70 | Leslie Hall (leslie.hall@azag.gov) lives in Tempe, AZ, and works at the Arizona Attorney General's office, representing the Accountancy Board in complicated cases primarily dealing with one of the Big Four accounting firms. In summer 2006 she was elected to the board of governors of the Arizona State Bar. Connie Fern Miller is a full-time public defender for Schuyler County, NY.Her husband, Richard Van Emrik '73, works at the Schuyler County Clerk's office. They live in Montour Falls and have two daughters. Kate, 23, graduated from NYU in May 2005 and works in NYC, and Lane, 21, graduated from SUNY Potsdam in May 2007.

Tom Pressler (tepress@comcast.net) and his wife Greta live in Woodinville,WA.His company, Pressler Engineering LLC, now has five full-time employees and is in its fourth year of business, providing mechanical consulting engineering in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii. Tom also has a new company, Pressler Forensics Inc., that provides mechanical forensic engineering for building owners, lawyers, and insurance carriers. Son Kevin, who lives in San Diego, CA, with wife Christine and their three daughters, provides parttime computer and technology consultation for the firm. Daughter Heather has completed her undergraduate work at MIT with degrees in both biology and chemistry. In summer 2006, she did stem cell research at the Langer Lab in Cambridge, MA.

At the April 19-20 Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration event in Ithaca, our classmate Kevin McGovern was honored and named Entrepreneur of the Year for 2007. Congratulations! Kevin is CEO and chairman of McGovern Capital LLC in NYC, a leading private investment firm, and a global intellectual property rights strategist. He is founder of or key shareholder in more than 15 companies, including TriStrata (skin care), SoBe (nutraceutical beverages), and KX Industries (water and air filters). He is also involved in many and varied endeavors including co-chair of the Silver Shield Foundation, which provides college scholarships to the children of police and firefighters killed in the line of duty in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey. Kevin and wife Lisa have children Jarret '03 and Ashley '08.Murem Sakas Sharpe and Dan Kathan, MBA '73, attended the celebration in April. For more information, go to www.epe.cornell.edu.

NeilMurray (Schenectady, NY; nvm@cs.albany.edu) is enjoying his first year as non-department chairman after seven years as chair. In July he presented a paper at TABLEAUX 2007 in Aix en Provence, France. Bill Kelsey, MBA '74 (Findlay, OH; wkelsey@who.rr.com) is still retired and still playing hockey! He and wife Tina (Meyn), MS '70, took their sailboat around Lake Superior this past summer. Steven Rockey (Ithaca, NY; swr1@cornell.edu) is very happy and proud that both of his children are Cornellians. He and son Ben Rockey-Harris '04 attended the graduation of daughter Kate Rockey-Harris '06 in May 2006. Greg Hill and his family are doing well in northwest Indiana (Chesterton). As the "steel capital" of America, the Burn Harbor Plant is part of the largest steel company in the world,Mittal Steel NV. Greg has been involved with Burn Harbor for 32 years and was head of the iron-making operation for 17 years. He feels that Cornell has been an important part in his success and an extremely positive influence on him, in part due to the diversity of the university. He thinks often of his cousin Hank Brittingham.

Steven "Doc"Kross, DVM '72 (golfdoctor29926@yahoo.com) built a log home in Lake Lure, NC, and moved there in November 2006 after residing in Hilton Head, SC, for 12 years. Son Jason, 29 (HSU '00), lives in Arcata, GA, where he does marketing for a landscape firm; son Michael, 27 (Rice U. BA and MA '05) is an architect living and working in San Francisco; and son David, 25 (U. of Georgia '05), is a public relations specialist in NYC. Steven is a dealer for log home building materials. In May 2007, Patrick Kelly (patrickelly@webtv.net) and wife Angela traveled to Northern Ireland to rediscover their Irish roots. Then in October they went to Marmaris, Turkey, to join sailing friends for the annual Maritime Festival. Patrick and Angela live in Ottawa, Ontario.

Early in 2007, Ed Zuckerman (EZucker199@aol.com) wrote and shot a TV pilot for a cop show (what else!) called "Suspect" for ABC. The director was Guy Ritchie, who is married to Madonna. ABC announced its fall schedule in May and "Suspect" wasn't on it, but it's possible the show will be picked up by a cable network or "redeveloped" by ABC. Ed has taken a job as a writer-producer on the original "Law & Order," now in its 18th season. It's his fourth tenure on the show.His first time was in 1990, before the first episode, which Ed wrote, was broadcast. The last time he worked there was nine years ago, so he is experiencing a very weird déjà vu. In March 2007, oldest daughter Molly had her bat mitzvah and, her proud dad reports, it was a fantastic event. -- Connie Ferris Meyer, cfm7@cornell.edu.

