The Alumni Association Board of Directors oversees the Legacy Scholarship and Distinguished Alumni Award programs, and actively supports alumni engagement.  A volunteer board of alumni serve three-year terms as directors of the Association. The current Alumni Association Board of Directors is listed below.

  
  Phil Chludzinski '80, President
Portage, MI
CPA & Partner, Brink, Key & Chludzinksi, P.C.

    Jeanne LaMere '85,'90, '93, Vice President
Atlanta, GA
Director of Curriculum Development,
Cengage Learning

    Larry Lueth '74, Treasurer
Kalamazoo, MI
President and Sr. Lender, 
First National Bank of Michigan
     Albert J. Allison '71, '77, Director
San Diego, CA
Investigator, City of San Diego

    Charles E. Binder '71, Director
Bay City, MI
U.S. Magistrate Judge,
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan

    Mark Alan Jackson '81, Director
Detroit, MI
Director of Information Technology,
Global Sales, Service & Marketing, General Motors
 
    Mark A. Jackson '87, '91, Director
Story City, IA
City Administrator, City of Story City

     John Knowles '03, Director
Chicago, IL
Vice President, Illinois Policy Institute

    Christopher J. LaLonde '01, Director
Kalamazoo, MI
Principal, Veritas Law Group
 
    Jennifer Leigh-Brinn Lentner '96, Director
Kalamazoo, MI
Director of Marketing Communications,
Stryker Instruments

     W. Craig Misner '69, '72, '84, Director
Kalamazoo, MI
President, Southwestern Michigan Leadership Institute

     Mark A. Murvay '61, Director
Lake Angelus, MI
Semi-retired

     Tonya (Cunningham) Noble '96, Director
St. Louis, MO
Engineering Manager, The Boeing Company

     Michelle (Palmatier) Olmsted '86, Director
Grand Rapids, MI
Director of Development, Grand Valley State University

    Annette M. Popiel-Hammerle '86, Director
Farmington Hills, MI
Director of Business Development, AIREA, Inc.

    Joel M. Schipper '03, Director
Grand Rapids, MI
Focused Factory Manager - Wood & Upholstery,
Irwin Seating Company

     Mercedes Varasteh Dordeski '03, Director
Ferndale, MI
Attorney, Foley & Mansfield

     Randy A. Watkins '76, '85, Director
Lansing, MI
Retired

     Lena E. Heffner-Willis '76, Director
Detroit, MI
Manager, Finance Administration, City of Detroit
 



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