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NEW YORK – Dr. William G. Sharwell of Bronxville, N.Y., former president and chief executive officer of Pace University, died Monday, September 18, 2000 following a long illness. He was 80 years old.

On September 1, 1984, Dr. Sharwell became the fourth president of Pace, where he served a five year term, following more than 30 years of service with the Bell System. On February 5, 1987, he also became the University’s chief executive officer.

Dr. Sharwell served for 11 years as a member of Pace University’s Board of Trustees and was board chairman, 1983-84. He held top management positions at both AT&T and its former Bell operating company subsidiaries. Prior to joining Pace, he was senior vice president of AT&T.

Dr. Sharwell was a professor and graduate dean at Seton Hall University and was a trustee and vice chairman of Westchester Community College. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree at Seton Hall, an MBA in accounting and finance at New York University, and an MBA and doctorate in corporate finance at the Harvard University Business School.

Dr. Sharwell’s affiliation with AT&T began in 1953 at Bell Laboratories. He later worked at AT&T headquarters as director of college employment and subsequently held several top positions at New York Telephone Co., including executive vice president of operations. From 1976 he held several key vice presidential positions at AT&T headquarters, including responsibility for implementing the divestiture of the Bell operating companies from AT&T.

He is a former director of USLIFE Corp., the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York, Chatham College, and the National Organization for Women-Legal Defense Fund. He was elected national co-chairman of the National Conference of Christians and Jews in 1987. He was also a general partner of Equitable Capital Partners.

He was a board member of the Association of Colleges and Universities of the State of New York and of International House, N.Y. He was elected to the Executive Committee of the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities and the New York State Coalition on Independent Colleges and Universities in 1987.

Dr. Sharwell was born on July 26, 1920, in Newark, N.J., to William G. and Lillian Kenny Sharwell.

He is survived by the following family members: Jacqueline Sharwell, and two sons, William L. Sharwell of Lakeland, Fla., and Paul L. Sharwell of Park City, Utah, and his sister, Marguerite S. McCrea of Montclair, N.J.

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NEW YORK – Patricia O’Donnell Ewers will retire as president of Pace University effective July 15. “In her ten years at Pace, she has led the University through a series of transformations that has repositioned the institution for the 21st Century,” said Aniello A. Bianco, chairman of the board of trustees. “We are truly grateful for all she has done for Pace.”

On July 1, 1990, Dr. Ewers became the fifth president and the first woman to lead the University. Of the many accomplishments of the Ewers decade one is particularly notable for its impact on the institution’s future and its financial stability. This is the completion of the $55 million Campaign for Pace. The endowment has quadrupled and it is now approaching $100 million, putting Pace in top ten percent of colleges across the country as far as their endowments.

During her tenure as president, Ewers achieved many of her goals for Pace. “Since her arrival in 1990, the academic programs are stronger than ever,” said Marilyn Jaffe-Ruiz, provost. “The curriculum now includes technological expertise, international perspective and other diverse elements needed to prepare students for today’s global society.”

Ewers spearheaded the initiative to create a multi-campus information technology enhanced university. “Dr. Ewers’ leadership in building the necessary information technology infrastructure, resources and processes has been extraordinary,” said Frank Monaco, chief information officer. “Thanks to her vision and foresight Pace is positioned to capitalize on the “e” and “dot com” revolution, while maintaining its core focus on the delivery of the highest quality instruction by information technology enhanced and equipped faculty and staff.”

Another of Ewers’ priorities as president has been to enhance the way Pace presents itself as a physical campus. Residence halls and classroom buildings in New York City and Westchester were renovated. In Pleasantville, the Ann and Alfred Goldstein Academic Center, a state-of-the-art building for integrated learning and teaching for the schools of business and computer science and information systems, was built in 1993. And this year at the Law School in White Plains, a new academic building was completed and serves as the centerpiece of a redesigned campus plan.

Dr. Ewers was formerly chief academic officer and a professor of English at DePaul University in Chicago. A graduate of Loyola University of Chicago, where she was awarded the Ph.D. in English, Dr. Ewers has been published by College Board Publications, and Briefing of the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education.

Active in a wide variety of professional organizations, Dr. Ewers is a member of the Commission on Leadership and Institutional Effectiveness of the American Council of Education; the board of trustees of the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (New York), which she has chaired; and serves as past chair of the board of directors of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. She also serves on the Committee for Economic Development and the Citizen’s Budget Commission of New York City, and as a trustee of El Mueso del Barrio and Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center. Patricia Ewers is a director of Fortune Brands, Inc., the American General Life Insurance Company of New York, and the United States Life Insurance Company. This past September, Crains New York Business named Dr. Ewers one of the 100 Most Influential Women in New York City.

As a lasting tribute to the University’s fifth president, the board of trustees of Pace University established the Patricia O. Ewers Center for the Arts and Multicultural Studies as a vehicle to build the type of programming that Ewers thought so important within the university setting. The Ewers Center for the Arts provides Pace University’s lower Manhattan and Westchester communities with intellectual and cultural enrichment through the fine and performing arts, multi-media presentations, lectures and conferences. It serves as a catalyst for works and programs in the arts and multicultural experiences.

