Alumni Notes

1930s

Carlton M. Edward '36 of Rome, Ga., is professor emeritus of Michigan State University. His wife, Gertrude Armbruster, is professor emeritus in Cornell's Division of Nutritional Science. They have four children, six grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.
George "Doc" Abraham '39 and Katy Abraham '42 of Naples, N.Y., have wrapped up their weekly radio show, "The Green Thumb" on Rochester's WHAM, the longest-running gardening program on American radio with the same hosts, which went on the air in 1952. They will continue their newspaper column, which runs in three dozen small-town newspapers and gardening magazines, and they plan to still bring their horticultural expertise to schoolchildren in the Naples area.

1940s

Isadore Gibber '41 of Monticello, N.Y., is retired and spends the winter in Florida. She travels extensively to visit family in Israel, Memphis, Baltimore, and New York.
Leonard Parker '42 of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., is retired. Sons Steven and Richard are running the family business.
Charles H. Moseley '44 of De Ruyter, N.Y., moved to Florida last year.
R. Thomas Scannell, Jr. '47 of Hopewell Junction, N.Y., is a retired agriculture teacher and guidance counselor.
Richard G. Tousey '47 of Boynton Beach, Fla., is a retired co-owner of Panel Productions, a film and television production company.
John P. Fish '48 of Merritt Island, Fla., is retired. He was director of the Budget and Finance Division for the Soil Conservation Service in Washington, D.C. He also advised Secretary of Agriculture Butts.
Franklyn P. Cism '49 of Harpursville, N.Y., was re-elected to the Harpursville County school board in June 2002 and re-elected chairman of the town of Colesville planning board in January 2002.

1950s

Arthur C. Chadbourne '50 of New Hartford, N.Y., is retired from General Electric and the Oneida National Bank and Trust.
George A. Johannessen '50 of Danville, Calif., is retired as director of the California Tomato Research Institute.
Lewis E. Clark '51 of Orono, Maine, is retired but continues to work in foreign service.
Conrad J. Kercher '52 of University, Wyo., retired in 1996 after 42 years on the faculty of the Department of Animal Science at the University of Wyoming. He keeps busy by traveling and is in good health.
Imogene B. Helm '54 of Tucson, Ariz., is retired from teaching in the Tucson Unified school district and from the adjunct faculty of Pima Community College in Tucson. She plays the flute for local community bands.
Merle R. Decker '55 of Fairfield Glade, Tenn., retired in 1996. He spent two years in the military and 39 years in the dairy and food industries. He is married and has three grown sons.
Charles S. Shipman '55 of Columbia, Mo., is retired and still flying as a pilot, although grounded after quadruple bypass surgery in September 2002. He keeps busy serving as the treasurer for the Missouri Pilots Association and various home improvement projects.
Samuel M. Leadley '57 of Pavilion, N.Y., retired in 1999 as manager of the calf operation at Noblehurst Farms. He is now working as the calf management specialist for Attica Veterinary Associates.

1960s

Martin L. Walzer '63 of Danville, Pa., is the recipient of the Robert N. Pursel Distinguished Community Achievement Award, in recognition of a lifetime of community service. It was awarded at the annual American Red Cross dinner in November 2002.
Owen C. Wavrinek '65 of Naperville, Ill., had a new elementary school named in his honor in the Indian Prairie school district. Wavrinek actively supported city zoning and state funding measures that assisted growing school districts. When first appointed to the school board, the district had 2,339 students in seven schools. When he retired from the board in 2001, it had more than 24,000 students in 30 schools.
James Doolittle '67 of Trumansburg, N.Y., celebrated the 20th anniversary of his winery, Frontenac Point, located on the shores of Cayuga Lake. His 1999 Frontenac Point Vineyard chardonnay was voted the top-scoring chardonnay in the recent Northside Wine & Spirits blind tasting of 46 New York chardonnays. Doolittle and his wife, Carol, host visitors in their wine's hospitality room and deck, which has a panoramic view of Cayuga Lake.

