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New Trustees Announced at Smith CollegeFive new members will join the Smith College board of trustees on July 1, 1997, and an existing member will become chair-elect of the board. New board members, all of whom are Smith alumnae, will include author and activist Gloria Steinem; former head of President Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers Laura D'Andrea Tyson; prominent Chicago civic and community leader Jane Lofgren Pearsall; energy consultant Gayle White Jackson; and the current president of the college's Student Government Association, Amanda Gilman, who will graduate from Smith later this month. Rochelle Braff Lazarus, chairman and chief executive officer of the New York-based advertising firm, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, will become chair-elect of the board for a year before assuming the board leadership in the summer of 1998. Ogilvy & Mather is the world's sixth largest advertising agency network, with 272 offices in 64 countries and billings of well over $6 billion. Lazarus has been with the company since 1971, three years after she graduated from Smith. She also holds an M.B.A. degree from Columbia University. Steinem is a well-known author, lecturer, editor and feminist organizer, whose latest published work, a collection of essays, is titled "Moving Beyond Words." She is the founder of a number of organizations, among them Ms. magazine, the Ms. Foundation for Women, Voters of Choice, the National Women's Political Caucus and the Coalition for Women. Tyson, the first woman to chair the Council of Economic Advisers, received the Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before assuming her post with the Clinton administration, she headed the Institute of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley where she wasalso professor of economics and business administration. Recently, she resigned from her position with the Clinton administration and returned to private life and teaching in California. Jackson is president of Gayle P. W. Jackson, Inc., a St. Louis consulting firm that specializes in the energy industry, international energy policy, corporate venturing and international business development of emerging companies and technologies. She was also chief of staff of the International Energy Agency's coal industry advisory board from 1985-95. She has been a board member of several national and Missouri non-profit organizations and active in Smith College fund-raising projects. She received the M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Washington University in St. Louis. Pearsall, who is a board member of a number of Chicago organizations including Mid-America Leadership Foundation, the League of Women Voters and the United Way, founded Smith Internships in the Public Interest in Chicago. The program, through which Smith undergraduates may serve paid internships at a range of non-profit organizations, is being used as a model for Smith internship projects in other cities. Gilman, a government major who is also focusing on economics, has not made definite plans for next year but is exploring opportunities with law firms and non-profit organizations in New York and California. She plans to go to law school "in a year or two." Last summer she held an internship with the Association of University Teachers in London, assisting with a campaign to increase Parliamentary funding for higher education. It is customary for each outgoing president of the Student Government Association to serve a two-year term on the Smith board of trustees.
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