Columns compiled by your class correspondents<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1940s<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1950s<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1960s<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1970s<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1980s<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n 1990s<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2000s<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2010s<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2020s<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Grad Notes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n I send greetings to all \u201946 classmates reading this and am curious who I am addressing. It would be so enlightening to find out who you are. Ellen Vidal<\/strong> Hollmeyer sent me a lovely note. She is managing very well in her own home. Her large family watches over her and sees that she can relax and enjoy each day. Ellen creates gift cards, does jigsaw puzzles, and reads two to three books per week. She also watches \u201cthe good old movies\u201d on TV. She attributes her long, healthy life to \u201cenjoying gin martinis at 5 o\u2019clock every day \u2026 with cheers to Cornell!\u201d Now that is impressive!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Joyce Manley<\/strong> Forney would like you to know her email address is forneyjoyce4@gmail.com. Send her a message! She says that COVID has changed the lives of all. Her social life this year has centered around afternoons at the dog park. Her nearby granddaughter added twins to the household of three little boys, and one of the twins was a girl! Her biggest takeaway from living through COVID-19 is that \u201cif you are immunized and behave responsibly, you will outlast the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Margaret Monteith<\/strong> Edelman, BA \u201945, has been spending time at the doctor\u2019s office. She is recovering from a broken back. She and her husband, John, are still living in their own home and being cared for by their four children and five grandchildren. She is mourning the death of her dear friend since college Nancy Mynott<\/strong> Davis. I also received notice that Harriet Parshall<\/strong> Wood passed away on December 27, 2020, just days before her 97th birthday. She is survived by her three children, seven grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren. Harriet was an avid golfer and talented artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You might\u2019ve noticed that Paul Levine<\/strong>\u2019s column is missing. He is recovering from a huge fall. We wish him well with a full recovery and look forward to seeing his newsy column next issue. Easy does it, Paul! Keep sending me news\u2014it is really appreciated. \u2756 Dorothy Taylor<\/strong> Prey, 1 Baldwin Ave., #501, San Mateo, CA, 94401; tel., (650) 342-1196; email, dmprey@aol.com. Class website<\/a>. Online news form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Happy Holidays, Class of \u201947. How are you planning to spend the winter months? Drop us a line to share an update with your classmates, or send your holiday letter to: \u2756 Class of 1947<\/strong>, c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/strong>, abb83@cornell.edu. Online news form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thelma Bush <\/strong>Blood reports that she and her husband, William, an Ithaca College graduate, no longer have an automobile and accordingly spend almost all of their time in their home. She observes: \u201cFortunately, spring brings good weather and allows us to spend a great deal of time in our beautiful backyard in Titusville, PA. And we have very attentive children watching over us\u2014particularly our oldest child, who lives nearby. Enjoying company in our big house provides a lot of satisfaction.\u201d Their biggest takeaway from the pandemic is how blessed they are for good health and the ability to live independently and to enjoy good friends. At the other extreme, David Prouty reports that his mother, Muriel Sacks<\/strong> Prouty, has dementia and lives in an assisted living facility in Nyack, NY. Bob McKinless<\/strong> gives us an update on his recovery from breaking his leg a year ago, stopping his extensive biking reported in some earlier issues. He spent the last year of leg recovery and COVID-19 living with his son and his wife but expected to return to his own condo and independent living over the summer. He enjoys visits by a great-grandchild who lives 15 minutes away and expects the arrival of more great-grandchildren. On the biking front, he has started riding his recumbent bike again and hopes for a trip this summer. About the pandemic and COVID-19, he reports that he hasn\u2019t sung a note in a year and misses his three singing groups!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Murray Heimberg<\/strong>, MNS \u201949, spent most of the COVID-19 year indoors and adjusted to it very well. He did \u201cattend\u201d a number of virtual meetings but comments that retaining his knowledge of biochemistry and clinical medicine has proved to be a hopeless task. His family is scattered from coast to coast, and, with the pandemic, he has not seen any of them for over a year. Time is fleeting in this area, though he is grateful for his longevity (age 96 when written) and good health. Margaret Smith<\/strong> Brown<\/strong> writes that she celebrated her 95th birthday on June 1 with all three of her daughters. She particularly misses the opportunity to have been with her late husband, Albert<\/strong>, PhD \u201951, during this viral pandemic. He was a virologist who did his master\u2019s thesis on RNA and could have explained fully the antiviral developments leading successfully to the vaccines (based on messenger RNA). Beverly Fortran <\/strong>explains that she is single and healthy. \u201cI sent a copy of my \u2018Cookey Cutter Cookbook\u2019 to CU. It is a historical family volume, small and not published.