal motion ceases, there is always a 

little "zero point energy" left in each 

atom. It hides in the space provided by 

the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, 

which says that we can never know exactly 

where something is and how fast 

it's moving at the same time. At absolute 

zero, an atom isn't moving much, so its 

motion is known with great certainty; 

that makes the uncertainty in its position 

large, and within that uncertainty the 

atom is free to vibrate. 

It turns out that this "wobble" is 

greater with lighter particles. With the 

very light helium atom, it's greater than 

the distances over which the forces attracting 

atoms to one another can work, 

and this is what keeps helium from 

freezing into a solid. What we should 

find at absolute zero, current theory 

says, is not perfect stasis, but perfect 

order. In most substances this is reached 

by having all the atoms lock together in 

a crystal lattice; in helium it seems to 

come from having all the atoms move in 

unison. 

At 2.17K, helium-4 (the most common 

isotope of helium) begins to change 

into a "superfluid" that flows as if it 

had no friction, passing through openings 

too tiny for most gases. Richardson 

explains this behavior by analogy: members 

of a marching band can move swiftly 

out of a football stadium through a 

small gate; a mob, pushing and shoving 

at random, takes much longer to get 

through the same opening. The oppor- 

tunity to study this kind of ordering is 

what attracts scientists to low temperature 

research. 

They were not, however, so universally 

attracted to it back in the '60s. It 

took a fortuitous joining of several 

events to get Cornell's low temperature 

effort going. 

One was the creation by the Advanced 

Research Projects Agency of the Department 

of Defense of a nationwide "materials 

science" program, designed to encourage 

research into strategic materials 

for aerospace and nuclear technology. 

The program continues today under the 

National Science Foundation. Thirteen 

Materials Science Centers were created 

at American universities; Cornell's was 

one of the first and today is the largest. 

MSCs are funded by block grants, 

which may be a dirty word to Democrats 

but offers special advantages to scientists: 

a local MSC can fund projects on 

its own evaluations, almost on hunches. 

It can start something quickly and stick 

with it for a long time, even if there are 

no concrete results right away. 

Another was the creation of LASSP, 

which, it's said, gave the people at Cornell 

who were not high energy physicists 

a place to hang their hats. Robert 

Sproull '40, the first director of LASSP 

and now president of the University of 

Rochester, recalls that the new laboratory 

made a conscious decision to expand 

low temperature research, and that 

Lee's hiring was an early step in that effort. 

LASSP's decision was helped along 

by discussion in the Solid State Panel of 

the National Academy of Sciences, 

which was urging a research effort to 

reach extremely low temperatures. Conventional 

refrigeration, applied in some 

unconventional ways, was capable of 

cooling helium down to around IK. A 

technique called paramagnetic cooling 

could at that time reach temperatures as 

low as 100 milliKelvin (mK) or 100 thousandths 

of a degree above absolute zero. 

One of the orderings that takes place 

as you cool helium to milliKelvin temperatures 

is that the two isotopes, 

helium-3 and helium-4, separate like oil 

and water. If you mix them again, they 

have to absorb heat to permit the return 

of disorder. Using this principle, Henry 

Hall at the University of Manchester had 

built a "dilution refrigerator" that 

could cool experiments to around 50K. 

Enter David Lee, with an idea he had 

picked up in graduate school. Although 

helium remains a liquid down to absolute 

zero at atmospheric pressure, it can 

be compressed into a solid at pressures 

of thirty-five atmospheres or more. It's a 

curious solid, because the Heisenberg 

uncertainty for each atom is greater than 

the distances between atoms. 

A Russian theorist named Pomeranchuk 

had suggested that one of its curiosities 

might be that when helium-3 is 

compressed, it would cool down, just 

the opposite of what any other substance 

would do. 

Lee thought this effect might offer a 

way to reach lower temperatures than 

ever before, but it was clear that it would 

take a couple of years just to develop the 

technology. It was a natural for funding 

by the Materials Science Center. "It was 

a matter of faith that they would find 

new science when they got there," says 

Johnson. "It would have been very difficult 

for them to get funding elsewhere." 

About half of the low temperature 

group's funding still comes through 

MSC, but the rest is now in straight NSF 

grants. "Now they know they're buying 

a winner," Johnson says. 

Meanwhile, John Reppy was at Yale, 

earning notoriety for experiments with 

rotating liquid helium. If you put superfluid 

helium in a doughnut-shaped tube 

and start it rotating, it will go on forever, 

as long as it's kept cold. Reppy had 

been studying these "persistent currents" 

and was invited to come to Cornell 

to lecture about them. "After the 

lecture," Reppy recalls, "Jim Krumhansl 

came up to me and asked if Vά like 

to continue those experiments at Cornell." 

Professor Krumhansl [PhD '43] 

was the second director of LASSP and 

MAY 1982

another prime mover in building the low 

temperature group. 

Lee and Reppy had met at the University 

of Connecticut and moved more or 

less together into the low temperature 

group at Yale, while Reppy introduced 

Lee to the joys of rock climbing. Both 

had gotten into physics somewhat by accident. 

Reppy had been a math major 

who took a summer job in a physics lab. 

Lee had discovered he could get out of 

the Army early by going to graduate 

school, had planned to go into computers, 

but was told he couldn't do it without 

an electrical engineering degree. 

Richardson, by his own account, got 

into low temperature physics in a rather 

calculating fashion. He had already 

given up on chemistry, being color 

blind, and on EE, because "transformer 

design equations drove me nuts." In 

physics, though, "my grades were so 

bad I couldn't get into a good graduate 

school." He had, for instance, applied 

at Cornell and been rejected. 

"I looked for a field where I could 

find a good research group at a less competitive 

school," he says. He ended up in 

the highly respected low temperature 

group at Duke, studying under Swiss 

physicist Horst Meyer. 

Just as Reppy was settling into Cornell, 

the MSC grant came through, and 

Lee recalls, "We were informed that 

Horst Meyer had this wonderful grad 

student, Bob Richardson, and we 

thought this would be the ideal opportunity 

to get him here." Richardson signed 

on as a post-doctoral research associate. 

"And we all got together," Lee says, 

"and sort of started building this laboratory." 

About four years later, all the investments 

began paying off. Lee, Richardson, 

and Osheroff were still trying to 

perfect Pomeranchuk cooling, squeezing 

liquid helium-3 with a hydraulic press 

that used liquid helium-4 as the working 

fluid. They were looking for a magnetic 

change that was supposed to occur in 

solid helium-3 at about 1 mK, and so far 

no one at Cornell had cooled anything to 

less than 3 mK. 

The night before Thanksgiving in 

1971 Osheroff noticed a peculiar glitch 

in the pressure curve as the sample 

cooled. "The first paper we published 

was wrong," Richardson says. "We 

thought we had found the magnetic 

transition." It took about six months 

for them to discover that what they had 

found was the superfΊuid phase of helium-3, 

at 2.7 mK. Theorists had predicted 

it would come, if at all, at temperatures 

in the microKelvin range—-i.e., a 

few millionths of a degree above abso- 

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lute zero, rather than a few thousandths. 

Although the discovery was accidental, 

Richardson staunchly defends this 

kind of science. A lot of research, he 

points out, begins with theory, followed 

by experiments to check out the theory. 

"But if you only did that kind of research," 

he says, "you could never find 

out anything you didn't already basically 

know. There's a whole other class of 

things where you stumble onto interesting 

results. To get there, you have to 

say, 'What are matter and nature like in 

this extreme environment where people 

haven't looked before?' " 

In his view, low temperature physicists 

are still in a data collection stage, far 

ahead of the theorists. They are like Livingstones 

in Darkest Africa, drawing 

maps of uncharted territory. He suggests 

asking very simple questions. For instance, 

he notes, Dutch physicist Heike 

Kammerlingh Onnes was merely trying 

to see how Ohm's Law applied at low 

temperatures when he discovered superconductivity. 

"You only discover breakthroughs 

in restrospect," Richardson 

concludes. 

The discovery of superfluid helium-3 

was a breakthrough because, among 

other things, it allowed theorists to make 

comparisons with the behavior of electrons 

in a superconductor. There is a 

rule in physics that sounds ridiculous to 

outsiders and which even physicists seem 

to take on faith: that bodies made up of 

an even number of particles—called 

"bosons"—behave differently from 

those made up of an odd number of particles—called 

"fermions." Bosons are 

allowed to become super fluids, and fermions 

aren't. 

A helium-4 atom is a boson, with two 

protons and two neutrons in its nucleus 

and two electrons in orbit. A helium-3 

atom has one less neutron, so is a fermion. 

It turns out that in a superfluid, 

helium-3 atoms pair off, forming a new 

structure with a total of ten particles. 

Because electrons come one at a time, 

theorists also believe electrons pair off in 

a superconductor. 

Since the discovery, the Cornell group 

has studied helium-3 extensively. 

They've found that it actually has three 

different superfluid phases, distinguished 

by the ways in which the atoms 

form pairs. 

John Reppy has explored the odd 

things that happen when helium-3 and 

helium-4 are mixed. They mix nicely until 

the temperature is lowered far enough 

to send helium-4 into its superfluid state. 

But the temperature at which that happens 

depends on how much helium-3 is 

in the mixture to get in the way. Add 

A disc of lead 'levitates* at very low 

temperatures after the metal becomes a 

superconductor, the conclusion of 

Prof. Richardson's demonstration 

lecture on the opening page of thie 

article. Because the lead is cold enough 

to be a superconductor, a persistent 

current flows in it which produces a 

magnetic field repelling the field from 

a magnet below the disc. Such a 

current can be sustained indefinitely in 

a superconductor. (The Japanese 

National Railway is building a 

levitating train based upon this 

principle.) The bubbles are the boiling 

of liquid nitrogen in an outer vacuum 

flask that insulates the inner container 

of liquid helium in which the lead disc 

has been cooled. 

enough helium-3 and you can keep the 

helium-4 from going to superfluid down 

to a temperature where the helium-3 and 

helium-4 unmix like oil and water. 

While exploring these changes, Reppy 

discovered a special crossroads of temperature 

and concentration where the 

mixing/unmixing and the superfluid 

transition coincide. Again, it was something 

the theorists hadn't predicted.

Richardson takes in a liquid nitrogen 

'cocktail. y Vapor is from the very cold 

nitrogen which he holds briefly in his 

mouth during the public lecture. 

Someone else named the discovery the 

* Uncritical point," and the upside-down 

Y graph that illustrates it has become a 

part of the low-temperature group's unofficial 

"logo," along with a graph of 

the helium-3 super fluid transition. Since 

then, similar tricritical points have been 

found in a number of other substances, 

to the point where looking for them has 

become almost a specialty in itself. 

Most of us are familiar with the 

changes from solid to liquid and from 

liquid to gas. Physicists call these "phase 

transitions," and the same term applies 

to the exotic changes from normal fluid 

to superfluid or from one sort of magnetic 

behavior to another. A physicist 

will pounce on a new phase transition 

like a greedy Irishman upon a sleeping 

leprechaun. It's a place where atoms remain 

unchanged within themselves, but 

interact with their fellows in new ways, 

and so it gives us new information about 

the forces that attract and repel atoms. 

It becomes even more interesting to 

study such changes at very low temperatures; 

with thermal agitation removed, 

the forces are much easier to measure. 

If phase transitions are the landmarks 

in this early exploration of Darkest Helium, 

then new landmarks may be just 

over the horizon. Lee is trying to make 

the world's third superfluid out of hydrogen 

that has had its molecules pulled 

apart into single atoms and held that 

way by a powerful magnetic field. This 

"spin-polarized hydrogen" may be the 

first superfluid gas. The trick is to get 

enough of the gas to work with. So far, 

Lee says, he can get it "unreliably." 

He's in a sort of informal race for the 

discovery with MIT, the University of 

British Columbia, and the University of 

Amsterdam. 

Reppy, meanwhile, has been working 

with thin films of helium desposited on a 

glass surface. At low temperatures, the 

first layer of atoms sticks on, but the 

second layer moves freely on top of the 

first, making a sort of two-dimensional 

superfluid. Lately he's been making this 

same fluid inside a porous glass called 

Vycor, manufactured by Corning Glass. 

Vycor is like a very fine sponge, with 

pores about fifty Angstroms across, or 

about ten to fifteen times the diameter 

of an atom. 

Reppy works at temperatures where 

the Heisenberg uncertainty of a helium 

atom is about 100 Angstroms; an atom is 

never pinned down to any one pore, so 

what you get, Reppy says, is something 

like another superfluid gas. As he makes 

the fluid more and more dilute, the data 

looks stranger and stranger, presaging a 

new phase transition discovery. 

Richardson is branching out into 

studies of solids. He has noticed that in 

some experiments heat transfer from 

solid to liquid is about 1,000 times what 

it should be, suggesting some new heat 

conduction process. In solids, heat travels 

in vibrations of the crystal lattice, 

with a row of atoms vibrating like a 

plucked guitar string. As with a string, 

the vibration is controlled by the length 

and tautness of the chain. Richardson is 

using the facilities of Cornell's new Submicron 

Facility to make tiny cubes of 

matter in which the length of the chain 

will be too short for a vibration to happen 

at low temperatures. Where will the 

energy go then? "That's what we want 

to find out," he says. 

While all this is going on, the quest for 

even lower temperatures continues. 

Richardson says the lowest temperatures 

reached in low temperature experiments 

drops by a factor of ten about every ten 

years. Last year, researchers in Germany 

used a new type of magnetic cooling to 

reach a temperature of about 20 micro- 

Kelvin, or 20 millionth of a degree above 

absolute zero. The laws of thermodynamics 

forbid us from ever going all the 

way to the bottom, but by Richardson's 

estimate the 1990s might see temperatures 

only a few billionths of a degree 

from the ultimate. 

Speaking to the American Physical 

Society, Richardson reminded his audience 

that in 1961, Prof. A. Brian Pippard 

of Cambridge University declared 

that there were "no more really fundamental 

questions" remaining in pure 

physics, and especially in low temperature 

physics. 

In reply, Richardson listed the discoveries 

of the '70s, concluding: "Our experience 

with helium-3 leads me to be an 

optimist. There are innumerable things 

to be discovered. There is no certain 

recipe for success in finding the unexpected; 

it is a matter of luck. The only 

certain prescription for failure is to be so 

pessimistic that one abandons the 

search."

Free to Be Fit 

Many are the ways 

undergraduates 

fulfill reduced 

requirements 

to take phys. ed. 

By Carrie Koplinka-Loehr 

Alumni who recall struggling through 

two years of physical education might be 

surprised at the new face PE is wearing 

these days. Members of the Class of '82 

will graduate having completed, along 

with the traditional compulsory swimming 

test, only one year of physical education. 

Most of these students will have 

fulfilled their two-semester requirement 

from a rainbow of more than seventyfive 

PE courses or, alternatively, participation 

in one or more of thirty-eight intercollegiate 

sports. 

Physical education requirements and 

course offerings have evolved slowly 

over the years. In the days of World War 

II, for instance, men took *'physical 

training" and women took "physical education." 

The men's program was essentially 

exercises and squad work. As 

Dean Emeritus Robert Kane '34 recalls, 

"It was geared toward wartime discipline, 

to prepare men for the services— 

you know, commando stuff, calisthenics." 

Women, on the other hand, took 

archery, badminton, basketball, canoeing, 

gymnastics, riding, volleyball, and a 

number of other courses. Says Kane, 

"The program for women was attuned 

to education rather than training, with a 

great emphasis on dance." 

When the war ended, lively debate ensued 

over whether to continue a physical 

education program for men. After much 

disagreement within the Faculty, a twoyear 

requirement was instituted for all 

freshmen and sophomores: one-hour 

classes held three times a week. 

In those times, lack of facilities made 

course offerings more narrow than what 


exist today. For indoor classes, men 

were limited to Barton, the only building 

the PE department had besides the Old 

Armory. Women used a gym in Sage 

College. "As with both men and women," 

affirms Kane, "the programs really 

didn't blossom until we got the 

facilities." Teagle Hall—with its two 

swimming pools, wrestling, fencing, and 

steam rooms, rowing practice tanks, and 

open gym floor—was completed in 

1953. The cornerstone of Helen Newman—an 

equally well-equipped facility 

that overlooks Beebe Lake—was set in 

1963. 

Today, amazing things occur in these 

buildings and on the terrain along 

Schoellkopf Drive. The PE department 

now boasts one of the five most diverse 

physical education programs in the nation. 

Students fulfilling their requirement 

by way of departmental courses 

can choose, in addition to the traditional 

basketball, bowling, soccer, swimming, 

diving, squash, skating, tennis, and 

volleyball: 

Karate Shito Ryu, with professional 

instructors. 

The waltz, Charleston, rumba, and 

tango, in Ballroom Dancing. 

Advanced Weightlifting on special 

Nautilus apparatus. 

Yoga: postures, breathing techniques, 

deep relaxation, and introductory chanting. 

Principles of Sailing. 

Scuba Diving, leading to national certification. 

Another offering is a group of backpacking, 

survival, and other outdoor 

courses entitled Wilderness Reflections. 

These were brought into being when several 

students, under the auspices of the 

dean of students, offered outdoor excursions 

in the 1970s, as a supplement to 

orientation for incoming students. The 

idea caught fire and was transferred to 

the Department of Unions and Activities 

several years later. 

In 1976, Wilderness Reflections (WR) 

students approached then PE Director 

George Patte about offering a single WR 

course for credit. Today, the fourteen 

WR courses listed each semester through 

the PE Department serve approximately 

250 students. Among the many choices 

are bicycle touring, flat and white water 

canoeing, and technical mountaineering. 

Dave (Morrissey) Moriah '72 says the 

program "shows the power of the concept 

of experiential education; students 

get their hands on what's exciting to 

them." A weekend of canoeing in Adirondack 

lakes, a biking trip around Cayuga 

Lake, or a backpacking excursion 

in a local state forest, allow PE on the 

Hill to take on dimensions it has never 

had before. 

Apart from taking courses accredited 

by the Physical Education Department 

to fulfill requirements, students can turn 

to intercollegiate teams, athletic clubs 

and organizations (rugby, rifle) or even 

the Big Red Marching Band. Those who 

receive credit are active, either as competitors 

or managers, with such teams as 

football, field hockey, baseball, track, 

ice hockey, polo, cheerleading, rifle and 

drill, and the ROTC program. 

Each organization or club must be approved 

by the PE department; students 

taking part in several organizations receive 

credit for only one course per term. 

Some students are exempt from PE requirements 

for special reasons. They include 

those who have a handicap or 

medical affliction that precludes physical 

activity, are 22 years or older when 

they matriculate, are committed to twenty 

hours a week of employment, have 

been in military service, or have received 

adequate PE from another college or 

university. 

Many students, however, unable to resist 

the lure of the department's offerings, 

choose to take courses after their 

requirements are completed. Of 7,865 

students who took PE departmental 

courses in 1980-81, 2,469 did so on a 

non-credit basis. On intercollegiate 

teams, fewer than half the participants 

are earning PE credit. 

If students seem to seek recreation naturally, 

why have a requirement at all? 

This issue was debated in the mid-1970s 

—with one group wanting to drop the 

four-semester requirement altogether 

and the other wanting to save it. The 

1978 compromise of two semesters and a 

swimming test may actually be what 

keeps the program alive. Alan Gantert, 

director of physical education, says noncredit 

students "don't show up during 

times of academic stress." For his part 

he feels that if incoming freshmen 

weren't encouraged to participate, "a 

lot of people would miss out." 

Undergraduates fulfill phys. ed. 

requirements in Wilderness Reflections 

canoeing and cycling and in newly coed 

volleyball class in Teagle Hall.

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Intramural soccer championships are 

played out under lights on Jessup 

Fields near the North Campus dorms, 

and the intercollegiate women's 

gymnastics teams competes in Helen 

Newman Hall. 

Students tend to become familiar with 

the university's facilities and benefit 

from them for four years. One example 

of the exuberant non-credit participation 

is the intramural program—offering 

twenty-one sports with 11,000 participants 

each year (one student counting 

more than once for separate sports). 

Other examples are the multitude of joggers, 

bikers, swimmers, and other athletes 

who use the campus for solitary 

and group activities. Compared with the 

past, Kane says, "I don't think there's 

any doubt that there's a much larger percentage 

of students involved in some 

kind of activity today." 

Encouraging diversity in athletics may 

be a new stage for the university, but encouraging 

athletics is not. There's a 

long-standing tradition of physical education 

at Cornell. Andrew Dickson 

White held the conviction that sports 

should be for the many, rather than the 

few. As a result, the philosophy of the 

Department of Physical Education and 

Athletics over the years has been "to develop 

in the Cornell community a positive 

attitude toward wholesome exercise 

that will benefit the individual 

involved." With the myriad of courses 

available today, graduates can become 

"fit" in just about any manner they see 

fit. 

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For Want of a Key 

Phi Beta Kappa 

took several 

false steps 

before its formal 

start on the Hill 

By Carol Kammen 

The university's chapter of Phi Beta 

Kappa, the academic honorary society, 

will celebrate its centennial this spring. A 

check of the archives at Cornell, Harvard, 

and Union shows it was only after 

more than a decade of determined attempts 

that the Cornell chapter was established 

originally—and then after 

several false starts. 

The story of Phi Beta Kappa at Cornell 

begins in the second semester of the 

university's existence. In the spring of 

1869 eight members of the Class of 1870 

petitioned Harvard College's PBK, the 

Alpha of Massachusetts, that a branch 

be established at Ithaca's new university. 

While this appears a straightforward request, 

several aspects need clarification. 

How there could be juniors in a university 

less than one year old is explained 

easily: the eight young men had transferred 

with credits from other colleges or 

with advanced study at local academies. 

Rather than entering Cornell as freshmen, 

they became juniors and members 

of the Class of 1870. 

The eight believed themselves to be 

scholastically fit and sought recognition. 

In their letter of petition they stated that 

they were "desirous to become members 

of the [Phi] B.K. Society, and to establish 

a chapter of the same at Cornell 

University." They pledged themselves to 

accept the constitution and the by-laws 

of the society and "to be governed thereby." 

Soon after, they received a letter 

which has unfortunately not survived. It 

informed them of Harvard's support for 

the Cornell request, and on July 29, 

1869, there is the following notation in 

the secretary's minutes of Harvard's society: 

"A vote was passed expressing a 

willingness on the part of this chapter of 

the [Phi] BK that a chapter should be established 

at Cornell University." 

The second problem inherent in the 

1869 request is that the eight men should 

have applied for the charter to the oldest 

Phi Beta Kappa chapter in their own 

state—which in New York was at Union 

College. The reason they didn't is historically 

complicated: In 1862, Congress 

passed the Morrill Land Act and that 

year and afterwards the New York State 

Legislature wrestled with the problem of 

how to disperse the money which was to 

result from the sale of land script 

awarded under terms of the act. There 

were numerous small upstate colleges 

anxious to claim the booty as their own. 

Only as a last resort were these schools 

willing to entertain the idea of sharing 

amongst themselves. They waited anxiously 

for the Legislature to make its determination. 

At the last minute, Ezra 

Cornell and Andrew Dickson White 

sprung the idea of using the land grant 

to found a new university to serve better 

the needs of the people of the state. 

The idea quickly gained support in Albany 

but was mightily unpopular in Rochester, 

Lima, Clinton, Schenectady, 

and Geneva. The leaders of Genesee 

College at Lima, and Hamilton, Union, 

and Hobart colleges instituted a campaign 

against the proposed school. Andrew 

White recalled many years later 

that Hobart and Madison (now Colgate) 

University salted New York state newspapers 

with unflattering articles about 

Cornell and that the "influence of 

Union [College] against Us was felt very 

strongly in Albany." 

Not only did Cornell's grabbing the 

Morrill script rankle the worthies at 

Union College, so did the terms of Cornell's 

charter which excluded the direct 

influence of the clergy upon the new institution, 

winning it the title the "godless 

university." 

The eight anxious juniors in 1869 believed 

there would be no help forthcoming 

from Schenectady, and so they bypassed 

Union College in favor of appealing 

to Harvard. At that time Harvard's 

chapter of PBK was the oldest in the 

country—the original unit at William 

and Mary had suspended activities, the 

second oldest chapter at Yale was about 

to become inactive. 

First Prof. E.P. Seaver and then Robert 

McLeod reported Harvard's positive 

response to Cornell's request, but Mc- 

Leod's letter containing information 

about the charter and iftititation arrived 

too late in the spring of 1869 for the 

Cornell eight to act. Most students had 

dispersed to their homes or to jobs at the 

end of term. 

In the fall the matter was left unpursued 

except for a single letter written by 

J.J. Chambers, secretary of the Cornell 

group, asking Harvard for the exact 

wording of their resolution and wondering 

if "there [were] any qualifications of 

the grant—any doubt expressed in the 

motion as to the power of the Harvard 

chapter to grant such a charter?" The 

Cornell students were obviously wondering 

about the legality of their request, 

just as Harvard was no doubt questioning 

the wisdom of its actions the previous 

spring. 

On the back of Chambers's letter 

someone representing Harvard's PBK 

noted that the answer to this letter expressed 

"the opinion that it is settled law 

that no Alpha can establish a branch of 

[Phi] K [sic] in a State where an Alpha 

already exists." This was obviously not 

the original message that Cornell had 

received from Harvard, but time had 

caused the Harvard society to act with 

greater care. This early attempt to bypass 

Union College and to establish PBK 

at Cornell University came to naught. 

The second episode began a decade 

later, in 1879. By this time, Cornell was 

a larger institution and a more secure 

one than it had been in 1869. The student 

body was larger and there were 

more faculty members, among them 

nine who had earned PBK keys as undergraduates. 

Of these nine, 4 had become 

PBK at Harvard, 1 had earned his key at 

Union College, and 4 others, including 

President Andrew Dickson White, had 

received academic distinction at Yale. 

These nine now wanted to see an active 

PBK chapter at Cornell, and so they 

wrote to J.J. Chambers to ask him to 

write letters on their behalf asking Harvard 

to reinstate Ithaca's chapter. 

Chambers wrote and reminded Harvard 

of its chapter's approval ten years 

before, an approval that he added had 

been promoted by Harvard's James 

Russell Lowell, a non-resident professor 

at Cornell. 

Chambers also reminded Edward E. 

Hale, secretary of Harvard's PBK that 

when he had received Robert McLeod's 

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letters in 1869 "the college year at Cornell 

had ended and the class separated so 

soon thereafter that no arrangement 

could be made for sending a committee 

to Cambridge for the official copy of the 

charter." Might Harvard now send Cornell's 

charter to the faculty group? 

The Harvard response to Chambers's 

letter has not survived but it must have 

expressed unease at the situation that 

had developed. The crux of the probblem, 

explained Chambers, in another 

letter, was that in 1869 "bitter animosity 

then existed at Union toward her young 

rival, and exists to this day. It would not 

have been possible then to have procured 

a charter from Union and there is 

no reason to believe it will be possible 

now." Shall Union College, asked 

Chambers, "exert a close [sic] corporation 

out of the Phi Beta Kappa Society 

so far as the State of New York is concerned?" 

While traveling through New York 

City en route to Berlin, Andrew Dickson 

White had seen Chambers, the latter reported 

to Smith. White expressed his 

"belief that Union College would still 

refuse a charter to Cornell." The two 

Cornellians believed the only way 

around the obstacle of Union's antagonism 

was for Harvard to take action 

based upon their resolution of 1869. 

Clement Smith of Harvard's PBK society 

was obviously uncomfortable with 

the Cornell request. He turned to E.P. 

Seaver, secretary of Harvard's society in 

1869. Seaver issued an eight page report 

and sent a letter of explanation to Smith. 

In his letter, he recalled the Cornell request 

and explained that Harvard as the 

oldest existing PBK in the country had 

the right to establish Alpha chapters ih 

states where no society existed, but did 

not have the right to establish chapters 

where there was an active chapter. He 

also recalled that the Harvard petition 

mentioned willingness that a chapter be 

founded at Cornell, but did not go so far 

as to grant a charter. Apply to Union 

College, Seaver remembered telling the 

Cornell group. This letter, written ten 

years after the event, does not, however, 

explain Seaver's earlier letters to Cornell, 

not does it jibe with McLeod's letters 

to the Cornell group. Seaver ended 

his letter to Smith on an odd note—one 

that would have given great hope to the 

1879 Cornell petitioners had they seen it. 

Seaver wrote: "I was and still am in favor 

of establishing an affiliated chapter 

at Cornell if it can be done without giving 

just ground of complaint against us 

for discourtesy." 

The report which accompanied Seaver's 

letter reiterated the sequence of 


Ί hope you will 

not threaten 

us with Harvard 

again, * came 

word from Union 

events in 1869 and sets out other cases 

where jurisdiction was called into question. 

In the end, Harvard advised the 

Cornell faculty group to apply to Union 

College, and the episode of 1879 came to 

a close. 

The next installment of the saga began 

in March of 1880 and is chronicled in a 

scrapbook kept by Prof. Horatio S. 

White, secretary of the Cornell faculty 

group. On March 5, 1880, the nine faculty 

PBK's sent a letter of application to 

Union. They stated that "they felt able 

to guarantee that the principles of the 

Fraternity at large will suffer no 

change." Surely a great deal of conversation 

preceded this request and the faculty 

group must have waited for Union's 

answer with some anxiety. And wait 

they did, for nothing was forthcoming 

from Schenectady until June of 1881—£ 

full year later! 

At that time, Thomas Featherstonhaugh 

responded to a query from Professor 

White who asked what had become 

of Cornell's application. Featherstonhaugh 

responded that the 1880 

Cornell letter had fallen into the wrong 

hands and that action had been delayed 

"so there have been misunderstandings, 

&, on your part hard feelings, which we 

sincerely regret." Featherstonhaugh 

added that Harvard College had no authority 

whatever to found a chapter of 

Phi Beta Kappa anywhere outside Massachusetts 

and he ended his letter with a 

reproof. "I hope," he wrote, "you will 

not find it necessary to threaten us with 

Harvard again." 

Because he was secretary of the Union 

College chapter and kept the minutes of 

that group, Featherstonhaugh had to 

know in 1881 that Union had already approved 

Cornell's application of May 5, 

1880 in June of 1880—a fact he himself 

duly noted in his chapter's minutes. 

A further twist appears in the record. 

Featherstonhaugh—certainly a man of 

good faith—claimed that he wrote to inform 

Cornell of Union's acceptance of 

their request in June 1880. There is a 

copy in the Cornell PBK scrapbook of a 

letter from Featherstonhaugh to Isaac 

Flagg, one of the Cornell petitioners, 

dated June 1, 1881—a year after Union's 

action on the matter. This letter might, 

of course, have been misdated when it 

was copied into the Cornell book. Still, 

Featherstonhaugh informed Flagg—in 

either 1880 or 1881—of Union's willingness 

to install a chapter, and the Union 

College minutes substantiate this willingness. 

Flagg responded to Featherstonhaugh 

and his response apparently caused further 

confusion, for Featherstonhaugh 

reported in the Union chapter's minutes 

of June 21, 1881 that "the bretheren at 

Cornell wished the matter deferred until 

next year"—a notion that would surely 

have astounded the Cornell nine. 

Nonetheless, the 1880 Cornell request 

and the 1880 or '81 acceptance by Union 

did not lead to the proposed goal—that 

is, the establishment of a chapter of Phi 

Beta Kappa at Cornell. John DeRemer, 

president of the Union society wrote 

next, on July 11, 1881, that he was willing 

to initiate a chapter at Cornell's convenience. 

"I think," he added, that Cornell 

should not "charge our chapter with 

any lack of courtesy." He was not, he 

emphasized, "disposed personally to 

plead guilty to such charge." 

In April of 1882 White and DeRemer 

began to correspond concerning the date 

for the PBK installation. The Cornell 

faculty group decided upon May 26. 

White informed DeRemer that no undergraduates 

would be initiated until later 

when the method of their selection 

could be determined and so he added, 

since the applicants at Cornell "are all 

members of the society it would be hardly 

needful to put you to the inconvenience 

of delivering the charter in person." 

That obviously solved the problem 

of how to be polite to a representative 

of the Union College PBK society 

that had so long delayed Cornell's requests. 

For a month, however, White heard 

nothing from DeRemer. By May 21, 

neither a letter nor the promised charter 

had arrived in Ithaca. White wrote again 

and wondered whether his last letter 

might have miscarried. DeRemer received 

White's letter the following day 

and answered it immediately. "I will 

send you per Express . . . this afternoon 

or tomorrow the charter & other papers 

which will enable you to perfect the establishment 

of a chapter of [Phi] BK in 

your University." A perfunctory letter. 

Certainly relations between Cornell and 

Union had not improved.

Only on May 26, the day of the inauguration, 

did Cornell receive its charter 

from Union College. Even then, all was 

not well, for the name of one of the faculty 

members had been omitted. "Did 

this happen through an oversight," 

asked Professor White in a letter to 

DeRemer, "or was it a clerical error?" 

And how was this omission to be corrected? 

The misunderstandings about Cornell* 

s charter led Harvard to call a national 

convention in Cambridge at which 

policies were established concerning the 

admission of new chapters into PBK. 

The convention also resulted in the uniting 

of PBK chapters into a national unit, 

creating the United Chapters of PBK. 

In Ithaca, the Cornell Daily Sun 

crowed about the new society. The newspaper 

noted that Cornell's chapter differed 

in several ways from established 

chapters, for there was to be a liberal 

policy at Cornell about student eligibili- 

ty. Undergraduates need only have 

studied Latin, rather than Latin and 

Greek, as was required elsewhere. Moreover, 

membership was to be open to men 

as well as to women, for "sex shall not 

enter into a consideration of the qualification." 

Members would be elected on 

the basis of high scholastic achievement. 

There was to be no secrecy practiced 

by the Ithaca chapter and no initiation 

rites, two rules that reflected faculty action 

taken after a student died during a 

fraternity initiation in 1873. The Cornell 

Daily Sun remarked that the absence of 

an initiation ceremony "would seem 

strange to members of [the] Union chapter." 

Cornell's Theta chapter also differed 

from others because the society 

was to be governed by faculty members 

rather than its student initiates. The initiation 

fee was $2. 

Cornell installed its first class in the 

spring of 1883 by tapping nine members 

of that year's graduating class. Three 

were women; the ambition of one of the 

men was to become a professional baseball 

player, which he achieved by playing 

on teams in New York City, Washington, 

and Toronto before becoming a 

teacher and then superintendent of 

schools in Towanda, Pennsylvania. 

In an interesting letter dated 1885, 

Adolph Werner of New York City commented 

on Cornell's Theta chapter. He 

saw three differences between Cornell's 

chapter and others. The first was the admission 

of women, the second the lack 

of secrecy, and the third concerned the 

language requirement. About secrecy, 

Werner wrote that no member of his 

chapter would divulge what the letters of 

PBK stood for "although 

every member 

knows that the questioner 

may meet a Boston 

man round the corner 

and get his curiosity satisfied." 

He, and most 

people he knew, were in 

favor of liberalizing the 

language requirements. 

Concerning women, 

Werner wrote, "I am 

sure ί don't grudge them 

membership in the society. 

In fact, it is difficult 

to find good reason for 

excluding women from 

any meeting in which 

men assemble as intelligent 

beings: only as 

we have become addicted 

to tobacco to such 

a degree that we cannot 

be many hours without 

smoking, the women 

must submit to fumigation or the sexes 

must separate. 

Looking back over the years of struggle 

to get PBK established at Cornell, 

the faculty members took one other unprecedented 

action. They surveyed the 

college records of all past Cornell graduates—those 

from 1882 back to the first 

graduating class of 1869—and in 1884 

invited graduates with sufficiently impressive 

academic records to become 

members of Cornell University's Theta 

chapter of Phi Beta Kappa retroactively. 

With this one action, the faculty 

group erased the years of waiting for the 

honorary society to be a part of Cornell's 

intellectual life. Thus J.J. Chambers 

and his group of eight were initiated 

into Cornell's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa—though 

fifteen years after those 

members of the Class of 1870 expected 

to receive their PBK keys. 

MAY 1982 • 27

"^ ^-"Kv fKl-^Tffeδί'"* 

Running 

on a Full Tank 

The Phi Psi 500 

evolves from 

run-ctnd-barf 

to a touch 

of Mardi Gras 

By Louise Chunn 

Almost as invigorating as that first frozen 

splash under the Fall Creek waterfalls, 

the Phi Psi 500 has earned its place 

among the rites of a Cornell spring. Over 

seven years, it has blossomed from a 

rather disreputable, drunken bar-hop into 

a colorful festival that draws nearly 

5,000 spectators into Collegetown in early 

May, then places around double that 

number of dollars in the hands of a local 

charity. 

28 • CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 

The first Phi Psi 500 was held in 1975, 

and the 1.1 mile route remains the same 

today. Contestants leave, at thirty second 

intervals, from the Phi Kappa Psi 

fraternity house on Stewart Avenue, imbibing 

their first drink—ten ounces of 

beer or soda—in the parking lot. Then 

it's up Campus Road, sharp right at 

Anabel Taylor Hall onto Central Avenue, 

across the bridge and along College 

Avenue, left into Dry den Road to a stop 

for refreshments at the Royal Palm. The 

next bar is College Avenue's Connection, 

then down Dryden Road in the opposite 

direction to Dunbars (formerly 

Morrie's, then the Gin Mill) on Eddy 

Street. The final pitstop is down the slippery 

slope of Williams Street to the 

Chapter House on Stewart Avenue, although 

the finish line is not reached until 

the runners arrive back in the Phi Psi 

parking lot, with fifty ounces of beverage 

in their bellies. 

In its early years, most contestants ran 

the 500 for time, and consequently it 

earned a gruesome reputation. Three 

Evolution of the Phi Psi 500: Above, 

start of the 1981 event; opposite page, 

few costumes show in 1977 as the field 

heads down Williams St. Below, a 1975 

contestant chugs out of the old Chef 

Italia. Opposite page, teammates 

emerge from the Gin Mill in 1977 and 

1980 starters have a choice of Coke or 

beer.

hundred fifty runners entered the 1976 

race of which the Cornell Daily Sun reported: 

" Spectators revelled in the baser 

aspects of the race. Members of one fraternity 

stood on their balcony and 

cheered each time a runner 'booted'." 

The following year, the Sun's front page 

coverage was introduced by the query. 

;W«S#»£# 

Siβ^βiK 

"What has 1,200 legs, 600 heads, and 

vomits?" 

The organizing fraternity Phi Kappa 

Psi was not amused. "I do not understand," 

wrote the race's chairman Peter 

W. Schoenberger '78 in a letter to the 

newspaper, "Why your paper could not 

write a creditable, amusing account of 

the day's proceedings without making 

over twelve references to the totally natural 

and totally unnewsworthy act of regurgitation 

. . . Your reporters seemed 

determined to present the Phi Psi 500 as 

a pick-up event that promotes drunkenness 

and rowdyism under the guise of 

charity." 

MAY 1982 • 29


The brother's defense notwithstanding, 

it was after this time that the event 

began to take on a different personality. 

A few teams—such as the Phi Sigma 

Kappa Vikings—had donned fancy dress 

from the outset, but by 1978, costumes 

were becoming de rigueur. In 1979, the 

organizers added a costume category to 

the existing individual, fraternity, sorority, 

and non-Greek team events. That, it 

seems, is when the fun began. 

The Pompous Pi Phis ran in evening 

regalia, Law students wore legal gowns 

(but not pants), a gym student crossed 

the finishing line on his hands (but not 

knees), there was a human six-pack of 

Molson Golden Ale, and a dog entered 

in a Cornell T-shirt. 

In 1980 and 1981, fantasy took flight. 

Women from the Alpha Phi sorority put 

five Phis into a pod, Brian Pickerell '82 

painted his body red ("I didn't have any 

clean T-shirts," he claimed), an agedlooking 

team of Delta Gammas became 

the Delta Grammas, the Basket Cases 

pushed each other around in shopping 

carts and, in the middle of the hostage 

crisis, a horde of Ayatollahs swept menacingly 

about the course in wigs and 

beards. 

Another step in the move away from 

its former boozy image was made when 

soda was introduced as an alternative to 

beer in 1979. Chrissie Schelhas-Miller, 

assistant dean and fraternity and sorority 

adviser with the Dean of Students Office, 

says that the change came "strongly 

recommended by the university." In 

the first year, most contestants stayed 

with the amber fluid, but by 1981 the 

cola consumption had increased considerably. 

The recent emphasis on running for 

fun has left intact Ithacan Mark Loehr's 

1978 record of 6:58 minutes for the race. 

An entrant in the first four 500s, Loehr 

'78 won first place every time. The event 

became a family affair when his younger 

brother, Dan Loehr '83, won in 1980, 

and the following year four Loehr 

brothers made up a team for the race. 

Now a dealer in oil stocks on the New 

York Stock Exchange, Mark Loehr admits 

a certain reluctance even to watch 

the race from the sideline these days. "I 

just know if I saw it, I'd want to run it 

again. Maybe one year, if I'm in terrific 

Sorority teams dress up in different 

ways for the 1980, bottom, and 1981 

competitions. 

Opposite page, the 1980 finish still 

finds some contestants have overdone 

one aspect of the competition or 

another, to the apparent delight of 

teammates.

shape, I'll come back and do it," he 

said. 

Another past winner is Prof. T.J. 