71 | If you're a sports fan, be sure to be in New York City during Thanksgiving weekend. The Cornell men's hockey team will face off with the Boston U. Terriers on November 24, 2007 at 8 pm at Madison Square Garden.When the Big Red meets the Terriers it will be the first collegiate hockey game held at Madison Square Garden since 2003. Our class will participate in a pre-game pep rally and reception. You should receive a mailing from the university with more information, but if you need details please contact one of your class correspondents by e-mail.

In June I had the pleasure of attending a Cornell event to honor friend and classmate Andrew Tisch. Andrew received the Tanner Prize from the Cornell Hillel Organization, awarded annually to a person who has made significant contributions to both Jewish life and to Cornell University. The prize bears the name of Harold Tanner '52, chairman emeritus of the Cornell Board of Trustees. Andrew's family was present for this honor, as well as many Cornell alumni and staff, including President Skorton, Prof.Walter LaFeber,Harold Tanner, current board chairman Peter Meinig '61, Leslie Jennis Obus,Mayo Stuntz Jr.,Martha Coultrap, Diana Daniels, Ezra Cornell '70, Joel Glasky, Jeff Berg '79, MBA '81, BonnieWolfman Glasky '73, Carol Fein Ross '72, and David '73 and Abby Joseph Cohen '73, last year's recipients. Elana Beale '08, daughter of classmate David Beale, was one of the student speakers at the event. Congratulations, Andrew, and thank you for all that you do for Cornell.

And now, on to our news cards. Bill Duncan (billduncan@planetcable.net) is an attorney in Carlisle, PA.When he's not working he serves as president of the Cumberland County Historical Society and is incoming president of the Cumberland County Bar Association.He also volunteers his time to the United Way. Bill enjoys golf and travel.He would like to be in touch with any Cornellians who read this and remember him. Ira Casson (iradocdad@aol.com) lives in the New York area and works as a neurologist in Forest Hills, NY. He does research on concussions in athletes and recently became co-chairman of the National Football League's Concussion Committee. Edward Hoffman is a psychologist in private practice and is an adjunct professor at Yeshiva U. in New York.He enjoys travel and gave a series of lectures at Tokyo U. last year. Bari Boyer writes that she attended CAU with her 85-year-old father in Jupiter, FL, to learn about baseball and see four spring training games. Bari lives in the Boston area, is semi-retired, and spends her leisure time playing duplicate bridge. She is married to Marshall Katzen '68.

One of Howie Jacobson's best memories of Cornell is "hanging out on Eddy Street."He now lives in Canandaigua, NY, where is he managing partner of Dixon Schwabl Advertising, an agency that supports many national and regional not-for-profits. He recently created a collaborative venture among the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Tavern on the Green in Central Park, and Dixon Schwabl. The venture gives 25 percent of its profits to the NCMEC. You can check it out at www.taverndirect.com. Howie is also vice chairman of the Hillside Work Scholarship Connection, a 20-year program, which is focused on improving graduation rates in the Rochester City School District. The program has 1,500 students in grades 7 through 12. Howie would like to find Bob Buhmann and Don Norton. You can reach him at howie@thebigparade.com.

Rick Cochran (rcc2@cornell.edu) is the software developer for the Net-Print service at Cornell. A recent Cornell Chronicle article about the service is available at www.news.cornell. edu/stories/March07/netprint.html. Joel Cohn (cohnj001@hawaii.rr.com) reports that he has been "sentenced to a second three-year term as chairman of the Dept. of East Asia Languages and Literature" at the U. of Hawaii,Manoa. He and wife Suma recently celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary with a trip to Venice. He would love to hear from Doron Schwarz. Susan Smith Korbel (korbel@world-net.net) lives in San Antonio. Her son Joe is a sophomore at Cornell this year and she is busy attending volleyball tournaments with her 15-year-old daughter. Susan would like to hear from Naomi Katz Mintz and Chris Gould.

Thank you to all who have sent us news during the past few months. If you enjoy reading this column, jot off an e-mail with some news about you.We look forward to seeing many of you on November 24 at the Cornell/BU hockey game. -- Linda Germaine-Miller, lg95@cornell.edu; and Matt Silverman, mes62@cornell.edu.

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73 | In one year we'll be reporting on our 35th Reunion! The reunion committee and class officers have had regular conference calls, so here's what we know so far.We reaffirmed our decision to "GO FOR THE BOWL" and have 1,000 donors as our 35th Reunion Cornell Fund participation goal. (The Bowl is the Class of '74 Bowl, which is given to any class that achieves 1,000 donors in a reunion year.) Equally ambitious, we'd like to break the 35th Reunion attendance record set by the Class of 1952, which had 208 attendees.We set our goal for the 35th Reunion at 209 attendees. Check the website regularly for updates, slide shows, and information on how to make sure the friends you want to attend reunion are there (http://classof73.alumni.cornell.edu/). In the meantime, be sure to send us your news as our mailbag is empty.

