New Trustees Elected To Board

5-16-97
University Park, Pa. -- Penn State alumni and delegates of agricultural and industrial societies elected four new members and re-elected three incumbents to serve on the Board of Trustees in elections held Thursday, May 15 at the University Park campus. All will serve a three-year term beginning July 1.

Joining the Board as new members elected by the alumni are David R. Jones, 1954 graduate, assistant managing editor of the New York Times, and Anne Riley, 1964 and 1975 graduate, teacher at State College Area High School.

Re-elected to the Board by the alumni is Ben Novak, 1965 graduate, senior partner and founder in the law firm of Novak, Stover & Furst, State College, and a trustee since 1988. Marian U. Coppersmith, also an alumni trustee incumbent, chose not to seek re-election.

Joining the Board as a new member elected by the agricultural society delegates is Carl T. Shaffer, vice president of the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau board of directors.

Re-elected by the agricultural society delegate is Obie Snider, 1950 graduate, owner of Singing Brook Farms, Bedford, and a trustee since 1979.

Joining the Board as a new member elected by the industrial society delegates is Ira M. Lubert, 1973 graduate, managing director of Technology Leaders L.P., Wayne.

Re-elected by the industrial society delegates is Edward R. Hintz, 1959 graduate, president of Hintz, Holman and Hecksher, Inc., of New York City and a trustee since 1994.

David R. Jones is assistant managing editor of the New York Times and editor of its "National Editions." For seven years he was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Since 1963, he has worked for the Times in Detroit, Washington and New York. As Times national editor, he directed coverage of four Presidential elections, Watergate, Three Mile Island and numerous political, economic, social and educational stories.

Jones received a B.A. in journalism from Penn State in 1954. He was editor of the Daily Collegian and a member of student government, Parmi Nous and Tau Kappa Epsilon. He has an M.A. in American history from New York University and served as a U.S. Air Force officer.

Anne Riley is president-elect of the Penn State Alumni Association and a State College native. She completed four three-year terms on the Alumni Council and has been active on its executive board.

A life member of the Alumni Association, she serves on the Board of the Renaissance Fund and on the Mount Nittany Conservancy Board. She is a member of the Nittany Lion Club.

Riley earned both a B.A. in 1964 and an M.A. in 1975 from Penn State in English and teaches English at State College Area High School.

Ben Novak has been practicing law in State College and Bellefonte since 1970. He is a member of the U.S. Panel of Trustees and represents several State College area municipalities.

Novak graduated from Penn State in 1965 with a B.A. in economics and received his law degree from Georgetown University in 1968. He subsequently served as assistant dean of students at Penn State.

A founder and president of the Mount Nittany Conservancy, which has helped to preserve 302 acres on Mount Nittany, he has also served as president of both the Alumni Inter-Fraternity Council and the Lion Fraternity Alumni Association, Inc. He is alumni president of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.

Carl T. Shaffer was elected vice president of the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau board in April 1996. Since 1994 he has served as one of the 16 district directors, representing Farm Bureau members in Columbia, Luzerne, Schuylkill and Carbon counties. He has served as legislative chairman, president, vice president and board member of the Columbia County Farm Bureau.

Shaffer was past chairman of the USDA's Farm Service Agency State Committee. He currently serves as president of the Pennsylvania Foundation for Agriculture Awareness. In 1996 he was named a Pennsylvania Master Farmer.

Obie Snider served as president of the Penn State Board of Trustees from 1985 to 1987. A 1950 graduate of Penn State with a degree in dairy husbandry, Snider is involved both statewide and nationally in agricultural and community affairs. He has served as president of the Pennsylvania All-American Dairy Show and in May 1991 was named to the board of directors of the American Farmland Trust. He also serves on the board of directors of the National Holstein Association.

Ira M. Lubert is regional member of the steering committee for the University's capital campaign. As an undergraduate at Penn State he majored in food service and hotel administration. He was named Alumni Fellow in 1995 and is a member of the University Libraries Development Advisory Board. He was also chair of the advisory board to the Abington-Ogontz Campus.

In addition to his work with Technology Leaders L.P., he is president of IL Management, manages two venture capital funds and oversees acquisition strategies for GF Management.

A former Penn State wrestler, Lubert was an alternate member of the 1972 U.S. Olympic Wrestling Team and has started wrestling camps to encourage youth participation in the sport.

Edward R. Hintz serves as chair of Penn State's forthcoming Capital Campaign. A 1959 graduate of Penn State, Hintz headed the campaign that raised more than $20 million in private gifts for the Bryce Jordan Center. He also served as vice chair of The Campaign for Penn State, which secured $352 million in gifts and pledges for academic programs, and served as a member of the committee that raised more than $13 million in gifts for the expansion of Pattee Library.

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