Jeffrey Chesky, Class of 1967
Audio transcript:
"My name is Jeffrey Chesky, class of 1967 Arts and Sciences. I am here attending my 40 th Cornell reunion, wandering through the libraries and so many memories come floating back. I was just in the Dean Reading Room and I remember that in the fall of 1964 I was studying in a panic mode for a physics exam. I was using this review book of physics trying to learn some of the questions. And to my great delight, one hour later on the exam, the exact same question I was pondering through and trying to figure out was on the test. It really helped my grade.
Another thing I remember, over in Olin Library when I was here, they had a very curious and strange policy that undergraduates were barred from the university library stacks. Only graduate students and staff were allowed.
But, I worked here in the summer of 1966. I worked for the Department of Entomology, I believe. And they gave me a staff parking permit which was worth everything. They also gave me a staff permit to the library. I was the only person in my Fraternity that was allowed to get into the stacks of Olin Library. And I used to say good- bye to all my friends when we came back from the Ivy Room and wave good-bye, and go up the elevator and study on the seventh floor overlooking—you could not see the lake at night – but overlooking the lights of Ithaca. And boy, what that the envy of all my fraternity brothers!"