ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
NEWS & NOTES
Elections The Nominating Committee of the Alumnae Association of Barnard College submits for your consideration the following slate of candidates to fill each of the positions that will become vacant on July 1, 2013. The committee nominates one person for each position; six candidates have been nominated for three places on the ninemember Nominating Committee. Thank you to the three outgoing members of the Nominating Committee: Ula Lysniak ’87, Deborah Newman Shapiro ’79, and Myra Kovey ’65 (chair of the committee this year). Thank you to our outgoing board members for leadership in the Alumnae Association: Alumnae Trustee Judith Daynard Boies ’59, Annual Giving Committee Chair Daphne Fodor Philipson ’69, Bylaws Chair Lois Lempel Weinroth ’63, Reunion Committee Chair Pat Tinto ’76, Fellowship Committee Chair Kimberlee Halligan ’75, and Directorat-Large/Awards Committee Chair Barbi Appelquist ’98. VOTE
A postcard ballot is included in this issue. Please mail completed ballots OR vote online via alum.barnard.edu no later than May 1, 2013. Results will be shared at the Annual Meeting on May 31, 2013 during Reunion. GET INVOLVED
For information on how you can be involved with Barnard through the Alumnae Association, please visit alum.barnard.edu/aabc. Committee memberships begin July 1 and terms run for three years. If you are interested in joining an AABC Committee, or want to learn more about volunteering, please contact alumnaeaffairs@barnard.edu or call 212-854-2005.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS ALUMNAE TRUSTEE
CAMILLE KIELY KELLEHER ’70 majored in political science
and earned an MBA from Columbia. She served several terms as alumna president of her class and on the Project Continuum Committee; she also helped design the financial fluency program, now part of the Athena Center. Camille has spent much of her career in financial services as an equity portfolio manager for institutional and high net worth clients at firms such as Citibank, S.G. Warburg, and Brown Brothers Harriman. She is on the board of the Yorkville Common Pantry and the St. Benedict Education Fund, and active in the Order of Malta. She and her husband, Rory, have three grown children. ANNUAL GIVING COMMITTEE CHAIR
LINDA SWEET ’63 is a partner, since 1984, in Management Consultants for the Arts, specializing in executive search for top management and professional personnel for museums as well as in strategic planning, board development, and organizational analysis. She majored in art history at Barnard, received a master’s from NYU, and a certificate from Columbia’s business school’s Institute for Not-for-Profit Management. She is a past president of ArtTable, and a former member of the collections committee of the Grey Art Gallery of NYU. At Barnard, she was chair of the Leadership Assembly Committee and is currently a member of the Annual Giving Committee and the Fellowship Committee. She is also a board member of the Greater Hudson Heritage Network. BYLAWS CHAIR
ROSALIND MARSHACK GORDON ’62 , an American
studies major at Barnard, has practiced law for 40 years. For the past 20 years she has been vice president and deputy general counsel at Pitney Bowes. She has served as Nominating Committee Chair and Bylaws Chair of the
AABC and as treasurer and Reunion co-chair of her class. At her 50th reunion, Roz received the Award for Service to Barnard. She lives in Larchmont with her husband, and has three children and three grandchildren. REUNION COMMITTEE CHAIR
MERRI ROSENBERG ’78, a French major, is a freelance writer and editor whose work appears regularly in Barnard Magazine and Education Update. She has also been a regular contributor to The New York Times, Jewish Week, and other publications. Married with two grown children, Merri earned a master’s in French and Romance philology from Columbia and an MS from Columbia’s journalism school. Currently a Barnard Alumnae Admissions Representative (BAAR), member of the AABC Reunion Committee, and Networking co-chair for her class, Merri recently served as chair of the Leadership Assembly Committee and a member of the AABC Board of Directors. She has also been president of the Barnard in Westchester Club, and a member of the AABC Nominating Committee. FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEE CHAIR
MELISSA NATHANSON ’78
received her JD from New York University School of Law and was a senior vice president at Lehman Brothers until 2004. She has served on the Barnard Fund Committee, the President’s Advisory Council, and the Barnard Fellowship Committee. She and her husband, Eric Freedman, live in New York City. DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE
LEILA BASSI ’94 majored in political science and also holds an MBA from Columbia’s business school. She has previous work experience in the media business and in financial services. Leila currently lives in London with her husband and two young children. She has served as the president of the Barnard Club of London for the last several years. BARNARD MAGAZINE WINTER 2013 35