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ANNUAL REPORT

As Cornell Plantations celebrates its 68th year, we are excited to offer you a new kind of annual report—a video in which you can see and hear about some of the important things we have accomplished this year. Some of our more notable recent accomplishments include:

• Led the Cornell Gorge Safety Task Force.

• Received $880,000 grant from FEMA for the Cascadilla Gorge

restoration project. Completed Phase I of Fall Creek Gorge trail and safety improvements. Combined Cornell University and Federal capital repair funding for both gorge projects totals $3,250,000.

• Treated 300 hemlock trees in key areas to combat Hemlock Wooly

Adelgid and contributed to a campus-wide ash tree inventory to prepare for impact of Emerald Ash Borer.

• Graduated 9 individuals from the Natural Areas Academy, all of whom contribute to the stewardship and protection of our natural heritage.

• Completed construction of a new 14 x 48 ft. hoop house to expand our

in-house plant production efforts.

• Produced all of the mulch and compost we use in the botanical gardens

and arboretum from waste leaves and donated wood chips, saving over $49,000.

• Launched a new environmental education program (PEEPS) for high

school students.

Donald A. Rakow | The Elizabeth Newman Wilds Director

• Created new interpretive signs and a cell phone audio tour for the F. R. Newman Arboretum to help visitors learn more about our valuable collections of trees and shrubs.

• Collaborated with local restaurant chefs to launch the new Garden to Table class series highlighting the culinary uses of plants in our collections.

• Enhanced over 60 courses for Cornell students by facilitating the use of Plantations’ natural areas, horticultural collections, and staff for field trips and guest lectures.

• In our 10th year of partnering with the Ithaca Shakespeare Company, welcomed 3900 visitors to their extraordinary summer performances in the arboretum.

• Celebrated the certification of the Nevin Welcome Center as a LEED Gold building.

• Launched a major fundraising initiative to build and endow a new East Asian Garden and series of Peony and Perennial Gardens.

I hope you will enjoy the video, and thank you for your continued support of Cornell Plantations and our mission.

Tower Club($5,000+)

Marilyn andRobert Abrams

Elaine andJohn Alexander

John andLaura Almquist

Philip Ammirato

Anonymous

Henry andNancy Bartels

Philip Bartels

Ruth andPeter Bleyler

Estate of Karen Brazell

David Brittenham and Carolyn Summers

John Butler

Linda Butler

Robert Camp Sr. and Marjorie Smart

Robert andVanne Cowie

Glenn andMadolyn Dallas

Norma Edsall

Jane Engel

Francille andJohn Firebaugh

John Foote Jr. andKristen Rupert

Mary Elizabeth Gill

William Gratz andJames Bruno

C. Daniel Groth

Estate of Barbara Hall

Susan Halpern

Michele andRobert Hanss

Torrence Harder

Michael Harney

Harney and Sons Tea Co.

Estate ofMayfred Hirshfeld

Neil Janovic andCathleen Hull

Gordon and Thelma Jones

L. William and Brit Kay

Lee Laden

Estate of Bertha Lewis

Florence andHoward Loomis

Wayne Merkelson and Nancy Roistacher

Herbert andStephanie Neuman

Barbara Goldman Novick and Barry NovickPark FoundationDorothy Park

David andJane Pyle

Gilbert andIngrid Rankin

Frank andRosa Rhodes

Frederick andJoyce Rosevear

Estate of Robert Rosevear

Elizabeth andJean Rowley

Estate ofIsabel Guthrie Russell

Ellen andMartin W. Sampson IIISaquish Foundation

Anne andRobert ShawSirus Fund

James andPatricia Stocker

Judith Stoikov and Richard Miller

Martin andAnne Kwok Tang

John andRuth Vaughan

Mary Clare Ward

Elizabeth Weaver

Gale Wiggin

Debbie andTodd Wolleman

Plantations SponsorQuadrangle Club ($1,000–$4,999)

Robert Abrams

Ellen andStephen Adelson

Adirondack Chapter, North American Rock Garden SocietySuzanne Aigen Phyllis AllenSuzanne AndrewsAnonymous

