Mollie Pulver

Ag & Life Sciences

Little Falls, NY

mpulver3@twcny.rr.com

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Spent my 35 post Cornell years in financial services spending my free time on child advocacy and restoration of a Victorian money pit.

In what year did you last set foot on the Ithaca campus, and what was the purpose of your visit?
2014 - University Council Meeting

Which piece of information or advice did you pick up while a student at Cornell that has been useful in the past 35 years?
Partial Budgeting

Tell us about the most interesting things you’ve done since 1980.
100th Anniversary Utica Zoo Gala - an amazing evening in a great place after 15 months of planning

What are you looking forward to at our 35th reunion in June, 2015?
Dik Saalfeld & Corey Earl entertaining at the Lab of Ornithology

Lynda Spalding

Human Ecology 

Transitioning from Augusta, GA to Ottawa, ON

Cornell Name: Lynda Hershey 

elspalding@gmail.com

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Married 33 years to Eric Spalding, RPI '78.  Children - Rob(Parsons'10) and Julie'11. Lived in AR, VT, TN, VA, GA. Home Ec and yoga teacher.

In what year did you last set foot on the Ithaca campus, and what was the purpose of your visit?
I have visited annually since our daughter matriculated in '07.  Last summer's visit was to help plan Reunion. That was a blast! 

Which piece of information or advice did you pick up while a student at Cornell that has been useful in the past 35 years?
My professor advised me I would have students smarter than I so I would need to become a resource person!  I have earned that reputation!

Tell us about the most interesting things you’ve done since 1980.
I earned my 200 hour Yoga certification.  I love helping people keep their body, mind and soul healthy!

What are you looking forward to at our 35th reunion in June, 2015?
Old friends, new friends, ice cream, the McGraw Tower Chimes, Cayuga's Waiters, and a sea of red & white!

Chris Evans

Arts & Sciences 

Darien, CT 

evanscje@gmail.com

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
I began in engineering because I like math but got torn away by economics due to my interest in finance. I met fabulous people.

In what year did you last set foot on the Ithaca campus, and what was the purpose of your visit?
2010 - to show my daughter the campus before she applied

Tell us about the most interesting things you’ve done since 1980.
I started my own software business and later, an investment firm. I worked for a time for one of the biggest hedge funds in the world.

What advice would you give to a member of the Class of 2018?
Go and get help - reach out to TA's and other classmates. Cornell is not a nurturing place, academically.

Which piece of information or advice did you pick up while a student at Cornell that has been useful in the past 35 years?
If I try I, can compete with anyone.

Nanette Cooper-McGuinness

Arts and Sciences  

Berkeley, CA

Cornell name: Nanette Michele Cooper

nanette22@gmail.com

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
#married Cornellian;#PhD UC Berkeley; great son; #opera in U.S. & Europe; #4 chamber ensembles; latest: Jewish Music & Poetry Project; #CDs

In what year did you last set foot on the Ithaca campus, and what was the purpose of your visit?
1980, graduation.

Tell us about the most interesting things you’ve done since 1980.
3 CDs; toured Hungary 4 Daniel Pearl World Music Days; performed in Germany, Italy,& Czech Rep. translated 24 graphic novels  & kids' books

Laura Chessin

Architecture, Art & Planning

Richmond, VA

lchessin@vcu.edu

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
still asking weird questions, exploring big ideas

List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell.
The Divine Comedy with a Dante Scholar

Which piece of information or advice did you pick up while a student at Cornell that has been useful in the past 35 years?
That the blank page/canvas is terrifying to everyone.

Tell us about the most interesting things you’ve done since 1980.
Filming in Panama, Biking in India, Having a son at the age of 45. Run Boston Marathon (2x 2013-2014. finished before the bombs)

Share any random or surprising encounters with Cornell or Cornellians since you left.
Am now working with birds. Began my passion at —where else— Sapsucker Woods.

Hilary Schlinger

Ag & Life Sciences 

Albuquerque, NM

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
33 years of private practice as a midwife. Kids, grandkids, have split time btwn upstate NY and NM.

In what year did you last set foot on the Ithaca campus, and what was the purpose of your visit?
2004 - living in Ithaca again for 2 yrs, worked at Planned Parenthood; went to campus for a concert.

