CORNELL ALUMNI MAGAZINE ARTICLES FOR 2003
The new year starts off with our annual dinner
in New York City on January 24 and all classmates are welcomed,
perhaps with reunion memories to share. Speaking of which, here's
a reunion story with a happy ending as told by Chris Zeller Lippman.
"As we were pulling into the driveway of my building on our
drive back from Cornell I suddenly got the sickening thought that
I didn't remember packing my engagement and wedding rings which
I was planning to put in a safe place in my suitcase. I tore through
my bags when I got upstairs, and sure enough they weren't there.
This started a frenzy of phone calls to Connie Santagato Hosterman,
Dori Goudsmit Albert, Ken Ackley '60, a friend of ours and a Cornell
professor, and the Cornell Campus police. The next day we contacted
the manager of North Campus Facilities, Mike Brown, who sent a
member of the staff over to our dorms and miracle of miracles
found the little black box with the rings in the back of a drawer
in the room we had occupied (fortunately I remembered the room
number). The very next day I received a package sent UPS overnight
air containing the precious items. As I tell people, that happy
ending could only have happened thanks to the goodness of the
people at Cornell."
Ann Stevens was sorry to have missed our 45th due to a busy schedule
as a pianist for regional theater groups and The Silver Chords,
a senior citizen's chorus, what else! Ann has just finished her
first year of a four-year term as village trustee in Northport,
NY. Her children live close by and are loyal fans at her piano
concerts.
"Reunion was fabulous" writes Marcia Wishengrad Metzger. Last summer she and Bob docked their boat in Toronto Harbor for a week, slept on the boat, frequented museums, saw several shows, and ate at marvelous restaurants.
Toronto residents Ronald MBA'57 and Helen Kuver Kramer were on campus in July for the CAU offering, Ambiguities of Assimilation. The Kramers also participated in the August CAU Baltic Cruise: White Nights. Actually it was 12 glorious days of sunshine on board Song of Flower with the indomitable Frank Rhodes as one of the leaders. It was wonderful to see Frank, almost fully recovered from his January travail, navigating the museums, palaces, and cobblestone streets of major cities on the Baltic shores. I had the pleasure of taking the trip, as did classmates Shirley Wagoner Johnson, Vanne Shelley Cowie, and Paul Tregurtha.
Fran Hassol Lifton was also at sea this summer. She sailed on The World, a residence at sea and a new concept in cruising where you can own an apartment aboard and get on and off anywhere you please and stay as long as you like. Most of the time, however, Fran stays in Boca Raton FL but makes trips to New Jersey to visit four grandchildren.
Another Floridian who enjoys travel is Elaine Meisnere Bass, winter resident in Jupiter. She and her husband, both recovering from bouts with cancer last spring, took a barge trip through Belgium and Holland in October. Jane Taber Gillett spends her winters at Jekyll Island and summers in Thousand Island Park on the St. Lawrence. When not visiting children and grandchildren her spare time is devoted to creating sculptures in clay.
Marilyn Hester Ridgley was in Santa Fe last summer enjoying opera events with classmates Susan Alder Baker and Judy Liersch.
Beth Ames Swartz had two art exhibits in the fall, one in Philadelphia and the other in Mamaroneck.
Barbara Kaufman Smith welcomed her first grandchild, a girl, last June.
And in June, Ellin Salit Rind's son David was married. Ellin is also the proud parent of Patricia Rind who has a new book: Women's Best Friendships: Beyond Betty & Veronica, Thelma & Louise. Ellin lives in New Rochelle but spends most of her waking life in NYC as she teaches English at the New York Institute of Technology.
Marilyn Greene Abrams has been busy as producer
and creator of Shear Madness, a comedy whodunit that has had long
runs in Boston and Washington. Marilyn and Robert '56 live in
Albany and have eight grandchildren.
My older son, his wife, child and I had the pleasure of having lunch in Lenox MA with Dominick and Debra Pasquale recently. The restaurant was appropriately named "Zinc's," which probably hastened the relating to my son and family of a few stories (all true) of our days on the Hill. Dom is in the process of becoming a man of leisure, having traded managing the oncology department of a major hospital in Hartford, CT for a 3 day per week schedule treating patients. He and Debra will travel more than in the past, enjoy the occasional glass of wine and life in general.
