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Bowties in space
The renown of E. Gordon Gee reached new heights this week: Space.
The well-paid President of Ohio State University is known for his bowties, and now one of them is officially the first bow tie in space.
Richard Linnehan, NASA’s first veterinarian and an Ohio State alumnus, brought one of Gee’s scarlet-and-gray bowties aboard the space shuttle Endeavor (Mission STS-123) for two-week trip to the International Space Station. Linnehan will present the bowtie to Gee upon its return to Earth, in a special commemorative frame.
Gee is known for holding several high-profile university presidencies, one of them making him the highest paid college president in the country.
He is in his second tenure as the president of the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, where he is earning $775,000 in base salary and will be eligible for $225,000 in deferred compensation after five years. He was previously president from 1990 to 1997. Before coming back to OSU, Gee was chancellor of Vanderbilt University from 2000 to 2007, where his total compensation hit more than $1.8-million in 2005-6, making him the highest-paid university president in the country.
Here’s another fun fact: Gee is also an Eagle Scout.
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