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something of a Cornell reunion is Joselina
Medrano Lawless, who wrote that after
passing the California Bar exam on her first
try, she and fiance Ian finalized plans for
their wedding, a "Filipino-Catholic event
that took place in Joselina's hometown, Staten
Island." Joselina reported that "the wedding
entourage consisted of 42 people," with
R. Scott Eddins '86 and Philip McCarthy
'86 as ushers, and Ethan Lercher '84,
Joseph Michaud '84, Julia Scott '88, and
Tita Castor-Valbuena '84 in attendance.
Joselina noted that a "proxy stood in for
Heidi Tobler Sakanaka, official cord sponsor,
who now lives in Japan."
The helpful soul who faithfully scans
The New York Times wedding announcements
for Cornellians has passed along to
me news of many other '85er nuptials. William
Monness, a partner in the securities
brokerage firm of Monness, Crespi, Hardt
& Co., brokered a real sweetheart deal when
he married Jennifer Heller, a U. of Pennsylvania
grad who is director of communications
at Housing Enterprise for the Less
Privileged. Other New York newlyweds include
Madeleine Goldman, a nutritionist
for the Samuels Planetree Model Hospital
Unit, who exchanged vows with Dr. Paul
Berg, an intern at Mt. Sinai Hospital; Jolie
Fries, a senior planning associate for New
York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, who
wed Richard Singer, a loan representative
for the Premier Mortgage Corp. in Union,
NJ; and Elizabeth Bolgiano, MBA '89, director
of human resources at Bristol-Myers
Squibb Co., who was resourceful enough
to find her new mate, Peter Jacobs, MBA
'89, in her b-school class at Cornell!
Human resources appears to be a popular
career path even for non-newlywed
classmates. Kristin Overgaard Bond
serves as personnel assistant at the Boston
law firm of Foley, Hoag & Elliot; John Clahane
is labor relations specialist at CSEA
in Hauppauge, NY, and Janet Shinney is
human resources director at Allied Services
in Scranton, PA. For combining HR business
with pleasure, though, you have to
hand it to Susan O'Brien and Julie
Kephart Salady who somehow managed to
find their calling in the tropics. Susan is director
of human resources at Amelia Island
Plantation, a resort area off the coast of
Northern Florida, while Julie serves as director
of human resources at the Maui Land
& Pineapple Co. Inc. in Kahului, HI. Any
available positions in your offices, ladies?
Thanks again to readers of this column
for the steady stream of mail. Keep it coming!
Until next month, Aloha! ••• Risa Mish,
269 Broadway, #2D, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522.
Here's coincidence: mere weeks
after I mailed my previous column,
which made a passing reference
to Terry Ting of information
gleaned from a list, Mr.
Ting sent me a long, newsy letter
recounting how since graduation he 1)
earned a master's in Asian studies at Cornell,
and 2) worked in project finance in "the
City" for three years before deciding to take
the risk of skipping business school and going
to Hong Kong. Terry reports, "It's the
best decision I have ever made." No doubt:
CLASS NOTES
Terry has done technology transfer deals for
a venture capital firm; advised a Taiwanese
company on 1) investment projects in Vietnam
and 2) raising financing; and looked for
investment opportunities in China. He
writes, "While there's been a significant
amount of hoopla about the China market
and its potential, particularly in the American
press, there are still enormous obstacles
to successful investments there ..."
Terry has since lectured on all this for the
Johnson School of Management at Cornell
. . . Whatta guy, whatta guy. Speaking of
coincidence, John Saliling bumped into the
ubiquitous Arun Bedi at the Ivy League Ball
in Hong Kong.
Soldiers/Officers of Fortune: Paul A.
Mottola spent six months in the Persian
Gulf on the USS Niagara Falls, has traveled
to six Asian countries and Australia, and
now, at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida,
teaches seminars to senior military and civilian
leaders. Sean D. McMurtry logs time
as a Navy prosecutor and manager of the
Bahrain branch office—where he works
eight to 18 hours a day, seven days a week.
Navy matters have taken him throughout
the Middle East and Africa, including Somalia,
where a sniper shot at him. Kenya,
he reports, has friendly people and spectacular
scenery. Sean previously served on the
USS Wasp, which took him to Turkey and
Israel to assist with the Kurdish relief effort
and patrol Iraq's northern border. In
addition to handling foreign claims, he has
bailed sailors out of foreign jails, conducted
courts martial, and given advice about when
and at whom to shoot. Were Prof. Walter
LaFeber's lessons helpful, Sean?
On the wedding front, Daniel S.
