Tulane Alumni Association

Tulane Alumni Association
Officer & Director Nominations
For the Term Beginning July 2012

The 2011 Nominating Committee has nominated officers to serve during the 2012 – 2013 term. The officer nominee will be presented to the TAA Board of Directors to be voted into office at the February 4, 2012 board meeting. The committee will then present its slate of Directors to the TAA Board for approval at the annual meeting of the TAA, scheduled for April 14, 2012. Committee members included Chair Dan O’Connor, Rob Alexander, Howard Margolis, Rusty Pickering, Sharon Bourgeois, and Tobias Smith. Charlotte Travieso, Director of Alumni Affairs, and Jinyoung Park, staff liaison, participated without vote.


Officers to Serve July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013
President, Sharon Bourgeois (N ’69), Lafayette, LA
President-Elect, Rusty Pickering (E ’91), Atlanta, GA
Vice President, Carol Showley (N ’74, A ’77), San Diego, CA
Secretary/Treasurer, Alan Bern (B ’01), Houston, TX


Additional TAA Executive Committee Members
Immediate Past President, Michelle Rinehart (A ’91), Washington, D.C.
Representative to the Tulane Board of Administrators,
Tom Hopkins (A&S ’76), Mountainview, CA

Directors Nominated to the TAA Board to Serve July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2014:

Architecture: Anthony Vanky (A ’07), Cambridge, MA
Continuing Studies: Matt Coleman (UC ’04), Woodmere, NY
Science and Engineering: Arman Sadeghpour (TC ’96, S&E ’07), Metairie, LA
Social Work: Jennifer Wellborn (SW ’95), Metairie, LA

Tulane Clubs:
Kevin Bourgeois (A ’78), Kingwood, TX
Lauren Haas-Cohen (B ’86), New York, NY
Jill McIntyre (N ’00), San Diego, CA
Jamie Milhous (B ’04), Washington, D.C.
Dori Lynn Neuwirth (N ’90), Hollywood, FL
Elliott Wiener (B ’07), New York, NY

At Large: 
Howard Margolis (B ’87), Short Hills, NJ

Directors continuing to serve the July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2013 term:
Business School: Rob Alexander (TC ’99, MBA ’05), Sacramento, CA
Law School: Michael Rubenstein (B ’90, L ’93) Houston, TX
Liberal Arts:  Aimee Simmons (N ’95) Arlington, VA
School of Medicine:  George Pankey, M.D. (A&S ’54, M ’57), New Orleans, LA
Newcomb-Tulane College:  Meredith Beers (LA ’07, PH ’11)
School of Public Health:  Apryl Brown (PH ’00) Detroit, MI


To Represent The Tulane Clubs:
Evan Herman (TC ’04), Chicago, IL
Michael Lockhart (E ’87), New York, NY
Augusto Martinez, (B ’90) Quito, Ecuador
Theresa Schieber (N ’95), Brooklyn, NY
Rob Tessaro (UC ’98), Washington, D.C

To serve as Director At-Large :
Lawrence Tena, M.D. (M ’95), New York, NY
Ron Palais (B ’92), New York, NY
       

The by-laws of the Tulane Alumni Association state: “(1) other candidates may be proposed to represent any particular College or School provided that their names are submitted in writing to the Secretary  (Carol Showley) bearing the candidate's signed consent and the endorsement of at least twenty (20) alumni of the particular College or School the candidate is to represent: (2) other candidates for Members-at-Large may be proposed provided that their names are submitted in writing to the Secretary (Carol Showley) bearing the candidate's signed consent and the endorsement of at least fifty (50) alumni without regard to the College or School affiliation of the endorsers; and (3) written submissions must be in the hands of the Secretary of the Association thirty (30) days after the date of the results of the Nominating Committee action are mailed or published (February 17, 2012).
(d). Whenever no nominations are received from the general membership, the candidates nominated by the Nominating Committee shall be automatically elected (and take office July 1, 2012).”


The current Nominating Committee has compiled a slate of nominees to fill open directorships that will represent the Schools of Architecture, Continuing Studies, Science and Engineering, and Social Work and six (6) positions representing Tulane Clubs. In addition, one At-Large position representative was nominated.

Other candidates may be proposed to represent any particular College or School provided that their names are submitted in writing to the Secretary (Carol Showley) bearing the candidate's signed consent and the endorsement of at least twenty (20) alumni of the particular College or School the candidate is to represent: (2) other candidates for Members-at-Large may be proposed provided that their names are submitted in writing to the Secretary (Carol Showley) bearing the candidate's signed consent and the endorsement of at least fifty (50) alumni without regard to the College or School affiliation of the endorsers; and (3) written submissions must be in the hands of the Secretary of the Association thirty (30) days after the date of the results of the Nominating Committee action are mailed or published (February 17, 2012).

Please complete a nomination form, and forward a resume and the required supporting documents to: jpark10@tulane.edu.