CORNELL MAGAZINE ARTICLES FOR 2001

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2001 - WOMEN

Just a reminder that if you haven't already signed up for our class dinner, it's not too late. We'll be gathering at the Cornell Club in New York City on Friday, January 26. Visit our class web page, call me if you need details, or send an e-mail.

And e-mail seems to be a quick way for me to get some news. Sue Breslow Dillon retired from teaching last June and has never been busier. She promised herself to clean the attic but so far has done very little of that. Sue and Marty(nc) celebrated their 40th anniversary last year and took a cruise to Nova Scotia with their children and grandchildren. Daughter Eleanor Dillon Petigrow '87 HE, waited until after the cruise to give birth to her third daughter. Last spring Sue was elected a trustee of the Merrick, Long Island Library Board. The Dillons also happily spend time with friends since high school, Jerry and Evie Dor (nc)

Carol Gehrke Townsend has added some frequent flyer miles to her account. Last October she was off to Portugal and Majorca. Prior to that she took a wonderful trip toAlaska. Carol is enjoying her new computer and still working part-time doing advertising for the local Prudential Realty Company near her home in Dana Point, CA.

Back in our sophomore year I introduced my brother, Ted'55,ME'56 to a classmate in the Home Ec school, Joan Jeremiah. They were married in 1957 and had three daughters, Karen Reusswig Stevenson,'82, Susan Reusswig Neenan '84, and Kristin, a Penn State grad. Joan and Ted had enjoyed his 45th reunion in June, when he joined fellow crew members for a row on Cayuga Lake. But we all suffered a terrible loss last September when Ted died of prostate cancer. As with other classmates who have lost loved ones, condolences from our Cornell friends helped to ease the pain.

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2001 - MEN

Thanks to all who are sending news via e-mail. Our grandchildren will know nothing else, but it's nice to get a jump on that era.

On the subject of grandchildren, Gil Riley has 8, as he says - "scattered." He and Betsy have a son teaching in Prague, whom they visited last fall, another son at the right hand of Bill Gates at Microsoft, a daughter who has 3 of her own and is beginning pursuit of a Masters Degree in Architecture at Univ. of Maryland, and another son (technogeek) living in Marlborough MA. Like many of us, Gil recently put himself in the hands of the government, sliding his toe under the tent of Medicare and Social Security. He has successfully been through the "body shop" for spinal stenosis, prostate cancer and cataract removal, and reports all systems go for our 45th in 16 short months.

Rick Freeman has taken a partial step toward retirement by giving up teaching responsibilities at Bowdoin College, where he has spent 36 years in the field of environmental economics. He has visited the American southwest and Thailand recently, and is looking forward to extensive research and consulting as well as the important things, like fishing, gardening and sailing.

Also enjoying sailing is Brint Deighton, who took a four day jaunt up the Maine coast last August while visiting Dick and Jody Moyer, who in turn had spent some time last winter with Brint and Carolyn (Bailey '60). The Deightons moved from CA to Fort Collins a couple of years ago to be nearer to family (and also to be oceanfront when the big one hits). They have a patio home on a golf course, which gives them the luxury of turning the key and disappearing, which they did to Botswana to visit their daughter and family, with a safari in Okavango and Chobe thrown in. Brint has sprung for a package season pass to Vail, etc., this winter, but is still able to golf almost year round.

Phil McIndoo reports that he is still having difficulty retiring. He keeps getting called on for consulting assignments, and was able to dovetail an assignment in London recently with research on Roman Britain and the immediate post-Roman period, in which legend places King Arthur. He would appreciate hearing from anyone with a similar interest (tmsplm@earthlink.net). Last July, Phil was on board Roger Jones' new boat. Roger was headed for the tall ships in NY harbor, the Erie Canal and Lake Cayuga.

Your reporter had the opportunity to visit Ithaca last October with my son and 5 month old grandson, neither of whom had been to Ithaca before. It was one of those great fall week ends, with wonderful weather and the colors at their peak. If I had forgotten what a great view one experiences of the valley below from the top of the crescent, I am now a born-again believer.

