Connecticut College Board of Trustees Gains Six New Members.

NEW LONDON, Conn. -- Six new trustees were elected to the Connecticut College Board of Trustees at its quarterly meeting May 21.

"This is an outstanding group of new trustees, who bring to the college broad experience in a variety of fields and enterprises, including finance, real estate, public policy and the arts," said Connecticut College President Norman Fainstein.

New trustees named to the Board, effective July 1, include:

--William P. Barrack of Wellesley, Mass., a 1981 graduate of the college. Barrack is a principal at Spaulding & Slye Colliers, which is a property development, investment, management, and brokerage firm in Boston and Washington, DC. Barrack specializes in representing first-class office tenants during their real estate planning processes, as well as tenants who have sophisticated subleasing needs. Barrack is a member of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board and has been involved with the Wellesley Conservation Council, American Cancer Society and Boy Scouts of America.

--Eduardo Castell of Brooklyn, N.Y., a 1987 graduate of the college. Castell served as a young alumni trustee from 1987-90 and is currently Deputy Comptroller for External Relations within the Office of the New York City Comptroller. Previously, Castell was chief of staff for Democratic Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, and was also legislative director for the late Congressman Ted Weiss. During his public service career, Castell drafted a bill on hate crime prevention which was drafted into law as the Hate Crimes Prevention Act and negotiated a landmark agreement to create a $130 million affordable housing fund for New York City. He has served as president of the Congressional Hispanic Staff Association.

--James A. Folger of San Francisco, Calif., a member of the Class of 2005. Folger was elected to a three-year term as a Young Alumni Trustee. During his four years at CC, Folger held several leadership positions, including house fellow, student representative to the Strategic Planning Steering Committee, copy editor for the Psychology Department Journal, and class president of the Student Government Association. Folger majored, with distinction, in government, psychology and American studies.

--Judith Tindal Opatrny of Greenwich, Conn., a 1972 graduate of the college. Opatrny is a former law librarian at New York City firms Willkie, Farr & Gallagher and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and at the Chicago firm Kirkland & Ellis. She is currently a member of the Junior League of Greenwich, a member of The Friends of Greenwich Library Board, a trustee of Audubon-Greenwich, and a trustee of Oxford Academy. She serves on the Connecticut College Alumni Strategic Planning Liaison Committee, and established the Judith Tindal Opatrny '72 Junior Faculty Fellows Fund which provides summer stipends to eligible junior, tenure-track faculty members for use in their research and/or course planning.

--Kevin Wade of Locust Valley, N.Y., a member of the class of 1976. Wade is a playwright and screenwriter whose works include the plays "Key Exchange" and "Cruise Control" and the screenplays for "Maid in Manhattan," "Meet Joe Black," "Junior," "Mr. Baseball," "True Colors" and "Working Girl." As an actor in the late 1970s, he appeared in numerous Off Broadway productions, most notably in the lead roles of the plays "Hosanna," "Woyzeck" and in the 1978 film "Scenic Route."

--Pamela D. Zilly of New York, N.Y., a 1975 graduate of the college. Zilly is a senior managing director in the Restructuring and Reorganization Group at The Blackstone Group L.P., one of the top U.S. private investment firms. Before joining Blackstone in 1991, she worked at Chemical Bank, where she divided her time between the Mergers and Acquisitions Group and the Restructuring and Reorganization Group.

Ranked among the most selective private liberal arts colleges in the nation, Connecticut College enrolls 1,900 men and women from 46 states and 40 countries. The college is known for putting the liberal arts into action through interdisciplinary studies, international programs, funded internships, student-faculty research and service learning. Founded in 1911, the college operates under an 83-year-old honor code.