New Members Named to the Board

New Members Named to the Board

RICE NEWS
September 23, 1999

The Rice University Board of Trustees has added four new members, hailing from New York City to Houston to Monahans, Texas.

Michael Lynch ’73, managing director of Goldman, Sachs & Co., and Judge Bob Parks ’73, of the 143rd Judicial District of Texas, were elected to the board in May and joined it at its Sept. 15-16 meeting. James W. Crownover ’65, retired managing director of McKinsey and Co., and Janice Doty ’60, executive vice president of Harris McCully Associates Inc., were approved as board members during the September meeting.

“Rice is indeed fortunate to have these strong additions to its board,” said Board Chairman E. William Barnett. “I have no doubt that each will make a major contribution to the forward progress of this university during an extremely important time in its history.”

The Board of Trustees is comprised of 20 members. It meets four times a year and holds special sessions to manage the affairs of the university.

Lynch was elected to a new position, becoming the 20th board member. His is a 4-year term which expires on June 30, 2003. Parks was recommended by the Association of Rice Alumni (ARA) Board to fill a 4-year term, which will also run until June 30, 2003.

Crownover will fill a vacancy on the board created by the death last month of Constantine “Dino” Nicandros. His term will end in 2003. Doty’s appointment to the board was recommended by the ARA Board. She will complete the term of Gloria Shatto, who died in June. Her appointment will run until 2001.

Parks has served as judge of the 143rd District since 1986. After earning his bachelor of arts degree in history from Rice in 1973, Parks attended the University of Texas Law School where he was awarded his jurisprudence degree in 1976. A year later he was admitted to the State Bar of Texas.

Parks’ professional activities include serving as a board member of the Texas Center for the Judiciary, as president of the Monahans-Ward County Bar Association, as president of the Trans-Pecos Bar Association and as a fellow of the Texas Bar Association.

He remains active in the Rice community. He served as a mentor as part of the Association of Rice Alumni (ARA) Mentoring program and as a member of the ARA’s board of directors from 1995 to 1998.

Lynch earned a bachelor of arts degree in chemical engineering and behavioral science from Rice in 1973 and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1976.

He joined Goldman, Sachs after graduating from UT. He was named a partner in 1986 and was appointed managing director in 1996. He served on the Rice University Fund Council from 1986 to 1992. He was a member of Rice’s Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology Leadership Committee from 1996 to 1998. He is currently serving on the university’s Campaign Leadership Committee.

Crownover joined McKinsey and Co., an international strategy and consulting firm, in 1968. Through much of his career, he led the firm’s energy practice, focusing on the petroleum, gas/electric and service sectors, and covering the firm’s development of its North American, European and Asian energy positions. He also headed McKinsey’s Texas practice for many years and served on the firm’s board of directors from 1991 to 1998.

Crownover earned his bachelor of arts and bachelor of science degrees in chemical engineering from Rice in 1965 and 1966, respectively. He earned his MBA from Stanford University in 1968. He is a member of the Council of Overseers for Rice’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management and serves on the business school’s fund-raising subcommittee.

Doty is executive vice president at Harris McCully Associates Inc.–a privately-owned career management consulting company based in New York City. Doty helped form the company with two partners in 1994. Prior to creating the consulting company, she was a vice president at IBM and managed IBM’s owned real estate portfolio.

Doty earned a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Rice in 1960. She and her husband Stephen–also a Rice graduate with three degrees in biology–are members of Rice’s Founder’s and Capt. James A. Baker societies.