News Release
January 2000
(Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania) Curtis H. Barnette ("Hank") will serve as an
Executive-in-Residence at Moravian College beginning the Spring 2000
semester. Barnette has served as the chairman and chief executive officer
of Bethlehem Steel Corporation for the past eight years. Prior to that
he served as senior vice president and director for 6 years, and as
general counsel and secretary for 15 years. He joined Bethlehem Steel
as an attorney in 1967.
Moravian's Executives-in-Residence is a new program that
brings business professionals into the classroom to enhance the learning
environment by combining classroom theory with the expertise and insight
of those working in the business world. Beginning in April, Mr. Barnette
will participate by providing classroom presentations to Moravian MBA
students and senior undergraduates majoring in business, accounting,
and economics.
"We are delighted and honored to have Mr. Barnette
participate in our Executive-in-Residence program," said Moravian
College president, Dr. Ervin J. Rokke. "Mr. Barnette is a global
business leader with extensive experience in corporate governance,
international trade, and corporate litigation at the highest levels
of the international business world. He will be able to offer invaluable
guidance to our business and economics students by sharing his expertise
and perspectives on working in both domestic and international business
environments," Rokke said.
Barnette, a native of West Virginia, graduated from West
Virginia University in 1956 and was a Fulbright Scholar in International
Law at the University of Manchester, England from 1956 to1957. He is
a graduated from Yale Law School in 1962 and the Harvard University
Business School in 1975.
He served two years as a Counter Intelligence Officer
in Germany from 1957 to 1958 and continued in the Army Intelligence
Corps Reserves as a Major until 1967. He was a lecturer at the University
of Maryland in Germany from 1957 to 1959, and was in the private practice
of law and a law tutor at the Yale Law School for five years starting
in 1962.
Barnette is a member of the President's Trade Advisory
Committee (ACTPN), appointed by President Bush in 1989 and 1991, and
by President Clinton in 1994 and 1997. President Reagan appointed him
to the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States
(1988) and Secretary Dole named him to the Coal Commission in 1990.
He was appointed by Governor Tom Ridge to the Pennsylvania 21st Century
Environmental Commission, 1997-98. He has testified frequently before
Congressional Committees, and has written and spoken extensively about
various corporate, litigation, international trade, corporate governance
and related matters.
Barnette is a Director and past Chairman of the American
Iron and Steel Institute, and a Director and past Chairman of the International
Iron and Steel Institute. He is a Director of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company, Owens Corning, a Trustee of Lehigh University, a
member of the Policy Committee of the Business Roundtable and of the
Business Council.
Bethlehem Steel Corporation is one of the largest steel
producers in the nation with annual revenues of over $4.4 billion and
shipments of 8.6 million tons of steel annually.
Moravian College is a private, coeducational, selective
liberal arts college located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Tracing its
founding to 1742, it is recognized as America's sixth-oldest college.
