CORNELL UN1VEKSITY AGRICULTURE & LIFE SCIENCES NEWS For Alumni and Friends of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Gifts to College Set Record 2 Gene Pierce '67 is president of Glenora Wine Cellars on the west shore of Seneca Lake. New York. He typifies the contribution ALS alumni have made to the wine industry across the Faculty Profile: Alice Pell 4 country, and he credits the College of .Agriculture and Life Sciences with much of the Students Work as Scientists 5 success of New York winemaking. Our feature article, which begins on page 1 examines 1990-91 Donor Roster 7 the affinity between the industry and the college, spotlights .ALS alumni in winemaking, Alumni Learn Leadership Skills 12 and discusses some current research on wine and health. Young Alumni Section 14 CORNELL UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURE & LIFE SCIENCES NEWS For Alumni and Friends of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Winter 1991 College Research Boosts Success of New York State Wine Industry
„ ’•‘Or ’ ifteen years ago there were about 20 New York Wines High in wineries in New York State Today Cholesterol-Lowering there are 94 The nation's third largest winery, Canandaigua Wine Chemical Company, is located here, as is the nation's oldest, Brotherhood Winery, in the Two plant scientists from the Depart Hudson River Region, which began opera ment of Fruit and Vegetable Science Ftion in 1839. have identified a specific chemical in The slate's reputation (or producing wine they believe is responsible for low wines ol world-class quality Is on the rise as ering LDL-cholesterol. the type of blood New York champagnes, Chardonnays. cholesterol that can clog arteries and Cabernet Sauvignons, Merlots, Seyvals, and lead to heart disease Vignoles win gold, silver, and bronze med The chemical, resveratrol, is the same als in national and international competi natural compound that grapes use to tions. These winners come from tour major light lungal disease, say Leroy Creasy grape growing areas—Long Island, the '60. a pomologist and his assistant. Evan Hudson River Valley, the Finger Lakes, and Siemann '90 (Arts). along the shore ol Lake Erie The investigation of grape disease re In just one competition alone—last June’s sistance became medically interesting San Francisco Fair National Wine Com with the addition of Japanese and petition-New York wines took a dozen French research results Creasy and medals, among them a rare double gold. Siemann analyzed about 30 wines and Glenora Wine Cellars, 1988 Blanc de Blancs, found that some have almost 200 times a dry champagne, was deemed worthy of a more resveratrol than others, with red gold medal by every judge Wines made in wines tending to be higher. Red Bor New York State now sell in more than 50 deaux had the highest levels of countries. Worldwide sales of the 30 million resveratrol, while White Bordeaux had gallons New York produces annually Is in among the lowest levels. excess of $300 million. No one would have predicted such success even a decade ago. A watershed for the state’s wine industry was 1976. That year the New York State Legislature passed the Farm Winery Act- legislation that allowed wineries producing up to 50,000 gallons a year to sell any, or all. of their wine at retail price to the general public. Previously, a winery had to sell 95 percent of its production to distributors at what amounted to about hall the retail price. Under such a restriction only very Evaa Siemann 90 (Arts), l.ft, and large producers could make a profit. Creasy '60, right,use a spectrophotometer "The passage of the Farm Winery Act of j to analyze wine samples for a chemical that 1976 made it economically viable for small may reduce cholesterol. wineries to make the type of capital invest They also looked for .resveratrol In ment required to become established." says New York Wino offerings from Gene Pierce ’67 (Glenora) and Jim '67 and Carol Doolittle (Frontenac Point). Chardonnays (which are white wines) Gene Pierce '67. president of Glenora Wine and other wines from the Finger Lakes Cellars. Glenora was founded the following enology (wine making). "Many of those who came to Geneva in 1971 as a grape region of New York and from California year as one of the first small (arm wineries interested in furthering the industry were breeder and is now a professor of The New York Chardonnays had. on av to open in the wake of the act. Seventy-four alums, John Dyson among them," he says. viticulture. These grapes were primarily of erage, three times more resveratrol than more were to follow. (Dyson ’65 was state Commissioner of the native labrusca type—such as Concord, their West Coast counterparts "We sus This newly emerging group of Agriculture and Markets at that time ] "We Catawba, and Niagara—and were used lor pect the New York wines have higher winemakers looked for help in getting their knew the college’s strengths in fruit crop making juice or less expensive, often levels because the grapes are under businesses off the ground to the New York blended wines. “After the act," Pool says, much more disease pressure than In “the question became how to grow the best California. That means the New York grapes to make the best wine." plants have to produce more resveratrol “New York is probably growing the largest Today more than 13 staff at Geneva con to fight off fungal Infections." Creasy hy tribute to four major areas: pothesized number of grape varieties of any wine • Testing and breeding grape varieties best The scientists emphasize that al suited to New York's climate though the cholesterol-lowering effect Is growing region in the world." • Determining growing techniques that in clear, they do not recommend drinking crease yield and produce premium wines wine to lower cholesterol levels. "We think that proper diet and If necessary, State Agricultural Experiment Station at research and extension and went there for • Developing methods to prevent or con physician-prescribed medications, are Geneva, which is administered by the help The college responded " trol disease and insect problems. far more appropriate for people worried college. The station has the oldest grape "Prior to 1976 the name of the game was • Conducting research in wine microbiol about cholesterol than self-medication breeding program in the United States, and how to grow as many grapes as possible at ogy, aroma chemistry, and processing with wine." Creasy says. Pierce says It was the logical source of the least cost and still meet acceptable techniques to improve wine quality and expertise in viticulture (grape growing) and standards." says Robert M. Pool. Ph.D. '74. stability. Susan S Lang (Continued on page 2) Record Gifts Pledged to College The ALS Campaign Goes on the Road A message from Dean David Call This fall, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is bringing the Cornell campaign off-campus. In conjunction with the university. ALS Is kicking off a regional campaign to show alumni and friends how the college Is creating the CAMPAIGN REACHES HALFWAY MARK dous leadership that lias emerged from fac future. The regional campaign will unfold in three stages, adding more alumni in The fiscal year ending June 30.1991 was very ulty, alumni, and friends. To date. 70 faculty, cities and regions all over the country in the next three years. In September, I successful (or the College of Agriculture and 19emeritus faculty, and more t han 50alumni there were kickoff events for volunteers to find out more about the campaign, Life Sciences, thanks to the generous sup- and friends have volunteered to assist the meet alumni, and ask questions from the staff At press time, the following ALS |>ort of alumni, friends, and corporations. campaign as leaders and solicitors alumni have volunteered to be regional chairs: Private supixtrt reached an all-time high for With the announcement ol the campaign. Vice Chair. Regional Campaign the college, which helped supplement de Provost Emeritus W Keith Kennedy and Glenn Dallas '58 clining state and federal government fund- Daniel M Winch approached me with the Chuck Andola *65 Mid-Hudson 1 ing and provided sufficient resources for the Idea of establishing an ALS campus campaign Ruthann Aron '64 Washington D.C./ Baltimore college to maintain to|>quality teaching, re- that would raise $5 million from faculty and Al Beard '52 Binghamton. NY staff.Todate,overt! million has been raised ; search, and extension programs Bill Beriey '45 Metro New York [ Private support has also benefited inno The campus cain|>aign is now a vital part of Doug Brodie '55 North Country vative programs at the college, including the the ALS campaign, demonstrating the Robert (all '50 Rochester ; Personal Enterprise Program, the Cornell committment of those who work here to the | Internationa) Institute (or Food, Agriculture. continued excellence of our college. Tony Cashen '57 Capita! District and Development (CIIFAD). the Empire State A college-wide depart ment campaign also David Crockett '58 Northern California i Food and Agricultural Leadership Institute. has been launched. All departments have Bruce Earle '70 Philadelphia | and the new Center for the Environment. formed campaign committees that have Ron Ganeles '55 Metro New York-Nassau and West Suffolk counties I Alumni and friends have also established identified and ranked de|MirtmentaJ needs. Phil Griffen '57 Capital District I more than 300 endowment funds that pro Faculty members are in the process of con Jean Hentel '64 Mid-Hudson tacting alumni who hold graduate degrees, vide continual assistance to undergraduate Metro New York-Fairfield County. Conn, and I and graduate students and programs corporations, and foundat Ions to seek funds Larry Herz '55 International | Thanks to strong leadership from the ALS for departmental programs I Campaign Committee, the $95 million cam The ultimate goal of the ALS campaign is Alfred Hicks '62 Metro New York-Nassau and West Suffolk counties ; paign for the college is off to an excellent to provide a permanent base of private sup Michael Hostage '54 Boston j start As of June 30, cash and pledges totaled port so that our college can strengthen its John Konwiser '57 Southern California position as one of the world's leading educa | $49.3 million. That is 52 percent of what I Tim LaBeau 77 Chicago, III tional Institutions in the fields ol food and believe is a modest goal Total cash gifts for Jane Longiey-Cook '69 Hartford, Conn. 1991 were $17.3 million, up 3 percent from agriculture Thanks to the leadership and i last year, and unrestricted cash gifts were generosity of alumni and friends, we are well Mike Nolan '77 Northern New Jersey 1 $346,761, up 33 percent from last year on our way to achieving this goal. John Ruskiewicz '57 Metro New York-Orange County The most encouraging and inspirational It's a wonderful time to be dean of a great John Talmage '52 Metro New York-Suffolk County outgrowth of the campaign is the tremen- college in a great university.
