THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, June 21, 1996 TAG: 9606210505
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B5 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY MATTHEW BOWERS, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: NORFOLK LENGTH: 35 lines
The governing board of Old Dominion University on Thursday picked its next leader: Anne B. Shumadine, a Norfolk lawyer and civic activist.
She'll serve a one-year term as rector of the 17-member Board of Visitors. She succeeds Arthur A. Diamonstein, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Paramount Industrial Companies in Norfolk.
Shumadine, 53, is a Norfolk native and practices tax law.
She has served the community in a number of positions, including board member and director of the United Way of South Hampton Roads and Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce, and member of the Norfolk Civic Facilities Commission - which oversees Scope and Harrison Opera House - and the Virginia Wesleyan College Advisory Board.
She has also been active in the ACCESS program of the Tidewater Scholarship Foundation, starting with its inception in 1987. The program has helped thousands of area students tap into tens of millions of scholarship dollars at colleges, and placed financial-aid counselors in schools.
``I would like to see 80 percent of the students go on to college or some form of higher education,'' Shumadine said in a 1993 interview. ``I've always been interested in education. It's a key to making the world better.''
She decided to go to law school 15 years after college, after marrying and having two sons. Her husband, Conrad, also practices law.
In other actions Thursday, the Board of Visitors approved:
An almost $193 million operating budget for the next school year, up 3.2 percent from this year's spending plan.
Adding a new program - environmental engineering - for Fall 1997, and dropping three programs this year: a bachelor's program in Russian and master's programs in physical therapy and medical science. by CNB