UNIVERSITY FUND-RAISER ACCEPTS NEW JOB AT MIZZOUR

The director of annual giving at Southeast Missouri State University has resigned to take a position as director of development for the University of Missouri School of Law in Columbia.

Wednesday was James G. Salmo's last day at Southeast. He is scheduled to begin his new job Monday.

Salmo said Thursday that his new job will still involve fund raising. "The director of development is still a fund-raising type position, but up there I will be focusing more on major gifts."

At the University of Missouri, each school has its own development director who supervises fund-raising efforts. "It's decentralized as opposed to a centralized office like Southeast."

Salmo has served as director of annual giving at Southeast since January 1988. In that position, he has worked closely with the Southeast Missouri University Foundation.

Salmo said that at Southeast he supervised fund-raising "phonathons" and keeping "day-to-day gifts coming in."

A former development director at Children's Hospital and St. Louis University, Salmo has been in the fund-raising business for eight years.

Salmo said he has enjoyed his job at Southeast. He said he was impressed by the fact that people here "were so friendly and so helpful and they all had a common cause."

For now, Salmo's former duties at Southeast will be assumed by Robert Foster, executive vice president, and Donald Ford, director of development.

Art Wallhausen, assistant to the president at Southeast, said that with the recent hiring of Kenneth Dobbins as vice president for finance and administration, Foster will now be concentrating more on University Foundation fund-raising efforts for the remainder of the year.

Wallhausen said Foster, who is planning to retire at the end of this year, has been actively involved in the work of the University Foundation.