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Members of the Library Advisory Council
May 2017
Linda Aro, B.A. ’81, A.M. ‘83
9 Valley Place
Montclair, NJ 07043
Linda Aro has been the chief operating officer of Chris Pfaff Tech Media LLC since 2006. Chris Pfaff Tech Media is a marketing and public relations consultancy with a focus on internet and mobile technology companies. Its clients are based all over the United States and Europe and consist mostly of start-up to early-stage ventures. Linda is responsible for all operations of the company, including financial, legal, and administrative oversight.
Linda is married to Chris Pfaff. They live and work in Upper Montclair, NJ. They have no children.
Linda is a New York-licensed attorney and was previously a partner in the commercial and corporate group of Pavia & Harcourt, a New York-based international law firm, with which she was associated for fourteen years. Her area of specialization included advising foreign-owned, privately-held businesses regarding their day-to-day business activities in the United States, corporate finance, licensing, employment, and mergers & acquisitions. Prior to that, she served as an associate attorney with the New York law firm of Whitman & Ransom and with the Cleveland, OH law firm of Thomson, Hine & Flory. She earned her J.D. degree from Columbia Law School in 1988.
After spending her early years in the Midwest, Linda spent her formative years almost entirely outside of the United States in countries including the United Kingdom, Italy, Sweden, and Australia. She graduated in 1977 from one of Sweden’s leading science high school programs, conducted in the English language. This resulted in her being deemed a “foreign student” as a freshman at Brown (!).
As it turned out, Linda lived in Providence for eight years. She worked in the Brown University Library’s acquisitions and manuscripts departments from 1983 to 1985. Prior to that, as a Brown student she earned two degrees from Brown, a bachelor’s degree in Classics, with honors and magna cum laude, and a master’s degree in History, both with a focus on Ancient Rome.
As a Brown alumna, in addition to her work with LAC, she is currently Chair of the Friends of the Library, having served as a member of its Board of Directors since 1998. At the founding of LAC, she was appointed Chair of its Facilities Subcommittee.
Also, during the 1990s Linda volunteered as a Brown alumni interviewer in New York City. She also served on the Class of 1981 30th Reunion Committee.
Toni Carbo ‘69; M.S., Drexel University ‘73; Ph.D., Drexel University ‘77
5447 Sanchez Drive
San Jose CA 95123
Toni Carbo is a teaching professor in the Drexel iSchool (College of Information Science and Technology). She is also professor emerita at the School of Information Sciences (SIS), University of Pittsburgh, where she served as professor from 1986 until her retirement in May 2009 and Dean of SIS from 1986 through 2002.
Ms. Carbo’s work in the information field began in 1962 and includes extensive experience with information service and with research and development in the areas of national and international information policy, information ethics, and information literacy.
Ms. Carbo has been active in many professional associations. She served as President of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) and the Association for Library and Information Science Education; ASIST liaison to the AAAS Coalition on Science and Human Rights; Chair of the ALISE Task Force to develop a Code of Ethics for LIS Educators; and Co-Chair of the Special Libraries Association Advisory Council that developed the first code of ethics for SLA. Ms. Carbo is a current member of the UNESCO experts group on Information and Media Literacy Indicators and the International Women’s Forum and was formerly a member of the Advisory Committee of the Women and Girls Foundation of Pittsburgh. She is a fellow of AAAS, the Institute of Information Scientists, NFAIS, and the SLA.
A strong advocate of programs to increase diversity since the 1960s, Ms. Carbo worked to expand diversity programs at the University of Pittsburgh’s SIS and the School received the Chancellor’s first award for minority recruitment. Carbo served as a member of the US National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council (NII AC) 1994-1996, and was named one of seven US private sector representatives to the G-7 Round Table of Business Leaders to the G-7 Information Society Meeting in Brussels, Belgium in 1995. In 2004, she was named a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania and in 2005 she was honored for her “inspiring work in the sciences” by the Women and Girls Foundation of Western Pennsylvania. In 2007, she received the ALISE Award for Service to the Association and in 2010, she was awarded the first Raymond F. von Dran Award for her “pioneering initiative and enduring support of the iSchool Caucus” by the iSchools for leadership in the information field. Ms. Carbo has been selected as one of Drexel’s 100 most distinguished alumni.
