02-03-95 Trustees Appoint Faculty, Other Business

OHIO STATE APPOINTS CHAIR, LEGAL COUNSEL, HOSPITAL DIRECTOR

     COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University Board of Trustees on
Friday (2/3) established an endowed chair in electrical
engineering and appointed a professor to the position, employed
general legal counsel and a director of the Veterinary Hospital,
created an endowed chair and several endowed funds, and acted on
several other matters, as follows:

Sebo named to Smith Chair in Electrical Engineering

     The board created The Neal A. Smith Chair in Electrical
Engineering and appointed Stephen A. Sebo, a professor of
electrical engineering, to the post for a four-year term.

     Sebo formerly held the American Electric Power Professorship
of Power Systems Engineering at Ohio State.  He conducts research
in electric power systems, including generation and transmission,
and in high voltage engineering.  Sebo has developed and taught
several courses in his field.  He is a Fellow of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member of the
International Conference on Large High Tension Electric Systems.

     A native of Hungary, Sebo has a Master of Science in
Electrical Engineering with honors from the Budapest Technical
University and a doctorate from the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences.  He joined Ohio State in 1968.

     The chair was created with $1,315,186 in previous gifts from
the estates of Neal A. and Faye L. Smith.  Neil Smith was a
professor emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering
who earned his bachelor's and master's degrees there in the
1940s.  Faye Smith, who had bachelor's and master's degrees in
education from Ohio State, was assistant to the secretary of the
board of trustees emeritus.

     The Smiths created the chair to support the salary and
program of an internationally recognized scholar in electrical
engineering, with emphasis on power systems engineering, which
was Neal Smith's specialty.

     Ninety percent of the annual income will be used to support
the salary and program of the chair holder and 10 percent of the
annual income will be reinvested in the principal.

Board names Trethewey as general counsel

     The board named Virginia M. Trethewey, 49, former partner in
the Columbus law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, as Ohio
State's new general counsel and vice president for legal affairs.
Trethewey will be responsible for coordinating and supervising
all legal matters at the university.  She will assume her duties
on Feb. 13.

     As a public university, Ohio State is represented legally by
both its own counsel and the state attorney general's office.
Trethewey was recommended by Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee
and Ohio Attorney General Betty Montgomery.  She will serve as an
assistant state attorney general, and will coordinate assignments
with the attorney general's staff and the university's internal
and external counsel.

     Trethewey will succeed Robert M. Duncan, who will continue
to serve as secretary to the Board of Trustees.

     A former school teacher, Trethewey received her law degree
cum laude from Ohio State's College of Law and her bachelor's
degree in political science from the University of Washington.

     She is past president of the board of the Columbus Speech
and Hearing Center, a trustee of the Ohioana Library Association
and a trustee and chair of the development committee of the
Wellington School.

Veterinary Hospital director, department chairs named

     Trustees appointed Richard M. Bednarski of GALENA as
director of the Veterinary Hospital through June 1995.
Bednarski, an associate professor of veterinary clinical
sciences, has been serving as director since shortly after Glen
Hoffsis left the position to become interim dean of the College
of Veterinary Medicine in 1993.

     Bednarski teaches and conducts research in veterinary
anesthesia, with particular emphasis on the interaction of
anesthetic drugs with the cardiovascular system.

     He has a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and his
veterinary degree from Ohio State and completed his residency in
anesthesiology there.

     Bednarski taught at the veterinary school at the University
of Wisconsin from 1983 to 1986, then joined the Ohio State
faculty in 1987.

     The Ohio State Veterinary Hospital provides primary,
secondary or tertiary care to some 20,000 patients a year.  Most
patients are dogs, cats, horses and cattle.  The hospital also
treats more exotic patients such as birds, reptiles, llamas and
pot-bellied pigs, and provides referral care to the Columbus Zoo.
About 70 veterinarians and 100 staff members work at the
hospital.

     In addition, the board appointed Kathryn A. Jakes as acting
chairperson of the departments of Family Resource Management and
Textiles and Clothing, through June.  Jakes succeeds the late
Lucy R. Sibley who had been slated to lead the two departments as
they merge into a new Department of Consumer and Textile Science.

     Georg R. Heimdal was named acting chairperson of the
Department of Art through June 1996.

     Trustees reappointed:

     -- John S. McDonald of DUBLIN as chairperson of the
Department of Anesthesiology, through June.  The appointment is
retroactive to July 1, 1994.
     -- Mary M. O'Sullivan as acting director of the School of
Health, Physical Education and Recreation, through September.
The appointment is retroactive to Oct. 1, 1994.
     -- Ray D. Ryan of WORTHINGTON as executive director of the
Center on Education and Training for Employment, through
December.  The appointment is retroactive to July 1, 1994.

