Ithaca College

A memorial service to celebrate the life of Harold R. “Bud” Garrity will be held on Saturday, Dec. 6, in the Whalen Center’s Hockett Family Recital Hall. Members of the campus and local communities are invited to attend the 11 a.m. gathering, which will be followed by a reception in McHenry Lounge. Garrity died on Oct. 25 in Charleston, South Carolina, following a brief illness.

After earning his bachelor’s degree in communications in 1968, Garrity worked at several local radio stations before returning to the college to serve as its first full-time director of annual giving from 1975 to 1978. He founded his own Ithaca-based advertising firm, Garrity Communications, which served clients from across the Northeast.

Garrity remained connected to the college throughout his life, serving on the Alumni Association Board of Directors and, from 1989 to 2007, on the Board of Trustees. He chaired a special alumni board committee to plan the celebration of the college’s centennial in 1992.