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Cornell Veterinary Magazine
Spring 2004
The entire magazine is available as a pdf document. It is a large (7.2M) file and may take time to download. (pdf)
Selected Articles from the Spring 2004 issue of the magazine are also available as smaller pdf files.
Robert W. Kirk, DVM '46 was out standing in a field - a potato field, to be exact - when Dean William Hagan called in 1952 to invite him to interview for a position at Cornell. Hadley Stephenson, DVM '20 was retiring from the Small Animal Clinic, and Ellis Leonard, DVM '34 needed to replace him. Kirk had also been offered a position in the recently established veterinary college at the University of
California, Davis, but he opted for the known quantity.
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Ezra Cornell, who endowed this university with his name, his land, his wealth, and his social philosophy, was a practical soul. Although he made his fortune building a telegraph network for  Samuel F. B. Morse, his roots and his heart were in farming. When he walked away from the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1855, weary of the infighting, he finally had the financial means to buy the land he had long wanted - a broad, relatively flat hilltop expanse with the most precipitous boundaries in the Ithaca area, the gorges formed by Cascadilla and Fall Creeks. ... <more>
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