Murray H. Dashe of Westlake Village, Calif. will serve a three-year term. Dashe, a 1969 Albright graduate, has been chairman, CEO and president of Cost Plus World Market since February 1998. Cost Plus is a leading retailer of moderately priced home furnishings and consumable goods with 150 stores in 19 states. His retail career has spanned 33 years, beginning with the Pomeroy’s Department store in Reading, Pa. Dashe also serves on the Oakland, California CEO Council, the Oakland Dialogue and The Bay Area Council. He holds his master’s degree from St. Francis College in Loretto, Pa.

Donald T. Floyd, Jr., of Highland, Md. will serve a three-year term as an Alumni Association representative. Floyd, a 1973 Albright graduate, is president of National 4-H Council, the private sector, non-profit partner of America’s largest and most diverse youth organization – 4-H. He has been associated with innovative leadership of youth serving non-profits for more than 28 years.
For 17 years, he held local and national level jobs with Junior Achievement, an international non-profit that teaches economics and business to youth. In 1976 he led Junior Achievement’s first venture into classroom-based programming.
Floyd serves as a member of several boards including the national Center for Small Communities, Generations United and Athletes for Character Education Foundation. He is also on the International Leaders Committee for the Applied Developmental Sciences, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University.

A. Lee Fritschler, Ph.D., of Potomac, Md. will serve a three-year term.

Fritschler is vice president and director of the Center for Public Policy Education at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He is the Former Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education for the U.S. Department of Education, and he was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in November 1999. As Assistant Secretary, Fritschler was charged with setting the direction for higher education policy and administering the department’s higher education programs.
Prior to joining the Department, he was president of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. from 1987 until his retirement in 1999. In 1991, Fritschler co-founded the Annapolis Group, a contingent of 110 presidents of the nation’s leading liberal arts colleges created to build support for liberal arts programs in colleges. He earned a doctorate in political science and a master’s degree in public administration from Syracuse University, and a bachelor of arts degree from Union College in N.Y.

James E. Hall of Delray Beach, Fla. will serve a three-year term.

Hall, a 1955 Albright graduate, is president and COO of Eclipsys Corporation worldwide. Prior to joining Eclipsys, he was executive vice president, Multimedia Medical Systems, and president of Rabbit Software. He spent 12 years in a variety of positions with Shared Medical Systems, including senior vice president and member of the office of the chairman, marketing and installations, and several field-management posts. Hall was with IBM for 10 years and served as branch manager, national sales training manager, advisor IBM Japan and corporate projects under Data Processing. His wife, Evelyn, is a graduate of the class of 1954.

Bishop Peter D. Weaver, Ph.D. of Radnor, Pa. will serve a three-year term.

Since 1996, Bishop Weaver has been bishop of the Philadelphia Area of the United Methodist Church. Bishop Weaver was ordained a Deacon (1967) and Elder (1969) in the Western Pennsylvania Conference. He served the Whitaker United Methodist Church from 1971-1977, developing outreach ministries to community youth and industrial workers. From 1977-1988, Weaver served as senior pastor of the historic Smithfield United Church (UCC and UMC) in the heart of downtown Pittsburgh. During this time, he was one of the founders of the Bethlehem Haven Shelter for Homeless Women, based on Christian hospitality principles. In 1988, he was appointed senior pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Pittsburgh. He helped start the interfaith “One Voice Against Racism” movement. While serving congregations, Weaver also wrote for various publications and taught for Drew Theological Seminary. He earned his doctorate degree from Boston University, a master’s of divinity degree from Drew University and a bachelor of arts degree from West Virginia Wesleyan College. In 1998, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Albright College.

John P. Weidenhammer of Wyomissing, Pa. will serve a three-year term.

Weidenhammer is president and founder of Weidenhammer Systems Corporation, a diversified information technology firm headquartered in Wyomissing, with offices also in Bethlehem, Lancaster, Philadelphia and Cherry Hill, N.J.
The company was recognized as the Berks County Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year in 1994, and Weidenhammer himself earned the Large Business Leader of the Year Award in 1999. He also received the Executive Spotlight Award in 1999 from the Eastern Pennsylvania Business Journal.
Weidenhammer, who received his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Lehigh University, is a frequent speaker at industry events and conferences, and an advocate of business process re-engineering. He has provided consulting services to numerous high profile national and international organizations. He also serves on the board of directors of the Reading Public Museum, Foundation for Reading Area Community College and Wyomissing Area Education Foundation.