MARCH/APRIL 2001 - WOMEN

Despite the fact that last fall's mailing of news forms lacked the requisite postage enough of you ponied up your own stamps and lots of replies means lots of news for the coming issues.

Add Judy Bird to the list of retirees. She migrated to South Carolina after her retirement from the State Department last June. Her daughter is finishing up at Coastal Carolina University. Judy's son, Tim, is completing a PhD at UC-Irvine.

Karen Anderson Mahshi was planning to semi-retire when she closed down her Berkeley, CA office, after practicing landscape architecture for 35 years. However, she's busier than ever as a consultatnt to two gardens in Concord and Walnut Creek and having fun doing residential landcape design.

Still in the work force is Barbara Flynn Shively who prepares training manuals on a variety of topics for the Exxon Mobil Intranet. She and her husband have had several trips to France, Greece, and Italy.

Other travelers to Italy last year included Joan Reinberg Macmillan, Diane Heasley Van Dyke and Alan (nc) and Nancy Kressler Lawley. The Lawleys also visited Germany and in October gained two more grandchildren when their youngest daughter gave birth to twin boys.

Joan Dee, whose first great grand-daughter(yes, you read that correctly - any other great grandmothers in the class?) is now a year old, was on an Elderhostel trip to Tuscany. Greg'89 and Judi Burton Gaines '88 presented Charles "Sandy" Burton, ME '58 and Barbara Baltzel Burton with a fifth grandchild last June.

Barbara Freedman Fisher also has 5 grandchildren and she and her husband, both retired, travel in a motor home when they are not at their place in Sun City West, AZ.

Shirley Besemer Itin was busy posting yard signs last fall in a bid for re-election to the city council of Orchard Lake Village, MI. Her success did not require a hand count or a decision by the Michigan Supreme Court.

MARCH/APRIL 2001 - MEN

Thanks to those sending news by e-mail, my basket is full this month.

Pete Blauvelt went on his annual pighunt in Texas last fall, and earlier went to San Franciso and on to Hawaii for a cruise. He continues to serve on a number of boards in the Rochester area, and ran a strong enough campaign in the town of Sterling that he emerged (unopposed) as Town Justice. Lacrosse teammate Tony Tewes, having flunked retirement 101, is CEO-Chairman of a financial services company in Baltimore, having turned his Ohio and Michigan enterprises over to his 3 children to operate. He is boning up to pass the course next time.

Another quickstick, Bob George, lives in North Vancouver and Bellingham WA. Two of his children live in the northwest and one in Melrose MA, which gave him a chance to visit NYC while east, attending the Cornell cocktail party in conjunction with the Hotel Show.

Chuck Loppacker and I had a love in common during our school years - the Baltimore Orioles. After military service, mostly in Japan, he worked as a structural engineer until 1992, and now is a residential inspector in Ridgefield CT. He and Betty have 4 married children and travel extensively to more places in the world than I have heard of. Another traveler is Ara Daglian, having cruised last year from Australia to Singapore, and Norway to North Cape and back, in addition to a pilgrimage to Ireland with a bunch of his cronies from the Hotel School. It's uncertain if he was called back to fight any fires in northern NJ.

Fred Gerber seems to be living the good life in semi-retirement, having spent 2 weeks last year in a villa in Tuscany, along with Bob and Marj Smart and Joe and Jeanne Jehl (please check spelling). Those of us who think we've stayed in all of George Banta's Super 8 motels have a new challenge, namely to visit Sidney and Norwich NY. Daughter Jane, a sales executive for Tiffany & Co. in NYC, married last fall.

David Wingate has retired after 34 years with the Bermuda Government civil service, serving as a conservation officer. During that time, he developed a nature preserve, which he still oversees. His 6 grandchildren keep him busy the rest of the time. Jeremy Fitz-Patrick spends summers in Bermuda and winters in Florida when not at his home in Newport News. He has been a man of leisure for over 10 years.

