Leslie Herrlinger Lanahan ’73
Around the pond New Trustees The school welcomed three new corporate members of the Board of Trustees this fall: Jim Jacobson ’62, Leslie Herrlinger Lanahan ’73, and Hank Brauer ’74. Jacobson is vice chairman and managing director of Spear, Leeds & Kellogg Specialists, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Goldman Sachs in New York. A graduate of Trinity College, he has served Taft as a member of the Citation of Merit Committee and the Board Finance, Investment, and Audit committees. Jacobson has served on the boards of Rumson Country Day School, Monmouth Medical Center, the Children’s Psychiatric Center Foundation in New Jersey, and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation in New York. He currently serves on the board of the Ronald McDonald House of New York. He lives in New York City with his wife Kerry. Lanahan is a community volunteer and a former advertising and interior design executive. With her husband, she founded The Gordie Foundation in memory of her son, Gordie Bailey, Seniors Harry Weyher and Sara Partridge at the opening reception of Uniform Codes in September. Kelly Urmston-Parish ’07
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Hank Brauer ’74
who died in 2004 of alcohol poisoning as a result of a college fraternity initiation. The mission of the foundation is to provide today’s youth with the skills to navigate the dangers of alcohol and through education and promotion of self-worth, prevent alcohol poisoning, binge drinking, and hazing. She attended Pitzer College and New York School of Interior Design and is the mother of Lily ’08. Lanahan is part of a large Taft family; her grandfather, father, uncle, three siblings, and two nephews also attended Taft. She lives in Dallas, Texas, with her husband Michael. Brauer is a founding partner of Colony Realty Partners, LLC, a real estate investment advisory firm in Boston; an overseer of the Peabody Essex Museum; and was appointed commissioner of the Massachusetts Public
Uniform Codes Photographer Yee-Fun Yin’s exhibit Uniform Codes is a series of portraits that uses athletic imagery to explore the issues of selfhood and status. “The clothing we wear carries messages about social status, occupation, membership, and affiliation,” says Yin, “and we must know the code to understand the message transmitted. In this series, the uniform carries the message.” Yin’s black-and-white documentary portraits are made with a large format 4x5 camera to capture details that are enlarged and emphasized in the photographs and were on display in the Mark W. Potter ’48 Gallery from September 8 to October 5. Yin was educated at Yale and received his master’s degree in photography from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford. He was the recipient of the Artist in Residence Award for 2004–06 from the Milford Fine Arts Council. He now lives in Woodbury and teaches at Gateway Community College in New Haven, Connecticut.
Jim Jacobson ’62
Employee Retirement Commission. He earned his B.A from Tufts and a master’s from MIT. He is an avid sailor, lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with his wife Callie, and is the father of Molly ’08, Ben ’09, and Elizabeth ’10. Yi-ming Yang ’87 also joins the board for a four-year term as this year’s elected alumni trustee (see summer 2006 issue). Dave Kirkpatrick ’89 steps down this fall as Annual Fund chair but will remain on the board as a corporate trustee. Holcombe Green ’87, already a member of the board, becomes an ex-officio member as the new Annual Fund chair. Finally, the board expressed its thanks to departing members Adam Bronfman ’81, Susan Lehman Carmichael ’83, Roslyn Ford ’80, Bridget Macaskill P’02,’05, and Sally Childs Walsh ’75. Walsh served for more than 20 years on the board.
Other events in the Potter Gallery: October 13 to November 17 Barbara Grossman, Structure, Pattern, and Harmony November 28 to December 6 Photography by Kacey Klonsky ’07 January 11 to February 18 Sarah Amos, Rockwell Visiting Artist Opening reception January 12 February 28 to April 13 Student Work Opening reception March 2 April 20 to May 29 Ken Rush ’67 Opening reception April 20