Cornell Class of 1966
Graduation, 1966 Photo by Herb Fontecilla
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2024 is the Chinese Year of the Dragon, with a lucky color of RED and a prophecy of opportunities, changes, and challenges. Many cultures worldwide embrace the new year; some believe that what you do at the beginning of a new year will affect your luck in the coming year. So, here’s an opportunity to improve your luck, by paying your Class Dues! You’ll benefit from the opportunities our class provides to continue the conversation with classmates and old friends.
It has been your support every year that has kept that conversation going.
You can pay with a few clicks or put a check in the mail. Whatever you do, please pay your dues by June 30!
John Monroe & Rolf Frantz
Class co-Presidents
Everything you need is below & it's easy!
Dues year: July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025
$ 50 Individual
$ 60 1966 Couples Dues
Please Consider:
'66 "Diamond bear" class fund
Your Diamond Bear "Additional Contribution" in ANY amount ensures our strong Class Treasury.
(Note: Class Dues & "Diamond Bear" '66 Class Fund are tax-deductible)
It is difficult to find the exact tone to write as we each and all watch the world news. Like you, we hear daily of the resulting happenings of passion and protest on university campuses - and the particular news of terrifying posts advocating harm to Cornell students who now walk the campus we shared. As citizens and as alumni, our political opinions span the spectrum. But, we feel confident writing that, as human beings, our collective hope is for peaceful resolutions to be found, soon and somehow, in this elusive, divisive, complex, frightening time.
Each year, Class co-President John Monroe urges us as '66 classmates "to keep the conversation going" - especially as we age, especially as we live near and far. It is in that exact spirit we created the Hidden Jewels discoveries at our 35th Reunion Weekend - and have continued them online as Covid and distance have dictated. To learn together, to discuss and debate what we learn, and to invite shared thought and conversation as a Class, this year - and on. It is how we are Cornellians; it is how we are '66.
Watch or join our Hidden Jewels video sessions! See details below.
The Class of '66 welcomes members of the Classes of '64, '65, '67, and '68 to join us!
CORNELL CLASS OF 1966 HIDDEN JEWELS
FALL 2022 - SPRING 2023
GET OUT THE VOTE!
With Katherine Reagan, Kroch Library, Rare Manuscripts
WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE? – and WHY?
Beebe Lake: Past, Present, Future – with Corey Earle & Todd Bittner
We extended an invitation to our Cornell Sixties peer classes who experienced Beebe similarly to '66 "as we knew it in our time" and to the Cornell Botanic Gardens audience.
A remarkable 550 alumni joined this webinar. And more have watched the recording.
At our 25th Reunion, the Cornell Class of 1966 endowed in perpetuity the new lawn created at the shore of Beebe Lake. President Rhodes accepted the gift on behalf of Cornell University, announcing its name, "'66 beebe beach - now and for all time."
The last decade has seen a new "beebe beach." Where the lawn had once been, now stand woodlands and woodland trails. The rock bearing the 25th Reunion plaque still greets visitors, but with a new sensibility. We asked Cornell Botanic Gardens to talk about the changing habitat and its new needs. Corey Earle's wonderful archival photos and film clips open the evening.
Corey & Todd offer this preview:
"From hydropower to hockey, Beebe Lake has a fascinating history that predates Cornell University itself. Join the Class of 1966 for a stroll around the lake with this special program about Beebe's ever-changing habitat and yet its ever-permanent place in Cornell's social and natural environment. We'll hear from historian Corey Ryan Earle ’07 about the lake's past, including a stop at '66 beebe beach, and then from Cornell Botanic Gardens Director of Natural Areas Todd Bittner, who will discuss the lake's present and future, including its evolving ecology, recreational uses, and stewardship."
COCOA & CLASSMATES (Wine, if you must) ’SOCIAL HOUR
With West Campus Students’ Interviews with ’66 Classmates
This year, we jump-started our time together listening to a curated clip from the three hours of "conversations" shared last Spring between six of our '66 classmates and six West Campus Residential House undergraduates - "Campus Life, Then and Now." Our conversations flowed - and our individual memories - almost a bit of the beginning of an oral history... Same/Different memories for you?
Cornell’s Carbon Neutral, Geothermal Heating Research Project to source
Earth’s internal heat to warm Ithaca’s campus without fossil fuels -
with College of Engineering Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Jefferson Tester ’66, Theresa Jordan, Patrick Fulton, and several Cornell Students working on the project. Co-sponsored by the Cornell Class of 1966 and College of Engineering.
Click here (or on the bear) to check out Cornellians, the University's new e-magazine, containing news, features, alumni reports much more!
Change in Cornell Email Forwarding
Cornell Information Technologies (CIT) is making a change to email forwarding. This is an effort to provide a more stable and reliable email service for you and make more efficient use of Cornell's IT resources.
This means your Cornell email is no longer passing through Cornell's server infrastructure, except in the case of forwarding to outside accounts, and is instead being delivered directly to the university's email service providers. This change may require action from you. Please continue reading at the link below to confirm your next steps to ensure your desired email deliverability.
There is an email scam currently being used on classmates. It works this: Someone will contact you by email, using the name of a classmate that you know, and asking you for a donation to some class activity like reunion or a scholarship.
This is known as "phishing" in computer slang. According to AARP, people in our age group are especially vulnerable to this scam.
The only protection against phishing is to be especially vigilant. For example, if you receive a donation request, check the email address in the "From:" bar at the top of the email page - not the classmate's name, but the email address. If the address is something like "executivekeyboard0054", it's probably from a phisher. If you're still not sure, check our online WebDirectory to see if the classmate's address matches the one on the email. Or contact the classmate via the WebDirectory address and ask if he or she sent you the email.
