The University has named eight new members of its Board of Trustees. They are:
• Shelby Davis of Tuxedo Park, N.Y., founder of Davis Selected
Advisors, a mutual fund management company. He earned his A.B. in
history from Princeton in 1958. A dedicated internationalist and
philanthropist, he established the Davis United World College Scholars
Program in 2000 at Princeton and four other pilot institutions. It
provides financial aid for students who come from pre-university
schools known as the United World Colleges located around the globe.
• Carl Ferenbach, managing director of Berkshire Partners, a
private equity investment firm in Boston. He earned his A.B. in
classics from Princeton in 1964. He has served as an annual giving and
capital giving volunteer.
• Charles Gibson of New York, a veteran television journalist
who recently was named anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight." He earned
his A.B. in history from Princeton in 1965.
• Ellen Harvey of Bryn Mawr, Pa., senior vice president at the
Mercantile Bankshares Corp. in Baltimore. She earned her A.B. in
economics from Princeton in 1976. She is a longtime volunteer for the
development office.
• Robert Murley of Lake Forest, Ill., vice chairman of Credit
Suisse First Boston in Chicago. He earned his A.B. in politics from
Princeton in 1972. He previously served as a charter trustee from 1995
to 2005. He also has been national chair of the University's annual
giving effort as well as co-chair of the leadership gifts committee of
the Anniversary Campaign for Princeton. In 1998, he received the
University's Harold Helm Award for exemplary work on behalf of annual
giving. He is one of three co-chairs of a fund-raising campaign being
planned at Princeton.
• John O'Brien, president of the Milton Hershey School in
Hershey, Pa. He earned his A.B. in psychology from Princeton in 1965.
He has served as his class vice president, annual giving class section
chair and class reunion chair. He currently is an annual giving
participation solicitor and Alumni Schools Committee member. A running
back on the undefeated 1964 Princeton football team, he was honored
last year with the Princeton Varsity Club's Citizen Athlete Award for
contributions to sports and society.
• Mark Siegler, the Lindy Bergman Distinguished Service
Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Chicago and
founding director of the university's MacLean Center for Clinical
Medical Ethics. He earned his A.B. in English and completed his pre-med
requirements at Princeton in 1963. He has returned to Princeton as a
Reunion alumni-faculty panelist and this year spoke as part of the
Woodrow Wilson School's 75th anniversary celebration.
• Brady Walkinshaw of Nooksack Valley, Wash., who graduated this
year with an A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs and a certificate in Latin American studies. He
co-chaired and served as a member of the executive board of the Student
Volunteers Council. He also was a member of the Pace Center oversight
board.
The Board of Trustees elected Murley to a 10-year term as a charter
trustee, while it elected Davis, Ferenbach, Gibson and Harvey for four
years as term trustees. Princeton alumni elected O'Brien and Siegler to
four-year terms as alumni trustees, and the junior, senior and two
youngest alumni classes elected Walkinshaw to a four-year term as young
alumni trustee. All trustees have the same power, authority and
responsibilities.
The 40-member Board of Trustees is responsible for the overall
direction of the University. It approves the operating and capital
budgets, supervises the investment of the University's endowment and
oversees campus real estate and long-range physical planning. The
trustees also exercise review and approval concerning changes in major
policies, such as those in instructional programs and admission, as
well as tuition and fees and the hiring of faculty members.