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FOUNDATION NEWS
THREE JOIN FOUNDATION BOARD The Grace Cottage Foundation Board of Directors welcomed three new directors recently, all unanimously approved by the Otis Health Care Center Board of Trustees:
Joan McConnel is well known to many people in Townshend. A year-round resident here since 1992 when she “retired” after twenty years at Aetna Life & Casualty in Hartford, CT, Joan then worked at Mary Meyer Corporation as Director of Operations for eight years. Joan has been Fair Day Booth Chair and is currently the Fair Day Art Show Chairperson. She and her husband, Steve, who is also a dedicated Grace Cottage volunteer, donated funds for construction of seven different areas in the hospital, and Joan is very active in town and area civic activities. Victor Rabinowitch has had a family home on the Wardsboro/Jamaica line for many years. He is a former Senior Vice President of The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and, prior to that, was the Executive Director of the Office of International Affairs for the National Academy of Sciences—National Research Council. He is currently a consultant; he and his wife, Marti, divide their time between Washington, D.C. and Vermont. Dawn Truesdell and her husband, Richard, live in Manhattan, but have had a second home in Townshend for over ten years. Dawn was an international banking officer for Marine Midland Bank before she became a senior product manager at Colgate Palmolive, a position she left to raise the couple’s three children. She holds a BS in Economics and Finance from The Wharton School, and an MBA in Marketing from Columbia University. These new members join David Pennock, (President), Carl Ferenbach (Vice President), Brian Evans (Treasurer), Cindy Newman (Secretary), Effie Chamberlin, Lawrin Crispe, Bob Labrie, Al LaRochelle, Hank Sanders, and Michael Sweeney on the Foundation Board, responsible for fund raising and fund management for Grace Cottage.
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