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May 2013
In This Issue
ATTN: FOUNDATION MEMBERS
NEW LOGO
CLASS OF 2013
1920's Ads
Special notice - Alumnus is recruiting
POPSHOP has a new home
Miss an eNewsletter?
Welcome our newest  SAF family member!



Reed Matthew Wagner

came into the world weighing 9lbs, 15oz.

He joined his brother Blake and very happy parents, Nicole and Matthew Wagner (MBA '09), on April 30th.


Upcoming Events




The Annual SAF June Meeting will be held on Friday, June 7th at 2pm in Ithaca, NY.

All Foundation members and SAF alumni (SAI and eLab) are welcome.

TO RSVP/Get Logistics




 


Student Agencies June
Board of Directors meeting will be held on
Saturday, June 8th
from 9am - 2pm
at the SAI offices. 



  
Student Agencies will be hosting a reception and you are invited - it doesn't have to be your reunion year as all SAF's friends & family are welcome!

Let everyone know you are coming!

RSVP via 

and/or our

eHub Video



 Click here to view



In the News


eLab Team (2012-2013), Party Headphone has article in Boston news
regarding their recent CU hosted event.


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We are very excited to share with you the press release announcing SPLAT's acceptance into the Summer@Highland program. 



CEO, Ricky Panzer ('13) and his team will be joining other Ivy league start-ups in an intensive program this summer.

Ithaca is
"Our Town
"



"Our Town" is a song/video about Ithaca that was written, produced and performed by our very own (longtime, local) BRSS employees: Brennan McCullough and Sean Lewis!

Click here to view


Alum Honored

Susan Chen ('96) is part of the PDN Photo Annual Showcase. 

Susan is listed as Art Director for the "Modern Fairy Tales" photo.



Click to visit her website




Congratulations on your recent promotion or new position!


A very special 'congrats' to each of these alumni.  They have taken a special step in their career and we wish to take a moment and cheer for them!!


Michael Arnold ('00)
Partner,
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.


Levi Blankenship ('02)
Regional Sales Manager
SolarCity


Erica Chapman ('95)
VP Finance for
Airframe Systems at Woodward, Inc.


Laura Johnson ('02)
HR Director, Europe and Australasia for General Mills


Obed Louissiant ('01)
VP, Human Resources for IBM



SAF Mission


To provide Cornell University students extraordinary opportunities to:
  • Gain experience starting and running businesses
  • Offset the cost of the Cornell education
  • Provide valuable services to the community   

 

 



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Message from Michael Karangelen, SAF President
 
Alumni & Friends,

June is reunion time at Cornell and also when several important events for Student Agencies are taking place in Ithaca - the SAF Annual Meeting is scheduled for June 7th and our reunion reception and the SAI Board Meeting will be on June 8th. I hope you can join us, and I look forward to sharing stories with many of you. Details are provided under the Upcoming Events section in this newsletter.

 

In this issue:

  • Dan Sommer ('98), SAF Trustee, has been leading the branding efforts on behalf of SAF.  Be sure to read the article below to learn more about the new SAF logo.
  • We are very proud of our young on-campus alumni, current SAI and eLab team members that have graduated this year from Cornell.  Please take a moment and read their congratulations article.
  • Splat, a 2013 eLab team business, will be representing Cornell at the Summer@Highland. Splat CEO, Ricky Panzer ('13) and his leadership team will be joining other start-ups from Harvard, MIT, Stanford for a 10-week intensive start-up program.   
  • Calling all history buffs!  We found ads from a 1920's Cornell Daily Sun and have prepared a brief article highlighting the mentioned SA mangers for you.

 

Upcoming Issues: We have several exciting alumni spotlight articles coming this summer!  

 

Your feedback is always welcome! (Easiest way to be heard...just hit reply to this email and give us your comments, article suggestions, news and updates!)

 

Have a safe and happy summer!       

 

Sincerely,

 

Michael Karangelen '90

President

Student Agencies Foundation, Inc

   

 

Calling all Foundation Members!

The annual meeting is now just a week away on Friday, June 7th. If you are not attending in person, we need your vote!  We ask, if you haven't already submitted your proxy form; please mail it in the return envelope, fax it to 607-277-1814 OR email us your completed form.
 

In the event that you did not receive your packet (mailing went out of Ithaca office on May 15th), we may not have an updated physical address for you.  We will be happy to forward a digital copy of the packet.

