Vol. 25 No. 19
Mr. Arnelle and Mr. Junker will serve one-year terms that will expire in January 1997. Mr. Arnelle replaces William A. Schreyer, chairman emeritus of Merrill Lynch & Co., who served as president of the board for three years, and Mr. Junker replaces Mr. Arnelle who also served as vice president for three years.
Mr. Arnelle has served on the 32-member Board of Trustees at Penn State since he was first elected in 1969 by the alumni.
A 1955 graduate of Penn State, Mr. Arnelle was president of the undergraduate student body, a member of Lion's Paw and an All-American in basketball and a standout football player for the Nittany Lions. He is a graduate of the Dickinson School of Law and was recently conferred the degree of honorary doctorate of law by the law school.
Mr. Arnelle served on the Peace Corps staff in Turkey, India and Washington, D.C., and was later admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the California Supreme Court.
After service in the Peace Corps, Mr. Arnelle entered law practice in San Francisco as a sole practitioner in 1971. In 1985 he founded the firm of Arnelle and Hastie, with William Hastie, that merged with McGee, Willis and Greene in 1994. The 35-attorney firm of Arnelle, Hastie, McGee, Willis and Greene represent many of the major U.S. corporations.
Mr. Arnelle serves on the board of directors of Wells Fargo & Co. and Wells Fargo Bank, NA; WMX Technologies Inc.; Eastman Chemical Co. Inc.; FPL Group Inc.; Textron, Corp.; Armstrong World Industries; and Union Pacific Resources.
In San Francisco, Mr. Arnelle has served as a director of the San Francisco Opera Board; Foreign Affairs Council; Commonwealth Club; and president of the African-American Historical Society.
In 1994, Mr. Arnelle was elected to the board of directors of the National Football Foundation College Hall of Fame and received the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Medal for Outstanding Professional Service from George Washington University in 1995.
A San Francisco resident, he is a past president and co-founder of the Penn State Renaissance Fund; a life member of the Penn State Alumni Association; and a member of the President's Club. He is also a member of Penn State's National Development Council. Mr. Arnelle is a native of New Rochelle, N.Y.
Edward P. Junker III has served on the board since 1986 when he was first elected by the delegates of the industrial societies and has been re-elected for succeeding terms. He is a 1960 graduate of Penn State and a 1969 graduate of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers University.
Mr. Junker joined Marine Bank -- predecessor to PNC Bank, Northwest PA -- as an assistant vice president in 1964 and was appointed a vice president in 1966. In 1969, he was elected senior vice president and in 1972, was named executive vice president. He was elected president in 1974 and chief executive officer in 1983.
In 1985, Mr. Junker was elected chairman of PNC Bank, Northwest PA, and vice chairman of PNC Bank Corp. He is a member of the board of directors of Autoclave Engineers Inc., and in 1988-89, he also served as president of the Pennsylvania Bankers Association.
In service to his community, Mr. Junker is a member and treasurer of the Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority; president of the Erie Zoological Society; president and a member of the board of directors and executive committee of the Erie Conference on Community Development; and a trustee of the Erie Community Foundation. He is a former chairman of the board of trustees and a member of the board of corporators, Harnot Health Foundation, and a member of the board of incorporators for Saint Vincent Health Center.
He received The Americans For Competitive Enterprise System Inc. Outstanding Citizen Award in 1992; the Alexis de Tocqueville Society Award-United Way of Erie County; and, in 1995, the Gannon University Distinguished Pennsylvanian Award.
Active in the development of Penn State, he was a member of the Executive Committee of The Campaign for Penn State and currently serves on the National Development Council. He is former chairman and member of the Council of Fellows at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
Mr. Junker received the Philip Philip Mitchell Alumni Service Award in 1984. In 1987, he was selected as an Alumni Fellow in the College of Health and Human Development and at Penn State Erie.
A native of Carnegie, Pa., Mr. Junker resides in Erie.
Other board officers include President Graham B. Spanier, who serves as ex officio secretary of the board. Officers elected to serve one-year terms on the board are: -- Gary C. Schultz, treasurer; -- Raymond D. Nargi, associate treasurer; -- Janet L. Krone, assistant treasurer; -- Paula R. Ammerman, associate secretary; and -- Carolyn A. Dolbin, Joan L. Coble and Linda L. Cartright, assistant secretaries.
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