Trustees: Personnel + Other Business

ACTIONS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ON APRIL 8:
PERSONNEL, ENDOWMENT FUNDS, RESEARCH CONTRACTS

Floriculture Professor

     COLUMBUS -- James D. Metzger, former research plant
physiologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has joined
The Ohio State University Department of Horticulture.
     The Board of Trustees on Friday (4/8) named Metzger to the
D.C. Kiplinger Chair in Floriculture, retroactive to March 14.
     Metzger served 13 years at the Agricultural Research
Service's Biosciences Research Laboratory at Fargo, N.D.  There
he studied how environmental factors such as day length and
temperature control the onset of flowering.
     According to Metzger, understanding these regulators in
plants could lead scientists to learn how to better manipulate
timing of bloom to benefit growers and purchasers and reduce
production costs.  Examples might include delaying budding in
fruit trees to make them less susceptible to a killing frost,
synchronizing flowering to produce a uniform crop of tomatoes;
and producing Easter lilies or poinsettias that flower closer to
the holidays.
     The Kiplinger Chair was established in 1977 by friends of
alumnus D.C. Kiplinger and by members of the Ohio Florists
Association and the Ohio State Floriculture/Landscape
Horticulture Alumni Association.  Income from the endowment
supports the work of a scholar and researcher in the area of
floriculture, the science of growing herbaceous ornamental
flowering plants.
     Metzger received his Bachelor of Arts degree in biology from
Millersville University in Pennsylvania and his doctorate from
Michigan State in botany in 1980.

Director of University Recreation and Intramural Sports

     Trustees also named J. Michael Dunn, former director of
intramural-recreational sports at Southern Illinois University at
Carbondale, as director of university recreation and intramural
sports.  That appointment is retroactive to March 21.
     Dunn succeeds Frederic Beekman of UPPER ARLINGTON as
director of university recreation and intramural sports.  Beekman
recently retired after a 47-year career.
     Dunn had been at Southern Illinois since 1978 and had been
director of the recreation and intramurals program since 1986.
He also served as an adjunct faculty member and coordinator of
intramural-recreational sports facilities.  Previously he had as
a YMCA adult program director and director of men's intramurals
at Marquette University.
     Dunn has a Bachelor of Physical Education degree from Purdue
University and a Master of Science degree in recreation from
Southern Illinois University.

Chairpersons and Emeritus Appointments, Memoriams

     Trustees appointed David L. Denlinger of WORTHINGTON as
chairperson of entomology, for four years beginning Oct. 1.  He
succeeds David Horn of COLUMBUS (43214).
     Denlinger, a professor of entomology, has taught at Ohio
State since 1976.  He also has worked at Harvard University, the
International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology in Nairobi,
Kenya, and at the Agricultural University, Wageningen, the
Netherlands.
     He is a fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and various other professional
organizations.  Denlinger has taught courses and conducted
research in the area of insect physiology.  His studies have
included the regulation of metamorphosis behavior in the tsetse
fly, hormone regulators in development of the gypsy moth, and
insect cold-hardiness and diapause.

     The board named Robert E. Roth of WORTHINGTON as acting
director of the School of Natural Resources, through June; and
Mary M. O'Sullivan as acting director of the School of Health,
Physical Education, and Recreation, through August.

     Reappointed to four-year terms, starting July 1, were:
     =FE George A. Marzluf of UPPER ARLINGTON as chairperson of the
Department of Biochemistry.
     =FE Lee F. Johnson of UPPER ARLINGTON as chairperson of the
Department of Molecular Genetics.
     =FE Ralph E. J. Boerner UPPER ARLINGTON as chairperson of the
Department of Plant Biology.
     =FE Russell Eugene Schuster of WORTHINGTON as university
registrar.
     David Hothersall of UPPER ARLINGTON was reappointed director
of the University Honors Center for four years beginning Sept. 1.

     Trustees awarded emeritus titles to:
     =FE Ronald G. Corwin of UPPER ARLINGTON, Department of
Sociology, professor emeritus, retroactive to April 1.
     =FE Ichiko T. Morita, University Libraries, retroactive to
March 1.
     =FE Walter E. Carey, COLUMBUS (43235), Department of
Mechanical Engineering, associate professor emeritus, retroactive
to Feb. 1.

