Tasha vanderLinde Irving Elected to Bowdoin College Board of Trustees

BRUNSWICK, ME (05/23/2011)(readMedia)-- Tasha vanderLinde Irving, of Falmouth, Maine, has been elected to the Bowdoin College Board of Trustees. Irving, a member of the Bowdoin College Class of 1982, was one of seven trustees elected for a term of five years, effective July 1, 2011.

Irving founded the Touchstone Community School, an independent co-operative elementary school, in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, in 2000.

A noted musician by the time she was at Bowdoin, Irving taught for a number of years at Summer Sonatina, a summer music school run by her parents in Vermont. She was also a successful model, with assignments around the world during the 1980s.

Irving has previously been involved with the College as a BASIC (Bowdoin Alumni and Schools Interviewing Committee) volunteer.

The other newly elected trustees include Stewart Bainum Jr., Gregory B. Bowes '83, George A. Khaldun '73, 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