90 | Spring has sprung, as has more news from classmates far and wide. Cheryl Grant Ferris is living in Stamford, CT, and working at Pepsi-Cola North America as senior manager of strategic planning, supporting marketing. She started playing golf two years ago and enjoys cooking and running--a wise combination. Benson Yeh, ME '92, also lives in Stamford, although his work takes him farther afield. Benson's business card has addresses in Taiwan and Shanghai, and he says that he has unsurprisingly been kept very busy with work traveling through Asia.He is a general manager for China for Adexa Services Int'l and, although he does enjoy traveling, he wishes he could do it for fun.

Congratulations to Deborah Hays, recently named deputy director for development for ArtsConnection, an arts-in-education program in New York City that reaches 30,000 students, teachers, and parent/caregivers in 120 public schools. She is responsible for maintaining and growing public and private support for the program. In Princeton, NJ, Antoinette Romanelli Buckley is a stay-at-home mother who is also an editor and a restaurant reviewer for the Princeton Packet. She manages to combine her talents by writing family-friendly reviews that include information on meals for younger diners.

Melissa Chalson Leff and her husband Robert live in Baldwin Place, NY, with their children Alexandra, 3, and Jacob, 6. She works as deputy bureau chief of the special prosecutions division for the Westchester County District Attorney's Office, but, like many Cornellians, she looks forward to taking time off in sunnier climes. Last summer, the family took a vacation in south Florida, with plans for a Caribbean cruise. In Vermont, newlyweds Julia Smith, PhD '02, and husband Murray Thompson are enjoying the rural life, where Julia is an extension assistant professor at the U. of Vermont.However, they both may soon be spending more time living on their 80-cow dairy farm just outside of Burlington and putting the finishing touches on their newly renovated house. Julia has also kept busy writing a grant to create an online course on animal health emergency management, a topic that 80 cows are probably giving her some hard-earned expertise in. Allison Schmied-McCauley, Julia would love to hear from you!

John Cayer just moved back to the Milwaukee area after three years in Japan and then three years in Minneapolis. He is now director of marketing for a division of SC Johnson.Wax on, wax off,Miyagi-san would remind us! In May, Betsie Balcom Rothermel started a new job as assistant professor and researcher in the Center for Excellence in Field Biology at Austin Peay State U. in Clarksville, TN. She is currently studying land use effects on amphibians and the susceptibility of salamanders to a particular fungus. Besides that, she and her husband Scott are "figuring out what to do with our four acres in the country!" Lisa Baylor David and her husband Robert '89 have been keeping busy in Lafayette, LA. The pair trained for a half-marathon in New York City this past August and the Chicago Marathon in October. She is in otolaryngology, specializing in head and neck surgery, but also manages to keep up with her son Beau's "all-star baseball Team J."

On the left coast, in Santa Cruz,Marta Bechhoefer is teaching language and literacy for adults. She teaches English as a Second Language to the primarily Latino parents of kids at area public schools. On the side, she runs her own business teaching Spanish and English for the workplace. Swimming remains a pleasure for her since her Cornell days, when she fondly remembers skinny-dipping in the reservoir at the wildflower preserve. She has been training and competing assiduously for local open water events, including the FINA World Masters Swimming Championships at Stanford U. this past August, and is considering tackling the English Channel. She already has a bit of experience at it; Marta was the training partner for Hendrick Meerman, who successfully crossed the channel on August 30 to raise money for a women's cancer organization in Santa Cruz (see www.channelswimforcancer.org for more information on the swim and pictures of Marta). As he struggled to reach the shores of France, she jumped out of the boat to encourage him on the last leg of the swim.Marta shouts out to Mark Deinert, Jana McCune Coulter '88, Lynne Dole '88, and John Verheul '89. "There's always Google," she reminded us all. -- Tamiko Toland, stmoluag@yahoo.com; AmyWangManning, aw233@cornell.edu; and Kelly Roberson, klr25@cornell.edu.

91 | Greetings, Class of 1991. In the months following our 15th Reunion, a highly energized new team of class officers took the helm, led by president Bob Baca. The team boasts a great balance of veterans, many serving in new roles, and new volunteers. For a complete list of the current class officers (and for other interesting and useful information), visit our class website at http://classof91.alumni.cornell.edu. The Class Council is committed to creating new opportunities for class involvement during the non-reunion years, and we welcome your input and suggestions for activities, projects, etc. Please feel free to contact any of the officers with your input. Thank you to all retiring officers for your dedicated service to the class during the previous five years. Please don't be strangers.

Kathryn Kraus Bolks, Sharlyn Carter Heslam, and I (Ariane Schreiber Horn, JD '96) look forward to our new roles reporting your news to the Cornell community during the next five years. Please send us whatever information you wish to share. You do not have to limit your news to jobs, weddings, or babies. You may write about gatherings of classmates, new houses, interesting trips, volunteering experiences, personal achievements, Cornell memories, or just about anything (other than engagements or pregnancies). You can submit news through a link on our class website, directly to us via the e-mail addresses listed at the bottom of this column, or on the News Form included in our class mailings.

Speaking of news, wedding bells continue to ring for the Class of '91. On October 28, 2006, Jason Saul married Lisa Jenna Fine at the Peninsula Hotel in Chicago. In attendance were Cornellians Basil Demeroutis, Andrew Stifel, and DavidWiseman '92. The couple lives in Chicago, where Jason is an entrepreneur and Lisa is a real estate attorney at Mayer Brown Rowe & Mawe LLP. Denise Law and R. Robert LaGalia were married on September 22, 2006 in Ramsey, NJ. Suzanne Schafer Skalski, Liza Jones Hards, and I attended the happy celebration. Denise recently changed jobs and is now a sales VP for Health Advocate, a company that provides corporate clients with advocacy services to help employees and their families navigate complex healthcare and insurance systems. In November, Denise and Liza met up with Crissy Moeder Shaul and Cindy CheneyWian '92 in New Haven to root for the Big Red as the men's ice hockey team trounced Yale 5-2. Sitting near the Cornell pep band, the group had a blast screaming familiar cheers and taunts. They were pleasantly surprised to see at least half of the spectators at Ingalls Rink sporting Cornell red. Crissy and husband Matt are living in Davidson, NC, where Crissy volunteers at the school of their son James, 6, and works part-time as a classroom shadow for a special needs student.Matt is the general manager of the Charlotte, NC, business unit of Hewitt Associates, the company for which he has worked since graduating from Cornell.

