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As David Wippman prepares to retire and leave his office in Buttrick Hall this June, he sat down once again with Debraggio to reflect on his time at the College.

David Wippman will step down in June 2024 after eight years

One of Â鶹¹ú²úAV College’s most generous benefactors and a leading businessman and philanthropist in the Utica community has died. F. Eugene Romano, a Utica native and a 1949 Â鶹¹ú²úAV graduate, passed away on Saturday, Jan.7. He was 94.

The Â鶹¹ú²úAV College Town-Gown Fund recently distributed grants totaling $79,450 to seven non-profit and public safety organizations serving the Town of Kirkland and the Village of Clinton.

In an email to the Â鶹¹ú²úAV community on Thursday, Nov. 18, President David Wippman announced that Scripps College has named Suzanne Keen, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty, its 10th president.

The Â鶹¹ú²úAV College Town-Gown Fund recently distributed a record $157,000 in grants to 14 non-profit and public safety organizations serving the Town of Kirkland and the Village of Clinton. [Full list follows]

David Solomon ’84, chairman and chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs, has been unanimously elected to serve as chair of the Â鶹¹ú²úAV College Board of Trustees, effective July 1.

Â鶹¹ú²úAV College has received a $400,000 grant from the Fred L. Emerson Foundation of Auburn, N.Y., to use as seed funding for a new advising and learning program the College will launch in 2021-22.

Elizabeth McCormack, a trustee on College Hill for 45 years, was Kirkland and Â鶹¹ú²úAV’s E.F. Hutton. She died on Dec. 4, 2020, one month after learning she would receive the Bell Ringer Award, the Alumni Association’s highest honor.

The Â鶹¹ú²úAV College Town-Gown Fund honored one of its original committee members by making a $5,000 grant to the Country Pantry in his memory.