NOV./DEC. 2006 VOLUME 109 NUMBER 3

Here's a reminder that our 55th Reunion is scheduled for June 7-10, 2007. Alas, we still won't make it into Statler, but we will be there. You should be, too. Mark your calendar.Make plans. That said, it's on to the still very full mailbag from our retired, semi-retired, and not-retired-at-all classmates.Much of this mail dates back to fall '05.

William Schneider,Middle Island, NY, retired, spends his time with chess, family activities, and doctor visits. He claims to be supporting half the doctors in Suffolk County and would rather be vacationing in the Hawaiian Islands. Richard C. Smith,Moore, SC, is also retired. He works out at the YMCA, gardens, and is the family cook and shopper. He and his wife and daughter traveled to Ambergris Caye, Belize, and did a lot of snorkeling. He returned to Cornell for Seal & Serpent's 100th anniversary. Elaine Rose Ruderman, San Diego, CA, volunteers with public relations and publicity for local non-profits. She spends spare time with bridge, travel, and water aerobics. Of her trip with Elderhostel and friends to the national parks and monuments of Utah, she writes, "Challenging trails at high altitudes, but worth the effort. Awesome!"

Dick Dye, MPA '56, Pleasantville, NY, still works. He is an international educational development consultant and serves as chair of the Association for Int'l Practical Training. In January, he'd just returned from a month in Peru assisting the USAID mission with its basic education program. A similar assignment had taken him to Central Asia for six weeks in the spring. Helen PellmanMarsh still lives in Middlebury,VT. Hank Borys reports his present day job as "keeping up with the struggles and strife of the world." After hours he reads (mostly history) and writes (mostly e-mail and some autobiography). As of October he had been traveling (European river cruises and visiting relatives in Utica) and busy with family affairs.With ten grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, he reports "lots to celebrate."Bernie Schapiro, Flemington, NJ, works part-time as senior research analyst in his son's firm, Condor Capital Management, and is adjunct instructor in physical diagnosis at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers. He also plays bridge, golfs, skis, gardens, travels with Cornell's Adult University (CAU) and Elderhostel, and works out at the fitness center. As of October 2005, he was planning for the 2006 CAU trip to New Zealand and Namibia.

Joan Cruthers Flood, Raleigh, NC, whose husband Bud '49, PhD '54, died in 2003, writes, "You could say I'm retired, but as the owner of a large house with lawn and gardens, you never ‘retire.'" Joan is a member of NARFE, a federal employee's association that keeps seniors abreast of government activities that affect them. She also does flower arranging for the local classical music station,WCPE. John L. Brown, MD '55,Missoula, MT, is retired, but he is on the library board and the Board of Medicine and Humanities. He stays busy with church activities and had recently spent a week in the East seeing friends and museums. Clifford Eddy,Webster, NY, is retired from Xerox. He is active with the First Unitarian Church, plays tennis, and skis. He attends two Kilbourne chamber music series and also lists RPO and GEVA. I know not what they are, but he enjoys dinner with friends before GEVA.

BobMessner,Warren,VT, is retired, but does some flight instruction in gliders. After hours he flies, skis, hikes, gardens, and boats. Last November, he had recently met with Chem E classmate Martin Simon and his wife Gloria for "a delightful few hours in Los Angeles."Gerhard '49, PhD '55, and Ina Perlstein Loewenberg are still in Iowa City, IA. Ina teaches a class called 20th Century Short Stories by Women, leads a reading aloud group in poetry, is trying to learn to draw, and has given up photography after almost 20 years. She gets lots of exercise and was anticipating a partial knee replacement early in 2006. Edwin '50 and Carol Singer Greenhaus live in Mamaroneck, NY, and winter in Palm Beach, FL. Carol writes that she is "enjoying life." She reads, plays tennis, and walks. As of October '05, the couple was just back from a cruise.

Honey Moscowitz Kuhl,Merrick, NY, participates in international and Israeli folk dance classes three or four times a week. She also had been attending a history class as an auditor at a local college. Peter C. Shuster, Seneca Falls, NY, is a square dancer. He is back to full-time farming and is "raising a 4-year-old adopted great-grandson to be a ‘Future Farmer of America.'"At leisure, he enjoys photography and sailing.William '50, ME '54, and Gertrude Strong Neef, MS '54, Prescott, AZ, had been traveling: two weeks in North China, one week in California for a grandson's wedding, and one week in Ohio visiting relatives. As of October, she was beginning to think about having the whole clan to Arizona for Christmas.

That's it for now. I hope next time to get in the news from the rest of you from whom we hadn't heard since 2004. -- Joan Boffa Gaul, 7 Colonial Pl., Pittsburgh, PA 15232; e-mail,jgcomm@aol.com