LEROY HERMES ELECTED UH SYSTEM BOARD OF
REGENTS CHAIRMAN
FY06 Officers Include Michael J. Cemo as Vice Chairman, Dennis Golden
as Secretary
HOUSTON, Aug. 18, 2005 – Leroy L. Hermes, a noted architect
and distinguished University of Houston alumnus, has been elected
chairman of the UH System Board of Regents for fiscal year 2006,
which starts Sept. 1, 2005.
He replaces Morgan Dunn O’Connor. The board also elected
Michael J. Cemo to serve as vice chairman and Dennis D. Golden as
secretary.
The nine-member board is the governing body of the University
of Houston System (UHS).
The new officers were elected by the board at its meeting Thursday.
The FY06 UH System budget, which totals $969 million, also was approved.
(A separate release has been distributed about the new budget.)
Hermes was appointed to the UH System Board of Regents in 2001
by Gov. Rick Perry, and his term runs through August 2007.
“It is my goal to continue the good work of my predecessors
and to accept all new challenges and opportunities that come our
way,” Hermes said. “We have a great board consisting
of dedicated people with a wide range of experience and backgrounds.
That is the strength of this board – plus, we have the leadership
of one of the finest administrations that can be assembled. I look
forward to working with the board, the administration, the faculty
and the students toward goals and ideals that will make the UH System
the best it can be.”
Hermes earned his bachelor’s degree in architecture from
UH in 1966.
He is president of Hermes Consulting Inc. and a member of the
American Institute of Architects, the Texas Society of Architects
and the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. His
other offices include past president of the “C” Club,
member of the Greater Houston Partnership, trustee for the Houston
Realty Breakfast Club and chairman of the Phenix Initiative. He
formerly served as president of the board of the Houston Community
College Foundation. He is also a member of the West Houston Association,
The Rice Design Alliance, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Advisory
Board and is the Chairman of the Antares District, Friends of Scouting.
In 1995 he was selected among the top 50 graduates in the first
50 years of the UH Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture.
New vice chairman Cemo, who joined the board in 2001, earned his
bachelor’s degree in economics from UH in 1968. He was president
and CEO of A I M Distributors Inc., the retail-marketing arm of
A I M Management Group Inc. and a director of AMVESCAP PLC until
his retirement in January 2004. New secretary Golden, appointed
to the board in 2004, graduated from the UH with a bachelor’s
degree in optometry in 1976 and completed his doctorate of optometry
from UH in 1977. He is chief of staff of Golden Eye Associates and
has been in private practice in Carthage, Texas, since 1978. He
is also a member of the medical staff at East Texas Medical Center.
Other UH System regents include: Raul A. Gonzalez; Lynden B. Rose;
Calvin W. Stephens; Morgan Dunn O’Connor; Thad “Bo”
Smith and Morrie K. Abramson. The terms of O’Connor, Smith
and Abramson expire Aug. 31, 2005.
The Board of Regents is composed of nine members (chair, vice chair,
secretary and six members). Every two years, the Texas governor,
subject to Senate confirmation, appoints three members to the Board
of Regents. Each member serves a six-year term.
Board responsibilities include preserving institutional independence
and defending each UH System component university’s right
to manage its own affairs through its chosen administrators and
employees; enhancing each university’s public image; interpreting
the community to each of the universities and the universities to
the community; nurturing each university so that each may achieve
its full potential within its role and mission; and providing policy
direction, insisting on clarity of focus and mission, to each of
the universities.
Additional information about the UH System Board of Regents is
available at http://www.uhsa.uh.edu/regents/.
ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM
The University of Houston System is the state’s only metropolitan
higher education system, encompassing four universities and two
multi-institution teaching centers. The universities are the University
of Houston, a nationally recognized doctoral degree-granting, comprehensive
research university; the University of Houston-Downtown, a four-year
undergraduate university beginning limited expansion into graduate
programs; and the University of Houston-Clear Lake and the University
of Houston-Victoria, both upper division and master’s-level
institutions. The centers are the UH System at Sugar Land in Fort
Bend and the UH System at Cinco Ranch. In addition, the UH System
includes KUHF-FM, Houston’s National Public Radio and classical
radio station, and KUHT-TV, the nation’s first educational
television station.
For more information about UH visit the universitys Newsroom
at www.uh.edu/admin/media/newsroom.
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