That happy meeting was followed up by a visit to Fair Haven, NY to spend some time with Pete Blauvelt, who started with the class of '57, took time off to serve his country and graduated with the class of '59 prior to getting a law degree from Syracuse. He and Ann have retired from Rochester, where Pete served as President of the local bar association and the 600 member Cornell Club - in addition to fitting many other community projects into his schedule as a trial lawyer, to a structure that they rebuilt from a vacation cottage into a wonderful home surrounded on 3 sides by a bay that feeds into Lake Ontario. Pete hasn't let the change of scenery slow him down, serving as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the local SUNY community college (2,500 students), a 2 county zoning board, and charitable foundation that acquaints all ages with boating on the big lake - including the construction of a 60 foot schooner to facilitate the process. In addition, Pete is the Justice for the Town of Sterling, presiding with charm, wit, compassion (telling someone whom he fined to "go forth and sin no more") and a liberal dose of judicial composure. When a deputy didn't show up to escort a probation violator to jail, Judge Blauvelt entrusted the task to the young man's mother, who hopefully expanded her role by sending her son away with a box of homemade cookies.
Gil Riley checked in by e-mail (an increasingly used and much appreciated method for sending news) to explain his absence at our 45th reunion. His feeble excuse was a trip with son Bart and family to a villa in the Tuscany region of Italy, spending time in Florence and environs. He's promised no such diversion for the 50th. He will be a grandfather for the 10th time in March, and his 37 year old daughter is completing her final year in architecture at the Univ. of Maryland, while son Jeff has 4 children and continues his work at Microsoft. Gil continues to live the wonderful life in the Western Mountain range in Wilton, ME.
After he graduated from Cornell, and before
getting his law degree from Yale, Adam Walinsky put in some time
at Parris Island, and his Marine Corps experience served as a
focal point in what was to become his life's work. He spent time
as a foreign policy expert on the staff of Robert Kennedy, and
was a key speechwriter for the Senator, and later had the idea
of a Police Corps concept similar to the Peace Corps. Even though
most police departments saw little benefit in this (preferring
traditional training) Adam, though occasionally described as haranguing
and offensive by nature ("Adam could offend Mother Teresa,
2 years after she died," according to Congressman Barney
Frank), he persevered, pushed funding through Congress and the
program was under way - a law enforcement equivalent to R.O.T.C.,
in which police recruits are put through a 24 week course anticipating
challenges they will encounter, followed by an obligation of 4
years of actual police work. The funding was obtained in 1996,
even though the Clinton administration and fellow Cornellian Janet
Reno were lukewarm at best. Starting with a small number of recruits
in Maryland and South Carolina, the Police Corps Academy has spread
nationally. The cost is not cheap - about $130,000 each, but,
as a NEW YORKER article of March 2002, explains, police forces
around the country get individuals who are better prepared to
handle the myriad of problems they will encounter in a more professional
and compassionate manner.
Florence Bloch Farkas has been enjoying the Florida sunshine these past few months. She left Flushing NY in November to spend the winter in Boynton Beach. Adele Petrillo Smart enjoyed reunion and was glad to see so many classmates back for events which were fun and well-planned. She and Burt '55 welcomed their fifth grandchild in September and then had to battle Hurricane Lili at their Lafayette, LA home where trees were down and they were without power for four days.
And after reunion the next big event for Barbara Flynn Shively was her son's wedding. Barb is still not retired. She was recruited by Pfizer to work on a team updating and recording information on all the corporation's computer servers after their merger with Warner-Lambert. Sari Feldman Zukerman continues as an adjunct teacher at the College of Staten Island and is traveling world wide in her free time. Working 18 hours a day on her five-year old magazine is Olga Duntuch Krell. Olga is also a world traveler and was able to visit her hometown of Krakow, Poland last year. She still has time for her four grandchildren (thanks to Charles '82 and Lisa Krell Aulicino '92). "I feel 40 years younger!" writes Olga.
Over Thanksgiving Dave '56 BME and Jane Wedell Pyle celebrated their 45 years of marriage with a family reunion in southern California. Among those gathered were their sons, Stuart '82 and Stephen '85. It's a different lifestyle for Don '56 and Celia Kandel Goldman since they moved to Marina del Rey, CA. Their three children are all just thirty minutes away. Celia is semi-retired but stays involved at Curriculum Associates and Don mentors young teens through the SCORE program.
Miles, PhD '60 and Barbara Pincus Klein are professors Emeriti at the University of Illinois. Though retired Barbara still serves as co-director of a center which promotes research and outreach on soyfoods. The Kleins went on a Smithsonian tour to Spain last fall. Naomi Lohr has retired from the University of Michigan faculty but continues in part-time practice as a clinical psychologist. Last year's travels were a cruise in Antarctica and a safari in Africa and her annual August excursion to the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario.