\u201d Beverly\u2019s family history includes relatives mingling with some famous names including the Vanderbilts and Roosevelts, especially Eleanor\u2014and not just mingling but serving them bread and butter pickles made from homegrown vegetables. \u201cIt was called \u2018pickle diplomacy,\u2019\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your correspondent will close this on a personal note. Several years ago, I reported in these columns that I had reconnected with my steady girlfriend of 1942\u201343 at Cornell through her appearance in an adjacent Notes column for her Class of \u201946 (would have been mine except for WWII). We were now 500 miles apart after 70 years totally out of touch. We had wonderful exchanges of letters, photos, and telephone calls over the period since. She was healthy, happy, and among family. In mid-July she passed away. For both of us, the renewed friendship was a bright spot in our lives. \u2756 Ray Tuttle<\/strong>, 65 Oyster Reef Dr., Hilton Head Island, SC 29926; email, RayTutt@aol.com. Online news form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Classmates, please continue to stay in touch. We are all eager to hear from each of you! Please submit an online news form<\/a> or send your news to: \u2756 Dorothy Mulhoffer<\/strong> Solow, 50 Grant St., Wellsboro, PA 16901; tel., (570) 948-9107 or (412) 215-1435; email, winspeck@yahoo.com; or Class of 1949<\/strong>, c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/strong>, abb83@cornell.edu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back to the top<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n At this writing (August 15), we don\u2019t yet know the exact format that our class columns will appear in. That set me thinking about the 20 years I have served as a class correspondent. For a bunch of reasons, my first class Reunion was our 50th in 2000. On campus I had been a zilch, an unknown country hick, though a WWII veteran. At the Reunion I was apprehensive, wondering how the experience would play out\u2014and was surprised by the warm acceptance I received, the upbeat, pleasant camaraderie, little different than if I had been a BMOC (Big Man On Campus).<\/p>\n\n\n\n A surprise came when Bob Fite<\/strong> sent Jack Rose<\/strong>, MD \u201954, to ask me to be a class correspondent. Bob had been serving as a correspondent and wanted to retire. I had a bit of writing experience, but how Bob knew about it, and why he recommended me, is still a mystery. As was my sudden, unexpected promotion from zilch to class officer. Ruth Downey<\/strong> Crone was my initial co-correspondent, followed by Marion Steinmann<\/strong> and Pat Carry <\/strong>Stewart, all the finest. Having separate male and female correspondents was a holdover from 1946\u201369, when there had been two classes, male and female. Since Pat\u2019s retirement in 2019, I have been the sole author. It has been one life-pleasing experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s a pleasure to report on Dick Pogue<\/strong> (Cleveland, OH), faithful, active member of our Class of the Century, our class president, 2005\u201310, and currently a member of our class advisory council. In 1994 he retired as senior managing partner from Jones Day, one of the largest law firms in the US. In 2004 he was called back by the firm to promote civic activities in the Cleveland metropolitan area and for 17 years has reported daily to the office. Dick has an Iowa connection. His dad was a farm boy who didn\u2019t attend school until the tenth grade. Somehow, he witnessed a high-visibility murder trial and decided on the spot to become a lawyer. That farm boy went on to the U. of Nebraska, then to Michigan Law School for a JD and Harvard Law School for an SJD. He joined a law firm in Boston, became chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, and later formed the private law firm of Pogue & Neal. (In 1967, Dick\u2019s law firm purchased his dad\u2019s law firm.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Along the way, as his father\u2019s career advanced, Dick lived in Boston, Paris, and New York City. At age 10, Dick and his family moved to Chevy Chase, MD, where he later attended a large high school in D.C., played center on the basketball team, was president of the student council, and graduated number three in his class. At Cornell, he played on the freshman basketball team, was the assistant manager of the varsity basketball team, was manager of his fraternity, and was sports editor, then managing editor, of the Cornell Daily Sun<\/em>, the student-produced morning newspaper for the campus and the Ithaca community. After Cornell, he followed his dad to the U. of Michigan Law School, where he was president of the Barristers, a pseudo honorary society, and wrote an article in the Michigan Law Review<\/em> that was quoted in a US Supreme Court decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After law school in 1953, he was commissioned in the US Army Judge Advocate General\u2019s Corps and worked for three years in its patent division in the Pentagon. While working nights on an antitrust casebook, he met a lawyer with the Cleveland law firm of Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis; he joined the firm and four years later became a partner. In the \u201970s, Dick became chairman of the Antitrust Society of the American Bar Assn. and recruited major corporate clients for his firm. In 1984, he became the managing partner and took the firm to international status, growing it from 335 lawyers to 1,225. He was also very active in Cleveland\u2019s civic scene and in 1989 was recognized as the most powerful man in Cleveland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While in Michigan Law School, he met wife Pat, and they married in 1954. They have three wonderful children: Mark, a litigating partner in a law firm in Providence, RI; Tracy, former associate in a prestigious law firm in Manhattan; and David, a writer and entertainer in Westport, CT. Dick and Pat have eight grandchildren, five of whom are college graduates (the others will soon be), and, as of August 15, a great-grandson. While mild spinal stenosis has (at least temporarily) cut short his tennis game, he still loves golf. Except for 2020, for the past 18 years he and Pat have hosted an extended family gathering in August at Basin Harbor on Lake Champlain in Vermont.