Chris Van Holmes

Arts & Sciences 

Minneapolis, MN

Cornell Name: Chris Van Buren 

cv27@cornell.edu

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Grad school/World Champ & Hall of Fame Ultimate player/Husband(25+)Father(2 girls: 1 legacy)/UW Fishery research analyst/Still play tennis

List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell.
Mammology

Tell us about the most interesting things you’ve done since 1980.
Won a World Championship/Baked the best bagel in the world/Travel to distant shores/Spent a summer in a MI woods frog pond

Which piece of advice or information turned out to be completely WRONG?.
Science is not politics

Please provide some items from your Bucket List.
See Grand Canyon - attend all 4 tennis grand Slams - Build a cabin - sail the Aegean

Judith Neustadter Naone

Human Ecology 

Maui, HI

Cornell Name: Judy Neustadter

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Japan, Law School, Portland OR, China, Honolulu, Maui.  My life after Cornell!

List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell.
Skiing, sociology, fairy tales, film studies

Which piece of information or advice did you pick up while a student at Cornell that has been useful in the past 35 years?.
Be ready to walk uphill

In what year did you last set foot on the Ithaca campus, and what was the purpose of your visit?
1987, showing my younger brother the campus, he was choosing where to apply to college at that time.

Maura Kates-Rutkin

Agriculture & Life Sciences  

Great Neck, NY

Cornell name: Maura Kates

Maura@rutkin.com

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Practiced small animal medicine 1983-2004 then took a hiatus which is ongoing. Married 27 years, three children.

In what year did you last set foot on the Ithaca campus, and what was the purpose of your visit?
2012, college visit with daughter

Luc Chabot

Engineering 

Katy, TX

LGChabot@hotmail.com

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
I have been involved with engineering of  offshore oil platforms that are some of the largest structures built and moved by man. 

List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell.
Structural Engineering, Physics 201

Which piece of information or advice did you pick up while a student at Cornell that has been useful in the past 35 years?.
Don't rely on Codes, You must always be able to justify the solution using first principles.

Which piece of advice or information turned out to be completely WRONG?
I would not need to learn to type because I would have a secretary.

Do you have a favorite memory from a Class of 1980 reunion?
Meeting with one of my professors (He remembered me!). Asked me if I was still a practicing engineer. Proud to tell him I was.

What are you looking forward to at our 35th reunion in June, 2015?
Just being on campus and pretending 35 years had not gone by.

Jarett Wait

Arts & Sciences 

New York, NY

jwait@jfwaitadv.com

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
#family #lehman #tokyo #london #hongkong #sigmapi #usskiteam #cfr #bigredlacrosse #jacksonhole #olympics

List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell.
Wall Street with Professor Ed Burton

Tell us about the most interesting things you’ve done since 1980.
Travel to Tibet, Galapagos and Heli Ski in Alaska

Provide your favorite memory of your time at Cornell.
Sigma Pi Rock n'Roll Tea - May 19, 1978

What advice would you give to a member of the Class of 2018?
Look at the big picture by picking your head up from your mobile device! Develop a point of view based on research and execute.

Brian Myers

Industrial & Labor Relations  

Winston-Salem, NC

bpmyers58@gmail.com

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Moved to Carolina, never looked back.  UNC MBA.  Career in Pharma sales.  Married....since 1982.  2 adopted kids.  Growing older, not up!

List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell.
Psych 101: A rite of passage.

Which piece of information or advice did you pick up while a student at Cornell that has been useful in the past 35 years?
Cornellians are probably the best, brightest, funniest, and most loyal friends you will ever have.

Tell us about the most interesting things you’ve done since 1980.
Been to 42 Jimmy Buffett concerts.

Provide your favorite memory of your time at Cornell.
Phi Delt run to the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid.

Philip Leinbach

Engineering

Maumee, OH

toledophil@sbcglobal.net

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Lived as if work was the most important part of life; had encounter that taught me otherwise; have been learning to live with new purpose


Please provide some items from your Bucket List.
Visit Israel and experience the Holy Lands first hand

Tell us about the most interesting things you’ve done since 1980.
Lived in Dominican Republic for two months with  my wife & young children; taught English, practiced Spanish, and loved people - still do

Provide your favorite memory of your time at Cornell.
Singing and making lifetime friends & memories with members of the Cornell University Glee Club under Thomas Sokol.

What advice would you give to a member of the Class of 2018?
There is such a thing as absolute truth -- find it! It is the only thing that matters.

Mary T. Farrell

Industrial & Labor Relations  

New York, NY

mtf1106@gmail.com

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Practiced HR while doing WNY theatre, back to school for BFA, moved to NYC, got stuck on Wall St. Am now back to the Arts and seek day job!

