When I was in grade school, I bowled in a junior league at Sunset Bowl in Waukegan. I won a tournament, and the league put $125 in an account with the Junior Bowling Association. This money was stipulated for college use only.
Last year, I was thinking about the cost of books for my second year of college and I remembered the scholarship. I took the letter to Sunset Bowl and was told they had new owners and knew nothing of this scholarship. The person at the desk took the letter and said he would look into it.
I stopped back several times and had no luck. I asked for the letter back, but they said they did not have it. Read more
DISCUSSIONS at the upcoming joint commission between SA and Rwanda are expected to include peace building in Africa with particular reference to Rwanda’s neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where presidential and parliamentary elections were recently held.
Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma will chair – together with her Rwandan counterpart Charles Murigande – the fourth session of the commission of co-operation in Kigali, the Rwanda capital, on Tuesday and Wednesday next week.
A presidential run-off between the two (DRC) presidential candidates — President Joseph Kabila and his deputy Jean Pierre Bemba — is expected in October. Read more
General Electric Co. Vice Chairman David Calhoun, whose unit produces more than 25 percent of the company’s sales, is leaving to be chief executive officer of VNU Group BV, publisher of the Nielsen ratings and Billboard magazine.
Calhoun is the first top executive to quit since Jeffrey Immelt took over in 2001. Fairfield, Conn.-based GE is known for churning out management talent. The CEOs of The Boeing Co., Home Depot Inc. and Honeywell International Inc. came from GE.
The next challenge for 49-year-old Calhoun, who managed the GE division that includes jet engines and power-plant turbines, will be fueling growth at VNU.
The Dutch company was acquired by private equity firms including Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. last month, and Calhoun will focus on television and broadcast research and plans for a ratings system for Internet programs.
“There will be something of a learning curve, but I would think it would be pretty fast,” said Mary Anne Sudol, an analyst in New York at Caris & Co. who owns GE shares in her personal investments and rates them a “buy.”
“Calhoun was knowledgeable about other businesses, and that includes NBC Universal. VNU would not be a completely strange business to him.”
Calhoun succeeds interim CEO Rob Ruijter at VNU. He helped build sales in GE’s infrastructure unit, the biggest of its six main divisions, to an estimated $47 billion of the company’s $165 billion forecast for this year. John Rice, also 49 and a vice chairman running the industrial division, will succeed him, GE said Wednesday.*By RACHEL LAYNE
BLOOMBERG NEWS
General Electric Co. Vice Chairman David Calhoun, whose unit produces more than 25 percent of the company’s sales, is leaving to be chief executive officer of VNU Group BV, publisher of the Nielsen ratings and Billboard magazine.
Calhoun is the first top executive to quit since Jeffrey Immelt took over in 2001. Fairfield, Conn.-based GE is known for churning out management talent. The CEOs of The Boeing Co., Home Depot Inc. and Honeywell International Inc. came from GE.
The next challenge for 49-year-old Calhoun, who managed the GE division that includes jet engines and power-plant turbines, will be fueling growth at VNU.
The Dutch company was acquired by private equity firms including Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. last month, and Calhoun will focus on television and broadcast research and plans for a ratings system for Internet programs.
“There will be something of a learning curve, but I would think it would be pretty fast,” said Mary Anne Sudol, an analyst in New York at Caris & Co. who owns GE shares in her personal investments and rates them a “buy.”
“Calhoun was knowledgeable about other businesses, and that includes NBC Universal. VNU would not be a completely strange business to him.”
Calhoun succeeds interim CEO Rob Ruijter at VNU. He helped build sales in GE’s infrastructure unit, the biggest of its six main divisions, to an estimated $47 billion of the company’s $165 billion forecast for this year. John Rice, also 49 and a vice chairman running the industrial division, will succeed him, GE said Wednesday.*By RACHEL LAYNE
BLOOMBERG NEWS
LAS VEGAS (AP) – A leader of House Republicans’ re-election efforts on Thursday said he believes taxes and border security are the top issues for voters in Nevada’s 2nd and 3rd Congressional Districts.
U.S. Rep. Tom Reynolds, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, repeatedly cited the axiom “all politics is local,” and said that in Nevada that meant voters would support an extension of tax cuts and stronger protections at the nation’s borders.
“House elections, they are won and lost on pocketbook issues,” said Reynolds, R-N.Y.
The congressman rejected Democrats’ assertion that President Bush’s low approval rating would drag down Republican candidates in the state, saying “the president is not on the ballot.” Read more
State officials describe these kinds of donations as a good way to maximize taxpayer dollars.
Gov. Robert Ehrlich signed legislation last year authorizing the Department of General Services to dispose of surplus property to public schools in any jurisdiction in Maryland. Previously, transfers were limited to the school system in which the property originated.
State officials say more than $763,000 in surplus property has been given to Maryland schools since 2003. That includes $256,623 worth of computers, monitors and other equipment donated to Baltimore City schools. Read more
Mid-South Community College will participate in a $419,383 National Science Foundation grant project designed to create a national resource in transportation and logistics technology for educational institutions and business and industry.
With the grant, MSCC joins a select group of two-year colleges across the nation to receive funding from the NSF.
“This is a historic step forward for Mid-South Community College and for our region,” said Dr. Glen Fenter, MSCC President. “We are extremely proud to have the opportunity to participate in this landmark project. You can count on one hand the number of two-year colleges in Arkansas that have received a National Science Foundation grant, so we have truly been blessed. We are looking forward to the new opportunities that this will create.” Read more