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Cornell College - Supporting Cornell - Make a Gift Home > Supporting Cornell > Make Your Gift Quick Links.... Supporting Cornell Student Organizations Calendar Cornell Directory Site Map Residence Life Career Services Registrar Supporting Cornell The Annual Fund Planned Giving Recognition & Thanks Get Involved Contact our Staff Related Topics Alumni Athletics Making Your Gift to Cornell College Cornell College depends on contributions of all sizes from alumni, parents and friends in order to sustain and enhance its excellence in liberal arts education. To make a gift to Cornell College, please choose from the options below. And don't forget that you may be able to increase the impact of your support through corporate matching gifts . Leadership Circle - $10,000 + Presidents Society - $1,500 + Royal Purple Society - $500-$1,499 Hilltoppers Society - $300-$499 "The Rock" Society - $150-$299 Contributors Society - $1-$149 Your gift will be recorded upon receipt and an acknowledgement letter and tax receipt sent to you. Thank you in advance for your support of Cornell! Gifts of Cash Gifts of Securities Planned Gifts Non-cash Gifts GIFTS OF CASH By automatic cash transfer (EFT) ... Your electronic funds transfer (EFT) gives Cornell permission to charge your bank account for your gift. Payments are automatic, for however long you specify. Your gifts are still tax-deductible and you'll receive a receipt at the end of the calendar year. Each withdrawal will show on your monthly bank statement. To make a gift via EFT , complete and sign the authorization form *. You will be mailing this to Cornell. Send the completed form to: Office of Alumni & College Advancement Cornell College 600 First Street West Mt. Vernon, IA 52314 *Please note that in order to view this form, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can download this software for free. By check ... To make a gift via mail , complete the Gift Form and mail to: Office of Alumni & College Advancement Cornell College 600 First Street West Mt. Vernon, IA 52314 By credit card ... Cornell accepts Visa, MasterCard and Discover. Call (319) 895-4248 or toll free 1-877-MVERNON (683-7666) Please have your credit card number and expiration date ready, along with a daytime phone number where you can be reached. You may make your credit card gift online via our secure web site . To make a credit card gift via mail , complete the Gift Form and mail to: Office of Alumni & College Advancement Cornell College 600 First Street West Mt. Vernon, IA 52314 GIFTS OF SECURITIES Gifts of long-term appreciated securities (those held more than a year) offer many advantages and tax benefits to the donor. 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Amazon.com: Books: Gift from the Sea Your Store Books See All 31 Product Categories Your Account | Cart | Wish List | Help Search | Browse Subjects | Bestsellers | The New York Times® Best Sellers | Magazines | Corporate Accounts | Amazon Shorts | Bargain Books | Used Books | Textbooks Search Amazon.com Books Web Search Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. Already a member? Sign in . or Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering. A9.com users save 1.57% on Amazon. Learn how . 395 used & new from $0.69 Available for in-store pickup now from $8.95 Price may vary based on availability Enter your ZIP Code: Have one to sell? Don't have one? We'll set one up for you. See all product images See 1 customer image Share your own customer images Look inside this book Gift from the Sea (Paperback) by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (61 customer reviews) List Price: $9.95 Price: $9.95 and eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. See details Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Want it delivered Friday, September 23? Choose One-Day Shipping at checkout. See details 395 used & new available from $0.69 Customers who bought this book also bought Wisdom from Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh Dearly Beloved by Joan Anderson A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman by Joan Anderson Anne Morrow Lindbergh : Her Life by Susan Hertog Bring Me a Unicorn: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928 by Anne Morrow Lindbergh No More Words : A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh by Reeve Lindbergh Explore Similar Items : in Books , in Video , and in Music Editorial Reviews Amazon.com I found a 1955 printing of this book in an old waterfront cabin and was struck by the care with which the previous owner had read it. Eve (the name inscribed inside the front cover and then again above the heading for chapter 3) made pencil marks on nearly every paragraph of the book, underlining a phrase, highlighting many passages with strong vertical marks, scratching out some words that she seems to have found superfluous and even x-ing out whole sections that apparently missed their mark with her altogether. Two rusting paper clips isolate several pages, absent any marking at all. Anne Morrow Lindbergh's lyrical words are still relevant and presage so many of the themes of today's most popular books: simplicity, peaceful solitude, caring for the soul, a woman finding her place in society and life. I heard that the woman who had lived in the cabin had actually passed away some time before. Thank you, Eve, for your gift... from the sea. Book Description modern-day classic. "Gift from the Sea is like a shell itself in its small and perfect form . . . It tells of light and life and love and the security that lies at the heart."