The dean of the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences from 1970-83, Paul Magelli died on Dec. 4. He was 85. He is the man wearing the yellow sweater in the picture above. After leaving WSU, Magelli went on to become the founder and executive director of OSBI Business Consulting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Some of his career highlights included President, Parkland College, Champaign, Illinois; President, Metropolitan State College, Denver; and Vice President for Academic Administration, Drake University; Des Moines, Iowa. An active administrator and consultant, he also served as an advisor to The Kaufman Foundation on the development and implementation of initiatives to advance entrepreneurship training and knowledge, which included efforts at American colleges and universities. Magelli also helped establish the Bristol Enterprise Centre at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. During the past few years he frequently taught in China, and participated in a Mayo Clinic study for clinical and aging populations related to hypoxia, the response to altitude. As part of the hypoxia research, Magelli had climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and had hoped to do so again in the future.
