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Annual Reports :
2003 : Management and Governance
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The
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation benefited in 2003 from the participation of
more than a score of distinguished men and women who served on the board of
trustees and its committees, as well as on the board of directors and
committees of the subsidiary Colonial Williamsburg Company. Their work on
behalf of the foundation advanced the goals and mission of the institution and
continued a more than seventy-five-year-old tradition of careful and thoughtful
governance.
The Colonial
Williamsburg community was saddened by the death of former colleague Charles
Brown, chairman emeritus of the board of trustees, during the year. Brown
became a trustee in 1979, the year he became chief executive officer of
AT&T. He was elected chairman of the foundation's board in 1985 and also
chaired the Colonial Williamsburg Hotel Properties board of directors. Brown
retired in 1991. He died November 12 in Richmond, Virginia, at the age of
eighty-two.
Also marked in 2003
was the death of former foundation trustee David Brinkley. Brinkley, who had a
long and distinguished career as one of the nation's most respected television
journalists, joined the board in 1966 and retired in 1990. He was a charter
member of the Raleigh Tavern Society, Colonial Williamsburg's leading special
donor society. Brinkley was the society's chairman from its inception in 1979
until he was succeeded in 2003 by co-chairs Jim Lehrer and Charles Brown. He
died June 11 at his Houston, Texas, home at eighty-two.
Randall Tobias, chairman emeritus of Eli Lilly and
Company, retired in 2003 from the foundation's board after thirteen years of
service. He chaired its development committee and the steering committee for
the Campaign for Colonial Williamsburg. He also was a member of the board's
finance, nominating and governance, and executive committees. Tobias was
appointed in July 2003 by President George Bush to be the nation's Global AIDS
Coordinator, with the rank of ambassador, reporting to Secretary of State Colin
Powell.
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