Notes from the Cornell Class of 1991 - 1999 March/April

Class Notes, 1999 March/April

I am writing to you smack in the middle of the holiday season. I have found that while my son, Conor, cannot wait to get some of the gifts Santa will bring him, he wants nothing to do with the "jolly old elf." He is scared stiff when he sees Santa in person! I began my last article with thoughts on the Patriots and Jets. Now we are saying good-bye to the Pats here in Boston (they are off to Hartford, CT) and my Jets have, hopefully, won the Super Bowl as you read this.

Here's the latest... Jill Weisman, MBA '97, writes that she is working in brand management at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati. Robert J. Weiner started a new job in New York City last summer in the independent budget office working as a budget and policy analyst. He moved to Brooklyn Heights after having spent the last several years in New Jersey studying politics at Princeton U. Chris Reynolds is vice president of corporate development at ASI Solutions Inc. in the Big Apple. He is in his second year at Columbia U.'s executive MBA program. Chris also reports that he was married last June 27 to Ginette Chelius of Lloyd Harbor, NY. She is a graduate of the U. of Maryland. Cornellians in attendance included Tony Morgan '90, BS Ag '91.

David Hwang joined Fish & Neave as an associate for the intellectual property law firm in NYC in the summer of 1997. He has run into classmates Tom Palmer, in Connecticut, and Brett Mendel, in NYC, visiting from San Francisco for a computer expo. David also reports that Henry Hsu, BS Eng '92, is married, recently had a baby, and is living in Queens, NY. David Toh is assistant director overseeing regional Southeast Asia technology equity research for his own company. Dorine Scher owns her own business, Pampered Chef. Daniel Roitman, MEE '92, is a vice president at Goldman Sachs in NYC. He was married last May 24. Carl Wu, Jay Lee, Dave Lenhardt, Saurabh Patel, Dov Cohn, and Tony Magnano were all there to see it happen. Neville Rhone Jr., ME C '93, was promoted to director of Tishman Realty Corp. He is also at Columbia's business school. He writes that Eric Prideaux graduated from Columbia's journalism school last year and is now living and working in Japan with his new wife. He works for the Bloomberg News.

Stacey Neren was promoted to director of marketing for Radio City Productions. She married David Lender April 25. '98. Kristen (Blau) and husband Doug Krohn, Jodi Rogoff, Debi L. Epstein, Anna Doyno Tague, Evan Kanew, and Maureen Donnelly Baum were classmates in attendance. Brian Mellone is a corporate finance associate at Wachovia Bank in Atlanta. He finished his MBA at Kenan-Flagler Business School, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Elizabeth Voulieris Kassinis is an advisor, USAID, Nicosia, Cyprus. She went to the wedding of Fotene Marina Niforos in Washington, DC, last June 27. Dr. Eric Gomes and Susan Halebsky were also there. Mitch T. Huang is working at 3M in Austin, TX, as a materials engineer. He completed a PhD in polymer science at Case Western Reserve U. in January 1998. Ed Ginty, ME C '92, is a production manager at Riverwood International in W. Monroe, LA. He is a proud papa to a baby boy named Ryan Justin, born July 30, '97. Laura Hubbert DiCarlo is a school psychologist at Redwood City School District, just south of San Francisco.

Rebecca Darien works for Borders Group Inc. in Ann Arbor, MI. She is senior analyst to the vice president, merchandise finance. Rebecca earned her MBA at Western Michigan U. She also vacationed in Florida with Diane Walton Blevins. T. Duncan Chui, ME I '92, is working in Hong Kong as a senior investment manager for Transpac Capital Ltd. He is also chairman of the Cornell Club of Hong Kong. Anthony M. DiRubbo is finishing his residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at the U. of Rochester. His wife, Mary Ciotoli DiRubbo, is studying emergency medicine there. They were married last July 25 in Sage Chapel. The reception was at the Statler. Judy Germano, Dustin Moskowitz, Glenn Collins, and Gury Hurta were all members of the wedding party. Judy actually attended Fairfield U. with my wife before transferring to Cornell. It would be great to hear from her! Ben Black, JD '97, is with the law firm Latham & Watkins in San Francisco. Kyle Karnes is director of Internet operations at Harros Black International in Rochester, NY. Gene Hsueh is a programmer/analyst at Sanford Bernstein in White Plains, NY. Christie Sisson May writes embedded software for Xerox copiers and printers. She is working part-time after a six-month maternity leave. She had a daughter, Hannah Elizabeth, on Jan. 4, '98. Caren Sinclair was married last July 19 in Cold Spring Hills, NY. She earned her MBA at our arch rival U. of Pennsylvania. Caren is the senior associate director for business development for theglobe.com, an Internet site that provides communication services.

Daniel Nagin was married June 13, '98, in NYC. He is a staff lawyer at the Legal Services Organization of Indiana in Indianapolis. Christopher Homan, BA '92, is working on a PhD in computer science at the U. of Rochester. He writes that Diana Marsh is a city planner in Baltimore, and Michelle Dortignac is a modern dancer in Brooklyn, NY. Sumaya El-Ashry Ali had a baby boy, Zane, on Jan. 27, '98. She reports that Tammy Blum Ross had a baby girl on April 7, '98. Kim Brown Bixler had a baby girl, named Kendall Ann, on Jan. 31, '98.

Finally, as always, I indulge myself since I am the writer. We visited the new home of Darin Feldman and his wife, Beth, last November. They live in Scarsdale/New Rochelle, NY. Darin is working at Standard and Poor in NYC. I continue to work for WFXT-TV Fox 25 in Boston as chief meteorologist. We recently hired another Cornell meteorologist, Kim Martucci '93. We just hosted a winter weather media workshop at the Holiday Inn in Dedham, MA, across from our station. More than 100 meteorologists from all over New England attended. Mishtu Mukherjee '90 is working as a meteorologist at a competing station here in Boston. She attended the conference; Cornell meteorologists are taking over Beantown! Until next time.-- Kevin Lemanowicz, 3 Byron's Way, Franklin, MA 02038; e-mail, kpl6@cornell.edu.