Bob Watts has a daughter living in Belgium, and visited her and her family last summer. He has built a house just north of Portsmouth RI, with great views over Narragansett Bay. David Biddle reports that a family reunion last summer in southern NJ attracted 57 members of the clan. He travels to almost as many places as Chuck Loppacker, with Bermuda being one of his stops, also.

Dick Moeller, after 35 years in engineering for GE, is enjoying himself in Syracuse in summer and Santa Fe in winter. He and Ursula are involved in every form of recreation one can conjure up, and traveling Loppackeresque.

MAY/JUNE 2001 - WOMEN

Burt and Adele Petrillo Smart are traveling coast to coast these days - to Massachusetts to see their daughter and San Diego where son Mike has started his own bridge design firm. The Smarts still play lots of tennis and divide their time between homes in Destin, FLA, and Lafayette, LA. Shirley Wagoner Johnson has also been very much on the go. In March of 2000 it was Australia, Bali, Java, and Singapore. At the new year Shirley was in Tahiti and in April she cruised to the Sea of Cortex. Last December Shirley welcomed her first grandchild.

Quite a few classmates make the summer at CAU a family event as did Mina Rieur Weiner. Her daughter and husband, Karen and Charlie Gross, both '85, joined Mina who attended the class on Millenarianism. Mina's latest project at the New York Historical Society, where she is a guest curator, is preparing an October 2001 exhibition for artist John Koch. Other CAU participants last year included Ron and Helen Kuver Kramer who traveled to Vienna, David and Flo Weinstein Perskie to Morocco and Joyce Edgar Schickler. Joyce was widowed in 1999. Her husband, Bill, B.Chem '55, had been active in community, political, and arts organizations and had his own manufacturing business, the Madison Company, now being run by her son Steve. Joyce also has a son Paul '86, and a daughter Katherine and 5 grandchildren. She is a retired nurse living in West Hartford CT and enjoyed the CAU trip to Western Canada last August.

Three years into retirement and Jerry Neuman Held is busier than ever. Besides skiing in Utah and Colorado where she is able to visit her granddaughter, she kayaked in Baja California in February and visited family in Florida and Seattle last winter. Also stopping in Seattle to see her three children and four grandchildren is Judy Saari McCrone. Judy has been living in Arcata CA for the past 26 years where her husband is president of Humboldt State University.

A very successful Cornell Women's Conference, Lifelines 2000, was held last fall in Santa Fe. Classmates attending were Elinor Steinmann Schrader, Judith Liersch, Marilyn Hester Ridgley and Jan Nelson Cole. Carol Brown was a participant in a panel on Discovering Creativity Within.

Finally, more than 40 classmates gathered for dinner at the Cornell Club in January during the CACO meeting. Another great piano player has been added to the reunion roster, Joan Kennedy Repetto, who accompanied a post-dinner chorus as they sang out all the familiar Cornell songs. Reunion is just a year away so I hope you're saving the weekend of June 8, 2002.....the years are flying by!

MAY/JUNE 2001 - MEN

Bob Watts reports that Phil Monroe is now an elected member of the City Council in Coronado CA, where he has been living since retiring from the Navy in 1987. His last active duty involved command of the immense Naval Aircraft Rework Facility at NAS North Island.

Retirement and travel seem to go together, and Sandy Kaiser seems to have brought it to an art form. Last year alone: CanCun, Las Vegas, Myrtle Beach, Belgium, Germany, London, Snowshoe(WV), Bermuda cruise and Great Cities of the Orient cruise. (Your correspondent was also active in this regard, having taken a mystery bus tour of New Albany IN).

Roy Hassel, having recently retired after 42 years in the ministry of the United Methodist Church in NY and CT, led a passion play tour, visiting Paris, Brussels, Munich, Salzburg and Innsbruck. One of his four children is a missionary in Lithuania.

42 years also figures in David Addis' life, that being the number of years he and Arlene have been married. He retired 3 years ago from Raytheon Missile Systems as a Project Manager, spending time now with his 3 grandchildren.

