RPO Board of Directors
OFFICERS
Katherine Lindahl, Chair of the Board
Ron Dougherty, Vice Chair of the Board
Cindy Yancey, Vice Chair of the Board
Karen Kessler, Secretary
Richard Stein, Treasurer
Diana Clarkson, Esq., Immediate Past Chair
TERM EXPIRES JUNE 2027
Brian Bennett
Emerson Fullwood
Paulette Gissendanner
Catherine Gueli
Zuzanna Kwon
Ross P. Lanzafame, Esq.
Katherine Lindahl
Jack McGowan
Richard Stein
Sidney Sobel, M.D.
Cindy Yancey
TERM EXPIRES JUNE 2028
Ron Dougherty
Sreeram Dhurjaty
James Fulmer
Laurie A. Haelen
Ralph F. Jozefowicz, M.D.
Karen Kessler
Deborah Onslow
Keila Pena
Sara Poe
Joseph B. Rizzo, Esq.
TERM EXPIRES JUNE 2029
Daisy Algarin
Diana Clarkson, Esq.
George Daddis
Catherine Frangenberg
Diane Lu
Sujatha Ramanujan
Jason Redman
Eva Sauer
George Schwartz
Timothy Tindall
EX-OFFICIO
Curtis S. Long, President & CEO
Diana Clarkson, Esq., Immediate Past Chair of the Board
Kate Sheeran, Dean of the Eastman School of Music
Nathan Ukens, Orchestra Representative
Stephen Laifer, Orchestra Representative
James Englert, Chairperson, Honorary Board
HONORARY BOARD
James Englert, Chair, Honorary Board
Stephen B. Ashley
Nancy Beilfuss*
James M. Boucher
Paul W. Briggs*
William L. Cahn
Louise Epstein
Joan Feinbloom*
Ilene Flaum
Betsy Friedman
Patrick Fulford
Ronald A. Furman*
Mary M. Gooley*
Suzanne Gouvernet*
David C. Heiligman
A. Thomas Hildebrandt
Harold A. Kurland, Esq.
Dr. Dawn F. Lipson
Jacques M. Lipson, MD*
Cricket and Frank Luellen*
Michael Millard
Elizabeth F. Rice
Nathan J. Robfogel, Esq.
Jon L. Schumacher, Esq.
Katherine T. Schumacher
Ingrid Stanlis
Betty Strasenburgh*
Josephine S. Trubek
Suzanne D. Welch
Patricia Wilder*
Deborah Wilson
Robert Woodhouse
The RPO expresses its gratitude to all those who have served as Honorary Board members in the past.
PAST BOARD CHAIRS
1930–32: Edward G. Miner*
1932–34: Simon N. Stein*
1934–38: George E. Norton*
1938–41: Leroy E. Snyder*
1941–42: Frank W. Lovejoy*
1942–43: Bernard E. Finucane*
1943–46: L. Dudley Field*
1946–48: Edward S. Farrow, Jr. *
1948–51: Joseph J. Myler*
1951–52: Joseph F. Taylor*
1952–55: Raymond W. Albright*
1955–57: Arthur I. Stern*
1957–59: Thomas H. Hawks*
1959–61: Walter C. Strakosh*
1962–63: Ernest J. Howe*
1963–65: O. Cedric Rowntree*
1965–67: Frank E. Holley *
1967–69: Thomas C. Taylor*
1969–71: Thomas H. Miller*
1971–72: Mrs. Frederick J. Wilkens*
1972–73: Edward C. McIrvine
1973–74: Robert J. Strasenburgh*
1974–75: John A. Santuccio
1975–76: Robert J. Strasenburgh*
1976–78: Dr. Louis Lasagna*
1978–80: Edward C. McIrvine
1980–82: Peter L. Faber
1982–84: Paul F. Pagerey*
1984–85: Peter L. Waasdorp*
1986–89: Robert H. Hurlbut*
1989–91: Paul W. Briggs
1991–93: Karen Noble Hanson*
1993–95: Ronald E. Salluzzo
1995–98: A. Thomas Hildebrandt
1998–00: Harold A. Kurland, Esq.
2000–04: David C. Heiligman
2004–06: Ingrid A. Stanlis
2006–09: James M. Boucher
2009–11: Suzanne D. Welch
2011–13: Elizabeth F. Rice
2013–15: Dr. Dawn F. Lipson
2015-17: Jules L. Smith, Esq.
2017-19: Ingrid A. Stanlis
2019-2024: Ross P. Lanzafame, Esq.
2024-2026: Diana Clarskon, Esq.
* Deceased
