The results are in, and the Penn Staters for Responsible Stewardship slate of candidates has swept the Board of Trustees election. Barbara Doran, Ted Brown, and Bill Oldsey unseated incumbents Stephanie Deviney and Paul Suhey, and defeated 34 other candidates. The new members will take office at the next board meeting in July.
Doran received 15,085 votes. Oldsey garnered 13,940 votes. Brown pulled in 11,403 votes. Those totals far surpassed the vote for any other candidates.
A total of 33,777 alumni voted in this year’s election — about 4,000 off of last year’s record mark.
The three winning candidates were propelled by an endorsement from PS4RS, the group that is focused on reforming the Board of Trustees.
Doran, class of 1975, is a wealth portfolio manager at Morgan Stanley in New York. She finished fourth in last year’s election. “I believe I have the strength of purpose, maturity, and the leadership skills to get things done: I am passionate about this great university and all of you who make it so,” Doran said in her position statement.
Brown, class of 1968, worked at IBM for 30 years, retiring as a business continuity executive in 1998. “I have decades of experience planning for/recovering from actual disasters, including year-long leadership restoring the hurricane-devastated University of the Virgin Islands. I’m the only Trustee candidate to lead the recovery of a university from a crisis; and only Penn Stater elected to the Contingency Planning Hall of Fame,” Brown said in his position statement.
Oldsey, class of 1976, was a faculty member at Penn State for 20 years. He is a senior executive at Pearson and McGraw-Hil. “After a lifetime of preparation and loyalty, I stand ready to devote 100% of my experience, leadership, energy, and time to the responsible stewardship of Penn State, now and into the future,” Oldsey said in his mission statement.
Still to come: StateCollege.com will have more on the board of trustees election, along with complete coverage of today’s board meeting.
