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mission's awarding Con way, MA a grant for
the restoration of the covered bridge—"one
of only two towns in the whole country that
had been so recognized."
Harry Glass remembers with joy his
getting back to the annual Mynderse Van
Cleef 1874 Dinner at Reunion 1993, the
Friends of the Library banquet, the NY State
Veterinary Society meeting, and "the kickoff
celebration of the Vet College's Centennial
in March." Anne Shulman Sonfield visited
Myra Steinbrink Freund in Laguna
Hills, CA, then to Berkeley to see daughter
C. M. "Lynn" Sonfield '69. Anne's two
grandsons, Adam and Brian, are at Harvard,
one in law school, one an undergraduate.
• Mary Didas, 80 N. Lake Dr., Orchard
Park, NY 14127.
Ken Stofer '43, BCE '48 wrote
to express the hope that his
brother—and our classmate—
Gordon F "J eff ' Stofer would
be named to Cornell's Athletic
Hall of Fame (CAHOF). Jeff was
outstanding in football, basketball, and lacrosse,
earning ten Cornell letters, three in
one year. Jeff now has a large family "spread
all over the country."
Ken Asai, designated in our Cornellian
as "Kaiser Wilhelm" Asai, changed his name
after graduation to Ken William Asai. "Can
you blame me?" he asks. The April 1993
issue of the Cornell Agriculture and Life Sciences
News had a 1954 picture of his whole
family, five of whom graduated from Cornell.
Coming from Texas in 1920, the family
had a truck farm a mile from campus. Ken
was in the last class of the NY State School
of Forestry before it was moved to Syracuse.
He worked in Brazil and returned just
before Pearl Harbor, and was wrongly arrested
twice because of his Japanese heritage.
In 1953 he started working for IBM
and spent 28 years designing research
equipment; although retired, he is still a
consultant with IBM. He and wife Tiyo have
three children and four grandchildren. The
Asais have made a dozen trips, on every
continent, since retiring.
Dr. Jules Werner, Palm Beach, FL,
wrote that he and Rosalind are enjoying the
Southern climes, the Southern waters, and
going through the Panama Canal. Class
President Dottie Greey Van Bortel attended
the Adult University (CAU) London theater
study tour in April 1992, which must
have been a wonderful trip. In December
she had to go to a rehabilitation center after
having a second replacement of both kneecaps.
Now, however, she is doing well.
Mary-Emily Wilkins Wells and husband
Jim traveled to weddings and a college graduation
of grandchildren, as well as to an Elderhostel
in Camp Verde, AZ about the
spectacular Sedona rock country, and visited
old friends in Phoenix. Marie Prole
Mulcahy's husband, Lawrence, had a stroke
four years ago and needs care, but she managed
to take him to visit their son in Tucson,
AZ. Gladys Godfrey Mackay and husband
James have moved to the Kendal at
Oberlin retirement community {the same
organization that is planning to build near
Cornell). Occupants are from 20 different
states, including Hawaii and Alaska. They
Ken Asai, designated
in our
Cornellian as
'Kaiser Wilhelm'
Asai, changed his
name after graduation
to Ken William
Asai. 'Can you
blame me?' he asks.
celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary
last July.
Dr. Arnold Johnson and wife Joy, in
North Carolina, celebrated their 51st anniversary
in August with their daughter Marcia
and family, who had just returned from
a year in Tanzania, where Marcia's husband
was a Fulbright scholar at a university there.
They had many pictures and stories of numerous
safaris. Arnold has joined the newly-formed
Alumni Assn. of the Blue Ridge
Mountains, which sponsored a Cornell Glee
Club concert in Try on, NC.
Beryl Slocum, in Marathon, NY, says
that each fall he finds he has done less on
the farm than the previous summer, but, if
he can get onto one of those big tractors he
can still run it. Daughter Nancy '92 attends
the NY Chiropractic College in Seneca Falls
and was appointed to represent her class
on the Student Council's government board.