List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell.
Theatre/Literature electives this ILRie took! As a starving artist & AARP member I say, "Class of 2015, recognize your love AND DO IT NOW!"

In what year did you last set foot on the Ithaca campus, and what was the purpose of your visit?
In 2012, the "Eddy 8" celebrated the 30th wedding anniversary of Nancy Schlicht Hall and her fab townie and Cornell employee hubby Mark!


Provide your favorite memory of your time at Cornell.
Spending silly, irresponsible time with the women of the Eddy 8. I happily report that this is something I still enjoy in the present day!

Michael Cogan

Ag & Life Sciences

Germantown, MD

mwc28@cornell.edu

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Graduated with dad, Howard '50, MPS'80; law school, FDA, Senate staff, local govt, telecom, private practice;  marriage, kids, unmarriage.

List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell.
Chem/Roald Hoffman, biochem/Renee Alexander, hist of science/L.Pearce Williams, newswriting/Randy Shew, Film Club!

Share any random or surprising encounters with Cornell or Cornellians since you left.
Many wonderful encounters with dad & classmate Howard Cogan ('50, MPS '80), radio legend, adman, "Ithaca Is Gorges" creator, IC professor.

Tell us about the most interesting things you’ve done since 1980.
Visited Prague 4 mo. after Velvet Revolution, mule ride in Grand Canyon, on Senate floor to pass bills I worked on, wrote lots of local laws

Provide your favorite memory of your time at Cornell.
Sunday brunch splurges on strawberry pancakes at Noyes Lodge dining.

Roberta Goodman

Arts & Sciences

Cornell name: Roberta Walter

Nashville, TN

roberta_walter_goodman@yahoo.com

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
MBA, Wall Street analyst 15 yrs, now p.t. residential real estate development and equestrienne, married w 2 stepdaughters & 7 grandchildren

List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell.
History courses with Richard Polenberg, Alvin Bernstein, Joel Silbey

Tell us about the most interesting things you’ve done since 1980.
Travel (Israel, Europe, Alaska, Asia, Australia, Tanzanian safari);  Wall Street career; having great step-daughters & grandchildren; HORSES

Share any random or surprising encounters with Cornell or Cornellians since you left.
Sorority sister Sheri Frumer '80 turned up in the seat next to me on a flight from Sydney Australia to the US in 1995.

Kathy Valliere

Human Ecology

Cornell name: Kathy Biondolillo

Fairport, NY

kbv5@cornell.edu

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Department Store Buyer,29 yrs married,stay-at-home Mom to Paul & Stephanie,volunteer and community leader,golfer,seamstress,10 yrs at Amica

List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell.
Apparel Design IV when I designed a no-sew outfit and guided an Ithaca 4th grade student through the process of making it for herself!

Tell us about the most interesting things you’ve done since 1980.
We took a family golf trip to Ireland in 2004 and are looking forward to a trip to France this July.

Provide your favorite memory of your time at Cornell.
Working on the Cornelian yearbook as a sophomore and junior and becoming Editor-in-Chief as a senior.

What are you looking forward to at our 35th reunion in June, 2015?
Reconnecting with classmates and Tri-Delta sisters!

Steve Benjamin

Engineering

Saratoga, CA

Steve@Stromiga.com

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Got my MEng and MBA.  Worked in Air Freight, then a PR firm with my wife, Sheri. Sold it in '99, now a RE developer. 2 kids, 27 (CU '10) 25

In what year did you last set foot on the Ithaca campus, and what was the purpose of your visit?
2014.  Member of Cornell Council, frequent guest lecturer (former Entrepreneur in Residence).  Also celebrated the "Double Nickle" with Fiji

Provide your favorite memory of your time at Cornell.
Playing Rugby, "The Stairs" at Fiji, Going to Lynah Rink.

Tell us about the most interesting things you’ve done since 1980.
Started a PR firm with my wife. Sold it in '99.  Since then redeveloped shopping centers in Saskatchewan. Being EIR when Megan attended '10.

What advice would you give to a member of the Class of 2018?
Learn about the breadth of Cornell.  Make friends with kids in other Cornell Colleges.

