FUND FOR REUNION/PRINCETON BTGALA
A Non-profit Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Princeton Alumni, Students, Faculty and Staff
P.O. Box 1481, Princeton, New Jersey 08542
| NEWS FROM THE FUND FOR REUNION/PRINCETON BTGALA A Non-profit Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Princeton Alumni, Students, Faculty and Staff P.O. Box 1481, Princeton, New Jersey 08542 |
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| Volume IX, No. 2 | Fall 1995 |
FFR President Shawn Cowls '87 reports that since posting our email address in the newsletter and on Princeton University's TigerNet, new addresses have streamed in weekly. Between new contacts and th tracing of lost members through Maclean House and on-campus resources by a paid student intern last summer, FFR's mailing list has grown by over a 100 names in the past six months. Feel free to pass on information of interest, suggestions on events and newsletter articles or just plain electronic chat to FFR's address: Fund for Reunion
Will other states recognize Hawaii's near-perfect unions? As a civil rights case winds it's way through Hawaii's courts, the prospect of legally recognized same-sex marriage grows ever more likely. But the legal battle won't stop there. Come see Evan Wolfson of Lambda Legal Defense discuss that group's "hawaii Equal Rights Marriage Project" at our Alumni Day talk this February, our first official sponsored event there in several years.
Don't be wedded to the routine, Fund members tell us; so expect a number of changes this academic year, as a growing FFR establishes greater visibility on campus and elsewhere. Besides our Alumni Day event, members can expect an enlarged and livelier Reunions Cafe, now to be held in Chancellor Green Rotunda. Appropriately grander plans are currently in progress and we hope you will make a point of attending our events even if you ordinarily bypass off-year Reunions.
The success of last Spring's all-Ivy mixer at the Harvard Club has quickened plans for a sequel; expect a report on it, and further info on other plans in the Winter newsletter.
"A particularly foul harassment charge," one anonymous Princeton Club member labeled the incident at the heart of continuing controversy at the Princeton Club, whose tradition of sleepy civility has come completely unstuck in the past six months.
Ever since the House Committee nixed the co-sponsoring of a Gay and Lesbian mixer at the Harvard Club last May, intra-club conflict has been brewing. Board member Marc Landis '84, who had vigorously protested the Club's anti-LGB misstep (as an emerging consensus holds) unearthed in June a sexual harassment claim against Club President Daniel Parke Lieblich whose existence had never been disclosed to the full board.
The Club's former squash pro charged in 1993 that he had been driven from his job, in part due to refusal of sexual advances made by his boss, the Club President.
The controversy has cost board member Landis his seat, following his attempt to explore the issue at July's board meeting. Landis has since sued Lieblich and others for slander and also pursuant to the claim that the fiduciary responsibilities of the board were infringed upon when settlement arrangements with the former employee, Richard Rescigno, were reached without his (and the majority of the club board's) knowledge.
President Daniel Parke Lieblich had asserted in July that he, Larry Hines, the club's general manager, and five serving Board members handled the complaint - serving as an unofficial executive committee. Oddly, one then-named member, Bill Buchanan '59, says that he was asked to recommend a lawyer for an "employment matter" but in no other way was informed of the suit.
The Board, meeting October 24, removed Landis from the Club's board "with cause" by a vote of 14 to two, and four abstentions. Then, sixteen voted to remove Landis "without cause" in a second vote.
Lieblich told The Daily Princeton that "he hoped and prayed for a return to days of harmony" as a result. Landis was quoted in the same article "I'm ... sorry for the members of the club who would be losing an independent voice in the boardroom."
While most board members have defended the President, who is seeking an unprecedented fifth term at the annual meeting this coming Tuesday, November 14, others have expressed concern. Some young alumni feel that the club may be losing a Princeton-specific identity.
And one board member, José Pincay-Delgado '77 told The Daily Princetonian that, despite initially supporting Lieblich for an unprecedented fifth one-year term, he is considering a run against him for President at the annual meeting this Tuesday because "I am extremely upset by the turn of events. I think it is time for new leadership. That doesn't mean it has to be me at all." That November 14 meeting promises to be an exceptional one.
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