Congratulations, Class of'92!
ChronicleC O R N E L L
Volume 23 Number 34 May 21, 1992

Tribute to former president 3
Former President James A. Perkins, who has been recognized for his visionary approach to educational issues for nearly half a century, will be honored during special ceremonies on campus Friday and Saturday.

'Hive' society doctor

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For some students, a medical career is pursued as an entree to high society. For Dr. Scott Camazine, his 1978 medical degree let him practice medicine while working toward a Ph.D., with the help of social insects.

Macebearer

5,900 to receive degrees at 124th commencement

Peter Morenus/University Photography
The University Mace, used for the first time in 1963, will be carried Sunday for the 20th time by Professor Emeritus Frank B. Miller, who is retiring as macebearer after this year. The sterling silver, 17-pound mace contains a globe with gold continents and is topped by a bear holding a gold crew oar. It was designed by Sir Eric Clements of the Goldsmith's Guild in London. Miller's advice to the next macebearer: wear something to protect your shoulder, and know when to pick it up and put it down. "It's a fairly humble position," he says.

By Linda Grace-Kobas
President Frank H.T. Rhodes will confer degrees on more than 5,900 eligible graduates at the university's 124th commencement on Sunday at 11 a.m. at Schoellkopf Field.
Rhodes will deliver the commencement address to graduates of Cornell's 11 schools and colleges and their families. In keeping with Cornell tradition, there will be no other speakers or honorary degree recipients at the general commencement. Other commencement weekend events will be:
On Saturday, May 23: President's Reception: The Board of Trustees and President and Mrs. Rhodes will honor graduates and their families at a breakfast reception on the Arts Quad from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. Senior Convocation in Barton Hall at noon: Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman nominated for vice president by a major political party and current candidate for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from New York, will deliver an address at the invitation of the senior class. Ian Kutner, president of the senior class, will also speak. The Class of 1992 will present as a gift to the university a donation to the Cornell Tradition, a program that awards 600 fellowships each year to students who demonstrate significant work experience, community service and scholarly achievement.
D.V.M. Hooding Ceremony in Alice Statler Auditorium at 4 p.m.: New doctors of veterinary medicine will take the Veterinarian's Oath and individually receive their doctoral hoods.
ROTC Commissioning in Barton Hall at 5 p.m.: Officers from Cornell's Reserve Officers' Training Corps Brigade will be commissioned into the Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force by Vice Adm. J.D. Williams, deputy chief of naval operations.
Special events for graduates and their families on Saturday include tours of Cornell Plantations from 10 a.m. to noon; Cornell Wind Fnsemble Concert in the Arts Quad at 3 p.m.; and the Senior Week Concert by the Glee Club

Winner of $15,000 prize follows her father into food service industry, after visit to Italy

By Albert E. KafT
The 1992 winner of Cornell's biggest cash prize for a graduating senior plans to use the $15,000 to pay off her student loans, look for a job in Italy and invest in a future business.
Barbara J.Pantuso, 21, of Orlando, Fla., was selected by the School of Hotel Administration to receive the 1992 Joseph Drown Foundation Prize awarded for academic achievement, university activities, career goals and community activities.
Five other Hotel School graduating students won S 1,000 each as Drown Prize finalists. All will graduate on Sunday.
In an interview, Pantuso said she will use $5,000 of her prize to pay off all her student loans and deposit most of the balance in a safe investment as capital to start a contract food service company.
She will retain some of the cash to finance a trip to Rome this summer to look for a one-year job to prepare herself for launching her own business.
"I want the challenge of learning a different language, a different culture, a different way of life than the United States," Pantuso said in applying for the award. For three semesters, she studied Italian at Cornell and, as a child, lived in five U.S. states. "I learned to adapt easily and to recognize and understand the differences and

similarities between people and places," she commented.
In her life career, she plans to follow in her father's footsteps. Vince Pantuso is an executive in a contract food service company that supplies stadiums and arenas. Her interest was sparked when she was a child. Her father took
Barbara J. Pantuso

her and her sisters to Chicago Bears games at Soldiers Field, where her father's company operated the stadium's food service.
"We used to go behind the scenes to see the origins of the hot dogs and popcorn," the student said, "and that was exciting to me."
In his letter recommending Pantuso for the award, Christopher Muller, a lecturer in the I lotel School, called her a "remarkable woman" and "an exceptional student" who "also exhibits a rare quality: she has the ability to laugh at herself."
Susan E. Kiner, another Hotel School lecturer, wrote that Pantuso's written work "was of the highest caliber" and "in class discussion she asked penetrating questions and participated actively without being overbearing."
Pantuso's four-year cumulative grade point average was 3.82 out of a possible 4. With an academic concentration in food and beverage management, she was on the Hotel School Dean's List each of her four years at Cornell.
She participated in several campus activities including serving as president of Ye Hosts Honorary Society, a student organization; volunteer worker in Ithaca providing meals to underprivileged people and in Washington, D.C., in a homeless kitchen; intramural Softball; and representative of Hotel School students at a 1991 national hotel show in New York City and
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and Chorus in Bailey Hall at 8:15 p.m. On Sunday, May 24: Baccalaureate Service in Bailey Hall at
8:30 a.m.: The Rev. Dr. Maurice Boyd, senior minister of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City, will present the address. Music will be provided by the Cornell Glee Club, Chorus and Wind Ensemble.
Procession: Thousands of robed students, faculty, trustees and administrators will assemble at the Arts Quad at 9:30 a.m. and proceed to Schoellkopf Field. The academic procession will be led by University Marshall J. Robert Cooke, professor of agriculture and biological engineering, and Macebearer Frank B. Miller, professor emeritus of industrial and labor relations.
Commencement will take place in Schoellkopf Field from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. After the address is presented by Rhodes, he will confer degrees on approximately 5,900 students eligible for degrees at all levels, including those who completed degree work last August and January. Some 2,309 graduates are eligible to receive master's or doctoral degrees, including 1,794 from the Graduate School; 199 from the Law School; 208 from the Johnson Graduate School of Management; and 78 from the College of Veterinary Medicine.
Approximately 3,687 students are eligible for undergraduate degrees, including 920 in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; 138 in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning; 1,174 in the College of Arts and Sciences; 654 in the College of Engineering; 224 in the School of Hotel Administration; 387 in the College of Human Ecology; and 190 in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
The ceremony will be broadcast live on cable television station Channel 54 starting at 10 a.m. Radio station WHCU (870 AM) will broadcast the ceremony beginning at 11 a.m.
In the event of high winds or lightning, commencement will be held in two ceremonies in Barton Hall: at 10:30 a.m. for candidates from Veterinary Medicine, the Johnson School, Agriculture and Life Sciences and Arts and Sciences, and at 1 p.m. for all other candidates.
The Johnson Graduate School of Management will hold a ceremony in Bailey Hall at 1 p.m.: Dean Alan Merten will speak and award diplomas.
Cornell Medical College: C. Everett Koop, former surgeon general of the United States, will speak at commencement ceremonies in New York City on Wednesday, May 27, at 3 p.m. in Avery Fisher Hall of Lincoln Center. Receiving degrees will be 101 graduates.
Calendar
The following is an abbreviated calendar of commencement events.
Saturday, May 23 • President's Reception to honor the graduates and their families at a breakfast on the Arts Quad from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. • Convocation in Barton Hall at noon. Geraldine Ferraro will speak.
Sunday, May 24 • Baccalaureate Service in Bailey Hall at 8:30 a.m. The Rev. Dr. Maurice Boyd, senior minister of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City, will speak. Commencement will take place in SchoellkopfFieldfromlla.m.tol2:30 p.m. President Frank H.T. Rhodes will speak and confer degrees on approximately 5,900 students.

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Concentration

Faculty assist with graduate summer funds

Peter MorenusAJniversity Photographx
Freshman Allison Halpern takes her final examination in "Food Choices and Issues" at Barton Hall.

BRIEFS
• Student insurance: The 1992-93 rates for accident and sickness insurance for students and their dependents will be as follows: The cost for a single student will be $500, a 16 percent increase. To cover spouses, the rate has increased to $948 for insurance with use of the Gannett Health Center; to $1,507 without use of the Health Center; and $576 for one or more children. Students have until the end of December to decide whether to waive the university plan. For more information, call the student insurance office at Gannett at 255-6363.
• Women's Studies: The following will take seats on the Women's Studies Executive Board next fall as a result of recent elections: Barbara Correll, Nancy Hirschmann, Mary Katzenstein, Mary Jo Dudley, Anne J. Russ, Sandra Tail, Susan Eschbach, Dionne Espinoza, Judith
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a 1992 national restaurant show in Chicago. She credited her parents with the greatest
influence on her personal and professional development. "My father taught me the value of a sense of humor and the ability to laugh at one's self, and he taught me a strong work ethic," she said.
Writing about her mother, Carol Wolfe, the student said: "She always worked full time as I was growing up. In doing so, she not only provided an example of hard work, but she fostered independence in me."

Hilman, Brenda Marston, Denice Cassaro, Martha Eller, Anna Marie Smith, Candace Widmer, Lois Brown and Shelley Wong. The Women's Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences encourages scholarship about women and gender.
• Summer parking: Summer parking permits for central campus will go on sale May 26. To purchase a summer permit, go to the Traffic Bureau at 116 Maple Ave.
• Liquor license: In accordance with state law: Notice is hereby given that liquor license number OP307 252 has been issued to the undersigned to sell liquor under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at the Big Red Bam, Cornell University, Tompkins County for on-premises consumption.
Drown Prize finalists are Keith Thomas Barr, Brighton, Mass.; Sheila K. Bauer, Holland, Mich.; Elizabeth Chow, Jackson Heights, N.Y.; James P. Scher, Ithaca, N.Y.; and Ramon L. Watkins, Tulsa, Okla.
The Drown Prize was established and endowed in 1985 by the directors of the Joseph Drown Foundation in honor of the late Joseph W. Drown, who owned and operated hotels in Hollywood, San Diego, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Winners can use their prize money in any way they wish.

Trustees to meet
The Board of Trustees and several of its committees will meet in public sessions Friday and Saturday, with trustees joining Sunday's commencement procession and taking seats of honor on the presidential platform.
On May 22, there will be open sessions of: • The Buildings and Properties Committee in the Yale/Princeton Room of the Statler Hotel from 1 to 1:15 p.m., for two status reports on ongoing projects.
• The Committee on Land Grant and Statutory College Affairs in the Faculty Commons in Van Rensselaer Hall from 4 to 5:30 p.m., for yearly reports of the deans of the four statesupported units: the Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Human Ecology, Veterinary Medicine and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
• The Committee on Academic Affairs and Campus Life in the Taylor Room of the Statler from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., for reports on reaccreditation and on graduation rates.
The following will be held May 23: • The Executive Committee will meet in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum's Study Gallery at 10 a.m.; there will be an open discussion of the 1992-93 statutory financial plan for the first 10 minutes of the 10 a.m. meeting.
• The full board will meet in open session from from 11 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. in the Johnson Museum's Trustee Meeting Room to discuss the statutory financial plan and hear Joycelyn Hart, associate vice president for human relations, present her annual report on progress toward diversity.
Anyone wishing to attend the open portions of the full board's and Executive Committee's meetings may obtain tickets at the Information and Referral Center in the Day Hall lobby.

ChC roniO R N E L L cle

Hennk N. Dullea Vice President for University Relations
Linda Grace-Kobas Director, Cornell News Service

Mark Eyerly, Editor Julie Manners, Graphics Joanne Hanavan, Calendar

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GRADUATE BULLETIN
Reception: A reception will be held for all graduate degree recipients, families and friends in the Sage Graduate Center lounge immediately following commencement.
Diplomas: Diplomas will be available at the reception for May 1992 degree recipients who completed requirements by mid-March (bring ID). Diplomas will be mailed for other recipients.
Faculty: A graduate faculty meeting will be held on Friday, May 22, at 4 p.m. in the Sage Graduate Center to vote on May degrees.
August degree: Friday, Aug. 21, is the deadline for completing all requirements for an August degree.
Summer registration: Students receiving summer support from the Graduate School should have submitted their registration forms by May 20. Students must register if they are receiving financial aid during the summer (such as summer assistantships or fellowships); wish to use campus facilities during the summer; or are off campus but need to be registered for summer study.

By Sam Segal
Summer support for graduate students has improved in recent weeks with the provision of matching funds fromfaculty in numerous fields, according to Alison P. Casarett, dean of the Graduate School.
Despite substantial budget cuts, Casarett said, "We have been able to provide stipends through the Graduate School for almost as many students as last year; and in the departments of government, history and English, the number is at least as high as last year's."
As of May 15, some 715 graduate students had been awarded $1.74 million in summer support from the Graduate School, work-study funds and faculty contributions, Casarett said.
The number of students receiving summer stipends has risen sharply in the past decade. In 1982, there were only 97; there were 315 in 1985; in 1988 there were 509; and in 1990 there were 718.
Last summer, a record 791 students received $2.04 million, but summer funding became particularly tight this year because of budget problems affecting the entire university.
The statutory colleges, because of the state's continuing budget crisis, were assigned a basebudget cut of $5.2 million.
The endowed general-purpose budget also lost potential revenues of more than $2 million because of reduced state funding; and, continuing an extended period of budget constraint, spending growth was reduced by nearly $6 million.
So the Graduate School, like all university units, was required in the early spring to make cuts in planned expenses for the year starting July i. Its cut in the budget for fellowships and work- study funds was about $500,000.
To ease the effect during the coming academic year, Casarett decided to reduce 1992 summer-stipend funds by $150,000 and apply that money to next year's costs.
Several weeks ago, Casarett urged the graduate faculty representatives to make a special effort to look for funds that could be used to match her own remaining, unallocated funds of about $50,000. The match could be 50-50 or, where federal work-study funds were available, 30-70, with $750 of faculty funding educing another $1,750.
The positive response—usu ally drawing on faculty research funds — has helped bring the support as high as it is, despite the budget cuts. Casarett say she will continue to work cooperatively with faculty.
"Our aim is to support as many students as possible during the summer," Casarett said, adding: "That is the best time for concentrated work on research without teaching responsibilities. Considering the budget pressures we all face, we've done reasonably well this year, thanks in great part to help from the faculty."
TIAA/CREF forum
is set for May 29
The status of the state's employer contribution to the TIAA/CREF Optional Retirement Program for statutory employees will be discussed at a public meeting on May 29 at noon in Kennedy Hall's Alumni Auditorium.
University officials will review the legal issue — including the possibility of reduced state payments — and will discuss Cornell's actions to influence the outcome. Time will be reserved for faculty and staff questions, comments and suggestions, andrepresentatives from TIAA/CREF will be present
A state task force is examining implications of linking state payment levels in two different kin>'. o. retirement systems -—one (including Tiei U. Ill and IV) where the employer contribution is defined as a proportion of earnings, and the other (Employees Retirement and Teachers Retirement Systems) where the retirement benefit is defined, regardless of the size of the state's employer contribution.
CHRONICLE SCHEDULE
This is the last weekly issue of the Cornell Chronicle for the spring term. Summer issues will appear on June 4 and 18, July 9 and 23, and Aug. 6. Weekly issues for the fall semester will resume with the Aug. 27 edition. Calendar notices are due 10 days before publication date.

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Former President James A. Perkins, a visionary educator, to be honored

By Martin B. Stiles
Former President James A. Perkins, who has been recognized for his visionary approach to educational issues for nearly half a century, will be honored during special ceremonies on campus Friday and Saturday.
Earlier this year Cornell's trustees established an endowed professorship in environmental studies in honor of the 80-year old educator, who was president of Cornell from 1963 to 1969.
Perkins served for 20 years as chairman and chief executive afficer of the International Council for Educational Development in Princeton, N.J. He was named chairman emeritus of the council in 1990. Perkins will attend a Board of Trustees dinner in his honor, to be held at Cornell Plantations Saturday evening.
After the James A. Perkins Professorship in Environmental Studies was designated, Perkins said: "Concern for the environment has now, and properly, becomea worldwide preoccupation. Decades of ignorance fueled by indifference require immediate attention to the interconnected problems of overpopulation. Pollution, resource depletion and climate warming. Equally important is the framing of constructive policies that marry anvironmental solutions with the high priority social objectives of employment, economic development, financial resources, free trade and social justice.
"The university is clearly the institution that embraces the disciplines that must underpin a proper understanding of both the problems and the appropriate policies. The university also combines the teaching and research necessary for the preparation of environmental leaders and an increased number of environmentally literate citizens."
Principal speakers at the May 23 event will include President Frank H.T. Rhodes and former President Dale R. Corson, who served as university provost during Perkins' tenure.
Friday afternoon, a reception will be held for Perkins in the A.D. White House, with representatives of the programs, professorships and facilities that were created under his leadership and that serve as an enduring legacy of administration.
These include establishment of the Division of Biological Sciences, Center for International Studies, Africana Studies and Research Center, Committee on Special Educational Projects, Department of Computer Science, the Water Resources Institute, Plasma Physics Laboratory and the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research.
Twenty-three endowed professorships were established during the Perkins years, along ivith the creation of the Societyfor the Humanities and the Andreiv D. White Professorsat-Large Program.
In addition, 23 endowed professorships were established during the Perkins years, along with the creation of the Society for the Humanities and the Andrew D. White Professors-atLarge Program.
Perkins' tenure was marked by extensive construction on campus, including the Space Sciences Building, the Wilson Synchrotron, Noyes Student Center, the Campus Store, and Uris, Clark, Emerson and Bradfield halls. He also obtained commitments for the construction of Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.
Perkins led Cornell during a time of intense political and social turmoil in the 1960s; he contributed to the creative forces of the era and, as president, was the focal point of the radical

Former President Perkins

Joe Vericker

student activism of the period. He resigned in the spring of 1969 following upheavals that included the takeover ofWillard Straight Hall. In his letter of resignation, he said: "I believed when I came to Cornell, and I continue to believe after my experience here, that this university, with its long tradition of scholastic excellence and of constructive service to society, must lead the way in current efforts to develop the modem university."
Four years later, in an address at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, he said that "the university is at least as conservative as it is revolutionary" and concluded that "the university's greatest instrument for social reform is surely not its institutional muscle but its graduates who will have appreciated a dedication to careful analysis and precise statement; a perspective that comes from a reading of history, an appreciation of other cultures, a love of truth; a mastery of the tools of laboratory and library that help dispel ignorance better than do incantation or dictatorial fiat; and finally, a horizon that embraces a view of what could be, the first prerequisite of social reform."
Perkins came to Cornell from the Carnegie Corporation of New York with a well-established reputation as a statesman for higher education and as an adviser to presidents, a role that he has continued to fill. He joined the Carnegie Corp. in 1950, serving as vice president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching from 1954 until being named the seventh president of Cornell.
A member of the Society of Friends, he was bom in Philadelphia and attended the Germantown Friends School. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1934 and received a doctorate in political science from Princeton University in 1937, where he taught until 1941. During World War II, he served in the federal Office of Price Administration and the Foreign Economic Administration. From 1945 to 1950, Perkins was vice president of Swarthmore College.

