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Academy Names Five New Trustees In late May, Oscar L. Tang ’56, president of the Board of Trustees, announced five new trustees, whose terms began July 1: Chien Lee, Gary Lee, and Tammy Snyder Murphy were named charter trustees, each taking on two eight-year terms. Susan Urie Donahue and Mary-Ann Somers were elected alumni trustees for four-year terms.
Chien Lee ’71
Gary Lee ’74
Tammy Snyder Murphy ’83
Susan Urie Donahue ’73
Mary-Ann Somers ’82
Charter Trustees
Alumni Trustees
A private investor based in Hong Kong, Chien Lee works with not-for-profit organizations and serves as a non-executive director of various companies, including the publicly listed Swire Pacific Limited, Television Broadcasts Limited, and Hysan Development Company Limited. He currently serves on the councils, executive committees, and finance committees of St. Paul’s Co-educational College in Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. A former trustee at Stanford University, his alma mater, Chien is currently on the Advisory Council of the Stanford University School of Education and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He also is chair of the Outward Bound International Global Advisory Council, chair of the Outward Bound Center for Peacebuilding, and a trustee of The Asia Foundation.
Susan Urie Donahue is a consultant for and cofounder of Cahners and Donahue Associates, a company that provides strategic advice and counsel to nonprofits in the areas of board governance, strategy, operations, and development. Prior to her work at Cahners and Donahue, she worked in the hospitality industry and as an event-planning consultant for BankBoston and FleetBoston Financial. The new president of Andover’s Alumni Council, Donahue has served as president of the Abbot Academy Association, a member of the leadership gifts committee for Campaign Andover, and class agent. She has held a variety of leadership roles at the Patriot’s Trail Girl Scout Council, Belmont Day School, and Buckingham Browne and Nichols School, and is former board chair of The Food Project.
A native of Tulsa, Okla., Gary Lee has been a staff writer for Time magazine, a reporter for the Washington Post, and more recently the Post’s travel writer for nearly a decade. He received the Lowell Thomas Award for his coverage of 9/11. In 2007 he left the newspaper to open a Peruvian restaurant in Washington, D.C.; he also is co-owner of a bed and breakfast in Peru. Lee continues to write as a freelancer and is a member of the Ted Scripps Fellowships Advisory Board at the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado. Currently an Andover class co-agent and previously president of the regional association, an Alumni Council member, and an alumni trustee, Lee received Andover’s Distinguished Service Award in 1998. A Virginia native and a graduate of UVA, Tammy Snyder Murphy worked in finance for many years, principally with Goldman Sachs in the United States and Investcorp in Europe. She spent 10 years living overseas in London, Frankfurt, and Hong Kong, and has traveled extensively throughout the world. She currently serves as chair for the advisory council of 2NDFLOOR (a youth hotline she cofounded in New Jersey), secretary of the Climate Protection Action Fund (an organization founded by Al Gore), and cochair of Andover’s Financial Aid Task Force. She also currently serves as trustee of the Monmouth Medical Center, Monmouth Medical Center Foundation, Rumson Country Day School, and The College Foundation of University of Virginia. Her husband, Philip D. Murphy, recently was named ambassador to Germany. 6
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As vice president with the Coca-Cola Company in Venturing and Emerging Brands, Mary-Ann Somers is responsible for building future mega brands. She previously led global and domestic marketing for Colgate-Palmolive in New York City and Istanbul, Turkey, where she drove sales and share growth. While in Turkey she initiated a corporate-sponsored program, in partnership with local NGOs, to build schools in rural areas and provide health and hygiene education to young children. In addition, she has held various leadership positions at Unilever, Merck, and General Mills. Somers recently relocated from New York City to Atlanta to join the Coca-Cola Company. One of four siblings and two cousins who have graduated from PA, Somers is head agent for the Class of 1982 and cochair of the Annual Giving Board.