Biographical
Sketches of the Board of Trustees 2005-2006
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, Massachusetts
Susan
Bateson McKay '76 2005-2010
Susan Bateson McKay graduated from Mount Holyoke with
a BA, cum laude, in Economics in 1976. While attending Mount Holyoke,
Ms. Bateson McKay spent her junior year studying abroad at the University
of Edinburgh, Scotland. Ms. Bateson McKay also holds a masters degree
in Business Administration from New York University. She has over
25 years of experience in human resources, including leadership
positions in the financial services industry, a law firm, and a
biopharmaceutical firm. Currently, Ms. Bateson McKay serves as Senior
Vice President, Human Resources, and as a member of the Management
Committee of Human Genome Sciences, Inc. (HGS). She joined HGS in
1997. Ms. Bateson McKay served as Director of Human Resources and
Administration at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner,
L.L.P., a law firm specializing in intellectual property, from 1994
to 1996. From 1983 to 1994, Ms. Bateson McKay was employed by J.P.
Morgan & Co. Incorporated, where she was appointed Vice President,
Human Resources, in 1985 and worked in Morgan's offices in New York
City, Wilmington, Delaware, and London, England. Prior to J.P. Morgan,
Ms. Bateson McKay worked for Citibank, N.A., and Bankers Trust Company.
Ms. Bateson McKay is a member of the Board of Advisors
of the Universities at Shady Grove, a regional higher-education
center in Montgomery County, Maryland, and serves on the Biotechnology
Steering Committee of the Governor's Workforce Investment Board
(Maryland). She is an active member and lay leader of the Church
of the Holy Comforter, an Episcopal Church in Vienna, Virginia.
Ms. Bateson McKay also serves on the Major Gifts Committee of the
Greater Washington D.C. Area for Mount Holyoke. Ms. Bateson McKay
grew up in Connecticut; she and her husband, Art McKay, reside in
Vienna, Virginia.
Barbara McClearn Baumann '77 1997-2002;
2002-2007
Barbara Baumann, a 1977 Mount Holyoke magna cum laude graduate,
is president of Cross Creek Energy Corportation of Denver, Colorado.
She was formerly Executive Vice President of Associated Energy Managers,
LLC, a private equity firm in the energy business, as well as a
vice president of Amoco Corporation. An American Studies major in
college, Barbara received an MBA in finance from The Wharton School
in 1981. She has been an active Mount Holyoke volunteer, serving
on the Alumnae Association's Board as Treasurer and a member of
the Finance Committee from 1990-1994. She received the Alumnae Medal
of Honor from the Alumnae Association in 1997. She has been a Cornerstone
Representative for the Development Office over the last decade,
and was a Lead Gift Chair for her class's 20th Reunion. Barbara
also serves on the board of the Graland Country Day School. She
and her husband, Fred, have a thirteen-year-old son, Peter. The
family resides in Denver, Colorado.
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Susan Beers Betzer '65 2003-2006
Susan B. Betzer '65 is a scientist/scholar, medical
doctor, community leader, Mount Holyoke volunteer and MHC parent.
She graduated magna cum laude in Biological Sciences from Mount
Holyoke, where she was a Sarah Williston Scholar, was elected to
Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year, and received the Bernice MacLean
Prize, the Sarah Williston Prize, and the Borden Science Prize as
the highest ranking science major in her class. She earned her Ph.D.
in Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island in l972, did postdoctoral
work at the University of Georgia, and served as a Research Scholar/Scientist
in the Department of Marine Science at the University of South Florida
in St. Petersburg.
In 1978, Dr. Betzer changed careers, earning an M.D.
at the University of Miami. Since l982, she has been a solo practitioner
of Family Practice and Geriatrics in St. Petersburg and has served
as Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine
at the University of South Florida. She serves as a volunteer at
the St. Petersburg Free Clinic. She has been elected by her peers
for inclusion in the "Best Doctors in America" (R) from 1996-2003.
Dr. Betzer has been active as a community volunteer
on the Board of Directors of the Florida Orchestra in Tampa since
l983, holding the role of President, membership on the Executive
Committee since 1988, Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees since
1996, and founder and Chair of the Audience Development Committee.
She was a ounding Trustee and is currently the Chair of the Bayfront
Health Foundation Board. For many years she served on several School
Advisory Committees in the St. Petersburg Public Schools.
Mount Holyoke has always been a priority for Dr. Betzer.
She served as President of her Freshman Class and as an alumna has
been Secretary of the Class of 1965, a member of the Alumnae Honors
Research Committee, and a longtime dedicated fundraiser. She has
been a Class Agent/Reunion Gift Caller, Cornerstone Representative,
Regional Large Gift Chair, and a member of the 1982 Clapp Renovation
Steering Committee and the Alumnae Development Committee from 1996-2003.
Her service to the Alumnae Association and the College was recognized
with an Alumnae Medal of Honor in 2000. She will serve as President
of the Alumnae Association from 2003-2006. Susan and her husband
Peter, Professor and Dean of the College of Marine Science at the
University of South Florida, are the parents of Sarah, a graduate
of Wellesley College, and Katherine, a member of the Class of 2004
at Mount Holyoke.
