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CORVALLIS - A farewell event for Oregon State University provost and executive vice president Tim White and his wife, Karen, an OSU faculty member, will be held on Wednesday, July 14, at the Women's Building lounge.

The ice cream social, hosted by OSU President Ed Ray and his wife, Beth, will run from 4 to 6 p.m. Members of the university and Corvallis community are invited.

Earlier this spring, Tim White was named president of the University of Idaho. He will begin his tenure at the Moscow, Idaho, campus on Aug. 1.

A brief program will be held at the reception beginning at 5 p.m. It will include comments from OSU President Ray; Stella Coakley, president of the Faculty Senate; Clara Pratt, a faculty member in the College of Health and Human Sciences who served as co-dean; and Bridget Burns, a 2004 OSU graduate and member of the State Board of Higher Education.

"Tim and Karen have been wonderful friends and colleagues who have contributed greatly to Oregon State University," said Ed Ray. "Our loss is Idaho's gain, and we wish both of them the best during this new chapter of their lives."

White came to OSU in 1996 as dean of the then-College of Health and Human Performance, and was named provost in 2000. When OSU President Paul Risser accepted a position as chancellor of the Oklahoma System of Higher Education last year, White served as OSU's president for nine months during the search that brought Ed Ray to campus. Ray had been executive vice president and provost at The Ohio State University.

Sabah Randhawa has been named as OSU's interim provost and executive vice president.