Walter Cressler Heasley, Jr. family papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 37-5-3035

Scope and content

Photographs of student activities and scenes, including Chi Phi members and house, Class of 1930 alumni events, other Cornell and Ithaca events, as well as postcards and memorabilia of Walter Heasley. Also, photograph album about the dedication of the Walter C. Heasley, Jr. Rock Garden in the Cornell Plantations, June 11, 1981.

Scope and content

File of personal/professional correspondence from Walter Heasley, 1943-1945.

Scope and content

Pages from a student scrapbook kept by Diane Heasley as a student.

Dates

ca. 1926-1981.

Creator

Heasley, Walter C., Jr. (Person)
Van Dyke, Diane Weston Heasley. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Walter Cressler Heasley, Jr. graduated from Cornell in 1930. From 1939-1945 he was executive secretary of the Cornellian Council and Alumni Fund, then for a time was acting Provost during the absence of Arthur S. Adams. He returned to Cornell in 1952 as assistant to President Deane W. Malott. While at Cornell, Mr. Heasley was a varsity hurdler and a member of Chi Phi and Quill & Dagger. Two of his children also attended Cornell: Diane Weston Heasley Van Dyke '57, David Cressler Heasley '59, and a granddaughter, Heidi Katherine Heasley Ford '87.