The Wolf Trap Foundation for Performing
Arts recently elected 17 new members from diverse business
and philanthropic sectors to serve on its 2004 Board of
Directors.
Joining Tony Bennett as artist directors
on the board are Dick and Tom Smothers of the legendary
comic duo Smothers Brothers and renowned composer, conductor
and pianist Marvin Hamlisch.
Wolf Trap's new executive committee
will include current board member and new board Chairman
John C. Backus Jr., Vice Chairman and Secretary Alexander
Dean and Vice Chairman Margaret Miller Welch.
New members who have made a three-year
commitment to advance the foundation's mission, goals and
financial stability include John F. Burton, managing general
partner, Updata Venture Partners; Michael D. Capellas, chairman
and chief executive officer, MCI; Newt Gingrich, chief executive
officer, The Gingrich Group; Darrell Green, chairman and
co-founder, Covenant Learning Solutions LLC; Robin Crawford
Heller; John Jacquemin, president
and chief executive officer, Mooring Financial Corporation;
Joseph M. Kampf, president and chief executive officer,
Anteon International Corp.; Kent Knutson, vice president,
Government Relations, The Home Depot; Linda Mercuro; Henry
Morneault, chairman, Riggs & Co., executive vice president,
Riggs Bank, N.A; Paul Saleh, executive vice president and
chief financial officer, Nextel Communications; William
J. Shaw, president and chief operating officer, Marriott
International, Inc.; and Ranvir Trehan, president and chief
executive officer, SETA Corp.
Terry Holzheimer will be the Wolf Trap
Associates liaison to the Foundation Board. Eloise Poretz
is chairman of the Wolf Trap Associates Board.
In addition to Bennett, the Smothers brothers
and the 17 new members, the Foundation Board includes Sanju
K. Bansal, Alisa Marie Beyer, Katherine Cochrane, Stanley
E. Collender, John Daniels, Gloria Story Dittus, Mark D.
Ein, Lawrence P. Fisher, Holidae H. Hayes, Terrence D. Jones,
Dr. Ashok G Kaveeshwar, Clifford M. Kendall, Dr. William
M. Layson, Shelley A. Longmuir, Fran P. Mainella, Suzann
Wilson Matthews, Alan L. Meltzer, Norman Y. Mineta, Alfred
T. Mockett, Melissa Moss, Fernando Murias, Michael Naylor,
Walter M. Oliver, Gregory J. Parseghian, John Reim, Joseph
A. Reyes, Philippe Rollier, Tareq Salahi, Lou Scanlan, Tina
B. Small, Dr. Frederick W. Telling, Theresa Thompson, William
L. Walton, and Dr. Donald C. Winter.
Emeriti directors are Gerald R. Ford,
Mary Frances Pearson, Elizabeth Taylor and Earle C. Williams.
Additional officers are Charles A. Waters
Jr., executive vice president and CFO, Wolf Trap Foundation
for the Performing Arts; Ann McPherson McKee, senior vice
president, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts;
and Richard A. Newman, general counsel, Arent Fox Kintner
Plotkin & Kahn, PLLC.
Land for Wolf Trap, the nation's only
national park devoted to the performing arts, was donated
by the late Catherine Filene Shouse.
A new education center designed by Great
Falls architect Robert Mobley opened last year.
