Deb Claypoole Anderson ’80
Blair Kelley
Chuck Lovelace
Edwin Poston
Garrett Putman ’94
Caroline Rogers
Anna Ho Whalen
Board of Trustees Adds New Members The Durham Academy Board of Trustees
welcomes six new members. In addition, Caroline Rogers, who has served on the board since 2015, is now also serving in an ex-officio capacity as president of Parents Council. • Deb Claypoole Anderson ’80 is retired from a 25-year career
as a real estate developer in the multi-family residential housing industry. A graduate of Durham Academy and Williams College, Anderson holds an M.B.A. from UNC-Chapel Hill and is now pursuing an M.A. at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and serving as an intern at Waypoint Church. She recently served on the Upper School director search committee. Anderson is the mother of Jared, a 2012 graduate, and former students Caitlin and Luke. • Blair Kelley is assistant dean of Interdisciplinary Studies and
International Programs at N.C. State University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences, where she is an associate professor of history. A graduate of the University of Virginia, Kelley holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University. She is a regular speaker at DA student assemblies. Kelley is the mother of former student Julia, as well as Brooks, who is entering prekindergarten in the fall. • Chuck Lovelace has been executive director of UNC-Chapel
Hill’s Morehead-Cain Foundation for 30 years. He holds a B.A. and an M.B.A. from UNC. Lovelace serves on the board of directors for The Association of Boarding Schools and is a past trustee of Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia. He is the father of alumna Mary Elizabeth ’08 and husband of Karen Lovelace, who retired as a first-grade teacher in June. • Edwin Poston is general partner and co-founder of
TrueBridge Capital Partners. A graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, he holds a J.D/M.B.A. from Emory University. Poston serves
on the Triangle Community Foundation’s investment committee and previously served on the board of directors of UNCChapel Hill’s College of Arts and Sciences. Poston has served as a DA Fund volunteer and is the father of Claire Louise, a rising sixth-grader; Caleb, a rising fourth-grader; and Eliza, a rising first-grader. • Garrett Putman ’94 is principal marketing consultant at SAS
Institute. He is a graduate of Durham Academy and Wake Forest University, and holds an M.B.A. from Duke University. Putman is president of the DA Alumni Board and previously served as Alumni Board president in the 2013-2014 school year (during which he served as an ex-officio member of the Board of Trustees). Putman is in his fifth year of serving on DA’s Communications Committee. He is the father of DA students Will, a rising fifth-grader, and Wesley, a rising third-grader. • Caroline Rogers is a director of Carolina Biological Supply
Company and a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill. Now also serving on DA’s Board of Trustees in an ex-officio capacity as Parents Council president, she has served on the board since 2015. Rogers serves on DA’s Building and Grounds Committee and previously served on the Development Committee and the Evergreen Campaign Committee. She was treasurer of Parents Council and has volunteered in several capacities with the parents group over many years. Rogers is the mother of Henry, a rising junior, and Edward, a rising eighth-grader. • Anna Ho Whalen is president of a real estate management
company HPL Management, LLC. She is a life member of Duke Law School’s board of visitors and serves on the Heart Center Leadership Council. Whalen has previously served on the DA and Hill Center boards of trustees. A graduate of Sweet Briar College, she holds an M.B.A. from Duke University. Whalen is the mother of alumni Austine Mah Chan ’95, Sterling Mah Ingui ’97, Kevin Whalen ’09 and Caitlin Whalen ’11, and is the grandmother of rising third-grader Parker Ingui and rising kindergartner Sabrina Ingui. DUR HAM ACADEMY
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