La Cañadan Paul G. Haaga Jr. Appointed to the Huntington Library Board of Trustees

Paul G. Haaga Jr., a longtime resident of La Cañada Flintridge, has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens.

Haaga is stepping up as a trustee from the Board of Overseers on which he has served since 1998.

“Huntington Library is truly a world class venue in all three major areas — library, gardens and art collections. It serves everyone from visiting scholars conducting research in the rare manuscripts housed here to families enjoying an afternoon in the new Bing Children’s Garden,” Haaga said. “My wife Heather, who serves on the art committee, and I have been honored to be associated for many years with this fine institution, its outstanding staff and core of volunteers.”

Haaga is vice chairman of Capital Research and Management Co. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, a master of business administration degree from Wharton School of Business and a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Haaga’s professional and philanthropic leadership includes membership on the boards of the Investment Company Institute, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, the Salzburg Seminar in Austria and Polytechnic School. He and his wife, Heather, a gifted artist, recently had a one-woman exhibit at Princeton University.

Steward R. Smith, the president of Kinsmith Financial Corp, has been elected chair of The Huntington’s five-member Board of Trustees. A member of the board since 2001, Smith previously served on the institution’s Board of Overseers, a 63-member advisory group from 1993 to 2000. Smith earned a bachelor’s degree from Pomona College and holds a law degree from Harvard Law School. He is the president and director of The H. Russell Smith Foundation and currently serves on the boards of Pomona College (as chair), Claremont University Consortium, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and Padua Hills, Inc. Smith and his wife, Robin Ferracone, reside in San Marino.

Serving alongside trustees Smith and Haaga are the board’s three other current members, Peter K. Barker, MaryLou Boone and Anne Rothenberg.

Four new appointments have also been made to The Huntington’s Board of Overseers, an advisory group of business and community leaders who assist the five governing trustees. The incoming members are Frances K. Dibner of Wilton, Conn., chair of the board of trustees of The Dibner Fund; Brent Dibner of Chestnut Hill, Mass., president of Dibner Maritime Associates, LLC and vice president and trustee of the Dibner Fund; Frank Logan of Pasadena, retired chair of Milbank Tweek, Hadley and McCloy; and R. Carlton Seaver of Arcadia, partner in the law firm of Seaver & Gill, LLC.