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

The Cornell University Board of Trustees recently elected three new trustee fellows and re-elected three at-large trustees, one trustee from the field of agriculture and two trustee fellows.

Board members also elected an outgoing trustee to fill out a two-year term as a trustee fellow and welcomed two new alumni-elected trustees 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. In March the board voted to elect Harold Tanner to a three-year term effective July 1 through June 30, 2002, coinciding with his re-election as board chairman for the same term.

Re-elected as at-large trustees of the 64-person board to four-year terms beginning July 1 were Carol B. MacCorkle, Peter C. Meinig and Jeffrey P. Parker.

MacCorkle is a real estate broker with tColdwell Banker in Menlo Park, Calif.; Meinig is president and chief executive officer for HM International Inc. of Tulsa, Okla., a privately held management/holding company of various manufacturing businesses, chairman of Precision General Inc. of Tulsa and chairman of Windsor Food Co.; Parker is chairman and chief executive officer of CCBN.COM in Boston, a leader in providing Internet solutions to public corporations and their shareholders.

Peter G. Ten Eyck III was re-elected a trustee from the field of agriculture in New York state to a four-year term beginning July 1. Ten Eyck is president of Indian Ladder Farms, an orchard, storage, cider mill and retail farm market near the village of Voorheesville in Albany County.

Elected as new trustee fellows to four-year terms beginning July 1 were Myra Maloney Hart, Elizabeth D. Moore and Roy H. Park Jr. Re-elected as trustee fellows were Robert D. Kennedy and Howard P. Milstein. Fellows are fully participating board members except that they may not vote.

Hart is a professor of entrepreneurial management at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration; Moore is a partner in the New York City law firm of Nixon Hargrave Devans & Doyle LLP in its labor and employee benefits practice group; Park is owner, president and chief executive officer of Park Outdoor Advertising of New York Inc.; Kennedy was the chairman and chief executive officer of Union Carbide Corp. until December 1995; Milstein is

the chairman and chief executive officer of Douglas Elliman, a commercial and residential brokerage firm in New York City, co-chairman of Emigrant Savings Bank, a managing partner of Milstein Properties and Milstein Ventures, and president of the Milford Hotel Corp.

Outgoing alumni-elected trustee Diana M. Daniels was elected a trustee fellow for a two-year term beginning July 1. Daniels is vice president, general counsel and secretary of The Washington Post Co.

Elected by the alumni body as trustees were Michael L. Huyghue, a 1984 graduate of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and Irene Blecker Rosenfeld, a 1975 graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences, with a master's degree from Arts and Sciences in 1977 and a doctoral degree from the Johnson Graduate School of Management in 1980. Huyghue is senior vice president of football operations for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League. Rosenfeld is president and chief executive officer of Kraft Canada Inc., Canada's leading food company.

David Mario-Newton Mahon, a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences majoring in agricultural and biological engineering, will become a student-elected member of the board effective July 1.

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