May/Jun 2004

What will future generations of Cornellians think about our campus? They will never get to experience the U-Halls or the line for the bathroom at Clubhouse, but maybe that's for the best. I am certain that there will be many more things for them to remember fondly or complain about that we can't even imagine. I do, however, know who the next generation of Cornellians will be--read on!

Jodi Goroff Green (yosefa@comcast.net) welcomed her son Zev Ronel Green on July 21, '03. Dominic Matthew Ross, son of Anne-Marie Compton (amco101@yahoo.com), entered the world on Aug. 3, '03 in Fairbanks, AK. Grace Sundaram Chaddha (gmchaddha@yahoo.com) and husband Anil, JD '95, MILR '96, welcomed their daughter Anjini Marie on June 18, '03. Grace writes that Anjini is adjusting fantastically to her mom's other job as full-time graduate student in the MBA program at the U. of Rochester's Simon School of Business. Anil, besides being a dad, is working for GE as labor counsel for the Transportation and Aircraft divisions.

Another future Cornellian is Michael Basanese, born Sept. 18, '03 and first child of Edward and Jennifer Janisch Basanese. Dave Gearing (davidg@taconic.net) welcomed his daughter Christianna Marie on Nov. 29, '03. An update from our class website informed us of the birth of Morgan Emma Polk in January '03. Morgan is the daughter of Lorraine Hoffmann- Polk (lorraine_hazel@hotmail.com) and Woodruff Polk. Lorraine enjoyed her time as a fulltime mom shortly after Morgan's birth, but is now working as a staff attorney for the Georgia Board of Workers-Compensation.

Rounding out our updates from the stork (or is it the cabbage patch?) is the announcement of the birth of Jackson Scott Wallace on April 29, '03. Jackson is the son of Scott and Kathryn Boniti Wallace (keb14@cornell.edu). Kathryn writes that a number of Cornellians have been to visit Jackson since his birth, including James and Michelle McKee Cubbon, Zoran Filipovic '96, Kelly Patel '97, Cheryl Tourney, Laurie Rothenberg, and Keith Berger. Congrats to all our new and proud parents!

News continues to filter in from across the country. Allan Kaplan (kaplan.a@ghc.org) sent news of his activities since graduation.While currently working on a family medicine residency in Seattle, he has also served as a Peace Corps biology teacher in Tanzania and completed medical school in Albany since leaving Ithaca. Jerad Crave (jjc20@cornell.edu) is living in San Francisco and enjoying teaching third grade at a private school. He is kept busy training for the Boston marathon and keeping up with his year-old Weimaraner puppy. He has started training for triathlons and finished fifth in his first one--way to go, Jerad! He's also kept up with Vivian Kwok '96, Nat Yap '96, and Jonathan Trager.

Not to be outdone in the athletic front, Samara Friedman (samarafriedman@hot mail.com) sent in news of her tryouts for the Olympic Skeleton Sliding team in Lake Placid. For those of us that follow the summer Olympics more, skeleton is like luge, but headfirst-- yikes! Luckily, Samara noted that her skills as an orthopedic surgeon were not needed during the tryouts.When not pursuing Olympic competition, she is completing her third year of residency at Long Island Jewish Hospital while her husband Daniel Turinsky is an associate at the law firm Sills Cummis. Samara has also taken up sculpting stone and is having a piece shown in a local exhibit.

One correction: Our last column erroneously listed Arun Biswas as a student at Yale's Tuck School of Management. Arun is a student at Yale's School of Management (informally known as "Yale SOM"), not Dartmouth's Tuck School. Sorry, Arun!

I've run out of space to talk about weddings and other exciting events. Tune in next month for continuing news from the Class of '97! Please make sure to pay your class dues so that I can write more next column--the number of duespayers determines how much space we have in the column. And keep sending in your updates! -- Sarah Deardorff Carter, sjd5@cornell.edu; Erica Broennle Nelson, ejb4@cornell.edu. Class website: http://classof97.alumni.cornell.edu.