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Cornelius W. Koopman, 126 Eastman
St., Cranford, N.J., has an Ithaca trip
scheduled this month, to escort his father
to his 50th Reunion. Neil is a division engineer
with M. W. Kellogg Co., boasts one
collegiate son at Seton Hall and another
in prep school.
Ted Elkins had praise for the Placement
Office located in the Cornell Club of New
York because it found employment for son
Joseph MBA '62, after he had spent six
months in military service. Son Steven is
a Cornell sophomore. Ted operates his own
retail paper and twine business.
Dr. Frank (Bob) Drews Jr. is attending
surgeon at Englewood Hospital and Bergen
Pines County Hospital. His young
children are Jonathan and Christine. Bob
lives in Englewood, N.J.
Bernard Blickman is another Jerseyite
and also engaged in a family business as
vice president of S. Blickman, Inc., of
Weehauken, N.J. The firm makes sheet
metal specialties. His family includes three
daughters, the eldest of whom had two
years at Cornell and is now at Columbia;
the second is at Syracuse, and the third at
Fieldston.
One of the out-of-town visitors was
Harry Gold, of 26 Mt. View Ave., Kingston.
Son Barry has been admitted to Cornell
and will enter next September. Daughters
are 12 and 10. Harry served eight years
as city judge in Kingston and is now corporation
counsel, a part-time job he combines
with private practice.
Bob Hamburger, of 6 Locust Dr., Great
Neck, is also keeping the Cornell family
tradition alive through son Bob Jr. '64;
son Pete is in high school. Bob Sr. has
been with the same company, United Merchants
& Manufacturers, since graduation,
rising from a $13-a-week trainee to vice
president. His "greatest escape," he said,
is boating on Long Island Sound.
Bernard Grossman lives at 5 Westview
Lane, Scarsdale, and for the past year has
been a vice president of All-State Properties,
Inc., a real estate firm with developments
in Montauk, Maryland, Florida, and
Argentina, plus operating Terminal Barber
and Beauty Shops. He has a daughter
entering high school and an 11-year-old
son.
No head-shrinking went on at the dinner,
but Dr. Edward T. Adelson was on
hand in case of need. He is a psychiatrist
to outpatients of Payne Whitney Clinic,
Cornell Medical College. He is a governor
of the Cornell Alumni Assn. of New York,
and has a son and daughter at different
high schools.
For further news of the New York diners,
see the July column in this space.
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The campus will see another invasion
of '37 cowboy hats thanks to our invitation
from the class of '38 to attend their Reunion.
Here's a chance for those of you
who missed the Big 25th last year to see
how Cornell has grown and for the rest of
us to return for another visit. Reunion
Chairman Doug King tells us there's lots
in store this year, the first post-commencement
Reunion for Cornell. The campus
will belong to the "old guys" exclusively.
See you on June 13, 14, and 15 in Ithaca!
John A. Mott writes of the life of a very
busy farmer on the family farm, "Piermott,"
in Hartwick, where he specializes
in purebred registered Holsteins. He finds
time to hold directorships in the local insurance
company, the Dairymen's League,
the Otsego County Farm Bureau, and Extension
Service; to be a Mason; and to follow
his photography hobby in the Cooperstown
Camera Club and Photographic Assn.
of America. John's Cornell ties were
strengthened when he returned for the
spring term in 1958, following a severe bout
of polio, for graduate work in rural education.
Now son Robert is a junior in Ag
Engineering and daughter Caroll a freshman
in Home EC. A second son, Richard,
is in grade school. John reports enthusiastically
on the quality of Cornell instruction
and recent graduates and suggests that
even '37 types should look to their laurels.
After graduation John taught vocational
agriculture, then returned to his first love,
farming.
Harold F. DeWitt is a mechanical engineer
with RCA in Moorestown, N.J. where
he lives at 101 Colonial Ridge. He, wife
(Isabel Whiton '39), son Steve at Eastman
School of Music, and three daughters—
Connie, Penny, and Vicki, all in high
school—had a memorable flying "once-ina-lifetime
vacation" to the Seattle Fair and
California last summer. Hal reports he
finally made a Cornell-Penn game at
Franklin Field last Thanksgiving—a family
outing that included Wen Upham '35 and
his wife (Janet Whiton '36).
Another contribution to medicine is the
work of Dr. Richard N. Outwin. His autoclave
operated by interchangeable electric
heating unit and the older gasoline burner
has been tested by the Army Medical
Equipment and Research & Development
Laboratory at Ft. Totten and is in the
field test and development stage. Dick, who
lives at 56 Maple St., Millburn, N.J., is in
practice as a urologist in Kearney. He is
past president of the Kearney Lions Club.
