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I am writing this on Jan. 19 for the Jan. 23
deadline of the March issue. The columns I
wrote in November and December for the
January and February issues have not
reached you yet. It is a bit frustrating.
When Tom and Louise McLean Dunn
came to inspect my new apartment and exchange
information about '37 gals gleaned
from their Christmas mail, "Looey" (the
only other female '37er in Dayton) informed
me that the best (in fact, the one and only)
class cheerleader we ever had, Helen E. Fry,
was no longer working for the Air Force.
After I'd spent a quarter of a century training
'37 gals to report specific and detailed information
concerning their lives, I was
crushed to think that my own college roommate
would let me be the last to know! I
fired off a nasty note and received the following
answer, written while Fry was at
home in bed with flu:
"Yes, 'Looey' is right - I left the Air
Force a year ago and am with the Public
Land Law Review Commission . . .
The commission was established by the
Congress to review all the public land
laws, and agency regulations and practices
relative to the public lands and their
resources (oil, gas, minerals, timber, grazing,
recreation, etc.), and to make recommendations
to the Congress as to what
revisions may be necessary to the end
that the public lands be managed, or disposed
of, in the national interest. There
are 700 million acres of original public
lands in the US, mostly in the Western
states. Ninety per cent of Alaska is public
domain. . . . The commission is composed
of six members from the Senate,
six from the House, and six appointed by
the President. I'm an attorney working on
the staff. There's also a 25-member advisory
council, and a representative of
each governor of the 50 states. One of my
jobs is to contract for a digest of public
land laws, i.e. federal laws which apply to
the public lands and resources, including
the outer continental shelf. The commission
will go out of existence, by law, June
30, 1969, but I expect they will ask for
and get a year's extension because it is a
tremendous job and we got started a year
late "
(Well now! Aren't you glad I fire off nasty
notes, and isn't the column educational this
month? With Fry on the job, we don't need
to worry about the public lands and resources,
including the outer continental shelf.
Because she has been working so hard in the
interests of us taxpayers, I forgive my former
roommate for not reporting sooner.)
Leah Sahm Katz reports: "We're fine. I'm
still teaching Latin and French and liking it.
Dick is now a freshman at Cornell Med
School. We have been back to Cornell all
through Dick's stay there. I enjoyed every
visit. I shall try to get back for Reunion."
Marion Eagan Hartman writes from
Mansfield, Ohio: "We have visited campus
twice each year the AVi years Kay has been
there and loved it. He finishes in June, fifthyear
EE. Bill, my oldest, is married . . .
works here in engineering dept. of Hartman
Electric. Al and I will be at Reunion. ..."
Jeanne Paquette Clark sent a marvelous
color snapshot of herself and Van, their
two children, and their Christmas tree with
her report: "This is the year of the doctorate
- we all bow, kneel, and grovel before Van's
desk. Next June we'll bow to daughter Vandi
and her BA degree. She starts practice teaching
in speech and drama in January. At the
moment, son Perk hopes for a BA in psychology
in 1969 and then law school, but
Uncle Sam may interfere. . . . Speech pathology
and audiology continue their fascination
for me. I'm in my eighth year with Creighton
District, diagnosing and doing therapy all
day. It's much harder work than radio-television-theatre,
but, I think, at this point in
life, more rewarding. I spend every other
summer working at Crippled Children's Hospital,
working with cleft palate and cleft lip
children who come in from small towns
around the state where no therapy is available.
Have now stacked up 61 semester hours
of gradμate study and find I've just begun to
scratch the surface in a very exciting, rapidly
developing field. . . ." Any Cornellian visiting
Phoenix, Ariz, should call on Jeanne if he
wants to talk to a gal who is really enthusiastic
about her work.
Quick note from Ruth Marquard Sawyer:
"Prudence is at Wheaten in Norton, Mass.
Wouldn't even consider applying to Cornell,
darn her! See you in Ithaca in June." And
from Louise Odell Bailly: "Ann was married
Sept. 10 and Ted was married Aug. 20.
All will be home for Christmas. Chub is
away at school and Bob hopes to go next
year, so maybe we'll settle down some day
and be very quiet. Looking forward to June
'67 and trust we'll all be there. I remember
how far away the 30th Reunion looked at
our first Reunion."
Claire Capewell Ward sent a 1967 calendar
with June 15, 16, and 17 circled in red,
and a report on her three daughters. Beth,
the youngest, drove alone in her little red
Volkswagen to San Francisco to become
assistant to the production manager of the
American Conservatory Theater for a year.
Lynn, the middle daughter, moved last May
to Cairo, Egypt where her husband is working
for his government in its Executive Conference
Program - the training program for
government personnel sponsored jointly by
Ford Foundation and the Egyptian government.
