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U.S. Air Force Col. Christopher R. Mann’s wife, Maria Isabell, pins the retirement lapel pin to his uniform during his retirement ceremony in Clemson University’s Tillman Hall, April 28, 2017. Mann, professor of military studies for Clemson University's Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Det. 770, retired after a stellar 26-year career. He was a distinguished graduate of the United States Air Force Academy in 1991 and went on to earn two masters degrees, a PhD, and logged 2,800 flight hours. He deployed and flew combat sorties in support of Operations.Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, and held command positions in units across a full spectrum of U.S. Air Force operations before being assigned to Clemson. (Photo by Ken Scar)
From the Cornell Chronicle:
Teaching Winery Opens on Campus
By Ted Boscia | April 2, 2009
With the snip of a grapevine, Susan A. Henry, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of Agriculture and Life Sciences, opened the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) Teaching Winery before a large crowd of faculty, students, vintners and other guests April 1.
Cornell, long known for its viticulture (grape-growing) research, now claims the only university teaching winery in the eastern United States. The $900,000 facility promises to prepare students for careers in New York’s wine and grape industry, which ranks third nationally in wine production and includes more than 250 wineries across the state.
Ian Merwin, the Herman M. Cohn Professor of Horticulture, and Ramón Mira de Orduña, associate professor of enology, helped Henry unveil the 1,800-square-foot building. The winery, attached to the Cornell Orchards store, will act as the Ithaca hub for CALS’s new viticulture and enology undergraduate major, which enrolls roughly 30 students and draws on more than 50 faculty members from the horticulture, food science technology, plant pathology, and applied economics and management departments. Inside the winery, students will access cutting-edge equipment to learn the science and art of winemaking.
“The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Teaching Winery represents a major enhancement to our Viticulture and Enology (V&E) program,” said Henry. “Having this facility in Ithaca is crucial for our undergraduates, who will gain from hands-on experience in winemaking and grape-growing.”
Previously, V&E students crafted wines in a makeshift lab on the mezzanine of Stocking Hall. At the ceremony, students offered tastes of experimental wines produced in a fall 2008 class. Nearby, Sabrina Lueck ’10, a V&E major, said, “I’m beyond excited to begin using all the winery’s beautiful equipment.”
The winery includes state-of-the-art fermentation tanks and a modern microbiological and chemical lab, elements needed for the storage of grapes and the preparation and analysis of wines. It will allow students and faculty convenient access to three acres of hybrid wine grapes at Cornell Orchards and is near the program’s Lansing vineyards, which grow more traditional varieties like Pinot Noir, Riesling and Chardonnay.
“The facility will be among the finest in the United States and will provide our students with the widest possible range of winemaking experience,” said Mira de Orduña.
Mira de Orduña thanked numerous wineries and companies that donated equipment, including de-stemmers, filters, barrels and tanks, and also enzymes, yeast, bacteria and fining agents used in the production of wine. He said, in particular, that oak barrels donated by Canton Cooperage of Lebanon, Ky., and that a custom-made WinePod fermenter by Provina of San Jose, Calif., would expose students to “both the most traditional and the latest equipment available in winemaking.”
Ted Boscia is a staff writer in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
A U.S. Army Soldier snaps a quick photo of retired U.S. Army Col. Ben Skardon, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, as he walks in the Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., March 19, 2017. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar)
This manuscript contains recipes and methods for healing including the means to “stay miscarriage,” cause “speedy delivery,” and relieve pain after childbirth. The last few pages contain various charms, such as those to “drive away Spirits that haunt any house” and for “witchcraft when any cattle are killed.” Note the use of “Abracadabra.”
Clemson University professor of English Rhondda Thomas poses with some of her picks for a Black History Month reading list in Strode Tower, Feb. 10, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
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Clemson University sophomore Jordan Lynn, a SmartFit Girls mentor from Charleston, S.C., sets up for a family work out at Riverside Middle School in Pendleton, S.C., April 6, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University students play vollyball at dusk on Bowman Field, Feb 16, 2018. (Photo by Ken Scar)
I made sure to get over to the STC from Trafalgar Campus before they started moving everything and everyone out.
A2, the second largest office on campus, for instructors in the Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology.