     Resolutions in memoriam were passed for Gertrude Adams,
instructor emeritus in Ohio State University Extension and from
1951 to 1970 the home demonstration agent in Darke County, who
died Jan. 4 at age 91; Ralph L. Baker, professor emeritus in the
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, who
died March 2 at age 80; Yvonne Cook, associate professor emeritus
in Ohio State University Extension and from 1957 to 1975, the
home economics agent in Wayne County, who died Dec. 24 at age 85;
and Fred P. Hapke, professor emeritus in the Department of
Obstetrics and Gynecology, who died Feb. 10.

Named Endowed Funds

     The board established the following 19 new named endowed
funds:

     =FE The Edith M. Slabaugh Scholarship Fund in the College of
Human Ecology, $500,000.
     =FE The Dance Preservation Fund to further the recording of
dance, $300,747.18.
     =FE The Sue Ann Dowell Schott Farm Science Review Fund,
$100,327.50.
     =FE The W. Arthur Cullman Professorship in Marketing Fund in
the Fisher College of Business, $69,600.
     =FE The Zendell Family Scholarship Fund in the College of Law,
$49,506.
     =FE The Dorothy H. Suerdieck Medical Scholarship, $30,000.
     =FE The Theodore Suie Jr. Scholarship Fund in the College of
Biological Sciences, $27,059.23.
     =FE The David V. Perry and Isabel H. Perry Research
Scholarship Fund for undergraduate research and scholarship,
$25,000.
     =FE The Elwood W. "Red" Woodling Family Swimming Scholarship
Fund in the Department of Athletics, $20,544.
     =FE The James McFarling Endowed Scholarship Fund for an
undergraduate student majoring in chemistry, $20,000.
     =FE The John Franklin Lyman Nutritional Biochemistry and Food
Science Scholarships for graduate students in the College of
Agriculture, $19,037.50.
     =FE The Mary Jacquelyn Ebinger Breast Cancer Research
Endowment Fund at the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and
Research Institute, $16,175.
     =FE The Doctor Theodore Suie Jr. Scholarship Fund to provide
fellowships in the College of Medicine, $15,490.23.
     =FE The Geauga County 4-H Endowment Fund, $15,285.
     =FE The Franklin B. and Jane Walter Scholarship for students
seeking advanced degrees in school administration in the College
of Education, $15,000.
     =FE The James L. Nichols Endowment Fund, $15,000.
     =FE The L.C. Chadwick Endowment Fund to support the Chadwick
Arboretum, $15,000.
     =FE The Eileen Brown Cole Graduate Scholarship Fund for female
graduate or professional students, $15,000.
     =FE The Georgianna L. Barr Medical Scholarship, $10,000.

Research Grants and Contracts

     Trustees approved 143 research contracts totaling
$11,887,165.28.  Those singled out for special mention include:
     =FE A study to develop a new residential treatment program for
pregnant and postpartum women who are homeless and drug users and
their children.  Elizabeth M. Burns of the Department of
Psychiatry is the principal investigator for the study, funded
with $673,137 from the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug
Addiction Services.
     =FE An evaluation of a reduced modulus bone cement to produce
more durable joint replacements.  Alan S. Litsky of the
Department of Surgery and the Biomedical Engineering Center is
principal investigator for the study, funded with $255,093 from
the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin
Diseases.
     =FE A three-week summer institute that focuses on potential
careers in science and agriculture for high-ability eighth and
ninth grade students.  Clyde E. Opliger of the Agricultural
Technical Institute is heading the project, funded with $71,967
=66rom the National Science Foundation.
     =FE A study to look at the design and functioning of the
national airspace system in the United States to overcome
weaknesses that may result in safety hazards, poor airspace and
facilities use, excessive cost, and failure to transport
passengers and cargo in a timely manner, according to Philip J.
Smith of the Center for Cognitive Science and the Department of
Industrial and Systems Engineering.  The study is funded with
$66,150 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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