<\/p>\n\n\n\n CLASS INFORMATION: 1) With the new alumni news format, class dues for one or two related class members will be $25. Club <\/em>class dues <\/em>for one or two will be $100, to help fund our class operating account. Dues of either kind are now tax deductible on federal income tax returns. 2) President Jim Brandt<\/strong> and treasurer Ben Williams<\/strong> are working on plans for a 2022 Reunion to replace our lost 70th Reunion. Send suggestions to Jim at jabrandt2@gmail.com. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And lastly, Ann Leister <\/strong>Mayer (Anacortes, WA) continues to enjoy bird watching, a passion she acquired from her ornithologist father, Claude Leister<\/strong>, Class of 1917<\/strong>. \u2756 Paul Joslin<\/strong>, 13731 Hickman Rd., #4207, Urbandale, IA 50323; tel., (515) 278-0960; email, phjoslin@aol.com. Online news form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your correspondent is trying to remember the name of a faculty member that alumni recognized as being an enjoyable part of their heritage during a virtual Reunion event. The faculty member in question might be in Engineering; he was mentioned along with CU professors David Daiches, Milton Konvitz<\/strong>, PhD \u201933<\/strong>, Vladimir Nabokov, and Harold Bloom<\/strong>. Does anyone out there remember that conversation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n When asked what brings him the most satisfaction these days, Chuck Warren<\/strong>, MBA \u201952 <\/strong>(Shrewsbury, MA) wrote, \u201cHow well my three children, nine grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren have survived the financial and health challenges of COVID-19.\u201d Edward Ryder <\/strong>(Salinas, CA) writes, \u201cI have published two novels since retirement in 2003. I\u2019m now working on a nonfiction book on the bleak outlook for our world: threats to survival.\u201d He adds, \u201cWe are alive and in good health.\u201d When asked about his biggest takeaway from the pandemic, he wrote, \u201cWe won\u2019t know till it\u2019s over!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Theodora <\/strong>\u201cTodi\u201d Frizzell <\/strong>Frick says, \u201cAt 92, I have slowed down. I have seven children and steps who attended mainly southern colleges\u2014none at Cornell, sadly.\u201d Her biggest takeaway from the pandemic was the \u201cfeeling of being trapped!\u201d Robert Temkin<\/strong>, MBA \u201953 <\/strong>(Rochester, NY; nikmet@aol.com) says, \u201cI met a charming New York woman while in Florida for vacation.\u201d He retired for the second time after 20 years as senior director, Medicare counseling at Rochester General Hospital. \u201cRetirement number one was from Bergen Brunswig (now AmerisourceBergen) Pharmaceuticals.\u201d Robert says that \u201cnostalgic memories of the past with emphasis on Cornell\u201d bring him the most satisfaction these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adele Mongan <\/strong>Fasick (San Francisco, CA; adelefasick@yahoo.com) says, \u201cI have learned how to Zoom and have enjoyed many performances and meetings that are now virtual. I am maintaining my blog<\/a>. We are all vaccinated now, so I can visit with my daughters and their families.\u201d Adele adds that \u201cbeing able to go outside and being able to Zoom with friends that I no longer see\u201d gives her the most satisfaction these days. Her biggest takeaway from the pandemic: \u201cWe can put up with a lot more than we thought we could.\u201d The main change for Frances Goldberg <\/strong>Myers involves \u201cnot eating out in pleasant restaurants or with friends, no opportunities for volunteering, and few socializations\u2014masks and distancing prevail.\u201d When she wrote, she said her \u201clast in-person visit was her 90th birthday party\u2014a big celebration with 50-plus friends and neighbors. It was the last opportunity for people to travel and they came from Arizona, Illinois, Michigan, Massachusetts, and New York.\u201d Frances gets the most satisfaction these days from \u201csocializing with friends.\u201d Her biggest takeaway from the pandemic: \u201cToo many people have no sense of community or responsibility for others, have no respect or caring for those who have less and their suffering, or are only \u2018me\u2019 centered\u2014their pods, their money, and what it buys for them. Has education failed?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Joan Falconer<\/strong> writes, \u201cI moved into a cooperative building two months before the pandemic hit. I\u2019m trying to keep up with friends and former neighbors.\u201d What brings her the most satisfaction these days? \u201cFriends, music, and the care and feeding of two cats,\u201d she writes. Mary Perrine<\/strong> Johnson (john97john@gmail.com) writes, \u201cBefore COVID moved into our lives, I did not have a need for Zoom. Now it\u2019s a way of life. It has allowed me to engage in meetings, workshops, and concerts from California to Switzerland. Zoom classes have also taken the place of playing music with groups. Performing opportunities have disappeared. Not to worry\u2014I am ready to enjoy what others are doing!\u201d When asked what else has been happening in her life, she writes, \u201cThe usual ongoing health challenges, young ones leaving home, the arrival of my first great-grandchild\u2014and zero travel.\u201d Mary gets the most satisfaction these days from \u201cbeing able to stay in touch with friends and family, new friendships with other \u2018COVID prisoners\u2019 I had not known well before, and coffee and meals on patios outside!\u201d Her biggest takeaway from the pandemic: \u201cWe are all okay and grateful for each day more than ever. I am all right not seeing people as long as we can talk and have those family Zoom meets.