20th Annual Western Reserve Studies Symposium
TRANSFORMATION OF A REGION:
THE WESTERN RESERVE AND "THE LIVABLE CITY"
Friday, November 3, 2006
8:30-4:00 p.m.
Dively Building
11240 Bellflower Road • (Corner of Ford and Bellflower Roads)
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
SPEAKER INFORMATION
David T. Abbott, Executive Director
The George Gund Foundation
1845 Guildhall Building
45 Prospect Ave., West
Cleveland, OH 44115
(T) 216-241-3114 (F) 216-241-6560 dabbott@gundfdn.org
David T. Abbott was born and raised in Fremont, Ohio. He earned a B.A. in political science, Denison University,M.S. in journalism, Columbia University and J.D. from Harvard Law School. He was a reporter for The Plain Dealer 1975-1979, Cuyahoga County Administrator 1985-1993, Executive Director of the Cleveland Bicentennial Commission 1993-1997, Executive Director of the Rock and roll Hall of Fame and Museum 1977-1998, President of University Circle Incorporated 1998-2003 when he joined The George Gund Foundation.
T.J. Asher, President
Weston Inc.
29300 Aurora Road
Solon, OH 44139
(T) 440-823-8447
tjasher@teamweston.com
T.J. Asher was born and raised in the Greater Cleveland area. He graduated from Xavier University with a degree in economics and finance. He grew up in and around the family business, officially joining Weston on a full time basis in 1988. He spent more than ten years preparing for his current role in a rigorous and broad-based training program, holding a variety of positions at progressive levels of responsibility in each functional area of the firm. In 1999 he was named President of Weston, Inc., a full service real estate company established in 1972 offering acquisition, leasing, development, and property management services. In addition to day-to-day operational responsibilities, he serves with other family members on the firm's Executive Management Committee and directs Weston's portfolio of over 10 million square feet, and serves over 400 tenants in the Greater Cleveland area and across the country.
Kathleen L. Barber
Professor of Political Science, Emerita
John Carroll University
(T) 216-791-2555
kbarber@jcu.edu
Kathleen L. Barber taught Political Science and chaired the Political Science Department at John Carroll University in Cleveland for many years. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in political science from Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of Proportional Representation and Election Reform in Ohio (1995) and A Right to Representation: Election System for the Twenty-first Century (2000), both published by Ohio State University Press, and many articles in legal and political journals. A life-long activist in politics, she served Shaker Heights on City Council, the charter commission, and as Vice Mayor. She was Vice Chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Executive Committee, and twice a Democratic National Convention delegate from Ohio. In 1995 -96 she chaired the Citizens' Committee on County Government Reform, appointed by the Cuyahoga County Commissioners. She was a founding trustee of WCPN-FM, Cleveland Public Radio, and the Great Lakes Science Center. For 18 years she served as a trustee of the George Gund Foundation.
Dennis and Kathleen Coakley Barrie
Barrie Projects
2709 Berkshire Road
Cleveland, OH 44106
(T) 216-421-9750
khbarrie@adelphia.net
Since August 2005 Kathleen and Dennis Barrie have been engaged in a new visioning process for University Circle funded by The George Gund Foundation, 1525 Foundation and Peter B. Lewis, under the umbrella of University Circle Inc. and with the involvement of Case and University Hospitals of Cleveland. The first focus has been on working with Case on its development plans for the Triangle: the second focus is much broader-greater University Circle. A former museum director, Dr. Barrie ran the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, and Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, guiding it from concept through construction and opening. Ms. Barrie was the founder and executive director of Cleveland Public Art for over 15 years, realizing some of Cleveland's best known public art projects-throughout the city's neighborhoods, but especially at Cleveland Public Library and Gateway. Working together at Cleveland's Malrite Company, the couple developed the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. one of the country's most celebrated new museums. They also led the development of the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage which opened in Beachwood in the Fall of 2006. They now work together at Barrie Projects-a consulting firm dedicated to museum and cultural planning and implementation. Dr. Barrie is also the Director of Cultural Planning for the Cleveland architectural firm Westlake Reed Leskosky.