Many of our classmates have been busy expanding their families. Congratulations to Karen Finkston Payes and her husband Giora, who became the proud parents of daughter Sarah Lucy. Sarah joins older brother Noah. Karen writes that they are having a lot of fun with their expanded family living in Chappaqua, NY; however, they are not getting much sleep. Also sleep-deprived are Nicole Bisagni DelToro and her husband Armando, who welcomed second child Andrew last summer. Older brother Colin made his first trip to Cornell last summer for our 15th Reunion. Nicole and her family live in the Washington, DC, area, where Nicole owns and operates an executive search firm. Amy Gellert Lebovitz writes that she is enjoying her growing family in New Jersey. The most recent addition (and future Cornellian) is Natalie, 6 months, who joins Amy, her husband Marc, and their older children Zachary, 5, Emily, 4, and Jeremy, 3. Jim and Cynthia Lee Doware living in Old Greenwich, CT, and welcomed their third child, Henry Maxwell, in August 2006. Big brother Nicholas, 5, and big sister Eliza, 3, compete vigorously to take great care of "Baby Max."

Tammie and Chris Schallmo couldn't make it to Ithaca for our 15th Reunion because they were busy welcoming Nicholas James on June 11, 2006. It won't be long before Nick joins his parents for his first golf tournament or curling match. He is already accompanying them to both! The Schallmos enjoy getting together in Highland Park, IL, with Jim and Nicole HalpernMurphy. The Murphys welcomed a son to their family on April 6, 2006. Owen James joins big sisters Madalyn, 5-1/2, and Audrey, 2- 1/2. All three love their Cornell shirts, Big Red teddy bears, and Cornell picture book. Amy and Chris Field, MBA '95, celebrated their first Thanksgiving in San Antonio, TX, with son Hunter and new daughter Sydney Elizabeth, born November 20, 2006. Getting back to campus for Cornell football games will be a little more challenging for the Field family now. Fortunately, kids start playing football at an early age in Texas, so Chris is already teaching plays to Hunter (who turns 4 in March)!

On the professional front, Kimberly Epstein is an attorney at Bartlett Hackett Feinberg PC in Boston, MA, concentrating her practice in real estate, commercial and real estate lending, and banking, with a special focus on affordable housing and community development financing. She recently moved to Lynn, MA, with her fiancée Peg Martin and their various and sundry pets. Debbie Fine writes that she left NYC a while ago to return to Washington, DC, where she previously worked in the Clinton Administration for five years. She is currently working as in-house counsel for the Center for American Progress, a nonprofit progressive think tank. Last fall, Dorine Colabella Scher trotted up to New Jersey from her home in Virginia to conduct a Pampered Chef cooking show for Dan Svitavsky and wife Elena Stremlin '94 and Jake Freivald and wife Sue (Scharpf) '93. Dorine reports that they all had a wonderful time.

According to the director of Cornell's Audit University, a number of our classmates returned to Ithaca last summer to participate in a wide variety of CAU on-campus summer courses. Class of '91 participants included Sharon Wolfson Bader, Kim Brown Bixler, AmyWefer Faucher, Jim Jackson, ME '93, Alicia Kowalchuk,Heather Tatkon Powers, MPA '93,Melissa Raksa, and Debra McMahonWilliams.What a wonderful way to experience summer at Cornell, either with or without your family. Kim Bixler, who participated in the tennis clinic, raves about the CAU summer youth program on the CAU website: "This is a fantastic program.My kids absolutely love it. The counselors are bright, energetic, and enthusiastic."

Finally, are you or any of your Cornell friends lost and don't know it? Please check the list of Lost Classmates on our class website and update your contact information, or advise your friends to update their information, as appropriate. Our 20th Reunion will be here before we know it, and we want to continue our tradition of crushing university attendance records. The first step is ensuring that we are able to contact everyone.

Now it's your turn.What have you been up to? We look forward to spreading your news. -- Ariane Schreiber Horn, ams14@cornell.edu; Kathryn Kraus Bolks, klk22@cornell. edu; Sharlyn Carter Heslam, sheslam@berkshirepartners.com.

92 | I'm proud to report that we'll be traveling as a family of four for the upcoming reunion.My husband, David Toth, and I welcomed our daughter Nadia Elise into the world on October 24. She and our son Brayden, 5, will get a good dose of college life come June when we trek to Ithaca from our home in Wisconsin. (My apologies ahead to whoever is staying near us in the dorm in case Nadia cries in the middle of the night!) Brayden is already very excited about "playing college" and, being the typical boy who loves space, can't wait to see the Fuertes Observatory on North Campus. I admit that I walked by Fuertes many times, but never checked out its view of the stars. It's one of those things I always meant to do, but never did. So, here we are, 15 years after graduating and we'll finally go there. (Maybe we'll have to go to Sapsucker Woods, too!)

The birth of Nadia isn't our family's only big change. After four years at another practice, David joined Advanced Healthcare, a physician-owned medical group in August. His new endocrinology practice is walking distance from our house, and we're thrilled that he now has more time to be home and enjoy our family life.

