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445 Valley Forge Rd., Devon, PA 19333;<br />
(610) 989-9849.<br />
Early in March our all-time all-timer Reunion<br />
Chair Frank O'Brien (summer address,<br />
2388 A.valon Ave., Avalon, NJ 08202)<br />
wrote from his winter home in Ft. Lauderdale,<br />
FL. I excerpt here further indications<br />
of his never-ceasing thought of the Class of<br />
'31 and <strong>Cornell</strong>.<br />
"Thinking of <strong>Cornell</strong> things today. John<br />
B. 'Bud' Mordock '28 and I went together<br />
to the annual Washington's Birthday <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
luncheon at the Boca Raton Hotel and<br />
Club. Pres. Frank Rhodes was, as usual,<br />
spellbinding. He also mentioned that Ithaca<br />
had 63 inches of snow in January—20 inches<br />
more than for all of last year! (According<br />
to the <strong>Cornell</strong> Chronicle, the weekly official<br />
campus newspaper, the area got a lot more<br />
after that!) I enjoy these luncheons, but find<br />
that many of my friends from classes in the<br />
'20s and '30s aren't making it any more, for<br />
one reason or the other! We're all getting<br />
older! So hang in there! I'm to have my 84th<br />
birthday on March 25. Not experiencing any<br />
great difficulties so far! Still walking 1-1/2<br />
to 2 miles every morning. But no cruises or<br />
island hopping planned for this year. Thinking<br />
about our 65th Reunion, coming up in<br />
1996, naturally I talked to Bud about his 65th<br />
Reunion of '28 in 1993, of which he was<br />
chair. His ideas are good and his enthusiasm<br />
is infectious.<br />
"Looking over the 1993 class statistics,<br />
I noted that '31 seemed to top, by far, the<br />
attendance averages. I hope we can continue<br />
to do that. If everyone works on it the<br />
way we did in 1991, we should be able to<br />
set new records! (Everybody take your pills<br />
and do your exercises!) Marion's grandson<br />
Chris Braceland '97, from Dallas, is in the<br />
Ag college. (He was recruited by Richie<br />
Moran, our great lacrosse coach, but broke<br />
his collar bone in early spring practice, and<br />
is out for this season, unfortunately.) Chris<br />
keeps moaning about Those hills are killing<br />
me.' Remember? But then by the time<br />
we were sophomores it didn't seem to bother<br />
us (or did it?). Oh, to be even 50 again!"<br />
LAST CALL! If you haven't yet sent in<br />
your dues and NEWS, DO IT NOW! Put the<br />
Class of '31 back on top in percentage of duespayers,<br />
and in so doing renew your subscription<br />
to the <strong>Cornell</strong> Magazinel • William M.<br />
Vanneman, Thirwood PI., #121,237 N. Main<br />
St., S. Yarmouth, MA 02664-2075.<br />
^ \ ^ \ President W. E. Mullestein apm<br />
I parently communicated with<br />
•^ m Treasurer Walter F. Deming<br />
j m who, in turn, telephoned me and<br />
I m f j said that they had a letter from<br />
VrM Christopher Florentino '94,<br />
the recipient of this year's Class of '32 Memorial<br />
Scholarship. Chris is a senior in<br />
operations research and industrial engineering,<br />
a brother and two-semester house<br />
manager of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Walt sent<br />
me the letter, from which I quote the following<br />
excerpts:<br />
"Both sets of my grandparents came<br />
from Italy through Ellis Island, and built a<br />
family in America. My parents were married<br />
in 1968 and moved to our current house<br />
on Long Island two months before I was<br />
born in 1971. My father is an electrician and<br />
my mother has recently returned to work<br />
at a local insurance company.<br />
"While my father has done well, even<br />
in this difficult economy, <strong>Cornell</strong>'s tuition<br />
would have been well beyond our means had<br />
it not been for the financial package we received.<br />
It is because of your generosity and<br />
others like you that I will soon be able to<br />
display my diploma from one of the finest<br />
institutions of higher education. All the hard<br />
work my parents and I have put into my<br />
education could not have gotten me this<br />
far—I needed your help."<br />
Walt also sent me Chris's resume, apparently<br />
prepared by the university, and<br />
although it is too long to include here, be<br />
assured that he is an energetic fellow with<br />
interests in golf, racquetball, weight training,<br />
and computer programming. That's what<br />
our Class Scholarship funds are doing for students<br />
who need a little extra support, and we<br />
hope that all our classmates will help us increase<br />
the monies available for this purpose.<br />
• James W. Oppenheimer, 140 Chapin<br />
Pkwy., Buffalo, NY 14209-1104.<br />
Elisabeth Jones Berry brings us up to date<br />
about Annandale Village—a tax-exempt 125acre<br />
facility for educable mentally handicapped<br />
adults, which she and Maxwell '31, MD '35<br />
founded in 1969. More than 20 percent of the<br />
villagers have been trained for outside jobs at<br />
the minimum wage or better. Others do volunteer<br />
work or work in the sheltered workshop<br />
in a new $600,000 program center, which<br />
also has an Olympic-sized gymnasium and<br />
classrooms. Annandale may host some of the<br />
