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On Monday, Bowdoin College President Barry Mills announced that the college hired Kelly Kerner as its new senior vice president for development and alumni relations.
The college’s lead fundraising position has been open since June, when the college’s chief development officer of 20 years, William Torrey, stepped down.
According to a college press release, Bowdoin College raised more than $600 million in contributions during Torrey’s tenure, which Mills said “transformed the college.”
Kerner will now oversee fundraising for the college, which brought in nearly $36 million through the 2010-11 fiscal year.
“ It is a role that carries great responsibility for the future of the college, something
I and the other trustees on the search committee knew from the start,” Stephen F. Gormley, chairman of the college’s board of trustees, said in a news release.
Kerner will leave his position as the chief development officer at Bates College in Lewiston to start Jan. 1 at Bowdoin. Prior to the position he held for three years at Bates, Kerner worked in fundraising roles at Middlebury College in Vermont for 14 years.
“I am thrilled and honored to be chosen to lead one of the top development and alumni relations operations at one of the finest liberal arts colleges in the world,” Kerner said in the release.
A graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder, Kerner has been an internationally ranked tennis player and lives in Yarmouth with his wife and two children.
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