Volume CXXXI, Number 24 May 3, 2002 f

Search for vacant positions continues
NICHOLAS J. LoVECCHIO
ORIENT STAFF

Bowdoin will see a number of new faces in various administrative positions next year, with a number of administrators moving on to other jobs or retiring. The searches for a new treasurer and a new assistant dean of Student Affairs are nearing completion, while the search for a new director of Facilities will begin soon.

Treasurer Kent Chabotar will be leaving the College this June.

The search committee to find a replacement for Treasurer Kent Chabotar, who will leave Bowdoin in June to become the president of Guilford College, is still in the process of interviewing candidates.

"I am optimistic we will identify a treasurer in the next few weeks, but it is most important that we find the right person for the job. There are many interesting candidates out there, but we are being thoughtful and deliberate in our considerations," President Barry Mills, who chairs the committee, said.

In the interval, Director of Budgets Gerald Boothby will be here for much of the summer working with Controller Nigel Bearman to cover any transitional period. Boothby will also be leaving Bowdoin later this summer to take over as director of finance at Elizabethtown College.

The committee had originally hoped to have chosen a new candidate by early April. Mills said that they did find one person from New York City who was very interested in the job and in whom the committee was very interested, but who decided in the end that for personal reasons she couldn't move to Maine.

Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Mya Mangawang is leaving to pursue her Ph. D.

The committee to find a replacement for Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Mya Mangawang, who will leave to pursue a Ph.D. in art history at Bryn Mawr College, has narrowed down the initial pool of 113 applicants to four finalists. Two of the candidates interviewed this past week; the other two will be interviewed next week. The interview process involves a dinner with members of the search committee and then a full day of interviews with students, faculty, and staff.

According to Associate Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster, who chairs the committee, the "incredibly talented" applicant pool has "more depth than I have seen in any of the other searches with which I have been involved at Bowdoin." The pool includes current staff, faculty, alumni, and people from across the U.S. and from several foreign countries, as well.

"We will have some difficult decisions to make, but the strength of the pool assures me that we will be able to hire an exceptional person," Foster said.
The committee will consider feedback on the interviewers when it meets next Friday, and it will likely make an offer the following Monday, May 13, after checking references, Foster said. If all goes according to plan, the College may be able to make an announcement by May 20.

Director of Facilities Management Bill Gardiner will leave June 30.

The search to replace Director of Facilities Management Bill Gardiner has yet to begin, but the search committee will be assembled within the next week and will be chaired by Vice President for Planning and Development Bill Torrey.

Gardiner will retire from the College on June 30, but will continue to work with the College as a consultant on the Chapel Towers project through the end of 2002, working out of his home. "We're very fortunate that we'll have his expertise to assist us with the work on the chapel tower repairs," Torrey said.

Torrey said he hopes to have a job description ready and a search committee in place by the middle of May, and hopes to have a director named in the fall.

Other College administrators leaving include two assistant directors of Residential Life. Kim Pacelli will head to Harvard to pursue a Master's degree in education, and David Mountcastle will work as an admissions staffer for the Leysin American School in Switzerland.