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took the Delta Queen down the Mississippi
from Memphis to New Orleans with an
alumni group—great fun. It was a Civil War
trip aboard the paddle-wheeler: "Nothing
like the Άlma Mater' blasting out on the
steam calliope across the Mississippi with
plumes of steam rising high overhead as you
hold your ears." Charles Yohn had no vacation
to report for last summer, as he had
a quadruple-bypass operation and is now
back at work, better than ever. Charley is
associate dean/director of development at
Duke U.'s engineering school. • Jocelyn
Frost Sampson, 10983 W. Twin Cubs Trail,
Littleton, CO 80125; (h) (303) 770-38d20;
(w) (303) 978-0798.
Jerri Ann Reilίy Peck sent along
a nice, newsy note: "We have totally
demolished our summer
camp on Skaneateles Lake—and
like the phoenix—it has risen as
a California-type larger place
which can now hold the eight grandchildren
and numerous friends. It took all of the summer
of 1993 to accomplish this. The 1994
project will be the waterfront. We escaped
the 1994 winter by going to the St. Petersburg,
FL beach in late December. We'll head
north (in mid-April) by way of the Southern
Furniture Market in North Carolina. When
we're home I enjoy bridge club every Tuesday.
Jane Grimm Grant belongs to the
same duplicate bridge group. We're enjoying
retirement. Jay still goes into the store
(Peck Furniture, established by his grandfather
in 1888) four mornings a week when
we're in town (Cortland), but it's nice not
to be putting in those long hours."
Nick Albertson retired from Union
Carbide after 42 years and is busy grandparenting
nine grandchildren. Home is W.
Redding, CT. Donald Victorin, now retired
and living in Horseshoe Bay, TX, writes that
they lived for six years in Miami and never
took a cruise. Now, with more leisure time,
the Victorins have taken two cruises in six
months and are planning a third. Frederick
"Fritz" Thornton reports: "Having
reached senior citizen age, I have started a
new automotive venture (sales and leasing).
I'm the rudder and the brake and have a
young guy who is the engine. After a month
of wilderness fishing, canoeing, and being
marooned in the Alaska wilds last summer,
I got bored with retirement; so the new venture.
Meanwhile, I've been chauffeuring
Tom Gargan '50 around. He broke his back
and can't drive. We enjoyed the football reunion
in Philadelphia. Had dinner with Harvey
Sampson, R. J. "Rip" Haley, Dick
Ramin, Walt Bruska '50, Paul Girolamo
'46, Jack Rogers '50, Frank Bradley
'50, Fred Westphal '48, and other older
guys after the game."
John Sherwood, retired, has sold his
home in Palo Alto, CA and is building a new
one on Oahu at Lanikai, Kailua, HI. Hopes
to move in by December 1994, so classmates
headed in that direction next winter
can look him up. Bob Temkin has been
doing management consulting since his retirement
nine years ago. Recently he has
become a health insurance consultant and
counselor at a hospital in Rochester, NY.
• Bob and Joanne Bayles Brant, 60 Vi-
My biggest
achievement has
been our four
children and now
four grandchildren.
ennawood Dr., Rochester, NY 14618; (716)
244-6522.
l^^l What a bunch of nomads we are.
1^ I Note the following changes of adrV
m dress: Edward R. Felshow now
I m resides at 6100 Connecticut Ave.,
l l Ml Chevy Chase, MD. James L.
^^ ^" Gibbs is back on the West Coast
at 857 Sonoma Terr., Stanford, CA. Robert
N. Lindsay left New York for 107 Wild
Flower Dr., Charlottesville, VA, while Dan
Osbeck Taylor headed north, leaving Florida
for 858 W. Lake Rd., Geneseo, NY.
Frank N. Vitale now resides at 2266 Grand
Ave., #33, San Diego, CA. Belton K.
Johnson can be reached at 100 W. Houston
St., Suite 1100, San Antonio, TX.
I just received a letter from Margaret
Campilonga, who tells us of a book she has
published in memory of our classmate Janet
Burkinshaw Eskew. Janet was director,
special education for the Pine Bush (NY)
school district. The book chronicles her
death from lung cancer in January 1990. It
is titled I Am the Flute, A Poetic Gift of Love.
