Huck Joins Penn State Campaign As Treasurer

3-11-97

University Park, Pa. -- J. Lloyd Huck, of Morristown, N.J., retired chairman of the board of Merck & Co. and former president of the Penn State Board of Trustees, has been named treasurer of the University's upcoming capital campaign and a member of the campaign's steering committee, according to University President Graham B. Spanier.

Huck is a 1946 Penn State graduate in chemistry. Now an emeritus trustee of Penn State, he was president of the board from 1988 to 1991 and president of the alumni association from 1975 to 1977. After retiring in 1986 from Merck & Co. following nearly 30 years as a research chemist and executive, he was chairman of the board and CEO of Nova Pharmaceutical Corp. until 1991. The University named him a Distinguished Alumnus in 1993.

For Penn State, he has chaired the Campaign for the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, served as a committee member of the Campaign for the Library and chaired the leadership committee for establishing the Biotechnology Institute. Among other gifts to the University, he and his wife, Dorothy, a 1943 Penn State graduate in home economics, have supported the Biotechnology Institute and endowed chairs in medicine and in molecular and cell biology at Hershey Medical Center, in nutrition in the College of Health and Human Development and in special collections in the University Libraries.

The new campaign will aim to raise private funds for scholarships, graduate fellowships, faculty endowment and a variety of academic programs. The campaign's goal will be announced later, according to Spanier. Huck and other volunteers will join campaign chair Edward R. Hintz, of New York, in providing national leadership for the fund drive and soliciting major gifts.

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Gary Cramer (814) 863-4512 (office) gwc104@psu.edu
Mike Bezilla (814) 863-4512 (office) mxb13@psu.edu