2010 Association of Alumni Executive Committee Candidates

Lynne Hamel Gaudet ’81
Association of Alumni Nominated Candidate for Secretary-Treasurer

Biography
An active volunteer, Lynne has served as president of the Dartmouth Club of Rhode Island; secretary, class agent, and member of her class reunion and executive committees; enrollment interviewer; alumni councilor; and executive committee member of the Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley.  In 1997 she received Dartmouth’s Young Alumni Distinguished Service Award.  Lynne has been a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Relations office for ten years, serving as the director of Alumni Leadership since 2007. As an undergraduate she majored in economics; participated in the Tucker Foundation Big Sister program and the Dartmouth Mountaineering Club; taught skiing in the Ford Sayre program; and was social chair of Kappa Kappa Gamma.  Lynne and her husband, Dartmouth hockey coach Bob Gaudet ’81, reside in Etna, NH, and are the parents of Joe ’10, Jimmy ’12, and Kelly.

Statement
I have experienced Dartmouth College on many levels: as a student; an alumni volunteer; an employee; the spouse of a Dartmouth coach; and the parent of two current undergraduates.  These multiple levels of engagement have provided opportunities for me to remain informed about current events and sentiment on campus and among our alumni body.  Over the last few years alumni leadership and the College have collaborated to share information and ideas. Those initiatives include the formation of the Alumni Liaison Committee (which includes representatives from both the Association of Alumni and the Alumni Council), the progressive work of the Association of Alumni related to the trustee election process; and the extensive two-way communications efforts of these alumni governance bodies.  It is crucial that alumni have the opportunity to voice their opinions and participate in healthy conversations with their alma mater.  I believe that litigation is an unproductive approach to resolving alumni conflict.

These are exciting times for Dartmouth College under the dynamic and thoughtful leadership of President Jim Yong Kim. Although we face financial challenges, the Dartmouth community is working together to address these issues and ensure that we maintain the extraordinary educational and life experiences that the College has offered to students for centuries.  For more than a century it has been a tradition for a Dartmouth employee to hold this office, beginning with Ernest Martin Hopkins, Class of 1901. I would be honored to serve in this role and continue to strengthen those ties between alumni and the College.

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