Short Visits

MAR: A weekend drive to see Michael Richardson in CHICAGO and find MinHin Cuisine for wonderful dim sum in Chinatown. JUL: Jon & Sandy Tafel, Garry & Sylvia Walters, and I drove up to TOLEDO to celebrate Tom Noe’s 70^th birthday. OCT: On my annual trip to ITHACA for Cornell’s Trustee-Council Annual Meeting, Henry Shum (up for the weekend from Connecticut), invited me to dinner at The Heights. Joe & Marney Thomas again hosted my stay, featuring a fabulous dinner with magnificent wines in their home with Jack & Linda Muckstadt visiting from Ann Arbor. We savored their gorgeous view above Cayuga’s waters. NOV: Surprise 50^th Anniversary party for Tom & Marby Senker by their children at 3 West Restaurant in BASKING RIDGE, NJ with the extended family, to whom I’ve been their Uncle Rod.