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...year-old student, Steven R. Snyder ’04-’08, was in critical condition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as of yesterday, said the hospital’s spokesman Jerry Berger. University News Office Asssociate Director Rebecca E. Rollins said the student was “improving...
...After graduation and a brief stint singing in Budapest, Mattison—who began as a stand-up bass player—found himself working a variety of jobs, including a reporting gig in Saint Paul followed by a day job in New York. Fortuitously, producer John Snyder, who would produce Scrapomatic’s first record in 2002, heard and admired the band and recommended Mattison to Derek Trucks, whose singer had recently left the band. Snyder’s recommendation, among others, inaugurated the artistic partnership between the Derek Trucks’ Band and Mattison. In part because...
DIED. Ralph Story, 86, TV and radio personality known for his wry on-air manner; in Santa Ynez, Calif. Born Ralph Snyder, the World War II fighter pilot became a household name as M.C. of TV's The $64,000 Challenge in the 1950s. Later he told quirky stories in a then rare casual style on Ralph Story's Los Angeles, an Emmy-winning series that examined life in the city and aired for six years...
...Snyder and many other gay executives and leaders (all the people quoted in this article are openly gay) believe those superior skills are born of the challenges that gays must overcome. Says Snyder: "It wasn't as though gay executives all said, 'Oh, let's go to Fire Island [a beach resort in New York with a substantial gay enclave] this weekend and decide what kind of managers we should be.' This emerged independently of any kind of organized effort. It's the experience of being gay in a straight world that has manifested itself in these characteristics when...
...corporate America has jumped into 2006 yet," says p.r. expert Witeck. For the gay executives themselves, the challenge continues. "Coming out in business is something we do every day. It's not a one-time event," says Claudia Woody, the managing director of IBM's Nokia account worldwide. Author Snyder is ever optimistic, though. "Within the next five years," he says, "we will see the first openly gay CEO of a FORTUNE 500 company." By which time it should shock absolutely...