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Melani S. Cheers '02 2003-2006
Melani Cheers graduated magna cum laude from Mount
Holyoke in 2002 with dual degrees in Anthropology and Biological
Sciences. She was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and the Sigma Xi
Scientific Research Society in her senior year, and she received
the Helen Warren Smith Award for her exceptional involvement in
the College community. Melani, a legacy scholar, served as the director
of the
Medical Emergency Response Team, a hall president, a student athletic
trainer, and a member of the Alcohol and Drug Advisory Committee
while on campus. Following graduation she conducted developmental
biology research for three years at Carnegie Mellon University before
beginning medical school at Washington University in St. Louis.
As an alumna, Melani has served as a member of the Annual Fund Committee
and as the secretary of the Mount Holyoke Club of Pittsburgh.
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Maria A. Cirino '85 2003-2008
Maria Cirino graduated from Mount Holyoke with a BA
in English in 1985. She has 18 years of experience in high technology
leadership positions, including executive experience in worldwide
sales, marketing, and business development. Currently CEO and Chairman
of Guardent, Cirino previously served as a member of the executive
teams at Shiva Corporation (now Intel Corporation) and i-Cube, Inc.
(now Razorfish, Inc.).
Regarded as a leader in the industry, Cirino is a
frequent speaker at industry conferences and has been featured throughout
industry and business media. Cirino sits on the board of directors
for Keane, the Massachusetts Software & Internet Council, and the
Board of Governors for the Entrepreneurs Foundation of New England.
Additionally, Cirino has received many industry honors: she was
named one of the 100 most powerful women in Boston by Boston Magazine,
one of the top 25 women in Information Security by Information Security
Magazine, one of the area's top "40 under 40" technology executives
by the Boston Business Journal, and she was inducted by Women's
Business Magazine into the Women's Business Hall of Fame.
In 2001 Upside Magazine placed Cirino on its Women
in Technology List, and Mass High Tech presented her with the Mass
High Tech All Star Award. In 2002, Ernst & Young selected Cirino
as its Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY) for Business Services. The
Commonwealth Institute and Babson College have also chosen Guardent
as one of the Top 100 Woman-Led Businesses in Massachusetts.
Ellen M. Cosgrove
'84 2005-2010
Ellen Cosgrove is Associate Dean and Dean of Students
at Harvard Law School. She was elected by the alumnae to serve a
five year term as Alumna Trustee. Ellen graduated from Mount Holyoke
College in 1984 and spent four years in corporate and investment
banking in New York prior to attending law school. She graduated
from the University of Chicago Law School and spent four years in
private practice at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae L.L.P. in
New York. In 1995, she returned to the University of Chicago Law
School where she served as Associate Dean & Dean of Students
for nine years before moving to Harvard Law School in 2004. She
has been a member of the Association of American Law Schools' Executive
Committee for Student Services.
As an alumna, Ellen has been a member of the Alumnae Association's
Board of Directors, chaired the Alumnae Association's Strategic
Planning Committee, and served on the Program and NomAT Committees.
She was Class Reunion Chair for her 2nd, 5th, 15th and 20th Reunions,
and was President of the Mount Holyoke Club of Chicago from 1996
to 2004. She received the Alumnae Medal of Honor in 1999.
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Joanne V. Creighton (President)
A teacher, literary scholar, and experienced academic administrator
known for her expertise in strategic planning and implementation,
Joanne V. Creighton assumed the presidency of Mount Holyoke College
in South Hadley, Massachusetts on January 1, 1996.
During her first eighteen months as president, Ms. Creighton led
a comprehensive and highly consultative planning process that culminated
in unanimous faculty and Board of Trustees endorsements of The Plan
for Mount Holyoke 2003. That Plan has been extraordinarily successful
in engendering the renewed strength and vitality of the College.
All of the major benchmarks and goals of the Plan have already been
met or exceeded: applications for admissions to the College have
broken records each of the past four years; fund-raising has exceeded
the campaign's 200-million-dollar goal, and major building and renovation
on campus-including a state-of-the-art new science complex-is moving
to completion. The Plan reaffirms Mount Holyoke's mission: educating
a diverse community of women at the highest level of academic excellence
and fostering the alliance of liberal arts education with purposeful
engagement in the world. In service of that mission, the Plan commissioned
a number of initiatives, including a new endowed Weissman Center
for Leadership, that build on the excellence that has earned Mount
Holyoke its long-standing reputation as one of the finest liberal
arts colleges in the nation.
Prior to coming to Mount Holyoke, Ms. Creighton served at Wesleyan
University in Middletown, Connecticut as vice president for academic
affairs and provost and professor of English from 1990-1994, and
as Wesleyan's interim president from 1994 to 1995. Ms. Creighton
is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison
and holds a master of arts in teaching from Harvard University and
a doctoral degree in English Literature from the University of Michigan.
A member of the faculty at Wayne State University from 1968 to 1985,
Ms. Creighton began her administrative career there in the early
1980s, leaving in 1985 to become dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
The author of four books, Ms. Creighton has concentrated much of
her scholarly work and teaching on the authors William Faulkner,
Margaret Drabble, and Joyce Carol Oates. Her books are William Faulkner's
Craft of Revision (1977), Joyce Carol Oates (1979), Margaret Drabble
(1985), and Joyce Carol Oates: Novels of the Middle Years (1992).
