P E O P L E

• Office of Government Affairs in Washington, D.C., director named
• Archivist and curator of public policy papers
• Editor, Princeton Alumni Weekly

	Henry Taylor

Spotlight

Name: Henry Taylor.
Position: Assistant director of leadership gifts in the development office. Responsible for raising restricted (non-annual giving) gifts from alumni, parents and friends of the University. Also serves as a project manager, coordinating capital-level fund raising for athletics.
Quote: "It's crucial for everyone connected with a university to understand how important it is to give back, whether through volunteering or gifts. We're educating the world's future leaders, and the gifts that help provide that education really do make a difference."
Other interests: Taylor joined the Princeton staff a year ago after serving as director of development at Georgia State University. He enjoys spending time with his wife, Stefanie, and his five-month-old son, William. He's also taking golf lessons.

Diane Auer Jones

Office of Government Affairs in Washington, D.C., director named

Diane Auer Jones, a professional staff member for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and a former program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, has been named director of the University's Office of Government Affairs in Washington, D.C.
    Her appointment is effective Jan. 1, 2003. She will succeed Nan Wells, who is retiring after serving as the director of the office since its inception in 1979.
    As a member of the Science Committee, Jones has participated in the prep-aration and advancement of legislation related to science, mathematics, engineering and technology research and education. She has also concentrated on issues related to intellectual property, technology transfer, international students and support for research equipment and facilities, working closely with staff in leadership positions in both houses of Congress and the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
    At the National Science Foundation, she served as a lead program director for the computer science, engineering and mathematics scholarships program and served as a program director for the advanced technological education program and the course, curriculum and laboratory improvement program.
    Jones earned her bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, from Salisbury State University in Maryland. She received her master's degree in applied molecular biology and completed coursework toward a Ph.D. in molecular and cellular biology from the University of Maryland. Jones has served as a faculty member at the Community College of Baltimore County in Catonsville, Md. In addition to teaching a broad range of courses in the life sciences and developing degree programs in biotechnology and bioinformatics, she established and directed an NSF-funded Biotechnology Institute and founded and directed an NSF-supported Consortium for Statewide Biotechnology Education in Maryland.
    "Diane Jones will bring a broad range of knowledge and experience to her new responsibilities, along with exceptional intelligence, creativity, resourcefulness, energy and judgment," said Robert Durkee, vice president for public affairs, who made the appointment. "She also will bring a national reputation as a leader in undergraduate science education and as an advocate for federal investment in scientific research and education; a demonstrated ability to foster communication among diverse groups of people and to generate support for key policy initiatives; and an insider's understanding of academic institutions and of the importance of federal programs that provide support for faculty and for students. We are counting on her not only to provide leadership for our efforts in Washington, but to make significant contributions to the work of the associations that represent us and to the interests of higher education more generally."

	Dan Linke

Archivist and curator of public policy papers

Dan Linke was promoted this summer to University archivist and curator of public policy papers in the University library. He succeeds Ben Primer, who was promoted to associate University librarian for rare books and special collections.
    Linke came to the University as an assistant archivist in 1994. Since that time, he has been responsible for the arrangement and description of nearly 10,000 linear feet of records at Mudd Manuscript Library, which houses the University archives and a highly regarded collection of 20th-century public policy papers.
    Before joining the University staff, Linke was a senior archivist for the New York State Archives and Records Administration. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Case Western Reserve University. From 1991 to 1996, he edited Descriptive Notes, the newsletter of the Description Section of the Society of American Archivists.
    Linke also has served as a visiting assistant archivist with the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center in Norman, Okla., a position he was awarded through the National Historical Publications and Records Commission Archival Fellowship Program.
    Mudd Manuscript Library is a division of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Its 27,000 linear feet of archival and manuscript material is widely used by local, national and international researchers. More than 2,000 visitors use Mudd Library's reading room each year, and its staff fields some 3,000 electronic, mail and telephone inquiries annually.

Marilyn Marks

Editor, Princeton Alumni Weekly

Marilyn Marks, director of media relations in the Office of Communications for the past two years, has been named editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly. Her appointment is effective next month.
    She will succeed Jane Martin, the publication's editor since 2000, who stepped down this summer because of family concerns.
    Marks earned a master's degree in public affairs from the University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1986. Before joining the Princeton staff, she was a reporter at the Miami Herald, where she won awards for education coverage. She also has worked as a journalist at the St. Petersburg Times and the Jerusalem Post, among other publications, and has freelanced for numerous newspapers and magazines. She earned a bachelor of arts in journalism and sociology, summa cum laude, from Syracuse University.
    "The PAW board is thrilled that Marilyn will be returning to her first love of journalism, after earning the trust of reporters and University officials alike in her current job," said Todd Purdum, chair of the Princeton Alumni Weekly board and chief diplomatic correspondent of The New York Times. "We have high confidence that her experience, independence and integrity will serve her well in her new role editing an independent publication for and about the Princeton alumni family."
    Published 17 times per year, the Princeton Alumni Weekly is distributed to 60,000 alumni, faculty and staff of the University. 

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September 9, 2002
Vol. 92, No. 1
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Contents

 September 11
•University remembers Sept. 11 by helping with recovery
•September 11: Panel discussion, exhibition
 
Page one
•Financial aid enhancements improve accessibility
•Grad apps increase nearly 24 percent, enrollment up slightly
 
Inside
•Summer lab work gives seniors a jump start
•Crews work to improve campus landscape this summer
•Home study course offered on modern world history this fall
 
People 
•Three key administrators appointed this summer
•Claudia Tate, scholar of African-American literary criticism, dies at 55
•Spotlight, appointments
•Briefs
 
Sections
•By the numbers: Admissions
•Nassau Notes
•Calendar of events

Editor: Ruth Stevens
Calendar editor: Carolyn Geller
Staff writers: Jennifer Greenstein Altmann, Steven Schultz
Contributing writers: Karin Dienst, Marilyn Marks, Evelyn Tu
Photographer: Denise Applewhite
Design: Mahlon Lovett, Laurel Masten Cantor, Maggie Westergaard
Web edition: Mahlon Lovett