THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 22, 1994 TAG: 9406220470
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY PHILIP WALZER, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: 940622 LENGTH: Medium
Three new trustees were elected to the board of Virginia Wesleyan Aston College on Tuesday at the Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church, held at Scope. The new members are G. Robert Aston Jr. of Portsmouth, president and chief executive officer of Commerce Bank; Vincent J. Mastracco Jr. of Mastracco Norfolk, an attorney with the firm of Kaufman & Canoles, and the Rev. Wilfred M. Mayton of Smithfield, the new superintendent of the Eastern Shore District of the United Methodist Church.
{REST} They will replace former Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr. and former Lt. Gov. Richard J. Davis, who resigned from the board, and the Rev. Mayton James H. Boice Jr., who gave up his post when he resigned as Eastern Shore superintendent. Godwin, however, will continue to participate on the board as an emeritus member.
Gov. George F. Allen also shuffled the boards of state-supported universities late last week, getting rid of several appointees from the previous Democratic administrations.
The new appointees include former Republican U.S. Sen. Paul S. Trible. The casualties include Democratic Party activist Kenneth V. Geroe and Sybil Walker, the wife of state Sen. Stanley C. Walker, D-Norfolk.
Old Dominion University will get four new board members, including three Hampton Roads residents. They are James F. Babcock of Norfolk, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of First Virginia Bank of Tidewater; JoAnne Blair Davis of Virginia Beach, an attorney with the law firm of Clark & Stant; Gerald L. Parks of Norfolk, founder of Capes Service of Virginia Inc., and Charles H. Rotert of Mechanicsville, former executive vice president of Central Fidelity Banks.
They will succeed Gabriel Kavadias, Arnold B. McKinnon, Hugo A. Owens Sr. and Walker. Irvine B. Hill of Norfolk, unit manager and communications director for Cox Cable of Tidewater, was reappointed to the board.
At the College of William and Mary, the four new board members are Marguerite B. Davis of Williamsburg, who works with Royal Travel Center; William F. Mirguet Jr. of Newport News, executive vice president of the FCR Group; Linda A. Skladany of Alexandria, executive director of the Foundation for Environmental and Economic Progress, and Francis T. West of Martinsville, former owner and chairman of West Window Corp.
They replace Frank Batten, James W. Brinkley, Najeeb E. Halaby and Wallace Terry.
Christopher Newport University will get four new members, including Trible, who lives in Williamsburg. The others are Robert McGaw of Williamsburg, production controller at Newport News Shipbuilding; Lewis A. McMurran III of Newport News, a developer with the McHall Corp.; and Harold Williams of Newport News, a retired surgeon.
They will replace Fred Carter, C. Benson Clark, Barry L. French and W.R. Phillips. Carolyn C.W. Hines of Newport News, president and co-owner of C&W Associates, was reappointed to the board.
The terms at both Wesleyan and the state-supported universities are four years.
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