The author of numerous scholarly articles and reviews, she is a
frequent commentator on contemporary literature and issues affecting
higher education.
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Mary Beth Topor Daniel '82,
2002-2007
Mary Beth Topor Daniel has sought to serve Mount Holyoke College
in many ways since graduating in 1982. Her most important roles
were as President of the Mount Holyoke Club of New York during the
early 90's and as Co-Chairman of the Major Gifts Committee in New
York City for the College's current $250,000,000 Capital Campaign.
Additionally she has taken on the job as Co-Class Agent for her
class's 25th reunion Annual Fund gift.
Mary Beth is a Vice President at Stribling & Associates
Ltd., a residential real estate brokerage firm in Manhattan. Since
her graduation, Mary Beth has held positions in the Real Estate
Departments at The Chase Manhattan Bank and the Irving Trust Company.
She founded and served as President of MASMET, Inc. a commercial
mortgage brokerage firm and was the Chief Financial Officer of Heller
Macaulay Equities Incorporated, a residential investment and development
firm. Ms. Daniel has resided in New York City since 1982.
Mary Beth has also been involved with a number of
philanthropic organizations over the past 20 years. She currently
serves on the Board of Trustees of the Turtle Bay Music School in
New York City and was a former member of the board and Board President
of the Food and Hunger Hotline. She has been a member of The Junior
League of the City of New York since 1983 and has been an active
fund raising volunteer for the Asia Society, the New York Philharmonic,
Jazz at Lincoln Center, and The Museum of the City of New York.
Mary Beth is married to Stephen S. Daniel. They have
five-year-old twins, India and Harding. Mary Beth is the daughter
of Carolyn Czaja Topor class of 1958.
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Nancy J. Drake '73 2003-2008
Nancy Drake graduated from Mount Holyoke College cum
laude in 1973 in biochemistry. She received her MA from Rice University
in biochemistry in 1975. She has spent her career in the development
of medical products for the treatment of cardiovascular disease,
ophthalmic conditions, wound healing and autoimmune diseases. In
her current capacity, she is Vice President of Operations and Regulatory
Affairs at Islet Technology, Inc., a development stage company working
on a cure for Type 1 diabetes. She was President, Secretary and
Admissions Representative for the Cleveland Club, served as Reunion
Gift Co-Chair, Head Class Agent, Cornerstone Chair and is currently
President of her class. She was a member and then Chair of the Alumnae
Development Committee, member of the Alumnae Association Board of
Directors and member of the Campaign Steering Committee. She was
elected to the Board of Trustees by the alumnae. Nancy was the recipient
of the Alumnae Medal of Honor in 1998 and the President's Award
from St. Jude Medical, Inc. in 1992. She has served as a board member
of the Upward Bound Math and Science Program in St Paul, MN and
was Chair of the Steering Committee for the Endowment of the Biomedical
Engineering Institute at the University of Minnesota. She is currently
on the Advisory Board of the Biomedical Engineering Institute, a
member of the Board of Islet Technology, Inc. and Islet Technology,
GMBH.
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Claude du Granrut '48 2003-2008
Claude de Renty du Granrut graduated from the Institute
of Political Science of Paris and spent a Junior Year at Mount Holyoke
College. She has been a high ranking Official in French Government
and served as Magistrate in the State Court of Appeal. Currently
she is Deputy-Mayor of Senlis, Member of the Regional Council of
Picardy, Member of the Committee of the Regions of the European
Union and, as such, Observer at the Convention for the Future of
European Union.
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Arleen McGrath Heiss '70 2002-2007
Arleen McGrath Heiss '70 is Associate Director in the Ernst & Young
Latin America Shared Services Organization, located in McLean, Virginia,
that specializes in business transformation. She earned a master's
degree in public administration from American University in Washington
DC in 1975. Dedicated to Mount Holyoke's mission, she has served
the College and its alumnae as president of the Mount Holyoke Washington,
D.C. Club, as a member of the class of 1970's Nominating Committee
and the Alumnae Association's Clubs Committee. She also provided
critical assistance to the Association in developing its current
strategic plan. In 1995 Arleen was awarded the Association's Alumnae
Medal of Honor.
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Ludmila Schwarzenberg Hess '67 2002-2007
Ludmila Schwarzenberg Hess was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia and
arrived in this country as a refugee from Communism. She is a graduate
of Mount Holyoke's Class of 1967 and majored in History. She attended
Northwestern University’s Graduate School of Management (now
called Kellogg Graduate School of Management). Ms. Hess has established
and continues to fund a scholarship at Mount Holyoke to support
students from Central and Eastern Europe.
After graduation she worked for the French Government and then
started a nearly thirty-year career specializing in administration
and development for not-for-profit organizations. While living in
Chicago she held a variety of positions at, among others, the Rehabilitation
Institute of Chicago and Northwestern Memorial Hospital. After moving
to New York, she worked for the Manhattan School of Music, ran the
US headquarters office of the American School of Classical Studies
at Athens for over twelve years and spent three years heading the
development effort at the American Academy in Rome. After retiring
in 1997, she started classes at the Art Students League of New York
and is currently studying sculpture full-time.
