CALC 2015 in Video

The sixth annual Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference (CALC) drew nearly 700 Cornellian volunteer leaders to Boston Jan. 16-18 to strategize, to celebrate and to learn more about the university they know, love, and serve. For more information, visit: /calc.

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150 words: Ed Pettitt ’05

“When future generations ask what I did to stop the AIDS epidemic, I want to have an answer,” said Ed Pettitt ’05. Over the years, that answer has grown into a list. At Cornell, Ed led an awareness campaign for rural youth around Ithaca, New York, and volunteered to conduct HIV tests at the university’s … Read more

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150 words: Le Do ’14

Not even a month after he graduated from the School of Hotel Administration, Le Do was back on campus for Reunion. “To be honest, I still feel like a student, and I always will,” said Le, an active class council member for the past three years and a recently elected alumni class officer. Now working … Read more

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150 words: Andrew Lewis Conn ’95

This year, the New York Times called Andrew Lewis Conn ’95 “a go-big-or-go-home writer.” He’s done both: He went home to his native Brooklyn, New York, and made a life there with his Scottish wife and their daughter, and he’s gone big by writing two ambitious, critically acclaimed novels. The first, P, was considered by … Read more

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150 words: Beth Anderson ’80

As executive vice president and publisher at Audible, the world’s leading site for spoken audio, Beth Anderson is all about books. She’s been a bookworm since girlhood. In college, she majored in history and was a four-sport athlete (swimming, lacrosse, soccer, and rugby). In 1996, she left traditional book publishing to start at Audible, the … Read more

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150 words: Ronald Gatty ’52

  Before he arrived in Ithaca as a penniless prospective Cornell student in 1948, Ronald Gatty MS ’52, PhD ’57 had already worked as a shark catcher in the South Seas and a soda jerk on 57th Street in New York. His dream, however, was to study botany at Cornell. Australian by birth, he’d spent … Read more

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