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Posted 5/8/98

Search committee named to seek CWRU president

John F. Lewis, chairman of the Case Western Reserve University Board of Trustees, has announced the appointment of a search committee to seek a successor to President Agnar Pytte, who plans to retire at the end of June 1999.

Ward Smith, longtime member of the Board of Trustees and retired chairman of the board at NACCO Industries Inc., will chair the committee, which will have its first meeting April 9.

"Considerable thought went into the selection of the membership, with a view to securing a balanced committee with appropriate representation from each of the University's constituencies," Lewis noted in his April 3 announcement. The committee will be assisted by an outside consultant to be selected by Lewis and Smith.

In addition to Smith, the committee members are:

• John E. Bassett, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of English
• Nathan A. Berger, dean of the School of Medicine, vice president for medical affairs, and professor of medicine
• Claudia J. Coulton, Lillian F. Harris Professor at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
• Sally Gries, president and chief financial officer of Gries Financial Corp. and CWRU trustee
• Michael J. Horvitz, a partner at Jones Day Reavis and Pogue and CWRU trustee
• Arthur A. Hucklebridge, associate professor of civil engineering and 1997-98 chair of the Faculty Senate
• Richard G. LeFauve, president of General Motors University and senior vice president of General Motors Corp.
• John C. Morley, president of Evergreen Ventures Ltd. and CWRU trustee
• Anne S. Pruitt, Scholar in Residence at the Council of Graduate Schools and CWRU trustee
• Richard T. Watson, president of Spieth, Bell, McCurdy and Newell Co. and CWRU trustee
• May L. Wykle, associate dean for community affairs and Florence Cellar Professor of Nursing at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and director of the University Center on Aging and Health

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