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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 We would love to hear from all of you! Has your family grown? Have you read any good books lately? What kind of impact did your time at Cornell have on your life? If you have a moment, please send an email or letter to: \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 Greetings, Class of \u201947! Please send your musings and updates to us for future columns. How do you spend your time these days? What is your favorite memory from your time at Cornell? What brings you the most satisfaction? We\u2019d love to hear from you. \u2756 Class of 1947<\/strong>, c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/strong>, abb83@cornell.edu. Online news form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Happy spring! We would love to hear from each of you. Have you started any new hobbies (or bad habits) lately? Do you still keep in touch with any fellow Cornellians? How do you spend your time these days? Let\u2019s stay connected and stay in touch. Send your news to: \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 We don\u2019t have any news from classmates to report this issue\u2014but we hope that will change in the future! Has your family grown? Have you read any good books lately? What kind of impact did your time at Cornell have on your life? If you have a moment, please send an email to: \u2756 Class of 1949<\/strong>, c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/strong>, abb83@cornell.edu. Online news form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back to the top<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Classmates! <\/strong>Here we are in the 23rd year of the 21st century. How many of you expected to ever be using a 2022 calendar, or writing that number on a check? And, allow this into your now-aging brain: you have lived 40%<\/em> of your country\u2019s history! So give thanks and celebrate with the following who have written in. And take a moment to write and tell us how things are going with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paul Kirchner<\/strong> (Niskayuna, NY; pkirch2422@verizon.net) doesn\u2019t work but provides work for local doctors. He celebrated a 70th wedding anniversary last October and stays occupied with caregiving and visits from family: three kids, eight grandkids, and three great-grandkids. Herbert Steinberg<\/strong> (Armonk, NY; mathnucl@gmail.com) reports being physically frail but stays mentally active with weekly Zoom meetings and online math and science forums. He would like to hear from classmates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jean Michelini <\/strong>Partisch Hughes (Sarasota, FL; farpart@yahoo.com) reports that last November her late husband, Rodney Russell Hughes, was interred with military honors in the Veterans National Cemetery in Sarasota. On aging, Jean optimistically reports, \u201cI have three first cousins, two age 98 and one age 100, so I will be around for a long time!\u201d About Sarasota she says, \u201cThere is much to do here, and we have an active Cornell alumni group. However, more people are moving here, and it is becoming quite crowded with lots of traffic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sonia Pressman <\/strong>Fuentes (Sarasota, FL; spfuentes@comcast.net) is a role model for seniors\u2014avoiding retirement and staying active, in her case with continued support for the National Organization for Women. She currently appears in a documentary film on Amazon Prime called My Name is Pauli Murray.<\/em> The late Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray was a colleague and friend of Sonia\u2019s at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Murray was a lawyer, writer, poet, and professor, the first female Black Episcopal priest in the US, and, along with Sonia, a co-founder of NOW. The film was shown in February at New College of Florida in Sarasota, where Sonia lives. See Sonia\u2019s website<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With a scarcity of news reports, I have been featuring bios of class officers, previously president Jim Brandt<\/strong>, past president Dick Pogue<\/strong>, and vice president Nels Schaenen<\/strong>. Other officers have been slow to respond, so to meet the current deadline I provide a bio of me, your class correspondent of 21 years. It\u2019s a terse story of unexpected, delayed opportunities and a professional life that began late at age 40. A story of one who flunked chemistry but taught high school chemistry and published a high school science textbook. Of one whom, with a grade of 60 in Bonehead English, became an accomplished writer. Of one whom, at age 36, with five young kids, and having already sent two foster kids to college (one to Princeton), became a full-time doctoral student.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Boyhood during the Depression on small farm 30 miles east of Buffalo, NY. US Navy WWII. Cornell on GI Bill for BS in Agriculture. The U. of the South for master\u2019s in science. The U. of Rochester for doctorate in science education and biology. High school teacher, 11 years. Drake U. professor of science education, 25 years; teacher education department chair, eight years. Adjunct professor, Iowa State U. and U. of Iowa. Visiting scholar\/professor, Curtin U. (Perth, Australia) in 1988 and 1995. