BOARD ACCEPTS ENDOWED FUNDS, APPROVES APPOINTMENTS

	COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University Board of Trustees on 
Friday (3/6) accepted 13 new named endowed funds, approved several 
appointments and conducted miscellaneous business.

Board accepts 13 new named endowed funds

	Trustees heard a report from Jerry May, vice president for 
development, on fund-raising efforts, including the establishment of 
the Center for Education and Economic Development Support Fund.  
Gifts of $426,929 were received from many individuals, companies and 
organizations to fund construction, operating expenses and program 
support for the Center for Education and Economic Development at the 
university’s Agricultural Technical Institute in Wooster, Ohio.

	May also reported the establishment of 12 new named endowed
funds with gifts totaling more than $885,000:

	-- Los Angeles Alumni Scholarship Endowment Fund, $17,521, to 
provide merit scholarships for graduates of greater Los Angeles area 
high schools.

	-- Shelby County Alumni Scholarship Endowment Fund, $15,040, to 
provide scholarships for Shelby County High School graduates.

	-- The Feder Cardiac Research Fund, $200,000, to support the 
advancement of medical knowledge in the field of cardiology.

	-- The Helen A. Freyman Scholarship Fund in Nursing, $162,342.

	-- The Medical Research Endowment Trust Fund, $149,095, to 
support research in the Medical Research Facility.

	-- The Fred Brown Fund for Research in Psychology, $90,000.

	-- The William A. and Mildred C. Korb Endowed Fund, $51,499, to 
provide scholarships for orphans or foster care children or for 
financially needy graduates of St. John’s High School in Delphos, 
Ohio.

	-- The Ralph Davis and Anna K. Davis Endowed Scholarship Fund, 
$50,000, to provide scholarships for graduates of high schools in 
Gallia County.

	-- The Wasserstrom Athletic Scholarship Fund, $50,000, to 
provide grant-in-aid scholarships in the Department of Athletics.

	-- The John E. Nelson Colloquium Endowed Fund, $40,098, to 
support a major visiting speakers program in the Department of 
Geography.

	-- The Robert E. Smart Scholarship Fund, $35,000, to provide 
scholarships for students living in the university’s cooperative 
scholarship housing.

	-- The Helen R. and Robert Murnane, M.D. Fund for Post-Graduate 
Awards in General Internal Medicine, $25,000.

Appointments

	The board appointed President-designate William E. Kirwan as a 
professor of mathematics, effective July 1, 1998.  Kirwan, appointed 
as Ohio State’s 12th president on Jan. 5, joined the University of 
Maryland, College Park’s mathematics faculty in 1964, rose through 
the faculty ranks and chaired the department from 1977 to 1981.  He 
then was appointed vice chancellor for academic affairs and became 
president of Maryland in 1989.  As a senior administrator, Kirwan 
continued to teach undergraduate classes.

	Trustees also appointed John W. Roberts as chair of the 
Department of African-American and African Studies, effective Aug. 
15, 1998 through Sept. 30, 2002.  Roberts, a professor of English, 
teaches African-American literature and folklore, American fiction 
and folklore, and folklore theory.  He is the author of From 
Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom and 
From Hucklebuck to Hip: Social Dance in the African American 
Community in Philadelphia.

	The board also appointed Virginia M. Trethewey, vice president 
for legal affairs and general counsel, to the Board of Directors of 
the Jack Nicklaus Museum Inc.  The museum is to be built on land 
leased by Ohio State to the museum.

Reappointments

	Trustees reappointed the following chairpersons.  All 
appointments are effective July 1, 1998 through June 30, 1999.

	-- Gerald M. Gregorek of WORTHINGTON, chair of the Department of 
Aerospace Engineering, Applied Mechanics and Aviation.

	-- Liang-Shih Fan of UPPER ARLINGTON, chair of the Department of 
Chemical Engineering.

	-- Keith W. Bedford of UPPER ARLINGTON, chair of the Department 
of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science.

	-- Stuart H. Zweben of DUBLIN, chair of the Department of 
Computer and Information Science.

	-- Yuan F. Zheng of UPPER ARLINGTON, chair of the Department of 
Electrical Engineering.

	-- Richard A. Miller of POWELL, chair of the Department of 
Industrial, Welding and Systems Engineering.

	Trustees reappointed F. Dominic Dottavio of WALDO as dean and 
director of The Ohio State University at Marion, effective July 1, 
1998 through June 30, 2003. 

Resolutions in memoriam

	Trustees adopted resolutions in memoriam for:

	-- Robert Bartoszynski, professor in the Department of 
Statistics, who died Jan. 17.

	-- Osborn T. Smallwood, administrator, scholar, author and 
professor emeritus in the School of Journalism and Communication, who 
died Jan. 1.

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