1963

Ready for Y2K? Jeff Rosen will probably not be far from University of Michigan Hospital where, as senior systems analyst, Y2K is his major concern. "Nobody really knows how real this problem can be," he says, "but we can't take any chances. I have to make sure that patient care is not compromised." Jeff started out teaching zoology at the University of Dar-Es-Salaam in Tanzania and then at Michigan. In the seventies he took a course in COBOL and decided it was "more fan than chopping up frogs."Jeffs wife, Huda, retired as clinical supervisor in respiratory therapy for children. Daughters Sulaima and Salwa are in their twenties and setded. Where will Jeff be after Jan. 1? "I'll be retired," he said.

Yes, there are still native Vermonters in Vermont and we've got Ted Rossi of Moscow, Vt. to prove it. He went to the University of Tennessee and then University of North Carolina to earn a doctorate in industrial management before learning the trucking business for ten years at Roadway Express in Akron. Then Ted joined the family business, Rossi Trucking, a Northeastern flatbed carrier of building materials started by his dad in 1935. "Since deregulation, the opportunities in trucking have been better than ever," Ted said. Wife Nancy, also out of Tennessee, paints. Ted's return to Vermont did not change his contempt for the climate. He vacations in South Carolina in winter.

Larry Audino is back practicing urology after having eye surgery. He's also back deep-sea fishing in his 26-foot Seacat between Cape Cod and Portsmouth, N.H., where he and Barbara live. Larry has been successful treating prostates with seed implants, a current form of invasive radiation therapy, but mostly he performs radical prostatectomy, surgery which, he says, is still "the best shot at a cure." Larry recommends we all have PSA and rectal exams regularly. Married 27 years, Larry and Barbara have three grandchildren.

The New York Observer had some fun with Morris Kramer and his merry band of mergers and acquisition lawyers of heavy-weight firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Skadden will occupy 22 floors of 4 Times Square, also known as the Conde Nast Building, a nearly completed 48-story office building. Conde Nast publishes fashion magazines like Allure, Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Mademoiselle. Most of its employees are women, 35 and under. Amidst innuendo about Conde Nast women chasing legal millionaires and Skadden beagles wanting suddenly to look cool, the Observer fantasized Morris, Skadden partner since 1975, "trying his damnedest to remember which is which of those kittenish British Skyes sisters, Lucy and Plum, one blond, one brunette, from Allure and Vogue, respectively."

Movie director Peter Israelson is developing an IMAX film on Israel. Catch up on more news Oct. 22-24 at our mini-reunion at the Cornell Homecoming Weekend in Hanover. Contact Marty Bowne, minireunion chairman, at (212) 773-3108 or (973)635-2124.

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Tribute to John Kovas '63, p. 59

Jeff Rosen took a course in COBOL and decided it was more fun than chopping up frogs as a zoology teacher. HARRY ZLOKOWER '63