2015 New Student Reading Project: Slaughterhouse Five

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Cornell alumnus Kurt Vonnegut ’44 is the author of the 2015 New Student Reading Project.  Class dues-payers can request a complimentary copy of the book, written in 1969.

Each year, all incoming students at Cornell spend part of Orientation Week in discussion groups and lectures focusing on a common reading.  For 2015, the reading selection continues the focus on Cornell’s 150th Anniversary by featuring a Cornell alumnus author, Kurt Vonnegut ’44.  All new students will be reading his anti-war novel, Slaughterhouse Five, written in 1969.  In many ways, these incoming students will be revisiting the same issues many of us were discussing as freshmen.  Read more about the book selection at the Cornell Chronicle..

In early summer, class dues payers will be given the option to receive a complimentary copy of the book. Look for a class email, or simply reserve your complimentary book here.  You’ll receive the book later in the summer.

Online resources, discussion questions, and webinars will connect you with the intellectual content that the new students are experiencing on campus. Look for these in-depth web resources to be developed by Cornell by the start of the fall semester.

Learn about past Reading Projects here.

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Class Dues Help Us Stay Strong: Benefits for you.

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You are forever a member of our [Notable] Class of 1974. Nevertheless, paying class dues helps the Class stay strong.

Dues-payers will receive the bimonthly Cornell Alumni Magazine, an award winning independent publication.  Our classmate, Bill Howard, serves as the Chair of the Committee which oversees the Magazine.

Each summer, dues-payers were able to request a complimentary copy of the annual New Student Reading Project.  For 2015, all entering students will be reading the anti-war novel, Slaughterhouse Five,  by Kurt Vonnegut’ 44. Read about that in the Cornell Chronicle.   The University is currently rethinking the Ne Student Reading Project so this may not be available going forward.

When you pay dues, you are providing support to our [Notable] class for events and communications. Our class remains so strong because we never give up on making and keeping Cornell and Class of ’74 connections.  We break records for participation, in attending Reunions and in giving to Cornell!  Thank you for being a part of that effort!

 

2014 New Student Reading Project

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Each year, all new students at Cornell participate in a Reading Project, having read an assigned book over the summer.  With a series of lectures, seminars, and online resources, they share a common intellectual welcome to Cornell.

Dues paying classmates who would like to share in this experience can receive the book for free.  Webinars and online resources are another connection to the Cornell experience.  Or, this is just a good way to receive an intriguing book each year.

Visit Cornell’s website for information, on-line videos, discussion questions and information about past year book projects.

Class of 1974 dues payers can request a free copy of the reading, which you will receive as the new academic year begins.

Cornell Alumni Magazine

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The Spring 2015 issue of the Cornell Alumni Magazine is a special sesquicentennial issue and features a wonderful article about a no-time-constraints dinner party honoring 24 of the most notable Cornellians.  Christopher Reeve ’74 sits two chairs over from Ezra, across from Kurt Vonnegut, next to astronaut Mae Jemison and Nobel winner Pearl Buck.  Also included is a photo honoring 156 of Cornell’s most respected current faculty.  Our classmates Nina Bassuk ’74, Horticulture; Barry Strauss ’74, History; and Mariana Wolfner ’74, molecular biology and genetics, are members of this august group.

Cornell Alumni Magazine has a new editor, Jenny Barnett, who is producing a fond, funny, readable, objective view of Cornell for Magazine readers.  Kudos to our [Notable] classmate Bill Howard ’74 who is Chair of the Cornell Alumni Magazine Committee.  This is the oversight body for the independent alumni publication, one of the oldest in the country.

To receive this great magazine over the next year, you need to pay your class dues.  Dues also support our class.

Each issue of the Cornell Alumni Magazine also contains news of classmates, compiled by our class correspondents.  Click here to submit news for the magazine.