October 14, 1997FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Trost)
RE: BOARD SELECTS 4 SAN DIEGANS
TO HELP WITH SUPERINTENDENT SEARCH
Four prominent San Diego leaders will join Richard A. Collato to form the committee that will lead the search for the next superintendent of San Diego City Schools.
Collato, the president and chief executive officer of the YMCA of San Diego County, was named chair of the committee by the Board of Education last July. The four leaders joining him are Malin Burnham, chairman of the board of John Burnham and Co.; Dr. Alice B. Hayes, president of the University of San Diego; William Jones, former San Diego City Council member and president and CEO of CityLink Investment Corp., and Dr. Ralph Ocampo, immediate past president of the California Medical Association and local physician and surgeon.
Announcement of the appointments was made at the Board of Education's regular meeting today.
The five will serve as the Superintendent Search Committee to oversee the search for the new superintendent. The committee will work closely with Dr. Ira Krinsky, managing vice president of Korn/Ferry International, which was selected by the Board of Education earlier this month as the recruitment firm that will conduct a nationwide search for the successor to Dr. Bertha Pendleton, who will retire in June.
"I am very pleased that these four distinguished leaders of our community have agreed to work with Mr. Collato on this important task," Ron Ottinger, Board of Education president, said in announcing the appointment. "Their involvement signals to the entire community the priority they place on education and the importance of finding the best superintendent to lead our school district in our continuing effort to improve student achievement."
A larger committee called the Citizens Committee to Profile the Next Century Superintendent will be appointed soon, Ottinger said today. This larger group, also chaired by Collato, will develop a profile of skills and vision the next superintendent should possess based on input from leaders in education, business, government, higher education, the nonprofit sector and community organizations. Parents and community residents also will have opportunities to express their views.
The work of the Citizens Profile Committee will be given to the Superintendent Search Committee and the search firm to assist in assuring the candidates for the position possess the profile and characteristics deemed important to lead the San Diego Unified School District, which is the eighth largest urban school district in the country.
"I have a great deal of respect for all of the members of the search committee," Collato said. "They are leaders in their individual fields as well as in the community and represent the diversity of this school district. I am proud to serve with them."
Malin Burnham is an engineering graduate from Stanford University who has worked with John Burnham and Co. since 1949. He is a director of the First National Bank, trustee and vice president of the San Diego Olympic Training Center Foundation and trustee of the Burnham Institute, formerly the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation. He received the San Diego County YMCA's Distinguished Citizen Award in 1993, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the San Diego Building Industry Association in 1990 and the Community Champion Award from the San Diego Hall of Champions in 1992.
Dr. Alice B. Hayes was appointed president of the University of San Diego in 1995 following a distinguished career in higher education that includes more than 25 years at Loyola University of Chicago and six years as executive vice president and provost at Saint Louis University. She received her bachelor's degree from Mundelein College, her master's from the University of Illinois and her Ph.D. from Northwestern University. She is a biologist, a former National Science Foundation fellow and a trustee of the Pulitzer Publishing Co. and the Old Globe Theatre.
William D. Jones served on the San Diego City Council from December 1982 to September 1987. He is the founder and a trustee of the "Project I Believe" scholarship program which mentors and financially supports the academic pursuits of the 1987 graduating class of Kennedy Elementary School. He is the president and CEO of CityLink Investment Corp., which acquires, develops and manages real estate ventures in selected urban areas, backed by initial capital from corporations, foundations and individuals. He has had a successful career with The Prudential Realty Group and is a director of the Price Real Estate Investment Trust. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1989 and a bachelor's degree in economics from USD in 1980.
Dr. Ralph Ocampo is a native San Diegan who received his medical training in Mexico following graduation from Loma Linda University. In addition to his medical practice and affiliation with the California Medical Association and San Diego County Medical Society, he has served as an assistant clinical professor of surgery at the School of Medicine at UCSD since 1966. He is a founder of the Mexican American Business and Professional Association, a past president of the Health Committee of the Commission of the Californias and served on the foundation board of directors of San Diego Hospice.
Richard A. Collato has been president and CEO of the YMCA of San Diego County since January 1981. He is a graduate of Pepperdine University School of Business, where he earned his MBA in management. His bachelor's degree is in business administration with a major in finance. He is a past Rotary president and has been a member of the San Diego Downtown Rotary Club since 1981. He has served on the Board of Directors of Y-Mutual Ltd., a Bermuda-based reinsurance company which he helped to start, and the Bank of San Diego. He currently is a trustee for Springfield College, the Jenna Druck Foundation and the Bauce Foundation. He also is a director of San Diego Gas & Electric Co., Enova Corp. and Project Design Consultants.
