{"id":65744,"date":"2026-02-27T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=65744"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:31:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:31:48","slug":"class-notes-march-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/class-notes-march-april-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"March \/ April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"class-notes-year-navigation\" style=\"--class-groups:10\"><ul>\n\t<li rel=\"1950s-wrapper\" ><a rel=\"1950s\" class=\"rkv-no-underline alumni-hub-class-notes-year-1950s\" data-class-group=\"1950s\" href=\"#class-group-1950s\">1950s<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li rel=\"1960s-wrapper\" ><a rel=\"1960s\" class=\"rkv-no-underline alumni-hub-class-notes-year-1960s\" data-class-group=\"1960s\" href=\"#class-group-1960s\">1960s<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li rel=\"1970s-wrapper\" ><a rel=\"1970s\" class=\"rkv-no-underline alumni-hub-class-notes-year-1970s\" data-class-group=\"1970s\" href=\"#class-group-1970s\">1970s<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li rel=\"1980s-wrapper\" ><a rel=\"1980s\" class=\"rkv-no-underline alumni-hub-class-notes-year-1980s\" data-class-group=\"1980s\" href=\"#class-group-1980s\">1980s<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li rel=\"1990s-wrapper\" ><a rel=\"1990s\" class=\"rkv-no-underline alumni-hub-class-notes-year-1990s\" data-class-group=\"1990s\" href=\"#class-group-1990s\">1990s<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li rel=\"2000s-wrapper\" ><a rel=\"2000s\" class=\"rkv-no-underline alumni-hub-class-notes-year-2000s\" data-class-group=\"2000s\" href=\"#class-group-2000s\">2000s<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li rel=\"2010s-wrapper\" ><a rel=\"2010s\" class=\"rkv-no-underline alumni-hub-class-notes-year-2010s\" data-class-group=\"2010s\" href=\"#class-group-2010s\">2010s<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li rel=\"2020s-wrapper\" ><a rel=\"2020s\" class=\"rkv-no-underline alumni-hub-class-notes-year-2020s\" data-class-group=\"2020s\" href=\"#class-group-2020s\">2020s<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li rel=\"Grad-wrapper\" ><a rel=\"Grad\" class=\"rkv-no-underline alumni-hub-class-notes-year-grad\" data-class-group=\"Grad\" href=\"#class-group-Grad\">Grad<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<li rel=\"Group-wrapper\" ><a rel=\"Group\" class=\"rkv-no-underline alumni-hub-class-notes-year-group\" data-class-group=\"Group\" href=\"#class-group-Group\">Group<\/a><\/li>\n\t<\/ul><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-large-font-size\">Find out what your fellow alums are up to\u2014new jobs, babies, marriages, and much more\u2014in Class Notes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-style-link has-cornell-teal-background-color has-background rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-huge-font-size rkv-gutter-bottom-quarter\"><strong>WE\u2019D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:11px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">Class Notes are your opportunity to connect with your class and share news. Have you marked a career milestone or taken a trip? Did you get married, have a baby, or welcome a grandchild? Do you have a Big Red memory that would make your classmates smile?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Send us Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:75px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center is-style-class-group has-x-large-font-size\">1950s<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-62e4f7182b3baf2ff0b9b5075aa1baf8\"><strong>1950<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am still alive and moving on my own, 75 years after graduating from Cornell with a degree in Far Eastern studies,\u201d writes <strong>David Cole<\/strong> (Westport Point, MA). \u201cI spent much of my professional career teaching, at Vanderbilt and Harvard, about economic development, and advising governments, especially in South Korea and Indonesia but also at least a dozen other countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, as well as writing 10 books on economic issues in those countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have now been \u2018retired\u2019 for 25 years, living mainly on the South Coast of Massachusetts and trying to address major environmental issues such as water quality and climate change, especially development of offshore wind power off the New England coast. My wife, Betty Slade, and I have joined demonstrations in Washington, Boston, Fairhaven, and Westport\u2014our hometown.\u201d \u2756 <strong>Class of 1950<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#x61;il&#x74;o&#58;&#x61;b&#x62;83&#64;&#x63;&#x6f;&#114;&#x6e;ell&#x2e;&#x65;&#x64;&#117;\">email c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-d0f7f1db188b98fceeca787833d93530\"><strong>1951\u201353<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We don\u2019t have any news from these classes to report this round\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 us. \u2756 <strong>Classes of 1951\u201353 <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#109;&#x61;ilt&#111;&#x3a;&#x61;&#x62;&#98;8&#x33;&#x40;&#x63;&#111;&#114;&#x6e;&#x65;&#x6c;&#108;&#x2e;&#x65;&#100;&#117;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-e7a1f91e01d31740b7b0f67c333ce7b2\"><strong>1954<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Louise<\/strong> \u201cLou\u201d <strong>Schaefer<\/strong> <strong>Dailey<\/strong> traveled to Cuba in early 2025. An experienced class correspondent, Lou graciously sent us an account of her trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn January 2025 I traveled to Cuba for the 15th Havana Biennial of Art. Our group of seven stayed in a hostel on Avenue Presidentes and each day after breakfast we boarded a small air-conditioned bus for the drive to Old Havana along El Malec\u00f3n, the five-mile seawall\/promenade along the waterfront. The city is amazing\u2014a mixture of grand 19th-century palaces, some renovated in glory and some crumbling, next to modern skyscrapers. We were guided on a walking tour and through buildings and museums by a Cuban art historian and curator. We had lunch in a second-floor restaurant with impromptu entertainment by a Mocko Jumbie band parading in the street below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDinners and lunches were varied\u2014everything from a local seaside caf\u00e9 to a chic contemporary restaurant with elegant food, service, and surroundings. One night we went to the Tropicana Club for the famous, spectacular show. Such costumes! Such dancing! Such a lot of rum! Wonderful people-watching!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnother night we went to an international dance competition at the National Theatre of Cuba, a big, beautiful, modern auditorium. We sat behind a row of performers: 12- to 13-year-old girls wore red and white dresses, hair swept back in a tight bun. Mascara and lipstick for the performance, and all giggling and squirming with excitement at the appearance of another contestant\u2014an 18- to 20-year-old American boy. He was a favorite!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe days were filled with visits to museums, galleries, studios, workshops, and a craft center. We visited the National Museum of Fine Arts, the National Museum of Contemporary Ceramics, the Superior Institute for the Arts, and, in Cathedral Square, the Wilfredo Lam Contemporary Art Center with experimental graphic workshops, prints for sale, and a 17th-century printing press (still working). The Superior Institute is the leading higher education art academy in Cuba and was established in 1961 in the former Havana Country Club and is a cluster of red brick-domed buildings and arched walkways. We were guided by the dean of visual arts. The buildings house classrooms and studios for sculpture, ceramics, and painting. Some artists were at work, and we were pleased to communicate, as best we could. And lastly, we did have a ride in a vintage car: mine was a 1954 Buick convertible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In January 2025 I traveled to Cuba for the 15th Havana Biennial of Art.<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Louise <\/strong>\u201cLou\u201d <strong>Schaefer Dailey \u201954<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you, Lou, for sharing that. Almost as good as going there, but much less demanding of us. This class correspondent traveled more than usual in 2025, but I stayed in the States. A variety of purposes motivated my trips. A brief weekend in Tempe with a granddaughter who had moved there recently. A second brief weekend in Portland, ME, to celebrate the life of a dear friend from Binghamton: our friendship spanned 89 years!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then a happy weekend in Nashville to celebrate an earlier wedding of another granddaughter. Time with my brother and the family at a tiny lake near Binghamton. (My grandfather and <strong>Jack Vail<\/strong>\u2019s grandfather built cottages there in 1918!) These events are not earthshaking or newsworthy, but they reflect some of the moments in our lives which add meaning and help us maintain significant relationships. I hope you will share similar events from your lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In late October I managed to fly into Binghamton (down to one flight in and out daily) for a weekend focused on Cornell. Again I stayed with my brother, <strong>Charlie Carpenter \u201959<\/strong>, MD \u201963, and his wife, Sue. On October 25 we drove to Cornell for the dinner at which the annual Frank H.T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Awards are presented. This year my brother-in-law, <strong>Bob Everett \u201965<\/strong>, and his wife, <strong>Mary Jansen Everett \u201966<\/strong>, were <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/2025-rhodes-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two of six recognized for outstanding service<\/a> to Cornell. (Among other work, they support the women\u2019s hockey team, together with their daughter <strong>Liz Everett Krisberg \u201997<\/strong>, recently a Cornell trustee, and Liz\u2019s husband, Brian.) A very happy celebration indeed. Fun to be in the Statler, but strange to be there without any \u201954 classmates. I did speak briefly with <strong>Bill Gratz \u201953<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of us are no longer able to travel, as Lou did or even as I did. We are fortunate to be able to communicate in ways our parents did not imagine. So I look forward to hearing from a few of you via email, texts, or even the phone. Another sign of the times: this fall, landline service to our building was terminated. Now I depend solely on my mobile phone\u2014a bit of an adjustment. A few enterprising high school seniors come here occasionally to help us become better at managing our electronic devices. They call themselves Tech Talk. I like to think this is a good experience for them as well as for us. \u2756 <strong>Ruth Carpenter Bailey<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#97;&#x69;l&#x74;&#x6f;&#58;&#x72;&#99;&#98;&#104;&#116;&#98;&#x40;gm&#97;&#105;l&#46;c&#x6f;&#x6d;\">email Ruth<\/a>) | <strong>Bill Waters<\/strong>, <strong>MBA \u201955<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#97;&#105;&#x6c;&#116;o&#x3a;&#x62;&#x69;&#108;l&#x77;&#97;&#x74;&#101;&#x72;&#x73;&#x40;o&#x70;&#x74;&#x6f;&#x6e;l&#x69;n&#101;&#x2e;ne&#116;\">email Bill<\/a>) | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/classof54.alumni.cornell.edu\/\">Class website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-da91d5ab8482e7131308fe940d2c5b78\"><strong>1955<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I was given the job of writing a Class of 1955 news column last June at our 70th Reunion. I have been a writer since I wrote for my grade school \u201cnewspaper\u201d in the sixth grade, in 1945. At Cornell I was an editor on the <em>Daily Sun<\/em> and did photography for the <em>Cornell Alumni News<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent a career as a Washington correspondent for out-of-town newspapers, beginning with the <em>Chicago American<\/em>. When it folded I wrote for a succession of three western papers, retiring in 1991 when the last one was failing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I covered presidents from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton. I was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and in 1978 was given the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award by the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association for investigative journalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After I left the newspaper game, I went to the Smithsonian Institution as its auto racing advisor. Since then I have written seven nonfiction books and done monthly columns for two magazines. In 1996 I moved down here to southeastern Virginia on Chesapeake Bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1978 I bought an antique Offenhauser racing car, restored it, and since have driven it in numerous vintage racing contests. In 1989 I drove it at the Bonneville Salt Flats to an international speed record for vehicles of under 2,000 cc displacement, going 153.198 mph, a record that still stands. It also holds the U.S. Midget record of 156.902 mph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I held, for many years, a 100-ton U.S. Coast Guard captain\u2019s license and for a time sailed a tall ship out of Alexandria, VA. Just sold our 30-foot sailboat, <em>Brigadoon II,<\/em> as Mary Anne and I are no longer quite steady enough on our feet to handle an at-sea emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is my first attempt with a Cornell class column, although I have done one for my graduate school class at Columbia University for 10 years, and I hereby solicit news from all \u201955ers for future columns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In the interest of Cornell 1955 nostalgia, let me recall a watering hole most of us visited during our days in Ithaca, but which no longer exists: the Clinton House Cocktail Lounge.<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Gordon White \u201955<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Barbara Balsam Brown<\/strong> writes that her husband, <strong>Len<\/strong>, died in 2007 \u201cafter 51 wonderful years together.\u201d In 2020 she sold the house and moved to Lantern Hill in New Providence, NJ, so that when she has to give up driving she will have a swimming pool right on the premises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stanley Cohen <\/strong>tells me that he is now running the Scone Foundation, in Copake, NY, supporting young artists. The foundation annually recognizes an archivist or activist who has made a significant contribution in such areas as resisting censorship, preserving historical memory, or providing support to scholars conducting research in history and biography. It also funds an annual prize in collaboration with the Calder Foundation to assist a young artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bill Doerler<\/strong> holds a monthly Zoom meeting for \u201955ers at 4 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month. If you join the email list, you will get the details on the first of the month as to how to connect to the Zoom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Richard Lapkin<\/strong> tells me that he is retired, living in the Phoenix, AZ, area. He says he is \u201cgenerally taking it easy,\u201d aside from taking several cruises. His daughter lives nearby and he often sees her and her two kids. Aside from family, he still plays tennis and duplicate bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the interest of Cornell 1955 nostalgia, let me recall a watering hole most of us visited during our days in Ithaca, but which no longer exists: the Clinton House Cocktail Lounge. In our day, there was an impressive mural in the bar there, painted by James Owen Mahoney, of the Cornell art department, depicting figures from Ithaca College, and Cornell, notable buildings in downtown Ithaca, and mythological figures toasting each other while floating in the air, representing festivity in wine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the left were representations of buildings on the Cornell campus and Cornell activities\u2014boating, swimming, crew racing, and general conviviality. The mural depicted, according to the artist Norman Daly, \u201ca spirited but refined bacchanal involving numerous figures, some nude and some in contemporary attire of the 1950s, against a romanticized version of Ithaca\u2019s gorges, waterfalls, lakes, and architecture, all idealized by a slightly alcoholic fantasy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Clinton House, built as a grand hotel in the Greek Revival style in 1830 at 116 North Cayuga Street, was designed by noted architect Ira Tillotson. It was rebuilt in 1901 and again in 1973, when the Historic Ithaca Foundation bought it (to prevent the building from being demolished to build a Holiday Inn) and restored it. The lounge was torn out in the 1980s, but I have gotten conflicting information as to whether the mural itself still exists. A digital copy of the mural is in the Library of Congress. Historic Ithaca sold the building in 2009 and it is now an office building, but covenants prevent it being torn down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember the mural with nostalgia. Do you? \u2756 <strong>Gordon White<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#x61;i&#108;&#116;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#103;&#x65;&#x77;hi&#x74;&#101;&#49;&#x32;2&#x40;&#x67;&#109;&#x61;i&#x6c;&#x2e;&#x63;&#111;m\">email Gordon<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-0fe64bb4940ad5f4e9347690a8a79bed\"><strong>1956<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy spring, Class of \u201956! We hope this message finds you well. If any classmates are reading this, we hope you will take the time to write to us! Others from our time on the Hill would greatly enjoy reading what you\u2019ve been up to over the years since graduation. \u2756 <strong>Class of 1956 <\/strong>(<a href=\"ma&#105;&#x6c;&#116;&#111;&#x3a;a&#98;b8&#51;&#x40;&#99;&#x6f;&#114;&#x6e;&#x65;&#x6c;&#108;&#x2e;&#101;&#x64;u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-2a3b4e50b0dfe2d85198bd5ad924f3ac\"><strong>1957<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The magic in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts has called several classmates to establish homes and\/or summer cottages in its very special atmosphere. Summer brings a multitude of tourists to enjoy a cornucopia found only in the Berkshires. This lovely setting offers Lenox\u2019s Tanglewood Music Center (summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra), the Williamstown Theater Festival, the Clark Art Institute, the Jacob\u2019s Pillow Dance Festival, Stockbridge\u2019s Norman Rockwell Museum and the Red Lion Inn near Pittsfield, the Hancock Shaker Village, and so much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Martin <\/strong>and <strong>Laurie Bloch Schwartz \u201959<\/strong> had a weekend condo in the Berkshires for 15 years. In 2000, after Martin retired from a banking career in New York City, they moved full time to the Berkshires. There, Martin is active in a hiking group and volunteers at a local food pantry. Laurie is on the board of the Barrington (MA) Stage Company, a recognized regional theater, and is a trustee emeritus of the Cornell Club of the Berkshires. They both volunteer at Tanglewood and still play tennis. They head out to Rancho Mirage, CA, to escape the New England winters and also enjoy taking cruises in the spring and fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Robert George <\/strong>sends his message from Blaine, WA, home of Semiahmoo Resort Golf &amp; Spa. Blaine is two hours north of Seattle and is near the Canadian border, \u201cas northwest as it gets.\u201d He keeps in touch with his PSK brothers and, while he stays close to home, hopes to take some road trips. He and wife Sherry had their two daughters and their son, their spouses, and children with them for a week in August for a small reunion. They had a lot of fun with their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren who arrived from Colleyville, TX, Vancouver, BC, and Kelowna, BC. Could they have been there to celebrate Bob\u2019s 90th birthday? He notes, \u201cReached the big 90 this year and still above ground!\u201d With both him and Sherry in fair health, they delight in visits from friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Anabel Stresino Leigh<\/strong>\u2019s family and friends celebrated her 90th birthday in early December with a party in her Palestine, TX, senior living setting. Anabel and her Forest Hills (NY) High School classmate <strong>Paul Noble <\/strong>had birthdays only two days apart. Paul\u2019s wife, Paulette, eased his transition to 90 with a super lunch with 75 of his nearest and dearest. <strong>Judy Reusswig <\/strong>celebrated her 90th December birthday with her Sun City friends in the Olde Pink House in Savannah, GA. She continued her celebration in January, traveling with friends on a cruise. She said she keeps her mind sharp by playing a lot of bridge and tackling Zen Word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The magic in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts has called several classmates to establish homes and\/or summer cottages in its very special atmosphere.<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Connie Santagato Hosterman<\/strong> <strong>\u201957<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Claire Sanford Perrault<\/strong> celebrated her 90th when her sister came to visit from England. Claire, the widow of the late Robert Perrault, lives in Jersey City, NJ, and stays active by writing \u201cVOTE\u201d postcards, attending weekly political gatherings with women friends, and gardening. Her comment about an impactful thing she learned at Cornell: \u201cThink it through.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Paul Tregurtha <\/strong>answered that same question with, \u201cHow to meet a wonderful wife and survive in tough competition in academics and sports.\u201d His wife, <strong>Lee Anderson Tregurtha \u201959<\/strong>, passed away in 2023 after 65 years of marriage. Paul is semi-retired from his Great Lakes shipping companies. His four children and 10 of his 14 grandchildren all went to Cornell. <strong>Beach Kuhl <\/strong>answers the Cornell impact question with, \u201cHow to get along while leading a productive life.\u201d He adds that he reached the age of 90 in reasonably good shape. He has retired from public life after 12 years on the Ross, CA, town council, three terms as mayor, and representing Ross by serving on various county organizations. He still serves on an age-friendly Ross commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gabrielle Kirsch McGhee<\/strong>, widow of classmate <strong>Donald<\/strong>, found this a tough question. After one science class, biology, in high school, she challenged herself at Cornell with the sciences: in her first year, she took zoology, chemistry, and geology; in the second year, botany and physics (with labs), then entomology and classification. She also recalls the beauty of the campus and its surroundings. Now she is involved in volunteering and being useful with her activities in church outreach, peace movements, and soup kitchen, and enjoys music, book club, birds, and her flower garden. Her love has grown to include 10 grandchildren and many good friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Al Collard <\/strong>enjoys the nice weather on Shelter Island, NY, yet each year after October 15 he heads for Jupiter, FL. He plays golf and continues writing his history books about his family. He shows his pride in his two granddaughters, <strong>Kate \u201928<\/strong>, now in her sophomore year at Cornell, and Mary, in her second year at Trinity College. <strong>Michael Hausman <\/strong>checks in to tell us he is still ranching in Montana and spends the winter in New York City. He is not really retired as he continues to teach film at Columbia University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How have you celebrated your 90th birthday? Feel free to let me know. \u2756 <strong>Connie Santagato Hosterman <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#109;ai&#x6c;&#x74;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x73;&#x68;&#x65;n&#104;&#111;&#111;&#112;&#x37;&#x33;&#64;&#x67;&#109;&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#46;&#99;&#x6f;&#109;\">email Connie<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-8811edd7d4bf0ab12e4be7254ea5b872\"><strong>1958<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We have little news in the New Year and the first is sad news. We\u2019ve lost a dear friend and staunch supporter of the Class of \u201958, <strong>Audrey Wildner Sears<\/strong>, who died in late December. Audrey was class treasurer for decades and known to most of us for her lifetime interest in Cornell and \u201958. She and <strong>Ray \u201957<\/strong> raised three boys, first in Mendham, NJ, and for the last 30 years, in Grantham, NH, just south of Hanover. We classmates will surely miss her thoughtful inputs and cheerful involvement with the class and her many friends and fellow Cornellians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a happier note, we have been in touch with several classmates during the holidays, all of whom, it turns out, are still living in their homes after many years. <strong>Duffy<\/strong> and <strong>Marilyn Bates Mathias<\/strong> returned to their home in Upperco, MD, after trying senior living elsewhere; they are very happy to be back at their old homestead not far from Baltimore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hannah Hollis Cook <\/strong>and her husband, <strong>Miller<\/strong>, <strong>DVM \u201958<\/strong>, still reside in their Adirondack Foothills home of at least five decades in Carthage, NY. <strong>Irene Rizzi Metzger<\/strong> still lives in her home in East Aurora, NY, in which she and <strong>Roger<\/strong> raised their family of four, of whom three are Cornellians from the \u201980s and \u201990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tom<\/strong>, <strong>DVM \u201958<\/strong>, and <strong>Carolyn King<\/strong> <strong>Nytch<\/strong> still reside on a hill above Owego, NY, in an abode from which Tom plied his veterinary skills for the State of New York for many years until his retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dick<\/strong> and <strong>Connie Case Haggard<\/strong> still live in their home of nearly 60 years, located about 15 miles north of Philadelphia, from which they\u2019ve raised three boys and continued active life well after Dick\u2019s retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, we hear from <strong>Meyer Gross<\/strong> and Karen that they\u2019ve enjoyed their Manhattan home for over 30 years and plan to remain there, like many of us, as we age. No doubt, many \u201958ers are doing the same. Let us know of your living arrangements these days. Cheers for now. \u2756<strong> Dick Haggard<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#97;&#x69;l&#116;&#x6f;&#x3a;ri&#99;&#x68;a&#114;&#x64;&#x68;&#97;&#x67;&#103;a&#114;d&#49;&#49;&#64;&#x67;&#x6d;&#x61;&#105;&#x6c;&#46;&#x63;&#x6f;m\">email Dick<\/a>) | <strong>Barbara Avery<\/strong>, <strong>MA \u201959<\/strong><strong> <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#x6d;ai&#x6c;t&#111;&#x3a;&#97;&#x76;&#x65;&#x72;&#121;&#x61;&#x74;&#121;&#64;&#111;&#x75;&#116;&#x6c;&#x6f;o&#107;&#46;c&#111;&#109;\">email Barbara<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-3d8eb4414768886307b52bb83e02a95b\"><strong>1959<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe people at NASA might call it a successful failure,\u201d writes <strong>Carole Parnes<\/strong>. \u201cWe had been planning a trip to see the northern lights for quite a while. I had read they were usually at their peak during the equinoxes, so we chose a cruise out of Bergen, Norway, for mid-March 2025. We prepared well, packing multiple layers of undergarments from our skiing days, buying new cold-weather boots, and retrieving hooded parkas last used for a Y2K cruise to Antarctica at the other end of the world. Things started out well. The night before we reached Alta above the Arctic Circle, we caught a brief glimpse of the northern lights. We timed it right! Or so we thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe sky was overcast the entire time we were above the Arctic Circle. Still, we had several very enjoyable encounters with Sami people, and a bucket-list-fulfilling dog sled ride around a snow-covered golf course.\u201d More recently, Carole emailed while traveling through Spain and Portugal: \u201cJust finished tapas, a Greek salad, and lemon sorbet, and walked up a hill to get to our hotel. The hills here in Toledo are killers! But the art! The architecture! Fabulous!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWell, \u2019twas an adventure unplanned,\u201d writes <strong>Carole Kenyon<\/strong>. All went well as she and her husband, Ralph, cruised from England to Spain &#8230; until they reached Portugal and Ralph fell in Porto. \u201cBack on the ship, he caught a cold, then fell getting off the ship. Fast forward to the ER in Barcelona for the cold, which became pneumonia\u2014which meant that the hip fracture was not diagnosed until we returned to Seattle at the end of the cruise. At least I got to practice my Spanish\u2014Ralph\u2019s hospital roommate was delighted\u2014and my son <strong>Michael Friend \u201986<\/strong> flew in from Seattle to help out (and via Facebook, found a high school classmate living locally whom he hadn\u2019t seen since that long-ago time).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>We had a bucket-list-fulfilling dog sled ride around a snow-covered golf course.<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Carole Parnes \u201959<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Like so many others, 2025 will be remembered by <strong>Art Geoffrion<\/strong>, MS \u201961,<strong> <\/strong>as the year that brought Southern California\u2019s second most destructive fire ever. \u201cI was ordered to be ready to evacuate and duly packed up, but fortunately never had to leave. My apartment building sustained smoke damage. It took about six months for remediation and for tenants to start trickling back. In retrospect, I learned an important lesson: in packing up for possible evacuation, it turns out that I missed quite a few things important to me or to my daughters, Sue and Debra. If you have never prepared to evacuate your home, that\u2019s an exercise that could pay huge dividends should that ever be necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Art continues, \u201cOther than that, it was another wonderful year. My regular schedule has been about the same in recent years: very healthy eating and drinking, 45+ minutes of exercise daily, running my senior men\u2019s discussion group\u2019s weekly meetings, participating in my nonfiction book club, listening to podcasts while moving about, and frequent meals with friends\u2014adjacent to a classical music performance whenever possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In anticipation of its move back to its newly renovated office space in downtown Ithaca in late 2025, the staff of Cornell\u2019s Office of Alumni Affairs and Development decided to identify all 15 meeting rooms not with numbers but by honoring pioneers in AAD. \u201cIt is a wonderful history lesson with each room featuring a short biographical statement,\u201d noted Fred Van Sickle, Vice President for AAD. Among the people honored is the late <strong>Dave Dunlop<\/strong>, who worked as a fundraiser at Cornell for 38 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe established and led the Principal Gifts Office at Cornell, where he nurtured friendships with the University\u2019s top donors and cultivated some of Cornell\u2019s most important gifts. As a prolific writer and speaker about his philosophy of relationship-based, donor-centric fundraising, Dunlop pioneered the system known as \u2018moves management.\u2019 He taught and inspired generations of advancement professionals, particularly through the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. &#8230; David was a consultant and educator long after his retirement from Cornell in 1997, helping spread the idea of transformational giving and \u2018ultimate gifts\u2019 to hundreds of institutions.\u201d \u2756 <strong>Jenny Tesar <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#109;&#97;&#x69;&#108;to&#x3a;&#x6a;&#101;t&#50;&#52;&#x40;&#99;&#111;&#114;&#x6e;&#101;&#x6c;&#x6c;&#46;&#x65;&#x64;&#x75;\">email Jenny<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:75px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center is-style-class-group has-x-large-font-size\">1960s<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-ef2e0d43fdb6a8b6b2c660a4d6b27fb9\"><strong>1960<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Edith Rogovin Frankel<\/strong> writes, \u201cI\u2019m living in south-central New Jersey now, after some 40 years in Israel. Having lost my husband (in 2008) and my partner (in 2020), I\u2019m keeping busy with various things. Two daughters and seven grandchildren (and one daughter-in-law!) are all a joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still teaching, though not full time. I plan to give a series of lectures at Florida Atlantic University on both the Boca Raton and Jupiter campuses throughout February 2026 on the cultural history of the Jews in Eastern Europe.