Myra Boenke

Engineering

Williston, VT

myra1@cal.berkeley.edu

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
BellLabs optical cable; Princeton; divorce; UCBerkeley; IBM GaAs lasers; married; 2 sons; IBM Foundry RF Silicon, soon to be GlobalFoundries

Provide your favorite memory of your time at Cornell.
Sliding down the rocks and jumping off the cliff in the gorge.  Walking across a frozen Beebe Lake. Wandering the Herb Garden and Arboretum

Which piece of advice or information acquired at Cornell turned out to be completely WRONG?
If you don't go straight to grad school you will never go back.

What advice would you give to a member of the Class of 2018?
Get involved in on-campus groups and/or research projects.

What are you looking forward to at our 35th reunion in June, 2015?
Fellowship receptions and exploring outdoors

Eric J Levy

Hotel Administration

Singapore

eric@tsi.sg

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Non-stop travel, assimilate into various cultures, 2 kids, two dogs, only one wife, learn and educate within the narrow field of hospitality

List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell.
Entrepreneurship, Astronomy, Food Chem

Please provide some items from your Bucket List.
Go to Italy and Cuba. Go to final brackets of NCAA Bball

What advice would you give to a member of the Class of 2018?
Socialize with classmates and stay in touch

William Scheffer

Engineering

Schenectady, NY

schef8@nycap.rr.com

 

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
1st job New Orleans, then Schenectady with SI Group, Inc.  Ch Engineering....now VP Operational Excellence. Married 30 years, 3 grown kids

In what year did you last set foot on the Ithaca campus, and what was the purpose of your visit?
I visited in 2004 when my son was considering Cornell.

List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell.
Astronomy, Fluids, Technical Writing

Which piece of information or advice did you pick up while a student at Cornell that has been useful in the past 35 years?
Write well.

Donna J Runner

Ag & Life Sciences

Belgrave, VIC  Australia

djrunner58@gmail.com

 

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Peace Corps in Thailand, grad school, 4 years in Turkey, migrated to Australia in 1989 - successful career there. university libraries

In what year did you last set foot on the Ithaca campus, and what was the purpose of your visit?
2003 - visit libraries and meet with staff about open access initiatives

Provide your favorite memory of your time at Cornell.
Watching classic Star Trek reruns after dinner at Balch Hall.

Tell us about the most interesting things you’ve done since 1980.
Lived and worked as a local in Thailand and Turkey; migrated to Australia in 1989.  Adventures for a small-town upstate New Yorker!

Please provide some items from your Bucket List.
Complete 5 hand-sewn patchwork quilts. Complete a book of family history.
Design and complete a beautiful garden.

Nancy Medford

Cornell Name - Nancy Dobkins

Ag & Life Sciences

Morristown, NJ

nfdm@aol.com

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Married another Cornell grad, 3 great kids, fantastic like in gorgeous part of Northern New Jersey. First grandchild about to be a year old.

Which piece of information or advice did you pick up while a student at Cornell that has been useful in the past 35 years?
Teaching something to another person is a great way to shore it up for yourself.  If you get up and go out you might meet your future mate

Do you have a favorite memory from a Class of 1980 reunion?
The year 2000 was my father-in-law's 50th and the 20th for my husband and me. The whole family came and it was great!

Please provide some items from your Bucket List.
Traveling to Australia & New Zealand, doing one of the Cornell summer classes, taking my parents on Safari

Tell us about the most interesting things you’ve done since 1980.
Married and had three GREAT kids, traveling to Asia, Africa, South America. Collecting art using Cornell contact to validate authenticity.

Jill Leichter

Cornell Name: Jill Holtzman

Ag & Life Sciences

Dunedin,, New Zealand

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
A bit of wandering. Worked in publishing/design/art/editing. Returning to Ithaca after 11 years in New Zealand. 2 children, a full life.

In what year did you last set foot on the Ithaca campus, and what was the purpose of your visit?
2014. Many changes. Will be returning (from New Zealand) to live in Ithaca in a few weeks.

Share any random or surprising encounters with Cornell or Cornellians since you left.
Reunited with an old friend after 25 years in a barn in Lansing when we coincidentally signed our children up to the same riding lesson.

What advice would you give to a member of the Class of 2018?
A Cornell University education opens doors, so stick it out and get through it.

What are you looking forward to at our 35th reunion in June, 2015?
Seeing old friends from Sperry Hall.

Douglas Bates

Ag & Life Sciences

La Jolla, CA

dbatesmd@gmail.com

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
1 wife, 2 boys in NorCal and a dog.  Still thinking outside the box and looking to make the world a little better.

In what year did you last set foot on the Ithaca campus, and what was the purpose of your visit?
Like a salmon, I make annual visits to Ithaca and Trumansburg to visit good friends.

