Current Home City: Indianapolis, IN
Your College: Industrial and Labor Relations
Email Address: geoff.gailey@midwest-fertilizer.com
Tell us what you’re doing with your life:
I have been a lifelong HR professional in Chicago (twice), Phx., Buf., Indy (twice) and the UK. Happily married 38 years to Peggy, a nurse from Valpo – three kids (lawyer, realtor, standup comedian – google Megan Gailey and you can see her on Conan O’Brien, Comedy Central, etc.). Her mother is very funny. I have been active in food banking and United Way and am in a band called Nucklehead. See us on facebook and see a number of us play and sing at Reunion in June 2017.
In what year did you last set foot on the Ithaca campus, and what was the purpose of your visit?
On campus September 17 and 18, 2016 for Reunion Kickoff Workshops. We all laughed while learning the entire time. I have been to reunion every five years with my bride Peggy. We are really looking forward to June 2017 and are honored to help Cara, Donna, Karen and Halsey as C0-Chairs. C’mon down!
Nuckleheads (Geoff in white t-shirt)down!
List your favorite class(es) while at Cornell.
Bronfenbrenner
Milton Konvitz (Western Civ.)
Gardner Clark (Labor History)
Which piece of information or advice did you pick up while a
student at Cornell that has been useful in the past 40 years?
Follow through on your commitments.
Provide your favorite memory of your time at Cornell.
Enduring friendships from back in the day and now meeting classmates through reunion planning I would not have taken time to get to know. Balling out on the intramural fields like a boss.
Tell us about the most interesting things you’ve done since
1977.
Personally, our three grown children are the source of much pride and mirth. Leading acquisitions in the US and Northern Ireland professionally.
Geoff and Howie Schechter at Phi Psi 500.
Please provide some items from your Bucket List.
Been to Wimbledon, Super Bowl, PGA, Indy 500, Kentucky Derby, yada, yada. Just got back from Machu Picchu. Next trip will be Santorini and the Greek Isles. If you haven’t been to Prague – get there.
Share any random or surprising encounters with Cornell or
Cornellians since you left.
Working in London and brother Dave Brunner is there. We had high tea at The Dorchester and Julie Andrews shows up. My wife was speechless. Dave milks goats up at Asgaard Farm now in the Adirondacks.
What advice would you give to a member of the Class of 2019?
Take time to smell the flowers.
Do you have a favorite memory from a Class of 1977 reunion?
Singing with Cayuga’s Waiters, whom I had auditioned for unsuccessfully.
What are you looking forward to at our 40th reunion in June,
2017?
Seeing and meeting and greeting as many people as we can inspire to be there. You won’t be disappointed. That and doing whatever Cara Lebowitz Kagan tells me to do.