Board President Dupré Named Regent at Dartmouth
Denise Dupré ’76, the president of Mercersburg’s Board of Regents, has been named a Regent of Dartmouth College (her undergraduate alma mater). She was first elected to the Mercersburg Board in 1995 and was a vice-president from 2002 until becoming president in 2005.

Dupré spent all four of her high school years at Mercersburg, where she served as student-council president and received the Headmaster’s Prize and the Robert H. Michelet Prize. Three of her sisters (Laura Dupré Rizzo ’77, Janeen Dupré ’80, and Heidi Dupré Hannah ’81) also attended Mercersburg, as have several cousins, nieces, and nephews.

Dupré was an economics major at Dartmouth and earned a master of professional studies from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration. She has held various teaching positions, including a teaching fellowship at Cornell and an appointment as associate professor and the director of the School of Hotel Administration at Boston University; she has also taught courses at Harvard University based on her industry textbook, Hospitality World!. Dupré has worked extensively in the hotel and restaurant field, including roles in marketing, consulting, and operations for public and private hotel companies.

Dupré also serves on the boards of the Charles River School in Dover, Massachusetts, and the Fessenden School in West Newton, Massachusetts; she and her husband, Mark Nunnelly, live in Dover and are the parents of four children.