150 words: Liz Ngonzi MMH ’98

Liz Ngonzi MMH ’98 has found her purpose, using an advanced degree in hotel management to benefit a South African nonprofit. “There’s a real connection between hospitality and philanthropy,” she says. “It’s all about taking care of people.” Taking care of people comes naturally for Liz, who was born in Uganda and grew up in … Read more

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150 words: Allen Ho ’84

  As a retina specialist at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, the nation’s first eye hospital, Allen Ho ’84 performs surgery to improve patients’ vision—and in one case so far, to restore it. In July, he implanted a bionic eye in 66-year-old Fran Fulton, enabling her to see shapes and barriers after ten years of … Read more

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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: Joy Kuebler ’97

Joy Kuebler’s landscape architecture office, located behind her home near Buffalo, looks like a garage. Inside, however, there are no cars or tools, but instead a modern design studio: vaulted ceilings, Italian lighting, bamboo floors. The studio’s roof, covered in grasses and other plants, was the first “green” roof in western New York. Here, Joy … 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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150 words: Nick Bayer ’00

First thing every morning, Nick Bayer ’00 bonds with his nine-month-old son, Luke, at a Saxby’s café down the block from the Philadelphia high-rise he shares with his wife, Hally Blair Bayer ’02.“He sits on my lap and watches the buses,” says Nick. It’s a routine that blurs the line between life and work; Nick … Read more

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