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Board of Directors

Association Governance

The Alumni Association is governed by alumni volunteer leaders who comprise the board of directors. The board is comprised of 21 directors who are elected for three year terms as well as a representative from both the Student Alumni Association and the WMU Foundation. The Association's Executive Director and the University President are also non-voting members of the board.

Members of the board of directors are chosen because of their willingness and potential to work together to serve the best interest of the entire University, fellow alumni, and current and potential students. Often a board member is chosen because of a specific skill that is needed by the University or the Alumni Association.

Expectations of Directors

• Each director must be a member of the WMU Alumni Association.
• Each director is expected to attend two meetings of the board each year. The fall meeting is held the Friday before Homecoming, and the spring meeting is traditionally scheduled on the last Friday in April. Both are held on the University's Kalamazoo campus.
• Each director is expected to serve on at least one standing committee of the board. Committee meetings are held throughout the year via conference telephone calls.

Responsibilities of Directors

• Establishing Alumni Association policy.
• Assisting in long-range and strategic planning by developing and implementing programs which are in keeping with the association's goals and by providing evaluation of existing programs.
• Promoting the University and its Alumni Association by encouraging fellow alumni to join the association and to participate in its programs.
• Supporting local alumni events and maintain familiarity with views of other alumni, collectively and individually.
• Monitoring the financial affairs of the association
• Recruiting outstanding prospective students for WMU, informally among friends, or formally as an Alumni Admissions Ambassador.

Board of Directors (2010 - 11)

• Nomination Form
• Past Presidents
  

Philip Chludzinski B.B.A. '80 President CPA, Partner, Brink, Key & Chludzinski, P.C. (Portage, MI)

Jeanne LaMere B.A. '85, M.A. '90, Ph.D. '93 Vice President Director of Curriculum Development, Cengage Learning (Atlanta, GA)

Albert Allison B.B.A. '71, M.B.A. '77 Treasurer Manager, Financial Investigations Baker Street Group, Inc. (San Diego, CA)

Margean Gladysz B.S. '75 Past President Senior Vice President/Credit Administrator First National Bank of Michigan (Kalamazoo, MI)

Charles Binder B.A. '71 U.S. Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan (Bay City, MI)

Mark Allen Jackson B.B.A. '81   Director of information technology, global sales, service and marketing, General Motors (Detroit, MI)

Mark A. Jackson B.A. '87, M.P.A. '91) City Administrator, City of Story, IA (Story City, IA)

Randy Watkins B.S. '76, M.P.A. '75   Senior Investigator, State of Michigan (Lansing, MI)

John Knowles B.A. '03   Director of External Affairs, Ave Maria College of Law (Naples, FL)

Dayna Krushlin SAA Representative

Christopher LaLonde B.A. '01 Principal, Veritas Law Group (Kalamazoo, MI)

Jennifer Lentner B.S. '96   Director of marketing communications, Stryker Instruments (Kalamazoo, MI)

Guk Keong Low B.B.A. '99, M.B.A. 2010   Internal Audit Manager of Amway (Grand Rapids, MI)

Larry Lueth B.B.A. '74 President and Sr. Lender, First National Bank of Michigan (Kalamazoo, MI)

Craig Misner B.S. '69, M.A. '72, Ed.D. 84 President, Southwestern Michigan Leadership Institute (Kalamazoo, MI)

Mark Murvay B.A. '61 Semi Retired

 

Tonya Noble B.S. '06   Engineering Manager of The Boeing Company (St. Louis, MO)

Michelle Olmsted B.S.' 86   Development Director, Seidman College of Business, GVSU (Grand Rapids, MI)

William Parsons B.A. '67, M.A.'71   Director of Administrative and Human Resources, Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, P.L.C., retired (Plainwell, MI)

Annette Baron Popiel B.S. '86 Director of Business Development, AIREA, Inc. (Farmington Hills, MI)

Elizabeth Rogers B.S. '91, M.P.A. '94   R.N. Clinical Research Coordinator, Female Pelvic Medicine & Urogynecology Institute (Grand Rapids, MI)

Joel Schipper B.B.A. '03   Focused factory manager for wood and upholstery, Irwin Seating Co. (Grand Rapids, MI)

Mercedes Varasteh Dordeski B.A. '03 Frank Haron Weiner, PLC

Lena Heffner-Willis Willis B.A. '76   Manager I Finance Purchasing Strategic Procurement Administration City Of Detroit (Detroit, MI)

 

 

	William Parsons B.A. '67, M.A. '71 Retired Director of Administration and Human Resources, Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, P.L.C. (Detroit, MI)		L. Ronald Portser B.S. '60 Retired Director of GM-NAO, General Motors (Bloomfield Hills, MI)
	Angela Robinson B.S. '74 Senior Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Chicago, IL)		Elizabeth Rogers, BS '91, M.P.A. '94 R.N. Clinical Research Coordinator (Grand Rapids, MI)