Join us for our monthly General Body meeting on Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 from 6:45pm to 8:15pm at the King’s College room of the Columbia Alumni Center on 622 West 113th St. (btw Broadway and Riverside Drive). Please RSVP to rsvp@columbiabac.org if you are able to attend.
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John B. King Jr., who credits teachers for helping him surmount an isolated childhood as an orphan in Brooklyn and who ran celebrated charter schools in New York and Massachusetts, was named Monday as the state’s next education commissioner, with a unanimous vote of the Board of Regents.
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NEW YORK – Manning Marable, an influential historian of the black experience in the United States and the author of a forthcoming biography of Malcolm X, died Friday in New York. He was 60.
His wife, Leith Mullings, said Marable died from complications of pneumonia at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. She said he had suffered for 24 years from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease, and had undergone a double lung transplant in July.
Garland (“Gar”) E. Wood, an innovator in the municipal bonds market, passed away at his home in Weston, Connecticut on Monday, November 15, after a long illness. He was 66. Mr. Wood rose through the ranks at Goldman Sachs over a two-decade career, becoming the first black partner at the firm and one of the first in the financial services industry.
Avis Hinkson, BC ’84, will step in as dean of Barnard in February, replacing Dorothy Denburg Hinkson spent the last six years at UC Berkeley as director of the Office of Undergraduate Advising, and before that, she worked at Mills College. From President Debora Spar’s email to the community:
President Obama’s appointment of Denise L. Pease to serve as the Regional Administrator of GSA’s Northeast and Caribbean Region is now official. As the Region 2 Regional Administrator, Denise will oversee GSA’s work in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
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Michele M. Moody-Adams will take over as the first female Black dean of Columbia College this summer.
March 12, 2009, New York Times
University Trustee and alumnus Eric Holder ’73CC, ’76LAW is selected by fellow Columbia alumnus Barack Obama ’83CC to serve as U.S. Attorney General.
December 1, 2008, Columbia News
