Gen. William Wright Crouch

Overview

General Crouch was elected to the Board of Directors in May 2005. His current term on the Board expires at the Company's 2008 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, at which time his election to the Board for a three year term expiring in 2011 will be voted upon. General Crouch retired from the United States Army in 1999 following a 36-year career during which he served in numerous roles including Commanding General-Eighth Army and Chief of Staff, United Nations Command and US Forces Korea; Commander in Chief, United States Army, Europe; Commanding General, NATO Implementation (later Stabilization) Force, Bosnia/Herzegovina; and the US Army's 27th Vice Chief of Staff. In retirement, he has served as one of five generals who oversee the Army's Battle Command Training Program. In October 2000, General Crouch was named co-chair of the USS COLE Commission, which was formed to examine the terrorist attack on the USS COLE. He is a Senior Mentor with the Leadership Development and Education Program for Sustained Peace at the US Naval Post Graduate School and serves on the Boards of the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America and the Keck Institute for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College. He received a B.A. in Civil Government from Claremont McKenna College, and a M.A. in History from Texas Christian University while serving as an Assistant Professor of Military Science.