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For immediate release: Sept. 20, 2001

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Princeton names eight new trustees

Princeton, N.J. -- Eight Princeton alumni will join the University's Board of Trustees Friday, Sept. 28. They are: Dennis Brownlee, Karen Magee, Peter Wendell, William Ford Jr., Elizabeth Duffy, Richard Krugman, Wesley Harris and P.J. Kim.

Brownlee is the chairman of Space Station Television, a media development company. He started his career at IBM marketing early computer systems and went on to become a partner of U.S. Satellite Broadcasting Company. A member of the class of 1974, he served as a Princeton trustee from 1995 to 1999.

Magee, a member of the class of 1983, is vice president of strategic planning at Time Inc., the publishing division of AOL Time Warner, where she has worked in various positions related to finance since 1984. In 1989 she received an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She was a Princeton alumni trustee from 1996 to 2000.

Wendell is the founder and a general partner of Sierra Ventures, a venture capital fund. He has been on the faculty of Stanford University's Business School since 1991. A member of the class of 1972, he serves as a director of the Princeton University Investment Company, which manages the University's endowment.

Brownlee, Magee and Wendell were named as charter trustees, appointed to serve until 2011.

Ford, a member of the class of 1979, is chairman of the board of Ford Motor Company, where he has worked since his graduation. He holds a master's degree in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was named as a term trustee and will serve a four-year term.

Duffy is executive director of the Ball Foundation, which develops career and educational initiatives to foster human potential. She has also been an executive at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. She is a member of the class of 1988.

Krugman, a member of the class of 1963, is the dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine and a professor of pediatrics there. Since 1987, he has been the editor-in-chief of Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal.

Harris, a 1968 alumnus of Princeton's Graduate School, is a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously he was an administrator at NASA and dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Connecticut.

Kim, the new "young alumni" trustee, graduated in June 2001 with a degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and is now a business analyst with McKinsey & Company. President of the Undergraduate Student Government in his senior year, Kim was selected by classmates as the senior who had done the most for Princeton.

Duffy, Krugman, Harris and Kim were named as alumni trustees and will serve four-year terms.

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