Mark Liff is pleased to let us know that his daughter Stephanie enters Cornell this fall as a member of the Class of 2011 in the College of Arts and Sciences. Stephanie thoroughly enjoyed the 2006 Cornell Summer College Program and her entire campus experience. She applied early decision to Cornell and their family's excitement at home had been growing since mid-December, when Steffi received her online acceptance. And she "found" Cornell without any subtle prodding from her proud dad!

Alas, I have no future Cornellians in my family. The triplets,Mitchell, Anna, and Christine, have all graduated from high school and will be off this fall to colleges far from one another. Hard to believe all those years of work are about to bear fruit far from the tree.Mitch is going to Michigan State U. Bless his heart for easing the empty nest by moving out of home, but not out of town. Of course, he also gets a tuition break as the child of a faculty member, which means we can afford to send his sisters to the colleges of their choice-- Christine to Grinnell College and Anna to Stanford U. Dave and I are still a bit numb from the thought of them all leaving, as well as from the number of awards they received in the last days of high school.We're still not sure how we did it.We had only one rule--don't kill yourself and don't kill anyone else. One rule was about all we could enforce so we went basic. Seems to have worked.

Older sister Kate graduated from college a week before the triplets walked the stage. She was summa cum laude from Biola U. in La Mirada, CA, a small school with an excellent program in film production. She's now working on finding intermittent gainful employment.We're optimistic it won't be too intermittent, but we're realists about how the movie business works. Of course, she's not really our responsibility any more, since she got married two weeks after she graduated. Dave and I enjoyed seeing friends at her wedding. They included Ellen Rosenthal and her husband Rick Whiteman. Ellen and Rick's son Andrew is going to Oberlin this fall. Ellen remains at the National Labor Relations Board in their Detroit office and lives in Royal Oak, MI.

Like other late-blooming parents, we hope to get over the empty nest syndrome in time to retire. The mixed emotions of freedom and loss swirl in everyone in our family. The triplets have all sidled up to tell me how terrifying going away to college and being an adult is--let alone losing the compassion and friendship of each other. They're excited, of course, to take on life and find and pursue their passions. At the other end, I guess, we sit as parents too exhausted to be terrified.We're just hopeful no one has to come back home to live.We'll rumble around the house for a while, at loose ends, and then I imagine we'll remember we can entertain anytime we like, go camping on weekends, and attend something besides high school sporting events in the evening. And before we know it, we'll be praying that all three college graduations don't happen on the same weekend.

So remember your own graduation, nearly 35 years ago, and get ready to celebrate your launch into adulthood by planning on coming to our reunion, June 5-8, 2008. Until then, send your news to: -- Phyllis Haight Grummon, phg3@cornell.edu.

74 | It's all or nothing when it comes to news for this class column. The News Forms seem to come in all at once in the fall--I even have a surplus to pass along to my co-correspondents. But my last package from the alumni magazine contained just one piece of news--from contented classmate Henry F.Webb Jr., MPS '74, Henry writes that he is a retired US State Dept. diplomat (FSO) and now lives in Orange Park, FL, with his wife, Jean (Dunlap), PhD '78. He spends his days playing golf or tennis, fishing, entertaining, visiting vintage car shows, or cruising around in his C6 2007 Corvette.

Cornell's Adult University (CAU) provided news of '74 classmates who attended off-campus study tours and on-campus courses during the last year. Tom Colbert attended the pre-reunion seminar Personality and Politics. Roberta Scipioni Ball, DVM '79, Thomas Boyd, and Marie van Deusen all braved a riverboat expedition to the Upper Amazon and enjoyed (enjoyed?) accommodations in a rainforest lodge. Ann Trueblood Raper attended a weekend seminar on the 2006 Midterm Elections at the beautiful Mohonk Mountain House overlooking the Hudson River. James Hatfield experienced Fall Migrations at Old Cape May. This set me to wondering: migrations of what? Birds? Butterflies? Folks with summer cottages on the Jersey Shore?

After years of reading about his successful career in Human Ecology alumni publications, I offer this news from the Cornell Chronicle website about Joseph Laquatra, PhD '84, the Hazel E. Reed Human Ecology Extension Professor in Family Policy. In November 2006 Joe was named the first recipient of the Outstanding Engagement Award from the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC) Board of Human Sciences. The purpose of the award is to recognize a faculty member "for exceptional creativity and scholarship in the development, application, and evaluation of outreach, extension, and public service programs." Joe's outreach and research focus on sustainable aspects of housing with emphases on residential energy efficiency, indoor air quality, construction site waste management, and residential sprawl. Joe is the primary author of two textbooks on energy efficient construction. He has conducted educational programs for homebuilders and also taught builders, engineers, architects, and government officials about these topics in Poland, Russia, and Japan.