David Beach, Executive Director
EcoCity Cleveland
3500 Lorain Ave., Suite 301
Cleveland OH 44113
(T) 216-961-5020
david@ecocitycleveland.org
David Beach, foremost leader and influential environmental advocate in the region, whose family has been in Northeast Ohio for six generations, grew up in Bay Village and graduated from Harvard University. He is the founder and executive director of EcoCity Cleveland and GreenCityBlueLake. He has published two books, The Greater Cleveland Environment Book and Car-Free in Cleveland. Founded in 1992 EcoCity Cleveland works with many partners to promote the design of cities in balance with nature in Northeast Ohio. The question posed is: Where are we going as a region? Through research, demonstration projects, advocacy and public education, the goal is to help change the way the region approaches neighborhood redevelopment, land-use, watershed, and transportation planning. The newest initiative GreenCityBlueLake strives to accelerate the transformation of cities in Northeast Ohio to meet the challenges of the 21st century recognizing that the forces acting upon the region will be global in scale including economic forces, energy markets and environmental problems such as climate change.
Joseph A. Calabrese, Chief Executive Officer
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
1240 West Sixth Street
Cleveland, OH 44113
(T) 216-566-5219 (F) 216-781-4043
jcalabrese@gcrta.org
Joseph Calabrese was named the CEO and General Manager/Secretary-Treasurer of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) in February 2000 bringing nearly 30 years of experience in both the public and private sectors. He received his undergraduate degree in economics from Syracuse University, MBA, University of Buffalo and held post-graduate fellowships at Northeastern, University of Chicago and the Wharton School. He has made many changes at RTA. With a motto of "back to the basics," he has led an aggressive bus replacement program, rail system renovation program, and increased emphasis on image, financial management and enhanced customer service. The focus on customer service has resulted in a quarterly report card relating to RTA's performance in key areas, a TEAM employee incentive program and an unconditional customer guarantee, Ride Happy or Ride Free. As a result RTA has experienced three consecutive years of ridership growth. Past president of the New York State Public Transit Association, he currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Public Transit Association, and is President of the Ohio Public Transit Association.
Eric D. Fingerhut, Ohio State Senator, Ohio 25th District
Ohio Senate Building
Room #049, Ground Floor
Columbus, OH 43215
(T) 614-466-4583 (F) 614-466-4120
senatorfingerhut@hotmail.com
Eric D. Fingerhut was re-elected on November 5, 2002 to represent Ohio's 25th Senate District, which is located in the eastern half of Cuyahoga County. He currently serves as the Ranking Minority Member of the Insurance, Commerce and Labor Committee; Judiciary Committee; Committee on Civil Justice; Ways and Means and Economic Development Committee; Health, Human Services and Aging Committee, and the Education Committee. He authored Making Ohio Great Again.
Senator Fingerhut attended the Cleveland Heights/University Heights public schools and graduated from Cleveland Heights High School in 1977. He earned a B.S. from Northwestern University in 1981 and J.D., Stanford University School of Law in 1984.
He served as an attorney in the Older Person's Law Office of the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, the Cleveland firm of Hahn, Loeser & Parks, and as the Associate Director of Cleveland Works, a nationally recognized, innovative welfare-to-work program. He served as Senior Fellow at the Center for Community Solutions and as a Senior Lecturer at Case Western Reserve University.
In 2005, Senator Fingerhut joined the Business Administration faculty of Baldwin Wallace College as the Director of Economic Development Education and Entrepreneurship.
Gladys Haddad, Professor of American Studies
and Director
Western Reserve Studies Symposium
Case Western Reserve University
Clark Hall 101
11130 Bellflower Road
Cleveland, OH 44106-7120
(T) 216-368-4117 (F)216-368-5241
gladys.haddad@case.edu
Gladys Haddad is Professor of American Studies at Case Western Reserve University and the founder and director of the Western Reserve Studies Symposia, an annual event now in its twentieth year that offers a forum and WEB site for the study of the history and culture of a distinctive northeastern Ohio region. She earned a B.A., Allegheny College, B.F.A., Lake Erie College, M.A. and Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University. She is professor of American Studies emerita at Lake Erie College where she was academic dean and executive assistant to the President.
