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American Indian College Fund Elects New Members to Board of Trustees

DENVER , CO (August 9, 2006) -The American Indian College Fund recently welcomed seven new members to its national Board of Trustees.

Newly elected as trustees are:

• Brian C. McK. Henderson, chairman, Global Public Sector Client Group, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. of New York City, New York
• Dr. Richard Littlebear, president, Chief Dull Knife College in Lame Deer, Montana
• Dr. Cynthia Lindquist Mala, president, Cankdeska Cikana Community College in Fort Totten , North Dakota
• Ann Cato, vice president and chief ethics officer, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. in Bentonville , Arkansas
• Michael Oltrogge, president, Nebraska Indian Community College in Macy , Nebraska
• Steve Denson, director of diversity, Cox School , Southern Methodist University of Dallas Texas
• Olivia Vanegas-Funcheon, president, Tohono O'odham Community College in Sells, Arizona

About the American Indian College Fund

The American Indian College Fund has spent more than a decade helping to increase educational opportunities for Native students. With its credo "educating the mind and spirit," the Fund is the nation's largest provider of private scholarships for American Indian students, providing 5,000 scholarships annually for American Indian students seeking to better their lives through continued education. In addition to distributing scholarships to students attending tribal colleges across the country, the Denver, Colorado-based Fund also supports endowments, developmental needs and public awareness for the tribal colleges. Tribal colleges, commonly referred to as "underfunded miracles," serve more than 30,000 part-and full-time students, representing over 250 tribes.