April 23, 2021 Today, April 23, 2021, marks both the 90th birthday of Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56 and the official unveiling of Feeney Way on Cornell’s Ithaca campus, honoring the man who has been called the university’s “third founder.” Feeney, the founding chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies and the university’s most generous donor, quietly devoted his fortune to worldwide causes for decades, and through the foundation invested nearly $1 billion in Cornell over a four-decade period. His giving was anonymous for years and, even after the impact of his philanthropy was revealed in the late 1990s, Feeney still chose not to connect his name in any form to the many institutions he supported; consequently, until now, neither his name, nor Atlantic’s, had ever appeared on a building, program, scholarship, professorship or any other entity at Cornell.