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ig 45th and another 25 were wavering in
that direction. Making due allowance for
all the last minute announcements of plans
to return, it begins to look as though the
1957 record of 129 returnees to the Ithaca
campus will be broken. The goal is an even
150, which would really make this a record
breaker.
Final plans for all the festivities have
been worked out, though when a class, gets
as old as ours is, allowance has to be made
for the fact that many Reunioners will
want to follow an easy pace. For old legs
which have lost the resiliency to climb
Buffalo St. hill, arrangements have been
made for buses always to be available for
campus tours and service to class meetings
and all Reunion events. And for those who
just want to sit around, the special class
orchestra "hired at enormous cost" will be
ready to play 16 hours a day.
A good many classmates already have
written that they intend to arrive in Ithaca
on Wednesday — to take the first of the
guided tours of the new library buildings,
the campus, and Sapsucker Woods, as well
as to attend the initial Faculty Forum
meeting in the evening. Formal registration
opens on Thursday when there will be more
Faculty Forums, tours, open house at the
Big Red Barn, etc. The class banquet will
be on Friday in the Statler Ballroom, and
there'll be another informal class dinner at
the Big Red Barn on Saturday, preceded by
a cocktail party. Lots of people will be
going up to attend the Syracuse crew races
Saturday afternoon, but the bus schedules
for that trip will assure arrival back in Ithaca
in time for the '18 affairs that evening,
which will be followed by the all-class Reunion
rally at Barton Hall.
Joe Lorin writes that his monster display
of old-time pictures of the 1914-18 era is
shaping up well, and more snapshots or
other mementoes of those glamorous years
will be welcomed.
Fred Gillies (picture) is serving as chairman
of the Major Gifts committee for
the Chicago area in
connection with the
Cornell Centennial
Campaign. Lou
Freedman, who has
been spearheading
the drive to get a
maximum Reunion
attendance, suggests
that the transportation
problem to and
from Ithaca can be solved by the simple
system of car pooling with other returning
classmates. Paul Wanser, ever reticent
about how much of a class fund will be
turned over to the university at Reunion,
nevertheless shyly admits that all is going
well and that he'll have a record figure to
report.
In San Francisco recently I had a nice
visit in Hemet with B. O. (Bush) Bushnell,
who retired only to embark on a career as
an artist and is busier now than ever in his
new surroundings. Incidentally, his wife
recommends Hemet—high in the mountains
but near the California desert country—as
a sure cure for arthritis.
Harry Mattin writes that there'll be another
'18 class picnic "at his place up the
Hudson River next September, probably on
the 7th; so New York, Connecticut and
New Jersey ΊSers should circle that date
on their calendars. Harry says his roundthe-world
trip was all business "except in
Japan"—and I want to hear what the excitement
was there.
Word has come of the death in Jacksonville,
Fla., of Oliver W. (Obbie) Holton
in February and that of Hartley G. Dewey
in Carmel, Calif., on March 15.
Ralph T. K. Cornwell retired from
American Viscose Corp. this spring after
33 years of research with that company and
its predecessor during which he registered
over 50 patents in his name covering the
manufacture of cellulose film and associated
products.
Frances Bayle, 4 Knight St., Glens Falls,
retired last year from Glens Falls Portland
Cement after 38 years as plant engineer.
Joe Granett merely reports "status quo," but
I see his name on the list to "see you all in
Ithaca."
Ever since our first class Reunion, a feature
of every meeting has been our memorial
service for those we lost in World
War I. Following Elbert P. (Tut) Tuttle's
brief address, H. W. (Tex) Roden would
lay the memorial wreath. This year that
wreath will also honor Tex, whose unexpected
death of a coronary, May 10 at his
home in San Francisco, has saddened us all.
'19
Men: Colonel L. Brown
472 Gramatan Ave.
Mount Vernon, N.Y.
April proved to be a busy month for your
scribe. In addition to a stiff work schedule,
we spent a couple of days presenting testimony
to a Congressional committee, prepared
material for a philatelic exposition,
and did some skeet shooting. Some of the
young bystanders were confounded when
they saw your white-haired scribe totter up
to the firing line, take a shotgun in his
trembling and palsied hands, and proceed
to make some doubles.
