Entries by Robert Mandelbaum

Phil Baugh ’96

Phil Baugh ’96 shares what it means to him to be a “Hotelie for Life”: “Initially, I thought that relationships with my fellow Cornell Hotelies were helping me grow in my career, but I did not realize how further impressed I would be by my Hotelies. In November 2014, I discovered I had brain cancer. […]

Arizona Annual Summer Dinner

Geoff Gray ’09, new CHS Arizona chapter President and General Manager of the Royal Palms Resort and Spa, hosted the chapter’s Annual Summer Dinner on Sunday, August 19, 2018. Thirty-Five Hotelies, along with their friends and family, enjoyed an excellent soiree of fine wines and food at the property’s romantic Mediterranean dining room – T. […]

Hotelies Gather in Nashville

On Thursday, August 16, 2018, CHS hosted a reception for sixty Cornellians at the 21C Museum Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. Attendees consisted of local alumni, as well as Hotelies in town attending the STR Hotel Data Conference. Thanks to our 21C hosts Nattie Trisarnsri, MMH ’09 – Nashville F&B Director, and Sarah B. Robbins ’95 […]

Georgia Chapter Welcomes Current Hotelies

On Tuesday August 7, 2018, the CHS Georgia Chapter hosted five current Hotel School students for pizza at the Mellow Mushroom – Brookhaven. Uma Patel ’22, Nina Bachich ’19, Kevin O’Gara ’20, Keval Rama ’21, and Hyun Ho Lee ’19 were five of an estimated dozen Hotelies interning in Atlanta during the summer of 2018.

Sebastian Colella ‘05

Sebastian Colella ‘05, Vice President of Pinnacle Advisory Group, shares with us what it means to him to be a Hotelie for Life. “It is the close-knit community of alumni, students, friends, family, and professors that allow us to all remain Hotelies for Life. The Hotel School’s unique social nature helped me to foster life […]

Mike Cahill ’84

Mike Cahill ’84, CEO and Founder of HREC – Hospitality Real Estate Counselors and co-Founder of the Lodging Industry Investment Council (LIIC), shares what it means to him to be a Hotelie for Life®. “Leaving the glorious cradle of Ithaca into the real world, we automatically join past and future generations of Statler Hall graduates […]