Class Parties in Ithaca & Boston, Tech Campus Opens

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Hope your fall is off to a promising start. The still-Notable Class of 1974 is organizing two October events—one in Ithaca, one in Boston. 

Cornell Homecoming, ’70s tailgate, Brown football. Our class and others from the ’70s (also ’69) will host a tailgate Saturday, Oct. 21, near Friedman Wrestling Center from noon to the 3pm kickoff of the Brown football game. All free: sandwiches, Cornell apples, beverages. To register for the tailgate (also see who’s coming), click here. 

Homecoming weekend features a fine arts tour on campus (highly recommended), a faculty lecture on The Hidden Value of Detective Fiction by English Prof. Caroline Levine, a virtual or in-person 5k (run it anywhere), and a fan festival with music and rides. Most events are Saturday. A laser light show and fireworks is Friday 7 pm.  To register for Homecoming (separate registration from tailgate), click here. 

Our Final 65th Birthday Party, in Boston.  Sunday, Oct. 29, 5-7:30pm, classmate Nancy Maczulak Fisher is arranging a ’74 reception at Brass Union in Somerville, 70 Union Square, for classmates and friends. Hors d’oeuvres, birthday cake and balloons are free; drinks are not (sorry). Come celebrate our 65th year in style!  No RSVP required.  Questions? Email Nancy at fishernancy5@aol.com.

In other very big news, the Cornell Tech Campus opened in NYC to much fanfare Sept. 12. Dignitaries, alumni, staff and students celebrated the completion of three key buildings—the Bloomberg Education Center, the Bridge (for collaborative initiatives), and the Residence—and the move of 300 graduate students and 30 faculty from temporary quarters at the Google building in lower Manhattan to Roosevelt Island. Cornell Tech is a partnership with Israel’s powerhouse Technion Institute of Technology (four Nobel prizes since 2004) to create the tech-focused grad school designed to attract and host start-ups, graduate students, researchers and industry. Read more about this transformational program in The New York Times here.  Check it out for yourself: Take the 59th Street tramway or subway (F train) over to Roosevelt Island.

Enjoy this fall season. I look forward to seeing you at a Cornell event soon.