Traditions - Johnson Graduate School of Management

Traditions
creating community
starts on day one
Contents
Johnson Outdoor
Experience (J.O.E.).....1
Sage Social....................... 2
Johnson Night Out ..........3
Johnson Gives Back......... 4
Alumni Rugby Game........5
Halloween Party............... 6
Frozen Assets vs.
Faculty Game..................7
Diwali............................... 8
Pie in the Face.................. 9
Holiday Party................... 9
Charity Auction ..............10
Frozen Assets vs.
Puck Bunnies............ 11
Destination Johnson....... 11
P.ersonal S.uccess..........12
Asia Night ......................12
State of the School......... 13
Follies..............................14
Slope Day........................ 15
The Johnson Family
Legacy.......................16
The Samuel Curtis
Johnson Graduate
School of Management
has a strong culture
of collaboration and
teamwork. From year to
year, Johnson students
share an inclusive
environment in which
strong personal and
professional ties are
formed and developed.
Through a close-knit,
highly energetic, and
warmly collaborative
environment, Johnson
creates a unique culture
and experience.
Samuel C. Johnson......... 17
Traditions are an
important part of
maintaining and
developing this unique
culture and experience.
Traditions, passed along
by each class, tie Johnson
students together through
shared experiences and
memories. We want you
to know about these
diverse traditions and the
role they play in the life of
Johnson students.
August
Johnson Outdoor Experience (J.O.E.)
J.O.E is an overnight orientation
event that provides leadership and
team-building activities for first-year
students at a lakeside campsite.
They have the opportunity to meet
one another and get to know
their classmates through outdoor
activities, including everything from
collaborative games, a ropes course,
skits, sports competitions, campfires,
and much more. Second-year student
volunteers facilitate the J.O.E activities
and enjoy the opportunity to meet the
first-year class.
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Weekly on Thursdays
Sage Social
Sage Social occurs every Thursday
afternoon in the atrium. These weekly
receptions provide an opportunity for
Johnson faculty, staff, students, and
family to socialize before the start of
the weekend. Sage Social is sponsored
by Johnson Corporate Partners, a
student organization, or a school
department, and is sometimes tied to a
theme or major speaker event.
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September/April
Johnson Night Out
Johnson Night Out brings
together members of the
Johnson community to
enjoy an evening of good
food and great company.
Faculty, staff, and secondyear students open their
homes to host first-years
for a potluck-style dinner.
This casual and fun dinner
provides a wonderful
opportunity for first- and
second-year students to
mix and mingle with one
another and with faculty
and staff members. There is
an outing held both in the
fall and spring semesters.
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October
Johnson Gives Back
Johnson students, faculty,
and staff join together for
“Into the Streets,” a day of
community service in the Ithaca
community. Organized by the
Public Service Center, projects
in previous years have involved
the Cayuga Nature Center,
Coddington Community Center,
Cornell Cooperative Extension,
the Girl Scouts, Cayuga
Waterfront Trail, Women’s
Community Building, Longview,
and Ithaca Neighborhood
Housing Services.
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October
Alumni Rugby Game
The Johnson Rugby Club was established in 1993 and
garners alumni support throughout the world. The
annual Alumni Rugby Game provides Johnson alumni
the opportunity to return to campus and meet current
students. The game is one of the most highly attended
alumni events at Johnson, and consists of a weekend
of networking and fun, highlighted by a gridiron rugby
match between alumni and current students.
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October
Halloween Party
This fall event provides an opportunity for
Johnson students to showcase their originality
and creativity. Run by the Student Association’s
student events planning committee, celebration
highlights include trick-or-treating, costumes,
and a live awards show.
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November
Frozen Assets vs. Faculty Game
Frozen Assets,
Johnson’s Women’s
Ice Hockey team, take
on the faculty each
year in a competition
to demonstrate that
although a PhD might
be necessary for the
classroom, it does
not usually help out
on the ice. This game
provides Johnson
students the opportunity
to check their faculty,
administrators, and staff
into the boards! This
exciting match usually
warrants numerous
penalties and certainly
many goals.
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November
Diwali
Diwali Night is hosted
every year by the South
Asian Business Society
and is this organization’s
biggest event of the
year. A special night of
celebration, students,
faculty, and staff gather
in the atrium for the
festival of Diwali (or
festival of lights) to watch
or participate in a night
of traditional dance,
performances, fashion
shows, auctions, and a
great deal of wonderful
Indian foods.
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December
Pie-in-the-Face
Have you secretly hoped to see
a friend’s face smeared with pie?
This fundraiser is your big chance.
Every year, Johnson students, staff,
and faculty nominate individuals
to receive a pie in the face. Then
people bid for the right to throw a
pie in the face of their favorite (or
least favorite) nominated member
of the Johnson community. All
proceeds from this highly attended
event benefit local charities.
December
Holiday Party
Another favorite night among
Johnson students, the annual
Holiday Party is a fun-filled night
of holiday celebration. This party
gives students an opportunity to
get dressed up and celebrate the
holiday season with classmates
before the start of finals and
winter break.
