Leadership Council meets


Fourteen of the 17 members of the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) Leadership Council attended this year’s meeting.

“You have been our faithful friends and supporters for a long time,” said James Wei, dean of the SEAS. “There was a time when engineering was on the fringes of Princeton University and we started telling the administration about all the accomplishments of the engineering school; but we have to do more. We have to move forward. I hope that you will give my successor all the support you have given me.”

Dennis Keller ’63, chairman of the SEAS Leadership Council, commented that Dean Wei had established the group in 1991 and that he felt fortunate to have served all 11 years.

“It has been more than a pleasure working with Jim Wei and my colleagues over these years,” Mr. Keller said. “Our role is to listen, consider, and respond to the needs of SEAS. Engineering adds to the University, and one of the tasks I want this group to continue to work on is communicating that message both inside the University and outside the University community.”

Photo by Frank Wojciechowski

Members of the SEAS Leadership Council are, from left, R. Quintus Anderson ’53, chairman, The Aarque Companies; Hans Hornung, director, graduate aeronautical lab, California Institute of Technology; Dennis Keller ’63, chairman and chief executive officer, DeVry Inc.; Morton Collins *63, general partner, DSV Partners; R. James Macaleer ’55, chairman, SMS Corp.; Preston Haskell III ’60, president, The Haskell Co.; Jeffrey Drazan ’80, general partner, Sierra Ventures; Derek Lidow ’73, chief executive officer and president, Isuppli; Donald Dixon ’69, managing director, Trident Capital LP; William Schowalter, dean of engineering, University of Illinois; Wesley Harris *68, professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John Prausnitz *55, professor, University of California at Berkeley; Venkatesh Narayanamurti, dean of engineering and applied science, Harvard University; Beatriz Infante ’76, president and chief executive officer, Aspect Communications Corp.; and SEAS Dean James Wei. Not pictured are Cornelius Bond Jr. ’56, general partner, New Enterprise Associates; Charles Kalmbach Jr. ’68 *72, senior vice president for administration, Princeton University; and Kimberly Ritrievi ’80, managing director, Goldman Sachs and Co.