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Kathleen Swinney, members of the Clemson Tigers football team, Clifford the Big Red Dog and the Clemson Tiger entertain 150 elementary school kids at the Tigers Read event in the Clemson Indoor Practice Facility, May 3, 2018. The event celebrated the third year of the Tigers Read! Initiative, which is sponsored by Dabo Swinney’s All In Team Foundation and aims to prevent the decline in reading skills many students experience during summer months. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Retired U.S. Army Col. Ben Skardon, 99, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, walks through a field of blooming California poppies during the Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., March 19, 2017. Skardon is the only Bataan survivor who walks in the memorial march, and he walks eight and a half miles. This was the tenth time he did it. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar)
Uris Library
•Construction Date: 1888
•Architect: Wm H Miller, CU; Warner, Burns, Toan & Lunde; Gunnar Burkirts
•Style: Richardsonian Romanesque; Modern
•Building Stone: Berea Sandstone (sandstone) from the Mississippian Period quarried in Northern Ohio; Holston Limestone (a.k.a. Tennessee marble) (limestone) from the Ordovician Period quarried in Tennessee; Red Levant (marble) from the Triassic Period in the A.D. White Library quarried in Spezia, Italy; Portage Redstone (sandstone) from the Cambrian Period quarried in Michigan (lower courses); (stairs) (note the pointed, pressure-solution “stylolites”)
To Andrew Dickson White, co-founder and first president of Cornell, “the ideas of a great university and a great library [were] inextricably linked.” Uris serves as the main University library with an emphasis on undergraduates. The libraries at the southern end of the Arts Quad serve the entire Cornell community. The University Library (now Uris Library) opened to the public in 1892, as the sole repository of the fledgling university’s books. Eighteen more libraries have since been constructed, including Olin, whose terrace looks out over the quad, and Kroch, accessible through Olin and built entirely below ground, with skylights on the southeastern corner of the quad supplying natural light.
The ceremonial opening of Uris Library was on October 7, 1891—the twenty-third anniversary of the day that classes began at the university—as the University Library. Its completion fulfilled A.D. White’s dream to create what he called, “the noblest structure in the land.” As the building was dedicated on that October afternoon, Cornell President Charles Kendall Adams noted: “To-day…we come together with glad hearts to celebrate the completion of what must for all time be the most important structure on these grounds.”
Designed by Cornell’s first architecture student, William Henry Miller, whose portrait hangs on the north wall of the lobby, the building featured an innovative design that allowed for convenient access to materials, and was, in White’s words, “a marvel of good planning, in which fitness is wedded to beauty.” He also considered it “the best academic library built.” Henry Van Brunt was the original architect and his Richardsonian Romanesque designs greatly influenced Miller’s final design. Miller won a competition which included Van Brunt and Charles Babcock. Miller’s work has been praised for its convenience, soaring tower, light-filled spaces, and the high quality of the masonry decoration. The rustication reflects the buildings of the Arts Quad, though a yellow, easily carved sandstone was used. Miller used an “Americanized” “modified Romanesque” or Richardsonian Romanesque style. The library cost over $200,000, and was the gift of Henry W. Sage in memory of Jennie McGraw Fiske, stemming from a period in University history known as the “Great Will Case.” The building forms the steeply sloping southwest corner of the Arts Quad where a library building was intended in the plan of 1866.
Uris Library is the university’s first dedicated library building and is considered to be architect William Henry Miller’s masterpiece. Miller’s architectural influence looms large on campus. In addition to the library, he designed four other major university buildings—Barnes Hall, Stimson Hall, Boardman Hall, and Risley Hall—as well as two fraternities, the A. D. White House, the Central Avenue Bridge, and Eddy Gate. Miller also designed numerous residential, business, and church buildings in Ithaca and the region.
The library is a cross-shaped structure with arcades of arches and squared windows. It is a “cruciform basilica” that features a large reading room—a “nave”—with excellent natural lighting from twenty-nine windows and twenty clerestory windows. For a university famously founded as a non-sectarian institution, the new library building was Andrew Dickson White’s “secular cathedral” devoted to books and learning.
