One of the new FJ boats was recently christened “Class of 1954,” after the class’s notable achievement in the history of sailing at Cornell. In 1954, the team qualified as one of ten schools invited to compete in the spring at the Large Yacht Championship Regatta. Racing with a crew of seven ’54 classmates for … Continue reading Cornell’s “FJ” sailboats out on Cayuga Lake
I am a feminist activist, a writer, public speaker, and retired attorney. I graduated from Cornell in 1950 after having attended Liberal Arts and the first year of the two-year school then called Business & Public Administration, now called the Johnson School. On Aug. 30, 2016, I (wearing red in the picture) gave a talk … Continue reading Sonia Pressman Fuentes
From William C. Atkinson, BME ’50 Photo of my father Kerr Atkinson, Class of 1912, of the Cornell Aero Club at the controls of a glider on the athletic fields above Schoellkopf. The gliders, built by the Club members, were towed by automobile around the track at an altitude of fifty feet or so. Kerr is … Continue reading Cornell Aero Club, 1912
Sesqui celebration, Port O Call Restaurant, Hamilton, Bermuda At possibly the smallest 150th gathering, Chris Downey ’90, C. Michael Wellman MBA ’14, and Bob Forness ’87 represented the financial and reinsurance industries. Lindsay Liotta Forness ’84 was the sole Hotelie. Walwyn (Idwal) Hughes ’54 and David Wingate ’57 mesmerized us with tales of fisheries, birding, … Continue reading Cornell 150th in Bermuda
From the Cornell Alumni Magazine archives. Photo caption: From L to R – top: Helen Jenkins, Nelson Arnget, Gay Arnget, Ralph Moore ’48, Jerry Jenkins ’51 Front row L to R: Dirck Jen Hagen (did we wear you out, Dirck?), “Cracker” Jen Hagen, Barbara Odjorne Metzer ’52, Lee Metzger Silver Lake, August 11-12, 1997
From the Cornell Alumni Magazine archives. Photo caption: By coincidence five Cornell grads were enjoying life at Curtain Bluff Resort, Antigua, West Indies, in March. Left to right: Richard Terhune ’56 Howard Hulford ’45 (owner and manager emeritus of the resort) David Gluck ’53 Bill Rossiter ’61 Carman Hill ’49