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Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees governs Saint Mary’s College High School.

The San Francisco District of the Brothers of the Christian Schools formed the Board of Trustees in 1994 and entrusted the Board with the responsibility for ensuring that Saint Mary’s remains vitally and effectively Lasallian.  The Board’s sacred trust is the Lasallian mission of the school.  The Board operates on a “macro level.”  It establishes broad policies and delegates the task of carrying out its policies to the president, who is the chief executive officer of Saint Mary’s.

Board members do not represent any constituency within the overall school community; they act in concert for the benefit of the school as a whole.  The boards of trustees of all District school corporations represent the “moral owners” of each school ― the De La Salle Christian Brothers. Trustees provide the highest level of institutional leadership intended to advance the Lasallian spiritual and educational traditions.  In contrast to standard public or private school boards whose function is largely concerned with the operational management of schools, Saint Mary’s Board of Trustees ― and all District Lasallian schools’ boards ― work to define the school’s vision and to create its mission policies particularly designed to address unmet educational needs of poor and marginalized students.  These boards govern through written policy, following the Carver Model of Policy Governance, and assure organizational excellence through continual monitoring of school chief executive officer (CEO) performance against positive benchmarks of the mission policies and prohibitions of executive limitations policies.

Saint Mary’s College High School of Berkeley, Inc.
Board of Trustees 2011-2012

  • Mrs. Sharon McCole Wicher, Chairperson

  • Mr. Michael Campi ‘73, Vice-Chair

  • Mr. Casey Bates ’82

  • Mrs. Laura Bennett

  • Mr. William Boselli

  • Mrs. Emmie Hill

  • Fr. Jayson Landeza ’79

  • Mr. William Rauch ‘79

  • Mr. Daniel  Sanford ‘74

  • Mr. Peter Tira ‘85

  • Brother Martin Yribarren, FSC