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6/11/07

THREE GRADUATES ELECTED TO SLU'S BOARD OF TRUSTEES

CANTON - Three graduates of St. Lawrence University have been elected to its Board of Trustees, for terms beginning July 1.

Carol Pratt Hecklinger '64, of Alexandria, Virginia, and Tilghman Island, Maryland, has been elected for a six-year term. She earned her St. Lawrence degree in English, with a minor in education, and pursued a career in the federal government, primarily with the Department of State, playing a leading role in the development and implementation of refugee policies and an international counter-narcotics program. Prior to her decade-long service to the state department, Hecklinger worked in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the Department of Energy. During the past eight years, Hecklinger lived abroad with her husband, Richard Hecklinger '65, while he served as U.S. ambassador to Thailand (1999-2001) and deputy secretary general of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris (2002-2007).

Also elected to a six-year term is Gregory C. Ferrero '84, of Miami, Florida. Ferrero manages the Florida and Latin American private wealth management businesses for Goldman Sachs Group, which he joined in 1990 as an investment professional in the New York office, managing portfolios for a select group of individuals and families for 17 years before relocating to Miami. He became a managing director in 2006. Ferrero is on the board of the Pear Tree Point School Foundation in Darien, Connecticut, and is on St. Lawrence's Alumni Executive Council and national major gifts committee. He earned his St. Lawrence degree in chemistry, a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Columbia University and the MBA from Harvard Business School.

Kenneth O. Okoth '01, of Washington, D.C., has been elected a McCurdy-Sprague Trustee. McCurdy-Sprague Trustees must have graduated from St. Lawrence between two and 10 years prior to their election, and serve four-year terms. A native of Nairobi, Kenya, Okoth is an Upper School history teacher at the Potomac School, a K-12 independent school in McLean, Virginia. The first African to serve on the University's Board of Trustees, he has also been an adjunct instructor at Georgetown University and a teacher at the Friends School of Baltimore. Okoth earned his St. Lawrence degree in German, and was elected to the national academic honorary society Phi Beta Kappa; he holds a master's degree from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. As an undergraduate, he was active in the Laurentian Singers, University Chorus and Singing Saints, as well as the student government and newspaper. Okoth is an ambassador for the Red Rose School, a grass-roots initiative assisting children in Nairobi.

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