Mirror - Vol. 13, No. 04 - October 06, 1988

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Volume 13, No. 4 MRRORV Our Second Decade Thursday, October 6, 1988 The Image of Fairfield
Trustees Elected to Board
AnnMarie Puckhaber
Assistant News Editor
On Friday, September 30, a
new Chairman and five new
members were elected to the Fair-field
University Board of Trus-tees.
The new Chairman is William
J. Kramer, an attorney from Gar-den
City, NY. Kramer graduated
from Fairfield in 1960 and is the
first alumnus to hold the position.
He has served on the Board since
1981.
Kramer, a Marine Corps vet-eran,
received his Law degree from
Fordham University in 1963. He is
the Director of Southwest Moun-tain
Farm, Inc. in Virginia and of
the Janet Stone Jones Foundation
in New York City. Two of his five
children also graduated from Fair-field.
The five new members of the
Board are: Louis F. Bantle, Roger
M. Lynch, Fr. John J.
MacDonnell,SJ, Dr. Robert D.
Russo, and T. Paul Tremont.
Bantle, a resident of Darien,
CT, is the Chairman of the Board
and Chief Executive Officer of
UST, Inc., where he has been
employed for 24 years. He is a
Trustee at Syracuse University,
where he received his Bachelor's
degree in marketing, and the Di-rector
ofWeintraub Entertainment
Group.
Bantle is also the Chairman of
the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Coun-cil,
a member of the Governor's
Task Force on Drunk Driving, and
a member of the Board of Ashley
Alcohol Rehabilitation Center. He
served as a member of the Centen-nial
Commission for the Statue of
Liberty and as Chairman of the
Development Committee for the
Bruce Museum in Greenwich.
Lynch, a 1963 Fairfield gradu-ate
from Greenwich, CT, is an
investment banker for Goldman,
Sachs and Co. He is President of
the Corporate Asset Funding Co.,
a Director of SLD Commodities,
and an allied member of the New
York Stock Exchange.
Fr. MacDonnell, who has
taught mathematics at Holy Cross
since 1960, is a member of the
American Mathematical Society,
the Mathematical Association of
America, Signa Xi, the American
Association of University Profes-sors,
and the Clavius Group.
Fr. MacDonnell earned his
Bachelor and Master's degree from
Boston College and his Doctorate
in mathematics from The Catholic
University of America.
Russo, a radiologist form
Bridgeport, CT, and the Chairman
Emeritus of the Department of
Radiology at St. Vincent's Hospi-tal,
has headed Robert D. Russo,
MD, and Associates in Bridgeport
for 40 years. He received his
Bachelor's degree from Fordham
and his Medical degree from Geor-getown
University.
Russo is a founder and Direc-tor
of Lafayette Bank and Trust, a
Director of the United Illuminat-ing
Co., a Trustee of St. Vincent's
Medical Center Foundation, and a
member of the Knights of St. Gre-gory.
Tremont, an attorney from
Trumbull, CT, is the President of
Tremont and Sheldon, PC, in Br-idgeport.
He received his Bache-lor's
degree from Fairfield in 1955
and his Law degree from Geor-getown
in 1957.
Tremont is also the Vice Presi-dent
of the American Board of
Trial Advocates and a member of
the Connecticut Bar Association.
The nominations and election
of the new Chairman and five new
members were made by the Board.
The Board ofTrustees meets quar-terly
and is responsible for major
policy decisions. There are also
separate meetings Held for each of
the Board's various committees.
From L-R: 1 Paul Tremont, 2 Roger Lynch, 3 Rev. John MacDon-nell,
S.J., 4 Robert D. Russo, 5 Louis Buntle, 6 William J. Kramer.
Professors Discuss Central America
Joanne Smith
Janine Spinnato
Staff Writers
The first of a series of
Roundtable discussions on U.S.
foreign policy, "Reagan's Legacy
in Central America," was presented
by the International Relations Club
on September 28th at 8:00 PM in
the Nursing Auditorium. Emerson
Briggs, president of the Interna-tional
Relations Club, moderated
this discussion, which presented a
forum for 4 Fairfield University
professors to offer their own in-sights
on the American policies
regarding El Salvador, Nicaragua,
and Guatemala.
The professors featured in
this discussion included Dr. Wal-ter
Petry, Dr. Edward Dew, Dr.
Nick Hill, and Dr. Robert Kelly,
who each spoke for a duration of
12 minutes, making statements
regarding the U.S. and its interac-tions
with its Latin American
neighbors.