Spring launched the social season in Central New York, with attendant cocktail parties, weddings, and graduations.My husband and I recently attended a party in Cazenovia for a friend's 60th birthday. Fred Palmer was there, and in response to my plea for news, sent the following: "Fred Palmer, wife Shea, and their three children continue to reside in New Woodstock, NY. Pat, 21, will be returning to OCC this fall, Fred IV, 16, is finishing 10th grade at Cazenovia High School, and Liz, 12, is finishing 6th grade at Cazenovia Middle School. Fred is completing his 25th year of law practice in Cazenovia and his 15th year as a Cazenovia town justice. Shea is an elementary school teacher in Chittenango. Fred and Fred IV enjoyed following the Cornell lacrosse team this year, but it was difficult to choose between Cornell and Syracuse (Fred's other alma mater) in their match-up at the SU Dome this spring. Fred sends his best Big Red wishes to all." Fred must have been brand new at his town justice job when he showed up to officiate at my rained-out backyard wedding to Dave Porter 15 years ago (quickly relocated to the dining room).He was dressed in a seersucker suit, red bow tie, white bucks, and a straw boater hat and was a big hit with the many Cornellians in attendance. Can't remember whether we sang "The Wedding Song" or the Alma Mater!

At the above-mentioned party, our hostess reported on the doings of her sister Patricia Barker Von Reyn. Patty and her husband John live in Manassas, VA, now, but met in Swaziland many years ago while both were in the Peace Corps. They are the proud parents of three adult children and one grandchild who live, work, and/or attend college in the D.C. area. Patty is currently a physics teacher in a private parochial high school.

Several members of the Moore family spent Memorial Day 2007 in Ithaca, celebrating the graduation of my nephew Taylor Moore '07 (son of Ted Moore '71 and brother of Trevor '08) from CALS. The usual suspects were there, including Charlotte Smith Moore '48, Jean Moore Latham '70, Tom '79 and Carol McKenzie Moore '74, and yours truly, as well as other relatives who chose to attend colleges elsewhere. It was a beautiful weekend and the procession from the Arts Quad over to Schoellkopf was as memorable as ever. As I leafed through a copy of the Cornell Daily Sun graduation issue, out jumped a headline reading "Sun Names Bishop Top Athlete of '07." Liz Bishop '07, daughter of Mort Bishop, is a star volleyball player, earning All-Ivy first team honors in four consecutive seasons and Player of the Year honors in both her junior and senior years. She plans to enter an executive training program at Ralph Lauren in NYC, a path similar to the one Mort followed before returning home to Oregon to run the family business, Pendleton Woolen Mills.

Also attending the festivities at my nephew's graduation party were the extended families of his fellow graduating roommates, Louis Wasser '07 and Peter Wiegers-Goldstein '07. Louis's mother, Sara Weiss '73, is a forensic psychologist in private practice who often serves as an expert witness on family problems. Sara and husband Lawrence Wasser live in New York City and are happy to report that their son Jason will be joining the Class of '11. SusanWiegers '77 and husband Barry Goldstein '76 are both professors of medicine, Susan on the faculty at UPenn, and Barry the chief of endocrinology at Thomas Jefferson U. in Philadelphia. Although these folks found it a little surprising to be interviewed for class notes at a graduation party, we all had a good time getting to know each other a little, and Susan was kind enough to examine a large cut on Taylor's foot, proving once again that it is such a bad idea to run around barefoot outside a fraternity house.

"Don't make me write about my family." Send news any time of year to: -- Betsy Moore, emoore@cazenovia.edu; Bill Howard, billhoward@comcast.net; or Steve Raye, spr23@cornell.edu.

75 | Summer is here as I write this, the girls are in camp, and Orlando is actually not too hot. First off, many thanks to Deb Gellman, MBA '82, for being the lifeblood of this column for so many years and getting the news to the other correspondents.We all owe her.

Martin Mack has been nominated by New York Governor Eliot Spitzer to serve as deputy secretary for intergovernmental affairs. He has been deputy attorney general for the last eight years and is the former mayor of Cortland. Jay Sloofman, president of Marketing Visions and living in Ardsley, NY (jsloofman@marketing-visions.com) reports that he recently indulged his favorite extracurricular activity in an exciting way: he played bridge at the US Nationals with Bob Hammon, the No. 1 player in the world--and won their event. Elizabeth Moore, a partner with the Nixon Peabody LLP law firm, was honored at the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York's annual gala in NYC. Liz practices public finance and labor and employment law, providing counsel on government compliance issues in Albany and NYC. She was also appointed to Gov. Spitzer's Transition Committee as a co-chair.

Ron Schaefer writes from Fairfax Station, VA, that he is still working for ExxonMobil as human resources manager for one of its nine major business lines. He and wife Linda, from Ithaca College, celebrated their 30th anniversary and are enjoying being empty nesters after raising three kids and moving nine times, including assignments in Abu Dhabi and Germany. The birds who've flown are daughters Jessica (finishing up law school at St. Johns after graduating from Williams College) and Elizabeth (working for Urban Dove, a NYC nonprofit dedicated to working with at-risk youth, and going back to grad school), and son Liam (a junior at Syracuse and spending the year studying art history in Florence). Ron sends regards to Marty Mack.