\u201d \u2756 Brad Bond<\/strong>, email c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/strong>, abb83@cornell.edu. Online news form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are online. I hope you found our column! There is also a page of alumni deaths<\/a> that is somewhat more detailed than what was in the magazine. Of course, if you don\u2019t have the link, I don\u2019t know how you will get any of this information. I don\u2019t know about any of the rest of you, but being 90 and post-pandemic (?) events have offered me some measure of confusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s begin with news received in March. Ann Corbett<\/strong> Ayers has moved to Arlington, MA. She has six great-grandchildren. Her family has brought her the most satisfaction these days. Her takeaway from the pandemic: \u201cPay attention to the experts.\u201d Joan Aten <\/strong>Beach writes from Lantana, FL, that Florida is a big COVID state. \u201cI don\u2019t eat out, do wear masks, and wash hands all the time.\u201d Joan still plays golf but is otherwise careful about all activities. Son Jeffrey \u201976<\/strong> lives with her, and she walks a lot. \u201cWidows don\u2019t have a big social life!\u201d These days she finds the most satisfaction in \u201cFlorida sunshine, reading, gardening, and this great house,\u201d but she misses \u201ctravel and seeing my two [other] adult children and grandchildren.\u201d Joan Schmeckpeper <\/strong>Richards Torelli (Boynton Beach, FL) sends tough news. She has been \u201cbattling bone marrow cancer for four years\u201d and is on chemotherapy. On the family front, she has three children plus spouses, eight grandchildren, and five greats (the newest arrived in April 2021). These days, she has derived the most satisfaction from \u201ctalking on the phone to family and friends.\u201d James Clarke<\/strong> (Columbia, SC) has recently seen \u201cno real change, as we spent half the time on our farm in Chester County.\u201d He is busy managing their tree farm. His biggest takeaway from the pandemic has been \u201cgoing through the ordeal of getting the COVID vaccine.\u201d Joan Cruthers Flood<\/strong> (Clearwater, FL) writes, \u201cI have bought a house in Florida and now live with my son Tim.\u201d In retirement, she has been \u201creading a lot, doing needlework, growing vegetables\u2014what else in Florida. I have a mango tree in the backyard in full bloom; it will have to be supported or it will fall over.\u201d Her husband, Walter<\/strong> \u201cBud\u201d \u201949<\/strong>, BEE \u201950, PhD \u201954, <\/strong>died. He is still missed. The accomplishments of the younger family members bring her great satisfaction. Joan\u2019s takeaway from the pandemic: \u201cBoredom. Anger at those who refuse to follow needed precautions and directions to get rid of COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now to news received in April: Evelyn <\/strong>\u201cKris\u201d Hoffmann <\/strong>Huffman is still in Kansas City. Because of COVID, Kris hasn\u2019t seen much change. \u201cSadly, we can\u2019t travel,\u201d she says, but she has been cooking, cleaning, and gardening. What brings her the most satisfaction these days? \u201cRetirement\u2014sleeping late. Not having to drive across town to teach an 8 o\u2019clock class to sleepy students.\u201d Biggest takeaway from the pandemic? \u201cHave lots of good reading matter at home. And Netflix helps too.\u201d Tom Newton<\/strong> wrote, \u201cNo real changes. A year older with more old-age health issues! Still in the same house and town.\u201d Dana Johnson<\/strong> (Pittsford, NY) wrote, \u201cI have been playing clarinet and baritone sax in three bands for 30 years\u2014since retirement.\u201d In a new note, Ann Coffeen<\/strong> Turner checked the box that lets me share her email: harann52@yahoo.com. Ann, who has been tutoring at her home in New Hampshire, writes, \u201cIn two weeks I can see my grandchildren and my pupils without a mask.\u201d These days, tutoring has brought her the most satisfaction. Her takeaway from the pandemic? \u201cMurphy\u2019s Law has gone international.\u201d Harriette Scannell<\/strong> Morgan (Adamstown, MD) wrote, \u201cBody at 90 not moving so well. Had to give up my car.\u201d She is \u201ctaking one day at a time!\u201d Of her children, she writes, \u201cOne in Afghanistan, one a research doctor, one an architect, and one unemployed.\u201d Satisfaction? \u201cI am archivist at the retirement community where I live.\u201d Pandemic? \u201cI do not like being in lockdown.\u201d Ina Perlstein<\/strong> Loewenberg (Iowa City, IA) says \u201cha ha\u201d to whether her life has changed recently. She continues, \u201cMy husband of 69 years died at the end of 2019. Then came the pandemic. Although I am active on email, phone, and Zoom, I haven\u2019t seen my two children in person since March of last year.\u201d Ina has been leading her poetry reading group on Zoom, and last year published a small book of poems for limited circulation. She says she is \u201cgetting older\u2014and feeling it.\u201d She finds satisfaction in \u201cbeing more open, although remotely, with family and friends.\u201d Her biggest takeaway from the pandemic: \u201cWe are all interdependent\u2014more than we ever realized.\u201d Jim Ling<\/strong> (Fort Collins, CO) sent in a brief note to say that he was \u201cunable to travel because of the pandemic.\u201d Jim is president of the local sanitation district and still volunteering with the program honoring veterans in hospice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Closing notes: If your email is not here, it is because you haven\u2019t checked the little box on the news form that allows your e-address to be shared online. If you find the news form that you haven\u2019t sent in yet, please fill it in and send it to Cornell University, ATTN: Sarah Dymak, 130 E. Seneca St., Ste. 400, Ithaca, NY 14850. These forms give me your voices, and that is a gift. \u2756 Joan Boffa<\/strong> Gaul, joangaul@mac.com. Online news form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ann Woolley <\/strong>Banks, living in Gloucester, MA, has endured lockdown productively and with humor. She writes, \u201cLockdown\u2014loved it. It\u2019s legitimate to stay home and play with my toys.\u201d Ann adds that she takes pleasure \u201cdigging in the dirt, growing veggies, and making a meadow (about 20\u2019 x 20\u2019).