George A. Khaldun Elected to Bowdoin College Board of Trustees

BRUNSWICK, ME (05/23/2011)(readMedia)-- George A. Khaldun, of Valley Stream, N.Y., has been elected to the Bowdoin College Board of Trustees. Khaldun, a member of the Bowdoin College Class of 1973, was one of seven trustees elected for a term of five years, effective July 1, 2011.

Khaldun has worked at the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ) for more than 20 years. Prior to becoming chief operating officer, he served as deputy to HCZ president Geoffrey Canada '74. He was also a program director with HCZ's foster care prevention program and after school programs. He was instrumental in the expansion of HCZ's after school programs as well the Fifth Grade Institute and HCZ's computer-based literature programs.

He previously taught at both the primary and secondary school levels and was a professor at Bermuda College and an adjunct professor at the College of New Rochelle.

Khaldun served as a panelist at Bowdoin College's anniversary celebrations of the John Brown Russwurm African American Center in 2000 and 2009, and at the 2002 Symposium on Race & Justice.

The other newly elected trustees include Stewart Bainum Jr., Gregory B. Bowes '83, Tasha vanderLinde Irving '82, Kathleen K. Phillips '99, John K. L. Thorndike '02 and Karen Natalie Walker '84.

About Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College is a highly selective liberal arts college located in Brunswick, Maine, about 25 miles north of Portland. One of the oldest colleges in the nation, it received its charter in 1794. Bowdoin enrolls approximately 1,750 students from across the country and around the world.

Notable alumni include 14th U.S. President Franklin Pierce (class of 1824), writers Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (both 1825), African-American newspaper editor John Brown Russwurm (1826), Civil War hero Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1852), Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary (1877), former Senate Majority Leader and architect of the Ireland peace accord George J. Mitchell (1954), former U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen (1962), and Olympic gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson (1979).

Online version at: http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/008520.shtml