 
New Logo for Student Agencies Foundation  

Dan Sommer ('98)
has a long and dedicated history with Student Agencies having served as a student manager of Mile High Laundry (no longer a SAI business), SAI President, a member of SAI and eLab Boards of Directors, a SAF Trustee and was director of the pilot program behind eLab. 

Dan recently shared some of his thoughts on the project.

Student Agencies has over 120 years of history. It was started by an enterprising student looking for ways to fund his education and that tradition has continued and expanded through the hard work and support of each generation of Cornell Students. 

Today, SAF supports SAI, eLab, Popshop and is working in collaboration with E@C in the new venture: eHub.  Each of these enitities work together to advance the overall mission of SAF - providing opportunities for students to learn business and entrepreneurial skills.

Student Agencies is a strong, independent organization with both roots and current ties to Cornell University.

It was certainly a large task to try and create a logo that captures the history of the organization and the vitality of the current & future students but our branding committee took on the challenge.

We are happy to share with you, the new logo for Student Agencies Foundation:




 
Congratulations - Graduates!
    
Graduate  Major SAF Affiliation
Nana Akowuah

MPS

Real Estate Fellow

Miles Biggs

Applied Econ (AEM)

2013 eLab member

Jeremy Blum MEng
PopShop Co-Founder,
2013 eLab 
 
Stephen Bosak
Communication,
Minor in Applied
Economics

BRSS Asst Manager
(2 Cycles)


Lindsay Boyajian ILR

2013 eLab member 
 
ILR 
HHMC Manager
BRSS Asst Manager 

Kimberly ChenILR

HR Director for SAI 
Adam Cherubini AEM BRSS GM
Cornellian Bus. Manager 
Emile Chin-Dickey

MBA

eLab Fellow
PopShop

MBA2013 eLab member

Matthew DavisUrban and Regional
Studies
Housing Solutions GM
Jennifer Delaney

MBA    eLab Fellow
PopShop

Robert Frisch

MBA eLab Fellow 
Economics and
Real Estate
Cornellian Sales and
Marketing Manager

Ryan HandInformation Science,
Finance
Campus Promotions GM
(CP)

Colby HeimanAEMBRSS Asst. Manager

Haroon IsmailHuman Biology

2013 eLab member
Aaron KaufmanPhilosophy

Hired Hands GM

S. Tae LeeAEMTakeNote GM

Maria MinskerEnglishCornellian Editor-in-Chief


Ruchi Nanda

Economics

CP - GM 
 
Ricky PanzerComputer Science

2013 eLab member
Alex RawitzHistory

Cornellian Bus Manager
(has worked for
every SAI company!)

Neha Shah

Information Science &
Economics
CP - GM

Vishal Shah

MBA2013 eLab member
Jeff Schick ILR 2013 eLab member



Justin Schick Biology 2013 eLab member 
Joe StanzioneDevelopment Sociology

Real Estate GM



 

Interesting find - ads from 1920's CU Daily Sun

These ads for Stvent Lavndry Agency (Student Agencies, Inc.) ran in the Cornell Daily Sun on Monday, Sept. 20th 1920. Even then, the ad's focus was on (6) Cornell Students earning money to pay their tuition while providing a good service to the community.  Certainly, the history buffs among us will enjoy their phone number (Bell 1167) and other distinctly 1920's items found in the photos.






Albert R. Nolin ('21), listed as GM in the ad, served  as President (1921), Treasurer (1919-1920) and GM (1920).

This photo of Albert hangs on the wall - along with many of the Presidents that have served throughout the years - in the SAI office.






Robert (Bob) Patch ('22)
was the Asst Manager for SAI in 1920.  He was a Mech Eng Major at the time of the ad and President of the Cornell Flying Club.

This was Bob's senior photo in the Cornellian.





Special Notice - Alumnus is currently recruiting

Michael Slowik (MBA '08), Director of Chemicals at Novomer is currently recruiting for a Business Development Associate.  Cornell connection? Michael was the graduate fellow for SAI during Nathaniel Weiss ('09)'s Presidency. Also, Novomer was founded by a Cornellian (former Head of the Chemistry Dept.)

 
POPSHOP has a new home!

"We've moved from 206B Dryden to a huge new space at 325 College Ave! 

 

With our new-found square footage, we'll be able to provide space to more student entrepreneurs, host larger events, and impact the Cornell community in bigger and better ways. We owe a big thanks to eLab, Student Agencies and E@C for helping us make this happen. We're still moving in, but feel free to pop in and say hi! Stay tuned for news about a 'popwarming party' soon..."

 

Jeremy Blum ('12, MEng '13) POPSHOP Co-Founder and Manager