\u201d Her takeaway from the pandemic: the importance of take-out food. From her time on the Hill, Ann fondly remembers an early morning field trip with Prof. Arthur Allen 1907<\/strong>, PhD 1911, of the Ornithology department to watch robins at a territorial barrier. As a result, she has become a birder. These days, she enjoys \u201ctwo great-grands\u2014boys, 4 and 7\u2014to play with and make mittens for.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Donald Derrick <\/strong>and his wife, Sally, have mostly stayed safely at home in LeRoy, NY. They both manage diabetes and are being treated by a Veterans Administration hospital. He comments: \u201cIt\u2019s hard to keep up with the currency devaluation of inflation\u2014government theft. I keep up to date listening to Fox News and get news in the mail from the Jerusalem Prayer Team and the Christian Broadcasting Network.\u201d Donald has four great-grandchildren and remembers with pleasure \u201ceating ice cream from the Dairy Bar near Wing Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Richard Hayes <\/strong>(richard.hayes32@gmail.com) <\/strong>and wife Jane moved into a condo in August 2020 and enjoy the new living quarters. The pandemic has necessitated \u201cliving with fewer social contacts, but we are staying healthy and keeping up on world affairs.\u201d They are fortunate to have their daughter and family nearby in Kirkland, WA, with one son in Austin and the other with a new job remotely working from Orlando. Herbert Neuman<\/strong> (herbneuman@aol.com) writes: \u201c2020 was a tough year. After 67 years of marriage, Stephanie passed in April after a battle with cancer. I, in turn, had COVID-19 in April and was able to fight it off without hospitalization.\u201d On a positive note, Herbert is enjoying his three grandchildren and their successes, \u201cand I\u2019m still attentive to my real estate business. Keeping occupied is my secret to longevity!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Neil Jones<\/strong> has finally been able to \u201cretire\u201d from church financial work and is happy to slow down and enjoy family and home. It is fortunate that he has the time to help with care for his wife, Ruth. He writes: \u201cRuth had a fall back in September, which broke some bones in her wrist\/hand. Some bone is resting on a nerve, which causes severe pain when touched. Thus, rehab work has been delayed. We are now in a home healthcare program, with frequent visits by health staff.\u201d Neil remembers with amusement: \u201cBack in the early 1950s, I worked in Sage Hall in the food delivery system to the girls\u2019 residence\u2014the office confused my payroll with a lady co-worker who had almost the same name. The records got confused more than once.\u201d These days he enjoys \u201cwatching grandkids (4 and 2) interact and play with COVID-19 toys and games.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alan Perlmutter<\/strong> (sandperl28@gmail.com) writes: \u201cOur business, Big Sur River Inn, was dramatically overwhelmed by COVID. The restaurant closed almost completely. Lodging units diminished in availability. The market is missing thousands of national and international tourists\u2014and we are still here, strong, healthy, and masked. We learned to love and thrive on Zoom with our widespread family\u2014in San Diego, Portland, ME, Western Massachusetts, Israel, Canada, New York, and Los Angeles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Barbara Querze <\/strong>Weinreich, MEd \u201954, writes from Orlando, FL, about her life during the pandemic: \u201cMy daily life changed when I started using Instacart instead of doing my own grocery shopping. The two bananas I ordered arrived as two pounds of bananas, leading to the necessity of baking banana bread. These unintended consequences are fairly common. I\u2019ve had the time and leisure to notice things I never paid attention to before, like fabric design and birdlife in my backyard. I enjoy my independence. My family Zooms one evening each week. I enjoy seeing my grandchildren\u2019s dorm rooms or apartments and hearing how that generation is managing now.\u201d Barbara remembers with amusement that, at Cornell, \u201cdogs had free rein on campus and in the classrooms. It was not unusual to have to step over a sleeping dog to access a class.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Help classmates keep up with news about you. Send your news to: \u2756 Ed Gibson<\/strong>, edwincosgibson@gmail.com; Caroline Mulford<\/strong> Owens, 53news.cornell@gmail.com; John Nixon<\/strong>, nixn1@hotmail.com; or Jack Allen<\/strong>, jwallen@msu.edu. Online news form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please bear with me as I attempt to tell you about three very distinguished classmates. Two of them attended the Bronx High School of Science and then Cornell together. Untutored in physics and unable to communicate directly with them, I am presenting information from The 100 Most Notable Cornellians<\/em> by Altschuler, Kramnick, and Moore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe son of Jewish immigrants who left Czarist Russia in search of opportunity and freedom from religious persecution, Sheldon Glashow<\/strong> rose to become one of the most famous physicists of the late 20th century.\u201d His father built him a chemistry lab in the basement of their house. He and Steven Weinberg<\/strong> discussed physics while riding the subway to and from high school. Sheldon \u201cloved billiards, which he viewed as an art of controlling motion. Thinking about billiard balls was one way into theoretical physics. In his senior year he was a finalist in the national Westinghouse Science Talent Search.\u201d After Cornell, he \u201csucceeded brilliantly in his graduate work at Harvard,\u201d where he earned his PhD in physics in 1958. He \u201cpublished something relevant to what became known as electroweak theory (the unification of electromagnetism and the weak force).\u201d (You can see why a non-scientist must rely on the Cornell authors.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Copenhagen, Sheldon said, \u201cI discovered the SU(2) x U(1) structure of the electroweak theory.