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The Francis Cranes chose an<br />
Adult <strong>University</strong> (CAU) trip to<br />
Vietnam and Cambodia, which,<br />
he says, "cut into downhill skitime<br />
in Montana and Washington<br />
with grandchildren, of which<br />
they are eight, plus one great-grandchild,<br />
ages 2-1/2 to 26," and he, of course, is famous<br />
as the honored "oldest participant and<br />
best-time champ" of the over-60 gang in the<br />
Reunion Run at our 55th.<br />
Alvin Meyrowitz is based in Ithaca,<br />
as he owns the Harbor Marina, 100 E. Shore<br />
Dr., along Cayuga Lake; a grandson is in the<br />
Hotel school; a granddaughter is in law<br />
school at George Washington U.; and a third<br />
is at U. of California, Los Angeles. Olof<br />
Dahlstrand's latest report was of the stress<br />
of his wife's having spent more than a year<br />
hospitalized.<br />
Walt Flynn's fully retired after 37<br />
years in the foundry business and 18 years<br />
self-employment, thereupon pronouncing<br />
himself "available for volunteer civic activity<br />
for old goats." Another new "full-time<br />
retiree" is Ira Flamberg after a medical<br />
career, giving him inspiration for driving to<br />
California and Montana to visit children and<br />
a grandson's U. of California, Los Angeles,<br />
graduation, and also working in a big family<br />
reunion at 50th wedding anniversary. He<br />
says, now, "with the aid of a cane just watching<br />
the world go by." • Fred Hillegas, 7625<br />
E. Camelback Rd., Maya Apts. #220-A,<br />
Scottsdale, AZ 85251.<br />
Joyce Farbstein Bolz reports on <strong>Cornell</strong>ian<br />
daughters Diane Bolz Finn '66, an associate<br />
editor of the Smithsonian magazine,<br />
and Jo Ann "Jody" Bolz Northrup '71, a<br />
professor of creative writing and poetry at<br />
George Washington U. Family and close<br />
friends joined Mary (Nardi) and Winston<br />
Pullen, PhD '50 for a 50th anniversary celebration<br />
last summer. Jewel Rost Paley,<br />
now widowed, says she has loving friends<br />
who share her many activities. Last June,<br />
there was a trip through the Canadian Rockies<br />
to British Columbia.<br />
It was good to hear from Grace<br />
Johnson Crosby, a regular winter resident<br />
of Oahu, where her friends include many talented<br />
watercolor artists. This past year<br />
Grace was awarded the How Chew Hee honor<br />
in the annual art exhibit. After 50 years of<br />
sailing, Mary Kelly Northrup and Charles<br />
'32, BArch '33 have sold their boat, but they<br />
are enjoying other outdoor activities in the<br />
N. Palm Beach area, where they now live.<br />
Amazingly, Mary and I met by chance at<br />
an Atlanta Braves game in March —a wonderful<br />
bonus for me! Other Florida residents<br />
are Carol (Young) and Dick<br />
Whitehill '39, who divide the year between<br />
Ft. Pierce and Hamburg, NY, and<br />
Eleanor Sichel May in Boca Raton, who<br />
wrote that her granddaughter, Amanda May<br />
'97 followed family tradition and is in Arts.<br />
Gertrude Cobb Seely's latest hobby is<br />
membership in "The Singing Grandmothers,"<br />
who perform regularly in local concerts.<br />
Her granddaughter Rachel, a Union<br />
College student, is spending a semester at<br />
Ripon College in Yorkshire, England.<br />
• Helen Reichert Chadwick, 225 N. 2nd<br />
St., Lewiston, NY 14092.<br />
CLASS NOTES<br />
Florence Dixon Burger died on<br />
March 8. What I remember, besides<br />
her sweet disposition, is<br />
how often at Reunions she set<br />
up breakfasts for us, bringing her own homemade<br />
muffins. Frances Dempsey Swiggett<br />
has retired after 53 years as a legal secretary.<br />
Sally Splain Serbell has been involved<br />
in establishing a memorial garden. Helen<br />
Heald Rader says she is probably the most<br />
liberal Republican in South Carolina. Evelyn<br />
Wilson Monroe was a named gift recipient<br />
for the Newark branch of AAUW.<br />
Madeleine Weil Lowens writes: "Special<br />
love and thanks to all '39 women who have<br />
remembered our garden and supported it!"<br />
Evelyn "Toni" Zimmerman Linowitz<br />
has joined a co-op gallery, "The Foundry,"<br />
in Washington, DC and will have a show<br />
there. Naomi "Namby" Goldberg Kruvant<br />
had a fabulous theater tour of London, Edinburgh,<br />
Glasgow, and Stratford-on-Avon.<br />
Dot Bauer Fedor and Walt toured the Orient<br />
with a final destination of Singapore,<br />
where a daughter and family have lived for<br />
four years. Jane Davison Fast has been<br />
finding out how to get around without driving.<br />
Jane has glaucoma, and Charles '37 has<br />
a broken ankle and bruised heart from a bad<br />
car accident. Helen Flynn Bishop says life<br />
continues to be good—she spent nine glorious<br />
years in Stuart, FL, traveled extensively,<br />
plays golf and bridge, and has had three<br />
recent one-woman shows of her oil<br />
paintings. • Sally Steinman Harms, 22<br />
Brown's Grove, Scottsville, NY 14546.<br />
A ^\ Bob Wiggins calls our class-<br />
Λ m 1 mates "convivial" and reports<br />
/ I I I seeing four at the November<br />
