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