Three new board members elected to Board of Trust

by Beth Fox

The Vanderbilt University Board of Trust elected three new members Friday, April 28, during its spring meeting. The new members are Joe L. Roby, John R. Loomis and graduating senior Dan Mackinney Barnhardt, who was chosen as the young alumni trustee.

Roby is president and chief executive officer of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc. Prior to that, he served as DLJ's chief operating officer.

Roby

A 1961 cum laude graduate of Vanderbilt, Roby was commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Navy and served in the Pacific Fleet as a line officer from 1961 to 1965. He was a lieutenant when he left the Navy to enter Harvard Business School in 1965. He earned an M.B.A with distinction in 1967. Roby is a director of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. and Sybron International and a member of the Board of Trustees of Carnegie Hall, the Central Park Conservancy and the Allen-Stevenson School in New York City.

Loomis

As the outgoing president of the Vanderbilt Alumni Association, Loomis succeeds John W. Johnson as an alumni trustee.

Loomis is a general partner with the First Manhattan Company, a New York investment management firm. After graduating from Vanderbilt in 1951 with a bachelor of arts in business administration and economics, Loomis was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve and spent 38 months on active duty with naval intelligence during and after the Korean War.

Loomis has served as a member of the Heard Library Society, the College Cabinet, the Alumni Association Board of Directors, the National Committee during the Campaign for Vanderbilt and as national chair of the Living Endowment. He also served as the general reunion chair in 1996.

Barnhardt

Barnhardt, an economics major in the College of Arts and Science from Charlotte, N.C., succeeds Zachary Willette as the young alumni trustee.

As executive treasurer for the Student Government Association, Barnhardt helped restructure the activity fee allocation process. He has served as chair of the Dean of Students' Activity Fee Reform Committee; at-large member of the new Student Finance Committee; executive chair of Alumni Class Officers; and one of two student members on the Committee on Liberal Undergraduate Education. He has served on the Women's Center Advisory Board, the Escort Service Committee and the Undergraduate Student Conduct Council. Barnhardt has received a Keystone Award for his commitment to enhancing student life, the Bryan Award for his outstanding contribution to the Student Senate, and was selected as homecoming king in October 1999.

Vanderbilt set a national precedent in 1968 when the Board of Trust voted to elect a graduating senior to its membership each year. The students in the junior and senior classes as well as those from the most recent graduating class select their candidate for young alumni trustee. The candidate is recommended by the Alumni Association to the Board of Trust for membership.