The purpose of the Board of Directors is to carry out the Mission of The Walden School.
Current Board Members
James Athey
Carol Brown
David Callan
Todd Cleary
Arno Drucker
Thomas Ewing
Corty Fengler
Bill Gilbert
Anne Haxo
Lucy Henningfield
Andrew Jacobs
Robin Kenney
Laura Mehiel
John O’Meara
Molly Pindell
Chad Shampine
Leslie Stephens
Noël Theodosiou
James Athey
James Athey first joined the Walden community as a student in 1997 and 1998, after hearing about the program from other students in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. As a singer, pianist, electric bassist, arranger, and composer, he has performed with three church choirs, two a cappella groups, and a jazz big band, among others. His first major professional musical opportunity came at age 11, when he was cast as one of the Three Boys in the Wolf Trap Opera Company’s 1992 production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. He currently sings tenor with the Washington, D.C.-based 18th Street Singers as a member and occasional soloist.
Between musical activities, James found the time to study Computer Science at Yale University, graduating with a B.S. in 2003. He now writes software in McLean, VA for satellite video provider XStreamHD, and lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Gillian and an ex-racing greyhound named Graham.
Carol Brown
Carol Brown is President of the Board of Directors of Philadelphia Sinfonia, a 150-member youth orchestra association. She was introduced to The Walden School in 2000, when her younger daughter, Eliza, became a student. Carol and her husband, Baird, a partner in the Philadelphia law firm of Drinker, Biddle and Reath, are actively involved with numerous cultural and educational institutions in Philadelphia and each has served on the boards of several of them. Carol has a degree in Women’s Literature and has held various jobs in quite divergent areas. Her favorite was coordinating a history project for Friends Select School in Philadelphia, in which she researched, wrote, and published the school’s history with the help of students learning to use primary source materials. She is also a self-taught fiber artist whose work has been exhibited in Chicago and Philadelphia. Carol has maintained an on-going connection to The Walden School through Eliza, who progressed from student to staff and ultimately to faculty in 2008. Eliza is a doctoral candidate in composition at Northwestern University. Carol and Baird’s older daughter, Hannah Marzynski, is the married mother of two sons and a historic preservation architect.
David Callan
David Callan is a Certified Public Accountant and a founding partner of Callan & Palmer, a full service public accounting firm that also offers financial services through an affiliation with The Raymond James Company. He graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in Accounting and received his Masters in Taxation from the University of Baltimore. David has participated in Music Ministries as a guitarist and choral singer and is currently a music student of Leo Wanenchak. Over the years, David has assisted numerous non-profit boards in compliance-related work and tax-exempt status. He has been an active member of church and community organizations, and enjoys piano, golf, scuba diving and running. David and his wife of 32 years, Alix Ann, have twin boys, Anthony & David. Alix Ann is also an amateur pianist and singer.
Todd Cleary
Todd Cleary is Director of the Retail division of T. Rowe Price Group, managing the Marketing and Sales functions. He earned a B.S. in accounting from the University of Connecticut and a Masters in Business Administration from Pace University. Todd and his wife Darcy live in Timonium, Maryland. Their daughter Lyssa graduated from the University of Virginia and their son Brayden, a Walden “graduate,” is also a graduate of Duke University. It was Todd’s personal Walden experience as a parent that led him to serve on our board. He is proof that Walden deeply touches not only the lives of students, but the parents as well.
