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urer of Berkshire School, a co-ed prep
school, "a major change from the hotel industry,
in which I had worked for the past
25 years." • Richard B. Hoffman, 2925
28th St., NW, Washington, DC 20008.
Hope you're all well. Your class
correspondent, while visiting at
the famous Cloister Hotel on
Sea Island, GA, overheard the
hotel's general manager, Edward
T. "Ted" Wright '58, and
wife Rachel (Laidly) '58 talking about Cornell
and got the Sea Island photographer to
take a photo of us. Unfortunately, it could
not be reproduced here. The Cloister is a
wonderful vacation spot, where my family
enjoyed beach, tennis, golf, spa, and great
food. We were there last Christmas before
going on to Renaissance Weekend at Hilton
Head Island. In regular class news, Barry
M. Shaw is an orthodontist in the Binghamton,
NY area and lives with his wife and two
daughters in Vestal. Barry reports a recently
published article on the subject of restorative
treatment of a formerly bulimic patient.
You may want to write to the Journal of the
American Dental Association for your own
copy. C. Ed Kemp is a veterinarian at the
Vineyard Veterinary Clinic on Martha's
Vineyard. Ed lives in Falmouth, MA. Carl
Acebes is an investment counselor with
Rochdale Investment Management in New
York City. Mary Zahrt Adams is a compliance
officer with the South Plains Community
Action Assn. in Levelland, TX. Rich
Ahlfeld lives in Mountainside, NJ. Linda
Hamilton Archer is a demographer in
Nairobi, Kenya.
David Yesner is a professor of archeology
at the U. of Alaska, Anchorage. Mary
Rutherford Lovelock lives in Hartford, CT.
Mary and her husband, W. Robert Chapman,
have become vintage dancers, specializing
in the Victorian and Ragtime eras. Last summer
they spent a week at "dance camp" in
Newport, RI, attending balls held at several
mansions. Her other activities include volunteer
work for her church and work for a
non-profit agency that will be opening a lowincome
housing residence. Ronald Ress,
JD '68 is in the Naval Reserve Judge Advocate's
Corps and has won a high award for
outstanding achievement. Al Bensley lives
in Honeoye Falls, NY and is a manager with
Eastman Kodak in Rochester. AΓs job involves
working with new technologies, and
his hobbies include long-distance running.
His daughter Wendy '97 is in Agriculture
and Life Sciences. Monica Bernheim lives
in NYC. Robert Cane is deputy sheriff in
St. Augustine, FL, so watch your speed if
you're in the area. Randall Bus lives in
Wheaton, IL. Anne Gilfoil Borrusch is a
wellness/health educator and lives in Northville,
MI.
Len Bisk lives in Israel with wife Miriam
and family. Miriam was recently
honored by the president of Israel for her
volunteer activities in helping Russian immigrants.
Steve Charno lives in Great
Neck, NY. Jim Deuel is manager of the
Hyatt Arlington Hotel in Arlington, VA.
Fred C. Fay manages three small chemical
businesses in the York, PA area. Peter
Entin lives in NYC. Lynne Buttner Fra-
zier is vice president of human resources
with Intracorp in Berwin, PA. Her daughter
Kristen Blanchard '94 has been in Arts.
Carol Rizzuto O'Brien has a fundraising
consulting business in Ithaca.
Neil Newman is in international sales
with Stanford Telecomm in Sunnyvale, CA.
Neil has a son who recently graduated from
the U. of San Diego and another at the U. of
Colorado. He has a busy year of travel, including
visits in Hong Kong, China, Japan,
Korea, Europe, etc. Mary Pasley is a paralegal
specializing in immigration law in NYC.
M. E. "Beth" Deabler Corwin and husband
Rick live in Belmont, MA. Marc Rudofsky
lives in Westfield, NJ. Cliff Orloff lives in
Berkeley, CA and is someone Γd like to hear
more from. Catherine Saul McNeill and
husband Blair '66 live in Wayne, PA, and
she works part time as an office manager.
Neil Rivchin lives in Loudonville, NY. Janie
Marshall Richards is a math teacher at
DeWitt Middle School in Ithaca, where she
and husband Melzar '67 live.
Janet Fisher Anisfeld is a psychoanalyst
in NYC. Ira Shepard was sorry to miss
Reunion last year, but reports he was invited
to participate in the Annapolis-Newport
sailboat race over the same weekend. After
four days of sometimes rough sailing, Ira's
boat was the first 35-footer to cross the finish
line. Ira is a lawyer in Washington, DC.
