2024 Fall Cornell Report

Purple graphic with the words: Visionaries share one wish: Cornellians' hopes for 2025
Alumni

Visionaries share one wish

15 October 2024
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Alumni

Ingenuity in Action: Embracing hands-on learning

14 October 2024
Helaina Hillyard and her teammates preparing to play volleyball.
Alumni

Courage and comeback: Hillyard’s triumph over leukemia

13 October 2024

IN THIS ISSUE

Beckett Christensen ’24: Ingenuity In Action reflection

Audrey Pagel ’24: Ingenuity In Action reflection

Lewis Fawcett ’26: Ingenuity In Action reflection

Rachael Adewusi ’24: Ingenuity In Action reflection

Callum McAllister ’24: Ingenuity In Action reflection

Kimberly Maitland ’24: Ingenuity In Action reflection

Jason Ramos ’25: Ingenuity In Action reflection

ALUM PROFILES

Vondolee Delgado-Nixon ’91: Teaching beyond the test

Finley Cowlishaw ’19: Inserting drag into art history

Sarah Sebring Binder ’77: Author, educator, lifelong adventurer

AROUND THE BLOCK

Contemporary Songwriting

Hilltop Hot Sheet

What does it mean to identify as nonbinary?

How roomates are picked

King Chapel repair Fun Facts

Ulysses: 75 and going strong

Courage and comeback: Hillyard’s triumph over leukemia

LAST WORDS & LETTERS

Last Word: The Lunch Crew that became family

You Said: Fall 2024

FAREWELLS

Gordon Urquhart, 1938–2024, professor emeritus

Stuart Good honorary alumnus, 1925–2024

Richard Alfred McCoy ’60, 1934–2024

Kenneth Charles Kulander ’65, 1943–2024

Wayne P. Engle, 1933–2024, Trustee

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Volume 47 / FALL 2024

EDITOR
Dee Ann Rexroat '82
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Maxwell Love
Rachel Weber

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