Faculty elect Professor Calvo trustee

By Sam Segal
Joseph M. Calvo. Lie William T. Keeton Professor of Biology, has been elected by the faculty to sit on the Board of Trustees for four years, beginning July 1.
His election, through a mailed balloting in which 613 faculty members participated, was announced by Dean of the Faculty Walter Lynn at the May 13 meeting of the Faculty Council of Representatives (FCR).
Calvo replaces Jennie T. Farley, professor of industrial and labor relations. Isaac Kramnick, the Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government, has two more years in his term as the other faculty-elected trustee.
After the brief meeting, the FCR's Executive Committee gave emergency approval to an agenda item on which the lack of a quorum prevented an FCR vote. The item asked Lynn to dissolve the Committee on the Economic Status of Statutory Faculty as of July 1 and to transfer its charge to the existing Committee on Financial Policies, which now analyzes financial conditions and recommends priorities concerning the endowed units only.
The lack of a quorum, or 49 members, evoked an "expression of concern" from Lynn, who has chided FCR members in the past for laxity in meeting an obligation they volunteered for.
Of the eight annual FCR meetings, Lynn said, two had been canceled this year for lack ofbusiness and three had failed to raise a quorum for doing business.
"I intend to examine the problem as to whether some form of reorganization — that is, a revised structure — would be appropriate," Lynn said.
He said one goal would be to ensure that the faculty's routine business could be carried out, but he said later that it was premature to go into any detailed suggestions. He promised to resume the theme next semester.
Those present heard some elaboration on the Cornell Com-

mission on Higher Education, whose creation by the Executive Committee was announced at the April FCR meeting.
Executive Committee Chairman Alan McAdams of the Johnson Graduate School of Management said higher education faced "perilous times," and he defined the commission's charge: "To investigate and report back on matters of strategic importance to the survival of, and access to, quality higher education at Cornell and in the nation."
CIT workshops to teach
technology use in class
The Learning Technologies Program, a series of workshops offered by Cornell Information Technologies and sponsored by Apple Computer Inc., helps faculty develop learning technologies for courses in higher education.
The core curriculum. Learning Technologies for Educators (LTE), will be offered exclusively to Cornell faculty during the fall semester. It also is available for participants nationwide July 26 to 29, said Carrie Regenstein, program director.
A non-discipline-specific curriculum, the LTE permits faculty to explore a range of information technologies, from the simplest use of software to more complex possibilities, including laserdisc technologies. The course covers HyperCard, uses of computer projection and a variety of simulation programs.
Louise Holmes, the LTP project leader, said participants in both workshops may take advantage of CIT's Instructional Resource Center, where they can explore, hands-on, several of the technologies. Faculty interested in the Learning Technologies Program workshops should contact Paul Navare at 2553329, or e-mail LTP@Cornell.edu.

CORNELL life
Getting ready
T-minus-three and counting. Three days until commencement — which means Grounds Department crews are laying the last slabs of sod, the Traffic Department is planning how to keep cars from blocking the streets, and the cooks, waiters, busboys, bellhops and maids at the Statler Hotel are resting up before the biggest weekend of the year. From one end of the university to the other people have been preparing for commencement for weeks; in some offices they have been working even longer. "Preparing for commencement is like planning a huge wedding, multiplied tenfold," said Connie Mabry, who has a year-round, three-quarter-time job as the university' s commencement coordinator. She helps coordinate the ceremonies, receptions and outings that make this the biggest, most festive weekend of the year on East Hill. Commencement weekend costs the university a quarter-of-a-million dollars. Most of it goes to preparing Schoellkopf Field and the Crescent and Barton and Bailey halls, where commencement, convocation and the baccalaureate ceremonies will take place, and readying the rest of the campus.
At Schoellkopf, Maintenance and Service Operations crews cover the football field with plywood decking and construct a sound system like the ones used at rock concerts whileBuildings Care workers setup 5,600 folding chairs for the senior class.
Meanwhile, other Buildings Care workers clean all of the buildings on campus with extra attention, not just the ones on the central campus; schools and colleges hold their own ceremonies andreceptions after Sunday's ceremony.
The Department of Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture grows and arranges the geraniums and coleuses that decorate the Schoellkopf platform and the Arts Qu ad tent where the trustees and President and Mrs. Rhodes serve as hosts for a breakfast on Saturday morning.
They also arrange the palms, geraniums and other greens for convocation in Barton Hall on Saturday afternoon and for the ROTC commissioning in Barton later that afternoon; for the Glee Club and Chorus concert in Bailey Hall on Saturday night, baccalaureate in Bailey on Sunday morning and the Johnson Graduate School of Management graduation in Bailey Hall on Sunday afternoon.
Meteorologists in the Department of Soil, Crop and Atmospheric Sciences provide weather forecasts and monitor the Bradfield Tower weather station for fronts on Sunday morning, while the rest of the campus watches the graduates lining up for their procession from the Arts Quadrangle.
Three hundred and twenty faculty and staff don their Comell-red usher jackets as they volunteer to help the graduates and guests get to the correct place on time.
In general, this is not a weekend for people who prefer winging it to planning ahead; it is no time, for instance, to be without hotel and dining reservations. Some 40,000 people swell the city of Ithaca this weekend, on top of a population of 30,000.
All 1,300 hotel, motel and bed-and-breakfast rooms in the county have been booked for the better part of a year, and some hotels in town are already booked for commencement in 1993, having started taking reservations after the first of the year. Anyone who shows up now without a place to stay will be directed to Elmira, Horseheads or Binghamton; everything closer to Cornell has been taken.
"We could give them a room with no bedding and they would take it," said the manager of the Hillside Motel in Collegetown. "Some people call up and say they will pay any price, double what we are charging, if we can only find them a room."
Despite thousands of hours of planning, some things will be hard to estimate, such as the number who will turn out to hear Geraldine Ferraro give the senior class convocation address.
Five years ago, for Gov. Mario Cuomo, it was moved fromBailey Hall to Barton; it has been moved to Barton again this year. Because Ithaca is the upstate home of fice for Ferraro's Senate campaign, larger than usual crowds are expected this year. The first 6,000 will be seated and the rest turned away at the door.
Commencement is the ultimate event of the year every year - for graduates, their families and the university. As a National Football League player asked as his team prepared for a Super Bowl in the 1970s: "If this is the ultimate game, how come they're playing it again next year?"
The answer is that our Super Bowl, or at least our Rose Bowl Parade - commencement - is an annual event that is the ultimate every time out - now for the 124th time.
— Carole Stone

4 May 21, 1992 Cornell Chronicle

Seniors explore national parks, wildlife and graduation

American Indians and national parks
By William Holder Serendipity played a role in Catherine
Corson's research. The senior major in biology and society planned to go to Tanzania in the spring of her junior year, but organizers of her program canceled it at the outbreak of the Gulf War, so she went to Australia instead. While there she learned that Aborigines participate as co-managers of Australian national parks. She wondered how American Indians fare in the management of U.S. parks.
Such was the genesis of her research project, which won her an S. Ann and Robert R. Morley
Charles Harrington/University Photography
Catherine Corson student research grant from the College of Agriculture, a grant from the President's Council of Cornell Women and honors at graduation. Her survey of 100 national parks and forests to see how managers respond to American-Indian interests also will form the foundation for her master' s thesis, which she will pursue at Cornell next year.
"My project is something that no one has really done," she said. "There's very little research in this area, although it's a topic of international importance."
Creation of national parks in developing countries, she pointed out, has barred native peoples from access to important resources and land. A few countries have recognized these difficulties, however, and have permitted indigenous people to participate as co-managers.
"The United States is lagging behind the rest

of the world in allowing indigenous people to manage parks and use theirresources," she said. Although park managers have consulted with tribal representatives, few American Indians participate as co-managers in Park Service activities.
The only exception that her survey uncovered is Canyon de Chelly in Arizona, which is co-managed by the government and the Navajos, who are in the unique position ofowning the park.
Nearly 90 percent of U.S. parks and forests have sites or resources that are important to Native Americans—ranging fromsacredburial grounds to the presence of medicinal plants.
Corson's interest has focused, in part, on the Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota, which she hopes to visit this summer as part of her ongoing research. The Sioux claim the land as their own, arguing that the U.S. government took it in 1877 by forcing a treaty on them. The claim, still unresolved, has been the subject of court battles during the past 60 years.
Corson believes that allowing American Indians to participate as co-managers of parks would help to resolve such disputes. Federal representatives are becoming more responsive to American-Indian interests in parks, she said, adding that "American- Indian issues have gained momentum and support from the public."
She hopes the importance of this issue will provide her with a career in the Park Service or Forest Service, but not before the Ithaca native finishes her master's and detours to Zimbabwe, where she intends to participate in a rural development program sponsored by the Experiment in International Living, an international organization that promotes global education, development, language teaching and citizen exchange.
Studying nature
around the world
By William Holder
Duck hunting was the lure that brought Mitschka Hartley into the Maine wetlands, but a fascination with wildlife behavior kept him coming back.
The senior natural resources major from Turner, Maine (not far from Lewiston), has honed that interest into the makings of a career. He spent two summers of his Cornell years working for the National Audubon Society on a project to study puffins off the coast of Maine. The fall semester found him in Costa Rica, studying endangered macaws (parrots) in a rain forest.
And he is about to leave for a summer in Manitoba, Canada, to work at a well-known waterfowl and wetlands center before beginning graduate school at Louisiana State University.
In the midst of this peripatetic schedule, he returned to his hometown during the winter

break to launch a study of wildlife in a reservoir area recently acquired by the state of Maine — just a mile from his front door. He received an S. Ann and Robert R. Morley student research grant from the College of Agriculture, awarded to students who initiate their own projects.
The study, which Hartley is currently concluding as an honor's thesis, turned up a couple of mild surprises. He believes he and his partner from the University of Maine are the first to observe a female opposum with young so far north; opposums have been migrating northward for ages.
"Just about every mammal you can find in Maine is at this site," he observed. Included in this list is moose, which Hartley says surprised some biologists because the site is at the edge of their range.
One of the goals of the project, which continued during the summer of 1991, was to document the suitability of the 2,262-acre parcel as a breeding ground for waterfowl.
Nationally, the loss of suitable breeding habitat is of considerable concern. The two researchers turned up 11 broods of one species, the American Black Duck. That figure compares favorably with the 33 broods observed during a three-year study on a site 10 times as large, according to Hartley.
This information, he says, will be useful to planners and conservationists in the area.
Part of the project was pure enjoyment: observing bald eagles, osprey and the myriad other wildlife that so engage his interests.
"It's rewarding to do what you love on a daily basis," he said. "Also, when you care about the environment, it's very satisfying to be doing something for it."
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Mitschka Hartley

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Mary-Jo Stewart
Past graduations
on East Hill
The evolving traditions of Cornell commencement were researched by graduating senior Mary-Jo Stewart for an independent study research project for Jane Hardy, a lecturer in the Department ofCommunications. Here are some of the interesting facts shecovered in her project paper:
• The first Cornell commencement ceremony was held on July 1,1869. Ezra Cornell himself mailed the invitations. The eight seniors received vellum diplomas wrapped in carnelian silk ribbon from the first university president, Andrew Dickson White, who had personally composed the wording on each diploma.
• In 1876, the first degree in Veterinary Medicine was granted to Dr. Daniel E. Salmon, who later identified the infectious pathogen salmonella.
• A short-lived tradition that arose in the 1890s was the "Senior Statistics," which asked the seniors for their views on politics, tariff (free trade or protectionist), religious denomination and women's suffrage (most were against), in addition to personal vital statistics. Among questions asked in 1891 was the reason for coming to Cornell; one student answered, "to blow in the old gent's money." ,
• Commencement was moved from Barton Hall to Schoellkopf Field in 1975 to accommodate the increasing number of guests attending the graduation ceremony. In the late 1970s, approximately 10,000 guests attended commencements. In 1991, more than 35,000 people filled Schoellkopf Field.

I'll take 500 dozen red roses

for 5,900 very special people

By Linda Grace-Kobas
Red roses will be distributed to each graduate at commencement, thanks to the efforts of Raymond T. Fox, professor emeritus of floriculture, who began the tradition of flowers for graduates in his department more than 30 years ago.
Working with the national rose growers association and three growers with Cornell ties, Fox has arranged for the university to receive
The roses to be distributed to graduates will be 'Royalty' and 'Samantha' hybrid tea roses. Many of the new techniques for growing roses were developed at Cornell.
approximately 5,000 red roses that will be handed out by faculty and staff greeters to graduates as they arrive on the Arts Quad to assemble for the commencement procession on Sunday morning. The roses have been grown in New York state and Pennsylvania by alumni families, Fox said.
With Roses Inc., the national commercial rose growers association, Fox made contact

with three growers withCornell ties: Al Riccardi of the Henry J. Seagroatt Co. Inc., of Berlin, N.Y.; Fred Fries of the Dillon Floral Corp., of Bloomsburg, Pa.; and Ron Lowman of Elmira Floral Products Inc., of Elmira, N.Y. Riccardi is a Cornell alumnus, as are several members of the Dillon family. The Lowman family has a long association with Cornell; several members of the family are alumni, and the family has supported rose research in the department since the 1940s.
The roses to be distributed will be "Royalty" and "Samantha" hybrid tea roses such as those grown in greenhouses by growers all over the United States, Fox explained. Many of the new techniques for growing roses commercially were developed at Cornell.
A nationally recognized expert on floral designs, Fox in 1980 received an honorary Olympic medal for directing a team of Cornell students in designing and making floral displays and decorations for some of the facilities used for the Winter Olympics held in Lake Placid, N.Y.
He also helped decorate many facilities used for celebrations of Ronald Reagan's second inaugural in Washington in 1985. His decorations on campus for special occasions, including a spectacular poinsettia tree that formerly was placed in Sage Chapel during the Christmas season, are remembered by many Cornellians.
A native of Corning, Fox is a Cornell alumnus (B.S. '47, M.S. '52 and Ph.D. '56.) He has

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Professor Emeritus Raymond T. Fox, holding roses in the Ken Post Greenhouses, has arranged to have red roses distributed to the graduates at commencement.

been with the Department of Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture since he joined the faculty as an instructor in that department in 1947.
"I have given roses to the department graduates since the early 1950s," Fox said.
For the past three years, with the support of David L. Call, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and Hortus Forum, the horticulture society, maize-colored carnations have been distributed to graduates of the col-

lege. Last year. Fox arranged for engineering graduates to receive orange-colored carnations at the request of that school.
Fox said that last summer he began planning ways in which all Cornell graduates could be given flowers at graduation. Because carnations are no longer grown commercially in the United States, he decided on roses, which are the official national flower (the wild rose is the official flower of New York state).
Of course, the roses had to be red.

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Prize helps students start their own firm that sells Ivy ties

By Susan Lang
Unlike most seniors who have graduate school or job offers ned up for next year, Gallery McGee, a business management ^jor in textiles and apparel in the College of Human Ecology,
^ other plans. He'll be working full-time for his own fledgling ^rporation—designing and marketing top-of-the-line logo silk es. suspenders and scarves, while waiting for his business Partner, Jose Chan, to graduate from the same major next year.
As winners of the Mariani Prize in the course "EntrepreneurftlP and Enterprise" in the Johnson Graduate School of ManagepW for the best business plan among those most likely to be Ur>ched if awarded seed money, McGee, Chan and McGee's w'fe, Marybeth McGee, won $5,000 to start their business. Their j^rnpetition included some two dozen other projects, including Usiness plans for electronic toilet seats, alligator meat, alcoholic lCe cream, Alaskan bottled water and eye make-up remover.
The McGee and Chan plan, however, was chosen because 7*'r sense of design and color is superb — their designs resolutely knocked the socks off the reviewing team," says professor David BenDaniel, who is the Don and Margi Berens ^ofessor of Entrepreneurship and teaches a course in "how to 'ck your neck out intelligently." BenDaniel estimates that up to
young businesses are now flourishing as a result of the
ndergraduate and graduate entrepreneurship courses that have ^ n offered each semester for the past seven years.
Thanks to the award, the newest young business, Ivy Essena's Inc., already has its first line of neckwear and suspenders n(fer production with its First 60 yards of fabric. By graduation J^kend, the Cornell Campus Store and the Cornell Club in ^anhattan will be selling the 100 percent woven silk ties in blue Orred at $47.50 each, handmade, with Cornell' s crest repeated on
diagonal, as well as blue or red silk suspenders with solid brass clasPs and all-leather fasteners for $67.50.
Plans call for advertising and direct mailings to coincide with und-raisjng campaigns, graduation, reunion, homecoming, parnts and Trustee Council weekends.
But why ties and suspenders? _ The current line of ties didn' t have the quality I would expect Ornell's upscale alumni — our primary market — would want
Wear," explains McGee, age 24. As design graduates of the ashion Institute of Technology with industry experience in r^fswear before transferring to the College of Human Ecology, wecatri.ee and Chan have a sharp eye for fashion trends in mens-
The ties being sold were primarily polyester or polyester lei>ds, with off-colors and muddled logos," explains McGee,

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Student entrepreneurs (from left) Callery McGee, Marybeth McGee and Jose Chan are undergraduates who won a prize in a Johnson Graduate School of Management course on entrepreneurship. They are marketing silk accessories with Ivy League logos.

who serves as president of the company. "And their use ofthe logo was unimaginative," says Marybeth
McGee, whose design background, also from FIT, and current job in the Cornell Library's office for development, fund raising and alumni affairs has earned her the title of vice president of design and public relations for Ivy Essentials.
"Furthermore, although some of the ties were silk, they were of lesser quality," says Chan, vice president of production and development and liaison with the fabric mill and tie contractor. "We' ve very carefully chosen a grade of silk for the tie and lining and are careful about how the tie will be cut on the bias to ensure a flawless, soft knot — a feature that's very important in neckware."
As for suspenders, the accessory designers say that logo silk suspenders is largely an untapped market.
Although the energetic Cornell trio feels confident about Ivy Essentials, they know enough to know what they don't know and have turned to professors for as much help and advice as possible,

including business help from BenDaniel, technical assistance from Assistant Professor Anil Netravali in textiles and apparel who helped them test the quality of silk they were considering, and design help from Assistant Professor Anita Racine, also in textiles and apparel, whose computer-aided design course taught them the techniques they used in designing the logo.
Ivy Essential's ambitious business plan calls first for marketing to alumni and graduating seniors at Cornell and then on to a major June sales promotion trip to other Ivy league universities. Meanwhile, women's silk scarves with the Cornell logo are on the drawing board, or rather the computer-aided design screen, as the next product.
But Ivy Essentials won't limit itself to the Ivy League: "Anyone who's got an insignia or logo is a potential client— colleges, corporations, clubs and associations. In fact, we've already been approached by a few companies and still have $ 1,000 left from our prize money that we thought we would have had to spend by now on advertising," McGee said.

Graduate explores use of music during the French Revolution

By Lisa Bennett
, On almost any day this past year you could ave spied Danna Kostroun in Olin Library, °rking on her senior honors thesis. Students "ho do these full-year projects come to recogni*e each other. They are there that often.
But the summer before found Kostroun Ucked away in a hot but beautiful old library Roused in a Paris mansion: the Bibliotheque '"storique de la Ville de Paris. There, the 22ye4r-old history major unfolded fragile 200Vear-old sheet music of "colorful, fervent, ev°lutionary songs."
She brought this music home to Cornell to pUPplement her research of songs from the J7ench Revolution found in Olin Library's j^ench Revolution Collection, which was °unded by A.D. White. Though one of the largest collections of its kind to be found outs'de France, Olirrs collection included pamPhlets of the time that generally contained only 'Vrics, no music.
'Some people say Cornell is a °ig, impersonal place. But there is a goldmine of professors like mine ^>ho, if they see that you are lfiterested in something, will Support and encourage you.'
To a music-lover and student interested in ^ e blending of written and oral histories, words Without notes was not music. Nor did it offer a Efficient view of French politics, because part ^revolutionary politics was singing.
"Some people look at 1789 as a great h i d i n g line between the old regime and modern France. B ut I found the revolutionaries were Using music from earlier tunes, thereby de" ^ d i n g that the audience connect issues of the old regime with revolutionary politics," ^o said.

