High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Richard Max Ramin (November 22, 1929, Williamsport, Pennsylvania – May 27, 1995, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was Vice President for Public Affairs at Cornell University for twenty-four years and a member of the Cornell staff for forty-one. In the weeks following the Willard Straight Takeover of April 19, 1969, pressure grew for Cornell President James A. Perkins to resign. Ramin came to the fore as he handled the Cornell Fund through the crisis. Six weeks after Willard Straight Hall was the site of a student protest garnering national attention, Ramin’s fundraising was twenty-three percent (23%) ahead of the 1968 campaign.