Advance, Cornell ILR School's publication for alumni and friends.
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MESSAGE FROM THE KENNETH F. KAHN DEAN HARRY KATZ was inspired to move ahead and sign Jackie Robinson, the frst African-American to play in Major League Baseball, forever changing the face of the sport. Ives' groundbreaking infuence was also felt in the policy arena. As a U.S. senator, a role he stepped into after his two-year ILR dean- ship, he continued to be a strong advocate for worker and civil rights. The Ives legacy lives on at ILR in the faculty and classroom building that bears his name and stands as the centerpiece of the school's Ithaca campus. It can also be seen clearly in the current iteration of our mission to "prepare leaders, inform policy and improve working lives." These outcomes still anchor everything we do. ILR has plans to recognize our 70th year with events and activities you will hear more about soon. This issue of Advance is a starting point, with articles on the school's rich history and the ILR student experience today. The spring 2015 issue of Advance will carry through on the past, present and future theme with an emphasis on "ILR looking ahead." We invite you to celebrate with us as we salute 150 years of Cornell — one of the world's great universities — and the excellence and enduring impact of ILR, 70 years and going strong! You've probably heard that Cornell Univer- sity has plans for a big 150th birthday party starting this fall and continuing in the year ahead. ILR has much to celebrate, too, as we rec- ognize this signifcant moment in Cornell's history and prepare for our 70th anniversary in 2015. Over the years, the ILR School has evolved to keep pace with change in the world of work. Seven decades later, the principles the school was founded on, and the values we em- brace, continue to defne ILR and its mission. Consider ILR's frst dean, Irving M. Ives. He led a legislative committee that recommended establishing a state- sponsored school — the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations — focused on "mutual and cooperative analysis of the problems" common to labor and management. The hope was to produce leaders on both sides who could bring more stability to negotiations and labor-manage- ment relations. In 1945, the same year ILR opened its doors, he gained national attention for sponsoring the Ives-Quinn Act, the frst law in any state to effectively ban employment discrimina- tion based on race, creed, color or national origin. After Ives-Quinn was signed into law, Brooklyn Dodgers manager Branch Rickey Photos: left, Dean Irving M. Ives with Cornell President Edmund Ezra Day, circles, left to right, School Quonset hut entrance, Professor Alice Grant, Dean Martin P. Catherwood, ILR students, Acting Dean Robert Risley, Professor Ronald Ehrenberg, Dean David Moore, German industrial and labor relations training, Professor Alice Cook, Dean David Lipsky, Dean Edward Lawler, ILR signage today. Back cover circles, from left: service learning in India, Professors Pamela Tolbert and Lois Gray, Assistant Professor Veronica Martínez-Matsuda, ILR students, King-Shaw Hall. Back cover photo, students in "Industrial Occupations and Processes" on Pennsylvania coal mine trip.