The late Charlotte Putnam Reppert's
husband, Charles '34, passed away on
March 17 with cancer. Perhaps we should
remember him with a donation to the Children's
Literature Fund, or to the American
Cancer Society. Two other sad passings:
Mary Crary Ryan, in June 1993, and
Walter M. Babb in February 1994. •
Allegra Law Ireland, 125 Grant Ave. Ext.,
Queensbury, NY 12804-2640.
^^l^f Traveling to the Orient as a sci-
I m entific adviser under the auspic-
^ # es of the World Health Organi-
1 I zation (WHO), Dr. Alfred M.
l l • Freedman conducted work-
^^ shops in Fukuoka, Japan and in
Beijing and Changsha, People's Republic of
China (PRC). He was appointed honorary
professor of psychiatry at Hunan Medical U.,
Changsha. During the same six-week globecircling
trip he also lectured and participated
in meetings in Ireland and Germany. Al
is professor emeritus of psychiatry of New
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York Medical College, Valhalla, and he has
been a visiting professor at Harvard's medical
school. He and Marcia have two sons and
two grandchildren.
Herbert and Norma Raisler say that
after "eating our way through Belgium" last
fall, they went on to sail the coast of Turkey.
Herb's extended period of part work,
part loafing ended with official retirement at
the end of 1992. Still practicing a little law
in Binghamton, Clayton M. Axtell J[r., JD
'40, is president of the Conrad and Virginia
Klee Foundation. Clayt and Margaret really
enjoyed the alumni Danube trip last summer.
They are happy that granddaughter
Amanda Stevenson has been accepted in the
Class of '98, to become a fourth-generation
Axtell-family Cornellian.
It was October (not April) in Paris for
Morton W. and Kay Briggs last fall when
they spent three wonderful weeks there followed
by a week in London. Gourmandizing
in Paris, attending theater and concerts in
London, visiting museums and exhibitions
in both cities, they also had opportunities to
see many friends. Morton, whose field is
Romance languages, is back at Wesleyan U.
working part time with the teacher-preparation
program he used to direct, continuing
as a counselor for students, and putting
on a French play. Both Morton and Kay are
volunteers in a variety of community activities,
including the hospital and library, Red
Cross, historical society, and the church.
• Robert A. Rosevear, 2714 Saratoga Rd.
N., DeLand, FL 32720.
J. Leland Ferguson '64 and W. Scott Ferguson
'66 are sons of Jean Thompson Ferguson.
Scott recently opened his own law
firm in Washington, DC, and Leland does
scientific research for the federal government.
Jean has three grandsons, and both
families live in the area and share the use
of a summer home. Her travel in 1993 consisted
of three cruises: Fort Lauderdale to
Bordeaux; "A Vintage History of France"
from Bordeaux to London; and Venice, the
Greek Islands, Sicily and Italian ports,
Cannes, and Barcelona.
Ruth McCurdy Shaw has 13 grandchildren,
among whom are Gregory Munsell
'91, John May, ME E '93, Douglas May
'95, and Alison Munsell '97, who is in Engineering.
Mary Keane Brady has enjoyed
her first year of retirement in Harwich Port,
MA and on Cape Cod. She and husband Edward
'41, MD '44 spent last February and
March on Marco Island. Other than that they
have been close to home, busy resettling
and adjusting from her husband's busy practice
in New Brunswick, NJ. They live much
closer to their children and grandchildren,
whom they see often.
In the midst of moving, writes Merle
Elliott Ohlinger, all news will have to wait
for the dust to settle, for she was closing
on the sale of 40 Liberty Ave. Her new
address is 61 St. Paul's PL, New Rochelle,
NY.
Sorry to report the deaths of Helen
Baldwin Martin, May 16, '92, Fanny
Black Hull, Aug. 12, '93, and Catherine
Zeller Albright, Feb. 6, '94. • Gertrude
Kaplan Fitzpatrick, PO Box 228, Cortland,
NY 13045.