New Charter and Alumni Trustees Announced

 June 28, 2006

ANDOVER, Mass. — Oscar L. Tang ’56, president of the Board of Trustees, has announced the selection of six new trustees. Charter trustees Shelly D. Guyer ’78 and Joshua L. Steiner ’83 will begin the first of a possible two eight-year terms on July 1. They will be joined by alumni trustees Michael Schmertzler ’70 and Susanna A. Jones ’77, elected to four-year terms by the alumni body; Peter T. Hetzler, MD ’72, serving a three-year term as president of the Alumni Council; and Alfred A. Blum Jr. ’62, serving a two-year term as co-chair of the Annual Giving Board.

• Guyer is vice president for business development and investor relations at Nuvelo, a biopharmaceutical company in San Carlos, Calif. She served Phillips Academy as an alumni trustee from 1992-1996. A summa cum laude graduate of Princeton, Guyer also holds an MBA degree from UC-Berkeley.

• Managing principal and founding partner of the Quadrangle Group in New York City, Steiner received a BA degree from Yale and an MS degree from Oxford University.

• Schmertzler received a BA degree from Yale and an MBA degree from Harvard. Formerly an investment banker, he now chairs the Credit Suisse First Boston Equity Partners investment committee while advising a number of nonprofit organizations and teaching at Yale.

• Head of school at the Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, Conn., Jones is an honors graduate of Princeton and earned MA and MPhil degrees from Columbia.

• Hetzler is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon who practices in Little Silver, N.J. He holds a BS degree from Stanford and an MD degree from the University of Michigan.

• Blum, a graduate of Emory University, is chief development officer for the Harvard-Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics in Boston.