\u201d \u2756 <strong>Class of 1960<\/strong> (<a href=\"m&#x61;&#105;&#x6c;to&#x3a;&#x61;&#98;&#98;&#x38;&#x33;&#64;&#x63;&#x6f;&#114;&#x6e;&#x65;l&#108;&#46;ed&#x75;\">email c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-2f211d931e300cc2ef010c677ac7ba6b\"><strong>1961<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This class column will be brief due to lack of content, so remember to keep sending your news on for Class Notes. We\u2019ll lead off with an announcement from our class Reunion committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Classmates have already begun booking rooms at the Statler for our 65th Reunion, June 4\u20137, and we hope you, too, will be among them. Class functions will be conveniently located near university events. Caterers\u2019 menus, including wines, are being carefully reviewed by our class \u201cfoodie.\u201d Every effort is being made to ensure a memorable time for all. You won\u2019t want to miss being with us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now our only note, from <strong>Leland Bookhout<\/strong>, now living in Staatsburg, NY. \u201cIn retirement, I build toys for my grandkids, mostly trucks and cars with some play buildings to augment the trucks, cars, tractors, etc. My wife and I are enjoying each other. Our two \u2018kids\u2019 are nearing retirement age. Thoughts from Cornell: I met humanity in its good and evil. While we all fit the mold of one body and all its parts, we are all different in our views, goals, aspirations, and opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, please keep up to date on our <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cornell61.org\/\">class website<\/a>. Send your news to: \u2756 <strong>Doug Fuss<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#x61;i&#108;&#116;o&#58;&#x64;o&#x75;&#103;&#111;&#117;&#116;&#64;&#97;&#x74;&#x74;g&#108;&#x6f;&#98;&#97;&#x6c;&#x2e;n&#x65;&#116;\">email Doug<\/a>) | <strong>Susan Williams Stevens<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;&#97;&#x69;&#108;t&#x6f;:s&#97;&#x73;&#x74;&#101;v&#x65;&#110;s&#54;&#x31;&#64;&#x67;m&#x61;&#105;l&#x2e;&#x63;o&#x6d;\">email Susan<\/a>) | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-0ec543ebebef7aa14b74ce7225d26c4c\"><strong>1962<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Spring is nearly here. Hope this new season finds you all healthy and happy and busy with lots of activities. About the latter, let us know, please, how you\u2019ve been and what you are up to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Barry Proner<\/strong> writes from Isleworth, Great Britain: \u201cI came to London (permanently, as it happened) in 1972 after medical school, an internship in San Francisco, and residencies in psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry in Boston. I trained as a contemporary Jungian analyst in adult, child, and adolescent psychoanalysis. I\u2019ve been in private practice for many years, but I have yet to retire.\u201d He finds his granddaughter, his Labradors, and living in London most satisfying these days. He also notes that he\u2019s thinking of moving permanently to the south of France, where he\u2019s had a house for the past 35 years! \u201cAny Cornellians from \u2018back then\u2019 who may find themselves in London are most welcome to get in touch<em>.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have been enjoying my volunteer activities,\u201d notes <strong>Mickey Miller<\/strong> of Allentown, PA, \u201cespecially when I can use my expertise in investments, finance, and income taxes to help others. I like giving talks and writing articles as a way of sharing. Over the last year, I gave three talks to the Schmooze and Schmear men\u2019s group (a.k.a., ROMEO, Retired Old Men Eating Out) titled, \u2018Jewish Humor,\u2019 \u2018McDonald\u2019s and Me,\u2019 and \u2018Financial Planning and Me.\u2019 Recently, as chair of the Lehigh Valley Jewish Foundation, I published three articles on charitable giving titled, \u2018Tzedakah: What Does the Torah Say?,\u2019 \u2018Charitable Giving: Making a Difference During Life and After,\u2019 and \u2018Understanding Charitable Remainder Trusts.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn response to my three daughters asking me to record my memories and life\u2019s journey for them, my five grandchildren, and future generations, I have completed 52 weekly short stories, with narrative and related pictures, for a Storyworth book that will be published in hardcover for each of my daughters and grandchildren. I had so much fun doing this, especially by adding a little humor whenever I could. I strongly recommend that our classmates consider doing this, or something similar, as a way of leaving a legacy for their children and grandchildren.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through the years, generosity to the University has been a hallmark of our class and classmates. Here\u2019s yet another example. In December, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences announced that a $55 million gift from <strong>Stephen Ashley<\/strong>, MBA \u201964, to CALS will establish the Cornell CALS <a href=\"https:\/\/cals.cornell.edu\/ashley-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment<\/a>, combining the Department of Global Development and the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment. The school is named in honor of Steve, whose gift to endow the school is the largest in CALS history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In December, CALS announced that a $55 million gift from <strong>Stephen Ashley \u201962<\/strong>, MBA \u201964, will establish the Cornell CALS Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment.<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Judy Prenske Rich \u201962<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSteve Ashley\u2019s decades of leadership, advocacy and support for Cornell have had a profound impact on the University,\u201d said President Mike Kotlikoff. \u201cThis investment to create the Ashley School is both timely and visionary, allowing us to bring together the expertise in agricultural, life, environmental, and social sciences that underpin environmental and human wellbeing locally and globally. We are so grateful to Steve for his generosity, partnership, and friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve has given more than a half-century of service to Cornell, including 55 years on the University Council, 16 years on the Cornell Board of Trustees, and 10 years as co-chair of the Far Above capital campaign. In 2016, he received <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cals.cornell.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/stephen-ashley-recognized-for-alumni-service\">the Frank H.T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Award<\/a>, the University\u2019s highest award for alumni service. Steve is chairman and CEO of the Ashley Companies, a Rochester-based firm that specializes in property management, brokerage, financing, and real estate investment. He has also been a member of our class council for more than two decades!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy family has had a strong, multigenerational relationship with Cornell,\u201d Steve said. \u201cI met my wife, Janice, at Cornell and over the years, Cornell has influenced much of my personal and professional life. I am delighted to be able to support this initiative, which has been so thoughtfully framed and structured. I appreciate how it creates even stronger collaborations between agriculture, environmental science, economics, and research to positively impact communities.\u201d Thank you, Steve. A lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take a moment, please, to send along news and updates of what\u2019s happening with you and your family. And check out our <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellclassof62.org\/\">class website<\/a> for timelier information. Send your entries to: \u2756 <strong>Judy Prenske Rich<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;ai&#x6c;&#116;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x6a;&#112;r&#x63;&#111;m&#x31;&#64;&#97;&#111;&#108;&#46;&#x63;&#x6f;&#109;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email Judy<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-4e7c536d6cd333cc7912740c37cc181b\"><strong>1963<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope 2026 has been a good year for all of you so far. We are only two+ years away from our 65th Reunion! That\u2019s hard to believe!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>News is sparse this month. Think about sending me some updates on what\u2019s happening in your lives when you have time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Warren Walker<\/strong>, PhD \u201968, now lives in Laguna Woods, CA. He writes: \u201cI am relaxing in retirement, keeping in touch with friends and relatives, attending music events, and exercising. I recently co-authored a book titled <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Decision-Making-under-Deep-Uncertainty\/dp\/3030052516\"><em>Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty<\/em><\/a>, which has been downloaded for free over one million times. Cornell changed the trajectory of my life. After I got my PhD, I joined the RAND Corporation. That would have been impossible without my Cornell education. I then became a professor at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. I helped establish its School of Engineering and Policy Analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Arthur Resnikoff<\/strong> wrote in September that he and his wife, Mare Tucciarone, \u201chad just returned from spending two weeks in London and south of Bordeaux, France, where we attended a neighbor\u2019s wedding. Visited with friends and saw <em>Les Mis<\/em> again (I think it\u2019s my third time) in London, where it has been playing for 40 years. Thinking about rebellion certainly fits today as it did back in the 1700\u20131800s. And the price of good French wine is still inexpensive by U.S. standards. Hope there is little jet lag as I have a full day of corporate client appointments locally, then heading to Seattle and Alaska for more work the following week. Don\u2019t know what I would do with myself if I retired; I\u2019m having too much fun engaged with clients in leadership development.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Don\u2019t know what I would do with myself if I retired; I\u2019m having too much fun.<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Arthur Resnikoff \u201963<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marion Travalini Rodd<\/strong> writes from Ventura, CA. \u201cI continue to play flute in the Ventura County Concert Band. We play four concerts per year\u2014free to the public\u2014at Ventura High School. Playing a musical instrument activates the entire brain. In retirement, I am trying to do all the activities necessary to maintain optimum health: exercise, diet, social activities, family events, and playing flute in the band. My older daughter, <strong>Allison Rodd Ceppi \u201992<\/strong>, is employed at Universal Studios in marketing. Allison\u2019s sons are Cameron, University of Michigan \u201925, and Ethan, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo \u201928. My younger daughter, Amy Mackenzie, is a geriatric oncologist in Philadelphia. Her children are Camille, Haverford College \u201927, and Max, Abbington Friends High School. I had the good fortune to attend a world-renowned Ivy League university, which opened up so many opportunities and lifelong friendships.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bob Epstein<\/strong> lives in New York City. He writes, \u201cI continue as a board member of the Riverside Park Conservancy. My son recently graduated from Hofstra University School of Communication. He is pursuing a career in show business. Any help would be appreciated!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Warren Icke \u201962<\/strong> and I have been loving our new life in the retirement community, La Posada Pusch Ridge, in Oro Valley, AZ. We have been here since early May and have made a lot of friends. We recommend the idea to any who are giving it some thought. Downsizing is the hard part but it\u2019s so worth it in the end. We were in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, at the end of October. One of our granddaughters got married there. She met her husband in Australia, where she has lived for three years. The wedding was all family on both sides, so our entire family of 16 was together for the long weekend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please take time to send me some news. \u2756 <strong>Nancy Bierds Icke <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#109;&#97;i&#x6c;t&#111;&#x3a;&#x6e;&#x61;&#x6e;c&#x79;&#x62;&#x69;cke&#x40;g&#x6d;&#x61;&#105;&#x6c;&#x2e;&#99;&#x6f;&#x6d;\">email Nancy<\/a>) | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-88bd1b13f75c2987f31bb8ea1c343eb6\"><strong>1964<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We begin this column with a request: please send us your news! Meantime, here\u2019s classmate <strong>Donna Gellis Grushka<\/strong>, MS \u201968: \u201cI am still living in Israel, where I have been for more than 47 years. I keep busy through adult education courses (mostly via Zoom with one course in person), and volunteer involvement in some local organizations, as well as attending concerts, the opera, and meeting friends. Probably not all that different from classmates living elsewhere. There is a group of Cornell alumni that meets a few times a year for networking, renewing contacts with friends, and keeping updated on events on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI try to visit the States at least once, usually twice, a year to see my siblings in the NYC area and my daughter and her family in Charlottesville, VA. Two other daughters and their families live here and I get to see them regularly. I was in the States from early October to early November and much enjoyed the seasonal color in both New York and Virginia. The Cornell connection was busy at work during this visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI met with the following Cornellians during the time I was there: first of all, <strong>Renah Levine Rabinowitz \u201965<\/strong> and her husband, Mayer; we have a family connection because Mayer is a cousin to my dear late husband, <strong>Eli<\/strong>, <strong>PhD \u201968<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNext I met with <strong>Linda Cohen Meltzer<\/strong>, <strong>Roberta Matthews Monat<\/strong>, and <strong>Sheila Zouderer Strauss<\/strong>, all of whom were DPhiE sisters; we met at the Cornell Club in Manhattan for lunch and then had a long \u2018ladies chat\u2019 in the very Ivy League-styled library. Senior year Hasbrouck flatmate <strong>Phyllis Rickler Alexander<\/strong> and her husband, Timothy, live not far from where my sister lives, and I enjoyed seeing them as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Dave Monahan \u201978<\/strong>, <strong>Jay Bloom \u201981<\/strong>, and I formed the Hawaii Lacrosse Club, which has recently held its 33rd international invitational.<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Kenneth Kupchak \u201964, JD \u201971<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFinally, my trip to Virginia included an evening in the D.C. area, where I met my Cornell roommate and friend of 65 years (!), <strong>Barbara Furman Attardi<\/strong>. It was great to see everyone and to catch up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Paul Lyon<\/strong> briefly reports, \u201cNot much of a story, but I spent 34 years as musical director of the local church choir. I donated an automobile to a worker who needed one. I purchased a house for a worker who needed one. I support Centraide and the Op\u00e9ra de Qu\u00e9bec.\u201d And Paul did all this from his home in Quebec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kenneth Kupchak<\/strong>, JD \u201971, writes, \u201cAfter watching the alumni lacrosse match at Reunion, I purchased a couple of sticks and a box of balls from Terry Cullen, the son of Bob Cullen, my coach at Cornell, and returned to Hawaii. There I chanced upon a few other similarly inclined Cornell grads, <strong>Dave Monahan \u201978<\/strong> and <strong>Jay Bloom \u201981<\/strong>. Together we formed the Hawaii Lacrosse Club, which has recently held its 33rd international lacrosse invitational with over 30 participating men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams from Japan, Australia, Canada, the Iroquois Nation, and, of course, many states, and initiated a youth lacrosse league\u2014new to Hawaii.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cynthia Fulton Edmondson<\/strong> tells us, \u201cIn 2000 I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and became involved with Walk MS Houston. I just completed my 15th year. In 2012 I formed a team called Rollers &amp; Strollers. On March 29, 2025 we participated in our 13th Walk MS Houston. Over these years our team has raised over $130,000 for the National MS Society for research and other programs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s all for now. But I could always use more of your news! Update me by email, regular mail, our <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cornell1964.org\/\">class website<\/a>, or our <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/cornell1964\">class Facebook page<\/a>. \u2756 <strong>Bev Johns<\/strong> <strong>Lamont<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;a&#105;&#x6c;&#116;&#111;&#x3a;j&#x69;&#109;lam&#49;&#64;&#x63;&#111;&#x6d;&#x63;&#97;&#x73;t&#x2e;n&#x65;&#x74;\">email Bev<\/a>) | 720 Chestnut St., Deerfield, IL 60015 | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-43ca5e9a5f7d0dfd98266e6feca2367d\"><strong>1965<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stephanie Schus Russin<\/strong> writes that she and her husband left California in 2023 and moved to a small new retirement community in Boulder, CO. \u201cWe are still getting used to this different lifestyle, but it helps that everyone is friendly and down to earth regardless of how accomplished they\u2019ve been career-wise. It\u2019s also a plus for us that our cabin in Centennial, WY, where we usually spend much of the summer, is an easy three-hour drive away. My volunteer work in recent years has tended to be political\u2014mostly with Activate America\u2014but our community offers a variety of interesting programs and we\u2019ve only just begun to explore Boulder.\u201d Steffi comments that is was great to see many friends at our 60th Reunion in June 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Joan Hens Johnson<\/strong> is also moving to a retirement community, Jacaranda Trace in Venice, FL, in 2026. The warmth of the days in January, February, and March, plus the temperate climate all year round are wonderful, as well as the vast cultural events! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Elliot Polland<\/strong> and wife Diane enjoy their five children and 12 grandchildren, with a 13th on the way. He says: \u201cI find best life satisfaction with Diane and the grandchildren and an occasional round of golf!\u201d Elliot is still practicing law with an office in New York, NY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>James Haldeman<\/strong> and wife Jan live in Ithaca. Jim states that graduating from Cornell led him to pursue his career. His 1967 master\u2019s degree in resource economics also provided a pathway to the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Joel Speiser<\/strong> and his wife enjoy travel, golf, and duplicate bridge. Joel writes: \u201cAfter a career in broadcast management I retired in 2008, then spent 10 years teaching drivers ed as a retirement job. That was much more fulfilling than the corporate world!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>After a career in broadcast management I retired in 2008, then spent 10 years teaching drivers ed as a retirement job. That was much more fulfilling than the corporate world!<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Joel Speiser \u201965<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Willard Straight Hall celebrated 100 years in 2025, and the celebratory photos are <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/straight-100\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">featured in <em>Cornellians<\/em><\/a>. We all have memories of our days in the Ivy Room and other spots in this iconic building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During each of the past 20 years, the Student Union Board has featured an emerging artists evening in memory of <strong>Lauren<\/strong> <strong>Pickard \u201990<\/strong>. Her parents, <strong>Derek Pickard<\/strong> (died in 1990) and <strong>Joan Hens Pickard Johnson<\/strong>, were so proud of her accomplishments at Cornell. She was the day manager of the Straight during her junior and senior years. At the event in 2025, wonderful Cornell singers and bands performed. Hundreds of students attended, and the Student Union board provided a plentiful and delicious selection of food and drinks. Applause to the Student Union Board; each year, they organize many events for students, by students, with guidance from Kyle Schillace and his staff team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please take notice of class president <strong>Jamil Sopher<\/strong>, ME \u201966\u2019s letter to all classmates in December 2025 that described the Class of \u201965\u2019s extraordinary generosity toward establishing and maintaining the Student Wellness Program\u2014and describing the program and noting its continuing success! Surveys have shown that students appreciate the nonjudgmental space that bridges the gap between academic advising and more therapeutic counseling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your correspondents welcome all your news! Please let us know what is happening in your lives! \u2756 <strong>Joan Hens Johnson<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;ai&#x6c;&#116;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#106;o&#x61;&#110;&#x69;&#x70;&#x61;t&#64;g&#109;&#x61;i&#108;&#x2e;&#99;o&#x6d;\">email Joan<\/a>) |<strong> Stephen Appell<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;&#97;&#x69;l&#x74;o&#58;&#66;&#105;&#x67;&#x52;&#x65;&#x64;1&#57;&#54;&#x35;&#64;&#97;&#x6f;&#108;&#46;&#x63;&#x6f;&#x6d;\">email Stephen<\/a>) | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-7cb1ff6f9a37a854b46ab8052c2b6de8\"><strong>1966<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Spring\u2014even in Ithaca\u2014is almost here! And the snowy ground mush will melt, and the green Quads will return and welcome us for our \u201cBig Cornell 60th!\u201d This column is from all the Class of 1966 officers\/leadership and Reunion team to thank you for the notes and emails you have been sending us all year, letting us know you are planning or hoping to be on the Hill. Thank you, too, for telling us you\u2019ve been reaching out to friends and roommates to join you, to join all of us. Knowing <em>your<\/em> plans has helped us to plan for us all. We are grateful for your support and spirit, making it, as ever, a true \u201966 team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>June 4\u20137, 2026! Registration forms will be in your mailbox soon (late March\/early April) with info about how to register for the weekend and about HQ\/dorm housing reservations. It will include an up-to-date \u201966 events schedule. If you have special needs, we are here to help, as is Cornell. Hidden jewel highlights, special guests and speakers, and our iconic Forum \u201966 Part IX (!) will fill the weekend. We\u2019ll dedicate our 60th Reunion Class Gift: \u201966 Overlook, a new landscaped seating area at the top of Libe Slope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, most of all: we will share walking and talking along paths, at HQ, mixing old haunts with incredible new Cornell spaces, catching up with friends from the \u201960s, Reunion friends, and finding ourselves making new friendships. It is impossible <em>not<\/em> to make new Cornell friends each time we return. Eight classmates have let us know they hope to come to their first Reunion! Come for your first\u2014or your zillionth. Just come. Reunion questions? Special needs? Just ask us: <a href=\"&#109;&#97;&#x69;&#108;to&#x3a;&#99;o&#114;n&#101;&#x6c;&#108;&#54;&#54;&#x72;&#101;&#x75;nio&#110;&#x40;&#x67;&#x6d;&#97;&#x69;l&#x2e;c&#x6f;&#x6d;\">&#x63;&#x6f;r&#110;e&#x6c;l&#54;6&#114;eu&#110;&#x69;on&#x40;&#x67;m&#x61;i&#x6c;&#46;c&#x6f;&#109;<\/a>. Check the University\u2019s <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/reunion\">Reunion website<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve received news this year from many classmates. <strong>Larry Bailis<\/strong> writes from Cambridge, MA, that he retired from Brandeis University on July 1, 2025, and is now associate professor emeritus. He is board chair of the Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action and grandfather to six children. He recently visited Poland, where both his wife\u2019s family and his own family originated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After 40 years, <strong>Linda Duman Nack<\/strong>, in Oakland, CA, has retired from teaching and counseling in public schools and then community college. She volunteers as a tutor at an elementary school and is a docent at a historic house on Lake Merritt, where she sits on its board. The house\u2019s history relates to the Gold Rush and the East Bay. Linda recently cruised for 15 days across the Atlantic from Ft. Lauderdale to Bermuda, Gibraltar, Spain, Venice, and Rome. Family time is spent hiking, enjoying zoo visits with grandchildren, family cooking and meals together, and playing games like Rummikub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also recently retired is <strong>Paul Foster<\/strong> in Bel Air, MD. Paul has retired from chaplaincy, and is enjoying birding, fishing, and spending time with his six grandchildren\u2014and one great-granddaughter! He is teaching a homeschool co-op Bible class and occasionally preaching. His recent travels include Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania and Sea Isle City, NJ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I\u2019m still teaching and doing research at the University of Washington, Bothell\u2014and I still bike 15 miles each way, back and forth, from home to campus.<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Arnie Berger \u201966, PhD \u201971<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeffrey Collins<\/strong> is \u201cstill involved in many progressive causes in these trying times\u2014especially voting rights, women\u2019s reproductive rights, environmental protections, immigrant rights,\u201d and other social justice activities. He continues to enjoy retirement, which allows him to continue traveling with his wife. \u201cTwo big trips this year were a river cruise on the Magdalena River in Colombia, South America, from Cartagena to Barranquilla with add-ons in Medellin, Colombia, and Panama City, Panama. Then tooling around the Asturias Region of northwest Spain by car for a month, a region that very few Americans visit despite the spectacular coastline and the imposing Picos de Europa mountains. I also celebrated my 45th anniversary this year with my still-lovely wife, Rose Mills (University of Illinois \u201971).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A note from <strong>Arnie Berger<\/strong>, PhD \u201971, from Sammamish, WA, includes the news that he is \u201cstill teaching and doing research in electrical engineering at the University of Washington, Bothell. I still bike 15 miles each way, back and forth, from home to campus.\u201d He occasionally does high school interviewing, and mentors gifted high school students in the Seattle area on STEM projects. He was planning to leave on Christmas Day (2025) for a sabbatical in Wellington, New Zealand, at Victoria University. His travels include driving around northern U.K. and Scotland at the end of August into September. \u201cMy granddaughter is now a freshman at the College of William and Mary. I pushed for Cornell, but no joy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While we end this column with the sad news of the loss of a classmate, the memories shared below speak profoundly of the lifelong friendships, continued or made, in the four years we spent together at Cornell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We learned that classmate <strong>W. Ben Harvey<\/strong>, ME \u201967, passed away this past September. \u201966 classmates <strong>Rolf Frantz<\/strong>, ME \u201967, Ben\u2019s Von Cramm roommate, and <strong>Richard Williamson<\/strong>, Ben\u2019s lifelong closest friend, traveled to his memorial tribute in Hartford, CT. Richard wrote this note to us, \u201cBen and I were close friends in high school, and we attended Cornell together. Ben was in the five-year engineering college bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s combined degree program, whereas I was in Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter graduating, Ben served in the Peace Corps in the Philippines. Upon completion of that commitment, he joined the Pratt &amp; Whitney engineering company (then a division of United Technologies) as an aerospace engineer. Ben worked there his entire career until he retired. Ben and I remained steadfast friends. We traveled together, skied together, and took many golf trips together as well. Ben was a decent person and a loyal friend upon whom you could always count for sage advice and undying friendship. I miss him every day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost soon, June! June 4\u20137, 2026! The whole \u201966 \u201cgang\u201d of us\u2014class co-presidents <strong>John Monroe<\/strong>, PhD \u201970, and <strong>Rolf Frantz<\/strong> plus the class officers and the wide \u201966 Reunion weekend, networking, and campaign leadership \u201cteams\u201d\u2014join in sending this warm lure. We look forward to welcoming so many of you back to Cornell. We hope you will join us! \u2756 <strong>Susan Rockford Bittker<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;a&#x69;l&#x74;o&#x3a;&#108;&#x61;&#100;y&#x73;&#99;i&#x65;&#x6e;c&#64;&#97;&#111;l&#46;&#x63;&#x6f;m\">email Susan<\/a>) | <strong>Pete Salinger<\/strong>, <strong>MBA \u201968<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;i&#108;&#x74;&#x6f;&#x3a;p&#x65;t&#101;&#82;&#x73;&#97;&#108;&#105;&#x6e;g&#x65;r&#x39;&#x35;&#x40;g&#x6d;&#97;i&#x6c;&#46;c&#x6f;&#109;\">email Pete<\/a>) | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-165c65be679c233d5257ae1471256061\"><strong>1967<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Joanne Edelson Honigman<\/strong> (Brooklyn, NY) enjoys \u201cdoing artwork and being with my grandchildren. At Cornell, I learned to enjoy the diversity and variety of the world through friendships.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following notes provide further information about deceased class members who were reported previously in the In Memoriam section of <em>Cornellians<\/em>. This account offers a glimpse into their lives that goes beyond what can be reported via In Memoriam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gene Ference<\/strong>, PhD \u201977,<strong> <\/strong>was from Weston, CT, which served as the base for his company Ference Leadership and Strategy, which provided hospitality management training and of which he was president. In <em>Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler<\/em>\u2019s 2002 Gold List of hotels and resorts, he reported, \u201cThese esteemed properties are recognized for their excellence both as providers of the finest hospitality products and services and as employers of choice in the communities in which they operate. As \u2018behind-the-scenes\u2019 providers, [the Ference Group] has, for more than 20 years, impacted many of these selected properties with surveys, assessments, and executive leadership retreats. One out of every three domestic properties listed has used our programs to influence, redirect, and support their culture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>George Heinrich<\/strong>, who died last June, was associate director of the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Last October, as reported by the medical school, its \u201ccommunity celebrated his life and profound legacy. His impact continues to shape NJMS and beyond.\u201d The memorial event honored his \u201cextraordinary commitment to academic excellence, compassion, and humanism in medicine. Dr. Heinrich was much more than a respected leader; he was a warm-hearted gentleman who truly cared about every individual he encountered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMany recalled how he not only led with vision but took the time to connect personally, leaving a lasting impact on everyone from students to faculty to staff. His legacy of compassion and leadership is one that will continue to inspire the NJMS community.\u201d Many graduates wrote that he had been responsible for their applying and was the first person at the school to congratulate them on being admitted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>At Cornell, I learned to enjoy the diversity and variety of the world through friendships.<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Joanne Edelson Honigman \u201967<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Anita Nyyssonen<\/strong> (Wayland, MA) passed away in August 2024. \u201cProud of her Finnish heritage, Anita grew up in Watertown, MA, went to Watertown public schools, graduated from Cornell as a math major, and had a long career in the Boston area in software development,\u201d an online obituary stated. \u201cAnita\u2019s father, Einard, was an engineer who did important work on RADAR at MIT during the war, a source of pride for her. After college Anita became the first employee of a group of MIT professors who eventually formed SofTech Inc., coding in the AED programming language to start, and eventually working on many sophisticated software development projects at SofTech and other area firms.