Gordon Seth Cohen, M. D. ‘59, P ’85, P ’87
Three Silo Hill Road
Madison, CT 06443-8206
At Brown University, Gordon Cohen was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi, and he earned the distinction of being a Francis Wayland Scholar. After graduating from Brown, Cohen earned his M. D. from Yale University School of Medicine where he acted as treasurer of the Alpha Omega Alpha Yale University Chapter.
After graduating from medical school, he served as an Instructor for the Department of Pathology at Yale from 1966 to 1977, Clinical Instructor from 1967 to 1970, Assistant Professor of Pathology from 1970 to 1971, and Assistant Clinical Professor of Pathology from 1971 to 1978. He was simultaneously Captain in the Medical Corps of the USAR from 1974 to 1971.
Dr. Cohen has been the Director of Tartan Limited, LLC, since 2008. He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, International Academy of Pathology, Advisory Council on Biology and Medicine at Brown University, and the Board of Managers of Mary Wade Home and formerly served on Congressmen DeNardis’ Small Business Advisory Committee. He has published his research and developed three dental patents.
Dr. Cohen is married to Marjorie Bennick Cohen, and they live together in Madison, Connecticut. They have three daughters.
Rebecca E. Crown, Ph.D. ’75, P ’08, P ’14
17 Woodley Road
Winnetka, IL 60093
Rickie Crown is a Classicist and educator who teaches the Classical Language Methodology course and facilitates professional development workshops for Latin and World Language teachers through National Louis University in Chicago, Illinois and The American Classical League. Additionally, Rickie works with Tribraining, Inc., an organization which focuses on the design and implementation of professional development opportunities for educators focusing on students of diverse learning needs.
Rickie’s teaching career includes over 30 years of teaching Latin at the Elgin Academy, Elgin, Illinois, Plymouth-Canton High School, Canton, Michigan, and Baker Demonstration School, Evanston, Illinois. She helped found the Latin program at Baker Demonstration School and taught there for 24 years before retiring in 2009.
Rickie has served as the facilitator of the Latin Pedagogy Workshop since its inception in 1992. She has served as the Co-chair of the American Classical League’s Middle School Committee since its founding in the early 1990s. She is currently working to help build a relationship between The American Classical League and The Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, which she attended in 1974.
Rickie received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1989. She conducted action oriented research on the use of computers in the Latin classroom in several Chicago metropolitan high schools.
Rickie has been active in support of Brown. She has interviewed applicants for admission and is currently a member of the Library Advisory Council. Her sons graduated from Brown in 2008 and 2014.
Ulle Viiroja Holt, B.A. ’66, M.A. ’92, Ph.D., ‘00, P ’92, P ’02
45 Windsor Road
Wellesley Hills, MA 02181
Ulle Holt is a semi-retired historian. She has been a lecturer at the Watson Center, where she taught a seminar on Women Political Prisoners in the Twentieth Century. She has also been an advisor in the IR Program at Brown, as well as a sophomore advisor. In addition, she was a visiting assistant professor in Brown’s History Department, a visiting fellow at Northeastern, and held a fellowship at the Gannon Center, Loyola University of Chicago.
Her academic research has focused on political, cultural, and diplomatic relations between Russia and France; the Ballets Russes; and the experience of imprisoned women across the globe. She taught a course on Western Civilization at the Rome Center for Loyola’s Study Abroad Program.
Previously, she worked on Wall Street in the credit department of Chase Manhattan Bank and taught grades 6-8 at St. Demitrious School, Queens, NY. After marriage, she moved to Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, where she raised 3 children and was an active volunteer in local projects.
A strong supporter of Brown, she has interviewed prospective students, participated in fundraising committees for her reunion class years (Co-Chairman in 2012), and is an Associate of the Pembroke Center Council (Archives Committee and former Chair of the Honorary Degree Nominations Committee).
Currently she is working on two novels. One of her short stories has been published in an anthology titled “Per Se.”
