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Please take a moment to submit an online news form<\/a> or send us an email<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back to the top<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n With no news on hand from classmates, my search for column fodder quite strangely took my aging, fading mind to life on the Hill, now some 75 years gone by. I somehow focused in on campus humor, and whether other college campuses had, as did we, campus pranksters, jokesters, clowns, and subtle humorists. I doubt that any other college at that time had a superb humor magazine the equal of the Cornell Widow, <\/em>which had the very best of talented jokesters, humorists, and illustrators. Despite its motto, \u201cMen may come and men may go, but I go on forever,\u201d it died in 1962 after a fine lifetime of 67 years (1895\u20131962).<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m quite sure the title of campus humorist and prankster (but not jokester) was well-earned by William Verne Joy<\/strong>, my freshman-year roommate and junior-year neighbor in Baker Tower. Will was a scion of the Perrine family of Centralia, IL. He had been given the surname Joy in order to carry on the family name of his mother. Will married and had one son, Thomas, which preserved the surname, but I have no knowledge of him. Will had one older brother, Alden Joy Perrine \u201947<\/strong>. Alden\u2019s personality was more reserved than Will\u2019s, and while on campus they had only infrequent associations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After army service in Korea, and after a few years on newspapers in Rockford and Springfield, IL, Will returned to Centralia and until his untimely death in 1988 at age 60 served as fourth-generation editor and publisher of the Centralia Sentinel,<\/em> the town\u2019s 120-year-old newspaper. Will had a love of traditional music and a fascination with carillons, and spent much free time in the campus bell tower with Cornell\u2019s chimesmasters. Out of love for Centralia, he sponsored and primarily financed a 65-bell carillon, the eighth largest in the world, and also endowed the services of a carillonneur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When conversing on intellectual topics, especially historical, Will\u2019s personality was attractive and energetic, but it was socially insufficient for fraternity affiliation. He believed that an educated person\u2019s concept of humor should be intellectual and cultured, and should go beyond puns, gags, quips, and guffaws. Thus, in three issues of the \u201949\u201350 edition of the Widow<\/em>, he related a story of the famous early 20th-century film actress Pearl White. Will\u2019s story included the making of silent film episodes of Pearl filmed in Ithaca near the present-day airport. (At that time, Ithaca was the country\u2019s silent film capital.) Best known were the film series titled The Perils of Pauline<\/em>, in which the heroine faced physical perils of all sorts and then miraculously escaped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m quite sure the title of campus humorist and prankster (but not jokester) was well-earned by William Verne Joy \u201950<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n In the spring of \u201949, Will became associate editor of the Widow<\/em> to serve with editor-in-chief and gifted writer Al Brown<\/strong>. Shortly later, Will was placed on probation for an egregious prank involving the launch of a cherry bomb up the staircase of Baker Tower with damage to the fourth-floor dormitory doors. Probation prohibited participation in extracurricular activities. No problem. As the fall semester of our senior year began, Will continued his duties as an associate editor of the Widow<\/em> under the pseudonym Pearl White!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Will\u2019s reputation as campus prankster and Widow<\/em> humorist energized John Griswold<\/strong> and me to sponsor a \u201cCaper Convocation\u201d at our 60th Reunion. The event featured readings of some of Will\u2019s writings, reports of some of his capers, film episodes of The Perils of Pauline<\/em>, and a summary of his editorship of the Centralia Sentinel<\/em>. Recordings of the Centralia carillon were also played.