Amy Cohen Banker's NOW Art Exhibition on Madison Avenue took attendees from the Othello of Verdi to that of Shakespeare, and from music to literature, all on 30" x 40" canvasses. One art critic complimented her work as "embody(ing) time as do poetry and words" and a "tranquility of gesture." For those of you who are wine aficionados, Sayre Fulkerson, of Fulkerson Winery in Dundee, NY (fulkersonwinery@stny.rr.com), has released the winery's 2006 Traminette. Check it out at http://wine.appellationamerica.com/ grape-varietal/Traminette. Sayre sells it throughout New York State, and ships to many customers in reciprocal shipping states. Madelaine Zadik (mzadik@email.smith.edu) is the manager of education and outreach for the Botanic Garden of Smith College in Northampton, MA.

Mike Tiffany (mike.tiffany@lmco.com) reports on his four children: Kate, a grad student at U. of Maryland, College Park, and working on a master's in Latin and classical studies; Will, attending Northern Virginia CC; Abby, who will be attending Rochester Inst. of Technology in the fall; and James, going into his senior year in high school. Mark Strauss, BArch '76 (markes@aol.com) and wife Jaye Medalia '72 had dinner in NYC with Civil Engineering major Steve Schaefer and wife Tina. Steve and Tina were in NYC to see their teenage daughter Marcella perform in a youth orchestra in Carnegie Hall. During a break,Marcella was instructed in how to use a Wii by the Medalia-Strauss children Jesse, 16, and Lily, 14.Mark was named Executive of the Month by the New York Real Estate Weekly and told us that classmate Tom Fisher is dean of architecture at the U. of Minnesota.

Robin Wolaner (robin@tbd.com) has returned to the start-up world. This September she is launching TeeBeeDee, an online network for people at midlife. The site is in preview mode at this writing--go to www.tbd.com. Robin would welcome feedback from us after visiting it. Gary, PhD '81, and Wendy RoxinWicks now only need one alumni magazine subscription--congratulations on their recent wedding in Rochester. Gary is a professor at the Inst. of Optics at the U. of Rochester.Wendy enjoys watching daughter Brittney dance, recently at the Youth America Grand Prix in NYC, where Britt and her dance partner won a gold medal for their duet out of 150-plus ballet schools from around the world--and in front of judges from ABT, Paris Opera Ballet, and the Royal Ballet. Britt has now made it into the World Ballet Competition, to be held in Orlando in early July. I'm looking forward to the visit. RickWeiss (weissr@washpost.com), living in Takoma Park, MD ("the most Ithaca-ish suburb in the D.C. area"), has been a science reporter at the Washington Post "for a lucky 13 years." Rick, wife Natalie Angier, a New York Times science writer and author, and daughter Katherine, a budding entomologist, had the pleasure of going bug-hunting a few times with Cornell's premier insect guy, Tom Eisner. Natalie's latest book, The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, came out in May and quickly made the Times' bestseller list. Rick's trumpet has been gathering dust since he left the Big Red Band, but Katherine is into piano and plays percussion in the school band.

Melissa Yorks (melissayorks@yahoo.com) is in Gaithersburg, MD. Since Cornell she got her MLS from Syracuse, and now works at the National Library of Medicine. She and her husband toured Cornell in 1988 (for the first time since graduation) while she was pregnant with her daughter. "It didn't take! We all toured Cornell again last fall and her reaction was that it is too big."And despite being accepted, she is going to U. of Chicago.Melissa's hobby? Ice dancing. She also wrote that Susan Hilmoe Sanford, who lived in Transfer House with her, is the director of admissions at Syracuse.Michael Zak (Mike@crv.com), from Waltham, MA, was elected to Cornell's Board of Trustees. Daughter Adrienne '10 "had a wonderful freshman year" and is heading into her second year in Arts and Sciences.

Laurie MusickWright (Rutland, VT; laurie@lmwdesign.com) and husband Greg have twins who are juniors in college at Beloit and Wagner. Laurie recently added the prized "credential of ‘Grandma'" when daughter Jamie Cicchetti and husband Eric Ziehm, both '99 Aggies, presented them with Cole Jackson Ziehm on January 17, 2007. Besides running her graphic design studio, LMW Design Inc., Laurie serves on the Cornell Council as chair of the Public Relations Committee. She also chairs a CAAAN committee in Vermont and serves on the board for the Vermont Cornellians. Coming up is "another amazing DG reunion planned by Diane Kopelman ‘Kope'VerSchure '74 in March 2008 in San Diego, where Maryann Lattin-Smith will be our tour guide--a not-to-be-missed event!" Last fall, Laurie enjoyed attending the 35th Reunion for the 1971 championship Cornell football team and the dedication of Friends Hall next to Schoellkopf, where a painting by Pat Musick (her mom, Pat TapscottMusick Carr, PhD '74) of father and coach Jack Musick now hangs as a memorial to his legacy with players and coaches. I still remember Ed Marinaro '72 running play after play--he averaged an enormous number of carries, and yards, per game. After many first-down plays, the opposing defensemen would do high-fives after bringing him down--usually hard. They would congratulate themselves. Then the scoreboard, on many of these occasions, would turn to "Down: 2 / Yards to Go: 4," or even stay the same--"Down: 1 / Yards to Go: 10." -- Mitch Frank, mjfgator@aol.com; Joan Pease, japease1032@aol.com; Deb Gellman, dsgellman@hotmail.com; Karen DeMarco Boroff, boroffka@shu.edu.

