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not you will stay in High Rise #5, so I can tell
Walt the size of the " '48 suite."
Our own Dr Edward A Wolfson, founding
and current dean of Upstate Med School's
clinical campus at SUNY, Binghamton, and
adjunct professor of public health at Cornell
Med College, has been endorsed by the committee
on alumni trustee nominations.
Throughout his yrs of private practice, and
then as an academic administrator, he has
given much time to Cornell activities, including
Cornell Fund, and he knows the ins and
outs of the bureaucracies of the NY State educational
system. In addition, he has been a
faithful '48 duespayer for 30 yrs, which is
enough to get a vote from here. Keep your
eye out for the alumni trustee ballot when it
comes and read all about him.
Good news! Dan McCarthy and Charlotte
Smith Moore are taking on the '48 Cornell
Fund co-chairs leading to our 40th Reunion.
Let's give them all our support. (Char and ET
have a 1st grandchild, in Boston, Mass.)
Everybody! Run out and buy P&G soap,
Crisco, Jif peanut butter, and Duncan Hines
cake mixes, so Ray Schumacher can retire
early, move from Ohio to the Finger Lakes,
and help Dr Bob Baker organize our 40th Reunion.
Dr Dorothy Flood Flynn is in geriatrics
and, now, medical director to nursing homes
in Wilkes-Barre, Pa, area. Daughter Monica
is a freshman at Lafayette College. Dr Phyllis
Flyer Kavett directs graduate program at
Kean College of NJ, for gifted and talented,
is now involved in developing new technology
curriculum there and is executive secretary of
NJ Assn for Elected Women Officials. Joe
Douglass had all 4 children back to Miami,
Fla, last Christmas. Son Bill is to graduate
from London School of Economics next
month; daughter Dawn Jr is at U of Vt;
daughter Claudia is at school in Madrid,
Spain; and son Carl is capt of hockey team,
Proctor Acad, Andover, NH. Isidore Roy
Cohen, president of A L Labs Inc, acquired
"Dumex" Pharmaceuticals in Copenhagen,
Denmark, last Aug and went public on the
Amex in Feb. Son David is in law school (U
of Chicago); daughter Shari Jr '86 is in Arts
(Soviet Studies); daughter Bonni is a freshman
at Tufts (intl relations); wife Joan is
teaching history at Master's School. Betty
Buchsbaum Weinstein is clinical psychologist
in private practice and supervising at NY
Hospital—Cornell Med Center (Westchester
div) as adjunct assistant professor, while engaged
in research dealing with parental loss
during childhood. Mr Weinstein is art director
in an ad agency.
Harold Raynolds moved from Maine to
Juneau, Alaska, where he is commissioner of
education, (as he had been in Maine) and has
fallen in love with the mountains, the fish,
the villages, and the people with their "can
do" attitude, who make it open and warm
even when it's cold. Phil Rowe, not busy
enough as president of Dempsey's Restaurants,
or with his many other activities, was
unanimously appointed to the Reading, Pa,
Airport Authority by the city council. John
Lillich, Lafayette, Ind, is associate professor
of supervision at Purdue U's School of Tech
and was just named to the natl labor panel of
the American Arbitration Assn.
Remember—if going to the '49 Reunion,
send $125 per person, payable to Cornell
Class of '48, to me; indicate room requirements.
Bob Persons, 102 Reid Ave, Port
Washington, NY 11050.
49 Round the World
Here is my next-to-last column for the current
'49 administration. Early in July, you'll
receive our Reunion issue with the results of
our class officer election (both Reagan and
Gary Hart have withdrawn) and a column
written by your newly elected class secretary/
correspondent. Before closing out, may I remind
you again that our Cornell computer is
unable to record previous duespayers for that
fiscal yr before mailing a 2nd reminder in
Jan. Everyone, including your class secretary,
receives that message. We deposit your
checks promptly and your checkbook voucher
is your receipt; of course, your cancelled
check is proof positive.
One more thing: You should be aware of
the delay in putting your news items into
print. This column is being written in early
Mar. And, we always have a bagful of mail
from which we draw upon in chronological
order so no one appears in the column more
often than once every 8 months, with the exception
of class officers. And, remember that
although your personal news may not be
timely when it appears in this column, it is
still "news" to someone who hasn't heard
from you in yrs.
Now, back to Reunion. One guy who
won't be at our gathering is Norm Baker,
Broadfield Rd, New Rochelle, who
has temporarily changed his address
to West End Slipway,
Soper's Hole, Tortola, BVI, where
he is "restoring the oldest sailing ship in the
world still afloat. Her name is Anne Kristine,
built in Norway in 1869 with huge timbers
and steel ice plates on her bow. She is the sister
ship to Roald Amundsen's arctic exploration
vessel 'Gjoa', now restored and retired
to the museum in Oslo.
"We plan to sail around the world in her,
stopping, reviewing, and filming oceanic
archeological sites enroute (as well as other
fascinating places). Major target: ruins discovered
by my old skipper and sailing companion,
Thor Heyerdahl (Kon-Tiki) on deserted
islands of the Maldines on the equator
in the Indian Ocean. We should be leaving
this spring." Norm was HeyerdahΓs navigator
on previous voyages.
