Board of Trustees 2011-12 Deanna K. Medlin Armstrong, ‘70 President/CEO Communication Design Consultants
Daniel J. O’Neill Owner/President The Roasterie Inc.
Donald P. Arndtsen, ‘50 Manager Arndtsen Cooperative Enterprises LLC
Rosemary Fry Plakas, ‘63 Curator/Historian Library of Congress
R. Lynn Bondurant, ‘61 President Bondurant Consulting John C. Brown President and CEO ELCA Properties Inc.
Katheen J. Dodd Founder and CEO The Corridor Group Overland Park, Kan.
I’ve spent more than 20 years building my business, The Corridor Group, which focuses on professional home care and hospice consulting services. Since 1999, the company has been international as we started partnering with a company in Turkey to provide services there. My experiences and what I’ve tried to do with my business fit well with Park — I think that’s why I was asked to join the Board of Trustees. I’m so proud to be in affiliation with a university such as Park. Every day there are wonderful things going on at the University. At my company, we have launched an online education component for our home care and hospice clients. This makes me particularly interested and proud of what Park has done and continues to do in pioneering online education. I don’t think people realize, or have a sense, of all that Park does around the world. I think people perceive it as a small school, but that’s if they only see the Parkville Campus. This is a university with 22,000-plus students around the world. As an entrepreneur with a business that reaches around the world, I see how small the planet really is and how important it is for students to have a sense of the world around them. Park is uniquely positioned to take advantage of some great opportunities because of its diversity, its place in the global marketplace, its graduate programs and with the way it addresses the needs of the military. We have incredible professors and deans who have done notable things that students need and want from their education. The graduates from Park should be very proud of their university and their education.
Robert C. Burns Dentist/Owner (Retired) Burns Dental Care Gayden F. Carruth Executive Director Cooperating School Districts of Greater Kansas City Peter J. deSilva Chairman and CEO UMB Bank, n.a. Katheen J. Dodd Founder and CEO The Corridor Group Dennis H. Epperson, ‘69 Patent Attorney (Retired) Private Practice and Partner Knobbe, Martens, Olson and Bear Kristopher Flint, ‘97 CEO Stark Collective LLC Joseph Geeter III, ‘99 Corporate Employee Relations Manager AmeriGas Propane Thomas H. Holcom President, Military Banking Division MidCountry Bank Benny Lee Chairman Lee Research Institute Susan Kensett McGaughey, ‘74 Home Health Aide Grace Hospice Ann Mesle Circuit Court Judge 16th Judicial Circuit of Missouri Lt. Gen. John E. Miller President Miller Analytic
Jeanette Prenger, ‘09 President Ecco Select Eugene A. Ruiz President Ruiz & Associates P.C. Danny K. Sakata Analyst Northrop Grumman Judith M. Simonitsch CPA (Retired) Deloitte and Touche LLP Richard E. Thode CPA (Retired) PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP J. Eric Wade, ‘82, M.P.A. ‘85 City Administrator City of Lenexa, Kan. N. Gary Wages President/CEO (Retired) Saint Luke’s Northland Hospital David Warm Executive Director Mid-America Regional Council Philip D. Wheeler, ‘62 Food Industry Executive/Consultant (Retired) Julie M. Wilson Senior Vice President/ Chief People Officer Cerner Corp.
Honorary Trustees Howard C. Breen Robert P. Corbett, ‘38 Charles A. Garney CEO Briarcliff Development Co. Virginia B. McCoy L. Louise Morden Vice President Niagara’s Wax Museum Complex Gerald R. Moss
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