Our new directors - The Sierra Club Bulletin: news for members - Brief Article

Sierra, July-August, 2002

In April, Sierra Club members reelected one incumbent and chose four new representatives to the 15-member board of directors. The winners of the election are:

* Ben Zuckerman, a physics and astronomy professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (36,383 votes)

* Jim Catlin, a project director with the Wild Utah Project in Salt Lake City (33,788 votes)

* Incumbent Larry Fahn, executive director of the As You Sow Foundation, a San Francisco--based nonprofit working on corporate accountability (32,135 votes)

* Chuck McGrady, an attorney and youth-camp owner in Tuxedo, North Carolina, and a former Sierra Club president (30,532 votes)

* Marcia Hanscom, a wetlands-protection activist from Las Flores Canyon, California (30,141 votes)

Ten percent of Club members participated in this year's election; of the 73,842 votes cast, 16 percent were submitted online. To recommend a nominee for next year's election, contact Debbie Heaton at dheaton@ mcganndesion.com.

* For more information on the Sierra Club Board of Directors, visit www. sierraclub.org/bod.