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technic U. of Puerto Rico during the evenings,
while working as an engineer with
the Puerto Rico Telephone Co. by day.
Classmates who have also ended up far from
Cayuga's waters include Andrew Galligan,
who has been working for an investment
banking firm in Lausanne, Switzerland since
last August and expects to return to this
country at the end of this summer. Andrew
has also been enjoying the skiing. Darcy
Andrew spent the last two years managing
the Temple U. bookstore in Tokyo before
returning to the US last fall to enter the
Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts
Inst. of Technology. Darcy traveled to
Thailand and Burma while working in Japan.
Finally, Robert Dunlap, a chemical
engineer, was living in northeastern China
at last report, after a trip to Mongolia.
Most classmates remain in the US, and
many of them on the East Coast. Jeff Davis,
a computer consultant, moved from New
Jersey to Washington, DC to begin work
with a different firm. Jeff writes that classmates
Steve Feinleib and R. David Roach
are also in or around DC, along with John
A. Kelly '89, James Berner '90, and Jeff
Goldstein '90. Jeff Carver is now in Philadelphia
working on therapeutic pharmaceuticals
for treatment of brain injuries, strokes,
epilepsy, etc. Jeff is also working on his
MBA part time.
As one might expect, the New York
metropolitan area (broadly defined) is home
to many classmates. Betsy Tarn is the administrative
assistant to the associate directors
for special gifts at Barnard College.
Mark Hiddessen is the assistant manager
of the Quality Inn in Plainview (on Long Island,
and my hometown). Richard Coombe
is an assistant general manager with a cable
TV system in Middletown, NY. Bonnie
Greenspan is a clinical nutritionist at Mt.
Sinai Hospital in NYC, and recently became
a registered dietitian. And, finally, Vanessa
Hicks is a corporate trainer with The New
York Times magazine group, which controls
publications such as McCalΓs, Family Circle,
and Child.
Whew, Γm surprised I could write that
much. As I said at the beginning of the column,
I rely on you to keep me informed of
what's happening in everyone's lives. Your
letters don't need to be long, and they don't
need to be works of literature. A few lines
now and again to keep our classmates posted
would do just fine, and I would genuinely
appreciate the effort. Thank you for your
support. • Howard Stein, 600 Warren Rd.,
#3-2D, Ithaca, NY 14850; (607) 257-3922.
^ J ^ § Hi guys ... I am writing to you
I I I from New Haven, where the ice
1 1 M and snow melted, the spring flow-
^*m m ers bloomed—making me miss
l l f J the radiant tulips in front of Balch
^^ ^" Hall and at entryways to campus—but
where, by the time you read this
it will be hot and humid. Now that summer
is here, I know you're in great spirits. I apologize
for the missed column, thinking that
if I sent over e-mail it would make it okay.
But it got lost, somewhere on the great,
invisible, cybernetic highway, and Cornell
Magazine never received it in time. We are
working out the kinks in the systems, but
CLASS NOTES
Some of us are
volunteering, or
taking on that
ideally un-intellectual
summer
job. Club Med,
anyone?
—DIKA LAM '94
my old suspicions are confirmed—better to
write it on paper and send it in an envelope
with a pretty stamp.
Normally, the news we use in the column
is taken from the information you provide
on the News and Dues forms. You send
the forms to Alumni House, they in turn
send them to one of Class Correspondents
Renee Hunter, Debbie Feinstein, or me.
Addresses are not always kept up to date
with the university and packages can get lost
in the mail. I sometimes opt to call or write
people randomly and print news about them
directly. If you have time, write to any one
of us directly (see addresses below) or to
Class President Meredith Rosenberg, or
Class Secretary Michelle Struble, so we
can get your news out more efficiently. If
you think a letter will be too long—hey—
drop us a post card and see results! Man,
I'm beginning to sound like an ad. When you
send in a News and Dues form, be sure to
give us a piece of news, or something you
think may be interesting to your friends. I
guess what we're trying to do here is network,
but we need your help.
