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across Somalia during Operation Provide
Relief, before the Marines showed up to take
all the guns away." (He flies C-130s.) He
states he prefers to stay home with wife
Thana (Connell) '82 and son Patrick, 3.
Kevin Kranen Reports from Mountain
View, CA that he has seen a lot of Ross
Salawitch, who has been on two one-month
ozone investigation missions based at NASA
Ames. Ross is a postdoctoral student at
Harvard. Also a grad student is Gabriel
Diaz-Saavedra. He is pursuing an MBA in
agri-business at the U. of Florida. He is secretary
of the MBA student association and of
the grad student government organization.
Marcia Hopson Earle updates us that
she lives in Mount Vernon, NY and works
in Manhattan at Parsons Brincherhoff, an
international consulting engineering firm.
She is vice president, corporate communications
and marketing. Marcia married an
Ithaca native, Thomas Earle, and gets back
to Ithaca often. She keeps in touch with Lisa
Pintchman, who lives in Watertown, MA
and works for a public relations firm in the
Boston area. Marianne Vansicklin Knight
writes from Woodville, Ont, Canada, where
she, husband Peter, and children ages 11, 9,
and 7 built a new home. Marianne is a home
support administrator for Durham Region
Community Care Assn. in Cannington, Ont.,
where she was awarded funding for a project
on elder abuse. She presides over a regional
multidisciplinary committee to address this issue.
She'd love to hear from fellow classmates!
Also in Canada, Mary Machamer reports that
she continues to enjoy her practice in Val DΌr,
PQ. She hopes to make it back to the States
for some Cornell events soon.
Hope you've enjoyed keeping up with
classmates' news. This complimentary issue
has gone out to virtually all of our classmates.
To continue to receive Cornell Magazine,
you'll need to subscribe. Call (607)
255-3021 to charge your dues or send a
check with your News and Dues form. The
more we hear from you, the better our column
will be! • Jennifer Read Campbell,
103 Crescent Rd., Glastonbury, CT 06033;
Robin Rosenberg, 2600 Netherland Ave.,
Apt. 201, Riverdale, NY 10463; Kathy Philbin
LaShoto, 114 Harrington Rd., Waltham,
MA 02154.
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^^ *• you've written about an impending
event; sometimes we reach you and other
times we don't. Given that intro, we
would love to hear updated news from Ann
L. Schrager Warner, Jill W. Schwartz
Rowan, Ruth S. Allen, and Deborah Gesensway!
Nick and Carol Pennings write, "On July
31 we were blessed with the birth of Stefaan
Jacob." He joins Christopher, 10, Nicolaas, 8,
Marieke, 5, and Jeffrey, 3. The Pennings live
in Goshen, NY, where Nick has a very busy
family practice. They say hello to Marc Jacoby,
Brian Gormley, and Al Rocco.
"Four kids! Emily, Sarah, Jack, and Hannah—they're
wild," write Rick and Carol
Chabot Steele from Longmeadow, MA.
CLASS NOTES
Bill and Terry Kilmer Oosterom announced
the birth of son Max last November.
Max arrived the day after the Cornell-
Penn game, giving Mom and Dad the opportunity
to enjoy the festivities! Michael
and Rene Panosian announced the birth of
Stephen in February 1993. The Panosians
were living in Churchville, NY (near Rochester)
but are considering a return to the
Air Force.
The following children could almost be
2 years old by now, but we always like to
include birth announcements. Alyssa Florence
arrived in June 1992 to Richard S.
and Elizabeth A. Hoare Cowles. Alyssa
plans to be in the Class of 2014; she would
carry the legacy of mom and dad as well as
grandfather John Hoare '56 and greatgrandparents
Don Wickham '24 and the
late Mabel Goltry Hoare '27. Steven P.
and Jill Hanson Powell had their first child,
Claire Rose, in June 1992. She "is helping
on home improvement projects in our house
in Ithaca!" write the proud parents. Jill is a
reference librarian in Cornell's engineering
library in Carpenter Hall; Steve is a rocket
engineer in Cornell's electrical engineering
department.
Tricia Vitch Caliguire and husband
Mark '83 announced the birth of daughter
Alison in May 1993, to join brother Christopher.
Tricia "works for her two children,
doing everything they need and most everything
they want." Mark is executive vice
president/general counsel for Willmann Paper
Co. They live in Princeton, NJ. Also in
Princeton is Stuart Orefice, who went on
from Cornell to become director of food service
at Princeton U. Christopher Nevole
'77 and David Clarke '91 are on staff with
Stu, and his associate director is Ed Nase '81.
