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| 2007 Nominations for Trustees, Officers & Fellows of the Society |
The Nominating and Governance Committee, pursuant to Art V Sec. 12 of the ANS By-Laws approved for publication all of the nominees for Trustee positions and all of the nominees for Fellowship as follows:
Nominees to the Board of Trustees, for vote by the Fellows of the Society:
The following Trustee candidates have been nominated for the Term ending in 2010:
Lawrence A. Adams of Studio City, CA, has been a member since 1982, a Fellow since 1997 and a Trustee since 2001. A dermatologic oncology surgeon, Dr. Adams is a CNG consultant on Greek and Islamic gold, as well as the publisher of JAN, (the Journal of Ancient Numismatics). Dr. Adams serves on the Finance Committee, is a member of the Augustus B. Sage Society and is a donor to the Society.
Charles C. Anderson of Florence Alabama, has been a member since 1999, a life member since 2003, and was elected to the Board in 2004. He is Chairman of the Executive Committee and on the Board of Directors of each of his family’s companies including Anderson Press Inc., of which Whitman Publishing, the largest numismatic and philatelic distributor in the US. is a subsidiary. Mr. Anderson is the former director of two banks, a member of a number of boards and is the former president of the Alabama Numismatic Association. He serves on the Finance and Development committees, is a member of the Augustus B. Sage Society, and is a donor to the Society. Mr. Anderson has been married since 1953 to the former Hilda Claire Barbour. They have four sons and 11 grandchildren.
Jeffrey D. Benjamin, is an ANS Life Member and collector of ancient coins. Currently with Apollo Management LP, he has also worked for Salomon Brothers Inc, UBS Securities LLC, and Libra Securities as well as served on board committees of several companies. Married with three children, Mr. Benjamin and his family reside in New York.
Jane M. Cody of Studio City, CA, has been a member since 1968, a Fellow since 1987 and was elected to the Board in 2003. She currently serves on the Personnel Committee. Prof. Cody is the Associate Dean of Academic Programs in the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences at the University of Southern California. An ANS summer seminar student in 1965, she held an ANS dissertation fellowship in 1966-1967. She is the recipient of numerous academic awards and honors, has held several editorial and advisory positions, served as a panelist for the selection of Fulbright Fellowships in Classics, and the NEH selection of summer stipend holders, as well has been a Reviewer for the American Journal of Ancient History and the American Journal of Philology. Dr. Cody has served on several professional boards and committees, and was a gubernatorial appointee to the California Council on the Humanities. Dr. Cody has various papers and presentations on coins, the classics and philology to her credit.
Peter P. Gaspar of St. Louis, MO, was born in Belgium, and raised in California. He earned his Ph.D. in chemistry at Yale University, and is a Professor of Chemistry at Washington University, in St. Louis, Missouri. Prof. Gaspar has been a member since 1970, a Fellow since 1975 and a Board member since 2000. A conscientious donor, Dr. Gaspar serves on the Nominating and Governance Committee and the Archer M. Huntington Award Committee. He collects pennies of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman kings, has written on the evolution of coining and die-making techniques. He has lectured at past ANS Summer Graduate Seminars and delivered a Stack Memorial lecture. He is Corresponding Member of Council for the United States of America of the British Numismatic Society, and has conducted extensive research at the Royal Mint.
Kenneth W. Harl, of New Orleans, LA, was a 1975 Summer Seminar Student and joined the Society that same year. A Fellow since 1991, and a Trustee since 2001 he was also the 2001 visiting lecturer of the ANS Graduate Seminar. Professor Harl also serves on the Personnel Committee. Dr. Harl earned a Ph.D. from Yale University, and is currently a Professor of History at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. This year he was also a visiting professor at Wofford College, Spartanberg, SC. A donor to the Society including the Roman Provincial Coins Photography Project, he has written extensively about Roman provincial coins and in particular Asia Minor.
Daniel W. Holmes, Jr., is an ANS Life Member and member of the Augustus B. Sage Society. He is also the president of Early American Coppers Inc. (EAC). Formerly with Ford Motor Company and Banker’s Trust Company, Mr. Holmes became chairman of Morrison Products Inc. in 2002. He and his wife reside in Pepper Pike, near Cleveland, Ohio. They have two grown children.
Charles Paul Karukstis of Claremont, CA, has been a member since 1978, a Life Associate since 1994 a fellow since 2003 and was elected to the Board in 2005. He is the Director of the Project Management Office for Aramark Uniform Services Inc. in Burbank, CA. Mr. Karukstis has co-chaired the ANS Arab-Byzantine Forums from 1995-2000, served on and was Chairman of the ANS Advisory Committee 2002-2005, and is at present the North American Secretary for the Oriental Numismatic Society. For some twenty years his research has been the imitative or "Arab-Byzantine" coinages of greater Syria in the first century of the Islamic Empire, with special interest in die studies and circulation patterns. He is preparing a corpus of this material from major public and private collections.
John H. Kroll was born in Washington, DC. He attended the Society's Graduate Seminar in 1963 and took his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1968. A Fellow and Trustee of the ANS since 1984, Prof. Kroll currently holds the Office of Second Vice-President and serves on the Executive and Personnel Committees. In 2006 Professor Kroll retired from the University of Texas in Austin having joined the faculty of their Classics Department in 1973. A contributor and author to a number of numismatic publications, he also served as Secretary of The American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Having contributed to the study of Athenian and other coinages, his current focus is on the beginnings of coinage in general. Prof. Kroll resides with his wife in Oxford, England.
There are no Fellows to be nominated at this time.
At any time prior to sixty (60) days before the Annual Meeting, additional nominations for positions as Fellows, Trustees and Officers and Honorary Life Fellows to be voted on at the Annual Meeting on October 20, 2007 may be submitted in writing to the Executive Director by at least ten (10) Fellows. The Executive Director shall include in the notice of the Annual Meeting the report of the Nominating and Governance Committee and also a complete list of any other nominations duly filed. No nominations shall be made from the floor at the Annual Meeting or at any other meeting, except upon the unanimous consent of the Fellows in attendance.
Officers of the Board of Trustees to be voted on by the Board of Trustees:
Pursuant to Article VI Sections 1 and 2, and upon the personal recommendation of the President, the Committee nominates the following Trustees to serve as follows:
Chairman of the Board - Donald G. Partrick
President – Roger S. Siboni
First Vice President - Douglass F. Rohrman
Second Vice President - Roger S. Bagnall, PhD
Treasurer - Arnold-Peter C. Weiss, MD
Ute Wartenberg Kagan, Executive Director, shall remain as Secretary to the Board
Submitted respectfully,
Douglass F. Rohrman, Chairman
Nominating and Governance Committee