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A 36-page booklet for the event was sponsored by Will\u2019s brother Verne. In it, Will was introduced as \u201cBishop Claudius Gamaliel, DSM, distinguished member of the Cornell Class of the Century, 1950 AD, who for many years served with distinction the Southern Egyptian (Illinois) Diocese of the Honored, Evangelical, and Reformed Church of the Human Condition, and who achieved well-deserved international reputation for bringing about peace between Man and Mankind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The booklet also included Will\u2019s presumably self-written obituary, excerpted here: \u201cThe Bishopric of Southern Illinois was stunned by the death of Bishop Claudius Gamaliel, DSM, of the Evangelical & Reformed Episcopal Church. He was known kindly among his parish as the \u2018Bestial Bishop\u2019 because of his love of animals. During his last mass, with the temperature 27 degrees above zero, and just as the bishop was emptying the holy water in the piscina, four misericords fell upon him. He was taken to the Veteran\u2019s Hospital and, of course, did not live long. His last words were: \u2018La nuit tous les chats sont gris.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Correspondent\u2019s Notes: 1) His last words mean \u201cThis night all the cats are gray.\u201d 2) At your request, I\u2019ll happily and forthrightly send you Will\u2019s three Pearl White stories that appeared in the Widow<\/em>, as well as reports of the campus pranks perpetrated by Will, Rodger Gibson<\/strong>, Ralph<\/strong> \u201cCooly\u201d Williams<\/strong>, MD \u201954, John Griswold, and others. \u2756 Paul Joslin <\/strong>(email Paul<\/a>), 13731 Hickman Rd., #4207, Urbandale, IA 50323; tel., 515-278-0960. Alumni Directory<\/a>. Share your news here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m alive and in decent health,\u201d reports Edward Ryder<\/strong>. He shares that his daughter designs websites, and he adds, \u201cSince retirement in 2003, I have published two novels. I am now writing a nonfiction book on the deplorable state of our world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Patty Steele Wilson<\/strong> is still managing the six rentals in her office plaza. She gets great satisfaction from reading, plus frequent get-togethers with six children, 13 grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marian Fox Wexler<\/strong> never imagined living to 92! She\u2019s at an assisted living facility, one she calls \u201ca wonderful place\u201d where there are lectures, socializing, movies, clubs, and athletics. \u201cMy friendships here and my family bring me the most satisfaction,\u201d she writes. \u201cI have two great-grandsons\u2014one is 2 and the other is 4.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jack<\/strong> and Betty Meng Howell<\/strong> share, \u201cOur four adult children are good about visiting. We Zoom frequently. Jack appreciates large-print books, and Betty maintains the herb garden used by the kitchen where we live. We are still playing duplicate bridge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Calvin Gage<\/strong> reports that he\u2019s still \u201cof sound mind and reasonably good health at age 93\u201d\u2014and he\u2019ll soon celebrate his 64th wedding anniversary with wife Marge! When asked what he\u2019s doing in retirement, Calvin responded, \u201cI\u2019m mostly aging gracefully in place.\u201d \u2756 Class of 1951<\/strong>, (email c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/a>). Alumni Directory<\/a>. Share your news here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First, a note from Tom Cashel<\/strong>, LLB \u201956, our new class president: \u201cThe record-breaking Class of 1952 held its 70th Reunion last June. Cappy Heyl Innes<\/strong> and I were Reunion co-chairs. We were given fine weather, a well-groomed campus, and a vast number of enthusiastic alumni from all Reunion classes savoring an in-person Reunion again after a two-year hiatus. We set our goal from the beginning to break the all-time record for attendance at a 70th Reunion\u2014and, with the help of volunteer Rik Clark<\/strong> assembling 25 classmates, we did it! We also achieved new records in alumni giving for a 70th in total donors and Tower Club members. Post-Reunion comments favorably judged our Statler venue, fine meals, and class event with Corey Earle \u201907<\/strong> and Evan Earle \u201902<\/strong>, MS \u201914, recounting the marked differences we experienced in 1948\u201352 from the Cornell of today. We greeted old friends, sang our Cornell songs as best we could, and, with nostalgia evident, left for home looking ahead. Having been elected class president at Reunion, I will try going forward to keep as many of you as choose to do so engaged with Cornell.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n And now for the news, almost all of which came in during May. Rik Clark (Osterville, MA) never imagined \u201ccoordinating all these appointments with doctors and health vendors.