Helen Schonbrun Schreiber lives in NYC
with husband Bob '64. Helen is involved in
marketing. Bill Schneider retired from
work for a period to be the primary-care
companion for his first child, Hannah, born
in 1992. Bill and wife Laura had worked together
at Paramount Publishing Education
Group in NYC for a number of years. He
describes the change and challenges of parenthood
as "delightful" and he is apparently
back at work now. Greg Fried is a doctor
in Lake Success, NY. Jane Bennett Moore
lives in Delaware.
That's all for now. I look forward to
hearing from you. • Gordon H. Silver, Putnam
Investments, 1 Post Office Square, Boston,
MA 02109.
"Gus" Noojin writes,
"It's hard to believe I am simultaneously
approaching my 25th
69Augustus
wedding anniversary and my
25th year with Shell and am still in Houston.
Fortunately, the living is comfortable,
if you enjoy heat and humidity." After a twoyear
stint in corporate planning, Gus is now
running a joint refining venture with Petroleos
Mexicanos. "I'm spending time on Wall
Street financing the deal and trying to learn
Spanish."
Philip S. Callahan (Pasadena, CA) has
been appointed deputy project scientist for
a follow-up mission to the highly successful
ocean-observing TOPEX/POSEIDON, now
well into its second year of data collection.
Robert Liburdy, a research scientist at the
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory at U. of California,
Berkeley, has been "studying the
interaction of 60-hertz magnetic fields with
breast cancer cells. Environmental-level
magnetic fields (from power lines and appliances)
have been implicated in some forms
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of cancers. He and his physician wife, Nora
L. Burgess, toured Japan for three weeks
last year while Robert gave a series of lectures
at various universities.
Catherine Ogorzaly Lehrberg (Palo
Alto, CA) spent last summer in France and
England with husband Dick and family. He
was working while she "mainly played with
the children," ages 10 and 12, which included
visits to castles, Roman ruins, picturesque
villages, and the London theater. This
summer's destination "after Reunion, of
course" is likely to be the Dordogne.
Marian Cohen Ramirez works for the
U. of Michigan's family practice department
training family practice residents in psychosocial
assessment and interviewing skills.
She also provides psychotherapy for patients
at the department and in her own private
practice in Ann Arbor. "It's a wonderful
job—I feel very lucky." Marian lives near
Evelyn Neuhaus and sees her often. Susan
Scheer Germaine is teaching nursery
school in Larchmont, NY. Husband Louis
'68 is practicing radiology in Westchester.
The Germaines have a daughter at Dartmouth
and another graduating from New
Rochelle High School.
Dr. Earl Armstrong received his MD
from the U. of Chicago in 1973, was at Johns
Hopkins Hospital 1973-78, and subsequently
became chief of the pulmonary division
at Howard U. medical college. In 1988 he
went into private practice. Earl and his physician
wife, Patricia, have three children and
their activities include serving as Boy and
Girl Scout leaders.
Michael A. Smith (Smithtown, NY),
a financial analyst with Lehman Brothers,
writes of children James, a budding architect
who is looking for a college in ski country,
and Dawn, who wants to be a veterinarian
"like her 'old man' originally set out
to do before he found Wall Street. She has
taken to the horse-show game—the activity
that has the highest cost-to-age ratio of
any endeavor a child can be involved in!"
Dr. John P. Mitchell, MD '73 practices
ophthalmology and neuro-ophthalmology in
Manhattan. "I still take a team of eye-care
specialists to Haiti to teach eye residents
in Port-au-Prince and give services to a remote
part of Haiti called Lascahobas. Politics
may preclude my travel in 1994." John
lives in New Rochelle with wife Patricia and
daughter Andrea.
Film editor Lois Freeman writes she
is currently working on a documentary video
about the Santa Clara River, the last "unchannelized"
river in southern California.
Recent credits include And the Band Played
On for HBO about the discovery of HIV,
the virus that causes AIDS. Lois lives in
Fillmore, CA with husband Stuart Fox,
lutenist/guitarist. After living in southern
California for 20 years, Stephen Pfeiffer
and wife Phyllis (Kramer) '70 moved to
the San Francisco area. Phylllis left the LA
Times to become publisher of the Marin Independent
Journal, and Stephen gave up a
private psychology practice to join a management
consulting firm in the city. The
Pfeiffers and their children live in Tiburon.
Karen M. Hay wood (Naugatuck, CT)
was married in July 1992 to Robert L.
Greene in Cheshire, CT. Dr. Charles H.