The University's Board of Trustees met Friday, May 5, and elected three new members, David V. Habif Jr., M.D., director of Teaneck Radiology in Teaneck, N.J.; Walter L. Metcalfe Jr., chairman of Bryan Cave LLP; and Howard L. Wood, co-founder and director, Charter Communications Inc.
The board also named two former trustees to emeritus status -- Jerome F. Brasch, president of Brasch Manufacturing Co. Inc., and Alvin J. Siteman, chairman and president of Site Oil Co. of Missouri.
Three former trustees were re-elected to the board: Clarence C. Barksdale, board vice chairman; Stephen F. Brauer, president of Hunter Engineering; and Mary Ann Krey Van Lokeren, chief executive officer of Krey Distributing Co.
Current trustees re-elected to regular terms are John W. Bachmann, managing partner of Edward Jones; Benjamin F. Edwards III, chairman, president and chief executive officer of A.G. Edwards Inc.; David W. Kemper, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Commerce Bancshares Inc.; Andrew E. Newman, chairman and chief executive officer of Race Rock International; Craig D. Schnuck, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Schnuck Markets Inc.; Andrew C. Taylor, president of Enterprise Rent-A-Car Co.; and Ronald L. Thompson, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Midwest Stamping Co.
Elected board officers are: John F. McDonnell, retired chairman of the board of McDonnell Douglas Corp., chairman; as vice chairmen, Clarence C. Barksdale, Chancellor Emeritus William H. Danforth, and Sam Fox, chairman and chief executive officer of Harbour Group Ltd.
In other action, the Trustees received a report from Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. Wrighton recognized the great success of the Campaign for Washington University in generating support for 77 endowed professorships. He also noted that deposits for the entering Class of 2004 were coming in slightly ahead of estimates for a fall enrollment of 1,280 new students.
Jonathan S. Turner, Ph.D., the Henry Edwin Sever Professor of Engineering, made a faculty presentation on the subject of "Growing the Internet: From Science Experiment to Global Utility." Brauer followed with an update on the activities of the School of Engineering and Applied Science National Council.
Trustee Barbara Schaps Thomas briefed the Trustees on the status of the University's revised identity system and logotype effort. Thomas, senior vice president and chief financial officer of Time Warner Sports/HBO Sports, chairs the University's Public Relations Council.
Undergraduate student representatives to the Board Larissa Malmstadt, a senior biology major, and Matthew Mitro, a senior history and economics major, both in Arts & Sciences, presented reviews of the year. Gavin Chan, a doctoral student in earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, and Holly Williams, a master's student in architecture, gave the graduate student representative report. Arnold W. Strauss, M.D., the Alumni Professor of Pediatrics and professor of molecular biology and pharmacology, gave the faculty review of the year.
Newly elected Trustee David V. Habif Jr. is the parent of two Washington University graduates and has served as director and owner of the Teaneck Radiology Center since 1983. He received an undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1970 and a medical degree from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1974. An active supporter of Washington University, he also has served on the Board of Advisors to Harvard University (1990-93), on the executive committee of the John F. Kennedy School of Government (1993-98) and as head coach for the Tenafly (N.J.) Little League. Habif holds patents in radiology and has published several articles in urological and radiological journals.
Walter L. Metcalfe Jr. graduated from the University in Arts & Sciences in 1960 and earned a law degree four years later from the University of Virginia. He returned to St. Louis, where he rose to become chairman of Bryan Cave LLP, which has some 600 lawyers and ranks among the 50 largest law firms in the world. Metcalfe oversees Bryan Cave operations in New York, Washington and other American cities, southern California, London, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong and Shanghai. In addition to his volunteer activities on behalf of the University, he serves on the boards of the Boy Scouts of America, Regional Chamber and Growth Association of St. Louis and the Danforth Foundation.
Howard L. Wood co-founded Charter Communications Inc., the fourth largest U.S. operator of cable television properties, in 1993. Wood, a 1996 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, graduated with honors from the John M. Olin School of Business in 1961 and has remained an active supporter of the University and the business school. A certified public accountant, he worked for Arthur Andersen and Co. for 26 years before joining CenCom Cable Associates Inc. in 1987. He became director of Charter Communications in 1993. Wood has been president of the Conservation Federation of Missouri and co-chaired the Olympic Festival Organizing Committee that brought the 1994 U. S. Olympic Festival to St. Louis.