It is available from Libra Publishers in San
Diego, CA.
Lawrence J. Cullen still works part
time as a customs house broker. His professional
flyer says, "If you import or export
via JFK, Port Elizabeth, Brooklyn, or
New York, call us—147-48 175th St., Jamaica,
NY. Lawrence sails a one-design
E22. In writing about professors who
made an impression he recalls Prof. T. W.
"Tom" Silk '38, MS '47 who was always
there when you needed him, and Mrs.
Meek, the wife of Prof. Howard B.
Meek, '29 Grad: "I always remember her
cooking class and John O'Connor dropping
his cherry pie out of the window.
When it was retrieved, he said, "But Mrs.
Meek, the crust is beautiful and flakie,
how can you flunk me?"
James H. Ward is president and owner
of Symbiont Inc., a computer systems
integration/engineering company. He keeps
in touch with classmates in the Washington,
DC area and is a member of the Cornell
Black Alumni Society. He recalls Prof.
Meek but sent no anecdotes. Office at 1156
15th St., NW, 6th Floor., Washington, DC.
Olli P. Valanne has retired from teaching
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art at the U. of Kansas, Lawrence, where
his special interest was metalsmithing and
jewelry design. Now that he has free time
he is getting together an exhibit of his metalwork
and enameling. He is studying computers
and Spanish, and home is 1010 Hiltop,
Lawrence.
The Rev. James M. MacKellar is a
minister, as well as the stated clerk of the
Synod of the Northeast for the Presbyterian
Church (USA). He left his home at
RD#1, Box 229, Newport Center, VT to go
to Switzerland on his last vacation, where
he may have participated in his favorite
sport: snowshoeing. He remembers the
Rev. Alfred Lee Klaer of Cornell United
Religious Works (CURW) as a strong influence
when he was a student.
Two classmates cited Robert Cushman,
Goldwin Smith professor of government, as
a person who had made a difference in their
lives. Helen Icken Safa, who is a professor
of anthropology at the U. of Florida, Gainesville,
says he introduced her to a whole new
field of constitutional law and government.
Jane McKim Ross and husband Richard
live at Box 403, Rt. 5, Dallas, PA. Jane says
she learned enough about the government
from Professor Cushman to know that when
most of the "locals" in her area say something
is not constitutional, they're wrong.
She also mentioned Dr. Milton Konvitz,
PhD '33, Industrial and Labor Relations,
who explained the Judeo-Christian influence
on our thinking and values and explained
why other people in the world think differently,
according to their own value systems.
Her third candidate for an influential professor
was Prof. F. O. Waage, history of art
and archaeology, who taught the survey
course in the history of art that gave her
life-long pleasure in seeing the "real" paintings
she had seen as slides in class. Kim
added the advice that we should all try an
Adult University (CAU) trip. She went with
CAU to French Polynesia and New Zealand
and loved it.
Vincent Walker has a new address:
14622 N. Boswell Blvd., Sun City, AZ.
Prof. F. H. "Dusty" Rhodes, PhD '14,
Herbert F. Johnson professor of industrial
chemistry, was his favorite professor—
one who taught the importance of successful
communication, particularly in report
writing. Vince says that skill served
throughout his professional career.
(George Kennedy would second that
vote. He was forever having to teach
younger men in his offices about how to
write and communicate clearly.)
Paul M. Corwith sends an address
correction—392 Head of Pond Rd., Water
Mill, NY. Paul still farms with his brother
Richard Corwith '50 and a nephew. He
owns a time-share at St. George on Bermuda,
also vacations in Naples, FL. As a
senior in the Ag college, Paul says, he
took an ag economics course with Prof.
Gad P. Scoville '10, farm management.
"In a brief session he pinpointed what I
would probably do in the future. He was
100 percent correct. As I look back, I realize
he had great insight or foresight."
• George and Gayle Raymond
Kennedy, 18306 Shavers Lake Dr., Deephaven,
MN 55391.