Winter 1996

New members elected to Board of Managers

Three new members have been elected to the Rose-Hulman Board of Managers. They include new alumni representative Tom Dinkel (ME, ‘72); Robert Compton, general partner of CID Equity Partners, Indianapolis; and Holly Gerace, of Coral Gables, Fla., a noted community and volunteer leader.

Dinkel, president of Sycamore Engineering Inc. in Terre Haute, was elected to a four-year term following a nationwide vote of Rose-Hulman graduates. He will join Jack Foltz (CH, ‘57), vice president and general counsel, Sun Co., as alumni representatives to the board.

Dinkel has received the Rose-Hulman Honor Alumnus Award for outstanding service to the college’s alumni association. In 1991, he served as president of the Rose-Hulman Alumni Association. Dinkel is the volunteer co-chair of the alumni portion of the $100 million Rose-Hulman Vision to be the Best development campaign.

Compton is an executive with CID Equity Partners which is a venture capital firm with $215 million under management that is invested exclusively in rapidly growing Midwest companies. He serves on the board of directors of 7 companies including Sofamore Danek Group (NYSE) and Enterprise Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ).

He is also director of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation which is devoted to youth development and the acceleration of entrepreneurship in America.

Compton received the Chauncey Rose Medal from Rose-Hulman in 1994. The medal is presented annually to the business leader who is the college’s Oscar C. Schmidt Memorial Lecturer.

Gerace served on the Commission on the Future of Rose-Hulman. The commission’s yearlong efforts resulted in recommendations that led to the creation of a strategic plan for Rose-Hulman. She served on the commission’s Task Force on Graduate Studies, Research and Continuing Education.

Gerace’s involvement in the higher-education profession includes serving on the library staffs at the Yale University Law School and at George Washington University.

She is a community and volunteer leader who has served on numerous educational and civic boards in Coral Gables. Gerace has been a volunteer leader for the Board of Education, Dade County School System, Parent Teachers Association, and Girl Scouts. Gerace is currently a member of the board of directors of the Miami Civic Music Association.