Which piece of advice or information acquired at Cornell turned out to be completely WRONG?
"No one will want to play that stupid 'Adventure' game."

Share any random or surprising encounters with Cornell or Cornellians since you left.
Last year at CES I learned of another Doug Bates Cornell alum.  He DJ'd at WVBR.  That was a confusing conversation for quite a while....

Bruce Howard

Ag & Life Sciences

Spokane, WA

bfh5@cornell.edu

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Environmental and business development work, moving to the Northwest and raising a family, time just goes by too fast!

List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell.
Tropical Crop Production, Madison Wright; Dave Pimentel's Ag, Ethics & the Env.; Archie Ammon's poetry-writing class, and Botany, H. Banks

Provide your favorite memory of your time at Cornell.
Steaming-hot cinnamon-raisin bagel at Collegetown bagels. They cost a quarter.

Share any random or surprising encounters with Cornell or Cornellians since you left.
Two neighbors, both professors at Gonzaga, who are Cornell grads.  Also 2 attorneys I am in the middle of litigation with (same side!).

Tell us about the most interesting things you’ve done since 1980.
worked with draft horses, lived in Sweden doing woodworking, taught 5th-grade env. ed., working in range of enviro/business roles, 2 kids

Manny Schecter

Engineering

Ridgefield, CT

schecter3@comcast.net

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Career IBMer, attended GW Law School, now IBM Chief Patent Counsel, married, son attends Cornell Engineering School

In what year did you last set foot on the Ithaca campus, and what was the purpose of your visit?
I just visited my son a few times this semester!  He is a junior in the Engineering School.

Provide your favorite memory of your time at Cornell.
Ice hockey games, particularly against Harvard, and Zinck's

Martha L. Raimon

Arts & Sciences 

Maplewood, NJ

mraimon@gmail.com

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Graduated from Cornell Law School in 1985. Am now a Senior Associate at the Center for the Study of Social Policy in NYC.

List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell.
Dominic LaCapra's classes

Which piece of information or advice did you pick up while a student at Cornell that has been useful in the past 35 years?
Ask questions.

Tell us about the most interesting things you’ve done since 1980.
I am an editor of Interrupted Life: the Experience of Women in Prison in the United States.

Dik Saalfeld

Arts & Sciences

Washington, DC

rfs25@cornell.edu

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Having adventures with my kind, energetic, and lovely wife all over the planet. She's helping me become a better person.

Which piece of information or advice did you pick up while a student at Cornell that has been useful in the past 35 years?
"Don't touch that! You don't know where it's been."

Which piece of advice or information acquired at Cornell turned out to be completely WRONG?
"It's a phase - you'll grow out of it."

What advice would you give to a member of the Class of 2018?
Don't take yourself - or anybody else, for that matter -  too seriously.

Brian Joondeph

Arts & Sciences

Cherry Hills, CO

joonbug@mac.com

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Lots more school, raised a family, lived in New Zealand, working hard and enjoying Colorado

In what year did you last set foot on the Ithaca campus, and what was the purpose of your visit?
Late October 6 years ago with my middle son to look at Northeast colleges. It snowed in Ithaca. He chose to go to college in Southern Calif.

Provide your favorite memory of your time at Cornell.
My four years rowing - teammates, coaches, camaraderie

Share any random or surprise encounters with Cornell or Cornellians since you left.
Met a classmate who I didn't know at Cornell while working out at Red Rocks. Betsy Tournier.

Jodi Nestle

Ag & Life Sciences

Cornell Name: Jodi Diehl

Buffalo, NY

navycows@roadrunner.com

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
wedding, kids, work, retire

List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell.
Beekeeping

Which piece of information or advice did you pick up while a student at Cornell that has been useful in the past 35 years?
Do it yourself with the tools you have been given

Provide your favorite memory of your time at Cornell.
Meeting my husband.

Do you have a favorite memory from a Class of 1980 reunion?
Oh, the stories I could tell!

Dana Jerrard

Ag & Life Sciences

New Hartford, NY

djerrard@vicks.biz

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Married BRB Drum Major, Philly, Upstate NY to raise 3 super kids ('10,'12,'14) IT guy, musical weekend warrior

Share any random or surprising encounters with Cornell or Cornellians since you left.
I have met many classmates, unknown to me as an undergrad, as a volunteer for CU 1980.  I might not have graduated had I known them then.

