Hello from Alfred, NY and Hammondsport, NY (summer). Like most of you, I attended school and found a job, working at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee for 17 years a a research assistant on a number of projects exploring the brain's chemical systems. In 1980 I returned to Elmira to work in biotechnology in Corning. I went on to work as a process engineer, trainer, project manager and total quality manager. In 1997 I took an early retirement offer and formed my own company, Voyages, which undertakes management training and process improvement consulting for businesses and universities in the area. Also, like most of you, I married and have children. My husband, Tom Seward, and I have 4. Amy is 31, married, works as a manager for Bell Atlantic and lives in Maryland; Bill is 29, married with 2 children and works as a real estate appraiser in Chesapeak, VA; Carl is 28, single and works as a chemist for Corning and lives in Elmira; Julie is 19, single and a junior in journalism at Syracuse's Newhouse School. Tom and I live to explore the planet and as a result have taken advantage of opportunities to see some amazing and exotic places, such as the Great Wall of China, the Terracotta Army in Xian, Shanghi, the Mosques of Instanbul, the Bophorus, the Temple of Knosis in Crete and Delphia and Olympia in Greece. We rode in a cable car over the glacier from Italy to France and floated in a gondola down the Grand Canal in Venice. We are currently trying to see all the places in England which we have read about in history books. After 4 trips we feel we have just passed the halfway mark. We like to take pictures like most tourists and enter them in photo contests. I have won one First Prize and Tom as won two. In the winter, we live in Alfred, NY where Tom works as professor of Glass Science and Director of the Center for Glass Research. He, too, took as early retirement from Corning where he worked as a Senior Research Associate and Manager of Glass Research. In the summer we live at Keuka Lake. We love company. All of this has been about where we have been and where we are, but we believe that where one is going is what matters. I am using my semi-retirement to finish a book I have been writing off and on. It will be interesting to see where that leads. Life is not about what you are, but what you are becoming. I am looking forward to discovering what all of you are becoming when I see you this July at the reunion. Editor's Note: Eve's E-mail address is seward_ed@yahoo.com. If you'd also like her mailing address, please contact us and we'll let get it to you. © 1998-99 SHS Class of
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