She found that the lyrics' 'Our holy father is a turkey" was sung to the music of the Easter hymn, O Filii et Filiae, expressing long-held resentment toward the Catholic church.
Though she enjoyed her project, Kostroun is a little surprised when someone expresses interest in her work. Often when her peers hear she studied songs from 1789 to 1792, she said, they wonder if it really had any significance.
Yet, music is used in similar ways today, Kostroun observed, adding that she heard this first-hand when she taught English in Czechoslovakia during the summer of 1990, just after the communist regime fell.
' 'I heard them sing Czech words to American home-on-the-range songs," she said. "You could get arrested if you put an American flag in your car there then. But you always could sing those songs.
"They can burn books, but people can always stand on the street corner and sing."
Discovering the potential for scholarship into music was a fortuitous blending of likes and luck for Kostroun.
After graduating from Ithaca High School, Kostroun, the daughter of Associate Professor Vaclav Kostroun of the College of Engineering, went to Ixmdon for a year to work as an au pair and pursue her study of violin. The realization of just how much time a professional musician has to spend alone, practicing, made her give up that idea. But living in London introduced her to her current path.
"I became interested in history being in London; every street corner seems to have some connection with literature or famous people," she said.
Still, she entered Cornell without a specific plan of study until in a freshman introduction to history class, visiting scholar Nan KarwanCutting invited work-study help on a project of cataloging pamphlets from the French Revolution. Kostroun volunteered.
Soon, she discovered the songs. KarwanCutting, who became her adviser, observed her interest and encouraged her to pursue it as an independent study. Then, after Kostroun discovered how little music was printed, Karwan-

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Danna Kostroun
Cutting suggested that she apply for a Einaudi Fellowship for Undergraduate Research grant, offered by the Western Societies Program, and propose to find the music in Paris. This resulted in eight weeks spent working last summer in the Paris library.
Looking back, Kostroun said what she learned most from the experience was how to use — really use — the libraries.
But the overall thesis also made her realize that while there is a similarity between scholarship and studying music ("You have to be disciplined and concentrated, and it's lonely."), blending the two fields convinced her of her interest in history, the pleasure of an opportunity to pursue her own interests while still an undergraduate and the advantages of receiving guidance from interested faculty.
"Some people say Cornell is a big, impersonal place. But there is a goldmine of professors like mine who, if they see that you are interested in something, will really support and encourage you," said Kostroun.
Kostroun plans to continue her work as a graduate student in French history at Duke University this fall.

Students honored
for community work
By David 1. Stewart
Three students in the College of Human Ecology have received the university's 1992 Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Awards worth $1,000 each. The awards, established by Jack ('54) and Margot ('55) Robinson, and Robert ('53) and Helen ('55) Appel, honor outstanding achievement in community service and encourage student participation in humanitarian work.
Senior Amelia Sauter, a social work major, was honored for her work managing RAVE (Rape, Abuse and Violence Education) Review, a joint project of Ithaca Rape Crisis and the Task Force for Battered Women. RAVE Review uses theatrical performances to dispel myths about rape and abuse and to promote understanding of the roles of power dynamics and alcohol use in acquaintance rape and partner abuse. Sauter, who lives in Rochester, N.Y., has donated her $ 1,000 award to fund program maintenance costs such as training new actors for RAVE Review performances.
Anne Ashton Beale, a junior majoring in social work, was cited for creating Survivors of Child Abuse, a self-help group. She also has been involved in several other community agencies, including: the Family Support Services Program and the Aurora Street Friends, both programs of the Mental Health Association in Tompkins County; the Homeless Youth Outreach Program in Ithaca; the Task Force for Battered Women; and Cornell's Public Service Center. Beale, from Fairfield, Conn., is using her award to fund outreach efforts for Survivors of Child Abuse.
Jared Genser, a sophomore majoring in human service studies, is the founding director of the Cornell chapter of Best Buddies, a campusbased program that pairs college students with developmentally delayed persons. He also has been involved in activities of the university's Public Service Center. Genser, who hails from Potomac, Md., developed an approach that allowed all participants to become equal contributors in the planning and decision making of regular outings. His $1,000 Robinson-Appel award will help fund Best Buddies outings during the 1992-93 academic year.

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Neither money nor fame merits an honorary degree

By Martin B. Stiles
Only a few universities in this day and age hold steadfastly to a tradition of refusing to give honorary degrees. Such is the case with Cornell, which even decided against awarding honorary degrees to two of the world's richest men — John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie — despite pressure to do so.
Only once in its 127-year history has the university awarded honorary degrees: in 1888. That decision contributed to the
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tumultuous seven-year (enure of its president at the time, Charles Kendall Adams, who went on to become president of the University of Wisconsin.
At the turn of the century, for reasons that are traditional among colleges and universities — raising money and gaining publicity — Cornell administrators again made overtures on offering honorary degrees, this time to Carnegie and Rockefeller. Carnegie was an active member of the Cornell Board of Trustees and Rockefeller was an area boy who had made good. He was bom in Richford, N.Y., and had lived during his youth in Moravia, communities about 20 miles from Ithaca.

"But the trustees boggled at that favorite devise of hungry colleges, the honorary degree," historian Morris Bishop wrote in A History of Cornell.
Ironically, one of the only two men awarded an honorary degree from Cornell was the man on whose insistence Cornell adopted its tradition of not awarding honorary degrees. He was the university's founding president, Andrew D. White, who considered the practice of awarding honorary degrees "sadly abused."
Although White's 1865 decision was reinforced by a faculty committee in 1885, Adams proposed at a trustee meeting the night before the 1888 commencement that honorary degrees be awarded to White and David Starr Jordan. Jordan was an 1872 graduate of Cornell and then president of the University of Indiana. In 1891, he became the first president of Stanford Uni versity and modeled that institution onCornell.
"Obviously, the nominations were presented as 'fait accompli' whichcouldnot be disavowed without public shame," according to Bishop.
The alumni reacted strongly against this violation of "Cornell's high moral stand in the matter of honorary degrees," and turned actively hostile against Adams.
The trustees blamed Adams for putting them on the spot. Without any formal action, Cornell returned to its principle that all degrees represent achievement under scholastic direction.
At Cornell's 124th commencement on Sunday some5,9OOdegrees will be awarded; all of them earned, none of them honorary.

CU honors top graduates

and their secondary teachers

By Martin B. Stiles
Cornell has established 30 four-year scholarships worth $ 120,000 in honor of high school teachers across the country who have been sources of inspiration to outstanding graduating seniors here this year.
The teachers were named by Cornell's Merrill Presidential Scholars, members of the Class of 1992 who have been cited by the university for their outstanding scholastic achievements and leadership.
The teachers came to campus from high schools in 27 communities in 12 states as guests of the university for a luncheon ceremony on May 20. The ceremony is an annual tribute established by President Frank H.T. Rhodes to recognize the value of inspirational teaching and to recognize that "scholarly excellence is largely a communal effort."
Rhodes presided over the ceremony that not only honored the Merrill Scholars and the secondary school teachers but also Cornell faculty members whom the scholars, who rank in the top 5 percent of their class, also named as having "made the most significant contribution to their education."
The luncheon convocation and the visit to campus by the high school teachers are subsidized with a gift from Cornell graduate Philip Merrill, chairman of Capital-Gazette Communications in Washington, D.C., and Maryland.
In a booklet of student tributes to the high school teachers, Merrill Scholar Patrick A. Klein of Ambler, Pa., wrote of biology teacher William Gallagher, who also was his cross country and track coach: "He taught me that I could achieve more than I imagine if I only tried. I needed only look deep inside myself and find the will."
Linda A. Richichi of Brentwood.N.Y., wrote

that English teacher Stephen Krakehl "stretched my writing ability and prepared me for the rigors of Cornell."
Since 1989, Cornell has established 129 scholarships worth a total of $507,000 in the name of secondary school teachers. The scholarships, which help recipients meet the cost of tuition at Cornell, are available to students in the school districts of the teachers honored.
The scholarships are known as the STAR (Special Teachers Are Recognized) Scholarship Program. It was conceived by Donald and Margi Berens, members of the Cornell Class of 1947, who have sponsored the program since 1989. Additional funding has come from the William Knox Holt Foundation and the Cornell Alumni Association of Central New York.
The Merrill Presidential Scholars are: • CollegeofAgricultureandLifeSciences: Mark J. Censoprano, Phillip P. Chan, Nicole MDumas, Susan J. Flumerfelt, Sarah M. Gray, Laura M. Holub, Alex J. Nussbaum, David MRoman, Steven A. Walker.
• College of Architecture, Art, and Planning: Gerald H. Autler, Christina S. Contis, Liv K. Hansen.
• College of Arts and Sciences: Valerie MAllard, Rachel M. Calvo, Pinka N. Chatterji, Amy B. Hirshfeld, Michael C. Liu, Alice E Mauskopf, Evan T. Powers, John S.H. Rhee, Philip H. Soffer, Anthony D. Toigo.
• College of Engineering: Linda L. Campbell, Francisco J. Garcia, Robert J. Gleixner, Srikant Jayaraman, Claudia RJohnson, Patrick A. Klein.
• School of Hotel Administration: Sheila K. Bauer, Elizabeth Y. Chow.
• College of Human Ecology: Sung Y. Son, Linda D. Whiting, Jeffrey A. Wilken.
• School of Industrial and Labor Relations: Douglas I. Madenberg, Linda A. Richichi-

Students receive recognition for their outstanding achievements

Eachyearatthis time, various Cornell units honor student achievements. Below is a partial list of the awards presented this year.
Cornell Tradition
The Cornell Tradition, an alumni-endowed program, awards 600 fellowships each year to students who demonstrate significant work experience, community service and scholarly achievement.
Cornell Tradition Senior Recognition Awards of $2,500 have been awarded on a competitive basis to Tradition Fellows who have made significant contributions to the Cornell and local communities. Students selected can designate the award as a charitable contribution to a non-profit agency or have a Cornell Tradition Fellowship awarded on their behalf during the 1992-93 academic year.
This year's winners are: Clifford Albrightof theBronx,N.Y.,agraduate of applied economics and business manage-

ment; Michael Bailey of Arvada, Colo., Latin American studies; Evan Frazier of Pittsburgh, School of Hotel Administration; Deepak Gupta of Jaipur, India, computer science; Vaddhana Perry Kchao of North Miami Beach, Fla., finance management; Jeffrey Pagliaroli of North White Plains, N.Y., plant sciences; Harry Pflueger of Bethel Park, Pa., School of Hotel Administration; Kathryn Margaret Rudy of Erie, Pa, English and history of art; David Stuhlmiller of Bradenton, Fla., chemistry and biology; and Jon Christopher White of Bloomington, N.Y., human service studies.
Center for Religion, Ethics & Social Policy
Michael Bailey, who is graduating with a degree in Latin American studies, has won the Michael Schwemer Activist Award for his work for human rights in Latin America. Shannon Minter, a student in the Law School, won honorable mention.
The award was established by Alan

He does windows

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Robert Mosher, a custodian with the Care of Buildings Department, cleans an Olin Library window overlooking Sage Hall and Sage Chapel.

Gleitsman '51 in memory of Schwemer, a memberof the Classof 1961 whowasoneof the three civil rights workers killed in May 1964 in Meridian, Miss., while working on a voter registration drive. The award recognizes a student who fulfills the spirit of citizen activism in challenging social inequality and injustice.
Department of English
The winners of the 1992 Corson-Bishop Poetry Prize are David Staudt, first place, and C.A. Carlson and Burlin Barr, second place. Staudt and Carlson also are co-winners of this year's Academy ofAmerican Poets Prize. S taudt and Barr are graduates students in the M.F.A. writing program; Carlson is an undergraduate in the College of Arts and Sciences.
The Robert Chasen Poetry Prize for a long poetic sequence goes to graduate students Amy Whitney and Amy Zalman, first prize; and undergraduate Geralyn Ruane, second prize.
Women's Studies Program
Nine graduate students have won Beatrice Brown Awards, small grants to students working on some aspect of women and gender. The winners are: Amita Baviskar, rural sociology; Paisley Currah, government; Nancy DellaMattera, industrial and labor relations; Jayati Lai, sociology; Amy Lind, city and regional planning; Iyunolu Osagie, English; Ivette Romero, romance studies; Elvira SanchezBlake, romance studies; and AndromakheTsara, anthropology.
History Department Peace Studies Program
The George Harmon Coxe Award in American Literature and Creative Writing for 1992 goes to Philip Soffer for an honors thesis presented to the History Department titled War in Four Colors: The Portrayal of War in American Comic Books, 1940 to 1955. Soffer's thesis also won the Lt. Col. David Chrystall Prize from the Peace Studies Program, an award to a member of the senior class for the best essay dealing with diplomacy, international relations or the preservation of peace.
Chemistry
The A.W. Laubengayer Prize to the outstanding student in introductory courses goes to Dion Burow, Leah Berkery and Lecia Van Dam; the ACS Analytical Prize to a student who displays aptitude for a career in analytical chemistry, to Patricia Zurner; the Harold Lovenberg Prize to a member of the junior class who has shown general excellence, to Jonathan Lobell;

the American Institute of Chemists Medal to the outstanding graduating senior who has demonstrated leadership, character and scholastic achievement, to Ethan Corcoran; the George G Caldwell Prizes to two seniors who have shown general excellence, to Alice Mauskopf and Michael Crowley; the Les and Berdie Mandelkern Prize to an outstanding senior going on to graduate study in chemistry or biochemistry, to Evan Powers; the Merck Index Award to the outstanding students in the senior class, to Henry Liu, Amy Pangborn and Seth Kaplan.
Western Societies Program
European Summer Research Awards tor undergraduates go to Kori B. Rower, biological sciences; Ajanta Mukherjee, government; Anthony Scibilia, art history; and Secil Tahli, government and economics. MicheleSicca Summer Research Awards for graduate students go to John E. Davidson and Kizer Walker, German studies; David S. Dornisch, sociology; Carrie A. LaPorte, city and regional planning; Valerie McKinney and Eric Rait,organizational behav ior; Ann Julienne Russ, anthroplogy; and Andromakhe Tsara, anthropology. The Manon Michels Einaudi Travel Grant to Mark McKinney, romance studies. The Luigi Einaudi Graduate Fellowship to David Blatt, government; Meenakshi Chakraverti, anthropology; and Susan J. Ingleby, organizational behavior. The Mario Einaudi Essay Prize to Ian K. Lekus and Kathryn Margaret Rudy, College of Arts and Sciences.
Department of German Studies
The Lucretia Simmons Award for the best work in German to Abigail Strubel of the College of Arts and Sciences. Theiirst prize winner in the Goethe Prize competition is David F. Johnson, a graduate student in English.
Department of Geological Sciences
The Chester Buchanan Memorial Scholarship to the outstanding senior goes to Steven P. Sacco. The Michael W. Mitchell Memorial Prize to a senior who has proved adept in other fields as well as geology goes to David F. Murphy.
College of Engineering
Outstanding Group Awards have been presented to Mu Sigma Tau, the Co-op Honor Society; Engineering Ambassadors, which assists the Admissions Office; and the Cornell Bioengineering Society, whose activities included alumni seminars and faculty talks.

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'Hive' society doctor is a writer, photographer, naturalist

By Roger Segelken
For some students, a medical career is purged as an entree to high society. For Dr. Scott Camazine, his 1978 M.D. degree let him practice medicine — and also work as a naturalist, photographer and author — while working toward a Ph.D. with the help of societies that have been evolving far longer than ours, the social insects.
Honey bees in particular are the insects of interest for the 39-year-old Camazine, who
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began work on a doctorate in Cornell's Section of Neurobiology and Behavior 10 years after graduating from Harvard Medical School. He W'U complete the degree next year, focusing his research on decision-making by honey bee colonies. His major contribution to biology is a clear demonstration of"functional self-organization" W action.
To do that required years of observations, following thousandsofbeeson their daily rounds and pasting tiny numbers on their backs.

Self-organization contradicts the casual observer's understanding of honey bee affairs: The hive — with its seemingly hierarchical roster of up to 25,000 workers and a queen — does not take orders from the top or even follow a central program. Rather, Camazine showed through experiments and computer modeling of the way that bees fill honey comb with pollen, honey or eggs, that the colony solves problems by distributing the decision-making prerogative to autonomously acting individuals. Each responds to local conditions by following a few simple rules that say, "If this, do that."
That is self-organization, and it's not a bad way to solve complex problems with big computers, either, he notes.
Camazine's involvement with computing enabled him to publish several software programs and write on medical applications for microcomputer publications. And he has 40 scientific articles to his credit.
Equally satisfying for the physician-scientist-naturalist is writing for the layperson. His articles share observations of everything from migrating salamanders and falling snowflakes to warm-blooded skunk cabbage and opossums that taste hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Whenever Camazine leads nature walks in search of edible and poisonous mushrooms, someone always asks about hallucinogenic varieties, so he tried a feeding experiment with laboratory opossums.
The animals were first fed edible mush-

Peter MorenttsAIniversity Photography Scott Camazine, winner of Kodak Wildlife Photographer of the Year prize, with his camera at Sapsucker Woods.

rooms, which they devoured, then non-poisonous but bitter-tasting varieties, which they learned to reject, and finally bits of fly agaric, the hallucinogenic species ofthe Amanita mu shroom. The opossums vomited for several minutes, and some "seemed a bit unsteady on their feet for a while but were otherwise fine," Camazine reported. A day later, he again mixed fly agaric with other mushrooms. The animals sniffed each piece and ate everything but the mushrooms that had made themsick; two months later, they still could not be tricked.
Once an insatiable collector (who, as a child, filled the house with newly hatched praying mantises and, as a surgical intern, faced eviction when the landlord mistook the smell of dead animals awaiting dissection for something worse), Camazine has reformed. He now does most of his collecting with a camera, a craft that earned him a 1988 Kodak Wildlife Photographer of the Year prize.
Not that the nature photographer lacks for small-animal subjects, thanks to a cooperative cat named E.T. To assuage his guilt, Camazine wrote in an essay. Presents from my Cat, he instituted one rule: "If an animal is brought into the house alive and uninjured, and I can get to it first, it's mine to release."
While lucky animals are recuperating in the physician's care, Camazine observes their behavior, reads up on their natural history, and adds pictures to "a photographic gallery of creatures that were almost cat food." One such is the particularly alert and presumably wiser cottontail rabbit, pictured before its return to the wild, in Velvet Mites and Silken Webs, Camazine's 1991 book of essays and nature photographs.
Camazine wrote and illustrated that book, he said, to encourage people "to explore the world
'All you need do is get on your hands and knees, open your eyes, think about what you see, ask questions, and sharpen your innate poivers of observation.'
of nature on many scales." No fancy equipment is necessary, the author says. "All you need do is get on your hands and knees, open your eyes, think about what you see, ask questions, and sharpen your innate powers of observation." The book ends with a chapter on close-up photography fundamentals. Before that are 40 photographs and musings on topics such as a bird's nest fungi, botanical warfare, killer bees and trilobite fossils.

Si on Canutzme For his study of bees' organization, Camazine made years of observations, following thousands of bees on their daily rounds and pasting tiny, colorcoded numbers on their backs.
Camazine's 1987 book. The Naturalist's Year, had a similar, reach-out-and-touch-a-bug theme. Knowing how he feels about the diversity of life on Earth explains why the physician could not be confined to the study of one species, humans or otherwise.
"Ever since I was a kid I wanted to know what's inside people, and now I do," said Camazine, who still takes weekend emergency roomduty at area hospitals. "I never planned on a completely clinical career. I wanted to work with whole, living, behaving organisms."
And "superorganisms" such as honey bee colonies. Like the Plexiglas-sided observation hives, the study of social insects is a convenient window to the organizational secrets of all kinds of natural systems. He could have studied other social insects, such as wasps or ants, as is done at Harvard. But Cornell has become a center of honey bee study, with entomology Professor Roger A. Morse and Thomas D. Seeley, associate professor of neurobiology and behavior, author of Honeybee Ecology and Camazine's Ph.D. adviser.
Besides, he says, "Bees are big. It's very hard to put plastic tags on ants."