Ms. Hess serves on the Boards of the New York Philharmonic, the
Art Students League of New York, and CECArtsLink. Her other volunteer
interests include Rockefeller University, the International Women's
Health Coalition, the Council of American Overseas Research Centers
and Dartmouth College where she and her husband serve on the President's
Leadership Council. Ms. Hess is married to Carl B. Hess, founder
and Chairman Emeritus of AEA Investors, Inc.
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Carole Corcoran Huxley '60
2002-2007
Carole Corcoran Huxley, Mount Holyoke Class of 1960, has spent her
entire career in education, focused largely on the educational resources
found beyond the formal classroom. She is now the Deputy Commissioner
for Cultural Education in the New York State Education Department,
with responsibility for the New York State Library, State Archives,
State Museum and aid to libraries and public broadcasting statewide.
She came to New York from the National Endowment for the Humanities,
where she was Director of the Division of Special Programs. Before
going to Washington, Ms. Huxley was in New York City with the American
Field Service (AFS International), an international high school
student program, for a number of years. A graduate of Mount Holyoke
College in 1960, she also has a Masters of Arts in Teaching degree
from Harvard University. She is currently a member of the board
of the Research Libraries Group.
She was previously a member of the Board of Trustees
of Mount Holyoke College from 1982-86, and 1988-1998. A member of
the national Commission on Preservation and Access from 1987-97,
she was a member of the New York Council on the Humanities from
1984-1990 and serves on its Board of Advisors. Her volunteer service
has included serving on the boards of the Albany Medical Center
and the Albany Chapter of the Red Cross, as well as work with the
Mount Holyoke Alumnae Association.
Her husband, Michael, is active in the Nature Conservancy
and other environmental work. They have two sons, Sam and Ian, both
living and working in Manhattan.
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Anthony Lake 2005-2010
Anthony Lake is Distinguished Professor in the Practice
of Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at
Georgetown University. He served from 1993-1997 as Assistant to
the President for National Security Affairs. From 1981-1992 Mr.
Lake was Five College Professor of International Relations at Amherst
and Mount Holyoke colleges. Mr. Lake joined the State Department
in 1962, where he served until 1970 as a Foreign Service Officer,
with assignments in Vietnam and on the NSC staff. After work with
the Muskie Campaign, the Carnegie Endowment and International Voluntary
Services, Mr. Lake returned to the State Department in 1977 to serve
as Director of Policy Planning for President Carter, a position
he held until 1981. In 1961, Mr. Lake received an A.B. degree from
Harvard College. He read international economics at Trinity College,
Cambridge and went on to receive his Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson
School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University
in 1974. Mr. Lake is the author of a number of books.
Mr. Lake’s board and advisory memberships include the U.S.
Fund for UNICEF (chair) and the Marshall Legacy Institute (chair).
From 1998 to 2000, as a White House Special Envoy, Mr. Lake facilitated
the agreement ending the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
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Guy R. Martin 2005-2010
Guy Martin is a senior partner in the national law firm of Perkins
Coie,
resident in the DC office, where he specializes in natural resources,
energy and environmental law, particularly western and Alaska resources.
Guy started his career as a professor of political science and public
law in Alaska, leading to politics and years of public service including
tenure as Commissioner of Natural Resources for the State of Alaska
and Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and Water Resources
in the Carter administration. He was deeply involved in most of
the major actions which have shaped Alaska, including the Alaska
Native Claims Settlement Act, the construction of the Trans-Alaska
Pipeline, and the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act,
which just celebrated its 25th anniversary. Guy is also an expert
on western water policy and represents most of the largest western
cities on urban water supply issues. Guy also works extensively
in the area of Indian law, and in recent years has been nationally
active on law and policy issues related to the growth of tribal
gaming.
Guy has served on the boards of most of the schools his two daughters
have attended and just completed eleven years as a trustee for St.
Timothy's School for Girls in Baltimore. A native of Colorado, and
graduate of the University of Colorado (BA and JD), Guy was a founder,
and serves on the board, of the Natural Resources Law Center at
the University of Colorado Law School and has served on the Board
of Governors of the Shakespeare Theater in Washington. He has lectured
at the Kennedy School of Government, the University of Colorado,
and other institutions, and for nearly a decade wrote a Washington-based
colunm on western resources and political issues. He lives on Capitol
Hill in Washington with his wife, Nancy. His younger daughter, Summer
Martin, is a member of the Mount Holyoke class of 2007 and a history
major.
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Sheryl Y. McCarthy '69 2001-2006
Sheryl McCarthy was elected to the Board for a five-year term as
an Alumna Trustee. She is a columnist for Newsday, the New York
City/Long Island newspaper, and writes a twice-weekly opinion column
on a wide variety of issues in the news. Ms. McCarthy graduated
cum laude from Mount Holyoke College, and received master's and
law degrees from Columbia University. Her journalism experience
includes stints at The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Evening Sun,
The New York Daily News, and ABC News (where she was an on-air correspondent).
