This past holiday season, Telluride members and a group of Michigan Branch alumni participated in an informal book exchange. If anyone is looking for a good read during this long winter, here are some ideas! Severance by Ling Ma Life on Mars by Tracy K.......
08 January, 2021No comment
by Fred Baumann | August 31, 2018 Harry Clor, beloved professor of Political Science at Kenyon College, taught Telluride Summer Programs in 1975, 1979, 1985, 1995, and 1998. He died in 2018 and his friend and Kenyon colleague Fred Baumann CB62 TA64 wrote this moving......
30 August, 2019No comment
Editor’s Note: Telluride welcomes blog submissions from associates about issues they care about and would like to share their personal perspectives on. By Annia Koroliak SP04 This week, news broke that grocery store workers in Southern California are preparing to strike. As these workers get......
15 July, 20192 Comments
by Matthew Trail SP81 CB82 TA84 To my mild chagrin, I confess to having another dream about Telluride last night. As a long-time alum and current staffer, I probably shouldn’t be surprised that Telluride haunts some of my sleeping as well as waking hours, and......
13 March, 20193 Comments
by Matthew Trail SP81 CB82 TA84 Reading old Telluride Newsletters often affords interesting perspectives on commonalities—and differences—with the Telluride of today. The March 1969 issue is no different! Here are a few highlights. We invite you to click on the link and take a walk......
12 February, 2019No comment
by Matthew Trail SP81 CB82 TA84 It turns out that Deep Springs is not the only arid, dusty valley memorialized by a Nunn. Joseph Nunn, who was L.L. Nunn’s nephew and a CBTA member in the 1920s (and later DS Ranch manager) has the lunar......
29 November, 2018No comment
by Grace Wang MB18 I wasn’t a foreigner to the number of zeroes on the Excel spreadsheet… the summer before, I had interned at a hedge fund and gotten used to how the word “millions” could be casually thrown around. However, for the first time,......
21 November, 2018No comment
by Nate Sibinga DS07 CB16 A generation before L.L. Nunn founded Telluride Association and Deep Springs College, John Stuart Mill argued for the necessity of a diverse educational landscape to a free society: “A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to......
14 November, 2018No comment
by Puneet Singh MB16 TA17 The Board of Custodians met for their quarterly meeting and conducted some on-site Manager visits in beautiful Boston this weekend. Currently, one of the major issues that is on everyone’s mind is how to incorporate our values as an Association......
09 November, 2018No comment
by Matthew Trail SP81 CB82 TA84 The Fall Creek and Cascadilla Creek gorges flanking Cornell University’s campus are a signature attraction for visitors, and have also been popular destinations for generations of Cornell branchmembers, TASPers, and TASSers. Perhaps lesser known to outsiders, Cornell Branch has......
30 October, 2018No comment
Thoughts from a Pubspeak at the Michigan Branch by Jess Allen MB18 This was a difficult question to answer, because with under six months before the United Kingdom is scheduled to formally leave the European Union, the UK and 27 remaining member states of the......
24 October, 2018No comment
Historical Perspectives and Current Trends for Black Hair By Aixa Marchand MB17 & Natasha Johnson MB16 Slides, notes, music and videos from a PubSpeak at MBTA on September 27, 2018. The Business of Black Hair https://www.facebook.com/theRoot/videos/1820640728053129/?hc_ref=ARRU4AFJ_DN5HL3Ygi6HBEyIUVjrenS22-cREy-dUFCQTeJOwoRqwXI_t95eZkV1mvU...
10 October, 2018No comment
Some facts and discussion about concussions in contact sports (Afterthoughts from a Pubspeak at MBTA on September 13, 2018) By Marianna Coulentianos MB17 After watching the movie “Concussion” in which Will Smith plays the role of Dr Omalu, the doctor who discovered CTE, a condition......
03 October, 2018No comment
by Matthew Trail SP81 CB82 TA84 Two hundred and twenty-five TASPs have been held since 1954, and 54 TASSes since 1993, covering an extremely broad range of topics in the liberal arts. Indeed, surveying the range and succession of seminar topics over the last 60+......
26 September, 2018No comment
By Jess Falcone CB04 TA07 My book, Battling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built, has just been published by Cornell University Press. It is my first book, so as you might imagine, Telluride friends, it’s an emotional......
