61 Greetings from Oregon on a
cool sunny day. Thankfully, many of our classmates have been returning the class
news form and I’m happy to quote their news and comments which I guarantee you
will enjoy. Fred Siegal (New York, NY; fpsiegal@mac.com) says he spends his time ”reading, rehabilitating flooded summer home on
Fire Island after Superstorm Sandy, completing a medical article to submit for publication,
and creating a viable structure for retirement that started in June, 2012.”
(That, we all could use, Fred).
Peggy Monkmeyer Mastroianni
is in D.C. She works full-time as legal
counsel of the US EEOC to advance the civil rights goals of President Obama --
"a very ambitious policy agenda that I am responsible for advancing. I love what I do. When I no longer love my job, I will retire
and figure out other ways to work." Peggy adds, "I
meet every year for a long weekend (sacred) with 3 great women from 1961: Linda McCarthy Schick, Kati Taylor Boland and
Nancy Jo Cooper Cameron. It is one of the most important events of my
life. When I came to Cornell I was 16
years old, totally naïve, and a product of a public girls high school. All
I brought to Cornell was my belief in English Literature & liberal arts.”
Ellie Browner Greco
(misselliegreco@gmail.com) writes “Bill and I live on the water about 200 yards
off Barnegat Bay in Forked River, NJ. We
went through a scary time with Hurricane Sandy. We live a few houses away from several homes
that were totally destroyed, while our home had little damage. The vagaries of nature are baffling. It is heart-warming to see how people have
met the challenges and disheartening to hear of looters taking things from
neighbors who had disasters. Certainly
living through this time is life-changing.”
Ellie mentioned how she decorated her space at Cornell with a corduroy
fabric as curtains and a chair cover. “I
still have that fabric. A quilter friend
made it into a lap quilt, which is now 20 years old - I have it still.”
Frank Cuzzi, MBA '64,
announces his new book, Make $$$ in Sports Without Breaking a Sweat, available
now on Amazon and createspace.com/4155769.
We learned this from a Facebook/LinkedIn social media message. The article calls Frank a “Sports Man for all
Seasons” - an unequaled sports professional in the areas of sales, marketing,
economics, teaching, consulting and leadership.
Simply put, Frank does it all.”
Al Bruce, BS '65, reports that “Several
class of 1961 Central New York alumni have created their own ‘Rump
Reunion’. Richard Beal, Pat Brown and
Joe Molino '60 - with occasional attendance from Joe’s brother Carmon ‘58 and Al too
infrequently - enjoy a quiet lunch at Antonetta’s in Rochester, NY. The go-to subject
is always ‘Whatever happened to…” Lively
conversation explores Richard’s career as an Eastman Kodak senior research
chemist and winner of the youth soccer national Coach of the Year award. Pat, as an NYDOT right-of-way engineer, helped
transform a sepia-toned 1942 map of Central and Western NY land ownership into
I-86. Joe’s career diversity includes a
decade of membership on the Wayne Cty Board of Supervisors and as an excavation
contractor who’s dug from the northern tier of Pennsylvania to the north of the Tug Hill
Plateau. Al is a retired banker who
moved from Dixie to within two hours of Alma Mater. His hobby: reporting for the daily Hornell
Tribune about area school districts while writing a self-deprecatory column, ‘Ask
Dr. Answer-Expert’, billed as 'Weakly Nonsense'.
A personal note to the Eulogy
for Steven Muller, PhD '58, from Gail Kweller Ripans. (ripans@mindspring.com): "I
took his first course as a professor on Political Theory in the fall of 1958.” He became her advisor and aided her Honors in
Government Phi Beta Kappa. Lifelong
friends, she believes he was “a great asset to Cornell.” Gail teaches international relations at Senior
University at Mercer U.'s Atlanta campus.