90 | Now that summer is warming your heels (especially in rain-drenched Northern California), perhaps you will sip iced tea while reading the Alumni News.

New Kids on the Block (almost always like ice tea). Christie Fanton and husband Matt Kuhn had a big day on Sept. 30, 2004 when baby Zoe arrived. Larry '89 and Kim Sumner Mayer welcomed Eli, and everyone couldn't be happier. Kim works at the Children of Alcoholics Foundation in New York City and helps families affected by a parent's substance abuse survive and recover. Just a little farther downtown from Kim,Mike Eidelman and partner AJ Vincent are proud fathers to Katie and Connor, born on June 30, 2006.Mike is a partner at West Village Dermatology in NYC. On Dec. 15, 2005, AnneWilkinson and husband Steve Weirsma greeted their new little guy Tate. In May, Anne returns to work as an interior designer at Babey,Moulton, Jue & Booth in San Francisco, where she has worked for 13 years. Let's hear it for long maternity leaves and long-term jobs.

Anne Foster Foley and husband Brendan cheered their second son Connor's birth in July 2005. He spends most of his time watching his older brother Danny, 2. Anne stays at home with her children and enjoys their very family-friendly Seattle suburb, while her husband works at Microsoft. She would love to hear from fellow Cornellians in the Seattle area. (Drop the correspondents a note and we will forward.) Anne is in touch with Heather Meyer who, after a short stint back in Ithaca, is now living in Saratoga Springs balancing work and raising her son Jackson.Heather and her husband work at Skidmore College.Meanwhile, in Ithaca, Bob '88 and Helen Herrador Arco joyfully welcomed their first child, Adam, on December 27, 2005.

New Jobs (let's hope there's time for a summer vacation). Richard Kaltenbach became associate counsel for ICAP North America and is cheered on by wife Leslie and daughter Charlotte, 2. Richard reports that Frank Cirillo married Alexandra Von Knorring in May 2005. Peter Pruyn, MS '92 (pwp@mlisp.com) now lives in Cambridge, MA, where he immerses himself in the field of organizational learning after four years in Houston at NASA.

New Beginnings. Sean Bolks married Kathy Kraus '91 at Sage Chapel on Aug 6, 2005. The wedding party included alumni Karen Kraus '88 and John Crosby '90. After a Statler reception attended by 23 Cornellians, the happy couple visited Dunbar's and the Hot Truck.Marc Goldman married Cara Smith on November 13, 2005. The wedding party included best man Marshall Kohen, groomsman Scott Pesner '87, and bridesmaid Cheryl Goldman '94.Many Cornellians joined the celebration:Mary Hohenhaus '87, Doug Onsi, Jeff '91, MD '95, and Robyn Lipsky Weintraub '91, Arik Marks '91, DJ and Pia Napolitano Ledina '91, Ellen Goode '91, Dave '92 and Christine Watters Stuhlmiller '93, Jeff Anbinder '94, and Stacy Slomovicz Rosenberg '96.Marc is currently an associate director at the NYU Center for Career Development, and Cara works as an assistant director at Yeshiva U. Career Services.Marc and Cara live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The ever-charming Michael Karangelen reports that Jeff Bershad married Kathleen McCullough at Manhattan's Ritz Carlton on Feb 19, 2006. Also attending was Rob Lynch, MBA '91.

Summer Vacations. Suzy Schwam Tomassetti and her husband write that life in Jupiter, FL, near the beach is super, despite the hurricanes. Suzy now works part-time in real estate after eight years of pharmaceutical sales. Cary Attar works as general manager for the Central Market in Houston, TX. Kids Hudson, 10, and Veronica, 4, will keep him busy for the summer. Theodore and Anna Henderson Endreny,MAT '91, and their children Sierra, 7, and Noah, 4, are spending the spring and summer in Cyprus. Ted has a Fulbright fellowship and is on a sabbatical leave from SUNY-ESF. Anna is working on editing a preschool science curriculum and practicing Greek with her children.

Stephanie Jensen began working as associate director of commercialization for Nektar Therapeutics. Her company will introduce Exubera inhaled insulin in partnership with Pfizer. Before starting the new position, she will visit Indonesia for two weeks of scuba diving in a biologically diverse marine habitat. Andy Alpart writes that some weekend plans to see Pete Christakos and Matt Richardson were squashed by an attack of croup. Otherwise, he spent a week in Biloxi in December volunteering in the wake of Katrina--a life-altering experience. Benjamin Pavone is living his dream life in San Diego, CA, and works as a civil attorney. In Tucson, AZ, Allison Duncan and Jeff Hoppert, ME '99, removed 30 tons of topsoil from their front yard. Undoubtedly, they broke new ground using their Ag and ME degrees to help them decipher the mini-excavator earthmover's operation manual.

Thanks to all for responding to my "Friends, Romans, Alumni" news solicitation e-mail.Without your responses, this column would be a whole lot shorter. Please keep sending your updates! -- Kelly Roberson, kelly-roberson@sbcglobal.net; Tamiko Toland, stmoluag@yahoo.com; and AmyWang Manning, aw233@cornell.edu.

91 | Once again, alumni from the Class of 1991 have been busy with families, careers, and adventure in general. I know that many of you had the chance to catch up during our spectacular 15th Reunion in Ithaca last month. Stay tuned to the Sept/Oct issue for a full Reunion Report.

Ina Kurcz moved to Marina Del Rey, CA, last December to join her fiancé David. Another new Californian, Kim Nguyen, MA '94, moved to Santa Clara with his wife Thuy and their 2-year-old son Liem. Kim is VP, Finance at Intel. After a dozen years of living in New York City, Matthew Joseph recently moved to Harrison, NY, with his wife Michele and their kids Morgan, 4, Tyler, 2, and 1-year-old Cole.Matthew is a partner at a structured finance practice at the law firm McKee Nelson LLP.