76 | Greetings, classmates! I hope this finds you well and that you will be sharing some of your recent news with us soon. Our last news and dues form went out with a creative format asking us some provocative questions: Present "Day" Job, Present "After Hours" extra-curricular activities,What I've been doing recently,What I'd rather be doing now,What is the one thing you remember most fondly from your time at Cornell,Who is the old Cornell friend you would most like to hear from, etc. I will share some of the responses.

Jim Slattery is a chemistry teacher living in Jensen Beach, FL. After hours he is acting and making "movie shorts," and recently he's been acting in many local community theatre productions and the Palm Beach Film School's student films. Jim is looking to connect with an agent to help him get work as an actor. He says he'd rather be acting professionally, making films, and doing commercial work and television.What he remembers most from Cornell is writing papers in the cafeteria at the Straight, listening to Springsteen on the jukebox, and drinking coffee coffee coffee. He'd like to hear from Frank Molite and Bruce Vrana '77. Bruce Crispell writes from Chevy Chase,MD, and is the director of planning for Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland.His after-hours activities include tennis, movies, books, and photography, and recent visits to colleges with his son Mitchell, who will enter U. of Michigan this fall. He says there's nothing else he'd rather be doing right now. "I'm OK."He remembers the beauty of the campus on snowy days.

Stacey Savin Chatigny lives in Simsbury, CT. She is an AP US History teacher and president of Flash-Pack Cards (www.flash-pack.com), and has been getting son Peter ready to go to Cornell in the fall as a member of the Class of 2011 in Arts and Sciences. She also recently took some students to Italy. Stacey fondly remembers walking around the Arts Quad, the views, and the people. Rebecca Lanxner Nebesar of Canaan, NY, is an art teacher to emotionally and learning disabled male youths ages 9 to 22 at a private residential school and treatment center in the Berkshires. Rebecca responds: "After Hours": singing music of the Baroque era with the Berkshire Bach Society under the direction of James Bagwell; "Recently": painting, editing video (family), mourning the deaths of close friends and relatives, keeping up with family and friends, trying to relax, too; "Rather Be": painting, writing, and traveling; "Remember most": working in the Cornell Theatre costume shop. Rebecca keeps in touch with Clare McMillan, PhD '00.

Charles Andersen is president and CEO of Transco Inc. and lives in Kildeer, IL. After hours he sings with wife Amy (Camardo) in a 140-person ensemble called Chicago Master Singers. They toured with this group in Provence in June 2008. Their son Eric graduated in May 2007 from Duke and will be entering dental school at U. of Illinois, Chicago in September. Their daughter Carrie is a junior at Harvard. Charles fondly remembers meeting Amy in 1975 when they were singing in the Cornell Glee Club/Women's Chorus--"It was great to get back to large ensemble singing." Amy Lubow Downs lives in Brooklyn, NY, and works in the accounting department of a software publishing company located on Park Ave. in Manhattan. "I live with my husband (a teacher of art and a photographer),my two teenage sons,my dog, and my hamster." From Cornell she mostly remembers some great people and some very knowledgeable professors.

Rob Schaffer is a patent attorney and a partner at Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer LLP. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and 15-year-old son. Robyn Zucchino, MBA '81, writes from Burbank, CA, and is a field sales director for Clinique Cosmetics. In her spare time she enjoys horseback riding, travel, theatre, dance, and restaurants. Recently, she's been remodeling and landscaping.When asked what she'd rather be doing, she wrote, "Exactly what I am doing."What she remembers most fondly from Cornell: "All of it." She'd like to hear from Jim Filreis. Cameron Munter e-mails that he is a Foreign Service officer and was recently nominated to become the next US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Serbia. He was to arrive in Belgrade sometime this summer. That's all the news for now. Stay in touch! -- Karen Krinsky Sussman, Krinsk54@optonline.net; Pat Relf Hanavan, relf@tds.net; Lisa Diamant, Ljdiamant@verizon.net.

