Association of Alumni Officers 2010 - 11

The Officers and members of the Executive Committee listed here will:

• Continue to work with the newly re-energized Alumni Council and the Board of Trustees and administration to make certain all alumni/ae voices are heard and that concerns are discussed in a forthright, constructive and civil manner within the Dartmouth family.

Officer and Executive Committee Members:

Please read their biographies and their commitment to Dartmouth. This is an impressive slate of loyal Dartmouth alumni who will continue to serve you well.

This is a team effort and this is your team.  

Officers 

President - John H. Mathias Jr. '69

John is a senior partner in the law firm of Jenner & Block in Chicago. At Dartmouth he was a member of the varsity basketball team, the Undergraduate Council, Dragon (President), Phi Delt (Rush Chairman), Naval ROTC (XO), and Phi Beta Kappa. After Harvard Law School (1972), he served three years in the Navy. A financial aid recipient, he has led the annual Dartmouth Club of Chicago Scholarship fund drive for 25 years and has served on his last five class reunion giving committees. He and Julie have five Dartmouth children (’07, ’09, ’09, ’11, ’11) and are currently co-chairs of the Family Fellows Committee of the Dartmouth Parents Fund. He is a founder of the Dartmouth Lawyers Association, a Senior Trustee of The Latin School of Chicago, and a board member of ChicagoSinfonietta.

STATEMENT BY THE SLATE ON MARCH 5, 2010

Our Unity Slate strongly believes that civility, collegiality, and persuasion are the only way to make the case to the Board of Trustees for increasing the number of elected trustees. Since our election two years ago, we have made enormous progress in repairing the damage done by our predecessors and the lawsuit they filed, without alumni approval, against Dartmouth and the Board. We have succeeded in persuading 82% of voting alumni to pass a constitutional amendment reforming election procedures, and we have initiated efforts to determine whether a controlling consensus of politically active alumni will support the kind of election campaign finance reform that will stop wasteful spending on alumni politics and make additional trustee elections more acceptable to the Board. We have had several meetings with Board Chair Ed Haldeman and others regarding the prospect of increasing the number of elected trustees, and we are optimistic about making further progress.

Unlike our petition slate opponents in this election, we reject confrontation and demands about "parity" as appropriate means for communicating alumni interests to the Board. As a practical matter, the second lawsuit filed by the Hanover Institute, sponsor of our petition slate opponents in this election, casts a cold dark cloud over the ability of anyone to discuss the prospect of increasing the number of elected trustees with the Board. The recklessly confrontational conduct of the Hanover Institute and its chief executive officer (former Dartmouth Review publisher John MacGovern) over the past several years has done lasting damage to the cause of alumni interested in parity and has done nothing constructive for our College.

We know that our superb new President Jim Yong Kim shares our belief in civility, collegiality, and persuasion. We are committed to working closely with him to bring all alumni together in focused support of the finest undergraduate college anywhere.

 

First Vice President - Veree Hawkins Brown '93

Veree is the Managing Director, Airline Relations for Travelocity.com and leads supplier relations for the Flights business. Prior to Travelocity, Veree held leadership positions for Sabre Holdings in Global Marketing and Corporate Finance including responsibility for Sabre Holdings’ corporate budget, board of directors reporting, and staff budgets.

Veree majored in English and received her MBA in Finance from SMU in 1996. She was active in Delta Gamma/CFSC, The Hop, C&G and managed the men’s soccer team. She has served as past president of the Dartmouth Club of Dallas and as a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council Trustee Nominating Committee, among other key leadership roles for the College. In 2006 she received the Dartmouth Young Alumni Distinguished Service Award. Veree is originally from Albuquerque, but now resides in Dallas with her husband Bert ’92 and daughter.

Second Vice Pres. - Douglas H. Keare '56, TU/TH '57

Doug recently retired from a career in international development, consisting mainly of a quarter century as a manager in the World Bank. At Dartmouth he was a member of the freshman football team, Sphinx, Kappa Sigma (now Chi Gam), of which he is now Corporation President, and Phi Beta Kappa. Following Tuck/Thayer, he obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton. He has remained consistently active in Class affairs, establishing a class scholarship, initially for foreign scholars, in the early 1960s; as Class president from 1976 through 87; and most recently as “whip” on his 50th reunion committee, engineering a record turnout.

Secretary/Treasurer - Lynne Hamel Gaudet '81

An active volunteer, Lynne has served as president of the Dartmouth Club of Rhode Island; secretary, class agent, and member of her class reunion and executive committees; enrollment interviewer; alumni councilor; and executive committee member of the Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley. In 1997 she received Dartmouth's Young Alumni Distinguished Service Award. Lynne has been a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Relations Office for ten years, serving as the director of Alumni Leadership since 2007. As an undergraduate she majored in economics; participated in the Tucker Foundation Big Sister program and the Dartmouth Mountaineering Club; taught skiing in the Ford Sayre program; and was social chair of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Lynne and her husband, Dartmouth hockey coach Bob Gaudet '81, reside in Etna, NH, and are the parents of Joe '10, Jimmy '12 and Kelly.