Andrew Dickson White required a waterproof room for the 30,000 history and architecture books he donated from his personal library. The university’s collection consisted of an additional 84,000 volumes. Funds for the building and a book endowment were to come from the estate of Jennie McGraw (inherited from her father), but the will was contested by her husband Willard Fiske, former university librarian. Henry Williams Sage gave the money until the case was settled in Cornell’s favor.
Chimes donated by Jennie McGraw at the University’s opening in October 1868 stood at this site in temporary scaffolding before placement in the tower of McGraw Hall, built by her father John. The bells were finally installed in the new library tower.
The University Library was renamed Uris Library in 1962, after Harold D. Uris ’25. It was his gift which helped to finance the 1962 remodeling of the library. The renovations were done by O’Brian and Taube, a local architecture firm. Also in 1962, the Library Tower was named McGraw Tower, after John McGraw (Jennie’s father), that houses the Jennie McGraw Chimes. In 1982, the underground reading room was added, with seating for an additional 214 students. Designed by Gunner Birkerts, the addition was financed by Harold D. Uris’25, who gave $3 million through the Uris Brothers Foundation. The roof of the cocktail lounge is a terrace with plaques honoring generous donors throughout Cornell history.
Attached to the library is the underground reading room, commonly known as the “cocktail lounge,” which looks out over Libe Slope.
Cornell is depicted standing with a hat and cane in his right hand. His left hand rests on some documents on a tree stump He is wearing a long waistcoat and vest. The statue of Cornell was unveiled on June 19, 1919. Its base is made of Devonian Granite.
Uris Library
•Construction Date: 1888
•Architect: Wm H Miller, CU; Warner, Burns, Toan & Lunde; Gunnar Burkirts
•Style: Richardsonian Romanesque; Modern
•Building Stone: Berea Sandstone (sandstone) from the Mississippian Period quarried in Northern Ohio; Holston Limestone (a.k.a. Tennessee marble) (limestone) from the Ordovician Period quarried in Tennessee; Red Levant (marble) from the Triassic Period in the A.D. White Library quarried in Spezia, Italy; Portage Redstone (sandstone) from the Cambrian Period quarried in Michigan (lower courses); (stairs) (note the pointed, pressure-solution “stylolites”)
To Andrew Dickson White, co-founder and first president of Cornell, “the ideas of a great university and a great library [were] inextricably linked.” Uris serves as the main University library with an emphasis on undergraduates. The libraries at the southern end of the Arts Quad serve the entire Cornell community. The University Library (now Uris Library) opened to the public in 1892, as the sole repository of the fledgling university’s books. Eighteen more libraries have since been constructed, including Olin, whose terrace looks out over the quad, and Kroch, accessible through Olin and built entirely below ground, with skylights on the southeastern corner of the quad supplying natural light.
The ceremonial opening of Uris Library was on October 7, 1891—the twenty-third anniversary of the day that classes began at the university—as the University Library. Its completion fulfilled A.D. White’s dream to create what he called, “the noblest structure in the land.” As the building was dedicated on that October afternoon, Cornell President Charles Kendall Adams noted: “To-day…we come together with glad hearts to celebrate the completion of what must for all time be the most important structure on these grounds.”
Designed by Cornell’s first architecture student, William Henry Miller, whose portrait hangs on the north wall of the lobby, the building featured an innovative design that allowed for convenient access to materials, and was, in White’s words, “a marvel of good planning, in which fitness is wedded to beauty.” He also considered it “the best academic library built.” Henry Van Brunt was the original architect and his Richardsonian Romanesque designs greatly influenced Miller’s final design. Miller won a competition which included Van Brunt and Charles Babcock. Miller’s work has been praised for its convenience, soaring tower, light-filled spaces, and the high quality of the masonry decoration. The rustication reflects the buildings of the Arts Quad, though a yellow, easily carved sandstone was used. Miller used an “Americanized” “modified Romanesque” or Richardsonian Romanesque style. The library cost over $200,000, and was the gift of Henry W. Sage in memory of Jennie McGraw Fiske, stemming from a period in University history known as the “Great Will Case.” The building forms the steeply sloping southwest corner of the Arts Quad where a library building was intended in the plan of 1866.
