After his death in 1998, he left his ballets in the hands of a trust that specified that a committee composed of trustees, ballet masters and his close friends should oversee the licensing of his ballets.
BEIR--Robert L. The Calhoun community mourns the passing of Robert L. Beir, Life Trustee -- a master teacher, an unequaled philanthropist and the wisest steward this school has ever known.
A more renowned trustee was the master planner Robert Moses, who is shown in a 1948 photograph receiving an honorary doctorate from Hofstra.
Other honours in the county went to a falconer, a windmill trustee and a master saddler.
"We have wonderful opportunities at this university to do some extraordinary things," the university's chancellor, Matthew Goldstein, told the trustees, adding that the master plan would help accomplish them.
At CUNY, trustees recently adopted a new master plan for the university despite faculty protests that they had not been adequately consulted.
An Administrative Court Judge, Trustee of the Brooklyn Bar Association, and Chairman of its Judiciary Committee, he was Master and District Deputy Grand Master of the Masons' State of New York and Second District of Kings.
In December, the trustees voted to approve a facilities master plan, which hints at a friendly collaboration between the college and the museum as both parties' plans unfold.
He is beginning now to immerse himself in trustee issues, including CUNY's new master plan, which he has read four times, he said.
It left the raised esplanade, with the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa (the third holiest Muslim site), in the hands of its former masters, the Jordanian-appointed trustees, or Waqf.
Ford, who also served for a number of years as a trustee of Albion College, was a master of the art of compromise.
