Share with us below your your memories of your senior year. For example,
- Where did you live?
- What / where did you eat?
- Who were your memorable professors?
- What were your memorable classes?
- In which sports did you engage either as a spectator or participant?
- Other memories?
Here are some memories we have already collected about our senior year. Add your own below.
- Interviewing for jobs in Barton hall.
- Feeling nostalgic about leaving Cornell.
- Not being ready for the real world yet.
- Picking red and white tulips as a bouquet for my girl friend.
Some significant events*
- June 28, 1970: first pride parade in history, Stonewall riot.
- October 5, 1970: the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
- October 26, 1971: Garry Trudeau’s comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.
- November 18, 1970: Harlem Globetrotters on campus
- January 1, 1971: cigarette advertising e.g advertisements are banned on American television.
- January 12, 1971: the sitcom “All in the Family” debuts on CBS
- April 24, 1971: five hundred thousand people in Washington, D.C., and 125,000 in San Francisco march in protest against the Vietnam War
- March 21, 1971: Cornell beat Clarkson to win the NCAA hockey tournament
- June 5, 1971: Cornell defeated the University or Maryland to win the inaugural NCAA men’s lacrosse tournament. This was the very first tournament that determined the national champion in the sport. Cornell defeated the University of Maryland 12-6.
- June 13, 1971: the New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers
* Events selected from Cornell Sun, Wikipedia, EventsHistory.com… and elsewhere.
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