97-09-05 Trustees: Street renamed, endowment funds accepted

TRUSTEES RENAME STREET, ACCEPT NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS

     COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University Board of Trustees
voted Friday (9/5) to rename a portion of Fyffe Road in honor of
Fred Taylor, former head basketball coach, and accepted 22 new
named endowment funds.

Street renamed in honor of Coach Fred Taylor

     Trustees renamed a portion of Fyffe Road, between Lane
Avenue and Ackerman Road, as Fred Taylor Drive, in honor of the
former head basketball coach.

     The road runs along the west side of the Schottenstein
Center and will be a major access route to the new basketball
arena.

     Taylor, who coached the Buckeyes from 1959 to 1976, had a
career record of 297 wins and 158 losses for a winning percentage
of .654.  His teams appeared in five NCAA tournaments, winning
the national championship in 1960 and finishing second twice and
third once.  He holds Ohio State records for consecutive
victories (32), consecutive regular season wins (47), consecutive
Big Ten victories (27) and consecutive wins at home (50).  Taylor
was twice voted College Coach of the Year.

     Taylor, an Ohio State graduate, played both basketball and
baseball as a student, winning All America honors in baseball in
1950.

Board accepts 22 named endowed funds

     Trustees heard a report from Jerry May, vice president for
development, on development efforts, including the establishment
of the Professor Sylvan G. Frank Graduate Fellowship in
Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry.  Gifts of $453,750
were received from Chih-Ming Chen of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to
provide one graduate student fellowship per year under the
direction of Sylvan G. Frank, professor of pharmacy.

     May also reported the establishment of 21 other new named
endowed funds with gifts totaling more than $2 million.

     -- The George M. and Renée K. Levine Graduate Fellowship in
Jewish Studies, $245,000.

     -- The Margaret D. Blickle Endowed Research Fund for
Graduate Students, $101,928, to support travel for graduate
students in the English Department doing research or presenting
results of research at professional meetings.

     -- The Marilyn and Donald Harris Scholarship Fund, $71,703,
for graduate or undergraduate students pursuing studies in music
composition.

     -- The Marion County 4-H Endowment Fund, $55,200, to support
a variety of activities in the Marion County 4-H Program.

     -- The Sally K. Ebling Urban Extension 4-H Fund, $50,125, to
support 4-H volunteer and county extension agents leadership
training.

     -- The 4-H Camp Palmer Endowment Fund, $16,666, to enhance
and foster further development of resources and camping programs
at 4-H Camp Palmer.

     -- The Fayette County 4-H Endowment Fund, $15,335, to
support a variety of activities in the Fayette County 4-H
Program.

     -- The Medina County Herb Society Endowment Fund, $15,000,
to provide a scholarship to a continuing horticulture student
enrolled at the Ohio State University Agricultural Technical
Institute.

     -- The Ruth Shaw Murphey Medical Research Fund, $251,861, to
support researchers at the Medical Research Facility.

     -- The Battelle Fund in Inhalation Therapeutics, $250,000,
to support research in inhalation therapeutics that will be used
to guide the selection of drugs and formulations for pulmonary
delivery.

     -- The W. Arthur Cullman MBA Fellowship, $250,000, to
provide fellowships to MBA students, with preference given to
those with a marketing emphasis.

     -- The Alice L. Akerberg, Dean’s Innovation Fund, $204,368,
to support students and faculty in the Max M. Fisher College of
Business.

     -- The Arthur E. Shepard Family Fund, $150,000, for
discretionary use university-wide.

     -- The Benua Foundation Fund in Orthopedic Surgery,
$100,000, to support the advancement of medical knowledge in the
field of orthopedic surgery, with preference to research in
orthopedic joint reconstructive surgery.

     -- The Ronald D. Brooks Athletic Scholarship Fund, $55,132,
to supplement the student-athlete grant-in-aid scholarship costs
of a football player pursuing an undergraduate degree.

     -- The William M. and Rosalind W. Wolfson Scholarship in the
Fisher College of Business, $50,000, to provide scholarships for
out-of-state, economically disadvantaged undergraduate students
majoring in business with a minimum GPA of 3.0.

     -- The Sylvia Westerman Endowed Fund, $37,781, for the
conservation and maintenance of the collection of the Jerome
Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute.

     -- The Alumnae Scholarship Housing Residents Fund, $25,210,
to provide funds for current financial needs of residents and/or
for capital improvements, equipment or furnishings of Alumnae
Scholarship Housing.

     -- The Geraldine M. and Wayne H. Kuhn Endowed Scholarship
Fund, $25,113, for student scholarships, with preference given to
those attending the Marion Campus who represent the top one-third
of their high school class and who are pursuing study in
engineering, human ecology or related sciences/social sciences.

     -- The Janice Kirk and Robert P. van Blaricom Greek
Leadership Fund, $25,000, which will be distributed to the Office
of Greek Affairs to support leadership training of student
leaders of fraternity and sorority chapters at Ohio State.

     -- The Honda Trading America Scholarship Fund, $25,000, to
support a scholarship for a junior or senior studying
transportation and logistics or international business in the
Fisher College of Business.

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Contact:  Ruth Gerstner, University Communications, 614-292-8424


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