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house at Reunion with Bob's former roommate<br />
Pete Tolins and wife Gloria (Ellison)<br />
'45. Bob and Ed Carman vie regularly<br />
on the tennis courts. Dave and Harriet<br />
Wilhelm Baldwin spent six weeks in Hawaii<br />
and hope to be in Ithaca in June. Dave<br />
still consults and is involved in international<br />
trade. The Rundells and Baldwins met in<br />
1991 on a tour of eastern Europe.<br />
Frank and Helena Nickerson Wiley<br />
wrote of celebrating 50 years of marriage<br />
recently and touring Alaska, Australia, and<br />
New Zealand. Was the trip the celebration?<br />
The family of Maryellen Severinghaus<br />
Bowers and Wayne, PhD '43 gathered at<br />
their home in Chapel Hill, NC for their 50th<br />
on February 26. April 29 marked 50 years<br />
for Mary Claire Pfeiffer Vanderploeg and<br />
Ruard '43 of Hickory Corners, MI. And, at<br />
their winter apartment in Bonita Springs, FL<br />
last spring, they had a 50-year reunion with<br />
Edwin "Bunny" Mullens and wife Barbara,<br />
who have a winter home in Naples, FL.<br />
Miriam Linberg Grishman, BS Nurs<br />
'44 writes that she is interested in the "Real<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong>," pays her dues, and enjoys <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
Magazine, has even written an article that<br />
appeared in the September 1989 issue. The<br />
nursing class met for a 48th Reunion in Tucson<br />
in April 1992 and plans a 50th in San<br />
Francisco in May. She won't get to Ithaca<br />
in June. And Sam Caudill, named "Architect<br />
of the Year" in the State of Colorado,<br />
says "Have a great Reunion!"<br />
John Haines Gridley and Patricia<br />
(Gulick) of Sanibel, FL traveled to Ithaca<br />
last spring, wandered around, got lost, and<br />
pined for the "old <strong>Cornell</strong>," but are coming<br />
back for the 50th. Jeanne Copeland<br />
Johnson and Phil '43 had a great time last<br />
year at his Reunion and hence eagerly await<br />
'44's. They moved to West End, NC from<br />
Hawaii when Phil retired in 1991. They designed<br />
and supervised the building of their<br />
home on Seven Lakes and are delighted<br />
with the area and the super-friendly people.<br />
Victor Acer and Harriet left Beaver,<br />
PA for full-time residence in Stuart, FL.<br />
They journey to Ohio to visit children and<br />
grandchildren and planned to come to <strong>Cornell</strong><br />
in June.<br />
Word has come of the recent deaths of<br />
some who hoped to be with us: Priscilla<br />
"Pat" Fulton Jung of 505 S. Williams St.,<br />
Johnstown, NY 12095; E. Adrien Orteig,<br />
108 Bayberry Rd., New Canaan, CT 06840;<br />
Charlotte Burton Sparling, PO Box 117,<br />
W. Leyden, NY 13489; Walter Baran, 600<br />
Churchill Ct, Fayetteville, NY 13066; William<br />
Basse, 20110 Village Dr., Beverly<br />
Hills, MI 48025; Meredith Cushing, 6909<br />
Partridge Lane, Orlando, FL 32807; Samuel<br />
McCune, 125 Evergreen Rd., Pittsburgh,<br />
PA 15238. You may want to offer<br />
condolences to the families. • Nancy<br />
Torlinski Rundell, 1800 Old Meadow Rd.,<br />
#305, McLean, VA 22102.<br />
J Ψ* Should you retire while still<br />
Λ I physically and mentally able?<br />
/I ψ^ Sally Reed Reidinger highly<br />
LMέ I recommends it. She and Ray<br />
¥^ l l have moved to a life-care retire-<br />
^ ^^ ment facility at Heron Point<br />
(Chestertown, MD) on the Chester River<br />
of the Eastern Shore and love the "stΐmula-<br />
CLASS NOTES<br />
My 1943-44 roommate,<br />
Florence<br />
Parsons Eikenberg<br />
'44, and husband<br />
visited in summer<br />
1993. We hadn't<br />
met since a brief<br />
visit in 1945.<br />
—BARBARA SIMPSON<br />
ROBERTSON '46<br />
tion of a variety of people with fascinating<br />
backgrounds and careers, and the constantly-changing<br />
vistas and wildlife." Dr. Richard<br />
Zimmern (Delray Beach, FL) is also<br />
happy. Dick finds it rewarding acting as a<br />
guardian for the courts and thinks all retirees<br />
should seek out similar work and keep<br />
busy. Marjorie Marks Boas (Great Neck,<br />
NY) keeps up the good work she and Bob<br />
did at North Shore <strong>University</strong> Hospital in<br />
Manhasset. She was co-chair of a gala ball<br />
at the Waldorf-Astoria celebrating the 40th<br />
anniversary of the hospital's founding and<br />
honoring two "giants of philanthropy," one<br />
of them our departed classmate Bob. She<br />
was presented with a suitable memento,<br />
richly deserved.<br />
You probably read in the last issue of<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> '94 the story about Jane Knauss<br />
Stevens (Pittsford, NY), who spoke at the<br />
