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• Career Conversation Series

  • Start
    04/02/2025
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  • End
    04/30/2025
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  • Schedule
    5 sessions
  • Location
    Virtual Event

  Yale Club of Washington, D.C. Virtual Event

  Co-sponsored with the Cornell Club of Washington, D.C.

  Career Conversation Series

  Join alongside our Ivy League friends for a lunchtime series with top career coaches on Wednesdays at 12:30pm throughout the month of April

  We want to help you take that next step!
  Join one session or join them all! 
  Register for our free series here. 

  REGISTER  

  • Week 1: Updating your LinkedIn Profile with Wendy Maldonado '93- Wednesday, April 2 at 12:30pm - Join Zoom here! 
    Transform your LinkedIn profile into a powerful career advancement tool in this supportive, interactive workshop. Learn to showcase your professional impact and build an engaging professional presence that attracts new opportunities. You'll get hands-on guidance to optimize your profile and position yourself for success. 
    
    
  • Week 2: The Elevator Pitch Made Easy with Laura Brennan '88- Wednesday, April 9 at 12:30pm - Join Zoom here!
    “So, what do you do?” Are there five more dreaded words in the English language? You know that networking is foundational to success, yet it’s still challenging to get past the awkwardness of pitching yourself. The good news is: it doesn’t have to be. Networking can be genuine, easy, and fun. In this workshop, Laura Brennan (’88) offers templates, strategies, and personalized advice to help you develop a new approach to talking about yourself, reaching out to people, and tapping into your existing network. Even if you hate networking.
    
    
  • Week 3: Career Transitions: Mindset Management with Stephen Blum '74-Wednesday, April 16 at 12:30pm - Join Zoom here!
    During our April 16th session, Steve will lead an interactive discussion focused on self-awareness and self-assessment. For that, he’ll draw on two past career transitions. He’ll also remind us of related tools that can help – and that these tools work well only if preceded by honest self-awareness and self-assessment.
    
    
  • Week 4: Let's Create Attention Grabbing Resumes with Melissa Reitkopp Cornell '85
    Wednesday, April 23 at 12:30pm - Join Zoom here!
    Social media is a powerful tool, use it to your advantage! While your resume is a static but essential piece for your career, your social media presence is dynamic and offers more opportunities for engagement. Both are important for showcasing what you have to offer.  In this interactive workshop we will  help you create a powerful and effective resume.  Additionally, you will learn how to use Canva to create different resume formats.  Finally, building on the work from the first workshop, we will optimize your LinkedIn profile and explore tools to update your resume, add hyperlinks, and more.
    
    
  • Week 5: How FABulous You Are! An Interactive Interview Prep Workshop with Melissa Reitkopp Cornell '85
    Wednesday, April 30 at 12:30pm - Join Zoom here!
    Think of an interview as a chance to market yourself-it's all about being prepared with the right info and knowing how to close. Anticipating questions and sharing clear, impactful responses will make you more effective.  We will work in an interactive workshop to learn the FAB (Features, Accomplishments, Benefits) method that incorporates a behavioral interview technique called STAR (Situation, Task, Action Results), a game-changer for interview prep. The FAB with STAR stories is a powerful way to help you "show, not tell." Solid prep means you'll feel more confident, provide stronger answers, and have better conversations. Don't forget to identify and overcome any objections with key closing questions.

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• Virtual Event: Cornell Club Mixer - Make friends with Cornellians around the world!

  • When
    04/26/2025
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    9:00 PM - 11:00 PM
  • Location
    Video chat (Details provided to Registrants)

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  ***Please note start times***

  Bring your beverage of choice and make friends with Cornellians from all around the world! Join Cornellians across the generations: from recent graduates to those who are now grandparents to Cornellians.
  

  Mingle in small discussion groups centered around Cornell-related themes. Share your favorite spots in Collegetown, reminisce on the festivities of Spring/Slope Day, and learn how Cornell has changed over the decades.

  We will use Zoom video chat and split everyone into small breakout rooms, so everyone has a chance to talk and share with just a few people. Everyone will get rotated around, so you will meet many Cornellians through the mixer.

