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College of Virginia in Richmond; Leonard
Newman is a professor and lives in Cleveland,
OH; Vivian Schiller is a vice president,
development for TBS in Atlanta;
Karen Lankton Schmidt works in robotics
engineering in Auburn Hills, MI; Nancy
Imhof Schneider is an educational director
for Cornell Cooperative Extension in Hudson
Falls, NY.
Okay, gang, I am TAPPED OUT! Send
news and lots of it. • Matthew Tager, 14055
Tahiti Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292; FAX
(310) 305-8877; Nancy Schlie Knowles, 5
Elmcrest Cir., Ithaca, NY 14850-3024.
Beth Nash threw herself a 30th
birthday bash in New York City
in October 1992 at the Cornell
Club-New York. There were
plenty of Cornellians on hand, including Lisa
Batter O'Rourke, Jackie Zoladz Buffon,
Janice Parmelee Wingo, R. Hayden
Schofield, Chris Cummins, Charlie Cole,
Suzanne Karwoski Jonker '83, Sarina
Monast Bronfin '82, Elizabeth Warner
'87, Ali Sanderson '86, Tom Vecchione
'86. Beth said that Jackie delivered her baby
the very next morning. It must have been
some party! Beth has also been involved in
starting a Cornell Club of Oklahoma. There
are more than 100 alumni in the Tulsa area.
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Good luck keeping the "Red and White"
spirit going down there! Beth may also want
to give Andy Baxevanis a call to hear about
all the great things he has done with the
Cornell Club of Maryland. Andy was reelected
to a third term as president of the
club. He says anyone interested in getting
involved or organizing a Class of '84 event
should give him a call. As president, Andy
had the privilege of representing Cornell at
the inauguration of the new president of a
Washington, DC university. Andy has also
been elected director, Mid-Atlantic region,
on the Cornell Alumni Federation board. He
helps organize local events, such as Cornell
Day at the Baltimore Orioles' home, Camden
Yards, last spring. In addition to all of
his Cornell volunteer activities, Andy hardly
finds time for his new position as a research
associate at the National Insts. of
Health (NIH).
Karla Sievers McManus is on the
board of the Cornell Club of New Hampshire.
She started her master's in environmental
law last summer at Vermont law school, and
returned to Franklin Pierce Law Center in
Concord, NH in the fall to complete her JD.
Karla's husband, Don, completed the first
year of his PhD in electrical engineering at
Dartmouth. Don works at Lockheed/Sanders
when he's not at school. Karla writes
that Dr. Bill Zempsky and wife Janna have
moved to Pittsburgh, PA, where Bill was to
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have a fellowship in emergency room pediatrics
and Janna, to work on a master's in
nursing. Karla also sends news of Terry
Soyring, who bought a second house in Ithaca
which he is fixing up to sell, and Clifford
Torng, who works in Hong Kong for
an advertising agency.
Marcy Dubroff has been appointed
manager of the news bureau in the public
relations office at Franklin and Marshall
College. Susan Becker married Rob Orlick,
and they now live in Long Beach, NY.
Cornellians attending the wedding included
Brian Becker '87, Amy Feldman-Lewanda,
Eileen Beattie Krieg, Debbie Bunk,
Mary Wertz Fitzpatrick, Joan Handler
Freed '69, Carl Hovi '83, and Michael
Reid. Susan left IBM in the spring of 1993 to
join a start-up multimedia venture at NBC.
Jay Lindy is in Memphis, TN practicing
law at what he joking calls, "The Firm."
Jay says that David Home, Clay Lifflander,
and Andy and Debbie Kramer with
their daughter Alexandra joined him for the
1st birthday of Cara Greenstein, daughter
of Sheryl and Rabbi Micah Greenstein. Jay
said David and Clay also made their annual
visit for the Memphis in May International
Barbecue Contest.
Looking forward to seeing everyone at
Reunion. ••• Lisa Starsky Bronstein, 77
Haverford Ct, Hillsborough, NJ 08876.
If you thought Tommy Moe and
Picabo Street had fun on the
slopes in Lillehammer last February,
wait until you hear about
the ski adventures of Karen Silverman
Anderson. In January,
Karen went on what she thought was a
Swiss ski vacation with her beau, Gerry
Anderson, and with David Schulsinger and
other friends. However, the trip turned into
a vacation/wedding/honeymoon-all-in-one
when Karen and Gerry decided to tie the
knot... abroad. As Karen says, 'Ύes, the ceremony
was in German. Yes, it was translated.
And yes, they say it's legal in this country!"
Julia McCann, a pulmonary fellow at
the Guthrie Clinic in Sayre, PA, opted for a
wedding a bit closer to our alma mater. She
wed Richard H. Miller III in a September
ceremony in Johnson City (outside Binghamton)
attended by Joyce Fries, an engineer
for NUSC; Trish Kelley Marina, "who
has children Matthew, Megan, and James;"
Gerald Ortiz, an orthopedic resident at U.
of Southern California, who has daughter Alexa;
G. Michael "Mike" Ortiz, a urology
resident at U. of Vermont; Owen "OJ"
Murphy, a doctoral candidate in biochemistry;
Rich Strassberg, whose January
wedding Julie attended; Jim Nee, a teacher
in Kingston, NY; Alex Herrara, who
works for DEC and lives outside Boston;
John Passalacqua, who works in sales and
lives in Fort Lee, NJ; Laurel Shuster '86;
and Sang Kil Yi '86. Julia added, "Sorely
missed at the festivities were Tom Martin,
who was on-call in his oncology fellowship
at U. of California, San Francisco; Felicia
Miller Morgan '86, who has a baby,
Zachary; and Lisa (Golden) '86 and Greg
Hofstetter. All in all, it was a great reunion!"
Another classmate whose nuptials were