A historian and regionalist her scholarship is centered in Ohio's Western Reserve. She has published on the history, literature, and art of the region. She is the author of Ohio's Western Reserve: A Regional Reader, Anthology of Western Reserve Literature and Laukhuff's Book Store: Cleveland's Literary and Artistic Landmark: An Epilogue. She is the editor of Western Reserve Studies: A Journal of Regional History and Culture and Western Reserve Studies Symposia Papers.
She is the Project Archivist, Researcher and Author of the CASE website "Selected Philanthropic Families of Case Western Reserve University."
A writer/producer of video documentaries, she has completed a trilogy on the Mathers, a notable Western Reserve
family, who as proprietors of the Connecticut Land Co., came here to settle early in the 19th century. The videos are Samuel Mather: Vision, Leadership, Generosity, Samuel and Flora Stone Mather: Partners in Philanthropy and Flora Stone Mather: A Legacy of Stewardship. She authored the biography Flora Stone Mather: Daughter of Cleveland's Euclid Avenue and Ohio's Western Reserve (Kent State University Press, Fall 2007).
David C. Hammack, Hiram C. Haydn Professor of History
Case Western Reserve University
11201 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106-7107
(T) 216-368-2671 (F) 216-368-4681
david.hammack@case.edu
David C. Hammack, Hiram C. Haydn Professor of History earned a B.A. in government Harvard College, M.A.T. in social studies, Reed College, M.A. Ph.D., in history, Columbia University. Among his publications related to this year's Symposium are a book and several articles on the planning growth and development of cities notably New York City and Cleveland. He has served on the editorial board of Urban Affairs Review (formerly the Urban Affairs Quarterly). He helped create films widely broadcast on television that concern the development of New York City and racial integration in Shaker Heights. He worked closely with David Van Tassel on The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History and wrote articles for it, including the essay on the economy of Northeastern Ohio. One of his most widely-read pieces is a history of Northeastern Ohio's economy. References include: Power and Society: Greater New York at the Turn of the Century (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1982). Columbia University Press paper edition, 1987. "Developing for Commercial Culture," in Inventing Times Square, edited by Willliam R. Taylor (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1991; paperback edition, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) pp. 36-50, 375-377. “Comprehensive Planning Before the Comprehensive Plan: A New Look at the Nineteenth Century American City," in Daniel Schaffer, ed., Principles and Policy: Urban Planning in the United States (London: Mansell Publishing Co., 1988) pp. 139-165. "The Making of Shaker Heights: The Struggle for Integration" a Documentary in Urban History, in The Urban History Newsletter, No. 22, Oct.1999, pp.1-5. (Chief Consultant to this film project) Fogarty, Michael S., Garofalo, Gasper S., and Hammack, David C. Cleveland from Startup to the Present: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the 19th and Early 20th Century (A report of the Center for Regional Economic Issues, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, 2003).
Steven C. LaTourette, U.S. Congressman Ohio 14th District
Washington Office
2453 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515
(T) 202-225-5731
Painesville District Office
1 Victoria Place, Room 320 Painesville, OH 44077
(T) 440-352-3939 800-447-0529
Congressman Steven C. LaTourette elected to his seventh term in the U.S. House of Representatives represents Northeast Ohio’s 14th Congressional District that includes all of Lake, Geauga and Ashtabula counties, and part of Cuyahoga, Summit, Trumbull and Portage counties.
Congressman LaTourette is a fiscally conservative, moderate Republican
who has used his seniority on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to bring transportation funding to the Greater Cleveland area, including funding for bridge, road, rail and airport improvement. He is a member of the House Committee on Financial Services and Government Reform.
He has been actively involved in Great Lakes and environmental issues during his tenure in Congress serving as Co-Chair of the influential Great Lakes Task Force. He was named co-chair of the Northeast-Midwest Coalition and its Manufacturing Task Force that is focused on protecting regional energy, manufacturing transportation, and environmental policy interests.
Prior to his election to the House of Representatives, Steven LaTourette served as the Lake County Prosecutor. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Cleveland Marshall College of Law.
