From the Duke News Service

July 6, 1999

A physician, a businesswoman, an aspiring technology consultant, a researcher and an attorney have been elected to the Duke University Board of Trustees, university officials announced Tuesday.

Dr. Edward G. Bowen of Atlanta, Nancy A. Nasher of Dallas, Brandon H. Busteed of Boston, G. Clark Smith of Durham and Gwynne A. Young of Tampa, Fla., have been elected to their first terms as members of the 37-person board.

Bowen, an obstetrician/gynecologist, is also an assistant clinical professor at Emory University School of Medicine. He is a past president of the medical staff of Northside Hospital in Atlanta and is the current chairman of the hospital's board of trustees. He is also on the board of Fidelity National Bank, and a former member of the boards of the Atlanta Opera and the Atlanta Meals on Wheels.

Bowen enrolled in Duke's Trinity College in 1953, then withdrew in 1955 to enter Duke Medical School. He received his medical degree from Duke in 1959 and served on the house staff. He has been a member of the Medical Center Board of Visitors since 1992 and is a past president of the Medical Alumni Council. He received the Charles A. Dukes award for service to Duke in 1990.

Bowen is married to Mary Martin Davis Bowen, who received her master's degree in English from Duke. They have three grown children.

Nasher is an experienced lawyer and businesswoman who, since 1992, has been the owner of NorthPark Center, one of the premier shopping centers in the United States, president and chief executive officer of the NorthPark Development Company and vice president of NorthPark Management Company. Prior to that, she was an associate at a law firm, general counsel and director of leasing, marketing and retail operations of The Nasher Company, and chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Northcorp Realty Advisors Inc.

Nasher received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University and graduated from the Duke School of Law in 1979. She has served on the boards of the Duke University Museum of Art, the Princeton University Museum of Art and the University of North Texas School of Visual Arts. A lifetime member of the Duke Law School's Board of Visitors, Nasher is a member of the School of Law Campaign Planning Committee and the Duke University Campaign Steering Committee.

She is also currently a member of the board of directors of The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Symphony Orchestra Association, Dallas Business Committee for the Arts, North Texas Public Broadcasting-KERA 13, Zale Lipshy University Hospital at Southwestern Medical Center and Children's Cancer Fund of Dallas. She is the daughter of Duke alumnus and trustee emeritus Raymond D. Nasher.

Busteed, who graduated from Duke in May with a bachelor's degree in public policy studies, has been elected to serve as the "young trustee" on the Duke board. He will spend the first year of his three-year term as a non-voting observer.

After graduation, Busteed began working for the Yankee Group, an information technology market research and consulting firm in Boston. During his senior year at Duke, he was a student member of the Trustee Business and Finance Committee.

While an undergraduate, Busteed served as class president his junior year; was founder and chair of the Campus Social Board, which was formed to plan events for the entire campus; and worked on six long-term initiatives for the betterment of social life at Duke, including the establishment of an alcohol-free dorm at Duke. He also was one of three founders of a national nonprofit organization, CIRCLe Network (College Initiatives to Reinvent Campus Life), which held a national leadership conference at Duke in March for student leaders and administrators. As a senior, he received the William J. Griffith Community Service Award and the Coveted Badge Award from Duke police for his efforts to encourage safe social opportunities on campus.

Smith, a graduate research assistant in the Center for Applied Control at Duke since October 1994, is set to receive his Ph.D. in the field of mechanical engineering in August. Afterwards, he plans to continue research at Duke on active control of noise and vibration. He also plans to open a small start-up company with other students from Duke's Fuqua School of Business. He was nominated by the university's Graduate and Professional Student Council for his three-year term as a "young trustee."

Since arriving at Duke in 1994, Smith has been actively involved in campus and community life. In addition to serving on several councils, judicial boards and committees, Smith also initiated and developed an online resource for community members in need of child care in the Durham area. In 1999, he received three awards for his volunteer work: the Young Adult Volunteer of the Year award from the Volunteer Center of Greater Durham and the Herald-Sun newspaper; the H.C., Jr. and Lois Cranford Volunteer Award from the Triangle United Way, and the William J. Griffith University Service Award.

Smith earned a bachelor's degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he received the Clarence E. Davis Award as the outstanding senior in mechanical engineering. He received his master's degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

As president of the Duke Alumni Association, Young will be an observer on the Board of Trustees during 1999-2000. She will be a voting member the following year.

Young, a 1971 graduate of the Woman's College at Duke (the men's and women's colleges merged in 1972), practices general civil litigation at the Tampa firm of Carlton Fields. She received her J.D. from the University of Florida in 1974, and prior to joining Carlton Fields, was an instructor at the University of Florida College of Law and an assistant state attorney for the 13th Judicial Circuit in Florida.

Young is a founder of the Child Abuse Council Inc., and serves on its advisory board. She is a former director of the Tampa Metropolitan YMCA, a former trustee of the Tampa Preparatory School and a member of the Tampa Chamber of Commerce. She is a former president of the Junior League of Tampa, and a former director of the Association of Junior Leagues International. She is also a former chairman of the Board of Counselors, former member of the Board of Fellows and a former trustee of the University of Tampa.

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