SEPT./OCT. 2007 VOLUME 110 NUMBER 2

Fellow '78ers, thanks for all your news updates, both e-mail and snail mail. Look for David Kaplan's (dkaplan007@optonline.net) latest book, published in July 2007 by HarperCollins. It's called Mine's Bigger: Tom Perkins and the Making of the Greatest Sailing Machine Ever Built. It's about the largest, most-expensive highest-tech private sailboat in the world--the 289-foot clipper The Maltese Falcon. It probably won't fit on Beebe Lake. Linda Dillman, BS Nurs '78 (derosanp@aol.com) reports that she is a geriatric nurse practitioner in a community-based geriatric practice affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. She is also an associate clinical instructor at the Columbia U. School of Nursing. She precepts nurse practitioner students from other programs as well (NYU, Hunter). Her real passion is ballroom dancing, which occupies most of her spare time. She competes pro-am with her instructor in international standard at the silver level. She is also an avid cyclist, logging 2,500 road miles a year. Per Linda, life is good.

Joe and Pam Lubeck live in Jupiter, FL with kids Karla '07, BA '06, Rachel, and Thomas. Joe is managing partner of Landmark Residential, a major multi-family real estate owner in the Southeast. They recently returned from a trip to Israel to visit Karla, who was there for a year as a volunteer teaching English in absorption centers. The whole family found the trip exciting and inspiring, and report no incidents where they felt concerned or unsafe. Karla will be starting a master's program at Georgetown in September. The family is also excited that Rachel has been accepted to the AAP college for the fall. They all enjoy Florida life, and in addition to family activities of golf and boating, Joe foolishly started racing Ferraris and participated in the recent Maranello Madness and Cavallino events at the Moroso Raceway--no crashes so far! "We look forward to seeing all our friends at the upcoming reunion!"

Gary Graziano, BArch '79 (GGraziano@high.net) was recently re-elected as an officer and secretary to the board of directors of AltusGroup Inc., which is dedicated to developing and marketing innovative precast products. Gary was also elected treasurer of the Mid-Atlantic Precast Association, an industry trade group serving precast concrete producers and their suppliers. In addition to these two job-related posts, Gary was elected to the board of the newly formed United Disabilities Services Foundation, a public charity that he helped found. It provides funding and management oversight for nonprofit organizations that give home-care and community-based services to thousands of people with disabilities in central, south central, and eastern Pennsylvania. He was also appointed to the newly formed board of trustees for the to-be-built Manheim Township Public Library. Subsequent to his appointment as a trustee, Gary was elected vice president and spokesperson for the board.

John DePolo writes that he and wife Lorraine and sons James, 8, and Steven, 4, live in Chapel Hill, NC, a great location to raise a family. They love it there and moved a little over two years ago after spending 14 years in Atlanta. Before that, they lived in D.C., California, Pennsylvania, and Ohio before getting married at UVA's chapel in 1989. "We just welcomed my mother, age 88, to the household.We are truly the ‘sandwich generation,' to use a cliché." Professionally, John has his own consulting firm (Cornell Strategy Solutions LLC), where he assists clients in improving their recruiting functions, and has a local and global client base. He also does executive search and recruiting at all levels, and enjoys networking and learning different industries. If you are passing through the Triangle, feel free to contact John at john.depolo@gmail.com.

Holly English (Montclair, NJ; Hollyenglish123@aol.com) practices law in Roseland, NJ, and became president of the National Association of Women Lawyers this past summer. "Very exciting but also demanding! My husband, Fred Smagorinsky, is COO of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a not-for-profit based in New York whose mission is to increase minority enrollment in MBA programs and minority success in business careers." Their daughter Tess, 19, is enrolled at Wesleyan U. and loving it. Daughter Karla, 15, is a sophomore and not worrying about college yet ("Maybe we'll get a Cornellian yet!"). Life is very busy but good. Holly is in touch with many Sperryites and would love to hear from others as well. For the past ten years Curt and Lorraine Nicholas Anastasio have lived in San Antonio, TX, where Curt is president and CEO of NuStar Energy (formerly Valero LP), an energy logistics company. They're excited that their son Daniel will be a freshman this fall in the Arts college. Daniel has a twin sister Jessica and an older brother Michael.

Peter Chatel (pchatel@na.ko.com) still resides in Marietta, GA, and has two daughters in college this year. Oldest daughter Alison is a junior at UGA, middle daughter Lindsay is a freshman at Georgia Tech, and the youngest, Sarah, is a freshman in high school. Peter continues to work at the Coca-Cola Co. as VP, operational quality, responsible for providing quality and technical support to the 20 company-owned production plants in the US.He is completing his 15th year with Coke. He is also active in the Emerson Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Marietta. Jane Tanner (tannerj@sunyocc.edu) lives in Parish, NY, the small town that received 121 inches of snow in a week this past winter. She is still active with Alpha Phi, serving her eighth year as president of the House Corporation Board and as adviser for the chapter in Syracuse. In her spare time, she serves as the human resources coordinator for the Northeast Regional team. She has met a lot of fabulous sisters with all this volunteering. Jane is completing her 25th year at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse and now teaches all her math classes online. Jane presents math information to national and state conferences."My husband Andy Rowe and I have a second home in Lake Panasoffkee, FL. This really is in the middle of nowhere and we love the fact that we aren't involved in all the tourist things.We visit there as much as possible!" Jane has two stepchildren: Stephanie, who is working on her master's in teaching art at Oswego, and Casey, who hasn't found himself yet. Other than that, they just enjoy their lives to the fullest.

Lesley Gudehus (lesley.gudehus@gardnerdenver.com) moved from Memphis, TN, to Quincy, IL, to work for Gardner Denver in a newly created position--communications manager. Gardner Denver is a global company, manufacturing compressors, blowers, and pumps for agriculture and industry. Leslie previously served as marketing and public relations manager for Ballet Memphis. "I lived in Memphis for almost 15 years, so it was hard to leave all my friends there and give up my house, which I loved. Gardner Denver, however, is a great company with great people, and Quincy is very charming."

I hope all is well with you. Please continue to send news to me or Pepi. -- Chip Brueckman, jcb58@cornell.edu; Pepi F. Leids, PLeids@aol.com. Go Big Red!

JUL./AUG. 2007 VOLUME 110 NUMBER 1

Douglas Kahn (dougk@Croscill.com) assumed the responsibilities of president and CEO of Croscill Home, a home textile company based in Durham, NC, upon the untimely death of his brother David. Diana "Sunshine" Lorenz-Weggler(dweggler@norwich.edu) and her husband Bob attended the CU/Dartmouth men's hockey game in Hanover. They and their youngest children, ages 12 and 14, live in Vermont, where their daughter Rose is a junior at UVM, rowing on the crew team. Ryan '06, Diana and Bob's oldest, is a paralegal for a prestigious law firm in NYC. Diana still plays hockey and looks forward to the women's ice hockey reunion this summer. Bob writes a sports advice column, AskCoachBob.com. Fondest Cornell memory? Sunday nights at the Commons Coffeehouse!

Curt and Lorraine Nicholas Anastasio (lanastasio@satx.rr.com) live in San Antonio, where Curt is president and CEO of an energy logistics company. They're thrilled that their son Daniel will be a freshman this fall in the College of Arts and Sciences. Daniel has a twin sister, Jessica, and an older brother,Michael. Roger Strauch (roger@ rodagroup.com), a venture capitalist, and Dan Miller recently sold their software company founded with Cornell post-doc Roy Friedman. Paul Lourd, MBA '80 (tc4racer@ gmail.com), a director for information technology, enjoys R/C racing and boating. David Kaplan's (dkaplan007@optonline.net) latest book, Mine's Bigger: Tom Perkins and the Making of the Greatest Sailing Machine Ever Built, about a 289-ft. private sailboat, will soon be published. John Depolo (john.depolo@gmail.com), his wife Lorraine, and sons James, 8, and Steven, 4, love living in Chapel Hill, NC. John operates his own consulting firm, and enjoys networking and learning about different industries.

Gary Graziano, BArch '79 (GGraziano@yahoo.com), an officer and secretary on the board of directors for a concrete entity, was also elected treasurer of an industry trade group. He serves on the board of a community-based public charity that he helped found. He was recently appointed trustee for a public library and elected as the board's VP and spokesperson. Joe Lubeck (Jlubeck@landmarkresidentialapts.com) and wife Pam live in Jupiter, FL, with kids Karla, Rachel, and Thomas. Joe is a managing partner for a Southeast real estate company. The Lubecks visited Karla in Israel, where she volunteers as an English teacher, and the family found the trip exciting and inspiring! Karla will soon be starting a master's program at Georgetown, and Rachel will be attending Cornell in the fall. Family activities include golf and boating, and Joe races Ferraris!

Holly English (hollyenglish123@yahoo.com), who practices law and lives in New Jersey, will soon be named president of the National Association of Women Lawyers. "Very exciting, but demanding!" she says. Her husband Fred Smagorinsky is COO of a New York-based not-for-profit. Their daughter Tess is 19 and enrolled at Wesleyan U., and daughter Karla, 15, is in high school. Holly says, "Life is very busy, but good!" Dena Seifer Friedman (Frudena@aol.com) practices psychiatry in New Jersey, where she resides with her husband Alan, an ob/gyn, and daughters Jennifer and Stephanie. Jennifer will soon be attending Cornell, and Stephanie just completed her sophomore year in high school.

Debbie Harris (dlhdvm@aol.com) now lives in Newport, RI, after a 17-year sojourn in Florida! Henry Farber (henryfarber@dwt.com) practices law near Seattle. His daughter will be attending Barnard College in the fall. Peter Chatel (pchatel@na.ko.com), a VP for the Coca-Cola Co., resides with his family in Georgia, where he is active in a Unitarian congregation. His oldest daughter, Alison, attends UGA, and middle daughter Lindsay attends Georgia Tech. Youngest daughter Sarah is in high school. Lesley Gudehus (Lesley.Gudehus@gardnerdenver.com) moved from Memphis, TN, where she served as a marketing and public relations manager for Ballet Memphis, to Illinois to work as a communications manager for a global company for the agricultural industry.

David Monahan (DMonahan@colonyinc.com) and wife Laura live in Hawaii with their son Michael, 14, and daughter Morgan, 10, both of whom attend Hawaii Preparatory Academy. David, who oversees a group of hotels, says he spends a good portion of his life these days on planes traveling to hotels! Paula Boyler Kennedy, MBA '80 (PKennedy@cwcainc.com), a VP in a human resources consulting firm in NYC, co-authored The True Cost of Happiness, a book on life planning. Nate Parsons '10, son of Stephen '80 and Patreena Deegan Parsons, MS '81 (patreena@snet.net), is at Cornell following in his parents' and grandfather's footsteps. Daughter Tulissa will be attending UArts in Philadelphia in the fall, and their little one, Geoff, will be starting kindergarten! Patreena, a Web programmer for a small Web design company, enjoys running and gourmet cooking.

Stephanie Mitchell, JD '80 (stephanie.mitchell@chello.be) is an international civil servant at the European Commission in the industrial policy unit. Stephanie recently visited Bulgaria and found it very interesting. Turns out she lives not far from Paul Rohrlich and spent a festive holiday with his wife Susan and their children. Stephanie enjoys flamenco dancing, and her business travels take her to such places as China, Germany, Estonia, and Moscow. She plans to celebrate her half-century birthday walking the Northumberland Coastal Path to see castles, islands, and nature reserves of northeast England. Angela DeSilva (zamad1956@yahoo.com), an associate general counsel for a natural gas pipeline company in Texas, recently vacationed with her family on a Caribbean cruise. Her son Andrew, a high school student, is excited about getting his driver's license.

