Boston Athenæum Trustees 2011

Alexander Altschuller.   Dr. Altschuller, a cardiologist with a practice in North Dartmouth, received his undergraduate degree at the University of Rochester and his medical degree at the State University of New York’s Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn.  He served as Chief Resident in Medicine at the Veterans’ Administration Hospital in West Roxbury before entering private practice.  He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and serves both as a cardiologist at St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford and as a clinical instructor in medicine at Tufts Medical School in Boston.  Dr. Altschuller is a collector of modern and Russian literature.

Edward B. Baldini.  Mr. Baldini is a Chartered Financial Analyst with degrees from Occidental College and Trinity College.  He has worked at a number of financial firms in Hartford and Boston, including Aetna Health Plans, Aeltus Investment Management, Scudder Kemper Investments, and MFS Investment Management.  He is currently an Investment Director at Wellington Management in Boston. Mr. Baldini was the nephew of one of the Athenæum’s most beloved former Trustees, Frances Hovey Howe.  

Deborah Hill Bornheimer.  A graduate of Harvard College and Boston University School of Law, Mrs. Bornheimer served many years as Chairman and CEO of a commercial real estate firm specializing in airport development.  She served for 30 years on the Duxbury Free Library Inc. trustee board and chaired its new library construction project.  From 1998-2005 she was a member of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.  She is a trustee of the Winsor School and a member of the Senior Lawyers for Justice project of the Boston Bar Association.  She is a director of Eastern Bank and the Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation and is president of the Board of the Boston Athenæum.

Charles A. Coolidge III.   After taking his undergraduate degree at Harvard College, Mr. Coolidge worked for many years for Mutual of New York in their real estate investment office, becoming a vice president and officer of the company.  He then became chairman of C&K Components, a manufacturer of electro-mechanical components in Watertown, until that company was sold to ITT in 2000.  He then enrolled in the MFA program sponsored by the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University, taking his degree in 2005 with a specialization in sculpture.  Since then he has shown his work in several individual and group exhibitions and has served as an adjunct faculty member at the Museum School, teaching courses on “Approaches to Sculpture” and “Trash Assemblage.”  Until recently Mr. Coolidge served as chair of the trustees of an independent school.

Alice DeLana.  Ms. DeLana is well known to many Bostonians as a legendary teacher at Miss Porter’s School in Farmington, Connecticut.  During her 39 years of teaching English, art history, and computer science in Farmington, Ms. DeLana ignited a passion for the arts among a large number of her students — to the point where she was honored at Sotheby’s London and New York auction houses when she retired in 1998.  Active in community affairs, Ms. DeLana has been a Trustee of the Hill-Stead Museum, the Wadsworth Athenæum, the Mortensen Library at the University of Hartford, and the Hartford Stage Company.  She currently serves as a Docent at the Harvard Art Museums and as a Lecturer on Harvard Alumni trips.  She is also a member of the Devens Lecture Committee of the MFA, the Thursday Morning Talks Committee of the Mount Auburn Hospital Auxiliary, and the Art Advisory Board of Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, which she has chaired for three years.

Katherine Haney Duffy.  Katherine Haney Duffy was raised in Newton, Massachusetts and is a graduate of Harvard College. Three days after graduation, she moved with her new husband to England, and over the next twenty-eight years she lived in London, Oxford, and the Cotswolds while raising her two sons, who are both graduates of Harrow School. Since returning to Boston she has been active in pursuits related to her primary interests: books, hiking and all things British. Ms. Duffy is currently a Peabody Essex Museum Overseer and belongs to the PEM Library Visiting Committee and American Decorative Art Visiting Committee. She also serves on the Executive Committee of the British Society and the Advisory Board of the Appalachian Mountain Club, and she is a supporter of the Library at the University of Virginia as well as of the Boston Athenæum.

Jack Gantos.  Jack Gantos is the author of over 40 books—many drafted at the Boston Athenæum—including the Rotten Ralph picture books, collections of Jack Henry short stories, the upper-elementary and middle school Joey Pigza novels, young adult novels such as The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs and Desire Lines, and the memoir Hole In My Life. Mr. Gantos has worked as a professor at Emerson College, where he developed the Master’s Degree program in Children’s Literature, Writing and Publishing; and now, when not writing, he lectures around the world at book and literacy conferences as well as in schools and libraries. Mr. Gantos’s published works have earned him a number of awards including the Newbery Honor, the Printz Honor, and the National Book Award Finalist honor. He was the 2010 recipient of the NCTE/ALAN Award for his contribution to the field of Young Adult and Children’s Literature, and his most recent novel, Dead End In Norvelt, has won the 2012 Newbery Medal.

J. Bryan Hehir.   Father Hehir was elected a Trustee of the Athenæum by our Proprietors at their annual meeting in February.  Father Hehir is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.  He is also the Secretary for Health and Social Services in the Archdiocese of Boston, having previously served as President and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, the national network of charities in the United States, from 2001 through 2003.  During his extraordinary career, he has served on the staff of the US Catholic Conference of Bishops, on the faculty at Georgetown University, and as a professor at the Harvard Divinity School, where he also served as Interim Dean and Dean from 1998 until 2001.