The first piece of news is about Susan
Sperry. Susan arrived March 1 in Auckland,
New Zealand for graduate work in facilities
planning at the U. of Auckland. I spoke with
her dad, Peter Sperry '60, and discovered
that Susan fled the big snow storm, taking
only shorts and tee-shirts to wear while enjoying
the balmy climate of the temperate
zone. Her address there, for those of you
traveling to that part of the world this summer,
is: O'Rorke Hall, 16 Mount St., Auckland,
New Zealand. Amy Hirshfeld, who
also has "Cornell red" in the family, is in
the middle of clinical rotations at the U. of
Pennsylvania's medical school—finishing up
her second year. I believe the boards are
coming up, so good luck to you, Amy, also
to Phil Chan (at Yale Med), and all the rest
of you second-year meds out there!
From "Down Under," let's jet up to Finland,
where Michelle Schorr can be found
at Vana Public Relations. I wonder if she
knows that Tina Finneran is product manager
at A&A Connections Inc. in Kent, UK.
CORNELL MAGAZINE
76
Hi Tina! Overseas contacts are definitely a
commodity. Don't worry if you don't know
someone—hey, Cornell was big—but let's
get chatting, people. Facetime.
Speaking of commodity and busy trading,
David Palmer is working as an analyst
for General Refinancial Products Corp.
in New York City, after moving from Ithaca
to the upper West Side. Steve Barber did
the reverse and moved back to Ithaca. He
is working for Smith Barney Shearson on
the Commons as a financial consultant. If
you guys ever get away from work, may I
suggest Mesa Verde National Park. That's
where Jeff Conuel met up with Diane
Tormey and hiked the Black Canyon National
Monument back in August. Then Jeff
visited Justin Mikulka on his birthday and
found Dunbar's closed on a Thursday night!
They weren't kidding when they said that
the campus is different, now that we've
graduated. So, then they went up to the
Royal Palm Tavern ("Palms") instead. "It
was good to see classmates Paul Matz, Arianna
Stupp, and unnamed members of the
817 E. State St. Chug Team," reports Jeff.
Make it a fun and productive summer.
I hope you share news of your summer adventures
or transitions next in the October
issue. ••• Jade Chao, 367 Cedar St., New
Haven, CT 06510; also Renee A. Hunter,
1120 Mt. Hope Ave., Rochester, NY 14620;
and Deborah W. Feinstein, 3511 Davenport
St., NW, #103, Washington, DC 20008.
Hi, everybody! I'm writing to
you again from sunny Cleveland,
OH, where I run into all kinds
of Cornellians here at Case
Western Reserve U., among
them Sohee Lim, Viven Chiu,
Kelly Colasurdo '91, W. David Wallace
'90, Joe Haefner '85, and Min-Yen Jung
'89—and they're just the ones in my firstyear
law classes! Also in Cleveland, you'll
find Suzanne Elise Walsh at the Mandel
School of Applied Social Sciences, where
she was to finish her MSW in May 1994
and begin law school here in August. Writing
to let us know they are in law school
(but not in Cleveland) are Naseem Dhanani,
Fort Lauderdale, FL, and Beth Fisch,
who is in school at George Washington U.
Making sure we know they're working
hard at graduate school are Michael Tino
at Duke (nice basketball showing this year!),
Chris Tedeschi at Johns Hopkins, Daniel
Simon and Matthew Dolan at Columbia,
Helena Pachon at Cornell (PhD program
in nutrition), Jacquelyn "Jackie" Rowe at
West Virginia, Jeff Gardner at U. of Washington
in Seattle, Usama Abdali at U. of
Michigan, and Paul Braun at the Beckman
Inst. in Urbana, IL. To complete this
month's post-graduate educational round-up
we have John R. Hazelton, attending New
Jersey School of Medicine in Newark, and
Daniel Levison, who is studying at the
London School of Economics.
Exciting news from the working world
includes word from Liz Caracciolo, who
moved to San Jose, CA and is a management
trainee at Nestle Food Co.; Rebecca
Chapa, who is assistant to Kevin Zraly of
Windows On the World Restaurant on the
106th floor of the World Trade Center; Lou-