Cornell Name: Donna Fulkerson

Current Home City: San Francisco

Your College: Human Ecology

Email Address: dkf7@cornell.edu

Twitter Handle: @LaValleeDonna

Tell us what you’re doing with your life:
Married Corky LaVallee ’77 graduation weekend and toured the world with his Navy Career: high point: 3 years in Yokosuka, Japan. I spent 25 years as a community nutritionist working primarily with families with small children, earning a MS from Syracuse University in the mid-80’s Also, had our daughter, Leslianne, in 1985. Moved to Rhode Island in the late 80’s and managed to stay in one state until 2004! Went back to school at the University of Rhode Island and got a MS in Textile Conservation. Did an internship at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in NYC and an apprenticeship at The Textile Workshop in South Salem, NY. Moved to Connecticut in 2004 and San Francisco in 2006. Worked briefly at the de Young museum in San Francisco and then The Lace Museum in Sunnyvale. Have just changed to volunteering as a Health Navigator at the Community Wellness Center at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Have 3 fun grandsons who live too far away – in Massachusetts.

In what year did you last set foot on the Ithaca campus, and
what was the purpose of your visit?
5 years ago for our 35th Reunion! I try to get to all our class
reunions – I always have such fun and I make sure I’ll see the people
I want to see by reaching out and encouraging them to attend!

List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell.
Bronfennbrenner’s child development
all my food science classes
Marge Devine’s intro to nutrition

What are you looking forward to at our 40th reunion in June,
2017?
Seeing Friends and making new ones

Donna is the Class of ’77 Affinity Chair for our 40th Reunion