Arno Drucker
Arno Drucker has had a varied and distinctive musical career as a piano soloist, chamber music and orchestral performer, teacher, and scholar. A native of Philadelphia, his debut performance was with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of 13. While attending the Eastman School of Music, where he received his Bachelor and Master’s degrees, he performed with the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, playing the Hanson Piano Concerto, with the composer conducting. He was a scholarship student at the Music Academy of the West. As a Fulbright scholar he studied at the Akademie in Vienna and the Mozarteum in Salzburg. During U.S. Army Service he appeared as soloist in twenty-one performances in Germany and the Benelux countries with the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra. He received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree, studying at the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University with Leon Fleisher. He has been a soloist with the Baltimore, National, Chatauqua, New Haven, and Augusta Symphony Orchestras, and has presented solo recitals in various U.S. cities. As a chamber music performer he was the pianist of the American Arts Trio, in residence at West Virginia University, performing concert tours of Germany and Mexico, and television programs for WQED (Pittsburgh). The trio premiered compositions during their New York Carnegie Recital Hall concerts and performed concert tours of the United States. He also performed with the Tokyo String Quartet.
Dr. Drucker is the founding Artistic Director of Festival Chamber Players. With members of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra he directed and performed eleven years of summer chamber music concerts in Baltimore. As an accompanist he has performed recitals with Benita Valente, soprano, and cellists Stephen Kates and Leslie Parnas, and numerous Master classes and recitals with his wife, the soprano Ruth Drucker, in Indonesia, Austria, Canada, Germany and throughout the U.S. He has been a faculty member of West Virginia University, Westminster Choir College, Essex Community College and the Peabody Conservatory, a recording artist for Orion Records, Principal Pianist of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for over twenty years, and the author of “American Piano Trios: A Resource Guide,” published by Scarecrow Press.
Thomas Ewing
Tom Ewing is chairman and publisher of Keene Publishing Corporation, a news and information company which publishes The Keene Sentinel and SentinelSource, the daily newspaper and online news service serving Keene and southwestern New Hampshire, three weekly community newspapers and a number of other specialty publications. Before coming to Keene, Tom held positions with the House Ethics Committee’s so-called Koreagate special staff headed by Leon Jaworksi and a Department of Justice special staff investigating alleged FBI abuses and practiced corporate and international securities law in New York City for ten years before resigning his law partnership and purchasing The Sentinel. A Hamilton College and Duke University School of Law graduate, Tom has served on the boards and executive committees of N. H. Public Radio, the N. H. Humanities Council and Leadership New Hampshire and on the audit committee of the Federation of State Humanities Councils. He is also an advisor to the board of the Monadnock Region’s Raylynmor Opera.
Corty Fengler
Cortlandt B. Fengler (Corty) learned of The Walden School through Seth Brenzel and was surprised to find out that it originated in the city where she grew up long ago. A “chorus junkie,” she now sings with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus and still takes voice lessons. She majored in Music at Wellesley College and received her M.A. from Bryn Mawr College, also in music, but ended up with a career first in computers in the late 60’s and then in fund raising for the most recent 30 years. She retired in 2009 from the position of Canon for Development for Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, the third largest Episcopal Cathedral in the country, but still serves as a fundraising and management consultant. She works part time for Wellesley College. Two sons, their wives and two grandsons living in far flung places keep her and husband Alf traveling to visit as often as possible.
Anne Haxo
Anne Haxo discovered The Walden School while searching the internet for music camps for her daughter, Cara, who attended Walden for six glorious summers. During those summers, Anne and her husband Thom faithfully attended concerts, Festival Forums, and Choral Concerts. Anne is a special education teacher and a founding faculty member of the Four Rivers Charter Public School in Greenfield, Massachusetts, where she continues to work with high school students. She chairs the Williamsburg Board of Library Trustees and sings in the First Church of Williamsburg choir. She lives in Haydenville, Massachusetts, with Thom, a sculptor and a professor at Hampshire College, and Cara, when she is in town.
