board updates
Castilleja is pleased to welcome Diane Brooks Dixon ’69, Harry J. Elam, Jr. P’12, Gabrielle Layton P’18,’19, Ursula Kinney Ringham ’90, and Asher Waldfogel P’14 to the Board of Trustees. They join a seasoned and robust group, filling the seats vacated at the end of the 2011-2012 school year. Also joining the board for a 1-year term as the Castilleja School Association (CSA) representative is current CSA President Amy Hsieh P’13.
Diane Brooks Dixon ’69 Diane Brooks Dixon ’69 is the principal of Diane Dixon Global Consultants. Previously, she held the senior executive communications post for Avery Dennison for nearly 30 years and served as the President of the Avery Dennison Foundation from 1985-2011. She has held significant leadership and board roles in community and professional organizations, including the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, the YMCA Metropolitan Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Women’s Leadership Board of the Harvard Kennedy School. She also served as a Trustee of Polytechnic School and on the Board of KCET. She received her BA from the University of Southern California.
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Harry J. Elam, Jr. Harry J. Elam, Jr. has been a faculty member at Stanford University for 22 years. He is currently a Professor of Drama and the Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities at Stanford. In July 2010, he was named the Freeman-Thornton Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. He is the author and editor of seven books and has directed professionally at TheatreWorks and other Bay Area theater groups. In 2006 he was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. He began his teaching career in the Theater Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, before joining the faculty at Stanford. He received an AB from Harvard University and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He and his wife, Michele Elam, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor at Stanford University, are the parents of Claire Patterson ’12, currently a freshman at Scripps College.