The College's Board of Trustees welcomed three new members at its February meeting:
- John Kelly III '76, senior vice president and group executive of the IBM Technology Group;
- Lawrence Pedowitz '69, attorney and partner with Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz in New York City;
- Stephen W. Ritterbush '68, managing partner of Fairfax Partners in Vienna, Va.
Kelly joined IBM in 1980 and assumed his current position in September of 2000. He is responsible for developing, manufacturing, and marketing of IBM's microelectronics and storage technology products. A physics major at Union, he has an M.S. in physics and a Ph.D. in materials engineering, both from Rensselaer.
Pedowitz is a former chief of the criminal division of the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office. Since joining Wachtell Lipton in 1978, he has specialized in corporate litigation, regulatory, and white collar criminal matters. He received his B.A. in economics and political science and has his law degree from New York University.
Ritterbush is a partner in
Fairfax Partners, a family of companies that provides
private equity investment, management, and professional services. He received his undergraduate degree in political science and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in international economics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts and Harvard Universities.