Abi Eiger sent news on her latest happenings. After a career in international human resources with many global companies, she is back at Cornell as the international coordinator for the Weill Cornell Medical College in Manhattan. She is the Middle East liaison. Abi notes that she is now the proud grandmother of two children, and she pursues studies in traditional herbal medicine and practices. The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey welcomed Michael New as the boys' varsity wrestling coach this fall. After graduating,Michael had a short stint as the assistant wrestling coach at Cornell, and joined the Princeton coaching staff in 1996 after the Princeton program had been discontinued for a few years.He was promoted to head coach in 1998 and rebuilt the Princeton wrestling program.His original roster of eight walk-ons grew to a full squad of 50 athletes.Michael also started a women's wrestling program at Princeton, is a past president of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association, and advises other colleges on how to reinstate their wrestling programs.

Daniel Domenech wrote that he's been happily married to wife Nikki for 12 years. They now have four boys and a girl. Dan and Nikki adopted Timmy and Megan this past year from Guatemala. Their brothers Danny, Joey, and Andy are doing very well. Dan is an elder at Allentown (NJ) Presbyterian Church, where he leads the personnel committee and serves as a youth shepherd and Sunday school teacher. He is a senior director of human resources at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Jeannine Cline Jacobson gave birth to daughter Jadyn on Nov. 19, 2005. "November 19 also happens to be my birthday, and since she was a month early, it was quite a surprise that she chose that day." Jeannine lives in Plantation, FL, and is an attorney.

Megan Fee Torrance, MBA '93, checked in from her home in Michigan. She and husband John '90 and daughter Emily, 4, are slowly realizing their dream of returning to a rural life. "John built us a house on 14 acres west of Ann Arbor, MI, a few years ago.We now hay the front ten acres, so three times a year we get to pretend we're farmers for the four days it takes us to get the hay in." They also have a large and "largely neglected garden." "Survival of the fittest,"Meg joked. "If it's too prissy to require water and weeding, it probably won't do well in our garden." (Oh, how I miss her humor from our joint Communications classes at Cornell.) "And we have chickens! Our first flock turned out to be four roosters and one hen. Funny, we didn't get too many eggs from this group. Now we've got nine hens and one rooster which is a much better ratio. Nearby farmers find our hobby farm antics rather amusing, but they do appreciate our eggs."Meg also mentioned that JR and Jessica Torrance Kavanagh are living outside Pittsburgh. Jess has a new business making made-to-order children's clothes and specializes in coordinating-but-not-identical outfits for siblings. The three Kavanagh children are apparently very well-dressed!

Martin and FeleciaWein Ettenberg had a baby boy, Griffin Ryan, on Dec. 19.He joins big sister Samara Parker, who was born on Feb. 23, 2004. In May 2005 the Ettenbergs moved to Princeton, NJ, from New York City. Felicia works as in-house counsel for Bristol-Myers Squibb in Princeton, and Martin is director, business development at Sensors Unlimited, Goodrich Corp. in Princeton. Daniel Smalls was married on July 21 at Anabel Taylor Hall, with a reception at the Johnson Museum. He moved to Spencer, NY, after selling his family mechanical contracting business and now serves as a consultant to the new owners.

I hope that you are able to join us at reunion, June 7-10. Our news for the column is running short, so please look for the annual class mailing coming this spring and take a moment to let us know what you are doing these days. -- Renee Hunter Toth, rah24@cornell.edu; Debbie Feinstein, debbie_feinstein@yahoo.com; and Wilma Ann Anderson, info@WilPowerEnterprises.com.

93 | I hope you had a wonderful winter. As usual, we have lots of news to report. First up, the ever popular "new baby" category. Irene Herman Goldstein writes, "Our son Caleb Benjamin was born on August 9, 2006! We are all doing very well.We are still living in Chicago, where I am a vascular surgeon in private practice and Josh is a pediatric neurologist." Jessica Raab Kadar and husband Aran welcomed their first child, Orli, on September 20, 2006. Jess says, "She's a great baby and we're loving parenthood."When asked about her present "after-hours" extracurricular activities, Amanda Cramer responded, "Every ‘after hour' is currently occupied by the little guy. Our son Tomas will turn 1 on March 7, 2007."Amanda is a winemaker and is "knee-deep in plans to build a state-of-the-art winery in Paso Robles, CA. Hoping for a grand opening in summer '08."

Joanna Ogintz and husband Tim happily announce the arrival of their second daughter, Naomi Rose Hemstreet, born on June 26, 2006. Naomi joins big sister Renata Lucille, born on February 18, 2004. "We all live in Portland, OR, where Tim and I moved after we met in grad school in Austin, TX," Joanna reports.Melissa Hart Moss, JD '97, husband David, JD '96, and son Andy, 2-1/2, welcomed new addition Chloe Hart Moss on September 3, 2006. The Moss family moved to Basking Ridge, NJ, in July to be close to David's job; he is corporate counsel at Wyeth in Madison, NJ.Melissa is a stay-at-home mom.

Kim Powell Sendelbach and her husband put those first- and second-time parents to shame! They have four children: Luke, 9, Anya, 7, Paul Josef, 5, and their newest addition, Adam, born July 2005. Kim says, "We spend most of our after-hours time driving the kids to their extracurricular activities, ballet, soccer, basketball, baseball, Cub Scouts, etc."When she's not chauffeuring, Kim is a pharmaceutical sales consultant. The family lives in Fishkill, NY. Dan Simon is also in the pharmaceutical industry as VP, associate creative director at LLNS, a pharmaceutical advertising agency. Dan lives on Long Island and enjoys spending time with his daughters, ages 4 and 2-1/2. Like Dan, Dhaval Shukla has two daughters, ages 3 and 1. Dhaval lives in Katonah, NY, and does lead commodities e-trading at Morgan Stanley.

