
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, May 17, 1990                   TAG: 9005170435
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: DANIEL HOWES HIGHER EDUCATION WRITER
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TWO ALUMNAE ELECTED TO HOLLINS TRUSTEES BOARD

Two Hollins College alumnae including Roanoke native Cecelia Long, the school's first black student - have been elected to the Board of Trustees, officials said Wednesday.

But the 21-member board, which met last weekend, did not name an interim replacement for President Paula Brownlee, who resigned last week to take a job in Washington.

"The board is moving forward strongly in planning for the transition period between presidents and for the search for the new president," board chairman Sion Boney said in a statement.

A search committee will include representatives from the board, faculty, alumnae and students, he said, and "an announcement will be made" after the panel is formed.

Long and Wyndham Robertson, vice president of communications for the University of North Carolina system, will replace Nancy Blue Thomas of Charleston, W.Va., and Robert Claytor of Norfolk, a trustee for 24 years.

Robertson, a 1958 graduate, is the first female vice president of the 16-school UNC system. A member of the Hollins board from 1978 to 1988, she also was assistant managing editor of Fortune magazine.

Long, who also earned a master's degree in social work from the University of Michigan, is general secretary of the General Commission on the Status and Role of Women for the United Methodist Church in Evanston, Ill.

by CNB