Kessler, now a biologist at Harvard, married
Karen Lynn Zedeck. May 1993 weddings:
lawyer Suzanne B. Perla and
Wendy Sandier Sidebottom attended the
wedding of Michele Fagnan. Jack Kendall
married Mary Ann Willenbrink in Virginia
Beach, VA, where they reside. Classmates
attending were Todd Hines, Phil
Liang, Bruce Kenison, John Calhoon,
Bob Jacobson, Pete and Barb Werner
Mazziotti, Janice Costa, Evan Schwartz,
and Steve Lockwood.
Relocations: Courtesy of a promotion
(at Cargill), Mark H. Brandt left California,
after 2-1/2 years, for Chicago. Margaret
Jones Carpenter has moved from Scotland
to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where she
teaches history. She also proposes a Cornell-sponsored
beer bash in Riyadh. After
working in the food industry and earning a
MBA, James E. Shaikewitz works as a
business consultant in Krakow, Poland. His
job is part of a program to help emerging
industry in the Eastern Bloc convert to capitalism.
(On a related note, Kathryn M.
O'Neill writes that she received a real education
while traveling through Russia,
Ukraine and Czechoslovakia last year. She
wonders how these societies will catch up
to Western standards, and recommends
Prague for its beauty.) David B. Williams
is back in Florida as a management assistant
with Enterprise Rent-A-Car in Stuart.
Home ownership stuff: dentist Elizabeth
E. Mead has purchased a home in
Portland, raves over the Northwest's beau-
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ty, and offers to give tours of the local pubs.
She reports that Deirdre Maltais Heisler
had her third child in March 1993, and Donna-Lee
Gargano Selland, MD is doing a
residency in radiology in Boston. She and
husband Christopher live in Brighton, MA.
And that'll do it. I'm running low on news,
so write with the latest scoop—especially
those who complain their names never appear
herein. Otherwise, the schtick returns. ••• Jeffrey
W. Cowan, 3132 Canfield Ave., Suite 7,
Los Angeles, CA 90034-4355.
June 1994. Many of us in the
Northeast were reminded of our
Ithaca winters earlier this year
when we endured a series of
record-breaking blizzards and below-freezing
temperatures. We
may have finally put the winter behind us, as
we share the "warm" news of marriages,
births, and exotic world travel. Class of '88,
have a happy and healthy summer of 1994!
Tracy Tregurtha '88, BS Hotel '89
married David Child in Darien, CT on Sept.
11, '93. The wedding ceremony at the St.
Thomas More Church in Darien was followed
by a wonderful reception at the Long
Neck Point home of her parents, Lee
Anderson Tregurtha '59 and Paul '57.
Many alumni were in attendance, and an
unforgettable time was had by all—reminiscing
about our respective days at Cornell—
as the sun set over the Long Island Sound.
The wedding party included Tom '80 and
Dorothy Tregurtha Croskey '81, Susan
Tregurtha Marshall '86, Margaret
(Brown) '85 and E. J. "Ted" Tregurtha
'85, MBA '91, and Christi Brown. Guests
came from around the world: David and his
family hail from Morecomb, England, and
others came from as far away as Bombay,
London, Montreal, Chicago, and the West
Coast. Alumni at the fete included Jeff
Broadhead '91, Doug Hocking '89, Amy
Ciabattoni Keating '86, Caroline Broadhead
'96, Kerith Michelson '94, Per '85
and Jenny Moore Stahlkrantz '86, Sara
Ross '87, BS HE '88, Teresa Jordan '89,
Tierney Anne Kennedy Delude '87, Mary
Hunter, Pat Flanagan, Ravi Mohan '89,
Chris Flynn '89, Dan Shefter '89, Amy
Chrisman Cima, Wendy Myers Cambor,
Phil Winters '59, Rob Buccini '90, Alison
Diamond, E. M. "Ted" Anderson '55,
Thomas '53 and Liz Weiss Croskey '54,
Denise Filler Strauss, Joe Dessi '89,
James E. Anderson '60, BCE '62, James
Broadhead '57, Dick'55 and Ann Acklin
Stanton '59, Ann Finkenauer Petitt '56,
David '58, MBA '59 and Ardith Anderson
Williams '59, Jack Neafsey '61, BME
'62, MBA '63, Nancy Sterling Brown '59,
James "J.D." Moran, Patrick Kandianis,
Mike "Bob Weir" Naughton f 86, Jack
Barrett '87, Helene Finegold, John Wolf
'89, Jim Tregurtha '50, Mara Tuohey,
Terence Neafsey '86, Cathlin Brown,
Susan Raulerson Lay ton '64 (of Susan
Layton Catering Inc.), Lyle Stillman '86,
and Tracey Tobin. The couple honeymooned
at Lake Sunapee, NH and now reside
in Washington, DC, where David is an
executive steward at the Stouffer Mayflower
Hotel.
Marc Lebowitz and Christine Kessler