"It looks like Cornell in Princeton!" he writes.
Douglas Wong has been very busy.
"In addition to running the Open Pit Barbecue
Sauce business, I'm managing several
new product developments at Campbell
Soup Co. On weekends, I try to play pickup
basketball or do some running, but unfortunately
I'm not as in-shape as I'd like to
be." Doug saw Joe Chiang and wife Lillian
at a wedding; they live in Hermosa Beach,
CA. Doug and wife Jolene live in Laurel
Park, NJ.
Pat Donnelly Boyers and husband
Brian '81, MBA '83 bought their own company
to join the world of entrepreneurs. In
April 1992 they purchased a small furniture
manufacturer, and are based in Asheboro,
NC. Phil Chao was named chief of the
FDA's drug regulations branch in November
1992. His staff handles federal regulations
for human drug products, responds to
scientific and legal issues, and assists in international
activities.
Reid Simpson, a software engineer for
Xylogics in Burlington, MA, is awaiting the
graduation and "rocket-sled career path of
wife Maxine so that he can retire and become
the Norm Abrams stunt double on
The New Yankee Workshop.' (He's working
hard on getting the stomach . . .)" He
writes that Erik Kramer '81, MEng EE
'82 and wife Edie built a house in Reading,
MA and adopted one of the Simpsons' cats.
"Do cats count to soften the DINK syndrome?"
Reid asks. • Nina M. Kondo, 323
JUNE 1994
71
W. 82nd St., 4A, NYC 10024; and Neil Fidelman
Best, 207 Dellwood Rd.,
Metuchen, NJ 08840.
To answer your question, Barney
Gallassio, it's about 70
degrees (in March) in Los Angeles.
Barney informed me in
January that it was only three
above at his home in Ohio. He
is director of customer service for Merck,
the world's largest mail service pharmacy,
setting up the corporation's first stand-alone
call center. Barney also had news of other
classmates. Last year he attended the wedding
of my neighbor Peter Morris to Laurie,
who works in the fashion retail industry.
Their ceremony was unique, done in a
medieval setting with goblets, groaning
boards, the works. Also in attendance were
Saul Behar, John Contino, Dan Kiefer,
and Mark Kirsch. Mark, an assistant US
attorney, was recently married, himself, to
Deborah Feyerick, a reporter for "New York
1 News." The couple resides in Manhattan.
In other wedding news, Jane Anne
Boras, MBA '83 was wed to William Hurlin
in a ceremony in Princeton, NJ. Jane is a
systems engineer with AT&T Bell Laboratories.
And Lesley Harris, the director of
the IBJ Foundation Inc., married Jay Palmer
in Boston, also last November. Jay is the
president of a New York City interior design
firm. A classmate that's been very busy
is Suzanne Muller Ishimura. In addition to
her "day job" as an interior designer (thankless,
isn't it?), Suzanne is an accomplished
sculptor, who shows her bronzes in galleries
and shows throughout the country. She
works at her Oakland home, where she lives
with husband Jim, an architect.
I must thank former Class Correspondent
Caroleen Vaughan for sending in
news. Caroleen is president of her own fouryear-old
communications management company.
She was also recently elected to the
board of the Philadelphia Cornell Club and
spent a month in the Netherlands after being
awarded a Rotary International Foundation
study exchange. In addition, Caroleen
recently enjoyed attending the closing performance
of the Broadway hit The Will Rogers
Follies with former-roommate Ellen
Bobka. She also let me know that Amy
Siegle La Gambino is the proud mother of
Louis, born last year.
Judy Binderman has come to the realization
that, with her decision to buy her
own home, she is truly an adult. Becoming
a doctor wasn't enough, Judy? She is in
touch with Liz Forman, who moved in February
from North Carolina to Connecticut.
Paine Webber's newest vice president of
investments is Angelo Mandarano. He
works in the White Plains, NY, branch and
lives with wife Maureen in Pelham Manor.
In brief: Ariana Pancaldo is a physician
at the Prospect Hill Community Health
Center in North Carolina: Judy Lautensack
Paragamian works for a marketing corporation
in New Jersey; David Pogal is an accountant
with Davie, Kaplan & Braverman
in Rochester, NY; Nancy Pollick is vice
president of food and beverages at the Showboat
Casino and Hotel in Atlantic City; Burton
Presberg is a physician at the Medical