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 National Environmental Education and Training Foundation, In



[Federal Register: June 6, 1995 (Volume 60, Number 108)]
[Notices]               

[Page 29847-29848]

>From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]









ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY



[FRL-5215-6]

 


National Environmental Education and Training Foundation, Inc. 
Announcement of a New Appointment 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 appointment of Sam 
Rowse and Wayne Allen to the National Environmental Education and 
Training Foundation, Inc. Board of Directors.
    Sam Rowse is President of Veryfine Products, Inc., Westford, 
Massachusetts. Mr. Rowse served as company treasurer from 1972 through 
1989 when he was named President. He has served as vice chairman of the 
board of directors for the Processed Apples Institute and is a member 
of the National Juice Processors Association. Mr. Rowse is a member of 
the Joslin Clinic's Boston Committee and serves as trustee of The 
Deaconess Nashoba Hospital in addition to holding the position of 
corporator at the Deaconess Hospital in Boston.
    Mr. Rowse is a graduate of Lawrence Academy in Groton, 
Massachusetts and holds a business degree from Nasson College in 
Springvale, Maine. His term of office is four years.
    W.W. (Wayne) Allen is chairman and chief executive officer of 
Phillips Petroleum Company. Mr. Allen joined Phillips in 1961 as an 
engineer. After holding various staff engineering positions, Mr. Allen 
was elected to the board of directors in 1989, in 1991 became president 
and chief operating [[Page 29848]] officer and in May 1994 became 
chairman and chief executive officer.

    Mr. Allen is a member of the National Petroleum Council, the 
Society of Petroleum Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers, a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 
serves as a member and trustee of the Oklahoma State University 
Foundation Board of Governors, and is a national trustee, Southwest 
Region of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
    Mr. Allen is a graduate of Oklahoma State University with a 
bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and a master's degree in 
industrial engineering.

    This appointee will join the ten 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; Fred Krupp, Executive Director of the 
Environmental Defense Fund; Sarah Muyskens, Management Consultant; 
Leslie Dach, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Edelman 
Public Relations; 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 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.



    Dated: May 22, 1995.

Carol M. Browner,

Administrator.

[FR Doc. 95-13791 Filed 6-5-95; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560-50-M

 
 

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