Uris Library is the university’s first dedicated library building and is considered to be architect William Henry Miller’s masterpiece. Miller’s architectural influence looms large on campus. In addition to the library, he designed four other major university buildings—Barnes Hall, Stimson Hall, Boardman Hall, and Risley Hall—as well as two fraternities, the A. D. White House, the Central Avenue Bridge, and Eddy Gate. Miller also designed numerous residential, business, and church buildings in Ithaca and the region.
The library is a cross-shaped structure with arcades of arches and squared windows. It is a “cruciform basilica” that features a large reading room—a “nave”—with excellent natural lighting from twenty-nine windows and twenty clerestory windows. For a university famously founded as a non-sectarian institution, the new library building was Andrew Dickson White’s “secular cathedral” devoted to books and learning.
Andrew Dickson White required a waterproof room for the 30,000 history and architecture books he donated from his personal library. The university’s collection consisted of an additional 84,000 volumes. Funds for the building and a book endowment were to come from the estate of Jennie McGraw (inherited from her father), but the will was contested by her husband Willard Fiske, former university librarian. Henry Williams Sage gave the money until the case was settled in Cornell’s favor.
Chimes donated by Jennie McGraw at the University’s opening in October 1868 stood at this site in temporary scaffolding before placement in the tower of McGraw Hall, built by her father John. The bells were finally installed in the new library tower.
The University Library was renamed Uris Library in 1962, after Harold D. Uris ’25. It was his gift which helped to finance the 1962 remodeling of the library. The renovations were done by O’Brian and Taube, a local architecture firm. Also in 1962, the Library Tower was named McGraw Tower, after John McGraw (Jennie’s father), that houses the Jennie McGraw Chimes. In 1982, the underground reading room was added, with seating for an additional 214 students. Designed by Gunner Birkerts, the addition was financed by Harold D. Uris’25, who gave $3 million through the Uris Brothers Foundation. The roof of the cocktail lounge is a terrace with plaques honoring generous donors throughout Cornell history.
Attached to the library is the underground reading room, commonly known as the “cocktail lounge,” which looks out over Libe Slope.
Offices of the Maternal And Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social stressors (MADRES) Center for Environmental Health Disparities.
(Photo by: John Davis)
SmartFit Girls instructors from Clemson University and students from Riverside Middle School in Pendeleton, S.C., play soccer during a SmartFit Girls workout, April 6, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Henry and George Rettew, age six months, with thier parents Bob and Sarah at their home in Anderson, S.C., Dec. 20, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Kathleen Swinney and members of the Clemson Tigers football team at the Tigers Read event in the Clemson Indoor Practice Facility, May 3, 2018. The event celebrated the third year of the Tigers Read! Initiative, which is sponsored by Dabo Swinney’s All In Team Foundation and aims to prevent the decline in reading skills many students experience during summer months. (Photo by Ken Scar)
I made sure to get over to the STC from Trafalgar Campus before they started moving everything and everyone out.
The A-Corridor classrooms were the two largest.
Hasselblad 500c - Carl Zeiss Distagon 50mm 1:4 - Fuji Acros 100 @ ASA-100
Kodak D-23 (Stock) 9:00 @ 20C
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Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC (2017)
U.S. Air Force Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, commander of Air Force Space Command and the highest ranking officer to graduate from Clemson’s ROTC program, addresses Army ROTC cadets on Bowman Field, Aug. 31, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Students from Riverside Elementary School in Pendleton, S.C., participate in a SmartFit Girls session in the school’s weight room, April 6, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Igor Natanzon, of Hollandale Beach, Florida, adjusts the lens on one of his cameras at Clemson University’s Watt Family Innovation Center while preparing to view the 2017 Solar Eclipse, Aug. 21. 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University professor of English Rhondda Thomas sorts through some of her picks for a Black History Month reading list in Strode Tower, Feb. 10, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Kathleen Swinney reads a card given to her by students from Cannons Elementary School at the Tigers Read event in the Clemson Indoor Practice Facility, May 3, 2018. The event celebrated the third year of the Tigers Read! Initiative, which is sponsored by Dabo Swinney’s All In Team Foundation and aims to prevent the decline in reading skills many students experience during summer months. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University sophomore Connor Enright, a marketing major, MC’s a raft race between sorority sisters across the R.M. Cooper Library reflection pond in a contest that was part of fraternity Alpha Tau Omega’s Viking Week, April 19, 2017. Viking Week is ATO’s signature philanthropy event. This year the event benefitted the building of the Samuel J. Cadden Chapel, an all-inclusive student chapel that will stand directly behind the library. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Founding faculty member, Ray Coppinger, was recently remembered by friends, family, former students and faculty.
