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The Summer Clouds Had Rumbled Through the Valley All Abridged Chronology – Cornell Heights Residential Club Fire, 1946–1975 Preface to the Abridged Chronology On 5 April 1967, fire struck the Cornell Heights Residential Club in the Village of Cayuga Heights, NY, killing one Cornell University professor and eight students. Survivors were relocated to other campus housing. The University's Board of Trustees decreed a policy of “official silence” on the matter. On 23 May, a second fire struck the Watermargin Cooperative, and on 31 May, a third fire broke out at 211 Eddy Street. No injuries resulted, but in both cases these dwellings housed survivors of the first fire. The New York Times, 1 June 1967, Excerpt ARSON SUSPECTED IN CORNELL FIRES Similarities Noted in Three, Including Blaze Fatal to 9 ITHACA, N.Y., May 31 ⸺ Investigators here said today they were convinced that three recent fires in buildings housing Cornell University Students, including one in which nine persons died, were caused by an arsonist. The New York Times, 2 June 1967, Excerpt CORNELL PATROLS STUDENT HOUSES Acts After 3 Fires Where Ph.D. Candidates Lived ITHACA, N.Y. June 1 ⸺ A Cornell University official disclosed today that the school had posted uniformed patrolmen at about 10 student residences following three suspicious fires in the campus community in the last two months. All of the residences house participants in an experimental six-year program leading to Doctor of Philosophy degrees. The New York Times, 3 June 1967, Excerpt INQUIRY NARROWS IN 3 CORNELL FIRES ‘2 or 3’ Under Investigation, Ithaca Police Report” by Douglas Robinson ITHACA, N. Y., June 2 — The investigation of three recent fires in housing for students enrolled in a special program at Cornell University is concentrating on “two or three people,” Ithaca’s police chief said today. Ithaca Journal, 17 Aug 1967, p. 13, Excerpt Ph.D. Dorm Fire Arson, Laboratory Tests Show by Patricia Nordheimer, Journal Staff Writer. A Canadian chemist has found and identified a fluid accelerant present at all three fires in places where Cornell University six-year Ph.D. students were living last spring according to Ithaca Police Chief Herbert Van Ostrand. The Oneonta Star (Oneonta, NY), 18 Aug 1967 (Friday), p. 2, Excerpt Arson Suspected at Cornell ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) –– Suspicions that three pre–dawn fires last spring at Cornell University, including one that claimed nine lives, were the work of an arsonist were strengthened Thursday by the discovery that a liquid, combustible substance was near the origin of the fires. Police Chief Herbert Van Ostrand said a Canadian chemist hired by his department had found the remains of a “fluid accelerant” in all three structures at a point where the flames had burned strongest. Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten disputes the two “Canadian chemist” press reports, but does not provide his reason for declaring them to be “untrue.” No arrests, no arraignments and no criminal prosecutions resulted, and after August of 1967 no account of the investigation ⸺most certainly curtailed that fall, was ever reported. No police appeal to the public for information has ever been discovered. This story of crime and community forgetfulness is unique. This writer can find no other case of an unsolved multiple homicide investigation in an American college town being so clearly abandoned without result and erased from public memory. A suspicion that the University, the press and local law enforcement colluded to bury this tragedy cannot be dismissed. Cornell University's 1967 policy of “official silence” continues to this day. The redactions in this document have been made to respect the integrity of the criminal investigation, technically still open and ongoing. H. William “Bill” Fogle, Jr., Cornell '70 (Engineering) Mesa, AZ. August 2017 Table of Contents Chronology, 1946–1975 ................................................................................................................. 3 Individuals, 1967........................................................................................................................... 18 Cornell University ..................................................................................................................... 18 Tompkins County, City of Ithaca, and Village of Cayuga Heights .......................................... 19 Others ........................................................................................................................................ 20 Newspaper, Magazine and Journal Articles.................................................................................. 21 Cornell Alumni News ............................................................................................................... 