^Mέ I I 1993 Ithaca Rotary Club meet-<br />
| 1 m ing: Ray McElwee, Neal<br />
Ά> W Stamp, E. Bissell Travis, and<br />
John Munschauer. Bob lives in Aurora.<br />
Marjorie Dale Hemingway writes from<br />
Lyons, NY. Although John '39 has died, she<br />
continues to really enjoy <strong>Cornell</strong> home football<br />
games with friends and family. They tailgate<br />
at Kite Hill. She and daughter Hope<br />
never leave the stadium until the last band<br />
member has exited. She has also done some<br />
traveling, going to Spain twice and to England<br />
in recent years. Similarly, Leon Enken<br />
lives in Palm Beach, FL and enjoys the<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> Club meetings there. His shared<br />
viewing of the 1993 football team's Penn<br />
game with the local Penn Club was a highlight.<br />
That followed a summer vacation touring<br />
Spain and Morocco.<br />
Curtis Lafey, never mentioned in this<br />
column, has finally written! He lives in Media,<br />
PA, enjoying life along the eastern shore<br />
with his second wife, Barbara. They rent<br />
along the ocean front two months in summer,<br />
Florida in the winter. He surf-fishes<br />
the Atlantic beaches from North Carolina to<br />
New Jersey. He also enjoys caring for their<br />
1-1/2-acre wooded property, playing doubles<br />
tennis, bridge, and poker, and can still split<br />
logs for the fireplace! Curt was married for<br />
34 years to Marian West, sister of Fred W.<br />
West Jr. '41. William Bardo lives in two<br />
places close together. He summers in Narragansett,<br />
RI and returns to W. Hartford, CT<br />
JUNE 1994<br />
49<br />
for the colder months. He had a fine visit<br />
with Frank Van Wormer Walsh and wife,<br />
Aleine "Daisy" (Ellis) '41, at the Maine<br />
Windjammer Festival. Write more, Bill.<br />
From Dr. Juan Bertran's wife of 45<br />
years, Teresita, I quote: "I am writing because<br />
Juan had a CVA in 1987 and had all of<br />
his right side affected with aphasia, so he<br />
had to retire from his successful medical<br />
career. We have a very happy family with<br />
ten children and 17 grandchildren. Two of<br />
our sons are also MDs, one is a photographer,<br />
a daughter is dean of administration<br />
at a local university, and the others work<br />
together in a family food-distribution business."<br />
Thank you so much for writing. Update<br />
from Marian Goodrich Landy in Lexington,<br />
MA. She and Ed have moved to<br />
Brookhaven in Lexington, where they see<br />
Prof. Emeritus John Hutchins and Leila<br />
Hutchins often. Rodney Lightfoote, Geneva,<br />
NY, is a former county agricultural agent.<br />
He and wife Jane have enjoyed an Adult<br />
<strong>University</strong> (CAU) tour to Madeira, Morocco<br />
and the Canary Isles. In the summer of<br />
1993 they toured Denmark, Sweden, and<br />
Norway. He stays active in local history<br />
projects providing the rural life segments to<br />
a video history of Ontario County which will<br />
be used in the public schools.<br />
Wonderful story of retirement from<br />
Grace Hoffman Fingeroth as she joined the<br />
Literary Volunteers of America: "My 72year-old<br />
student was completely illiterate—<br />
barely knew the alphabet—and is now reading.<br />
I also volunteer at the New Rochelle<br />
(NY) High School to tutor the athletes who<br />
must maintain a certain average, and to help<br />
the English-as-a-second-language students.<br />
I still paint in oils and take courses. Had<br />
more free time when I was teaching!" Congratulations<br />
on a full life. • Carol Clark Petrie,<br />
18 Calthrope Rd., Marblehead, MA 01945.<br />
J ^ Please tell about yourself when<br />
Λ I mailing your dues. We can't write<br />
# I I f antasv or fiction. You are the<br />
ίΛi I source of '41 news. Al Aschaf-<br />
W I fenburg, assistant to dean for ex-<br />
^ ^ ternal affairs, Louisiana State U.,<br />
New Orleans, also teaches public speaking<br />
there. He regrets, he was unable to attend<br />
1994's Hotel Ezra <strong>Cornell</strong>. Al retired from<br />
managing New Orleans's famous Hotel Ponchartrain.<br />
If one reads the annual president's<br />
report, he will note that the back page lists<br />
'41 Class President Chuck Lake in two categories:<br />
trustee emeriti and presidential<br />
counsellors. We are lucky to have quiet,<br />
most efficient Chuck Lake to represent our<br />
class in <strong>Cornell</strong>'s top management.<br />
Bob "Bart" Bartholomew not only<br />
sends news from Florida but sends two<br />
items from Texas: John A. "Tex" Matthews<br />
was host to J. B. "Bud" and Ellie<br />
Fisher who were en route to a Colorado ski<br />
resort. P. W. "Pete" Gifford's recent<br />
project was restoration of Wolf Run Ranch,<br />
a 19th century farmstead. "The restored<br />
farmstead is old but neat, unpaίnted but clean,<br />
simple but useful. The relaxing atmosphere of<br />
the 'new' Gifford home, the well-stocked lake,<br />
and the herd of Limousin cattle will mean<br />
more in years to come." Peter is now working<br />
as president of Q Dot Corp., which turns<br />
out thermal recovery units.