Published by the MIT News Office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
Published by the MIT News Office at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
76 MEMBERS MIT elects 10 to Corporation The MIT Corporation-MIT's board of trustees-elected one life member and nine term members at its quarterly meeting Monday, June 3, held just before the Institute's 125th Commencement Exercises. The names of those elected were announced by Dr. Paul E. Gray, Chairman of the Corporation. Elected a life member was Charles H. Spaulding (MIT alumnus, 1951), president and chairman, Spaulding Investment Company of Burlington, Mass. Elected to five-year term memberships, in some cases starting a second term were: William R. Brody (MIT, 1965), radiologist-in-chief, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD; chairman and professor, Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is an Alumni/ae Association nominee to the Corporation. Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. (MIT, 1954), chairman, Photo Electronics Corporation, West Palm Beach, Fla. Michael M. Koerner (MIT, 1949), president, Canada Overseas Investments, Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Claudine B. Malone, president, Financial & Management Consulting, Inc., McLean, Va. Christian J. Matthew (MIT, 1943), retired founder and executive vice president, St. Mary's Foundation, San Francisco, Calif.; Alumni Association nominee. Duwayne J. Peterson, Jr. (MIT, 1955), executive vice president, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., New York, N.Y. Morris Tanenbaum, vice chairman of the board, retired, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, New York, N.Y. Reginald D. Tucker (MIT, 1988), an engineer with the Imaging Systems Division of Hewlett-Packard Co., Andover, Mass.; nominee from recent classes. William J. Weisz (MIT, 1948), vice chairman and retired chief executive officer, Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, Ill.; Alumni Association nominee. In addition, Peter M. Saint Germain (MIT, 1948), advisory director, Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc., New York, N.Y., succeeds Christian J. Matthew as an ex officio member of the Corporation by virtue of his selection as president of the Alumni/ae Association for 1991-92. As of July 1, the Corporation will be comprised of 76 distinguished leaders in education, science, engineering and industry. Of the 76, 25 are life members. In addition, 23 individuals are life members emeriti, participating in meetings but without a vote. The Corporation meets four times a year and considers broad policy issues for the university. In addition to four standing committees and several committees of annual recurrence, the MIT Corporation appoints 25 Visiting Committees, which provide critical counsel to each academic department and make recommendations to the Corporation on academic activities and initiatives. Each Visiting Committee is chaired by an MIT trustee and includes several Corporation members as well as alumni and other professionals. In all, more than 400 individuals participate in the Corporation Visiting Committees. The Corporation includes these ex officio members: the chairman, Dr. Gray (MIT, 1954); President Charles M. Vest; Treasurer Glenn P. Strehle (MIT, 1958); Secretary Constantine B. Simonides; the President of the Alumni Association for 1991-92, Peter M. Saint Germain (MIT, 1948); Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld; Paul J. Liacos, the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court; and Harold Raynolds Jr., Massachusetts Commissioner of Education. The new life member, Charles H. Spaulding, has made major contributions to MIT through long service to the university as an alumnus and as the founder in 1983, and first director, of the MIT Center for Real Estate Development. Mr. Spaulding, born in Manchester, N.H., in 1927, received the SB degree in civil engineering from MIT in 1951 and did graduate work at Columbia University and Boston University. After rising to executive vice president and becoming a director of Cabot, Cabot & Forbes, the Boston-based real estate development firm, he founded Spaulding & Slye in 1966. Over the next 11 years as company president, he directed the development of many commercial and residential projects. He established the Spaulding Investment Company in 1985. A Corporation member since 1986, he serves on several Corporation and visiting committees and as chairman of the Center for Real Estate Development. He received the MIT Bronze Beaver award for alumni service in 1986. William R. Brody, born in Stockton, Calif., in 1944, received the SB (1965) and SM (1966) degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and an MD (1970) and a PhD in electrical engineering (1972) from Stanford University. From 1973 to 1975 he served in the US Public Health Service. After postgraduate medical