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Cornelliana
What Cornell Means to You: At Homecoming, CAM asked attendees to sum up their Big Red experience in five words
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Became who I am today
MY LIFETIME BEST WONDER YEARS!
Janet Posner, class of 1957
great education in gorgeous surroundings!
I didn’t think this up but “Elite, Not Elitist” captures Cornell perfectly.
Beer
Music
Ithaca
Your Mother Band
Beer
Pristine
Prestigious
But not pretentious
unique opportunity to find myself
Hills
Bridges
Study
Books
Learn
Cornell, paradise upon the hill
My second Home Town
A cornerstone of my life.
Pragmatic idealism;
Bureaucratic nonconformity;
Abyss.
Best years of my life.
A place for personal growth.
Growing, learning, hills, lifelong friends. .
Inspiring. Rigorous. Diverse. Beautiful. Future!
Enigmatic
Intellectually challenging
Breathtakingly beautiful
and/or
Married at ten year reunion!
Yes!!!! Beautiful wedding for wonderful friends… glad I was there!
As for the experience 1960-64:
Aspirationally excellent and inspiring
As for Cornell today:
Hurt by top-heavy complexity
Cornell hardwired me for life.
My foundation for continuous learning
Best Challenge Biggest Opportunity Period
Beautiful autumn colors amidst waterfalls~
Beautiful Campus
Inspires
Friendships
Learning
CORNELL IS WHERE LEARNING’S LOVED.
Amazing Adventures in Lifelong Learning.
Prelims: still cause cold sweats! 🙂
kristin, marsha, bob, bruce and vic! friends!
A marvelous lifetime enhansing experience
Scenic science intellectual hill gorges
Springboard to my conservation career
Really Hard but forever memories
Music 101-102 – life changing.
Fun learning with lifelong friends
Hockey
Football
Gorges
Lifelong friends
(And oh, yeah … an education!)
Legacy
Life Launch
Encore Career
Intense
Beautiful
Meaningful
Career-Building
Life-Changing
Beauty, rigorous learning, anguish, joy
Cornell : Place of endless opportunity
Double PMP
Sieve, Sieve, Sieve!
ILR= I Love Reading
Gorgeous gorges create great memories.
Only need one word – AWESOME!
Proud
to
be
a
Cornellian!
The time of your life!
Surprising, inspiring, expanding, touching, rewarding
Lowest rated Ivy school? Please.
Great education, even greater friends.
Flunked T&AM 202 really badly.
Rowing on the blue lake
Worked hard, played hard.
Hockey!
I still love reading… really!
Any Student,
Instruction,
Any Subject!
The place I found myself
Where I learned to THINK!
“Really hurting my parents financially” 🙂
Where I could dream big
Opened me to thinking well
It is impossible to top a couple of historical, four word descriptions: “Any student, any study,” and “Far above Cayuga’s waters.” However, I will try in four. Open to the world.
Best calves of my life!
Amazing, Awesome, Scary, Overwhelming, Unbelievable.
Cornell, more than an education.
Big, Bold, Beautiful, Brilliant, Bastion
It cost us too much.
I can’t afford it now.
Soul-searching, mind-challenging adventure!
A spirit of intellectual generosity.
Rain, cold, snow. Such friendships!
I met my best friends 🙂
Work hard, play hard, cold!
Worthy of an unforgettable memoir!
Our time on the edge
Taught me
Freedom with Responsibility
BSILR diploma opened the door.
Where I lost my heart
Chapel Choir soprano!
Cornell Lunatic kept me sane.
Would do it all again!
1.) Student
2.) Loans
3.) Are
4.) Killing
5.) Me
or
1.) Excuse
2.) Me
3.) While
4.) I
5.) Cry
Excellence expected, and excellence learned.
“You’re building it WHERE ???”
[only four words]
? Met my wife in band! ?
Turn On, Tune In Cornell
courtesy of T. Leary and the Zeitgeist
Making a difference through research!
Found my passion at Cornell
Factum: Faithfully frames Faces/Facets!
or
A Forefather’s foresight magnificently manifested.
I saw the pumpkin first!
Far
Above
What
I
Expected!
gorges/ growth/ friendships/ challenges/ politics
Learned, Determined, Hill, Graduated, Love
humbled, wrestled, studied, righted, loved
Body Surfing, Tripping Gorgeous Gorges!
Cornell was better before Postmodernism.
Body surfing down gorgeous Gorges!
Tunnel spelunking with Bipsy’s rat….
Life long passion for learning.
Doorway to the wider world.
Formative toward a rewarding career!
Cornell experiences continue for life!
Grateful for best time ever
Hockey
Slopes
Incubator
Uplifting
Invigorating
Dave Saracino Law ’74
Pete Saracino ILR ’74
Bridget Saracino Arts & Sciences 2011
Lifelong Ohana Paying it Forward
Sadly not enough intellectual diversity
Come to expect diversity. Risley.
Education Provided Opportunities,
Lifelong Friendships
Broad tough thinking = future vision
The start of something amazing.
Both
Hill Ways
Up Whew!
Family tradition my parents started.
I’d love to do again!
Chinese studies changed my life.
Stephanie Mitchell BA78 JD80
a mind’s soil and seed
Still here, 42 years later…
Paul Gaurnier, SHA
Wonderful Education, Memories for Life!
C. Robinson for P. Gaurnier
I learned how to learn.
Inspiring
Life Changing
Educational
Unequalled