Class Facebook page. Katie attends school in person a few times a week, so she is at home more. I know I have had a very busy few months traveling. He has really enjoyed his Zooms during the pandemic with Clifford Kirsch, Vinnie Gentile, and Jon Landsman. I pray that our classmates are safe and well and will come through this nightmare as survivors, ready to convene on the Hill for our 60th Reunion. Liz Belsky Stiel writes, My memories of Cornell, from the distance of almost 60 years, are all good. Next year he will be living on Dryden Road, a few houses from where Ken lived for two years. Thinking about billiard balls was one way into theoretical physics. Hopefully the memoir will also be published. Linda Meyrowitz Salamon (Lindaros@optinline.net) lives in White Plains, NY, and writes, I have taken several watercolor and drawing courses onlineIve even improved! Hes excited to get back into mixing music live and producing, while at the same time continuing training and coaching his three sons: Danny, 11, for tennis; Ethan, almost 9, for soccer; and Justin, 6, for baseball. To give us a start, heres a bit of news from our class. All in all, were doing well. Nancy Savage Petrie, 85 Brook St., Noank, CT 06340; email, nancysavagepetrie@yahoo.com. Now its a way of life. Suzannes volunteerism includes serving on the board of trustees for her synagogue and as chair of its LGBTQ Pride committee. . I have grandchildren ranging in age from 5 to 28 (16 of them), so we cover preschool through graduate school. The ultimate tribute to education design excellence. Nan is happy to be back gardening around our villa and in the community vegetable garden. Science saved us, noted Susan, as she reflects on the pandemic. We learned to love and thrive on Zoom with our widespread familyin San Diego, Portland, ME, Western Massachusetts, Israel, Canada, New York, and Los Angeles., Barbara Querze Weinreich, MEd 54, writes from Orlando, FL, about her life during the pandemic: My daily life changed when I started using Instacart instead of doing my own grocery shopping. Speaking of summer, did you know that five Cornellians competed in the Olympics for Team USA across wrestling, rowing (x2), triathlon, and hammer throw? This lab space houses a laser cutter, 3D printers, drill press, tabletop saw, adhesives, and a wide assortment of extra hand tools. John remembers when his EE class moved to Phillips Hall in our sophomore year and can't believe the changes on campus since then. In September of that year, the architects sent Dean Hollister a large oil painting of an external view of their projected design for the new building. Your correspondent is pleased to report the arrival July 7 of his second grandchild, Alexander, who joins older brother Ethan, 3, and his parents, Vanessa Hoffman 07 and David Weiner, and grandparents Eileen Barkas Hoffman 69 and me. Jerrilyn McGregory, MPS 85, a professor of African American folklore at Florida State U., has a new book out. We had wonderful exchanges of letters, photos, and telephone calls over the period since. Learn more about Cordatus here.What does it take to make it as a writer in television? By the end of the week the move had been completed. Son David 90, JD 94, is doing well in the Zoom world with his theater and dance troupe. If you didnt, please take a moment to submit an online news form or send a message or holiday letter directly to any of us: Marjorie Polycarpe Jean-Paul, carpo129@hotmail.com; Janine Abrams Rethy, janine.rethy@gmail.com; Catherine Oh Bonita, catherine.bonita@gmail.com. at our next Reunion. Please feel free to reach out to me or submit online. Online news form. Consequently, the EE Building Committee gave serious consideration to Sage as the site of choice for the new structure. We would love to hear how you have spent the last five decades and how you are doing these days. They loved family togetherness during the pandemic! Weill Cornell Medicine yw233@cornell.edu. She also serves as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Yale U. Bridget and her husband, Edmund Chung, are based in Guilford, CT, and she is excited to establish a footprint out West with a new home in Wyoming. Still in the same house and town. Dana Johnson (Pittsford, NY) wrote, I have been playing clarinet and baritone sax in three bands for 30 yearssince retirement. In a new note, Ann Coffeen Turner checked the box that lets me share her email: harann52@yahoo.com. For a bunch of reasons, my first class Reunion was our 50th in 2000. Read more about Utility Shutdown