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September 13, 2006
ANDOVER, Mass.—Head of School Barbara Landis Chase has announced that Peter Ramsey is returning to Andover as secretary of the academy, a post he left in 2004 to help establish a major fund-raising campaign at Babson College. Following a two-year stint as Babson’s vice president for development and alumni relations, Ramsey resigned from that position earlier this summer. He will resume his duties at Phillips Academy on September 18.
As head of Andover’s Office of Academy Resources (OAR), Ramsey will once again be responsible for leading the school’s fund-raising activities and alumni relations efforts. An integral member of the Academy’s senior administrative leadership team, he will work closely with the Head of School’s Office and Board of Trustees.
During his previous nine-year stint as secretary of the academy from 1995 to 2004, Ramsey oversaw Campaign Andover, a six-year $208 million fund-raising campaign that, at the time, represented a fund-raising record for independent secondary schools. Among other initiatives, the monies raised during Campaign Andover were used by the school to help fund scholarships and faculty chairs and to expand and refurbish faculty housing to increase the adult-to-student ratio in the dorms. Monies raised also helped fund the construction of the Gelb Science Center, the construction of a new hockey rink, and the renovation and expansion of Cochran Chapel.
At the time of his departure to Babson, Chase said of Ramsey, “Peter has taken our fund-raising program to a new level and taught us much about the important business of building connections with our alumni and parents.”
In welcoming him back to Andover, Chase echoed those earlier accolades, saying, “Peter is a consummate development professional and a great member of any senior team. We are both eager to work together again, and I know the Andover community will join me in welcoming him back into the fold.”
Chase offered thanks both to Elizabeth Roberts for her contributions to the Academy during the two years she served as secretary and to Gerrit Keator for stepping in as interim secretary after Roberts’ resignation in August.
Ramsey sounded an equally positive note in discussing his return to Andover, calling it a “special privilege to be able to come back to work with Barbara Chase, Oscar Tang, the Board of Trustees, and a faculty and staff that are so thoughtful and respectful of the process involved in growing and maintaining alumni relationships.”
Asked about his past success with Campaign Andover, Ramsey was quick to credit Chase and David Underwood, who was then president of the Board of Trustees, calling them the true leaders of the initiative. It was the quality of his relationship with Chase and Underwood, as well as his relationship with the rest of the Andover community, that makes returning to Andover such a pleasure, he said.
Prior to coming to Andover in 1995, Ramsey served as vice president for resources and public affairs at Wellesley College and as director of development at Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. A graduate of South Kent School and St. Lawrence University, he has worked in the development field since 1974.
Ramsey will continue to make his home in Weston, Mass., where he lives with his wife, Isabel, and son Andrew, age 11. Isabel is a clinical associate professor at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston, and Andrew is a student in Weston’s public schools.
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