MS. FORD: This conference that you are about to enjoy
enormously was organized by Susan Haberlandt, and I would like to
ask her if she would come up and say a few words. Also, Sue
Groesbeck was enormously helpful with it.
MS. HABERLANDT: What a treat to get the
opportunity to follow Aggie. The good news is, the only way
to do that is to be very brief. But I think that the vision
you just heard, the distribution of core business, subsidiary, and
spin-offs is a great way to think about NAPSG. I see Lisa
Darling over here, and we go back to that Garrison seminar.
This conference and this organization I think have inspired many
women to go into leadership, and that's really the large umbrella
theme of this conference this year. So I want to encourage
you to dance on the tables if you feel like doing so. Bruce
is in charge of that detail. But I do ask that you enjoy and
come to listen to the speakers who have graciously accepted the
opportunity to speak here that we've extended to them. I
don't need to go into detail for you. You have the program
in front of you.
The one thing I would like to say is, the design of today's
keynote by Professor Keohane is to inspire you all to be thinking
about leadership issues and, in particular, about the women whose
education and whose lives we are shaping to think about leadership
issues and questions that are posed in your mind by the words she
offers. Then tomorrow morning we'll have a follow-up panel
with two present heads, one who is in transition, one of the
famous Northeast Kingdom members, and with Blair Stambaugh.
Are you in the Mid-Atlantic Headmistresses?
MS. STAMBAUGH: My own kingdom.
MS. HABERLANDT: Your own kingdom. So what
we hope -- and this is certainly what Dr. Keohane is looking for
-- is that you will provide a lively discussion from which she
will glean information that will be prominent in a book she is
currently working on. So we're trying to encourage
interactive and lively discussion.
I will now ask Sue Groesbeck to talk about the local details,
but I'm looking forward to a wonderful conference. And just
don't dance on the tables in here. Thank you.