  Event Schedule

  - Pre-Party (6pm-9pm ET): Hop around themed breakout rooms

  - Main Event (9pm-10pm ET): Small breakout rooms led by moderators

  - After-Party (10pm-5am ET): A stream of mini, rapid breakout rooms

  Come anytime, for a few minutes, or a few hours!
  

  Questions: Tony Chen lc465@cornell.edu
  

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• Art Gallery Walk: French Impressionism: 1860 - WW I (Invite a public servant!)

  • When
    05/01/2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Spaces left
    18

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  Approximately 12:00 noon-1:30 pm, arrive by 12:25. 

  Meet at the Garden Cafe near the 6th street entrance to the West Building of the National Gallery of Art 

  Join Cornell Alumni to welcome art lovers and all wishing to show gratitude for the dedication of public servants in our community. 

  Description:

  A former high school librarian, current graduate student in Art History will lead a light discussion of "look fors" in selected pieces by some of the Masters (with the intention to focus on messages of balance, healing, strengthening, and building bridges across humanity.)  We'll tour French Impressionist works of art. With some luck and enough sign-ups, we will have a professionally guided tour to help us "slow look" and enhance the observations we might quietly share.

  For detailed logistics, updates, art resources and instructions on how to honor others, make sure you read https://sites.google.com/view/ccw-event-details/art-gallery-visits

  Noon arrival is optional.

  12:20  we'll announce a few "look fors" and begin our slow walking tour of about 60 - 75 minutes. We'll go upstairs to Rooms 80-93,     (bright yellow on the map.)Keeping in mind that our event may have to be squeezed into a guest's lunchtime, it is fine to break off and depart at any time that you must.

  1:30 pm  (optional):  folks can continue to walk about the National Gallery of Art on their own, or to socialize over coffee or lunch downstairs at the Espresso and Gelato Bar or Cascade Cafe on the concourse between the East and  West buildings.

  Plans changed? Cancelling?  Email LibrarianMS   @   gmail.com (no spaces) so that we can honor people on the waiting list.  You can also cancel your registration by logging in to the CCW Web site which will immediately release a spot for others. This is sure to be a POPULAR series, organized for community building and community service, so thank you for your supportive engagement!  

  
  

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• The Tide Changes: Midway and Winning the Naval War in the Pacific

  • When
    05/05/2025
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    6:30 PM
  • Location
    2301 L St NW, 20037, Washington, DC - West End Library

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  The Tide Changes:  Midway and Winning the Naval War in the Pacific

  A David Silbey talk.
  

  "The battle of Midway, in June 1942, was the turning point of the war in the Pacific.  A mere seven months after the US Pacific Fleet had been devastated by the surprise Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, a ragtag American fleet destroyed four Imperial Japanese Navy carriers, the centerpiece of their naval power.  This talk will look at how the battle came to be, how it happened, why it was such an overwhelming US victory, and how it affected the rest of the war." 
  

  
  

  
  

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• Ivy League Summit for WOMEN! - Authentic Leadership from the Inside Out:

  • Start
    05/06/2025
  • End
    05/09/2025

  • What: The Ivy League Summit for Women sponsored by Ivy League Sisters

  • Theme: Authentic Leadership from the Inside Out 

  • When: May 6-9, 2025 (you don't need to come all sessions --come when you can and ignore the rest)

  • Where: Online via Zoom 

  • Cost: FREE 

  • Topics include:

  • Women's health and parenthood while managing career

  • Stress, burnout, anxiety and how to manage it

  • Career Pivots and how to navigate them

  • Authentic leadership style and how to find it

  • Raw, real unfiltered conversations with other high-achieving Ivy League women

  • Expert panels from Ivy League alumni health professionals, industry leaders, and executive & health coaches

  • Free to register! www.theivyleaguesummit.com

  
  

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• The Story of the Rose

  • When
    05/07/2025
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    7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Schlesinger Center, 4915 Campus Drive East, Alexandria, VA 22331
  • Spaces left
    18

  VENUE CHANGE -  To Mary Baker Theater at Scheslinger Center at NVCC (originally at Kennedy Center)

  A musical reverie on the Great War conceived and performed by Broadway star Melissa Errico.