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Author of Science Meets the UFO Enigma <\/em>and four other books, 23 journal articles, 27 research reviews, and 89 presentations to state, national, and international conferences. Professional lectures in Taiwan, Australia, Mexico, Israel, and Russia (dined in the Kremlin). Critiques of 28 science films (including two \u201cNOVA\u201d films) for the American Assn. for Advancement of Science. Scientific research: \u201cOrigins of Lake Effect Storms\u201d (for NOAA); \u201cTopographic Effects of Continental Glaciation\u201d; \u201cPalynology of Post-Glacial Swamps\u201d; and \u201cBase Line Characteristics of Iowa\u2019s Lake Okoboji and Little Sioux River.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Honors: Fulbright laureate; fellow of the Iowa Academy of Science; fellow of the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science; Distinguished Service Award from the National Assn. for Research in Science Teaching; Distinguished Achievement Award from Washington, DC, Press Assn.; New York State empire farmer; high school hall of fame citation reads \u201cFarmer, Science Educator, Scientist, Author, World Traveler.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Travels to all US states, all provinces of Canada, half the states of Mexico, and 32 other foreign countries on five continents. Directed Friendship Force people-to-people exchanges to France, Germany, England, Wales, and the Czech Republic. Home-hosted visitors from India, Chile, Australia, Macau, England, Russia, Tanzania, New Guinea, and others. Sixteen study visits to Pre-Columbian archeologic zones in Mexico and Central and South America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lectured on the science\/theology interface; taught five courses for the senior college at Drake U.; and gave 15 presentations on eclectic topics to the Torch Club of Des Moines. Lifetime of skiing in Colorado and Minnesota, bicycling in Iowa and Minnesota, and sailing in Iowa and Florida. And service to community, church, Kiwanis, Torch Club, Ray Society, and Friendship Force. At age 93, continues to write a column for Cornell alumni publication and an eclectic publication for members of his retirement community and 60 others. Still active member of Torch Club and Golden K Kiwanis Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Currently lives in retirement home in Des Moines, IA, with wife Erma, who nurtured five kids and three foster kids. Entertains their four-generation family of 51 on a 230-acre farm retreat in Southern Iowa. \u2756 Paul Joslin<\/strong>, 13731 Hickman Rd., #4207, Urbandale, IA 50323; email, phjoslin@aol.com. Online news form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When asked how her daily life has changed recently, Frances Goldberg<\/strong> Myers (fjgmyers718@gmail.com) reported, \u201cSadly, I now have to rely on home cooking. No restaurants, movies, plays, music\u2014all the things that Asheville, NC, offered, in smaller doses than NYC but still fun.\u201d She adds, \u201cI live in a senior community and remain active on committees: strategic planning, grounds, activities. Mostly, the younger folk tell me that I am a \u2018role model\u2019 since to talk and walk at the same time seems admirable in someone who is almost 92. I know they mean to compliment, but I know the truth\u2014luck and an inquiring mind have helped.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n About her family, Frances writes, \u201cMy son, Ken \u201977<\/strong>, is the curator of American art at the Detroit Inst. of Art. He followed in the footsteps of his younger sister, Pamela \u201978<\/strong>, who is the director of the Asheville Art Museum and finished the $24 million expansion of the museum during lockdown. She has, in 25 years, created the premium art museum in the southeast US. Our youngest, Nat III<\/strong> \u201cChip\u201d \u201982<\/strong>, DVM \u201987, has a mobile practice in Pittsburgh, along with his wife, Dana Kellerman \u201985<\/strong>, DVM \u201990. My children, believing in zero population growth, have produced two grandchildren. Ken is proud of Sarah \u201913<\/strong>, who is now a silviculturist with the US National Forest service in Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota and Wyoming. Benjamin, son of Chip, may break the Cornell pattern, but at 16, who knows?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Frances adds, \u201cI don\u2019t seem to have time for anything new. It takes all day to look at the computer, read the New York Times<\/em> and the Washington Post<\/em> and the book for book club, cook and eat meals, remind myself I should exercise\u2014well just a little, and a walk would be nice\u2014and talk on the phone, over email, and via Zoom.\u201d What brings Frances the most satisfaction? \u201cGetting up in the morning, walking, and seeing the beauty of the sky and trees and mountains and reflecting on my life, the joys and sorrows. I am grateful for the life I had.