Thank you ‘61 Classmates for sending in news of your lives and families. Starting out from Rye, NY Ernie Feleppa sends the following, “I’m spending time consulting for Mass. General Hospital and Mass. General Brigham Hospitals in Boston on projects involving advanced biomedical - ultrasound technology. I’m also serving as editor in chief of “Ultrasonic Imaging” a technical journal. For leisure time we enjoy trips to the Caribbean Islands and trips to interesting B and Bs as well as gardening.”

At Cornell he enjoyed springtime walks around Beebe Lake and searching for fossils in the gorges.

Jeffrey Fisher “is living in Manhattan and cites good health and playing golf and tennis (is there a correlation?) His seasons include wintering at Frenchman’s Creek in Palm Beach Gardens, summers in East Hampton and NYC for the spring and fall. At Cornell he enjoyed bridge in the Ivy

Room and socializing at the fraternity house. Says Life is good.”

A class note from Merry Douraghy in Chicago. Her favorite memory of Cornell is “A new way of studying subjects that I like.” Merry is still studying with a focus on Persia and indulging in foreign travel.

Pat Laux Richards (artsypat@aol.com) writes “we are both blessed w/good health and still able to spend a few months in FL each winter. I remain connected to Cornell and will co-chair our next reunion with Rosanna Frank. We live in a retirement community in PA, Willow Valley. It is an all encompassing place. I’ve been volunteering on a committee to build a state of the arts memory care center and helping at religious services. Also golf,

but not well. Our granddaughter Annie Rogers, graduates from A&S @ Cornell in May. Will all be there to cheer her on. Jack and I were married June 3rd at Anabel Taylor 1 week before graduation. We celebrate 62 yrs in June.” (Good show)

Charles Hecht lives in NYC and is “doing things with my significant other, Leslie Toeprer including travel. opera, philharmonic and seeing our children and grandchildren, bicycling (with out Leslie) golf and reading. Limited trial work and focusing on corporate work and helping new entrepreneurs.”

Enjoyed fraternity life and comraderie with students and faculty and the excellent learning and educational experience.

From Churchville, PA, George A. Ekstrom writes “following grandchildren in sports and school activities, occasional golf with former co-workers and meeting with friends and relatives. Active in church and lead AARP volunteer tax preparers at three sites Feb - Apr. At Cornell he remembers playing football, running track and living with people from all parts of the US -- received aDoctoral Fellowship which I used at Purdue University -- Agricultural and Biological Engineering.”

Classmate James P. Baden (Jim) lives in Hilton Head, SC. Writes he is “working at Volunteers in  Medicine at Hilton Head as a retired physician. Singing in Harmony Barber Shop Society. Fabulous memory of the 1960 Russian trip with the Men’s Glee Club.”

May Lee Ling is retired in Laguna Woods, CA. She is “happy to be with family and old friends and classmates. A grandson married last year and a granddaughter to be married this year. She remembers the beautiful campus and wonderful friends.”

Arthur B. Shostak lives in Alameda, CA is a writer. “Is gaining employ of ideas in my 32d book published in 2017 entitled “STEALTH ALTRUISM: FORBIDDEN CARE as JEWISH RESISTANCE in the HOLOCAUST”

I am continuing to research two books in preparation, a study of ways societies have of memorialegation, and a lengthy MEMOIR. We moved nine years ago from Philadelphia to California to escape the winters, and be closer to our grandchildren.” he earned the highest GPA in my ILR class which leveraged gaining a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to pay for a Princeton PH.D.

Susan and Doug