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Cornell Alumni Magazine c1-c4CAMja11 6/16/11 1:25 PM Page c1 July | August 2011 $6.00 Alumni Magazine Well-Spoken Screenwriter (and former stutterer) David Seidler ’59 wins an Oscar for The King’s Speech cornellalumnimagazine.com c1-c4CAMja11 6/16/11 1:25 PM Page c2 01-01CAMja11toc 6/20/11 1:19 PM Page 1 July / August 2011 Volume 114 Number 1 In This Issue Alumni Magazine 34 Corne 2 From David Skorton Farewell, Mr. Vanneman 4 The Big Picture Card sharp 6 Correspondence DVM debate 8 Letter from Ithaca Justice league 10 From the Hill Capped and gowned 14 Sports Top teams, too 16 Authors Eyewitness 32 Wines of the Finger Lakes Ports of New York “Meleau” White 18 10 52 Classifieds & 34 Urban Cowboys Cornellians in Business 53 Alma Matters BRAD HERZOG ’90 56 Class Notes Last October, the Texas Rangers won baseball’s American League pennant—and played in their first-ever World Series. Two of the primary architects of that long-sought vic- 91 Alumni Deaths tory were Big Red alums from (of all places) the Big Apple. General manager Jon 96 Cornelliana Daniels ’99 and senior director of player personnel A. J. Preller ’99 are old friends and Little house in the big woods lifelong baseball nuts who brought fresh energy to an underperforming franchise. And while they didn’t take home the championship trophy . there’s always next season. Legacies To see the Legacies listing for under- graduates who entered the University in fall 40 Training Day 2010, go to cornellalumnimagazine.com. JIM AXELROD ’85 Currents CBS News reporter Jim Axelrod has covered everything from wars to presidential cam- paigns to White House politics. In an excerpt from his new book, In the Long Run, he recalls a particularly memorable day on the job: in the midst of covering an Obama rally, he got an e-mail that changed his life. In his mid-forties and out of shape, he was 18 Wind Swept inspired to begin training for a marathon, rethink his professional priorities, and exam- Surviving the Tuscaloosa tornado ine his relationship with his late father. Remembering Arthur Laurents ’37 46 Parts of Speech Playwright and director BETH SAULNIER A Good Read Books for Sri Lankan kids When screenwriter David Seidler ’59 won the Oscar for The King’s Speech, he brought Paw & Order down the house with his wry observation that his father always told him he’d be a “late Will work for tennis balls bloomer”; at seventy-three, Seidler was the oldest person ever to win the award. In April, when he came to campus to introduce a showing of the film at Cornell Cinema, Long-Distance Call he sat down with CAM to discuss curing his own stutter, the power of the f-word, and Med profs teach Ithaca docs why he’s glad he didn’t win an Oscar earlier in his career. “I can see how it can mess Family Affair up your head,” Seidler says. “It’s so divorced from reality.” Deluxe genealogies Plus | Website Burn Notice cornellalumnimagazine.com Cover photograph: Corbis Student’s sunscreen machine Cornell Alumni Magazine (ISSN 1548-8810; USPS 006-902) is published six times a year, in January, March, May, July, September, and November, by the Cornell Alumni Association, 401 East State Street, Suite 301, Ithaca, NY 14850. Subscriptions cost $30 a year. Periodical postage paid at Ithaca, NY, and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Cornell Alumni Magazine, c/o Public Affairs Records, 130 East Seneca St., Suite 400, Ithaca, NY 14850-4353. July | August 2011 1 02-03CAMja11skorton 6/16/11 12:58 PM Page 2 From David Skorton A Tribute to Bill Vanneman ’31 Far above: Robin Davisson, Bill Vanneman, and David Skorton lift their voices in song after the Sy Katz ’31 Parade in New York City, 2006. ROBERT BARKER / UP s I write, the Cornell campus is about to turn Bob and the Big Red Band to play a medley of Cornell songs on red and white with thousands of returning matching kazoos. alumni whose class years end in “1” or “6.” Among the many things I learned from Bill, three in partic- During Reunion Weekend, they will renew ular stand out. First, optimism: that every challenge has its solu- Afriendships, catch up on news about their alma mater, and share tion. Second: that Cornell is ever new and ever the same. And memories of their time on the Hill. Some of them will bring along third: that the future is in our younger alumni. their children in the hope that they, too, will one day join the Cor- A few years ago, when the Class of 2000 ran short on funds nell family. They will marvel at how much the campus has for their first reunion, Bill