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7/5/04

SLU BOARD ELECTS NORTH COUNTRY NATIVE TRUSTEE

CANTON – The St. Lawrence University Board of Trustees has elected Donald K. 
Rose, of Palo Alto, California, a native of Pitcairn, to a six-year term, 
effective July 1. Rose is a 1964 graduate of the University, and was recently 
awarded an Alumni Citation.
	Rose retired from Intel Corporation as general manager in 2001. For 
the last 16 years of his career with Intel, he was responsible for manufacturing 
engineering functions, including factory construction; manufacturing equipment 
design, procurement and installation; and factory automation systems. During 
that time, Intel grew from a start-up manufacturer into the standard-bearer 
of the computer industry.
	After graduating from St. Lawrence with a physics major and several 
honors, the 1960 graduate of Harrisville Central School earned his doctorate 
at Stanford University in 1971. Rose's thesis concerned microchip superconductivity. 
This "cutting edge" topic propelled him into a career that dealt successively 
with the development and manufacture of magnetic and superconducting devices; 
magnetic bubble technology, significant in the evolution of computer memory 
capacity; silicon-based chips, fundamental to the operation of today’s 
microprocessors; and management of Intel's implementation of consistent practices 
and procedures across its numerous facilities, the success of which company 
officials have credited with turning the corporation into the multi-billion 
dollar giant that it is today. He holds six patents and is credited with over 
75 publications and presentations to technology, management, industry and 
government forums. Rose spent the spring 2004 semester at St. Lawrence as a 
visiting faculty member in physics and mathematics.
	A long-time supporter of the University, Rose established four summer 
fellowships for undergraduate study in the sciences and mathematics.

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