DENTSPLY International Names William F. Hecht as Director.Business Editors YORK, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2001 DENTSPLY International (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :XRAY) today announced that Mr. William F. Hecht, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of PPL PPL - Polymorphic Programming Language. An interactive, extensible language, based on APL, from Harvard University. ["Some Features of PPL - A Polymorphic Programming Language", T.A. Standish, SIGPLAN Notices 4(8) (Aug 1969)]. Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :PPL), has been appointed to serve as a member of the Board of Directors with his initial term expiring at the 2002 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. This action enlarged the membership of the Board from 11 to 12 Directors. Mr. Hecht earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from Lehigh University Lehigh University, at Bethlehem, Pa.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1866 by Asa Packer. It has undergraduate colleges of arts and science, business and economics, and engineering and applied science, as well as several graduate programs. . He has served as President of the FORTUNE 500 company since 1991 and in the additional role of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since 1993. A registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania, he is also a graduate of the Cornell University Executive Development Program. He joined PPL in 1964 and worked in a number of engineering and management positions before advancing to Vice President-System Power in 1983. Mr. Hecht also served as Vice President-Marketing and Economic Development, Vice President-Power Production and Engineering and Senior Vice President-System Power and Engineering. In 1990 he was named Executive Vice President-Operations and was also elected to the PPL Corp. Board of Directors. Mr. Hecht has had a successful career with PPL Corporation, a worldwide energy company with headquarters in Allentown, PA. With annual revenues of $5.7 billion, PPL Corp. markets energy in 42 U.S. states and Canada; generates electricity at power plants in Maine, Montana and Pennsylvania and delivers energy to nearly 6 million customers in Pennsylvania, Chile, Bolivia, El Salvador, Brazil and the United Kingdom. Mr. Hecht is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Nuclear Energy Institute; is past Chairman and Director of the Utility Business Education Coalition; and serves as a Director of the National Association of Manufacturers. He is also a Director of the Pennsylvania Business Roundtable Business Roundtable (BRT), an association consisting of the chief executive officers of major U.S. corporations that was founded in 1972 through the merger of the three preexisting business organizations. and the Pennsylvania Society. Additionally, he serves on the Board of Directors of TEAM Pennsylvania, a group established by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge to promote economic development. Active in his local community, Mr. Hecht is a Trustee of Lehigh University; Chairman of the Lehigh Valley Partnership Economic Development Organization; Chairman of the Partnership for Downtown Allentown and a former Chairman of the Lehigh Valley United Way campaign. He serves on the Board of Directors of Lehigh Valley Hospital Lehigh Valley Hospital is a network of three hospitals in Allentown and Bethlehem, serving as the primary hospital system for the Lehigh Valley, in Pennsylvania, United States. The network consists of three hospitals and six health centers. and Health Network, Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation, the Allentown Symphony and the Lehigh Valley United Way. He has been honored as Community Leader of the Year by the Arthritis Foundation and as a Distinguished Citizen of the Year by the Sales and Marketing Executives of the Lehigh Valley and by the Lehigh Valley Boy Scouts of America Noun 1. Boy Scouts of America - a corporation that operates through a national council that charters local councils all over the United States; the purpose is character building and citizenship training Council. Mr. Hecht and Margaret, his wife, reside in Allentown, PA. The couple has two sons. DENTSPLY designs, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of products for the dental market. The Company believes that it is the world's leading manufacturer and distributor of dental prosthetics, endodontic Endodontic Pertaining to the inside structures of the tooth, including the dental pulp and tooth root, and the periapical tissue surrounding the root. Mentioned in: Root Canal Treatment endodontic instruments and materials, prophylaxis prophylaxis (prō'fĭlăk`sĭs), measures designed to prevent the occurrence of disease or its dissemination. Some examples of prophylaxis are immunization against serious diseases such as smallpox or diphtheria; quarantine to confine paste, dental sealants, ultrasonic scalers, dental injectible anesthetics Anesthetics Drugs or methodologies used to make a body area free of sensation or pain. Mentioned in: Appendectomy and crown and bridge materials; the leading United States manufacturer and distributor of dental x-ray equipment, dental handpieces, intraoral cameras, dental x-ray film holders, film mounts and bone substitute/grafting materials; and a leading worldwide manufacturer or distributor of impression materials, orthodontic orthodontic (ôr´th  dän´tik),adj appliances, dental cutting instruments and dental implants. The Company distributes its dental products in over 120 countries under some of the most well established brand names in the industry. DENTSPLY is committed to the development of innovative, high quality, cost-effective new products for the dental market. |
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