jumped in on behalf of the Class of changed since they graduated—whether five or fifty or more years 1931—for which he served as class correspondent as well as class ago. They will also celebrate the enduring essence of our Univer- president—to help with a contribution. And I know it was a sity—the personal commitment of our faculty to teaching students source of great pride that just as he had followed his father, C. at all levels; the breadth and depth of the inquiry carried out by Reeve Vanneman, Class of 1903, to Cornell, his own sons, Bill our faculty and students; the creative spark and penchant for Jr. ’65 and Reeve “Ting” ’67, as well as a daughter-in-law, two “thinking otherwise” that drives discovery; the diversity of our granddaughters, and a grandson-in-law have continued the fam- campus community, which remains open to people of talent from ily legacy at Cornell. all backgrounds; and our embrace of public engagement, as we Bill was the namesake and first recipient of the Bill Vanne- create and deploy knowledge to help lift the world’s burdens. man ’31 Outstanding Class Leader Award, created by the Cor- This year, however, one of our most treasured alumni leaders nell Association of Class Officers in 2005—and he embodied so will miss the festivities. Bill Vanneman, longtime president of the much of what is admirable in class leaders and other alumni vol- Class of 1931, passed away at age 102 a few weeks before what unteers: a deep love of Cornell, along with the knowledge that would have been his 80th Reunion—and the first 80th class reunion we can always do better; an enduring connection to those who ever held at Cornell—which he was helping to plan. Bill had served had shared the journey as members of his Cornell class; and a as president of his class since he graduated, and he rarely missed a strong affinity for younger alumni classes. There will never be reunion. In fact, for the past two decades, he was a member of the another Bill Vanneman. And yet, there are hundreds—no, tens Continuous Reunion Club—returning annually for Reunion Week- of thousands—of alumni who, like Bill, love the Big Red and are end in his Cornell blazer and red-and-white socks. willing to devote a big chunk of their lives to make it even more Robin and I first met Bill in November 2006 at the Sy Katz glorious to view. ’31 Parade after the Cornell-Columbia football game. Bill had Bill, your spirit will live on in our Reunion 2011 festivities, come to town to honor his late classmate and good friend, and and you will continue to inspire us with your friendship, your to celebrate the Big Red with 500 or so other Cornellians. He enthusiasm, and your commitment to learning, to discovery, to embodied the pride and joy so many of us feel toward the alma service—in short, to Cornell. mater, as he marched down Fifth Avenue with Sy Katz’s children, — President David Skorton Alice Katz Berglas ’66 and Bob Katz ’69, and teamed up with [email protected] 2 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 02-03CAMja11skorton 6/16/11 12:59 PM Page 3 04-05CAMja11bigpic 6/16/11 1:00 PM Page 4 The Big Picture What’s in the Cards? Newly minted Hotel school grad Barton Golub ’11 sports a festive ensemble at Commence- ment 2011, where he and 6,000 others received their degrees. For more on Commence- ment, see page 10. JASON KOSKI / UPHOTO 4 Cornell Alumni Magazine | cornellalumnimagazine.com 04-05CAMja11bigpic 6/16/11 1:00 PM Page 5 July | August 2011 5 06-07CAMja11corresp 6/16/11 1:02 PM Page 6 Correspondence with members of the museum, is addi- Animal Wrongs? tional evidence of his talents. Thanks for this coverage. Haiku verse by Frank Readers express concerns for elephants; Is fun in not demanding vets respond Very high I.Q. Jim Hazzard ’50 Ithaca, New York The article “Hooray for Howlywood” in the May/June 2011 issue about Jim Ped- I can understand the aesthetic appeal of die, DVM ’65, and Linda Reeve Peddie, Alberto Giacometti’s Walking Man II, but DVM ’65, and their work for Have similar works are found in major muse- Trunk Will Travel brings unfortunate ums around the world. Frank Robinson notoriety to Cornell Alumni Magazine would have been wiser to accept the $104 now that HTWT has been exposed in the million offered for it. That money would media abusing elephants with savage go a long way to meet the unique needs of beatings and electrocution. I sincerely the museum while Giacometti’s art could hope that the Peddies and this magazine easily be viewed elsewhere.
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