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the yr find you enjoying being alive. God be
with you. Marion Shevalier Clark, RR1,
Box 14, Angola, Ind 46703.
"Herb" Grigson has resigned due to health
conditions at home.
The column will not be listing obituaries as
the Alumni News has all that listed in the rear
of each issue. The reason there are questions
in this column is because we hope you'll be
back for a 65th Reunion in '85 if possible; but
please write to me, anyway.
I'm willing to write for '20 if classmates
will help bring back memories of our war
days of '17, etc. These questions will test your
memory and give you something to write
about—so here goes: What was the Black
Diamond? What was the Mud Rush? Where
was the Swimming Pool? What was the ''Jennie
McGraw Rag?" What college was Bristow
Adams in? What yr did Andrew Dickson
White die? Who was Romeyn Berry? What
did "Delay, Linger and Wait" stand for?
Where was the Dutch Kitchen? Where was
the Alhambra? Where was Zincks? What was
known as "The Shortline?" Ho Ballou, 7
Midland Gardens, Bronxville, NY 10708.
21 School Days
Harold W Blodgett, retired Union College
professor, writes: "Expect as usual to share
my 84th birthday, Mar 24, with my twin sister,
Elsie Blodgett Ludlum '22, of Rockville
Centre. We will visit Southold, LI, to see the
brass plaque placed on the wall of Southold
High School in honor of our brother, Lewis
A Blodgett '19, who was a long-time school
principal there.
Joe J Rady has been spending some time
helping in the development of the branch of
the U of Texas at Arlington. He considers
this as a sort of repayment for what Cornell
did for him. Dr Irvine H Page recently finished
writing a book of 3,500 pp, about hypertension.
He does not expect it to be a bestseller.
As a project suggested by their teacher, the
children of a 6th-grade class in Maine wrote
to several well-known authors and
artists and requested original
works to be compiled in a book.
Elwyn B White responded with an
essay called "An Imaginary Maine Animal
Story." The book containing this and the
other contributions is called A Gift from
Maine, published by Gannett Books of Portland.
Leslie R Severinghaus wrote in Jan: "My
latest trip to the Far East was in Mar and Apr
'83, when I returned to Peking and had reunion
with 37 doctors and nurses who were in
my English classes 60 yrs ago. I have just returned
from 2 wks on the tall ship Sea Cloud
under the sponsorship of Adult U."
Amos L Main was again spending the winter
in Fla, living in his Airstream trailer. Harold
A "Tige" Jewett reports he continues in
fairly good health. George A Jackson notes
that he hears from very few classmates.
James H C Martens, 123 S Adelaide Ave, Apt
ID, Highland Park, NJ 08904.
22 Get-Togethers
Cornellians like to get together. Grace Morris
Race, in Feb, says several who live in or near
Rydall Park, Rydall, Pa, gather occasionally.
Edna Cassell Ί7 got a group together soon
after Elizabeth Burnham Steinmetz '23 and
Betty Warner '23 were back from their 60th
Reunion and found much to talk over. The
Races also had a happy family gathering at
Christmastime. Included were grandson
Mark Thistle '83 and his wife.
A note from Dr Gertrude Fisher Kinsey
gives her new address—1428 S Marengo Ave,
Alhambra, Cal. It is an Episcopal home and,
to date, she finds it satisfactory. She must use
a wheelchair and has tried 3 retirement
homes, so her address changes.
Ruth (St John) and Harrop Freeman '29 of
Ithaca recently established at Cornell an annual
prize of $1,000 for an outstanding graduating
sr who has shown interest in the area
of peace studies and who intends to continue
work in that field. Harrop is professor of
law, emeritus, of the Law School, with 3 law
degrees. Ruth received her BA in '23, after
staying out of college a term because of her
mother's illness. She earned an MA '25 and
was the 1st woman to serve as an instructor in
the Arts College. They are the Freemans who
all these many yrs have entertained '22 Reunion
women for a Sunday farewell breakfast.
We love them! Evelyn Davis Fincher, 44
Sheraton Dr, Ithaca, NY 14850.
Between their canal-front homes in Eustis,
Fla, and on Lake George, Caribbean Christmas
cruises, and visits to the Leesburg Retirement
Home to listen to the Cornell Glee Club
(but with no '22s around), Walter Knauss in
his 225-lb trim, pines for a small informal reunion
of Floridian neighbors, say of C R
Roberts, E L Jewett, T McLean, R G Wright
(from Mt Dora), R S Ackerly, R E Roesch,
and so on. If he or others of '22 feel Central
NY State fantasies and Reunion fever coming
on, let them join the Continuous Reunion
Club, which meets on campus every yr, June
7-10, this yr. To join CRC write or phone
Alumni House, 626 Thurston Ave, c/o
Howie Hall '30.