Doug (dporter@rmhccni.org) and Ann Thomas Porter, BArch '79, enjoy life in Chicago, where Doug works for Ronald McDonald House Charities. Ann volunteers her architecture expertise, and most recently helped on a renovation of their church. They have fun staying in touch with fellow alumni Steve George, Tom Scott, Bob Shaw, and Norm Bartlett '79. Laura Howes (lhowes@utk.edu), an associate professor of English at the U. of Tennessee and director of undergraduate studies in English, was recently awarded a Chancellor's Citation for Excellence. Forthcoming publications include a volume of essays. She lives in Tennessee with her husband Charles Biggs and their daughter Mary, 14. Sarah Thole Fischell, ME '79 (estee@comcast.net), always busy and never bored, enjoys gardening, playing bridge, vacationing, volunteering, and genealogy, and is married with two children. Erin '10 attends Cornell, where she's a member of the marching band, and Jen is in high school.

Michael Bernardo, MS '86, MD '89 (mbernardo@newberryhealthcare.com) and his wife are both family doctors in South Carolina. Living in a rural area allows him to do just about everything, from delivering babies to taking care of kids in the community, treating adults, and handling geriatric/nursing home care. He and his family have spent time in Africa and Central America working at mission hospitals, which they found truly life-changing experiences. Margie Ferris-Morris (fma@aol.com), a conflict mitigation analyst for a consulting firm, and husband Peter Morris,MPS '99, a technical advisor in the Office for Foreign Disaster Assistance, are living in Virginia. They have three children: Nate attends Virginia Tech., Evan is at George Mason, and Margot goes to high school. Margie's fondest memory of Cornell is sitting in the comfy chairs of the A. D.White House and reading T. S. Eliot.

Our website has recently been redesigned. Visit http://classof78.alumni.cornell.edu/. - Pepi F. Leids, PLeids@aol.com; Chip Brueckman, jcb58@cornell.edu.

MAY/JUN. 2007 VOLUME 109 NUMBER 6

Please mark your calendars for June 5-8, 2008 for our 30th Reunion. About a year from now, join fellow '78ers for a great weekend. Class president Roger Anderson (rla38@cornell.edu) suggests we check out the updated class website, http://classof78.alumni.cornell.edu/ for all class news and events up to and including reunion. You will find pictures and information about the class scholarship, upcoming Cornell and class specific events, and, of course, our 30th Reunion. We also welcome your suggestions and contributions, especially pictures that we can post on the site. Please take a moment to visit.

Stephen Kesselman, JD '81 (stephen.kesselman@rivkin.com) reports that he is now a litigation partner at Rivkin Radler LLP in Uniondale, NY, Long Island's largest law firm. Stephen lives in Old Westbury with his wife Dr. Alison Schecter and children Ross, Samuel, and Rose, ranging in age from 8 to 5. Stephen keeps in close contact with ZBT fraternity brothers Bill Sternberg, Brian Ochs, and Ron Frier.

Rick Woroniecki (woroniecki@bellsouth.net) runs his own boutique environmental and property condition engineering enterprise in Atlanta, GA, Southern Excellence Corp. The firm predominantly provides real estate due diligence services. It also serves as a base for family real estate investing. His most exciting real estate project to date is Grace Bay Townhomes (www.gracebaytownhomes.com), a condo development on Providentiales in the Turks & Caicos Islands in the Caribbean. Rick teamed with his sister Dana Woroniecki Jurak '74, ME '75, on this condo development. Rick, his brother and sister, and his late brother-in-law, were all engineers at Cornell in the '70s. Rick's nephew Aryan '95 and daughter Jean '05 graduated from the Hotel school.

Rick also reports that he hosted a joint charity fundraiser recently in Atlanta between the Cornell Atlanta Alumni Association, the local Wellesley Club, and the Rolls-Royce Owners Club (RROC). The event took place at the Woodruff Arts Center (named in honor of the Woodruff family of Coca-Cola Co. fame) and the Alliance Theater. The dollars raised benefited the Cornell Atlanta Scholarship. Keeping with Rick's mechanical toy theme, he also teamed up with two other Cornellians, Larry Hall '81 and T. J. Hart '98, to found the Ivy Riders motorcycle club (www.ivyriders.com). Whether Rick rides in a Rolls-Royce or on a motorcycle, you will certainly see Cornell logos somewhere in the custom design.

I hope all is well with you. With the updated class website and our electronic society, there are now more ways than ever to send your news to: -- Chip Brueckman, jcb58@cornell. edu; or Pepi F. Leids, PLeids@aol.com. Go Big Red!

MAR./APR. 2007 VOLUME 109 NUMBER 5

Lois Bottone Conwell (lois@topher.net) is a culinary arts teacher at Plano High School in Texas.  She also owns two of her own companies, called "All Wrapped Up Real Estate" and "All Wrapped Up Promotional." She looks for houses to fix up and is currently restoring a historic house on Park Street. However, she'd rather be sitting on a beach with a frozen drink! Lois's most fond memory of Cornell is the Thirsty Bear Tavern.  Michael Riley (mdr14@cornell.edu) lives in Rochester, NY, where he has a sports marketing business.  Michael works with the PGA tour on golf events, player appearances, and corporate sponsorships.He enjoys playing golf and traveling and is still a big fan of Big Red hockey. Vivian Wohl (vwohl@earthlink.net) lives in Sausalito, CA, with her husband Bruno Tapolsky.  Vivian works for Federated Investors Inc.  Eve Murphy Reid (evereid@airmail.net) is a marketing consultant and lives in Dallas, TX, with daughter Claire.  She commutes to NYC to see husband Warren Weitman.  Eve is in the process of transitioning her company, but would rather be trekking in Patagonia! Her fondest Cornell memory is getting up at dawn to run five miles, even after a heavy snowfall.  She would like to hear from Jim Rice.

Karen Wilk Rubin (kwrubin@yahoo.com) lives in Cooper City, FL, with husband Ira.  She is a pediatric dietitian at the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital in Hollywood, FL.  She is also a nutrition columnist for Foodservice Director magazine. Karen and Ira are still busy with hurricane repairs at their home after Katrina and Wilma blew through.   Karen is looking forward to retirement.  Her fondest Cornell memories include Sunday dorm brunches, the "Pancake House," frat parties, and friends. Sarah "Sally" May Tucci writes that she and Emily Farnham Mastrianni '89 both row for a masters crew, Skidmore Community Rowing.  Their boats won two national championship gold medals in 2005.  They went to the FISA Worlds regatta in 2006 and won two gold medals there as well.  Sally May, as we called her back then, Karen Wilk Rubin, and I (Pepi) were all on the 5th floor of Donlon Hall our freshman year.

Bill and Ellen Haas Sternberg (ellen@sternberg.com) live in Potomac, MD. Ellen is a display account executive with Legal Times.  Chip and Linda Joy Baines watched the Cornell men's lightweight crew team win the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) title in spring 2006.  Their daughter Emily '07 is the coxswain for that team.  They edged out Harvard for the title.  Their other daughter, Katie, is married. Mitch, JD '81, and Ann Zanger Lowenthal (annlowenthal@earthlink.net) live in Brooklyn, NY.  Mitch is a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton, and Ann is happily at home with her son Daniel, 14, after 12 years in public finance.  Mitch and Ann go skiing in Colorado as often as possible; it is their passion.  Ann sends her best wishes to classmate Diane Elliott.  She would also like to hear from Susan Labow Allen.

Barbara Taborsky Ludlow (beachglassbum@optonline.net) and her husband Harry '72 live in Bridgehampton, NY.  Barbara is a farm stand owner/operator with her husband and children.  Their son Nathan '05 joined the family business after graduation from Cornell's Ag college in December 2005.  The business consumes all of their time between May and October.  Other activities such as reading, house renovation, and exploring the Caribbean for snorkeling spots can be done from November through April.  Barbara also does volunteer work at their church.  Her fondest Cornell memory is "the end of the snow for the season."

Michael A. Johnson (maj21@cornell.edu) lives in Bowie, MD. He is the deputy assistant sergeant-at-arms for the US Senate.  He's been developing a Homeland Security plan for the US Senate and also teaching at Prince George's Community College in Largo, MD.  Michael enjoys tennis and roller-skating.  He says that Cornell evokes memories of the gorge where he would hang out and swim.  Lenore Diamond Robins (www.LenoreDiamondRobins.com) is an artist living in Boca Raton, FL.  She currently exhibits her work at Art Fusion Gallery in Miami, the Wit Gallery in Lenox, MA, and the Indigo Gallery in Ft. Collins, CO.  The Artist's Guild of the Boca Raton Museum of Art, of which she is president, also has Lenore's work on exhibit.  She lives with her daughter Cara and husband Stephen.

Rob Dewald (rdewald@nycap.rr.com) is a social studies teacher at Scotia-Glennville Middle School and lives in Niskayuna, NY.  He also enjoys coaching cross country and indoor and outdoor track.  He spends lots of time with his own children, who play on travel soccer teams and are involved in the Olympic Development Program.  Jayne Alexander (jalex18@verizon.net) lives in Staten Island with her husband Ed Selling and their daughter Alexis, who attends the Scholar's Program at the local high school.  Jayne treated herself to a kayak for her 50th birthday and paddles around Great Kills Harbor on Staten Island.  Her husband retired from the NYC fire department after serving the city for 26 years.  Jayne has been a physical therapist for 21 years and works doing home care on Staten Island.  Eugenie Shen (eshen168@hotmail.com) lives in Hong Kong and works for AIG Global Investment Group.  Linda Wilde lives in Carmel, CA.  She is a judge in her "day job" and an artist the rest of the time.

Some of our classmates attended CAU in summer 2006.  Laura Call Andolina, MBA '86, studied Animal Health and the Veterinarian's World with Dr. Howard Evans and the staff at the Vet college.  Barbara Ludwig Arditte tried her hand at a drawing class, and David Levine studied the Roman Epoch and Ours, taught by Barry Strauss.  Joan Passiatore Popolo enjoyed Highlights of Astronomy, led by Yervant Terzian, and Debra Hyman Rathauser took two courses, one in bronze sculpture and one in digital photography.   Jane Conable Schmieder studied Islamic Civilization: Rise, Decline, Resurgence, which was taught by David S. Powers.

Many talented high school students who are the children of our classmates attended the Summer College at Cornell in 2006.  They included Jonathan Warach's son Aaron, Minda Solomon Dolmatch's son Michael, Jody Katz's son Michael, and Jeff Hawkins '79 and Janet Strauss's daughter Anne.  Also attending were Joseph Lubeck's daughter Rachel, Marianne Basarab Marcott's daughter Jacquelene, Michael and Deborah Slotnick Miron's daughter Jessica, Dennis '77 and Lilian Tang Soohoo's daughter Hilary, and Donald Strenk and Diane Elliott's son Stephen.

Make sure to check out our new class website at http://classof78.alumni.cornell.edu/. Keep sending us your latest news to include in the column. -- Pepi F. Leids, PLeids@aol.com; and Chip Brueckman, jcb58@cornell.edu.

JAN./FEB. 2007 VOLUME 109 NUMBER 4

78 | This issue of Cornell Alumni Magazine should arrive right in the middle of hockey season.  The Lynah Rink announcer would bellow, "Good evening, hockey fans!" and the Lynah Faithful would roar their spirited approval.  Please give a hearty "Go Big Red" for the news and notes from our classmates below.

Barbara "Bonnie" Greenfield Warren (Plymouth Meeting, PA; bonsongs@aol.com) writes in as a talent booker for a local acoustic venue.  She spends some of her time raising three high-maintenance teenagers.  She loves the thought of being back at Cornell.  Fond memories include her band "Silverwood" playing at Willard Straight Hall.  Bonnie would like to hear from Donna Perlow and Katie Keller '79.  Matt Sadinsky (matt@sosintl.com) reports that running his company, www.sosintl.com, provides almost as many challenges as raising five kids.  Matt enjoys coaching his children.  His daughter has landed a part in a locally produced movie.  Matt's fond memories of Cornell split between Cascadilla Falls in the summer and Taughannock Falls followed by a cold beer at the Rongo.

