Historic marker celebrates Pearl S. Buck's stop in Ithaca
December 05, 2024
December 05, 2024
ITHACA, New York, Dec. 5 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
When she arrived in Ithaca in 1924 to pursue a master's degree at Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, Pearl S. Buck was an aspiring novelist whose husband, John Lossing Buck, B.S. 1914, M.S. '25, Ph.D. '33, was a star acolyte of farm economist George Warren, namesake of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' Warren Hall.
Over the next academic year, Pearl received influential mentorship . . .
When she arrived in Ithaca in 1924 to pursue a master's degree at Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, Pearl S. Buck was an aspiring novelist whose husband, John Lossing Buck, B.S. 1914, M.S. '25, Ph.D. '33, was a star acolyte of farm economist George Warren, namesake of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' Warren Hall.
Over the next academic year, Pearl received influential mentorship . . .