Request 34197; Utility Shutdown Request 34110. We also visited and fed goats at Lively Run Dairy, where we enjoyed an incredible cheese tasting, and alpacas at Cabin View Alpacas in Trumansburg. He . He would love to hear from U-Hall 2, floor two classmates and Phi Sigma Epsilon fraternity brothers. have imagined that I stood out to her amazing self in any way at all. While mild spinal stenosis has (at least temporarily) cut short his tennis game, he still loves golf. My fondest memory was as just a sophomore, competing in only my third race as a member of the crew team; we won the big Eastern Sprints rowing championship, beating all the other Ivy schools for the first time in many years. Warren R. Zipfel. Madeline Riff Potash, wife of Arnold 58, JD 61, has checked in from Orange, CT. Diane Baillet Meakem (dbmeakem@aol.com) reports, As of fall 2021, I will have four undergraduate grandchildren at Cornell! During his retirement, he has spent 15 years as a volunteer on the Contra Costa County Sheriffs Search and Rescue Team, ten years as a county reserve deputy, and eight years as a City of Orinda reserve police officer. As the blurb explains, Its the perfect book to buy yourself, your friend, or your sister as a reminder that were not alone in this journey toward ergonomic backpacks, getting excited about home renovations, and becoming our mothers. You can learn more here. He recently marked 15 years as an employment lawyer for Sodexo. Life is pretty damn good! Eat more hummus! Shes starting a year later than planned due to COVID, but shes ready to make up for lost time! New on the menu: fresh baked muffins! We are happy and healthy and glad to be Cornellians.. At that time an additional machinery laboratory for the Navy V-12 program was installed in the Old Heating Plant, a long barn-like structure located in the area now occupied by Bard Hall. Tulsa native Kevinn Matthews, an attorney with the Cochran Firm, was recently selected to lead its expansion into Oklahoma. I remain optimistic at the opportunity and resiliency my hometown and region continue to demonstrate. Babies brains develop by constructing an intricate communication network. I also clearly see that we are all one species. Submitted by Kara M Nash on Mon, 01/09/2023 - 08:24. . Humphreys Service Building Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-5322 Since most of these heavy items could not be accommodated by the building elevator, it was necessary to use cranes to insert them through windows that had been temporarily removed. Life is too short to wear uncomfortable jeans. Nowadays she is once again hugging friends and enjoying the great outdoors together. Beverly Fortran explains that she is single and healthy. The couple was married in 2018 at Sage Chapel, and the newlyweds were feted with a Chimes concert played especially for them. He and I had been roommates in law school, as well as during post-Vietnam military assignments when we were at nearby bases in Maryland. William Klempner, last here 30 years ago, and wife Karen appear to split their time between homes in Stuart, FL (winter), and Saddle River, NJ (summer). Directions: 1st floor Phillips Hall, enter from the Duffield Atrium or the Phillips loading dock or the Phillips Campus Rd entrance. On the work front, Diane is happily unemployed/retired and started writing a bookmy fathers biography about surviving the atrocities of the Holocaust. On the home front, being with her husband brings Diane the most satisfaction in life these days. Tweet. is located across Campus Road from Barton Hall and east of Phillips Hall, across Hoy Road, on the site of a parking lot for Hoy Field and . Lisa Lilenfeld has seen mental health needs go through the roof in recent times, so her part-time clinical practice specializing in the treatment of eating disorders and anxiety disorders has become full time, alongside her other already full-time job as a professor. Christina is a deacon at St. Gregory Episcopal Church. With the help of friends and of people they have never met, orbisculate has appeared in poems, in a crossword puzzle, and even on a warning sign surreptitiously placed in a grocery store, cautioning customers that citrus fruits are known to orbisculate. With three more kids to go, Betsy writes, Life is moving at a pretty fast pace right now, but I know the slowdown is just around the corner, so I am loving every minute of it!. She lived in Hopkinton, MA (26.2 miles west of Boston), for 34 years and just loved this quiet, suburban town. . Claudia Fischbach. And