SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 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): March 27, 1997
GILBERT ASSOCIATES, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 0-12588 23-2280922
(State or other jurisdiction of (Commission (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organizational) File Number) Identification No.)
P. O. BOX 1498, READING, PENNSYLVANIA 19603
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (610) 856-5500
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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.
GILBERT ASSOCIATES, INC.
Date: March 27, 1997
/s/Paul H. Snyder
Paul H. Snyder
Senior Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
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GILBERT ASSOCIATES NAMES NEW BOARD MEMBER
Robert LaBlanc Is A Consultant and Investment Banker To The Information
Technologies Industry
Reading, PA -- March 26, 1997 -- Gilbert Associates, Inc.
(Nasdaq/NMS:GILBA) today announced that Robert E. LaBlanc, President of
Robert E. LaBlanc Associates, has joined its Board of Directors. The
addition of Mr. LaBlanc, 63, expands the Board to eight members.
Mr. LaBlanc has served as President of Robert E. LaBlanc
Associates, an information technologies consulting and investment
banking firm based in Ridgewood, New Jersey, since 1981. Prior to that,
he was Vice Chairman of Continental Telecom, Inc., a major
telecommunications services company now merged with GTE. Mr. LaBlanc
began his career in the former Bell System and served as a
telecommunications analyst and general partner with Salomon Brothers,
Inc., before joining Continental.
Mr. LaBlanc was a founding director of the Catholic
Telecommunications Network of America, Inc., and currently serves on the
Board of Directors of Storage Technology Corporation, Titan Corporation,
Tribune Company and a family of Prudential mutual funds. He is a
graduate of Manhattan College and a distinguished alumnus of the New
York University Graduate School of Business.
Tim Cobb, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of
Gilbert Associates, commented, "Bob brings a tremendous amount of
industry experience, as well as strategic and financial expertise to
Gilbert Associates, which the Company intends to leverage on a going
forward basis. Moreover, his addition to our Board reinforces the
Company's strategic transformation into a pure communications technology
company."
Reading, Pennsylvania-based Gilbert Associates, Inc. is a leading
telecommunications equipment and services company with segments that
support public, private and wireless communication network operators.
