Christmas Gifts for Cornellians, 2005

Monday December 12, 2005 Category: Fun Permanent Link

In keeping with last year’s tradition, here are some Cornell-themed gift ideas for your last-minute shopping!

In a letter to the Cornell Chronicle, Professor David Stapleton, International Relations, suggests a charitable gift that may help fight terrorism.

The webiste http://www.ourvoicestogether.org, was created to facilitate such giving. You can honor Aunt Sally with a tax-deductible donation to provide life-saving job skills to widows in Afghanistan, train birth attendants in Nepal, pay for school supplies in Pakistan, send Israeli and Palestinian youth to summer camp together, restore the childhood of former carpet slaves in India, or plant trees in Haiti, for example. Find something that fits Aunt Sally’s interest. OVT will send her a certificate, tailored to your specifications; send 100 percent of the donation to the designated charity; and send you a receipt for your tax records.

Prof. Stapleton does not mention it in his letter, but this organization was founded by families who lost relatives on September 11, 2001. Sounds like a very worthy cause.

But then, a lot of us are shopping for little ones these days… How cute will that little guy be in his new Big Red Bib?

Have a bibliophile on your gift list? Here are books for everyone from cat lovers to sports fans to gourmets.

	The Cornell Books of Cats : The Comprehensive and Authoritative Medical Reference for Every Cat and Kitten by Mordecai Siegal (Hardcover, revised edition, 1997)
	Cornell University Hockey (Images of Sports: New York) by Adam Wodon, Arthur Mintz (Paperback - September 2004)
	Finger Lakes Panoramas by Kristian S. Reynolds (Photographer) (Hardcover)
	The New Moosewood Cookbook (Mollie Katzen’s Classic Cooking) by Mollie Katzen (Paperback)