HOCKADAY WELCOMES NEW TRUSTEES The Hockaday School Board of Trustees welcomed seven new members this fall.
HERBERT W. BUFORD, JR. Herbert Buford joins the Board of Trustees and will serve on the Education and Student Life and Strategic Planning Committees. Mr. Buford received his BS in civil engineering from The University of Missouri – Rolla in 1995 and his MBA from Amberton in 2003. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the National Society of Black Engineers, and the Texas Art Education Association. Mr. Buford is a co-owner of Infinity-AP. He and his wife, Kelly, have three daughters at Hockaday – Brianna (Class of 2016), Dominique (Class of 2019), and Cortney (Class of 2026). COURTNEY NEWMAN FLANAGAN ’91 Courtney Flanagan joins the Board of Trustees as Alumnae Association President-Elect. She will serve on the Education and Student Life and Strategic Planning Committees. Mrs. Flanagan graduated Cum Laude from Hockaday in 1991. She went on to receive her BA with Honors in Human Biology from Stanford University, where she played varsity field hockey, raced on the ski team, studied abroad in Paris, and interned at the Stanford University Medical Center and the World Health Organization in Geneva. She then worked in health care consulting and private equity, and received her MBA from Harvard Business School in 2002. She is an active alumna at Hockaday, and served in several roles on the Alumnae Board. Her HPA involvement is extensive, having held several leadership positions. She was a founding member of the Nasher Sculpture Center’s Avant-Garde Society in 2006, and has been an active member of and volunteer for the Junior Group of the Dallas Garden Club and the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. She and her husband, Michael, have four children – Patrick (St. Mark’s), Mae (Class of 2025), Helen (Class of 2027), and Piper (18 months), and her sisters-in-law are Margaret Flanagan Solomon ’85 and Mary Eileen Flanagan Anderson ’83.
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AMANDA GINSBERG ’88 Joining the Board of Trustees, Amanda (Mandy) Ginsberg will serve on the Strategic Planning and Education and Student Life Committees. After she graduated from Hockaday in 1988, she received her BA in English from U.C. Berkeley in 1992 followed by an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Ms. Ginsberg is the CEO of both The Princeton Review, a leading test prep and college admissions services company that helps students get into their dream college, and Tutor.com, the largest online tutoring service available to millions of students through libraries and the U.S. military. Prior to leading these education companies, she helped build Match.com into the largest online dating site in the world. Ms. Ginsberg is a member of the Young Professionals Organization (YPO) Dallas Chapter, was voted a Woman to Watch by Jewish Women International, and was awarded the Silver Anvil, a top Public Relations Award. She and her husband, Madhu Rajendran, have two daughters – Talia (Class of 2016) and Maya (Class of 2027). ROSALIND REDFERN GROVER ’59 Rosalind Grover joins the Hockaday Board of Trustees and will serve on both the Audit and Ethics Committee and Education and Student Life Committee. Mrs. Grover is known for her philanthropy as well as being a leader in the oil industry. Most recently she chaired the campaign to raise an impressive $175 million in funds for Midland Memorial Hospital’s new patient care tower. Mrs. Grover is the CEO of Redfern & Grover Resources LLC, a company she started with her daughter, Rosson Grover. She is affiliated with the Permian Basin Petroleum Association, Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association, and the Independent Petroleum Association and the Committee of Texas Independents. In 2011, she was honored by the Boy Scouts of America with the Distinguished Citizen of Permian Basin Award. Additional awards include Lifetime Achievement in Philanthropy from the Association of Fundraising Professionals and The Woman of Distinction Award from The Girl Scouts of America. She has also received awards from the Permian Basin Petroleum Association and The Hope Award from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Although she attended Hockaday for only one year in 1956, Hockaday is proud to call her an alumna. Her granddaughter, Rosalind Killingstad, graduated in 2010.