Alumni
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Seidlers establish $1 million scholarship endowment
Mary Bowman Seidler ’61 and Stanley Seidler have given $1 million to create an endowed scholarship as part of the Greater > Than Campaign.
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Anderson recognized by Mass Market Retailers magazine
Steve Anderson ’75, a former member of the Cornell Board of Trustees and President and CEO of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS), was named by Mass Market Retailers magazine as one of the nation’s 50 Most Influential Mass Market Retailing Executives.
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Work study job inspired career for alumna
This piece was written by Christina Koch ’98 in Retrofit magazine. It is a companion piece to a bigger article about Cornell’s energy-efficient improvements.
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Williams give back through Greater > Than campaign
Richard Williams ’63 and his wife, honorary alumna Marlene Williams, have given $500,000 to Cornell’s Greater > Than campaign science facilities project.
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Smiths support the sciences
Although John Smith ’71 was not focused on the sciences as a Cornell College student, he is one of the strongest proponents of the college’s Greater > Than campaign science facilities project.
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Cornell alumnus recognized as Chicago’s best playwright
Chicago’s largest free weekly newspaper has recognized a Cornell College alumnus for his work on the theatre scene.
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Cornell’s first Chinese graduate
Cornell’s first Chinese student was Ruby Sia of Foochow (now Fuzhou), who graduated in 1910. When Sia arrived at Cornell College around 1900, it was a very different school from today. Cornell’s affiliation with the Methodist Church was much closer than today. Sia came to campus because of that religious affiliation. It was also why […]
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Eric Dewey ’84
United Way executive Eric Dewey ’84 died March 31 in Nashville, Tennessee, at age 54. He was chief executive officer of United Way of Metropolitan Nashville. A native of Pontiac, Michigan, he majored in political science at Cornell. Prior to accepting the CEO position in Nashville in 2008, Dewey served in leadership roles for United […]
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Kenneth Toepfer ’51
Educator Kenneth Toepfer ’51 died March 19 in State College, Pennsylvania, at age 88. He was provost emeritus of Teacher’s College at Columbia University in New York City. A native of Charles City, Iowa, and the first in his family to attend college, he was Phi Beta Kappa at Cornell. After earning his bachelor’s degree […]
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Robert Rowland ’47
Biophysicist Robert Rowland ’47 died March 19 in Chicago, Illinois, at age 94. He spent most of his career as a scientist, researcher, and administrator at Argonne National Laboratory. He retired in 1983 as director for biomedical and environmental research. After graduating from Cornell, he earned a master of science degree in physics from the […]
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P. Roger Gillette ’37
Physicist and engineer P. Roger Gillette ’37 died on March 2 at age 99 in Salem, Oregon. He grew up in Mount Vernon, the son of Cornell College instructor C. Edgar Gillette and Celia Rodgers Gillette 1917. After receiving his doctorate in physics from the University of Illinois, he conducted classified military research at the […]
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A life immersed in music
Rita Fandrich ’66 began her Cornell education years before she actually arrived in Mount Vernon. At age 12 she had the rare opportunity to study with Helen Venn, who after 29 years as professor of piano at Cornell, retired and moved home to the small Ohio community of North Bloomfield where Fandrich lived. She recalls […]
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For Davy, block plan started it all
When Kyle Davy ’11 talks about his Cornell experience, it all comes down to the block plan. “I attribute many of my successes to the opportunities One Course At A Time gave me,” he says. Davy is the chief revenue officer for the Iowa Energy professional basketball team in Des Moines, Iowa. He took […]
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From refugee camp to biotech with a stop on the Hilltop
The story of Alice Nguyen ’80 begins in Vietnam, winds its way through a refugee camp and the Cornell campus, to her current position as associate director for quality control at a California-based biotechnology company. She was born in what was then North Vietnam and moved to the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon when she […]
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William Purden ’51
Coach, educator, and administrator William Purden ’51 died April 11 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, at age 88. Purden came to Cornell and majored in education and English after serving in the Marine Corps. Purden began his career as a high school teacher and basketball coach with two-year stints at Huron, Winfield, and Fort Madison, Iowa. […]
Seidlers establish $1 million scholarship endowment 
Anderson recognized by Mass Market Retailers magazine 
Work study job inspired career for alumna 
Williams give back through Greater > Than campaign 
Smiths support the sciences 
Cornell alumnus recognized as Chicago’s best playwright 
Cornell’s first Chinese graduate 
Eric Dewey ’84 
Kenneth Toepfer ’51 
Robert Rowland ’47 
P. Roger Gillette ’37 
A life immersed in music 
For Davy, block plan started it all 
From refugee camp to biotech with a stop on the Hilltop 
William Purden ’51