Bennett grew up in Arlington and commuted to Radcliffe for four years. She said she did "a little peripheral" work for the Lampoon during her undergraduate years.
Sharon Elliott Gagnon, on the other hand, didn't even spend her college days in Cambridge. Gagnon received her bachelor's degree in 1962 from Indiana University, but went on to earn her master's and Ph.D. in Gagnon said in an interview yesterday that she is interested in how technological advances "mesh with education." "In terms of how students think, that should not be lost in technological advances," Gagnon said. Gagnon is president of the University of Alaska's chief governing body, the Board of Regents, a role in which she oversees 12 campuses and 30,000 students. Before receiving that appointment, she taught "off and on" at both the University of Alaska and Alaska Pacific University. She also presently serves on the Board of Trustees for Russia's International Pedagogical University. And she is just finishing a one-year term as president of the HAA. Gagnon, a French literature specialist, was a teaching fellow in French language courses during her graduate years. She was a proctor in Matthews Hall in the summer of 1966. Her son Elliott is a senior at the College, and her daughter Anne graduated in 1993. In addition to Weissman, Richardson and Gagnon, the new nominees include: John C. Baldwin '71, chair of the department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine; Peter C.B. Bynoe '72, chair and CEO of the Chicago-based Telemat, Ltd.; John R. Harrison '55, a former corporate vice president of The New York Times Company; Lisa Marie Henson '82, president of Columbia Pictures; and Terrence Murray '62, chair, president and CEO of the Providence-based Fleet-Norstar Financial Group. They did not return phone calls from The Crimson yesterday. All Harvard alumni will have the opportunity to vote on the Overseers by mail this spring. The five appointees, who will serve six-year terms, will be announced at Commencement