Holcomb helped consolidate two GM plants, before she graduated

By Larry Bernard
Kristin L. Holcomb is an unusual graduating senior: She has a job.
Not only that, she had three offers. In December, no less.
"I never felt that this was a bad job market," she said. And no wonder. The 21-year-old engineering student parlayed an Engineering Cooperative Program internship with General Mo'ors Corp. into a resume highlight: She helped develop a plan for consolidating two GM plants.
Now she has a job with Noxell, the cosmet'cs and fragrances division of Procter & Gamble Co. near Baltimore, as a production teamleader beginning in June.
That job requires her to oversee production and work with all facetsof the company, such as marketing, finance and research and development.' 'This is a new concept for this plant. They hired three new engineers and we're to implement this new idea. They're completely restructuring and redesigning the plant," she said.
If that seems like a challenge, consider this: Holcomb began her career at Cornell as a biology major in the College of Arts and Sciences. She switched to the School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering in the College of Engineering after her sophomore year, got accepted to the co-op program and landed with General Motors, and as a senior had a choice of employers.
"I guess I like a challenge. I never thought of myself as really intelligent, just hard-working. I always work hard and challenge myself. And •hat's Cornell - they make you challenge yourself. I know I'm not the smartest person in the world. I never thought Procter & Gamble would hire me - 1 mean, not even a 3.0!" (She graduates with a 2.8 grade point average.)
Holcomb, from Monroe, Conn., where both

her parents are teachers, came to Cornell thinking that medicine might make an interesting career. But what she really wanted, she said, was to make hospitals more efficient. Engineering, particularly operations research, offered that chance.
"It really intrigued me. I saw an example in a course book on how to make an emergency room more efficient, and I thought, 'That's exactly what I want to do.' "
But once she got into the co-op program-in whichengineering undergraduate students spend the fall and following summer working in industry - she began to lean toward manufacturing and industrial engineering.
At GM's Harrison Division in Lockport, N.Y., which makes heating and air-conditioning components, Holcomb redesigned an entire department, but so fast that the managers had to find her other work. So they put her on a team with five senior engineers to devise a plan to consolidate two plants in Buffalo.
"I was the only woman, and 20 years younger than anyone else on the team. I really didn't know what would happen," she said. What happened was that in their first meeting, she came up with a mission statement that the group adopted, "and all of a sudden I got their respect." Her efforts resulted in three GM awards.
"I was learning while I was doing. It was fun. Icame out of that and thought, that's what I want to do," Holcomb said.
"The co-op experience was wonderful. You get to do things other students just wouldn't get a chance to do. And co-op directed me toward what courses I would take back on campus. At GM I had to give presentations, so I came back and took Engineering Communications. I had to make quality improvements, so I took a course on quality control."
Since August, Holcomb has been the opera-

tions manager for Cornell's Formula SAE Race Car Design Project, a competition sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers. She managed all business and scheduling aspects of the project, in which the students designed and built a race car for competition last week in Dearborn, Mich.
"I know how to break down an engine, so it was a natural position for me," she said. "I can see how engineers are thinking and reacting. I think I have a perspective on stuff engineers don't always see. I have to look at the big picture, and they look at the details."
In Dearborn, the Cornell team finished first overall; first in combined performance events,

including acceleration and endurance; and first in design, cost and presentation. The team also won awards for outstanding teamwork, best suspension design and best design for safety.
Holcomb also resurrected Mu Sigma Tau, an engineering co-op advisory council, and became its president, and is vice president of the Cornell student chapter of the Institute of Industrial Engineers.
She eventually expects to get a master's degree and perhaps an MB.A., but first she wants to experience the world of industry full time. Not, however, before traveling around the country for a month, before she has to take on the "real world" for good.

Dean Weber/Ford Motor Co. Kristin L. Holcomb, who is graduating from the College of Engineering, works on Cornell's entry at a race car design competition sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers in Dearborn, Mich.

8 May 21, 1992 Cornell Chronicle

CALENDAR

All items for the Chronicle Calendar should besubmitted (typewritten, double spaced) by campus mail, VS. mail or in person to Joanne Hanavan, Chronicle Calendar, Cornell News Service, Village Green, 840 Hanshaw Road.
Notices should be sent to arrive 10 days prior to publication and should include the name and telephone number ofa person who can be called if there are questions.
Notices should also include the subbeading of the calendar In which the item should appear.

Friday, 5/22 "Looney Tunes Hall of Fame" (1948), with
Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, 7:45 p.m. "The Graduate," 10 p.m.
Saturday, 5/23 "Rambling Rose" (1991), directed by Martha
Coolidge, with Laura Dem and Robert Duvall, 7:20 p.m.
"The Graduate," 10 p.m.
Sunday, 5/24 "Rambling Rose," 8 p.m.
Monday, 5/25 "What's Up Tiger LiiyT' (1966), directed by
Woody Allen, with Tatsuya Mihashi and Miya Hana, shown with "The Laughmaker" (1962), directed by Woody Allen, 7:30 p.m.
"Looney Tunes Hall of Fame," 10 p.m.

DANCE

Tuesday, 5/26 "Rambling Rose," 7:20 p.m. "Final Analysis" (1991), directed by Phil
Joanou, with Richard Gere, Kim Bassinger and UmaThurman, 10 p.m.

Cornell International Folkdancers

All events are open to the Cornell Community Wednesday, 5/27

and general public. Admission is free, unless

"The Fly" (1986), directed by David

stated otherwise. For further information, call Cronenberg, with Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis

539-7335 or 277-3638.

and John Getz, 7:40 p.m.

Folkdancing: teaching, 7:30p.m.; requestdanc- "Final Analysis," 10 p.m.

ing, 8:30 p.m., May 24, The Henry, Sage Hall. Advanced Balkan teaching with Ed Abelson,
6:30 p.m.; teaching, 7:30 p.m.; request dancing, 8:30 p.m.; May 29, North Room, Willard Straight Hall.

Thursday, 5/28 "Final Analysis," 7:10 p.m. "Dune" (1984), directed by David Lynch, with
Kyle MacLachlan and Linda Hunt, 10 p.m.

Friday, 5/29

EXHIBITS

"Final Analysis," 7:40 p.m. "Dune," 10:30 p.m.

Saturday, 5/30

"La Dolce Vita" (1961), directed by Federico

Fellini, with Marcelo Mastroianni. Anita Ekberg

Johnson Art Museum

and Anouk Aimee, 7:15 p.m.

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, on "Night of the Living Dead" (1968), directed by

the corner of University and Central avenues, is George Romero, with Judith O'Dea, 10:55 p.m.

open Tuesday through Sundayfrom 10 a.m. to 5

p.m. Admission isfree. Telephone: 255-6464. Sunday, 5/31

In honor of the 30th reunion of the Cornell

"La Dolce Vita," 8 p.m.

Class of 1962, an exhibit of 17 photographs do-

nated by the class will be on display May 26 through June 21. Among works on exhibition will be four portraits by Edward Steichen; three prints by Lotte Jacobi, including a palladium print of her "AlbertEinstein"photograph;and HorstP. Horst's "Mainbocher Corset".

Monday, 6/1 "La Fenune Nikita" (1991). directed by Luc
Besson, with Anne Parillaud and Jean Anglade, 7:25 p.m.
"Dune," 10 p.m.

"Images of America: The Painter's Eye, 1833- Tuesday, 6/2

1925," will be on exhibit through May 24. The exhibition features 63 paintings from the collec-

"Painters Painting" (1972), directed by Emile

tion of Frederick and Joan Baekeland.

An exhibition of prints made at the Art

Department's new Olive Press, on view through

Jury 28, will feature the work ofJoe Andoe, Judith

Shea, David Storey, Richard Bosman, Gregory

Amenoff, Lois Lane, Mary Heilmann, Alfred

Leslie, William Wegman and Michael David.

"Nature's Changing Legacy: The Photographs

of Robert Ketchum" featuring approximately 75

photographs from the years 1970 to 1991, explor-

ing our evolving consciousness of what comprises

our national legacy and what we have done to

change it, on exhibit through Aug. 2.

"Preserving the Landscape? A History of

American Photographers and the Environment,"

an exhibition examining the work of those land-

scape photographers who preceded and inspired

Robert Ketchum, through Aug. 7.

LECTURES
Merck Centennial Series "Proto-Oncogenes in the Cell-Cycle," Dr. J.
Michael Bishop, Nobel laureate and director of the G.W. Hooper Research Foundation, University of California at San Francisco, May 21,4 p.m., James Law Auditorium, College of Veterinary Medicine.
MUSIC
Department of Music Senior Weekend Concerts The Cornell Wind Ensemble, with Mark
Scatterday conducting, will perform on May 23 at 3 p.m. on the Arts Quad.
The Cornell Glee Club and Chorus, conducted by Thomas Sokol, will perform on May 23 at 8:15 p.m. in Bailey Hall. Tickets are available at 107 Lincoln Hall, 9 a.m. to 1 pjn. or by calling 2553396.
Bound for Glory Albums from the studio. Requests: 273-2121.
Live Commons Coffeehouse broadcasts resume June 21.
RELIGION
Sage Chapel The Baccalaureate service will be held May 24
at 8:30 a.m. in Bailey Hall. R. Maurice Boyd. senior minister of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City, will be the speaker.
Catholic Masses: Saturday, May 23, 5 p.m.; Sunday,
May 24, 8:30 a.m., Anabel Taylor Auditorium. Summer Mass schedule begins May 30 through Aug. 16: Saturdays, 5 p.m.; Sundays, 10 a.m. Daily mass, announced on a weekly basis.
Christian Science Testimony meeting on Thursdays. 7 p.m..
Founders Room. Anabel Taylor Hall.
Episcopal (Anglican) Sundays, worship and Eucharist, 9:30 a.m..
Rev. Gurdon Brewster, chaplain, Anabel Taylor Chapel.
Friends (Quakers) Sundays at 9:45 a.m. adult discussion; 11 a.m.

sion/classes, ll:30a.m.and 12:3Op.m.,218Anabel Taylor Hall.
Protestant Cooperative Ministry Sundays, worship at 11 a.m, Anabel Taylor j
Chapel, Rev. Barbara Heck. Tuesdays, Tai# Prayer, 5:30 p.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel. Thursdays, Bible study, 4:30 p.m., G7 Anabel Taylor Hall. Fridays, celebration, 5:30 to 8 p.m., 401 Thurston Ave.
Satya Sal Baba Groupmeets Sundays. For information on tint*
and place, call 273-4261 or 533-7172.
Seventh-Day Adventist Worship, Saturday, 9:30 a.m., Seventh Day
Adventist Church, 1219 Trumansburg Road.
Southern Baptist Richard Foster's "Celebration of Discipline: A
Path to Spiritual Growth," Thursday evenings at 8:30 pjn., 316 Anabel Taylor Hall.
Zen Buddhism Zazen meditation every Tuesday at 7 p.m. and
Thursday at5:15 p.m.; beginner's instruction Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in Anabel Taylor Chapel.
SEMINARS
Astronomy & Space Sciences "From Cosmology to Stars - Starting Over,"
Halton Arp, Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik, Garching, May 26,4:30 p.m , 105 Space Sciences Building.
Biochemistry, Molecular & Cell Biology "New Insights into the Trafficking of Lysoso-
mal Enzymes," Stuart Komfeld, Washington University, May 22,4 p.m., Large Conference Room, Biotechnology Building.
Natural Resources "Ethnobotanical Perspectives," David M. Bates,
L.H. Bailey Hortorium. May 26. 12:20 p.m., 304 Fernow Hall.
SPORTS
(Home games only)
Saturday, 5/30 Men's Heavy Crew, Pennsylvania, noon
SYMPOSIUM
Human Service Studies 'Empowerment, Gender and Social Change in
Africa and The African Diaspora," a conference coordinated by Josephine Allen, Cornell Empowerment Group, will be held May 28 through June 3. in the Faculty Commons of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall. Presenters from Africa, the Caribbean and the United States will participate in this conference. For more information contact Allen or Terry lictor at 255-1820.
MISC.

Mann Library

"Department of Rural Sociology 75th Anniversary," an exhibition of displays focused on work in the 1990s, global programs, scholarly

Cornell Women in Agriculture & Life Sciences

work in the area of rural communities and of

Peter Morenus/University Photography

"Women as a Human Resource in Science,"

people and social issues, cooperative extension Jean Tansey, right, a junior, takes a whack at a softball practicing with senior Laurel Phyllis Moen, human development and family

and department history, through May 31.

Beverley on north campus. Intramural summer softball starts June 8; see Misc. studies, and sociology, will be held May 27, 7 to

8:30p.m.. K.L. Turk Seminar Room, 348 Morrison

Hall. This is thefirstmeeting of monthly informal

FILMS

de Antonio, with Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollack and other artists, 7:30 p.m.
"Night of the Living Dead" (1968), directed by

meeting for worship, Edwards Room. Anabel Taylor Hall.

forums for faculty and graduate students wishing to discuss agricultural and life sciences issues relating to education, career and family.

George Romero, with Judith O'Dea and Russell Streiner, 10 p.m.

Films listedare sponsoredby Cornell Cinema unless otherwise notedandwe open to thepublic. Wednesday, 6/3

All films are $4.50 ($4 for students) EXCEPT

"Sherlock Jr." (1924), directed by Buster

Monday Night Film Club (9:30p.m.), $3for all; Keaton, with Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire,

Thursdays, $3.50for all; Saturday Ithakid Film shown with "Zero for Conduct" (1933), directed

Festival, $2 and $1.50 under 12; Sunday Mati- by Jean Vigo, with Jean Daste and Robert le Flon,

nees, $3.50. Allfilmsare held in Willard Straight 7:30 p.m.

Theatre except where noted.

Thursday, 6/4

Thursday, 5/21 "The Graduate" (1967), directed by Mike
Nichols, with Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katherine Ross, 7:30 p.m.
"The African Queen" (1951), directed by John Huston, with Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, 10 p.m.

"Grand Hotel" (1932), directed by Edmund Goulding, with Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford and John Barrymore, 6:40 p.m.
"The Godfather" (1972), directed by Francis Ford Coppola, with Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and James Caan, 9:15 p.m.

Jewish Morning Minyan at Young Israel, 106 West
Ave. Call 272-5810. Shabbat Services: Friday: Reform, 5:30 p.m.,
Chapel, Anabel Taylor Hall; Conservative/Egalitarian, 5:30p.m., Founders Room, Anabel Taylor Hall; Saturday: Orthodox, 9:15 a.m., Edwards Room, Anabel Taylor Hall: Conservative/Egalitarian, 9:45 a.m., Founders Room. Anabel Taylor.
Young Israel (call 272-5810 for time).
Korean Church Sundays, 1 p.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel.
Muslim Friday prayers, 1 p.m., Founders and Edwards
Rooms, Anabel Taylor Hall. Zuhr prayer, 1 p.m., 218 Anabel Taylor Hall. Weekly group discus-

Intramural Summer Softball Competitive, coed and recreational leagues
now forming for summer softball season, June 8 through Aug. 2. Deadline is June 2, 5 p.m. Entry fee is $45; roster must be submitted to the Intramural Office, 305 Helen Newman Hall, before the deadline. Entry forms and more information available at the intramural office, or by calling 2552315 or 255-5133.
T'ai Chi Classes T'ai Chi & Chi Gung morning exercise classes
with Kati Hanna, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 8 a.m.. Law School Courtyard, next to Anabel Taylor Hall, rain or shine, June 1 through 29. Register at first class. Continuing Tai Chi Chuan practice will meet Thursdays throughout the summer. For information, call Hanna, 272-3972.

CORNELL
Employment News
Volume 4 Number 20 May 21, 1992

Published by the Office of Human Resources

An Introductory Message from Beth I. Warren, Associate Vice President for Human Resources

Reth I. Warren began work as associate vice president for human resources at Cornell at the beginning of April, 1992. Warren comes to Cornell from the University of Southern Maine In her position there as associate vice president for human resources. Warren was recognized for transforming the human resource office into a pro-active operation of comprehensive services for employees and for her success with the university's Child and Family Institute. Warren has received a number of awards for her innovation and leadership in human resource management, and brings this same creativity and knowledge to her current position at Cornell.
Over the past month. Warren has met with a number <>j staff, administrators, committees, and governing organizations across campus. Today she draws upon the information she has gathered thus far to outline some <>f the directions she envisions for the Office of Human Resources and Cornell University.

Greetings!

Though I came to Cornell only a little over a month and a half ago. before the summer begins I'd like to share some of my observations about Cornell and the Cornell community, and then to sketch out some of the themes I would like to project over the next several months.
First of all. I am very glad to be here, and especially ylad to have come to this beautiful campus at the beginning of the spring. Secondly. 1 have been gratified to discover, through my visits with a number of you across campus, that Cornell truly does live up to its reputation as
A complex organization like
Cornell, with its diverse
perspectives and divergent
concerns, can offer a wealth of
fresh and exciting solutions
a world-class university. Those of you who have been here lor some time may take this aspect of Cornell almost for granted. But for someone newly arrived. I've found an "penness here, a willingness for honest dialogue, that is especially exhilarating. I would like to foster this tradition l)l dialogue and feedback as together we try to improve the human aspect of Cornell's excellence.
Cornell is a complex, exciting organization, not only because it is a land-grant institution and a major American university, not only because of its endowed and statutory colleges, but also because of its multinational presence. And the very complexity of Cornell is itself a strength. In today's world, with all its rapid changes—whether we look at the global community, or at the field of communications and technology, or at the changing demographics "I the American workforce, or just at the financial restraints that all institutions like Cornell are facing—we need to look innovatively for new synergistic solutions. A complex organization like Cornell, with its diverse perspectives and divergent concerns, can offer a wealth of fresh and exciting solutions as we work through some very complicated challenges.
There is another important principle behind the concept of a world-class university that I find particularly invigorating. That is the principle that excellence brings forth excellence. We need to take a stance toward sustained improvement in our quality, world-class standing, remaining focussed on doing the best for the students who attend Cornell, the faculty who teach here, and the staff who support the university's operations.
So I would set forth three themes that I would like to build upon over the coming months. Some of these may seem like cliches, but I would hope that as we continue to Work together, (hey will assume a deeper meaning that goes beyond surface to substance.
First is the theme that the Office of Human Resources ' s engaged in a strategic partnership with many constitutents across Cornell, all of whom have a stake in human resource issues. "Human resources" is not just me, Beth Warren, or the staff in the Office of Human Re-

Beth I. Warren, associate vice president for human resources

sources (which. 1 understand, some people still think of as "Personnel"), but our colleagues throughout the colleges and units. And human resources does not just refer to those across campus who have formal roles in human resource issues. Human resources is everyone—senior administrators, faculty, managers, governance bodies—every employee as he or she relates to every other employee, every student, every alum, every visitor. Supportive of the decentralized nature of Cornell, our collective task will be to bring more clarity to the Human Resource roles and responsibilities across the university community.
Given this definition, it is obvious why any endeavor in the human resource field must be an endeavor undertaken by partners, by fluid, collaborative, team-based networks spun out across campus and beyond, committed not just to improving efficiency, but to achieving true quality and lasting excellence.
The second theme I'd like to address is based on the premise that we can only expect the best from our most precious asset, and that the most precious resource at Cornell, as elsewhere, is the human asset. It is tremendously important that we fashion and refashion quality work and learning relationships to support the university's mission of teaching, research, and public service.
. . . any endeavor in the human
resource field must be an
endeavor undertaken by
partners, by fluid, collaborative,
team-based networks spun out
across campus and beyond . . .
For my part, one of the strategic directions of the Office of Human Resources will be to assure that our practices support excellence in service. Through formal and informal mechanisms, and by continuing to talk with the many groups throughout the Cornell community, we will reassess what is needed from the Office of Human Resources and what is expected of the Office of Human Resources. I realize that, depending on the needs of the community, this approach to providing services is going to vary: some groups are going to need the services of the office more than others: some people will need the services provided by the office at some times in their lives more than at others. But we must consistently be committed to being relevant to the current needs of the community, to being flexible in responding to the changing needs of the organization, and to addressing those needs in ways

that foster positive, constructive work relationships that enhance the mission of Cornell.
The third theme, which I've already touched upon, is that mulitdirectional communication in both vertical and horizontal directions will be critical as we try to synthesize the needs and feedback I've received from across campus into meaningful and realistic programmatic directions. I am already working with the staff of the Office of Human Resources to refine our office structure, to improve our current work flow, and to prepare for the needs of the future. As these changes within the central office evolve, we will be sharing them with you. I would also hope to work with the university community in exploring those ideas, practices, and trends that are considered on a national level to be state-of-the art in the human resources arena. Together we will determine which of these should be tailored for practical application to the specific challenges that arc facing the university today.
. . . the most precious
resource at Cornell, as
elsewhere, is the
human asset. . .
Most importantly, regardless of the changes we make within the office, regardless of the state-of-the art theories and applications we might consider, the success in creating positive work relationships—in developing our human asset—depends on the collective, university-wide effort of us all.
1 know that in the difficult, tumultuous times we are facing here at Cornell and across the nation, this call for strategic partnerships may seem idealistic. But it will be an essential way of working if we are to prepare the university for the twenty-first century. And I have seen a spark here at Cornell—a spirit, a resiliency—that. I believe, can bring us through these hard times and equip us for the changes of the years to come. We have an exciting history upon which to build, and an exciting future for which we need to build. In my few weeks at Cornell, I have seen abundant evidence of the human energy and critical human skill that no machine can replace—the ability to think and to feel and to be interconnected with empathy and compassion.
For now. I would like to thank you for your graciousness in welcoming me, and I look forward to a viable and fruitful relationship as we all work toward genuine quality and enduring excellence—the hallmarks of a truly worldclass university.

