Media Advisory For Immediate Release
June 26, 2009

Collegiate announces 2009-10 Board of Trustees
Four new members join school’s governing body

LOUISVILLE, KY. – Louisville Collegiate School’s Board of Trustees recently announced the appointment of four new members: Nelea Absher, Vice President and Associate General Counsel of Brown-Forman Corporation, Anne-Marie Brown, founder of Davis Brown Consulting, LLC; specializing in mental health counseling and educational consulting, Suzanne Oldham, founder of Suzanne Oldham Consulting, LLC and Senior Marketing Executive, and Tuffy Wood, Managing Director of Morgan Keegan & Company, a full service financial firm specializing in wealth management.

The four trustees will assume their responsibilities for the 2009-2010 school year on July 1.

Barker Price, a marine management consultant, has been elected to serve as Board President for 2009-2010. Merrell Wall Grant, General Manager of Monogram for GE Consumer and Industrial and 1974 alumna, will serve as Vice President. Phoebe Wood, former Vice Chairman and CFO of Brown Forman Corporation, will serve as Treasurer and Leslie Geoghegan, a former management consultant will serve as secretary. Corrie Nichols, President of the Parents Association, will serve as the parent representative on the board.

Reelected to another three year term are Cindy Skarbek, Director of the Gordon V. and Helen C. Smith Foundation, and Bashar Masri, Director and Senior Engineer of J2M Engineering.

Collegiate’s Board of Trustees would also like to recognize and thank Sandra Frazier, Nancy Kiesow-Webb, Kathy Oyler, and Bill Street, who have ended their tenures of service as trustees. Street has been designated a Director Emeritus on the board.

Louisville Collegiate School is a JK-12, co-ed independent day school located in the historic Highlands neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.

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