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78 | Fellow '78ers, thanks for all your news updates, both e-mail and snail mail. Look for David Kaplan's (dkaplan007@optonline.net) latest book, published in July 2007 by HarperCollins. It's called Mine's Bigger: Tom Perkins and the Making of the Greatest Sailing Machine Ever Built. It's about the largest, most-expensive highest-tech private sailboat in the world--the 289-foot clipper The Maltese Falcon. It probably won't fit on Beebe Lake. Linda Dillman, BS Nurs '78 (derosanp@aol.com) reports that she is a geriatric nurse practitioner in a community-based geriatric practice affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. She is also an associate clinical instructor at the Columbia U. School of Nursing. She precepts nurse practitioner students from other programs as well (NYU, Hunter). Her real passion is ballroom dancing, which occupies most of her spare time. She competes pro-am with her instructor in international standard at the silver level. She is also an avid cyclist, logging 2,500 road miles a year. Per Linda, life is good.

Joe and Pam Lubeck live in Jupiter, FL with kids Karla '07, BA '06, Rachel, and Thomas. Joe is managing partner of Landmark Residential, a major multi-family real estate owner in the Southeast. They recently returned from a trip to Israel to visit Karla, who was there for a year as a volunteer teaching English in absorption centers. The whole family found the trip exciting and inspiring, and report no incidents where they felt concerned or unsafe. Karla will be starting a master's program at Georgetown in September. The family is also excited that Rachel has been accepted to the AAP college for the fall. They all enjoy Florida life, and in addition to family activities of golf and boating, Joe foolishly started racing Ferraris and participated in the recent Maranello Madness and Cavallino events at the Moroso Raceway--no crashes so far! "We look forward to seeing all our friends at the upcoming reunion!"

Gary Graziano, BArch '79 (GGraziano@high.net) was recently re-elected as an officer and secretary to the board of directors of AltusGroup Inc., which is dedicated to developing and marketing innovative precast products. Gary was also elected treasurer of the Mid-Atlantic Precast Association, an industry trade group serving precast concrete producers and their suppliers. In addition to these two job-related posts, Gary was elected to the board of the newly formed United Disabilities Services Foundation, a public charity that he helped found. It provides funding and management oversight for nonprofit organizations that give home-care and community-based services to thousands of people with disabilities in central, south central, and eastern Pennsylvania. He was also appointed to the newly formed board of trustees for the to-be-built Manheim Township Public Library. Subsequent to his appointment as a trustee, Gary was elected vice president and spokesperson for the board.

John DePolo writes that he and wife Lorraine and sons James, 8, and Steven, 4, live in Chapel Hill, NC, a great location to raise a family. They love it there and moved a little over two years ago after spending 14 years in Atlanta. Before that, they lived in D.C., California, Pennsylvania, and Ohio before getting married at UVA's chapel in 1989. "We just welcomed my mother, age 88, to the household.We are truly the ‘sandwich generation,' to use a cliché." Professionally, John has his own consulting firm (Cornell Strategy Solutions LLC), where he assists clients in improving their recruiting functions, and has a local and global client base. He also does executive search and recruiting at all levels, and enjoys networking and learning different industries. If you are passing through the Triangle, feel free to contact John at john.depolo@gmail.com.

Holly English (Montclair, NJ; Hollyenglish123@aol.com) practices law in Roseland, NJ, and became president of the National Association ofWomen Lawyers this past summer. "Very exciting but also demanding! My husband, Fred Smagorinsky, is COO of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a not-for-profit based in New York whose mission is to increase minority enrollment in MBA programs and minority success in business careers." Their daughter Tess, 19, is enrolled at Wesleyan U. and loving it. Daughter Karla, 15, is a sophomore and not worrying about college yet ("Maybe we'll get a Cornellian yet!"). Life is very busy but good. Holly is in touch with many Sperryites and would love to hear from others as well. For the past ten years Curt and Lorraine Nicholas Anastasio have lived in San Antonio, TX, where Curt is president and CEO of NuStar Energy (formerly Valero LP), an energy logistics company. They're excited that their son Daniel will be a freshman this fall in the Arts college. Daniel has a twin sister Jessica and an older brother Michael.

Peter Chatel (pchatel@na.ko.com) still resides in Marietta, GA, and has two daughters in college this year. Oldest daughter Alison is a junior at UGA, middle daughter Lindsay is a freshman at Georgia Tech, and the youngest, Sarah, is a freshman in high school. Peter continues to work at the Coca-Cola Co. as VP, operational quality, responsible for providing quality and technical support to the 20 company-owned production plants in the US.He is completing his 15th year with Coke. He is also active in the Emerson Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Marietta. Jane Tanner (tannerj@sunyocc.edu) lives in Parish, NY, the small town that received 121 inches of snow in a week this past winter. She is still active with Alpha Phi, serving her eighth year as president of the House Corporation Board and as adviser for the chapter in Syracuse. In her spare time, she serves as the human resources coordinator for the Northeast Regional team. She has met a lot of fabulous sisters with all this volunteering. Jane is completing her 25th year at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse and now teaches all her math classes online. Jane presents math information to national and state conferences."My husband Andy Rowe and I have a second home in Lake Panasoffkee, FL. This really is in the middle of nowhere and we love the fact that we aren't involved in all the tourist things.We visit there as much as possible!" Jane has two stepchildren: Stephanie, who is working on her master's in teaching art at Oswego, and Casey, who hasn't found himself yet. Other than that, they just enjoy their lives to the fullest.

