SEMO TRIMS FUND-RAISER SEARCH TO FOUR

A Southeast Missouri State University committee has narrowed its search for a new vice president for university advancement and executive director of the school's fund-raising foundation to four finalists.

They are Michael Slinker of Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif., Bruce Mack of Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Alan Zacharias of the Concordia Foundation at Corcordia University in River Forest, Ill., and William Kiel, executive director of the St. Francis Medical Center Foundation.

The finalists will make separate visits to the campus, school officials said Monday. The public will have a chance to meet each finalist at an open forum.

All four open forums will be held at 1:30 p.m.

Slinker will participate in an open forum on Wednesday in the University Center Missouriana Room. Zacharias will meet with the public on Friday in the University Center Party Room.

Kiel is scheduled to attend an open forum on June 20. Mack will visit the campus on June 22 for an open forum in Dempster Hall's Glenn Auditorium.

Slinker has served as senior communications and marketing officer at Humboldt State University since July 1998.

Zacharias is senior vice president for university advancement and chief operating officer for the Concordia Foundation.

Kiel has served as executive director of St. Francis Medical Center Foundation in Cape Girardeau since August 1997.

Mack is assistant vice president for university development at Indiana State University.

Southeast officials said they want to have a new head of fund raising on board this summer to replace Wayne Davenport, who took a position at Cleveland State University in Ohio.