Huidekoper Named Acting V.P.

As expected, Elizabeth C. Huidekoper, the director of the office of the budgets and sponsored research, was officially named acting vice president for finance yesterday.

Huidekoper, known around the University as "Beppie," will replace former Vice President for Finance Robert H. Scott.

Scott recently began work as vice president of Partners Health Care Systems, Inc., the company created by the merger of Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital.

University officials have been looking for a replacement for Scott since he announced in September that he would step down.

Huidekoper will serve in the position until a permanent replacement is found.

In a University's statement released yesterday afternoon, Huidekoper said she "honored to be able to help during this transition period."

Huidekoper has worked on the University's benefits review task force and the administrative date project.

She has also been a key player in the plans for the $2 billion capital campaign, which is scheduled to kick off on May 13.

"Her energy, initiative and sharp analytical skills have been vital to the University-wide academic and campaign planning process these past several years," President Neil L. Rudenstine said in the statement.

"I am extremely pleased that Beppie has agreed to take on this new assignment, and all of us look for ward to working with her in her new role," Rudenstine added in the statement.

Scott also expressed confidence in his replacement.

She is an unusually insightful administrator who understand well the University's administrative system and the changes that President Rudenstine and the deans are seeking to make in it," Scott said in the statement. "She is ideally suited for this post, and I wish her will in it."