James andNancy Baker

Donald Barnes

Susan Basile

Robert Bauer

Nancy andWilliam Bellamy

Madeleine Miller Bennett

C. Morton Bishop III and Mary Lang

Kathryn Boor andMartin Wiedmann

Richard andElaine Bushey

Charles andKathy Camisa

Sherry Carr

Loren and Thomas Colbert

Nellie Corson

Anne Cowie

Jean Craig

Linda Craugh

Betty andStephen Culver

Carol des Cognets

Christine andThomas Dombrowski

David andPeggy Dunlop

Andrew andStacy Eisner

Wendy Elsasser

Jennifer Engel and Lawrence Young

David Fernandez and Elizabeth Lawson

Elizabeth Fillo andChris Coucill

D. Wayne andMaralyn Fleming

Nancy andSamuel Fleming

William andKay Foard

Raymond Fox

Laura Fratt andMichael Isby

Andrea Glanz andJames Irish

Marianne Goldsmith

Debbie andRobert Goodman

Carl andJean Gortzig

Fairfax andFrederick Gouldin

Bradley andMary Grainger

Estate of Betty Niles Gray

Elizabeth Green

Harvey andRonnie Hammer

Jane Hardy

Gilbert andJean Harries

Jean Harwick

Robert Harwick

Nellie Hay

Betta andJames Hedlund

Peter andSusan Henry

Vincent Herman

Elizabeth andJohn Howell

Nancy V. Jones

Anne andDavid Jordan

Jeanne Kanders

Karen andThomas Keating

Ian Kutner

Carol andJohn Lawes

Beverly andJoseph Libretti

Carol andRichard Marks

Gloria Marti

Lucy Masterman

Margaret Mathewson and Duane Nordick

Bernard Mayrsohn

Anne andEd McLaughlin

Camille andIan McLeod

Diane andJohn Meakem

Jennifer Meyberg

Jon Minikes andSusan Backstrom

Charlotte andLewis Morse

Sue Gubin Morss

Marcia andThomas Morton

Dorothy Mullestein

Carol andCharles Mund

Martha Nakamura

Marian Nease

Carolyn andJohn Neuman

Virginia Panzer and Harold Wiener

Janice Parsons

James andMary Penrose

Hans Pfister

William Pinchbeck

Daniel andJean Pope

Robert Ramin andDenise DeConcini

Inge andUwe Reichenbach

John andPat Richards

Celia Rodee andPeter Cooper

Anne andLewis Roscoe

Carolyn Sampson

Nancy andNelson Schaenen

Herman andWinnifred Schenkel

George andRoberta Schneider

Margaret Schroeder

Carl Schwarzer

Diane andRichard Shafer

Mary andWilliam Schmidt

Arthur andCharlotte Shull

J. Allen andKatherine Smith

John Smith andCornelia Saltus

Jaclyn SpearJohn andShirley Spencer

Robert StevensPatricia Carry StewartGladys StifelPeter Stifel

Edward andNancy Ten-Eyck

Phyllis andWilliam Tuddenham

Alice andJack Van de Wetering

Katherine andWilliam Van Wie

Heber Vellon andSusan Lacey

Herbert andJean Voelcker

David Weinstein and Christina Stark

Stefani andSteven Weiss

Carolyn andRittner Will

Sally Williams

Gertrude andTheodore Winsberg

Clara Yager

Charter Society ($500–$999)

Arlie andDouglas Anderson

Elizabeth Anderson

Anonymous

Peter Arden

Carol andDonald Asher

Richard andSandra Auerbach

Norman Avnet

Dorothy andPhilip Bartlett

Gary andJudith Baum

Marilyn andMarshall Bernstein

James andSandra Blackwood

Kathryn andSean Bolks

Jacqueline andRichard Bower

James andTerry Byrnes

Deborah andGeorge Chapman

Donald Christiansen

Alexandra andRichard Clark

Karen andMark Colonna

Peter andRhoda Curtiss

Anna Jean andWilliam Cushwa

Susan andWilliam Day

Nancy andWilliam DeCou

Susan Egloff

Joan Egrie

Theodore Eiben

Erica andHoward Evans

Barney andJulie Feinblum

Thomas Fricke

Bettina Frost

Carolyn andGilbert Gavlin

Frances Gotcsik

Constance andRichard Haggard

Mary Louise andS. Miller Harris

Carrie andRichard Higgins

Matthew Hintsa

Lisa andLon Hoyt

Theodore Hymowitz

Miriam Javitch

Doris Jenkins

Paul Skeen Jones

Beatrice Kanders

Susan Koon

Frederick Korz

Paula Laholt andRussell Oeste

Frederick andJeanne Laub

John Lebens andFlorence Higgins

Cynthia andKeith MacBain

Mary andPeter Marks

Jane andRobert McCombs

Colleen McCormick

James andSusan McCullough

Rita Melen

Charlotte Moore

Sue andWilliam Morrill

Joseph andPatricia Neafsey

Barbara O’ Connell and George Halpern

Antoinette andJames Ottobre

Edwin andMary Ann Oyer

Lillian andRobert Panagulias

Eliot andLinda Paine

Charles andKaren Phlegar

Donald andSue Rakow

George Rautenberg

Patricia andScott Reines

Thomas Richardson

Frank andJeannine Robertson

Carolyn Rogers

Stanley Rosen

John Rupert

David Russo andMary Gail Gearns

Beverly Schaufler

Brooke andKari Schumm

Frederick andJean Siefke

Elliott and Marlene Siff

Eric andMary Smith

Jonathan andLaura Soule

Ann andMichael Steines

Deborah andJames Stewart

Bert andPatricia Sullivan

Jeanne andJohn Talbourdet

Margot Tohn

Charles andNancy Trautmann

Beth andStephen Treadway

Harriet andJay Waks

Dorothea andTerry Warren

Kenneth andSharon Wilson

Jane Wiseman and James Hodges

This list recognizes donors who made gifts of $500+ between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2012.

ANNUAL REPORT2012 81%

$1,362,975

$920,471

$420,036

$75,777

$278,393

$181,583

$139,558

$3,378,792

40%

27%

12%

2%

8%

5%

4%

INCOME

Endowment Income

Gifts and Memberships

Prior Year Gifts & Bequests

Realized Planned Gifts

University Allocations

Earned Income

Grants

Fiscal Year July 1, 2011—June 30, 2012

$870,327

$441,434

$600,143

$160,055

$614,214

$692,620

$3,378,792

26%

13%

18%

5%

18%

20%

EXPENSE

Horticulture

Natural Areas

Education

Visitor Services

Administration

Facilities and Equipment

THANK YOUAs Cornell Plantations grows forward, your

support continues to sustain our gardens,

natural areas, and education programs.

Photo credits: Chris Kitchen, Irene Lekstutis, University Photography, Jay Potter, Sonja Skelly