\u201d Wonderful to hear from you, Frances! I hope you all follow her example and send your news and letters to: \u2756 Brad Bond<\/strong>, email c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/strong>, abb83@cornell.edu. Online news form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As I write, we are six months from our 70th Reunion, June 9\u00ad\u201312, 2022. This column\u2019s first words go to our Reunion co-chairs, Tom Cashel<\/strong>, LLB \u201956, and Cappy Heyl<\/strong> Innes. First Tom: \u201cWhen Cappy and I were at our 65th Reunion and conscripted by our dedicated classmate Paul Blanchard<\/strong> to be Reunion co-chairs for the 70th Reunion of the Class of 1952, I felt it a bit more than an act of hubris to think I could reach 92 and complete the task. Yet here we are, five years on and facing the threshold of our 70th in June. We have been working to offer a memorable Reunion: Rik Clark<\/strong> is enthusiastically helping to promote attendance and hoping to break the attendance record for a 70th Reunion now held by the Class of 1937; Cornell\u2019s \u201cunofficial historian\u201d Corey Earle<\/strong> \u201907<\/strong> will lead our class event, tracing the changes in Cornell over these 70 years, focusing on and moderating discussion of the generational differences we have all experienced; and the Statler will be a convenient venue as our headquarters. All we need are those classmates who can do so to come together and share in the joy of memories of the place and friends that were so much one of the best parts of their lives. CU in \u201922!\u201d Now Cappy: \u201cRegistration for our 70th Reunion will begin in March or early April when Alumni Affairs will send registration forms via ground mail. Watch your mail! If you have questions, please call our Alumni Affairs rep, Brenda Canniff, at (607) 255-1916.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n And now, thanks to the University\u2019s sending out that plea for news to all our classmates, we have news to share. Alan Sokolski<\/strong> (Silver Spring, MD; acsokolski@verizon.net) wrote, \u201cFor the first time since COVID arrived, accompanied by other members of my family, I returned to Ithaca in mid-November. We went to see granddaughter Samantha Noland \u201921<\/strong> perform in the fall play, where she was the lead. When she graduates the week before Christmas, I will watch the ceremony that will be streamed. This past summer she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.\u201d Alan has been taking Osher\/Johns Hopkins courses for nearly 30 weeks a year, including the summer months. \u201cI enjoy courses taught by highly knowledgeable presenters via Zoom. The majority are art and music, which I greatly enjoy and which I never studied before. This term: Giacomo Puccini\/Richard Strauss, Gustav Klimt, the Divine Comedy<\/em>, Ovid\u2019s Metamorphoses<\/em>, and Shakespeare\u2019s legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Asked how his daily life has changed recently, Charles Soumas <\/strong>(Cotuit, MA; cotuitchas@comcast.net) replied, \u201cAt 93, every new day is a blessing.\u201d He has been writing short stories, 15 so far, which he hopes to self-publish. Subjects include murder, humor, sci-fi, love, terror, and so forth. He would love to send copies of any to fellow Cornellians. What else has been happening? \u201cMy 14-year-old grandson has developed an application for Google that has resulted in over 2 million hits and downloads from all over the world.\u201d What brings Charles the most satisfaction these days? \u201cMy wife of 58 years, my family, and my friends.\u201d Harriette Scannell <\/strong>Morgan (morgmorgmorg@aol.com), asked how her daily life has changed recently, writes, \u201cThe bones do not work as well, so I use a rollator in our retirement center. Socializing has been limited since COVID made its ugly appearance.\u201d What has she been doing? \u201cI am the archivist for our community and am an avid reader on my Kindle. I also love playing the TriPeaks game on the computer, as it reminds me of my favorite place, the Grand Teton mountain range.\u201d What else is going on with your life or family? \u201cOur grandson and two sons love to travel. They will be glad when they can do so again.\u201d The most satisfaction? \u201cBeing able to get out of bed in the morning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n David Greenwood<\/strong> (Pompton Plains, NJ; greenwood.david2@gmail.com) writes, \u201cThere has been some loosening of COVID restrictions at Cedar Crest, the retirement community where I live. Dining rooms are functional, and masks are not required except in groups of more than 30. I edit our quarterly magazine, sing in our singers and chorale groups, write short plays in our playwriting workshop, perform with the players, take part in our Zen Buddhist sangha, and attend exercise classes.\u201d What brings David the most satisfaction these days? \u201cBeing alive and functioning at the age of 90.\u201d Lewis Ward-Baker<\/strong> (patnlew@rochester.rr.com) writes, \u201cLike all of those in our classmates\u2019 vulnerable age range, there has been the constant questioning of how much exposure to our usually active lives we should prudently curtail to avoid infection\u2014but I can\u2019t give up music, which has always been part of my search for beauty in the world. I continue to sing with several groups, large and small. The big change is to sing with masks on.