GROVE CITY COLLEGE 1967 graduate becomes college's eighth president

Richard Jewell has been on the college's board of trustees since 1974.
GROVE CITY, Pa. -- A 1967 graduate of Grove City College has been selected as the institution's eighth president.
Richard G. Jewell, 58, of Bethel Park, Pa., will take over his duties in early September, succeeding John H. Moore, 68, who retired June 30 after seven years as president.
Jewell, a director of Navigant Consulting Inc., the nation's largest forensic accounting firm, is the first alumnus to lead the college in nearly 50 years.
He has been a member of the college's board of trustees since 1974 and received the school's Distinguished Service Award in 2001. He is past president of the Alumni Association and co-chairman of the college's ongoing capital campaign.
Jewell graduated cum laude from Grove City with high honors in political science. He was editor-in-chief of the campus newspaper, captain of the 1967 swim team and a two-time Penn-Ohio College diving champion.
He also served as president of the Student Government Association. He served in the Army from 1969 to 1971 and graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1973.
In addition to serving as president, Jewell will have a position as professor of business law and public policy in Grove City's business department.
College's mission
"Grove City has always been about scholarship and character," Jewell said in a prepared statement.
"Most of our students come to Grove City College with a fairly well set moral compass. That compass will be tested as our students move from adolescence to young adulthood. We must help guide that journey enabling them to deal with the shades of gray in the world, but always helping them understand where the line of right and wrong is drawn," he said.
David R. Rathburn, board of trustees chairman, said Jewell has a successful track record in academic and business management, nonprofit oversight, fund raising and the law.
The search committee for a new president did a nationwide scan aided by one of the country's top academic executive recruiting firms, Rathburn said.
Before joining Navigant, Jewell was a senior administrator in applied research at the University of Pittsburgh and served as executive vice president of the University of Pittsburgh Trust, which is the holding entity for five of the university's applied research companies.
He was also a member of the university's senior management council.
Community service
Jewell has been chairman of the boards of the Pittsburgh Downtown YMCA, National Kidney Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and the St. Clair Hospital Foundation.
He was vice chairman of the Pittsburgh Metropolitan YMCA and served on the boards of St. Clair Hospital, Pittsburgh Youth Golf Foundation, Civic Light Opera and the American Wind Symphony.
He has been active in politics, serving as finance chairman for the Republican Committee of Allegheny County and chairman of the Murphy for Congress campaign.
Jewell and his wife, Dayl, have an adult daughter.