ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
Yang Elected Alumni Trustee Yi-ming Yang ’87 arrived at Taft in 1986 for his senior year as the school’s first international exchange student from mainland China, thanks to Director of Admissions Ferdie Wandelt’s involvement with ASSIST (American Secondary Schools for International Students and Teachers). After returning to China in 1987, Yi-ming enrolled in Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, serving as class president during his three years of premed studies at Peking University,
Yi-ming came back to the United States in 1993 as an exchange student to University of California San Francisco Medical School, where he worked on the HIV/AIDS ward and the cardiology consult rotation for three months at San Francisco General Hospital. He later transferred to Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, where he obtained his M.D. degree. He completed his internal medicine residency and a cardiology fellowship at Columbia Presbyterian
“Yi-ming Yang ’87 arrived at Taft in 1986 for his senior year as the school’s first international exchange student from mainland China.”
m Sue and Yi-ming Yang ’87, who was elected to a four-year term on the school’s Board of Trustees. Bob Falcetti
and witnessed the tumultuous political changes in China triggered by the student movement on that campus in 1989 and the events surrounding Tiananmen Square. He was elected vice president of the student union in 1991 and led his school to a successful bid for a research project studying the public-health impact of rural water sanitation sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Health in 1992, the only such project granted to medical students in the ministry’s history.
Medical Center. He then underwent interventional cardiology training at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City and is now an attending interventional cardiologist in their Department of Interventional Cardiac and Vascular Services. He lives with his wife, Sue, in New York City and volunteers at the Charles B. Wang Chinatown Health Clinic. He also serves on the Board of Directors for ASSIST, where he is instrumental in helping the organization to re-enter China after a 17-year hiatus.
Moorhead Chairs Board
m New board chair Rod Moorhead ’62 has served for 15 years as a trustee of the school. Michael Kodas
Taft Bulletin Summer 2006
First elected to the school’s board in 1991 as an alumni trustee, Rodman W. Moorhead III ’62 stayed on after the completion of his four-year term, becoming a corporate trustee and eventually the treasurer. He now succeeds Will Miller ’74 as board chair. “Rod is a natural choice as board chair, and there are few who have served the school so loyally and well over the years,” says Headmaster Willy MacMullen ’78. “As a graduate and parent (Rod ’97, Clay ’98), he knows the magic and mission of this school; and as a trustee of many years (as well as former chair of the Finance Committee, he brings incredible wisdom, passion and enthusiasm.” Moorhead is a senior adviser and a mem-
ber of the Operating Committee at Warburg Pincus. Prior to joining the firm in 1973, he was with Rosenthal & Company. He is a director of Chancellor Beacon Academies, Coventry Health Care, ElderTrust, 4GL School Solutions, Scientific Learning Corporation, and Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in economics and earned his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. In addition to his work for Taft, he is a member of the Board of Overseers’ Committee on University Resources at Harvard College, a director of the Stroud Water Research Center, and a trustee of the Brandywine Conservancy and the Cheshire Hunt Conservancy.