List includes one young alumni trustee
By: Hillary Parker
Eight members have been elected to Princeton University’s board of trustees, including one charter trustee, four term trustees, two alumni trustees and one young alumni trustee all of whom, the university said, will contribute equally to decisions and activities of the board.
The current board chose Robert Murley, a 1972 Princeton graduate, as a charter trustee serving a 10-year term. A prior recipient of Princeton’s Harold Helm Award for his work on annual giving, Mr. Murley has chaired annual giving at Princeton in the past and also served as co-chair of the leadership gifts committee of the Anniversary Campaign. Now a resident of Lake Forest, Ill., Mr. Murley is vice chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston in Chicago.
Board members also elected Shelby Davis of Tuxedo Park, N.Y., Carl Ferenbach of Boston, Charles Gibson of New York and Ellen Harvey of Bryn Mawr, Pa., to serve as term trustees for four years.
Mr. Davis graduated from Princeton in 1958 and is the founder of financial management company Davis Selected Advisors and Davis United World College Scholars Program, which supports students from United World Colleges.
A 1964 Princeton graduate, Mr. Ferenbach is managing director of Berkshire Partners, a Boston-based investment firm.
Recently in the news, Mr. Gibson will now anchor "World News Tonight" on ABC. He graduated from the university in 1965.
Now senior vice president at Mercantile Bankshares Corp. in Baltimore, Ms. Harvey graduated in 1976 and has volunteered extensively in the university’s development office.
Princeton alumni elected John O’Brien and Mark Siegler to serve as alumni trustees for the next four years.
Mr. O’Brien, president of the Milton Hershey School, graduated from Princeton where he was a running back on the football team in 1965. Honored in 2005 with the Princeton Varsity Club’s Citizen Athlete Award, he is a solicitor for annual giving and an active member of the Alumni Schools Committee.
After graduating from the university in 1963, Mr. Siegler was recently back on campus participating in a panel for the 75th anniversary celebration of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is the Lindy Bergman Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Chicago, where he also serves as the founding director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics.
The young alumni trustee named by current juniors and seniors and the two most recent graduated classes will be Brady Walkinshaw. Having graduated from Princeton on June 6 with a bachelor’s degree from the Woodrow Wilson School and a certificate in Latin American studies, he will serve a four-year term. During his time at the university, he was a co-chair and executive board member of the Student Volunteers Council and sat on the oversight board for the Pace Center for civic engagement.