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Steven Webster<\/strong> (Fairport, NY), who passed away in January 2023, \u201chad a great laugh and a friendly curiosity about others,\u201d reported the Rochester<em> Democrat and Chronicle<\/em>. \u201cHe seemed most at peace chatting it up with a buddy, new or old, over a sports game and a beer. He enjoyed listening to comedy, classical piano concertos, reading, playing cards and cribbage, and gardening; he was a natural athlete with a passion for baseball, tennis, and golf. Steve worked as a licensed clinical social worker, golf and tennis coach, bus driver, caregiver, and more; each endeavor allowed his big personality to shine through with little acts of kindness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Donald Harner<\/strong> (Lansing, NY) died in May last year. According to his obituary, \u201cAfter graduating from Cornell, he settled in the Lansing area and, in 1972, founded Harner Design &amp; Construction. With an eye for detail and an unmatched work ethic, Don had a gift for creating\u2014he could design just about anything on the back of a napkin and had a reputation for being able to fix whatever needed fixing. His work and wisdom left a lasting impact on everyone who had the privilege to know him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>John Sugrue<\/strong> (Glendale, MO) passed away in August 2023. According to his obituary, \u201cHe achieved All-American team status for football, where he played center. He was proud to be fluent in Russian and incredibly proud of his Irish heritage in County Kerry. John made a lifelong successful career in the steel business, negotiating both domestic and international deals. As a hobby, he dabbled in real estate development with his father. He was an avid golfer and a 48-year member of Algonquin Golf Club, where he was able to do what he loved with the people he loved. He enjoyed playing golf regularly, entertaining his family and friends, having a cocktail, rooting his children on in swim meets, and teaching his grandchildren how to play football (long snapper and center), baseball, and golf. His true passion was being with his family and friends.\u201d \u2756 <strong>Richard Hoffman<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#116;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x64;&#x65;&#x72;&#x68;&#x6f;&#102;&#x66;&#x40;&#x79;a&#x68;&#111;&#x6f;&#x2e;&#x63;&#x6f;&#x6d;\">email Richard<\/a>) | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-f7a1520c478d8a787d05d6e3f7b6ce2f\"><strong>1968<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>More news to share with our classmates! We always need more news and updates from you, so please let us know where you are and what you are doing, or share your reflections on your years at Cornell with our classmates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Felicia Nimue Ackerman <\/strong>continues teaching philosophy at Brown University with no plans to retire. She writes short stories and poems \u201cas well as the usual sort of philosophy essay.\u201d This past year she has had poems published in the <em>New York Daily News<\/em>, the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, and several literary magazines. She also has been a prolific letter-to-the-editor writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to an article in the April 2014 edition of the <em>New Yorker<\/em> about Felicia\u2019s letters to the editor, \u201cSince 1987, the <em>New York Times <\/em>has printed more than 200 of her letters, which is either a record or close to one. Tom Feyer, the letters editor, doesn\u2019t keep count, but he named Ackerman as a top contender for first place. \u2018Some days she sends several letters, each in response to a different article,\u2019 he said. \u2018Although I don\u2019t know her personally, I have a good sense of how she thinks.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2006, IvyGate, a gossip blog covering the Ivy League, published a post under the headline \u201cNew <em>N.Y. Times<\/em> Policy Requires All Letters to Be From Single Brown Professor.\u201d The following year, Gawker wrote a post about one of Ackerman\u2019s letters (\u201cIvy Professor: Sundaes Are Yummy!\u201d) and a commenter wrote, \u201cI used to edit the letters column for one of the pull-out sections in the <em>Times<\/em>, and we had a rule against running too many Felicia Ackermans. One woman wrote us one time asking if her chances of having her letter published would be significantly improved if she signed her letter Felicia Ackerman.\u201d Amazing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Frederick Scholl<\/strong>, PhD \u201976, enjoyed seeing many fellow Cornellians at the dinner and hockey game versus Yale that followed this past February in New Haven. He reports that \u201cthe driving snowstorm felt like Ithaca all over again. Of course, Cornell easily defeated Yale.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jerome Blackman<\/strong> lives in Virginia Beach, VA, and is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He continues working as a professor of clinical psychiatry at Eastern Virginia Medical School and also was a distinguished professor of mental health at Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China, from 2018\u201321. He is the author or co-author of a number of books including <em>Developmental Evaluation of Children and Adolescents: A Psychodynamic Guide<\/em>, published by Routlege in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jerome is now working on his sixth book. He still plays the trumpet and piano, going back to his days as a member of the Big Red Band and Nova Shadow Quartet. He has been a widower for the last three years. Writing, telling jokes, and meeting with old friends brings the most satisfaction to Jerome, and he quotes his Cornell roommate, <strong>Rick Shaper<\/strong>, who told him there is always a shortage of \u201cold friends and waterfront property.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>This past year, <strong>Felicia Nimue Ackerman \u201968<\/strong> has had poems published in the <em>New York Daily News<\/em>, the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, and several literary magazines.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Joyce Banch Flynn <\/strong>was featured on <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/july-29th-2025-joy-flynn\/id1544193938?i=1000719651778\">an episode<\/a> of the podcast <em>Heart of the East End<\/em> this past July, talking about what it means to be a leader, working with local and national gardening groups, as well as winning athletic medals with her husband, Dan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Diane DeGeorge Nichols<\/strong> and husband David continue to live in Rochester, NY. They finally took a long-awaited and COVID-delayed Mediterranean cruise starting in Athens and ending in Barcelona. They visited the Acropolis, the Parthenon, Ephesus, and Crete. They also traveled to Sicily, where some of her family were born, and then on to Rome, Tuscany, Marseille, and Monaco. Sounds like an amazing trip! Diane finds much satisfaction these days going to her local fitness center and working with her chorale group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Seth Goldschlager<\/strong> sends sad news that his best friend from Cornell, our classmate <strong>Patrick Gerschel<\/strong>, died this past December. Patrick was a distinguished financier, real estate executive, and cultural leader, and lived a life noted for his professional achievements and public service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After graduating from Cornell, he studied accounting, finance, and economics at NYU. He began his finance and investment banking career with an international orientation with Lazard Fr\u00e8res, where he served in a range of senior roles. Prior to Lazard, he worked at NBC News in Paris as an assistant bureau manager. In 1980, Patrick founded his own firm, Gerschel &amp; Company, where he served as chairman and CEO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond business, Patrick was deeply engaged in cultural, educational, and charitable institutions. He served as chairman of the Winston Churchill Foundation, trustee emeritus of the Asia Society, treasurer of the American Friends of the Louvre, and vice chairman and treasurer of the French Institute: Alliance Fran\u00e7aise. He also chaired investment committees, supporting the Pasteur Institute and the Curie Institute. In recognition of his contributions to culture and international relations, he was honored by the French government in 2014 as an Officier de l\u2019Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and a Chevalier of the L\u00e9gion d\u2019Honneur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seth noted in particular in his remarks on the occasion of the award that \u201cPatrick\u2019s spirit of active support for organizations of true excellence can be seen in his work as president of the Winston Churchill Foundation and its remarkable graduate scholarship program; I recall Patrick telling me about how he marvels at the excellence of the candidates who are enabled by the scholarship to excel in life and leadership in various fields.\u201d Patrick is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, his three children, Nathalie, Karyn, and Edouard, and six grandchildren. The American Friends of the Louvre are dedicating a park bench to him this spring in the lovely Tuileries Garden next to the Louvre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I look forward to receiving more news and updates from all of you! Please email me about you and your family with news you would like to share with our classmates. \u2756<strong> Steve Weinberg<\/strong>, <strong>MBA \u201970<\/strong>, <strong>JD \u201971 <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;il&#116;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x53;&#116;e&#x76;&#x65;n&#x2e;&#87;&#x65;&#x69;nb&#x65;&#x72;&#x67;&#x40;R&#70;&#66;&#105;&#110;&#x64;&#x65;&#x72;&#x2e;&#99;&#111;&#x6d;\">email Steve<\/a>) | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-acce64c2fdfb2761f77d181b0eb4f029\"><strong>1969<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lee Moseley Kleinman<\/strong> says that, for most of the past 20 years, she, <strong>Mary Gidley Gregg<\/strong>, <strong>Nancy McMahon Novey<\/strong>, and <strong>Cathie Ogorzaly Lehrberg<\/strong> have spent a week outside of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, with their spouses (including <strong>Rogelio Novey-Diez<\/strong>) celebrating the warm weather and their long friendship. \u201cAll of us are remarkably healthy and doing well,\u201d exclaims Lee. She kindly failed to mention the not-so-warm winters in Ithaca, or that it snowed at Cornell on May 9, 1966. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Philip Reilly<\/strong> notes that he is still working\u2014about 80% time\u2014in biotech, focused mostly on startups, trying to help people with rare genetic diseases, and spending \u201cmore time than I care to trying to raise money.\u201d His two Cornell kids became a pediatrician (<strong>Sarah \u201909<\/strong>) and public defender lawyer (<strong>Thomas \u201907<\/strong>). His youngest (Chris, UMass) is recently married and working to grow a business he started. Phil says, \u201cI have three awesome grandkids, all of whom are under 4, so have not yet cared to hear me push Cornell! I feel lucky to have worked most of my life in human genetics, a deeply fascinating field.\u201d He\u2019s even luckier: \u201cNancy, a truly creative person, and I have been together for 45 years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Suzanne Sacks<\/strong> reports that she is very busy as chairperson of the Docent Advisory Council at the Norton Museum of Art, the largest art museum in Florida. There are close to 60 docents providing tours to thousands of children\u2019s school classes, in addition to hosting private groups and free public tours. Suzanne says, \u201cI get to spend most of my time in a gorgeous place doing something I love with really smart colleagues who have led different, very interesting lives in other parts of the world.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bob Weisberg<\/strong>, who gave a great talk to our class last year on his oceanography book, mentions an extended set of holiday dinners with family and friends, \u201cand miraculously no weight gain.\u201d We might need another Zoom call on that accomplishment! In December, Bob said, \u201cI just returned from a week of skiing at Vail, CO, and will embark with my wife, Cindy, on a Caribbean cruise, my penance (in a most enjoyable way) for taking off skiing.\u201d When we congratulated Bob for remaining limber enough to still ski, he replied, \u201cOne of the guys that I ski with is 82. It gives me inspiration.\u201d Class Notes, take note!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Classmate <strong>Seth Bramson<\/strong> is also an accomplished author. He\u2019s busier than ever as an active board member of the Cornell Club of Greater Miami and leads both the Miami Memorabilia Collectors Club and the Greater North Miami Historical Society. Seth adds that he is the only person in the country who bears the official title of company historian with an American railroad. His book <em>Speedway to Sunshine: The Story of the Florida East Coast Railway<\/em> is their official history. Seth is the most-published Florida history book author and is now working on five more that will bring his total to 38. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Doug Mock<\/strong> took two interesting trips in 2025. In July, a dozen Cornell \u201cbird types\u201d spent a week in the Amazon with Professor Regina Macedo, University of Brasilia. \u201cIt gave me a special chance to tell Cornell Professor Emeritus Steve Emlen (neurobiology and behavior) that his lectures in 1968 showed me the scientific career path I would follow happily for the next four or five decades. And November was spent in Uganda finishing a field study of shoebill foraging behavior,\u201d says Doug. Class Notes observes that a lot of Cornellians are interested in ornithology, and by the time you are reading this we will have heard a lot about Sapsucker Woods on a multi-class Zoom call with <strong>Randy Little \u201962<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p> <strong>Seth<\/strong> <strong>Bramson \u201969<\/strong> is the most-published Florida history book author and is now working on five more that will bring his total to 38.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Joseph Burleson<\/strong>, <strong>Robert Kingan<\/strong>, ME \u201970, <strong>Adam Sieminski<\/strong>, MPA \u201971, and <strong>James Jordan \u201970<\/strong>, along with Dave Gathman (Lycoming \u201969), spent the summer of 1968 working in Alaska. Adam, Dave, and Bob drove to Fairbanks and later met Joe and Jim there. At that time, more than 1,000 miles of the 1,500-mile Alaska Highway from Dawson Creek, BC, to Fairbanks were unpaved. Adam<strong> <\/strong>reports, \u201cTwo days after we arrived in Fairbanks, we were headed toward the Post Office to check for mail. I was wearing a Cornell windbreaker and a big guy walking past turned around and stopped us. It was <strong>Ken Dryden<\/strong>, whom, sadly, we lost in 2025. We also met <strong>Mary Morse Kulawik<\/strong>, <strong>LLB \u201966<\/strong>, shortly after her appointment as the first female assistant district attorney in Alaska. And we had dinner with legendary gold miner <strong>Roger Burggraf \u201955<\/strong>, who was famous on the Cornell campus as the owner of Tripod\u2014a feisty, three-legged sled dog.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May 2025, the entire \u201csummer of 1968\u201d group, except Jim Jordan (who died in 2021), held a reunion to celebrate that best-ever adventure. Joe Burleson was accompanied by spouse <strong>Susan Dickey Burleson \u201968<\/strong>. In addition to finding many things to see and do in Fairbanks, including a visit to the celebrated Malemute Saloon, we were delighted by our scenic Alaska Railroad trip to Denali National Park and an incredible wildlife tour. We would learn later that Cornell journalism majors <strong>Robert Potter <\/strong>and <strong>Gregory Pogson<\/strong> (who died in 1995) spent the summer of 1967 in Fairbanks, driving from Upstate New York and having some of the same experiences on the road and in Alaska as we did a year earlier!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of Alaska, <strong>William Bruno<\/strong>, ME \u201971, spent two years (1975\u201376) working as a geotechnical engineer on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Terminal in Valdez. During summer 1975, he drove 4,000+ miles in his trusty \u201969 Camaro from Anchorage to his then home in Connecticut. After that experience, Bill earned an MBA at Stanford and then served for over 25 years with Consol Energy in planning and economics and international operations. His two children, <strong>Anna<\/strong>, <strong>MBA \u201910<\/strong>, and <strong>Billy \u201902<\/strong>, both have Cornell degrees. Bill and wife Lynne (Berkeley \u201968) have divided their post-retirement years wintering in the South Hills of Pittsburgh while enjoying summers on Martha\u2019s Vineyard. Bill notes that their home on the Vineyard was purchased from descendants of General George Washington Goethals, best known for the building and opening of the Panama Canal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Greg Baum<\/strong> enjoyed attending the 2025 Trustee-Council Annual Meeting (TCAM) in Ithaca this past October as a member of the Cornell University Council. The TCAM event includes three days of high-level presentations by administrators, faculty, and staff on the latest key issues affecting the University. Greg says that he was able to take a guided tour of the phenomenal Wilson Synchrotron Lab, where he had a work\/study job during its construction. \u201cI was not the only member of our class in attendance at TCAM. <strong>Adam <\/strong>and <strong>Laurie Haynes Sieminski<\/strong>, <strong>Larry<\/strong> and <strong>Nancy Jenkins Krablin<\/strong>, and <strong>Alan Cody<\/strong> and Edith Moricz-Cody (Boston U.) were also present. I learned later that <strong>Nick Carino<\/strong>, PhD \u201974, was on campus that weekend for Homecoming, and, somewhat earlier, so was <strong>Ken Rubin<\/strong>, MS \u201971, JD \u201973. Nick, Ken, and Adam were civil engineering classmates of mine. Other CE classmates <strong>John Rees<\/strong>, <strong>Mike Brown<\/strong>, ME \u201970, and I meet monthly for lunch here in Portland, OR\u2014all are doing well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to everyone who contributed. If you have a story to tell\u2014or anything else to report\u2014please let us know. You can share your news via the <a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">online news form<\/a> or email <strong>Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;a&#x69;l&#116;&#x6f;&#58;a&#x62;&#98;&#56;&#x33;&#x40;&#x63;&#111;&#x72;n&#x65;ll&#46;&#x65;&#100;u\">email Alex<\/a>). You can find your friends in the <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\">Alumni Directory<\/a>. Best regards. \u2756 <strong>Adam Sieminski, MPA \u201971<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#97;&#x69;l&#116;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x61;&#100;&#97;m&#x2e;s&#x69;&#x65;&#x6d;&#105;&#x6e;s&#107;&#x69;&#x40;&#x6f;&#x75;&#116;l&#111;&#111;&#x6b;&#x2e;c&#x6f;&#109;\">email Adam<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:75px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center is-style-class-group has-x-large-font-size\">1970s<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-f8cf03233f4c4b6aa1a74f85fcaaae57\"><strong>1970<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Writing in the first weeks of December, I\u2019m reminded of my pre-Cornell days, growing up in Upstate New York\u2019s snow belt. Here, midway between Chicago and Milwaukee, the weather has managed to put perhaps seven inches of snow on the ground, and follow it with single-digit temperatures. So it is just like home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those of you who receive <em>Cornellians<\/em> emails on a regular basis will have recently seen some pictures of the campus with snow. Very nicely presented. In this part of the country (Illinois), the big difference is that those who plow will often wait until after the snow has fallen, leaving significant roads of two lanes in each direction with only one partly cleaned lane. Knowing this area, it would appear that the local governments are attempting to keep the costs of snow removal low. Wouldn\u2019t cut it in Ithaca, or central New York!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other item that I have focused on is our alma mater\u2019s settling with the current federal government in order to regain many of the federally funded grants that drive so much of the research done by graduate students working on advanced degrees. An old saying that often comes up is, \u201cIf it ain\u2019t broke, don\u2019t fix it.\u201d It wasn\u2019t, but it certainly was a way to get the attention of major universities, including our alma mater, for questionable reasons. Enough said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This particular column was interrupted as I was trying to finish it by the sound of an alarm in my house. It wasn\u2019t a fire; instead, my carbon monoxide detector in the main bedroom had gone off. For those of you who have forgotten Chem 103 or 107, carbon monoxide is colorless and odorless, and can be deadly. It replaces the oxygen in our blood! It can be in a house due to a malfunction or internal wear of the typical hot air furnace\/air conditioner, common in many parts of the U.S. Inspecting the device, it had come to the end of its useful life\u2014so, off to the local hardware store for a replacement. For those of you who still live in areas with colder temperatures this time of year, and have the common form of forced air heat, it might pay to see if your device is still working, or to obtain one. (And, yes, my initial degree from Cornell is in engineering.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Changing the subject, and writing on classmates, <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/strongwater-lost-synagogues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a recent piece<\/a> in <em>Cornellians<\/em> was focused on one of our classmates, <strong>Andrea Strongwater <\/strong>(New York, NY). Many of you will remember that she is an artist who created a painting, which was a view of Cornell in the wintertime, with inserts of specific buildings. This was reproduced as a 500-piece puzzle and was available to us at one of our prior Reunions. I still have mine! Those of you who have returned for Reunions may have encountered Andrea in the Cornell Store, where her artwork on many different items is presented for sale, and perhaps signed by the artist as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article about her explores her new book, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jps.org\/books\/lost-synagogues-of-europe\/\"><em>Lost Synagogues of Europe<\/em><\/a><em>: Paintings and Histories<\/em>. She tells the stories, in colorful, detailed paintings along with cultural histories, of 77 destroyed European synagogues, built from the early 1600s to 1930, across 16 countries. The book is the culmination of over 15 years of research, writing, and artwork, and is definitely worth a look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Janet Seelbach Lawrence-Nelson \u201970<\/strong> reports that her greatest satisfactions come from watching her granddaughters pursue college educations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Janet Seelbach Lawrence-Nelson<\/strong> (Spring City, PA) reports that her greatest satisfactions come from watching her granddaughters pursue college educations, while she works for her daughter in her custom window treatment business, watches her son run his own data business, and volunteers at church and politically. Janet is also working for fair funding in public schools in Pennsylvania, a race-based issue there, along with helping with a homeless shelter, meal programs, and a community garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Janet\u2019s oldest granddaughter is a senior at Northeastern majoring in environmental science. She has a verbal job offer after graduation, based on a summer internship. Janet\u2019s second granddaughter is a sophomore at Ursinus College near Philadelphia, majoring in biochemistry. She is an excellent writer and a TA for freshman chemistry classes. For Janet, the most impactful thing she learned while at Cornell was to figure out what you like to do, learn all about that field, and find a job doing it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Robert Berne<\/strong>, MBA \u201971, PhD \u201977 (New York, NY) sends us information on his novel <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/robertberne.wordpress.com\/\"><em>A Nearly Perfect Union<\/em><\/a>, published in November. His wife, <strong>Rachelle Fox Berne \u201971<\/strong>, is also an alumna. Their son and daughter-in-law and two of their four children live in Ithaca, where their daughter-in-law works as a career counselor in the Engineering college. Robert was a professor, dean, and vice president at NYU for 41 years. He retired in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his latest book, the graduate student union movement is in full swing at Olmsted University, part of a global trend in higher education. Students, faculty, administrators, and the board of trustees clash. Will the university community work together for the greater good, or will conflict tear the university community apart? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To continue with my look at the total number of respondents for this column, now at 32 individual columns since January\/February of 2021 (my first), are 172 individual responses (approximately 7%) from 115 individuals (approximately 4.8%). A fair number have responded multiple times. So, again, how about the rest of you? It would be great to hear from all of you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, you may contact me directly, or you may use the university\u2019s standard form, the <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/class-notes\">online news form<\/a>. \u2756 <strong>John Cecilia<\/strong>, <strong>MBA \u201979<\/strong> (<a href=\"m&#x61;&#105;l&#x74;&#111;&#58;j&#108;&#x63;&#x65;&#x63;&#105;l&#105;&#x61;9&#54;&#64;g&#109;&#x61;&#105;&#x6c;&#46;&#99;&#111;&#x6d;\">email John<\/a>) | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-7a6c43ac6e3e3f56311abe1018f862a6\"><strong>1971<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>From Fair Lawn, NJ, <strong>Gilda Klein Linden <\/strong>reports that her three sons have scattered to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and England. She travels to London at least once each year to visit <strong>Eric \u201902<\/strong> and sometimes gets an extra visit if she and her husband, Jeff, are traveling in Europe. Gilda and Jeff have been to all 50 states, all seven continents (though if you ask him, he\u2019ll say eight including the microcontinent Zealandia), and all seven seas. Gilda reports that they are lucky to continue having good health (despite her two knee replacements and one new hip) and so continue their adventures abroad. Gilda and Jeff visited Japan in mid-October 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plans for 2026 include a return to Antarctica in February and to Australia\/Indonesia (to see the Komodo dragons) in April. Gilda is still volunteering with her local ambulance corps, and knits and gardens when there is time. She maintains her nursing license despite being long retired and was able to volunteer with her county medical reserve corps during COVID, administering tests and vaccines. As I write this column, Gilda has just returned from the Cornell campus in Ithaca where she and <strong>Kathy Menton Flaxman<\/strong> (together with University staff) started the serious part of planning our 55th Reunion! Gilda hopes to \u201cCU there in June.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Michael Kubin <\/strong>shares that our<strong> <\/strong>classmate author <strong>Richard Price<\/strong> was the featured speaker at an event on movies about billiards, of which there are basically two Paul Newman movies: <em>The Hustler<\/em> (1961) and <em>The Color of Money<\/em> (1986) (script by Richard). Mike notes that Richard was his usual ultra-knowledgeable and highly entertaining self. Mike, together with classmates (and fellow TEP fraternity brothers) <strong>Marty Michael<\/strong>, <strong>Ted Grossman<\/strong>, JD \u201974, and <strong>Cliff Essman<\/strong> (who made the trip all the way from Baltimore), attended the event in New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Summarizing her life since our days on the Hill,<strong> Carol Fritz<\/strong> observes that she became a grad student in her 20s, a mother in her 30s, a lawyer in her 40s, an actor in her 50s, a standup comedian in her 60s, and a grandmother in her 70s. After college, Carol moved to Philadelphia to get a master\u2019s in material culture and an ABD (all but dissertation) in early American social history at Penn. She\u2019s lived in the Philly Powelton Village neighborhood ever since and likes to say, \u201cI was raised in Brooklyn, and bloomed in Philadelphia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the pandemic, Carol rented (and then bought) a condo near her daughter in Concord, CA, where she spends about four non-consecutive months a year with her little rescue dog who travels well. At our 20th Reunion, Carol finalized her decision to apply to law school at Temple and subsequently missed our 25th because she was studying for the Pennsylvania Bar. Despite her belief that she was going to be a transactional attorney, Carol ended up working in major class actions and high-stakes litigation (contracting herself out to plaintiffs\u2019 firms to do document review). While most lawyers hate that, Carol has a passion for the facts and was thrilled, after being a historian who went into dusty, poorly organized archives looking for documents, that they gave her documents to read that were in some kind of order from an identifiable source, and paid her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acting was never on Carol\u2019s dance card until she signed up for a group called Guaranteed Overnight Theatre that met on one Friday a month and put on a show Saturday morning for a paying audience. They told her that she had to be on stage and wrote a part where she was rapping, dancing, and speaking in a West Virginia accent. The kicker was that a few days later she attended a Washington, DC, \u201cTurn Your Back on Bush\u201d demonstration and a young man from Philadelphia recognized her from the performance. Carol was challenged to try standup and took a class in that. She says it\u2019s the hardest thing she\u2019s done, as she has to both write and perform her material, which she does occasionally in Philadelphia. Carol enjoys being part of a vibrant comedy community and working with younger people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apropos of the Class of \u201971, Carol has been fortunate to share some amazing musical experiences with <strong>Kathy Menton Flaxman<\/strong> and Kathy\u2019s husband, David, including a stellar performance in Philadelphia of Mahler\u2019s \u201cSymphony of a Thousand\u201d that left Carol speechless and a performance of Mahler\u2019s \u201cSymphony No. 2\u201d in Washington. She took Professor Donald Jay Grout\u2019s History of the Symphony course the last time he taught it and wrote a paper on Mahler\u2019s second, which made the concert extra special for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Gilda Klein Linden \u201971<\/strong> and Jeff have been to all 50 states, all seven continents, and all seven seas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Our adventurous traveler <strong>Sally Clark Shumaker <\/strong>writes of her latest exploits, \u201cI am an \u2018on the road person.\u2019 I might slow down at 80, but I am only 75 now and in good health. So why not travel as much as I can? Without children or a spouse, but with a compatible travel partner (who is spontaneous like me), I am free to head out in every direction, which I do! In 2025, I have taken numerous road trips to 18 states.\u201d Sally also traveled to Egypt for a month, then was in Turkey and Italy for a month, and spent the month of November 2025 in Ecuador, where she has a permanent visa (akin to a Green Card) and intends to eventually settle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For now, Sally makes a yearly visit to Ecuador, where she meets up with <strong>Wayne Jaquith <\/strong>at his home in Vilcabamba. In April 2026, Sally plans to return to Italy with several family members and visit St. Peter\u2019s on Easter to see the Pope (Sally\u2019s favorite world leader). If Sally\u2019s peripatetic schedule allows\u2014and she is not already in Alaska working as a tour guide and driver in June, as she has done the past several summers\u2014she will see fellow classmates in Ithaca for our 55th Reunion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sally notes that she visited Ithaca most recently for Zinck\u2019s Night in November, and on two additional occasions in 2025, and may be in Ithaca again before year\u2019s end! \u201cAll things are possible!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kathy Menton Flaxman <\/strong>sent us this update from Chevy Chase, MD: \u201cIn early 2014, our daughter, <strong>Marian \u201908<\/strong>, and her family, who had been living in Ithaca, decamped and moved in with us. I\u2019m sure we all thought it was a temporary respite, but almost 12 years later they are still here and have added a third daughter and recently a second dog. Over the years we have reconfigured our spaces a bit, but no one seems eager to leave. During COVID we were all locked down together and it worked well. There is a division of labor (we generally leave the cooking to Marian) and it seems to be going well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMarian received a degree in public health, and then a master\u2019s at Georgetown. She is actually employed by Cornell now, working mostly remotely in the Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health, after I took her to a 2024 summer talk by its director, Saurabh Mehta. I am not a <strong>Tony Chen \u201912<\/strong>-level connector, but I am proud of having made that connection! Our three granddaughters are 19 (in college!), 12, and 7, so we have a whole range of things going on at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMeanwhile I seem to be busier than ever. I belong to a local women\u2019s club, which has a host of activities both social and philanthropic. I sing in two choruses, one small one that sings lighter music and a larger one that sings more serious fare. (I can\u2019t keep up with my husband, who sings in several more!) I try to read my book club book every month and maybe another one if I can squeeze it in, as well as staying abreast of current events!