Symphony
Association Announces Six New Board Members
News
Release Contact: Sara
Obuchowski, (707)
546-7097 ext 218
August 23,
2005
(SANTA ROSA, CA) ö The
Santa Rosa Symphony recently announced six new
board appointments. They are Susan David, John
Gladstein, Jeffrey Walker and Ellen Wear of
Santa Rosa
, Carol Libarle of
Petaluma
, and Charles Schlangen of
San Francisco
.
Returning
Board President Anne
Benedetti noted, ãIn
this tremendously exciting season during which
we will choose our new music director and begin
laying the groundwork for the transition to the
Symphonyâs new home at the
Green
Music
Center
, I am especially proud of, and grateful for,
this influx of talent. Our board is well-suited
to embrace the opportunities before us. I am
looking forward to working with this group of
individuals for whom I have so much respect.ä
In
addition to Benedetti, the following officers
will guide the implementation of the
Symphonyâs vision and mission in the coming
year: Vice-President Sam
Brown, Treasurer Art
Matney, Secretary
Grant
Miller
and Immediate Past-President Pam
Chanter.
Biographies
of new board members and officers
Newly-appointed board member Susan
David grew up in
Lafayette
,
California
. After spending 14 years in
Los Angeles
as a college undergraduate, law student, law
clerk and finally as a lawyer, she moved with
her husband Fred, a physician, to
Santa Rosa
in 1980. David was a board member of
Sonoma
Country
Day School
for six years and is currently serving on the
board of the Parent Association of Sonoma
Academy. She and Fred have two children, ages 22
and 16. In her free time, she loves to work in
her garden.
Born
in San Francisco and raised in Marin and Sonoma
Counties
,
John
Gladstein practiced law in San Francisco
,
Sonoma
,
and Napa Counties
,
as well as statewide
,
before retiring to continue construction and
operation of a mountaintop Conference
Center
,
which he operated until 2001. Gladstein has
coached soccer and baseball, has been a member
and officer of a variety of boards, including
a school board, a Municipal Insurance
Authority
,
and a diverse group of nonprofit
Boards
,
including the Sonoma County Arts Council.
Gladstein considers himself a ãvery amateur
musician,ä and has been playing multiple
instruments since he first took ukulele
lessons in
Hawaii
where he attended the fourth grade.
Carol Libarle was
born and raised in
Petaluma
, and graduated from
Mills
College
with a B.A. in history. She is married to Dan
Libarle and co-owner of Lace House Linen, a
linen supply company in
Petaluma
founded 90 years ago. Libarle is a grandmother
of five (soon to be six), and the mother of two
daughters who are both involved in the family
business, along with their husbands. Libarle has
served on the boards of Petaluma Education
Foundation,
KRCB
Radio and Television, Petaluma Valley Hospital
Foundation, SRJC Friends of Petaluma Campus,
Hospice of Petaluma, SRJC Foundation and ACS
Greater Petaluma Unit. She has also been
involved in capital campaigns for Petaluma Boys
and Girls Club and Hospice of Petaluma.
Charlie
Schlangen
was born in
Santa Rosa
and grew up in Kenwood. He earned his B.A. in
International Relations
,
with departmental honors and academic
distinction
,
from
Stanford
University
,
where he also sang with the Stanford Mendicants
,
the universityâs oldest all male a
cappella group. He is currently a commercial
real estate investor and developer who splits
his time between
California
and
New York
. Prior to launching a career in real estate
,
he was an attorney with Simpson Thacher &
Bartlett LLP
,
practicing in the
New York
,
Palo Alto
and
Hong Kong
offices where he focused primarily on capital
markets work for Fortune 500 companies and
international clients. He is a member of the
New York
and California Bars. Schlangen is also a
director of the 1990 Institute and acting
executive director of the New Media Foundation.
He enjoys playing classical piano.
Jeff Walker
was born in
California
but spent a significant part of his childhood
overseas
,
traveling extensively in Europe and
Africa
as the son of a Foreign Service officer. He
attended UCLA and received his M.D. degree after
which he did an Emergency Medicine residency
through UCSF and practiced medicine for 7 years.
In the early 1990s
,
Walker
transitioned away from clinical medicine and
into biotechnology
,
starting a
sm
all biotech company in
San Diego
and helping to develop several more companies in
San Diego
and
Santa Barbara
over the next nine years. He and his family
moved to
Santa Rosa
in 2003 when he accepted a position with
Medtronic Vascular, where he is currently the VP
of Advanced Technology.
Walker
âs 8th grade daughter has played
violin in the Santa Rosa Youth Orchestra for the
past several years, and it was through this
interaction with the Santa Rosa Symphony that he
came to appreciate the tremendous work of the
music education program in
Santa Rosa
.
Ellen Wear was
raised in
Los Gatos
,
California
, and later taught elementary school in
San Francisco
and
Santa Rosa
. She is married to Chuck Wear
,
an orthodontist, and they have two sons. Wear
served on the Goodwill board, and was active in the
Santa Rosa Symphony League for many years. She
is a founder of
Sonoma
Country
Day School
and currently serves on the advancement
committee for Cardinal Newman high school. For
fun
,
she walks, plays golf, bikes, skis, reads,
and enjoys her garden.
Returning
President Anne
Benedetti, has
served the Symphony board for more than nine
years in many capacities. She and her husband
Dan have raised a family and grown a prominent
community business, Clover-Stornetta Farms.
Benedetti has a degree in music and has taught
music in both public and private schools.
SRS
Board Vice-President Sam
Brown, a
Sonoma
County
native and Stanford graduate, served as
president of
United Way
and was chair of the capital campaign for the
Luther
Burbank
Center
for the Arts. Active in the community and in
commercial banking for many years, he is
currently Executive Vice-President for Wealth
and Management at Exchange Bank.
SRS
Board Treasurer Art
Matney worked for Merrill Lynch for 35
years, and held posts in several cities in the
Northeast before moving, with his wife Lynda, to
Santa Rosa
in 1998. He was manager of the Santa Rosa
Merrill Lynch office until he retired in 2002
and continues to serve with distinction on
boards and committees of various civic and
cultural institutions.
SRS
Board Secretary
Grant
Miller
is the owner of an investment consulting firm
that assists with fundraising for public and
private companies, provides help with investor
and media relations, and works with start-ups as
well as
sm
all and mid-cap public companies. He is active
with Kiwanis, the Association of California
Symphony Orchestras, the Make-A-Wish Foundation
and the
Sonoma
County
Museum
.
Immediate
Past-President Pam
Chanter is Vice-President of Matsen
Insurance Brokers and has a long history of
community service that includes the Sonoma
County Crime Prevention Task Force, the Economic
Development Board and Soroptimist International.
A
complete list of SRS board members can be
obtained by visiting its website at www.santarosasymphony.com.
