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Classmates in the E-News

This page provides electronic links to articles featuring our '61 classmates in magazines and newspapers.

Ed Goldman, longtime tennis photographer, will be inducted into the Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame on August 23, 2024. Racquet Sports Industry, June 2024.

Bart Winokur is a recipient of 2024 Frank H.T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Award, April 2024.

Bart and Susan Winokur endow a Distinguished Professorship for the Public Understanding of Science and Mathematics with a gift of $5 million to Cornell, Cornell Chronicle, June 2023.

Don Rubell presented the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's highest honor, the 2022 ITA David A Benjamin Achievement Award. Wearecollegetennis.com, August 2022.

John Swanson to receive 2021 Cornell Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award. The award, established in 2018, celebrates the accomplishments of graduates whose leadership and vision have been truly transformative and who have brought great pride to their alma mater. Cornell Engineering Online Magazine, Spring 2021.

Allan Metcalf featured in Cornell Alumni Magazine article by Brad Herzog, "In a Word", describing Allan's new book The Life of Guy and his role as the ultimate word maven in academia, Cornell Alumni Magazine, November-December 2019.

David Waks lays claim to being first "computer geek" at Cornell. As noted in The History of Computing at Cornell by John H. Rudan, David wrote the Cornell Assembly Program, used by most Cornellians as their primary programming language, in 1959-1960 while an undergraduate math major. Alumni Profile, Computer and Information Science, 2019.

Jack and Rilla Neafsey endow the top academic leadership position at Cornell Tech, the Jack and Rilla Neafsey Deanship, Ezra Magazine, Fall 2017.

Gus Kappler featured in Albany TV special about Vietnam War vets who tell their stories and search for healing in the aftermath of the conflict. Gus was a trauma surgeon during the War. Also, see item below about the book that Gus wrote on his Vietnam experiences. WMHT-TV Albany, NY, September 8, 2017..

Bart and Susan Sternblitz Winokur make $10 million challenge gift to College of Arts & Sciences to help launch new Future Faculty Initiative, Cornell Chronicle Online, June 17, 2017

Marshall and Rosanna Romanelli Frank named as recipients of the 2017 William "Bill" Vanneman '31 Outstanding Class Leader Award, February 2017.

Jack Neafsey named as Frank H. T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Award recipient for 2016, August 12, 2016.

Phil Bereano debates the ethics of biotechnology, World Watch Institute newsletter, June 19, 2016.

Gus Kappler has recently published a book, Welcome Home from Vietnam, Finally, about his experiences as a trauma surgeon in Vietnam.The book was published by Xlibris and is available on amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. In his earlier Sept. 23, 2014 campus presentation, “Battlefield Trauma: Vietnam to Afghanistan,” Gus offered a harrowing glimpse into his Vietnam experience, Cornell Chronicle Online, September 24, 2014.