Cornell Homecoming to be Celebrated Oct. 10-12

MOUNT VERNON — Cornell College will celebrate its homecoming Oct. 10-12 by honoring alumni and former professors.

Cornell’s homecoming celebrates the reunion classes of 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, and 2003. Events begin Friday, Oct. 10, and include a pep rally and fireworks in Ash Park, starting at 9 p.m.

Three alumni and two emeriti professors will be honored at convocation in King Chapel at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. Congressman David Loebsack, professor emeritus of politics, will receive the Honorary Alumni Award for his longstanding service to the college. Aleta Grillos Trauger, a federal court judge and 1968 graduate, will receive the Distinguished Achievement Award. An honorary doctoral degree will be bestowed upon Herbert Hendriks, professor emeritus of geology and 1940 graduate of Cornell.

The Young Alumni Achievement Award will be presented to Jason Kolowski, a 1998 graduate. After an outstanding academic and athletic career at Cornell, Kolowski became a forensics researcher in New York and was on the front-line of post-9/11 recovery efforts. The Alumni Leadership and Service Awards will be presented to Trustee Gilbert Drendel Jr., the long-serving 1958 class agent.

Following the convocation, a historic campus tour with re-enactors will leave from the Commons at 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Also on Saturday, there will be an artist’s reception for Carolyn Brown’s photography show in the Commons at 12:30 p.m., as well as a faculty/alumni panel on “The Environment: Science & Policy” in Ringer Recital Studio at 1:30 p.m. There will be a Homecoming Alumni Art Show reception from 3-5 p.m. with artists talk at 3:30 p.m. in Peter Paul Luce Gallery, McWethy Hall on Saturday.

Other special activities include the Cornell Athletics Hall of Fame Dinner and Induction Ceremony Friday at 6 p.m.; an open house for the new Peter Paul Luce Admission Center Saturday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.; a seminar on “Cornell’s Extraordinary Experiences-Student Perspectives,” Friday from 1:30-2:30 p.m.; and the homecoming football game against Simpson, kicking off at 1 p.m. in Ash Park.

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