We are the William Smith Alumnae Council, the governing body of the William Smith Alumnae Association. The Alumnae Association includes every person who has attended William Smith and whose class has graduated. The Alumnae Council conducts the Association's business and promotes the interests of William Smith and strengthens the bonds between the College and its alumnae.
If you have any questions, please contact:
Kathy Killius Regan '82, Director of Alumnae Relations
Alumni House
615 South Main St., Geneva, NY 14456
Phone: (315) 781-3700
Fax: (315) 781-3767
Kate MacKinnon '77, President
Brooklyn, NY
Kate
MacKinnon is in Management Technology, delivering human solutions in
the technology of business. Currently, Kate is a Vice President of
JPMorgan Chase, working in Human Resources, Compensation and Benefits,
where she was recently rehired after working for twelve years in her
own consulting business, providing consulting services to Fortune 100
companies as well as small businesses.
She developed her organizational development expertise as Vice President in Professional Development at JPMorgan Chase. As Senior Training Consultant, she was responsible for identifying strategic training and development needs and for the design and delivery of training programs.
Prior to joining Professional Development, Kate was a Senior Business Systems Analyst in the bank's Information Technologies group. She received an award for customer satisfaction and excellent customer service for a Lotus Notes application. The system itself received the 1994 Smithsonian/Computer World Technology Award.
When Kate isn't working in the world of business, she is a fine artist and Feng Shui practioner. She lives in beautiful Brooklyn Heights with her dog, Cooper, and two cats, Beau and Scoutie. She gets her energy recharged by walking her land in Woodstock, NY.
Susan Lloyd Yolen '72, Past President
New
Haven, Conn.
syolen@sbcglobal.net
Since 1987, Susan has served
at Planned Parenthood of Connecticut, where she
still considers it a privilege to work on issues
that are as crucial and hard-fought as those surrounding
reproductive rights and sexual health. She counts
among her proudest successes the passage of the
1990 law securing legal abortion in Connecticut
(should Roe v Wade ever be undone), and the 1999
passage of the Connecticut Pill Bill, requiring
health insurance to cover prescription contraceptives.
Neither could have been accomplished but for the
efforts of a fine, cohesive group of women colleagues,
the Connecticut Coalition for Choice.
Susan has been married since 1972 to Tim Yolen '72, an attorney in private practice in New Haven, who obtained a permanent injunction in 1985 against anti-abortion invaders of the Planned Parenthood clinic, then on Whitney Avenue. They are the parents of Greg, a recent graduate of Yale College, and Maggie, a junior at Colgate University.
Susan currently serves as the Chair of the Connecticut Coalition for Choice, and is a member of the national board of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. She chairs the nominating committee of the New Haven Mayor's Task Force on AIDS. She is a former trustee of Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Susan received the 2005 Elizabeth Blackwell Award from the Connecticut National Organization for Women.
Susan Flanders Cushman '98, Vice President
Honeoye Falls, N.Y.
cushman@hws.edu
Susan has been on faculty at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in the Biology department since 2006. In addition to teaching introductory and upper level courses every year, her research focuses on evaluating stream restoration practices and biomonitoring of stream communitites in the Finger Lakes region. She is currently involved in research on trophic cascades in freshwater systems with other faculty in the Biology department and has contributed to studies in the Owasco and Cayuga lakes watersheds.
Outside of her field research, Susan is interested in how students are stimulated in meaningful classroom experiences through active learning and community-based learning. She continues to develop her pedagogical "best practices" and participates in numerous discussion groups and events at the Center for Teaching and Learning at the Colleges.
While Susan was a student, she was a member of the WS Swimming and Diving team, and is now the team's faculty fellow.
Susan resides in Honeoye Falls, NY with her husband, Jeremy Cushman '96 and her son, Riley.
Linda
Arrington '88
New York, N.Y.
Term: 2005-2009
Lda66@aol.com
Susan Lloyd Yolen '72
New Haven, Conn.
Term: 2008-2012
syolen@sbcglobal.net
Gail Herman McGinn '73
Washington, D.C.
