Cornell Board of Trustees will seat new and re-elected members

The Cornell Board of Trustees recently elected two new at-large trustees, two new trustee fellows, and it re-elected three at-large members, one member from the field of labor and three fellows. Board members also welcomed two new alumni-elected trustees, one new faculty-elected trustee and one new student-elected trustee.

In addition, the board unanimously re-elected Ronay A. Menschel and Edwin H. Morgens as vice chairpersons, for one-year terms beginning July 1.

Elected as new at-large members of the 64-person board to four-year terms beginning July 1 were James L. Broadhead and Rebecca Quinn Morgan. Re-elected were Ellen Gussman Adelson, Harvey Kinzelberg and Martin Y. Tang.

Broadhead is chairman and chief executive officer of FPL Group Inc., a utility holding company in North Palm Beach, Fla., whose principal subsidiary is Florida Power & Light Co.; Morgan is president and chief executive officer of the Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, a nonprofit organization of business, government and education leaders working to improve the economic competitiveness and quality of life in Silicon Valley; Adelson is a clinical social worker and psychotherapist in private practice in Tulsa, Okla.; Kinzelberg is president and chief executive officer of Sequel Capital Corp., a company he formed to help facilitate the retooling of American companies to compete in the world market; Tang is managing director, South/Southeast Asia, for executive search consultants Spencer Stuart & Associates (Hong Kong) Ltd.

Bruce S. Raynor was re-elected a trustee from the field of labor in New York state to a four-year term beginning July 1. Raynor is secretary-treasurer of UNITE (Union of Needle Trades, Industrial and Textile Employees).

Elected as new trustee fellows to four-year terms beginning July 1 were Stephen B. Ashley and Thomas A. Mann. Re-elected were Robert J. Appel, Abby Joseph Cohen and Robert A. Paul. Fellows are fully participating board members except that they may not vote.

Ashley is chairman and chief executive officer of The Ashley Group in Rochester, N.Y., which specializes in commercial and multifamily real estate management, investment, sales, leasing and financing; Mann was chairman and advisory board member of Amersham Life Sciences Inc. (a British biotechnical industry), which combined the former U.S. Biochemical operations with the British firm's international life sciences business, and was the founder and chief executive officer of U.S. Biochemical; Appel is a principal at Neuberger & Berman, a securities brokerage in New York City; Cohen is managing director and co-chair of the Investment Policy Committee at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York City; Paul is president, chief executive officer and a director of the Ampco-Pittsburgh Corp.

Elected by the alumni body as trustees were C. Evan Stewart, a 1974 graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences and a 1977 graduate of the Cornell Law School, and Jan Rock Zubrow, a 1977 graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences. Stewart is executive vice president/general counsel for the Nikko Securities Co., New York City. Zubrow is founder and president of Medcapital LLC, of Morrisville, N.J.

William E. Fry, professor of plant pathology, recently was elected by university faculty members to a four-year term as faculty trustee beginning July 1. Katharine S.S. Dealy, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences majoring in government with a concentration in women's studies, will become a student-elected member of the board effective the same date.