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Thursday, December 21, 2006
Contact: Dave Wellman, Director of Communications, (304) 696-7153
Foundation board elects Dr. Joseph B. Touma chair; Morrison, Courts-Brown, Cline, Tweel join board
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Marshall University Foundation, Inc., board of directors, in its fall meeting last month, elected a new chair and four new board members.
The new board of directors chair is Dr. Joseph B. Touma. He replaced Monica Hatfield, who completed her term as chair. Touma is a physician with River Cities Ear, Nose & Throat Specialists, PLLC.
The new board members are:
- Edward Morrison Jr., president of The C.I. Thornburg Co., Inc.;
- Kimberly Courts-Brown, regulatory project manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers;
- Philip E. Cline, president and general manager of the Radisson Hotel Huntington;
- Lawrence J. Tweel, managing partner with Greene Ketchum Bailey & Tweel.
“We are very pleased with the intellect, experience and diversity of the new board members,” said John Kinzer, interim Chief Executive Officer with the foundation. “I look forward to working with them and the rest of our board.”
In other news from the fall meeting, the foundation earmarked $5 million to Marshall University to be used for a new engineering complex and/or the Marshall University Institute for Interdisciplinary Research.
The foundation also allocated $600,000 to Marshall, one-half of which will be used for student recruitment and enrollment growth. The other half will help launch a marketing/public relations campaign, for which the university has retained a national firm.
“We’re very pleased to be able to provide these much-needed funds to the university,” Kinzer said. “They are available as a result of the generosity of our donors with unrestricted gifts and the favorable returns on our investments.”