Charlie '56 and Connie Kelly Fletcher did some adventurous sailing last summer in their 36-ft. Sabre, from Connecticut to Maine and downeast as far as Acadia National Park. Traveling in a different mode of transportation - their house on wheels - Flower Clark MacMillen writes that she and her husband "have been enjoying God's country and visiting family and friends all across the USA. This past summer took us to Wyoming and Montana as well as earlier travels through the central south. A special treat this year was watching our Cornell daughter (Alice-Beth '89) receive her doctorate in Missouri. We enjoy our lifestyle very much, since helping others is no longer limited to one area, but can now be wherever we're parked. We also see more of our children and grandchildren because we can go to them and be their neighbors for awhile. We are convinced that every day is a gift!" Dick '55 and Sue Westin Pew, their three children and seven grandchildren enjoyed a family gathering at Martha's Vineyard last summer. Sue keeps a busy schedule as a volunteer for both her church and the Mount Auburn Hospital Auxiliary.
Participants in the CAU program for 2002 included
David and Flora Weinstein Perskie, who explored the world of the
ancient Maya in Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico; Charles MBA'61
and Carol Johnson Saylor, Bob '55 and Vanne Shelley Cowie, and
Arch and Carol Treman '60 Des Cognets who attended That Wall of
Separation seminar last fall in Charlottesville, VA. And in October
the Alumni Federation sponsored a trip to Burgundy, France. Classmates
from '57 who made the trip were Paula Wright Corwin, Lou Fredd,
Bob and Marj Nelson Smart, Bob Menger, Joan Reinberg Macmillan,
Dave Riebel, and Leroy Blakeslee.
Among the photos passed around at the annual class meeting in January in NYC was one of Andreas Dean Bump, the newest grandchild of Sharon Flynn. Martha Ballard Lacy, our new class historian, also had photos - in the Class of '57 album she has been organizing which should make quite an archive for our 50th. Martie would like any of you who have snapshots of the 40th and/or 45th reunion to submit them to her (you can find Martie's address in the class directory). And if you come across some Cornell memorabilia as you clean out the homestead before moving off to that retirement place, don't toss it, send it to Martie. Our class dinner the night before the meeting was well attended but among the "regulars" who missed this year's was Mollie Turner. Mollie is making slow but steady progress after undergoing major surgery early last year.
Carmen Lovre Ryan and "Bus" Hotel '54 are finding that time really does go fast their granddaughter is a sophomore at Indiana U. The Ryans live in Marietta, GA, near their three kids, and spend summers enjoying Lake Toxaway in NC. A number of classmates head for Hilton Head, SC in the winter, among them Kevin (nc) and Betty Ann Rice Keane, and Bob (nc) and Marcia Wishengrad Metzgar. Joan Jeremiah Reusswig left her snow-blower behind last November when she moved from Connecticut to Sun City in Bluffton, SC. Connie Engelke Skov and her husband still maintain Roseacre Farm near Waldoboro, ME where Highland beef, lambs, and oven-ready geese can be found. The Skovs have three sons, one of whom is a professional carver and is currently turning out chairs for Maine's governor's mansion.
Bill and Jan Charles Lutz spent most of last month on a canal trip in northern France, a trip they planned themselves using the internet. Jan writes, "Our last few trips have been ones where all the arrangements were made for us. I'd forgotten how much work it is to research and organize one on our own." Last October the Alumni Federation sponsored a trip to Burgundy France and classmates who made the trip were Paula Wright Corwin, Lou Fredd, Bob and Marj Nelson Smart, Bob Menger, Joan Reinberg Macmillan, Dave Riebel, and Leroy Blakeslee. Another alumni trip last year was to Alaska with Joe '56 and Sue DeRosay Henninger as participants.
Lyn Nehrbas Alexander is part of the organizing group for her 50th high school reunion this month in Long Island and looking forward to seeing those who haven't seen each other in 50 years. That sounds like an experience that many of us will be having in the next few months.
Bob and Ruth Lerner and daughter Deborah and family traveled from their home in Santa Monica to attend the wedding of son Michael in Madrid. Both bride and groom hold Masters degrees from Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, and will continue to live in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where Michael has a fellowship with Oxfam America.
Dick and Dale (Reis '58) Johnson, also living in California (Rancho Palos Verdes) report that classmate Tom Criswell, recently widowed, has moved from the San Fernando Valley to within a stone's throw of them. Dick mentions that their grandson is guilty of being adorable and brilliant at the ripe old age of 6 months. Dale has her 45th this spring.
