Ralston Center Board of Managers

(as of January 20, 2011)

Neville E. Strumpf, PhD, RN, FAAN
President
Professor, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania

David D. Langfitt, Esq.
Vice President
Partner, The Locks Law Firm

Elise Robinson Pizzi, MSN,CRNP
Vice President
Gerontological Nurse Practitioner
Adjunct Professor, Villanova University, College of Nursing

Gay P. Gervin
Treasurer
Retired from investment business

Duncan W. Van Dusen
Secretary & Assistant Treasurer
Associate Secretary of The University of Pennsylvania Emeritus

Edward S. Cooper, MD
Professor Emeritus of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System

Michael P. Erdman, AIA
Retired Architect

Mary Ann Forciea, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Joseph J. Hill
Retired Investment Consultant

Elizabeth K. Keech, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor of Nursing, Villanova University

Rev. Renee E. McKenzie-Hayward, PhD
Rector, Calvary St. Augustine Episcopal Church, Philadelphia

Patricia Onderdonk Pruett, PhD
Associate Dean, Bryn Mawr College (retired) and
Educational Consultant, Pruett Associates, Inc.

Barry Rovner, MD
Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology,
Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience

Francis R. Strawbridge
Chairman, Strawbridge & Clothier (retired)

Robert M.W. Taylor
Consultant, Carma Laboratories, Inc.

Sharon Turner
Retired RN

Jonathan D. Tyburski, CFA
Associate, Versa Capital Management

Emeritus Managers
John A. Baird, Jr.
Mrs. Herman K. Grange
Edward Madara, Jr.
James H. Robinson

Past Presidents

First Directresses of the Indigent Widows and Single Women’s Society 1817–1973

Mrs. Sarah Ralston (1817–1820)
Mrs. Susanna Latimer (1821)
Mrs. Martha Duncan (1822–1828)
Mrs. Catharine Chew (1829–1845)
Mrs. Stephen Simmons (1846–1847)
Mrs. Jasper Cope (1848–1853)
Mrs. H. L. Hodge (1854–1866)
Mrs. James Bayard (1867–1885)
Mrs. William H. Jenks (1866–1890)
Mrs. Evan Randolph (1891 & 1894)
Miss Sarah M. Taylor (1892–1893 & 1895–1898)
Mrs. Alexander C. Fergusson (1899–1903)
Miss Henrietta W. Pearsall (1904–1908 & 1910–1912)
Mrs. Walter T. Moore (1909)
Miss Mary Vaux (1913–1914)
Miss Clara Comegys (1915–1922)
Mrs. Howard Butcher (1923–1927)
Mrs. George Erety Shoemaker (1928–1930)
Mrs. Charles E. Noblit (1931–1934)
Miss Dorothea Wood (1935 & 1940–1943)
Mrs. Percy Y. Schelly (1936–1939)
Miss Olive Strong Willson (1944–1951)
Mrs. John S. Wurts (1952–1953)
Mrs. Francis R. Strawbridge, Jr. (1954–1958)

Presidents of Ralston House 1973–

Mrs. Allen McK. Terrell (1959–1967 & 1973–1979)
Mrs. W. McCook Reed (1968–1971)
Mrs. S. Stokes Truitt (1972–1973)
Mrs. Joseph N. Pew III (1980–1992)
Mr. Joseph J. Hill (1993–2003)
Mr. Francis R. Strawbridge (2003–2011)