We heard from several of the animal lovers among us. Dana Zerrenner-Franks is a veterinary internist at Oradell Animal Hospital. Dana, husband Kieran, daughter Devin, and dog Luke live in Riverdale, NY, but are planning a move to Westchester in the near future. Anne Magistro Phillips works nights at the Cornell Equine and Farm Animal Hospitals as a veterinary technician. She and husband James '91, BS Ag '93, live in Cortland, NY, where Anne is also a dairy farmer who home-schools their three children.

We heard from a couple of sports fans this month. Scott Hiltonen is a senior systems analyst in St. Johns, FL, and in his spare time he is on the CAA Soccer board of directors. Courtney Erickson is a high school basketball referee and high school baseball umpire, as well as a basketball and football statistician at the U. at Albany and Siena College. He lives in Niskayuna, NY, but is planning a move to Washington, DC, to work for the Democratic National Committee on the 2008 presidential campaign. Jane Chen Chin is the president of Medical Science Liaison Inst. LLC. The organization is dedicated to serving field-based medical teams and offers MSL training, consulting, and career development services. After hours, Jane has been writing, doing comedy improv, and problogging. She lives in Redondo Beach, CA.

From California back to Ithaca. Every year, Cornell's Adult University draws alumni back to campus for summer learning vacations. In July, Ernest Chen participated in a course called The Senate, which was led by CAU favorites Glenn Altschuler, PhD '76, and Joel Silbey.

Finally, many of you may remember Matt Kleiner from our days at Cornell.Matt was a beloved classmate who passed away in 2003 from complications from AIDS. He was a hemophiliac and was infected as a child by his blood-based hemophilia medication. Before he passed away,Matt sat down with filmmaker Marilyn Ness (sister of Lisa Ness Seidman) to share his story in the hope that lessons could be learned and the blood supply and medications could be made safer as a result. In Marilyn's words, "After the 10,000 hemophiliacs became infected with HIV, the FDA was credited with the ‘worst regulatory failure' in the administration's history for failing to take meaningful action in the face of AIDS."Her film, Bad Blood, seeks to finally bring this little known story--Matt's story--into the public consciousness. Bad Blood is actively seeking distribution and shooting was to continue over the winter. To learn more about the film, visit www.necessaryfilms.com/badblood.html. A trailer from the film, featuring Matt, can be found here: www.necessaryfilms.com/mness/fund/badblood.wmv (Windows Media Player version), or here: www.necessaryfilms.com/mness/ fund/badblood.mp4 (Quicktime version).

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. Thanks! -- Erica Fishlin Fox, ericazzz@aol.com; Yael Berkowitz Rosenberg, ygb1@cornell.edu.

94 | Nothing warms the heart of a class correspondent in December as much as a News Form with hardly any white space on it! It's good to see that alums still find the time for personal pursuits: Toshihiro Matsuo of San Diego, general manager of TV marketing for Sony, plays hockey and rugby after hours. Also in California, architect Ioana Urma paints in watercolor and oil, grows herbs, and enjoys swimming. On the other side of the world, Kaila Colbin writes, "I've been living in paradise (aka New Zealand) for a year and a half. I encourage anyone heading Down Under to shoot me an e-mail!" She has started Missing Link, an information design company, but in keeping with the spirit of those sporty Kiwis, she manages to bike, ski, and practice yoga.

In response to the prompt, "What I'd rather be doing now," Timothy O'Neill of Cary, NC, answers, "Playing golf."When William Collazo isn't teaching both Japanese and the theory of knowledge at an international baccalaureate high school (he was named Japanese Language Teacher of the Year for the State of Florida), he can be found teaching karate and kendo or hanging out with his daughter Isabela, 5, and son Willy, 3. Among the mountains of Colorado, William Sullivan punches the clock as the regional sales manager for Culligan Water. "For fun I play softball and basketball, ski, camp, and go to Widespread Panic concerts."

At an immunology research lab at Harvard Medical School, Sarah Pryputniewicz studies the effects of SIV (simian immunodeficiency virus--the monkey version of HIV) on the immune system. "Outside of work, I'm slowly but surely taking over the driveway with my container garden."Her green thumb has successfully raised tomatoes, strawberries, okra, squash, and corn, among other delectables.Megan McDonald, who works for reunion.com, summed it up best when she wrote, "I'd like to own a travel business and teach and learn more about culture through travel. I'd also love to have more time for hobbies like dance classes and camping and scuba diving--the fun stuff . . . the icing on the cake, if you will."

Alas, back to work. Or back to school. Aruna Kampani is studying toward her third degree after working in management consulting for several years and earning an MBA from Georgetown U. She's now hitting the books in veterinary school at Virginia Tech. Father of two children (Avi and Zoe), Joshua Hurwitz is a doctor at an infertility practice in Norwalk, CT, as well as an assistant professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in NYC. Also in the healthcare field is David Huang, who works in emergency and critical care medicine, and Vicky Lee, a pediatrician in Maryland. Scott Robinson is serving his second tour of duty as a physician assistant for the US Army.

In NYC, Andrew Reitenbach is the director of international small cap investments at William D.Witter. Amy Chiang works as assistant general counsel for Evolution Capital Management in Honolulu. After eight years in California, Josh Cantor, father of John and Jason, moved to the D.C. area to work at George Mason U.When asked if there's anything he'd rather be doing, he replied, "Being a professional poker player perhaps." Another example of a successful relocation: Fernando Poma worked for Choice Hotels Int'l and then the Westmont Hospitality Group in Paris, France, after which he got an MBA at the Wharton School. After graduation, he left for El Salvador to help manage the family business, Real Hotels and Resorts.

