Building a Better Trustee

By LAURA S. TROMBLEY

As I complete my fifth year as president of Pitzer College, I recall the invaluable advice that a dear friend of mine, Eugene M. Lang, founder of the I Have a Dream Foundation and Project Pericles Inc., gave me my first year: "Always remember, where the board of trustees goes, others will follow." He was referring to the importance of every member of the board's contributing money to the annual fund, and he was certainly correct about the board's leading the way in fund raising.

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