1970s

Douglas K. Wyler '70 of Rockville Centre, N.Y., is a veterinarian with Animal Medical Hospital in Hempstead, N.Y., since 1975. He is married to Irma Blom Wyler.
Maria M. Schurrah '72 of Lima, Peru, is working as an adjunct scientist with CIP (International Potato Center). She is currently working on gene flow studies to investigate possible risks of deploying a transgenic potato variety in the Andes.
Willard C. Hunt '73 of Honeoye Falls, N.Y., is an operations manager in the information operations center for Xerox Corporation.
Donald Sherman '75 of Golden, Colo., is a senior vice-president for Thermo RETEC doing environmental engineering work. He is married to Chris Cosentini '78 and still travels back to Ithaca to visit family.
Lee A. Fuiman MS '78 of Corpus Christi, Texas, is a professor of marine science at the University of Texas. His research ranges from the ecology of larval fishes to the hunting behavior of Antarctic seals. He edited the first textbook on larval fishes (Fishery Science: The Unique Contributions of Early Life Stages), which was published in 2002 by Blackwell Science.
Rebecca A. Vallely '79, MBA '80 of Ithaca, N.Y., is a financial services representative of MetLife. She earned the honor of attending the MetLife President's Conference in Hawaii because of her commitment to sales, service, and continuing education.
James R. Sollecito '76 of Syracuse, N.Y., and owner of Sollecito Landscaping Nursery, recently received two state first-prize awards from the New York State Nursery/Landscape Association. His adviser and friend, Professor of Horticulture George Good, was on hand to help with the awards. Sollecito is the most senior certified landscape professional active in upstate New York.

1980s

Ann Farnsworth Barksdale '81 of Edina, Minn., is a veterinarian and owns a small animal practice. She and her husband, Henry Barksdale (MBA '86), have two children.
Richard W. Gibney '81 of Wading River, N.Y., is a trustee for the Planting Fields Foundation and is a registered landscape architect. He and his wife, Debra J. Hall, have two sons, Michael (16) and Sean (14).
John H. Robinson '83 of Wilbraham, Mass., and his wife, Mary Ellen, welcomed their first child, John David, on November 6, 2001.
Robin Baker '85 of Brooklyn, N.Y., is the deputy chief of appeals in the criminal division of the United States Attorney's Office for the southern district of New York.
Linda Katz Schumer '87 of Yorktown Heights, N.Y., has been married for nine years to Mitchell Shumer.

1990s

Holly Jean Heidelberger '90 of West Valley, N.Y., is office manager for the veterinary business owned by her brother, Dr. Scott G. Nachbar '87, (DVM '91). Christopher Mahoney '90 of Holtsville, N.Y., is married to Tricia Mahoney and they have 2-year-old twins, Jack and Mackenzie.
David R. Sosnow '90 of Chicago, Ill., is director of consulting services for Interface Software, a CRM vendor for the professional services industry. He married Eleanor Thompson on June 2, 2002.
Betty Ng '91 of New York, N.Y., is now married and known as Betty Ng-Beckler. Robert F. Ceglowski '93 of Rupert, Vt., is enrolled in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell, class of 2006.
Chris Cherry '94 and Kimberly (White) Cherry '95 of Auburn, N.Y., have a daughter, Meghan, born in August. Chris is the owner and Kimberly is the accounting manager of CIDEC Corporation in Auburn.
Frederick Alcantara '95 of Holbrook, N.Y., received an MS in human nutrition from the Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition. He is currently a student at the St. George's University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies.
Katherine M. Dowell '95 of Watertown, Mass., teaches freshman biology at Boston Univer- sity. She also teaches a course in training grad students to teach at the undergraduate level.
Juanita Maria deSa Frias '95 of Yonkers, N.Y., completed her DDS at Columbia University School of Dentistry in May 2000. She married Dr. Vladimir Frias, a prosthodontist, in June 2000. Currently, she is working in Manhattan.
Lynn Leitner Hickey '95 of Clifton Park, N.Y., and her husband, Kevin, had a son, Daniel Liam Hickey, on October 4, 2002. She is a fourth-year resident in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Albany Medical Center.
Deborah Anne Marie deSa '96 of Port Jefferson, N.Y., completed her DMD at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in May 2000. Currently she is a third-year resident in orthodontics at Stony Brook University and will graduate in May 2003.
Erica L. Gantner '96 of Boston, Mass., is regional manager of recruiting and training for the E & J Gallo winery. She was named a 2002 Junior Achievement Volunteer of the Year.
Kim Koepke '96 of Oconomowoc, Wis., and her husband, John Koepke '95, welcomed their first child, August James Koepke, on May 6, 2001.
William S. Crowley, Jr., '96 of Troy, N.Y., is special assistant to Governor Pataki for policy and planning. He and his wife, Peri, have two sons, Zachary (6) and Samuel (3).
Kerry O'Brien '96 of Washington, D.C., received her PhD in 2002 and does cancer research at the Georgetown University Medical Center.
Doug Darnowski PhD '97 of Chestertown, Md., is an assistant professor of biology at Washington College. He is a cofounder of the International Triggerplant Society and published a book on triggerplants.
Angie Datta '97 of New York, N.Y., graduated in June 2002 from the Master in Public Policy program at Harvard University and is now executive director of Streetwise Partners, Inc., a nonprofit organization focused on welfare-to-work job training in New York City.
Sharmila L. Murthy '97 of Cambridge, Mass., is a student in a joint law degree and public policy program at Harvard Law and the Kennedy School of Government.
Juan Lucas Restrepo MS '97 of Bogot‡, Colombia, was appointed deputy minister of agriculture and rural development. Restrepo was sworn in by President Alvaro Uribe in August 2002.
Michael H. Tunick '97 of East Islip, N.Y., is a fourth-year medical student at Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Abigail Willmer '97 of Ithaca, N.Y., works for the United Nations Development Program in Uzbekistan.
Brian Dick '98 of York, Pa., is a web technical administrator for UPS. He received an MS in information systems and an MBA from Pennsylvania State University.
Caroline T. Barnum '99 of Columbus, Ohio, is a third-year veterinary student at Ohio State University.
Jill A. Clougherty '99 of Chatham, N.J., is married to Nils Weimann (PhD '99 Engr.) and is a full-time mother to their son, Julian, born October 22, 2001. She previously worked as an environmental technician doing water quality monitoring in the New Jersey Meadowlands.
Sean Morgan '99 of Johnson City, N.Y., has accepted a position as a grower at Kube-Park Garden Plants and will be relocating to New Jersey.
Aaron G. Stites '99 of Moorpark, Calif., is a third-year law student at the Wisconsin Law School-Madison. He is senior managing editor of the Law Review.