Executive Committee Members 

Mark Alperin '80

Mark is COO of Vertex Distribution in Attleboro, MA. He holds an AB in engineering sciences and an MBA from Duke University. Prior to Vertex, he was a vice president of strategic planning at L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin. Mark is also board president of the Dedham Country Day School. Mark has served his class as head agent and reunion giving chair. He is a member of the Tucker Foundation Board of Visitors and the Dartmouth College Fund Committee. He has been vice chair of the Dartmouth College Fund and a member of the Will to Excel Campaign Committee. He was a member of Bones Gate. In 1994 Mark was awarded the Young Alumni Distinguished Service Award. His father is Mel Alperin, Class of 1958 and his uncle is Barry Alperin Class of 1962.

Marian Zischke Baldauf '84

Marian has worked for 21 years at Dodge & Cox, an investment management firm in San Francisco, where she lives with her husband and two children. At Dartmouth, Marian was a religion major; treasurer of Kappa Kappa Gamma, chairperson of the DOC’s Winter Sports Division, and a member of Fire and Skoal. She is from a strong Dartmouth family: Peter Zischke’52; brother Mike Zischke’77; and sister Karen Zischke ‘86.

Marian received the Young Alumni Distinguished Service Award (1997); was treasurer of the Dartmouth Club of Chicago and President of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Northern California and Nevada; served on the Executive Committee of the Alumni Council; and was a member of the Club Officers Association.

John S. Engelman '68

Beginning in 1974, John worked at the National Bank of Lebanon for several years, at which time he went into business for himself managing investments. A government major at Dartmouth, he was an officer of AD and active in the DOC and Winter Sports Club.

John has served as: Class Head Agent, Reunion Giving Chair, Mini-Reunion Chair and Newsletter Editor; Secretary of the Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley; Alumni Coordinator for the Athletic Sponsor Program; and as AD’s Alumni Advisor for 30 years. Twice a member of the Alumni Council, he received the Dartmouth Alumni Award (2004).

Ronald G. Harris '71

Ron was a founder of Bloomberg, LP. An undergraduate math major, he was a systems programmer working under Professors Kemeny and Kurtz to develop Dartmouth Time Shari ng. He was a member of the Ski Patrol and Cabin & Trail. He earned an MS in Computer Science at Yale. Ron’s volunteer service includes Alumni Council, DCF Committee, ’71 Executive Committee, Reunion Giving Chair, Leadership Agent, and Major Gift Committee. He received the Roger Wilde 1921 Reunion Award in 2001. Major gifts include a Professorship, the Harris Fellowship Challenge, and the Thomas Kurtz Conference Room in the Kemeny Building.

Kaitlin Jaxheimer '05

Living in New York City, Kaitlin works for Weber Shandwick, a global public relations firm, specializing in strategic corporate media relations.

As an undergraduate, she was Vice President of Tri Delt, a member of Cobra, and worked as an Undergraduate Advisor, Collis Manager and Dartmouth College Fund intern. After graduating as an English and Economics major in 2005, she has remained engaged as the 2005 Executive Committee Treasurer and an alumni interviewer.

Otho E. Kerr, III '79

Otho is an Executive Director of Oppenheimer & Co in New York. At Dartmouth, he was a member of the Varsity Track and Field team, Phi Delta Alpha, and Fire and Skoal. He was Senior Class President and the Barrett Cup recipient for all-around achievement. Following graduation, he attended Harvard Law School and began as a litigator at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett.

Otho has served as President of the Alumni Council, Chairman of the Board of the Tucker Foundation, and Chairman of the Dartmouth College Fund Committee Participation Task Force. He received the Dartmouth Alumni Award in 2006. Otho is a Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellow and a co-founder of the Institute for Youth Entrepreneurship in Harlem. He serves on several boards.

Ronald B. Schram '64

Now retired, Ron was the founder of the health care practice at the law firm of Ropes & Gray in Boston and for 30 years was an expert in the governance of non-profit organizations. At Dartmouth, Ron was a member of the varsity football and basketball teams, Palaeopitus, Sphinx, Beta, and was IFC President. After graduating magna cum laude, he earned a masters degree in economics in England and a doctorate in law and economic policy from Michigan Law School.

Ron has been a club and class president, on the Alumni Council, and an Alumni Trustee (1981-1992). He won the Alumni Award in 1994.

He is Chair of the Board of Visitors of the Rockefeller Center. He is the father of Laura '94 and Alison '97.

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