Her awards include the Meyer Berger Award from Columbia University
for her New York columns, two awards from the Educational Writers
Association, and a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. Her
collection of New York Newsday Columns, " Why Are the Heroes
Always White?" was published in 1995 by Andrews and McMeel.
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Audrey A. McNiff '80 2002-2007
Audrey McNiff, Mount Holyoke Class of 1980, is a Managing Director
and co-head of Currency Sales at Goldman Sachs in New York City,
where she a member of the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities
Division's Career Development Committee and a founding member of
the Division's Women's Network.
Ms. McNiff is the Goldman Sachs' firm-wide recruiting
captain for Mount Holyoke and the women's champion for Yale recruiting.
Ms McNiff joined Goldman Sachs in 1992 and became a Managing Director
in 1997. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Ms McNiff worked in the financial
markets at Nat West, Irving Trust and HSBC .
She received her AB in Economics from Mount Holyoke
in 1980 and her MBA from NYU in 1989. Ms McNiff grew up in Massachusetts
and resides in Greenwich, CT.
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Frances Hall
Miller '60 2004-2009
Frances H. Miller has been Professor of Law at Boston
University's School of Law since 1975. She has taught courses on
medical care and legal institutions, antitrust and the health industry,
health care resource allocation, trusts and estates, family law,
and estate planning. She has also served since 1983 as Professor
of Public Health at the Boston University School of Public Health,
and in 1997 was appointed Professor of Health Care Management at
Boston University's School of Management as well. In addition, she
is Of Counsel to the Boston Law Firm of Nutter, McClennen &
Fish.
Professor Miller is a cum laude graduate of Boston University
School of Law and earned her undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke
College, where she majored in political science and economics. She
also studied international economic law at the London School of
Economics. Apointed a Fulbright Scholar for 1991 and again for 1998,
and a Kellogg Foundation Fellow from 1983 - 1986, she has written
widely for law review publications and medical journals, focusing
on health care policy issues, tax planning for financing higher
education, and family and inheritance law. She is a specialist on
comparative health systems, and publishes extensively comparing
competition initiatives in the British National Health Service with
competition in the US health sector.
Professor Miller has served as a member or Chair of the Health
Facilities Appeals Board (Certificate of Need Appeals Agency for
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts) for the better part of two decades,
and is a former commissioner of the Massachusetts Rate Setting Commission.
In 1993 she served as a consultant to the White House Task Force
on Health Care Reform, as a member of the working group on malpractice
and tort reform. In the area of estate and financial planning, she
has been a major contributor to two PBS television series, "This
is My Will" and "Fiscal Fitness".
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Leslie Anne Miller '73 2005-2010, Chair
2005-2009
Leslie Anne Miller, Esq. formerly served in Governor Edward G.
Rendell’s Cabinet as General Counsel of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania. Miller had previously practiced as a civil litigator
and mediator for nearly 25 years.
A long time advocate for programs that advance women and minorities,
Miller has initiated and supported numerous programs to foster diversity
in both the legal profession and business community. She was the
first female elected president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association
(PBA) and also served as chair of the PBA’s first Commission
on Women in the Profession and as a member of both its House of
Delegates and Young Lawyers Division. She was a member of The Pennsylvania
Supreme Court Committee on Racial and Gender Bias in the Justice
System and was just appointed by the Governor to the Court’s
newly created Interbranch Commission on Gender Racial and Ethnic
Fairness.
Miller is currently co-chair of the board of directors of Philadelphia's
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, where she also served as
the interim president from 2001 to 2002. As a breast cancer survivor,
she is the current honorary chair of the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer
Coalition, a past president of the Pennsylvania Women’s Forum
and Miller has also served as a board member for leading cultural
and non-profit organizations, including the Free Library of Philadelphia,
the World Wildlife Fund and WHYY.
Miller was recently honored by The Women’s Institute of
Health and Leadership of Drexel University College of Medicine with
the “Woman One” award. She was also granted the International
Woman’s Forum, “Women Who Make a Difference” award
at the World Leadership Conference and the 2003 Pink Ribbon Award
from the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition. The Greater Philadelphia
Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners named
her one of five 2002 “Women Making History” and the
Philadelphia Business Journal designated her a 2001 “Woman
of Distinction.”
Miller’s other honors include: the President’s Award
from the Medical College of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s
Commission on Women in the Profession’s Ann X. Alpern Award
and the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Sandra Day O’Connor
Award. Recognized as a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania by
Former Governor Thomas Ridge, she received an Honorary Doctor of
Humanities Degree from Wilson College and an Honorary Doctor of
Laws Degree from Thomas Jefferson University’s College of
Health Professions.
Miller earned her undergraduate degree (A.B., cum laude, 1973)
from Mount Holyoke College, a master’s in arts degree (M.A.,
1974) in political science from the Eagleton Institute of Politics
of Rutgers University, her law degree (J.D., 1977) from the Dickinson
School of Law, and a master’s in law (L.LM., with honors,
1994) from Temple University’s Beasley School of Law. Miller
received Mount Holyoke's Alumnae Medal of Honor in 1988, and is
a Trustee of Dickinson School of Law.
Leslie Anne Miller is married to investment advisor Richard B.
