FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 25, 2000 CONTACT: Lisa Lacher, (515) 271-3119 ANGELA VOOS NAMED VICE PRESIDENT FOR INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT AT DRAKE Angela Voos, vice president of development and alumni relations at Grinnell College, has been appointed vice president for institutional advancement at Drake University, President David Maxwell announced today. Voos, who has been a vice president at Grinnell College since 1996, oversaw an $89 million campaign that exceeded its $75 million goal a year in advance of the target date. She will start work at Drake on July 15, assuming responsibility for the development, alumni relations and university communications programs. "I am delighted that Angela has agreed to join us at Drake," President Maxwell said. "She brings not only significant experience, wisdom, and expertise to the task, but creativity, vision and boundless energy as well. She has a profound understanding of the role that the institutional advancement operation plays in achieving institutional goals that will serve all of us — students, faculty, staff, the board, alumni, the community and friends — extremely well." In addition to completing the $89 million campaign at Grinnell College, Voos achieved campaign fundraising goals for two major construction projects and created a major-gifts program. She also personally contacted major donors and reorganized the alumni program to better connect alumni to one another and to the institution. Her fundraising record is especially significant because Drake is in the middle of a five-year campaign to raise $190 million. Campaign Drake, which is scheduled to conclude May 31, 2002, is the largest fundraising campaign ever undertaken by a private college or university in Iowa. Contributions to the campaign now total $150.5 million. "I am excited about joining Drake and Des Moines," Voos said. "Both the university and the city have high aspirations. I would like to be part of making them come true." Voos succeeds John R. Ohle as vice president for institutional advancement. He left Drake in 1998 to become president of Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. After that, Richard Luze served as interim vice president for institutional advancement until January, when he joined the development staff of Washington University in St. Louis. A native of New Jersey, Voos earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Princeton University and a master's degree in public health from the University of North Carolina. She was a freelance editor and research assistant at the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina before joining Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, as coordinator of academic grants in 1991. Voos was named director of corporate, foundation and government relations in 1994 and became acting vice president of development in 1995. She assumed her current position in May 1996.