Pempel, director of the China-Japan 

program at Cornell. He entered the first 

Phi Psi 500 at the suggestion of a student 

and found it "very painful." But in following 

years he took up running in earnest 

and, competing in the Masters Division 

for contestants over 30 years of age, 

won in 1978, 1979, and 1980. 

While most people involved in the 500 

are relieved by its metamorphosis into a 

festival-style event, Professor Pempel 

finds it has lost its attraction for him. "I 

like to run in a competitive field, and 

there are so few people running for time 

now. The challenge is missing, so I 

didn't run last year, and I doubt if I'll 

enter this year either." 

But once bitten, twice as fanatical 

seems to be the rule for many contestants. 

In 1980, Katherina Grande '78 

flew from Brussels for the race. In the 

same year, the former dean of admissions 

and financial aid, Donald G. Dickason 

'53, visited from a new position 

with Penn State University for his sixth 

straight 500. 

Contestants have been equally earnest 

about training and race technique. Dickason 

told the Daily Sun after his fourth 

500, "I've been training for this race 

since February—running Monday, Wednesday, 

and Friday, drinking Tuesday, 

Thursday, and Saturday, and thinking 

about it on Sundays." He was not about 

to let a sit-in protest over financial aid, 

inconveniently timed for very late the 

night before the race, spoil his hard 

work, and was cheered by the crowd on 

his arrival. 

A Canadian contestant said that even 

a 242nd placing in the arduous Boston 

marathon had not been enough to prepare 

him for the 500. Reported the Sun: 

"Fred Tonetti '78 told him what he was 

doing wrong. Ύou've got to burp, buddy! 

I owe all my success to burping,' he 

slurped. Tonetti's team, The Lewds, did 

not place." 

Last year 1,870 contestants entered 

the 500 and the majority walked, rather 

than ran, the race. Even then, most completed 

the course in a couple of hours. 

Organization for the event takes considerably 

longer. 

The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity appoints 

a chairman for the 500 six months in advance 

of the early May race date. This 

year's chairman is Jim Talcot '82 and his 

first job was to decide upon the recipient 

of the funds raised by an entry fee of between 

$10 and $12 from each runner. 

"We ask local organizations to put in 

proposals and then I decide upon the 

strength of these," said Talcot. 

Immediately discounted are all national 

organizations and Cornell-related 

charities. "We specifically want to do 

something for Ithaca and Tompkins 

County, so we want the money to stay in 

the area, not get siphoned away to a 

head office somewhere," he said. 

Recipients of the funds raised in this 

year's race will be a trio of local organizations: 

the Drop-In Center, the Task 

Force for Battered Women, and the 

Greater Ithaca Activities Center. Last 

year when he was chairman, Scott Heiser 

'83 picked the Special Children's 

Center for the Handicapped and funds 

were used to pay medical bills, provide 

transportation, and cover administrative 

costs. Challenge Industries, the Special 

Program Division of the Ithaca Youth 

Bureau, and the Tompkins County Red 

Cross have also received the proceeds in 

the past. 

Although the contestants undoubtedly 

have the charities at heart, the race itself 

is closer to their stomachs. "I think 

people like the idea of it being a charitable 

event, but they'd probably want to 

enter it anyway," says organizer Talcot. 

"For the past few years, we've had to 

turn a couple of hundred people away." 

Cornell's 500 is one of dozens of charity 

races organized by various chapters 

of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity throughout 

the country. Some chapters' contests 

are limited to tricycles, others are held in 

mud, Ithaca's is said to host the event 

that attracts the largest number of entrants 

and contestants. Ironically, the 

students who mount the 500 can never 

participate. "The fraternity brothers are 

flat out taking times, registering runners, 

organizing the after-race party, 

then cleaning up. They're just exhausted 

by the end of it all," said Talcot. 

MAY 1982

"Henceforth, there 

is to be at Cornell a 

new category of Class... 

to be known as a 

'Super Class \ 

I hereby inaugurate 

this new category by 

naming the Class of 1956 

'Super Class' of Cornell" 

President Frank Rhodes 

Saturday, June 13,1981

Cornell needs ten 

more "Super Classes'! 

Will yours be the 

next one? 

Until recently the best class record of fund raising 

that any Cornell 25th reunion class had done was 

$343,027 — compared to typical 25th reunion gifts 

of $1 million at Princeton and Dartmouth and nearly 

$2 million at Harvard and Yale. 

But, that was until recently Because, in the summer 

of 1979, some of us — members of the Class of 1956, 

facing our 25th reunion two years hence — decided 

we could probably do better. 

We organized, we worked hard. And we produced: 

On June 13,1981, we presented President Rhodes a 

check for $2,O2O,OOO! That's not only six times the 

previous Cornell record, it moved Cornell from last to 

first place among leading fund raising schools in 1981 

25th reunion classes. 

For this accomplishment, President Rhodes dubbed 

the Class of 1956 the first "Super Class" in the history 

of Cornell. 

Of course we're proud. But from the first, we have 

hoped that by setting this record of ours, we would 

be encouraging other classes to approach or surpass 

it. Accordingly we have donated to Cornell a 

magnificent sterling silver Super Class Challenge 

Cup. Any class that beats our record, adjusted, 

of course, for inflation, will have its name added 

to the engraving on the cup. It won't be easy. Our 

$2,O2O,OOO came not just from a few wealthy classmates 

but from 660 Alumni who individually gave 

from a few hundred dollars to many thousands. 

However, we want to give you an advantage we 

didn't have: a report we have written for the University 

on how and why we did it! 

To get this report, "The '56 Challenge: A Case History 

for Future Classes," write to Ernest L. Stern, 

The Super Class of 1956 

President, Class of 1956, 726 University Avenue, 

Ithaca, New York, 1485O. We hope you'll order this 

report today. While we raised our record sum in two 

years, we suspect that the best way to raise more is 

to start planning, not just two but three to five years 

ahead. And you younger Classes can start laying 

the groundwork for your Big Reunions of five, ten, 

fifteen and twenty years by starting now. 

The University is not the only beneficiary of a major 

effort such as we made. Our actual experience 

working on the Reunion fund-raising turned out to 

be an extraordinarily rewarding time of expanding 

friendships and knowledge, and finding a deep 

sense of satisfaction. 

We would like nothing better than to have all classes 

become Super Classes. After all, we are all alumni of 

a Super University

News of Alumni 

Class Notes 

Items that may be of interest to 

readers of many classes are highlighted 

by the small head of a bear. 

We forward clippings, press releases, 

and other information about alumni 

to their class correspondents. Addresses in 

the following columns are in New York State 

unless otherwise noted. 

11 Spring Greetings 

Once again, we send you greetings without 

much in the way of news. First, we want to 

say thank you to Elsie McMillan Peterson 

'55, associate editor, for her report on things 

in general, but especially on the Jan meeting 

of correspondents at the Class Officers' 

(CACO) meeting in NYC; that sounded most 

interesting. 

Many of you have doubtless heard from 

Harvey Johnson through his Christmas letter. 

Since the death of his wife Millicent, Harvey 

has been at loose ends. He has finally settled 

in to pleasant living conditions which 

give him the companionship of a young man 

from Ky who also needed a home base. Ken 

Lockhart accompanied Harvey to Reunion 

and made things much easier for him. What 

would we nonogenarians do without these 

young folk! 

As you read this, everything is speaking of 

spring, spring at its best and that automatically 

makes most of us think of Ithaca. If 

you're interested in spending a day on campus 

in June, you'd better tell us so right 

away, so we can make arrangements that will 

be satisfactory. 

By the way, have you read President 

Rhodes's annual report for '81? If not, you'd 

be wise to do so. It's a good way of getting 

acquainted with what's happening on campus. 

How can one man comprehend all the 

facets that constitute our university! That reminds 

us of the poet's line, "And still the 

wonder grew that one small head could carry 

all he knew." Melita H Skillen, St Martins-by-the-Sea, 

New Brunswick, Canada 

EOG 2Z0; Charles J Fox, 11 W Washington, 

Ellicottville, NY 14731. 

15 Letter From Felix 

The Glee Club performed here in the auditorium 

of Shell Pt Village in Jan, and made a 

wonderful hit. They are fine "ambassadors" 

and musicians. 

In a letter in Feb, Felix Kremp had this to 

say: "Thank you very much for the work and 

Two fraternity floats cross Triphammer 

Bridge in May 1954 as part of the 

traditional Spring Day parade, a remote 

predecessor to today's Phi Psi 500. 

interest which you performed so diligently for 

our Class of '15. 

"I would have enjoyed your extensive travel 

reports. I retired at the age of 70 in '64 and 

enjoyed 5 yrs of extensive travel when my 

wife, who was in good health, had a stroke 

and of course this brought our traveling to an 

abrupt end. My health is good, and I am still 

able to drive, and I envy you your heated 

pool. 

"Sorry our reunions have come to an 

end." Arthur W Wilson, E-4703 Junonia, 

Shell Pt Village, Fort Myers, Fla 33908. 

17 Warning Signal 

As you read this in May, let it remind you 

that only about 30 days remain before we 

gather at Cornell's beautiful campus to celebrate 

our 65th Reunion, June 10-13. This 

issue is in the nature of a warning signal to resolve 

any doubt you may have had about attending 

during the cold and stormy days of 

winter—to decide on travel plans, and for the 

men to get out red coats with white piping 

and the women, alluring bright red scarves, 

to be worn with pride, both as a unifying and 

distinctive identification. 

George Newbury, our indefatigable prexy, 

writes that among many of our classmates 

who will not be able to attend our 65th in 

June is "Stu" Cooper, who says, "All (classmates) 

would like to hear about you whether 

you come or not," and suggests we "write 

something" about ourselves and send it to 

Marv, address below. To use our prexy's 

phrase, "It's a good idea—Let's do it." To 

which I would add, DO IT NOW, so as to 

have your something included in the Reunion 

report for the July issue. Stuart and his wife 

Lucie, a recent victim of stroke, are now patients 

in the Evergreen Nursing Home, 

Moorestown, NJ 08057. A word of greeting 

from you would be appreciated. 

Rudolph "Dutch" Greuter (CE), residing 

at 1 Woodbury PI, Woodbury, Conn, for 

over 50 yrs, practiced as a consulting engineer 

in the field of power plants and turbines. 

Since his retirement, he enjoys sailing under 

the burgee of the Stamford Yacht Club, golfing 

in Maine, not to mention the antics of his 

"man's best friend," Ch Good Deal of 

Crackdale. (See photo.) 

Dr Raymond Conklin, DVM, lives at 3400 

Ocean Blvd, 2-J, Ft Lauderdale, Fla. Following 

World War I service ('17-19) in the regular 

Army, had a long and interesting career as 

a professor of comparative pathology at the 

Medical School of McGill U, from '21-41, 

and as corporate medical director of Miles 

Laboratories, '41-65; also, he was in general 

practice and occupational medicine until his 

retirement in '65. Dr Conklin, who is a widower, 

has 3 children, 2 grandchildren, and 6 

A man and his dog (See '17 column.) 

great-grands. We look forward to getting further 

details at 1st hand when we get together 

in June. 

C Irene Hayner (BA), 1200 Earhart Rd, 

Ann Arbor, Mich, having retired as a teacher 

of library science at U of Mich, now has time 

to indulge her interest in volunteer work, 

opera and theater productions, and travel. 

She is looking forward to being with us in 

June. Marvin R Dye, 206 Edgemere Dr, 

Rochester, NY 14612. 

18 Class Cheer 

One . . . Nine . . . One . . . Eight! 

We know we're great! 

Remember those yells we used to create, ending 

in words that rhymed with "eight?" If 

you can recall any class yells, please send 

them to me. This line of thought comes from 

my realizing how great you all are in cooperating 

with Harry Mattin and myself to keep 

news flowing to us for this column. 

George C Sweet of Buffalo, whose nickname 

was "Clint" writes that his daughters 

live nearby, but most of his grandchildren are 

"scattered from Boston to Mobile to Portland, 

Ore, in various businesses." Because 

his wife has been in a nursing home, George 

doesn't travel far. He has been practicing law 

since '25, as a partner "in the best law firm in 

the Buffalo area." He "always talks it up" 

for Cornell, and enjoys keeping track of 

sports, and "remembering Ithaca's hills and 

scenery." He reached 87 in Feb and daily 

"thanks the Lord for my continuing good 

health and strength, and ability to see the 

funny side of things." 

Willard Heald of Wilmington, Del, is always 

interested in his grandchildren. Susan, 

18, is entering George Washington U with 

ballet and volleyball prominent in her life,

while Steven, 16, in high school "likes wrestling, 

sailing, and pole-vaulting." 

Mitchell S Lurio of Brookline, Mass, has a 

grandson, Charles Lurio, grad student at 

MIT. Maxine Montgomery Musser, of Bradenton, 

Fla, has a son George and grandson 

George, also a granddaughter Peggy. Maxine 

spent 2 months in the North, NY and Pa, visiting 

her sister Mazie Montgomery Rowland 

'17. Also, they visited Mazie's son in Wyo 

and Maxine's granddaughter in Colo; also Mt 

Rushmore, Washington, DC, and Mass. 

Maxine attends meetings of the Sarasota- 

Manatee Cornell Club and for her church supervises 

sewing projects, making children's 

clothes for the Red Cross, Head Start, and 

migrants. No doubt the flood of refugees in 

'80 and '81 has increased greatly the demands 

for such clothes. 

Neil M Willard of Scottsdale, Ariz, and 

wife Edna, had every member of their family 

together in Buffalo for a 3-day celebration of 

their 50th wedding anniversary. That must 

have been quite an achievement! Congratulations 

to you and Edna! Neil adds that they 

have been 16 times around the world. Can 

any classmate top that? 

Ron Colston, also of Ariz, has 3 married 

children, 8 grandchildren, plus 4 grandchildren-in-law, 

and 5 greats. However, he 

writes, there aren't any great-grandchildrenin-law 

yet! Among his hobbies are "gardening 

and TV." Crawford Halsey of Bridgehampton 

has 6 grandchildren and 2 greats, 

one of these 2 ι Λ and the other over a year old 

now. Of hobbies he has "none," but under 

activities he lists "church, country club, etc," 

and says he still has a small accounting practice. 

Crawford was a partner in Price, Waterhouse, 

you remember. 

Looking back 64 yrs to May '18, I find 

notes that, on the 13th, "Dr Matzke (phys ed) 

gave the Class of '18 women a picnic" (in 

Risley, because it was raining). We had a 

"dandy" time and "sang and cheered a lot. 

Dr M is a good sport." Also, (16th) "George 

W MacDonald Robertson '18 won the Corson 

French Prize." On the 21st some of us 

"went to the aviators' retreat at 5 pm." Cornell 

had several hundred trainees at one of the 

earliest aviation camps in the US. More than 

half of the men in our class were in training 

by then, or overseas. Irene M Gibson, 119 

S Main, Holley, NY 14470. 

19 Great Oaks . . . 

This may reach you in time for a last-minute 

reminder of the luncheon meeting and 10th 

mini-reunion of World War I classes Ί7-'21 

at the Coachman Hotel, White Plains, May 

14. (See Mike Hendrie's Apr letter.) 

Two yrs ago our '19 women donated funds 

for a tree planting on East Ave, and last yr 

funds for a 2nd red oak were donated by the 

men of '19 with help from our '19 women 

and others. This will be planted this spring at 

the corner of East Ave and Tower Road, according 

to W Barlow Ware '47. Ware also advises 

us that additional plantings are needed 

on East Ave as part of the campus beautification 

program, so we have set up a special Tree 

Fund for future Class of '19 plantings. Several 

classmates have paid dues twice in response 

to Perc Dunn's 2nd dues bills. With 

their permission, we will add this extra money 

to the contributions by others for the Tree 

Fund to accumulate for another planting. 

Our thanks to all who have thus taken part. 

One of them is Lt Col Charles Baskerville, 

who has been keeping busy with his painting, 

and was honored with another exhibit of his 

work at the Century Club, NYC. Another 

Walt Measday, Cape May, NJ, who proudly 

announces the Dec 15 arrival of his 8th great- 


grandchild. Can any Ί9er top that? 

Thomas R Schweitzer of Queens Village 

congratulated Treasurer Perc for his "labor 

of love," and donated extra money for the 

Tree Fund and postage, with the comment, 

"Postal rate per letter is 4 times what I paid 

for car fare in NY in Ί9!" How true, Tom! 

Another contributor is Dr Abraham Fine of 

Lauderhill, Fla, who, at 85, has been retired 

for 16 yrs. 

Glad to hear from Dr Louis E Tomsuden 

of Saranac Lake, who reports all his male relatives 

and friends have passed on. Cornell 

Fund Rep Seth Heartfield of Cockeysville, 

Md (N of Baltimore), says his wife Polly is 

slowly recovering from the stroke suffered 

last July, requiring constant care, so it's fortunate 

they are in a life-time center with excellent 

health-care facilities. From another retirement 

complex at Shell Pt Village, Ft 

Myers, Fla, Regional Vice President Gene 

Beggs still follows his hobby of watercolor 

painting. He's program director for the Shell 

Pt Painters, membership 40, which meets 

monthly and exhibits yrly. P S Wilson, 

325 Washington St, Glen Ridge, NJ 07028. 

When you read this, spring will be in the air 

in Ithaca, and the 4 inveterate reuners, Helen 

Bui lard, Edith Messinger Bickford, Frances 

Strong Knight, and I will start thinking of the 

Hill. We would be glad to be joined by any of 

the rest of you. Ithaca is beautiful in June. 

Louise Baker Short, now living in a retirement 

residence at 1850 Alice St, Oakland, 

Cal, has many memories, having grown up in 

Ithaca, downtown near the Clinton House. 

Her father was a doctor, Class of 1878, and 

had many faculty members as patients. He 

once took her to call on Andrew D White, 

who even then impressed her as a very old 

white-bearded gentleman. We of '19 can recall 

him as a spry man, still with his beard, 

walking on East or Central Aves. Whenever 

he overtook one of us he joined us and was 

greatly interested in our courses as well as 

what we did with our "spare" time and what 

we hoped to do after graduation. 

Spring also is in the offing for Esther Funnell 

Phipard. At her home at 1831 Kirby Rd, 

McLean, Va, she and her sisters are studying 

seed catalogues between bouts of shoveling 

snow. They lead busy lives, with many local 

activities, including the care of 2 big dogs. 

They often see John and Jean Hall Gebhard, 

who live nearby. Margaret Kinzinger, 316 

Dayton St, Ridgewood, NJ 07450. 

20 President's Address 

Two hundred fifty enthusiastic alumni heard 

President Rhodes at the Feb Sarasota Cornell 

Club meeting in the Lido Beach Holiday Inn. 

I never hear our president without thrilling 

with pride at his report on our present-day 

Cornell. In '82 he said we are still a pace-setting, 

ground-breaking institution with a faculty 

of great proportions and a 5-star rating 

for academic excellence. 

At out table for 8 were Dave Amsler '36, 

Walter W Zittel Jr '40, Dick Flesch '29 and 

Mrs Flesch plus 3 of my good friends: Pamelia 

Jacobs Gibb, Grad, Grace Dimelow, and 

Alice Behrle. Alice has several Cornellians in 

her family: son Fred Behrle '35, grandson 

Peter Behrle '72, and brother Arthur Bardowyck 

'22. 

Grace Dimelow's career was in fabrics, textiles 

and designing. After teaching several yrs 

at Temple U, and working for Butterick 

Fashions, she went to Burlington Mills as 

fashion coordinator. Grace is still a happy 

NYer and is glad to represent '20 Women at 

alumni meetings held there. Her apartment 

on Siesta Key is a naturalist's delight set amid 

Fla trees and shrubs on Heron Creek. Sitting 

on the sunny deck, one can watch great blue 

herons sail across the water to stalk their prey 

in the shallows. Gulls, egrets, and pelicans 

complete the picture. 

New address: Marian Irish Hodgkiss, 2050 

SW 10th Court, Apt 111, Delray Beach, Fla 

33445. Marion Shevalier Clark, RR1, Box 

14, Angola, Ind 46703. 

I hope many of you have contacted Walt 

Archibald, 20 Oxford Rd, White Plains, 

10605, saying you will attend our minireunion 

this June. 

Harold King, PhD '35, and I were classmates 

in one of Prof Thilly's classes. We were 

also in track together. Harold and his wife 

Helen live in Fla, where Harold is recuperating 

from a corneal implant. Martin Beck, our 

Reunion co-chairman, spent a couple of wks 

in Hawaii, recently, where the weather was a 

pleasant contrast to the very cold weather in 

NY State. Professor Stull Holt died last Oct. 

He had been awarded the Croix de Guerre for 

action at Verdun in World War I, received his 

doctorate from Johns Hopkins U, had been 

chairman of the history dept at the U of 

Washington, and had received other honors, 

too numerous to list. 

Prexy Walt Archibald has returned home 

from his and Dorothy's winter vacation in 

Fla. They had a very pleasant pre-Christmas 

reunion with their 3 sons, before leaving for 

The Hillsboro Club in Pompano Beach, Fla. 

Hillel "Doc" Poritsky has had a very active 

life as a consulting engineer, with many honors—National 

Research Fellow, etc—has 

published over 100 papers in his field, taught 

at Cornell and now has grandchildren on the 

Hill. 

Otto Buerger, class regional vice president, 

attended his wife's 55th Reunion in '81. They 

have formed their own mini-reunion club for 

the classes of '20 and '26, meeting at their 

home in Sands Point. Horace Sherman is a 

neighbor of Gwendolyn Sherwood, whose 

husband Hobart died a yr ago. They are both 

active in the community life at the John Knox 

Village, Pompano Beach, Fla. 

Israel Simon and Helen have returned from 

a most interesting trip through portions of 

France. Part of the trip was by hotel barge, 

the rest by car. Abe Zausmer is still active in 

life insurance business, and his wife owns and 

operates a needlecraft shop. Samuel Paul 

spent last summer gardening at his Cape Cod 

home in Dennis, Mass. Herb Grigson, 

Box 172, Downingtown, Pa 19335. 

21 No More News 

This will be short and "sweet." I've had only 

one news item since last month. Gladys Saxe 

Holmes wrote that she had a letter from Irma 

Greenawald. Irma was visiting her sister 

Hilda '18 who lives in Ariz. 

I remember with pleasure that at either our 

50th or 55th Reunion Irma gave each of us a 

watercolor that she had painted. What a 

thoughtful thing that was for you to do, Irma, 

and how pleased we were. Each painting 

was a scene from near where she lives in 

Colo. Since Dwight and I had both been hunters, 

I picked a picture of an antelope. We 

missed you at Reunion last June, Irma. 

Now the cupboard is empty. So HELP! 

Margaret Remsen Rude, RD1, Waymart, Pa 

18472. 

Frederick K Beutel writes: "In Mar the 5th 

edition of my Bank Officers Handbook of 

Commercial Banking Law will be published, 

with Milton Schroeder as co-author. This is 

my 15th book, with co-authors on 2 others. I 

am considering retirement."

Rudolph E Krause had his 83rd birthday 

Feb 5 while on a Caribbean cruise. He feels 

fine. Frank Stave celebrated his 82nd birthday 

Feb 19. He is visiting his daughter Lois 

and her husband Donald Goodkίnd '42 in Pacific 

Palisades, Cal. 

Leslie M Shepard has been retired 21 yrs 

from Bell Telephone Labs. His knees are 

arthritic, but he still gets around. Rit (A W) 

Rittenshausen reports that his 20 colonies of 

bees are wintering well, and they produced 

1,500 lbs of delicious honey last fall. Wallace 

V Cunnean is living in a comfortable condominium 

on the ocean. He is enjoying life with 

surf fishing and travel with his wife Natalie. 

They have spent considerable time in the Far 

East and South Africa. Dr Jesse D Stark is 

still keeping busy as director of the X-ray 

dept at Prospect Hospital, NYC. He is taking 

some time off with Mrs Stark at Palm Beach 

this winter. I told him that he was very little 

changed from '21 to '81, and he agreed. 

Charles B Rutenber moved to Me in '80, 

but having lived all his life in an academic atmosphere, 

did not like Me so well and is moving 

back to Elmira about Apr 1. His address 

will be College Apts B-l. He taught a course 

at Elmira College last fall. Raymond B Mead 

and his wife Florence had a big celebration of 

their 10th wedding anniversary at the 1st 

Congregational Church of Cheshire, Conn, 

last Mar. They live at Elim Park, 140 Cook 

Hill Rd, Cheshire, Conn. 

From Miles R Jacobs comes the news that 

Dale R Mitchell, Class Poet '21, died in Nov 

'81. Dale earned his PhD at Cornell and was 

an instructor in English there. For many yrs 

he was on the faculty of Bradford Junior College. 

James H C Martens, 123 S Adelaide 

Ave, Highland Park, NJ 08904. 

22 More Reservations 

The Class of '22 wants you to be in Ithaca 

June 10-13—our 60th Reunion. In early Mar 

we have 20 women signed up to be at Statler 

in June. 

Helen Cherouny Durkin has just cancelled 

her reservation, as she will be off to mainland 

China with a People-to-People Ambassador 

program. She will be thinking of us all having 

a great time as she did at our 55th Reunion. 

Hazel Wright Thompson of Denver, Colo, 

wrote for the June dates. She is coming and 

has enough connections in the area to keep 

her busy for a month. She used to live in NY. 

Those returning in June not yet mentioned 

are: Cornelia Lerch Brown, Alma Verwiebe 

Cox, Julia Hoddick Frank, Dorothy Boring 

French, Sara Merritt Gully, Madeline Gray 

Rubin, Ada Edsell Warren. You already 

know the six of us who live in Ithaca. 

In Mar our hard working Class President 

and Reunion Chairman Mary Porter Durham 

and her husband Gene Ί7 took off for 3 wks 

in Hawaii. She has earned a vacation. 

Evelyn Davis Fincher, 44 Sheraton Dr, 

Ithaca, NY 14850. 

Clifford Buck is disappointed that the names 

of '22 women were not included in our new 

class directory. I shall investigate the possibility 

of a combined directory for the next edition. 

We will be glad to have Opinions on the 

subject from both men and women. Clifford 

also called my attention to an error in our column 

in the Dec issue. It was Ed Moot Clifford 

had visited, not Victor Williams. 

Chape Condit has been busy calling classmates 

urging them to attend Reunion in June. 

Good work, Chape. He is well pleased, as I 

am, with the fine work Rollin McCarthy is 

doing in organizing the Reunion. Ed Moot 

seems to be busier than ever, writing for 

various garden and forestry publications. 

This correspondent and his wife have just 

returned from a 2-month stay in Fla. While 

there, on Feb 22, we attended a mini-reunion 

of the Class of '24 at Old Port Cove near N 

Palm Beach. Ken '23 and Vee Dobert Spear 

'24 and Schuyler '25 and Hortense Black 

Pratt '24 accompanied us from Vero Beach. 

Classmates of '22, '23, '25, '26, and '29 were 

invited! More than 100 Cornellians were present. 

The luncheon was good and we heard an 

interesting taped speech by President Rhodes. 

Members of '22 present were George and Millie 

Bray man, Dave Dattlebaum, George and 

Verna Naylor, "Keeze" and Florence Roberts, 

George and Kay Tea re, Tommy Thompson, 

Richard and Dorothy Turner, and Forrest 

B and "Billie" Deisler Wright '24. 

Roger Corbett certainly has made a name 

for himself out in NM. He has been president 

of NM State U at Las Cruces since '55 and 

just retired from that position. Since he received 

his PhD from Cornell in '25 he has 

served as a college teacher, in government 

service, in agri-business, and in academic administration. 

During his tenure as president of NMSU 

the university has greatly expanded. New colleges, 

an experiment station, and new courses 

have been established. The campus land has 

increased nearly 10-fold and enrollment has 

tripled. In addition, he has served his community 

on many important civic committees, 

so many and so well that the city of Las 

Cruces established a Roger Corbett Day in his 

honor. On that occasion, the mayor wished 

him a happy 82nd birthday. 

Upon retirement from the university, the 

US Dept of Defense presented him with a 

Distinguished Service Medal, the highest 

award it gives. He has been honored by the 

state legislature, the Chamber of Commerce, 

his Rotary Club, and has received the Regents' 

Medal, NMSU's most prestigious 

award. Roger, we are proud of you and hope 

you join us at our 60th. Forrest B Wright, 

4739 Rembert Dr, Raleigh, NC 27612. 

23 A log on the 60th 

The dearth of class news as I write this makes 

your scribe as lonesome as a Maytag washer 

man waiting for business. May is usually a 

glorious month full of expectancy and promise. 

As I mulled over in my mind what to 

write about, John Vandervort, our 60th Reunion 

co-chairman, broke the reverie with a 

letter saying it is not too early to sound off in 

the Alumni News about the big event next yr. 

The agenda from now to June '83, he writes, 

is in place, tentatively, with revisions along 

the way. With John in Ithaca and Gertrude 

Mathewson Nolin in Skaneateles, we are fortunate 

to have them on the scene of operation. 

After the superb job they did in '78 at 

our 55th, no wonder they have been given the 

torch by President Charlie Braytoh to get 

things rolling. The 1st meeting of officers and 

committee is planned this month by John at 

his place, 45 Chateau Claire, Sheraton Dr, at 

10:00 am, date to be set pending responses 

from participants. Ruth Rice McMillan has 

already planned for a gathering of all '23ers 

who will be in Ithaca during Reunion Weekend 

this June, and a table has been reserved 

at Barton Hall on Fri, June 11, at 10 am. 

Plan to be there, if you are in Ithaca. 

A followup report of these 2 meetings will 

appear in the July issue. A 3rd meeting is 

planned on Oct 16, Homecoming (Cornell vs 

Brown), at 10 am at John's place in Ithaca. A 

luncheon may be set up for those attending. 

The important question facing the committee 

is just how many to plan for. While the 60th 

is the big Reunion of almost every class for 

those who have made it, the decision of 

whether to reune or not reune faces every 

class-member due to infirmity, distance, or 

lack of interest, not to mention the pressure 

of* inflation. For the regulars, over the yrs, 

'nuf sed. For the infirm, it may be important 

to be aware that this time our class will be going 

1st class, housed at Statler Inn, central on 

campus, with deluxe accommodations, elevator 

service, with Hotel School expert cuisine 

available. 

Speaking of our 60th, "Ack" Ackerson 

jumped the gun and sent in his '82 dues check 

before our billing arrived. Thanks, we needed 

that, but for another reason. Any news is 

good news. He rates Number 1 on George 

Calvert's register, followed by Robert Earl Jr 

of Savannah, Ga, who upped the annual 

amount without reason, although George is 

holding the line this yr. Ack says, "After 58 

yrs of activity 7 days a wk handling Suffolk 

County (NY) properties exclusively, it looks 

as if I could make the Reunion without 

crutches, earphones, false teeth. I have no 

idea of any retirement until they carry me out 

in a box." 

John Vandervort expects to use this column 

to alert classmates as much as possible 

on progress of our 60th Reunion plans. The 

bandwagon started loading in '81 with 

George Quinn, Bert Nichols, Fred Fix, and 

Walt Flumerfelt already on board. How 

about you? George A West, 106-B Brebeuf 

Dr, Penfield, NY 14526; also Helen F 

Northup, 3001 Harvey St, Apt C, Madison, 

Wise 53705. 

24 Busy As Can Be 

A card from Hortense Black Pratt (Mrs 

Schuyler '25) says Laura Duffy Smith and 

Paul were preparing to work on Thanksgiving 

and Christmas "Dinners for the Lonely" 

—a project of 5 cooperating churches; they 

have been involved for many yrs. (Hortense 

did not indicate how she and Schuyler were 

keeping out of mischief, but the postmark 

was Fla, so probably by golfing.) 

Marguerite Pigott Wedell (Mrs Carl F) recently 

honored Carl's memory with a sitting 

area in the Willard Straight Rock Garden; he 

was dean and a member of the horticulture 

dept faculty at SUNY, Farmingdale, for 

many yrs. Since the family is scattered, she 

travels a good deal, and usually includes a 

sightseeing tour, preferably by bus. Esther 

Gennis Vyner (Mrs Alfred N) complained last 

spring about the winter of '80-81; I suspect 

she didn't find '81-82 any improvement. 

Florence Daly's art gallery and teaching 

keep her humping; to entertain as well as 

teach a group she paints a demonstration picture, 

explaining at each step what she is doing 

and why. This fall much of her business has 

been filling special orders for paintings. 

Dorothea Johannsen Crook, 84 Woods Ave, 

Somerville, Mass 02144. 

We have a letter from Jim Rowan, including 

another photo of him standing on his head. 

(See next page.) This time he's in front of 

Emmanuel College, Cambridge U, England 

—the college where Isaac Newton matriculated 

in 1661 and later conducted experiments 

leading to the discovery of the Law of Gravity. 

According to tradition, he made the discovery 

pondering why apples fall down and 

not up. It may be traditional, but why stand 

on our feet when we have hands? 

The '24 newsletter, the unabridged news of 

the Class of '24, should have reached you by 

now, but here is a brief summary: 124 attended 

the 7th mini-reunion at N Palm Beach 

on Feb 22, thanks mostly to the perseverance 

of chairman Max Schmitt, and to the cooperation 

of the classes just before or just after 

MAY 1982 37

Jim Rowan '24 uses his head, again. 

ours. President Fred Wood, was at the head 

of the table. Vice-President Don Wick ham, 

who had saved the day the last 2 yrs, was at 

the head table ready to pinch hit. Vice President 

Carl "Schraubo" Schraubstader was at 

the piano to accompany Bill King when we 

sang the Alma Mater and other songs. 

Schraubo sang his composition, "Last Night 

on the (you know what)." We enjoyed it as 

much as we had 60 yrs ago. Alva Tompkins, 

RD #2, Box 2, Tunkhannock, Pa 18657. 

25 Whit Writes 

We have a most interesting letter from Whit 

Trousdale. I am not going to edit it, so here it 

is: "Retired 10 yrs ago to the family home in 

Rome, Pa. Get back to Ithaca frequently. 

Spoke twice at Sage Chapel, attend indoor 

track meets in Barton Hall, go to at least 2 

football games. Saw classmate Al Severance, 

who is a retired MD in San Antonio, Texas. 

I've known Sevie since '21; married Sevie and 

Ethel in Baltimore, Md, in June '30. 

"After graduating from Cornell, I graduated 

magna cum laude from Drew U, winning 

a traveling fellowship to study archeaology at 

the American School in Jerusalem, hence to 

the U of Berlin, and Cambridge U. My 1st 

job upon my return in '29 was at Syracuse U, 

as men's student counsellor. Did some 

teaching in Liberal Arts College, too. 

"In '33, began preaching in Rochester, 

hence to Olean, Phila, Pa, and lastly to Lancaster, 

Ohio, for a period of 38 yrs. Still do a 

lot of preaching in this area. 

"Continue to do considerable traveling; 

West Coast and Alaska, Fla, and the Keys, 

Bermuda, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, 

Iceland, Holland, Belgium, England, Scotland, 

etc." William McKinley, 24 Ridgeway 

Circle, White Plains, NY 10605. 

In this weirdest of winters, your correspondent 

finally succumbed to cabin fever, and 

happily accepted the often-repeated invitation 

from snowbirds Marge Swarthout and 

Lloyd Phillips, who have wintered for several 

yrs at Fort Walton Beach, in the Fla panhandle. 

And so, one Feb day, I flew out of Albany, 

in a snowstorm, to the warm welcome 

of Marge, Lloyd and sunshine. 

Marge has the same happy approach to 

life, and her laugh is as contagious as ever. 

Lloyd is one of the most obliging men I know 


and they made my visit really memorable. 

The half-hr drive from Eglin Air Force Base, 

in what seemed like sub-tropical warmth, is a 

pleasing mixture of civilization and views of 

the Gulf of Mexico. Their attractive apartment 

has a view of the Gulf and the dazzling 

sand of Santa Rosa beach. Within an hr of 

my arrival, Helen Bettis Higley and Phil '26 

welcomed me with good old Cornell enthusiasm. 

They look great, and, as permanent 

residents they both participate in civic activities 

like volunteer duty in the local hospital. 

Phil is an avid golfer; Helen is a some-time 

player. As sort of a bonus, I finally met very 

long-time friends of Marge, Royal and Lynn 

Kinner of Keuka Lake. Lynn is an Indian 

Lake native—way up in the Adirondacks. 

Well, we discovered we shared friends whom 

Lynn had lost track of over the yrs. I filled iii 

what I knew and Lynn has already written to 

one, who was happy to hear about Lynn's 

family. Small world! All too soon I was 

Atlanta-bound for a day to see Stone Mt Memorial, 

a truly impressive sculpture. Then 

home to more snow, but the cabin fever had 

vanished. 

A letter from Lucille Howe Gwyn sounded 

a familiar note: "Housebound since mid- 

Dec, heavy snow that turned into icy ruts 

keeping me from driving the quarter-mile 

lane leading to my house," but still thankful 

for being active enough to give her home "a 

lick and a promise." Son Bruce is an active 

farmer and a great comfort to her. Lucille is 

one of the few '25 gals hoping to return in '85 

as she "recalls the good times we had at our 

55th." Here's wishing, auf Wiedersehen! 

Happy May Day to all. Genevieve E 

Bazinet, 21 Orville St, Glens Falls, NY 12801. 

26 Kudos A Roses 

To esteemed pal and fellow Class Correspondent 

Allan Carpenter '16 go heartiest congratulations 

on his superb columns, enlivened 

with photos, over the past yrs! Upon his welldeserved 

retirement as scribe, I recall the merry 

times aiding him with his premiere over the 

Lodge Way dining room table following a 

Reunion. More power to you, Allan and 

Frances. And thanks for your mention of 

HHB III and Jonathan in a recent column! 

From Steve Macdonald: "We have had a 

quiet winter, broken by a trip through the 

Panama Canal in Jan. Unfortunately, I had 

signed up for the cruise before I heard that 

the Glee Club was coming to Sarasota, Fla, 

so we missed their concert which was a great 

success, apparently. President Rhodes was 

here in Feb for our local luncheon meeting 

and, as usual, charmed everyone with his remarks." 

Walter and Elvera Buckley enjoyed 2 wks 

in Bermuda during mid-winter. A bouquet of 

roses to Marie Underhill Noll for her excellent 

picture gracing the article in the recent 

issue of Communique, telling of her challenge 

gift to the Class of '82 for this yr's Cornell 

Fund. 

Winifred Manktelow Bishop: "Enjoyed 

hearing about the 55th Reunion. We did not 

make it. Bill and I are both real well and enjoy 

gardening and our combined family of 

grandchildren." Irene A Jones: "Now live in 

a retirement residence, Navesink House. Did 

attend American Baptist Biennial sessions in 

Puerto Rico in June. My little 50th gold medallion 

was stolen when my apartment in NY 

was robbed or burglarized. Too bad." 

Frances P Eagan: "Hope (Cushman) and 

Bob Stillwell missed Reunion because they 

had to be in Alaska for a grandchild's 

graduation. And Rachael Childrey Gross got 

word to me that they couldn't make it, at the 

last minute, and were greatly disappointed." 

Laura Pedersen Henninger: "My latest 

love is aerobic dancing. Five hundred of us 

put on an exhibition in the spring, at the Al 

Long baseball field in St Petersburg, Fla." Isabel 

MacBain Barrett: "The Reunion was 

well worth the problems of transportation involved 

in getting to Ithaca. Walking over our 

beautiful campus was—almost—like renewing 

one's youth. Since June, I've kept busy 

with my 'farm,' family, friends, and organization. 

There is never time to think that the 

yrs keep passing by." 

Esther A Pearlman: "Just finished calling 

50 Cornell grads of a certain area of Syracuse 

to see if they had received the '81-82 program 

of the Cornell Club of Central NY. Fifty calls 

turned into almost 100 to track down, finally, 

such busy people." Beatrice Benedicks Wille: 

"I am busy with books. My latest one is at 

the publishers. They are typesetting it now. 

The story is called Sunny-side Up, and tells of 

a young woman's dreams at her graduation 

from Cornell and deals with her 40-yr teaching 

career—for better or worse. Always finding 

a sunny side, even under difficulties. Jack 

and I are chronic travelers—Hawaii, yrly; 

Fla, every late winter; visits to the East." 

Hunt Bradley, 1 Lodge Way, Ithaca, NY 

14850. 

27 Never Too Late 

Our 55th Round Up is just around the corner. 

Please send your Reunion questionnaire immediately, 

to assure your room and dinner 

reservations. You may pay your fee and room 

costs at Clara Dickson Hall '27 headquarters. 

Send your greetings if you can't come, we'll 

relay them to your friends, classmates, and 

the '27 column. It's an invigorating time to be 

on campus. As students we were on our way 

home by then, and never got to enjoy its summer 

beauty. The exotic sunsets, soft warm 

air, the birds, bees, busy in a relaxed atmosphere—no 

exams! So then, it's never too 

late! Why not now? Come! 

Tom and Ada Erskine, Dan and Esther 

Dairymple are coming. Ted Reimers awaits 

his doctor's OK. Geo La Mont will be in Europe; 

weddings of Clark and Ora Wallace's 2 

grandchildren, in Cal, will interfere. Ray Slocum 

and spouse may attend their 1st '27 Reunion. 