\u201d Lewis adds, \u201cI\u2019ve been working on a play\u2014my first major writing attempt since term papers on the Hill. My writing partner and I are seeking the rights to the original stories by I.B. Singer, on which our effort is based\u2014and it\u2019s not easy!\u201d What else? \u201cWe\u2019re eagerly anticipating an encore of last year\u2019s holiday celebration that honors our four-generation family\u2019s many birthdays and an anniversary that all fall during November, December, and January.\u201d The most satisfaction these days? \u201cSharing these rich years with my wonderful wife, making music, and trying to live out my motto: \u2018Seek beauty and be kind.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now then, with all your help, I have reached my 900-word limit. I still have news from Sue Youker<\/strong> Schlaepfer, Rik Clark, and Jim Ling<\/strong>. They will be first next time, but there is room for more. Write! A quick note to Het: My rollator is purple; what color is yours? \u2756 Joan Boffa<\/strong> Gaul, joangaul@mac.com. Online news form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am writing this in early December and wish you holiday greetings even though you won\u2019t see this article until spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Julian Aroesty <\/strong>(jma38@cornell.edu) reports, \u201cFor years, I listened to my elderly patients tell me that they are moving near their grandchildren, since so many of their friends have also moved, died, or been confined to assisted living. Now I am in the same position, having moved to Scituate, MA, three miles from Hayden, 4, and Clair, 2, both of whom spend every Wednesday at our home and visit several times in between. It is a joy.\u201d Julian consults for a Harvard medical insurer and for Coverys, a national malpractice insurer. He also does second-opinion consultations for Teladoc International, mostly in Europe, India, and Asia. He is cycling regularly for a couple of thousand miles each winter in Florida, and also is rereading the classics (starting with War and Peace<\/em> for the tenth time as recommended by V. Nabokov, so that one could enjoy the craft of the writing separate from the story itself). This September, Julian\u2019s niece matriculated at Cornell\u2014as did two of his four kids, but none of his grandkids (four chose not to apply and three are not yet college age). What brings him the most satisfaction now is his family and grandchildren. He says, \u201cWealth, prestige, and profession all pale in comparison to the joy of interacting with our youngest two, who are as delighted to be with us as we are with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jack Brophy<\/strong> (johnbrophy@aol.com) and Jack Allen<\/strong>, PhD \u201966 (jwallen@msu.edu) have been close friends since 1937, when they were classmates in second grade in Pelham, NY. Fate has intertwined their experiences. Both were accepted at Cornell, unaware that the other had applied. They were roommates freshman year and joined Sigma Phi. Jack Brophy recalls their unexpected meetings while in the service: \u201cJack Allen entered the Marines in \u201953, but I was in a five-year ME course and joined the Navy in \u201954. Freshman year, we hitchhiked weekly to the Navy Reserve in Ithaca. Then came Korea, and they began activating men from the Reserves. That summer, I was accepted into the NROTC and two weeks later received orders from the Reserves to report to Bainbridge, MD, as a seaman recruit. The NROTC prevailed. I have two Navy discharges. I land on my feet a lot. Jack was not called up and went to OCS for the Marines. We met up again when I was stationed in Baltimore and Jack was at Camp Lejeune, NC. Then I went to San Diego, and he was sent to Camp Pendleton, CA, just above San Diego, then to Korea, then to Camp McGill in Japan near Yokosuka Navy Base at the same time that my LSD-8 was sent to Yokosuka, where we met again. We were both on an amphibious exercise off of Japan, where we ended up being two of just 18 people in a meeting of the Marine Platoon Leaders and Navy Communications! We later attended a Cornell alumni meeting in Tokyo, where Jack met Linda Cone \u201958<\/strong> (Hotel), his future wife, who was then a management intern at the iconic Imperial Hotel. We then both came back to California, where we spent Thanksgiving at my cousin\u2019s in L.A. This must be a record number of coincidences!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n From his home in North Carolina, Bob Neff<\/strong>, JD \u201956 (princetoneff@aol.com) describes his ongoing autobiography. \u201cA few years ago, some shirttail relatives suggested I author an autobiography\u2014just for family consumption. I titled the piece \u2018Thirty Thousand Sunsets\u2019 and calculated that it would carry me to my mid-80s, by which time I\u2019d be fully cooked. This morning, I counted and voila!<\/em> I\u2019m coming up on 35,000 sunsets!\u201d Bob reminds us, \u201cAn American\u2019s life expectancy in the year most of us were born was age 59! I hope all readers are still fully involved in the overtime we are enjoying. Aren\u2019t we all lucky to be seeing and doing so much.