Trustees: Personnel

  COLUMBUS - A $2 million gift from the Charlotte Curtis Hunt Living Trust to the Ohio State University Foundation will establish The William E. Hunt, M.D. and Charlotte M. Curtis Neuroscience Endowment Fund within the university's College of Medicine and Public Health. The gift was made in memory of the late Dr. Hunt, former head of neurosurgery at Ohio State, and his late wife, Charlotte Curtis Hunt, a former editor at the New York Times.

The gift will strengthen and expand neuroscience at Ohio State through support of initiatives, including research, lectureships and fellowships.

Hunt, who headed the division of neurosurgery at The Ohio State University Hospitals from 1962 to 1989, is widely known for his research on intracranial aneurysms and on a nerve-related eye disorder that subsequently was named after him. He died in 1999. Charlotte Curtis Hunt, who died in 1986, was a society reporter and editor, and the first woman editor of the Times' op-ed page. She is credited with changing the nature and content of newspaper women's pages to reflect the more newsy, issue-oriented stories that characterize them today.

The $2 million gift is one of 22 new named endowed funds, totaling $2,990,443.54, accepted by Ohio State's Board of Trustees at their Aug. 30 meeting. The board also approved several personnel appointments, reappointments, emeritus titles and resolutions in memoriam.

Named endowed funds

· The Eleanor Bulatkin/Aristobulo Pardo Endowment Fund in French and Italian, $204,584, for fellowships, grants and awards, provided by gifts from the estate of Eleanor Bulatkin

· The Eleanor Bulatkin/Aristobulo Pardo Endowment Fund in Spanish and Portuguese, $204,584, for fellowships and awards

· Janis and Michael Bloch Cancer Research Endowment Fund, $100,000, provided by gifts from Janis and Michael Bloch

· The Julius F. Stone Chair Fund in Cancer Research, $38,026, provided by gifts from Dr. and Mrs. Franz T. Stone II

· The Yoder Athletic Scholarship, $33,700, provided by gifts from Dwight J. Yoder

· Robert B. and Marjorie O. Smith Cancer Genetics Research Endowment Fund, $30,000

· John G. and Zoe Johnstone Endowed Fund for Musicology, $28,773, support for awards and research expenses for graduate students in the School of Music

· The John C. Burnham Lecture Series Fund in the History of Medicine/Science, $28,000, support for a lecture series in the Department of History and Medical Heritage Center, Prior Health Sciences Library, provided by gifts from Marjorie Burnham

· The Tuckerman Family Breast Cancer Research Endowment Fund, $27,070, provided by gifts from Judy and Steve Tuckerman, Audrey and Brian Tuckerman, Connie and Craig Tuckerman, Elise and Richard Robinowitz, Jan and Stanley Eppstein, Esther Tuckerman, and Barbi Tuckerman

· The Richard B. and Nancy E. Stahl Family Fund, $27,021, for support of a proposal that builds youth-adult partnerships focusing on community service

· Peter Cohen Innovation Endowment Fund, $25,000, for dean's discretionary funds in the Max M. Fisher College of Business

· The Jess and Kelley DeMaria Athletic Scholarship Fund, $25,000

· The Ornelio and Diamond DePietro Scholarship Fund, $25,000, for scholarships in the departments of French and Italian, provided by gifts from Ronald E. Burch

· The Ed Johnson Family Athletic Scholarship Fund, $25,000

· The Ed Wing-Kui Kan Memorial Scholarship Fund in Electrical Engineering, $25,000, provided by a gift from his widow Kris Kan

· The Robert R. Kinney Endowment Fund, $25,000, for scholarships in the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, provided by gifts from Beth Morian Kinney

· The Richard J. Mackessy Undergraduate Student Support Fund, $25,000, for scholarships in the Fisher College of Business, provided by gifts from Thomas J. Mackessy

· The George L. Smith Scholarship Fund in Industrial and Systems Engineering, $25,000

