CALC 2025 Philadelphia

The 2025 Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference (CALC) will be held February 20-23 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Hotel. As in the past, a class meeting will be held in conjunction with the conference to discuss planning for our 65th Class Reunion (2026) and other matters of interest.

Frances Perkins Statue Unveiled

Classmate Mike Davidson has brought to our attention the unveiling of a statue of former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins on August 17th in downtown Ithaca (100 West Seneca Street). Perkins should be well known to our ILR classmates as she was a lecturer in the ILR School during our years at Cornell. She was appointed to her Cabinet post by FDR , being the first female Cabinet member ever, serving from 1933 to 1945. She was instrumental in the development of many New Deal policies such as Social Security, the minimum wage, and the 40-hour workweek, to name a few. Mike has put together an interesting "story behind the statue" which can be reached by clicking on this link.

 

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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Doug Uhler and Sue Lewis to Serve as Class Co-Presidents

Regional Vice-Presidents Doug Uhler and Sue Lewis have agreed to serve as class Co-Presidents for the remainder of the terms of Dick Tatlow's and Jim Moore's Co-Presidencies (June 30, 2026). Their willingness to step forward and assume these positions after Dick's and Jim's tragic passings is greatly appreciated.

 

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. There is further information on the event in the September /October 2022 Class Notes.

 

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 2024, 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.shanghairankings.com.

Class Notes:

Send e-mail with news, pictures, questions, information about classmates, thoughts on reunion, or just about anything to our class correspondents: Susan Williams Stevens or Doug Fuss . Read their 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.