Purdue Notebook

December 10, 2004

Campus activities

– The Barbara Cook Chapter of Mortar Board National Honor Society on Dec. 5 sponsored a holiday dinner party at the Lafayette YWCA with gifts and a violinist for residents of the Women's Shelter. Society members prepared a menu of ham, lasagna and desserts for the women and children who stay at the shelter.

Alumni honors

– George Scalise, a 1956 Purdue mechanical engineering graduate, has been redesignated as chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco beginning January 2005. Scalise, president of the Semiconductor Industry Association in San Jose, Calif., who has interest and expertise in international trade and competition issues, was designated as deputy chair in 2000 and chair in May 2003. The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco provides wholesale banking services to financial institutions in the nine western states through the head office in San Francisco. As the nation's central bank, the Federal Reserve System formulates monetary policy, serves as a bank regulator, administers consumer protection laws and is fiscal agent for the U.S. government.

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