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Dorcas McDonald founded and is the Exec. Director of the Learning for Living Institute in Boulder, CO. She loves doing it and appreciates Cornell for getting her started to find what she wanted to do and is working hard now.

Long time tennis photographer, Ed Goldman, is a new member of the Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame. He has photographed the US Open since 1976. Congratulations Ed!

Stan Marks is still working and judging in AZ. A nice Q & A article with his photo appeared in AZ News Media, describing his volunteer work for the Paradise Valley court.

From Yonkers, NY Marco Minasso has one Grandchild at Cornell. He recalls “I felt a part of a large family discovering new ideas every day.”

Mike Polansky writes “since retirement doesnt really work for me I started a new career as a reporter for a string of local newspapers, Massapegum Post and others where he covers local board and chamber meetings with matters relating to Massapequa in NY.

David Marks is “living in the country with deer and turkeys in the back yard. A big change from Cambridge, MA but we enjoyed both. After 43 years at MIT as a professor of Civil Engineering we are taking it easy in the country. Daughter and grand daughters going on to Cornell. Cornell took me as a small town rural kid and showed me the world”

Joel Blatt is “still teaching European History at the Stamford campus of

The University of Connecticut. I was inspired to teach history by Edward Fox and Walter LaFaber.”

From James Belden in Florida “After 31 years practicing equine sports medicine on the race track and another 28 years with sport horses we have semi retired to a new farm in Williston, North Florida. Our focus presently is special case equine rehabilitation and we are enjoying the peaceful lifestyle being away from mainstream competition. We continue to show reining horses but only on a regional basis. The new farm affords us more opportunity to visit the grandchildren and great grand children. The tempo of life in North Florida is relaxed compared to South Florida.”

Classmate Gary Busch has a new address in London. He writes “I have spent the last three years diminishing m my role on this planet. I have closed our two African cargo lines and ended the charter of our planes. I have closed my shipping line and sold the last two vessels. I have sold my house in London and down-sized twice to a small apartment. I sold my house in Venice, Italy and closed my shared apartment in Vanino (Russian Far East).

I still have my country house in Somerset. I have largely stopped traveling on a regular basis and sold my car. There is far less of me than ever. I continue my daily news blog and my occasional political consulting. The good news is my death sentence, in absentia, has been lifted in Rwanda and, I think Uganda. All in all, I am leading a normal life after all these years, now surrounded by children and grandchildren. I look forward to a less exciting schedule and hope to settle into a more placid period of gradual decline.” We hope so too.

Alan Schmitt’s son wrote that his father, Alan Schmitt, died age 83, December 2023.

Eric Wilson told of the death of his father, Stephen Jay Wilson, MD and indicated he wishes to continue carrying on his father’s Cornell support.