June 26, 2001 Sp123 Contact: Sarah Maxwell Director of Media Relations 507.646.4183 Six New Trustees Elected to Carleton College Board and Two Named International Advisors Seven Other Trustees Complete Service Northfield, Minn. — Six Carleton College alumni recently were elected to the College’s Board of Trustees. They are Nancy Dennis, William Feldt, Richard Kracum, Charles Lofgren, Leo Lum and Margaret Roggensack. In addition, Dorothy Broom and Hiroshi Fukuda have been named international advisors to the Board. Nancy Dennis, of Highland Park, Ill., is senior director of strategy and alliances for Kraft Foods, the largest consumer food company in North America. She earned her B.A. in economics from Carleton in 1984 and her M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1988. Dennis has been active as a volunteer for Carleton’s Alumni Annual Fund, serving on its board of directors from 1993-2000 and as its chair from 1998-2000, among other roles. This is William Feldt’s second tenure on the Carleton Board. In 1999, he completed a four-year term as an alumni trustee. He is retired president and CEO of Flohr Metal Fabricators, Inc., an international company based in Seattle that manufactures seafood processing equipment and undertakes large-scale metal-fabrication projects for industrial clients. He has served as chair of the board of trustees at Centrestage Theater Arts, as director of Washington Employers, Inc., and as chair of the Seattle Business Coalition. He currently is director of Seattle’s Rotary Club and is a Big Brother to a 12-year-old boy. Feldt earned his B.A. in economics from Carleton in 1961 and his M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1970. He is married to fellow Carleton graduate Karen Grove Feldt and is the parent of Kimberly Feldt, a 1987 graduate of Carleton. Richard Kracum joins the board to serve a four-year term as the 25th reunion trustee. He is a managing director of Wind Point Partners, a private equity firm in Chicago that manages leveraged buyouts. He currently is a director of America’s PowerSports, Inc., Benchmark, Inc., Bushnell Performance Optics, Inc., Marshfield DoorSystems, Inc., Pacific Cycle, L.L.C. and Twitchell Corporation. Kracum earned his B.A. degree in chemistry from Carleton in 1976 and received his M.S. in chemistry and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. He is an active volunteer for Carleton, giving generously to his class’s 25th reunion gift and serving as a member of the reunion gift committee. He is married to fellow Carleton graduate Laura Weiss Kracum. Charles Lofgren previously served on Carleton’s board as an alumni trustee from 1996-2000. He is the owner and president of ADE Inc., a manufacturer of custom packaging material for the electronics, medical, optics and food industries with operations in Chicago and Belgium. He serves on the board of The Newberry Library in Chicago and has served Carleton as an Alumni Annual Fund Decade Director, an Alumni Board member and an Alumni Admissions Representative. He received his B.A. in history from Carleton in 1962 and is married to fellow Carleton graduate Mary Moses Lofgren. Two of his three children also are Carleton graduates. Leo Lum, of San Francisco, was chair and sole shareholder of Pacific Rim Bancorp, now Greater Bay Bancorp, until 1998. He is now retired and involved with venture capital opportunities between Asia and the United States. He is chair of the Golden Gate Bank and serves on the West Coast Chairman’s Council of the Institute for International Education. Lum received his B.A. in history from Carleton in 1969 and his M.S. in history from Tufts University. He is the parent of Amy Lum, a 1998 graduate of Carleton. Margaret Roggensack will serve a four-year term as an alumni trustee. She is counsel for Hogan & Hartson, L.L.P., in Washington, D.C., where she practices in the international trade and legislative areas and chairs the firm’s Latin America Working Group. She is president emeritus of the Washington Foreign Law Society, vice chair of the Washington Office on Latin America, and a member of the Washington, D.C., Advisory Council of Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. In addition, she is a board member of the Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis Association and the Johns Hopkins University Center for ALS Research. Roggensack earned her B.A. in history from Carleton in 1976 and received her J.D. degree from The George Washington University in 1984. She has been active as a volunteer for Carleton, serving as a co-chair of the Washington, D.C., alumni club, on the board of directors of the Alumni Annual Fund, and as a member of the reunion gift committee for her 25th and 20th class reunions. She is married to fellow Carleton graduate Michael Janik. Dorothy Broom, of Red Hill, Australia, will serve a two-year term as international advisor to the board. She is a sociologist of health and illness and senior fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University in Canberra. She is the author of four books and numerous articles on public health and regularly speaks at conferences on the topic. She serves on the editorial board of several scholarly journals and as a member of many public health committees. Her research and teaching interests are in women’s health and illness; sex/gender and health; chronic conditions; health and embodiment; primary health care; and social processes in smoking. Her current focus is on researching inequalities in health marked by gender and class. Broom earned her B.A. in religion from Carleton in 1966, her master’s in sociology from the University of Illinois and her Ph.D. in sociology from the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. Hiroshi Fukuda also will serve as an internation advisor. He has been a Supreme Court Justice in Tokyo, Japan, since 1995. He joined the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1960 and held numerous positions within that organization, including director of the First North America Division, American Affairs Bureau; counselor of the Embassy of Japan in the U.S.; executive assistant to Prime Minister Nakasone; ambassador to Malaysia; and deputy minister for foreign affairs. He graduated from Tokyo University, Faculty of Law, and received his LL.M. degree from Yale University School of Law. He was a special student at Carleton in 1961 and received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Carleton in 1996. Several other transitions took place recently on Carleton’s Board of Trustees. Five trustees retired from the board. They are Robert Larson, Douglas Leatherdale, Thomas Morgan, Martin Trow and Winston Wallin. Larson, a 1956 graduate of Carleton, has served as a trustee since 1993. He currently chairs Lazard Frères Real Estate Investors, LLC, and the Larson Realty Group. Leatherdale is chair and CEO of The St. Paul Companies, Inc., and the parent of a 1977 Carleton graduate. He has been a trustee since 1993. Morgan provided 24 years of service to Carleton’s board. He is a 1949 graduate of the College and has had a long and varied career as a journalist, press secretary, novelist, editor, manager, corporate executive, and policy maker in the media, government and education. Trow is emeritus professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy and faculty associate in the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley. He received an honorary degree from Carleton in 1978 and has been a trustee since 1980. Wallin has been a Carleton trustee since 1983 and served as chair of the board for eight years. He received an honorary degree from Carleton in 1999. He is chair emeritus of Medtronic, Inc., and is the parent of three Carleton graduates. In addition, two trustees completed four-year terms. Emmitt House, a 1971 graduate of Carleton and counsel to MC2 Solutions, LLC, in Chicago, served as an alumni trustee. Caesar Sweitzer is managing director at Salomon Smith Barney, Inc., in New York. He is a 1972 graduate of Carleton and leaves the board after serving as a 25th reunion trustee. # # # #