Ed and Peggy Mihm had a great time at OUR 45th last year. They also reside in California (San Francisco), but travel often to Miami, where son Jeff and his wife have 2 boys, both of whom we trust have the above characteristics. I wonder if they see Pinky Green up the coast in Boca Raton, who reports that he can once again leap tall buildings after recovering from his heart attack 2 years ago. He and Brooke will have been married 43 years in September. Son Jason lives in Atlanta and son Jordan in NYC.
Across the state in Naples (isn't the flow wonderful), Howie Greenstein and family held a reunion in December to celebrate, among other things, his marriage of 45 years to Lenore (Home Ec '56). He serves as Rabbi to the congregation of Marco Island, and summers in the Berkshires.
Heading north, Lawrence and Ann (Wiltsey '60) Moran have moved to Michigan to be nearer family, and George Whitney, having retired from INA USA after 33 years, is happy to have Jay and Nancy Schabacker living nearby - the latter having moved to Lexington SC, just outside Columbia, from the Washington area.
I know that Sam Waxman is a doctor, because his writing is like the scrawl on the prescriptions my doctor writes for me. I'm certain I've gotten the cure for some ailment not contemplated, but I think I can decipher that Sam returned from Shanghai last year, where he became an Honorary Professor at the Shanghai Medical University, and has been involved in research on 2 drugs which have been instrumental in treating leukemia. Home is NYC with weekends in East Hampton - retirement not in sight.
Same for Lewis Bettman, who continues to work
for Prudential Securities, but who plays a lot of tennis and went
to a fantasy baseball camp a few years ago. Kudos to John Burton,
professor in the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations,
where he is the president of the Industrial Relations Research
Assn.
Ed '54 and Joyce Dudley McDowell divide time between homes in Hermosa Beach, CA and Kilauea, HI but sailing and world travels made up a goodly portion of their lives in 2002. Micronesia, eastern Canada, Kenya, Singapore, and the Galapagos were among the stops as well as visits in the US with family and friends, including Dave'56 and Jane Wedell Pyle. Ed sailed his Grand Illusion in some races off the southern California coast and Hawaii.
Many of us in the East certainly had our fill of snow this past winter but for avid skiers like Jerry Neuman Held, Arlington, VA, it was a boon. She headed for the slopes in West Virginia and Maine and also did some schussing out at Lake Tahoe where her son, Andy '84 joined her. Her other son lives in the Los Angeles area and Jerry enjoys visiting there with her husband, Stan Kovell, as they are both avid golfers.
If you had a chance to see the exhibit of Jules Feiffer's work at the New York Historical Society this spring you can thank Mina Rieur Weiner. Mina was the curator of the celebration, JULZ RULZ: Inside the Mind of Jules Feiffer.
Nina Schick Appel just completed her 20th year as Dean of Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Alfred '56 has just published a new book, "Jazz Modernism" and their son, Richard (nc), is the executive director and creator of a new comedy to be seen on NBC, titled AUSA - Assistant US Attorney. Dr. Rochelle Krugman Kainer, author of The Collapse of the Self and its Therapeutic Restoration, delivered a paper on Anais Nin at the Popular Culture Conference in April. Her daughter, Eden, a musicologist, also gave a paper - on Ella Fitzgerald and Sophie Tucker.
Robert '55 and Vanne Shelley Cowie have been selected to receive the 2003 Frank H.T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Award during Homecoming weekend, October 24. The award is given in recognition of service to Cornell in both length and quality of contribution through activities in alumni organizations and related groups.
John and I are trying out a new form to gather more news from
classmates. Watch for the mailing and please take time to respond
Better yet, whenever you're online, it's so easy to send a quick
update on your activities via e-mail. Hope you'll take the time
to do so.
Judith Reusswig, 5401 Westbard Ave., #813, Bethesda, MD 20816
e-mail: JCReuss@aol.com
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2003 - WOMEN
September already - after a summer of reunions, retirements,
and reconnecting with high school friends 50 years later. Several
of our classmates belong to the Continuing Reunion Club (CRC)
and were on campus in June. Connie Santagato Hosterman, Sue DeRosay
Henninger, Vanne Shelley Cowie, Jack McCormick, and Sam Bookbinder
attended the festivities, which included an Alumni baseball game.
Sam mentioned that he intended to play in it but no one could
verify that he actually did! Marj Nelson Smart, who lives in Ithaca,
was also at reunion, enjoying the fun of the Savage Club show.
