Had a fine time at Cornell Reunion in early June…Highlights (for me) included:
Book signing with James McConkey, my freshman writing teacher, who required us to keep diaries and has been a friend and mentor ever since.
H earing Bob Langer, world renowned MIT bioengineer/multi-companyfounder (below)
and Ed Zuckerman, show runner for “Law and Order Special Victims Unit” speak about their careers.
Both friends of mine at Cornell, they are IN Ithaca Diaries–and, remarkably, still speaking to me….tho I don’t think Bob has read it, yet).
Here’s a photo of outgoing president David Skorton (front) , who joined our class for dinner (he graduated in1970 from Northwestern; worked his way through as a jazz flutist before going to medical school and becoming a cardiologist; he’s departing Cornell for the Smithsonian.
Also enjoyed visiting the beer..er…music tents with Ed Z and Mark Hoffman
and love this photo of Mark and the Cornell Bear.
Many thanks to reunion organizers Bill and Gail Wallace
(with hopes someone has fixed the elevators by now).
Also thanks to Mark Hoffman for sharing his photos, which are copyrighted.
BTW–I hope you’ll follow me on twitter..Evidently, you need followers to get followers!
–Anita Harris
Anita M. Harris is the author of Ithaca DIaries, a memoir/social history of Cornell University, 1966-1970. It’s available from Amazon, Kindle and the Cornell Store.
I enjoyed the “visit” and am sorry I couldn’t make it in person!