MAR./APR. 2006 VOLUME 108 NUMBER 5

I was wrong about those yellow News Forms. The response has been amazing, especially as to what you remember most fondly and from whom you would most like to hear. Insufficient column space for that, but Paul and Polly Prine Herman will make room for it on our Web page, http://classof52.alumni.cornell.edu. As I use the forms, I'll forward them to the Hermans. If you need even more reason to check the website, Joy Rees Hoffman and Bob Chabon, M Ed '55, have been working on plans for our 55th Reunion to be held June 7-10, 2007. The plans include some different and outstanding events. Save the dates and plan to attend. To keep informed, check the class website.

I had a good November visit from Nancy Barner Reynolds, whose present day job is swimming, weight training, reading/study, and a philosophy discussion group.When not occupied with that, Nancy is involved with travel, family activities, and visits to family and friends. She's in good shape, and happy with what she is doing now. Nancy brought a September article from the Wisconsin State Journal, in which the interviewee,Helen Johnson-Leipold '78, said things about her parents, Sam '50 and Imogene Powers Johnson, that would gladden any parent's heart.

Now to the mailbag. Lawrence Breslau, Baltimore,MD, is among the few who still has a day job. A doctor, he is director of the Partial Hospital Project, Baltimore Washington Medical Center.We knew Elizabeth Jacques Browne, Cleveland, OH, as Betty. After her husband,Michael '55, MBA '56, died, Betty decided to stay in her house. That, along with visits to family in Cleveland, New York, D.C., Florida,Michigan, and Hawaii, which last she has not yet done, keep her busy. She's also active in the Cornell Club of NE Ohio, with their summer job network, particularly, and CAAAN. Then there's church, where she is involved in everything from prayer groups to an inner city Books for Children project. OK, Betty, take a deep breath.

Cynthia Baldwin Dutton, York Beach, ME, a retired doctor, is also widowed. She writes: "I am retired (since 1994) and live in the house where I grew up. I am involved in a modest amount of volunteer activity, like to go rowing in my 63-year-old skiff, write essays and memoirs, a few of which have been published, and spend time with my daughters and my friends. Life is good here on the Maine Coast."Also in New England is Paul Davis, MBA '59, Chatham, MA, who, retired, has recently been doing "worldwide travel." Lucy Anne Willis Farmer, Ventura, CA, is also enjoying retirement: "I can ride my horse whenever. Also volunteer at Police Dept. storefront." Lucy Anne's husband Peter '51 is deceased.

Not retired entirely is M.Carr Ferguson, LLB '54, New York, NY.He is senior counsel at Davis Polk & Wardwell, part-time professor of law at NYU (fall) and San Diego Law School (spring), and still involved in some arbitration and mediation of tax disputes. Off hours, he works on his golf game, writes, and speaks. He and wife Marian (Nelson), MA '54, spent the summer with their four daughters and sons-in-law and 11 grandchildren. Frederick Fuess, M Ed '55, Baldwinsville, NY, is retired and has recently moved from Illinois to New York State. Apart from that, he and his wife enjoy travel. Philip Gottling Jr., Cincinnati, OH, is retired after 36 years at Procter & Gamble. He now does lots of high quality audio recording for church and community concert events, and reports that it was fun being in touch with Dave Murray, a Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity brother, for the first time in over 50 years. Dave arranged the blind date where Phil met his future wife Barbara (Johnson) '54.

Alison Bliss Graham,Wynnewood, PA, writes that she and Charles "Chad" are both active in civic affairs--local government and school district. Chad is professor emeritus at U. of Pennsylvania, where he still helps teach an engineering lab course and is writing a textbook on magnetic materials. They recently had a "nice cruise on the Chesapeake," and their usual two weeks in England, where Chad opened a new physics lab at the U. of Sheffield. John Lankenau, LLB '55, New York, NY, is actively practicing employee rights law in a four-attorney NYC law firm. Fridays, he and Alison are usually at their house in the Hudson Valley. After hours, John works for and gives money to Democratic candidates at all levels, and also works on historic preservation. The Lankenaus celebrated the day of their 40th wedding anniversary with a family/friends party and then went to Paris for 10 days.

Now sadder news. Shirlee Critchfield, Garden Grove CA, wrote that her husband and our classmate Robert died June 12, 2005 of acute leukemia. An avid golfer and photographer in his retirement, Bob is greatly missed by his family and his many friends. John Voigt, MBA '57, Frankfort, IL, wrote only that his spouse, Susan (Bancroft) '54, passed away after a seven-year struggle with progressive supranuclear palsy. -- Joan Boffa Gaul, 7 Colonial Pl., Pittsburgh, PA 15232; e-mail,jgcomm@aol.com