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Join the Class of 2008 at 10am, Saturday May 24th on the lawn at the lovely Aurora Inn.
Speaker: Gail Kitsch
The President's Announcement
Gail is currently executive director of By the People, a public television-based civic engagement project organized by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, producer of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, to further public dialogue about significant public policy issues. She is past president of the Federation of State Humanities Councils, a former director of Cambridge Forum (Mass.), and a past principal of Strategic Business Consultants.
Gail earned her B.A. cum laude from Bryn Mawr College and law degree from the University of Chicago. After graduation, she practiced law in Washington, D.C. then Boston, where she was a board member and chair of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, and a Radcliffe College Public Policy Fellow from 1997-1999.
She volunteers for a number of organizations including serving as: a member of the executive committee of the Women’s Foreign Policy Group; a member of the board of trustees of the ABA Museum of Law, Chicago, IL; a member of the board of trustees of National History Day; and a member of the Advisory Commission to the Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress, American Bar Association.
Gail is a member of our Board of Trustees. She joined the Board in 1999, and now serves on the Executive Committee as Secretary of the Board. She is also chair of the Enrollment Committee and a member of the Student Affairs and Academic Affairs Committees.
Members of the Wells community who have had the pleasure of talking with Gail over the past decade know her as a passionate and articulate advocate of liberal arts education and of Wells. She is deeply honored to deliver the Commencement Address for the Class of 2008.
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