• Commerce Secretary Donald Evans
named new members of the recently formed Manufacturing Council,
designed to strengthen the Bush administration’s promotion
of the manufacturing sector. They are George L. Gonzalez, CEO of
Aerospace Integration Corp.; Fred P. Keller, CEO of plastics company
Cascade Engineering; James B. McGregor, president of Morgal Machine
Tool Co.; Wayne W. Murdy, CEO of gold producer Newmont Mining Corp.;
Michael R. Nowak, CEO of printing firm Coating Excellence International;
James W. Owens, CEO of construction company Caterpillar Inc.; Jim
Padilla, chief operating officer of Ford Motor Co.; Charles P. Pizzi,
CEO of dessert producer Tasty Baking Co.; Daniel Harding Stowe,
CEO of yarn company R.L. Stowe Mills; Markos I. Tambakeras, CEO
of tool company Kennametal Inc.; and Scott Thiss, CEO of S&W
Plastics LLC.
• Mark Willenbring joined the National Institute on Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism, a part of the National Institutes of Health,
as director of the Division of Treatment and Recovery Research.
Willenbring most recently was a psychiatry professor at the University
of Minnesota School of Medicine.
• Michael A. Gill was appointed Tricare South regional director,
a healthcare position at the Defense Department.
• Linda E. Stiff was appointed deputy commissioner of the
Small Business/Self-Employed Division at the Internal Revenue Service.
Stiff has been with the agency for 25 years.
• President Bush nominated Carol D’Amico, a former assistant
secretary for vocational and adult education at the Department of
Education, to be a director of the National Board for Education
Sciences.
• The Forestry Research Advisory Council, which advises the
agriculture secretary on forestry-research programs, has gained
11 new members. They are Charles T. Smith Jr., a forestry professor
at A&M University; James Rakestraw, a forest manager at International
Paper Co.; Alan Lucier from the National Council of the Paper Industry
for Air and Stream Improvement; David Reed, vice president for research
at Michigan Tech University; Claire Williams, a professor of forestry
genetics at Texas A&M; Richard Brinker, a forestry professor
at Auburn University; Malcolm Guidry, a tree consultant; John M.
Hagan, director of the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences;
Jeb Barzen, director of field ecology at the International Crane
Foundation; and two officials from the U.S. Forest Service, Steve
Brink and Theodore Wegner.
• Four new members of the Private Sector Senior Advisory Committee
were appointed by Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge: Steve Gross,
president of warehousing and distribution company Border Trade Services;
Doug Huntt, CEO of DC Huntt & Associates, a disabilities consulting
firm; Monica Luechtefeld, an executive at Office Depot; and Bill
Whitmore, CEO of Allied Security, a contract security services company.
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