University Foundation Board Names New Officers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 11, 2002
Joe Wills
530-898-4143
University Foundation Board Names New Officers
The University Foundation, California State University, Chico, has named new officers and committee chairs and added a new member. The changes took place at a regular meeting of the board May 22.
The new board chair is Mike Prime, a Chico resident and former owner of Option Care, a provider of high-tech home health treatments. The new board vice chair is Don Travers, a Paradise attorney specializing in estate planning. Both terms of office will be one year.
Continuing as board secretary and treasurer, respectively, are Paul Moore, vice president for university advancement and student affairs, and Dennis Graham, vice president for business and finance.
The new member of the Foundation board is Scott Chalmers, CSU, Chico alumnus and president of RSC Associates, a property management firm.
The new chair of the major gifts committee is John Burghardt, partner in the Chico-based law firm of Marshall, Burghardt, Mieske and Harp. The new chair of the nominations committee is Marilyn Warrens, university alumna and long-time community and university supporter. Steve Nettleton, owner of the Chico Heat and former owner of Food4Less grocery stores, remains chair of the finance, investment and audit committee.
Department of Chemistry chair Jim Postma was reappointed to the board as the faculty representative at the May meeting. A new student representative will be appointed to the board in the fall.
The University Foundation was organized and incorporated as a nonprofit California corporation in 1940 to support and enhance campus projects and programs for which state funding is insufficient or not available. In 1997, the University Foundation’s function became solely philanthropic and as such administers bequests, charitable trusts, special gifts, charitable gift annuities, scholarships, endowments and donor-advised funds. The University Foundation administers the university’s gift and endowment programs.
Responsibility for the governance of the University Foundation is vested in the Board of Governors, which includes lay members, senior campus administrators, a faculty member and a student.
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