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gerry Grady<\/strong> (gradygerry@comcast.net) writes that he is very happy keeping in touch with Elliot Cattarulla<\/strong>, Chuck Berlinghof<\/strong>, Jack Brophy, Vinnie Giarrusso<\/strong>, Dick Hayes<\/strong>, Fletcher Hock<\/strong>, Bruce Johnson<\/strong>, MBA \u201954, Louie Pradt<\/strong>, and Bob Weber<\/strong>. He reports that Porter Stone<\/strong> has moved back to Syracuse. Gerry has taken up genealogy and now has 350,000 names in his database! Queen Elizabeth, Lady Gaga, Obama, JFK, U.S. Grant, Amelia Earhart, Clint Eastwood, Frederic Remington, Tyrone Power, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Plamondon, Chuck Rolles \u201956<\/strong>, Ezra Cornell, etc. All relatives! Sounds like Gerry. Please keep your messages coming. \u2756 John Nixon<\/strong>, nixn1@hotmail.com; Jack Allen<\/strong>, jwallen@msu.edu; Ed Gibson<\/strong>, edwincosgibson@gmail.com; Caroline Mulford <\/strong>Owens, 53news.cornell@gmail.com. Online news form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the November\/December Class Notes, we wrote about three distinguished classmates. As we submitted our column, we received word that one of them, Steven Weinberg<\/strong>, died on July 23. Perhaps you read the full-page obituary<\/a> in the New York Times<\/em> on July 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since then, I have communicated a bit with his wife, Louise Goldwasser Weinberg<\/strong> (LWeinberg@law.utexas.edu). She writes, \u201cHe had become the world\u2019s greatest living physicist. There are lots of Nobel laureates, but he was also a lifetime leader in his field and in cosmology as well. You can find endless affection for him among his colleagues if you type \u2018Steven Weinberg\u2019 into YouTube\u2019s search bar.\u201d They have a daughter, Elizabeth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n YouTube also presents a wealth of information about Louise\u2019s career. After earning two degrees from Harvard Law, she developed expertise in the fields of constitutional law, federal courts, conflict of laws, and legal theory and jurisprudence. She writes that what earned her the chair in law at the U. of Texas\u2019s law school was \u201cmy Federal Courts<\/em> casebook. Although women\u2019s works were sparse of adoption back in 1994, I was honored to be told it was \u2018one of the great casebooks.\u2019 My chief interest, though, was in the conflict of laws, an unpopular area in which my articles did make a few contributions to theory. Two years after I came to Texas, Steven decided to join me here in Austin.\u201d Louise adds, \u201cThough I\u2019m now mourning Steve and sheltering at home, I have Zoom meetings with my book group and my poetry group. Among my closest friends are politicians, judges, journalists, financiers, theater directors, and authors.\u201d She continues to enjoy a rich life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An intriguing anecdote from Louise concerns three classmates, all of whom were female, Jewish, and destined for law. \u201cOnce, in a dorm room full of coeds, somebody asked Ruthie Bader <\/strong>Ginsburg what she wanted to become, and she said she wanted to be a lawyer. I remember laughing and saying, \u2018Why?\u2019 I couldn\u2019t imagine such an ambition. My father had been a workaday lawyer in a small practice in a dusty office and I saw nothing in it. Years later I was inspired by the Warren Court.\u201d The third coed from that conversation who became a noted lawyer is Judith Weintraub<\/strong> Younger, the first woman dean of a law school in the US. In the early 1970s, after Fred Wood<\/strong>, already a prominent Episcopal minister and class leader, had died, in his memory our class sponsored a forum with Cornell United Religious Work. It was in the early days of the feminist movement. Those planning the event asked the speakers\u2019 agency in New York for a provocative speaker. Completely by serendipity they chose Judith, whose topic was \u201cThe Law is a Male Chauvinist Pig.\u201d She gave a rousing talk with marvelous humor, and we all survived!<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have heard from Lawrence Keeley<\/strong> (lwkeeley@juno.com) who lives in the Dallas area. He studied in CALS (what we knew as the Ag school) and remembers that Prof. George Trimberger<\/strong>, GR \u201945\u201346<\/strong>, <\/strong>exerted a strong influence on him; he was an expert in dairy cattle and taught cattle judging as well. Lawrence had a dairy farm, was a county agricultural agent, established an agri-business, and recruited for agri-business. He and his late wife have six children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When folks like Louise and Lawrence share news or memories, we can present this column. We look forward to hearing from more of you. You may fill out and submit an online news form here<\/a>, or you may email either of us directly at the addresses below. And, as always, you may read more at our class website<\/a>, long and well maintained by Jan Jakes<\/strong> Kunz. \u2756 Ruth Carpenter<\/strong> Bailey, rcbhtb@gmail.com; Bill Waters<\/strong>, billwaters@optonline.net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Malcolm Whyte<\/strong> has been \u201cwriting articles and a book on Edward Gorey<\/a>.