Tell us about the most interesting things you’ve done since 1980.
Performed dixieland jazz at the Chinese Festival of the Arts in Taiwan. There were many stares and smiles.

What advice would you give to a member of the Class of 2018?
If you find yourself in a situation not knowing whether to laugh or cry, laugh.

Beth Anderson

Arts & Sciences

Brooklyn, NY

banderson@audible.com

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Living in NYC; career in publishing and audiobooks;   hiking on vacations; Jersey Shore on weekends; life is good!

In what year did you last set foot on the Ithaca campus, and what was the purpose of your visit?
I am lucky enough to get to campus each year for meetings with the Library Advisory Council.

Which piece of advice or information acquired at Cornell turned out to be completely WRONG?
A 1980 computer course would be useful later.

Tell us about the most interesting things you’ve done since 1980.
I've worked at an Internet Start-Up for 19 years. Is it still a start-up?

Kathryn Boor

Ag &Life Sciences

Trumansburg, NY

kjb4@cornell.edu

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
MS in WI; 2 years in Africa; PhD - UC Davis; Cornell professor since 1994; two sons; husband, also Cornell professor. CALS dean since 2010

List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell.
Fermentations in Food Science!

Please provide an item from your Bucket List.
Climb Mount Kilimanjaro.

What advice would you give to a member of the Class of 2018?
Don't worry about landing the "perfect" job immediately out of college.  Take calculated risks and grab opportunities as they come your way.

Jill Abrams Klein

Arts & Sciences

Cornell Name: Jill "Abes" Abrams

Potomac, MD

jill.abrams.klein@gmail.com

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
NYC2DC.Moved for Love- married to Fred w/Max, Sam and Susie flew the coop.  Banking, IT- happy accidental b-school prof still ski & sail

Which piece of information or advice did you pick up while a student at Cornell that has been useful in the past 35 years?
Say "hello"  and put yourself out there- you never know who you are going to meet.

Tell us about the most interesting things you've done since 1980.
Career pivots- in 2001, I took a one year Executive in Residence assignment at American University- still learning and loving it!

What are you looking forward to at our 35th reunion in June, 2015?
Ice Cream!!

Patrick McGarvey

Agriculture & Life Sciences

Chicago, IL

pmcg2000@gmail.com

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Chicago, Mpls, Kellogg MBA, 17 yrs on Wall Street then back to Chicago. Married, 2 boys; 1 Cornellian. Thankful

List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell.
Anything Doc Alpin taught

Provide your favorite memory of your time at Cornell.
Slope Day and many things related to Chi Psi.

Share any random or surprising encounters with Cornell or Cornellians since you left.
30-plus Memorial Day weekends with great Cornell friends

Elizabeth Santa

Human Ecology

Bridgeport, CT

esanta@nestofsouthport.com

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
Interior Designer with a tony shop in Southport, CT, specializing in residential and commercial design. Married to Tim O'Connor, CALS '80

List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell.
Building Construction  Anything having to do with design   Women and Media

Tell us about the most interesting things you've done since 1980.
Starting my own Interior design firm, Nest of Southport; Styling exhibits at Disneyland Paris with finds from the Paris flea market

Share any random or surprising encounters with Cornell or Cornellians since you left.
Met hometown friend bass guitarist Hugh Mason in SF at theater door of Starlight Express. Piano Player? Lon Hoyt! We threw a big dinner party!

Eileen Fritsch

Engineering

Cornell Name: Eileen Crowley

Los Gatos, CA

eef0403@hotmail.com

Please provide a tweet-sized synopsis of your life after Cornell:
USAF officer 5 years, Southern CA.  Married my Cornell sweetheart, Frank, CU '79/'80.  Prod Mgr/tech sales at Raychem/Tyco.  2 great kids!

In what year did you last set foot on the Ithaca campus, and what was the purpose?
Late 80's?  Business visit to Deanco in Ithaca, a partner, and owned by CU Football QB Hall of Famer Bob Dean.  So great to visit!!


Which piece of information or advice did you pick up whle a student at Cornell that has been useful in the last 35 years?
Don't fall behind...it just makes things worse.  And hang in there no matter what...your diploma will pay off for the rest of your life.

Provide your favorite memory of your time at Cornell.
Rowing crew at sunrise, Formals with Delta Delta Delta/Delta Tau Delta/AFROTC, broomstick polo, watching people slip on the ice by Uris.

What advice would you give to members of to the Class of 2018?
Balance your studies, sports and social. It is a fantastic unrepeatable 4 years!