--New York Times Book Review. See all Editorial Reviews Product Details Paperback: 144 pages Publisher: Pantheon; Reissue edition (January 30, 1991) Language: English ISBN: 0679732411 Product Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches Shipping Weight: 5.4 ounces. ( View shipping rates and policies ) Average Customer Review: based on 61 reviews. ( Write a review. ) Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,525 in Books (Publishers and authors: improve your sales ) Look Inside This Book Browse Sample Pages: Front Cover | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover Customers who viewed this book also viewed Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1929-1932 by Anne Morrow Lindbergh North to the Orient by Anne Morrow Lindbergh Explore Similar Items : in Books Spotlight Reviews Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers. 143 of 145 people found the following review helpful: A Roadmap for One's Life Journey , February 3, 2000 Reviewer: A reader After watching _The Spirit of St. Louis_ one afternoon, my boyfriend (who is also a pilot) told me that Anne Morrow Lindbergh had written a book, which, as he was told, "every woman should read." The next time I went to his house, _Gift from the Sea_ was waiting for me. What amazed me about this book was its timeliness, or should I say, timelessness. That a middle-aged Caucasian woman, writing during the 50's, could strike such a deeply-felt chord of sisterhood with me, a 30-something African-American woman living at the brink of a new millennium, is truly the mark of a gifted writer. We "enlightened, liberated" women of the year 2000 think, with a fair amount of condescension, that we have "progressed" so much from that time period. And yet, the issues Mrs. Lindbergh addressed are still very much with us today: how does a woman fulfill the roles of citizen, artist, wife/partner, mother, career person, friend, sibling/relative, and balance all of that with the time and self-commitment for spiritual/emotional nurturing? I have a quote from this precious gift posted on the wall at my workstation; it is a state of being I seek as a humble pilgrim on life's journey: "...I want first of all...to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact - to borrow from the language of the saints - to live "in grace" as much of the time as possible...By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony...I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God..." This is a must read for women everywhere! Was this review helpful to you? ( Report this ) 68 of 71 people found the following review helpful: Self-help without the jargon , May 23, 2000 Reviewer: Gregory B. Callahan (Modena, NY United States) - See all my reviews This title was a recent selection for a book discussion group that I helped organize for my library. As the only male in the group, I felt somewhat compelled to offer token protest to the selection of this classic example of a "woman's book," but actually I was intrigued by it. Everything I had read about "Gift From the Sea" praised its meditative quality and I had to admit that the promise of that rather appealed to me. I wound up reading the bulk of the book on Mothers' Day, which seemed quite appropriate, given that among the many issues Lindbergh addresses here is the need for mothers to find a balance between their own needs and those of their children and husbands. The need for time to one's self, a "room of one's own", the need for a spriritual dimension to one's existence--well, it seems so obvious that these needs have to be met if a woman--if any human being--is to be fulfilled and to be able to meet her (or his) responsibilities with joy rather than with dread. But the lessons that Anne Morrow Lindbergh taught in 1955 still need to be voiced in 2000--perhaps more than ever. Lindbergh seems prescient when she speaks of the dangers of the "life of multiplicity" which had already taken root in the immediate post-War era. We know all too well that it has not gotten any better in the past 50 years and that women's lives in particular have become more stressful and, to use Lindbergh's word, "fragmented" in the past half-century. What distinguishes Lindbergh's book from today's current crop of self-help or New Age sprititual books though is its lyrical quality. Her careful, belletristic prose is soothing and, yes, meditative in and of itself. Reading it seems to bring about the very centeredness and balance that she seeks to describe. Although she includes no bibliography (and rightly so, as this is not a tract), I would hope that many of her readers would be inspired to seek out the works of some of the writers she quotes in the context of these essays. She does the world a great service in suggesting how Rilke, for example, whose poetry may seem impenetrable at first, can actually speak to the concerns of our own lives. Was this review helpful to you? ( Report this ) Customer Reviews Average Customer Review: Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers. excellent , September 18, 2005 Reviewer: Pamela Cain "Pamela" (KY) - See all my reviews Excellent service; received book immediately and in excellent condition. Would definitely use again. Was this review helpful to you? ( Report this ) Truly a gift to anyone who reads it! , August 31, 2005 Reviewer: K. M. Floyde (Colorado) - See all my reviews This is my new favorite book of the summer... when I usually reads books like this, I like to highlight passages that are especially meaningful to me, however, in this case, the entire book would have been filled with highlighting. Every page seemed to speak to my soul in ways that were totally unexpected. Was this review helpful to you? ( Report this ) 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: Gift from the Sea: 50th Anniversay Edition , August 25, 2005 Reviewer: Jeanne K. Daly "jerseygirl_books" (Missoula, MT) - See all my reviews This book will appeal to beach lovers everywhere. A great read for all women and this book goes to show the more things change the more they stay the same; the joys and struggles of family life are timeless and the time that we spend on the beach is priceless. I highly recommend it and plan on ordering some additional copies for my special friends and family. Was this review helpful to you? ( Report this ) 1 of 2 people found the following review helpful: Eloquent & Thought Provoking , August 24, 2005 Reviewer: Katie "book worm" (PA , USA) - See all my reviews I purchased "Gifts From the Sea" not sure what to expect, and as I write this I find myself unsure once again, but this time about how to describe it - let me give it a try... This beautifully written collection of "essays" has to do with the lives of women, and how many facets of our lives can be understood through the reflection of the various gifts from the sea - namely sea shells. Anne Morrow Lindbergh takes the reader on a journey with her to a private, and very personal beach vacation that took place sometime in the early 1950's. She went on this vacation by herself, in order to take time to relax & reflect. During this time, she noticed that each type of shell that she picked up had a "gift" - a way of looking at life that helped her to understand herself & other's better. 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