Dartmouth elects new chair and new member of the Board of Trustees

Posted 06/08/01

At its regularly scheduled quarterly meeting, the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees elected Susan Dentzer, of Chevy Chase, Md., as Board Chair, effective June 10, 2001. She succeeds William H. King Jr., who is completing his term as chair and two terms as trustee.

In other actions, the Dartmouth Board announced the election of a new member, Pamela Joyner, a 1979 graduate of Dartmouth College. She succeeds Barry L. MacLean of Libertyville, Ill., President and CEO of MacLean-Fogg Company, who has completed two five-year terms as trustee. The Board also re-elected William H. Neukom of Seattle, Wash., Executive Vice President for Law and Corporate Affairs at Microsoft Corporation. He will continue to serve on the Board for a second five-year term.

An on-air correspondent with "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," on PBS, Dentzer covers health-care policy, the economics of health care and an array of other economic and social policy issues. A 1977 Dartmouth graduate elected to the Board in 1993, she previously was an economics columnist and chief economics correspondent for U.S. News and World Report and a senior writer of business news at Newsweek. She also held a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. Her service to the College most recently includes co-chairing the Committee on the Student Life Initiative with fellow Board member Peter Fahey. She also served on the Dartmouth Alumni Council from 1988-91, chaired the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine editorial board from 1987-89, and served on the Committee on Board Organization (1989-90) and the Public Affairs Advisory Committee (1989-93). In 1991, she received Dartmouth's Presidential Medal for Achievement, followed in 1993 by the Alumni Council's Young Alumni Award. Dentzer also is a trustee of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and director of the Japan Society of New York.

"I can think of no greater honor than to chair the board of our distinguished institution-one that has given me so much over my lifetime, as it has done for so many others," said Dentzer. "It's a time of great opportunity for Dartmouth. I look forward enormously to working with President Wright, my colleagues on the board and the rest of the Dartmouth community as we take advantage of these opportunities and also confront the challenges that await us."

Pamela Joyner graduated from Dartmouth with honors in 1979 and is a founding partner of Avid Capital Partners LLC. Her expertise is advising investment managers and private investment groups in developing and implementing investment strategies in the alternative investment arena. Prior to founding Avid Partners in 2000, she was a partner at Bowman Capital Management, where she directed marketing and client services. Joyner previously worked in the marketing and client service group at Capital Guardian Trust Company, as well as at Fidelity Management Trust Co., Kidder Peabody and Co. Inc. and Merrill Lynch Capital Markets. Joyner serves on the President's Leadership Council at Dartmouth and on the College's Investment Committee. She has participated in the Dean's Council (1993-97), the Alumni Council (1995-98) and was on the Tucker Foundation Board of Visitors (1990-96) as well. Her other community involvements include serving on the board of the San Francisco Ballet Auxiliary. She received her MBA from Harvard University in 1984.

"I have greatly enjoyed my involvement with Dartmouth as an alumna. I am honored by, and look forward to, an opportunity to deepen and broaden my services to the College," Joyner said.