John Lively ’55 died in Edina, Minn., Aug. 18, 2008. He was 75.
Lively recently endowed a $1.3 million scholarship to students from central Iowa who attend Cornell. After graduating from Cornell and leaving the Army, where he worked in Army Intelligence, Lively worked for five years at KFJB radio in Marshalltown, before spending three years at WHO in Des Moines. He then spent the next 28 years in public relations working for 3M in St. Paul, Minn. and in New York City, before retiring in 1994. Lively was also an active member of the Cornell Alumni Board.
He is survived by a brother, two sisters, and many nieces and nephews.