2e Cornell Employment News May 21, 1992

Come and Learn the Power of a Positive Attitude!!!

Two programs to enhance your lifestyle have been moved to G10 in the Biotechnology Building:

Positive Thoughts Equal Positive Lifestyles - May 28, 9:00-11:00 a.m.
(see page 10 in the Contact calendar for description)
In this program you will learn to:
• Release negative self-talk and self-criticism
• Understand the "language" of the subconscious mind
• Encourage yourself with positive affirmations and self-assurance
• Consciously choose to perceive the glass as half full and develop positive mental programming

The Link Between Self-Concept and Performance - May 29, 12:15-1:15 p.m.
(see page 8 in the Contact calendar for description)
In this Brown Bag lunch we will discuss the: • Differences between self-concept, self-image, and
self esteem • "Peter Principle" in reference to self-concept • The Pygmallion effect or self-fulfilling prophecies • Power of expectations

These programs are offered at no cost to your department. You need not preregister!!

Deadlines for CCTS Applications
Employees who are now receiving the Cornell Children's Tuition Scholarship (CCTS) will automatically receive an application for the new academic year 1992-93. All other employees who need to apply for CCTS should request an application from the Employee Benefits Office, 130 Day Hall, or call Maureen Brull at 255-7509.
The deadlines for submission of applications are as follows:
Academic Year 1992-93 - June 1, 1992 Fall Term Only - June 1, 1992 Winter-Spring Term Only - December 1, 1992
To assist you in the process of applying for the CCTS benefit, the Employee Benefits section of OHR will sponsor an information session on Thursday, April 2, 1992, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in 163 Day Hall. This session will provide relevant information about the program as well as an opportunity for questions and answers. A representative from the Financial Aid Office will also be present to discuss applying for TAP awards.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Staffing Services, 160 Day Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853-2801 Day Hall: (607) 255-5226 East Hill Plaza: (607) 255-7422
• Employees may apply for any posted position with an Employee Transfer Application. A resume and cover letter, specifying the job title, department and job number, are recommended. Career counseling interviews are available by appointment.
• Requests for referral and/or cover letters are not accepted from external candidates unless specified in the ad. Candidates should submit a completed and signed employment application which will remain active 4 months. Interviews are conducted by appointment only.
• Staffing Services will acknowledge receipt of all material by mail. Hiring supervisors will contact those individuals selected for interview by phone; please include two or more numbers if possible. When the position is filled, candidates should receive notification from the hiring supervisor.
• Cornell University is an equal-opportunity, affirmative-action educator and employer.
• Job Opportunities can be found on CUINFO

Professional
Nonacademic professional positions encompass a wide variety of fields including management, research support, computing, development, finance and accounting, dining services and health care.
All external candidates must have a completed signed employment application on file with Staffing before they can be interviewed for a position.
Submit a resume and cover letter for each position, specifying the job title, department and job number. Employees should include an Employee Transfer Application.
Associate Director for Recognition Programs (PA1905) HRIII University Development-Endowed Posting Date: 5/14/92 Works with the director of the Cornell Fund in the planning and implementing the University's annual campaign for alumni support. Responsible for the solicitation aspects of he Cornell Fund and is primarily concerned with the solicitation and recognition of higher level donors. Particular emphasis is given to the University's Tower Club. Requirements: Bachelor's degree Extensive successful fund raising experience in alumni campaigning (3-5 yrs). Management skills and refined organizational skills. Ability to motivate people and work creatively with volunteers. Moderate travel and weekend assignments are involved. Send cover letter and resume to Cynthia Smithbower.
Senior Technical Advisor (PT2007) Level 40 Theory Center-Endowed Posting Date: 5/21/92 Administer the systems and operations of the Theory Center's multiple computer systems which supply advanced scientific computing resources to a national base of users. Provide high level technical expertise and serve as technical leader for systems integration, networking, and mass storage projects. Provide center directors with advice regarding policy decisions which involve operations, networking, and systems planning.
Requirements: M.S. degree or equivalent with computer related courses 8-10 yrs. experience in computing including scientific and advanced computing. Experience managing the operations of a major computer facility. Demonstrated expertise in all phases of operations management, systems integrations, networking, and mass storage. In depth knowledge of various operating system, especially UNIX, VM/XA, or VM/ESA, and CMS. Send cover letter and resume to Sam Weeks.
Research Support Specialist III (PT2001) HRII Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture-Statutory Posting Date: 5/2/92 Manage, plan, conduct and report research on Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) sponsored by NYSERDA, ESEERCO, and NYSEG. Plan and supervise the renovation and operation of research greenhouses. Conduct research and oversee experiments concerning the use of supplementary lighting for winter flowering and vegetable production. Administer $420,000 budget and prepare monthly reports. Requirements: Masters degree in plant science or related field or equivalent combination of education and extensive experience. Minimum 5yrs. as principal investigator on large research grants. Strong writing skills. Design experience in application of high intensity lighting systems. Send cover letter and resume to Sam Weeks.
Director, Language Learning Center (PA1901) HRII Modern Languages and Linguistics-Endowed Posting Date: 5/14/92 Direct development and day-to-day operations of new state-of-the-art language learning center. Oversee purchase, installation and maintenance of all equipment. Direct and coordinate operations of audio and video production studios, networked multimedia workstations, and classroom equipment. Provide leadership for teaching staff in the creation of technologyenhanced language teaching materials. Organize workshops, and train technicians. Supervise administrative operations Sent policies and procedures for

maintenance of library of audio, video, computer and multimedia materials. Act as liaison to other bodies in the university, with industry and other educational institutions. Assist with securing development funds. Requirements: Masters or equivalent in communications, educational technology or related fields. Previous management and supervisory skills required. Knowledge of computerized network systems and programs and experience with audio-visual equipment and procedures required. Experience in the development of teaching materials for foreign language instruction or related fields highly desirable. Excellent written and oral communication skills with knowledge of cross-cultural differences. Send cover letter and resume to Cynthia Smithbower.
Project Coordinator III (PA1906) HRII Maintenance Management-Statutory Posting Date: 5/14/92 Serve as a liaison between departments and Maintenance and Service Operations on outside contractors on building maintenance matters. Identify building operating problems and project scope. Schedule and coordinate maintenance and rehabilitation projects; inspect construction. Approve maintenance work for payment. Requirements: Associates degree or equivalent in engineering or construction technology is required; Bachelors degree or equivalent in engineering, Architecture, or business administration is strongly preferred. A strong technical background in buildings, minimum of 4-5 yrs. experience in construction or maintenance management and demonstrated strong oral and written communication skills are required. Send cover letter and resume to Cynthia Smithbower. Applications Accepted until June 12, 1992.
Senior Auditor (PA1801) HRII University Audit Office-Endowed Posting Date: 5/7/92 Plan and conduct financial, compliance, and operational audits of the University's operating units and colleges. Requirements: Bachelors degree in accounting or equivalent work experience. CPA required, MBA a plus. Minimum 4 yrs. auditing experience, knowledge of Macintosh computers, Word and Excel desired. Send cover letter and resume to Cynthia Smithbower.
Education Outreach Coordinator (PT1705) HRII Lab of Ornithology-Statutory Posting Date: 4/30/92 Coordinate and supervise the lab's "National Science Experiments". Nesting Survey, and Proiect FeederWatch. Develop network of cooperators and prepare accompanying educational materials. Requirements: Minimum B.S. or equivalent in biology or environmental education with 2-3 yrs. experience in teaching or coordinating educational programs. M.S. preferred. Computer skills; word processing and networking (preferably on Macintosh). Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Send cover letter and resume to Sam Weeks.
Information Systems Specialist (PT1704) HRII Human Ecology Administration-Statutory Posting Date: 4/30/92 Analyze the needs for administrative and academic information systems in the college of Human Ecology and the division of Nutritional Sciences. Develop plans to meet these needs and supervise implementation. Provide leadership in the dissemination of information to the college and division community. Requirements: BS or equivalent experience and education. 2-5 yrs. experience including work with administrators and faculty in complex college environment and with university administrative systems and procedures. Excellent analysis and advanced communication skills. Ability to use discretion and good judgment. Interest in promoting information usage in college community. Experience with development of database applications and programming Understanding of database structures and network concepts Send cover letter and resume to Sam Weeks.
Executive Staff Assistant (PC2003) HRI University Relations-Endowed Posting Date: 5/21/92 Provide assistance to the Vice President for University Relations: oversee, coordinate and integrate the flow

of information and materials through the office. Refer inquiries and materials to others for handling as appropriate. Supervise secretary. Work independently with highest degree of confidentiality. Requirements: Bachelors degree or equivalent. Substantial administrative experience (minimum 5 yrs.). Strong written communication skills including knowledge of grammar and punctuation, and ability to write in a variety of styles as appropriate for sender. Organizational, interpersonal and supervisory skills. Knowledge of university structure and division of responsibilities. Microcomputer experience required (Macintosh preferred). Wordprocessing required (Microsoft Word preferred). Experience with calendar, database, and spreadsheet software highly desirable. Dictation and transcription skill desirable. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith, Staffing Services, East Hill Plaza #2. Employees should include employee transfer application.
Assistant Coordinator (PA1904) HRI Engineering Co-Op Program-Endowed Posting Date: 5/14/92 Assist director with student recruiting, advising, and counseling. Coordinate recruitment activities for corporate representatives. Job development of coop work assignments. General program administration. Requirements: Bachelors or equivalent BS/8A required. 2yrs. related experience. Communications skills and presentation skills critical. Counseling background preferred. Knowledge of university procedures important. Macintosh experience helpful. Publication skills (editing) helpful. Send cover letter and resume to Cynthia Smithbower.
Executive Staff Assistant (PC2002) HRI Computer Science-Endowed Posting Date: 5/21/92 Work with senior professor to develop, plan and execute research policies and initiatives at the university as well as national level. Coordinate government and corporate liaisons with several diverse research initiatives, including the design research institute, modeling and simulation project in computer science as well as the information science and technology program. Requirements: B.S. degree or equivalent and minimum of 5 yrs. management and administrative experience or equivalent combination of education and experience. Writing skills at the publishable level. Demonstrated administrative and organizational skills. Excellent communication and public relations abilities. Scientific background helpful. Interest and ability to understand scientific literature and issues a must. Previous experience with computing systems. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith, Staffing Services, East Hill Plaza #2. Employees should include employee transfer application.
Farm Manager II (PA1903) HRI Fruit and Vegetable Science-Statutory Posting Date: 5/14/92 Manage the operations of Cornell orchards. Supervise six support staff, up to 25 seasonal temporary employees, and purchases. Organize the production, harvest, storage, grading and marketing of salable fruit Work closely with faculty, technicians, grad students and staff Requirements: Bachelors degree with coursework in pomology, pest management, soil science and economics. NYS Pesticide applicators license and drivers license. 2-3 yrs. experience in orchard management and supervisory skills. Working knowledge of computers and software for accounting and record keeping. Send cover letter and resume to Cynthia Smithbower.
Assistant Director of Intramurals. Director of Youth Summer Sports Camp (PA1902) HRI Athletics-Endowed Posting Date: 5/14/92 Assist the director in the overall supervision and management of the Cornell University Intramural Program. Includes hiring, training and supervising student staff, preparation of sports schedules, organization of contests, development and implementation of safety and risk management programs. Camp duties include managing and supervising all aspect of the day camp. Requirements: Bachelors degree or equivalent in recreation or related field. 2-3 yrs. related experience. Strong organizational, administrative and supervision skills in a comprehensive intramural sports program

Knowledge of officiating rules and techniques. Must be certified in ARC CPR and 1st Aid. Computer skillsMacintosh. Send cover letter and resume to Cynthia Smithbower.
Executive Staff Assistant (PC0904) HRI Agricultural and Biological Engineering-Statutory Posting Date: 5/7/92 Repost Assist the Program Director and other professional staff in the activities of the Technology Transfer Center, including conference and workshop organization and administration; supervision of administrative and office functions; program administration and management; and publication production. Requirements: Bachelors degree or equivalent. Minimum 3yrs. administrative experience, preferably in a service-related field. Highly motivated to work independently. Excellent (oral and written) communication skills. Thorough knowledge of WordPerfect S.T. Familiarity with DBase III or IV inquiry and desktop publishing. Ability to travel 15-30 days annually. A valid NYS drivers license. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith, Staffing Services, East Hill Plaza #2Employees should include employee transfer application.
Research Support Specialist (PT1609) HRI Clinical Sciences-Statutory Posting Date: 4/23/92 Provide technical support for the woodchuck hepatitis project through investigation of chemical carcinogenesis and development of techniques lor histochemical and immunochemical localization of tissue lesions. Maintain computerized tissue inventory of all frozen and formalin fixed tissues. Requirements: Bachelors degree or equivalent in biology with concentration in physiology, histology pathology or similar field, MS preferred. 2-3 yrs. experience in all phases of work in histology lab. Experience with cryostat and electron microscopy. Experience in handling, restraint, bleeding, euthanasia of lab animals. Pre-employment physical required. Send cover letter and resume to Sam Weeks.
Research Support Specialist II (PT1606) HRI Division of Nutritional Sciences/CFNPP-Statutory Posting Date: 4/23/92 Clean, manage, document and analyze a very large household survey data set from eastern Africa. Perform statistical analysis of subsections and the data set using DBase and SPSS. Provide detailed documentation of the cleaning procedures, higher generation data tiles and statistical analysis. Requirements: BS degree in nutrition or equivalent 2-3 yrs. related experience with maternal and child nutritional problems in developing countries strongly preferred. Demonstrated knowledge of basic statistics and ability to comprehend and apply more advanced statistics essential. Experience with management and analysis of large complex data sets using a variety of appropriate software packages and techniques required. Familiarity with nuances of household surveys especially in Africa preferred. Demonstrated ability for self-direction and careful attention to detail. Send cover letter and resume to Sam Weeks.
Professional Part-time
Outreach Coordinator (PC1709) HRI Agricultural Economics-Statutory Posting Date: 5/7/92 Provide ongoing assistance in the continued development and implementation of a comprehensive program for at risk farm families including NY FarmNet callers and related audiences. Until 10/92 continued employment contingent upon funding. Requirements: Bachelors degree or equivalent in related areas required (Human Service Studies, Rural Sociology, Agriculture, etc.) NYS drivers license required. Strong communication (written and oral) skills required. Ability to work with diverse audiencesKnowledge of farming and farm families requiredKnowledge of Cooperative Extension required. Will' ingness to Travel. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith, Staffing Services, East Hill Plaza #2 Employees should include and employee transfer application.

Networking
AN EMPLOYEE NEWSPAPER BY EMPLOYEE VOLUNTEERS FOR THE CORNELL COMMUNITY WORLD WIDE.

Thursday, May 21, 1992

DEDICATED SERVICE AWARD

Jane Bowen

Jane Bowen is the first person you see as you enter the Payroll Office in Day Hall. She is the person that greets you when you enter the office, in most cases is the person who answers your telephone inquires. Payroll serves over 300 departments and over 12,000 employees—Jane helps a large number of them. Multiply that by over twenty years of service, and you have a good idea of the enormous number of people Jane has assisted. Always with a smile and always giving that something extra. Service is Jane's number one business.
There are other areas where Jane's eagerness to serve are evident. To name a few, she has volunteered to assist handicapped students at graduation and to assist at employee functions as a volunteer. Jane also plans to be an active volunteer for Gadabout and assist

with transportation of handicapped individuals after her retirement (which is only a few years off). With over 23 years of service at Cornell, Jane has yet to take a sick day!
Jane and her husband Fred have a son, daughter and four grandchildren. Her interests include singing in the choral group Harmony Falls and ice skating at Lynah Rink.
Thank yous and praise for Jane have poured in over the years. Clearly Jane has a genuine interest in helping people and is an employee who not only does her job but gives that extra effort. Indeed, many employees who contact the Payroll Office have had their experience made a little more pleasant because of Jane.
We are aware that many individuals who read this may have their own positive stories to tell about how Jane has helped them. To quote a few:
"It has been said (by controllers) that a good payroll department is one that you never hear about. Silence is truly golden. People rarely take the time to say thank you for getting their correct pay on time. It simply is expected - by everyone. And the only time any word is heard, it is a discouraging one.
While this philosophy is one I understand, and probably have been guilty of accepting, there are exceptions. Over my tenure, I have received phone calls, several notes, and a number of face-toface comments about Cornell's payroll department and their commitment to

service. These people wanted me to know that, in the words of Ken Blanchard, they had benefited from 'legendary service' provided by Payroll. Not surprisingly, it frequently developed that Jane Bowen was the individual who had been responsible. The Controller's Office in general and the Payroll Office specifically have been blessed with a number of devoted employees who could always be counted on to take that extra step, make that special effort. No one more exemplifies that dedication than Jane Bowen. I am pleased to have been fortunate to have her as part of the staff."
— John S. Ostrom Controller Emeritus
"It is always a very real pleasure to walk into the Payroll Office and be greeted by Jane Bowen's smiling face. She never fails to be cordial and is always more than willing to go out of her way to help with any questions or problems. This is remarkable considering the number of people and phone calls she must deal with each day. Jane is certainly a very special person and deserving of recognition. I consider her to be a soaring eagle in Cornell's efforts at legendary service."
— Lisa Olevavno International Students and Scholars Office
"She has always been —'on the firing line'—a difficult position especially when

dealing with something as personal as a paycheck—but has consistently treated her customers with respect, understanding and compassion. Whenever I think of legendary service' Jane Bowen comes to mind."
— Lee T. Cartmill Director of Finance and Administration, University Library
"Jane was our 'special' liaison with the Payroll Office; one who had the ability to always work something out. Regardless of how much detail this might involve, she always maintained her cheerful disposition and was willing to go the extra mile. She has the 'can do' attitude!
In reflecting on the eighteen years I worked with Jane, I know I speak for everyone who has had the pleasure of being her colleague when I tell you that Cornell has been a much richer community for her caring support. We all owe her a great debt of appreciation."
— Vivian Farkas Former Executive Assistant (CIT) (now retired)
"Jane's co-workers appreciate her willingness to help others and her dedication to her job. Most of all we enjoy her pleasant disposition.
Sure glad that smiles can't wear out—Jane sure uses hers a lot!!"

Networking's Poetry Contest is a Success!

by Kathee Shaft
On behalf of the Editorial Board of Networking, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all of the people who helped make Networking's 3rd Poetry Contest a success. And a success it was! There were 36 talented people who submitted a total of 81 poems for this contest.
This Poetry Contest was intended to be a fun way of achieving some of Networking's goals, which include bringing the Cornell community together, utilizing unused talent at Cornell, and creating a positive atmosphere here at Cornell. By being the coordinator of this Poetry Contest, I can proudly say that these goals have indeed been met!
This contest seems to have brought the community closer together, as I received entries from Geneva and from people out on disability who still feel close ties to Cornell. I also received personal notes from some people, thanking

me for considering their poems. Me? Don't thank me. The thanks go to you, all of you who submitted poems. I want to thank you all for sharing your poems, some of which were personal experiences. Some of these poems brought tears to my eyes as I read them. I could feel the emotion with which they were written. I was touched.
As far as utilizing unused taient at Cornell, there certainly is talent out there, as these entries indicate. And the talent is probably unused. It takes special talent and creativity to be able to write good poetry. I think all of these poems are good, each in its own way. These poets all deserve credit and recognition for submitting their work. Don't be discouraged if your entry did not win a prize. You are all winners. It takes courage to enter a contest, and you all have shown that and taken the first step. Don't be afraid to share your poems with

others or to enter other poetry contests. I encourage you to keep writing. It can be fun. It can be enjoyable. It can be a stress-reliever. It can be anything you desire it to be.
I think this contest has helped to create a positive atmosphere here at Cornell. Most of the people I talked to when soliciting prizes were very willing to help. I would like to thank these people and their departments who contributed prizes for the contest. These donations are greatly appreciated and we salute these departments for helping us sponsor this event. In spite of the current economic situation, these people graciously donated prizes in the forms of merchandise, gift certificates, and services. The departments and prizes are listed on page 2.
Special thanks go to the two judges of our Poetry Contest: Roxanne Power Hamilton, a lecturer of creative writing

and literature in the English Department, and Marcia Jebb, a bibliographer in the Resource and Collection Library in Olin Library. With the substantial number of entries received and the impressive quality of the poems, it took more time and effort to do the judging than I had anticipated. I want to publicly thank Roxanne and Marcia for reading through these 81 poems and selecting the winners. This was not an easy job. We were fortunate to have two people who volunteered their time and expertise to this contest. We thank you.
Again, the Networking Board would like to thank everyone who helped make this Poetry Contest a success—the poets, the prize contributors, and the judges. This was truly a Cornell community effort and one we should all be proud of. This is what Networking is all about. We thank you all for being a part of it.

