EIGHT NEW MEMBERS ELECTED TO UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND BOARD OF TRUSTEES
May 30, 2001
The University of Richmond board of trustees elected seven new members-including four Richmond residents and Robert S. Jepson Jr., alumnus and chairman-CEO of Jepson Associates-to the 40-member board at their May meeting on campus. An eighth member was elected to the board at a previous meeting to serve a term commencing July 1.
New members from Richmond are: Robert H. Keiter, alumnus and managing shareholder of the accounting firm Keiter, Stephens, Hurst, Gary & Shreaves; Susan G. Quisenberry, alumna and management consultant with the firm of Quisenberry & Warren Ltd.; the Rev. Raymond L. Spence Jr., senior minister of Second Baptist Church; and Allison P. Weinstein, president of Weinstein Management Inc.
Quisenberry and Spence previously have served terms on the board.
Other new trustees are: Lawrence C. Marsh of New York City, senior vice president of equity research for Lehman Brothers; and Sarah Walton of Washington, D.C, commercial artist and former president of Language Odyssey, a Chicago-based producer of books and tapes for the teaching of elementary school Spanish and French.
Waldo Abbot of Greenwich, Conn., managing director and global head of communications and technology with Royal Bank of Canada in New York City, was elected to the board at a previous meeting.
Jepson previously served on the board from 1992-96. He established the university's Jepson School of Leadership Studies and W. David Robbins Chair of Business Policy and donated funds for building the Alice Jepson Theatre at the Modlin Center for the Arts. Jepson was also the major benefactor of the award-winning Jepson Alumni Center, which incorporated preservation of Richmond's Bottomley House.
Founded in 1830, the University of Richmond is a private, independent, liberal arts university located in the capital of Virginia. Its 2,950 undergraduates represent 47 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 54 countries. An additional 1,300 students are enrolled in law, graduate schools of arts and sciences and business, and continuing studies. Richmond has been ranked number one in its category for seven straight years in U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges" issue.