Term: 2006-2010
gail@mcginn.org
Historian
TBD
Director
of Alumnae Relations
(ex-officio)
Kathy Killius Regan '82
(315) 781-3700 (office)
(877) HWS-4438 (office)
FAX: (315) 781-3767
regan@hws.edu
Alumnae Relations Secretary
Betty Merkle
(315) 781-3700
merkle@hws.edu
Afro-Latino Alumni/Alumnae
Assoc.
TBD
Alumna Achievement Award Chair
Laura Strickler '94
lauras@princeton.edu
Alumnae Student Relations
Lauren Shallish
'05
shallish@hws.edu
Jillian Oberfield '01
jillianoberfield@hotmail.com
Career Development
TBD <-->
Centennial Chair
Susan Flanders Cushman '98
cushman@hws.edu
Class Correspondent Chair
Taffy Smith Sibbett '50
esibbett@alum.hws.edu
Distinguished Faculty
Award
Karin Richards Moore '89
karin_67@yahoo.com
Heron Society
Kerry McCullough Brown '87
Kerry.Brown@cox.net
Honors
Christine Bennett-West '94
sailfastandtakechances@yahoo.com
Regional Programming
TBD
Student Representative
Rebecca Perkins
Rebecca.Perkins@hws.edu
Katharyn Schofield Martens '46
(1961-64)
Midlothian, Va.
herbkm@aol.com
Nancy Stone Wilson '50
(1967-72)
Asheville, N.C.
swilson241@charter.net
Susan Connolly Eckert '70 (1978-80)
Lancaster, Pa.
eckert@unitedwaylancpa.org
Barbara Maynard Chilson '69 (1981-83)
Inverness, Ill.
barbchilson@hotmail.com
Holly S. Evans '71 (1983-84)
Copenhagen, N.Y.
hevans@ccsknights.org
Stephanie Shires Hooper '65 (1984-86)
Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.
stephiehooper@msn.com
Carol Davidson Gottliebsen '75 (1986-88)
Ann Arbor, Mich.
cgottliebs@aol.com
Lindley E. Doran '69 (1988-90)
Houston, Texas
doran@rice.edu
Rebecca Tracy Boyle '81 (1990-92)
Hamburg, N.Y.
reba212@adelphia.net
Susan Albert Athas '75 (1992-94)
Dedham, Mass.
ftbf@verizon.net
D-L Kenney Wormley '70 (1994-95)
Philadelphia, Pa.
wormleydl@juno.com
Liza Pille Georges '80 (1995-96)
San Diego, Calif.
Elizabeth.p.georges@smithbarney.com
Susan Rock Tully '88 (1996-98)
Arlington, Mass.
srocktully@alum.hws.edu
Carol Brotman White '76 (1998-2000)
Bethesda, Md.
cbwhite@alum.hws.edu
Nancy Nowak Rutherford '71 (2000-2002)
Rochester, N.Y.
nrutherf@rochester.rr.com
Sandra A. Rivera '85 (2002-2004)
Washington, D.C.
srivera@usitc.org
Melanie Sage '95 (2004-2006)
South Hadley, Mass.
melsage@comcast.net
Council Committees
Laura Strickler '94
(Chair)
Lawrenceville, N.J.
lauras@princeton.edu
Sally A. Webster '74
Geneva, N.Y.
websters@union.edu
Kathy Killius Regan '82 (ex-officio)
Susan Lloyd Yolen '72
New Haven, Conn.
syolen@sbcglobal.net
Susan Flanders Cushman '98 (Chair)
cushman@hws.edu
Carol Spadaccia Kimmerle '74
Kenmore, N.Y.
spas36@adelphia.net
Laurie Kerschner '78
St. Paul, Minn.
laurie.kerschner@comcast.com
Betsey McNamara '87
Concord, N.H.
bmcnamaragrants@comcast.net
Karin Richards Moore '89
Washington, D.C.
karin_67@yahoo.com
Kenneth Spitzer '55
Syracuse, N.Y.
kspitze2@twcny.rr.com
Frank Young '68
New York, N.Y.
fyoung@collegiateschool.org