· The Kenneth A. Zeisler Scholarship Fund in the College of Law, $25,000

· The Edgar and Elizabeth K. Dale Endowment Fund for Excellence in Education, $22,436, provided by gifts from Edgar Dale, Elizabeth K. Dale, Dorothy Sherwood and Richard Dale

· Jackson County 4-H Endowment Fund, $21,250

In addition, the board approved a description change for the The Maria A. Melnyk Frank Memorial Scholarship Fund and two name changes: The Wilhelm and Eleanor Beckert Student Loan and Fellowship Endowment to The Wilhelm and Eleanor Beckert Scholarship Fund, and The Townsend Scholarship Fund to The James and Patricia Townsend Scholarship Fund.

In other business, the board also approved the renaming of Donald A. Borror Drive to Borror Drive.

Personnel actions - Appointments

· James N. Allen, Jr., M.D. has been named associate professor (The Battelle Professorship in Inhalation Therapeutics) in the Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine and Public Health, effective Aug. 1, 2000, through June 30, 2004.

· Mabel G. Freeman of BEXLEY has been named assistant vice president for the first year experience and interim director of undergraduate admissions in the Office of Enrollment Services/Academic Affairs, effective Sept. 1, 2000. Freeman, who received B.Sc.Ed., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Ohio State, previously served as director of the University Honors and Scholars Center.

· James J. Mager of COLUMBUS (43081) has been named associate vice president for enrollment affairs in the Office of Enrollment Services/Academic Affairs, effective Sept. 1, 2000. The recipient of B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in industrial and systems engineering from Ohio State, Mager joined the university staff in 1971. He previously served as assistant vice president for enrollment management.

· Alfred P. Sanfilippo, M.D., has been named senior vice president for health sciences, dean of the College of Medicine and Public Health and tenured professor of pathology, effective Sept. 1, 2000. Prior to this appointment, Sanfilippo was Baxley Professor and chairman of the Department of Pathology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in physics from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.D. and Ph.D. in immunology from Duke University, where he was a NIH fellow in the medical scientist training program. He completed his internship and residency programs in pathology at Duke.

· Michael M. Veres, currently deputy chief information officer and executive director in the Office of Information Technology has received a concurrent appointment as interim chief information office, effective Aug. 1, 2000.

· Mark D. Wewers, M.D., of UPPER ARLINGTON has been named to the John A. Prior Professorship in Internal Medicine in the College of Medicine and Public Health, effective Aug. 1, 2000, through June 30, 2004. Currently the director of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and interim director of Ohio State's Heart and Lung Institute, Wewers received his specialty training at the University of Arkansas and the National Institutes of Health and joined Ohio State in 1986.

Reappointments

· William L. Berry of NAGS HEAD, N.C., has been reappointed professor and holder of the Richard M. Ross Chair in Management in the Department of Management Sciences in the Max. M. Fisher College of Business, effective Oct. 1, 2000, through Sept. 30, 2003.

· Glenn S. Daehn of UPPER ARLINGTON has been reappointed professor and holder of the Dr. Mars G. Fontana Professorship in Metallurgical Engineering in the College of Engineering, effective Oct. 1, 1999, through Sept. 30, 2001.

· Stephen A. Sebo of UPPER ARLINGTON has been reappointed professor and holder of the Neal A. Smith Chair in Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering, effective Jan. 1, 2000, through Dec. 31, 2004.

Appointment of Chairpersons and Director

· Radu V. Saveanu of UPPER ARLINGTON, associate professor of clinical psychiatry, has been named interim chair of the Department of Psychiatry, effective July 1, 2000, through June 30, 2001.

· Charles F. Adams, Jr., of COLUMBUS (43214), professor of public policy and management, has been named interim director of the School of Public Policy and Management, effective Aug. 1, 2000, through June 30, 2001.

· Mark L. Failla of WORTHINGTON, professor of human nutrition and food management, has been named chair of the Department of Human Nutrition and Food Management, effective Sept. 1, 2000, through June 30, 2004.

