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'66 Reunion Weekend Highlights
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“Finding our Footprints. Reclaiming Our Hill.”
Thursday
-or“Get back; Get back; Get back to where you once belonged”
“CORNELL 101”
Welcome & Kick-Off to Reunion Weekend!
The Campus Low-Down from Cornell’s Higher-Ups
with
VP/Student & Academic Services, Susan H. Murphy ’73
Hear, Marvel, Ask, Debate, Discuss
“What it means to be Cornell & a Cornellian today.”
From Orientation to Graduation, there is no area of student life outside the classroom that does not
fall under Susan’s extraordinary watch. No one knows today’s Cornell students better.
Supper at Sage Hall Atrium
The Anabel Taylor Baroque Organ
One of Cornell’s newest Hidden Jewels:
A ’66 private visit to the magnificent 25-foot Baroque Organ, originally handcrafted in 1706 by
master organ builder Arp Schnitger for a chapel in Berlin, destroyed by Allied bombers in WWII.
Each pipe, recreated & hand-built on campus by lead researcher & designer, Munetaka Yokota,
under the supervision of University organist
Professor Annette Richards, Arts & Sciences, Department of Music.
The organ’s wood cabinet reconstructed & carved by local Ithaca craftsman, Christopher Lowe.
We are thrilled to have Professor Richards share with us the organ’s history
& the story of its re-creation by Cornell.
Our traditional, fattening, what-the-hell,
(3-scoops if you want ’em)
Ice Cream Spree
Ithaca, Inside Out
Michael Turback, Hotel ’66, restaurateur, author of over a dozen books on Ithaca’s history,
its local foods and wines, and its famed Farmers’ Market, offers us an insider’s view
of the intriguing past and vibrant present of the town we once called home.
(Bring your 3 scoops and hear it all!)
Friday
-or“What do you MEAN I have an EIGHT a.m. class?? -- at MY age?”
Early Morning Hidden Jewels
from our continuing selection:
’66 Hardhat Tour of the Johnson Museum of Art’s new addition & Japanese garden,
with Museum Director, Frank Robinson
- OR -
Walking Tour of Cornell’s campus
with Roberta Moudry, Architectural Historian,
who will lead ’66 in a third installment of her wonderful tours
Breakfast at Weill Hall Courtyard,
adjacent to Weill Hall, designed by architect Richard Meier B.Arch. ’57
The 250,000-square-foot white building, a marvelous, inspiring work of both art and architecture, is
the new hub for life sciences and interdisciplinary collaborations, and the home to the new
Weill Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology & the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
“FORUM ’66, Part VI”
’66 Classmates Ralph Janis, Director Emeritus, Cornell Adult University,
& Francine Blau, Professor, I&LR, again arrange a terrific morning to stimulate our grey cells
with
Professor Glenn C. Altschuler,
VP, University Relations
Dean of Continuing Education; Litwin Professor of American Studies;
& recipient of the Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching
“Preserving the Past Project”
Continue our ’66 conversation with Cornell’s most senior alumni
A ’66 special opportunity (optional) to share lunch at Barton Hall; perhaps record an Oral History for
Cornell’s Archives – It’s a time you will never forget.
“Passion for Pinot”
An interactive exploration of Oregon Wines
Ronni Barrett Lacroute ’66 will lead classmates through a guided tasting of several of
the most exciting wines of Willakenzie Estate
which she founded in Oregon two decades ago as a retirement project.
-- OR --
Vineyards & Viticulture
Sample wines with CALS professors & learn about one of Cornell’s newest course offerings:
the art & business of Grape Growing and Winemaking
Visit Cornell’s first vineyards! a Teaching Winery, adjacent to Cornell Orchards
Spring Supper on the Ag Quad
surrounded by some of Cornell’s newest buildings & sites
music by
Backtalk Band
Saturday
- or “I thought Collegetown was THAT way…Anyone here have a MAP?”
’66 Speaks/’66 Discovers Breakfast Groups
The ’66 Class-led Discussion Groups & Activities you have enjoyed since our 25th
- OR - Attend a College Breakfast
State of the University Address
Cornell President,
David J. Skorton
’66 Beebe Beach Picnic
“ours” since our 25th and now a tradition,
& an undergraduate & alumni favorite spot to unwind
Class Dinner
in the new Physical Sciences Building Atrium
Our ’66 Class Dinner will be in the vaulted atrium of Cornell’s remarkable, imposing newest building:
a spectacular glass structure (adjacent to Baker Hall) & major new addition to the Cornell Campus.
Anchoring a new era of science, it joins the Department of Physics; the School of Applied &
Engineering Physics; & the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology under one roof.
Reception on the Terrace; Dinner in the Atrium
Cornelliana Night; Arts Quad Tents; The Sherwoods under G.S. Dome
Sunday
or
“What if I don’t WANT to leave Ithaca?” -- “Okay, then, do I get a new cap and gown?”
Brunch at Becker
Farewells & “See You in 2016!”
Plus enjoy:
All the wonderful University Events: Olin Lecture, Reunion Run/Row/Baseball Game,
College Breakfasts, Forums & Music
INFO/Q’s
* Check MAIL & our WEBSITE for REUNION UPDATES! *
Check FACEBOOK to find ’66 friends/make contacts
REGISTRATION MATERIALS/HQ DORM RESERVATIONS in MARCH/APRIL
HOTELS: a limited number of hotel rooms have been assigned to the Class.
(Please call the hotels directly to make reservations)
Courtyard Marriott 607-330-1000
La Tourelle 800-765-1492
Hilton Garden Inn 607-277-8900
classof66.alumni.cornell.edu
And on Facebook
Q’s? Just Ask Us! Alice, Jeanne & Rolf
Alice Katz Berglas akb66@aol.com 212-288-0464
Jeanne Brown Sander ebs17@verizon.net 703-426-2880
Rolf Frantz (Registration) nrfrantz@verizon.net 973-539-9787
45th Reunion Leadership Committee
(as of November 30, 2010 – JOIN US! )
Ed Arbaugh
Al Beimfohr
Andrew Berger
Alice Katz Berglas
Bruce Bergman
Mary Bethel Binder
Susan Rockford Bittker
Francine Blau
Carolyn Rider Chase
Margaret Clark
John Cobey
Jeff Collins
Andrew Condey
Brian Cranston
Mary Wellington Daly
Diane Stein Dobrow
Dick Dropkin
John Eckel
Mary Jansen Everett
Herb Fontecilla
Rolf Frantz
John Galinato
Judy Payne Getto
Deanne Gebell Gitner
Sharon Family Greenblath
Roy Grimm
Maurice Cerulli
Dave Hanlon
Ben Harvey
Judy Harvey
Emily Hewitt
Ralph Janis
Keith Jurow
Carol Atkin Kay
Stan Kochanoff
Sue Stern Korn
Ronni Barrett Lacroute
Barb Lawrence
Hilda Lichtenstein Levine
Dick Lockwood
Bruce Mansdorf
John Miers
John Monroe
Pat Mulcahy
Art Mushkin
Nathaniel Pierce
Art Purcell
Charles Rappaport
Joan Ratner
Wendy Miller Richman
Nan Wendt Rideout
Richard Rideout
Pete Salinger
Jeanne Brown Sander
Betsy Bierds Schenkel
Bill Schenkel
Margaret Simon
Howard Sobel
George Stark
Susan Maldon Stregack
Roy Troxel
Bryan Walley
Chuck Weiss
John Wight
Ivan Wolff