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Alfred Zeien
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MBL Board of Trustees Elects New Members
Alfred Zeien, former Chairman and CEO of The Gillette Company, will serve as Chair
The Board of Trustees of the Marine Biological Laboratory recently elected Alfred Zeien, the former Chairman and CEO of The Gillette Company and an MBL Trustee in the Classes of 1998 and 2002, to serve as Chairman of the Board. He replaces Sheldon J. Segal, who stepped down on December 31st after serving as Chair since 1991 (see story on page 3).
The Board also elected Bruce Beal, Robert Haselkorn, and Joan Ruderman to serve as members of the Classes of 2005, 2006, and 2006, respectively. Their terms begin in January, 2003. Mary B. Conrad, Thomas S. Crane, John Dowling, and George W. Logan were re-elected as Treasurer, Clerk, President of the Corporation, and Vice Chair, respectively.
The Trustees re-elected Ronald P. O’Hanley, Vice Chairman of the Mellon Financial Corporation and President of Mellon International Asset Management group, and Vin Ryan, President, Chairman and CEO of Schooner Capital Corporation, to serve as members of the Class of 2006.
Alfred Zeien graduated from the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture with a B.S. in 1952 and attended the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He retired as Chairman and CEO of Gillette in 1999 and had served as Director of the Bank of Boston, Polaroid, Massachusetts Mutual Insurance Co., and Repligen, and as a Trustee of the University Hospital in Boston. Mr. Zeien has served as a member of the MBL’s Council of Visitors, Discovery Campaign and on the Board of Trustees in the Classes of 1998 and 2002.
Bruce Beal is a Partner of The Beal Companies and Chairman of Beal & Company, Inc. He has been active in the field of real estate since 1960 and was instrumental in the introduction of the condominium concept in Boston. He serves as an advisor to the President and Fellows of Harvard College on various real estate matters involving the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the various graduate schools. He is also a former Trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, is a Director and Trustee of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and is a member of the Boston Art Commission. He received his B.A. from Rollins College in Florida. Mr. Beal has been a member of the MBL’s Council of Visitors since September 2000.
Robert Haselkorn is the Fanny L. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and of Chemistry at The University of Chicago, a position he has held since 1984. He first joined the faculty of The University of Chicago in 1964 as an Assistant Professor. He received his A.B. in Chemistry from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Harvard University. Dr. Haselkorn is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1975 and the Gregor Mendel Medal in Biological Sciences from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in 1996. Dr. Haselkorn is a member of the MBL Corporation and an alumnus of the MBL’s Physiology and Molecular Evolution courses.
Joan Ruderman is the Marion V. Nelson Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School. She received her B.A. from Barnard College in 1969 and earned a Ph.D. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974. Dr. Ruderman is an MBL Investigator and was Co-Director of MBL’s Embryology Course in 1978 and 1979. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Society of Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Ruderman is a Council Member of the American Society for Cell Biology and is on the Advisory Board for Searle’s Scholars Program. She has served on the Board of Trustees of the Society for Developmental Biology and has also served the MBL on the Board of Trustees in the Classes of 1998 and 2002. |
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