James Kase ‘82, P’15
179 Hope Street
Providence, RI 02906-2018
James Kase is a managing director and global head of investor relations at Capula Investment US LP, having joined the firm in August 2013. Jamie has been a senior sales and business executive in financial services for over two decades. He joins Capula from State Street Global Advisors in Boston where he held the position of executive vice president and global head of sales and marketing from 2009-2012. Prior to this, Jamie was responsible for the institutional asset management business at both ING Investment Management (2005-2009) and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (2000-2005), primarily focused in the U.S. Jamie has held senior sales and management roles in equity and derivative sales at Bankers Trust, Swiss Bank Corp, and Lehman Brothers from 1986-2000. He started his career as a financial analyst at Salomon Brothers in 1983.
In addition to the Library Advisory Council at Brown, Jamie also serves on the boards of United Cerebral Palsy, NYC and the Wheeler School in Providence. Jamie received his B.A. in Political Science from Brown in 1982.
Fraser A. Lang ’67, P ’04, P ‘MD14
Box 1311
Block Island, RI 02807
Fraser Lang is a 40-year veteran of the publishing industry. In 2005, he sold Manisses Communications Group, a company he co-founded in 1985. The company focused its activities in the field of behavioral health, serving addiction and mental health professionals nationwide. The company published subscription newsletters, magazines and loose-leaf references, many of which were edited by faculty members at Brown University. In 2006, he and his wife bought the weekly newspaper, The Block Island Times, and a family of related publications. Today he is the newspaper’s co-publisher.
Mr. Lang is a graduate and trustee emeritus of Brown University, former chair of the Library Advisory Council, member of the Civic Leadership Council, and member of the Biology and Medicine Advisory Council. He previously served as director and chair of the Friends of the Library, member of the editorial advisory board of Brown Medicine, and president of the Brown Alumni Association.
He is also a director of The Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting, a director and former chairman of the board of directors of Phoenix Houses of New England (an addiction treatment organization with programs in five New England states), a former director of the Phoenix House Foundation, and a former director of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence.
Mr. Lang holds a master’s degree from Rutgers University, where he studied under an Eagleton Fellowship. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Iran from 1968 to 1970. He and his wife, Betty Rawls Lang, have three children and one grandchild and live on Block Island and in Providence.
Iris M. Lee ‘84; M.L.S., University of Maryland ‘93; J.D., Howard University ‘98
8403 Forrester Boulevard
Springfield, VA 22152
While working as a paralegal for a law firm, she was drawn to the research component of legal practice. After two years at a Wall Street law firm, Ms. Lee attended the University of Maryland and earned a Master’s degree in Library Science in 1993. In 1998, she received a JD, cum laude, from Howard University School of Law.
Ms. Lee has worked as a law librarian for the University of Richmond and Howard University. Since 1999, she has been the Head of Collection Services in the Burns Law Library at the George Washington University (GWU) School of Law. She also serves as an Adjunct Lecturer in Law at GWU.
Ms. Lee is interested in librarian education and serves as an External Panel Reviewer for the American Library Association Committee on Accreditation. She has been an active member of the American Association of Law Libraries for over 20 years and has twice served as a committee chair for the Association. She also volunteers as a teacher for the ESL program at her church.
Guy Lombardo, Ph.D. ’62, P ‘97, P ‘99
PO Box 559
Saunderstown, RI 02874
Guy Lombardo is active in private equity investments and operates his own firm. He is also CEO of CMC Refrigeration in Illinois and of Manchester Metals in Indiana. He divides his time between Boston and Chicago.
Previously, Mr. Lombardo founded Comau Productivity Systems, an American subsidiary of Fiat, a factory automation company later co-owned with General Motors. Mr. Lombardo has also served as a Group Vice President of the Bendix Corporation and as a consultant with Arthur D. Little, Inc.
His work in academia includes teaching in MBA programs at Boston University and Teheran, Iran. He conducted research in basic physics at Cornell where he obtained his Ph.D. He has published results of original research in journals of business and physics.