David Doupe (dbd23@cornell.edu) serves as a managing director of capital markets at Jones, Lang, LaSalle, a global real estate company.  He and wife Beth took a couple of months off to travel to Italy and Greece to celebrate their 25th anniversary.  Lorraine Heffernan (lorraine934@hotmail.com) sends a quick note that she recently moved from Dallas, TX, to Monmouth County, NJ.  Susan Maze Rothstein (Watertown, MA), professor of law at Northeastern U. School of Law, teaches a required social justice course: Legal Skills in Social Context.  Through the course and social justice programs, NUSL donates over 20,000 hours of pro bono service per year.  Susan remembers the efforts to demand Cornell's divestment from South African holdings.  She'd like to hear from Thomas Small and Oliver Mitchell '76.

Katherine Foulke (Portland, OR; biokate@aol.com) teaches biology at Jesuit High School.  Her course offerings include teaching mitosis and meiosis to second semester seniors.  I can see why she might rather sail the Greek Isles.  Katherine enjoys helping out her 9-year-old Carson with Little League baseball, karate, piano, Cub Scouts, and recreational and club soccer.  She would like to hear from Marcia Nackenson.  Marguerite Blythe (Cincinnati, OH; blythemd@fuse.net) serves as medical director, geriatric psychiatry at Mercy Hospital.  Marguerite enjoys Spencerian pointed-pen calligraphy and spends time practicing calligraphy, as well as visiting nursing home patients.  Marguerite would like to learn Chinese, spend more time gardening with the next generations, and visit Iceland.

Sharon Cerasoli (Rochester, NY; sharon.cerasoli@viahealth.org) remembers the beauty of the Cornell campus.  She works as an emergency department social worker.  She stays very involved in organ donation activities.  When asked what she would rather be doing now, Sharon responds: "I'm doing it!"  Eric Schmidt (Wilmington, MA; eschmidt@ahuracorp.com) provides a quick business card update.  Eric serves as VP, business development at Ahura Safety Corp.  April Fischer Kates (Lutherville, MD; helloapril@att.net) spices things up as the regulatory compliance manager for the Consumer Products Division at McCormick & Co.  April is taking a sailing class on the Chesapeake.  She is also trying to brush up on her piano-playing and tries to get in a round of golf when she has time.  April enjoys raising Ben, 11, a saxophone player, and Sydney, 9, a violin player.  Both children like to play tennis as well.  April remembers freshly baked cookies at the Straight right around 9:00 p.m., the Hot Truck at midnight, and swimming in the gorge.  April would like to hear from Judy Yourish Maurer '79 and Lilian Tang Soohoo.

Jane Conable Schmieder (East Bethany, NY; janesch@localnet.com) practices law (part-time) in Wyoming and Genesee counties, specializing in Family Court law and adoptions (Jane and Bernard adopted five children-she spends lots of time raising teenagers!).  Jane also ran a full marathon last year, loves Landmark education courses, and participates actively in charitable foundation work-specifically the Wyoming Foundation and the Conable Family Foundation.  She looks forward to attending a Cornell alumni program with her 12-year-old son.  Jane recalls four years in Risley College and the fantastic fun, music, and theater.  She would like to hear from Don Robins '77 and David "Darvid" Honig.

Robert Trisciuzzi (Brooklyn, NY; trisciur@anz.com) manages commodity and trade finance flows between North and South America and Asia/Pacific, especially China and South Asia.  Robert, a single parent, enjoys raising Liana, 17, and Edmund, 14.  He looks to reading, movies, theater, and music for enrichment.  Robert has the opportunity to travel to Brazil every six months, and this past February, he and his kids enjoyed a vacation there.  He has also been managing a summer home in Mallorca, Spain.  When asked what he would rather be doing, Robert comments that, professionally, everything is on track, but single-parenting offers many challenges, heartbreaks, and triumphs.  He would like to find that significant other sometime.  He remembers graduation, International House parties, and skiing.  Robert keeps in touch with Victor Hu, but would like to hear more from David Black '74, MBA '78.

Gloria Fusillo (Rye, NY; gfusillo@aol.com) produces videos.  She reports that she will have ridden 100 miles this past summer in Lake Tahoe as part of a team raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.  Gloria comments on the amazing results one can achieve with a goal, even before an event-the training leading up to event serves as its own reward.  Gloria just registered for an upcoming event in Tucson.  She will keep a diary online at www.active.com/donate/tntwhv/gloriabiketucson.  Karen Clark Lacy (Pleasant Dale, NE; karenclacy@aol.com) is director of catering for Skeeter Barnes, the BBQ/steakhouse restaurants.  She spends her time remodeling her money pit and enjoying her acreage, skiing, gardening, and sending her sons off to college and the Air Force.  Karen remembers the great friends at Cornell, walking across the beautiful campus, animal science field trips, and cheering in the Crescent.

Carla Rawcliffe Lafayette (Hampden, ME; cjl43@aol.com) runs 21 hotels in Maine, New Hampshire, and Michigan.  She also researches melanoma for her son's benefit.  Two children will have started college this past fall: daughter Annaliese is Cornell '10, and son Ramsey will attend another Ivy League school.  Carla remembers conducting research for Dr. Moody and gathering with friends at the Chapter House.  She would love to hear from her Alpha Phi sorority sisters.

I hope all is well with you.  Please continue to send news-and see you at the Frozen Four!  Go Big Red! -- Chip Brueckman, jcb58@cornell.edu; Pepi F. Leids, PLeids@aol.com.

NOV./DEC. 2006 VOLUME 109 NUMBER 3

78 | Jamie Colgin lives in Moorpark, CA, and is an associate director for Global Clinical QA.  She enjoys hiking and sightseeing and has relocated her family from southeast Michigan to sunny Southern California.  Jamie reports that she is having the time of her life and is grateful for it every day.  She would like to hear from classmates Larry Fiori and Phil Cirulli.  Morris Wallack (morriswallack@nc.rr.com) is the director of presales support for Hewlett Packard.  He has moved to Chapel Hill, NC, after 26 years in the San Francisco Bay Area and enjoys cooking, golf, and gardening.  Richard Ellenson and his son Thomas were featured as ABC's People of the Week in July.  Thomas has cerebral palsy and is non-verbal, and Richard and his wife Lori have developed a higher level voice recognition system for Thomas and other non-verbal children to use.  

Paul Metselaar (pmetselaar@ovationtravel.com) is the chairman and CEO of Ovation Travel Group.  He lives in NYC with his wife Lisa.  At the invitation of Dr. Bill Carroll, Paul was a guest lecturer at the Hotel school on the subject of travel distribution.  He writes, It was a fantastic experience.  Lori Rothman (lrothman@kraft.com) is a consumer research manager for Kraft Foods and lives in Oak Park, IL.  She spends her 'free' time being a mom.  Her favorite Cornell memory is getting greased for the Fiji Island Party.  She is looking to hear from Roberta Fisher.  

Famous classmate Mark Rust (markrust@markrust.com) lives in New Paltz, NY, with his wife Terry, where he continues to promote his career as a singer/songwriter and recording artist.  He and Terry have daughters Siena, 6, and Christina, 4.  He says he'd rather be sailing Cayuga Lake right now!  His fondest memories of Cornell include "first class people" and "beers at Rulloff's."  Larry Skoczylas (skocz@chartermi.net) lives in Midland, MI, with his wife Kathleen and their children Mitchel, 2, Tom, 14, and Erin, 12.  Larry is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon.  He and his wife traveled to Hawaii for their 15th wedding anniversary, and Larry would rather be sipping Mai Tais right now in Hawaii than suffering through another Michigan winter!  Jan and Brenda Angyal Harris (jan@libertyeng.net) live in Virginia Beach, VA.  Jan is a self-employed structural engineer and Brenda is the office manager.  Son Dave attends Old Dominion U., Mark is in high school, and Andrew is in elementary school.  Jan is chair-elect of the Old Dominion U. Civil and Environmental Engineering Visitors Council.  It's hard for him to imagine advising college faculty.  Brenda is taking on the Tidewater CAAAN chairmanship.  Volunteers are needed, especially in the Hampton or Newport News areas.  Jan's fondest Cornell memory is of his fraternity brothers at Rockledge, and he would love to hear from them.  

Craig Dunham, MBA '79 (cdunham@verizon.net) lives in New Jersey with his wife Joanie and two teenagers.  Craig is the president and CEO of Dynasil Corp., which manufactures optical components, and he enjoys running, tennis, and traveling.  His fond memories of Cornell include traveling for ski meets with the Cornell ski team and the social activities at Chi Phi fraternity.  Lynn Levidy Adams is a senior consultant of strategic and business planning for RW Beck, a management consulting and engineering firm.  She is based in Denver.  Kathy Stuerzebecher Johnson (KJohn750@aol.com) has her own home-based business called Healthy and Free.  She markets health and nutrition products and "teaches other people how to make a six-figure income doing the same."  Kathy sings in the church choir, paints ceramics, and likes to read.  She is also caring for her mother, Margaret W. Stewart '55, who has Parkinson's disease.  Kathy lives in Tennessee with her husband Jack, and would like to travel the US to help more people be healthy and health conscious with the addition of being financially free.  Her fondest memory of Cornell is singing in the Sage Chapel Choir.  Kathy would like to hear from classmate Mary Maxian Faulkner and Kris Anderson '76.  

Cindy Fuller, PhD '92 (cjfuller@mindspring.com) lives in Seattle and is writing and doing research in cardiology at Swedish Medical Center.  Her hobbies include "attempts at herb and vegetable gardening and curating the cookbook collection from hell."  She traveled back East and saw numerous '78 Cornellians, including Nina Silfen, Jeff and Suzanne Tougas Snedeker, and Roger Cohen.  Her fondest Cornell memory was "wide-ranging bull sessions, even without alcohol."  James Kafura (jmk92@cornell.edu) is an electrical engineer and lives in Binghamton, NY, with his wife Debra.  Janet Bilton Reyes (Highland, CA; edjanreyes@sbcglobal.net) is a part-time geographer at Aerial Information Systems.  She says that she and husband Ed spend too much time worrying about their two teenage boys.  Janet is a member of a children's writers group as well.  Her fondest Cornell memories include walking around campus, especially in the fall and on winter nights after a snowfall.  

John M. Taylor (john.taylor@issproxy.com) lives in Washington, DC, with his wife Takako Nagata.  He is a principal researcher in international governance research services for Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS).  Kathleen Raynor Meschisen (kathymeschisen@aol.com) is the R/D manager for Philips Medical.  She works with low acuity monitors.  She and husband Don make their home in Acton, MA.  Kathy likes landscaping, golfing, and real estate, and also enjoys sailing in the summer.  She has started a small property management company in Florida.  Kathy and Don have two children, Michael, 21, who attends the U.  of Delaware, and David, in fifth grade.  Kathy's favorite Cornell memories are "Straight breaks" and chocolate chip cookies with friends.  

Thanks for keeping that news coming in.  It makes writing the column a breeze for us.  -- Pepi Leids, PLeids@aol.com; and Chip Brueckman, jcb58@cornell.edu.  

SEP./OCT. 2006 VOLUME 109 NUMBER 2

78 | You can't beat fall weather in Ithaca.  As you reflect on the beautiful leaves changing colors and the Big Red football team trouncing their foes (hey, after 30 years, even the football team was good), please view the news and notes from our classmates.  

Seth Klion (SethKlion@aol.com) and wife Janet are the parents of three young female adults, ages 22, 19, and 17, and live in South Salem, NY.  Jodi '06 (ILR) graduated this past May, moved to Manhattan, and is working at Bristol-Myers.  Dana '09 (CALS) is looking forward to her next three years.  Rachel, the original CU wannabe in the family, will make her intentions known this coming fall as an early decision applicant to the CALS AEM program.  This family certainly has CU red flowing through its veins.  Many parents noted that it has been an emotion-filled year--surpassing their 50th year, first child graduating college, empty-nester status now in full view.  Time does fly.  

