65th Reunion

Our 65th Reunion is now history. Click Here for Marshall Frank's Reunion Recap.

Thanks to Pat Richards and Rosanna Frank for Co-Chairing the Reunion. For those who took photos, please send them to the webmaster (wheeler39@att.net) for posting on this website.

During Reunion, the Class Officers for 2026-2031 were named as follows:

Co-Presidents: Sue (Rand) Lewis and Doug Uhler

Vice Presidents: Ed Goldman, Jan (Hoffsis) Hayes, and Gerrit White

Cornell Annual Fund Representative: Marshall Frank

Class Correspondent: Doug Fuss

Treasurer: Diane (Baillet) Meakem

Reunion Chairs: Rosanna (Romanelli) Frank and Judy (Rensin) Mandell

Affinity Chair: Gail (Smith) Sullivan

Website Community Manager: Larry Wheeler

Nominations Chairs: Sue (Rand) Lewis and Doug Uhler

Class Council Members: Ken Blanchard, Frank Cuzzi, Bobbie (Singer) Gang, Carmine Liotta, Bob Lurcott, Pat (Laux) Richards, Irene H. So, Warren Spicka

                                                               

New indoor sports facility to honor classmate Peter Meinig.

Cornell's department of Athletics and Physical Education has announced plans to build an indoor sports and recreation facility on Tower Road. The facility will be called Meinig Fieldhouse in memory of former Board of Trustees chair and university benefactor Peter C. Meinig '61.
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Dedication of Peter Meinig Reading Room

On June 10, 2022, the Peter Meinig Reading Room was dedicated at Olin Library, Room 303. Some 38 family members and classmates attended. Photos from the dedication can be viewed here and in the website Photo Gallery.

 

Modifications to "In Remembrance"

An up-to-date list of all deceased classmates is found in the "In Remembrance" section of this website. In order to make it easier to find the most recent entries, the word "Recent" has been inserted after each entry posted in the most recent six-month period. The "Recent" entries will be updated each month as new information becomes available.

 

Frank H.T. Rhodes Memorial     

Cornell Ranking    

For those interested in university rankings, the one considered most trustworthy is the Academic Ranking of World Universities, also known as the Shanghai Rankings. Of the top 1,000 global research universities for 2025, Cornell is ranked twelfth. Among U.S. universities, it is ranked tenth, and among Ivy League schools, it is ranked fifth. Seventeen of the top twenty-five ranked universities globally are American, four are in the U.K. and one each in France, Canada, Japan and Switzerland. See the full rankings at www.shanghairanking.com.

Class Notes:

Send e-mail with news, pictures, questions, information about classmates, thoughts on reunion, or just about anything to our class correspondent:Doug Fuss . Read current and past class columns on this website and in "Cornellians", the internet successor to Cornell Alumni Magazine, at https://alumni.cornell.edu

Contribute to Our Class Website:

 

Advise the Webmaster of any newspaper, magazine or electronic media articles featuring classmates so we can link them to our Classmates in the E-News page. Provide contact information for any Missing Classmates. Scan the In Remembrance page and provide a remembrance or brief bio for a special departed classmate. And finally, please visit the Class Registration page and enter your latest personal data so that we can be sure you are receiving the latest class information.

 

Cornell61.org E-Mail Addresses

As part of our class website hosting arrangement , we can have free e-mail addresses of the form: name@cornell61.org. If any classmate would like to have such an e-mail address, please contact the Webmaster and specify the "name" part of the e-mail address. You will be provided instructions for setting up your new e-mail address on webmail and on your computer's e-mail program.