Lesley Gudehus (lesley.gudehus@gardnerdenver.com) moved from Memphis, TN, to Quincy, IL, to work for Gardner Denver in a newly created position--communications manager. Gardner Denver is a global company, manufacturing compressors, blowers, and pumps for agriculture and industry. Leslie previously served as marketing and public relations manager for Ballet Memphis. "I lived in Memphis for almost 15 years, so it was hard to leave all my friends there and give up my house, which I loved. Gardner Denver, however, is a great company with great people, and Quincy is very charming."

I hope all is well with you. Please continue to send news to me or Pepi. -- Chip Brueckman, jcb58@cornell.edu; Pepi F. Leids, PLeids@aol.com. Go Big Red!

79 | We are more than halfway through the year, and news about the 50th birthday celebrations just keeps rolling in. In March, Carol French Ducommun, MBA '85, and her husband Steve, JD '86, hosted a party at their home outside Chicago. Steve was the chef and prepared a delicious meal enjoyed by Paul and Cindy Phillips Meyer, MBA '84, Larry and Maggie Stone, Dave Mogul, and Matt Schiff. Kathy Landau Cornell '70 from the Midwest Regional Office also joined in on the fun.

At the end of March, San Francisco Bay Area classmates celebrated their semi-centennial and Ezra's bicentennial at the beautiful Victorian home of GaryWeiss and Michiko Tamate. Gary is a law partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and specializes in trade secrets. He and Michiko met at Columbia Law School and have been living in San Francisco since 1982. Their co-host was classmate Karen Jewett, who has been friends with Gary since freshman year when they lived on the fifth floor of Mary Donlon Hall. Karen has lived in San Francisco since 1988 and has been a staffperson with Cornell's Western Regional Office since 1999. Other alums of the Mary Donlon fifth floor freshman group in attendance were Allan Bonadio, a software engineer, Nancy Goldstone-Beckman and her husband Walter,Madeline Licker Feingold, and Kathleen Cosentino, accompanied by her fiancé William Thur '70.

Other classmates enjoying great food, birthday cake, and several bottles of wine at the Weiss/Tamate home included: Peggy Vernieu, who is completing her PhD at Berkeley Theological Seminary; Carla Bach, an educational therapist at the Hamlin School in San Francisco; Doug Hayward; Deborah Moritz; and Florence Braaf Raskin and husband Paul '77. Classmates with children at Cornell included Howard Nathel, whose son Noah '09 is a junior in Arts and Sciences, and Jim '77, ME '80, and Catherine Gobel Farrell, whose son Mac is a freshman this fall. Empty-nesters were represented by John and Piera Yavorsky Dermody, who live in Napa. Their son Jay graduated from Cornell in 2005, and their son Patrick is a graduate of the UCLA School of Music. Siobhan O'Connor recently stepped back from her full-time practice as a small animal veterinarian to care for her son Jared, the role that her husband had taken on previously. Rounding out the list of attendees were Susan Fishkoff, a journalist with Coast Weekly, who starred in the title role in Alice in Wonderland at Risley during freshman year, and Randy Michelson who brought Deb Moritz as his guest to share in the festivities.

On April 10, a group of Class of '79ers, plus guests, from the Cornell Alumni Association of Central New York (CAACNY) gathered at the Syracuse Technology Garden for dinner, drinks, and camaraderie before heading off in a luxury limo bus to a thrilling lacrosse game at the Carrier Dome. The game was tied with eight seconds to go when Cornell scored! The SU goalie was so frustrated that he actually broke his stick over his leg! Celia Rea, director of development at the Tech Garden, coordinated the event. Guests were greeted by David Duerr '77, the executive VP of the Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce and past president of CAACNY. Steve Magacs led the singing of the Alma Mater. Enthusiastic cheering could be heard from Brad and Mary Maxon Grainger, MPS '87, Craig, MBA '80, and Carol Zimmerman Buckhout, MPS '82, Denise Hauselt, JD '83, Jordan Schell-Lambert, Corrine Meredith Cummiskey '72, Steve Green, and Meghan and Jim Sollecito '76. Hats off to Celia for pulling together a great evening.

Stay tuned for more updates about the birthday celebrations, as well as our other alumni news in the upcoming editions. Have a great start to the fall and don't forget to send us your news at classof79@cornell.edu so that we can all keep in touch. You can also write to us directly. -- Cynthia Ahlgren Shea, cynthiashea@hotmail.com; Kathy Zappia Gould, rdgould@comcast.net; and CindyWilliams, cew32@cornell.edu.