We have urged acceptance of promising
patents—as gifts to Cornell—from other than
its faculty or staff. The following is a reply by
H Walter Haeussler, director of patents and
licensing for the university: "Cornell's office
of patents and licensing, through Cornell Research
Foundation, obtains patents on faculty
and staff inventions, sharing income between
the inventors, the related university
unit and the patents and licensing office. In
recent yrs, patent royalty income has varied
between about $.75.million and $1.2 million.
'On occasion, alumni have offered to assign
their own patents to the Research Foundation.
If alumni wish to discuss the possibility
of assigning their patent rights to Cornell,
they can contact H Walter Haeussler, director
of patents and licensing at East Hill Plaza,
Ithaca, phone (607) 256-7367.
"If your patent has economic value, the
gift of the patent rights to the Research Foundation
could create seed money which could
pay the costs of patenting and licensing future
Cornell inventions, thereby creating the
potential for significant increased, sustained
royalty income to the university.
"Alumni who are patentees will appreciate
that, while not all patents produce income,
the opportunity for marketable inventions
among Cornell's faculty and staff is significant.
The gift of your own patents rights
could help to exploit this potential." (See article
on patents, this issue, p 28.) Rollin H
McCarthy, 19B Strawberry Hill Rd, Ithaca,
NY 14850; also John M Maloney, 16C Strawberry
Hill Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850.
23 'Till Next Month
Our 61st Reunion is coming in June and our
enthusiastic and efficient chairman John
Vandervort had, in Feb, a list of 43 classmates
planning to come, 17 with spouses.
(Broder Lucas's name was inadvertently left
off the list of members coming for the 61st.
He and Evelyn will be there.) This list in-
cludes 10 classmates who had not attended
the 60th, last yr. This assures a fine Reunion
and the numbers probably will increase as the
date approaches.
Although the Class of '24 decided to forego
a mini-reunion in Fla last Feb, so as not to
draw from the 60th in June, about 40 Cornellians
and spouses who spend winter months
near Palm Beach met informally in Feb for
lunch, Cornell songs, and conversations. Lee
and Sue Post and Ros and Olive Tjaden Van
Sickle '25 attended.
In reviewing class correspondence and
notes, I find that some material prepared for
the last July issue by my predecessor George
West had not been used and include it now
with some changes and additions. Roger J
Coe made good on his "Looking forward to
our 60th class Reunion." He hails from
Chatham, Mass, on Cape Cod, and is active
with the "Cod" Cornellians. His wife died
after a long illness. He remarried and has
made Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla, his principal
home but will spend his summers in Chatham.
He is a volunteer in tax counseling for
the elderly. Early in '83 he took a Caribbean
cruise on the Island Princess.
Raymond O Ford and his wife Lily live in
Short Hills, NJ. In '83 he was president of the
Old Guard of Milburn, NJ, an organization
of 165 retired men who meet once a wk and
enjoy various recreational activities. He is active
in bridge and has won the duplicate
bridge championship 4 out of the last 7 yrs.
Six other Cornellians are in the group.
Clarence Faust lives in Holland (NY). Six
grandchildren now grace the family tree. He
claims he is still on a vacation that started in
'70. Sam Blackmore says he has no news for
publication. Walter E "Walt" and Helen
Loring Flumerfelt, MA '24 live in Edina,
Minn. They have 9 grandchildren, 13-27.
Walt says, "Keep busy at gardening—life
member of the Men's Garden Clubs of America—play
golf and enjoy spectator sports—
also an avid reader of all Cornell publications
that come my way. Heart arrest slowed me
down 2 yrs ago, lost 200 lbs; now 180 and can
lick my weight in wildcats."
Fred W Fix and Lillian live in Northbrook,
111: "Not retired, yet, but slowing down considerably.
Still in photography. The Alumni
News provides me with a good tonic, plus occasional
letters from friends." An operation
in Apr '83 kept him from the 60th Reunion
and was slowing him up a bit, although it had
turned out well. Ernest W "Ernie" and
Esther Downs live in Falmouth, Mass, on
Cape Cod. Ernie is active in the affairs of the
Falmouth Historical Soc and a member of the
Cape Cod Cornellians. He reports he is in the
process of perusing letters written home during
the college yrs '19-23, which were preserved
by his mother and record such happenings
as heavy snows on sidewalks (no shoveling),
40Φ meals, arrival of Dr Farrand as president,
the Mud Rush, student hoaxes, concerts,
and plays. Also winning streaks for
Cornell in sports featuring football victories
involving '23 football heroes Eddie Kay,
George Pfann, and others, and, of course,
Gil Dobie. A veritable mine of the '23 era in
treasured memories." Roswell C Van Sickle,
2100 S Ocean Lane, Apt 1009, Ft Lauderdale,
Fla 33316.
24 Reunion Exhibit
Florence Daly did some watercolors on Appledore
Isl last summer. She donated a picture
of the Shoals Marine Lab's pet whale
skull to the lab; it was raffled off and earned
$300 toward the lab's new boat. Flo will exhibit
18 or 20 watercolors at the Johnson Museum
during Reunion.
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