Next she was off to Europe for a big adventure, joining the Naples
FL choir and 400 other singers from all over the world to sing
Dvorak, Mozart, etc. in a number of European cities as part of
a competition. But Marj had some sad news to report, that Marilyn
Boeringer Norton, passed away in June. Our sympathies are extended
to her family and
friends.
Other European travelers this summer included Jan Nelson Cole,
who went hiking in the Slovenian Alps and Carol Gehrke Townsend,
on a boat trip down the Danube from
Prague to Bucharest. Carol is in her 20th year working part-time
at Prudential real estate and has played in an Andean flute group
for the past five years. She writes:
"Unfortunately our teacher, a darling Colombian young man
had us separate the
pipes and play just one row of them so you always have to play
with a partner.
Consequently I cannot play any song but know 8 melodies by heart!"
Joan Reinberg Macmillan finally packed it up after 20 years with the Florida Senate and retired in June. Now she's anticipating making some order in her rather neglected house.
Not retired is Ruthe "Skip" Hewlett Gorman who lives
in Huntington Beach and had a recent visitor, Judy Bird. Judy
was in the area to see her son Tim, a post-doctoral researcher
in pharmacology at UC -Irvine.
Last year was a busy one for Judy with trips to Belize to observe
whale sharks, Malaysia on an Earthwatch Expedition researching
green sea turtles, and Melanesia to study birds, coral reefs and
fishes in the area. This summer Judy, who lives in Pawleys Island,
SC, volunteered her services to monitor loggerhead turtles along
the Atlantic shores from Myrtle Beach to Georgetown. In the fall
she will be recording the number of hatchlings, and along with
birdwatching is thoroughly enjoying her experiences.
Kathleen "Dedee" Brennan Daly also knows something about this topic - she's a docent at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center on the Chesapeake Bay at the Rhode River in Maryland.
When the dues letter arrives this fall please take time to include some news, especially if it's been a while since you last wrote.
Judy Reusswig was kind enough to tell me of her trip to the IRA regatta in Camden, NJ in May. Even though Judy was rooting for her Godson (freshman eight - Wisconsin), her red and white outfit covered both schools. Seems that Bernie Horton was the announcer at the finish line, and Clayton Chapman was running the whole show, marking his 49th year connected with intercollegiate rowing, starting in 1954, the ground floor of the legendary (often overworked word-not in this case) 1957 crew.
I had a chance to visit with Dick Tevebaugh recently, playing 18 holes with him and son Peter when he and Connie visited their grandchildren in Louisville in May. Peter is a financial analyst with Brown- Forman Distilleries. Dick and Connie were on their way to setting up their usual summer residence on Nantucket.
Roger Soloway has been elected chief-of-staff at the Univ. of Texas Medical Branch Hospitals in Galveston. He continues to specialize in liver disease and does extensive clinical research. Son Andrew is a practicing psychiatrist, son David has recently married and is studying for a masters degree, and son Russell was 2 years into a career as an assistant U.S. attorney in west Texas when he joined the Dept. of Justice in Washington.
Bill Schmidt enjoyed the 45th (didn't we all), and he and Dot have been in Bermuda, Cape Ann (north of Boston) and Sante Fe involved with painting and photography, with an occasional opera-fix trip to the Big Apple.
Gerald Rehkugler, 7 years into retirement from the Cornell
faculty, sends word that the last offspring, Victoria, has left
the nest, and is in her first year on the Hill. Assuming all goes
as scheduled, it will be a double celebration for the Rehkugler
family in the spring of 2007. Gerald has been helping coach the
Moravia (NY) high school tennis team, driving senior citizens
(of which my math indicates he is one) to medical appointments,
shopping, entertainment, etc, and writing solutions to problems
in an Engineering Dynamics McGraw-Hill publication. As he has
done every year since his retirement, he has assisted with engineer
admissions reading. Stepdaughter Brenda Smith graduated this spring
with a degree in civil engineering. When the snow starts flying,
Gerald will be on the slopes at Greek Peak in Virgil for his usual
75-100 days of skiing, while his wife tends to her duties as pastor
of the Fayetteville United Methodist Church.