\u201d He also never imagined buying a new RAV4 hybrid plug-in at age 91. He has no gainful employment and is doing much less volunteering. \u201cAfter enjoying five-plus acres and a 1,000-ft. driveway for 35 years, we moved two years ago to a convenient condominium unit in our village with no landscaping to do.\u201d What brings him the most satisfaction is \u201cwaking up in the morning with a decent quality of life, enjoying life with my wife, Sandy, and possibly shooting my age, again, in golf.\u201d Rik does have a new hobby: \u201cCreating and mailing cardboard postcards using the New Yorker <\/em>and other cartoons.\u201d Jack Brennan<\/strong> (Schenectady, NY) never imagined visiting four great-grandkiddies in Maine and Colorado. He has been keeping house and still rooting for the Mets and the Jets, and of course the Big Red. What else has been happening? \u201cSharing time with a 92-year-old widow and family.\u201d New hobbies? \u201cCooking, shopping, laundry, and vacuuming.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rik Clark \u201952<\/strong> never imagined buying a new RAV4 hybrid plug-in at age 91.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Don Follett<\/strong> (Bethlehem, PA) writes, \u201cI am focusing on serious charitable gifts directed at financing organizations that focus on \u2018helping people help themselves to live up to their God-given potential\u2019\u2014believing in education at all levels of Maslow\u2019s hierarchy of needs. Mibs (Martin) \u201951<\/strong> died in October 2021 after several years of increasing Alzheimer\u2019s. I was her caregiver for more than two years. She was only confined out of the house for one month before she died.\u201d Don\u2019s most satisfaction comes from \u201cworking with organizations that receive my philanthropy. To paraphrase Voltaire, \u2018Life without purpose or death\u2014what\u2019s the difference?\u2019\u201d Carol Singer Greenhaus<\/strong> (Rye, NY) shares that her husband, Ed \u201950<\/strong>, died on December 6, 2021. She is unimaginably \u201clearning to live without him. Moving to an independent retirement community two and a half years ago has helped immeasurably!\u201d For work or retirement, Carol is doing \u201canything I want (almost). The \u2018happenings\u2019 of eight great-grandchildren has been a fantastic joy.\u201d What brings her the most satisfaction? \u201cKnowing I can walk, talk, and think sensibly!\u201d Carol reports no new hobbies: \u201cI\u2019m just spending more time with the old ones\u2014beading and doing puzzles.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Patricia Stitt Truell<\/strong> lives in Williamsville, NY. Ina Perlstein Loewenberg <\/strong>(Iowa City, IA) is \u201cmoving from Iowa City, where I have lived for 53 years, to be nearer to family and to meet new people. A new start at 91!\u201d Ina enjoys reading, especially poetry\u2014and preferably with others. She\u2019s also \u201cengaged with social issues, supporting my activist children.\u201d What else? \u201cI am more limited physically, but thankfully still alert.\u201d Contact brings her the most satisfaction, \u201cvirtual or in person\u2014with others, family and friends, old and new.\u201d New hobbies? \u201cNavigating with a walker\u2014ha ha.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Charles Soumas <\/strong>(Cotuit, MA) says he never imagined he would be writing short stories. \u201cMy first book, Please Don\u2019t Let the Last Boat Leave<\/em>, was just published. It contains 14 short stories, some fictional, some true, and some in between. My second book, Warriors with Fire in Their Bellies<\/em>, is on the way.\u201d Charles adds, \u201c74 years later, I just hooked up again with my former shipmate who I hitchhiked with from San Diego to Jersey City when we were discharged from the Navy in 1948.\u201d What brings him the most satisfaction? \u201cMy wife of 58 years, my family, and my friends, who by sharing their lives with me continue to bring joy and meaning to my life. At 93, who could want more?\u201d Patricia Dexter<\/strong> Clark<\/strong> (Concord, MA) writes, \u201cI live in a big home of more than 300 people. It\u2019s independent living\u2014we get one meal per day, dinner in the evening. There are lots of activities here.\u201d Pat knits scarves for children aged 6 to 18 who are wards of the state in Massachusetts. “There are more than 1,000 of them, probably more since COVID.\u201d She has great-grandkids, \u201cone boy and one girl, and another expected. I have three children, who have eight children, who have two and a half children.\u201d Pat adds, \u201cI can\u2019t get around very well with a bad ankle that is affecting my whole body.