New Members of theBoard of Regents We welcome two new members of Portsmouth Abbey’s Board of Regents: Frances M. Fisher P ’15, and Denis Hector ’70. D E NI S H EC TO R ’ 70
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A 1985 graduate of Georgetown University, Fran is the mother of Curry ’15 and three other children: Matthew, a May 2013 graduate of St. Paul’s School, in Concord, NH; Regan, a rising eighth grader at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, in San Francisco; and Patrick, a rising seventh grader at Stuart Hall School for Boys, in San Francisco. Prior to the birth of Matthew in 1995, Fran worked as the human resources manager for a marketing consulting firm. She is a former board member of the San Francisco chapter of the National Charity League, a mother-daughter volunteer organization; the Midweeklies, Inc., an etiquette and dance school for sixth and seventh graders; and the Junior Committee of the San Francisco Symphony. She has also held numerous volunteer positions at her children’s schools. Fran is married to Matthew Fisher, an attorney.
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Denis is a registered architect with expertise in structure and the environment. An associate professor, associate dean, and current interim dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Miami, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering, in the College of Engineering, he is also an advisory board member of the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy there. Denis received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University, a DAAD Fellowship to the Institut fur Leichte Flaechentragwerke in Stuttgart, Germany, and his graduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania. The editor of Hurricane Hazard Mitigation, Denis has, with engineering colleagues, conducted studies under the auspices of the National Science Foundation on wind hazard mitigation. He participated in the post-Hurricane Katrina Mississippi Renewal Forum Charrette, the Mississippi AIA Building Code Workshop, and the 2010 Haiti Recovery Charrette. He has taught technical subjects in architecture at the University of Bath (England), Columbia University, and the University of Pennsylvania. He currently teaches Building Construction II: Structural Systems and studios with a focus on structure and environment, including recent work with the Zamni Lesante organization in Haiti, both before and after the 2010 earthquake.
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Previously, Denis worked with Buro Happold, in Bath, England, and as a principal of FTL Associates in New York, NY. With his wife, Joanna Lombard, who also is a professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Miami, he has an architectural practice. He is the father of two children, Dorothy Anne and William.