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Advisory For Immediate Release
July 10, 2007
Babs Robinson named Collegiate Trustee President
Robinson succeeds Phoebe Wood as head of
school’s governing board
LOUISVILLE, KY. – Louisville Collegiate
School’s Board of Trustees recently announced that Babs
Robinson has been named the 2007-2008 Board President. Robinson
is a 1980 Collegiate alumna, parent and local volunteer. She
succeeds Chief Financial Officer of Brown-Forman Corporation
Phoebe Wood, who remains on the board as
the chair of the Committee on Trustees.
Working with Robinson on
the Board are President of U.S. Specialties and Collegiate
former parent Paul Bickel who will serve
as vice president; 1977 Collegiate associate and parent Martha
Dunbar Hall who will serve as secretary;
chairman and CEO of Hilliard Lyons and Collegiate parent
James Allen, who will serve as treasurer. Other members
of the Executive Committee are General Manager of Monogram
for GE Consumer and Industrial and Collegiate parent and 1974
alumna Merrell Wall Grant and Collegiate
parent and shipbuilding businessman Barker Price.
Returning Board members include University
of Louisville professor and Distinguished Scholar in the Kent
School of Social Work and Collegiate parent Anita
Barbee; Collegiate parent and former management consultant
Leslie Geoghegan; President of the Leadership
Louisville Center Christine Johnson; local
volunteer and Collegiate parent Kathy Olyer,
Chairman and CEO of IMC Licensing and Collegiate parent Stephen
Reily, Director of the Gordon V. and
Helen C. Smith Foundation and former Collegiate parent Cindy
Skarbek; former President of Brown-Forman Bill
Street; retired executive and Collegiate parent Caldwell
Willig; Senior Engineer for Qore, Inc. and Collegiate
parent Bashar Masri; and BellSouth Project
Manager, 1976 Collegiate associate and parent Missy
Dorval Stevens.
New Trustees include Collegiate parent and
local volunteer Tracy Blue; local volunteer
Beth Davis; President of Tandem Public Relations
Sandra Frazier; and President of Poe Investments
LLC and Collegiate parent Steve Poe. Ann Rankin Fleming,
Collegiate 1985 alumna and parent, as President of the Parents
Association will serve as the parent representative on the
board.
The Board’s Emeritae members are Barbara
Beard Castleman ’46 and Louise Rapp
Wall ’47. Collegiate Head of School Tom
Hobert is an ex-officio member of the Board. For
more information about the Board, click on http://www.loucol.com/about/board.htm.
Established in 1915,
Louisville Collegiate School is a co-ed college-preparatory
independent school for students from kindergarten through
12th grade.
PRESS CONTACT:
Terry Sebastian
Director of Marketing, Public Relations
Louisville Collegiate School
Work: (502) 479-0376
Fax (502) 479-0394
E-mail: tsebastian@loucol.com
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