WE CORNELLIANS
'We Cornellians' was student's illustrated look at Cornell and its history, ca. 1940
In 1940, the Cornell Cooperative Society (the group that founded what became the Cornell Store) published an illustrated look at Cornell University, past and present, wholly written and illustrated by then-undergraduate student Steve Barker '41. According to a Cornell Alumni News blurb at the time, the 54 pages of full-page cartoons "illustrate and explain the University and Campus life ... humorously and often with real insight. … It will be well thumbed and chuckled over in many a Cornellian's home." The self-taught Barker became a decorated World War II veteran and then spent a career as a marketing executive and management consultant in Connecticut. He died in 2006.
