Continuing commitment

From left, James Byrnes, president of Tompkins County Trust Co.; Philip Lewis, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey; and President Hunter Rawlings join executives of Tompkins County companies and key Cornell administrators, faculty and staff at a luncheon March 16 at Statler Hotel organized by Cornell's Office of Economic Development. The event, one in a series, was organized to reaffirm Cornell's commitment to local economic development and to reciprocate for visits over the past nine months by administrators of the Office of Economic Development to many of the companies attending. Robert Barker/University Photography