Briefs

Trustees meet in NYC: The Cornell Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City today, Sept. 12. The meeting will be held in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St., at 2 p.m. Items the committee will consider in open session at the beginning of the meeting include a report from President Hunter Rawlings and a report on gift results for 2001-02. The Buildings and Properties Committee will meet at 9 a.m. in the Fall Creek Room. During a brief open session at the beginning of the meeting, the committee will review the status of numerous renovation and utilities projects under way on campus.

Gettysburg Address web site: As part of Cornell's 9/11 commemoration, Cornell Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections has set up a new web site devoted to Cornell's copy of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address at http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/gettysburg/default.htm. The historian Goldwin Smith once commented, "Not a sovereign in Europe, however trained from the cradle for state pomps, and however prompted by statesmen and courtiers, could have uttered himself more regally than did Lincoln at Gettysburg." The web site includes information about the five copies of President Lincoln's manuscript of the address, the Battle of Gettysburg and the dedication of the cemetery there, and quotes from contemporary newspaper reports and notable figures. Also available are facsimiles of Cornell's copy of the address, a transcript and background.

The site was compiled and designed by Jennifer Conklin, Katherine Reagan and Eleanor Brown, with the assistance of Suzy Palmer, Kurt Jordan, Susette Newberry, Margaret Nichols, David Jones, Rhea Garen and student intern Becky Daroff.