97-09-05 Trustees: Personnel Appointments

TRUSTEES APPROVE APPOINTMENTS TO PROFESSORSHIPS, BOARDS

     COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University Board of Trustees
approved Friday (9/5) a variety of appointments to
professorships, a regional campus board and the hospitals board.
Appointments

     Trustees appointed Lawrence W. Libby of UPPER ARLINGTON to
the C. William Swank Chair in Rural and Urban Policy in the
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology. 

     Libby, who joined the faculty Aug. 1, was a professor and
chair of the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the
University of Florida from 1987 to 1996.  He spent 1996-97 as a
visiting scholar with the Center for Agriculture in the
Environment, American Farmland Trust, in DeKalb, Ill.  He
received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Maine and
his master’s degree and Ph.D. from Cornell University. 

     Libby’s background includes public service roles in land and
water policy.  He is past executive director of the New York
State Commission on Preservation of Agricultural Land, and was
coordinator for land, air, water and solid waste in the Secretary
of Agriculture’s Office of Environmental Quality in 1978.  He
taught land economics and policy analysis courses from 1970 to
1987 as a faculty member at Michigan State University, where he
also conducted research and extension programs with emphasis on
land and water policy, public land management and environmental
quality.

     Libby is the first holder of the Swank professorship, which
is named in honor of C. William Swank, longtime executive vice
president and chief executive officer of the Ohio Farm Bureau
Federation.  The mission of the rural-urban policy chair is to
develop and disseminate information needed to address issues
ranging from property rights and waste management to animal
welfare and public finance/taxation.

     Trustees also named James E. Meeks of UPPER ARLINGTON,
professor of law and former dean of the College of Law, to the
Presidents Club Professorship in Law.

     Meeks served as dean from 1978 to 1985, when he returned to
teaching and research as a member of the law faculty.  He also
served the university administration as special assistant to the
president for legal affairs from 1988 to 1992.  During that time,
Meeks reorganized that job into the vice presidency and general
counsel and the Office of Legal Affairs.  He was part-time
special assistant to the university vice president for research
from 1992 to 1995, handling matters involving research integrity
and conflicts of interest for the university.

     Meeks’ primary research interests are in the fields of
public utilities and torts; on the faculty, he has taught in the
areas of torts, antitrust, regulated industries, and law and
economics.  Before coming to Ohio State, he had served on the
faculty of the University of Iowa College of Law from 1964 to
1978.

     The Presidents Club Professorship in Law was established in
1979 through gifts from alumni and friends who joined the
Presidents Club and designated their gifts be spent at the
direction of the College of Law dean.  The professorship is
designed to support the work of a distinguished scholar and
teacher in the College of Law.

     In other appointments, trustees appointed Ruth M. Charney of
COLUMBUS (43201) as interim chair of the Department of
Mathematics, through June 30, 1998. 

     The board also appointed R. Reed Fraley, associate vice
president for health sciences and executive director of
University Hospitals, to a post on the Board of Trustees of
Clinical Enterprise Inc., a physician practice organization.

Reappointments

     The board reappointed:

     -- Randall E. Harris of WORTHINGTON as interim director of
the School of Public Health, through June 30, 1998.

     -- C. Ronald Huff of WORTHINGTON as director of the School
of Public Policy and Management, through June 30, 1998.

Appointments and reappointments to regional campus boards

     The board appointed three people to The Ohio State
University-Lima campus board.  B. LaMont Monford Sr., pastor of
Philippian Missionary Baptist Church of Lima, and Dow Wagner of
SPENCERVILLE, owner of a therapeutic training center for
standardbred harness horses, were appointed to three-year terms. 
Jim Patton of ELIDA, a senior scheduled to graduate autumn
quarter who plans to begin the master’s degree program in adult
education winter quarter, was appointed to a one-year term. 
George Brooks, vice president, commercial banking group at Bank
One Lima, was reappointed to a three-year board term.

Appointments and reappointments to University Hospitals board

     Trustees appointed John G. Kramer, a MARTINS FERRY dentist,
and reappointed Peter F. Frenzer of POWELL, retired president of 
the Nationwide Life Insurance Co., as general public members of
the University Hospitals Board through May 31, 2000.

Emeritus titles granted

     Trustees granted emeritus titles, retroactive to July 1, to:

     -- Francis X. Beytagh of UPPER ARLINGTON, professor emeritus
of law.

     -- John F. Condon of COLUMBUS (43214), clinical professor
emeritus of internal medicine.

Resolutions in memoriam

     The board adopted resolutions in memoriam for:

     -- James V. Marquard, associate professor in the College of
Dentistry, who died July 6.

     -- Donald R. Meyer, professor emeritus in the Department of
Psychology, who died July 23.

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Contact:  Emily Caldwell, University Communications, 614-292-8309


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