2000s

Matthew L. Barboni '00 of New Hampton, N.Y., works for an architectural/engineering firm in Manhattan called Barbara Thayer, P.C. He passed his LEED exam sponsored by USGBC.
Allison A. Byers '00 of The Woodlands, Texas, is a senior research associate at Lexicon Genetics, Inc.
Janee O. Carr '00 of Clearfield, Pa., is a veterinary student at the University of Pennsylvania.
Lyle A. Chastaine '00 of Stamford, N.Y., is a financial analyst for Williamette Management Associates.
Jennifer Dickman '00, MAT '01 of Mahopac, N.Y., works for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Putnam County.
Jane E. Feinson '00 of Louisville, Ky., got married on October 7, 2001 and is now Jane E. Coulter.
Rebekah L. Lamphere '00 of Berlin, N.Y., married Morgan Hartman '00 and is now Rebekah Hartman. They started a landscape and interior design company in the Albany area and were expecting their first child in mid-April.
Janine L'Heureux '00 of Burlington, Mass., is a fisheries observer for the northeast region of the National Marine Fisheries Service.
Jennifer Louis-Jacques '00 of Parlin, N.J., graduated in May 2002 with an MPH from Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. She is currently working at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and will be attending medical school in the fall of 2003.
Carrie Swesso '00 of Sutherlin, Ore., is a social worker specializing in child welfare for the State of Oregon.
Anthony W. Arend '01 of Oakland, Calif., works for Niman Ranch custom meat producers in their corporate office. He is in charge of supply life and also serves as a liaison from farms to processing.
Jacquelyn E. Bowser '01 of Wakefield, R.I., is a student in St. George's Veterinary School.
Joseph A. Cook '01 of Jersey City, N.J., is an analyst for Daymon Associates, Inc. He is engaged to Lauren Kunkel '99, and they plan to get married in July 2003.
Zhen S. Huang '01 of Brooklyn, N.Y., is in medical school at Tufts University.
Mike Kalogiannis '01 of Fresh Meadows, N.Y., is a second-year graduate student in the De-partment of Physiology at New York Medical College.
Anne M. Socci '01 of Ely, Minn., is a field instructor with Voyageur Outward Bound School. She leads youth exhibitions through the boundary waters in Minnesota in the summer and dog sledding expeditions in the winter.
Victoria Ying '01 of Mount Kisco, N.Y., is studying for her PhD in molecular medicine at Yale University as an exchange student from Cornell.
Melissa Marie deSa '02 of Churchville, N.Y., is currently doing research in the Department of Micro-biology and Immunology at the University of Rochester. She plans to attend medical school in the fall of 2003.