SBCF Board

Chairs

Anita C. Lincoln graduated from the University of Nebraska and had a thirty-five year career in women’s retail, culminating her professional career as owner and president of Charles Sumner on Newbury Street and Chestnut Hill Mall. Now retired, Anita is an avid world traveler and is active in many Boston organizations. She is Treasurer of the Associates of the Boston Public Library, on the Board of The Bostonian Society and Co-Chair of The St. Botolph Club Foundation.

Lois Lowry is a writer of childrens’ books who divides her time between Cambridge and an 18th-century farmhouse in Bridgton, Maine. An alumna of Brown University and the University of Southern Maine, she has published 35 books and has twice been awarded the Newbery Medal by the American Library Association, as well as the Margaret Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement. She is a member of the Executive Board of PEN New England as well as PEN American, a board member of Reach Out and Read, and serves on the Board of Overseers of the Handel & Haydn Society. She is also a mother and grandmother.

Board Members

Jonathan Ambrosino works on pipe organs as technician, consultant and journalist. He has carried out tonal restoration projects on the organs at Groton School, Calvary Church Memphis, Old South Church (Gordon Chapel) and Church of the Advent, both in Boston. His consulting practice includes guidance of new organ projects (Harvard University, Saint Thomas New York, Washington National Cathedral) and the consideration of extant historic instruments. He served the Organ Historical Society as Handbook Editor from 2004 to 2006, Editor of the 2006 Organ Atlas, Councilor (1993 to 1999) and President (1999 to 2001). He is also a member of the American Institute of Organbuilders. Mr. Ambrosino has been a member of the St. Botolph Club since 2007.

Dr. Allan Green is a physician, lawyer and research scientist with an S.B. from MIT in economics, a PhD from MIT in Biochemistry and Metabolism, and as MD from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and a JD from Boston College Law School. His Cambridge-based legal practice focuses on the needs of FDA-regulated industry and non-profit organizations and he teaches Food and Drug Law as Adjunct Professor at Boston College Law School. His clients include major hospitals, medical schools and non-profit foundations which support biomedical research and clinical study. He has been a practicing physician and has Board certification in internal medicine and nuclear medicine. He has been actively involved as a founder and principal in several start-up biomedical ventures. He is a member of the Board of the Associates of the Boston Public Library and has an interest in digital landscape photography.

Liisa Kissel worked in both business and non-profit consulting in the U.S. and in Europe. She holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Simmons College, where for several years she helped organize the Women and Leadership Conference, the annual 2000-person event the college sponsors. She lives in Boston and in Grafton, Vermont, where she is a co-founder and director of the Grafton Music Festival. Liisa has served on the Boards of Directors of First Night Boston, the Harvard Travellers Club, and the Scandinavian-Baltic Business Council. She travels extensively, maintains a large garden in Vermont with emphasis on rare trees, and is a certified Emergency Medical Technician.

Kathryn Lasky is an author of children’s books, adult novels, and mysteries. She grew up in Indiana, received her B.A in English at the University of Michigan, and came to Cambridge for graduate school. She has won several awards for her children's books including a Newbury Honor, as well as the Boston Globe Horn Book Award and twice the National Jewish Book Award. She married Christopher Knight, who convinced her to sail across the Atlantic in a ridiculously small boat, so she has also written articles and a book about sailing. She is on the Board of Associates of the Boston Public Library, and the New England Chapter of UNICEF. Kathryn and her husband live in Cambridge, MA.

Adelaide MacMurray-Cooper is a former teacher and school administrator (Concord Academy, Milton Academy, Brooks School) whose second career was as a Certified Financial Planner. She had her own business for many years, specializing in the particular financial challenges of working women. She has written and lectured widely on this subject. Adelaide is an enthusiastic photographer, traveler and amateur musician. She lives in Cambridge with David Cooper, and has two married sons.

Nellie Taft is a visual artist who specializes in painting and monoprint. She graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston and continued with their Fifth Year Program, winning the Clarissa Bartlett and Albert H. Whitin Traveling Scholarship Awards. She spent a year in Rome on these scholarships. She has exhibited at the Nielson Gallery and the Copley Society in Boston, as well as in galleries in midcoast Maine, Cincinatti, and New York. Previously she graduated from Columbia University in Art History and got her MA from Columbia Teacher's College. In Cincinatti, her hometown, she worked for the Fine Arts Assn. curating state-wide exhibitions which were exhibited at the Contemporary Arts Center. At the St. Botolph Club she has been on the Art Committee for many years, curating shows and is the founder of the "Artist Member's Room" (the Conservatory); where artist member's exhibit on a rotating basis. In younger days she founded a Montessori School in Rhode Island called "The Learning Center".

Nan Tull is a visual artist with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wellesley College, a Master of Arts from Stanford University, and a diploma from the Boston Museum School, where she also won a Fifth Year Traveling Scholarship. Her work has been widely exhibited and reviewed throughout New England over the past 30 years. She was awarded an Artists Foundation fellowship and a NEA/NEFA fellowship as well as residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Vermont Studio Colony. She had a drawing retrospective at the Boston Public Library’s Prints and Drawings in 1994 and will be having a 2009 retrospective at the Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the DeCordova Museum; Davis Museum, Wellesley College; and Danforth Museum, among others, as well as in dozens of corporate collections. She exhibits at Soprafina Gallery, Boston.

James Woodman is a composer and organist. Educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Princeton University, and the New England Conservatory, he moved to Harvard Square in 1979 and has remained ever since. His organ and choral works have received a wide range of performances, including Magdalen College (Oxford), the American Cathedral in Paris, Minato Mirai Concert Hall (Yokohama), the American Air Force Academy, St. Thomas Church (NYC), and Harvard's Memorial Church, as well as numerous programs of the nationally syndicated radio series "Pipedreams". His publishers include E.C. Schirmer, Boosey & Hawkes, Theodore Presser, and Thorpe Publications. He holds the position of Monastery Organist for the Society of St. John the Evangelist, an Episcopal religious order in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Yu-Wen Wu is a visual artist who creates using various media. Her work is a series about polarities and contradictions that coalesce into what others have expressed as “contemplative, beautiful and deeply thoughtful.” After being graduated from Brown University with a degree in neuroscience, she received a diploma and Fifth Year Certificate from the School of Museum of Fine Arts, and was also awarded a Fifth Year Traveling Scholarship. She has received many awards and grants, and her work is in numerous public and private collections. She is represented by the Miller Block Gallery in Boston.

Administrative Assistant

Kate Andres is a visual artist whose work specializes in found art and recycled materials. She ran her own graphics/t-shirt business for 12 years and now tries to keep up with the lives of her three active children and husband.