PRESS RELEASE

August 24, 2004

Contact Katie Sproles (541) 346-0942, ksproles@darkwing.uoregon.edu

UO’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art welcomes four new board members

EUGENE—The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon recently elected four new members to its board of directors, as well as named the board’s 2004-5 executive committee.

New appointees to the twenty-six-member board include Yongsoo Huh, chief executive officer of Sungsan Group in Seoul, Korea; Angel Jones, executive director of library, recreation and cultural services in Eugene; Suzanne Storms Millis of Portland; and Ginevra Ralph, founding director of the American Music Institute, Oregon Festival of American Music in Eugene.

The 2004-05 board of directors executive committee includes Susie Papé, president; Connie Huling, first vice president; Silva Sullivan, second vice president; Mary Ann Barton of Portland, secretary; and Lee Michels, treasurer.

The new members were elected to serve three-year terms. Art museum board members are expected to cultivate donors, contribute financially themselves and lead and staff various committees like long range planning, exhibition/education and collections.

For more questions about the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the UO or its board of directors, contact public relations/marketing coordinator Katie Sproles at (541) 346-0942.

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