Sharlyn Carter Heslam is happy to report that Kristin Hurley Van Riper, Jenny Harris, and she all had babies within two weeks of each other last August and September. Kristen welcomed her second baby boy, Cory; Jenny's son Jonathan welcomed new little sister Emily; and Sharlyn celebrated her newest family member, daughter Clara. Sharlyn traveled from Boston to meet the other two for a brunch at Jenny's place in New York City, and they were joined by Kari Ginsberg Nesbit and Cynthia Lee Dow. They had such a good time that they promptly reconvened in January for a long weekend in the Berkshires, joined by Kristen Sciacca and all of their families.

Todd Merkle and his wife Sarah (Gallagher) '92 (Santa Monica, CA) celebrated the first birthday of son Thomas. G.Michael, JD '94, and Cheryl Jacobson Favale, MILR '94, celebrated the birth of their third son,Matthew, late last year.Matthew joins older brothers Nicholas, 5, and Joseph, 2. Cheryl notes that the family relocated from New York to Richmond, VA, where she is a human resources director and Mike is an assistant attorney general.

Allison and Jason Bernbach, JD '94, and big sister Ryan, 4, celebrated the first birthday of son Bryce. The entire family lives in Millwood, NY. Frank and Elena Yotides Fechner live in Worcester, MA. Elena recently changed jobs to work for Genentech Inc. Though her new company is based in San Francisco, Elena telecommutes from home, allowing her more time with her daughter Katarina, 2. Betty Ng-Beckler and husband Laurence welcomed their second son, Gordon, in February. Gordon's big brother Harrison, 3, named him after his favorite Thomas and Friends train! Betty and her family continue to live in New York City, and she plans to return to her job as VP of Derivatives Sales at Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd. Birdie Matern married husband Stephen last year and celebrated the birth of her first child, Kai, in February. She will soon be returning to part-time work as an attending family physician at Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ.

April HorowitzMoulaert writes that daughter Aurora, 1, is "just perfect."April took a new job managing the State of Vermont Wetland Protection and Restoration Program in the Vermont Dept. of Forest, Parks, and Recreation. She reports that earlier this year she visited Beth Huizenga Shaz and Alice Michael in Boston. Beth has a son Andrew, 1, and Alice has daughter Sadie. Emily Kramer Neill and husband Dayton welcomed baby girl Addison into their family last November. Emily is living in the suburbs of Boston, and is VP of Business Development for the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. Ardrell Mannings (Frederick, MD) is happy to report the birth of his son Kyndl and the fact that he was promoted to VP of Human Resources at the Chase Card Services division of JPMorganChase.

Craig Miles rang in the New Year by making partner in the law firm of King & Spalding, where he practices international arbitration in the firm's Houston office. Last March, Seth Briskin was elected partner at the Cleveland law firm of Meyers, Roman, Friedberg & Lewis. Seth provides labor and employment counsel to unionized and non-unionized companies and was named to Crain's "Cleveland Business 40 Under 40." Seth also serves as chairman of Cleveland Bridge Builders and serves on the executive committee for the Center for Employment Training, the American Jewish Committee, and the Cleveland Jewish News. He is also a member of the American, Ohio State, and Cleveland Bar associations, and was recently named by his peers as an Ohio Super Lawyer.

David Kadosh moved to start a new job as ass't prof. at the U. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in the Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology. Emily Jordhamo was promoted to VP, Client Services for Quintiles Medical Communications in Hawthorne, NY. Kate Pierson Lundin is working at MTV in their business development group on the launch of a new channel. She reports that she and husband Steve are still living in New York City and loving it! After four years of working with Morgan Keegan in Memphis, Brian Mellone was elected managing director. Brian is also head of the fixed income capital markets taxable banking group. Gayle Kaufman, MS '92, lives with husband Kevin Bell '90 in North Carolina and has two children, Emily, 6, and David, 2. Last spring Gayle was promoted to assoc. prof. of sociology at Davidson College and is currently on sabbatical, working on a project about fathers' experiences with work/family conflict.

Julie Nielsen Lindsey is pleased to report that she "finally" finished her medical residency last June and has been enjoying working part-time as a family physician in Chapel Hill, NC. She spends the rest of her time raising her children, ages 5 and 3. She also manages to do some local road races and play tennis. James Mister has worked at Cargill Risk Management since receiving his master's in international studies from the U. of Pennsylvania Wharton School. James lives in São Paulo, Brazil, with his wife of two years. Geoffrey Moskowitz has lived in Moscow, Russia, for the past nine years with his wife Madeliane and their kids Ivan, 5, and Mikaela, 4. He founded and manages Tip-Top Cleaning Co. Keith McAfee has once again relocated back to the West Coast, this time to San Diego.He found a great opportunity with Intuit, creator of TurboTax and Quicken software, and boasts that the weather is fantastic. Keith is still playing soccer, and though he is sorry that he missed everyone at reunion, he notes that he could not resist the siren's call of the World Cup in Germany!

Emily Kaplan married Gregory Dodge a year ago at the Four Seasons Biltmore in Santa Barbara, CA, a destination wedding weekend of festivities for the happy couple and their friends and family from the East Coast. Classmate Philip Pilla and his wife Leah were in attendance, and their daughter Sophia was a flower girl in the ceremony. Also in attendance was head football coach and family friend Jim Knowles '87. Kevin Rosas was married to Cristiane da Silva in Brazil last December. The newlyweds have since moved to Cooperstown, NY, where Kevin has accepted a job as an orthopedist.

Becky Levine Leibowitz lives in Scotch Plains, NJ, with her husband and two children, Jonah, 3, and Sam, 1. Becky works in the research and development division at Ethicon, a division of Johnson & Johnson.Mayra Jimenez Lucero writes that she has been a management recruiter for the Capital Group Companies for 11 years. She joined Capital in New York City and then relocated to San Francisco, where she lives with her husband Marcelo and their children Gabriel, 3, and new daughter Natalia.Mayra also enjoys being a mentor to Bay Area Cornell freshman AngieMorel '09 and plans to attend some of the upcoming Cornell Silicon Valley/Cornell Entrepreneur Network meetings. Mayra reminisces that nearly 15 years after she graduated from Cornell, her deepest friendships remain with those people she met during her first couple of years at Cornell. Keep in touch. -- Corinne Kuchling, kuccori@hotmail.com; Nina Rosen Peek, nsr5@cornell.edu; and David Smith, docds30@yahoo.com.