New York State Wine Industry continued
' • Supporting the Industry by conducting showed that not or two) and a whole 'With the diffusion ol knowledge from research and providing seminars and only could vinifera lot of skill. Williams Geneva, most wineries now produce personal consultations on various as grapes be grown and his partner es Chardonnay.’ says James Trezise, president pects of the wine Industry. here but the juice tablished a weekend of the New York Wine and Grape Founda 'We consider Geneva's grape and wine could be made into winemaking venture tion. Bui Trezise predicts that this dynamic research and extension programs to be wine of competitive on an abandoned and rapidly growing industry may soon among our most important activities,' says quality. Plantings of frog farm 11 years make Merlot, a soft. dry. velvety red wine, station director James E. Hunter vinifera varieties ago. Their first re and Vignoles. a sweet dessert wine, as fa Among the station's array of services is have increased lease, 700 cases of miliar as Chardonnay and champagne. With l the Wine Analytical Lab and Wine Data Bank nearly 400 percent Sauvignon blanc, more new wineries opening every year, the established two years ago through support in the last decade, was featured In the best of the old. and of the new, may be yet from the New York Wine and Grape Foun and 10 percent of New York Times and to come. dation. an organization that provides re the wine made in 256 other papers Metta Winter search dollars and promotional support to the stale Is from More recently, the industry. For small wineries, which vinifera grapes. high on a mountain make up 90 percent of the industry, the lab Along with their plateau on the east Corrections i conducts chemical testing essential to pro- breeding program ern rim of the Napa ' ducing wines of consistently high quality in labrusca, French- Valley. Atlas Peak Denise Patricia Meridlth '73 is recipient of "New York probably is growing the larg American hybrid, Vineyards released the Young Alumni Award Recipient Her IK ’ name was misspelled in the last issue. est number of grape varieties of any wine and vinifera grapes its first wine this fall, growing region in the world,' says the lab's (Cayuga White has a Sanglovese. The The Young Alumni Section is now written director Thomas Henick-Kling. "Many of genes from all three I general manager at by John Balet ‘92. We did not give John suf these varieties, such as Cayuga White (bred groups in Its heri Atlas Peak Is Glenn ficient credit for his hard work. ' at Geneva) and European classics such as tage), station re Salva '76. who knew Our apologies I Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon, have searchers including from the start he only been grown here for about ten years, Bruce Reisch '76. wanted to be a winemaker and so we don't have a record of the standard an associate pro Assistant Osan William BolSt (rltkt) rtcsntl, visited AGRICULTURE & LIFE SCIENCES composition of these juices. Once we know fessor of horticul Calltarala's Napa Vallay, Job* Williams '75 studied with Profes I that, we ll be able to work out the wine tural sciences, and produces 20.000 cases of Frog leap wine each year. sor Nelson J Shaulis style—lighter, sweeter, drier, etc.—that research support at Geneva. NEWS 1 best suits the fruit from our vineyards ' specialist Mary-Howell Martens. M.A. '82. 'When I attended Cornell, Dr. Shaulis was I In a country not known for its wine are mapping the genes of grape varieties so conducting extensive research on canopy drinking, the hottest selling of the New York that one day the specific genes promoting management—how a viticulturist can ma | table wines are those made from vinifera disease resistance can be inserted into the nipulate the way a grape vine grows to grapes Cultivated in Europe for thousands tissues of established, popular varieties, al make the leaves more efficient as solar re of years, these grape varieties have names lowing the much sought-after expansion ol ceptors,' Salva says From the outset, just Americans recognize: Riesling. Chardonnay, vinifera. the most profitable segment of the five years ago. Salva used the Geneva i Cabernet Sauvignon. But vinifera grapes wine industry. double-curtain system of vine trelllsing, an were considered too delicate to withstand Reisch and Martens also obtained sup Innovation not widely adopted by his com our cold winters and diseases until two Eu- port from the U. S. Department of Agricul petitors in the valley 'The research at j ropean immigrants. Charles Fournier from ture to locate grape species and hybrids Geneva demonstrated to me that canopy ' France and Konstantin Frank from Russia, that can be grown with (ewer pesticides. management improves wine quality,' says proved otherwise. Frank and Fournier “We're receiving a great deal of encourage Salva. “It works' ment from growers (or doing this,' Martens Although only seven percent of the wine notes. made in the U.S. comes from New York (90 percent comes from California), the region Winemakers trained here is attracting its share of attention. More In addition to Its research and extension than 500,000 visitors tour New York State activities, the college has trained many of wineries each year to take a taste and per today's outstanding young winemakers. In haps buy a bottle or two Rare just five California's Napa Valley, John Williams '75 years ago. the classic wines from vinifera produces 20,000 cases a year of award-win grapes can now be sampled from Long Is ning Frog's Leap Sauvignon Blanc. land to the shore of Lake Erie. Chardonnay. Cabernet Sauvignon, and Zinfandel. Williams, the first winemaker at Glenora Wine Cellars in the Finger Lakes, credits tIse college with introducing him to the trade Atlas Peak through a work-study job at the Taylor VINEYARDS* Wine Company in Hammondsport, N. Y ’Thanks to the flexibility and diversity of SANGIOVESE the college, I was able to fashion an enology N/KI’A VALLEY degree while spending every other semes ill Ilf* IT • 0 ter working my way through all the depart ments at Taylor.' Williams recalls. With a at Baps Vsttsy'i mere $10,000 (instead of the typical million Gift of Farm Land Benefits Cornell, the Potters, and Their Family
Friends of the college, John H and Dor able. but It's not very smart estate planning ing the value of the land from their estate othy M Reuter. Grand Gorge. N Y .were a to let it go into probate." Arthur Potter says • Received an Immediate charitable income farm family who took advantage of this "You'd have to sell the farm to pay inherit tax deduction planned gift option earlier Donors choose ance taxes." • Received a full gift credit at Cornell • Receive a dependable quarterly Income how their gift is used. The proceeds from • And, perhaps most of all, made a meaning land given by the Reuters eventually will support the priority needs of the college and Constant support for students ful gift that will be used Indefinitely with out an outlay of cash. the New York State 4-H Foundation The Potters' gift established the Arthur and a tribute to the Potters But what about their children? "With six and Jean Fenton Potter Scholarship Fund children we couldn't leave the entire farm to and the Arthur and Jean Fenton Potter Fel In the Potter s desire to give a gift to all of them anyway." says Arthur "The two lowship in Biological Sciences boys who are running It. Timothy and John Cornell lay the solution to their estate plan They designated their gift for financial aid, ning dilemma. It's called a wealth replace '67, will get the main body of the farm. We set Jean Potter says, "because we appreciated ment option through a charitable remainder up a life insurance trust to take care of the all the financial help we got from Cornell unitrust, which Arthur Potter read about In others." when we were students and feel that we an article by John Sterling In AI.S Neu's The life Insurance trust was established would like to help others in the same way "Cornell had this plan In place, and It was a when the Cornell gift was made, but arranged And you don't need to be a millionaire to do wonderful way to take care of all parties separately through a life insurance profes something like this!" (Charitable remainder sional and estate planner. Elwyn G. Voss '64 Arthur Potter '42 and Jean Fenton Potter concerned." Arthur says. unitrusts can be set up at any time with a gift '42 took to heart the injunction that ap Here's how it works The Potters had 40 of Norwich. N.Y. The Potters chose the most acres ol land not contiguous to their farm common type of policy, called a joint life, of $50,000.) peared In their graduation yearbook Writ The only regret Arthur Potter has is that They gave the land to Cornell to establish a which Is held by a trust When the second of ten by Cornell President Edmund Ezra Day. it they didn't make their gift sooner "Every charitable remainder unitrust The univer the couple dies, the value of the policy Is says: "Cornell imbued us with a responsibil body thinks there's no rush, that you have sity sold the land, investing the proceeds to passed on to their children outside of the ity for bringing our powers to bear usefully lots of time left, but you don't." estate, thus protected from both income upon society' To the Potters this meant produce income for the Potters For more information on charitable re giving a significant gift to their alma mater A charitable remainder unitrust pays the and estate taxes. mainder unitrusts and other gift and trust "The unique value of a joint life contract," during their lifetimes beneficiaries a rate of between 5 percent and options that can be tailored to the Individual says Voss, "is that it can be purchased, even That seemed impossible As owners of a 8 percent of the annual market value of the needs of the donor, contact John C. Sterling. if one of the parties isn't Insurable, and It is working farm, they had little expendable fund. Additional interest income is reinvested Director of Alumni Affairs and Planned Giv cheaper t han buying an Individual life policy cash, six children, and fifteen grandchildren so that the value of the trust continues to ing, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. on the healthy party alone." The premiums to provide for. grow 265 Roberts Hall. 607-255-7651; or Thomas (which can be paid from the unitrust income And there was another problem on the By making this gift of real estate, t he Potters Foulkes, Director of University Planned Giv Potter's minds. Their land in Connecticut or savings from the capital gains tax or a • Avoided paying capital gains tax on the ing. 55 Brown Road; 607-254-6180. had appreciated greatly in value, and the charitable income tax deduction) run be Metta Winter state has a particularly high estate tax. "It's land sales tween 2 and 3 percent of the (ace value of the all well and good to know your land is valu • Reduced eventual estate taxes by remov policy, which can be paid in 10 to 15 years.