\u201d He also has been \u201chappily surviving\u201d COVID-19. He writes, \u201cKaren and I and our teacher daughter got our vaccinations.\u201d Malcolm is getting a lot of satisfaction from the fact that his wife, children, and some grandchildren are close by, thanks to Zoom.\u201d His biggest takeaway from the pandemic is \u201cfamily and friends\u2019 visits and hugs.\u201d Malcolm included his e-mail address (wordplay@worldpassage.net) and we hope others will do the same. Remember, your friends want to know your news\u2014and this is such an easy way to keep up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Class president Bill Doerler<\/strong> and his wife, Pat, are \u201creturning to Singer Island in Florida after a one-year COVID hiatus.\u201d Bill is starting off the new year with prospective plans for Class of \u201955 lunches, which he will be co-hosting with Ron Ganeles<\/strong>. <\/strong>One get-together will be on Singer Island and another in Boynton Beach. A great way to catch up with old friends. \u2756 Nancy Savage<\/strong> Petrie, 85 Brook St., Noank, CT 06340; e-mail, nancysavagepetrie@yahoo.com. Online news form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Books from two California classmates: James Larrimore<\/strong> (Del Mar, CA) has a new book regarding a war correspondent of WWI. For more information, contact him at jameslarrimore11@gmail.com. Lael Jackson<\/strong> (Oceanside, CA) published her book, Jump at the Chance!<\/em>, a memoir with lots of Cornell stories. Judy Richter<\/strong> Levy, LLB \u201959, once again organized a class dinner in NYC prior to the biennial Cornell-Boston U. hockey game at Madison Square Garden. In attendance, besides Judy, were Ron<\/strong> and Prudence Dunbar<\/strong>, John Sarna<\/strong>, Emita Brady<\/strong> Hill, and Christine Zeller<\/strong> Lippman. Bob Boffa<\/strong> had hoped to be there, but a long drive and impending knee surgery intervened. Adult beverages were served, and the discussion turned to Tripod (cut me off, that dog only has three legs). To cap things off, the Big Red won a spirited game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I regret to report that Bill Schumacher<\/strong>, PhD \u201964, passed away in August of last year. He is remembered as the number-five oar in the \u201cEngine Room\u201d of the 1957 crew, undefeated in our senior year and winners of the Henley Regatta. Bill was so much more than that, having taught engineering in Argentina with the Peace Corps (meeting his wife, Amelia, in the process) and spending time at Stanford Research Inst. International. He got the nickname \u201cShifty\u201d for his quirky moves on the dance floor; Bill claimed his nickname stemmed from his prowess on the basketball court. \u2756 John Seiler<\/strong>, suitcase2@aol.com. Online news form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Writing in late 2021, we all wonder where the pandemic is going with new variants popping up as time moves on. Classmates are active, nevertheless, and we have some reports to pass on in this continued digital method of communication. Your co-correspondent has no firm news on the hard copy issuance of same, since nothing new has come from the University beyond, \u201cIt\u2019s coming in 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n As we go to press, we have just learned of our loss of Liz Fuchs<\/strong> Fillo last November. Liz had been so pleased in her autumn note for this column that her hip revision of last spring would lead to a more mobile life after her years of pain following a skiing accident in 2012. She had been active on various boards, writing her memoirs, gardening, and, most important to her, singing. As she wrote then, \u201cI\u2019m working on a one-woman show called These Are a Few of My Favorite Sings<\/em>, songs I\u2019ve performed going back to my Cornell days up to the last ten years or so. How lucky we are to have each other, great friends, a cozy home (still in Princeton, with spouse Chris Coucill), and activities that bring us joy and stimulation.\u201d We will miss Liz, her Sherwoods\u2019 singing, and her bright smile and fine humor whenever we gather on campus, and we extend our sympathy to her husband, Chris, to Steve Fillo<\/strong> \u201959<\/strong>, and to Liz\u2019s children and grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Allan Hoffman<\/strong> published a new book in February 2019 as an open access book, free to download (as full book or individual chapters) at this website<\/a>. The book is titled Water, Energy, and Environment<\/em>, and Allan brings all three components together as he writes to conserve and protect our future. Further conversation can be had with Allan at arh0531@gmail.com. Another of our many writers, Holocaust scholar Arthur Shostak <\/strong>(arthurshostak@gmail.com), mentions his 34th book since 1961, this one titled Stealth Altruism: Forbidden Care as Jewish Resistance in the Holocaust<\/em>. He and Lynn have lived in California since 2006 and now reside on \u201can island of 80,000 happy people, Alameda Island.