August 2024

I have a complaint. Fewer and fewer of you are writing to report on what’s happening in your lives. Yes, there are fewer and fewer of us, but surely the very fact that we are elderly and still upright is a cause for celebration. So, let’s hear from you. Soon. Marianne...

June 2024

Here’s the news that’s come over the transom since our last column. If you’ve missed this one, you can atone by sending news for the next one. From Ewing, N.J., Patricia Carlin White writes that now that she has retired from teaching high school home economics –...

April 2024

This column is being written in April which, as we all know, is tax month. In the absence of personal entries from classmates, I thought it fitting to write about another set of figures: Classmate and Class-based Giving. In this the 62nd year of the Class of 1962,...

February 2024

The College of Veterinary Medicine has established the Stephen J. Ettinger 1962, D.V.M. 1964 Scholarship in honor of this outstanding veterinarian whose broad-reaching influence has impacted the college and the veterinarian profession Ettinger is considered a founder...

December 2023

This “Classmate News” column that you are now reading was written in mid-December! Alas, there is a serious lack of actual news from you. Presumably many of you are caught up in your holiday and winter activities and will share all those goings on when you get a...

October 2023

From John Abel (Cornell Professor Emeritus of  Civil & Environmental Engineering who is still living in his lovely lakefront home on Cayuga Lake) comes great news for the Class. “On a beautiful autumn Ithaca day, I was on campus for an errand and decided to...
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