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n More news next time. For now, a surprise\u2014something print can\u2019t do. Christie Innes \u201983<\/strong>, a third-generation Cornellian, was at our 70th Reunion with her mother, Cappy Innes. Christie came with her camera and took photos of our attendant classmates. You might not be able to identify anyone, but they look healthy, happy, and as though they are having a good time. By clicking this link<\/a>, you can see those photos! \u2756 Joan Boffa<\/strong> Gaul<\/strong> (email Joan<\/a>). Alumni Directory<\/a>. Share your news here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m writing this on a hot, humid August day in Atlanta, but you\u2019ll get it in November, when I hope the weather is more comfortable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Julian Aroesty<\/strong> has moved to Scituate, MA, to be closer to his grandchildren. His seven grandkids are doing well, including one who received a Fulbright and spent a year in Macedonia near the town where his ancestors lived for 441 years. He remains active in the teaching program at the hospital, writes for the electronic textbook UpToDate, and does second-opinion consultation throughout the world via the program Teladoc International. He had COVID in 2021, which severely distorted his taste and caused him to lose 20 pounds. He is gradually increasing his muscle by cycling daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n William Bellamy<\/strong>, MBA \u201958, JD \u201959, reports that his wife, Nancy, passed away on November 15, 2020. They were married in 1998 and lived in Ithaca, where they both were involved in Cornell activities and travel events. Patricia Keller Button <\/strong>reports that her husband, Warren<\/strong>, died on April 15, 2022. She has spent much of her time attending the weddings of her 17 grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vinnie Giarrusso <\/strong>reported that he threw out the first pitch at the 150th anniversary of Cornell baseball on April 29, 2022. Vinnie won Cornell letters for three years in baseball and two years in football. I\u2019m sure his pitch made it to the catcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vinnie Giarrusso \u201953<\/strong> threw out the first pitch at the 150th anniversary of Cornell baseball on April 29, 2022.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Irene Selmer Griffith<\/strong>, BA \u201952, lost her husband and daughter-in-law this year. Seven children, 16 grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren attended her 90th birthday in March. She works in the church, planning funerals and helping with grief, where she is able to use her social work training (MSW from California State University, Long Beach) to help others. She also has been presenting short inspirations for the Torrance (CA) Commission on Aging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n John Nixon<\/strong> had stem cell therapy to help repair torn tendons in his ankle. Unfortunately, it didn\u2019t work and now he\u2019s beginning to learn how to play croquet, since he can\u2019t play golf with his bad ankle. He still has Zoom meetings every Friday with members of the Cayuga\u2019s Waiters of the \u201950s and \u201960s. Attendees include Jack Brophy<\/strong>, Al Packer<\/strong>, Dave Schmidt \u201955<\/strong>, Don Morgan \u201962<\/strong>, MD \u201972, Fred Bergmann \u201963<\/strong>, Bin Pettit \u201955<\/strong>, Jim Larrimore \u201956<\/strong>, Charlie Wolf <\/strong>\u201955<\/strong>, and Barney Hodges \u201957<\/strong>. They don\u2019t sing, but they have a good time reminiscing and talking about what they\u2019re doing now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alan Perlmutter<\/strong> is still active in the family business, Big Sur River Inn, and works with community nonprofits to keep Big Sur safe, sound, and a national treasure. His five children are thriving in San Diego, Wellfleet, MA, Amherst, MA, and San Francisco, where son Ben \u201912<\/strong> is still singing with Hangovers songsters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bertram Pitt<\/strong> is still active in clinical trials in heart failure and renal disease. Along with his former Cornell roommate, David Gluck<\/strong>, MD \u201957, and others, he has recently published a paper on a potential new therapy for COVID-19. Richard Ragold <\/strong>has recently moved to Gainesville, VA. \u2756 John Nixon<\/strong> (email John<\/a>); Caroline Mulford Owens<\/strong> (email Caroline<\/a>); Jack Allen<\/strong> (email Jack<\/a>); Bob Neff<\/strong> (email Bob<\/a>); Ed Gibson<\/strong> (email Ed<\/a>). Alumni Directory<\/a>. Share your news here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Happily, we have several news forms that have been returned in response to the class mailing from our president, Chick Trayford<\/strong>, MBA \u201960. We strive for broad representation in the column and usually do not repeat news about people who have been included recently. However, this month we may repeat: we don\u2019t want to ignore folks who make the effort to keep us posted!