Kerri Scheppke Kovac checked in from Long Island, where she is the mother of a 4-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl. She is the director of human resources at Southern Container. Matthew Shafiroff, an emergency medicine physician, has two little children (Jack and Lily) and lives in New York State. In New Jersey, Marcia Firestone Paltenstein is the mother of kids Jason and Jenna. Laura Sauter Stein gave birth to Jack Garrett last April; the family, including older brother Scott, live in Charlotte, NC. Steven Hewitson, a law partner at Troutman Sanders, calls Atlanta home, along with wife Michelle and sons Connor and Eli.

The column would not be complete without a couple of walks down the aisle. On July 8, Brian Penney married Suzy Iverson '95 at the bucolic Stonebridge Country Club outside Manchester, NH. Brian continues to teach biology at St. Anselm College, while Suzy is a physician at Webster Street Internal Medicine. Mara LeffWood and I were a couple of happy bridesmaids at the wedding of Doreen Lee to Richard Young on September 30 in a Manhattan loft.

Lastly, an update from Braxton Pope in Hollywood. His third film as a producer, The Take, stars John Leguizamo and Rosie Perez. "Twelve years ago," he writes, "I was sitting on the deck of Telluride House, drinking a St. Ides malt beverage and reflecting on whether I should move to L.A. or NYC to pursue my career. Even granting all the travails of independent film, I don't think I would rather be doing anything else." -- Dika Lam, dikaweb@yahoo.com; Jennifer RabinMarchant, jennifer.marchant@kraft.com; Dineen PashoukosWasylik, dineen@wasylik.net.

95 | Greetings, everyone! There's an emerging trend in our news updates. Folks are no longer writing with a single event to announce; rather they are sending word of many things going on. It's a good illustration of how, for many of us, our lives are getting more complex and more rewarding.

Tom Zimmerman sent in a bundle of good news. After two years of marriage, he and his wife Sharon had their first child in June 2006, a baby girl named Gracen Rae. The family lives in Massapequa, NY, where Tom works as an assistant professor of family medicine at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and was appointed medical director of Academic Health Centers. He received the school's Standard of Excellence award for successfully transitioning their multispecialty, multilocation medical offices from paper charts to an electronic medical record system. Recently, Tom got together with T.J. Reed, who is married, living near Boston, and practicing internal medicine.

Robert Friedman joined the law firm of Gunster Yoakley & Stewart in West Palm Beach, FL, where he is continuing his practice as a commercial litigator with a focus on insurance coverage issues. Rob writes, "After our temporary stay in Boca Raton, we have found a new home in West Palm Beach. Not only were we hurricane-free this year, but there were no voting irregularities either! In December, our daughter Rose turns 1 and our big boy Sammy Ray turns 3. It's getting colder in New York, so you know it's time for a visit!"

Living in Scarsdale, NY, David Jakubowicz has been growing both his family and his medical practice. He works as the chairman of the ENT Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center, and when not at work, David spends time with his three children, with the third, Halle, born in September 2005. Juggling a demanding career with family, Joshua Bretstein works as the director of legal staffing at First Choice of New York and is raising his baby son Jack with wife Nanne. If he could, he'd rather be "chilling on a beach in Maui with my wife and son" and remembering fondly his Cornell days at ZBT. In Woodbridge,VA, Agnes VargaWells is the workforce services supervisor at the Virginia Employment Commission and has been very busy at work given her recent promotion. Agnes "lives for the weekends" when she gets to spend time with (and cleaning up after) her 16-month-old son Alex. Oh, and BlytheWestbrook, if you're reading this, Agnes would like to hear from you!

After seven years at a law firm, Carrie Shechter Fox recently moved to an in-house position as associate general counsel at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Carrie writes, "Since the hospital is affiliated with the Weill Cornell Medical College and my office is on the medical school campus, I feel in a way like I have returned to my Cornell roots. The job is terrific and it is great to have so much time with my husband, David Shechter, and our kids Ilana, 4, and Jacob, 1. Over the summer, we had a great vacation in Potomac,MD, visiting with Sarah Schneider Cohen, her husband Shane, and their kids Avi, 7, Estie, 5, and Yonah, 8 months. On the way back, we stopped off in Philadelphia to visit Brooke Frantz Salzman and her husband Matt, and to meet their daughter Maya, 1.More recently, we had dinner with Michelle ‘Mikki' Knudsen.Mikki's most recent book, Library Lion, has been on the New York Times Children's Books Bestseller List for four weeks. Congratulations,Mikki!"

James McCloskey sent an e-mail full of fun news. He and his wife Melanie Swiderek, PhD '99, live in Londonderry, NH, where James is premier client rep at Putnam Investments and Melanie is a marketing consultant at Deepblack Consulting.When not at their day jobs, these two are busy exercising their creative side. In addition to designing his own home, James is writing an action adventure novel.Melanie is also a belly dance instructor for a local yoga studio and performs publicly under the name Zahar al-Baida. This past October, the McCloskeys returned to Cornell for Homecoming where they saw Cornell beat Colgate, watched the Red-White ice hockey scrimmage, hiked at Letchworth State Park, and visited wineries.

For those returning to Ithaca anytime soon, this next bit of news should be of interest. Mark and Courtnay Kasin Papera '96 recently returned to Ithaca and opened Dijon, a French bistro at 311 Third Street, in November. After working around Manhattan for a few years in many elite restaurants, they opened Epernay in Montclair, NJ. Now they have a family and have decided to raise their children in Ithaca. Last, but not least . . . should you find yourself in a bookstore in April, look for Brenda Janowitz's first novel, Scot on the Rocks (Or, How I Survived My Ex-Boyfriend's Wedding With My Dignity Ever-So-Slightly Intact). For more information, check out www.brendajanowitz.com.

Thanks, everyone, for your updates. Keep 'em coming! Happy spring! -- Abra Benson, amb8@cornell.edu; Alison Torrillo French, amt7@cornell.edu. Class website, http://classof95.alumni.cornell.edu.