· Valerie B. Lee of WHITEHALL, professor of women's studies and English, has been named chair of the Department of Women's Studies, effective Oct. 1, 2000, through Sept. 30, 2002.

· Leila J. Rupp of COLUMBUS (43214), professor of history, has been named chair of the Department of History, effective Oct. 1, 2000, through Sept. 30, 2004.

Reappointment of Chairpersons and Directors

· Mary Ann Sagaria of UPPER ARLINGTON, associate professor of educational policy and leadership, has been reappointed interim director of the School of Educational Policy and Leadership, effective July 1, 2000, through June 30, 2001.

· Glenn W. Milligan, professor of management sciences, has been reappointed chair of the Department of Management Sciences, effective July 1, 2000, through June 30, 2004.

· Robert L. Snyder of DUBLIN, professor of materials science and engineering, has been reappointed chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, effective July 1, 2000, through June 30, 2004.

· Keith L. Smith of HILLIARD, associate vice president for agricultural administration in the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, has been reappointed director of Ohio State University Extension, effective July 1, 2000, through June 30, 2004.

· Randall C. Rowe of WOOSTER, professor of plant pathology, has been reappointed chair of the Department of Plant Pathology at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, effective July 1, 2000, through June 30, 2004.

Appointments to the Engineering Experiment Station Advisory Council

· K. Cheena Srinivasan, chair and professor of engineering, for a 1.5 year term, effective Aug. 1, 2000

· Umit S. Ozkan, associate dean for research, College of Engineering, for a three-year term, effective Aug. 1, 2000

Emeritus titles

· Robert D. Cottrell, professor emeritus, Department of French and Italian, effective Sept. 1, 2000

· Thomas F. Heck, professor emeritus, University Libraries, effective Sept. 1, 2000

· Thomas R. Knapp, professor emeritus, Department of Community, Parent-Child and Psychiatric Nursing, effective Sept. 1, 2000

· Vera Maletic, professor emeritus, Department of Dance, effective Oct. 1, 2000

· George F. Martin, Jr., professor emeritus, Department of Anatomy and Medical Education, effective Oct. 1, 2000

· Donald L. Palmquist, professor emeritus, Department of Animal Sciences, effective Oct. 1, 2000

· J. Dennis Pollack, professor emeritus, Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, effective July 1, 2000

· Janet Z. Tarino, professor emeritus, Department of Chemistry (Mansfield Campus), effective Jan. 1, 2000

· Christine B. Verzar, professor emeritus, Department of History of Art, effective Oct. 1, 2000

· Jerrold R. Voss, professor emeritus, Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture, effective Sept. 1, 2000

· Jacques L. Zakin, professor emeritus, Department of Chemical Engineering, effective Sept. 1, 2000

· Carl P. Boesel, professor-clinical emeritus, Department of Pathology, effective Sept. 1, 2000

· Franklin R. Banks, associate professor emeritus, School of Public Health, effective Sept. 1, 2000

· Norma J. Bruce, associate professor emeritus, University Libraries, effective Oct. 1, 2000

· Gay N. Dannelly, associate professor emeritus, University Libraries, effective Sept. 1, 2000

· Sara Garnes, associate professor emeritus, Department of English, effective Sept. 1, 2000

· Ralph E. Stephens, associate professor emeritus, Department of Pathology, effective Sept. 1, 2000

· Kenneth E. McClure, assistant professor emeritus, Department of Animal Sciences, effective Sept. 1, 2000

Resolutions in memoriam

· Leon M. Dorfman, professor emeritus in the Department of Chemsitry, who died May 24, 2000

· Irma L. Eglitis, professor emeritus in the Department of Anatomy and Medical Education, who died July 18, 2000

· Herbert J. Oyer, professor emeritus in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science, who died June 22,2000

The board also approved the reappointment of George Brooks and Dow Wagner for three-year terms and Whitney W. Harper for a one-year student appointment on the Ohio State University-Lima Campus Board of Trustees.

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