Bassett, Cochran and Mandjes Named Trustees

In July, the Board of Trustees welcomed new term trustees Patrick F. Bassett ’70 and Eric L. Cochran ’82 and alumni-elected trustee Robin Powell Mandjes ’82.

Bassett has been president of the National Association of Independent Schools since 2001. Previously, he was a teacher at Woodberry Forest and head at both Stuart Hall and Pomfret. He was a Kellogg National Leadership Fellow in 1986 and a 2000 recipient of the Educational Leadership Award from The Klingenstein Center of Teachers College, Columbia University, where he is an adjunct faculty member. Bassett holds a master’s degree in film studies from Northwestern University.

A partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Cochran speci alizes in corporate transactions. He is a board member of Horizons National, a student enrichment organization, and was a longtime trustee and treasurer of the Little Red School House. Cochran earned a master’s in physical chemistry and his law degree at New York University. His wife Stacy (Silverstein ’81) was the Arthur Levitt Artistin-Residence at Williams in 2002-03.

Based in Cambridge, Mass., Mandjes leads Powell Mandjes Associates, a real estate investment and advisory firm. Previously she worked in commercial and merchant banking; in the Williams Alumni Relations and Development office during the Third Century Campaign; for The Partnerships Inc.; and as director of constituency development for AT&T Broadband. She also has served Williams as a Tyng Bequest administrator and a trustee of the Robert Gaudino Memorial Fund. She has an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

The terms of board service ended in June for trustees E. David Coolidge III ’65, Delos (Toby) Cosgrove III ’62, William E. Oberndorf ’75 and César J. Alvarez ’84.