Frank Bubb Joins TOC Board

Frank W. Bubb, a founding contributor of The Objectivist Center and an active member ever since, has joined the center's board of trustees, Executive Director David Kelley has announced. Bubb recently retired as senior vice president, general counsel, and secretary of the Sports Authority, a sporting-goods retailer.

Bubb received his A.B. from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he majored in economics, and his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He was employed by Scott Paper Company of Philadelphia from 1975 until 1996 (after the company was sold to Kimberly-Clark Corporation), rising to the position of staff vice president and chief financial counsel.

Bubb has been involved with Objectivism since his student days at Washington University, when he attended lecture courses given by the Nathaniel Branden Institute. For three years, he wrote a weekly op-ed column with an explicitly Objectivist-libertarian perspective for Student Life, Washington University's independent student newspaper. While at law school, Bubb taught courses on Objectivism at Penn's "free university," with classes ranging in size from twenty to forty-five. For two years, he also wrote a weekly op-ed column for Penn's Daily Voice. During the early and mid-1980s, Bubb wrote approximately sixty op-ed articles that were either distributed nationally by the Cato Institute or placed directly with such newspapers as the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Orange County Register. At TOC's 2000 Advanced Seminar, he delivered a paper entitled "Deriving Rights as Interpersonal Moral Constraints."

"We are proud to have Frank join our board," Kelley said. "In addition to his expertise in law and corporate governance, he is intimately familiar with the center as a long-time donor, advisor, and participant in our programs."