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2003 - WOMEN
If you went to your high school reunion during the past few months I hope it was as much fun as mine was. A few of us from the class of '53 at Utica Free Academy went on to Cornell and among those returning to celebrate our 50th were Jo (NC) and Fred Jones who had driven from Michigan for the occasion. About 110 classmates attended and a special treat for me was to see three "kids" with whom I started first grade and continued to be with all 12 years of school (two R's and an S - oh, the days of alphabetical seating). In nearby New Hartford, Carol Johnson Saylor and Gerald Fuess came back for their 50th. White Plains High School's class of 1953 met in October and Shari Flynn was on the planning committee for that one. No doubt many of you were also recruited to help organize yours.
Shari has been very involved with her company, Family & Educational Media, a non-profit corporation that uses visual media to promote positive social images. Her latest video, Parenting in Times of Crisis, is rather timely and you can learn more by visiting the website: www.femedia.org.
Barbara Flynn Shively enjoyed doing the publicity for the Mom's Choral Society last summer as they prepared for a concert featuring a Dave Brubeck classical choral work. In addition she does technical editing out of her home in Morristown, NJ.
Olga Duntuch Krell is another editor as well as publisher and owner of her magazine, Espaco D. Her work includes much travel away from her home in Brazil. Olga says on the "long" news form (sent to all last spring) that "people are the same everywhere I go. Love them or leave them."
And speaking of that news form, if it's still somewhere in
your collection of papers I'd certainly appreciate it if you could
take time to jot down a few notes and send them on to me.
Some sad news to report - our former class president and long-time
class officer, Judy Richter Levy, lost her husband to cancer last
July. Alan (NC) had attended all our reunions and class functions
with Judy and knew many of her classmates very well. Our sympathies
are extended to Judy and their two children.
In August Chris Zeller Lippman's daughter Caroline was married in New York City with Judge Steve Gottlieb officiating. Judy Tischler Rogers' son was also married last summer - in Carbondale, CO where he is head of the math department at Rocky Mountain School. Judy has moved from Colorado Springs to Crestline, CA.
Others on the move Robert (NC) and Evelyn Caplan Perch who downsized from a house to a condo in King of Prussia, PA.
Ed and Adelaide Russell Vant have two new grandchildren. And some grandparents who have fourth generation Cornellians are Nathaniel '54 and Jane Lueck Talmage as well as Bob and Marj Nelson Smart.
The annual class dinner and meeting will be coming up at the
end of January. If you're planning to be in the New York City
area think about attending. You can e-mail me for details. Happy
Thanksgiving
Tom Milhorat has had a distinguished career in the medical profession that is reaching new heights. As chairman of Neurosurgery at North Shore (Long Island) University Hospital, he has been involved in the study of cerebrospinal fluids and related conditions. He has published extensively (author of over 300 scientific publications), is included in every "Who's Who" in and beyond the medical profession. In July of this year he presided, as founder and director, at the opening news conference and reception of the Chiari Institute in Great Neck, the world's first multidisciplinary center for the management of patients suffering from Chiari malformation, a structural condition that affects the cerebellum in the brain. Senator Charles Schumer spoke at the reception.
Paul Garrett is still very active, responsible for advertising and public relations for a privately held company which manufactures dairy equipment. He and Sandy (retired from teaching and now gardening non-stop) spent last November (2002) on a Cornell Alumni Affairs trip to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. They are also building a retirement/summer home on the St. Lawrence River.
Steve Weiss continues as managing director of Weiss, Peck & Greer, and is hopefully reaching the latter stages of rebuilding his Greenwich home that burned to the ground more than 2 years ago. Son Michael, now a Cornell sophomore, is a fixture at first base on the baseball team, and concurs with his father's statement of "keep working - and smiling."
I received a smiling picture from Sam Bookbinder at his 50th high school reunion at Lawrenceville School. In addition to Sam, the smilers were Lawrenceville classmates who went on to become '57ers; Peter Wolf, Bob Armstrong, lacrosse great Scott Papenfus, Doug Love and Norm Powell. Sam continues in the real estate business.
Robert Storch sends along a report that he is seeing some patients in psychoanalytic psychotherapy while writing a novel on Nazi art repatriation. Could the two be connected?
Robert Spicer has retired form the medical college at San Jose State Univ. and has moved to a retirement community 20 miles from Tuscon.
Ara Daglian can't get enough of cruising, completing a spring Caribbean sojourn of 18 days and a 10-day cruise to Scandanavia and Russia. He sent along a picture of 3 Aras, classes of 1957, 1985 and 20??
Classmates who have participated in the continuing education program are: David Kassing (Golf Clinic), Ron Kramer (Ambiguities of Assimilation: The American Jewish Experience) and Joseph Russo (Wall Street 2002; Investing in an Age of Uncertainty).