Classmates are beginning to mention the
1964 Reunion more frequently, and we hope
you begin making plans now. Dr. Louis
A. (Shorty) Corwin writes: "God willing,
will see you in '64." His address is 136-21
Hillside Ave., Jamaica 18.
John W. deForest reports that he is still
at the old stand, and enjoying Ithaca tremendously.
He lives there at 528 Warren
Rd. William P. Elliott, MD, reminds us to
add "23" to his address when writing him.
He is at 23 S. Main, New Berlin.
Edwin A. Leibman, who used to be a
resident of Chappaqua, Westchester County,
retired June 1, 1962. He and Mrs. Leibman
moved to 9625 Sunset Ave., La Mesa,
Calif. Instead of being only a vacation
painter, Ed is now trying his hand in water
colors seriously. He also sings barbershop
with the San Diego chapter of SPEBSQSA.
Ed plans to make contact with the Cornell
Club of San Diego as does C. Wherton Allen,
7363 Fay Ave., La Jolla, Calif.
Arthur F. Simpson advises that his address
should be changed from Short Hills,
N.J., to 77 Baltusrol Way, Millburn, N.J.
Prof. Norman T. Newton, who has practiced
and taught landscape architecture for
some 40 years in this country and in
Europe, will become Charles Eliot Professor
of Landscape Architecture in Harvard
University on July 1. A member of the
faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of
Design since 1939, he has been professor of
landscape Architecture since 1955. Prof.
Newton practiced landscape architecture in
New York for 20 years before he joined the
Harvard faculty. He was also associate
landscape architect of the US National
Park Service, 1933-39. He has been chairman
of the Department of Architectural
Sciences at Harvard since 1949, and secretary
of the Faculty of Design since 1950.
From 1957-61 he was president of the
American Society of Landscape Architects.
During World War II he was Senior
Monuments Officer of the British Eighth
Army through the Italian campaign, and
later director of the Allied Commission's
subcommittee on monuments and fine arts.
In appreciation of his work he received the
Order of the Star of Solidarity from Italy
in 1950.
Richard F. Uhlmann has accepted a position
as vice chairman of the Cornell University
centennial
campaign and will be
connected with the
Major Gifts Committee
in the Chicago
area. Richard is president
of Uhlmann &
Co., Inc., and a member
of the Cornell
Council. A close
relationship with
Cornell is only part of his concern for education.
He is an associate of Northwestern
University and a member of the Citizens
Committee of the University of Illinois. He
was director of the Chicago Medical School
and the Chicago Maternity Center for
many years. His business address is 1480
Board of Trade Bldg., Chicago 4, 111.
From Sierra Mazapil No. 220, Mexico
10, D.F., Louis Frank reports that he spent
a few years in New York, about 20 years
in Europe, and now 18 years in Mexico—
with no end of interesting adventures. He
has two or three daughters in Europe, one
boy and a little girl in Mexico, and no
grandchildren. Louis is engaged in fishing
and processing Mexican shrimp for US
"gullibles," and is very much interested in
the labor relations research at Cornell. He
would welcome a few lines from old classmates
and hopes to attend the '64 Reunion.
Walter B. Meserol writes that he has
finally retired. He spent the winter in Ft.
Lauderdale and expected his 14 grandchildren
to join him from time to time to
enjoy the pool.
'20
Men: Orυille G. Daily
604 Melrose Ave.
Kenilworth, III.
For weeks we've been not doin' nuttin'
but sittin' starin' at the June calendar and
at the Big Red circle around Saturday the
8th, just itchin' for that date to come up
over the horizon — and so has anybody
that's anybody within shootin' distance of
the N'Yawk area! You know why? That's
the special Saturday of the Stupendous
1920 picnic at the Edson estate, "Scotch
Pines," nestled in the Connecticut hills near
Norwalk. And Dick and Kass Edson are
eagerly waiting to welcome you all.
Dusted off are the picnic basket, the wife
with the sandwiches, the little brown jug
with its gurgle, the blanket, the transistor
and other appurtenances conducive to hav-
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