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Seminary Co-Op Looking For New Board Members After Death Of Chair

By Sam Cholke | October 19, 2016 5:38am
 The Seminary Cooperative Bookstore is looking for six new members to join its board.
The Seminary Cooperative Bookstore is looking for six new members to join its board.
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HYDE PARK — The Seminary Cooperative Bookstore is looking for nominations to its board of directors, one of those unique Hyde Park institutions where former advisors to the president serve alongside regular folks from the neighborhood.

The cooperative of 53,000 members that runs 57th Street Books and the Seminary bookstore is expecting six vacancies and is accepting nominations until Oct. 28.

“The board believes that its membership should be diverse in perspectives and skills so that it can provide concrete advice and assistance to the leadership of the co-op, help the co-op to steward its resources and help the co-op to reach the diverse community of readers whom it serves now and whom it may serve in the future,” the board said in a call for nominations.

Austan Goolsbee, the former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors to President Barak Obama, Harry Davis, professor of creative management at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business; and Joyce Feuer, owner of Joyce’s Events and Party Planning, will not be seeking another term and will step down from the board.

There are two other vacancies from the death of longtime board chairman Arthur Sussman, the former general counsel for the university, and the resignation of attorney Doug Sharps.

People who would like to serve on the board are asked to include a statement about what their skills and perspective would bring to the board.

Nominations can be sent to nominations@semcoop.com.

New members are expected to be chosen at the co-op’s annual meeting in December.

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