Retiring Gee honored

Ohio State University trustees have thanked and praised retiring President Gordon Gee in a board meeting that Gee joked sounded like a funeral. More than a dozen trustees broke from Friday’s agenda in Columbus, Ohio, to address Gee during his final board meeting as president. They called him a peerless figure in higher education. Several said they loved him. Gee told them his job was challenging but he had viewed it as a calling. Gee announced his July 1 retirement this week, days after the latest in a long line of his verbal gaffes became public. The 69-year-old Gee cited his age and family among reasons for retiring. – Associated Press