Bill Cast nominated as IU board of trustees president

IU trustee Bill Cast was nominated Thursday for the position of president of the IU board of trustees until 2011.

The board’s nominating committee met to select its officers for the next two year, and the board of trustees will vote Aug. 14, according to and IU press release.

Patrick Shoulders was nominated as vice president, Robin Roy Gress was nominated as secretary, Dorothy Frapwell as assistant secretary, MaryFrances McCourt as treasurer and Stewart Cobine as assistant treasurer, according to the press release.

Every two years, the nominating committee chooses a new slate of officers.

Cast will replace Stephen Ferguson, the president since August 2005. Trustee bylaws require the president to step down after two consecutive two-year terms.

Cast, a Fort Wayne physician and surgeon, is CEO of NoMoreClipboard, an online, patient-controlled personal health record management system, according to the press release. He is also founder and first chairman of DuPont Hospital in Fort Wayne, and he is a founder of the Canterbury School for students pre-kindergarten through grade 12.