Presidential Search Committee

THE PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH COMMITTEE  “Will have spent thousands of hours getting to know, in context, a small number of candidates extremely well,” says Trustee Al Mulley ’70, committee chair.  But “it’s always the Board’s decision.”  Members of Dartmouth’s Presidential Search Committee convene at a two-day session in Vermont, clockwise from bottom left: Joseph Helble, dean of Thayer School of Engineering; Jane Lipson, the Albert W. Smith Professor of Chemistry; Trustee Stephen Mandel Jr. ‘78; Mulley; Ed Haldeman ’70, chair of the Board of Trustees; Jonathan Skinner, the John Sloan Dickey Third Century Professor in the Social Sciences; Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography and chair of the Department of English; Trustee Pamela Joyner ‘79; Sydney Finkelstein, the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business; Trustee Bradford Evans ‘64; Joyce DeLeo, professor of anesthesiology and of pharmacology and toxicology at Dartmouth Medical School; Kate Barry and John Isaacson ’68, of search firm Isaacson, Miller; Cheryl Reynolds, secretary to the Board of Trustees; Laura Hercod, assistant to the search committee; Martha Beattie ‘76, former chair of the Alumni Council’s Alumni Liaison Committee and past president of the Alumni Council; and Molly Bode ‘09, president of Student Assembly. Not pictured are Trustee Jose Fernandez ’77 and Trustee Peter Robinson ’79. (Photo by Gil Talbot)