The Sun, The Moon and Our 50th Reunion
Cornell is back in session after “Spring” Break (which weather-wise felt like it was in January). But the campus is beginning to show some spring color and you can feel the students’ sense of purpose to get things finished up in a short five weeks.
Looming academic deadlines did not stop everyone on campus from pausing for a couple of hours to witness the eclipse which was 98.8% totality in Tompkins County, albeit with cloud cover. The last total eclipse in Ithaca, in 1925, was captured in this oil painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Class of 1897. Our Cornell Observatory, where we will be stargazing at Reunion, is named for Fuertes. You can see this painting on Reunion weekend in Cornell’s Kroc Library.
While we did not have an eclipse during our time on the Hill, there were equally momentous occasions that we will celebrate at Reunion on June 6-9.
Registration for Class of ’74 events and housing is now open—just click here to register.
Plan on coming Thursday for a premier showing of a new movie with deep Cornell roots, The Artist & the Astronaut, (4:00pm Thursday), followed by a festival with food trucks, music, etc. on the Quad next to our headquarters in the new Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall (you are going to like the rooms, coffee shop, etc.). Thursday night also features Cornell historian, Corey Earle ’07, giving a retrospective of Cornell in the early 1970’s (to jog our memories!).
Reunion enthusiasm is running high, so get your registration in (and send me your favorite 70’s song to be included in our Reunion playlist).
We are looking forward to seeing you in June!