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Randee Berman wrote that she was for a<br />
time a researcher for Garrick Utley, NBC<br />
Weekend Nightly News correspondent.<br />
Randee is writing a children's show to innovate<br />
education through rhyme and music.<br />
Thomas Balonek writes a wonderful<br />
"bumping into a <strong>Cornell</strong>ian far from home"<br />
story: Thomas was at the National Radio<br />
Astronomy Observatory at Kitt Peak, Tucson,<br />
AZ while on sabbatical leave from Colgate<br />
(where he is associate professor of<br />
physics and astronomy). He ran into Dennis<br />
Pape, who runs his own company, Photonics<br />
Systems, in Melbourne, FL, who was<br />
touring the observatory. They instantly recognized<br />
each other, in spite of having not<br />
seen each other since graduation.<br />
Joan Bensing Boehnen and husband<br />
Dan, JD '76 are living through the teen<br />
years with Christopher, 13, and the preschool<br />
years with Lindsey, 4. Joan is an educator<br />
at Lake Forest College and lives in<br />
Northbrook, IL. She visited with Diane<br />
Robinson Knapp in San Francisco in the<br />
summer of 1992, and they planned to attend<br />
Reunion together. Diane and husband Steve,<br />
PhD '81 have children Jesse and Sarah. K.<br />
Shelly Porges also sent regards from the<br />
San Francisco area (Greenbrae, CA), where<br />
her firm Porges/Hudson specializes in marketing<br />
consulting for retail banks and credit<br />
card issuers. Shelly co-chaired the Reunion<br />
Tower Club campaign with Fred Bosch.<br />
John Karaczynski, JD '77 was named partner-in-charge<br />
of the Los Angeles office of<br />
Rogers and Wells. Through twins Adam and<br />
Dylan, 4, John and wife Sheila have met fellow-alumnus<br />
Jack Marsteller '73 and wife<br />
Joana Gallo, who have Jackson, 3. Both families<br />
reside in Manhattan Beach, CA.<br />
Gary Kah is owner of Agtech Associates,<br />
an irrigation management consulting<br />
firm. Business has taken him overseas to<br />
Pakistan and Jamaica. He is presently developing<br />
products that apply electronics to<br />
the task of minimizing water use on commercial<br />
and recreational landscapes, including<br />
business parks, resorts, and golf courses.<br />
Harris Tulchin is practicing entertainment<br />
law and includes rapper Ice Cube as a client.<br />
He regularly sees Andy Howard '73,<br />
Richard Rosenberg, and Richard Ades.<br />
He keeps in touch with Ray Capece, Richard<br />
Cleaveland, and Tom Weingartner,<br />
and recently he ran into Roy Rifkin. All are<br />
well, he reports. •> Betsy Beach, 4 Thoreau<br />
Dr., Chelmsford, MA 01824.<br />
J^m W* I'd like to take a moment to pay<br />
m 1^ tribute to one of our classmates,<br />
m Ψ^k JoAnne Swarthout, who passed<br />
• I away this past March after a ten-<br />
I i l year battle with cancer. Our con-<br />
^^ dolences to her friends and family.<br />
Tom Fisher resides in New Haven, CT<br />
with wife Claudia and their daughters Ann,<br />
7, and Ellen, 3. Tom was promoted to editorial<br />
director of Progressive Architecture magazine,<br />
where he has worked for the last 11<br />
years. Tom notes that he continues "to defend<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong>'s superiority among all of my<br />
Yalie neighbors here in New Haven." That<br />
shouldn't be too difficult, Tom! *<br />
Beth Michaels Gaffer is a physician<br />
assistant for Planned Parenthood of Suffolk<br />
County. Myrna Bank Gardener and Julia<br />
Loeb Aurigemma and spouses met for dinner<br />
in Westport, CT. Myrna and Julie keep<br />
in touch with Karen Seidler Goodwin, who<br />
resides in Greenwich, CT. Last summer, the<br />
Gardeners visited Kimberly Christy Gordon<br />
and husband H. D. "Chip," JD '75, and<br />
their five girls in Schenectady and lived to<br />
tell about it!<br />
We had a suggestion from Pam Hanna,<br />
who thought it would be interesting to<br />
share how we have all faced or will face/<br />
brave/celebrate our big 4-0 birthdays! Pam's<br />
husband, Greg Menzenski, surprised her<br />
with a birthday gala at Pierces Restaurant,<br />
owned by classmate C. Joe Pierce and family.<br />
Close friends in attendance included Deb<br />
Yelverton Stokes '74, Brad '79 and Mary<br />
Maxon Grainger '79, Christopher, PhD<br />
'92 and Melinda Codd Muller '85. Pam is<br />
still home full time with her sons, Matt, 6,<br />
and Mark, 3-1/2. She does freelance technical<br />
writing, but she never thought being a<br />
parent would be so totally all-encompassing!<br />
From Pennsylvania, Joel Helmrich is<br />
an attorney in Pittsburgh. He is building a<br />
new house starting this winter. He writes<br />
that the construction was necessary to accommodate<br />
his handicapped daughter. He<br />
invites anyone passing through Pittsburgh<br />
to give a call!<br />
Karen Beckvar resides in Phoenix,<br />
AZ, and writes that she and her family enjoyed<br />
a reunion at a dude ranch near Jackson,<br />
WY—a great time was had by all and it<br />
was nice to escape from the Phoenix heat.<br />
Speaking of heat, Stephen LaPointe and<br />
wife Claudia Jimenez '87, live in Cruz das<br />
Almas, Brazil, where he is an entomologist.<br />
