Sturgis, a 1969 graduate of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, is assistant principal at Leavitt Area High School in Turner, Maine. With a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and a master’s degree in secondary administration from the University of Southern Maine, Sturgis has devoted his professional life to teaching and school administration. Sturgis, who has also taken graduate work in educational leadership at the University of Maine, was named Assistant Principal of the Year in 1995 by the Maine Principals’ Association. He received the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Distinguished Service Award in 1988 and is president of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ class of 1969. He has been a lead class agent and past reunion committee member, chairing the gift committee in 1988 and as a member of the committee for his class’s 30th reunion in 1999. He has been active in the Androscoggin ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Club and has been a member of the Alumni Council and the Annual Alumni Fund Committee. Sturgis is a career adviser for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½’ Office of Career Services and a contact for the Career Discovery Internship Program. His daughter, Jodi Sturgis Coppeta, is a member of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ class of 1993.

Harris, a 1974 graduate of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, is a Portland-based management consultant, specializing in organizational change and performance improvement. Before her work in consulting, Harris was a partner in the Baby Bag Company, director of corporate programs at Catalyst in New York City and an assistant dean of admissions at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. She received a master’s degree in management at Yale University. In ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ affairs, Harris was elected to a previous term on the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Board of Overseers in 1993.

Harris has served as Alumni Council president, co-chaired the Maine Region of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Campaign and served as a co-chair of her Reunion Gift Committee, securing generous financial support from the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ community to improve the college and its academic resources for students. In 1999, she received the college’s inaugural Helen A. Papaioanou Alumni Service Award, given in honor of former ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ trustee Dr. Helen A. Papaioanou, a member of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ class of 1949.

Segal and her husband, Gordon, co-founded Crate & Barrel catalog and retail sales in 1962. They opened their first store, a 1,700-square-foot space, in an old elevator factory in Chicago’s Old Town, nailing up crating lumber on the walls and spilling products out of their packing crates and barrels for display. Today, Euromarket Designs, Crate & Barrel’s parent company, has more than 80 stories in 15 U.S. markets. About a third of the merchandise, which includes furniture and housewares, is unique to Crate & Barrel. Segal, a graduate of Northwestern University, was a teacher before the first Crate & Barrel store was opened. She is president of the Women’s Board of Northwestern University and is a member of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Chicago Council. Her daughter, Katie, a member of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ class of 1995, is a law student at Georgetown University Law Center and has served as a member of the Annual Fund Committee, a class agent and an alumni club volunteer.

The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College board of trustees includes the board of fellows, whose members serve lifetime terms.