Klarman Hall, Art for the Tech Campus & Class News

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It’s been an unusual winter in Ithaca—not much snow, and temperatures ranging from the single digits to the mid-50s. The only thing for sure is that the days are getting longer and the ice on Beebe Lake is mostly melted.

night5-22-2In January, the new Klarman Hall opened on the Arts Quad.  It is the first new humanities building on campus in more than 100 years—yes, you heard that right—and is located behind Goldwin Smith Hall.  This spectacular light-filled structure contains faculty offices, seminar rooms, an atrium, an auditorium, and the relocated Temple of Zeus.  You can access Klarman Hall from East Avenue or from Goldwin Smith.  Check out photos of Klarman Hall here.

Construction is underway in New York City at Cornell’s Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island, with the steel for the first building already in place.  Prior to tearing down the old Goldwater Hospital on the island, Cornell worked with art conservators to locate, remove and conserve several murals in the hospital that were commissioned during the 1930’s as part of President Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration (WPA.)  The WPA employed thousands of artists between 1935-45 to create public art.  The four artists chosen for the hospital project each painted a mural in the hospital’s public rooms. One mural had been uncovered in 2001, and two were discovered in 2013 under layers of hospital paint.  One mural was never found.  Over the past few years these murals have been cleaned and restored, and the mural panels are now on display at Cornell’s Johnson Museum of Art.  The murals will eventually be installed at the new Cornell Tech campus.  To learn more about this fascinating project, click here.   To see the murals, visit the Museum’s website here.

Our class correspondents need news in order to write the class column for Cornell Alumni Magazine!  If you have an update about yourself or a classmate–regarding retirement, a new job, a wedding, a class you are taking, a new or old hobby, travel, whatever—please send it to Jim Schoonmaker at js378@cornell.edu, Lucy Babcox Morris at lucmor1433@gmail.com, or Helen Bendix at hbendix@verizon.net.  Thank you!

Sincerely,

Dale Lazar

President [Notable] Class of ‘74

Dsl36@cornell.edu

 

Welcome Letter

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Happy New Year!

2016 presents several opportunities for classmates to attend Cornell events in various cities around the world. New Cornell President Beth Garrett is doing a World Tour in the first six months of 2016, with speaking engagements across the US (Philadelphia, Florida,California, Boston, Dallas, Oklahoma and Chicago) and globally (Mumbai, Beijing, and Hong Kong.) She will outline her priorities and goals for the university in her alumni talks.  Check out the dates of these speaking gigs and register here.

We welcome your suggestions for Class of 1974 events and initiatives.  In fact, your Class of 1974 officers and class council members are meeting later this month to do 2016 planning during Cornell’s annual volunteer leadership conference in Philadelphia.  We are also partnering with other classes of the 70’s to host a reception over the conference weekend.  The reception is Friday evening, January 22, and the location is the Pyramid Club at 1735 Market Street.  The University will send an announcement about the reception shortly, so watch your in-box for details.

Speaking of bold plans, President Garrett and Provost Michael Kotlikoff announced in December a proposal to create a new College of Business at Cornell.  This College would include the current Johnson Graduate School of Management, the undergraduate business program (called “Ag Ec” in our day, now called “Applied Economics and Management (AEM)”) which is now in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the School of Hotel Administration.  To learn more about this proposal, which would require a change in the university by-laws, you may want to read both the official university announcement here and the Cornell Daily Sun articles and comments here.

Cornell students are currently on winter break. Classes begin on January 27th.  To see what the campus looks like this winter, check out the live CornellCam here—not much snow on the ground right now in Ithaca.

Best wishes for a happy and healthy 2016.

Sincerely,

 

Dale Lazar

President [Notable] Class of ‘74

Dsl36@cornell.edu