  CCW Has arranged a special 50% discount for a limited number of tickets.  Sign up on Doughboy Foundation Website REGISTER (discount code CORNELLROSE)

  With her trademark smarts and sublime singing, Melissa Errico tells the story of her own great Aunt Rose and her grandmother as they came over from Italy by boat during WW1 and immediately took up work as seamstresses at the Brooklyn Navy Yard making uniforms for the war. A musical memoir full of early jazz ragtime flair & elegant storytelling, Melissa pieces together love letters, authentic songs, stories of friendships, and scraps of the memories of lovers & sons to bring another time back into focus. She will stir our hearts to recall how life, for an entire generation, would never be the same again. This Rose becomes a memorial for many.

  Songs include wartime tunes of both love and protest: “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier” “Heart of my Hearts (The Story of A Rose) and “If He Can fight Like He Can Love,” Broadway songs set in the time period, French art songs of the time, and popular music such as The Beatles “Honey Pie,” tied together with Melissa’s real-life family history of a woman who emerged from wartime and became a Ziegfeld Follies favorite.

  
  

  
  

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• Small Potluck Dinner - Vienna

  • When
    05/11/2025
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    3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    Vienna, Virginia
  • Spaces left
    10

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  Come join us for a series of potluck dinners. The host will offer one dish and guests, at the host’s discretion, will bring the rest. If you’re up for a fine meal and great conversation, this is for you.
  
  Space is VERY limited for this event so act fast!
  
  The dinner will be held in Vienna and you will receive the exact address when you RSVP.
  
  Contact
  Steve Piekarec
  spiekare@verizon.net
  
  
  

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• Councilwoman Brooke Pinto talk

  • When
    05/12/2025
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    6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    2301 L St NW, 20037, Washington, DC - West End Library

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  Councilwoman Brooke Pinto talk
  

  
  

  
  

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• CCW Monthly Board Meeting

  • When
    05/13/2025
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    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    TBD In-person and virtual

  Monthly Cornell Club of Washington planning meeting for officers and board members, open to all Club members or other interested parties.

  Email president@cornellclubdc.org for location and Zoom details

  
  

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• Explore DC Happy Hour Series – Mission at Dupont

  • When
    05/15/2025
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    5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    Mission Dupont Circle, 1606 20th St NW, Washington, DC 20009
  • Spaces left
    42

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  EVENT DETAILS: 

  Join us for a happy hour at the Mission Dupont Circle as part of our Explore DC Happy Hour Series!  In 2025, CCW will host a monthly happy hour in a different neighborhood of the DMV (DC/Maryland/Virginia) area.

  This event will take place on May 15 at Mission at Dupont Circle from 5:30-7:30pm.  

  The first 25 CCW members to sign up will receive a free drink ticket, and a cash bar will be available for all attendees.  Registration is recommended.

  Any questions, please contact  Morgann Reeves at morgannreevesc@gmail.com.  

  https://missiondupont.com/

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

   

  
  

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• Run or Power Walk with Cornellians at the National Mall! (Dogs and strollers welcome!)

  • When
    05/17/2025
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    9:00 AM
  • Location
    Location: at the corner of 7th Street SW and Independence Ave, SW

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  Location: at the corner of 7th Street SW and Independence Ave, SW beneath the huge spinny silvery art installation. Closest metro is L'Enfant Station. We'll gather, stretch, introduce ourselves around, high five, and hear a few updates about our Spring gatherings-- which are social as much as for exercise. (We'll take a terrific group photo for the Cornell Club's social media.)
  
  This is a great event to wear red and bring kids, a dog or a date.  You will have the chance to group up according to interests or paces noting suggested routes at our link. That way, you can meet fellow marathoners or dog lovers or babies in strollers for the first part; no obligation to travel in a pack the entire way as you get your exercise.  Grab coffee afterwards if you want at the nearby food trucks.
  
  Details/ Logistics Updates/ Event Descriptions for additional gatherings unfold at the following link that you should consult  "day of" for changes due to weather or logistical challenges. So paste it into your calendar.  https://sites.google.com/view/ccw-event-details/running-walking-group.
  
