Digest: In Brief

Cornell professor mourned

Following the sudden death of theatre Professor Mark Hunter on Nov. 6 (see obituaries), current and former students put on a memorial service in Kimmel Theatre. The event included excerpts from some of the shows Hunter directed in his 10 years at Cornell, along with remembrances of him by students. The students also decorated the Plumb- Fleming Studio Theatre in tribute to Hunter.

Web extra – See a photo slideshow of Hunter and video from the memorial service and the comments left on his obituary.

Relive your glory days online

The college archives has completed a two-and-a-half-year project digitizing and posting all Royal Purples online. While the yearbooks have been going online, Archives has received an increasing number of positive comments and questions. Alumni are reliving memories. Embarrassing hairstyles are documented. Relatives are seeing photos of their ancestors for the first time. Cornell’s rich history is coming alive. And you can be part of it.

TOWNIE plates

Cornellians in Iowa—all 4,000 of them—have a chance to show they LUVCRNL with Cornell College license plates. When Patrick Melchert ’88 and Denise Horak Melchert ’88, who live in Mount Vernon, decided to get a Cornell plate, the choice of “TOWNIE” seemed obvious. Patrick is a Mount Vernon native and, as Denise noted when she posted a picture of the plate on Cornell’s Facebook page, “It is official, I am a TOWNIE!”