Princeton Project 55 Updates

  

Princeton Project 55 Elects New Board Members and Bids Farewell to Four Long Time Members

 

June 6, 2008

 

Princeton Project 55’s Board of Directors recently elected eight new alumni to the Board. New Board members (bios below) are Vince Anderson '65, Andrew Goldstein '06, Stan Katz ‘21h, Kathleen McCleery '75, Arthur McKee '90, Dominic Michel '70, and Sam Suratt '55. Margaret Crotty ’94 was reelected to the board.

 

The ’07-’08 PP55 Board of directors will include members of classes between ’55 and ’06. The wide range of classes represented by these new and returning Board members is in line with PP55’s strategic goal of diversifying the leadership of the organization beyond the class of 1955.

 

PP55 owes much gratitude to retiring Board members Susan Suh ’96, William Leahy ’66, Richard Turner ’55, Elizabeth Duffy ’88, William Jordan ’95, Anne-Marie Maman ’84, and Thomas Graham ’55, for their years of board service to Princeton Project 55.

 

Bios

 

Vince Anderson '65

Vince Anderson grew up near Minneapolis and graduated from Princeton in 1965 with an AB in English. He eventually earned a PhD in English and went on to become an English professor in a small Chicago liberal arts college, where he taught for nearly 20 years. Then, after getting an MBA, he worked in several Chicago investment firms for almost 20 more years. He retired in 2006. Vince became active in PP55 in the 1990s, when his son Mark ’98 was first a summer intern and then a full year fellow with PP55. Since that time Vince has been a mentor to a number of PP55 interns and fellows. He now serves on the Chicago PIP Committee as well as the PP55 Finance Committee. Vince has been married to his wife Sally since 1970, and they have three adult children, two of whom are Princeton alumni.

 

Andrew Goldstein '06

Andrew Goldstein graduated from Princeton in 2006 with a degree in molecular biology. He then coordinated the Heads Up Literacy program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital as a Princeton Project 55 Public Interest fellow.

 

Andrew now attends the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and is also engaging in a variety global health activities including: evaluating a health management training course at an NGO in rural India, researching health operations with the Millennium Villages Project at Columbia's Earth Institute, and helping to develop a course on child health in developing countries for Mount Sinai's program in public health. Andrew ultimately plans to work in global development as a clinician while also researching methods of healthcare delivery in low-resource settings.

 

Stan Katz

Stanley Katz, Lecturer with the rank of Professor in the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University, is President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies. He graduated from Harvard University in 1955 with a major in English History and Literature, and his Ph.D. in the same field from Harvard in 1961. He attended Harvard Law School in 1969-70. Katz is a scholar of American legal and constitutional history and on philanthropy and non-profit institutions.

 

He has served as President of the Organization of American Historians and the American Society for Legal History and as Vice President of the Research Division of the American Historical Association. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Newberry Library, the Copyright Clearance Center and numerous other institutions. He is currently President of the International Society for Cultural Property. He is a Commissioner of the National Historic Publications and Records Commission. He also currently serves as Chair of the American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council Working Group on Cuba. He has honorary degrees from several universities.

 

Kathleen McCleery '75

Kathleen McCleery has been the Deputy Executive Producer for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" since November 2005. She oversees the daily program and coordinates all editorial, technical and online aspects. In her 12-year tenure at the NewsHour, she’s produced stories in four Presidential election cycles. She covered the impeachment of President Clinton, the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and the Iraq war and its aftermath. She traveled to Cuba to produce stories during Pope John Paul II's visit in 1998. Her career as a broadcast journalist has spanned 33 years.

 

Kathleen graduated with an A.B. in Art and Archaeology and a certificate in American Studies. While at Princeton, she was a producer and correspondent for WPRB-FM and served as its first female news director. She’s a member of Women in Film and Video and of the Princeton Club of Washington. In 1981, Kathleen married Robert J. Martinez, also ’75, an attorney in Washington, D.C., in a ceremony at Colonial Club in Princeton. They recently co-chaired the Alumni Schools Committee for Northern Virginia. Their son, Jason, is a senior at James Madison University, and their daughter, Elena, is Princeton Class of 2011.

