New Trustees Named

Three Pomona alumnae--Edith Andrew '57, Jennifer Doudna '85 and Sarah B. Wilson '99--have been elected to the Board of Trustees of Pomona College.

Andrew has spent more than three decades in community service. She served as Pomona's Chicago alumni chair for a number of years and, since 1998, has served on the National Campaign Committee. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors and secretary of the Andrew Family Foundation, which works to foster individuals through education, relieve suffering through humanitarian organizations, and develop and encourage the arts. She is a team trustee of Lawrence University, vice president of the Naples (FL) P.E.O. Sisterhood Group, and a member of the Development Cabinet of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, where she has also served as a trustee, elder and deacon. She is married to Edward Andrew '56.

Doudna is the Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University and an associate investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. A leading researcher on the structure of RNA and ribozymes, she has received many honors for her work--most recently, a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation. Following her studies at Pomona, she earned her Ph.D. in biochemistry at Harvard University and has served as a research fellow in molecular biology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and as the Lucille P. Markey Scholar in Biomedical Science at the University of Colorado.

Wilson, who will serve a three-year term on the Board as the young alumni representative, currently works at the University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Hall of Science. Under a grant from the California Department of Public Health, she serves on a team creating a tobacco education program for 6th through 12th grade students. She has worked as a laboratory assistant in Pomona's Chemistry Department, an HIV/AIDS case manager assistant at the East Valley Community Health Center, a family support services case manager at the Foothill AIDS Project, and a residential advisor at Pomona. Wilson comes from a long line of Pomona graduates, including her mother, Laurie Frank Wilson '72; grandparents Richard N. Frank '46 and Mary Alice Frank '47; her aunt Jolley S. Frank '79; and her uncle Richard R. Frank '78.