When you read this column it’ll be 2025! A wish that you have a year of good health and good times comes from your Class of 61 and your class correspondents Doug and Susan!

May Lee Ling sends a message from Laguna Woods, CA. She’s seeing 2 grandchildren married, and 5 working. Her husband Chung-Li is 91 and in relatively good health. “I have retired since 2006. At Cornell I made wonderful friends for life.”

Bob Lincoln says “he is still healthy and alive. He is caring for his property and reading and deleting emails -- and unsubscribing. I’m trying to get schools to make a sport I created to be a part of their intra-mural sports program. See websites poleballworld.com & Poleball.US for an explanation of the rules of the game and its benefits. He says Cornell is just a part of the trajectory of his life.”

From Florida, Gerrit White and wife Elizabeth enjoy good health, friends, family and extensive traveling in retirement. “I have been an AARP

Tax-Aide volunteer for 12 years. Golfing, Pickleball and staying in shape are taking a lot of my time. We have 5 children and visiting with family and friends is taking up some time, in addition we have traveled to 86 countries and we enjoy living now in an all encompassing retirement community called The Villages in FL.

“Living the good life in Santa Fe, N.M. Stephen Love and Linda report daughter Gina(sp?), Cornell 2010, is married to Jack Stupinski also of 2010

who is a veterinarian (small animal) and trauma surgeon and they live in Flagstaff. AZ.”

Humberto Cordero Jr. lives in Boca Raton. FL. Enjoys golf, travel, grandkids and visits family in Puerto Rico and Florida. “A granddaughter moved to London and a grandson is studying at Cornell, U. of Vermont,

Purdue and Miami U. My goal was working with my father in the P.R. Power Company. Instead I worked for IBM as an engineer, lab director and corporate director.” Oh, well!

Frank Cuzzi has an idea - “Lets give a Class of 61 gift to the Meinig Field House.! As for himself, He’s working as a professor at Monroe College And is considering a Podcast. Both children are married and living in Texas, has one grandchild, Beau. Many, many friends from Cornell. Still going to basketball tournaments and watching Cornell on TV.”

From Berkeley, CA, Robert Stamper enjoys “family, friends, reading, fly fishing, teaching in developing countries. After 52 years of patient care I have retired from eye care. I still teach at UCSF and have some research projects. I volunteer to help with ophthalmic training programs in Africa and India. Watching with pride as grandchildren grow into talented, capable young adults. Cornell introduced me to research which has been a significant part of my career. If I had not been part of the Cornell marching band I would not have met Naomi, my future wife, married now 61 years.” Hurrah!

Ernest (Ernie) Feleppa writes from Rye, NY. He is “working around the house and consulting. Retired at the very beginning of 2022. I have been consulting for Mass General Brigham on advanced biomedical ultrasound technology. He’s accumulating birthdays, i.e. getting older. Attending Cornell determined the trajectory of my life by realizing my interest in biology and physics.”

Diane Meakem keeps in touch from Greenwich, CT. saying “My big family keeps growing. I now have 16 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. So far four of them have gone to Cornell! Besides golf and cycling I am involved at my church (both as a lector and a Eucharistic Minister).”

Ruth Schimel has sent us an update to her former class note. She includes a website which concerns her published articles on professional and personal development https://www.yourtango.com/experts/ruthschimel. As of June 2024 a new project with Shari Garmise shows how art can include fun and stimulation while being a catalyst in relationship building: https://artingconversations.com. She is active in coast to coast chapters of Women’s Connection, providing guidance on storytelling and launching an intergenerational collaboration www.ttn.org. These alternatives to retirement keep me vibrant despite the challenges of maintenance!” Go girl!!