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Dave and Wendi—let us know if that was<br />
really you, and fill us in on your other media<br />
pursuits.<br />
Have a wonderful, warm, sunny summer.<br />
• Cindy Ahlgren Shea, PO Box 1413,<br />
E. Hampton, NY 11937; Kathy Zappia<br />
Gould, 912 Meadowcreek Dr., Richmond,<br />
VA 23236.<br />
Believe it or not, we're only a<br />
year away from the class's 15th<br />
Reunion. As you read this column,<br />
it's time to think about<br />
your role in planning for and<br />
participating in next June's festivities<br />
and getting involved in future years'<br />
class operations. This columnist is growing<br />
weary of making old news sound new and<br />
writing about the same (successful or best<br />
at self-promoting) colleagues, so will be retiring<br />
after 1994-95. Look for the latest news<br />
in next month's issue. If you have a budding<br />
interest in writing or established phone<br />
and gossip networks with classmates, please<br />
call me at work, (315) 470-2275, to hop on the<br />
class-column circuit. We've missed a few issues<br />
and are in dire need of items from different<br />
grads and different regions of the country.<br />
On the topic of Reunion, our class officers<br />
always can use all the help they can<br />
get. Volunteers should begin by contacting<br />
Reunion Chair Nancy Maclntyre Hollinshead<br />
at 234 Montgomery St., Jersey City,<br />
NJ 07302-4005, and at (201) 435-5290; or<br />
Class President Kathleen Cote Snyder at<br />
PO Box 89, Green Village, NJ 07935 and<br />
(201) 301-9623.<br />
Did anyone else wonder why the Los<br />
Angeles earthquake was the cover story for<br />
March's issue of <strong>Cornell</strong> Magazine! I'm still<br />
thawing out from another lousy winter in<br />
Upstate New York. As I type this column in<br />
late March, there's still snow on the ground<br />
in Syracuse.<br />
I'm glad to say that in my 14-plus years<br />
of writing class columns, I've only had to<br />
report one alumni death. This month, I got<br />
word of the deaths of three classmates. We<br />
don't know more details, but the public affairs<br />
office received news that David<br />
Lawrence Blum of Collins Ave., Miami<br />
Beach, FL died Jan. 24, '94. David was a<br />
Hotel graduate. His sister is Leslie F.<br />
Burns '85, 35 Princeton St., Rockville Centre,<br />
NY.<br />
David John Roche of W. 30th St., NYC<br />
died on Feb 5, '94. His parents, Mr. and Mrs.<br />
David Roche, live at 36 Parkside Lane, Bayonne,<br />
NJ. David was a graduate of Arts and<br />
Sciences. Another Arts and Sciences graduate<br />
from NYC, Paul R. Arcomano, died on<br />
July 28, '93. Our condolences to the families.<br />
Please let us know if there are further<br />
details or information about their lives, causes,<br />
or favorite charities to be published in<br />
future columns.<br />
The Great and Almighty<br />
CLASS OF<br />
1981<br />
Only 2 More Years Left...<br />
Until We Meet Again.<br />
IVIeanwhile, stay in touch! Join<br />
the Class of '81 and receive a<br />
subscription to <strong>Cornell</strong> Magazine.<br />
If you haven't paid your 1994-95 dues, you can 1) call (607)<br />
255-3021 and charge your dues to your MasterCard, Visa<br />
or Discover card, or 2) send a check for $37 (payable to<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> Class of 1981) to <strong>Cornell</strong> Class of 1981, Alumni Affairs,<br />
P.O. Box 6582, Ithaca, NY 14851-6582.<br />
DUE IT NOW—STAY IN TOUCH!<br />
CORNELL MAGAZINE<br />
70<br />
Former Sun editor Jonathan M.<br />
Landsman '81 sent a city-slick notice<br />
(much like a wedding announcement) saying<br />
he opened a law office at the Lincoln<br />
Building, 60 E. 42nd St., Suite 2112, NYC.<br />
Jon's new phone number is (212) 949-6100<br />
... so if you're in trouble, want help, or just<br />
want to say hi, he's no longer associated with<br />
Shea & Gould. Jon is concentrating on commercial,<br />
real estate, and constitutional<br />
law. • Jon Gibbs Craig, 213 Wellesley Rd.,<br />
Syracuse, NY 13207.<br />
^^k "^ Hurray for summer! We certain-<br />
I I I ly deserve the nicest after a<br />
\£ I record-breaking snowfall in the<br />
Mil Northeast! I recently received a<br />
I I I news clipping on the wedding of<br />
^^ ^ David Niggli to classmate Betsy<br />
Cahn. They were married in October 1993<br />
at the New York Palace Hotel in New York<br />
City and honeymooned in Bali, Indonesia.<br />
They live in Manhattan, where Betsy is a fashion<br />
merchandiser and her husband is vice president,<br />
merchandising for FAO Schwartz.<br />
There continues to be news from classmates<br />
about all sorts of life changes. Dr.<br />
Lisa Todes writes from Easton, PA that she<br />
is the recently-divorced parent of daughters<br />
Laura, 6, and Rachel, 3, and has a solo dental<br />
practice. She is interested in meeting<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong>ians in the NY/Philly/NJ areas.<br />
Laura Dake Roche and husband John<br />
D. saw a number of classmates while at the<br />
fall wedding of G. B. "Jerry" Leape '82 in<br />
Washington, DC. Tom Cherner, '80, BS<br />
HE '82 was there, is still single, and recently<br />
moved to NYC. Also in attendance were<br />
Brad Crooke and wife Debbie, who recently<br />
bought a house in a northern suburb of Boston.<br />
Brad and Debbie have daughter Amanda,<br />
2. Laura and John stayed with Doreen<br />
Robinson and husband Paul Sheehy in Silver<br />
Spring, MD. Doreen and Paul have sons<br />
Christopher, 1, and Michael, 2-1/2. Doreen<br />
is a biomedical scientist, consulting for the<br />
military intelligence community.<br />
From Norton, MA comes news that<br />
Ken and Beth Sargent's second child, Melissa<br />
Corrine, was born just before last<br />
Christmas. She joins sister Katie, 3. From<br />
Pittsburgh, PA, William Hansen writes<br />
that he and wife Gretch have daughters<br />
Katherine, 5, and Julia, 3. William has made<br />
several trips to Russia as president of Hansen<br />
Inc., to develop a joint manufacturing<br />
venture for the production and distribution<br />
of railroad car parts in the Commonwealth<br />
of Independent States (CIS). He reports that<br />
"Ithaca weather never seemed so good!"<br />
Meryl Friedenberg Mann writes from<br />
Westfield, NJ, where she and husband Jack<br />
live with their daughter Alix, 1. Meryl is<br />
senior vice president of corporate finance<br />
at Oppenheimer. Jack works at Merrill<br />
Lynch in yield capital markets. Also in Westfield<br />
is Dr. Sheryl Leff Ring. She is a radiologist,<br />
is married to urologist Dr. Kenneth<br />
Ring, and has son Zachary, 3. Rosemarie<br />
Pavia Reilly writes to us that she and her<br />
husband are the busy working parents of<br />
Eric, 5, and Lauren, 2. Rosemarie and her<br />
family live in Bloomfield Hills, ML Robert<br />
Ross informs us that he is a plans officer at<br />
Little Rock (AR) Air Force Base. He "spent<br />
two months hauling food into dirt land strips