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The Centennial Kick-Off
The Centennial kick-off begins for alumni with Reunion 2004! The
closing celebrations will be Reunion 2005. Please join us, whether
or not it is officially your reunion year!
Thanks to those of you who have helped us plan or volunteered to
lend a hand with the Centennial Events! Have a look at the program
below and let us know what you think! The best way everyone can
help is to let us know if you hope to come.
RSVP: lbw9@cornell.edu or klg16@cornell.edu; or
607-255-9552.
We will conduct an email survey, but if you are not on our email
list, do let us know if you are tentatively or definitely planning
to attend by April 15, or as soon as possible thereafter, so we
can better plan our events and celebrations!
Other ideas: work with your classmates on celebration
ideas, help us nominate a faculty member for an teaching recognition
award, create a memorial for a classmate, or consider a class gift.
We are happy to help with communication and in developing ideas!
Contact Kathy Gleason at klg16@cornell.edu.
Highlights of Centennial Reunion Event
for 2004
A detailed schedule will come in a separate mailing in April and
is also availalbe online, along with links to CALS and Cornell's
Reunion sites, at http://www.landscape.cornell.edu/100th/.
Thursday, June 10
| If you arrive this early, stop
by and check in at 440 Kennedy Hall during the work day
(9am-4pm). Visit with staff and let us know you are here.
Marv will be conducting his famous site grading workshop.
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Friday, June 11
Our celebrations begin Friday with
a retrospective day of seminars and gatherings in the Kennedy
Hall Studios. The studio will be alive with presentations
of student work and faculty research, as well as historic
and memorable images, for you to peruse between events and
over the weekend. Come meet the faculty and participate
in oral histories of the program. We are working out the
details for this day and we welcome any suggestions from
the alumni! Do you want to hear about faculty research and
projects? Hear from other faculty around the university?
Discuss alumni issues? Email us at klg16@cornell.edu with
your thoughts.
3:00 pm -- The University’s Olin Lecture: the speaker is
to be announced. Fraternity and sorority events are 4-6
on Friday and Saturday, so we will keep the schedule flexible
in the later part of the day.
7:00 pm -- Dan Krall will offer a lecture on “100 Years
of Landscape Architecture at Cornell”, after which we will
have the unveiling of the Virtual
Alumni Gallery: your work, research, speculations and
other submissions (see below).
The success of this event is up to you! We will provide
music and a chance for you to meet up with friends, faculty,
and classmates before the tent parties from 9pm-1am. |
Saturday, June 12
| Garden Party Early birds can join
CALS alumni for breakfast with the Dean, followed by the
Liberty Hyde Bailey lecture and President Lehman’s State
of the University address at 10:30am. Landscape Architecture
is hosting an Open House for all interested Cornell alumni
from 10am to noon. If you had to miss Friday’s events, stop
by and browse through the presentations in the studios,
and tell fellow Cornell alumni about the profession of landscape
architecture! Then spend the late morning and all afternoon
at a garden party at Peter Trowbridge and Nina Bassuk’s
wonderful house and gardens. There will be a garden tour
in progress and we will lounge around catching up, listening
to music and enjoying the beautifully designed setting—even
if it is a classically rainy Ithaca day. There will be lots
of room to gather with your class, or mingle with other
Cornell alumni. And lots of opportunities for any alumni
inspired roasts and toasts. |
Sunday, June 13
| Our weekend will colse with a tour
of Cornell Plantations with alumna and Plantations LA Irene
Lekstutis MLA ‘00. A reception at the Summer Pavilion from
9-11 will provide a chance for farewells. |
University-Wide Reunion Links
Housing
| Hotels are notoriously hard to
get for this event! But housing is available for non-reunion
alumni. There are no advance reservations for off-year alumni,
but on your arrival at Cornell, you can register at Founders
Hall and receive keys for dormitory accommodation in Founder’s
Hall or any one of four other dormitories. We were assured
that there is room for all.
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Virtual Gallery
Our Boston alumni, Peter Trowbridge and Kris Flahive have developed
a great idea…. a virtual gallery of alumni work.
In anticipation
of the Department of Landscape Architecture’s Centennial Celebration
in 2004-2005, we are inviting all Alumni to submit both built and
unbuilt projects for an on-campus exposition. We welcome work from
our alumni who have pursued academic careers or other walks of life.
If you want your fellow alumni to know of your work, we’ll
find natural categories for recognizing it.
All work can be submitted to the Department via CD or electronically
emailed to Kris Flahive (kf15@cornell.edu) in a Powerpoint format.
Please do not scan images over 300 dpi. The work should be briefly
captioned directly on the image, providing project title, location,
authorship and a very brief project description. We will present
the work at a Centennial Celebration for Alumni.
A CD of all work provided will be burned and made available to all
alumni, but especially those who have contributed work to the electronic
alumni portfolio. The first CD will be burned for the 2004 Alumni
Reunion Kick Off this June!
To achieve that goal, we would like
to receive all images by April 30 -- or as soon as possible thereafter. If you are sending a CD, mail
it to: Kristine Flahive, Landscape Architecture Department, Cornell
University, 440 Kennedy Hall, Ithaca NY 14853.
Any questions? Call
(607)255-4582.
E-Archive
About to throw out your student work? Worried about fading photographs
of your days in studio? If you scan this work and send it to us,
we will form an E-Archive. If your work dates to the early years
of the program, or if you know about an early graduate of the program
whose work–student or professional–might be of significance,
contact Dan Krall (dwk5@cornell.edu) or Kathy Gleason (klg16@cornell.edu).
The Kroch Rare Books and Manuscripts Library has excellent facilities
for original works and papers. Most of the archives of the Department
are kept in this facility.
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