Trustee spotlight: Marsha L. Hunt.

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"What I would really like to do," says Marsha L. Hunt, vice president and controller of Cummins Inc., "is to sit on my deck with a good book, listen to the waterfall in my backyard and feed the 26 fish and two frogs that call the pond home."

But, like so many other senior financial executives, there just isn't enough time to do what one really wants to do. Hunt says she also likes to travel, visit new places and meet new people. Fortunately, she adds, "the global scope of Cummins allows me to travel extensively." Indeed, the photo of Hunt to the left was taken while she was touring the Cotswolds in England. Another highlight of her 2007 travels was seeing the Terracotta Soldiers in Xi'an, China, after attending a Cummins location opening.

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Hunt has been a member of FEI since 2000, and has been involved with FEI's Committee on Corporate Reporting (CCR) since 1996; she became a CCR member in 2003. It was through her involvement with CCR that she developed a close relationship with FERF staff, and, in July 2003, was invited to become a FERF trustee. Hunt has served on FERF's Budget & Investment and Audit Committees since then, and currently chairs both.

"I have been very impressed with the scope and quality of FERF's research, which has been done with a minimal budget," she says...