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ments to the camshaft-grinding process in
automotive engines. Alan Goldman is an
investment banker and works independently
in mergers and acquisitions. In 1991 he
married Joanne Marren, vice president and
associate counsel at Equitable Life in New
York City. In the past few years he has taken
many great trips to New Zealand, Yugoslavia,
Scandinavia, Costa Rica, and Nepal.
He plays lots of tennis and platform tennis
both locally and nationally, and his success
includes a victory over the Number Oneranked
father/son tennis team in the US several
years ago.
Barb Buehrig Orlando has a new job—
director of communications for the NYC
Transit Authority. She says she has moved
from garbage and recycling to subways and
buses! Son Jordan is working on his second
novel, after publication of The Object Lesson.
Barb had the honor of being elected to
the President's Council of Cornell Women.
Congratulations! Carol Tuft Rubiner and
Allen '57 just celebrated their 35th anniversary.
She is an art dealer and finally made
it to St. Petersburg, the city that Vladimir
Nabokov introduced to her in his Russian
literature class. The Rubiners' most recent
trip was an eight-day biking trip around the
big island of Hawaii, including hiking on the
Kilauea Crater and a bike ride around the
rim! Barbara Wood Gray is a consultant
in community mediation and public policy
dispute resolution. She has ten grandchildren!
Malcolm Johnston, on the other
hand, just had his first child, three years ago.
He says he's just a slow starter! Malcolm
is an engineer with C. S. Draper Laboratory,
but hopes to retire soon—he says fiveday
weekends sound about right!
Kathe Bennett Hall is a science teacher
for the gifted in Naples, FL. She teaches
gifted eighth-graders in a pre-physics and
pre-chemistry curriculum that she helped
develop. She received the county "Teacher
of the Year" award, which was very nice!
Susan Swanson Hueber just finished ten
years in retailing—in a museum gift shop
and in her own gourmet foods, wine, and
cookware shop. She still loves to ride horseback
and explore the surrounding area's natural
and cultural history. Ben Ivy is an investment
advisor in Palo Alto, CA. He says
he is divorced for the second time and enjoying
the single life for the first time since
1960! Irwin Singer is slowing down in the
"rat race" and moved from chief of staff at
Veteran's Administration Lakeside Medical
Center in Chicago to chief, VA Outpatient
Clinic in W. Palm Beach, FL. He said the
move ended shoveling snow and frostbite,
but they arrived in Florida just in time for
Hurricane Andrew. "Last hurricane I was
in was Hurricane Hazel in Ithaca (September
1954)." We all remember that one!
• Janet Arps Jarvie, 6524 Valley Brook
Dr., Dallas, Texas 75240.
F% 11 My thanks to Clayton Root,
I ^*u Brian Lipton, and everyone
l l I I else who has written to say
^^ ^^ you'll be seeing me at our 35th
Reunion. We'll have a fabulous time! Jan and
Bill Dring are planning to attend . . . un-
CLASS NOTES
less they are "totally broke and totally exhausted
after the wedding of their daughter
on May 29." It's been a hectic spring for
them, for it also included opening their
Frank Lloyd Wright home for an Oak Park,
IL house tour.
Congratulations! Sam Kennedy received
his PhD from Syracuse U.'s Maxwell
School, in history. His dissertation was titled
The Last Muckraker: Samuel Hopkins
Adams. Sam chairs the newspaper department
in the Newhouse School of Public
Communications at Syracuse U. Phyllis
Corwin Rogers was named 1993 Rookie
of the Year for her real estate company, Polley
Polley & Madsen, in Santa Rosa, CA.
Phyl and husband Charlie '55 send an open
invitation to classmates to visit and learn
about Sonoma County wines—Charlie won
three medals for his "home brew" at the
recent Sonoma County Harvest Fair! Between
sips of wine they might mention
daughter Ann Rogers Bauchwitz '82, MD
'87 and husband Robert, PhD '90, MD '91;
son Chuck '80 and wife Mary Sue (Pandl)
'80; son Daniel '92; and Phyl's mother,
Phyllis Weldin Corwin '37.
It was off to Italy in March for R. Kim
Mitchell for two weeks of sightseeing. Then
the retired farmer, who winters in Lake
Worth, FL, returned to Southbury, CT to
help his son with spring planting. Dorothy
Isaacs Winick and husband Paul enjoyed a
trip that included visits to Athens, Israel,
Egypt, and Rome. They are preparing for
an alumni trip to Canada (Banff, Lake Louise,
Calgary, etc.) in July and wonder if other
'59ers will be along. Dotty and Paul can be
reached at 4730 N. 35th St., Hollywood, FL.
