Candidate for President: John Mathias '69

John is a senior partner in the law firm of Jenner & Block in Chicago. At Dartmouth he was a member of the varsity basketball team, the Undergraduate Council, Dragon (President), Phi Delt (Rush Chairman), Naval ROTC (XO), and Phi Beta Kappa. After Harvard Law School (1972), he served three years in the Navy. A financial aid recipient, he has led the annual Dartmouth Club of Chicago Scholarship fund drive for 25 years and has served on his last five class reunion giving committees. He and Julie have five Dartmouth children (’07, ’09, ’09, ’11, ’11) and are currently co-chairs of the Family Fellows Committee of the Dartmouth Parents Fund. He is a founder of the Dartmouth Lawyers Association, a Senior Trustee of The Latin School of Chicago, and a board member of Chicago Sinfonietta.

Candidate for First Vice President: Cheryl A. Bascomb '82

Cheryl has spent over 20 years in marketing and communications working with organizations to help communicate positive, accurate, understandable messages to their markets and constituents. As an undergraduate, Cheryl was Captain of both the Track and Field and Cross Country teams, played rugby, and was a member of KKG and Cobra. Now living in Maine, she visits Dartmouth frequently, talks with current students, and understands both how the College has changed and how it has remained the same.

Candidate for Second Vice President: Douglas H. Keare '56

Doug recently retired from a career in international development, consisting mainly of a quarter century as a manager in the World Bank. At Dartmouth he was a member of the freshman football team, Sphinx, Kappa Sigma (now Chi Gam), of which he is now Corporation President, and Phi Beta Kappa. Following Tuck/Thayer, he obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton. He has remained consistently active in Class affairs, establishing a class scholarship, initially for foreign scholars, in the early 1960s; as Class president from 1976 through 87; and most recently as “whip” on his 50th reunion committee, engineering a record turnout.

Candidate for Secretary/Treasurer: David P. Spalding '76

David returned to Dartmouth in 2005 as vice president for Alumni Relations. As an undergraduate he was a member of AD and the debate team, worked at Thayer, and appeared on WDCR. He graduated cum laude in history in 1976, received an MBA from NYU in 1984, and spent more than 29 years in the financial services industry in New York. He has been a very active Dartmouth volunteer, serving on the President's Leadership Council and the Dartmouth College Fund. He was a member or co-chair of the giving committees for his 20th, 25th, and 30th reunions. His father, Lyle Spalding, is a member of the Class of 1952. David has served on a number of boards, including three years as chairman of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Metro New York.

Candidate for EC Member: Marian Zischke Baldauf '84

Marian has worked for 21 years at Dodge & Cox, an investment management firm in San Francisco, where she lives with her husband and two children. At Dartmouth, Marian was a religion major; treasurer of Kappa Kappa Gamma, chairperson of the DOC’s Winter Sports Division, and a member of Fire and Skoal. She is from a strong Dartmouth family: Peter Zischke’52; brother Mike Zischke’77; and sister Karen Zischke ‘86.

Marian received the Young Alumni Distinguished Service Award (1997); was treasurer of the Dartmouth Club of Chicago and President of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Northern California and Nevada; served on the Executive Committee of the Alumni Council; and was a member of the Club Officers Association.

Candidate for EC Member: Veree Hawkins Brown '93

Veree is the Managing Director, Airline Relations for Travelocity.com and leads supplier relations for the Flights business. Prior to Travelocity, Veree held leadership positions for Sabre Holdings in Global Marketing and Corporate Finance including responsibility for Sabre Holdings’ corporate budget, board of directors reporting, and staff budgets.

Veree majored in English and received her MBA in Finance from SMU in 1996. She was active in Delta Gamma/CFSC, The Hop, C&G and managed the men’s soccer team. She has served as past president of the Dartmouth Club of Dallas and as a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council Trustee Nominating Committee, among other key leadership roles for the College. In 2006 she received the Dartmouth Young Alumni Distinguished Service Award. Veree is originally from Albuquerque, but now resides in Dallas with her husband Bert ’92 and daughter.

Candidate for EC Member: John S. Engleman '68

Beginning in 1974, John worked at the National Bank of Lebanon for several years, at which time he went into business for himself managing investments. A government major at Dartmouth, he was an officer of AD and active in the DOC and Winter Sports Club.

John has served as: Class Head Agent, Reunion Giving Chair, Mini-Reunion Chair and Newsletter Editor; Secretary of the Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley; Alumni Coordinator for the Athletic Sponsor Program; and as AD’s Alumni Advisor for 30 years. Twice a member of the Alumni Council, he received the Dartmouth Alumni Award (2004).

Candidate for EC Member: Ronald G. Harris '71

Ron was a founder of Bloomberg, LP. An undergraduate math major, he was a systems programmer working under Professors Kemeny and Kurtz to develop Dartmouth Time Sharing. He was a member of the Ski Patrol and Cabin & Trail. He earned an MS in Computer Science at Yale. Ron’s volunteer service includes Alumni Council, DCF Committee, ’71 Executive Committee, Reunion Giving Chair, Leadership Agent, and Major Gift Committee. He received the Roger Wilde 1921 Reunion Award in 2001. Major gifts include a Professorship, the Harris Fellowship Challenge, and the Thomas Kurtz Conference Room in the Kemeny Building.

Candidate for EC Member: Kaitlin Jaxheimer '05

Living in New York City, Kaitlin works for Weber Shandwick, a global public relations firm, specializing in strategic corporate media relations.

As an undergraduate, she was Vice President of Tri Delt, a member of Cobra, and worked as an Undergraduate Advisor, Collis Manager and Dartmouth College Fund intern. After graduating as an English and Economics major in 2005, she has remained engaged as the 2005 Executive Committee Treasurer and an alumni interviewer.

Candidate for EC Member: Otho E. Kerr, III '79

Otho is an Executive Director of Oppenheimer & Co in New York. At Dartmouth, he was a member of the Varsity Track and Field team, Phi Delta Alpha, and Fire and Skoal. He was Senior Class President and the Barrett Cup recipient for all-around achievement. Following graduation, he attended Harvard Law School and began as a litigator at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett.

Otho has served as President of the Alumni Council, Chairman of the Board of the Tucker Foundation, and Chairman of the Dartmouth College Fund Committee Participation Task Force. He received the Dartmouth Alumni Award in 2006. Otho is a Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellow and a co-founder of the Institute for Youth Entrepreneurship in Harlem. He serves on several boards.

Candidate for EC Member: Ronald B. Schram '64

Now retired, Ron was the founder of the health care practice at the law firm of Ropes & Gray in Boston and for 30 years was an expert in the governance of non-profit organizations. At Dartmouth, Ron was a member of the varsity football and basketball teams, Palaeopitus, Sphinx, Beta, and was IFC President. After graduating magna cum laude, he earned a masters degree in economics in England and a doctorate in law and economic policy from Michigan Law School.

Ron has been a club and class president, on the Alumni Council, and an Alumni Trustee (1981-1992). He won the Alumni Award in 1994.

He is Chair of the Board of Visitors of the Rockefeller Center. He is the father of Laura '94 and Alison '97.