1920s

• Philip I. Higley Sr. '26 of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., celebrated his 100th birthday on June 18, 2003, with more than 200 family and friends. Among the Cornell greetings read at the celebration was a letter from then President Hunter Rawlings III. Also in attendance was "little brother" Ralph L. Higley '30 of Apopka, Fla, who is 96 years young.

1930s
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• Harvey I. Scudder '39 of Dublin, Calif., is still active in biological and health sciences. He has a paper on insect integumentary glands ready for the press and others on insect sensory organs in preparation.

1940s
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• William M. Seymour Jr. '48 of Hillsdale, N.Y., is retired. He and his wife are active in the Grange and their local church. They continue to travel to Colorado to visit family, and they garden and keep honey bees as a hobby. They spend the winters in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
• Alvin Silvey '49 of Boynton Beach, Fla., is retired and enjoying living in Florida.
• Edwin (Ed) L. Slusarczyk '49 of Remsen, N.Y., was recently inducted into the Farm Broadcasters Hall of Fame at the annual meeting of the National Association of Farm Broadcasters. He began the Ag Radio Network in 1976 with 11 stations, which now has grown to 136 stations with reports heard all over New York, New England, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware. Slusarczyk is also a consultant to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, developing agriculture, marketing, and nutrition radio programs in developing nations of Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, and most recently East Africa.

1950s
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• M. Paul Friedberg '53 of New York, N.Y., is a landscape architect. He was awarded the second annual James Daniel Bybee Prize by the Building Stone Institute. This award honors an individual architect for a body of work executed over time and distinguished by outstanding design. His designs include Battery Park, NYC; Transpotomac, Washington, D.C.; Queens Square, Japan; Olympic Plaza, Calgary, Canada; and Andromeda Houses, Israel.
• Justin H. Kramer '53 of Silver Spring, Md., is retired and living in Montgomery County, Md.
• Paul R. Seymour '55 of West New York, N.J., is a retired vice president of Merrill Lynch. He has four children and six grandchildren. He is the president of Care for the Homeless in New York City and president of the board of directors of a 430-unit residential complex.
• Ralph E. Lamar III '58 of Port Jervis, N.Y., is a retired Presbyterian minister. He was also a 4-H leader for 35 years.

1960s
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• Ruth B. Hanessian '60 of Rockville, Md., is the president of the Maryland Association of Pet Industries, working to encourage statewide stores to engage in responsible behavior. Their gold circle membership ensures any store will either accept or refer to an appropriate location any unwanted pet. The MAPI organization is also joining forces with the Maryland Invasive Species Council.
• Andrew A. Duymovic '62 of Bethesda, Md., is retired from his position as foreign agricultural affairs officer with the USDA. He is currently an adjunct professor of economics at Shenandoah University.
• Dirk van Loon '62 of Liverpool, Nova Scotia, is the publisher and editor of DvL Publishing Inc. He has recently launched a new quarterly magazine called Pets Atlantic, which includes stories about dogs, cats, and other companion animals.
• Edward R. Hoerning '63 of Gastonia, N.C., is a laboratory manager at USDA, AMS, Science and Technology Laboratory.
• Neil I. Tamber '64 of Trumbull, Conn., is the associate director of market research for a pharmaceutical company. He and his wife, Susan, will be celebrating their 38th anniversary. They have two children, David and Sarah, and four grandsons.
• Donald M. Tobey '64 of Hyde Park, Vt., is retired from his college faculty position but still teaches economics part time. He and his wife, Kate, breed and show registered Morgan horses. He is also a horse show judge.
• Arline Sroka Sumner '65 of Altamont, N.Y., has been a chemist/toxicologist with the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation for 16 years. She is a member of the ALS Alumni Career Link and communicates with CALS students regularly. She also sings with the Masterworks Chorus of Morristown, N.J. Sumner is a grandmother to Matthew (14) and Megan (12)-children of son, Joel (Eng. '93).
• Phyllis W. Barlow '67 of Groton, N.Y., is legally blind, which affects her participation in many things. However, she still likes to keep in touch with ALS alumni.
• Douglas C. Ferguson '68 of Silver Spring, Md., passed away on November 4, 2002.
• Kenneth D. Kohn '69 of Rockville Center, Md., is a financial/insurance planner for The MONY Group working in estate, retirement, and business planning.

