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CLASS NOTES<br />
Garbage Guy<br />
DAVID SΊΊTZEL, MRP '89<br />
Gword. And for Dave Stitzel it<br />
isn't—it's a job.<br />
Stitzel helps businesses and<br />
governments make less garbage through<br />
waste reduction, reuse and recycling. He's<br />
a project manager at the Washington Citizens<br />
for Recycling Foundation—a Seattlebased<br />
non-profit group best known for its<br />
National Packaging Awards and Booby<br />
Prizes. For example, in 1991 a Booby<br />
Prize went to an over-packaged microwave<br />
meal which was covered with shrink wrap, had a<br />
cardboard sleeve, a plastic tray, a tear-away lid, as well<br />
as individual flavor packets.<br />
In addition to its emphasis on waste reduction, the<br />
foundation focuses on finding uses for recyclable materials.<br />
"The success of any recycling collection program<br />
depends upon finding markets for the materials<br />
collected," Stitzel says.<br />
Toward that end, Stitzel has developed the Re-Re-<br />
phonathon recently to help encourage you In Ann Arbor, MI, David Youngren<br />
classmates to give money to the university. pursues a master of engineering at the U.<br />
I was apprehensive about asking strangers of Michigan. His outside passion is main-<br />
for money, but it wasn't bad at all and I met taining and racing his motorcycle. David<br />
new people. The Class of '90 is competing sees Eric Davis and Jeff Moore '91 often<br />
with '85 to reach the 600-donor level—gifts at their cart races. He also reported the June<br />
of any size—first: the winning class gets 1993 marriage of David Johnson and Lau-<br />
$40,000 extra toward its Reunion gift, ren Blair '91 in Kingston, NY. Angela<br />
thanks to Spencer T. Olin '21! That means Schoening also resides in Michigan and was<br />
if you give even $1 to <strong>Cornell</strong> this year, it to graduate from Michigan State U.'s veter-<br />
counts. I had a long chat with Kelly Hannainary college right about now. Angela wrote<br />
fin while procuring a donation. Kelly is that she regularly sees Kelly Johnston Vex<br />
working at MCA/Universal in Studio City and Jane Shaw and she attended the wed-<br />
as a draftsperson and lives unbelievably ding of Olive Lee, Grad and Greg Thaler<br />
close to me in Hermosa Beach.<br />
'88, Grad in Ithaca, Aug. 14, '93. Both bride<br />
Happy 2nd birthday, on last June 2, to and groom are in graduate school on the Hill.<br />
Cameron La Vaughn Turner, son of David Don't forget to pay your class dues if<br />
and Jeanne Moulton Turner. I think that's you haven't already. The deadline on news<br />
the first baby I've announced for the Class for the next issue is June 30. Send your lat-<br />
of '90. Mostly, classmates are just getting est info to Regina Duffey, address below.<br />
married, as Stan Yen and Martina Sourada • Kristyn Benzinger, 715 Monterey Blvd.,<br />
did in August 1993. Andrew Chiang re- Hermosa Beach, CA 90254; Regina Dufported<br />
this news. Andrew, an avid runner, fey 72 Lois Lane, Ithaca, NY 14850; Jenni-<br />
works for Cambridge Technology Partners in fer McComb 2808 Kinloch Dr., Orlando,<br />
Cambridge, MA and sees fellow <strong>Cornell</strong>ians FL 32817; Saman Zia-Zarifi, 225 S. Olive<br />
"running and drinking, usually in that order." St., #910, Los Angeles, CA 90012.<br />
As for the friends who are probably still<br />
digging out of snow drifts, Stacey Madoff<br />
is studying hard at U. of Buffalo medical<br />
school in Buffalo, NY. Last June she wrote,<br />
"I passed part one of the boards, and I can<br />
see the light at the end of the medical school<br />
tunnel." Dennis Edwards spends a lot of<br />
time in the US Army Reserves when he's<br />
not working as a chemical management supervisor<br />
at Colgate U. in Hamilton, NY.<br />
fl\ Έ Welcome m a to this month's column.<br />
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tive well<br />
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^"w I formation was gleaned from last<br />
l l I year's News and Dues forms. Once<br />
^^ ^ again, I will repeat my eternal<br />
plea—if you have news of yourself or some<br />
of our classmates, please write! It is the only<br />
way I can provide you with relatively recent<br />
JUNE 1994<br />
75<br />
fined Oil Market Development Program for<br />
Public and Private Fleets, which aims to get<br />
vehicle fleets to use re-refined oil and antifreeze.<br />
The two-year-old program has collected<br />
some 400,000 gallons of used motor<br />
oil, and signed up vehicle fleets, including<br />
those of the Puget Sound Bank and several<br />
municipalities, to use re-refmed oil.<br />
"Oil doesn't wear out, it just gets<br />
dirty," Stitzel says. "Once it's been<br />
cleaned, re-refined oil meets all American<br />
Petroleum Institute specifications."<br />
Stitzel received his master's from <strong>Cornell</strong>'s Department<br />
of City and Regional Planning in 1989. The<br />
summer after graduation he took a job in Elmira with<br />
the Chemung County Solid Waste Division. He helped<br />
design and implement a solid waste composition study.<br />
He sorted through 600 pounds of garbage every day,<br />
classifying it into 37 categories. Says Stitzel, "After<br />
that summer, I knew it was garbage for me."<br />
Andrea Blander '87<br />
news throughout the year. One classmate<br />
who did write is Robert J. Weiner. Robert<br />
is now working on his PhD in politics at<br />
Princeton, after working two years for an<br />
environmental consulting firm. Robert<br />
writes that he saw Dave Clarke, who is<br />
working for Princeton U. Catering, at the<br />
International Spirit of Zinck's Night last fall.<br />
Other <strong>Cornell</strong>ians in his department are Shinju<br />
Fujihira '93 and Solomon Karmel '87.<br />
I recently received a News and Dues<br />
form from Piers Barker, who is in medical<br />
school in New York City. Piers writes that<br />
he and Kirsten Johnston '92 were married<br />
June 12, '93 on Long Island. <strong>Cornell</strong>ians<br />
in the wedding party included Monisha<br />
Mehra, Kristin Baird, Debbie Snoonian,<br />
Jason Waxman '93, and Steve Kalik '94.<br />
Congratulations to Piers and Kristin on behalf<br />
of our entire class!<br />
Besides Piers, Stephen G. Schwartz<br />
is a medical student in NYC, at New York<br />
U. Liz Collard is also studying at NYU, although<br />
she is studying law. Liz spent last<br />
summer working at a NYC law firm. Several<br />
other classmates around the country are<br />
still in school. Howard Wang and Sheryl<br />
Reinecke completed their clinical rotation<br />
together at Johns Hopkins medical school.<br />
Amy Morris is a law student in Bloomington,<br />
IN, and worked in Louisville, KY, last<br />
summer as a law clerk. Michael Santisi is<br />
at John Marshall law school in Chicago after<br />
spending two years skiing in the Vail Valley.<br />
Ivan Arzola is working on his master's<br />
degree in engineering management at Poly-