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Julie
A. Dunfey '76
Film Producer, Writer and Director/ Academy Trustee
Hanover,
NH on May 1, 2006
 Julie
Dunfey was a four-year student at the Academy,
where she captained the varsity basketball team,
played varsity tennis and was a proctor in Bancroft
Hall. After Exeter, she attended Dartmouth (B.A.
1980) and Stanford (M.A. History 1983). In addition
to working in film, Ms. Dunfey has served on the
Academy's Board of Trustees for the past 11 years,
chairing the Committee on Trustees and Nominating
for nine years, the Executive Committee for four
years, serving as a member of the search committee
following Principal Kendra Stearns O'Donnell's
retirement and, for the last four years, serving
as vice president of the board.
Ms. Dunfey was the co-producer of The Civil
War, a ten-part series on the history of
the Civil War, which was funded by the National
Endowment for the Humanities, the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting, and General Motors and
was broadcast on national PBS in 1990. She also
co-produced Thomas Hart Benton, a ninety-minute
portrait of the life and work of one of America's
most controversial painters. It was funded by
the NEH and Equitable Investment Corporation
and was broadcast on national PBS in 1989.
Ms. Dunfey is married to Christopher Daniell (PEA
'72), a physician in Concord N.H. During the 1990s
she stayed at home with their three children, Hayley
(b.1989), Aidan (b.1992) and Julia Natalie (b.1997).
She has slowly found her way back to film, serving
as a consultant on Not for Ourselves Alone,
The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B.
Anthony; Jazz; Mark Twain, Horatio's Drive and World
War Two, all Florentine Film Productions.
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