SEP / OCT 2005

First, news from those not heard from before. Judith Rosenberg Bernstein, MA '54, Albuquerque, NM, writes that she has "traveled all over the world in the last 15 years in conjunction with international library conferences and physics conferences." In 2004, she and husband Daniel Finley spent two months in Ireland, Scotland, and England, and four months on sabbatical in Madrid. Active members of the Cactus and Succulent Society, growing and showing, they travel by camper throughout the Southwest and Mexico. They have six children scattered across the US. Judy retired as director of the business library of the U. of New Mexico a few years ago and was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Special Libraries Association.

Bob Jensen, Catonsville, MD, writes, "After nearly five years living in the Charlestown Retirement Community, I was able to locate four other Cornellians among the 2,300 retired residents here." Helen Berdick Freedman '35,Mildred Phillips Ramsdell '41, Mary Close Bean '43, Dean Tuthill '49, and Bob met for a get-acquainted lunch in March and hope to get together again. Helen Freedman planned to attend her 70th Reunion with her daughter.

We travel and keep in touch. Aliza Goldberger Shevrin, Ann Arbor, MI, writes that her husband Howard, PhD '54, was taking his furlough year before retirement from the U. of Michigan, as follows: December to May '05 in New York City; and September to February '06 in Cambridge, England. They had just spent five weeks in Italy. Aliza was about to start another Sholem Aleichem translation. She reported a great visit with WinnieWallens Siegel in San Francisco. Lewis B.Ward-Baker, Rochester, NY, writes that a large group of alumni from the Tau Epsilon Phi house, from the late Forties through the mid-Fifties, spent an October weekend at Saratoga Springs organized by Bernard Schapiro. "He summarized our discussions about the future of the university in a fine letter to President Jeffrey Lehman '77."

Mary Alice NewhallMathews, MD '56, Newton Center, MA, is busy with family, work, and other things.When she wrote in October she was in rehab, having fallen off a ladder cleaning the gutters."Usually I go out the window." She still works two days a week and seriously gardens. She takes two vacations a year to do underwater photography in Southeast Asia and was aiming for the Great Barrier Reef and Wakatobi, Indonesia, in 2005. Further, she and Deedy Sargent make annual visits to the Boston MFA. Last year they saw AnnWoolley Banks '53, whom Mary Alice had not seen in 50 years. "Wow,"writes Mary Alice. "Wow," say I. If you're inclined to see where your old friends are, the online Alumni Directory, https://directory.alumni.cornell.edu, accessible to all Cornell alumni, is a good bet. You'll need your Cornell ID, which is on most mailings from the university, to access the site.

Richard C. B. Clark, Osterville, MA, and wife Sandy were in Portugal and Spain in October. The trip included seven days on the M.S. Duoro Prince, a 46-passenger ship that cruised the Duoro River. They returned to Bermuda for their 12th Christmas there and were looking forward to February in Palm Springs, CA. Rik wrote, "Volunteer responsibilities continue to keep us busy and involved, but we also work hard to save time for kids and grandkids, travel, golf, biking, and other satisfying activities." Arthur Reader, Arden, NC, volunteers as webmaster for the Cornell Alumni Association of the Blue Ridge Mountains (http://caabrm.alumni.cornell.edu). Art would be happy to help with a class website, computer graphics, and so forth. He writes, "Otherwise, thanks to an excellent medical establishment in the Asheville, NC, area, I am still ticking three years after a 'sudden cardiac death' episode."Walter Bortko and wife Rosemary (Manno) '55, Bonita Springs, FL, are "busy with what most 70-year-olds do. Volunteer work, travel, golf, exercise, tennis, and doctors appointments."Walter remains super-enthusiastic about their first grandchild, Ethan, and feels Cornell should recruit him for Class of 2024 football.

Still working is James H.Ward,Washington, DC, who has moved his information technology business, Symbiont Inc., to 1320 Fenwick Lane, Silver Spring,MD. Bud reports that 2005 marks Symbiont's 20th anniversary. Congratulations, Bud. In Lancaster, PA, John and Elizabeth Hunsberger Craver are both busy. Jack as chair of the Research and Professional Grants Committee of the American Hotel and Lodging Educational Foundation, and Lib as an instructor with Lancaster County Therapeutic Riding Inc.

Ina Perlstein Loewenberg asked that I mention the death of her friend Martina Feist Brout in Brussels in 2004 after a yearlong struggle with brain cancer. Some of you may remember Martina, who did not graduate from Cornell. She lived in Brussels with her family, where her husband taught physics at the university, and is remembered as a good wife and mother. Sadly, I must also mention the death of Peter Schurman, the husband of my sorority sister Judy (Calhoun). I ran into Peter during the 1980s when--in addition to everything else he did--he was active with the New Haven Local Education Fund, an organization that worked hard for better public schools. Pete was an all-around good guy and is missed. -- Joan Boffa Gaul, 7 Colonial Pl., Pittsburgh, PA 15232; e-mail, jgcomm@aol.com