Lawrence Today magazine, Summer 2006
Robert F. Perille, ’80, of Pacific Palisades, California, and Charlot
Nelson Singleton, ’67, of Atherton,
California, were elected to the Lawrence University Board of Trustees at its
winter meeting.
Perille, who joined the board for its May meeting, serves as managing director
of Shamrock Capital Advisors for Shamrock Holdings, an investment company based
in Burbank. Previously, he was managing partner of Banc of America Capital
Investors and spent 23 years with Bank of America in
commercial and investment banking, leveraged finance, and principal investing.
He holds an M.B.A. in finance from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Management
of Babson College. He has been a volunteer for Lawrence for many years, serving
as a class agent and on his 25th reunion gift committee. His wife, Amy Lind
Perille, is also a 1980 graduate of Lawrence.
Singleton, who will take office at the board’s fall meeting in October,
is a leader in volunteer fundraising for many causes in the Greater San Francisco
area, with an emphasis
on children’s health and education. She taught part-time in the Menlo
Park City School District and has a small tutoring business. She graduated
from Lawrence with a degree in biology and later completed graduate-level courses
at California State University-San Jose. She served as class secretary for
the Class of 1967 for 32 years and currently is co-chairing the gift committee
for her 40th reunion. A former board member and current volunteer for the Lucille
Packard Children’s Health Foundation, she is a former trustee of the
Menlo Park School, served on the steering committee for its recent $40-50 million
campaign, and currently is a member of the advisory board for the Endowment
for Excellence in Teaching for the Menlo Park Atherton Education Foundation.
In other action,
vice chair of the board Cynthia Stiehl, ’89, has stepped
down from that position, and Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr.,’77, has assumed
those responsibilities. Kraemer, a trustee since 1999, also serves as vice
chair of the executive committee
and chair of the academic affairs committee. Stiehl, a trustee since 1992,
will continue to serve on the board and as a member of the executive committee
and academic affairs committee.