EL SEGUNDO, Calif., July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mattel, Inc.
(NYSE: MAT) today announced that Frances Daly Fergusson, Ph.D. has been
elected to the company's Board of Directors effective Sept. 15, 2006. This
election will increase the number of Mattel Board members from 11 to 12.
Closing a 20-year presidency of Vassar College, Dr. Fergusson announced
last year that she would leave her post as president on June 30, 2006.
Under her leadership, Dr. Fergusson spearheaded a renaissance for the
campus architecture and landscape, led efforts that have resulted in the
College's highest admissions standards and strengthened the budgetary
processes and the financials by forging cross functional partnerships with
administrators and faculty to study the college's operations and develop a
long range financial model.
"As president of one of the country's preeminent learning institutions,
Frances has provided tremendous leadership to the students and faculty at
Vassar with her ability to champion her passion for education and the arts,
while leading Vassar into the 21st century," said Robert A. Eckert,
Mattel's chairman and chief executive officer. "We look forward to the
added insight that Frances will bring to the Mattel Board of Directors."
From 1982 to 1986, Dr. Fergusson was provost and vice president for
academic affairs at Bucknell University. She was also a professor of art at
Bucknell and served as the founding chair of the policy committee of the
Patriot League and as a member of the Bucknell University Press editorial
board. Her teaching career began as an assistant professor of art in 1969
at Newton College where she later became chair of the Art Department and
director of the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts. In 1975, Dr.
Fergusson was appointed as associate professor of art at the University of
Massachusetts at Boston, and from 1980 to 1982, she served as assistant
chancellor of the university.
A graduate of Wellesley College with special honors in art history, Dr.
Fergusson went on to earn her master's and doctorial degrees in art history
at Harvard University, where she currently is serving a six-year term on
the Board of Overseers of Harvard University. She is also a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, on the Board of Directors of the
Foreign Policy Association and a trustee of the National Humanities Center
and the Isamu Noguchi Foundation. She has served on the boards of The Ford
Foundation and the Mayo Clinic, chairing the Mayo board from 1988 to 2002.
Currently, Dr. Fergusson is a member of the executive committee of HSBC USA
and chairs its Compensation and Succession committee. She was named a
director of Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in 2005.
The recipient of numerous honors and awards, Dr. Fergusson was inducted
as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002 and in
1998, she received the Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal. In 1999, she
received the Centennial Medal of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
Harvard University. She is a 2001 recipient of the Alumnae Achievement
Award of Wellesley College, and of the Doctor of Literature degree
(honorary) from the University of London.
About Mattel
Mattel, Inc., (NYSE: MAT) is the worldwide leader in the design,
manufacture and marketing of toys and family products, including Barbie(R),
the most popular fashion doll ever introduced. With worldwide headquarters
in El Segundo, Calif., Mattel employs approximately 26,000 people in 42
countries and sells products in more than 150 nations throughout the world.
The Mattel vision is to be the world's premier toy brands -- today and
tomorrow.
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