Four Alumni Appointed To Board Of Visitors

Gov. Mark Warner has appointed six new members, including four Old Dominion alumni, to the Board of Visitors for 2002-03.

The alumni are:
Kendra Menefee Croshaw ’00, government relations director for Norfolk’s Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters Health System

Prabhav Maniyar (M.A. ’85), chief financial officer of Startec, a communications company in Northern Virginia

Ross A. Mugler ’84, commissioner of the revenue for the city of Hampton

Moody E. “Sonny” Stallings Jr. ’73, a Virginia Beach attorney and former Democratic
state senator

Also appointed were Frank Batten Jr., chairman of Landmark Communications Inc., and James A. Hixon, senior vice president of Norfolk Southern Corp. Batten was appointed to fill the unexpired term of John P. “Jack” Cousins, who died Sept. 24, 2001, shortly after his appointment last year.

Three outgoing board members – James Beamer ’87, Ronald Villanueva ’92 and
Lewis Warren Jr. ’83 – did not seek reappointment, while Betsy Atkinson (M.S. ’73) and Jack Hilgers (M.U.S. ’95, Ph.D. ’98) were not reappointed by the governor.

At the board’s April meeting, Lauren Marsh, a rising senior psychology major from Virginia Beach, was appointed as the student representative.