Search Committee Named for Athletic Director

                                               2-23-94

SEARCH COMMITTEE NAMED FOR ATHLETIC DIRECTOR;
DEAN NANCY ZIMPHER TO CHAIR

     COLUMBUS  --  College of Education Dean Nancy Zimpher
has been named to chair the search committee for the seventh
director of athletics at The Ohio State University.  Also
announced today (2/23) by David Williams II, Vice President for
Student Affairs, were nine committee members:

     Almira N. Ailabouni, student member, The Ohio State
               University Board of Trustees;
     Deborah M. Antonelli, Marketing and Promotions Director,
               Department of Athletics;
     Herbert B. Asher, Professor of Political Science and
               Special Assistant to the President;
     Elizabeth G. Cook, Assistant Director of Sports
               Information;
     Robert M. Duncan, Vice President for Legal Affairs and
               Secretary to the Board of Trustees;
     Richard H. Hoyt, Alumni Member of the University
               Athletic Council;
     Charles McMurray, Special Assistant to the President
               of the Alumni Association;
     Katherine Meyer, Professor of Sociology and Chair of
               the Athletic Council;
     James W. Stone II, Head Coach, Women's Volleyball.

     Williams, to whom the Department of Athletic reports,
said that at least one student also will be named from a
list of five submitted by the university's Student Athletics
Advisory Committee.  John W. Elam, Executive Assistant to
the President, will serve as the search committee's ex-officio
staff member.

     Zimpher, Williams noted, also is a former member of the
university's Athletic Council and currently chairs the
university's academics sub-committee for certification to
the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

     The committee was named following Director of Athletics
James L. "Jim" Jones' announcement last Friday that he will
retire at the end of June after 29 years with the
university.

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For further information, contact:  Malcolm S. Baroway,
Executive Director of University Communications, 292-6895.


[Submitted by: STERRETT  (sterrett@ccgate.ucomm.ohio-state.edu)
               
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