"I'd walk over hot coals for Laurent," said Mr. Lerer, who has been Mr. DeLouya's client for nearly 40 years and followed him through several relocations around the city, including to this one in 2011, a four-chair establishment with a simple manicure-pedicure station and a couple of hamsas for décor.
The inaugural chairholder was Dr. Stephen Chu who held the chair from its establishment until his departure from UC Berkeley in the fall of 2008 when he accepted the nomination to serve as the U.S. Secretary of Energy.
Her philanthropy touched every aspect of the University, from the endowment of three faculty chairs and the establishment of a fund to support research on the brain, to the expansion of the Child and Family Center and the creation of the Brooke Astor Student Life Center.
Mr Rajan is not a novice at the finer skills of working the Indian establishment, having chaired a government-commissioned committee in 2009 that looked into financial reform.
Instead of idling at a chair, customers at these establishments stand or perch on a stool to down a cappuccino or an iced coffee at the counter.
His leanings haven't stopped him from becoming a pillar of the conservative establishment, including chairing the board of trustees at the Manhattan Institute, the right-wing think tank.
New Zealand judge Justice Lowell Goddard and four permanent panel members have been appointed to run the Home Secretary's abuse inquiry after two previous chairs resigned, tainted by establishment ties.
For example, the establishment of a chair for paediatric pain therapy and palliative care in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2008 and another chair for paediatric palliative care in Bavaria in the same year mirrors the growing appreciation of this field as a subspecialty on its own.
He is being honored at UC Berkeley by the establishment of a chair in Peace and Conflict Studies in his name.
Although her own work was to remain focused on the historical and comparative study of languages, she acquired a profound interest in general linguistics, too, so much so that she later became a driving force behind the establishment of a chair in linguistics at Oxford.
Yvette Cooper rightly encouraged the establishment of the Independent Police Commission, chaired by the former Met commissioner John Stevens.
