MAY./JUN. 2006 VOLUME 108 NUMBER 6

Firsthand news first. Jean Thompson Cooper, she of the Long Island Rug School, invited five of us for a week at her place on St. Thomas. Jane McKim Ross,Wilkes Barre, PA, and Key West, FL, volunteer raiser of serious funds for cultural and social services; Judy Calhoun Schurman, New Canaan, CT, retired travel agent and businesswoman; Patricia Moore Sullivan, Chicago, family and churchperson extraordinary; Joan Nesmith Tillotson, MD '56, Fargo, ND, retired physician; and I all happily accepted.We are older, shaped differently, and may be wiser, but basically we are still us. The week was full of bright sun, blue skies and seas, and the laughter of women.

Now, your turn, with news from those previously unheard from.Marshall Lindheimer, Chicago, IL, is an emeritus professor at the U. of Chicago and chairs the general advisory committee of their Clinical Research Center. He is also consultant to the WHO's Dept. of Reproductive Health and Research. He and wife Jacqueline subscribe to the symphony and university quartet series. Active in community affairs, they were about to go on their fifth Cornell Alumni trip in February 2006. Alfred Pagano writes from Newark, DE, that though retired from E. I. DuPont, he consults part-time on the environment. After hours, he lists political party involvement, Christopher Columbus Monument Committee membership, and presidency of Italo-Americans United. He spends time at concerts and football games and had spent two weeks with two of his grandchildren in the Bahamas.

Sharon Follett Petrillose, Elmira, NY, is "keeping" house, books, husband, and healthy. She also keeps in touch with friends at home and in France. She's keeping up her French and gardens in season. A recent trip to donate food to the SPCA gave the Petrilloses two new kittens. She and Bob are parents, grandparents, and greatgrandparents. Stephen Prigozy, Averill Park, NY, has retired as professor of electrical engineering at the US Merchant Marine Academy. His current interest is the telegraph. Pointing out that "Ezra's money came from his early work on the telegraph," he has done research and collects old telegrams and telegraph ephemera. Apart from that, he's busy fixing up the mistakes done to his house.

Bob Silman, Brimfield, IL, followed up his Cornell degree with one in chemical engineering from the U. of Texas in 1960. He does research at the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria. Spare time? He gardens, and he and wife Anita are both past presidents of Illinois Valley Kennel Club. They have bred eight champion Doberman pinschers. Roger '49, ME '52, and Jane Hillis Thayer live in Edgartown, MA. Jane, a psychotherapist and mediator, has, with her daughter Peggy, written the book Elderescence: The Gift of Longevity. She is busy presenting it. John, DVM '52, and Mary Shear Brennan are in Schenectady, NY. Jack writes that he reads, golfs, and travels. He is a library trustee and recently has been attending Cornell Sprint football games to watch grandson Michael Brennan '09, a fourth-generation Cornellian, play.

Joan Aten Beach, Lantana, FL, is active at the Norton Museum of Art,Hypoluxo Island Association, and Atlantis Golf Club. She and Stafford '51 have taken some wonderful trips each summer. They had just returned from New Zealand, Australia, and Singapore. Joan writes, "On to the next country! It's hot down here." Judith Kredel Brown, Rochester, MI, is still teaching. She is professor of anthropology at Oakland U. She writes, "I am now the oldest member of the faculty." She swims just about every day in the university pool and does some lifting. Joan Stamboolian Braner, Tenafly, NJ, is also still at it. She owns "Conversations by Candlelight,"which offers singles dinner parties in a private home. She is involved with several study groups and enjoys theater, movies, books, and, not surprisingly, dinner parties. Sarah E. Gifft lives in Milford, PA.

John Sanford's news from Pass Christian, MS, is not happy. His present day job is battling with FEMA and the insurance company. He has been busy "picking through the debris that was once our house on the beach."As to what he'd rather be doing: "Pick anything." Gerald Read, Prattsburgh, NY, has retired after teaching Vo-Ag for 31 years. He and wife Shirley have traveled every state except North Dakota and have visited 24 foreign countries. They are busy maintaining two homes and enjoying 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Three of the grands were wed in 2005.

Arnold Barron,Morristown, NJ, is senior VP at Weichert Commercial Brokerage real estate. He puts in time at the gym, but more with work and travel, both of which he loves.Meneleo Carlos Jr. wrote from Metro Manila, Philippines. President of RI Chemical Corporation,Meneleo is Chairman, Federation of Philippine Industries, and active with Philippine Foundation for Science and Technology and Rotary. He, like so many of you, lists a fond Cornell memory--meeting his wife, Filomena Reyes, MS '53--and an old friend he would like to hear from. That leads to a reminder that your thoughts and wishes in those categories will be on our class Web page, http://classof52.alumni.cornell.edu, as will news of our 55th Reunion, which comes up next year. -- Joan Boffa Gaul, 7 Colonial Pl., Pittsburgh, PA 15232; e-mail,jgcomm@aol.com