Great! We have 44 couples on the 

"yes" list, plus 4 singles. Sid Hanson Reeve 

says the girls in blue may break another record—why 

not the guys, too? We need 30 

more couples to do it. Let's go! Congratulations 

to Howie and Helen Ware, who celebrated 

their 50th anniversary. Herb Colton, 

lawyer, continues onward, no stopping! He 

enjoyed Ed and Hilda Sachs' surprise visit on 

his birthday. Herb's main hobby is indulging 

in the many activities of their 8 peppy grandchildren. 

Fred Bacon also enjoys their 12 industrious 

grandchildren; one, an exchange 

student to Spain. 

Curly and Marge Sipprell like Reunions 

and family genealogy. Bud and Dot Trefts 

have 9 grandchildren, 2 greats. One, each, attending 

Harvard, Cornell, Penn, and Wellesley. 

Gabe and Rosanna Zuckerman have deep 

interest in theatre, travel, and community organizations, 

plus following their talented actor 

son (Richard Cox). 

Ernie Zentgraf enjoys photography. Bring 

your camera! Don Weed, a USAF aircraft designer, 

instructs Congress on how to get in 

the black and keep out of the red. Whit Reynolds's 

hobbies relate to the Mystic Seaport 

Museum. Herb and Gertrude Edelstein are 

writers and devisors of games and X-word 

puzzles. How about teaming up with the 

Fletcher Ingalls? Vic Cioffari delivered a lecture 

on Dante in Rome last Jan. Tom Deveau 

notes, "We'll see you all at 55th."

Clint Dederick retired with 41 yrs of service 

to Emerson Elec Co. Tom Erskine, lawyer, 

"We'll be seeing you." Congratulations, Ray 

Fingado, on your splendid 55th fund drive. 

Had a fine visit with Rabbit Hamilton, who 

sends his best to all. Walt and Mae Kenyon 

celebrated their 55th anniversary in '81, and 

will, our 55th in '82. Prexy Ray Reisler is 

happily on track again after an operation. He 

and Harriett wish to greet you all in June. 

Our deep condolences to Ben Brown on the 

loss of his dear wife of 46 yrs, last Jan. We 

hope to have him, with his many '27 friends, 

in June. Sid Reeve and I will be looking for 

you all. Come! Don Hershey, 5 S Landing 

Rd, Rochester, NY 14610. 

I'm sorry to tell you Helen Paine Hoefer had 

a date with the hospital in early Mar. As I 

write this in her stead, it's too early to have 

further word. Best wishes, Helen, from us all. 

"We are up to our ears in local grass-roots 

politics," says Harriette Brandes Beyea from 

Ariz. "Who's going to run for governor? 

Who's going to oppose DeConcino for senator? 

Who wants to fight against Udall? 

There is no Off yr' as far as our activity is 

concerned." Sounds like a good politician; 

never stops working! She says "maybe" she 

will return. "If only Ithaca were handier to 

Iowa City, I'd be there in June," writes Peg 

Fischer Harshbarger. "Although I consider 

myself thoroughly retired, I was honored 

within the yr by both the Iowa State Horticultural 

Soc and the Iowa chapter of the American 

Assn of Landscape Architects. My pet 

volunteer activity is with Iowa City's "Project 

Green" which I helped found 15 yrs 

ago." 

Barb Jacoby Cook took a trip to her favorite 

city, San Francisco, Cal, then came East in 

Mar. She hopes to be with us a day at Reunion. 

"I don't recommend moving at our 

age," writes Helen Shedrick Huston, who 

was forced to when the house in which she 

had lived for 42 yrs was sold. "I like my new 

place (1035 Beach Rd, Apt G-7, Cheektowaga). 

Spent Xmas with my daughter Martha 

and family in Boston, Mass, returning in time 

for my spring term classes." She will reune. 

Betty Reece Trimmer is planning a trip to 

Colo in June around convenient dates for her 

3 grandchildren. She expects to get to Reunion 

for a day, at least. Ruth O'Connor 

McHugh still pursues her interest in music 

and various philanthropic affairs. Getting to 

Reunion depends upon graduations and a 

wedding. Her eldest granddaughter is a Phi 

Beta Kappa grad of the U of Ind in 3 yrs time, 

now working for her MBA. There are also 2 

high school graduations. 

Marjorie Burr is now "... grandmother 

and aunt to a new Chinese family from Malaysia. 

There are 3 adults and 4 children, 

4-14. They add a lot of fun to an older life." 

Dot Peck Simpson is now semi-retired, but 

"busier than ever." She took trips to Fla and 

Scandinavia this past winter. Helen Paine 

Hoefer, 169 Coddington Rd, Ithaca, NY 

14850; guest columnist, Sid Hanson Reeve, 

1563 Dean St, Schenectady, NY 12309. 

28 

Good Works 

G Lloyd Godfrey is still buying new equipment 

for Godfrey Tree Expert Co and working 

on gypsy moth infestations. He has been 

in charge of Greenfield Hill dogwoods since 

'46, but manages to golf and swim in summer 

and fall. Lou Gottlieb expects to make our 

55th and be retired by then. He writes of 

some interesting experiences in his long criminal 

law practice. Especially one case, when he 

was only 3 yrs out of law school, when he 

won an acquittal on an entrapment defense in 

a narcotics case, with Governor Dewey as the 

(then) Chief US Attorney. His most recent 

case was a murder acquittal. 

Howard Weeks spends 9 months a yr in 

Venice, Fla, including a trip or cruise. While 

in Hawaii last yr, he tried to track down his 

fraternity brother Bob Ewart without luck. 

Our current mailing list has Bob in Akron, 

Ohio. Howard says Fla living is enhanced by 

meetings of the Cornell Club in Sarasota. Dr 

Max Werner had an exchange of correspondence 

with Argus Tressider, part of which appears 

in the "Communications" section of 

the Alumni News. Max promises to make the 

55th, and was sorry to have missed the 50th. 

He was on a containership cruise. The 

Werners came North last summer by the way 

of Wash, DC, Staten Isl, and Ithaca, to Raquette 

Lake. 

Edwin Wilde, the old railroad man, still 

travels by rail an4 pushes Others to do likewise. 

He has gotten me to look into it. May 

try a trip to visit our son and daughter in San 

Francisco, Cal, via Trans-Canada—a little 

out of the way, but the scenery should be 

good in the middle of winter. 

Dues and replies to our questionnaire are 

coming in at a satisfactory rate. If you have 

not already sent dues and questionnaire, despite 

2 letters, please do so now. If you can 

help "Bud" Mordock with Reunion (See 

"Help Wanted" in a previous note.), please 

write him, 738 York Ct, Northbrook, 111 

60062, or call (312) 498-2431. This is Bud's 

summer address; he is in Fla in winter. 

Louis Freidenberg, 200 E 57th St, NYC 

10022. 

Only a short time to June and the mini-reunion. 

Your class officers and members of the 

committee will be meeting in Clara Dickson 

Hall. There will be a wine and cheese party. 

Rachel Merritt and Alyene Fenner Brown, 

co-chairmen for Reunion, are planning for 

the Big 55th in '83. "Come and see in '83!" 

Check the bulletin board in Barton Hall to 

find names of classmates and friends back in 

town. 

We hope you acted promptly on the excellent 

joint letter of the Class of '28 by sending 

your dues to Treasurer Ruth Lyon in Manchester 

Center, Vt. Please send your Cornell 

Fund donation direct to Ithaca. We are aiming 

at our 2nd million. 

Dot (Searles) and Lud Munchmeyer are enjoying 

their retirement to Whiting, NJ, in the 

Pine Barrens. The beauty and interest of the 

area grows on them as they photograph its 

unique aspects in all seasons. Please keep 

your reminiscences coming. We could get up 

an article on crew, or rifle, or the dance festival. 

We have a project going on Elspeth 

Grant Huxley, '27-28 SpAg, author 

of The Flame Trees of Thika 

recently dramatized on Masterpiece 

Theater and shown on PBS 

in Jan and Feb. [See "Alumni Activities," 

this issue.] Dorothy Knapton Stebbins, 

94-30 59 Ave, Elmhurst, NY 11373. 

29 Wiggle Lady 

"Children in her creative dance classes call 

her 'the wiggle lady.' Participants in the elders' 

campus program at Cuyahoga Community 

College describe her as a humane and 

magnificent teacher. Wheelchair patients at 

Sunny Acres Nursing Facility see her as a miracle 

worker who heφs them stretch beyond 

their limits. Worshippers at area churches 

have been moved to tears by the expressiveness 

of her dancing before the altar." Who? 

None other than our own Ruth Uetz Nobel, 

as depicted in The Cleveland Plain Dealer of 

Aug 31, '81, forwarded to the Alumni News 

by Ola Cooper Brandon. Ruth, also an 

outstanding student, donned that flowing 

chiffon our frosh yr and continued dancing, 

studying modern techniques, teaching, and 

entertaining. She is quoted as saying: "Dance 

goes beyond words. It extends the body, 

mind, and soul. When we dance we get our 

bodies in shape, our minds stretched, and our 

souls lifted. When you give yourself to movement 

you forget yourself and your troubles. 

You laugh at the fun of doing the movement. 

Laughter is good for the mind." She creates 

most of her dances but also includes folk 

dances acquired while traveling throughout 

the world. Some of the programs are shared 

by husband Jim r 

26, MA '29, who reads 

poetry he has written. They celebrated their 

50th wedding anniversary last yr. The eldest 

of their 3 sons is Park '60, BEP '61. Edith 

Stenberg Smith, 155 Beech St, Floral Park, 

NY 11001. 

All of us are senior citizens, like it or not, but 

some are less senior than others. We have 2 

more entrants in the contest for youngest 

member of the class. Ed Case writes, from his 

winter home in Fla, that he was born Oct 9, 

'08. Then came a letter from Bevy Lashinsky 

Chashin, nominating Harry and giving his 

birth date as Mar 6, '09. That will take some 

beating, but the lists are still open. 

Bevy adds some family news. Their son 

Bruce took his degree at Rutgers, like a loyal 

New Jerseyite; their daughter Louise Chashin 

Simon '62 earned her MD at the NJ College 

of Medicine in '68. Harry took his JD at Cornell 

in '32, so they have 2 reasons for attending 

Reunion, June 10-13 in Ithaca. 

Con Troy '28 is busy beating the big bass 

drum for the display he plans to mount in 

Barton Hall for his forthcoming book, Hoaxer, 

about the exploits of his cousin Hugh 

Troy '26. Our classmates Bob Alexander, Erling 

Brenner, Karl Kellerman, Howie Matteson, 

Sid Old berg, and Hugh's brother Fran, 

all contributed memoirs to the book. If they 

are in the vein, their contributions alone will 

repay the price of the book. My own memories 

center on the murals Hugh helped Ezra 

Winter paint on the lobby walls in Willard 

Straight Hall. They were inspiring then, and 

were just as fresh and meaningful when I saw 

them in '79. 

With sadness we report the death on Aug 9, 

'81 of Alester G Holmes Jr. Coming to us 

from Clemson U, he spent 2 yrs on the Hill 

absorbing the wisdom to be found in Sibley, 

and then went on to earn the MSE degree at 

the U of Mich. He retired in '69 as professor 

of mechanical engineering, emeritus, Miss 

State U, where he had taught for 31 yrs. He is 

survived by his wife, 2 daughters, and 7 

grandchildren, to whom we offer our sympathy. 

H F Marples, 40-24 68th St, 

Woodside, NY 11377. 

30 Still Practicing 

R Paul "Bud" Sharood, St Paul, Minn, is 

"Still practicing law, but on a much-reduced 

basis. Continue to winter vacation at Mazatlan, 

Mexico." Bud is past-president of the 

Ramsey County (St Paul) Bar Assn as well as 

the Minn State Bar Assn. 

Willard "Bill" Rhodes of Elmira is another 

still-active lawyer. This yr marks his 

50th at the Bar. Grandchild Mark Rhodes '83 

MAY 1982 39

has "a good chance to go for MBA and JD." 

Ben Cottone sold his Wash, DC, home in 

Watergate and for more than a yr has been 

living in semi-retirement, more-or-less yr 

'round, in Sarasota, Fla. He still, however, 

maintains his law office in DC. 

"In cap and gown," our President Lowell 

Powers, Cincinnati, Ohio, represented the 

university at the inauguration, last yr, of Paul 

Pearson as president of Miami U in Oxford, 

Ohio. Lowell writes that 141 universities were 

represented. Miami U, according to Lowell, 

is where the "Miami Triad" of fraternities 

(Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Theta, and Sigma 

Chi) was founded in the mid-1800s. 

David Jensen, Pittsford, lost his wife Katherine 

last Nov. She was a nature photographer, 

life member of the Rochester Academy 

of Science, fellow of the Rochester Museum, 

and member of the Photographic Soc of 

America. She collaborated with her husband, 

a retired executive of Ward's Natural Science 

Establishment, on his book, Minerals of New 

York State, published in '78, and on many of 

his articles on minerals and mineralogy. 

Leroy A Goodwin Jr has been living in 

Whispering Pines, NC, (about 8 miles from 

Pinehurst, NC's golf capital) since his retirement 

in '71—after a career of more than 41 

yrs with RCA, where he started in '30 with a 

"good temporary job." At retirement he was 

district sales manager, electronic components. 

Daniel Denenholz, 250 E 65th 

St, NYC 10021. 

Ruth Mayberry Sloan writes that she and husband 

Harold are well and enjoy living in 

Greenville, SC. They spend 2Vi months in 

winter on Marco Isl, Fla. Son Todd is an attorney 

in Los Angeles, Cal, and lives in Malibu, 

where they often visit. She has found no 

Cornell graduates in Greenville, but they do 

see Jean Barker Pringle in Fla. 

Dan Denenholz has had word that Frederica 

Ballard Wylie died tragically in Sarasota, 

Fla, several months ago. She was the widow 

of famous American novelist Philip Wylie. 

We have a recurring dream. I awake and 

find my mail box overflowing with interesting 

news and anecdotes from the women of '30. 

Please help that dream come true—the well is 

dry. Eleanor Smith Tomlinson, 231 SE 

52nd Ave, Portland, Ore 97215. 

31 Back to School 

We used to call him "Pop" down in the boathouse 

during our rowing days. Now they call 

him "Grandpa" on the Ithaca College campus. 

Who else, but our classmate Francis A 

Lueder Jr. It is an interesting story. 

Pop's grandson Don Lueder lives with his 

grandparents during the school yr at Jacksonville, 

about 10 miles from the campus. As a 

freshman he had a B average and never 

missed a roll call. Pop saw to that. Home for 

Don is Augusta, Ga, and this yr, due to a 

number of circumstances, could not return 

on time to keep his record clean. Grandpa 

saw to it that it was as clean as possible. Instead 

of Lueder, Don, it was Lueder, Francis, 

who answered the roll calls, took the notes 

and, to his fellow students became Grandpa 

instead of Pop. Grandpa was a teaching assistant 

at Cornell for 31 yrs, which helped him 

in his note taking. Our hats are off to you, 

Grandpa, and we hope Don continues his 

good average. 

Offshore Life, Jan '82, which, we 

presume, is published in Fla, had a 

short paragraph on classmate Robert 

C Halgrim. Graduating with a 

major in horticulture, he was hired by 

Thomas A Edison to assist in growing plants 

to be used to produce rubber. The experi- 


ments were conducted in Edison's Ft Myers 

home. During the course of his work, he became 

acquainted with Henry Ford and Harvey 

Firestone, who were interested in the 

project. After Edison's death, he was retained 

as curator and manager of the Edison 

home. He was the 1st president of the Southwest 

Fla Historical Soc. He and his wife have 

2 sons and 4 grandsons. 

Bill Brainard sent us a note regarding the 

class Reunion picture. I agree with his 

thoughts. He said, "The class picture I had 

hoped would refresh my memory of my classmates 

and help me identify them. Unfortunately 

the faces are too small and barely clear 

enough for my eyes." Bill suggests that those 

in the picture identify themselves and others 

they may recognize by rows, starting at the 

bottom, and by number, from the left as you 

look at the picture. Send your findings to me 

and I will try to chart the 2. Good luck. It will 

not be easy. 

Chris Penney, PhD '31, sent us a note on a 

poetry forum held on Feb 21, '82 at the 

Riverside Church in a program about Washington's 

birthday. The church men's group 

and the poetry forum (Chris is a member of 

both) sponsored the affair and Chris appeared 

on the program. Bruce W Hackstaff, 

27 West Neck Rd, Huntington, NY 

11743. 

Ethel Bache Schmitt returned home in Mar 

from a month's stay at St John, US Virgin 

Islands, to find a letter from Katherine Coe 

Green. With regret we record the death, on 

Jan 27, of Kotty's husband Edgar L (EE). 

Kotty included more sad news: Miriam Prytherch 

CrandalPs husband also passed away 

in late Jan. If you recall, Prythie couldn't be 

with us at Reunion last June because Horace 

was ailing. We send loving sympathy to both 

Kotty and Prythie. Ethel is still teaching 2 

days a wk at a mid-Wilmington Sr Center. 

"Their skill level is low, but the fellowship is 

good and I hope they're learning a lot." With 

Ethel teaching? How could they miss? 

Gert Goodwin was inspired to telephone 

the other evening—says she turns to the '31 

news 1st, then the obits, and finally settles 

down to read the articles, which, we both 

agree, are getting better all the time. In the 

course of our hr-lσng conversation (it was 

Gert's nickel) we learned that the women who 

lived in Risley Terrace freshman yr have kept 

in touch. At our 50th, Gert, Delight Mc- 

Alpine Maughan, Tina Olsen Millane, Gladys 

Johnson Otis, Ginny Palmquist Ryan, Lennie 

Tobin Schattner, and Ethel Schmitt shared a 

table at the women's luncheon at Moakley 

House. Louise Stevens Proctor couldn't 

make it until that evening. 

A literary footnote: did you know that Elspeth 

Grant Huxley '27-28 SpAg, author of 

The Flame Trees of Thika, lived in Risley? 

She loathed getting out of bed on freezing 

mornings until Gert used her engineering 

know-how to rig up a pulley for closing those 

casement windows. [See "Alumni Activities," 

this issue.] 

In early spring, Alice Schade Webster was 

glad to be off to sunny Fla after enduring "a 

grim Ithaca winter with a long spell of subzero 

readings and a great deal of ice." By this 

time, Emily Gorman should be the 1st among 

us to investigate the wonders of the World's 

Fair at Knoxville, Tenn. "Haven't missed 

one in yrs," she adds, "including Japan." 

Helen Nuffort Saunders, 1 Kensington Terr, 

Maplewood, NJ 07040. 

32 Reunion Fever 

This is my last chance to remind you that our 

50th Reunion is June 10-13. If you have questions, 

direct them to Chairman Dick Browne, 

121 Winnepoge Dr, Fairfield, Conn 06430; 

phone (203) 259-4836. Dick reports reservations 

are pouring in and a lot of lst-timers 

will attend. Perhaps it's Reunion fever which 

is bringing in responses to Jerry's notices 

from quarters not heard from in a very long 

time. For example, John A Bullock, now 

convalescing from a hip replacement, is going 

to be busy this spring attending the commencement 

exercises of his grandchildren. 

The eldest, John HI, will graduate from the 

US Naval Academy. John and Marian also 

plan to go to Scotland in May. 

Nathan N Tiffany IV, retired coordinator 

of production control for Mack Trucks, 

spends his winters in Hagerstown, Md, and 

from June to Oct is at his summer home at 

Three Mile Harbor, East Hampton, LI. Newt 

is a musician as well as a boater, fisherman, 

and golfer. He'd like to get in touch with 

classmate members of Theta Chi. Nathan M 

Koffsky writes he is "Mostly retired after 

time with the USDA." All we have from 

John F Wallace is an envelope indicating that 

he still lives in Puerto Rico. Another response 

came from Louis R DeWolf, from whom we 

hadn't heard for many yrs. He lives in Fla. 

Louis De A Gimbrede wrote Dick Browne 

back in Feb that our 50th would be "The 1st 

and probably the only Reunion I shall 

attend," but he certainly is going about it 

properly. To begin with, he communicated 

with Bob Tobin and other Dekes and has 

busied himself writing dirty limericks about 

them all whilst brushing off his senior blazer 

(apparently it still fits, although Monte didn't 

say anything about buttoning it) and his unburned 

frosh cap. He thinks the group should 

number 6 or 7, plus wives. After Reunion, 

Monte will go to his summer place in the 

Thousand Islands for a few days. James 

W Oppenheimer, 560 Delaware Ave, Buffalo, 

NY 14202. 

Eleanor Eckert says, "Anyone who has managed 

to live through the past 70 yrs deserves a 

pat on the back." Eleanor has lived in 8 states 

and has had many "chapters" in her life (no 

explanation). She plans to have a private reunion 

with Charlotte Stearns Irvine. I'm trying 

to persuade her to make their rendezvous in 

Ithaca in June. 

Clara Smith Burdan loves taking care of 

her vegetable garden, fruit trees, flowers, and 

2-3 acres of lawn. Part of her 6 acres includes 

a woodlot still inhabited by deer. Possum 

walk across her porch, raccoon swing on the 

bird feeder, and rabbits invade her garden. 

Her 1816 home boasts of antiques acquired 

by Clara and her late husband on their yearly 

trips. When her husband died 4 yrs ago, 

Clara gave up her full-time job as a social 

worker to do part-time work as a social work 

consultant to several nursing homes and preretirement 

counseling for industry. With 

energy to spare, Clara serves on the board of 

the local Senior Center, the Church Council, 

sings in the choir, teaches Sunday church 

school to adults, edits the local Soroptimist 

paper, belongs to a garden club, the AAUW, 

and Friends of the Library. Recently she joined 

a handball group but claims, "I am sure 

racquet ball would be better for my figure." 

Clara has been to England, Scotland, Wales, 

and Ireland since Henry's death, but says she 

finds traveling isn't much fun without him.

We'll see Clara at our 50th. Hildegard 

Schloh Feick, 225 Germonds Rd, W Nyack, 

NY 10994. 

33 Heading South 

A note from Halsey Cowan covered several 

items: 1st, he had just returned from a visit to 

Cal and he felt San Diego was the garden spot 

of the US; 2nd, merged law firms with name 

of Morris, Berliner, Cowan and Cowan, the 

2nd Cowan being son Philip '65; 3rd, he saw 

Howie Seidenstein recently and he is adjusted 

to his stroke and living 6 months up North 

and 6 months down South; 4th, he is looking 

forward to the 50th in '83! 

This comment from Louis Otto is understandable, 

"As you can see from the address, 

Brooksville, Fla, I am giving up the struggle 

against western Mich winters and retreating 

to warmer areas. We have sold out everything 

here to avoid the necessity of always returning 

each summer to look after real estate 

holdings and should be free to travel where 

we wish during the hottest part of the Fla 

summers. There should be more Cornellians 

of our age in Fla than there are in western 

Michigan, so the chance of mini-reunions 

should improve for us. I expect to see more 

Fla addresses in the roster of '33 as time 

moves along. See you in '83." 

The next note confirmed Lou's contention, 

as Wilford B Penny submitted a change of 

address to 36 Tilton Way, S, Ponte Vedra 

Beach, Fla. Penny missed the 45th but I'll bet 

he makes the 50th! A cordial letter from Edgar 

C Taylor states he retired from office 

work as associate director of facilities planning, 

Yale U, in '74, from caring for a 

3/2-acre property, last yr. "Wife Ruth and I 

now live in a small house on a small property 

on a small street in the small village of Clinton, 

near 2nd daughter Grace and family (4 

children). First daughter Nancy (5 children) 

lives in Pleasanton, Cal. Ed continues with 

hobbies of painting, drawing, and walking. 

Philip G Stansly writes that he and Pauline 

retired from the Natl Insts of Health early in 

'80 and, just a few months ago, from apartment 

living in Bethesda, Md, as escapees of 

condominium conversion. They are rapidly 

settling into home ownership in Charlottesville, 

Va, hopefully to pursue their various 

hobbies—such as music, gardening, books, 

antiques—in peace and quiet. Edward W 

Carson, Box 61, Eagles Mere, Pa 17731. 

I should abandon my on-going praise of our 

"treasure"r, Ted Tracy, lest Washington get 

wind of this and lure him away from us—to 

organize the Federal Reserve. But, thanks to 

you, Ted, and your dues-getting ability, I am 

now jammed with material rather than the 

usual groping about for it as the school yr begins 

to come to an end. 

So, "Hello Dollies" to Margaret Button 

Finkenauer, Madeline Stoddard Barneko, 

Madeline Kahn Brody, Elizabeth Beaver Kenfield, 

Augusta Laun Hanshaw, Gladys Sheahen 

Burdge, Betty Klock Bierds and Larry 

(our honorary '33er), Ruth Bedford Mac- 

Laughlin, Mary King Crooker, Louise 

O'Donnell Brownell, Marion Ford Fraser, 

Marion Glaeser, Edith Storck Silvers, and 

Constance Rose Page. 

Elizabeth Molowa Gillis wrote she is still 

active in the real estate business, still enjoys 

it, even with many of the modern-day problems 

due to the nation's economy. Elizabeth 

visited her daughter and family in Cal for 5 

wks last summer. Lois Lyon Christofferson 

has retired from nursing and is enjoying her 

leisured life now. Had a good telephone visit 

with Elinor Ernst Whittier. And what's new 

with you, Eleanor Johnson Hunt? Let's hear 

from you. Write! More names next month. 

• Pauline Wallens Narins, 40 Bridle Path, 

Williamsville, NY 14221. 

34 No Time to Rock 

"My rocking chair has cobwebs on it," says 

Alfred S Githens, describing his active schedule. 

"We have been 3 times to Australia, 

where one of my daughters lives, as well as to 

New Guinea, Thailand, Japan, Samoa, Switzerland, 

England, France, Belgium, Holland, 

and Italy." He plays in 2 bands—Graf ton, 

Vt, and Montpelier, Vt—sings in the Yankee 

Male Chorus and the Hanover chapter of the 

Society for the Preservation and Encouragement 

of Barber Shop Singing in America Inc. 

Beside this, he plays the organ. Quite a schedule, 

Al! 

James W "Jim" Allen spends his summers 

in Alpine (NY) on Cayuta Lake and his winters 

in Palm Springs, Cal. The writer has 

fond memories of Cayuta Lake as, when he 

was in college, the Civil Engineering School 

used to have their surveying camp on that 

lake. Last fall he traveled to Honolulu and is 

moving to East Africa this spring. Nice life, 

I'd say. 

"Spoiling our grandson" is how Bernard 

Eisenberg, Forest Hills, described his 

spouse's work. William M "Bill" North, 

Lansdale, Pa, is retired from the National 

Gypsum Co, but still serves on its board of 

directors. He is also treasurer of the Valley 

Forge Council of Boy Scouts; serves on board 

of directors of YMCA and The United Way; 

is director of Chamber of Commerce and 

chairman of SE Pa Red Cross chapter—service 

to military families. Sort of busy, 

wouldn't you say? John H Little, H-21, 

275 Bryn Mawr Ave, Bryn Mawr, Pa 19010. 

Wonderful to hear from 3 classmates who in 

the past have been absent from these columns. 

Gilda Porcelli Massa and her husband 

live in Rome, Italy, which she says offers 

many stimulating activities for retired people. 

She is active in the American Women's Assn 

of Rome and would welcome contact with 

other Cornellians living there. Address: Via 

Valle Scrivia 2, 00141 Rome. 

Stella Root Warfel writes from Barboursville, 

Va, that she is enjoying the bucolic 

charms of rural Va. Her husband Miki '33 

(Hotel) is a part-time farmer and part-time 

professor at James Madison U. Horticulture 

and animals are Stella's enthusiasms, but 1st 

and foremost there are 2 daughters—one in 

grad school, the other married and working 

in a law office. 

Dorothy Olmstead Jorgensen (Mrs Wilbur 

A '36) lives in Geneva. On Feb 6 she and Wilbur 

celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. 

They have 4 sons and 12 grandchildren. 

It has been 10 yrs since we heard from Dorothy 

Clark von Briesen. A book published this 

Jan, called Wisconsin Women, a Gifted Heritage, 

includes Dorothy's biography and she 

feels very honored to be included. It was published 

by the state AAUW. What did they say 

about you, Dorothy? Don't be modest. Address: 

3535 N Hackett, Milwaukee, Wise. 

Elizabeth Rippey McKerr was last heard 

from in '73. She and her husband live in 

Georgetown, SC, at 14 Capt Anthony White 

Lane, where there is easy access to beautiful 

beaches, a great pleasure for Elizabeth. Two 

sons live on opposite coasts: one a commander 

in the Coast Guard, in Portland, Ore; the 

other in business in Southport, Conn. Lucy 

Boldt Schull and Frances '34 had a trip to 

Greece last yr but are staying home this yr, 

enjoying a new room they added on their 

home. In one corner of said room is a computer 

that keeps Frances enthralled. They 

went to hear President Rhodes speak at the 

Sarasota-Manatee Cornell Club, when he was 

in Fla this winter. 

President Rhodes also spoke at a NE gathering 

sponsored by the Cornell Club of Boston, 

Mass. Hilly Jayne and I were on hand to 

cheer for our honored classmate William R 

Robertson, trustee, emeritus, but there was a 

large and enthusiastic gathering there to honor 

President Rhodes and Bill. John Stainton 

'54, son of Prof Walter Stainton '19, was at 

my table. He wanted to hear about Dramatic 

Club in his father's time and I was only too 

happy to fill him in. Isabel White West, 

Box 1414, Vineyard Haven, Mass 02568. 

35 Honors Galore 

Art North, Somerset Vet Infirmary, Bridgewater, 

NJ, is still happily working a full 

schedule but takes time off for travel and 

mini-reunions. He and Jane spent 10 days in 

Iceland last summer, salmon fishing and 

making friends. They went to the veterinary 

convention in St Louis, Mo, and on the way, 

via the Great Smokies, stopped at Berkeley 

Springs, W Va, to visit son Bill '76 (Hotel), 

who is innkeeper at the Country Inn. Bill and 

his wife Adrienne have a daughter and 2 sons, 

the newest born Sept '81. Now the Norths 

have 6 grandchildren, since son John '68 

(DVM) and wife Jill have a girl and 2 boys. 

John is partner in the group practice that employs 

3 other vets, including Marion Conway 

Corn '80. Art plays tennis and golf, is president 

of the Somerset Adult School, and was 

honored by the Rotary as the Paul Harris fellow. 

Jane is equally active and is a trustee of 

the Somerset Medical Center. 

Dave Daboll, Lakeville, Conn: "Had a 

great trip last yr—circumnavigated Baja, Cal, 

and went whale watching, also bird watching 

at Big Bend and Aransas, Texas." Wilbur 

Downs, 10 Halstead Lane, Branford, Conn: 

"Spent an enjoyable summer at Ginger Quill 

Ranch, Cowdrey, Colo, fishing and making 

entomological collections for Peabody Museum 

at Yale." 

The Dec 11, '81, "Social and Personal" 

column of the Orange County Heritage announced 

that Julius M Cohen, 13,200 Del 

Monte Dr, Seal Beach, Cal, had just been 

elected president of the Seal Beach Leisure 

World Congregation Sholom. Julius's most 

recent honor caps a lifetime of service, which 

was eloquently detailed in the July 21, '80 

Congressional Record by the Cal Representative, 

the Honorable Henry A Waxman. In 

World War II, Julius was called to the Natl 

Jewish Welfare Board and then became the 

USO-JWB director. For 21 yrs he helped 

thousands of military personnel and won acclaim 

for USO Pal Day programs broadcast 

by the Armed Forces radio and TV into 85 

countries. He received the USO's 40th Anniversary 

award "in recognition of dedicated 

service to America's Armed Forces and their 

families." In '65 he was appointed the American 

Jewish Congress regional director and 

continued until his retirement in '80. If you 

want to know more about his other offices 

and honors, Julius is listed in Notable Americans, 

Who's Who in American Jewry, and 

Who's Who in the West Mary Didas, 80 

N Lake Dr, Orchard Park, NY 14127. 

36 Resumes 

William H Bartholomew (BA), 2095 Diamond 

Head Cir, Tega Cay, Fort Mill, SC, sat 

down and summarized his activities: "This is 

the 1st time I've written to the News, so this is 

a capsule of activities since Cornell. After receiving 

a PhD from Penn State U in '41, I 

married Ellen Rebshaw (U of Buffalo '39) 

MAY 1982

A hero's welcome in Bermuda for the 

Repperts (See '36 women's column.) 

and went to work for Merck & Co Inc. We 

had a son and daughter, who are married, 

and 3 granddaughters. At Merck there was 

the opportunity to participate in pioneering 

the application of biochemical engineering to 

design and start-up of penicillin and streptomycin 

plants. Later there was involvement in 

development of antibiotic enzyme and vitamin 

processes at Pabst Laboratories and the 

design of a plant to produce these. After joining 

IMC, I had the added opportunity to participate 

in design of fermentation plants to 

produce bacterial insecticide and Accent 

brand of MSG. The Accent business was sold 

to Stauffer Chemical, the company I retired 

from in '80. 

"My wife and I have lived in 8 of the 

states, from coast to coast, and have had the 

pleasure of traveling to all 50, most of the Canadian 

provinces, and Mexico. We have also 

traveled in all the western countries of 

Europe, the Mid East, Northern Africa, and 

parts of the Orient on business and pleasure. 

"Since retirement, I've consulted for several 

chemical and pharmaceutical companies. 

We live in a private community on a lake and 

golf course 'just a little bit South of North 

Carolina,' near Charlotte." 

Henry D Barrows (BS), 12 Locust Ave, 

Bayville, really gave us a kidding about missing 

one yr's dues. Next yr he will look forward 

to our Brooklyn Bridge offer. We were 

sincere, Henry, and we are now getting back 

on our feet financially. Thanks. Dwight C 

Baum (EE), 1011 Oak Grove Ave, San Marino, 

Cal, is still active in securities business as 

vice chairman, Pacific Stock Exchange, 

chairman of board, United Cities Gas Co, 

etc. He has just completed a month-long trip 

to New Zealand and Australia. He sends his 

regards to all. 

J Prescott Blount (BS Agr), 56 La Cresta 

Rd, Orinda, Cal, retired in Jan '79 and by 

now has not found time to write a summary 

of events that keep happening. But, Pres 

hopes to get to it later. Raymond O Blumer 

(ME) has changed his address to 7601-D 

Wedgewood Way, New Port Richey, Fla. 

Thanks for the notice, Ray. David M Buck 

(BS Hotel), 47 Holden St, Worcester, Mass, 

still enjoys thoughts of the 45th Reunion and 

hopes more classmates will make the 50th. 

Col Edmund R MacVittie (Ret, AUS), 10130 

Forrester Dr, Sun City, Ariz 85351. 


The triumphant photo shows our Charlotte 

"Put" and Charles Reppert '34 being awarded 

a "Life Saving" plaque by Bermuda Governor 

General Sir Richard Posnett for their 

crew's valor in rescuing a sinking yacht last 

summer (Alumni News, March '82). The 

Repperts now plan a boat swap with a Swedish 

lawyer next summer—he and his family to 

fly here and sail the Repperts' boat in American 

waters, and the latter to fly to Sweden 

and sail Swedish waters in his identical boat. 

The Repperts are boning up on Swedish now! 

Miggs Edwards Schoen writes she's feeling 

great, had a lovely summer taking a 2-wk 

course in nature photography, and 2 trips into 

Ontario and the Adirondacks. She and 

Leon plan an Apr in Colo and a summer in 

the Thousand Islands. Allegra Law Elrod, 

125 Grant Ave Ext, Glens Falls, NY 12801. 

37 Semi-retirees 

With an eye to the continuation of his work 

over the yrs, James G Dodge trains young 

persons for service in the 375 SOS Children's 

Village projects all over the world. This 

means traveling in Europe and perhaps in the 

USA for educational sessions in therapeutic 

work with children. Jim's home base in Austria 

is a great place to indulge a passion for 

skiing, while scuba diving and wind surfing 

make places like the Costa Brava, Spain, attractive. 

Jim's '80 "retirement" is obviously 

nominal. From Andes, Dr Albert L All reports 

he and his wife Miriam have 2 sons in 

college; Kenny and Charles Cartwright are, 

respectively, a soph at St Bonaventure and a 

freshman at SUNY Cobleskill. 

Following a colorful tender offer-merger 

scrap, Edward H R Blitzer's Lightolier Corp 

was merged into Bairnco and Ed retired in 

Jan. He and Nancy now have more time for 

travel—most recently to Alaska—and photography. 

Trustee Robert S Hatfield continues 

his multifaceted services to Cornell including 

the presidency of the Society of the 

NY Hospital and membership on the administrative 

board of the NY Hospital-Cornell 

Medical Center. Bob retired in Jan '81 as 

chairman and CEO of Continental Group, 

Inc. The Fund for Economic Education, 

which Continental endowed in Bob's name 

with a half-million dollar gift to Cornell 

"seeks to enhance undergraduate understanding 

of applied economics in general and 

the benefits and problems of the free market 

system in particular." Bob returned to the 

campus in Apr '81 as the 1st participant in the 

Robert S Hatfield Corporate Forum and gave 

several classes, chaired a seminar for economics 

and business students and gave a public 

talk, "Creative Risk Taking—Making it in 

the '80s," for which his impressive business 

career established his credentials. 

Albert D Miller took time out from his 

woodworking hobby for a Caribbean cruise 

in Jan with wife Dot. They have 4 children 

and 11 "grands." Other multi-grandparents 

(6-fold) are Andrew J and Mildred Schroeder 

of Grand Terrace, Cal. Andy is semi-retired 

with Mildred, an RN, expecting to retire this 

yr. It was good to hear from Col Edwin G 

Moran. Hope he can tear himself away from 

golfing and gardening in Groton to come 

over to Reunion. Robert A Rosevear, 

2714 Saratoga Rd, N, DeLand, Fla 32720. 

More from Reunion Chairman Merle Elliot 

Ohlinger: "Ladies—please! Only half of you 

reading this column had returned your questionnaires 

as of Mar 1. This will never do! To 

repeat our 1st class letter, we set attendance 

records at our 15th, 20th, and 25th, and we 

are making plans accordingly for our 45th 

Reunion. But please get busy and encourage 

your friends to sign up for the fun." 

Jeanne Bredbenner Hull tells us that husband 

Robert, PhD '45, has retired as dean of 

the College of Fine Arts, U of Ariz, after 17 

yrs, but still works on state and national committees 

to support fine arts and has been conducting 

and recording chamber works with 

the Ariz Chamber Orchestra. Jeanne's executive 

director of Catalina Foothills Assn, 

homeowners association in their section of 

Tucson. Their recent travels have included a 

marvelous trip to Italy and Greece with a 

cruise through Greek Island waters. To counteract 

the dryness of the desert, they like to 

visit San Diego and LaJolla, Cal. They spend 

part of the summer in Jeanne's hometown of 

Ithaca, where her family still lives. 

The annual Fla mini-reunion was held on 

Siesta Key on Feb 25, but I have no further 

word on it as yet. Mary M Weimer, 200 E 

Dewart St, Shamokin, Pa 17872. 

38 Sailing Crew 

Janet (Dempster) and Hank Loew not only 

had a sailing vacation in Me last summer but 

a later visit to NZ and Australia. Bobby 

(Sumner) and John Cutler cruised the Mediterranean 

in '81, and are off to Bermuda this 

spring. In between they continue to publish 

their Duxbury Clipper, and John has recently 

produced a new book, Tips on Writing, containing 

all sorts of aids for prospective authors. 

Their son Peter follows in his parents' 

footsteps, and is now the owner of 6 South 

Shore weekly papers. Jean Scheidenhelm 

Wolff and Al '37 are still golfing (and winning), 

and at a recent Sea Pines tournament 

saw Ed and Peg Brewer; the family of Frank 

Clifford '50 also spends time at Hilton Head. 

Betsy Cain Lewis, now wintering at Ellenton, 

Fla, writes that daughter Tina teaches at 

Hebron Academy, Me, and Caroline is completing 

her MA in Special Education at Lesley 

College; both manage families as well. Mary 

Kelly Northrup's daughter, Carol Shea, has 

been elected vice-chairman of the Board of 

Aldermen in the city of Newton, Mass. Mary 

and her husband are enjoying a new sailboat; 

check their address—3500 S Ocean Blvd, Apt 

310, Palm Beach, Fla. Another Fla resident 

this winter is Elizabeth Shanaman Meier at 

6180 Sun Blvd, St Petersburg. 

Eileen Mandl Goodwin sent a change of 

address also: 14 Washington Place, Springfield, 

111. Her husband suffered a severe coro-

nary attack in London last summer, but is 

progressing nicely. Eileen's latest musical interest 

is the harpsichord. A note from Ann 

Rosenberg Sussman says that son George is 

now the assistant commissioner for post secondary 

policy analysis in NYS, and Peter was 

promoted to the editorship of This World, 

the Sunday magazine section of the San Francisco 

Chronicle. Helen Reichert Chadwick, 

225 N 2nd St, Lewiston, NY 14092. 

From Steve: Had enough snow, you folks in 

the North? Enough shivers, you in the South? 

Well, warm yourself by the column-side with 

a steaming cup of class notes. 