1970s
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• Peter Muller '70 of Pawling, N.Y., is the owner of Red Rose Farm. He kept his family dairy farm running until last year. He is now in a transitional period.
• Claude Andre St-Pierre, Ph.D. '70 of Toronto, Ontario, received the highest honor given by the Agrologist Association of Quebec, Commandeur de l'Ordre du merite agronomique, in 2000. In 2002, he was named professor emeritus from Universit? Laval.
• Douglas Kent Wyler (Wohlfeiler) '70 of Rockville Center, N.Y., is a veterinarian. He is married to Irma Blom Wyler.
• Mark J. Dewey '75 of Byron, N.Y., has a daughter, Meghan, who graduated from Cornell (HumEc) in 2002.
• Moshe Raccach PhD '77 of Mesa. Ariz., is an associate professor and coordinator of the Food Science Concentration in the Morrison School of Agribusiness and Resource Management at Arizona State University East. He is currently on sabbatical in Spain at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
• Peter Chatel '78 of Marietta, Ga., was recently promoted to vice president for quality and analytical services for Coca-Cola North America.
• Judith Greif '79 of East Brunswick, N.J., is a medical writer and nurse practitioner at Princeton University's Student Health Center. She is the author of four health books. Her husband, Joseph, is a computer engineer, and daughter, Samantha, is an aspiring Cornellian.

1980s
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• George R. Frantz '80, MRP '91 of Ithaca, N.Y., founded his own firm, George R. Frantz & Associates, in June 2000 to provide professional planning support to small town governments. In December 2002, Frantz and Ann Margaret Esnard won the Outstanding Planning Project Honorable Mention Award for their Valley Communities Hazard Mitigation Plan.
• Carol Weinstein '80 of White Plains, N.Y., is a psychiatrist in a private practice at St. Vincent's Hospital. She is also on the faculty at New York Medical College and is a flutist.
• Richard W. Gibney '81 of Wading River, N.Y., is a NYS registered Landscape Architect and president of the Gibney Design Group. He is also a trustee for the Planting Fields Foundation. He and his wife, Debra J. Hall, have two sons, Michael (16) and Sean (14).
• Phebe Clark Ladd Mertes '81 of College Station, Texas, is chief executive officer of Mertes Internet Construction Co., which has survived the downturn in the economy and is currently assisting with a project being proposed to CALS. The family is doing well, and one more nephew is starting at Cornell this fall.
• Kurt A. Oster '83 of Sterling, Conn., is a management consultant with Veterinary Healthcare Consultants, LLC, where he provides consulting services to veterinarians nationwide. He resides on a farm with three great danes and 15 horses.
• Karen A. Johnston '84 of East Monches, N.Y., is the owner of the Hampton Veterinary Hospital and an herbal supplement company, Natural Solutions, Inc. She and husband, Jay, have three sons: Jason (8), Joshua (4), and Jacob (1).
• Kathleen M. Rowe '85 of Needham, Mass., is the founder of Kathleen Rowe Associates. On February 12, 2003, the company won the Platinum Award for product of service communications in the 2002 League of American Communication Professionals Magellan Competition. The award recognizes the firm's work on the MIT $50K, on behalf of the MIT Sloan School of Management.
• Andrew E. Zepp '85 (ILR), MPS (AGR) '90 is the new executive director of the Finger Lakes Land Trust as of January 13, 2003. The Finger Lakes Land Trust is a nonprofit organization, based in Ithaca, dedicated to protecting the natural integrity of the Finger Lakes region.
• Linda Katz Shumer '87 of Yorktown Heights, N.Y., has been married for nine years.
• Glenn A. Taylor '87 of Cassville, N.Y., is a partner at Tayl-Wind Farm. On November 16, 2002, he married Sheryl B. Church '89.
• Kimberly M. Thompson '89 of Cambridge, Ontario, has recently graduated from law school. She is now articling at a law firm in Cambridge where she will continue to practice after taking the bar exams in July 2003.