training, Dr. Brody served as associate professor and then professor in the Department of Radiology at Stanford University from 1977 to 1984. He was a founder of Resonex, Inc., a company that manufactures a system for magnetic resonance imaging, serving as president and chief executive officer from 1984 to 1987, and chairman of the board from 1987 to 1989. In 1987 he was appointed radiologist-in-chief and chairman of the Department of Radiology at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. He holds academic appointments as professor in the Departments of Radiology, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Brody has authored more than 100 scientific publications, and serves on international committees and advisory groups for professional societies and scientific journals. He also has been involved in the formation and venture- capital financing of new medical device technology enterprises. He has served MIT on the Educational Council, on visiting committees and as chairman of the Class of 1965 25th Reunion Gift Committee. Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr., re-elected to his second five-year term on the Corporation, was born in New York City in 1932. He received the SB degree in business and engineering administration from MIT in 1954 and the MBA from Harvard Business School in 1958. He was a photographic officer in the US Air Force from 1954 to 1956. After working for several companies, he founded Photo Electronics Corporation in Port Chester, N.Y., in 1963, in association with George Mergens. The company, which relocated to West Palm Beach, Fla., in 1969, is the designer and manufacturer of the digital image processing Professional Video Analyzing Computer (PVAC), marketed by Eastman Kodak Company and used by color laboratories for making high-quality color pictures. The company also invented the LaserColor Printer. It owns WPEC-TV, the CBS affiliate in West Palm Beach, LaserColor Laboratories and The Sailfish Marina in Palm Beach Shores. Mr. Dreyfoos serves as chairman and associate chief researcher. He is a member of the MIT Development Committee, chairman of the Architecture and Planning Visiting Committee and a member of the Council for the Arts. Michael M. Koerner, serving his second five-year term as a Corporation member, was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1928 and moved to Canada in 1939. He received the SB in management from MIT in 1949 and the MBA from Harvard Business School in 1952. After serving in managerial positions in two companies from 1952 to 1959, Mr. Koerner founded Canada Overseas Investments, Ltd., which he serves as president. He also is past chairman of Suncor, Inc. He served his first term as a Corporation member at MIT from 1985 to 1990. He has been a member of several standing and visiting Corporation committees. His awards include the MIT Bronze Beaver in 1981, the MIT Corporate Leadership Award in 1987 and the Order of Canada in 1984. Claudine B. Malone, born in Louisville, Ky., in 1936, received the AB in philosophy from Wellesley College in 1963 and the MBA with High Distinction from Harvard Business School in 1972. She became a Certified Public Accountant in Maryland in 1974. Before attending Harvard Business School, Ms. Malone held positions at several companies. From 1972 to 1981 she taught at the Harvard Business School, rising to associate professor. She also has held teaching positions at the business schools of Georgetown University, in 1982-84, and the University of Virginia, in 1984-87, and has conducted a number of management education seminars for industrial and academic institutions in this country and overseas. She has been president of Financial & Management Consulting, Inc., since 1982. Christian J. Matthew, the departing president of the MIT Alumni Association, is beginning his second five-year term on the Corporation. He was born in Lawrence, Mass., in 1922 and received the SB in chemical engineering from MIT in 1943. Mr. Matthew was with Arthur D. Little, Inc., for 20 years both as a consultant (1943-54) and as manager of its Western Division (1954-63). He was president of Research Specialties Company in 1963-67, and president of Lester Gorsline Associates, then a subsidiary of ADL, in 1974-77. He was with St. Mary's Hospital and Medical Center of San Francisco as associate administrator and director of planning in 1967-74 and assistant administrator in 1978-84. He was a founder of St. Mary's Foundation and served as executive vice president from 1984 until his retirement in 1986. At MIT, he has been a member of visiting committees and other committees of the Corporation and the Educational Council, as well as serving on the board of directors of both the Alumni Association and the Alumni Fund, and as chairman of the Alumni Fund. He has been a member of the MIT Club of Northern California since 1954 and served as its president in 1958-60. He received the MIT