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Around the QuadsALUMNI NEWSAPPOINTED: James F. Lima ’85 has been selected by New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to serve as president of the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation. Lima will spearhead GIPEC’s planning, redevelopment and management of the 150-acre island in New York harbor, which was transferred from the federal government to the city and state of New York earlier this year. Previously, Lima worked for the New York City Economic Development Corporation, where he was a senior v.p. of the Special Projects Division. Lima led the city’s negotiations of the acquisition of Governors Island and efforts around its planning and redevelopment. He was the team leader for the City’s Downtown Brooklyn Redevelopment Plan, as well as other large-scale economic revitalization projects in downtown Flushing, Red Hook and northern Manhattan. Before joining EDC, Lima worked on new construction programs for housing, retail and parks as assistant commissioner at the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and prior to that was a staff director of land use for the New York City Council. BURNS, PART I: The eighth and final episode of the acclaimed public television series, New York: A Documentary Film, directed by Ric Burns ’78 and written by Burns and James Sanders ’76, airs on Monday, September 8. The Center of the World spans 50 years from the end of World War II to the present, focusing on the World Trade Center, and culminates in the events of September 11, 2001, and their aftermath. The film explores the urban, economic, architectural and symbolic significance of the towers, their demise and the ongoing effort to come to terms with their loss, picking up on many of the same themes that were explored in the first seven episodes of the series, including commerce, diversity, capitalism, democracy, globalization and the creation of a new kind of multi-cultural society. BURNS, PART II: Ric Burns ’78 looks at Columbia’s history, legacy and future in a special documentary film, Columbia: A Celebration, which will air on public television (WNET in New York) on Thursday, October 30, at 8 p.m. The film, commissioned as part of the University’s 250th anniversary celebration, also will be screened on campus on October 18 and 19 during the opening weekend of Columbia250. ON THE CASE: George Keller ’51, editor of Columbia College Today from 1961–69 and a consultant, author and lecturer on strategic planning and management in higher education for more than four decades, was one of four advancement professionals honored in July by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education for their service to higher education. Keller, a trustee at Neumann College in Aston, Pa., received the James L. Fisher Award for Distinguished Service to Education. DE LAS NUECES: On June 4, Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) introduced a statement into the Congressional Record praising Class of 2003 salutatorian Denise De Las Nueces. Born and raised in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, De Las Nueces participated in Columbia’s Double Discovery Center while she was a student at Cathedral High School. She was awarded one of the first six New York Times scholarships in 1999 to attend Columbia, where she graduated summa cum laude. She begins Harvard Medical School this fall. Rangel pointed out De Las Nueces’ continuing
commitment to the Double Discovery Center and expressed
particular appreciation for her achievements as
the first-generation daughter of immigrants from
the Dominican Republic. “Ms. De Las Nueces’s
experience,” he said, “is an example
of how inclusion and diversity can provide opportunities
not only for minority students to excel, but also
for all members of the student body to be enriched
— an example of how leaders and mentors can
be found and developed in all communities, if we
are willing to invest in their search.”
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