92 | Remember, if you'd like to volunteer to serve on the Reunion Committee for 2007, the people to contact are: Michelle Struble Bouton (mlbouton@hotmail.com) and Tracy Furner Stein (tracy@hylandgroup.com).

I just got back from Universal Studios Florida with my family and, oh boy, do you get your money's worth--of waiting.We got there at 11 a.m. and stayed till closing at 10 p.m.We didn't get to see everything because waiting in the lines took up most of the time. I am such a get-up-and-go gal that it was hard for me to be still and wait 45 minutes for a ride. But I looked in the faces of my four kids and saw something I had rarely seen there before. It was determination and patience--with absolutely NO complaining.Wow. They were going to get on that Shrek 4-D ride no matter how long it took. It was a much-needed reminder for me. And a costly one. These theme parks are expensive! I'll start saving now for next year's adventure, and next time I'll be sure to wear my walking/standing/leaning, super-shock-absorbing shoes.Meanwhile, I still enjoy singing with the band justCharmaine (.com), I'm still at the helm of MahoganyBaby.com and slated to be featured in a Time magazine article on discipline, and I'm a contributing writer for the travel magazine Odyssey Couleur.

DylanWilloughby, MFA '95, has poems forthcoming in Shenandoah in the US and Interpreter's House and Coffee House in the UK. Five of his poems were recently featured in Chapman, a Scottish literary journal. Priscilla Powell Coq was admitted to the Florida Bar in fall 2004. She currently holds the position of ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act) coordinator for the Miami Dade Housing Agency. She is married and still enjoying the adventures of motherhood with her three sons.

Mark Bailen is a new partner at the Washington, DC, office of Baker and Hostetler LLP. He is a member of the litigation group and concentrates his practice in media law and commercial litigation. He earned his law degree from New York U. School of Law in 1997 and is admitted to the US Courts of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, US District Court, District of Columbia, District Court, District of Maryland, and the District of Columbia,Maryland, and Massachusetts Bar associations.

The latest round of News updates was just starting to come in as this column was being written. The many questions on the News Forms elicited lots of varied responses from all of you. If you haven't done so yet, take some time out from nurturing your lawns, planting perennials, or shuttling kids to their extra-curriculars and STOP and take a breath.Write in and share your news! Here's a sampling of what had been received as of early May.More to come in future columns.

Elena Brower Lyon is a yoga teacher and studio owner in New York City (www.virayoga.com). Jae Pak lives in a new house in Herndon, VA, and is director of operations at the College Board. He is busy with work and with his family--wife Barbara and two daughters--and dreams of being on perpetual vacation.What he remembers most fondly about Cornell is life in the fraternity with the brothers.

David Murphy remembers the landscape/setting at Cornell. He lives in West Hartford, CT, and is a consulting engineer/hydrologist, although he says he'd rather be working part-time than full-time. That could be because he and partner Barry Walters just adopted a baby boy, born Feb. 1, 2006. Congratulations! David would like to hear from SamanthaWilliams. Tomitra Latimer lives in Chicago, IL, where she is an attending pediatrician at Children's Memorial Pediatrics at the Uptown Clinic. After hours, she enjoys reading, spending time with husband John Ehresman, and hanging out with her sister and her two kids. She's been studying a lot for her pediatric board recertification exam, but says she'd rather be reading a great legal thriller. She fondly remembers a Fashion class in the HumEc school and would like to hear from Rhonda Johnson and Sam Harden '91.

Ann Rojas of Haddonfield, NJ, wrote just as she was about to "retire" to travel for a few months. "Then I'll look for work in public health closer to home. I'm consulting for non-profit organizations as needed." Ann had recently returned from three weeks in Australia and was getting ready to go to Thailand in May.When asked what she'd rather be doing, she said, "I'm lucky to be doing exactly what I want right now." Of Cornell, she writes, "I remember most fondly the optimism and hope that comes from opportunity and youth."Ann would like to hear from Ann Korioth '93 and Liz Chiasson Bello.

We look forward to hearing from all of you. Until next time. Be a light, and be well. -- Wilma Ann Anderson, info@WilPowerEnterprises.com; Debbie Feinstein, Debbie_ Feinstein@yahoo.com; or Renee Hunter Toth, rah24@cornell.edu.

93 | Happy summer! I hope you are all very busy visiting classmates and planning exotic summer vacations, events that you will later colorfully and succinctly summarize and submit to your class correspondents for inclusion in future editions of Class Notes, of course! Until then . . .

Many of our classmates have written in recently to share their latest career accomplishments. Darren Carpizo graduated from his general surgery residency at UCLA and will begin a surgical oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Looks like Darren and wife Katherine will celebrate their first wedding anniversary in New York. Also headed east is Karen Nakamura. Karen was hired away from her job at Macalester College in Minnesota to Yale U., where she has taken a position as an assistant professor of anthropology.

We have several consultants among us. Gabriella Salvatore is director of corporate education at Vantage Partners, a Boston-based consulting firm. She runs a practice area focused on building individual employee's skills in the areas of negotiation, communication, and strategic relationship management. Gabriella writes that she spends her free time doing yoga and playing with her 3-year-old son. Jay Cammermeyer recently joined management consulting and engineering firm R.W. Beck's water and waste resource practice in Seattle. Jay is a civil engineer and will provide support to project managers and teams on a broad range of design and consulting projects.

Katherine Catinchi, DVM '96, is a veterinarian with her own clinic. Katherine lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with husband Armando Rodriguez '95, MHA '95. Kristin Iglesias is also a veterinarian. She and husband Matthew Scott '94 live in Middletown, NJ.

