Ninety-Five Years of Camaraderie and Support
As an addendum to the publication, Hotelie: The Centennial Issue 1922-2022, Cornell released an article about Cornell Hotel Society and our history alongside our great school. https://stories.business.cornell.edu/hotelie-100/chs/
Since its founding, the Cornell Hotel Society has brought members together to pay it forward for the industry and the school’s stakeholders.
In the earliest days of what is now the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration, graduating seniors of the Coffee Hounds—a group so named because of its meetings in the coffee shop of Barnes Hall—decided they weren’t ready to cut ties with the program—or each other. “We swore mightily that after leaving Cornell we would remain united,” wrote former Hotel School Professor John Courtney, class of 1925.
Those discussions gave rise, in 1928, to the school’s official alumni organization, now known as the Cornell Hotel Society (CHS).