\u201d According to The 100 Most Notable Cornellians<\/em>, \u201cHis insight needed more work, but the formula … stuck as the fundamental way to express the link between the weak force and electromagnetism.\u201d Sheldon worked at CalTech, Stanford, and UC Berkeley. In 1966 he returned to Harvard, where he became the Higgins Professor of Physics in 1979 and later the Mellon Professor of the Sciences. \u201cHe was among Harvard\u2019s most famous teachers, participating in its Core Curriculum Program and offering, in addition to his specialized courses, a course for non-scientists entitled \u2018From Alchemy to Quarks.\u2019\u201d (That\u2019s just what I need\u2014right now!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn 1979 Sheldon shared the Nobel Prize in physics with Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam. They were cited for their complementary contributions in formulating the electroweak theory…. Like Einstein, Glashow imagines a day when physics will have a theory unifying all four fundamental forces\u2014the strong and weak subatomic forces, electromagnetism, and gravity\u2014in a single mathematical framework…. The age of great discovery is not at an end, for \u2018nature,\u2019 he said in his Nobel lecture, \u2018must still have some surprises in store for us.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steven Weinberg died on July 23, 2021 in Austin, TX. On July 26, the New York Times<\/em> published a full-page obituary describing his extremely significant contributions to physics. Our condolences to his wife and our classmate, Louise<\/strong> (Goldwasser<\/strong>). Steven once said, \u201cI felt that if I could understand theoretical physics, I could understand anything.\u201d He certainly showed that he understood a lot! But even he remained a \u201cprofound skeptic of all religious attempts to assign meaning to the universe.\u201d He once said, \u201cThe more comprehensible the universe becomes, the more pointless it seems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n After happy years at Cornell, Steven married Louise. After a year in Copenhagen, he began a PhD program at Princeton, where he \u201cestablished his interests in particle physics and quantum field theory.\u201d By age 31 in 1964, he was a full professor at Berkeley. In 1967, they returned, with a child, to the East Coast, where Louise entered Harvard Law School and Steven taught at Harvard and MIT. Louise became a legal scholar and an authority on the federal courts and taught at the U. of Texas Law School. Steven followed her to Austin as a professor of science in physics and astronomy, before winning the Nobel Prize with Glashow and Salam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steven believed \u201cpassionately in the simplicity of the physical world and shared with Stephen Hawking and Glashow the dream of finding a final theory that unites the interactions of all four fundamental forces of nature.\u201d Steven received many honorary degrees and prizes and served on government and scholarly advisory boards. \u201cHis interest in communication led him to work tirelessly to promote an appreciation for science among the general population.\u201d He wrote several books for educated laypersons. In 1999, he received the Lewis Thomas Prize, which is awarded to the researcher who best embodies the \u201cscientist as poet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn articles for the New York Review of Books<\/em>, Weinberg has not been kind to religion. \u2018With or without religion good people can behave well and bad people can do evil. But for good people to do evil, that takes religion.\u2019 For Weinberg no god guarantees a happy ending for human projects…. The universe is pointless, a fact that leaves it up to human beings to make life worth living. They do that, he believes, by loving one another, creating works of art, striving to build peaceful communities, and seeking to understand the world they accidentally inhabit.\u201d Let\u2019s get to it! Please continue to share news of the notable people in your lives. \u2756 Ruth Carpenter<\/strong> Bailey, rcbhtb@gmail.com; Bill Waters<\/strong>, billwaters@optonline.net. Class website<\/a>. Online news form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019re sending get-well wishes to Dave Schmidt<\/strong>, who wrote that he had \u201ca medical winter,\u201d with a new heart valve, stroke, and then seizure. \u201cI\u2019m getting back to normal, still not driving and no golf\u2014but got my COVID shot early through the V.A. and doing lots of walking.\u201d This was his report last spring, and we assume things are continuing to look up now! Dave and his fellow Cayuga\u2019s Waiters of the \u201950s Zoom together for cocktails on Friday nights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Liz Rothermel <\/strong>Hopwood, who lives in Fort Lauderdale, FL, says that with a vaccination \u201clife is easier and almost normal,\u201d and she was planning a trip to see her grandson graduate from Vanderbilt. In 2020 she spent the entire summer in Florida and enjoyed getting together with neighbors who stayed, calling themselves the \u201cdriveway divas.\u201d Normally she goes to her condo in McLean, VA, \u201cbut living by the ocean I usually had a breeze\u2014and the temperature here was the same as the D.C. swamp.\u201d Liz is busy with both the opera society and symphony society, plus volunteering as a docent at the art museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Philip Alkon<\/strong>, PhD \u201974, reports, \u201cCOVID has restricted community and group gatherings, but we are not yet restricted by health or age constraints, which is a blessing.\u201d He adds, \u201cThe world\u2019s growing population and our misuse of our global ecosystem is catching up with us, and I\u2019m not sure that we have wised up in time.\u201d Jim Van Buren<\/strong>, MD \u201959, and his wife, Mary<\/strong> (Martin<\/strong>) \u201956<\/strong>, say, \u201cGood news! We have survived the pandemic so far. We\u2019re both fully vaccinated and are beginning to go out for meals. We took a five-day vacation with our daughters to Kiawah Island, SC, in May.