Michael Levine reports the big news that he and wife Joni have son Sam '09 who recently completed his freshman year in Arts and Sciences.  He had a great dorm life at the incomparable Court Hall--a lot more lux than the old Sperry Hall on West Campus where Michael was.  Sam has a regular gig on WVBR and will intern for Newsweek this summer under the tutelage of David Kaplan.  Sam is friends with some of my old buddies' kids, including Claudia Cohen '09, whose mother Cindy Green '79 and I worked for Cornell's legendary developmental psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner '38 on his groundbreaking cross-national research studies in the late 1970s at old Martha Van.  We have two other children, Zach, 15, and Sarah, 11, who attend school in New York City and New Jersey, respectively.  We are based in Teaneck, NJ, where we are close friends of Nadav and Debbie Herman Nahshon '79.  On a personal note I am now serving as VP, New Media and Director of Education for Asia Society, the NYC-based global organization focused on making education about other world regions, languages, and cultures a national priority.  Michael would be delighted to hear from old friends at mlevine@asiasoc.org.  

Roger Anderson and his family visited the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, and, quite by accident, stayed at a farm resort run by John Sovocool and his wife.  John keeps his Cornell yearbook in the resort office to show guests, and is quite proud that his daughter recently graduated from Cornell.  He ran the Boston Marathon and is planning to run the New York Marathon this fall.  John's twin brother Wayne was also a classmate.  Belinda Ward (wardkirby@aol.com), husband Frank Kirby, and their two children live in Ridgefield, CT.  Belinda currently writes for "Sesame Street" and will create and head write for "The Upside Down Show" debuting on Noggin in 2007.  Belinda has fond memories of the chocolate chip cookies at Cornell.  Given the choice, Belinda would rather write a novel.  Randy Strongin Weiss currently enjoys life in Centerport, NY.  She remembers the beautiful landscapes at Cornell and the Herbert F. Johnson museum.  Randy would like to here from Karen Cornelius.  Any news?

Stuart Cordell writes in from the rustbelt of northeastern Ohio.  He has enjoyed the same office at Warren & Young for the last 23 years, although the firm did have it redecorated five years ago.  Stuart focuses on economic redevelopment in the area.  His two children are in college.  Daughter Elise '07 will take on her senior year at Cornell, where she lives in Collegetown and enjoys Kappa Delta sorority activities, and his younger daughter will start her sophomore year at Coastal Carolina.  Stuart enjoyed a two week vacation in Spain, helped by his wife's fluency in Spanish.  He misses the constant activity across all disciplines at Cornell.  Stuart calls out for news from the Sigma Chis and comments that the new Greystone is beautiful.  

Mike Bernard (mandibernard@earthlink.net) sends us news from Albuquerque, NM.  He currently serves as a senior systems research analyst studying foreign countries' directed energy (laser) and radio-frequency weapons systems.  He plays softball with a bunch of 30-year-olds and enjoyed the Cubs and White Sox spring training.  He also spends time converting his albums to CDs and Super-8 and 8mm videos to DVDs.  In addition, Mike teaches fourth and eighth grade religious education.  If he had the time, he would play more golf and see more national parks.  We heard from Seattle, WA, where James Hoffman (enjoyingtheview@comcast.net) and his wife Sharon live.  James is president of the Hoffman Group.  His memories of Cornell include Beebe Lake, late nights at the truck, the suspension bridge, wine tasting class, and freshman year in the dorms.  

Nancy Kilmer DuBois (nkdubois@gmail.com) reports from Plano, TX, where she enjoys empty nesting with husband David.  Nancy splits working time between costume designer at the Dallas Repertoire Ballet and office manager at Academy of Dance Arts.  Nancy recalls the great friends at Cornell.  If given the option, Nancy would sit on a beach and enjoy a good book.  Susan Hartwell Bradley, MS '83 (susanbradley@comcast.net) recalls her participation in athletics as her Cornell fond memory.  She would love to play lacrosse if she were only in 1978 form.  Susan and husband Robert live in Eagan, MN.  She is a freelance writer and mom to Ross, 14, Sean, 11, and Kendall, 9.  She enjoys her family and church activities.  Susan has also written and self-published a humor book, Who Knew? The Inside Story of Being a Mom.  She keeps in touch with her close Cornell friends.  

I hope all is well with you.  Please continue to send news.  -- Chip Brueckman, jcb58@cornell.edu; or Pepi F. Leids, PLeids@aol.com.  Go Big Red!

JUL./AUG. 2006 VOLUME 109 NUMBER 1

78 | Greg Wickham (Greg.Wickham@DairyMarketingServices.com) is the CEO of Dairylea Cooperative in Syracuse, a $1.3 billion company that markets milk for over 9,000 dairy farms.  The Cooperative also provides other services to farms such as risk management, livestock marketing, health insurance, worker's compensation insurance, and supplies.  Dairylea also manages Dairy Marketing Services, a milk marketing business that handles over 50 percent of the raw milk in the Northeast.  Greg and his wife Lisa reside in Manlius, NY.  They have three children, Lindsay, an '04 Cornell graduate employed by Cazenovia College, Scott, a junior at the U.  of Buffalo, and Steve, a junior in high school.  

Paul Lahti (plahti@comcast.net) is a professor of chemistry and associate dean for facilities for the College of Natural Science and Math at UMass, Amherst.  His wife Maureen (Vickers) works in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences on assorted research duties.  They wrote that a reunion of former residents of the Holland Int'l Living Center was held in NYC last summer.  Their daughter Melanie attends Yale as a music major.  She spent part of last summer in Berlin, studying German with Yale's summer language institute.  Son James graduated from UMass with a major in computer science.  Peter Schacknow (pschack@optonline.net) has returned as a senior producer at CNBC.  He started there originally in 1989, but then moved to Bloomberg Radio as an anchor/reporter until his recent return to CNBC.  Peter lives in South Huntington on Long Island with his wife Peri (Appollo) '81.  Peri is a part-time radio anchor at WKJY on Long Island.  

Doug Porter (dporter@rmhccni.org) joined Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana as the CEO in late 2004.  Doug says the job gives him a "tremendous perspective on what is really important in the fast-paced, hectic world."  He stays in touch with classmates Mike Fleury, Tom Scott, Cal Fastuca, Steve "Axe-Man" George, Bob Shaw, and Stewart "Pid" Grote, as well as Norm Bartlett '79 and Kevin Burns '79.  Maureen Bugglin McKenna (mmckenna@mnsfld.edu) enjoys living in Endless Mountains, PA, where she is the VP for university advancement at Mansfield U.  She and her husband Zack '71 have daughter Cait '05 and son Zack, who graduated from Hartwick College.  They are always looking to see fellow Hotelies and keep an eye out for them when they travel to Florida to entertain Mansfield U.  alumni in Sarasota, Naples, and Celebration.  They also get to Cornell to see hockey and lacrosse games.  

Angela DeSilva DeRosa (zamad@houston.rr.com), her husband Mike, and son Andrew were very busy last year.  Andrew went to Europe with a school group last summer, and the whole family traveled to Oregon last summer as well.  Andrew attended snowboarding camp at Mount Hood while Angela and Mike drove around Oregon visiting fossils, lava flows, redwood forests, and beaches.  A visit with Angela's former sixth grade pen pal was also arranged in Vancouver, WA.  Last fall, the family went to Pennsylvania to visit Fallingwater and then went on to Ithaca for Homecoming at Cornell, where they saw Mary Bowler Jones and Roger Anderson (Roger's mother was there to receive the Frank H. T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Award).  Andrew is in high school now and the family managed to fit in a trip to Disney World last winter to meet up with Angela's sister Donna DeSilva '82 and her family.  They all had a wonderful time.  

Miriam May (MiriamMay@aol.com) is the executive director of the ROSE Fund.  The fund works to help victims of domestic violence regain their self-esteem through education, award, and plastic surgery programs.  Miriam is married to Shaye J. D. Cohen, a professor at Harvard.  They have four children, Shaye's daughter Ava, 27, and their three, Jonathan, 15, Ezra, 13, and Hannah, 7.  They live in Newton, MA.  Miriam encourages everyone to read about the ROSE Fund at www.rosefund.org and would be delighted to hear from classmates.

Tom Farrell (thomas.c.farrell@bankofamerica.com) lives in Newport Beach, CA, and is the Southwest regional executive for the Bank of America's Home Builder Division.  He is married to Kristy and they have three teenagers, Erin, Ainsely, and Ian.  Tom attended a Cornell vs. Long Beach basketball game last fall.  The Big Red didn't win, but Tom said the game was still fun to watch.  

Lynne Schulte DuVivier's (LDuvivier@aol.com) company, The Creative Factor, has signed an exclusive contract with Westport Country Playhouse to work on their marketing, merchandising, and branding program.  The Westport Country Playhouse, in Connecticut, is the second-oldest continually running theater company in the US and has just completed a renovation that will allow it to host performances year-round.  Tazewell Thompson has just taken over as artistic director from Joanne Woodward.  Lynne attended the Cornell Women's Networking Event that allows juniors and seniors to meet with alumni and ask questions about career directions.  Marc Perosio (Peros65@aol.com) writes that he and a group of friends from freshman year have remained close and get together at least once a year.  Lately, the Super Bowl has been the event of choice for the get-together.  The group includes Drew Bonthron, Andy Striso, Holton Falk, Mike Finnegan, Phil Bracht, and, of course, Marc.  

In 2005 Walter Milani (milanivice@msn.com) was with the company managing the Asian tours of The Sound of Music and Chicago.  He traveled to Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Australia, and Thailand.  He caught up with international hotelier and fraternity brother Larry Lee in Hong Kong.  Larry took Walter to his favorite Dim Sum place.  Lynn Adams is a senior consultant of strategic and business planning for R. W. Beck.  She is based in Denver and focuses on strategic, business and marketing planning and implementation for utility clients in the Midwest region.  

Your annual News and Dues class mailing arrived in the mail recently.  If you haven't returned it yet, please do .  .  .  and send us your news! -- Pepi Leids, PLeids@aol.com; and Chip Brueckman, chipbrueckman@yahoo.com.  

MAY/JUN.  2006 VOLUME 108 NUMBER 6

78 | Joan Leibowitz Breidbart (Twiggletoo@aol.com) and her husband David '75 are excited that daughter Emily '06 has been accepted to medical school.  Stephen Kesselman, JD '81 (skesselman@rmfpc.com) lives in Old Westbury, NY, and is senior corporate litigator at a large Long Island law firm.  He has three children between the ages of 4 and 7.  He regularly speaks with his ZBT fraternity brothers Bill Sternberg, Ron Frier, and Brian Ochs.  Roger Davis (rmd2754@yahoo.com) is a professor at Youngsan U. in Pusan, South Korea.  He is a graduate of the Indian Inst. of Yoga and is the founder of the Ikologiks Center for Global Studies.  He is the author of a book titled The Yoga Therapy Handbook.  

Doug Baumoel (dsb@pobox.com) lives in Massachusetts with his wife Victoria and children William, 2, and Emily, 3.  Doug graduated from the Wharton School of Business with an MBA in 1984 and spent 25 years working in the family business, which was sold to Siemens.  He is now a family business consultant with his own firm, Continuity Family Business Consulting, in the Boston area.  He is interested in connecting with other alumni who have experienced family business from any perspective, as he is always on the lookout for good case material and is interested in sharing stories.  Doug still plays guitar, but says that lately it has been jazz arrangements of "Old MacDonald" and "Twinkle, Twinkle!" Doug is active in the Cornell Entrepreneurial Network and he also keeps in touch with Marty Lustick, his old roommate from Donlon.  He has recently touched base with Bruce Zalaznick.  Doug is looking forward to a visit to the Cornell campus soon.  

