The Sweet Briar Board of Directors welcomed five new members this summer: David Breneman, university professor and dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville; Diane B. Dalton ’67, general manager of Milwaukee Repertory Theater in Milwaukee; Jane Eastin Hager ’67, CEO and president of Prescott Investment Corp. in Lyndeborough, N.H.; Dennis Janiak, plant manager at Abbott Laboratories, Ross Products Division in Altavista, Va.; and Denva Jackson, a 2005 graduate of Sweet Briar, from South Carolina.

Breneman, Dalton, Hager and Janiak were each elected to the board for a three-year term. Jackson was elected as a Young Alumna Trustee, also for a three-year term.

Officers elected at the July meeting include: Dr. Virginia Collier ’72 of Chestertown, Md. (chair), Jane Walker ’60 of Indianapolis (vice chair), and Frances Root ’80 of New York City (secretary).

Breneman serves on the Board of Trustees at Goucher College, and is chair of the National Advisory Panel for the Fifty-State Report Card Project of the National Center on Public Policy and Higher Education. Active in the academic community, he has also served on the faculty of Harvard University and, from 1983 to 1989, was president of Kalamazoo College, a liberal arts college in Michigan.

Dalton served on the boards of First Stage Milwaukee Children’s Theatre and the Volunteer Center of Greater Milwaukee, and was active in the Milwaukee Youth Arts Campus. She held several positions with Junior League of Milwaukee, including vice president of strategic planning and director of research and development. Dalton also was SBC Alumnae Association president from 2001 to 2004.

Hager is on the Board of Overseers of Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., and is a trustee of the New Hampshire Historical Society in Concord. She was director of the Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Foundation, a trustee of the University System of New Hampshire and the Derryfield School, and incorporator of the New Hampshire Charitable Fund.

Janiak is active in the business community of Central Virginia, serving as chairman of Employee Assistance of Central Virginia and vice chairman for the Altavista section of Central Virginia Industries Inc. He is a board member of Virginia’s Region 2000 Economic Development Partnership, a committee member of Region 2000’s Strategic Planning Committee, and serves as a member of the Virginia Foundation for Research and Economic Education Inc.

Jackson graduated summa cum laude from Sweet Briar in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in art history and Italian studies. While at Sweet Briar, she served as president of the Sweet Briar College Pannell Gallery Docents, and was a volunteer for the Saturday Enrichment Program and A Step Forward Community Service Organization.