Welcome New Club Officers

We are pleased to announce the following seven people will join the club's board in January for 3-year terms. We had planned to hold an election, but with seven fantastic nominees for six spots, we have cancelled the election and welcome the contributions of all seven:

Raymond Cormier retired with his wife to Carrboro in 2010. Most recently, he served for 14 years as visiting professor in the English and Modern Languages Department of Longwood University (Virginia), where he was named "First Gent Emeritus" in 2010. His degree from Harvard is a Ph.D. (1967) in Romance and Celtic languages and literatures. After an MA at Stanford (1962, French), he taught at Harvard, Tufts, the University of Virginia and Temple University, among other posts and various awards. His specialty is medieval comparative literature, particularly pre-1200 texts in French, Latin, and Celtic. His latest monograph, The Methods of Medieval Translators: A Comparison of the Latin Text of Virgil's Aeneid with its Old French Adaptations, was published by Mellen in 2011. Raymond and Patricia married in 1960 and have two adult children and two darling and adorable grandsons.

Howard Goldberg received his PhD in Applied Physics from Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 1972. For most of Howard's 36 year professional career he held technical and management positions at GE Global Research, GE's corporate R&D center. He has served as a member and treasurer of the Board of the Northeastern NY chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and on homeowners association boards in NY and Florida. Howard lives in Durham where he enjoys being near his daughter and two darling little grand-daughters.

Dr. Ernest Goodson is an orthodontist in Fayetteville. He has a masters in public administration from the Kennedy School as well as degrees from UNC, the University of London and the University of California. He has served in a variety of volunteer capacities including the UNC alumni board, serving in free dental clinics in NC, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Malawi and volunteering in the Caring Seven Plus, which provides meals for homeless in Fayetteville during holidays. He is an adjunct faculty member at UNC's school of dentistry. A native of Kannapolis, he is married to Patricia Timmons Goodson, a retired Supreme Court judge. They have two adult sons.

John Kim has extensive experience in direct investments and in corporate strategy and development. He currently manages the family office for a European family guiding and executing its investments. Prior to his investment experience, he was involved in strategic planning at major media companies including the Walt Disney Company and Sony Pictures where he was responsible for new business initiatives in the home entertainment division, including diversification into video game distribution in nine countries. Mr. Kim received his A.B. in Economics from Harvard College and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He has lived and traveled extensively throughout Asia and Europe. He has three children, ages 12, 14, and 16.

Matthew Rascoff is a strategic advisor on education innovation. A native New Yorker, he moved to North Carolina in 2011 to open and build a 100-engineer product development center for the education technology company Wireless Generation (acquired by News Corporation and now known as Amplify). Matthew spent 2012-13 in Berlin, Germany, where he launched JSTOR’s first international office and was a Bertelsmann Foundation Fellow and represented the state of North Carolina as a German Marshall Memorial Fellow. Earlier in his career Matthew co-founded the strategy group at Ithaka, an incubator of higher education technology ventures. Matthew's professional experience includes Google, where he worked on the Book Search operations team, and Katzenbach Partners, a strategy consulting firm. After undergraduate studies in philosophy at Columbia University he did graduate work in political science at Bogazici University in Istanbul on a Fulbright Scholarship. His service commitments include Citizen Schools in North Carolina, and Beth El Synagogue. Matthew is married to Emily Levine, a history professor at UNC-Greensboro, and lives in Durham.

Tina Tanhehco graduated from Harvard College in 2005 with an A.B. in East Asian Studies. As a Harvard Yenching Fellow, she lived in Seoul, South Korea from 2005-2007 where she worked in business development and public relations with a top Korean law firm. She then moved to Seattle, Washington to work for Waggener Edstrom, the public relations arm of Microsoft. She graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with an MSc. in Media and Communications in 2009 and the University of North Carolina School of Law with a J.D. in 2012. She was sworn into the New York Bar this past year and has worked for the corporate law departments of Mayer Brown, Duke Energy, and Fried Frank previously. She currently resides in Chapel Hill and is the co-founder and co-president of Cubulur, a design company, the regional director of Princeton Tutoring, and a co-founder for 11 and more, an online publication. She has been an active member of Harvard clubs in Seoul, Seattle, London, and New York and wishes to use what she has learned through these experiences to support the Harvard Club of the Research Triangle.

Bill Wood, originally from Newport Beach, CA, graduated from Harvard College in 1998 with a degree in Government, before attending medical school at Duke University. Bill graduated from Duke in 2003, at which time he also received a Master’s in Public Health from the University of North Carolina. Bill then went on to complete a residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital. Bill returned to North Carolina after completing his residency in 2007 to pursue a fellowship in Hematology and Oncology at the University of North Carolina. Bill completed his fellowship in 2010 and accepted a faculty position at the University of North Carolina. His current clinical practice is in stem cell transplantation and malignant hematology, and he has research interests in patient-reported outcomes and health services research. Bill is married to Kelly Wood and has two children, Anna (4) and Emily (2).

Rick Waechter
HCRT President