A Friend in Horticulture Remembered
Arthur Potter was the only one of the Day's Oanlers to return Iron World War II. Eugene E. Barnum Jr.'41, a triple-ace pilot, was shot down over Holland, and Barnum's older brother William J. 'M. was allied on 0 0a». They are buried In ad|olnlng gruvus In the Hamm Military Cemetery in Luxembourg. In this photo, taken In 1B42, are Arthur Potter (loll) and Eugene Bamum.
did as he was to meet his future wife there, a College of Home Economics student, Jean Fenton '42. The couple will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary next year Keeping the campus clean was another of Potter's jobs, although he did so in a rather unusual manner. Because of the mess made by pigeons atop Bailey Hall. Potter, an avid hunter, was asked by an Arthur Potter ’42 It haca police officer to accompany him on early morning pigeon shoots with their Arthur Potter thought he'd really blown .410 shotguns it because ol that pillow fight At the age ol Hunting, fishing, and skiing—first with 19. Potter was working as an assistant to the Cornell ski team then later with the 1 Oth Mountain Division (ski troops) in the President Edmund Ezra Day's butler and Oorothy Schling visits with horticulture department head George Good during recent visit his fighting opponent was the president 's Aleutian Islands and in Europe—are ac ten-year-old son David. tivities Potter enjoys to this day. The four years I was at Cornell I lived on He has more time to do so now that he's Dorothy Schling came to visit the college in ing a 150-acre park. He came to the U.S. from the third floor of the president's house handed the day-to-day operations of his August bearing gifts for the Department of Vienna in 1899 to make his fortune as a (now the A.D. White House)." Potter re farm over to two of his four sons. Timothy Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture. fashionable florist in New York City. After calls. "One day David, who was always and John '67. When Arthur Potter left She also came with enough energy and ideas several odd jobs in greenhouses and florist fooling around, came up the stairs and Cornell he was determined to become a to keep George Good, chair of the depart shops. Max Schling saved enough money to started a pillow fight. 1 grabbed mine, farmer, although there was no family farm ment of Floriculture and Ornamental Horti open a flower stall in the Central Market in leaned over the banister and gave him a to return to after graduation. After a se culture. busy for most of the time she was New York. From that small beginning, he healthy wallop. He tumbled down end over ries of jobs. Potter soon realized he'd here, touring the campus and gardens, and went on to develop a very successful busi never earn enough money to buy a farm end. and went off screaming I'm gonna get pursuing some genealogical study in towns ness and to realize his dream of becoming my daddy to get rid of you!'" outright so he signed a rental agreement, and graveyards near Ithaca. one of the most sought-after floral design Day never said a word about it. Potter with an option to buy, on a 150-acre farm Dorothy Schling, who goes by "Dee," came ers in the city. continued to serve at the President s table in Washington, Conn Today Potter owns to Ithaca to seethe college where her father- In 1989. John Sterling '59 received a letter during dinner parties and play catch with Tamarack Hill Farm, the 1,000-acre site of in-law Max Schling established a loan fund from Dee Schling asking for information him In the garden on warm spring eve one ol the country's finest purebred for students of hort icult ure early in the 1920s. about her father-in-law's loan fund in the nings. "I look back at living with Edmund herds—450 registered Holstein cattle. Although not a Cornellian himself, he knew college. That was the beginning of a three- "When the Chinese came here ten years Ezra Day with great feelings." says Potter year correspondence that culminated in her ago to buy cattle, we were the second the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences "I got to know him very, very well Living in from campus lectures he gave here on the trip to campus this summer Dee Schling farm they visited." says Potter "We felt his house, we were like one big family We brought along several books from Max very honored that they came here and subject of horticulture and flower arrang had a wonderful time!" ing. Schling also taught classes on the same Settling's horticultural collection, as well as that they purchased a bull and two heif Potter and the other two students em subject in his shop in the Plaza Hotel in New a sterling silver trophy awarded to him at ployed as assistant butlers called them ers." York, and the fee he charged his students the first international flower show in New selves the Day's Dazzlers They worked In the last decade, the sale ol purebred was given to Cornell. The loan fund, widely York City, which she gave to the depart under the dutiful eye ol butler Bob Cor cattle has declined markedly overseas, used by students during Max Settling's life ment of Floriculture and Ornamental Horti nish. from whom Potter says he learned but the sale of frozen embryos has risen time, was changed to a scholarship fund in culture. tremendously Under Potter's watchful much about the fine points of serving at 1989 to make it more accessible to ALS table and the correct bearing to assume on eye. his sons sell frozen embryos around Rebecca Smith the world. "We've been on this land for 45 students formal occasions Max Schling received his education at the His own meals, however. Potter took at years with no regrets." he says. Vienna Horticultural School and worked for the Martha Van Rensselaer cafeteria, where Metta Winter an Austrian count, designing and construct he worked for his board And lucky that he Alice Pell’s Research Benefits Dairy Farmers Here and Abroad
ONE MINUTE, ALICE PELL IS CONCENTRAT tion in Botswana.’ Pell recounts. There it OR ”n the workings of tiny molecular mecha was clear that if you improved the nutrition nisms in the bacteria of a cow’s stomach. of the animals, you could improve their pro The next, she's advising a dairy farmer on ductivity significantly.’ the most economical way to balance feed Taking a few courses to improve the nutri rations. tion of her own herd gradually developed 'Some days shifting gears from pondering IntoaPh.D program and, eventually, a teach a problem in basic biology to addressing an ing and research position for Pell at the immediate need on the farm—at the ring of a University ol Vermont She joined Cornell’s telephone—can be a challenge,' says Pell in Department of Animal Science a year ago as her soft, humorous voice But that’s part of an associate professor ol animal science thefun, she says, of beingadairy nutritionist Pell now spends a little more than half her with responsibilities both as a bench scien time doing individual consulting and con tist and with Cornell Cooperative Extension ducting workshops for farmers extension Both jobs are a long way from being an agents, veterinarians, and agri-business per architect, which Pell thought was her call sonnel on the most cost-effective way to feed ing Her undergraduate degree is in that cattle 'Feed bills make up somewhere in the field, but after a three-year hitch with the neighborhood of half a farmer's out-of-pocket Peace Corps in Botswana. Pell decided to expenses," she says. "So there’s quite a |>o- return home, not to thedrawing board but to tential savings to farmers if we can enable the barnyard them to increase or maintain production while keeping feed costs down" While some of Pell’s research deals with "... if you improved the applied questions (she is, for example, a member of the Cornell Waste Management nutrition of the animals, Institute s project on the impact of the dairy you could improve their industry on water quality), much of what she does as a scientist—research on ruminant productivity significantly. ” digestion—is not directly applicable to the field, at least not in the short term. There are more than 200 species of mutu She spent the next 12 years running a ally dependent bacteria that make up a very small, diversified farm in Vermont where complicated ecosystem in the cow’s stom she gained first-hand knowledge of the ef ach, without which it couldn't digest hay. fects different feeding practices have on pro We’re trying to find out how the microbial duction. "I first became interested in nutri enzymes that permit the breakdown of fiber work.'
