Meeting Minutes: January 24, 2004
From: Barbara (Bobbie) Furman Attardi, Secretary
Present:
| Name | |
| Ginny Abrams | ginnyabrams@msn.com |
| Don Allen | dra@duncanallen.com |
| Barbara Furman Attardi | battardi@aol.com |
| Barbara Lutz Brim | blbrim@mindspring.com |
| Nancy Taylor Butler | ntb4@cornell.edu |
| Ed Dealy | dealygsi@aol.com |
| Lois Weyman Dow | dowreive@juno.com |
| Marcia Goldschlager Epstein | mepstein@ccp.edu |
| Alice Dannett Friedenson | aef7@cornell.edu |
| Bob Friedenson | raf14@cornell.edu |
| Judie Pink Gorra | judiepink@yahoo.com |
| Joanne Herron | |
| Alan Hirshberg | |
| Susan Mair Holden | susan.holden@cornell.edu |
| Janet Spencer King | jsk57@cornell.edu |
| Don McCarthy | dmccarthy@jonesday.com |
| Linda Cohen Meltzer | lcm12@cornell.edu |
| Joan Melville | jmc12@columbia.edu |
| Karl Miller | kfm6@cornell.edu |
| Stan Morgenstein | stan.morgenstein@cornell.edu |
| Carolyn Chauncey Neuman | ccn3@cornell.edu |
| Nancy Alfred Persily | |
| John Sterba | j.sterba@prudentportfolios.com |
| Bruce Wagner | bdw5@cornell.edu |
Welcome back to Nancy Persily and Alan Hirshberg who were unable to
attend last year's meeting due to illness. Both looked very well this
year! We had a great turnout, 23 class members!
The meeting was called to order at about 2:30 pm by Nancy Persily.
The minutes from the class meeting in 2003 had been circulated on line
and were not read due to time constraints (reunion discussion).
Both Nancy and Ed Butler and Carol and Matt McCorkle received the Rhodes
Award for exemplary alumni service (which Marcia Goldschlager received
previously). Congratulations!
Reunion report (S. Mair Holden, B. Lutz Brim)
Our class will stay in Risley Hall. Postcards were sent to classmates; so far
there have been 170 affirmative responses (classmates and spouses). We
hope for 270. Information about the reunion schedule can be found on the
website.
Summary of reunion schedule:
Thursday:
Registration
Dinner will be an Italian picnic with Tom Sturdevant playing and
singing.
Friday:
Continental breakfast
10:30 Class Forum: Part I: Speaker will be Dr. Karl Pillemer of the Urie Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center. The title is "Successful Aging? The
Life Course
and the Class of ‘64"; Part II will be a questionnaire put together in advance by graduate students. Forum will involve some participation,
some discussion.
All alumni lunch
12:00-4:00 Class hike (A. Friedenson and B. Attardi, organizers)
Alternative activities:
1-2:30 Art and architecture symposium and exhibits at the Hartel Gallery
with six classmates participating (D. McCarthy, organizer)
5:30 Class Memorial Service at the Plantations (D. McCarthy and B.
Attardi, organizers)
6:00 Western barbeque at the Plantations (with a fiddle/banjo player)
Rock and roll party at Risley with a band
Saturday:
Book discussion group (read Antigone by Sophocles)
Noon: Lunch at Beebe Lake
Seminar: Janet Spencer King, "Health and Well-Being Revisited"
Cocktails/appetizers: on the terrace overlooking west campus
Dinner was scheduled for the Memorial Room, but it may not be able to accommodate everyone. Another venue was sought. (Late-breaking news: this
will be Okenshields).
Back-ups for bad weather.
Sunday:
Farewell brunch behind Risley
Class souvenir will be a red windbreaker with class logo.
Affinity group chair (Ed Dealy):
20 organizations so far. Need input. Marcia suggested sending
invitations to other members of affinity groups such as "Tag that date".
Listserve for Reunion organization
Lauren Mossotti-Kline (607-254-6110) in charge of campaign:
Class leaders in gift giving are Carol and Matt McCorkle and Ronay Arlt
Menschel.
Goals:
$2.64 million total gifts (1.18 million pledged so far)
664 donors or 40% of class contributing (251 so far)
64 Tower Club members (26 so far)
Payments need to be in by the end of June
Shall we have a phonathon to increase donor number and participation?
A classmate offered a challenge grant of $664,000 if all goals are met
by Reunion Weekend.
Classmates can help out by making a gift even if they can't come to
Reunion.
Significant contributions beyond Tower Club can be made through Lauren
at the campaign office.
Decorations and facilities for Reunion (J. Herron):
Headquarters will be decorated with geraniums, piano, popcorn machine,
mylar balloons, bridge tables.
Our historian, Ginny Mai, will bring memorabilia and stuff from previous
reunions.
Classmates are encouraged to bring publications which will be set out on
a table.
Class photographer (Bob Friedenson):
Photos will be posted. Be sure to identify your pictures. Will take
pictures at registration. There will be digital displays and 4 X 6"
prints of pictures. Bring digital cameras!
Class Constitution (Nancy Butler):
Nancy has drafted a Constitution. This was accepted unanimously by voice
vote. Thank you, Nancy!
Scholarship Report (Joan Melville):
Current value of JFK scholarship is $178,070. JFK committee had 5
members. We have enough money to give out 2 awards next year. Current
recipients are Jason Belmont Conn, who is in his first year at Michigan
Law School, and Drew Scott Warshaw, who is working on campaign finance
reform in Washington DC. We discussed inviting former winners to a
cocktail party or other event at reunion. Some of us would be willing to
sponsor recipients for travel to Ithaca. Details should appear on the
website.
Tradition Fellowship: $86,327. is value this year. Current recipient is
Tanner Cerand ‘04 ILR.
Gary Wood fellowship: Current value is $17,914.
Cornell Fund
There were 511 dues payers (met our goal) and 475 donors.
Nominating committee:
Class officers' terms expire at reunion. A committee was established to
nominate new officers composed of Carolyn Newman (in absentia), Marcia
Goldschlager, Stan Morgenstein, and Don Allen.
We would like to thank
Bev Johns Lamont for an outstanding job as class
columnist and to Joan Melville who did the newsletter in place of Bev
Feinberg
Meeting was adjourned at 5:30.
We will meet again at the Cornell Club (6 East 44th St.) for drinks and
appetizers at 6:00 and dinner at 7:00 along with several members of the
class of ‘66.
