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Eight distinguished Cornell alumni have been selected to receive 1998 Frank H.T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Awards, which recognize their outstanding, long-term service to Cornell volunteer activities.
The 1998 recipients of the award, established in 1994 in the name of President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes, are R. Davis Cutting '48, M. Arthur Gensler Jr. '57, Arthur H. '44 and Dorothy Kay '44 Kesten, Michael D. Nadler '56, Leslie W. Stern '60, and James D. '51 and Patricia Gunderson '53 Stocker. The award winners, all of whom have been extremely active in their clubs, classes, schools and colleges since graduation, will be recognized at a reception and dinner this Saturday, Oct. 17, during Homecoming weekend.
R. Davis Cutting has worked diligently to build and strengthen Cornell and Ithaca. With senior Cornell administration, he conceived and developed Cornell Research Park. A leader in the campaign that brought the Boyce Thompson Institute to campus, he is a founder of the Cayuga Venture Fund -- 40 investors dedicated to funding and mentoring start-up entrepreneurs. Active in athletics initiatives, he chaired the organizing committee of the 1989 New York State Empire Games hosted by Cornell, Ithaca College and the Ithaca community. He has served on the University and Real Estate councils and is a sponsor of the Plantations. He and his wife co-chaired the Beebe Lake 150th Birthday Party. He revitalized the Cornell Club of Ithaca, chaired the Ithaca campaign committee for the School of Hotel Administration and has served as president and reunion chair of the Class of 1948.
M. Arthur Gensler Jr. was co-chair of the campaign committee for the College of Architecture, Art and Planning and a member of the Special Gifts Committee during the Cornell Campaign: Creating the Future. He is a member of the University Council and the Buildings and Properties Committee, a member of the Real Estate Council, and a member of the planning committee and a participant in the Mackesey Seminar Series of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, which honored him with the Charles Goodwin Sands Award. He served on the steering committee for Cornell's 125th Anniversary Celebration in San Francisco and was named Entrepreneur of the Year in 1995. He has been active in Cornell phonathons and is a longtime member and former chair of the Cornell Club of Northern California. The design of the Cornell Club-New York was a Gensler project.
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Arthur H. and Dorothy Kay Kesten have served Cornell in numerous capacities for over five decades. University Council lifetime members, they served on the Cornell Magazine Committee for 19 years and were both officers of CACO's early executive committee. Both have been Cornell Club of Fairfield County members since 1955. Arthur Kesten served 13 years as Secondary School Committee chair and as club president. Dorothy Kesten continues as communications director and treasurer. For over 15 years, the Kestens have hosted their county's sub-frosh backyard barbecues, organized countless Class of '44 events and have played the roles of den mother and tour guide for Cornellians and friends on Club 44's nine globetrotting tours. Arthur is past president, vice president, seven-time reunion chair and former correspondent for the class; Dorothy currently is class president and was four-time reunion co-chair and vice president and treasurer for many terms.
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Michael Nadler has been a longtime volunteer for Cornell. He serves on the University Council, is vice president of his class, was regional chair for the Cornell Campaign and has sat on the board of local Cornell clubs (Los Angeles and Orange County) as well as chaired the Tower Club efforts in that area. He also served on the national campaign committees for the colleges of Arts and Sciences and Engineering. An ardent champion of planned giving, he always is eager to speak at meetings and seminars to explain how planned gifts make it possible for alumni to "give back and get back." President and director of the Delta Chi Housing Corporation at Cornell, Nadler is helping to engineer a renaissance that will enable the fraternity to thrive in the next millennium.
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Leslie W. Stern, a lifetime member and former chair of the University Council, was instrumental in the development of the Cornell Tradition Fellowship program and the Cornell Connections program. He was the first chair of the Cornell Tradition Summer Job Network and conceived the idea of alumni area coordinating boards. He also has served on sub-committees of the Cornell Board of Trustees as a non-trustee member. A member and past president of the Cornell Society of Hotelmen's New York Chapter, he was a member of the search committee for the dean of the hotel school and has chaired the hotel school's matching gifts committee. He is a former president and director of the Cornell Alumni Association, was active during the recent Cornell Campaign and serves as a member of the Cornell Club-New York board of directors.
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Patricia and James Stocker co-chaired Cornell's 125th anniversary celebration in San Francisco in 1991 to help launch the Cornell Campaign. Patricia Stocker served as programs chair, board member and president of the Cornell clubs of both Philadelphia and Northern California. A member of the University Council, she recently chaired the Sponsors for Cornell Plantations and received the Helen Bull Vandervort Achievement Award for service to the College of Human Ecology. James Stocker is a lifetime member of the University Council, which he joined in 1962, and served as vice chairman and chairman. He was elected for five years as alumni trustee. He is a member of the Arts and Sciences Advisory Council and the Glee Club Advisory Council and participated on the advisory committees for the Center for Theatre Arts and Lincoln Hall's Music Department Renaissance. He was president of the Class of 1951 for 10 years and has served continuously on the Class Council. Both have been active on the West Coast in Tower Club development.
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