JUL./AUG. 2006 VOLUME 109 NUMBER 1

Present at the joint '52-53 class dinner the night before the February Cornell Assn. of Class Officers (CACO) Mid-Winter Meeting in Philadelphia were Joy Rees Hoffman, our reunion co-chair; Dean and Lynn Heidelberger MacEwen; Jack and Pat Thornton Bradt, who was to go to Oxford this summer to discuss the Dover School Board case; Cass and Jean Brown Craig, who were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary the next day; Judy Calhoun Schurman; Catherine McDonald Hegeman; Trudy Serby Gildea, our class secretary; and our co-presidents Tom Foulkes and Jan Hofmann McCulloch.My husband Stuart, seated across from Lynn and Jan and between Judy and Cass, did not suffer.All looked great, but the person who looked most the same was Jack Bradt. The next day Judy and Catherine, along with Terry, JD '56, and Dorrie Crozier Warren, joined the class officers, which by then included GordonWilliams, treasurer, at the class meeting. For a full rundown on the meeting, memories, and 55th Reunion news, check our class website, http://classof52.alumni.cornell.edu.

Richard Bosshardt e-mailed to say that he and Joan (Clifton) '54moved back to Switzerland in 1982, where Joan, who had majored in Textiles & Clothing Design, applied her degree and opened "Nostalgiekleider Shop" (Nostalgic Clothing Shop) with 1,500 items of 1910-1970 clothes for rental and sale.He continued, "At its successful peak, Joan died suddenly of an embolism on Dec. 5, 2003.My daughters urged me to continue in her memory. Amazingly, I was better able to close sales than the substitute ladies I later engaged. Now, at age 76, I am slowly preparing to move back to the US in 2007. The business has been sold to an old friend, who will carry on nearby, exactly in the same pattern as now--a fitting tribute to Joan's memory. You can even see her picture with our models on the website: www.nostalgiekleider.ch." Thank you, Richard.

From the mailbag. Emily and Theodore Castner, now of Pittsford, NY, moved from southern New Hampshire to a retirement community. Ted is still doing research in condensed matter physics, but is retired from other academic activities.He hikes, bikes, attends RPO concerts, skis cross-country, interacts with grandchildren, and reads new and old books. The Castners had enjoyed an Elderhostel to the western Grand Canyon that included a hike to Supai Village. In retirement, Martin Cohen, Belmont,MA, is a museum volunteer, makes toys for his grandchildren, and is active in local politics. As do so many of you, he answers the "What I'd rather be doing now" question as follows: "What I am doing now. I have a ‘satisfied mind.'"

Phyllis Berger Corwin, Basking Ridge, NJ, writes,"Most recently returned from a transatlantic cruise on the Queen Mary II, a fabulous ship. But both of us [husband Stan] agree that late fall is probably not the best time to take advantage of all the ship has to offer. From one extreme to another: a month earlier we had cruised the Columbia and Snake rivers on a small ship, tracing the footsteps of Lewis and Clark, whose Voyage of Discovery was an amazing feat."

News from Californians. Ivan Gendzel,MD '56, Palo Alto, reports that he is an "almost retired psychiatrist."Apart from that, he serves on the civil grand jury of Santa Clara County, is a Red Cross disaster mental health volunteer, and serves on the board of the Pacific Skyline Council Boy Scouts of America.Also in California, Jim Gibbs writes from Stanford:"My wife Jewelle and I had a two-week trip to China in October 2005.Highlights included the Yangtze River gorges and the Three Gorges Dam." Roger, PhD '65, and Joan Ganders Glassey are in Berkeley. Roger is still teaching computer programming for robots built with Lego's Mindstorms kits to upperclass industrial engineering and operations research engineers at UC Berkeley. After hours, he is on the church maintenance committee, plays tennis, and acts.

Joan Jago Townsend, Arlington, TX, recently attended the Cornell-Harvard game in the rain, and also went to the Texas-Baylor game. She writes, "Three of our kids are UT grads and had season tickets to TCU.We sure can pick some winners!" Richard Reichart, Princeton, NJ, retired, is "still doing some survey research, both revenue-producing and pro bono."He is active in the Ethical Culture movement, both locally and nationally. Recently he has been doing a lot of e-mail and is starting regular gym workouts to get his walking legs back in shape.

Paul Herman forwarded news from Sandy Lyon, daughter of Henry and Bettie Buell Lyon, who lived in Hawaii, that Bettie passed away in late March, and that Henry had had surgery shortly after that. "He is doing as well as can be expected and is dealing with that and the loss of Mom." As Paul, who has known both of them since seventh grade, says, "It gets harder and harder to accept these things." It does. -- Joan Boffa Gaul, 7 Colonial Pl., Pittsburgh, PA 15232; e-mail,jgcomm@aol.com