Cornell Report Summer 2010
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Sarah Evans McCracken ’59
What began as an idea in the living room of Sarah Evans McCracken ’59 in 1995 is now a four-week summer music festival and music academy in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Jerry Ringer ’59
Jerry Ringer ’59 and honorary alumna Carole Ringer, Bloomington, Ill., were named philanthropists of the year during the 10th anniversary celebration of the Illinois Prairie Community Foundation.
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John Klousia ’67
After the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti, John Klousia ’67, a urologist living in Northern Virginia, knew he’d go there.
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Daryl J. Boness ’72
Daryl J. Boness ’72, Hartford, Maine, was nominated by President Obama to chair the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission and has completed confirmation hearings.
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Shelley Paulson Carey ’77
Shelley Paulson Carey ’77 wanted to make sure all the students in the elementary school she’s principal of in Evanston, Ill., had books to read at home.
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Bruce Montgomery ’78
Negotiating precedent-setting agreements with war-torn countries and Amnesty International to archive sensitive files enabled Bruce Montgomery ’78 to create the largest human rights archives in existence.
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Brian Lee Knopp ’83
Brian Lee Knopp ’83 didn’t intend to write a book on his colorful life as a private investigator.
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Rebecca Ringquist ’00
When textile artist Rebecca Ringquist ’00 was invited to organize Chicagoans to embroider ribbons for the White House Blue Room Christmas tree, it started an odyssey that ended in the White House and taping for “The Oprah Show.”
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Kristi Peterson Meyer ’01
When Kristi Peterson Meyer ’01 got the chance to be an athletic trainer for the Minnesota Lynx WNBA team, it was a dream job.
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Darrell Aaron ’05
After recruiting students to Cornell for five years, Darrell Aaron ’05 (he’s the first alum in the 12,000-plus A-Z Cornell alumni database)
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Adrian Golobic ’07
When Adrian Golobic ’07 traveled to China for the first time in the fall of ’07, he and Brian and Jeanee Linden created The Linden Centre in an old, nationally protected courtyard home in China’s Yunnan province.
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Summer 2010 Letters
Reflections on Garner presidency; Remembering Robert Dana
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Jeffery McCune ’99
Jeffrey McCune ’99 was back on the Hilltop in April, this time as a lecturer.
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Cornell’s Civil War era
This year marks the sesquicentennial of South Carolina’s secession and the start of the Civil War, a war that would see hundreds of men and boys from Mount Vernon—some of them Cornellians—enlist, and change the face of the college.
Sarah Evans McCracken ’59 
Jerry Ringer ’59 
John Klousia ’67 
Daryl J. Boness ’72 
Shelley Paulson Carey ’77 
Bruce Montgomery ’78 
Brian Lee Knopp ’83 
Rebecca Ringquist ’00 
Kristi Peterson Meyer ’01 
Darrell Aaron ’05 
Adrian Golobic ’07 
Summer 2010 Letters 
Jeffery McCune ’99 
Cornell’s Civil War era