97-11-07 Trustees: Development Report, Personnel Matters

TRUSTEES ACCEPT NAMED ENDOWED FUNDS, CONDUCT PERSONNEL MATTERS

     COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University Board of Trustees
accepted 10 new named endowed funds and conducted personnel
matters during its meeting Friday (11/7).
Board accepts 10 named endowed funds

     Trustees heard a report from Jerry May, vice president for
development, on development efforts, including the establishment
of a memorial fund honoring a prominent university citizen.  The
Ruth Weimer Mount Leadership Initiatives Fund was created with
memorial gifts of $30,000 from a multitude of students,
colleagues, friends and family.

     Mount, former associate dean of women, director of women’s
housing and first dean of students at Ohio State, had a long
legacy of service to the university extending from the time she
joined the staff in 1953 until her death this past summer.  After
retiring in 1969, she maintained an active schedule of volunteer
service to student groups, WOSU, the Alumni Association, the
Friends of the Libraries and numerous other university and
community groups.  The fund will be used to establish or enhance
“servant leadership” learning experiences that create and promote
opportunities for students, faculty, staff and alumni to interact
and grow as leaders.

     May also reported the establishment of nine other new named
endowed funds with gifts totaling more than $290,000.

     -- The Procter & Gamble Faculty Excellence Award, $50,596,
to fund an annual award for a faculty member in the College of
Law.

     -- Atlanta Alumni Scholars Fund, $31,970, to fund merit
scholarships to Atlanta-area high school graduates.

     -- The Wilhelm and Eleanor Beckert Student Loan and
Fellowship Endowment, $27,969, to provide student loans and
stipends in the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science.

     -- The Alphyl Endowment Fund, $15,428, to support earth
systems education efforts in Ohio and the nation.

     -- Allen County 4-H Endowment Fund, $15,008.

     -- American Electric Power Cancer Research Endowment Fund,
$50,000, to support human cancer genetics research at the
Comprehensive Cancer Center - The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital
and Research Institute.

     -- Student-Alumni Council Operations and Service Endowment
Fund, $50,000, to support service projects and operating expenses
of the Student-Alumni Council.

     -- The John G. and Jeanne McCoy Medical Research Fund,
$25,000, to support researchers in the Medical Research Facility,
with selection made through a grant process.

     -- The William Herbert Price and Elizabeth Brooks Price
Athletic Scholarship Endowment Fund, $25,000, to provide
scholarships for student athletes.

     May also reported to the the Educational Affairs Committee
about the impact of private support on academic quality.  One way
to measure the positive effect is with new endowments established
from the Affirm Thy Friendship Campaign, he said. 
     
     To date, the fund-raising campaign has funded 49 chairs or
professorships, which represent more than one third of Ohio
State’s total chairs or professorships.  Also, 255 scholarships
or fellowships and 150 research or program funds have been
established.  In addition, May said that since last autumn,
faculty support is up 198 percent, gifts to student financial aid
projects are up 86 percent and donor support for buildings and
equipment is up 45 percent.

Appointments, reappointments

     Trustees appointed Robert E. Michler director of the
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and to the Karl P. Klassen
Chair of Thoracic Surgery.  Michler is a leading expert in
xenograft heart transplantation -- the use of animal tissue to
replace human donor organs.  He came to Ohio State from Columbia-
Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, where he had been
director of the cardiac transplant service for five years.  He
also had directed the cardiac transplantation and research
laboratory at Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons, one of the five largest heart transplant programs in
the nation, since 1991.

     Patric H. Hendershott of UPPER ARLINGTON, professor in the
Department of Finance, was reappointed to the John W. Galbreath
Chair in Real Estate through June 30, 2000.

     The board also reappointed Lawrence A. Tomassini of UPPER
ARLINGTON as chair of the Department of Accounting and Management
Information Systems through Sept. 30, 2001.

     Trustees appointed Wayne Walston of MANSFIELD, vice
president-law, external affairs and secretary for Sprint’s local
operations in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania and New
Jersey, to the Ohio State University-Mansfield Campus Board from
Jan. 1, 1998 to June 30, 1999.  Trustees also reappointed student
trustee Katheryn M. Lloyd of GRANVILLE to the Ohio State-Newark
Campus Board.

Miscellaneous

     In other business, trustees:

     -- Adopted a resolution in memoriam for John H. McDowell,
professor emeritus in the Department of Theatre.

     -- Approved 157 contracts totaling $18.2 million for
research projects funded in September.

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Contact:      Roger Addleman, University Development, (614) 292-3647
              Emily Caldwell, University Communications, (614)
              292-8309

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[Submitted by: Von Vargas  (vargas.12@osu.edu)
               
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