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Ronald C. Wornick got a lot done. He turned an MIT degree in food science into a sterling career as a corporate executive and business owner, creating thousands of jobs. He headed a large and loving family. He was an accomplished woodworker and art collector. He sat on scores of Jewish community boards, and he became a high-impact philanthropist.
Yet nothing made him happier than interacting with students at the Foster City Jewish day school that has borne his name since 2004. Wornick died July 31 in San Francisco after a long illness. He was 89.
“He never left anything half done,” said his son Kenneth Wornick. “He self-assigned huge projects in every sphere of industry, philanthropy and art.”
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The Rainbow House Art Show celebrates the work of late community leader Norman Fontaine and features a gallery of work by local artists, including some never-before-seen pieces by Fontaine. Courtesy Daniel Gonzales/Rainbow House Art Show.
A unique event taking place Sunday, Aug. 1, celebrates the many talents of a late community leader and his vision. The Rainbow House Art Show, which will be held from noon to 5 p.m. at Cooley Landing Park, 2100 Bay Road, East Palo Alto, highlights the creativity and community spirit of Norman Fontaine, an artist and musician from East Palo Alto.
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Wilson, a professor of art and art history at Columbia College Chicago, is an object and image maker whose work celebrates the Black imagination as a technology of resistance and self-determination. She is a co-founder and principal of blkHaUS studios, a socially focused design studio based in Chicago that uses design as an agent of change to uplift and transform marginalized communities.
“I am pleased Folayemi Wilson has agreed to join our leadership team in the College of Arts and Architecture,” said B. Stephen Carpenter II, dean of the College of Arts and Architecture. “As our inaugural associate dean for access and equity, her experience as a visual artist, educator, designer and administrator provides a powerful perspective from which she will lead us in questioning and addressing assumptions about diversity, inclusion, access and equity. Her efforts will lead us forward in response to our commitment to addressing social, cultural and institution