lastly, Ann Leister Mayer (Anacortes, WA) continues to enjoy bird watching, a passion she acquired from her ornithologist father, Claude Leister, Class of 1917. It gave her more time to tend to things on their small farm. She is an executive at Accenture. Dear classmates: 50 years ago, with our newly minted Cornell diplomas in hand, we embarked on new, exciting, and perhaps daunting chapters in our livesgraduate schools, jobs, travels to exotic destinations, and homes in many different places. Lynn Berni here, writing from Salt Lake City, UT, to bring you the latest installment of classmate updates. Like many of the others noted here, Rachel Korn Goldberg also finds herself in a new job, starting her work at Thomas Jefferson U. We left on the next-to-last day. Whins biggest takeaway from the pandemic was that too many people come to different views on the right protocols. Martin, DVM 66 (martinwolf105@gmail.com) and Debra Kirchner Wolf 66 live in West Palm Beach, FL. Photographed at the dedication of Philips Hall in 1955 were, left to right, S.C Hollister, dean of the College of Engineering; Mr. Ellis L. Phillips; Mrs. Ellis L. Phillips; and Cornell President Deane W. Malott. John Grocki (arc.jmg@gmail.com) moved to golf heavenHilton Head, SCto avoid the annual chores of shoveling and raking leaves. On a bittersweet note, in May my husband, Arthur Gurevitch, and I spent a wonderful week in Lake Placid and were so fortunate to visit with Brad and Mary Maxon Grainger, MPS 87. He is also enjoying playing tennis and sailing often, and has reconnected with Dave Tepper, co-captain of Cornell tennis in 70. Anger at those who refuse to follow needed precautions and directions to get rid of COVID-19.. It was what kickstarted a lifetime of world travel. Both have retired, Joan from social work and Mick from dentistry, and are keeping busy with usual local activities and later generations. I play violin in a string ensemble every week and do a once-a-month book club on Zoom. Hi, everyone! We have just read a whirlwind tour of life in the Plague Year+, with stories of coping, support, recovery, and resilience (with more to come in our next column). Available 24/7/365. After law school in 1953, he was commissioned in the US Army Judge Advocate Generals Corps and worked for three years in its patent division in the Pentagon. Pam is also working part time as a manager for the Central Toronto Athletic Club. My husband, David, and I sing in several choral groups, some together, some separatelyall of which took a while to figure out how to operate virtually since it is impossible to sing together over Zoom, but we found other software to make virtual singing a reality, and David became the guru who got everyone properly set up. Dues of either kind are now tax deductible on federal income tax returns. Rob and I spend two to three months each winter in our home near San Jos del Cabo, Mexico. She also recently completed the User Experience Design certificate program at eCornell. His Cornell degree was in Electrical Engineering; however, his subsequent degrees were an MPA and an MA and PhD in economics. And over in Oregon, WI, Scott Sanford, ME 84, is now retired after working for 18-plus years at the U. of Wisconsin, Madison as an outreach specialist/extension agricultural engineer working on agricultural energy issues. Still living in Lubbock, TX, he will stay active in the Metropolitan Lubbock Rotary Club. Our classmates have been sharing news of their pandemic activities, professional accomplishments, and volunteer activities. Thanks for sending news! She would welcome any reconnection with the brief friendships sparked there. Serena Hu was named the 134th president of the American Orthopaedic Assn. But even he remained a profound skeptic of all religious attempts to assign meaning to the universe. He once said, The more comprehensible the universe becomes, the more pointless it seems.. Explore! Andrew hopes that he will be a proud member of the Class of 2043! Alan and his wife, Susan OHara 72, BA 71, live in Rockville, MD, near daughter Joanna and son-in-law Lachlan Bell. Margie and Marc have also visited their daughter, Rachel, and her husband, Colin, parents to AJ and Elliot, and they spent time with son Michael 04 and his wife, Rebecca, on Cape Cod. She also loved exploring her fascinating neighborhood, the Upper West Side of NYC, and deeper connections with her neighbors. One Grand Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World explores the regional celebrations and traditions