Lucy Henningfield
Lucy Henningfield has come to know and appreciate the Walden School through the participation of her son, Vincent, in the summer program beginning six years ago. Seeing Vincent find a place that truly understood and nurtured his artistry and helped him to mature and grow has truly been a blessing. She could appreciate what Walden means to him from her perspectives as a parent, as well as a person with a commitment to nurturing the place of the arts in society. Lucy has BFA and MFA degrees in modern dance performance and production and can personally appreciate the challenges facing aspiring artists and the organizations that nurture and support them. She performed in various modern dance and ballet companies in San Diego, San Francisco and Baltimore. In Baltimore she performed with the Mt. Vernon Ballet Company and taught at the Cultural Arts Institute, and served as Artistic Director of the Ballet School of Glyndon for ten years. Lucy has become increasingly involved with the Baltimore Ballet and has served on its Board of Directors for 4 years. She worked with Walden on several of its fund-raising events, including hosting its May 2011 fund raising event and concert in her home. In addition to Baltimore Ballet and Walden, she collaborates with her scientist husband, Jack, on other fund-raising events and appreciates the synergies that can come from serving more than one organization.
Andrew Jacobs
Andrew Jacobs was a student at The Walden School from 1985 to 1990, together with Executive Director Seth Brenzel. Andrew is currently the Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel of Jamison Capital Partners, LP, which acts as investment adviser to the Koppenberg Macro Commodity Fund. Before joining Jamison, Andrew held similar roles at Millennium Management LLC (2006-2008, Managing Director & Associate General Counsel), Hutchin Hill Capital, LP (2008-2009, Chief Operating Officer & General Counsel), and BAM Capital, LLC (2009-2011, Chief Operating Officer & General Counsel). Andrew began his legal career as a commercial bankruptcy lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, after serving as a law clerk to Judge Thomas L. Ambro of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and was a mergers and acquisitions analyst at Wasserstein Perella & Co. from 1997 to 1999.
Andrew holds an A.B. in music from Harvard University, where he studied composition with Mario Davidovsky and Bernard Rands, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. From 1991 to 1993, Andrew attended the Curtis Institute of Music, and is the recipient of composition awards from BMI and ASCAP. Andrew lives in New York City with his wife Kathy Park and daughter Sabine.
Robin Kenney
Dr. Robin Kenney maintains a statewide clinical consultation practice in New Hampshire, dividing his time between the Concord, Keene, Manchester and the Lakes Region. His work focuses on making behavioral health services available to individuals with developmental disabilities and traumatic brain injuries. Throughout his career he has presented at numerous conferences on this subject, and has assisted in the development of services in Massachusetts and California as well as New Hampshire. He currently sits on the Eligibility Advisory Committee of the NH Bureau of Developmental Services on matters related to acquired brain disorders. Dr. Kenney received a BA from Boston College and a Masters and Doctorate in Psychology from Boston University.
Building on his lifelong interest in music, he served as founding President of the board of directors of The Raylynmor Opera during its first seven years (1996-2002), seeing the company through twenty fully staged and orchestrated productions and numerous concert events. He remains an adviser to the company at the invitation of the current Board.
In 2008, Dr. Kenney joined the Board of Directors of the Brain Injury Association of New Hampshire (BIANH), and was recently elected to the organization’s executive committee.
In 2010, he was elected to the Board of the New Hampshire Humanities Council, a grant- making organization seeking to foster life-long learning and civic discourse by connecting people with ideas through public television and radio, libraries, forums, conferences and speakers on topics across the humanities spectrum.
Dr. Kenney and his wife Leslie came to Peterborough from Newton, MA in 1992. They have two daughters: Elizabeth of Peterborough, and Leah, who is married to Australian Anthony Butler and resides in Concord, MA with son William and daughter Abigail. Robin is excited to be returning to the Board of The Walden School, having served two previous terms (2004 to 2009) as chair of the Development Committee.
Laura Mehiel
Laura Mehiel began her relationship with The Walden School in 1973, when she attended the school’s second season at Hannah Moore Academy in Reisterstown, Maryland. She was a student for a total of 8 summers, and later served as staff, faculty, and as the Chair of the Board of Directors for 5 years (2000-2005). She is a registered professional engineer, and currently employed at HNTB Corporation. Laura holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering Degree with Distinction from the University of Delaware, cum laude, where she minored in violin. Laura also studied violin, piano, musicianship, and cello at the Peabody Preparatory. She has continued her involvement in music throughout her adult life by teaching Musicianship and Theory at the Peabody Preparatory, and by singing in choir performances for holiday and other special events. Laura currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland.
