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    The board of directors of The Minnesota Humanities Center today elected David O'Fallon its new president, effective November 1. He has been CEO of MacPhail Center for music since 2002. Under his leadership the student enrollment more than doubled in seven years.

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    The board of directors of The Minnesota Humanities Center today elected David O'Fallon its new president, effective November 1. He has been CEO of MacPhail Center for music since 2002. Under his leadership the student enrollment more than doubled in seven years.

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    The board of directors of The Minnesota Humanities Center today elected David O'Fallon its new president, effective November 1. He has been CEO of MacPhail Center for music since 2002. Under his leadership the student enrollment more than doubled in seven years.

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    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    Contacts:
    Minnesota Humanities Center: Ann Barkelew 612-889-7967
    MacPhail Center for Music: Barbara Plunkett 612-767-5532

    MINNESOTA HUMANITIES CENTER NAMES DAVID O’FALLON


    ITS NEW PRESIDENT

    September 8, 2010 – ST. PAUL, Minn. – The board of directors of the Minnesota
    Humanities Center today elected David O’Fallon its new president, effective November
    1. Dr. O’Fallon has been CEO of MacPhail Center for Music since 2002 and prior to that
    was executive director of the Perpich Center for Arts Education.

    “This is a very exciting time for the Minnesota Humanities Center and having David
    O’Fallon join us as our new leader is great news for us all,” said Susan Kelly, board
    president. “He shares our vision and has the passion to take the work of the Center to an
    even broader base as he joins an incredibly strong leadership team.”

    O’Fallon said he is very pleased to have this opportunity to help shape the future of the
    Humanities Center. “I believe that by engaging in the humanities we draw upon the best
    of our selves and our cultures, we understand more fully where we come from and where
    we stand. That prepares us to actively create a strong democracy,” he said. “The
    humanities and the arts connect us and sustain us. Never before has this been more
    needed.”

    O’Fallon fills the position previously held by Dr. Stanley Romanstein, who joined the
    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as president and CEO in May after serving nine years as
    president of the MHC.

    O’Fallon joined MacPhail Center for Music in 2002 and has established it as one of the
    nation’s leading music education centers. Under his leadership the student enrollment
    more than doubled in seven years, with 170 teaching artists from around the world. As
    MacPhail’s community partnerships increased, MacPhail also initiated a music therapy
    program.

    The Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC) was established in 1971 as a 501 (c)(3)
    organization affiliated with the National Endowment for the Humanities. Its programs
    use the power of the humanities to narrow the achievement gap in Minnesota schools as it
    focuses on increasing academic achievement by all students statewide. Its success in
    helping schools close the achievement gap is documented though research done by the
    Wilder Foundation and by the Minneapolis Public Schools.
    The MHC works directly with teachers, schools and communities statewide to create
    more engaging and meaningful learning experiences for all students. It also works with
    schools to make sure the curriculum connects with students from a variety of cultures,
    ethnicities and experiences.

    The MHC has an active partnership with the Council on Black Minnesotans, the
    Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, the Chicano Latino Affairs Council and the Council
    on Asian Pacific Minnesotans. These partnerships are funded by the Minnesota
    Legislature through the arts and cultural heritage amendment.

    Dr. O’Fallon is a native Minnesotan, growing up in Litchfield and graduating from St.
    John’s University in Collegeville, Minn. He earned his PhD in theatre and community
    from The Union Graduate Institute and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
    from St. John’s University.

    He developed and directed several arts leadership programs for the University of
    Minnesota from 1975-1989, when he joined the National Endowment for the Arts in
    Washington D.C. as director of arts education.

    In 1993, he became staff director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
    where he succeeded in placing the arts in the nation’s education goals.

    He returned to Minnesota in 1995 to head the Perpich Center, a state agency that included
    the State Arts High School, the Professional Development Institute, a Research Center,
    all on a 30-acre campus in Golden Valley.

    The Minnesota Humanities Center operates on an annual budget of approximately $4


    million, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the State of
    Minnesota, corporate and family foundations, individual donors and earned revenues.

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