June 30, 2021 After playing a key role in helping keep the university calm, healthy and safe during the pandemic – and for his expertise as campus opened for the 2020-21 academic year – Frank Cantone, former director of Cornell’s Office of Emergency Management, has won the 2021 George Peter Award for Dedicated Service. Lindsay France/Cornell University Surrounded by family and friends, Frank Cantone, center, learns he has won the 2021 George Peter Award for Dedicated Service, in a ceremony held June 29 at the atrium of the East Hill Office Building. “I’m overwhelmed,” Cantone said June 29 in accepting the award, given by Cornell’s Employee Assembly and presented by Mary Opperman, vice president and chief human resources officer. “I am honored and a little emotional right now because of the reality of tomorrow.” Cantone retired June 30.