Steven Litt, Art and Architecture Critic
The Plain Dealer
1801 Superior Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44114-2198
(T) 216-999-4136
slitt@plaind.com
Steven Litt has been the art and architecture critic of The Plain Dealer since 1991. He joined the newspaper after covering art and architecture for The News and Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, from 1984 to 1991. He holds a B.A. in art, Brown University, and M.A. in journalism, Columbia University. As a working journalist, he studied architecture and planning at North Carolina State University, and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he spent a year as a Michigan Journalism Fellow. In addition to The Plain Dealer, Steven Litt writes for ARTnews, Metropolis, Planning and other magazines, and is a frequent guest on public radio WCPN 90.3 FM. In 2004 and 2005, he was named Best Critic in Ohio by the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists.
Gordon Mapley, Director of Operations
Center for Urban and Regional Studies
Senior Research Associate, Youngstown State University
One University Plaza
Youngstown, OH 44555
(T) 330 941-2717 (F) 330-941-1527
gmapley@ysu.edu
Gordon Mapley has an association with Youngstown State University that began in 1985 leading up to his current position with the Center for Urban and Regional Studies as Director of Operations and Senior Associate. He was Interim Executive Director of Metropolitan College, Associate Provost for Academic Administration and Information Services, Liaison Officer/Coordinator to Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and Acting Dean and Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences. Previously he was affiliated with the University of South Carolina at Spartanburg as Professor of Psychology and Chair, Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He was Senior Operator, Computer Operations and Job Control, General Motors, Pontiac Division, Pontiac Michigan. He earned a Ph.D. in developmental psychology at Wayne State University.
Hunter Morrison, Director
Center for Urban and Regional Studies
Youngstown State University
One University Plaza
Youngstown, OH 44555
(T) 330-941-1946 (F) 330-941-1527
hmorrison@ysu.edu
Hunter Morrison is the Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at Youngstown State University. The Center was established for the purpose of understanding applied research addressing issues of urban and regional development and providing technical assistance to local government, social service organizations, and businesses. Prior to this he was Director of the Cleveland City Planning Commission and was responsible for Civic Vision 2000, a $3 million initiative that resulted in the comprehensive updating of the City's Downtown Plan, Citywide Plan, and Zoning Code. Civic Vision received the 1992 American Planning Association National Planning Award for Comprehensive Planning. Under his direction, the department was responsible for the development of master plans for North Coast Harbor District, site of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Cleveland Browns Stadium; the Playhouse Square Theatre District, site of the country's second largest performing arts center; and the Gateway Sports District, home of Jacobs Field and Gund Area. The Gateway project was awarded an Urban Design Citation from Progressive Architecture in 1990, an Honor Award for urban design from the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1991, and the AIA Urban Design Award in 1996. Prior to joining the City of Cleveland in 1980, he worked for the Hough Area Development Corporation, a neighborhood development organization in Cleveland; for private consulting firms in Boston, and for the cities of Nairobi and New York. He holds degrees in city planning and political science from Yale College, city planning from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and business administration from Cleveland State University. He served on the Cleveland Landmarks Commission and the Ohio State Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board. He has been a member and served as president of the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency, the 5-county Greater Cleveland metropolitan planning organization. He has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and at Cleveland State University's Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs.
Christopher S. Ronayne, President
University Circle Inc.
10831 Magnolia Drive
Cleveland, OH 44106
(T) 216-791-3905 (F) 216-791-3935
cronayne@universitycircle.org
Christopher S. Ronayne is president of University Circle Incorporated (UCI) an umbrella group serving 40 world-class health care, academic and cultural institutions, in Cleveland's University Circle area. His charge is to position the Circle as a premiere urban district and economic driver in the new regional economy. Ronayne and his team provide services in this spectacular square mile ranging from police services, real estate management, community planning development, educational programming, marketing and special events. Prior to joining UCI, he served as Chief of Staff for the City of Cleveland and in the Mayor's Cabinet as the Chief Development Officer. As Cleveland City Planning Director he was responsible for the historic Cleveland Lakefront Plan. A member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, Ronayne served on the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission and as a manager with the County Department of Development. He has been on community boards including the Gateway Economic Development Corporation and the City Landmarks Commission, and the Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland. A frequent visiting lecturer on city and regional planning, he was selected by the State Department as the U.S. representative to the Chilean Bicentennial Commission. He was the recipient of the 2005 American Institute of Architects' Planning Achievement Award for "Connecting Cleveland, the Waterfront District Plan." He earned degrees in business administration from Miami University and urban planning from Cleveland State University.
