MAR./APR. 2007 VOLUME 109 NUMBER 5

There is lots of new news, thanks to you all. Edwin Biederman Jr. writes from State College, PA, that though retired he stays busy listening to classical music and maintaining his home. Paul Davis, MBA '59, Chatham, MA, is retired from IBM's World Trade Corp. He and his wife travel to see friends in Europe and Asia, and they had recently returned from Europe. Daniel Divack, Great Neck, NY, is retired after 41 year in his ob/gyn practice. He's "enjoying the change," and spends his time reading and painting. Dorothy LaGuardia Gillespie, Setauket, NY, who works with Meals on Wheels on Mondays and audits a class on the history of the civil rights movement at SUNY Stony Brook, writes, "It's really a wonderful program."DeWitte "Tal"Kersh Jr., LLB '57,Waterville, NH, is a mostly retired lawyer, and also chairman of the board of selectman; planning board ex officio; and a member of Linwood Rotary, Cornell Club of New Hampshire, and New England Ski Museum. He's working with the town manager to manage a small resort village, including zoning, planning, and present and future land planning. He skis 90 days a year, and in season golfs five times a week. He and his wife travel spring and fall. Fred Leonard,Merion, PA, is semi-retired from his insurance agency, which specializes in racing shell insurance. He writes, "While coaching light crew at Penn for 27 years, I got to Cornell every other year to race and keep up with campus developments. I miss that, since I retired from coaching in 1992."

Doug, MPA '53, and Sue Brigham MacLean '53 are now in Austin, TX. Doug is retired but stays active with Boy Scouts. He's a life board member in Houston and volunteers. The MacLeans have sons in Austin. Stuart Merz, LLB '57, is retired but still in Shaker Heights, OH. He volunteers at church and at the Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum in Sanibel, FL. Stu says he has recently been getting older and would rather be getting younger. Irwin Sitkin, Chatham, MA, wrote that he and Helen were winding down another wonderful season with a recent trip to London, where among other things, he collected old woodworking tools. That was followed by a week visiting friends in Dublin and attending the Ryder Cup. The Sitkins were heading south and planned to return to the Cape around Memorial Day. He wrote, "Looking forward to reunion in June. Already planning to join Jane and Bernie Schapiro, Sally and Paul Schlein, Carolyn and Ernie Mendel, and more of our Tau Epsilon Phi brothers."

I hope that the rest of you are making similar plans. Bob Chabon, M Ed '55, has written that the reunion lecture, "What Kind of President Will We Elect in 2008?"with Profs. Ted Lowi and Joel Silbey will be Friday, June 8, 2007. There is much more information coming about our reunion.Watch your mailbox and our Web page, http://classof52. alumni.cornell.edu.

Donald Henn, Huntington, NY, writes that he and Abbie had "a very-mini-Cornell reunion in Southold, Long Island, with Robert and Lois Anderson, Peter '53, JD '57, and Jean Thompson Cooper, and Gloria Maloney, widow of Robert Maloney '53. Interesting talks were had of Cornell days, North Lansing, and, of course, children. I am now fully retired after serving 31 years as a trustee of the Ridgewood Savings Bank in Queens." Jean Cooper writes, "Am still hooking up a storm--I even won a national rug-hooking contest in the ‘Commercial Patterns' category. Have become a pretty good fundraiser for our local community hospital, a trade I learned AFTER graduation, and am still learning. Cornell's educational prowess goes on forever. It is awesome!"

Irwin and Arline Braverman Broida are enjoying retirement in a 55-plus active adult community in Wayne, NJ. They are involved in bridge, Canasta, book groups, theater, and travel, and in planning and chairing events in their community. Last fall they took a river cruise from Vienna to Belgium. In spring they traveled to China, Korea, and Japan. JoyceWhite Cima has been hobnobbing with neighbors on Cayuga Lake in Lansing, NY, and is busy with the Ithaca History Center. She is a member of the corporate housing board for Alpha Xi Delta. She has been traveling and in February was to be birding and whaling in Baja,Mexico. Joyce followed graduation with a 37-year career with the university.

William Hubbard, Poughkeepsie, NY, is a retired real estate appraiser. He works part-time at Business System Technology and at yard and home maintenance. He's active with Lions and works in St. Andrews Episcopal Parish.With two daughters and their families in Wiesbaden, Germany, and Budapest, Hungary, he has been traveling. Alan Rose, Cayce, SC, is still a real estate appraiser.He attends college football and basketball games at the U. of South Carolina.He's mostly working and watching a grandson, who achieved a baseball scholarship at the Citadel, pitch. Al hopes to see old friends at reunion. He specifically mentioned Fred Eydt and Whit Mitchell.

Now, then, I hope most of you are also planning to see old friends at our 55th Reunion, June 7-10, 2007, Ithaca, NY.-- Joan Boffa Gaul, 7 Colonial Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15232; e-mail, joangaul@mac.com