Class Notes: CBE

After graduation, Marjorie L. Hart went to work for the Esso Research and Engineering company (now Exxon-Mobil), where she spent a distinguished 30-year career as a scientist, engineer, and executive. Along the way, she attended the New York University of Graduate School of Business Administration. At Exxon, Hart rapidly rose through the ranks to become a senior adviser to the gas, energy policy, and corporate planning divisions of the company. 
Her Exxon career is distinguished by several firsts - she was the first woman in the executive dining room and the first professional woman sent overseas. After leaving Exxon in 1984, she founded Business Line Consulting, a private consultancy  that specialized in natural gas, emission controls, and environmental systems. Following her retirement from Business Line Consulting in 1994, Hart worked for several non-profits, including serving as chair of the Board of Directors for Scenic Hudson, Inc.; as an advisory board member for Land Trust Alliance; and as vice chairman of the Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy, Inc. 
Hart is a lifetime member of the Cornell University Council and served as the council's vice chair from 1979 to 1982 and as chair in 1986 to 1987. She also served on the Cornell Board of Trustees as an alumni-elected member from 1979 to 1984 and was reappointed for an additional year. In October 1996, she was named a Cornell University Presidential Councilor. 

I am looking for John Beloit who graduated from Cornell in Chem Engr and then went To Villanova for a Masters degree in ChMe. He lived with Us on Barrett Ave. Please forward this message to him. I would like to know where he is now. TXS

Joshua Velson (MEng '11) of Nexant Consulting is featured in Conference Daily published by HYDROCARBON PROCESSING® March 2014. The article titled, "Coal re-emerges as a primary petrochemical feedstock," begins as follows: 

Coal was, historically, a critical resource in the infantry of the organic chemical industry. Among many other applications, coal tar provided aromatics, and coal syngas was used for ammonia and methanol production. The invention of the electric-arc furnace allowed coal-based calcium carbide to unleash a wealth of early acetylene-based production of butadiene, vinyl acetate, vinyl chloride, and acetaldehyde.

Whitney Wenger ('13), Merrill Presidential Scholar and NSF Fellowship Awardee - had her play performed at Cornell's Schwartz Center last weekend.  

Please visit:

http://www.news.cornell.edu/essentials/2013/10/short-plays-draw-long-lines-0

Now that my daughter has started at Cornell as a freshman member of the Class of 2017, I have been visiting the Cornell website more often, and naturally had to check out the ChemE pages.

I noticed there seems to be a gap in the class photos from the time I was at Cornell (1978-1982).  Being the pack rat that I am, I dug up my copy of the class of 1982 class photo.  Please find it attached.