Ken Silliman
, Chief of Staff
Office of Cleveland Mayor, Frank G. Jackson
601 Lakeside Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44114
(T) 216-420-7624
ksilliman@city.cleveland.oh.us
Chief of Staff, Ken Silliman is lead advisor and handles key administrative matters for Cleveland Mayor Frank G. Jackson since his election in 2006. A native of Northeast Ohio, Silliman began his career as an attorney in a private law practice in upstate New York. He moved from there to New Hanover County, North Carolina to work in the public sector as a Land Use Planner and Assistant County Attorney. Returning to Cleveland in 1988, he worked in the City of Cleveland Department of Law on real estate and development projects, including the Chagrin Highlands master development agreement and annexation agreements. In 1995 he became Executive Assistant to Development for Mayor Michael R. White.
In 2002 he formed a private law practice focusing on real estate development and operated the firm through the end of 2005 from Ohio City home office. He received degrees in urban and environmental studies from Case Western Reserve University and law and regional planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Alan Weinstein, Professor and Director of Law & Public Policy Program
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Cleveland State University
2121 Euclid Avenue,-2214 LB 138
Cleveland, OH 44115
(T) 216-687-3758 (F)216-687-6881
alan.weinstein@law.csuohio.edu
Professor Allan Weinstein holds a joint faculty appointment at Cleveland State University's Cleveland Marshall College of Law and Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs and is a national recognized expert on state and local government law, urban affairs, and land-use planning law. He frequently lectures at governmental, law and planning conferences and has published over seventy-five books, treatise chapters and journal articles. He received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, J.D from the University of California-Berkeley, and M.C.P. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Joseph White, Chair, Political Science
Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy
Director of the Center for Policy Studie
Case Western Reserve University
Mather House 113
11201 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106-7109
(T) 216-268-2426 (F) 216-368-4681
jxw87@case.edu
Professor Joseph White came to Case Western Reserve University in 2000 as Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Policy Studies, and became Department Chair in 2003. He came to Cleveland from New Orleans, where he was Associate Professor of Health Systems Management in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University. Previously he was a Research Associate and then Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C. He received his A.B. from the University of Chicago, M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests and publications have focused on federal budgeting policy and politics, Congress, health care finance in the United States and other countries, Social Security and Medicare. His most recent book is False Alarm: Why the Greatest Threat to Social Security and Medicare is the Campaign to Save Them (Johns Hopkins University Press 2001; Paperback with new postscript 2003). As Director of the Center for Policy Studies, Professor White organizes public programming on issues ranging from "War and Peace between the United States and Iraq" to the teaching of "Intelligent Design" theory in Ohio Public schools, and from NASA's Mission to Mars to national missile defense. The Western Reserve Studies Symposium is housed in the Center for Policy Studies.
Scott Wolstein, Chief Executive Officer
and Chairman of the Board
Developers Diversified Realty
3300 Enterprise Parkway
Beachwood, OH 44121
(T) 216-755-5506 (F) 216-755-1507
swolstein@ddrc.com
Scott Wolstein has been the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Developers Diversified Realty since its organization in 1992. He has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company since May 1997. Prior to the organization of the Company, he was a principal and executive officer of Developers Diversified Group ("DDG") the company's predecessor.
He holds degrees from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan Law School. He was associated with the law firm of Thompson Hine & Flory.
He currently serves on the boards NAREIT National Real Estate Investment Trusts, Real Estate Roundtable, Hathaway Brown School, Cleveland Chapter of the Red Cross, Anti Defamation League, University Hospitals Health Systems, Greater Cleveland Partnership, Cleveland Development Advisors, Zell-Lurie Wharton Real Estate Center. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the Visiting Committee and Advisory Council for the Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management, National Advisory Council to Cleveland State University Law School and the World's President Organization.