Bronze Beaver Award in 1977. Duwayne J. Peterson, Jr., re-elected to his second five-year term as a Corporation member, was born in Evanston, Ill., in 1932. He received the SB degree in business and engineering administration from MIT in 1955 and the MBA degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1963. Mr. Peterson worked with the Ford Motor Company, Honeywell and Citibank before becoming staff vice president for management information systems at the RCA Corporation. In 1977 he joined Security Pacific Corporation as senior vice president and was named executive vice president in 1978 and chairman of Security Pacific Automation Company in 1984. He became executive vice president of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., in 1986. He has served both on Corporation standing and visiting committees at MIT, currently as chairman of the Student Affairs committee, and was a member of the presidential search committee in 1989-90. Morris Tanenbaum, re-elected to his second five-year term on the Corporation, was born in Huntington, West Va., in 1928. He received the AB in chemistry from Johns Hopkins University in 1949 and PhD in physical chemistry from Princeton University in 1952. He began his career as a member of the technical staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories and became director of research and development for Western Electric Company in 1964. He returned to Bell Labs in 1975 as executive vice president and was named president of New Jersey Bell Telephone in 1978. In 1980 he became an executive vice president of AT&T before being named the first chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T Communications in 1984. He became vice chairman of AT&T in 1986 and chief financial officer in 1988 until his retirement in 1991. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a member both of Corporation standing and visiting committees at MIT. Reginald D. Tucker, the nominee from recent classes, was born in 1966. He received the SB in mechanical engineering in 1988 and the SM in 1990. Mr. Tucker was active in a number of organizations as an undergraduate and graduate student, including the Black Student Union, the MIT Black Mechanical Engineers (president, 1986-88), the Black Graduate Student Association and the National Society of Black Engineers. He also was an instructor, counselor, advisor and tutor in a number of programs, a member of the Office of Minority Education Advisory Board, and a member of the Undergraduate Visiting Committee for the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He was on the MIT varsity squash team for four years and held office in Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., which named him Brother of the Year for the Eastern Region in 1987. He won a National Consortium Graduate Minority Engineering Fellowship, a Digital Equipment Corporation Educational Minority Scholarship and a Wunsch Foundation Award for outstanding design, as well as being a second-place winner in the MIT Mechanical Engineering 2.70 Contest. William J. Weisz, who served two five-year terms as a Corporation member from 1975 to 1985, was born in Chicago, Ill., in 1927, received the SB in electrical engineering from MIT in 1948. He began his career with Motorola, Inc., upon graduation from MIT and rose through the company to its top posts. He was named executive vice president in 1969, president in 1970 and vice chairman in 1980. He was chief operating officer from 1972 to 1986, chief executive officer from 1986 to 1988 and officer of the board until his retirement in 1989. He has been a member of the Corporation Development Committee and several visiting committees at MIT and also of the Educational Council. He received the MIT Corporate Leadership Award in 1976 and the Freedom Foundation of Valley Forge Award in 1974. Peter M. Saint Germain, who takes on the role of ex officio member of the Corporation by virtue of becoming president of the Alumni/ae Association for 1991-92, was elected to a regular five-year term on the Corporation in 1989. Mr. Saint Germain, who was born in Paris, France, in 1927, received the SB degree in general science from MIT in 1949 (Class of 1948). After working for two companies following his graduation from MIT, he joined the investment banking firm of Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc., in 1955 and has been with them since that time. He was elected a partner in 1968 and a managing director in 1970. He retired from active employment and was elected an advisory director in 1982. At MIT, he has been a member of the Corporation Development Committee and several visiting committees, was chairman of the Alumni Center of New York and chairman of the Alumni Fund, and is a Founding Life Member of the Sustaining Fellows. He received the MIT Corporate Leadership Award in 1980, the Bronze Beaver Award in 1984 and The Marshall B. Dalton `15 Award in 1990.