$10M gift from Seneca Foods will support the Cornell Food Venture Center
July 25, 2024
July 25, 2024
ITHACA, New York, July 25 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
Arthur Wolcott '49 went to an auction in Dundee, New York as a Cornell senior, looking for a good deal on a typewriter. Instead, he bought a bankrupt grape juice plant (which, not incidentally, included at least one typewriter). Thus began his collaboration with the food science faculty and experts at Cornell as he grew what would become Seneca Foods from a struggling company with $110,000 in revenue its firs . . .
Arthur Wolcott '49 went to an auction in Dundee, New York as a Cornell senior, looking for a good deal on a typewriter. Instead, he bought a bankrupt grape juice plant (which, not incidentally, included at least one typewriter). Thus began his collaboration with the food science faculty and experts at Cornell as he grew what would become Seneca Foods from a struggling company with $110,000 in revenue its firs . . .