21 Cornell Chronicle ...................................................................................................................... 22 Cornell Daily Sun ..................................................................................................................... 22 Ithaca Journal ............................................................................................................................ 25 New York Times ....................................................................................................................... 29 Miscellaneous (in chronological order) .................................................................................... 31 2 Chronology, 1946–1975 HWF comments and conjectures are in italics. 07 Aug 1946, the Cornell Chapter of the Acacia Fraternity conveys a 2¾ acre property in the Village of Cayuga Heights to Fred A. Rogalski, Sherwood Holt and Margaret H. McPherson.1 Cf. Liber (Deeds) 290, p. 318. 30 Nov 1949, Redaction #1 (Individual #1 identification). 24 Oct 1952, Fred A. Rogalski, Sherwood Holt, Driscoll Brothers and Co., Inc., and Margaret H. McPherson convey said property to J. Reed Colbert (d. Apr 1970) and his son, Robert Reed Colbert. Cf. Liber (Deeds) 353, p. 384. 1952, Henry J. Shirley, an attorney with offices in downtown Ithaca, is elected as Mayor of the Village of Cayuga Heights. In his memoir, F. G. Marcham blames Shirley and the Village Engineer for allowing an unnamed real estate developer (the Colberts) to build and operate a motel on a site that was specifically zoned against such a commercial enterprise.2A striking omission: Marcham makes no mention of the 1967 fire which occurred during his term as Mayor of the Village. Oct 1953, the Cornell Heights Residential Club (now called Hurlburt House / Ecology House, Cornell University Facility #3127) is built at 1 (later 111) Country Club Road in the Village of Cayuga Heights NY by father and son developers J. Reed Colbert and Robert R. Colbert at a cost of $700,000.3 Avallone & DiStasio are architect-engineers and DiStasio & Van Buren are the consulting engineers.4 The building contractor is Nikula Construction Company. The building was designed as a motel for transient guests and equipped with none of the fire safety features required by law for a dormitory. See the Smith lawsuit for a full listing of the safety deficiencies. 16 Oct 1953, the Cornell University Board of Trustees Executive Committee agrees to a proposal by the owners of a new apartment hotel to change the name from “Cornell Residential Club” to “Cornell Heights Residential Club”.5 07 Apr 1954, Cornell Heights Residential Club, Inc., registers with the New York State Secretary of State as a Domestic Not For Profit Corporation, Registration Number: 89025. http://www.dos.ny.gov/corps/bus_entity_search.html This is a case of conflicting data: a for-profit motel business with a not-for-profit corporate registration. 1 Thanks to David K. George ‘86, Ithaca Town Historian, for the research on the Res Club property conveyances. Cf, Balcerski, Thomas J. (Acacia Fraternity at Cornell: The First Century, 2007), pp. 51-62 and 124-125, for the acquisition and subdivision of this property. 2 John Marcham, Ed. The Papers of F. G. Marcham: III Cornell Notes; World War II to 1968. Ithaca NY: The Internet-First University Press, 2006. https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/3454 3 Ithaca Journal, 05 Apr 1967, p. 15: “Has Been News In Past” by Jane Marcham, Journal Staff Writer. 4 John E. Burton, Vice President for Business, memorandum to Dale R. Corson, 12 Apr 1967. 5 Proceedings of the Board of Trustees of Cornell University, 1953/1954. Executive Committee, 16 Oct 1953, p. 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/23414 3 22 Sep 1954, the firm, Savoy-Ithaca, Inc., negotiates a fifteen-year lease of the Cornell Heights Residential Club property from J. Reed Colbert and Robert R. Colbert.6 Rental payments of $37,000 per annum for the first ten years and $39,500 per annum thereafter are agreed to. Savoy- Ithaca incorporation papers are said to be filed by Louis K. Thaler.7 William J. Bartholomew of South Orange, NJ, and John J. Bundschuh of New Rochelle, NY, are identified as the principals of Savoy-Ithaca. Nov 1954, Cayuga Heights residents reject annexation of the Village by the City of Ithaca.8 1955, the Colberts go to court in a dispute with tenant Savoy-Ithaca over non-payment of rent.9 01 Jul 1955, The Cayuga Heights Fire Department (all volunteer) is activated for service. 18 Sep 1956, in a Cornell Daily Sun advertisement, George T. Bond, Manager of the Cornell Heights Residential Club, describes the Club’s amenities and offers it as transient lodging for the guests and visiting parents of Cornell students.10 04 Oct 1957, the USSR launches Sputnik 1 (Спутник-1), the first
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