Conversation so far:
When did Christopher Reeve go to cornell?
After graduating from Princeton Day School in June 1970.
What did he study?
Reeve joined the theater department in Cornell.
Was he successful?
played Pozzo in Waiting for Godot, Segismundo in Life Is a Dream, Hamlet in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and Polixenes in The Winter's Tale.

Question: Were his professors impressed?
Self-contained rewrite: Were Christopher Reeve's professors impressed?