We heard from a few of the lawyers among us. Erik Feig writes, "I made the move from my position with a large law firm to start the legal department of a residential real estate multiple listing service." Erik, wife Heidi, and daughter Hannah, 2, live in Potomac,MD. Robert Guazzo was named special counsel to Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, a national law firm. Robert works in the New York office in the firm's corporate practice. Andy Velez is also an attorney. He and wife Marti have two sons and live in Floral Park, NY.

Zachary Rabinor is founder and president of Journey Mexico Inc., a specialty tour operator and travel agency that works exclusively in Mexico. The company is based in San Diego.Winnie Rieder-Su has also broadened her horizons beyond the US. She is living in Switzerland with husband Harald and working as a consultant for information systems at Man Investments, a hedge fund.

Jason Halio e-mailed to say, "After five great but snowy years in Boston, I relocated back to NYC this month. I still work for Morgan Stanley, but joined the equity derivatives group. I've spent the past month reconnecting with fraternity brothers Jeff Chabrowe,MarcWarm, MBA '94, Jon Stein '94, and colleague Dr.Michael Aberman and am looking forward to seeing many more Cornellians in the near future!" Jason is not our only classmate in the financial world. Geoffrey Suval is a partner and financial sales manager. Geoff lives in Reisterstown, MD, where he's been enjoying time with wife Louise, daughter Anna, and son Spencer. "Eating too much and not exercising enough!" Steve Haggerty is an equity trader at Capital Research and Management in San Francisco. Steve and wife Elizabeth have children Julia and Billy. The New York Times reported that Michael Rudegeair married Claudia Reitenbach '91 on December 11, 2005.Michael is a manager in the tax department of RSM McGladrey, a business consulting and tax firm in New York, while Claudia teaches kindergarten.

Traci Nadel Friedman wrote,"My husband Jeff and I recently located to West Hartford, CT, where we have met up with a number of Cornellians. Our twins Emma and Jacob just turned 3-1/2, and our daughter Sophia is celebrating her second birthday next week."Wil Andersen is a landscape architect with CPL Partnership, a multi-disciplinary design firm based in Matawan, NJ. He writes, "Currently my landscape design projects range from a contemporary church campus to urban redevelopment communities." As if that did not keep him busy enough,Wil is also the CAAAN chair for Hunterdon County, as well as co-chair for Warren and Sussex counties (all in New Jersey). Finally, Elizabeth Smith DeSpirito is a psychotherapist. She lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, with husband Antonio and daughter Sofia.

Please keep the news coming. You can either e-mail your class correspondents or submit your news online at http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/classes.htm. Please note that we cannot write about engagements or pregnancies--only marriages and births. Thanks! -- Erica Fishlin Fox, ericazzz@aol.com; Yael Berkowitz Rosenberg, ygb1@cornell. edu

94 | How many people can, in one year, add the titles "Ironman" and "Calendar Girl" to their names? At least one classmate can--Diane Dubovy. On her 33rd birthday, she completed the Ironman Florida in 13 hours, 9 minutes, and 31 seconds (and in the top half for her age group!). That led to the calendar gig: she posed for a 2006 calendar of New York City triathlon chicks to raise money to buy handcycles for disabled children through Athletes Helping Athletes. Diane is the picture in the top left hand corner at www.raisingheartrates.org/html/theProject.html. "You can also go to www.raisingheartrates.org/html/the- Calendar.html to order your very own and support this worthy cause."

Sean Alexander, MBA '01, is also a triathlete, and was recently licensed to teach Scuba diving. His day job is as a vice president at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong. Chris Fitzgerald continues to work as director of animal services for the City of Rochester, NY. Chris is now a single parent and spends most of his non-work time co-parenting and running around with his 3-year-old daughter. Don Nguyen reports a busy life. In 2004, he got an MBA from the U. of Chicago in finance, marketing, accounting, and entrepreneurship. Since September 2004, he has been working as the Metrics and Analytics Workstream Leader (financial/business analysis role) in sourcing and logistics at DuPont. He married Shantii Penaredondo on September 18, 2005, and honeymooned in Tahiti and Moorea. See the pictures at: http://dnguyen.smugmug.com/. In his spare time, he enjoys tennis, Tai Chi, and playing X-Box Live. His screen name is "donny boy 72."

Holly RipansWitten reports, "I have had a busy 12 years!" After working in D.C. for four years in the hospitality industry, she got an MBA from Emory U. She then moved back to D.C. to do marketing and branding for the American Red Cross. Since 2003, she has been back in Atlanta at the helm of her own marketing company, Leap Forward Group. In November 2005 she married Doug Witten. Deb Bushell Gans and Laura Sauter Stein were at the wedding.

Elizabeth Golluscio was recently named senior director, marketing for The NewsMarket Inc., an on-demand video platform for journalists. Jane Lee got her MBA from UC Davis in June 2004 and is active with the Cornell Alumni Association of Northern California (www.cornellnorcal.com). Josh Cantor, wife Penny (Tchakirides) '95, and sons John, 5, and Jason, 3, moved from Southern California to Williamsport,MD, last year, where Josh works as director of parking and transportation at George Mason U. in Fairfax, VA. Penny is a manager at CitiGroup.

Jeff Anbinder is now an associate with the law firm of Martin, Clearwater & Bell LLP, a mid-sized firm in midtown Manhattan that specializes in the field of medical malpractice defense. He is proud to say that his law school work on the Innocence Project resulted in the release of an innocent prisoner. Stacey Merola, PhD '01, married Peter Schildkraut; the couple got Scuba certified while on their honeymoon! Janice Kam and husband Hyeon Lee welcomed son Emerson Kam Lee on October 21, 2004. She has the scoop on some other births: Laurie Kisloff, Chris Tsai, and big brother Tommy welcomed Alex Michael on December 4, 2004; and Wayne '93 and CindyMorrison Phoel welcomed Annabel Joy in August 2004.

Lisa Sacks and husband Jonathan Richer welcomed daughter Talia Glory on December 23, 2004. Just two weeks later, on January 8, 2005, Elizabeth Kaufmann Hale, husband James, and 2-year-old Dylan welcomed Ryan Matthew. Elizabeth is an assistant professor of dermatology and practices dermatologic surgery at the NYU medical center. A few months later, on February 16, 2005, Brad Hirst and wife Fran welcomed son Philip Joseph John Hirst. Brad is senior producer on ESPN2's morning show, "Cold Pizza."

