III. BOARD LEADERSHIP

Chairman of the Board The Board of Directors will elect a Chairman of the Board who will have primary responsibility for scheduling Board meetings, calling special meetings when necessary, setting or proposing the agenda for each meeting and leading the conduct of Board meetings. The CEO of the Company will, in most cases, also be the Chairman of the Board.

Presiding Director The Board of Directors will also elect a Presiding Director whose primary function will be to ensure that the Board operates independent of the Company's management. Absent a Board decision to the contrary, the Presiding Director will be the longest-tenured independent member of the Board. Included as part of the Presiding Director's responsibilities are: convening and chairing regular and special meetings of the independent directors, acting as the principal liaison between the independent directors and the CEO and providing feedback to the CEO from the meetings of the independent directors.

IV. BOARD CONDUCT

Change of Responsibility of Director Directors are expected to report changes in their employment or their business or professional affiliations or responsibilities, including retirement, to both the Chairman of the Board and the Chair of the Corporate Responsibility and Governance Committee. A director will tender a resignation when there is a change in the director's principal employment. Based on advice from the Corporate Responsibility and Governance Committee, the Board will then decide whether continued Board membership is appropriate under the circumstances.

The CEO and any other officer of the Company who is a director will tender their resignation from the Board when such individual ceases to be the CEO or other officer of the Company. The CEO should not, in most cases, continue as a director after retirement from the Company.

Retirement A director will retire from the Board at the first Annual Meeting following the director's 70th birthday.

Equity Ownership While the Board does not believe it is appropriate to specify a particular level of equity ownership for individual directors, it is expected that each director will develop a meaningful equity interest in the Company within a reasonable period after initial election to the Board and retain such equity interest while serving on the Board. To align the interests of directors and the Company's shareholders, at least one-half of each non-employee director's annual retainer must be taken in either the Company's stock or stock units.

Other Board Memberships Directors should advise both the Chairman of the Board and the Chair of the Corporate Responsibility and Governance Committee before accepting any other public company directorship. If the Corporate Responsibility and Governance Committee determines a conflict of interest exists by serving on the board of another company, the director is expected to act in accordance with the recommendation of the committee.

Other Audit Committee Memberships No member of the Audit Committee may serve simultaneously on the audit committees of more than two other public company boards, unless the Board determines that such simultaneous service would not impair such director's ability to effectively serve on the Audit Committee and such determination is disclosed in the Company's annual proxy statement. Directors will advise both the Chairman of the Board and the Chair of the Corporate Responsibility and Governance Committee prior to accepting an invitation to serve on the audit committee of another public company board.

Communications with the Public The CEO is responsible for establishing effective communications with the Company's stakeholder groups (i.e., the press, institutional investors, analysts, customers, suppliers and other constituencies). The Board will look to management to speak for the Company. Board members will refer all inquiries from and communications with the Company's stakeholder groups to the CEO. In the unusual circumstance where the independent directors need to communicate directly with the press, the Presiding Director will perform this function.

Confidentiality The Board believes maintaining confidentiality of information and deliberations is an imperative. Information learned during the course of service of the Board is to be held confidential and used solely in furtherance of the Company's business.

Code of Business Conduct and Ethics The Company will maintain, and the Audit Committee will oversee compliance with, a code of business conduct and ethics for the directors. Such code as currently in effect is set forth in Appendix D, and such code may be modified and replaced from time to time by the Audit Committee.

V. BOARD MEETINGS

Meeting Attendance Directors are expected to attend Board meetings, meetings of committees on which they serve and meetings of stockholders absent exceptional cause. The Board has established a "Board of Directors Attendance Policy," a copy of which is attached as Appendix E.

Agenda The Chairman of the Board will set the agenda for each meeting of the Board. Any director may suggest agenda items and may raise at meetings other matters they consider worthy of discussion.

Board Materials Distributed in Advance Management will be responsible for assuring that, as a general rule, information and data that are important to the Board's understanding of the Company's business and to all matters expected to be considered and acted upon by the Board be distributed in writing to the Board sufficiently in advance of each Board meeting and each action to be taken by written consent to provide the directors a reasonable time to review and evaluate such information and data. Management will make every attempt to see that this material is as concise as possible while still providing the desired information. In the event of a pressing need for the Board to meet on short notice or if such materials would otherwise contain highly confidential or sensitive information, it is recognized that written materials may not be available in advance.

To prepare for meetings, directors should review these materials in advance. Directors will preserve the confidentiality of all materials given and information provided to the Board.