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Published on: 2/28/2008
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Marjorie Leigh Hart '46 Keynotes Kent Place School's Leadership Council Dinner
The Board of Trustees of Kent Place School honored its Leadership Council this fall with a dinner at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, NJ. Head of School Susan C. Bosland welcomed the gathering and introduced keynote speaker Marjorie Leigh Hart to a crowd of 100 guests.
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Hart is a 1946 Kent Place alumna.
A resident of Manhattan, Hart is a 1951 graduate of the Cornell University's School of Chemical Engineering.She has been active in Cornell affairs, serving as a trustee, chair of the academic affairs committee and a lifetime presidential councilor
Hart's professional endeavors include her 30 year commitment to the Exxon Corporation where she started at the Bayway refinery and rose to an executive in corporate planning and marketing both nationally and internationally.She later became an independent consultant for environmental and educational businesses.Hart currently serves on the boards of Scenic Hudson, Inc., Teachers College Columbia University, the New York League of Conservation Voters, the Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy and the Northwest Greenwich Association board.Her past non-profit experience includes serving on the board of the YWCA of City of New York, Governor's Advisory committee for Rivers and Estuaries Center on the Hudson and the National Executive Service Corps Public Education Advisory board.
Hart held the audience captive with a personal retrospective and ended her speech with reflections on oil and climate change.She credited the intellectual discipline that was developed by Kent Place as providing her with an invaluable mental underpinning for her life's work."It should be a matter of great pride that Kent Place has in the past, and will continue in the future, to prepare its women for the formidable changes of our complex world," Hart remarked.
Sharing her thoughts on topics ranging from oil consumption to New York City's sustainable energy plan to biofuels, Hart spoke about how making linkages is hugely important in the world today."Global issues that we once viewed through separate lenses are not separate, they are inextricably linked."said Hart."Teaching the ability to analyze and interpret, to ask big questions, and to not be satisfied with answers that cannot be defended, was an important focus of Kent Place education in my time, and Kent Place is doing an even better job of this today."
"The Leadership Donor Dinner has given us the unique opportunity to showcase the achievements of some of our most accomplished alumnae.Marjorie's remarkable career is a reflection of her intelligence and determination.
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Hart established the Marjorie Leigh Hart '46 Scholarship Fund in 1994 in honor of the Kent Place Centennial.This fund provides a scholarship for an Upper School student at Kent Place who has special abilities and an interest in science.
In 1985, Marjorie was awarded the Barbara Wight Biddison '30 Distinguished Alumna Award.This award is presented annually to a Kent Place alumna in recognition of her exceptional dedication to the school and demonstration of leadership in volunteer, academic or professional pursuits.
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