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Vincent Jungels is the school's Treasurer. Vincent is dual Belgian/American citizen. Born in the United States of Belgian parents, he was raised and educated in France. He is currently Vice President, Global Supply Chain, at Houghton Mifflin, the Boston publisher. He started his finance career as an auditor for Arthur Andersen in Paris before joining the European office of Disney Consumer Products. There, he was responsible for Finance and Operations for Emerging Markets, the region comprising most of Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and South Africa. He left Disney for a job in Los Angeles with Vivendi-Universal Publishing. Vincent moved to Boston when Vivendi acquired Houghton Mifflin. Before being elected as ISB's Treasurer and appointed as Chair of the Finance Committee, Vincent was a member of the Finance Committee. Vincent has four children attending ISB: one in Kindergarten, one in third grade, one in fourth grade, and one in eighth grade.

Barbara Morse, a Connecticut native now residing in Amherst, New Hampshire, received her formal art education at the Paier College of Art in New Haven. Majoring in commercial illustration, she studied under Ken Davies, Rudolf Zallinger and Paul Lipp. After college, she worked for several years as a graphic designer before turning her energies towards fine arts. Ms. Morse began showing her work through juried membership in several art associations including the Hudson Valley Art Assoc., the Kent Art Assoc., Young Artists Assoc. of Fairfield, and the Connecticut Classic Arts Association. She was also one of the first females elected to membership in New York City's Salmagundi Club, the oldest art association in the U.S. Ms. Morse's work has been shown extensively in New York and New Jersey as well as throughout New England in multi-artist exhibits and a two-woman show at the Museum of Arts, Science and Industry in Bridgeport, CT. These shows have resulted in her receiving many awards for excellence in drawing. Her work has been represented in New England by the Douglas Gallery in Stamford, CT, the Previte Gallery and Casual Cat Gallery in Amherst, NH, the Laws House Gallery in Sharon, NH, and by the Art 3 Gallery in Manchester, NH. For the past fifteen years, Barbara has worked as a commercial illustrator for publishers McGraw Hill, DC Heath, and Houghton Mifflin. Her advertising assignments have included national print media and local brochures for Holiday Inn, Blue Cross, Tipperary Irish Spring Water, Hancock Paint and the Granite Bank. She also has extensive editorial publication credentials with work appearing in Yankee, Tennis, Connecticut, Cook's Boston, Golf Digest, Walking, Horticulture, and Fairfield County and Long Island Life magazines. Today her time is devoted exclusively to fine arts in the photo-realism style.

David Weber has been senior faculty adviser to the Gay-Straight Alliance of Phillips Exeter Academy for more than a decade and has recently completed a two-year term as chair of the Welcoming Congregation Committee at the First Unitarian Society of Exeter. He has testified in Concord on behalf of GLBT civil rights several times. In his day job, David teaches English at Phillips Exeter Academy. He and Ilona Weber have been married for forty years. Their daughter, Anya, is a middle-school textbook editor at Houghton Mifflin.

Dr. Verne Meyer is a businessperson and an educator who has taught in high schools and in college. In 1977, he co-founded Write Source Educational Publishing House, now a subsidiary of Great Source and Houghton Mifflin. A graduate of Calvin College, Marquette University, and the University of Minnesota, he has co-authored nine English handbooks, including Write Source 2000, Writers INC, The College Writer, and Write for Business. (A 1991 survey conducted by the English Journal found Writers INC to be the most widely-used English handbook in the country.) Today, Dr. Meyer is a contributing editor for Write Source, Houghton Mifflin, and UpWrite Press. He also leads writing workshops across the United States.