David Perlman is now an emeritus professor (electrical engineering) at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he continues to run his creation of 4 years, a classical and jazz Performing Artists Series. He now has time to pursue a career in digital art/photography (davidigital.com/art).

Bob Rosenstock is in the process of retiring as Legal Advisor to the US Mission to the UN, but will remain a member of the UN International Law Commission and teach a related course at Pace Law School. Professor Herbert Briggs started him on this path 47 years ago.

Ernest Boda retired as of last June as Assembly Manager of the Semiconducters Division of Microscmi in Lawrence MA. He probably holds the class record with 31 (count 'em) grandchildren, and won't have far to go for our 45th next year from his Ithaca home, not far from where he was raised on a dairy farm in Danby.

Bill Brown has left the life of a labor attorney in NYC, bought and sold an employment staffing firm over an 11 year period, and is now enjoying life on Cape Cod. Cornell graduate daughter Hillary has 5 daughters, but hopes of a Bodaesque clan seem remote.

Mike Stone has retired from a real estate career in Atlanta. Two of his children are attorneys and the other is involved in risk management.

Gerald Rehkugler has joined the Bodas in settling in the Ithaca area (Moravia), enjoying engaging in a number of community activities as well as tennis and skiing. He also seems to hold class records in 2 regards: longest span between youngest and oldest children (26 years) and frequency of visits to the campus (weekly).

Charlie Feledy is still working, as purchasing director for a Silicon Valley firm, but plans to chuck it shortly, and enjoy his 3 grandchildren.

JULY/AUGUST 2001 - WOMEN

I hope everyone is enjoying a pleasant summer and perhaps participating in CAU on campus in the next few months. Or looking forward to one of their many offerings held in different parts of the US. Bob '56 and Marilyn Hester Ridgley spent a week last year with the Flagstaff study tour viewing stellar and earthly landscapes. Upon completion of the program Bob and Marilyn visited as many trading posts as they could (trading posts are slowly disappearing) and were pleased to be able to see the famous Hubbell Trading Post on the Navaho Reservation.

Marilyn also attended the very successful Cornell Women's Conference, Lifelines 2000, held last fall in Santa Fe, where Marilyn and Bob make their home. Other classmates on hand were Elinor Steinmann Schrader, Judith Liersch, and Jan Nelson Cole. Carol Brown was a participant in a panel on Discovering Creativity Within.

Out in Sherwood, Oregon, Ben and Sandy Lindberg Bole have exchanged the world of
the machinery business for the world of agri-business. They have 25 acres of chestnuts, a productive venture which results in sales to grocers, restaurants, and individuals. And from Morrison, Colorado, Connie Dimock Sebald writes that like so many of us, she's finding the years get shorter and life gets busier! Last March she was in Alaska to help with the building of boardwalks at the McNeil River Grizzly Bear Sanctuary. She also rode the second sled of Jerry Riley out of Anchorage in the Iditarod.

Beverly Robertson Murrell comments that "old age is not for the faint of heart!" It doesn't look like her schedule is making her faint however - tennis, bicycling and aerobics classes 5 times a week! Beverly is a retired physician but still attends medical meetings with her semi-retired husband, Jerry (nc). This summer they are cruising the rivers of Europe. Ela Oudheusden Shacklett flew from her Mission, Kansas home to Europe last year and spent some time in Holland, Switzerland, and England. Her next trip is to Singapore to visit her daughter and two grandchildren. Ela has been retired for a year now and is a volunteer coordinator at the Children's Center for the Visually Impaired in Kansas City.

Another classmate has joined the ranks of the retired - Harriet Merchant Shipman, who worked for many years with the Red Cross Blood Services in Columbia, Missouri. Harriet and Charles '55 were on campus a year ago for his 45th reunion and spent much of last fall on a major house remodeling project. Although Harriet thought it might be easier to move the Shipmans love their country site with its attendant wildlife.

