Three new directors have been elected to the university board.

The new members are Joan Coate Miller Milsom, '47, a well-known Pittsburgh area artist, Milton Thompson, '76, an Indianapolis attorney, and Rev. Robert A. Rimbo, pastor of Antioch Lutheran Church in Farmington Hills, Mich.

Milsom and Thompson will serve three-year terms ending in June, 2001, while Rimbo's term is for one year.

Milsom, a Toledo, Ohio native, has exhibited her work widely and it is included in private and corporate collections across the U.S. and in South America. As a civic leader she has served on the boards of the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Public Broadcasting System station WQED, and the Pittsburgh Watercolor Society. She is married to Robert C. Milsom, retired chairman and chief executive officer of PNC Bank, and vice chairman chairman and director of PNC Bank Corporation.

Thompson, who was an All-America baseball player while at Wittenberg, is a general partner in Grand Slam, a sports and entertainment management consulting and licensing firm.

He is a trustee of the Indianapolis Foundation and one of the founders of the Indiana Amateur Baseball Association. Thompson served as general counsel and vice president of corporate development to the organizing committee of the 10th Pan-American Games held in Indianapolis in 1987. Thompson, who has also been a member of the university's alumni board, will be inducted into Wittenberg's Athletic Hall of Honor this fall.

Rimbo is the newly-elected Bishop of the Southeastern Michigan Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church In America. He was selected by the Bishops of Region Six of the ELCA to represent them on Wittenberg's Board.