Mica Pill la her laboratory doing research on the coapleilties of rummant digestion To digest bay. a cow makes use of more than 200 species of bacteria.
An understanding of this fundamental pro duce most of their forage, whereas they cess could lead to a decrease In the amount must buy much of their grain So the more of grain fed to cattle and an Increase in the homegrown feeds their cattle can eat, the amount of forage—byproducts, waste prod more economical it will be for dairy farm ucts, or grasses that humans can’t eat ers." "Clearly, this will be essential in both devel One of the reasons Pell chose to come to oping countries and the United States The Cornel) was the respect t hat’s accorded here less comf>etition for food there Is between to an International perspective on agricul animals and humans, the better off we’ll all ture. The principles she’s using to solve be in the long run." problems in the state's agriculture now are New York State agriculture will benefit the same ones that could also be used abroad from Pell’s research, too. "Most farmers pro Metta Winter FACULTY NEWS Cornell CORNELL
The 1991 Silver Medal of the International senior class. Rlzvl was recognized for his Countryman Society of Chemical Ecology has been outstanding teaching and student advising. J awarded jointly to Thomas Eisner, the Jacob He also received this year's Excellence in Gould Schurman Professor of Biology, and T eachlng Award given by t he Advisory Coun A publication Jerrold Meinwald, professor of chemistry. cil of the Institute of Food Science. Rizvi is Jacques M Pasteeles, vice president of the nationally recognized for his research in produced by students society, said of the researchers. "Your work thermal and supercritical fluid processing, for alumni and friends and your collaboration have Inspired many physical properties of food materials, and of the college. scientistsand, in particular, me and my chem computer applications in unit processing. ist colleagues' Jeffrey Roberts, chair and professor of the Simon A. Lovin, the Charles A Alexander Section ol Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Professor of Biological Sciences in the Sec Biology, has been named to a four-year term tion of Ecology and Systematics, was cited on the Microbial Physiology and Genetics-2 for the best publication in landscape ecol Study Section, Division of Research Grants, ogy in 1991 by the U. S. chapter of the Inter by the Department of Health and Human national Association for Landscape Ecology Services. Members of the sections are se Return of the Puffins paoe4 His paper, "Spread of Invading Organisms," lected based on their competence and was published in Landscape Ecology and was achievement in their scientific discipline. Subscription cited for its "combination of theory and data Study sections review grant applications to (6 issues a year) used to test a hypothesis." the National Institutes of Health and survey R t chard L Quaas, professor of animal breed the status of research in their fields ing. received the 1990 J. L Lush award in Name------CU ID *______Yu,______animal breeding and genetics from Ameri Address______._____ can Breeders Services, a division of W. R. FACULTY DEATHS Grace and Co. The award was presented at City------State______Zip______an American Dairy Science Association meet Emeritus Professor Frederick 8. Hutt died on T elephone______ing and cites Quaas for statistical modeling September 6. He was 94. Professor Hutt Check appropriate subscription length: and lor his grouping strategies of unknown came to Cornell In 1934 as chair of the De parents of observed animals partment ol Poultry Science. A leading au □ 2years$20 □ 4 years $40 The 1991 Professor of Merit Award has thority on poultry genetics, Hutt was elected been presented to Syed Rlzvl, a professor of to the International Poultry Hall of Fame in Make checks payable to Cornell University and mall form to Cornell Countryman. Dept ol food process engineering. Chosen by the 1980 Communication. Roberts Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853-5901 Undergraduate Researchers Live the Life of Working Scientists
participated already Many who have had CLONING GENES, SEQUENCING DNA. (or Hughes Scholars Students become mem undergrads in their labs for years, such as making electrophysiological measurements bers of the scientific community of the lab: Stanley Zahler, professor of microbiology of single cells—these are among the latest they develop collegial relationships witheach and chair of the Section of Genetics and advances In biotechnology Performing such other Last year, the first year ol the pro Development, see the Hughes Program as a complex and expensive techniques is an gram. the students presented research pa way of extending this opportunity to more opportunity usually reserved (or graduate pers to each other in a journal group from students while benefiting (acuity research students, post-doctoral candidates, and fac which faculty were excluded ’Instead of ulty. At Cornell undergrads do them being led by faculty, the students in the efforts "By the end of their time in my lab, stu group led each other.’ Kusch says "They Two days after the end of their junior year. dents are suggesting new experiments I 30 young men and women in the Hughes became each ot her s colleagues just as work hadn't thought of and going off and doing Scholars Program begin an Intensive 3 1/2- ing scientists are ’ them by themselves." Zahler says." And the week course in research methods used in Having formed a group whose common good students come out enthusiastic about neurobiology and in molecular and cell biol bond is science is one thing students say ogy—the very techniques that form the back they like the most about the program It also research." They come out qualified as well Hughes bone of scientific breakthroughs occurring may keep promising students from dropping Scholar Jill Rafael '91. who conducted ex in the premier research and development out of the sciences between college and periments in the regulation ol amino acid laboratories across the country. graduate school "Hughes Scholars are bo production in bacteria under Zahler's guid The course is the beginning of a year-long ing drawn Into the process of working as ance. was accepted by all seven graduate journey during which these students will researchers in the best possible light—with schools to which she applied She chose the conduct their own independent research a ready support group ' University of Michigan, which gave her her Faculty within the division ardently su|>- projects. In doing so they shoulder the bur choice of labs in the human genetics pro dens and reap the joys of a researcher at port the program—upwards of forty have gram work. Far from playing at being scientists, "I came to Cornell because of the wealth of these undergraduates become scientists— undergraduate research experience not avail so they'll know whether that's what they able anywhere else.’ says Rafael, of Bayonne. want to be in the future. New Jersey "The Hughes year increased my 'Being a really good, innovative, imagina Corneil undergraduates in biology won confidence a lot Things finally started work tive researcher is a matter of intelligence, ing and I saw that I could accomplish what I personality, imagination, and chemistry.’ more National Science Foundation always wanted to do!" says Peter Bruns, director of the Division of predoctoral fellowships and Describing Zahler as a "second father." Biological Sciences "Faculty members can't Rafael says. ’He always liked me to discuss predict whether a student has what it takes. honorable mentions last year than what I was doing before I did it, but he And students don't know themselves until undergrads from any other wouldn't tell mewhat todo. He al ways wanted they've tried it." me to think on my own, to design my own Bruns believes the opportunity to design, American university. experiments.’ conduct, and report the results of research undertaken on their own is a crucial part of Metta Winter the undergraduate experience for someone seriously contemplating science as a career Ten women and twenty men have the chance to do so because of a $2,000,000 grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to the Division of Biological Sciences (Support also comes from the National Science Founda tion Plant Science Center here at Cornell.) No other program in the country offers undergrads: • A ten-hours-a-day. five-days-a-week course in advanced research techniques that includes more than $100,000 worth of the latest equipment and a ratio of one teacher for every five students. • Financial support for a seven-week. full- time start at a senior year research project • Eight summer seminars—the only semi nars offered at Cornell In which biology fac ulty gear research presentations to under graduate needs and Interests.
