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