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1992 Poetry Contest

Winners

Name
1. Linda Contento Schmidt 2. Catherine Kuhl 3. Jake Smith 4. Vikram Haksar 5. Carolyn A. Schofield 6. Michael Federman 7. Birgitta Hansson 8. Sandra L. Shagat • 9. Trey Jones 10. Sharon Gunkel 11. Karen Schaufler 12. Kathee R. Shaft 13. Jerry Houghton 14. Lorna McPherson 15. Edmund W. Tori

Poem
The Waiting Air Borne Photographs Sena d'Estrela The Cleansing Goose Untitled (through the times) Speak Sparkling Fields Cheetah At Fourteen Waterfall Cabin Fever I wait for you Adrift on a Sea of Ignorance

Prize
Workshop of Winner's Choice Activity Class for One Semester Notebook Rental for One Week Workshop of Winner's Choice One Year Family Membership Gift Certificate for Crow's Nest Two Wildflower Books Gift Certificate for Frugal Caterer Lunch For Two/Big Red Barn Apples/Cider Gift Certificate Gift Certificate Gift Certificate Chauffeur Service Chauffeur Service

Prize Donor
Cornell Information Technologies Cornell Wellness Program CIT Sales Office of Human Resources Cornell Recreation Club Lab of Ornithology Cornell Plantations Dining Services Dining Services Cornell Apple Orchards Cornell Dairy Bar Cornell Campus Store Cornell Campus Store Transportation Services Transportation Services

How the Poems Were Judged . . .
In trying to hold as fair a contest as possible, all poems were submitted to the judges anonymously. All poems were printed using the same font and type size. Minor changes in spelling and grammar were made where deemed appropriate.
According to Roxanne Power Hamilton, one of the judges, the poems were judged on ambitious language and linguistic language, including texturally dense lines, rhythmic variation, imagery, and figurative language. Selections were made depending on whether the poem was a voice beyond a matter of prose. Each line was looked at as a unit of thought. Whether the poem was overall shaped in such a way attempting to mirror the idea it contained was also a basis for selection.

first Prize

Second

The Waiting
by Linda Contento Schmidt
Prune-like only
resembling something sweeter. Years eroded into deep crevices indicating where smiles have danced. A road map of wisdom. Knowing much Saying little. Reduced to a spectator. All given
Not enough returned. Tired now and sad. Remembering much
of youthful years, only wisps of this morning. Caring still Too old to make a difference. Alive
but not living... Nothing left
only the waiting.

Air Borne
by Catherine Kuhl
The sparrow flutters and glides in old, familiar stuff an attic space where each small bird remembers learning how to fly and borrowed strands of the commonplace interleave with the intrinsic rarities of the atmosphere.
The crow, a classic mime, exploits its thin, loose medium to best effect as prop, playing hobo-of-the-air as if wingbeats could trudge a cinder path or mimic a petty thief's chagrin, sliding on loose change.
The swallow applies a fine edge to a theorist's array addressing the problem of insect populations as breakfast with a daring algorithm which, when plotted out at supercomputer pace, produces fine-cut, 3-D figures in space blocked out by farmhouse, hen house, hay mow.
A hawk sails the meniscus - air gate, wind gap, the vaulted spaces he patrols shimmer like wine this morning. This morning his predator's eye lets fragile bits of spring float past undefined, mapping these rare effects of light for future reference still duty-bound as weaponry in peacetime.
fourth

Third
Photographs
by Jake Smith
She keeps them hidden (mother with her long fingers like keys) Stored in a dull tin box With other photos not to be shown
(strange, loud men with raspberry voices) But mine smells of fire and a quiet smoke 1 can not remember
My mother remembers well (her coat hanger arms hug me hard) And she hides the Kodachromes As if he and the flames never existed
A child searching for presents (in the back of a mothball closet) I would discover my father A man with a face vaguely familiar

Serra d'Estrela
by Vikram Haksar
I cast a line of silver memory to catch a glimpse of ancient past. Meteor showers streak the dark skies above the Serra d'Estrela in my living dream.
The wind whispers sleep through the pine trees and the wine that beckons with the promise of dreams of burning cedar fires and warmth and the love of being together and gathering in these memories drifting through the stream of generations of stories. One of which is here high on the mountain of pine and stone.

fifth
The Cleansing
by Carolyn A. Schofield
In the bath you sit elbow toward the ceiling. Droplets of water glisten and slide on your skin. Like a crane at dusk you lift above me, Your form, long and shadowy in the darkening blue Catches in my throat. The glory and majesty of your flight Rises in me, until I too Am winging into the night.

EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT
Blue Light Bus Drivers
by Susan E. H. Hollern — Photo by Doug Hicks

L to R: Don Mead, Dick Besemer, Phil Rumsey

The Blue Light System. What does that really consist of? A blue light and a telephone that rings-down automatically to Public Safety? An escort service that will walk with you during the evening hours? The campus transit system that provides transportation into the wee morning hours? Yes. That is what the Blue Light System is all about and I am happy to introduce to you three gentlemen that provide the transportation for our Community during the late hours of the week. Our Employee Spotlight for this week is Phil Rumsey, Dick Besemer and Don Mead, Blue Light Bus Drivers for Cornell University.
The Blue Light Bus Service is a little different than the daily bus service that transports the Cornell Community from one area to another both on and off campus. The Blue Light Bus Service is a service that is provided to the Community free of charge. George Sutfin, Crime Prevention Officer of Public Safety, says, "We provide this free service for the Community to make it safer for the entire Community at night."
What is an evening like driving the Blue Light bus? "Every evening is different. No two evenings are ever the same" says Don Mead. "Our purpose is to see that our passengers arrive safely to their destination. We have a route that we go by, but generally, if someone is walking down the sidewalk, I stop to pick them up. That gives me piece of mind."
Don's feelings are shared equally with Phil and Dick. "Most of the time, the students are really well-behaved. The problems that generally arise are when students' friends are visiting from out-of-town. They feel that they can get on the bus and start havoc. We don't put up with that and are fortunate that the Public Safety crews are out and about to help us when we need it. I give the Public Safety Department an awful lot of credit for being there for us and for our students," says Phil Rumsey. Dick Besemer adds, "we really enjoy the folks that we transport from all around the campus. If you treat them well, give them a smile, you generally get that in return. I really enjoy my route."
Bill Wendt, Director of Transportation, is very proud of the Blue Light System. "I am very proud of all the Cornell Transit Bus Drivers. We have received

many notes and letters from students all around the University stating their praise for our drivers. It gives us all a tremendous feeling that we are doing our best in our jobs for the Cornell Community—both for the students, staff and faculty."
The Blue Light Bus routes run anywhere from as early as 4:45 pm to as late as 2:30 am. A lot can happen in that time frame. These drivers are always on the look-out for people walking alone during the very early morning hours as well as for looking out for any suspicious activity that could occur during these odd hours. Every bus has a radio that connects directly to Public Safety. Phil, Dick and Don's job priority is for the safety of the people walking the campus alone at night and transporting them to their home or car.
Some problems that these drivers encounter is the erratic driving of people in cars and mostly, on bicycles. Shaking his head, Phil Rumsey says, "It's really dangerous when you go to pull out of a stop with a bus load of students and a bicycle comes tearing up next to you with no reflectors, lights or light colored clothing on the rider. There have been many a time when my heart jumped up in my throat because of situations like that." Nodding their heads, Dick and Don agree. "It's also been scary to have someone with dark clothes on, go running in front of the bus. We have to be on our toes at all times," exclaims Don.
All in all, Phil, Dick and Don enjoy their jobs. "Meeting students from all over the world is exciting," says Don. "They are very appreciative of the services we are providing them. We may not be able to understand some of them 100% because of the differences in the many languages, but we know that the smiles and nods are telling us that we have made them happy and that we have done our job efficiently."
There is a lot of responsibility in driving a campus bus as well as escorting individuals on this great campus. On your next campus bus ride, take a few minutes to thank the drivers. Let them know you appreciate them and the job they are doing for you.
Congratulations Phil, Dick and Don, our campus Blue Light bus drivers and this week's Employee Spotlight!

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Cornell Dining

MEETING ALL YOUR SUMMER DINING NEEDS.'

Trillium will be serving sandwiches, salads, hot entrees, grill items, baked goods, frozen yogurt, and beverages. Mon. - Fri. 8:00am - 2:00pm
T R I L L I U M (Trillium will be on vacation 5/18 - 5/25. Sprinkles
will be open to serve you 5/18 - 5/22)

The Big Red Barn offers deli and BBQ sandwiches, fresh salads and soups, specialty pita sandwiches, a pasta bar, and fresh baked goods.

Mon. - Fri. 7:30am - 2:00pm (through 5/22) Re-opens 6/8, 10:00am - 2:00pm

Big Bed Born
GRADUATE * PROFESSIONAL STUDENT CENTER

The EAT ory
Located in the Theory Center
Offering bagels, muffins, croissants, deli sandwiches, and a salad bar.
Mon. - Fri. 7:00am - 2:00pm

STRAIGHT
SCOOP

• frozen yogurt •beverages •hot dogs

• bagels "salads •sandwiches

•soft-serve & hard-packed ice-cream

Next to the Terrace, Willard Straight Hall

Mon. - Fri. 9:00am - 4:00pm, 5/18 - 5/22 8:00am - 2:00pm, 5/26 - 8/21 (open 8:00am - 6:00pm, 6/5)

Malott Hall
Enjoy fresh bagels, muffins, & croissants for breakfast;
choose from our sandwiches, soup, and salad bar for lunch.

Mon. - Fri. 7:00am - 2:30pm

On-going delivery service "from our deli to your desk". Sandwiches, subs, salads, side
dishes, desserts, and beverages.
Phone 255-8624 FAX 255-2181
Mon. - Fri. 10:30am - 3:00pm

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FOOLS ON THE HILL

You never thought it would happen at Cornell, but, believe it or not, it has. If you've had a hard time meeting people since you moved here, or if you've been here for a while and would like to meet new people, you'll be interested to know

that a particularly demented group of staff and grad students has formed Fools on the Hill. We meet for a happy hour every Thursday at the Chapter House, and we have several other events scheduled for the near future,

including horseback riding on May 31, • and a hayride/bonfire on June 19, among other things. If you're interested in finding out more, feel free to contact any of the members of the steering committee: Carol Buckley (5-1882), Meg

Culhane (5-9788), Laura Herlands (52036), Kevin Heaney (5-4482), Dave Jansson (5-3608), Theresa Merrill (2577000), or Joel Seligman (5-3854). You don't have to be a fool to get involved, but it helps.

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Five complete Chevy Silverado wheels in excellent condition, with or without tires. Perfect way to update older Chevy pickup. $175. Please call 838-8280.
14 x 70 Titan 3-bedroom on one acre lot. Oversized one car garage, $33,000. Please call Pete at 277-3100.
1989 Jeep Wrangler, excellent condition, red with gray soft top. 33,000 miles (never plowed), 5-speed, 4-cylinder, third seat, carpet and power steering, center console, am/fm/cassette Must sell, $7,770 negotiable. Rebate possible also owner financing with 50% down and credit check. Please call Steve at 257-3554.
1987 Laser sailboat. Very good shape, one owner. Please call Barbara at 5-2691 or 272-1508.
Three-bedroom house in Trumansburg village. Sun porch, pantry, attached garage, 15 x 24 attached storage barn. All remodeled and insulated; new Andersen windows and siding. Spacious private yard with stream and flowering trees on quiet street, walking distance to stores and bus. $62,900. Please call Pat at 564-7927.
Toro Riding lawn mower, 25" cut, rear-engine, electric start. New battery, new belts, like new. Asking $595. Please call Bonnie at 4-4731 or Roy at 594-2837.
Double bed. Mattress and box spring, $50. Bought new in August. Please call Jim at 5-5795 or 272-8309.
King woodstove. Takes 18" length logs. Decorative cover around firebox. Used two winters. Asking $325. Please call 5-3729 or 753-6995.

'83 Cutlass Supreme. Good body, engine needs work. Excellent interior. $1,500 OBO. Please call 272-2934.
1972 Dodge Dart, 318 V8, automatic, p/s, p/b, 2-door, solid frame, good engine, good tires. $600 OBO. Please call Tom at 844-4855.
1986 Ford Escort, snow tires, 57,000 miles, excellent condition, $2,100 OBO. Please call 256-5212.
1989 GMC Sierra 1500, 5.0 liter, 41K miles, $8,310-refinance. Please call 387-3317.
1981 Honda-matic CM400, runs great, just inspected $550 OBO. Please call 387-3317.
Six-piece furniture set (includes couch, chair, rocking chair, foot rest with small table in middle and two end tables), $300. Set of K2 skis (165) with Tirolio bindings, Nordica boots (size 7 - 7 1/2 women's) and K2 poles, $150. Please call Chris Eaton at 5-3393 or 749-2543.
Sailboat super snark. 11' deluxe coated styrofoam. Unsinkable, Never sailed. Retail $489.99, now $350. Dinghy fiberglass with oars, $450. Please call 257-1757.
1980 Pontiac Grand Prix, auto, V-6, 80,000 miles, runs good, $400. Please call 272-9310 or 539-6162.
New Blaupunkt pull-out car stereo, code protected, sounds great! Asking $200 OBO. Bundy clarinet, used but in great shape, best offer Please call Sharon at 5-4988.
Developed 2-acre lot, three miles west of Ithaca on Rt. 79. Please call Tina at 5-7948 or 796-9167.
White dresser, perfect condition, $100. Sears Kenmore high efficiency air conditioner, excellent condition (used one year), $250. Two, 1-ton wooden coal storage crates, $15 each or both for $25. Italian white marble table top (came with house), $75 OBO. Please call 272-2922.
Furnished seasonal cottage on 3+ acres of lake view property, $75,000. East side of Cayuga Lake 28' of frontage with retaining wall and dock. King Ferry area. Please call 898-3143 and leave message on machine.
Think spring! Beautiful red 1986 Chevy Cavalier convertible with all options! V6, 2.8 litre engine, a/c, cassette, power windows, cruise, deluxe plush interior, much more. Asking $4,500. Please call 5-4983 or 693-1223.
Good used 3-bedroom mobile home, 14 x 70, set up in nice, quiet park. Please call Donna at 5-6848 or 347-4967. Neil, evenings only, at 546-5023.
Bassett pine dining room suite with china cabinet, hutch, coffee tables, end tables. $900 OBO. Please call 257-7557 after 5:30.
1990 Bayliner Ciera Sunbridge. 22', 230 hp, V8. 40 hours on engine, dual axle trailer with brakes, camper and bimi top, docklines, fenders, anchors with lines, life jackets, safety equipment Dual batteries, am/fm cassette with power booster and JBL speakers. Three props, VHF radio, depth and fish finder, sleeps 4, private head, sink and icebox, water-skis, etc. Asking $23,000 OBO Beautiful boat a MUST SEE!!! Please call Ron at 257-1142 or 257-3809 and ask for Ron or Kelli.
US Silver coins. Good selection. Kennedy's, dollars, walking liberty's, dimes, nickels, commemoratives, pennies. Will sell individually. Please call Jim at 5-2329 or 589-6014.
1988 Nissan Maxima SE. Loaded 5-speed. Air, cruise, am/fm cassette. Excellent shape, no rust, runs like a top. 90K. Best offer over $7,500. Please call Jim at 5-2329 or 589-6014.
Windsurfer/hifly 555 12' board, 2-sails. 6 0 mylar, 7.2 flathead, nice fun board, complete $350. Please call Him at 5-2329 or 589-6014.
Looking for that specialty or show car? Here it is! 1979 Pontiac Trans Am Anniversary Edition. All original. Has all options. Automatic transmission. Always garaged and covered. 11,000 original miles. Asking $13,000. Please call 546-4111 after 6.00 pm.
Refrigerator frost-free, full size, copper color. $55. Please call 257-2339.
Wanted
Refrigerator and stove (wall oven w/ counter top range ok). White, gray or rust preferred, working and good condition. If remodeling, call me—not a landfill! Offering $75-plus per appliance. Please call Marcia at 5-0658

Babysitter to watch my ten-year-old son, starting June 29 weekday afternoons. Responsible teenager desired. Please call Monica at 5-9435 or 277-0598.
Three-bedroom furnished apartment or house rental for graduate student family. From middle of July or August 1 -December 1992 (fall smemster). Near Cornell. Please call 4-1250 or 257-1648.
Birding equipment. We are novice birders, seeking to acquire one or two pair of used, inexpensive but functional binoculars, and possibly a spotting scope. Please call 272-2922.
Summer cottage rental on eastern side of Cayuga Lake. July or August preferable. Please call 844-4986.
Land alone or land with house in Groton or Dryden area. 15-30 acres. Please call after 6:00 pm at 564-9218.
Washington DC family looking to rent four bedroom house in Ithaca, preferably downtown, during July and August. Would consider house swap with their three bedroom house on 12th St. SE. Please call Graham Kerslick at 5-3552 or 27?f)289.
Summer cottage rental on east shore of Cayuga Lake, week of July 27th by professional couple. Please call 5-9426 or 272-3971 evenings.
Flat stones suitable for building. Old stone walls or foundation stones perhaps. Will haul and clean up Brooktondale/Slaterville area preferred. Please call 539-6726.
Antique wooden clothes cupboard/armoire for storing coats. Does not need to be fancy and we don't need to have until June. Please leave message at 277-2228.
Professional couple, two children, seeks house to rent while own house is remodeled July 1 -August 8. Prefer lake shore or other location convenient to Cornell. Please call Tom at 5-1628 or 756-6503.
Three bedrooms furnished apartment or house rental for graduate student family. From middle of July or August 1-December 1992 (Fall semester). Near Cornell. Please call 4-1250 or 257-1648.
House rental wanted for very distinguished Russian Physicist in August, prefer lake or country setting. Contact Andre at 5-5169 or 277-6475 evening.
For Rent
Summer sublet available June 15 through August 20. Two-bedrooms at 403 Elmwood. On-site laundry, free parking, beautifully furnished, huge house, fenced-in yard, 30 second walk to Engineering Quad. $200 mo/OBO. Please call 257-4163.
Beautiful two-bedroom garden level apartment. Fully carpeted with fireplace in LR, private home in quite neighborhood, off-street parking, near bus line and shopping. Ideal for professional couple or two graduate students. No smoking or pets. $750/ month includes all utilities. Please call 5-8162 or 272-1767.
First floor unfurnished apartment newly decorated, for one or two persons, near post offices, churches, $650. Includes heat, utilities, refrigerator and stove, fireplace. No pets. One-year lease. Please call 272-2997.
Farm house with beautiful view and spacious fields and woods, pond, garden plot and pastures and barn for horses or sheep. 3-bedroom, washer/ dryer, $500 plus. Newfield, 20-minutes from Cornell. Please call 564-9569.
One-bedroom apartment, furnished. Fall Creek, near CU and downtown. Cozy, quiet, non-smoker. Available June 1. Please call Pris at 257-7000 or 277-0607.
Two-bedroom luxury townhouse for the discriminating renter. Delightful community and close to Cornell/IC. $750/month plus utilities. Flexible lease negotiable. Please call 277-7434.
Room in 3-bedroom house. Country setting. Quiet and private. Non-smoker. No pets. $275. Please call 27305544.
Two room efficiency, $395, available August 15. Two-story, three bedroom, $1,095, available June 1. Both located at 205 Eddy Street. Grad students and staff/faculty, quiet large, light bedrooms, clean, nice building, large porches, laundry in basement, parking available on property. All heat and water provided. Please call Howland at 5-7590.