\u201d The Van Burens report \u201cno acute medical problems beyond dealing with age-related issues. All in all, we\u2019re doing well.\u201d \u2756 Nancy Savage<\/strong> Petrie, 85 Brook St., Noank, CT 06340; email, nancysavagepetrie@yahoo.com. Online news form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Carol Solomon<\/strong> Levine (NYC) officially retired in 2019. Her book, Navigating Your Later Years for Dummies, Portable Edition<\/em>, <\/em>was published in January 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nina French<\/strong> Glover (St. Petersburg, FL) is living in downtown retirement housing, which she says \u201cis conveniently near everything\u201d for her. Rev. John Maltby<\/strong> (Monmouth Junction, NJ) retired as a pastor in 2008. He continues as chaplain and historian for the Monmouth Junction First Aid Squad and provides opening prayers for the local Lions Club, Scout troop ceremonies, police and fire department events, the Masons, and the local grange. John hopes for a revival of the Big Red Band Alumni Assn. at our next Reunion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Leo Convery<\/strong> lives in Edgartown, MA, with his wife, Alison, and spends the winter months in Naples, FL, where, he says, they were both able to get their COVID vaccinations. Leo is still engaged in the real estate business in Martha\u2019s Vineyard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am in a book group here in NYC with our Reunion chair, Carole Rapp<\/strong> Thompson, and Judith Cohen<\/strong> Lowry. Judy picked the last book, a winner, The Island at the Center of the World<\/em>, by Russell Shorto, about the history of the Dutch colony of Manhattan. \u2756 Phyllis Bosworth<\/strong>, phylboz@aol.com. Online news form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tom Itin<\/strong> has been presented with the coveted Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award for his leadership in the field of entrepreneurship. The details of the award include Tom having taken a number of ideas and turned them into projects, which developed into major Wall Street situations or closely held successes. It would be quicker to relate what Tom didn\u2019t do to earn this award than to quote all the endeavors involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To get through the pandemic era, Emita Brady<\/strong> Hill (emita.hill@gmail.com) acquired a puppy. She is gathering with friends post-vaccine and continues to volunteer for worthy causes, one of which is becoming a great-grandmother. Emita also wrote a book last year that is currently a finalist in a distinguished competition. Martha Ballard<\/strong> Lacy (lacy.mardick@gmail.com) is also involved in significant volunteer opportunities and is clearing out paperwork and furniture that she no longer needs. During the pandemic she was Zoom-active and enjoyed phone calls from her three children (almost) daily. She has spent time at the Lodge at Geneva-on-the-Lake near Ashtabula, OH, a convenient location for her and children to convene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lou Heimbach<\/strong>, MBA \u201958 (LHeimbach@silolane.com) continues as chairman of the board of Orange Bank and Trust in Middletown, NY. His duties must be so time-consuming that he included no other news. Bill Schmidt<\/strong> had two paintings of Washington scenes (views of the National Gallery of Art and Dupont Circle) at a D.C. gallery this summer. Too bad we missed it, because they were handing out complimentary glasses of wine, and dinner came with a 15% off coupon. \u2756 John Seiler<\/strong>, suitcase2@aol.com. Online news form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks for your news and dues. It\u2019s good to hear from so many \u2019mates as we come out of this past unusual year and a half. Many report what they had, or had not, been able to do during that period and we\u2019ll catch up with some of them here, in the new online column (which first posted in late July). Eugene Ceglowski<\/strong>, DVM \u201967, up in Rupert, VT, says, \u201cI\u2019ve lived an isolated life for the past year\u2014putting up 100 acres of hay, raising heifers, talking but not live-visiting with family, seeing how granddaughters, both juniors at Cornell, are doing, and being glad I\u2019m not one of the [then] 530,000 who died.\u201d Philip Dattilo Jr.<\/strong> writes a similar note from Mendon, NY, saying only, \u201cI have cabin fever\u2014no travel and don\u2019t go to restaurants.\u201d Anthony Mauro<\/strong> (coco141@msn.com) of East Amherst, NY, has gotten out somewhat in advising and assisting his son\u2019s business, operating four restaurants in Western New York, and enjoying grandkids and family. He reports the loss of classmate Warren <\/strong>\u201cTerry\u201d Grinnan<\/strong>, his good friend and roommate. We also lost Carroll Blake<\/strong> last May, learned in a note from his wife, Georgiana. Carroll was an ME and Sigma Nu and, Georgiana says, always enjoyed Reunions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Almeda <\/strong>\u201cAC\u201d Church Riley<\/strong> writes of radical change in her life \u201cdue to the unexpected death of my husband, John \u201955<\/strong>, on January 30. We met at the Cornell\u2019s Adult University election program in 1994 and celebrated our 25th anniversary in 2020. He was a kind, smart, wonderful man, loved and respected by all who knew him.\u201d AC says she has many supportive friends at the Wesley Community in Saratoga Springs, NY, where she and John had been very glad they made the move. AC continues golfing, work at her church and in Planned Parenthood affiliation, following local politics, and \u201cknitting more hats than I can count for the homeless.\u201d She would like to hear from her classmates at riley5558@gmail.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two \u2019mates live in Maine: Rev. Bob Beringer<\/strong> (beringermcb@yahoo.com) in Topsham and Ken Wing<\/strong>, PhD \u201966 (wingke58@gmail.com) in Brunswick. Both have stayed close to home, Bob keeping busy at his life care residence giving weekly inspiration programs over Zoom and staying grateful for every day, and Ken \u201coften in self-isolation, volunteering when I can with a Bath-Brunswick respite care group.