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Happy 100th Anniversary!!! Come back to Cornell!
One hundred years
ago today, Liberty Hyde Bailey was doing some serious planning for
spring. On May 12, 2004, standing as newly named Dean, in his signature
hat, he used a plough to break ground for the new College of Agriculture
at Cornell. A great parade of students and faculty followed. One
of the founding departments he created for this new college was
landscape architecture, which he called the Department of Outdoor
Art. 100 years later, on May 12, Dean Susan Henry (the first woman
Dean of the college), wearing Bailey's hat, will inaugurate
a year of anniversary celebrations, beginning with Centennial Garden
for the library (built by students in Peter and Nina's class).
This event will occur right in the middle of our final reviews in
landscape architecture, but we anticipate that our students and
faculty will be there to inaugurate the centennial of the college
and of landscape architecture.
We hope you are planning to come be with us during this centennial
year!
Alumni festivities in landscape architecture kick off with
Alumni Reunion 2004
and continue with special events on campus and
at ASLA concluding with Reunion 2005. For most of us, the program
began when we arrived as freshmen or graduate students, but during
the first part of the year, we will reflect on our collective history:
celebrating the program of Liberty Hyde Bailey in the old poultry
barn; the '20s–'40s with Gilmore Clarke down in White Hall
in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning; the years of
the '50s and '60s in AAP or up in CALS; and, in the greatest numbers,
the '70s and '80s in Plant Science, East Roberts and Sibley and
the '90s and turn of the millennium in Kennedy.
One special feature of this celebration is designed at the suggestion
of several alumni/ae: The Virtual Gallery of Alumni Work. If you
send in digital images of projects you have done that you would
like to share with your classmates, we will produce special anniversary
CDs of the collected work of Cornell landscape architects—see
the description inside. Another idea is an E-Archive. Thinking of
throwing that old student work away? Are your old photos of your
school years fading? If you provide us with digital images and some
kind of explanation of each one, we will build an archive from your
contributions. We are ALWAYS looking for compromising photographs
of our faculty (not me, of course...) Seriously, we do not have
many images of the studios in Plant Science, East Roberts or other
locations of the program. Kennedy is very well photographed, as
it is so lovely. Such a record of our teaching over the years will
delight the future Dan Kralls of Cornell.
I want to thank those of you who have volunteered to help with Centennial
events. One thing everyone can do is to help us build our email
database to make communication about events in the coming year successful.
Marvin Adleman is writing to a member of each class to help serve
as a contact, so I hope you will hear from your class rep shortly.
If you send us the emails of alumni you are in contact with, we
can get out the news about events quickly – and offer that
unsubscribe feature! Another thing anyone can do to help is to write
to me about any faculty member you would like to see recognized
with a teaching award at the college, university or national level.
I will use your letter as we make the nominations – I hope
we can really celebrate this wonderful faculty and program, and
all the hard work it took to give us our fine educations.
There is much in this newsletter beside the 100th Anniversary celebrations.
It has been an exciting year of studios, research and awards. You
may have seen the wonderful article on Marvin Adleman in Landscape
Architecture Magazine. This followed shortly after he was awarded
the Sigma Lamba Alpha Award for Excellence in Teaching at CELA.
We have been delighted to attend the inauguration of our alumni
as Fellows of the ASLA: congratulations to Lolly Tai ('78) and to
Elizabeth Meyers (History of Architecture '83 and LA faculty member,
'84). Many of our alumni have published books recently—see
our feature inside! And catch up with the faculty's goings on.
I would like to close by offering a special invitation to members
of my own Class of '79 (undergrads and grads) to come back
for reunion this year! I think we have lost track of a few members
of our class, so let me know of anyone you have heard from recently.
Let the celebrations begin!
Kathryn Gleason
Chair
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