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FY06 Officers Include Michael J. Cemo as Vice Chairman, Dennis Golden as Secretary HOUSTON, Aug. 18, 2005 – Leroy L. Hermes, a noted architect and distinguished University of Houston alumnus, has been elected chairman of the UH System Board of Regents for fiscal year 2006, which starts Sept. 1, 2005. He replaces Morgan Dunn O’Connor. The board also elected Michael J. Cemo to serve as vice chairman and Dennis D. Golden as secretary. The nine-member board is the governing body of the University of Houston System (UHS). The new officers were elected by the board at its meeting Thursday. The FY06 UH System budget, which totals $969 million, also was approved. (A separate release has been distributed about the new budget.) Hermes was appointed to the UH System Board of Regents in 2001 by Gov. Rick Perry, and his term runs through August 2007. “It is my goal to continue the good work of my predecessors and to accept all new challenges and opportunities that come our way,” Hermes said. “We have a great board consisting of dedicated people with a wide range of experience and backgrounds. That is the strength of this board – plus, we have the leadership of one of the finest administrations that can be assembled. I look forward to working with the board, the administration, the faculty and the students toward goals and ideals that will make the UH System the best it can be.” Hermes earned his bachelor’s degree in architecture from UH in 1966. He is president of Hermes Consulting Inc. and a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Texas Society of Architects and the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. His other offices include past president of the “C” Club, member of the Greater Houston Partnership, trustee for the Houston Realty Breakfast Club and chairman of the Phenix Initiative. He formerly served as president of the board of the Houston Community College Foundation. He is also a member of the West Houston Association, The Rice Design Alliance, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Advisory Board and is the Chairman of the Antares District, Friends of Scouting. In 1995 he was selected among the top 50 graduates in the first 50 years of the UH Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture. New vice chairman Cemo, who joined the board in 2001, earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from UH in 1968. He was president and CEO of A I M Distributors Inc., the retail-marketing arm of A I M Management Group Inc. and a director of AMVESCAP PLC until his retirement in January 2004. New secretary Golden, appointed to the board in 2004, graduated from the UH with a bachelor’s degree in optometry in 1976 and completed his doctorate of optometry from UH in 1977. He is chief of staff of Golden Eye Associates and has been in private practice in Carthage, Texas, since 1978. He is also a member of the medical staff at East Texas Medical Center. Other UH System regents include: Raul A. Gonzalez; Lynden B. Rose; Calvin W. Stephens; Morgan Dunn O’Connor; Thad “Bo” Smith and Morrie K. Abramson. The terms of O’Connor, Smith and Abramson expire Aug. 31, 2005. The Board of Regents is composed of nine members (chair, vice chair, secretary and six members). Every two years, the Texas governor, subject to Senate confirmation, appoints three members to the Board of Regents. Each member serves a six-year term. Board responsibilities include preserving institutional independence and defending each UH System component university’s right to manage its own affairs through its chosen administrators and employees; enhancing each university’s public image; interpreting the community to each of the universities and the universities to the community; nurturing each university so that each may achieve its full potential within its role and mission; and providing policy direction, insisting on clarity of focus and mission, to each of the universities. Additional information about the UH System Board of Regents is available at http://www.uhsa.uh.edu/regents/. ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM The University of Houston System is the state’s only metropolitan higher education system, encompassing four universities and two multi-institution teaching centers. The universities are the University of Houston, a nationally recognized doctoral degree-granting, comprehensive research university; the University of Houston-Downtown, a four-year undergraduate university beginning limited expansion into graduate programs; and the University of Houston-Clear Lake and the University of Houston-Victoria, both upper division and master’s-level institutions. The centers are the UH System at Sugar Land in Fort Bend and the UH System at Cinco Ranch. In addition, the UH System includes KUHF-FM, Houston’s National Public Radio and classical radio station, and KUHT-TV, the nation’s first educational television station. For more information about UH visit the university’s ‘Newsroom’ at www.uh.edu/admin/media/newsroom. |
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