Word: zobel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case's national financial implications, it also featured an unusual twist, brought about by the cast of Harvard players involved: Harvard Corporation member Colman M. Mockler, Jr. '52, the chief executive officer of Gillette Co., and Harvard Overseer Rya M. Zobel '53, the federal judge originally slated to hear the case...
...Zobel disqualified herself last month during the pre-trial stage of the Gillette case because she and Mockler both sit on the University's governing boards. She said at the time that she wished to avoid the appearance of impropriety, but that she didn't doubt her ability to come to an impartial decision in the case...
Corporation members, professors and administrators said that the two aspects of the case--Zobel disqualifying herself and Mockler's status as Gillette's chairman and a Corporation member--while unusual, are to be expected as members of the Harvard's two governing boards try to balance careers and University obligations...
...Zobel said in an interview yesterday about her decision to recuse herself because of her link to Mockler, "Nothing like that has ever happened before...
Federal Judge Rya W. Zobel also ordered Gialanella, 39, to pay a $12,000 fine Thursday. In addition to his three-month sentence, Gialanella was ordered to serve three months under house arrest and three years probation...