\u201d Arthur, \u201ca revisionist,\u201d he says, gets most satisfaction these days from writing about the Holocaust and also enjoying his five grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Muriel King<\/strong> Taylor, MD \u201962, <\/strong>sends an update from last year that she is now in a good medication and rehab program for TB, saying that getting that disease \u201cis rare in my neck of the woods (Washington State), so I\u2019ve appreciated the excellent care, follow up, and information provided by the Pierce County Health Dept. I am about halfway through my nine months of prescribed medication and expect to be cured of TB but probably not my shortness of breath. I have not ever been infectious (for which I am grateful), but COVID, while complicating life for everyone, has fit in well with staying at home and reducing my activities. So life continues, just on a smaller scale, and I find myself grateful for all. Best wishes to all 1958 Cornellians.\u201d We wish you well, Muriel, in your continuing recovery. Louis Bucciarelli<\/strong>, MS \u201960 (llbjr@mit.edu) has a new great-granddaughter, Ada, who resides in Palo Alto, far from his home in Belmont, MA. He reports that all family are healthy and employed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Louesa Merrill<\/strong> Gillespie (louesa@outlook.com) keeps a good eye on the \u201cstrong family business, Beachmere Inn,\u201d she writes, glad to see business returning last spring in Ogunquit, ME. Louesa says, \u201cI\u2019m living with the seasons, enjoying my garden of 55 years, friends, and family visits, learning Mahjong, and staying active in church and local nonprofits.\u201d From a bit further south, we learn that Martin Steinberg<\/strong> still works from home in Naples, FL, connecting with Boston U. med school and consulting for biotech as \u201cpart of the team that has developed a possible cure for sickle cell disease and thalassemia, a runner-up (after COVID vaccines) for \u2018science breakthrough of 2020.\u2019\u201d Although he hasn\u2019t seen his grandchildren since 2019, he continues to find satisfaction in his ability to work. He adds, \u201cIf you\u2019re well situated, survival is easy; otherwise, good luck.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sheila Siegel <\/strong>Friedman (sheilalf@sbcglobal.net) says, \u201cI have a sharpened view of the world having read Dark Money<\/em>, as well as Code Blue<\/em> about medical service, along with Finnegans Wake<\/em> with an international Zoom group.\u201d Sheila adds an interesting note that \u201cthe Arecibo Observatory situation has impacted the life of my son, Jonathan<\/strong> \u201984<\/strong>, whose home overlooks the space left by the collapsed disk.\u201d That loss is sad, one must say, after its amazing observations over the decades past, and Cornell was a major part of it all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Robert Hendricks<\/strong>, PhD \u201964 (rwhendricks37@icloud.com) writes, \u201cI spend most of my time classifying and cataloging my photos\u2014some 25,000 images\u2014creating slide shows, note cards, and calendars of our travels, and giving lectures on our garden travels to Europe.\u201d Robert and Delores are very happy in their retirement home since 2018, Brooksby Village in Peabody, MA, where Robert has had an \u201coutstanding reception\u201d of his series of TV shows, \u201cthe production of seven resident gardeners and photographers in the style of a quiz show for residents to identify flowers and wild animals.\u201d His biggest takeaway from the pandemic is this: \u201cThe group of anti-everything, which rejects science and now the vaccines, is beyond my comprehension.\u201d Al Podell<\/strong> feels similarly in both actions: he also put on a show, this one a party for 240 friends last fall in NYC, of selected pictures from his 25,000 images of travels, and, as Robert would be pleased to know, not one case of COVID has shown up from that gathering. Good news. For now, cheers to all; keep well. \u2756 Dick Haggard<\/strong>, richardhaggard11@gmail.com; Janet Arps<\/strong> Jarvie, janjarvie@gmail.com. Online news form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The new normal. As I write this in mid-December, Cornell has canceled University events and moved all final exams online due to an increase in COVID-19 cases. All of us seem to be living in a hybrid world, exemplified by Alan Newhouse<\/strong>\u2019s (arnewhouse@gmail.com) recent Irish music session among a group of five live and two Zoomer musicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTo say that the last 22 months have been challenging would be an understatement,\u201d writes Harry Petchesky<\/strong> (Harry@hjpesq.com), of counsel with LePatner & Assocs. in NYC. \u201cWhile the times have been challenging, they have also been very busy, interesting, and unique in that we have adapted to working remotely with Teams arguments of a successful Appellate Division appeal, a protracted settlement negotiation of a lawsuit pending since 2013, Zoom meetings with clients and friends, and communication by email, cell phone, and landlines becoming the norm. Barry LaPatner has decided to close our office and work remotely. I, in turn, will be moving into an office, hopefully by year\u2019s end.