79 JFK AND BEYOND

Three Alumni Come Home

Rosemarie Day MPP 1992 became chief of staff to Dean David Ellwood in August 2004. Prior to her return to the Kennedy School, Day was chief operating officer for MassHealth, the state agency that provides health insurance through Medicaid to one million low-income Massachusetts residents. Before that, she ran the state’s Child Support Enforcement Program, was assistant secretary of administration and finance, and served as the budget director for the Department of Transitional Assistance. While a student at the school, Day’s PAE won the Carballo Award for Excellence.

Julius Babbitt MPA 2001 recently took on the job of director of the Office of Alumni Programs, ending a 14-year career in state government, most recently as assistant
secretary for human resources in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. Since graduation, he has been very active in alumni activities, serving as chair of the New England Alumni Association chapter, as an elected member of the Alumni Executive Committee, and on several Harvard Alumni Association committees.

John Haigh MPP 1982, the newest of the three hires, joined the school in March as executive dean. Just before moving back to Cambridge, he was senior vice president at Cingular/AT&T Wireless, where he was responsible for, among other things, leading the company’s wireless innovation efforts. Prior to that he was president of AT&T’s Inter-national Ventures. After graduation, he went to work for the Energy and Environment Policy Center and then Mercer Management Consulting, where he focused on strategy issues in telecommunications, energy and the environment, and transportation.