<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you receive this digital news, then you have access to our class website<\/a>. Jan Jakes Kunz<\/strong> continues to do a professional job with that. A sailor herself, she put much effort into the article about sailing and the major role our own Al Eckhardt<\/strong>, MBA \u201955, as an undergraduate and as an alum, put into developing the sailing program. Also on the website are listed classmates whose deaths have recently reached Cornell. Sad, but a way to honor and remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A reminder about the new digital alumni publication: Cornellians <\/em>is free, with content available on its website<\/a>. Cornellians<\/em> sends out periodic emails to all alumni for whom we have email addresses\u2014but you don\u2019t need to receive those emails to access the publication. Anyone can go to the website anytime and read stories, Class Notes, In Memoriam, and more. If you are not receiving those emails and would like to, please email Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Allan Griff<\/strong> wrote thoughtfully from his home in California. \u201cI\u2019m not retired. Sounds boring. I\u2019ve worked since 1961 as an independent engineer mainly with plastics and packaging\u2014no, they are not<\/em> toxic, but people fear most anything man-made.\u201d He says he gets pleasure in saving, and \u201cavoiding the new and sensible recycling that doesn\u2019t use more energy than it saves.\u201d His favorite memory of Cornell: \u201cWalking up the hill from downtown Ithaca on arrival by overnight bus from New York in September 1950 and walking down that same hill from campus 50 years later at Reunion in 2004.\u201d Advice for undergraduates: \u201cBalance. Avoid extremes, and don\u2019t use risk to make yourself look cool.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also resisting retiring is Warren Heilbronner<\/strong>: \u201cWho\u2019s retired? I am a semi-retired attorney with an active practice.\u201d Living with his wife in Rochester, NY, he chairs the NYSARC Trust, the largest private trust for people with developmental and other disabilities and chronic care needs. Warren shares that for three years he was the sole bass drummer in the Big Red Band. He played a chimes solo in a concert directed by Dr. Howard, Eastman School director. His advice for undergraduates: \u201cStay focused on the goals you have set for yourself and don\u2019t be afraid to innovate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stephen Krauss \u201954<\/strong> has shifted from working as a doctor to being a full-time artist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s an inspiring transition: Stephen Krauss<\/strong> has shifted from working as a doctor to being a full-time artist. In his studio he pursues painting, printmaking, and watercolor. He also plays classical piano, plays tennis three times a week, and walks with wife Carol and friends in Knoxville. His favorite memory of Cornell: the evening snack at Jim\u2019s Place with friends. Advice for students: \u201cFind out early who the great teachers are and go to their courses. (Nabokov was teaching at Cornell when I was there, and I didn\u2019t know it!) Take advantage of the wonderful terrain for hikes and walks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have heard from Mike<\/strong>, MBA \u201955, and Dot Noll Hostage<\/strong>, both classmates. When asked what activity gives meaning to your days, Mike says, \u201cLiving in love with Dot and love of family\u201410 children, 39 grands, and 11 greats.\u201d (Dot and Mike are in competition with Sandy Dreier Kozinn<\/strong>, whose greats number 31.) In spite of heart surgery, Mike continues to play golf and maintain homes in Massachusetts, New York, and Florida. Favorite Cornell memories: \u201cSigma Phi, baseball, boxing, and meeting Dot in 1953.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bernice<\/strong> \u201cBunny\u201d Rotter Schmid<\/strong> lives in Mineola, NY, and enjoys reading. She mentors new teachers and volunteers at the local art museum. She attends student concerts and travels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jacob<\/strong> \u201cJack\u201d Martin<\/strong>, MS \u201961, writes from Wellesley, MA, about his retirement hobbies of gardening, walking, climbing in the White Mountains and Alps, skiing, travel, and woodworking. Favorite memory of Cornell: \u201cMeeting my wife of almost 53 years in the coed graduate student dorm Cascadilla.