the November Alumni-in-Residence Program<br />
about her work experiences in New<br />
York, Rochester, subsequent involvement in<br />
planning and politics in Monroe County, and,<br />
of course, in <strong>Cornell</strong>. She received a letter<br />
from her second cousin, Don Knauss (Acworth,<br />
GA), who is planning to attend our<br />
big 50th despite a 15-year absence from<br />
campus. He visited Russia in the middle of<br />
the October uprising, which he watched on<br />
CNN in a Moscow hotel, then went on to<br />
St. Petersburg—despite the US State Department's<br />
warnings—with his Russian<br />
friend Serge who had never been there before.<br />
Don found it impressive, the Russians<br />
a stoic lot, and enjoyed the whole experience,<br />
but found that "St. Petersburg is to<br />
Moscow as Atlanta is to New York." A native<br />
New Yorker, I'm not sure what that<br />
means, but I don't know those foreign lands,<br />
Russia and Atlanta.<br />
Another world traveler is our Reunionpusher<br />
Eleanor Dickie Richardson (LaPorte,<br />
IN), who by now has returned from a safari in<br />
Zimbabwe where she intended to find H.<br />
Carl Whitman (Framingham, MA), reportedly<br />
accompanying his wife who's teaching at<br />
JUNE 1994<br />
51<br />
a university there. Eleanor planned to meet<br />
him at Victoria Falls with a "Mr. Whitman, I<br />
presume" greeting. Stay tuned.<br />
On the Reunion subject, groups are<br />
gathering for mini-reunions: our Lexington,<br />
MA duo, George Rautenberg and Burt<br />
Smith, cooked up a gathering for Bostonians,<br />
while Ina Hundinger Wolf (Larchmont,<br />
NY) and Carol Baum Greenbaum<br />
(Mamaroneck, NY) hosted one to celebrate<br />
Spring Day on Long Island Sound. Bill and<br />
Isabel Mayer Berley '47 plan another in<br />
their 72nd St, NYC digs, if they finish traipsing<br />
around on Adult <strong>University</strong> (CAU) trips<br />
(most recently Alaska, Gettysburg, and<br />
Stratford, Ont., Canada). George Irey (Ocala,<br />
FL) wrote a welcome note asking for<br />
more details on the Reunion, at which he<br />
will be present, along with Al L. Brown<br />
(Southern Shores, NC), who's still hoping<br />
some '45er will visit him and wife Margaret<br />
(Smith) '48 on the Outer Banks before<br />
hurricane season.<br />
Indefatigable Bill Monaghan (Hawthorne,<br />
NJ) went to Bermuda to mark his 45th<br />
wedding anniversary with his family of 15, including<br />
their three lawyer-children and seven<br />
grandchildren. Bill is still unable to speak<br />
or care for himself without help, but is making<br />
progress from the brain injury suffered<br />
from a gunshot wound in a 1987 mugging.<br />
We are grateful for wife Eleanor's tremendous<br />
efforts. • Prentice Cushing Jr., 317<br />
Warwick Ave., Douglaston NY 11363-1040.<br />
M ^\ Barbara Simpson Robertson<br />
#1 LJ (Seattle, WA) wrote, "my 1943-<br />
/• l^k 44 roommate, Florence Par-<br />
^Λέ I I sons Eikenburg '44, and hus-<br />
W I I band visited in summer 1993.<br />
^ ^J We hadn't met since a brief visit<br />
in 1945. Great time touring parts of the Pacific<br />
Northwest for three days. We took up<br />
where we'd left off, as if we'd never parted—great<br />
reunion." Lou Carmody Wiley<br />
(Englewood, FL, winter; Naples, NY, summer)<br />
retired from teaching in 1973. In 1983<br />
she moved with Ken, her husband of 47<br />
years, to Florida but spends summers in the<br />
Finger Lakes area. "We have four children<br />
and seven grandchildren. Enjoy camping,<br />
traveling, crafting, and retirement living."<br />
Arthur '49 and Jean Davis Hinman<br />
(Hummelstown, PA) wrote, "Main hobby is<br />
traveling and Elderhostels. Trip highlight,<br />
1993, three weeks in China—wonderful trip.<br />
Cruise planned over 1993 holidays to Central<br />
and South America. We have three children<br />
and three grandchildren who have<br />
many activities but all are honor students."<br />
Cynthia Whitford Cornwell (Tequesta,<br />
FL) wrote, "Enjoyed a circuitous trip<br />
from New Jersey to Florida, covering 16<br />
states, over 4,000 miles, visiting relatives<br />
on the way." Jan Bassette Summerville<br />
(Sackets Harbor, NY) welcomes <strong>Cornell</strong>ians.<br />
She lives on Lake Ontario, close to the<br />
Thousand Islands. Helen Newton Waiters<br />
will be moving to 8 Creek Side Way, Rome,<br />
GA. Ethel Handelman Mayrsohn calls<br />
Miami, FL home in winter and Purchase,<br />
NY home in summer. Helen Mattin's permanent<br />
address is 201 E. 79th St., NYC.<br />
Beverly Smith Whitehead (Tuscaloosa,<br />
AL) volunteers at the Children's Hands-On<br />
Museum. "The deep South was so hot last