Recording of  Class Zoom Event May 2, 2023 with our classmates Louise Shelley and Steve Sestanovich. 

 Putin’s War in Ukraine: Who is winning the war? How will it end? Whether you couldn’t attend live or simply want to watch again, we hope you enjoy.

	Brought to you by the Classes of 1972 & 1973 Discusson of Putin's War in Ukraine: Who is winning the war? How will it end? Tuesday, May 2, 2023, 8:00 PM EDT
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For those of you who would like to attend and who lived, ate or played in the Risley Residential College there will be a Risley Reunion Lunch in the Risley Dining Room on Saturday June 10^th, 2023 /

 I am happy to announce that another Risley Reunion lunch is planned for Saturday June 10^, 2023, at noon. We will dine in Risley and our lunch will not conflict with any other Class of 1973 events. I hope you can attend.  The $35 cost per person will include lunch, Risley swag and our use of Risley Dining Room. We hope you will bring your pictures, memories, and Medieval Fair costumes.  

Registration by May 19 is needed to guarantee food choices.
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There will be plenty of additional time during Reunion 2023 to get together and reminisce.  I encourage you to review details about Cornell Reunion 2023 and what Class of 1973 has planned.

Spring Update for the Class of 1972

Dear Classmates:

The holidays are over and while I am writing this winter is still raging especially on the West Coast. I hope you have had a wonderful holiday season.    In New York there has been minimal snow fall but you never know what will happen in March.  Spring and warmer weather is approaching. 

We had a great 50^th reunion in June and hope to continue the celebration with opportunities to get together in person and on-line.  Reunion was with followed up by an event in September in the DC area at  Mt Vernon and the African American Museum of History and Culture on the National Mall.  We have joined other classes in their Zoom talks and had a follow up Climate change talk on February 2.  The annual Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference was held in San Diego February 17-19 and 10 classmates attended including some California classmates. 

Our 50^th reunion class yearbook has been a major success and we have decided to extend the ability to add pages, pictures, and updates for the next year before it closes in January of 2024.  So far 543 classmates have started pages.  Please make sure that Cornell has your updated contact information and encourage those you know who have not been in contact recently to update their information so invitations such as the link to join our class yearbook can be sent.  If you have not already joined, please start a page in our 50^th Reunion virtual yearbook.  You can let classmates know where you are and what you are up to as well as look for old friends.  There are picture albums in the yearbook with memories of our years at Cornell as well as alumni events.   I have continued to add pictures from reunion and other class events during the past year as well and I encourage you to add pictures and memories as well.  There is no cost to join but you need to join to look at the book.    

Please continue to send information as well to our class correspondents Alex Barna, Wes Schulz, Frank Dawson and Sue Straus. The column is part of the new online Cornellian magazine.   You can access the column here.   A hard copy synopsis will soon be offered at a cost to anyone who wants to order it.    

Another way to meet classmates and other Cornellians continues to be the Zoom Global Mixer run by Tony Chen ’12 every other Saturday night where we have a 1972 breakout room.  I will continue to send out intermittent reminders however I encourage you to use this opportunity to arrange your own online get togethers.

I also encourage you to pay your class dues.  Class dues allow us to continue to fund events and communications.  They also allow us to subsidize meeting registration fees( We paid all the fees for any classmate who wanted to attend CALC this year).  Dues also provided a significant subsidy for the costs of our past reunions, and we plan on a larger contribution to upcoming reunions to hold the costs to an affordable level.

In addition, you can contribute to our class scholarship and academic innovation awards when you pay your class dues.  An integral part of reunion has been selecting the winners of our innovation awards and getting to know these amazing professors.  They have become part of our reunion family and in addition to giving a lecture at the time of the award, many of them continue to attend our reunions afterwards.  It has been amazing to get to know them and learn from them.  

As I have written to you recently, I think the greatest legacy our class we can leave to Cornell is our encouraging and support for the next generations both by setting an example and  by making it possible for them to reap the benefits of attending Cornell.  Our class scholarship funds were redirected this year to support first generation students; a priority of our 50^th Reunion year and we received the most amazing thank you letters from our current scholarship recipients. They all made it clear how much difference it made to them.  I am very proud of our class and hope we can continue to provide support for such amazing and deserving students.  Please remember our scholarship funds when you pay your dues.   The Class of 2021 has also asked for our help with their transition into effective alumni and we hope to partner with them on upcoming events and informational sessions.

The next class event, in conjunction with the Class of 1973 and other classes of the 70s,  will  be a webinar program on May 2, 2023 on the war in Ukraine organized by our past president Louise Shelley and other classmates who are experts in the field.  This will cap off our reunion year  celebration but I hope we will continue to see each other and  make new memories and connections. I will be attending reunion again this year as it is my husband’s 50^th reunion.  At the Class of 73 reunion in 2018 we had a mini Risley reunion.  Anyone who wants to get together again this June in Ithaca please let me know.

I hope to see CU you soon either at a live Cornell event or on Zoom.