'77w' application process is a tough, but very worthwhile part of the experience. It fosters the kind of independence of thought essential to a successful scientist. ” Meredith Kusch Program coordinator
In order to qualify as Hughes Scholars, students must not only pass the prerequi site courses but also have defined the goal and scope of their research project, and found a faculty member willing to provide them laboratory space and support “The Yanlra Moralas Terras (right). a graduate of the University of Puerto Rico, docs research toward a Cornell graduate degree with Anne Schneiderman, assistant application process is a tough, but very professor ot neurobiology and behavior. Torres Is studying the cellular development ol Iruit-tly muscles. worthwhile part of the experience.’ says Meredith Kusch, the program's coordinator "Il fosters the kind of independence of One way to rectify the disproportionately "We're now engaged in an organized thought essential to a successful scientist.’ Hughes Scholars small number of minority faculty in research effort to expand the faculty-to-faculty con Following through with the proposal, she universities is to increase the pool of minor nections with other schools so we can j adds, is "often the first time in astudent’s life Program — ity graduate students. To do so means re Increase the the number of minority stu when science is theirs; nobody is going to cruiting into graduate programs the very dents in the program,’ says Peter Bruns, give them the answer because nobody else best minority undergraduates. This year director of the division knows the answer Students are treated as Encouraging there are four minority students participat In addition to allowing faculty here to colleagues by others in the lab; their Ideas ing in the Hughes Scholars Program get to know these students, thereby as are taken seriously and discussed; the infor Minority • From Cornell, David Rogers sessing their potential as future graduate mation they provide is used This is a new. • From Hunter College, New York. Kirk students, the program offers urban under confidence-building experience ’ Undergrads to Sudeall and Barbara Studamire graduates a summer on campus so they Working with a (acuity mentor in what • From the University of Puerto Rico. can see that life in the country Isn't all that amounts to a 12-month individual tutorial Yanlra Morales Torres bad. offers t hem the most Intensive, highest qual Pursue Science The three students who came from out "There are some very good minority ity education, according to Bruns. "There side Cornell pursued research projects that students at urban schools who. surpris are some who say that research at a re were created as a three-way collaboration ingly, are very very intimidated by a re search university gets in the way of the that included themselves, a faculty member search university located in the country." undergraduate experience, but I say no. In from the Division of Biological Sciences, and says Bruns "We want them to come and fact, it gives them an absolutely unusual one from their home institution. see what it's like.' positive experience you can't get elsewhere ’ Taking part In the social context of being a scholar can be an eye-opening experience Designating Gifts to the College Q&A about the Cornell Campaign for ALS of Agriculture and Life Sciences
ALTHOUGH UNRESTRICTEDGIFTSTOTHE What is the Cornell University Campaign? the finest colleges of agriculture and life COLLEGE ARE preferred because they pro sciences, we must establish a strong private vide the greatest flexibility to meet changing Cornell University announced the $1.25 funding base. It is clear we can no longer billion campaign in October 1990 to re-en- afford to be tied to the economic fortunes of needs, gifts may be given to any area within the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. dow Cornell and create a solid financial base the State of New York Although the college for growth into the future. The $1.25 billion A list of programs and departments follows: John S. Dyson '65 was built on state funds, its future clearly campaign includes $95 million to be raised depends on a combination of public and Committee Chair by the College of Agriculture and Life Sci private support. Charles M. Andola '65 ences. This will be t he first campaign for the college, establishing an "endowment for ex Barry Aron. FR What is an endowment? cellence" to hedge against future declines in Ruthann Greenzweig Aron '64 state funding. An endowment is capital whose interest, Stephen B. Ashley '62 not principal, is available to support the The following areas are college priorities needs of the college Most Cornell Univer Albert J. Beard. Jr. '52 for the campaign sity endowment funds are In a diversified William Berley '45 mutual fund intended to yield Income and $19 million—faculty endowment maintain long-term growth The yield is Robert W. Bitz '52 $33.8 million—program enhancement about 10 percent a year. Of this 10 percent. Esther Schiff Bondareff '37 $26 million—graduate and undergraduate 4 percent is expended to support programs, student endowment Douglas S. Brodie '55 and the remaining 6 percent is returned to $9.2 million—renovation, restoration and the individual endowment toensurethat the Robert V. Call, Jr. '50 construction value of the original gift appreciates into the Anthony B. Cashen '57 $7 million—library enhancement future. J. Thomas Clark '63 Why does a public college need to raise May I make a long-term pledge? J. David Crockett '58 private funds? Campaign gifts may be made over a five- Glenn T. Dallas '58 The College of Agriculture and Life Sci year period, starting any year up to 1995. Nancy Abrams Dreler '86 ences has seen dramatic decreases in state funding over the last decade In the 1950s, For more information, contact Bruce P. Earle '70 state funds accounted for 73 percent ol the Ron Ganeles '55 college's budget By 1990. the figure has ALS Public Affairs dropped to less than 39 percent. Our college Philip C. Griffen '57 272 Roberts Hall Dean’s Fund (unrestricted gifts) is no longer state-supported, it is state-as Cornell University Empire State Food and Agriculture Jean Margolis Hentel '64 sisted To maintain our position as one of Ithaca. NY 14853 Leadership Institute (LEAD NY) Larry Herz '55 Personal Enterprise Program Alfred H. Hicks '62 Center lor the Environment J. Michael Holloway '73 Cornell International Institute for Food, G. Michael Hostage '54 Agriculture and Development W. Keith Kennedy GR Excellence in Teaching Fund John Konwiser '57 Excellence in Extension Fund Roscoe E. Krauss Faculty and Staff Development Fund Alpha Zeta Fund Tim LaBeau '77 American Indian Program Fund James P. Lassoie American Indian Program House - Akwekon Jane Longley-Cook *69 Graduate Fellowships Michael C. Nolan '77 Undergraduate Scholarships Jean F. Rowley '54 Mann Library John J. Ruszkiewicz '57 Robert S. Smith '42 Department and unit funds lor. Ernest L Stem '56 Agricultural Economics Agricultural and Biological Engineering John Henry Talmage '52 Animal Science Daniel M. Winch Biological Sciences Bailey Hortorium Biochemistry. Molecular and Cell Biology Ecology and Systematics Genetics and Development Microbiology Neurobiology and Behavior Physiology Plant Biology Communication Education Entomology (Ithaca and Geneva) Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture Landscape Architecture Food Science Food Science and Technology (Geneva) Fruit and Vegetable Science Horticultural Science (Geneva) Natural Resources Nutritional Sciences Plant Breeding Biometrics Unit Plant Pathology (Ithaca and Geneva) Rural Sociology Soil, Crop, and Atmospheric Sciences
On ■ warm summer day. ALS disUnguished alumnus Robert Trent Jones (center) vlsiled the gelt course he first designed in the 1930s tor Cornell University. His visit marked Um renaming of the course ■ Ma honor Witnessing the honor bestowed on their father were Rees Jones (left) and Robert Trent Jones. Jr. .(right) who also have become highly successful golf course architects. Robert Trent Jones has crested or redesigned some 500 golf courses In 43 states and 34 countries, making hue the most prolific course desrgner In history. Ho also is credited with creating for himself the first university curriculum in golf course architecture. He came to the college in 1920 from Rochester. Rew York, specifically to become a golf coarse architect, fashioning a special curriculum In landscape architecture, agronomy, horticulture, hydraulics, surveying, economics, and public speaking. Two years later, he launched his career, now ie Its siity-flrst year. CORNELL UNI' I K 5 I T V AGRICULTURE & LIFE SCIENCES DONOR ROSTER June 30,1990 —July 1,1991