13 September, 2018No comment
by Puneet Singh MB16 TA17 This Labor Day weekend, MBTA began its yearly operations welcoming 23 students and 3 faculty guests. Eleven of the students are new, while 12 of them are returning to the house from last year. Three of the current housemembers are......
06 September, 2018No comment
by Matthew Trail SP81 CB82 TA84 Preparing the logistics for Telluride’s summer programs entails a lot of different tasks, from creating contracts to ordering books and…buying extra sheets. Telluride’s Administrative Director Ellen Baer was in the Ithaca Target this June buying extra sheets to have......
29 August, 20182 Comments
by Anmol Kabra CB17 Just until 3 weeks ago, I was supervising a group of promising high schoolers who were cleaning the kitchen after dinner. The weather that week had been damp and gloomy in Ithaca, in contrast to the usual sunny and crisp skies......
22 August, 2018No comment
by Chris Opila MB17 Editor’s Note: In our Spring 2018 Newsletter, Michael Becker SP08 TA13, wrote about Telluriders working in the area of immigrant rights. You can read the article here. Post publication, we reached out to Michigan Branch member Chris Opila, who is a......
16 August, 2018No comment
This spring’s Mansfield-Wefald Senior Thesis Prize was awarded to Cengiz Cemaloglu SP13. Cengiz shares an abstract of his thesis below, which will be of particular interest to economists, anthropologists, political scientists, and others. What role do banks play in society? Can nations and religions systematically......
01 August, 2018No comment
By Joaquin Brito Jr. CB17 TA18 As the climate continues to change, how we transform ourselves, our communities, and society towards sustainable practices will be a hot (pun intended) topic of conversation. Last year at CBTA, we continued engaging in conversations and initiatives of environmental......
26 July, 2018No comment
by Nate May MB07 In April 2014 I was working as a high school math teacher in Fayette County, West Virginia, when I accepted an offer to begin a master’s degree in music composition in the coming fall at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati.......
19 July, 2018No comment
by Marina Tinone SP15 TA17 They were pretty. The little red flowers, all bunched together. The apartment window open, and the light coming through. I watered the flowers. And I thought that if Grandma were the one watering them, she would be singing. So, I......
12 July, 2018No comment
By Ave Leslie SP00 TA06 The following is my personal understanding of the history and current status of the LLN LLC, based on interviews and documentary research. Given the complexity and controversy of this topic, alternative perspectives and disagreement probably are inevitable. I welcome your......
05 July, 20182 Comments
By Michael Becker SP08 TA13 This past weekend, Telluride Association members and associates gathered in Ithaca, New York, for the 107th annual Convention. At this annual meeting, we evaluate the success of our programs and committees throughout the year, make decisions on major policy and......
22 June, 2018No comment
by Matthew Trail Over the last 100 years, the Telluride Newsletter has regularly featured letters and articles from its overseas associates. From the croquet lawns of Oxford to Mussolini’s Italy and the Biafran War, Telluriders have brought their insights, humor, and critical eye to their......
13 June, 20182 Comments
This week’s blog features Deep Springs College’s online digital collection of nearly 1,000 photos relating to the College. Many photographs feature Telluride alumni as well, of course, reflecting the (variously) close ties between the two Nunnian institutions over their more than 100 years of shared history.......
23 May, 2018No comment
by Ridley Jones SP05 MB06 TA08 __________ Seattle Freeze Beneath the sky’s furrowed brow Furtive rivulets of we disappear And the mountains lay down Their daily burden _________ Autumn Song Slide with me, world, dark and gentle Fall through me, time, swift and lovely......
17 May, 2018No comment
by Matthew Trail SP81 CB82 TA84 Telluride Association’s history is rich with colorful characters, interesting traditions, and great stories. In today’s blog, we feature just a few of the interesting photos from our archives… ......
09 May, 2018No comment
by Jess Falcone CB04 TA07 photos by Puneet Singh MB16 TA17 The first Nunnian Weekend ran from April 27th to April 29th at Cornell Branch in Ithaca, NY. The core group was comprised of two Telluride Association......
03 May, 2018No comment
by Michael Becker SP08 TA13 With our annual Convention approaching, Telluride Association is once again recruiting alumni of our programs interested in applying for membership on our Board of Directors. TA members serve on TA committees throughout the year and attend an annual Convention each......
