KANSAS CITY, MO— Longtime Hyatt Regency Crown Center hotel general manager Rick Adie is leaving his post to become general manager at the Statler Hotel on the campus of his alma mater, Cornell University, in Ithaca, NY. The university-owned Statler provides a laboratory and real-world work experience for students in the universitys school of hotel administration. As general manager, Adie also will become a member of Cornells faculty. “After 27 years in this industry, I think Ive 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 managers post in Seattle. Macy has been with the company 23 years and worked for Adie at the Chicago Hyatt during the early 1990s. SOURCE: The Kansas City Star
