SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of Report: (Date of earliest event reported) July 23, 2002
CORNING INCORPORATED
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
New York 1-3247 16-0393470
(State or other jurisdiction (Commission (I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation) File Number) Identification No.)
One Riverfront Plaza, Corning, New York 14831
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
(607) 974-9000
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)
N/A
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
Item 5. Other Events and Regulation FD Disclosure.
The Corning Incorporated board of directors voted to appoint Dr. Jeremy R.
Knowles to fill a vacancy on the board. The press release relating to this
announcement is filed herewith as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated by reference.
Item 7. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(c) Exhibits.
99.1 Press Release dated July 23, 2002
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
CORNING INCORPORATED
Registrant
Date: July 23, 2002 By /s/ KATHERINE A. ASBECK
Katherine A. Asbeck
Senior Vice President and Controller
INDEX TO EXHIBITS
(c) Exhibits
99.1 Press Release dated July 23, 2002
Exhibit 99.1
FOR RELEASE -- JULY 23, 2002
Corning Media Contact:
Daniel F. Collins
(607) 974-4197
collinsdf@corning.com
Dr. Jeremy R. Knowles Joins Corning Board of Directors
CORNING, N.Y.-- Dr. Jeremy R. Knowles, former dean of the Faculty of Arts and
Sciences at Harvard University and a current faculty member, has been appointed
by the board to fill a vacancy on the board of directors of Corning Incorporated
(NYSE:GLW). Dr. Knowles will stand for election for a three-year term at
Corning's annual meeting of shareholders on April 24, 2003.
Dr. Knowles, 67, is a distinguished chemist who joined the Harvard faculty from
Oxford University in 1974. He became the Amory Houghton Professor of Chemistry
and Biochemistry in 1979 and was appointed dean of the Faculty of Arts and
Sciences in 1991. He stepped down as dean after 11 years this spring and has
returned to the teaching faculty. Prior to joining Harvard, he was a fellow and
tutor at Wadham College, Oxford, appointed to an Oxford University lectureship
in 1966, and had served as a visiting professor at Yale University in the
Departments of Molecular Biophysics and of Chemistry in 1969 and 1971 and Sloan
visiting professor at Harvard in 1973. In 1983-84 he was elected Newton-Abraham
visiting professor at Oxford.
As dean, Dr. Knowles was responsible for the undergraduates of Harvard College,
the graduate students of the graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the
nearly 700 professors on the faculty. The annual budget of the Faculty of Arts
and Sciences is $750 million.
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He was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and then served as a pilot
officer in the Royal Air Force from 1953-55. He graduated in the Final Honour
School of Chemistry from Balliol College, Oxford, receiving his B.A. in 1959 and
his D.Phil. in 1961. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, and a Foreign
Associate of the National Academy of Sciences. He also serves as a trustee of
the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He holds honorary degrees from the
University of Edinburgh and the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zurich.
He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's
Birthday Honours of 1993.
Established in 1851, Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) creates leading-edge
technologies for the fastest-growing markets of the world's economy. Corning
manufactures optical fiber, cable and photonic products for the
telecommunications industry; and high-performance displays and components for
television, information technology and other communications-related industries.
The company also uses advanced materials to manufacture products for scientific,
semiconductor and environmental markets. Corning revenues for 2001 were $6.3
billion.
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