The Dallas Morning News Robert Miller Column.

Byline: Robert Miller

Nov. 20--The new Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation will have a board of directors of 24 leaders in business, education and civic and cultural affairs chaired by Dallas businessman Harvey Mitchell.

The foundation, created in September as a nonprofit Texas corporation, will plan and implement a capital campaign to raise more than $100 million for construction of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts and will guide the construction process.

Current plans call for the public launching of the capital campaign in the fall of 2001 or early 2002.

The foundation has already recruited Bill Lively to serve as president and chief executive officer.

Mr. Lively was formerly Southern Methodist University's vice president for development and external affairs and most recently president and CEO of Up With People, an independent, not-for-profit educational organization based in Denver.

Board members besides Mr. Mitchell include Elaine B. Agather, chairwoman and CEO of Chase Bank Dallas; Daniel D. Boeckman, president of Turtle Creek Holdings Inc.; Mary McDermott Cook, president of the Eugene McDermott Foundation; John W. Dayton, president of Routh Street Investments; Matrice Ellis-Kirk, partner of Heidrick & Struggles; Bess Enloe, cultural leader; Ruben E. Esquivel, vice president of community and corporate relations of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.