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd of course, along with <strong>Gilda Klein Linden<\/strong>, I am co-chairing our 55th Reunion, which is coming up this June! There will be special speakers, campus tours, sharing of our history project, and more. Sadly, our big 50th Reunion did not happen, at least not on campus, so we hope that many classmates will come back to enjoy reconnecting at this one. Information will be heading your way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We look forward to receiving your news and hopefully seeing you at the Reunion! \u2756 <strong>Cara Nash Iason<\/strong> (<a href=\"m&#x61;&#x69;lt&#111;&#x3a;&#x63;&#97;&#x72;a&#46;n&#97;&#115;&#104;&#x2e;&#x69;&#x61;&#x73;o&#x6e;&#64;&#103;&#x6d;&#97;i&#x6c;&#46;&#99;om\">email Cara<\/a>) | <strong>Elisabeth Kaplan<\/strong> <strong>Boas<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;&#97;il&#116;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#101;&#107;&#98;&#55;&#x40;&#99;or&#110;&#101;&#x6c;l&#x2e;&#101;&#100;&#x75;\">email Elisabeth<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-ef369dc51dadef8b1094e07b663f57ce\"><strong>1972<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Fellow classmates, this is <strong>Wes Schulz<\/strong>, ME \u201973, one of two class correspondents who produce this column. We appreciate your input.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pat Guy<\/strong> reports that she was coincidentally on the same trip Down Under as <strong>Gail Povar<\/strong> and her husband, <strong>Larry Bachorik \u201971<\/strong>, last year in March. Together they camped under the stars in the Outback, snorkeled in the Great Barrier Reef, and sailed in New Zealand\u2019s Milford Sound, among other amazing adventures in the monthlong-plus odyssey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cliff Donn<\/strong> and his wife, Brenda Kirby, are moving to the nearby village of Hamilton, NY. They will be able to walk to Colgate\/Cornell football and basketball games. After 21 years in their glorious log house in the woods, they have decided that the winters have just gotten too hard. Cliff relates that it seems strange but the winters in Hamilton, only 14 miles away, are milder. Their new (200-year-old) house has a driveway that will be much easier to navigate in the snow. They also look forward to being able to walk to the library, the movies, restaurants, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Pat Guy \u201972<\/strong> reports that she was coincidentally on the same trip Down Under as <strong>Gail Povar<\/strong> <strong>\u201972<\/strong> and her husband, <strong>Larry Bachorik \u201971<\/strong>, last year in March.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alex Barna<\/strong> reports from Sunnyvale, CA, that he enjoys his grandchildren. He follows the Cornell athletic teams and his favorite professional sports teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Thanksgiving, my wife, Debbie, and I flew from Texas to visit family in New York City. We took in the Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade along with seemingly a million other folks. It was sunny but cold. We were 30 yards of people away from the parade. We could see the balloons and the floats but only the hats of the marching band members. We were thrilled to see Santa at the end of the parade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another item checked off on my bucket list was to see Cornell play hockey at Madison Square Garden versus Boston University for the Red Hot Hockey game. It had been 40 years since I last saw a Cornell hockey game. I went with Debbie, daughter Amy, son-in-law Colin, and grandson Del, age 8. It was the first hockey game for Debbie and for Del. We all enjoyed a very exciting game in an arena packed with 75% Big Red fans in which Cornell outplayed BU. But, alas, the bad guys won 2-1. Del cried when the final buzzer went off. I was crying on the inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to all who have written in. Keep the news coming! As always, you may contact one of us directly, or use the University\u2019s standard <a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">online news form<\/a>. \u2756 <strong>Wes Schulz<\/strong>, <strong>ME \u201973 <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#109;&#97;&#x69;&#108;t&#x6f;:&#x77;&#101;&#x73;&#x63;h&#x75;&#108;&#122;44&#x40;&#103;&#109;&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#46;&#x63;&#x6f;&#x6d;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email Wes<\/a>) | <strong>Susan<\/strong> <strong>Farber Straus <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#x6d;&#97;&#x69;&#x6c;&#116;o&#x3a;&#x73;&#102;&#x73;t&#114;&#x61;&#x75;&#115;&#64;&#105;&#99;&#x6c;o&#x75;&#100;&#x2e;&#99;&#x6f;&#x6d;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email Susan<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-507986e878ef8916ab053850ab9e6f1f\"><strong>1973<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We have one piece of news this month. It\u2019s from <strong>Steven Fruchtman<\/strong>, who writes as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt this stage of our lives it appears we mostly write about new generations. So proud and happy to announce my eldest, working at MGH in Boston, is engaged to a lovely young man. Her twin siblings are also doing well: one is at Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia in Philly, going for her PhD, and her brother is a first-year medical intern at Stony Brook. I have retired and am just basking in their accomplishments and the sun.\u201d Thanks, Steven!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A single item is not normally enough for a full column, but I\u2019m guessing our class\u2019s mostly empty mailbox indicates where most of us are at the moment\u2014reflecting on our lives and basking in the sun (or in my case here in Seattle, basking in the overcast between atmospheric rivers). Life isn\u2019t especially newsworthy. The big transitions are behind us (except in my case: now one year into our downsizing process and still not done), which doesn\u2019t serve the needs of an alumni column. But, as someone who spent 50-plus years in the news business chasing drama, the oasis is not a bad place to be. Tell us about it. \u2756 <strong>Dave Ross<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#97;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x74;&#x6f;&#58;&#x64;&#x61;&#x76;&#101;&#64;d&#97;&#118;&#101;&#x72;&#x6f;&#x73;&#115;&#46;c&#x6f;&#x6d;\">email Dave<\/a>) | <strong>Phyllis Haight Grummon<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x74;&#111;&#58;&#x70;&#x68;g3&#64;&#99;&#111;&#x72;&#110;&#x65;&#x6c;&#x6c;&#x2e;&#x65;&#100;&#x75;\">email Phyllis<\/a>) | <strong>Pam Meyers<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;&#105;l&#116;&#111;&#x3a;&#x70;s&#x6d;e&#121;&#x65;&#x72;&#115;&#x37;3&#64;gm&#97;i&#x6c;&#46;&#x63;&#x6f;&#x6d;\">email Pam<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-18dcfef235042b4eb25bee1556d28176\"><strong>1974<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Donna De Garmo Willis<\/strong> writes that her daughter and sister joined her on a trip to Slovakia to visit her grandparents\u2019 birthplace. They visited castles, cathedrals, and historic villages. They met relatives they didn\u2019t know they had in her grandparents\u2019 village. While there, Donna\u2019s daughter got to try on a traditional <em>kroj<\/em> like their ancestors wore. It was an experience of a lifetime with dancing, food, and traditional music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Julie Kane<\/strong> is a professor emerita at Northwestern State University. She received the 2025 Louisiana Writer Award. Her latest poetry collection is <em>Naked Ladies: New and Selected Poems<\/em>. This award had previously gone to many of her most admired writers, including Ernest Gaines, James Lee Burke, and Yusef Komunyakaa. Julie says it\u2019s a dream come true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My son Dashiell and I had the pleasure of joining <strong>Carol McKenzie Moore<\/strong> and her husband, <strong>Tom \u201979<\/strong>, for Thanksgiving. We visited Tom and Carol before we made the big move to New Hampshire from Texas. They live down the street and around the corner from us now. Tom is the younger brother of our class co-correspondent, <strong>Betsy Moore<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Michael Handlery<\/strong> missed Reunion, as he was on a trip to Japan with his son. Michael comes from a long line of hoteliers, starting with his grandfather, Harry Handlery. Harry arrived at Ellis Island as a 14-year-old boy from Ukraine and expanded his ownership to 26 hotels in California; by 1954, Handlery Hotels stood as the largest family-owned hotel company in the world. Michael currently lives in Lafayette, CA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you have an interesting family history? Please send in your news, as we need to hear from you! \u2756<strong> Linda Meyers Geyer<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#97;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x74;o&#58;&#x6c;&#x69;n&#x64;a&#x67;&#101;y&#101;&#x72;&#x32;&#x30;&#64;&#x67;ma&#x69;l&#x2e;c&#x6f;&#x6d;\">email Linda<\/a>) | <strong>Betsy Moore<\/strong> (<a href=\"ma&#x69;&#x6c;t&#111;&#x3a;&#98;&#101;&#116;&#x73;&#x79;&#109;&#x6f;&#111;r&#x65;5&#50;&#64;&#x67;&#109;a&#105;l&#x2e;&#99;o&#x6d;\">email Betsy<\/a>) | <strong>Perry Jacobs<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#x61;i&#108;&#116;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x65;&#122;&#x72;&#97;c&#x37;&#x34;&#x40;ya&#104;&#x6f;&#x6f;&#46;&#99;&#x6f;&#x6d;\">email Perry<\/a>) |<strong> <\/strong><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-d45294d7f0847bef3b173caf7b546e93\"><strong>1975<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been nearly a year since our 50th Reunion, and we\u2019re delighted that we are still hearing from folks who have reconnected with friends made during their days in Ithaca. <strong>Martin Siegel<\/strong> reports that in April 2025 the Phi Psis met for the 10th time in the past 50 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly 130 of the fraternity members (primarily of the \u201970s) and their spouses reunited in Nashville to continue their tradition of gathering every five years. In honor of their noted philanthropy from their time on the Hill, including the Phi Psi 500, which generated charitable contributions, they once again combined efforts to raise funds for villages in Africa in need of fresh water, for equine therapeutic services in New Jersey, and for families experiencing late-term pregnancy loss and stillborn loss in Minnesota. It was a wonderful gathering, but Marty said it almost felt like \u201cspeed dating,\u201d as everyone tried to reconnect over a 48-hour period. Their next gathering will be in San Diego in 2028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marty still loves his work in residential real estate sales and investment in Minnesota, as well as embarking on a fair amount of international travel, including New Zealand last year and France later this year. Marty and his wife, Cindy, are active in funding and supporting the David Kampic Siegel Nursing Fund, an endowment established in 1991 to support RN training for new mothers in crisis. The Siegels, with the help of many generous supporters, completed the $50,000 endowment in 1996, a sum which has grown substantially in recent years with 10% of the earned income annually granted to the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Julia Karlson-Waid<\/strong> writes from NYC, where after 19 years she retired as vice president and director of client accounting in the finance department of Deutsch Advertising. Her late husband of 40 years, Guy Crandell Waid, was an opera singer and singing teacher. The two enjoyed ballroom dancing together, and Julia continues to take lessons as well as ballet classes at the Joffrey Ballet School. Given the disparity in their ages, she became a grandmother on her wedding day and has eight grandchildren and four great-grands. She loves retirement, obsesses about Argentine Tango, and generally has the pleasure of doing as she pleases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Julia has stayed in close touch with her Cornell roommate, <strong>Anne Swardson<\/strong>, who has had an astonishing career as a journalist and writer of mystery\/detective fiction, and with <strong>Jonathan Lipman<\/strong>, BArch \u201978, who is an architect in Iowa specializing in Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s prairie-style designs. Julia\u2019s Cornell classmate and childhood friend, <strong>Andrew Feigin<\/strong>, has his own production company for theatrical productions and stage managed events in many prominent venues including the New York City Opera, Radio City Music Hall, and the Kennedy Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While working part time as a homework tutor at the city library in San Diego, <strong>Martha Wild<\/strong> has developed other diverse interests in both birding and protesting. She would love to be in touch with classmates who would be interested in joining her in birding to some of the hotspots around Cornell. She credits Cornell for launching her into her biology career, going on to earn a PhD in genetics at Yale, and working in the areas of microbiology, virology, and molecular biology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Nearly 130 Phi Psi members (primarily of the \u201970s) and their spouses reunited in Nashville to continue their tradition of gathering every five years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Janet Rivkin Zuckerman <\/strong>has published a new book, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Nasty-Women----Reclaiming-the-Power-of-Female-Aggression-A-Psychoanalytic-Perspective\/ZuckermanPhD\/p\/book\/9781032759043\">\u201c<em>Nasty Women\u201d<\/em><\/a><em>\u2014Reclaiming the Power of Female Aggression, A Psychoanalytic Approach<\/em> (Routledge 2024), that explores the way the patriarchy silences women and thereby thwarts their potential. It is an academic publication with crossover appeal, given the way women are struggling with patriarchal issues these days. She has also penned a deeply insightful <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/zuckerman-reclaiming-aggression\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">personal essay for <em>Cornellians<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After practicing law for six years, Janet returned to college to earn her doctorate in clinical psychology and has been practicing and teaching psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for over three years. She is currently a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Rye, NY, and a clinical consultant at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Scott Zuckerman \u201908<\/strong>, the oldest son of Janet and husband <strong>Joseph Zuckerman \u201974<\/strong>, was a CALS graduate and is currently a neurosurgeon in Nashville, TN, where he lives with his wife, Autumn, and two children. Their son Matthew was a Yale graduate in \u201911 and is an architect in Manhattan. He was recently married to Nicholas Pandolfi, a business entrepreneur. Janet and Joe travel back to Ithaca often to review memories from Cornell that they cherish. They have treasured friendships with <strong>Paula Markowitz Wittlin \u201974<\/strong> and with <strong>Jon<\/strong>, <strong>MBA\/MRP \u201976<\/strong>, and <strong>Debra Waxenberg Rutenberg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Retirement has brought fabulous travel adventures for <strong>Anthony Deusenbery<\/strong> and wife Holly, who not only enjoyed a cruise through the Amazon during 2025 but a cruise around the world as well. <strong>Michael Rosepiler<\/strong>, ME \u201976, and wife Peggy recently cruised from Los Angeles north to Alaska, crossed the Pacific Ocean to Tokyo, and flew back to their home in Charlotte, NC. In summer 2025 their travels took them to Denver for sightseeing aboard the Rocky Mountaineer Train, followed by a few days exploring the Arches and Canyonlands national parks near Moab, UT, which are certainly two of my favorite destinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ed Edelson<\/strong>\u2019s retirement in Southbury, CT, has enabled him to engage in many different activities including hiking in the woods, political engagement, writing, and video editing. He has often reflected upon his days at Cornell, understanding that the joy of learning new things there was truly impactful in his life. <strong>Fred Peckham<\/strong> is a retired software development project manager and scrum master in finance. He is currently living in Rochester, NY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several of our classmates have made the relocation to the sunny South. <strong>Joel Helmrich<\/strong>, MBA \u201976, and his wife, Barbara, are in Sarasota, FL, where they both enjoy spending time with their grandkids and friends, the local theater, and travel. <strong>Gerald Nolan<\/strong>, BS \u201978, and wife Colette reside in St. Augustine on the eastern coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please take a few minutes to send us highlights of your life after Cornell, college friends you\u2019ve seen, and memorable moments on campus, and we\u2019ll share the news in our upcoming columns. To update your contact info with the University, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/services\/update-info\/\">go to this website<\/a>. \u2756<strong> Joan Pease<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;ai&#x6c;t&#x6f;:j&#x61;&#x70;&#x65;&#97;&#115;&#x65;&#x31;&#x30;&#51;2&#x40;&#97;o&#108;&#46;&#x63;&#111;m\">email Joan<\/a>) | <strong>Deb Gellman<\/strong>, <strong>MBA \u201982<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x74;&#111;&#58;&#100;&#x73;&#103;e&#x6c;&#x6c;&#x6d;&#97;&#110;&#x40;h&#x6f;tm&#x61;i&#x6c;&#x2e;&#99;&#111;&#x6d;\">email Deb<\/a>) | <strong>Karen DeMarco Boroff<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;&#97;&#x69;&#108;&#116;&#x6f;&#58;&#x6b;&#x61;&#114;&#x65;&#x6e;&#x2e;bor&#111;&#102;f&#64;&#115;hu&#46;edu\">email Karen<\/a>) | <strong>Mike Tannenbaum<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#97;i&#108;&#x74;&#111;:m&#x69;&#107;e&#x2e;&#x74;a&#x6e;ne&#x6e;&#98;&#97;&#x75;&#109;&#x35;3&#64;g&#109;&#97;&#x69;&#x6c;&#46;&#99;&#x6f;&#x6d;\">email Mike<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-1e6daba78fbbc1df74cf946c2a3b24e4\"><strong>1976<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lynda Gavigan Halttunen<\/strong> and <strong>Steven Leigh \u201973<\/strong>, BS \u201975, have been together for nearly two years, after a 50-year separation. They are living bi-coastally\u2014in Fort Lauderdale, FL, from January to June, and in Carlsbad, CA, from June to January. If you would like to visit, just let them know!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In September, they traveled for five weeks to Troy, NY, to see <strong>Tom Wagner \u201973<\/strong> and to Montreal and Boston to visit family. Then they cruised from NYC through the Panama Canal. Lynda adds that they are staying healthy, dancing, attending concerts, trying to avoid politics as much as possible, and feeling much gratitude for all of their blessings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As your class correspondent, I was invited to sit in on the Reunion committee\u2019s Zoom meeting. I was impressed with all of the work that has been done already to make our 50th Reunion amazing. We are the bicentennial class, after all! <strong>Terry Wolff Heinichen<\/strong>, MBA \u201983, and <strong>Skip Newman <\/strong>are co-chairs, along with a hard-working committee. They are looking for more volunteers to help in planning and to help over the weekend. You can contact Terry or Skip directly through the <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday night at our headquarters in Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall, there will be a \u201cblast from the past\u201d dinner featuring favorite sandwiches from the food trucks from our time on campus. The weekend will also include \u201cStraight Breaks\u201d at HQ, with ice cream and chocolate chip cookies. Our class will have the private use of the entire building for luncheon Saturday. Other highlights will include RED Talks featuring brief presentations from notable classmates and, of course, many more things to do on campus. More details will be coming in the months ahead. Hope to see you on campus this June 4\u20137, 2026! \u2756 <strong>Lisa Diamant<\/strong> (<a href=\"m&#97;&#105;l&#116;&#111;:l&#106;di&#x61;&#x6d;a&#x6e;&#116;&#53;&#x35;&#x40;&#103;ma&#x69;&#108;&#x2e;co&#109;\">email Lisa<\/a>) | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-33e8eeac1a9478532215df7c49313987\"><strong>1977<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon reading <strong>Howie Eisen<\/strong>\u2019s January\/February Class Notes column, I was so surprised to learn that we were both in Vietnam and Cambodia in October and November 2025. Cornellians do get around! Angkor Wat was high on my bucket list as well, and it did not disappoint. The Cornell Alumni Tour of Southeast Asia, which also included time in Laos, Bangkok, and Singapore, was great fun as well as a wonderful learning experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best of all was getting to know a tremendous group of Cornellians and their travel companions. As <strong>John Cobey \u201966<\/strong> noted in a follow-up to us, \u201cWhat a great group of travelers to spend time with in an exotic area of the world. It was a meaningful trip because of what all of you contributed. Otherwise, it was merely seeing sites and experiencing culture. But you all added humor, insight, and joy. It reminded me of my best times at Cornell, with people who were brilliant, interesting, and fun.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While our tour exposed us to much of the history that Howie noted last round, John\u2019s wife, Jan Frankel, reminded us of \u201cwonderful memories of sampan boats, tuk-tuk rides, cooking classes, eating many different foods, planting rice in the muck with everyone, the water buffalo, having a rat climb up my arm at the HeroRAT museum, visiting numerous happy houses, and climbing to the top of both historic and modern sites. What a whirlwind!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group included alumni from the classes of \u201959 through \u201909, with the \u201970s well represented. I was joined by <strong>Lawrence Erwich \u201974 <\/strong>and his wife, <strong>Sara Crystal-Erwich \u201975<\/strong>, of Delray Beach, FL, <strong>Frank \u201974<\/strong>, ME \u201975, and <strong>Elissa Katowitz Giaimo<\/strong>,<strong> MBA \u201976<\/strong>, of San Mateo, CA, and <strong>Jules \u201972<\/strong>, MBA \u201974, and <strong>Karen Broten Sieburgh \u201973 <\/strong>of Lansing, NY. Jules and Karen were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary and we were all able to join in the fun along with their son <strong>Colin Sieburgh \u201905<\/strong>, BArch \u201906,<strong> <\/strong>and his husband, John Walter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The Cornell Alumni Tour of Southeast Asia, which also included time in Laos, Bangkok, and Singapore, was great fun as well as a wonderful learning experience.<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Mary Flynn \u201977<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Our classmate <strong>Sam Chamberlain<\/strong> and his wife, <strong>Barbara (<\/strong><strong>Wooten<\/strong><strong>) <\/strong><strong>\u201978<\/strong>, of Croghan, NY, also traveled with us. This was the first time I\u2019ve met a fellow classmate on an Alumni Tour and it was delightful to get to know the Chamberlains and share Cornell memories. In early October, Sam and Barbara traveled to Cambridge, MA, where Sam and his son<strong> Jon Chamberlain \u201913 <\/strong>achieved a bucket-list item by competing in the 60th Head of the Charles Regatta. They were the second-oldest entry in the Directors\u2019 Challenge Parent\/Child Doubles and finished 41st of 58 teams. Well done! Hopefully we can connect in Cambridge if Sam and Barbara revisit the Regatta in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our classmate <strong>Drew Nieporent <\/strong>was featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/nieporent-memoir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a recent <em>Cornellians<\/em> story<\/a>, where he spoke about his memoir, <em>I\u2019m Not Trying to Be Difficult: Stories from the Restaurant Trenches<\/em>. In the book, released in 2025, Drew reflects on his renowned four-decade career in the restaurant industry. It\u2019s full of anecdotes starting with childhood inspirations that fostered his love of food and creativity. After graduating from the Hotel School, he held management positions at NYC eateries Maxwell\u2019s Plum, Tavern on the Green, and La Grenouille before opening his first restaurant in 1985 with chef David Bouley. That restaurant, Montrachet, was a great success, earning three stars from the <em>New York Times<\/em>, and launched Drew as a creative force behind other famous New York City dining spots such as Tribeca Grill and Nobu. He would go on to open over 40 restaurants in the U.S. and elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lastly, the Cornell Class Programs team from the Office of Alumni Affairs recently sent out a pre-Reunion 2027 survey asking for input on how best to make Reunion weekend unforgettable. Yes, hard to believe, but it\u2019s true: our 50th Reunion is coming up soon. If you don\u2019t have it on your calendars, please schedule the dates of June 10\u201313, 2027 for Reunion weekend in Ithaca. More information will be coming from our Reunion team in the months ahead, so stay tuned!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please send news about what\u2019s happening in your life\u2014celebrations, trips, family milestones, work, retirement, or just favorite Cornell memories. We enjoy hearing from you and having the opportunity to share your stories with our fellow classmates. Please keep all your news and views coming in via the <a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">online news form<\/a>! \u2756<strong> Mary Flynn<\/strong> (<a href=\"m&#x61;i&#108;t&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x6d;a&#x72;&#121;&#x66;&#x6c;&#121;&#110;&#x6e;&#x31;&#x40;&#109;&#101;&#46;&#99;&#x6f;&#x6d;\">email Mary<\/a>) | <strong>Howie Eisen<\/strong> (<a href=\"m&#97;&#x69;l&#116;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#104;&#x6f;&#x77;&#97;r&#x64;e&#x69;sen&#x35;&#x36;&#x40;&#103;&#109;a&#105;&#x6c;&#x2e;co&#x6d;\">email Howie<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-10c9708525a3619e6b1f5e22ab6934ad\"><strong>1978<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I begin with a big shout-out for classmate <strong>Joseph Lubeck<\/strong>, who donated $5 million to the Arts and Sciences Jewish Studies Program, allowing for an endowment of its director position. The gift is named for Joseph\u2019s grandfather, <strong>Morris Escoll 1916<\/strong>, a forestry student who graduated in 1916. \u201cOne of my life goals has been to honor my grandfather, one of the few Jews on campus in the Class of 1916,\u201d Joseph said. Mr. Escoll wrote about his experience in an award-winning essay called \u201cThe Jewish Student on Campus.\u201d Ross Brann, the Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies, will hold the initial position as the Morris Escoll 1916 Director of Jewish Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHaving a named directorship increases the prestige of our program,\u201d says Jason Sion Mokhtarian, the Herbert and Stephanie Neuman Professor in Hebrew and Jewish Literature in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, adding that the endowment demonstrates that Cornell is a university that strongly supports Jewish studies. \u201cWe hope that this gift will not only have academic impact but will also serve to broaden understanding of the amazing and beautiful history and culture of the Jewish faith throughout all students,\u201d Joseph said. \u201cThere is no better weapon in these times than truth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like me, you may not be aware that Cornell had a nursing school for nearly 35 years before closing in 1979. The Cornell School of Nursing closed one year after <strong>Brenda DeSalvo Smith-Booth<\/strong> graduated with us in \u201978. Now a registered nurse and licensed clinical psychologist, Brenda recalls the NYC-based school as a \u201ctreasure,\u201d noting that many leaders in the field were Cornell graduates. \u201cHow fine it would be for Cornell to reinstitute a program,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>On an April trip to Paris, <strong>Cindy Fuller \u201978<\/strong>, PhD \u201992, took a workshop at Le Cordon Bleu on viennoiserie (croissants and brioche).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Retirement in California is an easy life for <strong>Alexandra Swiecicki Fairfield<\/strong>, PhD \u201985, who is volunteering and enjoying access to wine-tasting and outdoor activities. Her life challenges now come during vacations, last summer\u2019s being a one-week swim camp where participants swam around a few of the many islands off the coast of Sibenik, Croatia. Afterward, they toured several historic sites in Split and Dubrovnik, where, Alexandra says, \u201cthey could not escape seeing filming locations for \u2018Game of Thrones\u2019\u2014but the footprints of the Romans, Venetians, and Ottomans made for fascinating learning!\u201d That was followed by a \u201cvery sobering\u201d few days in Mostar and Sarajevo, Bosnia, learning about the Balkan War, which, in Alexandra\u2019s experience, \u201cwas as heartbreaking as any World War memorial or museum.\u201d She says Bosnia is beautiful, friendly, interesting, and 50% less expensive than Croatia, but sadly, \u201cit is governed by a triple-ethnic council of co-presidents, and ethnic resentments between all three cultures are just under the surface.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cindy Fuller<\/strong>, PhD \u201992, is not the retiring type. She\u2019s been doing quality improvement work with the largest cardiac surgery program in Washington State for more than 12 years. On an April trip to Paris, Cindy took a workshop at Le Cordon Bleu on viennoiserie (croissants and brioche). She hasn\u2019t tackled making croissants at home yet, but the workshop definitely upped her brioche game\u2014and use of butter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As one might expect living in Hawaii, <strong>Cynthia Kubas<\/strong> and <strong>Paul Varga \u201979<\/strong> were busy welcoming guests this winter. <strong>Fred Dreibholz<\/strong> <strong>\u201977<\/strong> and his wife, June, spent several days in November and enjoyed time with fellow Hawaii denizen <strong>J.C. Henry<\/strong>. \u201cThe three Psi Upsilon brothers told many hilarious stories of their antics while at Cornell, sharing fond memories of very happy times,\u201d Cynthia reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Roger Hall<\/strong>, BS \u201982, MAT \u201986, can often be found walking in the woods near his home in Afton, NY, a rural community not far from Ithaca. As a pre-vet student, Roger also remembers being easily psyched out by teachers who he thought were interested in weeding students out of the program. \u201cI was one who was weeded out of pre-vet,\u201d he notes. The most impactful thing he learned at Cornell: \u201cHow much I didn\u2019t know!