The Cornell Board of Trustees will seat new and re-elected members

By Jacquie Powers

The Cornell Board of Trustees recently elected five new members and re-elected three members to the 64-seat board.

Board members also welcomed two new alumni-elected trustees and one new student-elected trustee.

In addition, the board re-elected Samuel C. Fleming and Barbara B. Friedman as vice chairpersons for one-year terms beginning July 1.

Elected as at-large trustees to four-year terms beginning July 1 were N.R. Narayana Murthy, William D. Sanders, Sherri Koenig Stuewer and Andrew H. Tisch. Re-elected as at-large trustees were Myra Maloney Hart, Elizabeth D. Moore and Roy H. Park Jr.

Murthy is the chairman and chief mentor of Infosys Technologies Limited, a global information technology consulting and software services provider, headquartered in Bangalore, India; Sanders is chairman of Sanders Partners Inc., a private real estate venture management company that he founded in 1984; Stuewer is the strategic planning manager for Exxon Mobil Corp.; Tisch is chairman of the Executive Committee, member of the Office of the President and director of Loews Corp. He also is chairman of the board of Loews' subsidiary, Bulova Corp., and director of Zale Corp., Canary Wharf Group PLC and KIZ Inc.

John A. Noble was elected a trustee from the field of agriculture in New York state for a four-year term, beginning July 1. Noble is president of Noblehurst Farms Inc., a multi-family dairy farm corporation, which owns and operates a John Deere Consumer Product Dealership and a commodity brokering business. He is also general manager for Linwood Management Group, a dairy management company.

Elected by the alumni body as trustees to four-year terms beginning July 1 were Martha F. Coultrap, a 1971 graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Dr. Marcus H. Loo, a 1977 graduate of the College of Engineering and a 1981 graduate of Weill Cornell Medical College. Coultrap is a partner with the law firm of Emmet, Marvin & Martin, LLP, in New York City. Loo is a clinical associate professor of urology at Weill Cornell Medical College.

Jacqueline A. Koppell, a rising junior in Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, was elected to a two-year term as a student member of the board, effective July 1.

In addition, in January, Dr. Jerry Bilinski was appointed to the board by Temporary President of the New York State Senate Joseph Bruno, as his designee. Bilinski received his bachelor of science degree from Cornell in 1967 and his doctor of veterinary medicine degree from Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine in 1969. He is a doctor of veterinary medicine at the Equine Medical Center and the Chatham Small Animal Hospital in Chatham, N.Y.