[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 43 (Friday, March 4, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-4914]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-4845-3]
National Environmental Education and Training Foundation, Inc.
Announcement of New Appointments to the Board of Directors
The National Environmental Education and Training Foundation was
created by Public Law 101-619, the National Environmental Education Act
of 1990. It is a private 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established
to promote and support education and training as necessary tools to
further environmental protection and sustainable, environmentally sound
development. It provides the common ground upon which leaders from
business and industry, all levels of government, public interest
groups, and others can work cooperatively to expand the reach of
environmental education and training programs beyond the traditional
classroom. The Foundation will develop and support a grant program that
promotes innovative environmental education and training programs; it
will also develop partnerships with government and other organizations
to administer projects that promote the development of an
environmentally literate public.
The Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as
required by the terms of the Act, announces the following five
appointments to the National Environmental Education and Training
Foundation, Inc. Board of Directors. These appointees will join the
seven current Board members, who include: Edward Bass, Chairman and CEO
of Fine Line, Inc. and Chairman of Space Biospheres Ventures; Dr. James
Crowfoot, Professor of Natural Resources and Urban and Regional
Planning at the University of Michigan; Mark De Michele, President and
CEO of Arizona Public Service Company; James Donnelley, Vice Chairman
of the Board of R.R. Donnelley & Sons; Dr. Bonnie F. Guiton, Dean of
the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia; Rebecca
Rimel, Executive Director of the Pew Charitable Trusts; and Francis
Pandolfi, President and CEO of Times Mirror Magazines, Inc. and
Chairman of the Board of The Sporting News Publishing Company.
Great care has been taken to assure that these new appointees not
only have the highest degree of expertise and commitment, but also
bring to the Board diverse points of view relating to environmental
education and training. Terms of office for the new appointees are: Mr.
Parks, Mr. Krupp, Mr. Dach and Ms. Muyskens four year terms with
possibility of an additional four year reappointment; Ms. Tabankin two
years with possibility of an additional four year reappointment. The
five new appointees are:
R. Ralph Parks--Mr. Parks is currently a General Partner, Investment
Banking Division, Goldman Sachs & Company. From 1970 through 1980 he
was Managing Director, Investment Banking Division, Merrill Lynch. He
has a B.A. in History from Rice University and an M.B.A. from Columbia
University School of Business.
Fred Krupp--Mr. Krupp is the Executive Director of the Environmental
Defense Fund. He is also a member of the President's Council on
Sustainable Development, serves on New York Governor Cuomo's
Environmental Advisory Board, the Connecticut Fund for the Environment
and the National Commission on Superfund. Mr. Krupp is a graduate of
Yale University with a law degree from the University of Michigan.
Sarah Muyskens--Ms. Muyskens is a Management Consultant specializing in
non-profits. She has worked at the Wilderness Society and the
Environmental Defense Fund. Ms. Muyskens is on the Board of the Vermont
Natural Resources Council and the Governor's Council of Environmental
Advisors. Ms. Muyskens has a degree in British History from Yale
University.
Leslie Dach--Mr. Dach is presently Executive Vice President/General
Manager of Edelman Public Relations. He has over 15 years of experience
in politics, lobbying, and press. While at Edelman he managed
StarKist's announcement of its Dolphin Safe policy and a worldwide
environmental communications policy for Johnson Wax. As a lobbyist, he
worked for Audubon Society and the Environmental Defense Fund. He has
also managed lobbying coalitions for the entire environmental movement
on major pollution legislation. Mr. Dach has a B.S. in Biology from
Yale and a M.P.A. from Harvard.
Margery Tabankin--Currently is the executive director of the Hollywood
Women's Political Committee and the Barbara Streisand Foundation.
Previously, Ms. Tabankin was an Institute of Politics Fellow at
Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and served as the
executive director of the Arca Foundation and the director of VISTA.
Ms. Tabankin has a B.A. in political science from the University of
Wisconsin.
Dated: February 22, 1994.
Carol M. Browner,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 94-4914 Filed 3-3-94; 8:45 am]
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