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Posted 7-31-01

Memo from Board of Trustees chairman on naming of presidential search committee

July 30, 2001

MEMORANDUM

TO: Faculty, Staff, and Students

FROM: Charles P. Bolton, Chairman of the Board of Trustees

It is a pleasure to announce the appointment of the Presidential Search Committee that will work on the University's behalf during the coming months to help identify a permanent president for the institution. The committee is large, since we wanted to include representation from many of the constituencies that make up the University community, among them faculty, staff, students, deans, trustees, and alumni.

The members of the committee are:

• John C. Angus, Kent Hale Smith Professor of Engineering; Interim Co-Chair, Chemical Engineering; member, National Academy of Engineering
• Malvin E. Bank, CWRU Trustee; Partner, Thompson, Hine LLP
• Cynthia M. Beall, Sarah Idell Pyle Professor of Anthropology; member, National Academy of Sciences
• Thomas G. Bishop, Associate Professor of English; Director, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities
• Charles P. Bolton, Committee Chairman; Chairman of the University's Board of Trustees; Chairman of the Board, Brittany Corporation
• William E. Bruner, II, Medicine '75; CWRU Trustee; Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, University Ophthalmology Associates
• David A. Burks, '01; Former President, Undergraduate Student Government; Waterloo, Iowa
• Timothy J. Callahan, Management '99; CWRU Trustee; President, MCT Corporation
• Richard J. Charnigo, Jr., '97; Graduate student, Statistics; President, Graduate Student Senate
• April Galda, '99; Financial Analyst, Goldman, Sachs & Co., New York
• Jerold S. Goldberg, Dentistry '68, '70, '74; Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery; Dean, School of Dentistry
• Joie D. Gregor, Graduate School '74; Heidrick & Struggles, New York
• Elaine G. Hadden, CWRU Trustee; Community Affairs
• Stephen E. Haynesworth, Graduate School '87; Associate Professor of Biology; Associate Professor of Orthopedics
• Michael J. Horvitz, CWRU Trustee; Of Counsel, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue
• Jennie S. Hwang, Graduate School '76; CWRU Trustee; President, H-Technologies Group, Inc.; member, National Academy of Engineering
• Joseph P. Keithley, CWRU Trustee; Chairman, President & CEO, Keithley Instruments, Inc.
• Juliet P. Kostritsky, John Homer Kapp Professor of Law
• Frank N. Linsalata, Case '63; Vice Chairman of the University's Board of Trustees; Chairman & CEO, Linsalata Capital Partners
• A. Malachi Mixon III, CWRU Trustee; Chairman & CEO, Invacare Corporation
• Alfred M. Rankin Jr., CWRU Trustee; Chairman, President & CEO, NACCO Industries, Inc.
• Andrew N. Rassi, Undergraduate, Chemistry; Vice President, Undergraduate Student Government
• Larry W. Rudawsky, Law '82; Chair, University Alumni Council; Wooster, Ohio
• Antoinette M. Searle, '89, Graduate School '96; Editor, Campus News, Office of University Communication; Former Chair, Staff Advisory Council
• Susan Shurin, Professor of Pediatrics; Former Chair, Faculty Senate
• Robert D. Storey, Law '64; CWRU Trustee; Partner, Thompson, Hine LLP
• Susan A. Turk, Undergraduate, Music; President, Student Turning Point Society
• Michael Weiss, the Dale H. Cowan, M.D., and Ruth Goodman Blum Professor of Cancer Research; Chairman of Biochemistry

As announced earlier, the firm of Isaacson, Miller, Inc., has been retained to assist in the search. Working with us from the firm are John M. Isaacson of the Boston office, one of the firm's founders, and Barbara R. Stevens, Vice President, in the Washington, D.C., office.

The charge given to the Presidential Search Committee by the Board of Trustees calls for a complete and broadly based search, with a careful screening of all candidates. Final selection and appointment of the president is done by the Trustees. Since confidentiality is crucial to the success of such a search, there will be no release of names of candidates during the process.

Finally, let me invite each of you to nominate persons you feel should be considered for the presidency by the committee. Send nominations, along with any contact and supporting information you may have, to the Presidential Search Committee, in care of Susan J. Zull, Secretary of the Corporation, Adelbert Hall 317, location code 7010. As staff for the Board of Trustees, Susan Zull is serving as the committee's coordinator.

This marks the beginning of an exciting process to identify the University's new president, a process that is fundamental to Case Western Reserve's future and that of this community. I hope that you will think carefully about the requirements of the position and the opportunities facing the University, and that you will share your suggestions with us.

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