Cornell University Summer College reports that many Class of '78 children attended this great program for high school sophomores, juniors, or seniors: Timothy '77 and Ann Kane LaBeau's daughter Kate; David '80 and Laura Day Ayers, MBA '86's daughter Kathleen; David Bilmes's son Elie; Glenn Fishman and Joanne Wallenstein's daughter Julia Fishman; Seth Klion's daughter Rachel; Daniel Sones's daughter Amy; Abby Tucker's son Simon; and Peter '76 and Susan Corbett Masters's daughter Grace.  

Cynthia Kubas Odegaard (cmk19@cornell.edu) hosted a Cornell Club of Hawaii event featuring our classmate and Cornell professor Steve Squyres, PhD '81.  Steve is currently the scientific principal investigator for the Mars Exploration Rover project and was in Hawaii as a "distinguished lecturer" at the U. of Hawaii.  Steve also reminded Cynthia that it snowed at Cornell during September our freshman year.  In November, Cynthia traveled to Naples, FL, to join classmate Linda Piccinino, MPS '83, who was maid of honor at her sister Lisa Piccinino '82's wedding to Kevin Cook '89!  Linda is planning to come to Hawaii this summer so that they can celebrate (?) their 50th birthdays together.  Bill Proscia received the George Mead Medal, United Technologies Corp.'s highest honor for individual accomplishment in engineering.  This award was presented to Bill by CEO George David for the development of the application of resonators to dampen afterburner screech in aircraft engines.  Without the use of a resonator, screech can destroy an aircraft's hardware.  George David called this technological advancement a "great, great product."  Bill was also recently promoted to Fellow at UTC's Pratt and Whitney Division in East Hartford, CT.  

Barry Berkowitz reports on an accomplished career as a real estate investor/developer with over 20 years of experience in the acquisition, financing, development, management, and leasing of commercial and residential properties in NYC.  He joined Eastern Consolidated Real Estate Investment Services in New York City, a firm with clients the world over.  Anyone who is involved in the real estate market should feel free to contact Barry at BBerkowitz@easternconsolidated.com.  Barry and wife Helene are the parents of three "children" ages 20, 18 and 16, and live in Bergen County, NJ.  Boy, does time fly when you're having fun.  

Jim Megna writes that his daughter is a freshman in the Engineering college.  Jim is impressed with the changes on the Hill.  Helen Graham Gurny's son has followed in her footsteps and is a biology major in CALS.  He hopes to be premed.  Her daughter is graduating from the S. I. Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse U.  She is interested in sports production.  Helen received her MA in art education at the College of New Rochelle in 2003 and now has her permanent certification in art in grades K-12 in New York State.  She teaches art to grades 3-5 in the Bronx, creates murals in artist-in-residence programs in Westchester, and teaches metal sculpture in schools, camps, homeless shelters, etc.  As a professional artist, she has commissions in metal sculpture and jewelry for private and public collections.  

Michael Riley (mdr14@cornell.edu) writes in with an update on the Cornell Hockey Hat Project.  Michael tied in the Vermont Originals company, founded by the late Cornell professor Wendell Earle, PhD '50, to the Cornell hockey team.  Dr.  Earle was a great Big Red hockey booster.  Sales of the Cornell Hockey Hats benefit the Big Red Hockey team and honor the memory of Dr. Earle.  Make your purchases at www.store.cornell.edu or www.vermontoriginals.com.  

Cindy Sweberg Kleiman reports that she and husband Mark are doing well in Marlboro, NJ.  Cindy works with Lockheed Martin REAC and has daughters Gillian and Rachel.  Cindy Morgan currently enjoys a variety of work.  She has a private practice as a psychologist and serves as the outreach and training coordinator at Albion College Counseling Services.  In her spare time, she performs with her husband of five years, Jim Hall, as the duo Hall & Morgan.  They specialize in acoustic Americana with contemporary touches, and they released a CD, "The Real Deal," in 2003.  The CD demonstrates the variety of musical genres (folk, blues, bluegrass, oldtime, singer-songwriter) and musical instruments (guitars, mandolin, fiddle, concertina, banjo) that Cindy and Jim enjoy, as well as showcasing their vocal harmonies.  When they're not exhausted from these activities, they enjoy working on "the never-ending project" of their 1860s farmhouse, and spending time with their family (including two grandchildren) and friends.  

Steve Potter, former fellow Cornell intramural sports guru, practices law in Cleveland as a partner in a small firm (Dinn, Hochman & Potter LLC).  His oldest son, Brandon '09, is finishing his second semester at Cornell.  Other son Justin is a high school junior.  Steve recently visited Chicago and saw several Cornellians, most from the Class of '80.  

Thanks for letting me step up and take the assignment as rookie class correspondent.  I appreciate all the email responses to my request for news and updates.  Please continue to send news to: -- Chip Brueckman, jcb58@cornell.edu; or Pepi F. Leids, PLeids@aol.com.  Go Big Red!

MAR./APR. 2006 VOLUME 108 NUMBER 5

78 | A big thanks goes to our new class correspondent, Chip Brueckman, for soliciting news from our classmates for this and future columns.  Without his help, there would not have been enough news to fill our allotted space.  And thank you to all our classmates who promptly responded to Chip's e-mail.  You should see your news in this or in future columns.  Those of you who haven't received Chip's e-mail yet can expect to hear from him in the future.  

Barbara Wooten Chamberlain (momc44@aol.com) works at DuPont in sourcing, logistics, and strategic processes.  She lives in Delaware and has children Beth, 18, who attends Cornell, and Jon, 15.

Leslie Dines Laredo (leslie@laredogroup.com) lives in Ft.  Lauderdale and founded the Laredo Group nine years ago, which focuses on Internet advertising.  The Laredo Group has trained over 10,000 media professionals from large agencies and corporations, including Kraft Foods, Coors Brewing Company, Verizon, and many others.  Risa Sheer Goldberg (RSpeedy23@aol.com) and husband Howard, MBA '79, live in Short Hills, NJ, with their three children.  She runs a Summer Program Advisory Service, so if anyone has teenagers or other camp-age children, they can contact Risa for some advice.  Howard is a research analyst with a "junk bond boutique."  Risa writes that her kids are friends with children of local Cornell alumni Janet Goldin Rubin '79, and Marc, DVM '78, and Fran Melton Levine '75.  

Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld (joelcg@MIT.edu) has just co-authored the book Valuable Disconnects in Organizational Systems, and is serving as the editor for a new annotated edition of Douglas McGregor's management classic, The Human Side of Enterprise.  This fall, he came back to the Cornell campus to teach a class in ILR 611 with David Lipsky on Dynamic Adaptive Systems, and he also delivered a faculty seminar on US Collective Bargaining in a Global, Knowledge-Driven Economy: Assessing the Capacity for Institutional Transformation.  Joel continues to serve as a senior research scientist at MIT's Sloan School of Management and in MIT's Engineering Systems Division.  He lives in Newton, MA, with wife Susan and their kids Gabe, 16, and Aaron, 13.  Pam Marrone's company AgraQuest was featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal on November 18, 2004.  AgraQuest is a biotech company that "hunts for worm-killing germs," fungi, parasites, spores, and anything else that kills crop-eaters in the wild.  Pam's company is a "biopesticide" maker that searches for innovative ways to kill crop pests without using synthetic chemicals.  It is a fairly new type of commercial enterprise, but one whose science is decades old.  After graduating from Cornell, Pam (pmarrone@agraquest.com) earned a PhD at North Carolina State U. and worked at Monsanto Co.  before starting her own company.  

Eric Kates, DVM '81 (FastestVet@aol.com) and his wife Shari Watchman-Kates '79 have three children and live in Colts Neck, NJ.  Oldest son Alex is a freshman at Cornell studying Applied Economics and Management.  Mitchell, 15, played for the USA National Maccabiah basketball team in Israel last summer, bringing home the gold medal.  Jackie, 12, also enjoys basketball and is in the seventh grade.  Winter weekends are spent skiing in Vermont.  Eric reports that he just retired his World Champion Standardbred mare, Carolina Sunshine.  Shari stays busy with her law practice and is active in local Cornell alumni affairs.  

George Corneil (george.corneil@rbc.com) has been living in Toronto since graduation.  He is married and has children Chris, 17, and Jaclyn, 14.  He recently purchased and renovated a large century-old home in the heart of Toronto.  George is employed by RBC Dominion Securities, the largest bank in Canada.  He oversees operations, sales, and marketing of the commodity futures business globally.  He is involved with both the Cornell Club of Toronto and the Cornell hockey alumni, so he sees quite a few Cornell graduates in the Toronto area.  He plays hockey once a week with fellow Cornellians Kevin Fullan and Jeff Schmalz '77.  

Margie Ferris-Morris (fma@dc.net) is married to Peter Morris, MPS '99, and has three children ages 19, 18, and 14.  She owns her own firm, Ferris-Morris Associates LLC, freelancing in areas of conflict mitigation, food security, maternal and child health, and nutrition.  She spent seven years living in developing countries.  She started her international work with the World Food Program (WFP) in Thailand, where she served as a nutrition coordinator for refugee camps along the Thai-Kampuchean border.  Since then, she has completed assignments in 15 countries with the UN, NGOs, USAID, the Peace Corps' Office of Training and Program Support (OTAPS), the American Red Cross, and private contractors.  She also served on staff with the domestic community-based nutrition surveillance program at Cornell for four years.  Margie wrote a book for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees on standards and indicators in UNHCR Operations.  There are now 5,000 copies in print in English and French.  Peter is a senior tech advisor for USAID/Office for Foreign Disaster Assistance.  

David Bilmes (dudu4tigers@snet.net) lives in Middlebury, CT, and is excited that his son Elie has been accepted early decision at Cornell for next fall.  David has attended CAU for a week the last two summers and thoroughly enjoyed it.  He and Elie are avid Big Red hockey fans and have seen several games this season.  Peter Cooperstein (peter@amicis.com) is the president of Amici's East Coast Pizzeria and hails from San Mateo, CA.  The San Francisco Chronicle wrote an article featuring Peter and his business.  He said that it was the nicest thing that was ever written about him.  Steve Friedberg (stevefriedberg@yahoo.com) writes that he and wife Kathy are now grandparents.  Their son Ben and his wife Brooke have a baby girl named Grace who was born last June.  They all live in Chicago.  

Steve Albert (smalbert@pitt.edu) (also a high school classmate of Pepi's) has joined the faculty in the Graduate School of Public Health at the U.  of Pittsburgh, where he does research on public health and aging.  He used one of the issues of Cornell's alumni magazine to illustrate the different health goals and experience of people at different ages in a book, Public Health and Aging (Springer Publishing Company, 2004).  Steve and wife Robin live in Pittsburgh with their children Eli, 17, and Charna, 14.  Tony Anzalone (aanzalone@ecwa.org) has had some difficult times, but is doing well now and is happy with life.  Tony writes that he started a retail lawn and garden store after college and ran it successfully for over 20 years.  He had a debilitating stroke in 1993 and learned to walk and talk all over again.  He sold his business in 1995 and now works for the Erie County Water Authority.  Tony has two children, Anthony, 25, a biochemist who is currently taking a break and is a caddie in West Palm Beach, and Christine, 23, who lives close by in the Buffalo suburbs.  

Charlene Moore Hayes (chayes7757@aol.com) and her husband Floyd are the proud parents of a recent graduate of North Carolina Central U., their daughter Kia.  Bill Hines (Bill_Hines@lincolnelectric.com.mx) is working in Torreon, Mexico, where he has set up a new manufacturing facility on assignment with the Lincoln Electric Co., which makes machines and accessories for the world welding market.  He and his family have had the opportunity to visit many places in Mexico, a country Bill describes as beautiful and diverse--culturally, geographically, and weather-wise.  He is located in the middle of northern Mexico, which is in the desert and gets quite hot.  The main tourist attraction is golf.  His biggest challenge has been learning a new language.  He describes the experience for him and his family as wonderful and horizon-broadening.  

Thanks to everyone who answered Chip's call for news.  Please continue to send your updates to: -- Pepi Leids, PLeids@aol.com; and Chip Brueckman, chipbrueckman@ yahoo.com.  