  Questions? Contact Maggie at Librarian M S @ gmail.com     (no spaces)  
  

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• Mount Vernon Spring Wine Festival & Sunset Tour

  • When
    05/18/2025
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    6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Mount Vernon, 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, Mount Vernon, VA 22121
  • Spaces left
    18
  • Registered
    2 registrants

  

  
  

  CCW group cancelled, but you can still get tickets direct from Mount Vernon

  Spring Wine Festival 2025

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  Join CCW at Mount Vernon for Mount Vernon's rain-or-shine spring celebration of the history of the Virginia wine industry on the east lawn overlooking the Potomac River.

  Mount Vernon’s Spring Wine Festival & Sunset Tour celebrates the history of wine in Virginia with live jazz on the east lawn overlooking the scenic Potomac River. 

  Guests sample wines from 16 Virginia wineries, learn about the successes and failures of our Founding Father’s wine endeavors, and meet “George and Martha Washington” on the Mansion's piazza. 

  Concessions by the Mount Vernon Inn are available for purchase.

  Bring a blanket and relax on the east lawn overlooking the Potomac River. 

  Enjoy the live music of Bruce Ewan and the Solid Senders.

  The Shops at Mount Vernon and Wine Valet Service are open until 8:45 p.m.

  The Mansion itself will be closed because of a major restoration project.
  

  Dress: Casual

  Map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
  
  Cost:  - includes entrance and unlimited tastings

  $46 - member

  $56 - non-member

  All payments are non-refundable.

  Contact/Questions: Steve Piekarec spiekare@verizon.net

  Venue details: https://www.mountvernon.org

  Featured Wineries

  • To be announced

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• Nationals versus SF Giants - NATS20 Mystery Moments Bobblehead

  • When
    05/24/2025
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    3:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Nationals Park, 1500 South Capitol Street, S.E., Washington, DC
  • Spaces left
    20
  • Registered
    Be the first

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  See the Nationals play the San Francisco Giants.  Come join other Cornellians in a great weeknight at the ballpark!

  NATS20 Mystery Moments Bobblehead for the first 20,000 fans.  Get there early.

  Game Time: 4:05

  Tickets:  Outfield Reserve (Section 104) - $40 members, $45 non-members

  CCW has 20 tickets in the Section 104.   Prices may go higher as the game gets closer.

  Questions: Steve Piekarec, spiekare@verizon.net

  Nationals Website: 

  http://washington.nationals.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=was

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• "Summer of 60" celebration

  • When
    06/04/2025
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    5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

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  The Summer of Sixty is happening all over the US, initiated by Cornell's Class of '87. Here's our local celebration!

  Likely location: Mr. Henry's  See: https://www.mrhenrysdc.com/about-us/ (Mark your calendar to check back to this event page to confirm location week of event)
  

  5:30 - 8:00 pm

  Stick around for the jazz afterwards!
  This is a business owned by a Cornellian, so toast our bar owner!

  $10 registration (non-refundable), but the first 25 to sign up get a pass for a free beer or wine. Get it from Maggie when you show up!

  Hosted by Karen Morel Joostema, '87 and Maggie/ Marg Jones Carpenter ' 86

  Questions? Contact karenjoostema@gmail.com

  
  

  
  

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• Cornell Reunion 2025

  • Start
    06/05/2025
  • End
    06/08/2025
  • Location
    Cornell University, Ithaca NY

  

  Save the Date!

  Questions: alumniaffairs@cornell.edu

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• CCW Monthly Board Meeting

  • When
    06/10/2025
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    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    TBD In-person and virtual

  Monthly Cornell Club of Washington planning meeting for officers and board members, open to all Club members or other interested parties.

  Email president@cornellclubdc.org for location and Zoom details

  
  

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• Les Misérables at the Kennedy Center

  • When
    06/26/2025
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    7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
  • Location
    Kennedy Center - 2700 F St NW, Washington DC, DC 20566-0002
  • Spaces left
    2

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  CCW has a block of tickets for "Les Misérables" at the Kennedy Center ( 2nd Tier Center)

  Since its pre-Broadway run at the Kennedy Center in 1986, Les Misérables has changed the world of musical theater.  Now, Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed production of Boublil & Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning phenomenon returns to the Opera House after its sold-out run in 2023. Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, the musical tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice, and redemption—a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit.

