Board of Directors Meeting Calendar 2009-2010
Board Retreat – August 25-26, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Friday, December 4, 2009
Friday, January 15, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
All regular meetings begin at 8:00 am in the Library Conference room
Jack Bunce, Chair
Jack was a part time resident of Ketchum from 1995 to 2002
and has been a full time resident since 2002. Jack is the founder of
the investment firm Greyhawk Capital Management and serves as a Senior
Advisor to Hellman & Friedman, a San Francisco private equity firm
where he worked as a Managing Director from 1988 to 2006. He serves on
numerous corporate boards including NIC, Arch Capital Group, BirdDog
Solutions, Active Business Network, Serra Energy Holdings, and IMSI
Design. He earned an AB degree in International Relations from Stanford
University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Jack and his wife
Elizabeth have four children at TCS: Christopher Nalen (Class of 2012), Josie
Bunce (Class of 2012), Austin Nalen (Class of 2010), and Wyatt Bunce (Class of 2010). Their
daughter Devon Bunce graduated from TCS in 2006.
Pat Aluisi
Pat Aluisi moved to the Wood River Valley from Florida in 2002. Her daughter Jordan Sachs is in the fifth grade at TCS. Pat was general counsel and then a director of the global construction company, Bovis, LTD, based in London. She was a founding director of Qorval, a business turn around company in Naples, FL. Pat has served on a number of Boards including the Naples Children and Education Foundation, The Boys and Girls' Club of Colier County and A Company of Fools in Hailey.
Whit Atkinson
Whit, a life-long resident of the Wood River Valley, attended The Community School in grades 7-12 and graduated with the Class of 1982. After earning a degree in business economics from Colorado College in 1986, Whit continued his education at the University of Washington where he studied accounting. He returned to the Valley in 1988 to help manage the family business, Atkinsons' Markets. He and his wife, Susie, have two children Peter (TCS Class of 2009) and Morgan (Class of 2012).
Barbara W. Boswell, Ex-Officio
Barbara has lived in the Wood River Valley since 1986. She moved from Southern California where she received her masters from California State University Northridge and her doctorate from the University of Southern California. She has a love of and commitment to education and has taught at all levels from the third grade through college. She also served on the board of the Paso Robles Joint Union High School District from 1981-1985 and was its chair for a period of time. She has been a member of The Community School's board since 1993 and served as Chair of Campaign 2000. Barbara also has been on the board of Claremont McKenna College for the past 16 years.
Charles Conn
Charles is Senior Advisor to the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation and a private investor. At the Moore Foundation, he focuses on conservation projects, including the Foundation’s wild salmon ecosystems initiative and the Palmyra Atoll research station. As an investor he works with energy and green tech companies. Charles is active in the Ketchum community, and currently also serves on the boards of Idaho’s Bounty, Leroy’s and Trout Unlimited. He is a member of the Energy Solutions Team of the CDC and of the Ketchum City Council. He is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. Previously, Charles was an entrepreneur and business consultant. He co-founded Citysearch and as CEO led the company through its mergers with Interactive Corporation’s Ticketmaster, as well as its public offering and acquisitions of Microsoft Sidewalk, Match.com, Evite, and other companies. Prior to starting TMCS, Charles was a partner with McKinsey & Company, and a leader of its Growth Strategy Practice. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School, Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and Boston University. He is married to Beverley Robertson and have two children Hannah (Class 2016) at TCS and Alex (Class of 2009.)
Michael Engl, Emeritus
Michael has been an active contributor to the arts and education for many years. He has been actively involved with the Sun Valley Center for the Arts as a member of the Advisory Board, and Michael has served The Community School in many capacities over the years. He was Chairman of Board of Trustees of The Mountain School, and was instrumental in the effort to merge the two schools in 1988. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of our School for six years. He is currently on the Board of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe and is the Chair of its Research Center Committee. He is also Vice President of The Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe and a member of the Director's Council of The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Michael was Dean and Chairman of the Visual Communications Division at New School University in New York and has spent many years managing and directing family trusts. Michael received his B.A. from Williams College and did his graduate studies at Yale University and Columbia University. His daughter Riley graduated from TCS in 1992.
Mark Eshman
Mark Eshman's non-profit career began at age 14 at a McGovern for President rally in Los Angeles. Mark's community service has included the founding of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art's largest support group, serving as a volunteer Big Brother, and coaching Blaine County Rec District girls basketball. He currently serves as Chair of the Duke University Alumni Admissions Advisory Committee for Idaho. Mark is a graduate of "Leadership Wood River Valley" and is entering his tenth year as a Community School director including three as Board Chair. Mark studied economics at the University of London and is a graduate of Duke University. He is Chairman of ClearRock Capital, LLC in Ketchum. Mark and his wife Jill have two daughters, Emily (Class of `08) and Erica (Class of 2010).
Leigh Everitt
Leigh is the mother of George(Class of 2015), Henry(Class of 2016), James(Class of 2018), and William(Class of 2020). She and her husband, Jamie, moved to Ketchum in 1992 from Marin County, California. She has been an active volunteer with The Wood River Community YMCA, and has been a Community School room parent for many years. She received a B.A. from St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y. in 1988.
Tim Flaherty
Tim and His wife Tracy moved to the Wood River Valley from Seattle. Tim is the founder of Silver Creek Capital. He and his wife Tracy have five children. Four of their children attend TCS Jake is in the 8th grade and their triplet sons, Dane, Sean and Braden are in the 6th grade at TCS.