Re aforementioned snow, Roy Black reported 

that "Dec 6 produced 1 inch, here in 

W Yarmouth. If they want more, they can 

have it. After 30 yrs in Buffalo, one more 

flake is too many." Nick Bissell says he's 

* 'semi-retired from architecture, but seems to 

be working just as hard. Hobbies still are sailing 

and building boat models." Karl Hemmerich's 

business interests are becoming less 

in some ways, "while visions of a new venture 

float through my head." Although he 

abandoned soccer, way back when, he still 

athleticizes (!) by flying, sailing, jogging, and 

biking. 

Dave Benjamin is president of Viking 

Chemical Products Inc in Elmira. Wife Janes 

runs a music school; sons David and John 

work for dad. Clint Heyd retired last Sept. 

He and Audrey moved to Annapolis (add: 

670 Americana Dr), near their 3 daughters 

and 2 grandchildren. From Bernie Gartlir: 

"It may be late to report, but in Oct '81 I attended 

my Yale Law '41 reunion. Also there 

were all our living Cornell alumni of that yr: 

Boris Bittker, Hal Segall, Roy Steyer, and 

Dave Crawford." 

Bill Orr is a grandfather "at last." Thinking 

a trip to China last fall too expensive, he 

opted for Cal instead. "Could have gone to 

China twice for what Cal cost," he says. Bill 

Homewood still enjoys retirement in Bradenton, 

Fla. He and Jane celebrated their 40th 

wedding anniversary with a cruise to St 

Thomas and Nassau in Feb. Tom Rich and 

Helen (Brew) move back to Skaneateles for 4 

or 5 months each summer. Otherwise, they 

have the welcome mat out for all '38ers at 

2239 Beneva Terr, Sarasota, Fla. Monroe Albright 

"got tired of being a widower, married 

a widow, and started a consignment furniture 

business. Very busy but having fun." 

Bill Arnold has retired "again," this time 

from Forbes magazine. He's working with 

Newsweek and smaller mags as a consultant 

and thinking of all the fishing and hunting 

he's going to do. He and Lucye are thinking 

of moving to Texas, but plans aren't yet set. 

Bob Shaw has retired and loves it—"Not 

enough hrs in the day!" He entered the ranks 

of grandparenthood, with "more to come"; 

otherwise much sailing, house repairing, and 

enjoying life in general." From Dudley Buck: 

"While not traveling, golfing, bowling, playing 

bridge, and hunting, am on committees of 

4 or 5 organizations. Keeps me pretty busy." 

His and Dorothy's son and daughter recently 

passed their Bar exams and are with law firms 

in Youngstown, Ohio, and Atlanta, Ga, respectively. 

Dave Misner is beginning to think of retirement 

but has no definite plans yet. He and 

Louise spend a lot of time sailing: "She enjoys 

the water as much as I do!" A succinct 

report from Grant Ehrlich: "Doing well— 

still active—golf in the mid to hi 70s—saw 

Fred Huntington in late summer '80—spent 

T'giving with Bob Bodholdt in Nov '80—had 

him here in Santa Barbara, Cal, this 

summer." As pour moi, this yr I wrote my 

21st Penn Mask & Wig show, "Between the 

Covers," (with the help of creative friends) 

and am still managing their Clubhouse in center 

city Phila, Pa. 

And, now that your steaming cup of class 

notes has been drained, get prepared for May 

flowers! Steven DeBaun, 220 W Rittenhouse 

Sq, Phila, Pa 19103; also Fred Hillegas, 

7625 E Camelback Rd, #220-A, Scottsdale, 

Ariz 85251. 

39 High Water 

From Hella Ratzke Reeves (in Jan): "Bob 

and I were blithely soaking up Aruba sun, 

when son Thorn called to announce broken 

water pipe on 2nd floor of our house. Everything 

soaked down to basement, several ceilings 

down. Water then shut off, heat turned 

up. We decided to let house dry out a bit: not 

going to let little thing like devastated home 

wreck our 2nd wk in Paradise." What 

aplomb! Saw Hella at Feb NYC mini-reunion: 

repairs coming along. 

Winnie Adler Harris (Buffalo): "Surgery 

on spine last fall, wore cervical collar, hands 

very painful. Hoping to improve: planning 

cruise through Panama and up to San Francisco 

in [this past] Jan." Hope you made it, 

Winnie; please write more. Dalphine Mac- 

Millan (Ft Lauderdale, Fla): "Vacation '81 

was 5,000 travel miles to revisit high school 

and college home towns, plus seeing Navy 

friends in Md, DC, Va, NC, SC, Ga, Ala. 

Enjoying retirement: ceramics, macrame, 

needlepoint, knitting, reading. Enrolled at 

NOVA U in course for retired professionals; 

do volunteer work in taxpayer assistance for 

elderly." 

With us after long absence, and now getting 

the Alumni News, Anna Rae Present, 

134 5th St, Olean. Welcome back to the class, 

gal; please send us some news, so we can 

catch up with you, too. 

Annie Newman Gordon of Lawrence reports 

on family: "Daughter Liz '65 has son 

Matthew, 1, is editor of jr books at Harper & 

Row; Margaret (Radcliffe '70) has daughter 

Grace, 6, is head of reference dept at U of 

Cal, Santa Cruz, library; son Jim '72, unmarried, 

practices law in Baltimore. Harold and I 

garden, sail, play tennis, jog, visit Margaret 

yearly in Cal. I do free-lance publishing 

work, literary research, indexing, also work 

few hrs a wk in Harold's office (he's an internist)." 

Isabel Whiton DeWitt (Stafford Springs, 

Conn), also at our Feb mini, notes, 

"Most welcome Christmas gift: 10-inch 

chainsaw. Feelings akin to 1st days of driving 

car—eagerness cum trepidation, 50-50." 

From pics she brought to NYC, they do a 

LOT of log-cutting on their property! 

Binx Howland Keefe, 3659 Lott St, Endwell, 

NY 13760. 

The family fishing competition is over and we 

agreed to call it a tie. A total of over 2,200 

lbs, including 6 sailfish apiece, with yours 

truly catching a few more in both weight and 

numbers. Also caught my 1st blue marlin, a 

growing youngster of 250 lbs, but Carol 

caught the largest sailfish ever caught at our 

camp by either men or women. A beautiful 

156-lber, which is being mounted to be 

brought home for permanent display. We release 

all game fish but as this one is a trophy 

size, we made an exception. Just where in the 

world do you put a 10-ft fish that's also 6 ft 

from top of sail to bottom of tail? There's 

also the problem of color coordination and 

risk of visitors spearing themselves on the 

bill. All the above were boated on 30-lb test 

line. We'll go at it again in Aug—the peak of 

the billfish season. 

The class seems to have survived the winter 

but with a 6-8 inch snowfall yesterday (early 

Mar), spring is not just around the corner 

here. It won't be long, however, before some 

of you start coming up on vacations or visits, 

so keep us posted. We'll see Helen and 

George Peck, Babe and Bill Lynch, and Doris 

and Lew Fancourt for the dedication of the 

new baseball dugouts, Apr 10. Maybe a few 

more of you, if we or Bill can talk you into it. 

By the way, George is in Myrtle Beach, SC, 

with some old cronies on their annual golf 

and fun wk. 

Frank Tillotson reports from St Petersburg, 

Fla, that the seasonal hotel he operates 

is up for sale—if you want to buy one. His 

chief hobby is swimming and he did himself 

proud at the National Masters in Canton last 

Aug. Dud Saunders commented: "Sorry—no 

news—we move very slowly," but told of a 

3-wk trip in Aug, sailing the Cape Cod Canal 

to Boston to visit son John and returning via 

Block Isl and other good places like Watch 

Hill and Newport. Dud lives in Old Westbury 

and is senior vice president, Slattery Associates, 

covering subway jobs, a RR station, and 

a tunnel alteration. 

Harry Orrick sold his travel agency, retired, 

and is trying to adjust to it. He is coping 

by being part owner of an antique consignment 

shop and following his hobbies of 

spectator sports, reading, and jazz. He and 

Jackie live in Kentfield, Cal. John Dixon 

claims he's in "half-baked" retirement. He 

and Kathleen live in Rumson, NJ, and, if I 

count correctly, have 7 children and 11 

grandchildren, spread from Me to Cal, so 

they travel to Me in summer and vacation 

from San Francisco to Laguna Beach. Bill 

Flanigan sold his interest in the highway contracting 

business but continues full time as 

vice chairman of the board. Bill spends time 

on Chesapeake Bay in his 36-ft cruiser or his 

23-ft sailboat, weather permitting. 

Ed Heckel still extolls the climate of Kerrville, 

Texas, but had a setback in the way of 

lung surgery last Aug. Says he's OK now, but 

no more rowing at Reunions. Ed Stewart also 

had a problem last July, spending time in the 

hospital with a heart ailment. He lives in 

nearby Breesport and you hams can call him 

on WB2GAH. J M Brentlinger Jr, 217 

Berkshire Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850. 

40 Catching Up 

It has been 4 yrs since writing of Mary 

Barbour Stewart (Mrs Hall) from Glenwood 

Springs, Colo. Because her life is so typical of 

many of us right now I'll type her entire message. 

"The past yr we celebrated our 40th 

wedding anniversary. A family reunion was 

held in Glacier Park, Mont, with our 3 sons 

and families—including 7 grandchildren. A 

great occasion in one of America's most 

beautiful National Parks. Hall is fully retired 

so we can use our Airstream trailer for some 

US travels. Plan to winter in Ariz and on the 

Texas coastal areas. Both of us are involved 

in community activities—still! Have just returned 

from a great 6 wks in England and 

Scotland, with some old Pratt and Whitney 

friends. Planned own itinerary and drove 

2,000 miles—on the left. The lochs of Scotland 

and lakes of England, particularly beautiful. 

Cruised the Thames for a wk on a river 

boat. Bed and breakfasted all the way and 

met lovely families. Back home, stopped for 

a visit with Priscilla (Coffin) and Chuck Baxter 

in their new seaside home in Conn. Fun to 

see them, and a hello to our classmates." 

43

Kay Anderson Pfeifer, who wrote Reunion 

reports for us back in '75, is one of the 1st to 

mention our next one. She wonders how the 

class fund is progressing, saying, "The 50th 

will be here before we know it." Kay has 5 

children, 3 married; 2 at Penn State, one of 

whom is getting her master's degree in communications 

disorders. Kay has entertained 

Helen (Brown) and George Reader recently 

for lunch and they had their usual good visit. 

Another helper in the field of communications—Marge 

Baker Tummons—has recently 

joined the local chapter of Adult Literacy International. 

She is tutoring English to a male 

"drop-out," 18. So typical of Cornellians, 

being helpful! 

I shortchanged Paul Kahl in the Feb issue. 

Today I'm having more patience with handwriting! 

He's the recipient of the National 

Award—Veterinary Hospital, was director 

and administrator until '75. The new director 

is a Cornellian DVM. Paul retired in '75 with 

disability from Parkinson's syndrome. He 

enjoys his hobby of flower gardening with a 

daughter who has her master's in horticulture. 

He also is an avid freshwater bass fisherman, 

keeping his boat on a lake in Ontario. 

"Which one?" my brother will ask. You will 

have to write to Paul at 419 Newton Ave, 

Norwalk, Conn. 

Dr Dorothea Daniels Glass, 935 Melrose 

Ave, Melrose Park, Pa, has attained her 

goals—marriage, 3 daughters and 1 son, two 

of whom are married, giving Dorothea 1 

grandson. She tells of home and family 1st, 

before career. She is professor and chair of 

rehab medicine at Temple U Med School and 

Albert Einstein Med Center. Also, medical 

director at Moss Rehab Hospital, all in Phila, 

Pa. Quoting her, she's "working in professional 

associations to improve things and because 

it's interesting." I have a hunch she will 

never retire. 

Again, I'm hoping I read correctly: John 

Munschauer, Ithaca, has been published by 

Peterson's Guides of Princeton, Jobs for 

English Majors (and other smart people)! He 

and his 3rd wife (others deceased) are serious 

skiiers. They were in Switzerland skiing with 

John '45 and Ann (Mitchell) Rogers '45. 

John is no longer director of Cornell's career 

center—says he spends full time counseling, 

writing, and lecturing. 

Once in a while I like to give you readers 

some folks who send money and addresses, 

but seldom any personal news! Maybe some 

of you could be extra correspondents. Jean 

Weil Oberdorfer, 30 Doris Dr, Scarsdale; Sally 

Walter Place (Mrs John), 132 Tompkins 

St, Cortland; Shirley Richmond Gartlir, 220 

Piccadilly Rd, Great Neck; Elizabeth 

Muenscher De Velbiss, 1780 San Lorenzo 

Ave, Berkeley, Cal; Edith Allen Goodrich, 9 

Happy Lane, Milton, Fla; Martha Bentley, 

1512 Fair Oaks Ct, Santa Rosa, Cal. 

Carol Clark Petrie, 62 Front St, Marblehead, 

Mass 01945. 

41 What's New? 

Herbert Ernest, 143 E 69th St, NYC, writes 

that he and wife Buffy have absolutely no 

plans for retirement; however, now that the 

kids are grown, they plan to sell their NYC 

townhouse in a yr or 2 and move to the 

"country." As a retired It col, he and his wife 

are able to travel "space available" by the 

Military Airlift Command and recently returned 

from a great 2 wks in London. Alfred 

H Krebs, PO Box 443, Blacksburg, Va, sends 

this cryptic note: "Retired Aug 31, '81!" 

Frank J Warner Jr, 75 State St, Albany, is 

still practicing law there with a general trial 

practice. He says: "No retirement in sight, 

but too busy or stupid to realize my age or 


disability, if any." Kenneth H Cud more, 741 

NW 73rd Ave, Plantation, Fla, advises he is 

one Fla resident who is not retired. As a vice 

president with Sharon Steel Corp, based in 

Miami, he handles corporate trust and investor 

relations. His wife Mim (Skidmore '41) is 

super active in local groups. Lots of visitors 

from the North—particularly their 3 offspring 

and granddaughter. Is it us, or our 

weather and pool, he wonders? 

Kermit I Whiteman, 2 Majestic, S, Lincroft, 

NJ, retired from duPont last yr after 28 

yrs. Three yrs previously, he was retired from 

the US Army Reserve as a It col. So, to quote 

Kerm, "I'm as retired as you can be." His 

daughter Cynthia '70 is president of the Cornell 

Club of Wash, DC. John W Kruse, 161 

Eleanor Dr, Woodside, Cal, notes things are 

a little slow for residential architects in '82, as 

they were in '65, '70, '74, and '81. Soaring 

rents make it practical to build an office, 

which he will do on his property in Woodside 

this spring. Jack says he looks forward to seeing 

classmates for golf or dinner in San Francisco. 

James T Schmuck, 751 Chester Way, Hillsborough, 

Cal, who recently retired from Del 

Monte, now owns an export-import business 

but finds time for lots of skiing and golf. 

Royal W Treadway, 1995 85h St, Naples, Fla, 

has moved from Maui, where he had his own 

real estate company, to Naples, where he will 

continue in the real estate business. 

John W Bohrman writes that they are moving 

into a new condo in Burke Center, Va. 

However, from Nov to Apr they will continue 

to be on the beach at Mazatlan, Mexico. William 

P Mathers, 40 Oak Dr, MR 2, Doylestown, 

Pa, has recently been promoted to executive 

vice president of Bell of Pa and Del. 

He heads up the transition office to implement 

the FTC request to separate the toll and 

terminal service. John R Dowswell, 7 Sequoyah 

Rd, Colo Springs, Colo 80906. 

If you detect a bit of envy in the following report 

you are absolutely right! By the time you 

read this the Ryans—Elsie (Schwemmer) and 

Norm—1397 Arlington Dr, Salt Lake City, 

Utah, are well into their "around the World 

in 189 days" vacation. They'll start out in 

Tahiti and will move on to New Zealand and 

Australia, spending their 40th anniversary in 

China. Then a month in India, followed by a 

safari in Kenya and on to Egypt, Israel, and a 

cruise to the Aegean Islands. The final leg 

will be a short visit to Europe and a month in 

Ireland and Scotland, where they will "sort 

out their memories." When they return, 

Norm will start his 36th yr of teaching at the 

U of Utah. Wish I could be in on the homecoming 

travelogue! 

I know many of you will be pleased to hear 

news of Betty Bourne Cullen (Mrs Richard 

C), 13769-B E Marina Dr, Aurora, Colo. 

They sold their house after Dick's heart attack 

and retirement from his medical practice 

and moved to a condominium. They like 

watching someone else shoveling the snow 

and mowing the lawn! Their 4 children all 

graduated from Colo schools and they have 4 

grandsons to enjoy. They spent a month in 

Hawaii in Jan to escape the cold weather and 

are finding the slower pace a pleasant change. 

It was fun to conjure the picture Jean 

Mackie Furgol (Mrs Theodore), 50156 

Broadlawn Park, #221, Chestnut Hill, Mass, 

portrayed in her letter with dues. Her son Edward 

recently married a Scottish girl in Kirkcaldy, 

Scotland, and the celebration featured 

several Scottish dancers joined in by several 

relatives and friends. Both Edward and his 

bride recently earned their doctorates in Scottish 

history at Oxford and Edinburgh Us. 

Mary Leet Cowell, 810 N Thomas St, State 

College, Pa, has been a widow for 3 yrs. She 

lives close to Penn State U and takes part in 

many of the activities on campus and in the 

community. 

Don't forget to send News & Dues to Janie 

Frier Joy, if you have shelved the request 

somewhere. Not only does the class need your 

financial support but your classmates want to 

know what is going on in your lives. Margery 

Huber Robinson, 11915 Longleaf Ave, 

Houston, Texas 77024. 

42 Reunion Bound! 

Wasn't last month's column enough to get 

the entire class to Reunion? Bob Findlay is 

doing a bang-up job as our tour guide for the 

great weekend. And, how about taking over 

the column permanently, Bob? You do a 

great job! 

Among those Reunion bound is Joe L Boyer, 

1717 7th St, Menominee, Mich. Joe is 

president of Independent Roofing Co and 

spends the snowy winters when the roofing 

season ends skiing. No Cornellians in his big 

timber country, he says, let alone any classmates. 

But he'll see plenty at Reunion. 

Another Michigander, Robert D Hughes 

Jr, 3213 Pilgrim Hwy, Frankfort, Mich, reports 

an '81 visit from Jim and Dotty Dodds 

Kraker, which included skiing and a vow to 

make Reunion. Bob lives in the NW portion 

of Mich's lower peninsula. Their home is located 

on beautiful Crystal Lake and runs 

through to their beach on Lake Mich. He and 

Nancy ski, fish, hunt mushrooms, play tennis, 

and race Class C inland scow (I think) 

sailboats. 

Back in NJ, Gladys McKeever Seebald, 78 

Busted Dr, Ridgewood, reports she's been 

promoted to accounting manager at Teledyne 

Isotopes, Westwood, NJ. Mary Donnelly 

Nicholson, 1088 Delaware Ave, Buffalo, 

writes that son, Robert Nicholson Jr, is now 

affiliated with CBC in TV and radio in Prince 

Rupert, BC, Canada; daughter Carol '68, is a 

2nd-yr student in law at U of Conn in Hartford. 

Mary is thinking of retiring, but still enjoys 

her colleagues and job in social work. 

Up in Vergennes, Vt, at the Basin Harbor 

Club, David E Beach reports he and Jean are 

active in the family resort. Ed Sokolski of 601 

Via Monte D'Oro, Redondo Beach, Cal, is 

still in sole law practice in Torrance, specializing 

in patent, copyright, and trademark 

law, mostly involved in preparing and presenting 

patent applications on inventions 

which run the gamut from nutmeg grinders to 

missile guidance systems. He is quite active in 

Rotary, mostly international activities. He 

and wife Renee travel quite a bit, with Bangkok 

and Indonesia as their next trip, and regularly 

get to their beachfront condo past Hamalei 

on the remote shore of Kauai, Hawaii. 

He would enjoy hearing from classmates. 

Another condo owner—this time in Fla, 

where they spend their winters, is J Robert 

Gridley, RD 1, Box 257G, Walden. He'd like 

to hear from any Cornellians in Palm Beach 

and Broward Counties. He reports having a 

reunion with Raymond Dague and Ruth. 

Raymond is traveling the world as head of 

sales for agricultural equipment for Allis 

Chalmers.

There's no dearth of news. We still have 

items to report sent in in * 81, to say nothing 

of the '82 mail! But we are allotted space on 

the basis of duespaying members. So, if you 

want to read more about more classmates, 

pay your dues! Elizabeth Schlamm Eddy, 

247 W 101 St, NYC 10025. 

43 Careers, Kids 

Pat Rider Huber's son Kenneth '73 received 

his MD (U of Conn) and is now interning at 

St Raephel's in New Haven, Conn. Happy 

for Connie Austin Misener, receiving recognition 

and "gorgiss" lead crystal candlesticks 

for having represented Avon products for 30 

yrs. Nice, nice, Connie. 

Marvelous Christmas letter from Dottie 

Kellogg Conti. She and Lou '41 traveled 

pretty much all over the US in '81 to visit 

friends and attend conventions, and, in Mar, 

they managed a couple of wks in Tokyo, 

Hong Kong, and Singapore. And, in May, in 

Antwerp, they visited their son and wife and 

a grandson, whom they had never seen. 

Thrilled, of course! Dot and Lou were at his 

40th Reunion. Lou has been renominated 

chairman of the Reserve Forces Policy 

Board, which will take him to Wash, DC, for 

several more yrs, off and on. Last time there, 

Dot and Mitzie Jackson Young had a long 

telephone chat. Mitzie lives in Castleton, Va, 

and pursues real estate with great enthusiasm 

and success. She and her psychiatrist husband 

enjoy the rural life and its many community 

activities. Mitzie would like some news on 

Marge Kirkwood Philipsborn. Anybody 

know anything? 

Ginny Farley Wetherill has a grandson via 

son Garry: Ethan Garrett. Daughter Chris 

has been accepted for independent study in 

grad school of Penn State U. Joan File Mangones 

writes that pretty soon she'll be able to 

travel half fare in the subway and buses in the 

Big Apple. You all figure out why. ('Tisn't 

difficil.) 

Beth Smiley Borst lunched recently with 

Martha Pound Steel '41, Libby Sprague Love 

'41 and Jean Warner Whiting. Husband 

Hank is a consulting engineer in aeronautical 

field and author of 3 technical books. Daughter 

Diane is working for PhD at U of Penn; 

daughter Patrice graduated from Oberlin and 

is an economic research assistant for Charles 

River Associates (CRA) in Boston, Mass; 

daughter Kathy and husband Jim Jones are 

both music educators at Capital U and Ohio 

State U in Columbus, Ohio. 

Dorothy Krisher Phillips enjoys Adult U 

weekends. She has been to Sky top Lodge in 

the Poconos (Pa), and to the Pine Barrens 

(NJ). NOW you're talking, Dot! Mary Jo 

Borntrager Ray enjoys life in Dallas, Texas. 

She and Jim have 3 daughters. Janet lives in 

Arlington, Va, has 2 sons; Mary Jane is in 

Houston, Texas, has a son; and Debbie has 2 

daughters and lives in Dallas, Texas, so Mary 

Jo sees them often. 

My daughter lives in Dallas, too, is with the 

Hyatt Regency, and has visited with Mary Jo, 

who has been just great and hospitable to her. 

Write me, troops; see your name in print and 

all the good stuff. Hedy Neutze Alles, 15 

Oak Ridge Dr, Haddonfield, NJ 08033. 

Thanks to all 60 of you who sent me birthday 

greetings and to the 61 of you (still 40 short) 

who mailed your dues checks to Spot. Although 

the results were not as great as I had 

hoped, it was fun. 

Charlie Goodyear, still in Columbus, 

Ohio, keeps an eye on son Dave, who works 

as a CE in Olympia, Wash. Bill VanDuser is 

now general manager of Heinz's pickles/vinegar 

division. He has come far since his start 

there in '69. Ed Clarke, while cruising off 

Cape Cod, put ashore long enough to lunch 

with Dave Estes at Dave's Woods Hole 

eatery. Ed's daughter Leigh practices law in 

Fairfax, Va, while other daughter Anne is director 

of city planning in San Antonio, 

Texas, Bob Nόyes's hometown. 

John Burke, bored with retirement, became 

general manager of Pala Mesa Golf and 

Tennis Resort in Fall Brook, Cal. Yes, Marty 

Kay, too many wait Until late Dec to pay their 

class dues. Trevor Wright planned to retire 

from duPont along about the time this gets 

printed. Will relocate from NJ to Currituck, 

NC. "You-all come by," says Trev. 

Harry Radcliffe, as a vet would, admired 

the lines of riiy collie, Spot. Harry's enjoying 

better health now that a nasty benign tumor is 

gone. John and Eloise Turrel are justly proud 

of daughter Dr Jane Turrel, one of 15 women 

nominated for '81 Outstanding Woman Veterinarian 

of the Year. 

Dick Smith, semi-retired vice president of 

West Baking Co, Norwalk, Ohio, saw Walter 

J, PhD '38, and Mrs Mueller, who taught 

more than a few of us technical German 

40-odd yrs ago. Dinty Moore travels from 

coast to coast and border to border, now that 

he and Bobbie don't have kids to support. Sy 

and Ann Stillman are enjoying the privilege 

of being grandparents. 

Bill Howe stays busy watching son David 

progress through the Army ranks with infantry 

at Ft Collins, Colo, while daughter Susan 

toils in advertising at Allstate Ins headquarters. 

Paul Weber is counting down the last 

1,000 days until retirement, while better half 

Amy slaves away for Educational Testing 

Service in Princeton, NJ. Paul's son Jay, 

with an MIT master's degree in architecture, 

is available for hire if anyone has a need. Phil 

Weisman still involved in plastic and reconstructive 

surgery, shares his expertise in this 

field with students at Wright State U in Dayton, 

Ohio. More next month. Wallace B 

Rogers, 161 Day Mall, Cornell U, Ithaca, NY 

14853; also S Miller Harris, PO Box 164, 

Spinnerstown, Pa 18968. 

44 Reunion, Anyone? 

No, this is not an early plea for '84 registrants 

from your correspondent and Reunion chairman. 

Rather, it is a reminder that all '44s are 

cordially invited to join '42 in celebrating its 

40th. The problem with the Cornell schedule 

of Reunions is that it doesn't put together 

classes that were on campus together. All of 

us had many friends in '41, '42, '43, '45, and 

'46, as well as in '44. That's why your correspondent 

has attended every Reunion since 

'52. And that's why the classes '42-'45 were 

invited to attend our Reunion in '79. The 

response was great—22 from '42, 41 from 

'43, and 21 from '45, plus more than 40 

spouses who were not members of one of 

those classes. The plan worked so well that 

many other classes have adopted the idea, including 

'42. Your correspondent hopes to see 

many '44s, as well as '42s and '43s, at Reunion 

next month. If you haven't responded 

"Yes" already, call '42 Reunion Chairman 

Bob Findlay (315) 684-9177. We'll meet in 

Ithaca June 10-13. OK? OK! 

Speaking of OK, Dotty Kay Kesten compiled 

the final list of '81 duespayers. The total 

number is 312, a good increase over the past 

few yrs but fewer than your class officers 

would like to see on the list. There are another 

75-100 classmates who paid dues 2 or 

more times in the preceding 5 yrs but were not 

on the list. Usually this is due to oversight, 

not lack of interest. This has been demonstrated 

by an almost unanimous response to 

personal note follow-ups. Unfortunately the 

time isn't always available in our volunteer 

organization for that kind of follow-up. So, 

if you haven't mailed your $20 already, 

please send it to Dotty today at 1 Crestwood 

Rd, Westport, Conn 06880. 

Curt Andrews wrote with the sad news that 

wife Sally died last Nov. She had suffered a 

stroke 12 yrs ago and was very restricted in 

her activities after that time. Curt said that he 

was sorry to learn that Col Van Deusen had 

died. "It brought back memories of ROTC. I 

was one of the lucky ones who celebrated 

New Year's Day '44 cleaning the ROTC 

stable for having missed bed check in Cascadilla 

Hall barracks. I had plenty of 

company." 

Another retired col is Ed Ahrens, in Cameron, 

SC. He has been instructing in the associate 

program at Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical 

College. Last summer he was an instructor 

in a program for Navy personnel attached 

to Jacksonville Jr College. He has also been a 

social studies instructor on the faculty of 

Holly Hill High School in Orangeburg County. 

He was selected by Phi Delta Kappa, the 

national education fraternity, to attend a 

12-day seminar in Germany in Apr '81. The 

program host was the European Academy of 

Berlin, which "professes the democratic system, 

the principles of European federalism 

and the task of making society more human 

and more democratic in its work." The seminar 

group toured E Germany for 4 days. 

When he wrote, Ed was in the process of being 

accepted in an educational doctoral program 

at the U of SC. Apparently Ed retired 

to get even busier. Wife Cam is an instructor 

in food service at Midland Technical College. 

Paul Alamar is a consultant in occupational 

health and safety engineering. He and Naomi 

live in Scranton, Pa. Fred Bailey wrote 

last yr that he had seen Charlie Robinson and 

Alan Kaplan at a Cornell reception, "They're 

doing well." Fred's son Bruce '67 is film and 

drama critic of the Montreal Gazette. Fred 

recommends Godson's Black Horse Beer to 

all who visit London. It is brewed by Fred's 

daughter and son-in-law. George Bishop sees 

Joe File and Bill Mearns "fairly often," Al 

Goetz and Al Beehler, occasionally. Ruth 

Caplan Brunton wrote 2 yrs ago that her children 

were living in Houston, Minn; Rochester, 

Mich; Seattle, Wash; and San Jose, Cal. 

Since Rudy and husband Bob live in Phoenix, 

Ariz, where Bob was deputy city manager, it 

is apparent why Rudy listed her "Recent trav^ 

el/Last vacation" as "visiting children and 

grandchildren." She is a home economist 

with the U of Ariz Coop Extension Service. 

Leo Diamant is an estimator and project 

manager for Bristol Construction Co. He and 

Frances live in Rosedale. Their daughter is 

Lisa '76. Bob Garmezy wrote last yr that 

daughters Lori and Carrie, 16 and 10, "both 

say they want to go to Cornell." They joined 

Bob and Alice on a trip to Wash, DC, in the 

fall of '80—"stayed in the same hotel we 

honeymooned in, but this time, with 2 children. 

Different!" The Garmezy home is still 

in Jamestown. Greta Wίlcox Leighton and 

Paul '42 live in Thiensville, Wise. They have 

4 children, all married, and 6 grandchildren. 

Greta lists her work as "VP Hammond Publishing 

Co and professional grandmother." 

See you in Ithaca next month! Joe Driscσll, 

8-7 Wilde Ave, Drexel Hill, Pa 19026. 

45 "Γis Spring 

Spring has sprung, trees are in full leaf and 

flowers are in bloom. A great improvement 

as all revelers prepare for Reunion next 

month. First victim for May is my pal Bill Allison, 

the legal eagle from St Petersburg, Fla. 

Bill and Muggy were on their vacation swing 

MAY 1982

when Betty and I dropped by his beachfront 

condo for a drink last Oct. Stay home, Bill, 

and I will return soon. I like plenty of ice. Jay 

Clasgens II of Felicity, Ohio runs J H Clasgens 

Co, textile manufacturer. His family is 

scattered coast to coast and 2 granddaughters 

hold his and Patsy's attention. Jay fills his 

spare time with boating and gentleman farming 

while Patsy is a hospital volunteer. Their 

last vacation was in Russia which must have 

been an enlightening experience. Henrietta 

"Hank" Burgott Gehshan is teaching Home 

Ec at a middle school in Bucks Cty, Pa. Hank 

is a gardener, antique collector, cat fancier, 

and pet lover. She enjoyed a recent vacation 

in Aruba. I look forward to the pictures, 

Hank, and having been there I know what a 

good time you had. 

Republican Bob Nathan from Moorestown, 

NJ and wife Selma (Goldman) '48 are 

big in political circles. Bob is chairman of the 

Republican Committee and also chairman of 

the county election board. Daughter Faith 

completed Johns Hopkins grad school and 

son John completes Hampshire, both this yr. 

If anyone wants to run for office in Moorestown, 

look up Bob 1st before you throw your 

hat in the ring. Ed Strickland and Terri report 

in from Coral Gables, Fla. Son Tracy was an 

honor grad from Rollins College last yr. 

Makes Mom and Dad feel good, right Ed? 

Welcome to the following new class duespayers. 

Glad to have you join we rabid 

'45ers. Bill Berley and Isabel (Mayer) '47 

from NYC enjoyed a 21-day alumni trip to 

China last yr. Bill runs Berley & Co real estate 

investments and brokerage. Children are 

Richard '75 (Arts), Harvard Law '78 and Jan 

'78 (Arts and Architecture). Bill is a member 

of Cornell Council and Friends of the Johnson 

Museum of Art. It follows that his hobby 

is collecting contemporary American art. 

Harvey Gladston and Pilar operate a ladies 

sportswear shop in Greenwich Village. Lucky 

daughter Elisabeth spends summer in Spain 

with Pilar's family. One month is devoted to 

the Costa Del Sol. Why didn't I have connections 

like that when I was young? Harv 

visited the campus and found many changes 

but thinks it's still a pervasive, casual place. 

Prof Dave Huyler, SUNY at New Paltz, 

dabbles in medieval history. By his own admission 

he successfully makes things difficult 

for the college administration and battles the 

president, a female, most of the time. Dave is 

trying to kill chivalry and give it a decent 

burial. Wife Ginny (Williams) '48 is chairman 

of the New Paltz planning board and according 

to Dave is "damned" good at it. Ata-girl 

Ginny, you hold up the fairer sex. All 

men with female bosses should read John 

Knox's The First Blast of the Trumpet 

Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. 

Dave insists! Ann Shively Kalbach is a distinguished 

author of that renowned 

best seller, Pedigrees, a Philadelphia 

novel from Lippincott & 

Crowell. Now she is working like 

crazy on her next contribution to literary 

immortality, the moral tale of a girl who 

works too hard. After this write-up I ought to 

get an autographed copy; what say, Ann? 

Ann lived in England for 2 yrs and recommends 

it in order to really appreciate the 

USA. Col William A Beddoe (Ret), 1109 

Mint Springs Dr, Fairborn, Ohio 45324. 

46 More Reunion News 

Please accept my apologies for the following 

belated news. I gathered so much at Reunion, 

but have limited space per issue. 

You should have seen how tanned Gordon 

'44 and Priscilla Alden Clement were when 

they arrived in Ithaca. Priscilla WON a Ca- 


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REUNION Jf 

ribbean cruise on the Queen Elizabeth II and 

took Gordon along! They came directly from 

cruise to Reunion. 

Paul and Irene Kinne Conley have 2 other 

Cornellians in the family: Todd '79 is on the 

staff at Cobleskill Tech and Paula '83 is in 

Hum Ec. Their youngest son graduated from 

the Air Force Academy in '81. Irene came directly 

from his graduation to Reunion. 

Stuart and Bev Smith Whitehead are "finally" 

building their house in Pa. Her advice: 

"Don't ever build unless you are a millionaire, 

because you will need a $million. Still 

working. Who can retire?" Firth '44 and 

Nancy Hubbard Ferryman's son was married 

in June '81, so they could not attend Reunion. 

And now, news gleaned from some not in 

attendance: Carol Cleveland Haughwout 

moved from Stuart, Fla, to Tallahassee, last 

July. Harry and Eleanor Beach Beasley now 

have 4 granddaughters, and a grandson born 

last July, of whom she said, "ultra-sound 

showed he was a boy." They no longer raise 

cotton but still grow rice, wheat, and soybeans. 

Each yr they travel to a different Land 

Grant college for the American Inst of Cooperatives 

Conference. Elinor Baier Kennedy, 

503 Morris PI, Reading, Pa 19607. 

47 Reunion List Grows 

More names added to the Reunion list, but 

not the final number, as this issue goes to 

press in March. In the FOR SURE column, 

add Helen (Allmuth) and John Aver, Mary 

(Lawrence) '48 and Claude Cornett, Betty 

Miller, Melba Levine Silver, Sylvia (Kianoff) 

and Ira Shain and Peg (Kaufman) and Robert 

Schumo, and Margaret Newell Mitchell and 

Bill. Add to the DO OUR BEST list, John 

Bryant and Ursula Holahan. There is still 

time to attend, so contact Don and Margi 

Schiavone Berens or the Alumni Office if 

you've just learned you can make it, after all. 

W R Cromwell, 2465 Palisade Ave, The 

Bronx, is with Singer Products Co as area 

sales manager, Asia-Pacific, in the communications 

and broadcast systems div. He's kept 

busy fund raising for Cornell and WNET 

Channel 13, as well as doing volunteer work 

with Bronx County Historical Soc, Westport, 

Conn, Astronomical Soc, and Appalachian 

Mt Club. Son John will graduate from Grinnell 

College this spring. Daughter Wendy has 

applied to Cornell for '82 admission. Walter 

has completed his 32nd trip around the world 

on business. 

Evelyn Weiner Barrow, 67 Hayloft Lane, 

Roslyn Hgts, is still a library media specialist 

with E Williston School District. Son Peter is 

an attorney with Bank of America in Chicago, 

111; daughter Nancy is in an MBA program 

at Stanford U. Last summer, Evelyn explored 

the Canadian Rockies at Banff and 

Jasper, which reminded her of the clean, 

clear rushing streams around Ithaca 30 yrs 

ago. 

Gus and Betty Davis Ruetenik, Box 629, 

Zoar, Ohio, report degrees for 4 children include 

2 CE, Purdue; MME, Cornell; BS Horticulture, 

Wise; and BME, NH. Three girls, 

one boy; all married; 1 granddaughter. Gus is 

retired and busy putting an addition on a 

farm house in Zoar. Charlotte Bullis Pickett, 

130 S 2nd St, Mechanicsville, serves as a substitute 

teacher. Charlotte has 7 children, traveled 

to Palm Springs, Cal, this past yr. Ruth 

Mehlenbacher Warner, RD#1, Watkins 

Glen, still teaches math at the Watkins Glen 

High School—just established a rental shop 

of costumes and vintage clothing. Ruth still 

has a daughter in college: Barbara '83 

(Hotel). 

Shirley "Sy" Yenoff Kingsly, 17 Joanna 

Way, Short Hills, NJ, is active in the field of 

real estate management, was elected president 

of Federation of Cornell Clubs at the Nov '81 

Federation weekend. She looks forward to 

seeing a lot of classmates at, the 35th. Sy mentions 

she sees Isabel Mayer Berley and Bill '48 

and Jerry '49 and Enid Levine Alpern at various 

Cornell activities. 

Bruce R Thomas, 2607 Fox Chase, Troy, 

Mich, after over 34 yrs with Chrysler, took 

special early retirement, Christmas '80, and 

by his own statement has been unbelievably 

busy ever since, working on antique cars, doing 

some traveling, and thoroughly enjoying 

life. Bruce says, "Looking forward to our 

35th Reunion. Haven't made one yet but '82 

is the yr!" We hope so. Peter D Schwarz, 

12 Glen Ellyn Way, Rochester, NY 14618. 

48 Write Right Now 

Have you composed your single-page, typed 

or legibly printed biographical update? If 

not, do so now, touching on the events and 

activities of your life since '48 and mail it to 

yours truly, so the committee can include it in 

our 35th Reunion yearbook, which you will 

receive in Ithaca in June '83. Remember, 

there will be a prize for literary quality. 

Have you sent in your contribution to the 

Portal X Fund? If not, please do it now, so 

work can proceed. Send the checks to me so 

your contribution can be properly recorded. 

On Mar 10, 75 classmates had contributed 

$3,016, in donations ranging from $5-210. 

The goal is $8,000. 

Constance Schulman Goodman has moved 

to Manhattan from Long Isl and claims to 

have led an "uneventful" life since '48, consisting 

of 6 yrs of deep sea diving, 4 yrs diamond 

mining, 7 yrs work on space exploration, 

10 yrs work on DNA research, 6 yrs in 

publishing, and 7 yrs in "the arts" (theater, 

literature, and fabricating). Adds up to 40— 

some overlap. 

Harriet Morel Oxman has retired after 27 

yrs in the NYC school system, where she was 

principal of Erasmus Hall High School for 

the last 10 yrs. She and husband Ted are now 

in Sarasota, Fla, where they are both account 

executives with Dean Witter Reynolds. Harriet 

jogs, jumps rope, and does calisthenics to 

keep fit. Her stated goal is to become the 

"oldest living alumna" of the Class of '48. 

(The problem is to identify the competition.) 

Nancy Barrett Lanning is assistant dean, 

continuing education, Corning Community 

College. Madeleine Miller Bennett is living in 

NYC, collecting art, playing tennis, and traveling. 

Her one daughter graduated this yr 

from Boston U. Carmel Along Fischer, Cinaminson, 

NJ, still teaches part time and is active 

in politics. Two offspring are married; 

one, single and working nearby. One daughter, 

Carmel Meyer, works at Exxon and did a 

TV commerical for them using her LASER. 

Gerald Sallus, Culver City, Cal, is marketing 

manager, advanced programs radar systems, 

Hughes Aircraft, and practices law as a 

hobby. Louis Fisher, San Francisco, Cal, 

married off 2 children in '81, is now a grandfather 

twice and will lead 2 more daughters 

down the aisle this yr. In spite of the impending 

expenses, Louis managed to send a gener-

ous donation to the Portal X Fund. 