Fall 2005 was a life-changing time for Nicole VantunoWagner. In September she earned her master's degree in microbiology from Seton Hall U., which she managed to achieve on a part-time basis while she continued to work at Schering-Plough. Then, on October 27, Nicole and husband Stephen welcomed twin boys Leo Benjamin and Calvin Theodore. She writes, "We're all doing well despite the inevitable sleep deprivation, and I am already singing Cornell songs to the boys to give them a head start." Rosario "Charo" Gonzalez had a baby girl on Christmas day. Charo reports that Victoria Isabel Rodriguez-Gonzalez is the spitting image of big sister Sofia, who is 2.

I am pleased to announce a new addition to my own family. Nathaniel Dennis Wasylik arrived on December 28, 2005. Nate joins big brother Alex, who will be 3 by the time you read this. In between chasing after my two sons, I continue my work specializing in copyright and trademark law in Tampa, FL.What are you up to? Let us know! -- Dineen PashoukosWasylik, dmp5@cornell.edu; Dika Lam, dikaweb@yahoo.com; Jennifer Rabin Marchant, Jennifer.Marchant@kraft.com.

95 | Greetings, all, and welcome to the back of your Cornell Alumni Magazine! My guess is you turned here first to: a) look for your news; b) look for news about your friends; or c) read about classmates you never met while at Cornell but would be more than happy to run into on the street. After all, who doesn't like to run into Cornellians, especially 1995'ers!

Babies! Babies! Everywhere! Let's start with baby news. Amy Leitner Straus writes, "I gave birth to a little girl, Shayna Danielle Straus, on September 27, 2005. She is doing great and has joined her big brother Ethan, who will be 3 in April 2006. I am not working and am busy with the kids in Plainview, Long Island." On December 12, 2005, Jenny Tu gave birth to Katie Noelle Zhao. Despite lack of sleep, Jenny says the new family is doing fine. Closing out 2005 and gaining a delightful tax break, Karen Fellowes Siwinski and her husband welcomed their second child,William "Will"Henry, on December 30.Will has 2-year-old big brother Jack Peter to teach him the ropes.

Several classmates started the new year with a new family. Future Cornellian baby Peter greeted his parents Matthew and Sonya Hand Stover '96 on January 10.Mindy Goodman Sickle e-mailed her update:"My husband Jason and I live in NYC on the Upper West Side.We had a baby girl, Jordyn, on January 12, 2006. She joins big brother Preston, who turned 2 on March 5. Having two kids less than two years apart is challenging, rewarding, and entertaining, all at the same time. Sleep is a luxury these days. I am still doing consulting as a project manager, but switched in 2004 from BearingPoint to a much smaller firm that is family-friendly and requires almost no travel." Two weeks later, on January 29, Jon Barnes and his wife Stacy welcomed their first child, Emma Olivia, who at two months is a very happy baby. Not sure if anyone noticed their stealthy behavior last June, but according to Jon, "We knew that Stacy was pregnant last summer at our 10th Reunion, but since we hadn't told anyone yet, we had to sneak around the campus store as we bought some Cornell gear for our upcoming baby!"

PatriceWinter Rousell sent in the lone piece of wedding news. She writes, "The past year-and-a-half has been a whirlwind! I spent Oct. 2004 in Tanzania teaching English in a nursery school, followed by a six-month sabbatical as a ski instructor in Steamboat Springs, CO.While there I met James, we got married in Seattle in July 2005, and a few months later, we moved to Edinburgh! So I'm now working as a project manager for an insurance company and looking forward to exploring Scotland for the next year or so!"Wow, Patrice, you have moxie!

The next stop on our back-of-the-magazine journey will include careers, trips, and pastimes. Remember the Olympics? Shawn Hecht and Christine Chang traveled from NYC to Torino, Italy, to watch the first week of the Olympic games. They saw tons of sporting events, and highlights from the trip included meeting Al Roker from the "Today" show, sampling every pastry/pasta/chocolate from the region, and cheering on the US with some of the athletes' families and friends. Shawn commented, "Winter survival skills from our four years at Cornell came in handy during the freezing temperatures (the Alps!) and a two-hour hike during a blizzard to get from the ski venue to the train. Only in Italy! Plans were made to travel to Vancouver in four years to continue the fun."

Brenda Janowitz recently sold her first novel--in a two-book deal--to Red Dress Ink. Look for Scot on the Rocks (Or, How I Survived My Ex-Boyfriend's Wedding With My Dignity Ever-So-Slightly Intact) on bookshelves in April 2007. Brenda also recently published a short story with LostWriters.net. Veronica Brooks-Sigler and her husband Jeffrey live in Wallingford, CT, where Veronica is an English teacher at Alternative Center for Excellence. In Washington, DC, BrianWildstein is a real estate attorney at Arnold and Porter LLP.When not working long hours at the office, Brian can be found riding Ducati motorcycles along the "twisties" in the Virginia back country. Across the US in Oakland, CA, Shauna Handrahan and her life partner Colin Tong started a business called Art of Eden that assists people in building the life of their dreams.

In the Philadelphia suburbs Sanjoy Biswas works for GlaxoSmithKline as a senior scientist in the microbiology department, trying to develop new antibiotic drugs. Lucky Sanjoy managed to take a five-week vacation during the first part of the year to Calcutta, India, to visit his extended family. In November 2005, Brian Rose, his wife Caroline, and their two children moved from Dallas to Highland Park, IL. Brian is a portfolio manager at Magnetar Capital LLC. In addition to his day job duties, Brian studies the Torah with the distinguished rabbis of the Chicago Torah Networks.

And last, but certainly not least, is Caroline Kim Oh. Caroline reports,"My husband Chong and I just moved to Westchester this summer, where he joined Rivertown Orthopedics, a group of orthopedic surgeons, as their spine specialist. I continue to run iMentor, a youth mentoring program for high school students in low income neighborhoods in NYC. I've been at iMentor since 2000!" For those interested in iMentor, check the website at www.imentor.org.

