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College Names New Trustees
At its April meeting, the Board of Visitors and Governors approved a new slate of officers and welcomed several new trustees.
Jack S. Griswold, formerly vice chairman, succeeds L. Clifford Schroeder as chairman of the board. Sheryl V. Kerr, formerly treasurer, was named vice chairman. Norris W. Commodore '73 steps up as treasurer. John A. Moag Jr. '77 continues in his role as secretary.
Joseph L. Holt, the College's vice president for administration, was named assistant secretary, and H. Louis Stettler III, the College's senior vice president, was named assistant treasurer.
The board reelected Henry C. Beck to a new six-year term and tapped Carl Ferris, a member of the president's advisory council, to join the board. Beck, a Dallas business executive with ties to Maryland's Eastern Shore, has served on the board since 1983. A graduate of Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering, Mr. Beck also attended Harvard Business School and MIT. Ferris, who has a home in Rock Hall, MD, worked for the DuPont Company for 16 years before becoming a highly successful restaurateur with more than a dozen Burger King franchises. Ferris is a graduate of Cornell University. He and his wife, Connie, recently funded a chair in business management at Washington College.
Also new to the board is Caroline Boutté, an architect who is active in the arts. She will serve out Clare "Pat" Ingersoll's unexpired term, which extends through 2005. A former project officer with the World Bank, Boutté operates her own custom residential design/build firm, Graybanks Design Group LLC, in Easton, MD. Boutté serves on the board of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and was Chairman in 1997 of the Museum's Tenth Anniversary Ball. She is a trustee of The Academy of the Arts in Easton and The Historical Society of Talbot County, MD. She is a member of the Women's Committee of both the Washington Opera and the Columbia Hospital for Women.
Matthew T. Weir '90 and John A. Moag Jr. '77 were both reappointed to the board. Weir is former chairman of the Washington College Friends of the Arts and currently serves on the Campaign Cabinet. He endowed the "Mary Martin Scholarship" in honor of his grandmother and was a major supporter of the recent renovation of Norman James Theatre. Moag distinguished himself as a partner in the law firm of Patton Boggs, LLP and as Chairman of the Maryland Stadium Authority. Now a managing director at Legg Mason Wood Walker, Inc., Moag leads a multi-disciplinary financial team devoted to the sports industry. His group at Legg Mason has extensive experience in stadium and arena financing, the sale of franchises, and financial reorganizations. He has been a member of the Washington College Board of Visitors and Governors since 1989.
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