\u201d Ken has a special request for classmates: \u201cI\u2019m looking for a photo of the west exterior wall of the West End Candy Kitchen that displayed a huge sign stating \u2018Behind this Wall are 365 Cases of Beer.\u2019 If you have one, please send as an attachment to my email address above.\u201d John Buchleitner<\/strong>, BEE \u201960, feels that \u201cour teenagers are taking the greatest hit with the lack of socialization during the pandemic; it will show in a few years.\u201d John remembers when his EE class moved to Phillips Hall in our sophomore year and can\u2019t believe the changes on campus since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n William Cotton<\/strong>, writing from home in New Orleans, says that COVID restrictions were not particularly onerous for him, only eliminating fencing and badminton and allowing outdoor tennis four to five times a week. He admits to a lot of reading, however, along with usual video and online activities, especially via Zoom (a lifesaver for many of us). William believes that RNA-based vaccines should protect us from future viruses and recommends reading Walter Isaacson\u2019s The Code Breakers<\/em>. Mick<\/strong> and Joan Bleckwell McHugh<\/strong> still reside in Shawnee Mission, KS (whence, perhaps, the tornadoes hitting the East this summer came). Both have retired, Joan from social work and Mick from dentistry, and are keeping busy with usual local activities and later generations. Joan feels the biggest takeaways from the pandemic are \u201cthe loss of control of what we can do and the changes in the power of our nation in our personal lives and in our country.\u201d Arthur Horowitz<\/strong> says, on that matter: \u201cFollow the science, but we Cornellians have always known that.\u201d He and Francine celebrated their 62 years together and Arthur is now 17-plus years retired from ob\/gyn doctoring. Both are \u201cfully vaccinated and trying to keep up with the kids and friends,\u201d and he notes that \u201cwaking up alive\u201d brings him great satisfaction! You can reach the Horowitzes in Hopkins, MN, at horow001@icloud.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don Barber<\/strong> (donbarber301@gmail.com) writes from Plano, TX, and reports the loss of his wife, Gretchen, last year and a son, Andrew, in 2018. Both were UPenn grads. He derives much satisfaction \u201cfrom my daughter and two lovely grandchildren, but I\u2019m saddened by the loss of so many friends and loved ones from the pandemic. And yet, I\u2019m trying to enjoy every day.\u201d Muriel King <\/strong>Taylor, MD \u201962 (jamur4321@gmail.com) writes from Lakewood, WA, and she too has been isolating at home, suspending her usual \u201cout-of-the-house activities like weekly rowing, exercise classes, and group painting. I\u2019ve been free to have few time restrictions, spending the better part of a week reading the Sunday edition of the New York Times<\/em>.\u201d Muriel takes \u201cgreat pride in our Cornellian colleague Anthony Fauci<\/strong>, MD \u201966<\/strong>, a wise man, consummate communicator, scientist, and humanist, all tempered with humility. We\u2019re very lucky to have him functioning.\u201d Muriel, like many of us, also looks forward to the availability of the hard copy of this publication. Holidays soon will be upon us, and we wish all continued safe and happy ones, and a better year in 2022. \u2756 Dick Haggard<\/strong>, richardhaggard11@gmail.com; Jan Arps <\/strong>Jarvie, janjarvie@gmail.com. Online news form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s the newest edition of our digital column, and initial reports from the July\/August column are positive. If you\u2019re interested in seeing earlier print issues of Cornell Alumni Magazine<\/em>, you can access issues going back decades at ecommons.cornell.edu<\/a>, a service of the Cornell Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe must better prepare for new stresses\u2014pandemics, global warming, population displacements, etc.,\u201d writes Alan Schechter<\/strong> (alannschechter@gmail.com), reflecting on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Alan continues to supervise a research group at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, that is studying the interaction of hemoglobin and nitric oxide, with the goal of understanding how nitric oxide is transported by blood and how it acts at distal sites, opening up the compound\u2019s possible use in treating a variety of hemoglobin-related illnesses. The COVID-19 lockdown made Alan and his wife work from home and interact with family and friends primarily via Zoom. Two of their four grandchildren are now at Stanford U.; the younger two are in high school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEveryone seems to be so involved in interesting activities, while I try to figure out why I need eight sets of linen table napkins or several tablecloths that don\u2019t fit either of my two tables!\u201d comments Carole Parnes<\/strong> (caparnes@att.net). After eight years of dividing her time between Alameda, CA, and Green Valley, AZ, Carole has sold the latter house and is back in Alameda full time. She\u2019s open for suggestions regarding continuing care retirement communities for the next phase of her life\u2014\u201csomewhere without snow,\u201d she stresses. Hank Stark<\/strong> (hankstark1@aol.com), one of several \u201959ers who lives in Kendal at Ithaca in Cayuga Heights (we know what the snow is like there), facilitates a current events discussion group at the county senior center. He has written over 400 reviews of restaurants in the greater Ithaca area for the Ithaca Journal<\/em> and the Ithaca Times<\/em>. You can read many of them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unearth a browning New York Times <\/em>clipping and travel down memory lane: The 1955 news article listed 1,500 students in NYC who received state Regents scholarships that year. 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