The Carleton College Board of Trustees recently promoted five professors to endowed chair positions at the College, as announced by Elizabeth McKinsey, Dean of the College. They are: Mary Easter, the Rae Schupack Nathan Professor of Dance and the Performing Arts; Gary H. Iseminger, the Stephen R. Lewis, Jr., Professor of Philosophy and Liberal Learning; Mary E. Savina, the McBride Professor of Geology and Environmental Studies; Dana J. Strand, the David and Marian Adams Bryn-Jones Distinguished Teaching Professor of French and the Humanities; and Carl D. Weiner, the William H. Laird Professor of History and the Liberal Arts.

Mary Easter received a bachelor of arts degree in music and French in 1962 from Sarah Lawrence College and studied at the Eastman School of Music. She joined the Carleton faculty in 1972 and continued her graduate studies at Goddard College, where she was awarded a master of arts degree in music for dancers in 1978. During this time, Easter also was a member of the Choreogram Dance Studio and Company in Minneapolis. She currently is professor of dance in the Physical Education, Athletics, and Recreation Department. She also has served as director of Carleton's African/African American studies program.

Gary Iseminger began his study of philosophy at Wesleyan University, where he earned a bachelor of arts in 1958 before going on to Yale University for a master of arts degree in 1960 and Ph.D. in 1961. He came to Carleton in 1962 after a year on the faculty at Yale. During leaves from Carleton he has held visiting professorships or fellowships at King's College, London; the London School of Economics; University College, London; the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh; the Mayo Medical School; the University of Lancaster; and Trinity College, Dublin. He currently is chair of the philosophy department.

Mary E. Savina graduated magna cum laude from Carleton in 1972 with majors in geology and history. She earned a master's degree in 1975 and Ph.D. in 1982, both specializing in geomorphology, from the University of California, Berkeley. She returned to Carleton as a faculty member in the geology department in 1978. From 1987 to 1990, while on an extended leave from Carleton, she was lecturer at the Research School of Earth Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Savina currently serves as professor of geology.

Dana J. Strand earned a bachelor of arts in sociology from Vassar, an M.A.T. in French from Cornell University and a master of arts degree and Ph.D. in French literature from Vanderbilt. After serving as assistant professor of French at Syracuse University in 1978-79, she began teaching at Carleton in 1981. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer and then as an English teacher in Turkey from 1968-71. Strand currently serves as professor of French.

Carl D. Weiner has been a member of the Carleton faculty since 1964. He completed his undergraduate education at Queens College, earning a bachelor of arts in 1955. He then attended Columbia University and was awarded a master of arts in history in 1959. Following two years of additional graduate work at the University of Wisconsin he taught at the University of Pittsburgh for a year before coming to Carleton. Weiner currently serves as professor of history.