Annual Employee Family Day to be celebrated Oct. 14

Cornell's 26th annual Employee Family Day will be celebrated Oct. 14. There will be a chicken barbecue (with a vegetarian entrée choice offered as well) in Barton Hall from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., prior to the televised Cornell-Colgate football game, which kicks off at 6 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field.

Tickets, which include the dinner and admission to the football game, will be $5 and will be on sale from Sept. 25 through Oct. 6 at the following locations: Department of Athletics, Helen Newman Hall; the Campus Store; and through Cornell Recreation Connection (CRC) from 8 to 10 a.m. in 130 Day Hall. There also will be an option to buy a $3 ticket for either the meal or the football game only.

Alternative activities also will be offered during the day, including a free lap swim from 2 to 4 p.m. and a free family swim from 4:15 to 6 p.m. at Helen Newman Hall; discounted bowling ($1 per game and $1 per shoe rental) at Helen Newman from 5-7 p.m. (with a three-game limit); and free admission to the Cornell Environmental Film Festival at Willard Straight Hall for the 2:30 p.m. showing of Children's Short Animated Films and the 4:30 p.m. showing of The Secret Life of Cats, or reduced admission of $4 for the 7 p.m. showing of The Architecture of Mud.

Those who purchase tickets or sign up to volunteer by Sept. 29 will be entered in a drawing to win a gift certificate to Banfi's.

To celebrate the event's 26th year, there will be a drawing at the football game for which faculty, staff and retirees are eligible to win two U.S. Airways round-trip tickets, men's season basketball tickets and men's season lacrosse tickets.

Departments that would like to reserve a booth displaying services or opportunities offered to faculty and staff, should contact Joe DeMarco at 254-5407, 255-8200 or jjd7@cornell.edu . Those who want to volunteer at the barbecue, contact Janet Beebe at 255-7565.