26 April, 2018No comment
A 10-minute Free-Writing Poetry Workshop with Telluride & GEAR-UP Ypsilanti © by Emily P. Lawsin I am from The paneled library with its George Nelson lamps Warmed by the grand piano next door, and eclectic books donated from graduating seniors; An army of stubborn ants......
04 April, 2018No comment
50 Years Ago in the Telluride Newsletter: Past Telluride Newsletters are often a fascinating window into both the history of Telluride Association and the wider currents of social and political issues of the day. The November 1968 issue is a great example of both. Interspersed with......
22 March, 2018No comment
On Mar 6, 2018, MBTA housemembers enjoyed a PubSpeak by Allina Chang (MB’17) on Chinese Food and Cooking. As part of the PubSpeak, she taught housemembers how to make Chinese Scallion Pancakes (Vegan) and Steamed dumplings. Anthony Zheng (MB’17) was her sous chef for the......
14 March, 20181 Comment
Music—both its performance and study—has been a topic of great interest to many Telluriders over the years (it is no accident that one of Cornell Branch’s public rooms is known as the “Music Room,” nor that music is a frequent topic of TASS and TASP......
07 March, 20185 Comments
By Michael Becker Rebecca Carter has a Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy and Management, but she’s eschewed her former work on the behavior and evolution of spiders to delve into data science with the major online auction site eBay. Editor Michael Becker recently sat down......
28 February, 20181 Comment
by Pepper Trail CB72 TA73 SYLLABUS FOR THE WARMING WORLD Teach me now the epistemology of melt The inflexible rules of liquefaction How broad white glaciers, bovine and calm Drop their slippery calves into the sea How ice, crystalline and blue, can rot Pock, crack,......
21 February, 2018No comment
By Matthew Trail SP81 CB82 TA84 Telluride has had at least two Olympians among its ranks, and both were medalists: Meredith Gourdine in the 1952 Summer Olympics and Bonnie St. John in the 1984 Winter Paralympics. Both went on from their Telluridean and Olympic careers......
14 February, 2018No comment
By Helena Ratté MB13 I received the 2017 Yarrow Award to conduct research in Germany and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) as part of an evaluation project for the German humanitarian women’s organization AMICA e.V. Over the course of a six-month period, I assisted in designing a......
07 February, 2018No comment
By Michael Becker In May 1962, Cornell hosted a remarkable debate between two leading intellectuals and activists around Black freedom: Malcolm X, then representing Elijah Muhammed’s Nation of Islam, and James Farmer, president of CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality. At the time of their......
24 January, 20183 Comments
by Maia Dedrick Miriam Aukerman SP86 CB87 TA88 is a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan, and manages the ACLU’s West Michigan Regional Office. Miriam graduated summa cum laude from both Cornell University and the New York University Law......
20 January, 20181 Commentby Amy Bao For all of us fortunate enough to have experienced a Nunnian education in some way, shape, or form, we know it is much more than a scholarship or summer program. At its core, it is about the people we meet and the......
03 January, 2018No comment
The excerpts below refer to a very early effort on the part of Telluride Association to develop an emblem for itself. The effort was “crowd-sourced,” and generated a fair amount of discussion. Apparently, however, the early efforts led to naught… From 1912 Proceedings, pp. 23-24.......
15 December, 2017No commentAnthony W. Mariano The Telluride Association’s Investment Policy Statement, passed at the 2016 Convention dictates that our investment strategy “will utilize both passively and actively managed investments.” A later section states: “The asset allocation will be implemented using both active and passive investment managers. Highly......
29 November, 2017No commentWe drove twelve hours across four states and stopped to pee seven times. We smiled secretly at each other when I turned down champagne at the wedding and sucked it in for photos. When my brother-in-law threw up because he drank too much I felt......
22 November, 20171 CommentHas Telluride Ever Hosted Summer Programs at Stanford University? Yes! Telluride has sponsored TASPs at 15 different sites since 1954, and TASS at 3. Here’s the list: TASP: Cornell: 1954 – Deep Springs College: 1957-60, 1969-73, 1978-90 Stanford: 1961-62 Princeton: 1963-66 Hampton University: 1966-70 Cremona......
15 November, 2017No comment
In our Alumni Profile series, we’ll be sitting down with Telluride alumni from a wide variety of fields who are making their mark on their profession and their communities. For our inaugural interview, we sat down with Tiffany Yizar, SS01 SP02. Tiffany holds a bachelor’s......
08 November, 2017No comment