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to all who sent in updates; we\u2019d love to hear from more of you about what\u2019s new\u2014or old, as in memories of your time on the Hill. You can email either of us or <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">submit online<\/a>. \u2756 <strong>Ilene Shub<\/strong> <strong>Lefland<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#x61;&#105;&#108;&#x74;o&#58;&#x49;l&#x65;&#x6e;&#101;&#x2e;le&#x66;&#108;&#97;n&#x64;&#x40;&#x67;&#x6d;&#97;il&#46;&#99;&#x6f;&#x6d;\">email Ilene<\/a>) | <strong>Cindy Fuller<\/strong>, <strong>PhD \u201992<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#97;&#105;lto&#x3a;&#99;&#x69;&#x6e;&#100;&#121;&#64;&#x63;i&#110;d&#121;&#x6a;&#x66;&#x75;&#108;&#x6c;&#101;&#114;&#46;&#99;&#111;&#x6d;\">email Cindy<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-bdabd00ca7b2e25adc5ba97fa1944503\"><strong>1979<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Wishing you all a happy spring as I sit down to write this column on what may be the coldest day since last winter. The past year was noteworthy for 50th high school reunions, which I, <strong>Larry Bunis<\/strong>, attended in West Orange, NJ. It was great seeing and catching up with people, including some that I have known since elementary school. It was particularly good to see how many people have \u201caged gracefully\u201d and could be readily recognized. I continue to enjoy my retirement from the practice of law, and in particular going to the gym and spending time with my granddaughter, Layla (who is now 1.5 years old), and my two sons, Robert and <strong>Dan \u201912<\/strong>, who live nearby, in New Jersey and Delaware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of the Class of \u201979 had fun gathering with the classes of \u201978, \u201980, and \u201981, plus family and friends, for pre-game drinks and dinner before heading over to the annual Red Hot Hockey event at Madison Square Garden in New York City. University President Mike Kotlikoff called the coin toss before the traditional game against Boston University, and CU lacrosse star <strong>C.J. Kirst \u201925<\/strong> rode the Zamboni around the arena displaying the 2025 NCAA lacrosse championship trophy. This was Cornell\u2019s first national championship since the famed lacrosse teams we rooted for during our time on the Hill. Classmates attending the festivities included <strong>Jennifer Grabow Brito<\/strong>, <strong>Lon<\/strong> and <strong>Lisa Barsanti Hoyt<\/strong>, <strong>Peggy Smith<\/strong>, <strong>Jeff Ford<\/strong>, <strong>Cindy Green<\/strong>, <strong>Debbie Seidman<\/strong>, <strong>Nancy Sverdlik<\/strong>, <strong>Tod Eberle<\/strong>, <strong>Roger Yerdon<\/strong>, and<strong> Debra Zimmerman Frankel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have received news from <strong>Katherine Archodis Guzman Sanchez<\/strong>, who reports that she and her husband, Virgilio, a retired New York City firefighter, are spending much of their time traveling to interesting and exotic places such as China, Japan, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Cuba, Ireland, and Australia. They have also been enjoying their dog, Enzo, gardening, and exercising to stay healthy. Katherine is currently teaching part time as a certified diabetic education and care specialist. She reports that her children are all successful and independent, she has five grandchildren, and she also enjoys reconnecting with old friends. The most impactful thing she learned at Cornell was the skill of critical thinking, standing up for the truth, advocating for the underdog, and staying humble enough to listen and learn from others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Jacqueline Webb \u201979<\/strong>  is an associate in ichthyology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Danni Reich Kleiman<\/strong> has been keeping busy in her retirement, loving and training her 1-year-old German shepherd, Spenser, as well as tutoring kids in math and reading. She also looks forward to reaping the benefits of her own vegetable and flower gardens, and has recently become involved in local politics. Danni was an integral part of celebrating family events, in which she was the photographer for the wedding of one of her nieces and the baby shower for another niece. She is thankful for learning to work hard at Cornell, to persevere when things don\u2019t go smoothly, and to value the process, not just the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ken Wilson<\/strong> has retired from bridge engineering and project management and has become an adjunct professor at Geneva College, where he teaches a course titled Christian Ethics and Engineering and also leads a student ministry with the Navigators. He also finds much joy in writing books, leading small groups, playing guitar in a church band, and spending time with his wife, Mimi, two children, and six grandchildren, as well as a group of longtime friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jacqueline Webb<\/strong> retired in 2024 after 31 years as a biology professor. She is currently serving as chair of the Shoals Marine Laboratory\u2019s Alumni and Friends Association, and is an associate in ichthyology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, where she continues her research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are always looking for more news. Please send updates on your travels, jobs, retirements, and other personal and family news via the Share Your News form, the <a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">online news form<\/a>, or emails sent directly to any of our class correspondents: \u2756<strong> Larry Bunis<\/strong> (<a href=\"m&#x61;&#105;lt&#111;:&#76;&#x42;u&#x6e;is&#x40;&#x63;om&#x63;&#97;&#x73;&#116;&#46;&#x6e;&#101;&#x74;\">email Larry<\/a>) | <strong>Linda Moses<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#x61;i&#x6c;t&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x6c;&#x69;&#x6e;&#100;&#97;&#107;&#109;&#111;&#x73;es&#x40;g&#x6d;&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#46;&#x63;o&#x6d;\">email Linda<\/a>) |<strong> Cynthia Ahlgren Shea<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#x61;&#105;lt&#x6f;&#x3a;&#99;&#x69;&#x6e;d&#x79;&#x2e;&#115;&#x68;ea0&#x31;&#64;gm&#x61;i&#108;&#x2e;&#x63;&#x6f;m\">email Cynthia<\/a>) | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:75px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center is-style-class-group has-x-large-font-size\">1980s<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-77725f0e0d5738b4e88a61180f11665b\"><strong>1980<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Ah, those halcyon days of yore! In our undergrad days, I tried to impress a potential love interest, a budding ornithologist, by starting what birders call a \u201clife list.\u201d Entry number one was \u201cduck.\u201d I got up to seven birds but, despite my diligence, she ignored me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During finals week, the Straight wouldn\u2019t charge for coffee or tea in an effort to keep Ezra\u2019s children awake. As I walked past the cashier, tea bag label fluttering around my cup, I stopped to chat her up. She pointed out that I had a mini-marshmallow stuck to my mustache, and that I had to pay, as the Straight did not serve mini-marshmallows, other than in hot chocolate. I stated that I was broke and didn\u2019t want tea or coffee, and she made me sign an IOU. I paid for the hot chocolate the next day, stopped counting ducks, and my love life eventually improved. I look back on it fondly now, and they were better off without me anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff Winton<\/strong> is CEO of Rural Minds, a nonprofit he founded after the suicide of his beloved nephew, Brooks Winton. His mission, and the mission of Rural Minds, is \u201cending the suffering, silence, and stigma surrounding mental illness in rural America.\u201d The <em>Washington Post<\/em> recently featured a letter by Jeff that addressed negative repercussions if Affordable Care Act enhanced premium tax credits were allowed to expire, the most damaging being the inability of many people in rural America to afford health insurance. Rural Minds advocates for 46 million Americans in rural areas, where access to mental health services is already limited by distance, provider shortages, and financial barriers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruralminds.org\/rural-minds-in-the-news\/farmersandtariffs\" id=\"https:\/\/www.ruralminds.org\/rural-minds-in-the-news\/farmersandtariffs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview with the BBC<\/a>, Jeff talked about the impact of tariffs on farmers, which included discussion of the attendant financial stress\u2019s effect on mental health. He shared that tariffs spawn unintended consequences, and cause pain for many folk working in agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In an interview with the BBC, <strong>Jeff Winton \u201980<\/strong> talked about the impact of tariffs on farmers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Randi<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>Weingarten<\/strong> has published a new book titled <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.prh.com\/whyfascistsfearteachers\"><em>Why Fascists Fear Teachers<\/em><\/a>. She states, \u201cFascists fear teachers because they teach young people how to think for themselves.\u201d A press release announcing the publication of the book states, \u201cAs the head of one of the largest teachers\u2019 unions in America, Randi Weingarten is among the last lines of defense for American public education. For decades, she has sounded the alarm that attacks on teachers are part of a larger, darker agenda\u2014to undermine democracy, opportunity, and public education as we know it.\u201d The press release continues: \u201cA manifesto for our time, <em>Why Fascists Fear Teachers<\/em> is necessary reading for every American worried about the future of our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yours truly, <strong>Dik Saalfeld<\/strong>, is enjoying retirement in the glorious state of Vermont. My bride and I, having lived in urban areas for decades, are used to a different pace; the new pace is welcome, but requires adjustment. In anticipation of a harsh winter, I ordered a sauna. My better half insisted that we hire a carpenter to add supports to the deck upon which the sauna would rest, and that she didn\u2019t trust my carpentry skills, no offense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a sunny August day, said carpenter was engaged. He showed up in December, during the first major snowstorm of the season, which means I get to assemble the thing, outside, in 10\u00b0 weather. The reasons for the delay include, but are not limited to, deer season, turkey season, and earning more money elsewhere. But soon we will be basking in our glass-walled sauna, looking out over the glories of Mother Nature, our first-world problems melting away like the crayon I left on the heater in Mrs. Hill\u2019s kindergarten class in 1963. \u2756 <strong>Dik Saalfeld<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#x61;&#x69;l&#x74;o&#x3a;r&#102;&#115;25&#x40;c&#x6f;&#x72;n&#101;l&#108;&#46;&#x65;&#x64;&#x75;\">email Dik<\/a>) | <strong>Chas Horvath<\/strong>, <strong>ME \u201981<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;a&#x69;&#x6c;t&#x6f;&#58;&#99;&#104;&#x61;s&#x40;&#x68;&#x6f;&#114;&#118;&#x61;&#116;&#x68;&#x73;&#46;&#111;rg\">email Chas<\/a>) | <strong>David Durfee<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#97;&#x69;&#x6c;t&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x64;&#114;&#x64;&#50;&#x32;&#x35;&#x40;&#x63;&#111;&#x72;&#110;&#x65;&#x6c;l&#46;&#x65;&#x64;&#x75;\">email David<\/a>) | <strong>Karen Vecchio DeFusco<\/strong> (<a href=\"m&#97;il&#x74;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#107;&#x76;&#x73;&#x69;&#x6d;&#x6f;&#x6e;s&#49;&#x40;&#x67;&#x6d;a&#x69;l&#46;&#x63;&#x6f;&#x6d;\">email Karen<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-67dedd30c6eef56d7d9d93c68e78a8e4\"><strong>1981<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Wow\u2014springtime 2026 already. How did that happen? So much has been going on, and time really does fly when you\u2019re \u2026 well, living. Let\u2019s catch up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First things first: Reunion! Before you read another word, check your calendar and make sure June 4\u20137, 2026 is circled in red. Yes, it\u2019s our 45th Reunion, and it\u2019s happening whether we\u2019re ready or not!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll be headquartered in the beautiful Alice Cook House, with plenty of time for reconnecting, laughing, reminiscing, and meeting classmates we may not have known back in the day. We\u2019re also planning a class panel on \u201cWhat do I want to be when I grow up?\u201d\u2014or, more accurately, how we\u2019re figuring out this next chapter of life. Expect wisdom, humor, and probably a few surprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be lots of great University programs, plus plenty of time to just enjoy Ithaca at one of its most gorgeous times of year. <strong>Laura Dake Roche<\/strong> can help you wrangle friends or affinity groups to come along\u2014and this is a perfect moment to start nudging your Cornell besties, too. <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/come-back\/reunion\/classes-groups\/45th-reunion\/\">This website<\/a> has our 45th Reunion information, so please check it out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently ran into <strong>Howie Borkan <\/strong>and<strong> Sue Levitt<\/strong> while I was in NYC and am hoping that was just a warm-up for seeing them again in Ithaca. Hint, hint. I really hope you\u2019re planning to come\u2014Big Red forever!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more than four decades, 2025 Frank H.T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Award recipient <strong>Lisa Kremer Ullmann \u201981<\/strong> has devoted herself to Cornell University. A Cornell National Scholar from Memphis, TN, Lisa was deeply involved as a student, serving as president of Sigma Delta Tau, chair of Cornell Ambassadors, a member of Quill &amp; Dagger, and a tour guide. \u201cFor four years, I walked around backwards a lot on campus,\u201d she joked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her Cornell service began at her 5th Reunion and grew into nearly 45 years of continuous volunteer leadership. A longtime class officer, she has helped organize Red Hot Hockey tickets for the Class of 1981 since the event\u2019s inception and has participated in eight Reunions. Lisa met her husband, <strong>Michael Ullmann \u201980<\/strong>, as a fellow history major, and Cornell became a family tradition when their son <strong>Matt \u201912<\/strong> attended Arts and Sciences and met his wife, <strong>Sheri Jiang Ullmann \u201912<\/strong>, at Cornell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lisa\u2019s leadership expanded through roles on the Cornell University Council and the President\u2019s Council of Cornell Women, and as co-chair of the National Annual Fund Leadership Committee. She recently joined the Cornell Library Advisory Council and now co-chairs the Cornell Club of Southwest Florida. \u201cDoing the greatest good is embedded in Cornellians,\u201d Lisa said\u2014a philosophy reflected in her decades of service and honored by the Frank H.T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the highlights of my year was an unforgettable trip to Israel with a group of women through Momentum, in partnership with my synagogue, Temple Beth El of Boca Raton. Twenty of us went on an intense, inspiring, eight-day journey filled with incredible speakers, visits to the Western Wall and the Nova Exhibit, and\u2014best of all\u2014deep connections with one another. (Side note: if you have a child under 18 at home, you\u2019re eligible to apply.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p> In 2015, <strong>Mark Jackson \u201981<\/strong>, JD \u201985, launched the First Amendment Clinic at Cornell Law School.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I also visited Hadassah Hospital and a youth village near Haifa that is home to 300 Ukrainian and other refugees, along with 300 day students. I came home feeling awed, grateful, and very proud of the fundraising work I continue to do for Hadassah. Truly a trip I\u2019ll never forget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Closer to home, Ella is halfway through her sophomore year at the University of Florida, studying sports journalism (go Gators!). Brayden is a junior at Dreyfoos School of the Arts and is already thinking about summer, when he\u2019ll be teaching volleyball at his former sleepaway camp, Cedar Lake Camp, in Milford, PA. Full-circle moments are the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Phebe Ladd<\/strong> <strong>Swope <\/strong>still laughs on her way to work\u2014and when you hear what she does, you\u2019ll understand why. She works for the Department of Defense\u2019s Missile Defense Agency, building and troubleshooting servers for space sensors that often make the news. Quite a leap from her master\u2019s degree in dairy science and her days of milking cows and calculating feed rations!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Phebe loves being part of her family\u2019s long tradition of service. She may not have been active duty like her father and brothers, but she\u2019s proud to be helping protect the country. She\u2019s hoping to retire next year and spend her time training younger coworkers (a.k.a. \u201cthe children\u201d), and laughing about the generational language gap\u2014she doesn\u2019t get modern media, and they don\u2019t speak \u201cdinosaur.\u201d Her youngest just headed to the U.K. for a master\u2019s in psychology, which, conveniently, gave Phebe an excellent excuse to tour Scotland. Not bad at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mark Jackson<\/strong>, JD \u201985, has had a career that reads like a case study in interesting pivots. After defending news outlets in private practice, he went in-house at HarperCollins, then became general counsel at Dow Jones, publisher of the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>. In 2015, he took another turn\u2014launching the First Amendment Clinic at Cornell Law School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the past six-plus years, Mark has largely funded the clinic through foundation grants. Now Cornell Law is raising a $1 million endowment to create the Mark H. Jackson Director of the First Amendment Clinic. They\u2019re off to a strong start, with $265,000 already raised and more commitments in the works. Mark has been reconnecting with Cornell friends (including our own <strong>Brian Coyne<\/strong>) to help make it happen. We\u2019re cheering him on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your turn! Please don\u2019t be shy\u2014reach out and let me know what you\u2019re up to. Promotions, passions, travel, new chapters &#8230; I want to hear it all. Warmly: \u2756 <strong>Betsy Silverfine<\/strong> (<a href=\"m&#97;i&#108;&#x74;&#111;&#58;&#98;&#115;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x76;&#x65;rf&#x69;n&#x65;&#x40;c&#111;&#x6d;&#x63;&#97;&#x73;&#x74;&#46;&#x6e;&#101;&#116;\">email Betsy<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-67a05f49b78a4803fad65efdbd9aaa7d\"><strong>1982<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Reunion weekend is June 10\u201313, 2027. Perhaps you have received the survey regarding events and activities. It is not too early to start making plans! As I hope you know, it is always a great weekend to reconnect with classmates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We received news from <strong>Lynn Stefanowicz<\/strong>, who reports, \u201cI retired in February 2025 after a 40-year career in behavioral health. My last position led to a relocation to Maryland, though I remain a \u2018Jersey girl\u2019 at heart. I credit my classes with Professor Mack and my campus volunteer work with EARS as sparking the interest in mental health. I\u2019m serving on the board for Well Spouse Association, a group supporting spousal caregivers, and for the Metro Baltimore affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news, our classmate <strong>Jamie Hintlian<\/strong>, ME \u201985, MBA \u201986, and his wife, <strong>Carolyn Bristor Hintlian \u201983<\/strong>, MS \u201986, were featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/hintlian-teddie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a recent <em>Cornellians <\/em>article<\/a> concerning their family-run business, Teddie Peanut Butter Company. It\u2019s a fantastic piece that traces the history of the business through three generations of Jamie\u2019s family, including his father, <strong>Jim Hintlian \u201949<\/strong>, and reports on the popularity of its peanut butter. Jamie has been serving as the CEO of the business since 2023 (while also serving as a senior lecturer at the Johnson College of Business), and Carolyn has been serving as the company\u2019s technical director. Congratulations, Jamie and Carolyn, on this well-deserved recognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you consider your Reunion plans, please remember that we are always looking forward to hearing from you. Your news helps us stay connected as a class. Please send us your news via the <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">online news form<\/a>. \u2756 <strong>Doug Skalka<\/strong> (<a href=\"ma&#x69;&#108;&#116;o:&#100;&#115;&#107;&#97;l&#x6b;a&#64;&#110;&#x70;m&#108;&#x61;w&#46;&#99;&#111;&#x6d;\">email Doug<\/a>) |<strong> Mark Fernau<\/strong> (<a href=\"m&#x61;&#105;&#x6c;&#x74;&#111;:&#x6d;&#x65;&#x66;2&#x39;&#x40;&#x63;&#x6f;&#x72;&#x6e;&#101;l&#x6c;&#46;&#x65;d&#x75;\">email Mark<\/a>) | <strong>Nina Kondo<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;a&#105;l&#x74;&#x6f;:&#110;&#x6d;k&#50;2&#x40;c&#111;&#x72;&#110;&#x65;&#x6c;&#x6c;&#x2e;ed&#117;\">email Nina<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-91b543b3e5a47f0f784f01058d53d516\"><strong>1983<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy spring! More than 30 members from the Class of \u201983 made it to Red Hot Hockey during Thanksgiving weekend at Madison Square Garden. Our class went all out for premium seats this year (just off center ice) and witnessed a thrilling and very close game against BU. The classes of \u201978, \u201979, \u201980, \u201981, and \u201983 shared a pre-game get-together at Gibney\u2019s NYC. And there was a big pep rally outside the Garden with the Big Red Band in full splendor! (Fun events at press time included tickets to and pre-games at Cornell-Yale men\u2019s hockey on January 30 organized by <strong>Ellen Bobka<\/strong>, and at the Cornell-Princeton game on February 21 planned by <strong>Nancy Gilroy<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When she\u2019s not helping the class organize Red Hot Hockey tickets, for which we are grateful,<strong> Lynn Leopold<\/strong> loves to travel. \u201cIn August last year I went with <strong>Julie Lorentzon<\/strong> on a 19-day cruise through Greenland. We hiked, toured, and explored. We were in Nuuk, Nanortalik, Qaqortoq, and Paamiut, and in Canada to Sydney, Corner Brook, and Halifax, where we went on a bike tour. The coolest thing was climbing to the top of the mountains in Qaqortoq and watching a tugboat move an iceberg! The funniest was probably during the wine tasting, attempting to drink all 16 wines (and, of course, the aftereffects). We laughed so much. We\u2019re talking about future trips!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quarterly TechChat \u201983 Series is exciting and successful. It is held quarterly via Zoom, with the next ones scheduled for February 5, May 7, August 6, and November 5. Look out for announcement emails. All classmates are invited to join for informative and animated discussions! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Yonn Kouh Rasmussen<\/strong>, PhD \u201989, class vice president, hosted the sixth TechChat on August 14 with the provocative topic of human exploration and settlement on Mars, titled \u201cSpace Exploration to Mars\u2014Aspiration or Reality.\u201d Yonn shared two TED Talks, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t9c7aheZxls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Your kids might live on Mars. Here\u2019s how they\u2019ll survive<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YzhSmnGcSkE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The exploration and colonization of Mars: Why Mars? Why humans?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Big thank you to <strong>Niels Nielsen<\/strong> for the write-up: \u201cThe group had a lively conversation about whether going to Mars was feasible and if it should be done at all. We all grew up with the Apollo space program and remember men landing on the moon. We are in a golden age of astronomy, with telescopes on Earth and in space, robot missions to Mars and the other planets, and the growing likelihood that we will discover evidence of life in the solar system and around other stars. Cornell astronomers are working on all these discoveries and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>More than 30 members from the Class of \u201983 made it to Red Hot Hockey during Thanksgiving weekend at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Stewart Glickman \u201983<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe strongest argument for human exploration may be that we all need to be inspired by great achievements, as much now as ever. However, we were skeptical about the cost (half a trillion dollars) and the environmental impact on Earth and Mars. Despite the optimism of the TED speakers, we questioned whether any significant number of people could travel to another planet without a breakthrough in propulsion and if people could really live somewhere other than our blue planet. And we questioned whether Mars travel would be like space tourism today\u2014too expensive for all but a few.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yonn summed up the November 13 \u201cAdvances in Food Production,\u201d which was the final TechChat \u201983 for 2025. \u201cWe watched the first five minutes of the two TED Talks: \u2018A forgotten space age technology could change how we grow food\u2019 by Lisa Dyson and \u2018The case for engineering our food\u2019 by Pamela Ronald. The first talk focused on a NASA-developed technology that uses hydrogenotrophs to grow food more efficiently and quickly while using much less land than modern conventional agricultural methods. As the human population is expected to reach 10 billion by 2050, the need for more effective and sustainable agricultural methods is greater than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second talk discussed the benefits and risks of genetically engineering our food. Many genetically engineered foods\u2014such as new varieties of rice, including golden rice enriched with Vitamin A, or flood-resistant rice crops, which have much higher yields in flood-prone parts of the world\u2014have been developed in recent decades. For some people, however, there are concerns about the safety or unintended ecological consequences of genetically engineered crops. We had a lively discussion about the benefits and risks of genetically engineered foods, as well as the need for sustainable agriculture, especially as the effects of climate change become more pronounced in the future.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Classmates, our 45th Reunion is only two years away\u2014wow, time flies! It will be a wonderful weekend of friendship and fun. Volunteers and ideas are welcome! In the meantime, keep on sending in news for Class Notes. We love to hear from everybody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy and healthy 2026 to all. \u2756 <strong>Stewart Glickman<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#x61;&#105;l&#x74;&#x6f;:&#x73;t&#101;w&#x61;rt&#103;&#108;&#105;c&#x6b;m&#97;&#x6e;&#64;&#x67;&#109;a&#105;&#108;&#x2e;&#x63;&#x6f;&#x6d;\">email Stewart<\/a>) |<strong> Alyssa Bickler <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#109;&#97;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x74;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x61;&#108;y&#115;&#x73;&#x61;&#x69;n&#x76;&#x65;&#x6e;&#105;&#x63;&#101;&#x40;g&#109;ai&#x6c;&#46;c&#x6f;&#x6d;\">email Alyssa<\/a>) |<strong> Nancy Korn<\/strong> <strong>Freeman<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;i&#108;to&#x3a;&#x74;&#104;&#x65;&#52;&#x66;&#114;&#101;&#x65;ma&#110;&#x73;&#x40;&#121;&#97;hoo&#x2e;&#x63;&#x6f;&#109;\">email Nancy<\/a>) | <strong>Jon Felice<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x74;&#x6f;:j&#x62;&#102;&#x65;&#108;&#105;c&#101;&#64;&#x6a;b&#x66;&#x65;&#108;i&#x63;&#x65;&#46;c&#x6f;&#x6d;\">email Jon<\/a>) | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-d26f816f7f5bdfb6ec30f232af019034\"><strong>1984<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jim Perkins<\/strong>, BA \u201985, was recently featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/medical-illustrator-perkins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a <em>Cornellians <\/em>story<\/a> titled \u201cThis Arts &amp; Sciences Alum Marries Art and Science, Every Day.\u201d A medical illustrator, Jim has created thousands of visuals for textbooks and more that help students understand biological processes, clinical concepts, and anatomical structures across scientific subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI create visual media to communicate complex medical information,\u201d explains Jim, who produces artwork for books and scholarly articles across a variety of fields, including anatomy, pathology, physiology, neuroscience, oncology, and histology. \u201cIt\u2019s teaching and problem solving with pictures.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the story, \u201cPerkins is the sole or main illustrator of several editions of top medical textbooks such as <em>Netter\u2019s Atlas of Neuroscience<\/em>, <em>Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology<\/em>, and <em>Robbins &amp; Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s also on the faculty at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he directs the MFA program in medical illustration; he\u2019s a 1992 alum of the program, one of only five of its kind offered in North America. Perkins has received some of his field\u2019s top honors, including the British Medical Association\u2019s Illustrated Book Award and the Association of Medical Illustrators\u2019 Br\u00f6del Award for Excellence in Education.\u201d \u2756 <strong>Michael Held<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;ai&#x6c;&#x74;&#111;&#58;m&#x77;&#104;&#101;&#108;&#100;&#64;&#112;&#114;o&#116;&#x6f;n&#109;&#97;&#105;&#x6c;&#46;&#99;&#111;&#x6d;\">email Michael<\/a>) | <strong>Charles Oppenheim<\/strong> (<a href=\"ma&#x69;&#108;&#x74;&#x6f;&#58;co&#112;p&#x65;&#x6e;&#x68;e&#x69;m&#x40;&#x68;&#111;&#x6f;&#112;&#101;&#x72;&#x6c;&#117;&#110;&#x64;&#x79;&#x2e;&#x63;&#x6f;&#109;\">email Charles<\/a>) | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-a4f54948d697af8d8e374e7181aea2e3\"><strong>1985<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNot all Cornellian stories translate to success upon graduating,\u201d shares <strong>Thomas Gregory Jr.<\/strong> in a recent note. \u201cI spent 12 years living homeless, and I learned a lot about the process of recovering from many negatives. Cornell was always with me\u2014even on the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy degree focusing on macro sociality brought a negative into a positive experience. I never gave up on being a Cornellian. President Rhodes once said to me, in regard to Cornell students, \u2018The cream always rises to the top.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have become studious in the topic of admiralty law, and when not working, I\u2019m applying my now extensive research on a historical analysis of the development of the admiralty from 1775 to the 1800s. I\u2019m 78 this April, but not retired. I work for Heidelberg Materials as a ready-mix concrete truck driver. It pays for my home (which I own) and research\u2014including my research library of more than 300 books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTwo immense factors saved me from complete ruin, which I focused upon to regain self-esteem and the climb out of near death, which is what homelessness actually is. One factor was my military affinity with the U.S. Marine Corps, and the other was Cornell. Cornell equipped me with both knowledge and an ability to apply it to a situation that for many seems an impossibility to remove themselves from. An education can be an asset upon which to develop following failure.\u201d \u2756 <strong>Class of 1985 <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;&#105;&#108;&#116;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x61;b&#x62;&#56;&#x33;&#64;&#x63;&#x6f;&#x72;n&#101;l&#108;&#x2e;&#x65;&#x64;&#117;\">email c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-0e3dc97247f3623fbd9e25077c1e5c9c\"><strong>1986<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As we approach our 40th Reunion in Ithaca this summer (please mark your calendars for June 4\u20137, 2026), our classmates are filling many different roles these days. Some are starting new companies, some are continuing long-established careers and volunteering for great causes, and some are retiring and enjoying free time to travel and be with family. It is always wonderful to hear what you are up to, so please continue to send us your news.