Larry Gonzer, Short Hills, NJ, operates 

Larry Gonzer Associates in Newark, * Management 

consultants, staffing and engineering 

services." John Van Zandt, Blawenburg, 

NJ, was recently appointed deputy director 

of the State Ag Dept's Division Of Rural Resources. 

Dr Bob Baker, our Ithaca orthodontist, 

has been elected president of the Edward 

H Angle Soc, orthodontists who teach and 

who are dedicated to the promotion of educational 

standards for the training of orthodontists 

and to related research. Dr Bob is also in 

charge of selecting uniforms for all of us to 

wear at our 35th Reunion. If you have any 

suggestions, contact him at Cayuga Hgts. 

Lester Wise, Old Westbury, reports son 

Paul obtained MD in '78 and is director of 

emergency medical services at Boston Children's 

Hospital. Tom Rymer, attorney and 

member of the Md State House of Delegates, 

visited the campus recently and thinks he 

recognized the same St Bernard at the Sigma 

Chi house that was there 34 yrs ago. 

Col Calvin Landau, retired from military 

after 30 yrs, is director of marketing, General 

Development Corp, a member of the Univ 

Council, and president of the Cornell Club of 

Greater Miami, Fla. He was recently our academic 

delegate at the inauguration of the 

president, U of Miami. 

QUESTIONNAIRE LEAK: From 466 answers 

to question 123, "Do you think the 

world will be a good place for your grandchildren?" 

Yes 

No 

No opinion 

Total 

Per Cent 

Men 

62 

26 

12 

100 

Per Cent 

Women 

53 

32 

15 

100 

• Robert W Persons Jr, 102 Reid Ave, Port 

Washington, NY 11050. 

49 Back to School 

Even though it's May, it's not too late to 

make vacation plans around Adult U. Why 

not contact some friendly classmates and 

agree to spend an informal wk on the campus, 

probing a subject you've always been interested 

in but never had the time to pursue. 

The Class of '50 has taken the thought one 

step further and designated the 2nd wk of 

CAU as their get-together wk. There is no 

reason why the marvelous Class of '49 can't 

adopt a similar practice. Let's hear from you 

if you're interested in promoting a similar 

program next yr. 

And, in the same breath, it should be mentioned 

that the university welcomes off-yr reunioners. 

There's usually room to stay in the 

dorms with a Reunion-yr class from our time. 

The dates are June 10-13. Contact Jim Mueller 

'75 at Alumni House for details. Who 

knows? You may end up joining the Continuous 

Reunion Club (CRC) as did your secretary. 

Later, you'll read of retirements, but 

Ralph Graves, Tanglewood Dr, E Greenwich, 

RI, hasn't contemplated that decision. "For 

the 2nd yr now, I have qualified for and will 

run the Boston Marathon in the over-50 class. 

While at Cornell, I dabbled a little with track, 

but never got very far in competition. I wonder 

how many other Cornellians will participate 

at Boston this yr?" Jack O'Brien, PO 

Box 974, E Orleans, Mass, enthuses that he's 

"just completing 3 yrs in this great Cape Cod 

town. I'm keeping very busy helping my wife 

in her furniture barn and directing a group of 

real estate brokers who sell Fla west coast 

property for Puerto Gόrdo Isles. Busy, but 

not the New York pace . . . still some time to 

smell the flowers and dig some clams." 

Norm Baker, Broadfield Rd, New Rochelle, 

and wife Mary Ann "were invited by 

the Bolivian government to spend a month 

touring the ancient ruins in Bolivia and Peru. 

We were at Lake Titicaca, Cuzo, Machu Picchu, 

and Tiwanacu, with Bolivia's most famous 

archeologist. We left just ahead of the 

revolution. I've been invited to help sail the 

90-yr-old schooner, Erestina Morrissey, 

from the Cape Verde Islands 

to the US, which will be her 

permanent home, a gift from the 

Cape Verde government." Norm will be remembered 

for his exploits as navigator/radioman 

with the Thor Heyerdahl voyages in 

their incredible reed ships, Ra, Rail, and Tigris, 

during the '70s. The purpose of those expeditions 

was to prove that the ancients understood 

and practiced intercontinental navigation 

with unique shipbuilding methods and 

almost no mathematical aids. 

Marcie Shlansky Livingston, Regent Dr, 

Lido Beach, Fίa, finds it "hard to believe, 

but true, that son Michael '77 will be traveling 

to Ithaca for his 5th Reunion in June. It 

doesn't seem so terribly long ago that I was 

climbing The Hill, map in hand, a freshman 

myself." Marcie, do not look over your 

shoulder—our 35th Reunion is approaching! 

Former footballer Bob Dean, Esty Dr, Ithaca, 

has moved his warehouse and general office 

to N Triphammer Rd to accommodate 

the company names: Deanco Inc; Bob Dean 

Inc. But, of course, that means more room 

for business! 

Herman Harrow, Marlin Ave, Palo Alto, 

Cal, incorporated his personnel management 

business, and now has returned from 3 wks in 

China and the Adult U tour of India. He 

says, "Still play lots of tennis and enjoy being 

on my own. I should've done this yrs ago." 

Stan Anderson, Carleton Ct, Glens Falls, 

has "retired from Soil Conservation Service 

after 30 yrs of Federal service. I'm now busy 

building a new house at this address." Ray 

Bump, Oak St, N Abington, Mass, plays 

golf: Mass Golf Assn, secretary (8 yrs on 

committee); Sec Chairman, USGA, public 

links committee; and membership chairman, 

New England Seniors GA (3 yrs on board of 

directors). 

Ted Peck, E 83rd St, announced last Nov 

he was "Leaving for 4 wks in Cornwall, 

Wales, Ireland, and the surrounding lands of 

southeast and southwest England, with wife 

Vivian (Rosen) '50." Don Brandis, Boyce 

Springs, Houston, Texas, is pleased that 

daughter Beth is teaching; daughter Amy is 

an electrical engineer; and daughter Lora is 

busy with the Actors' Theater in Louisville. 

Don and his wife spent the month of Sept 

touring the British Isles. See! Daughters are 

not "expensive." So travel! 

Dick Brown, Jordan Ln, Stamford, Conn, 

assistant to the chairman of Villa Banfi, 

Farmingdale (a Cornellian operation, by the 

way), has been lecturing at Paul Smith College 

Hotel School and at the same time has 

visited with Pete Roland, owner of the Lake 

Placid Hilton. (Try it!) He also reports that 

Ben Amsden is general manager at the Essex 

County Country Club and Jim Sakes is general 

manager of the Gaithersburg, Md, Holiday 

Inn. Dick, as former class president, has not 

forsaken Cornell alumni societies, for he is 

president of the Quill & Dagger Soc and also 

trustee of the Culinary Inst of America. And, 

like most of us, he reports to work daily. 

Donald R Geery, 321 E 45th St, Apt 8B, NYC 

10017. 

50 Tempus Fuglt 

This yr seems to be rushing along at a far 

greater pace than usual. Thinking back, I recall 

the luncheon sponsored by Pat Carry 

Stewart and her husband, Chuck, for President 

Rhodes and his wife in Delray Beach, 

Fla during the month of Feb. I also spent 

some time with Barry Sommerfieid, who was 

in Fla inspecting stores for Tennis Lady. 

Barry is president of the company, and operates 

out of NYC. 

I received a quantity of material from John 

Timmerman relating to his activities as 

treasurer and chairman of the board of directors, 

Center for UFO Studies, Lima, Ohio. 

Ken Bovard lives in Blacksburg, Va, and is on 

the staff at Va Tech in the animal science division. 

Ken is also active in Scouting. I am 

sure that his children have heard of his escapades 

as a member of the Cornell 150-lb football 

team. Wallace McDougall lives in Celina, 

Ohio, and is manager of product safety for 

the Avco New Idea Division. J P Holbein 

lives in South Haven, Mich, and has a son 

who is with the US Embassy in South Korea. 

Lynn Hep worth, whose notice was sent to 

me instead of the women's division, lives in 

Elmsford, and wrote a nice note concerning 

her children. She apparently is a very active 

grandmother. Ted Eskild, of Palmyra, is project 

engineer for Garlock, Inc. His note 

brought back fond memories to me, since as a 

child I used to visit the Garlock factory in 

Palmyra with my father, who represented one 

of the Garlock family members. Finally, Dr 

Martin Panzer reported from Massapequa, 

LI, that he was recently re-elected as president 

of the Nassau County Academy of Family 

Physicians and leads a very active life in 

his medical profession. 

I am saving the rest of the material which ί 

have for the next column, since I am again 

running out of news reports. If you have anything 

of interest which you wish me to publish, 

please drop me a note. I hope all of you 

have a pleasant summer and if in your travels 

you have the opportunity to do so, stop by 

the Cornell campus. Manley H Thaler, 

PO Box 5206, Lighthouse Point, Fla 33064. 

Sonia Pressman Fuentes and her daughter 

Zia, 9, have moved to Beachwood, Ohio, 

where she had taken a position as director of 

compliance management with TRW Inc at its 

corporate headquarters in Cleveland. An attorney, 

Sonia will be responsible for TRW's 

compliance with labor and EEO laws, nationwide. 

Sonia expects to have an opportunity to 

see Cal and t)C friends as TRW has facilities 

in Redondo Beach and in Wash, DC. Before 

leaving Conn she met with Lynn Layton Hepworth 

of White Plains. They reminisced over 

old times at Cornell and at Monticello High 

School. Sonia looks forward to meeting Cornellians 

in the Cleveland area. 

Sally Wallace Murray received her MS in 

biology at Rutgers last June and is now a substitute 

math teacher at the local high school in 

Westfield, NJ. She and Ken '49 spent a couple 

of fall football weekends with Libby (Severinghaus) 

and Si Warner. Daughter Sarah 

'81 is at Buffalo Med School; she loves it and 

is doing very well. Sally's pre-Christmas activities 

were curtailed by casts on wrist and 

ankle following a fall at Thanksgiving, but 

she expected to be well enough to gimp up to 

Gore for Murray's annual new year's ski trip. 

Class Vice President Sally Murray invites 

everyone from '50 to repeat last yr's mini-reunion 

at Adult U on campus, reported in the 

Mar column. That issue of the News also included 

a schedule of programs. She, Sally 

Stroup deGroot, Don Geery '49, et al, will be 

there, the wk of July 11-17. Y'all come. 

MAY 1982 • 47

Mary Lou Alstein van Allen writes from 

Rochester, Mich, where Neil, MA '50, is with 

the research department of the General Motors 

Tech Center. Mary Lou describes herself 

as a professional volunteer. She is an elder in 

the Presbyterian church and is active in the 

Committee for Peace and National Priorities 

and the Senior Citizens Center of Oakland 

County. Son Mark, 27, was married last Aug. 

• Kitty Carey Donnelly, 435 Green St, Apt 

2, San Francisco, Cal 94133. 

51 Mystery Mall 

A mysterious envelope (via Air Pouch) arrived 

at my home recently. Could it be my 

past catching up with me—the choices being 

the CIA, FBI, IRS, or some Korean woman 

claiming child support. No! It was a letter 

from Charles D Busch (BS), PhD '60. He and 

wife Ruth (Chipman) '53 have abandoned 

Ala and 12!/2 yrs of teaching at Auburn U for 

AID and Zinquichor, Senegal. Charles is 

chief-of-party with southeast consortium for 

international development. Naturally, there 

are other Cornellίans about. Among them are 

Joshua L Posner, MS '75, PhD '78 and his 

wife Jill Kennedy Posner, MA '74, PhD '78. 

Stephen P Rounds, our class representative 

for the Continuous Reunion Club, has been 

appointed a senior marketing representative 

for the chemical field marketing division of 

Eastman Chemical Products, Inc in recognition 

of his outstanding performance over an 

extended period of time. He will be responsible 

for marketing chemicals in NY and NJ. 

Steve lives in Princeton Junction, NJ, with 

his wife and 3 children. 

Rev Keith N Sargent is spreading "the 

good news of salvation" as pastor of the 

community church of Weiser, Idaho. Keith is 

on the board of directors of the Washington 

County Senior Citizens Assn and 2nd vice 

president of the board of directors, Western 

Idaho Community Action Program, Inc. Locally, 

Keith is active at the senior citizens center 

and in an anti-poverty program. Last yr 

he and his wife Louise visited Sequoia National 

Park and the church of the Sequoias, 

and the American Festival of Evangelism in 

Kansas City. The Sargents have 4 sons (including 

Ivan H '61) and 2 daughters. In fact, 

the Sargents have enough children and grandchildren 

to have their own flock. 

I attended a Cornell luncheon at the City 

Midday Club in NY on Mar 4. The speaker 

was Prof Robert Smiley, associate dean, 

BPA. Among those attending were Robert 

Entenman '80, the handsome son of Susy 

Brown Entenman, and Albert J Eckhardt '54 

(BA), MBA '55. Al has figured out how to 

beat the recession: 3 TV commercials made at 

his home in the last 2 months. We had one 

made at our house recently but the fee went 

to my wife who claimed the commercial was 

made in her half of the house. Al, if you find 

another way to beat the recession, please let 

me know. 

Class dues have been sent out. Please return 

them with news of yourself for this column. 

Thank you. William T Reynolds, 1 

Lyons PI, Larchmont, NY 10538. 

Mary Elizabeth King has migrated west once 

more, to become the 1st full-time director for 

the University Museum at NM State. Most recently, 

she was employed as keeper of collections 

at the U of Penn's University Museum. 

She has had a multitude of experiences as curator 

of anthropology and 7 yrs as full professor 

at Texas Tech, as well as having held 

administrative positions at Ariz State Museum, 

the Textile Museum in Wash, DC, the 

American Museum of Natural History, NYC, 

and the Pa State Museum. All this as a result 


of having learned anthropology at Cornell! 

Of course, Liz did follow that training with a 

master's at Columbia and a PhD at the U of 

Ariz. 

Over the yrs> Liz acquired more than 16 

grants for archeological field work as well as 

museum work. She finally decided, "It was 

time I tried running my own museum," and 

expects to go to the community for help in 

developing it. The permanent collections 

need additions, "especially with recently produced 

items from southern NM and northern 

Mexico. . . . We must focus on what we have 

in the region as well as on what the university 

archaeologists concentrate on." King is a 

member of the Assn of College & University 

Museums & Galleries, and is listed in 

American Men and Women in Science, 

Who's Who in Education, and the World's 

Who's Who of Women. Fantastic! 

Rumor has it that some pre-Reunion news 

suffered a fate similar to our infamous posture 

pictures—and is languishing in a closet 

somewhere along the East Coast. "Tain't my 

fault, McGee," as Molly used to say. So, if 

your latest contribution hasn't yet been 

printed in these hallowed columns, please remit 

to me at the address following. Susy 

Brown Entenman, 2350 Middleton Rd, Hudson, 

Ohio 44236. 

52 Get Moving! 

This is the last column in which I can urge 

you to make a commitment to the 30th Reunion 

of the Class of '52. By next month's column, 

it will be history and what a tragedy it 

would be if you were not a part of the saga. 

Whit Mitchell says, "Reunion replies are 

pouring in—we should top the all-time attendance 

record for 30th Reunions. I suggest all 

classmates return their cards ASAP so we can 

plan rooms, banquet space, and chickens for 

Bill Scazzero." The master has spoken, so 

you'd better get moving. 

Some address changes: Larry Weingart, 

married on Oct 27, has moved to 444 E 82nd 

St, Apt 27G, NYC. "Maria and I experiencing 

grave trauma in setting up household in 

single-family dwelling after entire married 

life in hotels. Most missed—room service." 

But, alas, Doc Rufe has been transferred by 

Intercontinental Hotel to Honolulu! His new 

address is 7199 Hawaii Kai Dr. Shirley Sagen 

Norton has moved to RD 3, Box 266, Canton, 

where she is still deputy county treasurer 

of St Lawrence County, a post she has held 

for 20 yrs. Jack Elseft's new address is 12 

Evergreen Way, N Tarrytown. Jane Hindle 

Bamberg, a full-time graduate student in 

counseling and rehabilitation, now lives at 

RD 2, Auburn, Me. Nick Duda bought a 

small country home/farm on Bowers Rd, RD 

6, Mansfield, Ohio. And Robert Schwartz 

has asked for the address of M Crawford 

Greene. Bob, I show 3603 Granada St, Tampa, 

Fla, as of May '78. Hope that is of some 

help to you. 

Sally Hotchkiss Rockwell, 202 Harvey, 

Grayslake, 111, is a 3rd-grade teacher in a tiny 

country school enrolling 11 students. That 

has to be some kind of a record. A NJ state 

assemblyman of 5 terms, Byron Baer is now 

chairman of the commerce and industry committee. 

A bit of humor from Ivan Gendzel, 

Palo Alto, Cal: "I've run 6 26.2-mile marathons 

in the past 2 yrs and getting slower all 

the time." Some interesting hobbies are listed 

by Mickey Caughlan Kelley, 81 Country Club 

Dr, Port Washington: "Raise orchids, do 

calligraphy professionally, studying toward 

genealogical searcher certification, put house 

back in order after my 100-lb German 

shepherd puppy gets through." Bart Hayward, 

4322 O'Kane Ct, Fort Meade, Md, is 

the post commander of Fort Meade. "I'm 

still a col, but happy to be so!" 

A new book, 1st of its kind devoted to strategic 

planning for high technology companies, 

has been written by Philip Sherman, 

471 Claybourne Rd, Rochester. Here is another 

1st of a slightly different kind: Arno 

Schefler won the 1st running of the Japan 

Cup, an international horse race, with his 

thoroughbred mare, Mairzy Doates. Does 

Mairzy have a stablemate called, you guessed 

it, Dozey Doates? Dick Parker, 20 Brewer 

Pkwy, S Burlington, Vt, has found a neat 

way to tee-off in good time. He is part 

owner/operator of a golf course and cottage 

complex called Wilcox Cove on Grand Isle in 

Vt. Jean Thompson Cooper, 55 Crescent 

Rd, Port Washington, NY 11050. 

53 Plans For the 30th 

The lead for this month's column is courtesy 

of Dave Kopko. From deep in the heart of 

Foggy Bottom he reports, "Early planning 

underway for class Reunion a yr from (this) 

June. Events will include a report on the class 

survey, which will be taken this spring under 

Cork Hardinge's direction. Ned Pattison is 

working on a serious symposium. A Fri dinner/dance 

and a Sat clambake are on the preliminary 

agenda. Also, there probably will be 

beer." 

Andrew Hanley has been named general 

sales manager of the Architectural Ceiling 

Systems Div of Armstrong World Industries 

Inc. Prior to this promotion, he had been 

serving as general manager of ceiling operations 

for Armstrong Europe out of London. 

Andrew Hanley's youngest son, Andrew 

John '85, is in Arts. 

I want to thank Nancy Egan Webster for 

her letter, that in 2 small paragraphs recaps 

29 yrs: "Last 2 summers I have accompanied 

John (BEE) to Asia. First to Xian, China, as 

he was invited to present a lecture series on 

biomedical engineering and his work at U of 

Wise. Fascinating historical area, that far inland! 

I also spoke on our early childhood special 

education program here in Madison. Last 

summer to Tokyo for an invitational biomedical 

convention. That trip, we visited his colleagues 

in France and India, en route) in addition 

to some new friends in a Servas group. 

This proved to be yet another exciting experience. 

"Our children are gradually finishing various 

college programs: Joyce Robin, BS at U 

of Hawaii; Paul, BS at Reed College, Ore, 

and now in law school at U of Wise; Mark 

and Amy, undergrads at U of Wise still. And, 

we are joining the ranks of grandparents, as 

we now have 3! It's great, just as they say, 

too, watching these little ones grow so fast." 

Not Hilton, not Sheraton, not Hyatt—but, 

in Rochester, it's "Strathallan" the new luxury 

hotel Bill Sullivan and Ed Plenge have 

opened. Bill notes that the name relates to 

that area of Scotland where a certain barley 

beverage is produced—White Label, I 

believe. From that other Madison (NJ) I 

heard from Sheila Olsen Chidester. Being a 

grandmaw ain't too bad. There is a 

20-month-old grandchild, and more on the 

way. Makes for full house and noisy 

holidays. 

More Cornellians in the assembly line. Joe 

Gryson, San Rafael, Cal, has a daughter 

Karen who expects to enroll at Cornell. 

Dwight Robinson, Sherborn, Mass, has 

daughter Laurie Robinson Noel '77 (her husband, 

Andy is Big Red wrestling coach) and 

daughter Heidi '85. 

Always like to get a note from Linda 

Mitchell Davis, as they allow me a glimpse of 

a life this city slicker thinks might be roman-

tic and great, but is probably a lot of hard 

work—but still great. She writes from the CS 

Ranch that she is busy working full time with 

a cow crew and raising 6 kids on the ranch in 

Cimarron, NM. Of the six offspring, 4 are 

graduates of NM State, one from U of MN 

and one from Ross State U. 

I am told Kim Novak, Clint Eastwood, and 

Reggie Jackson all live in the Big Sur country 

south of Carmel, Cal. I wonder if they realize 

they are neighbors of Alan Perlmutter, who is 

management consulting throughout the US. 

This takes him, his wife Juliette, and daughter, 

2, away from this magnificent area all too 

often. Bernard West, 411 E 53rd St, NYC 

10022. 

54 Directorships 

Joel Cogen writes from New Haven, Conn, 

that he recently became president and CEO 

of Conn Interlock Risk Management Agency 

while continuing as executive director and 

general counsel of Conn Conference of Municipalities. 

John L Hyde, a US Dept of Ag 

research veterinarian, has been named an assistant 

to the deputy administrator for the Ag 

Research Service's national program staff, 

responsible for programs in biological safety 

and emergency preparedness, based at Beltsville, 

Md. 

Hugh H Schwartz, an economist with the 

Inter-American Development Bank, sent 

dues from Alexandria, Va. Hugh's wife 

Maria Rosa is into furniture restoration when 

Laura, 4, and Frederick, 2, allow. Scottsdale, 

Ariz, was the postmark on Seely F Pratt Jr's 

News & Dues. Daughter Cynthia graduated 

Wellesley in '80 and Harvard, MEd '81, while 

Seely III is a senior at Ariz State and Lisa is 

college-bound next fall. Class council member 

Bailey "Sack" Smith is a broker with 

Wertheim & Co in NYC and no doubt could 

write his own version of the Preppie Handbook 

with Jay, 17, at St Andrews, Anne, 16, 

at Pomfret and Scott, 11, at St David's. 

Robert Reichert is a counselor supervisor 

for the Dept of Defense dependent schools in 

Kaiserslautern, where offspring Carrie, 11, 

Alison, 8, and William, 7, all attend classes. 

Bob has been with Defense since '59, with 

time off to complete an MEd at Cornell and a 

PhD at Fla State U. He and Kathy met in 

Ethiopia, where both worked, and were married 

in Wurzburg, Germany, which country 

has been home since. Camping is the family 

activity; spent last July in travel trailer on the 

Italian Riviera, near Livorno and Pisa. 

On the opposite side of the globe is Robert 

Morrison, Kailua, Hawaii. Bob retired from 

US Navy active duty after 27 yrs last Oct, 

lastly as chief of staff for strategic operations, 

cdr, submarine force, US Pacific Fleet. 

He has taken a position as Honolulu representative 

of Sonalysts Inc, a new London, 

Conn, software firm. Bob Jr is at Ore State 

U, while Tommy, 17, and Cammy, 13, attend 

Punaou School. Aloha! Alvin R Beatty, 

5103 Wilderness Lane, Culver City, Cal 

90230. 

If you lived near 511 Daventry Rd, Berwyn, 

Pa, you could savor the wonderful aromas of 

"The Cooking Class," a marvelous serving 

of assorted food preparation sessions conducted 

by Rosemary Seelbinder Jung in the 

intimacy of her own kitchen. Classes range 

from basic French to all-time favorites to special 

interest cuisine. In addition to her Cornell 

training, Rosemary has studied with a 

number of celebrity food specialists. She 

grows her own herbs, and shops the market 

skillfully for her classes and her family. Family 

includes Hal '53; daughter Julie, 22, now 

at the Pa Academy of Fine Arts after 2 yrs at 

Stanford U; son Jeff, 18, a Boston U freshman; 

and daughter Mary, 16, in high school. 

Ronny Colen Altman is busy studying for 

an MBA at Hofstra U while doing computer 

work with a CPA firm. Daughter Alison '79 

and MEng '80, is on the consulting staff of 

Arthur D Little Inc; daughter Andrea, an art 

major at the NYS College of Ceramics, Alfred 

U, spent this semester studying in England. 

Ronny's home address is 32 Cambridge 

Rd, Great Neck. Out Cal way, Evelyn Winkler 

Speiser serves as division chairman, business, 

at Glendale College in Glendale. Husband 

Robert is a sr scientist with Xerox Corp. 

Mike, 18, a Pomona College student, and 

Cathy, 16, complete the family at 2469 Glen 

Canyon Rd, Altadena. Sorscha Brodsky 

Meyer, 517 Foxwood Dr, Foxwood Apts, 

Clifton Park, NY 12065. 

55 At Home & Abroad 

Peggy (Blackburn) and Dwight Robinson '53 

are proud owners of a solar greenhouse, the 

latest addition to their mini-farm in Sherborn, 

Mass. It helps with heating the house 

and growing flowers, herbs, and vegetables. 

Dwight is a physician at Mass General Hospital. 

Peg is active in League of Women Voters, 

and does volunteer work for local organizations. 

Laurie '77 married Andy Noel, Cornell 

wrestling coach. They presented Peg and 

Dwight with their 1st grandchild, Skip, on 

Jan 12, '80. Nancy followed suit on Jan 22, 

'80. Heidi '85 is in Arts and Holly is in high 

school. 

Rae (Pullen) and Leo Alexakos live on 

Washington St in Condado, PR. Their address 

is Box 1152, San Juan, PR 00902. They 

invite old friends to call when visiting their 

beautiful island. They own 2 travel agencies 

and represent Air Jamaica in PR. Needless to 

say, they travel all over the world—especially 

now that their 3 children are all grown and 

finished with colleges. 

The Bartholomews are living in St Charles, 

Mo, where the entire family is "into" law enforcement. 

John is chairman of the city's 

police/fire merit board; Mary (Townsend) is 

on the committee studying the needs of a new 

jail; David graduated from Wesleyan U, and 

is a policeman in Los Angeles. Jeannie keeps 

the family in line at home; Mary is on the 

legal services advisory board. Spring of '80 

was spent by John and Mary in Glasgow 

working in a Church of Scotland parish with 

an unemployment rate of 60 per cent. Now 

that spring is coming their fruit trees are 

blooming, the weeds are flourishing, the garden 

needs plowing, and in a little while everything 

will take 2nd place to the sailboat on the 

Mississippi River. 

Nancy (Cole) and Donald Berg '54 live in 

Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada. They raise and 

show bassett hounds and miniature wirehaired 

dachshunds. Daughter Lisa raises 

pygmy goats. Marc and Kristen are in college. 

• Ginny Wallace Panzer, 3 Mountainview 

Rd, Millburn, NJ 07041. 

Random notes this month, as news seems to 

be from all over the place. Earl Peterson is 

advisor and "superfan" of his son Jim's Rutgers 

lacrosse team . . . even took a trip with 

the team to Australia in '80 and is looking 

forward to UK in '83. Earl and Cindy 

(Tschorn) '58 have a daughter Susan '85, who 

is a rower. The Petersons took advantage of 

Adult U "winterlude" in St Croix and the 

Isles of Shoals short course on marine science 

in '81. Oh yes, Earl finds some time to continue 

his veterinary practice in Edison, NJ. 

Cindy is a criminal justice planner in NYC. 

Address: 84 Clive St, Metuchen, NJ. 

Damon Douglas is still with IBM and has 

recently done some "heavy running." He set 

the Master's record for the Rocky One 

50-mile run in Hamburg, Pa. Damon's wife 

Emily (Bates) '54 is women's editor of The 

Concord Tribune. Address: Rt 1, Box 532, 

Concord, NC. 

Phil Harvey's note proves he has tipped 

over the edge; mostly unprintable, but he did 

have a good idea: "How about a class directory?" 

Darel Kadlec, in his note, also mentioned 

a class directory. Darel formed a new 

company last yr to sell computers: Hopi 

Computers Inc. Darel and his wife Robin live 

at 329 Maplewood Rd, Huntington Station. 

Ed Gould has a new address: National 

Zoo, Wash, DC. In Sept '80, Ed took a new 

job as curator of mammals and is "loving 

it." After 18 yrs as a professor in the School 

of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins, 

it feels good to be a zoologist again. 

Also in the DC area, Stan Shetler is curator in 

department of botany, Smithsonian Inst, 

charged with the North American collections 

and doing research. Stan is past-president of 

Audubon Naturalist Soc of Central Atlantic 

States. Address: 142 Meadowland E, Sterling, 

Va. I'll be looking for Dan Farley and his 

daughter Anne '83 as they pass through 

Wellesley in the Boston Marathon this yr. 

Both qualified by running the NYC Marathon 

last Oct. Address: 711 Triphammer Rd, 

Ithaca. 

My old buddy, Pete Romeo, is a partner in 

Starks, Wurzer, Patterson and Romeo Architects. 

Pete and Marietta have 7 children and 

live at 309 Canterbury Rd, Rochester. Bruce 

Simpson's note sounds like one I could write. 

Hobbies are doing children's math and getting 

others into college. Address: Gano Rd, 

Montour Falls. One of my Big-Red-Bandmates, 

Jim Freeman, is president of Connecticut 

Printers, publishing books, magazines, 

and catalogs. Jim's wife Nancy is writing a 

new cookbook to be published by Dell this yr. 

Address: 19 Smoky Ridge, Simsbury, Conn. 

Howard Fink has been professor of law at 

Ohio State U for 17 yrs. In summer '80 How^ 

ard spent a wk at Cornell as discussion leader 

in a seminar for law professors on his specialty, 

teaching of civil procedures. Howard is 

working on a case book on federal procedures. 

Finally: last month I reported on the 

impending retirement of "Swede" Dahl. 

Well, he did it! And is now in the development 

office of Lafayette College. Address: 

202 W Wayne Ave, Easton, Pa. Dave 

Sheffield, 76 Parker Rd, Wellesley, Mass 

02181. 

56 Work & Play 

For Vivian Goodrich Schmidt, politics has 

become a vocation and "because it's fun," 

her hobby too! She is a member of City 

Council, Fort Wayne, Ind, (population 

200,000) re-elected to a 3rd 4-yr term in Nov 

'79. She has been a member of the City Planning 

Commission for 7 yrs, serves on the 

board of directors of Fort Wayne Women's 

Bureau and United Way of Allen County, 

and is a member of many political and civic 

groups. She attended the "Friends of Carter- 

Mondale" reception at the White House in 

Oct '79. William '55 is manager of the inland 

marine dept, Central Soya Co Inc—responsible 

for all river traffic on the Mississippi and 

tributaries. Elizabeth, 19, is in a pre-vet program 

at Purdue; William, 16, is a sports fan 

and Boy Scout. The Schmidts' address is 2621 

E Maple Grove Ave, Fort Wayne. 

Vievedie "Vieve" Metcalfe Weldon is a 

business research manager for the Times Mirror 

Co in its corporate office in Los Angeles, 

Cal. She studies acquisition, diversification

Smiles predominate at the 25th Reunion. 

(See '56 column for details.) 

opportunities, conducts consulting projects 

for subsidiaries. Her hobbies include skiing, 

tennis, and backpacking. Harry is a structural 

engineer for offshore drilling equipment 

design and installation on offshore rigs, 

working for Santa Fe International. He is 

also a CPR instructor. The Weldons' address 

is 12203-47 Santa Gertrudes Ave, La Mirada. 

Pat Brodie Brentani of 248 Nashawtue Rd, 

Concord, Mass, teaches English at Dana Hall 

School in Wellesley. She completed her master's 

degree in English at Boston College. Her 

4 children are Christine, 19, Bill, 17, Cath, 

15, and Debbie, 9. 

Pauline Beeler White and her husband Gilbert 

own and operate a Western Auto Store. 

Their home address is RR #9, Columbia City, 

Ind. Daughter Laura, 20, attends Indiana U. 

Ken is 17, and Dianne, 15. The Whites also 

own a springer spaniel and a cat. Paulene 

takes part in church activities and has been 

Band Booster treasurer. She loves sailing on 

Lake Wawasee and golfing. Not long ago the 

family took a wonderful trip to Vancouver, 

BC, Canada, and the Canadian Rockies. 

Ruth Hanfling Benjamin is a teacher of 

children and adults. She interviews for the 

Secondary Schools Committee and enjoys 

tennis and golf. Stanley Benjamin is vice 

president, Biltmore Construction. Son 

Steven, 21, attended Yale U. Lauren is 19 and 

Andrew, 16. Their address is 2215 Kent PI, 

Clearwater, Fla. 

The photo, taken at Reunion almost a yr 

ago shows (from left) Tom Gaidry and Betsy 

(Seuber), Judith Cimildoro Jones, Rita 

Rausch Moelis, and Judith's husband Millard. 

Rita Rausch Moelis, 996 Wateredge 

PI, Hewlett Harbor, LI, NY 11557. 

When I used to think of Bill Callnin I thought 

of Reunion and the fabulous job he did. 

Now, I just get jealous. In the course of his 

work this winter, Bill has traveled to Australia 

for 2 wks, Hawaii for 2 wks, and spent 3 

wks cruising on the SS Norway. I hope to 

catch up to him and Susie real soon! 

I recently spoke to Leo Convery. He took 

his family to the Cayman Islands over the 

Christmas holiday and has now settled down 

in Martha's Vineyard to sell real estate. His 

daughter Betsi '85 is loving every minute of 

her freshman year. Bart DeGress reports his 

son Peter is presently a student at Va Polytechnic 

Inst. Bart resides at 5125 Red Fox Dr, 

Annandale, Va. 

I guess when interesting occupations come 


up in this column, we all get excited. Robert 

Fortuine is a family physician and field doctor 

for Alaska natives. Robert lives at 1615 

Stanton Ave, Anchorage, with his 3 children. 

His wife is in nursing school at the U of Alaska, 

his oldest daughter at the U of Ore, and 

the others are in the local school. Alexander 

Ruggie and his wife, Shirlee, 6030 Liberty 

Rd, Solon, Ohio, are the parents of 4 children, 

2 of whom are out of college. 

Another report on Allen Togut, who writes 

that his oldest, David, is a prospective Cornellian. 

Allen is a chest surgeon not far from 

his home at 10 Fawn Circle in Randolph, 

Mass. His wife Myra is a pediatrician. They 

are very involved with the schools in their 

area. Allen H Unger, 12 E 86th St, NYC, is a 

cardiologist. His 3 children attend Riverdale 

Country School and enjoy tennis. Allen is an 

avid runner and takes an occasional spin 

around the Central Park Reservoir. 

Pete Huberth was married last Sept 4. He 

loved seeing all his old SAE buddies at Reunion. 

He may be reached at PO Box 1050, 

Sitka, Alaska. It was nice hearing from Richard 

Kopff, MD, who moved away from NYC 

a few yrs ago to 16 Sussex Ave, Bronxville. 

Dick and his wife Pepper are the parents of 

Debbie, 15, and Melissa, 10. They enjoy 

opera, camping, skiing, and tennis. Richard 

is a psychiatrist with offices in NYC and 

Bronxville. 

Charles Klaus resides at 3200 National City 

Center, Cleveland, Ohio. He is also still raving 

about Reunion, and writes that last summer, 

he and his wife Judy went on a 12-day 

canoe trip through Wilderness Quetico Park 

in Ontario, Canada, and "lived to tell the 

tale. Great fishing, good exercise carrying 

canoe and pack over the portages, and a real 

achievement of planning and stamina." I'll 

leave all lazy people like me thinking about 

that one until next month's column! 

Stephen Kittenplan, 1165 Park Ave, NYC 

10028. 

57 There's Still Time 

Just a month to go before the festivities of 

our 25th begin! There's still time to make 

plans to be there for the "once-in-a-lifetime" 

experience! Elaine Meisnere Bass has a 

daughter graduating from NYU on the morning 

of June 10, but will still make Reunion! 

Her other 2 collegians are at Boston U and 

American U. It was Africa in '80; France, 

Switzerland, and Ireland in '81; but it will be 

Ithaca in '82, for Judith Lund Biggs, who's 

coming from Greenwich, Conn. Judith has 2 

daughters at Yale and a son in jr high. Bar- 

bara Ress Rotenberg, Sue Breslow Dillon, 

and Nancy Kressler Lawley are saying "yes" 

to Reunion plans. Nancy was in Belgium last 

spring and Bermuda last summer, where she 

saw Jean Waters Townsend. Nancy is in real 

estate and has 2 daughters in college and another 

at the Baldwin School. 

Marj Nelson Smart's and Bob's daughter 

Cheryl '81, who is teaching at Cornell, wed 

Gerald Wolfe, '69-72 Grad of Ithaca last 

May. The Smarts will be at Reunion and Eva 

Stern Steadman plans to attend briefly; Evelyn 

Katz hopes to; and Francine Hassol Lifton 

hasn't decided yet. One of Francine's 

daughters is a Syracuse U grad and her high 

school sr is waiting to hear from some colleges. 

Dorothy Gilbert, who sees Sandra 

Mortola Gilbert and Diana Hadgis once in a 

while, says she's not sure about making it 

back from Berkeley, Cal, but Marilyn Hester 

Ridgley will be coming in from the West. 

From Texas, Anabel Stresino Hoit plans to 

return and Judith Weinberg Weidenthal, who 

is helping Marilyn Merryweather Way with 

the yearbook, will arrive from Pepper Pike, 

Ohio. Judy is on the board of directors of 

Cornell Club of NE Ohio, and spends ski vacations 

at Snowmass and Aspen, Colo. One 

son is at Macalester College, another at Oberlin. 

Others are coming but we haven't space to 

list them this month. Judy Reusswig, 5401 

Westbard Ave, #1109, Bethesda, Md 20816. 

The stage is set for our return to Ithaca in 

celebration of making it half way to our 50th. 

We are indebted to so many of our classmates 

for putting in their time and giving of their 

talents. The response to last yr's questionnaire 

was gratifyingly heavy, and several 

good events were mentioned, therein, which 

have generated an ambitious schedule for a 

too-short stay in Ithaca. Ed Vant has commuted 

between Dallas, Texas, and NY; Anita 

Wisbrun Morrison and Ted Raab are still 

busy coordinating our Reunion activities; and 

Bob Staley and his dedicated group of fundraisers 

are at the ready to accept any lastminute 

"Spirit of '57" contributions. Although 

the final numbers are still a little 

hazy, it appears as if a record percentage of a 

25th-yr class will return this yr. If you know 

someone still on the fence, pick up the phone 

—or better still, burn the fence. 

We will be able to catch up on each other's 

activities in person, but here are a few to get 

the ball rolling. Paul Noble, executive producer 

of WNEW-TV, recently accepted a major 

award for that station's airing of the "Big 

Apple Minutes" campaign, a 250-spot salvo 

spotlighting the "cultural, historical, and recreational 

treasures" of the tri-state area 

around the Big Apple. 

Tony Lopez, Olin Chemicals group vice 

president, has been elected to a 3-yr term on 

the board of the (no giggles, please) Fertilizer 

Inst. Among his other attributes, he has the 

good sense to be married to a Canadian. John 

Maclay has a new hobby—flying. His 1st venture 

was a wk-long flying vacation to Southern 

Cal. Sounds like fun, and he will be happy 

to take anyone up at Reunion to do a few 

spins and loops. 

Grandpa (courtesy of daughter Kim) Jerry 

Fitz-Patrick has recovered from the big event 

admirably. Last summer he spent a month in 

the Pacific Northwest and Canadian Rockies; 

had a wk in Bermuda in the fall; and went to 

Aspen this winter. Family commitments will 

likely prevent his return for Reunion. 

An interesting subject mentioned in a number 

of classmates' notes is career change. 

David Perelman is a case in point, having left 

a company which he helped found to begin a 

life of teaching. He'll be a professor of elec-

trical engineering at RIT in Rochester. Bill 

Zeit, after 10 yrs as a pathologist, is studying 

to specialize in hematology-oncology. This 

subject (career change) might be an interesting 

in-depth study for the future. 

Ted Olt has a daughter graduating this 

spring from Northwestern U, and a son who 

is a plebe in Annapolis. He reports a business 

trip to Europe, which included most of the 

picture-postcard locations. Uncle Sam reports 

he enjoyed the trip, too. 

John Seiler has started a new retail venture 

after 24 yrs of corporate retailing. In view of 

the current economy, several question whether 

his elevator goes to the top floor. John 

Seiler, 7245 Fox Harbor Rd, Prospect, Ky 

40059. 

58 News From Mid-'81 

... is still flowing. From deep in the hills of 

eastern Ky we hear from Kathe Bennett Hall, 

husband Jackson, MEd '60 (president of 

Pikeville College), 3 nearly grown children 

(youngest 15), and 3 foster children, all keeping 

busy even in their relative isolation from 

the outside world. Kathe teaches biology and 

physiology in secondary schools and science 

component in "upward bound" when not 

finishing a master's thesis ('78) or wrapped 

up in many local activities. The Halls had 40 

visitors from Ithaca's 1st Presbyterian 

Church last summer, singing and bell ringing 

at their church and bringing news from central 

NY, still much in mind. The Halls' home 

address is 205 Cedar Dr, Pikeville, Ky. 