The next generation: William McGirr,
vice president of NBD Bank in Evanston,
IL, reports eldest son, Michael, who graduated
from the U. of Cincinnati in 1993, is
co-principal horn with the Symphony Orchestra
of Guanajuato, Mexico. John and
Karen Boardman Vosburg of Salamanca,
NY wrote that daughter Molly '91 is at the
Medical College of Pennsylvania. Dotty Winick,
Hollywood, FL, a licensed mental health
counselor, tells us son Charles is a licensed
psychologist and daughter Ruth is at Hofstra
U. law school. And, Mark Ettinger of
Stamford, CT says daughter Jenny is earning
her master's in early childhood education
at Lesley College in Cambridge, MA,
while son John finishes up his undergraduate
education at Duke.
Ira Wolpert of Rockville, MD is a
proud grandfather of Dana Lee Wolpert—
daughter of son Randy '86 and wife, Mindy.
Another proud grandpa is James Grunzweig,
Chagrin Falls, OH; the potential Cornellian,
Henry David Grunzweig, is the son
of Jonathan '85 and wife Marilyn.
Anne Townsend Salisbury of Briarcliff
Manor, NY works at RC Auletta & Co. in
NYC, where she manages the product side
of Perdue Farms' publicity. Son Ben is in
the U. of Michigan's graduate program in
biology. Son Judd is an economics major at
Oberlin. Kate Sickles Connolly, a clinical
electron microscopist in Dartmouth's pathology
department, continues as a selectman
in Hanover, NH. Son Kilian graduated last
June from the U. of New Hampshire.
New addresses: Edward Wind, 86
JUNE 1994
59
Mount Misery Rd., Huntington, NY, and
David Forman Jr., 196 Brompton Rd., Williamsville,
NY. • Jenny Tesar, 97A Chestnut
Hill Village, Bethel, CT 06801; (203)
792-8237.
"A minute's success pays the failure
of years," said Bob Browning.
Toward minutes, indeed days, of
success in our Reunion year of
1996, let me offer as much as I can
of Marshall Frank's minutes of
the 1961 class officers meeting, held at the
Cornell Club—New York City, January 22.
But one minute, please: I've had to condense
and rearrange in order to fit this little column,
so don't blame Marshall for infelicitous
minutiae.
Reunion Chairs Rosanna Romanelli
Frank and Pat Laux Richards have developed
the theme "Global Affairs" for our 35th
Reunion. The objective is to have a symposium
and various events (such as breakfast
speakers, as we had last Reunion) where
every college would be represented by a
classmate who is either living, working, or
involved in some activity outside the US. A
candidate for leading the symposium would
be Mike Davidson, a Senate counsel working
as a consultant to former Eastern European
countries as they establish democratic
governments. Some others identified include
Bob Herdt, who is involved in agricultural
economics around the world; Sylvia Cottingham
Smyth, from India; Marti Sayre
Garman in Nigeria; and R. Bob Leventry,
who is in the Peace Corps in Ecuador helping
small businesses. Rosanna says several
classmates have agreed to be involved. She
would like to know if any artist or architect
classmate working overseas could take part
to represent Architecture or fine arts.
Gift: Before a class gift is decided upon,
Marshall suggested two questions need to
be addressed: 1) Will it increase attendance
at Reunion? 2) Will it increase fundraising?
If the answer to these questions is no, then
we should probably just let individual classmates
decide where they would like their
donations directed. There is always the danger
that some classmates will not like the class
gift selected, and this could turn them off.
Food, etc.: Mort Hodin has agreed to
be the food chair, and he felt that an international
food buffet would be appropriate for
one of our meals. A dinner cruise on Cayuga
Lake was also suggested. (Because of
space limitations, this would probably have
to be on Thursday, before most classmates
arrive.) If at all possible, we would like Balch
or Risley for class headquarters.
Video: Carol Gittlin Franklin reported
that she had been contacted regarding a
class video similar to the one made by the
Class of '58. This would be a major undertaking,
requiring considerable time commitment
by someone, in addition to the likely
$25,000 cost. Most of the people at the
meeting were not that enthusiastic and
seemed instead to favor a video of our 35th
Reunion similar to what we did at our 25th.
Incentives: Pat emphasized the importance
of affinity groups for stimulating interest
and maximizing attendance. A suggestion
was made that as an incentive for
attendance we offer free Reunion fees (ex-