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Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI) announced today that Fayez Sarofim will retire from its board of directors effective December 31, 2020. Mr. Sarofim has served on KMI’s board of directors since 1999.
“Fayez has been a long-standing member of the board, and we appreciate his valuable guidance and advice during his 21 years of service,” said KMI Executive Chairman Rich Kinder. “He has always provided thoughtful and wise suggestions for the betterment of the company. We wish him all the best in his retirement.”
“I have enjoyed working with Rich, the board and the management team during my time serving on the board of directors,” said Mr. Sarofim. “KMI has grown substantially during that period, and I am confident it will continue to be successful in the future.”
Arthur Jafa Has a Wild Theory About Jeff Koons – The
New Yorker gave filmmaker and artist Arthur Jafa the profile treatment. Among the oddball art-historical theories floated by the influential artist: his tongue-in-cheek idea that Jeff Koons is actually “a very light-skinned Black guy passing for white.” As evidence, he cites Koons’s vacuum-cleaner sculptures, which he argues “refer to Black women” and “domestic workers.” He also insists the artist’s pair of floating basketballs “are testicles, connoting everything from castration to Black sexual prowess.” (
Inside the Latest Deaccessioning Controversy – In justifying a big sell-off from its collection, the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach said many first-rate artists are “overrepresented” in its holdings. Such “cockamamie” reasoning for deaccessioning 59 artworks is sketchy at best, writes
Florida State University News
Profiles in leadership: Vice President for Research Gary K. Ostrander returns to the faculty
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Gary K. Ostrander is stepping down as Vice President for Research to spend the next phase of his career focused on his own research.
A Christmas gift can have a lasting impact.
For Gary K. Ostrander, it was a GI Joe scuba diver he received when he was about 8.
“I became enamored with scuba diving and going under water, and then I saw Jacques Cousteau and I said ‘OK, you have diving, and you have science,’” said Ostrander, an accomplished biologist and the Florida State University Vice President for Research. “And I’ve never wavered from that. I just find the whole underwater world a fascinating place, and there’s so much we don’t know about it.”
Hosted by Paul Holdengräber,
The Quarantine Tapes chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic.
On Episode 140 of
The Quarantine Tapes, guest host Naomi Shihab Nye is joined by Helen Drutt English. Helen is a longtime champion of the contemporary craft movement. She and Naomi discuss her history with crafts and collecting, digging into the tension between mechanization and handmade objects in the 20th century. Helen and Naomi lift up the value of rituals in these months of quarantine. They talk about the positives of isolation, from improved concentration to time to connect more deeply with friends. Finally, Helen shares a fascinating recent discovery found sorting through the materials in her own basement.
Marianne Goodson On December 10, 2020, Marianne J. Goodson, 91, departed this world peacefully of natural causes, at home, surrounded by soft music, love and family. Widely known as a gracious hostess of renowned parties and elaborate picnics, she was the light of any gathering. Marianne filled her home with warmth, wonderful food and those she cherished. Predeceased in 2014 by her beloved husband of 58 years, William Bill Goodson, Marianne is survived by children Gregg (LeeLee) Goodson, Derek (Sandra) Goodson and Lynne (Danforth) Cardozo, as well as grandchildren Matthew Goodson and Kelsey Goodson (Tyler) Dunn. Born on January 29, 1929, in Calgary, Alberta, into a family of six children, she identified as a true cowgirl at heart, and she was a glamorous one at that. In 1949, she was honored with the title of Princess in the world-famous Calgary Stampede, riding in the parade on horseback in a fabulous fringed outfit, and adopted