He was transferred to northeast Brazil as<br />
International Coordinator of a UNDP (United<br />
Nations Development Project). Their second<br />
daughter, Maria Gabriela, was born in<br />
September, and they are all adapting to their<br />
new lives in Brazil.<br />
Other <strong>Cornell</strong>ians outside the States<br />
include Katie Gabinet Kroo, who is an artist<br />
in Montreal, PQ, Canada. Last spring, her<br />
son Josh was bar mitzvahed—a great event<br />
which brought her roommate from <strong>Cornell</strong>,<br />
Randy Friedman Freedman to Montreal<br />
for the first time! Katie writes that plenty<br />
of years have passed since they first met as<br />
Donlon freshmen, but it was just like old<br />
times having her visit. Representing Japan<br />
is Tetsuo Kuboyama, residing in Nagasaki.<br />
He is president and CEO of NHV Hotels<br />
Intl. His first book, Human Relations and<br />
the Hotel Industry, was published by Nikon<br />
Koizai Shimbun (Japanese Economics Newspaper,<br />
the Japanese equivalent to the Wall<br />
Street Journal) Publishing Co. This book<br />
stresses the importance of combining the<br />
Japanese tradition of hospitality with the<br />
advanced management techniques he learned<br />
at the School of Hotel Administration.<br />
Sergio Kogan is president of Internat<br />
Americas Ltd. and he writes that he is<br />
spending over 50 percent of his time in<br />
Mexico, where he set up an office to represent<br />
software companies exporting from the<br />
US to Mexico. His family is doing great, and<br />
wish that every vacation could be spent in<br />
Club Med Ixtapa! He would like to meet<br />
some <strong>Cornell</strong>ians when he is in Mexico City.<br />
Paul Feldblum is an epidemiologist, and is<br />
about to earn his PhD in epidemiology from<br />
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U. of North Carolina. His wife, Tolly Boatwright,<br />
teaches at Duke, so theirs is a truly<br />
mixed marriage. They have two vivacious<br />
sons who adore Barney!<br />
Congratulations to Anne Welge<br />
Schleppi, who owns a Subway franchise in<br />
Virginia Beach, VA, and was named Subway's<br />
Franchisee of the Year and awarded<br />
the Distinguished Achievement Award by<br />
the International Franchise Assn. She still<br />
has time to make a mean BMT (that's a<br />
sub)! Ann says she's not getting rich, but<br />
it's still better than getting a "real job"!<br />
Betty Warner Fileri and husband<br />
Philip '74 live in Pittsford, NY. Betty is in<br />
private practice with an ob/gyn group. She<br />
is also an associate professor of ob/gyn at<br />
the U. of Rochester School of Medicine. She<br />
recently served as president of the Rochester<br />
Academy of Medicine and now chairs the<br />
ob/gyn subcommittee of Rochester's largest<br />
HMO. She is now focusing attention on trying<br />
to get the Clinton Administration to understand<br />
that ob/gyns provide primary care<br />
to women between the ages of 18 to 45, and<br />
she does not want to see women's care get<br />
lost in the proposed health-care reform.<br />
Thanks for all the news! • Karen<br />
Leung Moore, 18 Tolland Cir., Simsbury,<br />
CT 06070.<br />
When this column reaches you<br />
my family will be on our way to<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> for the 20th Reunion of<br />
my husband, Morris Diamant<br />
'74. We have convinced some<br />
friends to join us, namely Alan<br />
'74 and Geraldine "Gerry" Bronstein Ertel<br />
'74 and John Gmeiner '74 and wife<br />
Faye. We have seen Alan Ertel on a professional<br />
basis quite often this year. Alan is a<br />
hand surgeon and when my son Sam broke<br />
one of his fingers last winter, Alan gave him<br />
excellent care. We owe him our thanks!<br />
I will be on the lookout for members of<br />
our class in Ithaca this June. So if you see<br />
me, please say hello and get your name in<br />
this column!<br />
Joel Libove lives in Fremont, CA,<br />
where he is president of Ultraview Corp.<br />
He and wife Barbara have children Robin<br />
and Eileen. They began construction on a<br />
new house in August 1993 in Orinda, CA.<br />
News from Stanley Kolbe Jr. includes<br />
announcement of a baby born in June 1993.<br />
Katerina joined older sister Alexandra and<br />
mom Nina. Stanley is active in Phi Delta Theta,<br />
is president of the house's alumni corporation,<br />
and also chairs the house renovation task<br />
force. He is renting to two <strong>Cornell</strong> graduates<br />
in his Washington, DC properties.<br />
Pamela Coulter Mason wrote that she<br />
has been with CBS Radio since leaving<br />
WTOP Radio of Washington, DC in January<br />
1992. Pamela is a Washington correspondent<br />
for network-owned stations in Detroit, Chicago,<br />
St. Louis, Los Angeles, San Francisco,<br />
and WCBS in New York City. She says that<br />
it is fun being on the air in all those cities,<br />
but strange not being on a station in DC.<br />
One of the morning anchors at WCBS, stage<br />
name Brigette Quinn, is known to us as<br />
Brigette Siefringer '84. Pamela sees Lori<br />
McGinnis Keenan and M. Ann Spudis quite<br />
often. They love it that two <strong>Cornell</strong> women<br />
have gotten such big jobs in the Clinton