CVS Elects Marian L. Heard to Board of Directors.WOONSOCKET, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 1999-- CVS (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CVS) announced today that Marian L. Heard has been elected to the company's Board of Directors. She is the President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and CEO of the United Ways of New England. Mrs. Heard is also the Founding President and CEO of the Points of Light Foundation. In 1997, Mrs. Heard was appointed as the CEO of the Steering Committee of the Presidents' Summit for America's Future. She is a member and secretary of entertainer Michael Jackson's Heal the World Foundation and a trustee of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. As a Director of the National Mentoring Partnership, Mrs. Heard has also been a mentor for the past five years and serves as the organization's national spokesperson. "Marian is one of the most accomplished social service agency executives in the country, and her experience will be a tremendous asset to us," said Tom Ryan, Chairman and CEO of CVS. "We welcome Marian to CVS and look forward to her insights and contributions." Mrs. Heard has received numerous local, regional and national awards, including the 1998 National Public Citizen of the Year from the National Association of Social Workers The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is the largest membership organization of professional social workers in the world, with 150,000 members. The NASW works to enhance the professional growth and development of its members, to create and maintain professional . A nationally recognized speaker, Heard has received the Buckley Orator ORATOR, practice. A good man, skillful in speaking well, and who employs a perfect eloquence to defend causes either public or private. Dupin, Profession d'Avocat, tom. 1, p. 19.. 2. Award and was recently named an Aspen Institute Scholar. In addition to her board membership at CVS, Mrs. Heard serves on the boards of Blue Cross & Blue Shield, Fleet Financial Group, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and the New England Aquarium The New England Aquarium, located in Boston, Massachusetts is one of the most prominent and popular public aquariums in the United States. Founded in 1969 on the city's waterfront, it is considered one of the first modern public aquariums and is credited with revolutionizing the . CVS is the largest retail provider of prescriptions in the nation. The Company is the #1 drugstore chain in the U.S., with approximately 4,100 stores in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Midwest regions of the country. General information about CVS, including corporate background and press releases, is available at CVS' web site at http://www.CVS.com. |
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