 

Arthur McKee '90

Arthur McKee heads CityBridge Foundation’s Early Years Education Initiative, which aims to close the achievement gap in the nation’s capital through strategic investments in early childhood educational services and supports. Prior to the launch of the Early Years Initiative in 2006, Arthur investigated the potential of philanthropic strategies in the areas of homeless service provision, workforce development, and asset building. He also taught Russian history at American University.

Arthur joined the foundation in 2000. He has a Bachelor of Arts in History from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Russian History from U.C. Berkeley. He serves on the board of DC Preparatory Academy and has two young sons.

 

Dominic Michel '70

Dominic Michel is the Associate Executive Director of Prep for Prep, a New York City based leadership development program serving academically talented students from segments of our society grossly under-represented in leadership positions. Dominic joined Prep in 1992 as the Director of Post-Placement Counseling and Activities after twenty years of high school teaching, coaching, and administration. He assumed his current position in 1995. Dominic is a native New Yorker and a graduate of Princeton University currently living in Manhattan with his wife and teenage daughter. Dominic is a long time supervisor, mentor and volunteer with the New York PIP.

 

Sam Suratt '55

Sam received his BA with honors in 1958 from Princeton (after a two year hiatus during which he served in the Korean War). He then did coursework at Berkeley and taught there and at Ohio State University. He then became an archivist at the Smithsonian Institution, where his area of research was 19th century natural sciences. Sam was hired away from the Smithsonian to work CBS where he was asked to organize and oversee their information resources.

 

Sam is married to Judith Hole (a producer at CBS news) and has two sons and four grandchildren. He and Judy have housed generations of Project 55 (now ’69 CSF) summer interns in their home and actively volunteer with the New York Public Interest Program fellows by planning seminars, mentoring fellows, and hosting events at their home. Sam also volunteers with the New York Public Library, serves on the Race Committee of the New York Yacht Club, and sails at every chance he gets.

 

$55,000 Challenge Grant for Princeton Project 55

 

 

It is with great excitement and gratitude that Princeton Project 55 announces the receipt of a new grant from the Abbey K. Starr Charitable Trust. This grant is an opportunity to expand Project 55’s impact for fellows, alumni, and organizations promoting civic engagement.

 

Gifts from internship and fellowship alumni, new donors, and increased gifts from current donors
will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $55,000 from January-December 2008.

 

As you know, since 1990, Project 55 has placed nearly 1,150 Princeton students and graduates in more than 1,300 summer and year-long fellowships at nonprofit organizations across the nation. 

 

We believe Project 55’s success toward the fellowship program goals of “creating a lifelong commitment to civic engagement” and “instilling a desire to prepare for and seek opportunities for civic leadership” in fellows and alumni will be greatly aided with this grant.

 

Specifically, this grant will allow us to:

• Increase leadership and professional development opportunities for fellows
• Provide greater support and resources to the network of current fellows, alumni, and other volunteers
• Improve screening of, and provide training and resources to partner organizations
• Continue to invest in technological infrastructure to allow for virtual networking and professional opportunities
• Increase evaluation of the program and its impact on organizations, fellows, and communities

We are excited to see the new ways in which alumni and supporters like yourself will step up to the $55,000 Challenge. Join us as we envision an even greater impact on organizations and communities through the alumni we mobilize in the public interest.

 

 

To make a gift, visit http://www.project55.org/, or contact
Natasha Robinson, Development Officer, at (609) 921-8808, ext. 7 or nrobinson@project55.org.

 

Project 55 Announcements

 

It’s been an eventful year full of positive developments for Princeton Project 55! Today, we’re excited to announce one of our biggest and most exciting accomplishments, the launch of Project 55 Connect, our new online community.

 

We encourage you to take advantage of this brand new online community by going to www.project55.org and clicking on the login link at the top of the screen.

 

Here are just a few of the benefits this program offers:

 

• Search for jobs posted exclusively to the Project 55 network
• Reconnect with former mentors or classmates and make new contacts
• Check out PP55 events in your region
• Update your contact information to stay connected with the PP55 network      
• Volunteer for PP55
• Make a gift to Project 55
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