1990s
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• Sally H. Alling '89 of Canandaigua, Ontario, is married to Dr. R. Douglas Alling '90, MS '91, MD '95. They have two children, Ryan (5) and Sarah (3).
• Christopher J. Mahoney '90 of Holtsville, N.Y., is a vice president at Keen Consultants LLC. He and his wife, Tricia, have 2-year-old twins, Jack and Mackenzie.
• Alarik F. Myrin '91 of Duchesne, Utah, continues to expand her ranching and trucking businesses. She recently adopted Tyra (12), Annika (6), and Ian (4) this year. Twins, Ayla and Hanna, are now 1 year old.
• Thomas C. Hughes '95 of Sayville, N.Y., earned his MS in biological sciences/aquatic ecology from SUNY Brockport in 2002. He is a senior fisheries technician for the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation on Long Island.
• Lisa M. Polazzi '95 of Valparaiso, Ind., is an emergency veterinarian at the North Central Veteri-nary Emergency Clinic, a new emergency /referral center associated with Purdue University.
• Jenee Chizick '96 of Philadelphia, Pa., is working in business development for a Latino publishing company, Grupo Bogota. She is also working toward a master's degree in bilingual bicultural studies in Caribbean Spanish at LaSalle University.
• Caryn Feinberg '97 of Philadelphia, Pa., is a student at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania pursing her MBA. She previously worked at Citigroup in investor relations.
• Amy L. Trimble '97 of Massapequa, N.Y., is director of marketing for Autronic Plastics, Inc. She has applied to grad schools and will be starting her international MBA at the University of South Carolina.
• Saboor H. AbdulJaami '99 of Jersey City, N.J., graduated from New York University School of Law. He is practicing law in the corporate finance department of Kaye Scholer LLP and hopes to unite his major in biology with the corporate law practice.
• Anne Mei Law '99 of Arlington, Va., graduated from law school in the summer of 2003. She hopes to stay in the D.C. area and practice environmental law.

2000s
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• Janee O. Carr '00 of Philadelphia, Pa., is attending the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.
• Alicia Critelli '00 of Dixfield, Maine, recently moved to Maine from State Hill, N.Y., to work as a financial analyst for a paper mill.
• Jane E. Feinson '00 of Louisville, Ky., was married on October 7, 2001, and is now known as Jane E. Coulter.
• Christina M. Way '00 of Providence, R.I., is a zookeeper at Roger Williams Park Zoo. She is currently working in Africa Plains with exotic animals.
• Christine M. Cocquyt '01 of Victor, N.Y., is now attending the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine.
• Nathan T. Connell '01 of Miami, Fla., completed his master's degree in biomedical sciences at Barry University. He was a teaching assistant in the graduate program and taught medical histology labs and lectured. He will begin medical school at the University of Miami School of Medicine in the fall.
• Sara E. Diedrich '01 of Jacksonville, Fla., moved from Brooklandville, Md., to Florida.
• Ryan W. Fitchett '01 of Allston, Mass., is an industrial consultant for Stroud Consulting. He travels to manufacturing plants throughout the United States and to London.
• Kristi L. Kull '01 of Ithaca, N.Y., is a research technician for Defrees Hydraulics Lab. She is currently working on a water quality project on Cayuga Lake and a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project on Lake Ontario.
• Michelle L. Wobser '01 of Quincy, Mass., graduated in May 2002 from Johns Hopkins University with an MS in environmental engineering. On August 17, 2002, she married her college sweetheart, Carl McEntire. The couple enjoyed a honeymoon in Hawaii. Her new name is Michelle L. W. McEntire.
• Evan Fay Earle '02 of Freeville, N.Y., is the founder and CEO of E.E.I., an Internet rare, old, and unusual book business.

- Compiled by Sherida Porpiglia '05