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64 Institutional Governance and the Trustees of Anatolia College
familiar first-hand with more recent deliberations. President McGrew touched on
Board evolution in his insightful previews for anatolia’s 125 th year celebrations
in May and september 2011. dr. McGrew’s history of anatolia college, which
will include his term as the 8 th President (1974-1999), is expected soon.
16. trustee emeriti dimitris Zannas and Petros apostolides were also members.
17. this subcommittee on trustees (part of the Governance committee, now
Board Governance committee), was composed of George antoniadis (presently
Institutional advancement chair); Jack clymer, esq. (Board chair); chip elfner
(subcommittee co-chair/rapporteur); ambassador leonidas evangelidis (’53);
Jack florentin (’66, act Governance chair and presently hs Governance chair,
former ΣΑΑΚ President); serge hadji-Mihaloglou, esq. (’60, subcommittee cochair/rapporteur
and presently Board Governance chair); nestor nicholas, esq.
(Board vice-chair and clerk); charlie raphael (then Institutional advancement
chair, after whose family raphael hall is named); dr. fanis varvoglis (’74, at the
time trustee and former ΣΑΑΚ President); and the 10 th President dr. hans
Giesecke.
“The aim was to pull together a small working group with professional experience
in corporate and institutional governance that would also be fairly representative
of the whole Board.” (r Background.)
18. “the optimal size of the Board should not exceed 39 members, including
the President sitting ex officio. An even smaller Board might arguably be more efficient.
However, the basic bi-national, nature of Anatolia and its bridging mission
require a larger number of members, as does the complexity of its diverse operations
which also calls for increased breadth in oversight skills. On the other hand,
Anatolia’s experience with a Board that has reached as many as 50 members
demonstrated that widely varying levels of interest and commitment are not conducive
to informed deliberations and decisions and in meeting required fiduciary
responsibilities of a Trustee.”
the target composition is tabulated in the Board Profile (demographics and
Backgrounds), section I supra. (Italicized script in notes 17, 18, 19 and 21 signifies
recommendations and related annotations by the co-chairs/rapporteurs.)
19. “A broad range of skills are required to cover Anatolia’s needs – and, ideally,
on a basis that reflects Anatolia’s bi-continental character. This is especially