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Communica John Whittleton '68. Cortland.New Theodore (Ted)Mullen 55. Phelps. John M. Clark 80 Clinton. New tion Major, Student Director, York. Director for District #14, New York. Director for District York. Director for District #12. Greenfield. Indiana. Tompkins and Cortland Coun #16, Monroe. Ontario. Wayne Herkimer. Madison, and Oneida ties. Membership Representa Counties. Retired but second Counties. Executive Vice Presi tive for the National Federation career, Physics Teacher at dent at Empire Harvestore Sys of Independent Businesses. San DeSales High School, Geneva. tems. Inc., Richfield Springs Mateo. California. Male < um*mA«i •BCyKTODrtw WM«ra(AIMI AreaCapCMt Laura Vanknta Rodfet. TO JK4 FvtaMMe Cl . M« Joelle Maher 89 New York City. James B. Van Brunt '62. Hornell, ManfTOfn CAWI24 (6IVMHJ7T)H Director for District #2, Kings, New York. Director for District Queens. Richmond Counties. #18. Allegany and Steuben Assistant Buyer for Lord and Counties Executive Vice Presi Taylor. dent at Steuben Trust Com pany, Hornell. The portrait ot the college's tenth dean, David L. Call (center), recently was placed proudly among other deans In the College ot Agriculture History In Mann Library. Among those celebrating the occasion were the ninth dean, W. Keith C«a*WAanda Kennedy (left), and Charles Palm (right), the college's eighth dean ArwCapula IXmMG Rotation Yr 41 IZ5(*®dUTrMl Leaatari H.347TO (»64T3b44»| ------■ I The collegecolic; s alumni association isoffenng 10" x 13" museum-quality, color reproduc Itions tons of ftfour oil paintings by Victor R. Stephen, professor emeritus of communication. Alumni and faculty members chose these scenes, which represent the four seasons, as the most memorable of campus and the Ithaca countryside. Thoma* K Mkn O Send the following: 1 Jfll Brilrvi wre* l»nv GmaMd IN 44146 Labe Slope....Spring Evenings ------prints at $10 each. Beebe Lake Bridge. ..Summer Night------prints at $10 each. 71 Taughannock Falls....Winter Morning ------prints at $10 each. MRiflyUnto.tad Gcctarr. Mt MOV Cascadilla Gorge....Fall Afternoon ______prints at $10 each. The Four Season Set: all prints for $35. Alumni Assn members, $30 a set. My membership expires: ------ Please add $5 for delivery outside continental United States. Enclose check or money order payable to ALS Alumni Association and mail to ALS Alumni Association. 265 Roberts. Cornell University. Ithaca. NY 14853 Name Scenic Prints Address of Cornell and Ithaca City___ State/Country ------Zip------... A Perfect Gift Alumni Association Inaugurates First Leadership Conference NEARLY 100 OF THE COLLEGE'S ALUMNI leaders took advantage of the chance to learn the latest in leadership from Cornell's most talented Instructors during the Alumni Association's first leadership conference. The conference, held at various campus locations In March, also brought alumni lead ers up-to-date on technology and informa tion important to their work in connecting alumni with the college and with Cornell The response from district alumni direc tors. state coordinators, and district and regional team members was overwhelming. f The photos tell the stoiy. A “from Membership Io Participation' was the title ol the Kenneth H. Blanchard '61 (center), moderator ot a panel on "Managing workshop by George R. Preston '72, Cornell Cooperatire and Motivating Volunteers.’’ chats with Alumni Association President Extension representative. Marian K. Rippy '78 and Douglas T. Conti '60 (right). Larry E. Brown '57, Marian K. Rippy '78. and Finley M. Steele '36. David P. Curry '65. Associate Dean Kenneth E. Wing '51. and Thomas L Hoy '71. Keynote speaker Professor 0 Merrill Ewen from the Department ol Education spoke on An Important Time tor leaders Professor of Education Joan R. Epner '65. John M. Clark '80. and Douglas T. Conti'60. Frank Cisra '48. Assistant Dean William 6. Boldt (right foreground) leads a roundtable discussion. William I. Rodeo '57, Richard E. Keene '57. and Margaret Beard *M. Song time In front row. Bill'56 and Kathy ReltlIn'56 and Dan and Nancy Winch In back row, Joyce'65 and Richard Church 66 by Pam Jaffe '93 Student writer BomM A Man 77 and Mckart Wait M 56 received lhe Caroline Haka 57 ol Soledad, Calll recently completed Jaoet Schlfl 58 U pursuing graduate degrees In com Search for Excellence Award from Cornell Cooperative her Doctor ol Veterinary Medicine at the University ol munlcatlon theory and research al the University ol Extension lor thelt publication. An Illustrated Guide lo Rodda Wisconsin at Madison Vmanc *. Franco '32 is a rrllred dentist in Pruning Ornamental Tree! and Shrubs Rakow Is an DI an Stem '88 is attending Columbia University School Washington, DC and a prolessor emeritus at assistant prolessor ol landscape horticulture and Weir Usa Hollis 17 is lhe senior assistant lo the director ot of Public Health, working toward a master s degree Georgetown University Dentil School It an extension horticulture leader tn Nassau County development In Jamaica, NY. NV Mte J Wart M.S. •». president ol Wold Minerals Co In Ruth Koester 57 ol Cary, N C Is a graduate student at Kristine Serrette '88 Is a reporter lor the Manchester Journal a weekly newspaper in Vermont She Is also a Casper. Wyoming, recently was named chairman ol the Irsee Schatttur 71 Is a vice president ol Citicorp He Is North Carolina Slate University working on her Ph D in ski instructor on weekends national gills committee al Union College He was also lather ol Michael, who was bom October 2,1990 plant genetics Wyoming's Congressman al Lar ge and was named Wyo Janice Vlyelros 58 ol Worcester. Mass married Scott ming Man ol the Year In 1968 Jay Baldwin 79 0VM 53 ol Campbell, N Y. has been Bob Maios 57, weather lor ecaster lor Manchester. New Van Ummersen '89 (Engineering) In June 1989 awarded lhe 1991 Practitioner Research Award Irom Hampshire's channel 9 TV. wu honorary chairman ol the American Veterinary Medical Association He works the Coors Light Spring Ski Challenge In March The ------$------Oarvid Volleeller '88 ol Purchase. N Y was recently pro event was to benefit multiple sclerosis primarily as a horse breeding consultant In New York, moted to vice president ol I nner sal Metal and Ore Co New Jersey, and New England Stephen Ascbettino 88 recently graduated from Ameri Inc can University School of Law He startrd work as a tax Lorraine Fariaa '41 Is t ree commissioner ol Schenectady. Robert Kimball 79 Is a general surgeon In lhe U S Army Satan Wart 58 is a second lieutenant in the U S Army attorney lor Ernst & Young in New York tn September N.Y and a consultant for city parks He Ilves In Argsburg. Germany, wllh his wile Belh serving In Jacksonville. N C Linderman 79 (Human Ecology) and children Charlie Loroea Hold '88 ol Tampa. Ha. Is attending Stetson Howard Schack 41 ol South Hampton. N Y. who Is in the and Katie He served In Saudi Arabia lor three and one- Mark Will 56 ol West Lafayette Ind is a sophomore at College ol Law Cornell University archives ol loot hail lllms, went to his hall months with the 31st Combat Support Hospital the School ol Veterinary Medicine al Purdue University 50th reunion this summer teoog C Kia 88 ol Chicago Is working on a Ph D In computer science at the Illinois Institute ol Technol Gray Wirtb 58 ol Miami, Fla is an executive officer In an Roy Hermann Jr . 