Cornell officials will lay a cornerstone at the new home of the Johnson Graduate School of Management, a restyled Sage Hall, during a ceremony Oct. 15. The event begins at 3:30 p.m. at the west entrance of Sage Hall.

Slated to participate in the ceremony are Cornell President Hunter Rawlings, Cornell Board of Trustees Chairman Harold Tanner, Johnson School Dean Robert Swieringa, Trustee Ezra Cornell and MBA candidate Delfina M. Bisha, who chairs the Johnson School's student-faculty committee. On hand to celebrate will be Samuel C. Johnson, chairman of S.C. Johnson & Son, also refered to as S.C. Johnson Wax. The Johnson School is named in honor of his great grandfather, who founded S.C. Johnson & Son.

Using the cornerstone laying as an opportunity to preserve history, officials will place various items inside a box that will be encapsulated in the cornerstone. Among the items will be letters from Rawlings, Swieringa, Cornell and Alan Chimacoff '64, lead architect for the Sage Hall renovation.

The cornerstone also will include a Hewlett Packard 12C calculator, copies of the student newsletter Cornell Business, campus maps and photos of Sage, McGraw and Malott halls.

Sage Hall's original cornerstone, unearthed last March during renovation work on the building, contained a historically significant letter from Cornell founder Ezra Cornell. In the letter, written nearly 125 years ago and titled "To the Coming man & woman," Cornell stated that: "sectarianism must be forever excluded, all students must be left free to worship God, as their concience [sic] shall dictate, and all persons of any creed or all creeds must find free and easy access, and a hearty and equal welcome, to the educational facilities possessed by the Cornell University."

Sage Hall's $38 million renovation, expected to be completed early next year will gain the Johnson School 60 percent more space and access to the latest technology.