Available July 1, 2-bedroom apartment in Northeast, quiet, laundry facilities, heat included. Please call 257-2339.
Two-bedroom lake front cottage on Lake Otsego, Cooperstown, NY. Weekly, $450, two weeks, $800. Please call 5-1245 or 277-4280.
Three-bedroom house, remodled, insulated, 8 miles to Cornell, country setting, garden space, wood and city gas heat, $500/month. Please call 5-1725 or 539-6644.
First floor unfurnished apartment, newly decorated, for one or two persons near post office, churches. $650 includes heat, utilities, refrigerator and stove. Fireplace. No pets. One-year lease, option to buy. Please call 272-2997.
Four-bedroom house, one mile from campus, on bus route. Pets okay. Room for garden. $1,000/ month. Available August 1. Please all 5-5447 or 257-2282.
Room in three-bedroom house. Country setting. Quite and private. Non-smoker. No pets. $275 includes. Please call 273-5544 after 7:00pm.
Share two-bedroom apartment with one female grad. Non-smoking female only. Near CU & East Hill Plaza. Fully carpeted. On-site laundry and free parking. $241 includes all. Available June 1. Please call 277-6487.
Summer Sublet. Second-floor, two-bedroom apartment. Near East Hill Plaza. Fully carpeted. Partially furnished. On-site laundry and free parking. Available June 10-August 10. $750 for the entire period. Nice and quiet. Please call 5-2596 or 277-6487.
Two-bedroom apartment at Warrenwood. Second floor, nice back terrace. $535 per month, plus electricity. Available mid-May through October. 12-month lease available. Please call Peter at 5-7862 for details.
Two-bedroom country apartment located between Cortland and Ithaca. 20-minutes to Cornell. Large rooms: kitchen, full bath, living room and lots of closets. No pets. Laundry and cable available. Attractive and modern. Please call 5-2027 or 838-8252.
Beautiful two-bedroom garden level apartment. Fully carpeted, private home in quiet neighborhood, off-street parking, near bus line and shopping. Ideal for two graduate students or professional couple. No smoking or pets. $750/month includes all utilities. Please call Glen at 5-8162 or 272-1767.
Timeshare. August 1992. Williamsburg, Va. 4-bedroom, 4 bath, kitchen, dining room, living room, laundry, all modern appliances. Located at luxurious resort. Accommodates up to 12 people. See Colonial Williamsburg, Busch Gardens, Yorktown, shopping outlets, much more. Please call 5-2027 or 838-8252 evenings and weekends.
Timeshare. Bahamas. August 1992. Beach front condo at Fairport. Two-bedroom, two baths, kitchen, living room, laundry. Enjoy all resort's free facilities. Accommodates up to 6. Please call 5-2027 or 838-8252.
Two-bedroom lake front cottage on Lake Otsego, Cooperstown, NY. Weekly, $450, two weeks. $800. Please call 5-1245 or 277-4280.
Two-bedroom duplex. Nice house, quiet neighborhood. 25 minutes to CU. Village of Groton. Low utilities. Singles or family with two young children. $455 plus. Security. Available May. Please call 898-9582.
Large 1-bedroom apartment in private country home. LR, DR, study, kitchen. Great views, walks, garden. 9 easy miles to town. $475 per month includes all utilities except cooking gas. Cat ok, dog possible. Available August. Please call Katy at 4-6459 or 564-7930.
Miscellaneous
Staff members interested in ride sharing can place a free advertisement in Networking by mailing in advertisements. There are no services for commuting students. Please send your ad to: Ride sharing, Office of Transportation Services, 116 Maple Ave, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. No phone calls, please.
Free
Upright freezer, canning and jelly jars. You haul. Please call Eileen at 5-3228 or 277-7593.

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Boyce Thompson Institute
Part-time Laboratory Assistant Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Salary: $5.50-6.50, 10-15 hours per week Du'ies include maintaining laboratory, washing lab ware, replenishing supplies, preparing solutions, suing autoclave and other tasks on an "as needed" basis, as well as insect colony care and diet preparation. Requirements: Ability to work under supervision and ln a laboratory environment. Contact Anne Zientek, 254-1239
CRESP
Bnajce Manager for large non-profit Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy Posting Date: 5/21/92 Required: 2 yrs. full charge bookkeeping with degree/ 5 yrs. without degree. Experience in Lotus, computerized accounting and payroll. {Full job description available upon request, call 255-6202). Salary $19,500. Excellent benefits Send resume and 3 references by June 1 to CRESP, Anabel Taylor Hall, CU, Ithaca, NY 14853. Affirmative Action Employer/people of color urged to apply.
Cornell Cooperative Extension
PA#16 Resource Management Educator Location: Tompkins County, Ithaca, NY Posting Date: 5/7/92 Responsible for leadership in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of innovative educational programs in resource management for individuals, familles, and communities for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County. Also works in conjunction with multicounty teams as appropriate. Resource management includes financial management, consumer decision-making and policy issues related to Personal, family, and community well-being across the life cycle. Provide leadership for interdisciplinary association issue team on resource management and facilitate community and volunteer development related to this programming. Extend educational proQramming through community agencies, organizations and Cornell Cooperative Extension volunteers. Work as a team member in addressing local, regional, and statewide program priorities. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelors degree and progress towards a masters degree in human ecology/ home economics or related area with resource management, financial management, consumer economics or other field appropriate to responsibilities of this position. Three years related experience as a cooperative extension agent or equivalent professional experience in teaching or education in a community setting or masters degree and one year relevant experience. Coursework in adult/youth education, communication and human services is highly preferred. Salary: $23,200, commensurate with qualifications. Apply by May 29, 1992 to Barbara Eshelman, 365 Roberts Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.
Technical
As a prominent research institution, Cornell has a diverse need for laboratory, electro/mechanical and computer support. Individuals with backgrounds in computer science, biology, microbiology, chemistry, animal husbandry, plant science and medical laboratory techniques are encouraged to apply; applicants with ASCP or AHT licenses are in particular demand. All external candidates must have a completed signed employment application on file with Staffing before they can be interviewed for a position. Send a cover letter and resume for each position, specifying the job title, department and job number, to Sam Weeks. 160 Day Hall. Skill assessment check lists, available at the Day Hall office, are a valuable aid when applying for computer or laboratory related positions.
Technician GR18 (T2006) Biotechnology Program-Statutory Minimum Biweekly Salary: $542.89 Posting Date: 5/21/92 Provide technical support maintaining plant tissue cultures and algal stocks and preparing plasmid DNAs. Maintain equipment and order supplies. Supervise student employees. Requirements: Associates degree or equivalent. B.S. in biological sciences or related field preferred. Some lab experience required Some coursework in chemistry and microbiology strongly desired. Send cover letter and resume to Sam Weeks.
Technician GR18 (T1904) Genetics and Development-Statutory Minimum Biweekly Salary: $542.89 Posting Date: 5/14/92 Provide technical support for the general operation of a genetics research lab. Perform experiments in yeast genetics and molecular biology using standard microbiological procedures and some specialized techniques. Analyze nucleic acids and proteins. Record data. Order supplies, maintain records and report on ladioisotope usage. Provide training. Weekend and evening hours frequently required. Requirements: AAS degree in biology (or equivalent) with and interest in genetics. Minimum 1 yrs. related experience. Work in a research lab is highly desirable. Willingness and ability to learn new procedures. Send cover letter and resume to Sam Weeks.
Animal Technician GR18 (T1604) Laboratory Animal Services-Statutory Minimum Biweekly Salary: $542.89 Posting Date: 4/23/92 Care, feed, water, clean and monitor research animals. Follow strict protocols for sterile or disease control environments and regulations for animal welfare. Maintain animal records. Assist vets in treating and vaccinating animals. Weekends and holidays coverage required. Requirements: Associates degree or equivalent in Animal Science required. Assistant certification helpful Minimum 1 yr. related experience required. 1 yr. animal experience. Ability to lift 50lbs. Must successfully pass a pre-employment physical and all necessary immunization. Drivers license. Send cover letter and resume to Sam Weeks.
Technician GR18 (T1505) Food Science-Statutory Minimum Biweekly Salary: $542.89 Posting Date: 4/16/92 Conduct analytical tests on dairy products to provide support for research projects Test procedures include: Kjeldahl nitrogen, total solids, salt, fat, and others. Assist in cheese making. Enter data in computer, clean glassware, and help with other laboratory related activities. Requirements: Associates degree or equivalent in dairy technology or food science. Course and laboratory class training in routine dairy product analyses (Kjeldahl, Mojonnier, Babcock.) Minimum 1 yr. related experience Send cover letter and resume to Sam Weeks.

Technician GR19 (T7706) Food Science-Statutory Minimum Biweekly Salary: $566.28 Posting Date: 4/30/92 Repost Conduct microbiological research on the growth of pathogenic microorganisms in refrigerated foods Prepare media and cultures. Inoculate foods with pathogenic microorganisms. Package and enumerate samples. Develop enumeration procedures. Order supplies and keep accurate records. Requirements: AAS or equivalent in microbiology or related field with emphasis in microbiology. Minimum 1 yr. related experience. Familiarity with enumeration, identification, spectormetry. Ability to conduct independent research with minimal supervision. Experience with pathogenic bacteria. Computer and statistical knowledge helpful. Good communication skills. Send cover letter and resume to Sam Weeks.
Technician GR20 (T2005) Animal Science-Statutory Minimum Biweekly Salary: $590.45 Posting Date: 5/21/92 Carry out independent research on sperm analysis, fertilization, microinjection of embryos and establish the conditions for culture of embryos. Procure the embryo material from animals and perform morphological, biochemical and animal studies on these lines and summarize results for publication. Requirements: Bachelors degree or equivalent in Animal Science, Animal Physiology or related field. Coursework in reproductive physiology and embryo biotechnology highly desirable. 1-2 yrs. lab experience working with mammalian embryos required. Send cover letter and resume to Sam Weeks.
Technician GR20 (T1901) Clinical Sciences-Statutory Minimum Biweekly Salary: $590.45 Posting Date: 5/14/92 Culture tissues, prepare and photograph microscopic preparations, and prepare and stain frozen tissue sections Prepare Northern and Western blots, assist in cyropreservation of tissue samples, and keep accurate records Requirements: Bachelors of Science degree or equivalent, preferably in a biological science. 1-2 yrs. related experience. Must be capable of performing sterile techniques. Previous tissue culture experience or molecular biology is highly desirable. Must be willing to work carefully with radioactive or toxic reagents; some such experience is desirable. Willing to perform procedures on tissues from living or dead animals. Send cover letter and resume to Sam Weeks.
Laboratory Coordinator GR20 (T1903) Section of Physiology-Statutory Minimum Biweekly Salary: $590.45 Posting Date: 5/14/92 Set up laboratories and demonstration materials for 200 students in introductory biology. Maintain necessary materials, maintain laboratory facilities, and keep all study center areas orderly. Coordinate lab scheduling for teaching assistants. Maintain accounting of course budget. Requirements: Bachelors degree or equivalent in biology or related science The applicant must have demonstrated the ability to work in a highly organized and reliable way. Must be able to work in cooperation with other staff. 1 yr. practical experience running or working independently in a research or teaching laboratory desirable. Knowledge of Macintosh and/or IBM computers useful. Drivers license required. May be required to work flexible hours w/in 39 hr. wk. Send cover letter and resume to Sam Weeks
Technician GR21 (T1607) Vet Pathology-Statutory Minimum Biweekly Salary: $615.42 Posting Date: 4/23/92 Prepare high quality microscope slides for both diagnostic and research purposes. Perform routine embedding, sectioning and staining of animal tissue. Perform large volume of special staining procedures on rotating basis. Assist in development of contemporary histopathology procedures within the laboratory. Requirements: BS or equivalent required with experience and coursework in histopathological techniques. HT(ASCP) certification or eligibility highly desired. 12 yrs. experience as histology technician in a hospital or research laboratory desired. Experience in variety of special staining techniques and immunohistochemistry desired. Send cover letter and resume to Sam Weeks
Technician GR22 (T2003) Pharmacology-Statutory Minimum Biweekly Salary: $641.92 Posting Date: 5/21/92 Conduct experiments and analyze results in research relating to receptor-coupled signal transduction. Two general areas of research are currently being pursued: 1) on ras-like GTP-binding proteins 2)vertebrate visual transduction. Using biochemical techniques and cell cultures, purify membrane proteins. Perform radioligand binding assays. Prepare solutions. Requirements: B.S. or equivalent in biochemistry or related field. 2yrs. lab experience required. Additional experience in protein purification in cell culture work helpful. Send cover letter and resume to Sam Weeks.
CHESS Operator GR24 (T1603) CHESS-Endowed Minimum Biweekly Salary: $701.22 Posting Date: 4/23/92 Interact with user groups on technical and scientific problems. Implement safety codes. Responsible for covering CHESS system malfunctions and software problems associated with instrument control. Assist in building new equipment. May assist in experimental programs. Some nights and weekends. Requirements: Bachelors or equivalent tn technical field such as engineering physics. Experience not needed. Good mechanical and laboratory skills. Programming experience preferred. Send cover letter and resume to Sam Weeks.
Technical Off-campus
Field Technician GR20 (T1706) Quality Milk Promotion Services/Cobleskill, NYStatutory Minimum Biweekly Salary: $590.45 Posting Date: 4/30/92 Perform surveys on dairy farms for detection of udder infection in cows, collect milk samples, and examine milking systems and installations. Observe and record environmental conditions and management practices. Assist in collecting blood samples. Enter computer data for reports. Care for equipment and maintain supplies. Perform general housekeeping, maintain stocks, and dispose of media. Requirements: BS degree or equivalent education and experience in dairy science required. Certified Animal Health Technician preferred. 1-2 yrs. related experience including dairy farm work. Strong interpersonal skills. Familiarity with computers, including Lotus and DBase III+. Willingness to learn new skills and work as a team member. Send cover letter and resume to Sam Weeks.

Office Professionals
Approximately half of all University openings are for Office Professionals Individuals with secretarial, word processing (IBM PC, Macintosh, Wang, Micom), data entry, technical typing, or medium to heavy typing (4560+ wpm) are encouraged to apply.
All external candidates must have a completed signed employment application on file with Staffing before they can be interviewed for a position. Employee candidates should submit an employee transfer application and cover letter, if requested, for each position in which they are interested
Submit a signed employment application and resume which will remain active for a period of four months. During this time, you will be considered for any appropriate openings for which you are competitively qualified. Requests for referral and/or cover letters are not accepted from external candidates unless specified in the ad. Qualified applicants will be invited for a preliminary interview at our EHP office. If you are currently available for employment, you may want to consider temporary opportunities at the University. Please contact Karen Raponi at 255-2192 for details.
Personnel Assistant GR17 (C2007) Office of Human Resources/Staffing Services-Endowed Minimum Biweekly Salary: $530.38 Posting Date: 5/21/92 Provide receptionist/clerical support in the areas of recruitment, referral of applicant materials and data entry to the staffing specialist for the office professional/ general service positions. Back-up support to the temporary services coordinator as needed. Requirements: High School diploma or equivalent 1-2 yrs. related work experience. Excellent customer, organizational, interpersonal and communication (written/oral) skills essential. Proficient in the use of computers Must be able to work under tight deadlines. Meticulous attention to detail. Able to deal effectively with a variety of people. A valid drivers license. Medium typing. Regular CU employees only. Send employee transfer application, cover letter and resume to Esther Smith, Staffing Services, East Hill Plaza #2.
Senior Circulation/Reserve Assistant GR18 (C1905) Access Services/Olin Library-Endowed Minimum Biweekly Salary: $542.89 Posting Date: 5/14/92 Process materials for reserve in the graduate study rooms. Create item records for materials to be placed on reserve. Work at the circulation desk. Schedule changes with the academic year. Requirements: High School diploma or equivalent required. Some college coursework preferred. 1-2 yrs. related experience with microcomputers. Ability to work effectively with a variety of people in a public services setting. Strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills. Must be able to work at the computer terminal for extended periods of time. Must be able to lift/move heavy books (maximum 50lbs). Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith, Staffing Services, East Hill Plaza #2. Employees should include employee transfer application
Senior Stacks Assistant GR18 (C1906) Access Services/Olin Library-Endowed Minimum Biweekly Salary: $542.89 Posting Date: 5/14/92 Maintain the book stacks of the library Shelve a large volume of materials Conduct inventory of library materials and enforce library policies on assigned floor. Open and close the building on assigned days Requirements: High School diploma or equivalent required. Some college background and/or experience with academic libraries preferred. 1-2 yrs. related experience Must be exceptionally dependable. Must be able to work independently with a minimum of supervision. Strong organizational and interpersonal skills. Experience with computers desirable. Must be able to lift and move heavy books (max 50lbs.) for extended periods of time. Must be able to stand for long periods of time. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith, Staffing Services, East Hill Plaza #2 Employees should include employee transfer application.
Office Assistant GR18 (C1409) Building Care-Endowed Minimum Biweekly Salary: $542.89 Posting Date: 5/14/92 Provide direct clerical and administrative support to the fiscal, business, and training operation of the department. Also provides general support for comprehensive central office operation. Requirements: High School diploma or equivalent. Macintosh computer, software such as Excel, Microsoft Word, Filemaker. Excellent interpersonal skills. Heavy typing. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith. Staffing Services, East Hill Plaza #2. Employees should include employee transfer application.
Administrative Aide GR19 (C2010) University Development/Special Projects-Endowed Minimum Biweekly Salary: $566.28 Posting Date: 5/21/92 Provide administrative assistance to the Director of Special Projects. Coordinate flow and oversee completion of work within the office. Prepare reports, arrange meetings, compile data, oversee production of proposals, and assist in special projects. Requirements: High School diploma or equivalent. Associates degree or equivalent in experience preferred. Minimum 1 yr. experience. Excellent organizational, communication (written and oral) and human relations skills. Ability to work independently and perform a variety of detailed assignments. Discretion in dealing with confidential matters. Knowledge of Macintosh computer Medium typing. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith, Staffing Services, East Hill Plaza #2. Employees should include employee transfer application
Accounts Assistant GR19 (C1910) Bursars Office-Endowed Minimum Biweekly Salary: $566.28 Posting Date: 5/14/92 Maintain student finance and Cornell Card billing systems. Direct contact with students, parents and other CU departments in person, via telephone and written correspondence concerning student billing. Processing adjustments and other transactions; reconcile statements; and process deposits, vouchers and journal entries. Requirements: High School diploma or equivalent. Some college coursework preferred. 1-2 yrs. related experience. Knowledge of general accounting. Strong interpersonal skills. Ability to work in an active, complex environment. Light typing. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith, Staffing Services, East Hill Plaza #2. Employees should include employee transfer application.
Administrative Aide GR19 (C1911) University Development-Endowed Minimum Biweekly Salary: $566.28 Posting Date: 5/14/92 Provide administrative and secretarial support for the office of Special Gifts. Schedule appointments; answer telephone; distribute mail. Assist in preparing and coordination all correspondence for presidential letters. Assist in coordinating arrangements for campus visits program. Maintain reference materials. Requirements: High School diploma or equivalent. Some college coursework preferred 1-2 yrs related experience. Excellent secretarial, organizational and interpersonal skills. Very good typing skills. Pleasant telephone manner. Knowledge of Macintosh computer

