Historic New England welcomes three new trustees
News Release
Contact: Susanna M. Crampton
News@HistoricNewEngland.org
Boston – January 2012 - Historic New England has appointed three new trustees to the board: Theodore C. Landsmark, F. Warren McFarlan, and Sylvia Quarles Simmons.
Dr. Theodore C. Landsmark is President and CEO of the Boston Architectural College. He serves as a trustee of the American Institute of Architects Architectural Foundation and has facilitated sessions of the Mayor’s Institute on City Design in New York, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, and Charleston. He is president-elect of the National Architectural Accrediting Board of Directors and has served as a trustee of the American Society of Interior Designers Foundation, on the AIA Long Range Planning Advisory Group, and on the Real Estate Advisory Committee at MIT. He is a trustee emeritus of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and is a board member for Historic Boston, Boston Fund for the Arts, and New England Foundation for the Arts.
F. Warren McFarlan is the Baker Foundation Professor and Albert H. Gordon professor emeritus of Business Administration at Harvard University. He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at Harvard Business School since the first course was offered in 1962. He has been a long-time teacher in the Advanced Management Program and teaches in several short executive education programs. He is currently vice chairman of the board of Milton Academy and heads the capital campaign for the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. McFarlan is guest professor and co-director of case development at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Dr. Sylvia Quarles Simmons has served as a consultant with the Executive Service Corps, working with non-profit organization in the areas of board development and strategic planning. She recently retired as lecturer at Boston University. She was president of the American Studies Assistance Corporation of America, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs for the University of Massachusetts, and has held various associate dean positions at Harvard and Radcliffe. She has been a docent at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) for fifteen years and recently completed a term as chair of their Board of Overseers. She is a trustee of Shirley Eustis House and the Anna Stearns Foundation, an honorary trustee at the MFA, and past trustee at Boston College. She has served as a trustee or director for many other organizations including Regis College, the Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society, Manhattanville College, and the Education Resources Institute.
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