All the best,

Nancy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had our first webinar of the year on February 2, 2023.  I am pleased to share a recording of A conversation about climate change: Part II - How communities can plan for Climate Change featuring Rebecca Morgenstern Brenner, Senior Lecturer, Brooks School of Public Policy and Dr. Danielle Eiseman, Lecturer, Brooks School of Public Policy. Whether you attended live and want to watch again or registered and couldn’t attend we hope you’ll enjoy the recording! Additional resources have been curated to further the conversation. 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

The class of ’72 and our sister classes are invited to join our 50th year celebration! Class of 1972: Cornell Then and Now March 29, 2022, 7:30 p.m. EDT In celebration of the Class of 1972’s 50th Reunion, June 9-12, 2022, take a walk down memory lane as we explore the evolution of Cornell over the last fifty years. Join historian Corey Ryan Earle '07 for a look at the similarities and differences in students, curriculum, and campus as Cornell has evolved and changed. Bring your questions on Cornell history, traditions, and trivia for the Q&A.   Link for the recording of this talk as well as other talks by Corey Earle are  available at blogs.cornell.edu

 Reunion Check-In Raffle

We had a successful raffle at reunion and raised 1000 dollars for our class scholarship fund which is now designated for first generation students.  The winner of the raffle was Susan Thau Rosenberg.   The prize pictured above is a  27.5” x 21” signed Cornell print by the artist Robert Childress who was best know for illustrations of the Dick and Jane books but also painted pictures of college campuses.  The print was donated by our classmate Joyce Leslie. Thanks so much to Joyce and all those who participated in the raffle. 

Details about our reunion will be posted soon.  You can see pictures from reunion on our Class virtual yearbook. Remember to join and update your page by the end of 2022 when the book will be finalized.  

Reunion Updates:

1) Thursday Night 9Pm in Hans Bethe Dining room there will be a film presentation and discussion led by Frank Dawson.

                         Topic: Reunion Willard Straight Hall 1969 and Conversation

3) Saturday  Olin Lecture  will be at 3 PM in Bailey Hall 

     "The Road Became A River: The Revelatory Potential of Fictive Architectural Worldscapes” by Olalekan Jeyifous ’99

NOTE:  There will be remote Zoom access for out Award Winner Symposium  tomorrow June  10th at 10 AM

_{Reunion Highlights: Come Early and Come to Party!}

Dear Classmates:

Reunion is only a few weeks way and I hope you are planning on attending.  It has been too long since we were able to see each other in person.  It should be a terrific weekend and celebration.

Come Early and Come to Party !

Reunion Highlights Updates:

Wednesday June 9^th.   If you will be in town Wednesday, can arrange housing outside of the dorm (which will not be available until Thursday) and are interested in a ½ day program of either golf or a nature hike followed by dinner at Ithaca Beer, or a winery let me know.  Golf time has been arranged for those interested on Wednesday afternoon for 45 dollars.  This can be arranged likely at a low cost. 

Friday June 10^th.

Our Academic Innovation in Teaching Award winners will tell us about their fields and show their unique way of teaching on Friday Morning 10 AM in the Rhodes-Rawling Auditorium in Klarman Hall.   This year in honor of our 50^th reunion 2 award winners were chosen: Dr. Huiju Park from the Department of Fiber Science and Apparel of the College of Human Ecology and Dr. David Albonesi from the Department of Electrical Engineering of the College of Engineering.   They are remarkable educators and very excited about their awards.

At 11:30 AM on Friday Dr. Verity Platt, Chair of the Classics Department will lead a tour and discuss the history of the plaster casts that we used to see in the Temple of Zeus which have been resurrected in Klarman Hall.  She is interested in our memories of the casts and how they were used by students while we were there as well.  She will meet us outside of the Rhodes-Rawling Auditorium in Klarman Hall following the Academic Innovation talks.

There will be the annual Memorial Service at 1:30 PM in the Anabel Taylor Chapell.  As the 50^th reunion class we will be helping remember our missing classmates and others.

Since this is such a special year for us – many of the Class of 1972 are or will turn 72 this year (50^th reunion ’22) we are going to celebrate with a birthday dance party Friday night in Bethe House with the DJ Elephant Sound.   This is scheduled for 9:30 PM following our dinner on the Ag Quad and the Centennial Chorus Concert.

Saturday June 11^th.

The featured speaker on Saturday morning in Schoellkopf is Bill Nye.

The Olin Lecture will be at 3 PM on Saturday in Baily Hall.  Speaker TBA

Cornelliana  8:30 PM Schoellkopf

There are many more lectures, tours, presentations listed in the Cornell Reunion schedule as well. We are also planning a series of video presentations commemorating our time at Cornell and memorable events. 

Instead of a class gift our fund-raising efforts for reunion have been directed towards increasing our scholarship and academic innovation funds.  As you can see above our Innovation in Teaching award is making a difference. Our undergraduate scholarship fund has also helped many students as well.  In honor of our reunion, we are asking that our scholarships be redirected to first generation undergraduate students.

Please join the Class Yearbook if you have not done so.  Almost 400 classmates have joined.   Make your plans for Ithaca in June.  There is a lot to celebrate.

CU at Reunion

Nancy

Keep informed about class events and our upcoming 50^th reunion June 9-12^th .  Our reunion committee is continuing their preparations and currently we are hoping for a terrific reunion weekend in Ithaca.  Stay tuned and make sure we have your correct email information.   You can update your information in the Cornell Alumni Directory.