Emeritus titles granted

     The board granted emeritus titles to retiring faculty as
follows:

     -- Thomas L. Sweeney of POWELL, associate vice president for
research and professor emeritus, Office of Research and
Department of Chemical Engineering, retroactive to Jan. 1.
     -- Daniel B. Hodge of UPPER ARLINGTON, professor emeritus,
Department of Electrical Engineering, retroactive to Jan. 1.
     -- Alan R. Osborne of WORTHINGTON, professor emeritus,
Department of Educational Theory and Practice, retroactive to
Jan. 1.
     -- Thomas E. Webb of UPPER ARLINGTON, professor emeritus,
Department of Medical Biochemistry, retroactive to Jan. 1.
     -- Arnold M. Zwicky of BEECHWOLD (43214), professor
emeritus, Department of Linguistics, retroactive to Wednesday.
     -- James R. Blakeslee Jr. of LONDON, associate professor
emeritus, Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Cellular Biology,
retroactive to Feb. 1.
     -- Garnard J. Boner of RICHWOOD (43344), associate professor
emeritus, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, retroactive
to Jan. 1.
     -- Richard J. Hopkins of CLINTONVILLE (43202), associate
professor emeritus, Department of History, retroactive to Jan. 1.
     -- Edwin K. Michal, Department of Physiology, associate
professor emeritus, Department of Physiology, retroactive to Jan.
1.
     -- Thomas J. Miller, clinical assistant professor emeritus,
College of Dentistry, retroactive to Dec. 1, 1994.
     -- Mary Lee Lofland of ATWATER (44201), instructor emeritus,
Ohio State University Extension (Portage County), retroactive to
Jan. 1.

     The board awarded posthumously the title of professor
emeritus to Thomas M. Ostrom, Department of Psychology,
retroactive to Feb. 1.

Resolutions in Memoriam

     The board adopted resolutions in memoriam for:

     -- George R. Gist, director emeritus, Ohio State University
Extension, who died Jan. 8.
     -- Ira A. Gould Jr., professor emeritus, Department of Food
Science and Technology and Ohio State University Extension, and
former chairman of the Dairy Technology Department, who died Nov.
5, 1994.
     -- Harriet M. Green, instructor emeritus, Ohio State
University Extension, and former home demonstration agent in
Coshocton County, who died Nov. 23, 1994.
     -- Mary Overmyer King, assistant professor, Ohio State
University Extension, and Crawford County's extension agent in
home economics, who died Nov. 25, 1994.
     -- Anthony C. Riccio, professor emeritus, Department of
Educational Services and Research, who died Dec. 10, 1993.
     -- Lucy Roy Sibley, professor, Department of Textiles and
Clothing, former chairperson, Department of Textiles and
Clothing, and acting chairperson of the departments of Textiles
and Clothing and Family Resource Management, who died Oct. 26,
1994.

Board establishes Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Chair, 12 funds

     Trustees established The Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corporation
Chair for Clincal Research.  The Sandoz Chair was created with
$1,250,000 from a fund established in October 1989 with gifts
from Sandoz Research Inc.  The income from the endowment will
support a faculty member's clinical research in the College of
Medicine and University Hospitals in areas of mutual interest to
the donor and the university.

     The board also created 12 named endowed funds:

     -- The David R. Lipphardt Scholarship in Manufacturing, in
the College of Engineering, $100,000.
     -- The Robert F. Suerdieck Scholarship Fund, to support the
L.C. Chadwick Foundation and to provide scholarships for students
in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences,
$82,977.
     -- The Milburn Endowed Fund for Peace Studies, $22,010.
     -- Neil J. and Florence E. Bailey Scholarship in Optometry,
$22,000.
     -- The Service-Jerome Scholarship Fund for the benefit of
students from Ashtabula County, $20,000.
     -- The Community Bankers Association of Ohio 4-H Bank
Scholars Fund, $18,000.
     -- The Meijer Inc. Scholarship Fund in the College of
Pharmacy, $16,000.
     -- The Donald E. McGinnis Concert Band Scholarship Fund,
$15,868.
     -- The Muskingum County 4-H Endowment Fund, $15,236.08.
     -- The Diana Grossman Adams Memorial Scholarship Fund for
students seeking teaching certification in elementary education,
$15,000.
     -- The Glenn O. and Lois S. Schwab Scholarship Fund in the
colleges of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences and
Biological Sciences, $15,000.
     -- The Patricia D. and D. Randall Morris Scholarship Fund
for the work-study program, $15,000.

Miscellaneous actions

     In other matters, the board:

     -- Reviewed the Strategic Plan for Research at Ohio State,
presented by Edward F. Hayes, vice president for research.

     -- Amended the Rules of the University Faculty to include
the director of the Department of Disability Services and the
assistant vice president--university architect among the non-
voting members of the Committee on Traffic, Parking, and Public
Safety.

     -- Ordered the conferring of degrees and certificates on
March 17 to those persons who have completed the requirements for
them.

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Contact:  Tom Spring, University Communications,
          (614) 292-8309.


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