JULY/AUGUST 2001 - MEN

It is with great sadness that I report the news of the deaths of two of our classmates. Charlie Stanton passed away in March of ailments connected with his long battle with diabetes. I was lucky enough to get to know Charlie early in our tenure in Ithaca, and delighted in attending meetings of the athletic managers club in our senior year. He managed the crew and I, along with Stu Maurer, was involved with the basketball team. His service to the class lasted for the rest of his life. Our thoughts and prayers are with Judy, as they are with Karen Gardner ('64). Bob Gardner died suddenly last November in Tigard OR, where he was president of the Lions Club, chairman elect of the Arthritis Foundation (Oregon chapter) and chairman of the Tigard Christian Church Foundation.

Roger Jones relates his sailing adventures in the usual delightful manner. He sold his sailing vessel, "Allidoro," in February, and has taken up with a Nordic Tug named "Seren Claer." (Guess what that means in Gaelic Welsh). Last summer he traveled from Florida to Albany to Buffalo, with a side trip to Cayuga and Cornell, where he visited with his former roommate, Bob ('56) and Vanne Cowie. Roger learned to fly during our college days, and has built a home at the Spruce Creek fly-in community near Daytona Beach. Still on the Florida beat, Howard Greenstein has been named director of Near Eastern Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, a program which includes both a credit component and life-long learning for the entire community. He has nine grandchildren, 4 more than Steve Wallach, who retired last September after forty years of practicing dentistry. Back to Florida, where Dwight Emanuelson spent the winter in his Palm Beach home, with the rest of the year spent in Hilton Head, where he continues to impart financial advice to high rollers. Still Florida - Jim Broadhead sends a 3 line note that says it all - FPL Group, of which he is chairman, has merged with Entergy Corp. to form the largest power company in the U.S. Any questions?

Beach Kuhl, my delightful Baltimore classmate transplanted to San Francisco, still enjoys his trial lawyer work after forty years. He recently had dinner with Dan Hunter and his family. Beach will probably never appear before Steve Gottlieb, who serves a Judge of the NYC Civil Court in Queens County. Two of Steve's children graduated from NYU Law School, a third teaches high school and the fourth is assistant women's basketball coach at Syracuse. Alan Hershon has retired to his dream house in the Poconos, in west NJ near the Delaware Water Gap, spending time enjoying his first grandchild, a little over a year old.

I had the pleasure of skiing with Tony Cashen in February. He is so smooth that he hardly leaves a dent in the snow, but after skiing we put a dent in a few pitchers of beer from the micro brewery with which he is involved. He and Gail took me to a delightful Appalachian concert to wrap up a most enjoyable time.

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2001 - WOMEN

I realize I'm writing an alumni column but this month's notes look more like an article for National Geographic Traveler! Ed, Chem E '55 and Joyce Dudley McDowell went by land, sea, and air to many ports of call last year. After starting 2000 in Hawaii they were off to Australia in April and to China in June. In the fall it was a safari in Botswana and their first trip for 2001 took them to New Zealand. When Joyce alights at her home in Hermosa Beach, CA she gets to appreciate her newly remodeled kitchen, but not the physical therapy needed to rehabilitate her shoulder, injured on one of her trips.

Elaine Meisnere Bass celebrated her 65th birthday on a barge trip in France followed by a tour of Turkey. This past June Elaine and her husband, grandparents of eight, marked their 45th anniversary at their home in Jupiter, FL. Myrna Britz Danzig splits her time between New York and Miami. She retired from Montclair State University in 1998 and became a professor emeritus the following year. Ellin Salit Rind is not retired yet; she's an English professor at the New York Institute of Technology. Kristin Osterholm Gould has been living in the same upper west side apartment in NYC since 1966, plying her trade as a writer specializing in medicine. And Olga Duntuch Krell continues running her own magazine in Sao Paolo, Brazil. She travels constantly, does PR and writing for the magazine.

Judy Richter Levy's second granddaughter arrived last February and Margaret Keller Curtis' second grandson was born a year ago April. Margaret and Ed(nc) traveled to Portugal last September and Dick (nc) and Barbara Flynn Shively went on the Cornell sponsored trip to Provence. Barb has just completed 11 years as a technical editor of training manuals for the research and engineering division of ExxonMobil.

