Robert m pennoyer biography of michael jackson
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W.H. Auden said of artists, "We were put on earth to make things," and I might add, “To make things better." We can do so by being generous as well as by being creative, by becoming a master class to someone else. We all have it within us, the capacity to make someone else's luck.
Thank you very much, Robert. I have to admit, I'm a sucker for awards programs. I always watch the Academy Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, the Kennedy Center Performing Arts Awards, and more. I think I have drawn the line on the Country Western Awards.
Anyhow, you can imagine how pleased I am to be asked to be part of the Whiting Awards Program this evening. I feel like a puppy with two tails. One of my favorite scenes in all of literature occurs in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, after the dodo has staged the caucus race. If you'll recall, it required all participants to run around in circles and get nowhere.
I suggest this was Lewis Carroll's vision of political committees, hence the word “caucus.” In any event, at the conclusion of the so-called race, everyone wants to know who has won, to which the dodo announces, "Everybody has won, and all must have prizes." That, to me, is a wonderful concept, but alas, it rarely happens in re
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‘33 Mary Knowlton Sulzer The Alumni Office recently learned of Mary’s death on March 6, 2017; she was 98 years old. Mary is survived by her brothers Hugh Knowlton, Jr. ‘35, Winthrop Knowlton ‘40 and Stanley Knowlton, as well as her daughter, son, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. ‘37 Jessie Pennoyer Snyder The Alumni Office recently learned of Jessie’s death on May 1, 2018; she was 91 years old. Jessie is survived by her brother, Robert M. Pennoyer ‘39, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. ‘41 George D. O’Neill It is with regret that we share the news of George’s death on June 27, 2019. After Green Vale, he graduated from St. Mark’s School in 1945 and Harvard College in 1950. George was a Midshipman in the Merchant Marine Cadet Corps from 1945-1946. He began his career working at Chase Manhattan Bank and spent 13 years at Train & Cabot. Later, George founded and was chairman of Meriwether Capital in 1977, a private investment firm in New York, as well as chairman of Capewell Components Company, Segrest Holdings, Tonka Water Company and Wood Pro, Inc. Finally, he served as a Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from 1991-1999. George was involved in numerous educational, arts and community organizations in Oyster Bay