State Assemblyman Martin A. Luster is holding a series of town meetings in the 125th District. Henrik N. Dullea, vice president for university relations prepared the following remarks for delivery at a town meeting in the Council Chambers of City Hall in Cortland.
A $20 million gift to Cornell from an alumnus will launch major new instructional and research initiatives in science and engineering and provide state-of-the-art facilities in growing technologies for electronic and photonic devices, biotechnology and advanced materials processing.
The clash of two armies at a place that one side called Bull Run and the other Manassas was supposed to end a war before it began. But when the battle was over, 900 soldiers lay dead on the fields of Virginia, and a man on a mission of mercy from Ithaca, who four years later would found a great university, was running for his life.