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Board Report
The Board of Trustees meets three times a year at Union College. Following each meeting, Chairman Frank L. Messa ’73 issues a Board Report, which can be found here.
New Trustees
Paul LeClerc is president of the New York Public Library and in February 2008 received Union’s inaugural John Bigelow Medal. The medal recognizes friends of the College who have contributed to the advancement of humanity. LeClerc was chair of Union’s Department of Modern Languages and Literatures from 1971 through 1977. He has authored five scholarly volumes on writers of the French Enlightenment. He is a trustee of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a director of the National Book Foundation and served as president of Hunter College in New York City from 1988 to 1993. He joined the Board of Trustees in October 2008.
Dr. Kathy E. Magliato ’85 is the director of Women’s Cardiac Services at Saint John’s Medical Center in Santa Monica, Calif. and is at the forefront of a national campaign to promote awareness of heart disease in women. Magliato is one of the few female cardiothoracic surgeons in the world and is the former head of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center artificial heart program. At Union, Magliato earned a bachelor’s degree cum laude in chemistry and biology. In the last five years, she has twice presented at Homecoming and Family Weekend. Among her family are father, Nicholas Magliato, Sr. ’58, late uncle Frank J. Magliato ’56 and sister Nancy (Magliato) Jensen ’81. She joined the Board of Trustees in October 2008.
Kelly M. Williams ’86 is the managing director of Credit Suisse First Boston’s Asset Management Division, which includes part the Union endowment and more than $8 billion of U.S. investments in roughly 450 private equity funds. Williams earned a law degree from New York University in 1989 and spent her early career in global finance law at Prudential. She was inducted into the New York City YWCA’s Academy of Women Leaders in 2007. At Union, she earned a bachelor’s degree magna cum laude in political science and mathematics. She joined the Board of Trustees in October 2008.