Our tour of the back of the magazine has concluded. Please exit to the right. Thank you! vAbra Benson, amb8@cornell.edu; Alison Torrillo French, amt7@cornell.edu. Class website, http://classof95.cornell.edu.

96 | Greetings, Sixers! In anticipation of the 10th anniversary of donning our caps and gowns (I'm writing this in April; full Reunion coverage will appear in the Sept/Oct issue) and being ordained meritorious of a bachelor's degree, and as a slight diversion from writing about marginal structural models (don't get me started), this column is filled with some pre-reunion nostalgia. Thanks to the wonders of the Internet and my penchant for retaining every scrap of paper I've ever owned, this was a somewhat uncomplicated task.

First, I am lucky enough to still have in my possession a 1992 Cornell Facebook. And, somewhat gingerly, I took a look at the picture I submitted. Eesh. (Ben Farber and Christina Sun, if you're out there, I hope you remember the Facebook story and you've let a slight chuckle erupt thinking about it.) Anyway, there I am, in all my freshscrubbed, adolescent, archetypal Eighties hair, black-and-white glory. Interests: photography and volleyball. Still true.However,my two lovely SLR cameras are sitting in my linen closet gathering dust while my trusty digital camera does most of the heavy lifting these days. And I don't think I've been in a darkroom since I shot for the yearbook sophomore year and spent some rainy Saturdays among the bottles of fixer and developer in the Straight. As for volleyball, my kneepads and quick set have been on temporary hiatus as I took up soccer for the last four years (do you know how TALL these undergrads are in California?).Moving along . . . Area of study: Pre-med. Ah, yes. That was before I realized that my true calling was sitting behind a monitor and looking at data. No, really, it is quite excellent. And I get to wear flip-flops to work.

Next, I am also fortunate enough to be in possession of a Class of 1996 Cornellian. Again,my picture is not worth a thousand words.What can I say . . . again, just not having a good hair day. The yearbook is filled with some beautiful shots of foliage . . . and pristine snow, which makes me sigh with longing but rejoice at the fact that Reunion is in June, not December.

I also remember that the Cornell Daily Sun published a list of "96 things to do before we graduated." Unfortunately, I misplaced the list, but was fortunate enough to find the Class of 2004's list posted on the Web (they have 100 things to do). Some of them were indicators that, indeed, times have changed. For example, Number 57: Get a mantra.Wow. These young whippersnappers are sophisticated.Most of my karmic chants in school involved repeating the steps of the Krebs cycle over and over silently to myself before a test. These next two made me laugh: Number 28: Tell yourself how brilliant you are; and Number 27: Tell yourself how stupid you are. These actually happened to me on the same day.

I remember a particularly bad snowstorm sophomore year, when my roommate Jean Lam MacInnes and I convinced ourselves that no, we wouldn't hide out in our room and curse the inclement weather, but dedicate ourselves to furthering our education, despite snow and frigid temperatures. It took us about 45 minutes to get to class, the whole time muttering our . . . our mantra, I suppose: "We are TROOPERS!" OK, it's not exactly tell yourself how brilliant you are, but it was some positive self-affirmation. Anyway, I get into class (about 45 minutes late), and it was chock full of students who had managed to get there on time. It was then I invoked Number 27. Number 23: In the list of movies that are must-sees at Cornell Cinema, the Class of '04 left out (inadvertently, I'm sure) 1) Blade Runner, the Director's Cut (fantastic) and 2) Say Anything-- not so much for '80s nostalgia as for the mention of our dear alma mater during an early soliloquy! Quite excellent to have a whole movie theater cheering. (You can check out the rest of the list at http://classof04.alumni.cornell.edu/100%20Things.html.)

The list did make me nostalgic for the things that are special and unique to Ithaca.Watching a sunset at Sunset Park. Traying down Libe Slope (or sending a mattress down Williams Street). Sitting in the library when you begin to realize that grades aren't the most important thing . . . then you go out for a walk. OK, maybe that's not unique to us, but at least we could walk to get an ice cream cone from Cornell's very own cows. Pretty nifty.

Recently,my roommate's younger cousin, who is applying to colleges in the fall, came out West to check out Berkeley and Stanford. Talking to her after her campus tour, I don't know if she felt as excited as I felt on her behalf. I remember going through that process, and I remember being wowed by all that was in front of me when I drove up to Ithaca to see the campus for the first time. The four years we spent on the Hill were a gift--a time and place to think and learn and grow, and carve out our niches in the world. I'm looking forward to Reunion in order to remember some of those triumphs, along with some of the humbling bumps in the road. And of course, to eat Chariot pizza and Ruloff 's nachos.

Thank you for letting me share some of my stories with you. A full Reunion Report appears next time! v Sheryl Magzamen, SLM1@cornell.edu; Courtney Rubin, cbr1@cornell.edu. For updated class events, news, and resources, visit http://classof96.almni.cornell.edu.

97 | It is the regional edition of your class column! Pacific Northwest: Blakely Lord (BAL6@cornell.edu) checks in from Seattle,WA. Blakely is currently a claims manager for Alaska Airlines and is preparing to take the Washington State Bar exam. In her free time she has been taking ski lessons and getting to know Seattle. She welcomes any friends to let her know the next time they are in the area!

Southeast: Viktoria Sveinsdottir (viksv@juno.com) sends news from Orlando, FL, of her marriage to Jeremy Seymour in July 2004. Viktoria and Jeremy hosted the wedding in beautiful Iceland. She currently works in acquisitions and development for Starwood, focusing on mixed-use resorts. She and Jeremy also started www.orlandobootcamp. com, a fitness business. She invites any classmates visiting Orlando to stop by for the workout of your life!

