THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, June 29, 1996 TAG: 9606290216
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B5 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY PHILIP WALZER, STAFF WRITER
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence S. Eagleburger was named Friday to the Board of Visitors at the College of William and Mary.
Eagleburger will replace William B. Spong Jr., a former Democratic U.S. senator from Virginia and former president of Old Dominion University. Spong now practices law in Portsmouth.
It was Gov. George F. Allen's second appointment of a nationally prominent Republican to a Virginia college board this month. Last week, he named Edwin Meese III, who served as U.S. attorney general under President Reagan, to the board of George Mason University. Meese lives in Fairfax County.
Eagleburger, who lives in Albemarle County, served as secretary of state and deputy secretary of state under President Bush. He was also an ambassador to Yugoslavia. He was one of the speakers at a William and Mary conference in April on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
``We welcome Lawrence Eagleburger's appointment to the board,'' said William and Mary's president, Timothy J. Sullivan, on Friday. ``He brings a wealth of experience in foreign affairs and a familiarity with academic endeavors that will be particularly valuable as we prepare students for leadership in the international arena.''
He added, ``Secretary Eagleburger and our chancellor, Lady Thatcher, underscore the increasing importance of international affairs in William and Mary's future.''
Allen also reappointed Walter J. Zable of California, president of the Board for Cubic Corp., and named three new members to William and Mary's board.
They are William P. Fricks, president of Newport News Shipbuilding; Holland H. Coors of Colorado, president of Women of Our Hemisphere Achieving Together and a board member of the Adolph Coors Foundation; and J. Peter Clements, president of the Bank of Southside Virginia.
In addition to Spong, other departing board members include James B. Murray Jr., Shepard W. McKenney and James J. Vergara. by CNB