Carol Boeckle Welch is now retired (!) after 

22 yrs of teaching in Bedford public 

schools. Carol, Peter, and 2 young teens still 

live in Mt Kisco at 85 Croton Ave; they spent 

3 wks in Hawaii and a wk in Italy last yr. 

Carol also was one of the few class officers 

who were together for CACO in NYC in late 

Jan '82. Those who met to discuss Reunion, 

and the special class gift at our 25th, and 

other matters included Carol, Connie (Case) 

and Dick Haggard, Al Podell, Ray and Audrey 

Wildner Sears, and Meyer Gross, along 

with Murray Death '67, and Vally Kovary 

'77, our enthusiastic staff person. Bill Standen 

couldn't make it at the last minute, but 

we managed to get some ideas together and 

generated additional contacts to make. You'll 

be hearing more about plans from Bill soon, 

along with the annual support notice for your 

class. 

Wes Jacobs, Rita and 2 senior teen boys 

write from Houston, Texas (818 Baltic Ln); 

Wes is manager of equipment design for Kellogg 

Co. Howard Lefkowitz, Midge (Yelon) 

'60, and 2 sent in similar info: address remains 

2 Peter Cooper Rd, 9B, in NYC; and 

Howard is an attorney active in cable TV as a 

partner in his law firm. Daughter is Sarah 

'82. Cindy Tschorn Peterson and Earle '55, 

just sent an address: 84 Clive St, Metuchen, 

NJ. Other addresses only include those from 

Stephanie Cobert Coburn at 650 Barry Dr, 

Springfield, Pa, and Carmon Molino at 406 S 

Main St, Groton. 

Lucie Wallace Robbins and family live in 

Hudson, NH, at 43 Hazelwood Rd. Two of 

the 4 teens are in college; Heather '83 is a 

member of the Nothing But Treble singing 

ensemble on the Hill. Lucie keeps busy—in 

music as member of NH philharmonic orchestra 

on French horn, in outdoor sports, 

and occasional family travel when not on the 

job as vice president of New England Microwave 

Corp. Dr Pete Bloom practices psychiatry 

and is clinical assistant professor at U of 

Pa, where his wife, Marcia, also practices 

psychiatry. With 3 teens, the Blooms live in 

Swarthmore, Pa at 416 Riverview Ave. 

Out on the West Coast, Dr John Herman is 

'57 + 25 = '82 

endocrinologist for a local medical clinic. He 

runs when he can, got to Hawaii recently, and 

lives with Edna and 2 girls at 21107 Michaels 

Dr in Saratoga, Cal. Al Hershey continues as 

president of Energy Conservation Control 

Systems in western NY. Al, Kathy, and 2 

boys also get into little league activities, tennis, 

skiing, etc, from their home base in Victor 

(175 Baker Rd). 

Bob Hendriks has left his job at Oak Ridge 

National lab to become manager of specialty 

products at Technology for Energy Corp in 

Knoxville, Tenn. Bob, Delores and 2 children 

still live in Oak Ridge at 108 Woodridge Ln. 

Steve Milman also departed his job with 

Smith Barney after 15 yrs and now is senior 

vice president with Evergreen Fund in Harrison. 

Steve, Evalyn (Edwards) '60 and 2 teen 

boys live at 18 Roxbury Ln, Wilton, Conn. 

Although Barry Grevatt continues as pastor 

of his Congregational Church in Laconia, 

NH, he finished in May as president of the 

alumni assn of Colgate Rochester Divinity 

School at Rochester. He's now secretary of 

the stewardship council of the United Church 

of Christ. Barry, Mary Lou and 2 young 

teens still can be reached at 18 Veterans Sq, 

Laconia. 

Madeline Isaacs Noveck, 1040 Park Ave, 

NYC, noted her enjoyment of '56's great 

Reunion yearbook, but acknowledges that 

it's a big job. Any takers? Jan Hoffman 

Gardner is now director of development for 

The Claridge Group, a subsidiary of Britain's 

Trident TV, in NYC. She had been with 

Book-of-the-Month Club, while also raising 2 

children, now in their mid-teens. Jan, Allan 

and children live at 290 West End Ave, NYC. 

Liz Fuchs Fillo is still in music, music, music: 

theater, TV, breaking into commercials 

and soaps, nightclub act continuing in NYC, 

etc. She'd welcome anyone who would like to 

be on her mailing list; just contact her at 107 

Philip Dr, in Princeton, NJ, where Liz, Steve 

'59 and 2 children rest on occasion. Nick 

Fulop is a club manager in Chicago, where he 

resides with Anne and a German shepherd at 

1155 E 57th St. Art Kraemer planned to get to 

Hawaii this past summer, joining his 2 teen 

girls there for a swim meet (in which they 

have generally been doing very well). Art is 

vice president/general manager with GTE 

and lives with Helen and the girls at 1116 Forest 

Ave, Palo Alto, Cal. 

I'll hold it there, for now. By next column, 

after Jan's next month, I'll hope to have 

many new News & Dues in hand. Dick 

Haggard, 1207 Nash Dr, Fort Washington, 

Pa 19034. 

New addresses: George Randall has moved 

to 964 Meadowlark Dr, Laguna Beach, Cal. 

Neurologist Harrold Leader and family have 

moved to 801 Oneida Trail, Franklin Lakes, 

NJ. Vintage-car maven Bernard Lewis has returned 

to the States from Germany and now 

lives at 1617 Winterwood PI, Herndon, Va. 

Jack '58 and Nancy lams Walsh live at 15 

Pomeroy Rd, Madison, NJ. Nancy has 2 

part-time jobs as a dietitian: one in public 

health and one in a nursing home. The 

Walshs' youngest son, Robert '85 is in Engineering. 

Another freshman is Abby Strongin 

'85, daughter of Sy and Patricia Kreindler 

Strongin, 7101 Beechwood Dr, Chevy Chase, 

Md. Carole Kenyon's daughter Judy Friend 

'84 is a dean's list student and won the Reserve 

Grand Champion Horse trophy at the 

'81 Livestock Show. Carole, who teaches 9th 

grade in Livingston, NJ, is going to Rutgers 

law school at night. She has done Secondary 

Schools work for 15 yrs and is now 2nd vice 

president of the Cornell Club of Northern 

NJ. Carole's address: 6 Tempe Ct, Scotch 

Plains, NJ. 

Pat Lasky Rath man n, 307 Foeburn Ln, 

Louisville, Ky, writes that "We have a very 

active group of Cornellians in Ky and would 

welcome contact with alumni anticipating a 

move or visit to the area." Pat is chairman of 

the Ky ASSC. Her husband, Dan '56, is president 

of the Louisville Cornell Club. 

William Wilcox, 445 E State St, Ithaca, 

NY, is president of Wilcox Press and Wilco 

Business Forms Inc and is busy planning a 

$6.5 million expansion at Cornell's industrial 

park. Willy is chairman of Ithaca's Board of 

Zoning Appeals and for the past 10 yrs has 

served as senior director of The Cornell Daily 

Sun, Inc. Also in Ithaca is Peter Brellochs, 

who lives at 1405 Ellis Hollow Rd with wife, 

Jacqueline (Klune) '61, sons Christopher and 

Gregory, and 6 Pandaga Newfoundland 

show dogs. Peter, an architect, is a vice president 

with Fred H Thomas Assocs. 

Penny Gottfried Jacoby is director of the 

Sandy Spring Museum in Sandy Spring, Md, 

and an instructor in art history at Northern 

Virginia Community College. She and her 

family live at 421 Beaumont Rd, Silver 

Spring, Md. Angelo Mirabella, who does research 

on training and evaluation methods 

for combat units at the Army Research Institute, 

lives at 12508 Kuhl Rd, Silver Spring. 

And at 2720 Woodedge Rd, Silver Spring, is 

David Harris, who is division chief at Goddard 

Space Flight Center, in charge of planning 

ground station support to the shuttle 

and other NASA missions. 

Jack Harrison is innkeeper of Higgins 

Beach Inn, a summer hotel in Scarborough, 

Me. His wife, Carlene, is the inn's chef. They 

recently had the best kind of party: a mortgage 

burning affair. Jenny Tesar, 97A 

Chestnut Hill Village, Bethel, Conn 06801. 

59 Inherited Family 60 Cornell Parents 

Elizabeth (Betsy) Blair Douglas and husband 

Victor have a beef and timber ranch at 1071 

Indian Prairie Loop, Victor, Mont. Betsy inherited 

a large family when she married Victor 

in '75: 9 stepchildren and 8 stepgrandchildren. 

Betsy's daughter by her previous 

marriage, Blair Lee Tveter, graduated from 

Rocky Mt College in '81. Betsy is on the 

board of directors of Genesis House in 

Stevensville, Mont, a halfway house for 

women returning to the community from 

mental institutions. 

Another stepgrandparent is Ron Demer, 69 

Valley, Needham, Mass. Ron writes that he 

celebrated Cornell's football victory over 

Brown with a party attended by Jay Light '63 

and Sam '60 and Betsy (Little) Bodman '61. 

This yr's news response has shown an astounding 

increase in classmates reporting the 

new college affiliations of their daughters and 

sons—a reminder, perhaps, of just how close 

at hand that 25th Reunion really is! At Cornell, 

Don Culver's son Todd '83 is a jr, as is 

Joy Wells Ford's daughter Wendy '83, Dave 

Lyon's daughter Cheryl '82 is a sr, and son 

Chris '84 is a soph. Janet Feuerstein Grove's 

daughter Allison '84 is a soph, as is Kate 

Thatcher '84, daughter of Dick and Susan 

Jobes Thatcher. Freshmen include the daughter 

of Bob and Charlotte Loewy Rubin '62, 

Debra '85, and the sons of Keith and Cynthia 

Loring Mac Bain and Lee '57 and Carol 

Rohm Minnerly. 

Elsewhere, Sara Wise Kane's daughter

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Gwen is a soph at Brown and son Jonathan 

will start there next fall. Steve Marmaroff's 

twin daughters attend Rutgers and the U of 

RI, while Nancy Concklin Carpenter's sons, 

Matt and Sears, are at Carleton College and 

Kenyon College. Karen Derr, daughter of 

Kenneth '58 and Donna Mettler Derr, is a jr 

at UCLA, while Dave Dresser's Lynn is a 

soph at MIT. Harvard claims Jim Garfinkel, 

son of Ellie Ross Garfinkel, while Radley 

College and Clifton College in England are 

the schools of James and Richard Meade, 

sons of classmate Richard Meade. 

Ron Obermeyer's son Scott entered the Air 

Force Academy in the fall of '80, the same yr 

Joe Rice's son Michael started at the U of 

Mich. Elizabeth Park, daughter of Roy Park 

Jr, is a soph at the U of NC, Chapel Hill, and 

Elizabeth Stayer, daughter of Marcia Sweet 

Stayer, is a jr at Queen's U in Canada. Al 

Tripoli has 2 sons at Syracuse U: Al, a sr in 

pre-med; and Kevin, a soph in fine arts. Ken 

Wallace's son Andy is at Washington U, and 

his brother Aaron is at Texas A&M. 

The parents of these students lead the active 

lives one comes to expect from Cornellians. 

Dave Lyon owns a dairy cash-crop 

farm and a farm machinery business. Janet 

Feuerstein Grove is a partner in a San Francisco, 

Cal, law firm and specializes in insurance 

defense litigation. Dick Thatcher is 

chairman and chief executive officer of Atlantic 

Management Systems Inc. Bob Rubin 

practices law in the NY area. Sara Wise Kane 

is an accountant and has begun to study for a 

master's in taxation. Steve Marmaroff is 

group vice president, operations, for Olsen 

Industries in NYC. Nancy Concklin Carpenter 

is a real estate broker and certified soil tester 

and is active in Cornell and civic activities. 

Dave Dresser is dean of students, Eisenhower 

College, and president, Board of Education, 

S Seneca Central School. 

Ellie Ross Garfinkel is attending library 

school, directs Camp Dunmore in Vt, and 

works in the high school library. Richard 

Meade is sr partner of a US law firm based 

permanently in Paris, is a member of the vestry 

of American Cathedral, and founder of 

International Wine 8c Food Soc (Paris). Ron 

Obermeyer has a new address, 9804 Lord Ct, 

Fairfax, Va. He completed the Air War College 

at Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, Ala, last 

May. His last position was as deputy for test 

and deployment in the F-16 program office, 

which took him to Belgium, The Netherlands, 

Norway, Denmark, and Germany. 

Joe Rice was married to Ellen Goldfarb 

last Mar. Roy Park is vice president, advertising 

and promotion, Park Companies, and 

also managing director for AgResearch and 

Park Communications. Marcia Sweet Stayer 

is principal librarian, Queen's U, and was recently 

elected to the executive board of 

Queen's U Faculty Assn. Al Tripoli is assistant 

chief of medicine, Crouse Irving Memorial 

Hospital, Syracuse; medical director of 

the Jewish Home of Central NY; and an internist 

in private practice. Ken Wallace is involved 

in building and development in the 

Phoenix, Ariz, area and active on the Phoenix 

Symphony Council and the Men's Arts 

Council. 

Walter Williamson, 322 Central Park, W, 

NYC, is a partner in the law firm of Williamson 

& Williamson. Wife Barbara teaches 

English literature at the New School. Their 

sons are Douglas, 7, and Andrew, 4. After 6 

yrs of living in Geneva, Switzerland, Tom 

Waldeck and his family moved back to the 

States in late '81. Tom was involved in the international 

grain markets, working for Continental 

Grain Co. He writes: "We have 2 children, 

Monica, 16, and Steven, 13—both avid 

travelers and skiers." The Waldecks are now 

at 17 By Way, Chappaqua. Roland S Philip is 

chief of surgery at Kaiser Foundation Hospital, 

Cleveland, Ohio, and active with the Secondary 

Schools Committee. 

Dave Auble moved to Marco Isl, Fla, in '81 

(Box 1542). He is sales director for Interval 

Resorts America, and his current project is 

Club Regency of Marco Isl. He is a volunteer 

wrestling coach for 3 Naples high schools and 

active with the Cornell Club of SW Fla. 

As this column was going to press, I 

learned the sad news of the death of Walter 

Phelps '30, father of Class President Sue 

Phelps Day. I know that we will all be thinking 

of Sue in this difficult time. Sue can be 

reached at 107 Rocky Dr, Greensburg, Pa. 

Gail Taylor Hodges, 1257 W Deerpath Rd, 

Lake Forest, 111 60045. 

61 Weartn'of the Red 

As I sift through letters, notices, and press releases 

containing news of classmates, I hear 

bagpipes in the distance! Is your East Coast 

class correspondent flipping out? Does he become 

maudlin reporting current news of people 

he remembers from 21 yrs ago? No! It's 

St Patrick's Day in the Big Apple. And, THE 

PARADE is one of the big events of our yr. 

There are private parties beginning at noon in 

hundreds of 5th Ave hotel suites and, in the 

evening, dinners and dances sponsored by a 

raft of Gaelic clubs and associations. Almost 

everyone wears a bit of green and the city 

takes on a very festive air. It reminds me a bit 

of Spring Weekends of yrs gone by. And now 

it's only 4 yrs until our 25th Reunion. Not too 

early to begin making a firm mental commitment 

to attend and to begin contacting longlost 

friends you'd like to see again. 

News comes from all over the country and 

the world. We are as diverse in our lives and 

endeavors as one might expect of alumni of a 

university which dedicated itself from the beginning 

to being different, taking risks, and 

breaking barriers. Our heritage is indeed rich. 

Marcia Kessler Weiss has her own gourmet 

catering business in partnership with Marlene 

Shaw, wife of Dr Jonathan K Shaw '62. 

Among her famous patrons is Gerald Ford, 

while President. Marcia, husband Ron, vice 

president of Disc Technology Associates, and 

sons Matt, 15, and Jeff, 12, do lots of skiing. 

But the boys, who took it up at age 3, flip a 

coin to see who (the loser) gets to ski with 

Mom, who didn't start until after college. 

Martin B Ebbert Jr has been named director 

of personnel services for the Trust Group 

of Hamilton Bank in Lancaser, Pa. He joined 

the bank in '62. Wayne Freihofer, a Phi Delta 

Theta brother, came into town recently and 

we had a wonderful dinner. Although we 

hadn't seen each other in 16 yrs, we had no 

difficulty at all in catching up and getting current. 

Wayne is vice president, operations, for 

Freihofer Bakeries, in Albany, his family's 

steadily growing business. Their excellent 

products delighted all the Phis for days after 

Wayne returned to school from vacations. He 

reports new markets are opening up throughout 

the Northeast. 

Robert M Clifford now manages a production 

contract for Navy tactical data systems 

displays at Hughes Aircraft Co in Fullerton, 

Cal. Ronald Sander has resigned from the Library 

of Congress and now devotes all his 

time to his consulting business; he specializes 

in telecommunications network architecture 

in Severna Park, Md, 

Alan Franklin has been elected regional 

vice president of "The Pirko Group," international 

real estate investors and advisers in 

NYC. Scott Holmes is vice president, corporate 

communications, for Shared Medical Systems 

in King of Prussia, Pa. With wife Joan, 

son Andrew, and daughter Gray, he lives in 

Amble, Pa. John Gray is manager of Ohio 

Pure Foods in Akron, Ohio, a firm developing 

a chilled juice market in the Midwest. 

Also in the food business is Stephen Milks, 

group vice president, Ogden Food Service, 

Boston, Mass. Scott Morrison is manager, 

market planning and analysis, for Exxon 

Minerals. A recent Morrison addition, Lisa 

Ann, has joined sisters Joy and Susan and 

brother Jeff at their household in Westfield, 

NJ. 

So many classmates are medicine men 

(Medicine women, please let's hear from 

you!): Richard Jacobs is an orthopaedic surgeon 

and president of the medical staff of St 

Joseph's Hospital, Paterson, NJ. His children 

are Sharon, 13, and Marcy, 18. Melvin 

Haas has been named chief of the division of 

neurology at University Hospital, Augusta, 

Ga. Mel lives with Elke, daughters Anna, 7, 

and Sara, 3, horses, ponies, foxhounds, and 

assorted "hangers-on" in Aiken, SC. (Do 

you take in classmates, Mel? It sounds beautiful!) 

Harvey Meranus is an oral and maxillafacial 

surgeon in Westbury, LI. Although that 

is also wonderful horse country, Harv reports 

only Sharon, son Jordan, and daughter Darcy 

as dependents. Lewis Mantel is a capt, 

Medical Corps, US Navy. He's a regional 

health care coordinator in Jacksonville, Fla, 

where he lives with Jeanne and sons Scott and 

Brad. If you spread yourself around a bit, 

you could have your whole body taken care 

of by someone from the Class of '61. You 

might live forever! 

Bill Shumann is the speechwriter for the 

Airline Pilots Assn. He and Monica are enjoying 

watching their McLean, Va, home 

shrink as their 6 children grow. Please keep 

the news coming to either (but not both!) of 

us. We hope the July issue will contain a report 

of news of you, and of a classmate 

you've contacted recently. Joe McKay, 

c/o Kline-McKay Inc, 14 E 60th St, NYC 

10022; also, Ken Blanchard, 11490 Cabela PI, 

San Diego, Cal 92127. 

62 Better & Better 

Reunion plans sound better and better, with 

190 classmates "definite" or "hopeful" in 

their plans to return, as of early Mar. Registration 

will open Thurs afternoon, June 10. 

Fri events will include sports (bring your running 

shoes and practice your softball swing), 

forum lectures, tours, Johnson Art Museum 

reception, class dinner, and Savage Club 

show. On Sat's schedule are college receptions, 

class barbecue and banquet, an address 

by Henry Kissinger, Glee Club's Cornelliana 

Night, and, of course, the tents. Sun brunch 

will conclude a busy weekend. 

You'll see Jared Barlow, John Lowrie, 

Dick and Toni Monroe, Judith Schulman 

Weiss, Donald Reed, George Slocum, Fred 

Hart, Patrick Papas, Anthony and Anne 

Hoffman, Don and Maxine Schulman Hamburg, 

Judith Prenske Rich, James Shelton, 

Peter Lockner, Linda Gilinsky Klineman, 

and Bill Baugh. 

Definite plans to return have been indicated 

by John Sullivan, John Neuman, James 

and Mady Jarvis McSweeney, Robert Miller, 

Don Mason, David Ryan, Les '60 and Liz 

Belsky Stiel, Mickey '59 and Linda Goldberg 

Bandler, Frances Denn Gallogly, Carl Meisel, 

Jeff Twine, Eric Von Schilgen, Vincent Vigilante, 

Bob Goldberg, Julie and Ethel Decter, 

James Huttar, and Frances Li. 

Also coming are Duke and Pat Padgitt 

Wellington, Richard Stern, Barbara Byrd 

Wecker, Bruce Rogers, Sanley Kozareski, 

Tom '63 and Nancy Williams Clark, Aileen

Glanternik Murstein, Peter Schuck, Bob 

Newman, Caroline Simon Ladin, Anthony 

Pascal, Kenneth Can field, Tom and Mary 

Holland, and Rich Alther. 

In addition, Carol Abbott Ras, Denny 

Matthew, Bob Blank, Jean Biehler Jenkins, 

Bill Chipin, Penny Zemanek O'Prey, Robert 

Lamson, Fred Rothman, Barbara Leibowitz, 

and Sam Fleming. 

Lori Krieger Yellen will be celebrating at 

Reunion. She's expecting a graduate degree 

in architecture from SUNY, Buffalo, in June. 

She and Richard reside at 103 Surrey Run, 

Amherst. 

"Have received favorable reaction from 

the Pa Bar on 2-volume text, Probate Law 

and Taxation of Transfers, Trusts and Estates. 

It should be touted as a sure cure for insomnia," 

notes Frederick P Rothman. He 

teaches law at Villanova and lives at 79 

Wynnedale Rd, Narbeth, Pa. Jane Barrows 

Tatibouet, 835 Museum Dr, Charlotte, NC, 

is still in the hotel consulting business. She 

has "expanded horizons" to include ownership 

of Apple Hill Farm, a commercial orchard 

in Vale, NC, which produces golden 

delicious and red delicious. The orchard is 

only 45 minutes from her home and has a 

lovely old farmhouse for weekend outings. 

Karl B Wagner is president, Goodloe-Wagner 

Enterprises Inc, a firm specializing in syndication 

and development of investment real 

estate. He teaches commercial-investment 

courses for the National Assn of Realtors 

with John Shelton. Karl enjoys piloting on 

business, and as a hobby. 

First class grandchild is reported by Karen 

Mars Setigio. Karen lives at 30-53 Crescent 

St, Astoria, and has been in retailing in NYC 

since leaving Ithaca. She now sells ladies' 

lingerie for a NY mfr. Karen has 3 sons: one 

in show business, one in security business, 

one NYC policeman. And a grandson, 4. 

Request from Elizabeth Pomada, 

who is beginning a book for Little, 

Brown on America's "Left Bank," 

a cultural history of Greenwich 

Village. She welcomes memories, anecdotes, 

and photos of life in the Village. Please call 

(415) 673-0939, or write to her at 1029 Jones, 

San Francisco, Cal. 

Invitation from Robert E Grattidge to let 

him know if you are planning to attend the 

'88 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, 

Canada. His new address is 5105 46th Ave, 

Camrose, Alta T4V345. 

In this and earlier columns, I've tried to list 

everyone whose Reunion plans are known at 

this time. If your name hasn't been mentioned, 

come anyway! Have just received a 

new printout of class addresses; if you're 

searching for someone, let me know—and 

send news of yourself. See you in June! 

Jan McClayton Crites, 2779 Dellwood Dr, 

Lake Oswego, Ore 97034. 

64 First Timers 

All your dues bring lots of news, including 

items from classmates who have written for 

the 1st time since I have been correspondent: 

Neil Tamber, 21 Turkey Meadow Rd, 

Trumbull, Conn, with wife Susan and their 2 

children, reports he and Bob Imowitz are 

working together at Chesebrough Ponds in 

Greenwich, Conn, Neil as manager of marketing 

research for the Prince Matchabelli division 

and Bob in the same position for the 

health and beauty aids division. Bob commutes 

to Greenwich all the way from his and 

Joan's home at 25 Dunston Dr, East Brunswick, 

NJ. 

Penny Freedman Weill, 2 Oneida Rd, 

Scarsdale, believes in diverse vacations, having 

spent the last 2 sailing in the British Vir- 


gins and skiing in Vt. Penny also believes in 

keeping busy: working as a real estate agent, 

writing a column for Spotlight magazine of 

Westchester and serving on the boards of the 

women's division of Albert Einstein College 

of Medicine, Westchester Women's Israeli 

Bonds and Westchester Pleasantville League. 

She and husband Jeffrey have 3 teen-age children—the 

oldest is Stephanie '85 in Arch. 

Rob and Helen Schonbrun Schreiber '68, 

who live at 44 Ruth Dr, New City, with their 

2 children, also took a long vacation last yr— 

to Mexico, for "sun and fun—too much 

sun." Rob reports having recently departed 

IBM after 16 yrs to a new job as vice president 

of plans and controls for the information 

services division of Salomon Brothers 

Inc. 

Up in Schenectady, at 2333 Knolls View 

Dr, Joe DeMeo, wife Christine, and their 

young son have vacationed recently in Fla, 

and Sweden before that. Joe is an investment 

broker with Paine Webber Jackson Curtis, a 

member of CC of Schenectady, and coaches 

wrestling. Over in Naples (RD #1), John H 

Braham reports engaging in the interesting (if 

diverse) hobbies and family activities of antique 

cars, wind surfing, cross-country skiing, 

and making wine sauce. John and wife 

Katharine have 2 teen-age children. Tim 

Hamilton, 3 Brunswick Dr, Morganville, NJ, 

also took an exhaustive vacation recently, to 

Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, and Germany. 

Tim did not say whether he and wife Debby 

took their 4 children along. Tim is director of 

R&D for Johnson & Johnson Products Inc. 

Scott Ledbetter, who lives at 395 Goodwyn, 

Memphis, Tenn, with wife Mary Margaret 

and their 3 children, keeps busy on the 

work and civic front. He is chief executive officer 

of BiWood International, which deals in 

foreign trade of hardwood products, and also 

handles real estate investments. In addition, 

Scott is president of the Memphis Arts Council 

and the Memphis Museum of Natural and 

Cultural History; trustee of the Hutchinson 

School; on the board of the Boys Clubs of 

Memphis; finance chairman for a local congressional 

candidate; and a member of the 

Leadership Memphis Class of '82. To the 

north, Kathleen Peterson Nicol, 1801 Linneman 

St, Glenview, 111, with husband David 

and 3 children, is a pastor in the United 

Methodist Church. Her most recent "vacation" 

was an Appalachian Service Project 

trip to Ky. 

We have news from former news-givers as 

well: Jim Wooden, vice president of the securities 

research division of Merrill Lynch in 

NYC, reports having appeared on PBS's 

"Wall Street Week" last Mar 19. Hope some 

of you saw him. Jim has been on Wall St 13 

yrs, with MLPF&S the last 7. Way out West, 

congrats to Marty Cardon, who just got married. 

Tag "Irner" onto her name now, and 

write Marty at 58 Atwood Ave, Sausalito, 

Cal. Back in New England, another congrats 

to Judith Mabel Christensen and husband 

Jon, 50 Naples Rd, Brookline, Mass, on the 

birth of their 2nd child, another son, last 

Aug. Another new baby congrats to Dr Lois 

Copeland Sperling, 25 Sparrow Bush Rd, Upper 

Saddle River, NJ, on the birth of a new 

daughter last Apr. She and husband Richard 

have 2 older children, plus a menagerie that 

includes assorted birds, dogs, and rabbits. 

And new baby congrats also go to Dr Stephen 

Herr. He and wife Meteer also had their baby 

last Apr. The Herrs live at 6100 Fairview PI, 

Agoura, Cal, having been married since our 

15th Reunion. Stef practices gastroenterology 

in nearby Canoga Park. 

Two classmates recently passed CPA exams: 

Nancy Lore Einhorn, who lives with 

classmate-husband Stephen and 2 sons at 

8049 N Links Way, Milwaukee, Wise; and 

Carol Willner Thurm of 8 N Bridge Terr, 

Mount Kisko. Nancy reports family activities 

as "freezing in Milwaukee" as she looks for 

work, while Stephen is a merger and acquisition 

consultant. Carol, an accountant, and 

husband Joel have 3 daughters. And job congrats 

go to Douglas Cooper, 276 Marlborough 

St, Boston, Mass, who has been 

promoted to associate professor of environmental 

physics at the Harvard School of 

Public Health. 

Leslie Daus Stacy, Stonegate 4A3, Peekskill, 

just received an MS in guidance counseling 

from Long Isl U, while Nick Carroll, 

still at 1109 San Leon Ct, Solana Beach, Cal, 

with wife Cayle and 3 children, recently 

started his own business in real estate syndications. 

Nick also reports having finally gotten 

to Hawaii last yr after 10 yrs' trying. 

Keep those News & Dues coming. Bev 

Johns Lamont, 720 Chestnut St, Deerfield, 

111 60015. 

65 Remember When? 

Rick Adrion writes from Arlington, Va, 

where he is with the National Science Foundation 

as a program director in computer 

sciences. He visits 10-15 universities each yr, 

including a recent major visit to Cornell's 

computer sciences department. Remember, 

when we were on the Hill, the computers were 

in Rand Hall by the light at Triphammer 

Bridge, probably the smallest building on 

campus? 

Owen Wavrinek tells us of an unofficial 

and thoroughly enjoyable Class of '65 minireunion 

with Ken and Kathy Banse, Richard 

Post, Joel Gormley, and Dr John Steiner at 

John's house in Mahopec. Owen and Martha 

live in Napierville, 111, where he is with Standard 

Oil and active on the local board of education. 

Thanks for the news and classmates' 

addresses, Owen. 

Larry R Smith, Omaha, Neb, sails the 

Great Lakes for a summer hobby. He's done 

Lakes Michigan and Huron, and plans to sail 

Lake Erie and through the Erie Canal to our 

own Cayuga Lake in the summer of '82. He 

writes, "See you then!" Sail to Reunion in 

'85, Larry, and bring photographs. 

Robert T Leshner, MD '69, and Elisabeth 

(Weckesser), Nursing '69, live in Richmond, 

Va, where he is a neurology professor at the 

Medical College of Va. This family also enjoys 

sailing. 

Marvin Foster and his wife Gloria live in 

Aurora, Colo, where he is with Ford truck 

sales. Marvin is on the Secondary Schools 

Committee there, recently organized a Coors 

Brewery tour for the local Cornell Club, and 

says the club has a monthly "Zinck's Night at 

Zang's Lounge." Good work, Colo Cornellians! 

Scot MacEwan, 2065 NW Flanders, 

Portland, Ore 97209. 

67 Last Call 

That's right. This is likely to be the last mention 

you'll see of the upcoming 15th Reunion, 

June 10-13. From the reports the column 

has received this yr, turnout should be 

well above average: if you're thinking of 

making the trip, this looks to be the one when 

lots of others have decided to come back too. 

Jim Foster, however, seems to be going the 

other way, from NY to Atlanta, Ga, to be 

precise, where he's been named vice president-treasurer 

of Fuqua Industries Inc. But 

early potential winner of the Class of '67 

Plunge for Distance (named in honor of an 

Olympic event held only in the 1904 games) 

may be Robert A Engel, PO Box 2421, Santa 

Fe, NM, who says he'll be at Reunion.

Married last May in Cambridge, Mass, 

were Douglas H Ginsburg, a professor at 

Harvard Law, and Hallee Perkins Morgan, a 

physician. Dennis J Kakol, 510 Devonshire 

La, Severna Park, Md, is a construction mgt 

consultant in business for himself as an adviser 

on claims. Victor M Zion, 7 Briarcliff, Mahomet, 

111, a retinal surgeon, reports arrival 

of 4th child, Lenore Margot, last Apr 15. 

Robert L Thompson, 2849 Henderson 

Ave, W Lafayette, Ind, is associate professor 

at Purdue's dept of ag economics, working in 

the international trade area. In a few months 

last yr, Bob made it to Portugal, Brazil, the 

Philippines, Taiwan, and Korea. Susan A 

Loveland ("never changed name"), 25 Longview 

Rd, Port Washington * is a computer 

programmer at City U of NY, doing simulations 

and statistical analysis on student data. 

She and husband Douglas Hodes welcomed 

their 2nd boy, Caleb, the day before Christmas 

'80, to join Nathaniel, 3. 

Robert E Silberglied, a Smithsonian 

Inst research entomologist, 

^ } --$ died Jan 13 in the Air Florida crash 

at Wash, DC. He had been a member 

of the Smithsonian Tropical Research 

Inst and the Harvard faculty since '76, where 

he had received his PhD in '73. Thomas Eisner, 

professor of neurobiology and behavior 

at Cornell, recalls, "He was instrumental in 

mobilizing a conservation effort that resulted 

in the eventual preservation of Lignumvitae 

Key, one of the last remaining unspoiled islands 

off the Fla coast." Dr Silberglied managed 

to produce 24 scientific papers on evolution 

of insect behavior, butterfly courtship 

and coloration, plant-insect relationships, 

mimicry, and Galapagos Isl insects. A memorial 

fund has been established: contributions 

may be sent to Robert E Silberglied Memorial 

Fund, Accounting Office, Section M, Smithsonian 

Inst, Wash, DC 20560. 

Kenneth W Drummer, Old Shop Rd, PO 

Box 97, Cross River is vice president of Frank 

B Hall Consulting Co and editor of Health 

Care Cost Containment Agenda, a bimonthly 

publication. Rick Wright, 73 Strawberry Pt, 

Bellingham, Wash, and wife Sharon (Wolf) 

'68 own a wholesale nursery specializing in 

Northwest native plants. Their work features 

considerable field collection of plants which 

are reestablished in the nursery prior to sale. 

The Wrights are also restoring an older home 

on a large lake near the Canadian border. 

Sharon works on a 2nd bachelor's degree in 

accounting and sons Owen, 7, and Tracy, 

2!/2, are growing up quickly. Richard B 

Hoffman, 2925 28th St, NW, Wash, DC 

20008. 

68 Moving Moments 

Susan J Whittier, 2240 Bay St, #103, San 

Francisco, Cal, keeps in touch with many former 

classmates. Susan, a vice president and 

associate director of Botsford Ketchum Public 

Relations, reports that Joyce Davis Sand is 

also with the firm. Joyce, 1180 Filbert St, 

#404, is an advertising account supervisor. 

Sue also writes of a stopover visit from Tina 

Forrester Cleland and her husband Rusty on 

their way back from Japan. In their honor, 

Sue hosted a mini-reunion with Joyce Van 

Degna Snell, Sue Sands '68, Virginia Rowan 

Smith, and Ellen Isaacson Goldman '69 in attendance. 

Jeannie Smiley Colling sends news of her 

brood: Ken '67, 6th grader Christine, sportsman 

Kevin, 9, and toddler Erin Elizabeth, 3, 

who Jeannie is certain is "severely gifted." 

Two summers ago, on a Fri afternoon, Ken 

called home to announce that he was being 

transferred back to Kaiser Hosp in Fontana, 

Cal. Mon, Jeannie and Ken contacted real- 

tors; Tues, they signed; Wed, they sold the 

house; Sat, they bought a house in Upland 

(934 Darlene Ct); 5 wks later, they moved. 

Jeannie swears that if she didn't know better, 

she'd have thought they were being run out of 

town. 

After 10 yrs with HUD, Larry H Dale accepted 

the position of president, Mid-City Financial 

Corp, a yr ago last Mar. The firm 

does mortgage banking, multi-family housing 

development and management work, primarily 

in the Mid-Atlantic states. Larry (8103 

Glenmore Spring Rd, W Bethesda, Md) reports 

seeing Stephen "Tim" Honey, who was 

in DC for the League of Cities Conference. 

Tim, 26 Orland St, is city manager of Portland, 

Me. 

Kristin Davis David (106 Garden Rd, 

Scarsdale) sends news of Dee Laffin, who 

teaches at Suffolk Community College on 

Long Isl. Last yr, Dee was in the process of 

rebuilding her home at 528 Terrace Rd, Baypoint, 

which was badly damaged in a fire 

shortly before Christmas '80. Nancy Nichols 

Harvey, Box 89, Dunham Hill, RD #4, Binghamton, 

is a high school chemistry teacher. 

She and James enjoyed a trek to the Minn 

lake country, and sailed and camped on Lake 

George. 

David K Kilbon, his wife Linda, and their 2 

children live at 1 Heather Lane, E Granby, 

Conn. David has been appointed assistant 

secretary, underwriting, in the group insurance 

operations of Conn General Life. He 

has been with the firm since '68; prior to this 

promotion, he was manager of underwriting 

systems. Robert L Oakley, 23 Pine Grove 

Ave, Sharon, Mass, is director of the law library 

at Boston \J School of Law. Bob has 

been exploring New England in his spare time 

since his move from Ithaca in '80. 

Sally Best Patterson takes frequent trips 

with her children, Douglas, 11, Seth, 9, and 

Jessica, 6. Their most recent vacations included 

Padre Isl, Texas, and 2 wks in Hawaii. 

The kids also take advantage of the Colo 

mountains and are rapidly becoming ski 

addicts. Sally, who is divorced from Bob Patterson 

'69, is assistant director of college guidance 

and head of a girls' dorm at the Fountain 

Valley School in Colo Springs. Business 

trips included conventions in Detroit, Mich, 

and St Louis, Mo, a workshop in Chicago, 

111, and a wk in the Yucatan with students. 

Sally reports that Kathy Boltrek Krassa is finishing 

work for her PhD in molecular, cellular, 

and developmental biology at the U of 

Colo in Boulder, and also that Chris Lewin 

LeGore (c/o Born, RFD #1, Box 14 AB, Liberty, 

Me) teaches math at the U of Maine. 

The mild southern climate of Charleston, 

SC, America's "most historic city," has great 

appeal for Alfred "Tod" and Susan Bowie 

Reynolds. Tod is president of Island Enterprises, 

a tour and transportation company 

serving the new resort on Kiawah Isl that offers 

a 600-room inn, golf, tennis, and 10 

miles of beach. Tod reports a trip back home 

to Ind, where he visited George '69 and the 

rest of the Reynolds family. 

In early '80, Peter Susser (14 Old Farm Rd, 

Great Neck) resigned from Chase Manhattan 

to acquire DRS Inc, wholesalers of gold and 

silver chain, jewelry supplies, and watch 

parts, located at 15 W 47th St, NYC, in the 

heart of the jewelry district. Peter writes that 

running his own business is a dramatic 

change from the banking world, but that even 

after a period of watching the price of gold 

fluctuate like a yo-yo, he would never go 

back. Corinne Dopslaff Smith, 38 Dundee 

Ct, Mahwah, NJ 07430. 

69 Babies & Jobs 

My latest batch of News & Dues notices can 

easily be divided into 2 groups: babies and 

jobs. First the babies—Suzanne Backiel Slattery 

gave birth to a 2nd daughter, Megan 

Anne, last July. They live in Annandale, Va. 

Stanley Hecht also became a parent for the 

2nd time when Rimona Sarah was born last 

Oct. He lives in Los Angeles, Cal. Carol Merrifield 

Giordano is taking a break from teaching 

to care for her son Peter, born in Mar '81. 

They live in Bellport. Zell Berman Rosenfelt 

also has 2 daughters, the latest was born in 

Apr '81. The other is now 3. Zell is still trying 

to find time to work on her PhD dissertation 

at George Washington U. Stephen Goldberger's 

son Joshua Nathan was born in Feb '81. 

He and Diane celebrated Superbowl Sunday 

with Stew Cramer, and Ron Gaster and wife 

Mindy. Stew was in Huntington Beach, Cal, 

where Steve lives for a cytology course. Stew 

is a pathologist at Rochester General Hospital 

and Steve has a medical practice in Westminster, 

Cal. 

On the job front, Kathy Kohles McGuinn 

has moved to American Express Canada Inc 

as a product manager in the personal card division. 

Husband Bob is a marketing manager 

for West Bend of Canada. They live in Islington, 

Ont. Judith Rawski Kleen is the controller 

of Sunpower Inc, a small research and 

development company that specializes in stirling 

engines. Husband Leslie, MA '68, 

teaches computer and electronic music at 

Ohio U. The Kleens and 2 children, Jennifer, 

9, and Karin, 6, live in Athens, Ohio. Arthur 

C Nilsen is national director of Corporate 

Support Services. Arthur M Phillips III has 

been promoted to chairmanship of the biology 

dept and curatorship of biology at the 

Museum of N Ariz in Flagstaff. Edward R 

Belak Jr has accepted a position at the AVP 

level at Dartmouth National Bank in Hanover, 

NH, as the bank's marketing officer. 

