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Brandon Short, Steven Wagman, and Alvin de Levie have officially been elected as alumni trustees. They’ll begin new three-year terms on Penn State’s Board of Trustees starting July 1.
The three respectively received 14,299, 9,730, and 9,688 votes from their fellow alumni en route to their elections. They topped fellow candidates Jim Bognet, Bridget Lasda, and incumbent Laurie Stanell.
Short
won re-election after first joining the Board of Trustees in July 2018. You probably know him as a former All-American Penn State linebacker who went on to play in the NFL, too. Off the gridiron, he’s amassed nearly 10 years of experience in real estate investment banking and investment management. Short previously worked for Goldman Sachs, among other firms.
Penn State s Board of Trustees elected or appointed six incumbent trustees and five new members during its meeting Friday.
Alvin de Levie and Steven Wagman were elected by university alumni as alumni trustees, and incumbent Brandon Short was reelected.
In the alumni election, the distribution of votes per candidate was as follows:
Steven B. Wagman â 9,730
Alvin F. de Levie â 9,688
Bridget M. Lasda â 8,171
Jim Bognet â 7,016
Laurie A. Stanell â 9,634
Brandon Short â 14,299
Additionally, Donald Cairns was elected and incumbent Chris Hoffman was reelected by the delegates of agricultural societies, Robert Fenza and Mary Lee Schneider were reelected as trustees representing business and industry, Julie Anna Potts was reelected as an at-large trustee and Nicholas Rowland was elected as the boardâs academic trustee.