UpDate - Vol. 13, No. 33, Page 4
May 26, 1994
Board of trustees; Three new members elected to University board

   Maria Barriocanal of Seaford, Ilona E. Holland of Milford and
Howard E. Simmons of Greenville were elected to serve on the
University of Delaware Board of Trustees, at the board's semiannual
meeting May 18 in Lewes.
   Barriocanal, who will receive her bachelor's degree in psychology
from the University on May 28, replaces Katherine Tucci Smith as the
recent graduate trustee, and Holland and Simmons take the positions
held by Charles Allen and Werner Brown, respectively, who both retired
from the board.
   A native Delawarean, Barriocanal is a Dean's List student who has
served as a resident assistant, received the Hispanic Minority Award
for Academic Achievement and served as president of the Council for
Exceptional Children, while at the University. She has been active in
promoting the concerns of Hispanics on the campus as a vice president
of the HOLA Group and as a member of the Student Focus Group. As a
member of the Volunteer Admissions Support Team, she acts as an
advocate for the University with prospective students.
   Off the campus, she has volunteered with Special Olympics, has
worked at the Delaware State Hospital and has been an assistant
kindergarten teacher and occupational therapist. This fall, she will
begin work toward a master's degree in social work at Case Western
Reserve University in Cleveland.
   Holland, who received a master's degree in reading from the
University in 1978, is currently involved in investigating how the
visual arts may promote vocabulary development in academically at-risk
children. She spent the last year working at the Delaware Art Museum
implementing an original vocabulary program using the museum's
permanent collection.
   Over the past five years, she has served as a consultant on a
variety of educational programs throughout the United States,
including for educational television, National Public Radio, the New
York Hall of Science and the Maryland Science Center. Locally, she has
worked as a curriculum coordinator for Delaware Technical and
Community College, and she has served as a trustee of Delaware State
University, where she chaired the Student Affairs Committee and served
on the Presidential Search Committee and the Academic Policy
Committee. She also serves on the boards of the Delaware Community
Foundation, the Grand Opera House, the Delaware Arts Alliance and the
Council of State Service Centers.
   Simmons is emeritus vice president and senior science adviser of
the DuPont Co., which he joined in 1954 as a research chemist. A
research supervisor in the Central Research Department from 1959-70,
he served as an associate director of research from 1970-74, research
director from 1974-79, director of the Central Research and
Development Department from 1979-83 and vice president of the Central
Research and Development Department from 1983-90. He was named vice
president and senior science adviser in 1990, and he retired in 1992,
but he continues to consult for DuPont.
   An adjunct professor of chemistry at the University of Delaware
since 1970, he holds an honorary doctor of science degree from the
University.
   His many honors include membership in the National Academy of
Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National
Science Board and the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.
He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science and the New York Academy of Sciences and a past president of
the Board of Trustees of the University of Delaware Research
Foundation.
   In other action, the trustees re-elected three officers for one-
year terms: Andrew B. Kirkpatrick Jr., chairman; Catherine B.
Flickinger, vice chairman; John E. Burris, secretary-treasurer. Edward
G. Jefferson was re-elected vice chairman through December, when he
will be leaving the board.
   Re-elected to the board for three-year terms were Burris and Donald
J. Lynch, and re-elected for a six-year term was Sherman L. Townsend.