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| (Click on image to enlarge) New officers and members of the Alumni Board are (left to right): Warren Danley, president; Jen Oelkers Tice, vice president; Roseann Freed Whitten, new board member; David Shirlen, new board member; Kyle Randle, new board member; Rebecca Roof Gladden, new board member; and Jim Alexander, president-elect. Not pictured are Jeff Cook, vice president; and Julie Stokes Pruett, new board member. |
Alumni Association elects
new board members
The Lenoir-Rhyne College Alumni Board
recently elected new officers and board members.
Officers for the 2006-2007 academic year are Warren Danley, president; Jim
Alexander, president-elect; Jen Oelkers Tice and Jeff Cook, vice presidents.
New board members include Kyle Randle, Julie Stokes Pruett, Becky Roof Gladden,
David Shirlen, and Rosann Freed Whitten.
Danley, a resident of Columbus, Ohio; is a 1953 business administration
graduate. He is a retired U.S. Navy commander and is also retired from the state
of Ohio as a dislocated worker counselor. He is married to Janice Danley and is
a member of Bethel United Methodist Church of Columbus. Danley previously served
as vice president of the Alumni Association and co-chair of the college's Annual
Fund.
Alexander is a 1973 graduate of Lenoir-Rhyne College. He is senior vice
president and managing broker of the Sandy Ridge Office of Jenny Pruitt &
Associates, Realtors®, of Atlanta, Ga. He is a member of Leadership Ministries,
an organization that strives to help men become the leaders that God wants them
to be. He is married to L-R alumna Carolyn Herman Alexander, class of 1970.
Tice is a 1995 graduate of Lenoir-Rhyne and a member of Kappa Delta Sorority.
She works as a pre-school educator at the Catawba Science Center in Hickory. For
the past three years, she has served on the Alumni Association Board. She has
also served as Catawba County Alumni Chapter chair and in a variety of other
volunteer roles. She lives in Hickory with her husband, Jeff, who is a 1994
graduate of L-R; and daughters Allison and Katherine Leigh.
Cook graduated from L-R in 1977. He is a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity
and a former L-R basketball player. He is CEO of Magnussen Furniture in High
Point. Cook has served for three years on the Alumni Board. He lives in
Greensboro with his wife, Janet; daughter, Cameron; and son, Dana.
Randle graduated from L-R in 1997 and earned a master of divinity degree from
Candler School of Theology at Emory University in 2000. He is currently a pastor
at Hibben United Methodist Church in South Carolina. He and his wife, Nancy
Brown Randle, L-R class of 1997, live in Mt. Pleasant, S.C.
Pruett graduated from L-R in 1992 and earned a master of public administration
degree from Appalachian State University in 1994. She is director of
non-manufacturing recruitment at Catawba County Economic Development Corp. and a
member of Lakeview Baptist Church of Hickory. She lives in Granite Falls with
her husband, Ryan Pruett, a 1990 L-R graduate; and their children Sophie, 5, and
Chloe, 2.
Gladden is a 1981 graduate of L-R who earned a master of arts in education from
Western Carolina University in 1983 and a master of library science degree from
Appalachian State University in 1998. She is a media specialist with Catawba
County Schools at Banoak Elementary. She is a member of Sardis Lutheran Church
and was a class agent from 2004 to 2006. She and her husband, Jonathan Gladden,
live in Vale with their children, Sarah, 17; Caroline, 15; and Meredith, 12.
Shirlen is a 1971 L-R graduate. He is vice president of human resources for
domestic supply chain for Sara Lee Branded Apparel. He is a member of Augsburg
Lutheran Church of Winston-Salem and a member of the Davidson County Economic
Development Commission. He and his wife, Sharon Wilkie Shirlen, a 1972 L-R
graduate, live in Winston-Salem. Both of their grown children, and their
son-in-law, are L-R graduates.
Whitten is a 1962 graduate of Lenoir-Rhyne. She is married to David Whitten, a
retired officer in the U.S. Coast Guard. She was the first woman awarded the
Coast Guard Meritorious Civilian Service Medal in 1992.
Whitten taught high school and day care in several cities as she raised her two
children, Natalie Irwin and David Hart Whitten Jr. She and her husband now live
in Coral Gables, Fla. She is an active member of Immanuel Lutheran Church in
Miami, Fla. She has participated in numerous Alumni Association activities and
was on the 40th reunion committee for her class.