Don Juran, a composer and music engraver living in Rockville, Md, delightedly reported that he has finally got his website up and running! See it for yourself: https://www.donjuran.com. A retired computer programmer, he also was a choral singer and occasional bass soloist for nearly a half century. He retired from choral singing in 2022 to concentrate on composition. Oh, and as an alumni member of the Cornell Glee Club, he is still singing with the group on Cornelliana Night at reunions!
Cathy Van Buren Bomberger of Dune Acres, IN is delighted to share exciting news about the publication of her daughter Lauren Bomberger Fischer’s first novel ORPHANLAND (Mission Point Press) – a middle grade mystery examines the impact of the opioid epidemic on children and the community – which will be available on Amazon.com and elsewhere on Nov. 12, 2025.
Brad and Lila Fix Olson’63 have been residents of Villa Gardens, a senior living community in Pasadena, CA for the past 2 years, where Brad is active as chair of the Activities Committee, a member of the Budget Oversight Committee, and co-facilitates monthly resident discussions of the Foreign Policy Association’s “Great Decisions.”
Retired after 55 years as a veterinarian, Bob Schmitt keeps busy volunteering as a part-time vet! He and his wife Bette live in South Deerfield, MA where they are enjoying their “golden years.”
Faith Miller Roelofs has been a volunteer these past 35+ years at the Highland Hills Center for Natural History where she is helping to develop an outdoor preschool. This fall, she will be auditing a 3-semester course in Early Childhood Education at Yavapai College in Prescott, AZ where she lives. “As a Cornell undergrad, I learned many things about my narrow field of study. Since then, I have come to deeply appreciate the world-wide scope of Cornell’s wisdom and resources in caring for the health of our planet and its people while exploring the known universe. Education is never ending.”
Landscape and wildlife photographer Frances Denn Gallogly and husband Vincent, an avid birder, split their time between homes in Ft. Pierce, FL and Connecticut.
John and Janie Curtis completed a “Viking world journey that began in Los Angeles and ended in London, 24 countries and 50 ports of call later! It was wonderful and educational, seeing how interconnected all are in a global neighborhood. In addition, we visited with friends in New Zealand, Sydney, Singapore and England. It was clearly the trip of a lifetime!” Back home in Rockwell, Tx, John serves on a few boards and volunteers as a Past District Governor in Rotary, using his experience to assist others in carrying out volunteer work.
The THEO Gallery in Seoul, South Korea presented a retrospective covering 65 years of works of art by Alice Dalton Brown from June 15 – September 20, 2025. The artist, who attended the June opening and returned later in the summer for another visit, was also interviewed for Korean TV. The exhibition, a series of colorful rooms filled with her work from the early ‘80s to the present, included paintings, constructions, moving projections of silhouetted plants, personal photos, and a timeline of her works. “It is interesting to me that the style of exhibition presentation shows a different sensibility from what I am accustomed to seeing in the US,” she noted.
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