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Paul Peterson<\/strong> writes from Petaluma, CA: \u201cTwo years after founding my latest company, an insights-based innovation consultancy, CoinJar Insights, I published my first book on the topic of innovation and product development called <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.catalyticcustomer.com\/\"><em>The Catalytic Customer<\/em><\/a><em>: Accelerating Innovation and Growth from the Outside In<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the book\u2019s website, \u201c<em>The Catalytic Customer<\/em> introduces a bold, practical way forward: stop chasing the average customer, and start learning from the ones who push you. The ones who challenge assumptions, see what others miss, and care enough to tell you the hard truths. These are your \u2018catalytic customers\u2019\u2014and they just might be the difference between a product that flops and one that flies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBased on decades inside the rooms where product, strategy, and marketing decisions get made, this book arms you with tools to find these customers, learn from them, and build smarter, faster, and with more relevance. Whether you\u2019re a product lead, founder, insights pro, or innovation exec, this is your new playbook for staying close to what matters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christina Ho Filemyr <\/strong>retired from Exxon Mobil Corp. in 2019 and is enjoying traveling internationally with her husband and grown daughters, who are both management consultants. In addition, she spends a lot of time caring for her parents, who are both in their 90s, in Vienna, VA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Julie Bick Weed<\/strong> is enjoying improvisational comedy classes and helping low-income high school seniors with their college admissions essays. She is still freelancing for the <em>New York Times<\/em> from her home in Seattle. You can read her work on <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.julieweed.net\/\">her website<\/a>. \u2756 <strong>Lori Spydell Wagner<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;ai&#x6c;&#x74;&#x6f;&#58;l&#x6f;r&#x69;&#x77;&#97;&#x67;&#110;&#101;&#114;8&#x36;&#x40;&#x67;&#x6d;&#x61;i&#x6c;&#x2e;&#99;om\">email Lori<\/a>) | <strong>Michael Wagner<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;i&#x6c;&#x74;&#111;&#58;&#x6d;&#x77;a&#x67;&#110;&#x65;&#x72;&#x31;&#x32;3&#x40;&#x67;&#x6d;&#x61;&#105;&#x6c;&#x2e;&#x63;&#x6f;&#x6d;\">email Michael<\/a>) | <strong>Toby Goldsmith <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;&#x69;l&#x74;&#111;&#x3a;&#116;ob&#121;&#46;&#103;&#x6f;&#x6c;d&#x73;m&#x69;&#x74;&#104;&#x40;&#x67;&#x6d;&#97;&#105;&#x6c;&#46;&#x63;&#x6f;m\">email Toby<\/a>) | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-652fdb3df33e19d41fabe28fee5c5f4d\"><strong>1987<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lawrence Smith<\/strong> leveraged his commission from Cornell Army ROTC with a 30-year career in the Army Reserves that included deployments to the Pentagon, Afghanistan, and Korea. Now he lives in Westminster, MD, and splits his time between singing in a band named Release, developing business for a third-party logistics company near the Port of Baltimore, and training and breeding Thoroughbred racehorses with his wife, Connie, at their Pioneer Farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent years, Larry organized racehorse partnerships with some of his Phi Kappa Psi brothers, including one on a homebred they named after the iconic West Campus purveyor of pizza subs: Hot Truck Bob. Ultimately, there was no pot of gold at the end of Bob\u2019s racehorse rainbow, and Bob is now the beloved partner of a young horse-show girl. Larry\u2019s current racehorse syndication is a 3-year-old filly named Last Treasure, and a few shares remain open, if anyone is interested in joining them! Larry is a strong believer in the adage: \u201cYou don\u2019t get out of horse racing when you get old, you get old when you get out of horse racing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In November <strong>Gabriel Boyar<\/strong> interviewed <strong>Tony Spring<\/strong>, who is the chairman and CEO of Macy\u2019s Inc., about his career in retail management and about the history of the Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Tony began his career in 1987 at Bloomingdale\u2019s as an executive trainee in the White Plains, NY, store. The interview was part of the Cornell Class of 1987 E-Learning Series. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In recent years, <strong>Larry<\/strong> <strong>Smith \u201987<\/strong> organized racehorse partnerships with some of his Phi Kappa Psi brothers, including one named Hot Truck Bob.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The Class of 1987 made a big showing at the annual Red Hot Hockey game at Madison Square Garden in New York City. In attendance were: <strong>Jeff Cohen<\/strong>, <strong>Josephine Connolly-Schoonen<\/strong>, <strong>Michael De Sarno<\/strong>, <strong>Jill Israeloff Gross<\/strong>, <strong>Marc Lacey<\/strong>, <strong>Edwin Lee<\/strong>, <strong>David Levy<\/strong>, <strong>Robert Maxon<\/strong>, <strong>Scott Pesner<\/strong>, <strong>Sharon Raider<\/strong>, <strong>Lloyd Robinson<\/strong>, <strong>Stacey Neuhoefer Silberzweig<\/strong>, <strong>Carl Sornson<\/strong>, <strong>Debra Howard Stern<\/strong>, <strong>Tom Tseng<\/strong>, ME \u201994, <strong>Roberta Tulman<\/strong> <strong>Samuels<\/strong>, JD \u201990, and <strong>Whitney Weinstein<\/strong> <strong>Goodman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The year of regional 60th birthday celebrations last year ended with a November 21 get-together of classmates in Sydney, Australia. There were a total of 12 birthday parties in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a few of us, including me (<strong>Liz Brown<\/strong>) who didn\u2019t turn 60 until this year. Part of my birthday celebration included having dinner in New York City with Whitney Goodman and <strong>Cheryl Berger<\/strong> <strong>Israeloff<\/strong>. Later that week, Whitney and family came to visit me at my home near Philadelphia and to drink and dance at a surprise birthday party arranged by husband and friends. The following day we saw the Henri Rousseau exhibition at the Barnes Foundation and also went to the recently opened Calder Gardens museum. Whitney and I were fortunate to have seen the Barnes collection in its original location in Merion, PA, during our college years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please take a moment to <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">send us your news<\/a>! \u2756 <strong>Liz Brown<\/strong>, <strong>JD \u201990<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;i&#x6c;&#x74;&#x6f;&#58;&#x65;t&#98;&#x32;&#x39;&#x40;&#99;o&#114;&#x6e;e&#x6c;l&#46;&#101;du\">email Liz<\/a>) | <strong>Whitney Weinstein Goodman<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;&#97;&#x69;lt&#x6f;&#x3a;&#119;&#x77;&#x67;&#x35;&#64;&#x63;&#x6f;&#x72;&#x6e;e&#x6c;l&#46;&#101;du\">email Whitney<\/a>) |<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-bb6deb19c71eb9ce3008eec5bc75a934\"><strong>1988<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to spring, Class of \u201988, and that means the start of the Major League Baseball season. On the topic of sports teams, several of our classmates attended the Cornell men\u2019s hockey game at Madison Square Garden in New York City this past fall. <strong>Jill Fields<\/strong> was joined by <strong>Diane Weisbrot Nagle<\/strong>, <strong>Howard <\/strong>and<strong> Pamela Goldberg Greenstein<\/strong>, <strong>Jacques Boubli<\/strong>, and several others. Unfortunately,<strong> <\/strong>Cornell came up short and lost the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, at another Cornell men\u2019s hockey game, against Harvard, <strong>Victor Seidel<\/strong>, professor at Babson College, watched alongside fellow classmates <strong>Elizabeth Altman<\/strong>, <strong>Deborah Blazey-Martin<\/strong>, and <strong>Ross Martin<\/strong>. Go Big Red!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a side note: Victor also attended a talk by John Cleese, a former Cornell A.D. White Professor-at-Large, where Mr. Cleese spoke about his successful film<em> Monty Python and the Holy Grail.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Barry Wolfert \u201988<\/strong> is running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Georgia&#8217;s 11th Congressional District.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Residing in New York City, <strong>Inson Dubois Wood<\/strong>, BArch \u201991, has a luxury residential design firm. His work can be seen in <em>Architectural Digest<\/em>, <em>Elle D\u00e9cor<\/em>, and <em>Vogue Living Magazine<\/em>, and he has published a top-selling coffee-table book titled <em>Inson Dubois Wood: Interiors<\/em>. He is the youngest recipient of the Christopher Hyland Award for lifetime achievement in design excellence. Congratulations, Inson, on your accomplishment. He is married to <strong>Elba Galvan<\/strong>, a Cornell alum, and they share three sons: <strong>Kai \u201923<\/strong>, Kri, and Croix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stacy Schulist<\/strong>, MBA \u201901, writes in that she has been on several bike adventures through the Blue Ridge Mountains, Gulf Islands, Vermont, and Quebec. She is a busy consultant for restaurants and hotels in both Guatemala and El Salvador. Stacy also works with students through Cornell\u2019s Experiential Networking class and mentors marketing professionals. She and <strong>Laura Bloch<\/strong> have been friends for nearly 40 years. Their friendship started on campus when they used to explore Ithaca together, searching for the nearest sushi bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lastly, <strong>Barry Wolfert<\/strong> is running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Georgia&#8217;s 11th Congressional District. He\u2019s a self-employed real estate agent and is tired of the burden that families are facing these days, from the healthcare costs, rising costs of owning a home and retirement, to the overall cost of living. We wish you well, Barry, in your campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy the longer days of springtime and the blooming flowers. That\u2019s all for now. Please keep sending your news to me. I love hearing from our classmates, both near and far. \u2756 <strong>Pamela Darer Anderson<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;a&#x69;&#x6c;&#116;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x70;&#x6a;a&#110;&#100;&#x65;&#x72;s&#x6f;&#x6e;&#x40;s&#x79;&#109;p&#x61;ti&#x63;&#x6f;&#x2e;&#99;&#97;\">email Pam<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-f5cbdfd0db176fe3e2ab6fb7513e27a4\"><strong>1989<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Fellow \u201989 classmates: We need news! Our supply has dried up, so please send us updates about you and classmates you keep in touch with! Please <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/class-notes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">submit your news online here<\/a> or email any of us (see the end of the column for our addresses). This column is only as good (and as long) as the news we get. Thank you to everyone who sent me an update about themselves or others last minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Deb Silverman Shames <\/strong>wrote, \u201cI\u2019m in my 23rd year of my college counseling practice (Personal Best College Coaching), while also working as the transfer advisor for the Kaplan Leadership Program CCBO, where I\u2019ve been for the past 18 years. I find both to be incredibly rewarding, as I get to help young and not-so-young people work toward finding their best-fit colleges. <strong>Martin<\/strong> (also \u201989) is entering his 24th year at PSEG in the finance division. We are finally done with college tuition, as our youngest just finished her BFA in studio art\/glassblowing from RIT, while our middle daughter (CU \u201922) works on her PhD in linguistics at University at Buffalo and our oldest son works in the sports media world in NYC, eight years out of Syracuse Newhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are taking advantage of the empty nest to travel more, while pursuing our passion for long-distance walking around the world! Last spring we put 160 miles on our fitness trackers (and feet) over two weeks in the U.K. and France! Our philosophy is \u2018move or die!\u2019 and we\u2019re enjoying every minute of it! Being in Northern New Jersey, we\u2019ve also been lucky to spend lots of time in NYC walking and seeing Broadway shows with <strong>Jennifer Gise Zeligson<\/strong> and her husband, Andrew (who also live in New Jersey). I\u2019m also still in touch with <strong>Gayle Shomer Brezicki<\/strong>, who lives in Davidson, NC, and <strong>Sandi Von Holden-Bitton<\/strong>, who lives in Israel. I also love seeing <strong>Stephanie Walsh Prato<\/strong> and catching up on a long walk whenever I\u2019m in our hometown of Rochester, NY.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Last spring we put 160 miles on our fitness trackers (and feet) over two weeks in the U.K. and France!<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Deb Silverman Shames \u201989<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gayle Shomer Brezicki <\/strong>sent an update: \u201cMy youngest son, <strong>Evan \u201928<\/strong>, is a sophomore in chemical engineering and absolutely loves Cornell! Although he grew up in North Carolina, he has embraced the cold weather and snow. He plays piano with the Cornell Piano Society and plans to become a chimesmaster in January. I visit the Hill when I can and had a great time at Homecoming. My two sons and I visited Scotland this summer and they loved their first international trip.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>John Dunn<\/strong> said his new motto is \u201cboring since 1967,\u201d as there\u2019s nothing new about him, but he did tell us his daughter, <strong>Kate \u201925<\/strong>, graduated from Cornell in May and that the two of them scattered his dad\u2019s (Class of 1959) ashes a lot of places on campus that were really important to him, like the golf course and his fraternity house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fellow correspondent <strong>Kris Borovicka Gerig<\/strong> told me that <strong>Chris Pavone<\/strong>\u2019s latest book, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9780374604790\/thedoorman\/\"><em>The Doorman<\/em><\/a>, was on the <em>New York Times<\/em> Best Thriller Books of 2025 list. Congrats, Chris!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s all the news for this column. Please take a few minutes now or whenever you can to send us some news. Thanks! \u2756 <strong>Stephanie Bloom Avidon <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#109;ail&#116;&#x6f;&#x3a;s&#x74;&#101;&#112;&#x68;&#x61;&#x6e;&#105;&#x65;&#x61;&#118;id&#x6f;&#x6e;&#64;&#103;&#109;&#x61;&#105;l&#46;&#99;&#111;&#x6d;\">email Stephanie<\/a>) |<strong> Anne Czaplinski Treadwell <\/strong>(<a href=\"m&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#116;&#111;&#x3a;&#97;&#99;&#x39;8&#x40;&#x63;&#x6f;&#x72;&#110;&#x65;l&#x6c;&#46;e&#100;&#x75;\">email Anne<\/a>) | <strong>Kris Borovicka Gerig <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#116;o&#x3a;&#x6b;&#103;&#101;&#114;&#x69;&#103;pl&#x75;s&#x40;&#103;&#109;&#97;&#105;&#108;&#x2e;&#x63;&#x6f;m\">email Kris<\/a>) |<strong> Lauren Kidder McGarry <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;i&#x6c;&#x74;&#111;&#x3a;&#x6c;a&#x75;&#114;&#101;&#x6e;&#x6b;id&#100;e&#x72;&#x6d;c&#x67;a&#x72;&#114;&#121;&#64;&#103;&#109;a&#105;&#x6c;&#x2e;&#99;&#111;&#109;\">email Lauren<\/a>) | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:75px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center is-style-class-group has-x-large-font-size\">1990s<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-0403940da23fca8d64ad21ac65256487\"><strong>1990<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello, classmates! As I start this column, we\u2019re in the middle of a cold and snowy week in New Jersey at the end of 2025; by the time you read this, spring weather should be approaching. I hope 2026 has been good to you so far!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My 2025 wound down with a variety of plans with Cornell classmates. First, my husband, <strong>Aron Minken \u201980<\/strong>, and I continued our annual Thanksgiving tradition of going to Red Hot Hockey at Madison Square Garden, where Cornell faced off against (and, sadly, lost to) Boston U. In addition to being joined this year by my son and his girlfriend, who are BU alumni, we sat with my former roommate, <strong>Deborah Klein Glasser<\/strong>, her husband, Gary, and their son, <strong>William \u201929<\/strong>, who were visiting the New York\/New Jersey area for Thanksgiving from Toronto, where they\u2019ve lived for the past six years. William is in the Engineering college and is loving his first year at Cornell. Between periods at the game, I bumped into <strong>Andrew <\/strong>and<strong> Arlene Goldstein Stein<\/strong>, who celebrated the wedding of their son <strong>Brandon \u201921<\/strong> to Rachel Beinus last August in NYC, with a bunch of their Cornell friends in attendance. Congratulations to all! Other classmates at Red Hot Hockey included <strong>Melissa Chalson Leff<\/strong> and <strong>Michelle Stuzin Katz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In December I met up for dinner with <strong>Jill Turner Lever<\/strong> and <strong>Vivian Althaus Harrow<\/strong>, fellow ILRies who also live in New Jersey. Jill is of counsel at the law firm Sills Cummis &amp; Gross, where she has practiced employment law for many years. The day after our dinner, Vivian, her husband, Alex Harrow, Aron, and I, along with <strong>Michele Waltzer Posen<\/strong> and her husband, Andrew, enjoyed re-living the 1980s at a Foreigner concert in Montclair, NJ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Vivian commented, it was a \u201cfull-circle moment\u201d for her since she saw Foreigner in concert 40 years ago in 1985. Michele, who also lives in New Jersey, shared that her four daughters are \u201cgrowing up too fast,\u201d with her 25-year-old twins living together in Hoboken, NJ, and working together in pharma, her middle daughter a senior at University of Georgia, and her youngest daughter a freshman at University of Florida. Michele says, \u201cI\u2019m trying to enjoy these years with travel and seeing my Cornell friends.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Amy Dumas Wadman<\/strong> wrote in to share that she works for the federal government and that, while she is currently furloughed, she is looking forward to retiring once the furlough is over. \u201cIn the meantime, we have taken advantage of the \u2018time off\u2019 to meet family in Sedona and Venice. I\u2019m excited that my friend <strong>Sanjay Joshi<\/strong> has moved closer to me. I can\u2019t wait to catch up with my college roommates <strong>Melora Doan<\/strong>, <strong>Charlene Ushijima Tilker<\/strong>, and <strong>Gloria Rodriguez<\/strong> in December. Then I\u2019ll start my next chapter that will include working in equine therapy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I have found my new home in a 250-year-old stone house in a village of 80 overlooking the Adriatic, and I have never been happier.<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Penny Smith Eifrig \u201990<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Penny Smith Eifrig<\/strong> also wrote in to describe the very interesting life she has been leading between Europe and the U.S., currently focused on expanding pickleball in Croatia: \u201c2025 brought me full circle to a bike trip through Yugoslavia the year of my graduation. I ended up back in Croatia in 2023 to help bring pickleball to a few locals getting interested, in exchange for a place to stay for a little bit. I fell in love with the island of Bra\u010d, where I had been invited, and I returned that fall to share it with friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFinally, in summer 2024 I returned with the photos from my 1990 adventure, and, long story short, my friends recognized the old woman who had shared water and kindness with us three decades prior as their childhood neighbor. I rediscovered the house and was shown through it, and ultimately was asked if I would like to buy it. So in March 2025 I did, and I have found my new home in a 250-year-old stone house in a village of 80 overlooking the Adriatic, and I have never been happier.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Penny spends her time \u201cgrowing community through pickleball on the island of Bra\u010d, sharing stories, learning languages, picking olives, and drinking kava with both the longtime locals and the newer residents.\u201d She adds, \u201cI\u2019m still running my children\u2019s book-publishing company, Eifrig Publishing, from afar, but really focusing now on building pickleball throughout Croatia, bringing guests to experience the local culture and historic and natural wonders, and finding joy and light.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find out more about Penny\u2019s pickleball enterprise in Croatia, you can <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.effensmithpickleball.com\/\">visit her website<\/a>. Penny is able to live abroad now because her kids are grown and doing good work: \u201cCasie graduated from Amherst College this year and has a job offer in design in Boston, and Saede has been working for DC Scores since graduating from Haverford College in 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is anyone else in our class living abroad or pursuing a passion like Penny? Please write in and tell us what you are up to! \u2756 <strong>Nancy Solomon Weiss<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#x61;&#105;&#x6c;&#116;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x6e;a&#x6e;&#x63;y&#115;&#119;m&#64;&#x6f;&#117;&#x74;&#108;&#111;&#111;k&#x2e;&#x63;&#111;&#109;\">email Nancy<\/a>) | <strong>Allan Rousselle<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#97;&#x69;l&#x74;o&#58;ag&#114;2&#64;&#99;&#x6f;&#x72;&#x6e;&#x65;l&#108;&#x2e;ed&#x75;\">email Allan<\/a>) | <strong>Liselle Petzen Esposito <\/strong>(<a href=\"m&#97;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x74;&#x6f;:&#108;&#105;&#115;e&#108;&#x6c;e&#101;&#x73;&#112;o&#x40;&#103;m&#97;&#x69;l&#x2e;c&#x6f;&#x6d;\">email Liselle<\/a>) | <strong>Rose Tanasugarn<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;i&#x6c;&#x74;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#110;t2&#x38;&#64;&#x63;orn&#x65;&#x6c;&#108;&#x2e;e&#100;&#x75;\">email Rose<\/a>) | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/Cornell90\/\">Class Facebook page<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-a62ef726b81489ea29e3356aeaa2e6c0\"><strong>1991<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Greetings from Southern Maine, where a blanket of snow is settling over us. Our classmates have sent in some interesting news\u2014stories of creativity and achievement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Miki Yoshimoto<\/strong> shared that she enjoys going to intimate chamber concerts and traveling with her family. She has started her own handmade sustainable goods business. Her son is at UT Austin studying violin performance and her daughter is applying to colleges, with her first choice being Cornell, to study environmental engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Won Choo<\/strong> wrote in to say he\u2019s been married 26 years and has a son and daughter. His son graduated from Emory University and works at J.P. Morgan and his daughter is a senior at University of Chicago. Won owns two companies in the transportation and logistics industry and employs around 350 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Timothy Reed<\/strong> recalled when <strong>Michael Vargas<\/strong> scored the game-winning touchdown in his first sprint football game for Cornell, a 12-7 win at West Point over Army. Along with his love of family life, Timothy works as an anesthesiologist in Winter Garden, FL. Timothy credits a Cornell colleague for inspiring him to study medicine after an engineering undergrad degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kevin Kordziel<\/strong> wrote in about his new thriller <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/en\/book\/show\/240072503-perpetuity\"><em>Perpetuity<\/em><\/a>, which was released in August 2025. It tells the story of a doctor and an enigmatic woman running for their lives while trying to solve a futuristic medical mystery. Kevin worked as a lawyer after graduating from Cornell in 1991 and Duke Law School in 1994. Today he writes full time under his pen name Kevin Joseph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>After a \u201830-year gap year,\u2019 <strong>Kim Brown Bixler \u201991<\/strong> went back to school at 52 to earn her MFA degree from the NYU Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Julie Kaufman Betancur<\/strong> writes to share the news that, after 20 years in HR across tech, professional services, and consumer packaged goods, she has launched her own career coaching and talent consulting practice, Talent Right Partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Continuing with the impressive creativity of our classmates, <strong>Kim Brown Bixler<\/strong> shared that, after a \u201c30-year gap year,\u201d she went back to school at 52 to earn her MFA degree from the NYU Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. She wittily suggested that a mid-life crisis is more enjoyable set to show tunes. Hard to disagree with that. In addition to two shows\u2014<em>BARBA: Brazilian Body Percussion Musical<\/em> and a Spanish language production in Costa Rica\u2014she gave a TEDx Talk about creative reinvention and the beauty of second (or third) acts. It was called \u201cWhy I Couldn\u2019t be a Musical Theater Writer Until I Turned 50.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jos\u00e9 Enrique Medina<\/strong> wrote a poetry book called <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/240954964-haunt-me?from_search=true&amp;from_srp=true&amp;qid=PWGuhDKM24&amp;rank=1\"><em>Haunt Me<\/em><\/a>, which came out in September 2025. It earned the prestigious Rattle Chapbook Prize. This collection asks: What do we inherit from those who vanish? And what becomes of us when the ones we long for stay silent\u2014while those we tried to forget come back, again and again, to remind us who we are?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Impressive news, please continue to share updates with your correspondents. \u2756 <strong>Wendy Milks Coburn<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;i&#108;&#x74;o&#x3a;%&#x32;&#x32;&#x57;e&#x6e;dy&#x25;&#x32;0&#77;i&#x6c;&#x6b;&#115;%&#x32;&#50;&#x25;20%&#51;&#x63;&#119;m&#105;l&#x6b;s&#x63;o&#x62;&#117;&#114;&#x6e;&#64;&#109;&#101;&#46;&#99;&#x6f;&#109;%3e\">email Wendy<\/a>) | <strong>Joe Marraccino<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;&#105;&#x6c;&#x74;o&#58;&#106;&#x6f;&#x65;m&#x61;&#x72;&#114;a&#99;&#x63;i&#x6e;&#111;&#64;&#x6d;&#x73;&#110;&#x2e;&#99;o&#109;\">email Joe<\/a>) | <strong>Susie Curtis Schneider<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;a&#x69;&#x6c;&#x74;o:&#116;&#104;e&#x73;&#x63;hn&#x65;&#x69;d&#101;&#x72;&#x73;&#64;l&#105;v&#101;&#46;c&#x6f;m\">email Susie<\/a>) | <strong>Evelyn Achuck Yue<\/strong> (<a href=\"m&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x74;&#x6f;&#58;&#101;&#x76;e&#x6c;yn&#x5f;&#x79;&#x75;e&#x40;ya&#x68;oo&#x2e;&#x63;&#111;m\">email Evelyn<\/a>) | <strong>Ruby Wang Pizzini<\/strong> (<a href=\"m&#x61;i&#108;&#116;&#111;&#58;ru&#x62;y&#46;&#112;i&#122;&#122;&#105;&#110;i&#64;&#103;&#x6d;&#97;&#x69;l&#x2e;&#99;&#x6f;&#x6d;\">email Ruby<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-388b4d7deeb934009946336904bf0e9f\"><strong>1992<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m writing this column the morning after Philadelphia\u2019s first big snowstorm of the winter. By the time you read this, snow will likely be gone for the year &#8230; Time flies and I hope your holidays were bright! My family kicked off our holiday season by attending Red Hot Hockey at Madison Square Garden in NYC the Saturday after Thanksgiving. This has become an annual tradition for us! A quick Facebook post showed the Class of 1992 could still \u201cYell for Cornell.\u201d Here\u2019s a Big Red list of who shared they were there: <strong>Allison Bergstrom<\/strong>, <strong>Lisa Everts<\/strong>, <strong>Todd Kantorczyk<\/strong> (my husband), <strong>Steve Labovitz<\/strong>, <strong>Stacey Rappaport<\/strong>, <strong>Michael Sapherstein<\/strong>, <strong>Heidi Grenek<\/strong>, ME \u201993, <strong>Alyssa Cohen<\/strong>, <strong>Shelli Klein<\/strong> <strong>Faber<\/strong>, and <strong>Naoto Kawamura<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of sports in cold settings, on a crisp November day, <strong>Brad Ginesin<\/strong> represented Cornell at the NYC Marathon while raising money for Cornell\u2019s NYC Scholarship Fund with three recent alums. They raised more than $13K for NYC students to help with the cost of attending Cornell. Brad wrote, \u201cI\u2019m blessed to have such kind and generous friends. The energy in NYC on the course was incomparable, and the crowds were loud and high-spirited, especially in Brooklyn\u2014it was so much fun to see the best of New York. A big thank you to all the Cornellians who volunteered at water stations\u2014which helps allocate charity spots for Cornell\u2014and all the spectators cheering for Big Red!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another classmate doing good work is <strong>Elena Brower<\/strong>. She wrote a healing book called <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/elenabrower.com\/holdnothing\/\"><em>Hold Nothing<\/em><\/a><em>: An Invitation to Let Go and Come Home to Yourself<\/em>. From her publisher\u2019s bio, \u201cElena is a mother, mentor, artist, teacher, best-selling author, and host of the <em>Practice You<\/em> podcast. She has taught yoga and meditation since 1999. After graduating from Cornell, she designed textiles and apparel for almost a decade before focusing on yoga, meditation, art, and writing. Her first book, <em>Art of Attention<\/em>, has been translated into seven languages; her second, <em>Practice You<\/em>, is a best seller, and is utilized as a teaching tool in a variety of settings. Elena\u2019s yoga classes and meditations are featured on Glo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>On a crisp November day, <strong>Brad Ginesin \u201992<\/strong> represented Cornell at the NYC Marathon while raising money for Cornell\u2019s NYC Scholarship Fund.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Another author is <strong>Tish Oney<\/strong>, who lives in South Carolina. She wrote two books, <em><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/59146743-jazz-singing\">Jazz Singing<\/a>: A Guide to Pedagogy and Performance<\/em> and best seller <em><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/50551231-peggy-lee\">Peggy Lee<\/a>: A Century of Song<\/em>, which earned a starred review from <em>Library Journal<\/em>. Tish recently led a webinar\/short course for the Voice Study Centre at the University of Essex and the University of Wales Trinity St. David in the U.K. It was titled \u201cEstablishing a Jazz Voice Curriculum\u201d for the Master of Arts in voice pedagogy degree. She also serves as director of ministry at Open Hearts UMC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last March, she led the Tish Oney Jazz Orchestra in a two-hour big band concert at Centre Stage in Greenville, SC. Tish serves as mentoring chair for the Jazz Education Network Research Interest Group. She is on the editorial boards for two peer-reviewed journals, <em>The Journal of Singing<\/em> and <em>Jazz Education in Research and Practice<\/em>. She is also on the editorial board for NATS-Bloomsbury Books (National Association of Teachers of Singing). Tish is married to <strong>George Gabor \u201989<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please share your news with us via email or the <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">online news form<\/a>. Be well and take good care. \u2756 <strong>Jean Kintisch<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;&#97;i&#x6c;&#x74;&#111;:&#106;&#109;&#x6b;&#x32;&#x32;&#x36;&#x40;&#x63;&#111;&#x72;n&#x65;&#108;l&#x2e;e&#x64;&#117;\">email Jean<\/a>) | <strong>Sarah Ballow Clauss<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#97;&#x69;&#108;&#116;&#111;:&#x73;&#97;rahc&#x6c;&#97;us&#115;&#x40;ya&#x68;&#x6f;&#111;&#x2e;&#99;&#111;&#109;\">email Sarah<\/a>) | <strong>Wilma Ann Thomas Anderson<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;a&#x69;&#108;t&#x6f;&#58;w&#x69;&#x6c;&#x70;o&#x77;&#101;r&#x31;&#64;&#x67;&#x6d;&#x61;&#105;&#108;&#46;&#x63;&#x6f;m\">email Wilma Ann<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-e2153788bcb9f9c889544c2a7cf1d2e8\"><strong>1993<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHi everyone!\u201d writes<strong> Regina Minasso Soares dos Santos<\/strong>. \u201cAfter raising our girls in Rye, NY, <strong>Luiz Soares<\/strong> and I are now splitting time between the U.S. and Brazil. We enjoy visiting our youngest daughter at Cornell in Arts and Sciences and our oldest, who just graduated from Harvard, in Texas. We would love to connect with Cornellians who decide to fly south!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abigail Wilentz <\/strong>shares, \u201cI\u2019m an Arts &amp; Sciences alum, comparative lit major. I have just coauthored, with Suzanne Loebl, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishbookcouncil.org\/book\/plunder-and-survival-stories-of-theft-loss-recovery-and-migration-of-nazi-uprooted-art\"><em>Plunder and Survival<\/em><\/a><em>: Stories of Theft, Loss, Recovery, and Migration of Nazi-Uprooted Art. <\/em>The book was released on October 16, 2025 from Bloomsbury Academic. (Though it\u2019s not a textbook\u2014very much for a general audience\u2014they are placing it under the general category of history.) It\u2019s 240 pages and illustrated throughout with 25 pieces of art; available in hardcover as well as an eBook.\u201d \u2756 <strong>Mia Blackler<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;a&#x69;l&#116;&#x6f;:&#x6d;&#x69;a&#98;la&#99;&#107;&#108;e&#x72;&#x40;&#x79;&#97;ho&#x6f;&#46;co&#x6d;\">email Mia<\/a>) | <strong>Melissa <\/strong><strong>Hart<\/strong><strong> Moss<\/strong>, <strong>JD \u201997<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;a&#x69;&#x6c;&#116;&#x6f;&#58;me&#x6c;&#x69;&#x6d;&#111;&#115;&#x73;&#64;&#121;aho&#x6f;&#x2e;&#99;&#111;&#x6d;\">email Melissa<\/a>) | <strong>Theresa Flores<\/strong> (<a href=\"ma&#x69;&#x6c;&#116;&#x6f;&#x3a;t&#97;&#x66;&#x36;&#x40;&#x63;&#x6f;rne&#x6c;l&#x2e;&#x65;d&#x75;\">email Theresa<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-22c5f5947319be41b8e470509bf20fd2\"><strong>1994<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lori DiLorenzo Buszkiewicz <\/strong>still greatly enjoys her work as medical director at an inpatient detox\/continuing care unit. \u201cI meet very interesting people and it\u2019s nice to find purpose in helping them. I also am loving watching my four daughters go off to college and graduate college and high school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOldest daughter Sara graduated in May from Smith College and is now applying to med school. Second daughter Jen is a sophomore in engineering at University of Michigan. Husband just took a new job and is commuting from Massachusetts to California once a month. Cornell taught me to listen to, talk with, and learn from people of all backgrounds with different points of view.