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From Ewing, N.J., Patricia Carlin White writes that now that she has retired from teaching high school home economics – “Culinary Arts,” she is keeping busy as a textile artist making handwoven clothing and with traveling – most recently to Japan and to Lisbon a few times a year to visit her son and his family.
After 30 years working with Penn State student counselors, Betty Lefkowitz Moore is enjoying retirement being with friends, as a library volunteer, providing medical assistance for those without funding, serving as Director of the Jewish Community Center, and as a great grandmom.
Linda Zucchelli Martinelli, of Rexford, NY proudly reports that her two grandsons at Cornell are both on the Dean’s List!
Beverley Mochel Wilson lives in Lawrence, KS where she volunteers four days a week recording and live broadcasting for sight-impaired individuals. “We are the 2nd largest service in the country with 250 volunteers and 1000 listeners!”
Author John (Jack) Foley lives in Oakland, CA where he is a prolific writer/poet/critic. Since 1988, he has presented poetry on the Berkeley, CA radio station KPFA. In 2021 Academia Press published The Light of Evening: A Brief Life of Jack Foley, and the companion volume, A Backward Glance O’er Travel’d Roads. Last year’s output included Creative Death (Igneus Press), Bridget (Stoneybrook Editions), and, coming up, Ekphrazz (Igneus Press) and Collisions (Academica Press).
Robert (Bob) Simpson, a retired automotive engineer for the Chrysler Corporation now living in Fenton, MI, keeps himself busy completing projects and/or repairing or fixing things.
David Harrald writes that he is enjoying retirement in Sun Lakes, AZ.
From Veneta, OR, John F Abele sends word that these days in addition to enjoying the company of his family, he gets the most satisfaction from watching Fox programs and “supporting the Conservatives and Donald Trump.”
Elizabeth (Liz) Belsky Stiel writes that she and husband Lester ’60 are settled in La Jolla, CA where they “plan to continue to age in place.”
Originally from St. Paul, MN, Jean Kitts Cadwallader serves on several boards in Homer, NY where she set up home after graduation with her late husband, William, a Cornell veterinarian, and raised her family which now includes 10 grandchildren, three great grandchildren, and two more “in the oven.”
From La Conversion, Switzerland, where she has lived for almost six decades, Jacque Browne Bugnion writes that in retirement she has been financing an agricultural school that is linked to the “Great Green Wall,” a major reforestation project in Burkina Faso whose purpose is to promote peace, restore 100 million hectares of land, sequester 250 million tons of carbon, and create 10 million jobs. The project is providing food and water security, habitats for wild plants and animals, and a reason for residents to stay in a region beset by drought and poverty.
After 30 years of part-time teaching as an anatomy and physiology instructor at Frederick Community College, Middletown, MD resident Betty Kopsco Bennett, now retired, keeps busy with family and church and volunteer work.
In retirement, Ray Hutch, a Penfield, NY resident, serves on several boards including the YMCA, Rochester Area Community Foundation, Lollypop Farms (Humane Society), United Way, and Synergy IT Solutions, the company he founded.
Abbie Jobe’26, an ACLS agricultural engineering major, is the Class of 1962 Rhodes Tradition Fellow (2022-24). Abbie reports that thanks to this award, she was able to take advantage of some great experiences this past school year. She was selected to join the SMART (Student Multidisciplinary Research Applied Teams) Program on the E&E Green Farms at Cornell with which she was able to travel to Rwanda in January to help a female Seed processor and distributor build a website from HTML. This past summer she traveled to The Kingdom of Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland) where she spent five weeks as a Project Manager for the Cornell Engineers in Action helping her team of six engineers build a water system distribution for the Matutini primary school.
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