Contractors
Elect Officers
Mark
Schnoebelen, chairman of the
board, Associated General Contractors
of St. Louis and vice president of
Massman Construction Co.
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Associated General
Contractors of St. Louis (AGC) have elected Mark Schnoebelen
as chairman of the board. He succeeds James Glenn of Glenn
Construction Co. Inc. who remains on the AGC Board of Directors.
Schnoebelen, a registered professional engineer, is vice president
of Massman Construction Co.
Other AGC officers installed were: James Frey, J.S. Alberici
Construction Co. Inc., senior vice chairman of the board; Kevin
Kuntz, McCarthy Building Companies, vice chairman of the board;
Al Mueller, Paric Corporation, treasurer; and Scott Wilson, S.M.
Wilson & Co., secretary.
AGC represents more than 400 construction firms in the St. Louis
area. Last year, AGC member firms employed about 30,000 people and
built projects worth $1.5 billion throughout the region.
Darnell to Head 2001 United Way Campaign; Other Officers, Committee
Chairs Named
David
Darnell, president, Bank of
America's Central Banking Group,
and chair of the United Way's 2001
campaign.
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David Darnell,
president of the Bank of America Central Banking Group, is taking
the reigns of the United Way of Greater St. Louis' 2001 fundraising
campaign. He succeeds C.R. (Ray) Holman, chairman and CEO for Mallinckrodt
Inc. who served as chair of the 2000 campaign, which raised United
Way a record $63.3 million in contributions.
A member of
the United Way's Board of Directors, Darnell served as executive
vice chair for the 2000 campaign. He also has chaired the organization's
Marketing and Communications Committee in 1998 and 1999.
In addition
to naming the campaign chair, the United Way announced Craig
Schnuck, chairman and CEO for Schnuck Markets Inc., will serve
a two-year term as chair of their Board of Directors starting
April 2001.
St. Louis
Sports Commission's new Chair
Walter Lamkin (lef t)
receives the leadership
baton from President Frank Viverito. Lamkin,
who previously served as vice chair of the
non-profit organization, is an attorney with the
Chesterfield law firm McCarthy Leonard,
Kaemmerer, Owen, Lamkin & McGovern LC.
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Das Family
Gift Establishes Wash U Professorship in Electrical Engineering
Donald Indeck is the first Das Family Distinguished Professor
of Electrical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.
This professorship for the School of Engineering and Applied Science
was made possible by a $2 million gift from alumnus Santanu Das,
his wife Kabita and their two sons, Atanu and Arnab.
Indeck joined
Washington University in 1988. Prior to receiving the Das Distinguished
Professorship, he was professor of electrical engineering. He
continues to direct the Magnetics and Information Sciences Center
(MISC). IndeckÕs recent research at MISC has concentrated
on techniques for searching massive databases, such as those used
in cameras for digital image storages, television units and other
large data sets. He has been awarded more than a dozen patents,
including Magneprintª, the university's object recognition
system used in the authentication process for bankcards, checks
and currency. His awards include the National Science Foundation's
Presidential Young Investigator Award (presented by then President
George Bush), the IBM Faculty Development Award, the Washington
University Distinguished Faculty Award, as well as several awards
from the Institute of Electrical Engineering.
Das received
his doctoral degree in electrical engineering from Washington
University in 1973. Joining ITT shortly thereafter, Das embarked
on a career in telecommunications and data communications that
included significant developments and inventions that produced
advancements in the field.
At ITT, Das
participated in the development of the VLSI-based telephone switching
systems and workstation-based CAD systems. In 1986, he moved to
Spectrum Digital Corporation as vice president of engineering.
With the merger of Spectrum and Micom Digital, Das assumed the
presidency of Micom.
In 1988, Das
co-founded TranSwitch Corp., a company that designs, develops
and markets proprietary, highly integrated digital and mixed-signal
semiconductor solutions for telecommunications and data commutations.
Since its inception, Das has served as president and CEO, and
recently became chairman of the board of directors.
Fontbonne Names New Dean
Greg
Taylor, Fontbonne's new
dean of business Administration
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Gregory
F. Taylor has been named to the newly created position of
dean for business administration at Fontbonne College. Fontbonne's
business administration program has about 1,100 students, including
traditional students enrolled at the Clayton campus, OPTIONS students
who take classes either at the Clayton campus or the South County
location, and students who take classes at the DaimlerChrysler
location.
The Fontbonne
OPTIONS program is responsible for most of the business administration
department's growth during the last few years. This program is
geared toward adult students and offers master's degrees in business
administration (MBA) or management.
Taylor most
recently served as lecturer and adjunct professor at the business
school of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. From 1992-1997,
he was president and chief executive officer at the downtown St.
Louis office of Stifel, Nicolaus and Co.
AmeriNet Choice Program Appoints Wright as Vice President
AmeriNet Inc., a membership-based health care group purchasing
organization (GPO), has appointed Dale Wright to the new
position of vice president of the AmeriNet Choice Program.
Wright previously
was executive vice president at Oak Medical Inc., which recently
was purchased by Allegiance Healthcare Corp.
AmeriNet Choice
is a private label line of products available to the membership.
Through the private label options, health care organizations have
opportunities for cost reduction with a combination of competitive
price and back-end rebates.
Founded in
1986, AmeriNet Inc., headquarted in St. Louis, operates through
three shareholder organizations, AmeriNet Central, Intermountain
Health Care Inc., and Vector. It represents more than 15,000 member
facilities in all 50 states, including hospitals, medical group
practices, nursing homes, surgery centers, managed care organizations
and pharmacies.
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