By Jacquie Powers
The Cornell University Board of Trustees recently elected two new members to the board.
At its October meeting, the board elected Ronay A. Menschel AB '64, a Trustee Fellow whose term was to end in 1998, to the at-large vacancy on the board caused by the death of Ronald P. Lynch. The term will expire June 30, 2000. The board also elected Abby Joseph Cohen, AB '73, to succeed Menschel as Trustee Fellow for a term expiring June 30, 1998.
Menschel serves on the Executive (vice chairman 1996-97), Land Grant and Statutory College Affairs, Academic Affairs and Campus Life (current co-chair), Board Membership and Alumni Affairs and Development committees of the board.
She has been a member of the President's Council of Cornell Women since 1990, is vice chair of the university's Major Gifts Committee and co-chaired the Arts and Sciences Campaign Committee.
She is president and chief executive officer of Phipps House, a not-for-profit developer and owner of housing for low-and moderate-income families. She is also president of Phipps House Services Inc., which provides property management services for 8,200 housing units.
Menschel served under Mayor Edward Koch as deputy mayor for Intergovernmental Relations of New York City, where she and her husband live.
Cohen is a vice president and co-chairman of the Investment Policy Committee of Goldman, Sachs & Co. She serves on the President's Council of Cornell Women and formerly was adviser to the Cornell board's Investment Committee. At the October meeting she was elected a member of the Academic Affairs and Campus Life, Alumni Affairs and Development and Investment committees of the board. She also is a guest lecturer in the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
She lives with her husband and two daughters in Hollis Hills, N.Y.