and dictation equipment. Ability to work with computer inquiry programs. Familiarity with making travel arrangements. Medium typing. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith, Staffing Services, East Hill Plaza #2. Employees should include employee transfer application.
Editorial Assistant GR19 (C1704) CU. Press-Endowed Minimum Biweekly Salary: $566.28 Posting Date: 4/30/92 Assist six editors in editing department; check all stages of proof; help with manuscript and index preparation Requirements: AAS or equivalent knowledge of Chicago manual of style desirable. Proofreading skills. Excellent concentration and eye for detail. Ability to organize flow of work and meet schedules for over 140 books per year Light typing. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith. Staffing Services, East Hill Plaza *2. Employees should include employee transfer application.
Travel Coordinator GR19 (C1504) Travel Office-Endowed Minimum Biweekly Salary: $566.28 Posting Date: 4/16/92 Provide management, faculty, staff and guests of Cornell, on university business or related business, the most economical international and domestic travel plans Reserving and ticketing airline, train, car and hotel accommodations. Requirements: High School diploma or equivalent. Commercial travel agent with 1-3 yrs actual working experience with travel agency or airline. Must be proficient on American Airlines Sabre Computer Reservation System. Accuracy in domestic and international schedules, fares, rules, and ticketing essential Heavy typing. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith, Staffing Services, East Hill Plaza #2 Employees should include employee transfer application
Personnel Assistant GR20 (C2008) Library Administrative Operations-Endowed Minimum Biweekly Salary: $590.45 Posting Date: 5/21/92
Assist the personnel director and the staffing specialist in the administration of personnel activities for the library system. Manage confidential files Maintain automated personnel record system. Process forms and serve as initial contact for visitors and staff Requirements: AAS or equivalent. Minimum 2-3yrs. experience Strong organizational, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills Ability to work independently, to set priorities, to work under pressure, and to handle confidential material with discretion. Familiarity with microcomputer highly desirable, especially word processing and database management. Heavy typing. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith, Staffing Services, East Hill Plaza #2. Employees should include employee transfer application.
Reference Assistance GR20 (C2006) Albert R. Mann Library-Statutory Minimum Biweekly Salary: $590.45 Posting Date: 5/21/92 Provides information service in Mann Library and coordinates the maintenance of the collection of reference materials. Responsible in the Entomology library for student hiring and supervision, and supervision of the online circulation system. Requirements: Bachelors degree or equivalent experience and education Minimum 1-2yrs. related experience. Background in entomology, agriculture, or biological sciences, experience working in an academic/ research library, and experience with use of microcomputers preferred Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to be self-directed, meet deadlines, pay attention to detail Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith, Staffing Services, East Hill Plaza #2. Employees should include employee transfer application.
Assistant to the Director GR20 (C2001) University Relations/Information and Referral Center-Endowed Minimum Biweekly Salary: $590.45 Posting Date: 5/21/92 Assist director with management of information and referral center (IRC) and initiatives in university-wide visitor services. Supervise 20-30 student employees and occasional temporary staff; maintain several university-wide databases, serve as primary information coordinator for high-volume public information desk/ visitor reception area in Day Hall; manage publications inventory; arrange facility tours for visiting groups; provide administrative, clerical, and accounting support for IRC Special projects as assigned. 1-yr appointment beginning 8/3/92. Monday-Friday 39hours/week. Requirements: Associates degree or equivalent. 23 yrs. related experience. Developed analytical skills with customer service orientation. Outstanding communication skills. Knowledge of Cornell community Word processing ability. Familiarity with Macintosh computers preferred Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith, Staffing Services, East Hill Plaza #2. Employees should Include employee transfer application.
Administrative Aide GR20 (C2009) School of Hotel Administration-Endowed Minimum Biweekly Salary: $590.45 Posting Date: 5/21/92 Under direct supervision of 2 staff members in the office of executive education. Schedule appointments for the assistant dean of executive education. Organize and coordinate special functions and projects as the assistant deans representative (i.e. orientation programs, speeches, domestic and foreign travel). Handle correspondence and documents of highly confidential nature for the assistant dean. Requirements: Associates degree, or equivalent combination of education and training skills. 2-3 yrs. prior experience as administrative aide, or secretarial skills highly desirable. Good knowledge of office practice essential. Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills. Ability to use computer and word processing equipment. Strong (written) communication skills, including knowledge of editing, excellent grammar skills. Medium typing. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith, Staffing Services, East Hill Plaza #2. Employees should include employee transfer application. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply
Restaurant Service Coordinator GR20 (C1915) Statler Hotel-Endowed Minimum Biweekly Salary: $590.45 Posting Date: 5/14/92 Help the Food and Beverage director plan, coordinate, schedule and mange, in an efficient manner, the food production and service in Mac's cafe. Requirements: High School diploma or equivalent. Minimum of 5 yrs experience in quantity food production and cafeteria service; AAS degree in restaurant management or culinary arts preferred; proven ability to assume responsibility, exercise authority and use good financial management. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith, Staffing Services, East Hill Plaza #2. Employees should include employee transfer application.
Restaurant Coordinator GR20 (C1917) Statler Hotel-Endowed Minimum Biweekly Salary: $590.45 Posting Date: 5/14/92 Helps the Terrace restaurant manager or Food and Beverage director plan, coordinate, schedule and mange, in an efficient manner, the food production and service in the club dining room, club coffee hour and room service. Requirements: High School diploma or equivalent.

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Minimum ot 5 yrs e«penenc» in quantity lood production and cafeteria service required: AAS degree m restaurant management or culinary arts preferred: proven ability to assume responsibility, exercise authority and use ot good financial management and planning skills Send cover letter and resume to Eslher Smith. Staffing Services. East Hill Plaza «2. Employees should include employee transfer application

Senior Department Assistant GR20 (C1907) Media Department/Uris Library-Endowed Minimum Biweekly Salary: SS9O.45 Posting Date: 5/14/92 Share responsibility for day-to-day administration for the Media department Manage the viewing listening facility Supervise student assistants and run the Cornell Lectures Recording program. Deal extensively with a wide variety of audiovisual materials and equipment and computer applications Monday-Thursday. i0am-7pm. Friday 9am-5pm. Requirements: Associates degree or the equivalent required Formal training in communications and or instructional media highly desirable. 2-3 yrs. related experience with all commonly used audiovisual materials and equipment Good organizational and interpersonal skills essential. Computer skills and supervisory experience preferred. Strong command of spoken and written English Ability to lift and carry equipment (up to 40lbs ) daily Ability to climb multiple flights of stairs many times daily Light typing. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith. Staffing Services. East Hill Plaza »2 Employees should include Employee transfer application

Curatorial Aide GR20 (C1913)

Section of Ecology and Systematic*-

>ry

Minimum Biweekly Salary: 5/14/92

Posting Date: 5/14/92

Assist curatorial associates in daily operation of re-

search and teaching aspects of fish. herp. bird, and

animal collections Duties include recordkeeping. data

entry, specimen preparation, collection maintenance

and miscellaneous duties associated with vertebrate

collections.

Requirements: Associates degree or equivalent re-

quired. B S degree preferred Some coursework in

biological sciences and or experience with taxonomic

keys and biological collections Ability to work inde-

pendently, exposure to research environment, and at-

tention to detail and organization extremely important.

Light typing. Send cover letter and resume to Esther

Smith. Staffing Services. East Hill Plaza #2. Employ-

ees should include employee transfer application.

Research Aide GR20 (C1601) CRSR-Endowed Minimum Biweekly Salary: S590.45 Posting Date: 4/23/92 Provide support for research group in planetary science including library research, typing technical MSS and government grant proposals: making complex travel arrangements, purchase orders, vouchers and reimbursements: handling sensitive and diverse telephone calls, provide backup in general clerical duties. Requirements: AAS degree or equivalent. Bachelors degree preferred or equivalent. Some science background helpful Word processing, accurate typing and good language skills required Some technical typing experience helpful. Familiarity with Cornell library system and accounting useful. Able to handle wide range of projects under pressure Excellent telephone technique Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith Staffing Services. East Hill Plaza #2. Employees should include employee transfer application

Computing Administrative Assistant GR21 (C1912) Computer Science-Endowed Minimum Biweekly Salary: 5/14/92 Posting Date: 5/14/92 Provide admimstrational and organizational support to director of computing facilities and facilities staff. Provide problem resolution and front-line response and tracking tor all problems and requests from faculty staff and students to computing facilities support group Organize and maintain computer accounts, inventory records and computer backup tapes for the computer science departments computing facility, consisting of approximately 300 users on 200 departmental workstations and servers.
Requirements: Associates degree or equivalent combination of education and experience A high level of general administrative and organizational skills essential, including demonstrated initiative and problem solving abilities, technical typing and ability to run documentation library. Experience with computer systems and multiuser system such as UNIX, including familiarity with editing, printing and text processing tools. Medium typing. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith. Staffing Services. East Hill Plaza »2. Employees should include employee transfer application.

Student Loan Coordinator GR22 (C1909) Bursars Office-Endowed Minimum Biweekly Salary: S641.92 Posting Date: 5/14/92
Coordinate the servicing from disbursement through repayment of CU supplementary Loan Program. Act as a liaison with Financial Aid. Accounting and Dormitory Authority of the State of New York to administer the fund. Requirements: Associates Degree or equivalent. 34 yrs related experience Good accounting skills. Ability to work with sophisticated loan management system Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work with borrowers. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith. Staffing Services East Hill Plaza *2 Employee should include employee transfer application

Office Professionals Part-time
Museum Receptionist GR16 (C1801) Johnson Museum-Endowed Minimum Biweekly Salary: S511.68 Posting Date: 5/7/92 Operate museum reception desk in lobby. Provide information to visitors: sell cards, catalogs, and posters: answer telephone: take accurate messages for staff members: relay accurate information to weekend supervisor provide security to museum lobby: and be available to work special events during evening hours and for substituting for weekday receptionists. Sunday and Saturday. 10am to 5pm special events and

substituting. Requirements: High school diploma or equivalent 1 yr related experience necessary. Interest and involvement in art or related areas preferred, as well as familiarity with the Ithaca area community. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith. Staffing Services. East Hill Plaza »2 Employees should include employee transfer application
Office Assistant GR17 (C1916) East Asia Program-Endowed Minimum Full-time Equivalent: S530.38 Posting Date: 5/14/92 Provide secretarial support to monograph series managing editor and administrative aide Provide information and assistance to faculty, students and general public on a wide variety of opportunities for fellowships, study and research abroad, internships, careers, etc Take charge of weekly faculty luncheons Monday-Friday 12pm-5pm Requirements: High School diploma or equivalent required 1 yr. office work; experience with WordPerfect 5.1. Lotus 1-2-3 Familiarity with database programs helpful. Medium typing. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith. Staffing Services. East Hill Plaza #2. Employees should include employee transfer application.
Entomology Assistant GR18 (C2005) Albert R. Mann Library-Statutory Minimum Full-time Equivalent: S542.89 Posting Date: 5/21/92 Under the direction of the entomology coordinator, responsible for staffing the Entomology Library Provides information and general assistance, circulates library materials, shelves books, maintains supplies, and handles mail Responsible for processing interlibrary lending requests and course reserve lists 20 hrs week Requirements: Associates degree or equivalent experience and education. Background in entomology, agriculture, or biological sciences preferred. Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to be self-directed, meet deadlines, pay attention to detail Experience working in an academic/research library is desirable. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith. Staffing Services. East Hill Plaza #2. Employees should include employee transler application.
Senior Records Assistant GR18 (C1904) Acquisitions/Law Library-Endowed Minimum Full-time Equivalent: S542.89 Posting Date: 5/14/92 Process gifts and exchanges, maintain files of missing items, and assist in collection development activities and other special projects. 20 hrs/week Requirements: High School diploma or equivalent 1-2 yrs library experience. Some college coursework preferred Good interpersonal skills Familiarity with computers online searching, and library catalogs. Requires flexibility willingness to take on a variety of tasks, and ability to work independently and maintain a high level of productivity. Ability to move heavy book trucks (Maximum ot 50lbs.). Medium typing. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith Staffing Services. East Hill Plaza #2 Employees should include employee transfer application.
Administrative Aide GR19 (C1708) Education-Statutory Minimum Full-time Equivalent: S590.45 Posting Date: 4/30/92 Provide administrative support for National Science Foundation sponsored research project in mathematics education, including management of computer systems, video system, correspondence, project accounts, and organization of project materials. Until 6/30/93 contingent on continuation of grant to be arranged Requirements: High School diploma or equivalent required. Some college coursework preferred 1-2 yrs. related experience in office management. Knowledgeable about Macintosh computers with word processing experience Strong interest in computers required. Accounting and/or editing experience desired Strong organizational skills. Heavy typing. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith. Staffing Services. East Hill Plaza #2 Employees should include a employee transfer application.
Senior Night Supervisor GR20 (C1908) Public Services/Music Library-Endowed Minimum Full-time Equivalent: S590.45 Posting Date: 5/14/92 Supervise and assist in the circulation operations of the Music Library. Provide information and reference assistance to patrons. Responsible for the security of the building during evening and weekend library hours. Assist with collection maintenance and processing operations. 20 hrs/week. Requirements: Associates degree in music with emphasis in music history. 2-3 yrs. related experience. Experience supervising others. Good interpersonal and organizational skills. Knowledge of at least one foreign language. Must be able to work well under pressure Must be able to lift books and push heavy book trucks (maximum 50lbs). Light typing. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith. Staffing Services. East Hill Plaza #2. Employees should include employee transfer application.
Office Professional Temporary
Temporary Office Assistant (S1801) Entomology-Statutory Posting Date: 5/7/92 Provide clerical support Duties include typing, sorting and posting mail, copying, filing, and answering phones. Requirements: High School diploma or equivalent. Minimum 1 yr. office experience Computer experience preferred Ability to work independently. Send cover letter and resume to Karen Raponi. Staffing Services. East Hill Plaza #2
CASUAL
Casual Laboratory Assistant Plant Breeding (S2001) Ordering for a large laboratory which requires filling out order forms, placing phone calls, receiving items (checking packing slips), working with lab personnel and administrative staff. Perform basic lab work such

as extracting seeds from fruit. DNA extractions, autoclaving. making media, gel electrophorsis 20 hours a week Requirements: Science background preferred, tab experience desirable. Good organizational ability, math skills, and strong interpersonal skills are required. Send cover letter and resume to Karen Raponi. Staffing Services. East Hill Plaza »2.
General Service
Submit a signed employment application which will remain active for a period of four months. During this time, you will be considered for any appropriate openings for which you are competitively qualified. Requests for referral and/or cover letters are not accepted Irom external candidates unless specified in the ad. Qualified applicants will be invited for a preliminary interview at our EHP office If you are currently available for employment, you may want to consider temporary opportunities at the University Please contact Karen Raponi at 255-2192 for details
Plant Operator TO06 (G2001) Utilities-Endowed Posting Date: 5/21/92 Operate and maintain water purification plant. Perform necessary tests as required by federal and state regulations Rotating shift: weekends and holidays. Requirements: Associates degree or equivalent Candidates must possess NYS water treatment and purification license grade HA or have sufficient education and experience to secure the license. Experience in operation of water treatment plant and related systems required Knowledge of chemistry, math, mechanical background and laboratory experience necessary. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith. Staffing Services. East Hill Plaza #2. Employees should include employee transfer application.
Maintenance Mechanic SO05 (G1901) Athletics-Endowed Hiring Rate: S7.53 Posting Date: 5/14/92 Maintain golf course grounds, physical plant and assist mechanic in repair, maintenance and service of course equipment Requirements: High School or equivalent. Knowledge and skill of turfgrass maintenance related to golf. Knowledge of engines, ability to operate power equipment. Valid NYS drivers license. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith. Staffing Services. East Hill Plaza #2. Employees should include employee transfer application.
Plant Operator TO06 (G1801) Utilities-Endowed Posting Date: 5/7/92 Operate and maintain water purification plant. Perform necessary tests as required by federal and stale regulations Rotating shift: weekends and holidays. Requirements: Associates degree or equivalent, candidates must possess NYS water treatment and purification license grade HA or have sufficient education and experience to secure the license. Experience in operation of water treatment plant and related systems required. Knowledge of chemistry math, mechanical background and laboratory experience necessary. Send cover letter and resume to Esther Smith. Staffing Services. East Hill Plaza #2. Employees should include employee transfer application.
Academic
Senior Research Associate I Cornell Youth and Work Program Posting Date: 5/21/92 Participate as a member of a team engaged in a research and development project testing the adaptation of elements of German apprenticeship to the United States in order to facilitate the transition from school to career and from adolescence to adulthood of young people who do not enroll in higher education immediately after high school. Requirements: A doctorate in education or social science is required, along with a substantial record of research, publication, and teacher training Must have advanced ethnographic research skills. Familiarity with survey research and program evaluation methods and expertise in adolescent development and education, occupational education, and youth employment are desirable. Appointment for 1 yr. with excellent prospects for renewal. Salary range of 35-40 per year with 22 days of vacation. Interested individuals should send a letter of application relating the applicants qualifications to this position and a current vita by June 8, 1992 to: Mrs Bonnie Huff. Department of Human Development and Family Studies. NG14 MVR, Cornell University. Ithaca. NY 14853.
Project Director Senior Extension Associate I Child Protective Services Training Institute Family Life Development Center NYS College of Human Ecology, Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 Posting Date: 5/21/92 As project director of the Child Protective Services Training Institute, located at Cornell University. Ithaca. NY. this Senior Extension Associate position gives program direction and supervision to 25 extension and research associates and consultants in training content, methodology, curriculum development and evaluation activities. The Institute provides training under contract with the New York Stale Department of Social Services to over 2000 child welfare and child care personnel throughout the state Duties: Implement the overall policies and procedures established by the College of Human Ecology, Cornell University and the Family Life Development Center to maintain and successfully complete over 2 million dollars in contractual obligations with the New York State Department of Social Services. Plan and develop, in concert with the needs of the New York State Department of Social Services, The training plants for the Institute and the annual budget, policies, guidelines and systems to implement them Integrate evolving training participant needs, new research, and up to date training methodology into new and existing curricula and training design. Supervise the Program Managers and other staff in the NYC metropolitan, Upstate, Child Care and Risk Assessment components.

Qualifications: A Masters degree required, earned doctorate desirable with considerable experience in project management/supervision of professional child welfare or training staff required. Must have experience in family and childrens programs, child welfare services, child protective service delivery and state and local district operations and relationships. Skills in developing, monitoring training and curriculum development according to standards of social work and child welfare practice, state laws and regulations. Excellent interpersonal skills with a variety of individuals. Experience in supervising professional staff members, in an academic setting desirable Requires a high level of consultation, management, negotiation and mediations abilities. A history of publications m professional journals desired. Deadline: July 1, 1992 or until a suitable candidate is found.
Instructor—Introductor Computer Course City and Regional Planning at Cornell University Posting Date: 5/14/92 Seeking and instructor to teach Introduction to Computers in Plaining during the fall 1992 semester This course is designed to provide an introduction to microcomputers and their application in planning. The primary objective of the course is to familiarize students with fundamental microcomputer concepts and skills as they are utilized in the planning field The course assumes little or no prior experience with computers on the part of students who take it Minimum Requirements: PhD in appropriate area or Master's degree in appropriate area plus relevant experience. Salary: To be negotiated Contact: Professor Richard S Booth, Chair. Department of City and Regional Planning. 106 West Sibley Hall. Cornell University. Ithaca. NY 14853 (607) 2554332
Lecturers/Teaching Associates for the 1992-93 Academic Year Modern Languages and Linguistics Posting Date: 5/14/92 At the present time there are specific language openings in English for academic purposes (English as a second language). Italian. Japanese. Javanese, and Sinhala. In addition, full and part-time lecturer and teaching associate position sometimes become available on short notice. The DMLL would like to update its files of candidates qualified to teach the following languages: Chinese. French. German. Hindi, Indonesian. Khmer (Cambodian). Korean. Spanish, Thai. Tamil, and Vietnamese. Please send a letter and resume describing past language teaching experience, level of fluency, educational background, and the names of at least two individuals we can contact for references. Materials will be reviewed by the appropriate faculty supervisor; if and when openings arise, qualified candidates identified in this way will be contacted. Address inquiries to: John S Bowers. Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics. 209 Morrill Hall. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY 14853-4701

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