Steering Committee Chair:
Dr. Jim Shuman, Chair, Department of Education, St. Lawrence University, jshuman@stlawu.edu

Members:
Ann Adams, Superintendent, Hermon-DeKalb Central School District and Member, St. Lawrence County Council of Chief School Officers
Wade Davis, Executive Director, Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority
Kathryn Del Guidice, Director of Extended Studies, SUNY Canton
Ann Heidenreich, Executive Director, Community Energy Services, Inc.
Linda McQuinn, Director of Economic Development, Town and Village of Canton
Allan Newell, President, Sweetgrass Foundation, Inc.
Brian Norton, Economic Developer, St Lawrence County Office of Economic Development
Leigh Rodriguez, Business Services Coordinator, St. Lawrence County Office of Economic Development
Gregory Slack, Director of Research and Technology Transfer, Clarkson University
David Sommerstein, Reporter and Producer, North Country Public Radio
Karen St. Hilaire, County Administrator, St Lawrence County Government
William Vitek, Associate Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, Clarkson University
Justin Woods, Director of Planning and Development, City of Ogdensburg
Bob Zimmerman, Member of Board of Directors, St. Lawrence Leadership Institute
Keith Zimmerman, Director, St. Lawrence County Planning Office

Ex Officio
Dr. Daniel Sullivan, President, St. Lawrence University
Ann Sullivan, Associate to the President, St. Lawrence University
Ben Dixon, Coordinator, Regional Development & Sustainability, St. Lawrence University
Doug Welch, Coordinator, Community Development and Energy Programs, St. Lawrence University and Chair, St. Lawrence County Planning Board.
Grace Bogosian, , Work-Study Clerical Assistant

About the Ellen C. Burt ’42 Endowment for North Country Education

Ellen Cuthbert Burt (SLU '42), her husband, Stewart, and their three children, Jeffrey, Laurie, and John, gifted St. Lawrence University with an endowment to support education in New York's North Country in 2002. With family ties in St. Lawrence County back to 1835, the Burt family has watched the continual decline of the North Country's economic strength and environmental quality, and the subsequent negative effects on educational achievement in our schools and migration of young people out of the area. The Burt family recognizes that the region's educational institutions -- its colleges and its public schools -- carry the potential and the responsibility to reverse these economic and environmental trends, and their endowment gift was given with this in mind. It was an act of extraordinary benevolence and faith in our human resources in the North Country. The Symposium was conceived as one of the primary initiatives to be sponsored by the endowment. In past symposia, we have mourned the passing of Stewart Burt in 2003 and Ellen in 2006, and we remember them for their vision, benevolence, and good spirit. Jeff, Laurie, and John continue their support and thoughtful engagement with the work of the North Country Symposium.