| May 4, 2001 |
Contact: Elizabeth Conlisk
(614) 292-3040
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David
Brennan to head OSU Board of Trustees
COLUMBUS -- David L. Brennan, an Akron businessman and Republican
leader, was named chair of The Ohio State University Board of Trustees on Friday
(5/4). He succeeds George Skestos, whose one-year term as chair and nine-year
term as trustee ends on May 13.
As chair, Brennan will lead the board of
a university with more than 55,000 students on six campuses throughout Ohio
and an annual budget exceeding $2 billion.
Brennan, who joined the board in 1993, is a 1953 graduate of Ohio State and
received a juris doctor degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1957.
He is chair of Brennan Industrial Group, Inc., and the Brenlin Group, Inc.,
both of which are private holding companies of industrial and manufacturing
entities headquartered in Akron. He is a founder of the Amer Cunningham Brennan
law firm.
Active in state and national Republican
politics, he is a member of the National Republican Party’s Team 100, and was
an Ohio delegate to the 1988 and 1992 Republican National Conventions.
Brennan is a trustee at both his alma maters, Ohio State and Case Western Reserve,
and has established law chairs at Case Western Reserve and the University of
Akron. He also serves as a trustee on the Akron Bar Scholarship Foundation.
He is a member of the Ohio Business Roundtable and past chair of the Western
Reserve Economic Development Council board.
Brennan is an advocate for educational choice and, in 1998, formed White Hat
Management, Inc., which manages 12 scholarship and community schools on northern
Ohio. He was named by Gov. George Voinovich to head the Governor’s Commission
on Educational Choice. His community awards include the Governor’s Award for
work in education, specifically the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program.
James F. Patterson of CHESTERLAND, a trustee since 1994, was elected vice-chairman. Patterson, owner of Patterson Fruit Farm in Chesterland, is a fifth-generation farmer and a 1964 graduate of Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. He is a former Geauga County commissioner and a past president of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation.
The trustees re-elected William J. Napier as secretary and James L. Nichols as treasurer.
The board approved the appointment of members to various committees and as representatives to other university-affiliated boards as follows:
Student and Educational Affairs: Robert M. Duncan, chair; Tamala Longaberger, vice chair; Daniel M. Slane; Kevin R. Filiatraut; new student trustee (to be appointed)
-- Student Advising Ad Hoc Committee: Tamala Longaberger, chair; Robert M. Duncan, vice chair, new student trustee
--Employee Education Ad Hoc Committee: James F. Patterson, chair; Dimon McFerson, vice chair; new trustee (to be appointed)
Fiscal Affairs: James F. Patterson, chair; Karen L. Hendricks, vice chair; Dimon R. McFerson; Zuheir Sofia, new trustee
-- Planning Ad Hoc Committee: Karen Hendricks, chair; Dimon McFerson, vice chair
-- Athletics Ad Hoc Committee: Daniel M. Slane, chair; Karen Hendricks, vice chair; James F. Patterson
Investments: Zuheir Sofia, chair; Karen Hendricks, vice chair; Robert M. Duncan; new trustee; John Gerlach, Jr. (Foundation Board); William Ingram III (Foundation Board)
Agricultural Affairs: James F. Patterson, chair; Fred L. Dailey, vice chair ex-officio; Tamala Longaberger; Dimon R. McFerson; new student trustee
Outreach and Engagement: Tamala Longaberger, chair; Daniel M. Slane, vice chair; Karen L. Hendricks, Kevin R. Filiatraut, Dan Heinlen, ex officio
-- Distance Learning Ad Hoc Committee: Daniel M. Slane, chair; Tamala Longaberger, vice chair; Zuheir Sofia; Kevin R. Filiatraut; Ted Celeste, ex officio
Government Relations: David L. Brennan, chair; James F. Patterson, vice chair; Daniel M. Slane; Robert M. Duncan, new trustee, Michael F. Colley, ex officio; William Blair, ex officio; Stan Aronoff, ex officio
Affiliated Entities: Dimon R. McFerson, chair; Robert M. Duncan, vice chair; Karen Hendricks; Kevin Filiatraut
Personnel: David L. Brennan, chair; James F. Patterson, vice chair; Zuheir Sofia
Regional Campus Boards: Lima – new trustee; Mansfield – James F. Patterson; Marion – Dimon R. McFerson; Newark – Daniel M. Slane
The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Research Institute Board: Zuheir Sofia, chair; Daniel M. Slane
University Hospitals Board: Zuheir Sofia, Daniel M. Slane
Research Foundation Board of Directors: Karen L. Hendricks
Science and Technology Campus Board of Directors: Robert M. Duncan
University Managed Health Care System, Inc., Board of Directors: Robert M. Duncan
University Foundation Ex Officio Class of Directors: James F. Patterson (one year); Tamala Longaberger (two years); Zuheir Sofia (three years)
Wexner Center Foundation Board: Leslie H. Wexner (2002); new trustee
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