A third Jerseyite, John D. Henderson,
is president of Harder Jersey Pest Control,
a subsidiary of the firm with which he has
been associated since graduation. His wife
(Sharon Meyer) and he have a daughter
Joan now at Bucknell and a son Stephen
in junior high. Address is 20 Grandview
Ave., Glen Rock, N.J. Still another Garden
Stater, Bob Trivett, writes from 1
Townsend Dr., Florham Park, that he enjoyed
the Reunion with fellow architects
Bill Buckhout and Lloyd Doughty.
A free all-expense week's vacation in
Hamilton, Bermuda, was Robert J. Facer's
good fortune by virtue of top rating in sales
for Paragon Pre-Cut Homes, for which Bob
has been a distributor since 1952. Bob lives
at RD 2, Phelps. His two daughters, Anne
and Betty, and son David are in Phelps
Central, while Bob Jr. is a sophomore at
Ricker College, Houlton, Me. Wife Margaret
is secretary to the director of freshman
admissions at Hobart. Bob is a camp
sanitary inspector for the state Department
of Health, a Rotarian, Scout committeeman,
and a member of the Geneva Field
Trial & Conservation Club. For two years
he was social case worker for the Ontario
County Welfare Dept. handling problems
of Puerto Rican and non-white families in
Geneva.
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Excerpts from a letter from Tom Boonlong
dated April 5: "I have been busy doing
odd jobs in the Ministry of Agriculture.
Last October we went to Kuala Lumpur
for the FAO regional conference. After that
there was a talk between officials of the
government of Malaya and those of Thailand
on common problems in agriculture.
I was secretary to that meeting. Then came
a seminar [at which I gave] a paper on
how we would fare with an increase of
12,000,000 mouths to feed in 10 years' time.
Then came the Freedom from Hunger
Campaign Week for which I was secretary
of the subcommittee, besides having to appear
on TV as an agricultural expert
I am preparing the biannual report of agricultural
activities in Thailand . . . and
writing a thesis to be submitted to the
Civil Service Commission to gain acceptance
as a regular civil service official.. . .
Last month I attended the Chinese Economic
Mission to Thailand. . . .Our eldest
son, Yanyong, has won a dean's scholarship
to Cornell Engineering college for next
fall. I am pleasantly surprised."
Barbara Heath Britton's elder daughter,
Carol Ann, is vice president of Cornell
Class of '64. Her younger daughter, Maureen
Jo, is a freshman at Catholic University
in Washington, D.C. Barby is bookkeeper
for Michael J. Britton, Inc., in Barre, Mass.;
her husband, Joseph W., is treasurer and
manager.
Ruth Mason Phillips is active in PTA,
Scouts, church guilds, hospital auxiliary,
and Cornell Club in Cortland. Husband
Arthur M. Jr. '36 is director of Fish &
Wildlife Service Station and teaches parttime
at Cornell. Their children are Arthur
M. Ill, 16, and Frances Louise, 12. Says
Ruth: "Summer before last Art was in
Honolulu to participate in a panel at the
Pacific Science Congress. Our hobby is our
20 acres of wild woodland five miles from
Cortland. Art has many lovely slides of the
four seasons. Art Jr. pursues his hobby of
botany and Franny just pursues—usually
to the top of the highest tree. School classes
are frequent visitors, as well as Scout
troops. We even pick our own wild cranberries
in the fall."
Lt. Col. David and Barbara Seymour
MacQuigg have another new address: 285
Bizerte Rd., Ft. Lee, Va. Last November
Barby wrote: "David got orders Reunion
week so we couldn't come. Mary Jane and
I spent two months in Oswego while he
was on maneuvers, and we moved to Ft. Lee
in September. Mary Jane is quite the teenager
now and I'm enjoying it all. My folks
celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary
in July with a family reunion."
Mrs. John D. Henderson, who was E.
Sharrot Mayer or "Jerody" in our student
days, couldn't get to our 25th Reunion because
daughter Joan was graduating from
Glen Rock (N.J.) High School last June.
Joan has been a freshman at Bucknell this
year. Son Stephen William, 14, collects
stamps and coins. Jerody (where did you
get that nickname, Sharrot?) says: "February
1962 was a good month for us. The
whole family, including two grandmothers
went to Bermuda on the Ocean Monarch.
. . . We enjoyed visiting colleges the last
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