UpDate - Vol. 13, No. 38, Page 2
July 21, 1994
Two new trustees visit Newark campus for orientation

     Recently elected University trustees Ilona E. Holland of Milford
and Howard E. Simmons of Greenville attended an orientation luncheon
in July on the Newark campus, welcoming them to membership on the
board.
     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, Simmons received both a bachelor's degree in chemistry and
a doctorate in organic chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He also holds an honorary doctor of science degree from
the University, awarded in 1994, the same year he received the
American Chemical Society's Priestley Medal.
     Simmons was Sloan Professor at Harvard University in 1968 and
served as Kharasch Professor at the University of Chicago in 1978. 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.
     A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science and the New York Academy of Sciences and past president of the
Board of Trustees of the University of Delaware Research Foundation,
Simmons was awarded the Chandler Medal for achievements in chemistry
from Columbia University in 1991.
     Holland, who received a master's degree in reading from the
University in 1978, also holds a bachelor's degree in art history from
Swarthmore College and an Ed.D. in reading and language from Harvard
University.
     She currently is 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, Holland has served as a consultant on a
variety of educational programs throughout the United States,
including projects 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 and the Academic
Policy committees.
     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.