The NY Times, in an article in late Feb, recalled
the Buffalo Blizzard of '77, which was
the worst in the city's history. The city was
cut off from the rest of the world for 4 days,
wind gusts reached 69 mph, and snow drifts
topped 25 ft. Bob Curran, Maple Ave, Voorheesville,
who writes a column for The Buffalo
News: "The trauma of the blizzard would
be something similar to what NYC suffered
when it almost went into default. It made us
feel that we had to pull together if we were
going to make it." Now, the Blizzard Ball
marks the occasion, and things are looking
up.
Marty Merrifield Steen, Belvedere Ave,
Belvedere, Cal, enjoyed a marvelous trip
around the world last yr, meeting her father's
family in Capetown, S Africa, for the 1st
time. "I'm still involved with the Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco as a docent of the
Western collection, and specialize in furniture
tours. . . . We expect to spend a month in
Italy this spring and then on to Reunion!"
Right on, indeed!
Dick Brown of Stamford, Conn, former
class president, and now vice president of Villa
Banfi (Reunite, anyone?), was recognized
by Johnson & Wales College, Providence,
RI, with its 1st medal of honor for his contributions
to culinary education. The college
specializes in the hospitality and culinary
arts. Sev Joyce, White Rd, Perrysburg, Ohio,
and wife Catherine loved an Adult U (CAU)
voyage through the Windward/Leeward Islands
in the Caribbean in Jan '84 aboard the
tall ship, Sea Cloud (a magnificent vessel constructed
to the order of E F Hutton for his
bride, Marjorie Merry weather Post; a profligate
gesture no longer practiced). The Joyces
joined 60 or so others, including President
Rhodes, in climbing a volcano, snorkeling,
listening to pertinent lectures, visiting rain
forests, and just generally enjoying the good
life aboard the 315-ft Sea Cloud. (And without
having to tend the jib!) The Joyces will
have more to relate at Reunion, when Sev will
have another opportunity to examine his favorite
Cornell interest, The Plantations.
Don't be late for the Sat-morning photograph!
Donald R Geery, 321 E 45th St,
8-B, NYC 10017.
50 Spring Cleaning
Now that spring is upon us, I have done some
housecleaning in my Alumni News file, and
have come up with the following gems, which
I hope are not too out of date! Bob Cowley
operates out of N Andover, Mass, with a
Western Electric transmissions systems div.
Bob is also active with his children and 6
grandchildren. Ed Kinne is with the consumer
products marketing div of US Steel in Pittsburgh,
Pa. Herb Nehrling is still with Du-
Pont, as assistant treasurer, in Wilmington,
Del.
Up in the ski country, Maurice Mix uses
Brattleboro, Vt, as a base, while traveling
worldwide for the Holstein-Friesian Assn of
America. Al Howell is in that lovely town of
Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ, operates 3 real estate offices,
and will advise anybody in our class on
how to make a small fortune in real estate—
his clue is to start with a large fortune.
Neal Fitzsimons has traveled extensively in
The Netherlands and England recently, and
lives in Kensington, Md. Ted Eskild is active
on the Secondary Schools Committee in Palmyra,
just outside Rochester, and works for
Garlock Inc. Art Buchholz lives in the lovely
community of Claverack, outside of Albany.
Art is a purchasing officer for the State of
NY.
Ed Billings has an interesting combination
of vocations as attorney/librarian with the
US Dept of Agriculture, Wash, DC. Frank
Zurn is still ensconced in Erie, Pa and, believe
it or not, lives at 1 Zurn PI. Frank, as
you know, is the power behind Zurn Industries.
Our Reunion is just about a yr away and,
in view of your many activities, it might be
well to start planning early to return for our
35th. Have a good summer. I hope to go sailing
in the Fla Keys and the Caribbean, and
will keep you advised of my adventures.
• Manley H Thaler, PO Box 426, Boca
Raton, Fla 33429.
Best wishes to Lori Heymaη Gordon, who
married Dr Morris Gordon in Sept '82. Lori
is founder and director of the Family Relations
Inst and the Center for Separation and
Divorce Mediation in Falls Church, Va. The
Gordons took a post-wedding tour of the Orient
last fall and now reside in Alexandria, Va.
Bertha Scheffel Seifert retired from Iowa
State U last May. She and George, professor
of mathematics at ISU, still live in Ames. Marianne
Nethercot Heald writes from Jackson,
NH, that she has taken up fly fishing. Ross
'49 lost by a narrow margin in his bid for the
NH state legislature, but he is still town selectman.
Sally Wallace Murray reports that she and
Ken '49 had a good Homecoming last fall
with Libby (Severinthaus) and Si Warner,
Bob Nagler, Sid Cox '43, and David Dingle.
Daughter Louisa and Hillary Nagler stayed in
the Balch room of Elizabeth Warner '87—a
duplicate of Sally's freshman quarters. Sally
still loves teaching. It's biology, this yr, ra-