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Kodak Names Essie Calhoun Chief Diversity Officer and Director, Community Affairs
Eastman Kodak Company announced today that Essie L. Calhoun has been appointed Chief Diversity Officer and Director, Community Affairs, a worldwide post dedicated to strengthening the company's diversity and inclusion activities among employees, customers, and suppliers.

Calhoun, a corporate vice president, will report to Michael P. Morley, Chief Administrative Officer of Kodak and executive vice president. She will continue to serve in her role of Director, Community Relations and Contributions, reporting to Michael P. Benard, Director, Communications & Public Affairs, and a corporate vice president.
Calhoun succeeds May E. Snowden, who has accepted a position at Starbucks Corp.

"Kodak people worldwide have worked to create a winning and inclusive culture, one that encourages open expression of perspectives, values, and creativity," Morley said. "In her 21 years with Kodak, Essie has forged highly productive relationships with many external constituencies. In her new role as Chief Diversity Officer and Director of Community Affairs, we look forward to her leadership in expanding Kodak's diversity and inclusion initiatives to customers, employees, and suppliers worldwide."
Calhoun's new responsibilities include working with Kodak's Global Diversity Leadership Team - which consists of senior leaders from across Kodak's global businesses - to broaden the environment that fosters inclusion and understanding wherever Kodak does business. She will also work in counsel with the company's senior leadership and its external diversity advisory panel to craft strategies that enable all constituents to fully participate in the company's diversity strategies.

"In the long run, diversity and inclusion are about getting the best ideas from our employees, and empowering them as leaders," said Calhoun. "The Global Diversity Office at Kodak has made excellent progress in helping Kodak people emerge as champions of diversity and inclusion. When employees blend that commitment with their own creativity, they can grow to become even better employees, supervisors, managers, and executives."

Calhoun began her Kodak career as a Copy Products Division Sales Representative in 1982, later holding positions as a Marketing Specialist and Sales Manager. In 1988, Calhoun joined Communications & Public Affairs as Director of Public Affairs Planning. A year later, she was appointed Director of Community Relations, and in 1994 she assumed her current position as Director, Community Relations and Contributions. In 2000, she was elected a corporate vice president, and was named Director of Multicultural Marketing in 2002.

She is the founder of several organizations focused on leadership development, including the United Way of Rochester's African American Leadership Development Program; the African American Leadership Roundtable; and the Kodak Youth Leadership Academy. She has served on boards and committees of numerous organizations including current service on the boards of: United Way of Greater Rochester, Urban League of Rochester (Past Chair), Roberts Wesleyan College, and Rochester Institute of Technology. She received a B.Ed degree in Social Science from the University of Toledo, a M.S. in Administration and Supervision from Bowie State University, and an Honorary Doctorate from Roberts Wesleyan College.

Snowden, who joined Kodak in October 2000, will become Vice President, Diversity at Starbucks. "We thank May for her many contributions to Kodak, and we wish her well in her new endeavor," Morley said.

About Eastman Kodak Company and Infoimaging
Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, print and view images - for memories, for information, for entertainment. The company is a major participant in infoimaging, a $385 billion industry composed of devices (digital cameras and flat-panel displays), infrastructure (online networks and delivery systems for images) and services & media (software, film and paper enabling people to access, analyze and print images). With sales of $12.8 billion in 2002, the company comprises several businesses: Health, supplying the healthcare industry with traditional and digital image capture and output products and services; Commercial Printing, offering on-demand color printing and networking publishing systems; Commercial Imaging, offering image capture, output and storage products and services to businesses and government; Display & Components, which designs and manufactures state-of-the-art organic light-emitting diode displays as well as other specialty materials, and delivers optics and imaging sensors to original equipment manufacturers; and Digital & Film Imaging Systems, providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services.

For additional information about Kodak, visit www.kodak.com.

9/12/03