PhDs Downsized At Bristol-Myers
Women in Academe: New Headmaster
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This article by Barbara Fox was prepared for the February 5, 2003 edition of U.S. 1 Newspaper. All rights reserved.
Life in the Fast Lane
Those who think the Nassau Park shopping center traffic
is a mess — and that is the universal opinion — are hoping
that the Rouse company will ease the gridlock when it develops the
Wyeth site on the opposite side of Route 1 by building an overpass.
“We should learn from mistakes,” says Kristin Appelget, a
member of the township council and president of the Princeton Regional
Chamber of Commerce. She points out that a cloverleaf has been built
at Quakerbridge Road, and that traffic would need to get from Nassau
Park to the Wyeth property. “That this intersection will play
a large role in how Rouse determines the potential layout.”
The Rouse company will present its ideas and take input at a meeting
on Tuesday, February 11, 8 a.m., at the Mercer Oaks golf course club
house. The meeting is co-sponsored by the Princeton Regional and Greater
Mercer County chambers of commerce, and continental breakfast will
be served. Cost: $20. Call 609-420-1776.
Emergency rooms were reported to be 50 to 75 percent
busier on Monday, February 3, when an estimated 12,000 New Jersey
doctors went on strike to protest malpractice insurance costs and
to lobby for a cap on legal claims. “The majority of extra cases
are pediatric or geriatric,” says Ron Czajkowski of the New Jersey
Hospital Association. Smaller hospitals canceled 20 to 30 non-emergency
procedures, and larger hospitals canceled more than 100 procedures.
The NJHA released a survey of member hospitals that showed 33 percent
of doctors are reluctant to provide charity care because they are
afraid of getting hit by medical malpractice claims.
“It is a pretty united effort,” says a spokesperson for the
Medical Society of New Jersey. Some physicians say they are willing
to keep on delaying non-emergency procedures until they get legislative
action. They were scheduled to demonstrate in Trenton on Tuesday,
February 4. Trial lawyers oppose the physicians goal: a $250,000 cap
on malpractice suits. Also opposed is the New Jersey Public Interest
Research Group.
Top Of PagePhDs Downsized At Bristol-Myers
In an effort to narrow its focus, Bristol-Myers Squibb
cut 45 research jobs at its Route 206 facility, 29 workers in Hopewell,
and 39 researchers in Wallingford, Connecticut. They have one month
to wind down their research; their last day will be March 5. One hundred
thirteen people amounts to a small percentage of the total of 4,300
researchers in the United States, but it belies the assumption that
only administrators need worry about job security.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMY), Route 206 andProvinceline Road, Box 4000, Princeton 08543-4000. James B.D. PalmerMD, chief scientific officer. 609-252-4000. Also 311 Pennington-RockyHill Road, Box 5400, Princeton 08543-5400. 609-818-3000. Home page:www.bms.comTop Of PageWoman-Owned State ContractorKaren and Todd Dieterly moved their company, TDK SystemsGroup, from western Maryland to Hamilton Square in December. She isthe president and CEO and he, an engineer and former Marine, is executivevice president. TDK does systems engineering and integration and environmentalsystems and services. It qualifies as both a women-owned and a veteran-ownedbusiness.Their company has the project management contract for installing smartcards in state government buildings. So far, cards for secure employeeentry have been installed at the Capitol and the Department of MotorVehicles. “As funds come available to the state, we keep addingbuildings,” says Karen Dieterly. Todd has been commuting to NewJersey for several years to work on state contracts, and they havechildren ages 3, 11, and 12, so they moved the business. The childrenattend school in Ewing and they are having a house built in Columbus.Todd and Karen met at a church in Pennsylvania. She was a graduateof Northhampton Community College in Pennsylvania, and he was an aviationtechnician stationed at Andrews Air Force base.”After one year of being a military wife, I said that was enough,”says Karen. Todd left the Marines after six years of service, enrolledin a community college, then transferred to George Washington University,graduating in 1990. Meanwhile Karen worked at Geico. “We toyedaround with opening our own business, and in 1999 we said, `Let’sgo for it.’”How did they get their first state contract? By working with anothercontractor on Y2K contracts. “The state liked our work and wantedto keep us on,” says Dieterly.TDK Systems Group Inc., 2277 Route 33, Suite 410,Hamilton Square 08690. Karen S. Dieterly, president and CEO. 609-890-0700;fax, 609-890-7766. Home page: www.tdksystemsgroup.comTop Of PageWomen in Academe: New HeadmasterThe Lawrenceville School, Route 206, Box 6008,Lawrenceville 08648. Elizabeth A. Duffy, headmaster. 