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Wamego Community Foundation Announces 2009 Board of Directors and Advisors - December 19, 2008
(Dec. 19, 2008) Wamego, KS — The Wamego Community Foundation is pleased to announce the election of the following Officers, Directors and Community Advisors for 2009:
Officers
Doug Springer, president
Matt Bulk, vice president
Lisa Diederich, treasurer
Pam Fulmer, secretary
Directors
Eric Artzer*
Jaque Eichman
Norm Huse*
Donna Johnson
Becky Riniker
Mary Kaye Siebert
Susan Symons
Community Advisors
Bob Cole
Rosemary Crilly
Bill Ditto
Andrea Metcalf
Pat Nelson
Margaret Peterson*
Michael Rice
Rachelle Routh*
Adam Tyner
Alberta Uhlrich
*Newly elected members for 2009.
“The addition of Eric, Norm, Margaret and Rachelle to the Foundation’s Board ensures the organization will continue to benefit from a diversity of knowledge and expertise,” said René Eichem, executive director, “and I am really looking forward to working with them next year.
“I am also thrilled that Adam Tyner and Bill Ditto, whose terms as Directors expire at the end of this month, both chose to remain as Community Advisors. Their enthusiasm for and commitment to the mission of the Foundation is inspiring, and we are fortunate that they will remain involved.”
About the Wamego Community Foundation
The Wamego Community Foundation was established in 1998 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. It created an efficient mechanism through which individuals, families, corporations, nonprofit organizations, and private foundations have been able to create funds and make gifts to benefit Wamego and surrounding communities. Since its inception, the Foundation has received approximately $1.2 million in gifts and donations and has distributed back more than $500,000 to the community, including the river access boat ramp, scholarships, the Wam-Sag-Man recreation trail, and the Wamego City Park Train Enhancement Project, just to name a few.
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For more information, please contact:
René Eichem, executive director
Wamego Community Foundation
529 Lincoln Ave. | P.O. Box 25
Wamego, KS 66547
P: 785-456-8444 | F: 785-456-8443
wcf@wamego.net | http://www.thewcf.org
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