\u201d His advice for students: \u201cStudy, study, study for the first year.\u201d And then he gets philosophical: \u201cI think we need to support making it easy for all citizens to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Betty Wagler Striso<\/strong> writes from Glen Cove, NY. Since Clem\u2019s death, she has been learning to do the chores he did, but with much support from her family. She has taken up jigsaw puzzles. Advice for students: \u201cDo more than study and schoolwork. Meet people, make friends (not always only your own age), take advantage of everything Cornell offers, and make memories to last a lifetime.\u201d Here is a lovely recollection from Betty: \u201cMy most emotional memory was at a Reunion. We were on a bus of alums, returning to campus after dinner at the golf club. It had rained, and everything sparkled in the afternoon\/evening light. The bus emerged from a dark leafy tunnel and turned west. The setting sun suddenly emerged from over West Hill. We were struck speechless. Then, someone started singing the \u2018Evening Song\u2019\u2014slowly, softly. The whole bus took up the song. It was pure magic, and it still brings me to tears to remember it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to all of you for sharing your news and views and advice and memories. They make it possible for us to produce a column. Do send us more: \u2756 Ruth Carpenter Bailey<\/strong> (email Ruth<\/a>); Bill Waters<\/strong> (email Bill<\/a>). Class website<\/a>. Alumni Directory<\/a>. Share your news here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Somewhere, Nancy Savage Petrie<\/strong> is relaxing and thinking to herself, \u201cI miss it, but thankfully someone else is sitting down to organize and write the Class Notes column due tomorrow.\u201d So let me introduce myself, fellow Cornellians of 1955. I am John Wertis<\/strong> (the elder). I use the bracketed title to distinguish myself from my son\u2014John (not a junior), who lives nearby\u2014when I write columns or blogs from my home on Searsburg Road near Trumansburg, which lies 12 miles northwest of Ithaca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am long retired from 35 years of teaching science and administrating in the Ithaca public school system, teaching biology at Elmira College, and raising Boer meat goats (150 at a time) on our 100 acres of Town of Ulysses farmland with the help of my partner, Marian Pritchard (Columbia School of Nursing, 1954). I am not yet retired from my position as the historian for the Town of Ulysses or from being a parent (or is it being \u201capparent\u201d?) to my four children, eight grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren (including the great-granddaughter born last night!). After my freshman year, I worked and lived at Steep Hollow Farm (owned by William McMillan<\/strong><\/strong> 1923<\/strong> and his wife, Ruth Rice McMillan 1923<\/strong>) outside the City of Ithaca tending, until my graduation, to the horses boarded there\u2014so I was somewhat less immersed in campus life during my college years than many Cornellians. But I lived then, and for the most part since, in the local region strongly influenced by the presence of our alma mater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Enough about me. David Berle<\/strong>, MD \u201958, reports from Chevy Chase, MD, that he\u2019s trying to write his memoir. That is, when he isn\u2019t on the road with his wife, Sandra, between another home in Naples, FL, and their house on Martha\u2019s Vineyard. He says that he\u2019s \u201cabout to give a lecture on humor.\u201d To whom and how did it go, David?<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are in the York, PA, area, you may see Ruth McDevitt Carrozza<\/strong> riding behind her son-in-law Tim on his blue Harley motorcycle. At other times you might find her with daughter Lisa and Tim, camping in their 35-ft. trailer anywhere from Maine to Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLiving well in Rockford, IL, at 90 years old,\u201d reports Frances Clegg Feeney<\/strong>. She is from a very \u201cmedical\u201d family, being a retired nurse herself, married to doctor Donald<\/strong>, MD \u201956<\/strong>, with children and grandchildren all in the medical field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Michael Shinagel \u201955<\/strong> is joining study groups at the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement, a program he founded in 1977 as dean of continuing education there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If you are in need of a lawyer and happen to be in Cocoa Beach, FL, look up Bob Leader<\/strong> and he\u2019ll be happy to bill you for a few hours\u2019 service. As to that question on the Share Your News form asking if he has \u201cpicked up any new hobbies,\u201d he replies, \u201cNo, but I have dropped a few.