The Cornell Board of Trustees recently elected four new trustee fellows and one at-large trustee to fill a vacated two-year term, and it re-elected four at-large trustees, one trustee from the field of labor and one trustee fellow.
Board members also welcomed two new alumni-elected trustees, a re-elected employee trustee, one new faculty-elected trustee and one new student-elected trustee.
In addition, the board re-elected Ronay A. Menschel and Edwin H. Morgens as vice chairpersons for one-year terms beginning July 1.
Re-elected as at-large trustees of the 64-person board to four-year terms beginning July 1 were Ann Schmeltz Bowers, Ronay A. Menschel, Edwin H. Morgens and Samuel O. Thier.
Bowers is the senior trustee of the Noyce Foundation, headquartered in Silicon Valley, which focuses on stimulating systemwide improvements in K-12 public schools in the areas of early literacy, math and science; Menschel is president/CEO of Phipps House, a not-for-profit developer and owner of housing for low- and moderate-income families in New York City; Morgens is chairman of Morgens, Waterfall, Vintiadis & Company Inc., a financial services firm he founded in 1967; Thier is president and chief executive officer of Partners HealthCare System Inc. and professor of medicine and professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School.
Robert T. Blakely was elected as an at-large trustee for a two-year term beginning July 1, completing the term of James L. Broadhead, who is stepping down. Blakely has served on the board for the past four years as an alumni-elected trustee.
Paul F. Cole was re-elected a trustee from the field of labor in New York state for a four-year term beginning July 1. Cole is secretary-treasurer of the New York State AFL-CIO.
Elected as new trustee fellows to four-year terms beginning July 1 were Steven B. Belkin, Blanche Savin Goldenberg, Andrew M. Paul and David W. Zalaznick. Re-elected as a trustee fellow was Michael W.N. Chiu. Fellows are fully participating board members except that they may not vote.
Belkin is founder, chief executive and chairman of Trans National Group Services Inc., a Boston-based holding company; Goldenberg is chair of the board of directors of the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving; Paul is a partner in the private investment firm of Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe in New York City; Zalaznick is managing partner of the Jordan Company LLC, a New York investment firm; Chiu is chairman and president of Prima Hotels & Prima Donna Development Co. of Los Altos, Calif.
Elected by the alumni body as trustees were John E. Alexander, a 1974 graduate of Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences who also earned a master's degree in business administration from the Johnson Graduate School of Management in 1976, and Denise Meridith, a 1973 graduate of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Alexander is chief executive officer of the CBORD Group. Meridith is the Arizona director of the United States Bureau of Land Management.
Cynthia M. Tkachuck, a senior development director of the Johnson Graduate School of Management, was re-elected by non-academic staff to another four-year term beginning July 1.
Peter C. Stein, Cornell professor of physics, was elected by the faculty to a four-year term beginning July 1.
Khary Paul Barnes, a rising junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations majoring in industrial and labor relations, will become a student-elected member of the board effective July 1.
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