609-896-0400;fax, 609-895-2217.In June Elizabeth A. Duffy will succeed Michael Caryand be the first woman headmaster in the history of the nearly two-century-oldLawrenceville School.A successful fundraiser and administrator, Duffy majored in molecularbiology, Class of 1988, and is executive director of the Illinois-basedBall Foundation, known for its efforts to improve schools and developcareers for students in grades K-12. Lawrenceville School has 800senior high students from 25 countries and 38 states, and almost threequarters of them are boarders.At Stanford Duffy earned an MBA and a master’s degree in educationaladministration. Her jobs have included being vice president of theWoodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, working for the AndrewW. Mellon Foundation, administrator of the student volunteers councilat Princeton University, and assistant master of the university’ RockefellerCollege. She co-authored two books. Married to a graduate of the LawrencevilleSchool, John Gutman, she has a two-year-old daughter and a six-monthold son.Duffy’s predecessor, Cary, is a graduate of Bowdoin (Class of 1971),Brown, and Yale Divinity School, and he came to Lawrenceville fromDeerfield Academy.Top Of PageVP for HRMaureen Nash has succeeded Joan Doig as vice presidentfor human resources at Princeton University. Nash went to CornellUniversity and has master’s degrees from Boston University and FairleighDickinson. Her most recent job was as vice president for learningand development at Bristol-Myers Squibb.She has also held positions at Fidelity Investments in Boston andin Tokyo, Johnson & Johnson, Monsanto Company, and Northeastern University.Daniel Scheiner has been acting vice president since Doig retiredin 2001 and will return to his job, which focuses on implementinga web-based human resources environment.Princeton University, 1 Nassau Hall, Princeton08544. Maureen Nash, vice president for human resources. 609-258-3000;fax, 609-258-1294. Home page: www.princeton.eduTop Of PageCrosstown MovesCreative Benefits Plans Inc. (CBPlans), 101 InterchangePlaza, Suite 105, Cranbury 08512. Thomas Richman, manager. 609-409-1300;fax, 609-655-2887. E-mail: cbplans.com Home page: www.cbplans.comThe three-person benefit planning company moved from 8 South RiverRoad last fall. It offers benefit plans for small to medium-sizedfirms.The Ayers Group and Career Partners, 7 Roszel Road,Princeton 08540-6237. Walter O’Neill, senior vice president. 609-720-8670;fax, 609-720-7783. Home page: www.ayers.comThe Princeton branch of the Ayers Group, a company specializing inhuman resource consulting and career transition services, has movedfrom its offices at 214 Carnegie Center to 7 Roszel Road. A spokespersonsays the move was made to obtain more space in a “nicer facility.”Ayers, with six staff members, is now located on the fifth floor of7 Roszel Road.Ronald Berlin, Architect, 360 Nassau Street, SecondFloor, Princeton 08540. 609-921-1800; fax, 609-921-8484.When his lease at 211 Nassau Street expired last month, Ron Berlinmoved his general architecture practice to the second floor of 360Nassau Street.Top Of PageNew in TownUrsula Meyer opened a small office on NassauStreet last year for a United Kingdom-based market research firm,and the company is now in a capital raising phase. Its proprietarytechnology, devised by Richard Silberstein of Melbourne, Australia,tests ads by measuring brain activity.Clients are being handled through the firm’s London office, untilrecently headed by Achi Racov, who died in December. In an August15, 2002, article in the Media Guardian, a Pre-Diction spokespersonsays that this technique can gauge emotional reactions more accuratelythan surveys ask questions, because the right side of the brain hasno speech ability.The ad testers wear headsets that measure the brain’s electrical activity.Their emotional responses are tested to graph high and low points.Then they watch TV for an hour, while software analyzes the emotionalresponse the ads evoke and predicts whether the subjects will rememberthe message. The name of the company is intended to mean “beforespeaking.”Pre-Diction Tech Inc., 100 Nassau Street, Princeton08542. Ursula Meyer, business manager. 609-924-1441; fax, 609-924-1341.Home page: www.pre-diction.comTop Of PageDeathsRobert H. Myslik, 34, on January 22 from injuries sustainedin an automobile accident. He had taught and coached soccer at theHun School.Barbara W. Ellis, 79, on February 2. She had worked atBase-Ten Systems and for the West Windsor-Plainsboro Schools transportationdepartment. A memorial service will be Friday, February 7, at 1 p.m.at the Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, 40 Vandeventer Avenue, Princeton.Next StoryCorrections or additions?This page is published by PrincetonInfo.com— the web site for U.S. 1 Newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey.