JAN./FEB. 2006 VOLUME 108 NUMBER 4

78 | Class of '78 participants in Cornell's Adult University (CAU) trips this past year included Mike Rach '77, DVM '82, and me traveling to Hawaii, and George and Betty Jean Staniulis Thacker enjoying a trip to Provence.  Several of our classmates attended the CAU on-campus programs this past summer.  David Bilmes took a course entitled All Hands on Deck: Navies, Naval Power, and the Flow of History.  Evan Fram immersed himself in the course with the most interesting title, Move Over, Fellini: Digital Video for Everyone.  David Levine took Meritocracy in America, Debra Hyman Rathauser participated in a sculpture course, and Jane C.  Schmieder honed her bird-watching skills in Field Ornithology.  Joan Passiatore Popolo (jepopolo@earthlink.net) enjoyed local natural wonders in the Gorgeous Gorges of the Finger Lakes course taught by Dr. Verne Rockcastle, a natural wonder in his own right.  Joan and her husband Carl live in Carlisle, MA.  Their oldest daughter, Elizabeth '08, attends the School of Human Ecology.  

Katherine Schnare Foulke (BioKate@aol.com) lives in Portland, OR, with her husband Casey Shaar and son Carson, currently a third grader.  Casey is part owner of a company that "actually manufactures a product in the United States, employing US citizens (fiber optic test equipment)."  Katherine, Casey, and Carson have a dog, Lucy, who is an enormous, yet lovable, labradoodle.  Katherine teaches biology at Jesuit High School after taking seven years off to raise her son.  She is also the chairperson of the religious education committee at the First Unitarian Church and on the board of the Hollyrood School Foundation.  In her spare time, Katherine likes to read and keep in shape.  

Christopher Lloyd Ward (wardc2002@aol.com) and his wife Julia Myer live in Philadelphia with their children Dylan, 13, and Laurensen, 12.  Dylan excels in squash, and Laurensen plays both the piano and violin.  Christopher continues to create bronze portrait busts and sculpture and won the Philadelphia Woodmere Museum Prize for sculpture.  He is also represented at the Findlay Gallery in NYC on Madison Avenue and had a show at the JMS Gallery in Philadelphia in the fall.  Christopher is working as a corporate sales consultant and is helping to launch the new Henry Jacobson men's line at Lord and Taylor.  

Stephen Pope lives in Santa Barbara and married Barbara Fields last summer.  He is currently a senior research specialist, graduate lecturer, and composer in residence at UCSB.  Peter Chatel (pchatel@na.ko.com) lives in Marietta, GA.  He is a VP of operational quality at Coca-Cola North America.  Peter has three daughters: Alison attends the U.  of Georgia, Lindsay is a senior in high school, and Sarah is in middle school.  Peter was one of four finalists for the IQPC Six Sigma Innovation Award in 2005.  James Megna (megna@telephonics.com) commutes between two residences, one in Massachusetts and one on Long Island.  He has daughters Kathryn '09, who is studying Engineering at Cornell, and Michelle, who goes to Boston College.  James is a principal engineer for Telephonics Inc.  He reports that he plays golf with Jay Prizant.  Jay's eldest daughter Jennifer attends Case Western.  

Karen Kuhn lives in Ohio, where she enjoys participating in agility with her Border collie, Piper.  She also does obedience work with her kelpie dog, Lark.  Her other dogs Casey and Torey are doing well, even at the geriatric age of 15.  Jay Carol Wilson (jmkus@yahoo.com) and her husband John Kuschner '77 live in Taipei, Taiwan.  They have one child attending Boston College; the other two are still at home and attend the Taipei American School.  

Eve Murphy Reid found her true love in Warren P. Weitman Jr., the chairman of Sotheby's North and South American operations.  They first met 25 years ago in Staten Island, and both had other spouses and family over the intervening years.  They became reacquainted within the last six years.  Their romance reads like a fairytale, as reported in the New York Times this past summer.  They got married in July and are living happily ever after!  Karl Loh and his wife Gigi live in New Jersey.  They have two young children, a daughter in kindergarten and a son in pre-school.  They are envious of their classmates whose children have already gone off to college!  Former roommate Ann Connor Ottobre received an Ohio State U. 2005 Distinguished Staff Award.  The recipients were honored at the Homecoming football game (vs.  Michigan State).  She and husband Joe have two children.  Erin, 22, attends Ohio State and is studying education, and Steven, 17, is in high school.  Steven intends to enter OSU to study engineering once he graduates.  Joe is a professor in the Dept. of Animal Science at OSU, and Ann is a research and instructional associate.  They both recently received their "20 years of service" recognition plaques from OSU.  Joe and Ann are looking forward to their 25th anniversary celebration in July 2006.  

Another former roommate, Diane Elliot and her husband Don Strenk live near Los Angeles.  Two of their children attend Cornell.  Michael '07 is a junior in Chemical Engineering, and daughter Nikki '09 is in the Hotel school.  Their son Stephen is a sophomore in high school.  Don is the West Coast VP of retail sales for British Petroleum.  Diane is the director of social work services at Irvine Regional Hospital.  They are both active in alumni activities and serve as chairs of the Central Orange County CAAAN.  I had the pleasure of enjoying dinner with Diane, Don, and their family when they came to Ithaca last August to travel with Nikki and Michael at the start of the school year.  We all enjoyed the "mini-reunion" and traded stories from the last 20 years!

Since news is running short (if you haven't yet sent in your News Form from our annual mailing, please do so), I can brag a bit.  I have a Border collie with which I compete in agility.  We earned our Master Agility Champion title this past summer.  It was very exciting and I have another dog in training now.  Please let us know what's happening in your life.  -- Pepi F. Leids, PLeids@aol.com.  

NOV./DEC. 2005 VOLUME 108 NUMBER 3

78 | Jonathan Warach still enjoys the practice of neurology, which he describes as "a fascinating specialty that embodies the full range of human experience and interfaces with the mind and soul."  He also addressed the AMA Litigation Center to discuss the peer review process as it pertains to expert witnesses in medical malpractice cases.  This is an important issue related to diminishing "junk lawsuits."  Jonathan lives in Dover, NH, with his wife Robbie.

Peter Ressler (pressler@rmgsearch.com) is president of a Wall Street executive search firm.  He co-authored a book in January of 2005 titled Spiritual Capitalism: What the FDNY Taught Wall Street about Money.  Peter was a volunteer firefighter when he lived on Long Island, but has now moved to Tewksbury, NJ.  He and his wife Monika have three children, ages 22, 20, and 9.  His daughter graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College in 2004.  

Stephen Colm, MBA '80 (sbcolm@msn.com) lives in Colorado with his wife Beverly, where he has a private practice in oral surgery.  Stephen is also the chief of dental services at the VAMC in Denver.  Stephen and Beverly adopted a second daughter, Bowen Mei Colm, from Yi Yang, Hunan, China, last year.  They were quite impressed with the Chinese hospitality and their Asian experience in general.  Stephen also notes that the brothers of Sigma Pi started a "Name that Pi-Man" e-mail last year.  There are now hundreds of brothers receiving news and participating every week.  It is great for catching up with old friends and memories.

Richard Chuchla (rchuchla@aol.com) has finished an assignment managing Exxon/Mobil's exploration program in Angola and the Congo.  Currently, he is the company's strategic planning manager and lives in Houston.  Richard is married to Elizabeth (Green) and they have three children.  Matthew is at Princeton U., Maresa '09 ("Reese") attends Cornell, and Robert is in high school.  Richard also reports that he saw Ted Snedden, MS '83, at a recent gathering and mentioned that President Rhodes was in town for an enjoyable dinner and talk.  Gary Smotrich is still a plastic surgeon in Lawrenceville, NJ.  He and his wife Susan have boys Danny, 9, and Jonathan, 6.  Gary saw Bill Maher at a party in L.A.  He also saw Alan Schulman, DVM '83, and noted that he was mentioned in Newsweek as a veterinarian doing cosmetic surgery on dogs.  They compared notes on canine vs.  non-canine cosmetic surgery.  

Kathy Landau (klandau3@aol.com) is now living in Joshua Tree, CA.  She is a manager of a nearby "Curves," has lost over 30 pounds, and is having a blast managing "a place that is dedicated to the health of women of all ages, colors, and sizes."  Kathy still writes every day between 3:00 and 6:00 a.m.; she is convinced that she has not left East Coast time.  She has been involved in the Hi-Desert Playhouse and Cultural Center, performing in one play and helping with lights in two others.  Court Williams (cdwelliot@aol.com) lives in Fairfield, CT, where he works as an executive recruiter with Elliot Associates specializing in CEOs and department officers in the restaurant chain industry.  He is also an executive coach for incoming students at the Hotel school at Cornell.  Court's wife Stacey has earned a master's degree in community counseling and is working with a State of Connecticut court-appointed substance abuse agency as a counselor.  Court and Stacey have children Peyton, 12, and Grant, 10.  Both are avid swimmers and lacrosse players.  Grant also participates in karate and is keen to earn his black belt.  The Williamses also have a second house in Vermont ski country.  

Alexandra Swiecicki Fairfield, PhD '85 (afairfield@msn.com) and her husband David Cheney live in Silver Spring, MD.  David, daughter Austin, 10, and son Alex, 13, have all earned their black belts in Tae Kwon Do.  They divide their time between Maryland and a vacation home on a lake in the Poconos.  They ski all winter and swim all summer; guests are always welcome.  Alexandra teaches microbiology part-time at a local college.  She reports that her former roommate Leslie Branch Kulick '77 has children Matthew '07 and Rachel '09 attending Cornell.  Alexandra and Margie Ferris-Morris hope to attend the reunion of the International Living Center, which she describes as a "great dorm where we made life-long friends."  Margie's husband Peter spent five weeks overseeing relief efforts in Sri Lanka and Aceh, Indonesia, after the tsunami last year.  Cindy Fuller, PhD '92 (cjfuller@mindspring.com) reports that she and Julian Vrieslander, PhD '81, have fallen into a crowd of fellow "foodies" who make regular explorations into Seattle restaurants and ethnic groceries.  They also visited Victoria and the Olympic Peninsula.  Cindy has had a chapter published in the second edition of Cardiovascular Nutrition.  She teaches part-time and does freelancing as a medical writer.  

Mark Rouleau (nassaugroup@hotmail.com), his wife Lisa, and two sons live in Derby, KS.  They found a 40-acre property with stables.  They don't have any horses yet, but they have been clearing brush and "getting poison ivy every other weekend."  Mark took his sons to Minneapolis to see their first Cornell hockey game and Mark's first in 27 years!  He said that the Cornellians that were there "took over the place cheering for the Big Red."  That game disappointingly resulted in an overtime loss for Cornell.  Mark follows Big Red sports closely and the Internet access has made it that much easier.  JuanMa Morales (sonidocosteno@msn.com) lives in Brooklyn with his wife Maria.  JuanMa's band Sonido Costeno placed third in the Billboard songwriting contest for Latin music.  

More news is always welcome! -- Pepi F. Leids, PLeids@aol.com; Diane Elliott, dje35@cornell.edu.  

SEP./OCT. 2005 VOLUME 108 NUMBER 2

78 | Robert Sues (rsues2000@yahoo.com) would love to hear from classmates.  His oldest son Jared is a freshman in Engineering at Cornell.  Robert is CEO of Applied Research Associates and has moved to Fairfax, VA, after having lived in Raleigh, NC, for 18 years.

Sharon Cerasoli (sharon.cerasoli@viahealth.org) is a social worker in the emergency and critical care department of Rochester (NY) General Hospital.  She has also been involved with a project to increase the number of organ donors.  She urges everyone to sign an organ donor card and "donate life."  Joseph Vidich (njvidichs@optonline.net) lives in Wall, NJ.  He and his wife Leslie have three children.  Joseph is a general partner in the Manalapan Oracle Advisers LLC and is a registered investment advisor.  He reports that Mark Halper '77 (markhalper@aol.com) lives in Bristol, England, with his wife and two children.  