Bob(nc) and Marcia Wishengrad Metzger spent over two weeks in Northern Italy a year ago and are now spending more time at their place in Shipyard Plantation at Hilton Head SC. Marcia would love to hear from other Cornellians who live in the area. Anyone know of a Cornell club down that way? Eastern Europe was the destination of Bob JD '57 and Carol Elis Kurzman last year. And two more grandchildren have been added to the Kurzman family thanks to Nancy Kurzman Fahey '83 and Amy Kurzman Buckmon(sp?) '91.

Ed (nc) and Edna Carroll Skoog have moved from Champaign to Springfield, IL. They can be found at 2006 Monteford Court, that is if Ed hasn't gone fishing.

Reunion plans are starting to take shape. Reserve the date and if you'd like to volunteer get in touch. Meanwhile please fill out the news forms which will be arriving in the mail soon....even if your travels have only been to the grocery store!

September/October 2001 - MEN

I regret to report that Gene Klein passed away suddenly in April. Bob Watts heard from Ed Berkowitz('56), Gene's close friend, that Ed had undergone heart surgery some years ago, but seemed to be in good health. Gene had attended his first reunion in 1997, and was so enthusiastic that he had signed on to be treasurer in 2002.

Stan Weissman sends along word that he continues, after 39 years, to practice veterinary medicine in upper Manhattan. Lila is an occupational therapist, working with handicapped children. Their son, Larry, is with Random House in NYC, and daughter Dana is a writer in San Francisco.

Jerry Levey is down the coast in Los Angeles and into everything: Provost of Medical Sciences and Dean of the School of Medicine at UCLA, oversees the Dental School and is involved with the School of Publication. Barbara (Cohen) is Asst. Vice Chancellor of the university and has developed a clinical pharmacology center.

John Long remains anchored to Staten Island, but has given up rock climbing and the trek to the top of the Statue of Liberty in favor of touring New York state wineries. Barry Malin reports from Buffalo that he is still the upstate urology guru, with one son at Yale Law School and another in medical school in San Francisco.

Steve Laden has been elected a trustee at Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia), and continues to enjoy his 2 granddaughters. He saw Jay Hyman last winter in Boca Raton, and talked to Marv Silverman after the latter's fascinating trip to China.

Matt Coburn has authored a book entitled "Competitive Technical Intelligence" published by Oxford University Press. Steve might want to sit in on one of the classes on this subject that Matt teaches at Widener University in Chester PA.

David Perlman is now professor emeritus of electrical engineering at RIT, and/but will continue to run the classical and jazz Performing Artists Series that he started at the school. He will still do some teaching and pursue a new career in digital art/photography.

Gonzalo Ferrer has been appointed by President Rawlings to a second term on the University Council, and saw Phil Kneen, also a member, at a recent meeting. Gonzalo and his family spend considerable time at their vacation home in Vermont, and spent some time last summer cruising in the British Virgin Islands.

Morton Friedman has added to a most impressive list of honors by being recognized by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for his more than 30 years of sustained contributions to the body of knowledge of hemodynamics and atherosclerosis. For all you ag and arts students who need a detailed explanation of this subject, buy me a beer at reunion next year and I'll fill you in.

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2001 - WOMEN

Among those who found cruising a delightful way to travel last year were Ed and Adelaide Russell Vant. After a train trip from Toronto to Vancouver the Vants enjoyed a Celebrity Cruise adventure through the inside passge to Alaska. Jerry and Barbara Cohen Levey used an Alaskan cruise to celebrate their 40 years of marriage. Jerry is dean of the School of Medicine at UCLA and provost for Medical Sciences while Barbara is assistant vice-chancellor for bio-medical sciences. She was recently named president of the American Society of Clincial Pharmacology and Therapeutics.

