AAVC Board Slate 2007

For Trustee (’07–’11)
Judith Axenzow Lewittes ’63
New York, New York

Vassar Volunteer Experience
Class fund chair; class reunion fund chair; reunion gift committee; mini-reunion organizing committee; member, Poughkeepsie Area Vassar Club and Vassar Club of New York; board member, Friends of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Professional/Community Experience
Consultant, nonprofit fundraising and board development, 1991–present; regional advisory board, Barclay’s Bank of New York; special assistant to the president for fundraising, 1991–92; chief fundraising officer, 1981–91; director, AAVC Fund (later Vassar College Annual Fund), 1975–81, Vassar College; board member, Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill; Healthcare Chaplaincy; American Lyme Disease Foundation; Vassar Brothers Hospital; Planned Parenthood of Dutchess-Ulster; Family Counseling Services of Dutchess County; Poughkeepsie Area Fund

For Trustee (’07–’11)
Brooke Duncan III ’74
New Orleans, Louisiana

Vassar Volunteer Experience
Student representative, Board of Trustees Master Planning Committee; active member (and occasional officer) of Louisiana Vassar Club, 1974–present; Development Leadership Council, 1993–2000; vice president, class of 1974, 2004–present; AAVC director-at-large, 2001–05; AAVC treasurer 2003–04

Professional/Community Experience
Labor lawyer since 1986; previously managed a manufacturing concern in New Orleans; narcotics detective with the New Orleans Police Department, receiving several awards for outstanding duty; chair, Louisiana State Police Commission; Louisiana Children’s Museum; Louisiana Civil Service League; Metropolitan Area Committee; Louisiana Nature and Science Center; Community Service Center; Tulane University Provost’s Council; Housing Authority of New Orleans Scholarship Committee; United Cerebral Palsy of Greater New Orleans; United Way; Each One Save One

For Treasurer (’07–’11)
Steven Mangle Williams ’94
Alexandria, Virginia

Vassar Volunteer Experience
Class treasurer, 1993–99; VSA treasurer, 1992–93

Professional/Community Experience
Program director, Corporate Executive Board, 2000–present; economist, Federal Reserve Board, 1998–2000; teaching assistant, economics department, University of Wisconsin, 1997–98; health care policy research assistant, Laguna Research Associates, 1994–96; co-chair, Habitat for Humanity, San Francisco, 1994–96; Vassar Hunger Action, 1990–93

For Fund Advisory Chair (’07–’11)
Josephine (Nicky) Benz Carpenter ’57
Wayzata, Minnesota

Vassar Volunteer Experience
Alumnae/i admission volunteer, Minnesota-Dakotas Vassar Club

Professional/Community Experience
Educational consultant, 1977–present; guidance counselor, 1971–73; associate dean of admissions, 1967–70, Pembroke College; assistant director of admissions, 1962–67, Barnard College;
regent and member, capital campaign committee, Saint John’s University; current adviser, campaign committee, MacPhail Center for the Arts; current adviser, campaign committee, Minnesota Public Radio; chair and board member, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library of Saint John’s University, 1994–2004; past president, Independent Educational Consultants Association; member, National Association of College Admissions Counselors; board of trustees member, Macalester College; chairman, Minnesota Public Radio; board of directors chair, Minnesota Orchestral Association

For Director-at-Large/Awards Committee Chair (’07–’11)
Justina Fugh Frenzel ’83
Arlington, Virginia

Vassar Volunteer Experience
Member, AAVC Awards Committee, 2006–07; member, AAVC Nominating Committee, 1995–99; class fund chair, 1998–present; class secretary, 1993–98; class president, 1997–98; member, 15th reunion committee; food chair, 10th reunion committee; admission interviewer and book club volunteer, Vassar Club of D.C.; sophomore class president, 1980–81

Professional/Community Experience
Senior counsel for ethics, responsible for ensuring the agency’s employees comply with the federal standards of ethical
conduct, United States Environmental Protection Agency, 2006–present; lawyer, United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1987–2006

For Director-at-Large (’07–’11)
Jason Baumgarten ’98
Seattle, Washington

Vassar Volunteer Experience
Board member, Vassar Club of New York; alumnae/i interviewer in New York and California and interview coordinator in Washington State

Professional/Community Experience
Engagement manager, McKinsey & Company, 2004–present; program manager, Microsoft, 2003; executive search consultant, Spencer Stuart, 1997–2001

For Nominating Committee (’07–’10)
Nancy Dunston Dorris ’62
Edina, Minnesota

Vassar Volunteer Experience
Class fund chair, 2002–present; directory chair and book sale volunteer, Vassar Club of Washington, DC; scholarship sale chair, admission committee chair, former president, Minnesota-Dakotas Vassar Club; member, Regional Capital Campaign Committee

Professional/Community Experience
Personnel specialist, University of Illinois, 1962–64; teacher, Vicksburg, MS, 1964–65; volunteer, Letchworth Village, NY, center for mentally challenged, 1968–71; chair, Child Care Center Board, Karlsruhe, Germany, 1974–76; chair, political precinct and school referendum leader; chair, voter ID and Get Out the Vote for U.S. Senate Campaign, 1983; Minneapolis Chair, Symphony Ball; Zoo Ball Patron Committee

For Nominating Committee (’07–’10)
Joyce Rubin Schwartz ’71
Chevy Chase, Maryland

Vassar Volunteer Experience
Volunteer, Vassar Filmfest and Vassar Scholarship Benefit Lecture; co-president, 2000–02; co-chair, admission committee, 1975–85, Vassar Club of Washington, DC

Professional/Community Experience
Docent, National Gallery of Art, 2003–present; docent, National Museum of Natural History, 1974–2003; science teacher, elementary and middle school, 1974 – 2003; co-author of four biographies for children