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May 17, 2007

UNM Foundation Elects Nine New Board Members; Four Members Re-elected

The University of New Mexico Foundation elected nine new members and re-elected four members to its Board of Directors recently. New members include: Sandra Begay-Campbell, Lou Ann Lujan Byrd, Michelle Coons, Gus Foster, Peter Johnstone, Mark Lesher, Jack Olive, Steven Petranovich and Elizabeth Wiggins.

Re-elected members include: George Friberg and Yolanda Jones King, 3rd term, and John Lopez and Robert Taichert, Esq., 2nd term. All board terms are through April 30, 2011. 

Board officers include: Thelma Domenici, chair; Gary Gordon, vice chair/chair-elect; Judith Lavender, national vice-chair; and Anne Yegge, secretary. They join Michael Kingan, president of the UNM Foundation and vice president of Institutional Advancement, and David Harris, treasurer and acting UNM president, as officers on the Board of Directors.

For short biographies on each new Board member visit: http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001967.html#more


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