The lecture period was fol-lowed
by a rebuttle session which
allowed the professors to comment
on their colleagues' remarks. Fi-nally,
a question/answer period
enabled the audience to voice their
opinions, and to clear up any con-
Weicker to Speak
PR - U.S. Sen. Lowell P.
Weicker (R-Conn.) and three na-tionally
known economists will
speak at the 12th annual Sympo-sium
on American Capitalism to
be held at Farifield University on
Thursday, Oct. 20, starting at noon.
The other speakers will be Dr.
Allen Sinai, executive vice presi-dent
of the Boston Company; Dr.
Robert Ortner, U.S. undersecre-tary
foreconomic affairs; and Mary
C. Farrell, vice president, Paine
Webber, Inc.
The program will focus on the
theme of The Political and Eco-nomic
Outlook into the Early
Nineties, and will be sponsored by
the Committee on Developing
American Capitalism, a non-parti-san
organization based at Fairfield
University and comprised of lead-ers
in business, economics, and
labor, many with policy level
experience in government. Chair-man
ofthe committee is economist
Walter Hoadley, senior research
fellow at the Hoover Institution at
Stanford University and formerly
executive vice president of the
Bank of America. Program chair-man
is Rovert H. Stovall, presi-dent
of Stovall-Twenty-first Advi-sors,
Inc. and columnist for Finan-cial
World.
Weicker, a three term senator,
will speak at a lunch beginning at
1 pm and is expected to conentrate
on economic issues. The Senator
has been chairman of the Senate
Committee on Small Business for
six years as well as a member ofthe
fusions they had pertaining to the
material presented.
Dr. Walter Petry of the
History Department, spoke on
"Experience of Imperialism". He
concentrated on historical and
modern-day examples of imperi-alism
and compared them to the
current American policy in Cen-tral
America.
Dr. Dew, a professor of
Politics, rationalized the revolu-tions
in El Salvador and Guate-mala
by comparing their current
situation to the American fight for
independence from England. He
used direct quotes from The Dec-powerful
Appropriations Commit-tee
and the Committee on Labor
and Human Resources. He will be
followed by Dr. Allen Sinai, chief
economist ofthe Boston Company,
as well as executive vice-presi-dent,
speaking on "Election Year
Economics and Beyond."
Completing the program will
be Dr. Ortner, undersecretary for
economic affairs in the U.S. De-partment
of Commerce, on "Cen-tral
Issues in the Economic Out-look"
and Mary C. Farrell, vice-president
ofPaine Webber, Inc. on
"Investment Strategies with a
Global Perspective."
Sinai is responsible for fore-casting
of the U.S. and interna-tional
economies and financial
market. He is well known as a
pioneer in econometrics and was
formerly managing director at
Shearson Lehman Brothers where
he developed the Economic and
Financial Markets Department. He
laratioriof Independence to sup-port
his statements.
The future ofCentral Amer-ica,
with regard to ourownupcom-ing
Presidential election and the
Oct. 5th elections to be held in
Chile, was examined by Dr. Hill of
the ModernLanguage Department.
He asserts that, regardless of who
wins in November, the U.S. inter-vention
in Central America will
continue, because the policies of
both Bush and Dukakis are funda-mentally
the same - despite the
campaign promises made by both
sides to "sell the ... candidates."
He claims that the elections to take
is also an adjunct professor in the
Graduate Business School at New
York University.
Dr. Ortner served as chief
economist of the Department of
Commerce from 1981 until 1986
when President Reagan appointed
him undersecretary. As the princi-pal
economic advisor to the Secre-tary
of Commerce, Dr. Ortner is
responsible for analysis of busi-ness
conditions and developing
economic options. He was previ-ously
senior vice-president for the
Bank of New York and taught
statistics, economics, and finance
at the Wharton School at the
Universtiy of Pennsylvania.
Ms. Farrell, and investment
analyst for the past 16 years, was
previously with Pershing and Co.
and then Smith, Barney and Mer-rill
Lynch as an analyst, before
joining Paine Webber, one of the
nation's leading financial services
firms.
place in Chile, which are super-vised
by an International Force
and which determine the people's
support of the present regime, will
have a more direct bearing on the
future of Chile and its neighbors. 1
Reagan's policies were
defended by Dr. Kelly, a professor
of economics, who claimed that
the U.S. was not motivated eco-nomically,
so much as out of fear
for naitonal security, and the pres-ervation
of democratic ideals.
The time and place of the
next "Roundtable Discussion of
US Foreign Policies in the 1990's" .
will be posted by the International
Relations Club.
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