96-02-02 TRUSTEES: Development, Other Business

ACTIONS OF THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES

	COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University Board of Trustees 
established a chair in marketing and several other endowed funds 
totaling $2.6 million, sold land in Fairfield County, accepted 
research contracts, and conducted other business during a meeting 
Friday (2/2).

Trustees establish Kurtz Chair in Marketing

	The board established The Helen C. Kurtz Chair in Marketing 
with a $1.25-million gift from the late Helen C. and Ralph W. 
Kurtz in support of the Max M. Fisher College of Business.  The 
income will be used to support an internationally recognized 
scholar in marketing, with research and teaching focused 
preferably on advertising, retailing, and promotions strategies.

	During their lifetimes, the Kurtzes supported Ohio State 
through several chairs, including the Helen C. Kurtz chairs in 
chemical engineering and neurology and the Ralph W. Kurtz chairs 
in finance, hormonology, and mechanical engineering.  Ralph Kurtz 
received his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from Ohio 
State in 1923.

Wolf and Colley fund endowments

	Trustees also established two endowed funds with gifts from 
members of the board.

	Milton A. Wolf, chairman of the board, and his wife, Roslyn, 
have contributed gifts totaling $199,375 for The Ambassador 
Milton A. and Roslyn Z. Wolf Chair Fund.

	When sufficient funding is reached, the annual income will 
support an endowed chair in an area yet to be determined.  At 
Wolf's option, the chair fund may be converted to a scholarship 
fund.  Wolf received his Bachelor of Arts degree in biological 
sciences from Ohio State in 1948.  He is a former U.S. ambassador 
to Austria.

	Trustees also established The Michael F. Colley Fund for The 
Michael F. Colley Trial Advocacy Skills Competitions Program with 
a gift of $115,000 from Colley, a board member, and Michael F. 
Colley Co., his Columbus law firm.

	Colley earned two degrees from Ohio State:  a Bachelor of 
Arts in social sciences in 1959 and a law degree in 1961.

	When the endowment reaches $250,000, the annual income will 
be used to support the trial advocacy skills competitions program 
in the College of Law.  The program includes an intrascholastic 
competition and two interscholastic competition teams.  The 
respective trial advocacy teams will be known as the Michael F. 
Colley National Mock Trial Team and the Michael F. Colley Student 
Trial Advocacy Team.

	The board also established the following endowed funds:

	--  The Harry D. Moore and Lois A. Moore Memorial Fund, 
$300,000, for the purchase of materials and equipment in the 
College of Engineering, 50 percent of which will be used for the 
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.

	-- The Gwen H. Kagey Memorial University/Distinguished 
Scholarship Fund, $262,500.

	-- The College of Medicine Surgery Chair Fund, $199,784.

	-- The Friends of the Libraries Endowment Fund, $25,000, for 
library materials and other purposes.

	-- The Ross/Abbott Laboratories Scholarship Fund, $25,000, 
for students in the Department of Agricultural Engineering.

	-- The Lois Simonds Hungate Extension Fellowship, $17,500, 
for doctoral students in extension education, agricultural 
economics or human ecology.

	-- The Stella R. Jenks Education Library Endowment Fund, 
$16,702, for resources and equipment.

	-- OSU Mansfield Business Program, $15,760.

	-- The Henry A. and Amelia T. Nasrallah Award for Research 
Excellence in Psychiatry, $15,000.

	-- The Dr. Garner M. Robertson Memorial Scholarship Fund in 
Pharmacy, $15,000.

	-- The Elaine S. and John C. Rule Study Abroad Fund, 
$15,000, in the Department of History.

	-- The Lovell B. Tipton Endowed Fund for the Benefit of The 
Young Scholars Program, $73,607.

	-- The Gerlach Athletic Scholars Fund, $63,750.

	-- The Ronald L. Stuckey Stone Laboratory Endowment Fund, 
$15,000, to support a faculty member in offering a course in 
vascular aquatic plants at the Lake Erie laboratory.

Campaign reaches 41 percent of goal

	Ohio State's $850 million fund-raising effort, the Affirm 
Thy Friendship Campaign, has reached 41 percent of its goal, 
Jerry May, vice president for development, announced in the 
Investments Committee.

	May said that represented $281.2 million in gifts, pledges 
and planned gifts committed as of the kickoff on Sept. 28, and 
$64 million in gifts and new commitments since then.  Actual cash 
campaign gifts to the university's endowment total nearly $60 
million.

	In addition, May reported that $48.2 million was received 
during the second half of 1995, the most gifts received in a six-
month period in university history.  The $21.3 million received 
just in December broke the $15.2 million monthly record set in 
December 1986.  December's receipts came in the form of 26,000 
gifts, also a record.

Trustees approve student services center at Newark

	Trustees authorized the Central Ohio Technical College to 
construct an addition to Hopewell Hall on the Ohio State 
University-Newark campus.

