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orthodontist on Tioga St. Wife Nancy (Dytman),
MFA '88 is a writer and full-time
"mommy" of 3-year-old Mika, plus Zev, 20,
a junior at Oberlin, Leah, 19, a frosh at
American U., and grade-schoolers Chris and
Katie. Mika is in Montessori pre-school.
Steve continues to play percussion in the
Ithaca Concert Band—Ithaca's "town band."
He lists himself as a definite fan of Cornell
hockey "in spite of a down year." Richard
B. Evans of Black Dog Farm, Sharpthorne,
E. Sussex England, notes that we should use
the more current phrase "companion, or
partner" instead of asking for news of one's
"spouse." He writes: "Things change!"
IRI, Industrial Risk Insurers, of Hartford,
CT, announce that Seale W. Tuttle,
JD '72 will now be supervising all of IRI's
legal activities. Seale has specialized in insurance
law, was an assistant attorney general
with the New York Organized Crime
Task Force, and was an assistant district attorney
for Tompkins County. A veteran, he
served in Vietnam in the Army.
It is the right time to be planning for
Reunion June 8-11, '95. May good fortune
keep you until we are once again all together
on the Hill. • Scot MacEwan, 2777 SE
Bybee Blvd., Portland, OR 97202-8733.
The Assn. of Class Officers
(CACO) meeting held last January
was attended by classmates
Rolf Frantz, Sue Rockford
Bittker, Sue Maldon Stregack,
Dick Lockwood, who
has taken on the job of campaign chair for
our 30th Reunion, Larry Eisen, Deanne
Gebell Gitner, and, of course, Alice Katz
Berglas. We are only two years away from
our next big Reunion, the 30th, and we will
probably start to organize committees and
our outreach program to classmates within
a very short time.
There was a Cornell mini-reunion on
January 29 in Mamaroneck, NY. My wife
Kathy threw a surprise party for my 50th
birthday and quite a few Cornellians were
present. Jeff and Rose Collins came up
from North Carolina, Joan Handley Africk
and husband Steve '65 came down from
Boston, and Dick Fogel flew in from Washington,
DC. From the greater New York
City area, Rick and Maryann Mezan, Ron
Goldstock, and Andy and Andrea Riger
Potash represented the Class of '66. It was
a great surprise party and a reminder that
many classmates will be observing their
50th this year; to all of them we send best
wishes and continued success.
From Laura Bowman Gray, MAT '67
we hear that she and husband Phil Lempert
(Drexel '74) moved to Tiburon, CA last
year. They absolutely love it, but Laura
writes that part of her heart will always remain
in New York. Laura was chosen by
the Training Directors Forum as the outstanding
performer in training management
for 1993. She is the director of training and
development for Age Wave Inc., a marketing
and consulting firm focused on the mature
market. Laura reminds us that we
'66ers are quickly becoming members of
this mature market.
Gerri Sussman Marcus writes from
Miami that she recently returned from Alas-
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ka and is leaving soon to take Jennifer, 17,
to start her college search and is looking forward
to seeing Cornell again. Husband Ave,
MILR '67 is a labor lawyer. His firm, Manas
& Marcus, represents primarily employers.
Gerri is still involved with her private practice
in speech language pathology, and son
Jeff is currently a junior at Yale. From Mary
D. Nichols we hear that son Nick Daum
'96 is learning political science first-hand
from his grandfather Ben Nichols '41, retired
engineering professor and current mayor
of Ithaca.
Howard Gibeling writes that he and
wife Janet moved to Manlius, NY: address,
8109 Verbeck Dr. They are now about one
hour from Ithaca and plan to make regular
trips to Cornell. Howard recently took a position
with Carrier Corp. in the corporate
research division. Congratulations on the
new position and new home. Margaret Axtell
writes that she spent time last June at
the 30th Reunion of husband Russ Stevenson
'63. They enjoyed great weather, wonderful
programs, and a real vacation.
Many of you engineers might remember
the mechanics text by Beer and Johnston
that was used in your introductory statics
and dynamics classes. Elliot Eisenberg will
be using his sabbatical year to revise the
book, now going into its sixth edition. He
will be working on sections to help students
improve their problem-solving skills and will
have to create some 700 new homework
problems. Elliot's son Jason '95 spent the
summer of 1993 helping out by checking the
solutions to most of the new problems.
Attorney Bruce Bergman, chair of the
foreclosure department at Certilman Balin
Adler & Hyman, was a featured speaker recently
at the Community Bankers Assn. of
NY State mortgage and real estate committee
meeting in Manhattan this past November.
