INSIDE THE BOARD
Inside the Board
Minutes from the Staying Put
in New Canaan Board Meetings
—Minutes of Oct. 14, 2008
—Minutes of Sept. 8, 2008
—Minutes of July 14, 2008
—Minutes of June 2, 2008
—Minutes of May 5, 2008
—Minutes of April 7, 2008
—Minutes of March 8, 2008
—Minutes of February 4, 2008
—Minutes of January 7, 2008
—Minutes of December 3, 2007
New Board Members:
Lyn Chivvis
Lyn is truly a New Canaanite having lived in New Canaan all her life with the exception of early married years in Baltimore and New York City
where she taught in private schools. She also taught at Center School in New Canaan, was Director of Alumni Relations at New Canaan Country
School and is currently a massage therapist. Her volunteer work, however, has taken up most of her time. She worked with inner city children
in Baltimore and ran the volunteer program at Center School in New Canaan. She worked at Special Olympics and various other athletic events
such as "Run for the Cure", with injured soldiers from Iraq and with firefighters during the wildfires in Idaho last year. She was a Board
member at New Canaan Country School, President of the New Canaan Country School Alumni Council, Deacon at the Congregational Church of New Canaan,
Sunday school teacher and children's teacher at Community Bible Study. Lyn is married to Arthur Beecher Chivvis, also a life-long New Canaanite,
and they have three grown children.
Anne Cohen
Anne was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. After Connecticut College she moved to New York and began a long career as an interior decorator.
In 1981 she and her husband and another couple started The French Canal Boat Company, which was sold in 1989. Her extensive community service
includes volunteering in the psychiatric ward at Roosevelt Hospital, teaching ex-offenders at The Fortune Society, New York City, as a member of
the Board of Directors of the Stamford Museum and Nature Center and as Chair of the Board of Horizons Student Enrichment Program. She and her
husband Dick have lived in New Canaan for the last 12 years.
Terri Connors
Terri has been a resident of New Canaan for eleven years. She has been involved in the community as a member of the Young Women's League, Junior League
of Stamford-Norwalk and youth teacher at St.Aloysius Church. She is a board member of the New Canaan Country School and the Southern Connecticut
Storm Special Hockey, Inc., an ice hockey program for physically able youth with a developmental disability. Terri and her husband Mike have two boys.
Her mother is a resident of Waveny Care Center.
John Engel III
John is third generation New Canaan with parents still living and working in town. His grandfather Gene Casey founded King-Casey in the 1950's
and his mother Susan Casey is the current president of New Canaan's Board of Realtors. John founded e-Media in his New Canaan basement and grew
it to over 150 New Canaan employees, for which he won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2000. He then founded Paper.com
in the Casey building on Elm Street. Long active in the New Canaan community, John is a member of various boards for St. Aloysius School, the
CEO Roundtable and the Outback Teen Center. He currently serves on the New Canaan Zoning Board of Appeals. He and his wife Melissa have four
children.
Cathy Irwin
Cathy Irwin has been a resident of New Canaan for eight years. Prior to moving to CT, she lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, with breaks for two
overseas assignments with her family in Rotterdam, Holland and Seoul, Korea. A banker for nine years, Cathy shifted gears in the early 90's
to become a Montessori teacher, and is now a tutor of children with reading disabilities. She is an active Board member of the United Way
of New Canaan, and serves as the newsletter editor for her local alumnae club. She and her husband Brad have two daughters who both graduated
from New Canaan High School.
David Moran
Mr. Moran resides in New Canaan with his wife Fanny and two teenaged sons. He was Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Dow Jones and
Company in the 1990's, and founded and presided over a unit of that publisher called Dow Jones Indexes from 1996 through 2002. He was the
Founding Chairman of the Board of Regents of Portsmouth Abbey School from 2002-2008. He graduated from Portsmouth in 1971, from Harvard College
in 1975 and from the University of Virginia Law School in 1979.
Teri Wagner
Teri has been a New Canaan resident for over 20 years. She is currently an Executive Vice President of Development with Raz Production based in
Los Angeles. Prior to that she was VP Programming and Development at ABC Sports for over a decade, responsible for the launch of the Bowl
Championship Series, the PGA Tour, British Open and other properties. She is also a board member of the Warsaw School of Management, University
of Oregon, and an annual keynote speaker at Stanford University Career Week and the YWCA Women of Achievement Awards. Her interest in Staying
Put emerged from caring for her grandmother for 16 years, seeing firsthand the challenges that one faces with age beyond the medical issues.
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