Carol Johnson Snyder had a wonderful time with the CAU trip to France last spring and participants on the CAU cruise to the British Isles in August included Burt '55 and Adele Petrillo Smart, Bob'55 and Vanne Shelley Cowie, Ron (nc-?) and Helen Kuver Kramer, Tom '55 and Dottie Eiseman Litwin, and Joan Reinberg Macmillan. Adele writes that it was a truly memorable experience with visits to castles, galleries, churches, and viewing splendid scenery. Among the highlights for Joan -attending a performance at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and superior lectures by Frank Rhodes, Frank Robinson, and Stuart Blumin.

Also cruising in Europe was Fran Hassol Lifton whose journey took her from Hamburg to Amsterdam and Lisbon with interesting stops in between. Russ '56 and Patricia Adams Wagner's voyage was to Russia and Scandinavian capitals. A visit to Turkey and then a Greek Isles cruise was part of Carol Gehrke Townsend's itinerary last year as well as a stop in Vermont to see her first grandchild. An archaelogical tour of Turkey was one of the recent trips for Steve BArch '55 and Grace Wohlner Weinstein. Grace continues her weekly column in the Financial Times and her12th book - J.K. Lasser's Winning With Your 401k - was published last summer. As with a number of classmates, the Weinsteins are looking forward to our 45th reunion and a 45th wedding anniversary in 2002.

Sue Breslow Dillon didn't stay retired for long. She's now back at work as a legislative assistant to the Majority for Nassau County. And Judy Tischler Rogers started a new position in September as a Bereavement Coordinator at First United Methodist Church of Colorado Springs. Barbara Timen Holstein is working in the accounting department of Temple B'Nai near her home in West
Orange, NJ.

As we gear up for reunion six months away, class officers will be meeting in New York City this month. January 25 is the date for our class dinner so if you're planning to be in the area and wish to attend details will be on the class Web page. Or drop me a line for more information.

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2001 - MEN

It is with great sadness that I received the news of the death of Marj and Bob Smart's daughter in an automobile crash in the Ithaca area in October. I know that I am joined by every member of the class in extending my sympathy to them both.

Tony Cashen was the recipient of an award for outstanding service to the University at a black tie dinner at the Statler recently. It would take the rest of this column (and next month as well) to chronicle all the reasons for this recognition, but his chairmanship of the committee on the future of fraternity and sorority life on campus is certainly high on the list. It reminds me of the fact that many classes have devoted time and energy to our Alma Mater with great distinction, but I would bet that 1957 is blessed with a few more than usual.

Sheldon Halpern has been named to a prestigious professorship in Law and Judicial Administration at the Ohio State Moritz College of Law, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1984. Prior to that, he was a partner in law firms in New York and Minneapolis, and before that editor of the Cornell Law Review, as a result of being # 1 in the law class of 1959. With "best wishes for a long life,"

Ed Berkowitz e-mailed me that I was mistaken in reporting that he had suffered a heart attack. He did say, however, that he has received condolence calls from his cats, both of his friends, and even his wife. Ed, let me know if I can be of further service.

Phil McIndoo spent 2 weeks in Namibia last spring on a consulting assignment. He was kind enough to relate some of his impressions (only the muggers walk at night-birds have tails twice the length of their bodies-a third of the people in the town where he stayed are squatters), so that if I had a rich uncle and he died and left me a house in Namibia, I think I'd try to market it quickly.

Brad Howes reports that he retired last summer from the electrical business, and that he and Jackie plan to stay in Greensboro NC, where they have recently built a new house; which took so much out of him that he is considering going back to work so that he can relax.

While Sue and Jack Burgess were heading south on their sailboat last year, they received a radioed message about conditions in the Bahamas, and were surprised to learn that the sender was Roger Jones. That led to a mini-reunion at that night's anchorage, and don't forget that the big one is only 5 months away.

Bob Hurlbut has been elected to the University of Rochester's Board of Trustees. In addition, he serves as a commissioner of the New York State Insurance Fund, and founded a company which operated 24 long-term health facilities before being acquired by an industry giant. He continues as president of Hurlbut Trust, specializing in financial and consulting services in the health care field.