Mike Schwartz (mschwartz@kpmg.com) and his wife Cass live in Houston, TX, with their children Mitchell, 10, and Lauren, 4.  Mike is a principal with KPMG in Houston.  Mary Gallo Tucker (mgtucker@adelphia.net) and her husband Clark, MIL '78, met while they were ILR students in 1978.  They married a year later and have two children.  Son Robert '07 is an ILRie and was an RA on West Campus; daughter Lizzie '09 is also in ILR.  Now that is a Cornell family for sure!

Diana "Sunshine" Lorenz Weggler visited her son Ryan '06 while he was studying in Rome during his semester abroad program.  She writes, "I wish I had had that opportunity as an undergraduate, but in some ways it's more fun now sharing the experience with my own child."  Her husband Robert received a master's degree in educational leadership from Vermont College.  He continues to enjoy coaching the Norwich U.  rugby teams and would love to hear from former CU ruggers at his e-mail address, rweggler@norwich.edu.  The Wegglers contacted classmate Stephen Cushman out of the blue via e-mail.  He has been an English professor at the U. of Virginia for 23 years.  Stephen and his wife Sandra (Bain) '79 have two sons, ages 14 and 18.  

Gary Graziano, BArch '79 (ggraziano@high.net), was promoted to VP of marketing for the High Concrete Group companies (www.highconcrete.com), re-elected secretary to the Altusgroup Inc. board, and elected secretary to the board of United Disabilities Services.  As if all that doesn't take up enough time, he is president-elect of the Philadelphia chapter of the Product Development and Management Association.  Gary and his wife Nancy Ann live in Lititz, PA, with their son Dan, who studies at RIT, and Liza, 13, who is in high school.  Jeanne Arnold Schwetje lives in Mattituck, NY, with her husband John.  They have a rock band and perform locally.  John teaches global studies in high school.  Their daughter Katie married an Englishman from Dublin last year.  They live in NYC where Katie attends NYU.  They did some home renovating in time for all the relatives from across the Atlantic to stay with them for the wedding.  Jeanne and John went to Anguilla last winter over the holiday break.  They are looking forward to enjoying time together in their "empty nest" and plan to go sailing and play gigs.  

Laura Howe Czekaj (lgczekaj@cs.com) reports that her daughter Claire graduated from the U. of Delaware with a BS in mathematics.  Her daughter Katie is at Rutgers, majoring in English.  Laura visited the Cornell campus with her sister Francey and husband Bill Welker '73, MBA '75, to hear their son Stephen sing with the Glee Club Hangovers.  Gary Holcomb (gholcomb07401@yahoo.com) and his wife Julie live in New Jersey and have children David, 14, and Mary, 12.  Gary has accepted a position as CEO of Coining of America LLC, a manufacturer of specialty materials for the semiconductor industry in Saddle Brook, NJ.  Pamela Savage-Roglich (roglich@sbcglobal.net) is a vice president at J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. in Chicago.  She and husband Marion Roglich, MILR '76, have two children, Madeline, 9, who plays soccer and softball, and Evan, 11, who plays basketball, baseball, and lacrosse.  

It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Helen Marts Murphy, who died of complications of cancer.  She is survived by her husband Paul and children Keith and Julia.  Helen was an IT manager for various high-tech firms in New Jersey.  She was an enthusiastic supporter of the arts and was president and board member of Luna Stage Company in Montclair throughout the 1990s.  Helen was a painter, sculptor, and amateur musician and a member of the Hoboken Renaissance Singers; she enjoyed ballet, theater, reading, and travel.  Our class mourns the loss of one of our members.  

Marguerite Blythe (Blythemd@fuse.net) lives in Cincinnati with her husband Douglas Katchen.  Marguerite, who practices psychiatry, was named the Doctor of the Year at Mercy Hospital Western Hills.  She graduated from Cornell's New York Hospital School of Nursing and went to medical school at the U. of Cincinnati.  She says that the best training for being a physician is being a nurse first.  Mary Rose Gallagher (maryrose.gallagher@mchsi.com) lives in Fairfield, IA, and is working in social services.  

Larry Skoczylas (skocz@chartermi.net), along with his partners, built a new oral and maxillofacial surgery center.  It doubled their capacity and will allow the dentists to do more types of surgery in the office than they could before.  Larry and his wife Kathleen had a son, Mitchell David, last year.  He joins siblings Tom, 12, and Erin, 10.  They reside in Midland, MI.  

Our class is looking for volunteers for class officers.  It is a great way to reconnect with old and new Cornell friends and keep in touch with what is happening on campus.  Ken Mogil's death left us without a permanent class president.  This sounds like a daunting task, but it is in fact very manageable.  We are also looking for a new webmaster.  That position gets good support from the Alumni Affairs office and assistance is always available.  

We'd like to thank Eileen Brill Wagner for her years of dedicated service as a class correspondent.  She has resigned from that position, which leaves just one of us to write the column.  Please let me know if you are interested in the job of co-class correspondent.  Diane Elliott has volunteered to help gather information from e-mails and forward it.  You can contact me at the e-mail address below, or Tina Gourley in Class and Reunion Programs at Alumni House (e-mail, tlg5@cornell.edu).  Thanks for considering the opportunity to serve your class, have some fun, and reconnect with Cornell.  -- Pepi F. Leids, PLeids@aol.com; Diane Elliott, dje35@cornell.edu.  

JUL./AUG. 2005 VOLUME 108 NUMBER 1

Cindy Fuller, PhD '92, makes her home in Seattle, WA.  She is teaching nutrition at Seattle Central Community College and has also taught at North Seattle Community College.  Cindy is doing some freelance writing and editing assignments as well.  She, Julian Vrieslander, PhD '81, and the two cats are comfortable and enjoy the culture of the area.  They have season tickets to the symphony and are members of the art museum.  Cindy and Julian have traveled throughout the Northwest, with stops at the Olympic Peninsula, Victoria, BC, Mt.  Rainier, and Mt. Baker.  They spend the Christmas holidays in Florida.  John DePolo has joined RTI Int'l, the nation's third largest independent research and development organization, as director of recruitment services.  He is responsible for leading its recruitment team and guiding strategic planning aimed at expanding its workforce.  He has more than 25 years experience in the human resources field.  

David Bilmes and his son Elie, currently a high school junior, spent time at Cornell last summer.  David took a Shakespeare class with Bruce Leavitt, and Elie spent three weeks in the high school student program.  He lived on West Campus and took a Government course taught by Isaac Kramnick.  They are looking forward to returning to Cornell's Adult University (CAU) on campus again this year.  Sarah Beran Steinberg, ME '79, and husband Robert (Rockville, MD) have lots of education news to report.  Their son Aaron is at Yeshiva U., where he was the junior class president and an English major.  Daughter Lauren will be attending Cornell in the Engineering college.  Sarah graduated from the U.  of Pennsylvania with a PhD in higher education management.  She is an associate dean at Johns Hopkins U., and Bob is the director of benefits at Aspen Systems Corp.  

There were several other classmates who took advantage of the offerings of CAU on the Cornell campus last summer.  David and Janice Levine took a course on Islamic Law.  Laurie Letvak, MD '82, took The Wine Class, and her companion Barry Shoot attended Too Close To Call: Eight Great American Presidential Elections.  Barbara George Lewis participated in The Eclectic Ethnic: A Culinary Workshop.  CAU on campus is a popular program.  Other participants included Joan Passiatore Popolo, who took a course called Designing, Building, and Selling the American Home, and Debra Hyman Rathauser, who took Sculpture Studio: Interpreting the Human Figure.  Vivian Tom Bennette also took the sculpture class with Cliffith Bennette.  Marie Sciortino Venezia, a former fellow Mary Donlon resident took up fly-fishing.  How many fish have you caught, Marie?

Patricia Stone Ortenberg (Menlo Park, CA; cortenberg@aol.com) and her husband Charles '77 have two children, David, who attends Cornell, and Richard, 14.  Patricia has a business called Stone-Quarre and deals with medical claims management.  She keeps in touch with many friends and is going to Napa for a girls' break with Renee Brown Holt '77.  Lori Rothman (Glenview, IL; rothknick@comcast.net) works for Kraft Foods as a research principal.  She is married to Mark Knickelbein.  Randy Strongin Weiss lives in Centerport, NY, with her husband Cory and three daughters, ages 10, 14 and 16.  Holly Rosenthal Bernstein (hollyforbrandes@aol.com) and her husband Howard live in Blauvelt, NY, with their children Bradley, 14, and Joelle, 11.  Holly has recently developed, patented, and launched a new natural sleep product that can be taken anytime, even in the middle of the night.  Look for www.midnitesleep.com or ask for it in drugstores.  

Laura Day Ayers, MBA '86 (lauraa876@aol.com) and her husband David '80 live in Chester, NJ.  Their daughter Kathleen is in high school and very involved with soccer and golf, along with a variety of other school activities.  She will attend the summer college at Cornell this year.  Laura has been volunteering with CAAAN for several years.  She reports that the high school seniors she meets are "truly amazing intelligent, creative, talented, and athletic."  She's glad she's not the one applying to Cornell today!  Laura traveled to Boston last year and had dinner with Kathy Morris Duggan.  She also saw Nancy Brass '80 and Nancy Twombly '80 on the same trip.  Nancy Kilmer DuBois (nkdubois@yahoo.com) lives in Plano, TX, with husband David.  Their son Chris graduated from Boston U.  in film production and is currently working for 20th Century Fox TV on an upcoming series, "The Inside."  Their daughter Elizabeth is a marketing major at Texas Christian U.  and is a member of the Delta Gamma sorority.  Daughter Julie is dancing with the Orlando Ballet.  Nancy works part time at a local dance studio.  She handles all the costuming needs as well as costuming needs for Texas Christian.  

Robert Trisciuzzi (trisciu@aol.com) lives in Brooklyn with his children Liana, 16, and Edmund, 13.  Robert's wife Patricia succumbed to cancer three years ago.  He is a VP of structured trade finance at Anz Investment Bank and involved with the dynamic trade and investment ties developing between Brazil and Chile with China and Southeast Asia.

Fraj Lazreg (FLazreg@hotmail.com) lives in New City, NY, with wife Donna.  They have two children.  Chad has a master's degree in education, and Sonia is studying in Argentina and will graduate from NYU in 2006.  Fraj's money management business is growing and will expand to states other than New York, Georgia, and Michigan.  He reports that classmate Moncef Braham manages a textile operation in Tunisia.  Gloria Fusillo (gfusillo@aol.com) still runs her own company in metro New York producing video for internal corporate communications, as well as an occasional segment for broadcast news.  Gloria went on a rafting trip in the Grand Canyon with her 14-year-old son James.  She highly recommends it as a break from the everyday mother/teenager communication dynamic of "nag and grant."  The most gratifying moment of the trip came when James commented, "Mom, every day is like a postcard."  

Mike Bernard became disenchanted and stopped teaching after four years.  He is now working for the Air Force Research Laboratory as a senior systems research analyst.  Gail Nickse (gail.nickse@verizon.net) has been married for ten years to Fred Griffeth.  They are both professional vocalists and they perform in one of Boston's premier dance bands, Blue Heaven.  Gail has been in the financial services industry as a financial writer.  She is now a certified financial planner and would like to have her own practice offering financial planning services for lifetime wealth management.  

Please send your latest updates to me so I can include them in future columns.  -- Pepi F. Leids, PLeids@aol.com.  

MAY/JUN.  2005 VOLUME 107 NUMBER 6

Do you realize that it's been almost 27 years since graduation and there are some of you out there who've been reading this column, year after year, giving us nary a clue as to what you've been up to? To say we're curious is an understatement, so please drop us a line.  

