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Startup Founded Under Greystone’s Roof

Christophe Gerlach ’20, founded Suna 8:30 and be out the door by 8:45.
Breakfast during the spring semester of Suna maps out and organizes all the or-
2018 to provide healthy and convenient ders and inventory the night before. Unlike
breakfast options for college students across a traditional delivery service like Domino’s,
the country. Christophe, a student in the Suna is able to fulfill a multitude of orders
College of Business and a midfielder on the with one trip, as the routes are planned out
Big Red soccer team, observed that many in advance.
students have a hard time getting a good Suna partners with local restaurant es-
breakfast before class every day. His answer? tablishments who see limited business on
Suna Breakfast. typical school or workday mornings, and
Alongside co-founder Pedro Bobrow, are willing to sell quality meals at wholesale
Christophe developed an app that allows prices to the Suna team.
customers to order a custom breakfast the Christophe hopes to get a significant
night before. The next morning, the or- percentage of Cornell students to sub-
der is delivered to the door at a set time. scribe to Suna by Spring 2019 and ex-
Students often find this appealing given pand to other campuses across the nation.
they know their morning routine to the For more information about Suna, go to:
minute—a student with a first class at 9:05 www.sunabreakfast.com.
a.m., for example, may set their alarm for Christophe Gerlach ’20 (right) with his Suna
cofounder, Pedro Bobow.

brothers From the Archives
supporting

brothers The Cornell Daily Sun, Volume LXXXIII,
Number 8, 27 September 1966, page 1:
In the last academic year the Sigma Chi Sigma Chi House Maintains National Ties;
Alumni Association Scholarship Fund,
which is administered by the University, Alumni and House Officers Seek Financing
provided over $17,000 in tuition grants
to three of our undergraduate broth- Cornell’s chapter of Sigma Chi is still able to retain the chapter house only if they
ers. This support in a time when tuition legally a member of the fraternity national can arrange some sort of new financing
and fees at Cornell is $53,000 for the despite last spring’s decision to sever all which will eliminate the endorsement by
endowed colleges and $36,000 for the the ties with the national body. Sigma Chi the national. Such new arrangements have
statutory colleges makes an important house officials disclosed yesterday that the not been concluded although the alumni
difference in the lives of the recipients local had not formalized its break with the of the local did make certain recommenda-
and their families. As one undergraduate fraternity’s national organization by send- tions and suggestions during their meeting
brother wrote in his letter of thanks, “I ing its charter back to the national. with the house officers this week-end.
want to express my gratitude for the gen- The ambiguous position of being unof- Sigma Chi left the national last April
erous scholarship I was able to receive be- ficially “out” but legally “in” is a by-product after the fraternity decided to pledge a
cause of your donations. It has made such of the local Sigma Chi’s efforts to retain student of oriental descent. The national’s
a positive impact on my college experi- their chapter house at 106 Cayuga Heights decision to reject an oriental pledge at La-
ence. I truly feel the sense of brotherhood Rd. James R. Foster ‘67, president of the fayette College in March convinced the
and am proud to call myself a brother of house, explained the “severence of ties with Cornell brotherhood that its pledge would
the Sigma Chi Fraternity.” the national announced last April was sim- also be rejected. The local then decided to
ply a statement of intent rather than ac- drop out “gracefully” so that they might
complished fact.” The house mortgage is possibly rejoin the national later if its dis-
endorsed by the national Sigma Chi, and criminatory policies changed. The Mort-
the local entered a complex contract which gage is held by Standard Life Insurance,
returns the chapterhouse to the national a company owned by Harry V. Wade ’26
should the local ever leave the national or- past Grand Consul (national president) of
ganization. Sigma Chi. Wade threatened to sue the
Over the weekend Sigma Chi offi- University for allegedly pressuring the lo-
cials obtained promises from local alumni cal to sever its ties with the national. The
When you are making your gift to to endorse any new financial agreements pledge in question has been initiated and
Cornell, designate some or all to the Sigma the brotherhood might be able to negoti- is now living in Greystone, the Sigma Chi
Chi Alumni Association Scholarship Fund. ate. The alumni and members of the Cor- chapter house.
This gift helps your Alma Mater and Alpha nell chapter have built up an equity of
6 Phi. $200,000 in the house. The local will be

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