TRUSTEES NAME FACILITIES, ACCEPT ENDOWED FUNDS, CONDUCT OTHER BUSINESS

   COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University Board of Trustees on Friday (11/5) named university facilities, including the University Hospitals Clinic, and accepted endowed funds. Trustees also approved personnel matters, as well as the dissolution of a departmental section and the reassignment of its faculty.

Facilities named

   The Ohio State University Hospitals Clinic will become The Henry G. Cramblett Hall following the board's vote today (11/5). Cramblett, of COLUMBUS (43220), was instrumental in the 1974 opening of the clinic, which is adjacent to University Hospitals. Cramblett was dean of The Ohio State University College of Medicine from 1973 to 1980, and served as vice president for health sciences from 1980 to 1982. While at Ohio State, Cramblett obtained funding for the construction of Rhodes Hall in the Medical Center and also worked to secure funding for the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute. He joined the faculty at Ohio State in 1964 as a professor in the department of pediatrics. He was the founding chair of the department of microbiology, a position he held for seven years until he was named dean. He was acting vice president for medical affairs from 1974 to 1980.

   A nationally recognized specialist in viral and infectious diseases in children, Cramblett conducted basic and clinical research of viral diseases and the uses of antibiotics. He also studied the relationship between infectious diseases and arthritis, and served as director of the research program at Children's Hospital, Columbus.

   University Hospitals Clinic provides outpatient services in more than 50 medical specialties, including obstetrics, neurology, surgery and ophthalmology. Approximately 1,000 patients from throughout Ohio are seen each week in the Clinic by OSU Medical Center physicians.

   Trustees approved naming the Center for Emerging Technologies, to be built on the campus of Ohio State University- Newark and the Central Ohio Technical College, The John Gilbert Reese Center. The naming honors Reese, one of the original members of the community group that helped establish the Newark campus, who remains an active civic leader in Newark and Licking County. Reese received his bachelor's and law degrees from Ohio State, and currently is a member of the Ohio Board of Regents. He and his family have been donors to the Newark campus and COTC, and he served as honorary governor of the campaign for the new center, putting together a $4 million challenge gift.

   Trustees named the College of Law library in Drinko Hall The Michael E. Moritz Law Library in honor of Moritz, an Ohio State alumnus who has had a long and distinguished career as an attorney in Columbus, serving for many years as chair of the business group of Baker & Hostetler, a national law firm with headquarters in Cleveland. Moritz was active as an undergraduate, and was ranked first in his class in the College of Law. He continues to serve the university through volunteer leadership to the Fisher College of Business and the College of Law through his directorship on the Ohio State University Foundation Board.

Board accepts eight endowed funds

   Trustees heard a report from Jerry A. May, vice president for development, on fund-raising efforts, including the establishment of The Joseph M. Ryan, M.D. Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine with gifts of $1.52 million. The chair fund was established in 1997; gifts in honor of and from the family members, friends and colleagues of Ryan, an alumnus and professor emeritus of internal medicine, have reached the funding level needed to establish the chair. Income will provide for a chair position to support the advancement of medical knowledge in the field of both basic and clinical cardiovascular research and shall be held by a nationally eminent faculty member in the College of Medicine and Public Health's Division of Cardiology.

   May reported on the establishment of seven other funds and a professorship, with gifts totaling nearly $575,000.

   -- The Joanne Wharton Murphy/Class of '65 Professorship of Law, $250,000.

   -- The Sunder H. Advani Memorial in Applied Mechanics Fund, $25,273.

   -- The Richard K. Selvage Athletic Scholarship Fund, $100,000.

   -- The Ford Undergraduate Scholarships Endowment Fund, $100,000, providing program and scholarship support to the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

   -- The Milton H. and Karen L. Hendricks Scholarship Fund, $40,800, for students majoring in chemical engineering.

   -- The India Boyer '30 Fund, $32,319, providing program support for the Knowlton School of Architecture.

   -- The Ohler Family Athletic Scholarship Fund, $25,000.

Trustees approve dissolution of section

   The board approved the dissolution of the applied mechanics section within the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Applied Mechanics and Aviation. As part of the dissolution, applied mechanics faculty will be merged with the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The change is effective immediately.

   The merger of applied mechanics faculty with the Department of Mechanical Engineering will strengthen the current department and result in a faculty profile comparable to those at peer institutions. Faculty in the College of Engineering, including the affected departments, demonstrated overwhelming support for the change.

Appointments

   The board appointed H. Rao Unnava of WESTERVILLE to the W. Arthur Cullman Designated Professorship in Marketing, effective through Sept. 30, 2004. Established in 1994 by Joseph F. Cullman III in memory of his brother W. Arthur Cullman, the professorship provides support for the teaching and research of a distinguished marketing scholar. Unnava's research focuses on consumer memory for brands and brand attribute information.

   Loren V. Geistfeld of COLUMBUS (43220) was appointed as interim chair of the Department of Human Nutrition and Food Management, effective through Sept. 30, 2000.

Emeritus titles granted

   Trustees granted emeritus titles to:
-- C. Ronald Huff, professor emeritus, School of Public Policy and Management, effective Nov. 1.
-- Carole A. Miller of GRANDVIEW, clinical professor emeritus of surgery, effective Oct. 1.

Resolutions in memoriam

   The board adopted resolutions in memoriam for:
-- John Edward Arthur, clinical professor emeritus in the Department of Otolaryngology, who died Sept. 8.
-- Rupert P. Herd, professor emeritus in the Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, who died July 28.
-- Vernon L. Tharp, professor emeritus in the College of Veterinary Medicine, who died Aug. 23.
-- Richard W. Zollinger, clinical professor emeritus in the Department of Surgery, who died Sept. 13.

Contacts:
David Crawford, Medical Center Communications, (614) 293-3737
Emily Caldwell, University Relations, (614) 292-8309