surrounding the holiday and traces its roots from Egypt and British colonialism into the 21st century. I know that we are all stressed, emotional, frustrated, sad, and wanting to get back to normal. We grew up listening to stories from our parents and grandparents of war, the Great Depression, and food lines. Dont miss her views of the gorge from the suspension bridge, the perspective looking down Libe Slope to West Campus, and pictures of buildings new (i.e., after our time) and old. This lab space houses power supplies, signal generators, oscilloscopes, hand tools, drills, and a medley of electrical components, sensors, and actuators. The sentiment from John Gerich (john.gerich@aol.com) is most expressive, as his pandemic takeaway uses strong language about how Trump handled the situation. Another professor actually remembered me, even though I would never (ever!) The market is missing thousands of national and international touristsand we are still here, strong, healthy, and masked. Now I am doing lots of gardening and woodworking, as well as plenty of reading. Please bear with me as I attempt to tell you about three very distinguished classmates. In 1999, he received the Lewis Thomas Prize, which is awarded to the researcher who best embodies the scientist as poet.. He and his wife now split their time between Florida and California, spending time with friends and family, playing golf, biking, walking the beach, and making improvements to their houses and gardens. The map is loading and will appear here presently. You may also submit your news via the online news form or on our class Facebook page. Phillips Hall at Cornell Get or Share Directions To Phillips Hall. Most of all, we aim to become a significant piece of your connection to Cornell as an alum. AC continues golfing, work at her church and in Planned Parenthood affiliation, following local politics, and knitting more hats than I can count for the homeless. She would like to hear from her classmates at riley5558@gmail.com. Their three children live, respectively, in NYC, Brooklyn, and London. He is looking forward to his first European river cruise next year; it was canceled twice because of COVID-19. It was fun when friends visited and he got to play tour guide. As for satisfaction in life, he is busy with lots of Cornells alumni activities, including CAAAN chair and student and alumni mentoring. I have very little social interface. Met my dear husband, Lester 60, there when he was working at my sorority, SDT. Those late nights down on State Street and trudging home in the snow taught lessons I still use. In addition to the standard power and machinery components of the curriculum, the areas of power-network analysis, servomechanisms and control systems, power electronics, illumination, analog computers, advanced radar and radio communication, audio and acoustic systems, and vacuum-tube electronics were all represented. Im working from home but have a landing space at my hospital for the time when I can resume face-to-face meetings with surgeons and anesthesiologists. Please also continue to send your news via the online news form! William Cotton, writing from home in New Orleans, says that COVID restrictions were not particularly onerous for him, only eliminating fencing and badminton and allowing outdoor tennis four to five times a week. He also has been meeting online every week with his daughter in Denver and his son and daughter-in-law in Santa Monica, CA. Keep your fingers crossed that the pandemic will not interfere with this historic event. Several years ago, I reported in these columns that I had reconnected with my steady girlfriend of 194243 at Cornell through her appearance in an adjacent Notes column for her Class of 46 (would have been mine except for WWII). Bill Schmidt had two paintings of Washington scenes (views of the National Gallery of Art and Dupont Circle) at a D.C. gallery this summer. Cornell's colleges and schools encompass more than 100 fields of study, with locations in Ithaca, New York, New York City and Doha, Qatar. Hopefully everyone is doing wellwed love to hear what youre up to these days! Online news form. Almeda AC Church Riley writes of radical change in her life due to the unexpected death of my husband, John 55, on January 30. Speaking of Cornell itselfits pretty amazing to go back and see how much the campus has changed while some parts have, happily, stayed the same. While Cliff is not working any longer, he is having fun delivering flowers for a friend who asked for his help. We