Current Home City: Allentown, PA

Your College: Engineering

Email Address: bradpiatt@gmail.com

Twitter Handle: @PiattBrad

Tell us what you’re doing with your life:
I was panicked as the term ended because I knew I could never pay back my student loans. Fortunately I found a job at the Tidewater refinery in Delaware. I made enough money pay off the loans and to marry my HS GF in two years. Moved to PA in 1980 to work for PPL a utility. We had my son Jeffrey in 1986 and my daughter Morgan in 1991. I moved through the ranks at PPL then Talen to ultimately to manage a fleet of power plants. I always focused on work. Realized far too late that my marriage was a mistake and there was more to life than work. I divorced in 2012 and married my current Creole lady. I retired at the end of 2016 when I finally realizing the only thing you cannot replace is time.

In what year did you last set foot on the Ithaca campus, and what was the purpose of your visit?
1977 at graduation. I have never been back.

List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell.
Thermo
psychology 101
Wine and Spirits of course

Which piece of information or advice did you pick up while a student at Cornell that has been useful in the past 40 years?
Learn what you enjoy

Provide your favorite memory of your time at Cornell.
Sitting in the coffee house near the law school realizing I just might make it.

What advice would you give to a member of the Class of 2019?
The only thing you cannot replace is time.