Classmate Info

Use this section to...
(1) enter your Profile, (2) find out about your classmates, and (3) communicate with them. This is a secure area, so usernames and passwords are involved. Want help? Contact Diana Buckingham at mamabuck@twcny.rr.com.

(1) Enter your Profile for the first time:
a) If you are new to this area, click the "Add Your Profile" button.
b) Create a Username and Password and enter them. Then write them down.
c) Fill in the rest of the form and enter the security code at the bottom. If you don't fill in the security code correctly, you will have at least one more chance to enter it.
d) Diana will add your Yearbook photo to your Profile. If you want to add a current photo, send a .jpg/.gif or other photo media to Diana by attaching it to an e-mail.

(2) How To update your Profile:
a) If you already have a Profile, then retrieve it using the search function, and click the "Edit Your Profile" button.
b) The system will ask you for your Username and Password. If you forgot them, click on the "I forgot my username and password" button. You will receive an e-mail within a couple of minutes containing the two items. Write them down again.
c) Update your Profile and save it.

(3) Helpful things to know:
a) If you don't want to mess with Usernames and Passwords, send your information to Diana Buckingham (mamabuck@twcny.rr.com) with a note saying: "I don't want to mess with this, but I want to share some information." Diana will then enter your info for you.
b) If you want to see where classmates now live, click on the "Where are they now" button.
c) Use the "Send This Person A Message" button to send an e-mail to a specific person. You can only use it to contact one person at a time.

Helen Egger (Perry)

Then Then
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
What have you been doing for the past 50 years?: Both kids out of college and on their own in Anchorage, AK and New Orleans, LA. Grandbaby due in May, 2007. All's well so far!! Enjoying our place in the Adirondacks each summer - hiking canoeing, unwinding, etc.

Peter Eldridge

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 5
Occupation: Cardiac Sonographer
Grandchildren: 2
Cell phone number: 928-699-6929
Is it OK to tell other class members your e-mail and phone number?: eldridgep@earthlink.net
What have you been doing for the past 50 years?: Work, family, travel. Must explain - the two daughters are my wife's, and none of my sons have spawned (yet). The two grandchildren are from my wife's oldest daughter.
Comments: Nice website!

Earl Ervay

Then Then
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: retired - July, 2006
Grandchildren: 2 grandsons
What have you been doing for the past 50 years?: Employed at Gleason Corp. for 42 yrs. Two married daughters and two grandsons.

Elisa Evett

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: College Prof.1980-88 - Musician/Teacher 1989-2006
Is it OK to tell other class members your e-mail and phone number?: yes
What have you been doing for the past 50 years?: Despite collecting more advanced degrees than you can shake a stick at, my career in academia was brief (12 years) and took me to a variety of institutions of higher learning. A dirth of jobs in art history made me turn to my second love, the cello and I have been teaching and performing for the last 16 years. In addition, I have been at the helm of a not-for-profit, surviving-on-a-shoe-string arts organization that presents informal chamber music concerts accompanied by educational commentary.

After a brief marriage to a fellow whose teaching jobs as an educational psychologist took us to beautiful mountain spots in the Blue Ridge and Sangre de Christo mountains, I came back to Ithaca to get my Ph.D, at Cornell in Modern Art. Here I met my husband of 29 years now, an architect and now retired professor of design at Cornell. We have the good fortune of living in the handsome house designed and built by him in a secluded spot on top of one of the many airy hilltops in the country outside of Ithaca. Here we have spent many blissful hours taming nature around our house and raising two good-natured kids. Daughter Jess graduated from Cornell, did an abbreviated tour in the Peace Corps in Suriname, is married to a sweet young man who teaches high school earth science. For the past 4 years Jess has worked in the education department at the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell. She will be starting an MFA program at Cornell in the fall. Son Will just finished his sophomore year at the California College of Arts in Oakland/San Francisco where he is planning to major in furniture making. My artist father would have been pleased to see my kids following their bliss.

Robert Fabbricatore

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Single
Occupation: Retired from New York State Government
What have you been doing for the past 50 years?: After high school, I joined 63 classmates and went to Cornell. The plan to become a veterinarian (was this my idea?)was derailed by my preference for college athletics, social life and an exceptionally nasty Chemistry exam that is still talked about. Plan B kicked in and I graduated with a degree in Government which INSTANTLY qualified me for Army duty. This led to a stint on the DMZ in Viet Nam with the Combat Engineers with my main accomplishment being named "Chief Thief" by the Battalion Commander. After the Army, I went to Albany and worked in state agencies until I retired in December 2002 and moved to Florida. I'll save all the lies for the Reunion.
Comments: I was in Ithaca in June 2006 for a Cornell reunion and it rained all week and it was 38 degrees. Non-Ithacans call that weather "Ithacating."

Cora Fellows (Bower)

Then Then
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Export Coordinator
Grandchildren: two, Kyle 15 and Colin 10 Both active in sports at Trumansburg. Love of my life
Cell phone number: 607-279-2263
Is it OK to tell other class members your e-mail and phone number?: yep
What have you been doing for the past 50 years?: Working most of the time since high school. Been in the Ithaca area all this time. Have two wonderful sons, Kevin and Matt and two grand children. Also two step children with 5 more grand children. Proud of all of them and they keep us busy. Looking forward to retiring some day but not for a few more years. Love to escape on vacations.

Ed Fetherbay

Then Then
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Own Printing Business - 13 yrs.
Grandchildren: 2
Cell phone number: 607-275-0214
What have you been doing for the past 50 years?: Starting to gear down to retire. 2 lovely daughters & 2 grandchildren.
Interests: Fly Fishing & Bow Hunting

Daphne Forsyth (Batterson)

Then Then
Marital status: Married

Jim Fowler

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Occupation: Grosse Pointe Woods Police Dept.- 36 yrs.
Cell phone number: 313-363-8332

Joyce Friedland (Hayes)

Then Then
Marital status: Married
Children: 1
Occupation: Pathology Lab Supervisor
What have you been doing for the past 50 years?: B.S.Cornell 1967. Married same year to a great guy I met in an entomology class. First worked in Vet. school at Purdue Univ. Daughter born in 1970. Worked as lab tech in histology in various hospitals, then in 1984 became supervisor of technical staff at a private derm-Path lab in Pittsford, NY. Now semi-retired from that position.