can all learn from Rachellife moves fast! She is recovering from a broken back. He practices environmental law remotely on a reduced-hours basis. Michael Hogan of Delmar, NY, chose to spend January and February in Aruba instead of Albany. My third son, Cornell Class of 2018, works for a startup, and our only daughter is a rising junior at Cornell.. As always, let me know if you or any of your classmates have any exciting life updates youd like to share, and follow us at the Class of 2018 Instagram (@cornell_2018) for more news. Leslie also writes about culture and society for Vogue and the New York Times. (AOA)the oldest orthopaedic association in the worldmaking history as the first woman president. Jessica Rosenthal Chod, chodjlr@gmail.com; Hilary Johnson King, hilaryaking18@gmail.com. He was also very active in Clevelands civic scene and in 1989 was recognized as the most powerful man in Cleveland. She can be reached by email at bbhamilt@oakland.edu. Cant wait for Broadway shows to return. She now finds herself as far from her psychologist role as possible, instead running real estate sales. Besides missing her family and friends, she missed traveling. Like many of us, Susan says that regular Zoom sessions with family have helped to bring everyone closer. Our 10-year-old daughters have done their fifth-grade year virtually. Meanwhile our several groups created virtual choir videos in which each singer recorded his or her part separately and then they were combined into a single performance. Joan feels the biggest takeaways from the pandemic are the loss of control of what we can do and the changes in the power of our nation in our personal lives and in our country. Arthur Horowitz says, on that matter: Follow the science, but we Cornellians have always known that. He and Francine celebrated their 62 years together and Arthur is now 17-plus years retired from ob/gyn doctoring. Her biggest takeaway from the pandemic is that epidemiology is an important study, and yay for Anthony Fauci, MD 66! Martha ends with good wishes for Bill, ME 71, and Gail Post Wallis. Denise Williams, ddw7@cornell.edu. She is gathering with friends post-vaccine and continues to volunteer for worthy causes, one of which is becoming a great-grandmother. Suzanne has worked at the Mount Pleasant Public Library for 20 years, and, like most of us have seen, libraries are now slowly coming back to normal after months of curbside pickups and virtual programming. Although built in 1954, the 230-seat lecture room and adjoining lobby remained unchanged. He will begin kindergarten in August. His duties must be so time-consuming that he included no other news. Im getting back to normal, still not driving and no golfbut got my COVID shot early through the V.A. I still have one CEO role left with Sopris Capital. Our big news is that weve just bid farewell to our daughter, Isabel 25, who is starting at Cornell in Arts & Sciences. Schneider Social Sciences Hall (SSS) 26. May it be for others as it was for us. It certainly changed mine, and I believe that comes through in this book. Please reach out if you or any of your 2014 friends have any news to share. Her translation (from French) of Violaine Huismans award-winning novel, The Book of Mother, came out from Scribner. He finds that most satisfaction these days comes from teaching and coaching, and his biggest takeaway from the pandemic has been that distance learning at the high school level is not successful in the majority of cases. Lisa Morse (askprk@aol.com) lives in Mission Viejo, CA, where she is in semi-retirementkind of! She works both as a psychiatric nurse practitioner and as a mental health attorney, and she is also enjoying the beautiful weather and year-round access to the beach and hiking trails. Online news form. Lastly, Michael Madon reports some business news involving several Cornellians: Roughly two years after selling my cybersecurity company to Mimecast LTD with the help of fellow Cornellians Matt Sitelman 95 and Jann Yogman 93, I have brought in Dan Spiegel 96 to help launch Pretaa. No news is too insignificant to share. Some bone is resting on a nerve, which causes severe pain when touched. Carol and Tom live nearby in the same town.. Bob likes reading the Class Notes, so he figured it was time to contribute something. As she reflects on career changes, she remembers that ten years ago, she worked for the Clinton Global Initiative. Bob had been serving as a correspondent and wanted to retire.
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