Word: directorships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...catalogue entry might go. In the seven years of his directorship, Thomas Hoving's image has described a remarkable parabola. He began with a lot: youth (at 35, the youngest director in the Met's history), vast enthusiasm, intelligence, a growing reputation as a medievalist and solid backing from the WASP establishment. He was, to resurrect a headline from his Central Park days, A HAPPENING CALLED HOVING, the epitome of New Frontier bounce, flair and pragmatic cheek. Today, he is besieged in the museum whose physical shape, and concomitant policies, he has irrevocably defined and changed...
Guinier also opposed the establishment of the Dullors Afro-American Research Institute on a University-and Faculty-wide basis. He said that he feared the directorship of the Institute would fall on someone outside of the department...
Dunlop has been considering whether to take the directorship of the Cost of Living Council since early December. President Bok said today Bok said he thought that the structural reforms of Phase Three namely, the eliminstion of the Price Commission and the Pay Board had made the job more attractive to Dunlop...
Ebert resigned his directorship, but returned to Squibb as a consultant later that year at the request of Squibb president Robert Furlaud...
...corporate boards also includes Chicago Lawyer Jewel Stradford Lafontant, a director of TWA and the Jewel Cos. grocery chain; and Girl Scouts Executive Director Cecily Cannan Selby, who is on the Avon and RCA boards. Last week Metropolitan Life Insurance named Barnard College President Martha E. Peterson for a directorship. They and other women who join boards are acquiring power in two ways. Aside from gaining the prestige and authority that have always gone with the job, directors of all companies today are being forced to take more active roles in company decisions. In several recent instances of corporate decline...