	A memorandum of understanding will be developed to permit 
construction of the addition which will support student service 
programs of both the university and college.

	The Ohio State University-Newark Board of Trustees 
recommended approval of the use of land on Jan. 18.

Board approves sale of more Barnebey Center land

	Trustees authorized the sale of about 125 acres of the 
Barnebey Center in southern Fairfield County to Jack and Rebecca 
Schumacher of CARROLL, or to the Metropolitan Park District of 
Columbus and Franklin County, which has the right of first 
refusal to purchase the property.

	Ohio State is selling its Barnebey holdings, which once 
consisted of more than 1,000 acres of land along Clear Creek, 
Revenge and Barnebey roads.  The land was used for several years 
to support a residential campus for natural resources students 
and their faculty.  The university sold 470 acres to the 
MetroParks in September 1994 and three smaller parcels ranging 
from 90 to 117 acres to individuals since then.

	The Schumachers have offered to purchase about 125 acres, 
including timber and mineral rights, on the north side of Clear 
Creek Road for $1,100 per acre.  The value of the property was 
previously appraised at $750 per acre.

	The net proceeds from the sale of the land will be deposited 
in The Barnebey Family Scholarship Fund and the Annabelle Hoge 
Scholarship Fund for students in the School of Natural Resources.

Trustees approve 271 research contracts

	Trustees also approved 271 research contracts totaling 
nearly $16.6 million.  Singled out for special mention were:

	-- The Ohio Quality First Training and Technical Assistance 
Project, funded with $611,867 by the Ohio Department of 
Education's Division of Early Childhood Education.  Larry A. 
Magliocca of the Department of Educational Services and Research 
is heading the project to provide two years of technical 
assistance and training for state-funded Head Start, public 
school preschool grantees, child care providers and others.  
Training will focus on improving management capacity, integrated 
services, delivery of developmentally appropriate practices, and 
expansion planning.

	-- A project to integrate planning, forecasting and 
watershed level ecological risk assessment techniques.  The 
three-year demonstration project is being funded with $445,500 by 
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and will be conducted by 
Steven I. Gordon of the Knowlton School of Architecture and 
Andrew D. Ward of the Department of Agricultural Engineering.  
The project will incorporate data for seven streams in the 
Eastern Corn Belt Plains Ecoregion of Ohio to produce modeling 
tools for watershed management.  The data also will be used to 
produce an expert system that ties land use planning efforts to 
considerations of the potential impacts on watersheds.

	-- A three-year study to improve the understanding of how 
metals deform and how the deformations grow.  The project is 
being conducted by Amos Gilat of the Department of Aerospace 
Engineering, Applied Mechanics and Aviation with $202,587 from 
the National Science Foundation.

	-- The 1996 National Black Election Survey, to be conducted 
by Katherine Tate of the Department of Political Science with 
$184,995 from the National Science Foundation.  The survey is 
being conducted in part to establish the impact of the political 
environment and legislative representation on Black voting 
behavior and public opinion and to provide the third of a series 
of studies of Blacks' political attitudes and behavior.

	-- A study of the intrinsic conductivity of the metallic 
phase of conducting polymers by Arthur J. Epstein of the 
departments of Physics and Chemistry and the Center for Materials 
Research.  The National Science Foundation is providing $140,000 
as the first of a three-year, $420,000 funding commitment.

Miscellaneous actions

	In other matters, trustees:

	-- Approved a rule allowing the president to recommended 
eight candidates for honorary degrees each year, up from four.  
The change to the Rules of the University Faculty is part of an 
effort by the Committee on Honorary Degrees to increase the 
number of honors given at commencements.  Since 1970, Ohio State 
has granted 229 honorary degrees to individuals who have made 
extraordinary contributions to human understanding.

	-- Amended the University Hospitals Board Bylaws to 
designate the medical director as the chief medical officer 
reporting to the dean and board and to make housekeeping changes.

	-- Heard reports from James L. Nichols, treasurer, 
concerning development of a master plan for university land 
around Don Scott Field and scheduling of bids to be sought in the 
year ahead for financial services, including brokerage and credit 
card services, the university's master lease, and lock boxes.  A 
final report on land planning is to be issued in September.  
Nichols also reported that Johnson and Higgins, an international 
risk management firm, completed a risk management assessment 
review of the university.  Nichols said the university's Risk 
Management Advisory Council has been meeting to go over the 
recommendations and will report to trustees at the April board 
meeting.  Nichols also announced that the value of the 
university's Endowment Fund was $600.9 million as of Jan. 19.

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Contact:  David Ferguson, director of development communications, 
(614) 292-8646, Robert Haverkamp, assistant to the vice president 
for business and administration, 292-7970; Edward Hayes, vice 
president for research, 292-1582; or James L. Nichols, (614) 292-
6261.
Written by Tom Spring, (614) 292-8309.


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