43 runs an Agway Store In his hometown army engineer battalion located In Panama ogy ol Ontario. N Y He has been a town councilman lor 14 years Samuel Straight '88 ol Rochester N Y is studying lor a Mark Zobot 56 oil olumbus, Otuo started graduate schoot Toyoko Kawai '82. M.S. B5, was married and moved In Ph D in virology al Hie University <4 Rochester for business administration this pasl tall Japan In 1988 She worked as a translator until she had a baby boy In October Anthony Zambrll 88 - a branch other supervisor lor 4> Comprehensive Planning Services Inc in Hauppauge. ------Lad BnckMa'63 ol Miami Fla previously a zookeeper. N.Y Srtaey Greentader '50 .4 Massapequa. N Y recently re Is director ol education at the Panal Jungle and Gar tired Irom the Nassau County Department ol Health as dens Sally Hawkins Allng 89 u married to Douglas Alling 90 Thomas Cosgrove 90 u working as a stall assistant lor lhe a public health sanitarian He worked there lor 22 years (Engineering) She recently moved to Itouslori where U S Senate Agriculture Committee In Washington in the lood and beverage bureau He has been married Artytht Tyuka '83 ol Wheaton. Ill completed her her husband will be atlending medical school Krista Kuehaal 98 U studying at Hotstra University lor 44 years and has 3 children and 4 grandchildren chiropractic degree in Augusl 1990 Barry Cohen '83 ..I lux Hills, N Y. Is an internal auditor lor tier MBA and works as an artlslAypesetter for Zoom Horman Jennings '56 retired Irom Agway Inc In 1987 He Philip George '14 Is presently working In larm manage a New York City bank and plans lo study lor an MBA Corporation menl In Bogota Columbia He also does some work In was the manager ol lhe planning department the stock market Mark Fuller '89 is al the University ol California at Davis Christopher Mahoney 90 Is a real estate consultant In Great Neck. NY He works with companies In financial George Johansessen ILS. '56 has been working with pursuing Ills Ph J). In microbiology vegetable crops and in pomology since he received his Fmtck Hooker 54 olSloansvIlle NY is married to Karen trouble and with financial institutions Huxtable Brett Kreher 89 ol Clarence N Y returned home to work degree on his family's poultry farm with his lour older broth Aim Sagetlry 90 <4 Huntington, N Y is a dog trainer Catherine Oranchak 54ol Charlestown. Md received her apprentice at Canine Companions lor Independence Robert Ball 52 ol Temple. Maine is in market develop ers, all Cornell graduates ment services throughout the US. Mexico and Canada master's degree Irom Harvard University Graduate Scott Malaga 58 ol Port Chester. N Y. works lor Phoenix Eric WaM 50 ol Orchard Beach. Mauw Is a management with occasional assignments In Africa Japan, and else School ol Design this past summer Integrated where he negotiates contracts with athletes trainee lor Harralord Brothers Helsalsoapart-llmeskl where He also does volunteer work as a 4-H leader and Patrick Wiles '84 is an account executive lor lhe Farm in the National Fool ball League and the National Basket instructor at Shawnee Peak as a coordinator lor the Maine Coalition lor Sale Kids Credit Bureau He has been married five years and ball Association to promote Champioo Footwear He Steven Kaplan 91 ol Brooklyn. N Y Is a llrst-year student William Ask 53 and his wile Gurtniba '$1. are living in has onedaughler has a degree In sports marketing at Cornell's School of Veterinary Medicine West Hampton. N Y He is a professor at SUNY.Stony Laura Clauses 86. Reese Air Force Base. Tex., is an Claudia Morsno'89 i Columbia Is working on her Brook. In the Department ol Cell Biology She has taught Joshua Levine 91 is a law student at the University of account executive lor a publications firm She Is mar master's degree In marketing and lood distribution at Kuwait University and now works lor Suffolk Die ried to Greg Clawson (Aris '87) California In Los Angeles Newspapers. John Morgan '89 Is manager ol an 800acre larm in Jack Kendall'86 of Rochester. N Y works lor Andersen Linwood. N Y He recently marred Kaye Kopp Dum ‘91 Tiffany Rabinsoa 51 ol Williamsville. N Y. is a graduale Ralph Rogen Jr. S3 ol Rye. N.Y.. Is an elected city Consulting. Before living In Rochester, he lived in Vir student in psychology SUNY. Buffalo where she does councilman He Is also lhe president ol Carpet Trends ginia Beach lor a year while on assignment William Morgan 69 ol Seneca Falls. N.Y Is employed by research in biopsychology Inc He has ten grandchildren Maple Grove Dairy as their herd manager Hurts P. lanaa '86 ol Centerport. N Y Is a student al the Varmas Samuel '91 ol Sidney. N Y Is atlending New York Garton White 55 is a sales representative lor a landsc ap NewYorkCollegeol Osteopathic MedKineln Westbury Michael Kozlk '89 of Rochester. N Y Is an environmental UrUverslly School of Medicine He Is originally Irom Sri ing and garden supplies linn He Is married Io Wlnl analyst with the law firm ol Nixon. Hargrave Devans Lanka I White (Arts 51) SaaMWaaltaachu56tusm L>guC«n6M7t<4')gdensburg N Y ,1s active In foreign The college's Department ol Natural Resources can ship Comeli-brand maple syrup in student exchanges She traveled all over Ontario anil "mailable" plastic jugs anywhere in the United States. Each jug carries the label repro New Address______Quebec this summer with live exchange students Her duced above, which indicates the syrup's production in Lake Placid son will be going to Columbia. South Americ a. lor a year Pure Cornell maple syrup is produced al the Uihlein Sugar Maple Research-Extension as an exchange student himsell Field Station In the Adirondack Mountains Sales support sugar maple research and Michaul SchatW 71 of Brookhaven, N Y„ Is a senior extension Phone (Home)______wildlife biologist for NYS Department ol Environmental You or alumni you know can order maple syrup at these prices Conservation He is married and has two children Size Price by Zip Code Prefix (Office)______Jam AsMm MPS 72 has been with Cornell Cooperative Extension lor lhe past 26 years and Is now a senior 01 to 50 51to99 extension associate Occupation______Pint $8.90 $10.50 b«4a Zaks 74 is an instructor al lhe University ol Mede Quart 13.20 15.75 cine In Bonn, Germany Half-gallon 20.90 22.40 Personal News______Cheryl hni Fraacis 76 ol Burr Ridge, III will soon be Gallon 35.70 41.90 start ing asalecturerattlieGraduaieSclioolol Business and Hie University ol Chicago She is married to Zed Contact Lewis J. Staats, Uihlein Sugar and Maple Field Station. Bear Cub Rd . l-ake Placid Francis (Arts 76) They have two children NY 12946 Phone. 51S-S23-9337. (Use separate sheet ofpaper if necessary) By John Bale! W J THE YOUNG ALUMNI SECTION Student writer Mann 'This Is just another example of the Lawrence J. Van De Valk The (all semester Is here and the Ag Quad is 1 continued failure of the state university system to recognize Cornell as a l'“8sM> buzzing with activity The original Roberts Questions we put to young ALS alumni: Instructor ol Agricultural Engi university. I was on the Board of Trustees Hall Is now gone and the construction crews neering Which ag school eiperience is most applicable State University of New York when I was al Cornell, and I know how tough have moved out The newly planted grass Cobleskill It is to constantly be working for more has taken root and a lew sidewalks are be to your job now? money from the state." coming beaten paths (or the students. It's What is it you miss most about Cornell? great to (inally have an accessible route (rom School eiperience. ‘Being an ag engineering What Is your reaction to the school closing the the Quad to Tower Rd The buzzing, how Instructor. I use a lot ol the technical Infor Mann Library stacks at 10 p.m. rather than the mation I learned at school However, when I Marjorie Blnhak Shapiro '86 ever. comes not only (rom the settling ol the usual 12 p.m. due to State budget cuts? was at school I had to be organized and construction work, but also (rom the seniors Sales Representative manage my time well This is a skill I find who are sending out cover letters and re Hershey Chocolate myself using constantly and hopefully will sumes and liningup interviews, all searching Langhorne, Pa. Cynthia Hopsicker Waldron '84 Im- able to pass on to my students as well. for the perfect profession Alumni will re School eiperience. The Food Merchandis Cornell also Improved my skills ol getting member the tension we all feel at this point— Veterinarian along with people and learning Irom them ing class with Professor McLaughlin is the the agony of waiting for a company to return Fairmount Animal Hospital Informally I learned a lot just Irom road- most applicable because the projects and a call, the fear of failure in the Interview, and Syracuse. NY trlpplngtofrlends' houses and meetlngtheir concepts we discussed In that class are the gut-wrenching feeling of opening a "ding" School eiperience. "Although the classes exactly what I do now." madepossible what I do today. 