Mr. Lombardo has been active in support of Brown. He has interviewed applicants for admission, assisted in fundraising, and is currently Chair of the University Library Advisory Council. His two children graduated from Brown.
Catherine Willis Maas ’85, P ’13, P ’17
864 Moore Drive
Aspen, CO 81611-3411
Catherine Maas is based in Aspen, Colorado. She is currently manager of Equitus Capital LLC, a private investment company. She also works in residential real estate development in Colorado. She previously was Vice President, Corporate Banking, at BMO/Harris Bank in Chicago.
Ms. Gildor has been active in philanthropy in education and the arts. Among her current board positions are Morphoses (a New York ballet company) and the Aspen Fringe Festival.
Ms. Gildor graduated from Brown in 1985 with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics. She has three children, including one Brown graduate and one currently attending Brown. She has served on the Library Advisory Council since 2006.
Lianne Merchant ‘82
99 Cortlandt Court
New Rochelle, NY 10801-2032
Lianne Merchant is an independent institutional capital raiser in the real estate private equity industry. She is Managing Partner at Cortlandt Partners Ltd., an advisory and capital-raising firm. She was previously the exclusive independent capital raiser for Thayer Hotel Investors V, and a distribution banker (placement agent) for Park Hill Real Estate Group, a division of the Blackstone Group. She raised investment capital from large institutions including foundations, endowments, corporate pension funds and insurance companies investing in real estate private equity. She also served as group head of investor relations and marketing for iStar Financial, one of the nation’s largest publicly traded structured finance companies.
Ms. Merchant started her professional career with General Electric’s pension fund, after receiving her MBA in finance and real estate finance from Columbia University. She has her undergraduate degree from Brown University. Additionally, Ms. Merchant is an elected board member of the city of New Rochelle Board of Education and a former Board President of the New Rochelle Public Library.
Mary Minow ’81; University of Michigan, A.M.L.S. ’82, Stanford University, J.D. 1997
2310 Homestead Rd #415
Los Altos, CA 94024
Mary Minow is currently a Fellow at Harvard University Berkman Klein Center. She was the Follett Chair at the Dominican School of Library and Information Sciences from to 2011 to 2014. Co-author with Tomas Lipinski of The Library’s Legal Answer Book, she also manages the website for the Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Center and tweets at both @FairlyUsed and @LibraryLaw.
Marsy Mittlemann, B.S., Boston University ’72; P ’00, P ’04
45 W. 60th apt. 28E
New York, NY 10023
Ms. Mittlemann resided in Providence from 2000 to 2012 and now lives in New York City. Throughout her life she has been actively involved in volunteer efforts, fundraising, and social outreach. She was very active in her Long Island communities of Old Westbury and Locust Valley before moving to Providence and oversaw many fundraising events for different organizations, including the Green Vale School, attended by her children, Juliet Mittlemann ‘04 and Justin Mittlemann ‘00.
Early after arriving in Rhode Island, Ms. Mittlemann was introduced to Fraser and Betty Lang and was invited to serve on the Board of the Providence Athenaeum where she chaired the 150th anniversary event, was Development chairperson for many years, and to-date continues to provide support for the Athenaeum. During her time in Providence, Ms. Mittlemann was also invited to serve on the Board of the Women’s Fund of RI. In this capacity she has helped create and organize the Board’s first, second, and third annual events. Ms. Mittlemann became an active supporter of Youth in Action, a local organization run by Providence inner city high school students. She held many receptions to introduce the organization to other Providence residents and participated in many committee planning events in the community.
In addition, Ms. Mittlemann was asked by Rev. Janet Cooper Nelson to be a Religious Life Affiliate at Brown University. She was the Christian Science representative on campus and held weekly Sunday worship meetings and monthly Wednesday evening testimony meetings for many years. As a member of the RLF she volunteered to work in the Chaplain’s Office to assist with coordinating weddings held in Manning Chapel, serving as the liaison between the Chaplain’s office and the wedding party to ensure that everything ran smoothly for both the wedding and the University. Upon creating the distinguished Women’s Leadership Council at Brown, President Ruth Simmons invited Ms. Mittlemann to be one of the first members of the Council. Still an active member, Ms. Mittlemann has held many receptions for the WLC, which included local mentors and student mentee dinners in her home. Through her friendship with Joan Sorensen ’72, Ms. Mittlemann met Harriette Hemmasi and was asked to become a member of the Library Advisory Council.
