Friday, December 12, 2014

Jeff Estabrook

Arts & Sciences


Paoli, PA

jsestabrook@verizon.net

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Philly Lawyer, then insurance exec.  Married 25 years.  Father of 2 Cornellians.  Active Cornellian and NY Giants fan

Which piece of information or advice did you pick up while a student at Cornell that has been useful in the past 35 years?
Cut your own path.  Others will do the same.  If you rely on them, you can be disappointed when they follow their own interests without you.

Which piece of advice or information turned out to be completely WRONG?
 Law school will make you happy.

Please provide some items from your Bucket List.
Forbidden City & Great Wall - China
Dive Great Barrier Reef - Australia
Write history of Erie Canal impact

What advice would you give to a member of the Class of 2018?
Miss Frizzle had it half right: Get dirty, make mistakes, but she missed: save money for retirement at every opportunity.

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Nancy MacIntyre Hollinshead


Arts & Sciences

Cornell Name: Nancy J. MacIntyre

Fort Salonga, NY 

nmh37@cornell.edu


Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
3X Bank M and A survivor, took options and ran; meanwhile marriage/kids, pets, remarriage, grad schools; biz owner; on my 3rd life as MSW and Nana

Which piece of information or advice did you pick up while a student at Cornell that has been useful in the past 35 years?
It was the example set by Professor Mahr in dealing with people. Practice patience and kindness with those who seek your help.

Provide your favorite memory of your time at Cornell.
Is there a statute of limitations? It would have to be enjoying the Steam Room in Teagle Hall...oh, I meant camping out for hockey tickets!

Tell us about the most interesting things you’ve done since 1980.
Become an advocate for individuals living with mental illness and a volunteer teacher of NAMI's Family-to-Family. Become Nana to grandkids!

you can invoke your Fifth Amendment right but only under specific circumstances. The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows you to decline to respond to a question if answering would incriminate you. What the Constitution actually says is that no one can be “compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.”

Read more : http://www.ehow.com/how_8748591_fifth-deposition.html





Monday, December 8, 2014

Tim O'Connor

Ag &Life Sciences

Bridgeport, CT

tvo2@cornell.edu

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Philly, Marriage, summer in traction, MBA,  Scott Paper, Kids, CT. Diageo/Guinness, Freelance Consulting, Beth Santa, BlackRock community

List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell. Biology with Professor William Keeton
you can invoke your Fifth Amendment right but only under specific circumstances. The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows you to decline to respond to a question if answering would incriminate you. What the Constitution actually says is that no one can be “compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.”

Read more : http://www.ehow.com/how_8748591_fifth-deposition.html

Do you have a favorite memory from a Class of 1980 reunion?
Meeting my wife, and realizing you make friends at reunion not just reconnect

To what are you most looking forward at our 35th Reunion in June, 2015?
A great time and some special ice cream


Slope Day in the late '70s