Bob Hanft Due To Receive Hartwick Honorary Degree ONEONTA – Bob Hanft ’69 of Cooperstown, ’69, former chair of the Hartwick College trustees and an Otsego County community leader, will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree at the 2018 Commencement at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, May 19, on Elmore Field. Also at the graduation, Trustee Virginia (Ginny) Elwell ’77 will receive a honorary doctor of laws degree, and Linda Reckhow Thomson ’72, Ph.D., M.S.N., will be awarded the President’s Award…
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2 Bassett Boards Enter ’18 With New Chairs At Helm Meyer At Network, Fulmer At Hospital, Plus Franck, Hanft Gain Appointments COOPERSTOWN – The Bassett Healthcare Network Board of Directors and the Bassett Hospital Board of Trustees will have new chairs Jan. 1, it was announced today. Ralph H. Meyer, past president & CEO of Guthrie Healthcare System in 1982-98, will chair the Healthcare Network board. Terry Fulmer, president of The John A. Hartford Foundation in New York City and…
READ RESIGNATION LETTER MATHES, WHO REVITALIZED IDA, LEAVING 3rd Resignation Creates Crisis For Otsego Now By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.allotsego.com ONEONTA – The coup is complete. Sandy Mathes, who revolutionized economic development in Otsego County in the past three years, has given the 90-day notice required by his contract, and will be departing as CEO of the Otsego Now organization he created by summer’s end. As if to punctuate the end of an era, Bob Hanft of Pierstown,…
Otsego Now Committee Goal: Full-Time CEO Hanft: Provision Will Blunt Momentum By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.allotsego.com ONEONTA – The Otsego Now board of directors, at its monthly meeting Thursday, approved minutes of its new Reorganization Committee that includes among the committee’s goals: “engage in a search and hire a full-time CEO.” The 2-5 vote came over the objections of board member Bob Hanft, immediate past chairman. He said including that line in the Reorganization Committee’s 11 “duties and responsibilities”…
Forums May Build ‘Single Point Of Contact’ By JIM KEVLIN•HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Oct. 17, 2014 Three forums for small-business owners – in a month or so – are being planned, with a goal of achieving what’s been an elusive “single point of contact” for economic development in Otsego County. “We want to outreach to people in the trenches,” Bob Hanft, county Industrial Development Agency chair, told the county board’s Intergovernmental (IGA) Committee – its responsibilities include economic development…
WORK UNDERWAY TO UPDATE COOPERSTOWN’S MASTER PLAN People To Be Surveyed Saturday At Farmers’ Market, Pioneer Park COOPERSTOWN – The Saratoga Springs consultant hired to develop a downtown revitalization and economic development strategy will be collecting data this Saturday from residents and visitors at The Cooperstown Farmers’ Market and in Pioneer Park. Elan Planning, Design & Landscape Architecture by the village and the county Industrial Development Agency to help solicit community input in the development of an updated Comprehensive Master…
Hartwick To Wall Street, Back To Otsego County By JIM KEVLIN When Bob Hanft was a Hartwick College senior in 1968-69, he met a fetching freshman, his future wife Patricia. A memorable courtship followed, much of it in Cooperstown: Friday excursions to “The Pit,” the Tunnicliff Inn’s basement hot-spot, sunny weekend trips to Glimmerglass State Park, the spring formal of Tau Kappa Epsilon, Bob’s fraternity, at The Otesaga. “We loved Upstate New York,” he recalled the other day. By 2006,…
County Or Not, Ec-Dev Will Advance, He Says By JIM KEVLIN Lack of participation by Otsego County’s government won’t slow the “single point of contact” effort to bring business and jobs here. That’s the message that Bob Hanft, Pierstown, elected chairman of the Otsego County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) Wednesday, June 25, delivered during an Independence Day interview. “It’s not going to affect us,” Hanft, former chair of the Hartwick College Board of Trustees and a retired Wall Street banker,…