  Cost - (Seats are  2nd Tier Center)

  Members - $69

  Non- Members - $79

  
  

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• 20th Anniversary Cornell Mid-Atlantic Crab Feast

  • When
    06/29/2025
  • Location
    Kurtz's Beach, Pasadena, MD

  The Annual Crab Feast turns 20 this year!

  All alumni and students are welcome to join the Cornell Club of Maryland for this summer staple event at Kurtz's Beach. This beloved Cornell tradition on Maryland's coastline will be filled with family, friends, and Cornell-themed fun for all ages.

  Don't miss out on this year's milestone celebration.

  Mark your calendar now, registration is coming soon.

  
  

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• Embassy of Sri Lanka Dinner, Music, and Dancing

  • When
    06/30/2025
  •  
    6:30 PM

  May 30, Friday, 6:45pm

  For details and to register click here or visit

  https://www.simpletix.com/e/embassy-of-sri-lanka-dinner-with-the-ambas-tickets-212941

  For questions contact Bruce McBarnette (Princeton Club) brucemcbarnette@gmail.com, (703) 404-8429

  Join the Ivy Social Club, the International Club, and Bruce McBarnette (Princeton) at the Embassy of Sri Lanks as we gather with alumni from Princeton, ABPA, Yale, Harvard, Thunderbird, HBAS, MIT, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, University of Pennsylvania, Wellesley, Stanford, Smith, NYU, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, and Vassar. 

  
  

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• U.S. Women’s National Soccer vs. Canada

  • When
    07/02/2025
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    7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
  • Location
    Audi Field
  • Spaces left
    5

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  Fresh off of their Gold medal victory at the Paris Olympics, the U.S. Women’s National soccer team is back in DC! 

  Join the Cornell Club of DC at Audi Field as the USWNT takes on Canada. We will be in Section 111.

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• Zinck's Downtown DC - International Spirit of Zinck’s Night 2025 (1 of 2 or more in DC area)

  • When
    10/16/2025
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    6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    The Admiral, 1 Dupont Circle, NW. Washington DC

  

  The Cornell Club of Washington invites all fellow alumni in Washington DC, Northern Virginia, and Maryland to celebrate the legacy and tradition of Theodore Zinck's 

  Multiple Zinck's in the Washington DC area.

  This years Zinck's in Washington DC will be at The Admiral, 1 Dupont Circle (main entrance on New Hampshire Ave,, south side of the Circle)

  Come join us in DC - Walk-ins welcome!

  A second Zinck's is set in Reston.   https://cornellclubdc.org/event-5872576

  Another other Zinck's in the Washington DC area may be posted soon.

  Theodore Zinck was a saloonkeeper in Ithaca and his pub, the Hotel Brunswick, was a popular gathering place for Cornellians in the 1890s. After his death in 1903, several bars using his name continued to provide a haven for students. When the last “Zinck’s” closed in the mid-60s, celebrating the spirit of Zinck’s became a favorite Thursday night Collegetown tradition of undergraduates. It wasn't long afterwards that Cornellians continued the tradition in their hometowns.

  Cost: Includes light food and appetizers, and there is a cash bar with our own private bartender

  Members - $20   
  Non-Members - $25
  At the door (cash or check only)

  To become a member, www.cornellclubdc.org/joinccw

  Metro: Du Pont Circle

  Contact:  Steve Piekarec spiekare@verizon.net

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• Cornell Reunion 2026

  • Start
    06/04/2026
  • End
    06/07/2026
  • Location
    Cornell University, Ithaca NY

  

  Save the Date!

  Questions: alumniaffairs@cornell.edu

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• Cornell Reunion 2027

  • Start
    06/10/2027
  • End
    06/13/2027
  • Location
    Cornell University, Ithaca NY

  

  Save the Date!

  Questions: alumniaffairs@cornell.edu

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