July 12, 1999 Volume 21, No. 17

New Alumni Association Board Members and Officers Three officers and eight members of the Ithaca College Alumni Association Board of Directors began their elected three-year terms at the alumni association’s annual meeting June 6. The meeting took place during Reunion weekend. The new president is David Fleisher ’91. The vice president of Progress Financial Resources in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, Fleisher helped establish the Philadelphia Area Alumni Club and served as its first fund-raising chair. He was first elected to the board in 1993 and most recently served as its secretary. The new vice president, William "Kip" Opperman ’79, is a private consultant living in Ithaca. This past year he assisted in the Office of Alumni Relations during a period of staff transition. He has also served as a career network volunteer, reunion-class chair, and club coordinator for the Boston Alumni Club. He was first elected as a board member in 1993. Alice Flaum Berman ’71, the new secretary, is a former executive director of the Monmouth Conservatory of Music in Red Bank, New Jersey. She helped organize the Garden State Alumni Club and is a career network contact volunteer. She joined the board 1993. "The new officers are loyal partners in the Ithaca College family, and I’m looking forward to working with them, as well as with the new board members," said Graham Stewart ’81, the College’s recently appointed director of alumni relations. "It’s exciting to be associated with a group of farsighted people who are willing to give their time and expertise in the service of the College’s well-being." New Board Members Lars Allanson ’62, director of special projects for the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, has served as a reunion-class chair, an alumni club coordinator, and an organizer for local phonathons. Andy Comins ’74, a financial planner with the CIGNA Corporation in Rochester, has served as a class agent, an admissions volunteer, a cochair for his class’s 25th reunion, and a coordinator for the Rochester Alumni Club. Keeb Dyer Jr. ’68 is a senior financial planner with IBM in Charlotte, North Carolina. His alumni activities include service as a class agent, career network contact volunteer, and cochair of his class’s 30th reunion fund-raising campaign. Kathleen Foley ’93 is working toward a doctorate in historic preservation planning from Cornell University. She has worked as a development assistant in Cornell’s metropolitan New York regional office and, most recently, for the University of Cambridge as director of annual giving in the United States. Her volunteer work for Ithaca College includes metropolitan New York club coordinator, class agent, and reunion-class cochair. Steven Minskoff ’81 is the president of Managistics, a full-service real estate company in Queens Village, New York. His volunteer activities for the College include chairing his class reunion and serving as an admissions volunteer. Sarah Richmond ’88 is the director of research services for the New School for Social Research in New York City. In addition to organizing local alumni events, she has served the College as a class agent, an alumni admissions representative, and a volunteer at area college nights. Gail Weir Serventi ’72 is a clinical supervisor in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences at SUNY College at Geneseo. She has been a class agent and giving club chair. Dave Wohlhueter ’60, the College’s first full-time sports information director, retired in 1998 after 21 years as the director of sports communications at Cornell. An active alumnus for almost 40 years, he has served as a career network contact volunteer, class chair of his 30th reunion, and regional phonathon volunteer. The board currently has 23 members. As the managing body of the Ithaca College Alumni Association, the board provides a leadership role in supporting programs that help alumni maintain strong bonds with the College and with each other.