Jack Muckstadt at his retirement celebration in New York City

Nearly 200 ORIE alumni, guests, and family joined together at the Metropolitan Club in New York City April 5, 2013 to celebrate Muckstadt's career and retirement.  At the event, he was presented with a symbolic gift for the teacher, a golden apple displaying the Cornell seal and inscribed at its base with "Four Decades of Exemplary Teaching" together with one of his favorite teaching questions: "So what did you learn from this?"   He was lauded teacher, scholar, officer, Director, expert in supply chain management, early vocal and enthusiastic advocate for Cornell pursuing what became the Cornell NYC Tech campus, and mentor.