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2 New Trustees
Named
Oscar Tang |
Oscar Tang of New York City and Elliott Masie
of Saratoga Springs have been named to the Skidmore College Board
of Trustees. Each will serve a four-year term.
Tang is an investment manager and philanthropist
who has long supported educational and cultural pursuits. He and
his first wife, the late Frances Young Tang (a 1961 Skidmore graduate)
-- for whom Skidmore's Frances Young Tang '61 Teaching Museum and
Art Gallery was named -- raised four children. Their daughter Kristen
is a 1992 Skidmore graduate who also served on the College's board
of trustees.
A native of Shanghai, Tang came to the United States at the age
of 11 and graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. He then
enrolled at Yale University, where he earned a B.S. degree in engineering
in 1960. He obtained an M.B.A. degree at Harvard in 1962.
Tang began his career in the field of finance at Donaldson Lufkin
& Jenrette. In 1970, he founded the investment management firm
of Reich & Tang L.P., where he served as president, chief executive
officer, and treasurer. In 1993 the firm combined operations with
Nvest, L.P., (formerly New England Investment Companies) of which
Tang was a director until its 2001 sale. He is now a private investor
and chairman of KOA Holdings, Inc., a private holding company for
Kampgrounds of America and Sir Speedy Inc.
Tang has been a longtime supporter of programs that promote Asian-American
understanding. For more than two decades, he has been a trustee
of the China Institute of New York City. He is a former board chair
and treasurer of the organization, whose goal is to promote U.S.-China
understanding through art, educational, and cultural programs.
In addition, he is a founder and governor of the Committee of 100,
a national organization of Chinese-American leaders in the arts,
academia, public service, business, and the sciences committed to
Asia-American understanding.
Tang is a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
City, where a new gallery in the recently refurbished Chinese art
area was named for Frances Young Tang. Oscar Tang also recently
gave 11 major Chinese paintings -- one of the most important such
gifts ever, according to Metropolitan officials -- to the museum.
He is also a trustee and treasurer of Phillips Academy, Andover,
a private prep school in Massachusetts.
Elliott Masie |
Elliott Masie is a pioneer in the fields
of technology, learning, and organizational development. Over the
past 27 years, he has provided leadership, insight, and perspective
to major corporations as they integrate technology into their operations.
Masie has focused on demystifying technology for organizations and
has emphasized quality learning and communication in the use of
new informational tools. He has developed models for disseminating
technology throughout an organization, providing workforce literacy
on computers and developing approaches to changing information systems.
In the course of his work he has consulted for more than 3,000 organizations
ranging from the CIA to the Walt Disney Co.
He has developed several conferences with the technology industry.
Masie hosts TechLearn, a conference that gather senior training
and human resource professionals from around the world to explore
issues related to learning and technology-based learning. The conference
explores issues relating to the strategies and implementation of
training products on the web and video.
In 2001 Masie opened the Masie Center in Saratoga Springs. The facility
has a lab with many products for electronic learning, as well as
a high-end video editing studio and video conference suites.
Masie has participated in conversations with various U.S. government
agencies that are exploring new methods of delivering training about
technology. He was appointed by President Clinton and reappointed
by President Bush to a White House task force on technology futures.
Masie is the author of a dozen books, including The Computer
Training Handbook. He edits TechLearn Trends, an Internet
briefing read by more than 41,000 business executives and also writes
for Learning Decisions, an interactive newsletter from the
Masie Center.
He is a graduate of Binghamton University, where he earned a B.A.
degree in sociology in 1972.
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