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At the beginning of January president Steven Koblik
announced that he will be leaving Reed this summer to become the president
of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, in
San Marino, California.
In a letter to Reed friends and colleagues Koblik said,
It is with genuinely mixed emotions that I have informed the chairman
of the Reed board of trustees of my decision to resign as of August 31,
2001. My years at Reed have been wonderful. Together we have accomplished
a great deal. I am convinced that Reed offers the finest undergraduate
education in the country.
During Koblik's presidency the college has added 15
new tenure-track positions, enhanced campus facilities, and seen the endowment
triple in size to $350 million.
The school's recently completed $100 million Campaign
for Reed College raised more than $112 million, primarily in support of
financial aid, faculty development, and student research.
The presidential search committee was recently named
to choose Koblik's successor. Alumnus and trustee Stephen McCarthy 66,
proprietor of Clear Creek Distillery in Portland and vice chairman of
the Reed board, will chair the search committee. This is a command performance
for McCarthy, who chaired the search committee that brought Koblik to
the college in 1992. Other members of the current search committee also
served on that committee.
We are not going to let time drive the process.
Last time it took us a year and a half to find a president, but we got
what we wanted, said McCarthy.
Nominations are being actively solicited and may be
sent to the Presidential Search Committee, Reed College, PO Box 82129,
Portland OR 97282-0129.
The following are the members of the search committee:
Trustees:
Stephen McCarthy 66, chair; Daniel Greenberg 62, chairman
of the board and CEO of Electro Rent Corporation in Van Nuys, California;
Linda Howard 70, administrative assistant corporation counsel, New
York City Law Department; Michael E. Levine 62, member of the Harvard
Law School faculty and chairman of Rohn Industries in Woodbridge, Connecticut;
Brett Wilcox,president of Northwest Aluminum Company in The Dalles, Oregon;
Laurel Wilkening 66, retired chancellor of the University of California-Irvine;
and as an ex officio member Walter Mintz 50, chairman of the Reed
board of trustees, consultant, and retired founding partner of Cumberland
Associates in New York, New York.
Faculty members:
Robert Brightman 73, Ruth C. Greenberg Professor of American Indian
Studies; Virginia Hancock 62, professor of music; Patrick McDougal,
professor of chemistry; Nigel Nicholson, assistant professor of classics
and humanities; Daniel Reisberg, professor of psychology; and Lisa Steinman,
Kenan Professor of English and Humanities.
Observers:
Andy Bruno 03, student body president; Edwin McFarlane, Reed vice
president and treasurer; and Sally Snyder Brunette 83, president
of the Reed College alumni association and owner of Giving Matters in
Bellevue, Washington.
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