Atlanta Special Olympic games. Betty and Max<br />
appreciate beyond words the some $100,000<br />
which <strong>Cornell</strong> friends, who heard of Annandale<br />
through this magazine, have contributed<br />
toward its development. For information,<br />
please call the Berrys at (904) 234-2016.<br />
Louise Wulff visited the <strong>Cornell</strong> campus<br />
on September 11 for the first time in 60 years.<br />
She had trouble getting oriented and recognizing<br />
formerly familiar places. Willard Straight<br />
is no longer the gathering place she remembered.<br />
Vending machines? Hot dog stand?<br />
Dark corridors? Rush-rush mobs? Where was<br />
the beautiful dining room? She did recognize<br />
Buffalo St., where she had lived as a freshman,<br />
and Stewart Ave., where she trudged up<br />
to Goldwin Smith. She wanted to see Balch<br />
Hall, where '32 women lived the first year it<br />
was opened, as well as a number of other places.<br />
But, she said, she would have had to have<br />
an electric mini-cart and a stronger constitution<br />
to make the rounds. However, Louise<br />
knows it is not buildings, but teachers and students<br />
who make a university. She will continue<br />
to express her love of and for <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
through her contributions to the Frederick<br />
G. Marcham, PhD '26 Scholarship Fund and<br />
in remembrance of the two front teeth she<br />
left on the hockey field. • Martha Travis<br />
Houck, PO Box 178, Bedminster, NJ 07921.<br />
Those with access to one of several<br />
Who's Who publications will<br />
find Roger Morrison listed. He<br />
has outlined or edited five books<br />
and about 150 articles in scientific<br />
journals. He is adjunct professor<br />
at U. of Arizona, Tucson, working on<br />
CORNELL MAGAZINE<br />
46<br />
safety problems of the proposed Yucca<br />
Mountains (NV) high-level nuclear waste<br />
storage facility. Frank B. Morrison Hall on<br />
the Ag campus bears the name of his father,<br />
a noted professor of animal husbandry.<br />
Roger's sons John, Peter, and Craig have<br />
given him five grandchildren. His wife, Harriet<br />
Williams, died in 1991.<br />
Charles S. "Ted" Tracy—visiting<br />
daughter Anne Tracy Sumners '79 and her<br />
new husband Barry, who live near Sydney,<br />
Australia—saw the Australian Open Tennis<br />
tournament in Melbourne, and in Canberra<br />
saw a wigged barrister at the High Court.<br />
Returning here he was married on March<br />
19 to an old friend, Cynthia Dietz Smith.<br />
With Brit Gordon, he attended the 100th<br />
anniversary of Culver Academy.<br />
Class President Marian Ford Fraser<br />
and husband David, JD '37 visited her sister<br />
Eileen Ford Wood '39 in Victoria, BC,<br />
Canada, where daffodils were blooming profusely<br />
in April. Jane Gibbs McAteer invites<br />
any member of our class to visit her in Columbus,<br />
NC at 246 Pentel Rd., 246 Tryon<br />
Estates. Her husband passed away in 1991.<br />
She has one great-grandson.<br />
Franklin Ofmer's distinguished career<br />
began at <strong>Cornell</strong> in chemistry, then an MS<br />
at California Inst. of Technology, where he<br />
studied with Linus Pauling, followed by a<br />
1938 PhD at U. of Chicago developing a<br />
modern electrocardiograph. In 1939, he<br />
started Offner Electronics to make medical<br />
instruments and shifted to infrared missiles,<br />
invented a control for jet engines, and use<br />
of transistors, and has 32 US patents. He<br />
was professor of biophysics, biomedical engineering<br />
and electronics at Northwestern<br />
U., 1963 until becoming emeritus in 1979.<br />
Franklin and Janine Zurcher were married<br />
in Geneva, Switzerland and had two sons,<br />
two daughters, eight grandchildren. Hobbies<br />
are painting oils and watercolors. His many<br />
honors and professional memberships are<br />
too numerous to list here.<br />
Samuel H. Rosenberg visited hometown<br />
Canisteo, NY—population 2,000—with<br />
children and grandchildren from Tampa, who<br />
couldn't believe he had had a ball while<br />
growing up in such a small town. Helen<br />
Weisbrod Rowland camps summers with a<br />
motor-home group and spends a few winter<br />
weeks in Florida. She has two new greatgranddaughters.<br />
Margaretta Oldfield<br />
Rymph is still calmly enjoying life. Carl H.<br />
Richmond's health problems prevented his<br />
coming to Reunion, but not his enjoyment<br />
of his great-grandson, 2. Eleanor Bradley<br />
Tunison, on Friday of our 60th Reunion,<br />
lunched on the Hill, but found no sister<br />
Tri-Delts present. She lives alone in Dade<br />
City, FL despite failing eyesight, helped<br />
by good friends. Eleanor Ernst Whittier<br />
is active in a Wilmington, NC garden club,<br />
and is chair and representative to a "Keep<br />
America Beautiful" effort in New Hanover<br />
County, preserving wetlands and planting<br />
roadside flowers. She questions a <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
study reported in the Journal of American<br />
Colleges of Nutrition, which found underweight<br />
women less responsive to daily<br />
hassles and uplifts, while overweight women<br />
were more highly emotional in<br />
reactions. • Marjorie Chapman Brown,<br />
PO Box 804, Old Town, FL 32680.