Dr. Ewers and her husband, John L. Ewers, will retire to Hinsdale, Chicago.

Pace is a comprehensive, independent University with campuses in New York City and Westchester County. Nearly 13,500 students are enrolled in undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lubin School of Business, School of Computer Science and Information Systems, School of Education, School of Law, Lienhard School of Nursing and the World Trade Institute.

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NEW YORK, February 17, 2000 – The Board of Trustees of Pace University has elected
Dr. David A. Caputo the sixth president of Pace University, it was announced today
by Board Chairman Aniello A. Bianco. Caputo, who is currently the president of
Hunter College, the largest college in the City University of New York system, will
take office at Pace in July.

Dr. Caputo will succeed Dr. Patricia O. Ewers, who has served as Pace University’s
president since 1990. Dr. Ewers, the first woman to lead Pace in the school’s
94-year history, announced in March 1999 that she planned to retire when her decade
of leadership concluded.

“We are delighted to elect someone of David Caputo’s caliber to become the next president
of Pace University,” Bianco said. “He is an outstanding and experienced educator, an
accomplished scholar, and the ideal candidate for this institution. Pat Ewers has
positioned Pace for educational leadership, strengthened the organization and brought
vision and focus to our mission. David Caputo will lead the University to new heights
in the next millennium.”

Dr. Caputo was chosen as the new president of Pace from among more than 85 applicants from
across the United States. A Presidential Search Committee, chaired by Michael O’Reilly, a
1971 Pace alumnus and a trustee, was given the charge of finding a leader who would drive
the University forward with energy and vision as it approaches its centennial in 2006.

“I am very pleased to be given the chance to lead an outstanding University like Pace at a
time when there are so many exciting new opportunities in higher education,” said Dr. Caputo.
“I plan to work closely with Pace faculty, staff, students and alumni to continue positioning
the University as one of the leading comprehensive institutions in the region and a leader in
the national and international arenas.”

Dr. Caputo became the 12th president of Hunter College in July 1995. Founded in 1870, Hunter
is a multi-campus, public institution, which enrolls 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students
in its School of Arts and Sciences, School of Education, the Schools of the Health Professions,
and the School of Social Work.

Among his accomplishments at Hunter, Dr. Caputo established the Office of Urban Outreach to work
closely with government, non-profit, and commercial organizations to help solve pressing urban
problems and to help coordinate Hunter’s many internship programs in the community. He also has
been instrumental in forming alliances with college neighbors, including both cultural organizations
and local residents. He has expanded the role of the Hunter College Foundation and established a
Corporate Advisory Council. He also has made significant investments in instructional technology,
interactive multimedia and distance learning.

Dr. Caputo serves as the co-chair of the New York State Professional Standards and Practices Board.
He also chairs an urban teacher evaluation subcommittee of the National Association of State
Universities and Land-Grant Colleges and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.

Before joining Hunter College, Dr. Caputo spent more than 25 years in increasingly responsible positions
at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, last serving as dean of its School of Liberal Arts from
1987 to 1995. During his tenure, the school adopted a new undergraduate core curriculum, developed
initiatives for women and minorities, expanded faculty teaching and research support, and strengthened
its fund-raising efforts.

During Patricia Ewers’ decade of leadership at Pace, the University undertook and has nearly completed the
first successful comprehensive campaign in its history. The $55 million Campaign for Pace will provide
increased resources for endowment, new academic initiatives, enhanced technological capabilities and facility
improvements. At the conclusion of Patricia Ewers’ presidency, Pace is a strong University that features a
diverse student body, a rich and innovative curriculum that includes online courses and international programs,
a renewed commitment to adult and continuous learning, new and enhanced facilities on all of Pace’s campuses,
technologically mature academic and administrative programs, and an endowment of nearly $100 million – more
than four times what it had been when she assumed the leadership of Pace ten years earlier.

Dr. Caputo has received numerous honors, awards, and grants. Among them are two Fulbright awards for study in
Italy, including a 1993 Senior Fulbright Chair appointment at the University of Bologna; a National Science
Foundation Faculty Fellowship; and a Lilly Endowment Fellowship. In fall 1985, he was a Visiting Fellow at
Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and also served as a Visiting
Scholar at Harvard University’s Center for Population Studies.

He has authored or co-authored five books and more than 50 articles, book chapters, and research notes, with a
recent focus on urban governance.

Born and raised in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, David A. Caputo attended local public schools and was his high
school valedictorian. He received his B.A. in Government in 1965 from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where
he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa and the student body president during his senior year.
In 1965, as the recipient of a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, Dr. Caputo enrolled at Yale University, where
he went on to earn two master’s degrees in Political Science and his Ph.D. (1970), focusing his doctoral research
on municipal budgeting. At Yale, he was a graduate teaching fellow from 1966 to 1968. He and his wife, Alice,
a public school teacher, reside in Manhattan. They have three adult children.

