Happy Summer, Class Events Coming, New Campus Housing
Happy mid-summer! Hope you are finding time to relax with friends and family in places that bring you joy. Ithaca weather has been hot-hot-hot.
Our class started the summer with a barbecue dinner in Ithaca for 35 classmates and friends attending Cornell Reunion. Many took in lectures, tours and concerts while also catching up with classmates. Reunion co-chairs Shelley Cosgrove DeFord, Cris Cobaugh and Bob Baldini checked out sites for our 45th Reunion NEXT June (2019.) You’ll learn more about Reunion plans in September.
We have a busy year ahead. Two events are already in the works. At Cornell Homecoming on Saturday September 22, the Classes of the ‘70s are hosting a joint tailgate party. With the football game starting at 3pm, the tailgate lunch will begin around noon. More details will be shared shortly. Looking ahead to 2019, on Friday evening February 8 our class will co-host a reception in Boston.
In Cornell news, a big project to add 2,000 new beds and five on-campus buildings was announced this spring/summer. Cornell plans to provide on-campus housing to all sophomores and perhaps eventually require sophomores to live on campus. (Freshmen already are.) The university will also increase undergraduate enrollment. New dorms will be built on North Campus; the three-year construction project begins next year. Read the Ithaca Journal article here.
Finally, if you have not yet paid your Class Dues for the 2018-19 year, please do so today! Duespayers receive the terrific Cornell Alumni Magazine—a great way to keep up with campus life, academics, alumni, current students, groundbreaking research and more. We’ve kept dues amounts the same as last year. Not sure if you’ve paid? Contact Jodi Sielschott Stechschulte at Jodisteck@gmail.com. You may pay on-line here or by check.
Hope to see you at a class event this year and at Reunion in June 2019. You’ll be hearing regularly from our Class and Cornell over the next 12 months. For now, enjoy the rest of summer!
