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By Pamela DiSalvo Lepley

RICHMOND, Va. – Thirty leaders from business, environmental, government and community organizations have been named to the Virginia Commonwealth University Inger and Walter Rice Center for Environmental Life Sciences Board of Trustees.

The VCU Rice Center is a 342-acre property along the James River in Charles City County, Va., that is being developed for the study and research of life sciences. The property also is rich in history, serving as a living laboratory for VCU students and faculty to conduct hands-on research in areas of ecology, environmental sciences, natural resources management, archeology and history.

Board of Trustees officers are:
· Dr. Randolph L. Gordon, chairman. Dr. Gordon is senior vice president for Health System Development, Bon Secours Health System, Inc. Dr. Gordon’s father, Raymond Lee Gordon, Jr., was the director of YMCA Camp Richmond-Weyanoke, the site of the VCU Rice Center

· Anna Logan Lawson, vice-chairman. Ms. Lawson is founding director of ValleyBank in Roanoke. She is a board member of several education and art organizations, as well as the Virginia chapter of The Nature Conservancy

· Gilbert A. Smith, secretary-treasurer. Mr. Smith is a Charles City County supervisor and a board member of several civic business organizations in Charles City County

Other trustees are:
· Inger Rice, who donated the Rice Center property to VCU. Mrs. Rice is active in many charitable organizations around the world

· Gerald L. Baliles, former Virginia governor and partner, Hunton & Williams

· L. Preston Bryant, member, Virginia House of Delegates and vice president of Corporate Development, Hurt & Proffitt, Inc.

· Dr. Renard A. Charity, president, Manchester Medical Associates and practicing obstetrician-gynecologist

· William Cary Crane, co-owner and operator, Green Wave Radio

· G. Lee Crenshaw II, chairman of Anderson & Strudwick, Inc.

· Mary C. Doswell, senior vice president and chief administrative officer, Dominion Resources, Inc.; president, Dominion Resources Services, Inc.

· Frederick S. Fisher III, owner, Westover Plantation and senior assistant Attorney General for Land Use and Real Estate

· Herbert E. Fitzgerald III, vice president, Realty Venture Group Development Corporation

· Edward L. Flippen, partner, McGuireWoods LLP

· Dr. Daniel W. Fort, pediatric hematologist and oncologist

· Robert M. Freeman, retired chairman, Signet Banking Corporation

· G. Stuart Grattan, P.E., president and owner, Grattan Associates, P.C.

· Dr. Robert F. Harmon, board of directors, Commonwealth Public Broadcasting Corporation and the Karen Jargowsky Fund for Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

· Malcolm E. Jamieson, Berkeley Plantation

· Malcolm P. Jamieson, software developer, Capital One

· Benjamin J. Lambert III, Virginia State Senator

· Gerald P. McCarthy, executive director, Virginia Environmental Endowment

· Floyd H. Miles, Sr., member, Virginia House of Delegates

· Susan F. Moore, vice president for environmental affairs, Georgia-Pacific Corporation

· Thomas K. Norment, Jr., Virginia State Senator and lawyer, Kaufman & Canoles

· Dr. James Nuckolls, medical director, Carilion Medical Group

· Dr. W. Baxter Perkinson, Jr., president, Perkinson & Associates and rector, VCU Board of Visitors

· Daniel K. Slone, partner, McGuireWoods LLP, Environmental Solutions Group

· Dennis H. Treacy, vice president, environmental affairs and government regulation, Smithfield Foods

· Harrison R. Tyler, co-founder, Chem Treat, Inc.

· L. Donelson Wright, Ph.D., Chancellor Professor of Marine Science and the dean and director of the Virginia Institute for Marine Sciences, College of William and Mary