96 | On assignment in the Balenciaga headquarters in Paris--in a room filled with $10,000 gowns and mannequins and a jumble of cloth--the photographer and I stared at each other as someone was about to introduce us. "I know you," she said, laughing. It was Jessica Antola. She's a photographer based in Paris and Los Angeles. You may have seen her work in the New York Times Magazine and Vanity Fair.

That was my most random Cornellian sighting of the year--and I bet you can guess the next bit: send us yours. They don't even have to be random, though random will be a slight change from the weddings and babies we're writing about these days.

Wedding Watch: Laura Moy married Christian Ely on Sept. 16, '06 in Cambridge, MA. The wedding party included bridesmaid Cherie Purring Koch '97 and ushers Ruben Koch and Alec Hopkins. Also in attendance: Jeanette Bettles and husband Ken Flanagan '98, Don Lazzaro, Chris '98 and Liz Ceccacci Orelup, Chris Salsbury '95, Jeffrey Schenck,Mike Stratemeier '95, and DaveWest. Laura and Christian live in Cambridge, where Laura says they're enjoying "the challenges of a house that's more than 100 years older than I am." Laura recently hit her 10th anniversary at WGBH, Boston's public TV and radio station. She's the products manager for WGBH Boston Video (translation: she makes DVDs of some of the shows you see on PBS, such as "Masterpiece Theatre").

Wedding Two: After marrying on a plantation near Richmond, VA, on Sept. 16, '06, David Bender says he had a fabulous Greek honeymoon with his wife Heather (Haverford '97). Best man was Jason Zausmer, and other Cornellians in attendance included Andrew Kratenstein, Dave Pincus, and Ron Elfenbein, as well as David's sister Jackie Bender Brecht '94, mother Carol Greenwald Bender '65, and grandfather Sam Bender, DVM '41. David is back in Richmond, continuing to grow his landscaping company. Ron ran a good campaign for state delegate in Annapolis, MD, but "unfortunately it wasn't the Republicans' year," says David. Andrew is working on some legal issues surrounding the Enron case, Dave Pincus is doing biochem research at the U. of Maryland, and Alex is overseeing two construction projects in Manhattan.

Our class is doing its best to populate the Classes of '26 and '27--yikes, you guys are scaring me! The Mamas and Papas: Heather Caruthers Miniman recently began freelance medical writing again after the birth of her second child, a boy named Sean, born March 1, '06. Sean's 3-year-old big sister Rachel is, Heather reports, "proud-- and protective."Heather, husband Stuart '95, and kids live in Douglas, MA. Kirsten Carroll and husband Vincent Somoza welcomed their first child in September, a little girl named Adelaide. (This news courtesy of Heather Nydham Martinez, MHA '99, who reports that she and husband Nick are about to head off to Belize--their first true vacation since starting their Denver-based business, Detailers Paradise, four years ago.)

Thanks to Joshua Babbitt, MS '97, for the news that two of our classmates had babies within four days of each other: Daniella Ballou-Aares and Chetna Bansal, MS '97, both gave birth in St. Luke's/Roosevelt in NYC, Daniella on Dec. 7 and Chetna on Dec. 10. Chetna was able to say hi to Daniella and baby Sabine as she was on her way in and they were heading home. Chetna had a baby girl named Ayana Aravind Chari.

Danielle Ben-Aviv gave birth to a little girl named Maytal on Aug. 21 '06. Danielle just started in practice as an endocrinologist in Bridgeport, CT, and moved to Fairfield. Congratulations to Kenya Mayfield Beckmann on the birth of son Brooks Porter Beckmann on Aug. 12 '06--and on her new job as director of major gifts and campaigns at Hoag Hospital, Neuroscience Inst. in Newport Beach, CA. Joshua and Margaret Vinciguerra welcomed daughter Anna Kathleen on Dec. 28 '05. Joshua is working as an assistant district attorney in NYC.

And this note from JustinMcEntee:"My wife Jessica and I had our first child, Finlay Pownall McEntee '27, on Nov. 25, '06. Our cocker spaniel, Sophie, was wary at first, but seems to be taking well to her new brother. To accommodate our son, we sold our ‘cozy' apartment in Union Square (which has become far too fashionable for us in the past five years) and traded it for a larger, more stroller-friendly apartment directly across from a Pottery Barn Kids on East 69th St. As soon as we moved in, the apartment next door became available, so we had to buy it, too (as is the rule in Manhattan). Luckily, my father, Joseph McEntee '64, is retiring from his law firm in Dallas at year-end, so he and my mother, Carol (Naylon) '66, split the apartment with us, giving them a Manhattan retreat and giving us doting grandparents next door."

Lastly, for those of you planning trips to Ithaca, make a note: Courtnay Kasin Papera and her husband Mark '95 have recently returned to town and opened Dijon, a French bistro at 311 Third St. Previously, they owned Epernay in Montclair, NJ. -- Courtney Rubin, crubin0515@yahoo.com.

97 | Perhaps because of the winter weather at the time I'm writing this, it's hard to believe that by the time you read it, many of you will be finalizing travel plans back to Ithaca for reunion. Here's a preview of what you might hear when you come back in June . . .

Melissa Altman Stein updated us on the recent happenings in her life. She finished her PhD in clinical psych in 2006 and works at the Bronx V.A.Medical Center and loves every minute of it, including research on PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder. She looks forward to sharing many Cornell experiences at reunion with her new husband, especially Hot Truck! Also heading back to the Hill for reunion is Kathryn Krase (KatKrase@aol.com). Kathryn spent some time in Ithaca this past summer for a Summer Research Inst., working with the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect. Upon her return to NYC, Kathryn took a position with NYU's Family Defense Clinic, where she teaches and supervises law and social work students. She and husband Bill are also keeping busy on a never-ending renovation of their 150-year-old townhouse in Brooklyn.

