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Events, Exhibits, etc.Kheel Center Lecture On Thursday, November 2, the Kheel Center sponsored a lecture by Professor Marcy Sacks, ILR ’91, “Before Harlem: Black New Yorkers’ Confrontation with the City before World War I,” based on her recently published book (University of Pennsylvania Press) of the same title. Before Harlem examines the first period of sustained migration and immigration of Blacks to New York City. Sacks argues that racial prejudices and stereotypes caused Black newcomers to experience hardships unlike the struggles of immigrant and other groups. “Elite white reformers and police officers exacerbated the problems of poverty by provoking the break-up of families and turning a blind eye to the vice and crime that thrived within neighborhoods with high concentrations of black residents. Nevertheless, black people forged bonds of friendship and community in Manhattan’s unwelcoming environment. The mixing of ethnically diverse people of African descent from the American South and the Caribbean fostered the emergence in the 1920s of Harlem as the cultural capital of black America.” Medical Complex Art Show at the Weill Cornell Medical Library Helen-ann brown [sic]
We distribute the call for art for the annual Medical Complex Art Show just after Labor Day to faculty, staff, and students of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and its neighbors, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Rockefeller University, and the Hospital for Special Surgery. The curated show this year displays 140 works of art, including oil paintings, watercolors, stained glass, sculpture, photographs, glassware, beaded floral wreaths, and fiber art. The show was judged by an outside artist. At the opening reception, Dean Gotto awarded certificates to the winners for Best of Show, First Runner-Up, and Honorable Mentions.
This year the Golden Harvest Award for Best of Show went to Ariela Noy, M.D., for her painting BRCA Fear-2005. Dr. Noy, a cancer physician, depicted the fears she faced having the BRCA mutation. As you can see, she faced them courageously and is very well today.
Lynn Siemers, an emergency room nurse, won First Runner-Up for her oil painting Chelsea Sunset. Lynn has been in almost every show, entering her stylized versions of the New York City skyline. Photos of the Honorable Mention Winners and other Art Show photos can be found on the Library’s Web site. For the first time, a call for art was extended to alumni and faculty, staff, and students of Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar to be part of the first Virtual Medical Complex Art Show. Nine artists contributed twenty-three pieces of art. Check out the show. Incoming Medical Students Find Treasure in the Library Helen-ann brown [sic]
Each of the ten clues covered content from our library orientation. To solve them, students visited several important sections of the Library and navigated the Library’s Web site. Clues took them to stacks 1 and 2, the current journal area, and in and out of the computer room. Library staff wearing pirate-theme name tags were strategically located to sign off on the completion of a clue and guide those needing help. In a record seventeen minutes, Team 6 successfully answered the Treasure Hunt’s ten clues. Each team member joyfully received a USB drive. All seventy-three students who completed the treasure hunt evaluation received one of the Library’s spillproof drinking mugs. The students reported that they were comfortable and confident in finding materials in the Library and on the Library’s Web site and a fun time was had by all.
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Dean Gotto officially opened the sixteenth Medical Complex Art Show and the first Virtual Medical Complex Art Show on Friday afternoon, October 13. The Art Show reception was a highlight of Alumni Reunion Weekend. The show will remain on display in the Medical Library until January 6, 2007. 
On Thursday, August 24, during Orientation Week, the 104 new first-year medical students were invited to come find treasure in the Library. The first team to follow the Library’s treasure map and find the correct answers to all ten rhyming clues would be the winner. 