Ellen Gillespie
Ellen Gillespie and her husband James are the parents of three TCS students, Emily (2012), Lily (2014) and Thomas (2016). She is the co‐owner of Sun Valley Events, organizing some of the largest events in the Wood River Valley, including Wagon Days and the Wellness Festival. Prior to moving to Sun Valley from New York in 2003, Ellen worked for Time Warner in Washington DC and London. She is a graduate of Duke University.
Jay Hagenbuch, Secretary
Jay and Kim Hagenbuch moved to the Valley full time in 2003, after owning a home here since 1995. They have five children-- Henry (23), Hunter (21), Hilary (20), Sydney (TCS 7th Grade) and Johnny (TCS 2nd Grade). Jay is Chairman of M&H Realty Partners, which is a San Francisco-based, real estate opportunity fund business that he co-founded ten years ago. He is also a private equity investor and has been a director of a number of public and private companies. He served on the board of the San Francisco Symphony for eight years, spending six years as Chairman of the Finance Committee. For eight years, he was also a Trustee and Board Chair of Town School for Boys in San Francisco that Henry and Hunter attended. Jay received a BA degree from Princeton University and an MBA degree from Stanford University.
David Holmes
David attained a B.A. in political science at Middlebury (1964) and an M.A. in International Affairs at Columbia University (1966). He attained a Ph.D. in higher educational administration, with cognate work in Chinese politics, at the University of Denver (1974). He worked at the University of Vermont, where he created a university-wide instructional improvement and faculty development center. He headed up the center for 13 years, taught graduate courses and was tenured as an associate professor. While researching a book on the McCarthy era in education, he began work as a program officer at the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education in Washington (FIPSE) in Washington, D.C. He is the author of the book Stalking the Academic Communist published by in 1988. In 1991 David became the headmaster’s at his old school, Suffield Academy in Connecticut. He served as Headmaster until 2004. In 2004 David moved to Sun Valley and became Vice President for Programs at the Foundation for Excellent Schools (FES) and joined in creating the Sun Valley Leadership Institute. FES has programs in 130 schools across the nation with the aim of raising aspirations and educational attainment of youth in low income urban and rural communities. In August 2006, he assumed duties as Executive Director of the Lee Pesky Learning Center. David is married to Antonia Kiley Holmes and has two children, Chris and Caleb.
Randi Kanellitsas
Randi moved to the Wood River Valley with her family in 2000. Prior to that, after graduating college with a BS Degree in Nursing, she worked as a registered nurse followed by a career in the medical equipment industry. Randi has been active in the Parent’s Association, serving as room parent, VP of the Lower School, VP of the Middle School and as a Co-President. Randi and her husband John have two children at TCS, Tim (Class of 2012), Ben (Class of 2013).
Jim Milgard
Jim and his family moved to the wood River in 2005 from Seattle. Jim and his wife Jennifer have two daughters attending The Community School Madison (Class of 2015) and Molly (Class of 2018). In 2003 Jim started a small private investment company focusing on acquisition, private equity and venture capitol named The Great Day Group, that is now based in Ketchum. Jim sits on the board of Directors for two additional non-profit groups The Sun Club and The Great Day Foundation.
Jake Peters
Jake Peters is a transportation entrepreneur and former investment banker. Jake's current transportation-related endeavor is swoop Technology. He is also involved with an edutainment site, PicLits.com, and Leroy's Ice Cream (whose profits benefit Wood River Valley children). Prior to moving to Ketchum in 2001 with his wife Trina and daughter Katie (Class of 2018), Jake was a managing director at Credit Suisse based in Boston, New York and London.
Peter Smith
Peter was born and raised in Southern California. After graduating from Santa Clara University with a degree in business administration, he joined a family business. Pete and his wife Becky moved to the Wood River Valley in the mid 1980s. His daughter Alison graduated from the Community School in '89. He has served on the boards of the Idaho Nature Conservancy, the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation, and the Sun Valley Center for the Arts. Becky has served on the Board of the Community School, as well as the Sun Valley Center for the Arts. Pete has four sons, the youngest of which was in college when they moved to Sun Valley.
Lisa Stelck
Lisa is the mother of Reed `05 and Cody '08 Boeger. She and her husband, Bill Boeger, moved to Sun Valley in 1995 from Palo Alto, CA. Lisa is a licensed real estate professional. She was the founder and director of The Thistleberry Preschools in the Bay Area. She has been an active member of the TCS Parents Association. Lisa graduated from UCLA and received her MBA from Stanford.
Joan Swift
Joan and her husband, Tom, have two sons at The Community School, Ben (2014) and Nick (2017). They moved full time to the Valley in 2005, having owned a home here since 1990. Joan spent several years working in commercial real estate development with Hines Interests and, previously, in investment banking with Merrill Lynch. Her non‐profit experience includes trustee and board chair positions with both the Bay Area Discovery Museum (Sausalito, Ca) and the Environmental Working Group (Washington, DC). She is currently involved locally as trustee and treasurer of both the Wood River Land Trust and the Building Materials Thrift Store. Joan earned a BA from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Stanford University.
Jon Thorson
Jon is a retired physician and pharmaceutical company executive. He is an active community volunteer, currently serving on the board of the Wood River Medical center, the county P&Z commission and as a hospice volunteer. Daughter Katy attended TCS in ’84 and was the setter on the state championship Volley Ball team. Go Cutthroats!
Don Wiseman
Don Wiseman has lived in the Wood River Valley for over 25 years. He earned his B.S. in Accounting from Montana State University. Don was an owner and operator of the Sun Summit Ski and Bike Shop before becoming the Director of the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation. Don's two children graduated from TCS, Katie Matteson (2002) and Mike Matteson (2007.)