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Flynn, Whittington and Wilson Join Tower Hill’s Board of Trustees

Jack Flynn, M.D. ‘81
John M. “Jack” Flynn, M.D., ‘81 is chief of orthopedics at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). A nationally recognized orthopedic leader, Flynn’s primary clinical and research focus is scoliosis care for children. Flynn joined CHOP in 1996 and became chief of orthopedics in 2014. He holds the Richard M. Armstrong, Jr. Endowed Chair in Orthopedic Surgery and is a professor of orthopedic surgery at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Flynn earned his B.A. in natural sciences from Johns Hopkins University and his M.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. After residency in the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Surgery Program, he completed a fellowship in pediatric orthopedic surgery at A.I. duPont Hospital for Children. He has been president of the Pediatric Orthopedic Society of North America and is a director on the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery. In 2014, he and his family established and endowed the Flynn Family Scholarship Fund at Tower Hill. 
 
Marna C. Whittington, Ph.D. 
Marna Cupp Whittington, Ph.D., was the chief executive officer of Allianz Global Investors Capital from 2001 until her retirement in January 2012. From 2002 to 2011, she was chief operating officer of Allianz Global Investors, the parent company of Allianz Global Investors Capital. Prior to that, she was managing director and chief operating officer of Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Whittington started in the investment management industry in 1992, joining Philadelphia-based Miller Anderson & Sherrerd. Previously, she was executive vice president and CFO of the University of Pennsylvania, and earlier, deputy secretary of education for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and secretary of finance for the State of Delaware. She is a trustee and vice-chair of the Salk Institute of Biological Studies. She currently serves as a director of Macy’s, Inc. and Phillips 66. She holds an M.S. degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, both in quantitative methods, and a B.A. degree in mathematics from the University of Delaware. Her daughter, Marna Whittington McDermott ‘95, attended Tower Hill.
 
Vance Wilson 
Vance Wilson, a former Tower Hill teacher, has served as the headmaster of St. Albans School since July 1999 and plans to retire in July 2018. Wilson recently served as president of the International Boys’ School Coalition (IBSC) and is a former member of the governing board of Roxbury Latin School. He belongs to the Headmasters’ Association and the Country Day Heads Association. He has pursued a second career as a writer; he has co-authored two books on curriculum issues and an account of integration in Southern private schools. In 1986 he published a novel, The Quick and the Dead. He attended Berkeley Preparatory School and earned his B.A. in English from Yale University, where he played varsity basketball and was nominated for a Rhodes Scholarship. He went on to earn a diploma in Anglo-Irish literature from Trinity College, University of Dublin, and a master’s degree from the University of Virginia. 
 
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