TOP LEFT: Our Thursday evening “Opening Night” gathering in our 40x60 tent in the main Town House courtyard was “something else” – it accommodated all of us quite comfortably and the weather, a most pleasant June evening, added to the occasion. The menu? Did you ever partake of a Chinese buffet? It turned out to be one of the best informal sit-down dinners we’ve ever had at a ’44 Reunion, and, yes, we were all hungry by 10 p.m. AND the program did suggest that “Tonight’s the night you might want to re-visit Louie’s for a late evening snack.” TOP RIGHT: Dotty and Art Kesten greet President and Mrs. Frank Rhodes down the road a piece on their arrival at the “Dinner” and escort our No. 1 and Rosa to the Class of ’44 assembly.

BOTTOM LEFT: (Dr.) Andy Capi, a ’44 Senior Vice President, welcomes President Rhodes at the latter’s table. BOTTOM CENTER: Always entertaining and never ever repetitive in his countless addresses to Cornellians, the President takes our mike to deliver his own version of “44,You Are Great!” Included in his remarks were his disconcerting confession that his Latin Department had failed to translate the wordage appearing on our Class emblem, indicating further that his highly intellectual minions had come up with four separate translations. His offer to set up a summer school course in remedial Latin for all ’44’s was met with mixed reviews: stony silence and many giggles. Happily, no soft rolls were thrown in his direction at the time.

BOTTOM RIGHT: Jerry Tohn, center, our Cornell Fund Representative in 1994, and Dotty Kesten jointly and very proudly present a Class of 1944 check for $3,184,490.00 to President Rhodes and the University (that’s NINE figures, folks!). Unfortunately, our symbolic styrofoam replica fell off its tripod and bounced off the turf right after the photo was taken. This prompted the University’s recipient to make some reference to the possibility of the “check being rubber” … It wasn’t … and they got our $3 million plus.