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doesn't have a 90 in it; she was merely approaching<br />
her 89th birthday. By the way,<br />
your reporter has now passed his own 90th,<br />
and has found out what all the fuss was<br />
about. It is indeed an awesome number, if<br />
we may borrow one of the youngsters' allpurpose<br />
words; so awesome that the French,<br />
that sensitive but practical people, have no<br />
word at all for 90. At 79, you'll recall, they<br />
start the quatre-vingts, or four-twenties, and<br />
just build on that 'til they reach 100. Thus<br />
they slide past 90 with four-twenty-ten, or<br />
quatre-υingt-dix, which sounds better than<br />
it looks, and may possibly feel better.<br />
Ken Van Wynen writes: "Your '25<br />
notes (March issue) asked about tuition in<br />
our time. I won the state tuition scholarship<br />
from Ulster County so I never actually paid<br />
it; but some years ago I wrote some biographical<br />
notes for our children, which state<br />
that tuition was $250 per year in 1921, and<br />
$350 in our senior year. I lived at 325 N.<br />
Tioga my freshman year and paid $2 a week<br />
for a small room. Senior year it was $20 per<br />
month for room and $30 per month for board<br />
at 618 Stewart Ave. When one compares the<br />
numbers then and now it seems incredible.<br />
Student aid in those days was administered<br />
by a lady in Barnes Hall (Miss Peabody, I<br />
think) whose own principal sources of revenue<br />
were waiting table, washing dishes,<br />
tending furnaces, and occasional odd jobs on<br />
Saturday afternoons, at 35 cents per hour.<br />
I've just endowed two <strong>Cornell</strong> Tradition fellowships<br />
(one a memorial to son Joel '58,<br />
MBA '60, JD '61) as a payback for what was<br />
given to me." Ken has cleared up the question<br />
of tuition for NY Staters in our day, but<br />
I still wonder where James McCall got the<br />
figure of $800. Did he have to pay more as an<br />
out-of-stater (as is now the case), or was he<br />
including board and room? That's something<br />
for you to write me about—and you are not<br />
required to mention your 90th birthday, past,<br />
present, or future. •> Walter Southworth,<br />
744 Lawton St., McLean, VA 22101.<br />
As this issue was about to go to<br />
press, Walter Buckley has just<br />
learned that Dr. Samuel Buckman<br />
has agreed to take over the<br />
writing of the '26 column, which<br />
had been so ably written in recent<br />
years by Stew Beecher. (Stew died<br />
in February, we are sad to say.) Sam Buckman<br />
will need to receive news, from both<br />
the men and the women of the class, to include<br />
in future columns, so please write to<br />
him at PO Box 365, RD #3, Mountaintop,<br />
PA 18707, or telephone, (717) 474-5007.<br />
Someone else who would like to hear<br />
from classmates, we are sure, is Class President<br />
William H. "Bill" Jones, who has had<br />
a fall, suffering injuries which included a broken<br />
arm, but who in early April was reported<br />
by Buckley to be convalescing—we hope<br />
at home, which is 202 Kendal at Longwood,<br />
Kennett Square, PA 19348; telephone, (215)<br />
388-7111.<br />
Among the dues forms received last<br />
November was one from Earl C. Foster,<br />
Baldwinsville, NY. Another, from Dr. Edwin<br />
L Harder, who expected to spend November<br />
through February cruising aboard<br />
the 40-year-old Cozy Cub in the "Florida<br />
Everglades, then up the East or West Coast<br />
St. Paul was<br />
shipwrecked five<br />
times, in the Bible. I<br />
have two to go to<br />
catch up.<br />
—EDWIN L. HARDER '26<br />
from there 'til about March 1. Shipwrecked<br />
three times. Saint Paul was, five times, in<br />
the Bible. I have two to go to catch up."<br />
[A brief article about and picture of Harder<br />
appeared in the January/February 1993 issue<br />
of this magazine (then called <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
Alumni News).—Ed.]<br />
Guido R. Henry, Connellsville, PA,<br />
reports, "Couldn't stand doing nothing," so<br />
he is serving as "chairman of board and executive<br />
committee of a fiberglass manufacturer,<br />
Fibertek Inc., Scottsdale, PA. Salary,<br />
.00." He's not the only one to shun retirement:<br />
Eugene L. Lehr, Bethesda, MD,<br />
says "I continue a full work week in the office<br />
of the assistant secretary for policy, US<br />
Department of Transportation. The past ten<br />
months have been strenuous, as all hands<br />
are called on to make plans and set goals<br />
for 'reinvention of the government.' For relaxation<br />
am taking my vacation during the<br />
next two weeks [in November 1993] on a<br />
trans-canal Caribbean cruise."<br />
What did you do for fun last winter, besides<br />