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new Disney Channel series, \u201cElectric Bloom,\u201d was co-created by our very own <strong>Eric Friedman<\/strong>! The show follows the three members of the world-famous pop group Electric Bloom as they look back and tell the story of their band and friendship, starting with the day they all met in high school. <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/video.disney.com\/watch\/electric-bloom-official-trailer-disney-63e5e0177953bde9f4151fcc\">Check out the trailer<\/a>! Eric has years of experience as a TV showrunner and writer for series like \u201cBizaardvark,\u201d \u201cSchool of Rock,\u201d \u201cDrake &amp; Josh,\u201d and more. \u2756 <strong>Dineen Pashoukos Wasylik<\/strong> (<a href=\"m&#97;&#x69;l&#x74;&#x6f;:d&#x6d;&#x70;&#53;&#64;c&#111;rne&#108;&#x6c;&#46;&#x65;&#x64;&#117;\">email Dineen<\/a>) | <strong>Dika Lam<\/strong> (<a href=\"m&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#116;&#x6f;:d&#x69;&#x6b;&#x61;w&#x65;&#98;&#64;yah&#111;&#x6f;&#46;&#x63;o&#x6d;\">email Dika<\/a>)<strong> <\/strong>| <strong>Jennifer Rabin Marchant<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;&#97;&#105;&#108;&#x74;&#x6f;:j&#97;r&#x31;&#50;&#x32;&#57;&#x40;&#x79;&#97;&#x68;&#x6f;o&#x2e;c&#x6f;m\">email Jennifer<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-dbcf1e977b39c6fee33cdb29e516166d\"><strong>1995<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy New Year! <strong>Dana Hill<\/strong>, JD \u201905, recently moved back to the Northeast to join the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the District of Vermont in September 2025. After seven years as federal prosecutor in the Orlando area, Dana writes, \u201cMy family and I will miss the friends we made and experiences we had in Florida. But we are also excited to start this new chapter of our lives in the region our family calls home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In October, <strong>Greg Pedicin<\/strong> joined Untitled, a London-based agency specializing in talent management, brand partnerships, creative strategy consulting, and content creation, as a literary manager, after more than 23 years at Gersh (the fourth largest talent and literary agency in the world). Greg began his Hollywood career as a floater at Gersh before becoming a literary agent. Over the past two decades, he has built a career representing writers, directors, novelists, playwrights, producers, and multi-hyphenates across film and television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In December, <strong>Beth Camesano<\/strong> was promoted to managing director at Barclays. She has been with Barclays as the global head of data and records risk since 2022; prior to that, she had multiple roles over 24 years at Deutsche Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And for our feel-good story of this installment:<strong> Melissa Biren Singer<\/strong> and her husband, <strong>Scott \u201994<\/strong>, have started volunteering weekly at <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guidingeyes.org\/\">Guiding Eyes for the Blind<\/a>, a nonprofit that breeds, trains, and matches guide dogs to people with vision loss to help them live more independent lives, \u201cas a new \u2018empty nester\u2019 activity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melissa adds, \u201cAll three of our wonderful dogs were born at this facility but were released at some point during their journey when they decided to become pampered pets instead of hard-working guide dogs. While we are so glad to be able to help them in some small way, this experience has been so enjoyable and rewarding for us as we get the opportunity to nurture these dogs and see them grow during their first eight weeks of life. It\u2019s been a real treat, and something we look forward to every week!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep those updates coming! \u2756 <strong>Alison Torrillo French<\/strong> (<a href=\"m&#x61;&#105;&#108;&#116;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#97;&#109;&#116;&#x37;&#x40;&#99;o&#114;&#x6e;&#101;&#108;&#108;&#x2e;&#x65;du\">email Alison<\/a>) | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/classof95.alumni.cornell.edu\/\">Class website<\/a> | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/CU95FB\">Class Facebook page<\/a> | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cornellu1995\">Class Instagram page<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-190da4f2d3717a8776d3e6ce5fba8132\"><strong>1996<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Katrina James<\/strong> has recently joined Lawyers For Children in New York City as deputy executive director and general counsel, representing and serving children in foster care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a news release, \u201cKatrina has nearly 30 years of leadership experience spanning the nonprofit, education, and legal sectors. Trained as a social worker, attorney, and nonprofit leader, she began her career as a caseworker at a foster care provider agency, where she developed a deep understanding of the challenges facing children in care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMost recently, Katrina served as managing director of Dallas County Promise at the Commit Partnership, leading large-scale initiatives to increase college access and completion. Earlier, as a senior director at the Harlem Children\u2019s Zone, Katrina developed innovative programs to strengthen college readiness and career success for young people. Earlier in her career, she practiced law at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &amp; Flom LLP, focusing on government enforcement and white-collar investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKatrina\u2019s connection to Lawyers For Children runs deep\u2014she first worked with the organization in 2009, assisting with an amicus brief, and later served on LFC\u2019s leadership council and board of directors. In her new role as deputy executive director and general counsel, Katrina will oversee internal operations, provide legal and compliance leadership, strengthen organizational systems and staff development, and support LFC\u2019s long-term strategic vision.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katrina says, \u201cLawyers for Children has held a special place in my heart for more than 15 years. Over the past 40+ years, LFC has used its interdisciplinary model to ensure that more than 100,000 children have had a voice in their family court proceedings. I am proud and excited to join LFC\u2019s leadership in advancing its mission of supporting our most vulnerable children.\u201d \u2756 <strong>Class of 1996<\/strong> (<a href=\"m&#97;&#105;&#108;t&#x6f;&#58;&#97;&#x62;&#x62;&#56;&#51;&#64;&#x63;o&#114;&#x6e;&#x65;l&#x6c;&#x2e;&#x65;&#x64;u\">email c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-bbc70c556889b17aed7bcbcb8fee29c5\"><strong>1997<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Megan Lynam Overbay<\/strong> was recently featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/big-spoon-roasters-overbay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a <em>Cornellians <\/em>story<\/a>: \u201cWhen the craft food movement was exploding a decade and a half ago, Megan would appreciate the variety of new offerings as she walked down grocery store aisles. But when it came to peanut butter, she noticed, the options pretty much stopped at creamy and crunchy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSeeing an opportunity, Megan and her husband launched Big Spoon Roasters to give nut butter lovers an array of tasty, handcrafted, and sustainably produced options, free of preservatives and artificial flavorings. Using nut butters like peanut, almond, hazelnut, walnut, cashew, and pecan as a base, their products come in some 20 flavors including cardamom bun, bourbon pecan, lemon cookie, Thai curry, and chocolate sea salt. They\u2019re priced around $11\u2013$17 for a 13-ounce jar, depending on the nut base.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Amy Blye Cohen <\/strong>shares, \u201cOur daughter <strong>Naomi \u201929<\/strong> is a freshman this year majoring in pre-med. That makes her a fourth-generation Cornellian\u2014great-grandma, two grandfathers, two parents, and now Naomi. Go Big Red!\u201d \u2756<strong>Erica Broennle Nelson<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#97;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x74;&#111;&#58;ej&#x62;&#x34;&#64;&#99;&#111;&#114;n&#x65;&#108;&#108;&#46;e&#100;&#117;\">email Erica<\/a>) |<strong> Sarah Deardorff Carter<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;&#97;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x74;&#111;&#x3a;&#x73;a&#x72;&#x61;&#x68;&#x5f;&#100;e&#x61;r&#x64;&#x6f;&#x72;&#x66;&#102;&#64;&#x68;&#x6f;t&#x6d;&#97;&#105;l&#x2e;&#x63;&#x6f;&#x6d;\">email Sarah<\/a>) | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-1fec37c85b0d36feee6fb165ddeed723\"><strong>1998<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope everyone had a lovely start to 2026. Please keep your news and notes coming! What is new in your life these days? \u2756 <strong>Class of 1998 <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;&#105;&#x6c;&#116;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#97;&#x62;&#x62;&#x38;&#51;&#x40;&#x63;or&#110;e&#108;&#108;&#x2e;&#101;d&#x75;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-653ae88a56907bd016066bc50c6ccc4a\"><strong>1999<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>John Hyland<\/strong> writes, \u201cI am a history professor at Christopher Newport University in Virginia, and a proud alum of the Class of 1999. I\u2019m writing to share the news about my new book, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/persias-greek-campaigns-9780197660485?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\"><em>Persia\u2019s Greek Campaigns<\/em><\/a><em>: Kingship, War, and Spectacle on the Achaemenid Frontier<\/em>, which just came out with Oxford University Press. The book is the first comprehensive study of the Persian imperial contexts for the famous Persian-Greek Wars, which are widely viewed as foundational events in world history but understood through a one-sided Greek perspective.\u201d \u2756 <strong>Class of 1999<\/strong> (<a href=\"m&#x61;&#105;l&#116;&#x6f;&#58;&#x61;b&#98;83&#64;c&#x6f;&#114;&#x6e;el&#108;&#x2e;&#x65;&#x64;&#x75;\">email c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:75px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center is-style-class-group has-x-large-font-size\">2000s<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-8c0b0d9a46db15a262eee11a7b542456\"><strong>2000<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Greetings! I hope this note finds you well. The deadline for my upcoming article in a craft magazine is nearing, so I\u2019ve been hard at work. I will have also completed my third year as a learning table speaker at the Rust Belt Fibershed Symposium, called Close to Home Collaborations: A Textile Future Worth Making. My topic is on how choosing breed-specific yarns affects your finished garments. For more information on the mission of the Rust Belt Fibershed, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/rustbeltfibershed.com\/2026-symposium\">visit this website<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Food marketer <strong>Jaclyn Kaplan Oyola<\/strong> is the founder of Aussie Select, which sells deli-style cured lamb sourced from Australia. Jaclyn\u2019s goal was to bring the rich, savory flavor of lamb to market in a way that is accessible for a wide variety of people to enjoy. That sounds delicious! You can <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/lamb-oyola\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">read the <em>Cornellians <\/em>story here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Joey Bonifacio<\/strong> debuted his first documentary film on the topic of gender-affirming care at the Rehobeth Beach International Film Festival in November. Here is a brief synopsis. \u201cA pediatrician-turned-filmmaker turns the camera on himself as he grapples with the emotional, ethical, and political fault lines of providing gender-affirming care to youth\u2014just as a global wave of legislation and a landmark 2025 U.S. Supreme Court ruling threaten to silence it altogether.\u201d You can <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drjoeybonifacio.com\/truecolorstrailer\">watch the trailer here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, Joey really took to heart our founding principle of \u201cany person &#8230; any study.\u201d After graduating from the College of Arts and Sciences, Joey went to medical school at the University of British Columbia. Since then, some of the other education he\u2019s completed include a MPH from Harvard, a master\u2019s degree in divinity at the University of Toronto, and most recently, an MFA in film. Joey is a staff pediatrician at St. Michael\u2019s Hospital in Toronto, ON. He is considered a foremost expert in gender-affirming care in Canada. Here\u2019s a <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/research.unityhealth.to\/profiles\/joey-bonifacio\">link to his bio<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cornell alumni all over the world are hard at work. If you would like to share what\u2019s going on in your neighborhood, drop me a line or submit an <a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">online news form<\/a>. \u2756 <strong>Denise Williams<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x74;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#100;dw&#55;&#64;&#99;&#111;&#114;n&#101;&#108;&#x6c;&#x2e;&#101;&#100;&#x75;\">email Denise<\/a>) | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-11da7461b219355addce2c413ffa3260\"><strong>2001<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s hard to believe, but our 25th Reunion is right around the corner! We can\u2019t wait to see everyone back on campus June 4\u20137. As the date approaches, I\u2019m sure many of us are reflecting on how quickly the years have gone by\u2014and on how much has changed, and how much hasn\u2019t. We left Cornell with a mix of confidence and uncertainty, ready to take on the world beyond Ithaca. And yet, all these years later, the Cornell connection still feels as strong as ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, we\u2019d love to hear from you for future editions of these notes. Big updates, small updates, professional or personal\u2014everything is welcome. Sometimes it\u2019s the simplest updates that resonate the most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to Reunion:<strong> Lorraine Medeiros<\/strong> and <strong>Marisa<\/strong> <strong>Laks<\/strong> are in the midst of planning and could not be more excited. They have many surprises in store, including a custom-made souvenir for the Class of 2001. We don\u2019t want to spoil all of the surprises, so you\u2019re just going to have to stay tuned and meet on West Campus come June! The Class of 2001 will be staying at the Carl Becker House on West Campus. For many, this will be the first time seeing West Campus without the U-Halls \u2026 Bittersweet, but a step up in terms of comfort. Accommodations will include in-house dining\u2014expect to see some old favorites like the Hot Truck and Dairy Bar as we relive our glory days!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Red Hot Hockey at Madison Square Garden was another fun chance to see Cornell alums at the end of last year. While it was a hard-fought loss for the Big Red, it was still a great game and an impressive turnout of Cornell alumni and hockey fans across generations. My family and I attended with <strong>Ari \u201902<\/strong> and <strong>Meredith Silverman Fontecchio \u201902<\/strong> and their three children. <strong>Patrick McDonald \u201902<\/strong> and <strong>Martine Combal<\/strong> came in from Washington, DC, and met up with <strong>Scott Fava<\/strong>. <strong>Katrina Dryer<\/strong>, <strong>Michael<\/strong>, MPA \u201902,<strong> <\/strong>and <strong>Susan Mueller Hanson<\/strong>, ME \u201902, <strong>Erica Sietsma<\/strong>, and <strong>Andrea Hoberman<\/strong> <strong>Martinez<\/strong> were also there with their families, to name just a few from our class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other side of the country,<strong> Jeff Ciccone<\/strong> was spotted in Las Vegas with his family, taking in the Formula 1 race and all the sights that come with it. Jeff and his wife, Madeline, have their hands full at home. With three boys, ages 12 to 16, they\u2019re busy juggling packed sports and activity schedules\u2014keeping life exciting and on the move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p> <strong>Libby Leist \u201901<\/strong> is now executive vice president of the \u2018Today\u2019 show and Lifestyle.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Libby Leist<\/strong> continues to build an impressive career in broadcast journalism. Over more than two decades at NBC News, she has produced major political events, Olympic coverage, and presidential town halls. After joining NBC News in 2001 as a desk assistant in the Washington bureau, she went on to become Andrew Mitchell\u2019s State Department producer and has continued rising through the ranks. Libby is now executive vice president of the \u201cToday\u201d show and Lifestyle. Under her leadership, \u201cToday\u201d won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Morning Program in 2020. She lives in Connecticut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chris <\/strong>and<strong> Cory Belnick Kercher<\/strong> have been keeping busy. Chris is a partner at Quinn Emanuel and the founder of the firm\u2019s data and analytics group. He\u2019s been focused on leveraging AI tools, such as Anthropic\u2019s Claude, to help colleagues uncover new issues, strategies, and tactics for arguing cases. Recently, Chris was quoted in <em>Financial Times<\/em> and <em>Fortune<\/em> discussing how AI can boost lawyers\u2019 productivity and impact. Cory now serves as director of pediatrics at Atria Institute in New York. On the home front, Chris and Cory recently made the move from New York to Connecticut. \u201cIt\u2019s been an adjustment as lifetime New Yorkers!\u201d Chris joked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Cornell, <strong>Alejandro Varela<\/strong> earned a master\u2019s in public health and worked in HIV and cancer-screening research at institutions including the New York Blood Center and Mount Sinai. He later shifted to writing full time, publishing short fiction in <em>The Yale Review<\/em> and <em>Harper\u2019s Magazine<\/em>. His debut novel, <em>The Town of Babylon<\/em> (2022), was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. He followed that with the short-story collection <em>The People Who Report More Stress<\/em> (2023) and the novel <em>Middle Spoon<\/em> (2025), continuing to build a reputation as a sharp, socially aware voice. You can learn more on <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/alejandrovarela.work\/\">his website<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After graduation, <strong>Aaron Allen<\/strong> returned to his family\u2019s farm, Allenwaite Farms, becoming a seventh-generation farmer. His work focuses on dairy and crop production, with milk sold to Dairy Farmers of America and supplying the New York City market. Aaron remains connected to Cornell through service on the CALS Advisory Council, where he brings an agricultural perspective to the college\u2019s strategic conversations. Most recently, Allenwaite Farms acquired Herrington Farms in Brunswick, NY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Got news or memories to share? Email either of us, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.classof01.alumni.cornell.edu\/\">visit our website<\/a>, join and participate in our <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/500538923481822\">Class of 2001 Classmates Facebook group<\/a>, and follow our <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cornell2001alums\/\">Class of 2001 Instagram<\/a> (@cornell2001alums). \u2756<strong> James Gutow<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;a&#105;&#x6c;&#x74;&#111;&#x3a;&#x6a;a&#x6d;&#x65;s&#x2e;&#x67;&#117;&#x74;&#111;&#x77;&#64;&#x79;&#x61;&#104;&#x6f;&#x6f;&#x2e;&#x63;&#111;m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email James<\/a>) | <strong>Nicole Neroulias Gupte<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;&#97;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x74;&#111;&#x3a;N&#105;&#x63;o&#x6c;&#x65;M&#78;6&#64;&#x67;&#x6d;&#x61;&#x69;&#108;&#46;&#99;&#x6f;&#109;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email Nicole<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-d4d6a7e1b59b3685cca8ce9f6c43629d\"><strong>2002<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello, Class of \u201902! We hope this message finds you well. If any classmates are reading this, we hope you will take the time to write to us! Others from our time on the Hill would greatly enjoy learning what you\u2019ve been up to since graduation. \u2756 <strong>Class of 2002 <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#109;&#x61;&#105;l&#116;&#111;&#x3a;&#x61;&#x62;&#98;&#56;&#x33;&#64;c&#x6f;&#x72;&#110;&#101;l&#x6c;&#x2e;&#x65;&#100;&#x75;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-edb82df92b1dc63caf7f7f1639722df9\"><strong>2003<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently had lunch with <strong>Christopher Tin<\/strong> in Salt Lake City. It was the first time we had seen each other since 2003, so we had a lot of catching up to do. Chris<strong> <\/strong>reflected, \u201cAfter over a decade in banking, both in New York and Hong Kong, I made the bold move to leave the corporate world and venture into the wild and much-faster-paced startup ecosystem. I\u2019ve had the chance to work with companies like Uber and DraftKings, where the pace, creativity, and constant problem-solving have been a refreshing change from the more predictable banking life. I\u2019ve especially loved being part of teams building things from scratch. Now I\u2019m taking a breather, exploring new opportunities, and considering where I can make the next big impact. Who knows, maybe I\u2019ll find the next unicorn, or at least a solid startup with decent snacks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After New York and Hong Kong, Chris moved to San Francisco, then to Los Angeles, and then to Salt Lake. He says, \u201cI\u2019m currently in Utah where the mountains are breathtaking, and the air is just thin enough to make you feel like you\u2019re accomplishing something by simply walking to the mailbox. I\u2019ve been soaking in the outdoors with skiing, climbing, biking, paddleboarding, and, of course, playing pickleball whenever I can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I\u2019m currently in Utah, where the air is just thin enough to make you feel like you\u2019re accomplishing something by simply walking to the mailbox.<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Christopher Tin \u201903<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m currently overcoming some serious health challenges, and while it wasn\u2019t exactly a walk in the park (literally, couldn\u2019t walk in the park), it has been an eye-opening journey. It\u2019s taught me the value of slowing down and really appreciating the people who make life worth living. These days, I\u2019m all about savoring the little moments and not letting life pass by in a blur of deadlines and email chains. It makes you realize who\u2019s important in your life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked about what he misses most about Cornell, Chris said, \u201cRPU cuisine\u201d and \u201cthe camaraderie we had during those cold, wintry days when we were all bundled up, freezing our way through the Ithaca tundra. Those shared experiences with unique and intelligent individuals are rare and unforgettable, and as life gets busier and more complicated, I realize just how special those days truly were.\u201d Chris also shared that he was a contestant on \u201cThe Price is Right\u201d a few years back: \u201cYou\u2019ll have to watch and see if I won anything or not.\u201d <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/tintpir\">See this link<\/a> for the episode! \u2756 <strong>Candace Lee Chow<\/strong>, <strong>PhD \u201914<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#x6d;a&#x69;&#108;&#x74;&#x6f;&#58;&#67;J&#x4c;&#x32;&#52;&#x40;&#99;o&#x72;&#x6e;&#x65;&#x6c;&#x6c;&#46;&#x65;&#x64;&#x75;\">email Candace<\/a>) | <strong>Jon Schoenberg<\/strong>, <strong>ME \u201903<\/strong>, <strong>PhD \u201911<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#x61;&#x69;l&#116;o:&#x6a;r&#115;&#x35;&#x35;&#64;&#99;&#111;r&#x6e;&#101;&#108;&#108;&#x2e;e&#x64;u\">email Jon<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-e4c103dab5aed91ba4415fdfeb83919a\"><strong>2004<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>David Rand<\/strong>, a professor of information science and marketing and management communications at Cornell, was recently featured in an episode of the University\u2019s newest video podcast, <em>Research Matters.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Launched in January, this podcast spotlights Cornell scholars whose research directly engages with real-world challenges, from climate change and public safety to mental health, food systems, and the future of technology. The series translates complex scholarship into casual conversations that can be understood by listeners of all backgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his episode, David discusses two studies he led that conclusively showed that AI can actually sway what people think in meaningful ways. In fact, in some countries, 10% of participants in his study changed their minds about who they planned to vote for after a simple conversation with a chatbot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This episode includes practical takeaways, a look into the future of AI in our daily lives, and a discussion about the implications (both good and bad) of his recent discoveries. You can <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4r8LZOjoZpU\">watch the full episode here<\/a>! \u2756 <strong>Class of 2004 <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;&#x69;l&#116;o&#x3a;&#97;&#x62;b&#x38;&#x33;&#64;&#x63;o&#114;&#x6e;&#x65;&#108;&#x6c;&#x2e;&#x65;&#100;&#x75;\">email c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-5d2f41a19e2d98c2ec80f5505308a007\"><strong>2005<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Daisy Torres-Baez <\/strong>currently works in higher education and is a doctoral candidate whose research is on faculty and staff support of undocumented graduate students. She recently served as co-editor of a book, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/books\/edited-volume\/20883\/Heart-WorkThe-Handbook-on-the-Surviving-and?searchresult=1\"><em>Heart Work<\/em><\/a><em>: The Handbook on the Surviving and Thriving of Cultural and Identity Centers in Higher Education<\/em>, which was released in November 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the publisher, \u201c<em>Heart Work<\/em> offers community members\u2014especially potential and current practitioners, faculty, and staff in higher education\u2014an understanding of the recent environmental context of cultural and identity centers. As our society evolves, recognizing that identities are not monolithic and embracing intersectionality allows for a deeper understanding of oppression and lived experiences. This handbook aims to bridge the gap by continuing the research and practice of cultural and identity centers in higher education.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please keep your news coming. We love to hear from our classmates! \u2756 <strong>Jessica Rosenthal<\/strong> <strong>Chod<\/strong> (<a href=\"m&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;t&#111;&#x3a;c&#x68;&#x6f;&#100;&#x6a;l&#x72;&#x40;&#x67;&#109;a&#x69;&#x6c;&#46;&#99;&#x6f;&#x6d;\">email Jessica<\/a>) | <strong>Hilary Johnson<\/strong> <strong>King<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;a&#105;&#x6c;t&#x6f;:&#x68;&#x69;l&#x61;&#x72;&#121;&#97;&#107;&#105;&#x6e;&#x67;1&#x38;&#x40;g&#109;&#97;&#x69;l&#46;&#x63;&#x6f;&#109;\">email Hilary<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-5a9e1368390eaf41ac4f416083cea104\"><strong>2006<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy spring, Class of \u201906! To all classmates reading this, we hope you will take the time to write us! We\u2019d love to know what you\u2019ve been up to. \u2756 <strong>Class of 2006 <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#x6d;&#97;&#x69;&#108;t&#x6f;&#x3a;&#97;&#98;&#x62;&#x38;&#x33;&#x40;&#x63;&#x6f;r&#x6e;e&#x6c;&#108;&#46;&#x65;&#x64;u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-38c78c07fead658deae15512b9131e60\"><strong>2007<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello, Class of 2007! Happy spring! It\u2019s wild to think that we\u2019re just over one year away from our 20th Reunion. Looking forward to sharing more stories from all of you as we get closer to reconnecting in Ithaca!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This past November, I got a chance to spend some time with <strong>Sara Tam<\/strong> and meet her son Channing while wandering around the Met Museum with my family. It\u2019s always fun to hang out with friends from the Hill! Also, my family and I returned to one of our favorite annual pastimes: watching Cornell men\u2019s hockey at Madison Square Garden, joined by <strong>Sam Schreiber \u201908 <\/strong>and his son. Unfortunately, the game didn\u2019t go our way this year, but it was still a really fun time. We even got a family photo with Touchdown! Added bonus, we got a chance to catch up with <strong>Omar Gonzalez-Pagan <\/strong>as well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January, classmate <strong>Don Thomas Deere <\/strong>became 2007\u2019s newest published author. Duke University Press published his book <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dukeupress.edu\/the-invention-of-order\"><em>The Invention of Order<\/em><\/a><em>: On the Coloniality of Space<\/em>. Don is an assistant professor in the philosophy department at Texas A&amp;M University. In his book, Don retraces the colonial origins of spatial organization in the Americas and the Caribbean and its lasting impact on modern structures of knowledge, power, race, and gender, as well as understandings of global modernity. Please find acclaim for his book below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Linda Mart\u00edn Alcoff, author of <em>Visible Identities <\/em>had this to say: \u201cA critically important book, <em>The Invention of Order<\/em> offers a spatial reading of the modern\/colonial world system, revealing the constitutive relations between the categories of peoples and the organization and representation of space. With lively examples, Deere fills in the large gaps left by Foucault, Harvey, Bachelard, and other theorists of spatiality. The idea that a people control the meaning of their land had to be overcome for colonialist and capitalist dispossession, and this fight is far from over.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Kris Sealey, author of <em>Creolizing the Nation<\/em>: \u201c<em>The Invention of Order<\/em> presents a novel analysis of modern colonial projects, adding to current scholarship on the temporal and spatial significance of colonial conquest. Don Thomas Deere\u2019s treatment of how this spatiality gives rise to and shapes colonial frames of reason, subject-formation, and the body is vital for any study of both the singularity of modern forms of colonial violence as well as the articulation of the radical nature of decolonial alternatives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking forward to sharing more exciting stories with everyone! Have more updates to share? Please feel free to reach out to me or <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">submit online<\/a>! \u2756 <strong>Samantha Feibush Wolf<\/strong> (<a href=\"m&#97;&#x69;&#x6c;&#116;&#111;&#x3a;&#115;&#114;&#102;&#50;&#x39;&#64;&#99;&#111;r&#110;el&#x6c;&#x2e;&#101;&#100;&#x75;\">email Samantha<\/a>) | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-f87cd9b92e979f60a31f6907a9e82463\"><strong>2008<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope everyone had a lovely start to 2026. Please keep your news and notes coming! What is new in your life these days? \u2756 <strong>Class of 2008 <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#109;&#97;&#105;&#x6c;&#x74;&#111;&#x3a;&#x61;b&#x62;8&#51;&#64;&#x63;&#x6f;&#114;&#110;&#101;&#x6c;l&#x2e;&#x65;d&#x75;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-46aacc0a47cbb4fee2f58d1e83f74b5a\"><strong>2009<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Long drive golf champion <strong>Troy Mullins<\/strong> was recently featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/golf-mullins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a <em>Cornellians <\/em>story<\/a>: \u201cWhen Troy headed out to study abroad in Beijing her senior year, she packed a set of used golf clubs\u2014toting them halfway around the world on the off chance that she\u2019d have time to use them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHaving bought a bike in Beijing, she\u2019d take solo 25-minute rides from campus to a driving range she\u2019d found. \u2018I\u2019d have \u201cme time\u201d and go hit a bunch of balls,\u2019 recalls Mullins. \u2018I had no idea what I was doing, but nobody cared.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEventually, Mullins not only improved her technique\u2014she went on to a pro career in long drive golf, in which athletes compete to hit the ball the farthest. The first Black woman to win a world long drive tour competition, Mullins holds the record for the longest drive by an American female golfer, at 402 yards. Indeed, only five women in the world have ever hit a drive more than 400 yards in competition.