Trinity Rep Welcomes Four New Trustees To Board
Daugherty, Huidekoper, Imondi, Vareika to serve through 2014

PROVIDENCE, RI: Trinity Rep is pleased to announce that four new Trustees were named to its Board of Directors on June 13, 2011. Tracy Daugherty, Elizabeth (Beppie) Huidekoper, Deborah A. Imondi, and Alison Vareika will serve on the Board through 2014.

“We are honored that Alison, Beppie, Deb and Tracy have agreed to join the Trinity Rep Board of Trustees,” said Board Chair Jon Duffy. “Trinity Rep relies on dedicated leaders in our community who support our position as a national leader in theater and arts education. This group of dynamic and energetic women will be instrumental in continuing Trinity Rep’s commitment to create extraordinary theater experiences.”

Trinity Rep has an active, engaged and diverse Board comprised of 42 trustees and 26 emeriti, representing Rhode Island's business, civic, artistic, education, and philanthropic communities.

TRACY DAUGHERTY
Tracy Daugherty is a relatively new member of the Rhode Island community.  She and her family moved to Rhode Island from Connecticut in 2005.  Previously, Tracy spent 13 years as an attorney with Cummings & Lockwood in Stamford, Connecticut, practicing in the areas of estate planning and administration.   Prior to that, she was with the law firm of Brown, Rudnick, Freed and Gesmer in Boston.  Tracy has been on the board of the Barrington Education Foundation since 2006 and currently is leading the organization’s strategic planning initiative.  She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Temple Habonim.  She is a graduate of The University of Georgia and Boston University School of Law.  Tracy lives in Barrington with her husband, Bill, and their three busy teenagers.

DEBORAH A. IMONDI
Deborah A. Imondi is Textron Inc.’s Assistant Treasurer – Investment Management and is responsible for overseeing the investment management of Textron’s global retirement and employee benefit funds, currently totaling approximately $7 billion in market value. Deborah’s responsibilities include the development of investment policy, implementing investment strategies and disciplines, hiring and retaining investment managers and other investment vendors, identifying new investment strategies and products, monitoring investment performance, assuring regulatory compliance, and management reporting. She serves as a member of Textron’s Investment Committee and the Textron Charitable Trust’s Contribution Committee.  A native of Rhode Island, Deb attended the University of Rhode Island, receiving a B.A. in Economics (1982) and an Executive M.B.A. (1986). She is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt. She is a trustee of the Providence Public Library and a member of the Investment/Pension Committees of the Catholic Investment Trust, Inc. (Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence), the R. I. 4-H Club Foundation, and Meeting Street Center.

ELIZABETH (BEPPIE) HUIDEKOPER
Elizabeth (Beppie) Huidekoper is the Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration at Brown University.  She has overall responsibility for the University’s finances; investments; human resources and labor relations; internal audit; facilities development and operations; real estate; transportation; and bookstore.  Beppie came to Brown from Harvard University, where she had been since 1981, serving as Vice President for Finance from 1995 to 2002.  Beppie currently serves as a Board Member of Commonfund, the New Bedford Whaling Museum and an inner-city school program for girls in New Bedford.  Beppie earned a B.A. from Bowdoin College in 1974 and an M.B.A. from Boston University in 1978, with a concentration in public management. 

ALISON VAREIKA
A native of Ada, Oklahoma, Alison has lived in Newport for the past 35 years.  With her husband William she co-founded the William Vareika Fine Arts gallery in 1987, which specializes in American Art of the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  From the beginning, the Vareikas envisioned a dual mission for their gallery: to provide a public viewing space for important historic American art and to support charitable causes.  Over the past twenty-four years, the Vareikas have contributed to a long and varied list of local, regional, and national organizations and have served on dozens of non-profit boards, committees, and advisory councils. This tradition of using excellence in the arts to help subsidize the vital public service of non-profit organizations has become a defining feature of their gallery.  Alison and Bill have been honored for their preservation of historic American Art, for their ongoing work on behalf of local arts organizations, and for their generous support of charitable causes. In 2008 they received the Small Business “Encore” Award from the Arts and Business Council of Rhode Island and a “Keepers of the Dream” award from the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Newport.  In 2007 they were selected as “Partners in Philanthropy” by the Association of Fundraising Professionals for their work with the environmental organization Save The Bay.  In March  2011, Alison received the “Dominique Award” from the Arts and Cultural Alliance of Newport County for her contributions to the arts community.  Alison has served as President and Board member of the Aquidneck Land Trust; on the Board of Swinburne School, Newport; on the Board of the Newport Art Museum, and as Chair of their Special Events Committee for ten years. She is a past member of the South County Chamber Singers and Swanhurst Chorus. Alison currently serves on the Advisory Councils of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center and the Aquidneck Land Trust.  She has been performing with the Rhode Island Civic Choral & Orchestra for five years, and also sings with the Berkshire Choral Festival.  Alison is currently Chair of the Board of the Newport Performing Arts Center (also known as the Opera House Restoration Project).