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Rick Adie Will Be General Manager at the Statler Hotel on Cornell Campus, Also Joining Cornell's Faculty

By Rick Alm, The Kansas City Star, Mo.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News 

Jun. 7--Longtime Hyatt Regency Crown Center hotel general manager Rick Adie is moving from the lodging industry to academia -- sort of. 

Later this month, Adie, 48, will become general manager at the Statler Hotel on the campus of his alma mater, Cornell University, in Ithaca, N.Y. 

The university-owned Statler provides a laboratory and real-world work experience for students in the university's school of hotel administration. As general manager, Adie also will become a member of Cornell's faculty. 

"After 27 years in this industry, I think I've got something to contribute," said the Boston native, who has run the Kansas City Hyatt for nine years following stints at Hyatt hotels in Chicago, South Carolina, California, Houston, Denver and San Francisco. 

Rusty Macy, a Kansas City Hyatt executive during the late 1980s, will return to Kansas City as general manager, leaving a Hyatt general manager's post in Seattle. 

Macy has been with the company 23 years and worked for Adie at the Chicago Hyatt during the early 1990s. 

Adie leaves large shoes to fill, Macy said. 

"I'm anxious to put them on and grow into them," he said. 

Adie's nine-year tenure in Kansas City was unusual in the typically nomadic existence of a hotel chain executive. 

His June 24 departure will leave a void in Kansas City's civic arena. 

Adie has been chairman of the Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Kansas City, and the Hotel and Motel Association of Greater Kansas City. He has served on the boards of numerous civic and philanthropic organizations, including Trinity Lutheran Hospital, Rotary, the Urban League and the Downtown Council. 

Tom Holden, the hotel association's executive director, said Adie has been a guiding force in the hotel industry and is one of only two local hoteliers recognized by the organization with scholarships established in their names. 

"He will be sorely missed," said Tom Bash, a longtime Rotary official who recounted Adie's contribution to numerous local causes, including its camp for disadvantaged youngsters at Lake Jacomo. 

Wednesday evening, the Hyatt ballroom was filled with friends and associates who bid Adie farewell. 

"Most others wouldn't give the hours and energy that he has," said Bash of Adie's civic spirit. 

Looking around the crowded room, he marveled, "Somehow he's managed to not irritate anybody." 

-----To see more of The Kansas City Star, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.kansascity.com. 

(c) 2002, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. 


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