Two new charter trustees have been elected to Dartmouth's Board of Trustees, marking the first change in the board's composition in over 40 years.
Charles Haldeman Jr. '70, president and chief executive offer of Putnam Investments, and Albert Mulley Jr. '70, chief of the General Medicine Division of Massachusetts General Hospital, will begin their tenures in June.
The election of the charter trustees begins the process of expanding the Board from 16 to 22 members, a decision made by Board vote last fall.
Over the course of the next 10 years, an additional three charter trustees and three additional alumni trustees will be elected.
The first new alumni trustee position will be added during the board's 2004-2005 nomination, according to Board chair Susan Dentzer '77, who steps down in June.
Haldeman received an A.B. degree in economics from Dartmouth, earning magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors, and received M.B.A. and J.D. degrees from Harvard University in 1974.
Haldeman has served the College though leadership in the Alumni Fund, the Dean's Council and in the President's Leadership Council for the past six years. His daughter, Charlotte Haldeman '03, graduated last spring.
"Having just completed four years as a Dartmouth parent, I have an even deeper understanding of how special the Dartmouth experience is," Haldeman said. "I am honored to have been given the opportunity to serve the College."
In addition to his role at Massachusetts General, Mulley is associate professor of medicine and associate professor of health policy at Harvard.
Mulley graduated from Dartmouth as a Rufus Choate Scholar and a Phi Beta Kappa member with a degree in biology and psychology. Mulley later received medical and master of public policy degrees from Harvard in 1975.
Mulley has served as a member of the Board of Overseers of the Dartmouth Medical School since 1999, and has been active with the Friends of Rowing. His daughter, Kate Mulley '05, writes for The Dartmouth.
"I am grateful for this opportunity to serve Dartmouth," Mulley said.
College President James Wright said, "these are two distinguished alumni who have already served the College well. Their experience adds substantively to the range of talents represented on the board. Their commitment or their alma mater has impressed me always, and I look forward to working with them both."
"Ed Haldeman and Al Mulley bring considerable strengths to the board in several critical respects," Dentzer added.
A third new Board member, replacing outgoing alumni trustee Peter Fahey '68, will assume his or her seat in July. The alumni vote on the Alumni Council trustee slate continues until April 30.