\u201d \u2756 <strong>Class of 2009<\/strong> (<a href=\"m&#97;i&#108;&#116;o&#x3a;ab&#x62;83&#x40;&#99;&#x6f;&#x72;&#x6e;&#x65;&#x6c;l&#x2e;&#x65;du\">email c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:75px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center is-style-class-group has-x-large-font-size\">2010s<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-443ab4dd941de18bffd5a7a620ed64fa\"><strong>2010<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Hi! I\u2019m <strong>Grace Guichardo Watkins<\/strong>, your new 2010 class co-correspondent along with <strong>Jennifer Wholey Lehman<\/strong>. I\u2019ve been away from our beloved Cayuga\u2019s waters for some time and so, to feel closer to our Big Red community, I thought volunteering for the Class Notes section would be a great way to stay connected. The last time I visited Cornell was in 2018 for a recruiting trip, so I am very much looking forward to attending Cornell\u2019s very first Volunteer Summit on October 14\u201316, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since graduating from Cornell, close to 16 years ago, I have moved a total of eight times as I pursued different career opportunities and, more recently, personal relationships (I like to remind my husband I moved across the country for him). I currently call Michigan home and have survived two freezing winters. Although Michiganders talk a great deal about their tough winters, I got plenty of training at Cornell, enduring the brutal walks to and from prelims. Thank you, Ithaca!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Michigan, I live with my husband\u2014who is the founder\/owner of an Ethiopian specialty coffee company (shout-out to A Pensive Man\u2019s Coffee)\u2014and my two children: Kenneth, 2.5 years old, and Ansah, 10 months old. I work for Disney remotely from Michigan, so I still travel back to L.A. for work and enjoy the impossibly sunny days and $20 smoothies, but nothing beats being back on the East Coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Shannon Edwards \u201910<\/strong> has used her connections and resources to establish a fundraiser in support of Jamaica after the devastating impacts of Hurricane Melissa on the island.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This Class Notes column, I\u2019d like to shine a spotlight on <strong>Shannon Edwards<\/strong> and the incredible work she is doing to give back to her beloved birthplace: Jamaica.<strong> <\/strong>Shannon, senior counsel, legal operations at TPG Inc., has used her connections and resources to establish a fundraiser in support of Jamaica after the devastating impacts of Hurricane Melissa on the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fundraising efforts are focused on rebuilding the Maroon Town Basic School, which is based in Maroon Town, a rural area where her grandmother and other relatives still live. Although much work and funds are needed to help rebuild broken infrastructure severely damaged by the storm, Shannon is working to get an important institution operational again. Kudos to Shannon for all her efforts and generous spirit!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a reminder, we welcome all updates about your life. Feel free to share the wonderful things you are doing in your community and the simple joys of everyday life. Cheers to April showers and May flowers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are genuinely excited to share your news! You\u2019ll hear from Jennifer in our next column. \u2756 <strong>Grace Guichardo Watkins <\/strong>(<a href=\"ma&#x69;&#108;&#x74;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x67;g&#x39;&#x34;&#64;&#x63;&#x6f;&#114;ne&#x6c;&#108;&#46;&#101;&#100;u\">email Grace<\/a>) | <strong>Jennifer Wholey Lehman<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;a&#105;&#108;&#x74;&#x6f;&#x3a;j&#x6c;&#x77;&#x32;&#x32;&#x34;&#64;&#x63;&#x6f;&#x72;&#x6e;&#x65;&#108;l&#46;ed&#117;\">email Jennifer<\/a>) | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-3b640e939258a6454fcd3807eb7ceab3\"><strong>2011<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy spring, Class of \u201911! To all classmates reading this, we hope you will take the time to write us! We\u2019d love to know what you\u2019ve been up to. \u2756 <strong>Class of 2011 <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#109;&#x61;i&#x6c;t&#x6f;&#x3a;&#97;&#x62;&#98;8&#51;&#64;&#x63;&#x6f;r&#x6e;&#x65;&#x6c;&#x6c;&#46;&#x65;du\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-380cb50615dd78b2e84754b68cc4d5d9\"><strong>2012<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tony Chen<\/strong>, ME \u201912, has dedicated himself to connecting Cornellians around the world and spotlighting the achievements of alumni and the University. Tony has his own tech company, but his passion is promoting Cornell and Cornellians globally. He regularly shares out Cornell news, connects alumni with each other, and even organizes and hosts his own events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To follow along with Tony and join in on the fun, find him on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lc465\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lc465\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>. He\u2019s also on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@risleyite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TikTok<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/risleyite\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>; for both, his handle is @risleyite in honor of his undergrad residence. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/chen-alumni-connector\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">read more about Tony here<\/a>! \u2756 <strong>Peggy Ramin<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;a&#x69;&#x6c;&#116;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x6d;&#97;&#x72;&#51;&#x33;&#53;&#x40;&#x63;&#x6f;&#x72;&#x6e;&#x65;&#x6c;&#x6c;&#46;&#x65;&#100;u\">email Peggy<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-e537fae1a13ad85bad5c26a65a3bb1d4\"><strong>2013<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope everyone had a lovely start to 2025. Please keep your news and notes coming! What is new in your life these days? \u2756 <strong>Class of 2013 <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#109;a&#x69;lt&#x6f;&#58;&#x61;&#x62;b&#x38;3&#x40;&#99;&#111;&#114;&#110;&#101;l&#108;&#46;&#101;&#x64;&#x75;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-a890959c8e4781fcda3e34ca90bf8c14\"><strong>2014<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello, Class of 2014! In November 2025, two of our classmates were featured in articles in <em>Cornellians<\/em>. <strong>Monique Hall<\/strong> is a writer and producer for children\u2019s television including screenwriting credits on popular shows like \u201cSesame Street,\u201d \u201cDaniel Tiger\u2019s Neighborhood,\u201d \u201cBubble Guppies,\u201d and \u201cButterbean\u2019s Caf\u00e9.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2023, Monique won an Emmy alongside her \u201cSesame Street\u201d colleagues in the category of \u201coutstanding writing for a preschool or children\u2019s live action program.\u201d At Cornell, Monique majored in human development with dual minors in creative writing and film. She later earned a master\u2019s in education from Harvard, where she specialized in educational media. You can read more about Monique\u2019s career in <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/childrens-tv-hall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alvaro Alvarez<\/strong> was <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/artist-alvarez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">featured in the article<\/a> \u201cUsing Found Objects, California Artist Turns Trash to Treasure.\u201d Alvaro\u2019s latest project, <em>AbandonmenTissues<\/em>, displayed in San Diego, CA, in fall 2025, consisted of 25 sculptural works that included discarded items made of metal, plastic, styrofoam, and cardboard. The project aims to draw attention to debris littered from semi trucks around San Ysidro, CA, near the border with Mexico. Prior to this recent project, Alvaro lived in NYC and was involved in the design and construction of the residential tower at 15 Hudson Yards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please let me know if you or any of your 2014 friends might have stories to share. \u2756 <strong>Samantha Lapehn Young <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#x6d;&#97;&#105;&#108;&#116;&#x6f;&#58;&#x73;&#114;l&#x37;&#x36;&#64;&#x63;&#111;r&#110;&#x65;&#108;&#x6c;&#46;&#x65;d&#117;\">email Samantha<\/a>) | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-7c1e9322e51d6d183a64feb2100a84c1\"><strong>2015\u201317<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We don\u2019t have any news from these classes to report this round\u2014but we hope that will change in the future! What have you been up to these days? What are you doing for work or fun? What kind of impact did your time at Cornell have on your life? If you have a moment, please send an email to us. \u2756 <strong>Classes of 2015\u201317 <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#109;a&#105;&#108;&#116;&#x6f;:a&#98;&#x62;&#x38;&#x33;&#x40;&#x63;o&#x72;&#110;&#x65;&#108;l&#46;&#101;&#x64;&#x75;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-6c7e21fda7dde09a2f031dee1b83607d\"><strong>2018<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marc Alessi<\/strong>, MS \u201920, has been recognized as a 2025 Science Defender by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a national nonprofit, for his work co-organizing the Weather &amp; Climate Livestream in May of last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the UCS news release, \u201cMarc can\u2019t recall a time when he wasn\u2019t interested in weather and climate. \u2018I knew I wanted to go to Cornell to be in their atmospheric science program since I was in middle school,\u2019 he says. Several named storms and a high school weather camp later, he realized that dream, earning his bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s in atmospheric sciences at Cornell University and later earning his PhD working on climate models at Colorado State University.\u201d \u2756 <strong>Class of 2018 <\/strong>(<a href=\"m&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x74;&#x6f;&#x3a;a&#98;&#x62;&#56;3&#64;&#x63;&#x6f;r&#x6e;&#101;&#x6c;&#108;&#x2e;e&#x64;&#x75;\">email c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-f33f7608aa5439f94add79aa5b5917fe\"><strong>2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In September 2025, <strong>Spencer<\/strong>, BS \u201918, and <strong>Kristen Ferguson Kopko \u201920<\/strong> embarked on a new venture in Ithaca\u2014driven by their deep appreciation for the local community and their shared experiences at Cornell\u2014when they took over ownership of the Triphammer Marketplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A beloved local shopping destination that has been a staple of the Ithaca community, it was previously owned by the Thaler family for several decades. With this new chapter, Spencer and Kristen aim to honor the legacy of the mall while introducing fresh ideas and offerings that reflect the evolving needs of the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ithacavoice.org\/2025\/09\/triphammer-marketplace-property-changes-hands\/\">an article<\/a> in the <em>Ithaca Voice<\/em>, \u201cSpencer is an Ithaca native, and Kristen is originally from southern Virginia. The two met at Cornell, when Spencer was on the men\u2019s soccer team and Kristen was on the women\u2019s field hockey team. Spencer\u2019s day job is with a large real estate developer in New Jersey, though the acquisition of the Triphammer Marketplace is an outside endeavor with no involvement from that company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2018We are incredibly honored to carry on the work and legacy of the Thaler family and to be entrusted with a place that means so much to so many,\u2019 Spencer said. \u2018I know what this property means to Ithaca and to my family personally. We\u2019re truly pouring our heart into it. I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s a property that means more to Ithaca than this, and we\u2019re intimately aware of that.\u2019\u201d \u2756 <strong>Class of 2019 <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;i&#x6c;&#x74;&#x6f;:a&#x62;b&#56;&#x33;&#64;&#x63;&#111;&#x72;&#x6e;&#x65;&#108;&#x6c;&#46;e&#x64;&#117;\">email c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:75px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center is-style-class-group has-x-large-font-size\">2020s<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-80c388e64298fea3af047c69d39a91b4\"><strong>2020<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI fell in love with Ithaca over the four years that I was at Cornell. I still find new things to love about it, and it\u2019s been almost nine, ten years? I\u2019m just really excited about the town and about the opportunity to invest back in it,\u201d <strong>Kristen Ferguson Kopko<\/strong> said in a recent <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ithacavoice.org\/2025\/09\/triphammer-marketplace-property-changes-hands\/\"><em>Ithaca Voice <\/em>article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In September 2025, Kristen and her husband, <strong>Spencer \u201919<\/strong>, BA \u201918, took over ownership of the Triphammer Marketplace! A beloved local shopping destination that has been a staple of the Ithaca community, it was previously owned by the Thaler family for several decades. With this new chapter, Spencer and Kristen aim to honor the legacy of the mall while introducing fresh ideas and offerings that reflect the evolving needs of the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According the article, \u201cSpencer is an Ithaca native, and Kristen is originally from southern Virginia. The two met at Cornell, when Spencer was on the men\u2019s soccer team and Kristen was on the women\u2019s field hockey team. Spencer\u2019s day job is with a large real estate developer in New Jersey, though the acquisition of the Triphammer Marketplace is an outside endeavor with no involvement from that company.\u201d \u2756 <strong>Class of 2020 <\/strong>(<a href=\"mai&#x6c;&#x74;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x61;&#x62;&#98;&#x38;&#51;&#x40;&#x63;&#x6f;&#x72;&#110;&#x65;l&#x6c;&#x2e;&#x65;&#100;u\">email c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-2a11beb7f32b3226bcf1673fad070580\"><strong>2021\u201325<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We don\u2019t have any news from these classes to report this round\u2014but we hope that will change in the future! What have you been up to these days? What are you doing for work or fun? What kind of impact did your time at Cornell have on your life? If you have a moment, please send an email to us. \u2756 <strong>Classes of 2021\u201325 <\/strong>(<a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;&#x69;l&#x74;&#x6f;&#58;abb&#56;3&#x40;&#x63;or&#110;e&#x6c;&#108;&#x2e;&#x65;&#x64;&#x75;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email c\/o Alexandra Bond \u201912<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:75px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center is-style-class-group has-x-large-font-size\">Grad<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d1bf3c4e4ef6c576c8de0b0bd0598646\"><strong>Agriculture and Life Sciences<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nathan Roberts<\/strong>, <strong>PhD \u201910<\/strong>, serves as professor and dean of academic programs at College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, MO. The college provides a tuition-free education \u201cto provide the advantages of a Christian education for youth of both sexes, especially those found worthy, but who are without sufficient means to procure such training.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Karianne Kapfer<\/strong>,<strong> MS \u201924<\/strong>, recently wrote for <em>Cornellians<\/em> about her experiences in academia and the importance of disability fairness in the field. <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/kapfer-disability-equity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In the essay<\/a>, titled \u201cWhy I\u2019ve Become a Champion for Disability Equity in Academia,\u201d Karianne explains the various ways she is advocating, including serving on the advisory council for the Lab Inclusion for Everyone (LIFE) Project, which aims to make the Cornell Lab of Ornithology more inclusive for neurodivergent and\/or disabled individuals. She has helped develop a neurodiversity awareness training module for both people leaders and the general University community, helped get the walkway from the bus stop to the visitors\u2019 center paved, and provided feedback on the newly renovated center\u2019s accessibility. \u201cOne might assume the worst part of being disabled is the pain so severe that the weight of a T-shirt on your body is unbearable,\u201d writes Karianne. \u201cYet that is far from the worst part; the most difficult aspect is the attitude of others. Like many other disabled students, I have faced significant adversity in the academic environment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-307511455c07f68e93713b887e2fc2d2\"><strong>Architecture, Art, and Planning<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mary Jacobs White<\/strong>, <strong>MFA \u201970<\/strong>, is enjoying traveling and living in Grass Valley, CA. Sadly, she shares that she lost her husband, Bill, in 2021. About her life, Mary writes, \u201cI did a bunch of stage work &#8230; Wasn\u2019t that the whole point of the MFA program? Then I segued into investigations and probation work, met Bill, and we traveled all over the world. I\u2019m very grateful for the MFA program and the expertise of the instructors. I repeatedly say that I am glad I went to Cornell. I realized during my time there that the snides and sneers directed at me during my teens was just so much schmutz.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-68e70e69b1bc2f035e7c702fa4c1f89c\"><strong>Arts and Sciences<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marjorie Maddox Hafer<\/strong>, <strong>MFA \u201989<\/strong>, is the host of \u201cPoetry Moment\u201d for WPSU-FM, the assistant editor of <em>Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry<\/em>, and a professor emerita at Commonwealth University, Lock Haven. Marjorie has published 17 collections of poetry including <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marjoriemaddox.com\/\"><em>Hover Here<\/em><\/a> (with a blurb from her Cornell mentor Robert Morgan), <em>Seeing Things<\/em>, and <em>Small Earthly Space<\/em>\u2014as well as a story collection, five children\u2019s books, and the anthologies <em>Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania <\/em>and<em> Keystone Poetry<\/em>. Marjorie is the great-grandniece of Branch Rickey, the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who signed Jackie Robinson to Major League Baseball. Her young adult biography on him, <em>A Man Named Branch: The True Story of Baseball\u2019s Great Experiment<\/em>, is available from Sunbury Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Historian<strong> Gregory Dreicer<\/strong>, <strong>PhD \u201993<\/strong>, has published a new book based on his dissertation, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/9780262552110\/american-bridge\/\"><em>American Bridge<\/em><\/a>, which explores the reinvention of construction. \u201cBy challenging the big narratives that continue to dominate thinking about invention, design, and history, my book is intended to alter the field,\u201d writes Gregory, who credits Cornell for making his career, research, and book possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4b5ac8180b180e89ec8fcc36f44b6ed8\"><strong>Business<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Michael Rakouskas<\/strong>, <strong>MPA \u201972<\/strong>, has moved into a continuing care retirement community with his wife, Elaine. In 2026 they have plans to cruise the Caribbean and visit Switzerland for the first time, a bucket-list destination for them. \u201cWe had a big year in 2025: celebrated graduations for all of our four grandchildren. One grandchild graduated from middle school to attend high school. Another two graduated high school, then went on to be freshmen in college, one at Florida Atlantic University and the other at North Carolina State. A fourth graduated from the University of Miami to take a job in research at a children\u2019s hospital in Columbus, OH, in preparation for a possible PhD. It was an exciting year for Elaine and me!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Eileen Higgins, MBA \u201989<\/strong>,<strong> <\/strong>won the closely watched runoff race for mayor of Miami in December 2025. This makes Eileen Miami\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/higgins-miami-mayor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first female mayor<\/a>, the first Democrat elected to the post in 28 years, and the first non-Hispanic mayor since the 1990s. She was previously the county commissioner. Eileen\u2019s campaign focused on alleviating affordability issues through more efficient government, cutting the red tape hindering small businesses and homeowners, promoting climate resilience, and fostering safe neighborhoods. \u201cMiami chose a new direction,\u201d Higgins said in her victory speech. \u201cYou chose competence over chaos, results over excuses, and a city government that finally works for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Calvin Stovall Jr.<\/strong>, <strong>MPS \u201993<\/strong>, wrote a book,<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvinstovall.com\/book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Hidden Hospitality<\/em><\/a><em>: Untold Stories of Black Hotel, Motel, and Resort Owners from the Pioneer Days to the Civil Rights Era<\/em>, to introduce readers to the histories of Black entrepreneurs and hoteliers, and uncover this aspect of Black history that is often not learned about in American history. Calvin wrote about his book and the importance of learning about Black hoteliers for <em>Cornellians<\/em>, where he explains that his research for the book started during his studies as a student on the Hill. \u201cAfrican-American contributions to the world of hospitality are too little known, because they have been too little documented,\u201d Calvin writes <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/stovall-black-hoteliers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Joy Lin<\/strong>,<strong> MMH \u201910<\/strong>, is a Taiwanese American author and illustrator who goes by the pen name Regina Linke. She is the creator of the beloved comic and book <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Oxherd-Boy-Parables-Compassion-Community\/dp\/0593580540\"><em>The Oxherd Boy<\/em><\/a> and is known for using playful storytelling and beautiful illustrations, inspired by traditional Chinese philosophy, to introduce young readers to important values like kindness, mindfulness, and compassion. Joy has written a new children\u2019s book, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/reginalinke.com\/little-helper\/\"><em>Little Helper<\/em><\/a>, that encourages readers of all ages to use inventive problem-solving strategies and lend a helping hand wherever they can. In 2025 her book <em>Big Enough<\/em> won the New England Book Award and was named one of the best books of the year by <em>Kirkus Reviews<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Andres Lankenau Martinez<\/strong>, <strong>MBA \u201915<\/strong>, was awarded the distinction of Exemplary Citizen by Selider, Mexico\u2019s leadership association. Andres runs a nonprofit that has supported more than 800 students and their families by helping them with their education and giving them the ability to stay engaged in sports and away from harmful influences and vulnerable environments. Andres also received a state award from the governor a decade ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Joseph Farrell III<\/strong>, <strong>MBA \u201916<\/strong>, is the new CEO of Resolve Marine, a family-founded global marine emergency response firm that addresses collisions, fires, oil spills, and other problems that are often in high-risk, unpredictable conditions. Under Joseph\u2019s leadership, the company is evolving from a traditional salvage firm into a modern, globally recognized leader in marine emergency response. \u201cWe\u2019re good at solving problems that are unexpected by clients,\u201d says Joseph. \u201cBut because these are problems that are too infrequent for people to even think it\u2019s going to happen, it\u2019s hard to compare quality against other providers. The challenge is to show people that you\u2019re the best.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Julia Eklund Littauer<\/strong>,<strong> MBA \u201920<\/strong>, and<strong> Alexander Littauer<\/strong>,<strong> MBA \u201920<\/strong>, were recently featured in a <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/sovi-littauer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Cornellians<\/em> story<\/a> about their business Sovi, which offers zero-proof versions of classic wines like a reserve red and a sparkling ros\u00e9, as well as more whimsical pours, such as its \u201cWild Child\u201d sparkling orange. \u201cNon-alcoholic wine means being able to socialize and drink wine, but not have the effects of alcohol,\u201d says Julia, who was president of the Johnson School\u2019s wine club and, along with her husband, participated in Cuv\u00e9e, Cornell\u2019s wine education and tasting group. \u201cThat was a refreshing idea that appealed to both of us.\u201d Their non-alcoholic drinks have been highly reviewed by news outlets including <em>Cosmopolitan<\/em>, <em>Forbes<\/em>, <em>Tasting Table<\/em>, and the <em>New York Times.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-44346d81efb548a04e87aca89f495d80\"><strong>Graduate School<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Anna Evtushenko<\/strong>, <strong>PhD \u201924<\/strong>, works as a computer science lecturer at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also a writer-director of film and theater who has produced four short films. \u201cMy main achievement,\u201d she says, \u201cis directing a 65-minute play, <em>Mine<\/em>, at Cornell in the Performing and Media Arts department in 2023. This is a family drama that also deals with displacement, the nature of authorship, and uncertainty about the future and past. It was well-received when it was performed live.\u201d The recording is <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xrGh0Zu3KB8\">now available<\/a> in a film version. \u201cMy main hope is to reach people who may appreciate the production\u2014those who\u2019ve left home due to politics, or people who like theater. It is also decidedly anti-war in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-03be2704110bff5f2ec6d6c7146c1518\"><strong>Human Ecology<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Roberta Michnick Golinkoff<\/strong>, <strong>PhD \u201973<\/strong>, is the Unidel H. Rodney Sharp Chair and Professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware, where she has worked for more than 50 years. Roberta has written hundreds of articles about how young children learn their native language, about their spatial world, and more. She just published her 17th book, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/594245\/einstein-never-used-flash-cards-revised-edition-by-kathy-hirsh-pasek-phd-and-roberta-michnick-golinkoff-phd-with-diane-eyer-phd\/\"><em>Einstein Never Used Flash Cards!<\/em><\/a>, which shows parents how they can help their child succeed while reducing the pressures they all face. Roberta and her co-author, both award-winning early childhood scientists, offer this message: Rather than investing in workbooks and educational apps and toys, parents need to recognize that the best way to boost their children\u2019s brainpower and interpersonal skills is through playful learning. \u201cWe all need a little more fun in our lives. Jump into the activities and insights in <em>Einstein<\/em> to realize your full potential as a playful parent with flourishing children,\u201d writes Roberta. \u201cI could not have done this without the superb training I received in human development and psychology at Cornell!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Peter Banko<\/strong>, <strong>MHA \u201992<\/strong>, has written a new book, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/The-Necessary-Goodbye\/Peter-D-Banko\/9798887508139\"><em>The Necessary Goodbye<\/em><\/a><em>: How Great Leaders Fire with Clarity, Confidence, and Compassion<\/em>, which is a practical and candid guide for new and aspiring leaders and a long-overdue resource in leadership education. \u201cThis book is for millions of Americans who aim to lead, whether business school students, first-time managers, or rising executives. Facing an underperforming employee is not a matter of if but when. Within five years, every leader will confront this challenge, and yet few are prepared for it. This book fills that gap with direct, experience-based wisdom,\u201d writes Peter. He lives in Western Massachusetts and is a recognized speaker on leadership, organizational transformation, and values-driven decision making. His book is available for preorder and will be released in bookstores and online on May 12, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ee5caa662ec79603f3b34ba576600717\"><strong>Industrial and Labor Relations<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Douglas McCabe<\/strong>, <strong>PhD \u201977<\/strong>, has retired as professor emeritus of management from Georgetown University\u2019s McDonough School of Business in Washington, DC, after 45 years of dedicated teaching, research, and service in the areas of labor-management relations, strategic human resource management, negotiations, mediation, and arbitration. Doug and his wife, Caroline, spend their time at their winter home in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, and at their summer home in Rehoboth Beach, DE, combined with extensive international travel. They also adopt golden retrievers. \u201cGetting my PhD in ILR in 1977 laid the foundation for a successful academic, professorial, and professional career in D.C.,\u201d writes Doug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons rkv-gutter-bottom-none is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-499968f5 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-cornell-white-color has-cornell-red-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/submit-class-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit Your News!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:75px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center is-style-class-group has-x-large-font-size\">Group<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-cornell-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c370711ac1fc01b7dcbc9ab5930c4962\"><strong>University Chorus &amp; Glee Club<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy New Year! We have some exciting updates from a few Chorus alums in this column.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In London, <strong>Dana Day \u201900<\/strong> joined the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, a world-leading professional membership organization that trains, develops, and supports more than 150,000 chartered accountants worldwide, as chief learning officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dana\u2019s classmate <strong>Allison Bailey Blais \u201900<\/strong> also had a major transition in her professional life. Twenty-one years after joining the effort to remember and rebuild at the World Trade Center site\u2014which included roles as executive vice president and chief strategy and operations officer at the 9\/11 Memorial &amp; Museum in New York City and co-authorship of the National Geographic book <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/258897\/a-place-of-remembrance-updated-edition-by-allison-blais\/\"><em>A Place of Remembrance<\/em><\/a>\u2014she has become the president and CEO of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Sue den Outer \u201994<\/strong> was excited to share that she played with the Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sue den Outer \u201994<\/strong> was excited to share that she played with the Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Israel \u201cBuzz\u201d Herman, on November 23. In fact, she was the piano soloist for Beethoven\u2019s <em>Piano Concerto No. 4<\/em>, Op. 58.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following day, <strong>Danielle Benaviv-Meskin \u201996<\/strong> posted on social media that her daughter Sophie, an Irish step dancer, placed 13th in all of New England in the Oireachtas, a prestigious annual championship for competitive Irish dance that serves as a qualifier for the World Championships. Congrats to Sophie and her team, which placed in the top 5! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, for After Eight alums: don\u2019t forget to <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/come-back\/reunion\/classes-groups\/after-eight\/\">register for Reunion<\/a> to celebrate 35 years for A8 and 50 (!!) for the original Nothing But Treble subset of the Chorus!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ok, men of the Glee Club: it\u2019s time for you to catch up and share some updates! \u2756 <strong>Alison Torrillo French \u201995<\/strong> (<a href=\"&#109;&#x61;&#x69;&#108;&#x74;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x61;&#x6d;&#x74;&#x37;&#x40;c&#x6f;&#114;&#110;&#101;l&#108;&#x2e;edu\">email Alison<\/a>) | <a href=\"https:\/\/cornellconnect.cornell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Top image: Photo by Jason Koski \/ Cornell University<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Published February 27, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find out what your fellow alums are up to\u2014new jobs, babies, marriages, and much more\u2014in Class Notes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":65753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"alumni_hub_syml_posts":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[228],"tags":[],"cornell_year_post":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-65744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-class-notes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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