2025 Slate of Nominees
Each year, the Nominating Committee of the MAA Board puts forward a slate of candidates for the next fiscal year’s open positions. This year’s slate is for the term beginning July 1, 2025.
Voting is open April 1–30, 2025.
Alumni Trustee
Alumni trustees are Middlebury alumni elected to the Board of Trustees and serve five-year terms.
Janine Hetherington ’95
Janine is a fundraising and nonprofit management professional with a passion for supporting access and inclusion in education. For over a decade, she has worked at Williams College, where she is a senior development officer and the director of women’s philanthropy.
Janine attended Middlebury’s Betty Ashbury Jones MA ’86 School of French and spent her junior year in France before graduating from Middlebury College in 1995. Her career in higher education administration began with work in career services and fundraising for Middlebury College, Simmons Graduate School of Management, and Tufts University. After receiving an EdM from Harvard University in 2001, she became the executive director of Lake Champlain Bikeways.
Janine arrived in the Berkshires in 2005 as the director of institutional advancement for Pine Cobble School, and then joined the development team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a leadership gifts officer. In addition to her work at Williams, she has served in various community fundraising and organizing roles.
Janine has maintained strong ties to Middlebury since graduation—her closest friends being those she made during college. Even though they are spread across the globe, they make a point of gathering every year at Janine’s home for a fall mini-Reunion. Additionally, Janine serves as a Midd2Midd mentor, a head agent for her class, Reunion co-chair, and recently as president of the Middlebury Alumni Association. She stays closely connected to the track-and-field team (of which she was captain her senior year), and she is the proud mom of three Midd Kids (James ’24, Gavin ’29, and Noah ’29).
Her time at Middlebury ignited a deep love of everything outdoors, and she remains an active outdoor enthusiast, having roped her entire family into skiing, hiking, and sailing on Lake Champlain. She and her husband, Ben, live in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with their five sons, who keep them busy and smiling.
MAA Directors
The MAA Board of Directors meets twice a year to discuss ways to engage with and advocate for alumni, serving as an advisory group for the Alumni Office. In addition, the board votes on the annual Alumni Achievement Award, Alumni Plaque Award, and Alumni Trustee candidates.
John Myhre ’78
John received his BA in psychology from Middlebury College and an MSA degree from St. Michael’s College in 1985, focusing in finance. During his varied career he worked in the alumni and development offices at Middlebury, enjoyed entrepreneurship as an owner of small businesses based in Vermont, and recently retired from Morgan Stanley after 35 years in wealth management.
John lives just down the road in Weybridge, Vermont, with his wife, Peg ’79 (another Middlebury statistic). They have two children, Tucker and Chloe, who live in the Boston area.
Over the years, John has served in many areas he hopes will bring an interesting perspective to the board. He was a former class agent and part of the Vermont Alumni Association. Locally, he was on the planning commission and an elected selectboard member for the town of Middlebury, serving on its town/gown committee. He served on and chaired the Porter Medical Center board and was a director at EastView at Middlebury, a residential senior living community. He currently serves as a director on the Co-operative Insurance Companies board.
In retirement, he and Peggy enjoy the full range of all that Middlebury has to offer, including tremendous cultural opportunities in theatre, art, and music, and as diehard fans rooting for the Panthers on the pitch, court, field, or ice. When possible, they enjoy interacting with and supporting current Middlebury students. And, depending on the season, you’ll find him on the golf course, at the Rikert Outdoor Center, or at the Snowbowl.
Meg Roach Booth ’02, MA French ’03
Meg is the director of college counseling at the Harvey School in Katonah, New York. She began her career in education working as an admissions counselor for the American University of Paris. In 2008, Meg transitioned to Columbia University, where she served as the associate director of fellowships programs while also pursuing her master’s in higher education administration from Teachers College.
When her family relocated to the West Coast, Meg became the admissions manager at the New School of Architecture & Design in San Diego. In this role, she launched the Admissions Office and oversaw the admission decision process of all undergraduate and graduate applicants. In 2013, the Booth family returned to the East Coast and Meg then spent two years as an admissions reader and consultant for Yale School of Management. In 2015, she returned to Columbia University as an associate director for the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement, where she managed and developed study abroad programs in Kenya, Berlin, Venice, Rwanda, and Amman.
While she loved her pursuits in higher education, Meg is currently embracing working with and supporting high school students while also engaging regularly with her colleagues in college admissions. She is also currently serving on the board of the Chappaqua School Foundation while living in Chappaqua, New York, with her husband, three children, and rescue pup.
Meg is class correspondent for the Class of 2002 and is a member of the Midd2Midd mentoring and networking community. She previously served as an Alumni Admissions Program volunteer interviewer in both lower and upper Westchester County.