Barack Obama appears Dec. 5

November 30th, 2007

MOUNT VERNON — Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama will speak about the importance of community service and take questions at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, at Cornell College’s Small Multi-Sport Center. Doors open at 11 a.m. Read More…




Texas parent helps host Cornell Thanksgiving meal

November 21st, 2007

MOUNT VERNON - When Maryellen Mathews left her son, Timothy McSweeny, at Cornell College in August, she told him she’d be back from Texas at Thanksgiving to cook him a traditional meal. Read More…




RESCHEDULED - - - Cornell Holiday Concert ‘Wrapped in Song’ is Dec. 1

November 20th, 2007

Rescheduled to 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9.

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Cornell receives $1.5 million estate gift

November 13th, 2007

MOUNT VERNON — Cornell College will establish endowed scholarship funds in music and politics with a gift of approximately $1.5 million from the estate of an alumna and former high school music teacher. Read More…




Ames Quartet performs Music Mondays concert

November 9th, 2007

MOUNT VERNON — The Ames Piano Quartet, the resident chamber music ensemble at Iowa State University, performs as part of Cornell College’s Music Mondays series at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19, in King Chapel.

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Youth Vote Leadership Summit at Cornell College

November 8th, 2007

MOUNT VERNON — Americans for Informed Democracy (AID), a nonpartisan youth organization, will hold a Youth Voice Youth Vote summit for area college students at Cornell College from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, in The Commons. This is the only Iowa location for this series of summits designed to ensure that young people’s calls for a more interconnected, collaborative role for the United States on global issues are heard in the upcoming election.

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