At our January, 2005 Class Officers' gathering held during the Cornell Ass'n of Class Officers (CACO) meeting in New York, classmate Mort Savada commented that he'd read in the NY Times that Princeton had planted new disease-free elm trees on their N.J. campus and that this being the case, perhaps our class might want to underwrite the purchase and planting of a number of elms on campus as a distinct Class of '44 Campus Beautifcation Project.
The Class Officers present agreed that Mort's proposal had merit and your webmaster was asked to pursue the project by polling the full slate of Class Officers on their "Go-No Go" views. The balloting resulted in a solid "Great project!" - "Run with it!" vote. There were two additional steps to be taken: would the University welcome '44's support for such a project, and if so, what amount of Class underwriting would be necessary?
Our University contact was William
B. ("Barlow") Ware in the Development Office, and in our ensuing
back and forths we learned that the University was receptive
to '44's taking on this campus beautification project by underwriting
elm trees (Princeton variety) on Garden Avenue, the street that
runs behind Barton Hall from Hoy Field to Bailey Hall. The University's
Committee on Named Facilities approved our Class proposal and
requested that $12,000 in underwritng be donated over a period
of four years. Deal or no deal? It was a deal!
The University took the
lead in 2004
We then touched base with Dennis
B. Osaka, the Director of the Grounds Department at Cornell,
and we received a most welcome surprise from this gentleman.
The University had already planted elms along Garden Avenue
in the Spring of 2004. These were mere 12- to 14-foot high saplings
at the time and while none of us will live look enough to view
the beautiful, majestic elms they'll eventually become a decade
or four down the road, we'll know that '44's "beautification
project" will be greatly appreciated by those who come after
us. As Mr. Osaka so kindly put it in his letter to us, "Please
extend my heartfelt gratitude - and that of our entire Cornell
Community - to the Class of 1944."
And '44's thank you, Mr. Osaka, for taking the time to photograph
the elms as they exist today so that we may see the start of
our
new Class Project.
Our initial project fundraising letter went out to the full class in June, 2006 and '44's provided $7,053 in direct donations and an additional $750 in January 1, 2007 pledges - a wonderful response that returned almost two-thirds of the funds needed in the first year of our four year promise. The 2006 donors are listed below as well as those making a January 1, 2007 pledge, Come June, 2007, we'll try to raise the remaining $4,000 to complete our underwriting.
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Allen
J. Albright
Richard M. Alexander
Hubert Aronson
Alison King Barry
Henry H. Baxter
Howard W. Blose
Marion Graham Blose
Stanton E. Bower
Barbara Hall Bowne
Norman H. Brandt
Joyce Tamres Brenner
Robert C. Bryant
H. Sherman Burling,
Jr.
Alice Gooding Cadwell
Andre S. Capi
Nancy Chien Chang
James M. Clark
Barbara Crafts
Clements
Many Pollard Clist
Marie Buenning
Cramer
Zelda Guttman Damashek
Helen Couch Darling
Janet Buhsen Daukas
Jean Slaughter
Davis
Calvin S. DeGolyer,
Jr.
Hugh C. Doerschuk
William A. Donaldson
John W. Ekegren,
Jr.
Thomas L. Eschweiler
Herbert M. Eskwitt
Howard E. Evans
Richard J. Evans
William D. Falkenstein
Joseph P. Flynn
Robert E. Gallagher
Alice Garmezy
Jay J. Gold
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Robert D. Greenburg
Jean Shaver Hansen
Nancy Maynard Harlan
Margaret Jimison
Haynes
Sigmund Hoffman
Sigrid Henley Holliday
Marvin L. Huyck
Leonard Israel
Doris Holmes Jenkins
Mary Helen Joint
Arthur H. Kesten
Dorothy Kay Kesten
Jane Knight Knott
Greta Wilcox Leighton
John D. Lesure
Jerome Levitan
W. Addison Lincoln
Marjory Underwood
Marker
Calvin L. Martin
Rose K. Matt
Parveen McNair
James A. McTague
Donald H, Middleton
Peter P. Miller,
Jr.
Robert S. Miller
Lewellyn S. Mix
M. Dan Morris
Inez Johnston Murdoch
Helen Wright Murphy
Robert B. Pace
Eugene E. Pond
Kathleen Pierce
Putnam
Robert E.
Reidy
Lois Serby Rubaii
Merrill D. Sands
Mitzi Zahler Sands
Lila Perless Savada
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Morton J. Savada
Norma Hirshon Schatz
Naomi Zion Schulman
Janice Taylor Scott
A Ralph Seefeldt
Barbara Taylor
Sherwood
A Louis Shor
Madeleine King
Short
Jesse G. Silverman,
Jr.
Christine Sexauer
Simons
Ruth Aronson
Singer
Gilbert I. Smith
Audrey Jones
Smithers
Yale Solomon
Janet Elwin Starr, ’46
Barbara Palmer
Stewart
Milton Stolaroff
Alice Gallup
Stout
Arnold B. Tofias
Gerald E. Tohn
Charles L. Van
Arsdale
Charles E. Van
Reed
Aaron N. Waldman
Priscilla Young
Waltz
Ted H. Watkins
William S. Wheeler
Fern Chase Whitehurst
Gale Nightingale
Wiggin, ’45
Margaret Hallock
Wiggins
George M. Wilkins,
Jr.
Philip J. Williams
Robert J. Woods,
Jr.
Carl Yunker
William E. Zieman
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