Richard J Poznysz is an AVP with the municipals 

dept of State St Bank and Trust Co, 

Boston, Mass. He also has a cranberry farm 

which had a good crop last yr—"Drink lots 

of cranberry juice." Robert S Patterson is the 

executive director of the Colo Opera Festival 

in Colo Springs. He has 3 children, Doug, 11, 

Seth, 9, and Jessica, 6. Ron Gidron also has 3 

children: Dani, 12, Nathalie, 9, and Miriam, 

4. Ron has left ITT and now runs his own 

business of Alternative Energies (solar, heat 

recomposition, chimneys, etc). He says selfemployment 

leaves more time for hobbies, 

family, etc. His wife Lourdes teaches at the 

American Montessori School and is having 

fun. They are living in Spain. Marsha Gold 

now commutes from Wash, DC, to Baltimore, 

Md, where she is director, policy analysis 

and program evaluation, in the Md Dept 

of Health and Mental Hygiene. She says she 

is enjoying herself and finds state government 

an interesting place to be now. Cheryl Margolies 

Ferrara works part time as a school social 

worker in Hartsdale. Husband Anthony, 

a Columbia Law School grad, has opened his 

own law firm in midtown Manhattan. They 

and their 2 children, Alex, 7, and Julie, 3, live 

in a home they recently bought in Yonkers. A 

news release reports that Stuart Lourie has 

joined the Texas-based Industrial Relations 

International Inc, consultants to management. 

Continental 111 National Bank also informs 

us that Sharon S Bond has been elected 

a vice president in the trust and investment 

services dept. 

Finally, environmental news from Claire 

Scully DeLauro, who reports she and Al are 

battling Cal mudslides. "The skiing in the 

Sierras is great, but digging out mud in the SF 

area is terrible. We'd rather shovel snow!" Al

has been doing management consulting on an 

international basis this past yr and they traveled 

to New Zealand and Bora Bora. Deborah 

Huffman Schenk, 219 Kane St, Brooklyn, 

NY 11231. 

'78 he received a Mellon faculty fellowship 

for research at the U of Rochester, and has 

master's and PhD degrees from the U of 

Mass. Connie Ferris Meyer, 16 James 

Thomas Rd, Malvern, Pa 19355. 

70 Promotions Galore 71 Who's Where 

In Jan '81, Cathy Nichols-Mannirtg (29438 

Quailwood, Rancho Palos Verdes, Cal) was 

elected a partner of McKinsey and Co, The 

firm specializes in top management problemsolving 

and implementation for corporate 

and governmental clients around the world. 

Cathy, who received her MBA in '72 from 

Harvard Business School, joined McKinsey 

in '74, in Los Angeles. Her expertise is in business 

strategy and organization issues for consumer 

products and service companies. Dr 

Marc Cohen (Florham Park, NJ) was named 

director of the LTI (long-term intervention) 

infectious diseases therapeutic section for the 

Pharmaceuticals division of CIBA-GEIGY 

Corp, in Feb '81. Marc received his MD degrees 

from Downstate Med Center in '72 and 

in '78 he completed his post-doctoral studies 

in internal medicine at NYU and joined 

CIBA-GEIGY. Tom Commito and his wife 

Jean live in Montpelier, Vt, with their daughters 

Kristin, 5, and Sarah, 3. Tom received his 

JD degree from Boston College Law School 

and his master's in '79 from Boston U Law 

School. He has had a private law practice in 

Framingham, Mass, and was an assistant law 

professor at Babson College. In '79 he joined 

National Life Insurance of Vt as an attorney 

in the advanced sales division as a tax and financial 

advisor and in Feb '81 he was named 

an officer at the company. 

Elliott Hillback has been with Travenol 

Labs for almost 10 yrs and was general manager 

of the Ireland facilities for several yrs. In 

Mar '81, he was appointed director of the 

special business operations for the artificial 

organs division and in Dec '81 he was appointed 

vice president of the same division. 

Elliott, his wife Marjorie, and their 3 children 

live in Northbrook, 111. He received his MBA 

from Harvard and was a capt in the US Army. 

Travenol manufactures a wide range of 

medical-care products. Joe Mussey was 

named operations controller of BF Goodrich 

Co in Mar '81 and deals with management 

controls, corporate analysis, and external reporting. 

Joe served as an officer in the Navy 

from '70-75, received his MBA from Harvard 

in '76 and started with Goodrich as a financial 

analyst in '76. At Goodrich he has been 

manager of operations analysis, director of 

analysis for engineered products, and director 

of product administration for industrial 

products. Isobel White West '34 reports that 

Dr Stuart Kendall is on the staff of Martha's 

Vineyard Hospital and that he passed the 

American Board of Internal Medicine certifying 

exam in '77 in the 99th percentile! 

Robert DeLuca was appointed vice president 

of finance and administration for Amerchol 

Corp (an affiliate of CPC International 

Inc) in Edison, NJ, in Apr '81. Bob received 

his MBA from the Wharton School, U of 

Penn, and started with CPC in '75. He was 

both senior financial analyst in the corn products 

unit and vice president of finance administration 

at Acme Resin Corp, a sister company. 

Bob and his wife have 2 children and 

live in Bridgewater, NJ. Associate professor 

Richard Feldman (218 Inglewood Dr, Rochester), 

who has been a member of the U of 

Rochester's philosophy dept since '75, was 

appointed chairman of the dept in July '81. 

Richard specializes in epistemology, the philosophy 

of psychology, and metaphysics; has 

written numerous articles and reviews for 

publication; and has lectured extensively. In 


Douglas Stone, Mary Ann, and Meredith, 2, 

live in Ft Collins, Colo, where he's a department 

head with Kodak. Bruce and Lynne 

Heichemer Clark are newsless from Denver, 

Colo. 

Many of us are Californians: Kathleen Sefcik 

Tice and Sharon Schatz are still in LA, as 

is Erik Hansen, a partner in charge of real 

estate and recreation industry consulting for 

Peat Marwick . . . who spends "a lot of time 

riding fast motorcycles." Alan Roth is in 

Sierra Madre, while Alan and Lois Kopolow 

live in Culver City, where he's a commercial 

loan officer with Crocker Bank. Kim, Linnea, 

4, and Liz DeCosta Housewright are in 

Fullerton, and Fred and Mary Loomis Savage 

grow "artichokes to zucchini" in their ι 

Λ 

acre in Long Beach. She's an independent 

sales and marketing consultant. Now based in 

Newport Beach, Wm Spindler works for 

FLUOR, which frequently sends this pipeline 

engineer to Alaska. Joel and Marilyn Loeb 

Weixel '72 and Steven, 3, live in Goleta. He's 

a budget and planning supervisor with Raytheon; 

she's a flight instructor and counselor. 

Listing San Francisco politics as his hobby, 

A Lee Knight can be found working as executive 

assistant to the president, SF Chamber of 

Commerce. Charles Himmelblau does materials 

engineering for Lockheed and plays 

baritone horn in the San Jose City College 

symphonic band. Also living in Menlo Park 

are Chris and Kathryn Gould, their daughter 

Whitney, 5, and son Christopher, 3. Gould is 

in equipment leasing and the family races 

sailboats. A new address for Frank Stewart in 

Benicia, while Tom and Dianne Paolucci are 

still in Campbell with Computhink Corp. 

Mike Milley now works for CONSAT General, 

near his home in Palo Alto, which is also 

home to Joseph, Grad '69-70, and Phyllis 

Vίlleneuve Haletsky, Charles, 8, Leila, 5, and 

Nina, 2. Phyllis teaches high school dropouts, 

getting their GED, and he's music director 

of Theaterworks. All are members of 

"Fools Rush In," a religious mime troup. 

Still single in San Jose, attorney Brick Mc- 

Intosh finds time for Cornell Club there and 

a recent Hawaii vacation. Also unmarried 

and traveling, partying, gardening, and restoring 

jukeboxes is Stephen Joseph, a Hewlett 

Packard engineering project manager at 

the new Roseville division. And the last of the 

Cal group are Kenneth '73 and Nanci Levy 

Goldman, from Los Gatos. He's a tax attorney 

with Intel and she directs finance and administration 

for VLSI Technology. 

Four classmates live in Ariz and NM: William 

Joseph Mackey is a poet in Scottsdale 

which is also called home by David Reynolds 

and Lin and Richard Stewart. Richard is a 

manager with Motorola. Bruce, Meredith, 2, 

and Candace Olin Kroehl are in "CAFB, NM 

88101," where she's a child care center director 

and he a pilot separating from the USAF. 

Our Texan without news is Mark Schulte 

from Duncanville, while Bob Staehle is director 

of food and beverage at the Dunfey Dallas 

Hotel. Robert Beadle lives in Roanoke 

with Serenella and Michelle, 6, Barbara, 2, 

and Robert Jr, 1. This dad is assistant director, 

Investor Relations with Diamond Shamrock. 

Scott McKee seems our sole soul in 

Seattle. Elisabeth Kaplan Boas, Box 236, 

Greens Farms, Conn 06436. 

72 Danish Toast 

Frances Holmes Kozen is enjoying a relaxing 

year in Denmark while husband Dexter is on 

a sabbatical at the university there. She's in 

charge of arranging as much European travel 

as possible during their Denmark stay. She'll 

be toasting our 10-yr Reunion from overseas 

but Walter Molofsky hopes to be in Ithaca 

with his wife Brenda, a pediatric endocrinologist, 

and new daughter, Danielle, born Oct 3, 

'81. Walter works for the U of Medicine and 

Dentistry of NJ as a pediatric neurologist and 

has a private medical practice. 

His brother Robert Molofsky has recently 

moved to Wash, DC, where he is legislative 

director for the Amalgamated Transit union. 

David Koo is also in Wash, with the Carnegie 

Institute, as a fellow in astrophysics. He was 

married last Sept to Anne Hockenbocht. 

From Susan Metzger: "David Adler and I 

are delighted by the enthusiastic response to 

our letters and past columns. 

"Reunion is next month and we want to 

stress that it is for everyone—married, single, 

divorced, with kids or without them—whether 

your life is in transition or if things are going 

along very smoothly. 

"We're planning a very special 4 days, and 

we hope to see you next month, June 10-13." 

• Linda Johanson Beal, 16142 Castile Dr, 

Whittier, Cal 90603. 

73 Think Ahead 

Nancy Miller Clifford writes—on an Anabel 

Taylor note card that she and Dick '74 moved 

to Maplewood, NJ, last summer and that 

daughter Abbey Elizabeth was born July 28, 

'81. Nancy, who works on a consultant basis 

for the National Council for Alternative 

Work Patterns, often lectures before local 

groups about new work styles in industry. 

Dick works in brand management for Colgate-Palmolive 

in NYC. 

Frank P Scruggs IΓs appointment to the 

Fla Board of Regents by Governor Bob Graham 

was unanimously confirmed by the Fla 

Senate on Mar 10, '82. Accordingly, a Cornellian 

has now joined 3 former speakers of 

the House of Representatives, 2 bank presidents, 

and the daughter of a former governor 

on the board. 

At a Mar 11 meeting at the Cornell Club of 

NYC, Jon Kaplan and Susan Robbins informed 

Bob Morrison, Barbara Byrnes, John 

Mackay, Tom Pollock, and this correspondent 

of tentative plans for our fast-approaching 

10th Reunion* little more than a yr away, 

and the class's goals: to double the previous 

attendance record, and to break records in 

contributions to the Cornell Fund for a 10th 

Reunion class. 

Through the efforts of Jon Kaplan and 

others on the Special Gifts Committee, by 

Mar 15, '82, $46,000 of the $150,000 sought 

(which is triple the existing Cornell 10th Reunion 

class-giving record and ties the US record 

set by Princeton) has already been raised 

from the following 33 classmates, who have 

pledged at least $1,000 each, including several 

whose pledges are at or above the $2,000 

Tower Club level: Mark Bromberg, Bill Cagney, 

Paul Cashman, Philip Cheng, Bill 

Grant, Joel and Rose Jachter Greenman, 

Eliot Greenwald, Doug Herz, Walt Johnsen, 

Marian Kadlubowski, Jon Kaplan, John 

Kontrabecki, James H Kaye, Laura Hawkey 

Livingston, Barbara Phillips Long, John 

Mackay, Wayne Merkelson, Wendy Weingarten 

Miller, Howard Milstein, Tom Mulligan, 

David Osborn, Jean Osborn, Bob Platt, 

Louis "Dusty" Profumo, Susan Robbins, 

Sheri Ross, Tony Sabella, Ed Schechter, 

Frank Scruggs II, Toby Spector, Jeff Stern,

and Mark Wurzel. 

Although gifts of the aforementioned 

amounts facilitate our record-breaking goal, 

we seek many contributions in any amounts 

below the "Special Gift" category. Your gift 

becomes even more valuable if your employer 

has a matching gift policy. If you haven't yet 

been approached by a member of the Special 

Gifts Committee, but would like to discuss 

your participation, please telephone Jon Kaplan 

[office (216) 352-444, ext 2833; home 

(216) 249-5008—office preferred] or Susan 

Robbins [office (212) 935-9800; home (212) 

751-5724]. Susan would be pleased to hear 

from representatives of fraternities, sororities, 

clubs, or other groups who would like to 

encourage Reunion attendance within their 

respected groups. 

Our Reunion chairman is Eliot Greenwald, 

(202) 966-2439. Planned events include: Fri 

—a very casual '60s Night, including a vegetarian 

dinner catered by the Moosewood Restaurant, 

and folk singers, arranged by Barbara 

Phillips Long with the Folk Song Club 

of Ithaca; Sat—back by popular demand, a 

picnic, and color war competition, followed 

by a prominent guest speaker (Henry Kissinger 

is scheduled for this yr, William F Buckley 

spoke in '81). For the evening, a black-tie 

optional Color Ball is planned for a location 

with a view. Sun's plans include a bagel 

brunch and class business meeting. 

James H Kaye, 265 Hicks St, Apt 4, Brooklyn, 

NY 11201. 

74 Happy Spring! 

There's lots of news to report—thanks to 

your good response. The teaching world has 

claimed a number of '74 classmates: M Pauline 

Baker writes from Macomb, 111, she is 

now on the faculty at W 111 U, teaching computer 

science courses. Tom Brotherton is 

assistant professor in information and computer 

science at the U of Hawaii, where he recently 

completed a PhD in electrical engineering. 

Bruce Bailey recently received tenure at 

SUNY, Albany, where he's a research meteorologist 

specializing in wind energy. He also 

runs a consulting firm in Albany called Associated 

Weather Services. Theodore Cardell Jr 

now lives in Flushing, after a 5-yr teaching 

stint in Japan. He's employed by the Japanese 

School of NY as an English/American 

social studies teacher and a liaison between 

the Japanese and American staff. 

News from the South: David Sangster reports 

he's setting up his family medical practice 

in an office across the street from 

Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. It's easy 

to figure out where he'll spend his spare time! 

Patricia Barker von Reyn and husband John 

live in Woodbridge, Va. She served in the 

Peace Corps in Swaziland from '77-79 and is 

now employed by US Dept of Ag in Wash, 

DC. Vic and Libby St John Weinstein moved 

to Charleston, SC, in June '81 and report 

they love it, so far. Annette and James 

Hecker, married 7 yrs, live in Houston, 

Texas, with daughter Crystal Lynn, 2. Jim 

writes he worked as a chemical engineer for 

duPont for 3 yrs, then went to the U of Houston 

to get an MS in accountancy, and now 

works for Arthur Andersen as an auditor. 

From South of the Border, Esteban Rosas 

Jr (Chem E) reports he's living in Durango, 

Mexico, and teaching economics part-time at 

the local university. He received an MBA in 

'79 from the U of the Americas in Mexico City. 

Now he owns one-third of a business dealing 

with treatment and industrialization of 

lumber. 

There's lots of news again this month on 

the baby scene. Kay and Phil Terzian of 

Mountain View, Cal, welcomed their 1st 

child, Erin Kay, into the world in Aug '81. 

Keith and Debbie Davis Ward '76 announce 

the birth of daughter Cheri Beth in Sept '81. 

Richard and Martha Bobst Furie, of NYC, 

report that Liz (Williams) '73 and Paul Spector 

have a new baby, Scott William, and Beth 

and Scott Gillin have a new son James Brian. 

And Pamela Lockwood Bassette writes from 

Honeoye Falls that she's the happy mother of 

2 children. 

From Del Mar, Cal, Jeff Dillingham writes 

he finished his PhD in engineering at U of 

Cal, Berkeley, in '79, and is now vice president 

of Offshore Technology Corp in Escondido. 

Jeff says he's still single. (That was in 

Nov '81!) Also in Escondido is Rodrick Barongi, 

a member of the Cornell Club of San 

Diego and on the curatorial staff of the San 

Diego Wild Animal Park. Gretchen Dorfner 

Frank writes from Menlo Park, Cal, that she 

and Matthew welcomed their 2nd child, Alexandra 

Hannon, in Oct '81. 

In New England: Laurie Davis lives in 

Peaks Isl, Me, an island 3 miles out in Portland's 

harbor. She commutes to work by 

ferry, and is employed by the City of Portland 

as the senior evaluator responsible for 

monitoring and evaluating various municipal 

programs. Sunny and Mark Wright live in S 

Londonderry, Vt, with new daughter Emma 

Beattie, born Oct '81. Dave, DVM '77, and 

Susan Franklin Wolfthal '76 live in Randolph, 

Mass, a suburb of Boston. Susan is 

working at Harvard Med School as a research 

assistant in electron microprobe analysis, and 

Dave has just joined a veterinary practice in 

Whitman, Mass, which he loves. 

Another class veterinarian is Robert Carell, 

who lives with wife Meg Winter in Fort Lauderdale, 

Fla, where he also practices. In Syracuse, 

Irene Ovitt Werner works at the emergency 

room of a local hospital, having completed 

a family practice residency in June '81. 

Lots of classmates have settled in NJ. 

Clark Dingman graduated from Princeton 

Theological Seminary in '80 and is now director 

of the Hospice of Burlington County. He 

lives in Trenton. Sandra Smith lives in Lawrenceville, 

and works as a research associate 

for the Squibb Inst for Medical Research. 

Sandra completed an MS in microbiology at 

Cornell. Steven J Kubisen of New Brunswick, 

NJ, has been working for 3 yrs at Union Carbide, 

having completed his PhD in organic 

chemistry at Harvard. Marie Phillips lives in 

West End, NJ, and is in private practice as an 

occupational therapist, specializing in home 

care service for the physically disabled. She 

received an MA in occupational therapy from 

NYU in '78. 

Assorted other news: Fred Palmer is an associate 

with Hugh Humphreys Esq in Hamilton. 

Nancy Geiselmann-Hamill has completed 

her 2nd year as district justice and is already 

thinking about the '85 election. She 

likes her work, but laments the fact that 

there's no job security in an elected position. 

She lives and works in Stevens, Pa. Russ 

OΉara lives in NYC and works in the corporate 

food service division of Allied Stores— 

"Natural for a hotelie," he says. David Osterhoudt 

works for Hewlett-Packard and has 

been married for more than 2 yrs to Maria 

Elisabeth Mayo. And Mark and Wendy Zurn 

Allen live with their children in St Charles, 

111: Mark is in field marketing with Pepsi 

Cola. Kristen Rupert, 37 Worcester St, 

Belmont, Mass 02178. 

75 Think Spring 

Lots of news has reached me out here in the 

middle of the Pacific—I hope you are all into 

full spring swing now, and that the winter of 

'82 is just a bad memory. 

Several of the entrepreneurs in our class 

have news: Daniel G Olasin has founded Interchart, 

a company for producting slide 

presentations and computer graphic systems. 

Dan also found time to get married last yr— 

his wife Regina is in her 4th yr of medical 

school. Jill Gerber Flanzraich is president 

and owner of a NY-based company, Development 

Specialists Inc. They function primarily 

as consultants to the non-profit sector. 

Other classmates are busy, as well: Warren 

Schimpf is living in Wilmington, Del, with his 

wife and 2 sons, 4 and 2 ι 

Λ. Warren currently 

works as a research engineer for Hercules 

Inc. Karen Leung Moore was married in Dec 

'80, and is now working in sales for Electromedix 

in Chicago, 111, distributing electrical 

medical equipment. Laurie Gottlieb Jed is 

working as an occupational therapy consultant 

for health care facilities in the Westchester 

area. 

William Haner is now a capt in the Army 

Corps of Engineers, and is stationed at Fort 

Belvoir, Va. He and his wife Janet have a 

baby daughter. Barbara Wright Greenthal 

writes she is pursuing a career in commercial 

production in Cal. She is a production assistant 

for Foote, Cone and Belding's Mazda 

commercials. Michael Francis is in Orlando, 

Fla, working for the management consulting 

firm Philip, Crosby, Assoc Inc, as a management 

trainee in charge of inventory and purchasing. 

Ellen Perry Dole and Randy are living in 

the Boston, Mass, area, where Ellen is an attorney 

working for HUD, and Randy is finishing 

up his PhD at MIT in meteorology. 

Geoffrey Dann recently resigned his commission 

in the Navy, and has moved into electrical 

engineering at the Navy Civil Engineering 

Lab in Port Huenema, Cal. Mike Connor has 

been named news editor of the Syracuse Post 

Standard. 

Richard Reiter is co-owner, chef, and host 

of a Kingston restaurant that specializes in 

modern French cuisine. He is also keeping 

busy with his new young daughter. Speaking 

of babies, they appear to be quite the rage 

now—Gwenn Tannebaum Canfield reports 

the birth of a son, Kenneth Scott, on May 5, 

'81. Gwenn also had an update on several 

other classmates: her sister-in-law Leslie Canfield 

is practicing law in Wash, DC, where 

she frequently sees Ellen Roche and Nancy 

Walker '76. She reports Howie Green is 

working hard for IBM in White Plains, and 

Paul Morris and his wife Marcia (Langwell) 

'74 are in the process of refurbishing their 

dreamhouse in Oradell, NJ. 

Other baby reports: Deborah Whipple Degan 

writes she is "buried in babies" (How 

many, Deb?), and that husband Mike '70 is 

working for Sander's Assoc, in Nashua, NH. 

From Richmond, Va, Kathryn Johnson 

Schneider reports a son, Timothy Robert, 

born June 6, '81. Out of Randolph, Mass, 

Craig Swain announces the arrival of baby 

number 2, Michael Edward, born on Nov 16, 

'81. 

And, we have more updates on careers: 

Richard Adler is now supervisor of review 

and quality control for the New Jericho, LI, 

office of Brout & Co (CPAs). Dave Wright is 

working as a landscape architect in northern 

NJ. Gregory Rubin is regional manager for a 

national consulting firm in Minneapolis, 

Minn. He says he sees classmates John Love 

and Jim Rulmyr up in Minnesota. Lynne 

Whelden is in Williamsport, Pa, working as a 

news cameraman for WBRE TV, after spending 

a yr in filmmaking at Bob Jones U, and 3 

yrs at Temple Medical School. 

Many classmates are back in school, or just 

finishing advanced degrees: Jeanne Wickham 

Lebruto received her MBA last yr from Bab- 

MAY 1982

son College in Wellesley, Mass. Nancy Baldini 

Howard finished her doctorate studies at 

the U of Rochester last fall. She is now living 

with her new husband in Venezuela, where 

she" is a school psychologist. Allen W Nicholson 

is doing postdoctoral work in molecular 

biology at Rockefeller U. Ellen Wetter has 

finished her internship in medicine, and is 

now a 2nd-yr radiology resident at the U of 

Texas Med Center in Houston. 

After getting her MBA at George Washington 

U, Mary Tuthill married Bradley 

Schwartz (Brown '76). Brad's brother, Tom 

'80 was best man. Mary now works for a 

marketing research consulting firm in Wellesley, 

Mass. Daniel Stimson is working on his 

MBA at Loyola College, and at the same time 

is a financial manager for John Deere, in 

Baltimore, Md. Alexandra Hawrylak Soluk 

has earned her master's degree in educational 

administration from U of Cal, Santa Barbara. 

She and her husband are living in LA, 

where she is working for the chancellor of the 

Cal State Us and Colleges, in employe relations. 

Ann Welge Schleppt is back in school 

at Ohio State to study for a master's in labor 

and human resources. She is also currently 

the custody mediator for the Franklin County 

Court of Domestic Relations. 

Please keep those letters and notes coming! 

• Barbara Peterson Champion, 4780 Aukai 

Ave, Honolulu, Hawaii 96816. 

76 Onward, Upward 

Valentine's Day greeted Per John Ostman 

and his wife Susan with their own version of 

Cupid in the form of their 1st son, Per Michael. 

Although the little fellow has not as yet 

taken to flinging arrows, he does, in the 

words of his father, "eat like a machine." 

Ah, like father, like son. 

Alice M Mascette writes she is currently living 

in Wash, DC, doing her internal medicine 

residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. 

Last Oct, Alice worked in an army hospital 

in Nuremberg, W Germany, where she 

met up with her former roommate Margaret 

"Gigi" Altmiller. Gigi, an equestrienne for 

some time, is in Germany buffing up her 

dressage skills. Gigi and Alice toured through 

Europe together stopping in Vienna and Salzburg, 

Austria, and Strasbourg, France. Gigi 

would love to hear from any of her old Cornell 

friends and her address is Gestut Lindenhof, 

4414 Sassenberg 2, W Germany. 

Cathy Stein completed her doctorate in 

pharmacology at the U of Md, Baltimore, 

and has moved to Boston, Mass, for a postdoctorate 

at Harvard Med School's ophthalmology 

dept. Karen Linderman has joined 

the faculty of Eastern College, St Davids, Pa, 

as an instructor of biology. Karen's address is 

7 Dufferyn Ave, Malvern, Pa. 

William J Dalrymple was honored by the 

American Inst of Cooperation for his outstanding 

master's thesis, "Cooperative Equity 

Financing." William is currently in Zaire 

assisting in the development of agricultural 

cooperatives, a project funded by the US 

Dept of State. 

Ethel Oricchio Scully is in Stamford, 

Conn, and she has been appointed manager 

of market planning and development for Pitney 

Bowes Business Systems, International. 

Ethel also completed her MBA from NYU 

last Dec. Clayton M Albright III, 42 

Woodside Dr, Centreville, Del 19807. 

77 At Work, In School 

Brooke Schumm III was best man at the wedding 

of Kevin Miles '78 and Dawn McLaine 

'81. The couple moved out to San Jose, Cal. 

Michael Simmons is an associate with Hend- 


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ler & Murray in the Big Apple. John Stephens 

is only a thesis away from his PhD in Materials 

Science at Stanford. He writes that Roger 

Barton '76 received his PhD last July and is in 

West Germany on a postdoctoral appointment 

at Max Planck Institute. 

Duo Dickinson married a 'Cliffie, Elizabeth 

Morrison. He passed Part A of his architectural 

licensing exam and works for Louis 

Marshall & Co. When he can drag himself 

away from his real estate investments, he 

coaches for the Branford High School football 

Hornets. Elizabeth works at the Goodspeed 

Opera House as director of special projects. 

Jane Lytle Mans is attending Yale's 

School of Management. Susan Frank is an attorney 

at the Fulton County Public Defender's 

Office in Atlanta, Ga. Mindy Schleger 

is at Boston U's Graduate School of Management. 

Gilles Sion, 90 Windsor Gate Dr, 

North Hills, NY 11040 or 172 Ave Armand 

Huysmans, Brussels, Belgium; also Faye Lee, 

201 E 25th St, 5H, NYC 10010. 

78 Missing Class 

Where is everyone out there? Our supply of 

news has been rapidly dwindling and total 

number of duespayers has hit a rock-bottom 

low. Please encourage classmates who 

haven't paid yet to do so, soon. 

Believe it or not, plans for our 5th Reunion 

(in June '83) are already underway. Reunion 

Chairpersons Ken Mogil and myself have established 

a network of regional chairs who 

will be coordinating fund raising and pre-Reunion 

activities in their areas: Margaret Stanton, 

Northern Cal; Melanie Alleweit, Southern 

Cal; Pam Savage Roglich, Chicago/Midwest; 

Libby Waldman Strugach and Suzanne 

Bishop Romain, Wash, DC/Phila, Pa; and 

Lori Wasserman, Upstate NY. We are looking 

for chairs for the Texas and Boston areas. 

If you are interested in helping plan Reunion 

or have suggestions for activities, please drop 

Kenny or me a note. 

Now, some current news: At last reports, 

Julie Kedersha was working for ICM Artists 

Ltd (managers of classical musicians) in 

NYC. She mentioned that Jonathan Brill is in 

the same field. Another Big Apple resident, 

Doug Smith, is assistant vice president for the 

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. 

Kathy Raynor enjoys life in New England 

and is employed by Polaroid. Lynn Wolf 

completed her master's last yr in landscape 

architecture at Harvard. Down in Durham, 

NC, is Doug Everett, currently in Duke's 

master of physical therapy program. Doug 

has been running competitively for more than 

3 yrs. 

Candy Warner and Fran Serlin-Cobb have 

started their own costume design business, 

operating out of Fran's apartment in Ithaca. 

They have provided costumes for a myriad of 

theatrical productions, including the NYC 

Opera and the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. 

Larry Skoczylas will head to San Antonio, 

Texas, after he completes his studies at U of 

Mich Dental School this spring. He asks anyone 

living in the San Antonio area to feel free 

to write him, now—he'd like some information 

about his new town. Address: 31074 Palomino, 

Warren, Mich 48093. 

Wedding News: Jill Sandier was married 

last yr to Alan Sandier, a U of Penn grad. 

They are living in NYC. 

Apollo Technologies Inc announced the 

appointment of James MacDonald as prod- 

uct manager. Jim received an MBA from 

Harvard in '80 and lives in Basking Ridge, 

NJ. Rebecca Grumet is in the PhD program 

for plant physiology and genetics at Mich 

State U. Also in the Midwest, Barbara Bellina 

is finishing up a post-graduate fellowship in 

hospital administration at Northwestern Memorial 

Hospital. Wendy Michel is with 

Chesebrough-Ponds in Greenwich, Conn, as 

a consumer affairs rep. 

That's it 'till July. Sharon Palatnik, 85 

East End Ave, #6D, NYC 10028; also Ken 

Mogil, 123-33 83rd Ave, #202, Kew Gardens, 

NY 11415. 

79 Letters! Letters! 

As you bask in the warm rays of spring, here 

are some news items. Patrick Culligan reports 

he and Barbara have moved to Houston, Texas, 

where Pat is a real estate consultant with 

Laventhol & Horvath. 

Jay Baldwin writes that he thoroughly enjoyed 

the wedding of Carol Zimmerman and 

Craig Buckhout. Paul F "Rick" Zimmerman 

Jr '78 gave away the bride, and Rick's wife 

Kathy (Kelly) '78 was matron of honor. 

Bridesmaids were Maureen Weigert, Maureen 

Metz and Cindy Phillips. Peter Call was 

best man, and Ken Charhut '80, Jamie Zimmerman 

'82, Ian Murray, and Bill Adamski 

were groomsmen. Cathi Gobel and Jim Farrell 

'78 were readers and Heidi Grasberger 

'81, Maureen Weigert, and Michael Kelly '80 

did an excellent job of singing. Guests included 

John Bleuer (Hi, John!), Ken Furry, 

Kathy Petroulis, Kathy Rich, Brad and Mary 

(Maxon) Grainger, Bev (Robertson), MPS 

'81, and Wally Plachta, PhD '82, and crew 

coach Fin Meislahn. Jay says everyone 

seemed happy and "rather successful." 

Tracy Pajeski, now remarried to Dr Robert 

Hewlett III, DVM, is studying toxology at 

Texas A&M. Cathy Gobel is now the wife of 

Jim Farrell, and they reside in Ithaca with 

Brad and Mary Grainger, Ken Furry (who's 

in 3rd-yr law and business), Lisa Preger (BPA 

'82) and Caryl Handelman (Vet '83). Kathy 

Petroulis has left for Taiwan and China for 

the semester. Diana Dickason '80, now a buyer 

for P&G, has Barb Boehringer as an office 

mate. Reiley McDonald has been working 

with the Fastig-Tipton thoroughbred consignment 

agency, traveling a lot, and living in 

NYC with an office in Elmont, across from 

Belmont Raceway. (Anyone for a day at the 

races?) As for Jay, himself, he's still in Ithaca, 

writing for the Sun, head of maintenance 

for Pi Phi, manager of his apartment house, 

and loving every minute. Ah, Ithaca! 

Speaking of Ithaca, did you see the Dec article 

on the house of Robert Hobbs (curator, 

Johnson Art Museum), which was designed 

by Laszlo Kiss and Simon Ungers? 

Craig Buckhout has been named financial 

analyst, in the treasurer's dept at Agway. 

Peggy Erlenkotter is living in Rowayton, 

Conn, and works for General Electric Credit 

Corp. Her roomie is Ellen Perrine, who is 

working for a landscape architect in New Canaan. 

Caren Eliezer has started graduate 

work at Carnegie-Mellon. Janice Lee Smith is 

back in her native Columbia, SC, working 

for the federal goverment as a management 

analyst at Fort Jackson. (Now that should 

keep you busy and confused, Janice!) Dave 

Wilcox is finishing up his 2-yr master's at 

Cornell; Stacie Brandt is working as a plastic 

sales rep for Phillips Petroleum, handling a 

region from Dallas, Texas, to Seattle, Wash. 

Stacie and Meg Mitchell '78 are enjoying 

roommate life in Newport Beach, Cal. Dave 

Allen is in Pasadena, Cal, doing research at 

Cal Tech, after surviving a hike up Long's 

Peak in Colo with J Tom McKinnon.

Sherrie Zweig writes that she started med 

school at the U of NC. Judah Kraushaar '78 

is working in NYC at Chase Manhattan; David 

Scheer is in NY Med College in Valhalla; 

and David Medford is doing likewise at NJ 

Med. David's wife, Nancy (Dobkins) has 

completed her physician's assistant program. 

Nancy Lynch is doing research at Cornell 

Med and has started in the surgeon's assistant 

program. Karen Gordon is a grad student in 

law at Oxford, England. She reports that 

Lewis Fader, MPS '80, is working at the 

Mark Hopkins Intercontinental Hotel in San 

Francisco, Cal. When Karen was in that area 

last summer, she saw Grace Pariante, Albert 

Hartman, and Jeff Raice. 

Mike Peiffer is now a sales engineer with 

Motorola in Dallas, Texas. Rick Thompson is 

still in the Algerian Sahara with Schlumberger—traveling 

through Europe and Africa. 

Priscilla Dolloff returned from Seoul, Korea, 

and is on to Germany for 3 yrs, managing 

commissaries. Kai Ringenson had moved to 

Stockholm, Sweden, after 2 yrs in London, 

England, with Horvath & Horvath. Jeff Baker, 

having completed submarine warfare 

school is an AWU officer on board the USS 

Donald B Beary, stationed in Norfolk, Va. 

Jeanne Feng is still at Intel and continues 

to love the Northwest. Marc Schapiro, also 

living in Colo at last report, has married Patricia 

Laxer. Patti is a clinical dietitian for St 

Anthony's Hospital Systems, and Marc is 

with WE McCabe & Assoc. Please note: Julie 

DeRose now lives at 404 N 4th St, Niles, 

Mich. Julie works in South Bend, Ind, for a 

statewide citizens' lobby, and is looking for 

Cornellians in the area. Bob Gould is an Internal 

Auditor at H P Hood Dairy, and his 

wife Kathy (Zappia) is a nutritionist at Joslin 

Diabetes Center. They love the Boston area! 

Will Pestalozzi, now in Pittsburgh, Pa, ran 

into Tom Niedecker '78 on the local commuter 

bus. Bob Anacreon, at last report, was 

still with Polaroid in Cambridge, Mass. Andrea 

(Holtzman) and Tod Drucker are living 

in Phila, Pa, enjoying the married life and 

working on law and dental degrees. 

In the "Whatever happened to . . ." column, 

people have asked about: Steve "Gut" 

Carter '78, Dan Hayes, Dan Mirda, Jim 

Gould, Alexandra Kornilowicz, and Heidi 

Hutter. Elizabeth RRakov, 185 A Salmon 

Brook Dr, Glastonbury, Conn 06033. 

80 Tidbits 

Spring greetings! Lots of newsy tidbits to 

catch up on this month. Chris Johannessen 

and John "Jay" Sacco, of sailing team fame, 

finished 4th in the Laser II national championships 

last summer. Carol Moore competed 

in the National Women's Rowing Assn 

championships; Carol rows every day with 

members of the Long Beach, Cal, Rowing 

Assn, and works as a project manager for 

Hogan and Roy Associates, landscape architecture 

and planning. 

USAF officer Eileen Crowley loves living 

in sunny Southern Cal and traveling frequently 

throughout the US. She writes that 

Joann D'Emilio, who writes for the Daily 

Press in Utica, visited the West Coast last 

fall. Robert Gaut works for Clorox, in Cal. 

The San Francisco Bay area is home for Loretta 

Delntinis, who is working as a graphic 

designer in Atari's personal computer systems 

div. (Were you the 1st on your block 

with the PAC-MAN home version?) 

Ed Stratton boasts "Hoosier" status since 

GE transferred Ed from Lynchburg, Va, to 

Fort Wayne, Ind. USAF 2nd Lt David Luders 

manages the hazardous waste program 

at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma City, Okla. 

Bradley Richards works for US Gypsum in 

Stony Point, as a project engineer. Mark Foster 

entered the Sheraton management training 

program in Billings, Mont, last fall. 

Gail Finkelstein wants to know where 

Phila, Pa, classmates are hiding! Gail is a registered 

dietitian for Custom Management 

Corp at the Osteopathic Medical Center of 

Phila. Despite the Yalies in New Haven, 

Conn, Ed Blodgett enjoys life there working 

as a broker for Shearson/American Express. 

Leslie Blythe works in the environmental division 

at Stone & Webster Engineering Corp 

in Boston, Mass. NYC is temporary home for 

Alice Reynolds, while she completes the Citibank 

training program; then it is back to 

Houston, Texas, to work as a vending officer. 

Sophie Farago trades precious metals on 

Wall St for the Deak-Perera Group. Charisse 

Penalver works at Mt Sinai Medical Center in 

the development center; she expects to pursue 

graduate studies in hospital administration. 

Sara Hurlbut continues to surpass all personal 

expectations as an assistant product 

manager for Finlandia swiss cheese; she loves 

NYC living. Hotelie Donald Motschwiller 

loves the life at the Piping Rock Club on the 

"northern nostalgic shores of Long Isl." 

Wedding updates (Sorry, some are rather 

belated.): Katherine Eveleth and James Goss 

married last Aug; wedding celebrants included 

classmates Eric Gentsch, Scott 

Schwartz, Charles Gitomer, Maria Baldini, 

Viv Lee, Betsy Montross, and Mary Matejka. 

Congratulations to Karen Benz and Steve 

Merns, Jon, MBA '81, and Sue Bleckman 

Beyman, and Allan '75, (BArch '76) and Saly 

Glassman Syphers. Bruce Haupt and Kathryn 

Christ married in Feb; Bruce serves in the 

Navy and Kathryn is employed at the Telephone 

Co in Charlotte, NC. 

A New Year's Day baby, Kevin, is an '82 

"1st" for proud parents Margo Sue Randall 

and James Bittner; the Bittners recently purchased 

an old (1833) farm house in Niagara 

County. 

Plenty of classmates are pursuing academic 

life: Cathy Vocke, at Duke, in a PhD program 

in microbiology and genetics; Steve 

Kramer, also at Duke, in a biochemistry PhD 

program. Susan Axline studies at Princeton 

in the biology dept, working toward a PhD in 

population biology. Chemistry student Mary 

Chang is at the U of Chicago and "hopes to 

graduate within 10 yrs!" After doing insect 

control research in the Rio Grande Valley, 

Robert Reardon hopes to complete his master's 

at Texas A&M this spring. Leigh Morioka 

enjoys graduate school at U of Cal, Davis; 

Leigh encourages her friends to keep in 

touch. (Good idea!) 

Class Treasurer Donna Young writes to inform 

me that dues checks received by Nov '81 

have now (Mar '81) been processed—you will 

receive the Alumni News for one calendar yr. 

If your buddies have failed to pay dues (only 

$20/yr) encourage them to remit the proper 

sum to Donna at 500 Pine St, Burlington, Vt 

05401; Donna is busy working at GE in Burlington. 

At the Class Officers (CACO) meeting in 

Jan, I was delighted to learn the Class of '80 

has good connections in the Alumni Office, 

since Anne DiGiacomo Benedict joined the 

staff. Remember, you help keep our class together, 

so send news along. That's all for now 

—enjoy the summer! Jill Abrams, 16 

Dean St, Brooklyn, NY 11201; also Serena 

Hu, 3563 University #6, Montreal, PQ, 

Canada H3A 2B1; and Jon Craig, 28 Dell St, 

North Tarrytown, NY 10591. 

81 Drop a Line 

The flood of cards and letters of months past 

has now dwindled to a mere trickle. However, 

the class column must go on! Nausica Stergiou 

has relocated to E Hampton, where she 

is employed with a local theater company. Sica's 

looking forward to summer days in the 

"hopping Hamptons." Cary Goldberg is finishing 

up his 1st yr at U of Chicago Law 

School. Tim Johnston is currently serving as 

a budget analyst for the NYC municipal government. 

Ronald Space has returned to Freeville 

to share in the family farming business. 

Laurie Rivlin and Marcie Shapiro have 

made an apartment in NYC their new home. 

Michael Stocker has joined forces with 

Groove Pin Corp as a sales engineer. Terence 

Michael Shearn is now employed at 1st Jersey 

Security of Rochester. 

The grapevine tells me that Tom Weidenkopf 

has been relocated to Detroit, Mich, 

where he will continue to work for the Pepsi 

Cola Co. I'm sorry to say, that's about it. 

