Rhodes with ideas about establishing a group for engaging successful women, showing them what was happening at Cornell and encouraging them to share their expertise to help the university. In the late 1980s, Stewart and Lilyan Affinito ’53, who’d met stuffing envelopes for the Cornell Women’s Club, approached then President Frank H. She also served as a member of the Board of Fellows at Weill Cornell Medicine. Stewart chaired her class reunion campaigns the Cornell Annual Fund Cornell University Council and the trustee committees on alumni affairs and development, academic affairs, campus life and board membership.
Johnson Museum of Art and the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. She also served as member of the advisory councils for the College of Arts and Sciences, the Herbert F. Stewart generously gave her time and skills to Cornell, serving as vice chair of the board, a trustee and a presidential councillor, through six university presidents. “You just knew you were dealing with someone who wasn’t going to suffer fools, who was very accomplished and expected you to be really accomplished. ’94, Cornell’s former vice president for student and academic services. Pat was quite the force,” said Susan Murphy ’73, Ph.D. Woolworth Co., Continental Corporation, Borden Inc., Morton-Norwich Inc., Bankers Trust Co., CVS Corporation and New York City’s Financial Services Corporation. She served on many corporate boards, including, among others, Trans World Airlines, F.W. She began her career as a foreign correspondent for the Irving Trust Co., then later become a partner and then president of the New York Stock Exchange firm Buckner & Co, where she was one of very few women leaders on Wall Street at the time.įollowing her career on Wall Street, she served as vice president for finance and administration at the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. Graduating in an era in which women were trying to find their place in society after World War II, she became a groundbreaker for women in business.
Stewart majored in French and linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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