Quick quiz: Which classmate hopes to visit the Stifel Fencing Salle and perhaps fence a couple of touchés when he returns for reunion? Answer: James Kim (jjkim91@gmail.com)! James is currently working at Cooper Union and NYU after finishing his PhD and getting married to Young Jin Cho-Kim last January at Columbia U. He's also looking forward to connecting with some faculty and classmates, including Adrian Boma, Brian Vance, John Heal, and Pablo Bedetti, MBA '02, upon his return to the Hill.

Updating us from downtown Philly is Chad Levitt (chadlevitt@comcast.net), who works in specialty real estate finance for Rait Investment Trust. Chad hopes to see as many friends as possible at reunion, although, he writes, "I feel like I may be the only one who hasn't married or had children."He also updated us on Marc and Ellen Goodman Stiefel, who recently moved back to Philly and had a baby boy, Adam. Also welcoming a bundle of joy are Matthew and Beth Rothenstein Harman (bharman526@hotmail. com). Daughter Madison Eve joined the family in April 2006.Meanwhile, Beth has been working as a speech pathologist for children ages birth to 3 years, and Matthew runs a hedge fund in NYC.

Mike Perera (mikeperera@nc.rr.com) sends news from Cary, NC. He has been working as a manager for IBM for the past three years and has two children, Daniella, 2-1/2, and Zachary, 4 months. Also residing in the South is Kinei Lin (kinei@yahoo.com). Kinei has moved back to the US after working for FedEx for eight years in Tokyo, Japan. Staying close to home, Kelly Maule Makosch (kam11@cornell.edu) works for the Cornell Annual Fund. She also celebrated her wedding to husband Kenny in June 2006. Classmate Meghan Faulkner was in the bridal party and other Cornellians were in attendance at the celebration. Steven and Robin Yates Dulman (rhymd01@yahoo.com) were married in August 2006 and celebrated with matron of honor Jennifer Mattucci Santoro, as well as classmates Margaret Billy, MILR '00, and Gregg and Marcy Rosenberg Benson. They currently live in Hoboken, NJ, while Robin is working at NYU in a pediatric hematology and oncology fellowship. Robin told us that Jennifer lives in Virginia with husband John Santoro and has her own private psychiatry practice. Gregg and Marcy live in New Jersey as well, with sons Jack and Will.

Congrats on all our weddings, promotions, births, and other exciting life events! Remember: this is only a sample of what you can find out about your classmates when you join us in Ithaca for Reunion 2007! -- Sarah Deardorff Carter, sjd5@cornell.edu; Erica Broennle Nelson, ejb4@cornell.edu.

98 | Welcome to another exciting and entertaining Class of '98 column. As we type this column up in New York's global-warming winter and London's schizophrenic weather conditions, the holiday lights are lit and the air smells like Christmas trees. In this season of good tidings and joy, we share with you the joys and triumphs of fellow classmates. (Note:We are trying to write this article together, even though we are on two different continents. Erica Chan wrote the bulk of it and left spaces in the article for Gregg to add some words. It was a fun game of Mad Libs for him--I guess we're just trying to figure out unique ways to write these columns after four years!)

'98ers Ben Butkus and Beth Fahey got married on October 7, 2006, a beautiful day on campus! The ceremony was at Anabel Taylor and the reception was at the Big Red Barn. A joyous Cornell contingent was there; the bride's siblings Bob Fahey '01, Becky Fahey '04, and Cathy Fahey '10 were all in the wedding party, as well as Erika Zimmerman and Aaron Bouchie '99. Other Cornellian guests were Danielle Wood, who read Ogden Nash's poem "Tin Wedding Whistle," Jonathan Ivers '00, who sang at the ceremony, Shirley Hapangama, Brian Hurh,Mike Javid, Beth Ann Lawrence '01, Sharmila Sandhu, and Zsofia Stadler, MD '02. It was like a mini-reunion for a lot of the guests who had not been to Ithaca in a while. Beth also told us that Aaron Bouchie was married on Sept. 23, 2006 to Kelly White in NYC. Beth and Ben went to the Sonoma wine country and San Francisco for their honeymoon and now live in Brooklyn, NY, where Ben is a science journalist and Beth is a tech writer.

Agnes Galvez is a full-time doctoral student at the U. of Nevada, Las Vegas in the Educational Leadership program, as well as a full-time long-term care dietician for North Las Vegas Care Center. As if having two full-time commitments is not enough to keep her busy, Agnes spends her free time figure skating, doing hip-hop aerobics, and simply chillin' in the desert city. She misses her friends, however, and says she would rather be teaching, researching, advising college students, traveling, and doing the lecture circuit. She also wants to hear from her long-lost Cornell friends! If Agnes needs any coaching on her skating, she can ask Leslie Kirchler, who joined the Northwestern U.Dance Team and coaches ice skating.When not dancing or skating, Leslie is a transportation planner, and at the time she wrote in, she was looking for a condo/town home. Hopefully she found something. She would rather be working as a professor or joining a new archaeology dig. She misses her Friday and Saturday nights at Lynah Rink, and would like to hear from Shaka Davis and Michelle Pangborn.

Joshua Malkin is a financial advisor. He runs a wealth management group at Smith Barney, helping clients in all areas of finance, including asset management, liability management, risk management, and estate planning. Josh says he loves his job and there is nothing else that he would rather be doing. Hearing the call of the bright lights of New York City, Albert Choi made the cross-country move from Los Angeles to New York. Albert has joined VNU eMedia, as its manager of digital strategy for its 46 Web publications, including Billboard, Radio & Records, the Hollywood Reporter, Adweek,Mediaweek, and Editor & Publisher. In his spare time, Albert is a dedicated frequent flyer who travels from continent to continent to see friends and family. He was recently spotted in London with Erica, catching up with friends and shopping for scarves.

