Editor: Keith Davis Writers: Dave Maley Publisher: Office of Public Information Volume 22, No.12   February 28, 2000

Ithaca College Board of Trustees Elects Three New Members Three graduates from the 1970s have been added to the Ithaca College Board of Trustees. George Pine ’72, David Storch ’75, and Keith Watters ’76 were elected to four-year terms at the board’s February meeting. Pine is president of ABC Radio Sales, a division of Interep Company formed in 1998 to serve as the exclusive sales company for ABC Radio. Headquartered in New York City, Interep is the largest sales and marketing company solely for radio advertising. Pine previously managed Interep’s entire eastern region, which includes the New York, Boston, and Philadelphia offices. A former student manager of WICB radio, Pine earned his degree in television-radio and began his professional career as a media planner with Ogilvy and Mather Advertising. In 1973 he joined the Interep subsidiary McGavern Radio Guild as an account executive in the New York office. He helped create Interep University, which has evolved into the radio industry’s largest and most comprehensive sales and marketing training program. Pine is a member of the International Television and Radio Society and the New York Ad Club, and he is a former member of the board of directors of the New York State Broadcasters Association. His service to education includes membership on the board of trustees of the Webb School, a college preparatory school in Knoxville, Tennessee. For Ithaca College he serves on the New York Communications Alumni Advisory Committee and has spoken frequently in classes in the Roy H. Park School of Communications. Since 1996 Storch has served as chief executive officer of AAR Corporation of Wood Dale, Illinois. Founded in 1955, AAR is a leading supplier of products and services to the aviation/aerospace industry. Customers for its aviation containers, pallets, shelters, and transportation cases include Air France, Federal Express, General Electric, and the U.S. Air Force. A member of the men’s basketball team while a student, Storch earned his bachelor’s degree in general studies. He joined AAR in 1978 as a salesman and began development of the company’s engine business. Dramatic growth in this business under his leadership led to the formation in 1981 of the AAR Aircraft Turbine Center subsidiary, for which he served as president. In 1987 he was given the additional responsibility of leading all of the company’s trading activities, and in 1989 he was elected to AAR’s board of directors and named president and chief operating officer, positions he still holds in addition to that of CEO. Storch serves on the boards of Whittman-Hart and Prentice Women’s Hospital and is a member of the Young Presidents Organization International and the Economic Club of Chicago. In 1986 he established the David P. Storch Endowed Scholarship Fund, which awards scholarships to deserving students in the Ithaca College School of Business, and last fall he participated as a guest speaker in the School of Business Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series. Watters is an attorney and founding partner of the Washington, D.C., law firm Keith W. Watters and Associates. Since 1990 he has served as a director of the National Bar Association, the nation’s oldest and largest national association of predominantly African American lawyers and judges. While serving in 1995–96 as president of the NBA, Watters became a sought-after commentator on news stories with racial reverberations, including the O. J. Simpson murder trial. His media savvy, combined with his knowledge of the political and legal landscape of the nation’s capital, made Watters a popular television guest when the Monica Lewinsky scandal captured the public’s attention. He has appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America, CNBC’s Rivera Live, CNN’s Burden of Proof and Talkback Live, and Fox News’s Hannity and Colmes and The O’Reilly Factor, among other programs. A delegate for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Watters is a director of both the Metropolitan Trial Lawyers Association and the Bar Association of the District of Columbia. In the early 1990s he served on several committees investigating racial and gender bias in the court system, prompting the National Association of Black Women Attorneys to give him its achievement award in both 1990 and 1994. Watters holds an accounting degree from the School of Business and earned his law degree from Georgetown University. He has returned to campus to participate in the annual Professionals Symposium, and last summer he was a featured speaker at an Ithaca Opportunity Program colloquium on the impeachment trial of President Clinton.

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