Any and all news of fellow classmates would 

be greatly appreciated. Just drop us a line. 

Vicki Bunis, 3 Cullen Dr, W Orange, NJ 

07052; also, Shirley Hewitt, Olmsteadville, 

NY; and Jon Landsman, 306 Henry St, Apt 

2, Rome, NY 13440. 

Alumni Deaths 

'04—Henry W Sweet of Affton, Mo, Apr 29, 

1981. 

'09 CE—Jesse H Denniston of Newburgh, 

NY, Sept 17, 1979. 

'13 BS HE—Caroline D Higgins of Arlington, 

Mass, Dec 1978. 

'13-14 SpAg—Jacob Schroeder of NYC, Sept 

26, 1979. 

'13 BA—Frank A Strauss of E Orange, NJ, 

formerly of NYC and Staten Isl, NY, Feb 2, 

1982; was vice president, Barsky & Strauss 

Inc, chemical engineers; formerly chief chemist, 

Standard Varnish Works, Toch Bros. 

'14 ME—Rogers Stuart Brown of Palm 

Beach, Fla, and Harwich, Mass, formerly of 

Mt Lakes, NJ, Jan 3, 1982; retired manufacturer's 

representative in NYC; formerly vice 

president, director, Calorizing Co, Wilkinsburg, 

Pa. 

'14 BA—Yuen Ren Chao of Berkeley, Cal, 

Feb 24, 1982; was Agassiz professor emeritus 

of Oriental languages, U of Cal, Berkeley; 

developer of the phonetic alphabet officially 

adopted by the Chinese government in 1928 

as the "National Romanization." [See p 62, 

this issue.] 

'14 BS Ag—Alex Laurie of Sarasota, Fla, 

Feb 1, 1982; professor of horticulture, emeritus, 

Ohio State U, specialist in flower forcing 

and foliage growing; author. 

'14 BS Ag—J Judson Swift of Middleport, 

NY, Sept 22, 1979; retired farmer (fruit, 

dairy, poultry); was for many yrs a part-time 

Federal Land Bank appraiser, Springfield, 

Mass. 

'14 BA—Howard K Walter of Cape Elizabeth, 

Me, Feb 27, 1982; retired lawyer. Zeta 

Psi. 

'15 LLB—John M Heath of Albuquerque, 

NM, Jan 22, 1982; retired; was associated 

with Lou Gerding Ins Agcy, Albuquerque; 

formerly branch manager, Home Ins Co, 

Denver, Colo, for 38 yrs. Alpha Chi Rho. 

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'16 BA—Cowles Andrus of Rio Rancho, 

NM, Feb 24, 1982; retired president, NJ 

Bank and Trust Co. Seal & Serpent. 

'16 BA—John P Harding of Clearwater, Fla, 

Oct21, 1981. 

'17 BS HE—Alice Blinn of Lakeville, Conn, 

Jan 20, 1982; retired associate editor, Ladies' 

Home Journal; formerly was home economics 

consultant and Extension specialist; was 

alumni Trustee, 1944-49. 

'18 ME—Howard A McDonell of Los Angeles, 

Cal, Oct 24, 1980. Psi Upsilon. 

'19, BArch '21—Edwin L Howard of Westport, 

Conn, Jan 18, 1982; architect. ZetaPsi. 

'19 BA—Harold H Moore of Daytona 

Beach, Fla, Feb 20, 1982; was assistant manager, 

Prudential Insurance Agency, NYC. 

'20—Oscar C Carr of Clarksdale, Miss, June 

1973. 

'20 BS Ag—Edison M Collins of Barneveld, 

NY, Jan 31, 1981; operated Craeg Manor 

Farm Inc, a producer/dealer milk business. 

'20 BA—Paul Franklin of Woodland Hills, 

Cal, May 15, 1980; freelance writer/director, 

motion pictures, radio, and TV. Zeta Beta 

Tau. 

'20 BS Ag, Grad '20-21—Robert S Green of 

Trenton, NJ, Oct 25, 1981; retired landscape 

architect. 

'20 C—Francis I McGrath of Brookfield, 

Conn, May 1980; was for many yrs engineer 

and superintendent of public works, Port 

Chester, NY. 

'20—Frederic W Naumburg of Lincolndale, 

NY, formerly of NYC, May 6, 1978. 

'20 CE—Joseph Needle of Atlanta, Ga, formerly 

of Charleston, SC, 1979. 

'20—Raymond L Reading of Prescott, Ariz, 

May 29, 1979. 

'20 LLB—Aaron (Simelowitz) Simmons of 

New Rochelle, NY, Feb 2, 1982; attorney. 

'21 BS Ag—James C McGahan of Jacksonville 

Beach, Fla, 1972; was florist. Pi Kappa 

Alpha. 

'21, BA '23—Mary L Seybolt of Baldwinsville, 

NY, Nov 28, 1981; was English teacher. 

'22 BA—Gladys Jones Coupal (Mrs Edward 

T) of Syracuse, NY, Jan 16, 1982; active in 

church and community affairs. 

'22 LLB—Lester C Leonard of Bethesda, 

Md, Jan 7, 1982; retired lawyer; formerly 

practiced law in NJ, where he served as assistant 

to the attorney general and as a special 

counsel to the governor. 

'22, BA '23, ME '24—John E Roth of Tulsa, 

Okla, Feb 4, 1982; retired senior vice president, 

Getty Oil Co, was formerly with Tidewater 

Oil Co. Wife, Laura (Hoyt) '24. 

'23—Alexander Kevitz of NYC, Oct 24, 

1981; retired pharmacist; a chess master, who 

played on the US chess team against the 

Soviet Union in '46 and '55. 

'23 BA—Ernest D Leet of Jamestown, NY, 

Feb 15, 1982; attorney; active in civic affairs. 


Sigma Nu. 

'23 MS—William V Wilkerson, MD of 

Whitesville, W Va, July 20, 1979; was physician. 

'24-25 Grad—Nathaniel N Becker of Lawrence, 

NY, Nov 1981. 

'24 BA, JD '26—Rosamond Trilling Greenhill 

(Mrs Simon) of NYC, Feb 1982; lawyer, 

for more than 25 yrs, counsel to IPCO Corp. 

'24, BChem '25—Matthew Weber Jr of 

Huntsville, Ala, Jan 14, 1982; was associated 

for many yrs with the Mathieson Chemical 

Corp. Alpha Chi Sigma. 

'24 BS Ag—Walter D Wright Jr of Webster, 

NY, Jan 23, 1982; was associated with St 

Regis Paper Co. Alpha Sigma Phi. 

'25—Thomas W Coleman of Short Hills, NJ, 

Oct 2, 1977; was manager, Commonwealth 

Water Co, Summit, NJ. 

'25 ME, MME '35—Joseph O Jeffrey, of Ithaca, 

NY, Feb 12, 1982; professor, materials 

science and engineering, emeritus, Cornell; 

was consultant to many industries. 

'25-30 Grad—Jessie J McNall of Potsdam, 

NY, 1981; was head, science dept, State U 

Teachers College (now SUNY College, Potsdam) 

'17-46. 

'25 BChem, Grad '25-27—Carlisle Schade of 

O'Fallon, Mo, date of death unknown; was 

chemist. 

'25 CE—William R Thompson of Marathon, 

Fla, date of death unknown. Kappa Alpha. 

'26 BA—Elbert D White of Scarsdale, NY, 

Feb 1981; retired personnel director, Metropolitan 

Life Insurance Co, NYC. 

'27 BFA, MFA '30—James W Grimes Jr of 

Santa Barbara, Cal, Dec 2, 1981; educator, 

artist, art historian, most recently associated 

with Scripps College, Claremont, Cal, U of 

Ariz, and Fairhaven College, Bellingham, 

Wash; was chairman, fine arts dept, Denison 

U, '61-70; was member of faculty, Ohio State 

U, '36-61; was instructor, fine arts, Cornell, 

'28-30. Phi Gamma Delta. Automobile accident. 

'27 MS—Elton B Hill of E Lansing, Mich, 

Dec 11, 1980; retired professor, farm management, 

Mich State College (now Mich State 

U). Alpha Zeta. 

'27—Reva Morse Palmer of Myrtle Beach, 

SC, date of death unknown. 

'27—William L Walsh Jr of Williamsville, 

NY, Jan 1981. 

'28 BS Ag—Herman G Agle of Yuma, Ariz, 

Feb 27, 1982; was vegetable farmer; was 

Eden Valley, NY, School Board president. 

Alpha Gamma Rho. 

'28—Harry T Clinton of Fair Lawn, NJ, Feb 

10, 1982; retired engineer, Curtiss Wright 

Aeronautical, Woodridge, NJ. 

'28 BA, MA '31—Frank M Pelton of Kingston, 

RI, Jan 22, 1982; professor of education, 

emeritus, U of RI, considered instrumental 

in the institution of doctoral programs 

there; musician. 

'29—George W Gloning Jr of Gloversville, 

NY, Mar 5, 1981; lawyer, was city judge, 

1944-50. 

'29 BA—Everett W Jones of Lakewood, NY, 

Jan 28, 1982; was osteopathic physician. Sigma 

Phi Epsilon. 

'29—Maurice J Slocum of Shortsville, NY, 

May 16, 1979. 

'30—Christine George Christian (Mrs Ralph) 

of Lady Lake, Fla, formerly of Topeka, 

Kans, Jan 3, 1982; retired dietitian. 

'30 PhD—Carl A Frey of Athens, Ohio, Dec 

14, 1978. 

'30 CE—Charles L Geel of Sunnyvale, Cal, 

Feb 4, 1982. 

'30 BS HE—Stella Smith Hadlock of Rome, 

NY, Sept 5, 1981; was Cooperative Extension 

emergency home demonstration agent, nutrition 

program. 

'30 BA, PhD '35—Francis D Wormuth of 

Salt Lake City, Utah, June 1, 1981; was professor 

of government, Ind U. Wife, Mary 

(Wells) '36. 

'31 BS Ag—Carl A Dellgren of Blythewood, 

SC, Dec 22, 1981; was It col, US Army; formerly 

associated with Coop GLF Exchange 

Inc (now Agway) in egg marketing. Sigma 

Phi Sigma. 

'31 MD—Martin H Lutz Jr of St Louis, Mo, 

Nov 1979. 

'32 CE—William C Agnew of Rochester, 

NY, Feb 1981; was president, Martin Oven 

Co Inc. Alpha Sigma Phi. 

'32—Richard R Brainard of Schenectady, 

NY, Jan 31, 1982; retired, was associated 

with General Electric Co. 

'32 C—Arthur A Robson of Scottsville, NY, 

Nov 5, 1968. 

'32 SpAg—Howard T Sexauer of E Montpelier, 

Vt, Dec 1, 1981. 

'32 MD—Stephen H Sherman of Simsbury, 

Conn, Jan 26, 1982; retired psychologist. 

'32 ME—Frederick W Trautwein of Massapequa, 

NY, Dec 26, 1981; was engineer, manager, 

Long Island Soap Co, Brooklyn, NY. 

Seal & Serpent. 

'33 BA, MD '36—George G Hollins Jr of 

Virginia Beach, Va, Jan 8, 1982; orthopaedic 

surgeon. Chi Phi. 

'34 LLB—Parker Bailey of NYC, Jan 23, 

1982; lawyer, associated with firm of Davis 

Polk and Wardwell for 29 yrs; musician. Telluride 

Assn. 

'34 BA—Sumner B Kingsley Jr, of Ithaca, 

NY, Feb 13, 1982; pediatrician, in practice in 

Ithaca for 35 yrs. Wife, Helen (Browne) '35. 

'34—Wilton B Smith of Livingston, Texas, 

Dec 13, 1981; active in veterans' organizations. 

'34 MS Ed—Laura M Tubbs of Shelton, 

Conn, July 1978; was teacher. 

'35, DVM '37—Francis A Barry of Bellport, 

NY, Oct 1980.

'35 MD—Marshall F Driggs of Englewood, 

NJ, Feb 8, 1982; physician. 

'35 BS HE—Barbara Stearns Fellows (Mrs 

Rodmann M) of Ithaca, NY, Feb 20, 1982; 

retired commissioner of elections, Tompkins 

County; active in church and political affairs. 

Husband, Rodmann M Fellows '35. 

'37—Jean McVitty Starks (Mrs Willard S) of 

Newtown, Pa, formerly of Abington, Pa, Jan 

1, 1982. Kappa Alpha Theta, 

'39 BS HE—Gwendolyn Coffin Kerr (Mrs 

Donald C) of Emigrant, Mont, formerly of 

Ithaca, NY, Feb 2, 1982; sister of the late 

Foster M Coffin '12, for many yrs Cornell's 

alumni secretary; wife of the late Donald C 

Kerr '12, for many yrs foreign student advisor 

at Cornell. 

'40 BS Ag, MS '40—Robeft P Blatchley of 

Cortland, NY, Feb 3, 1982; county 4-H agent 

for 30 yrs; former Cortlandville town supervisor. 

Wife, Alice (Pitcher) '39. 

'43 BS Hotel—Bruce A Doll of NYC, Mar 

1981. Sigma Phi Epsilon. 

'49 MD—Arthur W Bauman of Rochester, 

NY, June 30, 1981. 

'51 BS Ag—Somers F Conover of Absecon, 

NJ, Feb 1, 1982. 

'52-54 SpHotel—Thomas A Devins of San 

Jose, Cal, Feb 16, 1982; was US Navy lieutenant. 

'52 BA—Marguerite Leiken Laties (Mrs Alan 

M) of Phila, Pa, Feb 14, 1982. 

'53 BS Ag, MS '58—Hugh M Burrell of Amsterdam, 

NY, Sept 28, 1980. 

'53—Edward J Horton of St Petersburg, Fla, 

Jan 13, 1982; biochemist, director, Life Sciences 

Biomedical Research Inst, St Petersburg; 

president; National Biological Inc of 

Clear water. Airplane accident. 

'53 PhD—Daniel B Ray of Hingham, Mass, 

Feb 19, 1979; mathematician. 

'54 BME—John L Herr of Fairfield, Iowa, 

July 25, 1981. 

'59, BS ILR '60—Edward T Godwin of Monsey, 

NY, May 21, 1980. 

'61 BS ILR—Allen P Wilbur of Saratoga 

Springs, NY, Feb 7, 1982; director, manpower 

management, NYS Office of General Services. 

'62, BS Nurs '63—Nancy Saunders Raymond 

(Mrs Lawrence W) of W Orange, NJ, Jan 31, 

1982. Husband, Dr Lawrence W Raymond, 

MD '64. 

'74 MS—Jean-Claude A Demaret of Liege, 

Belgium, Sept 30, 1981; was associated with 

U of Liege. Wife, Muriel Fairon Demaret, 

Grad '72-74. 

'76 BA—Thomas S Tanenhaus, MD, of 

Binghamton, NY, Mar 3, 1982. 

'77—Charles A Price of Stamford, Conn, 

Feb 17, 1976. 

Alumni Activities 

Classmate Recalled 

The Masterpiece Theater series The Flame 

Trees of Thika was shown on PBS this past 

January and February. Many of our classmates, 

resident in Risley their senior year recalled 

the author of the book on which the 

series was based, Elspeth Grant, SpAg '28, 

later Huxley, a special student in the College 

of Agriculture and who lived in the Leaders' 

Corridor. 

She had already received a diploma in agriculture 

from Reading College in England and 

had come to Cornell for special courses, one 

of which she called 'The Sex Life of Goldfish." 

She had a marvelous sense of humor 

and a gift of epithet. She said little of her life 

in Kenya, the scene of her childhood. 

Dot Searles Munchmeyer recalls her "Rube 

Goldberg" contraption to close the window 

on snowy mornings without leaving the bed. 

Elspeth and Dot were in Bristow Adams's 

journalism course on the Ag campus where 

he complimented Elspeth's final article as 

worthy of publication. 

Kay Geyer Butterfield saw her gift of 

epithet shown at the dining table in Risley 

when she characterized the slice of smoked 

ham gleaming on her plate as iridescent hog. 

Edith Christensen Cooper joined Elspeth in 

some of her pranks. They carried hay from 

the Horse Barn by Chris's Willys-Knight to 

Risley to deck out a corridor where Frances 

Mount Dear was napping in a quiet room. 

They added a red cover over the hall light and 

labeled the setup "Red Light District," distinctly 

naughty in 1927-8. 

Elspeth fooled Martha Hasbrook '31, Risley's 

only freshman, into rushing out at lunch 

time to check the gorge near Risley on the 

false rumor that Chris and the Willys had 

gone over the edge. Chris and Elspeth took 

part in a skit in the dining room. It was a 

takeoff of the dignitaries. Elspeth made a 

convincing Miss Nye and Chris made an excellent 

Miss Seeley, warden of Sage College, 

thanks to a dress lent to her by Miss Seeley. 

Dot, Martha, and Chris continued to correspond 

after Elspeth left Ithaca until about 

World War II. The three friends went in June 

to see Elspeth sail for England. They had ordered 

flowers for her cabin and were dismayed 

to find a bouquet of sweet peas, hardly 

Elspeth's type flower. 

Elspeth's experiences at Cornell are recalled 

in Chapter 15 of Love Among the 

Daughters: Memories of the '20s in England 

and America. She says she had been but a 

week in Ithaca when she learned about rushing 

and sororities. She joined AO Pi and took 

her visiting cousin Kate to see the house. Elspeth 

married Gervas Huxley in 1929. He is 

the cousin of Julian and Aldous Huxley, all 

three writers. She traveled extensively with 

him in his profession of tea taster and tea 

sales promoter. 

She has continued to travel widely, especially 

in Africa to research her books. As of 

1971 she had published 25. They range from 

detective stories to studies of modern food 

production; memories of past Africa and 

emergence of new nations; pioneers and natives 

of Australia and Africa to a biographical 

anthology of the Kingsleys. 

She had worked with the BBC and the London 

press as well as government committees 

and as a consultant on African problems. She 

has a son Charles, born in 1944. She was 

awarded the Cross of the British Empire in 

1962. She was widowed in 1970 and now lives 

in Wiltshire where she serves as a justice of 

the peace. She says her recreation is 

"resting." —Dorothy Knapton Stebbins '28 

Elspeth Grant Huxley's recollections of Cornell 

were also the subject of an article, "The 

Good Times," by Gordon Sander '72 in the 

September 1976 Alumni News. 

Reunions 

Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of state 

and national security adviser, will speak at 4 

pm Saturday of Reunion, June 12, in Bailey 

Hall, as part of the program of the Graduate 

School of Business and Public Administration, 

but open to all who are on hand for Reunion. 

Artist and practical joker Hugh Troy '26 is 

the subject of an up-coming book by his 

cousin Con Troy '28, and alumni attending 

Reunion will get a sneak preview of its droll 

contents. The College of Architecture, Art, 

and Planning will sponsor a display of illustrations 

from the book—to be called Hoaxer!—which 

will be mounted in Barton Hall. 

Although Hugh Troy achieved fame as an 

artist, author, and mural-painter, he was notorious 

as a joker. Best-selling author Tom 

Wolfe called him "our all-time, free-style 

practical joke champion, the envy and ideal 

of practical jokesmiths the world over, who 

had the most fabulous and profoundly satirical 

career of practical jokery in America." 

Con Troy's 160-page book will not be published 

for another six months, but dozens of 

illustrations will be on show from 10 am to 2 

pm on Friday and Saturday of Reunion weekend 

in Barton. 

The Cornell Black Alumni Assn will hold Update 

'82, its fourth reunion, July 23-25 at 

North Campus 7. Earlier gatherings were 

held in 1977, '78, and '80. Graduates in the 

three CBAA chapters in New York, Chicago, 

and Washington, DC have organized the 

event, which in the past has drawn alumni 

from across the country and become, in the 

words of its organizers, "a key in the development 

of CBAA as the strongest organizational 

link among many alumni who seek to 

share their expertise and concerns with one 

another, undergraduates, and the university." 

CBAA has a mailing address at Box 818, 

Church St Sta, NYC 10008. 

Four interactive computer terminals will be 

installed in Mary Donlon Hall for the use of 

participants in this summer's Adult University 

on campus, thanks to a gift arranged by 

A D Tobin '58, eastern regional sales man- 

MAY 1982

ager for mini-peripheral systems of Control 

Data Corp. 

The terminals, on loan from Control Data, 

will be linked by telephone lines to the firm's 

library of computer-aided instruction courses 

and will be of use free of additional charge to 

students in the CAU course "Computers in 

Your Future" and CAU's youth program on 

computer programming, arid to persons registered 

in any other CAU program this summer. 

The arrangement will make available 

courses in astronomy, French, personnel 

management, aerospace engineering, advertising, 

biology, restaurant management, economics, 

geography, and Lamaze childbirth, 

among others. 

Two-hundred fifty alumni, friends, and current 

and prospective students attended the 

Cornell Convocation held in San Francisco 

on Jan 10. Under the umbrella topic of 

"Coming to Terms with Change," they were 

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Alfred E Kahn and Urie Bronfenbrenner '38, 

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Bronfenbrenner opened the three and a 

half hour program with a lecture on "How 

the Future Will Affect the American 

Family." A founder of Project Head Start 

for pre-school children, Bronfenbrenner is 

the Schurman prof of human development 

and family studies, a member of the faculty 

since 1948. 

"The Changing Economy in the United 

States" was the topic of Kahn, who is the 

Thorne prof of economics. Although Kahn 

has been a faculty member since 1947, he 

spent several years as adviser on inflation to 

President Carter, before returning to campus 

in 1980. 

Rhodes gave the final address, "Education 

and Values." The convocation, held in the 

Stanford Court Hotel, was followed by a 

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prospects. 

With the Colleges 

Thirteen alumni returned to the College of 

Architecture, Art, and Planning for a threeday 

student seminar series in February. In 

seven seminars, a workshop, and several social 

gatherings, more than 300 students discussed 

career opportunities in art, architecture, 

and planning, with these professionals 

in their field. Entitled the Thomas Mackesey 

Seminar Series, in honor of the college's late 

dean, the program was initiated ]by the New 

England alumni themselves: David Sheffield 

'55, Richard Newman '64, John Taguiri '77, 

John Dollard '57, Earl Flansburgh '53, Robert 

Joy '72, M Donald Lane '43, Frank Mead 

'60, Carol Nelson '76, John Riley '55, Hans 

Strauch '80, Daniel Driscoll '72, and James 

Miller '61. 

The college hopes this will become an annual 

event, with alumni from different parts 

of the country volunteering their services to 

help students with career plans. 

In the News 

Five candidates are seeking two alumni seats 

on the university's Board of Trustees this 

spring. Ballots have been mailed and are due 

back in Ithaca by May 25. The five are running 

to fill the terms of Robert J Kane '34 

and C K (Poe) Fratt '55 that expire June 30. 

Four endorsed by the Committee on Alumni 

Trustee Nominations are: Donald P Berens 

'47 of Fairport, NY, vice chairman of Hickory 

Farms of Ohio; Albert J Kaneb '60 of 

Weston, Mass, president of Northeast Petroleum 

Industries; William M Marcussen '50 of 

Arcadia, Calif, vice president for public relations 

of Atlantic Richfield; and Aubrey E 

Robinson Jr '43 of Washington, DC, a US 

district court judge for the District of Columbia. 

Mark L Goldstein '72 of Manhattan and 

Somers, NY, an associate of the law firm of 

Proskauer Rose Goetz and Mendelsohn, is 

the fifth candidate. 

Yen Ren Chao '14, one of two classmates 

credited with being the founder of modern 

linguistics in China, died Feb 24 in Cambridge, 

Mass at the age of 89. With the late 

Hu Shih '14 he designed a phonetic alphabet 

for Chinese that was officially adopted by the 

country's government in 1928 and used until 

replaced by the Pin Yin spelling system in 

1950. He was the Agassiz professor emeritus 

of Oriental languages at the U of California, 

where he first served in 1947 after teaching at 

Cornell, Harvard, Hawaii, Yale, Michigan, 

and Qing Hua University in Beijing, China. 

The victim of one of the most notorious murder 

trials in the country's history appears to 

have been vindicated more than half a century 

after his death. He is Leo Frank '06, who 

was superintendent of a pencil factory in Atlanta 

in 1913 when a 13-yr-old girl worker 

was murdered there on a weekend. Frank was 

accused of killing her on the testimony of a 

sweeper who was also in the building at the 

time, and convicted amidst an avalanche of 

hate directed toward him as a Jew and "capitalist." 

He was sentenced to death, but his sentence 

commuted to life imprisonment. He was 

taken out of his cell and lynched two years 

later, and the feeling whipped up against him 

set off the first serious wave of anti-Semitism

in the South, leading to the organization of 

the Anti-Defamation League and resurrection 

of a dormant Ku Klux Klan. We wrote 

about his case in the July 1978 Alumni News. 

A witness to some of the events in the factory 

on the day of the girl's murder survives 

and has given an affadavit to the Nashville 

Tennessean, his first public statement about 

the event since 1913. He said, "Leo Frank did 

not kill Mary Phagan. She was murdered instead 

by Jim Conley," the sweeper. The witness, 

Alonzo Mann, now age 83, said he did 

not speak before because the sweeper threatened 

to kill him if he did. Now, near death, 

Mann said he wanted to clear his conscience. 

Jotham Johnson is well into his first year as 

director of the Metropolitan New York Regional 

Office of the university. He comes to 

Cornell after more than a decade of work in 

admissions, athletics, fundraising, and alumni 

relations at Princeton, his alma mater. 

Peter G Beeson, JD '75 has been appointed 

director of the US Environmental Protection 

Agency's Office of Criminal Enforcement. 

Currently on special assignment with the land 

and natural resources division of the Department 

of Justice, Beeson also worked for two 

years as a trial attorney in the criminal division 

of that department. From 1977 to 1979, 

he was senior staff attorney and assistant 

deputy chief counsel of the Select Committee 

on Assassinations in the US House of Representatives. 

As if a busy private practice and an assistant 

professorship at the George Washington U 

were not enought to keep him occupied, psychiatrist 

Stephen M Weissman '59 has spent 

35 hours a week for three years writing a literary 

biography of the English romantic poet 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Writing mostly in 

the early morning, Weissman has completed 

a 686-page manuscript—complete with appendix, 

bibliography, and notes—and is now 

seeking out a publisher. 

He chose Coleridge as his subject because 

of his interest in how emotional problems and 

drugs help or block creativity, and has completed 

the work accepting the poet as "a great 

and generous person but weak and hypocritical 

toward the end of his life." As for its link 

with his profession, Weissman says, "As a 

therapist, I sit and listen to my patients most 

of the day; writing a book is the opposite of 

being a listener." 

With industry offering enticingly high salaries, 

secondary schools are losing a dangerously 

high number of math and science teachers. 

But William A Southworth '60 thinks he 

may have the plug for the "brain drain." A 

member of New Hampshire's Corporate 

Council for Critical Skills, Southworth advocates 

a school-industry exchange program, to 

benefit both sectors. For several months a 

year, students could learn first-hand from industrial 

scientists and mathematicians in the 

classroom, while teachers working in industry 

would become better prepared to teach current 

practices. 

The public school administrators in Keene, 

NH have shown interest in the plan, and in 

Southworth's proposal of "message tours" 

of industries for high school science students. 

Southworth has formerly worked for the 

Peace Corps in Nigeria and Cambodia, was a 

professor at MIT, and now farms in New 

Hampshire. 

William £ Phillips '51 has been elected chairman 

of Ogilvy & Mather Intl, the fourth-largest 

ad agency based in the US. He will continue 

as chief executive officer of the parent 

Endo Suanda, visiting Indonesian dancer at 

the university, performs a Panji masked 

dance, as he will in New York City on May 

29 (see Calendar). His performance of the 

entire cycle of the dances from Cirebon, 

Java is sponsored by the university's 

Southeast Asia Program, and will be 

accompanied by an Indonesian gamelan 

musical ensemble from the university. 

company, and as chairman of the American 

concern. During 23 years with the ad and PR 

firm, Phillips has been responsible for a number 

of major clients. He headed the pro bono 

publico Big Apple campaign for New York 

City in 1976, and the US Census campaign in 

1980. A trustee of Wells College and Outward 

Bound, he is also a member of the Cornell 

University Council. 

Academic Delegate 

Donald M Gehring '35, at the inauguration 

of the president of Arizona State U, Mar 25. 

Dean H Towner '40, MA '41, at the inauguration 

of the president of Southwestern U, 

Austin, Texas, Apr 23. 

Calendar 

Cape Cod, Mass: Cape Cod Cornellians, 

Heritage Plantation tour, luncheon speaker, 

Richard Lewis, director of Cornell Plantations, 

May 17. Call Ben Falk '32 (617) 

255-6805. 

Schenectady, NY: Schenectady CWC dinner 

meeting and election of officers, May 17. Call 

Dorothy Preisner Valachovic '71 (518) 

372-4273. 

Albany, NY: Albany CWC annual picnic and 

election of officers, May 18. Call Jane Ridgway 

Lawrence '38 (518) 439-1964. 

Cortland, NY: Cortland County CWC dinner, 

speaker Prof Billie Jean Isbell, anthropology, 

May 18. Call Jane Zautner Potter '60 

(607) 842-6472. 

Wilmington, Del: Delaware CC annual meeting, 

speaker Prof Tom Cade, ecology and 

systematics, May 19. Call Webster David '53 

(302)998-4911. 

Waterville, NY: Mohawk Valley Cornellians 

luncheon and museum tour, May 21. Call 

Elaine Cerny '55 (315) 733-2579. 

Minneapolis, Minn: Twin Cities CC spring 

get-together, May 22. Call Sue Anderson 

Mansfield '65 (612) 545-5568. 

Manitowoc, Wise: Wisconsin CC meeting, 

speaker Prof Yervant Terzian, astronomy, 

May 26. Call Michael Sfat '43 (414) 682-4843. 

Boston, Mass: Boston CC Cocktail Party, 

May 27. Call Jody Hiller '79 (617) 646-6749. 

Albany, NY: Capital District CC regular luncheon 

meeting, May 28. Call Herbert Roes 

'60 (518) 664-8943. 

New York, NY: Cornell Gamelan Ensemble 

accompanies Endo Suanda, Indonesian visiting 

dancer, performing Panji masked dances 

from Java, at the Metropolitan Museum of 

Art, 11 am, May 29. Call the Metropolitan 

Museum for details. 

Ithaca, NY: Senior Week concerts by Glee 

Club and Wind Ensemble, May 29; Baccalaureat 

service, 10 am, and Commencement, 2 

pm, May 30. 

Stanfordville, NY: Mid-Hudson CC wine and 

cheese reception, June 1. Call Pat Hancock 

'80 (914) 868-1987. 

Washington, DC: Washington, DC, CC annual 

meeting, speaker Prof John Kingsbury, 

botany and plant biology, June 1. Call Benson 

Simon '59 (301) 776-6721. 

New York, NY: CAANYC and CCNY luncheon, 

speaker Karl Weick, Noyes professor 

of psychology and organizational behavior, 

June 2. Call Jean Winters Emery, MA '54 

(212) 986-7202. 

Rochester, NY: Rochester CC women's picnic, 

June 8. Call Carol Sue Epstein Hai '60 

(716) 381-6917. 

Ithaca, NY: Reunion Weekend—includes 

Alumni Luncheons, Barton Hall, June 11, 

12; evening tent parties, Balch and Donlon 

Courtyards, June 10, 11, 12; Savage Club 

show, Bailey Hall, 9:15 pm, June 11; All- 

Alumni Breakfast sponsored by CWC of Ithaca, 

Willard Straight Hall, 8 am, June 12; 

Cornelliana Night, Barton Hall, 9:30 pm, 

June 12; Assn of Class Officers annual meeting, 

Statler Inn, 11:15 am, June 13; and many 

tours and lectures throughout the weekend. 

Call Alumni House (607) 256-3516. 

Ithaca, NY: Ithaca CWC alumni Reunion 

breakfast, June 12. Call Linda Pearce 

Kabelac '69 (607) 257-3071. 

London, England: London CC outing to Oxford 

U, Cornell/Penn vs Oxford/Cambridge 

track meet, June 13. Call George Bryon '30 

(01) 262-2396. 

Riverside, Conn: Fairfield County CC Sunday 

brunch at yacht club and annual meeting, 

speaker Dean Peter Martin, Law, June 13. 

Call Richard Rawson '40 (203) 637-2059. 

Syracuse, NY: Syracuse CWC picnic, June 

14. Call Barbara Hallam Richardson '54 

(315) 656-3480. 

MAY 1982

Also 

Major benefactor 

Uris dies; 

Reycroft chosen 

as hockey coach 

"Cornell has lost a true friend," President 

Rhodes said of the death of Harold 

D. Uris '25, a major benefactor of the 

university, describing him as "a man of 

large visions and large heart, who inspired 

commitment and love in those 

around him. We mourn his loss." 

The Uris name is on two buildings at 

Ithaca, Uris Hall, the social sciences 

building to which he and his brother 

Percy contributed, and Uris Library, the 

former University Library, whose renovation 

and recent expansion he supported. 

He also contributed to the Medical 

College, to the Arts college, and to Ithaca 

campus beautification. Two Jacques 

Lipchitz sculptures, Song of the Vowels 

and The Bather, were his gift, as was the 

garden below the Andrew D. White 

House, named for his wife Ruth. 

He and his brother made their money 

in skyscraper construction in New York 

City. They were major benefactors of institutions 

in New York City, including 

Harold's recent gift of $10 million to the 

Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Uris, a friendly but relatively shy man, 

served ten years as a trustee of the university, 

and was chairman of the Cornell 

Fund and a vice president of the University 

Council. 

On campus: The Board of Trustees in 

late March approved the "attractiveness" 

scale for allocating undergraduate 

financial aid that Louise Chunίi refers to 

in her article on aid starting on page 2 of 

this issue. The move was a direct result 

of uncertainty over federal and loan policy 

for the coming two years. 

The trustee-approved plan anticipates 

the worst of several federal proposals 

under consideration in Washington. The 

board set up a $1 million emergency loan 

fund for students who are pinched excessively 

by the cost of education next year. 

Acknowledging criticism of the sliding 

scale for aid, Provost Keith Kennedy, 

64 • CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 

Harold Uris '25 

PhD '47 said the administration preferred 

it to the so-called "admit-deny" 

system of aid used until about a decade 

ago, under which some students who 

needed it were accepted for admission 

but denied any financial aid. Today all 

who qualify get some. 

Tuition in the undergraduate endowed 

colleges will go from $7,000 this year to 

$7,950, next to the lowest among the 

eight Ivy schools, MIT, and Stanford. 

Total costs, including room and board, 

will go up 10.8 per cent to $11,065. Harvard, 

Yale, Stanford, and Princeton will 

have higher costs next year. 

Graduate School tuition will be the 

same as undergraduate in 1982-83. Business 

and Public Administration will be 

at $8,500, Law School $8,350, the Medical 

College $11,250, and Veterinary 

Medicine will go to $5,600 for New York 

State residents and $6,700 out-of-state, 

the latter an increase of only 5.5 per cent 

in anticipation of increased competition 

from a new vet school at Tufts. 

Tuition in the other statutory colleges 

will go up about 14 per cent, to $3,300 

for state residents and $5,350 for out-ofstaters. 

People: Carol Rizzuto O'Brien '68 is the 

new director of development for the university, 

succeeding Ray Handlan '53 

who left to head fundraising at Syracuse 

University. She is an Arts college graduate 

who worked in the Johnson Museum 

and History of Art before joining 

development in 1976 as director of foundation 

relations. She has been acting 

director since last fall. 

The teams: Lou Reycroft, assistant 

men's hockey coach for the past four 

years, is the new head coach, succeeding 

Dick Bertrand '70 who is leaving for Ferris 

State (see page 10). Athletic director 

Mike Slive announced the appointment 

three weeks after Bertrand resigned. 

"After an extensive search, we have concluded 

that Lou is the right person to 

lead our hockey program . . . Lou has 

demonstrated strong technical skills and 

the ability to relate well to his players." 

Reycroft, age 31, was a goalie for 

Brown as an undergraduate, and 

coached at Providence Country Day 

School, Brown, Waterville High in 

Maine, and RPI before coming to Cornell. 

One of his proteges, Brian Hay ward 

'82, an Ail-American this year, signed 

with the Winnipeg Jets of the National 

Hockey League team early last month. 

Women's fencing placed fourth in the 

Nationals. Christine Hamori '85 was 4th 

in individual competition, Karen Lesser 

'83 17th, and Capt. Mindy Roseman '82 

was 36th. 

Men's tennis started strongly, topping 

Bloomsburg, Richmond, William and 

Mary, Old Dominion, and Georgetown 

during the spring recess, then losing to 

Columbia and beating Penn. 

The men's lacrosse team stumbled in 

its opener with Adelphi, last year's 

NCAA Division II champ and this year 

in Division I. The Red lost 7-15 on Long 

Island, then went to Harvard and won 

13-5 behind a new goalie, Peter Ruchkin 

'84. The defending Ivy champs returned 

home to defeat Dartmouth 14-5, and 

beat Penn 6-5 in overtime. 

Baseball suffered from rain on the 

West Coast during spring recess and 

snow upon returning home. For all that, 

the team had its first winning recess in 

memory, going 4-3 on a win over Massachusetts 

7-1, a split with San Diego State 

8-6 and 2-3, losses to Cal-Poly 2-3 and 

Southern Cal 3-9, and 8-4 and 8-6 wins 

over La Verne. Snow and wet fields postponed 

or cancelled its first eight games 

in the East. 

Both the varsity and JV heavyweight 

men's crews placed sixth in the San Diego 

Classic. 

The women's varsity, JV, and novice 

boats finished behind Syracuse and Yale 

in their season openers. 

Women's tennis fell to Penn in its 

opener and then topped William Smith, 

Skidmore, and Colby. 

Women's lacrosse started with losses 

to Yale, Ithaca College, and Brown. 

Mike Seznec '85 had a 3-6 record in 

the foil at the NCAAs and Don Schaffner 

'83 a 1-8 record in epee. 

Birgit Zeeb '85 finished 48th out of 75 

competitors in the women's national 

gymnastics all-around competition, and 

24th among 96 in the floor exercise. 

—JM

Professional Directory 

of Cornell Alumni 

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A philosophy we put into practice daily at the 

Benjamin Rush Center, a full-service psychiatric 

hospital treating emotional disorders and alcohol/ 

drug related problems. 

The hospital has 94 beds with separate services 

for adults, adolescents and senior adults, plus a 

Day Treatment Center. 

Francis J. McCarthy, Jr.'θl 

Proprietor/President 

666 S. Salina St. 

Syracuse, N.Y. 13202 

(315)476-2161 

Kenneth F. Courage,Jr.'74 

Administrator 

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Specialists in Residential and 

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Robert W. Larson '43 

Chairman of the Board 

117 Roosevelt Avenue 

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LUMBER, INC. 

108 MASSACHUSETTS AVE., BOSTON, MASS. 02115 

John R. Furman '39 — Harry B. Furman '45 — 

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auditoriums, vehicle turntables, industrial turntables. 

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John F. Carr, Pres. ('41) John F. Carr, Jr., V.P. ('67) 

ST. THOMAS, VIRGIN ISLANDS 

Real Estate 

Our firm (broker experienced for 15 years in V.I. 

Real Estate) can assist you in all phases of investment. 

Homes, Condos, Land or Commercial. 

NEWLAND-MORAN REALTORS 

P. O. Box 10002, St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. 00801 

Dick Kirwan '53 

National Field Service 

offering contract personnel in the following areas: 

telephone engineering, 

right of way acquisition, 

oil and gas leasing 

Tuxedo Square, Tuxedo, NY 10987 

(914) 351-5128 Dick Avazian '57, Pres. 

Free Fuel Oil 

YβS — we will install, operate and maintain 

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what your current and future utility bill is. 

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operate the world's largest rental fleet of 

mobile generator units to assure reliability. 

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East Mam Street (Rte. 135), Hopkinton, MA 01748 

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Open all year, Monday thru Saturday 

Edmund V.Mezitt '37 R.Wayne Mezίtt '64 

Serving Central New York's 

Office Needs 

CahilkΦ 

Office Products, Inc. 

218-224 Water Street 

Binghamton, NY 13902 

607-772-0730 

'Office Products 

509 West Fayette Street 

Syracuse, NY 13204 

315-425-1458 

Office Supplies Business Furniture 

JACK D. VAIL, JR., '54 PRESIDENT 

Rare Coin Investments-Appraisals 

Member: Professional Numismatists Guild 

Raymond Merena '59 

One Marine Midland Plaza, Binghamton, NY 13901 

(607) 772-1917 

CHLORAL CHEMICAL CORP. 

BILL DALCOL 78 

Laundry, Textile, Dry Cleaning 

Warewashing, Maintenance 

Chemicals and Supplies 

171 Lombard^ Street 

Brooklyn, N.Y. 11222 

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•*• Real Estate Management, Sales & Brokerage, 

Rental, Cooperative & Condominium Apartments; 

Appraisals, Cooperative & Condominium Conversions. 

LEONARD L. STEINER '51 BERNARD WEST 53 

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REAL ESTATE INC 

119W. GREEN ST. 

ITHACA, N. Y. 14850 

(607)272-1122 

Vivian King '63 

Assoc. Broker 

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Broker 

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