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homegrown heroine; With three decades of experience, Emily Rafferty, the Met's newly appointed president, might just be its best acquisition yet.

Vogue

| March 01, 2005 | Kazanjian, Dodie | COPYRIGHT 2005 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Dodie Kazanjian

Emily Rafferty was on a hiking trip in Italy last September when the call came through on her cell phone from James Houghton, the chairman of the Metropolitan Museum's board of trustees. "I'm calling to tell you that you'd better come home," he said. Not entirely surprised-Emily knew that she was under consideration for the job of president of the Met-she left her hiking boots, her husband, and the three other couples they were traveling with, flew back to New York, attended the board meeting at which she was elected the museum's fourth president (and first woman in the job), and then flew right back to Tuscany, where "I met my family and ...

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