Class of ’59 – January/February 2010

Mort Diamond has published his second medical book, Medical Insights: From Classroom to Patient (Jones and Bartlett Publishers). “Hopefully, this little book will help inexperienced medical clinicians and, also, students in the health professions to learn how to integrate the vast and disjointed extant mass of medical information,” says Mort, a clinical cardiologist who is Medical Director of the Nova Southeastern University Physician Assistant Program in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Another physician, Rolf Barth, is a professor of pathology at Ohio State U in Columbus, OH, where he does a combination of research, teaching, and anatomic pathology. He and his wife also try to keep up with their four children and their spouses—and with their ten grandchildren. Traveling is a big part of Rolf’s year, usually including two or three international trips and half-a-dozen domestic ones. Sidney Boorstein has moved to 36 Orchard Hill Drive, Sharon, MA. Now semi-retired, he enjoys traveling, taking care of grandsons, seeing old/”old” friends, and playing poker. Like many classmates, he had wanted to be at reunion but his niece—a Cornellian—was getting married that weekend in California.

C.E. John Way of Montclair, NJ has his own architectural firm, Way & Associates, and is a partner in HJGA Consulting of Cranford, NJ, an architectural firm that specializes in the restoration and rehabilitation of historic properties. He enjoys traveling (India!) and going to opera, theater, and other events in NYC. Also enjoying traveling are Benson and Mary Ellen Dahlen Simon, Grad ’63 of Laurel, MD. In recent years they took Smithsonian tours to Japan and France; they also do an annual cross-country ski trip in Vermont and go scuba diving on Martinique. Benson has been taking French classes at the University of Maryland and enjoys photography, entering monthly competitions of “artsy stuff.” Barbara Bennett Marks of South Hero, VT is retired from the University of Vermont and JDK Design, where she was HR director. Playing the organ, enjoying Lake Champlain, and playing duplicate bridge are among her extra-curricular activities. Patricia Williams of Ithaca is a big fan of Cornell ice hockey and basketball and in warmer weather enjoys golfing on the Cornell course (“super!”). Heading for Tahoe? Pete MacRoberts is General Manager of the Holiday Inn Express in South Lake Tahoe—“just working to pay medical bills.” Bruce Pfann of New London, NH is a salesperson for a millwork company. Present “day” job? “Maintenance,” writes Bob Furno of Westbrook, CT: “my house, my garden, my trees, my cars, and my body!” Mary Jean Blankenstein Milich of Butler, PA agrees: “maintenance of family and home” is the focus of her day. For relaxation there’s watercolor painting.

Since 1964 Hans Lawaetz of St. Croix has been president of Annaly Farms Senepol, a cattle ranch with 1500 head of Senepol cattle. Since 1974 he has been president of Annaly Farms, a meat market; his daughter is the company’s CEO. Hans is president of the Senepol Cattle Breeders Assn and actively promotes the breed at cattle fairs throughout the Americas. Hans also is president of the Virgin Islands Olympic Committee, and in 2008 took seven V.I. athletes to the Beijing Olympics. His daughter competed in the 1984 L.A. Olympics and his grandson qualified at 14 years of age for the 2009 Swimming World Championship in Rome.

We do keep busy! Current activities of Ursula Eirich Moeller of Santa Fe, NM include skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, camping, canoeing, memoir writing, poetry, art openings, travel, and local and international gardening. Bart Frueh of Ann Arbor, MI has been “mostly” retired since mid-2008, now working two or three days a month. He is studying Chinese calligraphy and Roman archeology, and was part of the 2009 University of Michigan dig in Gabii, an ancient city east of Rome. Classmates who attended CAU on-campus summer classes in 2009 included Les.Adelman, Marjory Leshure Marshall, and W. Jeanne McKibben.

Finally, here’s some news from Dick Aplin of Exeter, NH, who received his PhD in 1959. He joined the faculty in Cornell’s Department of Agricultural Economics that year and remained on the Cornell faculty for 40 years. He and his wife live in a life-care community, where they participate in many activities, including one-day Elderhostels. Recently, they’ve also traveled to Scandinavia and Germany. They spend a week each summer on Cayuga, where they get together with many old friends from Cornell. “Life is good, even at 80,” writes Dick. • Jenny Tesar, 97A Chestnut Hill Village, Bethel, CT 06801; tel., (203) 792-8237; e-mail, jet24@cornell.edu.