TRUSTEES ACCEPT ENDOWED FUNDS, NAME SPACES, APPROVE APPOINTMENTS

   COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University Board of Trustees on Wednesday accepted 25 new named endowed funds, chairs and professorships and named several campus spaces. The board also approved appointments and reappointments, and conducted other business.

Trustees accept named endowed funds

   The board heard a report from Jerry A. May, vice president for development, on fund-raising efforts, including the establishment of the John W. Berry, Sr. Chair in Business and the John W. Berry, Sr. Fund for Faculty Excellence, both in the Fisher College of Business. Gifts of $1.5 million were received from Berry's estate to support the Berry chair, which is to be held by the dean of the college. A $1 million gift from the estate supports the fund for faculty excellence, to be used to support the recruitment and retention of world-class management education faculty. Berry was a Dayton businessman and served on the university's Board of Trustees from 1981 to 1990. He died in 1998.

   Additionally, the board approved establishment of The Max M. Fisher College of Business Building Complex Fund. The $23.7 million fund is a compilation of numerous gifts being pooled into one account to retire bonds issued to support construction of the college complex and to provide support, as needed, for operations of the Executive Residence.

   May also reported on the establishment of 22 other funds with gifts totaling almost $4 million.

   -- The Battelle Professorship in Inhalation Therapeutics, $782,167, supporting a professorship in the College of Medicine and Public Health.

   -- The Rod Sharp Professorship in Microbiology, $502,052, supporting a professorship in the College of Biological Sciences.

   -- Robert E. Wade Lectureship Fund in Orthodontics, $39,875, supporting a lectureship in the College of Dentistry.

   -- Knox County 4-H Endowment Fund, $17,842.

   -- The William E. Hunt, M.D. Lectureship Fund in Neurosurgery, $15,400, supporting a lectureship series in the College of Medicine and Public Health.

   -- Richland County 4-H Endowment Fund, $15,023.

   -- The Wolfe Study Abroad Scholarships Endowed Fund, $1 million, funding study-abroad scholarships for central Ohio students.

   -- The Ed Potter Family Athletic Scholarship Fund, $105,000, supplementing grant-in-aid scholarship costs of football players.

   -- The William Filmer Rule '40 Scholarship Fund, $83,895, providing scholarships in the Knowlton School of Architecture.

   -- The Robert and Iris Howlett Cancer Research Fund, $61,710, supporting cancer research -- with preference given to melanoma research -- at the Comprehensive Cancer Center - The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute.

   -- The Ralph V. and Ruth K. Foster Scholarship fund in Pharmacy, $60,208.

   -- The Harley E. and Marlese N. Rouda Athletic Scholarship Fund, $46,313.

   -- The Helen and Arthur Harley Scholarship Fund, $30,000, providing scholarships for the marching band.

   -- The Daniel G. Hummel Wrestling Endowment Fund, $30,000.

   -- The Glenn C. Himes Endowed Scholarship Fund in Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, $28,738.

   -- The Ornamental Plant Germplasm Center Endowment Fund, $27,655.

   -- The Lynwood L. Battle, Jr. Fund, $25,133, providing program support for the marching band.

   -- The Borden Foods Scholarship Fund in Food Science and Technology, $25,000.

   -- The Craig W. Deep Football Scholarship Fund, $25,000.

   -- The Roderick H. (Ric) Dillon MBA Fellowship Fund, $25,000.

   -- The John D. (Jack) and Mary Lambert Ph.D. Award Fund, $25,000, supporting student awards in the Fisher College of Business.

   -- Velma C. Veith Musical Instrument Fund, $25,000, supporting purchase and maintenance of instruments in the School of Music.

Campus spaces named

   Trustees approved new names for several campus locations, including:

   -- Campus Drive on the Wooster campus of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development has been named Payne Drive in honor of Thomas L. Payne, who served as associate vice president and director of OARDC for several years, establishing many new and innovative research grant programs to benefit the citizens of Ohio. Payne left Ohio State to become dean and director of the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources at the University of Missouri's Agricultural Experiment Station.

   -- The Success Center currently being constructed on Neil Avenue will be named The Younkin Success Center. The $10 million facility will be a one-stop learning mall providing integrated services designed to improve the quality of life for students and faculty. The family of the late Floyd Younkin of Columbus contributed $2 million toward construction of the center.