\u201d In addition to his professional activities, Harry is a life member of the Cornell Council with service from 1980. When not in the city, he and his wife, Jill, relax in their country home in Upstate New York. They spent a December evening with Nelson Joyner<\/strong> and his wife, seeing an All-Australian cabaret featuring Harry\u2019s nephew Benjamin McHugh, who has appeared in Broadway musicals, most prominently in one of the lead roles in Mamma Mia<\/em>. Harry also reports that he and his Tau Delta Phi classmates have had two Zoom meetings and are planning their third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Harry noted, too, that he and Ellie Applewhaite <\/strong>were on a Zoom call on December 15 as part of the committee for their 60th Columbia Law School reunion this coming June. The following evening, I had the pleasure of dining with Ellie, Linda Rogers<\/strong> Cohen, and Marian Fay<\/strong> Levitt at the Cornell Club\u2013New York. Among our Cornell-oriented topics of discussion was the \u201959 class scholarship, which as of June 30, 2021 had a book value of $387,589 and a market value of $486,455. Later in the year, class officers agreed to transfer $75,000 from our class treasury to the scholarship fund. \u201cThis left the class treasury with a balance of over $54,000, which is considered adequate for ongoing expenses and support of future Reunions,\u201d reported class treasurer Bill Kingston<\/strong>. \u201cOur plan is to reassess the situation after our 65th Reunion in 2024 and determine appropriate next steps.\u201d Note that the amount available for scholarship awards is determined by the value of the fund and the rate of payout from the endowment. A student is selected by Cornell\u2019s Office of Financial Aid and Student Employment to receive an award. Once that student\u2019s financial need is met, if there are funds remaining in the payout, a second student is selected, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhat has been your biggest takeaway from the pandemic?\u201d asked the 2021 Share Your News form. \u201cBe patient and enjoy the small pleasures unnoticed before,\u201d wrote Elise Schmahlfeldt<\/strong> Hall<\/strong> (ehall20435@gmail.com). \u201cMy life took a very sad and unexpected change on March 10, 2020, when Allan<\/strong>, my husband of 65 years, passed away. Two weeks later, our independent living retirement community in Fort Myers, FL, went into COVID-19 mode, with restricted visitors until spring 2021, after all residents had been vaccinated.\u201d Elise enjoys playing bridge, Mahjong, and Samba with fellow residents, and is happy to have her son and daughter living nearby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Carol Vieth<\/strong> Mead (newfmom01@gmail.com)\u2014the email address reflects the fact that she owned Newfoundland dogs for 40 years\u2014saw her daughter, Betsy Mead<\/strong> Noel \u201986<\/strong>, for the first time in 19 months when they took a Natural Habitat Adventures\/World Wildlife Fund trip to Glacier National Park. There were only eight people in the group, including the guide. Carol participated in several short hikes, \u201cso I can honestly say I went hiking in the park!\u201d On longer hikes, Carol remained behind, with bear spray she fortunately did not need. \u201cThe scenery was spectacular, though some days it was somewhat masked by smoke coming from fires in Oregon. Those fires impacted our flights home, since available fuel was being used for fire-fighting planes. I managed to return to Los Angeles the day I was supposed to, but Betsy had to spend a night in Kalispell, waiting for sufficient fuel to get her back to New York.\u201d Carol continues to take Omnilore classes at the Osher Lifelong Learning Inst. at California State U. \u201cOmnilore offers three terms of classes with about 25 choices each term,\u201d she explains. \u201cI opt to take just one course each term. As part of each course, one is required to do a 45-minute oral\/PowerPoint presentation on something connected with the course topic. In one class, I spoke of aviators who were authors, focusing on Lindbergh and Saint-Exup\u00e9ry. In another, I presented information on the construction of the Statue of Liberty. Most recently, in a class based on the book The Alchemy of Us<\/em>, I spoke about two things that are now obsolete but that greatly influenced our world: the teletypewriter and the laying in 1963 of the transatlantic cable. My father was the principal liaison between Bell Labs and the Teletype Corp., so I thoroughly enjoyed looking through many of his papers and notes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reminders: Previous class columns can be found at the Cornellians<\/em> Class Notes archives<\/a>. And you can 24\/7\/365 email your latest news to me directly. \u2756 Jenny Tesar<\/strong>, jet24@cornell.edu. Online news form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n1940s<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Sad news: Maria Radoslovich<\/strong> Cox (Ponte Vedra Beach, FL) passed away in October. Maria was a most successful interior designer. A contribution for the Johnson Art Museum could be considered in her name by her Cornell friends. \u2756 Phyllis Bosworth<\/strong>, phylboz@aol.com. Online news form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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