Rory Rothman is officially associate vice president for student affairs and campus life, and Bonnie Solt Prunty is now director of residential life and judicial affairs. Both longtime administrators had served in their respective positions on an "acting" basis since June 2000.

Priscilla Quirk (photo) was appointed as the full-time coordinator of health promotion and substance abuse prevention programs.

John Palmer, former NBC News White House correspondent and Today Show anchor, was the guest in April for the Park School’s 10th annual Jessica Savitch Distinguished Journalism Lecture Series. He gave a public address called "The Press and the Presidency: The Real West Wing."

A new 18-credit Latin American studies minor has been approved. The interdisciplinary program will be administered by the anthropology and modern languages and literatures departments. Course areas may include those two fields as well as economics, art history, politics, environmental sciences, and history.

As vice president and program director of the Association for Global Business, Hormoz Movassaghi, associate professor of business administration, organized AGB’s 13th annual meeting in November. The event was held in Cancun, Mexico, marking the first time that the meeting has been held outside of the United States. Movassaghi, who has just completed the first year of his two-year term as VP, handled the exhaustive process of coordinating the review and presentation of numerous manuscripts. The meeting was attended by some 100 academicians and businesspeople from all over the world, who came to present their work on international business and related issues of global concern.

Photo by Dave Maley