Worley. They reside in Bryn Mawr, PA.
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Congressman Richard
E. Neal 2005-2010
Richard E. Neal was born in Worcester, Massachusetts
on February 14, 1949 and was raised and educated in the City of
Springfield. He is a 1972 graduate of American International College,
where he received his Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and
was a member of the National Honor Society. He received his Masters
Degree in Public Administration from the Barney School of Business
and Public Administration at the University of Hartford in 1976.
Mr. Neal began his public service career in 1973 as an Assistant
to Springfield Mayor William C. Sullivan. In 1978, he was elected
to the Springfield City Council and served as President of the Council
in 1979. As Mayor of the City of Springfield from 1984 until 1989,
Richard Neal was a dynamic and determined leader who combined creativity
and pragmatism in developing economic, cultural and public works
projects across the community. During his tenure as Mayor, new economic
development and private investment exceeded $400 million, including
the $110 million 28-story Monarch Place complex and a host of other
downtown rehabilitation and neighborhood revitalization projects.
Recognized nationally for his accomplishments as Mayor, Boston Magazine
called him a "Face to Watch" in 1986. Newsweek magazine
highlighted his many accomplishments as Mayor in a 1987 feature.
Richard E. Neal was first elected to the United States House of
Representatives in 1988. He represents the Second District of Massachusetts,
which includes cities and towns in western and central Massachusetts.
He is a member of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, where he
continues to play an active role in public policy debates relating
to tax, trade, health care, welfare, Medicare and Social Security.
Congressman Neal is an At-Large Whip for the House Democrats. He
is a co-chairman of the New England Congressional Caucus, where
he continues to advocate for the unique regional interests of the
six New England States.
Congressman Neal has been honored by the governments of Ireland,
Israel and Italy. He has been recognized for his leadership and
innovation by many civic, charitable, educational and labor organizations.
He is a past president of the Massachusetts Mayors Association and
the American International College Alumni Association, a Corporator
of Springfield College and American International College, and a
Trustee of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library in Boston. He serves
on the Board of Directors and is a lifetime member of the Springfield
Boys Club.
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Deborah A. Northcross
'73 2004-2009
Deborah A. Northcross, director of the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate
Achievement Program at the University of Tennessee Health Science
Center, has over 30 years of service in higher education, primarily
in program and resource development, administration, student support
services, and related managerial functions. During 18 years at Shelby
State Community College, she served as Director of Development and
Public Relations, Director of the Title III [Institutional Advancement]
Program, and Assistant Director of Student Development. At the University
of Tennessee Health Science Center, Ms. Northcross directs a graduate
school preparation program, funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
She has held leadership roles in the educational community at the
state, regional and national levels: as a former president of the
Tennessee Association of Special [TRIO] Programs and faculty for
the Penn State University Training Institute. Ms. Northcross currently
is Vice President of the Southeastern Association of Educational
Opportunity Program Personnel [SAEOPP] Board of Directors; SAEOPP
representative for the national Council for Opportunity in Education
Board of Directors; and faculty for the SAEOPP New Directors Training
Workshops. She has also served as a grant reviewer of TRIO and Title
III programs for the U.S. Department of Education since 1983.
In her local community, Ms. Northcross serves on the advisory
councils of the Knowledge Is Power Program [KIPP] and the YWCA of
Greater Memphis, and on the board of directors of the Memphis Child
Advocacy Center. She is a trustee on the National Benevolent Association
board.
Ms. Northcross received a Bachelors degree in French at Mount
Holyoke College and a Master’s degree in Special Education
from Memphis State University. She has served the Alumnae Association
of Mount Holyoke College as class agent, reunion gift caller, chairperson
and member of the Program Committee, Vice President and Director-at-Large
of the Alumnae Association Board of Directors. She is currently
class vice president. Ms. Northcross was a 2003 recipient of the
Alumnae Medal of Honor. She was most recently a member of the College’s
Campaign Steering Committee, for which she co-chaired the Legacy
of Diversity Committee. Deborah was recently appointed to serve
on the Presidential Commission on Diverse Community.
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Kavita N. Ramdas '85 2003-2008
Kavita N. Ramdas succeeded the founding President of the Global
Fund for Women as President and CEO in 1996. Kavita is an innovative
thinker and activist who is recognized as a leader in the fields
of women's rights and philanthropy. Over the past two years, she
received the "Choosing to Lead" award at the National Women's Leadership
Summit, was named one of the "Women Who Could Be President" by the
League of Women Voters and was recognized for "Changing the Face
of Philanthropy" by the Women's Funding Network. She is a Henry
Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. Kavita also serves on the Boards
of the Rural Development Institute in Seattle, Washington, the Alan
Guttmacher Institute in New York, and Women's Edge in Washington,
DC.
Kavita is a member of the Advisory Council to the Ethical Globalization
Initiative, a venture of Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner
for Human Rights. She has served on the Committee on Women and Development
of the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa and the Board of the
General Service Foundation. She is a founding board member and past
chair of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP),
and former board member of Women and Philanthropy, affinity groups
of the Council on Foundations. Before joining the Global Fund, Kavita
supported both domestic and international programs in economic development
and population issues as a program officer at the John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago, Illinois.
