New appointments announced in Office of Alumni and Development New appointments announced in Office of Alumni and Development

Lyon

The department responsible for the University's fund-raising efforts as well as cultivating relationships with its alumni was recently restructured, with the creation of a new, eight-member management group, officials announced earlier this month.

Effective Aug. 15, Robert E. Lyon will join the Office of Alumni and Development as associate vice chancellor for University development, said Beverly Bond, vice chancellor for the department. Lyon, a graduate of the University of Tennessee with a master's degree from Peabody College, will have overall responsibility for the fund-raising efforts for the University's academic programs (exclusive of the Medical Center).

"Bob brings 25 years of wide-ranging and highly successful development experience," said Bond. "He has excellent management and planning skills, and Vanderbilt will be greatly enhanced by his joining us."

Lyon has served as senior vice president for institutional advancement at the College of Charleston in South Carolina since 1986.

In addition to the recent promotion of Robert Early to the position of associate vice chancellor for major gifts, Anthony J. Spence, former director of alumni publications, was named executive director of communications and publications. Spence will continue to oversee alumni publications and will also assume responsibility for advancement communications and the department's Web site (www.vanderbilt.edu/alumni/).

Jean Klockenkemper, who joined the University last September as executive director of administration, will continue to manage budgeting and human resources, and will oversee the Alumni and Gift Records Office as well as the overall alumni and development database system. Klockenkemper, a certified public accountant, is a 1981 graduate from the Owen Graduate School of Management.

Carolyn N. Schmidt, who graduated from Vanderbilt in 1971 and earned a master's degree in 1978, is the executive director of alumni programs. She recently added the management of the undergraduate reunion program to her duties of leading the work of the alumni association.

Twenty-year Vanderbilt veteran Patricia A. Kovalcheck will undertake the new role of executive campaign coordinator. Kovalcheck will facilitate the planning and coordinate the implementation of the overall campaign effort.

Robert P. Feldman continues as associate vice chancellor for medical center development after coming to Vanderbilt from Yale University in 1998.

"Our team is talented, experienced, energetic and deeply dedicated," said Bond, who succeeded John S. Beasley II as vice chancellor for alumni and development July 1, 1999. "We look forward to helping to capitalize on the tremendous opportunities to advance Vanderbilt through alumni relations and fund raising."