A group of professors from Clemson University’s College of Education pose for a group shot by Memorial Stadium before embarking on a visit to South Carolina’s so-called ‘Corridor of Shame’ for a listen and learn field trip, March 5, 2018. (Photo by Ken Scar)
U.S. Air Force Col. Christopher R. Mann’s son, Ethan, and wife, Maria Isabell, watch his retirement ceremony in Clemson University’s Tillman Hall, April 20, 2017. Mann, the professor of military studies for Clemson University's Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Det. 770, retired after a stellar 26-year career. He was a distinguished graduate of the United States Air Force Academy in 1991 and went on to earn two masters degrees, a PhD, and logged 2,800 flight hours. He deployed and flew combat sorties in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, and held command positions in units across a full spectrum of U.S. Air Force operations before being assigned to Clemson. (Photo by Ken Scar)
In partnership with Cornell Dining, The Cornell Store is pleased to offer Café Jennie, a unique new café in the upper level of the store
Café Jennie features Peet’s Coffee & Tea beverages, delicious Cheesecake Factory baked goods, and a mouth-watering array of sandwiches and wraps designed just for Café Jennie.
Peet’s Coffee & Tea, founded in 1966 is widely recognized as the grandfather of specialty coffee in the US. Over the past four decades, Peet’s popularity has been fueled by the ever-increasing numbers of true coffee lovers across the nation. They are known for high quality small batches, yielding superior quality and a roast that is rich and complex. Café Jennie will be preparing coffee, espresso and tea beverage to Peet’s exact specifications, and will be selling bagged coffee beans and boxes of tea.
The food at Café Jennie is unique in comparison to Cornell Dining’s other cafés on campus, and includes sandwiches, soup, yogurt, fresh baked goods, and steel-cut oatmeal. Sweets include cheesecake from Cheesecake Factory and Jacqueline’s Gourmet Cookies. There is ample seating in a sky lit area.
•Multiple Payment Options: Big Red Bucks, Meal Choice, and CornellCard, plus cash and credit card.
•Telephone: 607-255-8095
•Location: The Cornell Store, Upper Level near the Skylight, Central Campus
•About the Name Café Jennie: Café Jennie is named for Jennie McGraw, the daughter of John McGraw, a wealthy industrialist and a founding Cornell Trustee. Upon her death in 1881, she left the majority of her estate to Cornell. Funds were used to purchase the chimes for the library, establish an endowment for a student hospital, and build an addition to Sage Chapel. Jennie’s generosity and love of Cornell moved us to name the café at the Cornell Store for her.
•Menu: Join us in the morning for Steel Cut Oatmeal, Chobani Greek Style Yogurt, or Chorizo or a Vegetable Frittata Bagel Sandwich. Pop by at lunchtime for one of our creative new sandwiches and wraps, like Beef Brisket, Roasted Vegetable Focaccia, or Thai Chicken. Or visit any time for brewed coffee or tea or an espresso beverage made with Peet’s Coffee.
•Contact Info:
Anthony Cecala
Central Campus, Operations Manager
aec264@cornell.edu
Stephanie Ellis
Manager, Cafe Jennie & Bear’s Den
se55@cornell.edu
Riverside Middle School students with the Smart Fit Girls program play on exercise balls, April 6, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The family of U.S. Air Force Airman 2nd Class Charles William “Bill” Klaren, including wife Patricia Klaren (center), Clemson University Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Maj. Brock Lusk, assistant professor of aerospace studies, and Sputh Carolina State Senator Thomas Alexander (far right) pose in front of Tillman Hall with medals and a certificate presented posthusmously to Klaren for his service in Vietnam, Feb. 16, 2017. Clemson University’s ROTC presented the awards after Lusk discovered Klaren never recieved them due to oversights by the Air Force. Klaren passed away in 2015. (Photo by Ken Scar)