Trustees: Wexner, Shumate to Head Ohio State#s Board of Trustees

Leslie H. Wexner, chairman of The Limited

Inc., will chair The Ohio State University Board of Trustees

beginning May 14. Trustees elected Wexner chair at a

meeting May 3 to succeed Milton A. Wolf of Cleveland, whose

term expires on May 13. Alex Shumate, a Columbus attorney,

was elected vice chair. Wexner is completing the eighth

year of a nine-year term. Shumate has been a board member

for seven years.

As chair, Wexner will lead the board of a university

with an annual budget of $1.5 billion and the largest

single-campus enrollment in the country. Ohio State has

about 55,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional

students, including about 49,000 on the Columbus campus.

Wexner, of New Albany, is a trustee of The Aspen

Institute, Columbus Jewish Federation and Columbus Jewish

Foundation. He is a former member of the Governing

Committee of the Columbus Foundation.

Wexner has created several endowments administered by

the Columbus Foundation and the Wexner Foundation.

Beneficiaries of his philanthropy include the Wexner Center

for the Arts at Ohio State, the Wexner Institute for

Pediatric Research at Children's Hospital, the Martin Luther

King Center for the Performing Arts, and the Wexner Heritage

Village, all in Columbus, and the Kennedy School of

Government at Harvard University. Wexner served as a

founding member and first chair of The Ohio State University

Foundation.

Wexner has a Bachelor of Science degree in business

administration from Ohio State, and several honorary

degrees. He and his wife, Abigail, are the parents of two

children.

Shumate is a partner with the international law firm of

Squire, Sanders and Dempsey and managing partner of the

Columbus office. Shumate's legal practice focuses on

business regulatory, legislative counseling and public

finance matters.

Shumate is vice chair of the Greater Columbus Chamber

of Commerce and the Governing Committee of the Columbus

Foundation. He is a director of Banc One Corp.; Bank One,

Columbus, NA; and Intimate Brands Inc.

In 1992, he was named a Distinguished Alumnus by Ohio

Wesleyan, where he earned a bachelor's degree in political

science. He also received the 1994 Outstanding Alumni Award

from the University of Akron where he earned his law degree.

This past year he received the Tree of Life Award from the

Jewish National Fund for his outstanding professional and

civic accomplishments.

Shumate chairs the Fiscal Affairs Committee of the Ohio

State Board of Trustees and the Arthur G. James Cancer

Hospital and Research Institute Board. He and his wife,

Sharon, who received her master's degree from Ohio State,

have two sons, John Alexander and Aaron Michael.

Shumate has received the Robert F. Crane Trusteeship

Award from Leadership Columbus and honors and awards from

the Columbus Bar Association, Columbus Urban League, United

Negro College Fund, NAACP, Ohio General Assembly, and

Capital University.

Trustees reappointed Robert M. Duncan of COLUMBUS

(43209) as secretary of the board and James L. Nichols of

COLUMBUS (43206) as treasurer.