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June 16, 2009 for Immediate Release

Founding Board of Trustees Welcomed at Antioch University New England

Ohio-based Antioch University Board of Governors approves first-ever AUNE board at summer meeting

(Keene, NH) June 16, 2009 - Antioch University New England (AUNE) is pleased to announce the appointment of its first board of trustees. Martha Summerville, president of Summerville Consulting, LLC, and a 1985 alumna of Antioch University New England, will serve as board chair. Charlton MacVeagh, a thirty-year banking industry veteran and former trustee and board chair for Franklin Pierce University, will serve as vice-chair.

"I am honored to welcome these esteemed community members to AUNE's inaugural board of trustees," said AUNE president David Caruso. "Each board member brings significant life experience and great wisdom to our campus. I look forward to working closely with them over the coming years."

Antioch University New England is one of the campuses of Antioch University, a nonprofit, five-campus university based in Ohio. Antioch University's Board of Governors approved the Antioch University New England trustee nominations and authorized the AUNE board to govern at their June 5 meeting. In the fall of 2008, the Antioch University Board of Governors directed each campus to establish its own board of trustees and delegated significant authority and responsibility for campus governance, management oversight, and philanthropic advancement of their particular campus to these boards.

The AUNE board of trustees will meet for the first time in July. In addition to Martha Summerville and Charlton MacVeagh, AUNE named the following individuals as trustees:

Randall S. Carmel, attorney at law, former member of Antioch University New England Board of Visitors;
Jaymie Durnan, attorney at law, deputy director, Joint Advanced Concepts, U.S. Department of Defense;
Jennifer A. Kramer, 2004 AUNE alumna, associate director of philanthropy, the Nature Conservancy, Vermont chapter;
John (Jack) G. Merselis, Jr., MD, 1996 AUNE alumnus, chairman of CSR Corporation, author, retired physician;
Alan T. Popp, 1999 AUNE alumnus, chief executive officer of the Mason-Wright Foundation;
Donald L. Shumway, president and chief executive officer, Crotched Mountain Foundation, former commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services;
M. Kay Thomson, 1995 AUNE alumna, former Antioch University Board of Trustees member, founding member of the Ocean State Light Opera company;
Edward J. Tomey, business and non-profit consultant, board chair of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, AUNE faculty emeritus.
Cheryl Wilfong, 1993 AUNE alumna, treasurer of the Board of Directors of Vermont Insight Meditation Center, retired psychotherapist, accountant, financial consultant, and human services administrator

About Antioch University New England
This is Antioch University New England's forty-fifth year as an institution of higher education. Based in Keene, New Hampshire, AUNE offers rigorous, practice-oriented, values-based master's, doctoral, and certificate programs to more than one thousand students. Degrees in education, leadership and management, environmental studies, and psychology reflect a dedication to activism, social justice, community service, and sustainability.

About Antioch University
Antioch University is a five-campus university located in four states. Each campus has its own distinct academic programs, community life, and regional or national identity. Antioch University is founded on principles of rigorous liberal arts education, innovative experiential learning, and socially engaged citizenship. The multiple campuses of the University nurture in their students the knowledge, skills, and habits of reflection to excel as lifelong learners, democratic leaders, and global citizens who live lives of meaning and purpose.

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