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A GIFTS EXCEED $2,000,000 Make Many Changes new lumber shed has been built here, and For Last Fiscal Year further up the hill above the East Ithaca Undergraduates coming back after a Gifts and bequests to the University station has been constructed a new stor- summer's absence see numerous changes totalling $2.,z6i,o37.38 for the fiscal year age building for the Department of Vege- on the Campus this fall. And alumni who ending last July i were announced this table Crops. bring their children to Cornell after even week by Provost H. W. Peters '14. a few years' absence express astonish- Largest building operation is, of, course, Of this amount $1,054,330.2.4 was ment at the improvements they find. Olin Hall of Chemical Engineering, added to the University's permanent en- Without exception, they remark upon which is rapidly taking shape and will dowment. Gifts for current use included the generally well-kept appearance of soon get its roof. On upper Mitchell $384, 02.4.17 for research and investigator- University buildings and grounds. This Street, the all-steel High Tension Labo- ships, $100,000 toward an addition to the is the result of a year-round program of ratory rears its skeleton. Noticeable also, physical plant, $31,138.14 for depart- refurbishing that is carried on under di- however, is the exterior refurbishing by mental development, $2.6,736.76 for schol- rection of the Department headed by Buildings and Grounds department work- arships and loans, and $119,604.86 for Hugh E. Weatherlow '06. ers of Stimson Hall, the President's other purposes. The balance is composed Buildings and Grounds Force Busy House, the south facades of the Sibley of non-endowment funds, of which some But in addition to these continuing group, and repairs and renewals on Rob- are specifically restricted as to use and operations, more than 350 workmen of erts, Comstock, McGraw, Franklin, others expendable at the discretion of the the Department of Buildings and Grounds Lincoln, Rockefeller, Goldwin Smith Board of Trustees. have this summer made striking changes halls, and the Library. Another section Alumni Contribute Generously in the general aspect of the Campus. Im- of the concrete seats in the Crescent has Included is $nx,9oi 94 in current gifts mediately one notices that the roadway been completely replaced, carrying out from 7,xxo alumni through the Alumni which used to run from Central Avenue the general upkeep program, and Mount Fund Council: a record both for amount to Sage Avenue, just south of Sage Pleasant Lodge east of Ithaca has been contributed and number of contributors, Chapel, is now green lawn with neat further improved as a recreation center unsurpassed since 1931. Cornell alumni new paths across it. It was turfed almost for students and Faculty. The Johnny also gave $37,902.-75 during the year overnight with sod taken from a spacious Parson Club, now entirely under the toward the University's program for new parking area at the top of the slope management of Willard Straight Hall, developing athletic facilities. between the Chapel and Barnes Hall. has its easterly side extended toward The largest bequest, $508,573.93, came This is now surfaced with macadam, en- Beebe Lake, thus doubling its dining from the estate of James Parmelee 'γ6, closed with rustic rails, and has shrub- capacity to about 100. New kitchen Cleveland real estate operator and finan- bery growing to screen it from Central equipment is being installed and the cier, who died in 1931. Gifts from the Avenue and Willard Straight Hall. Sage dining room is being entirely refurnished, Rockefeller Foundation for endowment, Avenue has been moved east around Olin complete with a new "juke box," to research, and departmental development Hall, and its sidewalk along the east side (Continued on next page) totalled $697,4x5.90. Of this sum, $600,- from Sage College 000 was to endow to Tower Road has the Department of been moved back Public Health and of the trees and the Preventive Medi- road widened. cine in the Medical North of Tower College in New Road, East Avenue York. The Founda- is newly paved; tion also made the distinctive old grants for research rock quarry in front in tuberculosis, of the men's dor- amino acids, long- mitories is now evity, reflex be- smoothly graded havior, maize and will soon be stock, chemistry, grass-covered physics, and the many trees and history of the Far shrubs have been East, and for de- set out about the partmental devel- Campus; walks and opment in public streets have been health, anatomy, resurfaced, and new drama, music, and trailsand stepshave Russian language been built in Fall and literature. An Creek gorge. An- additional $5,555- other extensive 64 was received grading and plant- from the General ing operation has Education Board been done around OLIN HALL SEEN THROUGH THE CENTRAL AVENUE ELMS for a project in the growing colony Native stone and brick walls of the $700,000 new building for the School of Chemical critical thinking. of University serv- Engineering are rapidly rising on the green in front of Sage College. This view is from S. C. Johnson & ice buildings near across Central Avenue near Willard Straight Hall. Phot^fy^j^attke '30 Son, Inc. gave 1984 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS $56,500 toward establishment of the CAMPUS IMPROVEMENTS fluorescent lighting will soon be ready in Herbert Fisk Johnson Professorship in (Continued from page 1) the cafeteria, with new furniture for the Industrial Chemistry, and the Olin Foun- make the building more than ever a music and art room and new rugs for dation contributed $100,000 toward de- pleasant student gathering place. Memorial Room. velopment of the School of Chemical Important interior rearrangements in Extensive lighting improvements have Engineering. Goldwin Smith, Stimson, and McGraw been made by the Buildings and Grounds Among notable bequests received dur- halls have been made possible this sum- Department all over the Campus, and ing the year were additions totalling mer through a bequest from Roger P. underground they have also been busy. $76,180.54 to the John McMullen Fund Clark '91, a noted lawyer who died in Electrical workers have installed a new for scholarships in Engineering, bringing 1940. He left for the unrestricted use of power line from the Heating Plant to the the total of this fund to more than the University oil paintings valued at High Tension Laboratory site, a new $1,000,000; $49,644.5Z and an art collec- $35,000, securities worth approximately underground line for electric services, and tion valued at $35,000 from the estate of $9,000, and an additional sum of more telephone connections to Olin Hall where Roger P.