Wheaton Distinguished Fellows for 2001 named

[NORTON, Mass.] -- The leaders of two of Boston's most prominent cultural institutions and the former head of one of the city's best known management consulting firms have been named Wheaton Distinguished Fellows for 2001. This year's Fellows are Anne Hawley, Director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; John Magee, former chairman and CEO of Arthur D. Little, Inc.; and Jerry Schubel, president of the New England Aquarium.

Wheaton's Distinguished Fellows program, in keeping with the college's emphasis on combining a challenging liberal arts education with real-world experience, seeks to expose Wheaton students to the perspectives of outstanding Boston leaders for insight about how academic disciplines are applied successfully in the worlds of business, law, journalism, art, medicine and science. The Fellows each meet with selected Wheaton courses in addition to participating in the Wheaton Distinguished Fellows Forum, a major public forum addressing issues of national and international importance. This year's forum will be held on March 1, 2001.

''The Gardner Museum, the New England Aquarium and Arthur D. Little are examples of some of the best institutions in Boston,'' says Wheaton President Dale Rogers Marshall. ''Wheaton students value the chance to get to know chief executive officers of the caliber of Ann Hawley, John Magee and Jerry Schubel. They are dynamic and visionary and they inspire students to become leaders themselves.''

Anne Hawley began her tenure as director of the Gardner Museum in 1989 and has overseen the renewal of the institution through its artistic and scholarly programs as well as through a successful fund-raising campaign aimed at conservation of the building and collection. Active in arts, cultural and community affairs, Hawley serves as a trustee of the Association of Art Museum Directors, vice chair of the Fenway Alliance of Boston, and as a director of Citizens Bank and Save Venice, Inc. She also is an accreditor for the Accreditation Commission of the American Association of Museums. Before joining the museum, Hawley founded the Cultural Education Collaborative and led the Massachusetts Council on Arts and the Humanities. She received her B.A. from the University of Iowa and her M.A. from George Washington University.

John Magee is the former chairman of the board of Arthur D. Little, Inc., the international consulting firm based in Boston. Prior to serving a chair of the board, Magee was president of the company from 1972 through 1986. He is trustee emeritus and former chair of Bowdoin, where he earned his B.A. and was later awarded an honorary degree. He holds an M.B.A from the Harvard Graduate School of Business and an M.A. in mathematics and economics from the University of Maine. Magee is an active board member for numerous organizations, including the New England Aquarium, the Boston University Medical Center, the Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center and Emerson Hospital.

Jerry Schubel is an oceanographer who has written extensively on issues relating to marine conservation and estuary management. He joined the New England Aquarium as its president in 1994, after having served as the dean and director of the Marine Sciences Research Center at the University of Stony Brook at New York. Schubel was instrumental in developing the center into a distinguished center for oceanographic research. In addition to his extensive research and teaching credentials, Schubel serves on the board of numerous scientific, cultural and community organizations, including the National Sea Grant Scientific Advisory Council, the executive committee of the EPA's Science Advisory Board and Boston's Cultural and Scientific Directors Group. He holds a B.S. from Alma College, an M.A.T. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in oceanography from The Johns Hopkins University.

The Wheaton Distinguished Fellows Program was inaugurated in 1996. Past Wheaton Distinguished Fellows have included William Crozier Jr., Chairman Emeritus of BankBoston; The Honorable Margaret Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts; Kenneth Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corp and Matthew Storin, Editor of the Boston Globe.

Support for the Wheaton Distinguished Fellows Program comes from the Burton D. Morgan Foundation, which provided a grant to inaugurate the program, and Wheaton Trustee Karen Strauss Cook '74, who established an endowment to ensure its future.