Pace University is a comprehensive, independent New York institution of higher education with nearly 14,000
students. Having evolved from a school of accountancy into a comprehensive university, Pace offers a wide range
of academic and professional programs at the graduate and undergraduate levels in six colleges and schools: the
Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lubin School of Business, School of Computer Science and Information Systems,
School of Education, School of Law, Lienhard School of Nursing, and the World Trade Institute.

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NEW YORK, May 4, 1999 – Pace University President Patricia O. Ewers
announced today that Aniello (Neil) A. Bianco, Managing Director of
Chadbourne & Parke LLP, has been elected Chairman of the University’s
Board of Trustees. Bianco succeeds Carl H. Pforzheimer III, who has
served as Chairman for nine years. Pforzheimer will remain a Trustee
after relinquishing the Chairmanship.

“Carl Pforzheimer has provided extraordinary leadership, vision and
support to Pace during the past nine years. We are a stronger, more
focused institution today than ever before and I look forward to
working with Neil Bianco to continue building Pace into a leading
comprehensive institution for the new century,” Ewers said.

Pforzheimer, of Scarsdale, N.Y., is Managing Partner of Carl H.
Pforzheimer & Co. in New York City. He has served as a Trustee for
18 years and was elected Chairman in 1990. Under his leadership Pace
University has successfully undertaken a number of critical initiatives:
The University is completing its first Comprehensive Campaign, with
$48.5 million of the $55 million goal already realized. Pace has issued
$60 million worth of New York State Dormitory Bonds to fund academic and
administrative technology improvements and to enhance the institution’s
facilities. And with increasing Board participation, the University’s
endowment has grown from $27 million to $80 million.

Bianco, of Riverdale, N.Y., was appointed to the Pace University Board of
Trustees in 1969, where he has served as Vice Chairman and as a Member of
the Executive Committee. He received a Bachelor of Business Administration
degree from Pace University’s Lubin School of Business in 1961 and an honorary
Doctor of Commercial Science from Pace in 1996.

Bianco’s distinguished career in finance has included serving as Managing
Director, Chief Financial Officer and a Member of the Board of Directors of
Rothschild Inc., while also serving as Executive Vice President and Principal
of its subsidiary, Rothschild Ventures Inc. From 1981 through 1984, Bianco
was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Polygram Corporation.
He has also served as Principal (1969) and Partner (1971) in the New York Office
of Arthur Young (presently Ernst & Young).

The Board of Trustees plays a key role in enabling Pace University to meet its
historic commitment to Opportunitas and to prepare for the future. Its members
provide advice and counsel on a broad spectrum of issues; help the University
build new partnerships with the corporate community and with other constituencies;
and provide generous financial support and invaluable assistance to the University
in its efforts to identify new sources of revenue.

Pace is a comprehensive, independent University with campuses in New York City and
Westchester County. Nearly 13,000 students are enrolled in undergraduate, graduate
and professional degree programs in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lubin
School of Business, School of Computer Science and Information Systems, School of
Education, School of Law, Lienhard School of Nursing and the World Trade Institute.

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PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. – Dr. Marilyn Jaffe-Ruiz was appointed executive vice
president for academic affairs, the top academic leadership position, at Pace University
on September 1, 1998. As Pace’s chief academic officer, Jaffe-Ruiz will develop,
implement and evaluate the University’s academic programs and activities, and in the
absence of the University’s president, Patricia O’Donnell Ewers, Jaffe-Ruiz assumes
the role of principal officer.

Prior to assuming her new position, Jaffe-Ruiz served as vice president for
academic affairs at Pace University and has served multiple roles since joining the
University in 1981, including vice provost for academic affairs and dean of the Lienhard
School of Nursing. She also served as a professor and chair of the New York City
Baccalaureate Program at Lienhard. Jaffe-Ruiz is a specialist in the areas of cultural
diversity in nursing and family systems of the mentally retarded and developmentally
disabled and is president of the New York City chapter of the Association for the Help of
Retarded Children.

Jaffe-Ruiz comments, “I am committed to working with faculty to provide
our students the opportunity to fulfill their potential as individuals and responsible
citizens. Building upon Pace’s long history and traditional academic values we will work
to keep the University in the forefront of innovative education to meet the present and
future needs of our students in an increasingly complex and diverse society.”
Jaffe-Ruiz holds a Doctorate in Education and a Masters Degree in Education
from Teachers College, Columbia University. She also has a Masters Degree in Adult
Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing from New York University.

Pace is a comprehensive, independent University with campuses in New
York City and Westchester County. Nearly 14,000 students are enrolled in
undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs in the Dyson College of Arts
and Sciences, Lubin School of Business, School of Computer Science and Information
Systems, School of Education, School of Law, Lienhard School of Nursing and the World Trade
Institute.