In New York City, Ms. Mittlemann is currently a member of the Contemporary Art Council (CAC) at MOMA and has served as a liaison to the Painting and Sculpture Department. She is an active member of Museum of Art and Design (MAD) and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Raymond Rhinehart ’62, Princeton University, Ph.D. ‘69
1541 8th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001
Ray Rhinehart is the Senior Director of Special Projects at the Washington-based American Institute of Architects (AIA). His responsibilities focus on written and oral communication for the AIA’s elected leadership.
Ray studied English literature at Brown, was made Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated magna cum laude. A Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Princeton, he went on to teach at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville) and Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond). During these years, he pursued post-doctoral study at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill).
After he left teaching, he curated two traveling exhibitions for the Virginia Museum, served as fine arts editor for an independent weekly (the Richmond Mercury), reported on fine arts for the Richmond NPR outlet, published poems and essays in the Christian Science Monitor, wrote a play based on American history that was performed at the Virginia Museum, and taught poetry to high school students in the Commonwealth’s poetry in the schools program.
After moving to Washington, D.C. and spending four years as an adjunct lecturer at George Washington and American Universities, he was appointed the AIA’s Director of Media Relations. Later, he was named Vice President of the American Architectural Foundation. He returned to the AIA as Senior Director of Special Projects. He was made an Honorary Member of the AIA in 1994.
He is the author of Princeton University: An Architectural Tour published by Princeton Architectural Press (1998) as well as Brown University: The Campus Guide, also published by Princeton Architectural Press (2013).
Music is his deepest passion. At Brown, he sang in the Manning Chapel Choir, the Brown Chorus, and the Bruinaires (first tenor). In Washington, he is a member of the Cathedral Choral Society (CCS) and has served as a member of the CCS Board as well as an advisor to the Bethesda, Maryland chamber chorus, Cantate.
He has served on the national Board of the Brown Alumni Association and was the Chair of the House Committee. Currently, he interviews local high school students interested in attending Brown. He also lectures on the architecture of Brown and Providence.
He lives in Washington, D.C., with his partner of 34 years, the painter and photographer Walter Smalling Jr. They also share a house in Penobscot, Maine.
Jackson W. Robinson ‘64, P ‘89
85 East India Row, Apt. 9C
Boston, MA 02110
Jack Robinson’s parents authored The Have-More Plan, a seminal “back-to-the-land” book on self-sufficiency, and they raised Jack on a rural homestead based on The Have-More Plan’s tenets. He grew up learning about gardening, recycling, and alternative energy – lessons that played important roles in his personal and professional life.
After graduating from Brown University in 1964, Mr. Robinson entered the financial services industry in Boston, working in commercial banking, institutional sales, and money management. In 1979 he moved to Vermont, where he was Chief Financial Officer and Director of Garden Way, Inc., and CEO and Director of the National Gardening Association, both socially responsible entities. Through these positions, he observed that environmental and social responsibility can enhance corporate profitability.
In 1983, Mr. Robinson founded Winslow Management with the mission of providing green investment services to individual and institutional clients. After several years of managing environmentally responsible portfolios, he decided in 1991 to focus exclusively on Green Investing®. In March 2009, Winslow merged with Brown Advisory where Robinson was a Partner and Portfolio Manager. In September 2015, Mr. Robinson joined Trillium Asset Management as Vice Chair and Portfolio Manager.
In addition to Library Advisory Council, Mr. Robinson serves on the Board of Abengoa Yield and as a Trustee of Suffield Academy, where he chairs the Investment Committee. He also serves on the advisory boards of Bambeco LLC, E|F|W (Energy, Food & Water) LLP, The American Council for Renewable Energy (ACORE), Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo’s Sustainability Working Group, and he speaks on green issues at events around the country.