In his first update since graduation, Gerard Badorrek (gbadorrek@cox.net) writes that he is currently VP of business operations at MCI and living in Northern Virginia outside of Washington, DC.  He and his wife Barbara have three boys named Tyler, Trevor, and Brian.  Since graduating from Cornell, he has received an MA in economics from Case Western Reserve U.  and an MBA from Stanford.  After stints in manufacturing and consulting, he moved to MCI and has been there for 20 years, including the Worldcom days.  Gerard says he's become an avid golfer.  He sees Mike Bernard and occasionally keeps in touch with Mike Kupin, Charlie Tall, Harry Rudolph, and Rich Kremheller.  

Allison '08, the oldest daughter of David and June Drake Hayford (juniedrake@aol.com) is a freshman at Cornell.  She is the fourth generation in the family to attend Cornell, following June, Peggy Ann Jack Drake '49, and Andrew Jack '19.  The Hayfords live in Alpharetta, GA, near Atlanta, with their three other children.  Judith LeVie Mishkin, wife of the forgetful Nathaniel (who reported everyone's news but that of his wife of 26 years in the last column), says that she took her husband's failure to supply any news about her in stride and is doing well.  She's on the board of the Northern Ballet Theatre dance company.  

Sarah Beran Steinberg, ME '79, has been named associate dean of Advanced Academic Programs at the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Science at Johns Hopkins U.  She had worked for more than a decade for the Whiting School of Engineering there.  Before coming to Johns Hopkins in 1993, she worked as a marketing manager and senior engineer at Froehling and Robertson Inc. in Sterling, VA.  Sherri Miller Edelman, who lives in Reisterstown, MD, is an employee benefits attorney with Ober Kaler Attorneys at Law in Baltimore.  She is a member of the California and Maryland State Bars.  

Brian Murdock has been appointed to the Executive Management Committee of New York Life Insurance Co., the largest mutual life insurance company in the US.  This committee, composed of New York Life's senior executives, directs the policies and procedures for the company.  Brian is president of New York Life Investment Management LLC, the company's investment subsidiary, and oversees a variety of business and business support units.  Prior to joining New York Life, Brian worked for Merrill Lynch for 25 years and held a number of senior positions that spanned the US, Europe, and Asia/Pacific regions.  He lives in Princeton, NJ, with his wife and four children.  

"Reunions, large or small, reinforce the fact that friendships formed decades ago are Cornell's true gift that keeps on giving," says Rae Nelson (Raennc@aol.com).  She sent a follow-up e-mail after our mini-reunion in Cleveland late last fall at the home of her roommate and my other U-Hall 2 neighbor Alexandra "Sandy" Buchanan (sbuchanan@ohiocitizen.org).  Personally, I think the sentimental quote is just an excuse for not having attended any of our past five class reunions in Ithaca.  But however brief the visit, getting together with such dear friends was well worth the wait for me.  Rae is co-author (with husband Karl Haigler) of The Gap-Year Advantage: How Your Child Can Benefit From Time Off Before or During College (St. Martin's Press, August 2005), which may be of interest to Cornell parents whose high schoolers or college-aged kids want to explore the world before a post-secondary commitment and/or just may not be ready to take full advantage of all that college life has to offer.  Sandy is the executive director of Ohio Citizen Action, Ohio's largest environmental organization, where she's worked since graduating from Cornell.  Her husband Bill Whitney is Cleveland director of the Enterprise Foundation, and their sons are 16 and 13.  

Want to combine your love of travel with your enjoyment of all things Cornell? For those looking for some stimulating trips with wonderful people, consider going on one of the Cornell Adult University (CAU) Off-Campus Study Tours.  Last year Catherine Anne Murray and Jeffrey and Suzanne Tougas Snedeker studied the wildlife and natural habitats of Iceland; Robert Marrazzo visited Rome to take a closer look at Life and Power in Imperial Rome; Terry Seewald Klein and Randi Lebar traveled to Costa Rica on a expedition designed for families; and Kathleen Clark, DVM '78, attended a weekend seminar on ornithology and ecology at Assateague Island, VA.  

So .  .  .  if you've made it to the end of this column, we can only assume that you care about our class and its goings-on.  We're also hoping that at least of few of you, still energized from our 25th Reunion, are looking for ways to get more involved.  Right now we're looking for a new class president, a webmaster, and one or two class correspondents.  As an added bonus to these inherently satisfying jobs, volunteers will be able to attend the New Officer Training, a new initiative sponsored by the Cornell Association of Class Officers (CACO), which will be held in Ithaca in the early fall.  Let us know if you're interested! -- Eileen Brill Wagner, brillcon@cox.net; Pepi F. Leids, pleids@aol.com.  

MAR./APR. 2005 VOLUME 107 NUMBER 5

78 | Send news to -- Eileen Brill Wagner, brillcon@cox.net; and Pepi F. Leids, PLeids@aol.com.  Class website, http://classof78.alumni.cornell.edu.  

JAN./FEB. 2005 VOLUME 107 NUMBER 4

78 | Jim Stewart (jk.stewart@comcast.net) and his wife Kate (Gavin) live in Andover, MA.  Their daughter Amy attends Cornell (Arts and Sciences), and Jim and Kate look forward to visiting Ithaca often.  They have two other children:Michael in high school and Colleen in middle school.  Mike Bernard has a second grandson.  Mike is listed in Who's Who of American Teachers.  He teaches chemistry and, ironically, recalls having nearly blown up a room during a Chem 207 lab at Cornell!

Meg Mitchell Weingart (mam62@cornell.edu) lives in Cleveland, OH, and just adopted a second child from eastern Siberia.  Robert Weggler (rweggler@norwich.edu) lives in Northfield, VT, with his wife Sunshine (Lorenz).  Their daughter Rose, 18, attends the U.  of Vermont, and son Ryan '06, 22, transferred to Cornell's AAP college to major in City and Regional Planning.  Robert received his MEd from Vermont College in July.  He took the Norwich men's rugby team to the USA Rugby's National Sweet 16 Tournament in Colorado, but lost to Brigham Young U.  They did beat Texas A&M, however.  Their good friend and classmate Debbie Downes-Stoj, MD '82, had a baby, Stefanie, in January.  

Michael Banks (mbanks@morganlewis.com) writes that he and his wife Lori (Freimark) '79 were on vacation kayaking in Seward, AL, where they met fellow Cornellians Jason Halio '93 and Josh Richter '94.  He notes, "We're pleased to report that on the long paddle back to the dock at the end of our 14 miles of kayaking and four miles of hiking, the much younger duo was only trailing the considerably older, married folks by a hundred yards or so."  Glenn and Joanne Wallenstein Fishman's son Robert entered Cornell's School of Arts and Sciences this fall.  They were hoping to see many of their classmates and their children at Orientation.  Glen is now chief of cardiology at NYU School of Medicine, and Joanne (jwallens@optonline.net) is director of marketing at PalTalk (www.PalTalk.com), an instant messaging and group chat program, including audio and video.  They live in Scarsdale, NY.  

Stephanie Mitchell, JD '80 (sjm46@cornell.edu), who lives in Brussels, Belgium, passed a competition to become a "fonctionnaire" for the European Commission, where she has begun working on automobile industry policy and cooperation.  She is passing her "spare" time learning Dutch and flamenco and re-learning French and German.  Stephanie finally met up with Paul Rohrlich, who is now at the US Embassy in Belgium--"only 28 years after losing touch when I spent my junior year abroad!"

Mark Pinnie (mpinnie@bmplaw.net) had the chance to get together with fellow fraternity brothers Tom Groos and Steve Follett in King of Prussia, PA.  He said they "both look fantastic," but it was undecided who would win in a tennis singles grudge match.  Stay tuned for updates!  Diane Root Naar (Root1956@aol.com) lives in Palo Alto, CA, with husband Mike and three boys, ages 11, 15, and 18.  Through a series of corporate acquisitions, Nathaniel Mishkin (mishkin@aya.yale.edu) went from working at a 30-person startup 11 years ago to a 300,000-person, not-so-startup (IBM).  He was named an IBM "Distinguished Engineer" this year.  His daughter Libby, 16, spent the month of July learning Italian in Italy, and his son Geoff, 19, started at Boston U.  this summer, planning to major in computer science, like his dad.  

As for me, I finally made the jump from the corporate world, as a business journalist, to the nonprofit world, working as program director for a wonderful Phoenix based organization called Valley Leadership.  Through both teen and adult programs, we educate residents about community issues, engage in dialogue about possible solutions, and instill in them a passion to serve their communities.  Our oldest, Leah, 19, is a sophomore at Oberlin in Ohio, and we're still trying to figure out how to handle upcoming tuition bills for younger siblings Briana, 16, and Simone, 13.  I'm sure many of you are facing similar predicaments.  

This is the quarterly plea for you to send in any and all news about you, your families, and your Cornell friends since what was once a healthy stream of News and Dues forms has slowed to a mere trickle.  Remember, no news is bad news from this perspective.  -- Eileen Brill Wagner, brillcon@cox.net; and Pepi F. Leids, pleids@aol.com.  

NOV./DEC. 2004 VOLUME 107 NUMBER 3

78 | Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld traveled to Australia this past summer with his family to work with the U.  of Sydney around the teaching of negotiations.  Joel is going there under a Fulbright grant.  Jeff Kottmyer (jeffkottmyer@yahoo.com) and his wife Alice live in Laurel, MD.  Steve Cohen (steve@cbgourmet.com) has been appointed CEO of Chesapeake Bay Gourmet, a manufacturer of specialty seafood items and the number one food vendor on the QVC.  Their award-winning crab cakes and lobster cakes can be ordered direct at www.cbgourmet.com.  Steve and his wife Dana live in Skillman, NJ.

Amyas Naegele (Amyas.Naegele@verizon.net) lives in NYC with his wife Eve Glasberg and daughters Saskia, 9, and Tamzen, 5.  Eve is a freelance travel editor and writer.  Their travels have taken them to Spain, France, Canada, the UK, Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, and Denali and Wrangel St.  Elias in Alaska.  A safari in Western Kenya is the next scheduled destination.  Amyas runs Amyas Naegele Fine Art Bases in NYC.  It is a gallery devoted to traditional African art.  He also designs and fabricates custom mounts for art and objects of all sorts.  

Elaine Zajac Jackson and her husband Scott '77 live in Wilmington, DE (Jacksix1@comcast.net).  Both of their children attend Cornell.  Meredith '08 is in the Engineering college, and Aaron '06 is in Materials Science.  Elaine is still teaching technology in K-8th grade and is involved with coaching the Science Olympiad at the elementary, junior high, and high school levels.  She also does the Junior Solar Spirit and Stock Market Game with her students.

Stuart Cordell and his wife Kimberly live in Painesville, OH (scordell@warrenyoung.com).  Their daughter Elise '07 attends Cornell and is in Kappa Delta sorority.  Stuart is serving as president of the Ohio State Bar Foundation, a public charity.  Their website can be found at www.osbf.net for anyone interested in more information.  Stuart enjoys doing nonprofit work and is also the president of the Civic Development Corporation of Ashtabula County, which raises money for capital projects.  

Amy Grossman Applegate lives in Bloomington, IN, with her husband John (aga@indiana.edu).  Amy and John both teach at the Indiana School of Law.  John is the associate dean of the law school and teaches environmental law.  Amy is a clinical law professor and teaches child advocacy and mediation.  Their son Jesse attends Haverford College.  Their son Jamey, 15, is in high school, and their daughter Gillian, 9, is in elementary school.  Amy keeps busy with her children, their education, music and sports activities, work, and their congregation.  Alexandra "Sasha" Swiecicki Fairfield, PhD '85, and her husband David Cheney live in Silver Spring, MD (afairfield@msn.com).  Their two children have blackbelts in Tae Kwon Do.  David has done four annual swims across the Chesapeake Bay--a watery 4.4 miles in 65-degree water.  Sasha has retired from the National Institutes of Health and now teaches microbiology at a local college.  She says, "Teaching is such a blast after years of government bureaucracy."  Sasha stays in touch with classmate Margie Ferris-Morris.  Sasha and