She earned her master's degree in international development and
public policy studies from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs at Princeton University. Her bachelor's degree
is in international relations and political science from Mount Holyoke
College. Kavita was born and raised in India.
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H.
Jay Sarles, 2004-2009
H. Jay Sarles is Vice Chairman of Bank of America Corporation
and a special adviser to the CEO. Previously, he was Vice Chairman
and Chief Administrative Officer of FleetBoston Financial. As Chief
Administrative Officer, Mr. Sarles oversaw all of the administrative
functions of the company, including treasury, risk management, corporate
strategy, mergers and acquisitions, technology and operations, and
human resources. He was also the senior executive in charge of Fleet's
New York-based operations, overseeing and executing the company's
growth strategy for Metro New York. During his 34 years with Fleet,
Mr. Sarles was a driving force behind Fleet's growth from a Rhode
Island-based bank with $971 million in assets, to a financial services
company with bank assets of $190 billion and assets under management
of $150 billion. Mr. Sarles oversaw all of Fleet's acquisitions
and mergers over the past 15 years. In addition, Mr. Sarles had
been responsible for refining and executing the company's strategic
direction through the sale of assets, downsizing, or growth through
investment. Mr. Sarles had also overseen virtually all of Fleet's
businesses at one time or another, including, most recently, the
company's wholesale banking businesses. These included commercial
finance (Fleet was the leading bank owned asset-based lender in
the U.S.); real estate finance, capital markets, global services,
industry banking, middle market and large corporate lending, small
business services, and investment banking. In previous years, Mr.
Sarles was responsible for Fleet Mortgage Company, Fleet Credit
Card Services, and other financial services subsidiaries.
Mr. Sarles serves as a director of VISA International and U.S.A.
He is a member of the Board of the Lincoln Center for the Performing
Arts and is a member of the Board of the Neighborhood Housing Services
of New York City. In addition, he co-chairs the Mayor's Committee
on Affordable Housing in Boston. Mr. Sarles received his B.A. degree
from Amherst College.
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Carol Geary Schneider '67 2003-2008
Carol Geary Schneider has been president of the Association
of American Colleges and Universities since 1998. AAC&U is the leading
national organization devoted to advancing and strengthening undergraduate
liberal education. Since becoming President of AAC&U, Dr. Schneider
has initiated a major effort to rethink the broad aims of a 21st
century college education so that liberal learning becomes a framework
for the entire educational experience, whatever a student's choice
of major and career.
Dr. Schneider is a 1967 graduate of Mount Holyoke
with a bachelor's degree in history (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa).
She studied at the University of London's Institute for Historical
Research and earned the Ph.D. in history from Harvard University.
She has taught at the University of Chicago, DePaul University,
Chicago State University and Boston University.
Dr. Schneider has published extensively on all the
major areas of her educational work. Her most recent articles include:
"Core Missions and Civic Responsibility: Toward the Engaged Academy,"
in Civic Responsibility and Higher Education, Thomas Ehrlich, ed.,
American Council on Education/Oryx Press Series on Higher Education,
2000, and "From Diversity to Engaging Difference," in Knowledge,
Identity and Curriculum Transformation in Africa, ed. Nico Cloete,
Mashew Miller Longman, South Africa, 1997, and, with Lee Knefelkamp,
"Education for a World Lived in Common With Others," in Education
and Democracy: Re-Imagining Liberal Learning in America, New York:
The College Board, 1997.
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Janet Hickey Tague '66 *1997-2001; 2001-2006
Janet Hickey Tague, Mount Holyoke Class of 1966 and daughter of
Florence Adair Hickey '35, began her term on the Board in January
of 1997. She is currently Senior Vice President and General Partner
of the Sprout Group in New York City, whose parent company is Donaldson,
Lufkin & Jenrette. Inc. Prior to this she was Manager of Investment
Research and a Trustee with General Electric Pension Trust since
1983; Manager of Pension Trust Equities since 1974; and worked at
General Electric Corporation in Stamford, Connecticut since 1970.
Ms. Tague is currently serving on the Investment Committee and has
been an Alumnae Fund volunteer for her class. She and her husband
Harold reside in Stamford and have three children: Christopher,
Hal, and William.
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Susan Bonneville Weatherbie '72 1999-2004,
2004-2009
Susan Bonneville Weatherbie is a professional volunteer who graduated
magna cum laude from Mount Holyoke College in 1972 with a major
in Sociology. Mrs. Weatherbie has held a variety of volunteer positions
for the College. She currently sits on the Mount Holyoke College
Art Museum Advisory Board, which she chaired from 1997 to 2005.
She is a member of the Campaign Steering Committee and the Alumnae
Development Committee, and she presently co-chairs the Boston Major
Gifts Committee.
Mrs. Weatherbie retired in 1995 from the law firm Choate, Hall
and Stewart, where she was Manager of Estate and Trust Administration.
A South Hadley native, she now divides her time between New Hampshire
and Boston. She recently completed an 8-year term on the Patron
Committee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the last two years
of which she served as Chairman. She also serves on the Visiting
Committees for the Art of Europe and Conservation and Collectives
Management. Ms. Weatherbie is a member of the board of directors
of the New Hampshire Music Festival and City Year, Boston. Mrs.