Daniel G. Siegel ‘57
20 Humboldt Avenue
Providence, RI 02906-4107
In 1957 Dan Siegel received a B.A. in philosophy from Brown University where he was also an avid member of the track team. Two years later Dan received both an M.A. in humanities and an M.F.A. in writing from the University of Iowa. Dan’s career as a rare book dealer began in 1969 and continues to date. In 1969 Dan founded the M & S Press, Inc. which specializes in edited reprints of 19th – early 20th century American reform, plus The Facsimile of the Manuscript of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Also in 1969, Dan began M & S Rare Books, Inc., specializing in rare and important American books, broadsides, ledgers, and journals of the 17th – 19th centuries. Dan continues to operate both M & S Press, Inc. and M & S Rare Books, Inc., and he produces catalogues twice a year.
In addition to his active professional life, Dan has also been engaged in a number of volunteer and service organizations. He was appointed to the Governing Board and as Secretary of the Boston Fair Housing Federation (1963-64), was an officer of the Weston, Mass. Fair Housing Committee (1962-64), and was a member of the New England Committee, NAACP LDF (1968-72). In 1969 Dan was elected as a member of the Weston, Mass. Recreation Commission, and re-elected in 1972, serving as Chairman for three years. Dan also served as an elected Trustee of the Weston, Mass. Board of Library Trustees for 9 years and was the elected Chairman, 1981-84. Dan was appointed to the Brown University Library Board 1988-2002 and was appointed as a trustee of the Providence Public Library 1993 to 1997.
Dan lives in Providence and is a competitor in local, regional, and national Master’s Track Competitions, an activity he has enjoyed since 1997 through the present. Dan is also the proud father of two sons and the happy grandfather of one girl and two boys.
Joan Wernig Sorensen ’72, P ’06, P ’06
167 Power Street
Providence, RI 02906-2024
Joan Wernig Sorensen was elected to the Brown Corporation in 2006. She has had a long career in development, alumni relations, and higher education administration. She has been a fundraising consultant to numerous non-profit organizations in Providence, Rhode Island and Deer Isle, Maine.
She is currently one of the chairs for the $3 billion Brown Together Campaign. She was the Brown Annual Fund Co-Chair from 2007-2010. She previously served on the Brown Alumni Association Board of Governors, was a regional chair of the Brown Alumni Schools Committee, and was the first female President of the Brown Club of RI.
Joan currently serves on the Brown Library Advisory Council, the Brown Annual Fund Leadership Council, and is the chair of the Corporation Committee on Campus Life.
In addition to her volunteering at Brown, she has also served on the boards of many non-profit organizations and independent schools in Providence and Deer Isle, Maine. She is on the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Board in Deer Isle, Maine and is a founding board member of Opera House Arts in Stonington, Maine.
A 1972 Brown graduate, Sorensen has received the Alumni Service Award, the Brown Bear Award, the H. Anthony Ittleson Award, and the Elwood “Woody” Leonard Award for distinguished achievement.
Her husband received four degrees from Brown and her twins, three sisters and three brothers-in-law graduated from Brown.
Douglas W. Squires ’73; Harvard Business School, M.B.A. ‘76
765 Park Avenue, Apt. 9A
New York, N.Y. 10021
Doug Squires is a Managing Director in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group at UBS where he focuses on providing solutions to corporate clients on a range of complex transactions.
Prior to joining UBS, Mr. Squires spent over 30 years at Credit Suisse and Merrill Lynch, advising many large companies, including AT&T, Cargill, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Comcast, General Motors, News Corp and PepsiCo in connection with financings, acquisitions, spin-offs, exchange offers and similar transactions.
Some of his best memories of Brown were formed at The Rock where he immersed himself in the stacks researching his honors thesis in American Civilization. Mr. Squires reconnected with Brown’s libraries on the occasion of his 25th Reunion when he agreed to support an initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities to protect the McLellan Lincoln Collection in the John Hay from the effects of time and to endow a fund to acquire books on American history. Learning about the Lincoln Collection served as his introduction to the John Hay, which had been supplanted by the Rock as the main library five years before he enrolled. Mr. Squires has served on the Library Advisory Council since its formation in 2004, and it is his principal connection with the University.