James F. Hunnewell, Jr.  Mr. Hunnewell is a LEED accredited registered architect with over 30 years experience, much of that time at Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott where he was a Principal for fourteen years. He has worked extensively with academic institutions, particularly in the fields of library design and historic preservation which are his particular foci. Jim serves on the Board at Gore Place, and on the Library Visiting Committee at Peabody Essex Museum. He is a Trustee of the Friends of Mt. Auburn Cemetery, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy. He is also a member of the Bostonian Society’s Tercentenary Planning Taskforce for the Old State House.

David P. Ingram.  David P. Ingram is a Managing Director in Cambridge Associates’ Boston office.  He works with a number of foundation, university, corporate pension, private family, and government clients in the U.S., Europe, and China.  Mr. Ingram is also part of Cambridge Associates’ Managing Director Advisory Group.  In addition he is actively involved in the firm’s London Family Roundtable and global workshop conferences.  Mr. Ingram chairs a group evaluating how the firm thinks about portfolio construction, developing analytical tools and implementation strategies for clients.  Prior to joining Cambridge Associates in 1993, Mr. Ingram had a lengthy career at Bank of Boston working in several highly specialized areas of the domestic and international financial markets.  
    Between earning his undergraduate and graduate degrees, Mr. Ingram spent eight years with the Peace Corps.  He served four years as a volunteer in Malaysia as a business advisor in agricultural cooperatives.  He then returned to the Peace Corps staff in Washington DC, where he was the Area Director for East Asia/Pacific with responsibilities for activities in a dozen countries.  Mr. Ingram graduated from Harvard College in 1969 and received an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1979.

Isaiah Jackson.  Mr. Jackson is a cum laude graduate of Harvard College, where he majored in Russian history and literature, and holds graduate degrees from Stanford University and the Juilliard School of Music. He has also studied at Fontainebleau, Aspen, and Tanglewood and is a Fellow in Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute.  Mr. Jackson is the Conductor Emeritus of Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, and has served as a guest conductor with many distinguished orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic.  He has made three recordings with the Berlin Symphony.

Carolyn M. Osteen.   Ms. Osteen is an attorney working as a consultant and retired partner with Ropes and Gray, LLP.  The focus of her practice has been tax-exempt organizations and she has extensive knowledge of governance, charitable giving, and tax issues.  She is the co-author of the Harvard Manual – Tax Aspects of Charitable Giving and other texts.  She has served in a variety of posts with the Tax Section of the American Bar Association and Boston Bar Association.  She is presently a director of Historic Boston, Incorporated and of the New England Wildflower Society, and serves in an advisory capacity to The Trustees of Reservations, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts and other non-profit organizations.

Elizabeth H. Owens.  Ms. Owens has served Boston’s cultural community as President of both the Nichols House Museum and Hill House.  A graduate of Emma Willard School and Bryn Mawr College, she is currently co-chair of the Council of Historic New England, a trustee of Winterthur, and an overseer of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.   

Gilbert M. Roddy, Jr.  Mr. Roddy is a Trustee at the Loring, Wolcott & Coolidge Office where he has worked since 1985.  Prior to 1985, he served as a Senior Financial Analyst for Amoco Corporation where he worked in was involved in mergers and acquisitions.  Mr. Roddy holds an M.B.A. with high distinction from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Bowdoin College with a degree in economics and graduated from the National Graduate Trust School with high honors.  He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a certified Trust and Financial Advisor.  Gibbs serves on the boards of the Hollingsworth & Vose Company and the Concord Museum, and he is the Treasurer of the Boston Athenæum.

Susan B. Weatherbie.  Susan Bonneville Weatherbie, a native of South Hadley, Massachusetts, graduated magna cum laude from Mount Holyoke College in 1972 with a major in Sociology.  She has worked for 23 years in the legal profession, first as an Estate and Trust Administrator for the Boston law firm of Herrick and Smith (1972-1977), and then as Manager of Estate and Trust Administration for the firm of Choate, Hall, and Stewart from 1978 to 1995.  Since her retirement in 1995, Mrs. Weatherbie has held a variety of volunteer positions.  At Mount Holyoke College, she has served for eight years on the Alumnae Development Committee, for seven years on the Campaign Steering Committee for the Campaign for 2003 and is a current member of the Steering Committee for the Campaign for 2011, and for 10 years on the Mount Holyoke College Board of Trustees.  She has also been a member of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum’s Art Advisory Board since 1995, serving as Chair from 1997 to 2005.  At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mrs. Weatherbie served on the Patron Committee for eight years, serving as Chairman during the last two years.  She currently serves on the Visiting Committees for the Art of Europe and Conservation and Collections Management and is Chair of the Planned Giving Committee.  Mrs. Weatherbie is also a member of the Board of Directors of City Year-Boston and the American Friends of the Mauritshuis.  She also served for 8 years as a director of the New Hampshire Music Festival.
    Mrs. Weatherbie is married to Matt Weatherbie, who founded the firm M. A. Weatherbie & Co. in 1995; the firm manages money for high-net-worth individuals and for institutions.  The Weatherbies split their time between Boston (their primary residence), New Hampshire, and Florida; they share interests in art, classical music, reading, and walking.