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Volume XCI, Number 6	University of Southern California	Tuesday, June 15, 1982
Three elected to board of trustees
The university’s Board of Trustees elected three new members last week: San Diegans Herbert G. Klein, editor-in-chief of The Copley Newspapers and Gordon C. Luce, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Great American Federal Savings and Loan Association; and from Los Angeles: Fred W. O’Green, chairman and chief executive officer of Litton Industries.
Herbert G. Klein, who served as communications director for former President Richard M. Nixon between 1969 and 1973, has been editor-in-chief of the San Diego-based newspaper chain since 1980.
A graduate of the journalism school, Klein was sports editor of the Daily Trojan while at the university.
He began his career in the news field in 1940 as a copy boy for the Alhambra Post-Advocate. He later became news editor of the Alhambra newspaper and in 1950, joined the San Diego Evening Tribune as its associate editor, later transferring to the San Diego Union and rising to the position of editor in 1959. He edited the newspaper until June of 1968 when he resigned to participate in the presidential campaign.
Klein first met Richard Nixon in 1946 when both returned from World War II navy duty. He has participated in all campaigns subsequent to 1946, and served as Nixon’s press secretary when Nixon was Vice President, under the Eisenhower administration. He has had a major role in five presidential campaigns.
In July 1973, Klein left his position as communications director in the White House to join Metromedia, Inc., as vice-president of corporate relations..
On January 1978, Klein opened his own business as a media consultant, working nationally with a number of corporate, newspaper, television and magazine clients. Two years later he accepted the position of editor-in-chief of The Copley Newspapers, the San Diego-based chain of nine dailies, 19 weeklies and one bi-weekly in California and Illinois.
Klein is the author of a book entitled Making It Perfectly Clear, published in 1980 by Doubleday.
A native of San Diego, and graduate of San Diego High School, Gordon C. Luce joined Great American in 1970. It was formerly known as San Diego Federal Savings and Loan Association. He
Herbert G. Klein
was previously affiliated with Home Federal Savings and Loan.
Active in community and government service. Luce served the state of California as secretary of Business and Transportation from 1967-1969.
Luce recently served on the President’s Commission on Housing.
He is an advisor to the university’s Center for the Study of Financial Institutions and serves on the Board of Overseers, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.
Luce is a director of the California State Chamber of Commerce: Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco: San Diegan, Inc.; and U.S. League of Savings Associations. He is trustee of the Fine Arts Society of San Diego; vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Hospital of Scripps Clinic, La Jolla; and vice president of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce.
In 1978 he was president of the California Savings and Loan League.
His present business affiliations include serving as chairman of the board, Financial Scene, Inc.; director of Pacific Southwest Airlines; and director of Intermark, Inc.
Luce graduated from Stanford University in 1950 and earned his M.B.A. from the Stanford School of Business. He also attended the Indiana University School of Savings and Loan.
A member of Litton’s board of directors since
1968,	Fred W. O’Green has served as president of Litton Industries since 1972. Last year he assumed the additional responsibilities of chief executive officer and was elected chairman of the board.
Prior to joining Litton, O’Green was technical director of all space programs and was assistant general manager at Lockheed’s space division. He was invoved in accelerating the efforts of the U.S. space program during the period after the launch of Sputnik I and in the development of re-entry and capsule-recovery systems.
In 1964, O’Green became the first individual to receive an award from the Air Force Systems Commander, Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, for his outstanding achievement in directing the development and production of the Agena D satellite program, one of the nation’s foremeost space programs.
He received a B.S. degreee in electrical engineering from Iowa State Univeristy in 1943 and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland in 1949.
In 1980, he was named Energy Executive of the Year by the Association of Energy Engineers at the Third World Energy Engineering Conference.
O'Green is a former director of the American Defense Preparedness Association (Los Angeles Chapter). He also has served on the Board of Directors of the Shipbuilders Council of America and on the Board of Governors of the National Maritime Council.
O’Green is a director of Security Pacific Corporation and Security Pacific National Bank.
Lieb promoted
Becomes LAS dean, V.F.
Irwin C. Lieb has been promoted from provost of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (LAS) to vice president and dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.
“The promotion recognizes the remarkable success Dr. Lieb has attained in a short period of time,” said Dr. James H. Zumberge, university president.
“He set a tone and style for the college that are exceptional.
“Dr. Lieb’s responsibilities are broad and extensive and encompass over one-fourth of the university budget. We are pleased to provide this additional recognition to the leadership Dr. Lieb is providing in this area.”
LAS, the university’s center for undergraduate education, serves
12,000	students through the divisions of humanities, natural sciences and mathematics, social sciences and communications, and a number of interdisciplinary and interdivisional programs.
Lieb, a prominent humanist, scholar and administrator, came to the university in 1981 from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a professor in the department of philosophy. He was chairman of the department form 1959 to 1963, associate dean of graduate studies from 1973, to 1975, and vice president and dean of graduate studies from 1975 to 1979.
A graduate of Princeton University, with a master’s degree from Cornell and a Ph.D. from Yale, Leib taught at Yale from 1952 to 1959, then joined the faculty of Connecticut College as professor and chairman of the philosophy department. He joined the University of Texas faculty in 1963.
He is the author of five books, The Four Faces of Man, Experience, Existence and the Good, Our Uncertain Universities, Charles S. Peirce’s Letters to Lady Welby and the forthcoming Past, Present and Future: A Philosophical Study of Time.
James Appleton appointed vice president for development
James Apppleton has been appointed vice president of development after a board of trustees meeting last week.
The newly created office is devoted to the development of university planning and alumni relations, for the coordination of university staff employees, and to oversee corporate and major private donations to the university, which should bring about $55 million to the university this year, he mentions.
Appleton assumes the post to which he was temporarily assigned to replace Michael Radock, who resigned as vice president for development and university relations in late May to become vice president for resource development at the Colorado-based Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies.
“I’m very pleased to represent the development staff and the Trojans and hope to accomplish many good things,” says Appleton, who has been vice president for student affairs since 1972.
As a student affairs vice president, Appleton lectured
extensively on behalf of alumni affairs and development projects and managed a budget of more than $3 million and a staff of nearly 200 university employees.
University President James H. Zumberge said during the official announcement, “Dr. Appleton is a very able manager with extensive capabilities and experience in universities. He enjoys broad support both on the campus and among the alumni and supporters of the university.”
A search committee will be appointed shortly to begin a national search for a vice president for student affairs, Zumberge adds.
Appleton asserts that he should not have difficulty adjusting to his new duties.
“One of the reasons why it’s possible for me to assume the responsibilities is because we’ve got such outstanding people (in the development office),” he says.
Jim Dennis, associate vice president of student affairs, is among the candidates being
considered to replace Appleton in the student affairs office, mentions the 45-year-old administrator.
Appleton will report directly to Cornelius Pings, senior vice president for academic affairs, who also is the acting chief of Radock’s former post.
Bom in North Tonawanda, N.Y., Appleton graduated from high school at age 15, earned a Bachelor’s degree in social science from Wheaton (111.) College, and was awarded his master’s and Ph.D. honors by Michigan State University.
After serving as its associate dean of students, he was dean for student life and vice president of student affairs and as an associate professor in behavioral sciences at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich.
Appleton, who lives in Rancho Palos Verdes with his wife, Carol, and three children, is a member of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators and the editorial advisory board for the Educational Record, a journal of the American Council on Education.