Alumni event at the home of Campaign Chairman Gus Noojin ’69 and his wife, Sandy. From left to right: Christine Gorman (kneeling), Gina Sheil, Dave Sheil ’78, John Gorman ’96, Kay Martin, Dave Martin ’94, Brian Skeels (front), Lisa Gilkeson, Dave Gilkeson ’76, Gus Noojin ’69, and Sandy Noojin.
Hal Sieling ’62 tends to the grill at the Cornell Club of San Diego’s annual freshman send-off picnic in August.
Rob Ceske ’89 and Stephen Sinaiko ’89 attended a Cornell hockey game with their families at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Pictured above are Rob and Stephen on the left and Stephen with his wife, Jessica, and their two children, Nathan and Rachel on the right.
A new thriller by Jim Glenn ’59, Pakistan, India and the Bomb: Spy versus Counterspy, is available at Amazon.com. Set in 1972, it involves a Pakistani professor, a CIA spy, an American businessman, and India’s secret development of an atomic bomb. Related events include the KGB’s influence on Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s government and Pakistan’s plan to destroy India’s bomb-making facilities, which could precipitate a war between the countries. Jim lives near Taos, New Mexico. Reach him at: jamesglenn@taosnet.com.
“In his first novel, septuagenarian John Millar uses an interesting mix of literary styles to educate his readers about the nature of war, its cost in blood, and its consequences in the lives, loves, and hopes of those who chose or were forced to wage it.” Read the full review.
Here is the history of our extraordinary discovery of a “lost” Danish West Indian sugar and rum plantation in the Caribbean abandoned after a 1898 hurricane covered with vines and waiting to be discovered. We found the historic ruins on the island of St. Croix in the Virgin Islands. As a child I was fortunate to grow up in the tropics leaving for stateside education and a degree in philosophy at Cornell University in the very cold north of Ithaca N.Y. I was pretty much frozen until being rushed by Sigma Alpha Epsilon where I joined a