Also in Florida is Jeanette Arango Dorfman (jarango629@aol.com). Jeanette and husband Richard enjoy working on their house in Miami and expanding the family business. She also recently finished a master's degree in education and works as a preschool teacher. She would love to hear from Yesim Yetis '95. Not too far from Miami is Ivan Irizarry. Residing in San Juan, PR, with his wife of a year, Lisgelia Santana, Ivan is an internist in various hospitals on the island.While he would much rather be sailing in Puerto Rico or skiing in Colorado, he and Lisgelia, also a doctor, plan to move to New York soon for specialties in anesthesiology and cardiology.

Mid-Atlantic: Donald Megliola (don@h2oinvestments.com) and wife Amanda welcomed son Donald Thomas in October 2005. Don keeps busy as the owner of a retirement income planning firm in Reston, VA. Don would love to hear from Adam Hills, so Adam, drop Don a line!

Northeast: Class president Robert Klein (robert@northstreetpartners.com) and wife Anissa (Karp) '98 celebrated the birth of their first child, Jake Phillip, on December 2, 2005. Robert is enjoying time with Jake and being back in New York City. Robert and I agree that the hectic pace at Cornell definitely prepares you for the real life juggle of work, school, and family! Also in the Big Apple is Marshall Kim, PhD '97 (glaucomacenterofhawaii@hotmail.com).Marshall informed us that he is completing a fellowship in glaucoma at the Weill Cornell Medical Center and will soon be starting a private practice in ophthalmology in Honolulu, HI. Best of luck on your move cross country,Marshall!

Based out of Fort Drum, NY, but currently serving in Afghanistan with Operation Enduring Freedom is Captain Jason Matyas (jason.matyas@gmail.com). Jason is an air mobility liaison officer with the 10th Mountain Division. He spends his time in upstate New York working on his house and picking up hunting. Jason fondly remembers all those hockey games at Lynah and spending time in Barton Hall with ROTC. Thank you, Jason, for your service to our country.

Samara Friedman (samarafriedman@hotmail.com) recently published a book entitled, The Anatomy of Motherhood. Samara said she was inspired by the birth of her son to compile this book of black-and-white photography depicting the hopes and dreams of mother for child. You can find the book on Amazon.com. Congrats, Samara! Finally, future Cornellian Sofia Isabel Perez entered the world on March 2, 2006. Dad Rafael and mom Nicole Cuda Perez are head over heels for Sofia.Welcome to Sofia, as well as Donald and Jake, our other Cornell babies from this column.

Our news is running low. Please send Erica or me updates on your lives. Loves, births, promotions, moves--whatever it is, we want to know. There is a lot more going on with our classmates than listed here. Don't be afraid to toot your own horn! -- Sarah Deardorff Carter, sjd5@cornell.edu; Erica Broennle Nelson, ejb4@cornell.edu.

98 | Hello. As I sit here (Gregg) staring out at the beautiful weather in NYC (middle of April), I'm counting down the days until I'm done with graduate school. Unfortunately, there's no time to play outside; instead, I'm bogged down with papers and projects. I can't believe my two years at Columbia Business School is almost over.What better way, however, to take a break from my studying than to write the Class of '98 column. So enough about me (update on Erica: she is still living in London, where beautiful weather is a relative concept). Here's some interesting information about our classmates.

Audrey Roy is a Foreign Service officer serving in Pretoria, South Africa, since October 2005. She has been spending her free time going on safaris, visiting Cape Town, and sampling Johannesburg's nightlife. She misses her nephew who lives in Aliso Viejo, CA. Ragu Gopalan is a sales and marketing associate with Sanafi-Arentis, working to market products to the medical and insurance community with as little spin as possible.He has been loving living in California and enjoying outdoor life.He even scaled Mt. Shasta and did not lose his enthusiasm for Cornell as he sang our Alma Mater to a Financial Times columnist on vacation. He misses hanging out and catching up with all his old Cornell friends. He says he remembers "those lazy, humid summer afternoons when campus was full of life, and time seemed slower . . . or maybe it was just Philosophy class."He would love to hear from all his friends, and especially Art McGruder at the Statler Hotel.

Martin and AmiWalter Stallone were married in 2000. They had their first son,Martin, in 2003 and their second son, Thomas, in October 2005.Marty is a doctor/captain in the Air National Guard, and Ami is a mom/homemaker; she was a teacher until July 2003. They are staying busy taking care of their two sons. Anna Berg Faatiliga is the general manager of a capital equipment reseller of surface-mount assembly equipment and semiconductor equipment. She spends time with her husband and two daughters hiking, skiing, and generally being outdoors in North Carolina. Her fondest memories of Cornell are cramming for exams, late nights on campus with friends, two-liter Diet Cokes, and pizzas. Kris Gillis, JD '79, please send Anna an e-mail--she would love to hear from you.

Congratulations to Wendy Fiel, who completed a clerkship in the Eastern District of New York and is now a litigation associate at Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP in NYC. Christopher Cox lives in NYC and is an analyst at Highbridge Capital Management. Philip "Jamie" Jones is still working on his family's farm. The Jones Family Farm grows strawberries, blueberries, pumpkins, grapes, and Christmas trees. He thanks Cornell, as he has opened a winery on his farm. In only his second year the wines have been very well received, with eight different offerings. He and wife Christiana have son Jackson Philip, the seventh generation at his family's farm.

Cristzayda Matos is a lawyer and enjoys going diving (especially in Costa Rica) when she gets the chance. She traveled around Australia last year with classmate Jen Woodard. She misses cheering on the Cornell men's ice hockey team at Lynah Rink with friends. Liz Hamilton married Joseph Short on October 1, 2005 in her hometown of Simsbury, CT. Cornell classmates (and roommates) Ruth Koepke and EmilyWhite Johansson were bridesmaids.

More news from Joseph Rossettie (thanks for all the updates!), who graduated from the U. of San Diego Law School in May 2005 and is now a lawyer. He got married at Sage Chapel on December 3, 2005. He misses the lacrosse team and ATO at Cornell and wants to hear from Fred Peightal. Erika Johnston reports that she got married to Paul MacAnanny (from Ithaca, though he did not go to Cornell) on April 30, 2005 on Long Island at a beautiful vineyard--Raphael in Peconic, NY. They had a very adventurous honeymoon, as they climbed Nevis Peak (3,200 feet) in the West Indies! Fondest memories at Cornell include "brilliant classmates, good friends, sunsets sitting on top of Libe Slope, and sitting on the ADW Bench" (where she got engaged).

