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SOU museum of art acquires new director ASHLAND -- The director of a fine arts collection in Israel will take the helm of the Schneider Museum of Art at Southern Oregon University this fall. Sanford S. Shaman, director of the Fine Arts Exhibitions and Collections at the University of Haifa in Haifa, Israel, will start the directorship in Ashland in September. As part of his position he will also teach art history and museum studies at SOU. He will earn $39,000 per year. Shaman, selected from more than 30 applicants, is the second permanent director in the museum's history. He replaces Greer Markle, director from 1986 until January of this year. Markle resigned to assume full-time teaching duties at the university. Mary Gardiner, Schneider Museum community program coordinator, has served as interim director. Shaman has been at the Israeli university since 1989. He was director of the Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University from 1984-'89 and was director of the Washington State University Museum of Art in Pullman, Wash., from 1980-'84. He has also been gallery director at the University of Northern Iowa and curator at the University of Rochester and the Huntington Galleries in Huntington, W. Va. Shaman has a master's degree from the Villa Schifanoia Graduate School of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy and a bachelor's from Ohio University. He has curated and administered exhibitions that were selected for national and international tours by organizations such as the Smithsonian Institution. He's a regular contributor to arts publications and has been a reviewer and site inspector for the National Endowment for the Arts and other arts organizations. Shaman, who visited the campus June 10-11, will "lead the museum into the new century at a time when the arts at Southern are being boosted by construction of the new visual arts center," said Mary Ellen Fleeger, executive dean to the president and chairwoman of the selection committee. Groundbreaking for the new center is July 1. Mail Tribune Copyright � The Mail Tribune 1999, Medford, Oregon USA