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March
Charity Auction
A day of bass fishing on
Lake Cayuga, dinner with
your favorite professors,
yoga, tennis and golf
lessons—these are just a
few of the items that can be
won at the Annual Charity
Auction. Last year, over 90
items and services were
donated by local businesses,
faculty, staff, and students
and were auctioned off to
the Johnson community.
The largest fundraiser of the
year, Community Impact’s
Annual Charity Auction
benefits students pursuing
non-profit internships and
local charities.
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March
Frozen Assets vs. Puck Bunnies
In the most celebrated rivalry at
Johnson, the Puck Bunnies square off
annually against the Frozen Assets.
An all men’s team with limited skating
ability and hockey experience, the
Puck Bunnies hit the ice in women’s
clothing, wearing everything from
evening gowns to mini-skirts and a few
more scandalous outfits! It’s a can’tmiss event full of laughter, exubrance,
and non-stop excitement.
April
Destination Johnson (DJ)
Destination Johnson marks the start of
the unique Johnson experience, when
admitted students are invited to campus
for a weekend of non-stop activities. DJ
participants spend the weekend getting
to know future classmates, current
Johnson students, Sage Hall, the Cornell
campus, and the Ithaca area. Admitted
students attend presentations and have
abundant opportunities to ask questions
about the unique qualities of the Johnson
program. DJ participants learn about
Immersions, academic life, financial aid,
the Career Management Center, and
much more. Through numerous social
events and interactions with current
students, faculty, and staff, admitted
students discover why Johnson is such a
unique collegiate community.
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April
P.S.
P.S. is a capstone event for all graduating
students. It’s a day of celebration for
all that the second-year students have
accomplished and a chance to network
and get advice from faculty, staff, and
alumni before the students embark on
the next stage of their careers.
April
Asia Night
The Asia Business Association, Johnson
Japan Club, and Korean Business
Association bring the culture and spirit of
Asia to Johnson. This very special night
features Asian performances and cultural
experience booths as well as authentic
Asian cuisine. Through this event, we
enable our classmates to better understand
the Asian culture and help foster a greater
diversity and camaraderie within the
Johnson community.
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April
State of the School
Each year, the
Dean gives a
State of the
School address.
The dean
will discuss
everything from
contemporary
issues facing the
school, students,
faculty, and
staff, as well as
his initiatives
and plans for
the future. The
speech is highly
attended and
anticipated, and
generally followed
by a reception at
Sage Social.
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May
Follies
The Follies is the Johnson
community’s annual
opportunity to laugh at itself.
Business school is serious;
the Follies is not. Created in
1980 by Johnson classmates
Cynthia Wilson Massarsky
and Barry M. Massarsky, the
Follies showcases both live
performances and prerecorded
videos produced by students,
faculty, and staff. The Follies is
an end-of-the-year opportunity
for students, faculty, and staff
to publicly spoof all that they
know and love about Johnson.
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May
Slope Day
The last day of classes marks
an annual tradition and day of
celebration for the entire Cornell
community. Slope Day’s origins
can be traced back to 1890, when
the annual Navy Ball began
on the Cornell campus. It has
since evolved into a day of food,
drink, and music to celebrate
the last day of classes. Johnson
students typically wake up early
for a breakfast and BBQ in
Collegetown and then head to the
slope to celebrate together with
all of Cornell.
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The Gift that Transformed the School
The Johnson Family Legacy
Cornell University’s Graduate School of Business
and Public Administration, founded in 1946, defined
a new mission and sharper focus in 1983 when the
faculty voted to eliminate its health administration
and public administration programs in order to focus
exclusively on MBA education. Accordingly, they
changed the school’s name to the Graduate School
of Management. Implementing the new mission in
a competitive marketplace, they knew, would require
additional resources.
The following year, the Johnson family made a $20million endowment gift to the school, at the time the
largest such gift ever to a business school. The school
was rechristened the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate
School of Management.
The school’s namesake, Samuel Curtis Johnson
(1833-1919), began his career as a manufacturer
of wooden parquet floors in Racine, Wisconsin. In
1886, he decided to extend his company’s product
line into wax to care for the floors he produced. The
floor-care products soon outsold the flooring, and the
international consumer products firm, now known as
SC Johnson, was born.
Samuel C. Johnson ’50, led his family in making the
historic gift naming Cornell’s graduate business
school for his great-grandfather. In a 1988 volume on
the history of his family’s company, Sam wrote of his
progenitor: “He held the notion that business should
put back something into the communities in which they
are located. He also believed that a corporation should
give back something to the broader group of consumers
for which it has earned profits. Providing jobs in a
community, he stated, while certainly important, is
simply not enough.”
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Samuel C. Johnson ’50 (1928-2004)
A legendary leader, Sam
Johnson was widely
recognized for making
the business world a
better place. He was
a founding member
of the World Business
Council for Sustainable
Development, and
was appointed by
President Clinton to
the U.S. President’s
Council on Sustainable
Development in 1993.
He received a Lifetime
Environmental Award
from the United
Nations Environmental
Programme and was
inducted into the U.S.
National Business Hall
of Fame.
At Johnson, Sam’s
legacy endures. He and
the Johnson family are
an integral part of our
identity; their values
and ideas shaped many
of the programs and
initiatives that helped
transform the school.
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Ekster, and the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate
School of Management.
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