John O’Meara
John O’Meara became a Walden fan through his wife Mary Anne (a Junior Conservatory alumna), and his daughter Caroline (a 6 summer Walden alumna). John has been Chairman, CEO, President, and director of a number of companies in the Rowan Technologies Group. He is currently retired, doing occasional management consulting work. He is vice president of the multi employer pension, health, and education funds for IUE local 463, a trustee of the Moorestown Free Library Association, president of his condominium association, and active in his church and Rotary club. With wife Mary Anne, he founded the not-for-profit Moorestown School of Music, in Moorestown, NJ. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Stanford University. While John claims that his musical instrument is the CD player, he happily supports Mary Anne and two musically talented daughters, Caroline and Isabel, in their varied musical study, composition, and performance interests. John lives in Moorestown, New Jersey.
Molly Pindell
Molly Pindell has been associated with Walden for 12 years. She worked at the Young Musicians Program program for 9 summers, 7 of those as Director of Operations. She has been a board member for 4 years. A native of the Monadnock region, Molly especially values the connection Walden has to this spectacular corner of the world. Molly currently lives in Stowe, VT, where she runs Sage Farm Goat Dairy. With the help of her sister and husband, Molly makes and sells a variety of hand-crafted cheeses from the milk of a small herd of Alpine dairy goats. Molly also has two young children, Juliette and Soren, who keep her very busy when she’s not milking goats or making cheese.
Chad Shampine
Chad Shampine is a Vice President in the Fixed Income division of Morgan Stanley, working as a currency and derivatives trader in the Foreign Exchange and Emerging Markets department. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 2000, summa cum laude, in economics and mathematics. He subsequently attended the University of Cambridge and Princeton University on a National Science Foundation Fellowship, graduating with degrees in statistics and finance. Chad works and lives in New York City, where he is privileged to support a range of musical organizations including the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic. He is most grateful for the opportunities that this involvement gives him to engage the younger generation of musicians at these institutions on a personal level. Chad was introduced to The Walden School in 2008 through Andrew Jacobs and Seth Brenzel, and he sincerely supports the mission of the school to develop and encourage musical talent.
Leslie Stephens
Leslie Stephens became familiar with The Walden School through Seth Brenzel and has supported the program for several years. She currently works in health economics and reimbursement for Abbott Vascular, a cardiac medical device company, focusing on stents and other products for coronary angioplasty. She has also held several positions in marketing for Abbott. Leslie is a graduate of Kenyon College in central Ohio and UC Berkeley graduate programs and prior to attending graduate school worked in R&D for medical diagnostics. She lives in San Francisco with her husband Geoff and their two cats. While Leslie does not play an instrument and attempted to sing in her church’s youth choir, she does greatly appreciate the talent of others.
Noël Theodosiou
Noël Theodosiou is founder of her own business, Luminous International Ltd., which works with both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations to enable decisions, set priorities and overcome challenges. She has almost two decades of international business experience, and has worked and lived in London (UK), Athens (Greece) and New York, as well as in Central & Eastern Europe. Noël became familiar with and began supporting The Walden School while studying at Swarthmore College, where she was a member of the Elizabeth Pollard Fetter String Quartet for three semesters, as well as a principal player in the Swarthmore College Orchestra and Early Music Ensemble. She previously studied violin with Marylou Speaker-Churchill, Eric Rosenblith and David Arden, attended the New England Conservatory Prep Division and Yellow Barn Music Festival. Noël graduated from Swarthmore College with Honors in Music and History, specifically focused on Baroque performance practice. She currently lives in London, and divides her time between the UK and the East Coast.
