2012 ANNUAL REPORT
Trustees Decide to Act
The Hartford Foundation Trustees chose to focus on Aging and Health at a time in the early 1980s when few others were paying attention to the shift in demographics toward a growing population of older Americans. As the Trustees examined dozens of possible areas for grantmaking, they recognized that the health care system was woefully unprepared to provide high quality care for present and future generations of older Americans.
(Below) Various Board meeting site visits to: the Johns Hopkins University Bayview Medical Center extended care facility in Baltimore, MD, and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories in Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
“Hartford’s historic interest in health, the projected growth of older Americans, and the fact that no other foundation was focused on improving their health care, led Hartford’s Trustees to choose aging and health as the area in which the Foundation could make its best and most lasting contribution.”
James D. FarleyChairman Emeritus
The John A. Hartford Foundation
| Hartford Trustees Serving on the Board Between 1982 and 2012 |
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| JOINED - RETIRED | |
| Harry B. George | 1958 – 1987 |
| Robert H. Mulreany | 1963 – 1996 |
| Byron Jay | 1965 – 1989 |
| Matthew E. Welsh | 1969 – 1993 |
| Leonard Dalsemer | 1973 – 1988 |
| Perry Gresham, MD | 1973 – 1989 |
| William Corbus | 1977 – 1992 |
| James D. Farley | 1977 – 2005 |
| Michael D. Dingman | 1979 – 1999 |
| Birny Mason, Jr. | 1979 – 1989 |
| Norman H. Volk | 1979 – |
| Nuala Pell | 1980 – 2000 |
| Charles Moeller, Jr., MD | 1982 – 1990 |
| Richard A. Cramer | 1984 – 1993 |
| Charles E. Murphy, Jr. | 1984 – 1998 |
| Alexander M. Laughlin | 1986 – 2000 |
| Kathryn D. Wriston | 1991 – |
| Thomas A. Reynolds, Jr. | 1992 – 2004 |
| Anson McC. Beard, Jr. | 1995 – 2011 |
| William B. Matteson | 1996 – 2004 |
| James G. Kenan III | 1998 – 2011 |
| Christopher T.H. Pell | 1999 – |
| William T. Comfort, Jr. | 2000 – 2013 |
| John J. Curley | 2004 – |
| Margaret L. Wolff | 2004 – |
| John H. Allen | 2006 – |
| Barbara Paul Robinson | 2006 – |
| Lile R. Gibbons | 2008 – |
| Charles A. Dana | 2011 – |
| John R. Mach, Jr., MD | 2011 – |
| Audrey A. McNiff | 2011 – |
| Former Executive Directors | |
| John Billings | 1981-1983 |
| Stephen C. Eyre | 1984 -1997 |