Weatherbie's husband Matt founded the firm M. A. Weatherbie & Co.
in 1995; the firm manages money for high-net-worth individuals and
for institutions.
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Harriet Levine Weissman '58 1997-2002;
2002-2007
Harriet Weissman is the Director of the Museum Gallery of the White
Plains Public Library, which she founded in 1974. Previously Ms.
Weissman was Promotion Coordinator in the Education Division of
Simon & Schuster and Assistant to the President in the Education
Division of Affiliated Publishers. Ms. Weissman has been a member
of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum Advisory Board since 1988.
In memory of Professor Henry Rox, she and her husband Paul dedicated
a collection of works on paper by contemporary American women artists,
which, as "The Graphic Muse," traveled to major American museums
as part of the College's Sesquicentennial celebration. Since 1987,
Ms. Weissman has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Neuberger
Museum of Art at Purchase College, SUNY, serving as its President
and Chair from 1992 to 1995. She is currently an Overseer of the
Strawbery Banke Museum of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and a member
of the Board of Directors of the White Plains Public Library Foundation.
For her contribution to the arts in Westchester, she was selected
as a recipient of the 1997 Arts Award given by the Westchester Arts
Council. Ms. Weissman and her husband Paul reside in White Plains,
New York and have three children: Michael, Harvard '85; Stephanie,
Connecticut College '87; and Peter, Harvard '89. The Weissmans have
two grandchildren, Matthew and Justin.
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Margaret L. Wolff '76 2005-2010
Margaret L. Wolff is a Partner at the law firm of Skadden, Arps,
Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. She concentrates in domestic and
international transactional matters. She has extensive experience
in both negotiated and contested acquisitions and divestitures.
She also devotes significant time to general corporate and securities
matters. Ms. Wolff includes among her clients Alcoa Inc., Cooper
Industries, Inc., DaimlerChrysler AG, Chocoladefabriken Lindt &
Sprüngli AG, and The May Department Stores Company. In addition,
she regularly handles matters for several of the firm’s investment
banking clients and provides legal services to the National Down
Syndrome Society.
During the last few years, Ms. Wolff has represented Alcoa in its
successful unsolicited acquisitions of Alumax Inc. and Reynolds
Metals Company as well as its negotiated acquisition of Cordant
Technologies Inc. and the subsequent buy-out of the public minority
in Cordant’s subsidiary, Howmet International Inc. Ms. Wolff
also assisted Alcoa with the purchase of The Fairchild Corporation’s
fastener business and the sale of Latasa S.A. to Rexam plc and Alcoa’s
Thiokol propulsion systems division to Alliant Techsystems Inc.
After graduating cum laude from Mount Holyoke in 1976, Ms. Wolff
went on to earn her J.D. at Case Western Reserve University Law
School in 1979, where she also served as an Editor of the Law Review.
In addition to serving on the Mount Holyoke Board of Trustees, she
is a Trustee of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and The John A. Hartford
Foundation. She is also Director of the National Down Syndrome Society
and a member of both the Board of Visitors and the Society of the
Benchers at Case Western Reserve University Law School.
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John F. Woodhouse 2001-2006
John Woodhouse began his term on the Board in January of 1997. He
was previously on the executive committee and senior chairman of
SYSCO Corporation, the largest foodservice marketing and distribution
company in the United States; he is now retired. Mr. Woodhouse earned
his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1955, earned his BA from
Wesleyan University in 1953, and received from Wesleyan a Doctor
of Humane Letters degree in 1997. He started his career in investment
analysis and marketing research at the Canadian Imperial Bank of
Commerce in Toronto. He joined Ford Motor Company in 1959 where
he held various financial supervisory positions. In 1964 he became
associated with Cooper Industries, Inc., a major capital goods manufacturer
and assumed the position of treasurer in 1967. He joined SYSCO Corporation
at its formation in 1969 as chief financial officer and a founding
director. He was elected executive vice president in 1971, became
president and chief operating officer during 1972, was named chief
executive officer in 1983 and became chairman in 1985. In January
of 1995, he relinquished the chief executive officer responsibilities
and remains chairman of the executive committee. Mr. Woodhouse serves
as director of the boards of Shell Oil Company, Food Distributors
International (formerly NAWGA/IFDA), Winrock International Institute
for Agricultural Development, Associates of Harvard Business School,
is on the Board of Advisors of the Retail Food Industry Center,
and is an Elder of the Presbyterian Church. He served as chairman
of the board of National-American Wholesale Grocers' Association
from March 1994 to March 1996 and remains on the executive committee.
He was a vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of Wesleyan University
in Middletown, Connecticut and a former director of NCR Corporation,
NationsBank Texas, Barclays American, and the Harvard Business School
Club of Houston. Mr. Woodhouse is currently the chairman of Wesleyan
University's comprehensive fundraising campaign. He and his wife,
Marilyn Morrow Woodhouse (Mount Holyoke Class of 1953), reside in
Houston, Texas and have two adult children (daughter, Marjorie Woodhouse
Purdy, Mount Holyoke Class of 1981) and three grandchildren.
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