1 was also families and friends." letter Miss most. "I really miss the diversity and Miss most. "Crisp (all days and football But It's not all that bad to be a senior heavilylnvolved In extracurricular activi games." ties with which I gained experience in per opportunities available not only at Cornell, Many students, not only the seniors, are Mann. T think that it's a shame because taking advantage ol everything that Cornell sonal communication. This experience made but all over Ithaca. The people and things we most students don't study in their rooms, has to olfer A relaxing stroll through the it easier for me. to to communicate and sec on the Commons are almost directly related to what we would see in New York they study In the library. If they can't get the orchards or the Plantations can make one relate to people." books they need, then they are getting a realize that your problems aren't all that Miss amt "The people I loved the atmo City. There are opportunities to go sailing, great disservice from the school.* complicated. The parks in Ithaca are the sphere surroundingtheag school Theclose hiking or join one of the many clubs on perfect getaway if life at school becomes contact between students and faculty all campus These diverse opportunities I had available were astounding, and they are what unbearable And who could forget the path seemed to generate a feeling ol happiness Tara Cummings Vigarelll ‘86 behind Beebe l^ke where the peaceful bub that equals nothing else I've found " I miss the most." bling of the creek echoes through the trees, Mann. ’Well, as long as the downstairs Is still Mann. I guess with the restraints given, it Project Engineer How can Cornell be so peaceful at one end open'to provide a quiet place lor the stu was a necessary move by the college. That Malcolm Prinie and so frantic at the other? Is this similar to dents to study. I think it's O.K. With most was a great place to study quietly, but let's Paramus. NJ. the experience we will encounter as we em classes ending early in the day. the students face it. there arc many other quiet spots at School eiperience. "The computer work I did bark on a new journey Into the working should have enough time to do their neces Cornell where you can study." for my projectsand papers was great prepa world? Act ivit les offered on cam pus. we hope, sary research. It Is sad they had to make ration lor the world of computers outsideof will clear up some of the confusion Students such a cut. but It seems as if It will help by Cornell." were Invited to participate in Career Conver John E. Sheeley '85 reducing any potential tuition increases." Miss most. "I miss the life ol the student sations Day. held on the Ag Quad on Septem Legislative Assistant Being able to get up at 8:00 a m instead ol ber 20. to pose questions to Cornell gradu Rep Fred Grandy (R-lowa) 5:00 a m. But most of all I miss the scenery ates now in the work force. It was a spectacu Mark A. Tatum '91 Washington, D.C. of Ithaca" lar success.Who would have guessed ALS Sales Representative School eiperience. Ken Robinson's Farm and Maim. 'They should try to find a dilferent graduates could find employment in areas Procter and Gamble way to cut back. Perhaps they could have ranging from retail to research, politics to Food Policies course because it directly re Brooklyn. N.Y. lates to what I do now I was heavily Involved no one reshelving books (rom 10-12 or just production, beekeeping to banking? have one or two people on staff upstairs. Alumni advice Is one of the greatest tools in the 1990 Farm Bill and am currently work When you have class until 5:00, you don't ing on the North American trade agreement a student can use to make decisions about have much time to eat dinner and get your their future. How many times haveyou looked School experience. Business Policy with Doc with Mexico and Canada" studying done " back and said. “I wish I had taken this course," Aplin and Comm 301 with Brian Earle were Miss most. "The hockey games, the fall col or "Why didn't I take some time off before I two of the most Important courses to me ors. and the diverse people.' The group presentations done in Aplin's started working?" This is the advice stu dents are looking lor and you. the alumni, class directly relate to what I do now. The at e a perfect sour ce. Y our accomplishments. mock Interview I did In Comm 301 was an Sign up by December 20 to be listed in the experiences and tuture goals can be the example with P&G and coincidentally Is ' helpful hand in a student choice of a new where I was able to find a job." April Issue-Membership Roster , career. Miss most, (don't miss the weather, but I do really miss lite freedom of being a student ALS Membership: A Perfect Time to Join 6.000 Other The students now need to appreciate the education they are receiving and the quality Members from Your College. of the people around them. I have to say that I also miss the beauty and peacefulness ol Memories the campus. We don't get the sunsets here a Remember summer vacation from college? Although you In Brooklyn like you do in Ithaca " were enjoying your freedom, at the same time you missed the Mann. "That is definitely not In the best people and places that made your college years the best time interest of the students I spent many nights of your life. in the stacks right up until closing time." Now that you’ve graduated, you may stilt have those feelings The College ol Agriculture and Life Sciences Alumni Associa tion can bring you back! Attend an alumni event in your area, an ALS event on campus, the ALS Reunion breakfast, or Homecoming. Find out where your classmates are. Let the best memories come backtollfe. Become a member today Name Class year 0) Street: City. State. ------Zip- Telephone County — £ Biographical Notes: To help those alumni who spend six months In the north and six months In the south, the College Alumni Affairs and Development Office will Implement a system for automatic transfer of addresses in October and May (only those months) as one step to help In the delivery of mail If you would like to be on the automatic transfer dates, please send us the coupon below. Also let us know promptly if either address changes. E Dues: ___ Class year------Name 2-year membership at $20 Spouse at $14* 4-year membership at $36 Spouse at $25* October-to-May Address 0) Lifetime Membership at $250 ______Spouse at $175______Zip City State First installment on my Lifetime Membership at $90 a year for 3 years May4oOctober Address First Installment on my spouse's Lifetime Membership at $65 a year for 3 years" Zip- • 30% dBeoun Iw/otnt mrmbenhtpt onfy City ----- ____ _ State Please make your check payable to ALS Alumni Association The above addresses will transfer automatically each year until we are notified otherwise Mail to College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Alumni Affairs Office, 265 Mall to: Office of Alumni Affairs 265 Roberts Hall.Cornell University Roberts Hall. Ithaca NY 14853-5901. Ithaca. NY 14855-5901 Alumni Gathering Around the Country Sponsored by Your College Alumni Association Indlau AU alumni gather Im a ucceutul outing la Jah. ta left photo, the gatheren overtlow the plcaic UwltM. In right photo. Anna and Robert Taylor M keep buy as burger tllppon Ready to en|oy the cuisine are David Yeager 71. Diene Yeager and Heather Yeager The new Indiana state coordinator lor the AU Alumni Association Is Thomas K Jotters «3 ot Breentlold Doan/Alumnl Get-togethers are loyous occasions, as eiemplllied by District 21 in Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties Jane Fairbank and Joseph Fairbank *8 (right) share a wonderful memory ot Alpha Zeta Fraternity with Associate Dean Kenneth Wing '5S. Kentucky AU alumel In a compact gathering la Lexington during the National Agricultural Alumni and Development annual meeting Lucille Gardner and Larry Gardner « reminiscing during Um Steuben, Allegany Dean/ Alumni Get-together in Hornell. A full lounge ol alumni and friends attended the third annul Eastern States AU Dean/Alumni Get-togethm. which featured Professor James lassoie and the Department ot Natural Resources and Associate Dean Kenneth Wing. Join your College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Alumni Association by December 20th - to be listed in the At Eastern States, Pul Sollew '80 and Gabe Membership Roster Oiax-Saavedra '81 recall days In Ithaca - April Issue. See opposite page AGRICULTURE A LIFE SCIENCES NEWS WINTER 1991 o - 09 o> q E — C ra