Some years ago, Harry Horton — class of 1922 — bequeathed $250,000 to the Theta Delta Chi Educational Foundation. This was dedicated for tuition and lodging by Beta Charge brothers with financial need. Through the efforts of interested Theta Delta Chi alumni, these funds have been kept in a separate account and invested alongside the […]
Educational Programming
The History of SAF Music Education
The SAF music program embodies and continues the rich history of music in the Grand Hall of 800 University Ave as countless emerging artists and well-known performers have appeared at the venue over many decades. The program officially launched in 2004 with a workshop by the Scratch DJ Academy, which was founded two years earlier […]
The History of SAF Culinary Education
In 2003, SAF’s first ever event was a coursed tasting menu dinner with guest chef / sommelier Stephen Aspirinio, then a student of the Cornell Hotel School, and now a successful media entrepreneur and personality in the food and wine world. Several up-and-coming Cornell Hotel School student chefs followed Stephen to helm the kitchen at […]
The Ag Tobey Art Gallery: Honoring Cornell’s Brightest Artists
The Ag Tobey Art Gallery is an Spectemur Agendo Foundation tradition named after Waldo Franklin “Ag” Tobey — who graduated from Cornell Arts & Sciences in 1895 and Cornell Law School in 1897. The SAF hosts an exhibition of student art — paintings, sketches, and other words — in our Grand Hall over the course of a weekend. […]