His spoke about problems with creditline
mortgages. Bruce is also author of a
leading mortgage foreclosure textbook and
has recently published articles in Servicing
Management Magazine and in the New York
Law Journal.
Howard Sobel, Oceanside, NY, wrote
that the entire family was looking forward
to Commencement for son Andrew '94. Son
Ryan is a sophomore at Ithaca College, and
son Brendan is a junior in high school.
Howard has taken on the chairmanship of
the Alumni Admissions Ambassador Network
(CAAAN) for Nassau County and is an
officer in the Cornell Club of Long Island.
In his spare time Howard is also president
of the Oceanside school board. He claims
that at the most recent Homecoming, last
fall, he saw very few classmates. He writes
this was a great time and we all would have
enjoyed it.
Please keep the News and Dues flowing
so we can keep information coming to
you each month. • Bill Blockton, 18 Leatherstocking
Lane, Mamaroneck, NY 10543.
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Shoolman Mechur, 167
Council Rock Ave., Rochester,
NY, is "assistant principal at a
^gε suburban middle school and
a director of district services for
gifted/talented students; husband
Bob '65 is a corporate attorney specializing
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in high technology companies; daughter
Melinda '97 is a freshman on the Hill, and
daughter Amy is 15. Joan B. Landes, 3 Pine
Tree Cir., Pelham, MA, is a professor at
Hampshire College in Amherst, MA; she's
been selected to be a visiting fellow this
summer at the Humanities Research Center
at the Australian National U. Daughter
Eleanor Anne is 14. Joan reports having seen
Judith Adler Hellman, C. "Raven" Clarke
Lidman, and Joanne Edelson Honigman.
Kristl Bogue Hathaway, 845 Mason
Ave., Deale, MD, divides her time "between
doling out Navy grant dollars to universities
for basic research in magnetic materials and
trying to do research at a Navy lab caught
in the chaos of the defense-reduction/baseclosing
process. Recently moved to an 80plus-year-old
Cape Cod house on Chesapeake
Bay—keep busy watching the swans,
geese, ducks, etc." Kristl recently became
a fellow of the American Physical Society;
son Alexander, 20, is studying architecture
(class of '95) at U. of Virginia.
Matthew J. Kluger, 6103 Blue Bird
Lane, NE, Albuquerque, NM, is director of
the Inst. for Basic and Applied Medical Research,
at the Lovelace Insts. in Albuquerque.
Richard K. Margolis, 313 Windsor
Dr., Ventnor, NJ, is a "real estate professional
in a beach community—Margate, NJ"
and a "consistent multimillion-dollar sales
producer." Daughters Amy and Stacey are
17 and "readying for college . . . Help!"
Carol Anne Ebert, 8608 NE 10th St.,
Bellevue, WA, is treasurer of Digital Systems
Intl., a NASDAQ-traded concern. Jose
G. Calle, 2 Tudor City PL, #2B-N, NYC,
left Mobil Chemical to "head my own company
in international trade of packaging films
and adhesives and other products." He lent
the Johnson Art Museum six pieces (prints
and photographs) for a recent exhibition.
Dr. David A. Console, 3636 Holly
Lane, Topeka, KS, reports "all five Consoles
(wife Victoria, Cyrus, 16, Alexander, 14, and
James, 12) loved our week at Adult University
(CAU) in the summer of 1992." Dave's
a psychiatrist at the Menninger Clinic in
Topeka. David J. Cornell, 17 Pirates Cove,
Massapequa, NY, participated on a panel discussing
"Going Out on Your Own," sponsored
by the ILR Alumni Assn. at the Cornell
Club—New York, which is what he did:
"After 15 years at the Chase Manhattan
Bank, I started a financial consulting services
practice specializing in the credit-card
business."
Rabbi Bruce M. Cohen, who's the international
director of Interns for Peace, 165
E. 56th St., NYC, reports the birth last November
5 of Emil Lincoln Cohen, first child
for wife Karen Wald (New York U. 70) and
Bruce. He also notes he received the President
of Israel 1993 Award for Improving
Israeli Society.
Judy Klimpl Blitz, 6150 Valerian Lane,
Rockville, MD, teaches French and is a department
head at a middle school in Potomac,
MD. Son Brian Blitz '97 is in Arts &
Sciences. Joyce Villata Baressi and husband
Joe '65, 2507 Dengar, Midland, TX,
report that daughter Laura '97 is also on
the Hill.
John E. Alden, PO Box 41, S. Egremont,
MA, is chief financial officer and treas-