Penn State Board Chairman To Address Penn State Forum

January, 20, 2000

University Park, Pa. –Edward P. Junker III, chairman of the Penn State Board of Trustees, will be the guest speaker at the next Penn State Forum on Thursday, Jan. 20, in the Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom on the University Park campus. His topic is "Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Issues for the Board."

Junker is retired vice chairman of PNC Bank Corporation and served as vice chairman and director of PNC Bank, N.A. He is a native of Carnegie, and received his bachelor of science degree from Penn State in 1959. He is also a graduate of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers University. Active in development at Penn State, he is vice chair of the Campaign Steering Committee and a member of the Executive Board for Grand Destiny: The Penn State Campaign.

A long time supporter of Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, he is a former chairman and a member of the Council of Fellows at Penn State Erie, The Behrend

College. He received Penn State’s Philip Philip Mitchell Alumni Service Award in 1984, and in 1987 was selected as an Alumni Fellow in the College of Health and Human Development and at Penn State Erie.

Junker was elected to Penn State’s Board of Trustees by the delegates of the industrial societies for a three-year term beginning July 1, 1986 and was reelected for succeeding terms. He was elected Vice President of the Board in 1996 and 1997, and was elected President of the Board in January 1998 and 1999.

Modeled after the National Press Club and sponsored by the Penn State Bookstore, the lunchtime series of lectures is an offering of the Penn State Faculty Staff Club and is open to the public. Lunch begins at 11:30 a.m. and the program, including the lecture and questions from the audience, begins at noon.

The next Penn State Forum will be held on Thursday, Feb 17, at the Nittany Lion Inn and will feature Michael D. Olsen, professor of strategic management at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and director of research for the International Hotel and Restaurant Association.

Call 814-865-7590 for Forum tickets, which are $10 per person. A few tickets may also be available at the door. For more information about the Penn State Faculty Staff Club, go to http://www.psu.edu/dept/fsc/ on the Web.

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