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from our March/April 2018 Class Notes column:
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The annual Class of 1970
dues mailing for 2018 has begun! Please join in by paying dues and, most
importantly, sending in your news, whether it's about family, retirement or a new
career, info on '70 classmates and friends, or memories from our years at Cornell! Thanks
for being an active and involved member of the Class of'70. A reminder
that our 50th Reunion weekend will run from Thursday, June 4, through
Sunday, June 7, 2020. Check out our various sites: class website, cornell70.org;
Facebook page; and
Twitter page.
Jack Salberg, MBA '71,
and his wife, Susan, continue to live in Nashville, TN. For over ten
years now, they have been enjoying retirement and feel fortunate that they remain
physically active. Jack is a proud member of the local men's over 65,
level 4.0 tennis team. They have won the Tennessee state championship
two of the last three years. Last December, they played at the USTA Southern
Sectional tennis tournament in Hilton Head, NC. Recently, Jack and Susan
celebrated their 46th wedding anniversary. They dated throughout
most Jack's Cornell days. He notes that Susan "suffered through her share
of toga parties and other events at Cornell in the late '60s". For the
last six years, the three-week summertime "Camp Grandma and Grandpa" for two exclusive
campers, grandkids Joshua, 11, and Elsa, 9, has taken place in Nashville. Jack
and Susan love this great, if tiring, tradition. Seems the kids' parents
do too!
...Please read this notice. [read the whole
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from our January/February 2018 Class Notes column:
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A new day and a new year,
2018! When we were all thinking (and perhaps worrying, too) about the
New Millenium, I was not imagining how swiftly the following 18 years would go by. We
are now two and a half years until our 50th Reunion at Cornell. Now,
that is amazing! So often, these days, I seem to feel and see the signs
that our time on the Hill was so long ago. However, at the same time,
when I think of our undergraduate years, I can quickly be transformed back to a
much younger version of myself -- at least in my mind! Our 50th
Reunion weekend is June 4-7, 2020. Please be sure to check out our various
sites: Class Website, Cornell70.org;
Facebook page, www.facebook.com/Cornell70/;
and Twitter page,
www.twitter.com/CornellClass70.
Classmate Jomarie Alano, MBA '82
has written and published a new book, A Life of Resistance: Ada Propero Marchesini
Gobetti, 1902-1968. Her book was published by University of Rochester/Boydell
& Brewer. Ada Gobetti was a writer, translator, teacher, and women's
rights activist who began her lifetime of resistance and her fight against fascism
in the early 1920s. She organized other Italian women (whom she viewed
as a political force) against German occupiers and fascist oppressors. Ada
fought for the ideals of grassroots democracy, women's rights, and democratic education
for the rest of her life, in addition to writing. Jomarie is a visiting
scholar at Cornell's Inst. for European Studies. She is also the translator
and editor of Ada Gobetti's Diario Partigiano, which was published by
Oxford University Press as: Partisan Diary: A Women's Life in the Italian Resistance.
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from our November/December 2017 Class Notes column:
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As 2017 is drawing to a
close, I wish you all a very tasty and happy Thanksgiving and wonderful holiday
celebrations in December. May you all enjoy a healthy, happy, and less
stressful New Year in 2018!
With the turning of the calendar to 2018, we are getting even closer to our 50th
Reunion in June 2020. Our ’70 leadership team and core 50th Reunion committee
is moving ahead with plans for this special celebration weekend, June 4-7, 2020. However,
we are always on the lookout for and in search of any and all classmates who want
to join the committee. Committee work can be in a very specific way or
in a general manner. We welcome suggestions and ideas, as well as questions
and comments from all of you. Please contact me at: conimae2@gmail.com. I look forward to hearing
from many of our fellow classmates from the Legendary Cornell Class of 1970. Please
read more on our three sites: class website, www.cornell70.org; Facebook page, www.facebook.com/Cornell70;
and Twitter page, www.twitter.com/CornellClass70.
Drew Copeland,
PhD ’77 (Westlake Village, CA) is currently consulting for a small laser company,
which is modeling solid-state disc laser performance. His two daughters,
26 and 28, were both married in 2017. Drew would like to be spending
more time reading and studying math and physics—”my real loves in life.” Two
Cornell professors had a great impact on Drew: AEP professor Arthur Kuckes, who
he worked for for two summers while at Cornell; and Prof. Chung Tang, MA
’76, who was his PhD thesis advisor in 1977. Elliot Kronstein is a prosthodontist and founding partner
of the Restorative Dental Group of Cambridge. Presently he is one of
nine dentists in the practice that specializes in restorative, implant, and cosmetic
dentistry. Elliot has a special interest in cosmetic tooth support and
implant restorative dentistry. He has led and been involved in numerous
colleges, academies, study clubs, residency and education programs, and societies,
all of which deal with his practice and knowledge of prosthodontics. He
is also the chairman of the board of the Precious Project (www.preciousproject.org), a US 501(c)(3) and a Tanzanian
NGO. Elliot and the Precious Project are working to halt the recurring
cycle of poverty that exists in a small Tanzanian village of 3,000. A
residence for 14 abandoned or orphaned children and a much-needed primary school
for 180 children have both been established by this organization.
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from our September/October 2017 Class Notes column:
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As the years go by (or should
I say fly by?), we receive news about the deaths of friends an classmates more and
more often. Sadly, on February 14, 2017, our classmate Julie Mather Schnuck
passed away due to a glioblastoma brain tumor. She was the wife of Scott
'72, with whom she had three sons. In 1975, Julie and Scott moved
to St. Louis when Scott joined his family's business, Schnuck Markets, where Julie
was a valued partner in the floral department. Julie was active with
the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (her grandchildren called her "Birdie," because of
her love of birds) and the Audubon Center at Riverlands in West Alton,MO. After
her glioblastoma diagnosis, in the spring of 2015, Julie boldly agreed to be Patient
1 in the a personalized, revolutionary vaccine to fight such incurable brain tumors.
She and Scott were instrumental in establishing the Julia M. Schnuck Personalized
Immune Vaccine Trial at Washington U. All those who knew Julie, who was
born in Franklinville, NY, loved her personality, especially her quick wit. Her
keen business sense was much respected. For further information, find
her obituaries through the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Lupton Chapel of St.
Louis, MO.
Virginia Vanderslice,
MS '73, who founded Praxis Consulting Group of Philadelphia, has been honored with
the ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) Assn's Life Service Award. It
is a prestigious award for a person who has contributed greatly to ESOP, as well
as to the employee ownership community. Having more than 30 years of
experience working with employee-owned companies, Ginny helped spread awareness
that employee ownership is of great benefit to employees, companies, and the nation. She
is on the faculty of the Center for Organizational Dynamics at the U. of Pennsylvania,
where she teaches organizational change. Ginny is academic director of
Leading in an Ownership Setting at Penn, which she founded as a program for top
executives at employee-owned businesses. Her PhD in social psychology
of groups and organizations is from SUNY Buffalo.
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