Karen Ruenitz is living in San Francisco, working as an artist and teaching fashion illustration at California College of the Arts. You can look at her current work at www.karenruenitz.com. Kirk Keller is also living out in California with his wife Sandra. They celebrated their third wedding anniversary on Nov. 1. Their daughter Emma is 20 months old. Congratulations go out to JaniceWhittleton, who graduated from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke U. in May 2006 with her MBA and a certificate in Health Sector Management. She had a great time in business school, including a study abroad at UCT in Cape Town, South Africa, from January to March 2006. She moved to Denver, CO, in July 2006. Elizabeth Dewey, MBA '06, graduated from the Johnson School in May and, like Janice, spent a semester abroad at the Melbourne Business School in Australia. She is currently in the Experienced Commercial Leadership Program-NBC Universal/GE.

We hope you enjoyed our joint effort! Apologies to those we haven't been able to fit into the column yet. Hope everyone is doing well. Please keep on sending us information about what you or your friends are doing. -- Gregg Herman, gdh5@cornell.edu; and Erica Chan, hc31@cornell.edu.

99 | As I write this at my little cubicle in Midtown, I'm scarfing down a sandwich, answering the phone, and IM'ing with a colleague. These are the days of multitasking. Do you use your BlackBerry while driving or standing in line at the grocery store check-out line? (Admit it.) Do you rest your computer on your pillow to compile meeting notes before heading off to Sleepyland? (You know you do.) How about read the paper, watch the news, and eat breakfast all at the same time? (I admit it--I do it every day.)

Some of us are already in our 30s and many more are about to hit that milestone. It is nothing but work and more work these days, either in the office or in graduate school or in the home with new families. Yikes! Stop for a moment. Relax. Read about your fellow '99ers in this special "agenda-style" class column.

Item I: Baby News. Jodie Hamill Sadowsky, out in Hartford, CT, is the proud mama of little boy Ryan William, born October 11, 2006. In Winters, CA, Laura Tocco Mariani is happy to announce the birth of Miles Daniel, born August 14, 2006.

Item II:Wedding News. Jennifer Scarpati and Andrew Schinder, JD '03, sealed with a kiss their relationship that began when they met outside an ILR 210 prelim nearly ten years ago. The couple were married on September 2, 2006 in Madison, CT. Christina Hughes was the maid of honor, and Lee Striar was best man. Groomsmen included Jake Williams,Michael Niver '00, Brian Markowitz, and Jeff Shapiro. Jennifer and Andrew are living in NYC and both work as lawyers. He is an associate in the capital markets department at Cadwalader, and she is a patent litigation associate at Frommer, Lawrence & Haug.

Ilana Kubel married Matt Engel this past Memorial Day weekend in Wading River, NJ. The couple met two years ago at the wedding of Julie Cohen Fein. Amy Nathanson Nash, Debbi Share,Margaret Miller Martsching, and Aliza Kirshenbaum were bridesmaids. Ilana and Matt live in NYC.

Item III:Work News. After a two-year court clerkship and vacations in Greece and South America, Diana Rubin started work as an associate at Skadden Arps in NYC. Jennifer Kantor Gershberg is now an associate in the litigation department at Blank Rome in Washington, DC. Janelle Becker Kahn is a vice president at NYC-based Alliance- Bernstein, a global asset management firm. Christine Ng Vitols is a vice president in global securities lending at Goldman Sachs in NYC. She spends her time traveling for work (Boston, Chicago,Miami, and Tokyo) and searching for an apartment to buy.

Berett Shaps is a pediatric resident at St.Vincent's hospital in NYC. Josh Benjamin is living in Boston and is a second-year medical student at Boston U. This past summer Josh took it easy with a two-week trip to Tanzania. Laura Knights is an associate VP for the Seattle-based Harrison Group, a consulting and market research firm. Her work means travel, too, including a trip to Denmark last summer. Rebecca Eaton is working as a consultant to nonprofits in the Boston area.

Shannon Lacy is a captain in the US Army Veterinary Corps; he is currently stationed in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Shannon married Shannon Lee Campbell '98 on December 31, 2004. Jamie Roth is breaking news as a reporter for WFSB-CBS television station in Hartford, CT. David Asam is living in Shepherdstown,WV, and working as the sommelier and VP at the Bavarian Inn. He recently traveled to Europe for three weeks and spends much of his free time at wine tastings. Jennifer Sitts Kester is a senior planner for the city of Gig Harbor,WA.

Megan Palmer Luton is living in South Onondaga, NY, and working as a speech pathologist in the Syracuse city school district.Megan and husband Brian recently began farming a four-acre patch of land where they grow heirloom and specialty vegetables for the local farmer's markets and area restaurants. If you live in the area, check out the vegetables from Stones Throw Farm (www.stonesthrowfarm.biz). Eat local and eat Cornellian-grown veggies! David "Doug" Hill is living in Bedminster, NJ, and working as a global supply planner for Infineum, a chemical manufacturer, in Linden, NJ. Ed Hutchins lives in Raleigh, NC, and works as an engineering manager for water operations at Cree Inc. in Durham, NC. He writes about his after-hours extracurricular activities: "What after hours? Work never ends!"

Indeed, work never ends. But before you grab that "Crack" Berry to see what new missive you have from the boss, fire off a message to your class correspondents and let us know what you, yes YOU, are doing.

Item IV: How to contact us. Send class news to: -- Melanie GrayceWest, melanie@melaniegrayce.com; Jennifer Sheldon, jennifer.sheldon@gmail.com; Brady Russell, bradydale@thistoowillpass.com.