Six alumni join board of trustees
Six alumni have been named to the board of
trustees:
Dennis Keller '63, Henry Kennedy '70, Margaret
Whitman '77, T.R. Reid '66, Ruth Berkelman '73 and
Spencer Merriweather '00.
Keller was named as a charter trustee,
appointed to serve until 2010. Previously a trustee
from 1994 through 1998 and cochair of the 250th
Anniversary Campaign, Keller is chair and CEO of
DeVry Inc., one of the largest publicly held
higher-education companies in North America, and
founder of the Keller Graduate School of
Management.
The other new trustees will serve four-year
terms.
Kennedy is US District Judge for the
District of Columbia. A 1973 graduate of Harvard
Law School, he is a member of the Defender Services
Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United
States.
Whitman, who is president and CEO of eBay
Inc., was previously general manager of the
Preschool Division for Hasbro Inc. and CEO of
Florists Transworld Delivery.
Reid, a journalist and foreign
correspondent, joined the staff of the
Washington Post in 1977 and was especially
recognized for coverage of Asian affairs. He is the
author of books in both Japanese and English and
cocreator of the syndicated column, "Computer
Report."
Berkelman is assistant surgeon general
and senior adviser to the director at the Centers
for Disease Control and also serves as visiting
professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at
Emory University.
Merriweather, a young alumni trustee,
graduated with a degree in politics. President of
the Undergraduate Student Government in his senior
year, he was selected by classmates as both the
senior who had done the most for Princeton and the
senior who had done most for his class.
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