{"id":5733,"date":"2008-09-29T13:24:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T17:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesthisweek.wordpress.com\/?p=469"},"modified":"2017-02-23T13:29:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:29:13","slug":"three-appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2008\/09\/29\/three-appointed\/","title":{"rendered":"Three appointed to Board of Trustees"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Elaine Tuttle Hansen has announced three appointments to the Bates College Board of Trustees: Steven A. Brown of Brookline, Mass., Sarah Risley Pearson of Evanston, Ill., and Jeremy M. Sclar, also of Brookline.<\/p>\n

Brown is managing director of Braver Business Strategies LLC, a strategic consulting firm in Newton, Mass. Braver clientele includes architectural firms, construction and trades companies, technology firms, manufacturers, retailers, and sales and service firms.<\/p>\n

Prior to his forming Braver, Brown was co-founder and managing director of Nolan Brown Partners LLC, a New Hampshire-based strategic consulting firm. He previously served as president of Harper W. Poulson Inc., a retail and commercial office products distribution company based in Boston.<\/p>\n

Brown earned his bachelor’s degree in sociology from Bates College in 1969 and a master’s degree in business administration from Suffolk University in 1971. He lives in Brookline with his wife, Jane, also a 1969 Bates graduate, and has two adult children.<\/p>\n

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Pearson is vice president for alumni relations and development at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. She oversees a team of 175 staff and is responsible for all aspects of fundraising and alumni relations for six undergraduate schools, the graduate school, a Big 10 athletics organization and the university library and art museum. Pearson also provides oversight for staff members in the business, law and medicine professional schools.<\/p>\n

Prior to her Northwestern appointment, Pearson served in development positions at the University of Chicago and Cornell, Boston and Harvard universities.<\/p>\n

Pearson earned a bachelor’s degree in speech and theater at Bates in 1975 and a master’s degree in fine arts at Brandeis in 1977. She lives in Evanston, Ill., with her husband, Don Balcom, and their two children.<\/p>\n

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Sclar is president of W\/S Development Associates, a real estate development and management company based in Chestnut Hill, Mass.<\/p>\n

Sclar currently serves as a trustee for the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and for The Chestnut Hill School. He is a former board member of Waynflete School in Portland, Maine. He also serves on the boards of several private companies.<\/p>\n

Sclar earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Bates in 1988. He and his wife, Kerry, a 1989 Bates graduate, live with their three children in Brookline and are actively involved with a number of charitable organizations.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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