   -- A business library and computing center under construction as part of the Fisher College of Business complex will be named Raymond E. Mason Hall in honor of Raymond E. Mason Jr., an Ohio State alumnus who has a long and distinguished tradition of philanthropy, service and dedication to Ohio State. Mason has committed $3.9 million to the college in the Affirm Thy Friendship fund-raising campaign. As a tribute to Mason's wife, Margaret, and her family, a gathering and study space within the business resource building will be named the Daniel Everett Edwards Reading Room in memory of Edwards, Mason's father-in-law. The proposed naming was recommended by Mason and the dean and faculty of the college.

Appointments, reappointments

   The board approved several new administrative appointments, two of which were highlighted in a presentation led by Nancy Rudd, vice provost for academic policy and human resources. Among those highlighted whose appointments were approved Wednesday are:

   -- Joseph J. Branin, director of University Libraries, effective Jan. 1, 2000, through Dec. 31, 2004. Branin currently is dean and director of University Libraries at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

   -- Steve A. Slack, director of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster and associate vice president and associate dean of the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, effective Oct. 1 through June 30, 2003. Slack holds the Henry & Mildred Uihlein Professorship and is chair of the Department of Plant Pathology at Cornell University.

   Rudd also noted the recent appointments of Anne Federlein as president and dean/director of Ohio State's Newark campus, and Timothy Knowles as vice provost for minority affairs. All four new administrators were introduced to the board.

   Other appointments approved Wednesday were:

   -- Joseph Alutto of UPPER ARLINGTON, dean of the Fisher College of Business, to the John W. Berry, Sr. Chair in Business, effective today (9/1). The chair was established today with gifts of $1.5 million from Berry's estate.

   -- Daniel M. Farrell of COLUMBUS (43205), interim associate provost for the honors and scholars curriculum, effective through June 30, 2000. Farrell is a professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy.

   -- Mabel G. Freeman of BEXLEY, director of the University Honors and Scholars Center, effective July 1. Freeman has been serving as interim director of the center for the past year.

   -- Pamela G. Hollie, director of the Kiplinger Mid-Career Reporting Program in Public Affairs in the School of Journalism and Communication and holder of the Willard M. Kiplinger Chair in Public Affairs Reporting, effective Sept. 1.

   -- Raymond A. Noe, currently professor of management in the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University, to the Robert and Anne Hoyt Designated Professorship in Management in the Department of Management and Human Resources, effective Oct. 1. The professorship was established in the Fisher College of Business in June 1998.

   -- Daniel D. Sedmak of COLUMBUS (43235), as interim dean of the College of Medicine and Public Health, effective Sept. 1 through June 30, 2000. Sedmak is chair of the Department of Pathology.

   -- Benjamin Stinner of SMITHVILLE, professor of entomology, to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation-endowed chair in ecological management, effective through June 30, 2004. The chair was created in 1996 to support the work of a professor whose research, teaching and public service focus on ecosystems design and management and on farming systems.

   The following chairs and directors were appointed:

   R. Allen Miller of POWELL was reappointed as chair of the Department of Industrial, Welding and Systems Engineering, effective through June 30, 2003, and Richard P. Gunther of WORTHINGTON was reappointed as executive director of international studies, effective through Aug. 31, 2000.

   In addition, William J. Studer of COLUMBUS (43214) was reappointed as director of University Libraries, effective through Dec. 31, 1999.

   Jed E. Osborn of LEIPSIC, Larry E. Ward of PANDORA and Howard N. Watkins of KENTON were reappointed to three-year terms on the Ohio State-Lima campus board. Matthew J. Buckley of ELIDA was reappointed as a student member of the Lima campus board; his term ends Dec. 31.

Emeritus titles granted

   Trustees granted emeritus titles to:
-- Robert E. Bailey of COLUMBUS (43228), professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, effective Aug. 1, 1999.
-- Richard P. Lewis of POWELL, professor emeritus of internal medicine, effective July 1, 1999.
-- Terry J. Logan of UPPER ARLINGTON, professor emeritus of natural resources, effective Aug. 1, 1999.
-- Lyle D. Schmidt of WORTHINGTON, professor emeritus of psychology, effective July 1, 1999.
-- Clare C. O'Neill, associate professor emeritus of teaching and learning, effective Oct. 1, 1999.
-- Gregory R. Passewitz of WORTHINGTON, associate professor emeritus, Ohio State University Extension, effective July 1, 1999.

Resolutions in memoriam

   Trustees adopted resolutions in memoriam for:

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