Wood named to succeed McDonald as vice president for development

For immediate release: February 22, 2010 - Media contact: Cass Cliatt, (609) 258-6108, ccliatt [a] princeton (p) edu. Wood named to succeed McDonald as vice president for development. Elizabeth Boluch Wood, assistant vice president of development for capital giving and a major architect of the University's $1.75 billion Aspire Campaign , has been named Princeton University's vice president for development, effective March 1. She succeeds Brian J. McDonald, who has led the University's fundraising efforts since 2002.   "For some time now I have been looking forward to taking on new challenges," McDonald said. "With the campaign in very good shape and an excellent successor in place, this feels like the right time to pass the baton. I look forward to the opportunities I will now have to participate actively in the final 28 months of the campaign as a volunteer, and as a strong supporter of Liz and the rest of our very effective development team."  In announcing Wood's appointment, President Shirley M. Tilghman said, "I am deeply grateful to Brian for his inspired leadership of the development program at Princeton and of the Aspire Campaign, and I wish him every success wherever his exceptional talents and energies lead him. At the same time, I have enormous respect and admiration for Liz Wood, and I look forward to working with her in attracting the financial resources that Princeton requires to fulfill its highest aspirations for undergraduate education, graduate education and research.