The College's Alumni Council recently began a search to replace College Trustee Anne Fritz-Hackett. Fritz-Hackett will step down next June from her special two-year position on the Board of Trustees.
After serving two five-year terms, Fritz-Hackett was asked by the Board to fill the remaining time left by Robert Reich '68 when he resigned in 1993 to become Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton.
"Anne has shown great judgment and perspective," Chairman of the Board E. John Rosenwald said last week in a telephone interview. "She has a very strategic view of the institution from a long-term point of view."
Rosenwald said Fritz-Hackett's commitment was invaluable to the Board, but said he was sure the alumni would choose a good candidate.
"New branches and new buds are generated right away," he said.
The Alumni Council is responsible for nominating half of the College's 14 Trustees.
The seven other "Charter" Trustees are selected by the Board itself. Two additional seats on the Board are reserved for the College president and the perennially-absent governor of New Hampshire.
The Nominating and Alumni Trustee Search Committee has started soliciting names from the College's alumni, according to Associate Director of Alumni Affairs Patricia Fisher-Harris.
Last year, the committee received more than 500 nominations from College alumni.
"It is incumbent on the committee members to get out there in front of the council and say, 'Give us names,' " Fisher-Harris said.
Rosenwald and Fisher-Harris said the alumni committee speaks with the current Board of Trustees to discuss what type of candidate the governing body needs.
In December, the committee will present a slate of three candidates for approval by the Alumni Council, a body of 105 members, Fisher-Harris said.
In early spring, the council will send ballots to all alumni, she added.
The new Trustee will take his or her place on the Board June 1995.
