Two new members have been appointed to the Division III Presidents Council and a new member also has joined the Division III Management Council.

John A. Fry, president of Franklin & Marshall College, will serve a Presidents Council term that extends through January 2005, when he will be eligible for reappointment, and Denison University President Dale T. Knobel will serve a term scheduled to run through January 2006.

Also, Greg Harshaw, director of athletics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, recently began a term on the Division III Management Council. His term extends through January 2004, when he will be eligible for reappointment.

Fry

Fry was appointed Franklin & Marshall's 14th president last summer and was inaugurated earlier this year.

He previously served as executive vice-president of the University of Pennsylvania, making him that institution's chief operating officer. Among his accomplishments at Penn was development and implementation of a comprehensive strategic-initiatives plan that, among other results, prompted a revitalization of neighborhoods surrounding the campus.

The Lafayette College graduate earned a master of business administration degree at New York University's Stern School of Business, and then worked closely with some of the nation's premier colleges and universities in positions with KPMG Peat Marwick and later as partner in charge with Coopers & Lybrand's National Higher Education Consulting Practice.

Last fall, Fry co-chaired the transition team for Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Edward Rendell.

Knobel

Knobel became Denison's 19th president in 1998 after serving as chief executive officer at Southwestern University (Texas). He earlier served as provost and dean of the faculty at Southwestern and, between 1976 and 1996, was a history faculty member at Texas A&M University, College Station, where he also directed that institution's 2,500-student university honors program.

A specialist in the history of American ethnic and race relations, Knobel is the author of several books, including "Paddy and the Republic: Ethnicity and Nationality in Antebellum America," which was published in 1986 by Wesleyan University Press. He has continued to teach and write while serving as an administrator.

He serves on a number of boards and commissions, including the American Council on Education's Commission of Women In Higher Education.

Knobel earned a bachelor of arts degree, cum laude, from Yale University in 1971 and a doctorate in history at Northwestern University in 1976.

Harshaw

Harshaw, who has held positions in areas ranging from professional baseball to community arts in addition to collegiate coaching and administration, became athletics director at UC Santa Cruz in 2001.

He played basketball at Oberlin and was a starter on the school's 1976 Division III Men's Basketball Championship entry. He then entered coaching as a student coach at his alma mater and later was an assistant at Temple University, where he earned a master's degree. He has served as head basketball coach and athletics director at Dominican College (California), and served during the 2002-03 season as UC Santa Cruz's head basketball coach.

Harshaw also has been an audit specialist for the California Department of Health, assistant director of the Community Arts Program in San Diego, director of Diamond Vision Operations for the Oakland Athletics Baseball Company, director of the Computer Graphics Department at Laney College, associate producer of Seriee Limitee in Paris, and program director for the USTA/NJTL/Youth Tennis Association.