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

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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!!

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.

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.”

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