Emeriti Directors
Lynn Taylor Hebden
Lynn Taylor Hebden is a co-founder of The Walden School and was its Business Manager for 22 years. Her husband Raymond served as Walden treasurer for 8 years and their son, Jeffrey was a staff member in the early years. Both grandchildren, Taylor and David, are Walden alumni. A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory with an Artist Diploma in Voice, Lynn taught voice at Peabody for 42 years and designed and taught its first Vocal Pedagogy course. She served as Director of the Peabody Preparatory School for 12 years and as Director of Alumni Relations for the Conservatory for 12 years. When she retired from Peabody in 1995 she was honored with the Johns Hopkins Heritage Award and an endowed prize in her name at the Conservatory. Since retiring she has enjoyed being a resource person for both Walden and Peabody. She continues to be an ardent gardener, has written a history of Walden’s early years and taken up genealogy. Lynn and Raymond, who have been married for 55 years, live in Baltimore, Maryland with their three sons and grandchildren close by.
Charles MacVeagh
Charlie MacVeagh graduated from Harvard College in 1957 and spent the next thirty years in banking, first with JP Morgan in New York City and London, then two small banks in London, and finally (in 1979) as Chair of the First National Bank of Peterborough, NH, which he merged into Granite State Bankshares Inc. He held the presidency there until he retired in 1989. Charlie was a consulting partner of Touche Ross & Co. in New York City for two years before coming to New Hampshire. In 1990 he helped develop, finance, and build RiverMead, a continuing care community in Peterborough. He was CEO there until retiring again in 1998. Since 1979 he has served a number of organizations in a variety of capacities, including director of the New Hampshire Land Conservations Program (five years) and the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests (four years), Trustee and Board Chair for Franklin Pierce College (ten years), Director and Treasurer, State of New Hampshire Business Finance Agency (six years), Chair of the New Hampshire Retirement System (three years) and Antioch New England’s Board of Visitors. Charlie is presently a Trustee of Trust Funds for the Town of Marlborough, New Hampshire, and Vice Chair of Antioch University of New England.
Pamela Quist
Pamela Quist is a composer and has taught composition, piano and music theory for 35 years. A founder and former Director of The Walden School, Pamela was also on its Board of Directors and is a contributing author to The Walden School Musicianship Course: A Manual for Teachers. Pamela Quist joined the music faculty at Santa Clara University in 2001 where she teaches music composition and the upper division theory courses such as counterpoint, form and analysis, and orchestration. In addition, she teaches Performance and Culture, the history of Western civilization from the viewpoint of the performing arts–theatre, dance and music. Pamela is a graduate of The Peabody Institute with a degree in piano performance and a doctorate in music composition. Her dissertation exploring the music of Earle Brown is entitled Indeterminate Form in the Work of Earle Brown. During the period from 1976 to 2000, Pamela was a faculty member at various institutions including SUNY Geneseo, Peabody Conservatory, Essex Community College, and the Johns Hopkins University Continuing Studies program.
As a composer, Pamela has written for a wide variety of instrumental and vocal combinations including chamber ensembles, orchestra, solo instrumental, solo piano, vocal and choral music. Her most recent work, Requiem for the People, for mixed choir and orchestra, received its American premiere in June 2006 and was then performed by the Santa Clara Chorale and University Choirs in Prague and Vienna to critical acclaim. Pamela Quist’s current composing project is Praha Concerto, a piano concerto for pianist Teresa McCollough.
Past Board Members
Stephen Astle
Anne Deane Berman
Ellen Bernard
Sandra Bessières
Seth Brenzel
Michael Brotchner
Michael Cornog
Sarah Cornog
Stephen Coxe
David Drucker
Ruth Franklin
Cynthia B. Harkum
Lia Haskin Fernald
Tonya Y. Ingersol
Rita Mitra
Jim Mobberley
Gary Monheit
Nnenna Ogwo
Mary Anne O’Meara
Denise M. Ondishko
Patricia Plude
Susan Rosen
David P. Ruschke
David Saslav
Marissa Tirona
Leo Wanenchak
