Meeting Minutes: June 8, 2014
From: Barbara Attardi
Location: Ithaca, NY
Our class meeting took place at our 50th Reunion following the farewell
brunch. It was called to order by Susie Holden at 9:35 a.m. The main
purposes of the meeting were: 1) to thank those involved in organizing
the Reunion and assisting at various events, and 2) to elect a new slate
of officers.
The minutes from our last meeting in
Boston at CALC in January, 2014 were accepted.
Treasurer Barbara Brim presented her report. She reported that we
are in “good shape,” with just over $39,000 in our interest-bearing
account as of January, which does not include monies in our long term
investment account. The Class Treasury’s main expenses since then have
been for the 50th Reunion Yearbook and the JFK Memorial Award book,
which she said would total about $15,000 and the Reunion DVD which was
sent to all classmates and cost about $1,500.
Announcements: The results of the Intellectual Diversity Debate
organized by Steve Einhorn were 63 positive votes (conservative
viewpoint) and 24 negative votes. This means that the majority of the
event attendees thought that the positive side made a better case than
the opposing side. Steve would like anyone who is interested in this
topic to contact him at
seinhorn@einhornassociates.com.
We thanked the Reunion co-chairs Bruce Wagner, Linda Meltzer, and Joan
Melville for a Reunion that was “beyond fabulous”. There were over 130
volunteers helping out, and the class raised $16,278,441, thanks largely
to the efforts of Tim Davis and Adadot Hayes, our Reunion Campaign
Co-chairs, and Brenda Teeter, our exceptional staff liaison. We reached
all of our goals, except that of number of donors. We need 47 more
donors to reach our participation goal. The Reunion Campaign is open
until June 30. There is still time to give at
www.cornell.edu.giving.
Susie thanked Janet Spencer King, Nominating Committee Chair, and her
committee of Tim Davis and Marcia Goldschlager Epstein and read the list
of those who have accepted a nomination for the Class Council for
2014-2019. They are:
Don Allen
Barbara Attardi
Mark Colman
Nancy Lore Einhorn
Steve Einhorn
Marcia Goldschlager Epstein
Alice Dannett Friedenson
Bob Friedenson
Toby Rice Goldberg
Joan Greenspan
Arnie Hammer
Mary Cantor Hammer
Janet Spencer King
Ken Kupchak
Toby Kleban Levine
Steve Lewenberg
John Looney
Carol Britton MacCorkle
Mac MacCorkle
Don McCarthy
Stan Morgenstein
Jim Munsell
Carolyn Chauncey Neuman
Mike Newman
Steve Newton
Nancy Parker
Nancy Crowder Roberts
Bill Sanders
John Sterba
Debby Troner
Michael Troner
Michael Wachter
Lennie Weitzman
Steve Whitman
Lowell Willinger
A motion was made, seconded, and passed to elect the Council.
Susie explained that the Council had been the former Regional Class
Vice-Presidents, by University definition, but now has other
responsibilities, which the new members are aware of and will be shared
again with them now that they are elected. She also said that
participation on the Council is essentially what the Council members
choose to make of it and that they will be invited to CALC (Cornell
Alumni Leadership Conference, formerly CACO) in Boston on January 15-18,
2015.
The retiring class officers (who remain in office until June 30) were
thanked for their efforts, Susie calling them a “Dream Team of officers,
all of whom went way beyond any possible expectation of their duties.”
She thanked especially the five officers who will soon retire for their
service to the class, Barbara Attardi, Marcia Epstein, Janet Spencer
King, Joan Melville, and Mike Newman, most of whom will go on the Class
Council.
Barbara Attardi, Recording Secretary, read the Officer Slate as follows:
President: Bruce Wagner
First Vice President/Membership Chair: Linda Cohen Meltzer
Second Vice President/JFK Memorial Award Chair: Cindy Wolloch
Recording Secretary: Judie Pink Gorra
Cornell Annual Fund Representative(s): Tim Davis and Adadot Hayes
Class Correspondent: Bev Johns Lamont
Treasurer: Barbara Lutz Brim
Reunion Chair: Carolyn Stewart Whitman
Affinity Chair: Nancy Taylor Butler
Webmaster: Bruce Wagner
Class Historian/Newsletter Editor: Phyllis Rivkin Goldman
Newsletter Design: Elliot Gordon
President Emerita: Susie Mair Holden
The class voted affirmatively to elect this slate.
It was announced that Bruce as the new president has an extensive record
of service to our class and Cornell, and that we are very lucky he is
choosing to take on this leadership role for our class. He’s spent ten
tears on the CAAAN advisory committee, two as chair; board member of
Cornell Alumni University (CAU); officer for 30 years in the Cornell
Club of Monmouth/Ocean Counties in New Jersey; and Class of ’64
Webmaster (10 years) and 50th Reunion Co-chair.
Cindy Wolloch will continue to chair the JFK Memorial Award program. She
was able to find all 57 previous winners. Her research was turned into
the book distributed at Reunion, and she organized the JFK speakers at
the Class Forum. Cindy said that the endowment is strong and that the
winners have been selected by both classmates and JFK alumni. The alumni
have expressed enthusiasm for continuing to participate in the selection
process.
Barbara Goldenberg spoke about continued financial support for the JFK
Award. She encouraged everyone to make a donation of $100 so that the
award would continue to be financially solvent. Bruce, as Webmaster,
will design a link for giving to
the Award Fund.
The class Constitution will need to be updated, and in the process, the
committee working on this is looking at term limits for class officers.
As an expression of confidence in Cindy’s work, Susie mentioned that the
committee has discussed having no term limit for the JFK Award Chair, as
well as for the Class Correspondent, so Cindy and Bev Johns Lamont can
maintain their positions without regard to a term limit. We don’t want
Cindy to give up her position as JFK Award Chair, and Bev has been our
dedicated Class Correspondent for thirty-five years. In response to a
question, Susie assured our classmates that any amendments will be done
according to the procedure outlined within the Constitution.
Classmates were asked to send news and dues to Bev Lamont at
blamont64@comcast.net, who
will continue as Class Correspondent. Class dues for the 2013-2014 year
are also due by June 30.
Marcia Goldschlager Epstein made a tribute to Susie Holden for her
excellent 5 years as class president.
New Business: Bob Friedenson, who organized photography at
Reunion, said that he will edit the photos and have Bruce post them on
our website. He will try to send some individually, provided the
subjects can be identified. New photos can still be added: send them to
Bob at raf14@cornell.edu at or
add them to our
Facebook page.
The next meeting, at CALC, will be in Boston, January 15-18, 2015. The
Class Council is invited.
The meeting was adjourned at approximately 10:25 a.m.