Mr. Squires has lived in New York City since graduating from Harvard Business School in 1976. He and his wife Maggie have a son who graduated from Hamilton College in 2013.
The Honorable W. H. Twaddell ‘63
199 Hope Street
Providence, RI 02906
Bill Twaddell served for more than 30 years in the diplomatic corps following successive two-year stints in the Peace Corps (Brazil), U.S. Army, and press corps (NY Daily News, Washington Bureau). After early assignments in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, he spent most of his Foreign Service career involved in African affairs, where, for the last 20 years, he was Chief of Mission to six countries including conflicted Mozambique, Mauritania and Liberia.
Since retirement in 2000 to Providence, Mr. Twaddell has involved himself in community and international affairs. In 2002, he was the recipient of Brown’s William Rogers Award. He was elected to Brown’s Board of Trustees in 2005 and served until 2011. He was re-elected to a one year term in 2012. He is a Board member and Chair of the John Carter Brown Library Associates. He became the Interim Director of Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island in March 2013.
Mr. Twaddell is married to artist, Susan Hardy. He has a son, W. Sanderson and daughter, Ellen.
Richard A. Williamson ‘65, P ‘03, P ‘15
Two Tinywood Road
Darien, CT 06820
Richard Williamson is a management consultant, focusing on issues faced by corporate senior management, including Chief Financial Officers (CFO’s), Controllers, and Treasurers. He lives in Darien, CT with his wife, Laurie.
Previously, Mr. Williamson was a Partner at Tatum Partners, a management consulting firm, and served as CFO and Treasurer of Brunschwig & Fils, Inc., an international designer and wholesaler of premiere decorative fabrics, furnishings, and furniture. Earlier in his career, he was Treasurer of Bunge Corporation, a global agribusiness company, and an officer of City Investing Company, an international multi-industry company.
Currently, he teaches corporate finance at the Fordham University Graduate School of Business. He has an AM in Economics from Yale University and an MBA in Finance and International Business from The University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business. He is also a CPA.
Mr. Williamson has been an active supporter of Brown. He is President of The Brown Club of Fairfield County, Connecticut, an active member of Brown’s Friends of the Library, and a BASC interviewer. His older son graduated from Brown; his daughter is graduating this year.
Karin Wittenborg ‘69
1873 Edgewood Lane
Charlottesville, VA 22903-1638
Karin has been University Librarian at the University of Virginia since September 1993. She previously held positions at UCLA, Stanford, MIT, and the State University of New York. She received a BA from Brown University and an MLS from SUNY-Buffalo.
Karin is responsible for twelve libraries on Grounds and for a high-density shelving facility off-Grounds. Karin was the 2004 recipient of the Elizabeth Zintl Leadership Award and is a member of the Raven Society. She serves on the library boards of Brown, Johns Hopkins, and Stanford Universities. She also serves on the Board of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) in Washington, D.C and speaks and publishes on topics such as digital scholarship, special collections, preservation, and leadership.
Nancy Zimmerman ‘85
38 Bracebridge Road
Newton Center, MA 02459
Nancy G. Zimmerman is co-founder and managing partner of Bracebridge Capital, LLC, located in Boston, Massachusetts. Bracebridge is an investment manager for a number of private funds, with over $9 billion under management and over 75 employees. The Bracebridge funds are primarily focused on pursuing an absolute return strategy by exploiting pricing inefficiencies in the global fixed income markets.
Before founding Bracebridge in 1994, Ms. Zimmerman managed the interest rate option group worldwide for Goldman, Sachs & Co. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in 1988, she headed the interest rate option group at O’Connor and Associates in Chicago, Illinois, where she also traded currency and equity index options. Ms. Zimmerman joined O’Connor and Associates in 1985 upon her graduation from Brown University.
In addition, Ms. Zimmerman is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Corporation of Brown University, serves on the scholar selection committee of the Institute for International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund, and is involved in a number of philanthropic causes focused on a range of topics from medical science to education reform.