The Carleton College Board of Trustees recently announced the appointment of five new members: Emily L. Barr, Class of 1980, Beth Boosalis Davis, Class of 1970, Dr. Carlos R. Gonzales, Class of 1977, Ruby Sheets, Class of 2002, and Caesar F. Sweitzer, Class of 1972. In addition, Winston R. Wallin was named trustee emeritus.

Barr, an alumni trustee, has been president and general manager of WLS-TV, an ABC-owned television station in Chicago, since 1997. She previously served as president and general manager of WTVD-TV, an ABC-owned television station in Raleigh-Durham, N.C. She is active in the community, serving on the boards of the Chicago Association for the Performing Arts, Chicago Central Area Committee, Chicago/Midwest Television Academy, National Conference for Community and Justice, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce and Children’s Hospital Memorial Foundation, and is the immediate past chair of the board of the Illinois Broadcasters Association. She was named the 1998 Dante Award recipient from the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans. After graduating from Carleton, she earned an MBA from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She lives in Chicago with her husband, Scott M. Kane, and daughters Maxine and Alison.

Davis served for eight years as executive director of the National Lekotek Center, a nonprofit organization providing services nationwide for children with disabilities and their families. She served three terms as Alderman on the Evanston, Ill., City Council, where she played major roles in human services programming and expansion of the City’s economic development strategy. She was deputy chief counsel of the Illinois Department of Transportation, and had a general corporate private practice with the Chicago law firm of Schiff Hardin & Waite, including real estate, municipal law, corporate finance and litigation. Davis currently serves on the boards of directors of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company and of First Bank & Trust in Evanston, and has served on the boards of the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago and of the National League of Cities. As a Carleton volunteer, she has served as a member of the presidential search committee, alumni trustee, president of the Alumni Council and program chair for her 30th Reunion. She graduated magna cum laude from Carleton and earned her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. She and her husband, Max, have two grown sons, Mike and Chris.

Gonzales, the 25th Reunion trustee, is a rural family physician at the Patagonia Family Health Center and clinical associate professor with an expertise in cross-cultural medicine, traditional Indian medicine and border health in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona, College of Medicine, Tucson, Ariz. Dr. Gonzales has served as a consultant and community medical director in various capacities in addition to continuing his work as a hands-on primary care provider. In 1997, he was named Arizona Family Physician of the Year. In 1999, he was appointed Commissioner to the United States Mexico Border Health Commission by President Bill Clinton. He is currently a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians’ Commission on Public Health, and he was on the Committee on Rural Health and the Task Force on Universal Health Coverage. He is also a member of the Association of American Indian Physicians. Dr. Gonzales received his M.D. from the University of Arizona, College of Medicine. He completed a residency in family practice at the University of New Mexico, and completed a Fellowship in Adolescent Medicine and School Health from the University of New Mexico, College of Medicine and another fellowship in Faculty Development from the University of Arizona, College of Medicine. Gonzales resides in the Nogales/Patagonia, Ariz., area with his wife, Debbie Reed Gonzales, and four children: Michael, Evelinda, Alejandro, and Felip.

Sheets, the young alumni trustee, recently completed her bachelor of arts degree in American studies. Within the discipline, she focused on economics and media studies. For her senior comprehensive project, she produced a radio documentary exploring how rural towns seek prison construction in their areas as an economic salvation. She will spend this next year completing an internship at Picture Projects working on The Sonic Memorial, an internet/ radio project. She will then direct enroll in a Latin American university to study communications on a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship. As a student at Carleton, Sheets was involved in radio both on and off campus. She completed internships at WYNC in Manhattan and Jazz88 in Minneapolis. On Carleton’s student-run station, KRLX, she participated in Periscope, a prerecorded radio show designed to bridge the gap between Carleton and its surrounding community. She also hosted a live show in Spanish with native speakers who have immigrated to Northfield. Her co-hosts were her students in the English as a Second Language program for adults that she co-founded at Carleton. She was also selected by her classmates to speak at commencement ceremonies in June.

Sweitzer is the current managing director of Salomon Smith Barney Inc., a New York investment banking agency. Prior to his appointment there, he was associate vice president of Dean Witter Reynolds and a trader with First Trust Corporation of Denver. He first joined Carleton’s board of trustees in 1997 and served until 2000 as the 25th Reunion trustee. He earned his B.A. in sociology from Carleton in 1972, magna cum laude and with distinction in his major. He holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Sweitzer has been an active volunteer at Carleton—he has donated time to the College’s Career Center, meeting with students interested in investment banking and recruiting for Saloman Smith Barney on campus. He also served on the Carleton Alumni Board from 1987 to 1989. He lives in Chatham, N.J.; his wife, Peggy, is a 1971 graduate of Carleton, his daughter, Emily, is a 2002 graduate and his son, Charlie, is a member of Carleton’s Class of 2006.

Wallin is Chairman Emeritus of Medtronic, Inc., and is credited with advancing the company to the forefront of medical technology. A longtime chair of Carleton’s Board of Trustees, Wallin not only supported the largest fundraising campaign in Carleton’s history, but also aggressively strengthened and enhanced the College’s institutional resources and goals. A graduate of the University of Minnesota, Wallin was awarded an honorary degree from Carleton in 1999. Wallin and his wife, Maxine, are the parents of three Carleton graduates.