ILR Garden Avenue Complex Celebration

October 15-16, 2004

Thank you for your support.

ILR faculty, staff, students, alumni, clients, and friends joined ILR on October 15-16 to celebrate the completion of of the renovation of the ILR Conference Center, Extension, and Research Buildings.  Below is the schedule of events that took place over the course of the two-day event.  Please e-mail ilrcelebration-mailbox@cornell.edu with any questions.

Please see the Cornell News Service website for a pre-event article with background details on ILR and this celebration.  Thanks to all who shared in making this an important event for ILR.

Friday, October 15, 2004

10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. 
Open House and Tours
ILR Garden Avenue Complex
 
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Debate on "Outsourcing" Organized by Cornell MockElection 2004

Thomas Donohue, President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Richard Trumka, Secretary/Treasurer, AFL-CIO. Moderator: Jefferson Cowie, Associate Professor, Labor History, ILR School
PepsiCo Lecture Hall, 305 Ives Hall
 
12:00 p.m.-1:45 p.m.
Lunch
ILR Conference Center, Second Floor
 
1:15 p.m.-2:15 p.m.   
Catherwood Library Tour 
LRP Publications Lobby 
 
3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Career Forum
Colbert Lecture Hall, 105 Ives Hall
 
Moderator:
Regina Duffey Moravek, Director, ILR Career Services
 
Panelists: 
Don Zinn, ''76, President and CEO, Execuserve Corp.

Marcia Greenbaum, ''62, Arbitrator/Mediator

Allan Weitzman, ''70, Attorney, Proskauer Rose LLP (head of Labor and Employment Law Department)

Nancy Hoffman, ''66, CSEA (Civil Service Employees Association) General Counsel and Director of Legal Services

Thomas Fleming, ''83, Vice President, Compensation, IBM

Harris Raynor, ''69, Southern Regional Director, UNITE HERE

Frantz Cayo, Director, Proprietary Programming Strategy ESPN, Inc. 
 
4:45 p.m.-5:30 p.m.   
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
Speakers: Jeffrey S. Lehman (''77), President, Cornell University; Edward Lawler, Dean
ILR Conference Center,
Garden Avenue Entrance
 
5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Reception
ILR Conference Center
 
7:00 p.m.
Dinner (Inviation only; RSVP required)

Keynote Speaker: Denis Hughes, President, New York State AFL-CIO
Special Recognition: The Career of Lois S. Gray, Emerita Professor
Speaker: Ronald Seeber, Associate Dean, ILR School
Trillium Dining, Kennedy Hall
 

Saturday, October 16, 2004

10:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Catherwood Library Tour
LRP Publications Lobby
 
11:45 a.m.
Homecoming Tailgate Party/Lunch
Crescent Parking Lot,
Schoellkopf Field
1:00 p.m.
Cornell/Colgate Football Game
Schoellkopf Field
 

 

For more information about our opening event, please contact ilrcelebration@cornell.edu