Trustees Make Appointments - 04/07/95

TRUSTEES APPOINT CONTROLLER, PEDIATRICS CHAIRPERSON

     NEWARK -- The Ohio State University Board of Trustees
meeting on the Newark campus Friday (4/7) appointed a university
controller, a new chairperson of the Department of Pediatrics,
and made various other appointments.

UNIVERSITY CONTROLLER,
PEDIATRICS CHAIR NAMED

     The Ohio State University Board of Trustees, meeting on
Friday, April 7, at the Newark campus, appointed a university
controller, reappointed a chairperson in Veterinary Clinical
Sciences, awarded one promotion and three clinical
reappointments, and granted 29 emeritus titles.

     Greta J. Russell, former comptroller in the state
treasurer's office, was named university controller, retroactive
to March 28.

     Russell succeeds Janet G. Achterman, who is now vice
president for business and fiscal affairs at Wright State
University.

     A certified public accountant, Russell was comptroller for
the state treasurer's office from 1983 until joining the
university.  She formerly was assistant vice president of Buckeye
Federal Savings and Loan.

     "We're delighted that we have been able to bring to the
university someone with her background and qualifications," said
William J. Shkurti, vice president for finance.

     "This is an extremely important position," Shkurti said.
"The major responsibilities of the controller are accounts
payable, the university accounting system, our tax reporting to
the Internal Revenue Service, and financial training."

     Russell also will have a major role in the Administrative
Resource Management System project, charged with upgrading Ohio
State's accounting system.

     Russell is a past national president of the National
Association of Black Accountants and a member of other
professional organizations.  She has a Bachelor of Arts in
Accounting degree from Ohio Dominican College and a Master of
Taxation degree from Capital University.

     She serves as treasurer of the Seal of Ohio Girl Scout
Council Inc. and the Columbus Urban League.  She also serves on
the boards of the Columbus Housing Partnership, YWCA, and the
Union Grove Baptist Church.

     The board appointed Thomas N. Hansen, the incoming medical
director of Children's Hospital, as chairperson and professor of
the Department of Pediatrics, effective May 1 and continuing
through June 1999.

     Hansen is the Texas Children's Hospital Foundation Professor
of Pediatrics and Cell Biology at Baylor College of Medicine.
There he also serves as vice chairman for research in the
Department of Pediatrics, head of the Section of Neonatology,
director of the Child Health Research Center and co-director of
the Center for Training in Molecular Medicine.

     A native of Neenah, Wis., Hansen received his Bachelor of
Science degree in physics from Texas Christian University and his
medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine.  At Baylor , he
conducted his internship and residency in pediatrics as well as a
postdoctoral fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine.  He also
was a postdoctoral fellow in pediatric pulmonary disease at the
University of California.

     Hansen joined the Baylor faculty in 1978.  Recent research
activities have focused on oxidant mechanisms in drug-induced
hepatic necrosis, or death of liver tissue; a comparison of
methods of surfactant dosing; and a controlled trial of nitric
oxide for treatment of persistent pulmonary hypertension.

     He is chairman of the Organization of Neonatology Program
Directors and president of the board of trustees of the
International Pediatric Research Foundation.  Hansen is a past
secretary-treasurer of the Society for Pediatric Research and a
past member of the board of trustees of Texas Women's Hospital.

     Hansen serves on the board of trustees of the American
Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care and
chairs the national steering committee of the Wyeth Pediatric
Neonatology Research Fund.

     Trustees reappointed Robert G. Sherding as chairperson of
the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, for one year
beginning July 1, 1995 through June 30, 1996.

     They also promoted Lida G. Wall to professor of the
Department of Speech and Hearing Science, retroactive to April 1.

     The board reappointed three clinical assistant professors,
retroactive to July 1, 1994:

     -- Lisa M. Badowski of the College of Optometry.
     -- Mary S. Crisp of the College of Veterinary Medicine,
Veterinary Clinical Sciences.
     -- Vincent L. Driggs of the College of Optometry.

     Trustees granted emeritus titles to the following retiring
faculty (retroactive to April 1 unless stated otherwise):

     -- J. Robert Warmbrod, presidential professor emeritus,
Department of Agricultural Education.
     -- Allan M. Burkman, professor emeritus, Department of
Pharmacy.
     -- Michael C. Gerald, professor emeritus, Department of
Pharmacy, effective May 1.
     -- M. Eugene Gilliom, professor emeritus, Department of
Educational Studies: Humanities, Science, Technological and
Vocational.
     -- Poul M.T. Hansen, professor emeritus, Department of Food
Science and Technology, effective May 1.
     -- Leroy J. Krajewski, professor emeritus, Department of
Management Sciences, effective July 1.
     -- Bernard J. Lalonde, professor emeritus, Department of
Marketing, effective July 1.
     -- Ronald L. Racster, professor emeritus, Department of
Finance.
     -- Robert A. Rapp, professor emeritus, Department of
Materials Science and Engineering.
     -- W. Wayne Talarzyk, professor emeritus, Department of
Marketing.
     -- Alan C. Woods, professor emeritus, Department of
Mathematics.
     -- David S. Yohn, professor emeritus, Department of
Veterinary Pathobiology.
     -- Mary A. Winter, assistant dean and associate professor
emeritus, College of Dentistry, retroactive to March 1.
     -- David S. Adams, associate professor emeritus, Department
of Sociology (Lima Campus), effective July 1.
     -- E. Keith Blankenbaker, associate professor emeritus,
Department of Educational Studies: Humanities, Science,
Technological and Vocational.
     -- James L. Collins, associate professor emeritus,
Department of Educational Services and Research.
     -- Eddie R. Gilbert, associate professor emeritus,
Department of Theatre.
     -- John R. Grabner Jr., associate professor emeritus,
Department of Marketing.
     -- Lewis Greenwald, associate professor emeritus, Department
of Zoology.
     -- Leroy F. Meyers, associate professor emeritus, Department
of Mathematics.
     -- Frank C. Pratzner, associate professor emeritus,
Department of Educational Studies: Humanities, Science,
Technological and Vocational.
     -- Thomas G. Ralley, associate professor emeritus,
Department of Mathematics.
     -- Donald C. Riechel, associate professor emeritus,
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.
     -- Russell J. Spillman, associate professor emeritus,
Department of Educational Policy and Leadership.
     -- Raymond H. Swassing Jr., associate professor emeritus,
Department of Educational Services and Research.
     -- Herbert Walum, associate professor emeritus, Department
of Mathematics.
     -- Shirley A. Williams, associate professor emeritus,
Department of Spanish and Portuguese (Lima Campus).
     -- William W. Reinhardt, assistant professor emeritus,
Department of History (Lima Campus).
     -- William L. Hall, clinical assistant professor emeritus,
Department of Emergency Medicine.


[Submitted by: Von Reid-Vargas (ereid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
               
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