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To Board of Trustees
 
January 31, 2001
 
   
Harold L. Moses, M.D., noted cancer researcher and director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center at Vanderbilt University; Glenn R. Fuhrman, co-founder of the New York investment company MSD Capital, and David E Shelton, a senior vice president with Lowe’s Companies, Inc., have been elected to the Berea College Board of Trustees.

Each was appointed to a six- year term and will serve through 2006. Moses has spent more than 35 years as a distinguished physician and researcher engaged in the "war on cancer." As well as being Founding Director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center since 1988, he also is chairman of the department of cell biology in Vanderbilt’s medical school. Prior to joining Vanderbilt’s program, he was employed at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. The recipient of numerous awards, his research has affected the way cancer is being studied and treated around the world.

A native of Whitley County, where his father was coal miner, Moses graduated from Berea College in 1958. He received his medical degree from Vanderbilt and later specialized in pathology in his medical studies. In 1995, he received an "Outstanding Alumni of Kentucky Award" from Kentucky Advocates for Higher Education.

Fuhrman was the founding principal of MSD Capital, formed in 1998. The firm currently manages more than $4 billion in assets, including significant investments in technology. Previously, he was a managing director and head of the Special Investments Group at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., where he was employed from 1988-98. He is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned both his M.B.A. and bachelor's degree, majoring in both finance and art.

Shelton has been Senior Vice President of Real Estate, Engineering and Construction for Lowe's since 1997, and is responsible for all aspects of the company's expansion program. He began his career with the company in 1970, working as a part-time employee while attending graduate school, and held several management positions prior to assuming his present executive role.

The Stokes County, N.C. native is a 1969 graduate of Berea and earned masters and doctorate degrees from the University North Carolina- Greensboro. He has been an active Berea alumnus, and is a former member of the Berea College President's Advisory Council.


Glenn R. Fuhrman


David E. Shelton


Harold L. Moses

   
CONTACT:
Julie Sowell, 859-985-3028

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