Search for successor begins Marilyn Marks Top achievers in the worlds of business and non-profits. Faculty and staff. Student leaders. The men and women who will conduct Princeton's search for a new president bring together a wide range of experiences and records of service to the University. When Princeton's Board of Trustees received news of President Shapiro's intention to complete his presidency at the end of the academic year, it established a special committee to direct the search for his successor. This committee, which will consist of nine trustees, five faculty members, three students and one staff member, will make a recommendation to the full board. "Reflecting the significance of this mission, service on the search committee will be very time-consuming, and all those on it must be willing and able to give the work of the committee their highest priority," Robert Rawson Jr., chair of the board's executive committee, wrote in a letter to the University community. "It is my hope and expectation that the work of the committee will be accomplished during the current academic year." The five faculty appointments to the search committee will consist of one representative from each of the four divisions -- humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and mathematics, and engineering -- as well as one from the non-tenured faculty. The faculty Advisory Committee on Appointments and Advancements has already suggested 20 nominations, and those faculty members are being contacted to assess their interest. If they are interested, their names will be submitted on a ballot to faculty members. Dean of the Faculty Joseph Taylor said he hoped appointments would be made by Oct. 10. The three students on the search committee will be Lauren Hale, chair of the Graduate Student Government; P.J. Kim, president of the Undergraduate Student Government, and another undergraduate to be chosen by the USG. The USG executive board is interviewing candidates and plans to make a selection in early October, Kim said. Staff members are expected to elect a representative during the week of Oct. 1. The trustees charged the Executive Committee of the Council of the Princeton University Community with identifying four staff candidates, and all staff members -- including those at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory -- are eligible to vote. A ballot and information about the candidates will be mailed to staff members. Here is background on those already named to serve: • Trustee Brent Henry, Class of 1969, is vice president and general counsel of the MedStar Healthcare Group, a large healthcare delivery system in the Washington, D.C., area. • Trustee Dennis Keller, Class of 1963, is chairman and chief executive officer of DeVry Inc., one of the largest publicly held higher-education companies in North America, and DeVry University Inc. He served as co-chair of the recently completed 250th Anniversary Campaign. • Trustee Spencer Merriweather III, Class of 2000, is a legislative associate in the office of Eleanor Homes Norton, the U.S. congresswoman from Washington, D.C. A politics graduate, Merriweather served as president of the Undergraduate Student Government. • Trustee Heidi Miller, Class of 1974, is chief financial officer at priceline.com. She is a member of the Advisory Council for the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton. • Trustee Robert Murley, Class of 1972, is vice chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston Corp., an international investment banking firm. •Trustee Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Class of 1972, is dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Miami. She has been a member of the Advisory Council for Princeton's School of Architecture. •Trustee Robert Rawson Jr., Class of 1966, who will serve as the committee chair, directs the Cleveland office and is a partner in the law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, where he specializes in antitrust law and litigation. • Trustee John Wynne, Class of 1967, is president and chief executive officer of Landmark Communications, a corporation with interests in newspapers, broadcasting, cable programming, electronic publishing and specialty publications. • Trustee Paul Wythes, Class of 1955, who will serve as the committee vice chair, is founding general partner of Sutter Hill Ventures in Palo Alto, Calif. He led a special Princeton committee appointed in 1997 to consider long-term strategic issues facing Princeton over the coming decade. • Lauren Hale, chair of the Graduate Student Government, is working on her Ph.D. in population studies and public policy. She received her bachelor's degree from Harvard University in environmental science and public policy. • P. J. Kim, president of the Undergraduate Student Government, will receive his A.B. degree in June. He is majoring in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and is working toward a certificate in American studies. Related articles Shapiro to step down at the top of his game Trustee praises vision, energy		[an error occurred while processing this directive]