shovel snow? Be sure to let Sam Buckman—address<br />
above—know.<br />
^^l^i Dot Smith Porter and Don, who<br />
I I have been in their Zephyrhills,<br />
m m FL winter home since last Nom<br />
m vember, were to return to Bald-<br />
| j I winsville, NY last month. They<br />
i " have three grands in the South,<br />
the children of son Bruce '62. Kelly is getting<br />
her master's in forestry at the North<br />
Carolina State U. in Raleigh; Eric is graduating<br />
from Bob Jones U. in Greenville, SC;<br />
and Brian is in the honor guard at Ft. Myers.<br />
His company is often seen on TV. Gracie<br />
Eglinton Vigurs returned to Heritage<br />
Village on March 8 after 2-1/2 delightful<br />
months in Coral Gables, FL, away from the<br />
cold and snow of the Northeast. Agnes<br />
"Coppie" Collier Short's life "still goes on.<br />
Still go to the Garden City Nursery School<br />
three afternoons a week. The children and<br />
young parents are what keeps me going."<br />
Helen Knapp Karlen, who never missed a<br />
mini-reunion, died last February. The few<br />
regulars left have happy memories of those<br />
gatherings shared between the 50th and<br />
65th Reunions. Our number of possible<br />
duespayers with good addresses is now fewer<br />
than 100. News to share will be welcome<br />
CORNELL MAGAZINE<br />
44<br />
at all times. ••• Sid Hanson Reeve, 1563<br />
Dean St., Schenectady, NY 12309.<br />
Doc Bill Cassebaum, MD '31 writes: "If<br />
you send me several reams of paper, I'll tell<br />
you about half my troubles. I am managing<br />
to function mentally with only a handful of<br />
living brain cells. I talk occasionally to Alvin<br />
'Bus' Carpenter '28, MD '31 who lives in<br />
Omaha and has troubles, too, but is a good<br />
fighter. It was nice to have gone to <strong>Cornell</strong>."<br />
(For the benefit of others who have<br />
lost some memory cells: a "ream" is 20<br />
quires and a "quire" is 24 sheets of writing<br />
paper, so maybe we will have to let Bill's<br />
troubles go bye-bye for now.)<br />
Chuck Bowman intends to move with<br />
wife Doris to a new life-care center for<br />
which ground was broken last fall on the<br />
Springfield College (MA) campus, and, in<br />
the meantime, both have spent the winter<br />
in Pompano Beach (FL) and will saunter<br />
among the beaches at Cape Cod and Maine<br />
and the foothills of the Adirondacks. On the<br />
other hand, Simon "Sam" Nathan and wife<br />
Germaine "Gerry" (D'heedene) '29 are<br />
not traveling but "staying close to home"<br />
at Pine Run Community in Doylestown, PA.<br />
Jim Pollak and Mabel are also abstaining<br />
from traveling but are indulging a 1-yearold<br />
great-grandson. Phil Lyon says he is<br />
"lucky just to be around," Frank D'Ascensio<br />
says he is "fortunate to be able to drive<br />
around," Ed Sachs says he is "just plugging<br />
(or, is it "chugging?") around," and Bill<br />
McKnight has "no complaints."<br />
Howard Conkey delights in doing<br />
community service with wife Nadine in Tequesta,<br />
FL, and when he has spare time, is<br />
painting landscapes and stills, but so far he<br />
has refrained from depicting on any canvas<br />
stills that produce that which in the 1920s<br />
was known as moonshine—as in the phrase,<br />
"lit up by moonshine." ••• C. L. Kades, PO<br />
Box 132, Heath, MA 01346.<br />
^ \ ^ \ Memories of our 65th Reunion<br />
I I I still remain. Wasn't it wonderful?<br />
m \# Perhaps some of you will be back<br />
m j \ on the Hill this year and take<br />
• j B m part in the events. More power<br />
Λm \J to you! Our class has been fortunate<br />
to be able to watch the growth of the<br />
university over the years. As we read of the<br />
recent buildings and the result of the <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
Fund campaign, we can rightly be proud<br />
of our <strong>Cornell</strong>. Many of us have helped with<br />
the effort and can be justly proud of our influence.<br />
Hats off to you, and you, and you!<br />
I haven't heard from any classmates<br />
with news of summer plans. If you are going<br />
tripping, or to an Elderhostel, or even<br />
just digging crabgrass out of the lawn, write<br />
me about it so I can "tell the world" and all<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong>ians.<br />
Again, let me remind you of our Garden<br />
Fund (as well as dues). When you get your<br />
checkbook out, write those extra checks.<br />
"Please" and "Thank You." It is June as you<br />
read this, so enjoy the days and fill them with<br />
good memories. • Rachel A. Merritt, 1306<br />
Hanshaw Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850.<br />
Charles Durling had planned to go to Miami<br />
to attend the wedding of his first granddaughter,<br />
but never got there on account of