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sylvia Verin Mangalam<\/strong>, MA \u201957, employs the wonder of the Internet to see and talk to her godchild, Jerry, and his family in Switzerland. Meanwhile, she is enjoying the natural beauty of Nova Scotia, attending Quaker meetings, and being with her family. That gives her the most satisfaction these days, but she\u2019s still waiting (a bit impatiently?) for great-grandchildren to arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are in Homosassa, FL, look up Andy Phaneuf<\/strong>. He\u2019s in real estate there and, with partners, manages a residential building company. He and his wife, Madeleine, recently celebrated the birth of twin (boy and girl) great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Michael Shinagel<\/strong> says, \u201cLearning never ends,\u201d and he backs that statement up by reporting that he is joining study groups at the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement, a program he founded in 1977 as dean of continuing education there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From Atlanta, GA, Jim Van Buren<\/strong>, MD \u201959, relates that he and his wife of 64 years, Mary (Martin) \u201956<\/strong>, are in relatively good health\u2014but aging has seen reduced travel experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Peter Romeo<\/strong> is \u201clooking forward to the next Big Red Reunion and sitting on a bench in front of White Hall and reliving precious moments of the past.\u201d If he decides not to walk up the hill from Sigma Pi fraternity (which he\u2019s quite capable of doing, thank you), he will just drive himself up, still being his own \u201cchauffer.\u201d You can find him in his hometown of Webster, NY, where he still \u201cdabbles in architecture\u201d and shares an apartment with the youngest of his three unmarried sons, a \u201cgreat caregiver, a neat freak, a very good cook, and touched by the gift of good humor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some 32 years ago Patrick Callahan<\/strong> retired from his job as a software engineer and moved to Kailua-Kona, HI. He now resides \u201cin a comfortable retirement home in California.\u201d As he says, after the death of his second wife, Nancy, in 2019, \u201cbeautiful Hawaii lost its charm.\u201d He\u2019s happy to be living now with a stepdaughter nearby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Keeping very busy in Bloomfield, CT, is Shirley Sanford Dudley<\/strong>. Bloomfield has a very active senior center where Shirley can choose from a menu of 30 adult education courses a semester\u2014if she can find time from working with a Hartford food pantry, singing with a chorus, leading a \u201c10-minute\u201d play group, and dabbling in stained glass. She finds most satisfaction these days in family and friends, music, a good book, a good place to walk outdoors, and receiving a handwritten letter. As class correspondent, Shirley, I have your address … now to pen and paper. \u2756 John Wertis<\/strong> (email John<\/a>). Alumni Directory<\/a>. Share your news here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Says Betty Specht Rossiter<\/strong>: \u201cDoes anyone imagine being in their 80s? However, it\u2019s not so bad!\u201d Betty is still active in various philanthropy groups. Though she no longer plays tennis, she\u2019s still playing bridge. She notes that her grandkids are all grown up now, except one who is still in high school. Betty recently took a trip to visit her daughter, Laurel Rossiter Herzog \u201984<\/strong>, in Memphis. When asked if she\u2019s picked up any new hobbies recently, Betty says no, but she\u2019s open to suggestions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bonnie Smith Whyte<\/strong> has been re-reading the 25th anniversary Class of \u201956 yearbook. \u201cThose who contributed were masterful at summing up their lives at that point. We should all be writing memoirs. My husband, a Rutgers grad, happened on it recently and finds something new almost daily.\u201d Bonnie has been gradually coming out of \u201cpandemic hiding\u201d and returning to pursuits slowly\u2014like a local museum, the Y, and some friend groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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