Angela Song--ShannonMarchegiani is looking for you! Shannon is a pediatric resident at the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth,VA. She was married to Dr.Michael Melia on a beautiful fall day on October 7, 2005 in Manchester, NH. Cornellians in attendance included Penelope Pinneke Pugh, Dr. Jessica Greene Zuniga, Tri-Delt Big Sis Andrea Bell Metzdorf '96, Alexander Lauren, and Dr. Christine Trilivas Lauren, who was her bridesmaid.

That's all for now. Apologies again to those who have waited patiently for their news to appear in print (we have a word limit on the column!). Please keep writing to us. -- Gregg Herman, gdh5@cornell.edu; and Erica Chan, hc31@cornell.edu.

99 | Remember those "what to bring" college checklists? Seven years ago at this time, checking items off that list was a top priority--like shower shoes, extra-long twin sheets, bulk quantities of ramen noodles and Snapple, and those ubiquitous stackable crates. Our "what to bring" lists these days are a far cry from posters and mini-refrigerators. Yes, folks, today we're probably a lot more likely to be buying shower gifts than shower caddies . . .

Baby blankets. Susie Crego Bernholdt and her husband Chris welcomed adorable son Adam Van Ranst into the world on April 5, 2005. The family is at home in Bolingbrook, IL. Third-year medical student at the U. of Minnesota, Jessica Leighty Guiroy is also mom to 15-month-old daughter Belen.

Fine china. Christine Ng was married to husband Janis Vitols last August on Gibson Island in Maryland (the same island as the summer house in the movie Wedding Crashers). Lindsay Campbell Perrell and Connie Liu were part of the bridal party. The outdoor ceremony on the Chesapeake Bay featured an international crowd, with guests flying in from Latvia and Australia. After a long honeymoon Scuba diving and sun bathing in Bonaire and Aruba, the couple returned home to Manhattan. Christine works for Goldman Sachs Int'l Securities Lending Group and just finished her MBA at NYU. Connie is in her last years of residency in obstetrics in the Bronx and has been delivering babies and vacationing the world. This year she drove all over Italy and recently returned from Costa Rica.

Liz Dennis was married in September to George Allen on Nantucket. On hand to celebrate were classmates Margit Louis Foley, Debra Haym, Kristen Albano, Julie Wojslawowicz, Tim Cahalane, and Joanna Weber, MBA '04. Liz and George live in New York City, where Liz just started her own line of ladies sleepwear, Elizabeth Cotton. Last October, Heather Mahar Paulson was married at Mohonk Mountain House. Cornellians joining in the celebration included Christine Ellis, who served as maid of honor, Andy Heyman '97, Shawn McDonald, Andrew Sorkin, and Heather Boyd. Heather is an antitrust associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz in Manhattan. Kevin Chipalowsky married Ithaca College graduate Erin Ouellette last July on Cape Cod. The pair met while at school in Ithaca. Japanese was the language of love for TarynWilliams and Ryan Stubblefield, who met while taking Japanese classes and got married last April in San Francisco.Where else but Japan for the honeymoon?

White coats. Heather Hillman Phillips is an associate veterinarian at Gansett Animal Hospital in Rumford, RI. Heather was married to Brian Phillips in April 2005 at Belhurst Castle in Geneva, NY. Angela N. Martin, DVM '02, is an associate veterinarian for small animals in Huntington, NY. Rebecca Cannom spent a month in Ecuador working at a hospital in Quito. She graduated from Georgetown Medical School last May and now lives in Los Angeles working as a general surgery resident at USC, planning to pursue surgical oncology. Erika Ann Strohmayer is an internal medicine resident at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. After hours, and for a resident there are not very many, this young doctor is a karaoke star.

Financial calculators. Alice Lu graduated from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management in 2004 and works as an associate product manager at Ortho Biotech, a Johnson & Johnson company, where she's responsible for marketing initiatives for Procrit, a "blockbuster" anemia drug.Mandi White Ajmani completed her MBA from Suffolk U. and is now working on a clinical PhD program at Suffolk. Husband Sameer '98 just received his PhD in computer science from MIT. Soon, when someone says "Dr. Ajmani," two heads will turn for this power couple. After spending five years at MTV Networks and picking up a master's degree from Columbia, Camille Garriga has headed to Philadelphia to attend business school at Wharton. Enjoying all the wintry charm of Hanover, NH, Scott Seiffert is an MBA candidate at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

Passports. Bryce Hall lives in Venice, CA, and has recently written and produced shows for the Travel Channel, the Learning Channel, Discovery HD Theater, and the History Channel. He most recently produced a show for the Travel Channel called "Ghana: The Presidential Tour"with Forrest Sawyer and president of Ghana J. A. Kufuor. Marc Casalaina is back in San Francisco after completing a six-month stint directing a team of programmers at Oracle's offices in Bangalore, India. Kimberly Fitch is a PhD candidate in political economy at Penn, and was awarded a Fulbright grant to do research in Germany.

Lesson plans. Alexa Rezelman Sabanegh is an educational program coordinator at the Cornell Center for Materials Research. Her extracurricular activities include the Frozen Assets Hockey Team, book club, gardening, and cooking. It's a long way from Buffalo, NY, where he grew up, but Justin Zakia now calls Pensacola, FL, home. He's a naval aviator and flight school instructor. Victoria Cohenour Timpe lives in San Francisco and works as a program advisor for JFKU for master's counseling psychology students. She's also a part-time life coach. In response to what she'd rather be doing now, Victoria says: "Nothing, [I'm] loving what I do right now!"We should all be so lucky! -- Jennifer Sheldon, jennifer.sheldon@gmail.com; Melanie Arzt, snoopymel@gmail.com; or Jess Smith, jessica@fenton.com.