Eldest daughter Robin and granddaughter
Brina are living in Glen Burnie,
Md., where Robin is a speech and hearing
therapist in the county schools while her
husband serves in Viet Nam. "Mickey" also
reports that husband John '36, DVM, is
busier than ever with the influx that the new
bridge has brought to Staten Island.
'38
Women: Eleanor Bahret Spencer
Titusville Rd.
Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 12603
A note from Julie Robb Newman tells of
their active life since Paul, PhD '37, retired
last July. First was a long-anticipated trip to
Alaska with daughter Ann '66 among the
eight in the Airstream trailer. When we
heard from Julie in early December, they
were in Florida; planned to be in Ithaca with
the children for the holidays, then off for a
five-week tour of Mexico in January.
Carol Ann Worden Ridley and sister Ruth
'40 had an exciting time in Japan visiting
Carol's daughter, Molly, who is teaching
there. Ida Sharpe Mereness returned to Europe
for a stay in France, and Grace
Switzer Hall picked Honolulu for her vacation
spot last fall.
Family news: Ruth Barclay Wright's son
attends Colgate; Muriel Cook Thomas's is at
U of Pittsburgh; Mary Kelly Northrup's
daughter is a freshman at Sweet Briar. The
grandchild crop keeps growing. Marion
Whalen Ingerman has three; Helen Brew
Rich has two; and Catherine West Withey
joined the ranks with the arrival of a granddaughter
last Sept.
Cookie Thomas, Carol Thro Richardson,
and your correspondent attended the class
officer's meeting in New York in January.
We remind you of the annual spring luncheon
in that city on April 27.
Changes of address: Norma Hotaling
Blocker (Mrs. Ray E.), 2214 Greenwood St.,
Pueblo, Colo.; Mrs. Dorothy Hudson John-
Study year abroad in Sweden,
France, or Spain. College prep.,
junior year abroad and graduate
programmes. $1,500 guarantees:
round trip flight to Stockholm,
Paris or Madrid, dormitories or
apartments, two meals daily, tuition
payed.
Write: SCANSA,
50 Rue Prosper Legoute, Antony
Paris, France.
"GET AWAY FROM IT ALL"
Vacation cruise in the Bahamas aboard your
private charter sailing Yacht. Our 12th year.
Write air mail for ref. & folder.
Cruising Club Ltd., POB 22, Nassau
BAHAMAS
son, Rt. 1, Box 137, Poland Spring, Me.;
Mary Dixon Goelz (Mrs. Robert C), 1034
Parkway Dr., Bettendorf, Iowa; Margaret
Legge, 1546 Mecklenburg Rd., Ithaca; Mary
Furey, 4513 19th Rd. North, Arlington, Va.;
Elizabeth Scofield Nielson (Mrs. Evald J.),
2565 Bowmont Rd., Eugene, Ore.; Constance
Davis Pierson (Mrs. Donald E.), 7
Glenbrook Ave., Yonkers; Anne Wolstenholme
Hurd (Mrs. Thomas N.), 297 Loudon
Rd., Loudonville; Vera Ford Biehl (Mrs.
George R.), 45 Essex Rd., Chatham, NJ.
'39
Women: Marian Putnam Finkill
28 Westwood Dr.
East Rochester, N.Y. 14445
Inasmuch as the hoped-for deluge of holiday
mail did not materialize, our news this
month is from those stalwart '39ers who
still send Christmas cards to your correspondent.
If you note a certain monotonous
regularity in the names, send in your news
and break the spell!
Olive Vroman Rockwell writes that she
and Bill '38 were in Ithaca last June for their
daughter Anne's graduation and "the campus
never looked lovelier." They have moved
from their big house to a very comfortable
duplex apartment at: 704 Monte Rosa Dr.,
Menlo Park, Calif. Anne is living in San
Francisco while getting her master's in journalism
at Cal.
Anne (Beers) and Marty Sampson '38 are
off to Trinidad, where Marty will teach at
the U of the West Indies while on sabbatic.
The Sampson family members manage to get
to some pretty exotic places! Their son
Sammy, who spent a summer in Africa a
couple of years ago, is now a member of the
Peace Corps in Libya, 400 miles in the Sahara
desert.
Mrs. Robert Keefe ("Binx" Howland)
keeps very busy working in a ski shop when
she isn't out on the slopes. We suspect that
one reason she likes the buying trips to New
York is because she can sneak in a visit or
two to the beautiful new Metropolitan Opera
House.
Rosemary Sharood, our big wheel in the
telephone business, reports that the year's
most exciting event for her was a trip to
Europe last May. They spent nine days in
Ireland, four days in London (not enough,
says Crit, and I can vouch for that, too!),
and 10 days in Paris.
Academic counseling at Cornell's College
of Arts & Sciences keeps Barbara Babcock
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