For Georgia Murphy Johnson ’75, Wellesley is a family affair. One of her favorite Wellesley memories is from 2013, when she was on the Alumnae Association Board of Directors. Her daughter, Katherine “Katie” Johnson ’03, was attending her 10th reunion and her mother, Katherine Barrett Murphy ’53, was celebrating her 60th. On Sunday, all three women cheered and marched in the Alumnae Parade, and then they went back to Georgia’s house in Brookline, Mass., where they had a multigenerational Wellesley party. You can hear the pride in her voice when she talks about how impressed her mother was with Katie and her friends.

“[My mother] said, ‘You talk to those young women, and they are all incredibly successful in completely different fields. What really strikes me is not just that they are successful, but how supportive they are of each other in what they are doing, and how each thinks the others are tremendously successful, and are so proud of them,’” Johnson says.

Not a bad metaphor for the Alumnae Association, which strives to connect alumnae to each other and to the College, wherever they are in the world and whatever their interests. Johnson took over the WCAA presidency as Karen Williamson ’69 retired from the role on June 30.

Johnson first became involved as a volunteer with the WCAA in 2004. A partner at Johnson & Lawrence, a management-consulting firm, she had moved to Boston in 1999, when Katie was a first-year, but held off on taking any leadership positions until after her daughter graduated. “I didn’t really have an established community [in Boston], and I figured the easiest one for me to start with would be Wellesley,” Johnson says. She became copresident of Wellesley College Alumnae of Boston with Ann Swingle Borg ’73, and the two focused on boosting membership. One of her great pleasures was recruiting some of Katie’s friends from the class of ’03 to participate in the club.

Johnson served on the Alumnae Achievement Award selection committee from 2007 to 2012 and on the WCAA board from 2009 to 2013. She’s happy to be back on the board: “You’re working with an amazing group of women who are both fun and smart … and from all over the country, and have different perspectives,” she says.

Among the topics that Johnson hopes to address during her tenure as president are increasing the involvement of international alumnae, and finding ways to encourage nominations for the Alumnae Achievement Awards. She is also looking forward to seeing how technology like the WCAA’s new online community can engage alumnae. And, of course, she is excited to spend more time on campus. “It is always energizing to come back,” she says.